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Our 129th Year — No. 35
Roxboro, North Carolina
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2 face attempted murder charges
following pair of recent shootings
Teenager critically injured after suffering multiple gunshot wounds
By TIM CHANDLER
Courier-Times Editor
tchandler@roxboro-courier.com
James Bolton
Three persons were arrested
this week and one person is hos
pitalized in critical condition in
connection with a pair of recent
shooting incidents in the City of
Roxboro.
Roxboro police arrested two
persons this week on felony
charges of attempted first-degree
murder in connection with the
two shooting incidents that took
place April 16 and April 17.
A third person was also
charged with a felony count of
accessory after the fact in connec
tion with the April 17 shooting
incident, which left Terrance
Darrell Outlaw, 18, of 428 Monroe
St. critically injured.
James Andrew Bolton, 25, of
3411 Halifax Rd. and William
Thomas Swann, 21, of 4042
Virgilina Rd. are each jailed in
the Person County jail without
privilege of bond. The two are
both charged with attempted
first-degree murder.
Swann is charged in connec
tion with the April 16 shooting
in which no one was injured, but
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William Swann
City business owners ask
questions about proposed
privilege license fees
By PHYLISS BOATWRIGHT
C-T Staff Writer
pboatwright@roxboro-courier.com
On May 10, Roxboro City Council will
consider changes to the way it charges
businesses to operate within the cor
porate limits of the city, and business
owners were given a chance this week
to ask questions about the proposal.
Council members have considered,
for some time, changing from a fiat fee
to a gross receipts method of charging
for privilege license fees.
The Roxboro Area Chamber of Com
merce hosted a special meeting on
Wednesday, so that business owners
could learn more about the city’s plans
to change the privilege license fees.
During that meeting, Interim City
Manager Tommy Warren explained the
proposed new charges and answered
questions from the half-dozen or so
business owners who attended the
meeting.
He explained that a privilege license
is an excise tax, levied on the privilege
of conducting a trade or business in a
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Person County's jobless rate
drops to 10,4% in March
By TIM CHANDLER
Courier-Times Editor
tchandler@roxboro-courier.com
Tim Chandler / C-T
STORM DAMAGE — Strong winds associated with a cold front early Thursday morning caused extensive
damage to the roof of the gymnasium at the Huck Sansbury Recreation Complex.
Thursday's strong winds damage
roof of Huck Sansbury gym
By TIM CHANDLER
Courier-Times Editor
tchandler@roxboro-courier.com
The high winds associated with the
latest strong cold front to blow through
Person County caused extensive damage
Thursday to the roof of the gymna
sium at the Huck Sansbury Recreation
Complex.
Ray Foushee, general services direc
tor for the county, said the gymnasium
is scheduled to receive a roof replace
ment in the upcoming fiscal year, which
begins July 1, but that a “temporary
fix” of the damages to the structure was
estimated at $11,000.
No one was in the gym at the time the
winds damaged the structure, Foushee
said. He said it is believed the damage
took place between 3 and 5 a.m.
The high winds peeled back one layer
of the multi-layer roof on one side of the
gymnasium.
The temporary work being done to
waterproof the gym will prevent any
leaks until a new roof can be installed
on the facility, Foushee said.
“We are not expecting any more prob
lems now,” Foushee said. “We should be
good to go for the short term.”
Foushee added that the new roof is in
cluded in the county’s Capital Improve
ment Plan for the upcoming fiscal year
at an estimated cost of $206,000.
There was a brief period of time
Thursday morning when heavy rain led
to some leaks in the gym, Foushee said.
He added, however, that John Hill, direc
tor of the Person County Recreation,
Arts and Parks Department, along with
members of his staff, “did a good job of
making sure there was no damage inside
of the building.” The temporary repairs
were expected to be completed Friday.
For the second straight month. Per
son County saw its unemployment rate
decrease during March, according to
numbers released Wednesday by the
Employment Security Commission
(ESC) of North Carolina.
Person County’s unemployment rate
dropped 0.3 percent in March, according
to Wednesday’s numbers, falling from
10.7 percent to 10.4 percent.
Initially, the county was shown to have
an unemployment rate of 10.5 percent
in February, but when numbers were
adjusted and finalized the jobless rate
for February for Person County was
10.7 percent, which was down from 11.2
percent in January
The two months of jobless rate de
creases for Person County come on the
heels of increases in the prior three
months.
Unemployment rates decreased in
99 of North Carolina’s 100 counties in
March after the jobless rate decreased in
93 of the 100 counties in February.
The lone county to have a jobless rate
increase in March was Greene County,
which rose 0.5 percent to 10.5 percent
in March.
Jobless rates declined in 98 counties
when compared to the same month last
year.
“Jobless rates declined in nearly ev
ery county in March,” ESC Chairman
LynnR. Holmes said. “We are beginning
to see more counties drop below a rate
of 10-percent unemployment.
“This reflects the commitment by
Gov. Perdue and our workforce partners
to grow j obs in our state, ” Holmes added.
“And, this agency remains focused on
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Wilkins leads tour
in effort to gain aid
for tornado victims
By PHYLISS BOATWRIGHT
C-T Staff Writer
pboatwright@roxboro-courier.com
“My gut is, if we get any help, it’s
probably going to be on the agriculture
side.”
State Rep. W A. Winkie Wilkins voiced
the above opinion Friday after touring
three Person County farms that suffered
damage from the April 16 tornadoes that
tore through North Carolina.
Wilkins, along with representatives
from the state Department of Crime
Control and Public Safety, the North
Carolina Department of Agriculture
and Consumer Services, Emergency
Management and the local Cooperative
Extension Office, visited the farms to
document damages.
Jimmy Wilkins, Paul Bailey and
Mac Paylor, all in the Woodsdale area,
had trees on fences, extensive damage
to roofs on barns and houses, and trees
uprooted or broken.
Bailey and Wilkins both said they
sustained damage to structures that
were not insured because it is too costly
to insure every farm building.
The premiums, said Bailey, “are so
high that you have to make a decision
on what to cover” and what to take a
chance on.
Rep. Wilkins said there was some
money the state could possibly make
available to farmers in Person County,
but first the damage had to be document
ed. The Friday tour was the best way, he
said, to get the needed documentation.
“All the departments have done indi
vidual assessments, Wilkins said, “but
I wanted them all together so that they
were all seeing the same things.” He con
tinued, following the Friday tour, “We
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TOUR OF TORNADO DAMAGE — Person County farmer Paul Bailey points out tornado damage to Extension
Director Derek Day Friday as Day and other officials toured farms in the Woodsdale community.