IP IT IS NEWS ABOUT
PERSON COUNTY, YOU’LL
FIND IT IN THE TIMES.
VOLUME X PUBLISHED EVERT SUNDAY & THURSDAY ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1938 NUMBER TWENTY-SEVEN
Times Announces ‘,Cash Offer” Campaign
Hoey Allocates $ 2,500,000
More For Road Improvement
Advocates
Good Roads
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Governor Clyde R. Hoey yes
terday again proved himself a
“friend of good roads” in North
Carolina by allocating from the
highway surplus another two and
a half million dollars for road im
provement in the state.
Stockholders
Os fired it Body
To Meet Tuesday
Members o fthe Graham Pro
ducfion Credit Association, which
serves Person, Alamance, Caswell,
Durham, Guilford Orange, Ran
dolph and Rockingham counties,
will gather for their fifth annual
stockholders meeting on Tuesday
at 10 o’clock in Graham, at the
Courthouse, and James Bishop,
Jr., secretary, said today that in
dications pointed to a very large
attendance.
A program of interest to the
members is being arranged, Mr.
Bishop said, including reports by
association officers on the af
fairs of the organization, and
special notices have been sent to
every member urging attendance
on the meeting. Two directors
will be elected.
Since the association began op
eration with the year 1934, it has
made loans totalling $1,141,000.00.
It now has 2,220 members.
Speakers at the annual meet
ing will include Ernest Graham,
President of the Production Cre
dit Corporation of Columbia. Re
ports will be presented by C. T.
Hall, president, S. E. Boswell,
vice-president, and James Bish
op, Jr., secretary-treasurer.
The association is anxious to
lead all others in the state this
year in attendance and an effort
is being made to have every mem
ber present.
As an entertainment feature,
music will be furnished by a male
quartette. The reports and talks
by officials will be brief, leaving
the major portion of the time
for the meeting open for partici
pation in by the stockholders,
themselves. A very interesting
program in this connection has
been arranged and it is believed
will prove quite enjoyable and
worthwhile to the members in
attendance.
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TURKEY DINNER
The Methodist League of Salem
church will serve a turkey din
ner at the Community House here
Friday, January 27 from 6 to 8
o’clock. The public is cordially
' invited to attend.
JmonH^imes
Full Amount Is Taken
From The Highway Sur
plus Governor Indicates.
Governor Hoey yesterday al
located $2,500,000 from the high
way fund surplus for improve
ment and betterment of roads
throughout the state.
Os the allotment, $1,000,000 has
been earmarked for a series of
WPA highway projects, The re
mainder will be spent directly
by officials of the state highway
and public works commission.
Governor Hoey explained that
the allotment was in lieu of a ten
tative appropriation of $2,200,000,
which was made from the high
way surplus last August in an at
tempt to obtain $1,800,000 in
PWA funds for road improve
ment.
The proposed PWA program
was abandoned when it was es
tablished definitely that the sl,-
800,000 was not available.
The governor gave no indica
tion of the amount of money
which the WPA wil put up to
supplement state funds, except to
say that the sum will be “mater
ial.”
“It is not always practical to
utilize profitably WPA labor on
the mads,” he added, but " the
highway commission is making a
careful investigation of the pro
jects proposed in various sections
of the state with a view of get
ting all the benefit possible from
WPA assistance for our road sys
tem.
“Under direction and control
of the highway commission, sl,-
000,000 of this allocation will be
available for this purpose. The
remainder of the $2,500,000 al
location will be for the general
improvement and betterment of
our whole road system. The de
finite purpose is to improve con
stantly our highways and make
our secondary roads passable all
the year round, and safeguard our
huge investment in the primary
roads by bringing them up to the
requirements of modern day use.”
Yesterday’s appropriation brou
ght to $6,500,000 the amount al
lotted from the highway surplus
by the governor since he took of
office two years ago. The pre
vious allotments were made in
July, 1937, and May, 1938. Both
money was spent exclusively for
amounted to $2,000,000, and the
bettering secondary roads.
Health Department Adopts
New Plan For School Health
A change in the system of ex
amining school children, affect
ing all the larger schools in Per
son county, has been worked out
by the district health department,
and the improved method will be
exercised in present and future
sessions conducted by health per
sonnel in local institutions, Dr.
Albert L. Allen, county health
officer, advised yesterday.
In contrast to the practice of
examining students in the first,
third and sixth grades, as exer
cised heretofore, all new pupils
will be selected for observation.
So-called new pupils will include
all those in the first grade, those
entering school from some coun
ty other than the three counties
which comprise the health dis
trict, those coming from outside
the state, and those for any rea
son not hitherto examined.
This revised plan, which has
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Tom Mooney, recently released from San Quentin, Calif., prison by
Gov. Culbert Olson after serving 23 years, is fighting to free Warren
Billings, right, from Folsom prison. Billings was also jailed for the San
Francisco Preparedness day bombing.
Mcßroom Named President
Boy Scout Council Tuesday
Legion Units
In Joint Meeting
Friday Night
A special joint meeting of the
Lester Blackwell Post of the A
merican Legion, the Legion Au
xiiary, La Societe Des 40 Hom
ines Et"8~ Chevaux and sons of
the legion will be held tomrorow
night at the Legion hut on Chub
Lake street, Post Commander R.
11. Shelton announced yesterday.
The district commander and
probably several other notables
of the legion are expected to be
cn hand to meet with the local
organization.
A dutch dinner fish fry will
be held and members of the lo
cal post will be celebrating the
lifting of the mortgage from the
new Legion hut and headquarters
here, a project which represents
an investment of approximately
$3,000.
The local post is expected in
the near future to receive a nat
ional citation, an honor won by
its leadership during the past
year in membership for the en
ure eleventh district.
been adopted by health depart
ments and school systems in sev
eral large cities and counties,
presupposes that certain equip
ment will be possessed by the
school, to the end that weight of
students in each classroom can
be checked at monthly intervals,
and vision tests made often as
once a year is applicable to the
whole student body. After pro
per instruction by health per
sonnel ,the teacher or more ad
vanced students can carry out
the weighing and measuring, as
well as the testing of eyes. Eye
charts are being furnished by the
department, and it is believed
that in the not distant future,
each school will own a set of
scales.
The following institutions either
have had or have recently pur
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Retiring President George
W. Kane Leaves Enviable
Record Os Achievement.
O. B. Mcßroom, local business
man and civic leader, Tuesday
night \vas named President of the
Person County Boy Scout coun
cil for the coming year.
Other officers elected at the
same time were: George W. Kane,
honorary president; J. S. Merritt,
vice-president; George Cushwa,
secretary and R. M. Spencer,
treasurer.
In the office of President, Mc-
Broom assumes a position held by
George W. Kane for the past six
or seven years and in so doing
inherits an enviable record of
achievement in the office. Under
Kane’s leadership the local coun
cil has been raised from com
parative obscurity to one of the
strongest in the district. Press of
private business was the reason
for Kane’s relinquishing the post.
Mrs. Bill Pickering was selected
to receive the Widow’s Award,” a
prize which goes annually to the
wife of the scouter who has been
away from home at night most
during the year in the interest of
scouting. The award to Mrs. Pick
ering wil be presented at the an
nual meeting in Yanceyville next
Tuesday night.
Plans for the annual meeting
were discussed at Tuesday’s ses
sion in the office of Dr. A. F.
Nichols. About 50 scout leaders
from Person County are expected
to attend and take part in the
program. Decision to hold a Fa
ther-Son scout banquet in Feb
ruary was made and a definite
date will be appointed later.
The meeting ws presided over
by Honorary President George
W. Kane.
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ALLENSVILLE PTA
The Allensville Parent-Teacher
association will meet tonight at
7:30 o’clock at the school. A large
crowd is urged.
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SERIOUSLY ILL
Mr. Whitey Carver of East Rox
boro is seriously ill at Gentry-
Williams hospital.
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AT LONGHURST
Charlie Monroe and his big ra
dio show will be presented at the
Longhurst Schoo Saturday night,
sponsored by the Scout troop.
Condition Os
Loftis Is Still
Unchanged
The condition of Dan Lof
tis, young Roxboro man in
jured in an airplane crash in
Georgia last week, remains vir
tually unchanged, according to
a communcation from his mo
ther last night.
The local youth is still in an
unconscious condition, having
yet to recoznize his mother or
anything around him, despite
recent reports to the contrary.
He continues, however, to take
slight nourishment.
Loftis and his pilot, Jack
Withers, of Danville, were re
turning home from the Miami
air races in a Cub plane when
they crashed in a fog near
Midville, Ga.
Featherston
Rites Are Held
This Afternoon
Mrs. Myrtle Strain Featherston,
wife of Detective George Feath
erston of the Durham police de
partment, well known former re
sident of this county, died yester
day afternoon at her home in
Durham.
Funeral services were held this
afternoon at 2 o’clock at Calvery
Methodist church and interment
was made at Burchwood ceme
tery here.
She is survived by her hus
band, her mother, Mrs. W. M.
Strain, and six children, William
Preston, Lewis, Mollie Anne,
George, Jr., Jane and Rebecca
Featherston, one sister, Mrs. C.
T. Adkins and one aunt, Miss
Ruby Morris.
Pall bearers were C. T. Adkins,
T. M. Phillips, C. M. Featherston,
J. M. Featherston, C. E. Brooks
and G. B. Masten.
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State Students
Practice Teaching
At Bethel Hill
F. O. Cratts of Raleigh and F.
T. Roberts of Mount Gilead, N. C.,
seniors in Agricultural Education
at N. C. State College arrived in
Person County this week to do
practice teaching under the sup
ervision of A. G. Bullard, teach
er of agriculture at Bethel Hill
High School.
Mr. Cratts and Mr. Roberts will
observe and teach in the Bethel
Hill Department of Agriculture
for six weeks in order to pass a
requirement for the college cour
se. During the six weeks these
students hope to be able to ob
serve other departments in high
school.
Twenty-six more state college
boys are placed in different
schools throughout the state
where they will also do practice
teaching.
While Mr. Crotts and Mr. Rob
erts are in Person County they
will reside with Mr. and Mrs. A.
G. Bullard.
VISITOR
W. M. Linker of the division
of sanitary engineering of the
State Board of Health was here
for a tour of inspection Tuesday
afternoon but was called to San
ford. He is expected to return
soon to make his official in
spection of local cases and eating
places.
Hundreds Os Dollars In
Big Prize Money Offered
Workers In This Section
$600.00 In Cash Will Be Given First Award
i Winner For A Few Weeks’ Work. $400.00 In
Cash For Second Winner. Other Valuable Aw
ards And Guaranteed Commission For Live
Workers. You Can Win.
Could you use $600? Somebody in this section is going to re
ceive that amount for a few weeks’ work. Dozens of other energetic
people are going to receive other valuable awards by helping The
Person County Times build up the number of its subscribers.
Join Now In The Drive Where Everybody Wins
With a more attractive list of valuable awards than has ever
been offered in this vicinity in a similar undertaking. The Person
County Times makes formal announcement of a big cash offer cam
paign in which hundreds of dollars in big awards and cash commis
sions will be given away. A two-page announcement in this issue
gives the details of this big enterprise. The list consists of some of
the most alluring and attractive awards imaginable.
The object of this cash offer campaign is to increase the already
wide and highly creditable circulation of this newspaper to even
greater proportions. This paper is going to pay its friends hand
somely for helping to introduce the publication to other friends, and
neighbors.
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The award list is headed with valuable cash awards, and the plan
adopted by The Person County Times is a novel one. This paper
could reach thousands of new readers by employing scores of solici
tors to cover this section, but it would take quite a long time to do
the work thoroughly. In inaugurating the cash offer campaign, The
Person County Times adopts a better plan—a quicker method. This
plan also gives its friends and readers an opportunity to earn big
rewards during their spare time. The cash offer campaign will make
a lot more noise and create interest and fun and there is nothing
like having fun along with business.
Big Pay For All
An especially attractive feature of the “Cash Offer Campaign’'
is that all will be paid well for the results they obtain. A cash com
miesion of 20 per cent, will be paid to all who remain active and do
not win one of the regular awards. Thus the cash offer campaign
is a sure thing for the beginning. Their reward depends entirely on
the effort put forth and the results obtained,
Spare Time
All one is expected to do in order to earn one of the splendid
awards is to devote his or her spare moments to obtain subscriptions
to 7he Person County Times. In fact, sufficient time is allotted to the
campaign to allow one to see every friend and acquaintance during
spare time. The campaign will last seven weeks, beginning with the
first published list of candidates’ names.
Business Proposition
In offering such valuable awards to those who take an active in
terest The Person County Times is not playing the part of a philan
thropist—neither is it a something-for-nothing scheme. It is a busi
ness proposition pure and simple. The hundreds of dollars worth of
avvaids and cash commissions will be given in exchange for well
directed efforts on the part of the contestants. The awards them
selves assure each and every one that their efforts will bear fruit to
I the fullest extent.
Early Start Is Best.
In every man’s life there is one big moment when he makes a
decision that robs him of success—or leads him to fortune. The world
is full of those who yearn for better things that never seem to come.
Tire action is missing, but let him see and grasp the opportunity and
there will be an amazing transformation in his fortunes. The mo
ment he decided for or against that opportunity—whether he will
seize it or let it pass—he decided the whole future course of his
start in the race—it means everything to those who have ambition
and a desire to succeed. So the first and best thing to do is to enroll
youi name at once and get out among your friends and tell them that
you want their subscription or renewal to The Person County Times.
Cash offer campaign headquarters are located in The Person
County Times office. Call around and meet the manager of this busy
organization. All information concerning the cash offer campaign
is cheerfully given and suggestions made relative to outlining a.
successful campaign. The time-worn adage about the “early bird"
applies forcibly in this instance and the earlier the bird the bigger
the worm. The telephone number is 4501 and you may call by phone
and give the campaign manager your name and address in the event
that it is more convenient and the necessary supplies will be for
warded. Clip out the nomination coupon NOW while it is fresh in
your mind and bring it or send it to campaign headquarters. It may
mean that extra cash you hare been wishing for. DO IT NOW!
Dirt Streets Os City Being Repaired
All dirt streets, a part of the
county highway system within
the city limits are being repaired,
City Manager James C. Harris
said yesterday.
Already cracks have been pour
ed and hard surface streets un
dergone minor repairs, he said.
THE TIMES IS PERSON**
PREMIER NEWSPAPER!
A LEADER AT ALL TIMER
Now with the project for dirt
streets underway, rocks are being
removed, ditches cleaned out and
regrading is being done on th*
less travelled sand clay streets;
The work is being done by the
State Highway force, the city
manager indicated. , ‘lf