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«IS NEWS ABOUT W COUNTY, YOU’LL qKit in the times. 'feBME XI PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY St THURSDAY Brews Mews y 1939 CRAB CATCH TWICE THAT OF ’34 I |pji "Annapolis, March 9 Only the ; crabs can crab about the mark ,y <ed increase in the Maryland crab f catch over the past five years. Figures released today by the State Conservation Commission showed the harvest had jumped ‘ from 116,403 barrels of hard crabs | Caught in 1934 to 246,967 barrels ; packed last year. 3 STORM-HIT HOMES W STILL LACK LIGHTS *, 2 New York Thousands of I homes in suburban Westchester - county and in Connecticut and ? Northern New Jersey were still without electric and telephone |; service this week as repair crews struggled to overcome the damage wrought by Monday’s sleet storm. SEIZE GERMAN SHIP IN WESTERN ATLANTIC Aruba, Netherlands West In dies The German motorship passenger liner Seattle, which sailed Monday night with a lum ber cargo, was reported today to "* have been intercepted at sea, pre sumablly by Allied warships guarding the Western Atlantic a gainst-German attempts to run the blockade. '' ~ ' Reports received here said the master of the Seattle had sent a message reporting his plight. No mention was made of an other German vessel, the Mimi Horn, which also sailed Monday night. SAYS LATIN AMERICA OPPOSED TO NAZIS New York Anti-German sen timent is prevalent everywhere in South America, even in Chile, which in the last war favored Ger many, according to Baron Al bert Richter Rothschild, who re turned to New York after com pleting a four-month tour there. He said business and trade pros pects for the United States were extremely promising. FIND AIRLINER LOST WITH 12 IN MEXICO Mexico City A Mexican air liner missing since Tuesday was .reported located down in heavy jungle country 30 miles north west of Minatitlan, Vera Crus State. The pilot of one of the searching planes reported that persons on the ground fired pis- j tol shots and waved a white cloth to attract his attention. HUNT SABOTAGE IN AIRPORT FIRE New York Lieus.-Col. Brehon Somervell, WPA administrator of New York, declined this week to rule out .possibility of sabotage in the fire that swept the $1,250,000 hanger No. 4 at La Guardia Air port Tuesday. Damage estimates ranged from $250,000 to $500,- 000. * Questioned about dismissal of 300 WPA employes working in or near Hanger No. 4, whose work ended only 20 minutes before the flames were discovered, Somer vell said only 35 men were “laid off”, the others being transfer red. The WPA administrator dis closed plumbers had been finish ing a sprinkler system to be ready - -next week. . . ' I IrrsonMmes Arizona Indians Renounce ‘Desecrated’ Swastika Arizona Indians Renounce ‘Desecrated’ Four tribes of Arizona Indians, the Navajos, Papagos, Apaches, and Hopis, through their head men at the Indian conclave in Tucson, have banned use of the swastika from all designs in their basket weaving and blanket making. The use of the swastika by the Nazi party and the Indian’s resentment against “acts of oppression” by the Nazi government was given as reason for their action. Florence Smiley, a Navajo girl, signs the parchment document drawn up by one of the Indian artists. Eby To Meet Scout Leaders March 14*15 Roxboro Woman Is Committee Head Methods by which Roxboro’s local government may be tested 1 ing offered by the National Con sumers Tax commission of which Mrs. R. H. Shelton, of this city: is local chairman. With municipal betterment as its 1940 goal the commission has 1 suggested 'to its units in 5,000* towns throughout the countryl means for making friendly and helpful examinations of local* government services and the town’s financiall condition. FIVE VACANCIES IN CAMPS OPEN TO PERSON MEN C. M. T. C. Will Be Held This Year At Fort Bragg Says Fowler As chairman of the Military Training Camp association in Person county. Sanitarian T. JJ Fowler, who is a lieutenant in the association, today announced that the procurement campaign for the 1940 Citizens’ Military Training camp, to be held at Fort Bragg, is open and that five vaca ncies in enrollment are to be filled by Person county applic ants. The camp will be held from June 12, to July 11, Lt. Fowler said, adding that applicants are required to furnish a certificate of good moral character, must be between 17 and 28 years of age, must be American citizen, must pass a physical examination: and must have been recently in-’ noculated against typhoid and shew a vacillation against small- 1 pox as of since January 1937. The mission of these training! camps is to bring together under* healthful surroundings, on a com mon basis of equality, young men from all walks of life; and, by supervised athletics, military drills, and instruction in citizen ship to develop them mentally, morally, and physically; promote wholesome respect for American (Continued On Back Page! Official of Boy Scout Or ganization Will Meet and Talk With Cherokee Coun. cilmen. Harry K. Eby, assistant Nation al Director of Education will be in -Cherokee council Wednesday--end Thursday. March 13 and 14, to meet with the leadership training chairmen of all the districts of Cherokee and map out a well rounded training program for the remainder of the year. Mr. Eby will hold conferences with Presi dent Holland MoSwain, J. O. Tho mas, chairman of Leadership Training and with Executive A. P. Patterson on Wednesday. Scout leaders from all of Chero kee council will hear Mr. Eby at 8 o’clock Wednesday night in in Burlington. On Thursday Mr. Eby will meet with key leaders of the various districts and all leadership training chairmen will be the guests of the Reidsville Kwanis club Thursday night. D. C. Swartz of the Person district is chairman of training here. Mr. Eby has a rich background as leader in boys’ work for 20 years. While a member of the Chicago Council staff, his respon sibilities in training men for posi tions of Scout leadership and his relationships with many Chicago institutions and groups eminent ly qualify him for his present post to which he was appointed by the National Council on Oct ober 16, 1937. Mr. Eby has a wide education al background, having attended Carnegie Tech, Muskingum col lege at Ne# Concord, Ohio and done part time graduate work in psychology at the University of Chicago from 1925 to 1929. Dur ing the summer of 1923 he was of a party of 18 persons repre senting the International Y. M. t C. A. He tcured twelve European j countries studying student con ditions i Mr. Eby has served as a pro- I fcssional leader in the Boy Scouts | of America since 1923. He served j 12 years in the Chicago council. His work in Leadership Training in Chicago involved general sup ervision of approximately 75 courses a year completed by a total of 1,500 or more Scout lead ers. Mr. Eby has also had wide ex perience in camping. Before en (Continued On Back Page) Hold Services For Brother Os Local Man In New York Funeral services for Isadore Raiff, prominent business man and a founder and the president of the Rayless Stores corporation, will be held in New York city this afternoon. Mr. Raiff, who was a native of Russia, lived for many years at South Boston, Va., and was a brother of Harry Raiff, leading Roxß&ro v merAhaJltr : —" - Mr. Raiff, who had come to Durham on business last Wednes day was stricken with a heart at tack early Thursday morning while staying at the Washington Duke hotel and died a short time later at Watts hospital. Following his death the remains were tak en to New York city. Surviving and his wife and two sons. Three brothers -and three sisters also survive. Mr. Raiff, of this city, accompanied the body to New York. o CLUB WILL MEET Monthly meeting of the School masters’ club will be held Tues day, March 12, at 6:30 o’clock at Hotel Roxboro, according to an nouncement from the club presi dent, Lewis S. Cannon, who stated that an interesting program has been prepared. Along The Way With the Editor o—o—o—o Yes, I have mekJhe new city manager. He apge ars to be a very nice fellow main thing that I have heard against him is that people j»y. he looks likf George Cushwa. Mr. Blox am came to the U. S. A. from England about twenty years ago and ever since that time he has been looking for the best city in this (Country. Now that he has found it he decided to set tle down and do some real living in good old Roxboro, U. S. A. Mayor Freeman Nicks has let the contract for his new resi dence. He expects to move in his new house in about three months and in the meantime he will appreciate any gifts of lumiture that you might matte to him at his residence on La mar street. Once again the Kiwanians will meet the Rotarians on the basketballl court and once again old men like Jimmy Millican, George Currier, Gene Thompson, Glen Titus, Gus Deering and others will try to be young boys for an hour or so. It will pro bably require two weeks for Gus Deering to walk like a hu man being after playing in the game and George Currier may Keep a hump in his back for a month or so. Flash Thomas Bowles plans to defeat the high costs of -by raising a nice garden this year. By this we mean that he should raise a garden, but it may require more work on the lart of his wife to get Thomas to plant a garden than the gar den would be worth Wonder if E. G. Overton will try to have a garden that is as good as the one that Marquis Lawrence had last year. Earn est is rather stout and we doubt his bending ability. stika Pre-School Clinics Carded To Start Monday Morning Starting Monday morning at 9:30 o’clock at Person County Training school the first of a ser ise of nine or more pre-school clinics to be conducted in Person county during the month of March will be instituted by the tri-coun ty health department, of which Dr. A. L. Allen is Person director. These clinics are being held in both white and Negro schools, and conducted annually in the spring in order to examine child ren who are expected to enter the first grade in the fall. Dr. Allen said today requests for pre-school clinics to be held at any school net listed below may be answer ed at the discretion of the health department, for which a week has been left open between March 21 and 28. The announced schedule of pre school clinics, all to begin at 9:30 o’clock in the morning, is as fol lows: Ca-Vel, Wednesday, March 13; Woedsdale (c) Thursday, March 14; Hurdle Mills, Friday, March 15; Bushy Fork, Monday. March 18; Central (Roxboro), Friday, March 22; Bethel Hill, Wednesday, March 20; Lee Jef fers (c) Thursday, March 21, and Olive Hill (c) Thursday, March 28. o Helena Scouts Give Play At School A play the “Mock trfaTof a far mer for robbing his soil”, music by local talent, songs by the Glee club, and several Scout demon strations were features of an all variety program sponsored by the Boy Scouts of Helena Friday night in the school auditorium. Characters were as follows: John Robbitt - Ray Wilson, Jud ge - Dickey Holeman; Attorney for State, Earl Hill; Sheriff, Ber nard Gentry; Attorney for de fendant, Peter Cooper; Witnesses. County agent, Mr. Wilson, voca tional teacher, L. C. Liles; Pat Hooligan, Penn NoeU, Jr., Will Knowit, Paul Garrison; B. A. Humbug, Eugene Pickard; Clerk, Billy Wilson; Swen Swanson. Junior Mcßrcom; Mrs. McCarthy, Mellba Hill; Hanna Hale, Joyce Chambers; Mrs. Cross, Margaret Hill and Pleasant Newkirk, Tal mage Timberlake. o Light is cheap—Sight is price less. SUNDAY, MARCH 10, 1940 Times Makes Excellent Offer On Subscriptions Board Discusses Spring Club Plans Although complete plans for the spring and summer season have not yet been announced, members of the board of gover nors of the Roxboro country ■club, in session Thursday night with the club committeemen, said after the meeting that the golf course, beginning today, will be open for playing. Formal opening of the spring l season may be arranged for a round the first of April. Presid ing over the meeting was the club president, Dr. J. H. Hughes. BENEFIT GAME' WILL BE PLAYED P. T. A. Sponsored Double- Header Monday Night Ex pected to Draw Crowd Under the direction of Mes dames B. B. Knight and C. B. Kirby, some two score women of the Roxboro Parent Teachers as sociation are preparing for active participation in the P. T. A. spon sored basketball game to be play ed tomorrow night betwen mem bers of the association and women of the faculty of the city schools. The game will be called at eight o’clock in Roxboro high school gymnasium and will be one game in a doubie-hea3er series, Tt hav ing been arranged that there will also be a contest between men of the faculty and business men here. Members of the faculty com mittee are Miss Virginia Wilson and H. C. Gaddy. For the teachers a feminine star of the evening is expected to be Miss Inda Collins, while the P. T. A. lineup will be taken from the following: Mesdames Wallace Harris, Vay ton Hall, Elizabeth Cheek. Cy Kirby, Gilmer Masten, Rufus Har ris, R. H. Shelton, E. V. Boat wright, Dewey Bradsher, R. B. Dawes, Martin Michie, Lawrence Woods, Jack Hughes, Robert Whitfield, Stonewall Jackson, Henry Walker, Charlie Stewart, and Misses Anna Chandler, Inez I Hight and Helen Slaughter. o Bushy Fork Has Court of Honor Tribe No. 4 of Bushy Fork held its monthly court of honor Friday night in the Bushy Fork school. On the court were C. H. Mason, Bill Van Hook, E. P. Warren and Byrd Long. Merit badges passed were Carpentry, by P. T. Hower ton, Reuben Joe Long,, Boy*s» Blalock, Prod Rae Moore, Albert Warren, Nath, anitui Broach, Harold Hester, James Earl Hester, Fred Yar boro. First Aid. by Beverly Bullock. Safety, by Reuben Bowes. Reading, Iby Fred Long. Pioneering and Cooking, by Joe Long. • Civics, by Reuben Bowes and David Rae Moore. First Class badges, Joe Long Tenderfoot, Nathan Hurdle. The meeting dosed with the pledge to the flag. o RETURNS HOME L. W. Thacker has returned to Roxboro after undergoing an op eration at Watts hospital, Dur ham. It is understood that he is recovering nicety. * l ~** . . y . THE TIMES IS PERSON*** PREMIER NEWSPAPER! A LEADER AT ALL TIMERS NUMBER THIRTY-FOUR For Limited Time Each New or Renewal Subscrip tion Will Get One Set of Cutlery Free of Charge. The Person County Times is now making an offer that people of this section can hardly afford to refuse. For each new or re newal subscription to this paper the publishers will give one of the three sets of cutlery that are pictured in an ad cn the inside of today’s paper. One set consists of three kit i chen knives and they are really knives that you will appreciate and should last a long time. Another set consists of a knife and fork, this set is known as a steak set and once you see it you are sure to want it. The third set is a big kitchen knife and it appears to be one of the best that we have ever seen. This knife will come in handy for a hundred things a round the house or in the kitchen. The company that makes these sets has the following to say, con cerning them: “The Cattaraugus Vanadium Steel Knife set is a tribute to fine cutlery. It has been carefully tem pered and adroitly fashioned .by experienced cutlery craftsmen to give you a Knife Set that will render satisfactory service for many, many years to come. “The blades are made of finest Vanadium steel which is one ot the hardest and purest metals known to science and, therefore, capable of holding an edge much longer than blades made of soft, er, mirror-like stainless steel. . “Because of the Vanadium con. tent in the steel, the blades eg your set are equal in cutting qual ities to blades of the most expen sive cutlery sets.” Every time you come in and place $1.50 on our desk for a new subscription or a renewal, you take your pick of a set. Os course, the time is limited and right now it is not known how long the of fer will last. Come in today if you want one. o PERSON HEALTH ; REPORT OF PAST MONTH IS GIVEN Whooping Cough Only Un usual Feature During Feb.- ruary, Dr. Allen Reports 1 In presenting the February re r port of the Person unit of the tri . county health department, Dr. ■ A. L. Allen, Person director of l the department, today said that l nothing significant in the nature ■ of disease spread had occurred ’ duTin month except an in ’ tense epidemic of . cough. Gn one day, for example; ► he, as twenty-three cases were reported in twenty four hours. All cases were qua , rantined after having been re ported. In hygiene 209 children were i examined by a dentist, with 1065 as the total of operations per i formed, while 82 children receiv ed medical examinations by a ?! physician. Vaccinations for small pox reached 56 and diptheria im ; munizations were given to 28. Twenty tuberculosis nursing visits were recorded and fluro scopic examinations were given 23 times. In the syphilis camp -3 aign 454 treatments were admini - stored to 155 patients enrolled - and 74 blood tests were mads, s Maternity service included the c (Continued On Back Page) ?T C*U,S - . !, ■ ■ - ' ■ V ...
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