I hope Americans KHll
will figure oat for
themselves addi
tional payroll sav- jSPPf?
VOLUME XIV
Schools Suggests
Malaria Control
By Draining Lake
Savs Lake Must Be Drained Or Waters
And Swamp Treated With Insectide
Paris Green Spray Or Oil
Treatment At Regular In
tervals Regarded As Only
Alternatives.
Dr. H. F. Schools, a lieutenant
of the United States public health
service now associated with the
Stae Department of Health, Ral
eigh, in a formal report on mal
arial conditions said to exist at
Chub Lake, Person County, has
today suggested that elimination
of the malarial conditions can be
accomplished by treating the lake
shores and marsh areas with
chemicals or by completely drain
ing the forty-five acre lake.
The lake, poperty of Will Rud
der, who operates a store at the
lake shore, has for years been
a favorite fishing and boating
spot for Roxboro and Person res
idents. School’s report, which
has been presented to Rudder,
was instigated at request of the
Person unit of the tri-county
health department, of which Dr.
W. P. Richardson, of Chapel Hill,
is director, after report of an un
usual number of cases of malaria
in the Chub Lake area was re
ceived by Richardson and by Per
son Sanatarian ty. B. Taylor.
Schoolf’s report, which shows
that twenty-nine per cent of the
persons residing in the immediate
lake area, particularly in the
area to the south, had malaria
at the time of/taking of examin
ation slides last contains
an itemized case history for each
individual in the area. In at
least ten families living in the
swamp 'areas, slides show that
majority of the members have
the disease.
Taylar today said that the re
port has been presented to Rud
der, but it is not known what
action he will take in the matter,
if any. The lake has wo other
names, Bjamette’s Pond and Loch
llily and’ is close to Roxboro
Country club.
In Schoolf’s report it is sug
gested that trees, underbrush, in
cluding smartweed, must be clear
ed away in the swamp and along
the shoreline of the lake. This
sshould be done at once, says
schools.
Schools further suggests that
spraying, either with paris green
solution, or .with number two
oil, should be begun i n the
Spring and continued at inter
vals of one wpek, both in the
marsh or swamp areas and a
long the shoreline of the lake.
The marsh, in addition, should
, be drained. In event that these
suggestions are not followed, only
alternative, in his opinion, is a
complete drainage of the lake.
Taylor today quoted Mrs. Rud
der, iwife of the owner, as saying
-■* that she doubted if the lake can
be completely drained, meaping
probably that watar'would con
tinue to flow into it from source
streams. No estimate of the cost
of eiher spraying or draining is
contained!, in School’s report. It
is understood that Schools thinks
water could be returned to the
lake within two or three years
after draining.
In slides taken this week in
•the Bethel If 11 and Olive Hill
areas near tb* lake it is report
ed that 23)«TOlood smears form
residents Wt the first community
and 160 from those in the second
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' hate news Bulletins
11
ARMY EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND RAISED
Sunday night sbajwing of “This Is the Army , as a benefit
for the Army Emergency Relief fund resulted in sale of 441
tidkiets for $494.35, also representing a few additional contribu
tions. Total attendance at that showing was 362, and net
amount contributed, after deducting Federal tax, was $458.15.
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AVERAGES STILL GOOD THIS WEEK
Tobacco on the Roxboro market sold on Monday, 214,388
pounds at an average of $41.91; cn Tuesday, 62,392 pounds at
an average of $41.21, and on Wednesday. 68,172 pounds at an
average of $41.53, according to report received today. The
Boxboro market has. done exceptionally well in the past two
weeks.
Person County Times
PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY AND THURSDAY
Sunday Issue
On Monday
There will be no Sunday,
October 17, issue of the Per
son County Times, but all sub
scribers will receive their
copy of the Times on Monday.
RUES HELD FOR
MRS. V. C. THOMAS,
LAMAR STREET
Wife Os Manager Os
Roxboro Bus Station Dies
In Hospital After Heart
Attack .
Mrs. Sallie Barnette Thomas,
40, of Lamar street, Roxboro,
wife of Virgil C. Thomas and
daughter of William T. Bfarnette
and the late Mrs. Narcissa Turn
er Barnette died Monday morn
ing at three o’clock at Commun
ity hospital from a heart attack'.
She was first taken to Commun
ity hospital Sunday morning.
She was a member of Lea-
Bethel Baptist church, Caswell
county, but rites were held at
Oak Grove Methodist church,
Person County, Tuesday after
noon at four o’clock, with inter
ment in the Oak Grove ceme
tery. Rites were in charge of the
Rev. L. V. Coggins, of Semora,
her pastof, assisted by the Rev.
M. D. Fleming, of the Oak
Grove church. .
Survivors, in addition to her
husband and father, include two
sons, Carl and Franklin, both of
the home, one brother, ' Lucias
Barnette of Person County, and
one sister, Mrs. Pearl B. Burton,
of Caswell county. Her father al
so lives at the Thomas resi
dence.
Many Contributing
To Service Center
Opening Program To Be On Saturday
Night; Building Is Now Being Repaired
Clayton Will
Return .To Duty
Sgt. B. G. (Buddy) Clayton,
Jr., of the United States Air
Corps, Rapid City, S. D., who is
visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
B. G. Clayton, expects to leave
Friday to return to his station.
In the Army sincef the first of
the year, Sgt Clayton has since
then received training in all sec
toins of the country except New
England.
His brother, Tom Hill Clayton,
is with the Navy at Bainbridge,
Md.-
ROXBORO, N. C. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1943
JUVENILE WORK
AND LIFE TOPIC I.
OF MRS.. WARREN
Bushy Fork PTA Oct
ber Session Lead Ry Mrs.
B. J. Long, Association
President.
“Juvenile Delinquency”, theme
of the month, was discussed at
October meeting of the Bushy
Fork PTA associantion by Mrs.
E P. Warren, a member of the
Association, who had as her top
ic: “Protecting With a National
Home”.
Presiding was Mrs. B. J. Long,
president, with the devotional by
Mrs. Luther Long, while music
was in charge of Miss Sims, of
the faculty, assisted by Mesdames
Charle Wilkerson and Scott Hov
ater. Miss Odell Allen, luncheon
supervisor, by a motion passed
at the meeting, iwas assured that
her salary will be guaranteed as
long as the lunchroom may re
main in operation.
Mrs. Warren, in discussing the
problem of providing a favorable
homo environment for young
people, brought out the fact that
children develop along four dif
crent lines: physical, intellectual,
social and emotional, of which
the first two may be to a great
c-xtent determined by home in
fluence, particularly in economic
and social attitudes, although out
hide influences are also a deter
mining factor.
‘The third and fourth factors”,
said Mrs. Warren, “are even more
determined by home influences.”
“Youth”, said Mrs. Warren, “is
trying to solve its problems to
day under the emotional strain
of a war crisis. It is our part as
parents and teachers to help
them find their place in the strug
gle :to train youth to think clear
ly, choose wisely, and avoid the
mistakes we have made.
“Youth must have a sense of
security in his own home, a con
fidence in his own ability, and
a proper balance between depen
dence aryl independence. In the
normal home where the child is
accepted as a partner instead of
a piece of property to be enjoyed;
where he shares in the opportun
ities and priveledges; where his
own personality is accepted,
where he can depend on his own
associates and where he is given
patient understanding, he devel
opes.
i‘We can instill in youth what
ever- habits .will help him live
a foil satisfactory life.”
Chairs And Tables Being
Given; Others Needed;
Board And Committees
Meet.
Roxboro Service Center,' to be
operated as a clubroom for men
and women in military service
who may visit this City, will be
formally opened Saturday night
with a Service dance similar to
those which have for the past
two months been held in Rox
boro high school gymnasium.
It is expected that the dance,
to be attended by a selected corps
of young iwomen, will begin at
8.30 o’clock. Dr. Robert E. Long,
chairman of the Center’s board of
directors .amd Lawrence Feather
ston, chairman of the entertain
ment committee, together with
their associates, are planning an
interesting program.
Under E. W. Cunningham, of
the maintenance committee, much
progress has been made in clean
ing, painting and refinishing. The
floors have also been sanded and
a telephone is expected to be in
stalled Friday. Response to
appeal of the furnishings com
mittee has been immediate and
a stove and some furniture have
already been secured, according
to Mrs. Beth Brewer Pridgen,
committee chairman and also
president of the Business and
Professional Woman’s club, one
of the leading sponsors of the
Center.
Miss Mildred Bass, of the desk
committee, has a list of workers
who will serve this week on Sat
urday and also an Sunday. To
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ROBERT W. MADRY,
DISTRICT LEADER
SPEAKS TONIGHT-
He Is Also Publicity
Director For The Univer
sity Os North Carolina.
Robert W. Madry, Governor
of the 189th District of Rotary
International, which includes 52
clubs from High Point to Manteo
in the upper half of North Caro
lina, will pay his official visit
to Rotarians of Roxboro at their
meeting here to-night.
The District Governor will ad
dress the local Club and will also
conduct an Assembly with the of
ficers and committee chairmen
on matters of club administration.
He is one of 135 governors of
Rotary International who are
supervising the activities of 5,-
100 Rotary clubs and 210,000 Ro
tanans in more than 50 countries
throughout the world.
An active member of the Chap
el Hill Club far the last 15 years,
Mr. Madry was nominated for the
District Governorship without op
csition "atMTffi'" STTlnual ■GWiference -
in Rocky Mount last April and
iwas elected at the 1943' conven
tion of Rotary International in
St. Louis in May.
He is working overtime to take
care of his Rotary duties this
year, for he has several other
jabs. His regular job, which he
has held 20 years, is director of
the University News Bureau, the
official news distributing agency
of the University of North Caro
lina. He is also Mayor of Chap
el Hill.
HELENAMAKES
REPORT ON BOND
SALES IN DRIVE
Helena high school has ended
the first period of its drive for
selling war stamps and bands,
the outcome of which it is belie
ved will be very successful. In
the primary section the winner
was Mrs. Hassell Fox’s second
grade with $141.30.
The ninth grade, Mrs. W. M.
Johnson teacher, is credited with
§13,390.14. The ninth grade, Mrs.
Ruth Andrews teacher, |W°n in
the high school section Reporting
$405.40. The total amount report
ed by the entire school was
$14,813.92.
Although the third nation-wide
bond drive is over, Helena School
still plans to sell all the stamps
and bonds possible within the
school, and to be instrumental in
influencing people outside of
school to purchase bonds.
Allen >Jow At
Chanute Field Has
Good Record
Maurice Allen, of the United
States Army, son of Mrs. Bax
ter Allen, of Roxboro, has been
transferred from Kessler Field,
Miss., to Chanute Field, 111.,
where he is to be instructor in
link training. At Kessler he made
second highest in a class of 280
men. 1
Now Better
“Buddy” Bradsher, soil of Mr.
and Mrs. Arthur Bradsher, who
had his tonsils removed last
Week in an operation performed
at McPherson hospital, Durham,
is now at home and much improv
ed.
Potent Appeal For Support
Os Fund Comes From Boys
SERVICE CENTER
DESK GROUPS FOR
FIRST DAYS LISTED
Miss Mildred Bass, chairman
of the Desk Committee for the
Service Center, Court Street,
today announced that the fol
lowing men and women will
serve on Saturday and Sunday:
Saturday afternoon, 12 to 2,
Miss Bessie Daniel; 2 to 4, Mrs.
T. B. Woody and Mrs. W. Y.
Pass; 4to 6, Misses Venetia
Hearne and Frances Sears;
Saturday night, 6 to 8, Misses
Annette Cushwa and Anne
Margaret Long; 8 to 10, Miss
Ora Latta and 10 to 12, Dr. and
Mrs. J. H. Hughes.
On Sunday, 10 to 12 noon,
Miss Billie Vogler; 12 to 2,
Mrs. B. G. Clayton; 2 to 4, Miss
Virginia Broadway; 4 to 6,
Misses Helen Latta and Lucile
Oliver, and on Sunday night,
6 to 8, Mrs. John Harkey, 8
to 10, Mrs. C. B. Kirby, and 10
to 12, H. Dewey Young.
HERE FEW DAYS
Mrs. James M. Hufnagel, the
former Miss Marie Spencer, of
Richmond, Va., is spending sev
eral days here with her parents.
Superior Court To
Begin Here Monday
First State Court In Six Months Will
Hear Relatively "Unimportant Cases
MRS. DANIEL, OF !
CA-VEL; PASSES
IN CITY HOSPITAL
Funeral Held Yesterday
At Home For Wife Os
James W. Daniel.
Funeral for Mrs. Anna Bell
Daniel, 71, of Ca-Vel, wife of
James W. Daniel, of Ca-Vel,
whose death occurred Monday
n.'uht at Community hospital
from complications after an ill
ness lasting about a month, were
conducted at the Daniel resi
dence here Wednesday afternoon
at four o’clock by the Rev. J. N.
Bowman, pastor of Providence
Baptist church, of which she was
one of the oldest members. As
sisting minister was the Rev. W. j
T Medlin, Jr., with interment in
the Long-Clayton family ceme
tery. Person County.
Strvivors, in addition to her
husband, are three sons, two by
her first marriage to the late
Mr. Gravitts, four daughters,
/three brothers and two sisters.
Sons are John and Herman
Gravitte and Joe Daniel; daugh
ters are Mfsdames Hattie Gra
vitte Hall, Frances McCann and
Alma Wright, all of Person Coun
ty, and Mrs. Bertha Biurton, of
Milion. Brothers are Jule, Cliff
and George Clayton, Caswell
County, and sisters, Mrs. D. L.
Davis, Person County, and Mrs.
H. M. Pleasant, Caswell County.
Also surviving are thirteen
grandchildren and one great
grandchild.
Press Group To
Meet Next Week
Piedmont Press association will
njeet Saturday, Oct., 23, at Har
vey’s cafeteria, Duham, at 6:30
o’clock, with Roy Barker, a pro
fessor in the School of Journal
ism, Chapel Hill, as speaker, ac- ,
cording to announcement made
today by E. D. Stephens, of Yan- (
ceyville, president.
This will be the only meeting
of the Fall season and a full at
tendant is requested.
IN TENNESSEE
Mrs. Beulah Puck and Mrs.
James Owen are spending this
week in Tennessee with their
brother and uncle.
Campaign Here, With Goal Os $6,959,
Starts Soon, With Hunter As Head
G. H. ELMORE
TALKS TO PERSON
MINISTERS GROUP
Good Report Given By
Teacher Os Bible At Rox
boro High School.
October meeting of the Per
son County Ministerial Associa
tion was held Monday with the
president, the Rev. J. N. Bow
man presiding and G. H. Elmore,
a former minister, now personnel
supervisor at Collins and Aik
rhan, as chief speaker.
The Rev. R. W. Hovis , now
teaching Bible in the Roxboro
high school gave \£ood report
or. the work of the(J|asßj, saying
there are sixty stuttpenf enrolled
for the course and tafldsfcifty-min
ute classes are taugSCajlye days
a week. J. L. Hester stfjiervising
principal of Roxboro sqJfcStpls, said
that the course is so popular that
[some students have had to be
! turned down. Interested friends
i (turn to page eight, please)
I Docket Os This Week’s
Recorders’ Court Compos
ed Os Light Cases.
October term of Person Super
ior Court, with Judge Leo Carr,
of Burlington, resident jurist of
the district, presiding, will begin
here on Monday morning, Oct,
18 for a session of one week in
which both civil and criminal
cases will be disposed of. It will
be first Superior Court in Per
son County since April, the Aug
ust term having been cancelled
because of a reported lightness
of the docket.
One of the chief criminal cases
to come up will be the one in
which Crawford and Rosetta
Bcmpass and George Gyp
Wright, all Negroes, will face
charges of larceny from the per
son of Euliss Strange, a night
watchman of Roxboro Cotton
Mills, an affair which occurred
I here several weeks ago.
In Person Recorder’s court be
fore Judge R. B. Dajwes on Tues
day of this week a docket
was disposed of in about half a
day. Cases tried or disposed of
were:
Coy Harris, 20, and Oscar Harr
iett, 60, gambling, not guilty; Jack
L. Wolf 19 drunken driving con
tinued; Love Newman, 24, Negro,
assault on a female sixty days in
jail; Floyd David Watson, 21,,
speeding, not guilty, and Vance
Jordan 38, highway truck driver,
charged with drunken driving,
'prayer for judgment continued.
Also, D. N. Humphrey, 35,
charged with drunken driving,
SSO and casts, with license revok
ed for twelve months; Charles
Waiters, Negro, no operator’s li
cense, prayer for judgment con
tinued; Edward Roger Game, 28,
and iHudie Oakley, 26, both
charged with speeding, judg
ments suspended with costs, and
H. O. Lester, assault with dead
ly weapon, continued.
Also, Eugene Tapp, George
Trammell, gambling, continued;
Sam Hamlett Negro 18, dispos
ing of mortgaged property, three
months in jail, suspended with
fine of $25 and costs; Dempsey
Ellis, 20, speeding and careless
’ana reckless driving, $lO and
oasis on. last charge; Sam Mc
‘ Cain, Negro, 49, larceny, fine and
costs paid and defendant dis
charged and Audrie K. Smith,
traffic charge, prayer for judg
ment continued to October term.
- \
Cpl. Bill Murphy, of Mitchell
Field, Long Island, arrived hero
the first of the meek for a visit
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
B. W. Murphy.
Phone 4501
If you have any news items
or for advertising or com
mercial printing service.
NUMBER 102
Lieut. James Abbitt, In
North Africa One Os
Many Person Men Whd~'
Hopes Good Goes Over.
*
The United War Fund
p?ign here, with a goal of $6,559,
will begin an Monday, October
25 according to announcement
made today by the chairman,
Gordon C. Hunter, of Roxboro,
who, with a corps of able assist
ants, is planning a County and
City-wide drive to secure funds
that will go to various war re
lief projects, all gathered under .
one head, and to the support of
United Service club organiza
tions.
Hunter, in order to bring home
to the home-folks some impres
sion of the importance of the
USO angle of the coming cam
paign wrote during the past
month to numbers of Roxboro
men in widely scattered areas
who are now in military service,
and these letters, as supporting
evidence of the value of '
are published in today’s TOws.
There are more of these letters
on file and the originals can be
in his office, says Hunter, who
adds that the important thing is
that all of the letters are in u
nanimous agreement on the im
portant contributions to morale
being made by the USO, both ini
this country and abroad.
It is important, too, according
jto Hunter, for Person and Rox
boro citizens to remember that
all contributions to the
here, over and above the quota
of $6,959, (will be used to assist
the program of the soon to be
opened Roxboro Service Center,
which will begin its work here
Saturday, although it is not in
itself officially connected with
the USO. "*■ '
Hunter’s official statement con
cerning the coming campaign
reads as follows:
“On October 25th our County
will launch the greatest humani
tarian campaign in its history..
Never before has Person County
been called upon to face a civic
"obligation so great and so seri
ous, The reason should be clear
to everyone. There is a war Do
ing on. The whole future de
pends on vyinning this rwar. We
must raise Person’s share in tjie
I National United War Fund Drive.
So this year your giving must
to take care of the several Nat- ,
ionai War Agencies.
“We have a job to do. It is go
ing to take hard work and it is
gomg to take a new kind of giv- /
ing, but Person County’s United ,
War Fund quota must be made. *
The total goal for Person Coun-V
ty is $6,959.00. This must be
raised. It is an obligation of Rox
boro and Person County. It is an I
obligation of every individual dt- - . I
izen. Our boys are 1
lives for our sake and to protect
our homes. To be fair with them
we at home must do everything
in our power tp help them on the
war front, preserve what they
I are fighting for on the home
| front. Each free American should
j give gladly, thankfully | «nd
‘ cheerfully because in'
we are free to give. '
“What are the needs and je®T f
a goal of $6,950.00? On whatßasis
was the goal set? Who set the
goal and what should you give?
—Last year separate drives were
put on for the USt), United Sea
man’s Fund, China Relief Brit
ish Relief, Greek Relief and oth
er agencies. To keep from hav
ing so many drives all of these
JB/A Paitufl sqj, siqt aaiipr
auo aq j£pio him euaqi pue auo
opui peicpqosuoo ajaM sapaaSa
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Soft Ball Teams §|jl
Will Have StewJH
At Jackson Faffs':
Person County Soft
gue will have its annual!
Saturday, October 16,
at Jackson’s Farm Mtttl * t
The following people tom
ed to be present: pk|3 . I ;
each of the six teamn - : ijW
oinred the hall dSj
sponsors from each toaa
men in the Artny Fo,
home who were ftsflii * J
players. • h