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CALL Sit We went ell the newa of four community. Please cell us or send it to. IF YOU WOULD KNOW WHAT 18 GOING ON AROUND YOU READ TB» PERSON COUNTY YOLUMK DC. PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY A THURSDAY ROEWRO, NORTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER, 18, 1937 NUMBER NINETEEN Annual Bay Scout Drive For Funds Tailing Place Today .Seven or Eight Teams In The .jj Field In An Effort To See The Business Men Os Roxboro And Person County. - -■ i Pep Meeting Held At Hotel Last Night The Annual Boy Scout Drive for Yunds is being staged today in Rox boro and over Person County. Seven or eight tean>s of two men each have been in the field today and late reports indicate that the drive has been very successful. The scout drive comes only once a year and is usually started and finished in one day. Business men are assessed by scout officials and presented with a- card showing them the amount of the assessment. The general rule is to pay the as sessment which is not often high, never too high. Prior to the drive for funds the ■workers met at the hotel Wednes day night where they had a little pep meeting and a splendid meal. There were several speakers on the program and all left feeling that they were ready for the drive that was to take place. The money that is collected today will be used to pay scout expenses for the coming year. A part of the money goes to pay dues to Chero kee Council and the remainder is used for local expenses. Last year the drive was made on Nov. 19th. the date of the big fire in the Thomas and Carver building. This fire halted scout operations for that day but the drive was later fin ished. Should those who are in the field today fail to see any who might care to contribute to this worthy cause they are asked to send any amount to O. B. Mcßroom, treasur er of the Roxboro Boy Scouts. o METHODIST PASTORS AT CONFERENCE Appointments Will Probably Be Read Sunday Night; Con ference Over By Monday For the past several weeks Metho dist pastors have been making plans to attend Conference in Raleigh, N. C. this week. It is understood that all the Methodist preachers in this county left on Wednesday and they expect to remain at Conference un til next Monday morning. Methodist pastors attending from this county are Rev. Robinson, Rox boro, Rev. Lawrence, Person Cir cuit, Rev. Hartz, Jalong and East Roxboro, ReV. Lee, Brooksdale, and Rev. Black, Helena. The Methodist Conference will be held at Edenton Street Methodist Church in Raleigh. Bishop Paul B. Kern will preside. It is thought that appointments will be read Sunday night and it may be that people at home can 'Tiear these over their radio that night Conference this year will be call ed upon to vote on the question of unification, the uniting of Northern Methodist and (Methodist Protest ant churches. If this plan is carried there will be over eight million members of the Miethodist church. All pastors are expected to be back in the pulpits on Sunday fol lowing conference. o CENTRAL SCHOOL TO GIVE PROGRAM TONIGHT A program put on by the Gram mar grades of Roxboro Central ■school is expected to be one of the. best programs of the season. Every one should see this program. It will be held in the Central school audi torium tonight at 7 ;30. Come on the hour, so as not to miss the begin ning. It is expected to last about one hour. The admission will be: Six to fourteen, inclusive • 10c, fifteen and above -20 c. leTson|Mmes COUNTY JOBLESS ARE RESPONDING Cards Have Been Distributed Over Entire City And County By Postoffice Postmaster K. L. Street stated yesterday that the postoffice de partment had distributed unem ployment questionaires over the entire city and county. Cards were put in all of the city mail boxes and several men from the office dis tributed blanks from house to house over the city. Blanks were put in mail boxes on the R. F. D. routes and every effort was made to get them into the hands of all who might need them. Postoffice em ployees are seeing to it that no one is overlooked. The unemployment census start ed Tuesday and will continue thru the 20th. Every person who is un employed or partially employed should fill out a card and return it to the postoffice at once. No one has any idea how many jobless citizens will be found in this county, but a large number report that they have already filled out their card and returned it. Mayor R. B. Dawes is chairman of the committee in Person County and he is very anxious that returns be complete. o HARRIS ATTENDS POWER MEETING Dozen Municipalities Met In Ra leigh To Consider Long Term Contract With C. P. & L. Co. James Harris, City Manager of Roxboro, attended a meeting in Ra leigh Monday for the purpose of discussing the matter of entering into a long term power contract with the Carolina Power and Light Company Officials of at least a dozen muni cipalities of central North Carolina were present at this same meeting to consider the long term contract which a number of North Carolina cities are considering if the rate would be cheaper. The following questions were discussed: (1) Whether a town has the legal right to enter into a 10-year con tract with a power company. (2) Whether the present or the' proposed new street light rates are reasonable. (3) Whether “demand” and “stand by” charges are justified. (4) Whether separate meters and separate billings for different mu nicipal purposes are justified. Conferring with the officials was Dr. John Bauer, recently named as administrative supervisor of the Municipal League's new public util ity service. It was decided at this new meet ing that it was doubtful whether the cities could enter into this new contract, but if any did enter into it and the rate later went even low er that the League of Municipalit ies would practically assure every contract signer of a lower rate. At the present time Roxboro will do nothing except to wait for an in vestigation of the entire plan. At a later date more street lights will probably be placed over Roxboro if a desirable contract can be work ed out. AUCTION SALE On Saturday, November 20th.,at 10:00 a. m. on the H. D. Dickerson farm near Mill Creek, I will have an auction sale. The sale will con sist of two mules, collars, plows plow harness, tobacco sticks, corn and feed and a few items of furni ture. J. K. Wood (SmwivuK * UNEMPLOYED CENSUS IjfiDER WAY ■' f Registration of the nation’s jobless is bef)K speeded np through every available business and social agency, witKLncions Wilson in general charge es the country-wide check-up. Joha v. Biggers, president of th( Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Company, Wdirector of the censns. SERVICES HELD FOR JOE G. OWENS Death Caused By Complications After An Illness Os Four Months The death of Joe G. Owens, age 66, husband of Mrs. Virgie Owens, occured on Sunday Morning, Nov. 14 at his home in Woodsdale, N. C. Death was caused by complications after an illness of four months. Surviving him are his wife, two sons and bile-daughter, Mrs. Virgin Owens, Guy Owens, Woodsdale, N. C., John Owens, .Washington, .D. C., Mrs. Gertrude Gentry, Woods dale, N. C., two brothers, Hbnry ■Owens, Roxboro, Ike Owens, Woods dale and two grandchildren. Funeral services were held at the home on Nov. 15th. at 3:15 with Rev. J. A. Herndon of Durham in charge, assisted by Rev. T. H. Ham ilton. Pall bearers were: Ed Owens, Clarence Owens, Tennie Owens, Clayton Owens, Willie Owens, and Fred Buchanan. Honorary pall bearers were: Willie L. Clayton, Haywood Bailey, Henry Russell, Bernice Howerton, Walter Davis, W. H. Harris, T. D. Winstead, Dr. B. A. Thaxton, Dr. E. M. Hedgepeth, J. B. Walker, Geo. Howerton, Geo. Wilbome, Arthur Howerton, Eddie L. Perkins, Luther Whitt, Clyde Woody and Percy Woodall. Flower bearers were lola Owens, Magnola Hull, Maude Morris, Clara Owens, Realie Owens, Dora Owens, Nola Owens, Anna Painter, and Nola Lee. Interment was held in the family cemetery. Farmers In State to Harvest Third Biggest Crop On Record Expected That N. C- Farmers Will Harvest 577,190,000 lbs. Os Tobacco; Old Bright Belt Will Produce 206,190,000 lbs- Crops This Year Exceeded Only By Crops of 1930 and 1935 Raleigh, Nov. 15—North Caro lina farmers will harvest 577,190,000 pounds of tobacco, the third largest crop in the history of the state, this year, W. H. Rhodes, chief of the state department of agriculture’s statistical division, said today. Basing his information on state federal crop reports, the statistician said “tobacco has shown quite con trasting conditions to cotton in spite of the heavy production this year” and “whereas the price of cotton was very low, due to over produc tion, tobacco is bringing very satis factory prices, largely due to the continued increase in consumption.” Department estimates for Novem ber indicate that the 1937 tobacco crop would be 26 percent larger than the 457,375,000 pounds har- IS A PAPER FOR ALL THE rEOPLE OF PERBON AND ADJOINING COUNTIES. ROXBORO MARKET iLOCKED MONDAY Approximately Two Hundred Thousand Pounds Os Tobac- I co That Sold Well - Heavjr Sales Expected Next Week 1— The' Roxboro Tobacco Market blocked on Monday of this week when the farmers of this section placed about two hundred thous and, pounds of tobacco on local ware hrfufe floors. The ..buyers finished two houses and started on the third before darkness forced them to stop buying. Roxboro’s average, above 27 cents, continues to attract a large amount of tobacco to this city. Heavy sales are expected on Friday of this week and every day next week. Local warehousemen expect to ' sell four million pounds by next Thurs day. Markets in this belt will close | for Thanksgiving and will re-open Monday, November 29th. The next break will come at Christmas. Experts figure that the crop in this section is about 70 percent sold. It may be less or more. All farmers have been rushing the market this year in an effort to sell their to bacco while the price was high. The result of this is that this year’s crop has been sold in rapid time. It has not been announced when this market will end its official sea son, but not much tobacco will be left in the county after Christmas, Sponge rubber is being used like cement in tree surgery to fill cavi ties. vested last year and 23 percent greater than the 1928-1932 five year average production. “Indications are that this year’s tobacco production will be exceed ed only by the production in 1930 and 1935,” Rhodes said. Tobacco production by belts as of November 1 were reported as fol lows: Old Bright Belt, 206,190,000 poundfc compared with 177,750,000 pounds in 1936; Now Bright Belt, 295,200,000 pounds compared with 222,680,000 in 1936; border or South Carolina Belt, 68,400,000 pounds compared with 51,545,000 in 1936 and a Burley crop of 7,400,000 lbs. compared with 5,400,000 lbs last year. Rhodes reported that “by Novem ber, farmers were generally satis fied that the cotton crop was one of the best for many years, in spite of severe boll weevil conditions be ginning in late July” and “the un usually good harvest and ginning conditions, without damaging winds or rains resulted in little loss in spite of farm labor shortage and low price prospects. Chamber Commerce Plans Better Christmas laiyhtiny Over Boxboro HENDERSON HOME DAMAGED BY FIRE i Defective Chimney Causes Roof To Catch Around 9 P. M. Tuesday Although the damage was very i slight fire threatened the entire i residence of Mrs. Tom Henderson ] last Tuesday night around nine o’- , clock. The fire was evidently caus- | ed by a defective chimney and i started in the roof of the building. Excellent work on the part of the ; firemen enabled them to extinguish the blaze shortly after they arriv ed. Many items of value were re moved from the upper story before any damage was done. There was some water damage to floor, clothes, etc. in the part of the house that was occupied by Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Craven, Jr. The fire was discovered by Carl Winstead who happened to be pass ing the house and saw the blaze. He notified Mrs. Henderson and the fire department was called. Had the blaze been seen a few minutes later the fire could have been serious. At one time it looked bad. The estimated damage has been placed in the neighborhood of sl,- 000. The left side of the gable was badly damaged by fire. W. P. LIFSEY TO ACCEPT NEW POST Will Serve As Executive Vice- President Os Portsmouth Bank W. P. Lifsey, who served as re ceiver of the First National Bank of Roxboro and also the P. and M. and Boston National Banks, has resign ed as receiver of the two Boston banks to accept a position as exec utive vice-president of the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Portsmouth. Mr. Lifsey finished his work as re ceiver of the Roxboro bank about two months ago. It is understood that he will leave for his new position on Dec. 14th. Mr. Lifsey followed Mr. Boyles as receiver of the First National Bank of Roxboro and his record in Roxboro was very pleasing to Rich mond and Washington officials. While in Roxboro he made many friends and even tho his job was a -hard one he handled it in a business like manner. o Girl Scouts To Collect Clothes Canvass Will Be Made After School and Will Continue For Several Days The girl scouts of Roxboro will start upon a campaign at once to collect old clothes and shoes. This clothing that is collected will be turned over to Mrs. Wagstaff and will be distributed to the needy over the county. This canvass will be made after school and is scheduled to start at once. Captains of different teams are Zjelda Holleman, Nannie Willie Cushwa, Ann Brewer, Virginia War ren and Ida Pleasants. Citizens of Roxboro are request ed to give the girl scouts as many articles as they can spare. All will go to those who need them. AM I PREPARED? We have responsibilities besting on our shoulders that we made by our own free will and accord. We can cover these responsibilities with a policy from about $lO a year per thousand up. If you love your peQple please see us at once about a policy. Knight’s Insurance Agency EIGHT PAGES TODAY Mass Meeting Will Be Called For 8:00 P. M. Monday In Courthouse; Everyone Urged To Attend Carolina Power And Light To Cooperate If present plans mature there will be more colored Rights over the streets in the business section of Roxboro this year than ever be fore. O. B. Mcßroom, president, and Jack Bane, Secretary of the Cham ber of Commerce are trying to work out plans whereby the city can get! two or three times as many lights as have been here in past years. Present plans call for a mass meeting in the Courthouse Monday night at 8 o’clock and everyone is invited to be present and enter into a discussion of this important mat ter. The Carolina Power and Light Co. has offered to help in the plan and it is possible that this company will send a man here to plan the network of lights. For the past several years Rox boro has had a few lights in the business district. There have never been enough during Christmas to spread as much Christmas cheer as was really wanted and this year something will probably be done a bout it. It is thought that lights will be about twice as thick as they have been and will cover about three times as much space. Many things remain to be worked out and these will be discussed Monday. Everyone is invited and urged to attend the Monday night mass meet ing. SANDERS ATTENDS FARM MEETING Farm Representatives of Dur ham and Four Neighboring Counties Hear Proposal in Durham Conference Movement Will Be Carried Into Every County Voluntary regulation of cash crops the nation over, and under taking being advanced by the United States department of agri culture through the AAA, was pro posed to farm representatives of Durham and four neighboring counties in a district meeting at the Durham Farmers Mutual Ex change today. Some 75 county farm agents and assistants, farm committeemen and other leading farmers -of Person, Wake, Chatham, Orange and Dur ham counties heard Murphy Barnes, of the state agricultural conserva tion office in Raleigh, explain the theory of stabilized farm prices and soil fertility as the central feature of a general discussion of the ne cessity for the farmer taking mat ters into his own. hands. Charts revealed graphically for the farmers the dwindling line of farm exports and the mounting lev el of farm production ,the fact that the income of industrial workers hugs closely the line »of cash farm income, and the surprising instabi lity of farm income as compared with the average from year to year of non-farm income. W. B. Pace, Durham county farm demonstration agent, sponsoring the gathering in Durham, also spoke, emphasizing the need of co-ordi nated farm action, adjusting supply to demand in each major crop. Today’s action, as part of a move ment to carry the idea into every county in the country by Decem ber 1, was to promote an entirely voluntary movement without re gard to what congress may do in the special session now under way or the regular session to come. The , current voluntary program ia , linked definitely to the soil con servation program and is a con (Continued On Back Page)
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