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VOLUME XIV PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY AND THURSDAY
Harris, Winstead
And Others Speak
At Garage Affair
Dedication Os County School Garage
Attracts Many Citizens Os City-County
HOWARD REPORTS
THAT FEED LOANS
NOW AVAILABLE
Applications Now Recei
vable For Year 1944-
How ar d Anxious To
Serve.
.Emergency crop loans and
emergency feed loans for 1944
are now available to farmers in
Person County, and aplications
for these loans may now be re
ceived at Roxboro, by J. C.
Howard, field supervisor, of the
Emergency Crop and Feed Loan
Division of the Farm Credit Ad
ministration.
Early opening of the loan pro
gram in Person County is to as
sist farmers to comply with the
plan advocated by agricultural
leaders urging farmers to plant
fall food crops because of the
great need for increasing food
production and to plant winter
cover crops to improve soil fer
tility.
The loans will be made to
farmers who’e cash require
ments are relatively small and
who are unable to obtain from
other sources, including produc
tion credit associations, loans
in amounts (sufficient to meet
their needs.
As in former years, the loans
will be made to meet the appli
cant’s necessary cash needs in
preparing for and producing his
1944 crops.
Howard pointed out that eligi
ble farmers desiring to do so may
apply now for loans to take care
of their crop production needs
for the entire 1944 season. Loans
may include immediate advances
to the borrower to meet his cash
requirements this fall, such as,
for the planting of fall and win
ter food and feed crops and the
early purchase of fertilizer.
Howard also said that the bal
ance of the approved amount of
the loan will be disbursed iwhen
the borrower needs it to finance
his spring crops. Interest at the
rate of 4 percent will be charged
only during the period the bor
rower actually has the use of the
funds.
Farmers who obtain loans for
the production of cash crops are
required to give as security a
first lien on the crops financed,
and the security required for
loans for the purchase or produc
tion of feed for livestock is a
first mortgage on the stock to be
fed.'
Committee
Rotary club members of a
committee to cooperate with the
Business ar/ds Professional Wo
man’s club and the Kiwanis
club in a program of recreation
for visiting soldiers will be R. B.
Griffin, Gordon C. Hunter and
Thomas J. Shaw, Jr.
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$259,9,00 NOW: BOND SHOW TODAY
$259,900 is total raised in the Person and Roxboro Third
War Loan up through the week-end, according to co-chairman
Lieut. Gov. R. L. Harris. Quota here is $567,000. To be featured
here today will be a War Bond matinee at the Palace Theatre
at 2:30 o’clock at which purchase of a War Bond since start ot>
the campaign will be price of admission for premier showing
of the Wallace Berry picture, "Slalute to the Marines.”
HUNTER AND BANK GAIN HONOR
Gordon C. Hunter, executive vice president of Peoples
Bank, has been appointed as a member of the Food For Free
dom committee of the American Bankers’ association, the ap
pointment comipg from the new Association president, A.L.M.
Wiggins, ifartsville, S. C., banker, who years ago in Durham
was a room-rnate of Preston Satterfield, Sr., iwhen both were
young men in business.
Hunter also said today .that the Sept., 14, issue of Ameri
can Banker, daily New York banking publication, has .a full
length article on various farm projects, including the distribu
tion of heifers and pigs, in which the Peoples bank has been
and is interested.
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Person County Times
Mayor Says Education
Has Priority Next To
War Effort.
“Our schools and school child
ren now have a higher priority
than any cause or group in
America except the war effort,
said Mayor S. G. Winstead, of
Roxboro, guest speaker Thurs
day at dedication of the Person
County Public School garage,
exercises attended by Lieut. Gov.
R. L. Harris, State Highway
Commissioner George W. Kane,
Tom Burton, Jesse Proctor, Mrs.
Bill Pleasants Flythe and other
officials of the Highway and
public schools system.
Winstead also said: “We are
fighting this war in order that
we and our children may
better place to live and in or
der that each of our children
may 1 have an equal opportunity
for education.” The new brick
building, with its equipment,
represents an investment of
$15,000 and replaces a burned
structure. Contractor was the
George W. Kane company, with
Fred Masten in charge of con
struction and supervision.
Lieut. Gov. Harris, who with
Kane and others made brief re
marks, reminded the gathering
that “now that the 9th grade is
a feature of the school system in
the State, all must work to make
it a good addition.” Also present
were members of the Person
County Board of Commissioners
and of the Board of education.
Presiding was R. B. Griffin, Per
son superinterident of schools,
who introduced the honor guests.
Feature of the exercises was
the serving of barbecued chicken
luncheon, cafeteria style, prepar
ed -by Louis Long and served at
noon in the building. At the con
clusion of ceremonies tours of
inspection of the new building
were taken.
World Johnny Will
Come To, Outlined
Rev. Ai Martin, Jr., Rotary Speaker,
Stresses Responsibilities Ahead
VISITS HERE
Cpl. Louis (Red) Day, of Camp
Mackall, is spiending his leave
here with his uncle and aunt, Mr.
and Mrs. W. R. Minor. Cpl. Day
is with the Paratroopers.
TRANSFERRED
Cpl. Bill Clay, son of Mrs.
Omega Clay , of Roxboro, has
been transferred to the U. S.
Army Airfield, Walterboro, S. C.,
according to information deceiv
ed here today.
ROXBORO, N. C., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1943
RED-HOT WAR
LOAN STOVE DOES
Bn IN LIBRARY
New item in Third War Loan }
publicity is a red hot War
Bond stove in the Person Coun
ty Public Library, created by
Mrs. Margaret Howard, library
clerk, with tbe assistance of
Gordin C. Hunter, of this City,
district War Loan chairman.
Foundation for the display is
the library stove in the front
reading room, completely cov
ered with War Loan posters
and red, white and blue
streamers, topped off with a
toy “tank” hank, military fig
ures and a partially filled book
of War Stamps.
Library patrons drop coins
in the bank and pay for the
stamps, which now total about
$7 in value. When the amount
reaches $18.75, a $25 War Bond
will be bought in the name of
the library.
GEN. LONGFELLOW
PRESENTS PULLIUM
WITH AIR MEDAL
Roxboro Man Wins Distin
guished Flying Cross For
African And European Ex
ploits.
Staff Sgt. Lewis E. Pullium,
22, of Roxboro, a son of Mr. and
Mrs. Lennie Pulium and now
stationed at an Army Air Base
at Blythe, Calif., on Friday,
September 10, was presented
! with the Distinguished Flying
Cross by Brig. Gen. Newton
Longfellow, commanding general
of the 29th Bomber Command,
“for extraordinary achievement
while participating in aerial
flight in the Middle East and
North African theatres”, accord
ing to announcement made to
day.
World War I veteran is a mem
ber of Lester Blackwell Post of
the American (Legion, visited
here in the Spring after return
ing from foreign service and
while in Roxboro was married to
“the girl he left behind him”, a
Mis= Duke, of this City. Pullium,
at the time he was here, had al
ready received several citations
■ and awards.
Individual And Thursday
Night, Community As Well
As National And World
Angles Presented.
“The World Johnny Will Come
Marching Home To”, as subject
for the Rev. A1 Martin, Jr., guest
speaker at Roxboro Rotary clhb
Thursday Night, gave him an
opportunity to di;cuss with clar
ity social and economic problems
of the coming post War /world,
with particular reference to part
Rotarians can do in making that
world an improvement over the
old one.
Martin, who included small
communities, individuals, big
business and peace conferenres in
a linking chain of responsibili
ties, made it clear that soldiers
who are to return will need to
find a working place arid not a
dole as an answer to at home ad
justments in the world to which
they are to return. The speaker
was also unsparing in assertion
that Rotarians belong to the
group that “can do something
about it” in the way of post-war
social and economic planning.
Presiding was club president,
W. Wallace Woods, who is also
local chairman of the Committee
for Economic Development.
Guests included Mrs. Martin, wife
of the speaker and a native of
Roxboro, and Pfc. Munroe Pleas
ants, Jr., nephew of Rotarian O.
B. Mcßroom, who is on furlough
here.
Meeting was held at Hotel Rox
boro.
ANOTHER DANCE
Dr. Robert E. Dong, Lawrence
Featherston and others on Satur
day night will stage another
Service Men’s dance in the Rox
boro high school gym.
School Speaker
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FARRIS HUMPHRIES ,
Farris Humphries, Person
World War II and Pearl Harbor
veteran, will be guest speaker
Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock
at first meeting of Roxboro Cen
tral Grammar School PTA. In
troduction of Humphries will be
by Gordon C. Hunter.
SOLDIERVOTING
WILL BE TAKEN
BP AT ST. LOUIS
National Association Os
Secretaries Os State will
Consider Matter At Oct
tober Session.
WASHINGTON Sept. 18
The -prickly question of soldier
voting will get an ironing Oct.
19-21 when the Rational Assoc
iation of Secretaries of State
meet in St Louis.
The War, Navy anl Justice
Departments are expected to
have representatives there to
help the secretaries smooth out
the burrs.
Ler Seybold, director of the
Washington Office of the Council
of State Governments, said state
secretaries have expressed wil
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First Sale
First sale on the Roxboro
Market Monday morning will
be at the Pioneer, to be follow
ed in order by sales at Plant
ers, Winstead and Hyco, al
though it is not expected all
houses will be reached the
first day. Warehousemen are
now busy arranging stocks on
floors and all is ready for the
opening to which many Per
son growers are expected To
come.
HELENA SCHOOL
EVENTS START
FALL SEASON
Club And Community
Affair And A Faculty
Picnic Are Attended By
Many.
A combination business and so
cial meeting of the Helena School
faculty was held Tuesday night
at the school. It was first in a
series of monthly meetings which
are to take place during the
year.
L. M. Yates, principal, present
ed various topics pertaining to
the school administration for the
consideration of the teachers.
One topic discussed was the op
ening of a lunch room in the
school beginning Monday. A uni
form method of counting war
stamps arid bonds purchased in
each grade was also agreed up
on.
Following the business session,
refreshments were served by the
hosts Mr. Yates arid L. C. Liles.
Misses Amy Joslyn, Nellie
Gravely and Estelle Lyon were
in charge of the social hour.
Bridge was enjoyed by both the
faculty and special visitors.
Visitors were: Mrs. L. M.
Yates, Miss Dorothy Hall.
The Helena Woman’s Home
Demonstration club and the Hel
ena community last week enter
tained jointly at a picnic for the
Helena school faculty, honoring
teachers who have resumed their
duties and new teachers in the
school.
Special guests included: Jerry
L. Hester, former principal of
the Helena school; W. M. John
son, principal of Bahama school;
and Miss Bessie Daniels, Mrs.
Blanche Dunnagan, N. H. Fox
and Ernest Lunsford.
Trial Marriages And Horse
Meat Not Odd In Iceland
AIR PATROL SHOW
AT GREENSBORO
INTERESTS MANY
Events Os Today Expec
ted To Be Os Special In
terest To Boy Scouts.
AH senior age Boy Scouts of
the Cherokee Council, including
Person District, have been ex
tended an invitation to attend the
Air Show being sponsored by
Civil Air Patrols at the Greens
boro-High Point Airport Sunday
afternoon September 19. The Air
Show will include many stunts
arid feats of skill of interest to
air-minded boys and to Senior
Scouts. A recruiting station will
be set up for enlisting young
men of 17 years of age as Air
Cadets. This will give up to six
months deferment to the Air
Cadet after he reaches his eigh-
I teenth birthday before his actu
al induction. All recruits who
sign up at the air show will be
given a free twenty-minute ride
during the. afternoon.
The new Air Scout program
for the Boy Scouts of America of
fers much in the way of pre
flight training to air-minded
Scouts. Several troops have set
up Air Scout Patrols of senior
age boys and many Scouts, 12,
13 and 14 years of age have'al
ready started work as Air Scout
Candidates.
Recreation Vital
In World At War
Spencer, Os Raleigh, Makes Plea For
Recreation Programs In Schools
Speaks At First Gather
ing Thursday At Bushy
Fork.
Charles Spencer, of Raleigh,
of the recreational and physical
education division of the State
Department of Education, guest
speaker at first ses ion of the
Busby Fork Parent Teacher as
sociation Thursday night, made
a strong plea for a “well plan
ned program of health and re
creation in all public .‘tchco's
during the war period”
Saying that all children should
have at lea t thirty minutes of
supervised recreation ar/1 play
during each school day, Spencer
reiterated the ideal of a “sound
body.” “Some children”, he said,
“can survive without such a
combination of physical and
mental training, but unless the
two are carried out with con
sistency and thoriughness many
children will sooner or late.r
shew the effects of strain due to
too constant an attention to
studies and none to recreation.”
Presiding was Mrs. Myrtle
Long, president. Also discussed
at the meeting was the PTA
budget of $265, the better part of
which will be devoted to sup
port of the school library. Mrs.
Ewing Long, membership chair
man, announced that the Assoc
iation now has a paid up mem
bership of 75 and that an active
membership campaign is now in
progress. A committee was ap
pointed to make plans for opera
tion of the school lunchroom.
Opening feature of the gather
ing was a picnic supper held in
front of the school at which
honor was paid to new teachers.
Guests were estimated as more
than 150, including school pat
rons and many pupils. Welcome
was extended by C. H. Mason,
principal, who said today that
Bushy Fork school does hflve
planned recreation for its stu
dents and that teachers in vari
ous departments are assigned to
supervision during recreation
peridds.
FIRST MEETING
Person County Council of So
cial agencies will have its first
meeting of the Fall season,
Wednesday at noon on the 28, at
Hotel Roxboro.
McLeod And Oakley In Seabees, In
Iceland, Relate Saga Os Strange Land
JOHNSON CITES
PLANS FOR FIRST
OF WEEK MEETING
Membership Emphasis
Will Feature N. A. A. C.
P. Through November.
Regular meeting of the Person
and Roxboro chapter of the Na
tional Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People
will be held Monday night at
8:30 o’clock at the Negro Com
[ munity center, according to S. J.
j Barnette, secretary.
President of the Chapter here
is J. G. Johnson, who says that
second anniversary of the Chap
ter will he observed on Novem
ber 26, when George M. Johnson,
of I»he faculty of the Law School,
Howard University, Washington,
will be speaker. Johnson is ac
tive on the Committee for Fair
Employment Practice, and is con
sidered a forceful speaker.
Between now and the Novem
j her meeting members of the lo
| cal chapter are expected to par
ticipate in a membership cam
paign.
Meets And Passes
On Budget Matters
| The Person County Public Li
brary Board of director?, with
Miss Ernestine Grafton, tri
! county librarian presiding, met
Friday ofternoon in regular
monthly session at the library
! and approved the budget for the
new year, subject to fulfillment
I of certain promised
obligations from City and Coun
;ty Commis-ioners for support.
Particularly commended was
the work of Mrs. Howard, li
brary clerk, who not only at
terids to official duties, but has
this week arranged an attractive
war bond display and one for
the Red Cross. In addition to
|Mis? Grafton, board members
1 present were Mrs. R. H. .Shelton,
R. B. Griffin and Thomas J.
Shaw, Jr.
FIRST OPEN HOUSE
Members of the Business and
Professional Woman’s club last
night held first of a series of
open houses for visiting soldiers
at the American Legion hut
here.
Along The Way
With the Editor
Claude Hall can eat as much barbecued chicken as anyone
that I ever saw.. The other day at a free dinner he ate and ate
and insisted that everyone else have an extra plate. He drank
about five cold drinks and I think that he carried a few home.
Every time that I ever saw, him in a case where he was pay
ing for his meal he always insisted that he was not very
hungry and just ate a sandwich. Its really funny how some
people act when they get something for nothing.
They say that fathers are soon to be drafted. If that is
true I hereby serve notice on the armed fbrces that they are
to put no dependence on those dads that come from Roxboro.
I am warning them now so that I can say, “I told you *o.” i |
Imagine a company of men made up of Curtis Oakley, Bill ||
Walker, Maynard Clayton, Pat Robinson, Phil Thomas, E. B. . |
Craven, Preston Satterfield, O. T. Kirby and a few more around
here. Why those fellows can’t run to the courthouse from the
fire station -without having to stop and rest on the way. Ibmfc:';-
not enough vitamin B1 pills arouifd here to do tham any food.
Just washed up, says I. * :$
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NUMBER 9 97
Garland Oakley Sees In
fant Daughter For First
Time. McLeod Takes
Long Trip With Stop
over.
From Houston, Texas, to Reyk
javik, Iceland, to Roxboro is a
long trek, but Petty Officer
Walter A. McLeod, 35, of Lyons,
Texas, near (Houston, who has
been in Iceland with the Sea
bees and who in Houston knew
a Roxboro young woman who is
noiw living here, made the trip,
coming to Roxboro especially to
see his friend Miss Ruth Russell.
McLeod arrived here last
Thursday, about the same time
that two more Seabees, Garland
Oakley, fireman, first class, and
Liggett King, electrician, second
class, and both natives of Rox
boro and Person county, on
duty with McLeod, also came
home for leaves lasting thirty
days: since then Roxboro has
been busy learning about Ice
land. where forty degrees is con
sidered hot summer tempera
ture.
Biggest thrill on coming home
goes to Oakley, 25, a son of Mrs..
C. M. Oakley, who after thirteen
months in Iceland for the first
time sees his daughter, Barbara
Joyce Oakley, who will be six:
months old on the 29 of this
j month. Thrill of a different sort
! comes from McLeod, who furn
! ishes Dr. and Mrs. B. A. Thax
j ton, of this City, with a first
j hand account of their son Ben
i Thaxton, Jr., of the U. S. Mar
j me Corps and McLeod’s personal
friend, in Iceland for nearly two
I years.
| Oakley, who also saw a goT>d
j deal of Thaxton, says that the''
! Marine is chiefly on guard duty,
which is another way of verify
ing Thaxton’s recent complaint
in a letter home, “I want to get
out of here to a place where
i there is some action!”
But, according to Oakley, peo
ple who are out of doors in Ice
land, particularly in the winter,
have to be on the go—or at
work — otherwise, they freeze.
There was that time, for in
stance, when he and three com
panions took a bus and went in
search of one of their men. They
found him and then got lost for
four hours in a storm, only keep
ing themselves warm by running
the motor at a thirty mile an
hour rate and by tearing up a
bus-seat to build a fire on the
floor Os the bus.
Icelandic winters are cold, just
how much below zero Oakley is
not prepared to say, since he had
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TO STATE COLLEGE
C. Martin Michie, Jr., Charles
Harris, Jr., and Ray Currier will
leave this week for Raleigh to
enter State College. Michie and
Harris will be first year men,
Currier a sophomore.
AT WARE FOREST
Thomas Long, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Long, will leave this
week for Wake Forest, where he
will be a member of the fresh
man class in the college. Miss
Merial Rimmer, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Arthur Rimmer, is a 1
student at Mars Hall college.