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VOLUME XIV
Native Who Comes
Back Home Thinks
Person Progressive
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Mooney, Person Native’ Gains
Success As Oklahoma Merchant
He And His Brother,
Bob, After Forty Years
Are Confirmed Residents
Os What Was Indian
Territory.
Younger citizens of Person
County are showing commend
able progress, both personally
and in the building up of their
community, according to Otho
Mooney, of Temple, Okla., a
Person native who forty years
ago went to Oklahoma as a
young man and is now a retired
merchant and a man of influence
in political circles in his adopted
state.
Mooney ought to know what
progress is. He is here this week,
chiefly to look after family busi
ness interests and renew old
brother, Bob Mooney, also of
friendships, but when he and his
Temple, went to Oklahoma in
1903 and established the “B and
O Cash Store”, a business des
tined to become known as the
“biggest' country store in Okla
homa,” both Person County and
Oklahoma were in a “country
store” condition. Life was simple
then, or so it seemed, with little
evidence of wealth and compara
tively little in the way of public
education.
For forty years Otho Mooney
has grown with his adopted
state. He is a personal friend of
former Gov. “Alfalfa’ Bill Mur
ray and of other Oklahoma lead
ers, but he still does not know
why he and his- brother went to
Oklahoma.
They just went. Perhaps, it
was the urge of progress that
drove them on, for when they
left Person County and Roxboro
life seemed settled in a groove.
That was forty years ago and
conditions have changed now, as
Otho Mooney willingly admits.
Bom near Surl, the Mooney
brothers were the sons of the
late John Mooney, who died in
1884. Their mother was Mrs. El
vira Mooney, who later married
J. R. Lee and had anothe son
Grover Lee, now an attorney in
Durham.
Otho Mooney remembers the
time when he went to the
Readeland academy, considered
one of the best schools of its day.
He made his home at that time
with W. R. Reade, of Mount Tir
zah, since become venerable and
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Brooksdale Will
Begin Revival On
Sunday Morning
A series of evangelistic ser
vices will begin in Brooks|dale
Methodist church Sunday morn
ing, August 22, at 11:00 o’clock.
The pastor, Rev. E. C. Maness,
will be in charge of all services.
The public is cordially invited to
attend these services and a spe
cial welcome awaits all visitors.
,. ...
* FROM DURHAM
Mrs. C. C. Woody, of Roxboro,
has returned from Durham,
where she visited her daughter,
Mrs. A. L. Parham.
Justice Denny To
Speak At Church
Associate Justice Os Supreme Court
Will Be Speaker At Baptist Church
Will Be In Roxboro On Sunday, August 29. Has Repu
tation As Speaker.
The Hon. Emery B. Denny, of
Baleigh, associate justice of the
Supreme Court, will be guest
speaker on Sunday, Aug., 29, at
a morning session of the Young
Mens’ Bible class at Roxboro
First Baptist church, according
to announcement made today.
Denny, while a resident of
Gastonia, was active in church
affairs and has continued his
churchly interests in Raleigh,
Person County Times
PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY AND THURSDAY
B. J. GENTRY
VISITS, MISSES
ONE OF SONS
However, He Hears From
And Expects To See Sec
ond Boy Soon.
B. J. Gentry, of Roxboro and
Rougemont, who has two sons
and many grandsons in military
service, during the week-end
went to Fort Bragg to visit one
of his sons, Pvt. Kendall Gen
try. When he reached Fayette
ville he discovered he should
have stayed in Roxboro: Pvt.
Gentry was there visiting the
Thomas Haston Gentrys.
But B. J. Gentry, who is visit
ing another son, C. J. Gentry, at
Fayetteville, hopes to see his
second soldier son, Onslow Gen
tryr-shanje from Hawaii and now
in a ■California hospital, very
soon. SOnslow^Gentry, who has
been in the Army four years and
was at Pearl Harbor at time of
the Japanese attack, has not
been in Roxboro for three years,
but is expected to come here as
soon as he is discharged from
the hospital.
TWO VISITORS
Miss Mary Nichols, of Wilm
ington, and Miss Melva Humph
ries, of Oklahoma City, Okla.,
are houseguests of Dr. and Mrs.
A. F. Nichols, Academy street.
Fighting Umsteads
All In This War
Grandchildren Os W. F. Reade
Carry On Combatant Traditions
Gilbert Thompson
Heads Negro Boy
Scouts In Area
Gilbert Thompson, new Negro
Boy Scout assistant for Cherokee
Council, who last week visited
Roxboro for a conference with C.
J. Ford, chairman of the Person
Negro Scout district, and who
also conferred with J. S. Merritt,
Person District president, and
with C. A. Harris, of the inter
racial committee, has been ac
cepted for the position of G. L.
Briggs, resigned, according to an
nouncement made today by
Pierce Bruce, Cherokee Council
executive.
Regular meeting of the Person
Scout district, with S. M. Ford,
vice chairman, was held here
this week. Chief feature of the
session was presentation to Bruce
of encouraging troop reports.
where he has frequently addres
sed a Sunday school class taught
t>y Gov. J. Melville Broughtm.
Jule Warren, one of several
Roxboro citizens interested in
arrangements for Denny’s ap
pearance here, has said that vis
itors will be welcomed. The class
will meet either in the Young
Peoples’ department auditorium
in Ore Education building or in
the church proper, depending
upon the size of the audience.
PAPERS OF MORE
VALUE THAN CASH
LOST BY WOMAN
Mrs. Ira Gentry, of Woods
dale, is still looking for her
billfold, for which she will
gladly pay a reward.
The billfold had in it a con
siderable sum of money in
paper bills, hut it also had in
it her husband’s A and B gaso
line ration books, the Federal
sticker for the car and other
papers connected with this
business of war-time living.
Mrs. Gentry will be grateful to
get the billfold back with all
contents intact, but she parti
cularly wants the gasoline
books, the Federal sticker and
other papers.
Mrs. Gentry, who works at
Collins and Aikman, has noti
fied police. The billfold was
lost Friday in Roxboro.
PVT. WRENN HOPES
HIS LUCK TURNS
GOOD NEXT TIME
Pvt. William A. Wrenn, of
Camp Robinson, Ark., and Rox
boro, a son of Mrs. J. B. Wrenn,
of this City, thinks he has harid
luck.
About two weeks ago, the day
before his furlough was to have
begun, he had to go to a hospi
tal to have a piece of steel wool
removed from his finger. The
steel wool injury incidentally,
occurred while Pvt. Wrenn was
doing a turn at K. P. duty.
Earlier in the month, while on
night patrol, he lost his billfold
containing thirty-five to forty
dollars, which he thinks is a lot
of money.
The money is still missing but
he bought his train ticket before
his finger became infected and
now that it is better, he hopes
he can use the ticket before it
expires.
Two Boys And Girl All
Do Right Well By Marine
Corps. Only One Girl,
Too Young, Stays At
Home.
The fighting Umsteads, of
Chapel Hill, sons and daughters
of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Ums
tead and grandchildren of W. F.
Reade, of Mount Tirzah, are “all
in it” when it comes to World
War 11, and are thus carrying on
a grand tradition for their own
generation.
The Umsteads, from their own
side of the house have had plenty
of fighters and father John W.,
is known all over the State for
his struggles in the State Legis
lature, but to Person people
there is nothing surprising in
tne Reade fighting angle, for
Mrs. Umstead’s father, W. F.
Reade, is Person’s only surviving
Confederate veteran.
But here is the Umstead story,
as told by a Chapel Hill report
er:
The Umsteads have turned Ma
rines!
Senator and Mrs. John Ums
tead’s two sons, Frank and John,
ni, are already a major and cap
tain, respectively, and the oldest
daughter, Sarah, left yesterday
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liate Iteuis Bulletins
SURGICAL DRESSING UNIT TO MOVE AGAIN
Mrs. J. H. Hughes, director, today said that the Roxboro
unit of the Surgical Dressing Division of the Red Cross will
again move to the Wilburn and Satterfield building. By hard
Work much of the quota has been completed. The unit office,
now in Central School building, will be closed until moving is
accomplished. Work of the Longhurst unit continues.
FORMER RESIDENT DIES IN DURHAM HOSPITAL
Mrs. Philip Terry, of Durham, the former Miss Jaunita
Anderson, at one time with the nursing staff of Community
hospital, Roxboro, died this morning in a Durham hospital.
Funeral arrangements are incomplete, but it is thought rites
will be held in Orange County.
ROXBORO, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1943
Seeks Clarity
goals.
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CLAUDE T. HALL
Claude T. Hall
Claude T. Hall, Person USDA
War Board chairman and former
head of the Farm Transporta
tion Committee, on Monday join
ed Philip L. Thomas, Person OPA
chairman, in seeking clarification
of the language of the ruling on
hauling tobacco to markets. He
was emphatic in giving it the
“reasonable distance” interpre
tation elaborated upon today by
Thomas. New Farm Tansporta
tion chairman-elect is Errol Mor
ton, of Olive Hill.
Roxboro Man 9 s Son
Blasts Japs And
Has Huge Dinner
Lieut. Worley Also Runs Into
Electrical Storm Over China
Rites Held For
Altune Beadles
Os East Roxboro
Funeral for Miss Altune Bead
les, six year old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Hunter Beadles, of
East Roxboro, whose death oc
curred Tuesday afternoon at
their home, was conducted Wed
nesday afternoon at three o’clock
at the graveside in the family
cemetery near Nathalie, Va.,
Halifax county.
Death was attributed to" a
kidney condition after an illness
lasting two days. Only survivor,
in addition to the parents, is an
infant brother, Walter Beadles.
The family recently moved to
Roxboro from Nathalie.
FOUR-H CLUBS TO
HAVE PICNIC AT
LAKE NEXT WEEK
Person Four-H club mem
bers, together with their lead
ers and parents, will have
their annual swimming party
and picnic at Chub Lake, about
five miles from Roxboro, on
Thursday afternoon Ang., 26.
Clnb members attending will
first gather at Person County
Court House, Roxboro, at three
o’clock that afternoon for a
brief business meeting of the
Connty Council. Supper will be
served at six o’clock. Among
the program planners are Mrs.
Kathleen Barham, home dem
onstration agent, and C. C.
Jackson, assistant agent.
Thomas And Hall Agree On
Tobacco Haul Statement
ELEANOR FINDS
OUT THAT ARMY
SPEEDS VISITS
Miss Eleanor Davis, of Rox
boro, having spent the week
end with her brother-in-law
and sister, Cpl. and Mrs. An
drew W. Yarborough at Max
ton, told them good-bye at the
bus station.
No sooner had Miss Davis
reached her home in Roxboro
than in walked Cpl. and Mrs.
Yarborough. By grace of a de
layed furlough that arrived
unexpectedly they were able
to catch the next bus.
PREACHER
Chaplain C. P. Daane, of Rox
boro and Camp Butner, will be
guest minister Sunday morning
at eleven o’clock at Roxboro
Presbyterian church, where he
has preached frequently during
the past two months.
His Plane Is The Famous
“Miss Carriage”, Recent
ly Seen In News Reels.
Lieut. Tracy W. Worley, Jr.,
of Norfolk Va.. an alumnus of
the State College division of the j
University of North Carolina, at
Raleigh and a son of T. W. Wor
ley, night clerk at Hotel Rox
boro, this City, got in the news
last month when it was an
nounced that he had received
the “Air Medal” for distinguish
ed flying services with Gen.
Chennault’s bomb squadron in {
China.
But for weeks after that an- !
nouncement came through, Lieut.
Worley’s father did not hear
from him again: today he got an i
explanation, the story of how a
broken oil line forced Worley's'
plane to leave its formation and j
land near a City in the interior !
of China while returning from !
a bombing expedition to Japan, j
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Curfew Questions
May Stir Interest
Some Parents Want Service
Club With Supervision Here
McMullan Cites Ruling
On City Ordinances Os
Curfew Type. Matter Is
Discussed In Roxboro.
Roxboro, despite discussion of
adoption of a curfew law for
youths under 16 years of age
(and despite the fact that some
such law may already be on the
books) apparently cannot legally
adopt such a law, according to a
ruling cited yesterday by State
Attorney General Harry MsMul
lan.
Matter of a curfew law has
been much discussed in Roxboro,
chiefly on allegation that young
women and boys stay out far too
late on the City’s downtown
streets, particularly on week
ends when visiting soldiers come
to town.
Numbers of citizens here, how
ever, take the view that it is the
duty of parents to impose their
own curfews, while not a few
of the more liberal and broad
minded parents have recently
been saying openly that erection
of a properly supervised club in
Roxboro would eliminate many
of die evils which are thought
of as problems to be solved by a
curfew.
In any case, this (quoted be
Reasonable Distance Permissable.
But Long Hauls Frowned Upon
No Intention To Restrict Person Growers From Normal
Trade Zones, Says Thomas, Who Fears That Old Mis
understanding Crops Up.
RATION BOOK TO
BE IN USE BY
SEPTEMBER 12TH
Bown Stamps In Book
111 To Be First To Be
Torn Out.
WASHINGTON, Aug., 19.
Consumers will begin using War
Ration Book Three on Sept. 12,
starting with brown stamps
which will be used to obtain
meat, butter, fats, oils and ra
tioned dairy products, the Office
of Price Administration announc
ed.
Brown stamps lettered “A”
will become valid on the 12th.,
and from then on, each subse
quent letter will be placed in
circulation each succeeding Sun
day.
Brown “A” and “B'’ stamps
will be valid until Oct. 2, “C”,
‘D’, ‘E’, and ‘F’ stamps until Oct.
30.
The OPA also announced that
red stamps ‘X’, ‘Y’ and ‘Z’ in
War ration book two will be
come valid on Aug. 22 and 29,
and Sept. 5. All three will ex
pire Oct. 2.
SERVICE DANCE
AT HIGH SCHOOL
ATTRACTS MANY
Dr Robert E. Long, one of sev
; oral Roxboro citizens who assis
ted with the dance for : soldiers
! from Camp Buner that was held
! Saturday night in the Roxboro
| high school gymnasium, reported
that the affair which lasted from
eight until eleven o'clock, was
successful.
Assisting with direction of this
the first dance in Roxboro for
| men from Camp Blutner, was
i Lawrence Featherston. It is ex
pected that another similar dance
j will be held here soon. In the
dancing group were many Rox
| boro young women some of
I whom on the previous night had
| presented an entetainment pro
| gram at Camp Butner. It is un
derstood that the this entertain
ment program will be repeated
j at the Camp on Friday of next
I w r eek.
low) is what McMullan has to
say on curfews and on a number
of things, such as getting mar
ried by proxy:
In a digest of opinions handed
down yesterday, he ruled that a
city or town cannot legally
adopt a curfew for children un
der 16 years of age.
Several individuals and groups
have proposed fixing of 10 P.M.
curfews in an attempt to curb
what they termed “rising juve
nile delinquency.”
McMullan said: “A municipal
corporation has not authority to
adopt an ordinance requiring all
children under 16 years of age
to be off the streets by 10 P. M.,
unless on a lawful mission or
errand under the direction of
their parents or guardians.”
McMullan also ruled that
common-law marriages may not
be celebrated in the State, and
that a marriage by proxy may
not be celebrated in North Caro
lina. However, the attorney gen
eral said that if a marriage by
proxy was legal where celebrat
ed, it probably would be recog
nized in North Carolina.
Other rulings:
The commissioner of agricul
ture has the right to inspect con
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NUMBER 89
Tobacco farmers, this year as
as last, must expect to sell their
crops on markets that are within
a reasonable radius of the com
munities in which they live, ac
cording to a rje-statement of the
ruling on gasoline for tobacco
hauling issued here this week
by the Person OPA and the re
cently reorganized Farm Trans
portation board.
Wording of the ruling, “The
Farm Transportation Board and
the Person OPA will not issue
additional gasoline to any farm
er hauling tobacco an unneces
sary distance”, was carefully ex
plained today by Philip L.
Thomas, of Roxboro, Person
OPA chairman, who said that he
and Claude T. Hall, chairman of
the Person Transportation Board,
arrived at the specific wording
of the statement last Friday af
ter having had a conference here
with A. G. Floyd and a Mr. John
son, state transportation and
OPA officials,
The statement, according to
Thomas, is similar to one issued
last year about this time by OPA
| and is intended to check or stop
; long distance tobacco hauling by
| growers who wish to sell to
' Eastern Carolina markets or
j far to the South, but the restric
tion in no wise applies to haul
ing within reasonable distance.
Thus, any Person farmer, for ex
ample, may feel free to haul to
bacco to any market within a
reasonable radius of his home
community.
“The ruling against long dis
tance hauling”, says Thomas, “is
by no means to be construed as
an order compelling the farmer
to sell his tobacco at the nearest
market.” It is only expected that
farmers will use discretion, in»
arriving at their definition of a
reasonable and not “unnecessary
distance.”
Thomas, who gave the digest
of the ruling to the Person Coun
ty Times shortly after the Sun-
I day edition went to press, ap
| peared on Tuesday morning to.
be greatly concerned lest Person
[growers should misunderstand a
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ELON COLLEGE
ACTUALLY NEEDS
MEN STUDENTS
Sends Out SOS For Mas
culine Self-Help Students.
ELON COLLEGE, August 19—
Elon College finds itself in need
of at least twenty self help male
students. Up until a year ago,
the college had a policy of only
giving upperclassmen work jobs.
There are no upperclassmen
now and the opportunities for
waiting on tables, cleaning build
ings, working on the campus arid
the college farm, etc., are being
given to freshmen. Two of ths
largest dormitories on the cam
pus are being used by the Pre-.
Flight students of the U. S. Army
Air Force. These students will
not interfere with the college
work in any way. South Dormi
tory and the Club House are be
ing used as rooming places for
boys. These two buildings have
enough space left to take care
of at least twenty boys and there
are twenty or more work join
open for boys. Anyone interested
should get in touch with the Of
fice of the Field Secretary, Eloa <
College.
Man ess Returns S
From Rites For |jl
Father At Hemp.jS
The Rev. E. C. Maness, of Rqx-.
boro, Methodist minister,
turned from Hemp, where
called because of the illness
death of his father,, L. S. itjjjSßmM
88, who died Saturday at
home there. Funeral was held '
Monday at Hemp. He wee also
the father of the Revu: L,
Maness, of Jackson,
Roxboro. Other survive** ’ltiM "'tf
his wife, five other m mi
three daughters. . .1