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VOLUME XIV
Three Counties In
New Library Set-Up
Caswell And
Person In Unit
With Orange
Board Members Here
Sign Agreement With
Caswell. Chatham Now
Out Os Tri-County Pro
gram.
Person County Public Library
Board members in a called ses
sion attended also by represen
taties of the Caswell County Con
federate Memorial Public li
brary, on Monday joined with
the Caswell delegation in ap
proving and singing a co-opera
tive contract, one of several
steps .taken in forming a new
tri-county set-up to include Per
son, Caswell and Orange coun
ties.
This set-up, now in effect, will
be under supervision of Miss
Ernestine Grafton, tri-county li
brarian, who on Monday mailed
to Chatham county library offi
cials her resignation from li
brary supervision in that county.
Under the contract signed
here the Person library, for a
stipulated sum, will * furnish
bookmobile service to Caswell
on certain days each menth and
book stocks of Caswell and Per
son will be inter-changable.
Orange’s plan of operation will
continue as formerly. The new
set-up, in opinion of Miss Graf
ton, Sitate library officials and
the boards concerned will make
possible better and more effi
cient service and will offer Cas
well an opportunity to partici
pate in State aid plan for li
braries.
The Caswell delegation includ
ed Mrs. H. L. Gwynn and Miss
Louise Homewood, both of Yan
ceyville. Mrs. A. Y. Kerr, Cas
well, chairman, dlso of Yancey
ville, was unable to be present
but the contract was mailed to
her for signing. Person mem
bers present included F. D. Long,
chairman, Mrs. R. H. Shelton,
W. H. Gentry, Mayor S. G. Win
stead, R. B. Griffin and Thomas
J. Shaw, Jr., together with Miss
Grafton.
The new plan had previously
been discussed by Caswell and
Person boards and has had ap
proval of County Commissioners
in each County. Driver of the
Person-Caswell bookmobile will
be Mrs. A. B. Buchanan.
Julius Hicks
Charged With
Army Desertion
Julius Hicks, 26, Longhurst,
charged with desertion from the
United States Army, was yester
day turned over to Army au
thorities at Camp Butner by
Roxboro Chief of Police George
C. Robinson.
Hicks, it is alleged, deserted
about two years ago while sta
tioned at Camp Wheeler, Ga.,
where he was a member of Com
pany C, Fifth infantry. He had
been back in Roxboro for some
time and when apprehended was
wearing civilian clothes.
FROM AVGUSTA
Sari Daniel, of Oliver
General Hospital, U. 3. Army,
Augusta, Ga., arrived this morn
ing for a visit in Roxboro.
EVERY SUNDAY AND THURSDAY ROXBORO, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1943
ELECTRIC POWER
IN CITY TO BE
OFF ONE HOUR
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Will Take Place Sunday
Afternoon Between Two
■ And Three O’clock.
Electric service will be dis
connected in Roxboro on Sun
day afternoon, according to an
announcement made today by T.
j Miller White, manager of the
I Carolina Power and Light com
| pany here.
j “The interruption”, said Mr.
White, “is to permit important
repair work on the lines which j
were recently damaged in the j
sleet storm. We feel that this |
work could not be done safely
Without disconnecting service,
iWe hope, however, that it is
I planned for hours when a mini
mum of inconvenience will be
caused customers in the areas to
be affected.”
Service will be off between 2
and 3 p. m. on Sunday afternoon.
“We regret the necessity of
i disconnecting service for even a
! short period of time”, continued
j »
i Mr. White, “but it is essential
! that our lines be kept in gcod
I repair at a time when abnorm
ally heavy demands are being
imposed upon us by the war pro
duction program.”
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Tenants And
ICropp.ers Pay j
IFSA Promptly!
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Liberal Provisions Os j
| Bankhead-Jones Act Per
j mit Payments In Propor
j tion To Prosperity.
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Former tenants and share
croppers, buying farms under
j the Bankhead-Jones Farm Ten- j
; ant Act, are paying well ahead i
| of schedule on their loans. Tak
ing advantage of the “variable”
payment plan, the 1605 “farm
ownership” borrowers in this
state in 1942, repaid 205 per cent
| of the amount they owned un
der their purchase agreements,
1 according to figures compiled by
the Farm Security Administra
tion and released here by Joe Y.
Blanks, County Supervisor.
These new home owners re
paid $648,932.00 on| their farms
last year, compared with only
$316,502 due under the 40-year
amortisation schedule covered
by their contracts. 124 of the
new owners paid SIOOO.OO or
more each on their farms.
The variable payment plan,
incorporated by Congress in its
enactment of the Bankhead-
Jones Act in 1937, is a new idea
in loans for land purchase It
enables the borrower families to
| pay a greater amount than due
, in good crop years, stowing away
!an advantage against possible
i lean years. For instance, the
average payment due per family
in this state was only $196.00.
Yet, the families in this state
paid an average of $404.00. These
families not only showed initia
tive in making payments on their
farms they also nuuje sub
stantial increases in the produc
tion of war-essential crops and
' livestock.
| Congress passed the legiala
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TIMES
D. L. Whitfield
Comments On
Service Rules
Wants Men In A-I, Who
Seek Deferments To File
Applications Ahead Os
Calls. Says List Restric
tion Comes From Wash
ington.
D. L. Whitfield, Person Selec
tive Service Board chairman, to
day issued two statements, one
relative to farm deferments and
ether deferments for class I-A
registrants, and the other per
taining to publication of lists of
men subject to induction.
It is important, according to
Whitfield, that men now in I-A
classification, who for legitimate
reasons want farm defermeiUs
or other deferments, file notice
of wanting such deferments with
the Person Selective Service
Board at once, or at the least,
sufficiently in advance of the
date on which they are to be
called for induction.
Deferments cannot be granted
at the last moment, says Whit
field, since lists of men to be in
cluded are.mailed to induction
centers ten days before the men
are sent,
On the other matter, advance
publication of the names of men
\vho are called up for induction,
Whitfield quotes State Selective
Service Administration, Gen. J.
Van B. Metis, of Raleigh, to ef
fect that a new Washington rul
ing specifically restricts publica
tion of lists and that only names
of men who are actually accept
ed at induction centers may be
published, and then only after
such men have returned home
for their pre-military seven day
furl on eh s.
..Whitfield, in discusing this
new ruling, made it plain that
local boards have no choice but
to obey instructions, and added
that reason for the ruling is pro
bably based on allegations of
embarrassment made by some
rejectees. Under the new ruling
name of rejectees must not be
published.
A March group of white selec
tees left yesterdfty for Camp
Croft. Names of those accepted
will be published as soon as pos
sible in the Times.
Bill Murphy Now
With Air Corps
Personnel Unit
Bill R. Murphy, son of Mr.
and Mrs. B. W. Murphy, of Rox
boro, is with the First Air Base
Squadron, Mitchell Field, Long
Island, as classification clerk in
the personnel department. A
graduate of Roxboro high school,
he entered the Air Corps sever
al months ago. Prior to enlist
ment he was associated with his
father in business here and was
with the Collins and Aiikman
corporation, Ca-Vel.
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Rev. F. S. Love To
Hold Conference
The Rev. F. ISL Love, of Dur
ham, district superintendent of
the Methodist church, will hold
second quarterly conference of
the Brooks dale charge Sunday;
morning at Webb’s Chapel
church, Granville County, the!
conference coming immediately
after the sermon, also by the
visiting minister, at 11:30 o’-
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Harrv W. Winstead
Hr / ||H 'V.’;
Prominent In tobacco circles
in three states, Harry W. Win
stead, died Sunday at his home
here.
Many Come
To Rites For
Mr. Winstead
Tobacconist, Prominent
In Three States, Dies At
His Home Here.
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Hold here Monday afternoon
at four o’clock at the home were
funeral services for Harry W.
Winstead, 63, prominent Rox
i boro resident, who died Sunday
morning at 1:45 o’clock at his
residence, after an illness lasting
two weeks.
Mr. Winstead, prominent
in North Carolina, Virginia and
Georgia as a tobacconist, and
owner - operator of warehouses
in Durham, Danville, Va., and
Tifton, Ga., died after suffering
a heart attack, one of several
since March 15.
Widely known throughout the
Old Belt and active in the Co-op
movement of two decades ago,
Winstead was engaged in tobac
co business for more than thir
ty-five years. A graduate of the
Universiy of Norh Carolina,
class of 1904, he was a native of
Person County, was born near
Leasburg, and was a son of the
late Charles and Lou S. Win
'stead.
A large landowner in Person
County, he moved to Roxboro
many years ago and was a
member of Edgar Long Memor
ial Methodist' church, where- he
was a member of the Board of
Stewards and of various com
mittees.
Interment was in Burchwood
cemetery here. Ministers were
the Rev. W. C. Martin, pastor of
his church, assisted by the Revs.
O. W. Dowd, a former pastor, of
Dunn, and F. B. Peele, of the
Person Circuit.
Survivors include: his wife,
the former Miss Effie Wharton,
cf Gibsonville, member of a
prominent Guilford County fam
ily, of the ho)me, one son, Whar
ton Winstead, of Roxboro, asso
ciated with his father in busi
ness, one daughter, Mrs. Wal
ter R. Murray, cf Dillon, S. C.,
one -brother, Clarence Winstead,
one sister, Mrs. Tom D. Win
stead, both cf Roxboro, and one
grandson.
Active pallbearers were Carl,
James, Lacy, Sam, Byrd, Ray,
Alex, and Melvin Winstead, and
H. Wheeler Newell, all of Rex
boro, whie honorary pallbearers
included Lieut. Gov. R L.
Harris and more than forty
other prominent Roxboro citi
zens, together With Dr. W. R.
Stanford, of Durham, and R. B.
Winston.
Flowerbearers were members
of the Board of Stewards of Ed
gar Long Church and of the W.
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j Glee Club To
Give Concert
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Here Sunday
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Free Entertainment Will
Be Provided By High
School Groups At First,
Baptist Church.
Roxboro high school glee club,
j under direction of Miss Kather-
I ine Cooper, on Sunday afternoon
| at 4:30 o’clock at First Baptist
: church, will present its second
concert of the school year. The
1 j
I I program will consist of classical
l and semi-classical selections,
i Accompanists will be Mrs. W.
i Wallace Woods and Miss Mary
j Jane Fox and composers repre
sente d will include Bach, Roselli,
i Handel, Schubert, Mendelssohn,
Gounod, Dvorak, Grieg and El
gar.
Groups to participate will in
clude both senior and junior glee
clubs and no admission will be
( charged. Prayer will be by the
j pastor of the church, the Rev.
j F. West.
| Patriotic theme at the end of
I the program will see the presen
j tation of the Russian National
• Hymn and two or three Ameri
l i
I can sengs of that type, as well
| as Elgar’s, “Land of Hope and
j Glory.”
i PERSON NEGROES
LOSE LIVES WHEN
APARTMENT BURNS
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; j Blaze In Washington,
j D. C., Fatal To Three.
Fourth In Hospital.
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| Three Person Negroes, former
i residents of the Concord section.
j who had been living in Washing- !
| ton, D. C., lost their lives there
| in a week-end apartment house |
fire, and a fourth remains in -a
Washington hospital receiving
; treatment for fractures of both
legs and both arms.
First information of the trag
edy was received here Sunday!
when the bodies of the three !
i
iwho died were sent to a Negro
funeral home. Those dead are j
the wife of Willie Paylcr and >
her three months old daughter, :
: Brenda A. Paylor, and Cyrus M. j
I Lea, 5, a nephew of the Paylor j
i woman. Still in the hospital is
Musette Paylor Lea, mother of
Cyrus and sister of the dead
! j woman.
i The infant died from sufffo-,
cation and smoke, the boy from
; a fractured skull and the woman j
I from burns. It is reported that j
( they jumped, from third story
j windows to the sidewalk 1 .
I Funerals for thie three were J
; held here Monday at Hyco Zion
Church.
! Survivors include two Paylor
i uncles, Walter and Harry, of j
j Person County.
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i Rev. Mr. Maness
Os Jackson To Be
At Lea’s Chapel
Revival services will begin
at Lea’s Chapel on the sth of
April, with the Rev. W. L. Man
ess as preacher.
Service will be each evening (
at 8 o’clock through the week,
closing with a morning service
on the 11th.
Maness is a former pastor of
the Person Circuit which is now
served by the Rev. F. B. Feele. j
Expanded Future
To Welfare Work
Seen By Agency
Want To Help
Man Who Wants
To Give Blood?
Edward Harris, of Route 1,
Roxboro, a deliveryman for
Blalock’s dairy, feels he can
not afford to buy War Bonds
in large quantity, but is anxi
ous to do his “bit" by; donat
ing a pint of blood to a blood
W. Wallace Woods, of Rox
bank, as he this morning told
boro Chamber of Commerce.
Persons going to Durham
and interested in taking Har
ris to the nearest blood bank
center, Duke hospital, are
asked to get in touch with
. Harris at dice.
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Jackson Will
Begin Work
On Monday
New Assistant Farm
Agent Replaces Park.
Meeting Here Informal.
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' C. C. Jackson, of Sampson
i County, near Dunn, and a recent
graduate of North Carolina State
College, Raleigh, has accepted i
the position of Assistant Farm!
agent, Person County, and will
come to Roxboro on Monday to
begin his duties, chiefly with;
Fcur-H clubs.
Jackson, who is married and,
has one child, succeeds A. I.!
Park, resigned. He first came to
Roxboro Monday with district j
agent O. F. McCrary and his
selection was made with appro- 1
val of the Person County Com- ]
missioners, although no formal'
session of that body was called.
Park resigned about two
months ago and the office here
has since been operated without';
an assistant agent. The matter
was informally discussed at
March meeting of the Person
Commissioners but replacement
action developed quickly and *
without warning. The County
pays a relatively small part of
the Assistant Agent's salary, j
Park left here because of an of-!
fer of promotion, with an in- j
crease in compensation.
Sanders has expressed himself
as very pleased that Jackson is
to come.
Page And Smith
Hurt When Car
Crashes On Road
George Page, 30, and Audiej
Smith, 38, white men, were dis- j
charged from Community hos
pital Monday morning after.
receiving treatments for cuts and.
bruises sustained Sunday nighty
when their automobile, with
Smith driving went off the high
way on the Virgilina road near
here about eleven o’clock.
The car turned over and down
an embankment, with the wind
shield resting against a tree.
Investigation was by Pa
trolman John Hudgins, of Rox
boro, who had to hade his way
into the car with an axe to re
lease the men.
Buy DEFENSE
BONDS-STAMPS
NUMBER 50
T. L. Grier, Os
Raleigh, Field
Man, Sees Changes
Secs Further Return To
County Influence In
Post-War Administration
Os Welfare Program.
T. L. Grier, of Raleigh, field
representative of the Slate Board
of Charities and Public welfare,
speaking yesterday at March
session of the Person County
Council of Social agencies, pre
dicted for the future of public
welfare in North Carolina a
broader but at the same time
an essentially home service pro
gram for each county in the
State.
Grier, introduced by Mrs. T. C.
Wagstaff, Person Welfare direc
tor and council program chair
man, said further that public
■ welfare has now entered into
; world consciousness and as a
: program is freely discussed by
i such world leaders as Roosevelt,
I Churchill and Stalin. He inti
j mated that whatever expansion
J of social service that is to come
i after the war can well come and
should ccrne through already ex
isting welfare departments.
The speaker also had high
! praise for the cooperative work
that an agency group such as the
one in Person County can per
form, particularly as an inter
pretative body through public
relations. The meeting was at
Hotel Roxboro, with Thomas J.
Shaw, Jr., chairman, presiding.
ISAAC RIMMER
RITES CONDUCTED
AT BERRY’S GROVE
Hurdle Mills Resident
Dies At Home Sunday.
Isaac Jones Rimmer, 59, of
Hurdle Mills, died Sunday morn
ing at 4:50 o’clock at his home
after several years of ill health.
Death was attributed to a heart
condition.
Funeral was held Monday af
ternoon at 3:30 o’clock at Ber
ry's Grove Baptist church, with,
interment in the church ceme
tery. Rites were in charge of
the pastor, the Rev. C. A. Cald
well, of Mount Holly.
Survivors include his wife, the
former Miss Mary Breeze, of the
home, three sons, two daughters,
three* brothers, three sisters and
five grandchildren.
Sons are: Ennis and Willard,
of Hurdle Mills, and Corp. Ro
bert Rimmer, Camp Gordon, Ga.,
daughters are Miss Marjorie
Rimpier, Washington, D. C., and
Miss Eloise Rimmer, of Hurdle
Mills. Brothers are N. J., of
Jonesboro, J. S., of Durham,
and B. D., of Rougemont, and
sisters are, Misses Renee and
Xenie Rimmer and Mrs. Earl
Roberts, of Jonesboro.
Flowerbearers were Wayne
Roberts, Donald Chandler, Rus
sell and Brodie Breeze, Basil
Rimmer, Breeze Toler, MmdniW
Dewey L. Rimmer Moore, Shir
ley Blalock Crabtree and Pauline
j Blalock Whittled and Mkses
Dallas Blalock, Basel Roberts,
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