IP IT IS NEWS ABOUT
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FIND IT IN THE TIMES.
VOLUME XI PUBLISHED EVERT SUNDAY & THURSDAY
NEGROES INVOLVED
IN LOFIIS AFFAIR
GIVEN FREEDOM
Grover Cleveland King
Sentenced to 30 days on
Boads.
Ijjjiding that William A. Loftis,
54, Person White man whose
body was Sound Friday morning
at the home of Mary King, one
of his Negro tenants, “came to
his death through natural caus
es”, members of a six man cor
oner’s jury Monday morning
readied an agreement and order
ed the release of the King woman
who had been held in Person
county jail as a material witness
since she reported Loftis’ death
early Friday morning of last
week..
Also absolved of blame in con
nection with Loftis* death was
Grover Cleveland King, young
Negro man who was said to have
beep engaged in conversational
dispute with Loftis at the time
the white man suddenly dropped
dead oh the parch of the King
cabin Thursday night.
King, who had ben detained in
jail since Friday night, was how
ever tried Monday morning be
fore a justice of the peace on a
charge of disorderly conduct
growing out of the dispute. Sen
tence of thirty days on the roads
was imposed upon King for this
offense.
At the Monday hearing which
was the second session of the cor
oner’s jury, it was again brought
out that Loftis had no wounds of
any kind on his body and that
there was n oevidence of ftrnl play.
Mary King stuck to her story that
she called Mr. Loftis to her house
Thursday night to quell a dis
turbance created by Grover Cle
veland King and that the white
man suddenly fell dead, as pre
"viously related.
In a telephone conversation af
ter the Monday session Person
County coroner, Dr. A. F. Nichols,
expressed the opinion that death
may have (been caused by heart
failure.
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Helena Debaters
Win On One Side
Helena afirmative debating
team, composed of Nancy Tillett
and Lawrence Rogers, won over
the negative team from Creed
moor in the Helena school audi
torium, Thursday evening, March
28. The judges for the debate were
Messers.. B. B, Knight, Fitz Davis
and J. B. Currin.
Helena negative team compos
ed of Violet Starke and Paul Gar
rison, lost by a two to one decis
• son to the Hurdle Mills affirma
tive team at Hurdle Mills on the
sane evening.
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Troop 49 Holds
Regular Meeting
Troop 49 held its regular meet
ing in the basement of the Com
munity house this week, with 23
Boy Scouts present. The meet
ing was opened with the Scout
Oath, foUriwed by the roll call and
short patrol meetings. Frank
Whitt then led the boys in several
songs.
For a short time Dr. Robert
Long, the scoutmaster, led in a
discussion |cf overnight hikes and
m trip to the World’s Fair. The
meeting was dosed with the
Scoutmaster’s benediction.
This program was in charge of
Clyde Whitt’s patrol.
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Speed was the major cause of
highway deaths in North Caro
lina last year.
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CUBS IN ACTION i J
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Zip and go . . . that’* the life for a CUB (0-12 year*). Many such
happy, ..neighborhood-centered activities fill the CUBBINO RTtgrMl ts
the Boy Scouts of America.
Plans For Reorganization
Os "Cub Pack” Discussed
William R. Tilley
Rites Will Be At
Residence Friday
William R. Tilley, 74, respect
ed citizen of the Mt. Tirzah com
munity, Person county, died Wed
nesday morning at 11 o’clock, at
his residence, after an illness
lasting one year and three
months. Death was attributed to
the infirmities of age and compli
cations.
Funeral services will be con
ducted Friday afternoon at 2:30
o’clock at the residence by Elder
Lex Chandler, who will be assist
ed by Rev. O. L. Riggs. Interment
will take place in the family ce
metery.
Surviving are his wife, the for
mer Miss Beattie Cates; four
sons, W. C., Clarence 0., and
Fred W. Tilley, all of Person
county, and E. R. Cates, of Colum
bus, O.; four daughters, Mrs. Les
sie Clayton and Miss Gertrude!
Tilley, both cf this county, and
Mrs. Lelia Garrett and Mrs. Myr
tle Ryan, both of Columbus, O.;
three brothers, Joseph and James
Tilley, of Bahama, and John Til
ley, of California; one sister, Miss
Bettie Tilley, also of Bahama and
seven grandchildren.
Behel Hill P. T. A.
To Meet Monday
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The Bethel Hill Parent Teachers
association will meet Monday
night; April 8, at 7:30 in, the
school. auditorium.
A very interesting program in
the ‘Social Life of Boys and Girls
in the Community” is being pre
pared". In addition a play by the
seventh grade entitled “Our trees”
will toe presented.
Another very interesting fea
ture of the program will be a
thirty-minute motion picture in
technicolor. This film “Tulip Time
at the World’s Fair” presents
many beautiful scenes from the
tulip gardens at the fair.
Officers far next year will be
voted on at this meeting.
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Former Roxboro
Citizen Gets Honor
J. D. K. Richmond, former Rox
boro citizen and native of this
county, has been re-elected vice
president of (the South Boston,
Va. Tobacco Board of Trade.
Mr. Richmond buys tobacco on
the South Boston market for Rey
nolds Tobacco dotnpany. Prior to
his moving to the Virginia city he
bought on the local market.
Open Meting On Program
Os Scouting For Younger
Boys Will Be Held This
Month.
Plans for a discussion meeting
relative to reorganization of the
Roxboro and Person “Cub Pack”,
a unit of Scouting designed to in
terest boys of pre-Scout age, were
considered this week at a session
of the re-organization committee
and it is exipected that the re-or
ganization program will be pre
sented to parents and boys inter
ested in the project at an even
ing gathering to be held later in
the month at the Roxboro Com
munity house.
Cubbing is a relatively new
part of Boy Scout work, and in
Roxiboro it has for the past two
years been under the direction of
William Pickering, of the . Col
lins and Aikman corporation, and
prior to that time, under C. A.
1 Harris. A significant phase of
“Cub Pack” work is the close
coperation expected between
1 leaders of the work and parents
'of the boys participating. Meet
ings are held once each month,
attended by the leaders, parents
and boys.
It is announced that under the
plan of reorganization the local
pack will be sponsored by a
committee representing the. men
of St. Mary’s and St. Edward’s
Catholic church and that the cub
pack leader will be Joe Ellis, Jr.,
of the Perccn county division of
the Dan River Soil Conservation
project. Mr. Ellis is a member of
Roxboro First Baptist church.
Members of the sponsoring
committee are William Pickering,
Gue Deering and George W. Kane,
all j:f whom are actively inter
ested in Scouting. It'was pointed
out that meetings of the cub pack
will not be held at the church but
at some convenient central loca
tion or in the homes of parents
of the boys.
Exact date Her the discussion
meeting will be announced later
and it is hoped that many parents
and boys will attend.
Members 'cf the reorganization
committee present at the meet
ing held this week were Clyde
Swartz, Thomas J. Shaw, Jr., and
Messers Pickering, Deering and
Ellis.
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DATE ADVANCED
Announcement was made yes
terday that presentation date of
“Spring Fever”, Roxboro high
school senior play has been ad
vanced from April 26 to April 19.
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“The Friends thou hast and
their adoptions tried, grapple
them to thy soul with hoops of
1 steel
—Shakespeare
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DAWES ELECTED
JUDGE OF PERSON
RECORDERS COURT
Unanimously Elected Mon
day At Regular Session Os
( County Commissioners.
Acting upon recommendations
presented Monday morning by the
Person Bar association through a
committee representative of the
association, members of the Per
son county Board of commission
ers, in regular session, unanim
ously elected R. B. Dawes, Rox
boro attorney and' former mayor,
as judge of the recorder’s court.
Mr. Dawes, who subsequently
said that he would accept the po
sition, will serve as judge until
January 1, 1942, filling out the
unexpired term lof Judge W. I.
Newton who died last week. Thb
commissioners also decided this
morning that there was no vacan
cy of the ofice of judge pro-tem,
in view of the fact that S. G. Win
stead, of this city, was duly ap
pointed to this position in the
first Monday in January this
year, and that since this office had
been previously filled, the bar’s
provisional recommendation as
to the appointment of Jule B.
Warren as judge, pno-tem should
not be adopted.
No action was taken upon the
Bar’s recommendation that there
should be an increase in salaries
paid to the judge and the solicitor,
it being the opinion of oommis
skxners that the question of sal
aries should be deferred until the
setting up of the county budget
for the next fiscal year. For the
remainder of the present " fiscal
year salaries will remain as they
hve (been.
First session of the county court
with Judge Dawes as presiding
officer is scheduled for Tuesday,
April 9.
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Song-Play By Miss
Lisette Allgood To
Be Presented Here
“Music Festival in Songlandia”,
the libretto of which has been
prepared by Miss Lizette Allgood,
young Roxboro resident, who is
maw a student at Meredith col
lege, will be presented on the ev
ening of Thursday, April 11, at
Central school auditorium here,
according to announcement made
today by Mrs. Sam Byrd Win
stead, of the city school music fa
culty, who will direct the pro
duction.
Plot of Miss Allgood’s “song
play” is said to be similar to that
of Wagner’s “Die Miestersingers”
and in the course of its presenta
tion opportunities for including
folk-songs, classical music and
dances from many nations is pro
vided. More than one hundred
school children are expected to
be in the production, which will
be presented at 8 o’clock in the
evening.
Choir Will Sing
Friday Evening
Because of a change in sche
dule, the appaearance of the Ben
nett College choir, tof Greensboro,
at the Person County Training
school for Thursday evening,
April 4, has been postponed until
Friday evening, April 5. The
choir will be directed by the dis
tinguished composer, Dr. R. Nath
aniel Dett
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SHOWS IMPROVEMENT
Victor Satterfield is reported
to be much better after a severe
illness c f two weeks duration.
ZEBV. MORTON
DIES AT HOTEL
Well-Known Hotel Clerk
Dies In Sleep Early Ibis
Morning.
Zeb V. Morton, 37, night clerk
at Hotel Roxboro, was found
dead in his room about 11:30
o’clock this morning, Mr. Morton,
who had been suffering from a
cold and a sore throat, had con
tnued working although he had
been unwell for several days. He
was last seen early this morning,
shortly after mid-night, when he
retired to his room to go to sleep.
Death was attributed to a heart
attack.
Discovery of the body was made
by a maid at the hotel, who
knocked on the door, obtained no
response and then entered, for
the purpose of morning cleaning.
Mr. Morton, who was the son
■cif the late Mr. and Mrs. Zeb V.
Morton, of this county, had been
in delicate health almost all his
life. Only dose relatives surviv
ing are an uncle, Stephen Moore,
of Person county, and three aunts,
Mrs. C. T. Stephens and Mrs.
Nannie Timberlake, of Semora,
and Mrs. Lundy Bowles, of Pet
ersburg, Va.
Mr. Morton had been connect
ed with Hotel Roxboro for about
two and a half years and prior to
that time was employed at the
Palace theatre.
Funeral arangemants are in
complete, although it is expect
ed that the services will be held
tomorrow.
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COMMISSIONERS
VOTE TO ASSIST
LOCAL HOSPITAL
Person Commissioners Vote
To Assist Hospital By Con.
tributing To Debt Fund.
Provisions for incorporation in
the Person county 1940-41 budget
of an appropriation of $2,500 to
be contributed to Community hos
pital’s debt fund was made Mon
day by the Person County Board
of commissioners, of which Phil
ip L. Thomas is chairman.
The action was taken by the
commissioners following the ap
pearance before the board of a
hospital finance committee com
posed of J. W. Noell, Flem D.
Long and Reade Gentry. Members
of the committee pointed out that
the present indebtedness of Com
munity hospital is slightly in ex
cess of $21,000 and that the Duke
endowment has recently offered
the institution a conditional grant
■cf $12,000 to be used in partial
cancellation of this debt, the pro
vision being that the remaining
sum necessary to clear the debt
shall be contributed by citizens of
the town and county.
It was also pointed out that
with the appropriation from the
commissioners budget $2,500 and
a hope for appropriation from the
city council of $1,500, the amount
to be raised by private subscrip
tions would be $5,000. It is ex
pected that a campaign to raise
the last mentioned amount will
not get underway until after the
matter of a city appropriation will
be presented to the city council,
although it is the hope of the
hospital board and the finance
committee to complete the local
raising of funds by September.
The county commissioners also
considered the requests, present
ed by a delegation of representa
tive Negro citizens, that the coun
ty appropriate sufficient funds to
pay pars of the monthly salary of
a Negro Home Demonstration ag
ent, but action; was deferred un
til the budget is matte up.
THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1940
Golf Club Rules Regarding
Membership Fees Announced
Proctor and Petty
Chosen As Finals
Speakers At School
Ocmmenoement speaker at
Hurdle Mills school will be Mr.
A. M. Proctor, of the department
of Education, Duke university,
who will deliver his address Fri
day evening, May 10, at 8 o’clock
in the high school auditorium,
while the baccalaureate sermon
will be given at the same place on
Sunday, May 5, by the Rev. D. A.
Petty, pastor of Brooksdale Me
thodist church.
The Rev. Mr. Petty will deliver
his sermon at 8 o’clock in the
evening. Both Mr. Petty and Dr.
Proctor are known to many Per
son dc.unty residents and it is ex
pected that they will have large
audiences. At the Friday evening
finals graduation exercises will
be held, culminating with presen
tations of diplomas and awards.
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Dr. McDonald To
Be Main Speaker
At Helena Finals
Speaker at the finals, Thursday
evening, May 9, at Helena school,
Person county, will be Dr. Ralph
W. McDonald, of the Extension
Division, University of North
Carolina, of Chapel Hill, accord
ing to announcement made today
by R. C. Garrison, principal, who
said that another featured speaker
will be the Rev. J. Winston Pear
ce, recently chosen as pastor of
the First Baptist church, Durham,
who will deliver the baccalaur
eate sermon.
The Rev. Mr. Pearce, a native
of North Carolina and an alum
nus of Campbell college and Wake
Forest, will deliver the sermon to
the graduating class, Sunday af
ternoon at 3 o’clock, May 5. Mr.
Pearce received theological train
ing at Southern Baptist Theologi
cal seminary and at the Univer
sity of Chicago. For mere than
three years he has been pastor of
First Baptist church, Nevado, Mo.,
but on April 10 will become pas
tor of the church at Durham.
Dr. McDonald was four years
ago candidate for Democratic no
mination as governor of North!
Carolina and is a popular state
figure, as well as an attractive
speaker, and Mr. Garrison said
this morning that he is very pleas
ed to report that Mr. McDonald
and the Rev. Mr. Pearce have ac
cepted the invitations extended.
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Hurde Mills To
Give Senior Play
The Senior class of Hurdle
Mills school will present a play,
“The Path Across the Hill”, Fri
day, April 12, at 8:00 o’clock in
the eveing. The charcters will be
Ruth Conrad, a young school
teacher; Helen Foushee; Walter
Conrad, Ruth’s brother, Harold
Horton; Grandpa Crawford,
Ruth’s grandfather, Rose Whit
field; Flo Gray, Ruth’s Frivalous
cousin, Delma Clayton; Lutie,
Ruth’s friend, Varonioa Hall;
Grandma Davis, Lutie’s grand
mother, Ora Murray; Dr. Jimmy
Reed, Ruth’s friend, Clarence
Hall; Robert Post, Ruth’s young
boarder, Dallas Gates; Zuzu,
Ruth’s Negro Qook, Nelle Breeze;
and Salamander Alexander John
Henry Jones, Zuzu’s admirer,
Jack White.
THE TIMES IS
PREMIER NEWSPAPER
A LEADER AT ALL TIMER
NUMBER THIRTY-SEVEN
Schedule of Payment Ar
ranged So That Old and
New Members Will Be
Placed On Equal Basis.
In a statement issued by How
ard K. Strang, secretary-treasur
er, member of the board of dir
ectors of Roxboro Country club,
incorporated, today said that it
will henceforth be necessary for
■club members to take over main
tenance of the golf course, it be
ing pointed out that the course;
at Chub Lake, is substantially
complete as far as WPA is con
cerned.
Also, it was said, alterations to
the club house are completed,
with the exception of a few need
ed further improvements which
will have to be assumed by the
club members. Citing these facta,
the directors are of the opinion
that the question of dues, tinder
discussion for some time, is now
more pertinent than ever and that
some adjustment lof the due*
schedule must be made if the
club is to continue function as it
should.
With this problem in mind the
directors have presented a plan
whereby dues will be equalized.
Under this plan any member who
has in the past contributed $25
or over will be considered a
“Paid-Up” membr and this a
mount will be credited as a “Paid
Up” fee, which will as of April 1,
1940, be required of all member*
of the Club.
Effective as of April 1, 1940
annual dues will be $25, payable
quarterly. It was indicated that
all members who have to April 1
paid more than $25 as dues will
have the extra amounts prorated
as payments on 1940 dues, but it
was clearly indicated that those,
members who have not paid in as
much as $25 during the past year
will have to contribute the addi
tional sum necessary to make the
paid-up fee now required of all
members, although an arrange
ment has out where
by completion of the paid-up fee
may be made by bojh old and new
members on a quarterly basis. **
It is also anounegd that a daily
green fee of fifty cents will be
charged all non-members desir
ing to use the golf course.
In discussing the plans for fin
ancial adjustments, as proposed
above, members of the board of
directors pointed' out in their
statement that under the plan no
attempt is being made or will be
made to collect all back dues,
but that all members Will resume
payment, regardless of how much
they have paid in to date.
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Slaughter Child
Has Diphtheria
Carl Slaughter, two years of age
and son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Slaughter, who reside in the
southern section of the city near
the Oxford-Durham highway, ‘is
Person county’s second victim of
diphtheria since the first of Jan
uary, according to announcement
made today by Person Health of
ficer, Dr. A. L. Allen, who said
that although the child has been,
ill for several days, his condition
is not regarded as serious.
But disoovery of the case has
prompted Dr. Allen to reiterate
statements previously made as to
the importance of parents seeing
that all children over six months
of age are given diphtluris anti
toxin. The Slaughter child had |
not been so treated, it whs mid, |
although state law now require* ,J
diphtheria innoculatkm. ■ Ja
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