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Person county, you’ll
find it in the times.
VOLUME XU PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY ft THURSDAY THURSDAY JULY 17, 1941. NUMBER THIRTY-SEVEN
Board Os Education Takes
Community House for Offices
? _ -Superintendent Griffiu
Pleased At Prospect. Cotin.
*» ty Library To Remain In
Building.
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New tenant of part of the
Chub Lake street building known
as Roxboro Community house,
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now under lease to' Person coun-
I ty, will be the Person County
Board of Education, it was today
p learned from Person Superinten-
T dent of Schools R. B. Griffin,
who said that the Board’s offices
will be moved next week to that
R structure from the present quar-
Swers in the County Court house.
§£>;' “In the Community house,”
SKXaid Mr. Griffin, “space will be
Ipjsfovided for separate offices for
tt. .the Superintendent and for Miss
Spfxmise Darden, secretary to the
S[3Board.” Also to be provided are
*,» bookroom and a room for slc-
Mpshge of small supplies, while part
'Jjwßf the basement will be another
jV'Storage room for bulky supplies.
The small storage room will
v. be converted from the present!
pantry, while the bookrcom will
occupy space now devoted to the
kitchen. The present library,
formerly operated by Roxboro
sfWoman’s club, and now under
Acounty jurisdiction as the Person
vjgCounty Library, will remain in
present location, having a
? large room across one end of the
ipilding.
of the Board of Edu
ation from its present cramped
quarters in the Court House is,
in the opinion of Mr. Griffin, a
beneficial move and is undertaken
with his whole-hearted approval.
In the Court House the Board had
the use of one large corner room
' and of a basement room under
neath, while the bookroom was
- housed in an across the street
structure. 1
“It will be a distinct advantage 1
to have all facilities of the Board ;
cf Education under one roof’,
said the Superintendent.
It will be recalled that Per.
son County Commissioners, sev
eral months ago, in an effort to
relieve crowded conditions in
the Court House building, leased
the Community building from its
directors and that suggestion
was made that the reconverted •
structure could be used for head- '
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quarters for the Farm Agency
division.
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There is some possibility that (
this Agency will expand its pre- ,
sent quarters into part of the (
• space now occupied by the ,
Board of Education. It has also (
been suggested that the Surplus (
commodities group now in the ,
Court House may be moved to ;
the Community house, although t
nothing autholjtative coutld be
learned today. ,
Frank* T. Whitfield, of Bushy
Fork, chairman of the County
Board of Coqnmissioners, did I
say, however that as far as he
knows Boy Scout headquarters 1
for Dr. Robert Long’s troop and
for the Cub Scouts will remain
as they now are, in their part *
c,f the Community House base
ment.
Only drawback to use of the *
Community House for county ad
ministrative purposes is thought L
to be the lack of a central heat
ing plant, but Mr. Griffin expects f
to overcome this difficulty by f
installation of oil-burning stoves. ’
What some others have con- 1
sidered a drawback, distance I
from the downtown district, is
not so regarded by Mr. Griffin, \
who has pointed out that there I
will be much more parking room c
in the new: location.
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Person County Times
A-B DRUG FIRM
OPENS DOORS
FOR BUSINESS
New Store Operated By
, Allgood And Byrd Modem
In Every Respect On Main
Street Comer.
The A-B Drug Company, the
, newest and one of the most mod
ern drug stores in Roxboro is
today open for business at the
Hotel Roxboro corner, Main
street and Abbitt avenue.
Owners and operators of the
establishment are two registered
pharmacists, Clement Byrd and
W. W. (Buddy) Allgood, both
well-known Roxboro residents.
Mr. Allgocd, son of Mrs. J. W.
Allgood, of this city, is a 1941
graduate of the school of phar
macy, the University of North
Carolina, .Chapel Hill, and re
cently passed the State Board ex
aminations, while Mr. Byrd was
formerly pharmacist with Rox
boro Drug company.
With a high ceiling, and large
windows looking out on Abbitt
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NOELL CHAIRMAN
OF ZONING AND
PLANNING BODY
Organization Meeting Held
Tuesday. E. G. Thompson
And A. M. Barns, Sr.,
Other Officers.
With J. W. Noell as chairman,
E. G. Thompson as secretary and
A. M. Burns, Sr., as vice chair
man, initial session of the re
cently created Roxboro planning
and zoning commission was
held at the City Hall Tuesday
afternoon.
Present as an ex officio mem
ber was City Manager Persy
Bloxam, who discusspd certain
problems which the Commission
may be called upon to consider.
Also present were R. B. Dawes,
W. Burke Mewborne, L. T. Co
zart and R. C. Hall, other mem
bers of the commission, together
with Mayor S. G. Winstead.
It was agreed that meetings
will in the future be held on the
first Tuesday afternoon of each
month at 3 o’clock. It was point
ed out that by this schedule
monthly meetings will be held
cne week in advance of regular
City council meetings and that
the planning and zoning com
mission will thus be able to
make recommendations at each
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session of the City council.
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Mr. Dickinson’s
Father Passes
At Beaufort
Friends of G. P. Dickinson, of
the Dickinson Motjpr Company
Roxboro, were today informed of
of the death of his father at|
Beaufort, N. C. whene funeral
services were held this afternoon
at 3 o’clock. 1 The elder Mr. Dirk
inson had been seriously ill
since the first of the week and
his son left Roxboro Monday for
Beafort.
In Beaufort for the funeral
was O. D. Whitley, one of the
Roxboro man’s business asso
ciates.
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PERSON FOLKS
, TO SEE SCENES
OF BIG WEEK
1941 Hospitality Week Mo
tion Pictures To Be Shown
At Palace Next Thursday
and Friday, July 24 and 25.
Motion pictures of various ev
ents connected with the 1941
"Hospitality Week”, including
out-of-doors scenes in techniccl
oi, as made by Stuart M. Ford.
Wharton Winstead and the Rev.
T. Marvin Vick, Jr., will be
e shown at regular afternoon and
evening performances at the Pal
s rce theatre, Thursday and Friday,
g July 24 and 25, according to ar.-
1 nouncement made this morning
by W. Wallace Woods, “Hospital
, ity” director for 1941.
j The films, Mr. Woods said, arc
j property of the “Hospitality Com
t mittee” and a percentage of gate!
receipts will be turned over to’
the “Hospitality Week” fund.
L Scenes included will be those j
of the Rotary picnic, the Kiwanis
, dance, with the crowning of
Queen Mary Sievers Woody, the
three parades, the athletic events,
, the bridge tournament and other
events and it is hoped that local
people will be interested in “see
, ing themselves and their friends ,
> and neighbors on parade”.
AT MAXWELL FIELD
William Spencer, son of Mr.
and Mrs. R. M. Spencer, is now
at Maxwell Field, Ala., in the
Air Corps Service.
IN CANADA —.
Mr. and Mrs. V. C. Thomas, Sr.,
are visiting Mrs. Thomas’ sister,
Mrs. Eliza Terrill, at Tilson, On
tario, Canada.
Flem D. Long Will Preside Al
Lower Country Line Session
MODERATOR
Primitive Baptists To Have
Annual Gathering At Surl
Church, Saturday, Sunday
and Monday.
With Person’s Senator Flem
D. Long serving his twelfth con
secutive year as moderator, the
Lower Country Line Primitive
Baptist association will on Sat
urday, July 19, begin its annua!
three day session, which will this
year be held at Surl church, Per- ]
son county, about eight miles ,
from Roxboro on the Oxford road. .
The meeting will open Satur- .
day morning at 11 o’clock with ,
a sermon by Elder A. L. Hollo- ,
way, of Durham, who will be ,
introduced by Sen. Long. Follow.
FLEM D. LONG ing a luncheon served at the noon ,
hour on the church grounds, the ;
WVITAV Iff A Al> r afternoon session will be devoted ,
Kill lX MUUKC 10 business > including election of ,
officers: ■.
RITES CONDUCTED J J whitiey> ° f Durham - is i
tit mi un clerk and is ex P ected that he <
BY ELDER ADAMS an ? Sen Long wm be re eiected <
Attending the gathering, repre- ;
_ . , |sentative of the membership of
Bushy Fork 18 churches> principally in Pfcr .
Resident Jesses Monday son> Durham and GranviUe coun .
At Home. IU Two Weeks. ties> wln be 35 Qr more ministcrs (
or elders, as they are called, each
Walter Knox Moore, 62, prom- one of whom will be expected 1
inent fanner of Bushy Fork, to speak. General attendance, at
died Monday morning at 2:15 this, the biggest event of the 1
o’clock at his home following an Primitive Baptist church year, is
illness lasting two weeks. Mr. estimated to be as high as 10 to
I Moore, who was a native of Per- 12 thousand people,
son county, suffered a sroke of Many persons are already camp- i
paralysis two weeks ago and a [ing on the church grounds and I
second stroke on July 6. The son more will come, so that by Sat- c
of the late A. V. and Nannie I urday there will be pitched there i
Hawkins Moore, he was born some 70 to 75 tents. Preaching <
February 21, 1879, and received will be resumed Saturday night i
his education in the county and will continue all day Sun- ]
schools. day, except for luncheon. On v
Funeral services were conduct- Monday morning will come the <
ed Tuesday afternoon at 3 o’clock final business session and several
at Wheeler’s Primitive Baptist more sermons. Pastor of the host t
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First Curing
Now Going On
In Person Co.?
Wharton Winstead, Person
county farmer and business man,
reported on Monday of this week
that he was curing tobacco on
• cne of his farms. Mr. Winstead
thought that this was the first
! curing of this county for the
• year 1941.
• As far as reports that have
• reached this office are concern
-1 ed, this is the first curing of the
! season.
Farmers over the county re
. port that tobacco is looking very
• good, but that it does not need
any more rain at the present.
Many expect to start curing their
first primings within ten days
or two weeks.
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Henry Newell Os
Roxboro Enrolls
At Air School
Henry Newell, son of Mr. ar.d|
Mrs. B. B. Newell, of this city,
and a 1941 graduate of Roxboro
high school, has enrolled as a
student at Curtiss-Wright Tech
nical Institute, at Glendale, Los
Angeles, California, where he will
study aeronautical engineering.
Mr. Newell left Roxboro last
w'eek. The Curtis-Wright senool
is regarded as one of the largest
action technical schools in the
United States and is one of few
such schools selected by the
United States Army air corps to
train mechanics for the army.
Proposed Army Camp May
Reach Person At Southeast '
i DEFENSE HEAD
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E. G. THOMPSON
THOMPSQNHEADS
PERSON’S GROUP
FOR DEFENSE
First Committee Meeting
Will Be Held Tomorrow Af
ternoon At 3 O'clock. Scouts
To Help.
E. G. Thompson, prominent
Roxboro business man, yesterday
accepted chairmanship of the
Roxboro and Person county unit
of the State of North Carolina
division of the Council of Nation
al Defense, following receipt of
notification of his appointment
from Theordcre S. Johnson, dir
ector cf Civilian defense, upon
recommendation from Gov. J .
Melville Broughton.
First meeting of the local com- ;
mittee, named by Chairman ;
Thompson, will be held Friday
afternoon at 3 o’clock at his of
fice. Thompson, in an afternoon '
interview, said that the local
council will be expected to coop- '
crate with the National De
fense organization in devising
protective programs and instruc
tion for civilians, in developing
civilian participation in defense 1
programs and in sustaining na- '
tional morale.
One of the first projects to be
here undertaken will be an al- 1
uminium drive, to be held in 1
connection with national alu
mihium week, July 21 through
for collection of alumin- :
ium iTots, pans and scrap metal E
said to be needed in airplane eon- s
s* ruction.
Active participants in this 1
campaign will be Person and "
Roxboro Boy Scouts. City Mana- *
ger Percy Bloxam has agreed to
provide space on the City Hall
lawn where contributions may N
be deposited and Teague Kirby,
cwner-manager of a local thea- |]
tre, has agreed to sposnor an
aluminium matinee on Monday, |
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Crowell Family
Reunion To Be c
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Held Next Month \
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Members of the Crowell fam- £
ily, many of whom, reside in t
Roxboro and Person county, will c
on August 3, hold a family re
union at Mint Hill, Mecklenburg fc
county, according to announce- n
ment by Tom Lee Crowell, Sr., of s
1924 Plaza- Court, Charlottte, v
who is chairman of the Committee I
on invitations. C
An invitation is extended to
the ’Crowells and their connec- c
tions and friends. t
CITY RESIDENTS
INTERESTED IN
PETITION’S FATE
Better Explaining Munici
pal Attitude Toward Im
provements In Woodland
Heights Sent To Times’ Re
porter.
Interested in types of problems
to be undertaken by the newly
created Roxboro Planning and
Zoning commission, and having
heard that residents of the City
area known as Woodland Heights
are particularly interested in im
provements of their fire protec
tion, water and sewerage facili
ties, as well as street paving, a
Times reporter talked to a num
ber of those residents the first of,
this week.
Following information from the
people of Woodland Heights to
effect that they had presented |
petitions to the City council rela- 1
tive to these matters, that no deJ
finite action had then been lak-j
en and that they (the residents) j
are anxious that something be'
done, the reporter then had
Monday) a conference with City
Manager Bloxam.
The results of that conference,!
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m which it was pointed out that
L. T. Cozart and W. Burke Mew
borne are Planning and Zoning],
commissioers for that particular
area, are summarized in the fol
lowing letter to the reporter from
City Manager Bloxam:
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July 14, 1941 ,
Mr. Tom Shaw
Person County Times
Roxboro, North Carolina
Dear Mr. Shaw:
In regards to your inquiry to- i
day regarding water and street ]
current budget due; first, the J
or shall we say the lack of ttie
facilities? Some six months ago L
the writer with Mr. Abbitt made
a tentative and preliminary sur-j
vey of the situation in this dis
trict and found that this is one
cf the oldest sections of the town
without adequate water service.
We presented the matter to the
Board. However, due to lack of i <
funds, this matter was tabled! ]
for the time being. <
In Aprjl a petition was pre -j |
sented by the residents of this j j
section asking the Board to install j
suitable water connections fori,
the health and safety of the r
public in this particular section, f
This was referred to the City r
Manager, who in preparing his
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Olive Branch To 1
t
Have Revival In *
Coming: Week c
f:
Revival services will begin on i!
Sunday afternoon, July 20, at
3 o’clock at Olive Branch Baptist e
church, near the Virgilina road, a
according to announcement made v
loday by the pastor, the Rev. J. a
B. Currin, of Roxboro who said ti
that visiting minister will be v
the Rev. J. F. Funderburke, pas- v
tor of Bethel and Mill Creek t
churches. fc
Services during the week will b
begin at 2 o’clock in the after- r
noon and after a brief interims- 1 «
sion it is expected that services c
will be resumed about 4 o’clock.
Music will be in charge of Mrs. 1
Currin, wife of the pastor. 1
A cordial invitation is extend- 1
ed to all friends and neighbors ■ 1
to attend.
THE TIMES IS PERSON’S
PREMIER NEWSPAPER,
A LEADER AT ALL TIME&.
Congressman Folger and
Durham List Local Area
As Coming In Range Os
Possible Site. Benefits Seen.
Tract in Durham, Granville
and Person Counties Select
ed by War Department.
Person people, interested in
possible location of a large mil
tary camp in the Person, Gran
ville and Durham, area, who this
morning discussed the Washing
ton announcement that such a
camp for 18,000 men may bo sit
uated on the southeastern edge of
Person county, presumably near
Moriah and Timberlake and near
Rougemont in the Durham area,
in Granville and near the Vance
county line, are pleased at the
prospect, although little is known
j here other than the Washington
I announcement.
It is probable that Person la
bor, agricultural interests and
merchants would directly benefit
from construction work and from
I sale of supplies and that an al
j ready crowded housing condition
in Roxboro would become more
acute.
Citizens expected to get most
benefit would be residents of Dur
ham county. The City of Durham
has already agreed to furnish
water facilities for the proposed
camp. On the other hand, resi
dents of Granville and Henderson
i (Vance county) have previously
manifested some distaste at the
idea of having such a camp with
in their borders.
Person ctiizens interested in the
camp location do however, wish
to impress upon the residents here
that the whole camp schedule is
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INDIAN TAKES
IN TWO SONS ON
ACCIDENT CHARGES
L. C. Stewart, Woodsdale
Indian, Finds Sons Mon
day And Turns Them In
To Patrolman Baxter For
Hit And Run Driving.
Brought to the office of the
State Highway Patrolman W. A.
Baxter by their father,
Stewart, one of
brothers, of Woodsdale. was on
Monday morning cited to appear
in Rocorder’s court July 29, to
answer charges of careless and
reckless and hit and run driving
following a Saturday night auto
mobile accident here.
Leonard Stewart, 21, driver of
tlie machine which struck a car
ccupied by Mr. and Mrs. Robah
F. Baynes, of Roxboro, at in
tersection of highways 501 and
57, was placed under SIOO bond.
Leonard Stewart and his brother
Gattis Stewart, 20, according to
investigating officers, jumped
from their machine and ran when
it struck the Baynes car.
Mr. and Mrs. Baynes were tak
en to the hospital here for first
&Jd treatment. With the Indians,
was a white youth, Clifton Chan
dler, who did not leave scene of
the accident. The Baynes’ car
was coming toward Roxboro,
while the Stewarts were enroute
to Durham. Both machines were
badly damaged. The accident
happened about 9:30 Saturday
night an was one of three week
end accidents in and near the
city.
Early Sunday morning, a
bout one o’clock, cars driven by
Frank J. Winstead, Jr., of Route
1, Roxboro, and Bernard Crab,
tree, of Hurdle Mills, were in
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