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4 INVE9tlGj GranviQe County many business and S&rm opportnnities. investi gate and then inves^. rPBMSHED TCMbAT AND FTHDAT THE PRINTED WORD is the oniy type of adver tising that may be re ferred to again and agam —at wiH. xfovR VOL. 66 S8TABMSHZB Ot THE TEAM MSI OXFORD. N. C. an* Recruiter DistributeHvy MeJats HCity American Defens^^^ Work War !I Victory Medai To Be Put Out The United States Navy wll today begin the distribution of millions of medals for ex-Navy mer who earned them with their gal lan try during World Whr n, ac cording to the recruiter assignee here. Any ex-Navy man or woman eli gible for the American Defense Medal can get them at the post of fice here beginning Tuesday morn ing, August 5, according to the re cruiter, who said similar distribu tion is being made at all Navy re cruiting points. The recruiter is no) on duty at the post office here this week, but he will return or next Tuesday. At the peak of the Navy's man power, there were more than 3,500, 000 men and women almost all oi whom earned the victory medal: now being distributed. Many thou sands of ex-Navy men also earned the defense medal given for being on duty between 1939 and Peari Harbor Day. Both medals are bronze. Tht American defense has on one sidt a stylized Grecian female brandish ing a sword in one hand and an ancient shield in the other as she stands on a four leaved oak branch Around the top are the words: "For service during the limited emergency proclaimed by the Pres ident on September 8, 1939, or dur ing the unlimited emergency pro * claimed by the President on May 27. 1941." The victory medal also carries on one side the Grecian female but this one is triumphantly holding in one hand the hilt of a broken sword. Her foot rests on a Grecian ' helmet. The words "World War H' appear across the medal. On the other side in a circle are the words: "United States of America 1941 1945" and "Freedom from Fear and Want" are separated by a palm leave from k Freedom of Speech and. Religion' 1 JHIX ATTRND8 PRINCIPALS SESSION AT UNC —.—* D. N. Hix returned the past week ftom Chapel mu where he attend ed the annual meeting of the North Carolina Principals' Association held at the University of North Carolina. Mr. Hix Is beginning his third year as principal of Oxford High School. He was the only rep resentative from schools of this county to attend the conference, which featured a number of prom inent speakers and planning of work for the year ahead. SHORTlSHORTS —The Army Air Forces has dis closed that it has only about 90 days supply of aviation gasoline and oil The reason for the shortage was at tributed by AA officers to heavy commercial demands. —Princess Elizabeth, 2i-year-oid heiress presumptive to the British throne, and Philip Mountbatton, 26-year-old Royal Navy lieutenant, will be married in Westminster Ab bey, Nov. 20, Buckingham Paiace has announced. —A prominent young Wilmington business man, W. F. Smith, has been released under bond of $l,00t on charges that he raped an 18 year-old Negro girl while his boat was stuck on a sandbar in Cape Fear River. The girl, Willie Mae Hines, said she had worked for Smith, cleaning his boat. —A slim young woman in,a pink and white sports dress was arrested at Fort Smith, Ark., the past week and charged with attempting tc hold up a bank In the heart of the business district. Federal charges ol attempted robbery of a national hank were filed against the woman, who gave her name as June Ashby 21, of Eureka Springs, Ark. —The Agriculture Department „ said that meat prices probably would remain high unless a busi ness slump reduces consumer in comes. In its monthly report on the livestock situation, the Bureau oi Agricultural Economics agreed with recent predictions that housewives will find more meat in the stores this fail. —Wiley M. Pickens has assumed the post of executive vice comman der Of the North Carolina Depart ment of the American Legion, suc ceeding Paul R. Younts of Char lotte. who is resigning voluntarily to return to his home. Pickens re *- cently resigned as director oi the North Carolina Veterans Commis sion to accept the LegMm post. —In Chicago, Joseph Bartynik a criminal who had been out oi jail only nine days after serving a sentence for molesting a child, told police that after drinking nearly a gallon of whisky, beer and wine, he crept into the flat of Glenn Brad ley, % foundry worker, and toot Bradley's sleeping child from hk bed. He later choked the child tc OXFORD'S MAIN STREET OF 50 YEARS AGO There is nothing like an oid pic ture to bring back happy memories of oid friends and oid times to those who were a part of the oid scene and to show younger generations I the scenes and people they so often jhave heard mentioned, j The accompanying photograph is !a copy of an original owned by W. L. Peace and made by the iate J. D. ! Brinkley of Oxford and which he titled "Oxford. Bicyciist 1897.'! As may be readily seen, it was in the day of the oid well (left background just behind man in shortsieeves and also behind buggy andin front of surry) and stepping stones (left foreground) used to cross muddy Main Street. . ^ t Half a century ago, as the photo reveals, two or three trees stood on Main Street. There apparently was a small coating of snow on the ground. Just in front of the court house may be seen a seating device which in that day was known as "buzzard's roost." Some of the business landmarks on Main may aiso be seen. To the left, in one of the buildings now oc cupied by Rose's 5 and 10 is a sign indicating the location of the Public Ledger at that time. Down street may be seen a sign which reads "Long Bros " which is not to be confused with the later firm known as The Long Company. There was no monument in the street and Just over the top of the present location of Taylor's Restaurant may be seen what appears to be the roof of a dwelling, which may be the roof of ^ne of the structmy later moved to Goshen Street. The bank build ing, now occupied by Tom W. Har ris. the Chamber of Commerce and others, the Odd Fellows building with its drug store, and the Cape hart building then were pretty much as they are today. There has been change in the corner where the Williams-Breedlove Company is now located. A sign hanging Just above the heads of the two persons leaning against the store front in the right background shows the lo cation of a shoe repair shop. See any familiar faces in the pic ture? With the help of Mr. Peace and others, quite a number of them have been identified. Quite a num ber of the ladies are wearing gar ments with "leg-o-mutton sleeves ' and a uniform or so inrJKiates that L. Cox (fater General Albert L. Cox), (4) Miss Annie Cannady (6) Miss Helen WHite, (6) Mrs. J. a Hall, (7) Mrs S. H. Cannady, (8) Mrs. E. T. White, (H) Mrs. John Webb. (10) Mrs. J. M. Baird, (U) Miss Laura Williams, (12) Miss^La&i sie Hunter, (13) Miss Wylanta Long mire. (14) Hiil M. Hunter, (IS) Miss Blanche Wood. (iq) Miss Evelyn Howard, (17) John Parrish, (18) Miss Minnie Kronheimer. (19) Ira Howard. (3f) Prank Blalock, (21) James A. Bonn, (22) M- D. Oakley, (23) Otho C. Jones, (24) Ck^. Robert H. Marsh, (25) Dr. Lee C. Taylor, (26) Miss Fannie Skinner, (27) Mrs. C. D. Ray, (28) Miss Lula Biggs, (29) Miss Dorothea Coggeshall. (30) "Boos w. Hunt, (32) L. B. (81)- Scott aer, (38) S. T. Peace, (34) Wade) Britt. (35) H L, dinner. (3<jt A. M. Shaw. (3' John W. Hunt, WILDUFE FEDERATION TOLD OF PROGRAM !N GRANVtLLE President of Nationai Federation Teiis State Organization Granvilie Program Worthy of Attention of AH County Ciubs j Activities of and the recommen dations of the Granville County ! Wiidiife Ciub caught the spotlight [of state-wide interest at the annual meeting of the North Caroiina Wiidiife Federation in Asheville the past week. Representing the Granville Club ' at the Asheville meeting was Charles Sullivan, who was one of the speakers on the morning pro gram of the one-day session, j It was the proposal of the Gran [ ville Club, adopted at the Oxford meeting where it was suggested by Sullivan, that the State Wildlife Commission fix hunting and fish jing seasons on the basis of biologi cal research on game and fish, t Sullivan headed off a move be fore the State Federation to have the organization petition the Fed eral government to authorize estab lishment of a game and fish reserve in the Camp Butner area. Support ed by the Guilford County delegate, he was able to get the Federation j to adopt a resolution which favored offering the land first to former [owners and establishing a game i. - .—. . . reservation on t^tpy not desired by former owners. After hearing; a report on the program of wUdlife conservation which the Granville Ciub is spon soring among 4-H Ciub members in the county, Cart Shumaker, the president of the-* National Wildlife! Federation, told the State Federa-! tion "the Granville County project is worthy of consideration by every other club in the state." One fourth of the 4-H Club enrollment is working on wildlife projects. Sullivan told the Federation. In an address at the meeting, Dr. Shumaker emphasized the necessi ty of active and rigid law enforce ment, stimulation of farmer and sportsman relationships for the benefit of both, and good manage ment for a successful game pro gram. The Federation was told that the excise tax on ammunition, collected and distributed by the Federal government, will bring more than $200,000 to North Carolina within the next year for support of the I game program and the purchase of game lands. Harvest of Tobacco Would Require Ten Thousand Years Work If one man harvested, cured and so!d North Carolina's 821,000 acres of flue-cured and burley tobacco which will be produced this year he would be employed for more than ten thousand years. This may sound like a startling 1 figure, but according to H. Brooks , James in charge of Extension Farm Management at State College, it is estimated that the labor required for harvesting and selling the crdb amounts to over 31 million hours Figured at 40 cents an hour, this [labor would be valued at approxi mately eight and one-half million dollars, he said. "Yes, dad, mother, and all the children will be busy for a while," he said, "since the major portion of the labor will be provided by farmers and their families, and more than half df the labor is re j quired for baming and curing which must be done within a Mw weeks time. " Grading and selling ] may be spread over a longer, period 'he added, but this ptill means [plenty of hard work. John L. Lewis Is ) Tried In Mockery John L. Lewis, on a charge *f "Hampering the Progress of Amer ica," was brought to trial in mock ery at the weekly meeting of the Lions Ciub Thursday at Oxford Hill Top. "Judge" Fred Webb presided and Aieck Overton was the prosecutor with R. P. Cunningham the court appointed attorney for defense of Lewis. J. F. Maultsby Was the court cierk and Vernon Finch, George E. Couchman and James Catlette, jurymen. ^ Evidence was presented, the case argued and the judge wlli make his charges and the jury will retire at the next meeting of the ciub. Rev. Roger Williams At Baptist Church The Rev. Roger Wiiiiams, Jr., Fiat River Associational Missionary wiH preach at the First Baptist Church at the morning hour of [worship on Aug. 10. A cordial wel i come to all who attend. Red Cross Announces Home Nursing Group! The committee on Home Nursing ! for the Granville Chapter of the' American Red Cross has been re organized for the new program of activities planned during the fali and winter. Mrs. Luther Davis is chairman. Mrs. T. O. Mullins. Sr., co-chair man, and the members are Miss Heien Clement representing Amer ican Legion Auxiliary; Rev. Ben F. Moore. Jr., representing Junior Red Cross; Rev. M. L. Banister, church es; Mrs. T. G. Stem. Woman's Club; Miss Inez Hobgood. Junior Woman's Club; Rev. Henry Johns ton, Boy Scouts; Thomas S. Roys ter, Kiwanis Club; Dave Ashworth. Lions Club; W. B. Pittard, Rotary Club, and Mrs. Dorothy Wilkinson, Home Demonstration Club. Minister's Son To Head Wakeion School Fred A. Smith, a son of Rev. and Mrs. J. L. Smith of Oxford, who re cently has been connected with the public schools at Rose Hill, has been elected principal of Wakelon School at Zebulon, one of Wake County's largest consolidated schools. Smith, 38, is an AB graduate of Eton College, class of 1932, and while thbre was a star athlete, winning letters in football, baseball and basketball. His previous teaching experience includes positions at Hertford and Ahoskle and on the faculty of State College. He taught in the college's physics department. Smith, who this summer has tak en post graduate work at Wake Forest College to gain credit on a master's degree, is married. He has no children. He Is a native of Char lotte. Adams Company Men Leaving For Market Another delegation of Oxford to bacconists will leave this week for South Carolina and Border mar kets which will begin auctions on Thursday. The W. A. Adams Company, as it has fOr several years, will have buyers on the markets at Loris and Conway, S. C. T. M. Evins, Ethan A. Mayes. Atkins Dillehay, and G. D. Gholson, Jr., will be on the Con way market and W. A. McFarland, J. B. Carroll and William S. Hart will be on the Loris market. Andrew Jamieson, president and general manager of the company, will go to South Carolina for the opening. H. E Parker has been confined for several days suffering with a severe case of poison oak. Club Women Plan Family Suppers Series of Gatherings !n Coun to Be Held During August -Good eating is in store for the members of famines of home dem onstration ciubs in the county as other iocai units hoid their annua] summer family picnics. Wilton Club is broadening its program to a community affair. It ts to be held on Friday. Aug. 15, at the Wilton Cannery at 6:30 o'clock. Club members and others desiring to take part are asked to meet at I o'clock, bringing cooked meat and uncooked vegetables, prepared tea bread and accessories. The Hester club picnic is to be held at Hester Baptist Church on Aug 8 at 6 p m. Oak Hill will picnic at Oxford Park Aug. 9 at 5:30 o'clock. Providence ciub women will serve theirs on Friday. Aug. 15, at 4 p m. at Oxford Park. Legion Post To Gather at Park Brunswick Stew and Barbecue Supper to Be Served August 8 The American Legion will hold a dinner meeting on Friday. August 8. at Oxford Park at 8 p. m., Com mander Tom W. Harris of Ernes! F. Hart Post announces. Important business Is to come be fore members of the organization at this meeting, Harris said, urging that every member of Ernest Hart Post*plan to attend. The supper will consist of bruns wick stew and barbecue served by C. L. Taylor. BiH Dartt Serving In Navai Reserve Bill Dartt is one of a number oi North Carolinians now on twe weeks naval training duty in the Norfolk area. He was processed to active duty at Charleston, S. C., July 26. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Dartt of Oxford. —Traffic accidents in the United States killed an average of 80 per sons a day from Jan. 1 to July 1, the National Safety Council re ports. The council said there were ] 4,480 traffic fatalities in the firs) six months of this year. Wi!bur Clark Is j Put Under Bond Coroner's Inquest to Be Re j sumed in Court House Au gust 11 at 7:30 Wilbur Clark, 13, charged with culpability in the deaths of James Holbrook and Thomas Edward Boyd in a highway collision on U. S. IS seven miles north of Oxford on July 26. was released under bond of $1,000 authorized by the Great American Indemnity Company. Coroner F. Earle Hunt, who or dered Clark held after a prelimi ' investigation of the highway fatality in which the Clark automo bile was involved, stated yesterday that the inquest would be held at tne court house on Monday eve ning, Aug. 11, at 7:30 o'clock. Members of the jury previously impanneled are H. H. Currin, T. B. Brummitt, F. A. Cole, H. T. Currin, Sam H. Averett and F. R. Barlowe. It was understood yesterday that warrants also have been drawn against Clark charging him with manslaughter and with careless and reckless driving. * He carried liability insurance in the amount of $5,000, it was stated at the court house. Maturing Craps Hit By Storm Strong Winds, Some Hai! and Light Rain Reported In Area Thursday Maturing crops were aamaged by strong winds, some smaii areas -were hit by haii and a light rain ieii in this area Thursday night. AH the street iights failed in Ox ford, and some com and tobacco were blown down by the heavy gales, not much hail came in the storm, which struck about 8:30 and continued for approximately an hour. Haii feH in the vicinity of Oxford Motor Inn, but damage was report ed as small Raleigh Man To Be Heard at Geneva Rev, James C. Wood. Raleigh, will preach at' Geneva, Presbyterian Ohtgrch at! 11:30 o'aock a. m. on Aug 10 in the ahafqca of the pas tor, Rev. Ben P. MoAre Special in vitation is extended ftp ail who wlH come. ' WHERE THEY PLAY Games in the GranviHe County League scheduled for Aug. 9 are as follows: Berea at Gray Rock; Oak HiH at Wilton; Creedmoor at En on, and Lewis at Stem. . V—— Dr. Carrington !s Heard by Rotary Oxford Physician tfses Better Heaith as Topic of Civic Ciub Address -— i Atomic energy, if! utilized for the benefit of mankind through new adaptations, may replace some of the important medical uses of ra dium and X-ray, Dr. 8. M. Carring ton told the members of the Ro . tary Club here Thursday night, i Dr. Carrington was presented by R. M. Currin, Jr., program chair man. John Cassidy of Wilton was the guest of C V. Morgan, Dr. Leon Moore and Joe Sanderson were guests of W. <3. Woltz, and E. C. . Mitchiner and Olin H. Broadway of Henderson, were visitors. Dr Carrington spoke on "Better I Health" and in his remarks touch ed upon many of the current trends in improving the public health and in providing increased hospital facilities for the sick and injured of North Caroling and the nation. I He spoke of the North Carolina Good Health Association and ' the program it has launched to inform , the public of the need of better } health facilities and medical care, j He cautioned against the indiscrim ! ina ce use of penicillin, sulpha and other new drugs and explained some of the dangers in their unlim ited use. Colonial Busses To Enter Durham Ramsey Concern Given Fran chise to Operate Between Wake Forest and Durham Colonial Motor Lines, which now operates between Danviile, Va., and Rocky Mount via Oxford and Louis hurg, has been granted a franchise for bus servipe between Wake For est and Durham by the State Utili ties Conuqission. Qiioniai received the franchise recently dropped by Carolina Coach Company. D. T. Ramsey, president of Colo nial, said that one round trip be tween Rocky Mount and Durham will be offered daily, With an addi tional round trip between Durham and Wake Forest. / He said trips would be increased when patronage justified it, and the Carolina Coach Company skid that uninterrupted service would be continued until Colonial schedules can be put into operation. —American exports in June siumped 13 per cent beiow May's record. TEACHERS NAMED FOR COUNTY SCHOOLS FOR COMING SESSION Vacancies Remain to Be Fiiied at Wiiton, Creedmoor, Oak HiM and Stovaii—S. R. Murray Accepts Principal ship at Oak HiH Election of S. R. Murray, former ! principal of Wilton High School, to head Oak Hill High, has been dis closed by Superintendent B. D. Bunn of the Granville Schools, who said there are as of this date six vacancies to he filled in the county schools for the 1947-48 term. The vacancies are at Creedmoor cne, Oak Hill four, Stovall two, and Wilton one. As released by the superintendent, the principals and staff members are as follows: Wilton—Elbert L. Veasey, princi pal; Mrs. Alma G. Husketh, f^ildred W. Allen, John F. Cassidy, agricul ture, Mattie Mae Lyon, Ruth Stro ther, Mrs. Herbert H. Harris, Flor ence Dean, Bessie Dean, Mary Belle Knott and Mrs. Louise B. Preddy. The position of home economics teacher is to be filled. Creedmoor—John H. Newell, prin cipal; Mrs. P. H. Barnes, Marjorie Aiken, Laura Catherine Hester, home economics; Frontis L. Wilson, agriculture; Mrs. Margaret L. Mc Intosh, Mrs. Ernestine H. McClung, seventh grade; Mrs. Roberta D. Goodwin, Mrs. Josephine P. Newell, Margaret R. Wilson, Mrs. Marilyn B. Mangum, Gills Lyon, Grace Cockerham, Mittilulah Pittard, Mrs Lucile H. Lyon, Mrs. Eva H. Cat lette, Mrs. Jane G. Thomas, Mrs. W. B. Hardy. The position of commer cial teacher is vacant. Stem-^John D. Hales, Jr., princi pal; Mrs. J. Grover Lee, Alma G. Bowden, Willard T. Winborne, agri culture; Mrs. Elizabeth H. Jeffreys, Bessie Mangum, Mrs. Francis S. Stem, Mrs. Kate B. Atkins. Berea—Jesse W. Slaughter, prin cipal, Mrs. Marguerite A. Daniel, Patricia Slaughter, Thomas B. Cur rin, Rebecca J. Cary, home econom ics; Thelma Clark, Audrey OBrian. Mrs. Helen M. Meadows, Virginia B. Pittard, Mrs. Lillian Adcock. Oak Hill—3. R. Murray, princi pal; Mrs. Lou P. Watkins, Mrs. Ma, rie G. Currih, home economics; Bu gene U. Puryear, agriculture; Myrtle G. Blackwell, Mrs. 11a D. Currin. Mrs. Lelia B. Williams, Miss Emma Gates, and two vacancies in the grammar grades and one in the pri mary department. Stovall—W. C. Poe, principal; Thornton G. Stovall, Mary Frances C. Boyd, home economics; Carl V. Tart, agriculture; Eunice G. Hicks. Hattie F. Turner. Myrtle Crews Poe. Mrs. Lillian H. Gill Wilma R. Dean, Mrs. Rachel H. Wilson. Mrs. Sue Watkins Puckett, Edna Averett and Mrs. Elizabeth S. Cutts. There is one vacancy in high school work. Colored Teachers In the colored schools, the follow ing have been elected: Wilton District—Wilton, Eliza beth B. Alston, Doris B. Davis, Las sie A. Roberts; Background, Lucre tia Harris; Tar River, Olivia K. Sanford, Beatrice K. Lassiter; Greenfield, Addle M. Howard: Brassfield. Eva B. Young; Bragg, Irene Miller; Poplar Hill, Mary Frances Harris; Pettiford, Janie B. Edmondson; Grissom, Lucy EL Montague. Creedmoor District — Creedmoor, G. C. Hawley, principal; Andrew J. McGhee, Jr., Mary Hester Livas. Ruth G. Thompson, Q Marie Lan caster, home economics; John Jo seph Eisbey, Dora S. Springs, Lore na S. Hedgepeth, Patsy B. Jackson. Ludie B. Green. Isabel F. Hicks, Nell E. Burwell, Hattie L. Moore, Ola P. Hill, Serena Parker, Martha O. Massenburg; Winston, Lucille L. Allen. \ Stem District—Tally Ho, Patsy B. Ridley, Ruth A. Davis and Maggie Moore; Providence, Pearl S. Tilley, Lethia C. Jones; Culbreth, Louise W. Bibby. Berea District—Berea, Nancy C. Mayes, MotlieP. Chavis, Hattie A. Hester; Sharon, Irene Taylor; Needy Creek, Susie Cooper, Hattie Maylor Oakley; Satterwhite, Mae L. Yancey and Alma P. Powell. (.Continued on Page Eight) ,
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