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■lpiYo i all the newi of inunity. Pleue ■and It in. Hi | IF IOV WOULD KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON ABOUND YOU READ TH> PERSON COUNTY TIMES—IT IS A PAPER FOR ALL THE PEOPLE OF PERBUN AND ADJOINING COUNTIES. 1 ■ ■■■' i—■ i - —■ ■' ■' —■ 11 11 ■" ■■■■ - HBfoa EE. - PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY & THURSDAY ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1938 NUMBER THIRTY Bne Gets Contract For I Large Durham Theatre f structure, Exclusive Os Equip fb' f ment, Wffl Cost $73,440 lyiTT. BE ULTRA-MODERN ■fompleted House To Require P ¥ More Than SIOO,OOO P To Be Finished Sept 1^ |»The general contract for The Cen «|*r, ultra-modem moving picture Bteeatre to be erected in Durham by KNorth Carolina Theatres, Inc., was Hjnftuided Tuesday to George W. p-j Cane, -Roxbloilo contractor, 'Nobib IpAmold, local manager of the the pjjiftre corporation, announced late PfTuesday night. ; Mr. Kane’s bid was for $73,440 P& jmd guarantees to have the struc- P ture finished by Sept. 1. I' Merritt S. Bradsher, general su | • perintendent for the local contrac tor, said the theatre will be one of p the most modem in the south. He t said it will be constructed of brick 5 and reinforced concrete, with stucco | on the outside. g? The seating capacity will be a- I Tound 1,300 with about 800 seats on | the first floor. The seats will have I spring backs and spring bottoms, and will be the only ones in the south, according to Mr. Arnold. Mir. Bradsher it is frioped, that work will start next Tuesday, and that the theatre will be com pleted the latter part of August. Although the bid entered by Mr. Kane was not the lowest received ( yesterday, he promised to have the building finished earlier than any ’ other bidder for the general con tract. Mr. Arnold said the early completion date specified in the contract was an important llactor in making the award. ' Mr. Bradsher said some sub contracts would be let but that he was not in a position last night to be specific. Those who bid for the general contract, the amounts they asked and the completion dates they of fered; follow: George W. Kane, of Durham, $73,- 440, September 1. Goode Construction Corporation, of Charlotte, $72,434, October 15. William Muirhead, of Durham, $73,750, November 1. V. P. Loftis, of Charlotte, $76,- 797, November 1. Morris McKoy Building company, of Greenville, S. C., $76,990, De cember 1. Charles W. Angle, Inc., of Greens boro, $81,174, October 1. Nash Weil, of the Wilkins Thea tre Supplies, Inc., Atlanta, Ga., who is serving as consulting engineer for the North Carolina Theatres, Inc., and Erie G. Stillwell, of Hen dersonville, architect, were in the city to open and to tabulate the bids. AUCTION SALE * OF USED CARS Sate Will Take Place Saturday February sth At Person Mo tors, Inc. Person Motors, Inc., Ford dealers of Roxboro, will hold an auction sale of used cars on Saturday, Feb. sth at their place on Depot St. in Roxboro. Two sales will be held, one at 2:30 and another at 7:30 p. m. Ev eryone is invited to attend these gyip«t and look at the cars that are being offered. For details see ad in today’s Times. REXALL BIRTHDAY SALE Hambrick, AJustin and Thomas, Roxboro drug store, is now holding its annual birthday sale of Rexall products. A number of unusual values are offered during this sale and this store invites you to come in and see the products that are .featured. * ' ' > ii'; : w ".*7, -'i I y PERSON CO. OIL MEN MET WED. P.M. S. Gilmer Sparger of N. C. Pet roleum Industries Committee, Addressed Meeting Davis Re-elected Chairman Use of state income from auto motive taxes exclusively for high way financing, the purpose for which these levies were imposed, and the adoption of a Constitutional A mendment to accomplish that end was advocated today by S. B. Davis, Chairman of the Person Oounty Petroleum Industries Committee, up on his re-election as Chairman of the Committee. “Diversion of automotive tax in come to purposes unrelated to high ways is one of the most unjust and dangerous financial policies a state could adopt,” declared Chairman Davis. “It is unjust to the motorist taxpayers because it means spend ing for something else the tax mon ey they have paid for roads. It is dangerous because it means neg lect of roads, with resulting increa se in highway accidents. Officers are as follows; Chairman, S. B. Davis, distributor of Texaco, Roxboro, N. C., First Vice-Chairman, A. D. Newton, deal er of Texaco, Rougemont, N. C., George Thomas, Secretary, dealer of Gulf, West Side Service Station, Roxboro, N. C. Legislative Committee: W. R. Minor, distributor of Sinclair, Roxboro, N. C., F. D. Long, dealer of Texaco, Roxboro, N. C., Thomas Glenn, dealer of Standard, Roxboro, N. C., F. T. Whitfield, dealer of Gulf, Roxboro, N. C. Local Affairs Committee: Chairman, J. F. Wilson, distributor of Standard, Roxboro, N. C., Vice- Chairman, R. D. Bumpass, dealer of Gulf. Public Relations Committee: Chairman, R. A. Whitfield, distri butor of Gulf, Roxboro, N. C., Vice- Chairman, Wyatt Monk, dealer of Sinclair, Roxboro, N. C. S. Gilmer Sparger, Raleigh, Sec retary of the North Carolina Petro leum Industries assisted the local and addressed the meeting. LONG ADDRESSES FERTILIZER MEET Meeting Held In Norfolk Mon day and Banquet Took Place At Night Mr. F. D. Long, Chairman of the County Board of Commissioners of Person County and local fertilizer representative, was present at a meeting of many representatives of the Smith-3>ouglass Fertilizer Co. that was held in Norfolk, Va. on Monday of this week. Mr. Long had a prominent place on the program and addressed the representatives who were present. Also on the program was Mr. E. L. Floyd of State College who also addressed the gathering and ans wered many questions. After the program in the morn ing and afternoon a big banquet was held that night. This was attended by all the representatives and was greatly enjoyed. o Woman’s Club To Hold Meeting The Woman’s Club will hold its regular monthly meeting on Mon day afternoon at 3 o’clock at the Community House. Mrs. Wallace Woods, chairman of the Dept, of Music will present a lovely pro gram. There will be an election of officers for the new year. Everyone is urged to attend. Mrs. R. H. Shelton, Pres. CLARENCE WARREN TO OPERATE WHSE. IN GEORGIA IN 38 Will Be Sole Proprietor Os Clark’s Warehouse; Spent Last Week-End In Baxley Studying Situation Clarence Warren, Person Coun ty farmer and warehouseman of Danville, Va., has recently announ ced that he will operate a ware house in Baxley, Ga., during the coming tobacco season. Mr. Warren spent last week-end in Ga. looking over the situation and then decided to operate the house there. The warehouse that Mr. Warren will operate is the largest one there. It has 40,000 sq. ft of floor space and is known as Clark’s Warehouse. Mr. Warren will be the 3ole proprietor but will surround him self with a large number of other capable warehousemen. Baxley sells about four million pounds of tobacco during a normal year and Mr. Warren stated that plant beds had been sowed and everything looked favorable. He plans to return to Baxley a bout March Ist for two weeks and will go back again about six weeks before the opening of the market. o ELECTRIC FENCE TO BE TESTED SAT. Demonstration To Be (jiven At Ck-P*; Garrett’s Home On Saturday Afternoon At 2:30 Will a pig go over or under a one strand electric wire fence? That question will be answered Saturday afternoon when a demonstration will be given at the home of C. P. Garret in South Roxboro. The dem onstration will begin at 2:30 p. m. Electric fences are now being us ed all over the country, but so far none have been reported in Person County. It is said that they are prov ing to be very successful and that animals, after one little shock from a wire fence, absolutely refuse to go over it. It has even been said that you can cut off the electricity and get the same results provided the animal has had one experience with the live wire. This demonstration will be con ducted by H. K. Sanders, County Agent, and everyone is invited to be present to see what goes on. Material for the Saturday demon stration will be furnished by the Prime Manufacturing Co. and will be sold by Long, Bradsher and Co. Directors Os Chamber Os Commerce To Meet The directors of the Chamber of Commerce will hold their regular monthly meeting Friday afternoon at 5 o’clock at the Chamber of Com merce office. Growers attending the Tobacco Short Course at State College last week numbered about 150 a day for four days with 83 registering for the entire week. Roxboro Mayor Extends Thanks As the tobacco season is being brought to an end in Roxboro and Person County I wish to extend thanks to all who have sold any to bacco on this market. We appreciate the fact that you sold here and we were glad to number you among our visitors. We hope that you were satisfied with the prices that you received and that you will come back next year. t I also wish to express to the buyers the appreciation of the peo ple of Roxboro for the splendid co-operation that they have extended. You have made every effort to help and we are deeply grateful. R. B. DAWES, Mayor of Roxboro. MANY FORMER REPRESENTATIVES TO RUN ONCE AGAIN Ajbout Half Os State Senators fro Seek Reelection; Four Out Os Five In House Newspaper reports indicate that about four-fifths of the representa tives in the last session of the Gen eral Assembly in Raleigh wish to cone back for the session that is to be held in 1939. Reports also indi cate that possibly one half of the former senators wFI seek re-election in the coming campaign. A number of legislators have not decided what they are going to do. Many of these may decide to run before filing time is here. So far Ed Warren, Person’s rep resentative in the last session, has made no statement as to what he expects to do. Mr. Warren has ser ved only one term and he may de cide to throw his hat into the ring for another campaign. He expects to make announcement within a short time. The state primary is held in June and real action time should be here around March 1. Perhaps it will be earlier. SEVERAL CONSIDER MAKING RACE FOR STATE LEGISLATURE >. . ► One Or Two Announcements May Be Expected By Next Week; Prospective Candidates Good Political Timber Hancock - Reynolds Campaign Attracting Little Interest Any newspaper article is better if it contains names. The article will contain no names. It’s about politics and names in this line should not be used until announce ments have been issued. So far there have been no announcements concerning local democratic politics. It is a known (rumored) fact that at least three people in this county are considering offering their names as candidates for the position of legislator from Person County. None of these men have made any announcement and the chances are that they all will not run. Any one of the three should make good rep resentatives. Announcements from several can didates may be expected in a short time. One or two announcements, oral, may be expected by next week. The senator from Person and Granville Counties will come from Granville County this year. So far there have been no announcements concerning this from Granville. Candidates for county offices have made no statements. Competi tion for these offices may be keen or there may be very little interest. The Hancock-Reynolds campaign is attracting little interest in Per son County, but this race is calcula ted to start doing business in a short time. Claude T. Hall Disapproves Os Third Roosevelt: Term C. & A. JOBLESS WAITING FOR THEIR BENEFIT PAYMENTS Checks Were Expected Tues day, But Did Not Arrive; More Men Registered Tuesday 850 WITHOUT JOBS Approximately 850 former em ployes of Collins and Aikman Corp. are now waiting for their benefit payments from the Raleigh, N. C. office. These people were expecting their checks this week, but they had not received them Wednesday night. It is thought that they might reach Roxboro Friday. On Tuesday of this week more men and women at C. & A. were registered to re ceive payments. The workers will receive about half of the amount of money that they received as pay as of Sept. 30, provided they qualify in all respects. Benefits are based on a standard 40 hour week. Raleigh, N. C., Feb. 1— The de mands of the unemployed are caus ing some extra heavy work. Last night a night shift was started at the Unemployment Compensation Commission to meet the check pay ment schedule. About 1,800 more checks were put in the mails last night, directed by special delivery and registered mail, to Employment service offices where today more North Carolina jobless will call for them. E. W. Price, director of the un employment compensation division, said last night that the load of the first two days was not quite as heavy as is expected for the re mainder of the week. The checks will average about $7.50, Price said, none of them ex ceeding sls and most of them rep resenting approximately half the pay the jobless man received dur ing the period "he was working. BOARD OF ED. GETS TWO NEW MEMBERS "Chas. Harris and S- G. Winstead Appointed By City Dads Last Tuesday Night To take the place of Wm. D. Mer ritt and W. R. Hambrick, who re cently resigned from the city board of education, the commissioners ap pointed C. A. Harris and S. G. Win stead. Mrs. A. M. Burns and W. C. Bullock were re-elected as mem bers of this board. The last two named were the only members whose time expired at this parti cular time. The city commissioners were visited by a delegation from East Roxboro at the regular meeting Tuesday. This delfegfction wanted something done about the streets, lights and water in East Roxboro. A committee was appointed to go into the matter. . o VALENTINE WINDOW Every now and then C. H. Oak ley, of Thomas and Oakley Drug Store, decorates a window that de serves mention. This time it is the Valentine window on the north side of the store. Your attention, please, to this window. Davidsons Now In Fayetteville Mr. G. C. Davidson of Fayette ville, writes that he and Mrs. Dav idson are now at home in the east ern city, but that he receives the Times a little late each week. Mr. Davidson has a perfect right to complain. No one can blame him for wanting the Times on time. PUBLISHED SUNDAY AND THURSDAY Voiced His Opinion At Confer ence Os Small Business Men y ln Washington, D. C. Last Wednesday When He Manag ed To Get Floor For Brief Time. MANY PRESENT FROM N. C. Washington, Feb. 1— The confer ence of small business men opened here today with 17 North Caro linians in attendance instead of the 10 who had been announced as hav ing been invited. Although he was assigned to the miscellaneous section, which devel oped a near riot that made it neces sary to call in the police to evict some of the speakers, Claude T. Hall, Roxboro business man and chairman of the North Carolina Tobacco Growers Advisory Commit tee, managed to get the floor and make a brief statement in which he voiced disapproval of a third term for President Roosevelt as well as some of the Roosevelt policies. Others here from North Carolina, are: W. F. Best, Stanley; Bill Blan ton, Shelby; Milton Loy, Shelby; R. F. Craig, Stanley; James S. Ficklin, Greenville; J. M. Harrington, Wash ington; Guy Langridge, Shelby; W. S. McCanless, Salisbury; W. F. Patten, Calypso; R. L. Prevost, Ha zelwood; J. I. Morgan, Farmviße; L. H. Sells, Gastonia; Charles O. Robinson, Elizabeth City; William A. Sells, Gastonia; James B. Volgwr, Charlotte, and Frank O. Williams,. Roanoke Rapids. Mr. Hall’s statement follows: “I want it understood in the out set that so far as the tobacco grow ers are concerned, we have had the greatest degree of prosperity under President Roosevelt that we ever have had in our history, which came as a direct effort of his policies. I want it further understood that the tobacco farmers are, by a big ma jority, behind the president. But knowing that our prosperity cannot long exist unless other industries prosper, I hasten to offer seven sug gestions which I think are neces sary for revival in the present psy chological economic recession. Peo ple have become governmental and stock market conscious. To dispel this, I offer the following sugges tions: “1. Put into effect the honor sys tem for each separate industry, such as is used in the student bodies of the colleges. “2. Let each industry elect sepa rate representatives, who will com pose a national advisory committee to the President or the department who represents them. “3. Let the President make a defi nite statement that he does not in tend to create an agency which might retard or compete with legi timate business. “4. Ask Congress to talk less and do more constructive work and go home. “5. Let there be less talk about a third term for President. “6. Check the ever-increasing bur den of taxes and dispel the pall of uncertainty. “7. Clarify labor situations.” New Auto Store To Open Saturday Western Auto Associate Store Will Be Ready For Business The Western Auto Associate Store expects to be open and ready for business on Saturday, Feb. sth, stated R. L. Wilson, owner of the store, this past Tuesday. A formal opening will be held a little later, but the store will be well stocked by Saturday. This store will handle auto parts of all kinds, tires, tubes, bicycles, radios, etc. The store is located in the Crit cher building on Court St.
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