Newspapers Contain the Living History of THeir Community bate Reuis Bulletins | COMMISSIONERS STRUGGLE WITH PERSON BUDGET M. Banks Berry, Person County Commissioner, this after noon said that Commissioners, now in a special budget session, will not be able to announce the new tax rate for the fiscal year until after the meeting is concluded. At time the Times went to press the were still in session, DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT TO BE AT LEA’S CHAPEL The Rev. Dr. F. S. Lov, of Durham, district superintendent of the Methodist church, will conduct the third quarterly con ference of Person Circuit Sunday morning at Lea’s Chapel. It is expected that matter of a successor to the lq,te Rev. F. B , ‘ Peele, pastor of Person Circuit, will be discussed. JACK GETS DVORCE FROM HANNAH NEW YORK, July 7. Jack Dempsey was granted an in terlocutory divorce decree on grounds of adultery from Hannah Williams Dempsey, following a 19-day icourt fight which aired the beatings and cheatings that characterized their life. Where Justice Lived Nearly 50 Years * m - '■ , ?• ' C'- '-- y ..,k> yjt fir | IN 1883, THIS WAS PERSON’S NEW COURT HOUSE George W. Brown, a Hillsboro contractor, at a cost close to SIO,OOO, built the Court House shown above, “of more modern style—-yet not stylish enough to hurt’’. It replaced a frame structure that in 1883 seemed “small and antiquated”, and was in turn replaced by the present building in 1930. Since 1792, all Person Court Houses have been mn the same site in the center of the City of Roxboro. E. E. Bradsher Will EL Person School Board’s Chairman HUES CONDUCTED FOR MRS. WALKER JIJ HER RESIDENCE Mother Os Mrs. Taft Cozart And Mrs. Charles 'Evans, 11, Dies At Home. Mrs. Irene Carver Walker, 52, of Roxboro, wife of William B. Walker, of this City and Atlanta, died Monday night at her home here after a long illness, death being attributed to complica tions. Funeral was held Wednesday ..afternoon at lour o’clock at the Jjome, with the Revs. H. B. §£nderson, of Durham, pastor of ||race Baptist church, and W. T. ‘ lledlin, of Roxboro Circuit, offi ajrting. Interment was in the Clayton family cemetery. mmmas a member of North church. Sui|||voS*/iftclude, in addition to her husband, one son, Bill Walkeß of Roxboro, two daugh • - Mrs. Cosart, of Rox -1 Mrs. .Charles Evans, Also two September First Set For Opening Under New Plan AH But Christmas Holi days Will Be Eliminated For Uine Month Term. ’ E. E. Bradsher, Sr., of Rox ' boro, since 1929 a member of the ' Person -County Board of Educa tion, is new chairman of the 1 Board, succeeding the late W. R. Wilkerson, who died last month after having served as chairman for thirty years. , Election of Bradsher to office occurred at a quarterly meeting of the Board held here Monday. Robert L. Hester, of Bushy Fork, at the same time was welcomed as a new member of the Board, succeeding Wilkerson. Other new members are Dr. J. D. Fitz-. gerald and Clyde Satterfield, while only other old member is Claude T. Hall. Person Superintendent of Schools R. B. Griffin, who also acts as Board secretary, had Words of praise for Bradsher and for the new members. Chief bus (turn to page eight, please) person=Times VOLUME XIV PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY AND THURSDAY ROXBORO, N. C. THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1943 NUMBER 77 Credit Woods With j Newspaper Week— j Anniversary Ideas ' i Head Os Chamber Os Commerce Gets Civic Cooperation Secretary Woods And Many Citizens Back Times And Courier. Many Tributes Received. _z To W. Wallace Woods, since January 1940, executive secre tary df Roxboro Chamber of Comerce, goes the credit for this week’s observation of the ses quic<ntennial of the founding of the f ity of Roxboro and for the development and the carrying out of “Ncwpaper Appreciation Week,” being observed in con junction with the historical an niversary by both the Person County Times and the Roxboro Courier, the City’s two bi weekly newspapers. It is significant that Woods had the idea of observing Rox boro’s anniversary and at the same time obtained sponsorship ■of citizens here for “Newspaper Appreciation Week”, a coopera tion duly recorded and grateful ly accepted by both the Times -and the Courier in editions pub lished today. The sponsorship idea links the Chamber of Commerce and the two newspapers in an inter-re lated enterprise, boosting for and working for Roxboro and Person 'County, an endeavor in which all three have been engaged since the respective dates of their founding and in which they expect in the future to be as continuously and as seriously engaged. Woods, by the very nature of his work in promoting, cultural, civic, social and business pro gress in the community, has, as he says elsewhere, come to a realization of the public service rendered to Roxboro and Person County by the Times and the Courier, and his conception of “Newspaper Appreciation Week” embrances the expression of that realization by citizens and bus iness organizations of .the City and County. Youngest of the three .units di (turn to page eight, please) VAC’S PARITIN ROXBORO, PLEASED WITH NEW STATUS 'Lieut. Ferguson Spends Two Days Here Recruit ing. Lieut. Hazel M. Ferguson, of the Woman’s Army Corps, ire-. presentative of the main recruit ing office in Durham, together with Corps. Benita Tuck and Edna Waddell and Pvt. Virginia Bridgman, also of Durham, and all highly pleased with the new, direct affiliation of the WACS (formerly WAAOS) with the U. S. Army, yesterday completed a two day stay in Roxboro in the interest of WAC recruiting. Lieut. Ferguson, a native of Arkansas, who joined the WAC’s several months ago, expresed herself as “very pleased with the recruiting response shown in Roxboro”, adding that numbers (Turn to page five, please) I . ' i i Mayor Os City i i S. G. WINSTEAD \ Native of Roxboro and long a 1 I prominent citizen is S. G. Wins -1 i tead, mayor of Roxboro, Who • first came to office after the death of S. F. Nicks, Jr. i W.F.LATTA, 64, DIES FOLLOWING HEART ATTACK* ■ i Well Known Resident 111 Only Three Hours, Was Connected With Ware house. William F. (Bud) Latta, 64, of Foushee street, Roxboro, a na tive of Durham County, but for many yearsi a resident of Rox boro, where he was connected with the Pioneer warehouse, died Monday night at 11 o’clock at his home following an attack of acute indegestion and heart trouble. He was ill about three hours, being stricken shortly after be and members of his family re turned from Sharpsburg, Md., where they had visited a son, Flavious Latta. Other survivors include, his wife, the former Miss Elizabeth Apple, three daughters, Misses Helen and Ora Latta, all of Rox boro, and Mrs. Raymond Hunt, of Mamers, together with an other son, Second Class Petty Officer Cecil Latta, of the U. Si Navy, Key West, Fla. Also surviving are one grand child, one brother, N. C. Latta, of Broadway, and two sisters, Mrs. E. Roberts' of Durham and Mrs. Willie Roberts, of near Henderson. Funeral was held today at the home, with the Rev. J. B. Currin officiating. Interment was in Burchwood Cemetery. Active -pallbearers were Frank T. Whitfield, Ken neth Long, Logan H. Umstead, Carl Winstead, Thea Clayton and Ivey Featherston, all of ] Roxboro and Person County. \ i ' ’ * 'I VISITS SON < Mrs. W. T. Medlin, of Char- < lotie, arrived yesterday for a 1 visit with her son th-Rev. W. T. 5 Medlin, Jr., of the Roxboro ] charge. Also here is Douglas ] Fleming, of Gainesville, Texas, a J ministerial student in Duke Uni- ■ versity Divinity school, who is acting as assistant pastor of the I charge and will be here about a j month. ' ' j |Committee Named By Harris ! Will Seek Vagrancy Solution | City Officers 'Work Under Managership Roxboro One Os Several Hundred Cities Which Has City Manager Plan. The City of Roxboro, which is this year, observing its 150th an niversary, is one of several hun j died municipalities in the United j I States which employes the City j Manager form of Government in ■ administration of civic affairs. i James Harris, now at Inez, j ; Warren County, after being Rox- 1 : boro’s City Manager for several I year.-, resigned the position in 1940 and was succeeded by the late Percy Blaxam, who died in ’ ■ office less than two months ago. 1 ! H. successor has not yet been ’ chosen, although the appoint i 1 ; m nt may come up lor consider • ation at Tuesday night’s session ’of the City Board of Commis sioners. Present Roxboro officials are.: 1 S. G. Winstead, Mayor; Gordon jO. Hunter, Philip L. Thomas, : George J. Cushwa, C. Lest.r i Brocks and R. Cliff Hall. Com missioncrs. With F. O. Carver, i Sr,, City Attorney, I. O. Abbitt, | superintendent of water depart-j merit, Collins M. Abbitt, city en- ; gineer and sanitarian, Mrs. Hat tie C. Carver, accountant, George C. Robinson, chief of Police and Henry E. O’Briant, chief of the fire department. The City Manager form of government here was introduced several years before James C. Harris accepted the position, which was for a time filled by a number of local citizens. The Mayor acts as judge of municipal court. Stukenbroke Dies Held Tuesday in Salisbury were funeral rites for the Rev. K. D. Stukenbroke, formerly of Roxboro, whose death occurred Sunday in .Baptist hospital, Win ston-Salem. Mrs. G. C. Duncan and Mrs. W. F. West, of Roxboro, attended the funeral. History Os City Os Roxboro Contained In Citizens’ Lives Brady Kiger, Near Rougemont, Dies Brady Kiger, 47, of near Rougemont, a Person native and farmer, died Monday night at his home after a heart attack. Sur vivors include his wife, the form er Miss Pattie Mangum, two sons, Thomas, of the home, and- Wiley Kiger, of the United States Army, now stationed in Mississippi, and one daughter, Miss Nora Kiger, of Winston- Salem. Also surviving are a • / number of sisters and brothers. Funeral was held Thursday H Efland, with Inli'i illfhl ing in the fainily. ce3)Mfctjf|£hoh&T| Lieutenant Governor Cites Power Os Public Opinion At “Work Or Fight” Meeting Here Originator jgagi, $ , IK | W. WALLACE WOODS ’ Newpaper Appreciation Week • and the observance of the Sesqui -1 cent, nnial of Roxboro's found : ing were first planned by W. j Wallace Woods, secretary of Roxboro Chamber of Commerce. Praise Giuen newspapers By Ulallace Uloods Cites Contributions Made By Times And Courier And Mentions City Anni- W. Wallace Woods, executive secretary of Roxboro Chamber of Commerce and instrumental in promoting the sesquicenten nial observation of the found ing of Roxboro, expressed through “Newspaper Appre ciation Week”, today issued the following official statement: Roxboro, this year, cele brates its 150th Anniversary, having been established in (Turn to page four please) Village Founded In 1793, Becomes Person’s Leader Population Gains Show Healthy Ratio Os In crease Since Dempsey Moore’s Day. Familiar to most Person and Roxboro residents is the story of the laying out* of th«j£ounty by Legislative e"fjfW-""*F in 171 M, *§pS pt Martin. Famili-’, -7°‘ I) (two tar. -pta-) Committee Will Work With Officers. Running To Governor Turned Down At Person Mass Meeting. Person County and Roxboro, the home of Lieut. Gov. R. L. Harris, on Monday ob-erved North Carolina s "Day of Dedi -1 cation” by pledging full support ' to principles in Gov. J. Melville Broughton’s “work or fight pro clamation” and by adopting at a j mass meeting resolution- calling | tor appointm.nl of a City and County Committee to assist law i enlocement officers and officials ! :n a program designed to strike : at vagrancy and eliminate it. The committee, which is made up of five citizens, has been named by Lieut. Gov. Harris, j who as County Chairman of the : Lieut. Gcv. Harris, Person chairman tor Gov. Broughton’s “work cr fight” program, to day named the following Rox- E boro and Person citizens on an • i advisory committee expected [ to cooperate here in the elimi nation of vagrancy: Frank T. Whitfield, of Bushy Fork, chair man of the Person Beard of I Commissioners; C. Lester Brooks, a member of Rox bero’s Board of Commission ! ers; Person Sheriff M. T. Clay ton; Roxboro Chief of Police George C. Robinson and R. B. Wilson, a lumber dealer, of Roxboro, associated with Wil liams - Lumber company and particularly in terested in the curbing of vag rancy. Ex-offico member of the committee i s w. Wallace Woods, executive secretary of of Roxboro Chamber of Com merce. mass meeting, acted as presiding officer. Especially articulate were three Roxboro lumbermen, J. A. McWhorter, G. B. Short and Bob Wilson, who deplored vagrancy and pressed for definite action, one of them, McWhorter, going as far as to suggest appointment of a Person committee to go to the Governor “for authority to do something”. McWhorter’s sug gestion, however, was over-ruled! in favor of appointment of a co-- operative committee. Under the resolution adopted, officers will make an unemploy ment survey, with the commit tee and citizens generally co operating. Proposal of the reso lution was by W. Wallace Woods, executive secretary of Roxboro Chamber of Commerce, one of the first citizens in the State to appeal to Attorney General Mc- Mullan for a ruling on vagrancy. Among spokesmen at the meeting, which was held in the Court Room at Person County Court house, were Mayor S. G. Winstead, Chief of Police George C. Robinson, R. B. Dawes, judge (turn to page eight, please) > . ■ 'i i FROM BELVOIR t Lear Washington, arrived todtt* to spend Ids furlough with hi., mMmm

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