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"THEY GIVI THEIR LIVES-YOU LEND jMyClil YOUR MONEY" WarßondsToday VOLUME XIV Library Expansion' Plan Gets Approval Sen ice For i- 2 k Negroes May Be Furnished More Books Recessed. Directors Disucs Budget At Session Fridf(y, Plans for possible establish ment of a Negro bra.nr* of the Person County Public library were discussed with .approval at a meeting of the Board of Di rectors held here Finlay. Under rules of the. Sttate Li brary commission, -according to Miss Majorie Beale secretary, a small monthly appropriation from the State can be secured and it is expected ‘that the ser vices of Ruby Toy lor Hester, teacher-librarian at the Person County Training School, can be secured on a part time basis. Un der tentative plans discussed that afternoon, work bf the new urit. which may be undertaken this Summer, will be under supervi sion of Miss Ernestine Graft on. tri-county librarian. Cooperation of such Negro leaders as C. J. Ford and Annie May Tuck, of the Farm and Heine Demonstration divisions in Person County has been secur ed and also from T. C. Tillman, principal of Person County Training school and others and it is expected that a conference meeting will be held at an early ' date. Three hundred books from the now disbanded WPA library service have already been secur ed through the State Library Commission and plans are being made to convert st basement room in the Roxboro'Community house and Board of Education building, in which the Person County Public library is housed, into quarters for the new unit. Main reliance for other new books and for shelving and equipment will tbs up to Negro citizens in Roxboro and Person County. I R. B. Griffin, Person County Superintendent of Schools and a member of the Person Library board, assisted Miss Graftcn with drawing up intitial plans for the new Negro unit and suggested the use of the services of tbe Training School teacher-librar ian. Partial financial assistance for the new library unit may be (turn to page four, please) FATHER ILL J. T. Wade, former Person County jailer and a Roxboro and AlLensville ■ resident, father of Police Officer Charles Wade, is seriously ill at Community hos pital. RETURN VISIT Staff Sergeant Lewis E. Fulli um, 22, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. j T. Pullium, of Surl, who a few I weeks ago left for Salt Lake: City, "Utah, has returned to Rox- j boro for an additional furldugh. i He expects to be here about fif teen days before leaving for his new assignment. TO WASHINGTON t Leonard Earl Parham, of the [United States Army, Washington, Ison of {Mr. and Mrs. James Par hiam, of Roxboro, returned to, [Washington Thursday night after Upending several days here, < PERSON I’lmus PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY AND THURSDAY ROXBORO, N. C\, SUNDAY, MAY 16, 1943 State Board Has Big List Os Problems Governing Rules Set For Bo4y Os Which LieuL G«w.. Harris Is Chairman, RALEIGH, May 15. The new State Beard of Education had I such a full business calendar last jweek that it did not take up the lengthy report submitted by its “Organziation Study Committee” cm the administrative setup for public schools under the newly [created board. I The rrport will be considered lat a special meeting to be held j here on Monday, May 24, at 110:30 in the irtcrnrng. • Among matters disposed of by jthe board at Thursday’s all-day session wu re adoption of amend iments making more lenient the requirements for A and B teach !er certificates and providing l“war p.rmits” for teachers now | not holding certificates; a deci jsion not to request draft defer jment for superintendents and ■ principals of public schools; ap 'pointment of a committee to con fer with the Commissioner of In surance on the "‘fire problem” of 'public school buildings; and ap ! proval of a list of county and i city superintendents certified to | the board. Committee Report ■ In its report, the Organization j Study Committee offered its 're commendations for defining I principles and legal responsibili 'iies 'cf the board anti for defin (turn to page four, please) MS. ROGERS GETS GASOLINE PROTEST FORMS AT CLUB Possibility That Motor Club Protest Is Connect ed With Ickes’ Com plaints. Mrs. Linda T. Rogers, Roxboro manager of the Carolina Motor club branch office, yesterday re ceived from Coleman W. Roberts, of Charlotte, president, a bread side bulletin containing Motor club allegations as to unfairness and inequality Qf gasoline ration ing and distribution in North and South Carolina. In the sheet t, as reprinted | from the Charlotte News, Ro jberts, in an appeal to Printiss M Brown, OPA administrator, cites 19 instances in which he alleges that gasoline has been hauled and re-hauled over the same route and sold at Doint of ori ginal destination. It is also al leged that pipeline gaoiine is ba ling injudcioiusly distributed. Quoted in the sheet is a letter 'from Gov. Olin D. Johnson, of South Carolina, relative to ef forts to secure fairer distribution of gasoline and incorporated in the document is an appeal from Roberts that citizens write to their Senators and Congressmen to make demands that action to relieve the present situation be taken. Mrs. Rogers, who has numbers (turn to page four, please) Second Expansion i Flem D. Long Flan D. Long, chairman of the Person County Public Library j Board, last week at a meeting of the Board joined Board mem bers in approval of plans for sec ond expansion of library facili-' ties within the year, namely creation of a Negro branch ser jviee. Earlier in the year the par lent Library doubled its space I facilities in its present building. I PERSONHEALTH DEPARTMENT TO TEACH MIDWIVES /'« Classes Will Begin Mon i day Morning In City Says Richardson. On Monday, May 17th, sixteen or more Person and Roxboro midwives will register for their I'first day cf class instruction on | “Becoming a Safer Midwife to |My Patient.” Four days of class es will be held at the Person ! Health Department, in Roxboro, I beginning at 9a. rra. Midwives jare required to attend three days I of these classes in -order to renew | their permits for llie coming ! year | Each midwife will be given a I physical examination including jthe Wassormann test. There w r ill |be instructive movies; dsmon jstrations, informal us Iks, and 1 open discussions. Dr. William P. Richardson, of 'Chapel Hill tri-district health of- Ifioer, feels that midwraes have | made scant? progress in. their knowledge of the danger symp toms of pregnancy, and in clean liness. Each year their knowl edge is refreshed and enlarged in class meetings. Every midwife is invited to at tend the meetings and especially to be here for the beginning ckiss on Monday. Stephen Georges To Leave Today For Visa Finals Stephen Georges, Roxboro case operator, will leave Sunday night for Windsor, Ontario, Can ada, where he will spend several days complying with regulations pertaining to re-installment of passport visas. This is expected to be final step in compliance and will enable him to file ap plication for American citizen ship. i* I As native of a British-control led Greek territory he is now a British subject.' The case involving his pass port visa developed about five years ago and only this month was settlement rached by Wash ington authorities. Finals Held At Bethel Hill Feature Play i Class Play Given In Con junction With Graduat ing Exercises. At Bethel Hill high school closing exercises the Baccalau reate sermon was held at the Bethel Hill Baptist church, with Rev. Rufus J. Womble, pastor of i the Episcopal church, Roxboro, delivering the sermon. On Wednesday, May sth., class day and graduating exercises were held. The class day play, ‘‘Southern I Rosary,” by Margaret S. Kelly, J was presented by the Senior I class. The setting was a rose j I garden at the Fairfax home. The time present and past. The stage was arranged with columns with roses climbing cn them. Colored lights made a picturesque sc.ne. The first scene’s characters were: General Pickett, Edward Gillis; Marse John, Dolian Harris; Miss Constance, Helen Talley. Nancy Merritt, Majorie Coates, and Wilson Evans planned the com mencement exercises from an old program of sixty years ago in this scene. In the second scene, all Sen iors were grouped around in the jold garden, “The Southern Ros- [ ary,” giving the class day pro jgram, divised from Nancy Mer ■ ritt’s grandmother, Miss Con [stance. The. gcn4.jal theme being j old-fashioned, the girls wore 'evening gowns and this boys j dressed formal with high collars, (Turn to page four please) I I j Woody Jones, | Os Roxboro, j Fraternity Man | RALEIGH, May 15. A chap iter of Sigma Chi, nationally J known fraternity, was installed at N. C. State college at exer cises ending Saturday .night. Dr. William B. Ricks, of Nashville, Tenn., grand consul of the na tional organization, presided. Dr. James S. Thomas, of Mi ami, Fla., former president of Crysler Institute of Engineering at Detroit and Clarkson college jcf technology at Potsdam, N. Y., I delivered the principal installa tion address at a banquet, when | examination of students in Sig ma Chi, the petitioning chapter (turn to page four, please) Along The Way With the Editor Robert Smith, a young fellow of this City who works for j the Person County Times, went fishing; last Monday and cai;ght a fish. The fish was out of season and some fellow wh© was around warned Robert that he would be fined $50.00 if <he took that fish from the pond. Now Robert likes fish, but not that kind of fish. A fish that cost $50.00 jiust wouldn’t agree with his wiealki stomach and he threw that fish back in the pond with a splash that could be heard for miles around. 1 Emery Foushee is looking more like Gilmer Masten every day that he lives. For the past several days he has been busy painting over at his htme. What the job will look like when completed is rather hard to say but he is doing his dead level best to do a good job and save money. He tried to get his former partner, Coleman King, to help him with the job but Coleman has about as much use for hard work as he has for a snake. Wanted someone to help Calude Harris in the pressing business. The other day he was working in his shop and he actually broke a sweat. That’s against every rule that he , ever observed in his life and it can’t happen again. Former Player j - < 'W&M; ill d. : sill! ■ 1 FRANCIS POWELL ' Francis Powell, of the Signal |Corps, a former Ca-Vel baseball ! player, whose parents live here, J entered the Army in February ; 1942 and was at one time station ■ed at Camp Crowder, Mo. He at | one time played with the Leaks- 1 1 vi\le ball team. In civilian life j |he was connected with Prcctor . land Gamble. ! i CAVEL SCHOOL SEVENTH GRADE EXERCISES HELD Names Os Pupils Graduat ing Listed By Principal. j Seventh grade graduating cxcr [eises at Ca-Vel school were held (Thursday, May 6th. with an in teresting program under direc 4.iiDn of Mrs. D’Arcy Bradslier. j Invocation was'by tb? Rev. Rufus J. Womble. The salutatory [was by Willie Jean Elvington. Two songs "The Blue Danube” j (Straus) and “Evening Prayer” i (Humperdinck) were given by ! seventh grade girls, j Speaker of the evening, the [Rev. Mr. Womble, pastor of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, was 1 introduced by S. M. Ford. Mr. [Womble urged the pupils to as jpiro to higher things of life as they pass along its path. | Rev G. H. Ellmore presented [certificates of promotion to sev jenteen seventh grade graduates. Perfect attendance certificates [were given to a large number of [pupils and Mrs. Frank Williams, 'school nurse, presented home j nursing certificates to pupils re cently completing the course, taught in the school this year for the first time. Honor awards were presented to three pupils by Mr. Ford, who paid tribute to them, for their [achievement. A seventh grade scholarship medal was given to ' (turn to page four, please) Commissioners For County And City To Have Joint Session Tobacco Men To Meet Again On Tuesday Another Conference Cal led In Raleigh By Broughton After Lead ers Fail To Agree. Raleigh, May 15.—A meeting ‘ of tobacco growers and: tobacco 1 Iwarehousemen will be held Tues !day, May 18, in Governor j Broughton’s office to discuss steps for avoiding as much as possible a conflict next fall be tween marketing of tobacco and harvesting of cotton, peanuts, hay and small grain crops. Representatives of tobacco growers and warehousemen held [separate meetings here yester j day, and after discussing the .problem, recommended simultan jecusly to Governor Broughton j that he : call the joint moo ting ! ntxt week. The Governor agreed !to do this. Warehousemen yesterday stud lied various proposals to adjust jthe selling seasons, warehouse kales day, and warehouse quotas jin connection with the farm la bor problem. The United States , Tobacco Association, composed jof buying interests, offered a jplan several weeks ago but ware housemen countered with their [own plan. State Senator J. C. Eagles of Wjlson presided at yes | (turn to page four, please) I School Head Deferments Not Sought Policy Outlined As Stale Board Meets. Satterfield And Fitzgerald Named To Person County Board. RALEIGH, May 15. The state board of education last week refused to take any action on a request that it ask the state selective s:rvice system to defer principals and superintendents of schools. Shpt. Clyde A. Erwin said, in presenting the question, that he [was only passing the request a llong to the board and was not [making any recommendation. He pointed out that many superin tendents and principals were un married, and that some who were married and had no children were being drafted. The board, in refusing to take any action, pointed out that to ask deferment of the school men would create a highly demoral izing situation within the state. It was further pointed out, that many of the positions being va cated by principals and superin tendents because of army induc tion, could be filled by women. Person Men The board approved the ap pointment' of 147 principals for the coming school year and nam ed Dr. J. D. Fitzgerald and Clyde Satterfield to the Person county {Turn to page four please) BACK YOUR BOYClflr Buy an Additional NUMBER 63 Wednesday Will Be Date For Slaughter Topic Meeting Will Be In Grand Jury Room At Court House. I City of Roxboro and Person j County Commissioners, in order ■to consider further the project ■ for erection of a slaughter house lor abattoir, will meet here Wed nesday night at eight o’clock in j n joint session, according to W. j Wallace Woods, Chamber of I Commerce secretary, and W. B. j Tayl-or, Person sanitarian, who last week became interested in 'seeing the abattoir matter [thoroughly discussed. ! The meeting will be in the ! Grand Jury room at the Court House. Taylor, in a statement releas ed this morning, said that Dr. W. P. Richardson, of Chapel Hill, i director of the tri-county health [department, plans to be here for jthe meeting and that W. Murray Linker, of Raleigh, a State ; Health Department official, may [also attend. j Problem of an abattoir for the Roxboro and Person area was (first discussed last week at a [meeting of the City Council, [where the view was expressed .that if such a building is to be [erected, the erection should be a. joint City and County project. Bc-ing urged to attend the ses sion are Person and Roxboro ■ butch:r’s and sla'ugrterers. Inter ested in seeing that something is (done to comply with the War 1 Production Board request for [construction of a slaughter house .here is J. Y. Blanks, Person re presentative of the Board. ( It has been pointed out here 1 that abattoirs are already in use in Hillsboro, Durham and Ox [ford and that if one is not built jin Roxboro much of meat that [should remain in this City and County will be taken to other abattoirs, with consequent crea tion of a meat shortage here. CHAPTER MEETING Person Chapter of the Daugh ters of the Confederacy will meet j Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. R. Cliff Hall at her Court street residence. Ajh interesting pro gram has been planned and a full attendance is desired. Presi dent is Mrs. Ralph Cole. AT CHAINUTE FIELD j Pfc. Robert Estes Whitten, son jof Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Whitten, of (Roxboro, is now stationed at I Ghaniute Field, HI., near Chicago, (Where he is attending an air j corps school. CEILING PRICES WASHINGTON, May 15. Dollar - and - cents maximum prices on eight canned fruits and vegetables will go into effect in 130 metropolitan centers next week, probably Monday, the Of fice of Price Administration said 1 today. Roxboro is not one of the 130 . centers.
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