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VOLUME XIV
Old Belt Date May
Be Early This Year
\September 7th
Set As Meeting
Os Tobacco Men
Warehousemen, Growers
And Others Get Togeth
er At Broughton’s Re
quest.
RALEIGH, May 19. Repre
sentatives of tobacco growers,
warehousemen, and dealers ot
th Carolinas and Virginia on
Tuesday agreed Unanimously on
a plan for modifying warehouse
selling seasons to avoid a possi
ble conflict of tobacco market
ing with harvesting of other
farm crops.
The action came after Govern
or Broughton appeared before
the meeting and warned that, “If
no satisfactory agreement is
reached, I shall, if necessary, use
all my powers by Constitution
and statutes in closing tobacco
warehouses by proclamation to
get crops harvested.”
New Plan
Under the four-fold plan a
greed upon and presented to
Governor Broughton it was de
cided:
1. To urge the sales committee
of the United States Tobacco As
sociation to adopf’these opening
dates for tobacco belt .seasons:
Georgia-Florida Belt, July 27;
South Carolina-Border Belt.
August 3; Eastern Belt, August
19; Old Belt, September 7. Ware
houses are urged to open as soon
as possible and to close as late
in the season as possible.
2. To sponsor adoption of
these regulations of sales on
warehouse floors: A 350-pound
limit on tobacco baskets; a limit
of 360 baskets per hour for auc
tioneers; a five-hour limit on
daily working hours of buyers.
The manufacturers are urg
ed to instruct their buyers to ob
serve these rules and not to pur
chase tobacco on sales at which
these rules are not oberved.
3. To launch an education
campaign, conducted by a stand
ing subcommittee, instructing
H fanners how
of slowed tobacco sales py har
vesting crops. The subcommittee
will be appointed by the govern
ors of North Carolina, South
Carolina and Virginia.
4. To appoint a 16-man com
mittee which iwdll work toward
the objectives set up in the plan
which will recommend to
governors of the three states
further emergency steps judged
necessary in the harvest and
marketing of grain, oil and food
crops. *
Larry Martin
Lands Dry Job
LEXINGTON, May 19. L. A.
Martin of Lexington, former
member of the State House of Re
presentatives and the State Sen-,
ate, has accepted the position of
executive director at the Allied
Church League for the Abolition
of Beverage Alcohol.
** Martin’s election and accep
tance were announced by I. G.
Greer, president of the league;
M, T. Plyer, chairman of the
executive committee; and Dr.
Charles H. a member
of the executive committee.
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PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY AND THURSDAY ROXBORO, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1943
Murchison
Says Cotton
Usage Grows
Cotton Held To Be Im
portant Factor In Nation
al Prosperity.
Cotton is not only the corner
stone of the southern economy
but is one of the major balanc
j ing factors in the total Ameri
j can economy, according to Dr. C.
T. Murchison, president of the
Cotton-Textile Institute.
In a paper submitted to the
Southern Association on Science
and Industry, Dr. Murchison de
clares, “Upon the maintenance
and prosperity of Southern cot
ton depends the maintenance of
Wisconsin dairying, of Michigan
automotive manufacture, o f
Minnesota wheat growing, of
lowa he© production and the
California canning industry.
“The South is versatile. It can
grow m'est of the nation’s agri
cultural products. It can likewise
manufacture a wider range of
goods. But versatility cannot
realize its full potentiality over
night. Its full expression must
take the form of long-time
growth. Consequently; if cur cot
ton economy is not to be per
manent, let us make sure that
its shrinkage is extremely grad
ual, extending over as long a
period as possible.
Cotton Week
Gains Support
From South
I
National Event, Being
Observed Here, Worthy
Tribute To Major Indus
try,
This week, from Monday, May
17, through Saturday, May 22, is
being observed as National Cot
ton Week, an event of particular
importance to the Cotton-growing
Slauthem states, where a large
part of prosperity is bound up in
the production and the manufac
ture of Gotten and Cotton goods.
National Cotton Wecfk) is being
observed in Roxboro by many
merchants and by leading indus
trial plants, all sellers and users
and producers of Cotton pro-
and in cooperation with
Roxboro and Person observance
of the week the Person County
Times is today publishing an is
sue devoted largely to a display
of Crtton goods and by-products.
Cotton remains cheap in com
parison with other commodities
on a war market and new Uses
are being found for it each day.*
In belief that many householders
share this feeling that Cotton is
still economically of great value
to the South and to the nation,
the Times is pleased to present
again its annual Gotten Week
edition.
GETS MAN AND STILL
Person Sheriff M. T. Clayton
yesterday repeated capture of a
forty gallon still, of tin type,
with abefcit fifty gallons of mash,
Sunday, near Allensville. Ap
prehended was Roosevelt Cates,
Negro, about 80, as operator.
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RITES HELD FOR
JOHN T. WADE
AT CITY CHURCH
Father Os Roxboro Po
lice Officer Dies At Hos
pital After Long Illness.
John Thomas Wade, 74, a na
tive of Person County and for
many years a Rcxboro resident
died Tuesday afternoon at two
o’clock at Community hospital
after a illness lasting nearly two
years. Death resulted from a
I stroke of- paralysis, one of sever
al suffered in the past few
months.
Funeral was held Wednesday
afternoon at four o’clock at Rox
boro First Baptist church, of
which he waa a member. Offi
ciating ministers were the Revs.
J. F. Funderburke and J. B. Cur
rin, both of Roxboro. Interment
was in Burchwood cemetery.
A son of the late Mr. and Mrs.
Neal Wade, he is survived by
his wife, the former Miss Soph
ronia Gentry, to whom he was
married more than fifty years
ago. Also surviving are three
sons, three daughters, nine
grandchildren and one great
grandchild, and one brother,
three sisters and two half broth
ers.
Sons are Charles Wade, of the
Police force, Roxbcro, Ollie, of
the United States’ Veteran’s hos
pital, Roanoke, Va., and Baxter
| Wade, Superintendent of Water
j works of the City of Jackson,
j Miss. Daughters are Mrs. Howard
j Young, of Knoxville, Tenn., Mrs.
i James Coble and Mrs. W. B.
| Copley, both of Durham.
I Brother is Bennie Wade, of
Barnesville. Sisters are Mrs.
Nannie Gentry, of Roxboro, and
Mesdames Carrie and Harriet
McNeil, both of Gibson. Half
brothers are Robert and Arthur
Wade, both of Roxboro.
For many years a salesman
with the Hugh Woods grocery
company, Mr. Wade retired in
1933. He and his Wife observed
their golden anniversary about
j two years ago. For a brief period
he served as jailer for Person
County.
Active pallbearers were the'
following nephews: Earl, Osby,
Clyde, Kendall and Walter Gen
try. Also a pallbearer was B. B.
Strum. Honorary pallbearers in
cluded many prominent Person
and Roxboro residents.
Justice Denny
Will Be Speaker
At Wake Forest
WAKE FOREST, May 20.
Associate Justice E. B. Denny, of
the state Supreme Court, will
deliver the commencement ad
dress at Wake Forest college’s
graduation exercises May 24, it
was announced today by Thur
man Kitchin, president of the
college.
Dr. Jobn Allen Easley, profes
sor of religion at WaSae Forest,
Will preach the baccalaureate
sermon May 23.
The sermon will be in the
church auditorium, while Justice
Denny will speak in Groves sta
dium. Both programs will begin
at 8 p. m.
There are 105 candidate's for
degrees,
The Rev. Lawrence A 'Watts,
State Prison chaplain, will be
Sunday morning speaker at first
Baptist church. He is well-known
here and good attendance is ex
pected.
New Assistant
wmki IPH
mam W* if
John W. Wheeler
John W. Wheeler, new assistant
Scout Executive, Cherokee Coun- |
cil, is on the job in Alamance :
District. Mr. Wheeler will live j
in Burlington and will serve,
Alamance County principally but
will be on call for the other dis
tricts cf the council. He recent
ly completed a training course
for Scout Executives held in
Mendham, N. J., where he made a
splendid record. His family con
sists of Mrs. Wheeler, a young
son, three years of age and twin
j daughters five months of age.
j Mr. Wheeler will serve on the
] camp staff at Camp Cherokee
j during the king-term camping
I period from June 27th to July
j 31, serving as quartermaster for
j camp.
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| Surgical Dressing
| Unit Still Needs
I More Workers
Officials of the surgical ebvss
ing unit of the Person and Rcx-
I boro Red Cross chapter ~.oday
jsaid that response at the new
i surgical dressing room' in Rox-
I boro Centra] Grammar school is
j encouraging and that many more
j workers are cooperating, but
that further expansion of the
work is imperative if national
quotas assigned here are to be
met.
Workers here, at the present
rate, can finish dressings now on
hand during the Summer, offi
cials declare, but they point out
that additional quotas filed each
month will require an extra ef
fort on tee part of Roxboro and
Person women and that there
must be :an even more generous
response in time and energy
than has -yet been shown.
Scoutmasters To
Meet Monday At
Brickhouse Home
Person and Roxboro Scout
masters will meet here Monday
night, May 24, at the residence'
of W. H. Brickhouse, Lamar
street, to discuss troop problems
and to complete plans for Per
son and Roxboro Scout attend
ance’at Camp Cherokee, first
period of which opens Jhine 27.
It is expected that majority of
Pierson and Roxboro scouts will
»
wish to attend camp the first
week and Scoutmasters are urg
ed to determine attendance be
for the Monday conference meet
ing. ,
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IN CITY
Maurice Allen, of the U. S.
Army, now stationed at Lumber
ton, was in Rox&cro today and
expects to spend a few days in
JUNIOR ORDER TO
MEET NEXT WEEK
IN CHAPEL HILL
Davie Council To Be Host,
Says Marvin Clayton, (
District Councillor.
The 19t’i District of the Junior
Order, composed cf councils in
Person, Orange and Durham
counties, will meet Tuesday
night, May 25, at eight o’clock,
at Chapel Hill, where Davie
Council No. 52 will be host.
Marvin Clayton, of Roxboro,
district councillor, says that of
! ficials expected to attend will in
j elude M. G. Flanmgan, of Gra
ham, State Councillor, and F. G.
; Shearin, of Scotland Neck, State
secretary, and ethers,
| Clayton, who is a member of
; Longhurst Council No. 570, says
J that many Roxbcro and Long
hurst members are expecting to
1 attend.
Person Man
Reported As
War Prisoner
i
i
Stephen C. Long, First
Thought Missing, Said
To Be In German Camp.
Pfc. St.phen C. Long, 24, of
> Rcxboro, previously reported
has missing in action in Africa, is
now said to be a prs'cher of war
of the German government, ac
eordng to a message- received last
week from the International Rod
Cross and the United States War
department by members of
Long's family hers.
Long, whose wife is Mrs. An
nie Belle- Carr, of this City, is
a sen <of Mr. and Mrs. Martin
Long, who have three other sons
in the Army. Long, who was re
ported missing on Feb. 14, has
b:en in the Army two years. His
Army brothers are: Sgt. Harvey
P. Long, now in England, Pvt.
James B. Long. Nashville,. Team.,,
and Pvt. Hubert G. Long, Camp
Maxey, Texas.
Stephen C. L ng, so far as is
j known, is first Roxboro man re
ported as being held a prisoner
of war. Other in formation is ex
pected by mail from the office
of ’he Provost Marshal, Wash
ington.
Miss Blalock Os
Wheeler’s Church
Dies Tuesday
Miss Eunice Mae Blalock, 15,
of near Wheeler’s church, Per
son County, a daughter of Mir.
and Mrs. J. D. Blalock, died
Tuesday morning at five o’clock
at the borne of her parents after
a heart attack.
Funeral was held Wednesday
afternoon at three o’clock at
Walnut Grove church by Elder
T. Floyd Adams, of Varina, with
interment following in the
chfurch cemetery. Survivors, in
addition to the parents, include
seven sisters and two brothers.
Sisters are, Mesdames Ernest
Porterfield, of Cedar Grove,
Dewey Clayton, of Angier, Mar
cus Whitefield, of Roxboro and,
Melvin Porterfield, of Hurdle
Mills, and Misses Blanche,, Shir
ley and Joyce Blalock, of the 1
home. Brothers are Irvin Thom
as and James Albert Blalocfld, :
both of the home.
Officials Talk Over,
But Do Not Act On
Abattoir Question
Second War
Loan Figures
Win Praise
Hunter Cites Fact That
Many Citizens Particip
ated; He Returns From
Bankers’ Convention.
Gordon C. Hunter, Person and
Roxboro War Loan drive chair
man, today reported a total of
| 8264,705.75 for the Second War
Loan drive which ended last
month. Quota here was $242,900
and Hunter expressed his pleas
ure at the oversubscription and
extended thanks to cooperating
citizens and campaign workers.
Particular point for gratifica
tion, according to Hunter, was j
the fact that 958 Person and
j Roxboro residents were pur-
I chasers and that of this number
j 933 bought small War Bonds.
| Sales here were in line with the
I policy sought by the Treasury
j department, which has ccnsis
-1 tently sought to build up bond
j buying among, a large number nf
! small purchasers,
j Breakdown of the Person re
| port shows that in the Second
I War Loan drive $100,668.75 was
' in small “E’’ bonds; $37 in “F”
bonds; $6,500 in "G’’ series; $50,-
000 in tax notes; $55,000 in one
year notes and $52,500 in coupon
i bonds.
’ I Hunter returned this week
from the session of the State
1 Bankers convention held in Ral
eigh and while there, attended
both regular and executive com
mittee sessions. As second vice
president of the Association, he 1
j is scheduled to become president
' :in 1945.
' - A war-shortened convention
* jof the North Carolina Bankers
| Association came to a conclusion
j at n'con Tuesday after a meeting
of the executive committee,
I which heard Philip Woollcott of
j Asheville, the new president,
outline a program to be
ed in 1943-44 by the association.
Woollcott called for continued
support of the Treasury's war
bond programs and continued
close cooperation with farmers to
help them meet their food) pro
duction goals.
The committee created the
post of assistant secretary and
elected Mrs. Margaret Knight of
Raleigh to that position. The ex
ecutive secretary is Edward
Wayne of Raleigh, whose re
election and that of I. M. Bailey
of Raleigh as general counsel
for the association were con
firmed.
The bankers began their 47th
annual convention Sunday night
with a banquet of the executive i
committee, and confined their {
general sessions to Monday. In
resolutions approved then the
bankers attacked methods em
ployed by Government agricul
tural lending agencies and call
ed for liquidation of the Region
al Agricultural Credit Corpora
i tion.
Durham, May 19.—The Dur- i
ham city council, 6ya vote of 8 1
to 4, rejected an ordinance to |i
prohibit the sale of ibeer and wine j:
in the city on week-ends. n
BACK
YOUR BOYC|W
Buy an Additional
NUMBER 64
Committee To
Investigate
l Matter Named
.
First Joint Meeting Os
County And City Bodies
Produces Discussion.
Mayor S. G. Winstead, acting
I as chairman at a joint session
of Person County and City of
Roxboro eemmisioners, attended
also by butchers, meat dealers
and grocerymen, last night ap
pcintcd as an abattoir commit
tee, to visit and inspect abba
toirs in oilier cities, towns and
communities, a three-man body
composed of Frank T. Whitfield,
of Bushy Fork, and Philip L.
Thomas and R, Cliff Hall, both
J of Roxboro.
Whitfield, who is chairman of
the Board of Co’unty commis
sioners, will represent them,
while Thomas and Hall will re
press nt the City commissioners’.
Thomas is also Person OPA
j chairman. Members cf the com
■| mittee, after a two hour discus
.
. j sion Os questions pertaining" to
construction of an abattoir here,
j were instructed to report find
ings to respective County and
. City bodies separately.
Members of the committee,
furthermore, agreed to consult
further with W. Murray Linker,
State Health department repre-.
i
j 5' ntative, before setting forth on
.tours cf inspection, the consul
: 1
j tation to be held for purpose of
i digging more closely into abba
j I toir types, prices and conditions
j of operation.
; j At the meeting, held in the
„j Grand Jury room at Person
t j Court house, no commitment was
j made as to possible joint action
j-j by the Commissioners although,
_ j it was agreejj that another joint
) ! session may he held at a later
Jdate. In additidq to Whitfield,
’ | county officials present included
j) w - H. Gentry and Banks Bcr
i ry, commissioners, and j. s.
Walker, accountant, white City
commissioners present included
, Gordon C. Hunter, George J. v .
. Oushwa and R. Cliff Hall, . and
I a^so F. O. Carver, Sr. Spokesmen
, included Mr. Linker, Dr. W. P.
Richardson and Sanitarian W.
R- Taylor, also G. B. Short and
A. W. Clayton.
Clayton - Long .
Reunion To Be
Held At Lea’s
I The Clayton-Long family re
union this year will held on
Sunday, May 30, at Lea's Chapel
| Methodist church, six miles west
I °* Roxboro, according to Elwood
Clayton, vice president, with ser
vices scheduled to begin at 11:30
in th morning.
Picnic luncheon will be ser
ved on the grounds and all mem
bers of the Clayton and Long
families are expected to attend..
Many persons less than two
centuries ago believed tile bones
of prehistoric animals, d)ug up
[from time to time, -belonged to
jan extinct race of monsfroo*
imen.