IF IT IS NEWS ABOUT
PERSON COUNTY, YOU’LL
FIND IT IN THE TIMES.
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CHRISTMAS SPIRIT
Citizens Named To Serve In
Various Defense Capacities
Legion Records
Willing Spirit j
i
Fire Units, Bomb Squads
Announced; Other Groups
Being Selected
Released this week at Roxboro
City v'Ljll by authorization of
S. G. Winstead, director
of local control of Civilian De
fense, were names of citizens re
quested to serve with the air
raid warden’s corps and the fire
department corps. Also listed
were names of messengers or
registered telephone boys at the
Mayor’s office and fire station.
Still to be publicly announced
are the names of citizens who
will serve with the utilities di
vision, under I. O. Abbitt, and
of the police division, under
Chief of Police Robinson.
Chief Robinson reports that he
is getting good response, partic
ularly from members of the Les
ter Blackwell Post of the Ameri
can
and heard him outline necessities
of the civilian police program.
One detail to be worked out is
which men can best serve in the
morning hours, in afternoons or
at night.
City Manager Percy Bloxam,
looking yesterday at the publish
ed list of air raid corps and fire
units, said that he and the May- |
or, together with Warden R. H.
Shelton and Fire Chief Henry F.
O’Briant, are anxious that all;
men listed report to them wheth- |
er or not they expect to be able
to serve in capacities to which
they have been assigned.
Printed below is the air raid.
warden list and the fire depart- I
ment list, and certain additional j
' data.
Air Raid Alarm
Chief Air Raid Warden, R. H.
Shelton; Night calls, Sammy
Foushee, Walter Slagle, W. E.
Hamlin, Wyatt Monk, Jack Par
ham, Percy Bloxam, T. K. Glenn;
Maintenance of Alarm and Elec
trical, Fred Long.
Fire Department
H. E. O’Briant, Chief; J. E.
Latta, Asst.; J. W. Bryan, Capt.;
T. K. Glenn, Capt.; R. A. Whit
field, Clyde Murphy, Clarence
Holeman, E. E. Bradsher, Jr.; J.
E. Parham, W. E. Hamlin, Fred
Long, W. W. Woods, Macon
Thompson, Stephen Glenn, Arch j
Monday, Ursal Yarboro, H. W. j
O’Briant, Clea White, Mutt Moo
dy, R. D. Bumpass, Graham !
Nichols, James Brooks, C. P.
Hatcher, Sammy Foushee, Ed
ward Foushee, Ray Jackson,
Flint Oliver, Percy Bloxam, C.
M. Bullock, E. T. Wrenn.
Unexploded or Time Bomb Squad
H. E O’Briant, J. E. Latta, T.
K. Glenn, J. W. Bryan, J. W.
Newman, V. W. Hall, Flint Oli
ver, Walter Slagle.
Air Firemen
Ilmira Berry, Ben Brown, John
Tillman, James Cafver, Ernest
. Bailey, R- p - Michaels, J. W.
Green, B. B. Mangum, R. W.
Lunsford, Alvin Warren, B. G.
Clayton, George Wirtz, Edgar
Mastan, C. A. Harris, M. C.
Michie, Rufus Womble, O. W.
Lon*, Clyde Short, Belvin Bar
nette, A. C. Fair, Wharton Win
rteed, Tony Duncan, Henry
Woods, Joe King, T. F. Davis, T.
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There WiKyAlways Be A Christmas In America
lercontMimes
PUBLISHKD EVERY SUNDAY ft THURSDAY
GEORGE DAVIS
RITES CONDUCTED
BY HIS PASTOR
I
Veteran Os World War I
Dies In Fayetteville. Leaves
Wife, Children And Other
Relatives.
George W. Davis, 46, resident
of the Trinity Methodist church
community, Person county, died
Monday morning at 8:30 o’clock
at Veteran’s hospital, Fayette
ville, after an illness lasting five
weeks from pneumonia. Death
was attributed to this disease and
complications. Mr. Davis, a vet
eran of World War I, had been
a patient at the hospital about P
year and had been ill 18 months,
having had previous treatment in
a Durham hospital.
Funeral services were conduct
ed Tuesday afternoon at three
‘o'clock 'at Trinity- '*Wt*gJdist |
church, of which he was a mem
ber, by the pastor, the Rev. D.
A. Petty, with interment in the
church cemetery.
Survivors include: his wife,
the former Miss Maggie Blalock;
two sons, Basil and Edgar; one
daughter, Virginia; his mother,
Mrs. Lula Glenn Davis; three
brothers, J. A., of Lillington;
John W., of Linden and S. B.
Davis, of Rougemont; three sis
ters, Mrs. E. R. Moore and Mrs.
O. J. Smith, of Fuquay Springs,
and Mrs. L. B. Gentry, of Person
County, where all other mem
bers of the family reside.
He was a son of the late W. A.
1 Davis. In charge of the rites were
i members of the American Legion
j post.
NOW HERE
O. P. Southerland, formerly
with the CCC camp at Sanford,
has been transferred to the Per
. son county work unit of the Dan
River Soil Conservation district
as a junior conservationist to as
sist Joe Ellis, Jr., work unit lead-
The Christmas Spirit
The Christmas Spirit to the Child
Is Santa with his pack,
Excitement, eats and running wild
And op’ning up his sack.
The children dream of Santa Claus
And wonder what he’ll bring,
They write for dolls and books and toys
And trains and everything.
Before the day is scarcely gone
They wish for Santa back.
They wish the reindeer had not flown
With Santa and his pack.
To older folk who know the Lord
And try to serve Him well
The Christmas is to live His Word
And others of Him tell.
Christmas is a thing sublime
That lives in hearts of men
And Christmas is through endless time
A Spirit deep within.
By Mrs. J. H. Merritt, Woodsdale.
Older Scouts
Rejoin To Take
Defense Roles j
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Reidsville, Dec. 24.—The out- j
break of war resulted In many
former Scouts going back to their
troops and to other troops and
registering in order that they
might be available for any em
ergency the Boy Scouts might be
called on for. Several former
Scouts have registered as asso
ciate Scouts and informed their
Scoutmaster that they will be
available for service in case of
emergency.
Local leaders are enthus : astic
over the large number of form
er Scouts offering their services.
These older Scouts are highly
valuable as leaders. Several Scout
masters and Assistants have join
ed the services of their country
and many of the old timers will
be commissioned as Scoutmasters
and Assistants.
*Se«eiai ldtill trorrps Ttrc tonsid
ering Emergency Service Corps
which would be available for
First Aid. Police duty and Five
duty or any other types of ser
vice needed in case of an emerg
ency.
The Cherokee Council has chal
lenged the Greensborp Council
to show as large a growth as they
do by December 31. Local Scout
leaders have shown extreme in
terest in the contest and have
registered a large number of hoys
during the past month. J. S. Mer
ritt, Person District Chairman
j urges that every Scoutmaster
i send in their list of new boys be
| fore December 30.
Churchill In U. S.
| For War Parley
With President
I
Washington. Prime Minister
Winston Churchill, after a secret
and history-making journey, ar
rived in Washington Monday and
was closeted with President
Roosevelt in the White House dis
cussing unified war plans to en
compass “the defeat of Hitlerism
throughout the world.”
ROXBORO, N. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1941
PETTIFORD SHOT
BY CAFE MAN
TAKEN TODUKE
Shooting Takes Place At
Cash’s Chfe. Round-Up-Of
Other Cases Os Week-End
In Roxboro.
Still a patient at Duke hospi
! tal, Durham, is Paul Pettiford,
! Negro, who was wounded in the
' lower part of his back on the
! right side in a shooting scrape at
Willie Cash’s case, in the Gal
lows’ Hill Negro section Saturday
night about 10 o’clock. Being held
in Person jail, without bond, is
Cash, 35, a Negro, alleged to have
done the shooting,
Cash was once tried for man
slaughter in an affair in Raleigh
about 10 years ago. Pettiford re
ceived first aid treatment at
Community hospital, but physi
cians decided he should be mov
ed to Duke, since it was neces
sary that the bullet be removed.
Cases tried in Mayor’s court
and later up in Tuesday’s re
corder’s court, included: Joe Wil
liams, Negro, 29, of Gallows’ Hill,
charged with possession of
j “white” liquev.for „ sale: Helen
j Wagstaff, 56? Nbgro, ms-the Jiorth
end section of Roxboro, charged
with the possession of six gallons
of whiskey for sale; Elmer Car
ver, Negro, 39, of Leasburg,
charged with careless and reck
less driving, and Clarence Miller,
white, of Timberlake, charged
with drunken driving.
Elmer Carver was chased
through Roxboro to Leasburg by
Officer-Wade after Carver had
been seen on Roxboro streets
driving in the manner described.
Also charged with careless and
reckless driving was B. V. Bla
lock, white man, of Hurdle Mills,
j 1
! who was apprehended on the old
! Prospect Ohurch road.
Production Unit
Os Red Cross To
Meet Monday
Mrs. Robert E. Long, Chairman
of the Production Committee of
American Red Cross, is call
] ing an important meeting of com
mittee members and all other in
terested women, to be held Mon
day, December 29th, at 3:00 o’-
clock in the Grand Jury Room of
the Court-house.
Purpose of the meeting is to
explain the organization and
aims of the work allocated to the
I Production committee. The Chair
man urges a large attendance to
I pledge support to the undertak
ing.
Peoples Bank To
Close Two Days
For Christmas
Gov. J. M. Broughton has de
clared December 26th, a legal
holidays, and The Peoples Bank
will, therefore, observe Decem
ber 25th and 26th as a Holiday.
As customary in the past, due
to the large volume of intangi
ble tax postings thatis necessary
to be made at the en<i of the
year, the bank will clbse each
day during Christmas week at
12 o’clock noon. /
It is respectfull'i, /requested
that the public coo' Vby mak
ing deposits befoi?wS\ o’clock
day. 1/
INVADES ROXBORO
NO SUNDAY PAPER
In accordance with its annu
al custom the Person County
Times office will be closed for
several days during the Christ
mas holidays. There will be no
paper published on Sunday,
December 28, but regular pub
lication will be resumed with
the issue of Thursday, Janu
ary Ist.
CLUB DANCE TO !
FEATURE SEASON
OF FESTIVITIES
Bachelor’s Club Dance To
Draw Many Young Peo
ple. Script Affair Has
Good Music.
Planned as a major social event
of the holiday season in Roxboro
is the Christmas script dance to
be sponsored by the Roxboro
Bachelors’ club on Friday, Dec
ember 26, the night after Christ
mas, in Kaplan Hall, North Main
stree - from 10 until 2 o’clock.
Bids have been sent out to
non-members in Roxboro
asid-surrounding Cities and it is
expected that attendance from
among the college set will be
large. The twenty members of
the host club and their dates all
plan to attend, according to
Thomas M. Bumpass, chairman
of the dance committee.
Other members of this com
mittee are Curtis Long and Bill
Murphy. Club officers are Carr
Moore Bullock, president, Bob
Whitten, vice president, Curtis
Long, secretary and E. T. Wrenn,
treasurer.
Music will again be furnished
by Frank Wright’s “Bull City
Night-Hawks”, Negro dance or
chestra that played for the club's
highly successful Thanksgiving
dance.
By special arrangements this
Christmas dance is to be a script
affair, and tickets may be obtain
ed from club members or at the
door.
Los Angeles, Calif., is the larg
est American city east of Reno,
Nev., and west of Denver, Colo.
“Not Probable Cause” Found
In Mangum Accident Case
“Not probable cause” being
found, charges of manslaughter
against J. T. Mangum, Rouge
mont and Durham resident, al
leged to have been driver of a
car which struck and fatally in
jured Drone Clayton, Person
man, of near Virgilina, Va., about
two weeks ago on the Durham
highway, near Roxboro, were
dropped Tuesday in Person Re
corders’ court.
This ends the case, which will
not be brought to higher court.
Mangum, a foreman for the
George W. Kane construction
company, had given bond of
SI,OOO.
Feature of the opening of Re
corder’s court this week was pre
sentation to Judge R. B. Dawes
of a handmade cedar gavel, work
of A. M. Long, Person jailer, who
spent about a month of leis
ure time carving the gavel.
Speech presentation was made
by W. D. Merritt, dean of the
Person bar, and an appreciative
People of City and County
Plan to Enjoy Their Holiday
Catholic Church
To Have Two
Services Todav
To be held on this Christmas
morning is an eight o’clock Mass
|at St. Mary’s and St. Edward’s j
j Catholic church, with the pastor, j
• Farther Cletus J. Helfrich, offi
| dating. Father Helfrich, who will j
I come here from his home at Hen- j
! derson for the service, will also
be the celebrant of a second Mass |
to be held immediately after the
first.
These will be the only church \
services to be held in Roxboro
today, although the Rev. Rufus
! J. Womble will be in Oxford this
1 morning to conduct services at the
Episcopal church in that City.
Joint Christmas eve service of
j St. Mark’s Episcopal church, of
which Mr. Womble is rector, with
the Presbyterian church was held
} at St. Mark’s, with the Rev. J. M.
j Walker, of the Presbyterian
j church, as speaker. Especially
j beautiful was the church interior,
I with candles lighting the altar,
the choir stalls and the windows.
Music, traditional hymns and
carols, was furnished by the com
bined choirs.
Young people at Roxboro First
Baptist church had a carol ser
vice Sunday night, while observ
ed then at Edgar Long Memor
ial Methodist church was the an
nual “White Christmas”. Held in
the afternoon was a family vesp
|er service at the Presbyterian
! church
’
To be continued this coming
Sunday will be the Christmas
theme, although few churches
will have formal programs. One
of the most attractive musical
programs of the season was that
presented by the combined choirs
of Long Mmemorial Methodist
church and the South Boston
choral club, in a rendition of the
\ cantata, “Christmas Dawn”, by
J Spross, final performance being
|in South Boston last Sunday as
-1 ternoon.
response was made byj Judge
Dawes, who personally thanked
the gavel-maker together with
members of the bar.
Also heard in Recorders’ court
were four cases of driving while
drunk, all defendants being white
men. One of them, Clomer Jones, i
is alleged to have been driver of
a machine involved in an acci
dent in which Johnnie Wilson re
ceived a broken leg. Jones was
sjentenitd to serve six months
on the roads and has elected to
serve the sentence rather than
pay the fine and costs.
Elmer Carver, who entered
plea of guilty, paid a fine of $lO
and the costs, wh3e David Tur
ner paid SSO and the costs, as did
B. V. Blalock. Driving licenses
were suspended in each instance.
Bound over to Superior Court
were Bunny Holt and Yaten
Martin,\white men, charged with
theft ofisl27 fronv Henry Holt,
Negro, atyout a week ago.
Buy DEFENSE
BONDS-STAMPS
NUMBER TWENTY-THREE
Quietness To Be Rule;
Stores Take One Day;
Many Family Parties Held
Closed for the holidays are
County and City administrative
offices, although most officials
have promised themselves only
one day, Christmas, as a respite
from routine duties.
Gone from store doorways are
the living Santa Clauses and the
stores themselves are closed for
a day of rest. Men who toiled to
make Christmas possible and wo
men who formed shopping bri
gades are at home today, or gone
to the country to visit relatives,
kinsfolk who take Christmas
more philosophically than their
City neighbors.
In other words, people in Per
son County and Roxboro are
ready to gather around home
fires and eat turkey, or go out
into the fields and woods to hunt
game that will be enjoyed to
morrow.
Longest holiday will be enjoy
ed by pupils in the public schools.
County and City schools closed
Friday and County u" J 'ts will.nor
open until December 31. Longer
holiday will be that of students
in City schools, who will take a
i vacation from books until Mon
day, January 5.
Coming under the lull is the
\ spurt of war activities which be
gan two weeks ago after Pearl
! Harbor. Announced today is a
partially complete list of work
| ers with Defense corps and plan
ned for Monday, December 29, is
a Court House meeting of wo
men interested in the Red Cross
Production (or sewing unit,
j Workers in the Welfare and
Health departments and with the
Farm agency and home demon
stration unit closed after a heavy
schedule, and in other words
Christmas is here and the war is
for a moment forgotten. Buyers
and sellers, old folks and young
have been pleased this year.
j
Jim T. Clayton
Rites Held At
Parents’ Home
Jim T. Clayton, 45, of Timber
lake, died at his home at 3:15
o’clock Saturday afternoon, death
being attributed to complications.
Funeral services were held Sun
day afternoon at two o’clock at
the residence of his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. James Madison Clay
ton, by Elder Lex J. Chandler,
with interment in the family
cemetery near the home.
Surviving, in addition to his
parents, are: his wife, Mrs. Min
nie Woodall Clayton; two sons,
James Thomas Clayton, Jr., and
Franklin Trent Clayton, and one
daughter, Miss Mary Frances
Clayton, and one brother Herbert
Young Clayton, all of the Tim
berlake community.
FARM ESTABLISHED TO
HELP OYSTER INDUSTRY
Beaufort, December 24. The
State of North Carolina, in co
operation with the U. S. Hah and
Fildlife Service, has established
a demonstration farm on North
River four miles from here, in an
effort to revive the once impor
tant State oyster industry.