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CALL 111 We want all the news of your community. Please call us or send it in. IF YOU WOULD KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON ABOUND YOU READ Til* PERSON COUNTY TIMES-IT IS A PAPER FOR ALL THE PEOPLE OP PERSON AND ADJOINING COUNTIES. VOLUME VHL CLOSING EXERCISES AT BUSHY FORK Superintendent K. R. Curtis De liver Splendid Address; In troduced By R. B Griffin SIOO Presented To Principal The closing exfercises (of Bushy Fork, took place Friday morning, May at eleven o’clock, with Superintendent K. R. Curtis of Wil son delivering the address. The com munity showed the same interest and enthusiasm that they have shown during the school year by having the auditorium filled to capa city. This was the first seventh grade to finish in the new building. This has been the most successful year in the history of the Bushy Fork school in every respect. Under the administration of Supt. R. B. Griffin, guidance of principal and teachers and by the help of a most active parent-teacher’s association supported by a loyal community the •enrollment has greatly increased and equipment has been added to meet state requirements for stan dardization. The exercises were opened with a prayer by Rev. M. W. Lawrence followed by words of welcome by the principal, Jerry L. Hester. Supt. R. B. Briffin introduced the speaker. Mr. Curtis beginning with his usual humor, delivered a most interesting address dealing with “Democracy in the Schools.” Fol lowing came the presentation of Se venth Grade Certificates by Mr. W. R. Wilkerson. The reading and per fect attendance certificates were then delivered by the principal. Just before adjourning for lunch Mr. Griffin asked to be allowed to make an announcement. His an noucement was to present the prin cipal with SIOO purse given by the community as a token of their ap preciation of the interest he has shown in the community and school during the year. After the closing everyone was invited to spread lunch on the ground. The boys had a ball game with Hurdle Mills and the girls played Olive Hill. Bushy Fork was victorious in both games. o SBO,OOO Given To County Producers Distributed to Producers In County Who Were On Work Sheet Farms More than SBO,OOO has already been received and distributed to those producers in this county who were on farms covered by Work sheets in 1936. All other checks will be distributed as soon as they are received by the county agent. H. K. Sanders, agent, recommends the seeding of soil-conserving crops as one of the best programs that the farmers have ever had and one of the best features is that it is encouraging share-croppers and share - tenants to cooperate with the ower in building up the soil. Mr. Sanders suggests that all farmers sow peas, soybeans or vel vet beans before July Ist, and later crimson clover, red clover, etc. Under the present program each | farmer gets pay for what he does in carrying out soil-building prac tises. o TENNESSEE’S SUBSTITUTE Nashville, Tenn.—After much de liberation, Governor Gordon Browning appointed Major G. L. Berry for the U. S. Senate, to fill a vacancy left by the death of Sena tor Nathan L. Bachman last April. Insiders say that the Governor ex pects the new Senator to step aside next year so that he himself can .run. But if he does run, he may have to beat Representative Sam D. Me. Reynolds, a possible candidate, now making his name as Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Com- o Actual Scenes At Palace The Palace Theatre will have on 'the screen Monday and Thesday actual scenes of the coronation of King George. These pictures ware flashed across last week and will be Oh the screen of your local thea tre this jveek. TIMES’ SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Person county Timers PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY & THURSDAY LOCAL BOYS LEAVE FOR CALIFORNIA Expect To See All The Places Os Interest; To Return In 30 Days I Messrs. Guy Gardner, Wharton Winstead, Basil Garrett, Bobby Stephens and Chap. Ball, Jr. left this morning for California. They expect to be gone about thirty days if they can see it all in that length of time. These young men will go the southern route and return the north ern route. They are making the trip in a convertible coupe. All expect to visit the studios in Hollywood if they possibly can get in and they plan to talk to a few of the movie stars—particularly the female stars, and if anyone gets a chance to go into pictures they will probably accept the offer. Each and everyone was in high spirits as they left today. FUNNIES START NEXT SUNDAY Large List Os Popular Comics To Start Next Week, Eight Pages of Color The funny paper that has been promised the readers of the Times will start next Sunday. At first it was thought that it could be secured for today, but it has taken a little longer time than the publishers thought would be required to get all contracts signed. This funny paper is one of the best that could be bought. Eight pages will be in the Times and those pages will feature some of the greatest characters in funny land. A partial list is—Mutt and Jeff, Keeping Up With The Jones, Regular Fellers, High Lights of History, Life’s Like That, Tailspin Tommy, The Fox Family with Mickey McGuire and several other popular characters. Watch for your copy of the Times next Sunday. It will be a paper for young and old. If you are not a subscriber just remember that you can still get on the list for SI.OO un til May 20th. RECEIVES HONOR Miss Gene Morton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Morton of this county, has been appointed chijef marshall at the Philaretian Liter ary Society of Meredith College, Raleigh, N. C. Miss Morton is a member of the rising senior class of Meredith. o IN MCPHERSON HOSPITAL O. W. Long, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Long of Roxboro, is re covering from an operation at Mc- Pherson Hospital, Durham, N. C. He underwent the operation Thursday and is reported to be resting com fortably. o INDIAN GIFTS Mexico City, Mex.—When Don Francisco Castillo Najera, Mexican Ambassador to the United States arrived here, he carried with him an American protest for the con sideration of President Cardenas. Last Fall, Mexico’s New Deal Pres ident gave 100,000 acres of British owned land to the peons: his govern ment now proposes to confiscate property worth $10,000,000 which is owned by the Colorado River Co. o— We Urge You To Join If you have not already joined our Funeral Finance Company we urge you to do so at once. The co6t is very small and you are sure to like the plan. The financial burden is made much easier. May we explain it to you? Woody’s Funeral Home o —- Blue grass and white Dutch clo ver grow into excellent permanent pasture if the soil is sufficiently pre pared and the land coated with ma nure, says W. P. Flowe of Harris burg, routp 1, Cabarrus County, Escapes Death in Zeppelin Disaster % 1 rfi&jjj. \ A fIHA m J «/i % 'Vj§jf s tk i l|g|jg kS Chief Engineer Rudolph Sauter, of the Zeppelin Hindenburg, who was severely injured, but escaped death when the giant ship expkded ?* lt tx? r ®i ß B v out t 0 land at Lakehurst > N. J., recently. Tlaming to earth, the Hindenburg was soon a chafred mass of wreckage. LABORERS WANTED ON HURDLE MILLS ROAD AT ONCE Will Pay 25 Cents Per Hour; Urged To Report At Court house Tuesday According to information received from Mrs. Ethel Carr Liscomb, head of the N. C. State Employment Ser vice for this district, twenty laborers and twenty truck drivers are want ed at once for work on the Hurdle Mills road. The wage scale for this work is 25 cents per hour. All who are in terested in securing work are asked to report at the Courthouse in Rox boro, Tuesday morning at 9:30 A. M. This is the second call that has been made for men to work on this road. Labor continues to be hard to find in this county. There is much work going on and practically all contractors report a scarcity of la borers. o- 1 Rev. West Selected For Welfare Board Mrs. W. T. Bost, chairman of the State Board or Charities and public welfare, has notified officials in this county of the appointment of Rev. W. F. West to the County Welfare Board. Mi*. West will serve on the board with Mr. R. D. Bailey and a third member to be named. At the present time Mr. West is attending the Southern Baptist Convention. o Limestone and superphosphate are showing fine results where ap plied 3j pastures in (die foothills and mountains. Some farmers point to the very line where the material “gave out” and note the greater growth of early grasses where the applications were made. ALONG THE WAY—ALL APPEARS TO BE QUIET—NO NEWS. Even tho things are happening thick and fast in Roxboro, every thing appears to be very quiet as you walk around. The new postoffice is ready and it looks much nicer on the inside than it does -on the outside—Really looks like a big city postoffice, after you get in, The sgfety zones at. Roxboro’s one comer tyhere there are traffic signals have been painted. People can now see where to walk and cars can telT where to stop. Look, like everyliouse and busi ROXBORO. NORTH CAROLINA, SUNDAY, MAY 16, 1937 ROTARY CLUB ■ OF YANCEYVILLE WANTS THEATRE Representative Group Call On (t.T Kirbrln-Effort .To Get - H m To Open Theatre A representative group of Yancey ville citizens from the Yanceyville Rotary club called on Mr. O. T. Kirby, manager of the Palace and Dolly Madison theatres, last week in an effort to get him to open a theatre in Yancey ville. These citi zens pointed out to Mr. Kirby that the population of Caswell County was over 20,000 and that the city of Yancey ville was in the heart of the county. They were firm in their ; convictions that a theatre would |pay- Mr. Kirby is making an investi gation of the situation, but has de cided nothing definite yet. The Yan ceyville Rotary Club is willing to do everything in its power to pro mote the idea and work with Mr. Kirby. So far nothing definite has been done. Mr. Kirby is willing to open up if he sees that the propo sition is a sound one. People from Caswell county have been attending shows in Roxboro and Danville. o GREAT TENNIS PLAYER Fred Perkins, of Norfolk. Va., nephew of R. L. Perkins of Roxboro, is setting a pace at Elon College. In a recent match held in Norfolk, Va., Perkins led Elon to victory over Reid Tennis Center, a fast playing crev I of that city. The young tennis player is a son of Fred Perkins, Sr. of Norfolk, Va., who is known to many people in Person Co. ness place in Roxboro is going to get a coat of paint. How the lumber companies keep in lumber is hard to see. There must be about twenty buildings going up in the city. Over the county farmers were busy planting tobacco last week. They are hoping that they can get it in the ground before blue mold does- too .much. damage. ; The building that has been used as a postoffice has been suggested as a place for the liquor store if this county gets one. PERSON PLACED IN FIFTH DISTRICT S. W. Bason of Yancey ville, Highway Commissioner For Territory Person county was this week placed in the fifth district of the reorganized North Carolina High way and Public Works Commission at a meeting of the body held in Raleigh. The other counties in the district are Durham, Orange, Granville, Cas well, Alamance, Guilford and Rockingham. S. W. Bason of Yan ceville, is the highway commis sioner for this district. The commission did nothing at its meeting this week except deter mine districts. The next meeting will be held May 25. Meanwhile, members are to de cide where the various district offi cer will be located, since the new law requires that an officer must be set up in each district. o SEVERAL ARE AFTER CHAIRMAN’S PLACE If Person County Votes Wet The Position Would Pay Nice Salary On June 29th. the people of this county will vote for or against coun ty control liquor stores. If the so called “Wets” carry the county a local control board will be appoint ed by the board of health, county commissioners and the board of ed ucation. This board will-ftonsist of three members, a chairman and two other members. The chairman’s po sition will probably call for a nice salary and so far there are several men in Roxboro who have stated that they would like to secure this position. Altho no one knows how the peo ple will vote, For or Against, there is much speculation as to who would get this position if the people fa vored the control stores. The registration boeks wjill be open on Saturday, June sth. and re main open through Saturday, June 19th. No new registration is requir ed. The judges and registrars for this election have already been appoint ed. o FREE TEXT BOOKS WILL BE READY Will Be Provided For All Child ren Through The Grammar Grades R. B. Griffin, county superinten dent of education, has annouced that free text books will be ready for all children in the county next year through the grammar grades. The high school rental system will pro bably be the same as it was this year. Definite plans for the hand ling of the books will be formulat ed at an early date. Supplementary reading books will be available on a flat rental basis which will include six books in the first grade and three in others. The price will be fifty cents for low er grades up to seventy cents for the higher grades. The supplemen tary rental system will be optional with the schools. Work is being started at once to divide the present business depart ment of Roxboro High School into two departments. This 'will help in the school and will provide better conditions for both teachers and pupils. o BUSHY FORK P. T. A. MEETS TUESDAY There will be a meeting of the Bushy Fork P. T. A Tuesday night, May 18th at 8 o’clock. It is very im portant that all \nembers be present, especially the chairman. The meet ing will be very short, as no prog ram has been planned. Please bring your hymn book. EIGHT PAGES TODAY NUMBER FORTY - FIVE WINSTEAD FAMILY TOGETHER FOR A FAMILY REUNION Mr. And Mrs. E. V. Webb En tertain Large Crowd In Kinston Yesterday Members of the Winstead Family from Baltimore, M. D. on through North Carolina and down to Wil mington gathered Saturday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. V. Webb in Kinston, N. C. for an old fashion family reunion. The clan began gathering early in the morning and in a few hours they were all present. A large num ber from Person County were on hand to partake of good eastern Carolina barbecue that was cooked to suit a king or queen. Some who were present were, from Roxboro, S. G. Winstead, Mr. ond Mrs. H. D. Long, Sr., Mr. and Mrs. Billy Montague, Mrs. Mamie Merritt, Miss Sue Merritt, Mrs. R. J. Teague, Miss Maude Satterfield, Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Winstead, Mrs. Tom Winstead. Among the others weret, Mr. W. Henry Winstead, Baltimore, Md.; Mrs. W. W. Kitchen, Scotland Neck; Mrs. Annie Winstead, Wilmington, N. C., Mrs. Dunn, Enfield; Mrs. C. A. Hines, Greensboro; Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Merritt. Greenville, N. C. Those who were present claimed that this reunion was one of the fin est that they had ever attended or heard about. Many who were pre sent had not seen the others for many years. o MRS. C. 0. CROWELL WINS $5.00 PRIZE Submits Best Answer To Ques tion: “Why is Good Window Lighting An Asset to Roxboro?” Mrs. C. O. Crowell has been de clared the winner of the Chamber of Commerce Contest for the best answer to the “Why is good window lighting an asset to Roxboro?” This contest was started on Window Shopping Night that was held in Roxboro on April 29th. Mrs. Orowall’s answer in fifty words oi less is as follows;- (1) Boosts Koxboro; givep a cos mopolitan aspect (2) Draws people to town; bright lights, show of acti vity and prosperity always a mag net for the masses (3) Shows pub lic the merchant has something it wants; the eye is the wfaidowi of the mind (4) Brings trade to Rox boro; tonight’s whitlow shopper is tomorrow's buyer. Judges of the answers were Mrs. A. F. Nichols, Miss Margaret Carlton and R. B. Griffin. The prize of $5.00 has been awarded Mrs. Crowell, or will be, and her composition becom es the property of the Chamber of Commerce. o Farmers Will Plant Tobacco Monday Many Planted Saturday Fol lowing Rain On Friday Os Last Week The farmers in Person County will be busy this week setting out the tobacco plants that are large en ough to plant. Rain last Friday brought the land to just the shape that needed for planting. Blue mold is here and has done quite a bit of damage, but so far the farmers think that they have plants enough to see them through—ls the blue mold doesn’t do too much damage. Not so much tobacco will be plant ed this week as plants are not large enough, but those good plants that are of the right size will be started on the way to the warehouse floor. In about two weeks planting will be going on in every section and soon the crop will be ready for .. J
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