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VOLUME XIV PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY AND THURSDAY
Winstead To Head
Speaker’s Group Os
Third Loan Drive
War Bond Drive Opens Here Thursday
With Harris And Griffin In Charge
RESPONSIBILITY
FOR ADJUSTMENTS
AFTER WAR SEEN
Soldiers, Native Or For
eign, Deserve Same Con
sideration S/ays (Rotar
ian.
“The World They Will Come
Back To”, a consideration of
post-war adjustments to living
which have to be faced by young
men 'and women and by their
parents and other older citizens,
was topic discussed Thursday at
Roxboro Rotary club at Hotel
Roxboro, by Thomas J. Shaw,
Jr., City Editor of the Person
County Times, of the public re
lations committee, who had the
program in charge. y
Welcomed back after an ab
sence of several iweeks because
of ill health was the Rev. W. F.
West. Presiding was W. Wallace
Woods,-president, who introduc
ed the speaker and\also lead in
singing, with" Mrs. Woods as
pianist.
The speaker pointed out that
Roxboro Rotary club with a
membership of nearly fifty has
two of its own members in ac
tive military service and that
over half of the members have
sons or daughters or close rela
tives in service. It was also
shown that Rotarians. as civic
leaders, have an obligation to
service men and women who
will return, an obligation to un
derstand the forced maturity
that war will give them and to,
if possible, help them to take up
the civic obligations they will
find here when they return.
It was also indicated that visit
ing soldiers from Camp Butner
and other military centers, are
in essence brothers of those Tyho
have gone from Roxboro and
that courtesy demands that all
of them be extended the same
tolerance and consideration that
we, of Roxboro, would show to
our own fighting young people.
Next meeting will be Monday
at Hotel Roxboro in a joint ses
sion with Kiwanis.
Rudd Graduates
From Radio School
At Bainbridge
Seaman Second Class Robert
Rudd, of Bushy Fork aril Bain
bridg’e, Md., who has just been
graduated from Naval Radio
school, Bainbridge, is spending a
few days here with members of
his family. In the Navy for the
past several months, Rudd, who
is*a graduate of Roxboro high
school, says he frequently sees
Tom Hill Clayton, of Roxboro,
iwho is also in the Navy and sta
tioned there.
PTA Benifit
The Lone Star quartet will
give a benifit performance Tues
day night at 8:30 o’clock at O
live Hill school. The program
is being sponsored by the PTA
aril a small admission will be
charged.
bate neuis Bulletins
YARBOROUGH CONTEMPLATES ABATTOIR CHANGE
Victor Yarborough, Person slaughterer, (who two’ weeks
ago said he would build an,abattoir on his own farm for his
own use, has abandoned that plan because of technical diffi
culties, according to W. B. Taylor, sanitarian, who said yester
day that Yarborough is expected to meet today at four o’clock
with certain Roxboro and Durham Jewish) citizens, who, it is
said, are interested in backing Yarborough in construction of
a stock market and an abattoir within or near the City limits
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of Roxboro.
Taylor also reported that J. G. Chambers, of Timberlake,
has secured a slaughtering permit for use at Hillsboro, where
Yarborough also has a temporary permit. It is understood that
G. B. Short, at one time interested in construction of an abat
toir here, has abandoned such plans.
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Person County Times
Civic Club Joint Session 1
Monday One Os 'Several
Pre-Campaign Meetings.
Mayor S’. G. Winstead, of Rox
boro, will be chairman of the
speakers’ committee the
Third War Loan Drive which
opens here on Thursday, Septem
ber 9, when Person County and
Roxboro under direction of Lieut.
Gov. R. L. Harris and Person
Superintendent of Schools R. B.
Griffin as cochairman, will in
stitute a drive to raise the local
quota of $667,000 announced two
weeks ago by State Chairman
Leinbach, of Winston-Salem.
Selection of Winstead as speak
ers’ chairman, made at a meet
ing held Thusday night and at
tended by Harris, Griffin) and
other civic leaders, means that
he will be responsibly for secur
ing speakers for any aryl all
public gatherings held during the
campaign and all persons who
desire to have speakers are re
quested to present their requests
to Mayor Winstead.
One of several additional pre
campaign meetings to be held
here will be a joint meeting of
Kiwanis and Rotary, two civic
clubs, Monday night at 6:30 o’-
clock at Hotel Roxboro, where
club cooperation will be outlined.
It is understood that there will
be no formal program here
Thursday to mark the opening
of the campaign, but the earnest
cooperation of all citizens, includ
ing business rn.cn, civic leaders
and school officials and pupils is
requested.
District chairman, for a dis
trict including Wake and Dur
ham counties in addition to Per
son, is Gordon C. Hunter, who
also attended the committee
meeting here Thursday, as did J.
S. Merritt, editor of the Person
County Times, J. W. Noell. of
the Roxboro Courier, W. Wallace
Woods, publicity director and
Rotary president, J. J. Woodv,
president of Kiyvanis. and Sid
nev Marsh, personnel director of
Collins and Aikman.
The Thursday committee meet
ing was held at Person County
Court House.
DAVIS. NOT BERRY
A. R. Davis, Jr., and not Wil
lie Berry, was the Guadalcanal
soldier who recently visited the
grave of Pfc. Sam C. Fisher, Jr.
Davis wrote the letter to his
mother, who yesterday called at
tention to the transcription of
names which occurred in Thurs
day’s story about Fisher.
VISITS MOTHER
Lieut. William Smith Humph
ries, of Camp Davis, and his
brother, J. Y. Humphries, Jr.,
of Wilmington spent the week
end here with their mother, Mrs.
J. Y. Humphies. Also here was
Mrs. Humphries, Jr., and their
daughter.
DAY AT LAUNDRY
Burley Day has accepted a
position with the Roxboro Laun
dry company as a dry cleaner.
He will be in complete charge
of the dry cleaning department
of this company.
Mr. Day has recently been
specializing, in the dry cleaning
of silk garments. He returns to
Roxboro after an absence of sev
eral years having made his home
in Goldsboro during that time.
ROXBORO, N. C., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1943
Red Cross Board To
Meet Each Month
First Os Series Os Executive
Board Sessions of Red Cross Held
Fast Service
Spoils Soldier
Now In Africa
Master Sergeant J. Y. Blanks,
Jr., in an anti-aircraft division
in Africa, illustrates the quick
ness of mail service to that
continent. In a letter to his
father, J. Y. Blanks, Sr., of
Roxboro, J. Y., Jr., complains
that he has not had a letter
from home “this week.” That
is the regularity of mail ser
vice he has been taught to ex
pect. His wife is now residing
in Burlington with her parents.
APPLICANTS FOR
FSA FARM LOANS
BEING CONSIDERED
Quota Limited And AH
Persons Interested Must
Apply At Once.
Farmers of Person County
who have necessany qualifica
tions an,d wi-h to be considered
for loans with which to buy
famiiy-type farms of their own
under the U. S Department of
Agriculture’s Tenant Purchase
program should apply immediate
ly to the Farm Security Admin
istration office at Roxboro, it
was announced by Joe Y. Blanks,
Person FSA Supervison.
Under the Bank-Jones Farm
Tenant Act, a limited number of
loans can be made in desiginated
counties each year to farm ten
ants, sharecroppers or farm lab
orers who are American citizens,
to enable them to obtain farms
of sufficient size to adequately
support their families. The loans
gre repayable within 40 years, at
three percent interest. Farmers
who are interested in this type
of loan can obtain, the details
from Blanks.
Opening Exercises
Os Central School
To Occur Monday
Civic And Educational Leaders
Headline Central School Program
DIXON HOME FROM
VERMONT THINKS
WAR NOT OVER
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Aviation Cadet Finishes
Link Flying Training At
Vermont Station.
Aviation Cadet Luther Dixon,
of Roxboro, son of Mrs. B. H.
Lee, of this City, a member of
the Army Air Forces Reserves,
who has for the past six months
been in New England for train
ing and who recently completed
a six weeks course in link train
ing (blind flying) at Burlington,
Vermont, is spending a few days
at his home here.
With him is his wife, the form
er Miss Todd, of Allensville, iwho
has been with him in Burlington.
Dixon expects to be transferred
shortly to a basic training cen
ter. Among Roxboro boys with
him at Burlington was Jack
Shotwell, Jr. Dixon frankly says
he is glad to be back down
“South, in Dixie”, having discov
ered that Vermonters, even as
much as the old Southern colon
els, are still busy fighting the
Civil War. In addition, he says,
they exhibit a provincialism
peculiarly their own. /
Great Need Seen For
Volunteer Workers In Of
fice Here.
Members of the executive
board of the Person and Roxboro
chapter of the American Red
Cross plan to meet once each
month, according to Mrs. Sue C.
Featherston, Executive Secretary,
who today said that August meet
ing was held Tuesday.
Presiding was Dr. Robert E.
Long, chapter chairman, and
among topics discussed was the
new quota of kit-bags, 432, which
was accepted. Miss Sue Freder
ick. kit-bag chairman, reported
that the new quota is consider
ably larger than the one for last
year and said that the program
has been so successful that kit
bags will now be sent to Marines
and men in the Navy as well as
to Army men. All bags made
under the old Roxboro quota
have already been sent to ports
of embarkation where they will
be distributed, according to Miss
Frederick.
It was also announced that
Mrs. T. Miller White, of Rox
boro, will serve as Person chair
man of the Camp and Hospital
supplies committee. She recently
went to Greensboro for a dis
trict meeting. Under Mrs. White’s
supervision is furnishing day
rooms in camps and supplying
of hospital needs.
Mrs. Featherston, in her own
report, pointed out that execu
tive office of the Red Cro:s here
is now cn the third floor of Per
son County "Court house, having
been moved from Roxboro Cen
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No Change In
Squirrel Law
R. G. Reynolds, Person Game
warden, and R. P. Burns, who
spent some time in Raleigh last
week in an effort to get. the
squjrrel season in Person county
advanced, report that the sea
son, because of a State-wide rul
ing, will remain as it now is. Ad
vocates of an advance have
claimed that squirrels are des
troying nuts on treps.
I Formal Exercises Will Be
: Held Early Monday
| Morning.
! Roxboro Central Grammar
| school, of which Miss Inda Collins
is principal, will have formal
opening exercises in the school
auditorium on Monday morning
at 8:45 o’clock, according to an
nouncement made today by Miss
Collins, who said that invoca-'
tion will be given by the RV .
Rufus J. Womble, rector of St.
Mark’s Episcopal church and ac
tive Cub Scout leader.
Among the speakers will be
Mrs. H. C. Kynoch, president of
Central school PTA, Jerry L.
Hester, now district superintend
ent of Roxboro schools, R. B.
Griffin, Person Superintendent,
Dr. B. A. Thaxton, district school
board chairman, and W. Wallace
Woods, secretary of Roxboro
Chamber of commerce.
Music will be under direction
of Miss Katherine Cooper, of the
public schools music faculty, and
Mrs. W. Wallace Woods, a teach
er of music. Classes at Central
school began last Wednesday, but
opening exercises, according to
custom, are being deferred until
Monday.
Miss Collins, who returned to
Roxboro last week after spending
the summer at her home at Hol
ly Springs, is of the opinion that
the new school year will be an
unusually successful one and she
is extending a Cordial invitation
to all parents, patrons and friends
to attend the opening.
Sgt. Alderman Said To Be
Missing After German Raid
Presides
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Dr. R. E. Long
Intensification of Fall work of
the Person and Roxboro Red
Cross chapter, of which Dr.
Robert E. Long is chairman, was
planned at an executive Board
session held here last week at
j which Dr. Long presided.
HOME PLEDGE TO
BE SOUGHT FROM
HOUSEWIVES
Emphasis Will Be Placed
On Support Os Ceiling
Prices And Avoidance
Os Black Markets.
Being conducted this week in
many cities and towns and ex
pected to begin soon in Roxboro
and Person County is a “Home
Front Pledge’’ campaign operat
ed in connection with the Com
munity Service division of OPA
j anti designed to secure coopera
i tion of housewives and mer-
I chants in support of established
! ceiling prices.
j Under the pledge . campaign
housewives will be asked to sign
| a pledge to support established
price panels and to avoid black
markets. Merchants, too, will be
asked to display cards signifying
their support of the pledge. An
instrument of the campaign will
be a Market-basket Price Book
containing lists of authentic and
established prices.
S:gning of pledges will be con
sidered an act of patriotism, just
as the buying of War Bonds and
stamps is such an. act. Further
detail: of the campaign as it is
to be conducted in Roxboro will
be announced later. It is regard
ed as posible that major part of
the work of familiarizing the
public with aims and objects
will be accomplished through
block leaders,
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Two Ministers
Speak Sunday
At First Church
The Rev. J. B Currin, Baptist
minister, of Roxboro. will be
guest speaker on Sunday morn
ing at eleven o’clock at Roxboro
First Baptist church, having as
his topic, “Measuring Up”. Eve
ning speaker, at eight o’clock,
will be the Rev. G. H. Ellmore.
Sunday school will be at 9:45
A. M., and BTU will be at 7:15
P. M. Pastor is the Rev. W. F.
West, who, with Mrs. West, has
returned to this city after an ab
sence of several weeks.
A. L. Brooks
And Party Like
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Roxboro Food
Roxboro visitors Thursday
night included A. L. Brooks,
Charles Farrell and Alonzo Hall,
professor of English at Woman’s
college, all of Greensboro, who
were returning from an Eastern
fishing trip. Brooks, now a
prominent Greensboro attorney,
is a native of Person County,
and practiced his profession here
for many years before he moved
to Greensboro. The party of four
drove a little out of their way
just to be able to stop in Rox
boro to eat supper at Steve
Georges’ Royal case.
Air Medal And Purple Heart Received
A Few Days Before Returning To Army
WALLACE COZART
HAS TALK WITH
ROXBORO FRIEND
Enos Slaughter Stops At
Fairchild Plant In Burl
ington When It Rains.
Wallace Cozart, of Roxboro,
who works with the Fairchild
Aircraft corporation, at Burling
ton, had a pleasant time : one
night last week because it rain
ed. At work in the Plant about
8:30 o'clock, he looked up arid
saw a fellow townsman, Ena?
Slaughter, of baseball fame, now
with tne Armyy in the Air
Corps.
Slaughter, it developed, was
returning by plane from New
York where he had played in
the War Bond Benefit game that
was last week highly publicised
as a gathering of the greats in
baseball. A rainstorm forced him
down at the Fairchild Field.
Burlington, and he- spent an un
expected half hour or so chat
ting with Cozart and other Rox
boro acquaintances in the Fair
child plant.
Slaughter, former star of the
St, Louis Cardinals, is now sta
tioned at San Antonio, Texas.
Later in the night he and an
Army companion resumed their
flight without coming to Rox
boro. He has a furlough, soon but
expects to .spend, it in St. Louis
with his wife, according to Coz
art.
FRED LIPE AND
H.D. ANDERSON TO
SPEAK FRIDAY
Miss Rulh Franklin Lo
cal Leader, Plans Associ
ational Program.
Two Durham Baptist ministers,
the Rev. H. D. Anlderson. of
Grace church, and the Rev. Fred
| Lipe, of Watts Street church,
will be spotters and conference
leaders at an Assoeiationa! Insti-
I tuts meeting to be hi Id cn Fri
-1 clay, September 10, at Roxboro
| First Baptist church.
Local leader of the Tnstute
i which is- being planned for the
j Beulah Association will be Miss
i Ruth Franklin. All sessions will
|be at night and while the In
stuto is being planned mainly
for teacher-', general superinen
tendants pa-tors and parents,
meeting will be open to the pub
lic and visitors will be welcomed.
Held Wednesday at First
Church was a Prayer Meeting
program honoring members of
the church who are now in mili
tary service, both in this coun
try and abroad. A roll of honor
was read by B. B. Knight, who
afterwards made appropriate re
marks.
SPENDS DAY HERE
Frank Jerger, of the United
States Army, stationed at Camp
Butner, has returned from Chi
cago, where he visited his par
ents, and spent Friday in Rox
boro.
Along The Way
With the Editor
How many of you people this column know Noby '
A. Buchannan of the Aliensville Section? Well, you may think -
you know him, but I doubt if you really do. That man can eat I
more Brunswick stew than any other man, not excepting Law*- !
rence Woods. A few days ago I was down his way at a stew < ;. J
eating. They had Brunswick arid chicken stew, two big pots of ’ J
it. Noby got a big bowl. It looked like a wash basin and hgd j
it filled with Brunswick Stew. He then got ten or twelve pieces- t
of bread and started working on a pleasure job. It was soft*? |f||
finished and then he hald the basin filled with Chicken
Another box of bread went with that. Then he started
on the Brunswick and so on. When I left he had ju»t tlpffitti
but he (was looking at the pots with longing eyes and proa&ftdll
himself that he would go back at least twice more befcce
night. :. • , v-. -pj||g
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NUMBER 94
Wounded In Action He
Spent Few Weeks In
Hospital. Last Letter
August 14.
Sgt. R. J. (Jimmie) Alderman,
of Roxboro and Hendersonville,
son of Mrs. Lucy B. Alderman,
of Roxboro, and husband of Mrs.
R. J. Alderman, of Lake Toxa
way, waist-gunner with the
Eighth Army Air Corps and sta
tioned in England, has been of
ficially reported as missing in ac
tion as of August 17, according
to a message received by his
wife from the War Department.
Alderman, who was slightly
wounded on July 26, and subse
quently received, the Air Medal
and the Purple Heart award, was
in a hospital in England for sev
eral weeks, although a letter
written on August 10, and mail
ed August 14, to his mother
here, .said that he expected to re
turn to duty in a few days. His
sister, Mrs. Preston Satterfield,
Jr., said this morning that the
letter of August 14, was the last,
received from her brother.
Members of the family here
j are of the opinion that Alder
man’s flight of August 17, was a
bomber raid over Germany,
since Associated Press reports of
the next day carried nfention of
a heavy raid by the Corps on a
munitions plant. It was also no
ted that two planes on the raidt
were forced down in Switzer
land, where crew members were
I interned, but there is no certain
ty that Alderman was on either
one of those planes.
Alderman was with the RAF
before entrance" of the United
States into War. Since trans
ferring to the U. S. Air Corps he
had taken part in numerous
bomber raids over France and
less than three weeks ago mem
bers of his family received a
letter from Lieut. Walter A. Bak
er, with whom Alderman served,
in which Baker, his commanding
officer, highly praised Alderman
for bravery displayed under ene
my fire. Baker at that time re
commended the Roxboro man
for citation. >
In addition to his wife of Tox
away and his mother and sister
here, he has another sister Mrs.
Gilbert Wagstaff, of Baltimore,
Md., and on aunt, Mrs. J. J.
Woody, also of Roxboro. His
mother received the missing in
action, message Friday morning
from her daughter-in-law.
August 17, date on which Ald
erman was reported as missing,
was only two days after publica
tion in the Times of the citation
story . from Lieut. Baker, who
said:
“With utter disregard for his
own safety he (Alderman, dur
ing iaids over France) stood by
his blazing guns until the last
enemy fighter had left and wo
ware all within the zone of safe
ty.'’ Baker, at that time contin
ued, “I am writing you these few
lines to let you know how very
proud I am of your husband. The
type of bravery he has display
ed under fierce enemy fire
makes me very proud to be his
friend and commanding officer.’'
In the French raids of July 26p
Alderman was credited with,
bringing dc.wn at least one, pos
sibly two, of six Gcrrrjan planes
destroyed in those engagements.
Mrs. Hamilton, Estes Walter
I and daughter of Crewe, Va., are
! guests of Mrs. Walker’s mother
Mrs. T. C. Birooks.
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