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VOLUME XIV PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY AND THURSDAY
Taylor Says Yarborough To
Build Low Cost- Abattoir
4k
Action Comes After State Officials
Hold Two Hour Conference In City
Melvin, Linker And
Moody Settle Any Con
troversial Issues Left.
Yarborough Will Get
Permit.
M. M. Melvin, principal sani
tarian of the State Health De
partment, Raleigh, citing the
fact that an abattoir suited to
the needs of Person County and
Roxboro would not of necessity
have to be of an expensive type,
nevertheless, at a conference
held here Monday afternoon
maintained that Person’s revok
ed slaughtering permits, sus
pended since July, will not and
cannot be renewed until reason
able assurance is given that an
adequate slaughter house or
abattoir will be constructed
here.
This, in sum and substance is
all that happened at the confer
ence, a session of the Person
Victor Yarborough, on his
own farm, will construct a low
cost, minimum type abattoir,
according to information receiv
ed today by Person Sanitarian
W. B. Taylor, who| says that
Yarborough will build a small
Structure and will supply run
ning water, a provision re
quired , under Health Depart
ment regulations.
..Yarborough, who is now
slaughtering at Hillsboro, is
also expected to receive a per
mit that will allow him to con
tinue slaughtering there until
his own abattoir is completed.
G. B. Short, only other
dealer and slauhtercr here «who
has expressed an interest in
construction of an abattoir may
do so at a later date.
War Meat Board at Person
County court house which was
also attended by W. Murray Lin
er, district sanitarian, and Hill
man Moody, of the food adminis
tration dvson of the Department
of Agrculture, both also from
Raleigh.
The three officials, immediate
ly after the two hour public
hearing, held private conferences
with G. B. Short, meat dealer
and slaughterer, and with Victor
Yarborough, one of> the chief
slaughterers here, endeavoring to
persuade either one of them to
agree to construct as a private
enterprise an abattoir meeting
minimum requirements and Mel
vin, as he was leaving, seemed
to ; have the impression that
something would be done by one
of them.
Yarborough, however, at pre
sent time i? slaughtering animals
at the Hillsboro abattoir, in
.Orange county, and bringing the
'.meat back to Person County and
Roxboro. Also, he demurred
rather plainly during the con
ference when it was suggested
that he get a gasoline motor to
pump water from a well on his
farm and in that manner bo pre
pared to partially meet abattoir
requirements on his own place.
Short, for his part, made no
commitment, although he was
formerly interested, despite con
sistent arid constant efforts on
the part of some local officials
tqi force him to come to a favor
able decision.
-Melvin and Linker, who for
some time listened to a recital of
aleged confusions dating back to
Linker’s first abattoir conference
of four months ago, both pointed
out that an abatoir suied to Per
son requirements can be con
structed at a cost of between
SBOO and $2,300, although the
first sum wouM construct only a
one-room shed meeting the most
minimum requirements. ■
Cleared up, however, was
whatever of misunderstanding
that has existed here in regard
to whose authority was exercised
in the cancellation of the com
mercial permits of some six or
seven Person slaughterers, the
only ones in Person County and
Roxboro. Chief clarification on
that point came from Moody,
who pointed, out that cancella
tions were ordered through the
US£>A War Board, although di
rectives originate from the De
partment of Agriculture under
standards of the State Health
Person Meat Board chairman,
Coition C. Hunter and R. B.
Griffin, * member, consistently
and constantly sought to impress
on the visiting officials that war
conditions make this an inoppor-
Ttme~Hme for either CSfIBtJT'W
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Person County Times
PERSON QUOTA OF
THIRD WAR LOAN
NEARLY $600,000
Other Quotas In Hun
ter’s District Announced
This Week.
GREENSBORO, August 26.
The Third War Loan quota for
North Carolina is 145 million
dollars, C. T. Leinbach, State
Chairman of the War Finance
Committee, announced today.
This more than doubles the 62
million dollar quota for the Sec
ond War Loan held last April,
and is a real challenge to the
pepole of North Carolina, Chair
man Leinbach said.
Person quota is $567,000, while
other quotas of Region 4, of
which Gordon C. Hunter, of
Roxboro is chairman, are:
Chatham, $417,000; Durham, !
6.941,000,000; Franklin, 327,000;
Granville, 640,000!; Harnett, 1,-
043,000; Johnston, 1,101,000; Or
ange, 655,000; Vance, 1,407,000;
Wake, 5,836,000 and Warren, !
299,000. |
In most counties over the |
State the quotas have been pro- j
portionately increased based on j
local condition?, the amount of |
sales in the Second War Loan,
and the harvesting of crops in 4
the agricultural centers. In all !
counties it will be necessary for 1
them to do a much bigger sell
ing job in this drive than they
dd in April when the State’s
quota of 62 million dollars was
pushed over the top with a total 1
of 109 million dollars.
Leinbach stated in this chal
lenge to all workers in this
drive, “that to reach our quota it
will call for the extension of
every effort to reach all sources
of income, from the large busi
ness and industrial buyers to the
smallest wage earner, with a
door to door contact. The Treas
ury Department has as a part of
its goal in this drive, a desire to
have r SO million customers buy
bonds from September 9 through
30. On the basis of the Treasury
Department’s expectations, North
Carolina "Will be expected to
have approximately 1,330,000
purchasers of bonds, and it will j
take a giant door knocking cam
(turn to page five, please {
Faculty Roster For
Current Year Given
Griffin Lists White Teachers For
Year In Cdunty And District Schools
Preliminary Program
Gets Underway Here.
Driving School Held By
Mrs. Flythe.
Names of more than one hun
tired teachers in white public
schools in Person County and in
the Roxboro district were today
released by Person Superinten
dent of Schools R. B. Griffin,
who, with various principals and
officials, has been busy this week
getting programs in shape for
the school openings Wednesday
of next week, Slept. 1.
Here today for conferences
were Dr. J. Henry Highsmith
and Miss Hattie Parrott, State
supervisors, both of Raleigh,
•while on next Tuesday Dr. N. C.
Newbold will be a speaker at
Person County Training school.
Also here is Mrs. Bill P. Flythe,
of the State Highway Safety di
vision, who is conducting an
niial schools of instruction for
bus drivers.
White teachers, majority of
whom are already in Roxboro,
are as follows:
Roxboro High School, Jer
ry L. Hester, Mrs. Grace O. Clay
tori, Mrs. Irene G .Street, Miss
Sue H. Lawrence, Miss Mabel
Massey, Miss Gertrude M, Holt,
Mrs. Mildred S. Nichols, Mrs.
Clyde Crowell, Miss Patricia
Slaughter, Mr. H. D. Young, Miss
Mary "Earie'Wnsofi; "Mras Trances *
(turn to page eight, please)
ROXBORO, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1943
Mrs. Woodall Os .
Lamar, Wants To
Know About Bug
What is it? Mrs. Percy Wood
all, of Lamar street, Roxboro,
who found a big bug or beetle
on her front walk Sunday,
would like to know. The crea
ture, at least an inchi and a
half long is gray, with brown
spots on its brick janid sharp
pincher hooks at .the mouth.
She took the varmit to Per
son Farm Agent H. K. Sanders,
but he had no answer. Neither
has the City editor of the Per
son County Times, who has to
admit to an ignorance of bug
ology.
Triplets Out
Os Vegetables
Says Guardian l
| Dry Weather Spoils Gar
den Os James And Mabel
Day, Who Also Lack
Fo;;d For Heifer.
I
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob j
j Day, Person’s Negro triplets,
I children of James and Mabel j
| Day, had a garden last Spring, I
| but the hot Sumer sun has dried j
jit up, and the triplets, now a i
[ little more than six months of |
i age, really need vegetables, ac- j
j cording to Nurse Mary Mills, of ]
| the Person Health department :
j staff, who ever since their birth;
has been helping the triplets and !
teaching their parents how to I
help.
The father, James Day, is a I
Negro tenant farmer, one of
those who last week received a '
heifer out of the lot brought in j
by C. J. Ford, but Nurse Mills
rather wonders what is to hap
pen to the heifer, too, because it
seems that there is no food for)
it at the Days either, and be
sides, it will be a year or more
before the heifer is old enough
to give milk, another fodd that
the triplets, do need.
What Nurse Mills wants now
for them is a supply of fresh
vegetables, carrots, salads, peas,
beans and tomatoes, sue does
not blame the parents. They
tried to make a garden, but the (
dry weather defeated their best
efforts. And babies the size of
; the triplets don’t know about
i dry weather.
R. Wilkerson Jr.,
At Miami In
Sub School Work
Willard R. Wilkerson, of Rich
mond, Va., and Roxboro, a son
of Mrs. W. R. Wilkerson, of
Bushy Fork, wflio enlisted in the
Navy, in January 1942, is now
stationed at the Submarine
Chaser Center, Miami, Fla.,
where he is a yoeman first class!
He is a graduate of Roxboro
high xchool and of Smithdeal-
MasAy business college, Rich
mond, where his wife, Mrs. Win
nifred 'Wilkerson, of 3009 Park
avenue, resides.
Wilkerson, in private life was
for five years assistant to the
office manager of the James
Robertson Manufacturing com
pany, Richmond.
Justice Denny
i
b. B. Denny, of Raleigh, as
sociate justice of the Supreme
Court of North Carolina, will be
guest speaker here Sunday
morning at the Bible Class, First
Baptist church. Visitors, both
jggg and women, will be wel
comed, according to class offi
cers.
Revival Starts
< . < lip
v wiHi
Rev. W. T. Medlin, Jr.
Rev. W. T. Medlin, Jr., a Duke
University graduate, who sev
eral months ago assumed pastor
ate of Ca-Vel, Longhurst and ;
Grace Methodist churche?, to
day annorinced the beginning of
a revival service at Grace
church, Sunday night.
Washington Lady
Visits Her Sister
Mrs. Velma Mcßroom Brooks,
of Washington, D. C., is spend
ing several days here with her
brother-in-law and sister, Mr.
and Mrs. Munroe Pleasants. Mrs.
Brooks, who first .went to Wash
ington in 1926, reports that the
! pace of Washington living has
picked up to a marked degree
! since Pearl Harbor. She is an
! aunt of Miss Margaret Pleasants,
j Roxboro’s Pentagon girl, who
I lives with her and whose ex
i ploits were published in the
; Times in a feature article about
! two weeks ago.
Negro Citizens Get
Heifers By Means Os
Farm Agency Project
White Citizens Cooperate In
Plan Placing Cows On Farms
Representative Group
Witnesses Assignment Os
Deep-South Livestock To
More Than Sixty Farms.
C. J. Ford, Person Negro farm
agent, today announced comple
tion of a heifer-placing project
in which 64 heifers, brought in
from Mississippi, have been dis
tributed to Negro farmers in the
Person area. Ford believes that
this is. the first such distribution
exclusively for Negroes in the
State of North Carolina.
Interested assistance in the
' project has been rendered by
Negro citizens and, by represen
tative white citizens, including
Gordon C. Hunter and David S.
Brooks, of the Peoples' bank, T.
R. Bennett, of Roxboro Chemical
company. Dr. B. A. Thaxton and
Person Farm Agent H. K. Sand
ers.
Assistance has also come from
W. G. Booker, Faj-m Products
Agent for the Tennesseee Coal,
Iron and Railway company, Bir
mingham, Ala., and from Negro
District Agent J. W. Jefferies, the
last named of whom investigat
ed the project on July 31, by get
ting in touch with Ford.
Last of the 64 heifers was
placed here last week on Friday,
although Ford failed to contact
newspapers until this week. He
dJd, however, make a prelimin
ary announcement of the pro
ject last month and at that time
the Times carried a story saying
hat the heifers were being se
cured.
Ford’s account of the comple
tion of the project reads as fol
lows:
This is how it was done; Dis
trict Agent, Jeffrie® called Ford
and told him that it was possible
to get a carload of dairy heifers
out of Mississippi through Book
er was leaving the State, Mon
day Aug. 2nd., to purchase sev
eral other carloads. Work was
begun immediately and by night
fall 21 heifers were placed. The
next day being Sunday, work
was discontinued until Monday
morning, August 2. By the time
Booker-reached-Roxboro 48 heif
(Tura to page four please)
FULL ACCOUNT OF
SYNDICATE FIGHT
SENT TO WOODS
Investor’s Syndicate
Hearing Scheduled For
October. Many Here In
terested.
W. Wallace Woods, executive
secretary of Roxboro Chomber
of Commerce, as a public service
to some six or seven hundred
Roxboro citizens interested in
the affairs of the Investor’s Syn
dicate, a company of Minneapo
lis, Minn., now involved in liti
gation, today made public a re
ply received by him from the
Better Business Bureau of Minn
eapolis, Iric., in which it is re
ported that a hearing scheduled
to have been held July 21, has
been postponed until Oct. 4th.
Woods today made no com
ment on the Bureau report, al
though it is apparent that some
, moves to protect the interests of
the investors in the Investor’s
Syndicate are being made.
Published below the extracts
from the Bureau report in which
! statu.? of affairs of the above
| cate, the Investor’s Syndicate of
| America, 'lric., and the Ijivest
i or’s Mutual, Inc., the three
j branches of the company con
! cerned (the Investor’s Syndi-
I cate) are involved:
We answer your request for
information about the . present
I status of tffairs of the above
! companies.
| The Securities and Exchange
! Commission has filed in United
| States District Court certain
j charges on the business conduct
of the above three companies,
: the principal officers, directors
j and some of the. sales represen
tatives. These charges involve
j various acts and practices in the
| sale and exchange of securities
jto the public arid alleged mis-
I (turn to page five, please
ROGERS PAYS OUT
LARGE SUMS FOR
ACCIDENT CASE
The Doctor, The Hospi
tal, Miss Hicks And
* Court Come In For
Share.
Reginald Carr Roger?, 23,
Person white man, whose car a
few weeks ago allegedly struck
and injured Miss Glenna Mae
Hicks, 17, of Roxboro, on Tues
day in Person Recorders’ court
wasi convicted on a charge of
careless and reckless driving
and escaped a six months road
sentence by paying sums totaling
more than $l5O.
Rogers, whose license was re
voked for two years, gets a sus
pended sentence on condition
that he pays: $34.50 to Commun
ity hospital; $24 to Dr. A. F.
Nichols; $70.72 to Miss Hicks in
compensation for wages lost by
her while in the hospital, and
$25 and costs to the court. On a
separate count of speeding,
Rogers paid $5 and costs.
Other cases in Recorders’ court
included: Woodrow W. Milam,
careless and reckless driving, $5
and costs; James Wilson Peed,
speeding, suspended with costs;
Marion Beaver, charged, with
fraud, $2.90 to W. W. Rogers,
with costs; Claude Eugene
Daniel, Negro, Speeding, costs
and Ernest Hamlett, Negro, care
less and reckless driving, con
tinued.
Also, Ellis Overby, Negro,
forcible trespass, $25 and costa;
Robert Lee Jacobs, speeding,
suspended with costs; Robert
Wilson, assault with deadly .wea
pon, S3O to Dr. H. M. Hedgepeth,
$3 to Luther Holt and $5 and
costs; Welson B. Parker, speed
ing, suspended with costs; and
John B. Tate, drunken driving
and no operator’s license, $75
and costs, with license revoked
12 months. ,
Akq, Lucile Gentry, no opera
(turn to page eight, please)
bate neuis Bulletins
PROSPECTS FOR PRICE BOOST SEEM SLIGHT
Prospects for a price boost from forty-one to forty-five
cents for tobacco, the amount asked for, appear to be slight,
according to Claude T. Hall, who with Lieut. Gov. R. L. Harris
and Clarence Warren, was a Person member of the delegation
appearing yesterday at the OPA hearing in Washington. Hall,
however, said this morning that he was particularly pleased
with the neat thrust made by Representative Bonner.
Bonner pointed out that growers here do their own grading
and sorting, which amounts to the processing engaged in in
Georgia and Florida. Summary of argument for the growers
was presented by Lieut. Gov. Harris.
UNITED WAR FUND DRIVE MEETING TONIGHT
Gordon C. Hunter, United War Fund chairman, is calling a
meeting of representative citizens tonight at 7:30 o’clock at
Person Court House, Grand Jury room, to discuss plans for the
drive.
Rehabilitation Os
Citizens In Person
Part Os State Plan
Negro Boy With Both Legs Gone
Gets New Limhs And New Job
Finding Places For Army
Rejectees Also Big Part
In J. E. Allen’s Program
In District.
J. E. Allen,. Jr., of Gr .cnsboro.
district supervisor of the North
Carolina Vocational Rehabilita
tion Department, whose field
embraces ton counties, including
Person, Caswell and Durham, is
a quiet worker, but to citizens
who arc interested he can point
out numbers of instances in
which boys and girls above six
teen years of age and older men
artd women, too, have discovered
that physical handicaps need not
be a bar to successful and happy
living.
Newest angle to work of the
Department is vocational adapt
ation of military rejectees, some
of whom worry excessively af
ter they have been rejected for
Army or Navy service, although
their defects may be slight and
not at all visible to their fellow
citizen?. A case in point, and one
with which Allen s particularly
pleased, is that of a young Rox
boro man who has a perforated
Negro High School
Has Largest Staff Here
Faculty Selections For Negro Schools
For This Year Revealed By Griffin
Newbold Speaks Here
Next Week At First
General Meeting At Per
son Training School.
R. B. Griffin, Person County
Superintendent of Schools, today
released the names of 1943-1944
Negro teachers in more than
twenty Negro public schools.
Supervisor is Mrs. Laura S.
Jones.
The list, as published below,
is complete for Negro schools
here, with the large?,t number
of teachers being, of course, at |
Person County Training school,
of which T. C. Tillman is again
principal.
The list follows:
Person County Training
School: T. C. Tillman, Mrs. Alice
Farrison Ford, Mr/. Hilda Hayes
Fountain, Mernell Margaret
Graves, Saloma Jeffers, Mary
Ellen Jones, Ruth Jeffers Till
man, Mrs. Ruby Talley Hester,
Mrs. Laura White Johnson,
Mabel Williams, A. W. Jones,
Bertha Lee Saunders, Beatrice L.
Harris, Marggie U. Johnson Har
ris, Ellen Deborah Hester, Mrs.
Earle Talley Brooks, Pauline
Hamlett, Sarah Brandon, Juel
Owens Boyd, Pearl E. Biurton,
Mary Johnson Owens, Pecolla
Beatrice Hester, Annie Laura
Perry and Mrs. Gladys C. Rice
Rivers.
Adam’s Chapel: Mrs. Jettie
Gibson Williams.
Lee Clay: Mrs. Pearl Nelson,
(turn to page eight; please);
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NUMBER 91
j ear-drum,
\ This boy, ‘'Joe Smith”j who
i could not be a fighter because
his eardrum defect makes him a
ready victim in case of gas at
tacks, and who had a small rela
tively unimportant civilian job,
i ■ now working in a training
: school at White Haven, Tchn.,
; where he is learning aircraft
j maintenance, What is more, he
is being paid yvhile he learns and
| although he is in war work he
is assured of a permanent, pay
j ing job in the. peace-time world
| in which ; airplanes will be more
j important than ever,
i Another Person example of
I vocational rehabilitation is furn
ished . by “James Brawn”, a
young Negro, about 21, now in
jNew York City as a watchmaker
and repairman. James, when a
young boy, had both legs cut off
when he was run -over by a train.
There, were two stumps of legs
left, one above, the other below
the knee. Alien, with the help
of local authorities, got James
two artificial limbs and then
sent him to a trade school to
(Turn to page four please)
FARMS, RANCHES
GET AMMUNITION
Hunters Also Get Allot- I
ments Os Shells After
Those Against Pests.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.
The War Production Board has
made additional rifle and shot
gun ammunition available to
I farmers and ranchers, for use
against “predatory animals and
game birds now threatening
crops and herds in certain parts
of the country.”
A WPB order released 2 250,-
000 shotgun shells, 12,000,000
rounds of center fire rifle am
munition and an undetermined
quantity of .22 caliber catridges.
The agency said it represented
“a small portion of the country’s
total manufacture and will not
disturb or alter production for
military requirements.”
Farmers and ranchers who ap
ply to dealers before October 1'
will be allowed 100 rounds of .22
caliber catridges, 20 rounds' of
center fire rifle ammunition and
25 rounds of shotgun shellS of
any gauge. This will be in addi
tion to their regular quarterly
quotas of 100 rounds of .22 cali
ber bullets, 40 rounds of eehte*
fire catridges 1 and 25 roondi of
shotgun shells. i