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LOVES IS ACCUSED
OF FIRING AT RIVAL
Elizabeth City, Dec.-r- The story
•f a jealous lover who shot four
times at his girl friend's sweet
heart, was told here in Recorder’s
Court Wednesday morning and
the accused assailant was put un
der SI,OOO bond.
According to testimony, Zebe
dee (Dick) Byrum, for 13 years
an employe of Foreman-Derrick -
son Veneer Company, told Mrs.
Lima Trueblood, the girl’s moth
er, that “as long as I have gone
with Margaret she can’t go with
anybody else,” and opened fire
at the car in which Margaret sat
with William Hudson, elevator
operator in the Carolina Building.
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COURT DECLINES
TO FREE WOMAN
Smithfield, Dec.—“l’ve already
made up my mind and I would
not change it in 10 years—l am
not going to turn this woman
loose,” declared Judge Henry
Stevens in the habeas corpus pro
ceedings here Thursday when At
torney J. Faison Thompson of
Goldsboro was attempting to pro
cure the release under bond of
Mrs. Florence Littleton Holmes,
charged with procuring the mur
der of her husband, C. Irby
Holmes, 44, Goldsboro taxi opera
tor.
Judge Grady, an emergency
judge conducting a special term
of Lenoir Court in Kinston this
week, declined to hear the peti
tion and transferred it to John
ston Superior Court, claiming that
only a “regular” judge might
hear such a petition.
Bushy Fork Will
Have Program
Climaxing a series of programs
which have been given at Bushy
Fork school within the past few
weeks will be a Christmas enter
tainment presented by primary
grades Wednesday evening, De
cember 18, at 7:30 o’clock in the
school auditorium.
Welcome will be given by the
first grade, who will sing Christ
mas songs and recite poems suit
able to the season. “Santa Claus
Express” and “Buy a Balloon”
will be contributions from the
second grade. The “Nativity” a
scene with choral accompaniment
will be featured by the third
grade, who will also sing “Christ
mas Flowers” and will also pre
sent an acrostic.
Fourth grade part on the pro
gram will be filled by a Toy Tin
Soldier drill and “Portraits from
Christmas Day". No admission
will be charged and the public
is cordially invited.
“Sun-Up” Will Be
Given At College
High Point, Dec. 12—The dra
matic club at High Point College.
The Footlighters—is busy prepar
ing for their first major effort
this year, “Sun Up", which will
he given in January. Professor
Walter Fleischmann is the dra
matic coach.
A tentative cast has been re
leased by Mr. Fleischmann but
some parts are still indefinite.
The leading part will be taken by
Geraldine Rash of Union Grove.
It is the characterization of an
old woman. Elvene Furr of Albe
marle and Frank Murray of Gib
sonville will supply the love in
terest in the play.
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PUBLISHED EVERT SUNDAY & THURSDAY
Christmas Parade
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Plans Completed
High School Band With
Santa To Lead Procession
Over Business District.
Plans for the Christmas parade
that is to take place Monday
night, December 16th were about
completed yesterday, announced
W. W. Woods, secretary of the
Roxboro Chamber of Commerce.
The parade will begin at 7:00
p. m. and all children who are
to be in the parade are expected
to meet at the Winstead Ware
house at 6:45 p. m.
A number of firms in the city
and county have agreed to have
wagons in this parade. The wag
ons will be decorated and pulled
by small girls or boys under 13
years of age.
The Roxboro High School band
will lead the parade and it has
been promised that a real live
Santa Claus will be on hand to
talk to the kiddies.
Grand prize for the best de
corated wagon, will be contrib
uted by participating merchants,
although individual assesments
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 begin at the
First Baptist Church and will
parade down Main Street to the
Methodist Church, turning there
to parade back up Main Street
to the Peoples Bank corner, down
Court Street to the intersection
of Lamar Street, then south on
Lamar Street to Abbitt Avenue
and east on Abbitt Avenue to
Main Street, then back to the
Winstead Warehouse.
Everyone in the county is invit
ed to be on hand for the parade.
The stores of the city will be
open and will remain open each
night after Monday.
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DAUGHTER BORN
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Abbott, of
War, W«st Va., announce the
birth of a daughter in that city
on Saturday, December 14. Mrs.
Abbott is the former Miss Mary,
Sue Whitt, daughter of MrsJ
Maude Whitt, of Roxboro.
Along The Way
With the Editor
Dear Santa Claus;
We have a few requests that we would like to make at
Christmas time; we do not want to ask too much as we know
tnat you are a busy man and have many matters to attend to
right at this season.
Please bring F. O. Carver, Jr. a new set of golf clubs. The
ones that he has do not work so well and a new set might help
him in a big way. F. O. is a good player, but his clubs are not
right and he has to keep slamming them down on the ground
after bad shots. Even after ne throws them down they refuse
to work and so you see it must be that his clubs are no good.
And while we are talking about newspaper people we
want to put in a word for Tom Shaw. That boy needs a wife
and he needs her bad. Tom has a new house and he lives in
it all by himself. He has the house furnished from front end
to back and it is as cozy a place as you have ever seen. Please
bring him a wife to keep his house straight and fix him some
nice home cooked meals. You would be doing Tom a big favor.
Bring Russell Newell someone to help him at the store.
Wheeler never stays there and that puts everything on Rus
sell. The boy hardly has time to eat his meals because he has
to hurry back to the store. And so you can see you must bring
Russell some help or bring Wheeler a little more ambition
for work.
Then Santa, there Tom Bennett, our new fertilizer man.
He just moved here and he is trying to introduce a new thing
m Person County. Tom has been to Kentucky and bought a
bunch of saddle horses. He is trying to get people around here
to go in for horseback riding in a big way. He is selling the
horses to some people and trading them to others. But one way
or the other he is getting these horses over the county. Now
Santa here’s the point—if Tom is going to keep getting these
horses he must have some hay and oom. Therefore we ask
you to bring him enough hay, corn, etc., to keep the horses
going ’til he can sell them.
Formal Opening
Os Exchange Will
Be Held Monday
Formal opening of the newly
built Farmers Mutual Exchange
store and warehouse, Chub Lake
, Street, owned and operated by
J. R. Jones, in association with
Lambert Berry, will be held Mon
day, at which time the proprietors
will join other merchants in the
city in observing holiday even
ing hours.
The Jones and Berry establish
ment, which has been in business
here for a number of years, mov
cd to its new quarters some time
ago, although formal opening has
been deferred until Monday.
The store carries goods of an
especial appeal to farming people
and many attractive bargains are
to be offered on opening day.
Light refreshments will be serv
ed and prospective patrons and
friends are cordially invited. The
new brick structure is next door
to the American Legion hut.
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Mr. Strickland To
Be With Woody’s
Funeral Home
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Beginning Monday, Marvin
Strickland, formerly of Oxford,
will be associated with Woody’s
funeral home, this city, as ern
oalmer and assistant funeral di
rector, according to announce
ment made today by J. J. Woody,
director. In Oxford Mr. Strick
land was in similar capacities as
sociated with J. Robert Wood and
company.
Mr. Strickland, who is married
and has one child, is expecting
to move his family to Roxboro
by the first of the year. In mak
ing the announcement Mr. Woody
said that he is pleased to have
Mr. Strickland with him as an
additional member of the staff.
Mr. Strickland made his home in
Oxford for a number of years and
while there was a popular par
ticipant in various civic affairs.
They Seek 12,000 Flying Students
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Lieut. W. Wlttie Jr., assistant recruiting officer for the Philadelphia
flying cadets, is shown (left) going over plans for the procurement of
applicants with Lieut. Lawrence Semans, of the U. S. army air corps.
Lient. Semans is advance agent in a drive to get 200 Philadelphians to
make up part of 12,000 flying cadets needed in the expansion program.
JOHN P. BLALOCK
RITES CONDUCTED
AT SURL CHURCH
Person Native and Farmer
Dies Friday Morning At His
Home Near Timberlake.
John P. Blalock, 62, Person
county native and farmer, died
Friday morning at six o’clock at
his home at Timberlake, Route 1,
following an illness lasting sev
eral weeks. He had been in ill
health for two years. Death was
attributed to complications.
Funeral services were conduct
ed Saturday afternoon at two
o’clock at Surl Primitive Baptist
church by Elder Lex J. Chand
ler. Interment was in the church
cemetery.
Surviving are: his wife, Mrs.
Vessie E. Blalock, one daughter.
Miss Margaret Blalock,, and six
sons, Luther, Victor and Willie
Blalock, all of the home, and
Dorsey and O. J. Blalock, of Rox
boro, and Ernest Blalock, of Fu
quay Springs. Also surviving are
three brothers, Tom and Idra
Blalock, of Timberlake, and Isaac
Blalock, of Roxboro.
Music Program
Planned At High
School Thursday
A Christmas Carol program at
Roxboro high school will be giv
en on Thursday night December
19 by the Mixed Chorus of the
high school, assisted by the Jun
ior Glee Club of the Elementary
Department, under the direction
of Mrs. Sam Byrd Winstead.
The first part of the program
w hich will 'be given by the Junior
Glee Club, will be a playlet en
titled “Christmas in Old Eng
land,” at which time a number
of secular Christmas carols will
be sung.
The Mixed Chorus will present
as the second part of the pro
gram “The Story of the Nativi
ty”, using sacred Christmas Car
ols.
The Mixed Chorus has an en
rollment of Seventy five this year
and for the program will be
dressed in new choir vestments.
A modest admission will be
charged. Tickets may be obtain
ed from Mrs. Winstead and from
members of the clubs giving thj
entertainment.
“Buck” Has Two
Stories To Tell ..
Linotype operator A. B. Bu' h
ansn, of the Person Times, whe
was busy last nignt, had his
mind on a story—one of High
way Safety Division Director
Ronald Hocutt’s persuasive ap
peals for motorists to be care
ful.
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Mrs. Buchanan, who was with
her husband, put down her fan
cy W’ork, went to the front of
the office and looked through
the window. She looked twice
at the space where she had a
few moments ago parked the
family car: it was not there.
Calling her husband, Mrs.
"Buck” ran out to the street,
where subsequent searching re
vealed that the machine had
crawfished gently downhill and
come to a side-wise stop two
houses away.
Locked doors were soon un
locked and the car was re
turned to its original parking
place, no damage done. “Buck”
then went back to Hocutt’-
story, which just happened to
be one about responsibilities of
drivers whose cars take run-a
way trips.
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BLOXAM HEARD
BY TEACHERS IN
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
City Manager Substitutes
For Erwin. Music Given By
Glee Club at High School.
Pitch-hitting for Superintend
ent of Public Instruction Clyde
A. Erwin of Raleigh, unable to
fill his engagement because of in
juries received in an automobile
accident, City Manager Percy
Bloxam, of Roxboro, gave inspir
ational addresses at county-wide
teachers meetings held at Person
County Training school for Ne
groes and at Roxboro high school
Tuesday afternoon.
Saying that a “New day con
fronts us, a day marked by new
conditions, problems and respon
sibilities”, Mr. Bloxam urged
teachers to meet their tasks with
courage, resourcefulness and a
desire for service.
His address, illustrated with
stories and poems, was a stirring
appeal to teachers to do their part
in educating young people for
life in the new and different
world now in the making.
was busy
SUNDAY DECEMBER 15, 194«
Community House Trustees
Consider Conversion Plans
CUB PACK WILL
MEET TUESDAY
Registrations Take Place
at That Time. Cubs and
Parents Urged To Attend.
December meeting of the Rox
boro Cub Pack will be held Tues-I
day evening, December 17, at!
Roxboro Community house at 7
o'clock, according to announce
ment made today. Cherokee
Council Executive A. P. Patter
son, of Reidsville, has requested
that charter renewal registrations
take place at this meeting and it
is urged that all boys be present
promptly at 7 o’clock.
An interesting program has
been planned by Scout leaders
Thomas Long, C. A. Harris, Jr,,
and Jack Hughes, Jr., who report
that a handicraft exhibition will
be held.
The Pack meeting was original
ly planned for Monday night but
change in date was made because
of the Christmas parade being
staged on that night by Roxboro
mrechants.
Den meetings, have been held
during the month, with able as
sistaance of Rev. J. M. Walker,
of the Presbyterian church, and
Rev. Rufus J. Womble, of St.
Mark’s Episcopal church. Present
den mother is Mrs. Numa Ed
wards, who has also been help
ful in carrying on the work, as
have a number of other mothers
and fathers.
Sponsors of the Pack are men
of St. Mary’s and St. Edward’s
Catholic church, with active sup
port from Commissioner Clyde
Swartz and William Pickering.
Cubmaster is Thomas J. Shaw, Jr.
Regular monthly meeting of the
Roxboro Scout district commit
teemen will also be held Tues
day night at 7:30 o’clock in the
office of Dr. A. F. Nichols. Mr.
Patterson is expected to be pres
ent and the Cub Pack charter re
newal is to be ratified at that
time.
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Thirteen Boys
Try Their Luck
On Friday, the 13th, 13 news
boys, Durham Morning Herald
carriers in the Roxboro area, sat
down more than 13 minutes af
ter six to a dinner given in their
honor by H. C. Kynoch, circula
tion manager for the Herald in
this city. The event took place
at Hotel Roxboro, where “mine
host” Karl Burger vows he pass
ed the rolls more than 13 timese.
Latest reports give no hints of
stomach aches: the boys had their
minds on food, not the day.
DEANHOUSEOF
CHAPE HILL IS
ROTARYSPEAKER
University Dean, at Rotary
Ladies Night, Talks On Art
of Living.
With more than 120 members
and guests present, Including a
number from out of town, Rox
boro Rotarians, holding their an
nuls “Ladies Night” banquet
Thursday at Hotel Roxboro, heard
Dean Robert B. House, of the
University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill discuss the art
living. Dean House, known to
many local alumni of Carolina,
was of the opinion that happiness
cannot be attained without con
stant thoughtfulness and consi|jl
| f ration for others.
(Continued on Social Page)
THE TIMES IS PERSON’S
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PREMIER NEWSPAPER
A LEADER AT ALL TIMES.
NUMBER EIGHT
Other Interested Citizens
Also Meet With Trustees.
Committee Named. No Ac
tion Taken.
Decision to refer matter of con
version of the Roxboro Communi
ty house into a county agricul
tural building to O. B. Mcßroorrt
as cornmitteman representing the
j Community house trustees was
j : "ached at a meeting held here
Friday night by trustees of the
house, together with representa
tives of agencies now tenants in
the structure.
As representative of these
groups Mr. Mcßroom will be ex
pected to confer with County
Commissioner Sam Byrd Win
stead. committeeman from that
organization. Question of conver
ting the seven-year old PWA con
structed Community house into
an agricultural building was
first proposed by County Com
missioners, who have been re
quested by various citizens to in
vestigate possibilities of erecting
a suitable building to house ag
ricultural agencies now operating
in what is regarded as inade
quate quarters in the Person
court house.
Messers. Mcßroom and Win
stead will be expected to report
to their respective bodies after
conferences have been held, al
though it is not known how long
it will be before the matter will
be finally settled.
Issue of conversion of the Com
munity building to other uses
was brought up by county com
missioners because it was felt
that the eounty—ts'irot in *-~po ——
sition to spend as much money at
the present time as would be re
quired for erection of a complet
iy new building. Prior to the
meeting Friday night discussions
had been held by both county
commissioners and Roxboro city
council, but present users of the
building did not come together
for discussion of the problem un
til then.
The trustees, Mr. Mcßroom,
Mrs. R. H. Shelton and B. B. '
Mangum were of opinion that
the Community structure could,
be leased to the county for a\
term of years for usages desig
nated. It was also pointed out
that present floor plan of the
building is not to be materially
altered and that the present club
room will remain as it is, al
though some additions and re
pairs may be made to the struc
ture.
Concensus of opinion among
trustees and representatives
seemed to be that the building
, is not now being as fully used as
it might be and that conversion £
of it to agricultural quarters
could be considered. Present prin
cipal tenants are the Woman’s
club, which has in the building a
library operated for benefit of
citizens, and various Boy Scout
troops, who make use of basement
recreation quarters. Civic clubs
also meet there at rather infre
quent intervals. Major inconven
ience occasioned by conversion
would apparently be felt by the 1
library, although it was reported
that suitable uptown quarters *
may be obtained for it
In addition to trustees, those , -
present for the meeting Friday/
night which was held at the’ city
hall included: City manager Fercjf
Bloxam, who is on the consuhittg
committee as rejmesentativ* pt
the City, J. S. Merritt E. B. Crav
en. Jr., Dr; J. H. Hughes, Bp&wtth*:
Whitfield, and Mrs. T. T.
L ell.
DAUGHTER BORN / k
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Johison, of
- this city .announce the of
a daughter, Jaoquline /Sue Den,
at Commuinty hospital,
vember 30. - ■
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