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FSA SUPERVISOR [
I NAMES DATES 1
FOR APPLYING
August 1# To September 10
’ | Set As Deadlines For Ten.
I' jl ant Purchase Program.
?.,■■■■ Applications for loans to ten
" tots under the tenant . purchase
program extended to Person
‘ County must be filed between
| August 10 and September 10, Joe
; Y. Blanks, county supervisor of
| tiie Federal Security Administra
i’ tion, announced this week.
£ Person county is listed among
the 50 counties in this state in
| which the Farm Security Admin
; istration will make loans this fis
cal year to tenants to buy and im
| , prove farms under the Bankhead-
Jones Farm Tenant Act.
Mr. Blanks said the counties
were designated by the Secretary
of Agriculture upon advice of the
, State Advisory Committee on the
basis of types of farming area,
; . prevalence of tenancy and avail
: ability of good farm land at fair
prices, figured on what the farms
well managed can be expected to
! produce.
[•' Applications for loans with
which to buy farms will be made
to Mr. Blanks at the Farm Secur-
K ity Administration office which is
I located in the basement of the
; f Post Office building, Roxboro.
f i A 3-farmer, county advisory
[•; committee will assist the Co. Su
t . pervisor, examine applications,
ft’ appraise farm applicants propose
purchase and recommend ap
plicants qualified for successful
| farm ownership. Borrowers will
I have the aid of the Farm Secur
p ity Administration in building or
repairing their houses and in
making plans to do better farm
ing.
’ “These tenant purchase loans
will be made to a limited number
> of. qualified tenants, sharecrop
pers and farm laborers, to pur-j
chase and improve family-sized
farms and to become more se
cure in their farming operations
by the use of approved farming
practices,” the bounty Supervis
or pointed out.
Mr. Blanks stated that the ten
ant purchase program is being
carried out by the Farm Security
Administration, which agency
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Bullard Named
Master Teacher
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’ v .: North Carolina’s newest mas-
N -tCT»teacher of vocational agricul
ture is A. J. Bullard, graduate of
State College in 1930 and for the
past eight years a teacher in Beth
i el Hill High School.
Mr. Bullard a native of Colum
h bus county, received the award
fa yesterday from Roy H. Thomas,
State supervisor of vocational
•. education. He is the 12th person
jj” to be designated as a master
i teacher of vocational agriculture
jfc in North Carolina.
(In addition to the certificate,
Mr. Bullard will get a free trip
to Kansas City in October to at
tend the national meeting of Fu
ture Farmers of America.
Winner of the master teacher
award is selected on the basis of
r * the efficiency of his department {
jj*’. Competing this year were 312
|. teachers of vocational agriculture.
j& Credit for the high standing of
tv his department is attributed by
Hpjfr. Bullard -to the close coopera
tion of Bethel Hill School, com
p, munity and the teacher of agri
culture. He and his students help
ed to build a long structure in
% 1933 when they felt the need oft
jfes separate building for agricul-i
: ||uy. His enrollment in agricuLi
IrrsonMdimes
Ten Years Os Hard Work Gets Results
Pictured above is the architect’s drawing of the permanent home for the Institute of Govern
ment at Chapel Hill. The contract has just been l&t. The building will be of Colonial design and will
have four floors, and 20 rooms, including offices, assembly and exhibit rooms, training schools and
clubrooms for public officials. ;
Institute Os Goverment
Gets Permanent Building
First Governmental Demonstration Laboratory In Country
To Be Housed In Building To Be Constructed In Chapel
Hill Marks Culmination Os Ten Years Os Hard Work,
Sacrifices.
Court Tomorrow
The regular Tuesday session
of Recorder’s court will be
held tomorrow to clear the
docket and avoid a conflict
with Superior Court scheduled
for next week, Miss Sue Brad
sher, clerk of court, said yes
terday.
I Judge W. I. Newton will pre
| side as usual with Prosecutor
Fitz Davis doing the prosecut
ing.
North Roxboro
Woman Victim
Os Heart Attack
Mrs. Annie Bowen Dies
Suddenly Tuesday Morn
ing; Funeral Yesterday.
Mrs. Annie Bowen, 63, wife of
the late Ed Bowen of North Rox
boro, died suddenly of a heart at
tack Tuesday morning about'
12:45 o’clock.
Funeral services were held |
yesterday afternoon at Red'
Mountain Church near Rouge
mont with the Reverend Riggs in
charge of the services. Interment
followed immediately in the Red
Mountain church cemetery.
Mrs. Bowen is survived by four
daughters, Mrs. Julia Larry and’
Mrs. Mary Mangrum of Rouge-1
mont; Mrs. David Stone of High]
Point; Mrs. Roberts Browti of
Roxboro; four sons, Eugene, Jam
es and Howard Bowen, all of
Roxboro, and Edgar Bowen of
Durham; her father, Sidney Vau-j
ghn of Rougemont; two brothers,
Graham Vaughn of Durham and
Howard Vaughn of Moriah;'two 1
sisters, Mrs. Heneretta Taylor of j
I Durham and Lela Vaughn of
1 Moriah.
CLAYTON REUNION
The ,10th annual Clayton fam
ily reunion will be held on Sun
' day, August 21, at the Henry |
Clayton estate home near V!an
1 Meter, lowa, a communication to
I members of the family in this vi
cinity revealed yesterday.
. Chapel Hill, August 2—The first
city-county-atate governmental
demonstration laboratory in the
country, to which the public of
ficials .citizens and students and
teachers of civics and govern
ment in Person County may come
to see demonstrated in one cen
ter the governmental practices
scattered in 100 county court
houses and some 300 city halls,
will be built in Chapel Hill, Al
bert Coates announced today.
“Some governmental practices,”
Mr. Coates said, “are better than
others, and through the collec
tion, comparison and demonstra
tion of these methods and prac
tices this givernmental laboratory
will help public officials to raise
the standard of governmental
performance by lifting the poor
est practices to the level of the
best.”
The building will be the home
of the Institute of Government
and is to be situated on Franklin
Street, facing the University of
North Carolina campus. It will be
cf Colonial Brick designed with
four floors and twenty rooms, in
cluding offices, assembly and
exhibit rooms, training schools,
and classrooms for public offici
als. Contracts were signed today
and construction will begin at
once.
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New Distributor
A new oil company operated by
Walter Humphries and featuring
Shell products has entered the
field here with headquarters at
Brooksdale.
For several years now Person
County has been without a Shell
representative. Humphries will
begin distribution of these pro
ducts at once.
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SCHEDULE CHANGE
B. B. Mangum, personnel man
ager of Collins and Aikman, an
nounced a change in schedule
for the Unemployment Compen
sation representatives at the lo
cal plant early this week.
The hours from henceforth will
be from 9 until 1 o'clock on FrL
days, he said. Members of the
staff will continue to register peo
ple for compensation, Mr. Man.
ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA
LOCAL MAN IN
AUTO ACCIDENT
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R. H. Gates Collides With 1
Durham par At Intersee- 1
tion; Tin! Injured. l
R. H. Gates, local man, escaped 1
injury Tuesday,Jffeen fbw. §ar
coUidodyngiV’ J
mas Lunsford, 30,' of Durham, at i
the intersection of East Main !
street and Driver Avenue in Dur- -
ham.
Two members of the Durham
party were injured, one serious
ly. Mrs. D. T. Lunsford, 809 Park
avenue, Durham, sustained a frac
tured shoulder and was taken to
Watts hospital. B. M. Gregory, Jr.,
1402 Holloway street, was slight
ly injured but did not require
hospital attention.
The Lunsford car, police said,
was rammed in the side by the
automobile driven by Mr. Gates.
Patrolman C. A. Warren and
Bennie Lloyd, who investigated
the accident, said Gates failed to
halt at a stop sign.
The length of the Palace of Ver
sailles is more than a quarter of
a mile.
Only Three Local Eating
Places Given "A” Rating
Kiwanians Meet
At Lea’s Chapel
Horseshoe Pitching And 1
Other Contests Feature f
Program. 1
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Kiwanians, their wives and j
guests met at Lea’s Chapel church (
on the Leasburg road at the re- r
gular hour Monday. j
Featuring the after-dinner en- r
tertainment was a horseshoe pit-) r
ching contest with members and,
their guests taking part. Follow
ing this, a short question and ans- £
wer contest was staged by Stew- e
art M. Ford and S. B. Winstead, j j
A picnic lunch was served by
the ladies of the church. | £
Next (Monday’s meeting is
scheduled for Frank Whitfield’s j
store at Bushy Fork with the lad- j {
ies of that commirSty serving the j
meal. (
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OPERATION
Mrs. T. H. Hamilton underwent <
an operation for appendicitis at
Gentry-Williams hospital Wed-1
nesday afternoon. She is reported
to be recovetog nicely.
BOARD AWARDS ,
CONTRACT FOR
STREET PROGRAM
Reidsville Firm Is Success
ful Bidder; New Streets To
Be Paved.
The Kiker-Yount Construction
company of Reidsville was a
warded the contract for Roxboro’s
extensive street paving-repairing
program at the # meeting of the
town board Monday afternoon,
City Manager James C. Harris an
nounced Tuesday.
Work will begin in about 10
days, Harris said, in announcing
the successful bidder.
According to the contract let
Monday, 22,600 square yards of
streets will receive new coats of
tar and gravel at .08 per square
yard or a total of SI,BOB. This will
include all tar and gravel streets,
except Lamar, Leasburg highway
and Main street.
5,800 square yards of new
streets will be paved at a cost of
.28 per square yard or $1,624. |
These include Depot street, be
low the railroad tracks, Lake and
Church streets, Abbitt avenue
and Foushee street.
The contract for seal coating i
the old streets calls for 4-10 gal-.
lons of bituminous material, 30
pounds of stone and 3-8 - 10
Mesh per square yard. The new
paving will require 100 pounds of
stone and 11-3 gallons of bitum
inous material per square yard.
“We were very, much pleased
"drftifl the said, ,"as
'iney rangeiTau tSeTway from $3,-
432 to $6,470.”
Cows Come High
Cows come high out at the
Quail Roost farms between
Roxboro and Durham, if this
week’s sale is any indication.
Negotiations were complet
ed the first of this week for
the sale of five thoroughbreds
for a total of $16,500.
One of the cows, a six year
old, was sold for a cool $5,000,
while ’ a bull called “Little
Prince” brought $3,000 to its
owners. The $5,000 cow’s but
ter fat record is 800 pounds
per year.
A firm in Maine was the
purchaser.
Sanitary Inspector Fowler
Releases Grades Following
Inspection.
Three local cases received a
rating of “A” following the re
gular July inspection, T. J. Fow
ler, local sanitary inspector, an
nounced yesterday.
One eating establishment, the
Red Lane Case at Longhurst was
clqsed until improvements age
made to raise its grade, Mr. Fow
ler said. A grade “C” must be
maintained in order for a case to
remain open.
People’s Case on Court street
received the highest rating with,
a grade of 94. Other “A” grade
eating places were the Hotel
Roxboro and the Royal Case.
These places had a rating of 93.5
and 93 respectively.
Listed as “B" restaurants were
Feedwell Case, 89; King’s Palace,
88; Blue Bird Case (colored), 87.5;
Brook’s Service Station, 86; An
derson and Perkins at Ca-Vel,
84.5.
O’Briant’s Case at Ca-Vel and
Hill’s Case (colored) were grad
ed as “C” with grades of 74 and
71 respectively.
The Red Lane Case, closed by
the inspector, was given aggrade
of only 43.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1938
Cothran Case Heads
August Court Docket
BACK HOME
c
W. Rainey Hawkins, former ]
Person County resident and na- c
tive of Hurdle Mills, whose new j
I shoe store will be formally open- j
J cd here in the Kaplan Building on (
J Main Street within a few days. ]
Before coming here to open a ,
store, Mr. Hawkins was in busi- \
ness in Anderson, S. C.
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TAX REFUNDS ;
ARE EXPLAINED
Refund Does Not Include
Cost Os Pounds Bought On
Marl&ting Cards 1
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The county agent’s office, H. ;
K. Sanders revealed this morning, '
has had several calls from those ;
who bought pounds for the sale ;
of tobacco in 1934 and 1935 after ’
they had read the news articles
stating that there would be a re
fund of tax paid on tobacco under
the Kerr-Smith act.
The news article referred only
to those farmers who paid tax at
the warehouses when they sold
tobacco, and received a statement
from the warehouse that this tax
had been paid. At this time no
notice has been received that
there will be any refund of the
money paid for the pounds bought
either from individuals or from
the Department of Agriculture.
Those who wish to secure forms
to fill out to apply for a refund
of tax paid may secure these
forms by applying to Mr. C. H.
Robertson, Collector of Internal
Revenue, Greensboro, N. C. Ask
for Forms ME-PT-Mimeograph
Coll. No. 4800 T. A. Form 116, for
refund of the tobacco sales tax
paid under the Kerr Tobacco act.
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Bethel Farmers
To Fete Wives 1
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Members Os Club To Give J
Wives Chicken Dinner On
Friday.
The members of the Bethel Hill |
Farmers Club will entertain their
<
with a chicken dinner at
their regular meeting to be held
in the agricultural building at
Bethel Hill High School, Friday
night, August 5 at 7 o’colck.
Every member is urged to be
present and to bring a guest with
him. A special program has been
arranged and you can be assured
a good time.
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LANDON OUT
l
. Landon Bradsher, painfully in
l jured several months ago when
hit by a large oil truck, is out a
r gain but still has to depend on a
i crutch. He expects to bo bade at
work again before very long.
THE TIMES IS PERSON'S
PREMIER NEWSPAPER;
A LEADER AT ALL TIMES.
NUMBER FOUR
Murder Trial Sole Reason
For Term; Judge Spears To
Preside.
Headlining the August term of
Person County Superior Court
which convenes here Monday,
will be the Cothran murder case,
pending since June 14.
The case against the Cothran
brothers, Paul and Robert, charg
ed with the murder of Lee Laws, .
20 year old Rougemont youth,
whose bullet pierced body was
found floating in Harris’ pond on
Flat river, will occupy several
days and is the sole reason for
the term, Miss Sue Bradsher,
clerk of court, indicated yester
day.
Next week’s term will mark the
first August Superior Court in
this county since County Court
was inaugurated in 1932. Resi
dent-Judge Marshall T. Spears of
Durham, will preside over the
session, it being the second time
he has appeared on the local
bench since he was appointed to
the office by Governor Ehring
haus following the elevation at
Judge W. A. Devin of Oxford, to
the Supreme Court.
Solicitor Leo Carr of Burling
ton, Democratic candidate for
Judge Spear’s seat, will prosecute
the case.
The jury list follows; C. E. H/t%.
ter, G. B. Masten, Jt. O. Eakesf*'
Linwood Bowes, W. B. Humph
ries, Isaac Hill, I. N. Adcock, C.
R. Allison, Pat H. Woody, H. M.
Clay, George R. Perkins, J. L.
Crabtree, G. W. Davis, J. T.
Bradsher, R. J. Rogers, C. A.
Day, W. E. Stewart, F. H. Will
son, Freddie Joe Moore,
E. N. W. Gardner, W.
D. Fulcher, W. G. Thomas, R. K.
Young, John T. Perkins, W. R.
Barton, J. G. Pass, J. Roy Gen
try, S. B. Moore, W. W. Woods,
C. H. Lunsford, I. J. Monday, F.
R. Wilkerson, J. W. Oakley, At
las Hunt, W. J. Lewis, W. L.
Williams, Frank Oakley, E. I*.
Garrett, T. L. Oakley, and J. H.
Shotwell.
Traveling Clinic
Here Next Week
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The traveling X-ray clinic de
signed by Dr. W. P. Richardson
of the Orange-Person-Chatham
district health department and
used for making tuberculosis ex
aminations throughout the dis
trict is this month featured in
Popular Government, the official
publication of the North Carolina
Institute of Government.
The traveling clinic, hereto
fore having remained at the lo
cal office for only one day at a
time, will be here two days, Tues.
day and Wednesday of next week.
Dr. A. L. Allen, Person health of
ficer said today.
Nine clinics have been held at.
the health office here and in
Chapel Hill, Hillsboro and Pitts
boro. The fluoroscope X-ray in
stalled in the trailer may be oper
ated in any place electricity ia
available. Clinics are held at ru.
ral schools during the winter.
According to Popular Govern
ment, this is the first traveling
clinic of its kind in the country
and Dr. Richardson has been aak.
ed by the American Public Health
Association to prepare picture*
and descriptions to be used as
part of an exhibit of important
developments in public health at
the annual meeting of the U. S.
- Chamber of Commerce in Wash,
i ington.
.
t Pete Lee, local young man, ac
t cepted a position with Joyner
tor Company here.