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! 10 PAGES—i 5CTION BTTABMaHZDMTHZTBARMM TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1971 10c Per Cooy Mewsman's Notebook MISS PATSY MONTAGUE is to be the story-teller at Richard H. Thornton Library Aug. II. The 01m Is to be "Nick", the story of a little boy in Cam bodia who finds a baby elephant and rears it as a pet. -PL TWO PERSONS, one from Oxford, the other from Clarks ville, reported to Henderson po lice the past week theft of hub caps from their vehicles white parked on the iot of Southern Quilters during the night. Wai ter West of Oxford, said twb caps were taken from his car and Gregory B. Reese of Rt. I, Clarks vine, reported a iike number stoien from his vehicie. —PL— A GRANVILLE WOMAN, MU. Sue C. Keeton of Rt. 5, Oxford, was one of four Vance County Technical institute nursing edu cation students who received recognition from the National League for Nursing for outstand ing performance on an achieve ment test recently given them. The four, who are members of a class of 12 which is to be grad uated Aug. 22, scored in the upper 10 percent of ail students taking the test across the U. S. —PL ROSE'S STORES, based in Henderson and with some 200 stores operating in nine south ern states, reported a net in crease in sales for 24 weeks end ed June 17. The sales volume for the stores and subsidiaries amounted to t82.260.198, up $12. 406,158 ahead of the equivalent period of 1970. A half-year state ment accompanied distribution of quarterly dividends of 40 cents per share of outstanding stock. Earnings per share for the period were $6.69, up from $6.15 last year, an increase of 8.78 per cent. Large and Unusual Vege tables Continue to Make Appearances Heating Squash and Beef Eat er tomatoes are in the iimeiight this week, competing for the headlines. C. A. Latta of Tar River Sta tion produced the healing squash and came in with one of the larger ones around his neck and another crooked about his shoul der with a third in hand. Joe Briggs. Rt. 1. Stem, as if to prove his plants do well when given proper care, brought in the season's largest tomato to date: a Beef Eater weighing two pounds, two ounces. His second in size was one pound, 12 ounces. Mr. Briggs has his own green house and in the spring provided many of the tomato and other plants that went into gardens of this area. His two pound, two ounce spec imen. topped in weight any ex hibited this year at the Ledger. The largest of Latta's exhibit weighed eight pounds, two ounc es and was approximately three feet in length. Another weighed six pounds. 14 ounces and the third, six pounds, five ounces. The vegetables were about six inches in circumference and get their name, he explained, from the fact that one may cut from the end an amount sufficient for a meal and the squash heals itself and continues to grow. Mr. Latta recalled that a member of the crew of the Sea board train which passes his place mentioned the plant one day and later brought him a few seeds, which he planted out of idle curiosity of seeing the out-turn. Bigger Every Day N. C. Brummitt of Gray Noah community, who has been en gaged in farming longer than moat of these other tomato and squash growers, feels that he should not let his community pass the season without recog nition. Thursday afternoon, he brought to town a Beef Steak variety which tipped the scales at two pounds, 19 ounces, the largest yet in 1971 competition. Nothing has yet been heard from Berea. Bullock, Creedmoor or Brassfield, but they are still on the map. And if Shoofly doesn't send an entry, well suspect it has been again wiped from the map. Mr. and Mrs. Sturges Bryan and two children, of Salisbury, were weekend guests of Mr. Bry an's mother, Mrs. H. B. Bryan, on Beile Street. Gr< (ivt//e Grays Hoc/ MoA /n F/rsf Days of Civi/ Military Unit Based in Ox ford Has Bom Arms in Nation's Wars for More than 100 Years When Capt. Augustus Landis died at 16 minutes after 8 o'clock on the evening of Friday. April 8. 1892. "in the 68th year of his age, " it marked the end of an era for the Oxford "militia" company, the Oranviiie Grays. Capt. Landis was war-time commander of the original Oranviiie Grays, Company "D " of the 13th North Carolina regi ment in the War Between the States, from which the Gran viiie Grays of 1892 and later years derived their name. The Day, the Ledger's compe tition of the period, on April 9. carried Capt. Landis' obituary at the top of the front page, just to the right of an adver tisement exhorting readers to "Keep Kool at Jackson's Soda Fountain. " "The merchant prince of Oxford," whose emporium. A. Landis and Sons, was advertised on the back page, had been in a state of declining health for some time, the paper stated, but "there was no reason to apprehend that the signal of the death angel was so near at hand" until a day or two previous to his death, which was attributed to "a boil or carbuncle on his neck, which affecting the brain made rapid inroads on his vital spark. " The funerai was held the fol lowing day at Capt. Landis' home in Oxford with two of ficiating clergymen and the larger part of (he community as well as people from the ecuntry and neighboring towns" in attendance. The procession which followed the hearse to the "new " cemetery included, in order, the six pallbearers: 11 confederate veterans, members of the "old" Granville Grays; the Granville prays of 1883 with Capt. B. a. Royster command in#: family carriages, and rela tives and friends in vehicles and on foot. At the grave, a third minister read "the iaat sad rites," the Granville Grays fired three val leys. and this "gaod, brave, man ly man" was laid to rest, said the newspaper report. Four days later, on April 14, The Day carried both a notice that no outdoor drill by the Granville Grays would be held that afternoon, as "Lt. Shipp f the United States Army failed to arrive as expected on the morning train from Durham." and "Resolutions of Respect" for Capt. Landis passed by the Granville Grays at the armory the previous night. Although the Grays described him as "our esteemed friend and former Captain," the company their "deceased fellow soldier" led away to Virginia in 1M1 was very different from their own. Began in Civil War Days The Granville Grays of Civil War days began their official career as a part of the second regiment of North Carolina vol unteers, re-numbered 12th to clear up confusion resulting from the simultaneous use of two different enlistment plans, according to a memoir by Wal ter A. Montgomery, 2nd Lt. Company "P". in "North Caro lina Regiments," Vol. I, from which much of the following information was gleaned. The regiment was organized at a "Camp of Instruction" near Garysburg May 15. 1M1, but the 10 companies of which it was formed had been in other camps of instruction at the old fairgrounds at Raleigh and in the Garysburg area since the latter part of April. Some, in cluding the two Warren county companies, the Guards and CAPTAIN A. LANDIS "Grand Old Man of Granville" Rifles, had already seen action) at Fort Macon before their ar rival at Raleigh. Serving with the Grays and the two Warren companies in the Hth regiment was another Granville company, the Towns ville Guards, and companies known as the Catawba Rifles, Cleveland Guards, Halifax Light Infantry and Nash Boys. Two others, the Duplin Riflec and Lumberton Guards, had been recruited for tgx months only and were soon mustered out and replaced by Halifax and Warren-Franklin companies let tered I and K. Men Elect Leaders The gray army of 1M1 was] more democratic than the armies I of today: regulations provided I that the men in each company should elect their own officers, that company officers should elect regimental staff and field officers and that non-commis sioned officers should be appoint ed by the officers within each company. The Granville Grays had already elected Augustus Landis first lieutenant, and he was promoted to Captain, re olacing George Wortham, who was promoted to Colonel of the 50th, about a year later. Landis *nd Wortham, with J. C. Hester and J. B. Hunter, second lieu tenants of the Grays, and their brother officers of the nine other companies, selected as their colonel and regimental commander a West Pointer, Sol Williams of Nash, who was later transferred to a calvary regi ment and replaced first by Charles Lightfoot, and later, by H. P. Coleman of Granville. The regiment left Oarysburg by rail May 22. and immediate ly on their arrival in Richmond, Va.. were ordered to Norfolk, where attack was daily expected. In Norfolk, they spent the sum mer months encamped at Camp Carolina on Ward's farm near the old fair grounds, and spent so much time drilling and pa rading on an adjoining field that they achieved "a high de cree of proficiency in discipli nary maneuvers" — but disci oline, in a more general sense, they never did attain. Relaxed Military Style A "considerable portion" of See GRAYS on Page 7 . High Sthoots Add 23 to '71 CiossofGfods Webb Adda 17, South Granville Adda Six in Twenty-three students in two Granville High Schools, in sum mer sessions recently concluded, completed work for their high school diploma. The awards will be presented to the individuals, as soon as they are signed and sealed by county and unit school officials. Seventeen of the graduates are from Webb and six from South Granville. Completing work at South Granville High were Ottie Ear! Curl, Douglas Payne Jackson, Bay Thomas Richard, John Wil son Thompson Jr., Danny C. Upchurch and Doris Carolyn Wilkerson. Those meeting requirements at Webb included Jacqueline Cha vis, Ermon Green, James C. Harris, Crawford Hicks, Charles Hobgood, Dalphine Jones, Mar shall Kinton, Ronnie Marrow, Toni McGee, Joyce Speed. Ben jamin Terry, Horace Thornton, James Tuck, Joseph Walker, Wilion Watts. Sam Noblin and Claudia Williamson. Speeding Cay Goes On Side in Oxford A young driver, Ray Charles Blackweii. 19, escaped injury at 11:30 p.m. Saturday when his car went out of control on a curve in Green Acres extension before overturning on its side. Police Patrolman W. T. Wil son charged Blackwell with ex ceeding a safe speed. The 1963 model Chevrolet be ing driven by Blackwell was only slightly damaged, the officer said. Sthoo) Peopte in (onferentes h four Areas Vocational Instructors at Webb and South Gran ville Participating Several faculty members from two Granville High Schools. Webb and South Granville, are to participate this week In voca tional conferences and training programs being held in various points in the state. John Gooch of the Webb Vo cational Department is spend ing three weeks at Nash Tech nical Institute preparing for work In an expanded program with disadvantaged students. Five instructors, two from Webb, Tom Thornton and Robert Hill, and three from South Granville. John Cassidy. Phil Grady and Ernest Thompson, are participating in the voca tional education conference on the campus of A. dc T. Univer sity, Greensboro. Dudley Williams Jr. of Webb and Johnnie Strickland of South Granville are at Laurinburg for a conference of Distributive Edu cation coordinators being held on the campus of St. Andrews College. Six instructors are participat ing in conference on the campus of Appalachian State Univer sity. Boone, during a part of the week. They are A. B. Swin deii, who is new in the Webb Industriat Cooperative Training program; R. M. Currin and Wallace Petty in electronics; Gabriel Russel! and Maynard Torain in brickmasonry; and Joel Cross in auto mechanics. Six instructors in vocational home economics. Mrs. Nadine Cunningham and Miss Brenda Stainback, both of Webb, Mrs. Robinette Husketh, Miss Joyce Brown and Miss Ann George, of South Granville, and Miss Doris Davenport of D. N. Hix School, are participating in con ference and instructional pro grams at UNC-G during a part ^Another Aix faculty membe! who is away is Mrs. Nancy Mar shall. She is at NCSU partici pating in a program related to introduction to vocations. Assistant Superintendent How ard Stallings, in releasing in formation pertaining to the August conferences, said a num ber of Granville Schoo! faculty members had attended campus sessions at various institutions earlier in the summer. Birth Announcements Bom to Mr. and Mrs. Larry Brim of Rt. 5, Oxford, a daugh ter, Ashley Carol, August 1 at Maria Parham Hospital. Mrs. Brim is the former Miss Caro! Roberson of Greensboro. Bom to Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Smitherman of Greensboro, a daughter, Jennifer Lynn, weigh ing six pounds, 10 ounces, July 31 at Moses Cone Hospital. Mrs. Smitherman is the former Miss Lynette Currin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lynwood Currin, Rt. 3, Oxford. Bom to Dr. and Mrs. John W. Watson of Pine Cone Drive, a daughter, Bouts Bolyn. weigh ing six pounds, one-half ounce, Wednesday morning at Granville Hospital. The Watsons have two sons, John, 17, and Peter, 14. Bom to Mr. and Mrs. Howard J. Critcher of 3613 Cove Drive, Raleigh, a son. Howard Judson Critcher II. weighing si pounds, seven ounces, Aug. 3 at Rex Hos pital. The Critchers have a daughter, Stephanie, 3%. Mrs. Critcher is the former Miss Joan White of Whiteville. Paternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Judson Critcher of Rt. 5. Oxford. GRANVILLE GRAYS ORGANIZED HERE IN FEBRUARY, 1885 NOW IS NATIONAL GUARD GP !nc. Doubles Plant Capacity Tobacco Processing Firm to Doubie Labor Force to 400 This Week—Capacity Increased to 500,000 Pounds Daiiy The sweet aroma of Hue-cured tobacco in the redrying process is being wafted over the city by the gentie winds of !ete sum mer. General Processors. Inc , Ox ford's one remaining tobacco processing plant, began operat ing the past week with three shifts keeping the plant going around the clock. The plant is on the comer of Broad and Cherry Streets. By Wednesday of this week, a complete new redrying line will be ready for operations, doubling the number of em ployees to about 400. with two complete shifts operating around the clock, according to President Manager James Smith. Smith said that during recent weeks. General Processors, which is commencing its fifth year, has installed additional new equip ment for tipping and threshing tobacco, doubling capacity of the piant. Additionaiiy, automatic packers have been installed and are in use at the end of the line. Smith further said he had ex perienced no difficulty in secur ing sufficient iabor for fuii-ecaie operations of the one line, fa which the tobacco fe picked, tipped and threshed before it # seated in hogsheads and moved into storage to await safe and shipment to manufacturers around the world As to Oiling the need for another 900 per sons. about half of them men. Smith said "Well Just have to wait and see if we can get the iabor force we need." The plant now has sufficient capacity for daily processing, of half million pounds of tobacco daily, equivalent to a good sales day on the Oxford market. It takes about 30 flat-bodied trucks to bring that amount of tpbacco here from southern marMyfor processing, according tol&mith. . .— . . i*. Fourth ot Crop/and Devoted to Fohocco Slightly more than one-fourth of all harvested cropland In OranvUle County Is planted to tobacco, according to the pre liminary 1971 farm census sum mary prepared for the County Commissioners, and compiled and released by the Crop Re porting Service of the N.C. and UJ3. Department of Agriculture. The report indicates that crops this year will be harvest ed from 41,3)1 acres, virtually unchanged from 1969. Idle crop land dropped seven per cent to 97,899 acres while pasture re mained fairly steady at 33AM acres. Major crops harvested in 1970 and their respective acreages are as follows: com for grain. 10,474; tobacco. 10,713; wheat 3,980; soybeans, 3381; hays. 7,378, with soybeans or cowpeas accounting for 37 percent of the acres of hay cut. Of the total of 396.096 total tew* in Granville County farms. 41,301 is in harvested cropland. 27,539 in idle cropiand. 14^44 in improved pasture, 8A12 in un improved open pasture. Livestock and poultry num bers showed a deciine from 1969 with exception of hogs, which had a email increase, from 1J93 sows and gilts for breeding to 1302. Cows and heifers kept mainly for milk production de clined to 3.499 from 3.743, and beef animals decreased to 4.839 from 5.171. Hens and pullets of layh* e#e H9diS)esea ^6M Tn. 939 to 168.920. All counts are supjeet to revision, the Census people noted. The census further Indicated a decline in farm population. As of January 1. 11,317 were living on farm tracts, down from 13.099 a year earlier, and of that number. 3,000 worked 109 or more days off the farm dur ing the year. Carpet Spread, Bat No V!P'e Appear on City's Court St. It appeared at times Sun day that the city was In process of preparing for visit ing VIP's. In the M-enoon, Court Street was closed by the use of traffic cones from Main to the Littlejohn Street al ley. with a huge roll of car pet at the west end of the street. Later, the carpet was rolled out for 40-50 yards In the street. And then It disappeared, before any VIP's haul trod upon it. It was learned that Install ation mechanics were using the street to prepare sections of carpet for Installation In the WiUiams-Breedlove Com pany store, which Is In the last stages of a broad pro gram of remodeling and ren ovation. Hearing Tonight On Proposa! for Parking Authority Commissioners of Oxford. In their August meeting Tuesday night at City Hall, will give con sideration to personnel policies, landfill operations, dog control ordinance and some of the other matters that have been under consideration at earlier meetings of the board. The agenda for the meeting had not been prepared when City Hah closed Friday afternoon for the weekend. City Manager Jim Juhl said Friday, however, that he knew of nothing of particular public concern that Is to be con SciMduled for the meeting hour Is a public hearing on the proposal to establish a parking authority for the city with re sponsibilities in creating, operat ing and maintalnig off-street parking facilities. TWO DIVORCES were grant ed In Granville District Court Aug. 4. to Charlie Bryant Wood Hef from Jean C. Woodllef and to Frances Norwood Churchill from Percy Lee Churchill, in non-jury trials, j Car of S!eepy Drivof Domogo$ Another !o Cify An Oxford man. Charles Wes ]ey Hicks. Rt. 1. en route home after having completed a work shift at a Vance County indus trial plant, escaped injury at 5 am. Monday when his car struck a parked vehicle on Broad 8t. Police Patrolman W. T. Wil son said Hicks told him that he fell asleep at the wheel of his car, a 1966 OidsmoMle. The parked car. a 196* Chevrolet, was owned by Samuel Hobgood of 519 Broad Street. Damage to the Hicks car was approxi mated at (900 and to the Hob good machine. (100 No charge was made against Hicks. Seven Hydrants Opened During Saturday Night Water-wasters kept a force of Oxford police end auxiliaries on the move during Saturday night. Patrollng officers at Intervals found caps off water hydrants used for fighting fire, with streams of water pouring from the city's water mains. Water has been In tlght-supply here for more than a year and it has become an expensive com modity. Before the night was over, police had shut-off the flow In seven hydrants which they had found or which had been re ported by residents In scattered sections of the city. Police said no arrests have been made—yet—In connection with the Illegal activity. Friend Says Meion Crap Negiecfed by Big Tomato Grower John Sanford Is wearing a look of concern and he confides It relates to his business neighbor. Bill Harris. Sanford brought along Exhibit A. a one-pound 14 ounce water melon. which had been grown See MELON on page IQ Out-Migrating Lwgeiy Madt, Study Revtab SPD Say* SoeMLMe, Ad vancement Oppoftazd tiea Lttddny ^ Heavy outmigration, patttca larly among Macks, la the under tying factor for population de cline in the Kerr-Tar Region. 1 Of the 19*00 persona who left the Region during 1960-1970, 15 000 were black. The number was even higher during 1950 1960 when 28.000 outmlgrated. 90*00 of them Mae*,... The causes of this heavy cut migration among Machs from the Region cannot be easily de fined. A recent research effort by the State Planning Division on the life styles, social life, standards and values, church and religion of Macks, however, may help to estaMlsh several possible reasons: ^ Lack of Social Outlets—Blacks, on the whole, ere very Involved In social life. In rural areas, thbr social life may be limited to the Saturday visit to the nearest town and the Sunday visit to the nearest church. They tend to seek other outlets In a variety of societies, social clubs and gatherings, meetings and lodges. Blacks In the age group Bom 20-M aspire to a more exciting social life. They find outlets for their social cravings by giving parties on weekends, hav ing outdoor barbecues, and hav ing impromptu gatherings. In any event, however. Macks seem to prefer group activity rather than individual recreation. Social goals are relatively easy to attain In urban areas. However, the limited range of activities in rural areas pre sents a restraint to the blacks In thear search for social outlets. Because many blacks are un skilled. they often find them selves holding menial lobs with little or no chance for advance ment. This means that blacks hahtKW Id* such as.lant&*%g^^ maid* and f*m Masts*, base no occasion to achieve by HMsit or senior!# a higher, status, which In turn wouMnman bet ter wage*. Due to tne Region s oenciency in job opportunities, rapid out migriMon among the young oeopie, sges tS-34. has been ex cessive. During 1950-1999. ap proximately 4.000 young people left Region K and more than 2.000 left in 1000-1910. Blacks seek steady employ ment as sotm as they graduate from high school and in many cases before their schooling is completed. Haying worked at an early age on farms and at odd lobs which paid small wages, those young blacks who did complete high school pursue iobs with more assuring proba bilities of progressing to a high er status. With jobs such as those being sought, young blacks would be able to gain Independence, have wages to spend on themsevles. get better clothes, have a more varied social life, and In essence, ac ouire some of the things that as children they were denied. Region K. being generally rural and lacking many things the people want, seek and crave, will continue to suffer from heavy outmigration unless It takes every age group Into con sideration and provides Its peo ple with opportunities, employ ment. favorable soda! condi tions and a better life in gen eral. The Kerr-Tar Council of Governments has considered these facts, and is at present exerting initial efforts in try ing to lessen the exorbitant number of peopie who outmi grate each year from the Region. hstoMation Of Signets One by End of August Contractor Working Aw State In Sever*! Are* Town* Completion of the installation of traffic signals in the ei^ at highway intersections will he completed by Sept, i, Uterine of the contract with the High way Deportment ere met, ac cording to Jim Juhl, Oxford City Manager. Juhlenidit wee hie under standing that the Oxford worit ie e pert of e contract covering highway signal light inatalla tione in Oxford, Roxboro, LoVie burg, Zebulon and perhaps other towna in this area. Juhl said the Highway Depar% ment will design traffic pattern* and paint the traffic ianea on the street*, which wUl thereof ter be maintained by the of Oxford.
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