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THE PRINTED WORD is the only type of adver- lisin<; thaf may be re ferred to afi'ain and aj^ain —at will. >xf0r?t INVESTIGATE Granville County has many business and farm opportunities. Invest!- ijate and then invest. VOL. 68 ESTABLISHED IN THE YEAH IMI OXFORD. N. 0. FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1949 FBBLISHED VDESDAY AND rKIDATr NO. 34 Election Tuesday At Creedmoor To Name City Board Mayor I. K. Harris I'noop.jsed for Reelection j K. L. Aiken Candidate I'or Commissioner as Five In- euml)ents Seek Reeieciio i' In Voting May :} ' j LAKE HECo'mES ASSET j Mayor I E. Harris oi' Creedmoor, is unopposed in -.lie municipal elec tion to 1)0 held there Tuesday as the five members of the incumbent board and one other candidate en ter the licmo slrolch in their cam- ]>aig'n. E. L. Aiken, formerly a member of the board, filed before the dead line List Saturday night for a seat on the boaid. A. R. Raley, automo bile dealci. al.so filed, but later withdro'v from th' contest in which tlie incumbents are C. E. Lyon. W. S. Ilobgf/od. Ben Ed Lyon. B. G. Cro.ss and Gorogo Washington. Mayor HarrLs said he was partic ularly iiVcrosted in seeing the Town of Creedmoor through another two- yeai- administration in view of the piaiding improvements and the present siiong financial position of the municipality. Lake An Asset Creedmoor Lak^ originally con structed a.-; a source of water sup ply for the Granville .town, and later enlarged, has grown into a popular recreational spot. Harris said during a visit here this week. Actually. the lake is yielding more revenue as a recreational spot than as a water jiroject, the mayor acimited. Rfwenue from water consumeit< in Creedmoor is approximately $700 per month whereas for the past several weeks the revenue from fishing privileges on the lake has averaged $200 per week and the Creedinoor mayo*' estimates that the average will be $1,000.' per nioiiMi foi the summer period. invnicipalir.v owns Si.i H^oats mSMtained on tiie lake for ;rentai' puriDOse.s and many private owners pay boat privileges on an annual ba.sis. Karris said. Plans are rapidly developing for the construction of a fishing pier at the lake, together with a picnic shed and additional park facilities, Harris said. Granville County 4-H Club Council Leaders I ilMl Wi Laundry Opening Draws Big Crowd Visitors Marvel at Efficiet-cy and Smooth Operation of New Plant Ope.’ations of a modern laundry and dry cleaning plant were shown here Wednesday afternoon at the formal ci.iening of the new build ing and plant of Oxford Laundry and Dry Cleaning' Company. ■Vlsicors from Oxford, and Gran ville County, together with laundry operators in Raleigh, Durham, Hen derson and Franklinton, passed through the building in large num bers dui.ng the afternoon and ob served the modern machinery and skilled operators at -y'ork. A red rose was pinned on each of the visiting 1 adies and bottled drinks also were served during the afternoon. Large baskets of flow ers, sent by friends and suppliers of tile Oxford Landry and Dry Cleaning Company. ■Visitors were shown how the laundry is received, marked, wash ed, dried, ironed .bundled and rout ed out of the plant. Similar opera tions were shown in the dry clean ing department. Mr. Erewer expressed himself as gratified at the expression of in terest in the opening as manifest ed by the attendance of so many friends and patrons. Missionary To Be Sought for Ass'o Resignation of Rev. Ro.ger E. Williams, Jr., Accepted Monday Night A committee was named by Chairman W. S. Caudle of the Flat River Baptist Association executive committee in meeting here Mon day night to find a successor to the Rev. Roger E. 'Williams, Jr., as as sociation missionary. The resignation of Mr. Williams was accepted at the committee meeting, held at the First Baptist Church. P.eports fiom various com mittees were pre.sented as the oth er feature.': of the program. Rev. W, I. Terrell was named chairman of the committee and serving with him will be Prank Hicks and the Rev. M. L. Banister. Granville Youths ^ At Festival Show Donna Jean Yancey, Council President, Heads !)ele.ga- tion at FIvent A .score of Granville County 4-H Club ineinbers and leaders partici- ; patsd in the seven-county festival held Wednesday and Thursday iti Durham. The 1G4G champions in various ' fields of club work were recognized for their achievements and their work wa.s exhibiied in competition with that of club boys and girls from oth'.r counr.ios in the area. Donna Jean Yancey, above left, president of i the Granville County ■ 4-ri Club Cj^iLineii. is sliown with , Jean Belcher, center, vice president, and Barbara Kittrell, secretary and , : treasurer, in checking final plans I for local participation in the Dur- , ' ham event. I Douglas Currin is shown groom- i ing the Foiled Hereford which he ' entered in the Kiwanis-sponsored I Fat Stock Show. He fed the calf j for three months. The calf weighed 1405 pounds when acquired by the 'Oxford boy and was markeed fol- I lowing the Durham show yesterday at about 800 pounds. Nancy Clay, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Algeii Clay of Hester, was the county's 1948 room improvement champion. The Creedmoor school girl repainted the interior of a i north room with a light-colored I paint, added soft yellow curtains I and matching spreads on the twfn ^ poster beds, recovered her dresser, i desigTiOd shades for a pair of lights ! and forthwith earned the county I title with a more attractive, lighter j room. I The Granville float in the parade ■ yesterday depicted homestead plan- j ning and included a complete farm with miniature buildings, fields, j tractors, livestock and other appur- I tenances. j Antique Display In Oxford Today I i\fet hoclist ('ircle Sponsorin:'; Event at Woman’s Club Openin<>' al 10:30 A. M. Members of the Carrie Puller Cir cle of Oxford Methodist Church announced yesterday that all plans i had been completed for the. antique j display and sale ' o be held'* at the IWoman'.s Club today, Friday, from ] 10:30 a. in to 10:30 p. m. Nine dealers from Oxford and surrounding towns have reserved space for the display. Mrs. Ray Walters stated. Cookies and can dies, all home-made, will be offered for sale during the day. Proceeds iwill apply on the cost of the proposed new Methodist Ed ucation Building. Statesville Minister To Supply Sunday Oxford and Geneva A visiting minister will supply the pulpits at Oxford Presbyterian and Geneva clnirches on Sunday. Rev. J. T. Barham, pastor of Bethany Presbyterian Church, at Statesville, will be heard at the Oxford church at 11 o’clock and at Geneva at 12:30 p m. His local subject will be ‘The Unchanging Christ" and at Geneva he will preach on ••The Glory of Religion.” Mr. Barham is to be guest of Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Bryan for the week end. A^ams Company I to Erect Storage House N. Oxford (binnin^’ham Hrother.s 1<> Pul 1 V\) SlrucUire for Keepings Nearly 4,000 Hojisheads I Contract was awarded yesterday Uor the erection of a storage ware- j house for hogsheads and leaf to- jbacco for the W. A. Adams Com- ! ijany, which currfintly is engaged in I increasing redrying facilities at the ; plant on Hillsboro Street. I Cunningham Brothers of Oxford, I will do the work and ground will be broken in the next few days, it j v,e\-s ioanied from R. P. Cunning- hamTgeneral manager of the con tracting' concern. T. M. Evins of the Adams Com pany .-iaid the buikling would pro vide capacity for 3.800 hogsheads a'j'id would be. 168 x 140 feet. The floor Ls to be of concrete with met al of gcorrug.ated siding design ed for ventilation. There will al.so be a concrete loading ramp. The new buildi:n.g is to be situ ated on what was formerly a por tion of the Jeffreys-Myers Manu- fac'airi'ug' Company site. It is ad jacent to the existing house of Ox ford Storage Company. Adaui.s Company officials said the enlargement program that had Dien undertaken during the spring was in keeping with the policy of being jjrepared at ah times to meet d(‘mando of the growing Oxford marker. Early Voting Asked In Oxford Election Resjistration Total 1,373 For Election Less than 1.400 of Oxford’s estiinatea 7 ;io 8 thousand citi zens will participate in Mon day’s election in which a mayor and a board of seven commis sioners will be chosen. Registrar L. H. Davis report ed at the close of registration Monday afternoon 1,373 citizens I had qualified and were register- I ed and eligible to vote in the ' municipal election. Davis stated that the usugi i vote in municipal elections here j approximated 1.500, and that i before the limits of the town i were extended nearly two years , ago, an action that greatly I increased the voting potential i of Oxford. Methodist Youths ' To Stage Comedy HESTER FIRST RURAL CHURCH !N ASS’N TO GO FULL-TIME jlMileslone in Interesting His- ! Icry to Be Set As Rev. Ro- I ger E. Williams Beuitk-. j Pastorate May 1 i HESTER MINISTERS i 1823-1949 1823-1832 1832-1837 1837-1844 1814-1849 1849-1857 1857-1859 1859- 1860 1860- 1868 1868-1917 1917,-1926 1926-1949 B. Morrell James King Thomas King W. M. Jones Dr. Samuel Waite R. I. Davis Moses Baldwin E. F. Beacham DivR. IL Marsh George T. Tunslall D. Poe Historians of the future will note that. beginning Sunday. May 1. A25-yc.Lf-old Hester Baptist Church I goes on a full-time ministerial basis j as the Rev. Roger E. 'Williams. Jr., I native of Miami. Fla., and a mis- jsionary worker in Flat River Asso- I ciation far the past two years, takes lover woik in a congregation served 'by only three other ministers in the : past 81 years. ! Thus Hester becomes the first j rural church in Flat River Associa- i tion ever to have the full-time ser- • vices 01 a pastor. For many years, Enon and Hester churches, about five miles apart, have been served by the same minister, with alter- ' nate services, and the arrangeirient . has been a most effective one. ' The deacons of Hester Church ' are N. P. Hobgood. E. G. Hobgood. C. N. Hobgood, Fred H. Currin. ’ Frank Currin, Boadie N. Currin. ' Jr.. J. B. Badgett, J. R. Adcock, F. I R. Barlow-e, James Dean, Alfred B. .Dean. Bailey W. Pruitt, and Sam A. i Howard. The trustees are E. G. and IC. N. Plobgood. Fred H. Currin, ; Marsh Puckett and Spurgeon Puck- . ett. j Succeeds W. D. Poe ! As pastor at Hester, Mr. Wil- ; hams succeeds the Rev. W. D. Poe. Uvhoss death occurred last Novem- 1 ber after serving the congregation I for 23 years. Great gains were made ■by ihe congregation under the ef fective ministry and fine leader ship of Mr. Poe. In the final year of his miuL^.try, 48 per cent of the church income v.’as paid for sup port of missions work. (Continued on Page Six) Ediicatioi! Baard Studies Budget Lengthy Session of Memhers of Body Held Here IMon- day Night Members of the Board of Educa tion held a called meeting here on Monday night for study of the bud get estimate for the 1949-50 fiscal year for Granville schools. Supr. D. N. Hix said the board gave about four hours to study of propo.sals and to shaping policies for future development. The boards draft of the budget will be placed before the Board of Commissioners in meeting here on Monday. TERRELL IN REVIVAlT ' Rev. W. I, Terrell, pastor of a field Oi' Baptist Churches near Ox ford, i.s this week engaged in a re vival meeting at Stallings Memor ial Baptist Church at Salisbury, of which Rev. O. D. Moore is pastor. Dr. Henry Walden is to supply for I Mr. Terrell in his home churches • on Sunday. Tickets Offered For Legion Games Erne.sl F. Hart Post Ot'feripiij ; Season Tickets for Sched- I iile Be«innin,i>’ June (> ' Sea507a hekets are being placed i on Yai'tf for lidLie games of the Er- '.-F . P./<'^art Post's entry in the , G * » 'IT Juniqr Baseball • x’. -pi. fVeni. Jr..'j>osL corn- minder, yesterday. ijitem sAid the books of tickets I are on sale in a number of Oxford I stores and also arc available from i members of the Legion and at the ' Legion Club. ; i Seaso?! tickets are available at a I considerable saving over the gen eral admission price. Stem said, the i season books being offered at $7.50 1 including tax. I The season is to open June 6. D. N Hix to Speak At Stova!! School Parent - Teacher Association tc Have Final I\Ieetini>’ of Term Wedn’clay Ni,i»’ht i A program of unusual interest is ; being prepared for the meeting of ' Stovall High School Parent-Teach er Association to be held Wednes day nighi. at 7:30 o’clock. County School Superintendent D. N. Hix will be the guest speaker and will be heard by a Stovall audience for the first time since he assum ed his county position April 4. The nominating committee, nam ed at the previoiLS meeting of the association, will .submit its report with a full slate of officers at the Wednesday night meeting. Mayor to Be Is Heard by Club R. P. Cunningham and Hugh j Currin Speak at Weekly j Kiwanis Meeting I The next mayor of Oxford ad- ; dressed the Kiwanis Club at the organization's weekly meeting on Tuesday night at the club house. The .speakers were Hugh Currin and Robert P. Cunningham, each a candidase for mayor in the election next Monday. Each spoke in gen eral terms and made no mention of the approaching election. They were presented T. M. Evins of the program coi. '^i?ttee. Lieutenant Governor Da'n Rader of Graham, was a visitor and with him was Ben Leo. Rader spoke briefly to the club with reference to the forthcoming district meeting at Chapel Hill. J. M. Blalock, Jr., was the guest of J. ?. Plarris, Ji., and Marshall McLain of Burlington Mills was the guest of Robert Short. I BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS I Mr. and Mrs. George Fi-eymiller I announce the birth of a son, Wel- jdon Fred, on April 24, at Lodi, Calif. Mrs. Frcymiller is the for mer Mary Ann Dalby of Creedmoor. Building- Fund to Benefit From Presentation on Sat urday, May 7 A fabulous farce. “Dr. Do Better’s Tell-A-Vi.sion Show," is to be pre- jsented Satui’(9ay evening. May 7, at 18 o’clock in .the high school audi- ! toruim by the Builder’s Class of i Oxford Methodist Sunday School. Starring in the “wonderful sen sation" will be Bob Lewis. Dan Braswell. Zora Nicholson, Ethel Beasley. Katherua? Strickland. Ma ry Nicholson. Dennis McGinnis. Grover Nicholson. Buck Mangum. Junior Harris, Bennie Hugh Moss, nvfd,'' Wdsort-, Ma’-y .To Oakley Vir ginia Pleas; .lus, Daisy Mae Plow, Shirley Beane, Emily Cole, Georgia Throckmorton. Betty Hilliard. Pat-, sy Topping, Red Davis. Paul David son, Hok? Hooker. Russell Wiley, Jerry Suiles, Billy Garner, Robert Forbes. Charles Gray, Harriet Ar rington. Shirley Mason, Katherine I Mason. Shirley Harrsi, Julia Pitch- I ett. Mitta Carr, Rosalyn Lambe, jjacquetta Baker, Anna Mae Dan- jford, Dorothy Dickerson and Reba I Potter. Many of the members of the class are student.s at Oxford Or- I phanage who arc helping to put ' on the play to make a contribution 1 to the Methodist building fund. Polls to Open At 6:30, Close 6:30 In City Voting i Little Tnterest Shown in Mu nicipal Election to Be Held Monday at Court House Oxford citizens will on Monday elect a 'coard of seven commission ers from a field of 12 candidates and elect a mayov from two candi dates who have tossed their hats into the symbolic ring. Voting will be at the court house from 6:30 a. m. to 6:30 p. m., ac cording to L. H. Davis, registrar, who is to be assisted at the polls by A. H. Waller, J. A. Garlick, T. G. Powell and Sam B. Currin, Jr. A vote of around 1,000 is expected from t?ie 1,373 persons who have registered and are eligible to par ticipate in the election. No Issues Drawn No issues have been drawn among the candidates, and there has been little street discussion of the t;pproaching election. It is known, however, that some of the candidares for commissioner have convictions about some of the af fairs of the town but to these the^ have given no public expression. Voters may mark their ticket.s for seven of the 12 names as fol lows which will be listed on the ticket, for commissioner: Sam Baird, D. T. Currin, W. R. Fx’azier. J. P. Harris, R. R. Herring, W. Z. Mitchell M. E. Paiham, J. A. Saye, W. N. Thomas, G. B. Watkins, J. I A. Watkins and B J. Williams. I The candidates for mayor are R. P. Cunningham and H. M. Currin, ' both making their first bid for of- fiC'. i;i local politics. M) be voted ivi'ion i.'^ For or Against Managerial Government i for Oxford. The results of ^ the vote will determine whether the mayor ' and beard of commissioners will be : authorized' to employ a full-time : man ro devote hi.s time and efforts , to over-all supervision, planning ‘ and management of the Towns af- I fairs. The cost of such a manager I has been estimated from $7,000 an- I nually upward ,if a man with a I background of training and experi- I ence in muniepial management and I planning is secured. I Davi.s urged that voters come to ' the polls as early in the day as pos- 1 sible :o avoid a last-hour jam. Newell Reelected To Be Principal Creedmoor High Felitioners Expected to Pre sent Request to Board of Education CHARGE TEEN-AGE BROTHERS WITH WAKE COUNTY HOLD-UP Bond of .S5,000 Requested for William I.ockett Womack, Jr., IS, as Brothers Gibert Mathess Womack, 15, and Fllvin Mecilin Womack. 12, Are Turned Over to Juvenile Authorities Three teen-age Granville youths, caught shortly, after allegedly pull ing a L'andit-style hold-up of a stdre near Youngsville last Satur day night, have admitted robberies in Franklin County and also in Vir ginia, Wake County officers dis closed this week. The three youths, William Lock ett Womack, Jr., 18, oldest of the trio, was bound over to Wake Su perior Court un,der $5,000 bond fol lowing a hearing before Magistrate H. A. Bland in Wake. Gilbert Ma thess Womack. 15, and Elvin Med- lin Womack, 12, were turned over to juvenile authorities. Wake Coun ty ^officers reported. Residents of Route 2 The Womack brothers, formerly of Route Wilton road, are report ed to have told authorities that they obtained ideas for their armed escapades from movies which they had seen. They now reside near Brassiield Church. Deputy Sheriff G. C. Massey Of Wake Cfunty said the two older boys, armed with a pistol and wear ing masks, entered the store of O. B. Gay, near Youngsville, and in formed the occupants that a stick- up wa.s in order. When the men in the .stovi hesitated, one of the boys fired a shot into the floor, the of ficer related. The patrons then were told to lie down on the floor and throw out their pocketbooks, which they .did. The youths collected $40 from the cash register. $8 and a pocketbook from Dorsey D. Gay, and $4 and a wallet from McLain Privette, and made their get-away in a 1938 pick up truck, which apparently the younger ol the trio had waited in outside the store. In a chase that followed the hold-up. the boys wrecked the truck on. a road a short distance from the store and took to the woods, Massey continued. They were rounded up early Sunday morning. Gun and Masks Found In the truck, according to Mas sey, officers found $54.31, two pock etbooks, a .32 automatic pistol and two masks. The brothers confessed to the robbery and admitted similar hold ups in Franklin County on April 10 and near Chase City, Va., on April 9, according to Massey. About $85 together v/ith a .32 pistol was taken in the Virginia hold-up and between $25 and $50 in the Frank lin job. William Womack, Jr., has been charged with armed robbery and was placed in Wake County jail in lieu of $5,000 bond. A former Oxford man, Merlin Cash of the State Highway Patrol, assisted Massey and Zebulon Chief of Police W. B. Hopkins, Constable S. T. Blackley, ABC Officer D. H. Perry and Cpl. C. D. Griffin in rounding up the lads. Donnie Dean Named President Y.P.S.l^. Donnie Dean, a junior in Oxford High School, has been elected pres ident of the Young People’s Service League of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church. Elected to serve with her during the year were Toni Calvert, vice president; Betty Baird, secretary; Dick Taylor, treasurer, and Sara Hall, efficiency secretary. Members of the league enjoyed a hay-ride and picnic Sunday after noon. Fire that has simmered about the Creedmoor school for months burst into flame this week and likely will be brought to the Granville Board of Education in meeting here Mon- iday. j The Creedmoor trustees on Mon day evening received a petition j bearing a large number of names I —unofficially reported as in excess of 400—of patrons of Creedmoor School asking that Principal J. H. Newell lie not reelected for another year, but the committee, in recog nition of Newell’s outstanding rec ord in his 12 years as principal, in a meeting Tuesday night, reelected him and v’ill ask the county super intendent and Granville Board of Education to approve the election. On the other hand, spokesmen for the petitions have .served notice on the County Board of Education that they would be here for the board meeting Monday to ask that the bod'/ not approve the election. Long Fight The Creedmoor differences have been brewing for months and an effort was made lo heal the breach when PTA and other leaders in the BATTLE OF PETITIONS ^ A “battle of petitioiLSi” wa-s ' developing rapiiH.v yesterday in C'recdmoor school district as the , “for” and “against” factions prepared for a sliow-down be fore the board uf education here Monday. Petitions calling upon authorities to retain the ser vice of J. H. Newell as schotfT principal for 1949-50 and an- 1 other culling for his release I were being widely and rapitBy j circulated, community petitioned the county board of education to name as the .members of the Creedmoor com- ’rnittee. residents of. - the with childivn in 1 i In response to that request, the board of education did make chan ges in the Creedmoor committee and included for the first time the names of patrons residing beyond the limits of the towns borders. 1 In announcing the feelection of Mr. Newell, native of Warrenton who ;ias been at Creedmoor for 12 years, the committee took recogniz ance of the growth that has taken place under Mr. Newell’s adminis- I tration. The faculty has been in creased by seven as a result of the growth of the school population, and the building has been enlarged I to meet demands of the increased I enrollment. The high school de partment is one the state 'accredit ed list and the elementary depart ment has been accredited during his tenure. Members of th? board are O. H. Aiken, Algen Clay, S. C. Lyon, W. H. Roberts and Lee Smith. Supply Minister to Be Heard in Rural Churches Sunday A .supply mini.s(.er will be heard in sei-vice:, Sunday at Mountain I Creek. Knotts Grove and Gra.ssy Creek churches in the absence ot the pastor, Rev. W. Isaac Terrell. Dr. Henry Walden, secretary of rural church work of the Baptist State Convention, will preach at Mountain Creek at 11 a. m., Knott’S Grove a I 3 p, m. and Grassy Creek i at 8 p. m. Repair work is being done at Knott’s Grove but the church will be open for use Sunday. Rey, Eug-ene Olive To Supply Sunday In the absence of the pastor, who is assisting in a revival in the An- i g'ier Avenue Baptist Church of Dur- I ham, the Rev. Eugene Olive of I Wake Forest will supply for both ! services of the First Baptist Church ; on Sunday. 1 At the evening hour 'of worship j the men’s chorus will sing several 1 selections of the old hymns. A cor- I dial welcome to all who attend I these services. j Men participating in the chorus ] are asked to be at the church at 7:30 p. m. [Woman’s Club Plan.s Luncheon On May 4 A luncheon meeting of Oxford Wom.ins Club is t-o be held at the i Club House at 1 p. m. Wednesday, I May 4, Mrs. Harry Dunn, president, : stated yesterday. I The meeting is to be the final ot I the club before next fall. Members I planning to attend the luncheon j are asked to make reservations j promptly with Mrs. C. G. Credle or Mrs. Harry Dunn.
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