Along The Way
With the Editor—
Roxboro is full of nice places with suggestive names such'as
“Cninch Road”, “Lightning Bug Alley”, “Gallows’ Hill” an<j
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‘lSlugar Hill.’, Each name, to local inhabitants, has a meaning
extending far back into the distant past when the City was a
village, but the newest and most swanky place hereabouts is
“Kitten Hill”.
John Gentry, who lives there, blames the rest of us. He
says we are hard-hearted citizens, folks without the shadow of
pity in our misguided souls. The place is full of kittens, blind
and helpless and mewing, with once and a while, loud yowls
from tomcats and mamma cats. But the kittens are not born
there, John says. That is where we come in. On the outskirts
of the outskirts of Roxboro, down below Ca-Vel and off to the
left, the place is close enough to be a convenient spot for an easy
evasion of feline responsibilities by us folks. George says we
take the infants there and leave ’em.
This would be alright with John, but he claims he and his
neighbors have enough by natural and on the spot birth-rates.
Besides, “Kitten Hill” is really “Bullock’s Town”, not for Dick,
not for Will, but for rotund George 8., and much more digni
fied.
bate news Bulletins
DEPARTMENT WARNS AGAINST OVEN CANNING
The United States Department of Agriculture, according to
D. W. Ledbetter, Roxboro electrical dealer, has issued warnings
against oven-canning, it being reported that new type jars are
not suited to this method. Citizens who have pre-war type jars
may, however, continue to use the oven method.
WORK OR FIGHT GROUP MEETS
The Person County “Work Or Fight Committee” held a
L-pecial meeting Saturday morning.
The purpose of the meeting was to review a list of names
turned over to the committee on people whose employment is
considered doubtful. Some of the names submitted were listed
as working part time, but not the full 35 hours a week as out
lined by Governor Bruoghton.
Marine Carried to Safety
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U. S. Marine Corps Phot*
Four jungle-fighting; Leathernecks are pictured as they carried a
wounded comrade through heavy sniper fire to a dressing station
behind the lines of a Southwest Pacific battle zone.
NEW WORK OR FIGHT AND LABOR
ORDERS GET COUNCIL APPROVAL
Raleigh, August 7.—Three War Proclamations were made
law at Raleigh this week, bringing to 5 the total of emerg
ency charges in State laws since adjournment of the 1943
General Assembly in March.
Rate High For
Interest Charges
On War Loan
Camp Butner, Aug. 7—Seven
months old W. Price Wright 11,
whose father ;s in the armed
forces serving at Fort Knox, Ken
tucky, is making his home for
the duration with his grandpar
ents, Colonel and Mrs. James W.
Troutt at 1208 Glendale Ave., in
Durham.
Recently, the youngster nego
tiated a loan from his grandpar
ents to cover the balance due in
bis current War Savings Stamp
book which he purchased to aid
ip building the “Shangri-La”, the
mystery ship.
‘The terms of the loan”, said
the coionel, were for a period of
100 years with interest at the
rate of 100 percent of love and
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War Proclamations 11, IV, and
V were approved by the Council
of State at a meeting held in
Raleigh. They were drawn up
and announced last week by
Governor Broughton, and texts
of the proclamations were placed
before the public Tuesday for
inspection.
The. proclamations, made law
Under authority of the Emerg
ency War Powers Act passed by
the 1943 General Assemble and
effective only for “temporary
duration”, modify certain pro
visions of the State’s labor laws
concerning working hours for
women and minors; put “teeth”
into the Governor's ‘Work or
Fight” proclamation against idl
ing; and “effectuates’ a law pass
ed by the 1943 General Assembly
permitting 15-year-olds to obtain
drivers licenses.
Labor Law Changes.
War Proclamation HI permits:
1. Women to work 10 hours
per day but not more than 46
hours per week, with one and
(turn to page four, please)
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PERSON TIMES
VOLUME XIV PUBLISHED EVERT SUNDAY AND THURSDAY ROXBORO, N. C. SUNDAY, AUGUST 8, 1943 NUMBER 86
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Reginald Rogers
Car Strikes Hicks
Girl At Longhurst
Rainwater To
End Training
Rs Chaplain
Popular Former Roxboro
Minister Expects To Visit
Here After Completing
Training.
The Rev. R. W. Rainwater, a
former pastor of Grace, Ca-Vel
and Longhurst Methodist church
es, who is now with the United
Stateis Navy and in training as a
Chaplain at William and Mary
College, Williamsburg, Va., is
expecting to be graduated from
the training school by Septem
ber 26.
Rainwaters, who says that he
likes the Navy’s training pro
gram, although he can only
speak of it from the standpoint
of the Chaplain's school, expects
to come to Roxboro for a visit
as soon as he completes his
course.
The second minister of his
charge to enter military service
Rainwater, a native of Rocking
ham, came to Roxboro a little
more than a year ago from Duke
University as Successor to the
Rev. T. Marvin Vick, Jr., who is
himself now an Army chaplain
and has been in service on the
West coast.
Present pastor of the Charge
with which Rainwater was con
nected is the Rev. W. T. Medlin,
Jr., to whom Rainwater Isends
good wishes. He also asks to be
remembered to friends in his con
gregations and in Roxboro.
Nothing New
On Fathers
Says Board
Person Board Has No
New Information 0 n
Drafting Os Fathers.
The Person Selective Service
Board today reported that no in
formation concerning the draft
ing of fathers has been received
| here that differs from informa
tion which been released by
the Associated Press from Wash-
I ington and Raleigh, but it is un
| derstood that reclassifications
j may begin here and that general
carrying out of the new army
orders is expected.
The Board at the same time
said that Sam Cameron, a Ne
gro, whose last known address
was 106 Henry street, Durham,
has failed to appear before the
Board here where he is rgister
ed, and that his name is to be
sent to the FBI unless he con
tacts the Board within three days.
Persons knowing Cameron’s pres
ent address are requested to no
tify the Board.
Names of Person and Roxboro
youths who in July became 18
years of age and thereupon reg
istered for Selective Slervice are
as follows:
Euliss Cameron, Ernest Hudson
Denny, Ben Dolian Winstead,
James Archie Winstead, William
Alvis Nelson, Joe Clifton Turn
tine, Sidney Lee Featherston,
William Reuben Norvis, Bruce
Robertson, Wallace Robertson,
Joe Thomas Long.
(Turn to page four please)
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Mrs. Griffin Better
Mrs. R. B. Griffin is much,
better following an operation
'for appendicitis; She is a pati
ent at Community Hospital.
Reginald Rogers Now
Under Bond, With Trial
To Take Place Tuesday.
Father Saves Daughter
By Pulling Her Back
Quickly.
Miss Glenna Mae Hicks, 17, of
Roxboro, daughter of Albert
Hicks, also of this City, suffered
head injuries and body bruises
of an undetermined extent Fri
day night at 11:10 o’clock when
she was struck by a car said to.
have been driven by Reginald
Rogers, 23, of Person County.
The accident oocurred near the
Longhunst Post Office when Miss
Hicks and her father, cotton mill
employees, who had just finish
ed on the second shift, were
crossing the highway to go to
some steps to wait for a car.
Rogers, who afterward): took
the young woman to Community
hospital, admitted to investigat
ing officers that he was driving
at a rather rapid speed, going
in direction of the Collins and
Aikman plant.
State Highway patrolman John
Hudgins, who with City Police
went to scene of the wreck,
said that Rogers has been placed
under a S2OO bond, pending out
come of the girl’ls. injuries and
that he probably will face trial
Tuesday in Person Recorder’s
Court on a charge of careless
and reckless driving.
There were a number of eye
witnesses to the accident and in
the car with Rogers were sever
al companions. It is reported that
Miss Hicks and her father had
almost crossed the highway to
the left and that Rogers’ car
swerved to that side.
Quick action by the girl's fath
er in pulling her back is thought
to have kept her from receiving
more seriouis. injuries. The acci
dent is the only major one to
have occurred here in six days,
a week significantly devoid of
court cases of any type.
| Rites Held For
Gloria A. Tanner
Os Charles Street
Funeral for Gloria Ann Tan
ner, three months old daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. David A. Tan
-1 ner, of Charles street, Roxboro,
| was conducted Saturday after
noon at four o’clock a tthe home,
with the Rev. J. N. Bowman, of
Providence and Ca-Vel Baptist
churches, officiating. Interment
was in Burchwood cemetery.
The child, who died Thursday
afternoon in Watt’s hospital, Dur
ham, after an illness of two days
with colitis, is survived by its
parents and one sister, Phyllis
Olivia, all of Roxboro.
Greensboro relatives of the
Tanners on Friday morning call
ed the Police Department here
seeking information. They were
undr the erroneous impression
that the person dead was Tan
ner’s mother. The call was re
ported by Officer Sam Whitten,
Jr. who supplied correct in
formation.
INVITATION COMES
Members of the Clayton fam
ily of Van Meter, lowa, who an
nually hold their reunion in that
City in August and who regular
ly extend an invitation to the
Claytons in Person County and
Roxboro, will meet this year at
the H. C. Clayton Estate home,
according to Bertha Pitzer, se
cretary.
NOW BETTER
, Miss Eunice Bradsher, who has
been a patient at Community
hospital, is much improved and
is spending the week-end with
her brother in South Boston, Va.
Ensign Umstead, Roxboro,
Has Adventure On Plane
NEWS-GIRL HERE
UKES NEW JOB OF
CARRYING PAPERS
Miss Jacqueline Abbitt, a
’teen-aged Roxboro young wo
man, is that newest personage,
a “news-girl”, and what is
more she has a down-town,
business district route with
forty-five customers each |af
ternoon, and she likes it.
The daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Collin Abbitt and a grand
daughter of Mir. and Mrs. I. O.
Abbitt, Miss Abbitt took over
the job several weeks ago
when Heedley Kynoch, Rox
boro circulation manager for
the Durham Herald-Sun pap
ers, was driven to something
like desperation because of the
shortage of news boys here.
Miss Abbitt says frankly
that she likes her job and in
tends to keep it. She has a
Scotch grandmother and may
be that is whene her canny
business sense comes from.
Anyhow, she is rather proud of
being a young pioneer.
Mrs. Whitt Now
Assistant To
Army Chaplain
Mrs. Mildred A. Simmons
I Whitt, of Roxboro and Winston
j Salem, Who is a member of the
J Womens Army Corps and is now
! stationed at Big Springs, Texas,
| is a chaplain!? assistant there at
| the Bombardier School, said to
!be one of the largest training
j centers of its type in the nation,
j Mrs. Whitt’s husband, Pvt.
John Franklin Whitt, is at Fort
Bliss, Texas, and her brother,
Pvt. J. C. SimmorH? in the Army
Air Corps. Mrs. Whitt, a grad
uate of Woman’s College. the
University of North Carolina, at
Greensboro, is a daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. J. S. Simmon?, of Efird
(street, Winston-Salem.
Elmo’s White Suit
And Ski Shoes Set
Him Apart In Army
Son Os Mr. and Mrs. T. T. Mitchell
Praises Friendly Western Folks
Briggs Will Be
Speaker Here
On Wednesday
The Rev. Dr. John E. BHggs,
of Washington, D. C., a Person
County native who is now visit
ing here, will speak Wednesday
night at eight o’clock at the
prayer meeting service of Rox
fooro First Baptist church. He
will also speak Sunday morn
ing at Clement Baptist church.
Prominent for many years in
the ministry in Washington, Dr.
Briggs spends a part of each
year in Person County and is
remembered by many friends
’here.
GETS PROMOTION
Andrew W. Yarborough, of
Maxton, with the United States
Army, a son-in-law of Mr. and
Mrs. A. R. Davis, of Roxboro,
has been promoted to rank Os
Corporal. He and Mrs. Yarbor
ough are expected here this
week-end for a visit with mem
bers of their families.
Roxboro Young Man Runs Into High
Adventure When Transport Plane Falls
Ensign Wiley logan Umstead, 22, of Roxboro and Berk
ley, California, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Logan H. Umstead, of
Roxboro, formerly of South Boston, Va., has just come
through a thrilling adventure, forty-two hours of bobbing
up and down on the ocean waves in a crippled transport
plane that was repaired on the spot and then completed its
journey to Honolulu.
Raughters flt
Rotarg Club
Gain Approval
Four Generations In Har
ris Family Center Os In
terest.
With four generations of Rota
rian Bill Harris, Sr.’s family, in
cluding his son, the Lieutenant
Governor, R. L. Harris, his
granddaughter Betsy (R. L.'s
daughter) and his great-grand
daughter, Marguerite (two year
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
William Harris, lll).among the
members and special guests, Rox
boro Rotary club on Thursday
at Hotel Roxboro held its annual
“Father-Daughter” night.
Program was in charge of Sid
ney Marsh, of the Entertainment
i committee and consisted of skits
and musical features. Out of
j town guest was Rotarian Hol
| land McSwain, of Yanceyville,
! Caswell County Superintendent
j of schools. Total number attend-
I ing the affair was placed at sev
enty.
First skit was given by Rotar
ians George Fox and Lee Um
stead who, accused of always be
ing impatient because their wives
seemed to have difficulty in get
ting ready for any entertain
ment, were given an oppotunirty
to see how much more prepara
tion is necessary for women to
dress for an occasion than it is
for men. Each was furnished
with a suitcase, containing var
(turn to page, four, please).
Says Travel On Trains
| Really Problem. Particu
larly Likes Camp Grant.
Ski-trooper Traynham Elmo
Mitchell, of Roxboro, a Private
First Class with a medical de
tachment at Camp Hale, Colo.,
and son of Mr. and Mrs. Trayn
ham T. Mitchell, of Roxboro, is
rather proud of belonging to one
of the smallest but most distinc
tly units in the U. S. Army.
Less than a year ago Mitchell
was interested in beginning a
career an a tobacconist and ware
houseman, following the business
with which his father is connect
ed. If anybody had told him that
by this summer he would be liv
ing in a Camp tucked ’way up in
the Rocky Mountains close to
such a once famous boom-town
ais Leadville and closer still to
the little hamlet of Dry Gulch,
he would have laughed in their
faces.
And he ’would have laughed
still more if he had been told
that he would be wearing a
white ski-suit and learning the
art of combat on ski-shoe*. It’s
sorter cold out there now, around
(turn to page four, please)
Umstead, as Second-Officer
Navigator on the plane, got a
good deal of publicity in San
Francisco papers the other day,
as did other members of the
crew, but his parents, who had
read a brief AP story and who
knew Umstead was a Pan-Ameri
can Airways navigator, did not
learn until today, that he was on
the stricken plane.
An alumnus of Hampden-Sid
ney college and a graduate of C.
|H. Friend high school, South
Boston, Umstead has come up in
the service of his country the
hard way. He volunteered on
Dec. 11, 1941, four days after
Pearl Harbor and was accepted
by the Air Corps, undergoing
rigerous training for about six
months. Two weeks before he
'was to have received his com
! mission a final physical check
up brought discovery of a previ
; ously unknown physical disabil
-1 itv.
! Greatly chagrined, he was com
-1 pelled to resign from the Air
Corps, but he was determined
j “to keep fighting”. After weeks
|of treatment he was completely
j restored in health, and ready for
his new job as navigator—which
|it turns out has just about as
many thrills to offer as the Air
Corps.
j Mrs. Umstead, who is proud of
| son Wiley, has another son, Sam,.
' who is in the Air Corps, how
c ver and stationed in Arizona.
Still a little shaken by the knowl
; edge that Wiley has been in such
danger she can scarcely wait to
relay the details to Mr. Um
stead. a tobacco buyer, now on
the South Carolina market.
This is the story he will get,
first told in the San Francisco
papers:
Like a great crippled bird, a
naval flying boat with 19 men
(turn to page three, please)
Street At Camp
Butner Has Name
Os Lewell Huff
Streets at Camp Butner are
named for Army men killed in
action in this war and onte of
them, according to announce
ment just received here, bears
the name of a Person County
native, Pfc. Lewell T. Huff, of
Payne’s Tavern, a son of Mrs;
Emma Huff, reported as killed
in action in Africa, December
10, 1942.
Huff, thought to he the first
Person man killed in action
in this war, was several weeks
ago posthumously awarded the
Purple Heart, the recipient
being his mother.
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Juniors’ Outing
Members of the Junior depart
ment of the Sunday school of
First Baptist church, together
with their teachers and leaders,
had their annual outing last
week on the lawn of the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Brooks,
where a program of entertain
ment was enjoyed and refresh
ments were served in picnic
style.
OFFICE OPENS
Mrs. Jesße Rogers, who has
been in Portsmouth, Va., be
cause of the iljneas of her fetfcer» v
has returned to ftoafcorb and
re-opened Motor dub office.