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1 Armistice Address Here To
a Be Delivered By R. L. Harris
Diteingnlshed Person Citi
es., Now Lieutenant Govern
or-Elect, To Speak At Pal
ace Theatre.
Speaker at Armistice Day exer
cises to be held here Monday
■ morning by Lester Blackwell
Post of the American legion will
be Lieutenant Govenor-elect R
L. Harris, of this city, who will
be introduced by R. P. Bums,
Roxboro attorney, recently elect
ed as Person representative in the
State legislature.
In announcing the program, Dr.
O. G. Davis, program chairman,
who with R. H. Shelton will be
in charge of the parade, said that
Mr. Harris will speak at the Pal-
theatre at 10:45 o’clock in
b,-ne morning. The parade, which
will begin marching at 10:30 o’-
clock, will be formed at the Per
son County court house. Line of
march will be from the court
house down Main street to the
H. W. Winstead residence, at
Main street and Virginia avenue.
Post Commander this year is
Onnie Jordan, who with other
Legion and City officials will head
the parade. Music will be furnish
ed by Roxboro high school band
and Ca-Vel Drum and Bugle
corps.
Later in the day open house
will be held at the Legion hut,
Chub Lake street, where lunch
, eon for veterans and their fami
lies will be served. It is expected
that the hut will be kept open
all during the afternoon and that
ari ‘ informal fellowship program
will be held during the evening.
Officers at the county cjurt
; house, the welfare and health de
partments and a number of busi
ness houses, including the bank,
«’ will be closed for the day.
MRS. JAS. M. LONG
OF SEMORA DIES
AT RESIDENCE
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Prominent Woman Victim
, Os Heart Attack. Rites Held
’ Tuesday.
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j Funeral services for Mrs. Win
inie Taylor Long, 72, of Semora,
',wife of the late James Monroe
’Long and a prominent resident
-in her community, whose death
'Occurred early Monday morning
at her home following a heart
Ek, were conducted Tuesday
noon at three o’clock at Red
:e Presbyterian church, 3e
jinora, by the pastor, the Rev. D.
!r. Garner and the Rev. N. R.
]Claytotr. Internment was in the
thutch cemetery.
Mrs. Long had been *n ill health
> everal months.
Surviving are two sons, W.
’aylor Long, of Semora, and Earl I
uLong, of Durham, five grand- j
Children and two sisters, Mrs.
Jlettie Rainey, of Orange, Va.,
lnd Mrs. Arch Thomas, of Serr.o-
I Pall bearers were: Taylor Gate
wood, Ralston Thompson, Curry
■ ' hompson, Claire Taylor, Delbert
handler/ J. Archie Long, Jr.,
] ainey Smith and William Jack
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CHURCH SUPPER
■' Women of Concord Methodist
it hurch will have their annual
' urkey dinner Wednesday, No
y ember 13, at Roxboro Communi
t r house, from 5 o’clock in the
i temoon until 8 in the evening.
Bensons desiring tickets are re
quested to call Mrs. T. T.Mitchell.
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R. L. Harris, shown above, was
this week elected Lieutenant Gov
ernor of North Carolina. He and
J. Melville Broughton, Governor,
will take office in January.
City Manager Has
Requested Better
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Driving In City
Roxboro residents were today
reminded by City Manager Per
cy Bloxam that the speed limit in
the business and residential sec
tions of the City is 25 miles per
hour; that this speed limit is be
ing exceeded by school busses,
taxi operators and private citi
zens, alike, and that because of
violations mentioned, as well as
because of disregard for traffic
light signals, Chiefof Police S.
A. Oliver and other officers of
the City Police force have been
requested -to enforce speed limit
regulations and to watch more
closely other infractions of traf
fic rules.
In a letter addressed to Chief
Oliver and officers, City Manager
Blcrxam, citing the above facts,
has asked them to enforce traf
fic laws "from now on”, suggest
ing that for one week all citizens
be given fair warning that re
gulations will be rigidly carried
out.
Manager Bloxam in the same
message observes trucks are r.ow
using Morgan street as a truck
thoroughfare, despite the fact that
the street paving there is not
strong enough for trucks and
that such traffic has been prohi
bited thereon. He has, therefore,
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DR. A. L ALLEN
REPORTS MONTH
AS VERYUBUSY ,
Health Officer Says Octo
ber Was Period Os Unus
ual Activity.
In a statement issued today Dr.
A. L. Allen, director of the Per
son unit of the tri-county health
department, reported that, "Per
haps the busiest month on record
for the Person Department of
Health in the history of its exis
tence was October, 1940. Owing
to the requirement to obtain blood
tests on all registrants applying
for Wasserman reactions, the
number of blood samples reached
almost 800. In number of treat
ments given for syphilis, inject
ions of both arsenic and bismuth
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Quiet Night
Causes Pay-Off
After having gone through
two week-ends of mid-night
disturbances on Gallows’ Hill,
Negro section of this city, S.
I A. Oliver, Chief of the Rox
■ boro Police department, had
to dig down in his pocket for
cash. Reason: Chief promised
his men that if this past week
end was quiet he would set
them up to cold drinks and
hotdogs. Nothing happened,
and so he bought ’em.
LEADERS TALK
TO TEACHERS AT
: SECTIONFORUM ,
Lieutenant Governor Elect
And A Former Candidate
For Givernorship Will
Speak.
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Person school superintendents
and teachers who on Friday at
tend the Superintendent’s section
meeting of the North Carolina
Teachers association, at Durham,
will have as speakers Lieutenant
Governor-elect R. L. Harris, of
Roxboro, who on Tuesday recefc
ed a flattering vote from the
state which he will serve, and
Dr. Ralph W. McDonald, of Chap
el Hill, who several years ago was
candidate for governor.
Program chairman for the Sup
erintendent’s section meeting will
be Person Superintendent of
! Schools, R. B. Griffin, of Roxboro.
i Mr. Griffin said this morning that
Mrs. A. F. Nichols, of Roxboro
high school English department,
is expected to be nominated as a ;
director of the association. He
also said that all Person county
schools will be closed Friday to
permit full attendance of teach
ers at the association sessions,
which will begin in the morning
and continue throughout the day
and evening.
Governor and Representative
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J. Melville Broughton, right, twill be Governor by virtue of
choice made Tuesday by voters, while A. D. (Lon) Folgfcr, left, will
again represent this, the sth, district, in Congress.
Store Building Expected To
Be Completed Next Week
Baptist Qhurch School
Building Also Nearly Fin
ished. All Work Os Geo. W.
Kane Company.
In a statement issued this morn
ing O. T. Kilby, one of three own
ers of the Kirby-Ledbetter build
ing, North Main Street, said that
completion of the six stores in the
building may be expected next
week and that a number of firm*
having leases on them - are pre
paring to move in as soon as con
struction is finished.
Workmen are now busy with
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FIRST CUB PACK
MEETING TO BE j
NOVEMBER EVENT
Affair For Younger Scouts
To Be Held At Communily
House Monday, the 18th.
At a meeting held Wednesday
night leaders of the Roxboro Cub
Pack decided that first Cub Pack
meeting will be held Monday
[night, November 18, at 7: 30 o’-
, dock in the basement recreation
! room at the Community House,
Chub Lake street, at which time
the more than a dozen Cub Scouts
in the City will present exhibit
ions of handicraft done during the
summer and fall.
A recreation program is also
being planned for this meeting
and it is expected that parents of
many of the boys will also at
tend. During the past few months
much of the Cub Pack work here
has been carried on by Mesdames
Charles Stewart and R. B. Dawes,
den mothers, with the able as
sistance of Charles Harris, Jr.,
Jack Hughes, Jr., and Thomas
11 Long, Boy Scouts acting as lead
■ ers.
In addition to those named a
i bove, others present at the meet
, ing last night were William Pick
: ering, Clyde Swartz and Thomas
’ J. Shaw, Jr.
Dr. Wilkins Will
Address Teachers
With Wr. Walter Wilkins, oi
. Raleigh, of the 'State"'School
: Health service, as speaker, mon
thly dinner session of the Person
. Schoolmasters club will be held
■ Monday evening at 6:30 o’clock at
Hotel Roxboro, according to an
■ ! noun cement made today.
Also on the program will be
Miss Inda Collins, principal of
Roxboro Central Grammar school,
• and Lewis S. Cannon, principal of
Bethel Hill school, both of whom
! will tell of health work being
done in the schools. A full atten-
I dance is requested.
Has New Position
Miss Anna Katherine Moore,
of this city, formerly secretary at
the Palace theatre has accepted
a position with the Nicholson Air
Conditioning company at Durham.
Taking her place at the theatre
is Miss Shirley King,
BANK HOLIDAY
Among Roxboro hous
es closing Monday, for Armistice
Day, will be the Peoples Bank,
according to announcement made
today. -
“W. H., Sr.” Is Happy
Man These Days.
Happiest man in Roxboro is
W. H. Harris, Sr., active 81-
year-old father of Lieutenant
Governor-elect R. L. Harris,
chosen Tuesday by the state’s
electorate to serve with “Gov
ernor” Broughton.
North Carolina, being as it
is a Democratic commonwealth,
W. H., Sr., better known as
"Bill”, has not worried abour
his son’s election since the June
primary, but he is none the
less more than satisfied at
the 3,000 plus votes cast for
said son in Person county, and
equally well pleased with the
large state vote. Mr. Harris,
Sr., a retired business man,
goes about the streets with a
twinkle in his eye, and just
wait until Rotary meets to
night then he will be pleased,
for all the boys there feel the
same way about their “fathe’*
and son” fellow members.
H. L. Price And
Wife Injured In
Automobile Crash
The condition of H. L. Price,
prominent Person county Negio
educator injured late Sunday af
ternoon in an automobile collis
ion at Holt’s school on the Rox
boro-Durham highway, near
Quail Roost farm, Durham coun
ty, was reported today at Lin
coln hospital, Durham, to be sat
isfactory, although his wife, Rosa
belle Price, also a patient at thr
hospital, is now better.
Price, who has for the past
three years served as principal
of Person County Training school
for Negroes, was said to have
been enroute to Durhma to take
his wife, a teacher at Wadesboro.
to the bus station, when the acci
dent occurred. Price was severely
bruised and cut by glass, while
his wife received more serious in
juries of the same character.
Sheriff E. G. Belvin, of Dur
ham county, who investigated,
reported that the Price car, cue
of two cars attempting to pass,
struck an automobile coming from
Durham and occupied by Mrs.
Cora J. Sanford, her son, Oscar,
her daughter, Ruth, and Miss
Mary T. Roberts, all of Stem, who
were taken to Watts Hospital
Durham, for treatment of injur
ies, the most seriously hurt be
ing Mrs. Sanford, who received
lacerations on her left hand; and
Miss Ruth Sanford, whose ieft
leg was fractured.
Miss Roberts and Oscar San
ford received minor injuries and
a Mrs. Penny, also a passenger
in the Stanford machine was un
injured.
Training school officials report
ed that Price received a broken
arm and collar bone. Two wrecks
were reported Sunday in Person
county, although damages were
confined to the machines invol
ved.
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MEETING TO BE ,
HELD AT OXFORD
Mrs. T. C. Wagstaff and
Othen From’Person To At
tend District Welfare Con
ference.
Official Person representative
at the Central District Welfare
conference, to be heid Wednes
day, November 13, at First Baptist
church, Oxford, will be Person
Welfare Department director, Mrs.
T. C. Wagstaff, although county
commissioners, the judge of coun
ty court, R. B. Dawes, and othar
county officers are also expected
to attend.
The Central district, composed
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7,1940
Person Democrats
Again Out On Top
In Again
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• FKANKLIN D. IOOSEVELT '
rtESIOENT OF THE UNITED StATtl
President Franklin D. Roose
velt shattered tradition Tuesday
when he was returned to office
for a third time. Person voters
were nearly all for him.
ORDER NUMBERS
MAY BE POSTED
Questionaires Will Then Be
Mailed Out Ten At A
Time.
Baxter Mangun, office manag
er for the Person County Selec
tive Service bof.rd, Tuesday said
-tfiat order numbers had been re
ceived from Washington head
quarters and were posted to
day at the Person county court
house, where serial numbers
have .been displayed for some
time.
Men who registered axe re
quested to check their two num
bers as soon as possible, Mr. Man
gum said. It is expected that
questionaires will be mailed out
in the next few days, although
not more than thirty to thirty
five will be issued per day. Ev
ery serial number, Mr. Mangum
stated has its order number, start
ing with 158, which in this coun
ty is held by Richard Ray Ash
by, Collins and Aikman employee.
Members of the Person Selec
tive Service board, of which J.
W. Noell, editor of the Roxboro
Courier, is chairman, have met
several times in the past few days,
although it will be sometime be
fore the board, together with R.
B. Dawes, special agent, and Dr.
3. A. Thaxton, physician, will be
gin passing upon registerants.
As previously announced, chair
man of an assisting committee to
help registerants fill out que-s
--tionaires will be W. D. Merritt.
Roxboro attorney, who has named
a cooperative group of 12 or more
representative citizens to help
him.
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COUNTY RECORDS
TO BE INDEXED
WPA Project Expected To
Take Two Months or More
For Completion.
Present Monday morning at the
monthly session of the Person
County Board of commissioners
was H. Lynwood Elmore, of Ra
leigh, district supervisor of the
North Carolina State-wide Index
ing project (WPA) who presented
to the commissioners plans for
re-indexing county records.
Under the plan, as approved
by the commissioners, work will
start in about 10 days. It is
urrjer
a pwiotf or'two months or mere.
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THE TIMES IS PERSON’S
PREMIER NEWSPAPER*
A LEADER AT ALL TIMES-
NUMBER THREE
Roosevelt Leads Here And
All County Democrats E
lected Are Returned To
Office.
Based on returns from 16 out ol
18 Person county precincts, with
! Woodsdale and Cunningham still
to be heard from, leaders of the
Democratic ticket here in Tues
day’s election was President
Franklin D. Roosevelt, who re
ceived 3107 votes as Person’s
contribution to his large major
ity. Next largest vote in the coun
ty was received by Person’s na
tive son and Roxboro resident,
R. L. Harris, who had 3083 votes
as lieutenant governor.
Election returns received to
day, two days late, from Cunning
ham and Woodsdale, indicate. I
that these two precincts cast be
| tween 250 and 300 ballots for va
rious candidates. The Elections
board met again this morning
for formal tabulation of returns.
Willkie’s vote here was 439,
while Broughton, for Governor
received third highest among the
Democrats, 2911. McNeill and
Leavitt, Republican candidates
for the positions won by Brough
ton and Harris, received 275 and
273, respectively.
Os considerable interest here
was the campaign of Fifth Dis
trict Congressman A. D. (Lon)
Folger, of Mt. Airy, who was re
turned to Washington as the
district’s representative and had
from Person 2698 votes to his
Republican opponent Reynolds’,
284. In votes for county offices
Flem D. Long, unopposed Demo
cratic nominee for the State sen
ate captured 2851 votes, while
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MISS STARUNG
WILL SPEAK TO
GRAMMAR GROUP
Durham Woman Will Dis
cuss “More Years of Living’*
At PTA Meeting.
Speaker at the November
meeting of Roxboro Centra!
Grammar Parent Teacher asso
ciation, which will meet on Tues
day, November 19, at 3:30 o’clock
at the school, will be Miss Bessie
Starling, of Durham, whose topic
will be, “More Years of Living”,
according to announcement re
ceived today from the association
president, Mrs. Logan H. Um
stead.
Also planned as a part of the
program at that time will be a
motion picture, entitled, “More
Life in Living.”
Mrs. Umstead reports that much
interest has been shown thus far
in the association’s work and that
attendance has been gratifying.
A cordial invitation is extended
to every parent and friend to be
present at the November meet
ing, since it is felt that the pro
gram to be presented will prove
to be of unusual interest
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Six Person Men
At Wake Forest
Wake Forest, Nov. 7 Six
Person county men are among the
1,067 students enrolled at Wake
Forest college for this session.
Os this number, all are from
Roxboro, and all are enrolled
the academic school of the « A*
lege.
Students here are: J. D.
sher, F. H. Carver, Jr.,
ce Clark, HI, F. J. Hester j&fi.
A. Thaxton, Jr., and Ned ThoxljS