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VOLUME XIV
Prominent Person
Leaders Sign Parole
Winstead Petition
Signers From
Official Ranks
In County - City
Cooper Hall Confirms {
Fact That Petition For
Parole Os Cy Winstead, j
Jr., Will Be Presented
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Cooper Hall, a .Burlington at- 1
torney, today confirmed the fact
that a petition for parole of Cy'
Winstead, Jr., 22, Person Negro,
who has served more than one
year of a two and; one half to
five year sentence on an assault
charge, is soon to be presented
in Raleigh.
Winstead, it will be remember-j
ed, received the sentence in
January 1942 from Judge R.]
Hunt Parker in Person Superior]
court after having entered a
plea of guilty of an assault with
intent to commit rape upon a
young Roxboro white woman,
Miss Pauline Dunn.
Feature cf the case was the
Court House Mob trial in which I
five white men, Person citizens,!
since paroled, were convicted of
unlawful asembly in an unsuc
cessful attempt to get at Win
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PARENTTEACHER
GROUP LOOKS FOR
NEW COOK-STOVE
Explosion Destroys Old
Stove In Olive Hill Com
munity House.
Officials of Olive Hill Parent
Teachers association, sponsors of
the school cafeteria operated in
the Community building near the!
school, are looking for a new
cook-stove to replace one des
troyed in an explosion Monday
morning when the janitor start
ed a fire in it in **ubfreezmg
weather of eight degrees.^
AH that was left of the old
stove was the foundation frame.
The janitor, standing at other
end of the building when the ex
plosion took place, escaped in
jury. Steve priorities have pro
duced a scarcity. Until one is
found meals cannot be served in
the cafeteria.
One stove is said to be avail
able, if not claimed by another
possible purchaser.
Pvt. Clyde Whitt
Now Stationed
At Keesler Field
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Pvt. Clyde G. Whitt, son of
Mr. and Mrs. P. T. Whitt, of this:
City, and a farmer Person Dis-1
trict Scoutmaster, who entered
the Army last month at Fort
Bragg, has been transferred to
the Air Corps Technical school,
Keesler Field, Miss.
With Whitt arp about a dozen
other Person County and Rox
boro men who entered the Army
at the same time. Whitt, in
civilian life was connected with
Woody’s Funeral home. A grad
uate of Roxboro high school, he|
has a brother Corp. Landon G.
Whitt, now "with the Army in
overseas service,
PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY AND THURSDAY ROXBORO, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1943
Lay Speaker
At Church To
Be Winstead
Mayor Os City To Deliv
er Morning Address At
Long Memorial. Two Men
At Brooksdale.
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Mayor S. G. Winstead, of Rox
boro, will be speaker Sunday
morning at eleven o’clock at a!
Layman’s Day service to be heldj
at Edgar Long Memorial Metho • |
dist church, according to an-j
nouncement made today by the
pastor, the Rev. W. C. Martin.
The Layman’s Day observance
here will also be held at Brooks
dale church, of which the Rev.
E. C. Maness is pastor. Lay
leader at Brooksdale is George
M. Fox, Jr., and speakers are
expected to be John Jones and,
J. F. Wilson. j
The programs will be part of!
a nationwide observance of Lay-!
man’s Week in the Methodist
I church, in preparation for the'
■ Methodist weeki of dedication,
| beginning Feb. 28.
General theme of the Lay
man’s Week is “Methodist Men
in World Reconstruction”.
The Rev. Mr. Maness will be
at Allensville church Sunday
morning, but will be at Brooks
dae church that night. Mr. Fox
will preside at the morning ser
vice at eleven o’clock.
Similar services are expected
to be held at Ca-Vel and Long
hnrst and East Roxboro churches
of which the Rev. R. W. Rain
water is pastor, and in churches
of the Person Circuit served by
the Rev. F. B. Peele, of Rox
boro. •
Ministers Meet To
Send Messages To
Burgess Andßurns
Person Preachers
Oppose Form Os
Wine Control
Also Want State - Wide
Vote On Whiskey Ques
tion. Other Problems Os
Faith Discussed
Eight Person County and Rox
bero Protestant ministers repre
senting the Person County Min-
I isterial association, meeting in
monthly session here, today said:
that telegrams opposing the |
proposed wine control bill in the!
State legislature and favoring a
State-wide referendum en whis-j
key, have been sent in the name
of the Association to Kale K.
Burgess, leader of State United
Dry forces, and to Person Re
presentative R. P. Burns.
The telegrams read: ‘"Dhe;
Person County Ministerial as
sociation opposes the Wine Bill
and favors the State-wide refer- 1
endum of whiskey.” Committee
appointed to send the telegrams
was composed of the Rev. F. B.
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TIMES “
TWELVE FLAGS TO
BE PRESENTED TO
CENTRAL PUPILS
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Additional Banners Go
To School And To > Girl
Scouts For Infantile Par
alysis Contributions.
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Twelve rooms in Roxboro Cen
tral Grammar school, represent
ing grades up through the sixth,
on next Wednesday morning at
Chapel period will be presented,
with twelve American flags, one!
for each grade-room that filled l
five or more two-dollar Infan-1
tile Paralysis coin books.
The flags, four by six feet in!
size, will be presented by W. j
Wallace Woods, Person chairman j
for the recently completed 1943 ■
Infantile Paralysis campaign j
here. A flag of the same size will:
also be given by Woods to the ]
school, and another will go to]
Roxboro Girl Scouts, iwho under!
leadership of Miss Katherine •
Cooper, conducted a highly suc
cessful Infantile Paralysis Tag!
day.
Central Grammar school pupils
raised $138.15 and the Girl Scouts
$60.37 cents. Many of the Scouts
are also students at Central.
Reports of the campaign are
virtually complete, except for re
ports from Nurse Mary Mills, of;
the Negro staff oJ the Person (
health department, who had;
charge of collections among Ne-
groes here. Total quota of $341 j
for Person has already been
reached.
Pianist will be Mrs. Woods.
Pvt. Wade Gentry
I In Florida, At
St. Petersburg
Mrs. Wade Gentry, of this City,
member of the office staff of the
I Person Selective Service board,
this week received information
from her husband, Pvt. Gentry,
who last month entered the 1
Army at Fort Bragg, saying thatj
he has been transferred to St.
Petersburg, Fla.
Bloxam Will Be
Speaker Sunday
At Saint Mark’s
City Manager Percy Bloxam,
j a vestryman of Saint Mark’s
j Episcopal church, will be speak
| er there at the Sunday morning
j eleven o’cfcck service, in ab
i sence of the rector, the Rev.
j Rufus J. Womble, who will be
i in Monroe to conduct a preach- j
1 ing mission lasting one week. j
j Lay reader at Saint Mark’s
Sunday will be R. P. Michaels.
Negro School At
Bethel Hill Wins
Salvage Prize
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Prize winner among Negro j
schools in the Person County
Scrap Metal drive is Bethel Hill!
Negro school, to which a cash
prize of $12.50 has been present
ed by W. Wallace Woods, Person
Scrap salvage chairman. *
Tobacco Man j
Says Ceiling j
Not Planned j
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Chief Os Price Ceiling
Division Does Not Look
For Any Fundamental 1
Alteration Os Auction- j
eering System.
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Greenville, Feb. 18.—Southern
tobacco men were assured here
| this week that there would be
! no imposition of price ceilings on
| a grade basis in flue-cured tobac-
I co markets, and that there would
! be little change in the price ceil- j
! ing procedure enforced during:
J the 1942 selling season.
; The assurance was contained in
j a letter to State Senator J. Oon I
Lartier, of Pitt county, from |
! Charles E. Gage, chief of the U. |
|S. department of agriculture’s
! price ceilings division.
! Gage told Lanier his depart
ment would not recommend the
| grade basis for price ceilings be
cause it would mean the addition
of hundreds cf tobacco inspectors
and federal inspection of tobac
co would have to be instituted in
each of the flue-cured markets.
He added that the offices of
price administration could not
. establish the price ceilings on a
J grade basis without' the concur
i rence cf the department of agri
' culture.
j “We have no intention of rec
, ommending that the price ceil
ings on flue-cured, if any, be
made on a grade basis,” Gage!
said. “A price oeiling on a grade
basis cannot be established ex
cept there be a complete inspec
tion service covering all flue
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New Ration
Schedules
Arranged
Registration Here Set
For Three Days. Teach
ers Ready.
R. B. Griffin, Person Superin-1
tendent of Schools, whd with!
Philip L. Thomas and other Per
son OPA officials, is working out
a County-wide program for reg
istration for War Ration Book H
to be held Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday in the public schools,
today said that a County-wide
Teachers meeting is being call
ed for Friday afternoon, Febru
ary 19, at 3:30 o’clock *.t Roxboro!
| Central Grammar school, where;
j final instructions will be given.
Teachers in thirteen white j
schools, in the Indian school at
| High Plains and at Person Coun- i
jty Training school for Negroes]
, J will form a registration corps, I
3 ’ assisted by other citizens and iwill
■, be at their respective schools on |
! J the afterncons enumerated ftom
-! one until six o’clock. Schools will
• be dismissed at twelve noon on
! | the three days.
• j Only other day for registration
j will be Saturday, February 27, j
;at Roxboro Central Grammar
school, from nine o’clock in the
morning until five that after
peon, and this date, as Griffin
points out is for purpose of tak-!
ing care of those citizens unable
to come to respective registra- 1 !
tion places on the three designat
-1 ed dates. !
| In Raleigh earlier in the week,' <
lon Tuesday, were seventeen cit-|
j izens, including Griffin and j i
Thomas, who attended a district, ■
j rationing bcok conference. Th|e j -
Person Ration Board office will I
be closed during registration per
iod, except for emergency cases. 1
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Cocktail Bar
Fight Staged j
For Robinson |
Back in Roxboro, which has
an incorporated population
of stime five thousand, with
that many more clustered
around the outskirts, is Chief
of Police George C. Robin
son, who Tuesday ended his j
first trip to New York City. ;
Robinson, a former mem
ber of the State Highway pa
in .1 and one-timfe Lieutenant
with the Durham Police de
partment, has been to Balti
more and other large cities,
but he came away from New
York duly impressed with the
fact that New York, for all
its hugeness gets that way by
multiplication rattier than by
differences in habit.
Aside from the tall build
ings and Wall street, he en
joyed most standing in his
hotel lobby and watching a
cocktail bar fight It deve-
Icpfcd quickly, the “bouncers”
were quicker, and Chief Rob
inson did not turn a hand: he 1
just looked.
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Ration Books Os
Service Men To
Be Surrendered
Philip L. Thomas, Person OPA
director, today said that War Ra-!
tion Book 1, property of any per
son who has entered any part of
the armed services, must be re
turned to the Person War Price
and Rationing board by Satur
day, February 20.
Persons who wilfully hold such
books and neglect to turn them
in are considered as violators of
Federal law and such holders
and their families will not be
eligible for future rationing
books.
Fifty-Five Central
School Pupils In
Buy Bond Brigade
Arm Bands Received By '
Youngsters In Chape]
Exercises.
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Acting on the slogan, “A half
' filled stamp book is like a half
i equipped soldier, fifty-five boys
! and girls, pupils in Roxboro; Cen
j tral Grammar school, of which
i Miss Inda Collins is principal,
| yesterday participated in chapel
exercises celebrating the filling!
| of their respective stamp books,!
1 which, were then turned in and j
exchanged for war bonds.
! The pupils, ranging from first
j through sixth grades, all receiv-'
ed arm bands signifying that they
I belong to the bond buying brig-;
' ade. Special emphasis tn conver- j
sion of stamps to bonds was ob-,
'served between January 15 and
February 15.
Those participating were:
FIRST GRADE: Jackie Strum, j
Norma Lee Gray, Buddy Brad- j
sher, Sammy Merritt, Holmes j
Adair, Nancy Minor, Lee Pass
and Bobbie O’Briant.
SECOND GRADE: Patsy Jack
son, Edward Dennett, Bert Dlavis, ,
Jean Wrenn, Barbara Wesley,
Arnold Ashley and Donald «
Swartz. -1
THIRD GRADE: Lillie Mae ,
King, Del# Lunsford, Martha (
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Beer Dealers Here
Agree On Closing
Hours For Trade
South’s Small
Business In
For Big Time
Congressional Subcom
mittee Hits Freight Dif
ferentials And Deplores
Unused Resources.
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Washington, Feb. 18. The
next great industrial and eco
nomic advance in this country
will occur in the South, the House;
Committee on Small Business pre- j
dieted this week in it's report to
Congress.
Headed by Representative Pat
man (D-Tex), the committee re
ported it' was “Impressed tre
| mendously by the industrial pro
i gress made by the South in re
cent years” and “even more .im
pressed by the still unrealizedli
potentialities of this immense j
and richly-endowed region . . J
| It would seem that the next great,
I industrial and economic advance i
jin this country is destined to
take place in the South.”
Should the South’s small indus- 1
j tries not be permitted to grow
) and prosper for any reason, the
1 committee found, “the progress
j of the region toward a better- j
balanced economy will be incal
culably retarded.”
Need Correction
The report said the comittee
“invites and confidently
counts on —the special interest 1
of Southern members of Congress
in correcting cretain of the con
ditions described in this report.
“The committee heard numer
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Wagstaff Now
At Gamp Swift,
Deep In Texas
T. C. Wagstaff, former asso
ciate editor cf the Roxboro
Courier and a 1942 graduate of
the University of North Caro
lina, who entered the United
| States Army last month, has]
; been transferred from Fort! i
| Bragg to Camp Swift. Texas,'
1 near Austin.
j With Wagstaff, who is in an'
' engineers corps, is Carl Foushee,
j also of Roxboro. Wagstaff re
! ports that Camp Sufift, like But
-1 ner, is a new camp.
Pvt. Bill Murphy
Assigned To Air
Corps Personnel
Pvt. Bill Murphy, of Rcxboro,
son of Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Mur
phy, otf this City, who is with
the Air Corps, Mitchell Field,
Long Island, has been perman
ently assigned to the panonyel
department, it was learned here
today.
Buy DEFENSE
BONDS-STAMPS
Col Bain In
Address Urges
Self-Regulation
Stale Director Os Brew
ing Foundation Says His
Association Backs Law
And Order
Twenty-five or more Person
and Roxboro beer dealers have
voluntarily agreed: to stop beer
sales each night in their respec
tive establishments at 10:45 o’-
clock, to permit no drinking of
beer in their places of business
after eleven o’clock each night
and to restrict Slunday sales to
Sunday afternoons after one o’ -
clock, with no sales during even !
ing church hours, seven to nine!
Action of the group was taken
yesterday at a meeting of Per
son Leer dealers and law offi
cials at which chief speaker was
Col. Edgar H. Bain, of Golds
boro, State director of the North
Carolina Committee of the Brew
ing Industry foundation.
Bain, who spoke at Person
County Court house and was in
i troduced by Roxboro City Mana
ger Percy Bloxam, urged self
imposition of control rather than
. regulation by law. He told the
| dealers that the Brewing Indus
i try foundation will back socially
! and morally clean estabishments
I to the limit, but that it will not
; tolerate low - class establish
ments.
i Dealers who do operate place
of questionabe character wil
t have thtir licenses revoked
warned Bain, adding that tlx
Association itself will facilitate
revocation of such licenses.
RITESHELDFOR $
J. F. WHEELEY
0F CEDAR GROVE
Orange Resident, WeH
Known In Person Coun
ty, Dies Xt His Hoime,
Funeral services for J. Frank
Wheeley, 73, cf Cedar Grove,
i near Law’s store, Orange Coun
ty, who died Saturday night at
his home after a sudden heart
attack, were conducted Tuesday
afternoon at 3 o’clock at Wheel
er’s Primitive Baptist
, Person County. *
> The rites were in charge of?
Elder O. C. Hawkdns of Hurdle
I ■ Mills, with interment in the
, I family cemetery. .
;i Surviving are two daughters,
| Mrs. Lila Brooks Cf Hurdle
! Mills, and Mrs. Nettie Round
! free of Cedar Grove; two sons,
Thomas of the home, and Ira of
Washington, D. a number of
grandchildren; and three sisters.
Sheriff Gaytan .
And Deputies Get
One Large Still
Person. Sheriff M. T. ClaytdJ
today reported capture of a fifty
gallon still in Allensville team
ship, near the Granville county
line. The still, a steam pr ensue
outfit, had a copper worm. As
sisting officers included t
Sheriff’s regular staff of dep
ties. Seizure was made Saturdi
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