IP IT IS NEWS ABOUT
Jr PERSON COUNTY, YOU’LL ;
V .FIND IT IN THE TIMES.
VOLUME xn
Two Taken To Hospital After!
Car Wrecks Near Hillsboro
, Kexhoro Man And Durham
Woman Are Patients. Paoi
Uinstead Has Cuts On
Hands.
James (Buster) Jones, 20, of
■, Roxboro and Durham, received a
1 fractured right elbow and Miss
Juanita Singleton, of 1101 Hyds
Park avenue, Durham, a fractured
vertebra last night about 9
•’clock, when a car driven by
Henry Elam, of Roxboro who was
accompanied by Mr. Jones, Miss
Singleton, her sister, Miss Louise
Singleton, of Durham, and Paul
Umstead, of Roxboro, overturned
three or four times after running
' through a sandy spot on the tar
and gravel highway between
Hillsboro and Yanceyville, about
five miles from Hillsboro.
Mr. Umstead, who received cuts
•n his hands requiring nine stitch
es to close, said that all occu
• pants .except Miss Louise Single
ton were thrown out of the car.
r - Picked up by a passing motorist
they were brought to Community
hospital, Roxboro, where Mr.
Jones and Miss Juanita Single
ton are now patients. Mr. Um
atead was given first aid treat
ment, while Miss Louise Single
ton and Mr. Elam were unin
jured.
The machine, property of Mr.
, Elam, was all but completely
wrecked. Members of the party
were en route to Danville, Va.,
at the time of the accident, hav
ing left Durham a short while
previously.
[ Mr. Jones, son of Mr. and Mrs.
W. J. Jones, of Roxboro, left here
r this week to reside in Durham,
where he is employed by a gro
cery company. Mr. Umstead, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Umstead, is
employed by a Roxboro dry clean
ing establishment. Mr. Elam is
connected with a Roxboro gro
. eery store.
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Goes To Pulaski
As Hotel Man
J. V. King, of this city, son of
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. King, who
has for the past several months
been night clerk at Hotel Rox
boro, left today for Pulaski, Va.,
where he has accepted a position
as clerk at Mapleshade Inn, re
sort hotel in that city. Mr. King,
a graduate of Roxboro high school j
is a native of Roxboro and has
been popular in social circles. .
Taking Mr. King’s place at Ho- •
tel Roxboro will be Gray Elmore j
of Winston-Salem, who arrived
today.
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; Service Party For ;
Employees Planned j
Annual Service party for em
ployees of Collins and • Aikman
corporation, Ca-Vel, who have
been with the company 10 years
or more, will be held Saturday,
evening, December 7, at 7 o’clock J
at Hotel" Roxboro, according to
, announcement made by G. H. Ell
- more, personnel director. Reserva
tions have been made for 140 per
sons and it is expected that the
‘ affair will be most enjoyable. Al
so present will be a number of
r Roxboro guests.
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SMALL ROOF BLAZE
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p| ’Caitjfc firemen responded about
six o’clock Tuesday night to an
plam turned in for a small roof
blaze to a Negro tenant house on
Si I #* S. G. Winstead property, Har
fftrfs hill. Damage was slight.
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Person County Times
PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY A THURSDAY
Mrs. Puryear
Works In Public
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Sound of breaking glass shai
■| tered silence late yesterday after
, noon in the Christmas decorated
j lower hallway of the Person
j County court house. A Times re
| porter, looking for stories in the
! sheriff’s office, dashed across the
hall to see what had happened.
He expected a nice, newsy cata
strophe. In front of what had
been the glass-paneled entrance
to Superintendent of Schools’ R.
B. Griffin’s office he came to a
full stop: the frosted glass was
completely gone and attendants
were sweeping up fragments, be
cause one of three small boys
playing outside the door had
struck it at just the right angle.
Mr. Griffin was not there, but
Mrs. “Secretary” Puryear, who
was, sat at her desk and went on
with work in hand, as if nothing
had happened. Repairs have been
made now and that’s the after
noon’s excitement, the end of a
quiet day.
JUDGE GRADY TO
HOLD TERM OF
SUPERIOR COURT
Newbem Jurist Comes
Here In January. Jurors
Listed.
Exps?tfed To •prdaide •at the Jam
uary 20 term of Person Superior
court is Emergency Judge Henry
A Grady, of New Bern, who is to
come to the court in place of J.
Paul Frizzelle, of Snow Hill, dis
trict judge previously assigned
who has a conflicting term, in
Durham, according to announce
ment made today by assistant!
clerk of Person Superior court,!
R. A. Bullock.
Named as jurors by county]
commissioners for this term of
court were R. D. Whitfield, J. D.j
Gray, Earl Stewart, L. F. Hester,!
D. S. Brooks, J. V. Bullock, Othoj
Moize, M. T. Slaughter, D. W.l
Rogers, Frank Brooks, N. V.
Davis, C. A. Bowen, J. Lester
Hughes and C. G. Long.
Also, R. E. Whitfield, J. W.
Rogers, B. H. Duncan, C. E. Win
j stead, Jr., Fred Davis, A. W. Hor
ton, C. L. Foushee, A. H, Baynes,
Leon Rogers, Clyde Murphy, E.j
G. Thompson, J. A. Rogers and!
! H. M. Gentry.
1 Also, Newton Day, I. C. Gentry, 1
j T. G. Brooks, T. B. Brooks, Edgar i
, Brewer, J. W. Foushee, J. C. Oak- 1
ley, Lacy C. Wilkerson, Walter
Kidd, F. N. Williams, Tinnie Shot-'
well, W. B. Humphries, J. Lester]
| Clayton and W. Wiley.
A tentative list was also
drawn up for a second week of
court but will not be made public
until later, depending upon de
cision as to whether or not a
second week of court will be call-!
ed for.
Store Hours To
Change For Week
Beginning on Monday, Decem
ber 16, ten days after the formal'
Christmas opening marked by!
street decorations and Christmas
$
lights, Roxboro merchants will
stay open during the evening fer
benefit of shoppers engaged in
the last minute holiday ruahJ
Roxboro Chamber of Commerce!
secretary Wallace W. Woods, to
day said that stores will remain!
open until' 9 o’clock at night, In'
addition to regular daytime schfed-|
ulee.
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FOUR MEN WILL !
ENTER SERVICE |
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Selective Service Register
ants Who Volunteered Will
Be First To Go. Other Vol
unteens Ready.
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Four Person County Selective
I service registrants, George Ed
! ward Crumpton, 22, Albert Ber-'
, card Whitfield, 27, Edward Tul
j madge Chrissenball, 23, and Rich
ard Henderson Yancey, the latter!
' a Negro, constitute the coun’y s
first quota and will enter Fort;
1 Bragg next week, according to
statement made today by Selec
tive Service office manager Bax-!
! ter Mangum. All four volunteer
ed after registaring and are en
tering ahead of other registrants
from this area.
Crumpton, of Route 1, Roxboro,
a foreman with a tobacco com
pany, has been designated as
leader of the white men, who
will leave Roxboro at noon, De
cember 11. Yancey will report to
Fort Bragg on December 12.
Whitfield, of Route 3, this city,
is a service station attendant, 1
while Chissenball, of Semora,
Route 1, is a farmer. Yancey, of
Rougemont, Route 1, is a farmer
and school bus driver.
Commenting on work of the
board, Mr. Mangum said that 1
eight other Person registrants,*
four white men and four Ne
groes, have since volunteered
and will be taken as soon as call
ed. Two hundred seventy six from
here have been classified, with
90 in Class 1A,49 of whom are
white men and 44 are Negroes.
In deferred classifications, prob
net to be called ate 182,* 4s
are four in Class D, college stud
ents, who will not be called be
fore July 1, 1941, following com
pletion of college.
The four men now going tc
Fort Bragg have been asked to
report to the board office at 11
o’clock on the morning of their
leave-taking to receive final pa
pers and instructions. It is also
expected that local legionaires of
Lester Blackwell post, under*
Commander Onnie C. Jordan, will
at that time hold appropriate go
ing-away exercises for the men.
Roxboro Man Signs Contract
For Publication Os Novel
Having Person Bacground,
Charles Wood’s Tobacco
Country Novel Will Be Pub
lished In Spring By Uni
versity Os North Carolina
Press.
Meeting North Carolina’s new
est novelist, Charles Barnette
Wood, who this week signed a
contract with the University of
North Carolina Press for publi
cation early next spring of his
“First, the Fields”, is not a new
experience to Roxboro friends and
neighbors, who have for three
decades known him with the easy
familiarity accorded to a native
son, but thinking of him as ail
author opens up for many of
them a different Charles Wood,
whose quiet genius for recording
their ways of life may make him
known to people who neyer heard
of Roxboro or Person county, j
Out of what would appear to
the uninitiated as the unpromis-;
ing terrain and folkways of a I
north central Carolina countyj
bordering Virginia, a county'
where, growing and marketing of;
tobacco was and still is of vital
importance to nine out of ten
inhabitants, however far-remov
ed some of them may be from
its cultivation or the mdney de-j
rived, Mr. Wood in “First, the
Person Novelist. .
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Charles Wooe, Person native
and Roxboro business man, this
week signed contract lor publica
tion of his novel, “First, the
Fields”.
An Accident
Although he did not stop to
make investigation, “Dub”
Hobgood, on his way to his
former home at Henderson for
the week-end, passed what ap
peared in the night to be an
automobile wreck about 7
miles from Roxboro' on the
Oxford highway. Coming back
the next morning, he noticed
fragments of broken glass and
a large blood-stain at the same
spot. There was, so be thought,
every evidence of a bloody ac
cident. It was, but not until
he came back to town did Mr.
tim was a mule, property of
Willie Blalock, who lives near
the scene of the accident.
INFANT DIES
Graveside rites for the two days
old infant son of Mr. and Mrs.
Jesse J. Carver, of this city, were
held in Burchwood cemetery this
afternoon at 3 o’clock. The child
who had been ill from date cf
birth died yesterday. Mrs. Carv
er is the former Miss Macey Car-
Fields” has created a story evolv
ing out of the never ending ques
tion of supply and demand
Socialological Impact
Although the account of Hugh
Winton’s progress from boyhood
to man’s estate is not autobio
graphical any more than a story
springing from native country
has to be, the sociological im
pact of Mr. Wood’s description
of the ill-fated Tobacco Co-op
movement of two decades ago
may startle even those readers
who know nothing from actual
experience of the gulf between
agriculture and the “big business”
tobacco companies. Being an ar
tist as well as an observer, the
author attempts no solution to the
problem presented. He is, instead,
concerned with presentation of
cause and effect as it is felt by a
well-born middle class young
man, whose intelligence is pitted
vainly against something bigger
than hirrtself, the age-old matter
of self-respecting survival in a
competitive world where money
and the lade of it frequently de
feat finer instincts thought of as
cultural and romantic essentials
to life. ’
Mr. Wood, who was born on
one of his father’s Person county
farms in 1906, has incorporated
into his book much of the con- 1
trastingly astringent and open
F. T. WHITFIELD ,
NAMED HEAD OF
COUNTY BOARD
Agricultural Building Ques
tion Comes Up Again. Sug
gestion Os Title Transfer
Made.
Holding their December meet
ing Person County commission
ers Monday elected as chair
man of the board, Frank T. Whit
field, Bushy Fork merchant, who
is entering upon his third suc
cessive term as commissioner. Ac
chairman Mr. Whitfield takes the
place previously held by Philip
L. Thomas, Roxboro druggist, and
who has been succeeded on the
board by Sam Byrd Winstead,
tobacconist of this city.
Mr. Thomas, who served a
term of two years, was present
Monday in an advisory capacity
ard while there received thanks
of other members for services
rendered.
Most important business of the
day was presentation of a report
in regard to WPA assistance in
construction of an Agricultural
building for the county. County
Agent H. K. Sanders and City
Manager Percy Bloxam, as rnem
! bers of an investigation commit
j tee indicated that the sum of
! $15,000 or more would be need
! ed to construct such a building
( and that under present regula-
I tions WPA assistance would not
be more than fifty percent of the
amount named.
Following discussion of this re
port, suggestion was made that
Roxboro Community house, prop
j erty owned by the Rox
and modernization be converted
into a suitable county agricul
tural structure at less cost than
might be reached by a new build
ing. New commissioner, Mr. Win-
I stead was then appointed to con
fer with city officials.
Re-engaged were R. P. Burns
f as county attorney and J. S.
Walker as county accountant and
supervisor of taxation for the
biennium. Miss Sue Bradsher,
' clerk of Superior Court, was
granted an extension of time of
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handed Person manner of liv.ng.
He himself later moved to Rox
boro with his family, where he
has lived for twenty years, ex
cept for a five year venture north
with an oil company, and is a
! graduate of Roxboro High school
and the University of North Car
olina, at Chapel Hill, but in tell
ing the story of Hugh Winton,
whose life is a continuation of
what the author’s might have
been, Mr. Wood’s presents anoth
er problem, the course of life fer
a farmer whose father and grand
father had more property and ed
ucation than he himself can hold
or attain.
Not Baronial
“First, the Fields”, is not how
ever, and thank Heaven for it.
a tale of Southern baronial de
cadence. It is better than that,
and as one'pre-vue reader has
succinctly said: “It has guts”.
This is apparent even in the boy
and girl romance which precedes
the more tragic mature matri
moir.al experience. It is also to be
observed in the realistic treat
ment of minor characters, in
cluding Negroes and the near
poor-whites who are neighbors of
the Wintons, Those who must
have romantic atmosphere will
find it, judiciously spaced, in de
scriptions of the “Sligo” country
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER S, 1940
Christmas Parade Will Be
Feature Here December 16
Letters Sent Out
Today On Behalf
Os Seal Sales
More than two hundred letters
in a mail campaign in connection
with the Roxboro and Person
Christmas seal sale drive were
sent out this morning to residents
in this area, according to an
nouncement from the campaign
director, Mrs. R. H. Shelton, who
thanked members of the Person
welfare and health department
staffs for assisting her with this
phrase of the work.
Mayer S. G. Winstead, in a
few well-chosen words, has de
livered a proclamation commend
: ing this annual effort to relieve
; and improve tubercular condi
tions and it is expected that mem
■ bers of the Woman’s club, spon
soring the drive for funds, will
i canvass the city next week.
BIBLE SUNDAY TO
BE OBSERVED BY
CHURCHES HERE
St. Mark's Episcopal and
Roxboro Presbyterian
Churchse Will Pause To
Take Part In World-Wide
Observance.
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In observance of “Universal
. Bible Sunday”, December 8, Rev.
[ wTetT Wark’s
[ Episcopal church, will deliver a
. speeial sermon at the morning
, service. In commenting on the
significance of this day of world
wide consideration for the Bible,
Rev. Mr. Womble said that work
done by the British and Foreign
Bible society in Europe and es
pecially in England, has been
greatly curtailed because of war
conditions.
Under such circumstances the
similar work done by the Ameri
can Bible society is now much
greater, said Mr. Womble, and it
is important that churches of all
denominations continue support
of the organization. Another Rox
boro church which will observe
the day will be Roxboro Presby
terian church, where the pastor,
she Rev. J. M. Walker, will also
plan special observances.
At both St. Mark’s and tilt
Presbyterian church, morning
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services will begin at 11 o’clock, i
Communion will not be observed]
this week at St. Mark’s, although!
it will be celebrated in Sunday,
December 15.
Sermons will be delivered at
usual morning and evening hours
at Edgar Long Memorial Metho
dist church by the Rev. W. C.
Martin, and at Roxboro First
Baptist, by Rev. W. F. West, re
spective pastors. *
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Children Enjoy
Morning Show
Yesterday morning more than
400 pupils at Roxboro Central
Grammar school, together with
eleven taechers, 'enjoyed a morn
ing showing of one of the “Blon
die” pictures at the Palalce thea
tre, where they were guests of
manager Teague Kirby, who in
vited them to attend because of
successful conclusion of the Cen
tral Grammar School’s PTA mem
bership campaign. More than two
hundred parents are now mem
bers.
Those who were Mr. Kirby's
guests today expressed their great
pleasure at viewing the perform
ance and their desire to thank
him for hisjfurtesy in extending
the invitatftn.
PREMIER NEWSPAPER
A LEADER AT ALL TIMES.
PREMIER NEWSPAPER
A LEADER AT ALL TIMES.
NUMBER SIX
Children 12 Years of Age
And Under T« Display
Decorated Wagons hi Spon
sored Event.
Plans for a Christmas parade,
sponsored by merchants in this
city, in cooperation with Roxboro
Chamber of commerce,, and in
which chief feature will be a de
corated wagon Monday participat
ed in by children of the city and
county, were announced today by
Chamber secretary Wallace W.
Woods, who said that the event
will take place on the evening
of December 16, at 7 o’clock.
Also in the procession will be
what is described as a “real live
Santa Claus”. Music will be fur
nished by Roxboro High school
band uncfpr direction of Fred
erick Moore, of the school faculty.
Main incentivjf for participa
tion by the children will be a
grand prize award of of ten dol
lars for the best decorated wagon.
Recipient of this prize must be
under 13 years of age according
to rules of the contest and each
contestant,, whose wagon will be
sponsored by a store or business
house in the city, will receive
from the sponsor the sum of fifty
cents as an entrance fee to be
retained by him or her.
It has been pointed out that
each wagon entered must have
the name of the sponsoring firin
on each side and that total a
mount to be spent in decoration
of each wagon is to be limited to
seventy-five cents. Older cnildrcn
and young people may enter the
;emrtest watfr Pr. WitWaitcspGfc&br
ship but only those children who
have sponsors and are under 13
years of age will be eligible for
the grand prize.
Grand prize will be contributed
by participating merchants, al
though individual assessments
from each are not expected to go
above one half dollar. In event
of a tie the grand prize will be
divided between the two winning
contestants. The parade will or
ganize at 6:45 o’clock at Win
stead warehouse, fifteen minutes
before it is to begin its march.
The parade will begin at the
First Baptist Church and will
parade down Main Street to the
Methodist Church, turning there
and parade back up Main Street
t,o the Peoples Bank corner, down
Court Street to the intersection
of Lamar Street, then south cn
Lamar Street to Abbitt Avenue
and east on Abbitt Avenue to
Main Street, then back to the
Winstead Warehouse.
MRS. El ASHLEY
PASSES AT HOME
Rites For Helena Woman
Will Be Held Friday.
Mrs. Eva Hobbs Ashley, 42, wife
of Elijah James Ashley, of the
Helena community, died this
morning at 6:30 o’clock at tHeL
residence following an illness
lasting twelve hours. Death was
attributed to a heart attack.
Funeral service will be held to
morrow afternoon at the home
at 3 o’clock by the Rev. J. N.
Bowman, assisted by Elder Lex
J. Chandler. Interment will be in
the family cemetery.
Surviving are her husband, of
the home, and two sisters, Mrs.
Janey Haithcock and Mrs. Kath
erine Reeves, of Durham, and
four brothers, Raymond, Leamon
and Braxton Hobbs, all of Dur
ham, and Alphonso Hobbs, of
Sampson county .
Pallbearers will be W. L and
G. W. Wagner, E. T. and Cdme
lius Ashley, Leonard piy 'ted.'
Edward Brooks. -
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