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VOLUME XIV
Negro Boy Scouts
Gain New Program
IC. J. Ford And
Others Agree
v.
On New Plan
Negro Division Os Per
son Scout District Form
ed. Negroes To Raise
Own Funds.
Roxboro Negro citizens, with)
assistance from the Inter-racial
Committee of the Person Scout
district, have this week taken
steps to expand work of the Per- j
son District among Negro boys
here and at a meeting held Mon-j
day night at Person County
Training school elected C. J.
Ford, Person Negro Farm Demon
stration agent, as chairman of
Negro division of the Person
District.
The new division is being set
up in anticipation of a visit from
a Negro Scout leader of the Cher
okee Council who is to help with
the; expansion program and for
which Ford and other Negroes
present have agreed to raise:
among members of their own race
in the. Person district their pro
portionate part of a fund amount
ing to $650.
This sum, $650 is to come from
Negro citizens in four counties
in the Cherokee council, Caswell,
Alamance, Person and Rocking
ham, to be served by a full-time
Negro Boy Scout leader yet to be
selected, and under the plan each
dollar raised by Negro citizens
wil be matched by two dollars
to come from National head
quarters of the Boy Scouts and
from a special fund.
Working with C. J. Ford are
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NAMES OF MEN
ACCEPTED FROM
QUOTA REVEALED
White Men In March Quo
ta Leave Today After
Seven Day Furlough.
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Person County and Roxboro
white men in the March quota
for Selective Service, having
passed examination and been in
ducted into military service at
Camp Croft, S. C., left yesterday
for Fort Bragg for active duty.
Among those reporting were;
William A. Wrenn, William H.
Green, Bennie M. Lunsford, Er
rand R. Painter, Clyde L. Brooks,
James P. Knott, Toufielk' Ameen,
Julius A. White, Jr., John B.
Dunn, Jr., Traynham E. Mitchell,
Jack W. White, Louis Covington,
Jr., Raymond! M. Fleig, William
A. Carver and Bert' T. Dickerson.
Also, Bobby E. Carver, Harry
T. Kirby, Daniel R. Rhew, Joseph
W. Hogg, Revis L. Carver,
Charles T. Day, Howard G. Clay
ton, Arch L. Davis, John H. Harg
is, Samuel E. Yarboro, Milo K.
Bowes, Leo. W. Hardy, Melvin
H. Strange, James M. Evans,
Garland W. Hildebrand, Ran
dolph King, Francis Spake, Mar
shall Vernon Hudgins, Albert
DeiMerritt Day and Joseph Ed-
Vward Latta, Jr.
HOSPITAL NEWS
A. J. Harris, of Roxboro, for
several weeks a patient in a Dur
ham hospital, has returned to his
home hete much improved. Jesse
Rogers, who is a patient at
Wktfs hospital, remains about
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PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY AND THUBBDAY ROXBORO, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1943
Three Cheers
For Pvt. Harris
Os North Africa!
W. Wallace Woods, publicity
director for the Person County
and Roxboro Red Cross War
Fund Drive, is proud of the
fact that the 25,025 citizens of
this County and City have ov
ersubscribed their quota of
$5,600 by 65 percent and as of
today have contributed $9,340,
but he is prouder of the fact
that $lO of the amount contri
buted comes from Pvt. William
Dorsey Harris, of Roxboro and
North Africa.
Harris, on duty in the Army
in an active fighting zone, sent !
the contribution to his mother, |
Mrs. W. W. Harris, of Timber
lake, with the comment that
the “Red Cross has been his
best friend since leaving home”.
The Harris family has anoth
er son, Staff Sergeant George
Harris, stationed in Hawaii.
Woods believes the 65 per
cent oversubscription beats
the 55.5 percent from Greene
County, praised this week in
an editorial in the News and
Observer.
Miss Bloxam
Takes Work
In Red Cross
Will Leave Welfare De
partment To Accept
Washington Job.
Mis Barbara O. Bloxam, presi
' dint <cf Roxboro unit of the
Business and Professional Wo
man’s club, and a case worker
for the Person Department of
Public welfare, will leave this
City on Monday, April 26, in or
der to accept a position with the
National Red Cross as a Staff
Medical Social worker in Wash
ington, D. C.
Announcement of Miss Blox
am’s resignation from staff of'
the Person Welfare department
was made today by-Mrs. T. C.
Wagstaff, director, who com
mended her for her work here
and expressed regret that Miss
Bloxam is to leave.
Miss Bloxam, daughter of
Roxboro City Manager Percy
Bloxam and Mrs. Bloxam, has
had residence here since March
1940 and came to the Person de
partment in July 1941, shortly
after obtaining degrees at the
University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill.
She will first take special
.training in Washington, but)
later may be transferred to an-j
other city.
Clinton Winstead,
Now Lieutenant,
Talks To Students
Clinton Winstead, of Semora
and Camp McCoy, Wis., who has 1
been promoted to First Lieuten
ant, was guest speaker Tuesday
morning at Roxboro high school.
A son of Mr. and Mrs. H. O.
Winstead of Roxboro and Se
mora, he is a graduate of State
College, Raleigh.
He will be here for a visit of
several dayfc.
Two Brothers Officers In Army
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D’ARCY BRADSHER F. E. BRADSHER IP; "■
E. E. Bradsher, Jr., and D Arcy Bradsher, both Lieutenants
in the United States Army, are sons of Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Braa
sh-cr, who recently returned from visiting them.
D’Arcy, who recently married Miss Louise Hall, of Woods
dale, has been stationed at Fort Bragg, while Bari, Jr., whose
wife is the former Miss Martha Mcßrayer, is stajionrd at Camp
Blanding, Fla.
School Board
Again Elects
R. B* Griffin
Approves Ninth Month.
Problem Os Successor To
Crumpton Being Discus
sed.
R. B. Griffin, for more than
fifteen years a Roxboro resident
and Person school official, will
on July 1, begin his fifth two
year term as County Superinten
dent of schools, and will for the
first time here have the pleasure
of planning a County-wide nine
month school program.
Re-election of Griffin and ap
proval of the new nine month
term for all Person schools oc
curred at April session of the
County school board held this
week. Presiding was W. R. Wil
kerson, chairman, who was also
re-elected to that position. Other
Board members present were
Ralph Cole and B. G. Crumpton.
Absent were Claude T. Hall and
E. E. Bradsher.
Crumpton died the next day,
on Tuesday, and his attendance
at this Board meeting was his
last official act. Next Board
meeting will occur in July and
his successor must be named be
fore that date, probably within
thirty days if purely local choice
is to be followed.
Williams Brothers and Planta-
Cole died last night, second
School Board death in two days
here.
School officials and political
leaders are of opinion that de
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Popular Man
Leaves City
Police Force
George B. Walker To Be
With Williams Pipeline
Company. No Successor
Chosen.
George B. Walker, 34, since
July of last year a popular and.
an efficient officer of the City
of Roxboro Police department,
as of yesterday resigned his posi
tion here in order to accept a
connection with the Williams
Brothers Pipeline company.
Police Chief George C. Robin
son, in announcing regretful ac
ceptance of Walker’s resignation,
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WATCH THE DEADLINE
Subscribers ana these who
intend subscribing to the
Times are again notified that
the price of this paper will
advance to $2.00 per year on
Saturday of this week. Os
course if you are paying past
due accounts the amount is
only $1.50<
New or renewal subscrip
tions will be taken before
Saturday at the old -rate cf
$1.50 for as imany as five
years in advance of April
10th. You may Snail your sub
scription, send it or bring it,
but the deadline is absolutely
midnight of Friday. The new
price of $2.00 goes into effect
Saturday, April 10th.
Production
jUnit Work
| Needs Punch
1 Women Worry Over
j Lack Os Needed Re
sponse, But Are Pleased
j That Ca-Vel And Long
i hurst Ones May Want
Surgical Unit Os Red
Cross.
Miss Marion Weinel, general
! field representative of the East
ern Area of the American Red
Cross, and Miss Harriet G. Chase,
;of Providence, R. 1., of the
1 same position in the North
eastern area, in consultation with
members of the surgical dressing
unit of the Person Chapter of the
Red Cross, at a meeting held
Tuesday night at Hotel Roxboro,
praised work of the Roxboro
unit, but at the same time agreed
that intensification of work here
is greatly to be desired.
Miss Weinel stressed the fact
that making surgical dressings
bring individuals nearer to the
fighting front than any other
form of service and reminded the
women of the sacrifices being
made by American men and wo
men in military units.
It' was reported at the meeting
that many women of Longhurst
and Ca-Vel are interested in hav
ing a surgical dressing unit room
jin their vicinity and plans are
■being made for a meeting to be l
-held by representatives of the,
Roxboro unit Sunday afternoon
at 5 o’clock at-Longhurst public
school. Opening of such a room
at' Ca-Vel and Longhurst will de
pend entirely on interest shown
Sunday afternoon by women of
these communities and a full at
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Representatives Will Meet
Here To Map War Loan Drive
R. D. Baiiey
Begins Third j
Term On Board
R. D. Bailey, of Woodsdale,
for several years a member of
the Person County Public
Welfare Board as a represen
tative of the Person County
Commissioners, has by the
Commissioners been reappoin- ,
ted for a two year term.
Other members are FTem D. j
Long, who succeeded the late '
John M. Brewer, and Mrs. G. |
C. Vickers. Re-appointment of |
Raifey, who begins his third I
term, as of April first, was j
made Monday.
I
Mr. Crumpton,!
Allensville |
Leader Dies
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Rites Held Yesterday At j
Allensville Methodist
Church For School Board
Member.
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Held here yesterday afternoon
at four o’clock at Allensville
Methodist church were funeral
services for Bedford Gaston
Crumpton, 56, prominent Allens
ville farmer and Person County
Board of Education member,
who died suddenly Tuesday
merning at his home near Rock
Grove church. I
Active in County affairs, he
was apparently in good health
on Monday when he attended
April session of the Board of
I Education in Roxboro, but about
I six o’clock Tuesday morning he
suffered a stroke of paralysis
and died about an hour later.
Two years ago he served as
foreman of the Grand Jury that
returned indictments in the Cy
Winstead and the Thomas P.
Whitfield cases and he was ac
tive in making investigation into
sensational charges concerning
alleged conditions then existing
in the Jail and Ccunty Home.
Hie was a member of Allens
j ville Methodist church and rites
■ were in charge of his pastor, the
j Rev. E. C. Maness, of Roxboro,
assisted by the Rev. W. L. Man
css, of Jackson, a former pastor,
and the Rev. J. B. Currin, of
Roxboro, a pastor of Rock Grove
Baptist church near the Crump
ton residence.
Interment was in the family
cemetery near the home.
Survivors include his wife, the
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Son-In-Law Os
The E. Y. Jones
Wins Promotion
i
Lieut. O. D. Carlton, of Scotts-j
burg, Va., and Camp Brecken-|
ridge, Ky., has been promoted to
rank of First Lieutenant He re-|
ceived his first commission as
Second Lieutenant last August
at Fort Benning, Ga., after com
pleting officer’s training. He was
recently married to Miss Hazel
Jones, of Roxboro, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. E. Y. Jones, of,
Bethel Hill.
Second Death
RALPH G. COLE
RALPH G. COLE,
CIVIC LEADER,
DIES SUDDENLY
t
!
Found This Morning In
His Home. Second School
Board Member To Die
| This Week.
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| Ralph G. Cole, 58, Roxboro-|
business and civic leader, this
1 morning about nine o’clock/was!
! found dead in his bedroom at his,
Lamar Street residence, death;
apparently resulting from a;
heart attack suffered last night, j
He was an active member of 1
j Edgar L:.ng Memorial Methodist)
I church and funeral will be held|
| there Friday afternoon at four!
! o’clock by the Rev. W. C. Mnr-j
j tin, pastor.
j Cole, a member of the Person!
School board was second mem-]
I b:r oMhat body to die this week.)
i He had attended Monday's ses-j
sion of the Board. For manVj
! years manager of Longhurst:
Mercantile company, he had re-•
j ccntly sold his interest in it
j Navie Castle, and Bud Dicker
-I'Son. He was a member of Rox
! bero Kiwanis club.
| Discovery of his death was
| made by his wife, who survives, j
I as do two daughters, Mrs. Head-;
ley Kynoch, of Roxboro. andj
| Mrs. Charles N. Brown, 111, of;
I Lake Charles, La. Also surviving
i are a son, C. C. Cole, of Yancey
-1 ville, and a brother, George Cole,
j of Longhurst, and several grand
children.
i He had been in ill health sev
eral yeafs. j
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Commissioners To I
Hold Board Os
Re\ lew On Taxes
Person County Commissioners,
acting as a board of review for
j tax valuations, will meet in that
! capacity on Monday morning,
j April 26, at 10 o’clock in the of
fice of Register of Deeds, W. T.
Kirby, who is also clerk to the
board.
On this date citizens may pre
[ sent complaints relating to ine
! qualities in the valuation of real
| estate, or they may, before that
I date file such 'complaints with
! Kirby. Official publication of oo-
I tice of the board of review meet
ing was authorized by Commis
sioners in a session held this
week.
r
, Some folks make monkeys of
themselves carrying tales a
[,round.
Buy DEFENSE
BONDS-STAMPS
NUMBER 52
Person Quota
Os $242,900
Will Be Sought
Hunter. Chairman Os
Second War Loan Drive,
Starting Monday, Calls
Sunday Meeting At Ho
tel.
With a Pereon and Roxboro
quota of $242,900, part of a na
tional goal of thirteen million
dollars, the Second War Loan
drive, described as the “largest
war financing campaign in the
world’s history, will begin on
Monday, April 12, and Will con
tinue for three weeks.
Initial meeting in the drive in
Roxboro has been called for Sun
day afternoon by Gordon C.
Hunter, Person and Roxboro War
Finance chairman, who is asking
a group of representative citi
zens to meet with him at four
o’clock at Hotel Roxboro, where
plans for the local campaign will
he outlined.
Co-operating in the campaign
b the Person County Times, as
are other newspapers through
out the nation, in response to re
quests by Secretary of the Treas
ury, Henry Mergenthaler, Jr., and
by Frank E. Tripp, chairman for
ihe Allied Newspaper Council.
Hunter, in commenting cn the
Person quota of $242,908, said
that approximately this amount
was contributed by private citi
zens here in December in the
First Loan drive, with more from
institutions, and he is in agree
ment with Morgenthau and Tripp
that to be successful, this War
Loan drive “must reach into ev
ery home in the land, because
money must come primarily from
individual Americans.”
Hunter adds that tax notes will
be accepted and counted in this
! drive. Indication of coming pub
lic response here is contained in
advertising backing given by
Roxboro firms and citizens.
M-crgenthau and Tripp have is
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HALF-BROTHER OF
MRS. W. M. FOX
DIES TUESDAY
| Rites Held Here Yester
day For William, McKin
j ley Herron Os Roxboro
And LaGnange.
William McKinley Herron, 41,
of Roxboro and LaGrange, digd
Tuesday morning at nine o’clock
at the State Sanitarium, where
he had been a patient for three
weeks. Death was attributed to
complications.
Herron, a son of the late Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Herron, of La
i Grange and a former Stats
Highway Department employee,
had been in ill health for twelve
years and during much of that
time made his home here with
his half-sister, Mrs. W. Maxi©
Fox and Mr. Fox. Aliiio surviving
is a sister, Mhs. Ruby Rhinehart,
of Kinston.
Funeral services were con
ducted Wednesday morning at
10:30 o’clock at Woody's Funeral
home, Roxboro, \>y the Rev. *.
€. Maness, jof Bfookscbde Meth
odist church, with Interment
following in the city, cemetery at
LaGrange. * <
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