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IP IT IS NEWS ABOUT PERSON COUNTY, YOU’LL FIND IT IN THE TIMES. VOLUME xn New Drug Firm to Be Formed in City by Byrd and Allgood Clement Byrd And “Bud . die” AHrood Plan To Op v en For Business In July. ' Byrd Not To Go To Dan ville. Announcement is being made today by Clement Byrd and Wil liam Walton (Buddy) Allgood, both of this city, that they will in July open a drug store in the Hall building, Main street and Abbitt avenue. Mr. Byrd said this morning that the store-room, now occu pied by Knight’s Insurance agen cy and the Singer Sewing mach ine shop operated by Mrs. A. M. Ixmg, will be modernized in every respect, that a modern soda fountain and eqquipmcnt will bo installed and that na tiinally advertized, stand a r d brand drugs will be carried at all times. News that Mr. Byrd and Mr. Allgood will enter business here will be received with interest throughout this city and Person county where both are well known. Mr. Allgood is the son of Mrs. J. W. Allgood and the late a.*. ci Roxboro, while ivir. byre. a. native of Raleigh, has been in Roxboro for two years aad was until recently with Roxboro Drug company, having resigned his position | there in order to form the as sociation with Mr. Allgood. Both Mr. Byrd and Mr. Ail good are registered pharma cists, who received their training in the school of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Mr. Byrd, has had long experience as a pharmacist, while Mr. Allgood will receive his degree this June. Mr. Byrd in making announce ment of the formation of the new drug company stressed the fact that regisered druggists will be on duty at all time?. Mr. Byrd is himself a member of the North Carolina Pharmaceutical association nd was formerly a State drug inspector. It is expected that the new drug firm will open for business rn-or about July 1. Plans for re novation of the building, said Mr. Byrd, include installation of new floors of tile, brought down to street level so that present steps at the front of the building will be eliminated. Glass shiw win dows will be installed and at tractive boothes will be featured. The building was a number of years ago used for a drug store, although it has since been used for other purposes. Mr. Knight and other tenants are expected to move immediately, so that re (Continued on Back Page) f * Rites Held For Mrs. W. T. Oliver i Milton Resident Funeral services for Mrs. W. T. Oliver, 63, of Milton, whose death occurred Tuesday at her home after a long illness, were conducted this morning at 11 o’clock at Copnalley Methodist church. Interment was in the church cemetery. Mrs. Oliver, the former Miss Lora V. Brandon, is survived oy her husband, three daughters. Mesdames L. D. Farabow and J. S. Yarborough, all of Milton and Mrs. W. A. Denny, of Leas burg; two sons, W. J. Oliver, of Buf falo, New York, and C. F. Oli ver, of Washington, D. C., also, one half-sister, Mrs. H. H.Kes iah, and one half-brother, W. J. Brandon, both of Greensboro, and fourteen grandchildren. flersoniMmes PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY ft THURSDAY MARTIN WILL BE MEMORIAL DAY SPEAKER FRIDAY Exercises Open To Public Will Be Held By Lester Blackwell Post At Ameri can Legion*' Hut Friday- Night, Speaker at Memorial Day ex ercises to be staged here Friday night by Lester Blackwell Post of the American iegion will be the Rev. W. C. Martin, pastor of Edgar Long Memorial Metho dist church. Exercises will begin at 7:30 o’clock at the Legion hut, Chub Lake street, and will be open to the general public,said B. B. Knight, Post Chaplain, chairman of -the Memorial Day program I gram committee. No other Memorial day service will be held in this city, al though the court house lawn will be marked with crosses ar-a graves of veterans in Burchwood cemetery will be decorated. " 0 —— PERSON AUTHOR i SIGNS CONTRACT FOR NEW NOVEL I Author of “First, the ! Fields” Will Write Second j Novel. Discusses Problems Os Present Day Writer. Contract for a second novel, to be published by Wiliam Mor row and Company, of New Yirk, was this week signed by Charles Wood, Roxboro author, whos? first novel, “First, the Fields” was last month published by the University of North Carolina press and has since then enjoy ed a critical success, with favor able* reviews by metripolitan si rid State newspapers. Mr. Wood today said that his seond volume will not be a se qual his first book, although the locale, the North Carolina tobacco country, may be the same and some of the charac ters introduced in the first vol ume may be retained. “Major problem of the writer and artist today is the selection of a theme that will express present day life,” said Mr. Wood, who pointed out that young people who graduated from col leges and universities in the de cade of the late twenties and in the early thirties experienced the full force of the post World War I “debunkers” and that people who were'then young are just now recovering from the effects of that post-war realism which caused the slogan, “Make the World Safe for Democracy ' to be regarded as a joke, none the less cruel because it was so regarded. “Today,”’ said Mr. Wood, “un dr the stimulous of World War II Americans of that genera tion and later are re-examinin ing the wrecks left by de-bunk ers and are discovering vital truths about the American way of life.” “His new book, said Mr. Wood, will be an attempt to put this feeling into words to show the endurance of* that quality which we like to think cf as the essential character of the democratic spirit, “In a time like the present, ’. Mr. Wood concluded, “people are in no mood to listen to one who is superficially critical of the national character.” jT W. OBRIANT RITES CONDUCTED Person Native Buried In Maplewood Cemetery, Dur ham. Brothers Live In Per son County. Final rites for Thomas Wood row “Woody” O’Briant, 28, Per son native, and a former resident cf Durham who died in a hospi tal in San Jose, Calif., last Thur sday were held from the Temple Baptist Church this afternoon at 5 o’clock with the Rev. John T. Wayland, pastor, officiating, as sisted by the Rev. Henry A. Sch reder, pastor of the Lutheran Church. Interment was in Map lewood Cemetery, New Annex. Pallbearers were Reubn Whit field, Bryant Whitfield, Hubert Whitfield, Raeford-Thomas, Tug gle Webster, Zack Long, Luthe.- Webster and Arthur Liny, Jr. Mr. O’Briant, formerly of Bu shy Fork, the son of George and Eula Whitfield O’Briant, was a resident of Durham for 10 years, being connected with the Ameri can Tbbacco Company. Three years ago he became a civil en gineer with the Government and was stationed at Langley' field, Va.t until last August when he was transferred to San Jose, 1 Calif. Surviving are his wife, the .former Mildred Thomas of Dar-j ham, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. i I George O’Briant, three sisters, j Mrs. Ervin Eakes and Mrs. Janies Satterwhite of Durham and Mrs. Hayes Barnes of Rocky Mount, ! three brothers, Calvin and Rob | fcrt O’BriaaU of Person County i land Albert O’Briant of Wilmine-i ton. ‘ ! LEON COUCH AND OTHERS CONSIDER APPLICANTS HERE Griffin, Hester and Hum phries Go To Gjreensboiro Before Meetings Planned For Today. In Roxboro today is Leon Couch, of Goldsboro, recently elected supervising principal of Roxboro District schools, who :s here for conferences about ee lection of three or more teacheis : 1 Roxboro high school. Mr. Couch, formerly principal' of Grantham high school, Wayne county, has tiday had conferen ces with Person Super in tedent of Schools, R. B. Griffin and witii members of the district school board and other officials, and it is expected that announcement of selections of faculty members will be made as soon as the dis trict board can meet and make investigation of recommenda tions made by Mr. Couch and Mr. Griffin. It is possible that considera tion will also be given to selec tion of a successor to H. L. Price, (Continued On Back Page) o Persons Who Wish To Take Civil Exams May Do So Persons interested in taking civil service examinations for Junior and Senior stenographers with the government service, Washington, may secure appli cation blanks at the office of R. B. Dawes, Roxboro attorney, who is chairman of the Person County Democratic Executive commit tee, according to announcement .today made by Mr. Dawes. The applications, said Mr. Dawes, must be filed with the United States civil service com mission not later than Jpne 9. COMMITTEE FOR ANNUAL EVENT MEETS FRIDAY Hospitality Group Will Meet A# 4 o’clock In Chamber -O f Commerce Office, Says Mr. Woods. i — i Named as a steering commit- j tee of fifteen Tepresentative cit- J izns to work with Wallace W.; Woods, director of the Third An- 1 rual Hospitality week, are Glian Stovall, W. Reade Jones, J. Sam Merritt, It. H. Shelton, Dolian ! D. V. Long, T. O. Carver, Jr., ! S. M. Ford, T filler White, Gor-! i don C. Hunter, Karl Burger,j Miss Velma Beam, Miss Nancy Bullock and Mesdames J. H. 1 Hughes, B. G- Clayton and' Tcm Brooks, accirding to uu-! nouncement made today. Members of this committee will this week meet with MrJ Woods to .re-examine the ten- 1 | tative program as carried over; from twi previous Hospitality weeks, to consider new sugges- ! tions for the present program and its general outline, to ap-i prove parts of the programs al-' icady planned and to appoint as-j sisting committees from various organizatiins volunteering coop oration. Dates for the 1941 Hospitali t y week, as previously announ-j ced will be from Sunday June 22 1 to June 28. Minister in the city; and county % ill on the open- j mg Sunday be expected to have services suitable to the homel Spming spirit iagondereAJjy thaj. celebration and particular e:n-! phasis will be placed on mani festation of neighborliness and goodfellowship. j Actively supporting the Third I Annual Hospitality week is thej liixboro Chamber of Commerce, j which Mr. Woods is executive 'I secretary, but full cooperation of: all citizens will be needed and! it is hoped that many of them will again be prepaired to have vt- guests their friends and rela- 1 tives, former residents, who willj come back to Person and Rox- \ boro to visit the county anal town which was and in a sensei always will be their “home.” MRS. VINCENT HAS INEW STAFF JOB i Leaves For Marshall, Mich igan, After Service Here For Two Years. Mrs. Blanche Vincent, for two years a member of the nursing staff of the Person unit of the tri-county health department, left yesterday for Marshall, Mien., where she has accepted a posi tion as public health nurse with the W. F. Kellogg foundation, Battle Creek, Mich. In announcing Mrs. Vincent’s resignation. Dr. A. *L. Allen, di rector of the Person unit, paid tribut to her work here and ex pressed regret that she is to leave, although her new position is re garded as a distinct promotion. So far as could be ascertained no successor has been chosen for the Person position. Mrs. Vincent, who holdsa cer tificate in Public Health nursing from the College of William and Mary, came to Roxboro from Chapel Hill and has had resi dence here with Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Crowell. She has during her stay here made many friends who will regret that she has de cided to leave this city. A na tive of North Carolina, she was a number of years a resident of New York City. v Her resignation was first pre sented to the .department the first of this month, alhough she did not leave until yesterday. Agency Council Has Reports On Child and Adult Welfare “Sister Slate” Leads Holy j : Church In Ancient Ritual I , Now in progress on Reservoir j hill, this city, at “The Holy Chur ch, patronized by Negroes, is a meeting which William James 1 late Harvard psychologist, might ! have had in mind as one of the | primitive manifestations of the | "varieties of religious experien ce.” Principal feature of the ser vices, at which white-robed, ! greyhaired and motherly “Sister | Slate,” of Reidsville, is the preacher, is music in whch syn copation fignts sin with a “jive” : spirit that would be appreciated ; elsewhere by the worldly. Fevei of the spirit affects even those j sinnrs who stand on the outside, looking in. “Sister Slate” started exhbrtd -1 tions Sunday night and will be j here through Friday, as high priestess of a dance ritual that is !as old as man, although thej ; j oung girl who last nignt lead ‘ the singing and shouting proba j bly did not and does not think ! cf herself as the exponent of an j ancient and beautiful art. [Negro Children Have Tonsils Out At Kiwanis Clinic I Ended yesterday afternoon vas the first of two of a series of Kiwanis Club tonsil clinics for children, at which twenty oper ations were performed by Dr. B. W. Fassess, Durham special ist, assisted by his staff. Dr. A. L. Allen, members of the Per son Health department staff and of the sponsoring civic club. Chairman of the Kiwanis Com mittee to assist with the :linie was Dr. H. M. Beam, of this city, with R. G. Cole, assistant chair man. Other committeemen v.cr R. D. Bumpass, Ed Cunningnam, and Ed Flythe. Negro citizens assisting were Beck Jines, Al Pullium and Fred Buckner. The second clinic this year will *be held on June 11. Sirst sues clinic was held in 1939, when 101 operations were per formed: second was last year, with 66. All such clinics are held a t ’ Person County Training School for Negroes. o. Semora Minister Plans Long Trip, Takes Short One The Rev. L. V. Coggins of Se mora had an unusual experien ce this week and one that tore his plans into shreds. He was planning to leave for Missoni i at four a. m., Wednesday morn ing. Vacation time was here and the Rev. Mr. Coggins was going to take a nice trip. At three a. m. he was aroused by a pain in his stomach and at four it was worse. At Six he cal led the doctor and in a little Wliile lie was in the hospital At ten that night Dr. J. D. Fitz gerald w'as the possessor of his appendix and Missouri looked a long way off to the Rev. Mr. Coggin9. Bank To Close The Peoples Bank will be closed Friday, May 30th, on ac count of Memorial Day. THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1941 THEFT REPORTED AT MAIN STREET STORE IN CITY Young Mercantile Company Has Night Break-In. Cash And Goods Taken. The manager of Young Mer rantile company, Main' "sheet store, this morning reported theft of an undetermined amount of cash and merchandise. Entrance was effected through a rear window and a safe stand ing near the cash register was broken open with a crowbar. The cash register drawer was also riffJld. Merchandise taken was mainly shoes and groceries. Mr Young, Store-owner, later I reported cash loss at SIOO and ; biut the same amount for mer chandise. The robbery, which took place at some time during the night or early morning, was disovered by Manager Massey when he op ened the store. On the floor near the safe, which had been moved tor-tire reaT -of tire-store, were a ctowbar and a pair of worn work-g]oves. Merchandise was taken out through a rear door. Johnny Oakley, of this city, two days ago reported theft of two crowbars from his tool chest and it is thought that these tools may have been used in the break-in, which is being investi gated by police. Owner of the store, Mr. Young, of Greenville, is new here. Chevrolet Co. Purchases New Wrecker The Tar Heel Chevrolet C’". has recently purchased a new Holmes Auto Wrecker and of ficials at the local garage say that this wrecker is one of the most modern that can be bought. The wrecker can stand on the road and draw a car in for a dis tance of 400 feet. A wrecked car is brought to the garage with tht Holmes wrecker without any ad ditional damagp at all. This new wrecker can also lift a car from any position that itmight be in and do this in an almost perfect manner. Proprietors of the Tar Heel Chevrolet Co. invite your in spection of this job. 0 Ten White Men Go To Camp On Friday, June 6 Ten Person. County white men, Charlie Herman Norris, Jr., Charles Steadman Hester, Har ry O'Daniel Biddix, Ervin George Morton, Lewis Reginald Dunn, Tommie Liles, Orville Wright Oakley, John Edward Perkins, Ben Taylor Broad well and Ben nie Rufus Duncan, are to report to the Person Selective Service board at 9 o’clock Friday morn ing, June 6, where they will be given instructions to report later that day to Fort Bragg, accird-j ing to announcement made today, by office manager, Baxter Man-1 gum. THE TIMES IS PERSON S PREMIER NEWSPAPER A LEADER AT ALL TIMES. NUMBER TWENTY-NINE Particular Emphasis Plac ed On Health, Religions and Social Service Needs In Person County. Com mittee Appointed. Fallowing introductory re marks on the third national Child Welfare Conference) held in the White House, Washington and on the North Carolina con ference held this year at Ral eigh on the same subject, a Per son County ftillow-up conference on the topic was held at the May luncheon session of the Per son County Council of Social Agencies at Hotel Roxboro yes terday afternoon, at which time speakers included Glenn Titus Rev. W. C. Martin, Mrs. Blancne Vincent and Mrs. T. C. Wagstaff. .In questionaire form, topics considered were concerned with education, religion, health and social service. Immediate result of the discussion was appoint ment of a committee to go be fore the Person County Boaid Cf commissioners with a view se curing for the county more ade quate support for needed health arid social service work. Motion as to appointment of the com mittee was made by theßev. Rufus J. Womble, of St. Marks Episcopal church and named as committee chairman by Robert Edgar Long', ouncil president, v as Thomas J. Shaw, Jr. Mr. “Titus, in discussing edu cation mentioned the good worl: being dene in the county in the field of vocational education al though he was compelled to oh serve that school attendance, a.; verified by others present, was not what it should be and that libraries in schools are not yet adequate to demands made upon them. Rev. Mr. Martin, in pre senting religious conditions, won dered if as many children as should be were being reached by church schools. He also reported small evidence of religious i:>- structnn in the public schools. Mrs. Wagstaff and Mrs. Vin cent, in their reports of social j service arid health work, found (many points of agreement as to present e x c e 1- (Continued on back page) Negro Wants And Gets Mistreatment For Good Cause Having finished his Tuesday evening meal and returned to duty, Chief of Police S. A. Oliver was standing in front of the Per son County Court house when a Negro, a county resident, ap proaehed him. The Negro look ed around carefully to see if anyone was listening: then he said, “Boss, if you catches a man with whisky what does you do with ’im? Can he go to jail? Answering in the affirmative two times, the Chief, with the Negro walked toward the court house steps. Suddenly, the Neg ro stopped on the steps, puljed cut a partly filled pint of “com” and said: “I wants to go o jail.” He was cold sober when he spoke, but Chief Oliver took him at his word and locked him up for the night. Yesterday morn isg his case was one of twenty six disposed of in Rocerder's court. “Thirty days on the roads, ’ said the Judge. Only after the case was tried did it develop that the self-made prisoner at the bar was a victim of a social disease and thought that jail liouse treatment would be cheap est
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