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Wor Bond* Today
VOLUME XIV
Voting Very Light
As Officials Return
to City Positions
Swearing In
To Take Place
By Next Week
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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
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PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY AND .THURSDAY ROXBORO, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1943
Two Recitals !
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To Be Given
By Students
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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.
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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.
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"** 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- ,
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lager of the Selective Service
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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
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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.
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PHIUPL. THOM AS
SAYS REVISIONS
HELP SHOPPING
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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,”
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May Meeting Os
Ministers Group
Planned Monday
<r
May meeting of the Person
County Ministerial association
will be held Monday morning at
10 o’clock in the pastor’s study,
| Edgar Long Memorial Methodist
church, iwath the Rev. E. C. Man
ess, of Brooksdale charge, as
speaker. All members are urged
to attend.
Speaker at the previous meet
ing was the Rev. J. F. Funder
burke, who had as his topic:
“Good Ministers of Jesus
Christ.”
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BACK UP jffJh
YOUR BOYCIHf
" vT liftriTT
buy an Additional
bond Today
Third Lands
Twenty-Five
Miles From Here
One Pilot Has Headache
After He Comes Down
In Harvey Oakley’s Field
Roxboro residents, stirred last
night by noise of planes overhead,
left downtown stores and cases
to look) up in wonderment as
three trainer planes circled over
the center of town and one of
them, sweeping low, all but
brushed the t p of the Court
House.
That was about 9:30 o'clock.
Half an hour later Person Sher
iff M. T. Clayton and City pol
ice were called into action when
Durham road residents, near the
Harvey Oakley farm, about a
mile and a half south of Rcx
boro, came to the City with
Cadet F. C. Markle, of Rochester,
IN. Y., and Danville, Va., opera
! tor of one of the planes, who said
j his machine, out of fuel and off
I hearings had landed in a field
I near Oakley’s house.
A short while later, George
Wolfe, another cadet, whose
plan: landed north of the City
near Short's lumber plant on
highway No. 49, came in. About
I the same time police here re
ceived a call saying that the
ithird plane had made a forced
Handing near South Boston, Va.
(turn to page eight, please>.
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-
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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. ~'!
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