IF IT US NEWS ABOUT
PERSON COUNTY, YOU’LL
FIND IT IN THE TIMES.
VOLUME XI
Person’s Teacher Allotment
Received From Capital City
Person Superintendent of
Schools R. B. Griffin announced
Tuesday that the county’s 1040-
1941 allotment of teaichers, as re
ceived from the State School com
mission, Raleigh, will total 195.
The nearly 200 school teachers
for Person includes all teachers
in the county schools, both men
and women, in white and Negro
high schools and elementary di
visions, and represents a loss of
only two teachers from the Per
son system.
In this latter connection Mr.
Griffin said that under the Com
mission’s allotment two addition,
al teachers will be provided in
white schools, one each at Hurdle
Mills and at Bethel Hill, and that
the loss to the county teaching
staff is represented by the fact
that four Negro teachers will not
be required under the state al
lotment system.
He said, however, that applica
tion to the State School commis
sion has been made for an addi
tional teacher at Roxboro Central
Grammar school and for one ad
ditional tealcher at Olive Hill and
Lee Jeffers Negro schools, respcc.
tively. As Mr. Griffin pointed out,
if these applications receive fav.
orable action the previously es
timated loss of two teachers for
1940-41 will be changed to an
increase of one.
Under the state allotment which
has been received the addition
al white teachers will teach in the
Hurdle Mills elementary division
and at Bethel Hill high school.
The complete list of Person teach
ers to be employed is not yet
available but is expected to be
released prior to the early Sep
tember opening of the schools,
Mr. Griffin reported.
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Play To Be Given
Friday Evening
The Young People’s class of
Helena Methodist church will pre
sent “Aaron Slick from Punkln
Crick” Friday night at eight o'-
clock in the school auditorium at
Helena high school. The public is
invited to witness all the an
tics of the tomboy Sis Riggs, the
dry humor of the old farmer,
Aaron Slick, the sleekness of the
clever Mr. Merridew, the poetic
diction of Clarence Green, and the
.anxious desires of the widow Ber
ry to enter society, as well as the
trials of the sweet young city
thing, Miss Gladys May Merri.
dew, on her first trip to the coun
try. The proceeds of this rural
comedy will go to the Red Cross.
The cast of characters, made up
of local talent, follows:
Aaron Slick, not as green as
he looks, Guy Timberlake.
Clarence Green, a rising young
man, Wyche Tillett.
Mr. Merridew, a city slicker,
Eric Hill.
8k Riggs, a modern tomboy,
Mary Charlotte Terry.
Gladys May Merridew, a sweet
young thing, Margaret Hill.
The Girl in Red, Gladys Cham
bers.
Guests at the Hotel, seven mem
bers of the Sunday School class.
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MISSIONARY MEETING
||LACE 18 CHANGED
|§The Warren’s Grove Missionary
Hjciety will meet Friday evening,
Kly 12, at 8 o’clock with Mrs.
Bee Wrenn instead of with Mrs.
JBrvin Harris as was announced
IBs time ago. Ladies of the
jßjpb will please notice this
pttfe of place. A full attendance
JersotvsMimes
PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY ft THURSDAY
E Y. FLOYD WILL
BE SPEAKER AT
MASS MEETING
AAA Executive Will Make
Address At (Top-Control
Meeting Here On July 19.
Speaker at u eounty-widc dis
cussion meetntg on the proposed
three-year tobacco crop-control
measure to be held by Person
county growers at the court house
in this city on the evening of
July 19, at 7:30 o'clock, will be
K. Y. Floyd, State Director of the
AAA. who will come here from
Raleigh especially for this event,
according to announcement made
this morning by Person Form
Agent H. K. Sanders,
Referendum voting will occur
throughout the county during the
next day, Saturday, July 20, Mr.
Sanders said, adding that town
ship meetings at various Person
school houses and other places
for discussion of the referendum
issues are now being held. Many of
these sessions nr© being attended
by county residents and by Per
son and Roxboro business men,
it was pointed out.
Township sessions were sche
duled for Tuesday afternoon at
Holeman's store, Elijah's Grove
and at Woodsdale school for Neg
roes. Other session* were held
Wednesday at Allcnsville, Cedar
Grove No. 1, John C. Terrill
school, Bethel Hill high school
and Lee Jeffers' Negro school.
Later in this week and during
next week meetings will be held
at Long's Store at Ceffo: at Hyco
Zion, at Brown Hill, all in Cun.
ningham township; at New Hope,
in Flat River township; at Dix
on’s Store, Holloway township;
at D. M, Cash's Store at Moriah
and Siloam In Mt, Tlrsah town,
ship; at Zickafoose and Honey’s
filling stations In Olive Hill town
ship; at Providence Community
Club house, Rudder's Store and
Ceffo in Roxboro township and at
Long's Store and Rudder's Store
in Woodsdale township. With few
exceptions oil township meetings
are being held at four o'colck in
the afternoon,
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Bumble Bee Causes
Driver To Wreck
Machine Sunday
Mrs. B. C. Blanks, 34, of the
Chub Lake community, is in Com
munity hospital suffering from a
severe head injury received Sun
day afternoon about 3:30 o'clock
when her huaband overturned
the family automobile while try
ing to kill a bumble bee which
flew into the car in which she,
her husband and five children
were riding.
The accident occurred at thd
intersection of highway 144 and
Providence road, about a mile
and a half from the Roxboro cor
porate limits, Mr, Blanks and the
children were bruised and shaken
up, but otherwise uninjured. A
passing motorist brought the fa.
mily to the hospital.
Hospital attaches today reported
that Mrs. Blanks is resting com.
fortably although she may remain
in the hospital for several days
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ELEVEN APPLICANTS
Sergeant Hsrbert A. Stephans,
of Durham, announced yes ter
day that the quota for Parson
county for U, 8, Army applicants
is 30 for this month and H of,
these have been filed,
Kindergartners Wear Ga§ Masks at Play
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Toddlers at a British nursery school who learned to play while
wearing their grotesque gas masks have become so accustomed to them
that they no longcir want to take them off for greater freedom under
exertion. This fact may save their lives some day. The tots are proud of
their ability to don the masks in a jiffy. •
Hospitality
Report Filed
By Mrs. Clayton
Mrs. B. G. Clayton, chairman of
the Hospitality Week steering
committee, has filed her final re
port for the week with the Ytox
boro Chamber of Commerce.
Mrs. Clayton stated that she
was of the opinion that the week
this year was more successful
than last year. More people co
operated and there were more vi
sitors in the city and county dur
ing, the week.
Mrs. Clayton praised the Dur
ham Herald and Sun for the
splendid publicity that both pa
pers gave the event. Both papers
carried pictures and news stories.
At the conclusion of her report
she stated that she thought the
sugestion of a historical pageant
for 1941 was a good one. Person
county will be 150 years old, ac
cording to Wheeler’s History of
North Carolina.
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SERVICES START
Starting tonight revival ser
vices will be held at Antioch
Baptist church. Minister in char
ge of the services will be the
Rev. R. W. Hovis. Antioch church,
about six or seven miles from
this city, extends a warm welcome
to the public to attend these ser
vices.
J. B. Snipes Accepts Position
As Head Os Wilkes’ Agency
Popular Local Assistant
Farm Agent Will Leave
Person After Service Os
Five Years.
Assistant Farm Agent J. B.
Snipes, of this city, who first be
came connected with the Person
County Farm Agency in October
1935, is expected to leave next
week for Wilkes county where he
has recently received appointment
to the position of County Farm
Agent. In confirming the announ
cement Mr. Snipes said Tuesday
that although he is thoroughly ap
preciative of opportunities fer
working in a larger field, he re
grets very much to leave Rox
boro and Perron county. His new
position is regarded as a distinct
promotion.
Before coming to Person, where
he hae been unusually active in
the supervision of farm programs
and Four-H club work, Mr. Snip
es was connected with the farm
agency et Rocky Mount, where'
Camp Open House
To Be Observed
Holland McSwain, of Yancey
ville, president of the Cherokee
Scout council, has announced that
Saturday, July 13, will be obser
ved as “Open House” day at Camp
Cherokee, the Scout camp now in
full operation near Reidsville,
and that there will be a Board
meeting at 2 o’cfock that after
noon.
In making this announcement
Mr. McSwain has observed that
luncheon will be served at 1 o’-
clock and that the swimming per
iod will begin at 11 o’clock in the
morning. It is his hope that many
Scouters will arrive in time tor
the enjoyment of the swimming
period, either from the point of
view of spectators or participat
ors. All visitors expecting to join
in the swimming will be required
to present their health certificates
to camp officials.
Scouters expecting to attend
are requested to notify Scout Ex -
ecutive A. P. Patterson, at Reids
ville, of their intention to be pre
sent. Mr. McSwain has reported
that he has spent sometime recent
ly visiting the camp and that he
is impressed with the program
now being enjoyed there.
A number of Roxboro and Per
son troops have been at the camp
during the week and others are
expected to enter it on Sunday.
he remained for five years fol
lowing his graduation from the
State college unit of the greater
University of North Carolina.
During his undergraduate days at
Raleigh he was connected with
the U. S. Department of Agricul
■ ture extension service.
A member of Edgar Long Me
' mortal church and of the Roxboro
Kiwanis club, Mr. Snipes, who is
married and has two children, has
taken an active part in county
and city affairs during his per
iod of residence here and both
Farm Agency officials and citi
zens regret that he will leave. He
is a native of Chatham county.
His successor in' the local office
has not yet been selected, al
though it is expected that an an
nouncement may be made shortly.
Mr. Snipes went to Wilkesboro
for consultation with county of
ficials last week and it is expected
that he and Mn. Snipes and their
son and daughter will establish
residence there or in North Wil
keSboro. [
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Council Hears Yearly Report
And Accepts New Budget
JULY SESSION OF
AUXILIARY HELD
AT CLUB HOUSE
Community Hospital Aux
iliary Hears Good Reports
And Plans Circle Divisions
Os Organization.
Holding their regular monthly
sesion at the Roxboro Community
house, Chub Lake street, mem
bers of the Woman’s Auxiliary of
Community hospital yesterday af
ternoon afternoon heard encour
aging reports from the supply
committee, under whose direction
shades, carpets, lamps and slip
covers for furniture in the living
room of the Nurses’ home on De
pot street have been obtained.
It was also announced that Mrs.
C. B. Kirby has given window
curtains for the room.
As an auxiliary project four of
the second 1 floor private rooms
at the hospital have been repaint
- ed. Shades have also been fur
-31 nished for these rooms. Flower
t boxes have been prepared for the
. downstairs porch and additional
> plantings have been made on
i the lawn which has been returfed.
, Because of the increased mem
-1 bership of the auxiliary within
. fKe“pisF few months Tt has been
I decided that all future meetings
t will be held at the Community
t house and that members of the
auxiliary shall be requested to
.' form four circles, although gen
? eral meetings of the entire aux
r iliary will continue to be held
c each month. It is expected that the
t formation of circles will expedite
f the work being done.
Chairman of circle one will be
r Mrs. T. T. Mitchell; of number
1 two, Mrs. Clyde Bowen; of nuin
s ber three, Mrs. Robah F. Baynes,
and of number four, Mrs. Stone
-1 wall Jackson, according to an
- nouncement from the auxiliary
- secretary, Mrs. Reade Gentry.
Mrs. Gentry also reported that
1 there will be no meeting of the
‘ auxiliary during August, although
J the work of the organization is
1 expected to continue. Next meet
ing will be held in September, i
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’ Warren Says
Georgia Weed
Looking Good
’. Clarence Warren, prominent to
| bacconist of this county, has been;
jin Baxley, Georgia for the past j
‘ two weeks and reports that the
i tobacco crop of that state is good
' and also curing good.
Mr. Warren states that the crop
will be in by the time the mar
ket opens, but that he does not
believe that Georgia will use the
( allotted seventeen selling days.
Farmers there, he stated, fav
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ored control.
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Revival Continues
At Olive Branch
The revival services at Olive
Branch church will be continued
through the 3rd. Sunday with two
, services in the afternoon, first
beginning at 2 o’clock.
Rev. Kenneth Clark, of Virgi
lina and the pastor, Rev. J. B.
. Currin, will preach.
The public is cordially invited
to attend.
THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1940
Person’s First
R. I. Satterfield, of Rox
boro, Route 3, on Tuesday
reported that he had begun ]
curing his 1940 crop of to
bacco. Mr. Satterfield is be ■
lieved to be the first Per
son county grower to begin
curing the current weed crop.
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DRY FORCES MEET
MONDAY TO PLAN
FOR CAMPAIGN
Cale K. Burgess Os Raleigh
Speaks At Edgar Long Me
morial Church.
Meeting at Edgar Long Memor
ial church Monday morning at
10 o’clock, members of the Per
son County Ministerial associa
tion, discussed plans for oppo- j
sition to Person county's August
24 election on the legalized sale
of whiskey. Guest speaker was
Cale K. Burgess, of Raleigh, pre
sident of the United Dry Forces
of North Carolina, who received
an enthusiastic welcome *rom
those present and who offered sug
gestions as to plans for the Drys'
_campaign here.
At a committee meeting held
Tuesday afternoon, further dis
cussion of Mr. Burgess’ suggest
ed program was held and it was'
announced that other details
such as precinct organizations and
speakers for a series of meet
ings culminating in a county-wide
mass meeting of those sympathetic
to the Dry cause will be reveal
ed as soon as organization plans
can be perfected.
Mr. Burgess, who urged his
hearers to be active in the cause,
said that the recent victory of the
Dry forces in Johnston County in
dicated a favorable turn for senti
ments of the United Dry Forces
in the State.
The Rev. T. M. Vick, Method'St
minister who acted as secretary
at the meeting Monday morning,
announced the selection of a steer
ing committee composed of the
Rev. W. F. West, pastor of Rox
boro First Baptist church, the
Rev. W. C. Martin, pastor of Ed
gar Long Memorial Methodist
church and the Rev. Mr. Vick. ,
At the meeting Monday morn-|
ing a resolution was drawn up*,
suggesting that the steering com-'
mittee mentioned above should
be formed to “constitute and ser
ve as a committee to make plans
to perfect a county-wide organ iza
j tion of the dry forces.”
Ten Person ministers were pre
sent Monday for the session,
which was presided over by the
Rev. Mr. Martin, in the absence
of the Rev. J. H. Shore, president.
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Chevrolet Used
Car Lot Now
Open To Public
The used car lot of the Tar
Heel Chevrolet Co., next to the
City Hall, has been completed and
Messers. Glenn Stovall and Wil
liam Yancey, managers, invite the
public to come by and see the lot
and cars.
Ibis lot has a strong wire fen
ce surrounding it and is very at
tractive in many respects. The
ground has been treated with
crushed gravel to prevent mud
from accumulating and is also
modern in many other respects.
THE TIMES IS PERSON’S
PREMIER NEWSPAPER,
A LEADER AT ALL TIMES.
NUMBER THIRTY-NINE
Analysis of Figures Pre
sented. Priviledge Taxes
Must Be Paid Says Board.
In a brief but important busi
nes session members of the Rox
boro City council Tuesday night
approved the city’s 1940-1941 bud
get of $100,871; established the
tax rate for the new fiscal year at
the 1939-1940 rate of $1.35 per
SIOO and heard a compre
hensive report of municipal af
fairs for the past year from City
Manager Percy Bloxam.
The board ordered City Man
ager Bloxam to take proceedings
against those who have failed to
pay past due privilege taxes and
in a morning interview Mr. Blox
am said that persons failing to
pay said taxes immediately will
be in danger of indictment and
will face the prospects of having
their establishments closed. It is
understood that a number of es
tablishments in the city are con
siderably in arrears with this tax.
In the course of his report Mr.
Bloxam indicated that there is
great need for the purchasing of
new street repairing equipment
for the city. In making this recom
mendation, which was endorsed
by the council, Mr. Bloxam was
quite outspoken, saying that in
his opinion the much needed re
pairs to x&rtuastniCt*JbJtastiNQß«*
cannot be profitably made unless
proper supplementary repair
equipment is purchased in the
near future.
Presentation of the 1940-1941
budget was accompanied by sig
nificant figures relative to finan
cial operations during the past
year, it being shown that the
new budget exceeds that of the
past year by only $532.59, although
estimated tax valuation for the
new fiscal year will run to two
million, five hundred and seven
thousand, seven hundred and for
ty nine dollars and will represent
an increase of approximately $73.-
654 of taxable property in the city
over the valuation listed for
1939-1940.
It was also shown that in the
present year the sum of $8,827
has been expended for new sew
erage and water facilities and
that $1,200 has been spent on
needed renovations to the City
Hall, the fire station and its
equipment. Also included in ex-
Ipenditures of this nature was $!,-
t 000 for purchase of a lot for a
J water supply tank location, mak
ing total expenditures mention
ed of $10,280.
Total tax collections in the city
during the past year were in the
mount of $105,687.46, not includ.
ing last year’s surplus. Included
in the budget for 1940-1941 is
$33,296 for the general fund; $14,-
147 for public works; $10,496, for
public safety; $40,200 for the wat
er works fund and $27,375 for
debt service, adding up to the
previously mentioned total of
$100,871. Os the $1.35 tax rate
for the new year SI.OO will go to
the general fund, 32 cents will go
to the debt service and three
cents will be reserved for sewer
age service.
Other items in the Bloxam re
port pertained to renovations of
filter tanks; proposed improved
water pumping facilities designed
to effect savings in both water
and money; work on the county
city parking lot at the rear of the
court house and the institution of
taxi regulations and parking zon
es.
New business before the coun
cil included; a delegation seeking
sewer lines from the city limits
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