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OXFORD, N. PRINTED WORD is the only type of ad vertising that may be referred to again aiid again—at win. VOL. 8h ESTABLISHED IN THE TEAR 1881 WRECKED BY AUTO—Arrow points to area where the car of Mrs. Joseph Thomas Goss came to rest in Bennie Gresham's shop on Hillsboro Street Dec. 23. The center glass panel in the front was also scattered. The wrecked car had been pulled out just* before the photo was made. , 4 THE MMVER LtVED—Mrs J T. Goss, 52, operator # this cag%vhen it plunged ijhrorAh a building wall, was taken to Granville Hospital with fractures and'lacemtions. l&ie car, as you can see, was demolished. _ * (^taSl photos f* P/upyifs /A Ao, ,S^p MrsJ.T.&mOf &.2,Cfeednwor Hurt Friday P.M. AutomobHe Glazes Utility Pole, Knocks Down Brick Column and Does Inside Hillsboro Street Building An automobiles, Hying out of control, glazed a utility pole, knocked down a brick column and hurtled through the wall of a Hills boro Street store building Friday afternoon before overturning into a heaping pile of damaged home appliances inside the Bennie Gres ham repair shop. The driver, Mrs. Pauline -Cash Goss,'S3, wife of Joseph Thomas Goss, Route 2, Creedmoor, was taken to Granville Hospital for treatment of a compound fracture of the leg, lacerations of the head and a knee injury. Her condition yesterday was reported as satis factory. Assistant Chief N. E. White and Officer T. H Johnson made the investigation. White said it ap peared that, Hie car made a long swing across Hillsboro as it travel ed id an easterly (direction, went Over the curb on the driver's left, sidesWiped a power ljne pole and continued on a dirt fill siightly wider than the car until it struck a four-foot tail brick pedestal marking a driveway, knocked down the pedestal and hurtled through the wall of the Jamieson building, once used by Wells Lumber Com pany and presently occupied by Bennie Gresham's repair shop. Gresham a few minutes before .had been prone <yi the floor of his shop at work on an appliance in the very spot where the car came to rest. The impact damaged three household^ style refrigerators and a deep frithe box. aHd also radios, which Were in- the shop for repair. The west wail, near the front of the building, which includ ed a doer and window and brick sections, were ripped out and the SACP/<M<ay.Bf f/ying Over City Planes of the Strategic Air Com mand (SAC) will appear over this area cf the state in large numbers beginning around January 1 and continuing for several days. SAC is to engage in a, bombing practice, with targets in Virginia and, Northeastern North Carolina Coastal areas, and according to ad vanced information, some of the usualiv high-flying planes will ap proach their targets at H)W-level som^ of th^t ^ Aonn^ ^my targets, equipped with cording devices to determine curacy of- ^he bombing, will used, s< of them gdounted rai^ay trains. (PANCE TICKET THMSg SHORT Tomorrow noon is the final hour for obtaining reservations fo year-end dance which the fojL th Jmiic the ior WqmanTs Club will stqge at the Armory Saturday mght Coming from Chapei Hiii to provide music are Jim Crisp and M6 Orchestra. The admission is $3 per couple. gsr"? Four Wrecks!n 'Area Wednesday State Tmrrher R. R. Alligood Spends Bfi4y Afternoon and Evening Four wrecks within a matter of ho^s Wednesaay aftbmorn and night, kept State Trooper R. R Antgcol on the tun from one area cf the county to another. '' When he fmaliy took stock, he counted one dead, ^wo hospitalized, two otherg injured, three cars de molished. another damaged, a tight t'u-k. ibad^ed up and a tractor trailer damped. Aiiigo^d's first caii at 1:15 p.m. j was to ,the seen" of a fatality on U'ghwav H8 four miies east of i CYford. where one pet son was kiii- ; od. two others injured,, two vehicles deHioiished and a third damaged, j At 4:13, he was dispatched to a point 15 miles north of Oxford on US. Highway. 15 where two cars had collided. Tas -Fields, 58. NegTO, Buffalo Junction^ Va„ driver of a 1957 mode! Chevrolet, headed south, was making* a left turn from the highway into rural; paved road 1501 when his car tangled with another driven by Uplvin Redding, 68, Ot tawa, Ont., Canatoa, also headed south. Aibgood chargy Redding with improper passing after the Red ding car was hit on the <- ^ the Fields vehicle, wMch came ut with a damaged front bumpjr. Damage to Fieida' care was esti mated at (100 and to automobile, a Dodge, (li Ninety minutes iater was caiied to a point t' northeast of Oxford on ' boro road where a muie led with two vehicles, -me of them. * The officer's investigation that Thomas Graham H< * Route 6, Oxfmrd, .-'As.., north when a mule tan oath from the west side report'. car. af^r treatment. Dat combs truck was estii (he ^a&* ^lliatrt - Negro, of Route 1, Dergriston, Va. The JHobgot# ear was^demolished and the driver, alone, sustained cuts and bruises. He was released to Lipa at $50. Ownership of the huge was not immediately determine Aiiigood's nighteap was on high way ,15, South of Creedgionr, where an Ake^ Motor Lines praetor-trail er went off the road and into the dityh No other vehicle was involved and ho charge was made against the. Gdptonia man o^rating the vemtle. ^ ^SIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS Bom to Mr. and Mrs. John H. Newton of Route 5, Oxford, a son, John Curtis, Dec. 33, at Granville hospital. Bom to Mr. and Mrs. Guy Forbes of Buliock, a son, Kenneth Uayd, Dec. 23, at Granville Hospital. Bom to Mr. and Mrs. Hsroid P. Grinstead, of Kingsbury Street, Oxford, a daughter, Audrey Gail, Dec. 26, at Granville Hospital. LOOKtNG AHEAD With an eye on the future, and hope in our hearts, we took ahead to a New Year futt of opportunity and achievement. ' * We are gratefu! for the toyalty and patronage of our friends and customers during 1961, and pledge our best efforts to further the growth and prosperity of our com munity and country, and wish for you and yburs a gener ous share in an abundance of advantages, material and, spiritual OXFORD PUBLIC LEDGER Y ' and STATION WOXF Tobacco YieMs !nGranvi!!e Foe 196! (Calculated Volume Cut by Weather Extremes—Higher Aver age Helps Offset Cut Tobacco yields in Granville County for 1961 fell under the previous year by an average of 82 pounds per acre. That was the word yesterday from Garland L. Catlette, office manager of the Granville County ASCS office. He attributed the drop to "abnormal weather conditions," dry weather in July and excess rain in August. The yield for this year was 1,522 pounds per acre compared with 1604 for 1960. Total production for the county for 1961 was under the I960 figure by 1,124,457 pounds. A price increase averaging about 3 cents per pound helped to boost the return. The crop brought $12,854,298, off $112,000 from the previous year, according to Catlette. The Township record follows, shown in this order, allotment, harvested acreage, production, average per acre and estimated in come on a basis of $64.20 per cwt.: Brassfield 1,708.04; 1,675.84; 2, 329.418; 1,390; $1,495,486. Dutchville 1,503,53; 1,489.43 ; 2, 094,138; 1,406; $1,344,437. Fishing Creek 1,822.04; 1,802.31 2,570,094; 1,426; $1,650,000. Oak Hill 1.347.33; 1,326.31; 2,016, 903; 1,520; $1,294,852. Oxford 1,181.95; 1,16198; 1,817, 337; 1,564; $1,166,730. SaUm 1,055.07; 1^044.74; 1,714, 418; 1,641; $l,10p,656. Sassafras Fork ^,216.69; 1,199.24; 1,886,017; 1.566; $1,197,983. Tally Ho 1,891.09; 1,881.98 ; 2,986, 702; 1,587; $1,917,463. Walnut Grove 1.541,97; 1,539.10; 2,627,244; 1,707; $1,686,691. Totals: 13,268.33; 13.121.53; 30, 022,272; 1,522; $12,854,298. " K ' Johnny Jean Thorp Hilled by Bullet Allegedly intend ed for Another A Christmas eve party at a War ren County nightspot left a Gran ville County man dead and his companion charged with his pistoi shot death. * ' * ' Johnny Jean Thorp, 44, Negro resident of Granviiie County, was pronounced dead at Shaw Hospital, where he was brought in the pre dawn of Christmas eve with a bul let wound under his arm. Hospital authorities told Sheriff Roy D. Jones, who was called to the hospital, that "four or five per sons" brought Thorp there. Among them was Joe Parrish, 29, Oxford Negro, who iater admitted to Sheriff Jones that he had shot Thorp while gunning for another man. ' ^ Meanwhile, Warren County au thorities were attempting to deter mine identity of the person who had fired on a Negro by the name of Kelsey. Deputy Rooker of Warren Coun ty took Parrish back to iris county to face charges. Parrish contended that he was aiming for James Evans, and that he fired three times from his .22 caiibre automatic pistol, which officers recovered in the Thorp car. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Laslcy, Jr., and four children, Tommie, Bobby, Lee and Atm, returned Thursday ) to their home in Charlottesville, Va., after a holiday visit with Mrs. Lasley's mother, Mrs. I. W. Day, and other relatives. FATAL CRASH—The car at the right was driven by Teresa Ann one at the left by Robert Donald Connell of Durham when they of Oxford Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Minnie Harrelson Jordan, car, was killed by the impact. CROWD GATHERS—An immense crowd had ^gathered in minutes after a dent on Henderson road Wednesday afternoon, ^t l^re right is the car whi Cnevroiet in left center, diving it out of Control and -into the ieft traffic la collided with a Ford driven by R. D. Connell of Durham. Arrow indicates the Con car, almost concealed by the popped-up hood and the crowd. ^ Auto Driven !nto Left Lone After tmpcct From Back Mrs. Minnie H. Jordan, 63, HiHed Four Miies East of *fown — Teresa Ann Boyd in Cranviiie Hospital A head-on smash that occurred with electrical suddenness early Wednesday afternoon left an Ox ford woman dead, her granddaugh ter painfully injured and a Durham man hospitalized with serious in jury. Mrs. Minnie Harrelson Jordan, 63, widow of Joes Jordan, met in stant death w&en the car driven by her grand-daughter, Teresa Ann Boyd, 16, Oxford High junior, was struck from Jthe rear by another vehicle and knocked out of control before it smashed head-on with one driven* by Robert Donald Connell, 35, 411 liwqe street, Durham. , The crash occurred at 1 p.m tour miles east of Oxford on Highway 158, ' Miss Boyd and Connell, removed to Granville Hospital, yesterday were reported in "fair" condition. Miss Boyd sustained severe lacera tions about the mouth and also the I loss of several teeth. She also suf jfered from shock. Connell also sustained numerous lacerations and bruises. Tractor on Road State Trooper R. R. Alligood, \.ho made the investigation, said Mi^5 Bieyd, who resides at 213 Lewis Street, accompanied by her grandmother, was driving east, to ward Henderson. A car ahead of her had slowed for a tractor travel ing in the same direction and'Miss Boyd slowed her car. Another vehicle, driven by Char-, : ies Thomas Powell, 33, Victoria, Vh . struck the Boyd car in the j rear, pounding '-It out of control i of the driver. The Boyd car crossed ;the center line, and directily into j the path of an approaching vehicle, i the one driven by Connell, and they t See SMASH on Page 6 BsHeM2: Funeral rites Tor Mrs. Minnie Harrelson Jordan, 63, 206 Maple Drive, wi'l be conducted at 2:36 pin. today, Friday, at thi? O. T Eakes Funerai Chapel, with burial thereafter in Elmwood Cemetery Mrs. Jordan met' death in an automobile collision Wednesday af ternoon east of Oxford. The Rev. A. S. Lamm and the Rev. Bryan Collins will officiate. The remains will rest at the itnMsal home until the sendee. Surviving Mrs. Jordan are a daughter, Mrs. Nelson BOyd of Ox ford, two sons, Henry J. Jordan of Williamsburg, ya., and W. Joseph Jordan of Oxford, with who she resided; a brother, Dewey Harrel son of Georgetown, 3. C.; three See JORDAN on Page 6 Mrs. T. H. Woshingtop Mrs. Mary V. Washington, 77, of Stem, died suddenly at 4:30 pm. Dec. 35 while making a Christmas visit in Ore home of her son, Har pld A. Washington, in Creedmoor. Death was ascribed to a heart seiz The funeral was conducted at 2 pm. Wednesday at -Creedmoor Bap tist Church by the Rev. Charles Ray Prye,pastor. BuHU was In the Washington Family Cemetery near dngton was Hie widow ashington and had re r life in this county, in addition to Harold er sons, George W. of (gA shemU F. of Gx daughters, Mrs. John Bryant Garner, Jr., of Durham^ and A%rs. Ralph t. Seville of Creed moor; a -sister, Mrs* A. H. Waller, of Oxford; 15 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. itive pallbearers named were ^^ase Veasey, John H Hopkins, Jr., Bobby Hopkins, George T., Don and Royster Washington. Mrs. Roger G. Lanier Mrs. Adolphine Capehart Lanier wife of Roger Gregory Lanier-, diet suddenly at am. Dec. 35 at she awaited the arrival oi mas dinner guests at the he College Street. She was s a m. Wednesday at the family home by the Rev. Harry Thomas, rector of St. Stephen's Church. Buriat was in Elmwood Cemetery. Mrs Lanier was born at Norfolk, Va., a daughter of the late Dr. Poindexter and Rey Hirsch Cape hart. She was a graduate of Randolph Macon College. She had resided in Oxford for 27 years. She was a member of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church and formerly was counsellor of the young* people's organization in that church. For several years she had been active in the social life of the cbm rnunity where she was a member of the National Society of Colonial Dames, the Thursday Topics Club Surviving in aiKKtim t^3<* hus band are an aunt, Mrs. A. J. Busky, and two cousins, Mrs. Dorothy Wal ker and Miss Helen Walker, all of Norfolk, Va.. and Mra John Mit RobertS. Kno§t Robert' S. (Bobby) Knott, lineman for Carolina PowM Light Company, died auddHgj pm. Dec. 23 at Granville Hoe{ slvort while before he to return to his honk) aa ) Avenue. The funeral was eendaetad p m DM. 25 at Hester 3
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