"THEY GIVE THEIR EEk lives-you lend U 4 YOUR MONEY" Wor Bond* Today VOLUME XIV Voting Very Light As Officials Return to City Positions Swearing In To Take Place By Next Week i i Forty-Three Votes Aver aged By Each Official In Race. Mayor S. G. Winstead and five incumbent City Commissioners, without opposition, on Tuesday were returned to office for an other two years by 43 votes each, with one less for two of the Com- j missioners, in one of the lightest j votes cast in a municipal elec- j tion in Rcxboro, according to f Henry David Long, Sr., one of the three judges. Other judges were W. A. Ser- j geant and Luther T. Bowles. In- j stallation is expected to talkie , place next Tuesday at regular | monthly meeting of the Commis- j sioners. Voting took place at City Hall. Winstead will then enter upon ! his second full term as Mayor, Commissioners in again are j George J. Cushwa, Phillip L. Thomas, R. Cliff Hall, C. Lester Brooks and Gordon C. Hunter, the last two named being report ed as those shy of one vote each. Registered and eligible to vote were some three to four hundred citizens, according to Long. Winstead first went into office in November 1940, to fill out an , unexpired term. Youngest Com- I missioner in point of service is R. Cliff Hall, who now begins his first full term. Other City offices, including that of the City Manager, the Chief of Police and City Attor ney are appointive and it is ex pected that these appointments or reappointments, together with the new budget will be major ‘considerations at May sessions. Pfc. Bill Clay Completes Course At Lincoln Field Army Air Base, Lincoln, Neb., May 4. Pfc. William (Bill) A. Clay, son of Mrs. Omega M. Clay of Main street, Roxboro, has graduated from an intensive course in airplane mechanics. He, 'is now a full fledged airplane mechanic, and is eligible to viin a rating as corporal or sergeant. Army Air Base, near Lincoln, is one of the many schools in the Army Air Forces Technical Training Command, which trains the technicians to maintain the fighter planes in perfect combat condition. j Before entering the school, he was trained at one of the basic raining centers of the Air Forces Technical Training Command. TYPISTS NEEDED Positions are now open for typists and stenographers in Durham and at Camp Butner and interested men and women, now unemployed, or just gradu ating from high school or col lege, are requested to call at the U. S. Employment office in the basement of the Court Roxboro, on Fridays between lo end IS noon, where they will . L PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY AND .THURSDAY ROXBORO, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1943 Two Recitals ! I i To Be Given By Students 1 j Miss Mary Jane Fox And Clyde Wade Appear Mon day. Miss Mary Jane Fox, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Fox, and Clyde Wade, stn of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wade, both of Rox- j ! boro, piano pupils of Mrs. W. j Wallace Woods, of this City, and 'members of the graduating class ' of Roxboro high school, will ap pear in joint recital Monday j night, May 10, at 8:15 o'clock in , the auditorium of Roxboro Ccn | tral Grammar school. I Assisting artist will be Miss Meriel Rimmer, daughter of Mr. | and Mrs. Arthur Rimmer, as vo cal soloist. | Second and final recital by j other piano pupils of Mrs. Woods’ will be held Tuesday night at the same time and place. The public is cordially in vited to attend both programs. For the Fox-Wade, program first number will be a Chopin noctune, as duet, while the sec ond grouping will contain Bach and Beethoven solos by Miss Fox and the third iwill feature solos by the same composers rendered by Mr. Wade. Second solo group by Miss Fox will include compositions by Mokrejis, Griffes and McDowell, Jwith compositions by List and | Torjussen in a second group by Mr. Wade. Final selection, as a •duet, will be a Russian rhapsody for two pianos by Hasselberg. | . Ration Books Will*Arrive In June By Mail CHARLOTTE, May 5. The offioe of price administration here 'skid mailing of applications for war ration book No. 3 to I householders of North Carolina will began about May 20 from the state mailing center now be ing organized in Charlotte. Dis tribution of the books is schedul ed to start early in June. , The mailing job involved in the transaction will be “the greatest single task ever imposed upon the North Carolina postof fioe and will be quite a bit heav ier than Christmas season mail,” George E. Wilson, Charlotte postmaster said after conferring with L. W. Driscoll, district OPA j manager. j Lee Hague, district OPA'in formation officer is organizing the mailing center ’ which will require the services of 2,000,000 or more volunteer part-time workers for an estimated two months. About 4,000,000 books will be distributed, one for every man, woman and child. CA-VEL EXERCISES Eighteen Ca-Vel students, graduates from the seventh grade will receive certificates of promotion at exercises to be held tonight at 8 o’clodkt at the! school. Speaker will be the Rev/ Rufus J. Womble, rector of St. Mark’s Episcopal church. si 4 .srX■ *.v« u "** TIMES “ WHITE MEN AND NEGROES WILL GO BACK TO DOTIES Partial List Os April Quotas Accepted Listed By Board. j The Person Selective Service Board today released the names of the following Negro men ac cepted from April quota for ser vice with the United States Na vy: Samuel E. Blackwell. James Hubert Hunt, Coy Bryce Bob bitt, John Thomas Winstead and Ralph Johnson. Negro men from the same quota assigned to the Army, arc: James Barber, Jr., Willie Beard, Jr., Freddie C. Cunningham, James W. Barnette, Alex D. , Field and Glennie Bradsher. Mrs. James Brooks, office man- , i lager of the Selective Service l j board, yesterday reported that complete list of white men ac cepted from April quota has not yet been received. Among men assigned to the Navy is Tom Hill Clayton, sen of Mr. and Mrs. B. G. Clayton. Other white men who have Ibocn accepted are: Lemuel J. Ross, Jr., Henry T. Pull'am, Henry W. Pugh, Willard C. Nor ris, Ernest B. Winstead, Graham L. Duncan, William A. Wilson. Jr., William J. Merritt, George B. Walker and Ersel O. Jones, all of whom report to camp thi week. A number of ether white men who will report for duty were listed and published in Sunday’s issue of the Times. PRICE CEILING | VIOLATIONS CITED IN POULTRY j i I Twelve Court Actions Started In Black Mar ket Drive. RALEIGH, May 5. Twelve j court actions have been begun | against violators of price ceilings |on poultry in the first 10 days lof an intensive drive to stamp j out black market sales of fowl, j Norman C. Shepard, head of the ! Legal Division of the Office of i Price Administration of Raleigh announced today. 1 In addition, many ether poul ■ try tellers have received warn -1 ings that unless they stop over-. ■ the ceiling sales, proceedings to 1 suspend their licenses will be in stituted or other legal remedies pursued. Conferences resulting in compliance agreements have al so been used effectively. Injunction suits have been brought against poultry price violators at all levels of distri bution, and defendants include fowl growers, country shippers, wholesalers and retailers. In battling the black market in live poultry, the Offioe of Price Administration has made three major changes in the regu lations relating to poultry price ceilings: • 1. Reduction and simplification of the number of classifications of live poultry, with slight low ering of a few prioes. 2. Provision for payment of the hauler the man who buys the farmer’s chickens and markets them in town. 3. Making the maximum prioes L o. b. rather than delivered. VISIT HERE R. D. Hardeman, of the United States Navy, and Mrs. Harde nfen, formerly of Roxboro, spent 'the (Week-end here, leaving cm Monday for Richmond, Va. ■' PHIUPL. THOM AS SAYS REVISIONS HELP SHOPPING I Lower Point Values An nounced For Many Items Housewives of Perscn county shopping this week . under re vised point values for both pro cessed foods and moats and fats will find that careful planning will enable them to buy more than ever before with their stamps in War Ration Bock Two, Philip L. Thomas, chairman of the Person War Price and Ra tioning Board said. New point values for both blue j and red stamp rationing pro- I grams were effective Sunday, I iMay 2. | j The meats and fats program I I shewed 25 reductions and 16 ad | vances all of one point—while j the processed foods values in a | number of cases were reduced as j much as one half, while ad- ; i vances, in general were one or two points. : Advances under the red stamp j program are confined larg:ly to 1 prime cuts steaks and roasts; — jof beef, veal and pork. Rcduc j tions, for the most part, are not l.cd in variety meats, canned fish | and other special products al ; ready having a relatively low | point value. In processed fcods, one-half i reductions in the point value of ! fruit and vegetable juices and in I some fruits were made. Ad- I vances were made in canned or | bottled pineapple - the most' | point-expensive item on the list and on apricots and mix |ed fruits; on green pas, aspara j gus, corn, mixed vegetables and jtemato paste, while reductions came in the most popular of all canned foods, tomatoes, and in green beans and leafy greens ; (with the exception of spinach). I Lower point values established | during the April rationing period j for quick frozen fruits and veg etables are maintained, as is the i temporary removal of dried jblack-eycd peas. | Dried fruits, likewise, contin ued ration-free. Blanks Says FSA Purchases In War Bonds Excellent War Bonds and stamps total ing $422,601.55 have - been pur chased by employees of the Farm Security Administration, in this 5-state region up to April 1, according to figures reoeived here from regional headquarters by Joe Y. Blanks, HSIA Super visor for Person County. Individual purchases amount ing to $277,266.00 (were made through an organized agency campaign, to August 31, 1942, and $145,335.00 worth have been ad ded since that date through the voluntary salary allotment plan. J The average FSA worker, at pre -1 sent, is investing $19.46 per month in bonds. The total ave rage bought to date is approxi mately $242.23 per worker. This region includes North Carolina, Tennessee, Rentjjdkty, Virginia and West Virginia. Farm Security employees in Roxboro are taking part 100 per cent, Blanks reports. Charles Thomas Underwood, 64 t of Fayetteville, father of Mrs. J. Howard Frandfl, formerly of Roxboro, died Monday afternoon at his home in Fayetteville af ter a long illness. Funeral was held Tuesday at Fayetteville, with interment in Cross Creek cemetery. Forced Landing of Two Trainer Planes Cause of Excitement WANT WORKERS IN SURGICAL DRESSING UNIT Red Cross Officials Say Need Is Great For More Workers In Roxboro Area. Faced with a decline in at- I tendance at surgeial dressing | rooms of the Red Cross, a decline j so definite that doors to the Rox boro room were locked for one night last week, Person and Rox boro chapter officials today is sued the following statement: “A plea is still going out for jmore werkers in the surgical I dressing rooms. Every day there | are vacant chairs; one night i during the past week the Rox jboro room was closed because no ! workers came, while another | night there were only three vcl j unteers present. We must keep | our tables full every time the • door is open in order to com- • | plete our quota. • “If everyone would take in ventory of their leisure hours, ; and devote a considerable por ! tion of them to this essential j work, the Person County Chap ! ter would be very gratified. Who |is there who dees not spend I some time at reading, movies, ' bridge and ether card games, jin formal chats, handiwork of ! various kinds, or some of the • more active sports, such as rid ing or tennis? “Very soon more space will be available to the surgical dress ing work, and the committee j hopes that the women of Person j County will keep the present J quarters filled at each session in j order to make more tables and I chairs necessary in the new quar ■ters. “The war is far from being won, and everyone cught to do their part in this work at home las a means of counting their blessings for not having bombs fall on us thus far.” “Percn County Chapter of the American Red Cross has been especially commended for going so well over the top in its war fund drive. The women had a j large part in its success, and now we are appealing to Person wo men not to let our surgical dress ing quota fall short. The dress ings you make are needed to save lives on the fighting fronts. It is expected that new surgi cal dressing quarters will be es tablished in Roxboro Central grammar school, the building in which Mrs. Sue Featherston, ex ecutive secretary, will have her J office. Rites Held For Robert D. Walker Os Bushy Fork, Held yesterday at Plymouth Baptist church, Person County, were final rites for Robert Dal ton Walker, 14, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Walker, of Bushy Fork, whose death occurred at the home of his parents Tuesday afternoon after a long illness. Rites were in charge of the Rev. L. V. Coggins, of Semora, and interment was in the church cemetery. In addition to the par ents, surViVbrs include two brothers and two sisters. New Quota In War Bonds for May Revealed Hunter Issues Statement Praising Citizens For Cooperation. May quota for sale of War j Bonds and stamps in Person j County and Roxboro is $54,396, ’ according to Chairman Gordon j C. Hunter, who today issued a statement of thanks to- all citi zens for cooperation in the Wa I Loan drive of--last' month',, when j m ic- than $260,000 was subscri bed here. Final figur.s on the War Loan | drive are to be announced soon, j according to Hunter. Original I ciota for the drive just finished! was $242,900, but it is expected total will go to $275,000. Hunter’s statement follows: i “1 wish to take this opportun- ; ity of thanking all that took part jin the Second War Loan Drive 'of Person County. Person County | went ever the top with you." help and made a very fine re cord. j “The official total will b cut J in, a few days and just as quick as it is received it will be pub - lished. There are several issuing agents in Person County and in ->rri r to get the official figures it will be necessary to wait un til they are tabulated. As some of the reports went in on the lari day cf the month we do not know definitely whether they reached Richmond in time to be i counted in the Second War Loan i Drive.” ! The following communication was received yesterday from the Treasury Department by Hunter: “At this time we wish to call your attention to outstanding ac ’ complishmcnts achieved by ths combined efforts of the Victory Fund Committee and the War , Savings Staff during the April' drive under the supervision and : direction of the War Finance ! Committee: The tremendous up , surge in War Bond purchases has lifted April Series “E” Bend sales total to $1,006,786,000 this is a new monthly peak by a wide margin iSeries E, F, and G aggregate is $1,469,724,- 000 all daily sales records were broken week of April 26- 30 Scries “E” receipts Friday, April 30, reached the unprecen dented figure of $105,000,000. “We ask you and all those in your County Who contributed to this magnificant iacocmplisib ment to please accept our sincere congratulations and admiration,” i ■- May Meeting Os Ministers Group Planned Monday . TOBACCOMEN TO PLAN STAGGERED SALES SYSTEM Seek Ways To Release Workers For Other Types Os Farm Produc i tion. j RALEIGH. May 5. Attempts jto relieve manpower problems i facing Southern tobacco farm ! ers neared a climax this week . after representatives of four | North Carclina, South Carolina, iand Virginia warehouse associa tions passed over proposals of the U. S. Tobacco Association and voted to draft their own. Spokesmen, declining to re j veal full details, said the associa j tion’s plans, drawn up at a meet i ing at Danville, Va., last week, | were reviewed during a confer [ ence here- and rejected. The ! warehousemen said a later meet- I , ing would be held here Monday to receive the reaction of the as sociation. The tobacconists explained they were attempting to formu late proposals for slowing ware house sales during coming mar ket season, in an, effort to give farmery mere time for harvest ing other rital crops! Methods discussed included a one-day recess during each sales week, reduced selling hours and con trolled seiles. Warehouse association officers present at the conference in cluded E. D. Matthews, Winston- Salem, Old Belt Association, president; John S. Watkins, Ox ford, Middle Belt Association, president H. A Easley, Jfc>cky Mount, Eastern Belt, vice presi dent; Wesley Singletary, Lake- City, S. C., Border Belt, -presi-' / dent; and State Senator J- f&l Eagles, Wilson, a member of ttafcvri sales committee. ~'! :4. i&£Ste§y&aflH NUMBER 60