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VOLUME XIV
Review By Secretary
Shows War Emphasis
For Commerce Work
Membership Has
Gains Despite
Business Changes
Major Work Os Secre
tary, And His Assistant
Miss Taylor, Has Been
With War Activities.
W. Wallace Woods, executive
secretary of Roxboro Chamber
of Commerce, today filed his an
nual report of activities for the
past year, indicating that work
during 1942 i was more varied
than at any time -since his ad
ministration began in January,
HMO, but that membership has
shown a gain, despite the fact
that numbers of firms have dis
j banded or changed business in
the twelve months period em
braced in the report.
President is David S. Brooks,
with R. D. Bumpass, vice pres
ident and J. A. Long, Jr., treas
urer. Secretary to Mr. Woods and
manager of the credit bureau is
Miss Doilcthy Taylor. Directors
Are: W. Reade Jones, W. R. Mi
nor, Dr. J. H. Hughes, J. S. Mer
ritt, R. Griffin, J. D. Man
gum, S. M. Ford and the officers.
Highlights of the year have
been chiefly in assistance and
sponsorship of war activities, in
cluding the American Legion
War Bond rally, collection of
magazines for Camp Butner, Red
Cross First Aid and Roll Call,
Christmas Seals, Boy Scouts,
Paralysis campaigns, salvage
drives, etc.
Mr. Woods, in making his re
port paid*tribute to cooperation
from the Person County Times
and the Roxboro Courier. He
alsio cited work of the Chamber
in re-establishing the Roxboro
branch of the Carqlina Motor
club and in working with fire
department' and soil conserva
tion.
Mr. Woods, in his report said:
f “In summarizing high lighta of
Roxfctcro Chamber of Commerce
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Rites Will Be
Held Today For
Miss Walthall j
Miss Mattie Walthall, 80. of
Charles street, Roxboro, died
here Friday at the home of a
sister-in-law, Mrs. Glover Walt- i
hall. Death was attributed to |
complications and infirmities of
age. Rites will be held today.
RStes will be conducted Sun
day afternoien at three o’clock at \
Shady Grove Methodist church,
in Halifax County, Va., with in
terment following in the church
cemetery.
Mis Walthall, who had lived in
Roxboro twelve years, suffered
a stroke of paralysis last Sunday.
Daughter of the late Mr. and
Mrs. George Glover Walthall,
she is survived by one sister,
Mrs. Sallie Tuck, of Roxboro,
and one brother, W. B. Wal
thall, of Gordonsville, Va., also
a number of nephews and nieces.
Pallbearers will be Bernard
and Robert Walthall, John Shot
well, Robert and Lewis Ford
and Joh£ Cox.
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PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY AND THURSDAY ROXBORO, N. C„ SUNDAY, JONUARY 17, 1943
Cases Get
[Grades From
[Health Staff
!
: Meat Market Standings
Also Listed By Richard- !
j son And Taylor.
[ Dr. W. P. Richardson, director j
jof the Person-Orange-Chatham
health department, and W. B,
Taylor, district sanitarian, today
released sanitation inspectionn
scores for thirteen Roxboro
casts, restaurants, hotels and
boarding houses. Also released
were meat market grades.
Grades, released at regular in
tervals, are in three classifica- |
tions, “A”, “B” and “C”. In the !
“A” group, are the boarding
house of Mrs. Molly S. Barett
and the Eatwell case; in the
; “B” group arc: Royal Case, |
Shank’s Grill. Bowling Center '
| Sandwich Shop, Gardner’s,
! (boarding house) Munday’s j
Lunch, O’Briant's Lunch, and
j H):tel Roxboro; in the “C” group ;
! are Barnttte’s case and Moon- j
| glow case. Blue Bird case is be
| ing renovated and People’s case !
has moved to a new location,
j Meat market inspections show
| ed: grade “A”* for Short’s, Long
; hurst’s, Clayton and Stewart’s
Moore’s, Ca-Vel’s and Pender’s, !
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| NEW CUB PACK
i TO BE FORMED
rON WEDNESDAY
Preston Satterfield, Jr., To
Be Leader. Womble To
Retain One Pack.
Preston Satterfield, Jr., prom
inent young Roxboro business
; man, has accepted appointment
as Cubmaster of a new Cub Pack
to be formed here Wednesday of
next week. Announcement of the
appointment was made today by
J. S. Merritt, Person District'
president.
I The Rev. Rufus J. Womble,
j Cubmaster of the present Cub
Pack, No. 2, will continue as
Cubmaster of one of the two
units. He said today that mem
bership in each Pack will for the
: present be thirteen or more. One
j unit will continue to meet dur
ing daytime bjeurs, other at night.
Sponsor of Pack 2, which was
organized two or three years ago,
'is Saint iMary’s, and Saint Ed
ward’s Catholic church, with
George W. Karie, Gus Deering
and George Currier as commit
teemen. plans and
other details,of the new Pack
will be announced later.
Mrs. Karl Burger, former
resident of Beckley, W. Va., to
day said that Judge Crouse, of
that City, who recently issued a ;
statement saying that parents of
delinqquent children are the ones
who should be^ punished, is re
ceiving much fan mail byway
of commendation. One of the
first editorial comments appear
ed In the Times. * ' '
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Knapsack
For Sammy
Holds Food
Small Boy Who Dreams
Os Becoming A Boy
Scout, Finds Father’s
Knapsack Still Useful.
J. S. Merritt, editor of the
Person County Times and pres-
I ident of the Person Scout Dis-
I trict, has a son, Sammy, Jr.,
j seven years of age.
Sammy, Jr., whio has heard
j his father talk about both
j printing and Scouting, has a
! printing press that came .
Christmas, but has wanted a I
Scout memento, a symbol of !
his interest in that organiza- !
tion. The other day he found i
| it, a knapsack of two decades j
j ago, relic of his father’s own j
j B|oy Scout days, with the Scout
j emblem stamped on its faded
j tan, fold-over cover.
The knapsack, hidden in a j
stairway closet, caught Sam- j
| ray’s eye, although J. Sam, j
! Sr., could have sworn it was i
! left at home and not taken to !
; his own house. Yesterday the [
j knapsack had food in it for the !
! first time in 23 years. Sammy, I
| Jr., packed it with his mother’s j
| sandwiches and slipped out of
j the house to sit dawn and eat
j in the nearby woods, like a
| real Scout. Give him two j
I more years and he’ll be a Cub.
And he will have the same
knapsack, unless he wears it
! out. Right now it is seeing I
j hard service, in school and
I other places, wherever Siam
• my goes.
J
Geo. M. Davis
Funeral Held At
Wheeler’s Church
Funeral services for George
Monroe Davis, 74, whicse death
occurred early Thursday morn
ing at the home of Harvie Walk'- |
er, of Bushy Fork, were conduct- j
ed Friday afternoon at Wheeler’s
Primitive Baptist church at three
o’clock by the Rev. Otho Hawk
ins, of Hurdle Mills, with inter
ment following in the church
cemetery.
Mr. Davis had beery in ill
health flor several weeks. Only
sister surviving is Mrs. R. L.
Walker, of Hurdle Mills.
Along The Way
With the Editor 1
Frank Thomas, efficient advertising manager of the Rox
boro Courier, has fallen <or an old trick. Kelly Paylor is the
man who played it on him. Kelly lives jugt about jnex,t door
Frank and a-few days ago he started telling Frank about
how much money he could make raising Vhickens. Frank
thought that 1 the idea was a good one and immediately got
his things together and now he has a bunch of chickens at
his house. Kelly is helping all that he can and in more ways
than one is proving tjo be a good fellow, but he knows what
he is doing and when eating time comes my friend Kelly
will be there every time a chicken’s neck is wrung.
It’s the same old story over at Jack Strum’s house. He is
getting everything ready for Clyde Bowen to haw a good
garden this spring. Jack never has one, but he sure does do
all that he can to help Clyde have a nice Krie. Last' year Jack
had as many vegetables in Clyde’s garden as anyofne else in
the city. •
Congratulations to Jake Bradsher of Mflton. Jake may be
too old for the army but he has a brand new baby at home
and th*i is morethan'Emwty F«o*»*iJrthi»city can say.
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One Cigarette,
One Fire Hydrant,
Cause Troubles
One cigarette can do a lot
of damage; Joe Rclberson,
Ccllins and Aikman corpora
tion official, of this City,
found it out early yesterday
morning when his car struck
a fire hydrant on North
Main street extension, broke
it off and caused loss of an
untold amount of water.
Roberson, who tbld City
Manager Percy Bloxam he
lost control of his car while
throwing a cigarette out of
i the window, has offered to
i ply for the damages. “Un
j fortunately’’, adds the City
! Manager, “fire hydrants
| now are almost worth their
. weight in gold.”
The accident occurred a
[ bout three A. M. Roberson's
| ear was damaged consider- i
j ably. Roused out of then
beds were water department
officials, who now have the
hydrant capped off. Until it
is repaired residents in the
j area will be without fire pro
tection. A night watchman
| at a lumber plant made dis-
I cc.verv cf the accident and
reported it to police.
i
i Pat And Bill
j Clay Meet On
Far Off Street
I „
Pat and Bill Clay, both in the
United States Army and sons of
Mrs. Omega Clay, of Roxbono,
j met the cither day in Lincoln,
- Neb. Pvt. Pat sent Pvt. Bill &
telegram saying he would arrive
from Fort Riey, Kan., for a visit.
Bill did not get the message, but
they met, anyhow, on a Lincoln
street, after not seeing each oth
er for nine months.
Satisfied mother is Mrs. Clay,
who got letters from both sons,
each saying that the other,
“Looked fine”. First to enter the
Army was Pat, who has been at
Fort Riley. Bill, who left just a
few months ago is at Lincoln
Air Base, commanded by Gen.
Early E. W. Duncan, formerly of
j Roxboro.
NOW IN CITY
Marcus Jordan, son of J. A. j
Jordan, who several weeks ago
was seriously injured in an auto
mobile accident in Roxbono, is
now a patient at Community
hospital here. He was first tak
en to Duke, but is now reported
to be improving.
VESTRY TO HAVE
DINNER HONORING
REV. MR. WRIGHT
Saint Mark's Churcli Lead
ers Make Plans For Mis
sion Service Here.
! The Rev. John A. Wright, fee- j
tor of Christ churdh, Raleigh,'
j who is to come t'o Roxboro dur- I
| ing week of January 24, to con- !
: duct a preaching mission at Saint}
| Mark’s Episcopal church, will be-j
I gun his services on Sunday night 1 , j
| Later in the Week, on Tuesday, !
Ihe will be speaker and dinner |
j finest of Saint Mark’s vestry at i
I Hotel Roxboro.
Vestrymen, Whft are to be !
j lists, include: Nathan Lunsford, j
i senior warden, emeritus, R. P. i
J MichaiL, senior warden, E.. W. j
i Cunningham, treasurer, Percy i
| Bloxam and W. H. Brickhouse.
j Also a vestryman but now in the
.U. ?. Army is William Vickers, j
j Rector of Saint Mark’s is the j
1 Rev. Rufus J. Womble, who has
[’’announced that week-day Holy
| Communion to be celebrated du>-- i
! ing the mission will be held on i
IMI nday and Wednesday morn- 1
| ings at 10:30, and on Tuesday
j morning at 7:30.
PERSON NEGROES I
LEAVE FOR ARMY
EXAMINATION !
i
January Quota Under
I Selective Service Re
ports T’o Fort Bragg.
! I
j Person and Roxboro Negr'o j
men, January Selective Service
j quota, left Friday for examina- j
j tion and possible induction at !
, j Fort Bragg. Leader was James
! Reddick Barnette, with John !
! David Featherston and Zebulon '
I Vance Woods, Jr., as assistants. 1
Others reporting were:
James Ctis Hester, Paul John- i
j slcn, Felix Fletcher Pettiford, j
j John Woodrow Lorenzo Clayton, i
John Clayton, Ivie Jay, Sidney j
i Wyatt, Herman Hunt, William ;
| Winstead, George Washington j
I Chavis, Clemon Jay, John Ezery j
! Lunsford, Robert Burton, Hu- 1
bert Yancey, Claudie Richmond i
Lunsford, Buddie Jack Rogers, !
Henry Bradsher, Jr., and Ed |
Luther Bailey.
Also. James Satterfield, Wil- j
liam Hickson, John Elbert j
Brand, Harvey Piles, William I
Alexander Glass, Williei Petti- |
ford, Jr., Mack Hubbard Brooks, |
Ivery Rogers, Lloyd David!
Blackwell, Chester Arthur Street, j
Floyd Hamlett and Christmas!
Columbus Pettiford.
Also, William Henry Brad- j
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i To Discuss Corps
Plan For Schools
Charles Spencer, of the State
Department Icf Public Instruc
j tion, Raleigh, will be speaker at
January session of the Person
J Schoolmasters’ club, Thursday ;
i night at 7:30 o’clock in Roxboro J
high school library, according to
announcement by Leon Gouch,
club president, who has said that
j ISpencer will discuss the “High
School Victory Corps” program.
Meeting has been changed i
from Tuesday to Thursday for j
convenience of Spencer and oth
er invited guests. A district con
ference dn the Victory Cjorps was
held two weeks ago in Durham,
With a Person delegation in at- <
tendance.
-
Shore Makes Appeal
For Paralysis Fund
As Driv e Commences
[Minute Flag
Won By Rose’s
Store In City
I Fourth Flag In Area
j Bui First For A Store,
Says Manager J. Marvin
Pigford.
; A “Minute Man” banner, with
I "*-y
stars and a “T", has been receiv
ed by Roxboro branch of Ros. \s
j Department. store for st. te-wide
| participation in the War Bond
I and stamp payroll deduction
! plan, according to announce
• men made today by J. Marvin
' Pigford manager.
The oahner. now on display at
i Rose’s hen . is belived to be the
first to be awarded to a Person
; and Roxboro mercantile esta-
I blishment. although such bnn
i ners have been awarded in the
past to th: Cocoa-Cola company,
the Peoples bank and Collins
: and Aikman, Plant E, at Ca-Vel.
i All Rose’s store employees in
| Roxboro, including Manager Pig
-1 ford, are participating in the
, payr'ell deduction plan and Pig
, ford was today high in his
j praises of the spirit shown by
! the staff here. It is understood
that the Roxboro store is also
! one of the first of the Rose’s
[ stores to gain this recognition.
, No formal exercises will be
held. The banner is now on dis
i play, a visible sign of a partici
i pation that has been going on
I for many weeks, according to
Pigford.
!
* Rev. Mr. Oates Os
i
[Duke Will Be
1/
| Speaker Tod a\
I.
| The Rev. Wayne Oatrs, of
[ Durham and Duke University,
j will be guest speaker at Sunday
[ morning service of Roxbono
j F 'rst Baptist church at 11 o’clock,
while evening service will be in
charge of the Baptist Training
union, of which J. W. Greene is
J president.
Feature of the evening Service
j wil] be special music, including
j a violin solo by Miss Mildred
I Simmons, of Roxborb high sch
| 00l music faculty. Regular
monthly supper meeting of the I
Workers’ union wil] be held |
Tuesday night in the education
building.
Pastor of the church, the Rev.
W. F. West 1 , who returned home
Tuesday from Duke hospital,
continues to improve.
A. L. Goodwin, of the Man
power commission, yesterday re- '
ported that applicants arc com- !
ing in for consultation. He will ,
be at his office here on Friday ;
and Saturday of each week. ’
Miss Annie Mae McWhorter,
of Washington, is spending a few
i days here with her parents, Mr. j
and Mrs. J. A. McWhorter.’ I
J. C. Howard, of the Seed Loan
ofiefe her?, today said that ap
plications are now being receiv
ed. His office is in the Post Of
fice building.
NUMBER 29
! ~
i Person Quota
J Set At $341,
Results Expected
Methodist Minister Says
Cause Is A Worthy Illus
tration Os Ilumanitari-
I anisni
I
j Thu Rev. J. 11. Shjcre, veteran
1 Person Methodist minister, in an
' ' address to Roxboro Rotary club
on Thursday,; evening before
' | opening of the President's Birth-
I i day celebration for benefit of the
1 ! Infantile paralysis foundation,
■ I said with emphasis that great as
i : President Roosevelt’s name may
' be in national and international
history, it will be for many gen
• (rations to acme more closely
t : associated with the Warm
- Springs foundation than with
- : any other cause.
1 j “The campaign for the relief
• [ and eradication ic f infantile par
s aiysis”, said the Rev. Mr. Shore,
■ ! “is one of the many humanitar
i , ian calls being made today. It is
- ; one of many, but one of the most
e [ worthwhile, and is indicative of
- | the advance in humanity which
s | the frequency of calls for ser-
Y [ vice indicates.”
i [ Introduction of the speaker
a | was by R'tarian W. Wallace
s | Woods. Person chairman of tha
J campaign, who today said that
e j the drive which began here yes
- j terday is expected to be one of
- j best held in Person County. Cit
t ; ing messages received from
a | Gov. J. Melville Broughon and
| from State Chairman, Dr. Ralph
I McDonald, Mr. Wicods said that
I contributions from Person and
j Roxboro citizens in the past five
years have climbed from less
j than sls to nearly S3OO. Total
| contribution last year from
|. North Carolina was nearly $43,-
j 000 and is 'expected to be topped
| this year. Person quota this
f > year is $341.
| Coin cards have been mailed
f (Continued On Back Page)
>
i Burns Expects
r
; To Present Two
- Bills In House
i
Person Representative Robert
P. Burns, home from Raleigh for
J the week-end, today said two lo
j cal bills ho expects to introduce
will be: one to abolish the three
district set-up in Person Com
missioner election, and another
to require registration of all fire
arms in possssion of citizens in
the CLunty and City.
He is of opinion that public
j sentiment will favor abolition of
j the district measure, which was
passed two years ago at request
of the then State Senator from
Person, Flem D. Long. Fire-arms
measure is requested by City of
Roxbonci and County law en
forcement officials.
j THREE SOLDIERS
Privates Lois Yarborough, Earl
Daniel and Woodrow Ashley, of
the U. 0. Army, stationed at
Oliver General Hospital, Augua
ta, Ga., arrived Saturday morn
ing for a weekend visit with
friends and relatives. ■