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IF IT IS NEWS ABOUT PERSON COUNTY, YOU’LL FIND IT IN THE TIMES. VOLUME XU Municipal Appropriation For Health To Be Increased f City Council Impressed With Work Accomplish ed By Person Health De partment. Increase in municipal appro priation from the tri-county health department from $12.50 to $17.50 per month, effective at the be ginning of the next fiscal year, in July, was Tuesday night ap proved by Roxboro City council in monthly sesssicn. Action was taken after presentation of a re port on county and city health department activities by Dr. A. L. Allen, director of the Person unit In addition to making provis ion for increased municipal sup port, the council, presided over by Mayor S. G. Winstead, warm ly commended Dr. Allen for his accomplishments and also com mended the work of Sanitarian T. J. Fowler, who this week left fdr service with the United States army. The council also requested the City Manager, Percy Bloxam, to advertise fact that traffic regu lations will be more strictly en forced in the City and to advise all members of the Police De partment of the fact. Authoriza tion was also granted for pur. chase of a rate flow gauge for . the water department and for an order to persons outside of citv limits whose water facilities are connect with the city sewerage system to pay for such use the sum of one dollar per quarter or four dollars per year. Provision was made for instal lation of a light in an alleyway back of Winstead’s warehouse. The City Manager was also re quested to make applications for W P A sewerage and drain re pairs in connection with the municipal water and sewerage department, it being estimated that between 50 and sixty men will be needed. Report of the sale of between 150 and 200 more'city automobile license plates to date than were sold at this time last year was re ceived with pleasure. Water line bill of $275 for city water connections to Turtle pond was authorized, it being shown, as by agreement, thtt as many as ten connections have now been made. An important item was author ization of request for South Main street curbing and guttering from the Buck Jones residence to the corporate limits, work to be done through cooperation of the State Highway department. Thanks of the council was also expressed to councilman Gordon C. Hunter, who as City Treasur er arranged the recently obtain ed favorable refunding of the city bonds. o Fractures Ribs Painfully but not seriously in jured Tuesday morning was T. C. Hester, Sr. prominent Person’ fanner and landowner, of the Leesburg road, when he received ri bfractures and a broken finger as his car overturned on a road way on his property near this city. Hester, admitted to the hos pital here at 10:30 o’clock, wa3 Tuesday afternoon reported to be resting comfortably. • - o Storm Costs Workers. Flint, Midi.—The recent Great Lakea storm which wrecked a doz en ships and caused serious loss of life was credited with costing automobile plant workers here $200,000 in lost salaries because of a 24-hour shutdown due to pow er failure. ( lerson^Qtimes PUBLISHES EVERT SUNDAY & THURSDAY Twelve Men To ! Leave For Fort Monday Morning i 1 ; Twelve selective service regis-j ' i tcrants and volunteers constitu-l ’ ling Person county third quota! of white men will on Monday,! * February 17, report to the Board a office here for final instruction; ‘ [ belore leaving at noon for Fort j 1 j Bragg, according to announco ‘: ment made today by office mana * - 1 ger Baxter Mangum. In the list are five registered volunteers, including James Dan iel Oliver, son of Chief of Police and Mrs. S. A. Oliver. Other in the same classification are Jesse ’ Clifton Dunevant, Stephen Cal ‘ vin Long, Lowell Thomas Huff, 1 and Bennie Lewis Bradsher. 1 Four men, Joe Thomas Bowl ing, Thurman Lee Chambers, Manton Thomas McCormick and ! Willie Edward Reaves, under 21 1 will go as straight volunteers, while three men, John William James, James Erven Davis and I Charlie Thomas Pulliam, are first ' men “drafted” from Person county. —., . o —■ i Final Rites Held r • For Mrs. Riley j i Funeral services for Mrs. Vir ginia Evans Riley, 79, Whdse < death occur fled Saturday after noon at the home of her son, L. T. Riley, in the Rock Grove com munity, were conducted Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock at Allins ville Methodist church, of which ( she had been a member for fifty \ years or more. Officiating minis | ter was her pastor, the Rev. D. A. Petty. Interment was in the church cemetery. Mrs. Riley, wife of the late Zeb Riley, is survived by two ’ sons, L. T. and J. W. Riley and one daughter, Miss Rosa Riley, all of Person county; by two sis t ters, Mesdames Barbara An . drews and Alice Ellis, both of Durham, and by two brothers, J Robert Evans, of Orange County ( and J. L. Evans, of this city. Death was attributed to com plications and the infirmities of | age. : SCHOOLMASTERS HEAR NYA MAN > Legislative Program Dis-’ cussed By R. B. Griffin— Committee Appointed. ' Speaker at the February meet ing of the Person Schoolmasters club, held Monday nigth, at the residence of Mrs. Mollie Strum Barrett, was J. D. Taylor, of Greensboro, representative of the . Naional Yfouth administration, I I who discussed in question and . answer form various problems pertaining to the work of that j 1 organization. Also discussed at the session | was State legislation affecting schools and teachers, with Sup erintendent R. B. Griffin as spokesman. Mentioned by Mr. Griffin as measures which will t probably become laws were the State. Employees retirement fund 1 bill and the provision establishing ’ a 12th school year. Mr. Grifffin t also reported possiblility of the. ' addition of an extra year to the' i present 8 year schedule for salary^ (Continued on back page) SUCCESSOR TO WARREN NAMED Edward W. Cunningham Receives Appointment. J. W. Sehaaf Is Assistant. i Appointment of Edward W. ,: Cunningham, of this city, as resj. i cent engineer of Plant E, Collins i nd Aikman corporation at Ca . Vcl, as successor to the late Wil .iam War.cn, is announced oy S M. Ford, resident manager. Mr. Cunningham, who has al ready assumed his duties, was for several months assistant to Mr. Warren and during his per iod of illness served as acting en gineer. Mr. Cunningham, a 1939 grad-' uate of the school of engineering, Cornell University, became con nected with the Philadelphia di vision of Collins and Aikman shortly after leaving Cornell, and came to Plant E, in August of the same year. His assistant will be J. W, Sehaaf, formerly of Philadelphia. Mr. and Mrs. Cunningham., Who have had residence in a North Main street apartment, moved this week to Ca-Vel circle. He is a member of Roxboro Ki wanis club and of St. Mark’s E piscopal phurch. __ Mr. Warren died February 2, following an illness lasting sev eral months. MRS. WINSTON’S RITES WILL BE At FRANKUNTON Former Roxboro Resident Dies At Pittsburg, Pa. Wednesday. Funeral services for Mrs. Hal lie Jones Winston, of Pittsburg, Pa., whose death occurred yes terday in that city, will be held Friday afternoon at Franklinton, N. C., at the John C. Winston home place. Mrs. Winston, a former Rox boro resident, was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. George W. Jones. Surviving are her hus band Paul D. Winston, and two sons Paul D., Jr., and Toby Pass Winston, all of Pittsburg, two brothers, W. Reade Jones, of Rox boro, Jack Jones of Washington, and a sister, Mrs. J. W. Chamb ers. Also surviving are her uncle W. T. Pass, and an aunt Mrs. Lucy Pass Featherston, of this city. Mrs. Winston had been living in Pittsburg four or five years and had been away from Rox boro about twenty years. Her mother, the former Miss Mavy Pass, died last year. Relatives from this city will attend the funeral. o FOURTH FIRE _____ i Fourt hfire of the week in the Roxboro area occurred this morn ing about 4:30 o’clock, when a blaze of undetermined origin burned the shavings house and the shed over the boiler of the McWhorter and Short lumber company, near the city limits. Financial loss was not estimated. The blaze was extinguished by firemen in a short while . o MANAGER ILL | Maynard C. Clayton, business manager of the Times is confined | to his home with an attack of in fluenza. > > j. Der Fuehrer Welcomes New Soviet Envoy Sk jff! If". i sJmm A - --- liiis picture, which was approved by the German censors, shows Adolf Hitler, chancellor of Germany, chatting with Wiadimir Dekanosow, ■ in the new Reich chancellery, shortly after Dekanosow had presented his eredentials as the new ambassador from Soviet Russia to Germany ; The German leader is all cordiality. 9 Thomas "Qt.er” Green Now Minus Profit From Trade Man Who Made Five Dol lars After Conferring With 1 Schoolman Pays and Pays Again. Thomas, “the Otter”, Green, Person Negro, who last week called upon SujJimntendent -of schools R. B. Griffin for identifi cation of an animal purchased from Harvey Russell, sold the otter for sls and thereby made a profit of $5, but that publicity was not enough for Green: today he is under suspended sentence for manufacturing whisky and has been ordered to pay out more than 20 times the amount of pro fits derived from sale of the “sleek, brown animal”. ■Preparations for (Jreien’s sec ond appearance in headlines be. gan Monday night when Green and another Negro, Frank Faulk ner were caught at a still which they were operating in Holloway township. Also found was about 800 gallons of mash, destroyed later by Sehriff M. T. Clayton, Deputies Bob Whitt, George Wil born and Patrolman W. A Bax ter. Brought in with the men was the still, of about 100 gallon ‘ capacity and Tuesday in record er’s court Green and Faulkner ’ found guilty of manufacturing, were ordered to pay fines of > SIOO each, with one half the costs, ’ with suspended sentences of eight •months on the roads, subject to ■ good behavior for twelve montlis. >! Commenting on work accomp lished, Sheriff Clayton observed • this merning that during his 1 twelve years in office average o? - stills captured has run about one per week. r . i Honor Court Monthly meeting: of the Boy Scoot Court of Honor, Box boro district, will be held Fri day night, February 14, at 7:30 o’clock at the .Person county court house, instead of the Community house, according to announcement made this morn ing by Chairman J. S. Merritt. All scouts are requested to at tend and those having; uni forms are requested to wear them. I In the absence of Cherokee Council executive A. P. Pat terson, Scoutmasters will be expected to furnish all badges to be awarded. The meeting t will be open to the public and 1 it is hoped that many parents ' and friends will attend. < < Service Station Burns At Early Morning Hour • ■ * EoSs early Tuesday morning by fire of undetermined origin of a filling station on highway 49, a bout four miles from Roxboro, operated by the Wade Brothers, was reported here today. Asleep in a rear room in the structure; was John B. Wade, said to have slightly burned before he was a wakened by smoke and noise cf the flames. The building was in sured, athough no estimate of e.verage was available this morn ing. Second blaze of the past twen ty-four hours occurred Monday afternoon about 3:30 o’clock when the roof of a house located just outside the corporate limits and owned by Mayor S. G. Winstead, was burned before the fire could oe extinguished by members of the city Fire department. Third blaze, on Wednesday, was a grass fire on Oak Street o Mrs. Jackson Dies At Longhurst * Mrs. Berta Reid Jackson, 52, wife of Robert A. Jackson, of Longhurst, died at 11 o’clock Tuesday night at her home, deatti j resulting from a sudden heart at. tack. Funeral services were conduct ed this afternoon at 4 o’clock at North Roxboro Baptist church by the pastor, the Rev. R. W. Hovis. Interment took place in Provi dence church cemetery. Surviving are her husband; three sons, Albert, Otis and Thomas Jackson of the home, two daughters, Mrs. Kathleen Solomon, of Roxboro, and Miss Frances Jackson, Longhurst; also one sister, Miss Jessie Reid, of Brookneal, Va., and six broth ers, Lawson and Travis .Reid, of Texas, Elijah and Dock Reid, of New Jersey, Ernest Reid, of Ap pomattox, Va., and Daniel Reid, of Brookneal. YARN HERE 0 ” Yarn for British War Relief society knitting has been receiv ed and may be obtained at head-' quarters. Reservations may be made by telephone. THURSDAY FEBRUARY 13,1941 Old Family Bible Discovered by Roxboro Woman’s Mother Volume Belonging To John sons of Johnston Now In Possession of C. C. Garrett. Jr. ' Possessor of what he believes lo be one of the eldest family -,;bks in North Carolina is Cope iand C. Garrett, Jr., Hoxooro young man, who recently receiv ed it as a gift from Mrs. Andrew Brewer, es Princeton, Johnsto.i county. The leather-bound volume, its worn back laced together with; leather strips, and published in 1709 in Edinburgh, was printed by “Alexander Kincaid His Ma jesty’s Printer, his majesty being at that time King George 111. Discovery of the volume wa; made some three or four years ago by Mrs. Brewer, who came upon it in a house on one of the 1 family farms near Princeton, j Name of the original owner is long since lost but upon the cne remaining family record page, be tween the Old Testament and the| Apocrypha, are birth records of Johnsons or Johnstons and Thom ases. One of the * earliest birth j dates is that of “Benny Johnson, son of the aforesaid,” the “afore- 1 i said” presumably being one of the owners of the book, (who) “was born Sept, the 11, in the! year of our lord, 1784”. Next date is that of Nancy Thomas, daughter of William Thomas and Mary, his in 1791, While first complete Johnson record is that of Wene Johnson, daughter of Peter John son and Mary, his wife, bom in 1772. Other children bom to this couple between that date and 1785 were: Sarah, Mary, Neill, Edgar and Ellender. Those Johnsons of Johnston, whoever they were, were evi dently members of the Episco palian or Established Church of England, for in the front of the book is a Litany of Morning and Evening prayers corresponding to , the book of Common Prayer, and also included are the Thirty-Nine articles, together with a “Table of Kindred and Affinity, wherein whosover are related, are forbid den in Scripture and in our Laws, to marry together”, and a collec tion of prayers commemorating the Gunpowder Plot, the “Re storation” of Charles n in 1060, and the ascension of George HI to the throne on October 25, 1760. Mrs. Brewer, whose daughter Miss Inez Brewer is now living in Roxboro, suggested to Mr. Gar rett that original owners of the Bible may have been members of the family of the Gabriel Johu i ston, Royal Governor of North Carolina, who died in 1752, six years after the county which bears his name was formed. Not being particularly versed in his tory, genealogy or bibliography, Mr. Garrett does not know more than this about his old book or its owners, but he does know that he has spent several instruc tive and amusing hours reading its torn and tattered pages. Needless to say, the version is that of the King James’ transla tors, despite Prayer Book and historical additions, including a quite unreadable and inept re translation of the Psalms of Dav id into 18th century poetry. o CAKE SALE A benefit cake sale sponsored by the Central Grammar School Parent Teacher association will I be held Saturday morning, start. | ing at 9:30 o'clock, in the office' of Knight’s Insurance agency, j [Main Street and Abbitt avenue. THE TIMES IS PERSONS PREMIER NEWSPAPER, A LEADER AT ALL TIMES. NUMBER THIRTEEN Parker Accepts State Position Raleigh, Feb. 12 Gover nor Br ough ton Tuesday announced the appointment of Charles J. Parker, City Editor of The News and Observer, as Di rector cf the State News Bureau, effective on March 1. “I believe the appointment is an excellent one and am greatly pleased to have secured the ser vices of Mr. Parker,” said Gov ernor Broughton. “I regard the appointment as one of the most important I will be called upon | to make during my entire admin i isration, from the sandpoint of service to the State. Mr. Parker | was endorsed for the position by I all of the officers of the North Carolina Press Association and by leading editors and publish ers throughout the State.” The Governor said that al though his duties in connection with legislative coverage would not permit him to relinquish his position with The News and Ob server until March 1, that Park er had agreed to devote part of his time to the State post prior I to that date. The position pays $4,500 a year. Parker succeeds Robert L. Thompson who resigned to direct , publicity for the Asheville Cham ber of Commerce and Western North Carolina communities.' Parker, 39 is a native of Ra leigh. He attended The Citadel in Charleston and the University of North Carolina, Class of ’22. He began his newspaper career on The News and Observer in 1922, and two years later went to the Raleigh Times, where he was City Editor in 1925 when no (Continued on back page) o— Kiwanians Hear Former Resident Speaker at the Kiwanis dub meeting Monday, night at Hotel Roxboro was A. T. Baker, of New York, founder of the A. T. Baker company. Roxboro mill which was a decade or more ago sold to the Collins and Aikman corporation. Mr. Baker in this city as a guest of J. A- Long, spoke briefly but interestingly of a 2,700 mile aroound the world trip he and his two sons took in 1937 in a Chinese schooner. Mr. Baker, formerly a Roxboro resident, was welcomed by friend.; at the club meeting and his story of adventures in the Far East and the South Seas, packed into 14 months cf ocean travel, was heard with pleasure. Special guest at the meeting was Mr. Baker's host, J. A. Long. Rites Held For Mrs. Chisenhall Funeral services for Mrs. S. H. Chisenhall, 55, of the Oak Grove community, Woodsdale, whose death occurred late Sunday night at her home from complications following several years of ill health, were conducted Tuesday afternoon at 2:90 o’clock at Oak Grove church of which she had for many years been s member. Officiating minister was the Rev. 1 F. B. Peele, her pastor. Interment i was in the church cemetery. 1 Surviving are her husband, ■ Samuel H. Chisenhall and one » son Austin Chisenhall, of Woods . dale, and one sister, Mko ltey Garrett, of Blanche.
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