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TIMES’ SUNDAY MORNING EDITION DIAL 45 0 1 We want all tha newi of liwt community. Plaaae call ua or send it la. nr TOD WOULD KNOW WHAT U GOING ON ABOUND TOU READ THV PERSON COUNTY IDOR-IT IS A PAPER POR ALL THE PEOPLE OP PERSON AND ADJOINING COUNTIES. VOLUME K PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY A THURSDAY BOXtyRO, NORTH CAROLINA. SUNDAY, JANUARY 16, 1938 NUMBER TWENTY-EIGHT jNEWSI ml WEEK Ipk, Foster Gilroy STAGES RECORD RECOVERY Cape May, N. J. County offic ials challenge other comunities to match the recovery figures of this typically agricultural and fishing community. Three years ago 5,500 jobless were costing $40,000 per month for relief. At the end of last year there were only 443 residents on relief, at a. cost of less than $6,- 000 monthly. Os 18 municipalities, 13 reported residents in need. , Spars Shipbuilding Program Washington, D. C. Agreements for extended subsidies entered into between seven steamship compan ies and the Maritime Commission launches Angelica's largest peace time shipbuilding program, calling for the construction of 43 ocean-go ing vessels at an estimated cost of $110,000,00Q. This is pgabably the last major operation of Chairman Joseph P. Kennedy, who leaves the Maritime Commission shortly to be come Ambassador to the Court of St James’s. , , RECORD BY FLYING FORTRESS Langley Field, Va. Piloting a 16-ton four motored bombing plane, Lt. Col. Robert Olds covered the 2,- 317 miles from March Field, Col. in 11 hours, a record for a transcontin ental flight by military aircraft. Most of the flight was made at al tidudes of more than 11,000 ft. “FEMININE ALCATRAZ” PLANNED Washington, D. C. Officials of the Department of Justice have been inspecting sites for the erection of a special prison for hardened women criminals of the “gun moll” type. In Lis recent budget message, Presi dent Roosevelt recommended an ap propriation of $1,500,000 for three new Federal prisons, one of which will be the “Alcatraz” for the hard boiled feminine members of the underworld. RADIO PRIEST RETURNS Detroit, Mich. ln his first radio talk since the elevation of Archbis hop Mooney to the Detroit See, the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin spoke over a network of 63 stations, urging A mericans to “cease sniping at our dteinperatic form of goveonmeryt.” Instead of his previous attacks, he upheld capitalism and advised war- Ting labor elements to patch up their quarrels. URGES INQUIRY ON JUSTICES Washington, D. C. The death of Justice Sutherland and the cri tical illness of Justice Cardozo again focus attention to the filling of Su preme Court vacancies. Senator Bridges of New Hampshire has ask ed that the Senate Judiciary Com mittee be required to hold open meetings on any future appoint ment to the Supreme Bench. HOSPITAL INSURANCE We sell complete Hospftal Insur ance for $6.00 a year for adults and ‘52.40 a year for a child. This policy ■covers all Hospital expense for any Hospital in the United States. Don’t fee mislead by inferior policies which cost more & give less. If our policies ■do not excell in quality and price any policy issued, we ourselves will pay the premium. See us today, to morrow may be too late. D. S. Brooks, Jr. Maurice Allen E. G. Thompson fraiin|Mnies GOLF GROUNDS ARE CLEARED OF BUSHES Actual Work Started And First Step Finished. Work Will Continue Until Course Is Ready R. L. Perkins, in charge of clean ing the grounds for Roxboro’s golf course near Loch Lily, stated last week that he had about finished this part of the work and that he was ready to take the next step. |Mr. Perkins used approximately twenty men the first week and work moved along at a rapid rate. An expert will be secured to plan the course and construct the holes. Perkins will assist in the work that ife expected to start at an early date. No one knows when the course will be finished. Members of the dub expect to start playing golf some time in the near future—just when is a guess. Much work re mains to be done and will be done as rapidly as weather permits. Roxboro’s Country (Club is th|e result of consistent plugging by certain members who refused to give up the fight even when pros pects looked dark. Now prospects look bright. Morris Tel. Co. Buys Yanceyville -Exchange Now Owns Roxboro, Hillsboro, And Yanceyville Exchanges With 695 Telephones YANCEYVILLE HAS DIAL On Jan. 1 Morris Telephone Co. bought the Yanceyville Exchange and is now operating it. The Yan ceyville exchange has 110 tele phones and has had the same dial system that Roxboro has for some time. Morris Telephone Company now owns the Roxboro exchange and also two others, Hillsboro and Yancey ville. Roxboro has 425 .elephones Hillsboro 160 and Yenceyville 110 This makes 695 phones in all. One service department take, care of all phones. This department works out of Roxboro and has proved that it is capable of taking care of all requirements. Around Dec. 1 a dial system was completed in the Roxboro office and people have been very favor ably impressed with it. High School Girls Learn To Cook Large Number Economic Class es Attended Times Cooking School This Week Surely they are not thinking of getting married, they just want to learn something about cooking. Anyway, a large number of econ omic classes from the high schools of this county attended the Times’ Cooking School that was held bh| Tuesday and Friday of last weekj in the Palace and Dolly Madison theatres. In on class, at Hurdle Mills, six girls won prizes. This average was a little high as there were only about 35 prizes given away that day. Over 250 were pitedent for the last day of the school and many came back to see the picture the second time. LEGION AUXILIARY MEETS There will be a meeting of the A merican Legion Auxiliary next Monday afternoon at 3:30 p. m. at the Community House. All members stre urged to attend. Please bring your dues. "■■ . -jar ©NH WSJ'HOI OS THE -OCEAN LINER OF THE FUTURE An official of the French Line submitted the above sketch of a design for a radically new transoceanic ship. Instead of the usual upright funnels, it would have horixontal smoke venU. It would be 1,350 feet long, or 320 feet longer than the Queen Mary. At the planned speed of 37 knots, it would cross from Le Havre to New York in 3% days. Most of the increase in speed would tome from streamlining, which cuts wind resistance to a minimum. HOSPITAL MEDICAL STAFF HOLDS FIRST MEETING Dr. G. W. Gentry Elected Pre sident Os Gentry - Williams * ’ Staff Will Meet Every Month The members of the medical staff of Gentry - Williams Hospital met Thursday night at 7;30 in the hos pital building. Members of the medical staff are Doctors B. E. Love, John H. Merritt, E. M. Hedge peth, W. C. Williams, R. F. War ren, A. F. Nichols, H. M. Beam, B. A. Thaxton, G. W. Gentry and R. A. Bryce. Dr. J. H. Hughes and Dr Robt. Long were named consult ing dentists. At the meeting Thursday night, Dr. G. W. Gentry was elected pre sident of the medical staff, Dr. E. CM. Hedgepeth, vice-president and Dr. H. M. Beam, secretary. It was agreed that the medical staff will meet the first Friday of each month at the hospital. The hour of the meeting will be 7:30. Members of the staff have drawn up rules and regulations and these have been read and adopted. It was agreed that all type cases will be admitted to the hospital except drug addicts, acute mental cases and alcoholics. Cases of the latter kind will be left to the discre tion of the doctor. Names of all members of the staff will be posted in the hall of (the hospital Dr 1 . Bryce has been chosen ta take care of all accidents among colored patients and to have charge of the cases until a colored ward has heen completed. JOB INSURANCE FILM AT DOLLY MADISON Roxboro will have its premiere of YOUR JOB INSURANCE, the of ficial North Carolina motion pic ture on Unemployment Compensa tion, at the Dolly Madison Theatre for 3 days starting Monday, it was announced here today. This special short subject which was filmed in North Carolina re cently, tells in rapid, dramatic style the story of how Unemployment Compensation benefits will be paid to those workers who qualify in North Carolina after the first year, according to Charles G. Powell, Chairman of the State Unemploy ment Compensation Division. - o DICK WOODY IN HOSPITAL Mr. J. J. “Dick” Woody is- a pat ient at Gentry Williams Hospital. HI? condition is not ifegardjed as I serious. GOES TO RALEIGH R. A. Isley Mr. R. A. Isley, popular manager of the Carolina, Power and Light Co. has moved to Raleigh where he will enter the engineering depart ment of the same company. ELECTRIC SERVICE WILL BE INTERRUPTED TODAY To increase capacity of facilities and to improve service it is neces sary for the Carolina Power And Light Company to interrupt electric service in the business district of Roxboro and certain portions of the residental district this afternoon between 2 and 4:30 p. m. The Carolina Power And Light Company regrets this interruption, but it is absolutely necessary. All people with stolters are urged to set the control up prior to the time the current will go off. ALONG THE WAY— ALL APPEARS TO BE QUIET —NO NEWS * Along the way one sees a number of things that would make interest ing reading, at times it pays not to print all that is seen and heard. For instance Gene Thompson would not want the girls to know that he had no intention of getting married. We also understand that Jim Harris and Chas. Wood feel the same way about the matter. Then there’s Dr. Allen, he is not doing much about this getting mar ried business. On the other hand there is still hope, Robert Long married in his later years. Who’s going to run for the legi COOKING SCHOOL HUGE_SUCCESS Women Delighted With Times’ Unique School and Hundreds Saw Picture Economic Classes Attended The Person County Times Cook ing School on Tuesday and Friday of last week at the Palace and Dol ly Madison theatres are now a mat ter of history and very successful Ihistory at ithat. Approximately 5 hundred ladies attended the show ing of the film “The Bride Wakes Up” during the two days that it played in this city. Several econo mic classes from county high schools were on hand and all seemed to en joy this free and profitable enter tainment. Approximately 35 free prizes were given out by the merchants of Roxboro and by manufacturers. All of the prizes were very nice and the winners were all delighted with the gifts. This school, new in this city, was different in that all of the cooking, etc., was in the film. Nothing was actually cooked but the talking film portrayed everything as it should be done. A number of recipes were given out to all who attended. The Times plans to hold another cooking school similar to the last one next fall. J. D. MANGUM HERE i Mr. J. D. Mangum of Portsmouth, iVa., was a Roxboro visitor yester day. Mr. Mangum has many friends in Person County. For a number of years he was manager of Leggett’s Dept. Store of Roxboro. He now manages one in Portsmouth. o Mr. and Mrs. Alec Mann of Mann’s Harbor in Dare County have begun a project to supply fresh poultry and eggs to Nags Head visitors this summer. slature as representative from Person? We have asked several people if they intended to make the race. No one has said “yes.” It’s time for politics to warm up in this county. Remember Edwin Eberman? His father, E. E. Eberman, came in our office last week with several pic tures of Edwin and his baby. Hie “old man” looks rather dignified, derby hat and fdl the extras. Edwin is doing rather well in New York. Commercial drawing, we under stand. EIGHT PAGES TODAY ROXBORO MARKET SELLS 300000 LAST FOUR DAYS Local Market Was Fourth In State In Price Average For The Month Os December The Roxboro tobacco market sold approximately 300,000 pounds of to bacco during the four days that the market was open last week. This is a little better than people had expected and proves that this mar ket is still going strong. Altho the type of tobacco that was on the floor was not of the best quality farmers were apparently well pleased with the price that was paid. It looks like the local market will sell well over five million pounds this season. The market will pro bably remain open for two more weeks or longer and there is still quite a bit of tobacco in the coun ty. About four and a half million pounds have been sold to date. A good sale is expected tomorrow and again Friday. All of the reg ular buyers are expected to finish the season here and this market will probably wind up a very success ful season just as strong as it start ed. 1 During December this market waa fourth in the state in price average. 1 The N. C. Crop Reporting Service Shows that Roxboro averaged $19.71 per hundred for all tobacco sold that month. 0 - KIWANIANS MAY ISSUE CHALLENGE [ Strongly Believe That Their Basketball Team Can Defeat American Legion and Rotary • TOURNAMENT PROPOSED There may be a basketball tour nament in this county. It has been ! suggested that the JGwanis Club ■ is claiming the basketball champion l ship of the county. This champion l ship does not include high school I but would include American Legion and Rotary Club. It has also been ; (suggested that a basketball tour , nament be staged in order to dis ! cover whether the Kiwanians have l any right to this claim. I This tournament, if staged, would ! make the Kiwanians play the Rotar ians and the American Legion, the ■ Legion would have to play the Ro ; tarians. After that the winners could be put together for a fourth, game. This is not regulation tourna ment style but might prove a lot of fun. All games would have to be play ed in the high school gymnasium i and admission would likely be free. 1 One rule will have to be observ i ed—“No taking in by any club of good basketball players before the tournament.” POSTAL RECEIPTS SHOW GAIN Year 1937 Proved To Be Better To Uncle Sam Than 1936 .•» Uncle Sam had a very good year in the Roxboro postoffice during the year 1937. Whether the people here were anxious to pay for the new building or not is not known, anyway they did more business in his new building. According to acting postmaster, K. L. Street the receipts for 1936 were $17,426.16. For 1937 this a mount went to $19,001.01. Trust funds are not included in the a* bove figures. Tobacco growers in southeastern North Carolina have begun the preparation of their plant beds and -'will go the limit in acreage, report county agents. J
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