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I VOLUME XIV
Leader of Woman’s
Field Army Coming
to City This Week
Mrs. Geo. Marshall
Os Mt. Airy
Will Be Speaker
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State Commander Os
Organization Interested
In Fighting Cancer Will
Be Here Thursday.
Mrs. George E. Marshall, of
Mount Airy, state commander of
the Woman’s Field Army, an or-'
ganization interested in the cur
tailment and control of cancer,'
will be in Rcxboro Thursday fori
conferences with a group of in
terested citizens.
Particularly interested in hav
ing Mrs. Marshall come here are
members of the Roxboro unit of
the Business and Professional!
Woman’s club, of which Miss
Barbara Bloxam is president. I
According to Miss Bloxam, 1
Mrs. Marshall at,, noon on Thurs
day will bei guest at a dutch
luncheon to be held at Hotel
Roxboro. Many of the members
of the club 'will be among those-j
attending, but the luncheon will
be open to both men and women
and all who are interested in at-i
tending are requested to notify 1
Miss Bloxam as soon as possible,!
certainly by Wednesday mom-!
ing.
The Woman’s Field Army has
for years sponsored educational
programs on the nature and
treatment of cancer, now re
garded as a disease that can be
checked,' if not completely cured
by early diagnosis and prompt
treatment.
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JAMES BLALOCK,
MARINE SERGEANT,
GETS SILVER STAR |
Son Os Mrs. Laura Bla- |
lock Os Helena, Gains j
Recognitioni In Pacific. |
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Jpmes J. Bla'ock, master gun
nery sergeant in the U. S. Mar
ine corps, in which he has served
for twenty-six years, made head
lines last week because he re
ceived the silver star medal for
capturing eleven Japanese sin
gle-handed in recent operations
in the Pacific area, but to his
mother, Mrs. Laura Blalock, of
Helena, Person County, the an
nouncement carried with it more
than recognition of her son as
hero.
It was the first word she had
concerning him in nine months,
figt. Clayton, who has many
kinspeople in Person County,
comes c’ose to being the Coun
ty’s most daring hero so far in
World War 11. He has a brother, 1
Fletcher Clayton, of Durham. |
Sgt. Clayton received his med- 1
al at Camp Elliott from Major
General Holland M. Smith, com
manding the San Diego area
Fleet Marine force. Sharing
honors was Captain Robert Hag
gerty, of New York, in the Mar-,
ine corps only 26 months, who
also received the silver star.'
Citations mentioned “conspicuous
gallantry and intrepidity in ac
tion on Guadalcanal”. Blalock
Made his captures in “two dar
ing sorties.” His residence is in
Durham.
PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY AND THURSDAY ROXBORO, N. C., SUNDAY, APRIL 4, 1943
Street Rites !
To Be Held
iHere Today
Norman H. Street,
Prominent Resident,
Dies After Long Illness.
Noiman H. Street, 62, of Har
| ris street', Roxboro, for many
' years a prominent resident, died
Friday night at eight o’c’ock at
his home after a long illness,
j Funeral will be held here Sun-j
, day afternoon at three o’clock at
Roxboro First Baptist church, of
which he was a member, with
1 interment following in Burch-j
, wood cemetery. j
‘i Rites will be in charge of the
Rev. W. F. West. I
! A native of Person County, he'
was a son of the late Mr. and
■; Mrs. Tom Street and for thirty
five years was connected with
the Post Office department here
1 as a rural mail carrier.
'j Immediate cause of death was'
1 a stroke of paralysis, although!
\ he had in recent months suffer-,
'j ed from a heart condition.
'' Active in civic affairs, he was
■ a member of the Baptist church
': choir and of Roxboro Rotary
i club.
1 (Survivors include his wife, the
1 former Miss Edith Bumpass, of
! the home: cne son, Thomas H.j
' Street, of Roxboro, one sister,
Mrs. Sallie Morris and one,
1 brother, Kendall Street, both of
”, Roxboro, and one grandchild.
I He wculd have retired from!
, the postal service this month and
I left the service in November be-
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j cause of ill health.
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, Birthday Coming !
j Up, And Maybe
j Party With It
Pvt. T. C. Wagstaff, of this
! City, now stationed at Camp
Swift, Texas, has a birthday in
two weeks. He hopes that by
I that time the Camp Swift
mumps and measles quarantine
will be lifted. Officers say that
1 if no more cases develop in T.
C.’s barracks he may be able to
; celebrate by that time.
It rea’ly does not matter, ex-'
r cept that Wagstaff, a former edi
tor of the Rcxboro Courier, for
weeks has not had an opportuni
ty to leave camp and cannot
I even go to a motion picture show
on the Post. Army quarantine
simply means working and eat
ing and sleeping . . . and wait
ing to see if you will be the next
•one with mumps and measles.
So far, T. C. has escaped.
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SELECTEES HOME
1 Young men in March group
of the Person Selective Service
unit, who returned Friday from
Camp Croft, S. C., report that
about thirty out of the gr oup
were inducted. A few are re
, maining several days longer for
final check-overs. Those who 1
have been accepted will be here!
until about the middle of the
week. 7
Jesse Rogers, a patient at
Watt’s hospital, remains about
the same. I
PERSON
WALLACE WOODS
PRESIDENT - ELECT
OF ROTARY CLUB
Other New Officers
Chosen At Regular
Meeting.
W. Wallace Woods, executive
secretary of Roxboro Chamber i
of Commerce and for many years
a civic leader here and a mem
ber of Roxboro Rotary club, is
president elect of the Rotary
club, having been chosen at a
session held Thursday night at
Hotel Roxboro.
Woods will take over his club
office in July, succeeding W.
Iteade Jones, present president.-
Other new officers, chosen at
the same meeting, are Dr. John
Fitzgerald, vice president; Ray
Parrish, secretary, re-elected, and
Ernest Lunsford, treasurer. New,
directors are Clyde Short and T.
T. Mitchell.
Woods, in, addition to being!
president-elect, is the club’s song
leader and his wife i 3 pianist.
Present officers, in addition to
I Jones are: Henry Gates, vice
president; Parrish, secretary, and
I R. Glenn Stovall, treasurer.
Other nominees in the election
run-off were W. W. Morrell, Dr.
George W. Gentry, Fred Masten,
George M. Fox, Jr., Tom Bennett
and Henry Gates, with Woods j
winning over Morrell for the '
presidency. }
NEW PLAN FOR I
FARM GAS QUOTAS I
BAS APPROVAL
Hall And Thomas In !
Agreement Over Divi
sion Os Farm Applica
tions.
I In order tc make sure that
farmers receive adequate but
! not excesive supplies of gasoline
j for cars and for farm equipment
I for 1943 production, the Person
| War Price and Rationing Board
is not taking any more new or
renewal applications for farm
gasoline, but they will be taken
by Township AAA Committee- 1
men.
This is a new plan recom
mended by the State War Board
j and being put into effect by
C'aude T. Hall of the Person
USDA War Board and Philip L.
Thomas of the Rationing Board.
The new plan is expected to
cause saving of gasoline, as the,
applicant will not have to come
to the Person Rationing Ofice at
all.
Undier this new plan farmers j
will make their application di
rect’y to their Township Com-',
mitteemen who in turn will mail,
the application to the County J
Farm Transportation Committee
and this Committee will make a
recommendatiin to the Rationing
Board.
The application will include
quotas for passenger cars for!
farmers, according to Mrs. San-!
ders McWhorter, of the Com
munity Service Committee.
HAS BIRTHDAY
W. T. Buchanan, of Allens
ville, last week observed his'
69th birthday at his home, where
dinner was served to members
of the family and several guests,
among them Sheriff and Mrs. W.
T. Beasley, of Oxford.
XS FAYETTEVILLE
Mesdames A. P. Clayton, O.
Teague Kirby and Ivey James
returned from Fayetteville,
where they visited Mrs. J. M.
Foushee.
TIMES
Progress Os Sun
And State To
Be Shown Soon
Progress of the Spring son:
effective Monday morning,
Roxboro and Person school
children will begin classes at
8:45 o’clock, one-half an hour
leatflier than they ftavfe been
accustomed to for the past
several months.
Schools here operate on
Standard War Time but dur
ing dark winter months they
strike a compromise with na
ture and Mars by moving
schedules forward.
Person School Board, which
meets Monday morning, will
gather at 10 o’clock, late
enough to conform to accept
ed war-time. Presiding over
the quarterly session will be
W. R. Wilkerson, of Bushy
Fork, chairman. Meeting will
be in the Board of Education I
Building, Chub Lake street, ,
and biggest Job will be rati
fication of the ninth month j
plan for Person schools, re- j
eently adopted by all of them !
in conformity with provisions |
enacted by the 1943 General |
Assembly.
New Values ln|
World at War!
j
Discovered
Dr. Gaines, Os Washing
ton And Lee Tells North
Carolina Educators That
William James Was
Right. i
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RALEIGH, April 2. The
destiny of America for the next
century will depend
upon “whether education can
sound again the c’arion call to
social responsibility and social
obligation,” Dr. Francis P.
Gaines, president of Washington
and Lee university, told mem-:
bers of the North Carolina Edu
cation association here yester-'
day.
i ‘lf America is to be safe and
j strong, and if America is to
throw her weight into a world
that is safe and strong, “Dr.
Gaines told the 2,000 delegates,
“the education of America must
produce generation after genera
tion of youth who, in peace not
less than in war, will- understand
and wi’l serve the social ideal.”
The Lexington, Va., educator
quoted Prof. William James, who
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Along The Way
With the Editor
Quite a few of our readers know Erwin Stevens, publish
er of the Caswell Messenger in Yancey vile. Any way, whether
you know him or not you will enjoy reading the ad that he ran
in the ‘Messenger” last week. Here ’tis:
WANTED Owners of wandering hound dogs, bird dogs,
feist dogs, starved dogs, crippled dogs, and just plain dogs to
Ikisep them off my premises. For the past two years about six
such animals have been a constant nuisance by trampling my
garden, making holes under my chicken fence, eating chicken
Red, turning over garbage can, and fighting noisily under my
bedroom window about 2 o’clock in the morning. Neighbors
are also pestered by- same dogs. Have exhausted available sup
ply of rocks, but have little stronger medicine in form of two
boxes cartridges and borrowed rifle. If owner expects Fido to
come when he calls, I would suggest he start calling at once.
Am ready to open second front against these pestiferous, per
verse, pestilential, pusillanimous perfurbers of the public peace.
Erwin D. Stephens, Yanoeyville, N. C.
Person Editor’s note Dear Steve, please lend me your
rifle. Several hundred dogs have been turning my garbage can
over.
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COUNTY
April Pay Checks For Person
Teachers to Include Increases
STORM SIGNALS
FOR NEW DEAL
UP FROM SOUTH
Many Political Observ
ers Predict Revolt May
Come In Deep South.
NEW ORLEANS, La., April 3.
—(Storm signals for the “new
deal” are flying in the sunny
southland, with much opposition
to a fourth term for President’
Rooseve’t.
Interviews with many Demo-j
crats in southern states, promin
ent' politicians and rank of file,
reveal a consensus that a titantic
struggle over selection of dele
gates to the 1944 Democratic na
tional convention is now in the
making.
The south, of course, is all out
for winning the war, but the be-'
lief seems to be widespread
that there is too much bureau
cracy, too much regimentation in
domestic affairs and a by-pass-!
ing of economic needs of this
part of the country. |
Suggestions are varied on what
to da politica’ly, but the discon
tent seems to be so substantial
that when the southern delega
tions go to the national conven- 1
tion they are expected to be vo
ciferous in their demands.
Leaders said that a few weeks
ago, when the fourth term boom!
was launched by President!
Roosevelt’s chief supporters, it
was generally conceded the “sol-,
id south” would meekly say!
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Robert L. Sims
Former Resident
Dies In Georgia
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Robert L. Sims, of Lincolnton,
Ga., father of Miss Ruth Sims of
! the Bushy Fork School faculty,
Roxboro, died Friday morning at
Lincolnton, Ga. A former resi
dent of Roxboro, he moved to
Georgia about two years ago.
Survivors, in addition to his
daughter here, include his wife,
four sons, three of whom are in
military service, and two daugh
ters.
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Miss Sims left at ones- for Lin
colnton, where funeral services
were held Saturday. He had been
in i’l health for several months.
Ryan To Be
Conference
Headliner
Person Welfare Group
Will Be Among Those
In Attendance.
CHAPEL HILL, April 3.—Dr.
W. Carson Ryan, head of the de
! partment of education of the
I University of North Carolina,!
I will be one of the principal I
I speakers at the 31st annual meet-j
ing of the North Carolina Con- (
ference for Social Service atj
Winston-tSakm April 20-21, it !
was announced by Dr. Roy M.|
Brown, head of the division of
j public welfare and social work
of the university.
’) Mrs. T. C. Wagstaff, Person
Director of Welfare, and mem
bers of the departmental staff,
in Roxboro, are expected to at-!
i tend the conference.
I Dr. Ryan will discuss “Educa
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MRS. T. T. HESTER
DIES AT HOME
NEAR ROXBORO
J !
J Rites For Former Miss j
! May Morton Will Be Held
i At Home This Afternoon
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j Mrs. Theodore T. Hester, 53,
' the former Miss May Morton, a
J prominent Person County resi
! dent died early Saturday mern
| ing at the Hester residence, the
| Leasburg road, after a heart at-
I tack. j
} Funeral will be held Sunday
| afternoon at three o’clock at the
- home by the Rev. F. B. Peele,
of Lea’s Chapel Methodist
i church, -of which she was a
member. Interment will be in
j. the Jack Hester family cemetery
_ near the home.
, An alumna of Greensboro col
lege, Mrs. Hester was a lover of
, flowers and enjoyed a county
wide reputation for the beauty
| of her garden.
Survivors include: her hus
| band. T. T. Hester, to whom she
! w T as married in November 1910,1
one son, T. T. Hester, her moth
er, Mrs. W. E. Morten, all of the!
home, one brother Errol Morton,
j of Olive Hill, and a nephew, Er
j rol Morton, Jr., of the U. S.
j Army, Camp Cooke, California,
and two nieces, Mrs. William)
Joel Baldwin, of Roanoke and)
Salem, Va., and Miss Jean Mor
ton, of Olive Hill.
R. L. Rudd, Jr., Os
Navy, Here For
Visit With Family
Seaman Slecond Class Robert
Lee Rudd, Jr., United States Na
val Reserves, Bainbridge, Md., is
spending a few days with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert L.
Rudd, of Bushy Fork.
Rudd, a 1942 graduate of Rox
boro high school, was living in
Burlington when he entered the
Navy. He expects to enter radio
training soon after he returns to
Bainbridge. During the past
Summer he was connected with
the Farm Agency office in Rox
boro.
Buy DEFENSE
BONDS.STAMPS
NUMBER 51
Extra Sums To
Amount To
Nearly SIO,OOO
Retroactive Increases
And War Bonuses Re
sponsible For Flood Os
Cash For Educators.
Two hundred or more Person
County and Roxboro white and
1 Negro public school teachers will
j get fat salary checks this week,
j their first payments under the
retroactive salary increases and
: War bonuses provided for in the
! 1943 General Assembly,
j R. B. Griffin, Person Superin
tendent of Schools said today
that total additional amount to
I be added to the April checks for
1 teachers in the schools here is
' 'expected to reach SIO,OOO, and
that at least $3,000 more will
j represent the total) in increased
j payments by end of the school
! year in May.
Griffin, in pointing out the
percentage basis on which in
creases and bonuses are arrived
at, said that teachers for the first
time are gaining substantial in
creases. The schedules are retro
active, and this year, as provid
ed by law, begin with the fifth
school month, which explains
j why the first payment, made
j with the April check, is of such
j large proportions,
j Under the schedule, starting
iat the bottom, those teachers
who are paid in salary as much
as S4OO per year or less, will next
. week receive three-fourths ol
. S3O (the half-year bonus) with
i their April checks, while those
. teachers making from $4Ol to
i $899 per year, will get a similar
- proportion of S6O, and those with
- S9OO to SI,BOO, will receive a
three-fourths part of S9O.
Beginning with the September
i 1943 term the increases and bon
i uses will be paid on a monthly
basis along with the. regular sal
j aries, but payments for some
teachers will be larger in pro
! portion becauslci majority are to
be paid -on a nine month rather
than a twelve month schedule,
j The April checks, Griffin said,
are now being made out.
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4-H Clubbers
Will Be Offered
Scholarships
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RALEIGH, April 3.— L. R.
Harrill, state 4-H club leader, tor
, day said six one-year scholar
ships to State college were being .
offered to North Carolina '4-H
c’ubbers who make the best re
cords with tobacco, cotton, com,
potatoes and gardens this sum
j mer.
The awards have been made
possible from funds donated by
the Plant Food Institute of North
Carolina and Virginia, he said,
to encourage the 4-H program
and promote greater knowledge
of crop production problems.
Each contestant must keep sal
accurate record Os iMthodL
amount and cost of fertilizer
used, the Md yield and total
cost of producing the crop, tad
eluding fall infarmstian on Mm/,
costs. Chib mtnfbtrs who wfaft
to qualify HMtS contact theft
j county agents.
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