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the Editor
,;»J, tltttslftion of the city known as Sunset Hills there
•jj ve*. a name of Stovall. Now a large number of
mmmm#* *«> there, but this story is about one Stovall.
AS #f|£eople over there have gardens and there is a Negro
mak ajboad town who does all of the plowing in that locality,
with someone around the city this week, he
* was 3mßtf afcolit the people that he worked for. Said he, “All
rt&Mrtprt urhk livp over there are hard workers in their gar
? " all worlja and does a good job ’cepting Mr. SNOW
that rnan just won’t work in his garden a tall”.
old friend Jim Brodhead in town Friday. Jim
PwWwl WI&4 for a toumber of years and was connected with A. T.
Baker and Company. He looked about the same except that he
[ <*?' inad more bay Window than when he was here last and a larg
npmber of gray hairs. Must have had some money because
'Vh* wofe atofe bought clothes and shoes.
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M i : f OVER TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND
RA&JSIGH, June 19. Adjutant Gen. J. Van Metts said
>5 that 215,000 Tar Heels were now serving in the various branches
' of the armed services, including approximately 41,500 members
of the state’s national guard.
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>-. General Metis, who is the state’s selective service officer,
said that 158,257 of the total had entered the army through
selective service, and that 71,150 others, were serving in the
army, navy, marines, coast guard and special service branches.
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SHEEP FROM SKY, MAYBE
V NATIONAL STOCKYARDS, 111., June 19. Don’t be sur
prised one of these years if you hear sheep baa-ing about 3,000
feet straight up. It will be a southwest rancher shipping by
H . airplane to take advantage of a quick rise in the livestock mar
j&JT k*t«. : \ ft -
A good many hard-headed veterans of the stockyards con
- fidently predict aerial transportation of livestock after the war.
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jjfr CONGRESS GOES AFTER ELMER’S NECK
jj&, WASHINGTON, June 19. A coalition of house Demo
> v crats and Republicans voted tentatively to eliminate appropria
te, tions for the domestic branch of the office of war information
from the war agencies appropriation bill.
L. M. Yates Goes To
I Helena As Principal
ROLE OF TEACHER
"PRAEED IN TALK
;aHT INSTITUTE
Bp
P Primary Teacher Declar
ed To Have Important
Work In Nation.
GREENSBORO, June 19— The
primary teacher does not have to
be limited by any inadequate or
. traditional, indifferent or stupid
school program, for “the business
of caring for children is bigger
than the school, bigger than the
school plus the home, bigger
than the community it is our
bequest to civilization,” Dr. Jean
Betzner, told her associates in
the southeastern regional confer
ence of the Association for Child
hood Education at the closing
session Thursday afternoon at
Woman’s college.
Conservation of the nation’s
children through examination of
all that touches the life and de
velopment of the child was the
thread which ran through the
entire three-day intensive confer
ence, said Dr. Betzner, of the
faculty of Teachers college, Col
umbia university, and president
elect of the national association,
in summarizing and evaluating
th,e program.
Recognition of the fact that
each child is of the utmost im
portance was urged by Dr. Betz
ner on the 200 primary education
leaders from eight southern
states.
Out of the conference, too, said
Dr. Betzner, has come a convic
tion that whatever the primary
teacher does is conspicuous and
counts, that she is needed, that
she does not have to work alone.
TO CONFERENCE
W. Wallace Woods, executive
secretary of Roxboro Chamber
of Commerce, on Tuesday will
go to Winston-Salem for a dis
trict Economic Conference to be
held at Hotel Robert E. Lee.
Second Change
Within Fold
Made In Week
Native Os Wake County
Has Had Six Years At
Mount Tirzah.
L. M. Yates, for the past three
years principal of Mount Tirzah
high school, has been elected
principal at Helena high school,
succeeding J. L. Hester, resigned.
Yates first came to Person
County from Nashville sjx years
ago and during his first three
years at Mount Tirzah was direc
tor of athletics.
He is a native of Wa'ke Coun
ty and is a graduate of Wake
Forest college, class of 1934.
Yates said today that he and
members of his family will move
from Roxboro to Helena, proba
bly in August. His election to
head Helena took place at a
meeting of the Helena school
board held Thursday and was of
ficially announced today by
Person Superintendent R. B.
Griffin.
Hester, a native of Person
County and a graduate of Duke
University, last week resigned
his position at Helena in order
to become supervising principal
of Roxboro district schools.
ON THE BOOKS
HIGH POINT, June 19. High
Pointers, aroused over the do
ings of juveniles and all set for
some kind of curfew for youngs
ters who throng the uptown
bright spots at unforgivable
night hours, may be surprised to
learn that the city already has a
curfew law on its books approx
imately 25 years old.
BENEFIT RECITAL
Twin City quartet, of Balti
more, Md., will sing Friday, July
2, at 8 o’clock at Person Coun
ty Training school under auspi
ces of an organization headed by
William Nichols, of Roxboro.
PERSON TIMES
VOLUME XIV
George W irtz, Naval
Officer And Former
Coach Loses His Life
Baptists End
Leadership
Conferences
Many Young People And
Adults Take Training
Courses.
Roxboro Baptists at First Bap
tist church on Friday night con
cluded a six day revival and
Sunday school training course in
which instruction was given to
a large group of young people.
The services, which began Sun
day and were chiefly held in the
religious education building,
were similar in character to con
ference sessions frequently held
at Meredith and Wake Forest
college.
Included on a roll of twenty
or more speakers and leaders
was L. L. Morgan, of Raleigh.
Workers trained at the Confer
ence here will be expected to as
sist with associational programs
throughout Person County and in
other sections of the State.
Feature of the closing session
was a social function at which
refreshments were served. Pas
tor of the host church is the Rev.
W. F. West.
CLARK'S REPORT
ON CONTROLS IN
HOSPITAL GIVEN
Grows Out Os Alleged
Rape Case Which Oc
curred In May.
RALEIGH, June 19. Gov
ernor Broughton made public
! this week a report received from
State Sen. W. G. Clark, chairman
of the board of directors of the
state hospital for the insane
here, on an investigation conduc
ted by the board into the attemp
ted rape of a white woman pa
tient by a Negro orderly May 5.
The orderly, Roy Baker, 30,
was found guilty at the June
term of Wake Superior court of
assault with intent to commit
rape and was sentenced to 12-15
years.
Clark headed the investigation
by the board of directors at the
request of the Governor.
In his report, Clark said that
“every possible and appropriate
action” has been taken to pre
vent recurrence of such crimes,
and he detailed certain measures
that had been taken.
“As a result of conditions dis
closed by our investigation,”
Clark told the Governor, “the
use of male orderlies in women’s
buildings has been discontinued;
the locks on women’s wards have
been changed so that the keys
necessarily in possession of or
derlies for the men’s buildings
will not fit locks on the wards
of the women’s division. These
precautions should prevent a re
currence of any similar criminal
act.”
The board directed that “a
more careful check be made on
the past records of all employ
ees,” both through the employ
ment office and the office of the
business manager.
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AT RIDGECREST
Miss Dorothy Taylor, of Rox
boro and Semora, secretary to W.
Wallace Woods of Roxboro
Chamber of Commerce, is spend
ing her vacation at Ridgecrest.
PUBLISHED EVERT SUNDAY AND THURSDAY ROXBORO, N. C., SUNDAY, JUNE 20, 1943
E. E. Bradsher’s
Son-In-Law Was
Popular In City
Wirtz Had Been Recent
ly Advanced In Rank
And Sent To University
Os Wisconsin.
Chief Petty Officer George W.
Wirtz, of Princeton, Ind., and
Roxboro, is reported to have
been killed Thursday in a train
accident at Napanee, Ind., accord
ing to a message received here
Friday by his father-in-law, E. E.
Bradsher, Sr.
Funeral arrangements are in
complete but interment is expec
ted to be in Princeton.
Wirtz, a graduate of Wake
Forest college, where he had a
distinguished career as an ath
lete, especially in football, had
recently been promoted and was
in charge of Navy athletics at
the University of Wisconsin.
Wirtz, for four years athletic
director at Roxboro high school,
married Miss Annie Long Brad
sher, now in Sian Francisco, Cali
fornia. Other survivors include
his parents, of Princeton, Ind.
In Roxboro Wirtz became a
popular figure, both in social cir
cles and at Roxboro high school,
where he coached football and
taught history. About a year ago
he resigned his coaching position
and entered the Navy as a phy
sical instructor. His marriage to
Miss Bradsher occurred about
three years ago at St. Mary’s and
St. Edward’s Catholic church, of
which he was a member.
Now in San Francisco with
Mrs. Wirtz is her sister, Mrs. Ben
Brown, whose husband is in the
Army. One of her brothers, 1
Lieut. E. E. Bradsher, Jr., of the
Army, left Roxboro Friday after
spending several days here with
members of his family, and an
other brother, Lieut. D’Arcy
Bradsher, of Fort Bragg, was
still here when the message a
. bout Wirtz was received.
Wirtz came to Roxboro as soon
as he completed his college
course. When he joined the Na
vy he was first sent to Norfolk,
Va., and subsequently to San
Francisco, California, where his
wife now lives. She was expect
ing to join him in Wisconsin
next month.
Wirtz’s father has gone to
scene of the accident. Further
details are not yet known here.
War Garden Has
Cure For Worries
For City Woman
Mrs. Pearl Singleton, of
Charles street, Roxboro, a wi
dow, who has one son, Monroe
Singleton, in the Air Corps Tech
nical school, Keesler Field, Miss.,
a grown daughter at home and
three smaller children on a farm,
believes in “Victory Gardening”
as a cure for war-time worries.
Early in the morning and late
in the afternoon Mrs. Singleton
is in her garden, running strings
and driving stakes that hold up
pea vines and bean plants.
The garden ruils clear out to
the edge of the street. Mrs. Sin
gleton does not believe in wast
ing space and she is convinced
that gardening is good for the
soul and Toody and that it offers
insurance against too great a de
pendance on ration point values. ,
V. C. Taylor Os
Bethel Hill Will
Resign Position
_ r ■ „ _
V. C. Taylor, for the past
year teacher of vocational agri
culture at Bethel Hill high
school, has resigned, according
to announcement made today
by R. B. Griffin, Person Coun
ty Superintendent of schools,
who said that E. N. Meekins,
of Raleigh, district supervisor
of agricultural teachers, here
yesterday for a conference,
gave assurances that a succes
sor to Taylor will be found.
Taylor, who came to Rox
boro from Durham, is a mem
ber of Roxboro Rotary club.
He has made no announcement
of future plans.
Library Gains
In Year At
Double Figure
Beard Members Pleased
With Progress, Consider
Tentative Budget.
Miss Ernestine Grafton, tri
county librarian, at a meeting of
the Person County Public Li
brary board held Friday, cited
figures to show that circulation
in the past year has increased
from 15,106 to 31,393, while the
percentage of circulation per
borrower has jumped from 10
percent to 17 percent.
Presented to the Board at the
same time were othr details of
the itemized rport given this
month to the Person County
Commissioners and included in
the statement was a record of re
cent establishment of contract
service with the Caswell Coun
ty Confederate Memorial library,
a service that is working out to
the advantage of both Person
and Caswell Counties.
Approved by the Person Board
members was the tentative bud
get for the Person library for
the new fiscal year, 1943-1944,
the amount set being $2,575, a
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British Not Ready
For War At First,
Brodhead Declares
BUSHNELL HART,
FAMED TEACHER,
DIES IN BOSTON
Was For Years On Facul
ty At Harvard Univer
sity.
BOSTON, June 19. Albert
Bushnell Hart, professor emeri
tus of Harvard University, whose
fame as a historian, was world
wide, died Thursday almost on
the eve of his 89th birthday.
Active despite his age he
would have celebrated his 89th
birthday July 1— he had main
tained quarters in Harvard’s
Widener library even after his
retirement as chairman of the
university’s department of gov
ernment in 1926. f
His international reputation
was that of a great historian, an
accurate forecaster of important
events and an authority on Geo
rge Washington, whom he
thought of as “ond of the most
vital, active, eager, downright
men in history”.
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Virginia’s Ban On
Pleasure Driving
Nets Local Man
CAMP CHEROKEE
OPENS WEDNESDAY
FOR STAFF WORK
Regular Season Begins
On Sunday, June 27.
Camp Cherokee, near Reids
ville, will open on Wednesday,
June 23, for boys taking the
Emergency Service Course and
Camp Staff Training. This course
is open to all First Class Scouts
fourteen years of age and above.
The cost for Wednesday through
Saturday is $14.00. About fifty
■ are expecting to attend.
The first regular camping ses
ion will open on Sunday after
noon, June 27, at 3:30 o’clock.
About 90 campers are expected.
The camp will be open for the
next four weeks following.
A new dock is being built on
the lake with two good diving
boards. Five canoes and six boats
are being re-conditioned and all
indications point to one of the
biggest and best camping per
iods in the history of the council.
All Scout leaders attending camp
with their troops will be able to
complete the course of Troop
Camping and will be given much
helpful information toward con
ducting well-rounded Scout pro
grams. An excellent staff of
I fourteen capable Scouts and
leaders has been chosen and
several junior staff members
will be selected from among
those taking Emergency Service
Course. Scout Executive E.
Pierce Bruce will be Camp Di
rector and assistant executive
John W. Wheeler will be assis
tant camp director. Each district
of the council is urged to send
in what other camp registrations
they will have as soon as possi
ble.
Says Nation
Made Up For
Delay In Year
Man Who Was On Spot
When War Came To
Europe Recites Adven
tures.
James Brodhead, one - time
Roxboro citizen, but now a resi
dent of Cincinnati, where he is
connected with Proctor and Gam
ble, a company for which he
traveled extensively in Europe
during and prior to the outbreak
of* World War H, on Thursday
night shocked some Roxboro Ro
tarians by telling them that Eng
land in 1938 was not ready to
fight and that Chamberlain’s
part in the Munich pact, in the
light of circumstances, was not
discreditable.
Brodhead, who explained his
last remark by saying that
Chamberlain by his action saved
England from an invasion at a
time when she was not strong
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NUMBER 73
John L. Duncan, Os
Route 1, Allegedly
V iolated Ruling
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Danville OPA Takes Gas
Coupons And Expects
Roxboro Board To Back
Up Judgement.
Philip L. Thomas. Person OPA
j chairman, today said that hear
ing in the case of John Lewis
Duncan, of Route 1, Roxboro,
who surrendered A and B gaso
line ration books to the Dan
ville, Va., GPA Board after hav
ing been charged there with
pleasure driving, will not be
held until Tuesday or Wednesday
of next week, pending return to
Roxboro of Sam Byrd Winstead,
chairman of the Person hearing;
panel, who is out of the City,
i Danville, Va., OPA authorities
:on Thursday returned Duncan’s
| coupon books to the Person of
| fice, alleging discrepencies in li
| cense numbers. Thomas today'
received from Danville an anony
i mous letter indicating that
, charges against Duncan were
| without foundation and that
Danville’s OPA had better be
i looking out after native Virginia
j and Danville violators,
j North Carolina has no pleasure
I driving ban and the case is re
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CASWELLSTAFF
LOOKING FOR MAN
WHO STOLE CASH
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Oscar Lewis, Os Pelham,
Has $1,500 Stolen From
His Home.
YANCEYVILLE, June 19.
Deputy Sheriff Roy Fowlkes and
other Caswell County officers
are still busy in an investigation
of a robbery which occurred early
Sunday morning' of last week at
i the home of Oscar Lewis, of Pel
ham, which cost the farmer $1,500
in cash.
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis were a
sleep in one room and the child
ren were in other bedrooms.
Early Sunday morning Mrs.
Lewis was awakened by some
body striking a match in the bed
room. She sat up in bed, awaken
ed her husband and gave an a
larm by shouting. The dim fi
gure of a man—she believes he
was a white man—was seen to<
snatch Lewis’ trousers and flee
from the home.
Several guns and revolvers
were in the house, but none was
handy at the moment and so the
theif got a start from the house.
Lewis jumped into his car with
his revolver and sped down
Route 29, hoping to catch the
thief, but missed him at a point
where the highway forks.
A door to the house was un
locked.
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AT ALLENSVILLE
Evangelistic services will be
gin Sunday morning at Allens
ville Methodist church. Regular
Sunday night services will be
held at the Brooksdale church.
WITH PARENTS i
Lieut. F. E. Bradsher, Jr., who
has been stationed in Tennessee,
spent a few days with his par
ents here. He and Mrs. Bradsher,
Jr., will go to Denton, Texas.