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VOLUME XIV
Bill Harris, Sr., Has
Edge On Birthday
y Grandson In
War Pushes Up
His Natal Day
Pather Os Lieutenant
Governor, However,
Faces Impromptu Notice
Tonight.
Eighty-four years young today
is W. H. (Bill) Harris, Sr., of
Roxboro, who yesterday observ
ed his birthday, but did it quiet
ly because the real celebration, a
family dinner, at hs home here,
was held on Saturday, May 1,
especially for the benefit of a
name-sake' grandson, William
Harris Armstrong, of Salisbury,
now in the United States Army,
Camp Croft, Spartanburg, S. C.,
who knew that Army service
would interfere with his being
here at a later date.
Another grandson in the ser
vice is Charles W. Armstrong,
Jr., also of Salisbury, who is a
brother of William Harris Arm
strong and has seen service in
Guadalcanal. Charles W., Jr., is
now in a South Seas hospital re
covering from an attack of
malaria.
Tonight W. H., Sr., will have
a celebration of a sort at Rox
boro Rotary club, of which he
is an active member and in which
he takes great delight acting as
attendance chairman.
In the Harris family circle are
three sons and five daughters,
all prominent and active in state
business and social circles. Most
well-flflnown of the three sons is
Lieut. Gov. R. L. Harris, of this
city, who combines statecraft
with business and is president
Roxboro Citton mills and of the
Peoples bank.
Other sons are W. H. Harris,
11, a tobacconist, and C. A. Har
ris, a towel mill executive and
leader in Masonic circles, both of
this city. C. A. and W. H., Sr.,
incidentally, are both members
of Person Lodge 113.
Daughters are Misses Claire
and Mary Harris, who live in the
family home wiflh W. fL, and
Mesdames C. Martin Michfe,
Clarence Bio wen and C. W. Arm
strong, all of Roxboro, with ex
ception of Mesdames Bowen and
Armstrong, of Durham and
Salisbury, respectively.
Goodman, OTD
Repesentative Will
Come Wednesday
A. V. Goodman, of the Office
as Defense Transportation will
{be at Roxboro Chamber of Com
merce office Wednesday morn
ing, June 2, from 9:00 until 12:00
poon..
Any commercial vehicle own
ers, or Taxi operators who are in
need of aid from Goodman’s de
partment will please meet him at
that time. His department does
not include fanners, their trucks
or individual automobile owners
but handles only Commercial ve
hicles.
RETURN HOME
Mrs. Crandall Vaughan and
son, of Petersburg, Va., and Mrs.
L. C. Vaughan and son, of Rich
mond, Va., have returned to
their hemes after spending the
/week-end here {with Mrs. Ola
Long Evans.
TIMES
PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY AND THURSDAY ROXBORO, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1043
Pvt. Brooks Os
Hurdle Mills
Wounded Slightly
Pvt. Dalis H. Brooks, of Rox
boro and Hurdle Mills, a son of
Mrs. Lela Brooks, of Route two,
Hurdle Mills, has been reported
j as having been slightly wounded
lin action on McFlone in the
! North African area.
The notice was received here
Tuesday from the War Depart
rr|):nt, Washington. The Perse n
j Selective Service Board reports
|no record on Pvt. Brooks, who
j apparently entered the service
as” a volunteer or under registra
tion from another board. Addi
tional information on his condi
tion may be expected within fif
teen days, according to Adjutant
j General Ulio.
HARRIS, LONG,
CURRIER AND
HUGHES, LEADERS
Cherokee Camp Program
Announced By E. Pierce
Bruce.
E. Pierce Bruce, Boy Scout
executive of Cherokee council
| comprising Rockingham, Person,
; Alamance, and Caswell counties,
J today from the council office at
| Reidsville announced camping
plans for Camp Cherokee, coun
cil camp near Wentworth.
Held here Monday night at
| Roxboro residence of Commis
' sioner W. H. Brickhcuse was a
j meeting of Person and Roxboro
. Scoutmasters at which local
j camping plans were completed.
{Bruce also attended this meeting,
j June 22-24 a pre-camping
j emergency service will be at
! tended by scouts over 14 years
|of age, second class and above.
! From this group members of the
junior staff will be chosen.
The following senior . scouts
have been invited to try out dur
ing the emergency service course
for the central camp staff: John
Cobb, Leon Moore, Jack and
Leon McWhorter, of Reidsville;
Charlie Harris, Thomas Long,
Bobby Currier and Charles
Hughes, of Roxboro; Sammie
Vance, cf Leaksvilk; John Lee
McPherson, Sammie Bradshaw,
Winfrey Martin, Jr., Joe Jaroz,
Norman Fidler, Billie Terrell
and Ward Lasley, of Alamance
district.
Mr. Bruoe will be camp direc
tor, and John Wheeler, of Burl
ington, assistant council execu
tive, will be quartermaster. Oth
er adult staff members are being
chosen.
Roxboro scouts have applied
for the major portion of the first
jof the. five camping periodsf
'which begins July 4, and Rsids
j ville and Dan River for the third
(beginning July 11. Fourth and
j fifth period reservations have
not yet been booked.
Cherdkee council negro boy
scouts, in conjunction with
Greensboro, High Point, and
Winston-Salem, will attend Camp
Carlson, near Greensboro, in
Guilford county, (which opens
July 17 for three weeks.
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Ships of the Royal Indian Na
vy guarding India’s coast and on
.patrol and convoy duty in 1942
traveled a distance equal to 33
times around the earth at the
Equator.
j Poppy Day To
jße Observed
On Saturday
Woman’s Auxiliary Os
i Legion To Sponsor Vet
eran’s Benefit In Rox
boro.
Ten or more Roxboro young
women, on Saturday, May 29, will
J assist Mi s. W. T. Kirby with the
annual American Legion auxiliary
■sponsored “Poppy Day” as a ben
! efit for veterans,
j Mrs. Kirby, who has for severs'
|al years had charge of the pro-
I gram here, today named as her
| assistants Misses Panthea Bul
llock, Mildred and Nancy Stroud,
j Rachel Whitfield, Lucy Love
i Dickerson, Anne Marie Umstoad,
Betsy Harris and Rachel Kirby,
j Others may also be asked to as
j sist.
| Sale of the poppies was unusU
j ally successful here last year and
jit is expected that response this
| year will be as generous, if not
| more so.
jALLENSVILLE AS
j TOWNSHIP CLOSES
! COUNCILSERIES
i
Speaker Is The Rev. J. B.
Currin. Taylor Advocates
Abattoir Support.
Allensville township, its histor
ic past as expressed in present
day mores, was discussed ts>th
j with perception and wit by the
I'Rev. J. B. Currin, of Roxboro,
Baptist minister and Allensville,-
\ high school faculty member, wh<s
was yesterday guest speaker y'at
May meeting of the Person Coun
ty Council of Social agencies.
Presented also by Sanitarian W.
j B. Taylor, a council member, was
j a brief analysis of the needs for
I a municipal-community operated
j abattoir or slaughter house in the
j Roxboro area.
, The Rev. Mr. Currin, introduc
jed by Mrs. T. C. Wagstaff, pro
j gram chairman, mentioned the
j wide variety of types of soil in
| the Allensville township area,
J pointed out the predominance -of
unpaved roads in the area and
indicated the high respect for
public school, education held by
the inhabitants.
His address, the final one from
various speaklers on Person town-
I ships, alo contained mention of
civic leaders in Allensville and
mentioned the abandoned copper
mine now being revived in the
Durgy area. Final item was speci
fic mention of Allensville pastors
and churches. Educational pro
gress was cited by the fact that
Allensville high school is regard
ed as the first Person public
school to have been consolidated, i
Taylor, in his presentation of
the abattoir matter, indicated ap
parent advantages expected to
develop from the establishment |
of one adequate city-county plant,
and said that the meat-slaugh- |
•tering situation and a possible
shortage of meat here should be
a matter of (concern to all Social
Agency council members and cit
izens generally.
No more meetings of the Coun
cil will be held until September.
The final session was at Hotel
Roxboro as a noon luncheon, with
Thomas J. Shaw, Jr., chairman,
presiding.
RETURNS TO RILEY
Pvt. Patrick Clay, of Fort
Riley, Kan., returned there to
day after spending a furlough
here with his mother, Mrs. Ome
ga Clay and members of his
family.
Honor Man
Wjm
W. F. West, Jr.
W. F. (Billy) West, Jr., only
son of the Rev. and Mrs. W. F.
West, of Roxboro, who this week
graduated from Wake For. st
college, received an A. B. "cum
laude” diploma.
At Wake Forest two yours fol
lowing transference from Mars
Hill college, he was senior presi
dent of Sigma Pi Alpha, national
honorary modern language frat
ernity and was a member of
Delta Kappa Alpha, honorary
ministerial fraternity. He will
enter Southern Baptist Scminery
Louisville, Ky., in September.
jSugar Rules
Relaxed Say
OPA Officials
Stamps 15 And 16 Have
Value Os Five PdunUs
Each For Canning Pur
poses, With No Registra
tion Required.
Person OPA officials today is
sued a reminder that new regu
lations permit household sugar
I for canning to be obtained on
Stamps 15 and 16 of the War Ra
tion Book and that registration is
no longer necessary. The stamps
above mentioned became valid
Monday and will remain valid
through October 31, with a value
of five pounds each.
Originally planned here was a
three day registration period to
be held this week in various Per
son public schools, but this reg
istration has been cancelled. De
spite that fact numbers of citi
zens have been, coming to the
OPA office here under the mis
taken impression that they had
to register.
Officials say: “It may be as
sumed safely, that this ten pounds
! of sugar will talkie care of the re
quirements of the vast majority
of home canners. Those who do
need additional sugar should be
advised to apply at their local
Board and state their needs ac
cording to the regulations and
apply for the additional amount
'needed over and above the ten
poufids for each member of the
! family.”
In issuing sugar for home can
ning in the future, the Boards
are instructed not to issue any
sugar until the stamps designated
for home canning sugar have
been used.
HAS SLIGHT STROKE
Mrs. Dora Masten, of Oak
street, mother of Fred Masten, is
ill at her home, where she suf
fered a slight stroke of paralysis.
VISIT SGT. HARRIS
-Edward Harris, Mrs. E. L. Har
ris and Mrs. Fred Perkins and
daughter are visiting Sgt. George
Harris at Keesler Field, Miss.
*
Stalin Ends
Communist
Party Plan
• « i
Third International Dis- ■
solved. Labor Asked To
Fight On Common Front.
! !
; MOSCOW. May 26.—(UP) —,
Russia, making clear a desire for
closer co-operation with America
and Britain during and after the
•war, on Sunday announced the
dissolution of the communist
third international and called on
labor to eliminate factional strife
in a united front against Hitler
ism.
(Some London observers inter
preted the move as theoretically
• smashing the anti-comintcrn pact,
and pointed out that it would
1 give Italy away out cf the war
since the Italians’ ostensible, pur
■ pose in joining the hostilities was
(o fight the Comintern. But they
[conceded the improbability of
Italy putting the same interpre
tation on the situation.)
Adopt Resolution.
The executive committee of the
| Comintern brought its stormy 24-
, year history to a close by aclopt
, ing a resolution calling for dis
-1 solution and directing its follow
iCrs to throw their full weight be
i hind the United Nations war ef
| fort.
j The historic decision, announc
ed in the official communist par
!ty organ Pravda and final cx
j cept for mere formalities, was re
garded here as reflecting soviet
j concern over reports of unsettled
J labor conditions in the United
i [ States.
“In countries of the anti-Hit-
I lerite coalition the sacred duty of
[•all the masses, and primarily that
of the vanguard of workers, con
sists in all-out support cf their
governments’ war effort in order
(turn to page four, please)
GEORGESRETURNS
| FROM FINAL TRIP
TO AUTHORITIES
Visa Matter
Cleared By Visit To
American Consul.
Stephen Georges, Rcxboro case
operator, a Greek-born British
subject, for nearly twenty years
a resident of Roxboro, returned
last night from Windsor, Ontar
io, Canada, where he appeared
before American consul in that
City in settlement of a passport
visa difficulty that developed
about five years ago.
Under the settlement, arranged
after Georges and his Roxboro
attorneys appeared before a State
Department commission in Wash
ington, the way was finally clear
ed for Georges to file applica
tion for American citizenship.
En route back to Roxboro,
Georges, who was away about
ten days, stopped over in Wash
ington, where he stayed with
Roxboro friends, former residents
here, who now live in Washing
ton. Georges has naturally ex
pressed himeslf as pleased at the
final settlement, an agreement
that has enabled him to return
to Roxboro to his American-born
wife and son, with the prospect
of granting of citizenship papers
in the near future.
MAYOR’S GRANDCHILD
Mr. and Mrs. S. G. Winstead,
Jr., of Houston, Texas, announce
the birth of a daughter Sunday,
May 23, in that City. The child
is a grand-daughter of Mayor
and Mrs. S. G. Winstead of Rox
boro.
Forest Fire Fighter
Corps Planned For
By Person Four - H
i Here’s Real
i
Victory Garden
Cooperation
i Here is a real Victory Gar-
I den: two Halifax County, Vir
j ginia, citizens, who live near
the Pera n County, North
Carolina line, a man, eighty
years of ag’e and his wife, who
is about sixty, decided they
wanted to plant a victory gar
j den. They matte plans, then
j discovered that the labor
' shortage prevented them from
renting a horse or hiring a
, hand.
Not daunted, they took an
\ old horse-drawn plough and
! harness, and with the aged
j man as “horse” and his wife
as “plough-hand” the ground
I was broken.
BARBERTOSTART
COURSE IN FIRST
AID NEXT MONTH
i
Red Cross Representative.
Who Comes Here, Regard
ed As Trained And Cap
able.
i
George R. Barber, of Alexan
dria, Va., Field Representative of
the Red Cross First Aid, Water
j Safety and Accident - Prevention
j Service in the eastern area, will
begin courses in Roxboro on
Monday, June 7, at 7:30 p. m., in
Roxboro high school library.
An experienced first aid and
water safety instructor and a
volunteer fire department mem
ber for several years, Mr. Barber
is well fitted for his task. Before
joning the national staff of the
Ameican Red Cross in January
1942, he had organized and taught
first aid classes for his home Red
Cross Chapter at Winter Haven,
Florida, and in 1941 served as a
member of the faculty at the Bre
vard, North Carolina, National
Aquatic School.
In addition Mr. Barber has
been active in Boy Scout work
for 12 years, serving two years
as Scoutmaster and three as Dis
trict Scout Commissioner.
A schedule for the two weeks
period will be worked out for the
convenience of all concerned at
the first Roxboro meeting.
Memorial Day
Not To Be Os
Significance Here
Dr. B. A. Thaxton, commander
of Lester Blackwell Post of the
American Legion, today indicat
ed that there will be no formal I
observation here of Memorial j
Day, May 30, assigning as the
reason pressure of farming duties
and other activities pertaining to
World War 11. Poppy Days, how
ever, will be held Saturday.
HAS OPERATION
W. A. Floyd, of Roxboro, yes
terday underwent an operation
at Duke hospital, Durham. Has
condition is considered serious,
but he was resting more com
fortably today.
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Assistant Agent
iC. C. Jackson
To Be Leader
j County-Wide Civilian De
j sense Corps Project To
I Be Carried Out By Four
j H Clubs Here.
j C. C. Jackson, assistant Por
! son farm agent, today announced
! that steps are now being taken
'here to organize among Four-H
'club numbers a Forest Fire
. Fighters’ service. Directors and
j administrators will be adult
j neighborhood leaders within the
! Four-H organization and chief
{duties of the new units will be
| fire prevention in rural areas.
Organization of the Forest Fire
, fighters is being undertaken at
I request ot Army officials at
Camp Butner and active area
.supervision is under James F.
{Huff, of Durham, extension for
| ester for a district composed of
! Person, Orange, Durham and
Granville counties. Person sup
ervision will be under Jackson
and the whole set-up will operate
' as section of the Person Civilian
j defense organization of which
Landon C. Bradsher is director.
| Complete details are expected
| to be worked out at a confer
ence between Bradsher and Jacsk
json and it is also expected that
ithe same organization will be
perfected among Negro Four-H
clubs under C. J. Ford. The Fcr
i est Fire Fighters, when occasion
demands, will serve as active fire
fighters, but main service to be
rendered is intended to be of a
! preventive nature. <■
j In order to increase the ef
| fectiveness of the units it is ex
j peeted that communication sys
i terns between respective neigh
borhoods will he developed.
Jackson said today that the or
ganization here will be kept on a
simple, workable basis, but that
he believes there is room for
real service to the county, al
though Person this year has been
fortunate enough to have only
one or two small forest blazes.
Miss Peele And
Miss Fox Among
College Graduates
N ’
Two Greensboro College grad
uates from Roxboro, who receiv
ed their diplomas at commence
ment exercises are Miss Louise
Peele and Miss Rachel Fox. Miss
Peele is the daughter of the Rev.
and Mrs. F. B. Peele and Miss
Fox is th daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. George M. Fox, Jr. Parents
and members of the families of
J both young women attended the
| exercises. In the party were
Glen Titus, of the U. S. Navy,
and Mrs. Titus, brother-in-law
and sister of Miss Fox, who are
visiting in Roxboro.
CHURCH FUND
Gospel Tabernacle church,
Roxboro, is conducting a fund
raising campaign under direction
of the Rev. N. B. Madktdon, pas
tor .The campaign was begun six
months ago to clear a S6OO debt.
Reported as having been contri
buted Sunday was a creditable
sum.
Fighters’
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and