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VOLUME XIV
Hunter To Be Head
Os District Four’s
War Finance Body
Lieut. Gov. R. L. Harris And Griffin
Co-Chairmen For Person Countv
Hunter’s District Will Include Eight Counties In
Set-Up.
Obriants To
Honor Elijah
On Sunday
Marker To Memory Os
Founder Os Clan To Be
Unveiled.
The memory of Elijah O’-
Briant, a veteran of the War of
1812 and a founder of the O’-
Briant clans in Person and Gran
ville counties will be honored
Sunday when a marker eommer
orating his achievements will be
unveiled at his grave on the
Wayne Blalock place near Rox
boro.
O’Rlriant, who was born in
1790, built the present Blalock
house between 1815 and 1820 and
lived there until his death at the
age of 88 in 1878. The house
came to the Blalocks by their
marriage into his family. At the
time of the Civil War O'Briant’s
oldest son was too old for mili
tary service while his youngest,
David, who died three or four
years ago, had just been born.
Exercises, which will be at
tended by members, of the O’-
Briant family, will begin at 11:30
o’clock in the morning, with
Fire Chief Henry E. O’Briant,
Elijah’s great-grandson, presid
ing. Elijah’s first wife was a
Cannady and his second a Stan
field and it is expected that re
presentatives of these families
will also attend.
Picnic luncheon will be served
and Fire Chief O’Briant hopes
that all families attending will
bring well-filled baskets. The
O’Briant-Blalock house is about
four miles southwest of Roxboro
on the Prospect Hill road.
PERSON WOMEN
ATTENDING STATE
COUNCIL SESSION
Home Demonstration Wo
men Meeting In Raleigh.
Mrs. C. E. Brooks, District
Chairman of the Home Demon
stration Clubs of the five coun
ties of Durham, Orange, Chat
ham, Wake and Person gave the
district report at an afternoon
session of the State Council yes
terday. Mrs. Brooks -was accom
panied to Raleigh on Wednesday
by Mrs. T. H. Clay, of.Timber
lake, a former President of the
Person Council.
The Person County delegation
is attending two sessions of the
State Council today. Those in the
party are: Mrs. C. E. Brooks,
Mrs. T. H. Clay, Mrs. J V Hum
phries, President of the County
Council, Mrs. Frank T. Mitchell,
Vice-President, Mrs. R. A. Gen
try, District Secretary, Mrs. K.
C. Wagstaff, County Council
Treasurer, and Mrs. Raney
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hate fleuis Bulletins
FLAG AGAIN ON DISPLAY AT TIMES’ OFFICE '
Bill Davenport’s Jap battle flag, sent from Gaudalcanal to
the City Editor of the Times, by public demand, is again on
display in the Times’ office front window.
DAY TRIPLETS, SIX MONTHS OLD, NEED GARDEN
Nurse Mary Mills, of the Health Department, in charge of
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob Day, Person’s Negro triplets, who
were six months old Sunday, says they need a garden to sup
ply food. That’s how they are growing.
; HUNTER PRAISES SCHOOL WAR BOND WORK
Gordon C. Hunter, speaking last night at a Summer meeting
of the Schoolmasters’ club at C. H. Mason’s hen*.
firm mm nmnnrt fr. 3 thrm i
Person County Times
PUBLISHED EVERT SUNDAY AND THURSDAY
Gordon C. Hunter, of Roxboro,
executive vice president of the
Peoples bank and Person County
chairman of the first and second
War Loan drives has been ap
pointed by the Treasury Depart
ment as Fourth chairman for the
Third War Loan drive and as fi
nance committee head will ‘di
rect activities in eight counties,
including Durham and Wake, as
well as Person.
Other counties in the district
are Granville, Vance, Johnston,
Franklin and Randolph. Hunter
several weeks ago was named as
chairman of the Person commit
tee of the United War Fund cam
paign, a distinctly separate or
ganization.
Designation of Hunter as a
district chairman of the Third
War Loan, which starts Septem
ber 9, creates a new co-chair
manship for Person County, also
designated by the Treasury. This
place will be filled by Lieut.
Gov.' R. L. Harris and by Person
Superintendent of schools R. B.
Griffin. Griffin is also vice chair
man of the United War Fund
campaign.
Hunter, who is also Command
er of Lester Blackwell Post of
the - American Legion, said to
day that during the Third Loan
drive the War Savings staff and
the Victory Loan committee are
combined into one committee to
be. known as the War Finance
Committee. Quota for Person
County, Hunter says, has not yet
been announced but is expected
to be larger than it was in April.
VISITS MOTHER
Lieut. Grade Mae Garrett, of
Camp Mackall, where she is on
the nursing staff, visited her
mother, Mrs. S. G. Garrett, last
week.
MAKE TRIP
Mr. and Mrs. Evard James,
Mrs. A. F. James and Franklin
James returned Monday from a
visit with A. F. James in Tennes
see. The Evard James’ went on
to their home at Newport News,
Va., on Tuesday.
W. H. Harris Places
Fire Damage Close
To $15,000 Mark
White’s Places Gutted And
Two Stores Are Damaged
Fire May Have Started In Store-Room Os Virginia Dare
Beauty Shop.
W. H. Harris, Sr., who with A. M. Burns, Sr., is co
owner of the Harris and Burns building, South Main
street, which early Monday morning was damaged by
fire, today estimated damages, both to the building and
to the contents of three to four establishments in it, at
between twelve to fifteen thousand dollars, all covered
by insurance.
District Chairman
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Gordon C. Hunter
Chairman of an eight county
Third War Loan district, includ
ing Durham and Wake, is Rox
boro’s Gordon C. Hunter, by ap
pointment from the Treasury-
Department. Co-chairmen for
Person are Lieut. Gov. R. L.
Harris and Person Superinten
dent of Schools R. B. Griffin.
ROXBOROWOMAN'S
FATHER PASSES
IN SOUTH BOSTON
Rites Will Be Held To
day For Richard Lee
Saunders, Father Os Mrs.
Eddie Dixon.
Richard Lee Saunders, 62, of
South Boston, . Va., father of Mrs.
Eddie Dixon, of Roxboro” and of
Russell Saunders, of Longhurst,
died Tuesday night at his home,
Wilburn avenue. South Boston,
|at 10 o’clock following a heart
j attack.
Funeral Will be held at the
residence of another daughter,
Mrs. H. B. Baker, Wilburn ave
nue, South Boston, with whom
he made his home, at four o’-
clock Thursday afternoon.
> Other survivors include: his
wife, the former Miss Cora
Farmer, of the home, another
son, Noland Saunders, and four
daughters, Mrs. Hampton Snead,
Clover, Va., Mrs. John Warmack,
of Newport News, Va., Mrs.
Dixon and Mrs. Baker.
Also surviving are his father
Jake Saunders, of South Boston,
seven brothers, Bernard, Sam,
Floyd, Warren, Luther, Eddie
and Arthur Saunders, 1 all of Len
nin, Va., and fifteen grandchild
ren. His mother was the late
Mrs. Jane Saunders.
Establishments most seriously
damaged were Virginia Dare
Beauty Shop and a barber shop,
both in the basement of the
building and both operated by
Julius White.
Damaged by smoke was the
store of Burns, Gentry and
Strum, clothiers, while smoke
damage and damage to floors by
firemen who had to break
through to get at the basement
blaze was suffered by Bruce’s
Department store, of which Gor
don Brown is manager.
The fire, of undertermined
origin, was discovered about
five-fifteen o’clock Monday
morning by a Star Route mail
man who arirved about that time
from Durham. Alarm was turned
in by Police Officer Gilbert Oak
ley and was answered by mem-'
bers of the volunteer
m«nt, who Udder Fire ChraJH
Briant battled the flamej|jj||J|
nearly thiw£J*crars. .wy
4»ge four plfWff"?
ROXBORO, N. C„ THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1943
TWO SONS OF
WADES GO TO
ARMY SAME DAY
Roxboro’s Police Depart
ment was well represented in
August quota of men who
went to Fort Bragg yesterday
for examination.
In the group were Gilbert
Oakley, an officer in the de
partment and Clyde and Riley
Wade, two sons of Officer and
Mrs. Charles Wade. Oakley,
who is married, has three
brothers in military service
and the Wades have another
son, Charles, Jr., in the Army.
If Clyde, who is a musician,
and Riley who is a former rail
road man from Washington,
are accepted it will mean all
of the Wade boys are in.
Even as the record stands,
the Wades think it rather un
usual that two sons should go
in the same call.
Brad she r Thinks
Tuesday Blackout
Was Successful
Landon C. Bradsber. Person
director of civilian defense, who,
with other defense officials
gathered at Roxboro City Hall
when Tuesday’s blackout was in
effect, said that the affair was
generally well conducted here.
It was completely a surprise
blackout but all residence lights
and store lights were extinguish
ed quickly, as were street lights.
It was the first blackout in the
Roxboro area since late Spring.
R oxboro’s Pentagon
Girl In Battle Os
Washington;Likes It
Miss Margaret Pleasants, Who Comes
Home For Rest, Works At Job
Huge Building In Which She Works Is A Complete
World. Jean Arthur Is Right Says Her Sister Under The
Skin.
Molly Pitcher Dav
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j Successful Savs
i
Chairman Harris
! 81,525 in bonds and 8569.50
; in stamps were sold in Rox
j boro on Molly Pitcher day, ac
cording to Miss Claire Harris,
Person director of the Woman's
division of Bond and Stamp
sales, who expressed apprecia
tion for the community res
ponse given.
Young women who conduc
ted the campaign in tag day
fashion were Misses Reda Urn
stead, Doris Smith, Emma
Susan Brooks, June Woods,
Jacqueline Abbitt, Mary Joe
Jackson, Huldah Blanks and
Betsy Harris.
HELENA CANNERY
NOW OPERATING
SAYS L. C. LILES
Citizens Invited To Use
It Two Days Per Week.
The Helena school’s communi
ty cannery, now in operation, is
open each Wednesday and Fri
day afternoon, according to L. C.
Liles, instructor in the Helena
agricultural department. It is for
use of residents of the Helena
community but other citizens
may arrange to use it by first
consulting either Liles or L. M.
Yates, principal.
Either tin or glass cans may
be ‘used, but tins are preferable
and can be obtained at cost at
the cannery. Two trained men
will assist at the cannery which
has a capacity of 139 quarts per
■hour. A fee of one cent per can
fkdMped to cover operating ex
.. invited
mSm to the cannery on open
wMfetnte inspection of its
operation. ,
State Health Men Think
Meat Problem Can Be Met
Doilan bong
header Os Unit
Sent To Fort
Group Expected Back To
day. Russell Pearcy Fails
To Appear. July Quota
Assignments Listed.
With Dolian Daniel Long as
leader, the following Person and
Roxboro men in August quota of
Selective Service reported yes
terday to Fort Bragg for examin
ation and possible induction:
Sonia Rliey Painter, Howard
Thomas Davis, William Coates,
Dewey Forest Evans, Herbert
Raymond Allen, Edgar Thomas
Coates, Dewey Hester Bowman,
Travis Wilson Peed, Johnny Cal
vin Oakley, James Clayton and
Gilbert Moses Oakley.
Also, Elmer Riley Wrenn,
Laura Bernice Westbrooks. Byrd
Pleasant Van Hook, Alfred Grady
Moore, Major Stanley Clayton,
John William Hunt. Samuel
Palmier Clayton. Clinton Hall
Pleasants, Willie Bryant Holt,
Jesse James Shaw. Jr., Raymond
Alfred Huff and Jesse Willard
Dencan.
Also, Roy Buel Humphries,
Yater, William Martin. Allen
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l From handset Roxboro Pc-ntagan
Miss Margaret Pleasants, a
I Roxboro young woman, a gradu
■ ate of Roxboro high school and
■ a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mun
| roe Pkasants, is one of this
i City's “career girls”, a member
: of that brave band, of small-town
women engaged'in the battle of
Washington, a cent :st made
; familar in its lighter aspects by
j Jean Arthur in that Mr. Dingle
, saga, “The: More, the Merrier.”
Miss Pleasants, although she
I has no Mr. Dingle to contend
i with, freely admits that the
j crowd aspects of the film are
I not exjagerated. Neither is the
j three to one ratio of women in
Washington, the majority, like
herself, office workers.
Having the advantage of liv
ing with an aunt, Miss Pleasants,
for more than a year has been a
member of the Pentagon colony.
As an AGO she works in the of
fice of the Adjutant General at
a job that is for war purposes
strictly off the record. She is not
supposed to talk about her work
and she doesn’t, not even to the
members of her own family.
But there is plenty she can
tell about the Pentagon. It is
a huge five-sided War Depart
ment structure in near-by Arl
ington, with literally miles and
miles of floor space and hall
ways, with no elevators. Like
any big city office building it
has rest rooms and restaurants
and other conveniences of living
so that the 39,000 people who
work there are in a complete
and an independent world once
they are in the building.
Miss Pleasants has easy hours,
7:30 A. M., until about three in
the afternoon, with perhaps
some overtime, but it takes her
more than an hour to go to her
work on one of Washington’s
crowded busses. She gets up
each morning at five-thirty, as
early as the average girl. She,
like hundreds of farm Pentagon
sisters, eats in a rush, thinks in
a rush and moves in a rush. She
grabs a bit of pasteboard that
looks like a meal ticket and runs
to her basmach morning, -And,
she holds onto the hit of paste-
Non-Commital Letter Apparently
Puts Burden On Local Citizens
Friendly But Firm Tone Gives No Room For Backing
Down By State Health Department.
Senior Sanitarian W. Murray Linker. Jr., of Raleigh,
writing by direction of Dr. Carl V. Reynolds, State
Health Officer, on Tuesday sent to Gordon C. Hunter,
of Roxboro, chairman of the Person Meat board, a three
page letter containing a five-point rebuttal of charges
filed by the Person Meat Board in the as yet unsettled
and now three to four months old meat - slaughtering
and abattoir controversy here.
REV. MR. SHORE
AND MR. WOMBLE
GUEST MINISTERS
Will Be At Churches In
Brooksdale Charges Sun
day.
Preaching services for, the
Brooksdale Methodist Charge for
Sunday. August 15, will be con
ducted at Allensville and Braok.s
daie churches. As the pastor,
Rev. E. C. Maness, will be in
evangelistic, services at Long
burst Methodist church, the .ser
vices for both Allensyille and
Brooksdale will be conducted by
visiting ministers.
Rev. J. H. Shore evil! preach
at Allensville at 11:30 o'clock,
and Rev. Rufus J. Womble will
preach at Brooksdale at 8:30 o'-
clock. Both of theee preachers
are good speakers and fine men.
The public is cordially invited to
attend the services.
A series of evangelistic ser
vices for the Brooksdale church
will begin Sunday morning Aug
ust 22 to continue through Sun
day evening August 29.
Ministers Will
Meet Monday
In Brief Session
The Ferson County Ministerial
Association will meet in a special
session Monday, August 16, at
ten A. M., in the Pastor’s study
of Long Memorial Methodist
church. Each minister is urged
to be present.
Roxboro Officer In
Sicilian Invasion
Gets High Praise
First Lieutenant Abbitt Gets
Citation From High Officer
He And His Companions Fly Troop Planes For Parachu-. ..
tists In Sicily.
CPL PULLIAM NOW
WITH GUDER UNIT
ATCAMPMACKALL
Soldier Who Was At
Honolulu Gets Closer
Home.
%
Cpl. Cary Pulliam, 24, a mem
ber of a glider creNv stationed at
Camp Mackall, a son of Mr. and
Mrs. W. C. Pulliam, of Olive Hill,
is spending a few days with his
family here. Pulliam, an alum
nus of the University of North
Carolina and formerly connected
with Liggett and Myers Tobacco
company, returned in April from
a twelve months stay in Honolu
lu where he was attached to an
anti-tank unit of an infantry di
vision.
After spending his April leave
in Rorboro Pulliam went ty
California, where he spent abort
days before he traveled^a
ogoas country again to JCamp
Mackall, to his new assignment
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NUMBER 87
Dr. Richardson, of Chapel Hill,
held a conference yesterday
with Hunter, but nothing new
developed, although it was, in
dicated that Richardson may be
more nearly ready for an intel
ligent compromise agreement.
In the controversy, which de-
I veloped when meat-slaughtering
! permits of all Person butchers
I were revoked after a failure to
| meet requirement's, including the
1 construction of an abattoir, had
j occurred, it was elleged by Rox
! boro City Commissioners and the
Person Meat board that both the
slaughtering restrictions and
abattoir requirements were un
j necessarily strict.
I It was also alleged that com
' pliancc- was impractical in view
! of shortages of building mater
! ials and that attempts to enforc'd
rules would bring on the black
| market that the regulations are
j designed to suppress. It was also
! alleged that confusion as to re-.
S quirements, proported to come
jfrom OPA. from the Food Ad
| ministration, from the . USDA
j War Board and from the. State
| and County Health Departments,
j was in evidence;
Linker, in his letter, to Hunter,
j which: is dated Tuesday, August
. although it was not mailed un
til now, admits that "Other. Coun
; tics are having difficulties in se
j curing permits”, but adds that
j the .difficulties of these other
| Counties do not spring from "‘any
requirements on the part of the
j State Board of Health”. Linker
I also points out the fact that the
i Board of Health acts in a super
visory character but does not re
voke permits.
It is the contention of the
State Health Department, accord
i ing to Linker, that Person Coun-
I tv has no approved slaughtering
I (turn to page five, please
Lieut. James M. Abbitt, of
Roxboro and Tampa, Fla., an
alumnus of Elon College and a
son of Mr. and Mrs. I. O. Abbitt,
of Roxboro, a pilot of the Army
Air Forces Troop Carrier com
mand, who has seen action in
the recent Sicily invasion, has
been cited for his “brilliant job”
by his commanding officer,/
Lieut. Col. John Cerny, it wjpg
learned here today. /"
Sharing honors in the diction
was Lieut. Emmett H. /Pete)
Miller, Jr., also of Tamjia, Fla.
Miller is a son of Mr 6. Vernie
Miller, 108 South Moody street,
and,of Emmett H_ Miller, 4208
Suwannee both of Tam
pa. Abbitt’s wife, Mrs. Alpha
(Nookey) Abbitt, who has fre
quently visited in Roxboro, lives
at 921 East/Broad street, Tampa,
Cerny ; 4n his citation said:
“Never have I seen such admir
able discipline, devotion to duty,
courgge and Intelligence.”
If had been known here that
Abbitt had been for some time
to Africa. His fattier Is Roxboro
Superintendent of Water Works
and his mother is a native of
Scotland. Abbitt, who entered
the service in October 1941, was
at that time with the General
i (turn to page four, please)