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IF IT IS NEWS ABOUT PERSON COUNTY, YOU’LL FIND IT IN THE TIMES. VOLUME XO R oxboro Unit Professional Temporary Officers Os dab For Women Warned. Miss Campbell Makes Vivid Talk. Organization of a Roxboro unit of the Business and Profes sional Woman’s club, with Miss Nancy Bullock and Miss Helen Latta, of this city, as temporary chairman and secretary, respec tively, was effected at the close of a dinner meeting of fifth dis trict clubs held here Tuesday night, with Miss Thomas ine Campbell, of New York, field representative, as guest speaker. Actively supporting organiza tion of the Roxboro club unit is Miss Velma Beam, former Greensboro member, who is now Ferson County Home Demon stration agent and who is district chairman of the club’s educa tional committee. Present last night were as many as thirty women from Burlington, Hender son, Durham, and this city. Having as her theme the club’s program for the year, ‘‘Making Democracy Work,” Miss Camp bell, introduced by Mrs. Ruby Day Barfield of Durham, State President, illustrated the impor tance of making “Democracy Work” by citing instances of thn decline of the democratic spirit which she witnessed in the past two or three years, particularly in Austria, Italy and France. In the speaker’s opinion democra tic citizens cf these countries failed in their attempts to keep domocracy alive because they were not zealous and watchful, because they refused to see a head of time evils implicit in the Nazi-Fascist spirit "America,” said Miss Campbell, “is the last great country in which women may enter business and professional life. In many Euro pean nations women have been relegated-'fb the kitchen and the church, and American women owe it to themselves to be in formed about world affairs, and home affairs, particularly in gov (Continued on back page) Wilborn Child Passes In Duke Hospital, Durham Funeral services for Barbara Ann Wilborn, 8 months-old dau ghter of Mr. and Mrs. ThomasE, Wilborn, of this city, who died Tuesday afternoon at Duke hos pital, Durham, after an illness of four days with pneumonia were conducted at 3 o’clock this afternoon at the grave-side in the cemetery at Cluster Springs, Va. In addition to the parents, sur vivors include, one brother, Tho mas E. Wilborn, Jr., and one sis ter, Flora Mae Wilborn. Rev. B. H. Kelly To Be Presbyterian Speaker Sunday ■ Speaker at the 11 o’clock ser vice of Roxboro Presbyterian church will be the Rev. B. H. Kelly, professor of Bible and philosophy, at King college, Bristol, Tenn., according to an nouncement made today by the Rev 1 . J. M. Walker, pastor of the Roxboro church. The Rev. Mr. Kelly, a native of Wytheville, Va., was a class mate of Mr. Walker at Union Theological seminary, Richmond. Va., and is regarded as an at tractive speaker. ■ Wi leraotii|ffimes PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY & THURSDAY Os Business - ! Club Formed J CARVER’S CASE SCHEDULED FOR SUPERIOR COURT Also Expected To Come Up Is Manslaughter Case Re sulting From Automobile Accident. Probable cause having been . found, John Davis Carver, 19, of Longhurst, charged with assault with intent to commit rape on the small daughter of a neigh bor, was Tuesday morning placed under SIOOO bond in Recorders court lor appearance in Person Superior court next month. Another case of unusual inter est coming before the court, w'hich was in session all day, with Judge R. B. Dawes presid ing, was that of Clarence Oakley, charged with manslaughter in connection with the death of Jim Henry Walters, Negro resi dent, struck on the night of March 10 by a car said to have been driven by Oakley. Judg ment in the Oakley case was rendered yesterday when Mr. Oakley was also bound over to Superior Court. Testimony by the alleged vic tim of the assault in the Carver case, a minor seven years of age, by her parents and an aunt, was offered to show that the alleged assault occurred Sunday night of this week between 7:30 and 8:00 o’clock, in the Carver residence, when the child went to the house, finding no one there but the young man, who it is alleged placed her on a bed before cem miting the assault. Carver, son of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Carver was arrested Monday by Sheriffs deputies at a filling station near here. Bond had not been arranged at end of court yesterday and he was re manded to jail. Parents of the girl, who was said to be not men tally normal, took her to a phy sician for examination following her story of the alleged assault, which she related to them Sun day night. Hearing of the case of Clarence Oakley, prominent Roxdovo young man ended at 11:00 o’clock yesterday morning in (Continued on back page) ■ o RITES HELD FOR MRS. C. GJREADE Prominent Person County Resident Dies At Mt. Tir zah Home Wednesday. Mrs. Charles G. Reade, 80, prominent Person county resi dent of the Mt. Tirzah communi ty, near Timberlake, died yester day morning at three o’clock 3t i her home following an illness lasting only two days. Death was attributed to a heart attack. Prior to her marriage to Mr. ; Reade she was Miss Sarah Eliza beth Clayton, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Clay ton. Only immediate survivor is her husband, a well-known Per son landowner, a brother of W. F. Reade. She was an aunt of R. P. Reade, Durham attorney, of E. G. Long and of Mesdames E. E. Bradsher, Sue Hendley and R. , L. Harris, of Roxboro. j Funeral services were conduct- • ed from the Reade residence this t afternoon at three o’clock by the , Rev. E. T. Hill pastor of Mt Tir- , zah Methodist church. Interment ] took place in the church ceme- , tery. Pallbearers and flower- , bearers were nephews and nieces J, SCOUTS RECEIVE RECOGNITIONS AT MONTHLY COURT Jack Shotwell I s Life Scout. Two Scoots and An Assistant Scoutmaster Re ceive Star Rankings. Recognized as a Life Scout at March Court of Honor of the Roxboro district last week was Jack Shotwell, while similar honor was accorded to Harold Hester, of Bushy Fork, at a sep erate Bushy Fork Court of honor. Star rank was given to assis tant scoutmaster Hillman Stan field, of Roxboro, and to Boyce Blalock and William Warren, ot Bushy Fork. Harold Hester also completed requirements for mer it badges in woodcarving, fi~st aid and athletics. Advanced to second class in the Roxboro district were Bobby Currier, Bobby Blanks, John Pass, Don Clayton, Sykes Parham, George Wesley Gentry, Haskins Holden, Franice Owens and John Harris, while tenderfoot rank v. as won by Roy Jackson, Eugene Johnson, Bill Snow, Johnny Hor ton, Mac Walker, Wayne Buch annan, Jimmy Woods, ,Earl Shep herd, Sam Moore and J. W. Ol iver, and by Brodie Homer, the last named of Bushy Fork. Merit badges in various acti vities were awarded to D. B. Scoggnig, Buck Taylor, Jack Shotwell, Bobby Currier, Assis tant Scoutmaster W. H. Brick house, Jack Parham, Norfleet Umstead, Graham Raford, B’l: Fickering, Bobby Booth, Eugene Wade, Gus Deering, Assistant Scoutmaster Stanfield, and Scout masters Robert Long and Rev. T.M. Vick, all of the Roxboro district, and to Harold Hester, James Earl Hester, David Moore, Beverly Bullock,, Fred Long Reu ben Bowes, P. T. Howerton, Wil liam Warren, Brodie Horner and Boyce Blalock, of Bushy Fork. Presiding at the Roxboro court which was held at Ca-Vel school was J. S. Merritt, chairman, while officials at Bushy Fork were C. H. Mason, Scoutmaster, E. F. Warren and Bill Van Hook. Mrs. Whitfield Os * Bushy Fork Dies At Residence Mrs. Bettie Whitfield, 77, wife of the late E. R. Whitfield, died at her home near Bushy Fork 1 Saturday afternoon at 5:35 o’clock! after an illness lasting foufj months. I Funeral services were conduc ted Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock at the J. E. Whitfield cemetery by the Rev. L. V. Coggins. Mrs. Whitfield was a member of Clement Baptist Church and was well known in her commun ity. She is survived by a daugh-! ter and son, Mrs. W. F. Snipes, of Greensboro and Luther J. Whit field of the home; three step- 1 children, Mrs. A. W. Horton of Roxboro, Mrs. O. C. Long and I. W. Whitfield of Hurdle Mills. o High School Present Program At Helena School Henderson High School will present the “Fattest Variety Show” at Helena High School on j Thursday evening, March 27. at at 8 o’clock. The Henderson high school band will accompany the show. The program is sponsored by tiie Junior Class of Helena school and promises to be an evening of fun and entertain ment Man Finds Rings Owner Finds Man ! In Mayor’s Court I * i i In the crowded up-stairs City j Hall room used for Mayo.’; eourt was the usual morning line up, whites and Negroes, who had! teen fighting, carousing, driving! I recklessly and were gathered now' to hear judgment passed; among' them was a Negro, Lloyd Rich - j ardson, charged with being drunk, | very drunk, maybe, but when hisi turn came, His Honor, Mayor S.j G. Winstead, let him off with the 1 costs —amounting to six dollars! and twenty-five cents. Only trouble with Lloyd ,vas' that he didn’t have $6.25. In the court room was Reade Sattenfield, jewelry salesman.! Suddenly, Mr. Satterfield turned,! looked at Lloyd. Mr. Satterfield , I had lost some diamond rings, val-i t ued at SIOO or more and he wa-;| interested in what the Negro was ! saying about rings. ’ “Let me see them,” said the! . salesman, whereupon Lloyd fish ' ] cd them out of a dirty vest pock et. There they were, the same rings. Lloyd said with honesty,! that he had “Found them” and that Mr. Satterfield could have' , his sparklers. His Honor sat by, taking in the scene; finally he suggested that Lloyd might need a little help, 1 . more tangible than thanks. The! owner of the rings taking thm hint, paid Lloyd’s court costs; , now two men are happy. o MARINE CORPS OPEN TEMPORARY OFFICE IN CIT If United States Marine Corps I Southern Recruiting Divi sion Headquarters Repre sentative To Be Here Next I Week. United States Marine Corps Recruiting officers from North Carolina District Headquarters at Raleigh will establish temporary offices at the Post Office build ing in both Roxboro and Dan ville from the Ist through the 4th of April for the purpose of interviewing and examining young men for service in the Marine Corps Reserve as well as : the regular Marine Corps. ‘i The personnel of the Marino ; j Corps is composed entirely of j volunteers. You may serve for \ the duration of the National j I Emergency with the Marine, j Corps reserve or you may re-' ; main in the Regular Marino! Corps if you desire, i Opportunity for advancement ' is unlimited. The Marine Corps ■ trains young men to fit its needs.! ■|Numerous vocational schools are: ! maintained to train deserving ; young men in some special trade, ■ and hundreds of correspondence courses on any subject are offered ■ free of charge to the entire per ‘ scnnel of the corps. This is an opportunity to serve your coun try with liberal pay sufficient to make substantial savings and at the same time further your ed ucation and travel extensively. Applicants for enlistment must be white, single, 18 to 29 years of age, 64 to 74 inches in height, have the equivalent of an Bth l grade education, be of good moral ’ character, and in sound physical | condition. 0 v . Postponed . ! Organization meeting of a Gar i den Club, scheduled to have i been held yesterday at Roxboro • Community house has been post- Iponed. ! 1 Guy B. Phillips Addresses School Committee Meeting Rev. T. Marvin Vick Resigns Agency Council Presidency Easter Seal Sale Planned. Robert Edgar Long New President. Mclntosh Speaks. Describing the work of the North Carolina League for Crip pled Children and discussing j plans for the Easter seal sale | campaign, Charles E. Mclntosh of Chapel Hill, executive secce-. tery, was speaker at the March luncheon meeting of the Person [ Council of Social agencies held! ! yesterday at Hotel Roxboro. [ Presiding officer was the pres- 1 ident, Rev. T. Marvin Vick, who ! announced his resignation from office. Elected as his successor ! was Robert Edgar Long, young Roxboro attorney, named by a nominating committee. The Rev.! ! Mr. Vick, pastor of Ca-Vel Metho dist church, has served as officer j ' for more than a year and meri-j | bers expressed regret that he has ' found it necessary to resign. He ! will, however, continue as an! 1 active member of the council, j. During his administration the [ agencies group has taken up the Person County township survey,' j a program which will be con-! Itinued at the April meeting with! \ a discusion of Cunningham town-; j ship. Previously discussed was Woodsdale. Local chairman cf the Crippled Children’s Easter Seal Sale cam : paign will be Mrs. T. C. Wagstaff, head of the Person County wel fare and WPA departments, who 1 today said that the campaign tej be instigated here will be carried on by mail and is to be begun j within the next week or two. In- troduction of Mr. Mclntosh was by Mrs. Wagstaff. Half of the | funds raised in Person County j will be used in this qpunty, the remainder will be sent to the state office for assisting those whom a county committee cannot serve. Some counties already nave established clinics for their crip pled children, and the State-sup ported Orthopedic Hospital a: Gastonia, to which the more serious cases are sent, also has a splendid record of service. But the Orthopedic Hospital has facil - ities for only 160 children, J there are now more than 300 on the hospital’s waiting list. A recent federal report says (Continued on back page) Richard B. Holland ! Rites Conducted At Milton Church Richard Branson Holland, 65, of Caswell county, near Milton, died Sunday afternoon at 5 o’-j clock at Memorial hospital, Dan ] ville, Va., following an illness of one week with pneumonia. He was a Spanisb-American war veteran and was for many years engaged in fanning . Funeral services were con ducted Tuesday morning at 11 o’- clock at the Milton Presbyterian church by the pastor, Rev. N. R. Claytor. Interment took place in the Milton cemetery. Surviving are his wife; two sons, Richard Branson Holland, Jr„ and John Walters Holland, of the home; two step-children, James Twilley. of Danville, Va., and Mrs. D. H. Dunn, of Burling ton; five brothers, J. 8., G. F., J. K., R. V., and J. T. Holland ,of I Iredell county. * THURSDAY MARCH 27, 194). AUTHORIZATION , OF BOND SALE GIVEN MONDAY I I City Council In Call Session j Also Adopts Resolution Pro | testing Federal Housing Administration’s Classifica- t tion of City’s Loan Rate. i ! Authorization of a plan to of-j 1 fer for sale $150,000 worth of general refunding bonds of the City of Roxboro and adoption ofj a resolution protesting the Fed eral Housing administration’s 1 classification of the City as a' j “village”” in which Federal Hous-' I ing loans are to be limited for the ! most part to less than $5,000 were I major items of business at a call j ■ session of the City Council held; I Monday night. The sale cf bonds, in line with] I current municipal policy, is ex-1 , pected to further reduce munici i p?l indebtedness, which has been cut more than 25 per cent in re- I cent years. Bonds to be offered j for sale will include general re j funding bonds totaling SI2O,DCC, dated December 1, 1934 and ma turing December 1, 1964, and $30,. 000 dated December 1, 1934, ma turing on December 1, 1954. The resolution pertaining to I Housing Administration classifi cation was proposed by Council ; man Gordon C. Hunter, also in strumental in bond refunding, | and will be forwarded to the j Federal Housing dmainistratar, ] ! Washington. BUCHANAN RTTES i SET FOR FRIDAY Ca-Vel Woman Dies In Hospital This Morning. Mrs. G. W. Buchanan, 82, of Ca-Vel, who resided with Mrs. i J. W. Daniel, died this morning at 9:15 o’clock at Community hos | pital, Roxboro, following an ill- I ness lasting about two weeks. Death was attributed to compli ] cations. The deceased was a mem ter of Massey’s Chapel Methodist | [church, and was formerly a res;.-! I dent of Durham county. I Funeral services will be eon-' ducted tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock at Providence church, by the Rev. J. N. Bowman, paster. The body will lie in state at the church for one hour prior to thej hour of the service. Interment will take place in the church ! cemetery. o Say What It . j Is, Says Chief , « Fire Chief Henry E. O’Briant , today issued a request that cit izens reporting grass fires de signate them as such. This re quest is made because the City ; Fire Department wishes to first send a member of the de. j partment to investigate grass fires before turning in, if oc casion demands, it, a general alarm, it being pointed out that oftentimes gram fires eaa be handled by small trews and THE TIMES IS PERSON’S PREMIER NEWSPAPER A LEADER AT ALL TIMES- NUMBER TWENTY Chapel Hill Professor of Education Describes Duties Os Committeemen and Pro • gress Os Legislation. Speaker at the first annual din ner meeting of Person County school committeemen was Prof. Guy B. Phillips, of the Univer sity of North Carolina depart ment of Education, Chapel Hit', who has served as Secretary o: the State Association of School ! Boards since the association was i formed. Introduction of Prof. ] Phillips was by Person County 1 Superintendent of Schools, R. B. ' Griffin. j General theme of the speaker's message was the work of the as- I sociation and importance of ex ; crcise of duties as board mem bers and committeemen. | The meeting, first of its kind ]in Person County, although th - committeemen have previously I met with County teachers at the i annual teachers banquet, was | held last night at the residence I of Mrs. B. W. Gardner, with an I estimated attendance of about fifty. Teachers will have them banquet two weeks’ from now a. : Hotel Roxboro, \)/ith Sam T. Peach, of Henderson, as speaker. Governor J. M. Broughton wilt be the principal speaker at the fifth annual meeting of the North Carolina School Board Associa tion in Chapel Hill on Thursday. April 10, it was announced to day by H. E. Isenhour, of Salis bury, president of the Associa tion. Sessions will be held in the Hill Music Hall, opening at 10:30 that morning and closing at 4:30. The Governor, Mr. Isenhour said will speak at the morning ses sion. Lieut. Gov. R. L. Harris, H. i E. Stacy of Lumberton, Chairman |of the Education Committee in I the 1941 Senate, who served as j president of the Association for ] two years, and Arch T. Allen of Raleigh, Chairman of the Educa (Continued on sports page) o TWO FAMILIES WILL FURNISH ARMY BROTHERS Helena and Bushy Fork Families Furnish Sets Os Brothers. Among 16 Person County men ! who will on Friday, April 4, re port to the Selective Service ! board office before leaving la ter in the morning for Fori Bragg, are two sets of brothers, Hubert Franklin Pearce and Hol ton Timberlake Pearce, of Hele- I na, and James Boyd Horton and i Elbert Russell Horton, of Bushy Fork. Also reporting will be Zcb Vance Barnette, twin brother of Currie Barnette, who last July entered the United States Navy. The Barnettes are brothers of Miss Mamie Love Barnette, of this city. Others reporting are John Frank Daniel, Earl Stanley Rog ers, Roy Oscar Dunn, Joseph Napoleon Oakley, John Thomas Stone, Herman Hillman Garrett, Jr., Willie Thomas Strange, John Collin Allen, Robert Burns Car michael, Claude Watkins Bohan - an and Samuel Harding Briggs, the last named being a volunteer. Three Negroes, Jones Lester, Jr., Johnnie Herbert Walters and Charlie Mose Scott, all volunteers, will report Wednesday, April 2, while five Negroes, whose names have been previously given will report tomorrow.
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