Along The Way
With the Editor
' r Woe is me! I have had a lot of hard luck but I never thought
: that the worst would befall me. Now it has happened. Bill
“Sheep” Walker is moving from his present residence on the
lower end of the city and is moving in my neighborhood just a
few doors albove me. I have been wondering why this misfor
tune had to happen to me but have been unable to figure out
any reason for it.
Bill is a ice cream eater above par. He always wants what
the other man has in his garden and doesn’t care hdw he gets
, it. He doesn’t like to turn a freezer but is always present when
the eating time comes. He doesn’t like to work a garden but al
ways is ready when vegetables are ripe. On top of this, being
the man that lends money on houses, he has almost sold my
house from under me on several occasions and I want no such
man like that near me. I am afraid that he might want my
house and sell me out just for the fun of it.
Os course I couldn’t blame his present landlord for letting
him go but I can’t see why his new one would want him. No,
• not the first reason.
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MOLLY PITCHER DAY SATURDAY
Saturday, August 7, will be “Molly Pitcher” day in Roxboro,
according to Miss Claire Harris, chairman of the Womans Di
vision of the War Bends and stamps committee for Person
County, who says that a corps of young women will conduct a
tag day.
Molly Hays, a Revolutionary War heroine, carried water for
. soldiers at the battle of Monmouth, hence her name, “Molly
Pitcher”. When her husband was wounded she took .'over his
gun and fired it again and again.
PERSON SERVICE MEN ACCEPTED
Unofficial list of Person men accepted for military service
Thursday at Fort Bragg is as follows: Arthur Leonard Jennings,
Dorsey Lee Daniel, Harvey Giles Lester, Leslie Franklin Guill,
Jr., Harry Paul Yarborough, Perry James Gee, lit Maynard
Adams, James Edward Sykes, Nash Nicks Winstead and Nor
fleet Earl Umstead. Two of the group go to the Navy. Majority
of the men returned Friday.
RATION BOARD DATE EXTENDED
Officials of the Person OPA office today said that time for
mailing of Ration Book No. 11l from Charlotte headquarters
has,been extended to August 15, and citizens who have not yet
received books are requested to wait until after that date be
fore coming to the Roxboro office to file applications for delay
ed books. Original date for filing was Monday, August 2.
Griffin Expects To
See Reduction Os
Four In Teachers
Public Schools In Both City - County
Lose Only Four Teachers By Allotment
Roxboro and Person County Public schools during the
coming school year are expected to lose only four teach
ers by reason of decreased enrollment, according to Su
perintendent R. B. Griffin, who today gave the names
of the schools affected.
Rites Held
For Mrs* Noeli
Os Helena
Prominent Person "Wo
man Dies At Home 'Of
Her Brother.
• Funeral for Mrs. Hattie Laws
Noell, 61, of Timberlake, mem
ber of a prominent Person fam
ily and wife of the late L. E.
Noell, was held Saturday after
noon at four o’clock at Mount
Zion Methodist church, by the
Rev. E. L. Hill, with interment
following in the church cemetery.
Mrs. Noell, whose death occur
red late Friday afternoon at the
home of her brother, F. W. Laws,
•twas a daughter of the late I. L.
par'd Susan Timberlake Laws. She
had been seriously ill since
March and death was attributed
to complications.
Survivors include one daugh
ter, Miss Sue Noell, two sisters,
Misses Bessie and Annie Laws
and the brother, all of Timber
lake. •
She was an active member of
Helena Methodist church from
date of its organization and be
fore that twas a member of the
Mount Zion church.
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Brayant B. Carstarphen, of
WBlhunston, spent a few days
jUjre with TbO߻s J. Shaw.
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i Two of the losses, one each at
Roxboro high school and at
: Bushy Fork, are in white schools,
I while the other two, also one
each, are at Person County
Training school for Negroes and
at the Negro schol at Bethel
Hill.
Teacher allotments, as Griffin
indicated, are based on the aver
age daily attendance in each
school, the trend of which is
downward in schotSs throughout
the State, possibly 'because of
war influences' and possibly be
cause a decrease in birthrate ef
fective within the past two de
cades is now showing up.
Pressed for a statement on the
ups and downs of faculty ap
pointments and recent but to be
■expected resignations, Griffin de
clined to make an official state
ment, although it is known that
majority of Person and Roxboro
•appointments have been made,
with only a few vacancies creat
ed by last minute resignations.
Person .and Roxboro schools
are expected to open on Septem
ber 1, when the new nine month
term will be in operation for
the first time. It was learned
today that Jerry L Hester, prin
cipal-elect of Roxboro high
school, is moving from Helena to
the Younger residence on the
Chub Lake road.
Pfc. Clyde G. Whitt, of Rox
boro, a son of Mr. and Mrs. P.
T. Whitt, who has been stationed
in Colorado, has been transfer
red to Florida. \
PERSON TIMES
VOLUME XIV
Carlton Cites Big
Increase In City’s
Postal Receipts
Postmaster Says Volume Os Business
In Roxboro Keeps Pace With Nation
L. M. Carlton City of Roxboro Postmaster, and be
fore that a leading member of the Person bar, as guest
speaker at Roxboro Rotary club, on Thursday night told
the Rotarians that Post Office business constitutes one
of the biggest businesses in the United States and that
the Roxboro office of which he is the head is keeping in
step with the national pace.
Big Business
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L. M. CARLTON
Roxboro’s Postmaster, L. M.
Carlton, on Thursday gave Ro
tarians a vivid description of the
expansion of Post Office ser
vices in Hcxboro.
Gall Issued
I
For Dressing
Unit Workers
Urgent Plea For Workers
I n Roxboro Surgical
Dressing Room; Long
hurst Room Doing Good
Work.
| Officials of the Roxboro unii
| of the Red Cross Surgical Dress
i ing division, which has \vork
j rooms in Roxboro Central Gram
mar school building today issued
| an urgent appeal for more work
ers, saying that a remaining
quota of 30,000 must be com
pleted within the next three
weeks before opening of school
will require removal of work
rooms to another location.
It is reported that to date
workers have within three weeks
completed 9,000 out of an origi
nal quota of approximately
40,000.
Released with the appeal for
more workers is a report of work
accomplished by members of the
Longhurst unit, the office of
which has been opened for only
a few months.
Mrs. J. H. Hughes, director of
the units, and other officials say
that they are particularly grati
fied by the Longhurst response.
Published below is a list of
Longhurst workers and hours for
the month of June in which Mes
dames W. O. Blalock, Z. R. Clay
ton, G. W. Griles, Luther Green,
Jessie Jones, E. D. Paylor, Ras
Slaughter and R. R. Yarboro
have been leaders:
Blalock, Miss Eunice, 11; Bla
lock, Mrs. W. 0., 62; Blalock,
Mrs. M. W., 12; Beaver, Miss
Zora 2; Bowes, 2; Miss Doris, 2;
B/owes, Miss Viola, 2; Carver,
Miss Gracie, 3; Clayton, Miss
Alma, 2; Carver, Mrs. G. N., 5;
Clayton Mrs. Z. R., 92; Clayton, !'
Mrs. Maxie, 6; Coates, Mrs. Myr- '
tie L., 18; Dickerson, Miss Edith,
14; Dunn, Mrs. J. 8., 16; Dunn, '
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PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY AND THURSDAY
As proof, Carlton, who was
presented by Rotarian Fred
Long, said that receipts from
sale of stamps alone are at a
SI,OOO increase for the quarter
just closed and that other de
partments, such as postal sav
ings and money order units, are
climbing in proportion.
Part Os the tremendous in
crease in Post Office activities,
said Carlton, can be attributed
to the war-time writing urge
that causes men in military ser
vice, and women too, as well as
civilians who have been uproot
ed, to write letters to the folks
back home.
Touching on the fact that Rox
boro can, when it is ready, have
a street delivery system, Carl
ton made it plain that he did
not, however, consider it the
duty of a Postmaster to agitate
or head a movement for such a
| step. Chief holdups in the osta-
I blishment of such a system here
| are an incomplete numbering of
city houses and an inadequate
mileage of sidewalks.
Carlton, in conclusion, paid
tribute to the labors of rural
carriers on Person routes and to
the staff at the City Post Office,
which he said is called upon to
handle an increased business, in
cluding parcel post and the sale
of war bonds and stamps. Some
citizens, he said, are cashing in
on their bonds and stamps, but
the number is relatively small.
The club meeting was, as
usual, held at Hotel Roxboro,
with Dr. John Fitzgerald, vice
president, presiding in the ab
sence of W. Wallace Woods, who,
with Mrs. Woods, attended a dis
trict meeting of Rotary officials
: in Wilson.
Collins Abbitt, director of the
. City of Roxboro sanitation de
j partment and a son of City En
. j gineer and Rotarian I. O. Ab
r i bitt. was inducted into the club,
. ; with an adress by J. S. Walker,
, i who officially welcomed him.
Guest pianist was Miss Bivins
. Winstead.
Next meeting, also at Hotel
"Roxboro, on August 5, will be
The annual “Father and Daugh
ter” night, with Gordon C. Hun
ter in charge of the program.
Story of Seminary
Merger Premature
Louisville, Ky., July 31. The
announcement that a merger of
the Louisville Theological Semi
nary and Union Theilogical Sem
inary at Richmond, Va., into a
Presbyterian Semihary to be lo
cated at Richmond is imminent
is “premature,” Alex M. Forrest
er, chairman of the negotiating
committee for the Louisville in
stitution said.
The announcement was made
at Richmond by the Rev. E. T.
Wellford, D. D., chairman of
the Union negotiating committee,
who Said that the boards of the
two institutions had met and
“practically all things necessary
for confirmation of a union have
been considered.”
FROM GEORGIA
| : Douglas Davis, of the United
States Army, Savannah, Ga., is- ;
spending a few days here with
'his parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. B.
Davis. 1
ROXBORO, N. C., SUNDAY, AUGUST 1, 1943
Little Vagrancy Found Here,
As Broughton Stirs Interest
Hearing Panel
Has Onlv One
Case Friday
George Irvin Morton, of
Longhurst, previously charged
in the courts here with speed
ing, was the only person to
appear Friday before the hear
ing panel of the Person OPA
in regard to alleged gasoline
ration violations.
Under judgment of the pan
el, Morton, who had been no
| tified twice previously but
! failed to receive the letter be
cause of an incorrect address,
was warned that all or part of
his "A” book would be revok
ed if he wjas again charged
with a traffic violation.
j‘ :
Guards Have
Club Houses
That Bloue
Tar He£l Coast Guards,
Watchmen Os Our Shore
line. Get Some Taste Os
Home Life.
; RICHMOND, Va., July 31.
North Carolina, with its miles of
( Atlantic coastline holding back
an ocean that ha; harbored ene
my submarines bringing spies
. and saboteurs, depends no little
’ bit on a relatively small group of
army, navy and coast guard men
I for her security.
That group of men includes
those who patro. lonely beaches
and shorelines, others who man
1 out-of-the-way nests and still
i , ,
others wr.o are quartered at
small military establishments is
' elated from large communities.
To these men USO “clubhouses
on-wheels arc a welcome part
' j of their everyday lives.
Soldiers, sailors and coast
i
guardsmen who do the coast pa
trols have little chance for the
recreation they were used to in
■ .civilian ■ life, except during fur
's uchs that are not too frequent.
To fill that gap USO created tin*
mobile service which operates
small, light trucks equipped with
powerful motors designed to pull
through sand, mud and rough
terrain. These trucks carry
| books, magazines, sports equip
ment, games, candy, refresh
ments, and even movie machines,
j the latter operated by a special
: generator.
North Carolina has three of
j these USO mobile trucks operat
ing in its confines, according to
j a recent report issued by Chest
er D. Snell, regional executive
of Richmond, Va., and USO has
increased its mobile service by
5D percent in the past year, Mr.
Snell added.
Mobile units also serve on
maneuvers seeing that men liv
ing in the hard, tough routine of
war games do not lose their high
morale.
GAINS CIRCULATION
. RALEIGH, July 31. Circul
ation of “The Agricultural Re
view”, a free bi-weekly publi
cation issued to farmers by the
state department of agriculture,
Jias risen to a total of 50,000
copies for the issue to be distri
buted August 1, Thompson
Greenwood, department publicity
director said.
•Circulation of the publication
has doubled within the past
year, Greenwood added.
“We consider this indicative of
the farmers’ desire to become
more well informed on the latest
agricultural developments”, he
said.
Riley Wade will go to the Air
Corps, August 11, as a volunteer.
Few, If Any, Acute Vagrancy Gases
Uncovered By Local Committee
A survey of te unemployment situation as it exists in
Roxboro and Person County reveals that few if any per
sons have been reported by either City or County offi
cers or by members of the County Advisory Committee
on vagrancy of which Lieut. Gov. R. L. Harris was nam
ed chairman at a mass meeting held on July 5.
Gets Commission
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JAMES TRENT
I
Lieut. James Trent, of Rox
boro and Kcrner-villc, husband
: of the former Miss Margaret
■ Yarborough, of Roxboro, recent
!lv received his commission in
Te.x&; a; an Air Corps lieuten
ant. He was formerly connected
. . with Person Motors here.
oxfordTervice
CLUB OPENS WITH
.
PROCTOR LEADING
Col. H. \V. Huntley And
Other Military Officials
On Program At Opening
Os Center.
OXFORD, July 31. Presi
dent C. K. Proctor of the Gran
ville County Chamber of Com
merce was master of ceremon
ies at the formal opening Fri
day, of Oxford Service Club in
* the Agricultural Building.
The,program began at 8 o'clock
' and among the military officials
to. participate were Col. H. W.
Huntley, post commander, Camp
Butner; Captain Warlick, special
service officer, at Camp Butner.
Mrs. Huntley was with the col
onel.
A: Members of the Boards of
i Commissioners of both the town
1 and county were present.
The Club Room will be open
daily from 9 a.m. to 11 p. m., ex
| cept Saturday when the closing
| hour will be 12 midnight.
The building is now r complete
and ready for full-scale use. Fur
nishings, most of which were
donated by citizens of the com
munity, have been recovered,
j repaired and otherwise prepared
| for use in the center, which has
! been fitted out in attractive
manner for maximum usefulness
to service men.
There is a snack bar in the
back ipf the club room, and there
also is a lavatory for ladies and
lavatory for men, including a
shower. An office has been pro
vided in the back of the room.
GETS COMMISSION
Wiley Logan Umstead, a son of
Mr. and Mrs. Logan H. Umstead,
of Roxboro, has been commis
sioned as an Ensign in the U. S.
Naval Reserve, San Francisco,
Calif., Umstead, an alumnus of
Hampton-Sidney college, volun
teer Dec., 11, 1941, and for the
past year has been a navigator
with Pan-American Airways.
Mrs. Henry CBriant and Miss
Catherine Tapp are in Atlanta
visiting Miss Fay CBriant.
NUMBER 84
It will be recalled that at that
meeting one or more citizens
favored calling directly upon
Gov. J. Melville Broughton for
execution of emergency powers
under the War Emergency Act.
Local interest in this step, not
favored by the majority of Per
son citizens at the meeting here
last month, is increased, how
ever, because of the announce
ment from Raleigh that Gov.
Broughton will on Tuesday re
j quest the Council of State fpr
permis-utn to use his authority
to put “North Carolina loafers
and Idle is” to work.
Members of the local Person
and Roxboro cjmittee serving
with Lieut. Gov. Harris are:
’ Frank T. Whitfield, C. Lester
Brooks, Sheriff M. T. Clayton,.
; Chief of Police George C. Rob
"| inson, R. B. Wilson, and, ex-of
ficio, W. Wallace Woods, the last
named being the Secretary of
Roxboro Chamber of Commerce
and one of the first citizens in
the State to become concerned
. about the vagrancy problem.
At the time the Person and
Roxboro advisory committee was
named here it was agreed that a
concerted effort to determine
unemployment would be made
both by County and City officers
and by the Committee, but it is
apparent that not as much of
vagrancy has been uncovered
here as it was at first thought
would be found.
! In the Governor's new, pro
posed proclamation, however,
I are contained sepcifie sugges
tions for the functioning of a
new mobilization committee, to
gether with explicit definitions
of powers, all in line with
Broughton's determination to
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Loyalty Month
Begins Monday
With City Firm
This year as. in the past Thomp
son Insurance Agency will ob
serve Loyalty Month with the
Jefferson Standard Life Insur
ance Company. This is the month
in which the Thompson agency
tries to write $50,000 in life in
surance production and so far the
agency has always been success
ful in accomplishing this in the
! given period of time, the month
of August.
E. G. Thompson, the owner of
Thompson Insurance Agency, is
jin service this year but those
who are at the office are going
|to do their best to carry on
j while he is away. Those who
j will conduct the campaign in
clude: Misses Mamie Love Bar
nett, She Frederick, Mary Vir
ginia Clayton and Walter James,
all of whom will be very glad to
discuss any life insurance prob
lems with clients and will ap
preciate the opportunity to do so.
ROPER MAN KILLED
WASHINGTON, July 31.
The Navy announced 38 casual
ties, including 15 dead, 18 woun
ded and five missing. The casual
ties include: Simmons, Orval
Lee. Dead. Wife, Mrs. Bernice
Virginia Simmons, Roper, N. C.
SECOND OPERATION
M. G. Johnson, who is a pati
ent at McPherson hospital, un
derwent a second operation
there Friday. Mrs. Johnson is
with him at the hospital. >
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