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PAGE TWO PERSON COUNTY TIMES ■ | 1 " r - . A PAPER FOR ALL THE PEOPLE 1.8. MERRITT, EDITOR M. C. CLAYTON, MANAGER THOMAS J. SHAW, JR., City Editor. Pablished Every Thursday and Sunday. Entered As Second Class Matter At The Postoffice At Roxboro, N. C.. Under The Act Os March 3rd., 1879. —SUBSCRIPTION RATES— One Year $1.50 Six Months .75 Three Months 50 National Advertising Representative New York t Chicago ': Detroit : Atlanta t Phil*. Advertising Cut Service At Disposal of Advertisers at all times. Rates furnished upon request. News from our correspondents should reach this office not later than Tuesday to insure publication for Thursday edition and Thursday P. M. for Sunday edition. SUNDAY, MARCH 21, 1943 How Well Protected? The fire which last week destroyed Archibald Mur phy high school in Caswell County raises anew the question of adequate fire protection for county public school buildings, and should cause same serious thinking here ini Person. Few county school buildings, to our knowledge, have anything like adequate protection. Roxboro Fire Chief Henry E. O'Briant says there is only one protected school in Person. This, of course, leaves out of account those schools in the Roxboro dis trict which can depend upon service from Roxboro and Ca-Vel fire departments, and it should be said that all schools have, or should have, fire extinguishers. Main problem with fire fighting in rural schools is lack of water. Chief O’Briant suggests that schools could wisely provide water by catching rainfall off of roofs and run ning it into cisterns from which it could be pumped, or. if need be, carried by bucket brigades. We will let O’- Briant make his own elaboration of what schools can do byway of protection, although we do think that pre ventatives byway of keeping rubbish cleaned up have an equal importance, and that is imperative that school officials do their best to see to it that no persons handle Imatches carelessly or leave stoves or electrical equip ment in a hazardous condition. Fires in public buildings such as schools are always tragic and wasteful, but doubly so now, when it is dif ficult to secure replacement materials, let alone the la bor to put said materials together. We sympathize most deeply with Caswell’s Superintendent McSwain, but sympathy cannot restore his burned building. As Near Perfection A reporter for the Raleigh News and Observer, des cribing success there of Thursday night’s blackout said that Raleigh folks “saw the stars and the moon, that was all”. His woras can be quoted with equal truth in approximating the completeness of the blackout in Rox boro and Person County. People here were no longer disturbed by the three alarm signals. They blacked out and stayed out un til street lights and telephone messages gave the quiet all clear. This doe.g not mean that such perfection will obviate the necessity of having aditional practice black outs. but it does mean that citizens here are catching on to the idea of perfection. Landon C. Bradsher.Civilian Defense director, and other officials here were pleased. They might well be. There was no hurry, no confusion. Just the blackness. Without Stirring Dust Announcement that the now unused CCC buildings are soon to be torn down does bring to a head the ques tion of what Roxboro wants to do with the one building that is being offered by the War Department as a civic center and service club. The story has it that this one particular building is to be left standing until the title-holding committee makes up its collective mind about what should be done. It may be that the said building is in a bad state of re pair and it may be true that various groups represented on the title committee are doing some hemming and hawing over space-division of the spoils. It can even be true that some groups do not want the building as a gift and intend to have nothing to do with whatever promotion of goodfellowship for service men could be generated here, but it does remain clear that a decision should be reached. Our understanding is that a desirable, downtown lot has been offered by a cooperative citizen as a location, Seat Covers to fit Nearly every Model Car. Specia’ price 55.45 up. Car Batteries for Nearly every make and size 56.95 up. ECONOMY AUTO SUPPLY i-V ' ■ ; ■■ i l —All ■ 11111 l and that if conditions are at all feasible the Boy Scouts | may be interested in seeing that the building gets mov ed, provided they can have some space in it and the promise of the use of the entire structure after the war. We do agree that thorough investigation of costs of moving, together with a report on the condition of the building, should be made, and that some planned program for its operation should be arrived at. The main thing now is that the committee should make up its mind. Roxboro needs such a building and it is to be hoped that the committee will at long last come to that attitude. There has been time enough and courtesy, at least, demands that some action be taken. The Power And The Glory Most heart-rending story of the week concerns the death of a young Longhurst mother, the widow of a soldier, who gave her life while giving life to his twin sons. The boys live and so long as they do they will keep alive the memories of their parents, two young people who were caught up in the changes of war, but, who, nevertheless, met fate with respective and proper forms of valor. Quite as sad, with a difference, was the Friday morning act of suicide by which a Person soldier at home on leave ended it all. He had his reasons and they are not to be questioned now. but the distinction between his tragedy and that of the young mother of twins is obvious, although those most hurt in spirit are the members of their families, the ones who must go on with living. The war. like a knife in the night hits hard. It hits h| unexpected places. It strikes home in unexplain ables, and now and then lifts the clouds so that those of us who are left can feel the power and the glory ant’ the frailty of the human spirit. All three have been shown here during the week and we doubt not, will be i shown again. i WITH OTHER EDITORS In Right Direction Greensboro Daily News 1 Planting of 8.000 pine trees on the farms of Elmer and Campbell Stewart, of High Plains, brings the total of such plantings for this year in Person county to 15,000. We wish we had before us the record for the entire state. Not that we would expect to find that every Open Forum Roxboro, N. C. March 19, 1943 Mr. Willie R. Wilkerson, Chm. Person County Board of Education, Route 1, Roxboro. North Carolina Dear Sir: The recent disaster of the loss of the Archibald Murphy high' school in Caswell County im-j presses more deeply on us the necessity of making every safe-1 guard possible to guard against a similar disaster to our educa tional buildings in Person Coun ty- Lack of a water supply can usually be attributed to the ex tent of fire loss suffered by such buildings located in the rural j section cf a community. i I would like to suggest that to' i afford greater protection to such! buildings a cistern or pit be con structed near the schools in which water may be stored for| such an emergency. Such a cis tern should be of the following! dimensions or approximately so: 20 x 20 ft. with a depth of about 5 feet. Such a reservoir would, hold about 15,000 gallons of wa-| ter, and it would furnish an ex~| cellent emergency supply. Chief Bennett cf the Durham | Fire Department has made some suggestions to the Durham Board of Education with reference to their rural educational buildings, i and the source of supply of, water cculd be obtained by pip- 1 ing the surface water from thej roof through the drain pipes di-j reetty into this cistern. With! such a reservoir the fire fight-j ing apparatus from Roxboro,' Roxboro and Person County j With All Work Guaranteed, j No Job Too Large and None Toe. SmalL GEORGEW. KANE Roxboro, N. O. ’I PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO. N. C. Ca-Vel or in other near towns would be able to pump' Effective April lOth The Price of The PERSON TIMES COUNTY WILL BE $9.00 p > Year Tfa Advance New or Renewal Subscriptions Will be Accepted at the Old Price of $1.50 for as Many as Five Years in Advance of April, 1943, Provided They are Paid for by Aprii 10, 1943. After This Date the New Price of $2.00 Per Year Will Prevail; All Subscriptions Now Past Due Are $1.50 This Increase is Due to Increased Cost in Production of the Paper. Your Co-operation Will be Greatly Appreciated. Person County Times county in North Carolina had done as well as Person; but is there any sound reason why most of the 100 coun ties should not have? There is certainly enough of land going to waste to care for many times that number of pine trees and (most of it can be put to no better u?e. Encouraging as are reports of replantings, however, much remains to be done in the way of systematic pro motion. It may be that the time has co(me to tell opera tors ofl sawmills that they must accept responsibility for their swaths of destruction. It is certainly in order for the department of conservation and development to devote some of its best thought and pains to advertising the need for reforestation and to show how it may be done profitable. With the addition of a bureau of mines this newest of state departments begins to take on an importance which is difficult for those who have been chiefly con cerned with hunting and fishing licenses to realize. Too, it has sometimes seemed to us that over-emphasis has been placed on securing outside capital to exploit our natural resources and too little insistence that home folks conserve them. We hasten to concede that the board which fraimes the policies of the department has been composed of patriotic citizens with their hearts in their work; never theless there is need for more planning and greater drive. But it looks as we might be started somewhere. Any how we have more hope for Person’s 15,000 pines than for what came out of the last $15,000 expended adver tising for tourists. And we don’t disbelieve in that form of endeavor either. j f « water and perhaps save a part of the endangered building and materially reduce any fire loss. I would also like to suggest that no easily and inflameable materials like- paper or other ma-j j terials be stored in or under any| . rural school building. | If you are interested in such a j proposition I will be glad to 1 meet with your beard and dis cuss it at any time, and I be-j lfcve that such a safe guard would not only curtail any great fire loss, but would relieve your! j office of criticism in case of fire. 1 The details of such a plan are ( too lengthy to incorporate in a letter, but I assure you my de-! partment will be happy to co- 1 operate in any way. Yours truly, ■ H. E. O’Briant, Chief Roxboro Fire Department' r l > BUY BONDS TODAY! FRIENDLY SERVICE Standard Oil Co. Products. Telephone Service No. 4711 ROCK-INN SERVICE STATION I V Protect Your Home With Good -j Paint We sell Good Paint at sur prising low figures. See us, we will give you the cost of good Paint to repair your home. W. C. BULLOCK a—n— SUNDAY, MARCH 21, 1943 C*Z666 IAMBS. SAME. 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