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■erf- ‘A-.r- , i? v■ -" ♦v*’. . L,'; IP IT IS NEWS ABOUT PERSON COUNTY, YOU’LL FIND IT IN THE TIMES. Jzfi- - v : VOLUME xn Views Os The I flews BILL OF DUTIES PROPOSED BE VICE PRESIDENT HENRY WALLACE NEW YORK, June 7.—Vice- President Henry A. Wallace has drawn up a proposed Bill of Duties which he describes as the “price of freedom and as a de fense for the bill of rights.” “As we see the march of nations in which the state is everything, --the individual nothing, we real ize that it is possible for liberty in the modern sense to disappear from the world as suddenly as it came,” he wrote in an article in the current issue of the Amer ican Magazine. “We see that the time has come when our bill of rights must be defended by a bill of duties.” o GULLEY LETTER POINTS TO BITTER ROW WITH .CHARLES H. ROBERTSON RALEIGH, June 7.—The resig nation of Herbert Gulley, Wake County henchman of Senator J'osiali W. Bailey, was accomp lished in a letter to Collector of Internal Revenue Charles Rob ertson which fairly burned the paper on which it was typed— but even more important than , the bitterness and anger of an roused soul is the implication that the letter is merely the op ening gun of a campaign desig nated to oust the present collect : err.. Tills would mean an investiga tion of the Greensboro office ov er which Robertson presides and, if half the things Gulley said in* his letter are true, would reveal one of the messiest personnel sit uations on record. - rv -_- ° FATAL STABBING OF MAX STILL UNEXPLAINED DUNN, June 7.—Police were at a loss today to explain the fatal stabbing of Blaney Lee, Jr., 25, of Dunn, who was killed late Wednesday night .after he and two other soldiers stationed at Fort Bragg had given assistance to a group of motorists alleged to have committed the crime. Lee’s companions said they were going to a dance at God win’s Lake when they saw a car full of men and women stranded on the road. The sol diers helped to get the car start ed and followed it into the yard of the old Dixon farm, near here. o NASAL SPRAY MAY PROVE XiOOKED FOR COLD VACCINE CLEVELAND, June 7.—Prog ress toward control of the com mon cold by use of vaccine in a new way has reported today at the Amerian Medical. Associa tion’s convention. The vaccine is sprayed into the nose, instead of being injected tinder the skin or administered by mouth —methods previously shown to be unsatisfactory. o PAPER PRODUCTS INDUSTRY ESTABLISHES WAGE SCALE 111 Atlanta, Ga., June 7.—The regional office of the Wage-hour administration announce*! today 'Vfhat minimum wage scales of 40, 38 and 36 cents per hour had been established in the converted aaper products industry. order, effective June 30. will increase wages of almost ' workers. JrrsonJMimrs PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY & THURSDAY Congressman Will This Week Be Chosen By District Vote Democratic Nominee John Folger Not Expected To Have Other Than Formal Opposition By Kurfees. On Saturday, of this week,' June 14, all duly registered Per son County voters will have pnv iege of going to their accustom ed polling places to cast ballots in the special fifth district con gressional election in which J. H. Folger, of Mt. Airy, Democrat ic nominee to succeed his late brother, Lon Folger, will have a contest with Marshall C. Kurfees, of Winston-Salem, a Republican nominee and former Democrat, who last week said that he would cot continue the contest, but, who under ruling from the North Carolina attorney-general will have to permit his name to re main on the ballots. Mr. Folger, who was here last week in interest of his own can didacy, did not at that time com ment on Kurfees’ statement of withdrawal. It will be recalled that the late Representative Lon Folger, on Apri 30 died in Mt. Airy from injuries there received in an auto mobile accident which occurred a few moments after he had left his home to come to Person coun ty as speaker at commencement finals at Bushy Fork school. His brother, J. H., or John, Folger, early in May, by a ■district executive' committee of the Democratic party, of which E. G. Thompson of this city was chairman, was named as party nominee for the vacant district seat. District affairs in Washington, in the meantime, have been car ried on by the late Representa tive’s secretary, Harvey Lupton, formerly of Leasburg. All Person voters registered in the November 1940 general elec tion and all who have since reg istered for this special election will be eligible to vote. o MYRICK CALLED Edwin A. Myrick, Second Lieu tenant, Engineers Corps Reserves, has received orders to report for active military duty on or about June 30. Mr. Myrick, a V. P. I. graduate has been in Roxboro for about a year as a dye divis ion foreman with Collins and Aikman corporation. He has resi dence at Mrs. T. E. Austin’s and came here from the Philadelphia plant of Collins and Aikman, al though his home was originally at Petersburg, Va. Along The Way With the Editor Gordon Hunter reports the following story—” Dick Woody had a big frog in the water pool at his home. He was train ing this frog for the frog jumping contest that is to take place during “Hospitality Week.” It was a big frog and a nice one. One night last week, Hunter said, Jim Allgood slipped up to tne pool and giged the frog.” Then, said Hunter, “Dr. Gentry had a turtle in a body of water near here that he was training for the turtle race. Lo and Behold, Dr. Fitzgerald went out and caught the turtle and had turtle soup for a week.” Champ Winstead tells this story— “During the last war he was on the draft board and a negro came up to report. One question that he was asked was—“what language do you speak fluently?" The negro replied, “Boss I don’t speak none much cept the English and since the war started I done lost the grammar to that.” 1 passed Burleigh Clayton’s garden the other day and took a look at it —a good look. From now on I shall have noth ing more to say about the “so called garden.” Bill Harris reports a tomato from his garden. As far as we know that is all he has received for two months work and tv/o bags of fertilzier plus a few dollars worfn of seeds. Come on Bill we are ready to fight CLARENCE WADE SAIDTO HAVE HIT HENRY LONG Person Negro In Jail, Un der SI,OOO Bond, Charged With Having Been Hit And Run Driver Who Fatally Injured Employee Os Har ry Lockhart. . Caswell county authorities yes terday reported that Clarence Wade, 22 Negro, has confessed that he is the man who on Sun day night was operator of a car which struck and fatally injur ed Henry Long, Mebane and Se mora Negro, near Semora. Wade is in Yanceyville jail. Wade is said to be under sl,- 000 bond and has remained in jail since being apprehended Thursday. Preliminary hearing has been held and the case set for trial in higher court. The car, said to be a 1936 Che - vrolet sedan is property of an other Negro named Cotten, who it is said claimed that Wade borrowed the car for a ride. Solution of the case was brought about by the jig-saw puzzle method, pieces of broken glass collected from the highway near scene of the accident fit ting perfectly into a broken small front_window, edged,with, black paint. The pattern was fitted without knowledge of the accus ed Negro, although he afterwards confessed that he hit Long. First information on Wade came when it was reported that he went to a filling station near Semora to try to obtain glass for a broken head-light. Wade said that he had intend ed to report the accident at that time but was afraid, and that he drove back by the place where Long had been hit. He claims he did not move Long from the place where he was found. o HIGH FIGURES Among the runners-up in the 4-H club health contest held last week were Thomas Horton and Miss LouiSfe Davis, of Person County, who were in high figures although they were not the win ners. o MR. HAMBRICK ILL W. R. Hambrick, prominent Roxboro resident, has been ill at his home since Friday night but is reported to be improved. ’ IN CEREMONY \ fgw tiff The Rev. Rufus J. Wom’ole, (at top) will on Wednesday be ordained to the Priesthood in the Episcopal church, in an impres sive ceremony to be held at St. Mark’s church, of “Which he has for nearly a year been Deacon in-Chai'ge, while Shields Clark, shown at bottom, 10 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Clark, Jr., of this city, will be Crucifer. Miss Bloxam Will Begin Department Work Next Week , In Hendersonville for a visit of a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Bloxam are Mrs. Percy Bloxam and Miss Barbara Blox am, of this city, mother and sis ter of Mr. Bloxam. Miss Bloxam and her mother will return to Roxboro about the middle of the week and Miss Bloxam will next week become a case-worker for the Person County Department of Public welfare, a position which she ac cepted last week. During the school year just closed Miss Blox am has been taking graduate work in social science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Staying with City Manager Bloxam during the week-end is his daughter-in-law, Mrs. lan Bloxam, of Raleigh. o Delegates Are To Return From Beach Convention Today Expected to return on Sunday from Wrightsville Beach, where they have attended the State Convention of the Federation of the Business and professional Woman’s club are Misses Velma Beam, Louis Croom, Frances Weston, Nancy Bullock, Ruth Jefferson and Mrs. Beth Brewer PTid'gen, delegates of the Rox boro club. Meeting of the Roxboro club was held Thursday at the B. W. Gardner residence, where sup per was served. Program was in charge of Miss Helen Latta, who conducted a quiz program. Prizes given for correct answers were pennies and winner of Jackpot was Grace Tillman. Next meeting will be held on June 19. t Lt. Thomas Succeeds King at CCC Camp; McManus Stays Rituals Os Church Will Be Used In Ordination Rites Rev. Rufus J. Womble, Os St. Mark’s Episcopal Church Will On Wednesday Be Elevated To Priesthood In Impressive Service Here. Shields Clark Is Crucifer. To be attended by 30 or more clergymen of three dioceses of the Protestant Episcopal church, with the Right Rev. Edwin A. Penick, of Raleigh, Bishop of the diccese of North Carolina, as conductor of the service, ordi nation to the priesthood of the Rev. Rufus J. Womble, deacon in charge of St. Mark’s Episcopal church, this city, will Me held here on St. Barnabas’ day, Wed nesday, June 11, at the church >n traditional rites which will be gin at 10:30 o’clock in the morn ing. Crucifer and leader of the dis tinguished ecclesiastical proces sion .will IJe youthful Shields Cark, son ot Mr. and Mrs. Law rence Clark, Jr., of this city, and grandson of Mrs. J. S. Harvey, of South Main street. Among the clergymen who will assist with the rites will be the Rev~Jolin S. Armfieid, rector of St. Paul’s church, Greenville, who will read the litany, and the Rev. Robert Man, of the Church of the Messiah, Rockingham, who will read the epistle. Presenta tion of the Rev. Mr. Womble for ordination will be by the Rev. James McDowell Dick, rector of the young minister’s nome church, the Church of the Good Shepherd, Raleigh, while the sei mon will be delivered by Pro fessor A. T. Mollegen, of Virginia Theological Seminary, Alexand dria, Va., from which the Rev. (Continued On Back Page) o AT WOMAN’S COLLEGE Among those receiving diplo mas at commencement exercises held last week at Woman’s Col lege of the University of North Nellie Gravely, daughter of Mrs. Carolina, Greensboro, was Miss Marion King Gravely, and sister of Mrs. Sam Whitten, Jr., of this city. o NEXT TO GO Person Selective Service Board ofice manager, B. B. Mangum, re ported. Saturday that 10 white men will be expected to report for service on June 25, while five Negroes will report on June 30. Guests for Hospitality Week Printed below are additional guests expected to be in Roxboro during the third annual Hospitality Week, June 22-28. Miss Doris Baynes Burlington Miss Margaret Fonville Burlington With Mr. and Mrs. James C Brooks Mr. and Mrs. Russell Murray Raleigh With Mr. and Mrs Lawrence Woods Miss Nancy McCracken Winston-Salem! With Miss June Woods Miss Helen Smith South Boston, Va. Miss Frances Wilborn South Boston, Va. Miss Nancye McCracken Winston-Salem Miss Martha Boatwright Reidsville With Miss Ann Marie Umstead Mr. and Mrs. William Dixon Louisburg With Mr and Mrs. Larry Rynd I. C. Pait Bladenboro Miss Jahe Mathis Ashburn, Ga. With’Rev. and Mrs. W. F. West Names of guests expected should be turned in to the Roxboro Chamber of Commerc office or to Mrs. W. Wallace Woods. SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 1941 NUMBER THIRTY ONE FIFTH DISTRICT HIGHWAY MEETING OPENS TUESDAY Presiding Will Be District Commissioner George W. Kane, Os This City. Citi zens From Various Areas Expected To Attend. District meeting of itshe fifth; district State Highway and Pub lic Works commission, with George W. Kane, of this city, re cently appointed Fifth District commissioner, presiding will be held in Roxboro on Tuesday morning, June 10, at 10 o’clock at Person County Court house. Expected to appear at that time will be various delegations from this city, from Person Coun ty, from Yanceyville, Greensboro, Durham and other city and county areas in the district who are interested in street and high way programs pertaining to their respective communities. Among those present -will be Tim Burton, of Yanceyville, dis trict engineer, together with the secretary and other district offi cials. The meeting in R/oxboro will be one of a series of month ly district meetings held in ro tation in various counties in the district, and it is known that there are a number of petitions to be presented by Person resi dents, particularly from Allens ville and Cunningham townships. Fifth district office is however still maintained in Grdensboro, and in accordance with a state ment issued some time ago by Mr. Kane the office will remain in that city as it did during the administration of former Com missioner Sam Bason, of Yan ceyville. o HEADS PERSON GRANGE John R. Jones, of the Farm ers Mutual Exchnage, this city, was on Friday night named Mas ter of the Pomona Grange, as new grange organization in this county will be called. Unable to be present was Harry B. Card well, of Greensboro, but speaker was Herman Frick, of Salisbury. Also elected were a number of other officers. Three township communities in Person biavo a Grange organization. THE TIMES IS PERSON’S PREMIER NEWSPAPER, A LEADER AT ALL TIMES. Lt. King, Before He Leaves City, Reports That Cfamp Moving Is Completed A head Os Schedule And That Morale Is Excellent. Now.' Commander at Civilian Conservation Corps, Camp 429, located on the S. G. Winstead property, this city, is Lt. Richard E. Thomas, of Rock Hill, S. C., who entered upon his duties yes terday, succeeding Lt. Charles L. King, of Lancaster, S. C., v»ho has been transferred to Blaney, S. C., where he will be assistant Commandant of Baker and Cook s School, of the Fourth Corps Area, CCC, and will act as instruct! r of other officers training for CCC. Still superintendent at the Rox boro CCC camp is W. B. McMa nus, who was with the camp when it was at Yanceyville. Also with the staff is Clerk W. T. Weeks, of Augusta, Ga., of the using Service (department, to gether with a number of other eamp administrators, some sev en or eight of whom have estab lished or will establish residence here. Lt. King in a Friday interview, before his departure on Saturday reported that Camp 429 now has registered as enrollees 185 Negro, boys, that work of moying the camp from Yanceyville is virtu ally completed and that the work program of soil conservation un der direction of Superintendent McManus, with cooperation of Mr. Weeks. Joe Ellis, unit work lead er of soil conservation, and oth ers is rapidly shaping up. Commenting on the helpful as sistance given by local citizens,, both white and Negro, in getting the boys of the camp adapted to the new environment, Lt. King expressed special appreciation for the assistance of Person Negro Farm Agent C. J. Ford. With Ford’s help, he said, recreation - (Continued on back page) o Time for Renewal Os Chauffeur’s Licenses At Hand J. R. Pendergrast, State Driv ers License Examiner stated m this territory, has announced that he is now accepting appli cations for renewal of 1940-41 chauffeur’s licenses. Chauffeur’s licenses, which are renewable annually, expire June 30. Such licenses are required of all persons employed for the principal purpose of driving pas senger-carrying motor vtehicles, and of every person who drives a motor vehicle as a public or common carrier of the property of others. The minimum age for chauf feurs driving property-carrying vehicles is 18 years, and that for drivers of passenger-carrying vehicles is 21 years. o TO SPONSOR PICNIC In regular session Thursday night, members of Roxboro Ro tary club approved club sponsor ship of the Hospitality Week pic - nic, and President Gordon C. Hunter announced appointmet of a number of committees to assist with planning of the program. Program chairman for the Thursday meeting was Dr. J. D. Fitzgerald, who called on a num ber of members for brief talks on professions in which they are engaged. Father and son night will be observed at the meeting this week at Hotel Roxboro.
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