Hundreds Os Dollars In Prize Money Ready For Winners
IP IT IS NEWS about
PERSON COUNTY, YOU’LL
FIND IT IN THE TIMES.
VOLCTBX PUBLISHED EVEEJ SUNDAY i THURSDAY ROXBORO, NOBIB CABOLXNA SUNDAY, MARCH 12, 1939 NUMBER THIRTY-FIVE
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Few Days Os Campaign
« To Decide Big Winners
Great Excitement
Increasing Daily
All Workers Most Make
Cash Report During Last
Period In Order To Qualify.
NO CHECKS ACCEPTED !
DURING LAST PERIOD
Workers Warned To Lose
No Time Now or Be Pre
pared For Smaller Awards.
Only six more short working
days and The Times’ far-famed
and widely advertised “Cash-Of
fer” Campaign will come to a
close. Roxboro and surrounding
territory is waiting, wondering
and hustling for the favorite
members.
The city section is seething with
hustle and expectancy; the towns
outside are of one accord, deter
“"'irunedt‘6 help their favorite fight
vacantly. Eiddfement is keyed
to the highest pitch.
Riding on the wave of this
wonderful demonstration of en
thusiasm are the ambitious prize
aspirants. From .every point of
the compass they are making vig
orous efforts to capture the mag
nificent prizes. Two very large
cash awards will be awarded, to
gether with two other regular a
wards and a supply of cash with
which to pay commissions. From
every section the workers are
gathering the storm of votes that
will be showered upon the cam
paign department in the closing
hour.
Rich Prizes
Never before has such a large
and valuable array of gifts been
presented by a newspaper in this
section. Never was such a tre
mendous battle waged to win
them.
Present indications point to a
close finish, and it appears cer
tan that the close margin by
!. which the prizes will be won will!
occasion great surprise. No mem-j
ber can appear certain of victory'
and there is abundant specula
tion as to the outcome. The last
week will decide. The race is too
close among too many to bank on*
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Penny Behind
Fuse Burns Out \
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L A penny behind a fuse is a
dangerous thing, the local branch
of the Carolina Power and Light
company warns local citizens to
r day.
[v Friday afternoon a penny be
hind a fuse at the Prospect Hill
I high school burned out a trans
| former at the school and might
[easily have sent the entire build
ring up in a blaze.
I; The cost to the Power company
Ito make the repairs amounted to
[about S7O but the loss to the
I Community might have been
[many thousands, it was pointed
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[breaks leg
Mr. John L. Perkins of the
■providence community had the
Buafortune to break his leg while (
Kvorking on a house for his son (
■Friday afternoon. The break was
Hear the hip and his condition (
Eras described as very painful at
fcentry - Williams hospital late
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Prson|Minies
Teachers Elect
Miss Claire Harris
New President
Miss Claire Harirs was elected
, president of the Person County
i unit of the North Carolina Edu
cational asociation as the teachers
convened here Thursday after
noon in the Central school audi
torium.
Also elected secretary at the
same time was Miss Rowena Tay
lor, member of the Bethel Hill
faculty. Miss Harris teaches in the
City schools.
Balloting for state officers of
the NCEA took place at this
meeting but the results could not
be released locally until announ
ced from state headquarters.
Entertainment feature of the af
ternoon was a musical program
by three public school music de
partments in the county led by
the Helena faculty, Mrs. Sam Byrd
Winstead, Roxboro, and Miss Kate
Johnson, Bethel Hill. Numbers
consisted of group singing, solos,
quartets, dances and other forms
of music.
Announcement was made that
the annual dinner meeting, the
final of the year, would be held
probably on April 11, this date,
however, being subject to change.
Jonathan Daniels, editor of the
News and Observer, invited to
address this meeting notified the
group that he would be unable to
attend because of a trip to the
New England states.
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IMPROVING
Mrs. W. T. Carver is a patient
at Rainey hospital in Burlington.
She is reported as getting along
fine at this writing.
ALL WORKERS
EXTENSION NOTICE
All extension subscriptions
on hand must be turned in by
Friday, March 17th. by six o’-
clock p. m. This is the latest
date the campaign department
can accept extensions that have
been originally sold by another
worker. THIS RULE has no ef
fect on extensions of which
were originally sold by the
same candidate. EXTENSIONS
sold on your own business are
good up to the close of cam
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ed from your records and pro.
perly marked when turned in
to the campaign department.
Other extensions sold Satur
day, 18th. will be good for the
regular schedule of votes that
is in effect during the last
week.
This applies to all candidates
and (those of you who are ex
pecting extension subscriptions
over other candidates. Collect
them up now and turn them
in by 6 p. m. Friday, March 17.
—Remember .an extension
subscription carries a far great
er number of votes where the
original was turned in during
the first of campaign.
Campaign Department.
IT’S A BOY
Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Aiken of
Roxboro are the proud parents of
a young son bom Friday morning
between 9 and 10 o’clock, weight
; 9 .US pounds. Both mother and
son doing fine.
Steaming
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If the senate chamber isn’t hoi
enough for North Carolina’s Sen.
Robert R. Reynolds, he can al
ways rely on the gymnasium sweat
box. Through exercise routine he
keeps his weight down and stays tit
for his duties.
23 GET BADGES
AT HONORCOURT
Approximately 100 Parents,
Scouters Attend East Rox
boro Meeting.
Twenty-three scouts received
awards as the local scout Court
of Honor held its regular meet
ing in Grace Methodist church,
East Roxboro, Friday night.
Approximately 100 persons, in
cluding scouts and parents ac
companying them, were on hand
for the meeting. Also present was
Scout Executive A. P. Patterson
of Reidsville,
Friday night’s court of honor
was composed of Henry O’Briant,
James C. Harris, G. J. Cushwa.
and J. S. Merritt and merit bad
ges of one kind or another were
awarded to the following:
Revis Carver, Chris Wagner,
Wilburn Clayton, George Barrett,
J. B. Dunn, Bill Dickerson, Rich
ard Clayton, Tiny Milam, Robert
Dickerson, Wheeler Carver, Wal
lace Cozart, Thomas Day, Thomas
Long, George Wade, Jack Hugh
es, Ray Currier, Billy Jordan, K.
F. Milam, Charles Harris, Martin
Michie, Elmo Mitchell, Archie,
Wrenn and Norfleet Umstead.
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What do we live for, if it is not
to make life less difficult for each
other—George Eliot.
Along The Way
With the Editor
In ancient days it has been said that there is nothing new in the
world. This column hereby disputes this statement. Anyway there is
something new in Roxboro. Fred Long is drinking goats milk. Says
that it is the best that he ever drunk and that it has made him feel
like a young man once again. Jim Harris brought the goat to Rox
borc from his farm down at Inez.
Now, here’s the one question that has us guessing. So far we have
not found the answer. Who is milking the goat? Is Fred doing it or
is Jim the milker? We doubt if either will admit the (act, but we
know that someone is milking that goat and we are waiting for one
of the two to break down and confess.
R. B. Dawes issued a statement last week that he would not be
a candidate for the mayor’s post in the coming election. That’s the
way with people who start making plenty of money. Right away
they reach the place where they want to stop work and start taking
things easy. Dawes has been mayor for a long time and his resigna
tion leaves the spot wide open for some young man. Attention Ivey
Featherston, Joe Kirby and Navy Castle.
It has been reported that Maurice “Puny” Allen was seen
walking up Main street of Roxboro with an income tax blank in his
hand. No one has any idea what he was going to do with it. In the
first place we have no idea that he makes $500.00 a year, much less
a $1,000.00 and in the second plaice he couldn’t begin to figure that
hmg. Maybe he was carrying the blank'to some friend of his,but
then we know no friend of his who makes a $1,000.00 a year. Our
final guess is that “Puny” was trying to “show off.”
The Kiwanians expect to play the Rotarians a basketball game.
This game will probably take place this week. Sam Byrd Winstead
die Rotarians. Sam Byrd is a Kiwanian and he believes-thai he can
hereby issues a challenge to Earl Bradsher, Sr. to enter this game for
keep Earl on the floor the larger portion of the game.
CAPACITY CROWD
HEARS NICHOSON
INSAFETYTALK
Industrial Represeiflatives
From Nearby Counties, Lo
cal People Attend Meeting.
“Although mankind’s search
for safety has continued down
through the centuries, it re
mained for American industry
twenty-five years ago—unmoved
by any levers of a coercive or
regulatory nature—to recognize
the importance of streamlining
and adapting this ancient law of
self-preservation to the current
problems of industrial operation,”
said Captain A. A. Nichoson,
Personnel Manager of The Texas
Company, at a meeting of the
Mid-State Safety Council held
Friday night at the Central Gram
mar School in Roxboro.
Addressing 300 local people and
representatives iindustrial
plants in nearby counties on
“Safety in the Small Plant,” Cap
tain Nichoson stated, “During the
25 years that industrial safety has
been in effect, and despite the 1
world-wide influence that A
merica has wielded in home and
public safety, there has been a
large number of industrial plants
which have been rather delatory
in whole-heartedly accepting the
principles of safety and in mold
ing them into a practical plan.
They have felt erroneously that a
safety program belonged only to
a larger plant, where safety dir
ectors and expert engineers were
established as a medium through
which safety could be project
ed.”
Captain Nichoson emphasized
the point that there still remain
“vast economic potentialities in
industrial safety, particularly in
the small plants, where an at
titude of procrastination has
created the premise that what is
everybody’s business is nobody’s
business—that no safety director,
engineer, or program is absolute
ly necessary.”
“No longer can we glide along,
neglecting safety measures and
slaving our conscience' by doing
the things that we superficially]
dub ‘fair’, we must go the full
length and do the things that we]
know to be right.”
“In this streamlined civiliza
tion,” Captain Nchoson observed,
j “we must clearly, recognze our
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Dawes To Retire As Mayor;
Nicks Announces For Post*
Rotary - Kiwanis Basketball Classic
Os Classics Set For Thursday Night
Hear Ye! Hear Ye!
The big game of the year is
just around the comer; namely,
the annual Rotary-Kiwanis bas
ketball encounter, a game in
which anything goes and no
holds barred.
Scheduled for next Thursday
night in the High School gymnas
ium at 8 o’clock, the coming clas
sic features athletes by the score,
the cream of the crop, big-wigs,
and big-wags. They’ll all be there.
On the firing line for the Ro
tarians and straining at the leash
may be seen Earl Bradsher, Sr.
W. H. Harris, J. S. Walker, J. A
Long, Sr., and R. L. Harris, Sr,
with Will Gaddy, Glenn Titus,
Curt Oakley, Gene Thompson and
Bill Sledge on hand for relief
duty.
The Kiwanis youngsters proudly
present Ralph Cole, Stuart Ford,
Doctors B. A. Thaxton and H. M
Beam. Ready for an emergency
will foe Rev. Mark Lawrence, Tom
Brooks, Jimmy Millican. Sam
■ Byrd Winstead and Gus Deering.
Monetary benefits from the I
game (a slight admission of 25
cents per head will be charged)
will go to the local High school.
Other benefits will be retained
by the participants.
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ELECTRIC APPLIANCE
ANNOUNCES CONTEST
An advertisement of the Elec
tric Appliance Co. in today’s
Times calls your attention to the
fact that 150 Bendix Home Laun-J
drys are to be given away. Mr.
Prillaman, the proprietor of Elec-*
trie Appliance Co., requests that
those interested in winning a free'
Bendix machine call at his store*
and get the details of the contest.
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I Subscribers
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tinued and is willing to pay for
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urday, so if you wish to con
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Thanks in adtSMC for jmt
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THE PUBLISHERS.
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Not A Candidate
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Mayor R. B. Dawes, above, yes
terday announced his intention
. not to enter the mayoralty race
in the coming election. He has
! served five terms in the office.
CURB MARKET
PLANNEDHERE
Interested Citizens Os
Town And County Form
Committee To Start Project
I Friday night at a meeting call
i ed by Mrs. C. E. Brooks, president
lon the county council of home
I demonstration clubs, first steps
I were taken toward organizing a
1 Curb Market for the City of Rox
i boro.
1 A committee of local citizens
' and representatives of rural com
munities was formed to work to
i gether for the interest of both
1 town and county in establishing
this enterprise.
I Comprising the committee will
be Mesdames F. O. Carver, Sr..
H. M. Beam, E. V. Boatwright, A.
M. Burns, Jr, Karl Burger,
Messrs. Reade Jones and W. H.
Harris and curb market leaders
from each of the home demon
stration clubs in the county as
! follows: Mesdames Robert Gen
] try, C. E. Broks, A. R. Crabtree,
Byrd J. Long, John R. Jones, L.
P. Sherman, W. A. Turner and
Lillian Day.
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Annual Senior
Play Scheduled
For March 28th.
The annual Senior Play, the
dramatic event of the year for
Roxboro High school, has been
scheduled for Tuesday March 28,
it was announced here yesterday.
Selected for this year’s presen
tation is “The Charm School,”
a comedy in three acts, describ
ed as having plenty of clever di
alogue as well as interesting
situations.
Coached this year by Miss Lucy
Bowers, member of the high
school faiculty, the featured roles
will be taken by Miss Carolyn
White and James Jackson. A
strong supporting cast is also be
ing selected and drills are ex
pected to get underway im
mediately.
THE TIMES IS PERSON**
PREMIER NEWSPAPER!
A LEADER AT ALL TIMESL
Political Pot Begins To Boil
As Time For Mass Meeting
Nears.
Two events stirred the political
pot here yesterday as Mayor It
B. Dawes announced he would not
be a candidate to succeed himself
in the coming election and S. F„
Nicks, Jr, young attorney,
nounced his candidacy for the of
fice.
Dawes, who Has served five
terms and the unexpired term of
his predecessor, R. P. Burns, as
Mayor of Roxboro gave his duties
as Chairman of the Democratic
Executive committee and his pri
vate law practice as reasons for
his decision not to make the race
in the coming election.
His complete statement read as
follows: “I will not be a candi
date for the office of Mayor at
the ensuing city election. My du
ties as chairman of the Democra
tic Executive committee alon®
with my law practice prompts
to make this announcement. 1.
wish to express my sincere grati
tude to the electorate of Roxboro.
for the honors they have show*
me and trust that I may be o£
some service to you hereafter.’*
Nicks, chairman of the Person
County Board of Elections, tossed
his hat into the municipal race
by announcing immediately upon
the heels of Dawes’ statement. He
is the first to announce his can—.
didacy although others are ex
pected any day now.
His announcement said, “I
wish to announce that I am n
candidate for the office of Mayor
of Roxboro, subject to the nomin
ation by the citizens of Roxboro
at the Mass Meeting to be held
next month, I earnestly solicit
your support for my nomination
for this office.”
Definite date for the annual
nominating mass meeting will be
set by the Town Board at its reg—
ular meeting Tuesday. No an
nouncements have been forth
coming from either members f
the old board or prospective can
didates although these may be
expected soon after a definite
time has been announced for this
important municipal gathering.
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Local Scouters
Discover Musician
At Honor Court
The boy scouts of Roxboro can
now boast of a musician.
Thomas Long of this city, passed
his test for a music merit badge
Friday night at the monthly meet
ing of the court of honor that was
held in East Roxboro. Thomas iff
the first scout of this county ever
to receive a merit badge for mu
sic.
Members of the court knew
nothing about music and when
Thomas came up for his test Hen
ry O’Briant suggested that he go
to the piano that was in the room
and prove that he was entitled
to the merit badge. That seemed
to be the only way that the court
could decide.
About 100 scouts, parents and
scouters were present in the
church auditorium and Ihomaa
struck up the Star Spangle Ban
ner. He waded through it like a
veteran as all stood at attention.
Then he was awarded his badge
without a murmer from Jim
Harrjs, J. S. Merritt, d J. Cudh
wa or Henry O’Hriant, member*
of the Court of Honor.