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i»teksdN COUNTY TIMES A PAPER FOR ALL THE PEOPLE s- J. 8. MERRITT, Editor M. C. CLAYTON, Manager E. J. HAMLIN City Editor. i- Published Every Sunday and Thursday. Entered As Second Class Matter At The Postoffice At Roxboro, N. C., Under The Act Os March 3rd., 1879- —SUBSCRIPTION RATES— One Year sl-50 Bix Months - 75 1— Advertising Cut Service At Disposal of Advertisers at all times, Rates furnished upon request. News from our correspondents should reach this office not later than Monday to insure publication for Thursday edition and Thursday P. M. for Sunday edition. SUNDAY, JANUARY 15, 1939 JANUARY BUSINESS OFF TO A SLOW START Department stores of the fifth federal reserve district, which covers five states and the District of Columbia made a comparative ly good sales showing in 1938, but nevertheless, sold less during that year than they did in 1937. Sales made by the 50 reporting department stores in the fifth district were three percent less than in 1937. The percentage of decrease in - department store business over the entire nation was 8 percent below that of busy 1937, but the sales of the past December were equal to those of December 1937 in the country at large. The bank’s report for Decemb er did not go beyond the stati stical statement, but it seemed apparent that the “recession” of mid-1938 put the year’s sales volume under 1937’s The fifth district embraces Vir ginia, North and South Carolina, West Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia. Business ip Person County was just about as the bank chart showed for the entire district. It started off fairly good here for the first part of 1938, but began to drop as fall was ushered in. December business proved to be good, but not good enough to take up the slack that come in September, October and Novem ber. Everyone here is trusting that 1939 will prove to be much bet ter than 1938. We are frank to admit, though, that January has not even started off being good. That same statement would hold true almost any January, but some years find the first month furnishing a fair volume of busi ness. One big factor that hurt busi ness in January and the other months this winter was warm weather. We have had very little freezing weather, hardly no snow or ice and the result has been that winter merchandise still re mains on the shelves in local stores. 1939 has promised great things. We await these things with much anticipation. TOBACCO PRICES LOW Tobacco prices since Christmas have not been very pleasing. To tell the truth they have not even been pleasing in any way at all. The general opinion in Rox boro is that if the farmers could vote on the control measure to day it would be carried by a large majority. The trouble is they cannot vote today and if prices that are now being paid for tobacco are in dicative of what will be paid next year we are going to have hard sledding. Many things can happen be fore next year’s crop is ready for sale and a few things probably will. LOOKS LIKE A GOOD IDEA Rev. W. F. West is in line for Congratulations. His plan for a co-operative welfare agency holds promise of great things and much good can be acomplished through an agency of this kind. There are many things along welfare lines that need to be done in this, county and many of these could be handled by the county warfare department, t co-operative agency can Jtandtot cases and projects that our . county, department could noil igvpßl consider and would not be ailpwad Jo Jtook into. It looks lika a great idea and vre hope that it goes through. MEDICINE MAN B' I I Quint :r Inshore, Covina, Calif., inventor, installed 128 therapeutic lamps to protect his lemon grove during recent frosty nights. The lamps, used by physicians in elec trotherapy, prevented his fruit from freezing. REFLECTIONS By R. M. SPENCER AN INVENTORY Have you noticed the account of men and women who have made their marks in other parts of the world and who gave Per son County as the place of their birth? t. There are Eg||||||s many men and Hgß women from Person County w h° have made their marks in I other parts of the world. This I scroll of honor deserves com mendation, but > let’s not forget the men and women here at home! What about the parents who have never seen their names in the headlines or who have never sat behind a mahogany desk? They brought children into the world, and by precepts taught them a wholesome respect for clean thoughts; who coached and encouraged them along the paths leading to their chosen careers and successes. We are proud of our celebrit ies, but the ones who deserve special praise are the mothers and fathers here at home; humble, quiet and reverent. Who do their work, asking nothing more than that they should be allowed to live in peace and amify among friends of a lifetime and in the: reflected glory of their children.! Don’t you think that their; names should be included on our scroll of honor? I do! ,_ ( 5 itOorAh i plitS&ft COtJNTY TBtfes RO&BORO, N. C. With bur Contemporaries TAR HEELS CHEER DUKE Chapel Hill Weekly The following article is taken from Louis Graves’ paper, and under the above heading were these significant lines: “Someth ing New Under the Sun when Students Here Support Duke.” “If anybody had told me two months ago that I would soon see a crowd of University of North Carolina students going down on their knees begging for a Duke football victory I would have laughed in his face. And yet that was what I saw last Monday evening in the lounge of the Graham Memorial, the Uni versity student union. “The students were gathered there to listen to a broadcast of the Duke-Southern California game in the Rose Bowl. The at mosphere was supercharged with i a “crovdd psychology” strongly in favor of Duke even before the broadcast began. It deepened as < the game progressed, and when 1 Tony Ruffa kicked Duke’s field 1 goal a spontaneous cheer went up from the Graham Memorial 1 crowd. After that the listeners settled down to the tension of waiting , for the game to end. At last, ; when only one minute stood be tween Duke and an unscored on season, and Trojans passes were ; being completed in the vicinity of the Duke goal line, you could see that the suspense was well nigh unbearable to the little gathering of Tar Heels. “And then, a few seconds later when the Trojans scored, the stu dents got up and silently walked out of the building without even waiting to hear the rest of the game. I don’t see how they could have looked more crestfallen had they just been listening to an equally heart breaking defeat of Carolina—Joe Jones.” TWO-FISTED WORDS News And Observer It is the picture of a two-fisted man, with one of them clenched, that The High Point Enterprise carries Os ex-Congressman Lam beth in its story of the big pub ' lie meeting he addressed a few j nights ago in his home city of Thomasville. It is not only the picture that shows strength and vigor. The militant words employ ed by the ex-Congressman are quite as stout and strong. Dis cussing the misuse of the absen tee ballot last year and the need of making the election booths the place of freedom and honesty, Mr. Lambeth said: It is imperatively necessary that the General Assembly now sitting in Raleigh shall not ad journ without revising, clarify ing, reforming, modernizing and strengthening the election laws of the State of North Carolina to the end that the will of the peo ple may always be known and may always prevail. The words “imperatively necessary” will meet a hearty re sponse in the heart of every honest man in N. Carolina. The scandal of the use of the absentee ballot in North Carolina created the greatest stench in the nostrils of the State in 1938. Unless the Legislature sees to it that the election laws are changed so that “the will of the people may always be known and expressed” it will incur responsibility for any like future ills and assume FRIENDLY SERVICE Standard Oil Go. Products. Telephone Service No. 4711 ROCK - INN SERVICE STATION (*: r ■■ ■ ■ '.j • -—■■ ■' ■■ . LVWWWVWWVWWWVWVVW 'ij| ml v-'C Ali !>■ l C i! BUCK JONES I r OB 1 j Transfer Service | [ 2 . * i , .2 [)| Public HauKrtg | CHS EMINENCE, THE PEDESTRIAN Durham Herald We are glad to observe that the city recreation department has set aside certain sections of the city at which, during certain times, roller skaters are to have room and protection. This is a commendable move, and we hope that our friends of the wheel and pirouette will take advantage of the opportunity. While driving down Club boulevard near Duke street the other day we noticed a group of children skating merrily down the street, apparently oblivious | of the tons of steel and iron on wheels passing intermittently, and which could have been wea pons Os slaughter if their drivers had neglected their business fof*’ an instant. Our children go their ’ merry, skating way, without thinking of danger. It’s a mira cle that more of them arn’t killed. Obviously, some of the parents of our city are neglecting their du ties as mothers and fathers by allowing their children to cavort in the streets in such manner. The bicycle rider is also an offender, no less than the skater. Every day we see them endang ering their lives, and the lives of motorists by dashing careles sly in and out of traffic, graying the hair of worried drivers. The poor motorist today not only has to attend to his own driving, but he has to help out the pedestrian, the skater, the bicycle rider, and other motorists. One of our pet aversions is that obnoxious species of pede strains who sunter across our streets, taking their own good time in the realization that no piotorist is going to run over them deliberately, but will slow his car and drive around them. How we love a person who, when he sees us coming, hastens to clear out of the way and lea ves the street for the automobile! How we hate a person who, when he sees us coming, never acceler ates his pace but forces us to drive around him putting us in imminent danger of ramming the oncoming car! We understand that in Japan, when a pedestrian is hit by an automobile, it is he who is persecuted and not the driver. Sometimes we feel that we would like to see such a law in force in these United States. Os course, nobody is going to suggest we be free to run over whomever he pleases. But the streets should be for the motorist and the pedestrian should co operate with him. All of which goes to prove that what is need ed in the world today is a better understanding of the other fel low’s problems. The motorist should be polite to the pedestri an in every way, but the pedes trian should also realize that whereas he has only his legs to operate, the motorist has a com plex mechanism that doesn’t re spond so easily. Something certainly should be done, however, about our child ren playing in the streets. It is so easy to kill a child with an automobile. Durham parents should impress upon their child ren the importance of playing in safer places. guilt for the miscarriages that marked primaries and elections in North Carolina. “Imperatively necessary” is the slogan for honest legislators. SELL YOUR TOBACCO IN ROXBORO. Professional Cards s. F. NICKS, JR ■ Attorney - at - Law I First National Bank Bldg ■ Main St. Roxboro, N. C | paai FgABOT : EYES EXAMINED r Thosurn . Carver BHg. Aviation Industry Spurred by College Training P&ghxSH ttLadiSlr* *3 -jjmr Wgw 9i ' jhT mßp 'wl Mi 40g fflwfSv |Bj The announcement by President Roosevelt recently of the completion of ptan. for the training of 20,000 college students annually as civilian pilots, with aconsequenttacreaw J® r p ce ’ proved exciting to aircraft manufacturers. Above Is a view Inside the. North American Aviation, toe., plant near Inglewood, Calif. The basic combat and 047 observation assembly lines are seen, with 047 wings visi ble in the foreground. Person County Births Total 66 j For December The December birth list as re leased by the Person County Health department showed 41 white births and 25 Negro births as follows: White Births Mr. and Mrs. Ledford Long, Bushy Fork, boy; Mr. and Mrs. M. Thomas Whitt, Roxboro, boy; Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Cates, Ba hama, boy; Mr. and Mrs. Collins Abbitt, Roxboro, boy; Mr. and Mrs. Bernice Rogers, Roxboro, girl; Mr. and Mrs. Hilman Stan field, Roxboro, boy; Mr. and Mrs. Harmon Clarke, Roxboro, girl; Mr. and Mrs. Ira Cham bers, Timber lake, boy; Mr. and Mrs. Everett Oakley, Roxboro, girl; Mr. and Mrs. Jack Oliver, Hurdle Mills, girl; Mr. and Mrs. Davis W. Hoyle, Roxboro, boy; Mr. and Mrs. Henry E. O’Briant, Roxboro, boy; Mr. and Mrs. Hu bert Lane, Ca-Vel, boy; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Monroe Wrenn, Roxboro, boy; Mr. and Mrs. Her man Oakley, Roxboro, boy; Mr. and Mrs. John Penticost, Rox boro, girl; Mr. and Mrs. Mason Crews, Roxboro, girl; Mr. and Mrs. Robin Walker, Longhurst, girl; Mr. and Mrs. Percy Woody, Roxboro, girl; Mr. and Mrs. Otho Murry, Roxboro, girl; Mr. and Mrs. Alva C. Oakley, Roxbroo, girl; Mr. and Mrs. Kemp Good win. girl; Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Ray Puett, Longhurst, boy; Mr. and Mrs. Willie Edgar Chambers, Rox boro, girl; Mr. and Mrs. Danie Briggs Whitfield, Hurdle Mills, boy; Mr. and Mrs. Flem Elijah Whitfield, Roxboro, boy; Mr. and Mrs. George Gurley, Hurdle Mills, girl; Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Rim mer, Hurdle Mills, boys, twins; Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Rudder, Hurdle Mills, girl; Mr. and Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Nelson Yancey, Roxboro, girl; Mr. and Mrs. Jessie James Evans, Rox boro, girl; Mr. and Mrs. George Eakes. Rougemont, girl; Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Cothran, Rougemont, girl; Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Wilson, Timberlake, boy; Mr. and Mrs. Preston Zimmerman, Timberlake, girl; Mr. and Mrs. Thurman Hoy Our dean, refined coal comes to yon guaranteed to give maximum heat value Dial 8871 WHTIT COAL YARD P. T. WHITT, Prop. le, Timbeilake, girl; Mr. and Mrs. Lemuel Garland Rimmer, Huidle M;lls, girl; Mr. and Mrs. Chailie D. Cates, Hurdle Mills, girl; Mr. and Mrs. Austin Flint Chl.enall, Woodsdal.., boy; Mr. and Mrs. Perry Clayton, Hurdle Mills, boy; Mr. and Mrs. Willard Rimmer, Hurdle Mills, girl. Negro Births Julius Clayton and wife, Tim berlake, boy; Dudley Barnet and wife, Roxboro, boy; John Royster and wife, Leasburg, girl; Eddie Pettiford and wife, Roxboro, boy; Teddy Raglan and wife, Rouge mont. girl; Harvey Hayes and wife, Rougemont, boy; Fletcher Hayes and wife, Rougemont, boy; Cleo Poteat and wife, Hurdle Mills, girl; Jack Blackwell and wife, Hurdle Mills, girl; Hassel Rose and wife, Hurdle Mills, boy; Alexander Shaw and wife, Hur dle Mills, boy; Davis Moore and wife, Roxbor, boy; Erving J. Crawley and wife, Woodsdale, boy; Albert Jones and wife, Rox boro, boy; Beman Bowman and wife, Roxboro, boy; William Chambers and wife, Roxboro, boy; James T. Morris and wife, Roxboro, boy; Mathew Hamlett Newcom and wife, Roxboro, girl; Charlie Coe Rayland and wife, Roxboro, boy; Mathew Hemlett and wife, Roxboro, girl; Lawyer Richardson and wife, Roxboro, girl; Albert Winstead and wife; Roxboro, girl; James Carlton and wife, Roxboro, girl; Johnnie Tor ian and wife, Roxboro, girl; Cleo Beard and wife, Longhurst, girl. SELL YOUR TOBACCO IN ROXBORO. this winter; we have all ■ ( kinds and can give you ( yX CENTRAL SERVICE CORP. PHONE 3371 ROXBORO, N. C. Oil CSuede V ALL Shoes One Half Price Hundreds of Pretty Shoes $1.47, $1.94 and Up DON’T KID YOURSELF, SPRING ISN’T HERE. YOU’LL HAVE PLENTY OF TIME TO WEAR THESE. FIRST DAY OF SPRING MARCH 21. SALE RUNS ONE WEEK ONLY. MANY STYLES IN MEN’S SHOES RE DUCED Roxboro Shoe Store rw.rv ■ Next To Roses 5 & 10 Stine SUNDAY, JANUARY 15,1939 GRIDIRON GHOST liIIHHHHHHHHHFP' This Martian looking character is what the football player of the iu ture will resemble if he dons all the safety equipment demonstrated recently at a football coaches’ meet ing. The various safeguards are designed mainly to protect the play er in practice. % WE BUILD FOR V Roxboro and Person County With all Work Guaranteed. No Job Too Large and None Too SmalL GEORGE W. KANE Roxboro. N. C.
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