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VOLUME XIV
Girl Scouts Will
Go After Victory
Books In Roxboro
House To House Canvass
For Books For Soldiers
To Be Made This After
noon.
Roxboro Girl Scouts, under di-j
recti on of their leader, Miss!
Katherine Cooper, of the Rbx
boro District schools music fac-|
ulty, on Sunday afternoon be
tween two and four o’clock will
conduct inj Roxboro a house to
house canvass for “Victory
Books” to be given to Service
libraries for men and women in
the U. S. Army, Navy, Marine
and nusing corps.
Co-sponsors of the drive here
are Person Chapter of the Amer
ican Red Cross, of which Dr.
Robert E. Long is chairman, and:
Person County, Public Library,
with which Miss Ernestine Graf
ton, tri-county librarian is con
nected. The campaign also has
full approval of the Person Coun
ty Public Library board,, of which
Flem D. Long is chairman.
Letters signed by Dr. Robert 1
Long have been sent out to many,
residents here, and all contribu
tors are requested to have books
ready to give to the Girl Scouts
call.
Bookts of the best type are
wanted, chiefly tcurreift fkjtion, l
book club selections, biographies'
and technical books, the latter'
of a date not later than 1935.!
Also wanted are small-sized ed
itions of popular books and class
ics.
The Roxboro Girl Scouts only,
last week completed a very sue-!
cessful Infantile Paralysis Tag'
day sale.
Text of Dr. Long’s letter is as
follows:
“Our Army and Navy are call-,
ing for 2,000,000 books to be used,
by our oversea forces. Due to!
the scarcity of shipping space
the government has found it nec-[
essary to stop all shipping of
packages by individuals to our!
boys who have gone across. Ev-'
exy effort is being made to keep!
good literature available at' all
Posts. Since we can not send di-•
rectly, we must make this cam
paign a success.
“The Red Cross and Person'
Counts -Public* Library cooperat
ing with J%e:Oijrl are’
making a collection of these
bookis today, Sunday, from 2:00
to 4:00 p. m., by a house to house
canvass. |
*3*lease contribute as many as
Spsible of your good interesting
oks; ones that are your favor
ites and you think would be en
joyed by cur boys. Not castaways
and books not in a good condi
tion. Current best sellers of many
(Continued on back page)
William Fox,
In Wshington
Hits Adventure
William Fox, of Washington,
D. C., son of .Mr. and Mrs. W. M.
Fox, of Roxboro, literally walks
into adventure. His parents
heard about it tbday.
William and a friend of his,
Andy Rinehart, strolling a
Washington street, heard a
crash, falling glass, and turned
in time to see a man throw a
bride in a jewelry store window.
It was a robbery, first clast,
and gftar the man had been cap
twed, -ftox stood guard far the
atom until police atrivtd.
PUBLISHED EVERT SUNDAY AND THURSDAY ROXBORO, N. C., SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1943
Harris Plea
For Slowing
| Up Ignored
j House And Senate Com- j
mittees On Education j
Report Favorably On
Nine Month School Term
Bills
I I.
Raleigh, Feb., 6.—-Both the]
House and Senate committees on'
education on Wednesday, day af
ter the protest of Lieut. Govern
or R. L. Harris, reported the nine
| month schoolterm bill favorably
i by overwhelming majorities
thus apparently defeated those!
Legislators who favor delay of
the nine month term to July '
1945.
The two actions, taken on 1
identical measures, automatical-1
j ly send the companion bills toj
1 the joint Committee on Appro-’
, priations, where proponents will
• press for early action.
: The vote in the House com- ,
' mittiee on education was taken;
I by a standing vote, and the count!
jwas 39-to-11. There, was no re-!
i cord vote in the Senate commit-!
, tee, but the volume of sound in
i dicat'ed that the percentage for
the bill was even larger than in
the House committee.
Senate Group Surprises,
i Action of the House commit
j tee followed an agreement
. reached Tuesday after the jointij
I committee had dissolved with-,
'l out action and the House, com-j
’ mittee had held a separate ses-j
i sion. Even swifter action by the|
i Senate committee came as aj
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TWO PERSON MEN
GET OFF WITH
LIGHT SENTENCES I
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j Mooney And Oakley
Placed On Probation For
5 Years Jfi Manslaughter 11
Case
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OXFORD, Feb. 6. Suspend-
I ed road sentences, fines totaling
, SI,OOO and costs of court were
, imposed on Bernice Mooney and
! Elmore Oakley, Person County
I white men found guilty on man
) slaughter and hit-and-run driv
i ing charges originating from the'
death of Tom Wilkerson, Gran
ville County Negro.
Appearing before Judge C.
Everette Thompson in Granville
County Superior Court, Oakley
plead not guilty on a manslaugh
ter charge but was found guilty
by the jury. Judge Thompson ac
cepted a nol pros on the man
slaughter charge against Moon
ey, driver of the death car, and
aooepted nolo cointJendiere on a
hit-and-run charge.
Oakley was sentenced to
serve five years on the roads,
and to pay $750 to the Clerk of
' Court for use by the wife and
children of Wilkerson, and to
pay the costs of court The sen
tence was suspended and the de
fendant was put on probation for
five years under usual probation
terms, and upon condition that
he refrain front any use of apjr
intoxicating beverage, including
bear and wine, during that pgHk
odL'
{turn fa page three, please)
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- TIMES
SEVENTH GRADE
AT HELENA WINS
SONG BOOK PRIZE
Miss Amy Joslyn Con
ducts Scrap Book Con- |
test In Graimiar Grades
Miss Amy Joslyn, teacher ofi
public school music at Helena!
school, Person County, today
nounced completion of an Amer
ican Song scrapbook contest, won
by the seventh grade.
Second of ten songs selected j
j by the winning grade was, “The :
Old North State”, the State songj
] written years ago by William
; Gaston, distinguished Tar Heel]
| jurist.
j Others were: The Star Spangl-j
I ed Banner, America the Beauti
i ful, God Bless America, Homej
! on The Range, Yankee Doodle, I
j Cassion Seng, Navy Song. Thej
j Army Air Corps, and the* Marine'
Hymn. The following informa
tion Was given about each song:,
the author, place written, timej
written and a short history of
each. Pictures were selected toj
! illustrate each song. A map of the|
! United States was placed in front
■cf the book and tiny flags post
ed on the map to indicate where
each song was written.
! The following poem was writ-:
! ten by the pupils of the class,!
- each verse to represent a differ
ent song:
AMERICAN SONGS
There are many songs in many
j lands,
| There are new ones everyday, j
j But the songs we like the best
of all,
Are those written in the U. S. A.
i
Our national anthem, The Star,
Spangled Banner, !
Whose author was Francis Scott
Key,
Was written aboard a British
ship
| During the bombardment of Fort
McHenry. I
I Our state song, The Old North!
| State,
! In 1835 ’twas written
j In the Capital Town of Raleigh
By a Tar Heel, Judge William
Gaston.
America The Beautiful,
Written by Katherine Lee Bates,
Was made very famous
In our own United States.
God Bless America was composed
In the year 1938,
By Irving Berlin, of New York,
(continued on back page)
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Rites Will Be
Conducted For
Miss Lonnie Long
Funeral services for Miss Lon
! nie Long, of Raleigh, a native of
Person County, whose death oc
curred Friday in a Raleigh hos
pital after a long illness, will be
•conducted here Sunday.
Miss Long a daughter 1 of the
late Mr. and Mrs. Woody Long,
of near Allensville, is survived
by two sisters and four brothers. |
Sisters are Mesdames Ruebenj
Yarbrough, of Prospect Hill, and!
George Perkins, of Roxboro.
Brothers are Norman, of Newport
News, Va., EL W., of Maryland,
and Linzey and Oscar W. Long,
both of Roxboro.
Rites will be held today at
throe o’clock at Providence Bap
tist church, with interment in
the churdh cemetery. Officiating
will be the Rev. J. N. Bowman.
The body will remain at Woody’s
funeral home until one hour be
fore the service.
Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Rogers,
who have had an apartment on
IMwOl Main Street, have movgd
0 « reeidanoe on Charles strpet
Trustees
Designate
Whitfield
Robert Whitfield To
Serve On Community
House Board ln Place Os
Baxter Mangum. .
Robert W. Whitfield, Roxboro
business man and an active mem-
I ber of Lester Blackwell Post of
j the American Region, has been
elected as third member of the
I board of trustees of Roxborc
| Community house.
| Whitfield, who .succeeds Bax
, ter Mangum, now a resident of
! Durham, was chosen at a meet
ing of civic club and community
leaders called by O. B. Me-
Broom, chairman of the Board.
Other member of the Board is
Mrs. R. H. Shelton. Citizens at
tending the meeting were W.
Reade Jones, president of Rox
boro Rotary club, J. J. (Dick)
Woody, head of the Kiwanis
club, J. ®. Merritt, chairman of
Person District of Boy Scouts,
and Mjcßroom.
The Roxboro Community
house although it is now leased
to Person County and is used
for quarters of the Person Board
of Education and the Person
County Public library, is still
controlled by the Board of trus
(t'um to page three, please)
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S. C. Fisher, Jr.
Killed In Action
In Pacific Area
Private First Class Sam C.
Fisher, Jr., 21, of Halifax
i County, Va., and Roxboro, a
( son of S. C. Fisher, of Rox
boro, was killed in action on
| January 13, in confliot with
the Japanese in the Pacific!
| area, according to a message
received yesterday from the
War Department by the fath
er.
Fisher, who volunteered for
service three years ago and
was for a time stationed in
Hawaii, was in an Infantry
division. His mother was the
late Mrs. Myrtle Guthrie
Fisher. A brother, James C.
Fisher, is in service now at
Fort Ltewis, Washington.
! Surviving, in addition to
i his father, are two other
brothers; both of Rftxfeoto.
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Along The Way
With the Editor
If this is a lie, Percy Bloxam told it, and to be perfectly
frank about the matter I do not put it above him. Several
nights ago right after the: sleet came, it was necessary to start
the gas pumps at' the city lake. There was no current and the city
had to pump by means of gas engines rather than electricity.
Now the city lake is only a short distance from the house of
Errol Morton, noted hunter, tobacconist, farmer and gentle
man of the south. Errol heard the sound df the engines. It
sounded like an airplane and the night was dark and dreary.
Morton decided that an airplane was in his neighborhood and
(that the said airplane was lost The sound continued, it stayed
right where it was. He had never heard that sound before and
he had been living there a long time. Now the said Morton is
a patriotic man and he decided that if a plane was up in the
sky and could not find its way home that he should do some
thing about. The same said gentleman therefore did something
about it. iHe got two flashlights and went to hia front yard. He
played the lights on his house trying to show the flyer that
here was a house and that he should not land on its (top and!
then he played the lights around an open space where the man
could come down if he was in real trouble. The plane never
landed, but Errol remained out in the front yard for about two
hours doing hia bit for the old U. S. A.
P. S. Notice to the draft baanL'Please let the above mentioned
gentleman remain at home. Any man that is willing to do what
be did should never be sent sway. We need Ms type here in
Person County.
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RAINWATER WANTS
INFORMATION ON
LOUISBURG WAYS
Rev. R.'w. Rainwater, Metho
dist minister of Ca-Vel and
Lcnghurst and East Roxboro
churches and a student in Duke
University Divinity school, who
is writing his B. D. thesis on a
history of Louisburg college,
l with particular referenda to
j Louisburg alumni from Person
i County, is anxious to obtain from
. these former studerits informa
] tion pertaining to the history of
! the college betwee 1889 and
. 1939.
J Louisburg alumni who can
i' furnish him with dscriptive
| notes, information, etc., giving
an evaluation of Louisburg’s
: contribution to Christian Educa
! tion, the names of deceased
• alumni and the names of all
; ministers’ wives, deceased or liv
| ing, who were formerly students
: at the college, are requested to
do.
His Duke address is Box
j 5075, Duke Station, Durham.
FOUR-HPROGRAM
I OF MOBILIZATION
BEING OBSERVED
I
! Person Leaders Announce
Plans For Celebration.
Reminding Person County 4-
j H members that the week of 6-
I 14 has been set aside as National
! 4-H' Mobilization week, Person
| 4nH leaders A. I. Park and Mrs.
j Kathleen Barham today issued
; the following statement of the
194-3 goals in 4-fH work:
“There are approximately 2000
boys and girls between the ages
of 10 and 19 in Person County
who are eligible to become Vic
tory 4-H members by carrying
to completion 'one or more of the
Food Production projects and
: keeping simple records. There is
I a food progect suitable for the
I younger boys and girls as well
ias larger projects for older
members.
“It is the goal of the Exten
sion Agents to reach each of
these boys and girls and see
that they contribute their ut
most toward the war effort. The
cooperaion and help of each par
ent is vital in making our 4-E
| Mobilization Drive in Persor
County a success.
I “4-H Club boys and girls have
| set as their goal the productioi
I (turn to page three, please)
'Negro Implicates
White Man In Day
Time Theft Case
! 'I
Rites Held For
i
Mrs. Long At
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- Her Residence!
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1 Mrs. T. Aubrey Long
2 Dies After Storke Os
»l Paralysis. Longtime Rox
-5j boro Resident.
i| ;
Held here yesterday were rites
", for Mrs. T. Aubrey Long, 64, a*
3 j native of Granville County, but!
■’jfor many years a Roxboro resi-j
| dent, who died Thursday night
1 J at ten thirty o’clock at her
avenue residence, following a!
stroke of paralysis which occur
red about nine o’clock that night.
Alone in the house when the]
attack occurred, Mrs. Long was
discovered on the floor in her]
home, by her daughter, Miss,
Beatrice Long, and Miss Anna*
• Katherine Moore when they re-j
turned from a motion picture
show about nine-thirty o’clock
Thursday night and had to break
' a window to gain entrance. Mr.
-! Long, at the time was at' Leg
-, gett’s department store with
1| which he is connected,
v Mrs. Long had been in ill
health several years, but first
1! suffered an attack about two
ej weeks ago. j
j Funeral was at two thirty o’-
3, clock yesterday afternoon at' the
s I residence, by the Rev. W. C.
f Martin, pastor of Edgar Long
-j (Continued on back page)
; RITES HELD FOR !
’! FLETCHER WILSON, j
’ PERSON NATIVE
Uncle Os Mrs. Artie Wat
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son Dies In Durham. Ser
vice Held At Wheeler’s
Church.
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Held 1 here Saturday morning
>e at eleven o’clock at Wheeler’s
n Primitive Baptist church were
final rites for Fletcher Wilson,
. 56, of Durham, an uncle of Mrs.
Artie Watson, cf Roxboro. Inter
ment was in the church ceme
f! tery.
I Wilson, whose death occurred
. Thursday at his home on the!
Roxboro road, was a native of|
Person County, but had for many
years lived in Durham and in]
| Rocky Mount. He was ill for
seven weeks.
Survivors, in addition to Mrs.
Watson and a member of other
neices and nephews, include: his
wife, three daughters, two grand
daughters and a brother.
Ransom Frederick
Goes To Miami
To Officer’s Camp
W. Ransom Frederick, o f
Greensboro, son of Mrs. Stella
Frederick and of the late W. W.
Frederick, of Roxboro, has en
tered Officers’ Training School,
Miami, Fla. Frederick, formerly
a resident of Roxboro, made ap
plication for Officers’ training in
October. In Greensboro he has
been connected with*Justice Drug
company, wholesalers.
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Buy DEFENSE
BONDS-STAMPS
NUMBER 35
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Cash Taken From
Beverage Company
! During Noon Hour
i
I
i Robert Hamlet Accuses
Preston Homer Os Par
ticipation In Theft Os
Cash From Roxboro
j Beverage Company. Trial
} Set For Tuesday.
i
; Robert Hamlett, 19, Negro, of
: Sugar Hill, Roxboro, and Pres-
I ton Hcmer, 33, a white man, both
i employees of Roxboro Beverage
; company, on' Tuesday in Person
j Recorder’s Court will face trial
i for alleged theft of SBO from the
i company taken o'ut of a metal
i lock-box in a safe in the com
! pany office, Abbitf Avenue,
i Report of the theft was receiv
! ed here Thursday by Chief of Po-
I lice George C. Robinson, but so
lution of the case was not work
j
S2OO MORE
Hamlett yesterday morning
in a second confession, made
to Chief of Police George C.
Robinson and to O. Y. Clay
ton, owner of the Beverage
company, admitted to a second
theft, S2OO, taken around Dec
ember 20.
j Clayton said he had not pre
viously reported this theft be
cause althciugh he was of opin
ion it was an inside job, he
was uncertain as to whom
j guilty parties might be. In this
instance Hamlett Is said to
have taken a key to the lock
| box, opened it and grabbed
! four fifty dollar bills,
j Hamlett had previously de
j nied any connection with the
December theft. He has not
implicated Horner in it.
ed ou,t until that night when
Hamlett, in jail, signed a confes
sion implicating Horner, who was
arresit'ed Friday morning.
The robbery, according to
i Hamlett, was a daylight affair,
,! taking place at noon on Wednes
day during lunch hour while the
J office was locked. Hamlett, who
I first alibi that he was at
’ i home all day Wednesday, later, ‘ v
,| in his confession, changed his
J story, saying that he went to the
| office at noon to see O. Y. Clay
jj ton, proprietor, and that the door
, j was closed and Clayton gone
- home.
r j Hamlet also said Horner, wha
J had climbed in through a win
.' daw, let' him in at a side door.
| Hamlett alleges that Horner
btekoned to him through a win
dow and, when he was inside
(Continued On Back Page)
Pugh Rites Held
Funeral services for Charles
T. Pugh, 52, of she Oxford Road,
Roxboro, whose death occurred
Thursday ait! his home after heart
attack, were conducted Saturday
afternoon at three o’clock at Mil'
Creek Baptist church, Persoi
County, by the Revs. J. N. Bow
1 man and J. F. Funderburke, wit
interment in the church ceme
tery. , 1 *
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RESUMES JOB I
W. T. Worley, of Newbern,
formerly a clerk «t Hotel Rox
boro, has returned to this City
and resumed his connection wMk
Hotel Roxboro.
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