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Small Fire, Large Crowds,
Occasion Os Traffic Jam
( Home Burns But Major
- Trouble Is Traffic Conges
tion; Service Station Peo
ple Outspoken About Dis
order.
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Aftermath of a residence fire
at Longhurst, mill village near
here, Monday was citation of a
number of motorists for speeding
around the fire truck at a point
near Sam Barnett’s service sta
tion. Brakes of the fire truck are
said to have stuck, slowing down
speed of the vehicle. Charges
against motorists were later dis
missed before Tuesday’s court
was called, but men in the vi
cinity of the filling station were
outspoken in condemnation of
the traffic jam occasioned.
Cause of the trouble was a
night fire which destroyed a mill
home occupied by families of
Griffin Pulliam and of a man
named Lee, employees of Long
hurst cotton mills, who lived
near intersection of highway 501
and the ballpark road. The blaze
originated about 9 or 9:30 from
a fireplace in the home. The
Pulliams lost practically all pos
sessions, while the Lees manag
ed to save a few garments.
Response was made by Rox
boro fire department, with the
truck with stuck brakes, and by
the Ca-Vel department.
Defense Training
Jpffered ln Three
Public Schools
Now being given training in
military tactics by I. M. Carlton,
Jr., who recently returned from
service with the U. S. Army, is
a group of about 30 Roxboro
high school students. Instruction
is given each school day during
the 11 to 11:30 o’clock morning
activity period.
Defense training in a different
fashion is being offered at Bethel
Hill high schol, where a defense j
shop training course in metal
work will begin Monday night,
November 24, at 7 o’clock. A
similar course will be offered at
Helena high school, although de
tails have not been announced.
Negro Man Ciit
By Another, Now
I In Duke Hospital
Still in Duke hospital, al
though better, is Calvin John
. son, 45, Negro of Hurdle Mills,
said to have been injured with
a knife in a fight with Lewis
Evans,so, Negro, of Hightower,
Caswell county, which occurred
Sear the Lewis Hester store ov
yer some whisky Sunday after
noon. Evans is now in Person
' County jail where he was placed
by County officers.
Fourth Sunday
Meeting Planned
For Church Units
Regular, fourth Sunday meet
ing of Baptist Sunday Schools
of Person County will be held
v November 23 at Providence Cas
well church at 3 o’clock Sunday
afternoon, with the Rev, A. G.
Carter, pastor of West Main
Street Baptist church, Danville,
, Va., as speaker. A full attend
,?ance is requested.
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tatives of the Ohio State Life In
surance Company far the past
two months is B. B. Knight, of
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PUBLISHED EVERT SUNDAY A THURSDAY
| PRISON JUSTIFIED
’IN FEEDING MEN
AT STATE HOUSE
Attorney General Upholds
Practice In Definite
Opinion
Raleigh, Nov. 18. Attorney
General Harry McMullan said he
was “definitely of the opinion”
that the State Prison “is fully
justified” in providing the Gov
ernor’s Mansion with food for
prisoners who work there.
That amount, he said, would
be equivalent to the cost of feed
ing men in prison.
“Very clearly,” the attorney
general said in a letter to Charles
Ross, general counsel of the
Highway Commission, who re
quested the ruling, “it is not the
obligation of the Governor from
his own personal funds to feed
these prisoners, and it is the ob
ligation of the State to do so.”
The question arose when news
stories last week said the man
sion was receiving food supplies
from the Prison Department, and
Governor Broughton said they
were for prisoners employed
there. He added that if he owed
the Prison Department for them,
he would pay.
McMullan said the Board of
Public Buildings and Grounds
had custody of the mansion and
the right to assign prisoners to
work there. The prisoners are
assigned to quarters in the base
ment of the mansion, he said, ‘in
order to avoid the inconvenience
of being hauled and forth
each day,” and they are fed
there.
The arrangement, McMullan
said, “seems to be the practical
and convenient method of hand
ling the feeding of the prisoners
assigned to the mansion, and, in
|my opinion, is authorized by
law.”
Forest Blaze Put
Out Second Time,
Now In Control
Now extinguished is a forest
fire near Bethel Hill which on
Sunday afternoon and again on
Monday threatened adjacent
areas and did damage to about j
125 acres of forest land from
which timber had recently been
cut. Response both days was
made by members of the Roxbo
ro CCC camp, who assisted:
Bethel Hill and nearby Virginia J
residents in putting out the blaze
by backfires.
Trucks from the Ca-Vel de
partment went to the scene, on
the W. A. Woody estate, but were
able to do little because of lack
of water. The blaze was first
discovered in the St. Peter’s sec
tion, Holloway township, by
Robert Glaze, tenant on the G.
E. Woody estate. No dwellings
were destroyed. Origin of the
fire and financial estimate of the
damage have not been determin
ed, although it is thought that
a carelessly thrown match or e
neglected camp fire may have
caused the blaze.
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WORKERS. MEET
Members of the workers’, coun
cil of Roxboro First Baptist
church met Tuesday night in reg
ular monthly session "at a supper
served in the Young Peoples’ as
sembly room. Present were many
of the workers, officers and
teachers.
THREE WRECKS,
ONE A THREE-WAY,
OCCUR NEAR Cin
Youth Charged With Hit-
And-Run; Two Other
Crashes Result In Hospita
lizations.
Recent automobile accidents in
the vicinity of Roxboro caused
arrest of one Person County
youth on a charge of hit-and-run
driving and placed three other
persons involved in two acci
dents in Community hospital.
, Released under a SIOO bond is
Hester Saunders, 22, of Dixon’s
! store, charged with hit-and-run
j driving and scheduled to appear
j at next session of recorders’ court
after his machine was involved
in a three-car collision on the
Oxford highway, said to have
been caused when Saunders’ car
struck a machine driven by Clif
ton Chandler, 19, soldier from
Fort Meade, Md., and knocked
it into another car driven by Wil
liam Thomas, of Roxboro and
Newport News, Va.
Taken to Community hospital,
: where they are now reported to
be improving were Mrs. Ada
Frances Irby, 30, of Danville, Va.,
and her mother-in-law, Mrs.
Nannie Irby, 48, of Leasburg.
The younger woman suffered a
fractured leg, while Mrs. Nannie
Irby received minor injuries and
is suffering from shock. Uninjur
ed were John and J. L. Irby,
John being the son of J. L. and
Mrs. Nannie Irby, and the hus
band of Mrs. Ada Frances Irby.
The third , patient, now- dia
charged, was W. iH. Monk, who
received a headbone fracture. The
Saunders collision and the Monk
wreck, both in Person county,
occurred Sunday, while the Irby
wreck happened Monday night.
GET PHOTOGRAPHS
Concluded today is Miss Eu
genia Bradsher’s,‘‘History of the
Bradsher .Family.” Members of
the family who assisted the
Times by furnishing pictures or
cuts and who wish to obtain
them are Requested to call at
the Times office at their earliest
convenience. Others will be re
turned by mail.
NEPHEW HONORED
New head of the Virginia State
Highway patrol is Capt. C. W.
Woodson, Jr., formerly of Rust
burg, Va., and a nephew of Mes
dames R. L. Wilburn and A. S.
deVlaming, of Roxboro. Capt.
Woodson is now stationed in
Richmond, Va. His father, clerk
of the court at Rustburg, is a
i brother of Mesdames Wilburn
| and deVlaming.
Person One Os Sixty'Six
With Accident Increases
Traffic Deaths Mount To
New High. Levels During
Present Year
Raleigh, Nov. 19.—With North
Carolina counties reporting for
October the greatest number of
piotor vehicle traffic fatalities
ever recorded in a‘single month,
141, the year’s total deaths sky
rocketed to 1,001 for the period
from January through October,
1941, according to figures releas
ed today by the Highway Safety
Division.
During the ten month period
Person County reported four fa
talities as compared to one dur
ing the same period of 1940.
The three types of accidents in
which the greatest number of
persons have been killed this
year are pedestrian with 288
dead, collision of two motor ve
hicles with 261 dead and ran off
roadway with 244* deaths.
Bicycle deaths for the ten
ROXBORO, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1941
FIRST SERVICE
AT NEW CHURCH
PLANNED SUNDAY
Ca-Vel Methodist Church
To- Worship In Georgian
Sturcture; Two Visiting
Ministers
First service in the first house
of worship erected by members
of Ca-Vel Methodist church, of
which the Rev. T. Marvin Vick,
Jr., is pastor, will be held Sun
day morning, November 23, with
District Superintendent A. J.
Hobbs, of Durham, and the Rev.
Robert W. Bradshaw, assisting.
The sermon will be delivered
by the pastor, at the eleven
o’clock morning service. At 12:30
luncheon willj be served on the
grounds; at 2 o’clock the first
quarterly conference will be
held and in the evening another
service will be held at 7 o'clock.
Sunday School will be at the us
ual morning hour, 10 o’clock.
The new church building of
Georgian design, is of brick ve
neer, has a seating capacity of
300 and an interior finish of Cal
ifornia white pine paneling. -Es
timated cost of the structure of
which H. N. Haines, of Durham,
is architect, is SB,OOO, of which
$5,700 has already been paid. To
tal amount to be raised by church
members is $6,700. Duke endow
ment grant is $1,300.
To be built at later date is a
church school unit, expected to
cost $4,000. The Ca-Vel church,
organized on March 5, 1939, now
has a membership of 88. Work
on the church, .structure began
on September 4, 1940. Prior to
present time services have been
held at Ca-Vel school.
Pastor since organization has
been the Rev. Mr. Vick, of the
Roxboro circuit.
Night-Hawks To
Play Friday Dance
For New Club
Orchestra for the post-Thanks
giving, Friday night dance, first
of a series of dances sponsored
by the newly organized Bachel
ors’ club, will be the “Bull City
Night-hawks,” a well-known Ne
gro musical organization, featur
ing an especially good trumpet
player, according to announce
ment made today.
Hours of the dance, to be stag
ed at the American Legion hut,
Chub Lake street, are from 10
until 2 o’clock, with admission by
invitation only. Bids were mail
ed this week and a number of
guests from this City and from
out of town are expected.
months totaled 39 against 14 for
the same period last year, an in
crease of 25 fatalities for a per
centage increase of 178. Collision
deaths in right-of-way disputes
between automobiles and rail
road trains have reached 39 for
this year for an increase of 38.4
per cent over the same period of
last year.
North Carolina’s 1,001 deaths
this year compare with 738 for
1941, an increase of 263 dead for
a percentage increase of 35.6
compared with a national in
crease in deaths of approximate
ly 18 per cent.
The ten leading counties with
the number of fatalities in each
county follow: Mecklenburg, 44;
Cumberland, 41; Wake, 41; Guil
ford, 37; Robeson, 32; Buncombe,
27; Columbus 25; Gaston, 25;
Harnett, 24; and Davidson, 23.
Sixty-six of the State’s coun
ties or 66 per cent have reported
an increase in the number of
deaths over a like period of 1941. i
Churches In City And County
Plan Thanksgiving Services
LIBRARY BOARD
ADOPTS BUDGET
FOR FISCAL YEAR
Hears Comprehensive Re-
Port From Regional Li
brarian
Approval of an operating bud
get of $1,450 for the remainder
j of the fiscal year was main busi
j ness at regular November session
•of the Person County Library
j board, which met Tuesday as
; ternoon in the library, Chub
I Lake street, and heard from
Miss Ernestine Grafton, regional
librarian, a comprehensive re
port of plans for the year.
Under the approved tentative
budget approximately one half
of the Library’s combined in
come from County and State
sources and from gifts will be
expended in purchase of books,
although adequate provision is
made for upkeep' of the bookmo
bile, expected to be in opera
tion by December 11, and for
salaries, shelving and incidental
but necessary library equipment.
Discussed during the after
noon and subsequently approved
was purchase of a record indica
tor for numbering books. Also
■approved was purchase of a stove
for the library room. Deferred
until next month were shelving
improvements and enlargement
of space.
Mention was made of progress
with the bookmobile and of plans
for return of overdue books,
fines on a daily basis and com
pensation for lost books. It was
announced that Mrs. Lilly May
Owens, of Roxboro, will under
NYA begin classification of new
books on November 26.
Welcomed to boarcj member
ship was Person Superintendent
of Schools R. B. Griffin and de
cision was reached that Decem
ber meeting of the board will
be held on Tuesday, the 16, dur
ing Miss Grafton’s regular visit
to Person county. Open hours at
the library will remain as they
have been, from 9:30 in the
morning to 4:30 in the afternoon,
Monday through Friday, with
dosing from 12 until one o’clock
for luncheon.
Presiding at the session was
i Mrs. J. 11. Merritt, of Woodsdale,
| chairman. Others present were
| Mr. Griffin, Miss Grafton, D. M.
; Cash, Thomas J. Shaw, Jr. and
Mrs. Sue Featherston the latter
WPA supervisor.
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Qouch Leads In
Discussion Os
Twelfth Grade
Leader of a discussion on the
new twelfth grade was Leon
Couch, who was in charge of the
program at November dinner
meeting of the Person School
masters’ club at Hotel Roxboro
Tuesday night.
Mr. Couch, who came this year
to Roxboro to act as supervising
principal of Roxboro district
schools, presented an interesting
consideration of problems con
nected with the additional grade,
indicating (that despite popular
misconceptions as to difficulties
connected with adding the grade
to the public school system, suf
ficient funds are on hand for the
operation of this grade, which
should soon become a thoroughly
recognized and organized unit of
the State school system.
EDUCATION FUND
GAINS SUM BY
BID FROM ABC
Person County Commis
sioners Accept Lone Bid
From Wake’s ABC For
Captured Spirits
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Accepted this week by Person
County Commissioners was a bid
1 of $1,500 submitted by the Wake
T County Alcoholic Beverage Con
trol board for 85 cases of tax
’ paid bottled in bond whisky eap
-1 tured last month by Roxboro po
• lice' officers near the City limits.
Retail value of the whisky was
estimated at close to $2,000.
■ Person’s commissioners met
Monday in a special session.
Bid by Wake’s ABC board was
: the only one submitted and un
; der terms of the contract Person
> County is to provide means of
! transportation of the whisky to
Wake county. Under State ruling
beneficiary will be the Person
education fund, although capture
of the contraband was by City
■ officers.
Driver of the whisky truck,
Wayne Cecil Rae, 23, of Char
' lotte, was convicted of transport
’ ing and fined S2OO and the costs
! late-in- October in Person’s re
-1 corder’s court. It was alleged that
’ the whiky was enroute from
' Baltimore, Md., to Charlotte,
Mecklenburg county, without
: proper consignment papers. Both
: Mecklenburg and Person are dry
, counties in which it is illegal to
■ transport large quantities of
i whisky without wet territory
’ consignment papers.
Also considered and approved
by Person commissioners was a
j beer license to James P. Allen,
formerly of near Greensboro,
; who will under a new name, the
• “Berk-Alien Inn," operate the
■ roadhouse establishment form
i e.rly known as the “Chateau,” on
■ the Greensboro road, near Rox
• boro city limits.
MRS. WHITTEN, JR.
LOSES BROTHER
IN ACCIDENT
!
Lieut E. G. Graveley Dies
After Automobile Accident
At Camp Stewart. Ga.
Held Tuesday afternoon at 4
] o’clock at Seneca, S. C., were fin
al rites for Lieut. E. G. Graveley,
formerly of Chapel Hill, who on
Saturday night received fatal in
juries in an automobile accident
at Camp Stewart, Ga.
Lieut. Graveley, who was un
til several months ago stationed
at Chapel Hill with the Orange
County unit of the CCC, was a
half-brother of Mrs. Sam Whit
ten, Jr., of Roxboro, who, with
Mr. Whitten and other members I
Jof the family went to Seneca
Monday.
Lieut. Graveley, who was the
son of the late Marion King
Graveley, of Lake City, S. C., is
! survived by his wife and several
; children. Also surviving are his
stepmother, Mrs. Nellie Grave
ley, and two other half-sisters,
Miss Mary Eleanor Graveley, and
Miss Nellie Graveley, of Woods
dale and Roxboro, a half broth
er, Jack Graveley, student at
State college, Raleigh, and oth
er brothers and sisters, of South
j Carolina. -
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RED CROSS
NUMBER THIRTEEN
Baptists Will
Have First Rites
Post Office, Bank, City
And County, Offices
Schools And Merchants
Close; Schools Get Two
Days
First of several Thanksgiving
services to be held Thursday in
this City will be the traditional
sunrise service at 7 o'clock at
! Roxboro First Baptist church,
I with special music by the church
| choir and a sermon by the pas
tor, the Rev. W. F. West, who
will return from Georgia in time
for the service.
Next on the calendar is the
service at Roxboro Presbyterian
church at 9 o'clock in the morn
ing, with a sermon by the pastor,
the Rev. J. M. Walker. At 10
o’clock Methodists at Edgar Long
Memorial church will gather to
hear a sermon by the Rev. W. C.
Martin, who has recently been
returned to the church for an
i other Conference year.
Episcopalians, at St. Mark’s
church, will at 11 o’clock hear a
special Thanksgiving message by
E. L. Wehrenberg, principal of
High Plains Indian school, form
erly a Presbyterian minister. In
charge of the service will be the
rector, the Rev. Rufus J. Wom
ble.
At Oak Grove Methodist
church the Rev. F. B. Peele, the
pastor, will have a service at
nine o’clock Thanksgiving morn
ing, and on Sunday at regular
I hours in other churches in his
, pastorate he will also deliver
messages appropriate to the ses
sion. Compromise of Sunday for
Thanksgiving services will also
be observed by the Rev. D. A.
Petty, Methodist minister, who
will bring similar messages at
each of his three churches.
The Rev. Mr. Petty will speak
first at Brooksdale, at 11 o’clock,
at Trinity at 3 o’clock and at
Brookland church at 7:30, in the
evening. Offerings in most
churches will be for orphanages
or other benevolent causes, and
in all instances special music will
be featured.
PRESBYTERIANS
FOSTER TROOP
OF BOY SCOUTS
Leader Will Be The Rev.
J. M. Walker, Pastor Os
The Church, Who Has
Been Ini Cub Work
Formulated at November ses
sion of the Person District Scout
council held Tuesday night, were
plans for reorganization of troop
32, Roxboro, to be under spon
sorship of Roxboro Presbyterian
church, with the pastor, the Rev.
J. M. Walker, as scoutmaster.
Troop committeemen will be
Stuart M. Ford, Ben Browh and
Dr. J. H. Hughes of the church.
The Rev. Mr. Walker has for
the past year been an active as
sistant leader of the Roxboro
Cub Pack.
Also discussed, although def
inite plans were not arranged,
was reorganization of the Long
hurst and East Roxboro troop.
Appointment was made of a
committee to consider possibili
ties of q waste paper campaign
to be instigated by Scouts as a
benefit for (their organizations.
Major considerations are prices
to be paid for the paper and se
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