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DIAL 4501 We want all the news of y6ur Community. Please call us or send it in. IF YOU WOULD KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON AROUND YOU READ THE PERSON COUNTY TIMES IT IS A PAPER FOR ALL THE PEOPLE OF PERSON AND ADJOINING COUNTIES. VOLUME EL FLAMES CAUSE HEAVY DAMAGE ■ TO UNWOOD INN Fire Chief O’S riant And Com. pany Receive Congratula tions From All Sides Fire damage to the Linwood Inn, the former A. R. Foushee home on South Main Street, Sun day afternoon was estimated at $2,500 by Fire Chief Henry O’- Briant yesterday. Starting in the attic from an unknown origin aboujt 1:45 o’- clock in the afternoon, the fire was completely extinguished 15 minutes after the arrival of the firemen. Congratulations The following is a letter of congratulation received by Fire Chief Henry O’Briant from the owner of the old Fou shee home. “I want to congratulate you and the members of your splendid volunteer crew on the work done on the former A. R. Foushee home on Sun day noon when it caught fire. From my own observation and from what everyone told me it seems to me that you and your volunteer crew did an al most perfect job. I am sure that your friend, Capt. Frank Bennett, Durham Fire Chief, would be proud to accomplish just what you and your men did. “Ih addition to my own gratelful acknowledgement I am sure the insurance com panies who had insurance on that house will also feel a deep gratitude to you for limiting the loss so well. Please accept for yourself and express to your men my thanks for your promptness and efficient ef forts. This is another occasion from which the Roxboro peo ple may derive a further con fidence in the excellence of their fire department.” Yours very truly, W. L. Foushee The fire damage was mainly to the roof, which was of expen sive slate construction, but water loss covered the entire house. The upper part of the house was ablaze when the firemen ar rived but quick work soon got the fire under control. Spectators were successful in removing most of the furniture without heavy damage. Fire Chief O’Briant and his volunteer fire fighting force have mewed much praise for the Speedy and efficient manner in the fire was brought un der control. o Allensville Girls Down Longhurst In Softball Tilt Winners Will Meet Ca-Vel Girls Tomorrow Afternoon Allensville’s girls softball team - yesterday defeated the team from Longhurst 10-5 in a seven inning tut The Allensville lassies scored two runs in the first and came back again in the third to push over six more. This concluded the scoring in the fourth with two N more. Longhurst got ,aU five of its markers in the fourth. The winners wiU meet the Ca- Vel girls team tomorrow after noon at 4 o’clock on the Ca-Vel field. The last game between the two teams was rained out in the fourth inning. lersontMimes Youngest Parson Performs Marriage # TIC w wmWm Jm- * 1 ..... . i. . The world’s youngest ordained minister, an eight-year-old Cleveland boy, Reverend Charles E. Jaynes Jr., performed his first marriage cere mony at the wedding of Miss Florence Brinkman, twenty-one, and Clifton Hoffman, twenty-three. The yonng clergyman is psstor of the Fonrsqnarn Gospel church and was ordained last July.at the International Ministerial Federation conference at Peoria, 111. Gallows Hill Negroes Celebrate With Brawls Mayhem Breaks Out In Local Negro Section With Series Os Crimes Knives, Rocks Used A crime wave swept Gallows Hill, local negro section, Satur day and Sunday nights as pre holiday celebrations turned into a series of brawls and affrays with knives and rocks as the chief weapons. As a result nearly a score were hauled before Mayor R. B. Daw es Tuesday morning to answer charges of assault, engaging in an affray, gambling and other of fenses. Ed Clement and Lloyd Black, well, negroes, were charged with engaging in an affray with rocks as the mode of attack. Cle ment received a severe head in jury. Both were found guilty and charged with a fine and costs totaling about $6.75 or 30 days on the road. Willie Beasley and Nonie Par rish, negroes, assaulted each other with knives and both were cut severely about the body. Both were placed under SSO bonds by Mayor Dawes for their ap pearance in Recorder’s court here next week. Robie Barnett, negro proprie tor of a pressing club on Gallows Hill was placed under a SSO bond on a charge of possession of li quor for the purpose of sale. Barnett is also wanted by federal authorities for violation of the parole law, according to Chief of Police S. A. Oliver. Suzie Barbour, negro woman, drew a bond of $25 for her ap pearance in Recorder’s court on the charge of illegal possession of liquor. Johnnie Council, alleged tc have slapped Emma Ramsey, both negroes, was placed under a SSO bond for assault on a female. Chief Oliver broke up a gamb ling ring of five participants in a local warehouse Sunday night when he arrested Collin Rogers, H. L. Jay, Russell Williams, Moses Tuck and Ed Smith, who were 1 engaged in the pastime of roll ing dice for money. However, all five were released for lack of evidence. | William Burton, George Miller and his sister were all seriously cut with knives when they en gaged in an affray. They were un able to appear for a hearing Tuesday morning. Burton, it is 1 understood, was carried to Dukej hospital for treatment of his wounds. All were negroes. PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY & THURSDAY Special Services A series of special services will begin at Mitchell Chapel Presbyterian church Sunday continuing until July 17th. Services will be held daily except Saturday at 8 o’clock in the evening at the church located on the Woodsdale road, about one half mile from Ca- Vel. .! Thomas K. Hamilton of the Roxboro Presbyterian church will do the preaching during the week and everyone is invited. ~ " . . TWELVE INJURED IN AUTO CRASH Car With Five White Youths Hits Another Containing Seven Negroes Twelve people were injured, several seriously, in a head-on collision near Leasburg on the LeasbUrg-Yanqeyville Monday night. The wreck occurred about IP SO o’clock as one of the cars, a Ford V-8 sedan of 1936 model, driven by Lacy Green and con taining four other youths crash ed head-on into another Ford containing seven negroes. James Euing, about 28 of Greensboro, was practically scalped by the impact, about 40 stitches being required to close the cuts around the head. He was brought to the local hospit al. Eugene Jones, aboqt 24 also from Greensboro, in the same car was admitted to the hospital here with a fractured ankle and severe internal injuries to the back. Jones, it was learned, is at present an employee of the state highway commission and station ed at Oxford. Green and the two other white men were carried by a Yancey ville ambulance to a Danville hospital. The negroes, it is under stood, were also taken to Danvil le on a truck; . Names of the two white men and the negroes could not be ascertained. I WOODY REUNION There will be a reunion of the Woody Family Saturday, July 9, at Stovall, N. C. All members of the family are. urged to be present and to bringl lunches. 4-H BOYS AND SNIPES SPEND WEE AT CAMP Assistant County Agent Gives Account Os Trip With Young Farmers By J. B. SNIPES The Assistant County Agent and a group of 4-H Club boys spent a week at Camp Hoffman. Below is an account of the trip. Tours were made to some of the most interesting projects of the Sandhills Land Utilization Division. The Sandhills Project is a land use project of the Farm Se curity Administration, U. S. D. A. Land use projects involves purchase by the government of large areas of substandard or so called submarginal land, for the most part uresulted to success ful farm crops and the develop ment of such areas for uses to which the land is best suited. The project involves 62.000 acres of land. We visited the 175 acre nurs ery which is watered by the ir rigation sprinkling system. Mil lions of forest seedlings are be ing grown in this nursery an nually. The plantings, all orna mental shrubs that will be used on rural resettlement projects are being grown in the Hoffman nursery. The boys and girls saw the wildlife conservation work. Twenty 1-acre fish breeding pools have been completed and are in operation. One can see fish swimming in each of the twenty 1-acre pools. The Pine Forest Game Farm is complete with a brooder house of ample size to take care of the 2,000 to 3,000 Quail or turkey at one time with the necessary incubator house, fences and coops to make a well rounded game propagation plant. Two-hundred food and cover plots of 1-3 acre each have been planted trtroughou,t the project area. In addition to the above pro jects, we visited a group camp for 4-H Clubs, various farm groups, scouts, church groups and (Continued On Back Page) o CHIEF’S CABBAGES According to Chief S. A. Oli ver of this city, W. H Oliver of the Bushy Fork section raises the biggest cabbages in the county and he thinks he can prove it. Anyway the chief is displaying one specimen that looks pretty good. The head now in the chiefs possession has been stripped of several leaves but still measures 32 inches around and weighs nine and three quarters pounds. “Man Bites Dog?” ONE MAN GETS HIT; ANOTHER GETS PAID FOR JOB No, Punch Pays off By EDWIN J. HAMLIN This may not be quite a “man bites dog” story but it’s still news when a man punches another’s nose and then gets his fine paid and $lO besides for doing the trick. Anyway that’s what happened in Mayor R. B. Dawes’ court here Tuesday morning. Earl Gentry was cited to ap pear before the Mayor for assault ing Victor Yarborough in the streets of Roxboro. When Gentry was judged guilty by the Mayor and given a fine and costs total- ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1938 F. D. R. Signs Club Project MAKES GEESE PAY, Mnfrmfrn ' . x&xM. 1 Fay Jacques of Manchester, Maine, though only twelve years old is said to have the largest flock of geese in New England. She started six years ago with a small flock given her by her father, E. C. Jacques, and now hires a man to help her care for the 500 goslings she raises in a season. Her ambition is to educate herself, then bny a farm and go into business. She expects the money she makes from raising geese to pay the cost. COUNTY BOARD TO MEET FRIDAY Action On New Budget And Tax Rate Expected Daring Session The county board of commis sioners will get its first comp lete look at the new county budget when it meets Friday morning at 9:30 o’clock. It will not be until after the new budget is completed and ap proved by the board that it can set the tax rate for the coming year l . Last year the rate was $1.35 and it is expected that this figure will have to be raised to cover next year’s budget. The board of commissioners met in regular session Tuesday but no definite action was taken on any of the issues pending for its consideration. The commissioners studied a tentative draft but held over the final vote until the special meet ing set for Friday. o BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT. Mr. and Mrs. Bud Eakes, of the Mt. Hartnony community, are receiving congratulations on the birth of a daughter, bom Friday, July Ist., 1938, at their home. Mother and baby are doing nicely. ing around sls, an enterprising young man in the court asked His Honor if it was permissible for another to pay the fine. The Mayor, it seems, could find no statute prohibiting such, action so the young man began passing the hat. When the final count was made, over $25 had been donated in the courtroom. What to do with the $lO left over was now the question be fore the perplexed young man. It was finally decided the sur plus should be turned over to Gentry as a balm offering. The final disposition was ap proved. Local Country Club, Golf Links Get Final Approval GRIFFIN TO GO TO STATE MEET Person County Superintendent Will Attend Conference At Appalachian College Superintendent df Coujnty Schools R. B. Griffin will attend the second annual Superintend ent’s conference to be held at Appalachian State Teacher’s Col lege July 26, 27, and 28. The three day session is spon sored by State Superintendent of Public Instruction Clyde A. Erwin, who will be the presiding officer. Features of the conference, ac cording to the superintendent, will be the banquet meeting at which Lieutenant-Governor W. P. Horton of Pittsboro will be the principal speaker. Dr. W. H. Frazer, president of Queens- Chicoro College will also speak. Topics of discussion will in clude: selection and distribution of textbooks, teacher retirement, the negro in pjUblic education, schoolhouse planning and build ing, safety education, teacher education and certification and guidance in public schools. o Baptist Mass Meeting To Be Held Tomorrow Beulah Association Churches To Hold Session At Local Church A central mass meeting of all the churches in the Beulah as sociation will be held tomorrow afternoon at 3:00 o’clock at the First Baptist Church. All Baptist Training Union workers from the various church es will be present with a group from each church. The principal speaker for the occasion will be W. Perry Crouch, Secretary of the department of Christian Education of the Bap tist State Convention. The public is invited. Scouts .Return From Cherokee Ten Bushy Fork Boys Take Week’s Outing Bushy Fork Scouts, 10 strong, returned (Sunday from Camp Cherokee, the Boy Scout summer camp near Reidsville. Led by B. J. Long as director ' of the group, the Bushy Fork de legation incltided Joe Long, , Charlie Chambers, Bernard Long, Reuben Bowles, Fred Long, Boyd , Blalock, James Tumfer, Clifton Day, and Beverly Bullock. Several new scouts were add ed to the troop during the week. Awards of merit badges were presented to Clifton Day, Boyd Blalock, Beverly Bullock, Reu ben Bowles, Bernard Long and Joe Long for swimming ability, astronomy, crafts, camp fire pro grams and advancement. o BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT.' Mr. and Mrs. Finn Vaughan, of Rougemont, wish to announce the birth of a daitghter, bom Saturday, July 2nd., 1938, at Watts hospital, in Durham. < Mother and daughter are get ting along nicely. PUBLISHED SUNDAY AND THURSDAY Advertising Rates Furnished Upon Request. NUMBER FIFTY-TWO Work Will Begin As Soon As Arrangements Can Be Completed $13,000 Is Amount President Roosevelt hjte last week affixed his signature to Roxboro’s W. P. A. country club and golf course project, thus as. suring the completion of a pro ject long pending here. $13,000 is the amount which will be contributed by the gov ernment, according to City Mana ger James C. Harris, who set the wheels in motion on a recent visit to the capitol. The city or those behind the Country Club movement here will be required to donate a small amount but no difficulty is expected. The money will be used to com plete the nine hole golf course, already partly cleared, build two tennis courts, remodel the club house, particularly the baths and showers, construct a drive to the club house and golf links, build a rock wall around a portion of the club house grounds and clear a part of the banks around the lake. , Work on the project will get under way as soon as proper ar rangements dan be completed, the city manager intimated. The complete letter to Harris from G. E. Trextor, acting direct or of the project control division of the Works Progress Adminis tration follows: “In your recent visit to Mr. Herman, assistant director, you expressed interest in a golf course project near Roxboro, Per son County. This project has now been approved by the President in Letter 2,129,.,June 30, official project no. 665-32-2-8. “We trust that this informa tion will be of service to you.” Very truly yours, G. E. Trextor TYPHOID CLINIC AT BFTHE HILL Health Officer! Arranges Addi tional Tour For Woody’s Store An additional typhoid clinic will be held at Woody’s store in the Bethel Hill section over the three week period of August 23, 30, and September 6, announced Dr. Al bert L. Allen of the Person Coun ty Health department today. Scheduled for 2 o’clock on suc cessive Tuesdays, this series is an addition to the original six tours over the county. As usual at these clinics the customary three doses of typhoid vaccine and the single dose of diphtheria toxoid for children under six years of age will be given. On the third trip, Septem ber 6, the small pox vaccine will be available for those desiring to take it. Throughout the summer and early fall, every Wednesday af ternoon and Saturday morning the Health office here will be de voted to the vaccination against typhoid fever. The morning hours, said Dr. Allen, are 8:30 to 12 while the afternoon hours are from one to 4:30 o’clock. At present the local health staff is carrying two vaccine tours in the county, making tripe on Mon day and Friday. Two more will be started upon completing this series.
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