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THE PRINTED WORD b the only type of ad vertiaing that may be referred to again and again—at will. INVESTIGATE Granville County ha* many businesa and farm opportunities In vestigate, then invest VOL. ESTABLISHED IN THE YEAR MSI OXFORD, N. C. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1961 PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY NO. 75 Credte, O'Brien Advocate Merger Of Schoo! Units Former Oxford Superinten dent, Schoo! Board Mem ber Address Rotary Ctub The man who helped to plan a city school administrative unit for Oxford now is a strong advocate of merging the units of Oxford and Granville County. , Addrrsping members of the Rotary Club here Thursday nigtit with reference to Issues In the school merger proposal to be de cided In the Sept. 26 special elec tlon. former Oxford Superintendent C. G. Credle said he strongly favors the merger from the standpoint of advantages to student!., opportunity for Improvements in administration procedures and economies in pro viding first rate public schools. Appearing also on,the program arranged by Dr. James F. Pruitt was Harold O'Brien a member of the Granville Board of Education. He joined Mr. Credle In advocating approval of the merger plan, which was devised by a committee of 14 representing the two boards, the city and the county. In answering a question from the audience, Mr. O'Brien said he had encountered a strong sentiment through the county for the merger. He stated he had found, among large numbers of ppople with whom the issue had been discussed, only two who had expressed opposition. Credle looked back upon the ad vancement of the public school from the era of the one-room, one teacher school to the present, and said progress had been made all along the line through the years. By merging its Oxford and county administrative units, Credle said "Granville County will stand as a school syttem" with equal! for cMldren Rites to Be Heid at 4 P. M; Tuesday at Hester Baptist Church WttHe F. Currin 98 native of Granville County died suddenly at 6:30 a m. at his home in Fort Lauderdale, F!a., att^r a heart at tack. Formerly engaged In the automo bile business in and around Wash ington D. C., Mr. Currin had re sided in Florida tor the past three years, He was a s0& ot the late Luclous Currin and Meta Hobgood Currin ot Granville County. The funeral was conducted at 4 p.m. Tuesday at Hester Baptist Church by the Rev. Oeorge T. Tun? MaR ot High Point, a tormer pas tor, assisted by the Rev. .Leslie Giles, pastor. Burial will be in Ar lington National Cemetery. Mr. Currin was a member of the American Legion Post in Fort Lauderdale. * Surviving are his wife. Mrs. Anne Howe Currin ot Fort Lauderdale; three brothers. Paul of Terra Haute, Ind., Wilson of Alexandria, Va.. and Ernest of Otlvla. -^ or to Outdoor Supply Company, which hasn't yet begun aeieotion of employees for its Oxford plant, ac cording to Melvin B. Coleman, ex ecutive director of Granville CountyCxford Planning Commis sion. The survey, with intermittent testing of applicants, will continue today and tomorrow at the Oxford Fire Station. The survey is being undertaken In the interest of secur THE FIRST PAYOFF — Miss Helen Kitzmiller accepts from Morris Goldberg, left, plant manager, the first pay roll check issued by JFD Electronics-Sou them, Inc., as Harvey Finkel, vice president of JFD Electronics Corp., Brooklyn, waits to offer his congratulations and good wishes. First Emptoyee Paid Off by JFD Training of Production Line Employees Begin as Work on Building Progresses The first trickle of money from a promised annual payroii of $500, 000 to be met by JFD Electronics acuthem, Inc., opening an anten na manufacturing plant here Nov. 1 went into the financial arteries of the community yesterday, Miss Helen Kitzmilier reception ist at work in the temporary office on M#tp Street. Goldberg used the manager. occasion to note that before many weeks have passed, the concern's payroll here should be in the thousands of dol lars. Training classes, eight' of them for production line employ ees already are in progress. The plant manager reiterated his earlier statement that he Is "quite satisfied" with the quality and the quantity of labor he had found here. Preliminary training tests, he said, have disclosed that the potential employees are developing skills well "particularly for peo ple without prior assembly train ,np." Harvey Finkel, vice president ot JFD Electronics Corp., Brooklyn, parent company, here conferring with Oo'dberg and helping to push along necessary preliminary plan ning and activities leading to open ing of the plan, said he, too, is happy with the community" and was delighted with "the fine spirit of cooperation" shown by Executive Director Melvin B. Coleman, Chair man J. P. Harris, Jr., of the Plan ning Commission, Louis Hutchinson of Granville Industrial Developers, Inc., merchants, bankers and oth ers. Finkel said employees have been signed for the production'line jobs, but, he added, "We still have Job Southern, Inc." He mentioned piaces as section leaders, mainten ance men, mechanical inspectors, quality control, tool makers, receiv ing and shipping clerks and stock room Clerks. Mr. Goldberg plans to bring his family to Oxford "very shortly." His family consists of his wife and 16 year-old son, Louis, now; resi dents of New York. ' George W. Kane, Inc., contractor, is at work pouring a concrete floor in the factory building And mak ing other installations and modifi cations to get the building in read iness for Nov. 1 occupancy. New Cbopfer Wrtffen ifnt l/'/rcy/n/a Robbery Oxford police are keeping a wea ther eye on an Oidsmobiie parked adjacent to City Hall. And officers aiso are keeping a harp lookout for owner of the car, Letter Lee, Jr., who escaped from a state prison gang near Winston Salem last Thursday. Lee was serving a 90-day term for speeding in excess of 100 miles an hour. He ^ from New York state. The car parked here is owned Jy ee. It is the one used to haul 1,000 worth of stolen merchandise rom White Stone, Va., to Nofth Carolina. Almost all of the stolen goods, consisting of radios, high fidelity record players, a tape re corder and other electronics equip ment, was recovered by Oxford police who also obtained a con fession from one of the participants in the break-in Camming Held Here Meanwhile, Theodore Cumming. 13 a hair dresser from Cleveland Ohio, was detained for trial on a Charge of receiving stolen goods knowing it stolen. Cumming was operator of the Oidsmobiie owned by Lee whep police halted him here the night Of Sept. 9 in a routine check of driver license and turned up the stolen goods. Hiding with Cumming at the time was IT-year-old Oscar Braxton of White Stone Va. Lengthy question ing of the two by the arresting officers, T. H. Johnson and C. B. Woodlief, Chief D. E. White and Assistant Chief N. E. White brought a break in the case. Cumming disclaimed iowne^hin of the equipment carried in the car, as did also Braxton. Winston Salem police, at the request of Oxford} police questioned Lqe about the goods in the car. He denied knowledge of it, as- had Cumming. and at least one radio stolen from the car. A Raleigh service station Chartie B. Mitche!! Charlie B. Mitcheil, 61, a resi dent of the Wilton Community, died Friday night at Granville Hospital following several months of illness. A native of Granville County he was a son of the late W. B. and Lou Wright Mitchell. He was trus tee and a lifelong member of the Grove Hill Methodist Church. Funeral services were conducted Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock at Grove Hill Methodist Church with the Rev. Stuart McRae, pastor,, of ficiating, assisted by Rev. W. Q. Farrar of Raleigh, a former pas tor. Burial was in the church cemetery. Surviving are one brother, O. B. Mitchell of Henderson, three sis ters, Mrs. Atticus Morris and Mrs. Robert Renn, both of Route 1, Franklin ton and Mrs. J. R . Wood ward, Willow Springs. Active pallbearers' were Ralph Blackley, Harold Gooch, Howard Wynn, Li^ville Strother Frank Strother and Allen Thomasson. Firemen were called out Saturday morning when a trash box at, the back of Hotel Oxford caught fire. The flames, rising adjacent to an open window in the old kitchen of the hotel, set off a spr'iHf head on the inside, resulting in some wo tar domM* ' Braxton Makes Confession Braxton finally admitted that he and Lee had staged the robbery in his hometown several nights earlier. Some of the goods had been sold in Raleigh, some in Oxford VirgMStaMS Bias! M!of )n SteJei VeUdes One Car Wrecked. Another Stolen in Berea Commun ity Friday Night Four Virginia lads, who cams into the state Friday in two stolen cars and picked up two or more during their swing through War ren, Vance and Granville, new are in' the hands of the FBI agents who are checking out their crim inal activities. The beginning of the end for the four occurred at Berea after two of them fled from a filling station without paying for purchases and two others wrecked a stolen car and quickly picked up another to continue their flight. Highway Patrolman J. H. Waugh assisted in the round up. but actual arrests occurred In Person or counties beyond and names of the youths were mot available here. Waugh said a I960 model Chev rolet stolen from Martinsville, Va., was wrecked at Berea Friday night and the suspected occupants short 'y thereafter drove away in an other car stolen from Rebecca Man gum. It was later wrecked near Roxboro. Two of the lads were apprehend ed In a 1956 model Oldsmoblle, also stolen, on Highway 49 north of Rox boro. Also traced to the boys was theft, of a 1957 model Ford taken from the parking area of Hotel Warrenton, in Warrenton and bearing a Texas state license ac cording to Waugh. The beginning of the end for the youths occurred when they drove away from Dean and Parrott Station at Berea without paying for purchases. According to Pti. Waugh, the car stopped at the station and order - ed merchandise, which was brought to the car. Another item was re quested and while the clerk retum GfHcers were notified Chase b$gan. Meanwhile, the wo Virginians in the accompanying ear wrecked their machine at Berea and quickly fled in the Mangum car, parked nearby. It was wrecked in Roxboro. Ohe of the boys had a large sum of money and the FBI is endeavor ing to ascertain the origin of the cash. ' -4 Merger [Propose! ExptamedtoPTA First Fait Meeting of Oxford Organization Heid Thurs day Night Legislation which opened the door to consoiidation, an expiana tion o^ the legisiative act* And the case for consolidation #f the ad ministrative units of Oxford and Granville County Schools were de tailed before members of the Ox ford Parent-Teacher Association At th organization's first fail meeting held Thursday night. Mrs. Nelson Thomas, Jr. presi dent, presided. Rev. H. W Bau com Jr., in the opening devotion ais emphasized the importance of strengthening home ties. Graham Wright, chairman of the finance committee, presented the budget, which was approved, and Mrs. Marion Clement announced the PTA wouid sponsor stew supper at the! lunchroom Sept. 39 7 p m. at (1 per patron. Spi. J. E. Rawis stressed the role of the parent in emphasizing safe ty practices,oh the part of their children in travei to and from school and hffSoarding and' leav ing buses. Mrs. Carl Lawrence, membership chairman, said 570 See PTA Page g Arthur E. Fog!eman Arthur E. Foreman, TS, retired grocerytnan. died suddenly Sunday at his home on Route 1, Rouge mont. He was former)? by Sa city. The fmHHd wui Be conducted at H arn. Tuesday at Mt. Hominy Baptist Church by the Rev. Rich Roxboro^***^^ Survivin Fogiemat ter, f) three Boy 0*70 Dies O* Pisfoi S7)of ^ifed i?y VoofA A native of Granville Coun ty, Donald H. Dickerson, 10, son of. .Herman Daiton Dicker sen and Catk irine Roberson Dickerson, was slam by a pistol ip the hand of a playmate in Durham late Saturday. The lad was pronounced dead upon arrival at Watts Hospital at 5:43 pan. He resided with his parents at 2734 Wake For est Road. The bullet which killed the boy was fired from a .32 cali ber .butcmatic pistol in the hand of a playmate, Morton David Haswell. A steel-jacket slub struck the lad in the heart. The two boys were playing at the Haswell boy's home and had obtained a pistol while left alone at the home. Investigat ing officers said the gun was fired accidentally as the boys passed it between one another for examination. Surviving in addition to the parents are two sisters, Betty Jean and Mary Jane Dickerson, both of the home and the ma temal grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Walter Roberson of Ox ford. .. . o__ $69,000 Project On Goshen Road Listing of Project Not Includ ed in Previous Report of Approved Jobs A $60,000 project was inadver tent^ ommited from the listing Of priority projects included in the 1961-82 approved road program in Granville county in the list pub lished in the previous issue. The project approved by the Bodrd of , County Commissioners is fourth and fifth priority 'project HOft eXtendlng from NC State Road 1317, the Satter wMte road, It is to be graded, drained and surfaced at an esti mated cost of 860,000. The mileage and the copt invoived were included in the published sum mary, but not the projeet. Under construction at the present time in the same area of the county, is 2.6 miles of the Satter white road Jrom NC 96 to the Shephard Royster road. The work is being done by State Highway forces. The project was budgeted for the 1960 61 program, but not completed before the end of the previous fiscal year, according to Commissioner T w! Carrington. Stew Supper to Be Served af StovaH On Friday Evening The Stovall Parent-Teacher As sociation will serve a brunswlck stew supper at the school lunch room on September 22, beginning at5pna, , j, Mrs. Jimmy Wijson. who is in charge announced adult plates will cost $1 and children's plates 50 cents. It may be purchased by the ouart for 81.25. Herbert Tilley of Bullock will cook the stew with help and contributions from Sto vail parents. Mrs. Kathryn Royster heads the donation committee and Mrs. T. T. Cutts Is In charge of the prepara tion of materials. Any parents who' ; See STEW, page 6 ! Rurat firemen buitd own body Ruro/ Firemen Ouf/if /In cf Jifiona/ Pumper Granville Rural Fire Department has added a second water-carrying pump to its fieet of fire fighting equipment. The organization of volunteers, ,' - R. R HtMMJSe ' Rob^R. Hemng, PfomMent Cif!ze^ BurieJHereMcKday Leader in Church, Fraternal and Business Affairs Here for Years Robert Roscoe Herring. 77, na tive of Sampson County who spent most of his life in Oxford where he served his church city and community in many outstanding ways, died Sunday at 6:15 p.m. at Granviiie Hospital Mr. Herring hdd been in declining heaith for several months, but until recently had attended to his affairs. The funeral was conducted at 3:30 pm Monday at the Oxford Baptist Church by the Rev. Her bert W. Baucom, Jf., pastor. Burial was in Eimwood Cemetery. A son of Dallas Herring and Mollie Vann Herring of Sampson County, Robert R. Herring settled in Oxford in 1910 as a pharmacist with J. G. Hall. Druggist. He earlier had attended Buies Creek Academy and University of North Carolina where he was awarded his pharmacy degree in 1908. He was thereafter employed for two years in Wilmington as a druggist. After IS years with Hall's, Mr. $ee HERRING Page 6 : Guns/ie//s Fxp/oc/e /n House F/re of Berea Berea Firemen Chech Flames at Residence of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Hicks — Two Barns Destroyed Ad aver heated appliance ignited and.set oK an explosive;- fire in the home 9! Ciyde Hicks in the Berea eariy Thursday night. The Maze was brought under con trol by Berea Fire Department al ter cpnsideraMe damage to the kitchen area of the frame dwelling iocated one mile from the village. They were joined Wednesday morning by Corinth firemen in at tempts to save a curing bam on the ^Sidney Greenway farm. The bam and contents were destroyed because of great headway gained by the Ore before equipment arrived. The other caii was Thursday and was to the fad* at J. in Person'Ctwty whera a- ^ a curing barn was tost. Berea fire fighters were joined by VirgUina Volunteers in combatting that fire and were abie to prevent spread of fiames te ether nearby proper ty Biasts of sheiis in the Hides home caught the attention of Mr. and Mrs. Hicks, who had gone to the nearby home of Mr. Hicks' mother for supper. After the fire was discovered, Mrs. Hicks recalled that she had ieft a deep-fat fryer in operation on her stove and it was presumed that the fat became over-heated, caught fire and ignited a cabinet over the stove, fh the cabinet were gun sheils which Mr. Hicks had stored there. The heat set off the sheiis and attracted attention of Hicks, who called firemen. Most of the fire damage was con fined to the kitchen area. with 15 members in two years of operations has been responsible for : saving thousands of dollars for property owners by cutting down or preventing fire losses, j And what's more, Chief Henry Currin and other volunteers from j the . department used their spare time, largely at night, and built ! the body on the dual-wheeled Chevrolet chassis which formerly belonged to N. C. State College. "It is light and fast enough to reach a fire rapidly—and getting there promptly is the battle half "'on in Tghting fire." Currin re marked as he admired his hand work. The unit's first truck, a much 'arger heavier and less mobile unit, was Army surplus, obtained through Civilian defense; "The larger unit still is in use. The wav we are set up, the smaller truck will get to the site first and lively by the time its supply of water is used, the second truck will roll up." Currin explained. Currin, a mechanic and metal craftsman was assisted in build ing the 500 gallon tank on the has an 18 inrh Oat walk along each side and a 20 step-platform at the back. The truck is equipped with aluminum ladders. 200 feet of one and a half inch hose and 15 feet cf two and a hdlf inch hard rubber suction hose. The front mounted pump can be used for taking water from ponds, wells hydrants or other sources and throwing it on fire targets at the rate of 100 gallons per minute. Granville Rural Fire Department has a cement Mock building. 20x30 feet which provides ihdoor storage for both trucks. "The truck represents the work of ail our members," Currin said "Fvery man in the department did ali he couid to help get it built, equipped and ready for operations." With nothing included for labor, the new truck represents a cash outlay of $1,250. It Is equipped with four new tires stnd dual wheels make it operable in places heavier equipment cannot move Currin explained. Thirty-Eight Are Arrested by Potice Oxford police experienced the busiest week end in months. The blotter of activity, at the end of the 3-day period Monday morning, disclosed a total of M ar rests. . ' Among the listed offenses were public drunkenness, affray, assault, immoral conduct and driving drunk. Jailer Joe Pruitt had as many as 30 persons in the county lock-up at one time. By Monday morning, moat of the arrested persons, had been re leased on bond. .-—-4---^— Roy JcnesWotkef Roy Jones Walker. 71, a resident cf Route 1, Gamer a native of Granville County and former resi dent of Knap of (Reeds Community, died at his home Sunday morning. The funeral wBl be held at 11 a m. Tuesday at New Bethel Bap tist Church. Gamer, with burial In Maplewood Cemetery. er Viola W! Coun^; three Andrews and er both of Federa! Grant Of $368,000 OKed ForLocaiHospitat Boswood Says Approval of $175,000 Bond Issue by Voters Now Required The North Carolina Medici Care Commission has approved a grant of $368,000 in federal funds to appiy on the cost of a (670,000 addition to Granville Hospital. The action came at a meeting of the Commission in Raleigh last Friday and leaves only one hurdle to be compieted before the addition of 16 beds and service facilities can be undertaken, according to Ralph Bos wood, business manager of the hospital. Granville voters are being asked by the Hospital Board of Trustees to approve in a special election to be held Sept. 36 authorization for a bond issue of $175,000. If this authorization is given, the Board of County Commissioners will pro vide the funds needed to supple ment the $368,800 of federal funds and the $126,500 of hospital funds to meet the expense of the request ed addition, Boswood explained. Boswood further explained that the proposal is to add three story , additions to north and east wings of the existing building and reno vate the building to provide addi tional areas for enlargement of fa cilities required for efficient man. igement. Extensive remodeling of the ex isting building would be required, according to Boswood. Seed Eggs To Re Tapped op Friday Promotion of Fast Grooving GranviHe County Enter prise to Be Launched program to acquaint the public with enterprises in Granville. At the same time, a number of Granviiie County citizens who are among those invited are to be tap ped as "Good Eggs" in recognition of significant services rendered the pubiic A top-drawer secret com mittee is at work on seiection of the good eggs and suitably inscribed certificates are to be presented at the breakfast. Farmers Exchange is to be host for the breakfast, at wnich new egg menus wiii, be presented. Fq! Sowing the breakfast, there is to be an organized tour of three egg producing enterprises and also an egg market in the community. The breakfast is to be served at 7 a m., promptly at the Credie School Cafeteria.'Hank Wilkersdn, executive director of the North Car olina Egg Marketing Association, is to make a short taik during the hyeakfast. Mrs. Beulah B. Cktvls Mrs. Beulah -Bradford Davis. 73, resident of Route 3, and widow of J. L. Davis, died at 7:30 p.m. Sun day at OranviHe Hospital She had been sick for severs! months. The funerai wiM be conducted at 3 pjn Tuesday at Bethei Metho dist Church, of w)Mch she was a member, by the Rev. Biil E. Bass, pastor, assisted by the Rev. F. R. Randoiph of Durham. Buriai wiU be in the church cemetery. The remains wtii rest at the O. T. Bakes Funerai Home pending the hour of the service. ^ Mrs. Davis was a native of Grau viiie County, a daughter of the 'ate WUHam H and Sarah Hight Davis. Surviving are five sous, Marvin and Benton of Route 3, Oxford. Cariyie of Newport New, Va.. Le roy of Hampton, Va and Oiibert Davi^ of Miami. Fia; two daugh ters. Mrs. Herman J. Paynter of AsMand, Vg., and Mrs. Kenneth Hitt of StevMiburg. va.; two bro thers. Ciifton H. and Graham n
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