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IF IT IS NEWS ABOUT PERSON COUNTY, YOU’LL FIND IT IN THE TIMES. I 11 m ■ VOLUME xn "Governor” Harris Stays At Home While He Officiates b Acting Head Os State Daring Absence Os Gw, J. i: Melville Broagbten. Person folks, believe it or not, are this week enjoying distinction of having the acting Governor of the State in their midst. Technic, ally, North Carolina, during the visit of Gcv. and Mrs. J. Melville Broughton to Mexico City, is without a Governor, but func tions of the office during Brongh tcn’s absence devolve upon Lt. Gov. R. L. Harris, who after the close of the legislature last week returned to his home here and will be in Raleigh only if occa sion demands. During Friday night’s Senate “love-feast” the Lieutenant Gov ernor, who by virtue of office presides over the Senate, was presented with the Senate’s ap preciation a set of silver. Presen tation, on behalf of the Senate, was made by Senator Gordon Gray, of Forsyth. Also at home now are Person’s Representative, R, P. Burns, and her Senator, Flem D. Long, who during their first terms in the Legislature introduced a number of local bills for Person’s especial benefit. The set of silver presented to the Lieutenant Governor by Sen. ator Gordon Gray, was i ccepted by Lt Gov.., Harris ii a short j speech of appreciation, during which he took occasion to say j'-- that he understood Governor Broughtcn was leaving in a few days for Mexico, and that as soon as he crossed over the State line, I he (Harris) meant to assume of-j fice as Governor, which is his | right under the constitution, and I fill all the appointive offices 1 creatde by the assembly. That of course, was humorous but Mr. Harris interpolated—“l guess that busts up one trip.” Governor Broughton, seated to the side, grinned and didn’t even look worried. o Three Negro Men Involved Sunday In Street Crash As aftermath of a Sunday af ternoon automobile wreck which occurred about 6 o’clock at in tersection of South Main and La mar streets, Luther Chandler, Alx Glass and James Feather ston, Negroes, were given a hear ing Monday morning in Mayor’s court Hie wreck occurred when a car, said to have been driven by Chandler, struck a machine op erated by a white man named Gravitte. Offiers found a half gal lon or more of whiskey in tlie Negroes’ automobile. . Chandler, charged with posses, sion and transporting and driving drunk, was placed under two bonds of SIOO each for appear, ance next week in Recorder’s court Glass who received a broken leg was taken to his home in the county after treatment at a local hospital and is under a sls Appearance bond. Feather ston was released without charges after he and Chandler spent the rtight in jail. No charges were brought a. .gainst Gravitte, who was not in jured. o * ' Appointed Distributor A ft M Food Shoppe has been appointed official distributor for Birds Cys Frosted Foods for this OineHwfi “Tfceoe foods can be found at this store beginning today. • L. Jrrson|Mtms PUBLISHED EVERY BUNDAY A THURSDAY SAFETY! THEME OF PTA ADDRESS BY MR .TOMLINSON Raleigh Man Addresses Group At Central Gram mar School. Songs Heard. Having as his theme the three “E’s of Traffic Safety”, G. W. Tomlinson, of the highway safe ty division, Raleigh, addressing the Central Grammar school pa-j rent Teacher association at Its Marco metuiig Tutsaay after- j noon, stressed the importance cf| education, engineering and en forcement in development of n sound safety program. Later in the afternoon the speaker presented a motion-pic ture, “Bicycling With Safety.” Al so a feature of the program were a number of safety songs given by pupils in Miss Virginia Wil son’s fourth grade. Devotionals were led by the Rev. W. C. Mar - tin, pastor of Edgar Long Mem orial Methodist church. Attendance at the meeting was quite large and Mrs. Logan H. Umstead, president, who presid-l ed, was pleased with the evident' J appreciation shown by the audi-' ence. o TEACHERS WHO jwiLL ATTEND MEETING NAMED At Least Nine Person Teachers And Officials Will Go To Asheville Meet ing. Person delegation named to day to attend the annual sessions of the North Carolina Education al asociation, to be held this year on April 3,4, and 5 in Asheville, will include at least nine per sons, superintendents, principals and laculty members, according to announcement by County Sup erintendent of Schools, R. B. Griffifn. Heading the group will be Mr. Griffin, while others will include H. C. Gaddy, S. B. Satterwhitc, and J. L. Hester, supervising principals, of Roxboro, Allens ville and Bushy Fork schools, re spectively, and Glenn Titus, of Roxboro high school faculty, who*', is president of the educational association’s department of voca tional education. Also expend to attend are Misses Sara Cole, of Helena, Fran, ces Lanier, of Bushy Fork, and Kathleen Soles and Ida Farrior Davis, of the Roxboro high school faculty. It was said by Mr. Grif fin this morning that several ot her teachers in the Person Coun ty system attend but that those listed above will be official del egates. Person schools, said Mr. Grif fin, will not be closed during the days of meeting, although they have been closed in years pBSt when the Association met in cer-J ritory closer to the Person srea.l ———o Has Operation Mrs. C. L. Moody, of this city, who on Monday underwent an operation for appendicitis at Com. munity hospital, is now resting more eomfortabljr. | r —— —•—- '■ i Sroclawattot* i I/M t 11 ttt I ¬o 911 JRro, Women attb C&flbren || j {Efjeoc Dteaentsf:*' / THAT, Whereas the NATIONAL CLEAN UP, ,3§r PAINT UP AND FIX UP CAMPAIGN has readied H TJ in many advantages to community life throughout the m H In Safeguarding HEALTH and SAFETY J In promoting EMPLOYMENT and THRIFT , Ji l In furthering FIRE PREVENTION; I&| S/ In promoting BETTER HOUSING; jive- In stimulating CIVIC PRIDE; and j In making the “HOME AND CITY p | NOW, THEREFORE, Be is known that JplsSte have been perfected for a thorough <XEAJS UP, | I i-S PAINT UP AND FIX UP CAMPAIGN in Roxboro. I j Beginning week of April 7. This date to mark the | 1 1 % Opening of a real campaign of persistent and con- m % structive effort in cleaning up, fixing up and J|g > S* KEEPING IT UP. In this worthy movement of Big A Cleaning, Painting, Planting, Repairing and gen. Eg! Ciat Rehabilitation and Beautification i. each citizen to do his or her best part to *make SS :sii§ CLEAN HEALTHY, THRIFTY Vv |||i - SAFE AND BEAUTIFUL |9 PRE SCHOOL AGE CLINIC PROGRAM TOBEGINSOON Schedule Opens Monday At Ca-Vel And Continues I In Various Schools 01 City And County. Annual pre-school examina tion clinics conducted by Dr.*A. L. Allen, director of the Person unit of the Tri-County health de partment, assisted by Mrs. Blanche Vincent and Miss Evelyn Fletcher, of the nursing staif, will be held in ten schools of the ; 1 county, beginning Monday, March 24, according to announcement made today by Dr. Allen. First clinic will be conducted , at Ca-Vel school on the opening . day and will be followed on successive days during the weec of the 24th by clinics at Hurdle Mills, at Allensville and at Per son County Training school for Negroes, in the order named. | The schedule will be resumed ion Monday, March 31, with a clinic at Olive Hill (white) school; at Roxboro Central Grammar school, on Wednesday, April 2; and at Bushy Fork school on Fri day, April 4. In the next week beginning April 7, clinics on suc cessive days, skipping Thursday, will be held at Bethel Hill, at Caldwell school in Orange coun- 1 ty, at Mt. Tirzah and at Long hurst. Only other diviation ir. sche dule will be during the' first week when no clinic will be held on Thursday, March 27. In mak ing announcement of the sche-l dule Dr. Allen urged that moth-' ers come with their pre-school age children and that the mothers bring with them other children between ages of six months and five years in order that these children may receive vaccinations J for diphtheria. j ' Now Better The condition of J. A. Long, Sr., who baa for several weeks been a patient at Duke hospital, Dur ham, is said to be somewhat im- I proved. . • I NEW TROOP OF BOY SUMS WILL BE ORGANIZED Sponsorship p* Come-.., From Brooksdale Metho •list Church. Major item discussed at the . March meeting of officials of the J Person Scout district held Tucs- I day night, with C. A. Harris, chairman, presiding, was organ ization of a new Scout Troop to be sponsored by Brooksdale Methodist Church, with active cooperation of the pastor, Rev. -D. A. Petty, and of church ofii-i cials. Plans arc being made io transfer a number of boys from a previously organized troop and it is expected that the new . group will be formally organized i within a few weeks. j ! Selection of scoutmaster for the troop was not made last night, although the name of Hilman Stanfield, of the district council has been suggested, lt was point ed out by Mr. Petty that the church will be glad to offer fa cilities and that a meeting place | will be furnished. The troop number will not be affhdOnded until the charter is drawn up. Present at the meeting was A. P. Patterson, Cherokee Council executive, who led discussions for placing in operation a “Health and Safety” program in line with suggestions made by W. E. Lawrence, national Health (Continued on back page) * I : 0 j Dwelling House Destroyed By Fire Tuesday Night I Fire of undetermined origin, about 8 o’clock Tuesday night, destroyed an unoccupied six > 'room Reams avenue dwelling owned by Rufus Harris. Damage! was estimated by firemen at a-! bout $2,000. It was reported that | there was partial insurance eov | erage. I In this, the largest of four or I five fires reported this morfth, I the firemen were able to do lit tle but check spread of flames to near-by buildings. First tire of this week was a grass blase near Foushee street which oc | curred Monday about noon. DR. MCINTOSH TO BE SPEAKER AT AGENCY SESSION ; Chapel Hill Man, Secre tary of North Carolina Crippled Children’s League Will Be Here Wednesday. Speaker at the March luncheon I session of the Person County Council of Social agencies will bo Dr. C. E. Mclntosh, of Chapel Hill, who will on March 2(5, at one o'clock, discuss work Doing done by the North Carolina Crip pled Children’s league, of which ne is secretary. I Dr. Mclntosh’s visit will occur a few days before the annual Seal Sale for benefit of crippie children and he is expected to touch on this subject in his ad dress. Announcement that Dr. Mclntosh will come was made j at a session of the agency’s exe cutive committee which was hi 1c ; yesterday afternoon. ! Principal business at this com i rnittee meeting was discussion of 1 April program plans, it being de-j L cided that the township survey j ■ discussion will be continued and theme for the next meeting wit’' be Cunnineham with at least two ue wun ai least iwu speakers from that township on. the program. Brother Os City Residents Passes . • . v . ' : .. Funeral services for J. J. Law son, 66, of Durham, brother of W. C. Lawson and of Mesdames C. C. Critcher and S. H. Jones, of Roxboro, will be conducted to morrow morning at 11 oclock at Duke Memorial Methodist church by the pastor, the Rev. H. C.l Smith, with interment following in the old section of Maplewood cemetery. Mr. Lawson, for the past four, years tax supervisor for Durham county, died yesterday afternoon in Durham after a long illness. He was well known in Roxboro j where he had frequently visited. | He was for many years a prom in-, ent Durham business man. Other survivors include a son and a daughter. I, o Legion’s Orators Gather In City On Monday Night Annual oratorical contest, spon. 1 sored by the 11th district of the American Legion, with an esti-j mated attendance of 200 or more, will be held in Roxboro on Mon day, March 24, at 7:30 o’clock in the evening in Central Grammar School auditorium, according to information today received from the 11th District Commander, Dr. O. G. Davis, of this city, who will preside. Winners in this contest will then enter District elimination contests to be staged a Reidsviliej on the following Wednesday. Ex-| pected to come to Roxboro are oratorial representatives from at| least five or six of the following cities in district 11: YanceyviUe, ! Mebane, Greensboro, Burlington,! Reidsville, High Point, Leaksville and Madison. Commander Davis pointed out' that the contest is open to boys and that the public is invited to attend. Although there will be no entrants from Person county or Roxboro, acting host will be the Lester Blackwell Post of the Legion. 1 « THURSDAY MARCH 20, 1941. Roxboro Bank Official Has Fourth District Endorsement | j i MISS CAMPBELL COMES TO CITY TUESDAY NIGHT j i . . .■■■-■. I | Field Consultant Os Nation- I al Association Os Business And Professional Women’s Club Interested In Form ing Local Club. Miss Thomas in e Campbell/ I field consultant of the National Federation of Women’s club, who ; is now visiting clubs and groups !in a number of North Carolina jellies, is expected to arrive, in, ' Roxboro on Tuesday, March 25, . and will that night at a dinner meeting to be held at 7:30 o’clock . at Hotel Roxboro, address a num ' ber of women in this city who . are interested in the formation of . a local unit of the club Miss ! Campbell represents. Announcement that Miss Camp ' bell will come to Roxboro was today received from Miss Eliza beth Woodward, of Charlotte. Miss Campbell, a graduate of i Banard college, has traveled ex tensively in Europe, spending J long periods in Vienna and Paris i before those cities surrendered ! to Nazi domination. As the daugh ter of an Episcopal clergyman, Miss Camppbell has been partic .! ularly interested in church work I and in advancement of social i programs. She is now a resident of New York City, but spends much of her time traveling in the interest of the organization for which she is consultant. The dinner at Hotel Roxboro will be a “dutch” affair and it is hoped that many women inter, erted in programs offered by the associated Business and Profes sional Women’s clubs will at j tend. o Five Negroes To Leave For Camp . Under Next Call Next group of Person Selective Service men to leave for Fort | Bragg will be five Negroes, ex j pected to report to camp on Fri day March 28, according to an- I nouncement made today by the Board’s office manager, Baxter ! Mangum, who said that an ad-| | ditional group of three Negro men will leave on Thursday, April 5. I On the next day, April 4, 16 white men will report to camp from this county, last group of nine having reported on March 12. According to Mr. Mangum there may be a few volunteers in all of the new group* listed . but a majority of the men come 'from Selective ranks. THE TIMES IS PERSON’S PREMIER NEWSPAPER A LEADER AT ALL TIMES, - NUMBER NINETEEN Gordon C. Hunter Praised In Resolution Favoring Candidacy For Third Vice President of N. C. Bankers’ Association. Gordon C. Hunter, execuiiv vice president of the Peopic bank, of tins city, at the annua! session of Fourth District Noriii Carolina bankers held last week in Durham, was endorsed so position cf the third vice pres' 0 deni of the North Carolina Bank ers’ association. The motion was made by T. C. Worth of Durham * Interest in the endorseinei.t of Mr. Hunter for this position j springs from the fact that the ; successful candidate for the thin; 1 vice presidency of the Associa tion will in two years, by suc cession, become president of the organization. Endorsement of Mr. Hunter for the position was made i in a formal resolution. I Other endorsement, to date ha.- j been made by bankers in the I Sixth district for J. N. Coburn J of Whitcville. | Printed below is a copy of the icsolution presented by Mr. j Worth: • Whereas, Group 4of the North Carolina Bankers Association be ing mindful of its duty to the Bankers of North Carolina, an:- being aware of the fact tha: Gordon C. Hunter, Executive Vice-President of The Peoples Bank, Roxboro, North Carolina is a candidate for the office o: Third Vice-President of the North Carolina Bankers Association Association; and, Whereas, he, by hi§ devotion io the Association and to the in dividual banks, both as Chair man of the Public Education Committee of the North Carolina Bankers Association and as Trea ;- surer of the Association for a period of years, has labored faith fully and well to the end that banking conditions in this state might be placed, and remain, or. jthat high plane which is so much to be desired; and Whereas, he is so admirably fitted, both by charm of manner and experience to eventually lead the bankers of North Caro lina as President of the Associa tion; * l Now, therefore, be it resolved, I that we, the Bankers of Group 4, in meeting assembled at Durham. North Carolina, this the 15 day of March 1941, hereby pledge him our support and recommend him heartily to the bankers of North I Carolina. o j R. A. White, New Store Manager Comes To City Manager of the Easy-Pay-Tirc store, Roxboro agency for Good year tires and tubes, is R. H. White, formerly of Burlington, who came to this city this week and will cm Friday open the new store in Hie Hall building nex. to Hotel Roxboro. | Other merchandise to be Sold | by the Easy-Pay Tire store will j J include batteries and radios and a 1 automotive accessories. Radios m, will include Westinghouse and J j Mr. White, who is married and yJH has one daughter, has been wife,®! the Goodyear people for years. He has established MiH dence here and it is expected that : Mrs. White and their daughtS J will join them later. * ‘ Jjg
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