IF IT IS NEWS ABOUT
PERSON COUNTY, YOU’LL
FIND IT IN THE TIMES.
VOLUME XIII
Unusual
Views
Os The
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SAYS STRIKE PROBLEM
FOR COMJMUNITY AFFECTED
Durham, Oct. 11. —The strike
of bus drivers at Little River
School is a problem forth".
school committeemen in that
community, but anyone who ap
plies for vacant bus driver posts
will be hired, provided he pass
es the required examination, ac
cording to County School Super
intendent Luther Barbour.
Barbour reported that seven
drivers at the school quit worn
last week, but said he had not
been to the school to check on
the matter, and that he did not
know exactly what their com
plaint is or how many buses are
being operated through the use
of substitute drivers.
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PROGRAM WILL BE GIVEN
FOR BRITISH RELIEF
Durham, Oct. 11. Gracie
Fields, England's highest-paid
comedienne, will be presented in
preformance by the Durham
chapter of the British War Re
lief Society, at 8:30 o’clock Fri
day night, October 17 at the Car
olina Theatre. All net proceeds of
the concert will be turned over
to the Society.
For more than a decade, Miss
Fields has ranked first 'among
the stars of the theatre in Eng
land and continental Europe,
and her income has run into the
fabulous figure of $1,000,000 a
year from pictures, radio, rec
ords, and stage appearances.
Yet, she has given this fame and
fortune up in the interests of
British War Relief
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JUST WANTED to give
WIFE HONEYMOON
Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 11.—Betty
Ann Turner, soft-spoken wife of
Forrest Turner, Georgia despera
do and escape artist, explained
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her husband’s recent break from
the State’s “little Alcatraz” pris
on camp at Dallas, Ga.
“He just wanted to give me
a honeymoon,” she said. She said
she married Turner three years
ago, but he was jailed before
they had time for a honeymoon.
She also had an explanation
for Turner’s latest escapade,
which led to his capture the
mass freeing of 41 convicts from
a road gang near Manchester, Ga.
“Forrest wanted the publicity,”
she said.
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SEN. REYNOLDS AND BRIDE
SPEND NIGHT IN RALEIGH
Raleigh, Oct. 11.—Senator Rob
ert Rice Reynolds, honeymoon
ing here with his 20-year-old
bride, inhaled deeply of the glo
rious North Carolina air and said
that when the toils* of office be
come less he and Mrs. Reynolds
will settle down in Buncombe
County where he was born and
“where the splashes of Autumn
color rival the splendor of a
Persian carpet.”
“Our Bob,” never at a loss for
words, arrived here Thursday in
his creaip - colored convertible
with his fifth wife, Evalyn Wash
ington McLean of the Hope dia
mond McLeans and told report
ers who greeted him in the spa
cious Governor’s suite of the Sir
Hotel: “You caan’t get
■way fropi your native heath.”
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PUBLISHED EVEBY SUNDAY & THURSDAY
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NOTHING WILL BE
KNOWN OF TRIAL
BEFORE MONDAY
Some Think Winstead Case
May Be Moved; Grand
Jury Report Awaited With
Interest
Still non-communcative are
Person County Court officials
when it comes to talking about
the “Cy” Winstead criminal as
sault case, scheduled to come up
in Person Superior Court Mon
day morning before Judge H. A.
Grady, of New Bern.
It is thought that no decision
as to time and place of trial for
Winstead, a Negro, who is alleg
ed to have assaulted a young
white woman here on August 15,
will be reached before Monday
afternoon. Other interesting fea
ture of Monday’s court is expect
ed to be the Solictor’s report io
the Grand Jury with regard to
Imcb violence experienced here
on the night of Winstead's ar
rest. Winstead is now in State
prison, Raleigh, where he was
taken for safe-keeping after the
near-rioting of 500 citizens nad
almost wrecked the court house
and jail.
Reported, but unconfirmed, is
the fact that Winstead’s father
has employed a Burlington law
yer
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Central School
Report For First
Month Os Year
By Miss Inda Collins, Principal
All teachers of last year re
turned except Miss Virginia Wil
son, who resigned to teach in
Gastonia. Miss Helen Harkrader
of Dodson, came from Elizabeth
City to take Miss Wilson’s place.
The opening this year was un
usually fine, with the Rev. W, F.
West, Percy Bloxam, R. B. .Grif
fin, Leon Couch and Mrs. L. H.
| Umstead as speakers.
During the first month 443
children have been enrolled
with an average daily attendance
of 433. In the Primary grades
i the attendance banner went to
| Miss Montague’s 3rd grade (93.-
64%) and the Grammar Grade
attendance banner went to Miss
Harkrader’s 4th grade (98.83%).
The P.-T. A. banner for parent
attendance was tied for by four
grades, namely, Miss Woods’.
Miss Collins’, Miss Merritt’s, and
Mrs. J. J. Woody’s.
The P.-T. A. has sprung intj
action with exciting vim. The
campaign for memberships has
a high goal to reach. The Benefit
Bridge party at Roxboro Hotel
was enjoyed by all and resulted
in worthwhile profit. The Cen
tral School children caught an
idea which netted a most pleas
ing sum to be added to the Cen
tral P.-T; A. bdtik. Playground
equipment is to be placed with
the funds taken in.
The teachers of Central School
were delightfully entertained by
one of their group, Miss Blanche
Winstead at a supper at her
country home.
We wish to express our whole
hearted appreciation to local drug
stores for refreshments sent dur
ing the month.
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Fire Drills have been practic-.
ed and the children were out of
the building in a very short time.
Both Rev. J. M. Walker of the
Presbyterian church and Rev.
W. C. Martin of Edgar Long
Memorial church have conduct
ed chapel during the
month.
P.-T. A. District
Meeting Closes
One Day Program
Tea By Central School Unit
Final Feature Os Busy Day
For Delegates From Elev
en Counties
With an attendance estimated
at 250 or more, including a group
of 30 “Mothersingers”’ from Ra
leigh, annual meeting of the six
th district Parent-Teacher asso
ciation was held Thursday at
Roxboro high school, with Person
CouVity and Roxboro associations
as hostesses.
Representatives gathered from
eleven counties to hear a morn
ing program which included a
symposium, “Community Agen
cies at Work with Children and
Youths,” as lead by C. W. Phil
lips, Director of Public Relations,
Woman’s College, Greensboro.
Speakres included Lt. Gov. R. L.
Harris, Mrs. Guy B. Johnson,
W. A. Graham, John A. Lang,
and R. M. Gruman. Mrs. J. S.
Blair, of Elizabethtown, State
president of P.-T. A., discussed
“Aid to National Defense” and
shortly afterwards Mrs. W. H.
O’Shea, of Durham, district di
rector, presented her report.
Next annual meeting of the
Sixth District association will be
held in Durham.
Luncheon was in charge of
Bushy Fork and Hurdle Mills as
sociations. After the luncheon
was a question hour and business
session, followed by a tea by
Roxborp Central School P.-T. A.
Heading the receiving line was
Mrs. Logan H Umstead, presi
dent. Others with her were State
and District officers and heads
of Person and Roxboro units. Pre
siding at the tea table was Mrs.
Claude T. Hall, with other mem
bers of Central School associa
tion active in receiving and serv
ing.
Officers of the District associ
ation serve for two years and
will be elected at the Durham
meeting, following a report to be
presented by a nominating com
mittee named at the Roxboro ses
sion.
General chairman for the local
conference was Mrs. R. H Shcl- j
ton.
Along The Way
With the Editor
Dan Richmond is home from the army. The training that
he received must have not have hurt him as he looks well and
eats well. We figure that a good one to take his place is
Maurice “Puny” Allen “Puny” also eats well—as a matter of
fact he is so fond of eating he bought several pigs for some
one else to raise for him to eat this year. We hereby put in
our bid to help eat them in case he has a position with Uncle
Sam—when the snow flies.
Theo Clayton, former grocery store proprietor of this city,
lost a pig last week. He came to this office, put in a 25c want
ad about the pig and walked out without paying. A few days
later someone who had read the ad called this office and re
ported that the pig was at his house. M. C. Clayton of this
paper, called Theo and told him that he would tell him where
his pig was when he paid for the ad.
Joe King, local man about town, is married; he announced
it last week and looked just as proud as hp could possibly
look—not to be any older or prettier than he is. In case you
want to find Joe this winter he will be at -home every night
sitting by a nice cozy fire reading the evening paper.
Well, it will not be long before you all will be invited
over to Dr. J. D. Fitzgerald's new house for the housewarm
ing that is bound to take place. He has a brand new house
and boy what a spread he is going to have when we all get
there! Ham, chicken, cake, pie and all the good things you
can eat. .Make your plans now. In case his house is overrun,
you can just stop on Dewey Bradsher’s lot where the next
million dollar house will go up. *
So long—l have to get ready to go to Sunday school. I
promised Charlie Harris that I would be there every Sunday.
FUTURE FARMERS
OF BETHEL HILL
COMPLETE PLANS
Officers Elected; Member
ship Now Up To Thirty-
Six
Reorganization activities of the
Bethel Hill Chapter of Fqturc
Farmers of America have been
concluded with the election of
! Lewis Wilbom as President for
I the 1941-42 term. Wilborn is a
I Junior at Bethel Hill High School
and was vice-president of the
chapter during the past year. Un
der his leadership and with the
: cooperation of the other newly
. elected officers, the chapter is ex
pected to rate high among the
other 340 local Chapters of Fu
ture Farmers of America in North
Carolina. Other (officers elected
! were: Vice-president, William
Shotwell; Secetary, Ollie Gentry;
Treasurer. Wallace Wrenn: Re-,
porter, Jimmie Woody; and ad
visor, A. G. Bullard.
The chief purposes of this or
ganization of students of voca
tional agriculture are: To devel
op rural leadership; to promote
better farming practices; to de
' velop better citizenship; to create
and nurture a love for country
life; to promote better recreation
in rural communities; and to
' stimulate a desire to be thrifty.
Thirty-six boys between the
i ages of 13 and 18 years of age
have joined the local chapter.
These members have an appro
priate chapter' room " ohttltti&'d
with officer’s desks and other
equipment needed in conducting
meetings according to the ritual
recommended by the National
Organizatiin of Future Farmers
, of America, Meetings are held
regularly on each Wednesday af
ternoon at 2 o’clock with special
night meetings when the presi
dent deems such meetings neces
sary.
Plans are already underway foi
promoting the best home farming
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BURLEY DAY RETURNS
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! Burley Day, brother of Coy
1 Day, of this City, has returned
! here for residence aand is now
| manager of the dry cleaning de
j partment of the Person Laundry
! and Dry Cleaaning company. Mr.
I Day was formerly in Rocky
[ Mount. With his are Mrs. Day
; and members of their family.
ROXBORO, N. C., SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1941
LARGE NUMBER
OF TAR HEES
IN MARINE CORPS
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State Wins Championship
In Recruiting Average,
i Says Officer
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j Now Orleans, La., Oct. 11.—
.(North Carolina won the champ
ionship recruiting United States
! Marines in the 11-State Southern
j Recruiting Division. Colonel
j Frank Halford, Officer in Charge,;
j announced today with the final |
j tabulation of figures for Septern-1
ber, 1941 Captain John M. Greer.
iU. S. M. C.. district recruiting of
jfieer, headquarters Raleigh. N.
j C.. and his staff, took away the
j division championship held by
iTcxas in August. 1941, after win-.
! ning it from Tennessee, division- J
jal recruiting champions in July.!
1 1941 •
During September, North Car-i
'< olina recruited 23 percent more '
Marines than the New Orleans!
| district. (Louisiana and Mississ-1
jippi), 23 percent more than Cen
tral and North Texas, 37 percent :
more than Alabama, 43 percent!
more than Tennessee, 44 percent
more than the Savannah District, ;
part cf Georgia. South Carolina j
and Florida; 100 percent more!
than Arkansas, and 200 percent j
more than the Macon District. 1
most of Georgia and part of
South Carotlina.
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Wi R. Frederick's
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Dog Wins First
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Place In Show
Danville, Va.. Oct. 11.—Win-1
ner of first place in the Setter
division at the Danville Dog
show held this week was Lady’s
King Jaguar,” owned by W. Ran
som Ferderick, of Danville, form
erly of Roxboro. Described as a
“princely” English Setter, Mr.
Frederick's dog also won first
place among Daanville dogs com
peting for best local dog in the
show, second annual event held
in Danville, under direction of
Edgar Moss, of Greensboro.
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FROM TENNESSEE
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Mr. and Mrs. James Noller and'
daughter. Miss Faith Browning j
Noller, of Carthage, Tenn., have j
returned to their home after a
visit with Mr. and Mrs. C. I. Sim- i
mons, of Allensville. Mr. and [
Mrs. Noller came to North Caro- j
lina especially to attend the!
“Wildcat” reunion held last week ]
in Raleigh Mr. Simmons, teach- !
er of vocational agriculture at j
Allensville high schol, and Mrs. j
j Simmons, formerly lived in Car- j
j thage, Tenn.
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BUSHY FORK SCHOOL j
Charlie Monroe and his band I
will give a benefit performance 1 .
on Tuesday night at 7:30 o’clock!,
at Bushy Fork school. Regular | ■
session of the P.-T. A. will be ;
held on Thursday night at the!
same hour, while the executive
committee will meet Wednesday
afternoon at 3:20 o’clock. -|
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SCHOOLMASTERS CLUB
First meeting of the Person
County Schoolmasters club will i
be held l at Hotel Roxboro on j I
Tuesday evening at 7*30 o’clock, i
There will be a business meeting 1
and all are requested to attend, i
Presiding will be Thomas O. 1
Gentry, of Hurdle Mills, presi- ’
dent. Program chairman is S. B. 1
Satterwhite, of Allensville. I
Club Women At
Rotary Tell Os
Their Program
Business And Professional
Women Outline Objectives;
Many Go To Durham Dis
trict Meeting
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I Describing aims and objectives
of the Business and Professional
Woman’s club, with particular
reference to the Roxboro unit of
which they are members, speak
■ ers this week at Roxboro Rotary
• club were Mrs. Featherston and
j Miss Julia Fisher, who stressed
'the Woman’s club theme for 1941.
“Strengthening Democracy.”
Main address was by Mis;
Fisher, who was recently elected
to serve on the State Nominating
committee at the mid-year coun
cil to be held in November at
j Scdgefield Inn, Greensboro. In
■ (reduction of Miss Fisher and
| Mrs. Featherston was by the Ro
tary program chairman, Ray
I Parrish.
Presiding was Claude T. rlail,
| president, who announced that
(next meeting of Rotary, on
I Thursday, at Hotel Roxboro, will
jbe "Teachers’ Night,” with
Wheeler Newell and W. W. Mor-
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j rell in charge of the program.
| Singing was lead by W, Wallace
j Woods, with Mrs. Woods at the
I piano. Program was held at Ho-
I tel Roxboro.
j Earlier in the week members
lof the Roxboro unit of the busi
! ness and Professional Woman's
f’club (attended the fifth district
j session of their club at Durham.
Winner of a prize in fashion show
'contest staged there, was Mrs..
Charles Timbcrlake. of Roxboro.
In addition to Mrs. Timberlake
and Miss Fisher, those from Rox
boro who attended the Durham
i meeting were Misses Mildred
Bass. Helen and Ora Latta, Fran
ces Weston, Eleanor Barbour,
Louise Croom and Velma Beam.
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WINNERS IN CANNING
Winner of first place in the
Person County 4-H club canning
contest is Ann Phelps, of Bushy
Fork, with Mary Eiizabetn
Slaughter, of Bushy Fork, run
ner-up. Third place goes to Ro
setta Terrill, of Olive Hill, while
winner and single entrant in the
I three-jar contest is Ruby Carver,
|of Roxboro high school, accord
; ing to announcement by Miss
I Velma Beam, Home Demqnstra
jtion agent
Series Ends At
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Presbyterian
Church Here
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! The Rev. W. C. Neill, pasto:' of,
I the Presbyterian church at j
| Smithfield, concluded a series of
j services last week at Roxboro
: Presbyterian church. Many pco
| pie attended and the Rev. J. M.
i Walker, pastor of the Roxboro
! church, expressed his tapprecia
i tion (or the cooperation received
! from Roxboro and Person people
The Rev. Mr. Neill and Mr.
Walker were college mates at
Union Theological seminary, Rich'
mond, Va.
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Cubs Have Pack
Meeting At House*
Held last week was October
Pack meeting of Roxboro Cub
Scouts. Program was under di
rection of assistant leader, the
Rev. Rufus J. Womble. Several
new members were present, as
were older members and parents.
The meeting was held at Rox
boro Community house headquar
ters of the Cubs.
THE TIMES IS I’ERSON’h
PREMIER NEWSPAPER
A LEADER AT ALL TIMES.
NUMBER TWO
SECOND BOARD
SESSION TO BE
HELD TUESDAY
Library Beard Agrees To
Pay Freight On 300 Books
To Be Obtained From Cin
cinnati Library
After having met Friday to
discuss problems in connection
with a cooperative plan propos
ed for the Person County Libra
ry by the State Library Commis
sion. members of the Board of
Directors of the Person institu-
I tion adjourned without reaching
| definite agreement and plan to
■ meet again cn Tuesday afternoon
jat 4 o'clock at the Library, .in
! the Community House, Chub
j Lake street,
j Presiding at the. Friday session
j was Mrs. J. K. Merritt, of Woods
| dale, chairman, who explained
briefly the proposed tri-Couniy
i Library plan under which Per-
I son. Grange and Chatham coun
ities .would join in certain phases
|of library work in order to. ob
| tain full benefit from the State
Library fund.
Under the proposed plan a
trained librarian would be em
ployed to serve as supervisor and
each of the three counties wotfld
bear proportionate parts of pay
ment on the salary of this one
! librarian, supposed to serve part,
I time in each of the three coun
| ties.
t~ Main diffietritr with-the' Per--
son’board was agreement as to
whether or not it would be bet
ter to work independently of the
other two counties and major
basis of argument was possibili
ty that independent organization
might release more funds for
purchase of books. Also discuss
ed was the matter of a bookmo
bile, but the subject was tabled
pending further report as to cost
of equipment and operation.
In addition to Mrs. Merritt,
j those present for the session were
D. M. Cash. Mrs. E. P. Warren.
Mrs. R. H. Shelton and Thomas
J. Shaw. Jr., board members,
and R B. Griffin and Mrs. Sue
Featherston, in an advisory ca
pacity.
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I Highest Average
| Yet, Reached On
Thursday’s Mart
! Highest average yet reported
jon the 1941 Roxboro Tobacco
; Market was reached Thursday,
j when 72.216 pounds sold for $24.-
831.96, at an average of $34.33
per hundred pounds. Still high
was Friday’s average of $32.96,
when 129,416 pounds sold for
$42,672.60, according to govern
ment report of James B. Clayton,
field assistant
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PERSON COURT OF HONOR
With Henry E. O’Briant, Dr. J.
H. Hughes, C, A. Harris, B. B.
Mangum and Cherokee Council
Executive A. P. Patterson as
leaders, regular .monthly Court
of Honor cf the Person district
was held here Friday night. En
tertainment feature was showing
of Chapel Hill Jubilee pictures
by Mr. Patterson. Coming up for
advancements were a number of
boys, including six for tender
foot. Nunmerous merit badges
were awarded.
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AT FIRST BAPTIST
Speaker at the Sunday label
ing service at 11 o’clock at Rox
boro First Baptist Chur oh will
be Hugh Latiner, of Memphis*
Tenn., a prominent layman. • %