IF IT IS NEWS ABOUT
. PERSON COUNTY, YOU’LL
FIND IT IN THE TIMES.
VOLUME X PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY & THURSDAY ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, FEB. 16, 1939 NUMBER THIRTY -ONH
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SMALL INCREASE
HON BY TEACHERS
IH BUDGET BALLOT
Committee Vote Would
Mean Average Pay Raise of
$1 A Month for Teachers.
North Carolina’s classroom
teachers won a victory before the
appropriations committee yester
day, but it’s a mighty hollow
victory so far as the pay envel
opes for those teachers are con
cerned.
The committee vote, by a
margin of 45-5, gave to public
schools the $52,691,313 recom
mended by the Advisory Budget
Commission for 1939.1941. Last
Friday, the committee had cut
that total by $241,313.
In the neat breath, the com
mittee voted without a single
negative vote not to recommend
to the State School Commission
the ninth pay increment, or
raise, of $5 a month for teachers
of nine or more years experience
as recommended by the budget
commission. The committee vote
•left to the school commission the
question of adjustment of all
classroom teachers’ salaries.
From the standpoint of the in
dividual teacher, that action will
mean:
Teachers now receive pay
raises ranging from $3 to $3.75
a month for each year of service
up to eight, where the maximum
of $123.75 a month for eight
months is reached. The highest
grade teacher being at $96 a
month, receives the $123.75 even
tually.
After adjustments are made
in 1939-1941 for the normal in
crements now in effect, the
school commission will have a
vailable for “adjustments” of
salaries of teachers approxima
tely $365,000 for the two years.
Raise $1 A Month.
There are approximately 16,000
white classroom teachers and ap
• proximately 6,000 Negro class
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Bushy Fork
Alumni Supper
Claris Complete
Plans for Bushy Fork high
school’s alumni supper next Wed
nesday virtually complete,
: according to an announcement
L_.. from that community yesterday.
The alumni get-together, spon
sored' by the Home Demonstration
club of the community, has been
’ scheduled for 7 o’clock in the
evening at the High school build
ing, instead of the basement of
Frank Whitfield’s store as had
been previously announced.
A member of the arrangement’s
5 committee yesterday reiterated
the desire that wives and friends
of former students also are cor
dially invited and expected to
attend, enjoy the fellowship of
old acquaintances and inspect the
new building.
A program, although not yet
entirely completed, is being ar
ranged and an announcement of
>; its nature will be forthcoming
within a few days. Decorations
1' will follow the motif of Washing-
K ton's birthday which will be ce
ls, lebrated on the same day.
| CARVERS ILL
Gordon Carver, son of Mr. and
j|| Mrs. F. O. Carver, is a patient at
|p Gentry-Williams hospital here for
treatment F. O. Carver, Jr. is
H confined to his bed at home with
I | influenza. Both are reported im
| proving. •
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Enos Slaughter Returns Signed Contract
"Pretty Good Raise 19
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Scheduled to report March 1 for spring training at the St. Louis
Cardinal baseball camp at St. Petersburg, Fla., Enos Slaughter,
above, today returned his signed contract calling for satisfactory
raise in salary over his last year’s terms.
Local UNC Alumni Informed
Appropriations In Danger
FLU EPIDEMIC
CLOSES SCHOOLS
Large Absentee List In All
City Schools On Account
Os Illness.
In an attempt to curb an epi
demic of flu which has caused
widespread absences in Roxboro
schools this week, schools of the
city were closed today and will
remain closed until Monday.
“After a consultation between
school officials, R. B. Griffin,
county superintenent, J. W. Gad
dy, Jr., supervising principal,
and Dr. A. L. Allen, local health
officer, it was agreed advisable
from an administration stand
point to close until Monday.”
Approximately 100 children
from the Central School are out
today on acount of sickness with
about the same number being ab
sent from the high school.
In closing the schools, officials
have no idea that it will stop the
epidemic but by having tomor
row, Saturday and Sunday open,
it is believed that many will be
able to return to school Monday.
Continued loss of attendance
may also threaten loss of an ex
tra teacher next year, it is under
stood, although this is not ex
pected.
ATTEND MEET
Dr. A. L. Allen, local health
officer, and Misses Lake Allen,
Hazel Willfong and Frances Al
len, members of his staff yester
day attended the conference in
Raleigh on “Better Care of Mo
thers and Babies."
Figures Tentatively Appro
ved Said To Be Below Cur
rent Expenditure*.
Alumni of the three units of the
University of North Carolina in
this county are being urged by
President Frank P. Graham,
through the press, to get in touch
with their representatives in the
General Assembly immediately
regarding this comparatively low
appropriations for the three in
stitutions that have been tenta
tively approved.
Dr. Graham points out that
the figures approved last week,
and which are to be reconsidered
this week before the appropria
tions bill goes to the floor of the
House, are not only below what
the Budget Commission recom
mended but are considerably less
than the University appropria
tions for the current biennium.
He says serious damage will
be done all three institutions un
less these figure* ate revised up
ward.
President Graham is request
ing for the three-fold institutions
for the year 1939-40 the sum of
$1,961,164. He maintains that
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CORRECTION
Sunday’s Times carried a news
item to the effect -that the Main
street property, consisting of the
Chevrolet garage- ahd &
Zimmerman garagf was the pro
perty of Messers. D. W. Ledbetter
and O. T. Kirby. Ther article fail
ed to include the name of C. B.
Kirby who is also a part-owner
of this property. The three ow
ners, therefore, are Messrs. C. B.
and O. T. Kirby *ftd D. W. Led
better.
LOCAL BASEBALL
STAR SATISFIED
WITH NEWTERMS
Will Join Cardinals At St.
Petersburg Training Camp
March 1.
Person County’s own contri
bution to big league baseball,
Enos Slaughter, this morning re
turned his signed contract to the
St. Louis Cardinals, calling for
another year’s play with that or
ganization.
Although refusing to divulge
the amount of the contract, Slau
ghter said he received “a pret
ty good raise over last year.” He
announced that he “was pretty
well satisfied” with the terms of
this year’s contract, which is be
lieved around here to be in the
neighborhood of $5,000.
Scheduled to report to St. Pe
tersburg, Fla. for spring training
on March 1, Enos said he weigh
ed approximately 180 pounds, a
bout 12 pounds less than when he
reported last spring.
As he prepares to leave for
spring training, Slaughter be
lieves he’ll be a member of that
first string outfield of the Car
dinals once the season gets, un
derway, along with .Joe Med
wick and Terry Moore. Don Pad
gett, with whom Slaughter di
vided the right field duties last
year, will be given a trial at the
catching job, Slaughter believes,
with Pepper Martin as the util
ity outfielder. The Cards have in
vited nine outfield candidates to
St. Petersburg for the training
period.
Slaughter, who finished up the
season with only a .276 batting
average, was in the “Big Six”
batting around .340 until around
July 1 when he hit a slump for
about a week causing his average
to sink to about .305. After that
he was benched for about five
weeks and given only a few
chances to pinch hit, a situation
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Bethel Hill
Prepares For
School Fair
Bethel Hill pupils and teachers
are working hard on the projects
or units which will be put on ex
hibit at the Bethel Hill School
Fair to be held in the gymnasium
during the first week in April.
Last year this fair attracted
state-wide attention and several
thousand people saw the exhibits.
This year a number from the
State Department of Education
and out of county school teach
ers and principals have asked for
information concerning the fair
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MOVES TO BURLINGTON
Mr. Harry Puckett has accept
ed a position with the Burling
ton Daily Times. Mr. Puckett and
his family left Wednesday for
their new home in .Burlington,
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RETURN HOME
Mrs. A. M. Bums, Jr. and Mas
ter A. M. Bums, El returned
home today from Duke hospital
where the latter has been a pat
ient for the past several wakes.
He is recuprating nicely now, it
is understood.
February PTA
Meeting Planned
For Tuesday
February’s meeting of the local
P. T. A. will be held at the Cen
tral school Tuesday afternoon at
3:30 o’clock and officials of the
organization especially urge all
parents to be present at this
meeting.
The program will be in charge
of the Central school and an in
teresting afternoon has been ar
ranged, it was said.
A musical program has been
arranged by children of the
school featuring the toy orchestra
of the primary grades, selections
by the piccolette band, a chorus
by children of the fifth and sixth
grades and a minuet by children
of the fourth grade, the latter
number taught by Miss Virgina
Wilson, school physical education
instructor.
A short talk on “Better Under
standing Between Parents and
the School” by Miss Claire Har
ris will be another feature of
the program.
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OUT AGAIN
Mrs. Stephen Jones is'"able to
be out after having been ill for
some time. She continues to im
prove although still quite weak.
Extra Vote Offer And S3O
Extra Prize Offer Ends Sat.
a In ten extra prizes this week.
wL Z F f The five workers who turn in
the five largest amounts of
cash business this week will each be awarded a $5.00 extra
prize. The next five workers who turn in ithe next five larg
est amounts of cash business for this week will each be award
ed a SI.OO extra cash prize. Which group will you be in?
WHO WILL WIN EXTRA PRIZES
Now is the time to support your favorite candidate in the
race for the Best Cash awards. Remember the big subscription
counts up fast. A ten year subscription counts 125,000 votes,
while the one year subscriptions count but 5,000 each.
PUT YOUR NAME WITH THE LEADERS
Miss Lucy Gray Chandler, Miss Margaret Jones, Mrs. Matt
Dickerson, Miss Nannie Willie Cushwa, Mrs. C. E. Stewart,
Mrs. Jack Woody and Miss Manila O’Briant are holding com
manding positions in the vote line up for fhis week. Mrs. Coy
Day and Wheeler Carver and others are running up good and
all workers are going strong on this week’s work to win their
share of this week’s extra cash.
IT’S NO PLACE FOR QUITTERS!
The campaign is just getting underway in earnest and
from now on will be a real fight. The worker who goes after
all subscriptions possible now instead of waiting until the
votes are lower will be the one to build up the votes to win
the major awards.
BIGGER DROP IN VOTES NEXT WEEK
List of Candidates in The Times “Cash Offer” Campaign and
Percentage Votes accepted for publication:
Name Town Votes
Mrs. Coy E. Day Roxboro 112,000
Mrs. C. E. Stewart Roxboro 115,000
Miss Nannie Willie Cushwa.. Roxboro 117,500
Mrs. Matt Dickerson Ca-Vel 117,500
Miss Mary Emma Strum Roxboro 102,000
Mrs. Jack Woody Bethel Hill 115,000
Miss Lucy Gray Chandler ... Leasburg 119,000
Miss Margaret A. Jones Roxboro 119,000
Miss Lena Buchanan Rougemont 60,000
Miss Ruth Lunsford Timberlake 102,000
Miss Manila O’Briant Allensville 115,000
Mrs. lola Thomas Gwyn .... Semora 106,000
Wheeler Carver Roxboro, Rt. 3 100,000
Mrs. S. D. Clayton Roxboro, Rt. 3 67,000
Miss Lucile Berry Hurdle Mills 20,000
SUBSCRIPTIONS TURNED IN BY SATURDAY WILL
COUNT MORE VOTES TOWARD THE S6M AND S4M
CASH AWARDS REPORT SATURDAY.
Second Big Extra Vote
Offer And Extra Cash
Prize Offer Ends Saturday
HEAVY RAINFALL
RECORDED HERE
4.68 Inches Fall Here
Since January 1, Abbitt
Reports; February Wet
C. M. Abbitt city pumping sta
tion supervisor, stated Wednesday
that 4.68 inches of rainfall had
descended upon the surface of the
earth in Roxboro since January
1.
January saw 2.36 inches and
February, through the 14th., has
had a total of 2.32.
From Tuesday morning, 9:00
o’clock, until Wednesday at 9:00
of this week, one half inch of wa
ter fell. February 4th. was about
as wet or a little wetter.
Even though there has been a
large amount of rain during this
month it is not unusual, stated
Abbitt. February is generally a
wet month.
This county nas been visited by
one snowfall this winter that was
worthy of mention. This was on
January 16th. and measured two
inches. There was one other brief
flury, but not enough to measure.
Temperature is not recorded of
ficially in Roxboro.
THE TIMES IS PERSONS ~
PREMIER NEWSPAPER!
A LEADER AT ALL TIMEBL _ ,
S3O In Extra Cash
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Prizes This Week
Saturday Night Ends Sec
ond Period In Tight Race
For Awards.
LESS VOTES AFTER
SATURDAY; WORK NOW
All Candidates Listed Have
Remarkable Chance Os
Winning, But Final Show
ing May Depend On What
They Do By Saturday
Night.
Last Saturday marked the end
of the first period in the big
“Cash Offer” Campaign just
launched by the Person County
Times. Now watch the candidate*
plunge toward the S6OO goal!
And for the other awards!
There is time for many other
candidates to jump in and out
strip those already running. New
ones are coming in every week.
Folks, it is going to be an unpar
alleled race with interest wax
ing hotter and hotter and thrill*
galore for everybody.
S3O In Extra Cash Prizes
A $5.00 extra prize will be *-
warded to each of the five candi
dates who turn in the five largest
amounts of money for subscrip
tions from Monday, February 13,
to Saturday night, February 18, »
period of one week
A SI.OO extra prize will be a
warded to the next five candida
tes who turn in the next five
largest amounts of money for sub
scriptions from Monday, Febru
ary 13, to Saturday night, Feb
ruary 18, a period of one week.
These extra prises are in ad
dition to any other prize or com
mission the worker will win la
the campaign. In the event oC
a tie for any of these extra pri
zes, the amount of the prize will
be equally divided among the
tie contestants. These prizes will
be awarded on or before the close
of the campaign.
Attractive Extra Offer
The following extra vote offer
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High Winds
Sweep Vicinity
Yesterday
High winds which swept most
of North Carolina yesterday a£-
temoon threatened serious dam
age here but abated before the
loss became heavy.
A plate glass window in the
vacant Walker building on Main
street here was bloyvn out dur
ing the heavy gale which was
accompanied by a downpour of
rain.
During the thick of the gale,
firel threatened a gas tank at
Central Service station here but
was brought under control and
put out before it reached a cru
cial stage.
The city fire truck, called to
the scene about 5 o’clock, quick
ly extinguished! the blaze with,
chemicals.
A short circuit was given a*
the cause of the conflagation.
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IMPROVED
Dan Loftis, who was injured in
an airplane crash several titil*
ago, is reported to be much Im
proved. He is still a patient at
Gentry-Williams hospital.