WASHINGTON
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TAKING
PLACE
BY
UNITED STATES "SENATOR
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Since the adjournment of con
gress, members are giving more real
attention to studies of the farm pro
blem than perhaps any other phase
of pending legislation. The word
pending can be used because the
farm problem will be the first order
of business at the next session, or at
a special- sesssion should one be call
ed by the President.
Such studies disclose some cheer
ful factors with reference to the
general improvement of agriculture
since 1932. Farm cash income has
moved upward 85 percent—farm
prices are up 75 percent—(forced
farm sales have been cut in half—
farm wages have increased 75 per
cent, and farm real estate values
have gained sixteen per cent.
Thus there is reason for the state
ment that agricultural progress has
been during the first four years of
the administration of President
Roosevelt and it strengthens the de
termination for all concerned to
maintain those gains.
In agriculture, as in industry,
greater strides in some sections have
been offset by less favorable trends
in others, but the general improve
ment has undoubtedly been felt
throughout the country. In 1932, to
bacco was selling on the average at
ten and a half cents per pound, and
on July 15, 1937, it was bringing
rearer 27 cents per pound. In 1932
cotton was down to 6 1-2 per pound
and on July 15, 1937, was at 12.4
cents per pound. Corresponding im
provement is noted in a wide va
riety of agricultural commodities.
Cash income available for farm
family living, after deductions for
wages, operating expenses, taxes
and interest, increased even more
rapidly during the four year span
from 1932 to 1936, than did cash in
come as a whole. Cash income avail
able to the agriculture population
for living from 1932 production was
$1,473,000,000. From 1936 production
it was $4,475,000,000. This was 204
percent above the 1932 depression
low and within eight percent if its
1929 level.
Os course, the gain income dur
ing this period was somewhat offset
by an increase in the price of things
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the farmers buy. But allowing for|
an increase of sixteen per cent in
prices farmers pay for commodities
and services used in living and pro
duction, the purchasing power of
cash income from farm production
was sixty percent in the price that
farmers pay for things used in liv
ing, which did not advance quite as
rapidly as the price of commodities
used in production, the increase in
purchasing power between 1932
and 1936 was even greater. 1
In other words, the disparity be
tween the prices the farmers get for
their commodities and the price at
which they buy has been greatly!
lessened, although not entirely at
the goal that is sought.
The improvement in farm real es
tate values is also significant and
along with a reduction in forced sal
es, is certain to bring new hope to
those who live on the farm. There
are many other evidences of a wide
spread improvement since the dark
days of 1932, when the farmer faced
an almost hopeless situation.
ITS TRUE! >• By Wiley Padan
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New York, N.Y.—-“IT’S TRUE! that Joan Crawford sings in
M-G-M’s ‘The Bride Wore Red’—- the first time in five years
that she has sung on the screen,” says Wiley Padan... “For one
scene the studio 'had to send to Switzerland for Edelweiss, the
rare Alpine flower for which mountaineers often risk their lives...
In another scene, Joan Crawford wears a thirty pound crocheted
dress made of more than 2,000,000 red beads!”
PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO, N. C. ~
| The condition of the farm popula
tion in this country has come to be
an index to conditions generally.
Agriculture prices are usually found
to be barometer of the purchasing
power of the great cross-section of
Americans. And the improvement
today indicates strongly that gains
have been made and is most encour
aging to members of Congress who
are primarily interested in using the
legislative machinery of the Gov
-1 eminent to preserve those gains and
further improve the status of rural
America.
J FOREST FIRE FATAL
| Cody, Wyoming—A furious fire
sweeping through the Shoshoni Na
tional Forest trapped fifty fire-ran
gers, and before they could extra
cate themselves from the zone e
leven were dead and thirty badly
burnd, among them many CCC boys
who tried to outrun the blaze a
gainst the warning of more experi
jenced rangers.
5 New Naval Ships
Ready Next Month
Two Light Cruisers And Three Des
troyers Now Nearing
Completion
Washington, Aug. 28—Five new
naval vessels are scheduled to be
accepted next month for service in
the United States fleet.
Two light cruisers and three des
troyers, navy officials said today,
v/ill be completed or nearly com
pleted at the time of their commis
ioning.
After routine trials and “shake
c own” cruises, they will make final
trials before joining the fleet.
The light cruiser Philadelphia
vill be commissioned on September
16.
She is one of nine of the 10,000-
on class now being built. When
she is commissioned at the Phila
delphia navy yard, she will be
placed under command of Capt. J
Jules James, recently detached from
duty at the United State Naval Ac
cademy at Annapolis, Md.
Her sister ship, the light cruiser
Brooklyn, will be placed in com-j
mission September 24 under com
mand of Capt William D. Brereton,
r.ow on duty in the office on naval
intelligence.
The destroyer Craven, a 1,500-ton
vessel under construction at the
Bethlehem yards at Quincy, Mass.,
v/ill be commissioned September 9
under the command of Lieut. Com
mander Watson O. Bailey.
The destroyer Ralph Talbot, of
1,500-ton displacement, will be com
missioned September 15 at the Bos
ton navy yard under command of
Lieut. Commander H. R. Thurber.
The destroyer Patterson, being
built at the Puget Sound navy yard,
will be commissioned September
22 under command of Lieut. Com
mander F. T. Spellman.
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LEGAL NOTICES
NOTICE
SALE OF VALUABLE LAND
Under and by virtue of the power
of sale contained in that certain
deed of trust dated November 15,
Tobacco Selling Time
Draws Near ....
In a very short time the Roxboro Tobacco
Market will be open and Person County Tobac
co will go on sale.
We believe that Person County has produc
ed one of its best crops and we do not hesitate to
say that Roxboro will offer you every advantage
in selling your tobacco this year.
Roxboro Invites You ....
to sell here this year. Roxboro has what you
need and want-good prices-good service and
friendly people.
Your County needs your support and offers
no excuses in asking for it. /
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Sell Your Tobacco In Roxboro, N. C.
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This ad paid for by Person County Farmers and Business men
£* ii. Who Want to See Our County Prosper
1925, executed by W. T. Pass and
jvife Dallie Pass, recorded in the of
fice of the Register of Deeds for
Person County in Book 36, page 176,
default having been made in the
payment of this indebtedness there
by secured and at the request of the
holder of notes, secured by said
deed of trust, the under substituted
trustee, will on TUESDAY, SEP
TEMBER TWENTY-FIRST, 1937, at
twelve o’clock noon, at the court
house door in Roxboro, offer for sale
for cash at public auction to the
highest bidder the following des
cribed parcel or lot of land lying
md being in the town of Roxboro,
Person County, bounded and les
•ribed as follows:
Adjoining the lands of Miss
Eugenia Bradsher, G. T. Thaxton
| and others and lying on the West
side of North Main Street, in Rox
boro, N. C., beginning in the line
cf said Main Street at Eugenia
Bradsher’s Northeast corner, a point
j formerly midway between two old
gate posts; thence with the line of
said Main Street North 37 degrees
Kast 157.6 ft. to corner of G. T.
Thaxton (formerly Methodist
Church parsonage lot); thence with
<he line of said G. T. Thaxton North
47 Vi degrees West 291.7 ft. to the
f outhwest corner of said G. T.
Thaxton in line of lot of Ralph Cole
(formerly R. B. Holeman); thence
South 43 degrees West 193 ft. to an
iron stake just Northwest of a lo
ust tree, Eugenia Bradsher’s corner
in line of J. B. Barnett; thence South
54 degrees East 310 ft. with Eugenia
Bradsher’s line through said locust
tree to the beginning, containing
11-5 acres more or less, being the
let conveyed to W. T. Pass by W.
W. Kitchin and wife, on April 13,
1916, by deed, and filed for regis
tration on the 18th. day of May,
1916, in the office of Register of
Deeds in Person County, State of
North Carolina. Recorded in Book
24, Page 335 which is made a part
of this description, upon which lot
is located the residence of said Pass
The purchaser will be required to
make a deposit on day of sale in the
sum of 10 percent of the bid as evi
dence of good faith. Sale will re
main open ten days from date of
ale for an increased bid.
This, August 20, 1937.
NATHAN LUNSFORD,
Substituted Trustee.
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 193$*
ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE J
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Having qualified as administrator
of the estate of W. Arch Wood, de
ceased, late of Person County, N. C,
this is to notify all persons having
claims against the estate of said de
ceased to present them to the un
dersigned on or before the 2nd day
of August, 1938, or this notice will
be pleaded in bar of their recovery.
All persons indebted to said estate
will please make immediate pay
ment.
This the 2nd. day of August, 1937.
C. B. Wood
Administrator of estate of W.
Arch Wood
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Roofings, Windows, Doors,
and Frames,
Watkins & Bullock
MEBANE
SIX COUNTIES
FAIR
SEPTEMBER 13-18
PROGRAM
Fair Opens Monday With
All Grandstand Attractions
Presented
TUESDAY
Extra Added Attractions
WEDNESDAY
Fireman’s Night
THURSDAY
American Legion Night.
At this time there will be
a competitive drill between
the Drum and Bugle Corps
of Burlington and Durham.
FRIDAY
Boy Scouts Day.
O. C. Buck’s Exposition on
Midway. Thrilling Grand
stand Attractions. Highest
Act In The World— a Head
liner.
Marvelous Exhibits
Mammoth Fireworks pro
gram each night
Admission Price 35 cents
A real Legitimate
Agricultural Fair
You are extended a most
cordial welcome.
SEPTEMBER 13-18