IF IT IS NEWS ABOUT
PERSON COUNTY, YOU’LL
FIND IT IN THE TIMES.
VOLUME X PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY Sc THURSDAY
PERSON FAIR
PLANS PROCEED
ATRAPDPACE j
Premium Lists Now Being
Distributed; R. L. Perkins
Again President of Assoc.
Premium lists are now being
distributed and preparations are
going forward at a rapid pace for
Person county’s fifth annual ag
ricultural fair October 24-29.
R. L. “Bob” Perkins is again
president of the fait association.
The president, with the honor
ary directors H. K. Sanders, J. j j
8.-Snipes, Edgar Warren, I. G. j
Stephens, C. A. Wrenn, Charlie '
Monk, C. S. Day and O. Y. Jones i
promise the 1938 fair to be “big- j
ger and better” than ever before. ,
The Art Lewis shows, one of i
the beter carnivals, has been en- *
gaged for the mid-way.
The premium book now being
distributed is a 53-page booklet,
containing a complete list of farm
products that may be exhibited]
and the prizes for them.
President Perkins expressed ap-: ’
preciation to the business men
of the town and county whose ad
vertisements and cooperation
have made the Premium book
possible. “We appreciate most
sincerely your support,” he said
in a statement yesterday.
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FARMERS HELD
DAY IS PLANNED
Annual Event Scheduled
ramy 28 A t Oxford;
Farmers Urged To Attend
Featuring agricultural, farm
and home improvements, the six
teenth annual Field Day for North
Carolina farmers is scheduled for
Thursday, July 28 at Oxford, H.
K. Sanders, Person county farm '
agent announced yesterday.
All farmers are invited to at
tend the all-day session, the coun- j
ty agent pointed out. Speeches by l
prominent farm experts, special
music, demonstrations and ex
periments under the leadership
of the State and Federal depart
ments, field trips, exhibits and
recreational contests are* all fea
tures of the day’s program.
Scheduled for addresses dur
ing are Dr. I. O.
Schaub, extension director at
State College; Dr. J. E. McMur
trey, Jr., of the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture, Dr. R. F.
Poole, pathologist of the N. C.
experiment Station, and W. P.
Hedrick, tobacco marketing spec
ialist of the N. C. Department of
Agriculture.
Songs and other entertainment
featured by 4-H club members
are mixed in the day’s program.
Nail driving contests for the lad
ies and horse pulling contests for
the men will be held during the
afternoon. Exhibits will be open
during the entire day.
Field trigs and experimental
tests on a wide variety of farm
problems will be held during the
day.
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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC
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I understand through several
of my friends that my competi
tor, D. S. Belman, has made the
statement that I do not pay my
debts. This statement is false.
He also stated that I owed him
SIOO, money that I had borrowed.
'4 did borrow SIOO from Mr. Bel
man in 1931 and I have the can
„ celled checks with his endorse
ment* showing that the SIOO has
been paid and also the interest.
.' ! If anyone has any bills against
me and can prove that they are
correct, I will pay every one of
them. I am an honest man and
pay all my honest debts.
Adv J ° e Ameen
lersoniPimes
Duce Defends Italy’s WHeat Crop
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Standing bare-chested on top of a threshing machine, Premier Benito
Mussolini angrily brands as the “dregs of all nations” those who have
spread reports of Italy’s wheat shortage. Speaking at the little town
of Aprillia which has been built on the reclaimed Pontine marshes, he
admitted that the crop was smaller than last year’s but insisted that
the quality was better. * »
Person To Receive Only
$1,639.01 From Intangibles
Directors Os
Chamber Will
Meet Tomorrow
No Action On Bane Suc
cessor Contemplated, Says
President Mcßroom.
The Board of Directors of the
Chamber of Commerce will meet
tomorrow afternoon at 5 o’clock
in the office of the secretary,
President O. B. Mcßroom said
this morning.
No action, however, Iwill be
taken on securing a successor to
Secretary Jack Bane, who re
signed last week, Mr. Mcßroom
stated.
Several applications have been
received from both local and out
of-town men for the position but
it will be some time before the
directors take definite action on
the matter, it is understood.
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SCOUT COURT
MEETS JULY 29
Next Week’s Session To Be
Last Until Fall; Scout In
terest High.
The Roxboro boy scout court
of honor will meet Friday, July
29th., in the basement of the
Methodist Church. A large num
ber of scouts are expected to be
present to receive the awards
that they have earned. Many
scouts have passed work at Camp
Cherokee this summer but they
must appear before the court of
honor in order to receive the
merit badge for the particular
work that they have passed. Oth
er scouts have passed work at
home and they too must present
their evidence before the court.
The scout council will hold no
meeting this month or in August.
The council always suspends ac
tivity during the summer months
and starts again in the fall. The
next meeting of the council will
be held the last of September.
Scout interest in this county is
now at its highest peak and lo
cal scoutmasters are looking for
great things this fall.
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PAYS FEES
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The Ohio State Life Insurance
Company has just come out with
( a $12.00 hospital policy that in
( addition to regular amounts that
, other Hospital Policies, pay for,
pays, up to $75.00 on the opera
tion. It will pay you to see the
best policy on the market for the
money. - ,
j,. Knigty’s Insurance Agency
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State Collections For Coun
ty Represent $2,910.49 Loss
From Previous Year.
Person County will receive sl,-
639.01 as its share in the collec
tions from the classified tax levy
on intangibles during the last
fiscal year, it was announced
Tuesday by the State Board of
Assessments.
This figure represents a loss of
$2,910.49 from tax receipts on in
tangibles during the fiscal year
1936-37. In that year the tax then
being coUected colintt»«
yielded Person county $4,549.50
from this source, Register of
Deeds W. T. Kirby said yesterday.
In the first year that the state
has attempted to collect a tax on
intangibles, a total of $904,633.33
was taken in at an expense of
$36,185.33, leaving $868,448 to be
divided equally between the state
coffers and those of counties and
municipalities.
The collections were a little
over a million dollars short of the
legislative estimate of $2,000,000.
However, according to the State
Board of Assessments, the valu
ations of which the classified tax
was levied this year are approxi
mately five times the combined
valuations previously on the tax
records of counties and munici
palities.
The legislative statute specifies
that the counties and cities shall
use their part of the intangibles
“for the payment of principal or
interest on indebtedness or equip
ment necessary for the mainten
ance of the constitutional six
months public school term.”
In explaining the low collec
tions for the past year, the board
emphasized the fact that collec
tions in reality represent revenue
collections for only four months
and, therefore, should not be used
as a criterion for measuring
yield during subsequent years.
It was shown that during the
first six months of the last fis
cal year, only $140.19 had been
collected while during the first
ten days of the new fiscal year,
$2,550 had been collected on in
tangibles.
In empowering the state to levy j
taxes against intangibles, the 1937,
legislature provided equally be-]
tween local government units |
and the state. Distribution to
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counties and municipalities was
to be made in two manners: A
mounts collected for money on
deposit and sums left on deposit
with insurance companies were
to be allocated to counties on the]
basis of population by the 1930
Federal census; allocation on oth
|er collections was made on the
basis of actual collections from
the counties. The amount allocat
ed tq £gonties was distributed to
rnunieijpalitles on- the basis of the
total* ad valorum levy on real and
tangible personal property.
ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA
HALL PRAISES ,
CREDIT GROUPS 1
Local Man Says Record Os J
Farm Credit Association
Little Short of Remarkable
The record made by the Pro
duction Credit Associations since
they began operation in 1934 has
been little short of remarkable,
according to C. T. Hall, president
of the Graham Production Credit
Association, who has returned
from the conference of the Pro
duction Credit Association dir
ectors held at Asheville.
“According to figures present
ed at the conference,” said Mr.
Hall, “the 550 Production Credit
Associations in the United States
have more tha|n doubled their
membership since 1934. At the
close of that year they had 121,-
455 members, while at the begin
ning of the present year they had!
a membership of 251,190. In 1934
the association made loans total
ling $107,243,065, while in 1937
they made loans totalling $286,-
260,261.
Record
“In the four states comprising
the third Farm Credit Adminis
tration district, North Carolina,
S. Carolina, Ga., and Florida, the
94 Associations since organization
have made 217,692 loans for a
total of $76,882,945 and have
charged off only a little over $40,-
000. The Associations in this dis
trict have now built up reserves
totalling $1,000,000. Surely this is
a record that cannot be excelled
and it goes to disprove the theory
entertained by many when the as
wmfon* were test organized
that farmers could not operate
their own money-lending insti
tutions.”
Attending the conference from
the Graham Association besides
Mr. Hall were D. Lacy Alston and
George C. Neal, Directors, and
James Bishop, Jr., Secretary -
Treasurer, and C. O. Smith, Jr.,
Asst. Treasurer.
“I am proud of the record made
by the Graham Association”, said
Mr. Hall. “Since we began oper
ations the first of 1934 we have
made 5,954 loans for a total of
$1,086,721 and have charged off
only $640.”
In Person
In Person county during the
present year loans have been
made to 317 farmers for a total
of $76,998.63. This compares with
1 a total of 274 loans for $63,592.-
75 for the entire year of 1937. Not,
1 a dollar has been charged off as]
a loss on loans made to Person
■ county farmers since the Asso
' ciation was formed in 1934.
: The directors attending the^
Asheville Conference were from]
■ the Ahoskie, Dunn, Elizabeth
1 City, Graham, New Bern, Raleigh,
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Tobacco Curing
Continues Rapidly
Farmers of Person County
] have been busy curing tobacco
for the past two weeks and to-
I day finds the crop fairly well
primed as far as bottom leaves
1 and some center leaves Bre con
cerned.
Very few leaves have been aL
' lowed to burn as all growers have
been - anxious to save every leaf
that could be harvested,
j Much tobacco was damaged by
water, but since the rainy season
■ has passed the weather has been
1 about all that could be asked for.
i 1 Hail has ruined many crops in
1 Person this year, however, the
i farmers gathered the leaves and
i'have been doing the best possi
ble with all that were fit to cure.
I Taking everything into consid-
City Plans Street
Farm Tour
Farmers, their wives, child
ren arid friends are urged to 1
meet at the courthouse at 8
o’clock Friday morning for the
annual Farm Tour, the coun
ty agent’s office advised yes
terday.
The program for the entire
day has been mailed to the
farfners throughout the coun
ty advising them of the
schedule and list of farms to
be visited. If it is not conven
ient for some to make the en
tire tour, they are invited to
join the tour at any time or
place that is most convenient.
A picnic lunch for members
of the tour will be spread in
the grove at John D. Winstead’s
at noon.
COUNTY BEGINS
PRIVY PROJECT
W. P. A. Furnishes Free La
bor To Anyone In Coun
ty, Sanitarian Indicates.
The district health department
is this week beginning a project
to construct sanitary slab type
privies for anyone in Person
county who can furnish the ne
cessary raw materials, T. J. Fow
ler, district sanitarian who will
supervise the project, said this
morning.
The labor for the construction
will be furnished free of charge
by the Works Progess adminis
tration.
The slab type privy building is
cheaper and more sanitary than
any privy building ever approved
by the State Board of Health, Mr.
Fowler indicated.
In commenting upon the pro
ject, Mr. Fowler said, “Person
county is fortunate to have this
project as it will go a great way
toward curbing the spread of
disease through unsanitary pri
vies and will greatly improve the
sanitary conditions throughout
the country.”
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BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT
Mr. and Mrs. Ted Shaw are re
ceiving congratulations on the
birth of a daughter, Sunday
morning at six o’clock in Wind
sor, N. C., Mother and daughter
reported to be getting along nice
ly.
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I According to an old city ordi
i notice in Cleburne, Tex., a horse
I is a vehicle and must wear head
and tail light when traveling as-
I ter dark.
eration it now looks like the
growers of this county will offer
less tobacco for sale this year
than they did last year. Some of
the tobacco will be good, some
fair and some bad. There will not (
be as much of the finer quality (
as has been offered for several
past years.
The warehouses will be oper
ated by the same proprietors a
last year and it is understood
that the same buyers will be
back on the Roxboro Market.
Roxboro sold right at five mil
lion pounds of tobacco during the
past season for an average of
$24.30. Local citizens are expect
ing a big break on September
27th., the opening date of the
market. V’ ' -
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THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1938
Curb Market
Realizes $358 j
Says Director •
Market Held Each Saturday
Under The Direction Os
Mrs. Phillip Thomas.
The Roxboro curb market held
each Saturday in the Pioneer (
Warehouse has already realized
$358 this year through the sale
of country produce, Mrs. Phillip
Thomas, home demonstration
agent and director of the mar
ket said yesterday.
The market opens at 7 o’clock
on Saturday and continues
through most of the day.
“Person county farmers are
very enthusiastic over the curb
market," Mrs. Thomas said, “and
they are making every effort to
serve the public to the best of
their ability.”
The curb market has received
excellent support from Roxboro
citizens thus far, Mrs. Thomas in
dicated, but she urged those who
have not visited the market yet
to do so and find out just what
is to be found there.
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Person-Durham
Zone To Meet
At Rougemont
Members of the Woman’s Mis
sionary society of the Durham-
Person zone will hold a meeting
at the Rougemont Methodist
church today, with several hun
dred women expected to attend.
Outstanding speakers will ap
pear on the program which will
get under way this morning at
10 o’clock and extend through
out the day.
Speakers will include Miss
Leila Tuttle, returned missionary
from China, and Mrs. W. C.
Chadwick of New Bern, confer
ence secretary of the Woman’s
Missionary Society.
A basket lunch will be served j
at noon on the church grounds.
Attending from Long Memorial
Methodist Church here will be
Mesdames C. C. Critcher, W. T.
Pass, H. L. Umstead, Fannie
, Thomas, H. K. Sanders, Cy Kirby
and O. B. Mcßroom.
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P. T. A. Institute
At Chapel Hill
Annual Training School To
Be Held August 8-12 At
University.
Several hundred men and wo
men, who are cast for leading
roles in N. C. Parent-Teacher
Association work during the com
ing school year, will assemble at
Chapel Hill for the 11th. annual
training school from August Bth.
to 12th., Mrs. N. A. Edwards,
Publicity Chairman, said today.
Arranged by Mrs. J. Buren
Sidbury, past president of P. T.
’ A., and R. M. Grumman, Univer
. sity Extension Director, the pro
, gram offers last-minute informa
| tion and educational trends
’ for old as well as new leaders.
'I Outstanding speakers are San-
ford Bates, national Boys’ Club
executive, Dr. J. Henry High
smith, R. Mayne Albright, Dr.
Carl Reynolds, and Miss Clarice
l Wade, national P. T. A. publicity
chairman.
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HAS OPERATION
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’ Mr. Jim Walker underwent, a
‘ minor operation *t Gentry
p Harris hospital Tuesday. He is re
ported to be recovering nicely
B | and will probably be back attiis
I desk within a few days.
THE TIMES IS PERSON’S
PREMIER NEWSPAPER;
A LEADER AT ALL TIMES.
NUMBER TWO
Program
ALL TARAND
GRAVEL STREETS
TO BE IMPROVED
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Bids To Be Opened Aug
ust 1; 5,808 Square Yards
New Streets To Be Paved
The town commissioners will
open bids for an extensive street
improvement and building pro
gram for the entire city August
Ist., City Manager James C. Har
ris announced this morning.
A total of 22,600 square yards
of streets will be resurfaced and
5,808 square yards of new streets
will be constructed, the city man
ager indicated.
The resurfacing program will
include all tar and gravel streets
within the city with the excep
tion of Lamar while the addition
al surfacing will be on Depot,
Foushee, Lake and Charles streets
and Abbitt Avenue.
Bids will be opened on August
1 at 2 o’clock in the city hall,
Harris said.
The new hard surfacing pro
gram was provided for under the
city budget approved by the com
missioners last week. Under the
new budget, the commissioners
allotted $5,700 for the construc
tion of new streets. The entire
public works fund which in
cludes street maintenance, gar
bage, cemetery, etc. was allotted
$16,265.
HARNETT BOY
WINS CONTEST !
Edmund Harris Os Dunn
District Winner Now
Tries For Championship
Raleigh, July 21 Selected as
Central District winner from
hundreds of contestants in 22
. counties, Edmund W. Harris, Jr.,
. of Dunn, will compete in Raleigh
on Tuesday, July 26, with three
other district winners for the
State Championship in the finals
of the Eleventh Annual Cooper
, ative Essay Contest.
The winner of the State final
, contest will be awarded a one
, year college tuition scholarship
and SIOO in cash. All contestants
have written on either “The Kind
of Farmer I Intend To Be”, or,
“The Kind of Farm Woman I In
tend To Be.”
The essay this year has reach
ed a new high in originality and
sound, constructive thought,”
commented M. G. Mann, General
Manager of the N. C. Cotton
Growers Cooperative Association
_ and the Farmers Cooperative Ft
, change, which two organizations
’ along with the Carolina Co-oper
ator Publishing Company, spon
!_ sor the contest annually as an
j educational project.
Second prize in the Central
’ District went to John Robert
’ Borum of High Point, Route 1,
j while third place went to Preston
Andrews of Bahama in Durham
County, and fourth place went to
Alice Dawn Hall of Garner.
Competing in the Central IJda
j trict were students from the fbl- '
lowing counties: Alamance, Cas
well, Chatham, Davidson, Dur
-3 ham > Forsyth, Franklin, Gran
. v ill©> Guilford, Harnett, Johnston,
, Lee, Montgomery, Moore, Qranfe,
e Person, Randolph, Stokes, Vance,
Y Wake and Warren.
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KNIGHT APPOINTED '
The Mutual Benefit Life
a surance appoints Mr. 8.-B. Knlgfrt J
as Agent to look after
ness here. All those V ho needffjj
y Policies serviced |iease see
Knight'! Insurance;Agencjr%s