IP IT IS NEWS ABOUT
PERSON COUNTY, YOU’LL
FIND IT IN THE TIMES.
VOLUME XII
Graduation Exercises Will
Begin This Sunday In County
Bethel Hill Baccalaureate
Sermon Sunday Afternoon
| Will Start Series.
Starting next -week and con
tinuing through May 7 commence
ment programs in Person county
and Roxboro schools, featuring
mainly public officials, ministers
and teachers, will hold the atten
tion of many residents and of
graduates. Senior plays have al
ready been given in a number of
schools and) one of the last to be
presented will be “Dora Dean,'’
a three act comedy, scheduled
for Friday evening at 8 o’clock
at Person County Training school.
Os wildest general appeal is ex
pected! to be the address of Gov
rnor J. Melville Broughton, who
will come here ffrom Raligh o*:
the evening of May 7 to speak to
the graduating class of Roxobro
high School, and, on Sunday,
May 4, the high school beccalau
reate sermon will be delivered
by the Rev. John A. Wright, rec •
tor of Christ Episcopal church,
Raleigh.
Although reports as to com
mencement program have not yet
been received from Mt. Tirzah,
plans for programs at Allensvi’Je,
Helena, Bethel Hill, Bushy Fork
and Hurdle Mills have been an
nounced.
At Allensville high school ou
Sun., April 27, the baccalaureate
sermon will be- given by the Rev.
W. C. Martin, pastor of Edgar
Long Memorial Methodist church,
Roxboro, and on Tuesday, the 29,
the commencement speaker will
be Prof. W. N. Hicks, of the De
partment of Ethics and Religion,
North Carolina State College di
vision of the University of North
Carolina, Raleigh. All events at
Allensville will occur at 8 o’clock
in the evening.
The Allensville Junior-Senior
banquet was held Wednesday!
right at Hotel Roxboro, with at-'
tendance of about 50. Number of
graduates is expected to be six
teen.
Commencement speaker at
Helena high school, Wednesday
night, April 30, in the school au
ditorium, will be Claude Gaddy,
superintendent of Raleigh schools,
who is a brother of H. C. Gaddy,
present supervising principal of
Roxboro district schools, while
the baccalaureate sermon will be
delivered by the Rev. H. C.
Smith, of Durham, pastor of
Duke Memorial church, who will
speak Sunday afternoon, April
27, at 3:30 o’clock, according to
plans annouened by R. C. Garri
son, Helena pricipal.
On Sunday of this week, April
20, the Bethel Hill baccalaureate
sermon will be given in the high
school auditorium at 3 o’clock
by another Durham minister, iliej
Rev. J. Winston Pearce, of the!
First Baptist church, and on Wed-'
nesday April 30 afternoon at 4
o’clock on the J. H. Merritt ath
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Music Festival
Members of Roxboro high
school glee club returned yester
day from the annual music festi
val held at Woman’s College,
Greensboro. With them were Mrs.
Sam Byrd Winsteach, music di
rector, and H. C. Gaddy, super
vising principal.
Members of the high school
band, with John Thompson, di
rector, are in Greensboro today.
The festival will close today. The
Roxboro musicians were asked to
attend the festival because of!
having won good standing in the
District contest recently held at
Durham,
Jfrson^dimrs
PUBLISHED EVERT SUNDAY & THURSDAY
Person Young
People Meet At
Methodist Church
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The Person County Young Peci-j
pie Union had its regular month-;
ly meeting Monday night at Long
Memorial Methodist Church.
The members of the Union first
joined with the members of the!
church to hear Rev. D. E. Earn
hardt speak cn the subject!
i “Homespun Religion.” Following!
this, the members went into the’
Sunday School Room of the;
church and short business meet-j
ing was held.
A committee was chosen to
nominate the officers of the Union!
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for the coming year. The officers:
will be elected at the next meet-j
ing of the Union to be held) on
the 12th of May. Plans were also;
1 made for the training course to:
ibe held sometime next month.'
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Bethel Baptist
Mission Group
Meets At Church j
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The Woman's Missionary So
ciety of Bethel Hill Baptist church j
met Saturday afternoon for its
regular monthly meeting at the
church.
The meeting was opened with
the singing of a hymn. Mrs. L. S.'
Cannon conducted the devotional;
followed by prayer by Mrs. W. B.
Humphries, president.
In the absence of Mrs. B. W.
Gentry, group leader, Mrs. Can
non was in charge of the program
and interesting discussions on the
topic, “An Urgent Gospel. A
challenge to True Discipleship”|
i were given by Mrs. A. G. Bul
j lard, Mrs. J. Y. Humphries and
Mrs. Newton Day. Mrs. G. G. !
Woody closed the program with
prayer.
Mrs. Humphries presided over
the business session during which
a stewardship committee was ap- j
pointed and reports were made
by Mrs. E. L. Wehrenberg, per
: sonal service chairman, and Mrs.
' G. G. Woody, chairman of Church
!
Pew fund. Mrs. Bullard read the
treasurer’s repotr for the first
quarter.
The meeting closed with each
member repeating the watchword
for the year-
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Slightly Improved
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J. A. Long, prominent Rox
boro resident, who has been ser
iously ill at Duke hospital, Dur
ham, for the past ten days, is'
slightly improved, according to!
reports received in the city this 1
morning. j
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High School P T A <
With Mrs. B. B. Mangum in <
charge of the program, final
meeting for the school year of
the Roxboro high school Parent
Teacher Association will be held
Tuesday night at 7:30 at the
school. Presiding will be the j
president Mrs. R. H. Shelton. A
good attendance is requested. 1
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In Chapel Hill
In Chapel Hill for the annual
high school debating contests to- ]
day are John McWhorter, Violet
Starke, Jackie Gordon and Arline
Newell, representing winning dis- <
trict teams from Roxboro high j
school. With them is Mrs. L. R. ]
Rynd, coach. J
Scout Council
In Regular
Monthly Meet
The regular monthly meeting
of the Person County Sccuc
; Council was held Tuesday night
in the -office of Dr. A. F. Nichols.
,In the absence of president C.
A. Harris, Bill Pickering, vice
-1 president, presided over the mei-t
--i ing.
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Various forms of business were
] discussed including charter pres
entation to the Brooksdale troop,
j examiners for merit badges, •sum
iner meetings for the council and
other matters of importance. I
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A. P. Patterson, scout execu
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tive of the council was presented
j and took part in the discussions.!
I The next meeting of the local
council will be held the third
I Tuesday in May.
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Fitzpatrick Is
Chief Speaker
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At Ki wan is Club i
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W. W. Fitzpatrick, manager of
Quail Roost Farms was the chief
speaker at the Roxboro Kiwanis
lelub Monday night. Mr. Fitzpat
-1 rick was special guest of A. C.
jFair manager of Roxboro Dairy j
; Products Co. that distributes
; Quail Roost Milk,
i The speaker stressed the im-j
portance of people in rural Noi th
j Carolina turning to dairying or
! grain crops rasing since so muen
iof their tobacco and cotton acre-!
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age had been cut. His talk vvss
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| very interesting as well as in-j
j structive. During the time that
he spoke he told of his trip to the
j island of Guernsy where this
breed of cattle originated.
President E. B. Craven pre
-1 sided over the meeting that took i
place at Hotel Roxbor.
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The next meetnig of the club
will be held Monday night cf
! the hotel. i
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Son Born
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l Mr. and Mrs. Riley T. Wade, oi
! Durham and Chapel Hill, an-J
nounce the birth of a son, Riley
Thomas Wade, Jr. on Tuesday
April 16, at Watts hospital, Dur
ham.
Mr. and Mrs. Wade are former
Roxboro residents and their son
is a grandson of Dr. and Mrs.j
W. C. Williams,, of Durham and
Hillsville, Va., and of police of
ficer and Mrs. Charles S. Wade
of Roxboro, and is the great- '
grandson of Mr. and Mrs. John
Thomas Wade of Person county.
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Returns To Service i
Maynard B. Guill, of the United 1
States Navy, after spending' j
Easter holidays with his parents!]
Mr. and Mrs. L. Franklin Guill, I
of Woodsdale, left Sunday mom- 1
ing for New York to meet his ;
ship, the U. S. S. Mac Leish. i
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To Have Picnic 1
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Mmbers of the Olive Hill Pa- j
rent Teacher association will ’
have a picnic Friday afternoon ‘
at six o’clock on the school 1
grounds. Officers will present 1
their reports at this time and
a full attendance is requested!. *
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New Position <
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Stephen J. Dickens, Jr., form- <
erly with the Collins and Aik- ]
man Corporation, has accepted a ■
position with Woody, Long and 1
Howard, clothiers. I]
Flying Cadets Witness Aerial Review
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Flashing overhead in wave after wave, 250 low wing monoplanes of
the Gulf Coast Air Corps Training center at Randolph held, Texas,
demonstrate the might of Uncle Sam’s expanding air force to 25,000
spectators and the 900 future pilots now in training at the “West Point
of the Air.” A cheer went up from the Flying Cadets, formed in ranks
along the field’s edge, as veteran flying instructors flashed across the
airdrome, wing tip to wing tip.
In Air Corps
George M Harris, son of Mr.
snd Mrs. W. W. Harris, his joined
the U. S. Air Corps and is now
located in Tampa, Fla. Mr. Harris!
inlisted the first of this month
and reports he is enjoying the!
service.
In Hospital
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In Community hospital is Mrs.,
Henry Clay, who is expected to
remain several days for treat ,
ments.
Site For CCC Camp Selected
By Officers From Ft. Bragg
Person Expected To Have
Camp Formerly At Yan- -
ceyville.
| Following Monday afternoon
1 conferences held here by Lt. Col.
j W. A. Metts, Jr. Lt. E. R .Feller;, 1
j engineering officer, Dr. Roy Ta
j turn and others, members of a’
1 committee from Fort Bragg, se- !
lection was made of a site for the
Civilian Conservation Corps camp
to be re-located in Person county. 1
It is expected that the camp will
be established here within two
or three months.
I Site chosen is an eight to nine
I i ere tract, property of S. G.
Winsteadi and is located in the
city limits on the Old Camp
road between the State Prison
camp and the rear of the Win
stead residence on Lamar street. -
Under terms of the lease the
CCC will have use of the property
for not more than five years and
necessary facilities for lights .
and water are to be furnished ,
by the City of Roxboro. j,
The program to be followed by
the two to three hundred cn
xollees will be devoted largely
to soil consrvation and an in
terested member of the party 1
making inspections Monday after -
noon was Joe Ellis, Person dis
trict work unit leader for the ,
Soil Conservation division. It i;
expected that at least 15 instruc
tors and members of their fami- ,
lies will reside in Roxboro. 1
Os the four or five sites under
consideration the Winstead prop- ;
erty, in opinion of the committee j
offered more conveniences of lo- ,
cation. In addition to Lt. Col. 1
Metts, who is district executive '
officer of the CCC, others in the I
party making choice of the site <
were E. B. Garrett, of Raleigh, 1
State Director and Co-ordinator, !
Mr. Dyer, of Spartanburg, S. C., .
Front Asheville
Returning today from Ashe-!
I ville, whole they attended the in-!
! stallation xerciscs for Grand'
! Master Dr. Charles P. Eldridge.j
;o f Raleigh, are City Manager;
Percy Bloxam, W. H. Harris, Sr..!
land District Deputy Grand Mas-!
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ter. C. A. Harris,. members of;
Person Lodge 113. Mr. Harris was!
' named to his position for the
j 20th district while in Asheville.
j assistant administrator of CCC,
A. A. Cone, of Raleigh, area eoun-
I sel, James M. Parks, Reids ville,
I district co-ordinator, W. G. Mc-
Manus, camp superintendent,
and Mr. Abbitt, consulting clerk
quarter masters general office
Fort Bragg.
Problem of re-location of the
; camp now at Yanceyville, Cas
well county, has been considered
■ by Roxboro and Person residents,
among them Wallace W. Woods,
of the Chamber of Commerce, to
whom much credit is due, forj
j several months, and although it
was confidently expected that j
the camp would/ be moved to
Person, selection of the site, sub-j
ject to approval of the War De-I
partment, Washington, was the ,
first conclusive step taken in that
direction.
Several weeks ago Lon Foiger,
Congressman from this district,
gave to Mr. Woods, to City Man
ager Percy Bloxam and others,
assurances that the camp would
come to Person. Immediately j;
thereafter, upon publication of;
the news story to that affect, re-1 -
newed efforts to keep the camp
in Caswell were made by resi
dents of that county. Other coun
ties in the district also are said
to have put in strong bids for the
camp.
As has been indicated in pro- ,
vious news stories concerning the
camp, its location in Person is
expected to be of immediate and
lasting economic benefit to the
area, first because of necessary
supplies that will have to be pur
chased from day to day during ,
the three or more years the camp ;
will be located here, and) second ;
because of the intensified soil ;
conservation program expected <
to be carried out, which should ;
be of lasting benefit to fanners
and landowners in the area. ! <
THURSDAY APRIL 17, 1941
Unusual Case Slated To Be
Tried In Superior Court
C.P.&L.CO.TO
SPEND ANOTHER
$3,000,000
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Addition To Be Made To
Cape Fear Generating Plant
For National Defense.
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Raleigh, April 16 Another;
$3,000,000 addition to the Carolina'
Power and Light Company'.;!
Cape Fear steam electric ge;i£r-l
! ating plant was authorized hero \
today by the board of director.;!
in a specially calledi meeting toi
map plans for further coopera-j
tion in the national defense pro-j
gram, L. V. Sutton, president!
and general manager, announce !'
lonight. j
The board, which approved 1
plans for a $3,000,000 addition toj
; the Cape Fear plant, located 27
miles southwest of Raleigh in
Chatham eouny, last January,!
went fully into the company’s 1
plans for cooperation with thej
defense program and also take,
care of anticipated increased de j
mands for electric service in the
territory served in North and
! South Carolina before approving
| the construction program, Mi-. 1
! Sutton said. Each of the new unit;
| will be of 40.000 horsepower caoa
j city.
j In—addition to the jievv piant
i addition ( the board also approved
! plans for construction of five
110,000 volt transmission lines.
In North Carolina new lines will 1
be built from Selma to Golds
boro, from Goldsboro to Wilson, 1
andi from Cap# Fear to Emin,'
while in South Carolina addi-!
tional lines will be built from
Florence to Greeleyville and from
Hartsville to Chesterfield. These
lines go into service this fall.
In preparing for what was
termed an "all-out” program fovj
defense, the board also approved
plans for new substations, im-j
provements to present substu -
tions, high speed relays, increas
ed capacities of existing substa- 1
tions, and other improvements, j
“Our company desires to co
operate to the fullest extent with
the national diefense program, 1
andl we have been—and are--!
supplying many essential defense j
- industries and Army bases with 1
| the electric power they need,” i
. said Sutton.
The budget approved today
I increases the budget approved tlic-j
| first of the year and calls for a
total expenditure of more than
'58,500,000 during this and) next
year.
Both of the new units at Cape.
Fear are scheduled to be ready
for service next year, one in Ap
ril, the other in August. Each of
the new units will be of 40,000 j
horsepower capacity, and when!
•both are placed in service the j
installed capacity of the plant
will be increased to 124,000 horse
power. They were purchased
from Westinghouse Electric and
Manufacturing Company. Each
is designed for 850 pounds steam
pressure and 900 degrees Fahren
heit steam temperature. The gen -
erators will be hydrogen cooled,
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Easter Monday Fire
Fire Chief Henry E. O’Briant
reported the destruction of an
occupied five room residence on
Foushee street, property of Mrs.
Scott Hovatter, of Bushy Fork,
Easter Monday. The fire broke
out shortly after noon and
flames gained considerable head
way before the department was
summoned.
THE TIMES IS PERSON’S
PREMIER NEWSPAPER
A LEADER AT ALL TIMES.
NUMBER TWENTY FOUR
Man Who Is Alleged To
Have Placed Powder In
Motor Oil Charged With
Injury To Property.
Joseph Oakley, Person your.,s
man, somewhat of a heavy
weight, several weeks ago enter
ed the Army under selective ser
vice, but was returned to his
home here by Army officials 0.1
grounds that he was overweight.
Corning home was no matter to
Oakley, except for the fact that
next week he will have to face
trial in Person Superior court on
charges of malicious injury to
property of a friend, Beaufort
Kidd, who charges that Oakley
put emery powder in the )il in
Kidd’s automobile.
The case, scheduled for trial
in January, after the incident
is said to have occurred in Nov
ember, was continued to the pre
sent term of court and is one of
several interesting cases on the
criminal docket to be heard be
fore Judge Leo Carr, of Burling
ton, with William Murdock,
Durham, as solicitor, at the
spring term, beginning April 21.
Oakley and Kidd, at that time
employees of a local mill, are
said to have had/ a dispute re
sulting in ill feeling, althougn
Oakley at the first hearing denied
that he put any abrasives in
Kidid’s motor. Kidd, for his part
charged) that repairmen seeking
to discover cause of his motor
trouble told him that the eil in
the machine contained the pow
der or some other damaging sub
stances. In any case, Oakley is
no longer a soldier and will soon
have to be concerned with alleg
ed misdeeds performed during
his previous period of civil life.
Also on the criminal docket
are two manslaughter cases grow
ing out of dleaths resulting from
I automobile accidents, a case in.
: which assault with intent to
commit rape is alleged, and an -
other in which charges are break
-1 ing, entering and assult brought
I after a fight said to have oceur
-1 red in a hotel room,
i Also scheduled/ are eighteen
civil actions, most interesting of
j which are two units instituted by
F. C. and) lasiah Hall against the
City of Roxboro with regard to
damages alleged to have been
done to Hall properties during a
program of street and road le
pairs undertaken by the city.
Defendants in one of the two
automobile accident manslaugh
ter cases is Clarence Oakley,
alleged to have been driving u
ear which on th night of March
10, struck and fatally injured
Jim Henry Walters, Negro resi
dent of Roxboro, while defendant
in the second case is Dan Loftis,
whose machine is alleged) to
have killed Willie Royester, Se
mora Negro, when it struck a
wagon in which Royester was
riding. Both Clarence Oakley and
Loftis were released under bonds
after trial in recorders court.
Still in prison, unable to raise
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“First, the Fields”
To Be Released
Saturday, April 19, will be a
red letter day for Charles Wood;
Roxboro young man, whose novel,
“First, the Fields,” is being re
leased on that date. Copies of
this, the first novel written by
a Person County resident, have
been received from' th publish
ers, the University of North Car
olina Press, Chapel Hill, and will
be on sale here Saturday morn
ing. Many reviews of the book
will be published Sunday.