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TM.rTMK TO rUBUSHKD EVERT SUNDAY * THURSDAY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20- 1940 NUMBER ONE
Royal Family of Luxembourg Is Reunited
The royal family of Luxembourg is reunited at LaGuardia field. New York. At the right is Gran!
5 ii'hess Charlotte Adelgonde, who ruled the tiny country for 21 years before Hitler took oTex. With her is he<
nother. Grand Duchess Marie Ann. These two arrived on the Yankee Clipper and were reunited with other
members of their family, here pictured. Shown are Prince Consort Felix and seme as their six children.
More Than Dozen Scouts Now P.T.A. UNITS TO
Working Toward Recognition HAVE PROGRAMS
Fifteen Boy Scouts, most ofj
wk* have received training un
der Scoutmaster L. C. Liles, of
Timberlake, were presented for
advancements and merit badges
at the regular monthly court of
honor of the Person council Fri
day night, according to announce
ment made yesterday. It was re
ported that the boys were unu
sually well prepared for the hon
ors received.
Discussed at the court was or
ganization of a local group of Sea
Scouts, although decision in the
matter was postponed until a lat
er session.
Also discussed at a post court
session of Scoutmasters were
plaas for the annual “Sccut
Night” supper at which members
•f Rotary and Kiwanis are guests
•f the Scouts. According to plans
formulated at the meeting the
supper will be held on Monday
evening, October 28, at the Rox
boro high school gymnasium.
T%e Court of Honor was neld
at Bdgar Long Memorial Metho
dist church, Roxboro.
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BLOXAM CHOSEN
AS SECRETARY OF
BRANCHGROUP
He and R. L. Harris Re
twn Thursday From Gath
ering In Charlotte.
At the North Carolina League
•f Municipalities session held last
week in Charlotte, City Manager
Percy Bloxam, of Roxboro was
elected to serve as secretary of
the North Carolina branch of the
International Association of City
Managers.
Mr. Bloxam reported yesterday
morning that a meeting of the
branch group will be held later
C n. Branch president is City Man
ager Cooksey of Thomasville. Of
fices of the national associatioi
are located in Chicago.
Mr. Bloxam, as Roxboro’s of
ficial representative to the Char
lotte gathering was accompanied
by R, L. Harris, of this city, who
acted as Toastmaster at an even
ing banquet. Also delegated to
attend was Mayor S. F. Nicks, Jr„
who was detained in this city on
account of duties in connection
with Person Superior court.
Mr. Bloxam reported that the
Charlotte meeting was highly suc
cessful and that many pertinent
- points in connection with muni
cipal affairs were discussed. At
tendance was estimated at be
tween six and seven hundred.
Person County Times
Bushy Fork Will
Witness Benefit
Comedy - Drama
As a benefit for the Bushy
Fork community house the Bushy
Fork school faculty will present
a comedy-drama entitled “A For
tunate Calamity," Friday eve
ning, October 25, at 7:30 o’clock
in the schoo)’ auditorium. The
play in three acts will have
faculty members and other per
sons in the community in its cast.
Dramatic coach is Mrs. Charles
Nelson.
The cast of characters is as
follows:
Mrs. Marian Merkle, a proud mo
ther-Miss Grace Cockerham;
Alta, her daughter who desires
to be rich-Mrs. Jerry L. Hester;
Ruth, just a plain girl-Miss Fran
ces Lane;
Kate Van Tyle, a good naturei
cook - Mrs. John Hester; Dinnah
Johnsing, a servant - Mrs. R. L.
Hester; Rastus Johnsing, an hon
est coon-Clifton Dunevant, Joe
Brown, a revenue officer-Jerry
Hester, Bernard Gullion, a jovial
young man-Robert Hester and
Albert Campbell, who plays a
crooked game - Herbert Mason
The play is full of strong sit
uations and has an interesting
climax. The antics of the colored
servants and the refined comedy
scenes are said to make it a play
not to be missed.
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Carver Rites Held
Friday Afternoon
Funeral services for Will Y.
Carver, 76, Roxboro Route 1, who
died Wednesday night at 9 o’clock
at his home following a heart
attack vfire held Friday after
noon at 2:30 o’clock at the Long
Family cemetery, near Chub Lake,
where interment took place. Of
ficiating minister was the Rev.
C. E. Sullivan, of Woodsdale.
Mr. Carver, who had been ill
five days, is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Mary Carver of the home;
by two daughters, Mesdames Roy
Fitts and Bernice Irby, both of
Roxboro, and by one son, Arthur
Carver, of Woodsdale.
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Here For Week-end
Lawrence Clarke, m, aon of
Mr. and MTs. L. C. Clarke of this
city, who is now a student at
Wake Forest college is spending
the week-end with his parents.
Mr. Clarke was recently pledged
to membership in the Wake For
est chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha
fraternity. -
Central Grammar School
and High School Associa
tions Will Meet In After
noon and Evening, Respec
tively.
Regular monthly meetings of
the two independent Parent Tea
cher associations in this city, at
Central Grammar school and at
Roxboro high school will be held
Tuesday, according to announce
ment made today.
At Central Grammar school at
3:30 in the afternoon the devo
tional will be lead by Rev. Ruf
us J. Womble, of St. Mark’s E
piscopal church, and there will
be an interesting program follow
ed by community singing.
At Roxboro high school at
7:30 in the evening the feature of
the program will be a humorous
debate: resolved ‘That Father Is
Not a Parent," in which the as
firmative will be upheld by S. C.
Winstead, prominent resident of
this city, and by Mayor S. F.
Nicks, Jr., while the negative
will be discussed by Lee Ura
stead and the Rev. E. G. Over
ton. Judges will be Dr. A. L. Al
len, Rev. J. M. Walker, Jr., and
R. M. Spencer. The debate will
be held in the high school audi
torium.
It is expected that the member
ship drive conducted here foi
more than a weak by the high
school P.T.A. will be concluded
Tuesday night. As previously an
nounced, each session room hav
ing as much as seventy-five per
centage attendance of parents at
the association will receive a half
holiday and the room having
highest percentage over the mui
iumun will receive not only a
half holiday but passes to a lo
cal theatre.
It has been pointed out by high
school P.T.A. officials that the
dues for membership are consid
ered most modeate and it is ho
ped that attendance will be large.
President of Central Grammar
School association is Ms. Logan
H. Umstead, while chief execu
tive of the high school assiciation
is Mrs. R. H. Shelton.
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Entertainment At School
Chas. E. Palmer will be at the
Central School Thursday night
October 24th and will present a
number of readings, sketches and
impersonations. Those who have
seen Mr. Palmer state that he is
very good and well worth the
price of admission.
Jesse Slaughter, of this coun
ty, will be at the piano.
The public is urged to attend
as the proceeds will go for a
worthy cause.
District Winners
Winning by 32 to 6 over
Hillsboro high school, the Rox
boro Ramblers on Friday after
-lion secured the district class
B championship. A more de
tailed account of the game will
be found on the Times’ sport
age. The Roxboro boys have
won all games played this sea
son. Next contest for them will
be with Schoolfield, Virginia,
high school, on Friday night,
at Schoolfield.
SUPERIOR COURT
CONCLUDED WITH
EVENING SESSION
Bradsher vs. Newton Pu
pils Attention of Court Dur
ing last Hours.
Conclusion of Person Superio
court, begun here on Monday
with Judge Henry L. Stevens, Jr.
of Warsaw, presiding, was reach
ed Thursday night at 8 o’clock
when a verdict in favir of the
plaintiff in the civil action of
Lawrence E. Bradsher by his next
friend Leland C. Bradsher vs.
Hassell Newton and wife, Rosa
Newton, was returned. The dis
pute involved cancellation of a
deed and took up most of the day.
Several other civil actions were
heard between Tuesday and
Thursday, among them five or
six petitions for divorces. Most
important case on the criminal
docket was that of Jimmie Wade,
Person Negro, charged with the
murder of John Henry Bailey,
another Negro of the county, sev
eral months ago. The case was
however continued until the Jan
uary term of court because of the
illness of an Important witness
and Wade was ordered released
until that time under a justified
bond of S3OO.
While in Roxboro Judge Stev
ens, who is also Past Command
er of the American Legion, was
dinner guest at the regular
monthly session of the Lester
Blackwell post, Tuesday night at
the American Legion hut, Chub
Lake street. At this meeting
Judge Stevens issued a strong ap
peal for an adequate defense pro
gram and appraised the import
ance of the American tradition as
away of life.
Signed by Tom Boone Davis,
of Allensville, foreman, the grand
jury for the term of court just
concluded filed its report on Mon
day, within a few hours after it
had been selected. Reporting that
all bills sent to the jury were
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Along The Way
With the Editor
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The other day Roy Jones stopped his car right on a road
that blocked the sidewalk, as you go from one side of the walk
to the other. In other words Roy had the streeTblocked. Gor
don Hunter came walking along, saw the car, stopped and
waited for Roy to move, waited a little longer and when Roy
did not move he opened the doors of his car and walked
through the car to the other side of the street. He never once
looked back at Roy who sat in his car and wondered what it
was all about.
Here’s one for the sports annual. L. R. Wilson and a few
other “boys” have organized an athletic club and the “beys' -
are playing basketball. Ray Jackson is in the same club. How
those old bones must crack as these “boys” ramble over a
basketball court. It’s hard for this writer to understand how
old men will try to be young for such a long time.
Fred Moore, band instructor of the high school, has started
playing golf. Each afternoon finds him out in his back yard
swinging a club. He hits at leaves on the ground apd thus
keeps the ground clean. As you probably know, Moore lives at
Tommie Hatchett’s house and keeping the yard clean pleases
Tommie because that boy has no love for raking a yard.
I saw Dr. Thaxton preside at a meeting the other night and
believe it or not he did a good job. What we want to see now
is whether or not he can make a speech and we hereby nom
inate the doctor for any big job that has to be filled right
away.
CIVIC CLUB HAS
ANNUAL FOUR-H
NIGHT AT HOTEL
Speakers Include Winners
In Baby Beef Projects. Two
Young Women Also On
Program.
Special guests at the annual
“Four-H Club” night of Roxboro
Rotary club Thursday were the
winners and leaders in the 4-H
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baby beef project, together with
two young women who have done
outstanding club work in their
respective communities.
Speakers included James Earl
Moore and Thomas Long, blue
ribbon and second place winners
in the beef project, Miss Mary
Evelyn Long, who reported on the
Wildlife conference at Swanna
noa, and Miss Ann Broach, win
ner of the county 4-H dressmak
ing contest. Also on the program
were County Agent H. K. Sand
ers and Mjss Velma Beam, home
demonstration agent, who have
charge of club work among the
Person boys and girls
Presiding was Rotary club pres
ident Gordon C Hunter, who has
for years been interested in both
baby beef and canning projects
of the clubs. Covers were laid for
59 persons, members of Rotary
and special guests, including in
addition to those named, Leßoy
Pridgen, Lyle Davis, Herbert and
Alvin Moore and Bobby Hester,
who also entered thj beef con
tests. Through courtesy of Karl
Burger, manager of Hotel Rox
boro, where the dinner was held,
the dinner menu of the evening
was with few exceptions made up
exclusively of Person county pro
ducts even the beef which the
boys themselves had raised and
then sold on the local markets.
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High School New
Books Received
Receipt of ten or more new
books for Roxboro high school
library was announced yesterday
by Miss Helen Melton, librarian,
who said that she hopes to have
the volumes catalogued and rea
dy for use by Wednesday of this
week. Among the titles received
are:
“The Glory of the Seas,” ’’Ra
mona," by Helen Hunt Jackson,
“Hill Doctor”, ‘‘Anne of Green
Gables” by L. M. Montgomery,
“The Scarlet Letter” by Nath
anial Hawthorne, “Julia Ann”
“Buffalo Bill’s Life Story”, an
autobiograph, “He Heard Am
erica Sing” the story of Stephen
Foster, ‘“The Kid,” and “Storms
on the Labrador.”
No Plans Yet Outlined
By Selective Service Board
ACTING PRESIDENT
Dr. Robert Lee Flowers, vice
president and secretary-treasu
rer of Duke University, who be
comes acting president of the
university following the death ol
Dr. W. P. Few.
R. L. Flowers To
Be Acting Head
At University
Executive Committee of Duke
University Makes Announce
ment After Few Rites Are
Held.
Durham, Oct. 19—Dr. Robert
Lee Flowers, senior vice presi
dent of Duke University, has be
come its acting president follow
ing the death of Dr. William Pre
ston Few, persuant to the chart
er and by-laws of the institution,
this was recognized Friday at a
pecial meeting of the executive
committee of the university as an
nounced by Colonel John F. Bru
ton of Wilson, its chairman. The
election of a successor to Dr. Few
as president is a matter for the
Board of Trustees, the next meet
ing of which will take place in
February, 1941.
Dr. Flowers ,for a number ofj
years vice president of the uni
versity in the business division,
and its secretary-treasurer, and
former professor of mathematics,
has been identified with Trinity
College and Duke University
longer than any other member of
the administration or faculty.
Bom at York College In
stitute, N. C., Nov. 6, 1870, Robert
Lee Flowers’ boyhood home was*
but a short distance from the
home of Brantley York who m
1838 had taught at Brown’s Schoo 1
House, in Randolph County,
which became Union Institute, j
eventually Trinity College, and j
finally Duke University. Dr. 1
Flowers has vivid memories of
the tall, gaunt, scholar who was 1
so closely connected with the or
igins of the institution he has
served continuously since 1891,
now as its acting president. (
After an elementary education
in the public schools of his com
munity and at the Taylorsville
High School, Robert Lee Flowers
entered the United States Naval
Academy in 1887, graduating in
1891 with high honors. His con
nection with Trinity College be
gan that Fall and there has been
an unbroken period of service to
the institution.
While professor of mathematics,
Dr. Flowers’ ability as an ad
ministrator was recognized and
he became secretary of Trinity
College, later also treasurer. Af
ter the death of James B. Duke,
in 1925, Dr. Flowers was elected
to the Board of Trustees of the
Duke Endowment, taking the
place made vacant by the death
of Mr. Duke. He is an ex-officii
member of the Duke University
Board of Trustees.
THE TIMES IS PERSON’S
PREMIER NEWSPAPER*
A LEADER AT ALL TIMES.
May Be several days before
Lical Board will Begin fun
ctioning:. Other Cities
Have Draft Board Offices)
And Assistants.
Although reports pertaining to
the 3,249 Person men of Selective
service ago who registered last
week have been forwarded to
proper authorities at Raleigh, it
was learned today that several
more days may elapse before the
Person County Selective service
board, composed of J. W. Noell,
O. B .Mcßroom and O. Y. Clay
ton, with Dr. B. A. Thaxton as
physician and R. B. Dawes as
special agent, will begin active
duties.
A spokesman for the Person
Board of Elections, under which
the registration was held, has
said that members of that body,
having sent the returns to Raleigh,
have not yet been informed as ta
when the local Selective Service
board will begin its examination
of the information received frona
the registration. It is understood
that the cards will have to be
numbered and sorted and that a*
report has been received here as
to the quota of men needed from
this county.
It will be recalled that the quo
ta will be obtained by deducting
the number of Person men who
have within the year already en
listed in the United States Mili
tary service.
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DUCK SEASON TO
LAST UNTIL END OF
PRESENTYEAR ,
Will open November 8,
Rabbit and Quail and Tur
key hunting legal an and
after Thanksgiving Day
Person Game Warden R. G.
Reynolds today announced that
the season on duck, geese, jack
| snipe and coat will open Novem
ber 2 and will remain open
through December 31. The quail,
turkey and rabbit season will
open on Thanksgiving day and
will remain open through Febru
ary 15. Both dates are inclusive,
Mr. Reynolds said.
Printed below are extracts
from restrictions on hunting as
I reported to the Times by Mr.
Reynilds. It is:
1. Illegal to hunt waterfowl
without a SI.OO Duck Stamp. If
over 16 years of age get a Duck
l Stamp at U. S. Post office.
! 2. Hegal to hunt waterfowl or
! doves over or on bated areas.
3. Illegal to use line decoys.
• 4. Illegal to take migatory game
birds from or by aid of an auti
mobile, airplane, sink box, batt
ery power boat, sail boat, or any
boat under sail, any floating craft
'or any device of any kind tow
ed by power boat or sail boat.
5. Illegal to shoot water fowl
before sunrise or after 4.00 p.m.
p- m.
6. Illegal to use any fire arm
except shot gun, not larger than
10 gauge or an automatic or hand
operated repeating shot gun cap
able of holding more than 3 shells
in chamber and magazine com
bined, of which the magazine has
not been cut off or plugged with
one piece metal filler incapable of
removing through loading end
thereof. This also applies to all
upland game.
The cooperation of all sports
men in enforcing these regula
tions is requested. The regulations
will 'be strictly enforced.
All violations should be re
ported to the County Game and
Fish Protector.