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THE TIMES VOLUME X PUBLISHED EVERT SUNDAY & THURSDAY ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA SUNDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1938 NUMBER TWENTY-FOUR YULCTIDE SPIRIT WILL PREVAIL IN ROXBORO CHURCH SERVICESTODAY \ Special Christmas Services planned For Morning Hour; Vespers At Baptist. Music Is Featured The spirit of Christmas will prevail in all Roxboro churches at special services today, local pastors have announced. With Christmas day falling on Sunday this year an added sig nificance has been placed on Yuletide observance in »the church. Last night young people from the combined churches sang Christmas Carols throughout the city before homes of those desir ing it. Morning services today will be at Long Memorial, First Baptist, Presbyterian, and St. Mary and Edward’s Catholic churches. Ser vices at St. Mark’s Episcopal will be held this evening at 7:30. At Long Memorial the pastor, Rev. J. H. Lanning will use the Christmas theme in his remarks and special Christmas music will be provided by the large church choir. A special feature of the service will be the first presenta tion of $250 worth of new song books. At the Presbyterian, the ser vice will be largely musical with the Young People’s choir singing at the 11 o’clock hour. The pas tor, Rev. T. H. Hamilton will de liver the Christmas story. The Young People’s service in the ev ening will be held at 6:30 in the Manse. The First Baptist church is of fering a special vesper service at 5 o’clock this afternoon with the regular morning service be ing held as usual. Rev. Alfred C. Cole of Oxford will be the speaker at the Epis copal evening service at 7:30. Catholic services will be held at 8:30 in the morning and the pastor, Rev. Leo. G. Doetterl, has invited the public to attend this mass and Christmas sermon. FSA Will Help Farmers Gut From WPA Rolls Farmers On Relief Who Can Get Farm Land Aided By FSA. Farmers dropped from WPA re lief rolls will be aided by the Ru ral Rehabilitation Program of the Farm Security Administration if they have, or can get, adequate land for farming and can meet FSA requirements, County Sup ervisor Joe Y. Blanks said yes terday. “Farmers without adequate land should make plans at once for the coming crop season,” Mr. Blanks said. “Where the land is sufficient to allow the farmer to benefit from the RR Loan Pro gram, and to let sound farm plans be made, the Farm Security Ad ministration stands ready to ex tend help.” The RR Program is helping more than 600,000 farmers in the United States to get back on their feet Present personnel of the Farm Security Administra tion cannot carry a very greatly increased number of farm people. County Supervisor Joe Blanks urged that every ordinary sour ce of credit and assistance be sought by farmers for whom WPA is no longer open. County Farm Security Administration of fices will give advice on loans or other help to families in this group who cannot get ahead with their farming through using the regular kinds of credit (iWcrrij Christinas (Ln j\ll The entire staff of the PERSON COUNTY TIMES wishes for each and every person a happy, joyous Christmas season and a prosperous, successful 1939. No Times Next Sunday There will be no issue of the Times for next Sunday, New Year’s day, according to the Editor’s announcement yester day. The regular edition of the paper, however, will be print ed next Thursday as usual. ARMED BANDITS ENTER DA V HOME Opposition Os J. D. Day And Son Eunice Too Much For Masked Marauders Two armed, masked bandits entered the home of J. D. Day in the Surl community near Mt. Harmony school Thursday night but beat a hurried retreat with out loot when opposition in the form of Mr. Day and his son Eunice proved to hot for them. The Day family was at the supper table when one of the masked men, gun in hand, ap peared at the door. Apparently having the Day family at bay, the man lowered his gun slightly and the younger Day jumped for the man’s mid-section. In the ensuing tussle, the un known marauder fell out the doorway and made good his esca pe. As the elder Day rushed for his gun in another room, he brushed past another masked man in the hallway but both men were off in their car before the gun was secured. Mr. Day fired one shot after the fleeing auto mobile but the distance between them had become too great by that time. The would-be robbers left no clue as to their identity and Mr. Day asserted there was no way that he could recognize them. Heavy masks covered the entire faces of both men. No positive motive for the intended hold-up was forthcoming yesterday but robbery assigned as the most likely intention of the pair. Mr. Day paid a visit to Rox boro Friday and deposited his Cash in a safe place, the Peoples Bank. Along The Way With the Editor Dear Santa: I know that you have made your rounds and left everyone very happy, but there are a few questions that I would like to ask you. Just send your answers in care of my banker, Gor don Hunter, he seems to know me as well as anyone the truth is he knows me too well Signed: Editor. Is it true that Bob Oakley did not have a sock that was without a hole? Did he hang up a sock that had no toe? Did Bryant Barnett ask for new tires for his truck and tell you that the tires would do for his entire family? Did Reade Jones shoot firecrackers all Saturday night and claim that he was still just a kid? Did Coleman King ask you to bring five or six new school teachers to Roxboro next year? Did Wharton Winstead, recently married, say that he was sup remely happy and that you could save your gifts for other boys and girls? Did Billy Harris ni say anything about wanting to get mar ried and for you to try to fix it for him? Did F. O. Carver, Jr., say something along the same line and did he seem to be more anxious than Billy? Well Santa, this is the end of our correspondence for this year. I have enjoyed writing these two letters to you and I hope that my readers have enjoyed them. “Along The Way” has been featured for two years and all of the people have been mighty nice to let me use their names in this column and then take it like a man. The writer of this column wishes all the readers of this column a very Merry Christmas and a “Happy New Year.” We will be with you again in 1939 and so you all can be pre pared for the worst. Until then, bye - bye. FDR Names Hancock To Home Bank Board Passes Over Recommenda tion Os Senator Reynolds; Senate Must Confirm Him Frank W. Hancock of Oxford, who has represented the Fifth congressional district in Cong ress sineqj 1931, was Thursday appointed a member of the feder al home loan bank board by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In appointing Hancock to this important post, the president passed over the recommendation of Senator Robert R. Reynolds and nominated Reynold’s unsuc cessful opponent in the North Carolina Democratic primary last June. Hancock supporters here in Roxboro received news of his new job with enthusiasm and several, no doubt wired their congratulations to the man who has represented them for nearly a decade. Hancock is well known throughout the entire county. The nomination, which must be confirmed by the senate, was an jpgl , ’ mMm HL' JL, ■jM II 1 1 nounced at the White House a short time before Reynolds’ sch eduled arrival in New York a board the Normandie after a trip to Europe. Among other North Carolini ans here, it was reported Hancock had, with the exception of Reynolds, the “solid endorse- Near 6,000 See Young Person County Farmer Win Free Car City Pauses Today, Tomorrow For Christmas Celebration Hectic Shopping Season ended, Citizens Take Two Days Rest. Wheels of local commerce slow ed down to a walk last night as Roxboro people pause today and tomorrow to celebrate Christmas in the traditional^nanner. Roxboro was thronged with Christmas shoppers all day Fri day and yesterday and merchants report one of the largest Christ mas selling seasons in recent years. Added impetus was given to local buying with the release of $90,000 by the Peoples Bank a week ago and a $5,000 bonus divided among employees of Col lins and Aikman corporation here Thursday. Local stores and business hous es for the most part will be clos ed all day Monday with workers and be given an added day of rest and vacation. The Peoples Bank will operate on a half-day schedule all next week with the exception of Mon day, when it will be closed entire ly. Banking hours for Tuesday through Saturday will be from 9 until 12 o’clock in the morn ing. A half holiday will also be Observed on Monday, January 2 in observance of New Year’s day. The postoffice, Postmaster K. L. Street has previously announ ced, will remain closed all day both Mondays, December 26 and January 2. Observance here for the most part will be done quietly, most citizens being content to spend the time with families and other relatives. Churches will feature special Yuletide services today and large crowds are expected at each service. No other formal cel ebrations of the season have been planned. IT’S A GIRL Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Hester are announcing the birth of a baby girl, Peggy Jane, on Wednesday, December 21. Both mother and daughter doing fine. The Hesters reside on Hurdle Mills, route 2. I “A well-written life is al most as rare as a well-spent one” —Carlyle Retiring Congressman From Oxford Expresses Satis faction In Statement. ment” of the state”s congression al delegation. This would include Senator Josiah W. Bailey, who has ap posed a number of major admi nistration measures, in contrast to Reynolds’ almost 100 per cent new deal record. Hancock, whose term as a re presentative expires in January, also was reported to have had the backing of prominent bank ers and of Jess H. Jones, chair man of the Reconstruction Fin ance corporation. In their primary campaigns last summer, both Reynolds and Hancock pledged support to the administration. Reynolds recommended George Coan, Jr., North Carolina works progress administrator, for the place on the home loan bank ( Continued On Back Page) Santa Claus Still Lives A newspaper reporter was ask- ] ed by a little girl named Doris 1 if there was a Santa Claus. Here is his answer: “Yes,” the reporter said, “there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your • life its highest beauty and joy. “Alas, how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. There would be no child like faith then, no poetry, no ro mance to make tolerable this ex istence. We should have no en joyment, except in sense and sight. Th: eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished. “Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neith er children nor men can see. “No Santa Claus? Thank God, he lives, and he lives forever! A thousand years from now, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood. And that, Doris, is the answer tc your question. There will be a Santa Claus for you as long as you believe in him. i - - ■■ n SANTA PAYS VISIT TO PERSON NEEDY Christmas Cheer Campaign Brings Joy To Many Over Entire County. The local Welfare department made ready yesterday to play Santa Claus to some 65 to 70 needy families throughout Per son County. Largest contributing Santa Claus was the Salvation Army’s Durham branch headed by Ma jor Elmer Wall, who took 10 “eases” from the department’s “opportunity list” to supply a small amount of Christmas cheer. ; And right on the dot, arriving Friday were 10 huge paper bags containing everything the heart could desire for a bountiful I Christmas feed. | Packed in these Christmas bags were two loaves of bread, coffee, a roast, large quantities of fruits, nuts, lard, butter, sug ar, canned goods, milk and even jello for desert. Other large baskets were pre pared by the Welfare department staff for distribution from one . corner of Person County to the other, bringing a small measure of Christmas cheer to hundreds of those less fortunate. While the Welfare staff was taking care of a large part of the needy “opportunities,” pri vate citizens over the county who ' had been supplied with names and addresses of many unfortun ate families spread their cheer individually. Very few persons in the county, it was believed, were without a | little extra cheer in their hearts ‘ this morning and most of the needy were believed cared for in some small degree. ! “The real source of all bio : graphy is the confession of the man himself to somebody.” —Emerson. 25-Year-Oid A. L. Pulliam Holds Winning Ticket No. 20415. A. L. Pulliam, 25-year-old Per son County farmer, was “lucky for the first time” Friday and left Roxboro driving his own car for the first time in his entire life. The new automobile, a Ford V-8 Coach, was the Christmas present of the local Chamber of Commerce and Roxboro ware housemen offered to some farm er selling tobacco on the mar ket here during this fall selling season just concluded. A crowd estimated at appro ximately 6,000 people packed and jammed the environs of the Coun ty courthouse where the draw ing took place at 12 o’clock noon. Farmers and their families be gan to trek in from the country sides early in the morning with the crowd reaching its ape:: just before the scheduled hoi r of I drawing. The year’s largest crowd was tense as Secretary Melvin H. Burke of the Chamber of Com merce pushed his way through the mass of people to the court house door. Young Henry Slau ghter, an Allensville schoolboy and son of M. T. Slaughter, was called upon to mix the barrel of little white “pasteboards” well. Burke then announced that should a winner not appear at the time of the d,rawing, he would have until Wednesday at 5 o’clock to bring it in. Should no winner appear by this time, another drawing would take | place next Friday with the draw ! ing continuing until a winner was found. Such precautions, however, proved in vain as young Maynard Whitfield, son of L. J. Whitfield of Hurdle Mills, lowered his hand into the waiting barrel. The num b. r 20415. called out by Sec retary Melvin Burke. There was silence for a minute and a win-' * ner yelled from the crowd. But no, it was a false alarm. Thin from the far corner of the square pushed the true w aner, a modest retiring fellow whose first words after the presentation were “I don’t reckon there was anybody who needed one any (Continued On Back Page) o Farmers Put On Broadway Act With Old Tickets How large a mess will approx imately 40,000 small tickets make? Ask A. M. Long, custo dian of the Courthouse. When the winner of the free automobile was announced Fri day at noon growers of tobacco immediately began throwing their tickets into the air and for about five minutes it looked like Broadway when a big cele bration was taking place. At a distance the flying tickets resem bled a heavy snowfall. Os course not all the tickets were thrown into the air, but it looked like a million. The tickets were no more good and the farmers were tired of carrying them around. The natural thing to do was to throw them away and that is exactly what they did. An hour or so later these tick ets were all over the streets o t Roxboro and the city cleaning department will face a big task when work is resumed after the holidays. With all due credit to Mr. Long ■ it can be said that he had em ployees cleaning the courthouse lawn within the hour.
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