PERSON COUNTY TIMES
A PAPER FOR ALL THE PEOPLE
J. S. MERRITT, EDITOR M. C. CLAYTON, MANAGER
THOMAS J. SHAW, JR., City Editor.
Published Every Thursday and Sunday. Entered As Second
Class Matter At The Postoffice At Roxboro, N. C., Under
The Act Os March 3rd., 1879.
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and Thursday P. M. for Sunday edition.
THURSDAY, SEPT. 19, 1940
Introduction
Once again we are pleased to present the annual “'To
bacco Edition” of the Times and in its numerous pages
we hope our readers will find anew an expression of our
confidence in Person County and Roxboro as a worth
while community in which to buy and sell the most mar
ketable commodity produced hereabouts. As has been
truly repeated by many of the advertisers in this spec
ial edition, a community worth living in is well worth
buying in and none of us who call Person “home” can
well afford to ignore the logic that money spent at
home has a multiple valuation reacting in favor of all
citizens within the bounds of that home area. I
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PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO, N. C.
Stalwart Americans
•
Within the week the nation has suffered the loss
of two distinguished citizens. Speaker William B. Bank
head, honored son of Alabama and member of a family
long known for cultural and civic leadership in that
state and in Washington, found expression of his tal
ents within the Democratic party now dominant in poli
tical circles, but only narrow-minded citizens would deny
that the death of Glenn Frank, one-time president of
the University of Wisconsin and more recently active
in the Republican party, is an equally grevious loss to
an America now standing in sore need of intelligent
political guidance.
Sober citizens, brought up on ideals of American
ism as exemplified by such heroes as Washington, Jef
ferson, Lincoln, Lee and Wilson may feel that in this
day of grace few living Americans can be said to mea
sure up to school-book standards of what citizenship
at its best is supposed to ue. It is, nowever, our humble
opinion that passage of time will demontrate that Bank
head and Frank in their widely differing fields of influ
ence will come to be respected not as the greatest Amer
icans of their day but as two oi the most honest and,
therefore, honorable
It is not amiss to point out that Speaker Bank
head’s environment, as well as Dr. Frank’s, was more
deeply cultural and more closely joined to the artistic
side of life than is usually the case with American pub
lic servants. In this respect the late Speaker of the
House and the former educational leader were more in
line with British than American traditions, although no
uisiespect io the latter can be implied by comparisons.
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Responsibility
It has come to our attention that not more than
35 of 130 teachers in white schools in Person have taken
advantage of free clinics sponsored by the County Health
department for tuberculosis examinations. Although
there is locally no mandatory ruling requiring such ex
aminations, and although it is fortunate that no tuber
cular infections have been reported among those teach
ers submitting to fluoroscopey, we regret that so small
a percentage of teachers responded to invitation to at
tend the clinic.
Pure self-interest should prompt acceptance of such
an opportunity, while the fact that children with whom
In Our New Modern Market We
Carry A Complete Line of Meats.
Fresh Cooked CA/-» fickle Pig E
| Barbecue Ib.uUH Feet each
BOLOGNA pound 10c
Bo< led On Pimento OflU
HAM lb. JJI cheese lb. lU^
Macarona Cheese Loaf All Cuts OA
Picket Pimento Loaf D « M I |A
Liver Loaf Pound fc|||f
Beef on J Pig inc
Liver pound Liver pound |(J
Stew Beef Brisket lb. 10c
Spare Ribs Chitterlings Veal Chops
pound 10c pound 10c pound 15c
We Have Plenty To Supply You
Pork Loin Chops lb. 20c
Beef Chuck fJC Pork Roast file
Roast lb. |nf Shoulder lb. \*j
Thick Fat Back lb. 7c
Sliced lb. *% CLf* Rib Side 11% fAm
Tenderized MEAT *M> RUL
Virginia Oysters qt. 45c
Trout, Croakers, Scallops, Crab Meat
Leg o’Lamb lb. 25c| Lamb Chops lb. 35c
LAMB SHOULDER pound 15c
Branded Steer Beef
Loin Steak lb. 35c Club pound 35c
T-Bone lb. 39c Roast pound 19c
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teachers come in daily contact are most prone to be
susceptible to tubercular infections should be sufficient
reason for acceptance where self-interest may be dor
mant. Tuberculosis is not to be triffled with at any
time, least of all in childhood, and we are most anxious
that all reasonable means to stamp it out be taken, es
peically by persons in positions of authority. We con
gratulate Person county for offering free clinics where
other counties frequently do not and it would seem to
us that those teachers and others who have an oppor
tunity to take free examinations should do so, unless
they have very recently had them elsewhere.
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A Commendable Venture
Elsewhere in this -edition of the Times appears an
nouncement that members of the Roxboro high school
journalism club will sponsor a “Roxboro Rambler” sec
tion once each week in the two newspapers published
here. We wish to say here, as we have already said to
faculty sponsors of the club, that we shall be glad to
cooperate with the club in its endeavor to release school
news and we feel that this cooperation may ultimately
result in independent publication of the sheet now com
pelled to seek the light of day in a more restricted form.
We know of nothing more productive of thought among
young people than an initiation into the arts of news
paper work and we trust that their elders will give them
full appreciation for efforts expended.
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After One Year
Exactly one year ago today we began our connec
tion with the Person County Times and entered upon
a relationship productive thus tar of most pleasant co
operation. We would, we think, be ungrateful if we did
not publicly thank all of those citizens of Person county
and Roxboro who have put up with us during the period
of our adaptation to the manners and customs of a coun
ty and a town fortunately more individualistic than
most. We most sincerely hope that whatever may have
appeared as reportorial eccentricity will be pardoned as
such and we shall be more than satisfied if we can con
tinue to manifest our genuine appreciation for the Per
son tradition, although said appreciation may at times
appear to be against the grain.
We feel at home here and no greater compliment
than this can be paid to those citizens who have welcom
ed us.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 194*
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