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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
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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
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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.
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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
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Wine and Beer Curfew
for Sunday Passes. Meat
Shortage Takes Up Much
j Time. Library Getsi No
Increase In Appropria
tion.
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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. ■
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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ON VISIT HERE
Lieut. Ben Brown- of the U. S.
JVW, formerly of Roxboro, left
■today for Port Bliss.
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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. • , ' ’ .
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