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Our Job Is to Save faSgg Dollars War Bonds L\\ S'h Every Pay Day VOLUME XIV Griffin Outlines Job Now Being Done In Victory Corps Plan Says Much Os New Program Has Older Names Spencer Will Speak Here Tonight On Plan. Guests Invited By Schoolmast ers. i j Person Schoolmasters’ club, of which Leon Couch, supervisor of Rjcxboro District schools, is 1 president, together with other teachers and special guests, will, gather here tonight at 7:30 o’ clock to hear Charles Spencer, of the State Department of Pub lic instruction, Raleigh, discuss the “High School Victory Corps’’, plan. i The meeting, to be held in .Rjcxboro high school library, is' in the nature of a foliow-up dis cussion on the plan presented in a district session held two v.eeks ago in Durham and attended by Person Superintendent R. B. Griffin. as Durham, emphasis is being placed on specialized mathema tics courses designed chiefly for students interested in aeronau tics, but as Superintendent Grif fin pointed out in an interview here this afternoon, much of what is being called Victory Corps work is already in opera tion in Person and Roxboro sch ools, and has been since last year. Cjrming under the Victory Corps program are such activi vities as Red Cross First Aid courses, Bond and stamp sales, salvage drives, work in drill corps and in home economies. These activities, according to Griffin, are being continued and others will be added.. Value of the program, he thinks, will be improved by sensible adaptation to local condifions. For example, a big part of Victory Corps wPrk can be the Victory Garden pio gram again being sponsored her? by Four-H clubs under H. K. Sanders, A. I. Park and Mrs. Kathleen Barham. Also an im portant part in the program is the canning lef foodstuffs and the making of garments. MCLEAN TO COME Rev. D. A. McLean, of Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Va., will be guest minister at Roxboro Presbyterian church for the eleven o’clock Sunday morn ing service. BUMPASS HONORED R. D. Rvmpass, of Roxboro, Legislative official, who is now in Raleigh, has been Chosen Speaker of the Little Assembly. AT ST. MARK’S Rev. John A. Wright, rector of Christ church, Raleigh, 'will ar rive here Sunday to begin ,a four day missiorf to be held at Saint Mark’s Episcopal church. First servioe will be at night. SON BORN Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hunter Aiken, of Asheville, announce the birth of a son on Monday, Jan., 18, at Mission hospital, Asheville, Mrs* is the former* Miss Elizabeth Michaels, daughter of' Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Michaels, of D r_ TIMES ~ PUBLISHED EVERT SUNDAY AND THURSDAY ROXBORO, N. C., THURSDOY, JANUARY 21, 1943 Ford To Head i Red Cross War And Roll Call | . ■ 7 j Mrs. J. A. Long Chair man of Residential Com mittee. Other Leaders Named. Drive Begins j March Ist. ' Ford Front Handset R j l S. M. Ford, resident manager j of Collins and Aikman corpora tion’s Plant E, at Ca-Vei and a leader in Roxboro civic affairs, is to be chairman-director of the Person and Rjcxboro War Drive Red Cross Roll call, to be held here in March, according to j plans announced today by an 1 organization committee. | Heading the residential divi sion is Mrs. J. A. Long. Publici ty will be directed by W. Wallace Woods and special gifts chair man will be George W. Kane. Campaign supplies will be direc i ted by Dr. Robert E. Long, presi ' dent of Person Chapter of the Red Cross. Miss Mamie Love Barnette, treasurer of the chapter, will head the accounting committee. Chairman of the business district : committee* will be Gordon C. j Hunter and of the rural division, iR. B. Griffin. Negrlo division | leader will be T. C. Tillman, j principal of Person County j Training school. j All of the above mentioned | citizens and Miss Julia Fisher, | chapter secretary, have attended ■ committee meetings held in of fice of Roxboro Chamber of commerce. Date fler beginning of the drive, which is to take place of the annual roll call and will include various war activi , ties of the Red Cross, is seit for Mar. 1. Other City and County citizens will be asked by chair men to assist with the campaign. STORY! OF POLIO IN STATE SHOWN BY DR. REYNOLDS Don’t Say It Can’t Happen Here Again, Dr. Carl Rey nolds Warn. t Chapel Hill, Jan. 21.—North ; Carolina had 2,248 cases of in j fantile paralysis from 1918 to 1942, Dr. Carl V. Reynolds, State Health Officer, said today in a statement urging the people of the State to give generous sup port to the infantile paralysis drive being sponsored by com mittees fler the President’s Birth day celebrations from January 15, - 30. “Each new case is a grave threat to the entire community,” Dr. Reynolds pointed out, “be cause infantile paralysis is a dread epidemic disease. “No North Carolinian can say ‘it can’t' happen hefe,’ ” Dr. Rey nolds continued. “Not after the recent epidemic of 1935. A total of 675 cases were report ed to the State Board that one year. And the plague fell like a pall over the entire State, hot only bringing disease and suffer ing but indirectly exacting an economic toll which was esti mated to run to many million (turn to back page, please) Grandmothers Beat The Ban And Have Fun Four grandmothers, social ly prominent Roxboro wo men, members of the thirty two year-old Research club, a literary study group and oldest organization of its kind in thijj City, beat the pleas ure driving ban yesterday by chartering a two-mule team and wagon, to drive to a meeting of their club held at residence of Mrs. Percy j B'.uxam, wife of the City j Manager. I The four women, taking their first wagon ride in many a year, sat in chairs, wrapped themselves in blankets and bravely chose the spotlight by riding down ! Roxboro’s Main street. Driv er was Will Harrison, Negro. Team was furnished by May or S. G. Winstead, whose wife, Mrs. S. G. Winstead, was one cjf the four. Others were Mesdantes Mamie Mer ritt, R. L. Wilburn and E. P. Dunlap. Not to be outdone by 18 Roxboro men, members of Roxboro Country club who chartered a wagicn to drive five miles to the course for an afternoon of golf, the Re search club’s pioneers of a new day, had press delega tions and photographers at the send-off. Also, their wagon wheels had steel tires and they thus avoidedi mor tifications suffered by Rox boro golfers, who reported two blowouts of rubber tires on their own vehicle. WAR EFFORT TO BE SHOWN HERE BY ALL SCHOOLS Person Schools to Enter War Exhibit in State Con test. '■ Elizabethtown, Jan. 21.—Every school in Person county will have an opportunity to show what it’ is contributing toward the na tion’s war effort 1 through exhib its to be held locally between now and February 19, according to Mrs. J. S. Blair of Elizabeth town, president of the North Car olina Congress of Parents and Teachers, who is serving as State Education Chairman of the War Savings Staff of the Treasury Department. The exhibits will be in the form of scrapbooks which will include records of any sort show ing the war activities of the school. Among such records will be newspaper clippings, photo graphs and charts. The local schools will have un til February 19 to get the exhib its in the hands of superintend ents of city jor county schools, and March 1 has been set as the deadline for the superintendents to* get the exhibits to the War (Continued on back page) TROOP MEETS Scoutg of Trqcp 49, lead by Dr. Robert E. Long, Scoutmaster, have a new member, Lewis Humphries. Boys to care for the Red Cross room this week are Rufug Shelton, Jr., and Amos Hawks. Program fler the week was in charge of Merrsll Allen. Board of review will be held next Wednesday. TO DUKE R. B. Holeman, Jr., graduate of Helena high school and a sor of Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Holeman will on Monday enter Duke Uni versify as a student. Commissioned MMLJaSS Hr iBIbP mm 1 I Lieut. Robert M. Pully, of WLodsdale and China Grove,, now stationed in Hawaii, rec-iv c-d his commission before sailing. I He was at one time at Fort Fran-. cis E. Warren,. Wyo., and is a graduate of State College, class' of 1939, where he specialized in: textiles. He is a son of Mrs. W. B. Humphries and of the late G. j E. Pully, \cf Woodsdale. Lieut. Pully last summer married Miss! Elizabeth Correll. o f China | Grove, who now has residence j there. Golfers Go I In Wagon- Get ’em Flat ... —. * i County Club Members ! Ride And Walk To And | From Club I I i Roxboro golfers w’rre not to be outdone by the gas rules and this past Sunday fleund 18 board ing a rubber tired wagon pulled by Bennett and Winstead mules heading for the golf course. The trip to the course, about five miles, required fifty minutes and the return trip was about the , same. Nothing exciting happened on the way to the course but on the way back two blowouts hamper ed the trip to such an extent that those who remained on the wagon had to walk from Reams Avenue and High School Drive to their homes. Several of the fellows hailed pasing cars on the way back and thus they arrived a little ahead of schedule. The wagon left Oakley’s Ser vice Station at tene o’clock Sun day and returned there about (turn to page four, please) ■ Miller’s Editorial Pays Tribute To Lieut. Gov. Harris Dr. Julian Miller, editor of the Charlotte Observer, in an editorial published shortly after the opening of the State Legislature, paid tribute to Lieut. Gov. R. L. Harris, of this City, both for excellences as a citizen and as presiding officer of the Senate. Contained in the editicrial is the suggestion that the Lieutenan Governor would make an outstanding success in the office of Governor and that he should seek the position in the next guber natorial race. The Times is today pleas ed to reprint this editicrial in its own cblumn of comment and is sure that majority of Person citizens are in agree ment with Dr. holler. PLEASURE BAN VIOLATIONS WILL BE CHECKED HERE Thomas Says Some Vio- ! lations Reported On. Week-End. Philip L. Thomas, Person War j Price and Rationing Board chair- ! man. today said that names of j from thirty to forty alleged vio- ; later of the pleasure driving ban j have been turned in to the Per- j son Rationing E! ard office, rria- i jority of the infractions being! reported for week-end Saturday j and Sunday driving. Commenting on these reports, | Thomas said that infractions! have increased at such a rate 1 that OPA checkers are. expected ' to be assigned to Person area in ; next few days. Thomas added, ‘ however, that the pleasure driv ing ban was generally observed here during the first week or ten days it teas in effect and that . many citizens are properly com- j plying. State Highway Patrolman John! Hudgins reports that he has re- j ceivcd from State Highway of- I Lcials no instructions for report- j ing ban violatiors. Chief of Po- i lice George C. Robinson, for his : part, is of opinion that the ban i has had definite effect on cur- | tailmcnt of criminal activities,, ■ only three cases being reported j (turn to page four, please) | Pipeline Crews To j Come Shortly Says Foreman Poston W. Wallace Woods, secretary | lof Roxboro Chamber of Com- 1 I merce, today said that construe-' I tion crews of the Plantation j | Pipeline dempany are expected : : to arrive in Roxboro within a ] short time, and that negotiations I are now underway for leasing of an office building. Construction Foreman Poston, i mow at Clarksville, Va., has said that payroll will be of consider able size and that local labor may j also be engaged. Much of the pipe to be used has been shipped here. It is understood that around ; forty families, majority desiring ! small furnished apartments are j to arrive and citizens having such 1 apartments are requested to no j tify Mr. Wotods. | Mrs. McWhorter j To Be At Board Office By Schedule Mrs. L. Sanders McWhorter, j chairman of the Community Ser vice* committee and Public Re ! lations official of the Person War ; Price and Rationing board, to | day said that she will be in the j Rationing Board office each j Monday, Wednesday and Fri day, from one until five to’clock in a public relations capacity,' mainly for consultations with citizens concerning rationing problems. Such citizens may confer with! her, or be referred to other pro- 1 per officials: for information. Corp. Spencer To Go To Camp I Corp. William F. (Bill) Spen- J cer, son lef Mi*, and Mrs. R. M. I Spencer, of Roxboro, is to be j transferred next week to Camp | Lee, Va., at Petersburg, from I Greenville Air Base, Greenville,! Miss. Spencer, who is in the Airj Corps, was at one time stationed at Maxwell Field, Ala. Year’s First Traffic Fatality Ends Work Os Person Minister Library Board To Aid Books For Soldiers Second Victory liook Drive Considered Rv Roard. W. H. Gentry Present For First Time Person Cjeuhty Public Library board numbers in monthly ses sion Tuesday afternoon, heard and approved plans outlined by i Miss Ernestine Grafton, tri-coun- j ty librarian, for conducting a j new “Victory Book’’ drive to se- ! cure books for men in military i .service. | The drive, according to Miss j ; Grafton, is to be conducted with : ! assistance of the Red Cross and i | Boy Scouts and has approval of the American Library associa | tion. Dr. Robert E. Long, presi ' dent of the Person Red Cross i chapter and a leading Scoutmast : or, who will shape up plans for ; the drive here, has not yet an i nounced dates, although he is ex- I * j pected to' do so within the next j few days. Miss Grafton, in a prepared i statement', calls attention to the ' fact that books, magazines and papers may no longer be sent by ; relatives and friends to men in \ (continued cn back page) i I !- ■ | jFathers-Sons To Gather For Scout Dinner i i i ■ Scout Week Affair Os i Person District Comes Few Days After Nation al Week. Greer Asked To Speak. Person and Roxborlo Boy Stouts, of the Cherokee Council, Person district, together with their leaders, will have their an nual Father-and-Son celebration l of National Boy coutj week on j Friday, Feb. 26, in the flerm of a j banquet at Hotel Roxboro, with I. G. Greer, of Thomasville, ' noted Baptist churchman, as speaker, according to plans form ulated at monthly session of the Person district held Tuesday night. Plans for the event are to be made by a ejemmittee composed !of C. A. Harris, W. H. Brick -1 house and Dr. Robert E. Long. | Also discussed at the meeting ! were plans for a Roll of Honor ;of Person and Roxboro Scouts ! rjew in military service and for a Scout' Sponsored Salvage cam j paign and tin can drive, the col | lection of salvage to take place i Feb. 1 through Feb. 28. On the Roll of Honor committee are Percy Bloxam, Dr. Long and Col lins Abbitt, while salvage and tin can wferk will be directed by Dr. Long and W. Wallace Woods, the last named being County . Salvage chairman. Suggestion for the Roll of Honor tablet was I made by Bloxam. j Encouraging troop reports | were presented, especially by I Roxfcbro* Cub Pack, directed by ! the Rev. Rufus J. Womble, who | announced that the Pack will be split to form a new Pack. New (Continued on back page) Buy DEFENSE BONDS-STAMPS Rev. I ,ex Chandler Killed; Young Man To Face Hearing Riles Held This After noon For Chandler. Was Pastor Os Three Primi tive Baptist Churches. Funeral services , for Elder Lex J. Chandler, 49, -ahose instant death occurred Tuesday night ! when he was struck and fatally j injured on the Rpxboro-Oxford I highway near his home by a car ! driven by Luther Sherman Sat ! terfield, 19, were held Thursday J afternoon at four o'clock at Surl t Primitive Baptist church, one of three churches which the de ! ceased had been serving as pas tor. Dr. A. F. Nichols, coroner, Pa trolman John Hudgins and Sher iff M. T. Clayton investigated the accident, and the coroner said that Chandler was crossing the highway on the right side when he was struck by the car which was headed toward Roxboro. He ! said that Chandler’s wife testi fied that the accident was un avoidable. Satterfield admitted he was driving the automobile. The accident was first' Person ! auto-crash death in 1943. The ac ! cident occurred about 7:30 p. m. 1 In the face of the testimony ! Dr, Nichols did not order an in- J quest and the youth was released j under a bond of SSOO, pending a j hearing which has been set for J Feb. 9. In the auto mobile with Satterfield were Ballard Ellis, Woodrow Mooney and Miss Ha zel Mangum. i Chandler, a son of the late Mr. (Continued On Back Page) I Helena Busses In Save Gas Plan Accomplish Much ’ ______ i ! -1 Officials of Helena school, of i which J. L. Hester is principal, i reptert total daily mileage of six i busses serving the school has i been cut from 152 to 129, mainly ■,' through planning and coopera s | tion of drivers and pupils inter -1 ested in saving gasoline and tires ? j under OPA regulations. One ,•' driver parks his bus in a safe place and with his brothers and ? sisters walks a mile each morn -1 ing and afternoon through the - wkods in order to save six miles . of bus mileage. 1 r PROMOTED 5 James Abbitt, son of Mr. and r j Mrs. I. O. Abbitt, of Roxboro, - and Dormer Elon College athlete, - who is now pilot of a troop car ? rying plane in Africa, has bqen : promoted from second to first ; lieutenant. 1 BROOKSDALE CHARGE r Rev. E. C. Maness, of Brooks , | dale charge will preach Sundaj * morning at 11 o’clfcck at Brooks* • dale church, and at 7:30 at nighi s at Brookland church. Holy dom munion will be observed at i Brooksdale. Sunday school thers 1 will be at 10 o’clock. R. D. Bumpass who is mHnj j his home in Raleigh for the leg- * I islature duration, spent last weekend at home in Rjexboro. NUMBER 30