Annual Campaign Against
Paralysis Being Planned
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Dolian D. Long To Head
Local Committee.
New York, Jan. 2.— Program of
defense against a stealthy enemy
will spring into high gear next
week as a business, labor and in
dustry united for the 1941 “Fight
Infantile Paralysis’’ campaign. In
Roxboro, director of the cam
paign will again be Dolian D.
Long.
Responding to the nationwide
enthusiasm which has been re-1
vealed by hundreds of letters
pouring into headquarters, Keith
Morgan .National Chairman of
the Committee for the Celebra
tion of the President's Birthday
left for a swing across the coun
try. Mr. Morgan’s tour will take
him to Chicago and Los Angeles.
Returning to New York, he will
attend organization meetings and
luncheons in Kansas City, St.
Louis, Indianapolis, Coiumbus
and Detroit.
Meanwhile, scores of promin •
ent Americans continued to in
form National Headquarters that
they will accept memberships in
the National Committee and de
clared their determination to ful
fill the year’s slogan: “Help the
Youngster Around Your Own
Corner.”
Under the leadership of Secre
tary of War Henry L. Stimson.
and Secretary of the Navy Col.
Frank Knox, commanders of the
armed forces and directors of Se
lective Service joined the battle
against the crippling invader.
Chief of Staff General George
C. Marshall was among the first
to pledge his support.
Industry gave its assurance of
whole-hearted backing to the
drive. Among the leaders in this
battalion are F. L. Fisher, Vice
President of General Motors Cor
poration. Edwin F. Chinlund.
President of Postal Telegraph
Cable Company, Soslhenes Behr.,
President of International Tele
phone a»d Telegraph Company.
Labor's forces this year will be
led by Wiliam Green, President
of the American Federation of
Labor; Philip Murray, President
of the Congress of Industrial Or
ganizations and Sidney Hillman,
President of the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers of America and
a member of President Roose
velt’s recently created super-de
fense commission.
The campaign will be formally
launched on January 13. The first
of thousands of “Home Parties”
will be given by Mrs. Roosevelt
on January 14; the “March of
Dimes” will be conducted from
coast to coast on a scale never
before attempted. In Washing
ton, D. C., the “Mile-O-Dimes”
wil share the spotlight with the
gala festivities planned for Jan
uary 30, President Roosevelt’s
59th birthday. Stars of the stage,
screen and radio have pledged
their full participation in the 1941
"March of Dimes of the Air,” di
rected by Eddie Cantor.
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N. C.’s. 1940 PEANUT
CROP SETS RECORD
Raleigh, N. C. Jan. 1— North
Carolina’s 1940 peanut crop of
325,125,000 pounds set an all-time
record both in yield and produc
tion, Srank Parker, Sederal-State
statistician of the Agriculture De
partment reported today.
Yields was 1,275 pounds per
compared with a previous record
set in 1937 of 1,260 pounds. The
previous record production was
308,700,000 pounds. The crop, de
spite “tremendous damage” from
floods, was 12 per cent higher
than in 1939 and 35 per cent above
the 10-year average, Parker said.
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BANG’S
A plan for the official recogni
tion of vaccination of calves as
an aid in treating Bang’s di
sease has been presented by the
Federal Bureau of Animal In
dustry.
RECORD
A report issued by the U. S.
Census Bureau revealed that con
sumption of all cotton in Ameri
can mils in November totaled
744,088 bales, setting a new rec
ord for that month.
Narrow Tobacco
Plant Bed Is
I Recommended
Four good reasons for con
structing a narrow tobacco plant
bed are listed in pre-saeson rec
emmendations to tobacco growers
by Dr. Luther Shaw, plant path •
ologist of N. C. State College, lie
also suggests the importance of
the proper location for the plant
bed.
“If the tobacco bed is built
narrow,” Dr. Shaw said, “more
plants are produced per square
yard; the danger of trampling on
plants while weeding or pulling
is avoided; the plants can be
watered more easily and uni
formly; and fourth, and most
important, narrow beds can be
equipped and treated for blue
mold with better results than
wide ones.”
The plant pathologist recom
mends that the plant bed be 5
feet 8 inches wide to allow the
standard six-foot cover to fit
snugly when the fumigation
method is used to control blue
mold. A pathway 18 inches to 2
feet wide should be left between
adjacent beds.
“The benzol or paradichloro
benzene fumigation methods are
the best for controlling blue
mold,”’ Dr. Shaw declared. “Cop
per-oxide spray is also satisfac
!ory when applied in advance of
the first appearance of the di
sease on the farm. The spray acts
best as a pi-eventative, while the
fumigants will kill the mold after
it has infected the plant bed.”
The State College specialist al
so suggests that the plant bed
be located convenient to a source
of water, and preferably near the
house, because constant attention
is inquired during the develop-1
ment of the young plants, "It i.s (
also'desirable,” he says, “to 10-:
cate the beds so that they will:
be protected as much as possible]
from strong winds.”
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FOR RESULTS.
PALACE THEATRE
ADVANCE PROGRAM
From Thursday, January 2nd
thru’ Saturday, January 4th
Motion Pictures are Your Best
Entertainment.
Thursday - Friday Jan
uary 2-3rd
Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson
Eddy in Noel Coward’s
“BITTER SWEET”
With George Sanders, lan
Hunter The musical triumph
that had more song hits than
Broadway has ever known-*,. .
brings the world's King and
Queen of song together again!
Every enchanted melody! Ev
ery lover’s kiss! Every excit
ing thrill glorified with Tech
nicolor!!!
Traveltalk: “Old New Mexico”
Paramount News—-Eyes and
Ears of the world
No morning show: afternoons
daily 3:15-345:
Admission 10 -30 c
Evenings daily 7:15 - 9:00
Admission 15 - 35
Saturday, January 4th
Tim Holt, Ray Whtiley, Emett
Lynn, Jane Drummond in
“THE FARGO KID”
Your new Western hero—in
this hotlead battle in Old Ari
zona—He’s a fighting fury
Episode No. 2of the serial
“Junior G-Men” with the
Dead End Kids and The Lit
tle Tough Guys (The Blast of
Doom) A thousand thrills'.
Terry Toon: “Club Life in
Stone Age”
Afternoon 2:30-4:00
Admission 10 -30 c
Evening 6:45 - 8:15 - 9:30
Admission 15 -35 c
(Box office opens 6:30)
PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO, N. C.
Canadian Warship Torpedoed by ‘Sub’
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At the right is the 1,337-ton Canadian destroyer, Saguenay, at Ottawa, Canada, which was damaged by
a torpedo in an encounter with a submarine in the eastern Atlantic. Twenty-one seamen were lost and 18
wounded. The Saguenay made port, and is being repaired. At the left is the warship’s commanding officer,
C. R. Miles. The Saguenay is the first Canadian fighting ship to be directly damaged.by an enemy vessel.
State College
Answers Timely
Farm Questions
QUESTION: How much seed
bed should be provided for plant
ing 10 acres of tobacco?
ANSWER: About 100 square
yards of seed bed is usually re
quired for each two acres of to
bacco to be planted. However,
due to the danger from blue mold,
most growers have been seeding
about one and one-half times as
much bed space as they normall/
require in order to be sure of an
adequate supply of plants. One
level teaspoonful of seed, if even
ly sown over the bed, will usual
ly be sufficient to plant each 100
DOLLY MADISON
ADVANCE PROGRAM
From Thursday, January 2nd
thru’ Saturday, January 4th
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Motion Pictures are Your Best
Entertainment
Thursday - Friday, January
2nd - 3rd
Anna Neagle, Richard Carlson,
Victor Mature, Roland Young
in Herbert Wilcox’s
“NO, NO NANETTE”
(first run)
A musical romance thats start
in a hansom cab and ends in
a transcontinental airliner!!
It has gayety, charming ro
mance, captivating music—lav
ish settings, beautiful girls—
and a swell cast
Passing Parade “Rodeo Dough”
Columbia Tours “Old and
New Mexico”
Special morning show Friday
10:30; Afternoons daily 3:15 -
3:45; Admission 10 -30 c; Eve
nings daily 7:15 - 9:15;
Admission 15 -30 c
Saturday, January 4th
Robert Livingston, Bob Steele
Rufe Davis—“ The Three
Musquiteers” in “Lone Star
Raiders” (First Run)
Episode No. 9 of the serial
Zane Grey’s King of The Roy
al Mounted” (Espionage with
Allen Lane, Robert Strange,
Robert Kellard, Lita Conway.
Gabby Color Cartoon: “Alls
Well”
Continuous shows starting at
2:30 P. M. Adults 30c; child
ren 10c up to 6 o’clock; 15c
after 6 o’clock
SPECIAL SHOW SATUR
DAY, JANUARY 4th
John Garfield, Marjorie Ram
beau, Brenda Marshall, Will
iam Ludigan in “East of Tth
River” (First Run)
Smart enough to know wha
they wanted—smart enougl
to take it!! Every guy has tw(
gals!!
Florine McKinney “Tickled
Pincky”
No morning show; Box office
opens Saturday night 11:15
picture 11:30: Admission all
seats 35c
square yards of bed space.
QUESTION: What weight eggs
are best for hatching purposes?
ANSWER: Poultry specialists
of the State College Extension
Service recommend that hatch
i ing eggs weigh 24 ounces per
dozen. In addition, the eggs should
>■ be clean, well-formed, fresh, of
j good shell texture, and of a col-
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She Knows God - Well Enough
To Ask Him For Anything!
To make her sick brother well. To send her a new doll. To give her better
marks in school. That’s the stuff little girls’ prayers are made of! Their
faith is so real, so untrammeled by skepticism. And they can grow up with
that same faith, if parents nurture it by bringing the children to Church
every Sunday. That child misses something, who isn’t encouraged to pray,
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and to believe that in His wisdoms, prayers are answered!
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or conforming to the require
ments of the breed. Eggs that are
round, short, thin-shelled, or
those that have ridges around
them should be put aside for home
consumption and should not be
used for hatching. At this time
of the year it is wise to collect
eggs for hatching two or three
times a day to prevent chilling.
QUESTION: How should forest
tree seedlings obtained from a
nursery be planted?
ANSWER: R. W. Graeber, Ex
tension forester of N. C. State
College, says that county farm
agents will be glad to show tarm
ers how to set out tree seedlings.
Mattocks and grub hoes are rec
ommended for use in heavy soils
and for trees with large root sys
tems. For planting pines in light
soils, narrow spades or planting
irons are satisfactory. Dig holes
deep and wide enough to take
the roots in a natural position.
Set the trees about the same
depth they grew in the nursery.
Partly fill the hole and pack the
soil. Add more soil and pack with
a foot. Add loose soil as a mulch.
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SELL YOUR TOBACCO IN
ROXBORO.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 2,1941
LOSS
Farmers of the United States
are now passing up every year
$150,000,000. of income that could
be realized through better man
agement of farm woods, save the
U. S. Forest Service.
PROFITABLE
The 300 White Leghorn hens
owned by J. M. Stephenson, Wil
low Springs, Route 1, converted
$45.90 spent for feed into an in
come of $99.62 from eggs during
the past month for a net profit of
$53.73.
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LAND POSTED SIGNS AT THE
TIMES OFFICE
DR. R. J. PEARCE
EYES EXAMINED
MONDAYS ONLY
Thomas-Carver Bldg.
F. C. Hall’s Transfer
Dial 4771
Hauling of all kinds
Roxboro, N. C.
Wood For Sale