IF IT IS NEWS ABOUT
PERSON COUNTY, YOU’LL
FIND IT IN THE TIMES.
VOLUME XD
Annual Clean'up Campaign
Plans Virtually Complete
Dr. Allen Commends Mur
phy On Program And Of
fers Suggestions.
Following a high school ope.i
forum discussion held on Monday
at Roxboro high school and a
conference held this afternoon at
Roxboro Chamber of commerce
final plans for the City’s fourth
annual “Clean-Up” week, to be
observed April 6 through the 12.
are practically complete, accord
ing to Bill Murphy, chairman cf
the high school Commercial Law
class, sponsoring group.
City trash trucks have been re
painted and a tin can matinee
will be given Monday by local
theatres. The clean-up theme will
be mentioned Sunday in churches
and during the week merchants
of the city will conduct a prize
contest.
Printed below is a letter 'ft om
Dr. A. L. Allen, Person health of
ficer commending the campaign:
Chairman, Clean-Up Coccittee
Roxboro High School
Roxboro, North Carolina
Dear Bill:
This is written byway of ap
preciation of the efforts of your
committee to help make the city
of Roxboro a cleaner and a more
sanitary place in which to live.
We think that an enterprise such
as you are conducting in school
will have much influence on the
boys and girls, who are really
the parents of tomorrow, and \jAlj
teach them the value of tidiness
and sanitation in a community.
In addition, such a movement
on your part will bring to the
attention of older people, more or
less accustomed to a routine, the
value of making their city more
neat than it has hitherto been, as
well as the need of removing the
harboring and breeding places of
insects and rodents which carry
disease.
First, the expression of youth
to the city elders of the unsight
liness of certain places in the
town of Roxboro cannot but
have its effect. Health and city
officials and firemen have so
long called attention to the haz
ards of rubbish heaps and pest
habitats that the hue and cry no
lenger make an impression. Yours
should be methods of education,
teaching the returns to be had
from a neat and well ordered
city for tourist and visitors, par
ticularly those about to locate
here. You young people know
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H. O. Brooks, 57,
Os Semora, Dies
At Residence
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H. O. Brocks, 57, of Semora,
brother of G. D. Brooks of that
place, died Monday morning at
1 o’clock at his residence follow
ing an illness of many momhs
with rheumatism. Death was at
tributed to complications.
Funeral services were held at
the graveside Wednesday after
noon at 2 o’clock in the West
brook Cemetery, two and one
half miles west of Roxboro on the
Leasburg Road.
He is survived by his wife, who
was before marriage Miss Mollie
Bennett; by two sons, Floyd and
Earl Brooks; two daughters, Mrs.
J. A. Talley, and Miss Mildred
BrookST all of Semora; by two
brothers, G. D. Brooks of Semora,
and B. B. Brioks of Haw River;
and two sisters, Mrs. Allen Work
man of Mebane, who is now ser
iously ill at Duke Hospital, Dur
ham, and Mrs. Albert Slade of
Leasburg.
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LON FOLDER
Congressman Lon Folger will
deliver the graduation address at
Bushy Fork School on April 30th
at 11:00 a. m. Exercises on inis
day will be for seventh grade
graduates. A picnic lunch will be
served on the ground.
RITES HELD FOR
JOE A. STEELE
Joe A. Steele, 35, of Roxboro,
died at 1:40 o’clock Tuesday after
noon in a Danville, Va., hospital
after an illness lasting five weeks.
Mr. Steele was the husband of
Mrs. Oreda Wrenn Steele and
was the son us the late William
B. Steele and Mrs. Minnie Steele
of the Warren’s Grove commun
ity.
Funeral services were conduc
ted at Brooksdale Church at four:
o’clock Wednesday afternoon by:
the pastor, the Rev. D. A. Petty, l
assisted by the Rev. T. Marvin
Vick cf Ca-Vel Methodist Church.
Pallbearers were members of
the Sunday school class to which
Mr. Steele belonged and flower
bearers were nieces and nephews.
Interment took place in the
Wrenn family cemetery south
west of Roxboro. Survivors are
his wife, one son, Barry; one
daughter, Dugrette Steele, all of
the home.
Also surviving are his mother
of Rock Hill, S. C.; four brothers,
John E. Steele, of Rock Hill, S. C.,
M. D. Steele of Newport News, Va.
and B. B. Brooks of Haw River;
ler of Rock Hill, S. C„ Mrs. W.
L. Stover of Newport News, Va ;
and Mesdames H. C. Whitt and[
P. S. Barnette, bith of Roxboro. I
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Organization
Meeting of Club
Will Be Held j
First regular meeting of the
newly organized Roxboro unit of
the Business cf the Business and
Professional Woman’s club will
be held Monday evening at 6.30
o’clock at the residence of Mrs.
B. W. Gardner, North Main 1
street, with Mrs. J. Franklin Bar
field, of Durham, State fedeia
tion president, as a special guest.
Announcement of the meeting
was made by Miss Nancy Bullock,
temporary chairman. Other offi
cers, named last month at a con
ference after a district meeting
held here, are Mrs. T. C. Wag-|
staff, vice-chaihnan, and Miss
Helen Latta, secretary. Invita
tions have been extended to a
number of women and it is ex
pected that question of member
ships will be discussed.
Supper will be served at 6 30
o’clock and the meeting will be
adjourned early enough to avoid
conflicting with the high school
dramatic program.
Broughton and Wright Both From Raleigh
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Governor Broughton (left) and the Rev. John A. Wright (next
will be speakers at May 1941 Roxboro high school commencemcr.
catercises. as announced today by H. C. Gaddy, Supervising Price:
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MEN INTERESTED !
IN WELDING WILL |
MEET APRIL 14 j
Danville Man Wishes To
Meet Group at Tillman and
Zimmerman's On That
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Persons interested in attending
an electrical and an acetylene
. welding school to be operated in
[! Roxboro by G. K. Linkous, of
Danville, Va., are requested to
; meet at Tillman and Zimmer
[ man’s garage, North Main street
, extensicn, Monday night, April
. 14, at 7:30.
I Mr. Linkous, who operates a
| similar school in Danville, was in
! Roxboro yesterday and reported
.1 that the demand is great for
,1 trained welders, nine of whom
! have recently been called from
( the Danville school to lucrative
government job projects. It is re
: ported that such jobs are open
L to 18,000 welders.
Further information concerning
the proposed Roxbcro school may
, be obtained from Mr. Zimmerman
and those who may be unable to
, attend the opening night session
, on April 14, are requested to ad
: dress letters to the “Welding
School, care cf the Person Coun
. ty Times, Roxboro.
It is known that several Rex
boro men have been attending
the Danville school and it is hop
. ed that numbers of men will at
tend the school here.
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GROCERY CHANGE
! IN PARTNERSHIP
MADE IN CITY
Aubrey Long Leaves Busi
ness For Reasons of Health,
Selling Interest To John
Long.
1 Aubrey Long, who has for the
1 past year been associated with
1 Marvin Long in a partnership op
| eration of the A and M Food
1 Shoppe, Court street grocery, this
week disposed of his interest in
■ the company to John Long, broth- 1
• er of Marvin Long, who has as
> sumed his duties with the com
> pany. The store will now be op
* erated by Marvin and John Long, j
The former partner, Aubrey;
I Long, who has been in the gro-j
I eery business here since 1923,
: said today that his retirement is
[dictated by reasons of health,'
1 Formal notice of the dissolution
-j of partnership is being printed
-j today.
John Long, well known young j
1 man, has been with Woody, Long
- and Howard, clothing company
l for a number of years. He is a
•son of former Sheriff Melvin
I Long, now of Fayetteville.
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ROXBORO HIGH i
SCHOOL WINNERS j
GIVEN PRAISE
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“Clean-Up Week” Program .1,
Features Chapel Monday.
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: In an informal “recognition
Day” program, which was fea
tured by a question and answer
1 “Clean-Up Week” campaign dis-j
1 : cussion, Roxboro high school
_ students Monday morning honor-j
(d their “winners,” leaders in 1
1 debating, music and athletics who
have recently distinguished them
selves and brought extra-curric-;
1 ular honors to the school. -
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Presiding over session was
Supervising Principal H. C. Gad j
1 dy, who called members of the;
glee club, as well as soloist, to
the platform for presentation of;
1 certificates won in the district j ■
1 music contest at Durham last
week, while in charge of the
“Clean-Up Week” program was
Bill Murphy, of the Commercial
law class, sponsors of the week
1 which will get underway Sun
day, April 6, throughout the city,
with close cooperation from mu- 1
nicipal officials, health officials
and citizens 'generally. i
Citizens seated on the stage .
1 and taking part in the open for
um discussion were Wallace W.j]
Woods, secretary of the Chamber :
of Commerce, George Murphy,
1 sanitarian, and Thomas J. Shaw, !
Jr., city editor of the Person
County Times. Also present was i
J. S. Merritt, editor of the Times. :
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Circulation Os
County Library
Up In March
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March circulation of books in j,
the Person County library total-j .
cd 689, a substantial increase, 1 ,
due largely to the acquisition of i ,
[new books according to Mrs. J !
M. Featherston, librarian. Th::’
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■; library, which is now receiveng
some assistance from the county,
1 is located in the Roxboro Coin
t munity house and was originally
■ sponsored by the Roxboro Wom
an’s club, members of which are
still vitally interested in the pro
■ jecL I
■ j The library, Mrs. Featherstan
’ said, will be closed Friday from
- [ 9:30 until 4 o’clock during the
> hours of a library training course
i for clerks, which will be held
. 1 there for groups from Caswell and
i Person counties. Patrons may re-
I turn books from 9 to 9:30 o’clock
I on that day and immediately af
[| etr 4 o’clock, when the library
! will be open for that purpose.
r Receipt of five books from
t Miss Margaret Williams, of this
i city was acknowledged with,
thanks by Mrs. Featherston
Broughton And Wright Will
Be Finals Speakers In May
Easter Service To Be Held j
By Bishop Edwin A. Penick
Distinguished Churchman
Will Be At St Mark’s
Maundy Thursday and Palm
Sunday Plans Given.
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Culmination of Lenten services,
at St. Mark’s Episcopal church:
will be reached on Easter Sun
day, April 13, when the Right!
Rev. Edwin A. Penick, D. D.. of i
Raleigh, bishop of the diocese of
North Carolina, will deliver the
morning sermon and be the cc-to-1
brant of Holy Communion, a.c-j
cording to announcement made
by the Rev. Rufus J. Womble,
deacon-in-charge, who will also
be present for this service.
Also from Raleigh is W. T.
Bost, widely known correspond
ent for the Greensboro Daily
News and an outstanding layman,
who will be the speaker at the
church on Maundy Thursday at
7:30 o’clock, the night before Good
Friday, while the speaker for this
Thursday is the Rev. John Sterl
ing Armfield, of the Greenville.
North Carolina church .The Mr.
Armfield, rector of St Paul’s, was
educated for the priesthood at
Virginia Theological seminary at
Alexandria and finished in 1939.
He is a schoolmate and friend of
the Rev. Mr. Womble and is gift
ed as an evangelistic speaker.
In announcing the return of Bi
shop Penick to Roxboro, the St.
Mark’s minister called attention
to the fact that the Bishop’s East
er visit will be the third he has
paid to St. Mark’s parish in the
past nine months.
Members of the parish were to
day interest to learn that the Rev.
John A. Wright, distinguished
y’oung rector of Christ church,
Raleigh, will again be in Roxboro
in May to deliver the high school
baccalaureate sermon. The Rev.
Mr. Wright, a native of Georgia,
was With a church at Augusta,
Ga., before he accepted a call to
the Raleigh church several years
ago. He, too, received ecclesiast
ical training at the Virginia semi
nary.
Morning prayer and sermon on
this coming Sunday, observed as
Palm Sunday, in memory cf the
triumphal entry of Christ into Je
rusalem, will be conducted by the
pastor, the Rev. Mr. Womble, who
will observe the customs set aside
for that day and will deliver a
sermon appropriate to the occa
sion.
DR. H. M. BEAM
TELLS THIS ONE
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At 6:35 o’clock Saturday
morning; Mr. and Mrs. Eugene
Bradsher Evans, of Rougemont,
became the parents of a daugh
ter, their first ehild. Attending
physician was Dr. H. M. Beam.
On Saturday afternoon, Mr.
and Mrs. Eugene Lacy Evans,
of near Roxboro, became the
parents of a son, their 10th
child. Again, the attending phy
sician was Dr. Beam: odd cir
cumstances is that young Miss
Evans is a niece of young Mas
ter Evans, or more plainly,
Mrs. Lacy Evans, on the same
day, became a grandmother
and a mother.
THURSDAY APRIL 3 194 J.
PERSON NATIVE j.
DIES AT HOME ;
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Mrs. H. L. (’ a r v e r, of
Rougemont, Well Known c
In Roxboro, Passes. Rites
Held Today. 1 ,
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Funeral services for Mrs. H. L.!
Carver, 66, prominent Rouge-j
mont resident, who died yes ter-I
day morning about 4:30 o’cloc.c!,
at her home following heart!
attack, were conducted this a 1
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ternoon at 3 o’clock at the Rouge-i,
mont Methodist church. Inter-j.
ment followed in Maplewood 1
cemetery, Durham. Officiating!;
ministers were the Rev. J. W.'
Lineburgcr, cf Faison, and the!,
pastor of Rougemont church, the j
Rev. Kenneth Wheeler.
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j Prior to her marriage in 1890;
>to Mr. Carver, who is chairman I
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! of the Board of Durham county j
1 commissioners and a Well-known
j Rougemont merchant, Mrs. Car-!
j ver was Miss Emma Moore, dau ■ !
! ghter of the late Sidney and Ju- !
ilia Burton Moore, of Mt. Tirzah.
Person County.
Surviving are: her husband, 1
three sons, Arthur L. and Willie l
S. Carver, both cf Durham, Mar- 1
vin J. Carver, of Rougemont, one
j daughter, Mrs. Edgar S. Toms, of 1
Durham, six grandchildren and
two brothers C. A. Moore, of 1
Rougemont, and E. S. Moore of
Vinton, Va. She was a sister-in
law of Mesdames A. W. Clay
ton and F. O. Carver, of Roxboro
and of Mrs. J. R. Maynard, of
Salisbury.
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Money Order And
C. O. D. Window /
Hours Changed
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Effective as of April 1, the;!
Roxboro Post Office money order
and C.O.D. window houns
from 8 o'clock in the morning
nutil 5 o'clock in the afternoon,!
according to announcement made
by Postmaster L. M. Carlton,
who said that consolidation of:
the money erder and C.O.D. de
partments, made in the interest j
of better service, does not as-j 1
feet hours maintained by other j
windows and that special delivery,
C.O.D. packages will, as usual,!
be delivered promptly upon ar
rival.
The general delivery, stamp,
Registery and parcel post win
dows will maintain regular sche-i
dules and will remain open un-!
til six o’clock each afternoon.
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Training School
Faculty Presents
Comedy-Drama
“The .Spinsters .Convention”
was presented by the Person
County Training School faculty,
Monday night, to a large and
appreciative audience. It was re
ceived enthusiastically by stu
dents who were able to view
their teachers in a new role. J.
W. Davidson, of the faculty, di
rected the play.
THE TIMES IS PERSON’S
PREMIER NEWSPAPER
A LEADER AT ALL TIMES.
NUMBER TWENTY
Governor Os State And
Raleigh Rector To Be At
Roxboro High School.
Gov. J. Melville Broughton and
the Rev, John A. Wright, the lat
t-r rector of Christ Episcopal
church, Raleigh, will be 1941
commencement speakers at Rox
boro high school, according u
announcement made today by
11. 0. Gaddy, supervising prim
eipal.
Governor Broughton’s first offi
cial visit to the home city of Li.
Gov. Gov. R. L. Harris, will oc
cur on the night of Tuesday.
May 6, when he will deliver the
graduating address to 90 or more
students who will later in tii.:
evening receive diplomas.
The Rev. Mr. Wright, v.!u>
spoke here a few weeks ago a:
one of a series of Lenten service;
at St. Mark’s church, will deliver
the baccalaureate sermon or.
Sunday night, May 4. Both events
will take place at 8 o’click in the
evening in the high school audi
torium.
The Governor is no slrangei
to Roxboro, having visited here
during his campaign last year;
and Mr. Gaddy and school off.-
t ials are pleased that he and the
Rev. Mr. Wright have accepted
invitations extended to them.
The Rev. Mr. Wright is a your :
j and popular minister.
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EARNKART WILL
LEAD SERVICES
AT LOCAL CHURCH
Durham Minister To Preach
At Services At Edgar Long
Memorial Church For 10
Days, Starting Easter Sun
day.
Speaker at a series of services
to be held for ten days at Edgar
Long Memorial Methodist church..
beginning Easter Sunday morn
ing will be the Rev. D. E. Earn
hart, of Calvary Methodist church.
Durham.
The Rev. Mr. Earnhart, widely
known minister in the North Car -
olina conference, will preach at
tegular Sunday services, and ,'ii
the afternoon at 4 o’clock and in
the evening at 7:30 o’clock each
week day, according to announce
ment from the pastor, Rev. W. C.
Martin. The afternoon service.;
will be limited to 40 minutes.
Song leaders will be the Rev.
T. Marvin Vick, of Ca-Vel Methc
dist church and Wallace W.
Woods of this city.
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SPEED-UP NOTED
IN ARMY CALLS
Men Leave This Week And
i After Easter Says Man
gum.
Sixteen Person county white
men will leave here tomorrow to
enter Selectve Service training
at Fort Bragg, according to Bax
ter Man gum, Person Board office
manager, who today said that
Victor Pratt Bowles, of Timber
-1 lake, will go in place of Earl Rog
> ers, now a patient at a hospital
• following an operation.
Next group of white men ex
- pec ted to be called will number
r eight; who are to go to camp on
• April 14. Three Negro men left
- yesterday and 10 more are ex
pected to go on April 15.