jforson (Emmig Diracs
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PEOPLE
~ J. S. MERRITT, Editor
M. C. CLAYTON, Mgr.
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THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1937
The election of city commis
sioners is over. As far as we
have been able tjo figlire .it
was a good clean campaign. It
1 was as campaigns should be.
Next will probably come the
liquor election. The campaign
that will be waged before this
election takes place will pro
bably be one of the hardest that
this county has ever seen. The
“Drys” mean business and the
“Wets” are not going to give
up without a good struggle.
One side will win and one side
: will lose and time will march
on.
There are one or two candi
dates for positions in the
liquor stores if the county
■ goes wet, but they have not
' publicly announced their candi
dacy for this position.
' The county commissioners
• have made no statement as to
when this election will take
place. They have made no sta
tement at all in regard to li
quor in Person County. Sooner
or later you may expect the
date to be named.
In a short time you will be
going to the new postoffice for
your mail. The people on the
south side of Roxboro will not
have as far to go and those on
the north side will have to walk
about a block more.
’ It took a long time to build
the new postoffice and it isn’t
such a large building at that.
It is a nice one and has every
convenience that tHe patrons
and officials could desire.
Soon Roxboro will have a
city delivery and then it will
not make much difference
whether you live one block or
ten blocks from the postoffice.
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Archie Daniel, one of the
hundreds of men who love
Swspaper work, likes to write
itorials on dogwood blossoms.
When Mr. Daniel was in the
qlswtspaper business he never
failed to write an editorial at
this time of the year about the
many trees that came into full
bloom just when the weather
began to get warm.
Dogwood blossoms are now
adding beauty along every
road you travel and if it wasn’t
for the new homes going up
all over the county you could
really enjoy nature. On the
other hand the homes are very
beautiful and if you can’t en
joy nature you can enjoy see
ing nature go foward along the
lines of better homes.
And while we are just ramb
ling along talking about babies,
dogwood, building, etc. we
might say a little about paint
ing. Practically every business
concerns in Roxboro has re
ceived a coat or two of paint
and now many residences are
being gone over. It’s really a
boom in Roxboro and everyone
hopes that it will continue for
many years to come.
Could Roxboro turn into a
convention city? It looks that
way. In the past 18 months we
have had an insurance conven
• tion, two conventions of gaso
line dealers of the county and
< next comes the announcement
> of the doctor’s convention, a
masonic qonv<ent|on land now
an American Legion donven
tion for this summer.
All of these little meetings
help business and certainly
• create a friendly spirit toward
f Roxboro.
• The people of Roxboro should
* make every effort to get more
< conventions. If you are a mem
i ber of some organization or an
i agent of some company try to
\ get them to hold their next dis
trict meeting in Roxboro.
Prove to Claude Hall that
{ there is real need for more
room at his hotel, prove to him
that it would be a good invest
mentt to spend tk>me money
there. Right now he has build
ing on his mind and he might
turn loose and do the right
thing.
FATHER IS FOUND
AFTER 36 YEARS
Elizabeth City WPA Worker
Received News Os Parents
After Long Separation
Elizabeth City—After almost 36
years of separation with no know
ledge of his weherabouts, Jack
Paul Rose, 37-year-old WPA work
er of Elizabeth City, Route 2, has
located his 67-year-old father, a
husky 240-pound farmer, in Farm
dale, Ohio.
Rose received his good news in a
letter from Mrs. Verna B. Porteous,
a social wlorker at the Trumbull
County Children’s Home in Warren,
Ohio, where he and his sister, Mrs.
M. H. Broughton of Madison, Ohio,
were left by their mother in 1905.
From the time that they were
left at the home 32 years ago, Rose
had had no word of his mother, He
has not seen his father since he was
one year old.
The letter brought sad tidings as
well as good. According to his fath
er, Rose’s mother has been dead;
for seven years now.
A kindly family came to the chil
dren’s home after Rose had been
there about two years and adopted
his sister. Although they did not
adopt Rose, they took him to raise
and grow up with his sister.
Then Rose left when he was about
13 to go out into the world. He went
to South America for a while to
work and later traveled around the
world, working his way. Rose ser
ved in the Navy during the World
War and came to Suffolk, Va., in
1921 to work.
The social worker enclosed a pic
ture of his father in the letter,
giving Rose his first impression of
what his parent looks like, and ad
vised the son to write immediately.
The sistjbr, with whom Hose has
kept in constant touch, is happily
married and living in Hubbard,
Ohio, their birth place. An elder
brother, Clarence, is now living in
Hubbard.
“BONUS FOR BABIES’*
Emerson D. Fite, New York state
assemblyman who is author of bill
recently passed providing a cash bo
nus of $75 to all mothers and fa
thers, regardless of their needs. The
money awarded to the parents is
for the care of every child born in
the state and unless rejected by the
parents is to be used for pre-natal,
hospital and general medical ex
penses. Assemblyman Fite is alsc
a professor at Vassar.
EDGAR LONG MEMORIAL
METHODIST CHURQH
SUNDAY, MAY 9, 1937
9:45 A. M. - Church School
11:00 A. M. - Morning Worship
7:15 P. M. - Epworth League
8:00 P. M. Evening Worship. High
School.
MONDAY
3:00 P. M. - Mary Hambrick Mis
sionary Society.
WEDNESDAY
8:00 P. M. - Prayer meeting
FRIDAY
8:00 P. M. - Men’s Prayer Meet
ing
Next Sunday is Mother’s Day. If
she is with you and well, bring
her to church. If she has gone to
her eternal home, be present in me
mory of her. If you are away from
home, write her a letter. Wear a
flower next Sunday for her, and
may the purity and perfume of the
flower remind us of the influence of
Mother and inspire us to live as
she would have us live.
All who love mother are invited
to join in honoring our best earth
ly friend.
Sermons, Readings and music
special for the occasion.
Yours in Memory of Mother
B. P. Robinson, Pastor.
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Testifying in a suit for damages,
Mrs. Amy Clayboume of Chicago
offered to take a double oath to
tell the truth.
PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO, N. C. "
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THE FUN
Stand lacing your subject, who
may be sitting or standing, about
two feet away. His feet are together.
You have a coin or other small solid
object held loosely between your
thumb and forefinger, approximate
ly 30 inchea above the floor (most
tables and desks are 30 inches high).
Your subject watches this coin.
, When, without warning, you drop it,
| he moves his right foot to intercept
I the coin so that it will strike his
■ foot instead of the floor. Try several
times.
! It takes the coin ft of a second
to reach the floor. From a height of
48 inches, it will take ft of a second.
! From a height of 70 inches, it will
take ft of a second.
Reaction time of ft of a second is
very good; ft second is fair; ft of
a second is slow.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
9:45 A. M. Bible School
11:00 A. M. - Preaching - Subject -
MOTHERHOOD AND MANHOOD.
7:00 P. M. - B. T. U.
There will be no night service on
account of the Commencement ser
mon at the High School.
A Cordial Invitation Is Extended
To All.
W. F. WEST, Pastor
ST. MARK’S EPISCOPAL
First Sunday. Holly (Jommunion
at 7:30 A. M.
Second, third, and fourth Sun
days, evening services and sermon
at 4:00 o’clock. The public is cordial
ly invited.
Priest-in-charge
Rev. A. S. Lawrence, Jr.
HOW TO CERTIFY
PURE CROP SEED
Crop Improvement Association
Will Give Field Inspection
If Asked
By A. D. STUART,
Seed Specialist, N. C. State College.
How can I get wheat, oats, bar-
Ipy or rye certified?” Invariably
this question is asked by growers
after the crop is planted and grow
ing therefore the answer will be
given from that viewpoint.
The first consideration is whether
or not the seed planted are of known
origin adaptation to the area in
which they are growing. Granting
that the seed mdjet ((his Require
ment, the next step is to make ap
plication to the Crop Improvement
Association for a field jrypfcction
to determine varietal purity, per
cent of noxious weeds and per cent
of disease if any.
If the crop applied for is wheat,
only Fulcaster, Leaps Prolific, Pur
ple Straw, Gleason, Redhart varie
ties and their strains will be in
spected for seed certification pur
poses. These are the variteies test
ed and recommended by the Agri
cultural Experiment Station at State
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lightful holiday. Delicious pure foods expertly prepared
and courteously served.
Royal Case
STEPHEN GEORGES, Proprietor
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THE FACTS
You can readily perceive the sim
ilarity in movement between inter
cepting the coin and moving your
foot from the accelerator to the
brake in an emergency. At 40 miles
per hour, you travel 60 feet in 1 sec
ond. If your reaction time 1s ft sec
ond, your car will have traveled 30
feet between the time you recognize
a dangerous situation and the time
you get your foot on the brake. This
has nothing to do with stopping the
car; the brake action has yet tg> take
plaoe. Four-wheel brakes in good
condition may stop your car in an
additional 80 feet. Total distance,
110 feet.
At 60 reaction time would
consume 38 feet, braking 125; total
163 feet.
At 60 M.P.H., reaction time would
consume 45 feet, braking 180; total
225 feet.
Note that twice the distance is
necessary to stop at 60 M. P. H. as
at 40 M.P.H.
Now you can see why it pays to
be careful at intersections and in
congested areas.
HEADS PHYSICIANS
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Dr. William J. Kerr, professor of
medicine at the University of Cali
fornia, San Francisco, recently cho
sen president-elect of the American
College of Physicians. Dr. Kerr will
serve in 1938 to 1939, following Dr.
James H. Means of Harvard uni
versity, the incumbent.
Out varities and strains recom
mended for certification are Ful
ghum, Lee, Norton, Fulgrain, Coker
32-1, 33-47 and 33-50.
Only one variety of Barley, Ten
nessee No. 6 Hooded and one va
riety of rye, abruzzi is accepted for
certification.
Rye is being cross pollinated, car
ries a special regulation in regard
to certification; namely, that a
grower must secure registered seed
the first year but thereafter, so
long as the seeds are kept pure and
up to the standards otherwise, they
can continue to be certified.
If a growers crop passes field in
spected by the Crop Improvement
Association, the next program is
that of threshing. The threshing
equipment should «be thoroughly
cleaned before work is begun so
that no mechanical mixture will re
cult.
After thrashing and gleaning a
sample of the grain 'must be sub
mitted to the Crop Improvement As
It’s Straw Hat Time
And Straw Hats Are Here
* Sennit Braid Sailors
$1 to $3.
Genuine Panamas
$3 and $3.50
sLso*tols2
Every one new this season.
Remodeling our building will begin
Monday. Our men’s department will
be open for business every day. The
ladies department has been sold out
completely.
Harris & Burns
sociation for official purity and ger
mination tests by the State Depart
ment of Agriculture. After the sam
ple is tested and results show it
within the standards required the
small grain is allowed to be sold
with the official blue tag 'of the
North Carolina Crop Improvement
Association attached.
BOMBERS SIj;K BATTLESHIP
London, Eng.—The first sinking
of a warship by aircraft - that of
the old Spanish battleship, Espana
by three Loyalist planes off Bilbao,
Spain - has added fresh fuel to the
arguments in naval circles that air
craft threatens little danger to mo
dern warships. Big navy partisans
point out that the 24-year-old Es
pana had only 1-inch deck armor,
no anti-aircraft guns and only 20
knots speed. Aircraft gujjpoirters,
however, claim that at last a battle
ship has been sunk in actual war
fare and that it can be done again.
NEUTRALITY ACT SIGNED
Galveston, Texas—The President
interrupted his Gulof Mexico fishing
long enough to sign a neutrality act
which provides for greater isolation
of the U. S. than ever before in the
case of foreign war. Among its pro
visions pre the requirement that
any commodity furnished to a bel
ligerant must be paid for before
loading and carried in ships of for
eigh registry. The President may
close American ports to belligerant
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THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1937
ships seeking supply bases; Ameri
cans are forbidden to travel in belli -
gerant vessels, and the solicitation
of funds for belligerant nations is
forbidden.
BAR ROOM MANNERS
New York City—wow that women
are admitted freely to bar-rooms,
men expected to show them pro
per difference by removing their
hats at the bar when women are
present. So ruled Magistrate Ford,
in settling a brawl over the matter.
“Not only is it bad manners and
bad taste,’' he said, “but it is such
a provocative act to bring about a
breach of peace.”
Lewis Hawkins, agricultural ex
pert in the Kansas City stockyards,
believes the 1937-calf crop will de
velop satisfactory and be some
what above that of 1936.
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