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IP IT IS NEWS ABOUT PERSON COUNTY, YOU’LL FIND IT IN THE TIMES. VOLUME XI TAXI MEN WILL MEET AGAIN TO DISCUSS JPLANS New Regulations For Con trol of Taxi Service Here ♦ Will Be Made At An Early Bate. At a meeting attended by 21 out of 22 taxi operators and dri vers in the city, Tuesday night, Floyd Howard, Sam Lockhart and Fred Kir km an were named as representatives to confer with city officials in regard to proposed re gulations pertaining to taxi ser vice in Roxboro. Selection of the committee was made Tuesday following confer ences with Mayor S. F. Nicks, Jr., City Manager Percy Bloxam and City Attorney F. O. Carver. It was announced that another meeting of the taxi men will be held tonight at 7:30 o’clock at the office of the chief of police at the city hall. Both Mayor Nicks and City Manager Bloxam made it clear that the meeting had been called Tuesday night for the purpose of helping taxi operators here reach agreement among themselves and with city officials as to regula tions needed. Mr. Carver also made a brief statement in which he expressed appreciation for the large attendance. In explaining the city’s posi tion in regard to taxi service and traffic regulation, City Manager Bloxam cited various laws enact ted by other municipalities and said that similar rules could be passed here, although it is prob ~abl e 'thKUhoVall the measures mentioned will be adopted in the Roxboro code. Matter of most serious con cern to the taxi men was liability insurance. Several part-time op erators declared that if the msur nce measure was enacted into law that they would have to go out of business. Discussion of insur ance, of parking space and cf telephone service, rate charges for fares and of the possibilities of an operator’s agreement as to the number of taxis to be on duty at night was continued af ter city officials left the meet ing, but no definite action was taken. ,■ —o Plans Complete For Presentation Os Bible And Flag Complete plans for the Long hurst chapter of the Junior O. U. A. M.’s presentation of a Bible and an American flag to Helena jhirh school, which will take place afternoon at 2 o’clock at 111* school were yesterday an nghnced by members of the pro gam committee. Presenting the Bible will be N. Sankey Gaither, of Harmony, State councilor, while the flag will be given by J. L, White, of State vice-councilor. Ac ' eeptance of the Bible will be (hade by R. C. Garrison, principal of the •school, and of the flag by L. C. Liles, of the faculty. Presiding officer for the after- Sf noon will be R. B. Dawes, judge 'of the Person county court Invo cation by the Rev. E. L. Hill, will ■ be followed fey an address of wel come JbsLß. JB.; Knight, Roxboro E while introduction r will be made by licks, Jr., of Rox also introduce Mr. tETURNS *' we, who has been atts hospital, Dur & Community hos- PUBLISHED EVERT SUNDAY ft THURSDAY Buss Family Counts Off for Census Enumerator When a Chicago census taker asked Mr. and Mrs. Dan Bnss of Blue Island, Chicago suburb,' how many children there were in the family, he was confronted with a whole fleet of Busses. Pictured with Papa Buss, 43, and Mama Maud Buss, 40, are the 14 little Busses, from 1 to 34 years old. Grandma Buss, not present for the picture, also lives in the five-room Buss bungalow. Another son, Dan, 23, was not at home. The census taker was happy for he is allowed four cents for each name he lists. Had he called a month later he would have been four cents richer. Cooper Invades Person For Night, Then Goes On Way BOY TAKES LONG CHANCE RIDE ON INCOMING TRUCK Gets Here From Roanoke, Va. By Hiding Between Two Two Tracks. 'r‘ What’ll you give for a nice double-chassis, free ride? Rad ford Turner, Negro, 18, and with] a wooden leg, had one last night' from Roanoke, Va., to Roxboro. j Seeing a convey of trucks and automobiles, the skeleton kind from Detroit, with one machine] piled up on another so that two can travel fcr the cost of one, young Radford decided that the brace rods and drive-shaft of one of the trucks, covered over by the one above it, would make a safe hiding and traveling place. Stretching his body out over his precarious berth, Radford left Rcanoke, but the driver did not know he was carrying a passen ger until the headlights from one of the cars in the convey spotted Radford’s dark figure while the group was passing through Rox boro. On the Main street here the cavalcade came tc a halt and left Radford with Charlie Wade and Gilbert Oakley, members of the local police department, who were called to the scene to make official investigation. When they found the Negro youth he was half curled around the spare tire rack, with the rest of his body on the slender steel frame below. He seemed not to be bothered by the fact that the officers es corted him to the edge of town. Making the rest of the trip to (Continued On Back Page) ————o Coates Infant Dies At Duke Funeral services for Carlton Coates, two months old son of ( Mr. and Mrs. William Coates, of this city, whose death occured Wednesday night at Duke hospi tal, Durham, after an illness of five days with pneumonia, will be conducted Friday afternoon at two o’clock at Falling River church, near Brookneal, Va. The child, who is survived by his parents, three brothers and two sisters, had been at the hos pital for two days. A,* • •' ' s ■ .-.-TT \ I cl ft la\| >/ M Mayor of Wilmington Halts Sound Truck Here, Speaks, Eats and Then Goes To Bed. First of the six candidates for Democratic nomination as gover nor to pay an official visit to Per •gfrlT, ivrayoi' TgrtTChoper, df Wil mington, reached Roxboro about eight o’clock Tuesday evening with his red “sound-wagon” in full blast; made a Main street speech in front of the court house and departed Wednesday morning about 9 o’clock, after spending the night here at Hotel Roxboro. First stop of the morning of Coop er and the members of his party was at Yanceyville. “I am”, said Mayor Cooper, “a believer in property rights, but I am an equally strong be liever in the sacredness of human rights. I believe in organized la bor and collective bargaining and, if I am elected I intend to 3ee that capital and labor lock arms and do not lock horns.” Getting more personal, the can didate declared: “Person county last year paid $44,000 in sales taxes,” adding that the sales tax, to which he was opposed in 1935 and 1937, and to which he is still opposed, “has been driving busi ness from the border counties in to Virginia”. Other topics men tioned included the change of date of the sale of automobile tags from January 1 to February 1, with suggestion that automobile tags be sold at the rate of $5, and, the advdcacy of the making of teaching as a profession more at tractive by holding good teachers and thereby attracting more teachers of talent to the ranks. In conclusion Mayor Cooper aver ed that North Carolina is spend ing four times as much on crime as it is on education and that it is much cheaper to spend more cn education and less on crime. With Mr. Cooper were three or four members of his official “red wagon” staff. He held the atten- I tion of the crowd for about an hour and then went to a local case for supper. o ILL AT HOSPITAL Marvin Long, of the A. and M. Food Shoppe, who has been ill with pneumonia for several days, is a patient at Community hospi tal. His condition is regarded as satisfactory. Old Pistol Still Proves Power Curtis “Pluto” Long, as sistant to his brother, Dol ian Long, who operates a haberdashery shc,p here, de cided yesterday to let “Gone With the Wind” weapons a lone. Standing in front of the store, he was playfully pointing a double-barreled “Civil War” pistol at the parked autom'ofjfte' df Ray Jackson, Roxboro business man and friend of the Longs. Suddenly, the pistol went off. The bullet struck the front fender of the Jackson car and then rebounded to the side walk, where it spent its force against concrete and was later found by a by stander. Examination disclosed that both barrels had been load ed: those who are curious can see the pistol in the shop window, where it forms part of Rhett Butler’s equipment in Dolian Long’s “contest” display. So far as the broth ers are concerned, it will stay there until it is returned to its owner, Gilmer Masten, in whose family it has been since long before Atlanta burned. o Young Democrats District Rally To Be Held Soon S. F. Nicks, Jr., chairman of the Person County Young Demo crats, announces that a district rally of members of the arganiza tion in the Fifth Congressional district will he held Saturday, April 27, at 7:30 o’clock, at Hotel Belvidere, Reidsville. Expected to attend the meeting and speak, are Congressman A. D. “Lon” Folger, of Mt. Airy, representa tive of the Fifth district, and D. L. Ward, 1939 speaker of the House of Representatives, Raleigh. Mr. Nicks reports that he has received a number of tickets from Clarence L. Pemberton, Yanceyville attorney, in charge of arrangements for attendance, and that he and Mr. Pemberton are anxious for full representation from Person County Young Dem ocrats. Saving seconds when, you are driving is certainly false econ. omjr. THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1940 Mrs. Ada Morton Dies At Residence Monday Afternoon Mrs Mrs. Ada Morton, 64, of Longhurst, died Monday after noon at 2 o’clock at her residence. Death was attributed to compli cations. Mrs. Morton had been in a cri tical condition for three weeks and health for a year and a half. She was the widow of George W. Morton and was a daughter of the late George N. and Ellen Walker. Funeral services were conduct ed Tuesday afternoon at 4 o’clock at Longhurst Methodist church by the Rev. T. M. Vick, Jr. Interment was at Shiloh church cemetery, near Woodsdale. Surviving are six daughters, Misses Annie, Eliza, Louise and Lorena Morton and Mrs. Luther Green, all of Longhurst, and Mrs. R. Bruce Billings of Durham; five sons, Jack and Irwin Morton, both of Longhurst, Melvin Morton of Wilson, Onza L. Morton of Pasca gonla, Miss.; three brothers, J. C. Walker of Black Ridge, Va., J. T. Walker of Danville, Va., and Buck Walker of Winston-Salem; one sister, Miss Sallie Walker of Dan. ville, and 14 grandchildren. Pall bearers were: Bernice Ho werton, William Wilbom, Charlie Harris, Jimmy Beavers, James Lambeth and N. Castle. Flower bearers were nieces, nephews and grandchildren. o FINAL PROGRAM WILL BE GIVEN Roxboro Parent-Teacher Association Will Meet Tues- day To Hear Reports From State Session. Members of the Roxboro Par ent-Teachers association will hold the final meeting of the spring season Tuesday afternoon, April 23, at 3:30 o'clock, at Central Grammar school, according to an nouncement made this morning. No formal program is planned but there will be installation of officers and reports from delegat es to the State P. T. A. congress mow being held at High Point. Official delegates are Mesdames R. H. Shelton and J. H. Hughes, while Mrs. Dewey Bradsher is also attending. All members are urged to at tend the meeting Tuesday as it is expected that the state reports will be of unusual interest. o Scout Council Holds Regular Monthly Meeting The Person County Scout coun cil met Tuesday night in the of fice of Dr. A. F. Nichols with a large number of Scouters present. The meeting was presided over by George Cushwa, president. Clyde Swartz reported on the plans for the formation of a Neg ro troop in Roxboro and stated that everything was working nice ly in that direction. The troop will probably be organized with in a month. Swartz also reported that a training course for prospective Cubs and their parents would be held tonight at the Community house at 8:00 p. m. Other reports indicated that Scouting was in excellent shape in this county and that much pro gress was being made under the new president, Mr. Cushwa. o Eleven pedestrians were killed . in the state last year when they steppd from behind perked can, Several Candidates File For Office At Last Moment Mr. Hovis Accepts Call To Roxboro Rev. W. F. Hovis, Baptist min ister, cf Pilot Mountain, has ac cepted a call to North Roxboro and Antioch Baptist churches, Roxboro, according to announce ment made this week. Mr. Hovio, who Will begin his duties Sunday, succeeds the Rev. J. L. Coley, who accepted a call to Raleigh several months ago. Kane Selected As Committeeman For Region Six Election of C. L. Emerson, of Atlanta, Ga., as chairman of the executive committee, Region 6, Boy Scouts .cf America, and of George W. Kane, of Roxboro, as one of the fifteen North Carolina committeemen was announced following a meeting of Region 6 leaders at Greenville, S. C. Tues day. Emerson, past president of the Atlanta area council, succeeds Paul W. Schenck, of Greensboro. Region 6 embraces the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida. Other North Carolinians named on the committee with Mr. Kane included: H. Smith Richardson, of Greensboro and New York, Edwin F. Lucas and Herman Cone, of Greensboro, Leslie Weil, of Goldsboro and W. Granville Taylor, Nelson Jackson, Jr., J. E. Willis, R. N. Wilson, Bismark Capps, F. C. Hardin, H. D. Meyer, Dr. W. T. Rainey, and J. J. Barn hr.rdt. Also Luther H. Hodges, of Leaksville-Spray. o Demonstration Field Meeting To Be Held Tomorrow On Friday afternoon, April 19, at two o’clock, there will be a demonstration field meeting at the T. B. Davis farm, route 2, Rox boro, on the control of blue mold, according to announcement made today by the Person Farm Agent’s office. It is said that blue mold has already appeared in eastern counties in the state and it is hop ed that Person tobacco growers will attend this meeting, since me thods of control will be clearly presented. Another field meeting will be held on the farm of A. Floyd Hicks, near Helena, at two o'- clock Monday, April 22, to point out the value of an insect-tight plant bed. Mr. Hicks has built tight side walls and fastened the plantbed cloth according to in structions in order to insure free dom from leaf-eating and leaf sucking insects. All farmers are cordially invited to be present at this meeting. o PARENTS INVITED Parents of boys between the ages of 9 and 12 are invited to attend 9 meeting being sponsor ed tonight at 8 o’clock at the Rox boro Community house by mem bers of the “Cub Pack” reorgani zation committee, of the local Scout council. Letters of invita tions were delivered earlier in the week, but all parents inter, ested in the program are invitee to attend. Members of the com mittee are William Pickering Clyde Swartz, and Tboknaa J SI law, Jr. THE TIMES IS PERSONS PREMIER NEWSPAPER A LEADER AT ALL TIMBK NUMBER THIRTY-NINB Number of Republicans Will Contest For Positions Being Sought By Democrats. For the first time in several years Democratic aspirants for political offices in Person county f will in November elections face Republican opposition, six mem bers of the latter party having filed at the last moment Saturdays afternoon as candidates for elec-. tion to offices cf county commis sioner, registrar of deeds, treas urer and representative in the house. Among Republicans who filed was J. H. Scarborough, of Rox boro, ccunty chairman of his par ty, who will seek election to Per son’s seat in the House. In Democratic circles consider able interest was aroused here late Saturday because of announce ment by W. Irving O’Briant, Rox boro insurance man, that he will seek the office of county treas urer, now held by J. Brodie Riggsbee, who announced his candidacy for re-nomination several weeks ago. Both Mr. Riggsbee and Mr. O’Briant have filed with the Person Beard at elections, but Mr. O’Briant did not file until Saturday. Fifth Democratic candidate for nomination as one of the three Person County commissioners will be W. H. Gentry, a farmer and merchant of the Allensvlile com munity, who filed Saturday al though he had not previously an nounced his intention to seek the office. Also filing for the same of fice was Sam Byrd Winstead, De mocrat, of this city, who announ ced Thursday of last week. Other Democrats seeking commissioners posts are the three incumbents; Philip L. Thomas, chairman, D. M. Cash and Frank Whitfield, all 1 of whom have previously filed and announced. In addition to Mr. Person Republicans who filed Saturday included: Clyde T. Sat terfield, Marvin E. Clayton and J. R. Whitt, for commissioners; C. Spurgeon, for Register of Deeds, and E. J. Clayton, for treasurer. t> • Mr. Satterfield, a farmer, is a (Continued From Front Page) o r Kivvanians Hear j Gordon C. Hunter At Monday Session Meeting at Roxboro Community house for their evening dinner session, members of the Kiwania club heard Gordon C. Hunter, executive vice-president of the Peoples bank and president-elect, cf the Rotary club, discuss intri cacies of modem banking. In the course of his talk Mr. Hunter des cribed a typical day in a bank and showed the increasing neces sity of checking and re-checking details of operation. He also il lustrated by examples and by charts the amount of time devot ted to services of exchange bdC tween banks, and to work having little connection with the publics conception of the duties of bank ing. At a brief business session a committee was appointed to prow cure new signs for the club’s high way advertising program. Presid ! »ng was the club president, F. (X Carver, Jr. One new; member, t Ed Cunningham, was admitted ter membership. - i 0 “When troubles come, they come not in single spies, but kv f. batallions.”