hate Beuis Bulletins
BERNARD BARUCH NAMED ASSISTANT
WASHINGTON, June 10. War Mobilization Director
James F. Byrnes today “drafted” famed Bernard M. Baruch to
serve as his right-hand man, denounced all political aspirations
and proposed streamlined congressional war inquiries to save
precious time and eliminate public airing of inter-agency quar
rels.
All three moves appeared designed to achieve closer and
more cordial relations between the executive and legislative
branches, cast out suspicion and promote greater efficiency in
the conduct of the war.
CRACK SEEN IN SOFT COAL DISPUTE
WASHINGTON, June 10. The- mine owners’ common
front in the soft coal wage dispute cracked last night when a
group of Pennsylvania mines employing 65,000 agreed with
John L. Lewis’ United Mine Workers on the basis for a contract.
This development raised the possibility that the whole con
troversy involving 450,000 miners might soon be wound up
since it greatly strengthened Lewis’ position.
DIPLOMATIC ICE BREAKS IN LATIN AMERICA
MONTEVIDO, June 10. The diplomatic ice broke in Latin
America as the new governments in Argentina and Algiers be
gan winning recognition.
Rites Will Be Held
Friday In Durham
For H, C. Satterfield
F. 8. Sayre
Seeks For
New Order
Speaks In Charlotte On
Plan For Post War
World.
CHARLOTTE, June 9. Pre
dicting the establishment of an
international police force after
the war, since “there can be no
secure peace as long as any gang
of gunmen is free to gain control
of a nation’s government,” Fran
cis B. Sayre, special assistant to
the Secretary of State, enuncia
ted four basic principles for the
building of peace in an address
before the Executives Club here
Tuesday night.
These principles he listed as:
1. “International cooperation;
2. “A recognition of the sup
reme value of human personality
and of human rights;
3. “Economic freedom;
4. “International control and
supervision of armament build
ing.” .
More Than Military.
“A mere military victory, im
portant and essential as that
clearly is, will not itself bring
tig'll lasting peaoe,” Sayre said.
tAt the conclusion of the World
War, because the basic problems
growing out of a materialistic
civilization were left unsolved,
we gained only a short respite
between wars and failed to achi
eve lasting peace. Military vic
tory gave us our chance, but we
lost it. The situation now is in
finitely more grave.”
Because of the close knitting
of the nations of the world by
the airplane and other modern
inventions, “no nation any long
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Rites Hel<J For
Victim Os Spotted
Fever Tuesday
First reported Person death
•this year from spotted fever oc
curred Monday morning at three
o’clock at Watts hospital, Dur
ham, the victim being William
Donald Robinson, three year old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Hampton.
Robinson, of Timberlake.
Funeral was held Tuesday af
ternoon at three o'clock at New
Bethel Methodist church by the
Rev. E. L. Hill, with interment in
the church cemetery. Surviving
in addition to the parents is one
brother jWarren Robinson.
Native Os
Person Headed
Lumber Firm
Father Os Mrs. Burke
Mewbom Grew To Man
hood In Roxboro.
Funeral services for Henry
Clement Satterfield, Sr., of Dur
ham, father of Mrs. W. Burke
Mewborne, of Roxboro, whose
death occurred Tuesday night at
Watts hospital, Durham, follow
ing an illness of several months
with a heart ailment, will be held
Friday morning at eleven o’-
clock in Durham.
A native of Roxboro, where he
was born in 1882, Mr. Satterfield
was for twenty-five years presi
dent of the Cary Lumber com
pany, Durham. He was a brother
of M. W. Satterfield, Preston Sat
terfield, Sr., and Miss Maude
Satterfield, all of Roxboro, and
for nearly forty years had been
a prominent Durham resident, a
leader in business and civic af
fairs.
A member of Duke Memorial
Methodist church he was a mem
ber of the Board of Stewards
anw of the Board of Trustees.
He was also a director of the
Fidelity Bank and of the Dur
ham and aiSuthern Railway.
An alumnus of Trinity Col
lege, later Duke University, he
graduated in 1904 and for a
time thereafter was with Liggett
and Myers, Tobacco company.
Other survivors include, his
wife, Mrs. Carolotta Angier Sat
terfield, of Durham, and . two
sons, Henry C., Jr., and John A.
Satterfield, also of Durham.
Hickory Soldier
Cuts Motor After
He Jumps Out
i
TAMPA, Fla., June 9 Mac-
Dill field public relations office
told how Lt. R. C. Hefner, of
Hickory, was forced to bail out
of his distressed plane.
Before jumping, he tied one
end of a long string to his para
chute, and the other to end of the
plane’s master ignition switch.
As he fell, the string jerked the
switch, cutting off the ship’s
motors.
As Hefner floated downward
he watched the plane nose earth
ward, falling into a wooded area.
Had he jumped without outting
off the motor, the public rela
tions office said, the plane might
have continued flying and’ crash
ed into the Darby City area of
Sarasota, Fla.
PERSON TIMES
VOLUME XIV PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY AND THURSDAY ROXBORO, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1943
County Turns Down
Abattoir While City
Seemingly Hesitates
Water Supply
Cooperation Not
On Legal Basis
It Is Indicated Private
Abattoir Only Solution.
Person County Commissioners
this week turned thumbs down
on proposed cioperation here in
construction of an abattoir or
slaughter house, thus ending ef
forts to secure such an establish
ment under joint sponsorship of
the County and the City of Rox
boro.
Further clarification of the
project came about on the next
day when City Commissioners in
formed Sanitarian W. B. Taylor
that the City by law 1 is not au
thorized to supply free water to
any privately constructed abat
toir.
Taylor appeared before the
County and City Commissioners
in advocacy of establishment of
an abattoir on a cooperative
basis and subsequently made the
water supply proposal to City
Commissioners.
At the respective Board ses
sions much discussion of the
.meat shortage situation took
place, but the County Board was
the only one to take definite ac
tjpn_ jn declinjng_ to consider the
project further. County action
apparently resulted because the
Commissioners were convinced
that the abattoir is more pro
perly a City of Roxboro problem.
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SWIMMING AND
WATER-SAFETY ON
SCHEDULE HERE
Barber Giving Time To
These Courses At Chub
Lake.
George Barber, of Alexandria,
Va., Red Cross first aid and
water safety course instructor,
who arrived in Roxboro Sunday,
is conducting water safety and
swimming courses here each
morning and : afternoon at the
Fred Long cabin, Chub Lake.
Cars leave Hotel Roxboro each
morning at 9 o’clock and each
afternoon at 6, with the courses
lasting three hours each. The
morning group is largely com
posed of residents in the high
school age group, with older res
idents at night. The courses be
gan Monday and will continue
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Four-H County
Council Will
Meet Saturday
The Person County 4-H Coun
cil will meet Saturday, June 12,
at 1:00 P. M., in the Grand Jury
room of the Courthouse.
Miss Frances MacGregor, As
sistant State 4-H Leader, will be
the principal speaker. Her sub
ject will be: “Neighborhood 4-H
Leadership!’, which is of special
interest at this time to all adult
and 4-H Leaders.
The Mt. Tirzah club will have
charge of the devotional exer
sises.
All Neighborhood 4-H leaders,
all Negihborhood 4-H Presidents,
all Club Officers, and all 4-H
members and their parents are
.urged to attend
Men In June
Quota Examined
At Fort Bragg
Part of the June quota of
Person County white men who
went to Fort Bragg yesterday
morning returned Thursday
morning. Among those accept
ed for the Army were William
A. Jordan, Royal P. Todd, Reu
ben E. Watson, Ivie L. Clay
ton and Taylor L. O'Brien.
Members of the group re
turning reported that a num
ber of men were accepted for
the Navy and were sent to
Raleigh for induction. A few,
two or more, went to the Mar
ine corps, but all will be given
a two weeks furlough. It is re
ported that about half of the
total number of men going in
this small June quota were ac
cepted.
Mayor Hopes
Tax Rate To
Stay Law
Mrs. Carver Named Act
ing Tax Collector. No
City Manager Chosen.
Mayor S. G. Winstead, of Rox
boro, today said that he' is ex
pecting the City tax rate for the
new fiscal year to be at $1.35,
same as it has been for this
year, and that budget, based on
the 1942-1943 budget was presen
ted and discussed at June meet
ing of the City Board of Com
missioners held Tuesday night,
although a detailed analysis of
it will not take place until later,
possibly at a called meeting.
Regular time for adoption of a
budget and establishment of the
tax rate will be at the July
meeting on Tuesday, the 13th.
The tentative budget was pre
pared by Mrs. Hattie C. Carver,
acting tax collector, a position to
which she was named this week
by the Commissioners in order
that City affairs may be offici
ally conducted until a City Man
ager to succeed the late Percy
Bloxam is named. The acting tax
collector, Mrs. Carver, has for
several years been connected
with the City Hall and is familar
with office detail.
Mayor Winstead in discussing
the matter of applications for
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NEGROKILLED
AND WHITE BOY
PAINFULLY HURT
Two Week - End Acci
dents In And Near Per
son County.
Thrown into a tree after the
car he was driving struck a tele
phone pole, a Negro named Har
vey Ellmore, 19, son of George
Ellmore, of Semora, received
fatal injuries Sunday on the Se
mora-Milton highway, Caswell
county, when his car failed to
make a curve.
In another accident Saturday
on the Oxford highway, near
Roxboro, Dorsey Day, 8, son of
Mrs. Lucy Day, of Durham, re
ceived severe head injuries when
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County Places Ban On Sunday
Beer Sales; City Delays Action
GRIFFIN GIVES
LISTING OF NEW
TEACHERS COMING
Says Fourteen Vacancies
Have Now Been Filled
And That Few Others
Remain.
Person County Superintendent
of Schools R. B. Griffin, of Rox
boro, today announced the filling
of fourteen vacancies in the
County and City public school
teaching staff here and said that
few other vacancies remain, al
though there are openings of one
each at the Indian School at
High Plains and at Cunningham,
together with several in other
schools in specialized fields such
as high school home economics.
New appointments listed in
clude one high school principal,
J. S. Fleming, who leaves the
Roxboro high school staff in or
der to become head at Mount
Tirzah, succeeding L. M. Yates,
resigned.
Other appointments are: Miss
Mary Earle Wilson, of Rowland,
a 1943 graduate of Greensboro
College, who will become band
instructor at Roxboro high
school, succeeding Mrs. Frank
Whitt, resigned, and Miss Fran
ces Boyd, of Henderson, an East
ern Carolina Teachers’ college
graduate, who will teach first
grade at Roxboro Central Gram
mar school.
Also, Miss Bertha Dixon, of
Leasburg, to Olive Hill Gram
mar school, and Mrs. Alma Ward
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FROM WINSTON-SALEM
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Hessee,
Jr., of Winston-Salem, spent sev
eral days here this week with
Mrs. Hessee’s family.
VISITS PARENTS
Guy Winstead Gardner, who
has been in York, Penn., is
spending some time here with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. W.
Gardner.
Person Couple Send
Sons To Two Wars
Walker Quotes
No Figures On
County Tax Rate
J. S. Walker, Person County
Accountant, today said that he
is not prepared to make a
statement as to what the Coun
ty Tax Rate for the new fiscal
year here will be, although he
is hopeful it will be retained at
the present figure of $1.25 to
which it was reduced last year
from the previous year’s $1.34.
County Commissioners i n
Monday’s session, also attended
by Walker and by County At
torney R. P .Burns, gave much
time to budget considerations.
Another item, discussed but not
acted upon was a low-score
sanitation report for the Per
son County Home turned in by
Sanitarian W. B. Taylor. Pre
sent for that part of the dis
cussion was Alvis Clayton,
keeper of the County Home,
who offered his own explana
tion for the score, but had no
suggestions for an immediate
remedy for alleged cockroaches.
One Woman
Gives 91 Hours
To Red Cross
Mrs. David S. Brooks
Leads Roxboro Group In
Surgical Dressing Unit.
Officials of the Surgical Dress
ing units of the Person County
and Roxboro American Red Cross
chapter today disclosed the
champion worker for the month
of May as Mrs. David S. Brooks,
who has contributed 91 hours
and in so doing has furnished
an example for other women
here to follow.
Mrs. Brooks, whose husband is
an official of the Peoples bank,
is a war mother, having a son
James Charles Brooks in the
Army, now stationed at Camp
Barkeley, Texas.
Numbers of other women of
the City and County have con
tributed a large number of hours
to the surgical dressing program,
but officials here feel that it is
very much to be regretted that
both the number of workers and
the number of hours contributed
by them have to date been far
from adequate to meet the needs
of the Person chapter.
Something of the same situa
tion exists in other cities, but
leaders in Roxboro are hopeful
many of the women who have
their names on the May list will
want to increase their hourly
contributions and that many wo
men whose names are conspici
ous by absence will feel impelled
to begin working at once.
Published below, with hours
contributed, is a May list of
workers:
Austin, T. E., 6; Abbitt, Miss
Nina, 2; Brooks, Mrs. D. S., 91;
Bradsher, Mrs. L. C., 31; Brad
sher, Mrs. E. E., 35; Burns, Mrs.
R. P., 22; Bradsher, Mrs. J. D..
18; Bullock, Mrs. R. A., 9; Bul
lock, Mrs. W. C., 8; Barnett, Miss
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Mr. and Mrs. Long,
Os Longhurst,
Know Giving
Oldest Boy Killed In Ac
tion In 1918; Youngest
Now In Army.
(By Mrs. A. R. Davis, as told to
Thomas J. Shaw, Jr.)
Robert M. Long, Sr., 86, for
more than forty-five years a res
ident of Longhurst and Roxboro,
without ever having actively
served in any of them, feels that
he has a right to be called a vet
eran of four American wars.
A native of Halifax County,
Virginia, he was bom, Nov., 25,
1856 and was five years old when
the Civil War started, but he lost
in it an older brother John, who
was killed in Lee’s last battle
and he remembers what it was
to see his father and two other
brothers, footsore and weary,
come back in ‘65.
In his early forties, a married
man with a family of young sons
and daughters, he had no active
part in the Spanish-American
war, but when World War I
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NUMBER 70
Case Case In
City Takes Up
Much Time
Allegations Made As To
Violations Os Rules. Bain
Comes Here For Hear
ing. >c
Prohibition of the Sunday sate
of wine and beer in Person Coun
ty and Roxboro, sought last
month by the Person County
Ministerial association, is now a
half in, half out proposition.
County Commissioners at their
June session held Monday, ap
proved the ban, placing it in ef
fect immediately, but City Com
missioners, who met one day
' later, postphoned definite action
I until a later date, giving as rea
son the pressure of business at
their first session.
1 Fillip to the City beer and
j wine discussion here Tuesday
i night was the alleged develop
| ment of a license snarl in con
nection with the Royal Case,,
operated by Stephen Georges and
much of the City Board’s time
was consumed in discussing it.
City board members, following
investigation of conditions alleg
ed to exist at the Royal Case, re
quested Georges and his attorneys
to appear before the Board,
where it developed that Georges
had allegedly violated rules of the
the Brewing Industry foundation.
At the demand of attorneys for
Georges, who say that they had
not been given sufficient notice
to prepare his case, the hearing
i will be delayed until a future
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TOUFIELK AMEEN
NOW LOCATED IN
SIOUX FALLS, S.D.
I Writes To His Parents,
Mr. And Mrs. Joe Ameen
In Roxboro.
Pfc. Toufielk Ameen, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Ameen, of Rox
boro, has been transfered to the
I Army Technical school at Sioux
j Falls, South Dak.
His address is 805 T. S. S., Bks.
1011, Sioux Falls, S. Dak.
Under date of June 1, he
writes to his parents:
I sent you a wire today, and
I’m sorry I couldn’t write for a
few days, but I was on the train
and couldn’t write to you. I got
here last night, and I think I
am going to be here for eigh
teen weeks.
I am supposed to start to
school Friday, and I will have
one day off each week. I’m going
to like it here 1 think.
I have been given one stripe,
because everyone that goes to
school is allowd to wear a stripe.
I’ll try to write as much as
possible. Tell Uncle Dave I’ll
write to him as soon as possible.
I wrote to him a little while
back, but he hasn’t answered me
yet. Tell all my friends my newt
address, and to write to me.
I haven’t been here long
enough to klnow much about the
camp, but I’ll let you know more
later on. Write soon.
LEAVE CITY
lan Bloxam, of Atlanta, Ga.,
and Miss Barbara Bloxam, of
•Camp Rucker, Ozark, Ala., who
were called to Roxboro because
of the death of their father re
turned this week to Atlanta and
.Ozark. Mrs. lan Bloxam is re
maining here with her mother* .
'-in-law, Mrs. Percy Blmmtn,
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