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VOLUME xn PUBLISHED EVERY BUNDAY ft THURSDAY THURSDAY FEBRUARY 27,1941 NUMBER SIXTEEN
Thompson And Puryear Fill
Person Faculty Vacancies
Jfew York Native Comes
* To Roxboro High School.
P. L Graduate At Hel-
Selection of two teachers to
fill faculty vacancies at Roxboro
high school and at Helena were
this morning announced by school
officials.
John B. Thompson, of Antwerp,
ty. Y., now a senior at Appalach
ian State Teacher’s college, at
Boone, will on Monday become
instructor in history and director
of the band at Roxboro high
school, succeeding Frederick D.
Moore, resigned, who will leave
tomorrow for Winston-Salem,
where he has accepted a civil
service appointment with the
United States Post Office depart
ment.
Coming to Roxboro on Monday,
March 10, is Eugene U. Puryear,
of Clarksville, Va., a brother of
F. M. Puryear, of this city, who
has accepted appointment as
teacher of agriculture at Helena
high school.
Mr. Thompson, known to his
friends “Johnnie”, will receive
his degree in Music from Appa
lachian during the coming sum
mer. He was in Roxboro yester
day and today conferring With
school officials and with Mr.
Moore, who is also a native of
Antwerp, N. Y.
Yesterday afternoon, the band,
which Moore organized here last
presented under his direc
tion a farewell program as a
tribute to him. Mr. Mcore, who
has been one of the most popu
lar instructors in Roxboro high
school, will be joined in Winston-
Salem at the close of the school
year by Mrs. Moore, who is also
a member of the school faculty
here. Mr. Moore filed application
for his civil service position mors
than a year ago but action on it
was not taken until this month.
Mr. Puryear, a graduate of V.
P. 1., at Blacksburg, Va., has
taught at Wagram, but has lor
the past two years been on th<y
tobacco market as a grader and
is now on furlough from that
work until next September. At
Helena he will replace L. C. Liles,
who has resigned in order to be
come a Farm Security Admini
stration assistant in Roxboro.
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Two Men Join
Military Service
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Charles McK. Chisholm, son of
V. G. Chisholm, and Edward
Marshall Greene ,son of William
f. Greene of Roxboro, have been !
• accepted for service in the United,
States Marine Corps at the Dis
trict Headquarters Recruiting
Station located in the Post Office
Building at Raleigh. They enlist
ed last week and have been
transferred to the Marine bar
racks, Parris Island, S. C., for a
brief peripd of training.
Upon completion of their train
ing they will be assigned to some i
~' ~ service school, ship, foreign
station, or marine barracks, lor
duty.
Entrance examinations for en- <
listment In the Marine Corps are <
now being held at the U. S, Ma-1;
rine Corps Recruiting Station, ,
Poet Office Building, Raleigh. :
Full information and application 1
blanks will be forwarded upon
request
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With Roxboro Laundry
T. C. Sanders has accepted a
position with Roxboro Laundry
Co. and has charge of the dry
/■loaning at this establishment. I
He will appreciate a call from :
his friends. I
Person County Times
T HEFT AT ROCK
INN HAS NOT
YET BEEN SOLVED '
Clock Provides Check As
To Time At Which Break-
In Occurred.
J. Lester Clayton, Main street
filling station operator, had a
lobbery early Tuesday morning
and although he is not certain
of either the amount of money
taken or >cf identity of the taker
or takers, he knows exactly
■\ ehn they took it, at 2:24 o’clock.
When he went to the station!
about 7 o’clock in the morning to!
pen for business Mr. Clayton
found the safe open, with at
least $137.53 in cash missing,
and near the safe and electric
light which had been left burn
ing the night before had been
switched off, causing an electric
ally operated clock on the same
switch to stop exactly at the
time indicated.
The robber or robbers effected
entrance by breaking a front
window after vainly trying to
force the front door lock which
was jammed so that Mr. Clayton
could not unlock it when he ar- '
rived. Investigating officers, Ar
tie Watson and Charlie Wade of '
the Roxboro police department,
reported that the safe had been 1
opened by working the combina
tion.
Clayton's station, known as
Reek Inn, closed Monday night
about 9:30 o’clock, was broken
into last Spring, but this was the
first such robbery to occur hers
in about two months. Nothing
but cash was taken Tuesday '
morning. Alhough no clues to 1
the robbery have been discover
ed, finger print experts were 1
summoned from Durham.
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HEALTH SHOW IS
RESCHEDULED
Delayed Program By Dental ]
Department Will Be Re
sumed Monday.
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Starting on Monday and con- '
tinuing hrough Friday a series of
performances of “Little Jack”, a 1
marionette play dealing with den- J
tal care and sponsored by the
Person unit of the tri-county ,
health department in cooperation
with Dr. Ernest A. Branch, of
Raleigh, of the State
of Orol hygiene, will be present-1
e-d in Person county schools. (
The program was to have been,
given two weeks ago but was (
postponed because of the illness.
■ f Bill Morgan.
Players will be Mr. Morgan, 1
who has worked with the Caro
lina Playmakers, Chapel Hill, and
Miss Esther Mallory, who has also
had dramatic experience. (
Scheduled times for perform- ,
ances will be at 9 o’clock and
11 in the morning, with two ex- J
ceptions at 10:30, and at one o'-
clock in the afternoon. Perform-I
ances, in order named will be
given on Monday at Hurdle Mills, ,
Bushy Fork and Roxboro Central ,
Grammar schools; on Tuesday, at ]
Bethel Hill, Indian school and i
Longhurst; on Wednesday at ,
Person County Training school, at ]
Helena, at 10:30 o’clock, and at ,
Olive Hill, and on Thursday, at ]
Ca-Vel, at Roxboro high school, j
also at 10:30, and at Allensville. ,
I Presentations will also be i
made, at Cunningham East Rox- <
| boro and Mt Tirzah on Friday. j<
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above. Is greeted by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Pinto, after he stepped j
0.7 a plane in Cleveland, Ohio. Studying at school in Poland when the
ration was divided, Leonard was captured by Russians and sent to a
Liberian prison camp. The U. S. consulate finally secured his release.
University of Georgia Glee
Club to Appear Friday Night
Comes Under Auspices Os
Class As Benefit For Build
ing Fund of First Baptist
Church.
Enroute from Gaffney, S. C.,
io Washington, D. C., the Univer
sity cf Georgia glee club, sper.d
.ng the night in Roxboro, will on
Friday evening, February 28, ai
3 o’clock in Roxboro high school
auditorium, present a program
ennprising choral and solo num
bers, according to announcement
made today.
The club’s program in this city
.s being given as a benefit for
the building fund of Roxboro
First Baptist Church, under
sponsorship of the Philathia class.
The club, under direction of
Hugh Hodgson will have as solo
ists Frank Sule, Robert Harri
son, Miss Minna Hecker and Hen
ry Wilson. Mr. Wilson, club pres
ident, is a brother of Miss Vir
ginia Wilson, of Roxboro, and it
is through her that arrangements
have been made for the local en
gagement.
Choral numbers will include
compositions by Mandel, Bach,
Meyerbeer and Rossini as well
as modern composers, while Miss
Hecker, soprano, will sing selec
tions from songs by Krongold,
Strauss and Meyerbeer. Mr. Wil
son’s solos will be from compo
sitions by modern authors, while
Mr. Harrison, violinist, will play
numbers by Rimsky-Korsakoff
and de Falla. Also on the choral
program will be Negro spirituals
and the closing number with
Miss Hecker as soloist joining
with the chorus will be Rossini’s
“Inflammatus” from "Stabat
Mater.”
The University of Georgia glee
club is regarded as one of the
outstanding college glee clubs in
the South, and its appearance
here is expected to be of interest
to all music-lovers in this vicini
ty. Admission prices will be
moderate and tickets may be ob
tained from members of the
sponsoring class.
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Zimmerman Has
Narrow Escape
Bill Zimmerman, Roxboro gar
age operator, is thankful it was
not worse: last week he brought
his wife home from a hospital in
which she had had a serious op.
eration; Monday an electric drill
he was using on a repair job
slipped and struck him on the
head near his left eye. After be
ing knocked out for a few mo
ments he received medical treat
ment and is now back on the job,
despite a sore head and a black
eye.
SURVEY GIVEN
BY MISS BROOKS
Oak Grove Deaconess Dis
_t cusses Township Problems
At Agency Luncheon Meet
,! ing.
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j 1 Inaugurating a series of Per-
son County township surveys to
be conducted during the year by
, the Person Council of Social agen
cies, speaker on the first program
in the series given yesterday .at
r the monthly luncheon meeting of
} the council was Ruth Brooks, dea-;
. coness at Oak Grove Methodist 1
church, Woodsdale, who discuss
f ed economic, social and religious
I conditions in Woodsdale town
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J ship.
“One of the greatest needs in
Woodsdale township”, said Miss]
! Bro-ks, “is a community house
j. ! or center.” Continuing her an-]
a lysis, Miss Brooks said that resi-j
dents of the township have in the]
past contemplated consruction of
, such a building and that Oak
Grove church members in parti-]
j cular have been interested in
Jsuch a project, suggesting that a
building of this type in connec
tion with the church would be
beneficial to it and to township
residents.
; Other problems discussed by,
r Miss Brooks included schools,]
f 1 health work and the influence cf;
I churches. Immediately afterwards
,an open forum discussion was
L held. Next speaker at the council
, will be C. E. Mclntosh, of Chapel
! Hill. Presiding at the session,]
t which was held at Hotel Rox
boro, was the president, Rev. T.
, M. Vick. The township program
, wil be resumed in April.
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Rites Held For
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Mrs. Willie Rhew
Funeral services for Mrs. Wal
lie G. Rhew, 43, of Chub Lake, 1
wife cf J. E. Rhew, whose death
occurred at her home Tuesday]
morning at 2:15 o’clock from an 1
illness with inffluenza and pncu-J
monia lasting four weeks, were
conducted from the home Wed
nesday afternoon at 2 o’clock.
Officiating minister was Rev. F.
- B. Peele. Interment was in the
5 John S. Clayton family cemetery
t near the Oxford highway about
i four miles from Roxboro.
J Survivors include her husband,
Icf the home; three daughters,
> Mesdames Gertrude Clayton and
; Thelma Buchanan and Miss Sliir
- ley Rhew; four sons, Eldred,
- Aaron, Huel and Dennis Rhew,
all of Person county;, one grand
, child; two sisters, Mrs. Clara
c Davit of Mount, and Mrs.
j Luna Yarbord, of Roxboro. |
Reasonable Assurance Given
That Person Will Have Camp
RITES HELD FOR 1
F M. SHAMBURGER
Retired Methodist Minister j
Formerly Served Edgar !
Long Memorial Church
Here.
>- The Rev. Frank Shamburger,;
81, retired Methodist minister for
; nuriy pastor of Edgar Long
Memorial Church, Roxboro, died
at his home at Oxford at 3 o -
clock Monday morning, two hours
after he Was stricken with cere
bral hemorrhage.
Funeral rites were conducted
at Oxford Methodist Church at
9 o’clock Tuesday by the Rev. C.
Freeman Heath, the pastor. The
Rev. O. W. Dowd of Dunn, and
'the Rev. W. V. Mcßae, presiding
elder of the Fayetteville District.
, Rurial was in Elmwood Ceme
tery.
A native of Moore County and
a .son-cf the late Peter and Londa
■ Shamburger, Mr. Shamburger
; was graduated from Trinity Col
: lege in 1883 and entered the min
istry thereafter, serving until
1932, when he retired after half
a century spent in serving chur
ches in North Carolina Confer
ence.
He was one time presiding ei
, tier in New Bern District and
served pastorates in Raleigh,
Edenton Street Church, Tarboro,
Kinston, Laurinburg, Rocking
ham, Wilmington, Oxford, twice,
Roxboro, Hertford, Weldon and
Mt. Gilead.
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Survivors are his wife, Mrs.
'Della Rowena Norman Sham-i
\
burger, a native of Baltimore,'
Md.; two daughters, Mrs. Kerr
Taylor of Oxford and Mrs.
Pierce Johnson of Weldon. He
also leaves seven grandchildren, 1
Frank S. Taylor of Raleigh, Mrs.!
H. G. Hardin of Winston-Salem/
Louise and David Kerr Taylor of,
Oxford, Frances, Mary Pierce,
and Lee Johnson of Weldon.
One of the most prominent
ministers in the North Carolina]
Conference Mr. Shamburger scr- J
ved the Roxboro Church from'
1924 until 1928.
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Cledith Hays
Enters Service
Cledith Hayes, popular Rox
boro young man, for a number j
of years with the dye house di- j
vision, Collins and Aikman cor- 1
poration, Ca-Vel, left Wednes-.
day morning for Fort Bragg,
where he will replace Charlie
Pulliam, Person Selective ser- ,
vice man returned to this city ]
by Fort Bragg examiners. ,
Next Person quota to go will j
be three Negroes, all volunteers,].
Jesse Warren, Theodore R. San- j j
ford and John Henry Winstead,
who will leave for camp on Mon-
day morning, March 3.
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Miss Beam Returns
Miss Velma Beam, Person
County County Home Demon
stration agent, returned this i
week from Greensboro, where
she spent several weeks rcuper- 1
ating from an operation which •
she underwent earlier this month
at Community hospital, Roxboro.
Miss Beam, now much improved
in health, has resumed her reg
ular club schedule.
MITCHELL JOINS
WINSTEAD STAFF
AS AN OPERATOR
Former Pioneer Official,
Popular In Roxboro, An
nounces Change.
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Travnham T. Mitchell, Roxbcro
warehouseman, who has for sev
(ral years been associated witn
Robert L. Hester in operation ol
1 he Pioneer warehouse, this week
announced that he will in the fu
ture be associated with the Win
. tead warehouse in which he has
purchased an interest.
Mr, Mitchell, who will be one
of the Winstead operators, be
ginning with the 1941-42 season,
is well known in Roxboro and
Person county. Befofre coming to
this city for residence he and
Mrs. Mitchell and their son, El
mo, maintained a home near Con
cord Methodist church.
A member of Roxboro Rotary
club, he has taken an active in-]
tore-t in civic affairs, as has Mrs.
Mitchell.
It is understood that no maj
or changes in personnel of the
Winstead warehouse are contem-J
plated. No announcement has I
been' made” by Mr. Hester with!
regard to plans for operation of
the Pioneer.
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Car Burns Inside
During Night
When firemen early Tuesday
morning answered a call to the
i residence of J. W. Garrett, who
lives on the Durham road near
' the city limits, they found the
fire, in Mr. Garret’s new auto
mobile, parked in front of the
house. The sedan .with the win
dows up was a charred wreck
inside, the upholstery presum
ably having caught fire from a
match or cigarette sometime af
ter mid-night when one of the
owner’s sons came in from a late
date.
Damage, however, was con
fined to the car’s interior: lights
still burned and the motor was
intact. Flames were extinguished
by use of the booster pump.
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Person Zone Will
Meet Sunday At
Ca-Vel School
Mrs. W. M. Fox, Person Zone
leader, has announced that a Zonei
meeting, attended by women of j
the Methodist church, will be
held Sunday afternoon .March
at 2 o’clock, at Ca-Vel school. An
interesting program has been
planned and Mrs. Fox is anxious
that all members attend.
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New Remedy
J. R. (Bob) Whitt, of Allens
ville, according to one of his
neighbors, has a new remedy for!
sick cows. The story goes that'
Mr. Whitt this week gave to one
of his ailing bovines, two swal
lows of whiskey, a half pint at
each dosing, one in the morning,
one at night Recovery, after sec
ond dose,' was immediate, says
I the neighbor.
THE TIMES IS t PERSONS
PREMIER NEWSPAPER
A LEADER AT ALL TIMES.
Representative Folger and
Director Garrett Give En
couragement To Removal
of C C C Camp From Cas
well To Person County.
Prospects for removal of the
j Civilian Conservation Corp.
camp now located near Yancy
ville, in Caswell county, to a sit -
in Person county, .near Roxboro.
! by June of this year seem- bright
i according to Wallace W. Wood;
1 R-xboro Chamber of Comrnerc
secretary, and other interested
Person citizens, who have for
some months been seeking off!
cial sanction for the camp’s re
.o v ation in. Person.
Within the past week Mi.
Woods and Roxboro City Mana
i gcr Percy Bloxam have received
from Fifth District Congress-
A. D. (Lon) Folger, of Mt. Airy,
'letters advising them that “prop
er contacts have been made,'
I "that we (in Person) have a
splendid chance of securing the
| camp” and that it is his(Folger's:
* "purpose to follow up the matte:
j and do everything possible to
bring it to successful conclusion."
As it has been previously poin
! ted out by Person citizens inter
ested in a CCC camp for th<.
ccuny, the present camp, for
Negro boys, has been in Caswell
i for five years, two more year.-
i i nan statutary limitation of sued
j a -camp-in- one county or cityr-U
has also been shown that there
iis necessity for conservation
work in connection with repair
! to the water shed of the City ot
I Finxboro and that this work, ii
an area in and near Roxboro
where approximately 12,000 peo
ple reside, and many industries
are in operation, should furnish
an adequate working program,
for such a camp.
In addition, there are in Per
son county many farms “sadly
in need” of CCC improvements.
Among others who have cooper
ated with Mr. Woods and City
Manager Bloxam in efforts to
bring the camp to Person are
Mayor S. G. Winstead, of this
city, and many professional and
business men as well as land
owners in the county. It is under
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Davis Expects To
Rebuild King’s
Palace Structure
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Plans for rebuilding of the
structure in which King’s Pal
ace, popular Durham road re
staurant destroyed by fire about
10 days ago, was located are be
ing considered by Ben Davis, of
this city, owner of the building,
, according to announcement made
j yesterday by Mr. Davis.
| Although it is understood that
Coleman C. King, proprietor of
the restaurant, will not continue
his Interest in it, Mr. King’s
brother, Joe King, who has acted
as manager, and Marshall Twis
dale, his assistant, have said that
they will be operators of the re
staurant when It is reopened. J.
J. Slaughter, helper, is also ex J
pected to resume work there.
Declining to elaborate on plans,
Mr. Davis, however, did say that
j the new structure may be
erected soon will be lißdern in
every respect News OR the
popular night-spot will
: will be received here
faction by patrons of tbe'aMb
lishment which has enjoy elated
i business for the past n||
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