IF IT IS NEWS ABOUT
PERSON COUNTY, YOU’LL
FIND IT IN THE TIMES.
VOLUME X PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY & THURSDAY ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA SUNDAY, JANUARY 29, 1939 NUMBER TWRNTY-NINH
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Biggest Extra Vote Offer Os Entire Campaign Now In Effect
Person County
girths Exceed
Deaths By 456
Speaker
Dr. Maurice C. Pincoffa, pro
fessor of medicine at the Univer
sity of Maryland, who spoke on
■“Blood Dyscrasias” at the regular
weekly .meeting: ..Wednesday
night of the Post Graduate Cour
in Medicine b«(ing held in
Durham. The course is sponsor-*
ed by the Medical School and
Extension Division of the Uni
’ versity of North Carolina and will
continue through February 15. A
similar course is being held in
Charlotte. Several local doctors,,
it is understood, are attending the
course.
Fowler Speaks
To PTA Group
At Longhurst
T. J. Fowler, sanitarian with
the local health department, spoke
to members of the Longhurst
Parent Teacher association Fri
day night at their regular meet
ing in the school auditorium.
Using as his subject “Value of
Sanitation,” Fowler told the as
semblage how sanitation alone
could prevent many diseases, es
pecially typhoid fever and those
of the dysentery group.
The speaker discussed the W.
P. A. sanitation project in the
county which he has been super
vising and reported on progress
being made in individual and
community sanitation throughout
the entire county.
He also spoke briefly on the
"new F. S. A project which will
bring sanitary facilities to a lar
ge number of farm families free
of charge, a project which is be
ing carried on in this county only.
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Miss Rosa Newell
Dies Wednesday
Miss Rosa Newell of Peters
burg, Va., relative of numerous
Roxboro citizens, died at her
home Wednesday night.
Miss Newell was nearly 85
years of age and had been in
good health prior to her death.
Numerous relatives in this part
of the state and Virginia sur
vive.
Roxboro people attending the
funeral held Friday included Mr.
T. C. Brooks and Mrs. Daisy
Brooks.
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Vital Statistics For 1938
Show 635 Births And 179
Deaths In County.
The population of Person coun
ty in 1938 made a net gain of 456
through excess of births over
deaths, according to vital statis
tics in the office of Dr. Albert L.
Allen, of the health department.
In 1937 the increase amounted
to 465, nine more than during the
year just past.
Last year there were 635 births
in the county and 179 deaths, the
births being 19 less than in 1937
jyhen 654 children were born;
*and the deaths also being a de
crease of 10 less than the pre
vious year when 189 persons died.
During last year, as usual,
white births exceeded all others,
365 white children being bom,
while negro births numbered
268 and Indian 2. Boys also ex
ceeded girls by seven, 321 boys
being born and 314 girls.
Heart diseases led all other ail
ments in 1938 in killing Person
County residents, amounting to
nearly twice as many as any oth
er disease. Attributed to this
cause was aiatalof 68 deaths J>f
38 percent of the grand total for
the year. Among victims of this
disease a prepondance of males
and whites was noted.
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First List Os Workers
Who Will Share In Person
County Times Cash Offer
OPPORTUNITY AWAITS OTHERS
Below is the first publication of candidates in The Person
County Times “Cash Offer” Campaign. The votes opposite the
names show the number allowed on your Nomination Blank
Only. If your name is on this list, you are nominated as a
candidate; if you have not yet started, NOW IS THE TIME.
REMEMBER— MR. PUBLIC
The “Cash Offer” Campaign is just starting and many
more workers are wanted. Below is the first list of workers in
the campaign. Many others will be added as we cover other
sections. If you are considering the campaign—don’t keep it a
secret, let us go over every detail of it with you then you can
decide.
IF YOU CAN USE THE CASH—GET IN THE
CAMPAIGN NOW
Name Town Votes
Mrs. Coy E. Day Roxboro 20,000
Mrs. C. E. Stewart Roxboro 20,000
Miss Nannie Willie Cushwa.. Roxboro 20,000
Mrs. Matt Dickerson CaVel 20,000
Miss Margaret Brooks Woodsdale 20,000
Miss Mary Emma Strum Roxboro 20,000
Miss Lucy Gray Chandler ... Leasburg 20,000
Miss Margaret A. Jones Roxboro 20,000
Mrs. Howard Winstead Concord 20,000
Miss Anne L. Vickers Allensville 20,000
Miss Nan Owen Semora 20,000
Mrs. Belvin Barnette Roxboro 20,000
Mrs. lola Thomas Gwyn Semora .... 20,000
Wheeler Carver Roxboro 20,000
Mrs. Raymond Allen Leasburg 20,000
Miss Geraldine Clayton Longhurst 20,000
Mrs. J. W. Morgan Roxboro 20,000
Mrs. Carrie Lee Williams ... Allensville 20,000
Mrs. Jack Clayton Hurdle Mills 20,000
Mrs. Byrd Long Bushy Fork 20,000
Mrs. A. F. Nichols Roxboro 20,000
NOW IS THE TIME TO WIN THE S6OO
300,000 Extra Votes for Every $30.00 Club of Subscriptions
turned in during First Period—Get your winning Votes Now!
MORE WORKERS ARE WANTED!
Note: All Candidates are requested to make report to Cam
paign office on Wednesday and Saturday, in person or by mail.
New Equipment
For Local Clinic
Arrives On Scene
Approximately 3300 in new
equipment for the health depart
ment’s greatly enlarged venereal
disease clinic has begun to ar
rive,, according to Dr. Albert L.
Allen, local health officer.
Tihis grant, according to the
health officer, was made pos
sible by the Bulwinkle - LaFol
lete bill passed in the last Con
gress which provided for large
grants yearly for syphilis con
trol. The terms of the act pro
vide an annual increase in each
yearly appropriation ;until the
sum amounts to about 25 million
annually.
According to the announce
ment, a small part of the new
equipment and some of the old
will be transferred to the new
venereal disease clinic planned
for the Ceffo community, which
will be conducted for the health
department for negroes exclu
sively by Dr. R. A. Brice, local
negro physician. This additional
clinic will care for about 50 pa
tients.
The additional (facilities will
mean more thorough examination
and treatment of all venereal cas
es by the health department, Dr.
Allen stated, and should make
for more efficient and thorough
public health service for all of
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“And when you are desirous to
be blessed, I’ll blessing beg of
you.”
—Shakespeare
"Yarb” Merchant
Uncle Charlie ud Aunt Lena, "yarb” merchants, who for 50 year
have bronght their, .'ancient natural medicines to the curb market r
Winston-Salem, N. C., are doing at least average business. Sassafras
hemlock, mandrake and “John de Conqueror” root are among the’
war<». Many of the roots, leaves and barks are ingredients in magicr
formula of southern Negroes.
Judge Sustains Motion For
Non-Suit In SIO,OOO Case
Applications
For Crop Loans
Being Rj^ceiygd
Applications for emergency
crop and feed loans for 1939 are
now being received at Roxboro,
in Room No. 13 in the Basement
of the P. O. Building by J. C.
Howard, Field Supervisor of the
Emergency Crop and Feed Loan
Section of the Farm Credit Ad
ministration.
The loans will be made, as in
the past, only to farmers whose
cash requirements are small and
who cannot obtain credit from
any other source. The money
loaned will be limited to the
farmer’s immediate and actual
cash needs for growing his 1939
crops or for the purchase of feed
for livestock.
Farmers who can obtain the
funds they need from an indivi
dual, production credit associati
on, bank, or other concern are
not eligible for crop and feed
loans from the Emergency Crop
and Feed Loan Section of the
Farm Credit Administration. The
loans will not be made to stand
ard rehabilitation clients whose
current needs are provided for
by the Farm Security Admini
stration, formerly known as the
Resettlement Administration.
As in the past, farmers who
obtain emergency crop and feed
loans will give as security a first
lien on the crop financed, or a
first lien on the livestock to be
fed if the money borrowed is to
be used to provide or purchase
feed for livestock.
Where loans are made to ten
ants, the landlords, or others
having an interest in the crops
financed or the livestock to be
fed, are required to waive their
claims in favor of a lien to the
Governor of the Farm Credit
Administration until the loan is
repaid.
Checks in payment of approv
ed loans will be mailed from the
Regional Emergency Crop and
Feed Loan Office at Columbia,
South Carolina.
“Practice, not profession, un
derstanding not belief, gain the
ear and right hand of omnipot
ence and they assuredly call
down infinite blessings.”
—Mary Baker Eddy
Damage Suit On Trial
Since Wednesday Morning
Concluded Friday.
Judge Vernon G. Cowper,
Kinston jurist, •Friday afternoon
sustained a defense motion for
non-suit in the SIO,OOO damage
suit brought by relatives of Mrs.
Mary Jane Carver against Duke
university and Dr. Harold Fink
lestein, thus ending a case in pro
gress here since early Wednesday
morning.
Immediately following the jud
gement in the case, the plaintiff’s
attorney’s filed notice of appeal.
In a suit brought for Mrs. Car
ver, 80 year old resident of Per
son county, by her next friend,
plaintiff’s witnesses claimed ser
ious injuries sustained while be
ing examined in the hospital and
asked for damages to the extent
of SIO,OOO.
The defense based its evidence
on the fact that Duke hospital
was an eleemosynary institution,
also attempting to prove contri
butory negligence on the part of
the plaintiff.
Attorneys for the plaintiff were
F. O. Carver, Roxboro lawyer,
and Major L. P. McLendon of
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Along The Way
With the Editor
Well folks, we told you last week that we would give a report
this week on how Alex Bass was getting on. This writer is happy
to report that Alex is getting on fine. He mailed us a check for $1.50
last week and he will continue to get the Times. So far we can
give no report on Anderson Timberlake.
Clyde Swartz, you know Clyde, he works in the depot, went up
to Yanceyville last week. He attended a big Boy Scout meeting there.
About two hundred men were present and several were on the
piogram for speeches. It was observed by several of Clyde’s friends
that he was mad about something and what do you think it was?
Clyde wanted to make a speech and they didn’t call on him. It was
aid that he really had a great message and now he will have to
save it.
Jimmy Long. Jr. went over to Chapel Hill Wednesday night to
see Don Budge and Vines play tennis, now Jimmy is trying to play
like Budge and really believes that he is going to lick the whole
town when summer comes.
Marquis Lawrence, our preacher friend, is trying to get young
again. Lawrence wants the Kiwanis club to play the Rotary club in
basketball. This writer knew him when he was a very young man
and he has certainly aged in recent years. His old bones just re
tuse to work like they did some twenty or thirty years ago and
the same thing applies to J. W. Gaddy and Ben Brown.
Once again this writer, J. S. M., has been called Champ Win
stead and I resent it to the depths of my heart. I am not as old as
he is, I do not look like him and I do not appreciate anyone saying
so. If you think I do please keep it to yourself. I do not even want
to hear it suggested. I have been accused of looking like Mr. Win
stead before and enough of a thing is enough.
Cash Offer Campaign Now
Officially Open With Big
Awards Ready For Winners
Names Os Active Candidates Appear As Cam
paign Gets Under Way— Many Communities
Still Not Represented. Now Is Time To Enter And
Benefit By Early Start
MORE WORKERS ARE NEEDED
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Biggest Vote Offer Os Campaign Is In Effect Until End Os
First Period. Campaign Office Open Each Wednesday,
Saturday Afternoons To Receive Cash Reports From Candi
dates
School Patrol
Attends Durham
Meeting Friday
The local schoolboy patrol un
der the supervision of William
Sledge, teacher in the Roxboro
high school, Friday attended the
regular district inspection in
Durham.
Sponsored to promote safety a
mong school children, the patrol
has rendered valuable service
during the past year.
Friday’s drills were conducted
by C. R. Wood, recreation direc
tor of Durham. Following the
drills and inspection the entire
patrol, about 200 strong, repre
senting patrol units of Oxford,
Henderson, Durham and Rox
boxo, were guests of the new Cen
ter theatre in Durham.
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Sheriff Takes
Negro Trio To
State’s Prison
Charlie Kidd. Robert Pearce
and Cleveland Alston, negroes,
yesterday were taken to State’s
Prison in Raleigh by Sheriff M.
T. Clayton to serve terms for lar
ceny for which they were convict
ed in Superoir Court held here
this week.
Kidd was given three to five
years for breaking and entering
The Newell’s, local jewelry firm,
last Sunday night while Pearce
and Alston, two escapees in a
prison break here several months
ago, were given three and two
to four years respectively for the
theft of a nautomobile belonging
theft qf an automobile belonging
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THE TIMES IS PERSON**
PREMIER NEWSPAPER!
A LEADER AT ALL TIMESL
This issue of The Person
County Times carries the first
published list of the names of
those who have been nominated
so far as contestants for the big
awards offered in the “Cash
Offer” campaign. There is still
room for a few more real hustlers
and new nominations will be
Welcomed. There are a number
of communities in the territory
covered by this paper that are
not as yet represented and this
fact presents a golden opportun
ity for some “live wire” in any
of these communities to get in
on the ground floor, while the
race is just getting started, and
take a commanding place in the
list. However, it is not enough
to just nominate yourself. The
nomination is but the first step,
the starting point. Anyone contend
to rest after they have been no-,
minated will far in this"
campaign. Action, honest effort,
and that alone can get results.
Votes win prizes subscriptions
mean votes. If your friends see
that you are doing YOUR part,
they will jump in and help you
pile up a winning vote total; it,
however, they see that you are
unappreciative and are expect
ing your friends to do it all,
they will throw their support else
where. It’s up to you, candidates.
DO YOUR PART, your friends
will do theirs.
From the beginning of the cam
biggest extra vote period. Here
paign through the first period
is known as the first and
is the offer of bonus votes for
this period. For each and every
S3O club of both old and new sub
scriptions turned into campaign
headquarters during this period,
300,000 extra or free votes .will
be given. Each dollar over a S3O
club will carry a proportionate
number of extra votes. Here i»
what it means: The regular vote
as shown on the front of the re
ceipt books amounts to 5,000
votes; the extra votes under this
S3O club offer is at the rate of
15,000 extra votes on each one
year subscription. Think of itl
Three times as many free votes,
on each one year subscriptions
free votes on each one year sub
as regular votes. Os course, big*
ger subscriptions count towards
making up a club in other
words, a “club” is S3O worth of
subscriptions. They may be new;
or old and for any length of time
a little figuring is necessary to
see that the major awards arer
more than likely to be won vie
the S3O “club” route. Think it
over! Be a club member. There
will be a substantial drop in votes
after the first period closes. This
is done in fairness to those am
bitious ones who hustle out first
and do the work. Remember at
no time during the remainder of
the campaign will votes count as
much as under the present offer.
All candidates are asked to re
port all cash and subscriptions on
hand each Wednesday and Sat
urday during the campaign. The
campaign manager will be in the
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