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PAGE FOUR SPORTS SLANT A Million Dollars ■* i would give a million dollars if the Roxboro golf course had been placed closer to Roxboro than it is. If they had just put the dam thing so close that I could walk out there and play a few rounds every now and then I sure would appreciate it. As matters now stand I can’t do any thing except stand in my front yard and siwing a club or catch a ride to the course. I do not mind paying this to the war effort. I would do even more but I still want to play a little golf after the weather gets warm. And so I hold to my offer of a million dollars for a nearer golf course if I had a million dollars. Play Ball In a short time the umpire will be calling “Play Ball’’. Just how many teams will be operating in this county is hard to say but we hope that there will be several. Honestly we need a sow sports in order to re lax every now and then. A majority of people are working very hard and thev could work even harder if they had good methods of relaxation. I So get busy in your neighborhood and see what the chances are to organize a ball team for the comjming summer. It is a necessary item. New Set Os Signals For i Raids Cited j j I Coordinator Bloxam Is- ! sues Summary. Rules ; Now In Effect. Percy Bloxam, Roxboro City] manager and Person Coordinator] of Civilian Defense, yesterday] released to the public revised rules on blackouts and blackout 1 signals, effective at once. - In making the release Blox-j am said that blackouts may be expected at any time. He urges | careful reading of the new, rules. Complete text of the release is as follows: To prevent any posible con- 1 fusiicn between the Audible Pub-! lie Warning ‘Mobilization and; Blackout (Blue) Signal, the A’J-j 1 dible Warning Air Raid (Red) : Signal, and the Public* “All 1 Clear” (White) signal, the fol lowing procedure for the State 1 of North Carolina ig hereby es-; * tablished, effective 12:01 A. M. ’ February 17, 1943. A Mobilization and Blackout 1 (Blue) (Signal will always follow * an air-raid (Red) Signal. This! 1 signal permits movement of ped-, 1 estrians; traffic, with reduced, lighting; street and traffic] 1 lights, provided they comply; • with War Department Specifica- j 1 tions. An opportunity is there-] ' by provided for ticizens to re-] ' sume their activities after the ' Air Raid (Red) Signal has been 1 replaced by the Mobilization and : Blackout (Blue) signal. , ’ Dissemination of the Yellow, 1 Blue and Red signals iwill be di rected in Air Raid Protection Regulations No. 1, Fourth Ser vice Command, Jan. 27, 1943. None of these regulations shall in any way modify the Dimout Regulations heretofore or here after prescribed for the Coastal Dimout' Areas. i Procedure for Transmitting to the Public, All Clear (White) ] Signal 1. Certain selected radio fre-j quencies will be announced by the Fourth Service Command. When such frequencies are an-] nounced owners of radio receiv ers should keep them turned to one of these frequencies. In the meantime receivers should be kept tuned to local stations in the Air Raid Warning District in which their owners live. It is posible that certain instructions, including announcement of the All Clear (White) signal will be announced <by radio. 2. Traffic lights and traffic signs not modified to comply Sports °f the Times Up- to- the-Minute Sport News Solicited with War Department specifica tions “Traffic Control during Blackouts” will be turned on by designated person or persons as directed by the Control Center. 3. Street lighting not modified to comply with War Department | specifications for “Street lighting! During Blackouts’’ will be turned] on by designated person or per sons as directed by the Conrtol Center. 4. All plants, installations a’d facilities which were warned by. the Control Center upon receipt] of the Yellow' signal will be no-] tified by telephone or messenger] of the All Clear (White) signal.] i 5. Police cars, cars assigned to! I local Defense Councils, and State. I i ! Highway Patrol cars may an-] noince the All Clear (White), signal. 6. Smaller communities not' I having the foregoing facilities! available may establish a pilot light in the residence or place of business of the Local Defense j Commander, airraid warden, or other persons designated to re ceive warnings. When such per-j son turns on his light during darkness after air-raid warn-; ings have been received, Ibis' will act as a signal to others in the community that the All , (White) signal is in effect. If during daylight hour’s wardens, ' police and other Civilian De fense workers in the community * may transmit the signal verbal-, iy. ], No Audible Signal is to be , used for the transmission of the] All Clear (White) signal. It is realized that various warning 1 i devices such as sirens, church 1 bells, steam whistles, automobile,* horns, etc., may have to be used for- the transmission of the blue an<i red signals, but such de vices Must Not Be used for the disseminations of the All Clear (White) signal. , Practice Blackouts In order that members of the Citizens Defense Corps may know’ whether or not signals re ceived represent an actual black out cr air-raid, or a practice or test drill, the following words will be used after the yellow, bue and red warning signals for practice blackouts: “This is a Practice Drill” j Any adjustment in your pre-' sent air-raid alarm signalling * system that needs to be made in ] order to comply with the design-! ated signals, i. e., Blue Long notes at steady iptch for two (2) j minutes, and Red short blasts I for two (2) minutes, or warbling] or fluctuating sound of varying pitch, should be made at once,' i to have such adjustments ef-] fective at 12:01 A. M. Feb. 17 ! , 1943. Should occasion necessitate the transmission of any air raid : warning prior to the effective r time of the new signals, the 1 CASWELL COUNTY COOPERATION IN LIBRARY TALKED Regular Metting Os Per son Board Held Tues day Person County Public Library board members, meeting Tues day at the library ini regular monthly session, approved a plan o f cooperation with Caswell County in whidh library facili ties of both counties may be ex pected to be improved and ex panded. Full details of the plan will be presented to County Commission ers of the Counties involved and Miss Ernestine Grafton, tri-coun ty librarian, was instructed to present the tentative plan to Cas well library officials and to Commissioners of the two Coun ties. Miss Grafton’s Person report, indicating that the library here is enjoying a continuing expan sion, both, in facilities and books, was heard with approval. It was also indicated that State aid sup plements will be larger for thei coming two years. In addition to Miss Grafton,' beard members present included' Flem D. Long, chairman, W. H. J Gentry and Thomas J. Shaw, Jr., while those absent were R. B. j Griffin, Mrs. R. H. Shelton and Mrs. E. P. Warren. Griffin was in Raleigh at a ration conference. ] I i MINISTERS MEET TO SEND MESSAGES TO BURGESS AND (continued from page six) ! Peele, Methodist minister, and the Rev. Rufus J. Womble, of Saint Mark’s Episcopal church, secretary of the association. Other ministers present at the meeting at which sending of the telegram was approved were: Revs. W. C. Martin, E. C. M.aness and J. H. Shore, Metho-' dists, and J. N. Bowman, J. F. j Funderburke and A. R. Hovis, 1 Baptists. 11l and unable to at tend was the Rev. W. F, ; West, of Roxbdro First Baptist church, long known as a Dry leader in Person circles. At the meeting it was an nounced that teacher of the Rox boro high school class in Bible during next period is to be thej Rev. Mr. Martin, of Edgar [Long] Memorial Methodist church, and, that the Rev. Mr. Hovis, substi-j tute teacher for the Rev. Mr. West, has completed his period of service to the fifty-one stu dents enrolled. The Rev. Mr. Peele, speaking on current trends in religious circles, expressed the opinion' that persons hitherto inactive are coming to churches in larger numbers, and the Rev. Mr. Shore voiced a plea for church unity irrespective of denomina-' tions. The meeting was held Monday at Edgar Long Memorial church. | warning signals now in effect will be used. Test of signalling devices are' limited to Saturdays between twelve (12) o’clock noon and five (5) minutes following, af ter Feb. 17th. Your prompt and careful at tention to the above is request ed. Only by a clear understand ing by every citizen of the dif ferent warnings and iwhat they mean, and a strict adherence by every member of the Citizens Defense Corps, can we perfect our Civilian Protection Program, j The all-clear signals will be-] l come known to citizens when , they see street lights go on and ' traffic moving as usual. The , all-clear will also be announced ! over the radio and telephone. A high school in Hazleton, Pa., , started a tin can collection con test between rooms and iwound up the week with 29,000 cans, j PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO. N. C. Draftees Still Can Enter Navy y Says C. B. Neely Raleigh, Feb. 18. —A majority of North Carolina draftees have \the mistaken idea that they no longer are eligible for the Navy, once they have received induc tion orders for the Army, Lt. Commander Charles B. Neely, the State’s Navy recruiting chief, salid today. Neely emphasized the fact' that j draft-age men are now being! takten for the Navy at the Forti Bragg induction center—but the Navy picks its men from the] ranks of the volunteers after 1 they get t’o Fort Bragg. . . I "However,” Neely said, “men] who desire the Navy should make] the fact known as soon as they arrive at the induction center. Otherwise, they Mill be sworn into some other branch of the service.” PROMINENT PERSON LEADERS SIGN PAROLE ((continued from page six) ] stead, Jr., when he was first placed in Person jail in August 1941. The petition, which will say. that opinion of the petitioners' “is that sentiment in County is that he (Winstead) was net actually guilty of the i crime”, and which will intimate that sentence was imposed on : him to appease racial feeling at the time, is noteworthy for quality rather than quantity of its all white signers, among whom are City and County of ficials, landowners, newspaper; editors and at least two mob case court witnesses. Interested in the petition, in a quiet, behind scenes manner is J. G. Johnson, president of the Person chapter of the National Association for the Advance ment of Colored people. Winstead, previously without criminal record, has been in State prison continuously simee] August 1941, except for time spent here during the trial. Hall, who was then his attorney, today said that Winstead, counting time for good behavior, has ser- 1 ved about eighteen months of the sentence imposed. NEW RATION SCHEDULES ARRANGED (continued from fnent page) j Officials of the office will be present at the teachers meeting Friday. Griffin today pointed out that: War Ration Bock I (sugar) must be presented before a per son may register. The family head should register for the group. Amount of coffee in possession of each individual on November 28, 1942 must be declared. All stcre bought canned goods ’ containing more than 8 ounces must be declared. Do not count home canned goods. Citizens are requested to secure the Consum er Declaration Form from a copy of their local paper or from their grocer. Those who attended the Ra leigh meeting were: Mrs. R. B. Dawes, Miss Inda Collins, Miss Virginia Brandon, Mrs. Sanders McWhorter, Mrs. John Hartley, I Carl Win'tead, Fred Lcng, Moore, W. W. Woods, Miss Min nie AUgood, R. G. Cole, C. L. Shuford, Jerrv Hester, R. B. Grif fin, P. L. Thomas, L. C. Brad sher and E. B. Craven, Jr. ] Schools in which registrations are to take place are: Cunningham, Roxboro Central,] donehurst. Hurdle Mills, High ( Plains, Roxboro high Allensville,] Mount Tirzah. Helena, - Bushy Fork, Bethel Hill, Ca-Vel. East Roxboro. Olive Hill and Person I County Training School. BUY BONDS TODAY! PERSON SCOUT LEADERS DISCUSS ROLL OF HONOR Also Make Plans For Roxboro Celebration Os Scout Week. Person district Boy Scout leaders, at monthly session held here Tuesday night, discussed further plans for a proposed ser vice record roll of honor of Per ] son Scouts serving in World War j 11, made final plans for the Dis j trict banquet to be held here Feb. 26. and welcomed to mem ] bership Rufus Sneed, Scoutmas -1 ter of the Longhurst troop, and I the Rev. E. C. Maness, and R. G. | Holleman, who have taken over j similar duties with the Brooks dale ti cop. It w.is announced that banquet toastrrmfer will be J. S. Merritt, district president, and thrt pre senation of Eagle awards to three Scouts, Jack Khotwell, C. A. Harris, Jr., and Charles Hugh es, will be by George W. Kane. Preliminary banquet program, dealing with Boy Scout war ac tivities here, will be in charge of Dr. Robert E. Long and W. H. Brickihouse. Speaker, as previously an nounced. will be Dr. I. G. Greer, of Thomasville. Plans for the church service at Edgar Long Memorial Methodist’ church were also approved. Women AT WER QeMie “All right, Bessie,” said the boss of the little factory which was mak ing jackets for soldiers. “Did you want to see me about something?” The thin middle-aged woman stood up from the chair in the outer of fice and looked earnestly at the boss with her huge, grave gray eyes. “It’s about this ten percent pledge," she began. “Oh, that’s all right, Bessie,” the boss said. "I’d been meaning to speak to you about that. We don’t expect you to . _ pledge ten per | fan cent of your pay >IW ’ I for War Bonds like the others are doing. We know U you have a hard UV time making ends meet since Jake « died. Eleven kids, isn’t it? That’s quite a lot of mouths to feed. Let’s see, you make $25.50 a week includ ing overtime, don’t you?” “Yes, sir, but ...” The boss smiled. “Don’t give it another thought, Bessie. You’ve got your hands full now. Uncle Sam knows you haven’t got a penny to spare. Don’t let it worry you. We understand.” The boss turned to go back into his private office. “But what I wanted to say was . . .” Bessie raised her voice and the boss looked around. “I wanted to say, would a dollar a week be too little? You see, after we get the living expenses paid, there’s just about a dollar a week left. Would they be willing to accept a dollar „ week?” “They’d be more than willing,” the boss said quietly. ”They’d be proud.” Bessie looked relieved. “All we have to do is scrimp a little,” she saifl. “I’d feel just ter rible if we couldn’t give something.” Back in the boss’ office a repre sentative of the Treasury Depart ment was waiting. The boss shut the door and sat down. “I've just seen the greatest single sacrifice I know of,” the boss said. “Listen, if you want to hear what American women are made of . . (Story from an actual report in the file* of the Treasury Depart ment. ) • • • Are yea making a sacrifice? Are yon buying War Bonds, People’s Bonds? Join a payroll savings plan at your office or factory. V V Treasury Department * tel MiW - ,80NG5 J mm — aßShi January Motor Traffic Far Below Normal Raleigh, Feb. 18.—James S. Burch, statistics engineer for the State Highway and Public Works Commission, discloses January traffic was 70 percent below nor mal. Burch said traffic during Jan uary 1943 was 50.8 percent below the same month in 1942. Howev er, he pointed out, tire rationing had already gone into effect dur ing January 1942 and traffic that month was already 20 percent below January 1941. “Declines of rural traffic a mounting to some 65 percent, due to the OPA pleasure driving, ban, have been regained,” Burch stat ed. “Reports indicate,” he said, “those using the highways have * 7T r U/luU tyou&uyWiilt 1 WAR BONDS ★_ A pelorus, used by the Navy, is a device which fits over the surface o! a compass to enable the operator to take bearings on distant objects It has split hair sights, has been in use for many years . . . and cost, approximately 5125. These instruments are (.-.—.uni equipment to every American ship which comes out of the shipyards. With the scores of ships now being completed each month, we need many of these instruments. Your purchase of War Bonds and Stamps will help pay for them. Invest at least ten percent of your income ev ery payday in these interest bear ing Government securities. U.S. Treasury Deportment The Time Is Now Here It’s time to start thinking of Food Rationing. When you get your point book you will want to be sure that your coupon gets the very best product that is on the market. Your points can get quality merchandise or they can get the same amount in inferior merchan dise. As Always We sell the best in groceries and vegetables that we can get. It has always been our idea to give the cus tomer his full dollars worth and this program will be maintained so long as we are able. PHONE OR BRING your orders. They always receive our careful attention. We fill them and charge only a reasonable pro fit. > Gome To See Us Qayton & §tewart ROXBORO, N. c. fit. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1943 New Blue Tint Created By Orry-Kelly Casablanca Blue is the name of a new color to be introduced into the world of fashion by the gowns in that’ shade worn by In grid Bergman in the Warner Bros, picture, “Cassablanca,” now playing at the Palace Theatre. The new tint was suggested, according to Orry-Kelly, Warner Bros, designer, by the reflection of the white-walled buildings along the coast of North Africa in the deep blue of the Mediter ranean. The studio stylist’, who design ed the entire wardrobe worn by Miss Bergman in the Warner Bros, picture, predicts popularity for Casablanca Blue, equal to Harding blue and the long popu lar periwinkle blue, mainly be cause of its availbility and prac ticability. In the first place, he points out it is made from American dyes, so there is little likelihood ctf any shortage. From the view point of practicality, it is a time ly development because it is particularly effective on cotton fabrics. In fact, all the clothes designed for Miss Bergman in “Cassablanca” are of cotton. found ways of evading the ban. and are using the highways as much as they did before it went into effect.” Burch pointed out that this ap plied only to highways and not conditions within the city limits. Call City Dairy and Ice Co. Phone 4233 for good Country Style Butter milk. ts BUY BONDS TODAY! OVER THE TOP Y jMj7 for victory Vkj/k UNITED STATES WAR BONDS-STAMPS
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