hate neuis Bulletins
PRESIDENT PROMISES NO RESPITE
WASHINGTON, July 28. President Roosevelt, declaring
the allies will not settle this war “for less than total victory,”
promised last night that Mussolini and his fascist gang will be
“punished, for their crimes against humanity along with all
other leaders of the axis.
COFFEE RATIONING AT END
WASHINGTON, July 28.—President Roosevelt announced
tonight the end of coffee rationing for civilians and a probable
increase in sugar allotments. He attributed the moves to a vast
increase in available shipping space and greater success in the
war against U-boats.
Faithful Work By
Life-Savers Fails
W ith Drowned Boy
Longhurst Youth, Son Os Venson
Shelton And Os Mrs. Dunn, Drowns
Fatal Accident Os Last
Night Draws Large
Crowd To Muddy Pool
Near Highway.
Charlie T. Shelton, 13, of Long
hurst, a son of Venson Shelton,
of Roxboro, and of Mrs. John
Rufus Dunn, of Longhurst, was
drowned last night In a rain
swollen creek near his home,
when he apparently dived into a
seven or eight foot pool of mud
dy water and struck his head on
a rock.
The body was discovered a
bout seven-twenty-five o'clock
by two older boys, Waddell
Jones, 15, and Bill Snolw, 16,
who went to the pool about that
time for a swim. Snow’s
foot is reported to have touched
Shelton's body. Shelton, swim
ming alone, is said to have gone
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Person Growers On
Controlßandwagon
For Weed Output
Luther Dixon Gets
Highest Grade At
Training Center
Cadet Luther V. Dixon, of
Roxboro, who several months
ago was assigned to the Air
Corps Training center at St.
Paul’s school, Concord, New
Hampshire, has completed
e*om -country flying training
there and has been transferred
to Burlington, Vermont, at the
Northeastern Airline school for
link training.
His wife, the former Miss
Todd, of AUensville, is remain
ing In Hexham daring Cadet
Dixon’s training. Dixon receiv
ed the highest flight grade
ever made at St. Pant's.
QVIL SERVICE
EXAMINATIONS FOR
LIBRARIANS GIVEN
Details Can Be Obtained
From C. C. Garrett, Rox
boro, Or From Washing
ton.
To meet anticipated needs for
library assistants in Federal
agencies, the U. S. Civil Service
Commission today opened a new
examination. Persons qualifying
may be appointed to positions
paying $1970 and $1752 a year.
Replacements are needed fre
quently both in Federal depart
mental libraries, particularly* in
Washington, D. C., and in naval
station libraries throughout the
country. Library assistants in
naval air and training stations
enlisted men going'
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SHELTON’S FATHER
GOES ON TO ARMY
DESPITE TRAGEDY
Expected To Return To
night. Other Men Also
Leave.
Venson Tyler Shelton, 34, of
Roxboro, a cotton mill employee,
whose 13 year old son, Charlie
T. Shelton, was drowned last
night in a muddy pool near
Longhurst, left this morning for
Fort Bragg, a volunteer under
selective service.
Funeral for the son will be
held Friday afternoon at four
o'clock at Longhurst Methodist
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Ceiling Price Os
Forty-One Cents
Reported Set
Three Year Plan Goes
Over In Person Area.
OPA Reports To Rep.
Durham On Ceiling Price.
Person tobacco growers to the .
number of 2,302, voted in Satur
day’s crop control referendum r
and of this number 1,893 favored !
control for three years, while 36
voted for the plan for one year
and 121 were opposed to any :
form of control, according to G.
L. Catlette, of the Agricultural
Conservation Service association.
Official tabulation was given
Tuesday, when 247 challenged ‘
votes and five spoiled or defaced
ballots were examined. Person
farmers, Catlette said, in about
a twenty to one ratio followed
the voting trend observed in
other Counties in various belt
areas.
The OPA on Sunday informed
Rep. Carl T. Durham, of Chapel
Hill, that the price ceiling on
flue-cured tobacco sold in auc
tion markets is now (on Tues
day) at forty-one .cents a pound. 1
Farm scrap may bring 5 cents 1
a pound on the weighted average 1
purchase price for the season, (
the OPA said. The farm scrap ]
and auction scrap may not be 1
included in computation of sea- '
son’s weight average of the pur- i
chase price, the agency has rul- J
ed. Pin hooker transactions are )
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JOHNSON ILL <
M. G. Johnson mahager of Rox* <
boro Drug company, is a pati
ent at McPherson hospital, Dur- i
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PERSON TIMES
VOLUME XIV PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY AND THURSDAY ROXBORO, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1943
Consistant Growth
In Membership Os
City Group Seen
Commerce Body Under Woods Does
Many Jobs Helpful To Citizens
With David S. Brooks, president, presiding, members
of the Board of Directors of Roboro Chamber of com
merce at their July meeting held Monday night heard
from Secretary W. Wallace Woods encouraging reports
concerning activities of the Chamber for the past two
months.
Ileui Prices On
Georgia market
Go Skyward
Georgia-Florida Opening
Prices 10 to 15 cents
Higher Than Season
Average.
ATLANTA, Ga., July 28.
Flue-cured tobacco brought from
10 to 15 cents a pound more than
last season’s average price as
auctions opened Tuesday in the
Georgia-Florida belt and an ex
tension service specialist report
ed prices for lower grades “sur
passed all expectations.”
E. C. Westbrook, tobacco spe
cialist for the Georgia agricul
ture extension service, said the
unexpected prices for low grades
was particularly true of the
Moultrie, Ga., market. Leaf that
sold for three or four cents a
pound last year brought from 25
to 38 cents a pound there.
Over the 15 Georgia markets
and the two in Florida sales ex
ceeded the 41 cent average ceil
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Pfc. Fred H. Fox
Comes Home To
Be With Wife
Mrs. Fred Hampton Fox, the
former Miss Talitha Hall, wife
of Pfc. Fred H. Fox, of Pyote,
Texas, who is here with her, un
derwent an operation yesterday
morning at Community hospital.
Her condition is said to be sat
isfactory.
Mr. Fox, who entered the Army
in November of last year, is now
with the 31st Airdrome Squad
ron, Army Air Base at Pyote,
where he is an airplane armorer.
Formerly with the Rose store
in Roxboro Fox, since he entered
the Army, has seen service in
five States South Carolina, Flor
ida Colorado, Nevada and Tex
as and for a brief time was at
Salt Lake City Utah.
Mrs. Fox is a daughter of Mrs.
N. R. - Hall, of Roxboro.
Girl Who Rode In Barouche
Without Doors, Got Her Man
(By Mrs. A. R. Davis as told to
Thomas J. Shaw, Jr.)
Nosey neighbors were nosey
neighbors in the old days no less
than now, as witness a letter of
Oct. 12, 1852, written by Charles
Gay of Walkertown to “My
Dearest Mollie”, the girl he later
married, in which this advice is
included: “Should you receive
this (letter) befr re you go to
Richmond, it v/ould be well to
put your reply in the office
there and then your neighbors
could know nothing of it If it is
put in there Monday or Thurs
day I should receive it the next
Present possessor of the letter
from Charles it Mrs. A. R. Davis,
id Roxboro, a granddaughter of
the couple, whose ihother, the
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| Woods cited figures to show, j
that service requests from mem
bers are being made each month
in increasing numbers and men
tioned specifically services now
being rendered to a non-resident
member with Roxboro business
interests. New memberships now
stand at eleven, eight in regular
j classification and three in the
| professional division,
j Directors praised Woods and
! his own secretarv. Miss Dorothy
I
| Taylor for work being acccm
-1 plished and particular apprecia
; tion for the recent "Newspaper
| Appreciation Week ' and Rox
j boro anniversary observance was
j voiced by J. S. Merritt, editor of
| the Person County Times and a
member of the Chamber’s Board
of directors.
] Discussed also was the coming
Tobacco Market season, together
I with plans to increase further
I the efficiency and service of the
' Chamber of Commerce. It was
brought out that the Secretary,
in addition to regular duties,, has
recently conducted investiga
tions on vagrancy statutes, the
| Abattoir situation and small
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ROXBORO WOMAN’S
BROTHER DIES IN
SHIP ACCIDENT
William E. Jarvi, Os Du
luth, Minn., Was Brother
Os Mrs. Robert Carroll.
Mrs. Robert Carroll, of Rox
! boro, was on Friday informed
[ of the death of her brother, Wil
liam E. Jarvi, 32, of 706 \k West
| Second street, Duluth, Minn.,
I fireman on the Great Lakes
1 steamer “C. H. McCullough Jr.”
Jarvi, who received fatal in
! juries from steam bums while
on the ship, died in a Sault Ste.
Marie hospital, to which he was
taken by the Coast Guard.
A native of Wisconsin, he is
also survived by his wife, a son
William, a brother Arthur, all of
Duluth, and his father, John Jar
vi, of Calumet Mich,
Mrs. Carroll returned Tues
day from the funeral.
late Mrs. Mary Gay Barnette, of
this City, was their daughter.
It would scarcely do to say
that Gay, in 1852, was a con
ceited young man, but he begins
the letter in this tone: “You will
perceive from the date of this
that it was but yesterday I part
ed with you, and yet I have no
apology to make for writing so
soon other than the conscious
ness of the fact that it is at all
times and under all circumstan
ces gratifying to you to receive
a letter from me.”
His real excuse for writing
the letter, he says to Mollie, is
because he “had forgotten to in
quire whether you iwould all
leave for William’s wedding on
the day of it, or the day before.”
In any case, Charlie wants to
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Stovall Gets
Lieutenant's
Post Id Gavy
Popular Roxboro Young
Man Gets Naval Commis
sion.
Robert Glenn STOvall, a Uni
versity of ’ North Carolina grad
uate, a Granville County native
and since 1938 a Roxboro resi
dent and prominent young busi
ness man, on Monday, Aug., 9,
will report to Babson Park,
Wellesley, Mass., for service
Gets Commission
R. GLENN STOVALL
with the United States Navy in
which he was last week commis
sioned as. a. Lieutenant, junior
grade.
Stovall's business, the Tar
Heel Chevrolet company, Rox
boro, of which he is secretary
treasurer and manager, will con
tinue as usual during his. ab
sence and his wife and young
son, Glenn, Jr., will continue
i residence in Roxboro.
Stovall, who is an active mem
i ber of Roxboro Rotary club and
j a former president of Roxboro
: Chamber of Commerce, is second
official of the Tar Heel Comp my
to enter military service, the
other being William Yancey, of
the U. S. Army, Fort Bragg.
Stovall is also president of the
Eveready Chevrolet company,
1 Henderson.
He first attended public
.schools in Granville County and
for a time after graduation from
i the University, Chapel Hill, was
a teacher at Fayetteville, where
he headed the high school sci
ence department. Subsequently,
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VISIT BURGERS
Mesdames H. J. Broughton and
A. B. Lilly together with Mrs.
Broughton’s daughter, Nancy
Lee, all of Grand Rapids, Mich.,
*are guests of Mr. and Mrs. Karl
I Burger at Hotel Roxboro. They
! are sisters of Mrs. Burger.
OXFORD GOES
AHEAD WITH ITS
RECREATION PLANS
Service )Club Will Open
Friday Night. Miss Hob
good In Charge.
OXFORD, July 29. Miss
Inez Hobgood, for many years a
member of the faculty of the Ox
ford schools and more recently a
personnel director for the Na
tional Youth Administration,
Monday was elected Director of
Recreation in the Town of Ox
ford. j
Miss Hobgood, (daughter of
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Charlie V. Walker
Pays Heavy Fine
In Wreck Case
Admits Drinking But Says He Doesn’t
Know Cause Os Nearly Fatal Crash
Charlie V. Walker of Woodsdale, driver of a car which
about two weeks ago struck a machine driven by Miss
Annie M. Young on Longhurst highway, causing it to
overturn and slightly injure Miss Young and two other
occupants, got out rather lightly Tuesday in Person Re
corders’ Court, where he faced charges of drunken driv
ing, careless and reckless driving and speeding.
Raymond Huff,
Skipyarder, In
Family Spat
Must Contribute To Sup
port Os Family. Albert
Owen, Os East Roxboro,
Also In Trouble.
Raymond Huff, of near Allens
ville, identified as a shipyards
worker in Norfolk, Va., who has
contributed little to the support
of his wife and children resident
in Person County, and who, when
he did come home for the week
is alleged to have assaulted
his wife with a deadly weapon,
will have to pay for his alleged
offenses or serve 18 months on
the roads.
Judge R. B. Dawes, who on
Tuesday heard the assault case
. in Person Recorders’ court, plac
ed Huff under a suspended sen
, tence on condition that he not
further molest his wife, pay the
costs, and for the next twelve
months contribute SSO per month
for support of his four children.
Albert Owen, charged with as
sault on a female, tw’o counts,
one on his wife Gracie Owen,
another on his step-daughter,
Dorothy Clay, received respec
tive sentences of six months and
three months on the roads, both
' suspended on conditiin that he
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Kiwanians To Seek
Old Shoes As Aid
Community Project
I'Soldiers Leave
[But Beer Ban
Reduces Mischief
S. G. Winstead, Mayor of
Roxboro and judge of City
Court, got a shock Monday
morning when court was con
vened. He had what he called
a good story: there were no
cases on a docket usually
crowded with anywhere from
six to a dozen cases involving
drunkenness and fighting.
Scarcity of offenders was at
tributed to imposition of the
new Sunday curfew on the sale
of wine and beer.
Similar effectiveness of the
curfew reduced the labors of
Sheriff M. T. Clayton, who re
ported but one week-end ease,
one dealing with non-support,
and made lighter the work of
Roxboro Chief of Police Geo
rge C. Robinson, Jailer W. L.
King and of staff members of
City and County law enforce
ment deportments.
It was, however, noticed tha{
soldiers who came to Roxboro
for the week-end left earlier
than usual, probably because
of suapenslm of the sale
wine and beer.
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NUMBER 83
Under terms of the judgement
rendered by Judge R. B. Dawes;
| Walker is placed under a sus-
I pended sentence of twelve
! months on the roads, with the
| provision that he pay a fine of
, S2OO and the costs. Walker ad
mitted that he was in an intoxi
cated condition at the time and
claimed that he then had no
knowledge of how the accident
happened.
His sentence would have been
more severe, as Judge Dawes in
dicated, but for certain modify
ing circumstances that develop
ed on part of the owner of the
Young machine, w T ho had some
liability insurance.
With Walker at the time of
the accident was Robert Bowes,
about 28, of Roxboro, Route L
With Miss Young in her car
were Misses Pattie Sue and
1 Esther Gravitte, all Collins and
1 Aikman employees and all on
! their way to work at the time of
T
the accident, when their car was
not only knocked across the
"highway but turned completely
around after having been struck
from behind by Walker’s car, go
ing in the same direction. .(
Witnesses called included?
Deputy Sheriff Baxter Dunn and
State Highway Patrolman John
Hudgins, who did investigating,
and Rev. R. W. Hovis, Baptist
’minister, A. D. Painter, J. E. Wil
son, Ernest Solomon and Jonah
Walker. The three women invol
' ved in the accident escaped with
i minor injuries. f
R. D. Bumpass t
And Others On
Committee
Cpl. Landon Whitt Makes
Second Address Os Week.
Long And Gentry Show -
Life-Saving Methods.
Roxboro Kiwanians, under aus
pices of their Underprivileged
Committee, of which R. D. Bum
pass is chairman, will soon
launch a campaign to collect
worn, but wearable, shoes suit
able both for children and adults.
The shoes to be collected, ac
cording to Bumpass, are to bo
sent to Mrs. T. C. Wagstaff di
rector of the Person Department
of Public welfare, to be distribu
ted aocording to needs discover
ed. Other members of the com
mittee are Bob Wilson and Dr.
Robert E. Long.
Decision to stage the shoo
campaign here was reached at
the regular meeting of Kiwanis
Monday night at Hotel Roxboro,
where it was pointed out that
some citizens, because of scarci
ties and high prices, are unable
to obtain adequate shoes, parti
cularly for children of school
age-
Program of the week for the
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