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LIVES—YOU (END MmU’E YOUR HOMEY" VflHHr | in . AJ War Boadt Today VOLUME XIV Persons Commencement Season Will Feature Home Talent Seventy Eight Seniors To Finish Work in City Music To Be Program Feature By Glee Clubs Faculty Committees And Student Marshals Named For Two Events. Seventy-eight 12th and 11th grade seniors in Roxboro high school are expected to be candi dates for degrees at graduation exercises next month, according to announcement made today by Leon Couch, supervising princi pal of Roxboro district schools. Chief marshal will be- Bruce Newell, Jr., with Reda Umstead, Ruby Ann Maness, George Bar rett, Tom Woody, Jr., Mildred St'noud, Marion Paylor and Doro thy Young as marshals. Music will be Franck’s, “Fath er, Most Merciful”, and Gou nod’s, “Send Out Thy Light”, by the Glee club, directed by Miss Katherine Cooper, for the Sun day night program, May 2, and Campbell-Tipton’s, “Spirit Flow er” and Southey’s, "Song of America,” sung by the same or ganization on |May 7, night of graduation. Presentation of di plomas will be by Dr. B. A. Thaxton, chairman, Roxboro City school board. Presentation special guests will be by R. B. Griffin, Person Superintendent of schools. Senior sponsors from faculty are Mesdames A. F. Nichols, B. G. Clayton - and Tom Street, while stage committee is com posed of Mrs. Clyde Crowell, Hall Brooks and Misses Mabel Massey and Veraetia Hearne. Program features will be pre sentations of the J. A. Ixmg Memorial Scholarship Bond, the Woman’s Club English Loving cup and the Kiwanis citizenship award. Those expected to graduate ' '.W tf-rnr jvvt .V'. Toufielk Ameen, Harriet Mur-' iel Brewer, Gladys Dickerson, Mary Jane Fox, Mary Winder Green, Jack Hughes, Jr., Wallace Hines Kirby, Thomas Drum wright Long, Dorothy Marie | Rowe, Jack Andrew Shotwell, • Jr., Kathryn Tapp and Lois Mar guerite Whitefield. Eleventh Grade Naomi Rogers Allen, Boyce Thomas Blalock, Betty Ann Bradsher, Lesste Paylor Brandon, 1 (turn to page four, please) three at grant ' Pvt Trayham K Mitchell, son of Mr. and. Mrs. T. T. Mitchell, now at Camp Grant, 111,, as aye two other Person men, Clyde • UptvAn and Julius A White 1 , Jr. Mitchell is in the Medical corps and can be reached by this ad dress: Pvt Trayham K Mitchell, 347T1471, Cos C.. 87th Med. Tfng, Bn., Ist Platoon, Can* <*•«*. m- lj:: - BIX YEARS COMING Pvt Robert Morris <* Uni- JsfalM.rmv rectxM* Sta army, rcce y tWnw>d in the Hawaiian blands. soon for a »otner, PUBLISHED EVERT SUNDAY AND THURSDAY ROXBORO, N.C„ SUNDAY, APRIL 25, 1943 RAINWATER WILL BE CHAPLAIN IN U.S. NAVY SOON New Pastor Os Roxboro Circuit Will Be W. T. Medlin. The Rev. R. W.- Rainwater, for the past several months pas tor cf Roxboro Circuit, today an nounced that this Sunday is to be his last as pastor and that as of May 1, he wall enter the U. S. Navy as chaplain. New pastor of Roxboro circuit, including Ca-Vel Community Methodist church, Grace church and the church at Longhurst, will be the Rev. W. T. Medlin, of Raleigh and Charlotte, who, on May 22, will receive his B. D. degree from Duke University divinity school. The Rev. Mr. Medlin will first serve the Rox boro circuit churches on Sunday, ' May 2. The Rev. Mr. Rainwater, a i resident of Rockingham, will complete his graduate work at’ Duke next month before he* goes to the Navy. His successor is a graduate of Wofford Col lege, Spartanburg, SI C., and an alumnus of Louisburg college. ' RITES WILL BE HELD TODAY FOR MRS. R. D. LONG Resident Os Mchee’s Mill Dies At Son’s Home. |Mrs. Busan Dixon Long, 86, wife of the late Robert Davis Long,, of McGhee’s Mill, Person County, died late Friday night at midnight at her home, death re sulting from infirmities of age and injuries received about two months ago in a fall. Funeral will be held Sunday ’ afternoon at Wo o’clock) at Oak Grove -Methodist church by her paster, the Rev. F. B. Feele, of Roxboro, with interment' in the family cemetery. Surviving are two adopted children, a son, J. C. Tingen, with whom she made her home, and a daughter, Mrs. W. H. Bray, Sir., also of McGhee’s Mill. Two Tucks Have Same Rank In Naval Service Petty. Officer First Clfss John Henry Tuck, 21, of LOnghurst end South Barton, Va., a son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Tuck, is visiting his parents. Another •Dick, in the Navy and also * Petty Officer, is ftigsne M. Tuck, 23; son of Mr. and Mm! R. B. -Tuck, at But Roxboro. Both Tucks have seen fotehpi service but Ettsene M. Ttefcte. has not bo* here on a tWt in gewera* months and according to U# ||k i» now on. jea duty. -» jWtwo Pittjr fWpcees are pot , HBI I b nr\ rp* Two limes - fPHKg mm yM ■ I I R. L. Harris Lieut. Gov. R. L. Harris, next week will fill two Commence ment engagements here, first at Bethel Hill, second at Roxboro high school. Davenport Hears New Battle Cry Former Roxboro Man Now Grim Fighter In Pacific Southwest. Lieut. William H. Davenport, of Roxboro and Kinston, a State College graduate- and son of Mrs. W. H. Davenport, of Kinston, for more than a year has been in overseas service in an infantry division, first in Hawaii and micre lateiy in the Southwest Pacific area. In Roxboro, Davenport, known to friends here as “Bill”, work ed with the FSA) and put into his job more than the average of intelligence and enthusiasm, qualities now being transmitted to the job in hand, getting the Japs. A few days ago Bill sat down and wrote a letter to a Kinston friend, George E. Haskett, his? former Scoutmaster: In this mes sage, a chronicle of mud and blood and hardship and humor, written, as Bill Cays, “with a Parker pen that once belonged to a Jap”, la expressed quite clearly the grasp that Davenport has of his Southwest Pacific task. He writes:i “I’ve been away from the States about a year now. About half of the time was spent in Hawaii, and since then I’ve been up against the Japs in the Stouthwest Pacific, Tm not at liberty to exactly where. “The fighting at times has been vary tough, but we have a tough outfit; always tougher than the Jape. Those sons-of guns couldn't bit the side of a barn. Thjy are supposed to have been gqod jungle fighters, but that was before they met Amer icall.- troops, t “We went places white men <Tu*n to page four please) " ■■■■' ' - ‘.NbSSTwelttsd **n-j ton, BglttntDfe, ML, Carrie R. Webb and D. *t Hartley, both of wtomk-Wi--*s&-'■ JDsptf taster in BMtboro with theb JhotheT, E|rtU; J, Jangers, and gfir briber »** ■ , - 'Tf'-W'-iV’,. V. -'V.■ ■ Fireworks Lacking At Board Time j 1 Roxboro District Re-elec tions Announceed By Griffin. ■ . i i Teachers in Roxboro district schools, with few exceptions, have all been re-elected to their respective faculties for the 1943- 1944 season, according to Person Superintendent R. B. Griffin, iwiho today reported that the Dis trict School Board took action at | a meeting held last week. Only exceptions are J. S. Fleming, of Raxboro high school, recently elected to the principal ship at Mount Tirzah; Mrs. Frank Whitt', who leaves her pos ition as band director at Roxboro high school next month to join the WAACS, and Hall Brooks, substitute teacher at Roxboro high school, who did not ask for re-election. Leon Couch, district supervis ing principal, who was re-elect ed last month, and all district faculty members were warmly commended by the school board, of which Dr. B. A. Thaxton is chairman. Other Board members are C. A. Harris, B. B. Newell, R. M. SpeneSr and i W. C. Bul lock. Also re-elected are all faculty members at Hurdle Mills. Only resignation is that of Mrs. New otn Day, of Roxboro, who will bei succeeded by Miss Eloise Pearce, . cf Helena, recently of Broadway school faculty, A. L. Combs, I principal, was also re-elected at | Hurdle Mills, where board mem- I bers are Clyde Berry, Wallace j Foushee- and Flyyd Hawkins. I Second War Loan Climbing Toward Goal i Person Second War Loan drive now stands at $220,900, with 704 subscribers, accord ing to Gordon C. Hunter, chair -man, who hopes subscribers will teach one thousand by end of the week. Quota is $242,900. $55,000 of today’s total conies from State of North Carolina purchase. Along The Way With the Editor These “Johnnies Corns* Lately”" who are trying to raise gar dens this year are really doing *ll that they can in a very feeble way to sprout a few things to eat in thisir back yards. If you did not know where ypu> were going you would walk right over the things without knowing what you were step ping on. Then after you were told you would have to hunt some several minutes before you could see where anything . at alt had been planted, much less coming up. Thomas Hatchett has a plot in his yard about the size of a plant bed'and he has given it the name of “garden.” Actually it is where his ash pile was and not so much larger. If ashes are good for plants, he is going to have one of the best in the dty. ' Pat Robinson is trying to raise something. What it is no one ktoewa, but Pat is calling it a garden and actually the follow is believing that it is onto IDs wife Just smiles and ■ays mottling. Honestly a large rabbit could not get a living oilt bf the thing. Newton Day is the smartest leilow In the bunch. He cat tied all of his «m& opt to hit wife’s mother’s house and them there for Iris in-lawte to tend. Iffewto'ji to gather the harvest flrir summer. He ain’t so dumb. Three Times mttßt' JPI T T * ! ' •4 Rev. Mr. Womble The Rev. Rufus J. Womble, ’rector of St. Mario’s church Rox boro, will be a busy; man next week with three Person Com mencement addresses ser mons. Gardner Out. ■ '.*m W Kerr Scott On Fence Scott May Run For Sen ate If Farmers Back Him. RALEIGH, April 24. -- O. Max Gardner, this state’s chief execu tive more than a decade ago, withdrew last week from the United States senate race and thus left no announced candidate to oppose Senator Robert E. Rey nolds in May, 1944. • Clyde R. Hoey, Gardner’s I brother-in-lawi, who left the Governor’s chair in 1941, indi cated in a statement, however, that he was considering tossing his hat' into the race. Others who took the occasion to express their attitudes were Agriculture Commissioner W. Kerr ISlcott and Maj. L. P. Mc- Lendon, of Greensboro, former chairman of the state Democra tic -executive committee. Scott, asked whether he still contemplated running answered: “I won’t say I will and I won't say I won’t.” He had previously said that his candidacy depend ed upon the farmers of North Carolina and upon whether they were satisfied with the candi ,(tum to page four, please) (Harris, Womble, Burns to Fill Many Programs DR. JOHN GLENN WILL CONDUCT SERVICE SERIES I , Easter Will Mark Begin -1 ning Os Special Services At Edgar Long Memorial Church. Easter at Edgar Long Memor ial (Methodist church will be marked by the beginning of a week of special services to be conducted by Dr. John C. Glenn, of Durham, pastor of Duke Me morial Methodist church. He will first speak at the even ing service on Sunday and will bring with him from Durham a a song leader, who will remain for the entire series, and a mix ed quartet, to sing that night. Services will be held each day thereafter at four in the after- J ! noon and at eight at night, com ing to a close on Sunday, May 2. On Easter Sunday morning at j eleven o’clock the Rev. W. C. (Martin, pastor, will preach from j the text, “If a man die, shall he • live again”. There will be spe | cial music by both the junior and ; j senior choirs. Afternoon feature, • at five o’clock, will be a special service for administration of the : sacrament of baptism to infants. — JOHN WILUAMS, PERSON NATIVE, DIES IN MILTON t r ‘ Funeral Held Saturday For Alumnus Os Oak Ridge Institute. John Walker Williams, 78, cf Milton, a native of Person Coun ty, and an alumnus of Oak Ridge Institute, died Thursday at mid- night at his home, death being . attributed to heart trouble and complications. He had been ill two years. Funeral was Saturday morning at eleven o'clock at Milton Pres byterian church, with the pastor, the Rev. N. R. Claytor, and the Rev. A. L. Yarborough, officiat ing. Interment was in Milton cemetery. Survivors include his wife, the farmer Miss Mary Eknily Smith, whom he married on August 10, 1893, one daughter, two sans and five grandchildren. Daughter is Miss Mary Wil liams, of thb heme. Sons are John Sl, of Milton, and Robert W., of Rocky Mount New Medal To Be Given By Scout Council •Nj ■ ’ • New medal to be awarded at finals this year at Roxboro Cen tral Grammar School will be a leadership award tk> be given by Penan, deout district to a boy in the graduating date. The award will be similar to the AartH M Webb Memorial medal pre*en«e<* firle. Ahnountement es tte TilßhUf AWtfcl i|rn r lifcaa^' tjutaw S] EWttIUWEB QIaUU’ ivQay £ BACK UP i 4St& YOUR BOYDg3f Buy an Additional ’Wfl Harris Has , Two On List, Womble Three Bums At Hurdle Mills, Comer At Helena And Neely At Bushy Fork. Person County and Roxboro public school commencements, beginning today with exercises at Helena high school —a week ahead of schedule will con tinue through the week of May 2, with speakers ranging all the way from State officials and military men, to preachers and and teachers and ccllego leaders, and with a heavy emphasis on those native to and resident in Person County. The Rev. Rufus J. Womble, rector of St. Mark’s Episcopal church, of this City, with three speaking engagements, and Lieut. Gov. R. L. Harris, with two, will . share the honors. Other outstand ing speakers will be Y. M. C. A. Secretary Harry Comer, of Chap el Hill, at Helena, and; Lieut. Commander Charles B. Neely, from Raleigh, at Bushy Fork. Lieut. Gov. Harris will speak first at Bethel Hill on Wednes j day, May 5, at 8:15 p. m., in the I gym, and again on Friday, May -17, at Roxboro high school at the same hour, while the Rev. Mr. Womble wall be at Bethel Hill Sunday afternoon, May 2, at 2:30 to deliver the baccalaureate ser mon in Bethel Hill Baptist church. Ssrmon at Roxboro high schcol that night at 8:15 will be by the Rev. Dr. J. Allen Eas&y* professor of Bible, Wake Forest college. The Womble schedule will con tinue with an appearance at Ca- Vel school on Wednesday, May 6, at 8 p. m., at commencement exercises, and -on Tuesday, May '5, at 10:30 a. m., at Mount' Tir ! zah for the same purpose. Bac- . jco laureate at Mount Tirzah, Sun day, May 2, at 4 p. m., will be by j the Rev. L. J. Rainey, of Dur ham. Speaker at Hurdle Mills will be Person Representative R. P. Bums, Wednesday, May 5, at 8:30 p. m., with baccalaureate on Sunday, May 2, at same hour, by the Rev. John F. Cooke. At' Al lens ville, the Rev. G. H. Ellmore, jof Roxboro, will preach on the | same night at 8, while oom ! mencement address, Wednesday, May 5, at 8 p. m., will be by C. K Proctor, of Oxford Orphan age, Oxford. Olive-Hill exercises) will be Friday, May 7, at 10 a. m., with the Rev. F. B. Peele, of RoxbafO, as speaker, rofeile ' program a* Roxboro Central Graxmnar school will take place Tfcoradajf, Mqr «, at 9 am., and at Longhorst on the same night at 8, wtyera the Rev. R. W. Hovis, <rf'R&ritortj, wiii speak. - . ;•/: • Atae.enatbeßev.W.C.fc, fin, at Roxboro, sprote tWg far Sunday at 8:80 p, ray «ttte - •chooJ, and <*- - .the sch001, IKS?* NUMBER 57