or IT IS NEWS ABOUT
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VOLUME XI PUBLISHED EVEKV SUNDAY & THURSDAY
FINAL MEETING
OF LOCAL P. T. A.
HELD THISWEEK
Mis. Shelton Given Thanks
Vor Fine Leadership Dnr.
h| Past Tear.
With the president, Mrs. R. H.
Shelton, presiding, the April, and
final meeting for the spring sea
son, of the Roxboro Parent-Teach
ers asociation was held at Central
Grammar school Tuesday. In
her report of the state Parent-
Teachers congress held last week
in High Point, Mrs. Shelton an
nounced that the work of the lo
cal unit was recognized by the
awarding of a “Standard” certi
ficate, the first time such recog
nition has been given to the Rox
boro unit.
Following this announcement
Mrs. Shelton received a rising
vote of thanks for her work in
making this distinction possible.
Giving a resume of the pro
gram at the state congress, which
was also attended by Mrs. J. H.
Hughes, as official representative,
and by Mrs. Dewey Bradshe’%
Mrs. Shelton said that the theme
of the congress was “Educational
Needs in North Carolina and How
They May Be Realized” and that
. particular attention was paid to
possibilities of expansion through
federal aid, one of the chief speak
ers being Dr. Howard Dawson.
Program for the afternoon was
in charge of Mrs. Hughes, who
presented H. C. Gaddy, supervis
ing principal. At the suggestion
of Mr. Gaddy, motion was made
that two Parent-Teacher associa
tion units be formed in Roxboro.
tone for the grades system and one
for the high school, it being point
ed out by Mr. Gaddy that the
time had now come when P. T. A.
work in the city could be more
effectively carried on by two or
ganizations.
The motion was adopted and it
was announced that meetings of
both organizations will be held
in the near future for the pur
pose of planning the programs for
the fall season.
In setting up the two units the
following officers were chosen:
for the high school, Mrs. R. H.
Shelton, president; Mrs. A. F.
Nichols, vice-president; Miss Rox
annah Yancey, secretary and Mrs.
C. B. Kirby, treasurer, while for
the graded school unit the presi
dent will be Mrs. George Tho
mas; the vice-president, Mrs. B.
B. Knight; the secretary. Mrs. W.
C. Tunberlake, and the treasurer,
Mrs. Dewey Bradsher.
Both Mrs. Shelton and Mrs.
Hughes expressed thanks for the
sgleadid cooperation received dur
ing the year.
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Senior Glass Os
Allensville To
Present Play
Seniors of Allensville high
school will present as their an
nual commencement play. “A For
tunate Calamity” tomorow night
at 8 o’clock in the school auditor
ium. Rehearsals have been in pro.
gress for some time and it is ex-!
pected that the production will
be of unusual interest to friends of
the school. The formal commen
cement program will' begin Sun
day evening, May 5, when the
Rev. J, F. Funderburke will deli
ver the baccalaureate sermon,
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Crossing due street between in
tersections is five times as like
ly to result in death as crossing
at tatscsnctione, records of the
Highwajr JSsfety Division show.
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Person County Times
IflSfroclamation
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U Unoto m jWen, atih Cbflliren ,||
®f)ese "Presents:
W - **" THAT, Whereas the NATIONAL CLEAN UP, PAINT UP
|a AND FIX UP CAMPAIGN has resulted in many advantages to f||
'community life throughout the United States,
111 In Safeguarding HEALTH and SAFETY;
In promoting EMPLOYMENT and THRIFTt) » M
W In furthering FIRE PREVENTION; ) fl
H In promoting BETTER HOUSING; ' 4|
R !In making the "HOME AtiD CITY BEAUTIFUL*^
H| -NOW, THEREFORE, Be it known that plans have been
>eri'teted for a thorough CLEAN UP, PAINT UP and FIX UP
H CAMFAIGN in Roxboro, North Carolina. Beginning April 29th.
This date to mark the Opening of a real campaign of persist- Ms
ent and constructive effort in cleaning up, fixing up and mm
■ KEEPING IT UP. In this worthy movement of Cleaning, I|||
Fainung, Planting, Repairing and general Rehabilitation and ll§||
IIhL Beautification we urge each citizen to do his or her best part <4
H to make our community JHH
HR Clean, Healthy, Thriftyj
So F. Nicks, Jr., Mayor B
Next Week Proclaimed As
'Clean-Up’Time In Roxboro
Registration Books
To Open Saturday
In County Precincts
Registration books for the var
ious precincts in this city and in
Person county will open Satuur
day of this week and will be clos
ed Saturday, May 11, at sun
down, according to announcement
made today by the chairman of
the Person County Board of elec
tions, S. F. Nicks, Jr.
Mr. Nicks stated that all reg
istrations, transfers from one pre ■
cinct to another and changes of
party affiliation will have to be
made within this' period. During
the registration period registrars
will be at the polling places of
their respective precincts on each
Saturday, that is to say on Sat
urday, April 27, May 4 and May
11.
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MANY EXPECTED
Attendance of a large delega
tion of Person County Young
Democrats at the district dinner
meeting to be held Saturday ev
ening at 7:30 o’clock at Hotel
Belvedere, Reidsville, was pre
dicted tedlay by S. F. Nicks, Jr.,
president of the local unit. Tick
ets allotted to Mr. Nicks have
been sold and it is expected that
around 30 Person people will at
tend.
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tory.
Woman’s Club To Sponsor
Drive And Will Conduct
Tcur.
Local observance of “Clean-Up
Week”, by proclamation of May
or S. F. Nicks, Jr., issued today,
will begin icai April 29 and will
be continued through Monday,
May 6, when members of the Rox
boro Woman’s club, sponsoring
organization for the campaign,
will have an afternoon tour and
a program on “Gardens and Flow
ers”.
According to Mrs. T. T. Mit
chell, dub chairman of the
“Clean-Up” campaign, prizes will
be awarded for the cleanest, neat
est and most outstanding home
grounds, including front and rear
lawns and gardens. Judges, whose
nrmes have not yet been announ
ced will make decisions during
the aftemon tour, while the club
program will be given at Rox :
b:ro Community house at three
o’clock in the afternoon.
Mrs. Mitchell said today that
she and the members of the dub
are most grateful for offers of co
operation received from City
Manager Percy Blcxam and from
Collins Abbitt, of the city sani
tation department. Clean-Up
week has been observed here for
a number of years.
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MR. SHORE TO PREACH
Rev. J. H. Shore will preach
at the Presbyterian .church Sun
day morning at 11:00 a. m. His
subject wil be “Andrew, the Av
erage Man”.
Church achool at 9:45 a. m.
Second ‘Cub Pack’
Meeting Held With
Eaton As Speaker
Speaker at the second group
meeting Os parents and boys in
terested in the formation of a
Roxboro “Cub Pack”, organiza
tion for boys between the ages of
9 to 12, was Howard Eaton, of
Burlington, who delivered an in
spirational message concerning
the work, Wednesday evening at
Roxboro Community house.
Third meeting in the series will
he held next Wednesday night
at 7:30 o'clock at the Community
house, where Mr. Eaton will a
gain be the speaker. Present with
Mr. Eaton last night was Chero
kee Scout Executive A. P. Patter
son, of Reidsville.
Both Mr. Eaton and Mr. Patter
son pointed out that the success
or failure of “Cubbing” is de
pendent upon the degree of co
operation secured from the par
ents, since they are the ones un
der whom the better part of the
program is conducted.
Named as a committee to se
cure attendance were Mrs. R. B.
Dawes, Mrs. Elijah Horton, Mrs.
J. A. Long, Tom Street and Tho
mas J. Shaw, Jr.
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WINS DISTINCTION
C. C. Garrett, Jr., son of Mr,
and Mrs. C. C. Garrett, of this
city, and a student at Furman
university, Greenville, S. C., has
•been chosen reporter for the
“Hornet”, the university news,
paper. Young Mr. Garrett will re
port news from the journalistic
department. He is a first year stu
dent in the uuniversity and is
also catcher on the Freshman
baseball toara.
Gets Campus Honor
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Officers of the Greensboro College Student’s Handbook for 1940-
11 are Miss Carolyn Smith, of Goldsboro, left, editor and Miss Grace
Osborne Clayton, of Roxboro. business manager. Miss Clayton is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. G. Clayton.
Bloxam Main Speaker At
Social Agencies Meeting
Local City Manager Uses
“Why Have A Social Agen
cy?” As Topic For Address.
Building his theme around the
question, “Why Have a Social
Agency”, City Manager Percy
Bloxam, addressing the Person
County Council of Social agen
cies, at its monthly luncheon ses
sion at Hotel Roxboro, emphasiz
ed the fact that social agencies
are needed to day to assist in car
ing for people who are in distress
because of unemployment and so
cial malajustment.
Many people, Mr. Bloxam aver
ed, are today questioning the
value of social agency work, and
many of the questions asked are
valid because, although social ag
ency service reaches people not
taken care of by churches or oth
er conventional charitable organi
zations, the best of fore-thought
and planning has often not gone
into the social agency programs
presented.
Citing specific examples of soc
ial rehabilitation possible through
WPA, an agency with which he
has been familiar because of his
previous connection with the state
WPA administrative office, Ra
leigh, Mr. Bloxam indicated that
best service from WPA for Per
son county and Roxboro can only
be obtained when an organized
group sufch as the Council of So
cial agencies goes to the trouble
to show other residents of the
oounty what can be done and de
monstrates this knowledge by
backing a planned PWA program.
Mr. Bloxam, who was intro
duced by the program chairman,
Thomas J. Shaw, Jr., said also
that the county could have had,
deserves to have and he hopes
will have a more satisfactory
WPA program. He pointed out
that this program and others par
ticipated in by workers in social
agencies can, if properly admin
istered, be of untold benefit to
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Sunday School
Meeting To Be
Held Sunday
The fourth Sunday meeting of
the Baptist Sunday schools of
Person county wil convene at
Lamberth Hill church on Sunday
afternoon at 3 o’clock. Rev. H. B.
Anderson, pastor of Grace church,
Durham, will speak on “Evangel
ization in the Sunday School.”
Every Sunday schbol worker in
tiie association should hear this
inspirational message.
THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1940
Plans Discussed
For Meeting Os
Young Democrats
Plans for a rally of Person
County Young Democrats to he
held next week at the court house
were discussed this morning at
a meeting held in the office of S.
F-. Nicks, Jr,, president of the
Person Young Democrats* club.
Date of the rally, which will pro
bably be held during the latter
part of the week, will be announ
ced later, Mr. Nicks said.
It was announced that precinct
chairmen, to be selected, will
have opportunities to win theatre
tickets as prizes fa rthe most ef
fective results in a membership
drive. Iwo pairs of tickets will
be awarded to the leading pre
cinct chairmen in Roxboro and
two pairs will also be given to
leaders in the county precincts.
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Young People’s
League To Give
“Circus” Friday
Plans for a benefit “Circus”,
sponsored by . the Epworth Lea
gue of Long Memorial Methodist
church, to be given Friday even
ing at Roxboro high school audi
toriuum were announced today
by members of the committee in
charge. Participating in the per
formance will be many local citi
zens who will assume roles as
acrobats, freaks and circus ani
mals. The performance will be
gin at 8 o’clock in the evening.
Profits derived from the show
will be used for a missionary
fund and to send delegates to
summer assemblies at Louisburg.
Among those in the “Circus”
cast will be Karl Burger, H. C.
Gaddy, Leo Rabon, Frederick
Moore, George Cushwa, Vernon
and Ronny Thomas, Edna Harkey,
Wallace Woods, Earl Bradsher and
Henry O’Briant.
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CHURCH PROGRAM
A church school day program
in which a number of -children,
young people and adults will par
ticiapte will be held Sunday af
ternoon at 2:30 o’clock at Woods
dale Methodist church, according
to announcement made today by
the church Deaconess, Ruth
Brooks.
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PERSON SUPERIOR
COURT ADJOURNS
HERE WEDNESDAY
Light Docket In Both Cri.
minal Actions Heard By
Judge Harris of Raleigh.
Following completion of cri
minal docket lof opening day.
Person Superior court, under
Judge W. C. Harris, of Raleigh,
Tuesday morning passed to con-,
sideration of annulment and di
vorce actions on the civil calen
dar.
Last /of the few criminal cases
on the docket Monday was that
of Jack Redman charged with as
sault with a deadly weapon on
Ward Alkins, Hurdle Mills youth,
late last year. Redmond, who en
tered a plea of not guilty and had
appealed from recorder’s (Jourt,
received sentence of 12 months on
the roads. His sentence was ex
actly doubled over that which he
received in lower court, but no
tation was made that prison
authorities 'be notified that Red
mond had at one time escaped
from State Hospital for the In
sane, Raleigh.
Evidence was introduced to
show that the shooting, done with
a pistol at the Alkins’ home, wax
accidental.
Mack Lyons, James Miller,
James Hayes, alias Joe Hayes;
and George Hedgepeth, Durham
Negroes, who have been confin
ed to Person county jail since
their arrest on charges of break
ing, entering and larceny from
two mercantile establishments
here early in February, entered
pleas of guilty. Heaviest senten
ce was received by Lyons, who
will be required to serve not less
than four nor more than eight
years in state’s prison. The oth
er three were sentenced to not
less than three nor more than six
years on the county beads.
It was stated that the four
Negroes had been involved in a
Durham county robbery prior to
their thefts from Roxboro mer
chants and the sentences imposed- ‘
yesterday were regarded as be
ing of sufficient severity to cover
both robberies and to obviate ne
cessity of trial in Durham coun-**-.
ty.
By a direct verdict Neil Rhew,
of near Rougemont, was founds
nict guilty of simple assault on a.
female. Rhew’s case, brought up
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Graduation Plans
Now Complete At
Allensville High
Feature of the commencement
program at Allensville bight
school will be an address by Stater
Superintendent of Public Instruct
ion, Clyde A. Erwin, of Raeligh,
on the evening of Friday, May
10, at 8 o’clock, in the school audi
torium, where diplomas and aw— - -
ards will be presented. Introduc
tion of the speaker will be made
by R. L. Harris, prominent Rox
boro resident and candidate for
Democratic no.nination as lieuten
ant governor.
Also on the evening’s program
will be R. B. Griffin, Person
County Superintendent of schools,
while the baccalaureate sermon
will be delivered on Sunday ev
ening, May 5, at 8 o’clock, by the
Rev. J. F. Funderburke, pastor of
Mill Creek and Bethel Hill Bap
tist churches.
Class day exercises for Allens
ville Seniors will be held oa.
Tuesday evening at 8 o’clock,
May 9, and the 7th grade exer
cises will be held two days later
at 10:30 o’clock in the morning.
All commencement events will
be held in the school ifflniliiiii .