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VOLUME XIV
Bond Auction, $130,000, - Person
Proctor And Bloxam
Honored By Masons
At Annual Affair
Proctor Speaks On Responsibilities
Os Masons In World Os Today
Ladies Night Os Person
Lodge Attracts Many.
Twenty-five Year Certi
ficate Presented To
Eight.
“Masons must today be alert
and on guard to measure up to
their responsibilities”, said C .K.
Proctor, of Oxford, superinten
dent of Oxford Orphanage,
speaker “On the Obligations
and Responsibilities of being a
Mason”, who laddressed mem
bers of Person Lodge 113 and
their guests at annual “Ladies’
Night of the Lodge at a dinner
meeting at Hotel Roxboro, Tues
day night.
Proctor, past Grand Chaplain of
the Grand Lodge of North Caro
lina and past Potentate of Sudan
Temple of Shriners at New Bern,
was at the Roxboro meeting
honored with an Honorary Mem
bership certificate in the Person
Lodge. Also honored with such
a membership by Adoniram
Lodge, Cornwall, Granville county
was the late City Manager of
Roxboro, Percy Bloxam, the cer
tificate being received by Blox
am’s son, lan Bloxam, of Atlan
ta, Ga., who came here especial
ly for the presentation.
The Adroniram certificate was
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Ensign Ball Mixes
Duty And Pleasure
Roxboro Naval Officer In Fight In
Sicily, Also Goes To Real Villas
Vivid Bicture Os Battle
Conditions Given. Italians
Friendly. German From
Harvard A Prisoner.
Ensign Charles Lee Ball. Jr.,
of Roxboro, a 1941 graduate of
the University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill, and leader in social
circles there, where he was a
member of Pi Kappa Alpha about
two years ago was beginning a
career in tobacco as a sales repre
sentative and warehouseman, but
he is in the U. S. Navy now, with
plenty of experiences in Sicily
and other Italian hot-spots.
PaTt of his work has been on
landing barges and as he says,
' "Since the Sicilian affair we
have been a Mediterranean Taxi”.
“Speaking of “the affair”, he
says, “I received my baptism of
fire there. We were bombed ev
ery night and strafed during the
day—fortunately, we came out
without a casualty, but Gosh,
whs I scared, the first night? Af
ter that, I didn’t notice the planes
afcd the shells as much . . .
“The landing was much easier
than we anticipated, with only
the Germans putting up much
real opposition. I’ve had numer
ous contacts with German and
Italian prisoners. I met one Ger
man who iwent to Harvard and
we had a long ‘bull session’. He
wasn’t a party member, and SO'
didn’t have the fanatical outlook
most Germans possess.
“Several of the Germans, how
ever, were real Nazis, who think
they will take Russia with the
Spring offensive and be
lieve New Yorfc. Washington,
etc., to have been bombed be
yond recognition. The Dagos are
i rather pathetic. The Germans
have taken everything and they
are a pitiful lot. Most of them
fired a single round and then
i surrendered.
“The prisoners were all ex
, pecting to be shot and one of
them (evidently an Italian) ask
ed me in English. "To hurry arid
get it over with.” Several hrid
fought in Rus&a and held the
Beds in awe and fear. The Reds
hate the Italians and the feeling
fs mare than mutual.
"The affair fa Sicily is over
now, hut several green Ameri
iean divisions deserve a lot of
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Person County Times
PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY AND THURSDAY
Two Negro Men
Missing, Reports
Service Board
Mrs. Janies Brooks, secre
tary of Person Selective Ser
vice Board, today said that the
Board is anxious! to learn the
whereabouts of two Negroes,
James Cameron, 25. of Timber
lake, and Sam W. Campbell, of
106 Henry Street, Durham.
Cameron is not regarded as
delinquent, it being thought
that his address is lost, but
Campbell, who was at one time
reported as delinquent and was
located by FEU, has disappear
ed again and his name will
again be turned over to FBI
for trial in Federal Court un
less he is found in the next
week or ten days.
Pope Resumes Audiences.
London, Sept. 29. The Swiss
radio said last night that Pope
Pius XII resumed h& usual audi
ences today at Vatican City.
WOMEN FURTHER
DISCUSS USO FOR
ROXBORO VISITORS
Mr?. T. Miller White
Tells Os Work Os Red
Cross* Committee.
Members of Roxboro Business
and Professional Woman’s Club
at a meeting held at Hotel Rox
boro, with Mrs. Beth Brewer
Ftridgen, president, presiding,
discussed the establishment of a
idowntown USO cluibroom here
and appointed committees to
look into and consider suitable
locations. Action was taken after
Miss Virginia Broadway and
-Mrs. B. B. Strum, members of
the hotel committee, made a re
port.
Speaker for the evening was
Mrs. T. Miller White, chairman
of the Red Cross Camp Supplies
and Service committee, who
outlined needs to be supplied by
her committee. The club there
upon voted to send Readers’ Di
gest to the reading room at BTC
10, Greensboro. .
bate Heuis Bulletins
AVERAGE HIGHEST FOR SEASON
At an increasing average ;which yesterday reached s4l 02,
highest for the Roxboro season, 273,936 pounds of tobacoo were
sold here during the three day period, Monday through Wed
nesday. Pounds last week totaled 565,622.
SQUIRREL SEASON OPENS FRIDAY
R. G. Reynolds, Person game warden, today issued a re
minder to hunters that the squirrel season will open on Fri
day and will continue through January 1, 1944, with bag limit
of ten per day.
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LOSES WAR BOND AT AUCTION
Miss Evelyn Christine Oakley yesterday lost a $25 War
Bond while attending the Auction, Finder is requested to notify
Peoples Bank.
ROXBORO, N. C. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1943
CREDIT BUREAU
OF COLUMBIA IN
SERVICE ROLE
t
Bank For Cooperatives
Celebrates Tenth Anni
versary.
Columbia, S. C. Sept 30—
September 1943 marked the Ten
th Anniversary of the Colum
bia Bank for Cooperatives. In
discussing its operations, Mr. L.
G. Foster, President, stated that
during the ten years the Bank
had been in operation, it had
served 85,694 farmers in the Caro
linas, Georgia, and Flordia.
These four states comprise the
Third District of the Farm Cred
it Administration, of which the
Columbia Bank is a part.
“At the present time,” Mr. Fos
ter said, “The number of farm
memberts of associations being
financed is 65,681. The number
of cooperatives the bank has
served during the past ten years
of its existence is more than
100. The loans made or credit ex
tended has ranged from one
thousand dollars to 12 million
dollars.”
Mr. Foster pointd out that the
types of operations financed by
the Bank for Cooperatives in
clude community canneries, soil
terracing outfits, fertilizer mix
ing plants, feed mixing plants,
meat curing plants, milk market
ing and distributing plants, oper
ations of spray machinery and
warehouses, handling eggs, and
marketing such products as cit
rus, peaches, vegetables, sugar,
cotton pecans, and diary and
poultry products.
SEPTEMBER QUOTA
PERSON MEN GO
TO FORT BRAGG
Men Have William Ran
dolph Evans As Group
Leader.
With William Randolph Evans
as leader, the following Person
and Roxboro white men, Sep
tember quota under Selective
Service, left this morning for
Fort Bragg for examination and
possible induction into military
service: ,
Elbert Lee Moore, Thomas J.
Breeze, Robert L. Jones, David
C. Winstead, John Eddie Briggs,
Hester M. Saunders, Amos H.
Davis, Charlie Terrell, Russell
Pearcy, Gester W. Shuskey, Law
rence T. Carver, Dave Harrison
Carver, Carl Enoch Owens. Rus
sell Elsworth Lee, Frank J. Win
stead, Weldon Harris Thrower,
John Bumpass Oakley, Hubert A.
Morton, Jr., and George D. Whit
field, Jr.
Also, Paul W. Carver, Jr.,
Earlie T. Taylor, Carlton N. Tuck,
Carlton S. Chandler, Jamie W.
Peed, Lloyd B. Wilson, Richard
H. Allen, Bennie W. Perguson,
William Ira Wheeler, Bennie Lee
Smith, Elijah Lambeth Wagnor,
Willie Garland Bagger ley, Robert
L. Chambers, Cecil L. Yarbor
ough, Samuel H. Winstead, Vic
tor G. Blalock. Norman A. John
son, Cothran M. Hamlet, David
H. Gilliland and George William
Painter.
Reaches Its Quota.
Tarboro, Sept. 29. Tarboro
and Edgecimbe County have
reached the quota in the third
(war loan d'rive of $1,000,000.
To Give Star
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Gen. John Kennedy
Gen. Kennedy, jpmmander of
Fort wilbSjwne to Rox
boro Tuesday to jjEsent the Sil
ver Star award tasS. C. Fisher,
Sr., father of Pfri. Sam Fisher,
Jr., killed in action.
MOVE RESIDENCE
Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Long, of
Creedmoor, formerly of Roxboro,
will tomorrow move their resi
dence to Carthage, where Mr.
Long will be connected with the
camoflage netting division of the
Carthage Weaving company.
Funeral Rites For
Lawrence J . Jones
Being Arranged
Reginald Carr Rogers, His Friend,
In Wreck, Remains In Hospital
LIBRARY SERVICE
AGENCY THEME
BY MISS GRAFTON
She Speaks At First
Meeting Os Agency Coun
cil At Hotel Roxboro.
“The achievement of the goals
of a democratic society depends
in large measure on the enlight
enment of the people and on the
vitality of their-social and cul
tural ideals”, said Miss Ernestine
Grafton, iri-county librarian for
Person, Orange and Caswell
counties, who as guest speaker
at September meeting of the
Person County Council of Social
agencies, yesterday outlined the
services being rendered to citi
zens by the Person County Pub
lic library.
Introduction of Miss Grafton
was by Mrs. T. C. Wagstaff. pro
gram chairman. Also presented
were Miss Chloris Kellum, field
secretary of the American Red
Cross, and Miss Amerrelle Ardnt,
district home agent, both of Ral
eigh and guests at the meeting.
Presiding was Thomas J. Shaw,
Jr., chairman.
Miss Grafton, who specifically
mentioned the large increase in
the number of books circulated
by the PeTson library, also cited
the bookmobile owned by the
Person library and in use here
and in Caswell, and spoke of the
establishment of the Person
branch library for Negroes as an
example of expansion of service.
“The complexity of and the
rapid tempo of the modern world
put a responsibility on citizens
to educate themselves continuous
and on the government to pro
vide for citizens the means for
self-aclucation”, addend Miss Graf
ton, pointing out that the public
library is an agency evolved by
America to meet these needs.
“Americans need to and in
many cases do have access to
public libraries to provide them
with the materials by means of
which ideas are communicated,
books, periodicals, pamphlets,
newspapers, maps, pictures, films
and recordings”, said Miss Graf
ton, indicating that the Person
Public library, “which at one
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Goes Well Over The Top
Company B From Buther Puts
On Versatile Military Show
4-H Council To
Meet Saturday
At Court House
The Person 4-H County
Council will hold its regular
meeting Saturday afternoon,
October 2nd, at 1:00 o’clock,
in the Court house. The an
nual dress revue and canning
contest will be features of the
program.
All Junior and Senior Club
girls are eligible to enter the
contests.
The judges will be Misses
Venetia Hearne, Sarah Rice
and Willa Lee Joyner, Home
teachers in the
County and Roxboro.
Parents, 4-H Leaders and all
club members are urged to at
tend.
IN NORFOLK
Mrs. Henrietta Bradsher, of
I Roxboro, is visiting her daugh
| ter, Mrs. Thomas Whitworth, in
1 Norfolk, Va.
Investigation Os First Per
son Traffic Fatality Os
Year Not Over. Speeding
Said To Have Been Cause.
One Roxboro young man was
instantly killed when he suffer
ed a broken neck in an automo
bile -.wreck here Tuesday'night
and another who was with him
is now a patient in Community
hospital in a semi-conscious con
dition and suffering f:om a frac
tured skull and lacerations.
The dead youth is Lawrence
James Jones, 18, a son of Mr. and
Mrs. Lee Roy Jones, while the
injured man is Reginald Carr
Rogers, 23, a son of Mr. and Mrs.
Walter Rogers, all of Roxboro.
Investigating authorities have
not yet determined which of the
two was driving, Rogers’ condi
tion not yet permitting question
ing.
The wreck occurred about
three miles from Roxboro on the
Semora-Milton highway, just be
yond a curve near a creek
into which Jones w r as thrown,
a 'distance of about fifty feet.
Funeral for Jones, first traffic
victim of the year in, Person
County, will be held at the home
of his parents, day of the funer
al depending upon time of ar
rival of two brothers, Sergeant
Bedfoid L. Jones. Camp White,
Ore., and Cpl. "John S. Jones,
Fort Devens, Mass.
Rites wil be in charge of the
Revs. J. B. Currjn and J. N.
Bowman, With interment in
Burchwood cemetery, Roxboro.
Cause of the accident is said to
have been speeding. Rogers is
reported to have been found on
the back: seat of the car by pass
ers-by who brought him to the
hospital. The car, all but totally
wrecked, had one end in the
creek and the other near the
highway bank. The machine
turned over at least once. It is
said to belong to Rogers.
Investigation is being continu
ed by Person Sheriff M .T. Clay
ton and State Highway patrol
man John Hudgins, who with
Coroner Dr. A ,F. Nichols went
to the scene about eleven o’clock,
half an hour after the' accident
happened.
In addition to the parents and
Army brothers, others of the
Jones family who survive are two
brothers at home, William Stan
ley arid Roy Wesley Jones, and
three sisters, Misses Irene, Mary
Catherine and Julia Ann Jones,
all of the borne. Miss Irene Jones
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Citizens Vie With Each Other In
Spirited Bidding For Rare Bargains
FRESH FRUITS
VEGETABLES AID
WINTER BACKLOG
A and P Broduce Execu
tive Indicates Late Crops
Will Relieve Scarcity Os
Other Food Items.
NEW YORK, Sept. 30—Late
crops of fresh fruits and vege
tables will do much toward reli
eving any scarcity of other food
items during the coming winter.
This is the view expressed by
Harvey A. Baum, General man
ager of A and P’s produce-buy
ing operations, based on latest
reports from the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture, and from
the company’s field men in all
parts of the country.
“The outlook is encouraging,”
Baum said. “The orange crop
gives promise of being ahead of
last year’s heavy production.
The nation’s grape supply will be
a record one, with plenty remain
ing for domestice needs after a
larger portion of the crop is pro
cessed for war needs. The yield
of other fruits is below that of
a year ago, but of most of these
there will be a fair suply.
“The vegetable situation is
good, particularly with regard to
basic vegetables, .which are most
essential from a nutritional
standpoint. The potato crop indi
cates a record increase of 90,-
000,000 bushels over last year.
“The outlook for other major
vegetables is promising. Acreage
and growing conditions point to
large yields of sweet potatoes,
cabbage, lettuce and late carrots.
Some smaller truck crops and
less essential vegetables will
show decreases from last year’s
large production, but on the
whole will approach normal
yield of the past ten years.
Tanker Driver
Fatally Burned
CONCORD. Sept. 29 Alvin
Booth, 34, Kanapolis gasoline
tanker driver, died here early
today of burns suffered last
night in the explosion of his and
tw'o other tank trucks and three
large storage tanks at a local
service station.
GAME FRIDAY
Roxboro Ramblers on Friday
night will have their first home
game of the season when they
meet Methodist Orphanage, from
Raleigh. First game, last week,
was loot to Oxford.
Gen, Kennedy Will
Give Silver Star
Award Will Be Presented To
Father Os Pfc. Sam C. Fisher, Jr.
Pat Clay, With
Discharge, Expects
Defense Work
Pat Clay, of Roxboro, a son of
Mrs. Omega Clay, of this City,
iwho for the past 19 months has
been in the United States Army,
more recently at Camp Bowie,
Texas, has received a medical
discharge and has returned to
hfc home here. Clay, who says he
was glad to serve in the Army,
expects to continue service on
the home front by going into
some type of defense work.
Pfc. Riley Whitt, son of L. C.
Whitt, stationed at Avon Park,
recently paw l&kfkey Rooney.
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NUMBER 99
Mrs. Joe Allen’s Fifty
Cent Piece Brings High
Price; So Do Dogs,
Roosters, Nylon Hose
And Shotgun Shells.
Person and Roxboro citizens,
the largest number ever to be
assembled on Court House
square, in a two-hour period
yesterday marked their Third
War Loan “Sacrifice Day” by
Ibuying $130,000 woi(th of War
Bonds to push the total here to
$569,000, two thousand dollars
beyond the assigned quota. Mor
ale boosters of the auction were
members of ompany B, “physical
fitness” champions of Camp But
ner, who, with the 78th Division
band, lead an impressive and col
orful Main street parade shortly
before the beginning of the auc
tion.
Personal and association items
went at fantastic prices. One of
the most money-toringing was a
30 year old fifty-cent piece be
longing to Mrs. Joe Allen, an em
ployee of Roxboro Cotton Mills.
The coin was the first that Mrs.
Allen received when she began
working for the mills three dec
ades ago. Epyer was Lieut. Gov.
R. L. Harris, president of the
Mills, who paid $2,000. He then
returned the coin to Mrs. Allen,
mother of a U. S. sailor, (who was
so moved that she could not
speak. The coin was her sacri
fice.
Gov. J. Melville Brpughton’s
red four-in-hand brought another
$2,000, with W. B. (pop) Weath
erly, a Roxboro business man as
buyer. A black rooster, property
of six year old Caroline Eggles
ton, sold first time for $4,000 and
and was sold again and for a
third time, final price being SIOO,
with that purchaser giving the
rooster to a soldier.
Greatly impressed with suc
cess of the War Bond campaign
here, officials here plan for a
second goal of ten percent of the
original quota, the new goal to
be reached before end of the
campaign on Oct., 2.
In the parade wiith the Camp
Butner soldiers, who will camp
at Chub Lake through Friday,
(were District Chairman Gordon
C. Hunter and Person and Rox
boro Co-Chairmen Lieut. Gov-
R. L. Harris arid Superintendent
of Schools R. B .Griffin, together
with Miss Claire Harris, chair
man of the Woman’s Division.
Also in the line, along with
students in the public schools
and members of the American
Legion, were two Person World
War II heroes, Sgts. Farris
Humphries and Lewis E. Pul
lieum, together with Lieut. Mil
dred Westbrook, of Raleigh,
North Carolina’s first gold star
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Exercises Will Take Plaje
Tuesday At Roxboro High
School. Lieut. Ralph Gard
ner Will Also Come.
The Silver Star posthumously
ajwarded to Pfc. Sam C. Fisher,
Jr., 21, of Nathalie, Va., and
Roxboro, for gallantry under fire
ui the Guadalcanal area, where
he was killed in action on Jan.,
13. will be presented to his fath
er, Sam C. Fisher, Sr., a Roxboro
grooerer, as next of kin, by Gen.
John T. Kennedy, commanding
general of Fort Bragg, in format
exercises to be held in Roxboro
on Tuesday, October 5, at Rox
boro high school under auspices
of Lester Blackwell Post of the
American Legion.
Announcement of the date for
the presentation, together with
preliminary plans, was made to
day by Lieut. Ralph W. Gardner. ~*
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