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% THE PRINTED WORD is the only type of ad vertising that may be referred to again and again—at will. INVESTIGATE Granville County ha* many business anr, farm opportunities. In vestigate, then invest. VOL. 7<* ES" RUSHED IN THE YEAR )M). _ _—— OXFORD. N C. rUESDAY, DECEMBER 20. 1955 PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY NO. 102 PARHAM AND FRIENDS—John Parham, center, appears pleased as he receives from Samuel E. Wheeler a well-filled envelope (f cash given by friends for presentation on "John Parham Night" observed Thursday at the Woman's Club. Shown 1. to r.. are Hugh Currin, chairman, Don Hipps, assistant Wate Forest coach, Wheeler, Parham, Nick Consoles, Dean Hillenbran and Bob Barthol mew. all of Wake Forest. WAKE FOREST ATHLETE SHOWN HONOR EY HOME TOWN FRiENDS John Parham Night Observ ed at Ciub House with Civic Ciub Members and Wake Forest Aiumni Par ticipating Neariy 200 friends and neighbors joined in a dinner meeting here on Thursday night to pay tribute to John Parham, home-town boy who last month ended his coiiege foot bai] career at Wake Forest by scor ing 90 points, just three under the individuai scoring record for the schooi Parham, son of Mr and Mrs. Ed Parham, who reside on Stovaii road near Oxford, completes his four year course at Wake Forest in Jan uary. He has majored in physical education and pians to coach high schooi a thirties. Hugh Currin. former mayor and Wake Forest aiumnus. presided at the session held at the Woman's ciub and attended by members of the Rotary. Kiwanis and Lions Ciub with several members of the Jaycee organisation also in attend ance. Speech-making was brief and when he had heard Currin. his coaches at Wake Forest and team mates pay tribute to his record. John came to his feet. "This is the biggest surprise of my iife," Parham said just after Samuei E. Wheeier. in behalf of friends and admirers, had presented him an envelope fattened by 9200 "Hi re member this night untii I die I want aii of you to know that i ap preciate it from the bottom of my heart." Parham said he hoped that he oouid some time show his reai ap preciation. I'm proud of Oxford, proud to call it my home I hope I can settle here." he decclared. Coach Tom Rogers, who turned in his resignation at the coiiege a few days ago brought down the house just after his presentation by Currin. "To show you how I ieei about Parham, he ieaves Wake Forest in January and I'm going See PARHAM. Page 5 Christmas Checks For Bur-Mi! Fo!ks !ndnstry This Week Distribu ting $7,500 to Produc tion Empioyees Christmas gift checks totalling approximateiy t7.500 are being dis tributed this week to empioyees of Burlington Industries tocat piant. it was announced today by Supt. Wm. L. Johnson. The locai empioyees are sharing in Christmas gift payments that total *676.MO to production me pioyecs throughout tha Burlington Industries organization This docs not tnelude some units which hays been recently merged with Burling ton and whose Christmas activities will foUow their past custom The locai Burlington piant wilt be shut down from Saturday. Pec. M. to Monday. Jan. 2, to give em ployees ample time for Christmas holidays. Likewise the Christmas party for all employee's children under 10 years of age was held on Sunday, Dec 16. with a Christmas program and distribution of gifts to aii children. Pageant Stated At Shady Grove 21st The MYF of Shady Grove Meth odist Church wiH present a Christ mas pageont, "No Room In the Inn. on Dec 21. at 8 p. m. The Primary Sunday Schoo) Ciass wiil also take part m the evening pro gram. Members of the MYF are F-h. da Dixon. Phoebe Burnette. Annie Laurie Dixon. Betsy Burnette. Jane Btackweii. Atice t Faye Newcomb. Bob Burnette. Davis Ciayton. Jerry Newcombe. Zeb Overton. Dodson Ditkcrson. Chip Dickerson. Steve Dickerson. Larry Watkins and Ste wart Overton The pubiic is cordiaiiy invited. Baptist Ministers Endorse WF Prexy Action Taken at Catted Meet ing of Pastor's Confer ence ^Yesterday Pastors of the Flat River Bap tist Association, in meeting here on Monday, went on record as express ing complete confidence in Dr. Haroid W Tribbie and in his ad ministration of Wake Forest Coi iege." The meeting was heid at First Baptist Church and was attended by six of approximately 20 mem bers. A total of eieven. including those present. w*ent on record as favoring the resolution, which was addressed to the Investigating Com mittee of Trustees of Wake Forest Coiiege. Rev Herbert W. Baucom b pres ident of the ministerial body. Rear. W J. MWards is secretary ofths} group. The administration is currently under investigation by a committee of trustees. The resolution foiiows: "We. the pastors of the Fiat Rh*t er Baptist Association, wish to reg ister our complete confidence in Dr. Haroid W. Tribble and in his administration of Wake Forest Coiiege. We deepty deplore the re flections cast on Dr Tribbie at this critical time in the deveiopment of Wake Forest. "The Baptists of North Carolina have entrusted to Dr Tribbie the heaviest ioad any coiiege president of recent years has had. and it is our studied opinion that he has dis charged his responsibilities to the coiiege. the Baptists of North Car olina. the atumni. friends of the coiiege. and the student body in a must excellent way. "At a time when Wake Forest is at a crossroads in her tong and g'o rious history it seems unthinkable that Dr Tribbie be embarrassed by being tried without having been charged with any faiiure or defec tion from duty. ' We wish further to assure Dr Tribbie of our support and prayers as he ieads in these significant iays for Christian education." WEEDED SAFETY #ELT—A man identified as Waverly Edward Cioss, 35. Negro, of Henderson, might have escaped with his life had he been wearing a safety belt at the time his car crashed into a road side bank o n the Wrenntown road near Dickerson Sun day momihg. Patrolman D. P. Darden sai dy Cioss was apparently traveling along when his car went out of controi on a curv e, slammed head-on into a bank and over turned, pinning his head (arrow) beneath t he wreckage. Cioss legs may be seen through the windshield, extending almost to the bra ke pedal. (See story, page 7) Tobacco A^eeiFny , 8. M. Hawks and other ape- r! ctaHsts from the State Coiiege Extension Service wiii be at the high schooi auditorium here to- - } morrow. Wednesday, for a con j sideration of tobacco probients^f now facing producers. Farm Agent C. V Morgan has arranged the gathering, 'ij which he cai!s the county's an nua) tobacco meeting " There is need by growers for informa tion on varieties, where and under what conditions they can best be grown, characteristics and yieids of some of the new er varieties and aiso informa tion about disease controi and fertilization. The time of the meeting is to a. m. Morgan said he ex pected the session to draw a iarge attendance of tobacco growers from ait sections of GranviUe. Mrs.J.H. Buttock Buried Yesterday Former Resident of GranvHh) Succumbs in Florence, S. C., Ho<p)t Mrs Joe H. Buiiock. St resident of Granvitie riM.nev mm at e p. m Saturday tn S. C. hospitai. She had ident of Florence . , , . criticaiiy iU for a week prior to her death. The funeral was conducted at ! p. m Monday at the Buttock Meth odist Church by the Rev. Vernon Tyson, pastor. Buriat foitowed in the Builock-f Creedmoor. Mrs. Buttock Mary Ste Wiitit J. Danis! Buried At Trinity Retired Farmer of Sharon Church Community Dies in Granviiie Hospitai Wiiiis Jefferson Daniei 79. rear ed farmer of Sharon Church com munity. died at ii:i4 a. m Friday at Granviiie Hospitai after an iU ness of severai months The funerai was conducted at 2:30 p. m. Sunday at Trinity Meth odist Church by the pastor Rev. Arthur Phiiiips. Burtai was in the church cemetery. Rev. W. J Ed wards assisted in the service Born in Granviiie County, where he spent virtuaity aii his iife. Mr Daniei was a son of the iate Joe Daniei and Fannie Wiikerson Dan iei. Surviving are h)s wife, the for mer Rosa Huff, seven sons. John. Aibert. Woodrow. Veiy. and Ben ton Daniei. aii of Granviiie County, and Craig and Ernest Daniei of Fuquay Springs: a daughter Mrs. Fioyd Currin of Petersburg. Va.. and two ststers. Mrs. Graham Huff of Granviiie County, and Mrs. Rich ard Newton of Danviiie. Va. Aiso surviving are eight grandehiidren and one great g-andchtid. Currins Move )nh) Green Acres Home Mr. and Mrs. Brent Currin and sons. John and Lee. have moved to Green Acres, where they have bought the Robert Louts Stevenson home. The Currins formerly lived In the Noblln apartment on College Street. Mr. and Mrs Stevenson and children have moved to Gra ham. Christmas P!ay To Be Given at Corinth A Christmas play. "The Inn at Bethlehem." will be given at Cor inth Baptist Church on Dec. 29 at 7 30 p. m In announcing the pro gram. In which several persons are to participate. Miss Anne Brum mitt stated that the public is in vited. In the first 10 months of 1*66 individuals put away *020 million more in Series E and H bonds than they drew out In redemptions. . Lyon, Corner Years, Leaves His P. 0. Position r Tendered at Creed moor by Friends and BRf.-r Associates - During his 36 years of employ _ ent by the U B. Post Office De partment. c. D. Lyon has traveled a long road covering hundreds of thousands of miles. He has just retired as an RFD carrier out of the Creedmoor Post Office. As a manifestation of friendship, co-workers and friends joined Thursday night in a dinner at a Creedmoor restaurant. i*ir i.yon went into postal har . bH !ate in the rose and buggy oays when the mail moved by train. He has many interesting—some of them amusing—memories of his ex periences ^ At the Thursday night dinner, he was presented two gifts as tokens Of love and esteem from tho:,e with ^bboyn he had been associated more than a third of a century. In attendance at the dinner were Postmaster and Mrs. J. C. Peed. Mr. and Mrs F. E. Parrott. Mr. and Mrs W H Roberts. Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Nowell. Bill Veasley, Marjorie South. Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Peed. Mrs. Mamie Zabriskie and Mother of Nine '^ Dies in County Death of Reva Winston. 46, on Cheatham Farm, As scribed to Naturai Cause Death Saturday morning of Reva Winston. SH-year-oid Negro woman on the Cheatham farm four mites eaat of Oxford, teft nine orphans Sheriff Roy D. Jones, who inves the woman was sieep tn a room in the house iiine ehiidren She thing hard about ^ ..re o^ chiidrett went 0^!? investigate Her death occur red within !6 minutes and before a physician couid be obtained. Sheriff Jones said Dr. R W. Tayior, who examined the body, ex pressed the beiief the woman had died of a heart seizure. The ehiidren. ranging in ages from six to 20. said their father had been gone since 1950 A & P Emptoyees Shore $2,500,000 Employees of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company through out the country wiii share more than 42.300.000 in pre-hoiiday com pensation this year, it was an nounced today by Raiph W Bur ger. president of the food chain Every empioyee with as much as six months service wiii receive a part of the annuai fund voted by the company's board of directors. The amount to be distributed this year is 4200,000 more than iast year s compensation White rocks and Rhode Isiand reds are the most popular chickens among North Carolina pouitrymen. GETTING ACQUAINTED—These httle children, among the scores who received gifts '.t , the Burtington Industries Christmas party Sunday afternoon, had no hesitancy in gctti tg acquainted with Santa and making known their Christmas wishes. Santa had generous ly filled Christmas bags for all children under 10 years of age of employees of the Oxford plant. Left to right are Leonard Gilmore. Jr., Janet Wrenn, both four, Jean Coley, 9, Santa, Debbie Dement, 6. and Michael Norwood, 4. Tree Hunter, Girt 16,MakesMerWay FromWooded Area Search Party Organized Sun day as Eiien Champion Be comes Lost in Woods A i!-year-oid girt, who became tost white searching Sunday after noon for a Christmas tree, wander ed from the woods three hours !at er, weary from her tong walk but : uninjured. Sheriff's men and other volun teers were caiied when Eiien Cham pion. daughter of Mr. and Mrs Herbert Champion fatiad to re turn from her woods trip. Her younger brother. Dai. found his way home. The Champions reside on the W. H Pryor farm west oi Oxford. Eiien and her brother. Dai. who reside with their parents, entered the woods in the afternoon. Eiien said she wouid search for a Christ mas tree, and Dai said he would cut running cedar. They went sep arate ways. The parents became aiarmed when the giri did not return home The search was underway when the giri waiked out of the woods on the opposide from which she had en tered MYF Organization Scheduies Project Members of the Oxford Sub-dis- ! trict of the Methodist Youth Fel lowship will assemble at Oxford Methodist Church at 7 o'clock Wednesday night, Dec. 21. to carry Chiistmas cheer to a needy family in the county. All members of the Methodist churches are asked to bring canned food. toys, or cloth ing t ASSISTANT CLERK-TAX COLLECTOR EMPLOYED; CAR ADDED TO FLEET Toys Distributed At Piont Party Burlington Industries Host for Chitdrens Party Saturday Afternoon Around 700 persons were guests of Oxford Plant of Burlington In dustries at the annual Christmas oarty Sunday afternoon for chil dren of employees. Fruit cakes gnd soft drinks were served as the guests arrived and Christmas music was played prior to the program. Christmas movies were shown for each of the groups which crowded into the big ship ping room of the company Following the movies, which In cluded "The Littlest Angel." Ben ny .Owen and Allie Slaughter were winner of five-pound fruit cakes given as door prizes. Rev. H. W Baucom gave the invocation for the first party and Rev. Bridgers for the second. Office Manager Frank Bullock : xtrnded season's greetings and Plant Superintendent W. L. John son stated that the party was plan ned for the children of employees. He welcomed the guests and stated that Santa would come at the end of the party. Assisted by supervis ory personnel. Santa distributed nearly 400 generously filled Christ mas bags containing fruit, nuts and toys. A British explorer. Capt. James Cook was first to sight the ice mass surrounding Antarctica, in 1770. FARM PATTERN—Here is Mystery Farm No. 68 with its beautifui pattern of farming displayed in the spreading acres and roads. Readers are invited to identify the farm as to ownership and iocation, turning in the information to the Public Ledger prior to 5 pm. Dec. 26 either by mail or telephone. Tie owner is invited to come in and receive a gift picture of his premises. Subscriptions will be given to two persons who turn in the correct identification. S. T. Curria, Jr. Gets Oxford Post Number of Other Masters Considered at Meeting of Board of Commissioners Of City Municipal services here are being expanded through the empio: ment of an assistant tax coiieotor and city cierk and purchase of a scond automobiie for poiice and mtnict pai use. S. T. Currin. Jr., has Joined City Haii personne! as assistant tax coi iector and assistant city cierk In these capacities, he wiii assist City Tax Coiiector-Cierk T. O Mui ns. The automobile is to be used when needed by the police depart ment and wiii be available for use of the city administration in Jocai and out-of-town trips necessary in cond.rt of municipal affairs, 'ffi ciais stated. The car was acquired from the State Surplus Prop *rty Division at a cost of $900. It for merty was used by the highway pa tro). Approval was gtven a reqtesr from General J. W. Jenkins for permission to install a six or ei ht inch nipelinefromalot at the cor ner of Bel' and Wllliamsboro stre ts to the storm sewer at the corner of Gilliam and Williamsboro stree 6. provided the work is done und rr tne supervision of City Manag Fred Parham Gen. Jenkins assun ed responsibility for any damag which might result to trees alon the course of the installation. There were indications that thf Gulf distributor may be preparing to erect a service station at the site of the former J. A. Williams home. The board approved a request for a 99-day sick leave for O. L. Harri son of the police department, if it is found that Mr. Harrison needs that time for impending hospitali zation. The board heard and took no ac tion on a request from D. P. Rob inson for payment for a tire and tube which he said were destroyed by his car hitting a street break near the intersection of Watkins and New College streets. The bill was for $30.89 rnearamage prootem at tne Thomas Brummitt homb was again brought before the board Earlier, the board authorized instatiation of drainage to take care of Hood ing which resuited by construc tion of a street above the ievei of Brummitt's yard on Fairview road. Brummitt's attorney. W. M. Hicks, said the drainage had not correct ed the situation Three board mem bers. L. E. Breediove. C. E. Cobie, and S. B. Knott, voted to give t30 toward the expense of moving dirt into the yard. The oniy other com missioner present, T. O. Poweii. voted against the proposal. W M Hicks, toid the board that some 4.000 feet of cabie is needed to improve the lighting at the local landing strip The statement was advisory in nature and not a rec ommendation.
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