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VOLUME XIV
Food Conservation
Conference Opens
Tuesday Morning
Miss Arant To
Speak To Two
Groups And Club
First Session For Train
ed Nutritionists On Tues
day. Other Women Gath
er Wednesday.
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Miss Anamerle Arant, of Ral
eigh, northwestern district agent
of State College Extension ser
vice, will be here this week for
a two day conference and dem
onstration on food conservation,
and while here will discuss the
same subject at a night meeting
of the Person Schoolmasters
club to be held Tuesday.
The two all-day meetings at
which Miss Arant will be dem
onstrator and lecturer will be
held in the home economics de
partment, Roxboro high school,
beginning at ten o’clock each
morning.
On Tuesday, the first' day, she
iwiill meet with professionally
trained nutritionists, while sec
ond day, Wednesday will be re
served for block-leaders and for
members of Person Home Dem
onstration clubs. Presiding over
all sessions will be Mrs. Philip
L. Thomas, of Roxboro, chair
man of the Person County Nutri
■tion- committee and a former
FSA staff member.
Also interested in arranging
the program, which comes under
the division of Civilian Defense,
is Mrs. Kathleen Barham, Per
son Home Demonstration agent,
who today said that letters have
been mailed, both to the trained
workers and to block-leaders and
club women inviting them to
come to respective sessions.
The Schoolmasters club ses
sion will be held Tuesday night
at 6:30 o’clock at Hotel Roxboro,
where dinner will be served.
Presiding will be club president
Leon Couch, supervising princi
pal of Roxboro District schools.
Both Mrs. Thomas and Mrs.
Barham are anxious that Women
of the City and County attend
the sessions at the high school,
and Mr. Couch is equally anx
ious that club attendance be
large. It is expected that muchi
Miss Arant will have to say and!
to demonstrate will have a di-i
. I
rect bearing on point rationing |
and Victory garden and home
canning programs.
Education Board
Renamed, Will
Meet In April
i
W. R. Wilikerson, chairman, E.
E. Bradsher, Sr., B. G. Crump
ton, Ralph Cole and Claude T.
Hall iwiere last week renamed as
members of the Person County'
Board of education by Rep. H.
P. Burns and approved by the'
Legislature. First meeting of the)
newly appointed board will be
held Monday, April 5, in the,
Board of Education office. Chub
Lake Street, where chief busi
ness will be naming of the Coun
ty Superintendent of schools and
selection of boards for various
schools in the county.
Mrs. John Merritt left Friday
for Columbus, Ga. f to be with
her husband, Lieut. John W.
Merritt, who is stationed at Fort
Beoning.
TIMES ~~
PUBLISHED EVERT SUNDAY AND THURSDAY ROXBORO ,N. C., SUNDAY MARCH 14, 1943
i Point Values
{OfSomeFoods
iNow Lower
| Meat And Cheese And
| Fish Rationing Expected
| To Begin By End Os
I Month.
I
| WASHINGTON, March 13.
| Secretary of Agriculture Wick-
I ard on Friday officially ordered
i rationing of meat, butter and
j other edible fats and oils, cheese
! and canned fish “on or before
| April 1” and estimated that the
j meat ration “will be in the
| neighborhood of two pounds,
more or less,” a week.
This does not include meat
eaten in restaurants where ra
tion coupons will not be neces
sary.
Cheese will be in addition to
j the meat ration, contrary to re
j ports current about a week ago
| that persons would have to use
i part of their meat' coupons to
get cheese.
Wickard announced he had au
thorized the office of price ad
ministration to proceed With the
rationing and OPA will make
public most of the detatils.
The office of price administ'ra
j tion slashed, effective yesterday,
i the point value of dried and de
i .from 20 to 12 points per pound,
| (turn to page' six, please)
j
Pine Tree
Planting Now
In Progress
Indian Residents Os High
Plains Particularly Co
operative Says Ellis.
I '
Joe Ellis, of Roxboro, director
of the Dan River district soil con
servation program here, today
I compiled a report of accomplish- j
! ments in tree planting part of i
j the program in Person County, j
[ citing as an example of progress
| the setting out' of as many as
eight thousand pine trees this
monh on farms of Elmer and
Campbell Stewart, Indian resi
dents of the High Plains com
i munity close to the Virginia line.
[ What is more, a growth record
of the trees thus planted will be' i
kept from year to year because
Gordon C. Hunter, executive vice
president of the Peoples bank,
and an active Rotarian, who is
particularly interested in farm
progress and conservation, will
annually take motion pictures of
the trees.
Additional planting, bringing
total of trees plant’d this year
in Person County to fifteen thous
and, has been done on the farms
of O. Lester Burch, and S. D.
Morris, both of Allensville, W.
A Wiley, High Plains, and D. A.
Allen and Dan Whitfield, both
of Bushy Foiflc..
Ellis says, naturally, that he is
pleased with the cooperation in
tree-planting that is being extend
ed here. The program promotes
soil conservation and ultimately
the trees will grow into valuable
timber, although success of the
timber aspect of the program de
pends upon intelligent apnlka
tion of principles of thinning.
RITES HELD FOR
ATLAS J. CLAYTON
OF NEAR SURL
Prominent Farmer Dies |
At Home After Long
Illness
Funeral services for Atlas Jon
ah Clayton, who died at his home
near Surl, Person County, Thurs
day night at 6 o’clock following
a stroke of paralysis were held at
the home Friday afternoon at 4
o’clock, by Elder N. D. Teasley
of Durham. Burial was in the
family cemetery near the home.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Nannie Loe Clayton; two sons,
Private Crithon Clayton of Camp
Hoed, Texas, and Private Willie
Lewis Clayton of Fort Bragg; six
daughters, Mrs. Curtis Clayton,
Mrs. Garland Lunsford, Mrs. Ber
nice Rodgers, Mrs. Dancey Day,
Miss Christine Clayton, all of
Person County, and Miss Frankie
Clayton of Danville, Va.
Also surviving are five grand
children, three brothers, Noah
Clayton and Lum Clayton of
Person County, and Zeb Clayton
of Fuquay Springs; four sisters,
Mrs. Alex Day, Mrs. Jim Day,
Mrs. Tom Lunsford, all of Per
son County; Mrs. Clyde Duncan
of Petersburg, Va.
Clayton who was a prominent
farmer for many years, had been
seriously ill about six weeks.
MINERAL SURVEY
PLAN FOR STATE
NOW OPERATING
Brassert Begins Survey
Expected To Be Os Great
Value.
RALEIGH, March 13.—A sur
vey of the state’s mineral depos
its, primarily to determine their
possible use in the war effort, be
gan here Friday.
Herman Brassert, international
engineer, and his staff conferred
briefly with officials of the- de
partment of conservation and de
velopment and Governor Brough
ton, and planned to leave im
mediately for the field. Their
first objective was the coal and
iron deposits near Sanford, and
from there their course led into
western North Carolina.
Commenting cn the work, Gov
ernor Broughton said the survey
would last from 60 to 90 days,
and the report would be submit
ted to the war production board.
Results of the survey, to cost
more than $25,000, will determ
ine whether the governor will|
establish a bureau of mines in
western North Carolina under
authority granted him by the leg
islature.
The governor sent many bills
to the assembly, he remarked to
day, but the mining measure was I
the only one he personally drew.
The others were drawn by the
attorney general’s office.
William B. New
Funeral Conducted
Here Saturday
Rites for William Bennie New,
68, of Longhurst, whose death
occurred Wednesday at his home
here, were conducted (Saturday
afternoon at four o’clock at Long
hurst Baptist church by the Rev.
R. W. Hovis, with interment in
Providence church cemetery.
Late arrival of a grandson,
Pvt. Lacy Clay, of Camp Howze,
Gains ville, Texas, who arrived
Friday, caused delayed funeral
arrangements.
A. C. Munday
Takes Life
Pistol
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Resident Os Ceffo Ap
parently Despondent
Over 111 Health.
Andrew Claude Munday, 54,
a farmer, of near Ceffo, Person
County, Friday afternoon about
5:30 o’clock .committed suicidte,
wetpon used being a pistol, the
shot entering the right temple
and coming out on the left.
The act took place in an unoc
cupied tenant house on his farm, j
The body was not discovered!
until about 10:30 o’clock Friday'
night, although a searching party
was organized by persons on the
farm shortly after 5:30 o’clock,
when they thought' they heard a
sound of a pistol shot.
In ill healtr for several years,
Mui.day, who reportedly made a
previous attempt to take his own
life, had but recently returned
from a hospial. Investigation was
made by Person Coroner Dr. A.
F. Nichols, who stated that death
I resulted from suicide with a re
volver. Also summoned was Per
sos Sheriff M. T. Clayton.
Munday, who was a brother
inlaw of T. Aubrey Long, of
Roxboro, is survived by his wif£
! the former Miss Ccquella Long,
his mother Mrs. Henderson Mun
day, and two sons, bcuh in mili
tary service.
Funeral services will be held
Sunday afternoon at 4:30 o’-
clock at Oak Grove- Methodist
church.
! Dr. Geo. W. Smith
Guest Os Rotary
Club Thursday
Dr. George W. Smith, Jr.,
formerly of Bethel Hill and now
yvith the dental service depart
ment of the public schools, will
this week conduct clinics at
Bethel Hill, Helena and Bushy
Fork. The son of George W.
Smith, now of Hickory, but
formerly a teacher of agricul
ture at Bethel Hill, Dr. Smith
will be in Person County about
four more weeks.
Dr. Smith on Thursday night
was guest of R. B. Griffin, Per
son Superintendent of schools,
at Roxboro Rotary club, where
W. Reade Jones, club president,
presented a program consisting
of phonographic reproductions
of addresses by five or six past
presidents and leaders of Rotary
International, who discussed
chiefly Rotary and the war ef
fort.
R. B. Dawes, a Roxboro attor
ney and judge of Person Record
er’s Court', who has been a pa
tient at McPherson hospital, Dur
ham, returned to his -home here.
Friday after receiving treatment !
for a sinus infection.
Along The Way
With the Editor
If this is a lie, Curtis Hill Oakley told it. In the back of
Thomas and Oakley Drug Store is a bag of sugar. They have
to use sugar in the making cf syrups for the fountain and other
things. Now John Murphy does quite a bit of work for this
drug store and he knew where the sugar iwlas. He had seen
it on many occasions and his sugar was getting low.. John de
cided to borrow a little sugar until his card was good again.
He dug into the sack and went on his way and the next day
he used the sugar to sweeten the coffee. Then something hap
pened. I can’t tell you what it was, but John had accidentally
dug into the bag that contained Epsom Salts and had used the
same to awleeten his coffee. He came back to the drug store
accusing the proprietors of putting medicine in the sugar bag
and our understanding is that he wasn’t feeling well.
PRICE OF TIMES
GOES TO $2.00
j ON APRIL 11TH
New Or Renewal Sub
scriptions Accepted At
Old Price of $1.50 Until
April 11th, And For As
Long As First Years In
i Advance.
Effective April 10th ( 1943, the
, price ot the Person County Times
, will be $2.00 per year instead of
$1.50 as has been the case for the
. past sev: ral years. Reasons for
j this increase have been given by
ijthe publishers as increased costs
r \ in production <n practically every
,! line, the last one being an in
, crease in the cost' of newsprint
| coming a few days ago. Ne-ws
, j print prices have increased sever
j al times recently and were finally
I made stable by a ceiling but the
j | ceiling was removed for this last
j \ increase.
j i Publishers of the paper have
j - agreed to accept new or renewal
! subscriptions at the old price un
! i til April 10th. New or renewal
.: subscriptions will not be accept
. ed at the old price for a period
of time longer than for five
. years in advance of April 10,
[ 1943.
i (Subscription arrears can, of
course, be caught up at the old
. price of $1.50.
The circulation department of
the Times urges those who are
1 in arrears to come in at once and
catch up their deficit, as it will be
t impossible to continue sending
the paper to those who are not
paid up.
Scoutmasters To
Meet Monday To
I Plan Salvage Work
i
. Scoutmasters or Roxboro and I
r Person County troops will meet]
- Monday night at 7:30 o’clock inj
1 the office of Roxboro Chamber |
t of Commerce in order to make
7 final plans for the tin can and
• waste fats drives, according to
t announcement made today by
- W. Wallace Woods, Person Sal
> vage Committee chairman.
t Plans for two drives will be
further discussed Tuesday night
t at regular monthly meeting of
• the Person Scout district to be
. held at 7:30 o’clock in the office
-of Dr. A. F. Nichols.
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I Private F. C., J. D. Perkins, of
5 Roxboro and Fortj Bragg, is
t spending several days here with
r his family. He will return to
1 Fort Bragg Monday to resume
■ maneuvers on which he has been
engaged for several weeks.
Miss Bessie Daniel, secretary
• to H. K. Sanders, Person Farm
■ Agent, who has for several days
■ been ill at Community hospital
i. with a deep cold and a throat in
;! section, is expected to return to
I her office Monday.
Selective Service,
USDA Boards Join
In Farm Deferment
Red Cross At j
Two Thousand
Past Maximum
Ford, Long And Woods
Gratified. Whites And
Negroes Make Good
Showing.
Oversubscription of the Person
County and Roxboro Red Cross
War Fund by two thousand dcl-
I lars, with more yet to come, par
ticularly from schools, was re
ported today by W. Wallace
Woods, publicity director, who
says that cash turned in has
reached at least $7,600. Quota
was set at $5,600.
Immensely pleased with re
sults are S. M. Ford, campaign
director, and Dr. Robert E. Long,
chapter president, both of whom
expressed gratificalion at the
public response and were pro
fuse in thanks and praise, both
for general and committee co
operation shown.
One of the largest single re
ports turned in wias that of the
| Residential Division, headed by
| Mrs. J. A. Long, with $1518.54,
| while an equally creditable re
port has come from the Negro
| division headed by T. C. Till
j man, chairman, with Dr. R. A.
Bryce and Charles J. Ford, as
sistants. Negro contributions,
thus far total nearly SSOO.
The campaign will of course
continue through the coming
j (turn to page six, please)
! MORE TOBACCO
ALLOTMENTS FOR
YEAR PLANNED
WASHNGTON, March 13.
Secretary of Agriculture Wick
ard announced yesterday, that
farmers will be allowed to in
crease this year’s AAA planting
allotments for flue-cured, hurl
ey, dark air-cured and fire-cured
tobacco by five per cent, or one
tenth of an acre, whichever is
the greater.
Marketing quotas of these
types will be continued in ef
fect. However, each farmer will
be permitted to market all the
tobacco grown on his increased
allotment. Excess tobacco would
be subject to a penalty tax equi
valent to about half the market
value.
The secretary said the increase
in the allotment was made be
cause domestic consumption and
lend-lease requirements and
other exports have caused a
heavy drain upon supplies of
■ hurley and flue-cured tobaccos—
types used primarily for cigar
ettes and smoking tobacco.
Requirements for the other
types have been substantially l
increased by a heavy demand!
for nicotine insecticide.
The department said the na
tional tobacco allotment normal
ly is under-planted five percent
or more and that this under
planting is expected to be great
er this year because of shortages
of labor, fertilizer and other ma
terials. The permissible in
creases are expected, the de
partment said, to encourage
greater production by small
growers without' reduction of
their vital war crops.
Buy DEFENSE
BONDS-STAMPS
Service Unit
Labors Into Night,
USDA Now Ready
Farm Deferment Plan
Upsets Schedules, Caus
ing Heavy Loads On
Both Boards.
Steps to cooperate with the
Person USDA War Board in the
selection of men to be deferred
from military service because of
work as farmers, are being tak
en by the Person County Selec
tive Service Board, which has
during the past week had pro
longed sessions for discussion of
problems pertaining to farm de
ferments.
Under the recently announced
plan for farm service deferments
the Selective Service and the
USDA War Boards work togeth
er on eligibilities, which are de
termined on the basis of units of
production. There is a stipulation
that as many as twelve units are
required for each farm man ex
empted, while units in turn are
I determined by types and amounts
| of crops produced on the farms.
Members of the Selective Ser
j vice Board here are D. L. Whit
: field, of Hurdle Mills, chairman,
! R. L. Hester, of Bushy Fork, and
! O. Y. Clayton, Sr., of Roxboro,
j while chairman of the USDA War
Beard is Claude T. Hall, of
| Woodsdale and Roxboro. Hall to
day issued statement concerning
the farm deferment activities of
the USDA War Board.
For the farmers information it
would be bstter to secure the
farm activity blank from selec
tive service office and take it to
| the USDA War board to pre-|
pare for the Selective Service
i board to act' on.
In a move to relieve the short
age of farm workers, the Person
County USDA War Board has
(turn to page six, please)
This Is The
Simple Statement
Made By Standley
Moscow, March 13.—Admiral
William H. Standley, U. S. Am
bassador to Russia, told a press
conference last week that he did
not think the Russian people
were being told the complete
story of United States aid to
Russia.
“I ifind no poliical motive to
this,” Admiral Standley said, “It
is only an effort to create the
impression with their own people
that they are pulling themselves
through by their own boot
straps.”
Poining out that a new lend
lease bill is now' before Congress
in Washington, Admiral Standley
added that “the American Con
gress is bighearted and generous,
but if you give it' the impression
that their help means nothing
there might be a different story.”
BIRTHS ANNOUNCED
. Mr. and Mrs. J. SL Fleming, of
( Roxboro, announce the birth of
a son on Monday, March 8, "at
Community hospital
Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey King,
of Roxboro, announce the birth
of a son, Aubrey R, on Tuepiay,
March 2, at Community hospital
NUMBER 45