It Isn’t The
Heat, It’s The
Phraseology
New York—The weather man
is going to break down and tell
people what it’s all about.
James Osmun, the Govern
ment’s night meteorologist here,
confessed coyly he and fellow
l.ocus-pocusers have suspected all
along their pronouncements were
baffling many people—and they
’ve resolved to reform.
They’ve spent six months in
vestigating “strained" relations
between the weather man and
John Citizen, and concluded it’s
not the humidity, but the termi
nology—words that mean one
thing to the weather man and
something else to the man in the
street.
‘Tor instance," he said, “we
may predict: Tomorrow: Fair
and warmer 1 and we’ll be right,
because the temperature will rise,
but the average person will feel
cooler because other factors
change.’’
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any kind to the farmers
for oats and will allow you
$1.25
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also exchange flour.
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Special Morning Show
Monday 19:M;
Afternoons Daily Sdl-MBs
Admission 10-*6c;
Evenings Dally IM-fcU;
k Admission 10-25e;
Peace-Time Maneuvers Test Army Efficiency
l)< Whefi v ihe 'United States army began Its most extensive peace-time maneuvers at Manassas, Va., recent
ly, these members of the Twenty-eighth tank company of Pennsylvania, left, were kept busy checking over
their huge mechanised war steeds. Right: That mock wars have their casualty lists was proved by one pri
vate, who reported at the 104th medical regiment offices to receive first aid for an injured eye. The report did
not- State just how the soldier suffered the injury.
The layman’s weather is made
up of three elements, Mr. Osmun
said—temperature, humidity and
air motion—and these have to be
interpreted in terms of the indi
vidual locality—with the same
set of conditions, statistically, you
might feel warm in New York,
but cold in Denver.
People complain a lot about hu.
midity, but the researchers dis
covered incidentally high humid
ity usually goes with a low death
rate. They don’t know why.
They also found the best day—
'when you feel cheerful and pep
py and your mental and physical
processes are at their best—is a
warm day, not hot, with a high
relative humidity and a light
wind.
They call that the “optimum
days”—reverting slightly to old
habits.
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NEW YORK
MILK SHORTAGE
New York City—A strike of
milk producers in up-state New
York seriously threatened the
city’s supply, which requires
4,400,000 quarts daily. During the
hottest spell in years, when babi
es needed milk in larger quanti
ties than ever, C. I. O. agitators
waylaid milk trucks, beat up
drivers, and emptied hundreds of
thousands of quarts on the road
side. In some sections kerosene
was poured into the milk, and at
Hammdnd, N. Y., New York
Central rails were smeared with
grease to prevent the movement
of milk trains.
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Monday - Tuesday, Aug. 28-29th.
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! KANE RICHMOND
Afternoons Dally StlS-5:45;
Admission l#-25c;
Evenings Dally 7:M-9;1S;
Admission ld-Me.
Motor Horns To Go Beep-Beep
In England-Not Wonk-Wonk
London Motor horns are
not the “big noise” they were
there’s to be a limit to the vol
ume of sound they make in Brit
ain in future, according to an a
greement between the Transport
Ministry and manufacturers.
No horns with a loudness ex
ceeding 100 phons (wind tone
horns are allowed 105 phons), are
tc be fitted to new motor vehic
les after October 1, neither will
they be manufactured nor offer
ed for sale on the home market.
This is in line with efforts to
make city streets and country
roads places of at least relative
quiet.
Hours during which motor
horn blowing may take place
have already been limited no
one may sound his horn between
11 p. m. and 7:30 a. m. in urban
areas—but limitation of the capa
city of the motor horn for noise
is expected to help lessen the
strident sounds of business and
leisure hours. Compulsory limita
tion of the loudness of horns, al
ready under consideration, has
been rendered unnecessary by
this new agreement, the outcome
of negotiations lasting for more
than a year. But people these
days are not driving “on the
liom” nearly as much as they
used to; they drive more by sight
than by sound, experts say.
The agreement is the second
practical result of the report of
the Department Committee on
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PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO, N. (D.
motor noise issued in 1935. The
first was an agreement by manu
facturers that the standard of
quietness for motorcycles and
sports cars should be raised.
This measure has undoubtedly
helped to lessen road traffic nois
es to a certain extent. People,
however, still complain of the a
mount of noise some motorists
make with their cars, and the
most effective way of checking
this is generally agreed to be by
police action. Noise offenses num
bered 8,939 out of a total of 572,-
762 motoring offenses of all kinds
last year, compared with 10,703
noise offenses in 1937 out of a
total of 579,170.
In its report the Department
Committee set up a scale of nois
es, measured in phons. The upper
limit was set at 130 phons. Next
to that is the noise one hears
close to an airplane engine—llo
- phons. The noise of a pneu
matic drill is reckoned at 105-110
phons, a loud motor horn 100-105,
90-95 the interior of a tube train,
60-75 average to loud conversa
tion, and 20-30 the sounds of a
quiet country house.
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Jane Wishes-
Makes It So
If you wish for anything hard
enough, your wish will come true.
Jane Withers is an authority
for the fact that the theory works.
Ever since Jane has been a
movie star, she has yearned to
have Spring Byington, the fa
mous ones Family mother, play
her movie Ma.
Jane wished real hard. And
now her wish has come true. For
Miss Byington plays her mother
in “Chicken Wagon Family,” the
20th. Century-Fox film version of
Barry Benefield’s famous book,
opening tomorrow at the Palace
Theatre.
Leo Carrillo plays Jane’s screen
Daddy again, while others fea
tured in the cast are Marjorie
Weaver and Kane Richmond.
(P. S. Now Jane’s wishing
for Tyrone Power as her leading
man!)
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FREIGHT SPEEDS UP
Washington, D. C. Railroads
have not only speeded up their
streamlined passenger trains,
but even freight movements have
increased their pace. In 1920 an
average freight train covered 247
miles a day. Now the same
freight will cover 405 miles per
day, an increase in speed of 64
per cent.
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LEGAL NOTICES
ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE
Having qualified as administra
tor of the estate of Bennie G.
Rogers, deceased, late of Person
County, North Carolina, this is
to notify all persons having
claims against the estate of said
deceased to exhibit them to the
undersigned on or before the
19th. day of August, 1940 or this
notice will be pleaded in bar of
their recovery. All persons in
debted to said estate will please
make immediate payment.
This August 19th., 1939.
A. A. Rogers, Adminis
trator of Estate of
Bennie G. Rogers.
8-20-6 t-s
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ADMINISTRATOR’S
NOTICE
Having qualified as Ancillary
Administrator, Cum Testamento
Annexo, of the estate of D. W.
Owen, late of Halifax County,
State of Virginia, this is to notify
Buy and build in
SUNSET HILLS
Roxboro’s most beautiful and
only restricted residential de
velopment. Easy terms.
Thos. B. Woody, Agent.
all persons having claims against
the estate of said deceased to ex
hibit them to F. C. Owen, attor
ney for the administrator, at his
office in Durham, North Carolina,
on or before the 6th. day of Aug
ust, 1940, or this notice will be
pleaded in bar of their recovery.
All persons indebted to said es
tate will please make immediate
Palace Theatre
ADVANCE PROGRAM
From Monday, Aug. 28 thru
Wednesday, Aug. 30
Motion Pictures Are You
Best Entertainment
Monday - Tuesday, Aug. 28-29
Jane Withers with Leo Car
rillo - Marjorie Weavre -
Spring Byington - Kane Rich
mond in
“Chicken Wagon Family”
Jane and that Carefree Car
rillo Fellow are Partners a
gain! There’s excitement and
romance waiting around the
bend!
Unusual Occupations No. 3 (In
Color)
Hearst Metrotone News -
“News while it is still news.”
No Morning Shows;
Afternoons daily 3 ;15-3:45;
Admission 10-25 c;
Evenings daily 7:30-9 ;15;
Admission 10-30 c.
Wednesday, Aug. 30
The Jones Family (Jed Prou
ty - Spring Byington - Ken
Howell - June Carlson - Billy
Mahan) in
“The Jones Family In Holly
wood”
There’s trouble and fun a
plenty when your favorite
folks take in Movieland—and
how they take it over!
Andy Clyde in “Home on the
Range”
Morning Show 10;30; after
noon 3;15-3;45; Admission 10-
25c; Evening 7:30-9:15. Ad
mission 10-30 c.
You can determine at once to build a new home or
modernize the one you live in to answer every require
ment. We will be glad to have you call on us to assist
you in every possible way.
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want from the smallest to the larg
est. Our prices are more than
reasonable, based on quality ma
terials and workmanship.
Let us give you plans for a
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moderizing the one you now i
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SUNDAY, AUGUST 27, 1939
payment.
This the 4th day of August,
1939.
R. E. Ingram, Ancillary Ad
ministrator, Cum Testa
mento Annexo, of D. W.
Owen.
8-6-6tp s
Dolly Madison
THEATRE
ADVANCE PROGRAM
From Monday, Aug. 28 thru
Wednesday, Aug. 30
Motion Pictures Are You
Best Entertainment
Monday - Tuesday, Aug. 28-29
Randolph Scott - Frances Dee
. Ralph Bellamy - Walter Con
nolly with Warren Hymer -
Mala - J. Farrell MacDonald
in
“Coast Guard”
(First Run)
From the blazing tropics to
the Frozen North the trium
phant story of the service that
never sleeps!
Mechanix Illustrated No* 5
Paramount News - “The Eyes
and Ears of the World”
Special Morning Show
Monday 10;30
Afternoons daily 3:15-3:45;
Admission 10-25 c;
Evenings daily 7:30-9:15;
Admission 10-25 c;
Wednesday, Aug. 30
Ralph (“Dick Tracy”) Byrd -
George Barbier . Kay Sutton
- Frank Jenks in
“SOS Tidal Wave”
(First Run)
More terrifying than the re
cent “Broadcast from Mars”,
the televised flashes of a surg
ing tidal wave bring havoc to
a trusting, helpless people! ..
Travel Talk: “ Maderia, Isle .
of Romance” Robert Bench.
ley Cartoon; “How to Sublet” ■*
No Morning Show, after- -
noon 3;15-3:45; Admission 10-
25c; Evening 7:30-9:15. Ad
mission 10-25 c.