WANT ADS in this newspaper will
bring you good results. Use them
' to sell, buy, rent or hire. The cost
is small the results good.
VOL. LXV
Episcopal Minister From
City New Prison Chaplain
The position of State Prisons
chaplain and religious advisor, va
cant since the resignation of the
Rev. Lawrence A. Watts three
months ago, has been filled by a
Roxboro minister, the Rev. William
H. R. Jackson, former Army Chap
lain and an Episcopal rector, it was
announced today from Raleigh.
The Rev. Mr. Jackson, 43, who
has been on terminal leave at Rox
boro from the /Army in which he
served for five years as a chaplain,
was appointed director of religious
training for state prisons yesterday
by Chairman A. H. (Sandy Gra
ham of the highway and public
works commission.
'Mad' Clayton's
Riles Planned
Mount Tirzah Farmer Dies
After Illness With
Pneumonia.
Funeral for James Madison (Mad)
Clayton, 78. Person farmer and na
tive, whose death from pneumonia
occurred last night at 8:45 o'clock
at his home at Mount Tirzah after
' an illnesr lasting three days, will be
held Friday afternoon at two o'clock
at his home by Elder N. D. Teasley,
of the Primitive Baptist church,
Durham, assisted by Elder L. P.
Martin, of the Roxboro church, with
interment in the family cemetery.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Em
ma Berry Clayton, of the home, four
daughters, Mrs, Clarence Rogers,
Mrs, Willie Clayton, Mrs. Berman
Clayton and Miss Nancy Clayton,
one son. Herbert Clayton, all of the
horn* cef , r"viltv as well as man;,
grand children.
Active pallbearers will be Jim and
Robert Moore. George Chambers.
Sam Howard, Hubert Mooney and
Robert Reade.
Mud Does Lot
Os Things Besides
Sticking To Cars
Mud does a lot of things to school
children, and other folks. With the.
school kids, for instance, the mud,
which disrupts bus schedules, also
cuts in on meal time. Hundreds of
Person and Roxboro scholars, big,
little and just plain medium, have
had lunch periods cut short this
week. The cut has been to thirty
minutes, and play periods have also
been cut, too. to let the youngsters
begin to go home at two-thirty in
the afternoon so as to have time to
wait or to push busses that get
stuck in the mud,
Tire food bolting, however, is ex
pected to end next Monday, if and
when there is a normal resumption
of bus service. The thirty minute
for eating period has been in effect
in practically all schools, since all
draw students who come on busses,
even the schools in the Roxboro
district. Chief hardship of the cur
tailed time for eating has been upon j
those city students who go home for
lunch. The others, the boxers and
the cafeteria ones have managed
better.
Education Board
Meets Monday
Quarterly meeting of the Person
County Board of Education will be
held next Monday morning at ten
o'clock in the Begird of Education
office, Chub Lake street, it was an
nounced today by Superintendent
R. B. Griffin, who acts as secre
tary to the board by virtue of his
position as superintendent.
Nothing sensational is expected
to come up, says Griffin. The
board's meeting coincides in time
with the regular monthly meeting
of the Board of County commiss
ioners.
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Exchange Club
Regular meeting of Roxboro Ex
change club was held last night at
Hotel Roxboro, where a preliminary
report of the club’s benefit dance
held last week was presented. Also
considered at the session was the
: proposed benefit dance for the In
t fantile Paralysis foundation. Furth
er plans in that connection will be
J considered Monday night at a mflW
I big of the Beard pMI.
I The Friday nlghf tfitqag for crip-
I pled children, a club Wnefit, wits
J. W. NOELL, EDITOR
Chaplain Jackson will assume his
new duties tomorrow, succeeding the
Rev. Mr. Watts, who resigned some
time ago and who is now pastor of
a Methodist church at Nashville.
During the war, the Rev. Mr.
Jackson was regimental chaplain
for the 120th Infantry, the North j
Carolina National Guard unit and j
was assistant division chaplain of !
the 30th Division in Europe. He j
joined the 120th Infantry in Sep-!
tember, 1940 and attained the rank j
of major.
He was born in New York City j
and received his training at CitjJ
College of New York, Dußose Me-|
morial Training School, the Univer- |
Berry And Tobacco
To Be Discussed
Niswomrer And Smith Coniine
For Two Meeting.
Two specialists, one from State
College, Raleigh, and the other from
the Oxford Tobacco experiment
station, are to be in Person County
and Roxboro on separate dates to
cooperating with the Home and
production of foods and tobacco, it
was announced today by H. K. Sand
ers, Person Farm agent. E. G. Moss,
of Oxford, director of the Experi
ment Station, is also expected to be
present and a full attendance is
urged for both sessions.
H. R. Niswonger, of State College,
cooperating with the Rome and
Farm Agents, will be at the Bushy
Fork, Community House on Tuesday.
January Bth. at 7:00 p. m.. with an
illustrated lecture on the growing
f.iiid pi > .V fruits -'lid berries
for the home farm. It is the purpose
of this meeting to try to interest a
few families in producing some of
these small fruits as a demonstra
tion with the hope that others will
follow in a year or two. This meet
ing is open to all families in the
county who are interested in more
fruit and better fruit.
A tobacco disease meeting will be
held at the Court House on Wed
nesday night, January 9th, at 7:30
o'clock, for another illustrated lec
ture on various tobacco diseases,
their symptoms, and methods of
control. Dr. T. E. Smith, Tobacco
Disease Specialist, of tile Oxford To- j
bacco Experiment Station for the
past ten years, who has done much
work in assisting with the develop
ment of resistant strains of tobacco
for Granville wilt. Black Shank and
Root Rot, will be present to show
farmers of Person County the best
means known in combating these
diseases.
He will also show slides and dis
cuss other diseases of tobacco, such
as blue mold control by spraying
with fermate, or using paradichlor
obenzine. He will also discuss sore
shin, mosaic or calico, and other
diseases affecting tobacco.
E. G. Moss, Director of the Ex
periment Station, is expected to be!
present to discuss tobacco 'varieties j
and fertilizers.
List-Takers Get
Instruction Sheets
T. C. Brooks, Person County Tax
Supervisor has received from the
Institute of Government in Chapel
Hill a 25-page set of instructions
for each list taker and assessor in
the county, it was announced today
by Albert Coates, Director of the
Institute.
Prepared by Peyton B. Abbott, As
sistant Director of the Institute,
2500 sets of these instructions were
distributed to tax supervisors
throughout the State for use in the
100 counties during the 30-day list
ing period beginning on January 1.
The manual contains instructions on
filling out the tax listing abstract,
listing and assessing of real and per
sonal property, listing of dogs for
taxes, exemptions and deductions,
carrying forward listings from the
previous year, and discovery of un
listed property.
Supervisors were urged to supple
ment these instructions with instruc
tions of their own necessary to ex
ecute the listing of property in their
particular county and to distribute
them to the list takers.
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SHARKS BUMPASS OUT
Sgt. 'fhamas Merritt (Shanks)
Bgjtottfi, wtaer has been overseas in
the Pacific area many months, has
anted in Roxboro ate receiving
his discharge. *'. %. «
®he Couritr=®4tnej3
sity of Toronto and the University
of the South. At the time he enter
ed the armed forces, he was rector
of St. James Episcopal Church in
Ayden and before had been rector
of St. Barnabas at Snow Hill, St.
John's at Winterville, Holy Cross at
Aurora and St. John's at Bonncrton.
j Has background also includes rc
! ligious work in the prisons of New
i York.
! The prison pays an annual salary
| of $3,600.
| The Rev. Mr. Jackson's wife is the
J former Miss Vertie Moore. They
have two sons, and have lived here
| while Chaplain Jackson was over
| seas.
New Year's Day
Is Quiet Here
New Year's Eve was a very tame
affair in this city and so was New
Year's Day. Practically every place
of business in the city and county
was open for business. A few were
closed for inventory and one or two
were closed in order to take the day
as a holiday, but on the whole the
.day was just another one here.
New Year’s Eve was a little differ
ent. There were a few parties over
the city and county that lasted into
the day and exactly at twelve o’clock
mid-night there a few horns
1 blowing and, in the distance you
could hear a church bell ringing.
Boys and girls had late dates and
there was a general spirit of festivi
ty in the air but there were no night
clubs in operation. Karl Burger, ho
tel proprietor had several parties at
the hotel but he had no cover
charge much less one of about
$75.00 as some places over the na
tion were reported to have charged.
Resolutions were made for the
New Year and a general business
survey was made by many people
but generally speaking it was simply
the beginning of another year in
this city and county—but best of all
there were no serious accidents.
Old Tomb Not
Used For Wiley
Final rites for the Rev. Wilc.v
Bradsher, noted Negro preacher of
Person county, were held yesterday I
afternoon at Union Grove Baptist
church, which he served as pastor
for many years and which was
crowded to capacity for an impres
sively long service at which as many 1
as six miniters officiated. Interment
was not in the minister's originally
prepared tomb, but took place in a j
plot beside his first wife, close t > j
a school and near the church.
The minister, who called his
church the “Church of the City of 1
God in the Wilderness", died Sun- j
day after a long illness from par
alysis. Surviving are his second wife,
a daughter and several grand
children.
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Funeral Held For
Mrs. Yarborough
J Funeral for Mrs. Luna G. Yarbor
ough, 50, of Ca-Vel, wife of John D.
Yarborough, whose death from a
heart attack after an illness lasting
one week occurred Monday morning
at the Yarborough residence, was
held Tuesday afternoon at four
o’clock at Ca-Vel Baptist Church
by the Rev. J. N. Bowman, with in
terment in Burchwood cemetery
annex.
Surviving, in addition to her hus
band, are three sons, Melvin, Wil
liam and Warren, all of Ca-Vel, a
daughter. Mrs. Doris Satterfield, of
Rocky Mount, N. C„ and a sister,
Mrs. Clara Davis, also of that city.
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Club To Meet
Regular meeting of Roxboro Ro
tary club will be held tonight at
six-thirty o’clock at Hotel Roxboro.
Speaker last week was J. S. Fletij
ing, who presented a
program and mcludetf cement oh
the President’s* message]!
pralsinitlts Biblfcia ' ]
ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA
Hall Serves As
Committeeman
In Controversy
Chlorine Content Os Fertilizer
Issue To Be Decided
Today.
Member of a five-man committee
representing the State Board of
Agriculture in a hearing to deter
mine the authority of the State
Board to regulate the content of
fertilizers sold in North Carolina,
is Claude T. Hall, of Woodsdale and
Roxboro, who with the other four
members is expected to make, recom
mendation today.
The hearing, which began yester
day, involves a Norfolk, Va„ fertili
zer company, the president of ■which
is Ralph Douglas, who in the name
of his company is protesting the
State Board’s attempt to control
the amount of chlorine in fertilizer
made by his company and inteude i
to be used in the cultivation of to
bacco.
Other members of the committee
are. W. B Austin, of Jefferson, J.
H. Poole, of West End, and D. R.
Noland, of Wa.vnesville, who with
Hall went to Raleigh yesterday.
The committeemen attended
Wednesday’s conference with ferti
lizer manufacturers, farmers and
agronomists during which Douglas
defended his company against char
ges of manufacturing 35.000 tons of
tobacco fertilizer containing 3.5 per
cent of chlorine in alleged violation
(Sec FERTILIZER Page Eight)
Soil Conservation
Staff Increased
Two Person Men
In Meteor Crash
Robert Wagstaff And Eugene
Clayton Uninjured.
Robert McGilbert Wagstaff, of tile
: Navy, son of Mrs. T. c. Wagstaff.
i director of the Person Department
iof Public welfare, and Eugene Clay*
j ton. of Hurdle Mills, son of Arthur,
j Clayton and both in the Navy en
route to the Naval Air Base, Lake
ICfty. Fla., after spending holiday
■leaves at home, were on the Silver
Meteor, streamliner of the Seaboard
system, which wrecked yesterday
near Blaney, S. c.
Information that the Person
young then were .on the train was
contained in a telegram sent from
Columbia. S. C„ about fifteen miles
from Blaney. by Wagstaff, who
| wired his mother that neither he
| nor Clayton was injured. It is not
j known if the two young men were
in one of the wrecked cars.
j
i Both Wagstaff and Clayton came
, to Roxboro four days after Christ- |
mas. They went to Raleigh late
! Tuesday night to board the train.
j The Silver Meteor wreck, blamed
on a broken rail, caused the death
of two person and injuries to twen
l ty-three. i
A DIFFICULT JOB WELL DONE
By J. W. Noell
On Tuesday morning, the day be
fore Christmas, we left here witn
tear and trembling, for we were
headed half way across the State.
We doubted if we would be able to
make it, but an old time family re
union, and a turkey dinner was
ahead, of us, and we would have al
most anything to keep an engage
ment like that. Well we made it.
though we did not see a single ray
of sunshine during the entire day,
and we found the road in fine con
dition, save for about eight or ten
miles through Rowan and Iredell
counties, here we found light much
sleet and ice. especially where the
road was through the woods.
We reached our destination late in
the afternoon, and then it com
menced sleeting, and we mean sleet
ing, and it kept up all through the
night. About nine o'clock Tuesday
morning we looked out of'the win
dow in our bed room, and what a
sight. There are few more beautiful
Streets than West Warren in Shelby,
magnificent shade trees bordering
the sidewalks on either side of the
street, and on this particular it
was a sight I never, expect, or
'bare to witness again; trees cover
ed the street, front yards covered
with brqken' limbs, and in some in
HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT
New Minister
MIL. ■ '■r*mrrr
REV. C. E. HEDGEPATH
Thf Rev Charles E Hedgepeth,
of Durham, pastor of West Dur
ham Wesleyan Methodist church
and frequently a visiting minister
in Roxboro, has been appointed as
temporary supply pastor of the
Roxboro Wesleyan Tabernacle,
succeeding the Rev. W. E. Bowie,
who several months ago resigned
to accept a pastorate in South
Carolina; The hew pastor will come
to Roxboro for a service on Sun
day. January 6. at three o'clock
in the afternoon and will be here
on the first and third Sunday
afternoons each month thereafter.
The new minister extends a cor
dial invitation to the public to at
tend all services in the Tabernacle,
I.t. William M. i Bill> Bland, of
Pittsboro. more recently of the Unil
’ ' States ' N •.. in which h> .ad
forty-nine months of service, has
come to Roxboro as an aide with the
Dan River soil conservation service,
it was announced yesterday by J.
; R. Adair.
Lt. Bland, a son of Mr. and Mrs.
■W. F. Bland, of Pittsboro, graduat
ed from State College. Raleigh, in
; 1941, where he received a degree in
vocational agriculture. Immediately
afterwards he went into the Navy.
H," now has residence with Mr. and
Mrs. E. P. Dunlap and hopes to
move his wife and a two and. one
lialf year old daughter. Billie Jo.
to Roxboro as soon as he can find
a house or an apartment.
Lt. Bland is second service man
to join the Dan River staff, which
now consists of Mr. Adair, formerly
an Army officer, and C. A. Neal.
Much improvement in the service of
soil conservation here is expected
since the staff has been made larger.
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Hospital Group
To Meet Jon. 10th
A meeting of the General Com
mittee and the Finance Committee
of the Person County Memorial
Hospital will be held in the Grand
Jury Room of the Court House at
7:30 o'clock P. M. on Thursday,
January 10. 1946, and it is hoped
that every member can be present,
stated R. L. Harris, chairman of
the committee, today.
stances large trees had been up
rooted. unable to carry the load of
ice and sleet, and so it was practic
ally all over the City. Telegraph,
telephone and electric wires all
down, half of the City without elec
tricity.
We were scheduled to return on
Wednesday, but when we retired
Tuesday night we saw no hopes ot
getting home for two or three days.
On Wednesday morning the sun was
shining beautifully, but we could get
now news from the outside world, tho
when we saw a bus from Asheville
roll in. we decided to attempt the
trip, and imagine our surprise for
we found the roads in prime condi
tion, no sleet, snow or ice. What a
job the highway folks had done:
true, they worked all day and all
night, but they did the work. We
doubt if there is another depart
ment in the State which have labor
ed as did these men, all the way
from the County supervisor on down
to the lowliest convicet. They say
the day of miracles have past, but
that certainly was mighty close to
a miracle.
Yes sir, our hats are off to the
State Highway and Construction
Works; they are on the job and
deserve the commendation of every
THURSDAY, JANUARY 1946
$2.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
Four New Tax Listers Join
Others In Annual Check-Up
Both County and City tax listing
began yesterday and will continue
through the inoiith of January, it
was reported today. Held two days
after Christmas was an instruction
meeting for county listers, in which
there are few changes of personnel.
There has, however, been a com
plete turnover in listers for the City
of Roxboro and for the County in
Roxboro township New city lister j
is Henry David Long. Sr., who takes
Home-Cominq For
Books New Idea
Grand Rush Is
Made For Tires
Going, Going, Gone. That was the
cry that the tire dealers were sing
ing in this city on the first and
second day of the New Year or per
haps the date should have: been
changed to the First Day of No Tire
Rationing.
Some dealers had fairly good
stocks of tires on the first and some
had small stocks but in a very short
time they were practically all say
ing, "sorry, we can’t help you to
day, maybe tomorrow.”
Os course there are some tires left
in this city and more are expected,
may even be here by now but people
of county certainly bought tires
when tire rationing was removed.
Many people had been riding on
■hhi tires and snn had heen'-n
--capped one. two or three times and
had reached the point where the
owners were afraid to drive them
any longer. In plain words people
were tire hungry and afraid. Their
appetite has not been satisfied yet
but in a little time the dealers think
that they will be able to take care
of the situation unless people go too
wild over tires when they are really
not needed.
Person Over Top
Twice In Loans
Final day for the Victory Loan
campaign here was yesterday and
according to an informal and esti
mated report the sale of $400,000
worth of bonds was made, which
puts Person over the top in a quota
of $397,000. Also oversubscribed was
the E bond quota of $149,000. an
achievement much rarer in State
circles, as only about one-fifth of
the counties in North Carolina were
able to present such a report.
No complete analysis can be pre
sented here before next Monday, it
is said, since a number of Post
Office sales places have not yet,
turned in final figures. Gordon C.
Hunter, of this city, said today,
however, that he is confident the
total , will go above $400,000,
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All Schools Now
Having Classes
All public schools in the Person
end Roxboro district system are
uat-k in operation today, it was re
ported this morning by Superin
tendent R. B. Griffin, who said
that road conditions are much im
proved and that no further diffi
culties are expected unless addi
tional rainy, winter weather up
sets roads again. There was a slight
snowfall this morning.
; Five schools, including Allensulle,
Hurdle Mills and Helena white'
schools and Olive Hill Negro school j
and Person County Training school,
had been delayed openings of from \
three to four days because roads
were impassable for busses.
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Blind Veteran Here
!
Second Lieutenant Woody Staf-:
ford, of Petersburg, Va„ a cousin of
!R. D. Bumpass, spent severs 1 days ]
I here the first of the week with the
Bumpass family. A veteran of over
seas service with the 78th Division j
in Germany, Lt. Stafford is par- ‘
tially blind as a result of wounds
received in Germany last May. He j
was promoted on the field from j
Staff Sergeant to Lieutenant and!
now has approximately fifteen per- |
cent vision, although lie is still being j ■
treated in Army hospitals and is <
at present at Valley Forge hospital, ’
Pennsylvania, where he will have
[IOLt her operation.
the place of Robert Lunsford, while
1 new lister lor Roxboro township is
Alex Bass, who fills the place once
■ held by George W. Walker,
f Listing place for both Long and
Bass is in the Grand Jury room at
Person Court house. Two other new
! listers for county townships are.
John R. Jones, of Mount Tirzah.
who succeeds E. N. Tillett, and in
i Flat River, Roy Gentry, who takes
the place of J. O. Pearce.
New Device ForV Return Os
Books Being Tried At
Person Library.
January is being observed as a
“home coming month lor overdue
. books" by the Person County Public
' library, it was revealed today by
Miss Dorothy Wightman. librarian,
who says that every man. Woman
and child who has overdue books
or who rail find any with the Per
son County Public Library stamp in
them, ts Urged to bring or send tit
oveiduo volumes to the Library nr
bookmobile.
"No fines to pay. and no questions
; asked concerning ; overdue books
that are returned during January",
says Miss Wightman. who points out
that many of the overdue hooks are
iu the City, but that more are prob
ably in county areas where book
mobile; service sometimes, slows up
i their return. No estimate as to the
number of overdue books is given,
but according to tile librarian tlo'
number is much, larger „han it
should be and tends to slow tip cir
culation records.
There are some new books' on the
shelves, it is reported and more have
been ordered. It is also expected
that numbers of volumes will be
added through the Memorial Shelf,
a project started about three months
ago by Mrs. Margaret Howard, chief
library clerk. Several memorial books
have been added and others have
been promised, but response at the
present time has slowed, according
to Mrs. Howard. Mrs. Howard, who
made the decorative columns for the
Memorial Shelf, will also have a
poster advancing the home coming
week for overdue books.
Two Memorial Shell books are to
be presented to the library by Mrs.
H„ C, Kynoch in memory of her
mother, the late Mrs. Ralph Cole.
The books chosen by Mrs. Kynoch,
both novels, are, "The Gauntlet",
by James Street, of Chapel Hill, and
"The River Road", by Frances Park
inson Keyes. Both volumes have been
ordered and are expected to arrive
next . week, according to Mrs.
Kynoch. Mrs. Cole, the former Miss
Josephine Long, was for many years
well-known in church and social
circles.
Seal Sale Report
Not Available
Jack Strum, chairman tor the
Kiwanis club of the club-sponsored
Christmas Seal sale, said today that
money is still coming in for the
cause and that no final report on the
drive has yet been tabulated. Goal
here was set at two thousand, three
hundred dollars, but was not reach
ed before Christmas. No meeting of
the Kiwanis club was held this week
because meeting * date was New
Year’s eve. ,
Complete report on the Seal Sale,
; for which Miss Dorothy Taylor, of
Roxboro Chamber of Commerce, has
acted as treasurer, is expected to be
' ready by Monday, according to Mr.
j Strum, who urges all delayed con
; tributors to send in their checks at
once.
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Mill Creek To
Change Places
■ •
Mill Creek Baptist Church mem
bers who have been meeting in the
! Allensville school since the destruc
tion of the church by fire last year,
will henceforth meet In Providence
Baptist church, it was announced
: today by the Mill Creek pastor, the
I Rev J. F. Funderburk, who says
I that Sunday school will be held
| each Sunday afternoon at two
' o'clock, with the sermon following at
three on these Sundays on which
church services are held by the
Mill Creek congregation.
Fatal Highway
” Accidents
IN PERSON CpUNTY IN 1946
LET'S KEEP IT THAT WAY
DRIVE CAREFULLY
NUMBER 9
Other township listers, all of whom
have previously served are. Allens*
villi. Bradsher Gentry: Bushy Fork,
■ Robert Hester; Cunningham, Nor
man Montgomery; Holloway, Rob*
ert Wade; Olive Hill. James Foushee
land Woodsdale, Robert G. Robert
son.
Citizens are urged to list taxes as
soon as possible. General Supervision
of county tax listers is under Audi
tor T C. Brooks.
Canning Dates
Beginning January Bth. the
Bethel Hill Community Cannery
will can pork and beef by appoint
ment only. During the past Fall
appointments were not necessary
lor the canning of pork, but it will
now In* necessary to contact J. M.
Wilburn, teacher of Agriculture,
before canning, it was reported
today.
Rites Conducted
For Mrs. Foushee
At Residence
Airs. John H. Foushee Dies
Alondav After Lone Illness.
Hold yesterday at the Foushee
residence near the Leasburg road
werq funeral services for Mrs. Nancy
Fox Foushee, 77. wife of John H.
i Foushee. whose death occurred Mon
day afternoon at two o’clock at her
home alter a long illness. Death was
'attributed to complications.
She. was a member of Lea s Chapel
Mi ihodi.u church and rites’ in
rlujpc of her pastor, the Rev. Dan
iel Lane, of this city, with inter
ment in Burchwood cemetery annex.
A native of Person County, she
was a daughter of the late Nathan
and Mary Jane Fox and was mar
, lied to Mr. Foushee on December
24, 1891.
Surviving, in addition to her hus
band. are two sons, C. L. and K. N.
Foushee, both of Roxboro, and five
daughters. Mrs. Arch Wrenn and
Mrs. Sidney Wade, both of Roxboro,
Mrs. E, H. Webster and Mrs. Arch
Russell, both of Durham, and Mrs.
Ruth Foushee Allen, of Cedar
Grove.
Sgt. T. E. Vickers
Now In Manila
i
First Sgt. Theodore E. Vickers, is
,at tached to the 29tb Replacement
Depot, near Manila, where he is
! awaiting transportation to the Unit
ed States and subsequent discharge
from the Army, it was reported- to*
day by the War Department.
Sgt. Vickers, the son of Mrs. G.
C. Vickers of attended Al
leusvillc high school and was em
ployed by Collins and Aikman, Inc.,
ot Roxboro.
Entering the Army in March 1942,
Vickers was trained in the 570 En- .
j gineer Company and sailed overseas
from San Francisco in March 1944.
Since that time he has participated
m the fighting on Fichaven, Biak,
Maffin Bay. Morotai, and Leyte and
| Luzon in the Philippines. Overseas
| service has earned him three battle
stars and many campaign ribbons,
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Horace Buchanan
Rises Occur Today
Funeral for Horace Buchanan,
ol route 2, Roxboro, whose
occurred Monday afternoon at five*
: thirty o'clock at Community Bios*
I pita 1 from a heart attack after an
illness lasting seven weeks, will be,
held Thursday afternoon at fflgflt
o’clook at Providence Baptist chuttti
by the Rev. j. N. Bowman, with ini'
torment in the church cemieterjfr
The deceased, who for sevm/0 ,
years had made his home with
Fox near Providenee church, is tetif*
vived by his wife, Mrs. Mary B«Mfr
nett Buchanan, of Durham,.: Jaßi,
surviving are two half-uncles, Bdjjj&f
Buchanan, of Baltimore, M&i “iMI
T. G. Buchanan, of RoXbM!9 t :aafll
half-aunt. Mrs. Eugene
Route One, Roxboro, and nUOfejMljE
first cousins. \
OUT OF NAVY, ...Mil
wiiham p. ataufetaKj# tMffi
hurst, carpenter’s mate, third class,
on duty aboard the
has received his dinctuMjte, «*•
Charleston, S. C., after hMt3*e<rv*:
ed more than twenty mopitegj| tJasj;:
Nat y.