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IF IT IS NEWS ABOUT PERSON COUNTY, YOU’LL FIND IT IN THE TIMES. VOLUME M PUBLISHED EVERT SUNDAY & THURSDAY — A ' ■ < ... 1 Ki f ’ ■pp 'lifc §1 ' |m.> MUm* « jffj/" aB •• 4r*£ r.-jg.-, ,Jnm a» Pir 1 41* J - 1 raZ * L i \ ~ | 4 Shortly after being taken to Duke Hospital, Mrs. Louise Epps was photographed by a Durham Morning Herald staff mem ber. The photographer caught the picture of her husband, ' Lit Birth of Quadruplets Near Woodsdale Creates Local Excitement For Time \ THREE ARE DEAD Mrs. Epps, Mother, in Good Condition. Surviv ing One Only Fair. All Taken To Duke Hospital. Now in Duke hospital, Dur ham, where they are receiving care in incubators, are three out of four daughters prematurely born Tuesday afternoon to Mr. and Mrs. Zan Epps, Jr. Indians, of the Wcodsdale community. The quadruple births occurred at the Epps home, but one of the in fants di'/l yesterday \afternocn. in an ambulance which was car rying the mother and four to the hospital. .Radio reports today said that two more of the quadru plets are dead. Death of one of thp quadruplets has in a measure lessened inter est in the surviving three, but for a time yesterday afternoon the City of Roxboro buzzed with ex citement, excitement shared by United Press correspondents from Durham. The mother, Mrs. Loyise Epps, is twenty-seven years old, while the surviving three infants are reported to be in fair condi tion. In the early aftercnon pre paration to receive them was made at Duke hospital and ne- Iween three and four o’clock a Roxboro ambulance began its life and death race to Durham. First report of the birth of the quadruplets was received here about noon yesterday, when the i ttnding physician, Dr. J. H. Mer ritt, of Woodsdale, called in Miss Evelyn Fletcher and two other Person County Health Depart ment nurses serving with a ma ternity clinic operated by the Health department. Weight of the seven months, prematurely born infants aver ages two pounds each. They were, according to Dr. Merritt, borr. between five and six o’clock in the afternoon in a two-room log cabin and about no on! ysterday Dr. Merritt, wh j> went back to the cabin that A. M. reported the births to the (Continued On Back Page! I LI ffsr' I il "% I|| I I JIII I.- II II | J [ ffr V 4 ▼ ▼ ▼“ ▼ Mother and Father of Person Quadruplets ROBBERS BEING DETAINED HERE j Arrest Os Two Negroes May Clear Up Many Cases. Found Sunday Trying To Enter Store O n Main Street. Arrest on Sunday morning about 2 o’clock of two teen-aged! Roxboro Negroes, charged with attempted breaking and entering, may clear up three or more re cent robberies, according to Chief of Police S. A. Oliver, who today said investigations of their crim inal activities is being continued The men, Theodore and Na thanel Johnson, apprehended by Officers Wade and Watson, were, at the time attempting to brenk in at the back door of Leggett’s department store, Main street. The officers, attracted by noise' of the break-in, cornered the men in the doerway, where a crowbar,! taken during the night from a 1 Negro’s blacksmith shop, a bit i and a number of other burglar’s j tools were found. Officers then took the men to I jail. Bonds have net yet been! arranged and it is expected they j will remain in custody, pending finger-print reports, since search warrant inspection of their horn’, near the CCC camp, revealed pairs of shoes and other articles identified by the owner of Young’s Department store as hav ing been taken from that estab lishment in a break-in which oc curred there several weeks ago: It is also thought that the men may have been connected with three or more hitherto unsolved filling station robberies. o MISS KEMP SUCCEEDS MRS. E. M. FURTEAR .Miss Kay Kemp, of Zebulon, 1941 graduate in secretarial science qt Woman’s college of the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, will on Monday come to Roxboro to be secretary to R. B. Griffin, Person Superin tendent of Schools. Miss Kemp ! will succeed Mrs. F. M. Puryear, resigned, and will work with her several weeks before Mrs. Pur year leaves on July 16, for Ken bridge, Va. Third Annual Hospitality Edition, 1941 tle Zan” Epps, at the cabin home Wednesday afternoon. Zan, Jr., 31, said this was the first time anyone had photographed him. He is a farmer, living on his father’s land. —Photo, courtesy of the Durham Morning Herald | Mayor Winstead - Extends Good Wishes To All “A cordial welcome,” in thei name of the City of Roxboro and, Person County, was today extended by Mayor S. G. I Winstead to all people who will next week be visitors here dur ing the third annual celebration of “Hohpitality Week.” I 1 “I am”, said Mayor Winstead,! ‘‘particularly glad to extend to all cur friends from near and far a hearty and sincere welcome to Roxboro and Person County, and !itis my hope that all of them | will join us in a revival cf i friendship stimulated by our com mon appreciation fer the tradi tions of loyalty we have here. “1 am sure that all citizens , and officials of town and county j join me in expectation that the j 1941 “Hospitality Week” will in every sense live up to its name las an expression of goodwill.” MRS. BEN GLENN OF MT. HARMONY ! PASSES AT HOME Rites Held Yesteday At Church For Woman Who Had Been 111 Ten Days. Mrs. Ben S. Glenn, 49, of the Mt. Harmony Baptist churcn community, Person county, die# Tuesday morning at 2:30 o’clock at her an illness last ing ten day. Death was attribut ed to complications. ,■ Services were held yester day afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at Mt. Harmony Baptist church by the pastor, the Rev. L. J. Raney, who was assiste*d by the Rev. D. A. Petty. Interment was in the Moore family cemetery. Mrs. Glenn, who was-the for mer Miss Annie Moore, is sur vived by her husband and by one daughter, Mrs. Mildred Day, of the home; by two brothers, E. R. Moore, of Fuquay Springs and J. L. Moore, of Timberlake, and by two sisters, Mrs. Lillian Jones, of Portsmouth, Va., and Mrs. Jeanette Jones, of Timberlake. . . - i Wmmm- jHK ! Shown above is Glenn Stovall, Roxboro business man, who is president of the Chamber of Commerce, sponsors of the Third annual “Hospitality Week” which 1 next week opens here. Mr Stovall joins all members \ of the Chamber of Commerce in 1 extending an official welcome to visitors expected to attend the ; week-long event. J 1 Rev. Mr. Clark To Be Ordained i Sunday Afternoon On Sunday afternoon, June’ 22, the Rev. Kenneth Clark will I be ordained to the Baptist minis- ; try, at Olive Branch Church of i which he is a member. The ser- ! vice will begin at 2:30 and the public is cordially invited. Es- 1 pecially are all pastors and dea- . cons of neighboring churches urged to be present. There will be no service on Sunday morning, but the Rev. Mr. Clark will preach the regu lar service on Saturday afternoon. Mr. Clark has been preaching for some time, although his official ir.rdination to the ministry will not take plac until Sunday. o WINSTON VISITORS Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Johnston of Winston-Salem will spend the week-end with the I. T. Standfields. Municipal Tax Rate For 1941 Lowered By Roxboro Board DRUGGIST DIES ! : , W. R. Hambrick, prominent Roxboro resident died Sunday morning after a heart attack i suffered in a Hickory hospital. Added Feature Os Hospitality Week Announced Added feature of the third annual “Hospitality Week, - visrhich- will hegin. Sunday, will be a vesper service to be held Thursday evening at 7:15 o’clock on the Per son County Court House lawn, under sponsorship of Roxboro Chapter 207 , of the Eastern Star, at whicn the speaker will be the Rev. H. B. Anderson, of Grace Baptist church, Durham. W. Wallace Woods, direc tor of the “Hospitality Week” program (full details of • which are outlined else - where in this issue of the Times) says that final ar rangements for the week are practically complete. Street decorations were put in place the first of this week and merchants are busy ar ranging window displays. Mr. Woods requests that special attention be paid to new regulations pertaining j to the Rotary club picnic and that all participants in I parades be at meeting places i on time. J J. BEAL WILL IBE IN COUNTY ALL THIS WEEK i State School Commission Man To Come In Interest Os School Bus Routes. J. J. Beal, of Raleigh, of the State School commission is ex pected to be in Person county on Tuesday, June 24, and will hremain here for "one week for the purpose of checking school bus routes and service condition?, according to announcement made this morning by Person Super intendent of Schools, R. B. Gnf -1 fin. In making the announcement Mir. Griffin requested that all school patrons interested in bus route changes communicate with him at his office during the time pf Mr. Beal’s visit It is the custom of school officials to establish Bus routes and check equipment some time in advance cf the opening of the schools. Mr. Griffin said, however, that he did not at this time antici ' I pate many changes. THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1941. NUMBER THIRTY-THREE W, R. HAMBRICK RITES CONDUCTED AT CITY OIURCH Well Loved And Leading Citizen Dies. Crowds At tends Services For Vet eran Druggist. Final rites for William Riley Hambrick, 82, veteran druggist arid Roxboro civic leader, whose: death occij’.red Sunday, were conducted Monday morning at 11 .o’clock at Edgar Long Memorial Methodist church, with interment following in Burchwood ceme tery. Active in church affairs for many years, Mr. Hambrick was also on various civic boards, was at one time a Mason and a mem ber of Roxboro Rotary club and was a member of the board of directors of the Peoples bank. Numbers of leading citizens served as honorary pallbearers, while active pallbearers inc’ud ed Lt. Gov. R. L. Harris, W. R. Woody, George W. Kane, May nard C. Claytcn, Robert P. Bums and Glenn Titus. | . Mr, Hambrick died Sunday A. M. at 2:30 o’clock in a hospital at Hickory to which he was on Monday, June 9, taken after hi had a few days previously suf fered a heart attack at his South Main street heme, Roxboro. Taken to Hickory to be underj (he care of his son, Dr. Robert T. Hambrick, physician of that city, Mr. Hambrick, who two or three years ago retired from the drug firm of Hambrick, Austin' and Thcmas, of which he was senior partner and founder, had been in declining health for the past several months, but his con- 1 dition did not become serious un til about ten days ago. Immediate cause of death was a heart at tack. The drug business which Mr. Hambrick established here near ly 50 years ago, was for many years known as Hambrick and Austin, although E. E. Thomas is now owner, T. E. Austin, other member of the firm, died last year. Mr. Hambrick, known to local residents as “Doctor” Ham brick, remained at his residence here much of the time after his retirement, but never lost inter est in the affairs of his it y. A native of Caswell County,' Mr. Hambrick was born October | 20. 1858 at Leasburg, where he was for ten years a druggist be-1 fore he moved his business to Roxboro, about 1891, and became influential in both business and church affairs. He was a member of Edgar Long Memorial Meth odist church, Roxboro, a former superintendent of the Sunday school and for many years an active member of the board of Stewards. His wife, the former Miss Mary Hester, died 21 years ago. Sur viving children are Dr. R. T. Hambrick, of Hickery, J. J. Hambrick, of Roxboro and one daughter, Mrs. J. E. Bass, of Lewisburg, W. Va. Also surviving is a sister, Mrs. Stan field, of Leasburg, five grand children and one great grand child. Officiating ministers at the final rites were the Rev. W. C. Martin, pastor cf Mr. Hambrick’s , church, who was assisted by the Rev. F. B. Peele and the Rev. |J. B. Currin, both of this city. THE TIMES 1S PERSONS PREMIER NEWSPAPER A LEADER AT ALL TIMES. Saving Made Possible By Gcod Management. Bud get On File, Subject Te Approval. Lowering of the 1941 tax rate of the City cf Roxboro by five cents, from $1.35 to $1.30 per hundred dollars valuation, sub ject to final adoption of a new budget tentatively approved and open for public inspection, was on Tuesday afternoon ordered by City Commissioners at a call meeting. New budget calls for $35,858, based upon taxable val uation totaling $2,758,365. I Deferred until next regular meeting, July 8, was considera tion of all appointive officers, including the City Manager, I Chief of Police and City Attor ney. Named by the Commissioners was a seven-member Zoning and Planning commission consisting of J. W. Noell, A. M. Burns, Sr., E. G. Thompson, R. B. Dawes, W. Burke Mewborne, R. C. Hall and L. T. Cozart and expected to be of great assistance in designat ing building zones and making comprehensive plans for needed street and highway improvement, j Appointment of this commission was in line with decision reach ed at first June session of city officials. Appearing before the board of City Commissioners in interest of municipal support of the ex— | panded program for the Person ] County Library, Mrs. J. H. Mer ritt, of Wocdsdale, chairman of the Library committee, request ed an appropriation from the city in the amount of S3OO an nually, but the matter was de -1 ferred, no provision having been ' made for it in the new budget. 1 Lowering of the tax rate for 1941 it was said, had been ef i fected through efficiency in man . agement, largely due to City Manager Percy Bloxam and his . staff, including Mrs. Hattie C. . Carver, secretary. o ARTHUR BRANDON RITES CONDUCTED AT BETHE HILL j Well Known Resident Dies I At Home, After Heart At- I tack. Wife and Children I Among Survivors. I Arthur E. Brandon, 61, of Beth el Hill, following a heart attack suffered at his home, died Sun day afternoon at 1:45 o’clock. He had been in ill health two weeks. Survivors include: his wife, Mrs. Bettie W. Brandon, five sons, Samuel, William and Har ry C. Brandon, all of the home, Arthur, Jr., of Ca-Vel, and Per |cy A. Brandon, of Fort Knox, Ky., three daughters, Mrs. Maury Fontaine, of Green Belt, Md., Mrs. J. H. Wehrenberg, of Caro lina Beach, and Miss Carrie Lee i Brandon, of the home; also two brothers, E. J. Brandon, of Al ton, Va„ and A. S. Brandon, of Portsmouth, Va., and three grandchildren. Funeral services for Mr. Bran don, were conducted Tuesday as : tern oon at 4 o’clock at Bethel . Hill church at Bethel Hill by the : pastor, the Rev. J. F. Funder ; burke, assisted by the Rev. Mr. . Roan. Interment was in the. . church cemetery.
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