IF IT IS NEWS ABOUT
PERSON COUNTY, YOU’LL
FIND IT IN THE TIMES.
VOLUME XII
Dr. Hugh T. Lefler Will Be
Speaker At Hurdle Mills
Another Os Much Discuss- !
ed Rejected Fifth Grade
State History Will Speak
At Finals.
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Dr. Hugh T. Lefler, professor
of history at the University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill, ,and
co-author .of the “Growth of
North Carolina,’’ fifth grade
State history not adopted for use
:n public schools, jwill be com
mencement speaker at Hurdle
Mills high school, Person county,
Wednesday evening, April 30, at
3 o'clock, according to informa
tion today received by Thomas
O. Gentry, principal.
(sermon at the
school will be delivered by the
P. T. Floyd Adams, of Willow
Springs, who is also pastor of
Wheeler’s Primitive Bapt i s t
church, in Person County, and is
well-known here. The Rev. Mr.
Adams will speak Sunday night
April 27 at 8 o’clock. He will
also be in Roxboro this coming
Sunday night and will preach at
Roxboro Primitive church at
7:30 o’clockk.
Senior class day program at
Hurdle Mills will be held on Tues
day, April 29, at 8 o’clock. Ail
programs in connection with
commencement will be held m
the school auditorium, said Mr.
Gentry and patrons, friends and
parents are cordially invited to
attend.
The coming of Dr. Lefler, for
merly professor of hisory ai
North Carolina State college, ana
since then at Chapel Hill, where
lie-has gained an enviable repu
tation as an authority on North
Carolina history, is regarded as
an event of county-wide impor
tance, for, although he has been
teaching about twenty years, he
is still a young man and is po
ssessed of an attractive personali
ty and a deep seriousness of pur
pose.
For the past several months
his name has been much in news
paper headlines in this state be
cause of the unfortunate text
book controversy.
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Mrs' J. M. Smith’s
Rites Conducted
At Bethel Hill
Mrs. Sarah L. Smith, 71, wife
of Joe M. Smith of Halifax coun
ty, Va., die dat the home of her
son, William Smith at Bethel
Hill from Bright’s disease Satur
day aftern.oon She had been in
ill health for several years.
Funeral services were conduct
ed Monday afternoon at Bethel
Eaptist Church at 2 o’clock by
the Rev. J. F. Funderburk. In
terment followed in the church
cemetery.
Surviving are her husband,
two daughters, Mrs. Ella Aller
and Mrs. Leia Bloom, both of;
Virgilina, Va.; one son, William
Smith.
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Good, Luck Dance
Will Be Given
Sponsored by the Roxboro nigh
school athletic association, a script
dance will be held Friday night
in the high school gymnasium,
with music by Hugh Vaughan and
his orchestra. Characterized as a
“Good Luck” dance, the affair is
expected to be an important event
of Easter week. Officials of the
Senior class will be special guests
and a number of chaperones will
be invited.
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PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY A THURSDAY
MRS. LAWS DIES
AT RESIDENCE
Rites For Roxboro Resident
Will Be Held Tomorrow Af
ternoon.
Funeral services for Mrs. Annie
Laws, 56, wife of B. I. Laws, wil’.
be conducted from the home on
North Main Street, Roxboro, to
morrow afternoon at 2 o’clock by
Rev. C. A. Caldwell of Mt. Holly,
former pastor of Berry’s Grove
Baptist Church, of which Mr?.
Laws was a member.
Mrs. Laws died at her home
Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 af
ter a long period of illness.
Surviving are her husband, one
son T. H. King of Newport New?.
Va.; and three daughters, Mrs.
Geneva Owen, Misses Gladys and
Bera Mae Laws of Roxboro; one
grandchild, and one brother, T.
B. King of Laurens, S. C.; and
one sister, Mrs. E. S. Dickert, of
Newberry, S. C.
Interment will be in Burch -
j wood Cemetery.
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TWO REMAINING
DAYS OF CLEAN
UP WEEK FULL
Program Gets Off To Good
Start With Monday Par
ade.
With two more days to go, cel
ebration cf Roxboro’s fourth an
nual clean-up week, w'hich be
gan on Monday, is coming to a
close. The spirit which is being
shown is greatly appreciated,
said Bill Murphy, chairman of
the committee on arrangements
for the Commercial law class,
Roxboro high school sponsoring
group.
During Friday and Saturday
1 particular attention will be paid
; to cleaning vacant lots, planting
j and tending garden plots, remov
al of refuse by trucks and plant
ing of trees, shrubs and flowers,
together re-decoration of homes
and the planning of better lig.u
--i ing facilities.
Thursday is fire prevention day
and on Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday particular emphasis
was given to general clean-ups,
problems pertaining to health
and safety and to painting and
repairing. Feature on Monday
was a parade participated in by
the City Sanitary and Fire De
partments, Roxboro high school
band, the Police department and
ether civic and social divisions
and by merchants.
Also held on Monday was a
tin can matinee for young ueoplo.
arranged through courtesy of
Teague and C. B. Kirby, mana
gers cf local motion picture
theatres.
The week’s program has be
hind it active cooperation of
municipal .officials, the Chamber
of Commerce, merchants, citi
zens generally and the press, as
sisting the high school sponsors.
Prizes are being offered in
various divisions and it is ex
pected that the judging committee
will announce decisions Monday.
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Son Born
Mr. and Mrs. B. S. Williams
are receiving congratulations on
the birth of a son, Willard Lacy,
April 1 at their country home.
Mother and son are reported
getting on nicely.
EIGHT WHITE MEN
TO BE SENT TO
FORT JACKSON
Leave April 14. Ten Neg
roes go Next Day To Fort
Bragg.
Second group of Person coun
ty white men to report for selec
tive service this month will m
elude eight men :Luther Mont
rose Carlton, Jr. (571),
Dennis Carver (627), Douglas
Jones Davis (657), Edgar James
Harvey (609), all of Roxboro,
and David Henry Jones (551),
Arthur R. Davis, Jr., (582), Willie!
Adolphus Berry, Jr., (631), and'
Robert James Taylor (651) of
Person county who will enter
service at Fort Jackson, S. C,;
after reporting on Monday, Ap-j
ril 14, at the Person board ofice,
according to annonccment ms.d.;!
today by office manager Baxter j
Mangdm.
On the next day, Tuesday, Ap-j
ril 15, 10 Negro men, also second
group to go this month, will
meet at the office before depart
ing for Fort Bragg for induction.
Four of the Negroes, Girl
Williams (1048), James Arthur
Royster (66), West Lunsford
(722) and Robert Word (2941)
are volunteers. Others going are
Eddie Ramsey (2), Joe Pulliam
(9), Junius McGhee (19), Ar-j
thur Davis Buie, (20). Alpha
Gentry (39) and Arthur Junius 1
Blackwell (51).
Mr. Carlton is ttie son of Post
master and Mrs. L. M. Carlton
and Mr. Dcuglas Davis is a son
of Mr. and Mrs. Ron Davis. MV'J
Mangum today said that no fur
ther announcement concerning
April quotas can be made at thi '■
time.
Brinkley Child
Dies At Home
Near Roxboro
and Mrs. Lelia Blocm, both o,’
William Roy Brinkley, 4-montn
old son of Mr. and Mrs. Lyman
Brinkley of near Roxboro, died
at 6:30 o’clock Sunday morning
at the home from pneumonia
after an illness of 10 days.
Funeral services were conduct
ed from the home at 3 o’clock
Monday afternoon by 'the Rev.
J. F. Funderburk and interment
followed in the Dillehay Ceme
tery near the home.
Surviving are the parents, one
brother, Edward Brinkley and
one sister, Bertha Odelia Brink
ley.
CITY ELECTION
SCHEDULE CHOSEN
BY BOARD
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Nomination of candidates!
for the Mayorship and for City
commissioners will be made
at a municipal mass meeting
to be held Monday night, April
21, at 8 o’clock in the county
court house and elections will
be held on Tuesday, May 6, ac
cording to an authorized state
ment issued today by Mayor
S. G. Winstead and George J.
Cushwa, commissioners’ clerk.
Selection of these dates was
principal business at the April
City council session held Tues
day night Present commission
ers are George W. Kane, Gor
don C. Hunter, Preston Sat
terfield, Sr., C. Lester Brooks
and Mr. Cushwa, all of whom
are expected to be candidates.
It is also expected that Mayor
Winstead will seek nomination.
Hie mayor has held office
since the death last year of S.
F. Nicks, Jr., whose two year
term would have ended next
month.
SECOND THEFT
ATTEMPT OCCURS
TUESDAY MORNING
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Break ! n Reported A t
Dixie Pig On. Greensboro
Road.
Second break-in in less than a
week in the Roxboro area was;
Tuesday morning reported to
have occurred at the Dixie pig
Greensboro road restaurant some
time after midnight. Entrance]
was made by cutting a screen
and breaking a window at the
back.
Although apparently no monty
was taken, the piccolo in th*
dance hall was damaged and an
attempt to open the locked aoor
leading t o the front room
was made. Mrs. J. Hew- J
ard Franck, who lives next door,!
and who with Mr. Franck is ow-i
ner of the restaurant, reported
that finger print experts have
been summoned. Local officer;
also made an investigation.
of the restaurant,
Luther Dixon and Bill Long,
closed the place for the night at
some time between twelve and
one Tuesday morning. It is
thought the the attempted rob
bery may be connected with on.'
which last week occurred at tne
Long service station, this city,
when about S3O in cash, a watch!
and a pistol and cartons of cig-j
arettes were taken.
Mrs. Franck, while reading in;
bed had lights on in her homo|
until a late hour that morning
and is inclined to believe that
1 the robbers may*ifave fled before
' making thorough search at ihoj
Dixie Pig.
DRAMA AT HIGH
SCHOOL DESERVES
SUPPORTGIVEN
“Anne Os Green Gables" j
Improves During Second ;
Performance.
Marked by increased technical
: smoothness, better manageir.cn
! of stage business, timing of lines
j and interpretation of character,
! second performance of the Rox
bero high school senior class
play, L. M. Montgomery's “Anne
of Green Gables” was given Tues
j day night to a good-sized, ap
! preciative audience.
Leading roles were played by
Mjss Arline Newell, Miss Mary
Virginia Clayton and Gaither
Beam, Jr., while important char
acter roles were interpreted by
Miss Katherine Spencer, Anita
Kirby and Bill Murphy. In the
supporting cast were George
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Seventh Grade Os
Hurdle Mills
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Visits In Raleigh
Twenty or more pupils of the
seventh grade, Hurdle Mills
school, accompanied by members
of the faculty, on Friday made a
sight-seeing trip to Duke Univer
sity, to Raleigh and to Quail
Roost farm.
First stop was at Duke, where
general inspectiin of the campus
of each college, of the Chapel
and of other buildings was made.
The group then went to Raleigh.,
visiting the Executive mansion,
the Governor’s office, where they
were greeted by Governor J,
Mlville Broughton, the Hall of
History, Dix Hill and various
other places of interest
Stop at Quail Roost Dairy
farm was made on the return
trip.
H. C. Gaddy Resigns Position
With Roxboro School System
Board Os Equalization And
Review Will Meet This Month
First Meeting Will Be Held
April 28. Other Matters j
Considered By County Com
missioners.
Monday, April 28, at 9:39 in (
the morning was designated as
date and time for the first meet-'
ing of the Person County Board
of Equalization and Review thc|
Person County Commissioners ar
their April session Monday j
morning. Members of the board
of Equalization and Review by thy
are also county commissioners,
are Frank T. Whitfield, D. M.
Cash and Sam Byrd Winstead.
Re appointed as County rep
resentative on the Person Wei- ,
fare board was R. D. Bailey, of ]
Woodsdale. Formal approval of'
appointment of Annie Lee Tuck]
as Negro Home Demonstration'
was given. The agent, formerly!
a teacher rs home economics, eh- \
tered her new work last week, j
Approval of re-investment of
that part of the John C. Terrell
education fund now in City of
Roxboro bends, at discretion of
the trustee, was given to Gordon
C. Iluntcr, executive vice pres:
dent of Peoples Bank, trustee. 1
arid approval of admission of a
Pcrs. n citizen, formerly a resident
xf Canada, to the county ,ium '
was voted. Also appproved was,
an appropriation for newspaper j
advertising in connection with
the Person sesquicentennial.
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Mrs. John Moize
Passes At Home
Os Father-In-Law ;
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Funeral services for Mrs. May;
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Lloyd Wrenn Moize, of the
Baynes store community, whose
death occurred Sunday afternoon
at the home of her father-in-law,
Otha Moize, following a heart
attack, were conducted Monday
afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at Ber
ry’s Grove Baptist church. Offi
ciating minister was the Rev.
F. B. Peele. Interment was in the
church cemetery.
Mrs. Moize, wife of John
Moize, had not previously been
in ill health. She was the daugh
ter of the late W. W. Wrenn. Sur
viving, in addition to her hus
band are two children, a son,
Lawrence Moize, a daughter,
Bobbie Moize, and a number of
brothers and sisters.
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Helena Seniors
To Present Play
Friday Evening
“The Road Back”, a comedy
drama by Joseph Carlton, will
be presented by Helena High
school seniors, Friday evening,
April 11, at 7:45 o’clock in the
school auditorium. Action takes
place in the living room of ‘ Ma”
and “Pa” Fowler and provides
opportunities for nine additional
roles. The scene, continued
through three acts if the play is
the same.
The play is regarded as unusu
ally entertaining and it is hoped
that attendance will be large.
Music will be furnished by the
glee club. Admission will be
moderate.
THURSDAY APRIL 10, 1941.
R B, GRIFFIN TO
AGAIN BE CHIEF !
SCHOOL OFFICER
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County Superintendent Re
elected, As Is Mrs. F. M.
Puryear, Board Secretary.
; Re-elected as superintendent!
of Person county schools was R. j
B. Griffin, who will enter upon ’
1 his fourth two year term in that i
I capacity in July, and re-elected .
I as secretary of the Board of Ed- :
! ucation was Mrs. F. M. Puryear j
i at a meeting of that body he’d »
| Monday morning in the Board’s
i office at the court house this :
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city. i
j Present for the first time were
i two recently appointed board t
! members, Claude T. Hall, of,
j Woosdale, and B. G. Crumpton,
“of Allensville, who, together -.vita !
o t h e r re-appointed members]
were sworn in by Person Super-'
ior Court Clerk Miss Sue C. Brad- ;
sher.
Re-elected as chairman of the
; board was W. R. Wilkcrson, of
Bushy Foak. Other re-appointed
members are Ralph C. Cole, and
E. E. Bradshcr, both of this city.
Beard members after re-elec- 1
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sing Superintendent Griffin and
the secretary expressed appro-j
C'ation for their work and then]
turned to consideration of var
ious matters, among them possi-j
b'lities .of securing vocational;
! agricultural teachers for Roxbn-j
; rn and Allensville high schools.
Other schools having such tea-:
j ehers are Bethel Ilill, Helena and
Person County Training school.
Also discussed was appoint
ment of school committeemen.
MISS BULLOCK
NAMED TO LEAD
CLUB UNIT HERE
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Elected President of Bus
iness and Professional Wo
man’s Club Os Roxboro.
! Other Officers Chosen.
l , Formally elected as president:
1 of the recently organized Roxbo
"i ro unit cf the Business and Prc-J
'; fesional Woman’s club was Miss'
[Nancy Bullock of this city, at;
’ an organization meeting of the j
; club held here Monday night
at the residence of Mrs. B. W.
! Gardner, Miss Bullcek had pre
j viously served as temporary
! chairman.
Local women attending the
! dinner session numberni more
than thirty, while special guests
I included Mrs. Ruby Day Barn
field, of Durham, State federation
president, Mrs. Maybelle Carlisle,
also of Durham, director of the
fifth district, and Mrs. Bess M.
Gurganus, of Raleigh, regional
chairman of the Southwestern
district, each of whom made
brief talks.
Qther officers chosen at the
meeting were Miss Agnes Brake,
■ first vice president, Mrs. Roselle
Featherston, second vice presi-i
1 dent, Miss Helen Latta, record-]
1 ing secretary, Miss Nina Abbitt,!
corresponding secretary and Miss
Mildred Bass, treasurer. Those,
I attending reported an unusually:
successful meeting.
Meetings will in the future be
- on the first and third Thursdays
in each month.
THE TIMES IS PERSON’S
PREMIER NEWSPAPER,
A LEADER AT ALL TIMES.
NUMBER TWENTY-TWO
Action Taken At Call Meet
ing Os School Board Held
Before Teachers Banquet.
Will Leave At End Os
School Year.
H. C. Gaddy, for the past two
years supervising principal of
Roxboro district schools, today
announced his resignation nom
that position, effective May 7.
The resignation was presented
to the District School board at a
call session held last night prior
to the annual county-wide teach
ers banquet held at Hotel Rox
boro.
Although it is undertsood that
the Board, of which Dr. B. A.
Thaxton acted as temporary chair
man, declined to accept Mr. Gad
dy’s resignation, he said this
morning that he will not recon
sider his action and that he, Mrs.
Gaddy and their small son, David,
will go to his heme at Monroe
immediately after the close of
school.
In announcing his decision Mr.
Gaddy emphasized the fact that
there has been “no friction be
tween him and members of the
Board” and that his resignation
is dictated by desire to secure
connections with a nine months
school having a year-round pro
gram. In the Roxboro system no
provision is made for payment of
salary to the supervising princi
pal during summer months.
Mr. Gaddy did not remain for
the teachers banquet at which
chief speaker was Sam T. Peace,
Henderson business man, who had
as his subject “Orientation”, with
particular reference to the necesi
ty of teachers making themselves
thoroughly familiar with the
duties of their profession. Intro
[ duction of Mr. Peace was mad 2
by Dr. A. L. Allen, of the Per
son Health department. Guest?
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Loftis To Face
Manslaughter
Trial In Court
Dan Liftis, young Roxboro...
! man, on Tuesday was bound over
; er to Superior Court on a man
; slaughter charge growing out of
death of a Negro man last year,
: fatally injured when his wagon
j was struck by an automobile al
legedly operated by Loftis.
I Judge R. B. Dawes in Reeord
-1 ed’s Court kept Loftis’ bond at
! SSOO. A Negro woman and two
! youngsters were injured when the
! wagon was hit.
The accident took place near
Semora.
HOLY DAYS AND
HOLIDAYS TO BE
i OBSERVED
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Practically all public offices;
and more than sixty places of
business in the county and city
will be closed for Easter Mon
day holidays, April 14, accord
ing to announcement by Wal
lace W. Woods, executive se
cretary of the Roxboro Cham
ber of commerce, who yester
day compiled a list of all pub
lic and private establishments
planning to be closed,
j Good Friday will be observed
J in the city by a union service
1 held at Edgar Long Memorial
Methodist church from noon
until 3 o’clock. The service,
. participated In by various Pro
testant ministers, will consist
of music and mt brief sermons
and the public is invited to
attend.