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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1936
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The year 1936 has passed in
, to history. Many events of
great importance took place
I during the year. These events
; have also become history, and
children will read of them in
history books in a few months.
It wlould be hard to name the
I greatest event of the year.
' Some might claim the con
■ quest of Ethiopia was the most
S important event, others would
[ my the civil conflict in Spain,
then might come the abdication
at Edward VIII, or you might
: want to mention the majority
i given F. D. Roosevelt. No one
j knows today what was the
, greatest event of 1936. The
chances are that the most im-
I portant event has never been
announced to the public. Many
events Ihajfc appear to be of
tremendous importance may
j turn out to be of practical
, ly no importance at all.
Time only can attach real im
portance to the things that are
happening today.
1 A small discovery, or inven
; tion, that at first appears to be
nothing at all might revolu
‘ tionize the world. The discov
j ery of a valuable medicine
; could mean more to mankind
•i than any of the events that took
place in 1936.
What was the greatest event?
No one knows.
The year 1937 will probably
have even more significant hap
penings than the year that has
passed. There may be more
i fighting during the year that is
coming than we have ever heard
of or the world may be at peace
next Christmas.
Nine people, all negroes,
were lynched by mobs in 1936.
Lynchings reported by states:
Georgia 5, Arkansas 2, Flori
da 1, Mississippi 1. As you see
■ all of these took place in south
, era states. This compares with
' 20 deaths in 1935, 15 in 1934
and 28 in 1933.
It takes a long time for people
! to understand that law can
! punish criminals better than
f mobs, but it looks as though
' the American public is gradual
: ly beginning to see it that way.
Announcement has been made
of a ten-day school for law en
forcing officers in Chapel Hill
January 5-14. Important men
! will act as instructors in this
school, men who are well train
ed and who are able to teach
what experience has proven to
be true.
The training will cover all
. major phases of law enforce
ment work under the main di
visions: criminal law, criminal
i investigation and apprehenson,
scientific aids in crime detec
tion, patrol and traffic, fire
arms instruction, first aid, police
administration and records, co
operative measures, and crime
prevention.
It would be splendid if all
officers of this city and county
could attend this school. It
would be equally as good if all
the officers from every city and
county in the state of North
Carolina could attend.
Officers in North Carolina re
ceive their training by experi
i ence and get very little until
• they take over the office.
• Much could be gained by teach
• ing before the men actually
i take office.
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Detroit, Ernest Beaton told the court
that his wife talked so much that
lie didn’t get enough sleep and as
M result lost , weight
COMMHTE AGREES
TO BACK COMPACTS
FOR LEAF CONTROL
Tobacco States Steering Com
mittee Meets At Capital
HUTSON SUGGESTS PLAN
Group, Including Tar Heels, Ap
proves Minor Changes in
Virginia Measure
Washington, Dec. 28 A steer
ing committee from tobacco grow
ing states agreed today to support
interstate compacts for i 937 produc
tion control, and to work toward
permanent control by the federal
government.
Called together by Ben S. Kilgore,
secretary of the Kentucky farm bu
reau federation, the committee ap
proved minor changes in a state
compact measure already adopted
in Virginia. Tobacco production con
trol through starte compacts was
authorized by an act of the last
congress.
Hutson Program
J. B. Hutson, assistant AAA ad
ministrator and the department of
agriculture’s No. 1 tobacco expert,
suggested federal control through
a 20 percent tax on primary tobac
co sales, with a separate act of con
gress providing benefit payments
to growers who abide by marketing
allotments. These payments, he said,
could be around four cents a pound
on hurley and flue-cured types.
He suggested double benefit pay
ments, in cases of crop shortage re
sulting from conditions beyond the
producer’s control, on the differ
ence between the crop and 80 per
cent of a normal crop. Thus, a to
bacco farmer who had a 60 percent
crop because of drought would re
ceive double payments on the dif
ference between 60 and 80 percent
Hutson said this would provide
a practical form of crop insurance.
Quick Adoption
The committee agreed with Hut
son’s suggestion that state compacts
should be adopted quickly to guard
1937. The federal compact act pro
vides that states growing various
types of tobacco must agree upon
their programs by May 1, the date
fixed as the beginning of the crop
year.
The committee took no formal
action on Hutson’s suggestion, for a
federal sales tax and subsidy, but
agreed to make a continuing study
in conjunction with members of
congress and farm organizations in
an effort to produce a “permanent
plan of production control,”
To protect the “small tobacco
farmer,” the committee agreed to a
change in the original compact leg
islation to permit state tobacco com
missions to establish a minimum
acreage for each type of tobacco
which could not be reduced.
Hutson said tobacco growers
could take “part of the dose” of
state compacts for 1937, or all of it.
To effect control of flue-cured pro
duction, he said, a compact would
be necessary between Virginia,
North Carolina and Georgia; for
hurley, Kentucky, Tennessee, Vir
ginia, North Carolina, and possibly
Ohio, Indiana and Missouri; for
fire-cured, Virginia, Kentucky and
Tennessee; for cigar types, binder,
Connecticut, Massachusetts and Wis
consin; filler, Pennsylvania, Ohio,
and possibly Wisconsin.
Checked By Commission
The committe agreed that after,
state quotas are fixed, they must be
ratified by all state commissions.
John M. Goodman of Springfield,
Term., reprasentating the Eastern
Dark Fired Tobacco Growers asso
ciation, said his organization strong
ly favored crop control. He read a
message from F. W. Gillespie, vice
president of the Summer county
(Tenn.) farm bureau, in the bur ley
region, pledging support of that
organization to a control program
for 1937.
Kilgore appointed, as a committee’
to study a permanent federal to
bacco control plan, W. N. Neff, Ab
ingdon, Va.; J. E. Winslbw, Green
vill, S. C.; Claude T. Hall, Woods
dale, N. C.; Thomas B. Hall, Farm
ville, Va.; Frank C. Taylor, Lexing
ton, Ky.; J. B. Rogers, Pelham, Ga.;
I. M. Lawson, Darlington, S. C., and
J. E. Porter, Columbia, Tenn.
Others who took part in the con
ference include E. F. Arnold, Green
ville, S. C.; W. E. Eagles, MacCles
field, N. C.; E. M. Floyd and Jona
than Daniels, Raleigh, N. C.; Frank
C. Lacy, Blacksburg, Va.; J. T.
Lazar, Florence, S. C.
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Colored Subscriber
Sends News
T. H. Jeffers spent three days
in Washington, Baltimore and An
napolis, Md., during the Christmas
holidays.
Omega Jeffers of Chenney Insti
tute is spending Christmas with her
parerita, Lee and Bettie
Jeffers.
Saloma Jeffers, North Carolina
College for Negroes is spending
Christmas with her parents.
Vfflr JN COUNTY TIMES —ROXBORO, N. C.
© NEWaWEKK
JAPANESE MINISTER CONTEMPLATES ALLY
Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita gazes at photographs of Chancellor
Hitler after he had concluded an anti-Communist pact with Germany.
MOUTHPIECE
“PETTY RACKETS”
“Investigate Before You Invest”
UNORDERED MERCHANDISE is
sent you. The best thing to do is
not to acknowledge receipt. If you
wish, you may send the goods to
the Chamber of Commerce for stor
age. There is no responsibility un
less you- make use of articles so
sent.
CHARITY APPEALS, through
which you are urged to buy books
or other commodities because the
benefits are going to charitable in
stitutions; when the charitable in
stitution does participate, the
amount is pitifully small. At any
rate, you are expected to pay a
very large price for the goods re
ceived.
TELEPHONE SELLING has be
come! organized scheme. From
local experience during the past
two years, it seems a good rule not
to buy tickets, advertising, or other
goods over the telephone, particu
larly from strangers and promoters.
Many worthwhile organizations
have listened to propositions of
getting large profits without effort
simply by letting the promoter sell
tickets to a charity ball. If the ball
is given, the sponsoring organization
is usually ashamed and humiliated.
Frequently the promoter collects,
for the tickets and leaves without
giving the entertainment or paying
his debts.
COUPONS FOR PHOTOGRAPHS,
beware of the solicitor for itiner
ant photography. The usual method
is to sell you a coupon which en
titles you to one print. When you
appear for your sitting, the coupon
holder is “pressed” into buying
additional prints. The work is usual
ly of a low order.
WHAT TO DO
Refuse to sign contracts or pur
chase or contribute and call the
Chamber of Commerce, 167, when
ever any of these strangers show
up. Tell the solicitor simply that
you only deal with thoroughly in-
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New York, N. Y.,—“IT’S TRUE! that Beryl Mercer in ‘Three
Live Ghoeta’ create* on the acrecn the same role in which the
ro#e to fame in the play on the New York stage —the role of
lachrymose Mrs. Gubbins, tippling Cockney mother whose son
returns from the war to find himself officially ‘dead’,’’ says Wiley
Padan. “Also IT’S TRUE! that thirty-two separate settings
havt been built at Metro-Gotdwyn-Mayer to film a story which
yrae told on the stage laeatogl* *efc”_7 *
BLOOD NOW PLACED IN
CHARGE OF ALL BORG
WARNER OPERATIONS
Chicago, Illinois, December 23rd,
1236 Another signal honor has
been achieved by Howard E. Blood,
president Norge Division Borg-
Warner Corporation, outstanding
national business executive, whose
success has been spectacular in that
he has lifted Norge, a Detroit en
trprise, from obscurity to a place
among the leaders in the home ap
pliance industries during the past
five years Blood has been a De
troit resident for 20 years.
/ifter a board of directors meet
ing in Chicago yesterday, C. S.
Davis, president of Borg-Warner
Corporation, announced his appoint
ment as executive vice president in
charge of operations of the various
divisions of Borg-Warner Corpora
tion, an organization with 16 plants
in five states, and connections in
nearly every country of the globe.
Known as leading producers of au
tomotive equipment and supplies,
this corporation has an enviable po
sition in the marine, aviation, ag
ricultural, automotive and house
hold appliance industries.
The local management of the va
rious Borg-Warner divisions will
continue as in the past, unaffected
by this change. Mr. Blood’s new
duties consisting merely of a dele
gation to him by the president, of
certain responsibilities pertaining
to the supervision of the operation
of the Corporation.
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CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank each and every
one for their many kind deeds and
words of sympathy shown us dur
ing our sad bereavement in the loss
of our dear brother and son, Oscar
S. Childress.
J. N. Childress and Family.
vestigated propositions. This plan
will save Roxboro thousands of dol
lars every year. It will save you
money and keep you off the
“Sucker” lists.
Roxboro Chamber of Commerce.
These charming BALL’-BAND
Gaiters add the final touch to your
winter costume and they make it
smart to be comfortable outdoors.
Drop in tomorrow for yours while
our sizes are complete. It isn't safe:
to take chances on the weather now,j
New shipments have just come in and now we have
a full and complete stock of rubber footwear in Ball
Band and cheaper grades for men, women and children
in every wanted style and size.
Ball Band Boots $2.85
Harris & Burns
ROXBORO’S BEST STORE
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
9:45 a. m. Church School.
11:00 a. m. Morning Worship. The
Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper
will be observed.
6:45 p. m. meeting of the Young
People of the Church.
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FRIST BAPTIST CHURCH
NEW YEAR VOW
I’ll not turn back to past mistakes
And dwell on them again;
But onward press to future tasks
With strength renewed and sane.
No matter what the past has held
The future days are mine;
To plan, to work, to build anew,
With guidance more divine.
A larger life, a deeper faith,
A purer love, a nobler goal
Shall be the aim of my desire
The earnest purpose of my soul.
—R. H. Whitney.
Bible School 9:45 a. m.
Preaching 11:00 a. m. Subject,
“Rise, Let Us Be Going.”
Baptist Training Union 6:30 p. m.
Preaching 7:30 p. m. Subject,
“The Kingdom 0 f Heaven is at
Hand.”
A cordial invitation is extended
to all.
W. F. WEST, Pastor.
FARM
QUESTIONS
ANSWERED
Question: What fertilizer should
I use in my young orchard?
Answer: Applications of barnyard
manure, poultry house sweepings,
or a 5-7-5 commercial mixture will
keep up the fertility on most soils,
but where the trees show a weak
growth, additional side applications
nitrate of soda or other ready avail
Body Work
We number among our
mechanics a number who
have had years of experi
ence in body work- If your
car has been damaged—
Let us repair it.
CROWELL-LOWE
MOTOR GO.
Reams Avenue
Roxboro, N. C.
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24TH, 1989
able nitrate fertilizer should be
made. For apple trees, the rate of
applications should be one-half
pound of soda with an increase of
the same amount each year. Two
pounds of the 5-7-5 mixture should
be applied to the apple and one
pound to the other fruits the first
year with increases each year of
like amounts.
Question: Can chickens and tur
keys be raised together?
Answer: Occasionally they may
be raised together for a short time
without ill results, but eventually
the turkeys will come down with
blackheads. Most chickens have
small, round worms in which the
germ causing blackhead in turkeys
live before affecting the turkeys
and all chickens are therefore
dangerous to turkeys. For this
reason turkeys should be kept en
tirely separate from the chickens
at all times and not even allowed
to range on ground where chickens
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1937
To
A Happy
New Year!
In Which
We Hope
Sincerely
That
Everything
Nice Comes
Your Way,
And Conies
To Stay!
mORRIS
TEIiEPHORE
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