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COLLEGE SINGERS ARE COMING TO VIRGILINA Program to Be Given in Con gregationai Christian Church on Friday Evening at 7:30 VIRGILINA. Feb. 25.—The Son College Singers will present a pro gram at Union Congregational Christian Church on Friday night, March 1, at 7:30. Plans for enter tainment are being made by the hospitality committee of which Mrs. Arthur Tuck is chairman. The public is cordially invited to be present. Representing Union Church at the See PENNY FURNITURE CO for FRfGfDAfRE SERVfCE Laymen's RaUy at Eton College on Feb. 17 were Dr. David W. Shep herd. S. Reams Long. Grover C. Sanford. Archie Morgan. J. B. Shotwell. Asa Morris. Claude Rice. Cecil B. Wilkins and John Pur year . Woman s Club Meets The Virgilina Woman's Club which met Tuesday evening. Feb. 12. at the home of Mrs James W. Pleasants. Jr . was quite pleased to have as guest speaker. Mrs. J. F. Merrin of South Boston. Mrs. Mer rin. a native of Florida .and gradu ate of Randolph-Macon Womans College. Lynchburg, is the wife of Rev. J. F. Merrin, field secretary of Church Extension in the Pres byterian Church. She is well versed on many subjects and is in great demand as a speaker. Mrs. F. M. Bailey, program chairman, presented her sister, Mrs. Frank McKinney. Jr., also a guest of the club, who introduced the speaker. Mrs. Merrin gave a most For Radio or TV Semite taii 3230 Night Phone 3928 or 5654 HARREH/S RAMO it TV -SALES & SERVICE Hiiisboro Street Oxford, N. C. TOBACCO FARMERS Get your crop off to a good start this season by using first quality materials. See us for: TOBACCO SEED METHYL BROMIDE PLANT BED GUANO BED SPRAY & DRENCH PLANT BED CANVAS SHELL DD AND W 85 Wc also have a good stock of hay. seed, feed, hardware and other farm supplies. Your patronage is appreciated "Tay!or Suppty !s The P!ace To Buy" TAYLOR SUPPLY CO. Ml WHKamsboro St. Telephone 5839 :r-'- . - ; INTERESTED !N THE SUBJECT In Melbourne, Australia, a thief stole 10,000 crime prevention booklets from* the police printing plant. The most fascinating booklet of ali is a savings account book with UN!ON NAHONAL BANK Oxford, N. C. Yes, it's hard to beiieve that many capabie men fust are not covered with iiabiiity in surance. Don't wait unti! someone meets with an accident on your property. See us NOW! tNSURANCE AT REDUCED COST / - .... FOR HOME-AUTOMOB!LE-BUS!NESS . S'P\HE-SAV'W6 SECL!3!TV <C, interesting review of "An Adven ture in Love" by Dr. W. Taliaferro Thompson.' The story centered around the love, loyalty, devotion end understanding that should ex ist between husband and wife, and between parents and children in the making of happy Christian lives, in adversity as well as pros perity. She mentioned the past, in which the roots of integrity, rev erence and unselfish love were bur ied deep in homes and school life. Homes where many things, many pressures, kept t!?e family together. Mrs. Merrin also spoke of the lack of sincere love, which is respon sible for so many broken homes. The hostess served delicious froz en ices, carrying out the valentine motif, party cakes and nuts. Mrs. Stuart Sechriest and young daughters. Mary and Elizabeth, have returned to their home in Chapel Hill after having spent the past week here with Mrs. Sethriest s mother. Mrs. E. A. Tuck. W. L Gregory and sisters. Mrs. M. E. King and Mrs Kirke Davis have returned from a vacation in Miami Beach. Fla. Rev. and Mrs Leonard Robinette of Turberville. visited Mrs. Keister Adams recently in the home of her aunt. Miss Bessie Tuck. Mrs. Lind say White and son. of Turberville. were Saturday visitors and Sunday afternoon visitors. Feb. 16 and 1?, were Mr. and Mrs L. B. Dickens and Mrs. W E Hailey of Keys ville, Tuck Adams of Richmond, was a week-end guest. Week-end guests of Mrs R B Whitmore were her son-in-law and daughter. Mr and Mrs J J Boehling and children. Joey. Burt and Patricia of Richmond Mrs Whitmore accompanied them home for a visit. Mrs. Charles E. Newman, ac companied by her son. Charles. Jr., of Raleigh, visited relatives in Elon College. Sunday afternoon. Feb. 17. Mr. and Mrs. R. O. Murray and children. Ralph and Carolyn, and Mrs. O D. Jones spent Feb. 16 in Bedford as guests of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Jones and young daughter. Suannze. Mr Jones, who recently mderwent surgery is recovering ^^rpheum Theatre Oxford, N. C. Sunday. Monday and Tuesday Feb. 24-25-26 Thursday and Friday Feb. 28-March 1 nicely. Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs F. M. Baiiey were A. P. Bo hannon, Jr.. A. P Bohannon, in, and Becky Bohannon of AMsvM* ta; Mrs Frank McKinney. Jr., and young daughters. Ginger. MarUyn and Becca Bo. and J H: Bohan non. Jimmy and Betty Layton. <9 South Boston, and their, parents, j Dr. and Mrs Bohannon of Vtrgi itna. Young Jimmy Bohannon, who was confined in bed with mumps at the home of his grandparents. Dr. and Mrs Bohannon, is back in schooi Mr and Mrs Richard Pond of Burtington. were week-end guesta of Mrs Pond's parents. Mr. and Mrs P D. Puryear. Edwin L. Daniei spent Monday of the past week at Eion College on business and visiting friends. Mrs Kirke Davis. Mrs. Arthur Tuck and Mrs A. P Bohannon at tended a meeting of the Berryman Green Chapter DAR. Thursday af ternoon. Feb 14. at the home of Mrs James Torian. in South Boa ton. Mr and Mrs Dusty Tillman and family of South Boston, were Sun day visitors in the home of Mrs. Tillmans parents. Mr and Mrs. 1. S Tuck Mrs. A R Seate. Jr., fiew to As tabuia. Ohio. Thursday of last week for several days visit with her hus band. who has accepted a position there She was accompanied home Sunday by Mr Seate. who returned to Astabula Monday, taking with him his mother and his young daughter. Martha Winifred, for A visit with his mother's brother. Lyle Bagbv and family. Oxforcf G#r/s, Cory Boys Win pos. Cary 28) F King 11 . Gillie H . Willis 6 . Pate . Woodall Strother . Bv JIMMY BAUCOM Oxford High School Wildcats split a double header with Cary here iast Friday night. Oxford girls winning 39-28. and Oxford boys losing 87 47. In the preliminary game, the Kit tens. sparked by Caiia Ann Rayno! who burned the nets for 29 P<4<#a, enough to win the game f alone, surged ahead in the third quarter to capture the lead and the victory High scorer for Cary was Sandra King with only H points. The line-up: Oxford (39) Raynor 29 . Currln 9 Boddie . Baird . Daniei . Hedrick Substitutions: Cary — Winiock 5, Jordan, Johnson. Harrington; Ox ford—Oakes !. Score by quarters: ic&y .9 Cdford ..f ......... 4 j ' Boys Game ' Oxford, suffering from the ab sence of an important rebound man. Dan Averett, kept close behind Cary throughout the game Cary gained a lead of 4 points in the first period but was unable to en large the margin until the last three ! minutes of play. Although Oxford forward Carrol Pruitt was high scorer with 17 points Cary had four ! men with scores of 10 or more to ! Oxford's three sti.-h tnen. The line-up: pos. Cary )57) F Brown 12 _ F Wise 2 . C Cooper 13 G Liggan 10 Oxford 47) .. Yeargin 2 ... Pruitt 17 .. . West 10 . Mathews 7 G Franklin 14 ... Norwood Substitutions: Cary—Mills, Pa'e 6: Oxford—Ford 11. Score by quarters: Cary .. 10 12 17 18—57 Oxford . 6 12.18 13—47 Tonight the Wildcats end the sea son as they meet Gamer here. The girts game starts at 7. After more than a century of tri al and error, scientists have found the secret of making diamonds Subject cafbot to heat of 5,000 de grees Fahrenheit in a press with a punch of 1.500.000 pounds a square inch. Earth exerts roughly the same pressure 240 miles below the surface, the National Geographic Society says. NOTICE In a meeting of the Medical Staffs of Granviiie and Shaw Hospitals he!d February 11, 1957. a committee which had been appointed to study doctor's fees sub mitted the following recommendations: 1. That the charge for physicians house calls during the day in Oxford be increased to $5.00. 2. That the charge for night calls in Oxford be increased to $7.00. 3 That night calls be considered those made between the hours of 9 P. M and 7 A. M 4. Tlfat the charge for office visits in Oxford remain unchanged. 5 That the charge for country calls be left to the discretion of the physician involved. These recommendations were adopted to become ef fective March 15, 1957. ' The Medico! Staffs ef 3 GraaviMe aod Shaw Hospitals Wt/fon G#Ws, Stovo// Roys W#n /n Som/f/no/s County 7oorney Oak HU! Stages vogged Mght Befre Hawing Out in Overtime Contest By FAYE OBRIEN Oak Hit! girts waged a dogged nght before bowing to Wilton High in the county championship semi ftnai basketball game in the Ox ford Orphanage Recreation Center Thursday night. It took a two-minute overtime for Wiiton to take over the iarger end of the 36-3* final score in tfle semi finals thrilier that kept fans on their toes. Oak Hill seized the scoring inta tive early in the game with L Hayes showing the way. She drop ped in 17 during the evening. In the second half, with Becky Horton hitting often. Wiiton began to over come the deficit that knotted the score at 32 at the end of the game In the overtime, Wilton added four to two for Oak Hill. Wiiton used a singie substitute. Blackiey. who hit for five, and Oak Hill used none. The line-up: pas. Wiiton 136) Oak Hiii (34) F B. Horton 18 . L. Hayes 17 F Harris 2 . Bray 8 F Crutchfield 11 _ Compton 9 d Currin . r.. <. Puryear O C riff in .. Murray G May ..A.... Englebright Score by periods: Wilton . 7 8 7 10 4—36 Oak Hili . 11 8 5 8 2—34 Car! ?ratt Serves Army !n England U S FORCES. England.— Carl A Pmtt, son of Mrs. Emma P. Es ;ess of Creedmoor. recently was pro moted to speciaiist third class in England where he is a member of he 4th Antiaircraft Artillery Bat alion. Specialist Pratt, a radar operator n the battalion's Batery A, enter 'd the Army in May 1955 and re vived basic training at Fort Bliss, rex. He arrived in England in No vember 1955. Specialist Pratt was graduated Irom G C. Hawley High School in 1955. WHton Easy MarK for Stovall Boys in Contest Here Thursday Evening By FAYE O'BRIEN Stovall High boys, who have im proved steadily as the season ad vanced. easiy took tl<e measure of ' Wilton In the semi-finals of the Granville County High Schooi bas ketball tournament at the Recrea tion Center here Friday night. Only in the second period was the Stovali leadership threatened! by the quint from Southern Gran ville. There the Wilton boys hit for j 15 points, nearly double the eight scored by the winners. Roy Jones with IS was tops for the , winners with Richard Averett and Herbert Wynne each taiiying 14 for Wilton. Coach T. G Stovall's charges through Thursday had won 21 and lost three on the entire schedule and had won eight and lost two In conference play. The line-up: pos. Wilton 142) Stovall [53) F R. Averett 14 .. J. Lumpkins 6' F H. Wynne 14 _ Roy Jones IB ! C J. Freddy 10 ... Ray Jones 14 ; 5 Long 3 . O Stovall 4 3 Watkins 1 .... Leroy Beam 10 Substitutions: Stovall—M. New cy 1. Pendley. Boyd, Gill: Wilton— 3verton, D. PTeddy. Score by periods: Stovall ....17 8 1117—53 Wilton . 9 15 9 9—42 Smith Sisters Ar<! Providence i c ses Misses Rebecca Smith. Ann Smith tnd Frnces Smith entertained the members of the YWA of Providence Jhurch three weeks ago on Feb GUANO Agnco-Ze!!s-Mi!!ers-B!ackstone We Again Offer The Otd Time Tested Brands of Guano to the Farmers of GranviHe County. Delivered to farm prices: 4- 9 3 Plant Bed. $44.10 3-9-6 Tobacco. 44.75 3-9-9 Tobacco. 44.50 2- 8-fO Tobacco.. . . 42.35 3- 9-9 Corn. 40.60 5- 10-10 Com. 46.15 2- 12-12 Pasture .. 43.70 3- 9-6 Agrico Tobacco. 47.15 4- 8-10 Agrico Tobacco. 49.05 Above prices are subject to 1% Cash Discount and 2% quantity discount. See us for your requirements. We appreciate your orders. TAYLOR SUPPLY CO. 141 Wiiiiamsboro St. Telephone 5839 * at their home. The president. Ann Smith, presided. Daphine Woody, program chairman for Feb ruary. chose for her topic. "Up, for This is the Day " Assisting with the program were Mrs Thomas Smith. Ann Smith. Mattie Ann Biackiey. Peggy Smith. Betty Jean Cote and Frames Smith. . ' During the so.'iai hour, the hos tesses served open face sandwiches, cookies, peanuts, vaientine candy and bottie drinks. Miidred Jackson is to be hostess for the March meeting. The town of New Bern was es ;ab]ished in i!10 by Baron de 3raffenreid. OUR. 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