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VOLUME X PUBLISHED EVERT SUNDAY tc THURSDAY ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1939 NUMBER TWENTY-EIGHT
Great Interest Shown In Times “ Cash Offer ” Campaign
Folger Receives Important
Congressional Assignment
vittb District Representa
tive Given Post On Power
ful Banking Committee.
Washington, D.-C. - (Special)
Increased Congressional power
for North Carolina in the all-im
portant matter of committee
strength was seen here today, in
the appointment of U. S. Repre
sentative Alonzo D. Folger of the
Fifth Congressional District to the
Powerful Banking and Currency
Committee.
This major exclusive House
Committee has charge of all leg
islation affecting banking and
money policies of the nation.
Congressmen who win appoint
ments to a major Committee such
as Banking and Currency are as
signed to that Committee exclus
ively because of the importance
of its work.
The Banking and Currency
Committee has assumed even
greater importance than usual
during the past several years, and
because of drives to change th*
money standard, inflate the cur
rency, and the like, is expected
to be even more important in the
present Congress.
Appointment of the Mount Airy
Congressman to the Committee
is of unusual significance in
view of the fact that the Com
| mittee in the past has^beea.heav
ily dominated by Congressmen
of the “Wall Street” ’variety.
Congressmen from other sections
have clamored for increased rep
resentation on the committee.
> Congressman Folger will be
tile only member of the Com
r* mritlee from the Carolinas in the
F& jtfew Congress—and. upon his
shoulders will fall the protection
i.? ; of the interest of that section in
l • mpney matters that come be
fore the Congress.
'Commenting on the heavy in
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BOARD REAPPOINTS
HEALTH OFFICERS
’ Board Makes Biennial Ap
pointments And Hears Keg
alar Reports.
The regular biennial appoint
ment of new members and staff
officers was the main item of
business as the Person County
Board of health met Tuesday for
the first session of the year.
Appointed members of the
board, the health officer and
county physician are elected in
January of each odd year for a
two year term.
L Ex-officio members of the
! board, R. B. Dawes, R. B. Grif
s fin and P. L. Thomas elected
Drs. H. M. Beam, J. H. Merritt,
and J. H. Hughes to fill out the
board, which’ in turn reappointed
Dr. W. P. Richardson as health
t. officer, and Dr. B. E. Love as
l . county physician.
t . In addition to the biennial ap
pointments, important reports
fc'were iß*d6 Richardson, Dr.
i" A. L. Allen, assistant health of-
L ficer, sanitarian,
jf Following Richard
son that the coubi||||sppropria
f tion
| bably be sliced % bout $3,000
T if the present iegigtijjttg&approv
[x ed the recommendation of the
governor, the board Wefti on re
% cord as advocating anecessary in
i' crease in appropriation and a
■■ letter stating that position was
I ordered sent to the legislaure’s
P, - appropriation committee. The!
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Person County Times
Stockholders
Os Credit Body
Hear Reports
Members of the Graham Pro
duction Credit association, who
attended the fifth annual stock
holders’ meeting on Tuesday, Jan
uary 24, heard reports by offi
cers showing that last year this
farmers’ short-term credit or
ganization had made a total of
1720 loans, amounting to $359,-
988.00; that (the members now
own capital stock amounting to
$24,590.00, and that the associa
tion has built up a reserve of
$8,819.00.
The association serves Alaman
ce, Caswell, Durham, Guilford,
Orange, Person, Randolph and
Rockingham counties, and there
was a good attendnce from ev
ery section. The meeting was held
at Graham, in the Court House.
Directors elected were D. Lacy
Alston, of Chatham County, and
George C. Neal of Caswell coun
ty, to serve for three years. Oth
er directors, whose terms did not
expired this year, are S. E. Bos
well, of Guilford; L. L. Garrison
of and C. T. Hall, of
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Two Events
Scheduled For
Boy Scout Week
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Two local events have been
scheduled in observance of Nat
ional Boy Scout week February
6-12 .local Boy Scput officials
vised yesterdJJf
The annual Father-Son ban
quet hair been definitely set for
February 10, it was announced.
Arranged for Hotel Roxboro, the
affair is scheduled to get under
way at 7 o’clock in the evening.
All Person County scouts and
their dads have beefiTendered an
invitation to be prese’nt. Appro
ximately 150 people are expected
on this occasion. Making the prin
cipal after-dinner talk will be
J. S. Merritt, of
the local council. Arrangements
for the banquet are in charge of
Charlie Harris and Joe Guffey.
On Sunday, February 12, the
scouts of the county will unite
in a church service at the Cath
olic church at 7:30 o’clock. A
round 80 or more scouts are ex
pected to attend this service. |
Methodist You
To Get Underv
Rally For Durham District
Next Wednesday; Local
People To Participate.
The four-year youth crusade
of the Methodist church designed
to enlist thousands of young peo
ple in the progressive work of
the church will be launched in
the North Carolina conference at
seven district-wide rallies, the
first of which will be held to
night in Hertford, the climax
when
will be held in Durham.
Approximately 100 young "peo
ple, church leaders and ministers
are expected to attend the Dur
jbam jggfrley from this county with
pSrdMr Winstead, president of
ghe Tying Memorial young peo-
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Representative A. D. “Lon”
Folger, new congressman for the
imperial Fifth district, in which
Person is included, has brought
increased congressional power to
North Carolina by his appoint
ment to the powerful Banking
and Currency committee of the
House. Folger is a resident of Mt.
Airy.
BACKING SOUGHT
FOR NEW HIGHWAY
Influential Persons Here
Requested To Back Duke- -
Carolina Boulevard.
Influential persons in Roxboro
and throughout the state have
been requested to back the pro
posed boulevard between the
campuses of Duke university an I
the University of North Carolina
in letters written by propon
ents of he project in Durham and
at Chapel Hill.
The letters were signed by
, Judge Robert H. Sykes of Dur
ham, chairman of a joint com
mittee fostering the plan, Dean
D. D. Carroll of the University of
North Carolina, and Dr. R. L.
Flowers of Duke University. They
pointed to the age of U. S. high
way No. 15 and also to the in
creasing traffic oVer it, comment
ing:
“Highway No. 15 between Dur
ham and Chapel Hill is one of the
most dangerous main highways
in the state and will have to be
regraded and rebuilt in the near
future. The seriousness of the
stretch of old and dangerous road
the location at the ends of this
sretch of old and dangerous road
of two of the leading universit
ies in this country which increas
ingly bring together vast crowds
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ith Crusade
ivay Tonight
pie’s department, Rev. J. H. Lan
ning, Long Memorial pastor, and
Rev. M. W. Lawrence, Person
Circuit pastor, appearing on the
all day program.
Bishop Clare Purcell of Char
lotte, presiding bishop of the
North Carolina conference, will
head the list of leaders who will
speak at the rallies, scheduled for
Htjrtford, Kinqton, Wilmington,
Aberdeen, Durham, Raleigh and
Rocky Mount. More than 5,000
young people and leaders of the
young people’s work in the meth
odic church are .expected to at
tend.
Similiar rallies will be held in
all Southern States within the
next few weeks.
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PERSON COUNCIL
TAKESHONORS
ATYANCEYVILLE
Three Firsts Go To Local
Unit Os Scooting At An
nual Meeting Tuesday.'
The Person County Council of
Boy Scouts walked away with
three major awards at the annual
meeting of Cherokee Council
held in Ynceyville Tuesday night.
These awards were given for first
in advancement, first in camping
and first in membership. I
Person County had about 32
scouters on hand for this event.
Approximately two hundred were
present from the entire district.
The Silver Beaver award, high- 1
est in scouting, went to Louis C. i
Tolleson, scoutmaster of Troop j
32 of Haw River. This award is
given in recognition of outstand
ing service to boyhood.
Principal speaker on the pro
gram was W. A. Dobson, region
al scout executive of North Caro
lina, South Carolina, Georgia and
Florida. His talk, dealing- with
boyhood, was considered out
standing.
C. G. Somers, of Burlington,
was re-elected president of the
council and addressed all scout
ers briefly at the close of the
session. He stated that scout work
should be first in the mind of ev
ery parent jand urged, all to work
harder 'fS¥^Si(Mtmg.
A. P., Patterson was given a big
hand as he was re-elected execu
tive for the year 1939.
Heading the Roxboro delega
tion to Yanceyville were George
W. Kane, retiring president of the
Person Council and O. B. Mc-
Broom, president-elect.
Farmer’s Body
Is Found Pinned
Under Burned Mue
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The family of Graham -Huff,
55-year-old farmer of the Berea
community, Monday identified as
his the burned body found Sun
day night in a stable that had
been destroyed by flames.
Burned beyond recognition,
Huff was discovered pinned be
neath a mule that also perished
in flames that ruined farm im
plements and a largo quantity
of feed in Johnny Thorp’s barn
near Huff’s place. Thorp is a Ne
gro tenant on the farm j>i Ned
Satterfield, also a Negro.
Members of the Huff family
made their identification through
a pipe and pocketbook found on
the body, and by false teeth found
with it. Huff had been missing
from home, they said.
Thorp said he was awakened
by the blaze at about TO o’clock
Sunday niglft, and was able to
save only some feed from the
barri. When the fire had died
down he found the dead mule,
and thought he made out the re
mains of a human being beneath
it. But neighbors advised him not
( to touch anything, so he didn’t
(invq3tiga>te futthetr. Monday
morning he called Sherrif E. P.
Davis and Coroner W. D. Bryan
to the sc§ne. Jb>i*
Coroner Bryan said a broken
fruit jar was found with Huff un
der the mule, and Thorp said it
wasn’t there Sunday night when !
he fed the animal. Neither offi-;
cer could find a reason why the
white man went to the bam, and
and the fact his pipe was in his
pocket indicated that he couldn’t
have set the place on fire by
smoking. Origin of the flames fo
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Preacher
Rev. R. J. Barber, outstanding
Danville minister and radio
speaker will preach here in the
Palace Theatre Sunday afternoon
at 3 o’clock with the public cor
dially invited to attend. He is of
Baptist domination.
NO NEW TOBACCO
CONTROLBALLOT
Growers Must Depend Up
on Soil Conservation To
Avoid Over-Production.
Washington, Jan. 25 After a
round-table discussion here today
with members of Congress from
tobacco-growing districts and De
partment of Agriculture officials,
a committee representing flue
cured, burley and dark tobacco
growers decided to look to the
Soil Conservation Act to control
tobacco production in 1939, but
be prepared to move forward
with a program for invoking 1940
quotas just as soon as the Sup
reme Court passes on the new
AAA act.
Out of the meeting today came
one definite recommendation
which the tobacco committee is
confident will do much to check
a huge tobacco planting this year,
and that is to amend the AAA
law so that in fixing the base
acreage for production quotas in
1940, the department will not in
clude 1939 acreage or production.
The tobacco meeting began this
mor/iing with the committee pre
senting,. a four-point program
calling for (1) A change in mak
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Roxboro Movie Patrons
Pay $1,894 In 61 Taxes
The 61 direct and hidden taxes
included in the price of the av
erage movie ticket drain more
than $1,894 annually from Rox
boro’s 723 movie-going families,
a survey by the National Con
sumers Tax Commission declared
today.
. “More than 16 per cent of the
price of the average admission
ticket is due to the imposition of
41 federal and 20 state and local
tax levies," the survey stated.
“Even in the enjoyment of
their leisure, the American fam
ily cannot throw off the stifling
pressure of their enormous tax
load. The cost of fopd, clothing,
automobiles
is likewise drastically increased
by direct and hidden'taxes. And
these levies are already equal to
300,000 Extra Votes
On S3O In Subscriptions
Offered During First Period
Plans Complete
For Birthday
Celebration Here
Plans are virtually complete
for the local celebration of the
President’s birthday here tomor
row, according to Co-chairmen
D. D. V. Long and Melvin H.
Burke.
A dinner dance at Hotel Rox
boro will be the main feature of
the event here, with proceeds a
bove expenses going for the cure
and prevention of infantile para
lysis.
Cost of plates has been set at
SI.OO each which also includes
I dancing between courses ana as-
I ter dinner. The festivities are
scheduled to get underway at
7:30 o’clock. Approximately 150
persons are expected to attend.
An added feature of the ev
ening will be the cutting of a 25
pound cake, the largest ever ser
ved in Roxboro, according to
Manager Karl Burger of the ho
tel. The local' bakery is baking
the monstrous birthday cake and
each person attending will be giv
en. a,slice.
Cither entertainment features
have also been arranged with pro
mise of a gala occasion for all
attending.
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Masons To Hear
Wake Forest Man
In Talk Here
Dr. Hubert M. Poteat of Wake
Forest college will be the prin
cipal speaker when members of
the local Masonic Lodge meet
here on February 14, Charles A.
Harris, worshipful master of the
lodge, announced yesterday.
Prior to the address by Dr. Po
teat, the Masons will attend a
supper at Hotel Roxboro. The pro
gram on which Dr. Poteat will
appear, will get underway at 7:30
o’clock in the lodge hall on Main
Street here in Roxboro.
Dr. Poteat is past grand mas
ter of Masons in North Caroina
and also past illustrious potentate
of Sudan Temple of the Shrine
in New Bern.
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“Learn from the birds what
food the thickets yield.”
—Pope
23.6 per cent of the national in
come.
“With 85 per cent of the white
families in the southern states
spending a yearly average of
sl6 each for the enjoyment of at
tending motion pictures, similar
movie tax loads prevail in all
communities in this area.”
The movie tax study was made
public by Mrs. William T. Han
nah, of Waynesville, North Caro
lina, state director of the NCTC.
With local units in more than
2,500 communities throughout
the United States, the NCTC is
Waging a non-political crusade a
mong women against “unneces
sary taxes that penalize the con
sumer,” Mrs. Hannah said. Head
quarters are in Chicago, she add
ed.
THE TIMES IS PERSON**"
PREMIER NEWSPAPER!
A LEADER AT ALL TIMER.
Announce 300,000 Extra
Vote Offer To Real Work
ers. ij
Entry Books Open.
Big Opportunity For
Those Who Expect Major
Awards.
The entrants in The Person
County Times “Cash Offer” Cam
paign are gradually swinging in
to line. The public is daily be
coming more and more interest
ed in this great profit sharing
event and in the progress of the
“live wires” entered in the race
for .the big awards. New entrants
art coming in every day peo
| pie who realize the generosity of
; the ‘‘Cash Offer” as an easy vay
to make some real money during
the next few weeks. Those who.
have entered so far have no par
ticular experience in soliciting
subscriptions. None is needed.
They are people from all walk*
of life people, who, for the
most part, are occupied with their
regular work during the day but
who appreciate the possibilitie*
of making their spare time pay
big dividends. \
Big Extra Vote Offer
For each and every S3O club at
both old and new subscription*-
sent in during the first period,
300,000 extra votes will be gives,
in the “Cash Offer” Campaign
These votes are in addition to the
regular votes allowed for each
subscription as shown on the
front cover of the receipt book.
Just think of it! Two ten-year
subscriptions constitute a “club"
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NEGRO SENTENCED
FOR LOCAL THEFT ,
Other Cases Disposed Os
In Two Day Criminal Ses
sion Ending Tuesday.
Charlie Kidd, Negro, who con
fessed that he broke a window xfe
Newells’ Jewelry store and took
approximately $75 worth of mer
chandise, was sentenced to serve
from three to five years on the
roads by Judge Vernon Cowper,
of Kinston, who is presiding over
Person County superior court here
this week.
Suspended sentences were giv
en Mary Elizabeth Kidd and
Henry Threath, Negroes, for re
ceiving stolen goods in connec
tion with the Kidd robbery.
The criminal docket was com
pleted Wednesday and the rest
of the week was given over to
the hearing of civil actions.
Other criminal cases passed on
by Judge Cowper are as follows:
Rufus Cameron, assault with
deadly weapon, $35 and costs and
pay the medical bills of the prose
cuting witness. •
Richard Pearce, Robert Perry
and Cleveland Alston, charged
with larceny of an automobile
were sentenced to the roads;
Pearce receiving three years; Per
ry 16 months and Alston 2 to 4
years.
The case charging Charlie Ta
tum with manslaughter was nol
prossed.
An eight months term on the
roads was handed down to John
ny Brown, charged with larceny
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