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Along The Way • With the Editor A letter from James Brooks, formerly of the Peoples Bank of this city, but now at Camp Barkley, Texas, has the follow ing to say to Maynard Clayton and Sam Merritt: “I am getting rich in this man’s army, room and board free and plenty of cold drinks. They are much better than what you get from Curtis Oakley. Haven’t fully decided what the General is going to make out of me, a surgeon, a stretcher bearer or an orderly. lam going to give you some advice ... When you play golf every afternoon, fill your bag full of rocks W and then put your clubs in on top of them and play 88 holes of golf and carry your own bag. That wfill help you gtet in shape for the army. I would like for you to get in shape before your tender- weak bodies start out on this training. May nard Clayton and Bill Walker, I want you both to start staying home at nights more than you do because when the President sends you his letter of “Greetings”, you will wish that you had. Start that Times coming to me and I will pay you. Isn’t my credit any good or don’t you think that I am coming back? Think of me when you start on that second freezer of ice cream and remember me to all the boys. Always, James Brooks | bate Reuis Bulletins ARMY DAY WILL BE OBSERVED HERE Sidney Marsh, personnel manager of Plant E, Collins and Aik man, today announced that an Army Day program will be held at the Plant here Wednesday afternoon at three o’clock, with an Air Corps Lieutenant, who has recently returned from for eign service, as chief speaker. RED CROSS OFFICE HOURS SET Mrs. Sue Featherston, executive secretary of the Roxboro Chapter of the American Red Cross, today-announced that her consultation hours at Central School will be from one to four o’clock each afternoon, although the office will be open for emergency messages from nine until five each day, except dur ing the noon lunch hour. SUBMARINE R-12 REPORTED LOST OFF COAST WASHINGTON, June 26. Loss of the Submarine R-12 while engaged in training exercises off tl\e east coast was an nounced Friday by the Navy. The R-12 had a normal complement of 28 men but the navy -•' indicated some of those were saved after the sinking. The navy said the loss was probably due to accident and not enemy ac tion. Hunter Speaks Out On Abattoir Status Encouragement Os Livestock Is Involved, He Says Fear Expressed That Slaughtering Will Be Suspended This Week. Roxboro and Person residents, as of July 1, face the prospect of doing without locally slaughter ed meats unless arrangements can be completed for the con struction here of an officially approved abattoir, according to Gordon C. Hunter, executive vice president of the Peoples bank and a member and past presi dent of Roxboro Rotary club, who on Thursday night in an address at the club sought to ac quaint members with what he called the “realities of the abat toir situation in Roxboro.” . Hunter, for many years inter (fum to page four, please) 4 Resident Fishing License Available For Service Men RALEIGH, JtU|e 26. Classi fication of servicemen as resi dents of North Carolina as long as they are stationed in the state entitles them to hunting and fishing licenses on payment, of the resident fee, announced Hin ton James, commissioner of game and inland fisheries. These licenses will be placed on sale at USD clubs throughout the state where leaflets showing hunting and fishing locations av*iWWe. - FARMERS URGED TO FILE REPORTS ON COMBINES USDA Chairman, Claude T. Hall, Makes This Re quest. • Farmers of Person County who operate combines, peanut pick ers, or grain threshers this year are being asked by| the County USDA War Board to make com plete reports of acreages harvest ed by their machines and the amount of grain obtained, ac cording to Claude T. Hall, Chair man of the Board. TJiese reports, Hall said, are needed in planning distribution of feed and food crops among processors, equitable rationing of farm machinery, crop insur ance progrdtns, and withholding of sufficient supplies of seed for use in 1944. “In the present critical agri cultural production program, complete data on crop produc tion is esential to mapping of an efficient plan of production and handling,” he said. “We arts an ticipating an acreage of thresh ed crops in 1944 larger than ever before, and it will take careful planning to get these crops har vested and handled without los ses. These figures also will be helpful in setting up federal buying programs for the pur pose of assuring support prices to producers.” A 60-page booklet, issued by the Nazi in Poland, contains only the titles of Polish authors’ books that are prohibited read ing. PERSON TIMES VOLUME XIV PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY AND THURSDAY ROXBORO, N. C., SUNDAY, JUNE 27, 1943 Branch Will Open Soon For Negroes Flem Long, Mayor Wins tead And Others Will Speak At Opening Os • Negro Branch Os Library Official opening of the Negro branch of the Person County Public library will be held Thursday night, July 1, on the lawn in front of the Negro Com munity house, Roxboro, in which the new branch is to be housed. Cr J. Ford, Person Negro Farm agent and chairman of the “Friends of the Library”, a sup , (turn to page four, please) Six Person Bovs Who Went Into Sen ice Together =~— - * : « V vkf Jt v ■/ Shown above are six Person County and Roxboro young men, J. B. Dunn, Jr., Toufielk Ameen, Bobby E. Carver, top row, and Arch L. Davis, William H. Green and Harry T. Kirby, who last month posed for this picture at Keesler Field, Biloxi, Miss., where it was taken at the request of Ameen’s father, Joe Ameen, who paid thm a visit and afterwards gave each one of the boys a copy of the photograph. All except Ameen, who Is at Sioux Falls, S. D., are still at Keesler. OFFICER WARREN WILL BE HERE FEW MORE DAYS Particularly Interested In Getting Local Women In WAAC. Third Officer Margaret J. War ren, a native of Hurdle Mills, who is in the Woman's Army Auxiliary corps and who will be in Roxboro until July 1, in In terest of recruiting for the Corps, today said that a number of Rox boro and Person women have sought interviews during the past week at her booth at Leg gett’s department store. Lieut. Warren, however, is anx ious for more of the women in her home territory to serve as trainees and one of the branches of service in which she is parti cularly interested is the Signal Corps. Women interested in this work apply both for the WAAC and the Signal Corps, with the understanding that they are to take 4 training course of six months at a Signal Corps school at a salary schedule which is in- 1 creased within three months. Applicants then go into active WAAC service and take a regu lar basic training course, accord ing to Lieut. Warren. They then are ready to enter the Signal Corps of the Army. FROM CALIFORNIA Pvt. Jerrol Buchanan, of Camp McQuaide, Calif., is spending his furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Buchanan. Jimmy; At Tender Age, Discovers Mean People Jimmy Mangum, aged three, a son of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Mangum, -of Roxboro, thinks th’ere are some mighty mean people in this world. His fav orite cat and her brood of three little kittens died yesterday from poisoning. The same thing happened just about this time last year to another cat Jimmy had. There are people who hate cats: Jimmy’s beginning to un derstand that, but he wishes they would remember that there are other folks who love them, particularly, small, fris ky, furry kittens. Mystery Involving Wirtz’s Death Not Yet Cleared By FBI FBI Investigation Still Going On Says Bradsher .. Father-In-Law Returns From Funeral. Possibili ty That Wirtz Fell Off, Or Was Thrown Off Os Train. Mystery of the manner of the death of Chief Petty Officer George W. Wirtz, 30, of Prince ton, Ind., and Roxboro, a son-in law of Mr. ana Mrs. E. E. Brad sher, Sr., of Roxboro, who pre sumably fell to his death from a speeding train near Napanee, Ind., about midnight, on Wed nesday, June 16, has not yet been solved acording to Mr. Bradsher, who on last Thursday returned from Princeton, where the fun eral was held. Investigation is being made by the FBI. Wirtz was enroute to Philadelphia with seventeen young Navy men at the time of his death. In Princeton it is thought that he may have fallen from the train, or was, perhaps, thrown from it. The body rolled about 100 feet from the spot where it struck the ground, Mr. (Turn to page four please) Three Boys Advance At l Keesler Field Group Os Six Leaves Roxboro Together. Tou fielk Ameen Only One To Leave Keesler. Three Roxboro and Person County young men, all of whom are in the air corps and are sta tioned at Keesler Field, Miss., have this week been advanced to rank of private first class, ac cording to announcement receiv ed today. They are: John B. Dunn, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. John B. (Turn to page four please) [GEORGE CUSHWAS MOTHER DIES AT HIS HOME HERE Rites Will Be Held This Afternoon At Blackstone, Va. Mrs. Nannie Charles Cushwa, 82, a native of Washington Coun ty, Maryland, mother of George J. Cushwa, secretary of Roxboro Cotton Mills, died here Friday at the Reams avenue home of her son, whom she was visiting. Death resulted from a heart at tack. She was the wife of the late Samuel Cushwa, whose death occurred in Roxboro in Septem ber 1941, but she had for several years made her home in Ken bridge, Va., with her daughter, Mrs. C. P. Ripberger. Grave Side rites will be held in the cemetery at Blackstone, Va., Sunday afternoon at four o’clock, the funeral party leaving Rox boro that afternoon at one o’- clock. Surviving, in addition to her son and daughter, are twelve grandchildren qpd five great grandchildren. She was a mem ber of the Episcopal church. i Duncan, Cleared By Person OP A, Gets Back His Gas Books POLLOCK WILL PRESENT PROGRAM ON STABILIZATION Certificates Os Avail ability Will Also Come Up At Court House Meeting. P. B. Pollock, a director of the Manpower Commission, is ex pected to be in Roxboro on Thursday evening July 1, to dis ! cuss the War Stabilization pro gram and its application to lo cal industry. The meeting, to be held at Person Court House, will begin at 8:30 o’clock. , A representative of the Dur (continued from page four) Late Tobacco May Mean Delayed Year Meeting Os United States Association Leaders Cal led This Week In Rich mond. C. C. Jackson, assistant Person Farm Agent, today said that tobacco growth here is from one to three weeks behind sche dule and that it is entirely pos sible that the delayed season generally will force a later than September 7, date for opening of the Old Belt and other mar kets. Cool weather extending into late Spring, plus the prevalence of blue mold in many sections, accounts for the delayed season, according to Jackson, who also said that growers have not yet begun priming, although it was not unusual in former years to have the curing begin this early. Jackson also reported that the crop this year be of medium quality and that many growers, apparently because of labor shortages, have under planted their allotments. Annual meeting of the United States Tobacco association will be held Tuesday and Wednesday at Hotel John Marshall, Rich mond, Va., at which time open ing dates for the various belts will be set. It is expected that E. D. Matthews, of Winston- Salem, Old Belt president, as well as other representatives, will attend. Many Residents , Attend Rites For Person Minister Held Friday in Durham at the Hall-Wynn funeral home were rites tor the Rev. F. B. Peele, 55, pastor of the Durham circuit and for the past three years a resi dent of Roxboro, iwho died Thursday morning at Watts hos pital. Interment was in the fami ly cemetery at Gibson. Rites in Durham were in charge of the Rev. Dr. F. S. Love,, and the Rev. W. V. Mcßae, both of Durham, and the Rev. J. H. Shore, of Roxbacol a former pastor of the Person 'tircuit. In Durham for the service were many Roxboro residents, includ ing members'of the churches of the Person Circuit. NUMBER 75 Hearing Panel Revokes Books Os Willie Clayton * Several Others Get Stiff ’ Warning. One Man, Falsely Accused, Exon erated. John Lewis Duncan, of Route 1, Woodsdale, Person County, who last week surrendered his A and B gasoline ration books to the Danville, Va., OPA, was on Fri j day morning cleared of all charg es of “pleasure driving’’ brought ; by that Board. j Action in the case, final ac tion, came from the hearing pan , el of the Person GPA Board, Rox ■ boro, to which the Danville board | referred the case. Verdict of the j Person Board is that Duncan , was “not guilty of any violation ! because he was in Danville on his | A Book to see his father on busi i ness and bought no gasoline in i Virginia.” Chairman of the Person hear ing panel is Sam Byrd Winstead, of Roxboro. Other members are I Roxboro Chief of Police George C. Robinson and Phillip L. Thom : as, Person OPA chairman, also S of Roxboro. i The hearing panel at the same | tim<i reviewed five or six other : cases, among them one against j Willie Clayton, of Route three, | Roxboro, who did not appear at the Friday hearing, although he was summoned by mail. Because (continued from page four) DEMOCRATSMEET TO SEECT NEW BOARD MEMBER Dawes Calls Meeting To Select Successor To W. R. Wilkerson. R. B. Dawes, chairman of the Person County Democratic Exe cutive committee, yesterday is sued a call for a committee ses sion to be held at Person Coun ty Court House to select a suc cessor to the late W. R. Wilker son on the Person County School board. The meeting .was held Satur day at two o’clock. Wilkerson, for many years chairman of the Board, died several weeks ago after having served twenty years as chairman. Present members of the Board are E. E. Bradsher. Sr., Claude T. Hall, Dr. J. D. Fitzgerald and Clyde Satterfield, the last two being new members to succeed the late B. G. Crump ton and the late Ralph Cole, both of whom, died shortly after the April session. Next meeting of the Board will be held in July 1 and it is expected that a chairman will be chosen at that time. Has Three Sons r, In Army Ranks Mrs. C. G. Humphries, of Rox boro, who until recently lived on a Person County farm, has four sons, but only the youngest, 1# years of age, is left at home ft> help tenants manage the farm. The three others, Roger, 24, in Africa, Plucie, 26, in Iceland and Elvin, 28, of Fort Banning, are PrivatesMn the Army. The elder daughter is a defense plant worker, while the younger one la a student in a business college.
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