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IF YOU WOULD KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON AROUND YOU READ THF PERSON COUNTY TIMES—IT IS A PAPER FOR ALL THE PEOPLE OF PERSON AND ADJOINING COUNTIES.
VOLUME vm. PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY & THURSDAY ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA, SUNDAY, JUNE 20, 1937 NUMBER FIFTY - ONE
SANDERS WRITES ON
TOBACCO INSECTS
States When And How To Ap
ply Control To Various
Worms And Beetles
By H. K. SANDERS.
Tobacco bud worm damage is
caused by the com ear worm. The
Lest known control is the poisoned
corn meal bait which is as follows:
Arsenate of Lead 6 heaping table
spoonfuls
■Corn Meal —1 peck.
Carefully mix the poison through
out the corn meal.
The meal should not contain
bran or coarse husk.
Rate of Application —1 peck per
acre.
Make application's early in the
morning when the buds are open. A
small pinch of poison should be
dropped into the center of the bud.
Applications carelessly made are of
no value. Best results will be ob
tained by placing the bait directly
in the tip of the plant.
Applications should be begun, ten
days or two weeks after the plants
are set in the fields and should be
repeated every week or ten days
until the plants are topped.
It is very important to begin ap
plications early. Many growers de
lay applications until in
jury.
IMPORTANT: The bud worm per
fers corn to tobacco; do not substi
tute any other material for the corn
meal. Use only arsenate of lead for
the poison.
HORN WORM
For control of horn worms ar
senate of lead can be applied as a
dust as follows:
Arsenate of Lead 4 to 5 lbs. per
acre.
Horn Worms And Flea Beetles
A mixture that will poison both
horn worms and flea beetles is com
posed of:
Paris Green —1 pound.
Arsenate of Lead 5 pounds.
This is as the “1 in 6”
mixture, and is recommended for
the control of both flea beetles and
horn worms.
Due to the dense growth of tobac
co and the necessity of applying the
poison on the underside of the leaf,
tobacco can best be poisoned in the
field by dusting. A good dust gun
is essential.
Apply “1 in 6” mixture as follows:
For newly set plants 3 lbs. per
acre.
For tobacco half-grown or larger -
4 to 6 pounds per acre.
BALANCE ’3B BUDGET
HOPE OF ROOSEVELT
Washington, June 17-
President Roosevelt, seeking to
block legislation to continue low in
terest rates on Federal Lgnd Bank
loans to farmers, today reiterated
his hope of balancing the budget
in the fiscal year 1938.
Mr. Roosevelt made known his
views in a letter to Chairman Mar
vin Jones (Democrat)' of Texas of
the House Agriculture Committee,
The letter, dated June 8, was made
public coincident with an over
night rise in the national debt of
$1,352,033,000 due to new financing
and a Treasury bookkeeping trans
fer of funds resulting from payment
■of the soldier bonus a year ago.
The President wrote Jones that
“if the budget is thrown out of
balance through extra appropria
tions or obligations, new taxes
alone will bring the budget into
balance.”
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Cooperating with Federal Agen
cies, the Extension Service of State
College has organized the buying of
surplus Irish potatoes in eastern
North Carolina to improve market
prices.
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TIMES’ SUNDAY MORNING EDITION
Person County Times
NEW TOBACCO BILL
FALLS INTO HOPPER
Designed To Carry Out Pro
gram Sfdetracked With
General Farm Measure
Washington, June 16.—A. PP.—
Representative John W. Flannagan,
Jr., of Bristol, Va., said today his
bill for tobacco control was design
ed to carry out the administration’s
general farm bill as it related to
tobacco.
Leaders said the general bill has
been sidetracked for the current
session.-
Flannagan said his bill, intro
duced yesterday, is intended to
maintain parity of prices for to
bacco and parity of income for to
bacco growers; to provide an “ever
normal granary” for each kind of
tobacco, and to conserve the na
tional soil resources.
Representative Thomas G. Burch
of Martinsville, Va., said he was “in
accord with the general intent” of
the bill, but did not find any pro
vision for submission of the pro
posed control plan to the growers
of the various types of tobacco.
Burch said he felt “that no legis
lation should be imposed on tobacco
growers or any other group of
farmers unless approved by at
least a majority of them”.
The Flannagan. measure provides
for parity payments to tobacco
growers in lieu of soil conserving
payments under the soil conserva
tion act.
It also would set up a “surplus
reserve loan corporation” within
the department of agriculture, capi
talized at $100,000,000, to make
available surplus reserve loans
upon any kind' of tobacco produced
for market at a loan rate based on
the parity price and the relation
ship of the total supply to the nor
maj supply.
The bill would set as the “soil
depleting base acreage” for flue
cured tobacco. 1,080,000 acres;
Maryland tobacco 39,000 acres, bur
ley tobacco 525,000 acres, and other
types, 480,000 acres.
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MERRITT REUNION
The Merritt families of Person
and adjoining counties will hold
their annual reunion at the old
home place of Dr. Merritt on Tues
day, June 29th. from 2:00 to 7:00 p.
ra.
A picnic supper will be served at
5:30.
SHERIFF CLAYTON
CALLED TO MILTON
William ..Pehry, 18, Captured
About Twelve Miles From
Milton Late Thursday
Many Roxboro people drove to
Milton last Thursday to see the car
that was wrecked by William Perry,
18, negro farm hand, and to see if
he had been captured. Perry, it was
reported, had shot Mrs. W. T. Ham
lett of Chatham County, and while
running from officers had turned
over the stolen car about one mile
from Milton.
Perry was captured late Thurs
day afternoon, and was carried to
Raleigh for safe keeping. He Con
fessed to the shooting of Mrs. Ham
lett who died in Watt’s Hospital,
Durham, N. C. about 9:10 A. M.
Thursday.
Sheriff Clayton of this county
was called to Milton to assist in the
hunt for Perry who fled when he
wrecked the car. It was stated in
Milton that the woods were full of
officers who were aiding in the
search and bloodhounds were on
hand to be used if there should be
any occasion.
He was captured near the state
line and after waiving extradition
was carried to Raleigh.
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PROFANE
NOT FOR ITALY’S ARMY
ROME, June 16— ).—Pro
fanity got a dishonorable discharge
from the Italian Army today. Gen.
Alberto Pariani, Under-Secretary of
War, issued a decree squelching
cursing in the ranks and started
measures to enforce his orders.
BOXING PROGRAM
FRIDAY, JULY 2ND.
Eight Round Bout Between
Heavyweights To Feature
Program
Unless complications arise there
will be a real boxing program in
Roxboro on Friday night, July 2nd.
Matches for this event are now
being lined up and will be announ
ced soon. It is probable that two
heavyweights, one from Durham
and one from Greensboro, will be
lined up for the eight round fight.
Then there will be three or four
other bouts on the program.
This program will be in the Win
stead Warehouse. The promoters
have decided not to build an out
door arena this year, but may do
something next summer if boxing
continues in this county.
The. policy of the promoters will
be to have only one program a
month, between now and the time
the tobacco market opens. Then the
fights will be discontinued for the
winter.
Fights in the future will take place
on Friday at 9:00 p. m. instead of
Saturday.
Pa Gets A Break Today Or
Else He Should Get One
Fathers Day Observed More :
And More Each Year; Local <
Stores Report Good Gift
Sales For Dad j
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TODAY IS HIS DAY
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“Poor Pa” is supposed to get a i
decent break today. Naturally
pa doesn’t exactly look for this break i
because he has been disappointed 1
so many times that he never knows ]
what is coming next, but Pa hopes i
that today will be his day. 1
Father’s Day, relatively youthful <
compared to Mother’s Day, is in- i
tensively observed in some parts of ]
the country, but stirs up little inter
est in other sections. Locally, the i
day has developed into one of im- 1
portance, due to widespread ob- i
TOWNSEND PLAN CRUMBLES
Washington, D. C. —Faced with a
move to depose him at the Town
sendites’ third national convention
next month, Dr. Francis E. Town
send .sponsor of the 200-a-month
cld age pension plan, called off the
convention and prepared to close his
local lobbying office. Postal in
spectors are investigating the $16,-
00 subscription offer of the Town
send Weekly, suspended last week
by twelve disgruntled officials who
will try to launch a new pension
plan on the ruins of the old.
BABY BORN AS AMBULANCE
STOPS FOR FREIGHT TRAIN
Wilmington, De^ —A daughter
was born today to Mrs. Marion Ben
nett of New Castle, in an ambulance
forced to stop at a grade crossing
on the city’s outskirts by a freight
train. •
Later, at the hospital, physicians ;
said the mother and daughter were
doing well.
ALONG THE WAY— ALL APPEARS
TO BE QUIET NO NEWS
The writer of this column wants
to know how to get news when
there is no news. At times he is
tempted to go out and start some
thing just for the sake of having
something to write about.
Looks like the farmers of this
county will have a curb market this
summer. Last year, the first year,
those who sold on the curb market
took in over SIOOO. It is understood
that many are very anxious to
have one this summer.
Various reports come to this of
fice about the liquor question in
Person county. Some, many in fact,
say that Person will again vote
TOBACCO CONTINUES
TO BE REPLANTED
Plants Have Been Dying In
Hills And Stand Is Hard
To Get ,
Evpn as late as this week a few
people were going to South Carolina
after tobacco plants and many in
Person, county were getting all the
plants they could from their neigh
bors who had a few left.
Some farmers say that their
crop is looking fair. Others will tell
you that they do not have the best
prospects that they have ever had.
One prominent farmer stated last
week that crops here were in bad
shape. Another, fifteen minutes
later, said that he thought this
county would have a very good
crop if the season would continue.
No one will tell you that crops
here are in excellent shape. Blue
mold or something did considerable
damage to the plant and many have
been forced to replant two and three
times. Even then there were a
number of plants missing in the
hills.
servance in these parts. It has be
come the thing to do to honor Dad
and emphasize your love for him
by pitesetiting a gift on Father’s
Day. This custom makes quite a
flurry of business in shops selling
men’s items, causing merchants to
regard the day with increasing in
terest.
Father’s Day will probably grow
in popularity. Even at that one could
hardly expect the American Papa to
reach the place that men once held
in, this world. History recounts that
back in the stone age the man was
complete master of the home. Pa
doesn’t expect that anymore and
probably; will never see it ags|in.
He just wants a little gift today
and he knows that he will get a lit
tle bill for it on the first of the
month.
OPERATION BRINGS RICHES
Chicago, 111.—Among the patients
of Dr. Ward C. Halstead, neurolo
gist, was a bankrupt broker who
found himself a misfit in modern
business. The physician removed a
tumor and a small sized piece of
brain tissue from his patient, who
became a dynamo of energy. At
tacking a business about which he
knew nothing, his first week’s sales
were $250,000; soon he forced the
plant to expand, and is now vice
president with a millipnph-e’s in
come.
CONDITION OF THE TREASURY
( For the Last Fiscal Week)
Receipts $131,746,338
Expenditures $151,171,055
Balance $1,780,070,941
Deficit, Fiscal Year $2,422,948,813
Public Debt $35,282,430,647
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Farmers of Martin, Tyrrell, Hyde
and Washington counties cooperated
to sell 400 lambs in a pool recently
held at Plymouth.
dry. Others say that you will be
' surprised at the wet votes. Anyway
the election takes place on June 29.
The Kiwanians meet Monday at
Prospect Hill school. The members
are very proud of Prospect Hill for
the reason that they are very fond
of fried chicken, ham, etc. The
ladies of that community really
know how to feed. Ladies are in
vited to this meeting.
So far nothing has been decided
about the location of the park in
Roxboro; both the Kiwanis and
Rotary clubs are trying to get to
gether on a location.
GEORGIA VAGRANCY.
ARRESTS STIR ROW
Seen By State Labor Group As |
“Barbaric Attempt At Leg
alized Peonage”
Atlanta, June 17.—CAP)—Vag
rancy arrests by sheriff’s deputies ,
at Macon Ga., were described by a
state labor faction today as “a bar- \
baric attempt to establish legalized j
peonage.”
Sixteen men were held in Bibb
county( Macon) following an an
nouncement of Sheriff James R.
Hicks, Jr., that he would prosecute
relief workers who refused private
employment.
A resolution adopted by the A.
Steve Nance group of the Georgia
Federation of Labor (which split
recently over the C. I. O. issue) de
clared Hicks’ statement was “the
most outrageous and brutal ever
issued by a public official of
Georgia.” J
The resolution was made public
by Secretary O. E. Petrey.
It called on the Georgia delega
tion in congress, President Roose
velt and WPA officials to protect
citizens “from being forced into en
forced labor at rates that will not
permit them to maintain the health
and lives Os their families.”
“PURELY STATE MATTER”
Washington, June 17.—(AP)—
Senator Richard B. Russell, Jr. of
Georgia, said tonight the state’s
congressional delegation is with
out authority to act on the protest
of a labor group against vagrancy
arrests in Macon.
“This is purely a state matter,"
Russell said. Sheriff Hicßs was
elected by the people of his
county, and there is nothing we
can do about it.”
Officials of the workj progress
administration and Representative
Robert Ramspeck of Georgia, act
ing chairman of the house labor
committee, declined comment.
Macon, Ga., June 17.—(AP)—
Only three of 13 Negros arrested
by sheriff’s deputies Wednesday on
charges of vagrancy remained in
Bibb county jail tonight.
Charges against eight were dis
missed by the sheriff or Solicitor
Oscar L. Long of city court when
it was learned they had been em
ployed, and two others had been
released under bond.
PARK LOCATION IS
NOT DEFINITE
After This Is Decided The Two
Civic Clubs Will Start To
Work
Both the Rotary and Kiwanis
Clubs of Roxboro are still working
on the park project for this city. At
the present time they are trying to
get together on a location. Both clubs
decided upon this project at the
same time, but they selected differ
ent locations and so far the two
groups have not been able to solve
this problem.
At the present time, Jack Bane,
secretary of the Chamber of Com
merce, is representing the Rotary
Club while the Kiwanis Club Com
mittee is composed of Robert Long
Bill Warren and Sam Merritt. All
are expected to get together this
week and try to solve the problem
of a location.
One site is the Community House
lot and the other is the one behind
the Primitive Baptist Church fac
ing Reams Ave.
PRIVILEGE TAX DUE
James Harris, city manager, stat
ed this week that all privilege tax
es for the city of Roxboro had been
due since the first of June and that
a ten percent penalty would be ad
ded each month that they were un
paid.
He also stated that four-fifths of
these taxes had been paid and he
urged the others to pay them.
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The May pea crop in Pasquotank
County left a lot of headaches and
empty pockets, reports County Agent
G. W. Falls, who says growers want
some kind, of farm program to aid
truck growers in that section.
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TODAY
JUDGE BEAM TALKS
ON LIQUOR ISSUE
Slated That Franklin County
Would Vote ABC Store Out
If Opportunity Was Given
A small, but representative crowd
was present at the Courthouse, Fri
day evening to hear Judge Beam
speak on the subject of “What Li
quor Stores Have Meant To Frank
lin County.” This address was most
convincing and his arguments were
unanswerable because they were
based entirely upon facts and r.ot
mere suppositions.
The substance of his address as re
ported. He showed first of all that
the object of securing the County
Liquor Control Stores in his county
was not that liquor might be con
trolled hut that certain elements
might get control of the liquor traf
fic in that county, which is true of
every other county that is seeking
to or already has secured the ABC
stores.
He further showed that the ABC
stores have not reduced the amount
of drinking nor of drunkness but
the opposite.
The average amount of increase
of sales over the counties of the A
BC stores in Louisburg the first five
months of 1937 was about $7,000,-
.00 per month, $19,000. having been
taken in during the month of March.
The total amount spent over the
county of the ABC store in Frank
lin for 1936 was $240,000. All of this
money was taken out of the legi
timate trade and left the county
$155,000 poorer. The County receiv
ed $5,000 and that after a fight had
been made.
The number of arrests for drunk
-1 ness and drunken driving had more
! than doubled during the same pe
riod of time, 142 to 316.
No statement in reference was
made without being supported by
■ figures from the official records.
He further showed that making a
careful survey of banking and trade
conditions that the ABC stores had
■ not helped business but rather very
: seriously injured it.
Judge Beam said that without
question if the law allowed Frank
lin County to vote on the question
again that within thirty days they
would vote the ABC stores out.
But unfortunately they would not
be able to vote again for three years.
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Clara Bow Seeks
Film Comeback
Wants To Act Story Os Her Life
In Colors
Lexington, Ky., June 16—Clara
jßow is eager to be a movie actress
again, she disclosed today.
Reclining on a chair at a health
clenic here, where she has been a
patient since June 3, the red-head
who rose to fame as the screen’s
“It” girl in the late 20’s, said she
wanted to act in a story based on
her life since she deserted Holly
wood three years ago for a Califor
nia ranch.
She would like to have her cow
boy actor husband, Rex Bell, play
opppsite her and Tony, her two
and-one-half-year-old son, to have a
part. She also would like the pic
ture to be in colors.
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THE CAPITAL WEEK
Washington, D. C. —The senate
has sent to the White House a 2-year
extension of the Connally “hot-oil”
act, prohibiting the shipment in in
terstate commerce of oil produced
n excess of state quotas While
a House bill just sent to the Sen
ate prolongs the PWA for two years,
it reduces that government agency
to a “status of liquidation” by con
fining its activities to projects al
ready applied for The House
has also sent the Senate the Dies
Immigration Bill, providing manda
tory deportation- of aliens, who,
within five years preceding such de
i portation action, are convinced of
; possessing firearms, of violating the
; Narcotics and Aline Smuggling acts,
1 or of crimes involving pipral tur
pitude. ,