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VOLUME X PUBLISHED EVERT SUNDAY ft THURSDAY ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA #&*'■ SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 1939 NUMBER TWENTY-SEX
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Against Nazis
"* Hollywood’s committee of 56 recently signed their own Declaration of Independence which will be signed
tv ”3,000,003 American citizens and then presented to President Roosevelt and congress, seeking a sever
ance of economic relations with Nazi Germany until such time as that country comes into the fold of nations
in accordance with the humane principles of International law. Left to right, seated: Melvyn Douglas, Jamcr.
Cagney, Edward R'binson. Standing: Gale Sondergaard, Helen Gahagan, Henry Fonda and Gloria Stuart
ICnews
OF THE
WEEK
EMPLOYMENT GAINS
Ff Mich.—Addressing the
American Association for Labor
Legislation, Elmer F. Andrews,
| national administrator of the
« Wages and Hours Law, reported
j a gain in private employment in
31 states. From Washington it
was reported that WPA employ
i ment decreased 55,996 last week,
| bringing the total on the rolls
down to 3,083,249. WPA jobs in
ii'i creased in only four states: Maine
Nevada, Wyoming and Washing
t ton, for a net gain of less than
| 5500.
BIG “SPY” HUNT STARTS
Washington, D. C.~ln a nation
wide counter-espionage drive,
' 50,000 Government agents and
employes have been organized
to hunt down operatives of fore
ign governments busy in this
country. At recent “spy” trials it
was pointed out that most of the
‘‘inside information” peddled to
other powers for high prices
, could be obtained from depart
mental reports open to the gen
eral public.
YEAR’S NEATEST TRICK
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Cedar Rapids, lowa When
k Harry Linn, the State’s new as
! - sistant secretary of agriculture,
opened an agg at a dinner given
in his honor, he was startled to
find inside a New Year’s greet
ing from his hosts. The message
on onion skin paper in a small
| balloon had been inserted in the
A egg sac of a hen at lowa State
H College and nature simply subs-
P- tituted the rubber capsule for
the customary yolk, without any
discomfort to the hen.
YEAR’S ACCIDENTS
DECREASE
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- New York City—Statisticians
of the Metropolitan Life Insuran
ce Company announced year-end
S figures showing accident motali
ty during 1938. Death by injuries
claimed 95,000 persons, as com-
I pared .with -106,000 in 1937 and
110,000 in 1936, largest number
l on record. Death from automo
jbile injuries dropped from 40,-
f 000 in 1937 to 32,000 last year,
of Campaigns for safer driving con
ilfetributed to the decrease in motor
I HP**' fatilities.
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Imon|&(Eimes
Along The Way
With the Editor-
I met H. V. Woody of Woodsdale last week and he was walking
down the street in Roxboro. Now I didn’t ask H. V. what he was do
ing in Roxboro as I knew full well that he was just loafing. If he
wasn’t loafing what was he doing in Roxboro? Brother Woody rais
es watermelons and for the past several years he has been promis
ing to bring two or three to this office. Every year, about the time
watermelons are getting ripe H. V. comes by the office and says that
he did have as fine a patch as you could see anywhere, but the
chickens had eaten all the melons. Now we believed that for two
years, but the third year found our force doubting that he even had
a patch or that he intended to bring us any melons. Anyway you
take it he must have a terrible gang of chickens and they must be
crazy about Woodsdale melons.
Fitz Davis, very prominent attorney, and M. C. Clayton, very
promising publisher, played “policemen and robbers” the other
night. Tuesday night was when it happened. About two o’clock in
the night Maynard’s phone began to ring. He immediately got out
of bed and found that Fitz was on the other end of the line and
was informing him that someone was trying to break into the
Times’ plant through the rear door. Maynard grabbed his pants in
one hand and his shot gun in the other and hurried to the home of
Davis that is located just to the rear of the Times. There he found
his informer with a worried look on his face and a large fire poker
in his hand. Clayton marched up to the back door of the Times with
his gun ready while Davis covered a side alley with his poker ready.
Together they could have easily captured Berlin. It was do or die
with these brave men and they were out to capture the criminal.
Alas, the nearer they got to the back door the more it sounded like
wind blowing against a large piece of tin. And that is what it was.
No honor no glory for Maynard and Fitz, but they were ready
to do or die for dear old Person County Times.
Bivens Funeral
Rites Conducted
Here Yesterday
. E. C. Bivens of Ca-Vel died at
a Durham hospital at 9 o’clock
Thursday morning following a
seige of pneumonia that develop
ed from a slight cold which
turned into a severe chill Sun
day. He was 58 years old.
He has been a member of the
North Roxboro Baptist church for
several years. Surviving are his
wife, Mrs. Alice Bivens; six child
ren, F. F., Henry and Lee Bivens
of Roxboro and Mrs. H. H. Moss
of Roxboro, Mrs. Roy Self of
Berea and Mrs. H, M. Langford
of Roxboro; three brothers, John
Bivens of Rutherfordton, Frank
Bivens of Spindale and Zero Bi
vens of Beaver Dam, Va., and one
sister, Mrs. Janes Hudson of
Spindale.
Funeral services were held at
the home Saturday afternoon at
2:30 o’clock with the Rev. J. L.
Coley of Longhurst, pastor of
North Roxboro Baptist church,
in charge. Burial was in Provi
dence church cemetery.
“There is no life of a man,
faithfully recorded, but is a her
oic poem of its sort, rnymed or
unrhymed.’’
—Carlyle.
Black Walnut
Seedlings Given
To 4-H Clubbers
Five hundred black walnut
seedlings have been delivered to
20 Person County 4-H boys this
this week for planting, Assistant
County Agent J. B. Snipes an
nounced yesterday.
This additional 500 brings to a
thousand the total number of
these trees in the county, Snipes
said, the first 500 having been
set out last year.
At the present time there is
great demand for these trees as
black walnuts may be sold to
bakeries for use in cookies and
cakes. They are used extensively
in candies, ice cream and other
confectionaries. The wood of the
tree itself is also in great de
mand for furniture, he said.
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UDC MEETING
The Person County Chapter of
the United Daughters of the Con
federacy will meet at the home
of Miss Claire Harris Tuesday,
Jan. 10th. at 3:00 p, m.
A full attendance is desired.
“Blessings are upon the head
of the just: but violence covereth
the mouth of the wicked.”
—Proverbs.
LOCAL SCOOTERS
WILL PARTICIPATE
IN ANNU AL MEET
Merritt, Swartz, Gussy To
Appear On Program At
Yanceyville.
E. S. Powell, chairman of the
program committee for the an
nual meeting, announced today
that all program arrangements
had been completed for the an
nual meeting of the Cherokee
Council, Tuesday, January 24th
at the Yanceyville High school.
W. A. Dobson, known through
out the entire south for his talks
on Boy Psychology, has been se
cured as spea'ker for this occa
sion. Luther H. Hodges has a
greed to be toastmaster. Others
appearing on the program will
include Sam Merritt, Roxboro;
J, O. Thomas, Spray; Holland Mc-
Swain, Yanceyville; Charles M.
Andrews, Burlington; R. R. Saun
ders, Reidsville and C. G. Somers,
Burlington.
C. L. Pemberton of Yanceyville
is making arrangements for the
banquet. Two of Caswell coun
ty’s leading clubs will serve the
banquet supper for the occasion.
Mr. Pemberton stated that the
ladies had promised to serve a
feast unequaled in the animals
of Scouting.
The program will open with a
general committee meeting at
4:30 with W. A. Dobson guiding
the discussion. At 5:00 the Scout
ers will adjourn to seperate com
mittee meetings which will be
under the leadership of C. G.
Somers, Bruce Carter, Bill Colt
man, C. M. Andrews, Larry Hale,
E. J. Perry, Aaron Weinstein, D.
C. Swartz, Lon G. Turner, Archie
Daniels, Joe Gussy and H. E.
Frye. At 6:00 the board mem
bers will meet to receive reports
and recommendations for 1939.
At 7:00 the banquet will open
with Luther Hodges as toastmas
ter. The banquet will be featur
ed by singing, awards, entertain
ment and W. A. Dobson as speak
er for the evening. 9:00 has been
set as the closing time.
Van Hook Rites
Held Yesterday
Mr. Oscar Van Hook, resident
of the Hurdle Mills commun
ity, died Friday night about
7:30 o’clock at his home. Fun
eral services were held yes
terday afternoon.
Mr. Van Hook is survived by
his wife and a number of
children. A complete list of
these were not available yes
terday.
County Agent Talks About Forest Fires
By H. K. SANDERS
The old adage, “A dollar saved
is a dollar made”, can certainly
be applied to our woodlands. As
a good farmer you are interest
ed in saving a little money for a
rainy day and at the same time
interested in increasing your cash
income. Quite a number of our
farmers have been increasing
their income through the proper
management of their woodlands.
However, we feel that a great
deal of money which should be
coming in to Person county farm
ers has been going up in smoke.
By this we mean that if woods
fires were stopped in Person
county that we would greatly in
crease the income from our wood
lands.
Woodlands of this county are
not fully stocked due to the woods
fires which have been oocuring
each year. I feel sure that if you
will walk through some of the
woodlands in this county you will
see that more trees could easily
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Tobacco Market to Re-open
Tuesday; Final Sales Period
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A sudden midwest cold wave
didn’t catch this newsboy unpre
pared. He foiled the wintry blasts
with a makeshift stove and a couple
of gunny sacks. He also added a
couple of sweaters to his ensemble.
SCHOOLMASTERS
TO HEAR WEST
Local Minister To Speak
Os Foreign Affairs Tuesday
Night.
Rev. W. F. West is scheduled
for the principal address at the
Schoolmasters club’s regular
meeting Tuesday night at 6:30 o’-
clock at Hotel Roxboro, Presi
dent J. W. Gaddy, Jr. announced
yesterday.
Mr. West is expected to speak
on some phase of the Foreign Sit
uation. His years of experience
in the Far East and the Orient
will probably serve as a back
ground for his remarks.
All men teachers in the Coun
ty are invited to attend Tuesday’s
meeting and they will be given
an opportunity to become mem
bers of the organization at that
time.
The Schoolmasters club is an
organization of Person C’oupty
School principals and male teach
ers which meets monthly for dis
cussion and a social get-together
Dr. W. P. Richardson, district
health officer, made the main ad
dress at the club’s last meeting.
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“Thy word is a lamp into my
feet, and a light unto my path.”
—Psalms.
be grown. The more trees there
are, up to a limit determined by
the fertility of the soil and the
size and spacing, the more tim
ber is produced. A stand of 200
crop trees on an acre will yield
considerably more than a crop of
100 trees. With woods fires kept
to a minimum in Person County
we feel that we would secure well
stocked stands of young timber
which would increase the ultim
ate yield per acre considerably.
Where fires have been kept down
you will notice well stocked
stands of timber.
When an acre of cotton or corn
is destroyed before you harvest it,
you immediately figure the loss
to you in terms of dollars and
cents, as the loss would be es
timated by the expected yield.
The same is true of your wood
lands, every time fires go over
your woodlands you lose money.
Woods fires destroy young trees,
injure merchantable timber, rob
the soil of humus and destroy food
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ROTARIANS HEAR
PAST PRESIDENTS
Noell, Mcßroom, West
Speak To Club Members
On “Rotary Instruction.”
“Rotary Instruction” was the
topic of Thursday night’s meeting
of the Rotary club and featured
on the program were three past
presidents, J. W. Noell, O. B.
Mcßroom, and Rev. W. F. West.
Speaking briefly, each man dis
cussed some phase of the work
ings of Rotary, its purpose in the
community and what it should do
for the best interests of the com
munity.
President Howard K. Strang
presided over Thursday night’s
meeting &nd the program was in
charge of Fred Long, club ser
vice director. Music, as usual, was
under the direction of Wallace
Woods.
The next meeting will be in
charge of Bill Sledge, local high
school teacher and director of the
boy’s school patrol. Members of
the patrol will conduct the pro
gram as guests of the club.
Special guests recognized at
this week’s meeting at Hotel Rox
boro included: L. H. Umstead, Dr.
W. H. Adair, and Albert M.
Worth.
The usual three-course dinner
was served by the hotel staff.
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Welfare Office
Reports January
CCC Quota Filled
Person County’s C. C. C. quota
will be taken to Madison for en
rollment Tuesday, Mrs. T. C.
Wagstaff, county welfare officer
said yesterday.
The January allotment for Per
son County was set at six white
and three colored youths. This
number has already been select
ed, Mrs. Wagstaff stated.
Continuing she said there was
an unusually large number of ap
licants this month but as usual
the neediest received first consid
eration. No applicants from hom
es of farm tenants were allowed
in the January allitment.
This month’s applications ex
ceeded those of any other in re
cent years, it was believed.
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“For blessings ever wait on
virtuous deeds.”
• —Congreve.
of birds and other wild life. Pre
vent woods fires, increase your in
come, and “Save that dollar”
through increasing the growth of
your timber. Growing timber is
a bank account which can be ad
ded to each year with but very
little outlay by the owner.
“Fire-breaks” cutting the farm
woods into smaller blocks af
ford a good, practical means of
protecting the woods on an in
dividual farm. A “fire-break”
can serve a dual purpose fire
protection and when raked
give leaf litter for farm use. We
would like to help you start such
a protection system on your farm.
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CONFINED :
Mr. W. H. (Bill) Harris is con
fined to Gentry-Williams hospital
here with a severe cold. His con
dition is not considered serious
and he expects to be out again be
fore long.
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THE TIMES IS PERSON**
PREMIER NEWSPAPEBf
A LEADER AT ALL TIMESL
Nine Selling Days Remain
Before Final Closing Date
January 20.
Roxboro’s foun tobacco sales
warehouses today stood on the
threshold of the year’s final sell
ing period scheduled to open
Tuesday morning.
Nine more sales days remain
before the final closing date, Jan
uary 20, when local warehouse
men will write “finis” to the
1938-39 season. Approximately
a half million or 600,000 pounds
of the golden weed, observers be
lieve, still remains to be sold in
Person County. What percentage
this market will draw cannot be
estimated accurately.
Pre-holiday figures as released
by Secretary George W. Walker
of the Tobacco Board of Trade
showed 3,412,775 pounds had pas
sed over local floors before the
Christmas vacation. This tobacco,
the report revealed, had been
sold for $733,299.67 or an average
og $21.48 per hundred pounds, an
average which compares favor
ably with any in the vicinity.
On January 10 buyers of all
the major companies will be
ready with their new orders; the
usual large number of independ- •
ent buyers will be on hand and
farmers may expect top prices
on all grades. Some observers be
lieve that cigarette production
will show an increase in the near
future which should tend for bet
ter prices than are generally ex
pected.
Four large, well-lighted hous
es are being cleaned and made
ready to receive the remainder
of this year’s crop and everything
is in readiness for this final nine
days of selling before January
20.
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TOBACCO COURSE
BEGINS TUESDAY
County Farm Agent Says [
Grading Feature Os Short
Course Worthwhile. i'
By H. K. SANDERS
Person County farmers will be
interested in the short course in.
tobacco cultivation, grading, etc,
that will be held at State Col
lege, in Raleigh, next week. Last
year five farmers from this coun
ty attended the sessions and were
enthusiastic in there reports oF
the instruction received.
This short course will begin
next Tuesday, January 10th, and'
will continue for four days. The
morning programs will be de
voted to lectures, discussions and
demonstrations.
Two afternon programs will be
devoted to practice in assorting
and grading tobacco. Those en
rolled for the course will be giv
en actual practice in tobacco
grading. This feature alone will,
be worth all the time and trou
ble required at attend the cour
se, as grading requirements off
the tobacco trade have changed
in a number of ways.
Tuition is free. A charge of
SI.OO is made for registration and
a certificate of attendance. Meals
may be secured at the college*
cafeterias at very reasonable costt-
Any further information in re
gard to the short course will bet
furnished to anyone making in
quiry at the office of the Agricul
tural Agent; or if you will write
a card, information will be mail
ed to you immediately. 2
YOUNG PEOPLE JjZ'f
The Person County Young Peo
ple’s Union will meet at Long Me
morial Methodist church here.
Monday night at 7:30 j