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Our Job Is to Save Dollars / War Bonds lull Eviry Pay Day 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 (Turn to page four please) NAMES OF MEN ACCEPTED FROM QUOTA REVEALED White Men In March Quo ta Leave Today After Seven Day Furlough. V ■■ .•« ! - ■ 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 - TIMES - 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 |||||||||. j ? spfe 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 (Turr to page four please) 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, (turn tio page eight, please) 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 (turn to page four, please) 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 ■ j Rites Held Yesterday At j Allensville Methodist Church For School Board Member. * 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 (turn to page four, please) 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. I ! i i | 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 ——— 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 (Turn to page four please) i 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. * < ■••• ’ > ■ ■ - A-ii