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VOLUME XIV
Roxboro Mayor,
State Governor Ask
Support For Army
City And State Officials Cooperate In
lEndorsing Campaign For WACS
Quota Os Three Expected
From Roxboro Before Oct.
15. Several ADDlicants Now
Under Consideration.
Mayor S. G. Winstead, of Rox
boro, in response to 4 personal
letter from Gov. J. Melville
Broughton, today issued a pro
clamation calling upon citizens
of ihe City and of Person Coun
ty for cooperation in a State-wide
Women’s Army Corps recruiting
campaign which is expected to
continue with emphasis through
’December 7.
Winstead’s proclamation fol
lows closely a similar proclama
tino issued by Broughton in re
sponse to a request from Gener
al Marshall chief of staff. The
WAC campaign for new recruits,
which is nation-wide, officially
began on Sept. 27, and is being
conducted in an effort to secure
women to release men to com
bat duty.
Goal for North Carolina is at
least three WAC recruits from
each County by October 15. The
North Carolina company will,
when formed, be sworn in by the
Governor at the Capitol; will go
through basic training together;
will carry the North Carolina
flag as part of the color guard;
will wear N. C. as signia on un
ifoms and will train at Fart Og
lethorpe, near Chattanooga,
Term.
In Roxboro last week in in.
terest of recruiting for the WACs
were Lieut. Mildred Westbrook
and Cpl. Edna Waddell, both of
the Durham district office, who
Interviewed a number of appli
cants but have not yet returned
an '.official report of acceptances.
Mayor Winstead proclamation
reads:
To The People of Roxboro:
It is with great pleasure that
1, S. G. Winstead, Mayor, heart
ily indorse this city’s participa
tion in the nation wide all-states
campaign for the Women’s Army
Coips’ recruiting drive.
You doubtless know there is a
tremendous need for WAC’s.
General Marshall stated recent
ly: “Commanders to whom
WAC’s have been assigned have
spoken in the highest terms of
their efficiency and value —in
155 kinds of Amy jobs.” This
stotement is indicative of the ex
cellent job the Women’s Army
Corps is doing.
However the present objective
is to release more thousands of
soldiers for combat training. In
order to accomplish this, each
state will participate in the
campaign. Likewise each city
and county. Our office of Civil
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F. J. Norris, 73, Os
Orange County
'Dies At Home
i
F. J. Norris, 73, of Cedar
Grove, Orange County, died yes
terday afternoon at three-thirty
o’cook at his home after an ill
ness with pneumonia and compli
cations.
Funeral was held Thursday af
ternoon at Mount Zion Christian-
Methodist church, Orange Coun
ty, with internment in the church
cemetery. Survivors include two
brothers, Rainey Norris, of the
home and Will Norris, of Dur
ham.
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HIGH AVERAGE REPORTED FOR THIS WEEK
During first three days of this week; tobacco on the Rox
boro market in the amount of 298,094 pounds sold for $124,502.-
.19, at an average of $41.77, according to reports received to
day. For the past week, ending Friday, 519,764 pounds averag
ed $40.35.
UNITED WAR FUND DRIVE PLANS
Person and, Roxboro United War Fund campaign Is expect
ed to beg*" here next week, possibly by the 14, according to W.
Wallace Woods, publicity director.
Person County Times
PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY AND THURSDAY
WESLEY SMrra,
IN CHINA MANY
YEARS, IN TALK
Minister And Returned
Missionary Guest At Ki
wanis Club.
The Rev. Wesley M. Smith, a
returned missionary from China,
where he was stationed for thir
ty years, was guest speaker Mon
day at Roxboro Kiwanis club,
where he was introduced by the
Rev. W. C. Martin. The speaker,
who returned in 1940,
discussed conditions Vhere and as
he found them in Japan.
Special guests included Pfcs.
Agnes Filipeck and Fiances
Pfarr, both of the WAC detach
ment, Camp Butner. The women,
here in interest of ticket sales
for “This Is the Army”, express
ed their pleasure in being guests
of the club and a brief explana
tory address was made by Pfc.
Filipeck. Introductions iwere by
Jack Strum. Premier of the show
in Roxboro will be on Sunday
night.
GETS ADVANCE
Sergeant J. V. King, of the
United States Army, stationed in
California, has recently been ad
vanced to that rank from Cor
poral. He is a son of Mr. and
Mrs. W. L. King.
Probes Os Three
Wrecks Not Ended
Hudgins And Sheriff Clayton Wait For
More Complete Recovery Os Victims
GOOD SHOWING IN
GROUP FOUR GETS
PRAISE BY HUNTER
Gordon C. Hunter, of Roxboro,
Third War Doan chairman for
Group Four, a district composed
of eleven counties, including pop
lcus centers such as Wake and
Duiham, today said that a total
of twenty two million, one hund
red sixty-four thousand dollars
has been raised in the War Bond
campaign just about ended in
these counties.
Both Wake and Durham over
scribed quotas by a million dol
lars each, while district quota
was topped by around three mil
lion. Person, home county of the
chairman, with a quota of $567,-
000, went to $640,000 While only
two of the eleven counties have
as yet failed to reach their quo
t<is.
Purchase -of small bonds will
still be counted in the campaign
through Oct., 15, said Hunter, ad
ding that it is possible that the
counties still behind will have an
opportunity to catch up and that
others will go still further in ov
er-subscriptions. Hunter says he
is deeply gratified with the re
sponse shown in all counties, par
ticularly Person. ,
ROXBORO, N. C. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1943
SHOTWELL WAS
SHOT, BUT WANTS
TO KEEP AT JOB
Bethel Hill Man, Who Los
es Hand In Sicily, Expects
To Come To Roxboro Soon.
(By Mrs. A. R. Davis)
Sam Shotwell, 26, a son
of Mr. and Mrs. H. Bj. Shotwell,
■of Bethel Hill, whose right hand
was removed above the wrist af
ter he was wounded in action in
Seicily, is now at Veteran’s hos
pital, Washington, but expects to
return to Roxboro in a few days.
Shotwell, in the Army two
years and overseas for one, says,
“We have the ammunition. I
gave this (pointing to his ampu
tated hand) but I want to do
more and I hope to be given a
job as an instructor later on.”
Members of his family, includ
ing his parents and his uncle and
aunt, Mr. and Mrs'. j.feß Shojt
well, and his
who with Matt Regan, returned
Monday from Washington, where
they fifratwell, sa y that
he is in remarkably good spirits.
He was wounded after having
spent a day picking up unxploded
ed mines in a mine covered field.
He did the job all day—suc
cessfully—only to have the last
mine explode, giving him se
vere burns and wounds all over
his right side. Shotwell says he
remembers the swinging beds on
his hospital ship and the good
food He has been in an engi
neers corps, and good soldierAhat
he is, he is anxious to get back
on the job.
PROMOTED
Sgt. James Lois Yarborough,
of the United States Army, Oliv
er General hospital, Augusta, Ga.,
spent the week-end here with his
family. While here he received a
telegram sayingjie had been pro
moted from Corporal to Serg-
Rogers, Clayton And Day
Improve. Russell Also Bet
ter. Humphries Released
Under Bond.
State Highiwal Poarolman John
Hudgins, who, with Persop Sher
iff M. T. Clayton, has a number
of recent auto wrecks under in
vestigation, today said that Reg
inald Carr Rogers, 23, survivor
of the crash in which Lawrence
J. Jones, 18, was killed, is im
proving at Community hospital,
where he is receiving treatment
for a fractured skull but that he
has not yet been questioned con
cerning who was driving the car
at time of the accident.
Also on the not yet interview
ed list is Stanly Clayton, a son-in-
Route three, Roxboro, a son-in
law of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Rus
sell Who on Saturday night re
ceived a skull fracture when the
car in which he and Burns Day,
also of Route three, were riding,
was in an overturn accident near
here on the Oxford highway a
bout ten o’clock.
Day received treatment at Com
ui.ity hospital, while Clayton, at
fisrt taken there, was later rush
ed to Duke hospital, where he is
now improving. D. N. Humphries,
of this City, whose car was
wrecked the night before on the
Durham highway, has been
charged with drunken driving
and has been released under $l5O
bond, according to Sheriff Clay
ton.
Incomplete also is the exam
ination of the cross-roads crash
of last Thursday in which Geor
ge Russell, 56, a Negro tenant
farmer, of near Concord was in
jured when his car and a Dan
ville to Durham bus of the Vir
ginia Trailways driven by E. C.
Oakley, of Durham, were in col
lision near Concord church. Rus
sell and one of three of his child
ren were injured and were tak
en to a Danville hospital for
treatment.
Hudgins said today that he ex
pects to complete his part of all
of these investigations at an early
date.
Speaks Tonight
-V-
Lieut Gov. R. L. Harris
Lieut. Gov. Harris will be
speaker at Rotary’s Teacher’s
'Night today at 6:30 o’clock at
Hotel RoxborK Response will be
by Miss Mabel Massey.
‘THIS IS ARMY”
GETS PRAISE FROM
BOY WHO KNOWS
“This is The Army”, the Army
Emergency Relief fund benifit
picture opening here Sunday
night in a premier showing at the
Palace Theatre and which will al
so be shown for three successive
days thereafter, wins the praise
of r. Roxboro boy, Bill R. Mur
phy, now in the Army at Mitchell
Field, Long Island.
Murphy, son of Mr. and Mrs.
B. W. Murphy, writes as follows
to T eague Kirby, Palace Theatre
aionager:
Mr. Teague Kirby, Manager
Palace and .Dolly Madison, Rojj,
bore, North Tarcflina.
Dear Mr. Kirby,
After just looking over the
home town paper, I noticed where
you are as thousands of others
are, turning your theatres over
to the Well advertised picture
“This Is The Army”.
I have been fortunate enough
tc see the picture twice and ag
ree with all the publicity that
has been given it. It has it’s ser
ious moments, clean jokes, fun
ny moments, and is suitable for
the youngest and oldest to see.
The proceeds of named picture
are going to the Army Emergen
cy Relief Fund and after seeing
what this particular organization
docs and has done, I am sure
you are doing the right thing by
allowing it to be shown in your
theatres.
So Mr. Kirby, wishing you the
best of luck in your “Campaign
for Proceeds”, I close, remaining
Yours very truly,
Bill R. Murphy
In charge of ticket sales for
the Premier showing are R. H.
Shelton iand George W. Kane,
Roxboro civic leaders. Here the
first of the weeH to help with
(Javanee publicity and sales were
srfit of the week to. help with
advance publicity and sales were
Pvts. Filibeck and Pharr, of the
Women’s Army Corps, Camp But
ner.
MISS DAVISAND
R. P. BURNS TALK
ON DELINQUENCY
“Parents can blame themselves
for many cases of delinquency
in children”, said Miss Davis, of
the nursing staff of the Person
Health department, who with R.
P. Eurns, a leading Roxboro at
torney, was a speaker at October
meeting of the Longhurst PTA
Thrsday at which delinquency
in children was discussed.
Legal aspects of such delin
quency were presented by Burns,
while Miss Davis had as her top
ic, “Nutrition as Related to De
linquency in Youth”. Miss Davis
stressed child care, saying that
foundations of proper living are
laid in the first six years of a
child’s life.
Introduction of Bums was by
Jerry L. Hester, Roxboro dis
trict supervisor. Music was by
Longhurst Bhptist church choir
under direction of the Rev. and
Mrs. R. W.* Hovis, the first nam
ed aJso giving the benediction.
Attendance was large, according
to Mrs. Emery Winstead, prin
cipal, and next meeting will be
in November.
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Kennedy Warns Fight Not
Over; Praises Fisher’s Gift
APPLICATIONS FOR
NEW “A” BOOKS
MUST BE MADE
Person OPA officials today
issued a reminder to holders
of basic ration “A” books for
gasoline that applications for
new books may be secured
from service stations and must
be mailed or brought to the
OPA office, Roxboro, on or be
fore October 22.
F. H. Jeter To
Speak Saturday
At Court House
F. H. Jeter, agricultural ed
itor of State College, Raleigh,
will speak at fanners’ meeting
Saturday afternoon, at 2:30 o’-
clock at Person court house,
Roxboro.
The meeting is to be a gen
eral round-up of a series of
meetings being held at all
school houses in Person Coun
ty.
Service Club Need
Becoming Acute In
City Group Finds
Miss Hearne Reports On Similar
Work Being Done In Greenville
Suggests That Rules For
Soldiers I n Private
Homes Are Os Prime Im
portance. Other Towns
Go Ahead.
Following a first of the month
week-end in which an unusually
large number of Camp Butner
soldiers and others came to Rox
boro, crowded Hotel Roxboro to
capacity and overflowed into pri
vate homes, members of the civ
ic olubService Mm's committee
headed by Mrs. Beth Brewer Pri
dgen, president of the Business
and Professional Woman’s club,
met Tuesday afternoon and will
meet again this afternoon in an
effort to arrive at some solution
for a downtown Sendee club
and other accomodations.
Tuesday’s meeting at Roxboro
Chamber of Commerce was at-
Front handset 3rd lead USO
tended by representatives from
The Woman’s club, Rotary and
Kiwanis, with a number of in
vited committee workers, among
them Miss Venetia Hearne, a
member of the faculty of Roxboro
high school and a resident of
Greenville, who gave specific
suggestions for Service club work
based on experience in Green
ville.
Dr. Robert Long, Mrs. Pridgen
and Thomas J. Shaw, Jr., were
named as a committee to set a
bout securing club room accomo
dations. The committee now has
several sites under investigation
but it is not yet ready to report-.
Members of the committee and
of the sub-committee are how
ever of opinion that more cooper
ation is now in evidence here
than has previously been shown.
Held Saturday night in the
high school gym was another
Service Men’s dance, directed
by Dr. Long and Lawrence Fea
therston. Discussed at the com
mittee meeting Tuesday were re
ports of work in other North
Carolina cities and towns of sim
ilar size and condition.
The following was released to
day from Richmond, Va., by
Chester D. Snell:
Eastern North Carolina com
munities suddenly faced with a
soldier load far above normal
have been granted immediate
USO aid to provide recreational
facilities for service men, it was
announced here today by Chest
er D. Snell, USO regional execut
ive.
When several hundred, soldiers
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Fort Bragg General, At Silver
Star Exercises Says Now Is time To
Take Stock Os What Lies Ahead
MISS CALDWELL
TO TAKE PLACE
OF MRS. BARHAM
Former F S A Supervisor
Will Take New Work Here
By Middle Os Month.
Miss Evelyn Caldwell, of Dill
on, S. C., and Roxboro, formerly
with the Farm Security Admin
istration as a supervisor for this
area, on October 15, will succeed
Mrs. Travis Barham, resigned, as
Person County Home Demonstra
tion agent, according to an
nouncement made Monday.
Mrs. Barham, here for more
than a year and very successful
as an administrator, is leaving
in order to be with her husband.
Pvt. Travis Barham, in Miami,
Fla., and her resignation has
been regretfully accepted by Per
son County Commissioners, who
on Monday met in regular ses
sion.
Olive Branch
Mission School
Starts Sunday
The Olive Branch school of
of missions will be held on Sun
day afternoon, Oct. 10. Sunday
school will be at one o’clock and
the mission classes will follow.
The teachers and classes are
a follows: Primaries, Mrs W. R.
Hayes; Juniors, Mrs. T. J. Dixon;
Intermediates, Mrs. Willie Pass;
Young People, Mrs. J. F. Fun
derburke; Adults, Joe B. Currin.
A full attendance is desired.
Funeral Held For
Lawrence J. Jones
Rites For Accident Victim Held At
Home, Attended By Many In City
Raymond Clayton
Flight Man For
!
Navy, At Home
Raymond T. Clayton, of Rox
boro, a son of Andrew Clayton,
flight engineer with the United
States Navy, who entered the
service in May 1941, and has
since then seen plenty of patrol
action in the Caribbean area, is
spending several days here with
members of his family.
Clayton, formerly with Rox
boro Cotlon mills, has a number
of citations and medals for his
exploits, but does not wear them,
nor boast of the having. He re
members vividly the business of
sinking submarines, says food in
the Navy is good and he gives
every indication of being pleased
with his job. He attended Rox
boro high school.
The first assault on North Af
rica reouired 110 tops of maps.
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Father Os Roxboro Sol
dier Receives Star, Post
humous Award To Son
Killed In Action. Harris
Introduces Ahd Hunter
Presides.
“Citizens should remember and
should take stock of what lies
ahead”, said' Gen. John T. Ken
nedy, commanding general of
Fort Bragg, who warned again
st cver-optimism as a danger in
this war and added that “we are
yet far away from the destruction
of our enemies” and at Silver
Star exercises for the late Pfe-
Sam C. Fisher, Jr., held here
Tuesday morning emphasized the
fact that we “have no reason to
believe that either Germany or
Jay an is on the verge of col
lapse.”
Occasion of the General’s visit
to Roxboro was presentation of
'the Silver Star award won post
humously by Pfc. Fisher, of Rox
boro and Nathalie, Va., to his
father, Sam C. Fisher, Sr., a
Roxboro grocer, at exercises un
der auspices of the American
Legion and held in the auditor
ium of Roxboro high school. Pfc.
Fisher was killed in action on
Jan.. 13 ,at Guadalcanal.
Introduction of Kennedy was
by Lieut. Gov. R. L. Harris, of
Roxboro, and the program was in
charge of Gordon C. Hunter,
commander of Lester Blackwell
Post No. 138, of the American
Legion here. Also on the platform
were Mr. and Mrs. Fisher, Sr.,
Mi's Helen Fisher, W. Wallace
Woods, the Rev. Rufus J. Womb
le and others, including Lieut.
Ralph W. Gardner, aide to Gen.
Kennedy.
Reading the citation from Gem
Millard Harmon, General Ken
nedy. ofter mentioning special
ly the gallantry in action dis
played by Pfc. Fisher, gave the
award to Fisher’s father.
Mentioning the remoteness of
this war, especially to some cit
izens, and the distance to Guad
alcanal. Gen. Kennedy said:
“Sometimes, it is easy to give up.
Fisher did not give up. Now is
’he time to feel ourselves to
| sacrifices with, a pledge of our
lives and our honor, even as Fish
er did. We cannot be true Amer
ica),s and be too late or too little
with sacrifice”.
In the audience, together with
other students, teachers and
members of the Legion, was W.
D. Fisher, a brother of Pfc. Fish
er end a student in the high scho
ol. Also present were Miss Irene
Fisher, a cousin, and Miss Mild
red Guill, both of Nathalie. Seat
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Reginald Carr Rogers Im
proves At Community Hos
pital.
Funeral for Lawrence James
Jones, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Lee Roy Jones, of Roxboro, who
last week died instantly of a
broken neck received in an au
tomobile accident, was held here
yesterday afternoon at four o’-
clock at the residence of his par
ents, North Main street, with in
terment in Burchwood cemetery
Jones died Tuesday night of
last week, but rites were delay
ed, pending arrival of a brother,
Sgt. Bedford L. Jones, of Camp
White, Ore., who arrived here
today. Reginald Carr Rogers, 23.
who suffered a skull fracture, is
improving at Community hospi
tal, but officials have not yet.
questioned him as to who was
driving at time of the accident.
Ministers in charge of rites for
Jones were the Rev. J. B. Cur.
rin and the Rev. J. N. Bowman.
In addition to the parents andb
the brother in Oregon, others ippj
vivars inc’>de three brothers nil
three sisters; Cpl. John & JonMK
of Fort Devens, Mass.,
here, William Stanley ml tyy*