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S". THE PRINTED WORD is the only type of ad vertising that may be referred to again and again—at will. 28, 1956 INVESTIGATE Granville County has many business and farm opportunities. In vestigate, then invest. VOL. 79 ESTABLISHED IN THE YEAR 1881 OXFORD,N.C. PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY NO. 68 THtEVES AAKE CLEAN SWEEP !N V]RG)L!NA Negro Assauits Ox' fd White Woman on Road START WITH PAUSE—Team captains joi l two Oxtora oeauttes m a pause to: retresn ment before commencing the king-size Coc :-Cola saie Oxford Junior Chamber of Com merce is launching today. Passing the samples is R. Kennon Tayior, Jr., fourth from ieft. Shown are Roy Smith, Irvin Fox, Buster Wiiiiford, Tayior, Miss Jo-Anne Knott, Jimmy Breedlove. Miss Leslie Hail and Graham Wilson. The door-to-door sale is being undertaken to provide the cost of an eiectrically operated scoreboard at the Oxford High football field. - D. J (Bose) Gooch Dies !n Hospita! — Funerai far Retired Business Man Conducted Monday Afternoon D J iBose) Gooch, widely known Oxford man. died at Duke Hospita] at * p m. Sunday at the age of 72. He had entered the hospitai a few days earlier for a phystcai check up and his death was not expected. The tmierat was conducted from the home on Cherry Street at 2:30 p. m. Monday by the Rev. H W Baucom, JT., pastor of Oxford Bap tist Church. Buriat foiiowed in Elmwood Cemetery. Before retirement two years ago. Mr. Gooch had been in the employ of Ray Lumber Company for 40 years. He also had constructed a iarge number of residences in the city which had gone into the reai estate market. Mr. Oooch was a son of the iate D*"<ei Joseph and Aiice Currtn Gooch. He was a native of Gran viiie County and resided here ail his life He had been a member of Oxford Baptist Church for many years and had served the congre gation as a deacon. He aiso was for a long time active in the Devin Ba racca Ciass. Surviving in addition to his wife. Mrs. Hattie Dunn Gooch, and a daughter. Mrs Aiice Gooch Mor ton. a grandson, E. A Morton. Jr., aii of Oxford; three brothers. Lee C. Gooch of Wake Forest. Leiand L Gooch of Southern Pines, and Ctyde E. Gooch of Saiisbury: and three sisters. Mrs. R. L. Hamitton of this city. Mrs. Annie Hardison and Miss Lizzie Oooch of Wadesboro Methodists To Serve Stew Supper on Wed. At Creedmoor Lake Creedmoor Methodist Church wiil sponsor a brunswick stew supper at Creedmoor Lake Wednesday. Aug 29. from S until g p. m. Mrs. Etha Rogers and Miss Pea<7 Moss are in charge and proceeds wiU be appiied to the church's building fund. Service wiii inciude stew, siaw bread, tea and pie. Price is tl for aduits and 90 cents for children. The public is cordiaiiy invited to eat with the Methodists at the lake. The servings wiii be generous. Mrs Rogers said Judge Devin Bock !n Court Horness Judge W. A. Devin, who retired three years ago from the North Carolina Supreme Court, has been recalled for emergency duty Judge Devin went to Raleigh yes terday to serve in the abeenc of Judge Jeff D. Johnson, a patient at Duke Hospital. The former chief justice said he was not sure how long he would be in Raleigh. Shott-Day Schedule Planned !n Schools Oxford schooi for the three days during opening week wit] operate on a haif-day scheduie to facilitate crop harvests, Supt. C. W. Duggins said yesterday. Lunch rooms wiii not be opeo-tn any of the schoois on Sept. 5. 6 or 7. but wiii operate reguiariy there after. First grade students wiii continue a haif-day scheduie through Sept ij. Duggins added. Ju!ian Hester Of^ Creedmoor Buried Aged Farmer Found Uncon scious in Curing Barn Thursday Afternoon A widtiy-known Creedmoor man. Juiian Hester. 79. was found eariy Thursday afternoon badiy burned and near death in a tobacco cuting barn which he was attending on his farm near Creedmoor. He was pro nounced dead a short time iater af ter he was removed in unconscious state from the i30-degree tempera ture. * Funerai rites were conducted at Creedmoor Baptist Church at 2 p. m. Saturday by the Rev. J. C. Jones, pastor. Buriat was in the Creed See HESTER, Page 8 Drink Sates Opens in Oxford Tonight Chairman R. Kennon Tayior, Jr., Announces Team Cap tappp for Event Jaycees wUi tonight open their Cora-Cota salet^ as a project to raise funds for the purchase of an electric scoreboard at the high school football field. From door to door, and also at the gate on the night for the first football game Sept. 7. Jaycees will offer a coupon good for a 21-bottle crate of king-size Cokes and also a ticket for the football game, ali for $2. The tickets are redeemable until Dec 31 at local Coca-Cola dealers. R. Kennon Taylor, Jr., project chairman, said the four team cap tains to assist with the project are Bill Holt. Tingley Moore. Ed Mc Farland. Jr., and Jimmy Breed love. . Purchasers of the coupons will also share in the awarding of 81 prizes in late September. The grand prize will be a high-priced orna mental electric clock and 80 others will get metal serving trays. Jaycees have as their goal sale of a minimum of 990 cases of king size Cokes. Margaret Cameron Beaten !n Her Car Widespread Search Made for Man Traveling in Pick-up Truck—Assauit Occurs on Stem Highway A young white woman was as sauited with a motor vehicie and then siapped and beaten in an un provoked attack on the Providence Stent road eariy Sunday night around 9 o'clock. , Sheriff's officers and highway patroimen were searching yesterday for a Negro who rammed the auto mobile oi Miss Margaret Cameron from the rear, after bumping her car severai times, forcing her to stop. The assailant came forward from his own car. opened the door to the Cameron car and toid the Oxford woman. I want to see you. " Miss Cameron toid Sheriff Roy D. Jones that he htt her about the face and head severai times with his hand before she was aoie to flee to a nearby house. Whet) her horn-biowing and screams faded to get attention of a tamiiy residing near the road on the L. A. Buiiock farm. Miss Cam eron raced to the house tor heip. Meanwhiie. the assailant drove Off in his own vehicie. Miss Cameron, empioyed by the State Hospital Board at Bunter. was en route to Butner after a visit to her mother. Mrs. Tom Cameron. A short distance behind was anoth er Butner car and when the opera tor came upon Miss Cameron's ve hicie at the roadside with the door open and found her coming down the hiii from the nearby home, the car stopped and earned hereto But ner where the atarm was sounded. Officers there returned and re trieved the Cameron car. Officers said yestemay that the assaiiant was driving a pick-up truck with siatted sides and can vas top with definite markings which were related to officers. .<- ' BIRTH ANNOPMCEMEKTS Born to Mr and Mrs El Yin Ray Fiiiott of Aiexander Ave , a son, Terry Warren. Aug. 23. at Granviiie Hospitai. corn to Mr. and Mrs. Lea mad Joseph Jackson of Route 1, Stem, a daughter. Betsy Jane. Aug. 2i at Granviiie Hospitai. Born to Mr. and Mrs A P. Cur rin of Route 5. Oxford, a son. Ron ald Wtiiiam. Aug. 25. at Granviiie Hospitai. the Currins have four other* '.hlidren. Born to Mr and Mrss Eimo Brodgen of Route 1. Creedmocr. a son, Aug. 27, at Granviiie Hospitai Mr. and Mrs L. J Jackson of Route i, Stem, announce the birth of a daughter. Betsy Jane. Aug. 23. at Granviiie Hospitai. Mrs. Jack son is the former Mozetie Moss. MYSTERY FARM WO. 104 is a picture of matness with its close-cropped iawn, gleam ing white house and ampie shade trees. Although it is reminiscent of many homes! throughout the county, there is but one corr^t identification and that must be turned in prior to 5 p. m., Monday, September 3, to qualify for gift Ledger subscriptions. The owner is asked to come by the Public Ledger this week to get a mounted photo of his property. ChiM Struck By Autu on 96 South Larry WHherson Patient at Shaw Memoria! Hwpitat After Saturday Mishap A five-year-old Negro child. Lar ry Wiikerson. was brought to Shaw Memorial Hospital here Saturday with a head injury after he was struck by an automobile as he dash ed acmes highway 96 six miles south of Oxford near Greenway's Service Station Highway Patrolman W. T. Fetton. who investigated, said L. 8 Jen kins. 49. Route 1. Franklinton. was driving i he car involved, a 1949 model Chevrolet, traveling in the direction of Oxford. Willie Wortham, traveling in a car behind Mr. Jenkins, witnessed the accident. He told the investi gating officer that the child dash ed down a drive from a residence and directly into the paA of the car as he apparently was grossing the road to the home of a relative on the opposite side of 96. Mr. Jenkins drove his car off the paved area and into a road-side ditch as he sought to avoid the child, hi' by the ieft front of his auto. Wiikerson was one of five chil dren of his mother. Nettie Wtlker aah. being cared for in the Person County Home, who were residing in the home of an aunt. Lina Wiiker son. because of iilness of their mo ther. C& Siren To J Tested Tomorrow Commissioner Ed Cobte To Set Off Aiarm for CD Di recto^T. C Jordad. Jr. At *!2 noon tomorrow 'Wednes day). most peopie within a radius of from three to seven and a ha)f mites, depending on which way the wind is Mowing. wtii hear the ini tiai testing of the new civii defense siren mounted on the Morgan Crews buiiding. T C. Jordan. Jr.. Civii Defense chairman for Oxford and Oran viiie County, said yesterday that Cityi Commissioner Ed Cobie wit! throw the switch which wiii set of! the erie waiting of the siren. Four signais wiii be sounded, two using the power from pubiic ser vice tines, and two from the recent iy instaiied generator serving City Haii. * Jordan said particuiar attention should be paid to the type Masts that wiii be used in the tests for they are standard Civii Defense wapting signais and are used oniy for air warnings by CD. At !2 noon, the yeiiow or aiert signai. a stead;.' Mast of from three to five-Tninutes wiii be sounded. Foiiowi rg that, the red or take cover signai. wiii be heard. This wiii be three minutes of waiting from the siren. Recaiiing the smothering of over See SIREN. Page ! Poike Bathed !n Two Loco! Probes Housebuming and Death of Infant Are SttU Under Inquiry LocaUy Efforts to determine who may have set fire to the incompieted Gregory residence on Henderson Street three weetcs ago. resuiting in destruction of the buiiding. are be tng continued by iocai enforcement officers. Officers aiso are continuing their efforts to get a new break on the ; aiieged maitreatment that resuited n death of Janie Hunt. Negro in- ^ fant. in Jai! here on a charge of mur- j der in death of the chiid is the fa ther. Arthur Hunt, and under bond as a mat^riai witness is the mother, Hertie Mae Hunt No deyeioptnents in either of the investigations were disciosed yes-, terday by city poiioe, w '-r Abtenfte Ba!!ot$ May Be Obtained Absentee baiiots for the Septem ber 8 special eiection in North Car oiina are avaiiabie now from Chair man John N. Watkins of the Gran viHe HOtMof eiecttons. Watkins Said appiication may be made at hie home on Beii Street or g jMBdafftoe tn tiie Tobacco.Board of Trade over Union National Bank. LEARNS BY DO!NG—Miss Shu-Torng Chiang, a young Chinese student from Formosa, is "learning by doing" at the Test Farm and aiso at the piant of the W. A. Adams Company hene, where she is studying the tobacco industry. BMe is handing a stick of green tobacco to Ben Averett, Jr., tor transport to a curing barn. A short whiie earlier, Miss Chiang had been engaged in looping leaf and also in cross breeding work. CMtNfSf S7UDFN7* f/NDS tfff W7fPFS7/MG Mew GuH Station To Open Thursday Witson Tire Company to Sti pend Business as L. L. Wii son Takes New Post Wilson Tire Company, a Main Street enterprise for 28 years, wiil close Wednesday night and wii] re open Thursday morning on Wii iiamsboro Street as Wiison Gulf 3ervice. The proprietor. L L Wiison, noted that the formal opening of Wiison Guif Service is being de cayed until September 7 and 8 when there wiil be open house and opportunity for friends and patrons to visit the new estabtishpient and view its equipment for servicing motor vehicles Wilson Guif Service is to feature products of the Gulf Oil Company, including gas. oil. grease, tires and other items. Hot Point home ap pliances. drinks, ice cream, sand wiches and also some sporting goods will be carried by Wilson in his newly completed estabiishment. Tile personnel wiil include Ham lin Newton, Robert Lloyd and Oe dte Hendricks in I he service depart ment and Mrs L L. Pettus as cashier. , Wiison recalled that he came to Oxford as a boy of 17. straight from the farpi His first iob was with the late J. D. Brooks in what was called The Elephant Store and he later worked for Moses Wolf at' the Hub. He had been emptoyed by T. G. Overton for three and a hatf years when Overton decided to dis pose of his business Wiison became the purchaser and operator We've seen the Modei T go and the new stream-iined models with high powered engines and air con ditioners come. We go to school each year to learn tp provide the proper service for ail these ma chines. A man with an automobile today has a large Investment, and It is our purpose to help h)m safe guard it." Wilson said. --a inquest Tonight A coroner's inquest will be con ducted Tuesday night at the court house as officers continue their In quiry into the death of Nannie Mae Hunt. Coroner Grover Sounders said that the child's father. Arthur Hunt, has been in jail here since Aug. 3. charged with murder of the child, whose death was ascribed by a Duke Hospital physician to a Mad injury. Shu Torng Chiang, Gra^uat^ of Taiwan University, Soon . To Return to Studies at University of fdaho . A brd'iant young Chinese girt, Chu-Torng Chiang. who says in well-spoken English to her Ameri can friends, call me Florence." is spending a busy iate summer here teaming about tobacco. Contrary to the procedures fol lowed by many orientals who have visited the Tobacco Station here prior to the arrival of Miss Chiang. she is teaming by doing. I do the work to learn well." she says. During the past year. Miss Chi ang studied at the University of Idaho. She came here recently at the invitation of the W. A. Adapts Company to learn more about the culture, the handling and other facts about tobacco. She has spent the first part of her visit at the Tobacco Station where she has worked with Dr. E. L. Moore, who is engaged in breeding practices: with N. W. Weldon, in curing and related work, and with others on the farm in various chores. Station Director J M Carr, with other members of the personnel, have been quite helpful, she says, and it is obvious that they have found in Miss Chiang a willing and enthusi astic student. For her stay in Oxford. Miss Chi ang is residing in the home of Mr and Mrs V. W. Taylor on Giiiiam Street Cn a recent afternoon, she took time out from her work to treat members of the Taylor family 10 a Chinese dinner—prepared as she woutd have prepared it in her native country had she been hav ing guests. ' It was delicious, if it did take her all afternoon to prepare it." commented Miss Mary Elizabeth Taylor, an employee of the Adams company Oh. yes; I helped chop the food." she added when asked if she learned how the Chinese food was prepared. The menu consisted of sweet sour pork, chicken chow mein. fried rice and vegetables. Prior to coming to the United States. Miss Chiang was employed by the Taiwan Tobacco Monopoly Bureau, testing materials and out put of the factory, making flavor mixture and various types of paste. She was a chemical analyst for the company. Miss Chiang s father is an edu cator and also a senator who de votes much of his time to politics. She describes her mother as a gentle lady who not only is a good housewife, but who also writes beautiful poems in Chinese." Miss Chiang has three sisters and an older brother, all married. See STUDENT, Page B , + Sma!! Loot Token, Property Damaged By Trio of Robbers Thieves Beiievetf Frightened From Town by Pisto) Fire Of Chief s Brother—f osses Not Fuiiy Determined Operating boidiy with crowbar and other wrecking equipment, thieves eariy Monday morning made a ciean-up in eight of the 14 busi ness establishments in nearby Vir giiina. Va The thieves escaped after Gra ham Eliixson, a brother of the chief of police in the town, sleep ing in a down-town building, heard the commotion about 2:20 a. m. and attracted attention by firing three shots into the air. Eliexison said he saw at least three men, but could not determine their race. Yesterday. Haiifax County sher iff's men and other officers were bending every effort to locate the thieves W B Hardie, Halifax County deputy sheriff, was of the opinion that the robbers were not professionals. Entered were Slagles Grocery, the business of J. W. Pleasants. Jr., the office of Dr A. P. Bohanon, Peyton Puryear's Grocery. Wiikins and Goode Hardware Company, the office of Ghegory-Poole Construc tion Company* the office of T. W. Chandler and penny's Grocery. Virgilina In fered robberies heavy toll In property, but the town was stunned yesterday to team that eight establishments had been broken into. Money appeared to have been the object sought by the thieves. Bates were hammered open and cash drawers and registers rifled while most of the town slept. Bloodhounds were brought to he scene from Person County prfs jn camp and used in an attempt to trail the thieves. Some of their wrecking equipment was found at the scene df one of their jobs. Jack 31agie reported that soon after the commotion started, he ar rived on the scene and then ran for the deputy. Meanwhile Gerald Eliixson. Virgtlina chief of police, was coming toward him a block away Bloodhounds later traced the thieves' trail to a spot in the cen ter of that block where the tools were found. Slagle figured the es )mping men had been frightened \ See VIRGILINA. Page 4 VVitiiom T. Minor Dies At Age 72 Funeral Conducted in Char iotts, Where He Had Lived For Many Years William Thomas Minor. Oxford native, died Thursday in a hospitai ^ in Charlotte where he had iived for a number of years. Funerai services were held Saturday afternoon at Myers Park Presbyterian Church, and burial at Forest Lawn Ceme tery in that city. Minor, age 22. was bom here in Oxford, the son of the late Rich ard V and Julia Brent Allen Minor. He attended Horner Military School i See MINOR. Page a Mrs. Ernest Newton Buried in Elmwood Funeral rites were conducted at 2 p m. Friday at G T. Fakes Fu neral Parior for Mrs. Ernest New ton. 55. whose death occurred iast Thursday morning The Rev. Norman Hicks officiat ed at the service and buriai was in Timwood Cemetery. Mrs. Newton died at the home of her sister, Mrs W G Dement. Active paibearers were James T Morton. Roy C Morton. Geraid Morton, Howard Woodiief. Bruce Dement and Thomas Smith. Enrollment Underway In Oxford School* ( Students who were not enroiied (for the t955-56 term, or who have not been registered in pre-schooi clinics, may appiy for registration at the office of the Oxford schooi this week or untii the session opens Sept. 5. Sup t C. W. Duggina said yesterday. Principal are on duty at their re spective offices from g to i! and from i to 4 datiy, Duggins said, and applications for registration may be made by students within those hours. ^ < :* /
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