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VOLUME XU
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Firemen Kept Busy First of j
Week By Destructive Blazes
Yarborough Residence
i Damaged and King’s Pal
v ace Leveled. Spectators
Hinder Work.
Fire said to have originated
from a box of ashes on the back
porcn of a Wo.dland avenue
residence damaged two rcoms ad
jacent to tnc porch to extent of
about SBOO at 9 o'clock yesterday
morning according to report til
ed by Fire Chief Henry E. C’-
Briartt.
R. of the house, a one-story
structure, property of Mrs. W.
D. Yai borough, who resides next
do-r, was ablaze when firemen
arrived but was quickly exiin
guised. This was the second fire
of the week,, in this city and the
sixth in thill Roxbcro area with
in the past seven days.
S. B. Oavis, owner of the build
ing in which Kings’ Palace res
taurant, destroyed by fire Mon
day night, was located, today said
that he has no definite state
ment to make with regard to re
building of the structure, valued
at between $1,500 and 2,000. Plans
of Coleman C. King, operator of
the restaurant, are equally in
definite.
Mr. King estimated valuation
of fixtures and equipment at a- 1
round $2,300. Both he and Mr.
Davis had partial insurance cov
erage. King’s Palace had been op
erated during the past four!
years by Mr. King and was aj
popular night spot here. Within
recent months manager for Mr.!
King was his brother, Joe King,
who was adding fuel to the pitj
fire when hot grease from a
cooking pig ran down on live
coals and out onto the floor
causing flames to spread rapidly I
over the wooden structure.
The fire at King’s Palace broke j
out about 7:10 o’clock Monday
evening and although Roxboro
firemen responded quickly little
could be done but protect sever
al close-by small residences. On
ly equipment saved was the cash
register and a piccolo.
The King’s Palace fire, largest'
to occurr here in several years,!
drew many spectators, several of
wbcm, according to report, some- j
what hindered fire fighting ac-j
tivities by blocking the street
and roadway with their automo
biles.
In the restaurant at the time
the blaze began were Joe King,
J. J. Slaugher, a helper, and Au
brey McCulloch, a customer. Al
so employed at the establish
ment, although he was off duty
at time of the fire, was Marshall
twisdale, who came to this city
from Henderson abcut the time
the restaurant was first opened. |
The building in which the eat
ing establishment was located
had been added to several times
in the past few years and the res. i
tauran itself had enjoyed a god
business.
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Associational
Will Be Held
On Sunday, February 23rd the
4th Sunday associational meeting
at Baptist Sunday schools will be
held at Yanceyville church at 3
o’clock. At this time H. C. Gaddy
will bring an inspirational ad-,
dress, and special music will be
nodded. A full attendance is
urged.
On Wednesday, March sth be
ginning at 10 o’clock in the morn
■ •■w will be held an all day
-/ Sunday school meet,
at Vint Baptist church. Fur.
iwtif of this meeting will
M. published at a later date. I
JersonlMimes
PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY & THURSDAY
MISS GRIFFIN TO
LEAVE ROXBORO
Case-Worker for Welfare
Department Accept Sccial
Securities Board Position.
Miss Griffin, whose resignatio
.r,m ihe Welfare deparim.nt wil
Le eficctive as ol February 28
will on that date go t„ Durham t.>
lake oath of olfice and will the i
proceed to Washington for a six
weeks training ccurse. alter
wh..h she win be assigned to
her duties with the board. It is
t xpected that she will be local ■
cd in North Carolina, possibly
i at Salisbury, as an interviewer.
A graduate of Hollins college.
Miss Griflin came to Roxboro
from Graham, where she was
connected with the Alamance de
partment of Public Welfare. Dur
ing her stay here she had resi
dence until recently with Mr. and J
Mrs. R. F. Baynes and since that
time has had an apartment on
South Main Street with Miss
Virginia Wilson and Miss Eliza-!
* beth Lancaster.
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Jas. C. Harris
May Be In Army
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j James C. Harris, native of War
j ren county and former City Man
ager of Roxboro, who now has a
' similar position at Hazard, Ky.,
i has been tendered a commission
jas Major in the United States
army, for assignment as manager
I of one of 35 army cantonments
now being constructed in various
I sectiins of the United States, ac-
I cording to information received
here today.
Offer of the appointment has
been made by City Manager Clar
ence O. Sherrill, of Cincinnati,
0., former resident of Greens-1
boro. Mr. Harris, who has had
, his physical examination and a:
conference with Mr. Sherrill, will
I if he accepts the position take a
i six months leave of absence from
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I his position at Hazard. City man-j
agers who enter the service in
this way will not be expected to 1
resign their positions and will
while with the Army receive a!
salary commensurate with tlieir
rank therein.
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Frederick Moore ,
Will Leave City
Frederick Moore, building su
perintendent, Roxboro high
| school, teacher of history and or.
ganizer of the school band, has
resigned his position here in or
der to accept a civil service ap-J
pointment with the United States
Post Office department, Winston- 1
Salem, according to announce
ment made Monday by Person
Superintendent of schools, R. B.
Griffin.
Mrs. Moore, also a member of
the faculty of the Roxboro pub
lic schools, will remain here un
til the end of the school year,
bpt Mr. Moore, <who came here
I two years ago from Forsyth coun
ty, will begin his new duties on
March 3.
Moore, a 1938 graduate of Ap
alachian State Teachers College
at Boone, early last year organi.
zed the Roxboro high school band
and has been unusually popular
with residents of the dtp.
| No successor to Mr. Moore has
I yet been chosen it was said today..
| * Mighty Mites to Haul Giant Planes
Tugs are usually associated with harbors and shipping, hut their
modern counterparts are found at Randolph field, Texas, where tiny
'plane tugs are used to tow the sky giants to and from their hangars.
Picture shows Sergt. R. R. Arnold checking in a shipment of the "mighty
mites” at the “West Point of the Air.”
Scout Banquet Plans For
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Friday Evening Complete
WILLIAM J. DEAN
RITES CONDUCTED
Rougemont Resident Dies
Tuesday At Home.
William Joseph Dean, 77, prom
ient retired Person County far
mer of Rougemount," died at his
home at 8 o’clock Tuesday morn
ing of a heart attack.
Funeral services w’ere held at
2:30 o’clock Wednesday afternoon
i at Surl Primitive Baptist Churcii,
I conducted by the pastor, Elder
Lex Chandler. Burial was in
Bethany Church cemetery.
Mr. Dean was a member of
Surl Church.
Survivors are three daughters,
Mrs. G. S. Morgan of Fayette-
I ville, Mrs. B. W. Mangum of Lil
' .ington, and Mrs. A. A. Riggs of
Rougemont; two sons, D. B.
Dean, if Lillingtcn, and A. 11.
Dean of Rougemont; three bro
! thers, R. H. Dean of Timberlake,
jJ. A. Dean of Fuquay Springs,
land J. E. Dean of Roxboro; and
I two sisters, Mrs. Emma Evans of
Surl and Mrs.’ Vannie Duncan of
I Timberlake.
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New Accessories
Store Will Open
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Miller and Hurt, tire and bat !
trey establishment with a store in
Durham, yesterday leased from
Claude T. Hall the space in the
Hall building near Hotel Rox
boro and formerly occupied by
the Mi-Own beauty shop and
I will there operate a store in
which tires, batteries and acces-
J sories will be sold, according to
announcement made yesterday
by Mr. Hall. |
It is expected that the store
will be open for business today.
Girl Scouts Meet
Meeting at Grace church Tues
day evening members of the East
Roxboro Girl Scout troop, of
: which Mrs. O. C. Hull is leader,
made plans for a “Baby Contest”
to be sponsored by the troop.'
Persons interested in the contest
will select their favorites by vote. 1
Named as assistant leader of
the troop was Miss Virginia
| Saunders. The troop was first or
ganized in August 1999 and now
has an enrollment of eleven.
Details Arranged At Dis
trict Meeting Held Tues
day.
Boy Scouts and Cubs of the
Roxboro district fcre this week!
j primarily .concerned-with JLheir
I annual “Scout Week” father and|
son banquet which will be held!
on Friday night, February 21.
at 7 o’clock at Hotel Rpxb.ro,l
with Frank Dix, Greensboro
| Scout Executive, as chief speaker.
With this event in mind man
discussion at the menthly meet-!
ing of Roxboro District Scout
leaders held Tuesday night per-!
tained to plans for Friday’s ban-!
! quet. Two hundred and twenty- j
five reservations have been
made by District President C. A.
nan is, wi.o urges ail Sc.uts,
scoutmasters, leaders and fathers
and sponsors to attend.
Tickets have already been dis
tributed to the Saints and Cups
and many have been purchased
by fathers and sponsors. Toast
master will be George W. Kane,
prominent Roxbcro business man,
who has for years taken an ac
tive interest in scouting affairs
in this district, while general
program chairman is Clyde
Swartz, assistant commissioner.
Music will be directed by Robert
Edgar Long, attorney, of this!
city, and by Wallace W. Woods.
Also assisting with the pro
| gram are George J. Cushwa, im
! mediate past president, Dr. R. E.
i Long, Joe Guffey and others.
Mr. Harris urged all who attend
to be on time so that the pvo-J
gram will not be delayed. Spec
ial guests will be Mesdames
Charles Stewart, J. E. Long, R.
B. Dawes and Numa Edwards,
who have served as den mothers
for the Roxboro Cub pack.
Present for the district con-'
ference was Cherokee Council
I Executive, A. P. Patterson, of
Reidsville, who will also be hero
for Friday’s banquet.
Other topics discussed at the
district meeting were advance
ments, the building up of lead
ership through training schools,
one of which will be held in
April of this year at a place to
be designated, and individual
reports from scoutmasters and
; assistants. A particularly en
couraging report was presented
by C. H. Mason, of Bushy Fork’s
Tribe 4, for whem a Parent's
Night was held last week.
Several new members and
former members of the district
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Contracts For Highway and
Street Improvements Awarded
CENTRAL SCHOOL '
PTA WILL HAVE ,
BENEFIT SHOW
Founder’s Day Meeting
With Bloxam as Speaker,
Held Tuesday.
Plans for a benefit ‘‘Fashion
Show” and manless wedding to
be given Tuesday evening, Feb
ruary 25, at 8 o’clock at Central
Grammar School auditorium by
the Central Grammar School
Parent-Teacher association are
now being made, according to
announcement made today.
It is expected that the enter
tainment will draw a large crowd
and Mrs. Logan H. Ums’ead,
president of the asociation hopes
that a considerable sum of mon
ey will be received by the spon
sors.
At the monthly meeting pf the
association, held Tuesday after
noon, chief speaker was City
Manager Percy Blcxam, who de
livered an address appropriate to
PTA Founders Day, observed at
that time. Presiding was Mrs
Umstead.
! Winner of the Birthday cake,!
prepared by Mrs. W. T. Kirby
| as an attendance prize, was Miss
| Sue Merritt’s second grade. Sec
ond lorgest attendance was won
j by Miss Inda Collins’ fourth grade
room. Proceeds from the cake
! sale, abcut sl2, were given to
Mrs. Sam Byrd Winstead, of the
; music faculty, to purchase ad
ditional phonograph records for
i the school collection.
Also a speaker was Mrs. A. F.
j JNiicnois, wno gave a brief hut
interesting history of PTA m
Roxboro, the first chapter of
which was organized about twen
ty-two years ago, with Mrs. J.
; A. Beam, now cf the Bethel Hill
j faculty ,as president. The inde •
pendent Central Grammar school
unit was formed last year. Ot
-1 hers who have served as PTA
presidents here are Mrs. R. H.
Shelton, now president of the
Roxboro high school unit, and
Mesdames Roxie Thcmas, B. G.
Clayton, J. H. Hughes, H. M.
Eeam, and R. B. Dawes, Several
of the past presidents were pre
sent for the program yesterday.
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L. C. Liles Will
Be With Office
L. C. Liles, teacher of agricul-!
ture at Helena high schoo, lhas
resingned his position there to
accept the post of assistant coun A
ty supervisor for the Person
j unit of the Farm Security ad-
I ministration according to announ
cement made Tuesday. Mr. Liles,
who has bee nconnected with the
Helena school for four years,
takes the FSA position left va-
cant several months ago follow
ing promotion cf Leo Rabon to
the Randolph office at Asheboro.
1 In making the announcement
Person Superintendent of school.;.
R. B. Griffin said Mr. Liles will
net leave his school position be
fore sometime in March. No suc
cessor has been named.
Also with the Farm 'Security
office is Miss Frances Weston, of
Greensboro, as secretary. Super
| visor is J. Y. Blanks, who when
interviewed concerning the ap
pointment spoke highly of Mr.
j Liles’ abilities as a leader and |
j teacher. '
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 20,1941
GRIFFIN GIVES
SCHOOL REPORT
10 KIWANIANS ..
County Superintendent
Speaks To Club and Men
tiins Person Educational
Problems,
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Spbaking ;at the Roxboro Ki- t
wanis club dinner Monday night.
. 11;(.n Superintendent of schools >
R. B. Griffin in an informal but
.instructive manner discussed the .
operation of the public schools o
_r.der his supervision. j
In citing figures pertaining to £
enrollments, Mr. Griffin, who was
ntr.duced by program chairman j.
R. A. Bullock, said that there are
in all schools in the county ap
proximately 7,000 pupils, slightly v
over 4,000 of whom are white, j
less than cne hundred of whom f
are Indians and nearly three j
thousand of whom are Negroes, j v
Discussing education among the j
Negroes, Mr. Griffin said that v
there are in Person county 21
ne and two teacher schools at
tended by members of the race, „
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and indicated that one of the im- g
portant local problems facing td- )
ucators and parents here is elim- (
ination of these cne and two
teacher units through consoiida-
tion. !
Also considered as a problem
was the limited extent cf voca
tional education now being giv- (
cn here, alhough the speaker had
praise for the. work of this char-
acter being carried out at Rox
boro high school and for the pos
sible significance of the recently
appointed vocational guidance
committee.
As facts not generally known
Mr. Griffin mentioned that not!
all cf the school buildings used in
the county system are county
owned properties. School build- j
ings at Ca-Vel, Longhurst and
East Roxboro are properties of
the corporations and industrial
plants there located and are units
cf the county system through
courtesy. In addition, he said, a
number of buildings in the Ne
gro division are rented or donat
ed.
Viewing the situation from all
angles, Mr. Griffin, however ex
pressed confidence that schools
of Person county are within their j
limitations functioning as well as
can be expeced and abcut as well
as other schools of similar class-!
ifications in the State.
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Rites Held For
Robert M. Salley
Funeral services for Robert M.
morning at 9:20 o’clock at the
Person County Home following a
stroke of paralysis, conducted
Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock at
Lambeth Memorial Baptist
Church by the pastor, the Rev.
L. V. Coggins. Burial was in the
church cemetery. * :
Mr. Salley, who had been in i
ill health for more than a year,
suffered a third stroke of para- 1 ,
lysis Saturday. Surviving arc
two sons, James E. and Linwocd
C. Salley; a daughter, Mrs. Roy
Phelps; eight grandchildren and
one great grandchild, all of this
county. He ha been at the County
Home about three months.
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Holiday
In observance of Washington’3
birthday, a legal holiday, the
Peoples Bank, this city, will be
closed on Saturday, February SSL.
THE TIMES IS PERSON’S
PREMIER NEWSPAPER
A LEADER AT ALL TIMES,
NUMBER FIFTEEN’
Widening Os Road To Dur
ham and of Portion Os No.
49 In City Now Assured.
Os particular interest to Per
son county and Roxboro resi
dents wno have for several
rn.nths been interested in prom
r-ed renovations to h-ghway! 501,
between - iluxbdio and Durham,
and to -highway 49,/within Kcx
bor. ‘city i,anils, is announcement
of letting of contracts for these
rtpairs- 'yesterday by the State
Highway division.
Bids for the Durham and Per
son and Roxbcro projects, parts
Os a general program in the cen
tral area, were awarded to Mc-
Guire Construction company,
Durham, with understanding that
both the Roxboro projects will
begin within four four months.
The McGuire bid of $159,018
was accepted for widening of the
Roxboro-Durham highway lour
feet, distance in miles extending
from Roxbcro city limits to
within approximately 6 miles o!"
Durham, at which point the road
way is already of sufficient width.
Bid for tire No. 49 improvements,
approximately 15 hundredths of
a mile, was $21,628, with under
standing that the completed
loadway will be 37 feet wide and
that the project be completed
withi»-4& working days.
According to McGuire, the 501
project involves 18.4 miles of
roadway. At Quail Roost the
present roadway will be aban
doned in favor of a new location
permitting the saving of 2 tenths
of a mile. The 501 project, when
started, is to be completed with
in 165 working days and will
provide a leng-needed roadway
of the boulevard type between
Roxboro and Durham.
Bridges on this road, at Bar
ton’s Mill and Flat River, were
reconstructed last year and are
, expected to fit ino the present
i plans for renovation of the long
er stretch of roadway.
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Gordon Brown
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Is Promoted
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Gordon Brown, manager of
Eruce’s Store in Roxbcro, has
been transferred to Chapel Hill.
Mr. Brown will now serve as
supervisor of all the stores in
Bruce organization.
This change for Mr. Brown
comes in the way of a promotion.
He and Mrs. Brown will move to
Chapel Hill at an early date.
They have made their home in
Roxboro for the past several
years.
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Man’s Car Hits
Telephone Pole
Damaged to extent of about
S3OO was a automobile which
struck a telephone pole near this
, city, between Lcnghurst and Ca
| Vel, Tuesday afternoon at I:3Q
o’clock, when the driver Troxell
C. Reynolds, of Chapel Hill, ea
route to Virginia, was forced off
the highway by a truck said to
have been coming toward Box*
boro.
The truck driver, Mr. Reynold*
said, failed to stop. After spend,
ing the night in this city, Mr.
Reynolds left Wednesday after
noon by train for Lynchburg, V*.
The damaged machine was taka* ''
to a garage here. Reynolds *f«|
, raped injury. -