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FOR iiatfit I I hope Americans p|NB will figure out for Barii themselves addi tional payroll sav- 85BTI ing*. mmm VOLUME XIV Meat Conference Set For This Says Food Leader State Supervisor Seeks Solution Qf Person’s Slaughtering Evils W. T. WILKERSON RITES HEL D AT aUSTER SPRINGS Person Native And South Boston Resident Dies From Heart Attack. HeljS, yesterday at Cluster Springs, Va., at the Baptist church, were rites for Walter Thomas Wilkerson. 71, of South Boston, Va., and Raleigh, whose death occurred Friday morning at his home after a sudden heart attack. Wilkerson, a merchant, who operated a store on the South Boston highway, moved to South Boston the first of this year. He was a brother of the late W. R. Wilkerson, for years Person Board of education chairman, who died in June in a Raleigh hospital. Wilkerson was a brother of Dr. Charles B. Wilkerson of Ral eigh and is the third member of the family to die this summer. Another brother, H. L. Wilker son, died in June. All three had sons in the armeid services on duty in combat zones. He was the son of the late Thomas E. Wilkerson and Mary Susan Henry Wilkerson of Per son County. Surviving are his wife; six daughters; five sons; a brother, Dr. Wilkerson; and a sister, Mrs. Ina J. Coleman of Durham. He was first married to Nan pie Lee Strum, who died several years ago. He is survived by his second ,wife, Mrs. Bessie Puryear Wilk erson; six daughters, Mrs. Irving Gentry cf Roxboro, Mrs. Robert Puryear of South Boston,‘Mrs. Chester Beasley of Durham, Mrs. Jessie Puryear of Clinton, Misses Virginia and Gertrude Wilkerson of the home; five sons, Alton Wilkerson of Garner, James Wilkerson of Angier, W. T. and Wallace Wilkerson. both of Clin ton, and Cpl. Betrand Wilker son of the U. S. Army, overseas. • TRANSFERRED Mrs. James Brooks today said that her husbanld, who has been stationed at Camp Barkley, Texas, has been transferred to Camp Phillips., Kans., where the climate is reported to be much better. Butner’s Six Mules Get Keeper’s Praise Creatures Familiar To Lee And Jackson And Grant Have Place In This War Six Stubborn Animals Will Plough For Prison ers Who May Come To • Camp. Butncr. CAMP BUTNER, Aug. 21. Within sound of Garand rifle tire, and the loud reports of ar tillery shells, the clanking of tanks, and the whine of planes hovering above, there is a phase Os the “old” army life here at ■ Camp Butner. The phaEe that Custer and Grant and iLee knew. 14 Hie phase that Pershing and the syardbird knew from two differ ent levels. The phase that makes i “Old Sarge’s” eyes take on a jobetalgic look, and projects his 1 mind back to the good old days .when rookieb did not have PHDs I apd tried to trip him with scien |uk data. | That phaae of army life is the [ army mule, which exists here at tCunp Butner, corral, belligerent [ attitude, odor and all. 11? About three miles from the Ejwwfin garrison-near the exten [ gion camp—the corral is located Eta die top of a picturesque bill. Igigw in G. 1 stable, painted the Esmwmi color as the toandcks of gJbTsoUHers, are quartered six of the United States Person County Times PUBLISHED EVERT SUNDAY AND THURSDAY Moody Places Enforce ment Blame On Wickard And Health Centers. Promise that there will be held here during the coming week a conference attended by State Health Department officials and by representatives of the Person County War Boerd and the Per son Meat board, offers some as surance that solution of the Per .on ‘County meat-slaughtering, and abattoir controversy will be reached, according to Gordon C. Hunter, meat board chairman, who on Friday got a letter from Hillman Moody, of Raleigh. Moody, who is State Supervis or of the Food Distribution Ad ministration of the United States Department of Agriculture, and has become one o* the central figures in the controversy, says clearly that careellation of some six to seven meat slaughtering permits lost month in Person County was craerrd by the State Health Department. He admits 1 owever that the State Health Department issued its orders un der compliance with a program headed by Secretary of Agricul *ure Claude R. Wickard. Within the past few weeks de nials of direct responsibility have come bo’n from the State Health Department and from the tri county unit which serves Person. Denial also carr.e from the State Office of Price administration, nut Chairman Hunter, of the Meat Board, regards Moody’s letter as the clearest statement yet received of the position held by all parties, concerned. Date for the proposed meeting between State Health Depart ment officials and the Person War and Meat Boards has not been announced. Because Moody’s letter does apparently clarify the situation, ihe Times is pleased to print it in full, io that citizens generally as well as the cancelled butchers may see it. The letter reads as follows: “This will acknowledge receipt of your letter cf August 11, with attached Progress Report on pro cessing of slaughter permits as of August 11, 1943. On thi/ form you report no custom slaughters, no farm slaughterers and no butchers. You do report seven lo cal slaughterers and state that all permits in the county have been cancelled by parties unknown. “A previous report lists a total (turn to page two, please) Army. Most of the veteran mules were “caught in the draft” years before the United States even thought of a war. One of them, a bull-like creature, has been in the service for more than 16 years and has served in more than three camps. The induction of a mule, and the keeping of records for the animals is similar to the admin istration required for a soldier. Service records are kept from the time the animal enters the service, until it leaves. On it is shown —his age at induction, when purchased, by whom, price, color, and to whom issued. Just as the scared rookie, who stares with fear in his eyes at the harmless needle in the hands of a medical corps man, the mule is given tetanus shots to prevent disease. On the neck of each ani mal is branded his serial num ber, so that if he is lost, strayed, or AWOL, he can be returned to his unit. Hie animals are classified as being draft mules,which says Sergeant Andrew Tipton of Abbeville, North Carolina, with his tongue ju his check, does does not mean that the—k-ETA (turn to page four, please) ROXBORO, N. C., SUNDAY, AUGUST 22, 1943 BROUGHTON AND DARDEN WILL GO TO WEED PARLEY Two Governors Interest ed In Fight To Get High er Tobacco Ceilings. Raleigh, Aug. 21. Governor J. Melville Broughton will hegd a delegation of North Carolina agriculture loadc-ic which will go to Washington Wednesday to confer with official: of the Of fice of Price Administration in an effort to obtain a higher ceil ing price for flue-cured tobacco. The Governor said last night that the North Carolina delega tion will work with a delegation from Virginia, to be headed by Governor Colgate Darden. In the North Carolina delega tion, the Governoi said, will be W. Kerr Scott, commissioner of agriculture; Harry W. Caldwell, master of the State Grange and State Farm Labor Commissioner; J. E. Winslow of Greenville, president of the State Farm Bureau Federation; Representa tive Clarence Stone of Rocking ham, Serator J. Con Lanier, of Greenville, and a number of prominent tobacco growers and warehousemen from all sections of the state. The Governor said the delega tion from this state will attempt to get Ihe OPA to raise the tobac co ceiling price to “a minimum of 47 cents.” Governor Darden and the Vir ginia delegation will seek pri marily to raise the ceiling price for Old Belt markets, the Gov ernor said, but the North Caro linians will work in the interest of all bells now operating in this State. The Governor said the mission is “a furtherence of the effo'ts ■on the part of North Carolina to bacco growers, warehousemen, and agricultural leaders to ob tain a fair differential between prices paid on Georgia where tobacco is sold ungraded, and the North Carolina and Vir ginia markets, where it is tied and graded.” BIBLE TEACHING WILL CONTINUE IN HIGH SCHOOL Hope Expressed That - Program Can Be Expend ed Next Year, The Rev. Rufus J. Womble, se cretary of the Person County Ministerial association, today an nounced that Bible wlil again be taught in Roxboro high school, the instructors to be the Rev. R. W. Hovis, the Rev. W. T. Medlin and himself. The plan, similar to one followed last year, has the full support of Person Superin tendent of Schools R, B. Griffin and other officials. Each instructor will teach three months and this year for the first time will receive a salary of $25 per month during teach ing time. The salary is to be paid by interested citizens, business firms and sports organizations and will not come out of the school budget. It is hoped that this beginning of salary pay ment will mean that one full time Bible teacher to serve several schools can be employed here next year. bate news Bulletins HULA HULA GARMENT THRILLS HEART OF PETITE BLOND Miss Dorothy Taylor, of Roxboro and Semora, has it: a gen uine Guadalcanal grass skirt, sent to her by Lieut. Bill Daven port from that country. The long, flat package arrived yester day. Miss Taylor makes no promises as to when or where she will wear it. MRS. L. SANDERS MCWHORTER IMPROVES AFTER ACCIDENT Mrs. L. Bladders McWhorter, injured Wednesday by explosion of a glass canning jar, who has been at McPherson hospital, is expected to return home today. Her burns were painful but are not expected to be serious or to leave scars. ONE WARNING OUT OF THREE IS ALL Chester Smith, Negro, owner of a car driven by Kinston Smith, also a Negro, was warned at an OPA panel hearing Fri day. License of Walter Paylor, Negro, driving car of Josh Tapp •was revoked by Court and no panel action was required, while Beurl J. Talent, of Roxboro, charged with speeding in Munroe, said he now has no gasoline. Fire At Mid-Night Lights Up Emotions Claude Humphries Knows What It Is To Be Burnt Completely Out Os Home EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF RED CROSS AT COURTHOUSE Mrs. Featherston Praises Work Os Junior Assis tants. Mrs. Sue Featherston, execu tive secretary of the Person County and Roxboro chapter of the American Red Cross, today announced the removal of her office to rooms on the third floor of the Person County Court House. Office hours for consultation will be one to four P. M., but it is hoped that Junior Red Cross assistants will be able to continue the assistance that has made it possible for the office to also be open during morning hours. Mrs. Featherston, incidentally, i s deeply grateful for work of the Junior assistants, who were Os great assistance during Summer months when the office was lo cated in Roxboro Central Gram mar school. CITY ROTARIANS WILL COMPETE IN ATTENDANCE Gates Believes Seed Shortage Grows More Acute. Roxboro Rotarians this week will discuss Dlans for a three months campaign to increase at tendance. Having approved the division of the club into two teams, with the losers to be the buyers of a $25 War Bond for the club treasury, the members will go into details Thursday when they meet at Hotel Rox boro. The campaign will start Sept, 2nd. Speaker at the regular meet ing of last week was Rotarian Henry Gates, coal and feed deal er, who warned with seriousness of an increase in, price and an approaching shortage in seeds, particularly small grains. For this immediate area he was more cheerful concerning supplies of coal arid said that many resi dents are cooperating by early ordering. Gates spoke in place of Earl Bradsher, ill in a hospital, but now said to be improved. Presiding was W. Wallace Woods, president, who reported on the 189th District assembly at Wilson attended by him and Mrs. Woods. Pianist was Mrs. RETURNS HOME C. W. Armstrong, Jr., of Salis bury, a grandson of W. H. Har ris, Sr., who has been with the Army in the Pacific area, has returned to the United States and is shortly expected home for a- visit. Wife Dresses And Walks Out Without The One Item Os Clothing That Is Rationed. Claude Humphries, of Academy street, Roxboro, a mill worker and lumber company employee, knows how it feels to be burnt j out. Thursday, about midnight, . the four-room house in which be ' lived was all but burnt to the ground and all of his possessions except a dresser and mirror, that he saved, were destroyed. Also, one hundred dollars in green backs, hidden under a rug in the bed-room in which the blaze started, went up in smoke. Humphries estimates his per sonal loss at close to SSOO, with no insurance, and says that the house, property of W. C. Bullock , and partially insured was worth between $2,500 arid $3,000. Walking home at the time the alarm was turned in, Humphries heard his wife scream, but the house was hidden by trees so that he could not see the blaze. He thought the scream was that of a sick neighbor. He got closer. He saw the flames licking the outside of a bedroom window. It was his house: then he heard his wife again, crying out that their two sons, nine arid eleven, were in the house. He moved swiftly, knocking out a window with his bare fist. Blood ran down his arm. He did not feel it. Just as he was about to enter the blazing structure j someone told him where the two ! boys were. One had gone with a neighbor to get the firemen; the I other was standing on the rail road tracks, watching. Firemen had to take the hose across the tracks, then back their truck some three hundred-fifty yards up a hill to a hydrant. The house was old pine, the kind that burns like a match. The firemen did what they couSd, and for their aid and for the cooperation of neighbors Humphries and his folks are deeply grateful. They don’t know how the fire started. Mrs. Humphries, asleep in & bedroom across the hall, Where the two boys were, was first to notice it. The house was lighted' by oil lamps, but none was lit at the time the fire was discovered. Some people, Hum phries says, have suggested that the fire was of incendiary ori gin. He does not know. It just happened. He had on hs work clothes. They are all he has now. Mrs. Humphries, in the excitement of dressing, left off the only ration ed. clothing item of the day, her shoes. The two boys managed to throw on some garments. And one of them braved the flames several times to run back to the house and bring out cans of to matoes. Stored in' a warehouse is the charred remains of a sewing ma chine. Somebody grabbed a $7.50 razor, the old-fashioned kind, . and put it in a drawer of the sewing machine. Humphries val ued the raozr and he thought it was safe. When he looked for it next morning it was gone. He rather hopes that if one of the neighbor children took it, they’ll give it back to him. A fire, at mid-night, with an other flare-up about three A. M. That was all it was. A good many Roxboro people saw it and went as fast as their gas-rationed cars would run, but Claude Humphries and his wife and kids are the ones who really know how it feels to be burnt out. The pigs grunt in their pen, close by, and chickens are busy pecking in the ashes. New License By authoriation of Philip L. Thomas, City of Roxboro police commissioner, who is also a member of the board of city commissioners, and with appro val of Police Chief George C. Robinson, the Royal Case will again be permitted to sell wine and beer. The license Was issued Thursday morning in the name of Mrs. Stephen Georges but no announcement Was made until today. IN ROCKY MOUNT Mrs. Minnie Hicks and her sis ter. Miss Louise Solomon, are spending several days in Rocky Mount. Newbold Will Be Third Prominent Pre-School Figure Griffin Says Short Day Schedule Will Last Thirteen School Days FONTAINE RITES CONDUCTED FROM RALEIGH CHURCH Son Os Person Family Had Distinguished Re cord At State College. Funeral services for James Spotswood Fontaine of 2712 Everett Avenue, Raleiglh, were held Thursday from Edenton Street Mt thodist church with the Rev. A. J. Hobbs pastor, officia ting. Burial was in Oakwood Cemetery at Raleigh. Fontaine died Tuesday night at Rex hospital. Honorary pallbearers were members of the engineering faculty of State College and members of the Raleigh Engi neering Club. Fontaine was the son of the late Rev. Patrick Henry Fon taine and Annie Redd Fontaine of Woodsdale. He was a native of Halifax, Va. He was a professor of civil en gineering at State College and the acting director of the engi -1 neering experiment station of [the college. He had been connec | ted with the college for the ' pari 20 years. I Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Irene Stephenson Fontaine; a daughter, Catherine Spotswood Fontaine of Raleigh; a sister, Mrs. W. T. Creath of Paces, Va.; two brothers. Jchn Winston Fontaine of the faculty of Atlan | tic Christian College, and Mat thew Maury Fontaine of the Navy Department, Washington. Hunter Will Go To Raleigh For Bond Meeting Gordon C. Hunter, chairman of District Four, for the com ing Thiitd War Loan drive, to day said that he and a number of Person co-workers will go to Raleigh Tuesday, for a sub-divi sion district meeting. First of j these meetings was held Thurs- J day in Durham by Chairman \ ' Hunter, who was acaorrtpani) l by Farris Humphries, of this i City, a World War II veteran, who was wounded at Pearl Har bor. TO WASHINGTON Miss Pauline Solomon, of Washington, D. C., who has a position in the War Department, will return to Washington today after spending three days here with members of her family. Miss Solomon was formerly an assistant at Person County Pub lic Library. Along The Way With the Editor . Person County is full of Longs: Louis, of brunswick. slew fame, J. A., Jr., the aviator, Dolian, the merchant about to tufn soldier, Flem D., the Primitive Baptist, and Marvin, the nevt papa, to name a few. ( Somewhere in Person’s wilds there are some more Longs, the parents of a Pvt. Charles Long, of Camp Adair, Ore., a j member of the Trail Blazers, who recently won a medal for marksmanship. » - > ■ : • % ! - Over in Creedmoor are Mr. arid Mrs. E. G. Long, one time Roxboro residents, who have a son named Charles (Reade) ‘ ' Long, who is at Yale University, in aeronautical engineering, j who on October 2, will graduate as a second lieutenant The Creedmoor Longs also have three other sons in military and I semi-military rank. George, in the Army, is in Richmond. E. G., Jr., is a Lieutenant arid an area engineer on the practically | •finished Beaufort Airport, and Bill is a fireman at Camp But- 1 ner. The E. G. Longs are proud of their boys and are generous enough to extend their felicitations to the Camp Adair Charles, tat 1 they would like to know which of the clan he belongs to. And so would we. The Camp Adair publicity department is ft long; j way off. Will the right set of Longs come forward? Phone 4501 If you have any news items or for advertising or com mercial printing service. NUMBER 90 Separate Conference For Principals Will Be Held. Teachers Begin To Ar rive. Dr. N. C. Newbold, of Raleigh, State Supervisor of Education for Negroes, nationally known in his field, will be one of three State public school officials com ming here within the next ten days to address Person teachers at pre-school conferences. Dr. Newbold, according to Person Superintendent R. B. Griffin, will be here Tuesday afternoon, August 31, at 2:30 o’- clock to address both elementary and high school teachers in the Negro schools at a session to be held at Person County Training school. Other State officials who will be in Roxboro are Dr. J. Henry Highrmith and Miss Hattie Per rott, who will speak to white teachers in both the County and City systems on Thursday, Aug ust 26, at Roxboro high school at 9:30 o'clock. In discussing meetings to be held. Griffin today pointed, out that another meeting, one for white principalis, will be held ore Thursday, August 26. This is not to be confused with a regular principals’ session, scheduled for Monday, Aug. 30, at ten o’clock in the Board of Education of fice, Chub Lake street. Griffin also L-aid that despite considerable- discussion plans are being made to release all schools at one o’clock each after noon for the first thirteen school days, this curtailment of the schedule being intended to allow children additional time to help with crop production and to al leviate a labor shortage describ ed by some farmers as acute. Classes during those first thir teen days, beginning Sept. 1, will' begin at 8:30 A. will con tinue until one P. M. The school. (turn to page four, please) Sgt. Harvey Long Quick Freezer, Has Picture In Paper Sgt. Harvey P. Long, of Rox boro, now stationed in England, one of four Army sons of Mr. ; and Mrs. Martin Long, rigged up | a chain drive for his ice cream i freezer and got his picture in the ! August 7, issue of “Stars and [ Stripes”, noted Army newspa ' per. Sgt. Long is an Army cook. Motor for his freezer is a sprock eted jeep wheel. Mrs. Long, the proud mother brought the paper to the Times office as proof pos itive that her son is using his head. Two companions are look ng on as the wheel turns and the freezer freezes. Mrs. Pauline Pittman, of Col umbus, Ga., is visiting her broth er and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. M. G. Johnson.