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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
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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
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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
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Head Os Chamber
Os Commerce Gets
Civic Cooperation
Secretary Woods And
Many Citizens Back
Times And Courier.
Many Tributes Received.
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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
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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
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i Mayor Os City
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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.
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W.F.LATTA, 64,
DIES FOLLOWING
HEART ATTACK*
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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
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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
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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
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| 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
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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-’,
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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
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FROM BELVOIR t
Lear Washington, arrived todtt*
to spend Ids furlough with hi.,
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