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INVESTIGATE
Granville County has
many business and farm
opportunities. Investi
gate and then invest.
Hancock Endorses
Pending Game Bill
Wildlife Federation Holding
Annual State Meeting
In Raleigh
Representative Wills Hancock the
past week became one of about 50
members of the General Assembly
to endorse the bill being offered by
the North Carolina Wiidlife Feder
ation providing for a separate ad
ministration of the game and fish
laws of the State.
Hancock said he endorsed the
bill, which is expected to draw
heavy fire in the Legislature, "to
get something started on it.”
The legislative battle has been
brewing for two years. The 1945
Legislature provided for a study of
the separation of the Game and
Fish Bureau from the Department
FINAL REPORT
Tobacco sold on the Oxford
market during the season end
ing Friday, Jan. 24, brought an
average of $47.62.
Statistics for the year show a
total of 31,014,084 pounds sold
for $14,769,079.12.
Elmo Yancey, 28,
Taken By Death
Funeral For Young Granville
County Farmer Held
Sunday Afternoon
WiD Oxford Extend Her Borders?
Or Will She Remain Content in the Three-Thousand Bracket
While Towns Like Roxboro, Dunn, Asheboro, and
North Wilkesboro Scoot Past
Rufus Elmo Yancey, son of Mr.
and Mrs. George W. Yancey of
Route 2, Virgilina, Va., died Friday
morning at Granville Hospital
where he had been a patient for
, seme time. Yancey, 28, had been
of Conservation and Dev^opment.' ®®veral weeks. Death came
The report called for separation.
The Granville County Wildlife
Club has endorsed the separation
proposal.
The Division of Game and Inland
Fisheries has requested a budget df
$685,032 for each of the next two
years. The Budget Commission rec
ommended $734,656 for each of the
two years.
The Wildlife Federation is hold
ing its annual meeting today in Ra
leigh and the session is expected to
fan the legislative fire.
Teacher Pay Hike
Of 30 Per Cent Is 1
Favored By Kiwanis
The Kiwanis Club, in meeting
last Tuesday night, adopted a re
solution calling upon Granville
County members of the General
Assembly to Slujport a minimum
salary Increase of 30 per cent for
North Carolina’s 24,000 public
school teachers and for other state
employees earning $1800 or less per
year, such moreases to begin in
January, 1947, and to continue
thi’ough the coming biennium.
The resolution, which has been
forwarded by President Maurice
Parham to ^nator John S. Wat
kins and Representative Wilis Han
cock, reads as follows
at 8; 20 p. m.
Rev. W. Isaac Terrell, pastor as
sisted by Rev. W. D. Poe 'and
Rev. K W. Greene, officiated at
the service, conducted at 2:30 Sun
day afternoon at Mountain Creek
Baptist Church. Interment was in
the chui'ch cemetery.
Surviving Mr. Yancey are his
wife, Mrs. Alma Bakes Yancey, a
son, Elmo, Jr., and a daughter,
Reb^a, his parents, all of Route
2_ Virgilina, lour sisters, Mrs. D. S.
Adcock of Attrick, Va., Miss Myr
tle Yancey of Petersburg, Va., Mrs.,
James E. Harvey of Birmingham,
Ala., and Miss Janie Yancey of the
home; seven brothers, Frank Yan
cey of Nelson, Va., Emmltt Yancey
of Norfolk, Va., Jack Yancey of
Buffalo Junction, Va., Richard,
Charlie and Rajunond Yancey of
the home, and Luke Yancey of
Richmond, Va.
BY FRANCIS B. HATS
Drive to almost any progressive
North CaTOlina town
you are out of the woods you are
in the corporate limits of the
town.
Not so with Oxford.
Indeed, just the reverse is true.
Drive into Oxford from any direc
tion and you travel a mile or more
along its built-up thoroughfares
before jxju reach its coiporate
limits. Those other towns have in
creased their areas as their subur
ban populations have increased.
Again, not so with Oxford.
is .... ?
In the two-decade period men-
and before \ tioned, Raleigh has grown in pop-
ulation from 24,418 to 46,897, and
since the 1940 census, has still
further extended its boundaries;
Henderson has increased from 5222
to 7647; Smithfield, from 1895 to
3678; Tartooro, from 4668 to 7148;
and Wilson from 10,612 to 19,234.
Some wag has said that there is
more cotton grown within the city
limits of Charlotte than within the
limits of any otlier city in the
world. In extending her bounds
Charlotte may have taken in some
ao-? , hundred years farm lands but she enjoys and
At ^pulation was 669. profits by the fact that the Federal
At ttat time the corporate limits census—not merely her Chamber
. yards in'of Commerce boosters—credits her
Maurice E, Green
Dies In Virginia
Funeral Rites for Former Ox
ford Merchant To Be Held
Tuesday Morning
as given by the United States cen
sus, was 3991, an increase of about
500 per cent, but its corporate
limits were still the same century-
old 1000 yards in every direction
from the court house. Outside that
tight little ring but within a circle
of another thousand yards or so
fix>m the court house there were
believed to be in 1940 at least half Albemarle
as many again inhabitants as A^eboro
there were inside the ring—some Burlington
think fully as many again. . Canton
To go back two decades, ' the Dunn
population inside the legal bound- Graham
of Oxford in 1920 was 3606. Lincohiton
TOile the town has experienced an North Wilkesboro
Carolina having a population of
100,000.
Appended are census figures
for several North Carolina towns
which have come from behind and
gone ahead of Oxford, according
to official figures, but not necess
arily in reality:
1920 1940
Census
2691 4060
2559 6981
2952 12,198
2584 5037
2805 5256
2366
3390
2363 4478
W. J. Bundy Heads I
Shrine; Chaplain
Is Oxford Man I
Rev. A. D. Leon Gray Chosen
For Sudan Temple Post
at Newbern Ceremonial
William J. Bundy of Greenville,
was elected illustrious potentate of
Sudan Temple of the Shrine, suc
ceeding N. E. Edgerton of IMelgh,
at the annual election held at New’
Bern.
Rev. A. D. Leon Gray, superint
endent of Oxford Orphanage, was
named chaplain of Sudan Temple.
The spring ceremonial of the
Temple is to be held May 21 and
22 at Carolina Beach.
Bundy, a native of Farmville,
where he was bom 47 years ago’,
is at present time Grand Master of
the North Carolina Masonic Grand
lodge..
Venereal Disease
Showing Increase
Dr. T. C. Johnson Says Con
trol program Must Be Con
tinued In All Phases
LAST DAY
Friday, January 31, is the
final day for using 1946 motor
vehicle license tags, the Caro
lina Motor Club reminded
yesterday.
Vehicles found in use Satur
day bearing the 1946 tags may
be ordered parked and pulled
in for violation of the Motor
Vehicle law. it was said.
Tags are on sale in Oxford
at the Parrlsh-Medford Motors,
Inc., buildmg.
HeaJth Work
Is Summarized
Heart Disease Principal
Delegates Named
By Farm Bureau
In County Meet
Herbert Tilley Reports on His
Trip to National Meeting
In California
Granville County Farm Bureau
members, in meeting here Saturday,
named delegates and alternates to
the North Carolina Farm Bureau
meeting to be held Feb. 2 to 6 in
Asheville and heard reports and
transacted other business.
President Roy D. Jones presided.
During the business meeting, the
ran«;p of Hpath in Pnimlv members adopted a resolution to be
cause or Death in County joffeied at the state Bureau meet-
During Year
Approximately 5,600 immuniza
tions were given by the Granville
Health Department during 1946, ac
cording to the annual report com
pleted the past week by Miss Lucy
' Webb, department statistician.
The immunizations were 738 in
Smanpox, 1023 diphtheria, 3591
in tjrphoid and 289 ih whooping
cough.
A total of 230 cases were admitt
ed to the Venereal Disease Con
trol Clinic, and 1160 field visits
to delinquents.
In tuberculosis control, 312 x-ray
ing, calling upon Congress to return
to fanner committeemen comtool of
the tobacco acreage program.
Sam L. Knott, Dorsey Blackwell,
Maurice Puckett, C. S. Puckett, Joe
Baker and C. V. Morgan were nam
ed delegates to the State Bureau
meeting and the alternates are J. C.
Adcock, FleMlng Knott, Lee New
ton, R. T. Bakes, H. B. 'niley and
Earl Elliott.
Thomas Allen explained the 1947
farm program, with emphasis on
the tobacco program.
Herbert Tilley, one of 369 North
Carolina Farm Bureau members to
attend the National Farm Bureau
members of the Rotary and Lions
Club in a joint program meeting
Thursday night.
Dr. Johnson
’There is a constant increase in
^ the number of venereal disease
4339 I i-eported and the control pro-
4526 ' should be continued in all
, . ....... 4478 r*® Ptiases, Dr. T. C. Johnson, as-
g^th smee then, the And Sanford, not being satisfied director of the Venereal Di-
official population inside the ring with Jumping from 2977 in 1920 to Education Mstitute, told the
remains almost static-just a few 4960 in 1940 is now reaSiing ou?
more people, according to the cen- to include, along with other terri
su^m 19W than there were in 1920. toiy, the entire to^m of Joiies^
cities and with Jonesboro’s consent Sai^rt
towns more than doubled in popu- will have to sp5id a of^oney
ation oetween me 1920 and the to cairy city impiwmeSs™
ham examples, Dur- the added territory, but will get at
frX 2?7T9 to additional
S^w from IAS, isli v and a great deal more in
^ Lumberton, new business attracted by her in
from ^91 to 5803; Forest City, creased prestige.
Hickory, from Prospectors looking for a place
2800’ to Mountain, in which to live, eftablish eSU-
was presented by
President Basil Hart of the Lions
Club.
Dr. Johnson’s visit here was in
oonneiction with the membership
drive for the North Carolina Social
from
from
S”from^33?9
figures and think there
the matter with
Whereas, our public school toach- leTsZ.lTZZZTft
mensurate^with the services they'health for several Smths. I to tend
hygiene and 1458 individuals were
examined in school hygiene by re-
presentartives of the department,
over 300 food handlers were exam
ined, 233 examined for marriage, 41
. teachers and 72 childi'en for indus-
Hy^ene Society being promoted by!try.
the Junior Woman’s Club. | In the Sanitation Department
The club was told that “the timeitht •following' summary was given:
has come for North Carolina tolls septic tariks installed; 434 visits
face frankly its venereal disease to private premises; 23 school In-
examinations wei'e made, 428 nurs- I last month in California, told of his
ing visits to cases, and 171 flouro- trip to the West Coast and return
scope examinations. He sated 9000 persons were there
In the maternity service, 231'f™m 46 states. The program of
cases were admitted to nursing ser-, speakers included a number of po-
vice, 593 visits were made by nurses!'itical big-wigs. Senator Russell,
to cases and 27 visits were made Chairman Hope of the House Agri:
tor midwife supeiwision. I culture Committee, President O’-
Diuing the year 1391 field nursing' Neal of the National Farm Bureau
and office visits were recorded in j others.
the field of infant and pre-school Even at the time when North Car
olina tdoacco growers were feeling
the “adjustment” that the speakers
told the convention was on the way
it was pointed out at the convention
that a measure of protection was
provided for farmers in the Steagall
Act, which will keep farm prices at
90 per cent of parity for the next
two years.
problem and proceed to solve it.
Syphilis and gonorrihea are wide
spread thronghout the state among
14,037.
its borders and enjoy the
contagious diseases from which no
one is immune. Frequently they
render,
Whereas, the State of North K to be toought herej Oxford might be on this list if it staitoing^t^™*^°offi^f iblindness,^^^1^^ ^-
Carollna ranks 41st from the top ducteTS lie^OxfZ^'^e*^ 6,000 to^ 000 wouS giv^h ae <iis^e.
■ i the Oxfoid Presbyterian erten^ its toundaries as its really has thTp^Iatlln bu ' constitute a heavy drain on
SU'berbS develon&d. Rllh oe H- -ro. .. ® ^ l t.bp Arbfvnrtmi^ T*3:*cj”vmirsrvkio
in public education, and
Whereas, the expenditure per
child for public education in North
Carolina is less than one-half the
national average, and
Whereas, if our great state is to.... ..
continue to go forward in the years!™ fii’m oi Perkinson-Green
to come, means must be found "diich was succeeded by
attract and hold the qualified! Company. Af-
teaching personnel which our boysi^^J leaving Oxford, Mr. Green re-
and girls merit, and I ®*ded for a time in Shelby and at
'Clarksville, Va., Ibefore
Church at 11 o’clock. Interment will
be in Elmwood Cemetery.
Mr. Green, a native of this coun
ty, was at one time engaged in
business here as one of the partners
Whereas, Edwin Gill, Commis
sioner of Revenue, stated publicly
last week that the General Fund
sm-plus may reach ninety millions
of dollars by July 1, 1947; be it
Resolved, That the undersigned
membership of the Oxford Kiwanis
Club request our State
going to
Williamsburg.
Mrs. Green, who survives, was the
former Miss Nouvelle O’Brien of
Granville County. Surviving Mr.
Green are three sons, Charles, Prank
S. and Edgar A. Green, and two
j daughters, Mi-s. Pattie Mae Wilson
subertas developed. But .... as it little" credit for | toe eoonolmc resources of the state.
Dean House Heard
By Episcopalians
Vestrji'Men Elected At Annua!
Meeting of Congregation
On Friday
B. House of the
Ckarter Night
For Cub Scouts
Exhibits and Commissioning
of Cub Leaders Feature
Friday Program
_ impede industrial progress, and de-
stroy the health and happineiK of
mnumei'a'ole individuals.”
Senator |ji’^abue iviae wii-son
John S. Watkins, and Representa- Elizabeth Brennan,
tive and Kiwanian, Wills Hancock,
to support and lend every effort to
the enactment of legislation which
wiil provide a minimum salary in
crease of 30 per cent for North
Carolina's 24,000 public schodl tea
chers and for other state employees
earning $1800 or less per year, such
Increases to begin in January of
1947 and to continue through the
coming biennium.
Thirty members of the club sign
ed the resolution, Parham said.
Wilkerson Rites Are
Held At Union Chapel
Mrs. Cora Bell Owens Wilkerson
died at Granville Hospital, Jan. 16.
She had been sick two weeks be
fore she was taken to the hospital,
where she was a patient for three
weeks and three days before death.
The funeral was conducted at
Union Chapel Church at 2:30 Jan
uary 17 by her pastor. Rev. Mr,
Combee.
Mrs. Wilkerson was bom June
28, 1885, a daughter of the late
Calvin Owens and Sallie Lee Hayes
Owens. She manied Emmett Wil
kerson Dec. 28, 1900.
Surviving are her husband, three
daughters, OVtrs. Baker Williamson,
Mi-s. Theron Hudson, and Mrs.
Jordan Williamson, five sons, Em
mett Wilkerson, Jr., Graham Wil
kerson, Flonnie Wilkerson, Flunnie
Wilkerson and Hoover Wilkerson,
25 grandchildren, four great-gi’and-
children, and two brothers, Dunnie
and Flunnie Owens.
Wilton Grange Plans
WILTON. Jan. 27.—The Wilton
Grange 'will hold its regular meet-
ing Wednesday evening, Jan. 29, at
7:30 o’clock.
Mrs. Thomas Husketh, the new
lecturer, has planned an interesting
program with a group of young
Grangers taking the leading parts.
In addition, various Grange com
mittees are to be named at this
.meeting.
Uid^S^itv O?’ NortT^ c Charter Night lor Cub Scout Pack
soeakhiiT^at tbs 86 was observed here Friday night
tfon Seetof of T 1a program at First Baptist
Church here®^Fridav^nip.M ^^®"s sPon«>r of the Cub Scout
homespun humor to^potofotjt p^S S.^C^ ^wSHf H^dts!^'
torou^^'me rimS
Mr-. House spoke after members
CREEDMOOB, Jan. 27.-Mr. and
Mrs. Joe E. Whitfield had as their work in recent weeks. These we
guests Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Harold k interesting and varied.
Veasey. 1"^ . Positions on the Vestry, the:
Mr, and Mrs. R. c. Jones spent'church.
Creedmoor News
Furniture Dealers
Attend Exposition
Supplies of Home Furnishings
and Floor Coverings Re
ported Increasing
There is promise of steady Im-
provement in the supply of furni-
- - tore and floor coverings becoming
ecutive C. W. Webb of Hendei'son, ' available through retail outlets
-as here to present the charter. | according to local dealers who have
As a feature of the program, each i visited the Southern Furniture Ex-
ol the four Dens comprising the' position at High Point during the
Pack, had a table exhibit of their past few days.
A number of items will continue
on the scarce list lor the next sev
eral months, but quite a few man
ufacturers expect to -remove their
quota plan of distribution by early
summer, which means that retail-
—' “>■ ■“•iprepared bv a committeo tua 7— —’ -o. rew, 'wHl 'oe able to receive adequate
C Greenville spent the week ^o^a^?^ Auxiliary nrior to toe Morton, (Mi-s. J. A. Saye supplies of their merchandise.
■ith her parents, Mr. and Mrs. and Mrs. S. C. Stephenson, and the W. H. Upchurch, M, S. Currin
Pack Committee. Bbbcat pins were, and J. R. Perkmson of Upchurch
presented to 25 Cubs. T. S. Bojster | and Currin, Abe Goldman, and Sey-
announced that the last Friday in mour Dworsky of Oxford Furniture
Mr. Webb presented the organi-
, The memheT^ ef the I ^'a-tion’s charter to Rev. M. L. Ban-
Tuesday in Raleigh as the guests oliy— , mimw^!!® ‘^dnp'ega-1 ister. W. A. Mitchiner, Cub Master,
Mr. and Mrs. Mack Fortune. loved e guests en- received his commission, as did the
Miss Grace Dixon, student at E. ' dinner, I Den Mothers, Mrs. Joseph A F^
C. T. C., Greenville too I by a. romn-,.tree to _ . _ piin. rew,
end with
business meeting and address,
of various
Richard Dixon on Route 1. I Pleads
lefe“L"rtgh,“the wk ‘Sd Ocldmln,^Td"^;
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C.
W. Allen.
Mrs. Durward Fleming is a pa
tient at Wats Hospital, Durham.
Miss Annie Lou Bobbitt, student
at E. C. T. C., Greenville, spent the
week end at home. While here she
had as her guests Bertha and Ruth
Grey Bdmundson, clasanates.
Miss Ollie Milton and Mrs. Willie
Puller were Durham shoppers Fri
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Walker are
rreeivlng congratulations on the
birth of a son, Jan. 21.
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Yeargin and
children were Durham visitors re
cently.
Edward Moss Jr., and Lane Peed
made a business trip to Oxford Sat
urday.
Mrs. C. D. Lyon is able to be up
after a recent illness.
Mrs. Clyde Hester returned on
Thursday from a three weeks visit
with her sister, Mrs. C. W. Gamer,
in Warsaw.
Mr. and Mrs. Perry Tew of
Greensboro, spent the week end
wiai her sister, Mi-s. C. W. Brafford.
GOP BACKS TRUMAN
President Truman appears assur
ed of strong Senate support in his
stand against early income tax
cuts as highly placed Senators urg
ed tax reductions b6 deferred until
the budget is balanced and the na
tional debt reduced.
ports during the evening.
Rev. Henry Johnston reported
gains in membership and B. H.
Lewis reported that the church as
a whole is in ‘"oetter shape than
in years”.
Mr. Hoi^e su^ested that a “hos
pitable mind’’ is helpful in practic
ing the cultural arts, social arts,
spiritual arts and the art of humor.
He played a number.^ selections
on his mouth harp and used many
of his boyhood experiences to em
phasize the stories he told.
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50 New Leffion Posts
Organized In State
More than 50 new American Le
gion posts have been established in
North Carolina since Wm. M.
York, of Greensboro, ibecame State
Commander of the North Carolina
Department of the American Le
gion last summer. The Legion now
has 356 Posts in the State with a
present mttnbership of more than
51,907.
Energetic and determined, the
50 year old Commander of the
each month would be “Pack Night,
with all Cub Scouts meeting to
gether.
Games, songs and stunts were en
joyed during the evening.
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Granville Hospital
Nurses Ask Visitors
For Full (Operation
The following has been received
for ptfolication:
“The Granville Hospital staff or
nurses would like to ask the people
of Granville and surrounding coim-
ties to please cooperate with them
in observing visiting hours.
“It is impossible for us to give
our patients the care we would
like to because of visitors. We are
sure that visitors would uvo to
cooperate if they understood why.
The hour that is convenient for you
to drop by probably is a great hin
drance to the nursing care of a
patient.
“Please help us to give better
nursing care to our patients by
observing visiting hours, which are
Company, and J. A. Wood and J.
S. Rudder of GranvlUe Furniture
Company were among the local
dealers who have visited the show
and purchased for their firms.
-s
TWO DISTILLERIES FOUND
IN BRASSFIELD TOWNSHIP
Deputy O. L. Harrison, with the
aid of other members of the sher
iff’s department, Thursday after
noon destroyed two “dry” distiller
ies in Brassfield Township. Harri
son reported one of the booze ket
tles was fashioned from a steel
drum and the other was of subma
rine type.
mayor and MRS. inCKS ON
AIR TRIP TO FLORIDA
Mayor and Mrs. W. M. Hicks left
Monday for a short vacation at Mi
ami, Fla. They made the trip in
spections; 1700 buildings dusted
wltli DDT; 173 visits to food hand
ling estaWlshments a.nrt 45 visits to
d.liT-'ilic laberaitry, the 2ol-
lowing specimen examiAations were
made: water 10; milk 35; diphther
ia 25; blood 1428; gononhea 140;
tuberculosis 21 and parasites 16.
Diseases Reported
During the year the Department
rweived reports on the following
diseases; diphtheria 8; gonorrhea
128; syphilis 102; measles 291; ma
laria 4; whooping caugh 31; polio-
myelities 2; scai-let fever 9; tuber
culosis 26; tjtohus fever 1.
During the year there were 742
live births reported, 334 white and
408 colored, and 228 deaths, 105
white and 123 colored.
The birth rate was 23.2 per 1000
population lor whites, 27.2 for col
ored. The death rate was 7.3 per [
1000 population for whites, 8.2 for
colored. The infant death rate for
whites was 26.9 and 46.5 tor colored.
Diseases of the heart were the
principal cause of death, account
ing for 31 white and 42 colored
deaths. Thirteen persons, 11 of
them white, died in automobile ac
cidents.
Pneumonia took 13 ooloa-ed and
seven white lives, kidney diseases
took four white and 9 colored, cere
bral hemmorrhage 12 colored and
nine white. There were 16 cancer
deaths, nine of tliem white.
There were 28 deaths under one
year of age, 19 of them colored,
and one death over 100 years of
age.
Firemen Called Out
Twice On Thursday
The Fire Department went out
on two alarms the latter part of
the week.
The call early Friday afternoon
was for a grass fire burning adja
cent to Broad Street residences and
along the Southern Railroad tracks,
The flames were put out before
damage resulted.
Early Thursday night, a truck
went out when an outomobile,
operated by a northemer, passing
through the city en route south,
caught fire near the home of Mr.
and Mrs. A. A. Chapman. The
wiring was burned from the mach
ine.
Junius Tillery Is
With Citizens Bank
Emphasis also was placed upon
the development of new uses for
agricultural products and for the
development of new foreign mar
kets, Mr, Tilley .said.
The 17-day trip <if ihe Tar Heed
delegation was inleresting i.vm the
start to the finish. Mr. Tilley re
ported to the Granville meeting
Saturday. Visits were included to
New Orleans, San Antonio, El Paso
Grand Canyon, Los Angeles, Salt
Lake City, Reno, Denver, St. Louis
and other cities.
In Los Angeles, the entire North
Carolina party was entertained by
Kay Kyser at a banquet attended
by a number of movie and radio
celebrities. Dennis Day sang for the
party and Kay Kyser put on a boos
ter program for the North Carolina
Good Health program, whicli he Is
cm-rently backing 100 per cent.
Committeemen In
Granville Meeting
Detailed Explanation of 1947
Farm Program Given
At Session
Junius Tillery, Navy veteran who
ship.
Tar Heel Legionnaires has traveled'^ follows: 11 a. m. to 12 noon- 3
extensively over the State since his P- to 4:30 p. m. and 7 p m.’to
election to his present office at the 8:30 p. m.”
Winston-Salem Convention last
summer. He has laid particular! B. M. Currin Jr., and William arm iv
emphasis on the expansion and Cannady of Beynolds-Currin Elec-! ■strpet'
sta'DUization program of the Legion I trie Company attended a Friiddalra ' UorA ro o u ■«,
as well as its general rehabilitation | refrigei’ation school in R^Sh thl'H^^^f^erpt
and child welfare activities past week «^eign the,Hobgood of Berea, a
BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS
Bom TO Mr. and Mrs. Arvid Earle
Harris, a daughter, Patricia Marie,
weighing seven pounds and four
ouncK, January 17, at GranvlUe
Hospital. Mrs. Harris is the former
Miss DeUa Ford, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. S. E. Ford of College
his discharge, has accepted a posi
tion in Henderson as an auditor
with Citizen’s Bank and Trust
Company.
Mrs. TlUery is the former Miss
Henrietta Currin and they have a
daughter. Dee. Mr, and Mrs. Tillery
are continuing to reside here for
the present.
Community oommitteemen repre
senting 16 communities of the
county were here Friday morning
for an Agricultural Conservation
Association meeting at the Agri
culture Budding.
Detailed explanation of features
of the 1947 program was given by
Roy D. Jones, Thomas Allen and
Wilbur Yeargin, members of the
County Committee, and G. L. Cat
lett, secretary of the County Com
mittee.
Announcement was made at the
meeting that fanners who are plan
ning permanent pasture improve
ments during the year should make
early provision for carrying out
their plans.
An extreme shortage of fertilizer
and of necessary seeds is now in
prospect, Thomas Allen said.
4
Roland Wilson Is To
Enter Gloves Tourney
Sponsored by Oxford Lions Club,
Roland Wilson will enter the Gold
en Gloves Tournament opening lu
Raleigh this week. Wilson is enter
ing the 170-pound novice class. He
also plans to enter the Golden
Gloves Tournament in Greensboro
later this month. Wilson’s first fight
in Raleigh is scheduled for Thurs
day.
Tile State Department meeting of
the American Legion will be held at _ _ _
Caiollna Beach June 15, 16 and 17,1 plane iron. ’ RAlelgh-Emi:hTT!^“'^^^^
Mrs. Fleminff Called
To Fulton.JKentucky
Mrs. Addle Bullock Nolan, in her
80’s. died Sunday in Fulton, Ky..
where she had resided for many
years.
Mrs. Nolan, whose forebears went
from Granville County, was an aunt
of Mis, L. B. Fleming of Oxford.
Mrs. Flemi-Ig left early Monday by
[at Granville Hospital.
son Jan. 16, State Coitmander William M. York | port to attend tho funerM whicli
iof Greensboro, has announced. [is to ’oe held today In Fulton.