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VOLUME XIV
License Tab V olume
Has Great Increase
In Roxboro Office
City Tags Also
Going Well But
Not In Rush
Crowds Jam Motor Club
Office New Year’s Day.
Assistants Work.
With over four thousand state
license tabs for 1943 sold to date,
Roxboro branch of the Carolina
Motor club, of which Mrs. Linda
T. Rogers is manager, has been
doing a rushing business all dur
ing the week.
Tabs sold are considerably in
excess of those sold here last
year by Jan. 1. Particularly
heavy day was New Year’s day
'this year, when around seven
hundred tabs were disposed of.
At City Hall, where city tags
are on sale, business is reported
as good, but officials urge all
city residents to buy their tabs
as soon as possible.
Rush at the Motor Club office
in the Bowling Center has been
so great that 'tate Highway Pa
trolman John Hudgins was cal
led in to assist on New Year’s.
Also assisting was W. T. Landis,
of Oxford, highway assistant.
NEWSPAPERS
GET ORDERS ON
NEWSPRINT
Will Get (Same Amount
They Used During 1941
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—The
War Production Board today or
dered every newspaper’s use of
print paper in 1943 cut back to
the tonnage used in 1941 to pro
duce its net paid circulation a
1 formula which reduces nation
wide newsprint consumption by
an estimated 10 per cent.
W. G. Chandler, head of WPB’s
printing and publishing division,
added that publishers must ex
pect the order to be followed by
a second and perhaps a third re
duction this year.
Chandler said he could only
hope that the newly ordered
controls, effective Jan. 1, would
last for the first quarter of 1943.
Simultaneously WPB ordered
magazines limited to 90 per cent
of the tonnage used by each pub
lisher in 1942, declaring this
would have the same curtail
ment effect as the newspaper
order.
"We have been very careful
not to tell any publisher how he
shall use the paper allowed
him.” said Donald J. Sterling,
WPB consultant on newspapers
and uublishing, at ai joint press
conference with Chandler, "be
cause that would lead us down a,
path the illogical and ruinous end
of which is a controlled press,
which none of us wants.’”
BOVS GIVE
Members of Roxboro Cub
pacv this week gave Rev. Rufus
J. Womble, Cubmaster, and Mrs.
Womhle, Who recently moved to
the Rob ah F. Baynes residence,
a hex of fruits, vegetables and
other foods.
R. D. Bumpass, of this City,
will go to Raleigh this week for
opening of the State Legislature,
where he is a Senate clerk.
PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY AND THURSDAY ROXBORO, N. C., SUNDAY, JANUARY 3, 1943
HARRIS ON BOARD
OF DIRECTORS OF
TEXTILE GROUP
Carter Os Greensboro Is
President. Ruffin Os Dur
ham, Treasurer.
Greensboro, Jan. 2.—W. J. Car-j
ter, Greensboro, president of;
Carter Fabrics Corporation, was
elected president of the North
"Carolina Textile Foundation, In
corporated, at the organization
masting held here this afternoon
in the offices of the president', at
which time directors were chosen
and committees named actively
to press toward the foundation’s
(Objective, the making of the tex
tile school at State College the
most outstanding of its kind in
the country.
Other officers elected include
A. G. Myers, Gastonia, vice pres
ident; W. H. Ruffin, Durham,
treasurer; David Clark, Char
lotte, secretary; C. E. Baxter,
Greensboro, assistant secretary
treasurer.
The executive committee in
cludes W. J. Carter, W. H. Ruf
fin, A. G. Myers, J. Ed Millis, j
David Clark, while the invest-1
ment committee is composed of
W. J. Carter, R. S'. Dickson and
R. M. Hanss.
Board of directors 'member
ship includes W. J. Carter, J.
Spencer Love and John K. Voeh
ringer, Greensboro, K. P. Lewis, j
Durham; C. A. Cannon, Kanna-j
polis; R. H. Johnston, David!
Clark, B. B. Gossett, R. S. Dick- 1
son and E. A. Terrell, Charlotte; j
R. L. Harris, Roxboro; K. S. Tan- j
ner, Spindale; A. A. Shufcrd Jr., I
Hickory; J. Ed Millis, High Point; j
O. Max Gardner, Washington; j
H. N. Slater and Luther Hodges, i
New York City; R. M- Hanes, |
Winston-Salem; A. G. Myers and;
A. M. Dixon, Gastonia; S. W.
Cramer, Cramerton; W. B. Cole,
Rockingham; Z. L. Manning,
Roanoke Rapids.
Meeting with the organizers of
the foundation were Colonel J.
W. Harrelson, dean of admini
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RALEIGH RECTOR
WILL COME TO
HOLD SERVICES
Preaching Mission Will
Be Held Here By The
Rev. Mr. Wright
The Rev. John A. Wright, of!
Raleigh, rector of Christ church,!
who has several times been guest
speaker at Roxboro’s Saint!
Mark’s Episcopal church, willj
conduct a preaching mission!
here during the week of Jan. 25, J
according to announcement made
today by the Rev. Rufus J. Wom
ble, of Saint Mark’s.
Coming, of the Rev. Mr.
Wright will be the beginning in
the Roxboro parish of partici
pation in a nation-wide mission
series in the Episcopal church,
marking the Epiphany season
and the approach of Lent.
Particularly interested in the
progress of the series is the
Right Rev. St. George Tucker,
Bishop of the Episcopal church
and recently elected as presiding
officer of the Federal Council of
Churches of Christ in America.
- TIMES -
Gives Report
IP ■
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P&iigl Si
DR. LONG
Dr. Robert E. Long, civic and,
Boy Scout leader, who is alsoj
president cf the Person Red j
Cross chapter, today reviewed)
activities of the Chapter and has
issued an appeal for further loy
al support of the Red Cross here
during the year 1943.
CHEROKEE SCOUTS
MEET THIS WEEK
IN ALAMANCE
Scout Leaders, Including
Those From Person
Gather At Graham.
Annual Council meeting of
Cherokee Council, Boy Scouts of
America, will be held at Graham
j high school, Graham, Thursday
i 'evening, January 7th. Meetings
of the Operating and Planning
committees and also group meet
ings of Commissioner’s Staff and
j Scoutmasters will be held at 5
jP. M. The Executive Board will
! meet at 6:00 and the banquet
j and program will begin at 7:00.
An interesting program has
I been planned and E. Pierce
Bruce, of Reidsvillte, Cherokee
executive, is expecting a large
attendance from each district.
Tickets have been sent to Thom
as J. Shaw. Jr.. Person district
secretary, and those interested in
attending arc requested to call
him at the Person County Times
office.
Beth district officials and lead
ers, including Scoutmasters, will
attend. Prizes for general im
provement and for attendance
will be presented. President is
J. S. MeTfitt; vice president, S.
jM. Ford and treasurer, O. B.
| Mcßroom. George W. Kane, fi-
I nance chairman and leader of
the recent Person Scout drive,
today announced successful con
clusion of the 1942-1943 drive.
To be held in February in
Roxboro is the annual Person
district dinner at which district
achievements will be given re
cognition.
Along The Way
With the Editor
Scrichett "Pop” Bowles has a right to be as proud as he can
be. He and his wife are now the proud owners of a 1943 model
baby gal. The new arrival will hardly do him any good on his
income tax this year, but there is always another year coming
and that could be true of more children.
Bill Clay of this county and now with Uncle Sam’s Air
Force is located in a camp at Nebraska. It so happens that this
base is in charge of General Early E. Duncan, native of this
county. A few day j ago he walked up to Bill and talked to him.
He knew that Bill was from North Carolina but did not know
that he was from Roxboro. In telling about the incident Bill
said that bis knees were shaking so badly while he Was talking
to the General that he never could gait! around to telling him ;
that he was from Roxboro. I will bet ten to one thaft Bill’s
brother, Pat, would have told him and also patted him on the
back.
Otto Clayton says that he pays no bills on the first day of
the year. To some of you that may be news but to the writer
of this piece it is not news.
Gifts Pour In
On Pastor Os
City Church
Baptists Honor Rev. W.
F. West, Here For Sev
enteen Years.
i
I
Roxboro Baptists, members of
the First Church, of which the)
Rev. W. F. West is pastor, havei
during the past week paid special!
tribute to him and to Mrs. West
for their seventeen years of min
istry here.
The celebration, a sort of post-
Christmas affair, marked with
gifts and tributes, was begun by
the church young people but has
been taken up and argumented
by adults, with culminating fea
ture a written testimonial by
Mrs. R L. Wilburn, for many
years a leader in church society
work.
Incidental to the occasion is
the fact that the Rev. Mr. West
is expected to return home to
day from, a stay of a week or
more at Community hospital, j
where he has been recovering i
from an illness.
Pointed out in Mrs. Wilburn’s!
tribute is the fact that' under)
leadership of Mr. West a $43,-j
000 educational church house has
been completed and is now prac
tically paid for by the members.
This paragraph reads: “The
crowning achievement' of Mr.
West’s ministry is completion of
a $43000 educational plant which
the membership has almost fin
ished paying for in two years,
and the complete renovation of
the present church auditorium.
“Aim of the members, as soon
as possible after the war, is to
build a new auditorium in keep
ing with the educational build- 1
ing. Os course, the moving spirit
in all this is the beloved pastor.”
The Rev. Mr. West is an ac
tive member of Roxboro Rotary
club and is Person Chairman of
the Citizens Service corps. He
and Mrs. West have one son, W.
F. West, Jr., ministerial student
at Wake Forest college, who last!
Sunday, during the absence ofi
his father, occupied the pulpit at'
First church. Mr. West, who liv
ed for sometime in China, came
to Rcxboro in 1926.
Text of the Wilburn tribute
is printed elsewhere in this pa
per as an “Open Forum - ” contri
bution.
LEGISLATIVE PAGES
C. Martin Michie, Jr., and C.
A. Harris, Jr, Roxboro high
school seniors, will leave Tues
day for Raleigh, where they will
be legisative pages during the
session which opens Wednesday.
The boys, who are cousins, will
continue studies while in Ral
eigh.
For Birthday j
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WALLACE WOODS
i
W. Wallace Woods, executive j
secretary of the Roxboro Cham-1
ber of Comerce, has this year ac
cepted leadership of the Presi
dent’s Birthday celebration for!
the Infantile Paralysis founda
tion.
I Rites Will Be
jHeldTodayFor
Mr. Humphries
Bethel Hill And Woods
dale Man; Father Os
Former Newsman, Dies
In Hospital.
I
Funeral services for Joseph
Younger Humphries, 58, promin
! ent resident of Bethel Hill, Per
son. County, whose death occur-
I red Thursday afternoon in a:
! Durham hospital following a ]
) heart attack, will be held Sun-'
| day afternoon at 1:30 o’clock at!
I Bethel Hill Baptist Church, with j
interment following in the)
church cemetery.
Funeral plans were delayed)
because of late arrival of a son,
Lieut. William Smith Humphries,,
: of Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas. I
| Survivors, in addition to Lieut. |
Humphries, include: his wife, the
former Miss Nannie Pully, of
the home, one daughter and five
other sons. Also surviving are:
one brother, W. B. Humphries, of
Bethel Hill, and four sisters,
Mesdames R. D. Bailey, o f
Woodsdale, Jim Woody, of Bear
Creek, Susie Gretter, of Colum
bia, Mo., and Bessie Christian,
of Westfield, near 1 Mount Airy.
The son of the late Smith
I
| Cocper and Mary King Humph
ries, Mr. Humphries was a mem
ber of Bethel Hill Baptist church
I and was for many years a civic
| leader in his native Person Coun
ty-
Other surviving children are:;
Miss Ruby Humphries, a student)
at King’s Business college,!
1 Greensboro, and the following!
sons; Cecil, of Newport, Ark.,
Earl and J. Y„ Jr., of Wilming
ton and Clarence and Tommie
Humphries of the home.
A resident of Holloway town-!
ship, Mr. Humphries was for!
many years a tax-lister and was
a member of the Person triple
“A” committee. He' had been a!
hospital patient at Duke since
Christmas eve and had 1 been in
ill health several months. With|
him when the end came were his |
wife and daughter. Death occur
red about three thirty o’clock in
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IN HOSPITAL
Mrs. T. Owen Pass, of Rox
boro, is a patient at Watts hosp
ital, Durham, where she under
went an operation on Monday.
She is now somewhat improved
and; may receive visitors..
Officials Os Red
Cross Praise Spirit
Os Person Chapter
FIRST WOMAN IN
30 YEARS PAYS
DEATH PENALTY
Rosanna And Daniel Phil
lips Die In Gas Chamber
Fur Murder.
I
Raleigh, Jan. 2.—Daniel and)
Rosanna Phillips, young Negro)
farm couple who killed their j
landlord with an axe, were ex
ecuted in, North Carolina’s gas'
chamber at Central Prison here,
Friday, each maintaining to the-,
end that the other struck the fa-j
tal blow.
Before they died, the 29-year-;
old Negro and his 26-year-old
wife separately told the Rev. L. j
A. Watts prison chaplain, that)
each had forgiven the other “for j
everything” including the black j
magic “spells” they had accused!
each other of casting.
First Woman
Rosanna was the first woman
to be executed in North Caro
lina since the State took over!
administration of capital pun-1
ishment from the- counties, on,
March 18, 1910.
Daniel, who went first, was led I
into the white-walled gas cham-'
! ber! a minute and a half after)
10 A. M., and strapped into the j
wooden chair.
The trap which drops a cyan
ide pill into a jar of acid beneath
' the chair was sprung at 10:05 A. j
| M., but it failed to function prop-|
! erly and the pill did not drop. |
! Prison officials said later th'e trap :
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RECOGNITION OF
EMPLOYEES GIVEN
AT TWO DINNERS
• •
Collins And Aikman
Folks Hear Harding And
Laugh.
Collins and Aikman Corpora
tion, Plant E, employees, mem
bers of the ten, fifteen and twen
|ty year clubs, including those
j last week admitted to club re
j cognition, gathered last night
for second of two banquets given
jin the week for them at Hotel
, Roxboro and heard Edmund
Harding, humorist from North
Carolina’s Washington.
Harding, who also spoke at the
j first banquet held Thursday
j night, continued his familar
! combination of humor with wit
i
J and wisdom and repeated his
previously successful appearance
here.
Special Roxboro guests in
cluded George- W. Kane, State
Highway Commissioner; R. B.
Griffin, Person Superintendent
of Schools, the Rev. J. N. Bow
man, Baptist minister, and twoj
newspaper men, Maynard C.|
Clayton, advertising manager of
the Times, and J. W. Noell, edi
tor of the Roxboro Courier, all
of whom attended the first
night. A similar group of guests
was present Saturday.
Presentation of awards was by
S. M. Ford, Plant E’s resident
manager, and toastmaster was-
G. H. Ellmore, personnel direc
tor. Plant E only last month re
ceived a Minute Man flag in re
cognition of high participation
in the War Bond and stamp pay
roll deduction plan.
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NUMBER 2«
Much Has Been
Done, Much Is
To Be Done
Dr. Robert E. Long Re
j views Work Os Year
And Points Out Chapter
Accomplishments
i
Dr. Robert E. Long, of this
City, president of the Person
' County chapter of the American
Red Cross, today issued a state
ment summarizing 1942 work of
j the chapter and containing atn
| analysis of aims for the new
' year, expected to be one of the
busiest and most important in.
1 chapter history.
{ Dr. Long at the same time
] praised the work of individual
members and paid tribute to
j other officials and to department
heads.
The statement reads: “Officers
of the Person County Chapter of
the American Red Cross wish to
i express their appreciation to all
| who participated in the work
during 1942, whether by ser
j vices, or money, or both,
j “Because of America’s active
i participation in the war during
| the last year, the call for Red
, Cross service has been more
keenly felt and Person County*
has done its part well, but the
service to bs rendered locally,
j nationally and inter-nationally
1 in the future will be) still more
1 urgent and will require the uni
i • tc d support of all citizens.
| “Person Red Cross activities
| which have functioned well dur
| ing 1942 are many, particularly
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| N.C. MILEAGE
TO BE LIMITED
I
Each Department To Get
Director
RALEIGH, Jan. 2.—W. H. Rog
ers Jr., assistant State motor ve
hicles commissioner and newly
„ appointed State mileage admin
istrator, said he was completing
t plans today to organize each
t State department undietri a de
lj partmental mileage director next
week.
1 Rogers said the program which
would attempt to effect a 40 per
, cent reduction in public vehicle
r use, would center around elimi
. nation of all but' imperative
. travel, use of car pools and <*r
. ganization cf share-a-ride groups
, among State employes as sug
gested at a recent OPA meetingr
Similar programs, he said, soon
will be inaugurated bfy county
and municipal goverrapest.. mil
eage rationing officers- 4
j Tom Bost Gives
I 1 i t
i Boost To Harris
Tern Bost, Raleigh correspond
ent for the Greensboro Daily
News, last week devoted an ar
’ tide of some length to the fact'
*that Lieut. Gov. R. L. Harris, of
'■ Roxboro, is in Raleigh being fav
orably mentioned as next candi
• date for the governorship. The
Lieutenant Governor has, how
i ever, made no comment on the'
Bost story, which cites him as a
business-man candidate. j