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VOL. 75
PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY
C/7Y70 LFASF MKP FOR
F/SWNG; M/A/U7FS W/LL BF
RF^D ^7 FU7URF MFF7/NGS
Parking Area To
Be improved Upon
t. of C. Proposo)
C. R. Watkins, Jr , and C. M.
Booih to Lease LAhe Bev
ins Fishing Rights—City to
Continue Cutting Sewer
Roots
In * three and a half hour ses
sion of the Board of Commission
ers here Tuesday night, there were
squeaks that may become as audi
Me as squawks before board mem
bers finish asking questions,
A iot Was accomplished at the
session when Mayor W Z Mitcheii.
Jr., presiding, failed to draw any
consideration for his own proposal
at the end of the first hour and a
half that the meeting be contin
ued for a week in order that a
popular TV program mighf be
viewed. The mayor renewed his ad
journment proposal at 11 p. m. and
had left the meeting when final
actions of the night came.
Among accomplishments were
agreements to lease fishing rights
in Lake Devin to C A Watkins,
Jr., and C M Booth, a decision to
cut auto expense allowances for two
city employees, a decision to ac
cept recommendations of Chamber
of Commerce for improving park
ing facilities and authorization of
ordinanoes prohibiting parking ad
jacent to the intersection of High
way 153 on College Street, scene of
merce that citizens be given op
portunity to vote on a city MM
bond issue and tdok no action on
the mayor's statement that Mrs. A
A- Chapman is willing to accept
from the city a replacement tree
for one which was cut in front of
her home snd resulted in a dam
age claim proseouted without suc
cess in otanwilR Superior Court.
It wasabo^ihe qme*OM mayor
wanted to go home for his tele
vision program that City Manager
Pred Parham had w question. Be
fore his couid be answered. Com
missioner Coble had one too. Par
ham wanted to know if it is the de
sire of the beard that the City
continue opening sewer lines Mi
private property; Coble wanted to
know why the mayor was signing
his approval at the top of the page
of the minute records Of the board's
proceedings and why the records
wbre not being reed go members of
the board for approve!.
Mr. Parham's question was
prompted by a directive which he
had received from Commissioner
Breedlove to see about" stoppage
in the sewer of the 8. J. Watkins
residence, m seeing about it, city
men and equipment had been used
in cutting route m tpepne wrnen
a piumber had h^h anaMe to re
move It was reveaied that the city
has a root-cutter; the piumber (m
the jobdldnt have. The hoard toid
Mr Parham to MU the property
owner lor the wart, but Mr. Per
il tun's answer to his question came
in a directive to "abide by the or
dinance " Parham toM the board
that when the city authorised use
of its root cutter on private roots,
there was no piumber in team with
a root cutter. There is now a pium
ber with a root cutter available in
the city. Parham Stated.
CoMe wanted to know if there
wa* to he a cati for the reading oi
the minutee of the Met session.
"This is the first wganization I've
ever had anything to do With where
the proceedings are not read for
approval" Coble said. Noting that
the city's records in recent months
bears an O-K and signature of the
mayor at the top of the page
Which the proceedings are reported,
CoMe said "I dont beiieve the may*
or has any authority to okay pro
ceedings of this board."
attorney W T Watkins was
questioned on the issue The Char
ter of the City, he said, provide,
that a record shait be kept. Ameri
can Jurisprudence, he added, sayt
that where such records are kept
^ they should be read at the next
successive meeting.
It had been brought to his at
tention, Cobie said, that the board
had authorized an ordinance re
quiring a jaii term and a fine of
net less than $50 for Rotating the
ordinance prohibiting fishing in
Lake Devin. The record, he said,
shows that the board enacted an
ordinance providing for a maxi
mum fine, of $50 and a minimum of
$30. The commissioner who had
made the motion said he recaiied
the fine as $50; Attorney Watkins
said he thought the ordinance had
been drawn with that provisions
Record Searched
Commissioners Powell and Dan
iei, who Had participated in the
motion sMfe positive in their recol
iections. Watkins searched the
record. He found, he reported, to
the board, the ordinance provided
for a minimum fine of $30. a max
imum of $50.
"For the life "* me, " Cobie pur
sued. T cant understand why we
can't get the minutes of this board
read for approval."
Mayor Mitchell wanted to know
how long Cobie had been on the
board, and added, tut s aii right
with me to read tiiem."^
Commissioner PoweH said he had
missed some meetings, but couldn't
recaii any reading of the minutes.
Commissioner Diliehay said he had
never heard minutes read since he
came on aS a member of the board.
White the clerk and some board
members were searching to find
when the board had last approved
its proceedings, Commissioner L.
B. Breedlove said Bailey Pruitt had
approached him regarding the pos
sible sale by the city of some of its
surplus wood at the upper end of
Lake Devin. It appeared at the mo
' that commissioners were min
M- A$ w.-: . ,
aioners found in the record this
notation by City Cierk T. O. Mul
6ee BOARD. Page 5
Information Unit
Of Reserve Forces
To Visit GranviMe
The Senior Unit Aavewr tor the
Army Reserve in this area will be
fn Oxford and Creedmoor on Tues
day, Jan. 17, for the purpose of
answering questions about the new
Reserve Purees Act. Major George
J. Z&ich, of the Durham Advisor
Group will he in the Ppst Office at
Creedmoor on that day between
the hours of 7:30 and 10:36 a. m.,
in Oxford at the Courthouse from
12 to S p. m.
Young men and their parents
who are interested in learning id
the opportunities afforded by the
Army Reserve Program are invited
to stop by and talk with him.
The Reserve Forces Act of 1055
establishes a ciear obligation for all
who enter service after August MUMS,
whether they are volunteers, ap
pointees. or draftees. Of the 1,200.
000 youths coming of military age
this year, 7 out of 9 will be put in
uniform some time before they
reach age 20, either at their own
request or involuntarily.
Against those odds, it might pay
a young man to know what his op
portunities arir and to get all the
facts.
Art CtnssesAre
To Begin Jan. !9
C!as$& in Late Afternoon
and Evening to Be Taught
by Mrs. WeMon Smith
Under auspices of the Ait De
partment of the Woman's Club,
pians were competed here Wed
nesday afternoon for two classes ih
art to begin next Thursday at the
Golf c!ub.
The instructor is to be Mrs. Wel
don Smith of Butner, a graduate of
Bennington College. Bennington.
Vt. The first class wiit begin at
4:30 and continue until 6. and the
second from *7 untii 8:30 each
Thursday.
A i 2-weeks semester is being
planned'and the charge is to be $15
for the complete course. Not more
than eight more students may be
accepted for the present classes,
Mrs. Alban Rlchdy. chairman of
the club's^ Art Department stated
yesterday. Interested persons may
contadt any members of the com
mittee. Mrs . J. P Hall, Mrs.
Claude C. Wheeler. Mrs. Thomas
Clement or Mrs. Richey at once.
Mrs. Smith was greeted enthusi
astically by prospective students at
the Woman's Club at 5 Wednesday.
Most Of those in attendance were
novices—interested in beginner in
struction in drawing, design and
color.
Mrs. Richey add her committee
received Mrs. smith at the Richey
home prior to the club gathering.
Kiwanis
tional, was sh6wn here on Tuesday
night. depictBig the 10 principal
objectives of Kiwanis fdr lM6.
The program was arranged by
Ueutenatt Governor Tom Roee
mond of the Fifth Kiwanis District.
Rpsemond was het6 to make the of
ficial installation of officers of the
Oxfbrd Ciub.
H, Dermont Hedrick was pre
sented a past president's pen and
commended for his leadership o$
Kiwanis during M55 Installed as
his successor was Judge John A.
Myers. Also installed were Frank
Bullock, vice president; Sam A
Howard, secretary-treasurer; Roy
Beard, Robert Clark. Stan Fox, Da
vid Hix. Bob Ray, Bruce Sloan and
Ed Taylor, directors.
Ed McFarland, Jr., was presented
as a new member by "Moo" Yan
cey. Visiting Kiwanians from Chap
el Hill were Rogers Wade, Tony
OObbel and Harvey Bennett.
"Highway Safety" will be the
theme of the program for next
Tuesday night With Will Z. Mitchell
in charge. Cpl. J E. Rawls of the
North Carolina State Highway Pa
trol will lead the program.
DR. W L- TATTOR LEAVING
FOR FLORIDA VACATION
Dr. W. L. Taylor and daughter.
Mrs. S. James Watkins, wiil leave
Sunday by air for Fort Myers
Beach, Fla., where they are to join
Mrs. Taylor, H. Q. Taylor and Mrs.
Ethel Ellington for a stay of sev
eral days.
Burg/ars ^cftve, Four
Fsfab//s/imenfs Fnfered
Burgiars .have been busy tn town
and county this week, keeping city
and county officers on the ran to
find ciues that might lead to ar
! rests. '
Victims of the night-operating
thieves were Morton and Sherman
and Farmers Exchange in this city,
Coiey's Store in Stem, and Dia
ment's Center at Dement s crosstng
east of the city.
The two Oxford break-ins occur
red during Tuesday night and the
two outside of the city during Wed
nesday night Agents of the State
Bureau of Identification are assist
ing Oxford police and sheriff's men
in their search for ciues. ^
Nelson Coiey of Stem reported on
Thursday morning to Sheriff Roy
Jones that entrance to his place
had been gained through a back
window and that the missing loot
included meat, coffee and perhaps
other items of food.
W. G. Drumwright, operator of
moment's Center, said entrance .to
hie piace was through a window. He
reported iqss ot about 75 pennies
taken from the bash register.
Sheriff Jones and an 8BI agent
was busy yesterday attempting to
Uft fingerprints at the break-in
scenes. '
Detective J. L, Cash and Assist
ant Chief N. A. White handled the
Jn-town break-ins With the aid of
SBI Agent Btariing Morton and
Sherman were heaviest ipsers. The
missing toot shere ineiuded four
truck tires, abant M in cash and
a number, of PC wrenches. Entrance
was gained by
fence and craw
iocked window
At Farmers
found entrance
through a
ey was r
a coke
an
the inside.
outside
an un
shoe.
the officers
been gained
window. Mon
drink box and
Exit waa
opened from
bTo
or Game
HM 7:30
ts Completed
for First Use Tonight
The Oak H1H gymnasiupi. a new
structure. wtH be used fic# the first
time tonight when Stem High boys
and giris teams yisit Oak Hiii for
a reguiariy scheduied basketball
contest which will get underway at
7:30.
The structure replaces the old
gymnasium which was demolished
by a tornado in November of 1952,
and is adjacent to the agriculture
and home economies buildings, uti
lizing their walls hi the forepart of
the new building.
Brick and block construction
were used throughout, with the ex
isting solid masonry walls of the
old building being retained in the
forepart of the pew structure, there
by providing wails between the sub
standard construction of the agri
culture and home economics build
ings and the new gymnasium. The
dressing room and corridor floors
are of concrete, thie main floor of
the gymnasium being of conven
tional construction yith a mapie
gioss finish.
Convenient puMic entrances and
exits face the principal parking
area which iies between the east
side of the main buiiding and the
gymnasium proper.
The construction! of bieacher
seats was completed yesterday by
the contractor, and the building is
being readied for its first public
use tonignt.
L. C. Adcock, ptincipai of Oak
pill Schooi, states that a large com
munity turn-out is ezpeeted for the
contest.
ay#
Meted at
Oxford
rs. Edna
Rob
rberofa
Ily. died
t. Luke's
2:30 p. m. Thursday
Methodist Church for
White Wood, 00. widow
ert. Wood. Mrs. Wood, n
prominent Granville fi
Tuesday afternoon in
Hospitai, Richmond, f
long iiiness.
Her pastor, the Rev. Russell Har
rison, conducted the service* Buriai
was in Eimwood Cemetery
A daughter of the iate Dr. E. T.
White and Ida Hunt White. Mrs.
Wood was bom in Oxford and
spent her life here She was edu
cated at Westminster Co&ge in
Richmond, Va., and at Oxford
College.
Mrs. Wood was active in sociai,
religious and did! activities of the
community ail her life. She was a
steward of the Methodist Church
and upon completion of the educa
tion building, was an enthusiastic
worker in equipping and adtfitting
the building. She wsj^fjgg.a lbug
time a member of the Methodist
Church choir. She was a member oi
the Tuesday Study Club, a former
regent of the Daughters of the
American Revolution and a former
president of Oxford Woman's Club.
She also was an honorary member
3f Granville Grays Chapter of U.
DC.
See WOOD. Page 6
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BERTH ANNOUNCEMENTS
Bom to Mr. and Mrs. Herman
Arringtqn of Aberdeen, a son. Jan.
10, at Granville Hospital. Mrs. Ar
rington is the former Edna Mae
Bums of Granville County
Bom to Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Wil
son of Stovall. *a daughter. Jan. 12,
at Granville Hospital. '
Dr. and Mrs. James Tarry of
Kingsbury Street, announce the
birth of a daughter. Evelene Roy
ster. Jan -a. at Maria Parham Hos
pital. Henderson. The Tarrys have
one other child, a daughter, Anna
Christian, age 30 months.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Guthrie
McCall Watson of Balter Street, a
son, Michael Guthrie. Jan. 3. at
Granville Hospital, tn earlier re
port, the name was inadvertently
listed as Watkins instead of Wat
son.
CHO/Cf Of S/ffS,
BU/LD/NG S7"ONF, GOif
COLAfGf 7Bt7S7ffS DUR//VG COU/v;
REQUISITES PRESENTED—Members of th3 visiting committee of Presbyterian College
Trustees are shown above as they examined with College Procurement Organization com
mittee members the especially prepared brochure "Oxford's 11 Requisites." Shown just
liter the luncheon at the Woman's Club at npon Tuesday, 1. to r., are A1 King, Jaycee
president, Mrs. Claude C. Wheeler and Rev. Thomas Traynham of the Presbyterian
Church; Dail Holdemess of Tarboro, Mis. R jfus Wilson of Burlington, Visiting Commit
tee Chairman Dr. Ben Rose Lacy of Wilmin gton, H. Dermont Hedrick, Chairman of the
3ranville College Procurement Organization. John Luther McLean of Lumberton, Dn
Harold J. Dudley, Synod secretary, Mayor W Z. Mitchell, Jr., Site Chairman Sam C. Hall
md Finance Co-Chairman W. T. Yancey.
Rodman's Opinion
Connty ResponsiMe for
Municipal Prisoners
One of the opinions of Attorney
General John B. Rodman handed
down this month was of especial
nterest here.
Rodman held that a county is
responsible for the care of prison- i
^rs of municipalities within that
county. * *
The question arose locally when
the Oxford administration decided
to abandon its jail upon continued
complaint of Jail Inspector T. A.
Early of the North Carolina De
partment of Public Welfare that it
did not conform to North Carolina
law.
The Board of County Commis
sioners delayed acceptance of city
police prisoners at the county fail
until Rodman held that it was the
county's responsibility.
Each city prisoner, if fine and
costs are imposed, pays a turnkey
charge and t2 per day for board. If
a prison term is imposed the costs
of maintaining the prisoner before
trial is bom by the county.
Health and Physica!
Education Workshops
!n County Scheduled
Teachers of the Granville unit
will Teview their program of health
and physical eduoation instruction
in two sessions scheduled to beheld
January id and 17.
Miss Helen Stuart and Taylor
Dodson of the State Department
of Public Instruction, consultants
in health and physical education,
will lead the discussions with the
locai group. Principals, high school
health and physical education
teachers and coaches, and elemen
tary teachers will meet at Oak Hill
on Monday, Jan. Id, at 3 p. m. and
at Creedmoor on Tuesday. Jan. 17,
at 3 p. m.
The meetings are a part of the
in-service program planned by the
steering committee of Granville
County teachers, according to 'Su
perintendent D. N. Hiy.
Rev. Oren Bradtey
To Speak at Berea
"Home Life'' will be the subject
of an address which Rev. Oren
Bradley of Stovail. wiii give at the
January meeting of Berea Parent
Teacher Assoclapon on Tuesday
night at 7:3C. The meeting, accord- !
ing to Mrs. Norman Hicks, pro
gram chairman, is to be held in the
school auditorium.
Mrs James Royster and infant
son, Larry Gooch, returned to their
home on Route 1, Oxford. Thursday
from Granville Hospital.
Bert S!aughter 3^ot }
By Own Gun, Reports }
AccMenta! discharge of his own
;un put Bert Slaughter in VA Hos
pital, and not the gun of a hunting
mmpanioh, it has been ieamed. i
Ah earlier story erroneously stat
3d that the accidentally discharged '
gun was in the hand of Robert
31aughter.
Robert Slaughter, reports that he ^
and his father were hunting ahead
of Bert Slaughter and did not see
the accident which occurred near
Berea on Dec. 36.
Robert Slaughter stated that
Bert Slaughter was hunting with a
borrowed hammerless gun, which
Bert said he was carrying under his
right arm as he attempted to break
a twig. As he did so. the gun slip
ped. and the barrel was about to
plunge toward the ground. Slaugh
ter reportedly kicked his right foot
up to break the weapon's fall, and
at the time the load was dis
charged.
pert Slaughter was taken to Vet
erans Hospital, Durham, immedi
ately after the accident and has
been a patient there since.
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Mrs. Lonnie Ne!ms
To Speak on Focus
Week P!ans of WMU
In preparation for Focus Week to
be observed Jan. 15-20, Mrs. Lonnie
Nelms will be speaker on the Fiat
River Association Baptist Hour ovet
Station WOXF at 8:30 on Sunday
morning. The Focus Week program
is a Woman's Missionary Union
project and it is to be carried out
largely through participation .^of lo
cal churches, according to Rev. W
J. Edwards, promotion secretary of
Flat River Baptist Association.
Potice Arrests
)wr 75,000 Mites Traveied
by Officers in Protecting
City's Residents
Oxford police made over 1.100 ar
es ts during 1905, the annual report
<f Chief of Police Douglas E. White
evealed yesterday, discloses.
The fifteen men of the depart
nent traveled approximately 75.0(E
niles in their patrol of the streets
md burned in excess of 5,000 gal
ons of gasoline in their travels
Records show a total of 1,168 ar
rests and the collection of (34,836 in
tines and forfeitures authorized in
Mayor's Court. This sum was dis- j
oursed to the following funds: so
Heitor fees (2,57750; state costs (2,- .
M2; Quad County Officers' Associ
ation (1,031; city costs (8,515.75:
fine (10502.25; jaU and turnkey
fbes (October and November only)
(437.50.
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AppHcations For
AHotments To New
Leaf Growers Dae
The final date for applying for
new grower tobacco allotments for
1956 is January 31. according to
Thomas G. Montague, office mana
ger of the Granville County Stabi
lization and Conservation service.
The change in new grower pro
visions will tend to reduce the num
ber of new grower allotments issue
in this and all other counties, ac
cording to Montague.
Montague also stated that the
deadline for 1956 new grower cot
ton applications is Feb. 28.
GRANV/LLF SHAMS FUNDS
FOR SCHOOL afrTTRMfMT
Use of Funds Derived from Second $25,000,000 of Bond Rev
enue Yet to Be Determined by City and
County Schoof Administrators
Allocations from the second $25.
000,000 of State School Bond funds
by the State Board of Education
provide a total of $234,390.60 for
improvements in the city and coun
ty schools.
Neither the Granville Board of
Education nor the Oxford Board of
Graded School Trustees has reveal
ed how the funds will be spent.
Both administrative bodies have
lists of needs that far exceed the
cost of the available funds.
The breakdown shows $142,244.79
allotted tb Granviile and $92,145.81
set aside for the Oxford district,
figures which total approximately
$2,000 more than the total allot
ment from the first (35.000. The
allocations were determined on on
average of (56.99 for the 84)67 av
erage daiiy membership in schools
of the city and county.
Hie board's studies of ranking of
the 100 counties in the percentage
of the state's totai economic abil
ity put Mecklenburg and Forsyth
counties in first and second places,
respectively, and Granville County
in 56th rank.
In a study of the average amount
of iocai funds raised annually per
pupil for a five-year-period ending
last December, GranviHe ranks
53rd. with Mecklenburg in first
place and Wake In second.
Effort of County
Committee Praised
By Trustee Group
Presentation CaHed One t*
Best by Dr. Ben Bose Lacy,
Chairman of Visiting Trus
tees of Proposed Coiiege
A choice of beautiful but
sitys with necessary utilities, a
fer of blue white granite bn!
materials, a goif course, and
and pledges in the amount
quarter million dollars, a prom!
students for years to come
homes of Granville County, a
pledge of sustained interest
laid before a visiting committ
trustees of a projected new Pr
terian College here Tuesday.
The committee members, Dr
Lacy Rose of Wilmington, c
man. Carl Hudson of Raleigh.
Luther McLean of Lumberton,
Rufus Wilson of Bu.
Daii Holderness of 1
frankly that they like
had seen and were in
what they had heard
speaking at the ciose
made by Granville Ca
Chairman H. Dermon'
the Grahviilo Coiiege
Organization, said Mi
had been "much imp
"I commend you on
tation and on the nrot
ed to present the ma^t
said, "ft is one of thi
seen in the whole gr
terian Church, the committee wgs
driven about the city and shown
points and places of interest as
they were aiso taken to sites north
of town on highway i5. northeast
of tcvn on sJem road, and in oth
er localities. !t omtinued through
a luncheon hour at the Womans
Club when some 75 persons fMptS
around the county were goss^t !
Sandwiched between the luncheon
and a presentation of Granville's
proposals at the armory in the af
ternoon was more travel about the
city and county. 3
Hedrick made the general pre
sentation, but called upon sever*!
committee members to present
Granville's "Eleven Requisites" Mr
the coiiege Mrs. Claude Wheelerh
topics were the vita! church life in
the community and the whoiesoaid
moral and cultural environment.
The Rev. Thomas Traynham aa#
Mrs. George Duffy framed the
community's offer of opportunity
for the coiiege to render "the larg
est possible service t^ the church,
the state and the nation." Mr.
Traynham pointed out how the
community and neighboring terri
tory had joined in to support the
Granville effort to land the college,
including the Presbyterian consti
tuency.
C. W. Duggins presented Gran
ville as a center for the state's
population and tow the coiiege
would be easily ,nailable to stu
dents of Eastern N th Carolina as
I well as the pop* ''"is Piedmont. .
Charies Feilenbaum ,et out the ac
j cessibiiity of Granville by highway.
See COLLEGE. Page 6
BuckJamesMwtAs
Cor Leaves Highwo
Buck James of Robersonviiie,
band of the former Miss Fatty
ster of this county, is
Mission Memoriai Hospitai,
viiie. where he was
for treatment of injuries
when his car went off
fiii near Asheviiie
James, a tobacco tnaa.
route to KnoxviBe. Tenn..
car idt an
out of
Buick was
tained muitipie
wife ms
bean at