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VOLUME XIV
Person Schools In
Receptive Mood For
Nine Month Term
Gouch Again
Heads Roxboro
District System
This District And
Schools In Several Per
son Districts Plan For
Longer Term. Others To
Follow.
Rcxboro District School Board,
of which Dr. B. A. Thaxton is
chairman, today announced re
election of Leon Couch for his
third term as district supervising
principal.
The Board met Thursday
night.
The Board at the same session
agreed to proposal for the ninth
month to be added to schools of
the district during the coming
year, discussion of the plan hav- (
ing been presented to the Board
by R. B. Griffin, Person Super
intendent of schools. .
Griffin this morning said that
numbers of Person school boards J
have taken similar action and
that others are expected to fol
low. Schools in which definite j
... .approval of the program .has
been secured, in addition to those,
in the Roxboro district, are
Bushy Fork and Mount TirzahJ
and Bushy Fork.
Griffin in his statement to the (
Roxboro district Boa I'd, a copy!
of which has been sent to all.
other schools in the County, in
• dicated that the new state law
passed by the 1943 General As
sembly all but makes it manda-j
tory that the ninth month be
adopted by each school if facul-J
ty enrollments are to be kept in- 1
tact.
He said, however, that ar-j
rangements can be made so that
schools will not run on an over
ly delayed schedule.
"The 1943-1944 calendar eli
minates all holidays except one
week! for’ Christmas. By teach
ing seven Saturdays during the
school term, schools oould close
on May 5.”
The Roxboro District Board in
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W. C. Bullock, Jr.,
Now At Maxwell
MAXWELL FIELD, Ala. Mar.,
14. William Cobb Bullock 1 , Jr.,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. C.
Bullock, of Roxboro, is now en
rolled as an aviation cadet inj
the Army Air Force Pre-Flight,
School for pilots at Maxwlel
Field, Ala.
Bullock attended Wake Forest
College and is a graduate of the
University of North Carolina,
where he was a student when he
was accepted as an aviation
cadet in the Army Air Forces.
Cadet Bullock began his pre
flight course at Maxwell Field,
the latter part of February
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; CONFERENCE
On Wednesday at 7 o’clock
the officers and teachers of first
church will meet in de-l
pqjfcnental conferences, and at
- 7:30 o’clock) the mid-week pray
er service will be held,
Mrs. Karl Burger is spending
al - Mtriiml fv»nfa.r
hospital, Va. . ....
PUBLISHED EVERT SUNDAY AND THURSDAY ROXBORO, N. C., SUNDAY, MARCH 21, 1943
Soldier Ends
Life Here
By Hanging
Rites For Ivey Clarence
Clayton May Be Held
Today Or Monday, De
pending On Arrival Os
Body,
Pvt. Ivey Clarence Clayton,
25, of the Chub Lake Road, Rox
; boro, and Fort Bragg, early Fri
day morning at the home of his
mother, committed suicide by
hanging.
Coroner Dr. A. F. Nichols,
called to the home about six
thirty o’clock that morning,
said the act took place in a barn
on the farm. Clayton, wearing
his uniform, took a cotton plow
1 line, fastened it to a log above
a second floor doorway, tied the
other end around his neck and
jumped off. His neck iwas broken
! and when his body was found!
his feet were touching the!
1 ground.
Clayton’s suicide was the sec-,
ond within a week in Person]
! County. Sheriff M. T. Clayton, j
] who went with Dr. Nichols, said!
' no motive is known for the sol-1
j dier's act. He entered the Army
in February 1942 under selective
] service and had been at home'
. for two or three days.
Door of the bam was reported
.to have been open about one
A. M., although members of the
] family did not find the body un
fit about six thirty o’clock. A
j son of the late Willie Clayton,
suivivors include his mother,
Mrs. Semora Harris Clayt m and
' a number of brothers and sis
ters.
The body was taken Friday
afternoon to Durham but will be
returned here for burial.
Funeral will be held today or
or Monday, depending on time
of return of the body here.
Brothers are listed as Jesse
Thomas, Mellie, Clyde, Willie,
Jr., Alvin and Earl, the last
named also in the Army, while]
sisters are Mrs. Algie Oakley,
and Miss Ada Sue Clayton.
Sisters are Mrs. Annie Oakley (
and Miss Ada (Sue Clayton, and
twd other brothers, Coy and
Maxie.
Corp. Pulliam To
i Be Here Soon
i
From Hawaii*
Corp. Cary Pulliam, of the
overseas service in Hawaii, land
ed this week in California after
twelve months in Hawaii and is
expected to arrive soon in Rox
boro for a visit with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Pulliam, at
Olive Hill.
Corp. Pulliam, who entered
the Amy under Selective Ser
vice, has been a fighting man
for the past eighteen months.
RETURN HERE
Mr. anc Mrs. Forney Hutchin
son, Jr., and son Forney, of
Tulsa, Okla., are now in Rox
boro. Mrs. Hutchinson, the form
er Miss Thompson, of Roxboro,
be g mi till remain kin
* 1 s m w w r ■ r *
while her husband is in service.
TIMES
[louch Will Continue as Head of Schools
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Leon Couch, last week, was re-elected for his third term as
supervising principal of Roxboro District Schools. He came |
here two years ago from Wayne County. Roxboro District
Schools will have a nine month term, beginning in September.
\
MRS. FLYTHE TO
SPEAK TUESDAY j
TO CENTRAL P.-T.A.]
Director Os School Safe- i
ty Program Is Well
Known Here.
i
Mrs. Bill Flythe, of Raleigh, |
of the public schools’ safety di-!
vision of the State Highway pa-|
trol, will be in Roxboro Tuesday]
afternoon to speak at March]
meeting of the Roxboro Central
Grammar school Parent Teacher]
Association.
The meeting will begin at 3:45
o’clock and Mrs. T. B. Brooks,
president, is anxious for a full
attendance. Members of the fifth
grade will present a Safety play
and devotionals will be lead by
the Rev. W. F. West!, pastor of;
Roxboro First Baptist church.
Mrs. Flythe, who has frequent
ly come to Roxboro in the in
terest of public school safety, is
well known here.
TO RALEIGH
Mrs. W. Murray Linker has
returned to Raleigh after visit
ing her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.
M. Fox.
Along The Way
With the Editor
Roxboro is garden conscious. We might say even a little
bit too much so. Some of the fellciws are biting off more than
they can chew and their ambitions are running away with
them. They are planning to do too much and they are refus
’ ing to take old age and natural laziness into consideration. A
! few days ago two men in this City who run a hardware store
here received three garden hand plows. These two men were
Elbert Moone and Charlie Wilkerson. They knew* how hard
the things were to push and they were of the opinion that no
one would want to buy them for that reason. It looked like
dead stock on their hands. Then there was the idea that they
themselves could use the things, but it was just a passing idea.
Elbert would have nothing to do with one and Charlie didn’t
care if he never saw a plow of any kind again as long as he
lived. Chat process of reasoning being eliminated, the two
owners began to look around for a sucker or two.
Now here’s the story. Who do you. guess bought the plows
1 was amazed when I heard as I know that it is just so much
money thrown away. The plows will never be used. Their
m and, w. c.
BULLOCK. (
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Rev. Mr. Wicker
Os Danville To
Be Here Thursday
The Rev. Norvell Wicker, of
Danville, Va., rector of Epiphany
church, will be speaker Thurs
day night at the third of a series
of Lenten services being held at
St. Mark’s Episcopal church.
Guest minister during the past
week was the Rev. John M. Wal
ker, Jr., of the First Presbyter
ian church. Present Thursday to
hear him were many members
of his own church, as well as re
gular communicants at' St. Mark’s
and additional visitors.
WINSTEAD ELL
Harry W. Wistead, prominent
Roxboro and Danville, Va., to
bacconist and warehouseman,
who on Thursday suffered a
heart attack at his Roxboro
home, is reported to be some
what improved.
AT HOME
Tom Hill Clayton has return
ed from Newport News, Va., and
is spending some time here with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. G.
Clayton.
Warning Os What Could Be
Here Seen In Caswell’s Blaze
Slaughterers, 1
Dealers And i
Others Meet j,
The Person County USDA |
War Board requests butchers,
slaughterers, and livestock
dealers and others who
slaughter cattle, calves, hogs,
and pigs, sheep and lambs
for sale to be| at the Court
house in Roxboro Tuesday,
March 23, at 4:00 P. M., to
discuss and make applica
tion for permits to continue
operations.
Under Food Distribution
Order Number 26 effective
midnight March 31, 1943
j every livestock dealer and
] agent who buys livestock for
j resale is required to obtain a
permit in order to continue
operations. Butchers and
slaughterers should come pre
j pared to furnish a monthly
I record of meat slaughtered
| during 1941 which is the base
| year for determining quotas.
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| NEW PEACE PLAN
PRESENTED BY
CHURCH GROUP
Churches Sponsor Unit
ed Nations Collabora
tion
NEW YORK, March 20.—Six
| proposals designed to point the
1 way to “a just and ! durable
j peace’"' were made public today
by the Federal Council of the
j Churches of Christ in America.
| The “six pillars of peace” were
I outlined to a luncheon gathering
'■ of civic leaders by John Foster
ulles, chairman of a commission,
formulated more than two years
ago by the federal council to]
study the basis for a lasting
| peace ,
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., a
1 guest at the luncheon, voiced his
i hearty approval of the sixteen
peace) program.
Dulles outlined a “statement
of political propositions under
lying a just and durable peace”
j which said the United States
I “ought now to accept for itself
and begin forthwith to realize in
co-operation with others.”
The proposals follow:
I—The peace must provide the!
political framework for a contin-j
uing collaboration of the United |
Nations and, in due course, of
neutral and enemy nations.
2. —The peace must make pro
vision for bringing within the
scope of international agreement
those economic and financial acts
of national governments which
have widespread international
repercussions. <
3. —The peace must make pro
vision for an organization to
adapt the treaty structure of the
world to changing underlying
conditions.
4. —The peace must proclaim
the goal of autonomy for subject
peoples, and if must establish in
tematioal organization, to assure
and to supervise the realization
of that aim.
SON BORN
Sergeant and Mrs. George E.
Crumpton announce Hie birth of
a aon, George Ey Jr., at Com
munity hospital, Wednesday,
March 17th.
Rites Held
For Mother
Os Twins
She Was Widow Os Pvt.
Andrew Jackson Bohan
on, Os Longhurst.
I
Funeral services for Mrs. Lil-i
lian Carver Bohanon, 21, of
Longhurst, whose death occurred
Thursday at Community hospital,:
were held Saturday afternoon at]
five o’clock at Longhurst Baptist!
church, with interment in Burch-i
wood cemetery.
Surviving are infant twin sons,
her mother and one sister.
Mrs. Bohanon, young widow
of Private Andrew Jackson 80-]
hanen, died at Community Hos-|
pifal an hour after giving birth 1
to twin sons. Private Bohanon
died December 22 at Myrtle
Beach, S. C., where he was sta
tioned with the U. S. Army.
The twins are reported as in
good condition.
Mrs. Bohanon is survived by
her mother, Mrs. Nettie Watson
Carver; one sister, Miss Gracie
Carver, both of Longhurst' and
her grandmothers, Mrs. Annie
Watson of Longhurst and Mrs.
Mary Carver of Roxboro, N. C.,
route 1.
GIFT CHECKS OF
RACKET TYPE IN
CIRCULATION
Woods Gets Letter From
Bank Official Warning
Os Practice.
I W. Wallace Woods, executive]
| secretary of Roxboro Chamber of
| Commerce, today said that the
i Chamber’s credit' bureau, super
i vised by Miss Dorothy Taylor,
during the week received from
J. W. McLendon, vice president
of the Commercial Bank of Lex
i ington, a “no account” report on
. a check cashed here by a Rox
boro establishment for a soldier,
said to be from Fort Bragg, whet
claimed the check was a “birth-j
day gift.”
It was, as far as the Roxboro;
establishment was concerned,
for the soldier took the money
and went on his way. The check
i was made out to the soldier, who
| identified himself as Carl Glad-
I die. On the back, with Gladdie’s
I endorsement was the name of al
Capt. Curtis McLark, of Fort i
Bragg. The check was signed in
the name of N. B. Graddie, but
both the signature and all other
writing on the check appeared
in the same handwriting.
Woods reports that the same (
“birthday check gift trick” has]
recently been worked in Durham]
and in South Boston, Va., and
he today issued a warning to]
merchants and others to be ex-j
ceedingly careful about cashing I
checks for soldiers and strangers, i
It has even been suggested
that persons cashing checks re
quire from such persons the
placing of thumb or finger prints
on the checks. i
BROTHER SUL
Mrs. W. C Buchanan and Mrs.
J. B. Whitt have been caßetTy
Dunn by tfoe iHnete of
brother, E. M. Slaugfrter.^Bue*
-HJHHL
NUMBER 47
O’Briant Says
Cisterns Offer
Protection Plan
Griffin Agrees That Per
son System Has No Bet
ter Protection Than Cas
well. O’Briant Offers To
Go Before Board.
Roxboro Fire Chief Henry E.
O’Briant, stirred by Thursday’s
destructive Archibald Murphy
school fire in adjoining Caswell
County, today advanced a plan
under which rural schools in Per
son County, in similar circum
stances as far as fire protection
is concerned, can have a more
adequate protection, and at lit
tle cost.
O’Briant’s plan, outlined in an
Open Forum letter published in
today’s issue of the Times, is the
simple one of constructing cis
terns near the schools. The cis
terns, catching rainwater off the
roofs of schools, could hold fif
teen thousand gallons of water
each and would furnish enough
water for use by City of Rox
boro or Ca-Vel Fire departments
| if they should be called into ser
] vice.
Person Superintendent o f
Schools R. B. Griffin today
agreed with O’Briant that fires
protection for Person rural
schools is inadequate. He has al
so agreed that O’Briant’s propos
al has distinct advantages and is
workable. Griffin also said that
Person rural schools are in no
better status as far as fire pro
aection is concerned than was
the Archibald Murphy school.
The O’Briant letter in today’s
1 Open Forum is addressed to W.
R. Wilkerson, of Bushy Fork,
chairman of the Person County
School board, and in the com-,
I munication O’Briant' offers
meet with the Board and furth
er explain the cistern plan.
Next meeting of thql Board
will be on Monday, April 5.
Wilkerson has been ill but
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SOUTH BOSTON
TOBACCO MEN
j DISCUSS GRADES
Continued Opposition Be
ing Shown T o Ceiling
Plan. i
SOUTH BOSTON, Va., March
i 20.—A large group of farmers
! from several counties gathered
iat the South Boston livestock
1
I market last week for a discussion
I of federal leaf grading, W. Jiolt
Edmunds, member of the board
of supervisors from Banister dis
trict, was present, and circulated
a petition in opposition to fed
eral grading and in favor of the
auction system, the same peti
tion which has been circulated
for the past several weeks.
Over 100 new signers were ob
i tained, with all present opposed
to federal grading and all want
ing the continuance of the auc
tion system!
An address was made by Ben*
ry H. Edmunds, of Halifax a*4