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-mmfc- - PW bate news Bulletins mmm : AW AND RELIGION GO TOGETHER IN JULY ( County Negroes at Cedar Grove, near Gran ■Vflle, and at Vernon Hill, are busy with their annual As sociations pnd in attendance are Person Sheriff M. T. ' -XHayton and deputies, who report little trouble. The one ' . .at Verpon Hill has just ended. WILL GIVE AND TAKE AT ROTARY soldiers, Cpl. Landon Whitt, and Lieut. S?ipam Smith Humphries, are expected to participate ;, tt tonight's Rotary club program at Hotel Roxboro, C Vrh«re.a Military question and answer program is to be HANES AND PARTY SPEAK TONIGHT AT COURT ‘ HOUSE \ Robert M. Hanes and Tom Carroll, both of Winston and J. H. McEwen, of Burlington, will speak .Vfwflght at eight o’clock at Person County Court House m interest of the United War Fund program. Tax Rate To Remain Same For Nfew Fiscal Year TOBfCCO GROWERS Expect to vote TM SATURDAY ’ RALEIGH, July 21. All farmers engaged in the produc tion of flue-cured tobacco in 1943 are eligible to vote in the tobac co marketing quota referendum of Saturday, July 24, say War Food Administration officials. It iif explained that in the case of a husband and wife engaged in the production of flue-cured tobacco as joint owner: of a farm, each is eligible to vote. North Carolina growers have greatly profited from tobacco marketing quotas during the six period they have been in effect, both on tobacco and cth crops grown in the state, says Julian E. Mann, in charge ' ofExtension studies at State Col lege. : Comparing the before quota years of 1928 to 1932 with the six tobacco quota years, average yields of tobacco increased from 892 pounds to 942 pounds per per acre. On 133,000 less acres and with correspondingly less expense, North Carolina grewers produced total crops which aver aged 513 million pounds of to jp ? (turn to page five, please ml Cornelius Ashley Rites Held At Antioch Church Cornelius Ashley, 64, promi nent Helena farmer and lifelong member of Antioch Baptist fchurch died Sunday morning at Community hospital, where he |had been a patient for two ‘ weeks from a heart attack. Funeral rites were held Mon pAay afternoon at 5 o’clock at An tioch church by the Rev. R. W. , Hovis, with interment in the church cemetery. . Surviving are one daughter, If ary Lou Ashley of the home; five brothers, H. T. Ashley of Fuquay Springs, V. G. Ashley, -of Burlington, R. T., M. P. and G. A. Ashley, all of Helena; three sisters, Mrs. Milly Hempworth, Mrs. Rosa Mooney and Mrs. Pol ite Gajrrett, all of Person County. He was a son of the late Mr. and *frs. J- W- Ashley. - . Chaplain Daane To Be Speaker Deane, of-Camp Butner and Roxboro, will be lin t riltfifrffrr Sunday morning Mrs. Carver Has | Confirmation Os Official Title i Wine and Beer Curfew for Sunday Passes. Meat Shortage Takes Up Much j Time. Library Getsi No Increase In Appropria tion. | ; j .. j New tax rate for the City of Roxboro is $1.35. same as the old 1 rate, according to announcement | from Mayor S. G. Winstead, who ! said today that City Commission ers at their July meeting Tues -1 day night, also gave final ap proval to the budget for the new i fiscal year. ! By action of the Board, which j has not yet selected a new City | Manager to succeed the late Per cy Bloxam, Mrs. Hattie C. Carv | er, has been given official title Jof Tax Collector for the City of i i Roxboro. The step was taken in I recognition of her work in the | City office and will also be a i business safeguard. She will, of course, be required to post a bond. Administrative duties are ! also in her charge until a new City Manager is chosen. Miss Ernestine Grafton, tri county librarian, was one of numbers of citizens interested in departmental appropriations and the Commissioners voted for the Person County Public) Library, Chub Lake street, an appropria tion of three hundred dollars, the same amount as the complete City library appropriation last year. Amount sought was four hundred dollars, chiefly to pay library salary to thg clerk. A Sunday wine and beer cur few, in conformity with the one for the County, 11:30 P. M. Sat urday, through 7 A. M., Mon day, was adopted, to be effective this Sunday. Chief support for the measure came from church groups with only small dissent from among Commissioners. Postponed for further consid eration was the Stephen Georg es’ beer and wine license matter, although it was discussed at this session. Much time was taken up with consideration of the alleged meat shortage in Roxboro and one outcomq of the discussion was adoption of resolutions sim ilar to those passed last week by the Person Meat Board, call ing for moderation of OPA and Health department requests. Commissioners present were Gordon C. Hunter, Philip L. , Thomas, C. Lester Brooks and R. Cliff Hall, together with Mayor , Winstead and City Attorney F. O. Carver, Sr., while absent was ; Commissioner George J. Cushwa. ■ 1 STOLEN CAR FOUND , •Dpputy Bob Whitt yesterday { reported recovery at a Stolen au- , was parked for ; PERSON TIMES VOLUME XIV PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY AND THURSDAY ROXBORO, N .C., THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1943 NUMBER 81 City Officials In Abattoir Protest See Black Market It. li. Lunsford, City merchant, Dies Ht Home One Os Roxbiffo's Oldest Merchants Funeral At His Home Today. j Lennie L. Lunsford, 73, for ; forty-two years a Roxboro mer ! chant and a member of a pioneer Person family, died Wednesday morning at his Reams avenue ! home here after a illnes last ing six months. Death was at- | ! tributed to heart trouble with ! \ complications. In 1897 he married Miss Laura I Lewis Satterfield, of Roxboro, * also member of a prominent Per- j son family. He retired from busi ness in 1936 and his Court street j store is now operated by one of three sons, Lennie N. Lunsford. Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at four o’- ! clock at the residence, Reams | avenue, by Elder Spangle, of the Primitive Baptist church, Dan ville, Va., with interment follow ing in Burchwood cemetery, Rox boro. Survivors, in addition to his i wife, include, three sons, Rob | ert W., a Roxboro warehouse j man, Lennie N., and W. H. Luns ford, all of Roxboro, three aaugh- - ters, Mrs. H. A. Newton, of Rougemont, and Mrs. Mason Crew’s and Mrs. Tom Brooks, j both of Roxboro. Also surviving are seventeen grandchildren and two sisters, Mrs. S. R, Carring ton, of Durham, and Mrs. J. J. Rogers, of Timberlake. Pallbearers will be Ernest Lunsford, Ben Wade, John Moore, Jesse Rogers, J. Bernard Luns ford and Clyde Satterfield, all nephews. FLEMING WILL BE PERSON CIRCUIT’S SUPPLY MINISTER Texas Man And Divinity Student Will Begin Work Here This Sun day. M. D. Fleming, of Gainesville, Texas, a senior in the divinity j school, Duke University, Dur ham, has accepted appointment as pastor of churches of the Per son Circuit, Roxboro, succeeding 1 the late Rev. F. B. Peele. I Fleming, who will serve until j the end of the Methodist confer ence year in November, will be gin his duties this Sunday. He has been in Roxboro several weeks as a pastoral assistant to the Rev. W. T. Medlin, Jr., of Longhurst, and will continue res idence with him while in Rox- j boro. Fleming’s appointment to the Person Circuit was announc ed this week by the Rev. F. S. Love, of Durham, district super intendent. Fleming, who is a graduate of Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, is the son of the ■ Rev. and Mrs. J. P. Fleming, of Gainesville. It is expected that Mrs. F. B. Peele and the members of her family will continue to occupy the Person circuit residence in Roxboro for some time. The Per son circuit consists of five churches, among them Concord and Oak Grove. Chief Petty officer and Mrs. Henry Sergeaht are returning Sunday to Williamsburg, Va., af ter a vWt here. - Resolutions In Line With Those Os Meat Board Vigorous Language. Hut No Action. Resolutions Score Obstructionist Government Agencies. Newest development in a two months long discussion of the abattoir situation here took place today when Rcxborc City Com .missioners in a series of resolu jtions protesting arbitrary restric tions on the slaughtering of cat , tie and hogs in Person County, 'alleged that the meat shortage situation here is "gravely acute” I and dispatched copies of the re solutions, drawn up at Tuesday night’s July session, to both the State, division of OPA, Raleigh, ! and the Person unit Os the tri county health department, Rox . boro. Threats of a black market un less government agencies come to reason are hinted at. The resolutions, as drawn up by City Attorney F. O. Carver, at request of the City Board of Commissioners, state that the Board is “entirely sympathetic toward any practical project for establishment of an abattoir lo cally, and proposes to encourage (it) in every reasonable way”, (TtTfft to page four please) FOX ASSOCIATES |IN RESTAURANT WORK IN CITY Bowling Center Shop Be comes The Luncheonette, With William Fox in Charge. Motor Club Moves Location. Mr. and Mrs. W. Maxie Fox, both of Roxboro, and their son, William Fox, of Roxboro and Washington, have purchased from O. Teague Kirby and Jesse Rog ers their interests in the Bowl ing Center Sandwich shop and have opened a new establish ment, The Luncheonette, in the Bowling Center location. The transfer was completed the first of the. week. William Fox, who has had restaurant ex jperience both in Washington and j Roxboro, is an alumnus of Duke ( University, while Mrs. Maxie Fox has for a ' number of years served as dietician at Communi ty hospital. Food specialties will include home-made pies and cakes, to gether with sandwiches, special plates and fountain service. It is understood that Rogers will be come connected with the tobac co markets, planning first to go South. | His wife, Mrs. Linda T. Rog ers, manager of the Carolina Mo tor club, Roxboro branch office, whioh has been in the Bowling Center place, will move her of fice to the store in the Kirby building formerly occupied by Foushee and King. Her hours will be from eleven A. M., to three-thirty P. M„ and the same motor club service will be main- tained. i* • f " 1 VISITS HERE i Miss Annie Laurie Day, of i Durham, formerly of Roxboro, • who is now connected with tKe Durham Telephone company, 1 spent Wednesday in Roxboro. \ Her brother, L°uis (Red) Day, 1 is still stationed sit Camp Mac- < kail, where he is with the para- * Clerk Selects J. A. Long, Jr., As Person’s New Commissioner Brings ’Em Back I c. \V. HOLEMAN C. ID. Goes To Oran To Get Captured nazis Germans Really Believed New York Had Been Bombed, Says Roxboro Boy. In Roxboro the military police boys who come from Camp But ner have nothing more exciting Ito do than to assist with the : ; locking up of one or two of their fellow soldiers who have looked at wine when it was red, but there is one Roxboro native, Cpl, C. W. Holeman, in the mili- J tary police and until recently , stationed in Detroit, Mich., who j has run into adventure. Holeman, who visited his par- j ents, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hole man, of Hurdle Mills, this week, ! has recently returned from a transport trip to Oran, Africa, the return lap of which was made with Holeman as one of several guards for a group of German officers, prisoners of ! war. (turn to page five, please ! Lieut. Humphries Never Knows When He f s Coming Home Accidents Rule His Visits And Send Him Flying Visits To Hospital That Was To Last Two Days Causes Him To Lose Clothing. Lieut. William Smith Humph ries, of Roxboro and Bethel Hill, a son of Mrs. J. Y. Humphries and a graduate of Wake Forest college, is beginning to wonder when he will obtain a regular \ furlough. He’s at home again now for several days, but al though he has been in the Army nearly two years, his visits have thus far been due to special cir cumstances. His-present trip to Roxboro started nearly two months ago, iwhile serving with an artillery unit ' on desert maneuvers in California and Arizona. He suck ed up too much desert dust and I went to an El Paso hospital. Be fore he was well jiis unit was I “shipped out”, taking with it part of his personal belongings. Being a man without a unit, he waq then sent to Caim> Wallace, Texas, where he had f | one other (Turn W Appointment Goes To Young Man, Who Will Serve Until December 1944 MRS. STANFIELD, OF PROSPECT HILL, DIES IN HOSPITAL Wife Os J. W. Stanfield Had Been 111 Two Weeks. Mrs. Carrie Mae Stanfield, 54, of Prospect Hill, wife of J. W. Stanfield, died Sunday at Ala mance General hospital, Burling ton, after an illness lasting two | weeks. She had been in ill health I six months. [ A native of Caswell county, j she was a daughter of the late 1 Stephen and Nettie Baynes j Stanfield and was a member of the Lea Bethel church, Prospect Hill, where the funeral was held Tuesday afternoon at three o’- clock by the Revs. L. V. Cog gins and P. T. Worrell. Inter ment was in the Baynes Baptist church cemetery. In addition to her husband, [survivors include: three daugh- I ters. Mrs. R. W. Phillips, Greens- I boro, Mrs. J. B. Kirby, Prospect ! Hill, and Miss Clara Ellen Stan field, of the home .Also surviv i ing is one son, Harold. Stanfield, |of the home, together with four : grandchildren, two brothers, Ira ! and Monroe Stanfield, both of | Burlington, and seven sisters. 1 Sisters are, Mesdames Lillie Richmond, Charles Keenon, D. 18. Day and I. S. Alridge, all of ■ Burlington, O. M. Morgan, | Greensboro, D. O. Chandler, i Yanceyville, and L. B. Alridge, i 1 of Saxapahaw. ARRIVES TODAY Col. Hassell Whitfield, of Fort j j Benning, Ga., is spending a few [ days here with his parents, Mr. ! and Mrs. Frank Whitfield, Bushy ! Fork. Brickhouse Leaves Today For Period Os Military Service W. H. Brickhouse, director of landscaping for Collins and Aik man, Plant E, and particularly active in Boy Scout work in the Person District, left today for Raleigh to enter military ser vice. Hrickhouse, who has had residence on Lamar Street, said yesterday that he does not yet j know the type of work to which | he will be assigned, nor does he know where he will be station-) ed. At monthly session of the' I Scout District Tuesday night keen regret was expr-ssea over Briekbouse’s leaving and J. S. Merritt, chairman, directed W. Wallace Woods, corresponding secretary, to send to Brickhouse a letter conveying the District’s expression of appreciation and good wishes. Mrs. Brickhouse is expected to join her husband later. - ON VISIT HERE Lieut. Ben Brown- of the U. S. JVW, formerly of Roxboro, left ■today for Port Bliss. - I Announcement Given In Formal Statement To Be l Filed With County Re cords. Perhaps First Such Appointment In Person History. i J- A. (Jimmy) Long, Jr., Rox boro, purchasing agent and as sistant treasurer of Roxboro Cot ! ton Mills, will be a Person Coun , ty Commissioner to fill out the . [ unexpired term of M. Banks Ber ry, who recently resigned in or ■ [ der to accept membership on | , the State Board of Barber ex aminers. Long’s appointment to the , Person Board of Commissioners 1 ; was made Tuesday by Miss Sue * C. Bardsher, clerk of Person ■ Superior Court, in whom author ity for filling the vacancy was vested under law. He will serve until December 1944. Member of a family prominent lin Person and Roxboro life for many years, Long is a son of the j late J. A. Long, Sr., and a grand son of the first J. A. Long, found er of Roxboro Cotton mills and I other Roxboro interprises, i The new Person commission er will atted his first meeting next month. He is an alumnus of Duke University and of North Carolina State college, Raleigh. | He. has never sought public of | fice and this is his first venture jin it, although he has been ac l tive in social and civic affairs in the County and City and is a 1 member of the Board of Direct -1 ors of Roxboro Chamber of Com ! merce and a Kiwanian. j Formal notification of the ap pointment, signed by Miss Brad i sher, is to be entered in the j minutes of the Board of County | Commissioners, of which other members are Frank T. Whit ! field, chairman, of Bushy Fork, i and W. H. Gentry, of Allensville. The notification reads: * It appearing to the undersigned Clerk of the Superior Court of Person County, North Carolina, that a vacancy exists in the pres ent membership of the Board of | Commissioners of Person County | by reason of the fact that one of j the duly elected and qualified j members of that Board, to-wit, M. Banks Berry, has been ap pointed by the Governor of North Carolina as a member of the State Board of Blarber Examin j ers, and that M. Banks Berry has taken the oath of office as a (turn to page four, please) Renewal Blanks For Fuel Oil * Must Be Returned All renewal blanks for fuel oil for 1943-44 should be returned to the Ration Board immediate ly. Any change in address should be marked clearly on the appli cation. All stubs from coupon ! sheets must be surrendered j within 20 days after they ex pire. j Twin Chickens it Hatch On Farm Near Roxboro , 4 Thurman (Slick) Williams, a Negro tenant farmer, who lives about six miles from Roxboro, has twin 'baby chickens. Hatched two days ago, the twins, ported to be developing normal- \ ly. • , ' ’ . 111 ||M|
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