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VOLUME XIV
Expect Collection
Os Fats And Tins
Joße Speeded Up
Service Lines To
Help Scouts
And Housewives
Luther Williams Speaks
At Person Court Os
Honor And Outlines
Plans.
Roxboro and Person Boy
Scouts, who have previously tak
en active leadership in many of
the Scrap Metal campaigns here,
are expected soon to devote a!
part of their time to collection
of waste fats and tin cans.
Suggestion that Scouts enter
these departments of the Salvage
campaign was made here Friday
night by Luthier Williams, of Ra
leigh ,a director of Salvage work,
who spoke at March meeting of
the Person district court of hon
or.
Scout officials present at the
meeting at Person Court house
in the Grand Jury room were.
E. B. Craven, Jr., court of hon-|
or chairman, Henry O’Briant, of
Roxboro, E. Pierce Bruce, of,
Reidsville, Cherokei? Council ex- \
ecutive, and John Wheeler, of
Burlington, new assistant execu-j
tive, a native of South Carolina,]
recently appointed, wiho will live
in Burlington and will work
chiefly with Scouts in the Ala-]
mance district, 'will also be avail- j
able for service to Scouts in oth
er districts.
Person leaders will, of course
work out plans for Scout coop
eration in the two drives. New.
feature of the drives is that both ]
fats and tins collected will bej
picked up from Roxboro depots ]
by Greensboro and Durham ser-j
vice limes. Williams pointed out
that housewives will continue to,
oollect fats such as cooking
grease and take it to grocery
stores.
He did, however, emphasize;
the fact that only surplus fats,
not needed in cooking or in mak
ing soap, are wanted. Consider
able fat can be obtained by
straining dish water. Scouts will
be expected to make collections
from grocery stores but may also
call at the hordes of' residents.
All fats are to be placed in prop
er containers.
Collection of tin cans has nev
er been formally undertaken!
here, but all cans must be wash
ed dean and flattened out, with
•dHs removed. About twenty I
•touts at the Court were recog-.
nized for merit badges, advance
ment in rank and other honors.;
Roxboro People
Expected To End j
Raleigh Work
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North Carolina General as
sembly this week) is expected to
finish business oil the 1943 ses
sion and Lieut Gov. R. L. Har
ris, Representative R. P. Bums,
Pages C. Martin Michie, Jr., and
G. A. Harris, Jr., and R. D. j
ttoapsn, principal clerk, will.
return home, although Bumpass
may b» delayed a few days in
finishing up Jm»lnsss
Local legislation proposed by
Banal has been approved and
enacted into law.
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PUBLISHED EVERT SUNDAY AND THURSDAY ROXBORO, N. C., SUNDAY, MARCH 7, 1943
Lee Jeffers
Bring Plants
From^Florida
Person Negro, Who Has
Many Successful Child
ren, Brings Tobacco In
Moss.
i
Lee Jeffers, 75, Person Negro,]
of Allensville, Who is the father
of six successful sons and daugh
ters, and has a public school for
the children; of his race named,
after him, returned Friday from!
Florida and from his first vaca
tion from family raising and
farming.
The trip, a gift from his sons
and daughters, included first a
journey to Philadelphia, Penn., |
where he stayed with two of his
daughters, Esther and Omega, j
teachers. He then Went to Lake 1
City, Fla., where McKinley Jeff-]
ers, one' of his sons, is a farm \
agent.
In Lake City Leie saw some-1
thing We had never seen before,;
tobacco plants, plant bed size in
February and ready to trans-l
plant to thd fields. Hb brought!,
a few of the plants With himj
here Friday, wrapped up in livej
oak moss. He nursed them all the
way up here in a crowded bus,
and says be ’s going to plant them 1
in a box in his house and later,
when warm weather comes, put
them in his fields.
These plants, already a bright
green and wtell advanced, if
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Dr. Reynolds
Give View Os
Milk Problem
Says Grade A, Which
oßxboro Has, Should Be
Maintained Throughout
< State.
RALEIGH, March 6.—Dr. Carl
V. Reynolds, state health officer,
has issued the following state
ment with regard to the milk
situation in North Carolina:
“The recent milk-borne out
break in the vicinity of Elizabeth'
City, in which 70 citizens, includ
ing soldiers and civilians, became j
ill with intestinal disorders, furn
ishes indisputable support of the
position taken by the state board
of heaTSh against the pooling of
low grade and high grade milk
and its distribution under dis
honest labels. In view of this sit
uation and of Dunham’s action in
abolishing labels for milk, taken
by the county board of health
Titesday night, the time has
come, it seems to me, when the
public should be apprised of the
facts in this important matter |
and of the potenial dangers to 1
which such a short-sighted poli
cy Would expose our people.
Diseases Transmitted.
“It is well in this connection'
sOoo to advise the consuming
public just what diseases may be
transmitted through milk. Ac-,
cording to Dr. Milton J. Rosenau, I
world-renowned authority on
preventive medicine, these in
clude: Tuberculosis, trphoid and
paratyphoid fever, infantile par
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Mjffhfflyihi tn
TIMES
ON ANNIVERSARY
WIFE HEARS HER
HUSBAND MISSING
Stephen C. Long, Son Os
Mr. And Mrs. J. Martin
Long, Missing In Action
In Africa Says War De
partment.
Mrs. Stephen C. Long, of Rox
boro, on the first anniversary of
her marriage, was informed Fri
day that her husband Sergeant
Stephen C. Long, 23, of this City,
is missing in action in Africa.
The message from the War
Department was sent to Long’s j
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Martini
Long, who live nl:ar Roxboro
and have three other sons in
military service.
j Stephen C., a farmer, who was
j educated at' Warren’s Grove
i school, volunteered over a year
ago. His wife, the former Miss
Carr, is connected with, Collins
! and Aikman, Plant E, at Ca-Vel.
i Other brothers in service include
i James, Herbert and Harvey
Long.
Stephen C. Long, who has been
missing since Feb., 14, is second;
or third Person man so reported!
since last July. Only one, Sam
| C. Fisher, Jr., has been official
l ly reported as killed in action.
MISS FISHERHAS
STORIES OF HELP
BY HOME SERVICE
i
I Speaks To Rotarians On
j This Type Os Red Cross
I Work.
Miss Julia Fisher, of the Per
-1 son Health department nursing
staff and until recently Home
Service secretary of the Person
| and Roxboro Chapter of the!
American Red Cross, on Thurs-]
day night gave added impetus lo
the Red Cross campaign now be-1
ing conducted here by telling
Roxboro Rotarians at their!
i weekly meeting of actual Rox-|
boro and Pierson County in- !
stances in which the Rted Cross
through its Home Service secre
tary has been helpful to men in
the armed forces.
Miss Fishier, who was intro
-1 duced by Gordon C. Hunter,
program chairman, cited cases in
which husbands and sons in ser
vice had worried about
their families at home. She also
mentioned examples in Which
worrying had been the other
\say around with families on the
worrying end.
Present Home Servitte secre
tary for the Person Chapter is
Mrs. Walter Woody, Miss Fisher
having resigned because of pres-!
' sure of professional duties made ;
it impossible for her to keep up
i with the equally growing de
' mands of the Home Service de
partment.
Help for tWe Day triplets came
from the club in the form of a
$lO contribution made to the
fund to purchase cribs and sup
plies for the infants. The matter
was presented to the dub by
Thomas J. Shaw, Jr., and the
motion seconded by W. Wallace
Woods. The triplets, now at Lin
coln Memorial hospital, Durham,
are expected to be brought to
I their home near Concord Wed
-1 nesday. ,
PULLIAM, NOT FULLER
Josh Pulliam, of Roxboro, yes
-1 tea-day said that he and not
George Fuller, was the man who
found the pocketbook of Mrs.
i Ora Hughes.
Lieut William H. Davenport,
'who has for several months been
in the thick of fighting in the
Pacific ares, today advised
Mends tfeat ks |s busy but safe.
M «'x;
Knows Red Cross
Hi
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ii ® th^t
sip?
Willie A. Berry '
Willie A. Berry, Person sold
ier, who is in New Caledonia,
is the one who last week wrote
Dr. Robert E. Long, Red Cross
Chapter president, about work
of the Rfed Cross in New Cale- i
aonia.
Miss Soles’
Brother in !
I
Sea Battle
Teacher Has Army
Brother Who Has Double
Adventure In Solomons
Area.
The experience of six men,;
one a brother of a Roxboro resi-'
dent, on a United States Marau
der, who began a mission by
bombing the Japanese in the Sol
emorts but ended up in a sub
marine ducking enemy depth]
charges, is one of the most unu
sual stories to corn? out) of the
Pacific area.
It was related this week in an
Associated Press release given by,
Lt. Charles A. Coon, of Memphis,
Tenn. Coon was bombardier on
a medium bomber which set out
in January on its mission. Other]
crew members included Capt. i
Lyman H. Eddy, the pilot, and
Lt. William R. Soles, of Raleigh,
a brother of Miss Kathleen Soles,
of the faculty of Roxboro high
school.
“We started out in a flight of
three ships,” Coon said, “and
carried out our mission until an
ack ack burst set the engine a-,
fire.
“It was a big blaze, too big for
us to put out, so we decided to
jump. Lt. Soles and I bailed out
first and landed in the water
about five miles off the shore of
New Georgia island.
“Our other planes hung around
until they saw me hit the water
and then dropped a life raft. I
swam to it, inflated it and then
paddled to Soles and picked him
up. It took us from shortly after
noon until dusk to reach the
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Along The Way
With the Editor
Logan Umstead is a great gardener but he is getting old. He
even forgets what month follows the next and things like that.
About a week ago We advised Sam Byrd Winstead thqt < the
time was ready for the planting of snap beans. Now Sam Byrd
had heard of the mighty gardener and he immediately went
home and planted snaps. The next day Logan told Winstead
that he had gotten mixed up on the months and had left March
out of his figuring. He thought that the next month was April.
All of (his remembering did no help the younger planner w(ho
had his seeds in the ground ready for the snow and the ten de
gree weather. It came.
It happens every year. Once again we have caught Dolian
Long late m the night trying to figure out deductions for his
income tax statement that is due shortly. Hie boy breaks his
neck to make money and then breaks it again to be sure that
ha doesn’t overpay. The same thing applies to Claude Harris,
who cleaned too many pall* of feMeclkaa test ijtear.
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PLANS MADE FOR
APPEARANCE HERE
OF W. E. DEBNAM
i
Commentator Whose
First Engagement Was
Cancelled By Weather,
To Be Here March 13.
W. E. Debnam, of Raleigh,
WPTF news commentator, sche
duled to have made a talk in
Roxboro two months ago, will be
here on Saturday, March 13, ac
cording to announcement by Dr.
B. A. Thaxton, commander of
Lester BlaoVdwell Post of the
American Legion, organization
sponsoring Debnam’s appearance.
Thaxton said today that Deb
nam will speak at an open meet
ing of thl? Legion at 7:30 o’clock
i at Person Court House and that
the public will be invited to at
end. Debnam will probably dis
cuss aspects of war news.
Also to be in Roxboro on that
date will be Lieut. Florabeth
Fkrri, of the Woman’s Army
Auxiliary corps, as a guest of
I the Legion. Debnam’s previous
! engagement here was cancelled
because of wieather conditions.
R. L. HARRIS TELLS
FRIENDS HE’S NOT
IN SENATE RACE
Fifth District Leaders
Had Plan To Push Him
! Into Race Against Rey
nolds.
Lieutenant Governor R. L. Har
ris, of Roxboro, last week de
i ni:d reports that he was planning
]to run for the U. (S. Senate in
1944 against Senator Robert R.
Reynolds.
Harris said the reports stem
med from a meeting of friends
held Wednesday night.
“A group of my friends were
kind enough to suggest that I be-
I come a candidate,” he said,
j “While I appreciate their good
‘Wishes, I think it only fair to
make my position known with
respect to this suggestion.
“I will not become a candidate
for the United States Senate in
1944.”
The announcement was madle
in Raleigh. Harris, significantly,
confined his denials to Senator
ial aspirations. He has frequent
ly been mentioned as a candidate
for Governor.
TO COME HERE
R. L. Warrick, of Greensboro,
chief machinist’ mate of the U.
S. Navy, is expected to be in
Roxboro next Thursday and Fri
day in interest of recruiting.
Curtis (Pluto) Long, of the
Air Corps, is now at Maxwell
Field, Ala.
Bradsher Outlines
Program for Second
Blackout of Year
Miss Davis To !
Be Successor
To Miss Croom
I
Popular Health Nurse
And Woman’s Club
Leader Leaves For Ser
vice With, Navy Corps.
j
Miss Louise Crocm, for more
han two years a member of the
nursing staff of Person unit of
the tri-county health department, j
left yesterday for her home at
j Wilmington Where she remains
j until March 23, date on which
I she is to report! to the Ports
] mouth, Va., Navy Base hospital
as a member of the Naval nurs
ing corps.
Miss Croom’s successor in Rox
j boro is to be Miss Evelyn Davis,
I now with the Chatham' unit of
| the tri-county department in |
Pittsboro. Miss Davis, who has I
j had several years of experience
|in public health work, is ex- ]
j pected to reach Roxboro on 1
•March 15. Until that time work
' here will be carried on by other
members of the staff.
Miss Croom was until recently
j president of the Roxboro unit of'
j the Business and Professional ]
i Woman’s club andl during her
j administration was sponsored
' the club’s successful War Bond
booth drive of last Fall. Mem
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KERR OT SAYS
RURAL CHURCH IN
NEED OF PROGRAM
Commissioner Os Agri
culture Speaks At
Church Council
RALEIGH, March 6. —Speak
ing to a meeting of the North
Carolina Council of Churches
here recently for discussions re
lating to the work of the rural
church, W. Kerr Scott, Ccmmis- i
sioner of Agriculture, said that
“the greatest need in North Car-j
olina today is a revived, for-:
ward-looking church program.” j
Scott said that while around
85 per cent of the leaders of this
State are from the rural church, ‘
they have moved away and j
“contribute to the city church
during their heavy income days.” j
“Many of them at their death
leave substantial sums to the
city church, forgetting the Moth
er Church of their youth, to
which they once gave their pen-]
nies,” declared Scott in discus
sing the trend away from the
rural church.
Dr. C. Horace Hamilton, rural
sociologist of State College, was
appointed to make a survey of
the problems now confronting
the country church and a pub
lic relations committee will later j
study Dr. Hamilton’s report.
E. J. Arnold of Durham, eve- [
cutive secretary of the council
presided at the meeting which
was held in the board room of
the Agriculture Building.
The following delegates were
present: M. A. Huggins, execu
tive secretary of the State Bap
tist Convenkm; Dr. F. SL Love,
Disrict Superintendent of the
Durham District of the Metho
dis Church; Rev. R. ,* : W. Brad-!
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BONDS-STAMPS
NUMBER 43
! Clayton Says
More Wardens
Will Be Needed
i
Specific Time For March
18 Practice Blackout
Here Announced. Will
Test New System Furth
er.
Civilian Defense chairman
Landon Bradsher yesterday said
that another practice blackout
j will he held in the Wilmington
: region, which includes Roxboro
and Person County, on Thursday
night, March 18, to further fam
iliarize the public with the new
-Warning signals.
The blackout will be one of a
series of three blackouts to be
held in the three State air raid
warning regions and will be from
8:35 p. m. until 9:22 p. m. on
March 17, 18 and 19.
] Maynard C. Clayton, Roxboro’s
Chief air raid warden, today
said that additional air raid
| wardens to serve in home dis
’i tricts are needed in several parts
of the City, and requested all in
i terested citizens to get in touch
1 with him this week.
,! According to a notice received
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RED CROSS NOW
AT APPROXIMATE
HALFWAY POINT
i
] School And County Con
tributions Yet To Come
In. Many Names Listed.
————
W. Wallace Woods, publicity)
director for the Person Chapter
' Red Cross War Fund and Roll
Call drive, today said that on
basis of incomplete returns $2,-
697.10 has thus far been reported
as contributed here, chiefly from
i business districts in Roxboro.
Yet to come in are residential
and school and County reports,
. although Mr. Woods today ex
! pressed confidence that the goal
: of $5,600 will be oversubscribed,
j “There must be no letup in this
drive”, says Mr. Woods,
j Published below is a partial
list of contributors, a list that
will be added to each week and
I released in the Times:
j RED CROSS DONORS
Joe Am e'en, $50.00; Louise
] Averette, .50; Tenney Ashley*
1.00; Jessie Anderson, 1.00; W.
E. Ashley, 1.00; W. G. Bradsher,
10.00; Melvin Burke, 5.00; D. S.
Brooks, 5.00; L. C. Bradsher,
I 10.00; Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Brooks,
35.00; Clayton and Stewart,
15.00; B. G. Crumpton, 20.00;
Roy Chandler, 1.00.
Also, S. D. Clayton, $1.00; Miss
Geraldine Clayton, 3.00; John W.
Clayton, 10.00; Garland Dunn,
2.00; J. C. Dean, 1.00; T. K.
Davis, 2.00; Duncan Radio Ser
• vice, 10.0; Mrs. Annie Bell Dun
i can, 5.00; Jack Bvtans, 1.36.
Also, Verne Mae' Evans, .25;
R. I- Featherstone, 5.00; Ray
mond Fleig, .50; Moss Sue Fred
erick, 5.00.
Also, Emory Foushee, 1.00; R£
H. Gates, 5.00; John A. .Gffll
land, 5.00; Mr. and*Mr*. C, ' €.
Garrett, 5.00; Dave GOhlaiMS,
I. Mr. and Ifc* $ SLjpito,
] * 00; Bull Gentry, l.Mf; fMfc/W.
• u Humphries, 5.08; J. Jt qm
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