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v|. Times Present Xmas Shopping Edition Number 2 CALL 111 V« want all the new* at your community. Pleaae call u* or aend it in. IF YOU WOULD KNOW WHAT IB GOING ON AROUND YOU READ TB> PERSON COUNTY TIMES—IT 18 A PAPER FOR ALL THE PEOPLE OF PERSON AND ADJOINING COUNTIES. VOLUME DC. PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY A THURSDAY ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA* SUNDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1937 NUMBER TWENTY-THREB iNEWSI j WEEK ■L jpL Foster Gilroy Governor Urges G. O. P. Purge Montpelier, Vt.—Governor Geor ge D. Aiken, as head of one of the two States going Republican in the last Presidential election, declared that the Republican party was in a << nearly complete state of demori lization,” and predicted a revolt in 1940 unless the party purged itself of reactionary and subversive el ements. BABIES DIE IN EPIDEMIC • Chicago, 111.—‘All obstetric cases have been refused at St. Eliza beth’s Hospital following the death of eleven newly-born infants from a strange malady resembling diar- Thea but as yet uncontrolled by established methods of treatment. Plane Specifications Changed Washington, D. C.—Because no American airplane manufacturer could comply with the Postoffice Department’s specifications for planes to serve new postal routes in.. Alaska, the specifications have been changed to provide for smaller load capacity. In the meantime, representatives of cities, states and| Federal bureaus meet this week to consider the enlargement of U. S. airports to accommodate new super liners about to go into service. Os 200 airports only six are said to be big enough to accommodate the new type of big trans-Continental ship. FIRST BATH REPLACED Buffalo, N. Y. A new $30,000 building replaces Public Bathhouse No. 1, which upon its dedication fifty years ago was said to be the first public bathhouse in the United States. SETS HORSE’S BROKEN LEG Ardmore, Pa.—When a 5-month- 1 old filly . belonging to a nearby horseman broke her leg romping in the paddock, he refused to follow tradition by destroying her. Instead he brought her to a local hospital where veterinarians set the bone between stainle|ss steel bars. Dr. Otto Stader has used the same technique on nearly 200 dogs, and believes that he may reverse the dictum of horse-breeders that a hone with a broken leg must be immediately shot. JOB FOR WINDSOR URGED London, England Col. Josiah Wedgwood, fighting Labor member pf Parliament, proposes that the Duke of Windsor be put to work in behalf of the British Empire, being ■“perfectly eligible as Governor- General of Canada or Australia.” He points oqt that such a job would end the “present silly persecution” Os the once-King Edward VIII. BLUE LAWS DEFIED Bellows Falls, VV —Because a local movie theatre was forced to elose, citizens united to make the .Sunday blue laws of 1790 ridicu . lous. Men carried battered muskets % to church because they had to do it ■f, ■ 150 yean ago by law; others moved i /their lawns because it once was & against the law; merchants sold p-everything banned by statute. || 'Lawyers say it will be 40 yean be fore malefactors whose names were isitaken by policemen will ever reach v trial. • ! •••i. ' —— i- 1 - '■ ■■ ■" CO. TO PUBLISH TAX LIST JAN. 1 Property With Unpaid Taxes Will Be Sold Around Feb ruary 1, 1938 According to information furnish ed by Sheriff M. T. Clayton the county will advertise for sale all lands in the county where taxes for 1936 have not been paid during the first week in January. The property will be advertised for four separate weeks and then will be sold at the courthouse door. It is not thought that the list will be so large this year as Person Co. people have been very good about paying and the county rate is not so high. Sheriff Clayton has tried to impress tax payers with the import ance of paying their taxes as they sold their tobacco and many have responded to his request. The city advertised last month for 1936 taxes. This list was not very large either which must prove that people in this county are fairly pros perous. SYPHILIS LAW IS BEING ENFORCED Two Colored People Refused Treatment And Are Now Taking It In Jail Two colored people of Person County, one man and one woman, have been arrested and placed in jail for refusing to take treatment for syphilis. According to informa tion furnished by Dr. Allen, head of the health department, these two people were given every chance to take the treatment in the clinic for this disease, but they refused to come. Now they will be given treat ment in jail until the health de partment believes that there is no dhance of transmitting the disease to others. After they are released from jail they will be required to (continue taking treatments until cured. The Person County Clinic for the treatment of syphilis is now treat ing twenty patients. All who have this disease are required by law to take treatment and the cost is so very small that anyone can afford it. If a person who has the disease refuses treatment he or she is sub ject to arrest and confinement. No court trial is held. Dr. Allen is very anxious for all people to know about the clinic and also the fact that all who have syph ilis are required by law to take treatment. The above case is the first one where an arrest was necessary, but the health department is ready to use force if necessary. POSTPONED MEETING The Union Meeting of the Meth odist Churches of Person County has been postponed from Monday night to Tuesday night, Dec. 14th. The meeting will be held at the Long Memorial M. E. Church. o PRESIDENT HASTENS RETURN Washington, D. C.— Cutting short his Florida fishing trip by several days, President Roosevelt returned tq the White House to have his jawbone scraped if necessary to re move the effect of an ulcerated tooth extracted jbefore his dteparn ture for the South: His return to the Capital is expected to spur; action on important bills now pend ing before Congress. Foremost among the Administration measures on which no action has been taken in the three weeks of the special session are the Wages - Hour Bills and the Farm Program. Both bills are bogged down in uncertainty, the agricultural bills being especial ly doubtful of passage in their present form. BOTH CIVIC CLUBS TO ENTERTAIN LADIES THIS WEEK Kiwanians To Stage Party On Monday Night And Rotarians To Follow On Thursday It isn’t often that Rotarians and Kiwanians decide to take their wives and sweethearts to a party during the same week. It might even be said that some rarely ever take them out, but this week will find the Kiwanians entertaining their lady friends on Monday and the Ro tarians doing the same thing on Thursday. Eoth will stage their parties in the hotel. The Kiwanians will feature eat ing, Duke University Quartet and a speech by Marquis Lawrence. The Rotarians will feature eating, a home talent program and remarks by Gene Thompson and a few others. It has even been said that mem bers of these clubs take their wives to the annual ladies’ night and then constantly remind them of this afn fair when any request originates from the weaker sex after these occasions. Anyway Monday and ,Thursday nights will be big occasions in Rox boro and altho Tuxedo suits are not allowed everyone will wear their best suit. WAGES HOLD LEVEL New'Ywrfr ■Uity—At the opening session °| the National Industrial Council, it was reported that nation-wide surveys revealed no general tendency to cut wages during the prevailing recession. CIHI STARTS NEW W.P.A. PROJECT Several Water Lines Being' Con structed To Aid In Fire Fighting The city of Roxboro has already started a new W. P. A. project which is giving work to a number of men and giving more fire pro tection to residents of certain streets in Roxboro. This new project is the construct ion of several new six inch water lines in Roxboro. One will be a 400 foot line from the corner of Morgan and Chub Lake Street to Charles St. Another runs from the corner of Charles St. and Reams Ave. to Morehead St. This line runs 500 ft. The third line runs from Main and Barnett down Barnett St. for 500 ft. All of these lines are for fire pro tection and will be six inch lines. The kind of tuberculosis germ that infects cattle rarely, if ever, causes tuberculosis in human lungs, but it can cause the disease in human bones, joints and aglands. ° ALONG THE WAY— ALL APPEARS TO BE QUIET - NO NEWS Young men like Curtis Oakley, Jimmie Long, Bill Minor, W. H. A dair and a few others are getting ready for a big Christmas. All have babies about two years old or less and the dads are making plans for Santa to bring half of Roxboro to their homes this year. A few of the old timers who have six or seven are just staying quiet and patting their foot—“let ’em learn.” Along the way one sees many new calendars, really looks like every store in Roxboro has a collection on hapd. There is no reason why the people of this county can’t tell the day of the month during 1938. It looks like there are calendars enough to go around and some of them tell you whether it is going so rain or snow. DIAL SYSTEM HAS BEEN UNUSUALLY BUSY THIS WEEK On December 7th. The Board Received 6,198 Calls In 24 Hours. Average Under Old System Was A round 2,400 Service Has Been Good People of this city and county are rapidly learning how to use a dial telephone. Many made mistakes the first three or four days but now they are catching on and the new dial system seems to be work ing perfectly. Curiosity must have prompted a number of people to try the system for calls began coming in thick and fast as soon as the system started. The first day, 24 hours, the new board handled 6385 calls. The next day the number soared to 8518, 6198, 6189 and on December 10th. the number went down to 4676. It was evident that ourosity was wear ing off and that the people were getting back to normal. On a normal day before the dial system was put into operation calls ran from 2,534 to 2,607 and they will probably drift back to that number in a few days. The greatest trouble now is that subscribers do not look under the right heading for the names that they desire to call and therefore have troutil* finding it For instance, if they wish to call the Person County Times many look under Ts for Times when they should look under Ps. The same thing happens in other cases when a company goes under an abbreviation of the entire name. SNIPES SPEAKS TO BETHEL FARMERS Plans For A Community Spray Ring To Improve The Home Orchards J. B. Snipes, asst, county agent, spoke to Bethel Hill farmers at their regular meeting Friday night in the agricultural building at Bethel Hill. His subject was “Probable Changes in the 1938 Soil Conservation Pro gram.” Plans for a community spray ring to improve the home orchards in the community were discussed. Those interested in this program should see A. G. Bullard, teacher of agriculture, at an early date. Prior to the business meeting and program an oyster stew, prepared by W. W. Rogers, was enjoyed by all present. o A note of weakening was detect ed in the latest of the apologies from Japan. She practically confess ed that she remembered the inci dent. Wonder who has killed the largest hog in Person County this year? The writer of this column would like to know. If you have killed one over 375 pounds drop the Times a note and give the weight It will really be hard to tell until Nat Brooks kills, he generally has a bout as much fresh meat as the next one, but then Nat has to feed the prisoners. Sam Byrd Winstead and Gip Pril liman were well satisfied with the way Carolina ended her football schedule, but they just didn’t get enough football. Now they are go ing to the Sugar bowl game in New Orleans on New Year’s day. Their tickets entitled them to seats on the forty yard line and they expect to see the kick-off. MARKET HAS SOLD 4 MILLION POUNDS Average For Season Has Been $25.82 Per Hundred Pounds The Roxboro tobacco market has sold 4,020,588 pounds of tobacco for an average of $25.82 this year to date. This is about as much as was sold here during the entire season last year and the market will be open for several more weeks this season. Altho the crop is about sold many expect this market to sell at least a million more pounds. The to tal may reach six million by the end of the season. Roxboro market will close Dec. 15 and will re-open in January. Local warehousemen expect a sharp break on Monday and Wednesday of this week. The market in Roxboro has done better this year than for the past several. The buyers have been nice to all who sold here and the price has been pleasing. If the market continues to grow it will soon reach 8 or 10 m'illion. BOY PATROLS NOW ORGANIZED R.H.S. C. R. Wood Os Durham Here Friday To Assist In Or ganization Twelve boy patrols have been or ganized in the sixth and seventh grades undr the direction of Mr. Sledge. The members are ; Captain - Ran dolph King; Lieutenant - Buddy Thomas; Patrols - Martin Michie, Charlie Harris, Jack Hughes, Tho mas Long, Tingley Moore, Tom Thaxton, Jack Shotwell and Nor fleet Umstead. We think it very necessary for some action to be taken for the safe ty of our boys and girls in Roxboro. These boys will be assigned certain strategic points in town and near the school. They will wear badges and belts ordered from the Carolina Motor Club which represents safe ty and not policy. Citizens of Roxboro, when a pat rol member raises his hand to warn you approaching a group of child ren who are crossing the street, he is not directing or controling you, but merely calling your attention to your obligation under the law to rspect the rights and safety of ped estrains at crosswalks. Blank sheets will be sent to par ents soon asking them to map the route for their child to come and go from school. Then this route will be enforced. In the meantime, we hope every parent will see that your child goes to and from school as is directed by the patrol at cross ings. The police department of Roxboro is behind this movement to help make it a success. The boys in the patrol will be given training along this line by the police department, C. R. Wood of Durham, and in act ual problems which arise from day! to day by Mr. Sledge. Mr. Smith of Durham, a repre sentative of the Carolina Motor j C. R. Wood .recreational director of Club was successful in inducing Mr. Durham and in charge of Patrols in Durham, to come over Friday night and take a big part in organizing the patrol. o FORTY - NINERS MEET Boy Scout Troop 49 met in the 'scout room of the Community house Wednesday night The meet?, ing was very spirited and all the boys were present. They all decid ed that a blackboard was needed and decided to buy one with the scout money. Plans were also made for the asst, scoutmaster Sledge to teach the boys handicraft. The boys wish to have 160% at tendance at every meeting. EIGHT PAGES TODAY FRANK WHITFIELD ENTERTAINED 150 Crowd Consumed 58 Bushels Os Oysters And All Had Huge Evening s Frank Whitfield, popular Person County Merchant and County Com missioner, entertained over one hundred and fifty guests Thursday evening at his store in Bushy Fork. The crowd began gathering about six o’clock and by nine o’clock they had consumed 58 bushels of roast ed oysters. People came from everywhere, Roxboro, Durham, Mebane, Burl ington and other places. They all had a big time and they all left well satisfied. The big feed was given in the basement of Mr. Whitfield’s store: Many of the men came prepared to open the oysters, but few were ' caught with nothing except what they could find. Regardless of whether they were prepared or not they managed to eat until they were satisfied. N About twice a year Mr. Whit field gives a feast of this kind and when he does he issues a broadside invitation for everyone to come. That the invitation is accepted is always proved by the amount of food that is consumed. HIGHWAY CONTRACT FOR 144 TO BE LET Will Give Hard Surfaced Roeui All Way To Mebane; To Be Tar And Gravel Road Long Awaited In Roxboro Information coming to this office reveals the fact that the state con tract for highway No. 144 running to Greensboro will probably be let Dec. 21st. This road will run from Roxboro to Prospect Hill to Mebane and aa to Greensboro. It will be hard sur face, tar and gravel, all the way to Mebane. It is thought that work will start ‘immediately ,after th|e contract is let if weather permits. People in this city and county will regard this information as good news. It has been thought for some time that this road would be fixed at an early date, but a definite con tract has not been given and until now it was not known when this act would take place. This important road will mean, much to people of this county and city. It should mean that more traf fic going north will come through Roxboro and will make it easier for people here to get to Greensboro and points west. This road should help Roxboro in many ways and is one that has been desired for many years. o Parents Day Held At Olive Hill Olive Hill school sets aside Tues day, Dec. 14, at 10 o‘’clock prompt ly, as Parents Day. The program in the afternoon will include one hour of visiting to the classrooms, a Christmas play given by the gram mar grades in the auditorium, and a. girl’s basket ball game with Cun ningham school. The faculty is anxious for all the parents to come and represent their children. A prize of five dollars has been offered to the room that has the highest percentage of parents present o R. F. D. Carriers Asks Patrons To Put Stamps On Mail All patrons of the R. F. D. routes are requested to put stamps on all mail before putting it in the mail Ibox. If the subscribers will cooper ate to this extent it will help the carriers during the Xmas rush.
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