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PAGE TWO TWO WILL BE ADDED TO STAFF AT GREENSBORO Two Women Will Join Faculty Os Greensboro College. GREENSBORO, July 7. New members of the Greens boro College faculty are 1 Dr. Rhoda Christena Edmeston, in structor in Spanish, and Miss Virginia Peyatt, instructor in speech, according to an an nouncement by Dr. Luther L. Gobbel, president. Dr. Edmeston, a native of ; Canada, received the B. A. de gree from the University of Den ver, M. A. and Ph. D. from Bos ton University, and A. M. in Spanish from Duke University. | Her teaching experience includes j schools in Ontario, Canada, and principal and teacher in the Bi ble Training School in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she lived for twelve years. During Dr. Edmeston’s teach ing experience in Buenos Aires she not only taught but also was principal of a training school for young women going out into special Christian work as dea conesses, pastors’ assistants, etc. In this she made a good record. She gave much attention to the Spanish language and has even published Spanish writings in j the religious field. An authority in the Spanish ; Department of Duke University says of Dr. Edmeston, “She knows the Spanish language as few North Americans do. speaks and writes it with unusual com petence. As a result of long res idence abroad she knows the Spanish Americans and their culture, psychology and ways of life.” Dr. Edmeston, who suoceeds Miss Trinidad Jeffreys deMora, will be associated with Dr. Ro * The above are the four principal ideas that our two news papers stand for. * # In addition to this they keep us well (informed concern ing all local sub jects. 3 i v * 1793 I { 1943 v i ' T celebrating the 1 50th anniversary of the founding of Roxboro. t f TAR HEEL CHEVROLET COMPANY Main Street * bert T. Dunstan, head, and Dr. Madeline G. Stinson in the Ro mance Language Department. Also joining the faculty at the j beginning of the fall semester , will be Miss Virginia Peyatt, a | native of Kansas by birth, but : of Liberty, by adoption, an A. B. ' degree graduate of Greensboro j College, who has done graduate j work at the University of North i Carolina and at Northwestern University, where she is contin- : uing her study this summer. Miss Peyatt has given private instruction in speech and drama tic art in Liberty, coached dra matics in the Wake Forest Col lege summer sesson one summer, and has taught at Louisburg Col lege for the last several years. Miss Peyatt has traveled wide ly in the United States, is a | dramatic reader for civic clubs, and is particularly interested in dramatics, oil painting, horse back riding, and swimming. 1 1 ! Cancel A Books \ For State Cars c c RALEIGH, July 7. The of fice of price administration here -rid that all “A” gasoline ra tion books for state-owned cars 1 will be revoked. “No ‘A’ card is supposed to be 1 issued to a government agency,” i OPA said, “and if such cards j were issued for state-owned ve i hides, it was through mistake. We now are searching our re : cords to determine if other ‘A’ cards were issued to state-own ed cars, and if we find such cards have been issued, we will j revoke them immediately.” The enforcement panel of Wake county’s rationing board revoked the “A” card issued for a state-owned car in which Dr. G. E. Lineberry, superintendent of the state school for the blind here, was driving when charged with speeding at 50 miles an i hour. Barrister MELVIN BURKE Former executive secretary of Roxboro Chamber of Commerce, Melvin Burke, a Spencer native and Wake Forest graduate, has been in Roxboro sinre 1938. He is associated in the practice of law with Nathan Lunsford, a died-in-the-wool Person native and a prominent Roxboro resi dent. Restrictions in the use of steel in war model ice boxes save an average of 79 pounds of steel per ice box. . OUR NEWSPAPERS . Help Keep Our Country Free I • § FREEDOM AND FREE SPEECH. WE, OF LEGGETTS, OFFER SINCERE CONGRATULATIONS TO THE TIMES AND COURIER. We BE LIEVE THAT THEY BOTH HAVE MEANT MUCH TO ROXBORO AND PERSON COUNTY. 1793 - - - 1943 THIS YEAR ROXBORO IS CELEBRATING HER 150 TH ANNIVERSARY. . 1 'Jk»UamrofßsHtr Mw' JtaaibA popular MERCHANDISE I PRICES 11 "Roxboro’a Shopping Center” .. * 9 ' - r ■ • • . . . • . ■„ <- *- * y - > _ * • ' _ _ . I___ ' PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO. N. C. Agriculture Man To Join Faculty At Bethel Hill • Frank M. Wilbert, a gradu 1111 iinlmntnnmi ininiii m:»»»n»tnH»amw:a«n»»OHHOwn»«c 1793 1943 GREETING To ROXBORO ON YOUR 150TH ANNIVERSARY And To Our Two Local Newspapers for Keeping us Inform- j ed on World and Local Events. LET’S ALL WORK FOR VICTORY BRING US YOUR SCRAP i Tom’s Battery Co. Roxboro, N. C. Phone 2261 j ate of North Carolina State Colleges and for the past year a teacher in Wake County, jra July 15, will come to Person County, where he will be teacher of agriculture at Beth el Hill high school} succeed ing V. C. Taylor, resigned. Wilburn is unmarried. An- nouncement of his selection was today by Person 1793 1943 AS i ROXBORO Celebrates It’s 150th Anniversary : We pay our tribute to our two newspap ers in appreciation for the service rendered our town and community. May they and Our Town Continue To Prosper You too will prosper by keeping well Groomec. SERVICE DRY CLEANERS Phone 3601 Claude Harris, Prop. THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1943 Superintendent of Schools B. B. Griffin.
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