North Carolina Newspapers

. r 1 . Oar Job Is to Save fcßjbSS Dollars War Bonds L\\ S-'f- Every Pay Day VOLUME XIV Two Women of City Accepted for Roles In Auxiliary Corps $• ' ; Mrs. A. F. Nichols Will Act As Representative Miss Blalock, of Timber lake And Roxboro And Miss Yeargin, Pass WAAC Tests. Misses Evelyn Lee Year gin and Mary Elizabeth Blalock, of this City, who recently volunteered for service with the Woman’s Army Auxiliary corps, today re ported that they have passed ex aminations and are now waiting for assignments. Mental tests were given here by Lieut. Florabeth Ferrii, Sgt. J. S. Nash and members of the WAAC recruiting party, and •; physicals were at Camp Butner. I The two young women are the! first two to pass out of the group ■ of five or six accepted from here I for examination. Miss Yeargin, who came here: four years ago from Louisburg,| where she received her educa- ] r ' , ‘ tion, is a daughter of Mr. and, Mrs. R. W. Yeargin, of Roxboro, 1 while Miss Blalodk; daughter of -■ Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Blalock, of v "TOmberlake, is a graduate of Helena high school. Seageant Nash and party, who, r left here Tuesday morning for! Reidsvilie, halve announced ap-] of Mrs. A. F. Nichols / as local representative of thej '"i WAAC. Mrs. Nichols, who has residence on Academy street and i, is teacher of English in Roxboro & high school, today said that she will be pleased to consult with p. all women interested in the % WAAQ organization. She can be reached by telephone and she, has on hand application blanks j and other information pertaining ]-• to the Corps. | Only WAAC from Roxboro at : j , present time is Miss Hargis, who ( is now stationed at Fort Ogle-i thorpe, Ga. %. i | parsley -Reports < , r Committee List | Os Salvage Unit William M. Pafiriey, of Char-| . lotte, district nofager of the salvagenranch of the ! (fivhfan, today re leased a list of tile Person Coun p 'ky Industrial Salvage committee, of which W. Wallace Woods, of , Roxboro, is chairman. ! : ? Olliers on the committee are: JS. M. Ford, Collins and Aikman, Cbrp., Plant E; J. A. Long, Jr.,j Roudtano Cotton mills; C. A.j ■ «w*&, Somerset mills; B. B. Newell, Roxboro Broom Works; Floyd L. Peaden, City Milk and tee company; Clyde Short, G. B. Short and son; Bert Dark, Wil lianu-3fcKeithan Lumber com- 1 pany; J. A. MdWhorter, McWhor- 1 ter Lumber company, and John I Morris, Morris Telephone com i. , • ’’-ijn' t v .‘x HHgfesnu. ap Sheriff M. T. Clayton this week reported taking of a fiftv gallon still, second in two the ABensville section. Two -sfSWators fled and were ; rnt . seppehended. Assisting -was ' nmn of deputies.! matte Saturday, j PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY AND THURSDAY Ratio About Same* Book 2 And Book i Some Find Point Ration System Confusing, Oth ers Refrain From Buying [. 22,732 Person and Roxboro .! citizens have registered for War 1 11 Ration Book n, according to .' Mrs. L. Sanders McWhorter, of .' the Community Service conunit ,! tee of the Person OPA staff, who , adds that the few who did) not’ I register during the official per , I iod will be compelled to wait i now! until after the OPA office ,\ here has cleared up registration' of wholesalers and institutional! I users. ' ,j Work in this registration is i , going forward, although there! | have been instances of hitches,! particularly in the new set-up for | , institutional and restaurant cos ; fee supplies. Total number of I householders registered for Book 111 corresponds in general with i the number who signed for , Book I. , Roxborcr grocerymen report ! that citizens are for the most I part are approaching point ration j buying cautiously and number® , ! are buying fresh vegetables rath-, j er than heavily pointed canned i : foods. I Understanding the system ap- j pears to be easy, although I one merchant said a Negro cus-| tomer used up all her March points; at one time before she was persuaded that’ part of her groceries should be turned in and kept until another and a leaner] day. | Corp. Yarborough (Writes Card From ! Overseas Region ! i "■ Corp. Ursal Yarborough, of : Roxboro, now in overseas ser-1 vioe, sends a message to say that he thinWs of the folks back home. Yarborough, who was at one time stationed in Texas, was in Civilian life connected with Electric Appliance company. His I wife and daughter and his par ents live here. Piedmont Press To , Meet This Month ! At Harvey’s Case First 1943 meeting of the Piedmont Press association which J. S. Merritt, editor of the Per son County Tiroes, Roxboro, is president, will be held Saturday ! night, March 20, at 7 o’clock at ! Harvey’s cafeteria, Durham. Matters of interest to non daily newspapers will be discus sed and a full attendance is de sired. The Piedmont association] serves papers in ten or more! counties in this area. AT CAMP SniERT Private James E (Buster) Jones, of Roxboro, has been tranßtnred from fltrt Bragg to I Crnm Sbert, Ala. | : • jjs-VE. j Af* > ‘.. . PERSON TMES COUNTY NEW RULING ON SadForFew ROY H. THOMAS ! DEPENDENCY CITED Hours, Woman NAMED VICTORY I BY GEN. J. METTS I Smiles Again GARDEN DIRECTOR ——- Selective Service Boanis Mrs. Ora Hughes, of Route Will Have Charge Os Ordered T° Re-classify 3> Roxboro, stood yesterday Co-relatmg Victory Gar „n t? 3 ® afternoon on Depot street near den Programs Os Schools Been Os Recent Standing Main, it was a windy corner, and odd, and Mrs. Hughes was Registrants whose wives have Dearly in tears. RALEIGH, March 3. Clyde become pregnant since cem Having finished an afternoon a. Erwin, State Superintendent ber , 1941, are no onger en , gapping goaded down with c f Public Instruction, has ap titled to deferment on grounds j blmdles she was going back to pointed Roy H. Thomas, State of dependency, it was announc . ber car halfway down the supervisor of agricultural edu •cd today by Gen. J. Van B.j Somewhere, between cation, as supervisor of school- Metts, of Raleigh, State Director j be corner and her car, she directed victory gardens in the of Selective Service. He stated dwpped her largts black poc- Eta te. that this revised policy has been! ketM it> capped in a Thomas’ duty will be to work made necessary because present! mai catalogue sheet, was with district supervisors and' regulations provide that no sta a ro u 0 f twenty-dollar bills teachers of vccational subjects in tus which was acquired on or as- abou t $l5O of her tobacco mon- promoting and coordinating the | ter December , 1 , may be ey< victory garden campaign in the considered when deciding ques- .. „.. . , , , 1 0 M It was all the money she had, , schools. 1 tions 0 epen ency. plus four ration books for her j Erwin, who made the appoint-] The Director further announc- family . ghe even have 1 ment at the request of the U. S. e tat a oca ar in a q uar j er fp pay f or a want- j Commissioner of Education, said ta - ave en irec eto re-| a£ j jj a[ j horj-ow ft from her j that “the purpose of this pro-| open an reconsi er or c assi 1- j sympathetic police- \ gram is to see to it that every cation the cases o al regis- man> Artie Watson, promised 'family represented in the public trants ereto ore e erred on t e do what hte could to con- ! schools will participate in the, grounds of dependency because tinue search> growing G s a garden in 1943, eir wives have become preg-, Sadly, Mrs. Hughes went on either as a school garden or a ' s ’J lce cem be r ,11. |to heT home, near Allensville. home vegetable garden, in order! The fact that a registrant is a ; An hour later George puller, rthalt sufficient vegietableg 1 parent shall not' be. on Main street near Kaiffs 1 may be had to supply the family, ntinued on bac page) Department-store, saw a big, | table and a surplus for canning • black pccketbook. The rest is j and drying.” ; PRESIDENT BACKS I uiu _~r~, ! RED CROSS DRIVE ! ™TE MEN IN ; • . FEBRUARY QUOTA ! Roosevelt Urges Almeri- body is happy again. | IPCiriTn PA Mn cans To Put 125 Millions ! AiSMIiWLD LAMI , In Red Cross War Chest. \ WASHINGTON, March 3. J ..1. Many In Group To Leave President Roosevelt this week j JLllo L lYldvlv Monday For Camp Jack- j ] asked the nation to contribute at I son, S. C. j , least $125,000,000 to the Red J f T j Cross for its greatest crusade,Jl 1 T 111 YfYVQ Person County and Roxboro, I “now that we are engaged in a I V-/ £ U1 V/l U white men in February quota of j war to decide whether all our ] Selective Service, who returned ! concepts of mercy and human | 1 A *1 Sunday from Camp Croft, Spart- decency are strong enough to AY anburg, S. C., will report Mon-j survive.” j *■ F day to Camp Jackson, Columbia, Norman H. Davis, chairman of • S. C. the American Red Cros, read Included in the list of those' ! the Chief Executive’s message Counity Commissioners j inducted at Croft are: Clinton over four radio networks for Mr. Also Approve Library jN. Harris, William C. Coates, Roosevelt, who is recovering Cooperation With Cas- Charles A. Long, Lawrence C.j from an intestinal disturbance. well County. Moore, Samuel P. Davis, William 1 The President recalled that he R. Montague, George T. Walsh,' recently visited the North Afri- Jurors for the April 19 mixed Elias J. Martin, Paul F. Adams, can theatre of war and said that term of Person Superior court James H. Horner, Luther Sher-i “wherever our fighting men are. selected this week by Person man Satterfield, Billy W. Hill' —all over the world—the Amer- County Commissioners at regu- and William N. Gravitte. ican Red Cross is by their side, lar March meeting on Monday j Also, Algie S. Turner, Elmer j extending always the arm of are: |E. Wrenn, Monroe D. Singleton, helpfulness and comfort.” Pro- Charlie Oakley, E. G. Satter- Bruce R. Pulliam, James O. • claiming the inpnth of March as fields Clyde T. Satterfield, Fred- Bradsher, Julian C. Knott, Harold | “Red Cross Month” and appeal- die Oakley, W. H. Rudder, S. F. G. Oakley, George T. Parker, 1 ing for contributions, Mr. Roose- Hamlin, E. W. Buchanan, L. T. Marion J, Sullivan, Wingate W. velt told Americans that “each Wagstaff, C. O. Bagby, H. A. Rogers, Jr., John D .Carver, one of you who has a friend or Newton, Bob Gravitte, C. E. Lewis H. Watson, Cliff Winstead, relative in uniform will meas- Brooks, S. A. West, Henry Jr., and J. Marvin Pigford. <ure the significance of this cru- Brann, John E. Whitfield, James; Some six or eight in the quota sade in your own heart” | Bagby, A E. Huff and Ledford were retained at Croft for sev-J Esenhower’s Appeal ;E. Long. | eral days and did not return] American commanders of the] Also, Richard Holman, James Sunday morning. A number of men on the sea and land fronts Evans, A S. Hassan, S. H. New- others who did return were put also joined, by radio, in the ap- ton, D. S. Hovatter, Isaiah Hall, in other classiications and are I (Continued on back page) | (Continued On Back Page) ! expected to remain in Roxboro. jDurgy Mine Opening May Be In Line With State Policy * NEW RULING ON DEPENDENCY CITED BY GEN. J. METTS j ! Selective Service Boards i Ordered To Re-classify Men Whose Status Has Been Os Recent Standing Registrants whose wives have become pregnant since Decem ber 7, 1941, are no longer en titled to deferment on grounds j of dependency, it was announc-! ed today by Gen. J. Van B.j Metts, of Raleigh, State Director j of Selective Service. He stated that this revised policy has been! made necessary because present! regulations provide that no sta tus which was acquired on or af ter December 8, 1941, may be considered when deciding ques tions of dependency. I The Director further announc ed that all local boards in the State have been directed to re-' open and reconsider for classifi-j cation the cases of all regis-i trants heretofore deferred on the grounds of dependency because their wives have become preg-1 ! nant since December 7, 1941. J | The fact that a registrant is a j parent shall not be considered (Continued on back page) j | PRESIDENT BACKS ! RED CROSS DRIVE j • I Roosevelt Urges Ameri cans To Put 125 Millions _ In Red Cross War Chest. j WASHINGTON, March 3. , President Roosevelt this weekj j asked the nation to contribute at I least $125,000,000 to the Red) j Cross for its greatest crusade,) j “now that we are engaged in a I J war to decide whether all our| ! concepts of mercy and human I decency are strong enough to ' survive.” Norman H. Davis, chairman of • the American Red Cros, read ! the Chief Executive’s message over four radio networks for Mr. Roosevelt, who is recovering from an intestinal disturbance. The President recalled that he recently visited the North Afri can theatre of war and said that “wherever our fighting men are. —all over the world—the Amer ican Red Cross is by their side, extending always the arm of helpfulness and comfort.” Pro ■ claiming tjhe month of March as I “Red Cross Month” and appeal ing for contributions, Mr. Roose velt told Americans that “each one of you who has a friend or ! relative in uniform will meas ure the significance of this cru sade in your own heart” | Esenhower’s Appeal American commanders of thej men on the sea and land fronts ! also joined, by radio, in the ap- I (Continued on back page) i RALEIGH, March 3. —Actual work on comprehensive survey of North Carolina’s mineral de- ’ posits by H. A. Brassert and Company, to furnish definite j recommendations for production and gearing to the war effort, will begin March 12, Governor 1 Broughton announced today as- : ter receipt of working schedule 1 from Mr. Reassert I Mr. Brassert is bringing to > North Carolina three men of out- | j standing qualifications for this work: Lucian Eaton, internation- ] aly known In iron ore field; C. C. Morfit, authority on coal 1 mining and coal preparation; • ROXBORO, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1943 and Earl K. Nixon, whom Mr.j Brassert calls “one cf our out-1 ' standing iron ore geologists and! mining engineers.” Plans for re-development of three copper mines in the Vir gilina (Va.) District, including Granville and Person counties in North Carolina, and Halifax, County, Va., were revealed this week in Oxford, according to a story by Richard Minor in the . Durham Morning Herald. The proposed work consists of primarily diamond drilling, un watering and sampling under ground workings at the old High Hill, Blue Wing, and Durgyj ROY H. THOMAS ! NAMED VICTORY GARDEN DIRECTOR Will Have Charge Os Co-relating Victory Gar den Programs Os Schools RALEIGH, March 3. Clyde A. Erwin, State Superintendent cf Public Instruction, has ap pointed Roy H. Thomas, State supervisor of agricultural edu cation, as supervisor of school directed victory gardens in the ■ (State. Thomas’ duty will be to work with district supervisors and teachers of vccational subjects in promoting and coordinating the I victory garden campaign in thej j schools. j Erwin, who made the appoint-; I ment at the request of the U. S. | Commissioner of Education, said | that “the purpose cf this pro-j I gram is to see to it that every ' family represented in the public j schools will participate in the, growing of a garden in 1943, either as a school garden or a home vegetable garden, in order] rthalt sufficient flredh vegetables i may be had to supply the family, | table and a surplus for canning j and drying.” WHITE MEN IN | FEBRUARY QUOTA | I ASSIGNED CAMP ! I Many In Group To Leave Monday For Camp Jack- { son, S. C. I Person County and Roxboro, white men in February quota of' Selective Service, who returned Sunday from Camp Croft, Spart anburg, S. C, will report Mon-j day to Camp Jackson, Columbia, & C. Included in the list of those' j inducted at Croft are: Clinton jN. Harris, William C. Coates, Charles A. Long, Lawrence C.j Moore, Samuel P. Davis, William 1 R. Montague, George T. Walsh,' l Elias J. Martin, Paul F. Adams, ; James H. Horner, Luther Sher-i 1 man Satterfield, Billy W. Hill' • and William N. Gravitte. j Also, Algie S. Turner, Elmer j | E. Wrenn, Monroe D. Singleton, Bruce R. Pulliam, James O. Bradsher, Julian C. Knott, Harold G. Oakley, George T. Parker, 1 Marion J, Sullivan, Wingate W. Rogers, Jr., John D .Carver, Lewis H. Watson, Cliff Winstead, Jr., and J. Marvin Pigford. ; Some six or eight in the quota were retained at Croft for sev-j | eral days and did not return] Sunday morning. A number of others who did return were put I * I in other classiications and are I expected to remain in Roxboro. ♦ j mines. The High Hill mine is lo- I cated in Halifax County, Va., the j Durgy mine in Person County,' and the Blue Wing mine in Granville County. No work has been carried out at any of the mines since 1918, and old shafts have caved in closing the mines. The first, work, therefore, wall be in open-] ing old shafts and providing ac-j cess to the underground ore. | Durgy mine was opened about 4 1900, closed in 1908, and was 1 opened and closed in 1910-11 and . in 1018. About 6*75 feet of shafts j were sunk, and about 8,000 feet ; (turn to back page, please) J Milk Sold Here of Grade A Standard Says W. B. Taylor Red Cross Off To Fine Start In Campaign Many Large Contributors I Listed. Determination To Reach Goal Stressed. 1 Person and Roxboro Red Cross I officials lead by S. M. Fcrd, cam -1 paign chairman, Dr. Robert E. Long, chapter president, and I others on committees here have 1 been busy since Monday work-, ing toward the quota of $5,600 j I established for this area in a 1 combined War Drive and Roll ] call. ! Final pre-campaign meeting ! was held Sunday afternoon at! Hctel Roxboro, with an attend-1 1 ance of around fifty and on I Monday numbers of substantial | contributions were reported by ! the special gifts division of ] which George W. Kane is chair-j j man. Activity since that time 1 j has chiefly been in the business ■ district division, hfaded by Gor- ] ; don C. Hunter, and in the’ schools, both County and City. Published today is a partial' list of contributors, with the to- 1 tal amount thus far running well] I over a thousand dollars, j Typical of work in the schools,' ; where Junior and Senior Red j Cross units are active, is the re-i ' port from Hurdle Mills, where the ten teachers have each con tributed $lO apiece and the PTA ] has contributed $25, while school pupils, as members of the Junior j organization are matching gifts 1 made by their elders. The PTA 1 'has further emphasized the pa triotic note by buying a SIOO bond. j (turn to page eight, please) | 1 New Cars To Be j j Available Soon According to a government] dispatch, effective March 6, thej 1 entire stock of unsold new cars ! will be available for rationing,! including thq so-called, “govern- 1 ment pool” which at the time ra-j I tioning began, were set aside for ' release after the first o-f the! 1 year. The total available for the public now is about 240,000 cars.j The eligibility list far these cars 'is much more liberalized than' before. Among those who can get new cars are government officials, travel from school to school, wholesale newspaper delivery, professional medical calls, calls by public health nurses, carrying ; farm produce and supplies, trans porting farm workers, various delivery services, and many j others. Pvt F. C. Bumpass And Wife And j E. T. Wrenn Home Pvt. F. C. Thomas Merritt ■ Bumpass and (Mrs. Bumpass, of Charleston, S. C., are spending several days here with members cf their respective families. Also ! here far a furlough, his first, is E. T. Wrenn, also a Pvt F. C. of the Air Corps, Symrna, Tenn. h /-• ■; ’ V NUMBER 42 Quarrel Between Chapel Hill And Durham Important Matter Os Continuing Have And To Recognize Standards Involved Says Richardson. Person Sanitarian Winston B. Taylor, ccmmenting on action Tuesday of the Durham City Council’s abolition of policy of , requiring milk to be graded “A”, j “B” and “C”, today said that all milk sold in Roxboro is grade j “A”, only exceptions being small j quantities cf pasteurized milk ; and chocolate milk. Larger part of the milk [ brought into Roxboro comes from Quail Roost dairy, which still adheres to “A” standards, as do dairies operating in Rox boro. j Durham City Health men in 1 siding with dairies in Durham on abolishing the grading system j “during the present emergency”, point to the fact that Camp But ] ner and the pre-Flight school j demands have so upset the sys | tern as to make it impractical to ] continue a grading system during j the present emergency, meaning 1 of course, the war. j The long debated Durham i milk-grading problem came to an abrupt termination Tuesday night when the Durham City and County Board of Health issued , a statement that the policy ol grading milk would be com -1 pletely abolished for the emer j gency and a label titled, “pasteu rized milk” would be placed on every bottle of milk issued bj I Durham milk concerns. ! A delegation of Chapel Hill health and civic leaders met earlier in the day with the Dur ham group but after lengthy and frank arguments had been pre sented, controversy still existed and the out-of-town body left with no decision on the Issue ] having been given, j Deeply interested In the milk grading question and in agree- I ment with Chapel Hill opposers [ of abolition of grades is Dr. W. j P. Richardson, tri-county health department director, who acl (continued on back page) Paratrooper Talks To Boys Os Troop 49 Scouts of Troop 49 as their Wednesday night meeting had as guest speaker Lee Allen, of Dur ham, now with the United States Army as a paratrooper and stationed at Fort Bragg. Al len, a former Eagle Scout, illus trated his talk with examples of tumbles and fighting techniques. Also on the program were re cordings from the South Pacific and Australian areas made by Red Cross wtorkers stationed there. Business consisted of plans for the Thurday night Court 04 Honor to he heW at 7:30 o’dodl at the Cqurt Home. Concluding event of Scout week here was tbs sermon Son day night by the Hev. W. C. Martin at Long Memorial Meth odist church, attesMft lnM» or more Scouts - and f leaden tra all troops hi the district. ■