IF IT IS NEWS ABOUT
PERSON COUNTY, YOU’LL
FIND IT IN THE TIMES.
VOLUME XI PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY & THURSDAY
Union Services
Will Be Held
On Good Friday
According to plans now being
made, the annual dounty-wide
“Gooel Friday” service will be
held here on Friday, March 2, at
the First Baptist church, this
city, with the pastor, the Rev. W.
F. West, in charge of the services,
which will be held from 12 noon
until three o’clock in the after
noon.
Music will be ' furnished by
members of the ohlair of the First
Baptist church, but, in addition
to Mr. West, other ministers will
participate in the service and will
. deliver brief meditations ori the
“Seven Last Words of Christ”.
Among the speakers will be the
Rev. Thomas H. Hamilton, of the
Roxbbro Presbyterian church,
who is serving as program chair
men this year.
Other ministers who will join
in .the program include, the Rev.
W. C. Martin, of Edgar Long Me
morial Methodist church; the Rev.
E. G. Overton, of the Person cir
cuit (of the Methodist church; Rev.
D. A. Petty, of Broksdale Meth
j odist church; Rev. J. H. Shore,
i retired Mejthodist minister, the
f Rev. J. F. Funderburke, of the
! Bethel Hill Baptist church and
33. B. Ferguson, Jr., of Duke uni
versity and lay leader in the
Episcopal church, who is in char
ge of services at St. Mark’s Epis
copal church, this city.
Mr. Hamiltlon said today that
the Good Friday services this
* year will be similar to services
held here in former years and
that all interested persons, re
gardless of denominational affil
*• rations or the lack of it. will be
welcomed to attend either the
whole or a part of the service.
o
SCHOOLMASTERS
SELECT THREE NEW
OFFIOALSTUESDAY
Young Is President Pro
gram On “Complaints” Pre
sented By Several Speak
ers. '
»
• Election of new officers and the
presentation of a “Complaint
Night” program were features of
the monthly dinner session of the
Person Schoolmasters’ club held
Tuesday evening at Hotel Rox
boro. New president of the organ
~ ization is H. D. Young, principal
-of Olive Hill school; vice-presi
i dent is Hubert Gentry, coach at
| Hurdle Mills, and secretary is S.
|;-B. {jfatterwhite, principal of Al-
Jti lenawille school,
jfc The treasurer will be appointed
.at a later date by the president,
| Mr. Young, who succeeds Lewis
S. Cannon, principal of Bethel
HUI schfcui.
H Night” speakers
Included Miss-Nina Rogers, of
the Helena faculty; B. G. Crump
| ton. school committeeman, of Al
lansville; Miss Inda Collins, prin
tlpal of Central Grammar school,
this city; Mrs. B. B. Newell, of
IVjthls city, as a representative of
parents; R. B. Griffin, superin
tendent <4 Person county schools
and J. L. Hester, principal of
Bushy Fork school.
Although .the general theme of
meeting centered around
f "Complaints", practical problems
such as grades, school buses and
road conditions were discussed.
gSk major problem has been re.
ji&ntly the matter of arrival of
school buses on schedule, it was
**N*L These present reported that
phS msiKhtg was one of the most
.enjoyoNe fax the current year.
fl
lersonMims
Death Misses Classroom Mark by One Hour
Death was cheated by one hoar’s time recently when a water heater exploded in the Ripon junior high
school at Modesto, Calif. The heater blew up at 6:55 in the morning and ripped out a whole corner of the
athletic building, left. It sailed 150 feet through the air and was projected through the agricultural building,
right, piercing both walls of the structure like a giant cannon ball. It sailed another 150 feet before burying
itself in the ground. There were no casualties as classes were not scheduled to gather until one hour
later.
Revival Jo Begin
Sunday Morning
At Concord Church
i
Starting on Palm Sunday,
, March 17, a series of “Holy Week”
ct revival services will be con
ducted at Concord Methodist
church, near this city, with ser
. mons by the pastor, the Rev. E.
, G. Overton, in the morning and
, evening.
Closing tonight at the same
church will be a mission study
| class being conducted there for
! the entire charge of the Person
1 circuit. Speaker at the study class
last night was Miss Ruth Brooks,
deaconess of the Oak Grove Meth
odist church, who discussed sev
eral chapiters of the new United
Methodist mission study book by
the Rev. John R. Mott, while the
speaker for tonight ‘will be Mrs.
E. G. Overton.
All mission study programs
have begun at 7:30 o’clock in the
evening. Opening speaker at the
Monday class was the Rev. Mr.
Overton.
o
County Meeting
Os Teachers Held
Monday Afternoon
At a county-wide meeting of
teachers held Monday afternoon
in Central school, Miss Brown
physical education director, de
monstrated the value of physi
cal education and vocational
training. Groups from the second
and fifth grades at Central school
were used for the demonstrations
by Miss Brown. A group of boys
and girls from Mt. Tirzah high
school also staged a demonstra
tion in square dancing as a form
of recreation and physical train
ing.
Mrs. S. B. Winstead had char
ge cf the group singing for the
meeting.
Charles Spencer, of the state
department of education, was pre
sent and made a brief address on
supervised physical education in
the normal developments of a
school student.
All white Schools in the qounty
will be dosed Friday afternoon
in order that the teachers may
attend the NCEA meeting in Ra
leigh. The meeting will continue
through Saturday.
"k
OWEN PASS ILL.
Owen Pass has been 111 at his
home on the Loch Lily road for
the past several days. It Is report
ed that his condition is much bat
ter.
W. D. Merritt On
Durham Program
Wm. D. Merritt, dean of the
Person cototy bar, has been in
vited to make a speech at the de
dication of the new Federal Court
house of Durham. The exercises
will be held Monday, March 18,
at 10:00 a. m. In an interview
yesterday, Mr. Merritt stated that
he had accepted the invitation.
The entire Person County Tsar
has been invited to be present
and it is thought that a number
from Roxboro will be on hand
for this service. Many other law
yers are expected from the fifth
district.
Judge Johnson J. Hayes of the
Federal court will be present anc
will take part in the exercises.
o
W. D. Yarborough
Passes At Home
W. D. (Blace) Yorborough, 76,
well-known Roxfojoro resident,
died at his home here at 3:30 o’-
clock Wednesday afternoon, fol
lowing an illness of a few days
with paralysis. Funeral services
will be conducted Friday after
noon at 2 o’clock at the Roxboro
Primitive Baptist church by El
der J. A. Herndon.
Surviving are his wife, the Dor
mer Miss Nettie Hicks; one son,
W. H. Yarb|:rough; one adopt
ed son, Dewey Yarborough, all of
Roxboro. Also surviving are
twenty-one grand-children and
nine great - gnadch ildren.
o— -
TEACHERS LOST
In the P. T. A. Benefit basket
ball games that were played Mon
day night at the high school gym
nasium the mothers won from the
women teachers and the fathers
won from the men teachers.
Whether the scores 1 were too
large or too small to be reported,
is not known, but the sports wri
ter of this paper was not able to
fird out how many points were
made by any bf the teams.
BENEFIT PROGRAM
Under the auspices of the Long
hurst school’s Parent Teachers as
sociation, a benefit program by
the Holden Brothers and their
troupe will be presented at the
schcicl on Saturday evening at
7:30 o’clock. The Holden’s Jack
and Fairley, appear on a weekly
program sponsored by Station
WPTF, Raleigh, and are consid
ered as popular entertainers by
many people.
Montague Rites
Held Monday At
Bethel Hill Church
Funeral services for Mrs. Wil
liam L. Montague, 58, the former
Miss Myrtle Bryan, whose death
occurred suddenly about 10 o’-
clock Sunday night at her resi
dence in the Bethel Hill commu
nity, Person county, were con
ducted Monday afternoon at 3
o’clock at Bethel Hill Baptist
■church by the pastor, the Rev. J.
F. Funderburke. Interment fol
lowed in the church cemetery.
Mrs. Montague, who sufered a
stroke of paralysis about six years
ago, had been unwell for some
time, but until the moment of
death she appeared to be about in
usual health.
In addition to her husband, she
is survived by four sons, Bryan,
Randolph, Robert and Rand Mon
tague, all of Person county.
Pallbearers were: Hull Gentry,
Ralph Jones, W. R. Day, Earl
Humphries, John Duff Joyner,
Woody Rogers, Gibbs Boswell and
Newton Day.
o
Annual Banquet
Os High School
Group To Be Held
The annual Roxboro high school
Junior-Senior banquet will be
held this year on the evening of
Friday, April 5, according to an
nouncement made today. Hassell
Whitfield, president of the junior
class, and faculty committee
members, Miss Lucy Bowers, Mrs.
Leo Riabon and Miss Ruth John
son, are making plans for the ev
ent.
Although the complete program
has not yet been decided upon, it j
is known that the affair will be
given ait Hotel Roxboro and those
in charge cf the entertainment
features have said that an enjoy
able time my be expected. The
two classes have a larger enroll
ment than they have had in sev
eral years.
o
COURT GAME POSTPONED
The Rotary _ Kiwanis basket
ball game scheduled for tonight
has been postponed Dor one week.
The game will be played Thurs
day night, March 21. in the high
school gymnasium.
Bad weather was given as the
reason for the postponement.
o
Nearly 50% of the 839 fatal ac
cidents an highways of this stage
last year -were on straight roads.
Get Your Cutlery
The Times’ offer on cutlery
is going fine. Many people have
been in to renew their sub
-1 scription and have received one
of the three sets that are being
offered.
If your subscription has ex.
pired or if you are not now
taking the Times you are urged
to come in and pay your sub
scription. You are sure to be
pleased with the set that you
receive and in addition you get
for $1.50 the paper for one
year.
Come in today and see these
sets—this offer will be with
drawn at an early date.
SCHOOL CONCLAVE
WILL BEGIN TODAY
Around 3,000 Expected For
56th. Annual Convention Os
State Educators.
Raleigh Three thousand pub
lic school teachers, principals and
superintendents are expected to
attend the 56th annual conven
tion of the North Carolina Edu
cation asociation association here
today through Saturday.
Foremost in the minds of many
' of the delegates will be a pro
posed pension plan for teachers.
1 Such a plan is slated to be sub
mitted to the 1941 general assem
bly, and the association member
ship is virtually certain to go on
' record as favoring .gome sort of
’ a retirement system.
J. Henry Highsmith, director of
■ instructions service of the state
• department of public instruction,
is president of the association,
■ and will preside ever the conven
; tion. He will be succeeded as pre.
■ sident by S. G. Hawfield, princi
pal of the Penderlea high school
at Willard, Pender county.
There are three candidates—R.
1 W. Carder of Hickory, K. Q.
1 Phillips of Winston-Salem and M.
P. Young of Princetlon—to suc
ceed Hawfield as vice-president,
1 and voting has been underway
for the last several months. Bal
-1 lots will be counted Friday after
noon, and the winner is almost
certain to become president in
1941.
The first general session will
start at 7:30 p. m this evening.
Speakers will be Charles F. Car
ricll, Jr., cf High Point, who will
leport for the committee on con
stitutional amendments; Jule B
Warren, association secretary,
who will speak on “Our Associa
-1 tion;” President Highsmith, who
will discuss “Evaluation,” and the
Rev. Dr. E. McNeill Poteat, for
merly of Raleigh and now of
Cleveland, Ohio, who.will talk on
■ “The Place of Religion in a De
mocracy.’’
The convention will be preced
ed by a meeting of the board of
directors and a session of school
superintendents. Mrs. J. M. Day
j of Asheville, W. P. A. education
J official, and Dr, Carlyle Camp
bell, president of Meredith col
lege, will address the superin
tendents.
o
ADDITIONAL CLINICS
Pre-school clinics, in addition
to those announced on Sunday,
will be held at Allensville school
on March 26, and at Lenghurst
on March 27,. according td an
nouncement made today by Di*.
A. L. Allen, director of the Per
son unit of the trijefounty health
department, who said that each
clinic will begin at 9:30 o’clock
in the morning.
The series of pre-school dimes
began on Monday of this week
and will continue Dor g period of
approximately three weeks in
various sections of the county.
THURSDAY. MARCH 14, 1940
Number Important Matters
Come Up At Council Session
EASTER SEALS
NOW ON SALE
Children In Schools Acting
As Selling Agents; Pro
ceeds To Go To Crippled
Children. ,
The Easter Seal Sales cam
paign for crippled children has
been started in Person county
and is now actively underway. It
will continue until Easter.
Mrs. T. C. Wagstaff, welfare
superintendent, is chairman of
the drive. Seals have been placed
in schools over the county and
children are serving as selling
agents. It is also understood that
a selling campaign by letter
writing will also be conducted in
connection with the drive.
Seal Sales fund are divided on
an equal basis, half of it remain
ing in Person county and the oth
er half going to the North Caro
lina League for Crippled Child
ren. The proceeds are used to pur
chase braces, special shoes and
other supplies for children han
dicapped with physical defects.
People of this county are urg
ed to cooperate with the children
who are selling the seals and to
purchase just as many as they
can afford. The cause is most
worthy.
o
Ladies Injured ,
On Visit Here
Mesdames W. C. Warren and
L. L. Deßrußa of Burlington and
daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Rich
ard Holeman, of the Hurdle Mills
community were injured about
9:30 Sunday morning when their
car skidded 'c ff the Bushy Fork
- Hurdle Mills road and crashed
into a tree.
The injured ladies were on their
way to visit their parents in this
county when the accident occur
red.
Both were brought to Commu
nity hospital in Roxboro. Mrs.
Warren suffered several cuts and
bruises about the forehead and
chin and Mrs. Deßrulla suffered
several fractured ribs. They were
■carried back to Burlington Sun
day afternoon where it is report
er that they are recovering nice
ly.
o
WINS HONOR
Miss Ella Harris Winstead,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Winstead, of Roxboro, N. C., was
among those winning honors in
a theme contest at King’s Busi
ness college. Greensboro. First
place went to Jack Brantley,
Misses Edna Smith and Mabel
Fisher. Honorable mention went
to Miss Ella Harris Winstead,
Aubrey Bray and Miss Frances
Graham,
’ jJ i..
* o
WIN AWARDS
Messers A. Z. Pulliam and M.
T. Saunders of the Tar Heel
Chevrolet company, have received
nice 21-jewel Hamilton watches
from the Chevrolet Motor conu
pany. The watches were given to
these men for selling a certain
number of cars during 1939.
They had to sell 100 new cars or
ovef or 200 used oars or over dur
ing the year. Both men qualified
for the prizes.
o-
Four times as many people were
killed on rural highways aa on
city streets in this state last year,
although tfae number of urban and
rural accidents was about the
same.
THE TIMES IS PERSON 1 *
PREMIER NEWSPAPER!
A LEADER AT ALL TIMES
NUMBER THIRTY-FOUR
Purchase of Tract For Fu
ture Water Facilities An
nounced. Other Improve. •
ments Planned.
In connection with the engi—.
neor’s report to the city >of. Rox_
boro’s waterworks commission,
presented at the monthly session
of the city council Tuesday night,
it was announced that purchase of
a tract of land approximately
248 by 144 feet, located on North
Main street has been made with
a view of providing at a later
date a site for the construction of
a storage plant for city water.
The land is part of the property
of T. C. Brooks and purchase was
approved by the council, although
a date for the construction of the
proposed new water-supply fa
cility was not set.
It was also announced that the
present sewer project will proba
bly be completed in May and
that arrangements will be made
to have a new project approved
whereby additional water, sewer
and pavement improvements can
be secured at an estimated coat
of between twenty-five and thirty
thousand dollars. It is also plan
ned that beginning around the
first of April the Roxboro Coun
try club golf course, in a state of
incompletion for some time, will
be finished by WPA under whose
direction the previous golf cour
se improvements have been car
ried out
At this session, the first regular
session attended by the recently
chosen city manager, Percy Blox
am, it was also announced that
improvements will be made to the
fire station and its equipment, in
cluding the truck.
o
CELEBRATION HELD
BY LOCAL BAPTISTS
SUNDAY MORNING
t
Baby Contest Closes With
Jimmy Woody Winning;
Building Fund Drive Con
tinued.
Members of the Roxboro First
Baptist church, of which the Rev.
W. F. West has been pastor for
fifteen years, celebrated the 58th.
anniversary of the founding of
the church by hearing the Rev.
Dr. C. T. Binkley, dean of the
department of Religion, Wake
Forest college, deliver a sermon
Sunday morning on the “Prere
quisites of a Good Church'Mem
ber.”
Special music was furnished by
a quartette from Wake Forest
college and an address on the
history of the local church was
delivered by J. W. Noell, editor
of the Roxboro Courier. Another
feature of the morning was the
presentation of a silver loving
cup to James Woody, young son
of Mr, and Mrs. J. J. (Dick)
Woody, of this city, who was
winner in a “Baby” contest spon
sored as a church building fund
benefit by circle five. k
In connection with the church
building fund, the. Rev. Mr. West
(announced Monday that an ad
ditional $12,588.40 was subscrib
ed Sunday, making an approxi
mate total of $27,000 pledged thus
far. Mr. West said that construc
tion of the Sunday school build
ing on the present church-Sunday
school building site may begin a
round the first of April. Plans for
the structure and for the church
edifice, in brick colonial design,
wer » approved some time ago by
member* of the congregation. Tbe
present structure is on the cotter
of Main and Academy streets.
- *■ - vi _ - - « « • -jr*iai