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VOLUME xn
NEW TEACHER AND
COMMITTEEMEN
CHOSEN BY BOARD
Miss Hcarne Comes To
High School - Ford, Kane
And Hunter on Vocational
Committee.
Announcement of selection of
Miss Venetia Heame, of Green
ville, as home economics teacher
at Roxboro high school, filling
the vacancy caused by resigna
tion of Mrs. Leo. Rabon, now a
resident of Asheboro, was an
nounced by Supervising Princi
pal H. C. Gaddy, following a meet
ing of the Roxboro city school
Board Thursday. Miss Heame, aj
graduate of Eastern Carolina Tea
chers College during the semester
just ended, was in Roxboro yes
terday for conferences and is ex
i pected to return before opening of
school on January 6.
Also a part of business discuss
ed at the board meeting was as
pects of vocational education, and
"'■upon suggestion of C. A. Harris
.an advisory vocational commit
tee composed of S. M. Ford,
George W. Kane and Gordon C.
Hunter was appointed it being
understood that this committee
is to cooperate with and 1 to ad
‘ vise members of the board, mem
bers of the vocational staff and
faculty at Roxboro, high school
and boys and girls, as well, in
i- matters pertaining to vocational
. educational opportunities and
| problems.
■j Teacher of vocational education
i at Roxboro high school is Glenn
Titus, who according to Mr. Gad
i'dy, has had unusual success with
/ ,the program, although assistance
1 of the committee is expected to
' be helpful in work, not only at
: Hie high school but in other
\ schools in te district.
SECONDQUOTA OF
SERVICE MEN TO
GO INTO CAMP
Fifteen Registerants who'
Have Volunteered Will Go
To Fort Bragg, January 15.
Selection of 15 white men from
various sections of Person county
to fill the county’s second quota
• under Selective Service was an
nounced today by Office .Mana
ger Baxter Man gum, who said
I that the men, all of whom have
f-r volunteered, after having reg
istered under the service act, will
* leave here on January 15 for Fort
\ Bragg, where they will be induc
. into service, although it is
expected they will be transferred
-.jijto other camps shortly after
PprlnaLat Fort Bragg.
who will leave on Jan
|jgi UJ Thomas Day.
I QLarence Wilson Wood, Henry
Coates, Jr., Joseph Victor
I Moore, Garland Thomas Slaugh-
E'lfcr, Ruby Thomas Dunn, Charlie
K Lee Taylor, Herbert Phelps,
B Love Phelps, Earlie Lee
('Clayton, Harold Earl Brooks,
(■'John Hambrick Harris, Bert
B Eonro Pixley, Adrian Mooney and
a John Robert Painter.
K First quota of three white men
K one Negro reported to Fort
If.Sragg several weeks ago, but Mr.
KNlfangum said he did not know
IgrWhen third quota will be called.
K So far only one Negro has been
K tailed, although there are now on
K the rolls about a dozen who have
K volunteered and are. waiting for
Rt enlistments.
■p Routine examinations are be-
K-'ing continued by the Person Boa-
Riad, of which J. W. Noell is chair
. .. . .
Ife Washington, Jan. 3.—Senator
Kpk>bert v R~ Reynolds today was
indefinitely slated to become Wash-
Upgton’s “Mayor,” as chairman of
Hype Senate District of Columbia
H rjbuamittee, and would accept post.
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PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY & THURSDAY
Three Person Participants
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Person people will on Thursday manifest more than usual interest in the inaugural ex
ercises at Raleigh when R. L. Harris (center) will become Lieutenant Governor and R. P.
Burns (left) and Flem D. Long (right) will enter upon their duties as Representative and
Senator from Person r
Man Wonders If j
His Son Is Dead
As participants in the second
act of a human interest drama
originating in New York two Rox
boro men are waiting knowledge
as to whether the third act will
mean personal grief to one of
them.
Receiving a telegram addressed j
to “Mr. Owens or Mr. Owers,!
W. E. Hood, manager of the local
Western Union office, Friday j
night attempted to locate a per
son of either name in Roxboro, j
Persistent searching revealed that'
Major Owens, Negro, lives hare. 1
Major read the message, sent!
by Bellevue hospital attaches,!
which said, “George Owens died:
here Friday”. Major has a son,*
Samuel George Owens, who re-j
cently returned to New York, DUtl
Major does not yet know whether I
the man who died in Bellevue is
his George. The message sent re-j
vealed nothing of the circum
stances of the man’s death or
of the manner in which the ad
dress was secured.
In an effort to clear up identi
fication and circumstances Mr.
Hood has sent a message to Bel
levue: there is no need to say that
Major is anxiously awaiting the
reply.
Along The Way
—With the Editor
Several years ago Dr. G- W. Gentry of this city, hooked a
big fish down in Florida. The fish put up a big struggle and
finally managed to get away with* the Doctor’s hook in its
mouth. Several, ago hfe received a package and upon
opening it there wss his hbok that he lost in Florida. Then
he received the tolfcwing letter.
Dear Doctor: ,1
"No doubt you will be surprised to receive the enclosed
article. It is being sent to you for idnetification. A few days
ago one J. J. “Dick” Woody or Roxboro, was diligently fishing
on Lake Apopka when he hung a tremendous fish. After a
heroic struggle of twenty minutes or more he was unable tc
land the monster. Despite the tact that he is a seasoned fish- j
erman, he had to call on his two companions to help pull the .
fish into the boat. In the struggle the boat nearly capsized. Mr.
Woody had caught several fish of four and five pounds, but
when he pulled in the grandfather or all he was ready to call
it the end of a grand and glorious fishing day.”
“When he arrived in Mt. Dora he laid his prize catch—
a big mouth bass—on the scales and lo and behold it weighed
all of twelve pounds and five ounces.”
“In dressing the fish this hook was found in its mouth—
it seems to be in good shape after being in the water four
years.” •’ •••
BEST WISHES.
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It is perhaps needless to add that Dr. Gentry left at once
for Florida and when O. Z. Gentry neard that Dr. Gentry ‘was
going he did not even stop long enough to get his gown or an
extra shirt. They did get their fishing poles.
Willie Yancey is having the time of his life while his part
ner Glenn Stovall is honeymooning. Willie is the big boss of
the auto company at the present time and he is stepping nigh.
' Gene Thompson has bought a riding horse - “nuff sed.”
I CUBS NOW HAVE
! NINE REGISTERED
Membership Cards Distri
buted At Saturday Den
Meeting. Others Urged To
Register.
Following a den meeting held
Saturday morning at Roxboro
Community house, Chub Lakej
street, cards of membership in
the re-chartered Roxboro Cub
Pack, now sponsored by men of)
St. Mary’s and St. Edward’s Cath
olic church, were distributed to
nine members who entered reg-
I istrations prior to the holidays.
Leaders at the meeting were
Rev. Rufus' J. Wornble,' of St,
Mark’s Episcopal church, assist
ant cub-master, and C. A. Harris,
Jr., Jack* Hughes, Jr., and Thom
as Long, Roxboro Boy Scouts.
Cubs who received registration
cards were: Shields Clarke, Ron
nie Thomas, R. B. Dawes, Jr.,
Donald Long, Norman Tapp, W.]
D. Fisher, Robert Wilson, Charles
Stewart and Robert Lee Clay. It,
is hoped that a number of boys
who are not attending Cub
meetings will attend. NextJPack
meeting will be held on January
20, at the Community house and
den meetings will be held as usu
al each Saturday at the same
place. All Cubs are urged to make
plans for their hobby displays at
the Pack meeting.
Fort Bragg Work
Runs On Schedule
Washington, Jan. 4—Construc
tion work at Fort Bragg, N. C.
will be completed either on time
or ahead of schedule, the War
Department announced today.
.Construction costing $30,227,000
is being rapidly carried forward
at the North Carolina artillery
fort.
Meanwhile, the department dis
closed additional delay ranging
from one to three weeks in ten
tative plans for mobilizing the
34th and 40th National Guard
Divisions and miscellaneous guard
units. - • ■f »
“Recent torrential rains, lum
ber strikes and other conditions
over which the War Department"
had no control,” were blamed.
Heavy rains have hampered I
construction at Camp Claiborne, j
La., where the 34th Division will!
train, and at Camp San Luis Ob-j
ispo, Calif., to which the 40th'
Division is assigned. Both these j
will be delayed about two weeks,;
it was estimated, and the in
duction of smaller units was post- j
ported up to three weeks.
The delays affect 25,000 or morn
men, and were the latest of a
series of such difficulties that;
have plagued mobilization of!
both the National Guard and Sel- 1
ective service recruits.
The 34th Division is composed
of troops from Minnesota, lowa,
and North and South Dakota
The 40th Division is made up of
California, Nevada and Utah
guardsmen.
The new tentative induction
dates for the delayed divisions
and other units include:
34th Division, Camp Claiborne,
Feb. I®.
Headquarters and Headquarters
Battalion, Jist Field Artillery
Brigade, from New York to Fort
EJthan Allen, Vt„ Feb. 3.
187th Field Artillery, New York,
to Fort Ethan Allen, Feb. 2.
258th Field Artillery, New York,
Fort Ethan Allen, Feb. 3
109th Observation Squadron,
Minnesota, Camp Beauregard,
La., Feb. 10.
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New Teacher At
Helena Named
Expected to assume duties as
teacher of the 4th grade at HeL
■ena next Wednesday is Miss
Mary H. Carraway, of High Point
successor to Mrs. Samuel Howard,
the former Miss Elizabeth TUlett,
according to announcement from
R. B. Griffin, Person superinten
dent of schools, who said that
Miss Carraway is an A B. Gradu
ate of High Point College, class
of 1940. Mrs. Howard will con
tinue to make her home at Hel
ena and is leaving her profession
after several years of service
Person [n\
Events In
Cherokee Dinner
Plans For Scouts
Being Arranged
I
Appointed as committeemen to
make plans for the Cherokee
Scout Council meeting and din
ner to be held at Reidsvile on
Tuesday, January 21, were sev
eral officials from the Person
district. Among those named were
George W. Kane, George J. Cush
wa, O. B. Mcßroom, Henry E.
O’Briant, Wallaee W. Woods and
F. O. Carver, Jr., all of Roxboro.
Preliminary plans were formu
lated at an executive board meet
ing held in Reidsville prior to
the holidays. The session was held
last year at Hotel Belvedere, cul
minating in an evening banquet
after an afternoon of confer
ences.
Attendance award to the dis
■ trict having largest number of
: leaders and officials and their
• wives present will be given and
council president Holland Mc
( Swain, of Yanceyville, is anxious
that each district be well repre
* sented.
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Eight Planes Stop
In Elizabeth City
Elizabeth ' City, Jan. 4.—Six
long range reconnaissance sea
planes intended for the defense
of England took off from nere
' Saturday morning for a non-stop
j flight for British territory in the
I Western Hemisphere.
| Two of the planes headed to a
’! landing in Pasquotank River here
I yesterday morning. Two more ar
! rived late in the afternoon and
! the crews said two more would
j reach here tomorrow. The planes
; were flown from the Consolidat
! ed Aircraft Corporation factory
jin San Diego, Calif.
American crews are flying the
I planes to English territory and
I returning by commercial airways
'I to San Diego for more ships. In
i British territory the planes will
be taken over by British crews.
Ordinary flying complement of
the planes is five men to a ship.
In Britain each will also be man
ned by two bombardiers and an
undisclosed number of machine
gunners.
The twin-motored seaplanes can
travel 4,000 miles in one hop and
are similar to those used by the
U. S. Navy for flights from Cali
fornia to Hawaii.
Spokesmen said the facilities
here were “as fine as can be found
in, the United States” and that
the basin here had been chosen
because it was a central point
for delivery of the planes by air
to any of the British possessions
in this hemisphere.
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Coca-Cola Has
Best Year In
Local History
According to a statement made
by O. B. Mcßroom, proprietor of
the local Coca-Cola Bottling
Works, Coca-Cola has just finish
ed its largest year in business
since the company was organized
here.
More Coca-Colas were sold in
this territory during 1940 than
have ever been sold during a like
period of time, stated Mcßroom.
The proprietor wishes to ex
tend his grateful thanks to the
many people in the territory j
served by his company for the
•generous business that was given
Coca-Cola. i
SUNDAY, JANUARY sth. 1941.
terest Centers On
Raleigh This Week
TEN MORE MAY |
JOIN EYECLINIC
Session To Be Held In
New Quarters of Health
Department In Kirby
Building.
Announcement of an eye clinic
sponsored by the Person unit of
the tri-county health department
and the FSA, to be held here on
Tuesday and Wednesday, Janua
ry 7 and 8, was made today oy
health department officials, who I
reported that although approxi
mately fifty registrations have
been made provisions can be made
to care for at least 10 more pati
ents.
The clinic will be held in the
new quarters of the Person Heal
th department, Kirby building,
, South Main street, above Ledbet
ters and all who attend the clinic
are requested to note the change
in location.
Officials of the department
moved to the Kirby building on
December 31, where adequate
space is provided for the secre
tary’s reception room, for clini
cal rooms and for offices for Dr.
A. L. Allen, director, and T. J.
Fowler, sanitarian. It is expected
that several days will elapse be
fore all interior painting in the
offices is completed, but work of
the department is being carried
on.
Forrmer headquarters were in
the Hall building, Abbitt Avenue,
where the welfare and WPA of
fices still remain.
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HIT BY INFLUENZA
Memphis, Tenn, Jan. 7.—Be
tween 45,000 and 50,000 persons
in Memphis and Shelby County
are ill either with influenza-'or
some type of respiratory infec
tion, doctors and local health of
ficers estimated.
Person License Plate Sales
Show Considerable Increase
r
City Tag Sale Lags Be
hind, However, and Many
Residents Must Buy.
Sale of 297 more license plates
than were sold last year in this
area by the Carolina Motor club
Roxboro agency was reported to
day by Miss Mary Stanfield, se
cretary, who said sale of 1941
plates for automobiles, trucks and
trailers has reached 3,769, versus
3,472 in 1940.
In contrast, Mrs. Hattie C. Car
ver, city hall secretary who
handles automotive licenses for
the city, has reported sale of 396
city plates to date, against 634
for last year.
Miss Stanfield, commenting on
Motor Club figures, said that in
cluded in her estimates were a
good number of licenses sold to
residents in Caswell and other
adjoining counties, indicating that
there are still a number of Per-1
son residents who have not yet
bought their plates. Period of
heaviest sale has occurred during
the week after Christmas, with
considerably lighter sale in the
past few days.
Mrs. Carver has said she is
quite anxious for city residents
to complete their purchasing of
licenses, although no official com
ment was forthcoming as to how
much more time municipal au
-1 thorities will allow before begin
ning prosecution of tnose who fail
[to comply with regulations. Pa-
THE TIMES IS PERSON’S
PREMIER NEWSPAPER.
A LEADER AT ALL TIMES.
NUMBER TEN
Many Residents Will Go To
Capital City For Inaugura
tion of Broughton and Har
ris.
Attention of many Person resi
dents will this week be focussed
upon the capital scene at Raleigh,
where on Thursday one of the
leading participants in the in -
augural ceremonies will be the
incoming lieutenant governor. R.
I L. Harris, of Roxboro, who fol
lowing his own induction into of
' fice as succesor to Wilkins P.
Horton, will preside over the ex
ercises for inauguration of Gov
ernor J. Melville Broughton.
'* Being in Raleigh will be noth- -
ing new to Lt. Gov. Harris, who
' nas served as Speaker of the
1 House and has long been familiar
with the State’s governmental
machinery.
1 Also participants in affairs at
Raleigh will be Flem D. Long,
' Person senator, and R. P. Bums,
the county’s representative in the
: i houses both of whom were elected
! to their respective offices for the
first time in the November elec
■ tion. Mr. Burns is a member of
1 the inaugural committee. Mr.
! Long as senator will also repre
sent Granville county.
It is expected that numbers of
■ j Person citizens will attend this
• inauguration, which has for them
1 a personal interest, aside from all
connections with the changing
Hoey and Broughton administra
tions. Later in the evening an in
-1 augural ball will be held,
i . Person sponsors for this event
1 will be Miss Rachel Fox, daugh
■ ter of Mr. and Mrs. George Fox
Jrt, who will be escorted by Bob
Whitten, and Miss Annie Mae
McWhorter, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. J. A. McWhorter, whose es
cort will be Curtis Long. Also at
tending various social functions
will be Lieutenant Governor and
Mrs. Harris, while one of the
most interested spectators of all
events of the day wil be the
Lieutenant Governor’s father, W.
H. Harris, Sr., of this city.
trolman W. A. Baxter said Sat
urday that no arrests have yet
been made but that under the
law all motorists who drive ma
chines without new plates are
subject to prosecution.
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Rotary Club Has
Regular Program
First 1941 dinner meeting of
Roxboro Rotary club was held
last night at Hotel Roxboro,
where the program was in charge
of R. M. Spencer. Introduced as
speaker was Thomas J. Shaw, Jr.,
whose topic was, “The Case for
Germany”. Also invited to parti
cipate in the program was City
Manager Percy Bloxam, who was
to have discussed the English at
titude toward the present war,
I but due to limited speaking time
his address was postponed until
next week.
Several matters of business
were discussed. Announcement
was made of the resignation of
W. A. Sergeant, who this week
retired from business and ieave
of absence was granted to R. L.
Harris, who will on January 9
become lieutenant governor of
North Carolina. Following an
nouncement of Mr. Sergeant’s
• Designation a committee to ta
vite him to accept honorary mem
bership was named.