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The season for accidents like this is well under way in many cities. Mishaps, frequently amusing to
the more fortunate, happen often on icy streets, and they’re by no means confined to cities. In New
York the worst early fall snowstorm in years brought grief to 'many a pedestrian, and impeded traffic
in the business sections. Accidents on slippery streets each year result in an alarming number of
deaths, and exact a costly toll in damaged automobiles.
NEWS
OF THE
WEEK
MONKEYS IN PARADISE
San Juan, Porto Rico—ln an
experiments -colotrize monkeys
from India in this hemisphere for
scientific purposes, 500 will be
released on Santiago Island,
where they will have complete
liberty. They stood the 14,000
mile trip from their native jun
gles in excellent shape,
STOCK YARD STRIKE ENDS
Chicago, 111.—Workers on strike
for two weeks began handling
incoming cattle after a 10-day
truce was agreed upon. The C. I.
O. was named as sole bargaining
agent over wages, hours and
working conditions.
AIR FORCES DECLARED WEAK
Washington, D. C.—ln a re
port to the Secretary of War,
Louis Johnson, assistant secre
tary, declared that U. S. air
forces fall short of providing
even the minimum pitotectioh
needed in case of war.
Baxter Mangum Will Head
Mid-State Safety Council
Roxboro Man Named At
Annual Meeting; Horton
Principal Speaker.
Baxter Mangum, personnel
manager of Collins and Aikman
and well known in state indust
rial circles, Friday night was nam
ed head of the Mid-State safety
council at a regular meeting in
Durham.
Mangum for several years has
been active in safety work and
his election came aS'no surprise
here. Other officers were D.
Lanier of Oxford, vice-chairman;
Sidney Green of Hillsboro, sec
retary; and J. S. Shinn of Raleigh,
treasurer. ■
Lieutenant Governor Wilkins
P. Horton, as principal speaker
of the evening told 'the 400 or
more delegates meeting In the
Junior high school auditorium
that North Carolina is vitally in
terested 1 in tefr skfety of its work
tas. and the safe^pro^^being
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Nor til Carolina shared speaking*
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"Christmas Cheer’ Campaign
Begun By Welfare Officials
First 20 Cases Published
Today As Xmas Drive To
Help Needy Begins.
The local welfare department
yesterday took first steps toward
spreading a little “Christmas
cheer” among Person county’s
needy at Christmas time by pre
paring a list of 59 needy families.
Following their annual custom,
Mrs. T. C. Wagstaff, welfare of-
I ficer, and her aides have prepar
ed descriptive cases of needy
families throughout the conuty
describing their condition and
needs.
Private citizens and organiza
tions desiring to aid any of these
cases are asked to notify the Wel
fare department (Dial 3611) in
order to receive names and other
necessary information. The Wel
fare department has announced
that they will make the deliveries
as they may desire.
Last year all cases were taken
quickly and an additional list was
prepared. This week, the Times
is publishing a partial list of “op
portunities” while the remaind
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; agent of the Chesapeake and Ohio
railway and chairman of the
safety education committee of all
railways in the country. The ad
dress of welcome was delivered
by Mayor Will Carr of Durham,
P. R. Parks presided.
Lieutenant Governor Horton
said that the safest machine is the
safest employe, but pointed out
that the employer must make pro
per safeguards for his workers.
North Carolina mamifactelSfs. he
said, already have become safety- ]
conscious and the employes today
also are becoming more safety
conscious.
Mr. Beqtley, who has been a
prominent figure in safety work
in‘America for the"past- quarter
century, called attention to the
fact that the death and accident
rates among railroad employes
has been greatly
cent years through a program of
safety education. The same ha d
been'true of tee death and ac
i accidents and deaths in industry
Music Teachers
j Os District Hold
Meeting Here
r With some 39 or 35 present,
, public school music teachers
from Person, Granville and Cas
well counties met here Friday
. afternoon in the high school
1 auditorium.
Miss Hattie Parrott of the
State Department of Supervis
ion in Raleigh was in charge of
j the program. Also assisting in
. l-iading the discussion were Miss
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Action On Harris Resignation
i Faces City Council Tuesday
Funeral Rites
Held Friday For
Timberlake Man
James Robert Welch, of the
Timberlake section, died at 11:45
o’clock Thursday morning after
an illness of a w:ek. He was 84 (
years old and had been in poor,
health for several years.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Maggie Welch, and three sons,
Henry and Irving, of Person coun
ty, and Jack Welch, of Angier.
Funeral services were held Fri
day afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at
the home, with Elder Lex Chand
ler in charge. Burial was in the
family cemetery.
Mrs. Gleve Young
Dies Thursday
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Mrs. Cleve Young, 54, died at
5 o’clock Thursday afternoon af
ter a stroke of Catalysis. Funeral |
services were held Friday after-'
noon at 4 o’clock at Olive Branch
church. Iritetnifent'fallowed In the
church cemetery. Rev. T. W. Lee
hffidated at the service. j
She is survived by her husband
&nd several children.
ST. MARK’S SERVICE
Services will (be held at St.
Mark’s church here Sunday
night at 8 o’clock, it was learned
yesterday. Lining prayers and
sermon wil’-**'' conducted by Rev.
C. A. Cole of Ojrford. '' MM
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ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA
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Former Convict
Suspected In Car
Theft Hjbre Friday
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No word had been received by
local police late yesterday as to
the whereabouts of a black Ford
V-8 automobile belonging to
Lindsey Long, local contractor,
whieh was ’ itoiefl / 'Fnday shortly
after noon. .
State and focal police are on the
lookout for (Jbhnnjr Brown, negro,
who was released from the Per
son county frisojtj camp in West
Roxboro Friday morning. A negro
answering 'Brown’s description
was seen hanging around where
the Long car wis parked during
the morning.
Long, who resides in the Pro
vidence section'of the county,
was at work on the new home of
O. W. Long on Lamar street when
the automobile was taken. In
cidently Officer- Charles Wade’s
ca rwas parked just behind Long’s
automobile at the time with keys
in the switch. T >
Local police officials, on be
ing notified of the theft, imme
diately contacted State Patrol
headquarters and a general des
cription of Brown and the auto
mobile was broadcast throughout
the state.
The stolen automobile was a
1936 Ford V-8 coach, black in
color with a trunk pn the back.
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PARENTS
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Brown ni
of Lake Charles, La., are the
t>roud parents of a -baby girl,
Mary Jo, born Wednesday, De
cember 7 and weighing 7 pounds
and five ounces. Mrs. Brown is
the former Miss Edna Cole of
this city. Grandfather Ralph ex
pected to recover at this writing.
Many Applicants File For
For Pending Vacancy Os
City Manager’s Job Here.
Passing on the resignation of
City Manager James C. Harris and
making some move toward secur
ing a successor are the main pro
blems which face the Town Board
in its regularly scheduled ses
sion Tuesday night.
, Harris’ resignation, presented
I to the Council on November 8
1 was tabled by that body until
the December meeting set for
Tuesday. Council members have
given no public indication as to
whether they’ll try to persuade
Harris to remain or accept his
1 resignation with argument.
The City Manager himself has
been equally close-mouthed and
has given no indication that he
might re-consider although it is
known that he has been besieged
with requests from all sides to
do so.
Should the Town Board and
Harris both disregard the clamor
which has been put up for re
tention, there would be plenty of
applicants from which to choose.
No less than eight or 10 men, both
local and out-of-town, have sub
mitted applications for the posi
tion.
Metqbers of the bbard
the fcurteht year whuWikl
led upon to fill the pending valwh£
cy are Gordon C. Htafteij
ton tSfctterfield, A Cupw».
"AMERICA” /
“Equal ritdits for all, special
privilege* for jfone.” —Thomas
Mrs. H. D. Long
Dies Os Stroke
Mrs. H. D. Long, Sr., 55,
prominent woman of this city
suffered a stroke of paralysis
yesterday morning and died
last night about 7 o’clock.
Mrs. Long was jn Duke his
-aital at the time oF hfer death
having underwent an opera
tion earlier in the week. She
was apparently recovering
nicely prior to the stroke.
Funeral arrangements had
not been made at a late hour
last night.
Norfolk - Western
Plans Rose Bowl
Special Thru City
Price Os $147.50 To In
clude Transportation, Berth,
Meals, and Game Ticket.
A Rose Bowl special train from
Durham through Roxboro was as
sured yesterday when S. E. Forte
of Winston-Salem, district pas
singer agent, announced that the
Norfolk and Western railwaj
would operate an all-expense
train carrying fans to the Duke-
Southern California gridiron con
test on January ?.
The Norfolk and Western spec
ial will leave Roxboro Decem
ber 26 at 2:30 o’clock, going bj
Roanoke, Va., Cincinnati, Chicago
Omaha, Cheyenne, Wyo., anc
Salt Lake City, arriving at Los
Angeles at 8:50 o’clock on the
morning of December 30. The
train will leave Los Angeles foi
the return trip at 8 p. m. Jan
uary 2, arriving in Durham a1
3:00 p. m. on January 6.
Mr. Forte announced that the
price of $147.50 would include
one round trip railroad ticket
Pullman, berth, meals for entire
tour and one ticket tc
the Rose Bowl football game
Pullmans, it is understood, will
be parked on a siding for occu
pacy during the four days and
three nights in Los Angeles
Railroad tickets may also be pur
chased in advance, permitting
stopover for Christmas holidays,
and the rejoining of the tour at
nearest point.
Along TheWay
With the Editor
Do you know James Brooks? He works in the Peoples' Bank. A
bout two weeks ago he bought a new hat. James had been saving his
money for several months to buy this new hat and. When he finally
got it he was a mighty proud boy. Someone said be bought a feather
and put in the band so that he would look like a cake-eater. Now
I James has a girl in Burlington and so he chided to go to see her
! allc } show the girl his new hat. A friend \y&s supposed to bring him
back to Roxboro from Burlington. Nowb'ere’s where tragedy enters
the picture. This friend forgot his girl decided to bring
him home on this particular night v On the way over something hap
pened to the car. It got where iyfrouldn’t hold water over ten min
utes at a time. It was a case p/i keep water in the radiator or ruin
the car. There was no can M the car to get water in and so James
nad to get out at every yrfud hole, branch and river and get water
in that NEW HAT. By we time the car reached Roxboro his hat was
ruined and the feather had long since faded away. Yes, James still
has tee- hat, but bC isn’t so proud of it.
Clyde CrtwCft is in the bakery business. Now that isn’t so bad,
but tee bad pirt is that Clyde has to get up at four a. m. every day.
-Wieh youxome to work in the morning Clyde is about ready to re
tire for>ihe day. He says that he is eating four meals a day and
He likes the bakery business, but no one likes to get
*»pjwith the dogs. If you meet him walking down the street with
hiSeyes shut, don’t think that he is crazy—he is just taking a little
hap.
Curtis Oakley went hunting last week. He borrowed a gun from
A. M. Bums, Sr., a hunting coat from'A. M, Bums, Sr., fctid the
shells from A- M. Bums, Sr. Then, since the shells didn’t cost any
thing he blazed away at everything he saw. It didn’t seem to make
much difference to him how many Shells he used. Curt was hunting
arid someone else was footing the bill.
Ed Warren bet a year’s subscription to this paper teat Pitt would
beat Duke. It’s time he cSffle in and paid up.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1938 NUMBER TWENTY-TWO
Unofficial Returns Show Near
50-50 Sentiment In County
Junior Roll Call
Drive Nets sll4
Chairman Reports
With 32 of the county’s 44
schools turning in reports, $113.-
99 had been realized from the
Junior Red Cross Roll Call yes
terday afternoon, Mrs. Robert
Long, Junior Roll Call chairman
announced.
'The-gnnual Roll Call which got
underway here on Armistice Day,
November 11, will be concluded
sometime next week, it was in
dicated. F. O. Carver, Jr., is gen
eral Roll Call chairman while
Gordon C. Hunter is chairman
of the Person County chapter.
Mrs. Long, who is also treas
urer of the local Chapter yester
day urged all schools who have
not yet turned in their reports
to do so within the next day or
two in order that a final tabula
tion may be made and the pro
portional share of the money turn
ed over to the National headquar
ters. Fifty percent of the amount
raised is left for use in the local
community with the remainder
going to National headquarters.
v.-White schools, with nine re
porting, donated $81.27 while Ne
gro school children gaye $29.72.
The complete list to date by
schools is as follows:
White schools - Mt. Tirzah,
$19.77; Central, $13.41; Bethel Hill,
$14.50; Bushy Fork, $8.29; Ca-
Vel, $4.50; Helena, $8.24; Hurdle
Mills, $5.06; East Roxboro, $2.00;
Longhurst, $5.50.
Colored schools - P. C. T. S.,
$8.20; Hester’s Grove, $1.00;
Woodburn, $1.00; Salem, 50c;
Pine Hill, $2.00; St. James, 50c;
Lee Jeffers, $2.00; Mt. Zion, $1.00;
B.thel Hill, $1:50; Mt. Tirzah,
50c; Hyco Zion, $1.00; Harris Hill,
$1.00; Elijah Grove, 75c; Mill
Creek, 50c; Woodsdale, $1.50; Fox,
60c; Siloam, 30c; Winstead’s
Grove, 47c; U n i° n Grove, $1.00;
Lee Clay, $1.00; Brown Hill, SI.OO.
and Olive Hill, $2.40.
Indian school - High Plane,
$3.00.
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THE TIMES IS PERSONS ]
PREMIER NEWSPAPER! 1
A LEADER AT ALL TIMES 1
Two-Thirds Majority Os
Flue-Cured States Necee- •/'’*
sary For Passage.
As voting continued through
the late afternoon to be fairly
close in all precincts, Person
. county farmers last night, it was
believed, had indicated a slight
. sentiment for a continuance of
marketing quotas for their 1939
tobacco crop. -- ”
A two thirds majority of grow
ers in all the flue-cured states,
however, was necessary to insure
federal marketing control for
next year. Person County’s near
50-50 sentiment, therefore, would
have little effect on the final re
sults.
After a survey of five of the
county’s nine voting precincts
made by the Times late yester
day afternoon, the following un
official returns were indicated.
At Roxboro, approximately 509
’ had voted at 4 o’clock and it was
estimated a small majority had
cast for control. At Bushy Fork
at the same hour some 426 farm
ers had voted with an estimated
' 60-40 sentiment against further
: federal control.
At Olive Hill where it was be.-.. . ..f
' lieved 380 had voted, a 6 to 1 ma
jority for control was indicated.
Helena observers thought 200 of
the estimated 300 ballots cast had
' gone against. At Allensville a 50-
50 division of the 185 estimated
votes was indicated but poll hold
■ ers predicted that the final tabu
, lations would see that precinct
in the “against control” column/
, by a slight majority. f
Precincts not covered in the!
Times survey were Cunningham,; ”
Holloway, Mt. Tirzah and Woods- 1
| dale.
In the referendum held last
spring Person County farmers
’ were overwhelmingly in favor cjt
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HEALTH OFFICER'
: RELEASES REPORT
Syphilis Leads All Report’-
fcble Diseases During
Month; 354 Treatments.
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control being one of the main
items, the local health department
Has compleUd another month of
varied activity, according to the
monthly report just filed with
the State Board of Health by Dr.
A. L. Allen, Person County health
officer.
With 134 patients on the list,
354 treatments were administered
in the field of syphilis control and
63 blood tests were made during
the month of November.
The report showed that syphi
lis also led the list of reportable
diseases in the county with 11.
Others follow in order: gonorr
hea 5, scarlet fever 3, measels 2,
pneumonia 2 and tuberculosis 1.
In the field of sanitation 64
vtefts to premises and
66 case and meat market inspec
tions were made by Sanitarian
T. J. Fowler. Under his supervis
ion also, 16 new toilets were in
stalled and 5 new septic ««nira
were put in. School sanitation
visits numbered *lB while visits
to dairies totaled seven.
One hundred twenty three vac
cinations were given for «*nn
pox and 24 for diphtheria. Un
der the heading of tuberculosis
control came 42 tuberculin fasts,
40 fluoroscopic examinations
seven nursing visits.
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