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VOLUME xrv
Warehouses In Roxboro
Get Ready For Market Start
Experienced Buyers And Operators
Ready To Open Market Here Monday
Farmers Hopeful That
V Prices Will Be Higher
r And Are Anxious To Be
gin New Season.
Having last year sold more
than five million pounds of to
bacco at an average of 40 or
more, Roxboro’s four ware
houses, the Pioneer, the Panters,
the Hyco arid the Winstead, on
Monday morning will be ready
to begin the 1943 selling season.
Buyers familiar to Person grow
ers Will be on hand and officials
of the warehouses are now get
ting their establishments in
shape for what is believed will
be a good season.
All of the regulations agreed
upon for Old Belt markets will
be observed here and it is ex
pected that short selling periods
will move weed stocks clearly
each day. It is also felt that the
decision Monday of this week
that the opening date will re
main the same, a decision in
which Person leaders such as
Claude T. Hall and Lieut. Gov.
R. L. Harris had a leading part,
' will do much to restore to this
market and to others in the Old
Belt a much needed feeling of
stability.
Growers are likewise prepared
for price levels incident to light
ness in weight, although they
are hopeful that prices will be
closer to the debated ceiling than
they have thus far been on the
Middle Belt.
Official welcome to Roxboro
and its warehouses is being ex
tended by W. Wallace Woods,
secretary of Roxboro Chamber
of Comerce and by Mayor S. G.
Winstead and other business
leaders, including George W.
Walker, Board of Trade secre
tary.
Warehouse operators in Rox
boro will include the following:
at the Pioneer, J. M. Bulock,
Lindsay T. Wagstaff and Roy T.
Walters; at the Planters, T.
Owen Pass and R. L. Hester; at
the Hyco, George W. Walker, W.
Reade Jones, Frank J. Hester
and Robert Lunsford and at the
Winstead, Traynham T. Mitchell,
Ivey Featherston, Sam Byrd
Winstead and George Perkins.
TAKES POSITION
Miss Ruby Humphries, of
Bethel Hill and Roxboro, daugh
ter of Mrs. J. Y. Humphries and
graduate of King’s Business col
lege, Greensboro, is now connec
ted with the business staff, Watts
hospital, Durham, and has resi
dence at 507 Willard street.
Ledbetter, At Home,
Has Good Spirits
Brother Os Roxboro Man, Wounded *
In Africa, Has Remarkable Spirit
Says He Would Be Glad
To Go Through Experi
ence Again. Wonders If
Citizens Are Completely
War-Conscious.
“I wouldn’t take a million dol
lars for the experience, and if I
had it to do over again I would
do it gladly”, says Pvt. Franklin
Ledbetter, 37. of Statesville,
wounded veteran of the first
North African campaign, who
this week visited his brother and
sister-in-laiw, Mr. and Mrs. D. W.
Ledbetter in Roxboro.
Driving a half-track truck, a
vehicle with tractor-like wheels,
Pvt. Ledbetter, on December 2,
1942, was the victim of a straf
-1 ing air attack by Axis planes. He
was driving the truck acme, with
a cargo of ammunition and gaso
line. Bomb fragments hit the
back end of the truck . . . when
jt was over Ledbetter) lay in a
helpless condition His right leg
< was shattered. Blood streamed
' from one- of his eyes. Concussion
and shock injured his ear-drums.
He realy didnt care what hap
pened to him. He might have
etaydd there if it had not been
for a passing companion, a sol
dier who later was killed, wfco
pulled him back to safety, or to
Person County Times
PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY AND THURSDAY
DR. EARL DAME’S
BROTHER RETURNS
FROM ADVENTURE
Air Pilot Has Narrow
Escapes In Africa And
Sicily. Now At Oxford.
Lieut. Cecil F. Daniels, of Ox
ford, a brother of Dr. Earl Dan
iel, of Roxboro, and Oliver Gen
eral Hospital, United States
Army, Augusta, Ga., pilot on a
light bomber, who has seen ac
tion in North Africa and in
Sicily and is a veteran of 46
bombing expeditions over enemy
territory, is now spending his
leave iwith his parents at Ox
ford.
Dr. Daniel, who was himself
recently promoted to Sergeant
and technician third class, met
Lieutenant Daniel after the lat
ter landed in Florida and then
brought him to Oxford. Dr. Dan
iel has since returned to Augus
ta, but his brother is expected
to. remain in the United States
for at least six months.
Lieut. Daniel, who entered the
Air Corps in November 1941, is
an alumnus of North Carolina
State College, Raleigh. tHe has
had numerous adventurers and
close calls. His gunner was kill
ed on July 4, and, one night a
piece of flak missed the Lieu
tenants leg by three inches.
Fair In Progress
Person County Agricultural
Fair, which opened here on Mon
day and of which R. L. (Bpb)
Perkins is owner-manager, will
continue for two more days, Fri
day and Saturday. Agricultural
exhibits are on display and
many shows and rides furnish
amusement. Perkins said today
that attendance has been grati
fying. Special days for school
children, with free admissions,
were held Tuesday and Wednes
day.
TO NEW JOB
Miss Geneva Woody, of Rox
boro, for the past year or two
secretary t 6 Flem D. Long, has
resigned her position in order to
accept War Work in Washing
ton, D. C., where she is now liv
ing.
■ j
A heavy bomber, cruising at
250 miles an hour, burns 3 and
one third gallons of gasoline
every minute.
what was thought to be safety.
Bleeding and unconscious, Led
better lay on a stretcher at a
temporary first aid station when
the Axis planes came again and
rained shots upon him and his
helpless companions.
He was hit again in this second
raid, but the wounds were slight
and he did not feel them. He
walks on crutches now. His right
leg is about two inches shorter
and his foot is stiff and tiwisted
to an angle. Sight in the wound
ed eye is impaired, his hearing
will probably never be normal,
but despite these visible remind
ers of the day when death was
close to him, \oo cloSe for com
fort, Pvt. Ledbetter is not a bit
ter man. His spirit is unbroken.
He is even ? happy man, and
jokes about his wounds and his
fourteen operations, one of them
on shipboard, while he was being
taken to England. Onq of the
doctors wanted to amputate his
leg, but Ledbetter persuaded him
to “leave it be” until a native
doctor in the States could get
hold of it He still has his leg. It
is a poor one, but he wants to
keep it
Formerly with the furniture
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ROXBORO, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1943
R. J. LADD, JR.,
DIES AT HOME,
IN EAST ROXBORO
Time Os Rites Depends
Upon Time Os Arrival
Os Son In Army.
Rufus Jasper Ladid, Jr., 59, of
East Roxboro, died Thursday
morning at his home after an
illness lasting six weeks. Death
was attributed to complications.
Rites will be held at River
view Methodist church, Durham
County, but day and hour of the
funeral will depend, upon time
of arrival of a son, 'Sgt. James
L. Ladd, of Longview, Texas.
Other survivors include: his
wife, Mrs. Hattie Thompson
Ladd, five sons and four daugh
ters, five grandchildren, two
brothers and six sisters.
Sons are, W. E. and Robert,
both of Roxboro, T. L., of Dur
ham, Cpl. Elmer Ladd, now in
the South Pacific area, and Sgt.
(turn to page five, please
Malaria Outbreak
Near Chub Lake To
Be Double-Checked
Specialist To Come Here To Make
Investigation Os Epidemic Conditions
NEPHEW OF CITY
RESIDENTS DIES
IN CAR ACCIDENT
\
Rites Held Today For
Ryland A. Harris, Os
South Boston, Va.
Ryland Alfred Harris, 20, of
South Boston and Newport News,
V.a,, apprentice electrician, son
of Mr. apd Mrs. A. O. Harris, of
South Boston, was instantly
killed Tuesday morning in an
automobile accident near Han
over Court House, Va. Funeral
was held Thursday at South Bos
ton, with interment in the fami
ly cemetery five miles from
Roxboro near Chub Lake. De
tails of the accident are lacking,
but Harris is said to have fallen
asleep at the wheel.
With him was one passenger,
now in a Richmond hospital.
Services for Harris, a nephew of
£. L. and Rufus Harris, of Rox
boro, were held at the home of
his parents at ten o’clock Thurs
day morning by the Rev. Dr. F.
C. Riley, pastor of South Bos
ton First Baptist church, of which
the deceased was a member.
He was a graduate of C. H.
Friend high school. Survivors, in
addition to his parents, include
three brothers, Bruce, of Alta,
Vista, Bernice, of Portsmouth,
and Norris, of the United States
Army, now in the South Pacific.
Harris was a native of Pittsyl
vania County, Va., iwhere he was
bom Feb. 6, 1923, and in New
port News he was a member of
the Peninsular Shipbuilders as
sociation and the Apprentice
Athletic association of the Ap
prentice School, Newport News.
He was also a member of the
Mens Bible Ulass, of his church
in South Boston, and after his
graduation from high school at-
the Apprentice School,
Newport News.
It is thought he was enroute
from Washington to Newport
News at time of the accident.
TWO SOLDIERS
Pfc., George Walker, who is
stationed in Florida, is spending
his furlough here with members
of his family. Also here from a
Florida Air Field is Pfc. Munrol
Pleasants, Jr., who is visiting his
parents.
VISITS FAMILY
A. F. James, of Clinton, Tenn.,
and Roxboro, is spending several
days here with members of his
family.
MEMORIAL RITES
FOR HUFF WILL
BE AT CHURCH
Memorial services for Pfc.
Lewell T. Huff, of Payne’s
Tavern, Person County, a son
of Mrs. Emma Huff, killed in
December of last year in North
Africa, will be held Sunday
afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at Mill
Creek Baptist chnrch of which
he was a member. Huff, who
received posthumous award of
the Purple Heart, was recent
ly honored at Camp Bfutner,
where a street was named for
him. He was, so far as is
known, fipst Person soldier to
be killed in action in World
War n.
The Rev. J. F. Funderburke,
pastor of the church, will have
charge of the service and it is
expected that Roxboro Boy
Scouts and Camp Butner sol
diers will assist with the pro
gram. Huff, who volunteered
for service, was formerly with
Collins and Aikman. Survivors,
in addition to his mother, in
clude a number of brothers
and sisters.
FROM BOSTON
Gordon Carver, of the United
States Navy, and Mrs. Carver,
the former Miss Doris Matthews,
of near Boston, are spending
several days with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. F .O. Carver, Sr.
Many Cases In Chub
Lake Area Cause Os Con
cern To Person Health
Officers.
Dr. W. P. Richardson, of
Chapel Hill, director of the tri
county health department, in
Roxboro today for a conference
regarding an outbreak of malaria
of epidemic proportions in the
vicinity of Chub Lake, where
fifty or more cases have recent
ly been reported, is expected to
make an appeal to the State
Health department for the aid of
a specialist to check the out
break; first reported here last
week.
Person sanitarian Winston B.
Taylor, working in cooperation
with Dr. Richardson, on Tues
day reported that examination
of speiemens taken from the
Lake and from the swamp-lake
area adjoining, reveals that the
mosquitoes are of the genus Ano
pheles, malaria bearing, rather
than the harmless culex, singers
and buzzers that do no harm. ,u
Local physicians have expres
sed the opinion 'that malaria has
always been of high frequency
in the Chub Lake section and
that the present reported out
break is not unusual, but Taylor
says that scarcely a family in the
swamp section of the Lake area
is without cases and that the
water is particularly stagnant
there.
Malaria occurs rather more of
ten in the Spring and Stammer,
but it is supposed that the break
ing of the * long Summer dry
spell by recent rains has been
responsible for the present out
break. Quinine is not now avail
able as a specific, but the dis
ease can be checked by a new
drug, said to be more effective.
Camp Here '
Soldiers from Camp Butner
who are in a temporary camp at
Turtle Pond, near Roxboro City
limits, are expecting to remain
here until the end of the week.
Some of the) men, who arrived
here Tuesday, are said to be in
terested in technical problems.
Others said today that they are
“enjoying their vacation.” Esti
mate of the number in camp
ranges from fifty to two hun
dred. Many of them come to the
City during evening hours.
IN NORFOLK
Mrs. G. W. Whitlow, of Rox
boro, is spending some time in
Norfolk, Va., with her son-in-law
and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Sam
Presnail.
War Loan Drive Here Close
ToTwo Hundred Thousand
To Be Honored
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Pfc. Lewell T. Huff
Post Chaplain Lars Pedersen,
of Camp Butner, will be a speak
er at memorial exercises to be
held Sunday at Mill Creek Bap
tist church for Huff, thought to
be first Person man to be killed
in action in World War 11. With
Chaplain Pedersen will come
four or five other Butner sold
iers.
NURSE MILLS TO
STUDY HEALTH AT
LARGE COLLEGE
Nurse Mary Mills, for the past
two or three years with the Per
son unit of the tri-county Jiealth
departments has requested leave
of absence for twelve months in
order to accept a scholarship in
public health work at New York
University, New York City, re
cently awarded to her in recog
nition of outstanding work done
here. Sihe is expected to leave
this week.
For more than six months
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Commissioners Os
City Modify Milk
Rules By Request
Closing Os Richland Dairy Creates
Shortage, Says Floyd L. Peaden
No Additional Supplies
From Quail Rocsi, Means
Bringing In Os Pasteur
ized Miik. Health Auth
orities Not Present, Not
Asked.
S. G. Winstead, mayor of Rox
boro, today confirmed reports
that City commissioners have
authorized Floyd L. Peaden,
owner-manager of the City Milk
and Ice company, to sell in this
city pasteurized milk from Dur
ham Dairy Products company,
Durham, to supplement supplies
of regular Grade A raw milk
from Quail Roost dairy. •
Authorization was given at a
Tuesday night session of Com
missioners at which Peaden ap
peared with the request, saying
that a milk shortage of about
thirty gallons daily is being cre
ated here because of suspension
of operations of Richland Dairy
owned by V. O. Blalock. Herds
of Richland dairy will be sold
Friday, it being reported that
shortages of feed and of labor
are causes for closing out.
Mayor Winstead also said that
the pasteurized milk to be
brought in by Peaden is of ad
mittedly lower quality than
Quail Roost milk and will be
sold to institutional and commer
cial users rather than to indivi
duals in house to house delivery.
There Was however no dissenting
vote from commissioners, iwho
have requested City Attorney F.
O. Carver, Sr., to draw up a pro
per modification of the City milk
ordinance to allow the pasteuri
zed Tnillr to be sold here as a
supplemental supply.
Included in the directive is a
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Harris, Griffin And Other Leaders Say
Third War Loan Off To Good Start
Big Catfish
Walter Williams, Negro case
operator, of Gallows’ Hill, Rox
boro, as fisherman catches big
ones: Tuesday he went to
Chub Lake and brought up a
catfish weighing ..eleven
pounds, with a head circum
ference of sixteen and one
half inches. From eye to eye
the fish measured five and one
half inches and in length it
was twenty-eight and three
fourth inches. Local fishermen
think Williams’ fish offers
something of a local record for
lake catfish, although others
as large, or larger have been
caught in rivers.
YARBOROUGH GETS
GRADER LICENSE
FROM WASHINGTON
Person Slaughterer Says
Way Is Clear For Him
At Hillsboro.
Victor Yarborough, Person
slaughterer, whose efforts to se
cure proper slaughtering cred
entials at the Hillsboro, Orange
County abattoir, have mads
news here for several weeks, to
day shid that lai-'t impediment
has been removed, since a Fed
eral Grader’s license, issued by
the Director of the Food Ad
ministration, Washington, is be
ing sent by mail. Authorization
•came Wednesday by telephone
from Washington.
Yarborough is still reticent
about abattoir plans here, but he
said today that he now has all
credentials to slaughter at Hills
boro and that local meat short
age is expected to be relieved.
FORD TO HEAD
KIWANIANS FOR
COMING YEAR
He And Other New Of
ficers Will Be Installed
In January.
S. M. Fofd, resident manager
of Collins and Aikman Corpora
tion, Plant E, at Ca-Vel and ac
tive in Roxboro civic affairs, is
president-elect of Roxboro Ki
wanis club and will take office
Jan. 1, 1944, together with R. D.
Bumpass, vice-president, and J.
W. Greene, treasurer, other
newly elected officers chosen at
a club session held Moriday at
Hotel Roxboro.
Other new officers chosen at
the same time were, Bab Wilson,
the Rev. W. C. Martin, Jerry L.
Hester, E. W. Cunningham and
R. A. Bullock, who will take of
fice as directors. Cunningham
and Martin were re-elected as
directors. Martin, pastor of Ed
gar Long Memorial Methodist
church, is also lieutenant gover
nor of the Imperial Fifth Dis
trict.
Appointive offices in the dub
are those of secretary, sergeant
at arms, songleader and pianist
Presiding was J. J. Woody, pre
sent president, and guest pianist
during the illness of Miss Bivens
Winstead is Miss Katherine
Cooper.
The war meat board is urging
growers to market their hogs
early.
Phone 4501
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mercial printing service.
NUMBER 96
School Supported Cam
paign Os County - Wide
Proportions Begins Mon
day. Much Remains To
Be Done, However.
$197,892. 75 is the amount thus
far raised by Person County and
Roxboro citizens for the Third
War Loan, according to an
nouncement made today by Co-
Chairmen R. L. Harris and R. B.
Griffin, who yesterday after
noon held a committee confer
ence to check up on results in
the campaign which began last
Thursday with a Person and
Roxboro quota of $567,000.00.
Lieut. Gov. Harris, in speak
ing for the committee, pointed
out that numbers of contribu
tions to date have come from
larger business houses and firms,
among them the Carolina Power
and Light company, which has
contributed $25,000, but he also
said that many contributions
have come and are coming from
sale of smaller boSds to individ
uals, but both Harris and! Grif
fin are emphatic in saying that
the drive still has a long way
to go and that the goal cannot
be met unless citizens continue
their cooperation.
Heading the Woman’s division
is Miss Claire Harris, who re
ports that the Bond booths at the
Palace Theatre and at Peoples
Bank are proving important fac
tors in the campaign. District
chairman Gordon C. Hunter was
out of the city, but Wednesday’s
meeting was attended, by David
S. Brooks as his representative.
Amounts thus far contributed
have come from purely volun
tary purchasers, with no house
to house solicitation, but begin
ning next week, on Monday, the
20, a county-wide house to house
canvass through cooperation of
the public schools will begin.
Griffin, who is Superintendent
of Schools, in announcing school
participation in the drive said
today that principals of all
schools, both white and Negro,
will act as chairmen in their
respective school comunities and.
will have working with them
committee assistants appointed
by them. 7““'
Members of these committees
will divide their respective com
munities into definite working
areas in iwhch house to house
calls will be made. The solici
tors will be furnished with
names of individuals and famil
ies upon whom they are to call.
$25,000 has been contributed
to the Person Third War Loan
drive by the Carolina Power and
Light company, by authorization
of L. V. Sutton, of Raleigh, pres
ident and general manager of
the company, which has Person
County and Roxboro in its ter
ritory of services. Sutton
Monday confirmed the alloca
tion of this amount, the confirm
ation coming in form of a letter
to Lieut. Gov. Harris.
Announcement of the type of
War Loan investment, whether
in Treasury Bonds, Savings
Bonds, or Treasury notes and
certificates, will be made by T.
Miller White, resident manager
for the Roxboro district of the
Power- company.
AT DUKE
Dallas Waddell, a brother at
Mrs. Stephen Georges, who has
been ill in a Washington hospi
tal, is now a patient at Duktar
hospital, Durham.
LEAVES HOSPITAL
Mrs. W. M. Fox, for many
years dietician at Community
hospital, has resigned her posi
tion there and will devote her
full time to the Luncheonette, a
restaurant in which her hus
band and her son, William Fdx,
Jr., are also actively interested*
MEETS TONIGHT
First meeting of the Olive Hill
PTA win be held tonight at 730
o’clock at the school, according
to announcement by Bertha Dix
on, publicity chairman. A full at
tendance is requested. Hi
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BRIEF VISIT § .«aB
Cpl. Bin R. Murphy, of )|g|§S
ell Field, Long MaaA;.v3f|jM
lYork, who spent sevend dS
here with his pareaMr
to New York WddmsttHl