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VOLUME XI PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY A THURSDAY
Tobacco Markets Will Open On Tuesday October 10th.
County Business Leaders
Favor 1940 Control Measure
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Bankers, Warehousemen
And Others Adopt Resoi
ution Wednesday. Tele
graph Burton About Mar
ket
Meeting in the office of the
. Boxboro Chamber of Commerce
Wednesday afternoon, interested
and other business
men of the city, together with a
representative gathering of mem
bers of the Chamber of Commerce
board of directors, adopted a re
solution favoring acceptance of
th eflue-cured tobacco crop con
trol measure for 1940.
The exact wording of the resol
ution is as folows:
“Be it resolved that the fol
lowing undersigned Person Coun
ty and Roxboro business men let
it be known that they favor the
adoption of the measure advocat
ed for the 1940 control of the pro
duction of the flue-cured tobac
co”.
Signers included Sam Merritt,
president of the Roxboro Cham
ber of Commerce, J. A. Long, Jr.,
Phillip L. Thomas, Gordon Hun
ter, S. G. Winstead, F. O. Car
ver, Jr., T. Miller White, E. G.
“Thompson, S. B. Winstead, Jule
Perkins, T. T. Mitchell, Melvin
Burke and Thomas J. Shaw, Jr.
This action was taken because
of the signers concern over the
serious situation caused by the
recent closing of tobacco markets
here and throughout the tobacco
•area when the Imperial Tobac
co company’s buyers withdrew
from the market under British
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Huge Sea-Turtle
Holds The Floor
Yesterday, looking for one
-thing and finding quite another,
the Times City Editor went into
the local Main street store operat
ed here by D. Pender company.
Because he wanted a wooden box
to make hs favorite cat a bed
the newsman had the box on his
mind, until he saw a huge 80
pound sea-turtle. The turtle,
resting quietly by the Pender
meat counter, stuck out his head
not a bit about strange uplanders
and opened a red mouth, caring
who wanted boxes for cats.
On Mr. Turtle’s back were
plainly visible oysterbeds and
not a few easily observed sea
son's, probably made plainer by
she long journey from Morehead
*City, where he had been caught
by Jim Waite. And now, Mr. Tur
tle crawls on the floor, doing a
bit of time biding of his own, un
til he will appear on Person and
Boxboro tables as “most delect
able soup.” But the City Editor’s
cat has only a cheese box to re
mind her of Mr. Turtle’s introduc
tion.
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COMMUNION SERVICE AT
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
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Sunday, October 1, will be ob
acrved as “Rally Day” by the Sun
day school of the Roxboro Pres
byterian church, with ‘a special
program planned for the Sunday
School, starting at 9:45 o’clock
Sunday morning.
At the 11 o’clock church ser
vice Communion will be observ
ed and it is hoped that members
Jj|&.j!9ake special efforts to at
tend this service. Visitors will be
wormed.
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Fatherly Advice
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Professing himself ready to fight
as his father did 21 years ago, Alvin
C. York Jr. wants to join the navy.
Sergeant York, who captured n Ger
man machine gun company single
handed daring the World war, is
showing his old tonic to Junior. The
sergeant thinks the boy’s place is
in the infantry, however. “The
time to hit,” young York declared,
“is while the hittln’s good.” *
Dr. Danner To
Hold Revival At
Long Memorial
Revival services will begin
Sunday, October 1 at Long Me
morial church with Dr. J. H. Dan
ner preaching. Dr Danner comes
to Roxboro with an excellent rep
utation as a preacher. He is pas
tor of Trinity Methodist church,
Sumter, S. C., and is an unusual
ly successful evangelist. Rev. C.
W. Austin, song evangelist of
Independence, Missouri, will lead
the singing and have charge of
the Young People’s work.
Services will be held each day
st 9;00 A. M. and 7:30 P. M. ex
cept' Sunday. On this day morn
ing services will be held at 11:00
A. M.
Rev. J. H. Lanning, pastor of
Long Memoral, extends a person
al invitation to all people in this
section to attend services during
ths annual revival meeting.
Peoples Bank Officials Are
Outspoken Control Advocates
Citizens Deeply Concerned
About Crop-Control Meas
ures.
Person county citizens who
have thought of the flue-cured to
bacco crop-control measure as an
issue of deep concern mainly to
growers and warehousemen will
read, with interest a signed 1 state
ment from officers of the People’s
Bank, of Roxboro, advocating a
doption of the 1940 control mea
sure as a purely common-sense
business proposition.
This statement is signed by J.
A. Long, president of the bank,
by Gordon C. Hunter, executive
vice-president and by D. S.
Brooks, cashier.
Taking the position that the
growers, as well as the general
public, need to be informed as
to the business and financial im
portance of an early and an ac
ceptable solution of the tobacco
FAVORS CONTROL
W. C. Waren, prominent ware
houseman of this county, made a
public statement this week in
which he said that he favored .to
bacco control 100 percent. Mr.
Warren said that he was more an
xious to sell what he had at a
fair price this year than to plant
more next year.
DR. ARMSTRONG
CHOSEN TO HEAD
HWANISDISTRICT
■ Son-in-law of W. H. Harris;
1940 Convention To Be
Held In Winston-Salem.
Election of Dr. Charles W. Arm
strong, of Salisbury, as District
Governor of the Carolinas Dis
trict of Kiwanis International,
constituted the chief business at
the close of the Twentieth Annual
Convention held Tuesday morn
ing in Raleigh. Dr. Armstrong,
who is a son-in-law of W. H. Har
ris, of Roxboro, is well known
here, where he and Mrs. Arm
strong have been frequent visi
tors.
Dr. Armstrong suceeds Richard
E. Thigpen of Charlotte as direc
tor of activities of 74 chartered
Kiwanis clubs in North and South
Carolina. Herbert W. Henning of
Darlington, S. C., was re-appoint
ed secretary-treasurer.
Decision was made to hold the
1940 convention in Winston-Sa
lem and the nominating commit
tee’s report was accepted in full,
resulting in the selection of the
following lieutenant governors
for the nine divisions of the dis
trict; Division 1, Horace Eason of
Shelby; Division 2, Russell W.
Whitnerof Newton; Division 3,
Charles R. Barber of Greensboro;
Division 4, J. Warren Pate of
Fayetteville; Division 5, Hal Pitt
ard of Oxford; Division 6, Frank
Reams of Scotland Neck; Division
7, Arthur A. Ruffin, of Wilson;
Division 8, Edward K. Pritchard
of Charleston, S. C., and Division
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crisis, Mr. Long and his associates
of the batik have assembled in
their statement a number of con
cise and telling facts regarding
reasons for their own, from the
banker’s point of view, support
of the 1940 crop-control measure.
Mr. Long’s statement re-em
phasized the point that the Unit
ed States Government, as such,
has no desire to force the farmers
into adopting a control curb on
tobacco production, and it also
brings out the fact that the gov
ernment, because of the Johnson
act prohibiting loans to foreign
governments that owe us money
£ t the present time, has been and
is unable to offer any other sol
ution of crisis problems than the
solution proposed by and with the
help of the Commodity Credit
Corporation. This solution, the lo
cal bankers feel is the only prac
tical and business-like proposi
tion now acceptable if local busi
ness is to be improved at once.
Hitler I Honored* By British Tommies
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As visual proof that England’s humor isn’t dead, these members of
(he London balloon barrage, trying to select a suitable name for their
canteen, decided that “Berchtesgaden” would be just the thing. Berchtea
gaden, Germany, is the Bavarian retreat of Adolf Hitler. *
Lang Addresses County
Council At Noon Meeting
Tells Council of Social A
gencies That Youth Needs
The Help Os Citizens.
Speaking of the present as a
time of international unrest, John
A. Lang, of Raleigh, state direc
tor of NY A, in a brief but force
ful talk to the Person County
Council of Social Agencies, at
their monthly luncheon meeting
Wednesday at the Hotel Roxboro,
said that there is “No time like
the present to set our own house
in order”.
By using this phrase to char
acterize his comments on the res
ponsibilities of doctors, lawyers,
teachers, ministers, business men
and welfare Workers have toward
the thousands of unemployed and
untrained youths in North Caro
lina, Mr. Lang brought his sub
ject closer home by presenting
three concrete avenues of help
ful approach toward solutions of
problems confronting state and
local NYA workers.
Mr. Lang urged, first of all,
that citizens pay more attention
to the work done with young peo
ple through the public school
system. Especially did he stress
the importance of vocational
guidance.
Next he spoke of the important
cooperation obtainable through
activities of civic clubs. In his
opinion these clubs can do much
to increase youthful morale,
working in close connection with
his third suggestion, namely, ap
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Maurice Wrenn
Gored By Bull
Maurice Wrenn, of Payne’s Ta
vern in the Hurdle Mills com
munity, five miles from Roxboro,
was painfully injured Monday
morning when he was gored by a
bull. Mr. Wrenn, who had gone
to his father’s pasture to drive up
some yearlings, was with several
other young men at the time he
was attacked by the bull.
After vain attempts to escape
the sudden fury of the animal Mr.
Wrenn managed to escape over
a fence but not before he had re
ceived several severe body lacer
ations requireing a number of
stitches. He is now a patient at
Community hospital, where it
wasjsaid that he will remain for
about a week.
THURSDAY, SEPT. 28, 1839
‘Hospitality Week’
Committee Meets
In Chamber Office
The “Hospitality Committee” of
Person 'County is meeting in the
Office of the Roxboro Chamber
of Commerce this afternoon for
the purpose of formulating plans
for the event next year.
“Hospitality Week” will be
held the last week in June and
the event promises to be even
grater than it was this year.
It is understood that a chair
man for the event this year will
be elected and that other offi
cers will also be selected.
“Hospitality Week” vas a big
success this year and everyone
seems to favor a “bigger and bet
ter” event for 1940.
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BAPTIST SERVICES
Rev. W. F. West, pastor of the
First Baptist church of Roxboro.
will preach twice Sunday The
topic of his morning sermon at
11 o’clock will be, “Fellowship
With Christ”. In the evening at
7:30 he will discuss “What It
Costs Not to be a Christion.”
The Sunday school will meet
at 9:45 Sunday morning and the
Baptist Training union will meet
at 6 ;30 in the evening. A cordial
welcome is extneded to the pub
lic.
Schedule Given By Health
Office For School Exams
Published below is a list of Person county public school medical
examinations, with the respectve schedules for individual schools.
Parents are urged by Person health department authorities to make
sure that their children attend school on the day or days the exam
inations will be given.
WHITE SCHOOLS
Nurse School Date Schick-Date
Allen Longhurst Oct. 11-Wed. Oct. 6-Fri.
Vincent Bushy Fork Oct. 31-Tues. Oct. 27-Fri.
Allen Olive HiU Nov. 8-Wed. Nov. 3-Fri.
Vincent Mt. Tirzah &
Flat River Nov. 14-Tues. Nov. 9-Thur.
Vincent Helena Nov. 27-Mon. Nov. 20-Mon.
Vincent Central Dec. 5-Tues. Dec. 1-Fri.
Allen Bethel Hill Dec. 11-Mon. Dec. 5-Tues.
Allen Ca-Vel Dec. 12-Tues. Dec. 6 Wed.
Vihcent East Roxboro Dec. 13-Wed. Dec. 7-Thur. -
Vincent Hurdle Mills Jan. 8-Mon. Jan. 3-Wed.
Allen Allensville Jan. 10-Wed. Jan. 5-Fri.
Allen oLnghurst Jan. 22-Mon. Jan. 17-Wed.
Allen Indian School Oct. 2-Mon. Sept. 29-Fri.
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Decision Reached By Sales
Committee Today In Durham
Second Meeting
Is Planned For
Crop Discussion
Following the sugestion made
at the courthouse meeting held
last week, there will be a second
county-wide meting on the tobac
co referendum measure Saturday
afternoon of this week, Septem
ber 30, at 2 o’clock, in the court
house. This meeting comes as a
climax to a series of sessions in
all communities of Person county
and is regarded as a most im
portant gathering which may de
termine the fate of crop control
in this county. All interested citi
zens are earnestly requested to
attend, rgardless of their person
al opinions concerning crop-con
trol.
Mr. Will Rogers, a representa
tive of the State Office will be
present to discuss all the inform
ation available in regard to the
referendum. As previously an
nounced in the State papers, the
referendum in regard to wheth
er or not the farmers wish to have
a control program for the 1940
crop will be held October 5 and
in compliance with the instruc
tions for bolding the referendum
on flue-cured tobacco marketing
quotas, the county committee of
the Person County Agricultural
Conservation association has de
signated the following polling
places for referendum balloting:
Allensville - Allensville school;
Bushy Fork - F. T. Whitfield’s
Store; Cunningham - Cunning
ham; Flat River - J. G. Chamber’s
Store; Holloway - Dixon’s Store'
on Highway 144; Mt. Tirzah -
Harmony school; Olive Hill - F.
D. Long’s Store; Roxboro - Court
house; Wocdsdale - E. J. Robert
son’s Store.
The polls in Person County
will be open from 8 ;00 a. m. to
5:00 p. m. on October 5, 1939
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REGULAR MEETING
The Person County Board of
Education will meet in the office
of Superintendent of Schools,
R. B. Griffin, Monday morning at
10:30 o’clock. It is expected that
only routine business will be tak
en up.
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“It is more blissful to give than
to take.”
—Unknown
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A LEADER AT ALL TIMES
NUMBER ELEVEN
Local Market Will Open
With All Other Markets
In Flue-Cured Belts.
Tobacco markets here and
throughout the flue-cured belts
will open Tuesday, October 10, it
was announced today in Durham
where the sales eomittee of the
Tobacco association of America
has been in session in order to
fix the date for the re-opening of
closed markets.
Decision as to the opening
date was reached after the sales
committeemen had ben in con
frence for some time. The meet
ing, starting at 11; 15 o’clock was
held in the Washington Duke ho
tel at Durham.
It is understood that the
markets will re-open regardless
cf the decision on referendum,
which is to b rendered by grow
ers five days before the opening
market .The referndum date is of
ficilaly placed as October 5.
News that Roxboro’s market
will open will only partially set
tle the problem brought on by
the tobacco crisis, but many citi
zens will feel that the final sel
ection of an opening date will
have a beneficial effect cxn local
business conditWis, .even though
the date selected is now more
than ten days distant
It must, however, be pointed'
cut that the Roxboro market will
open on the same date as other
markets and that there will be
no delay, after October 10. Farm
ers ,it is expected, will be on.
hand, anxious to sell their tobac
co here and all of them are urged:
to make plans for disposition of
their crops. j
PTA Has Profit
From Show Given .
In Qity Tuesday )
With a large crowd in attend
ance and considerable money in
its possession, the Roxboro Par
ent-Teacher association has ex
pressed considerable satisfaction
as a result of its presentation of
Tuesday night’s fashion show
and burlesque wedding. Local
women were interested in
the new fall fashions and they
and the men and young people
in the audience at the high school
auditorium thoroughly enjoyed
the farcial wedding uniting Miss
Gladsofit and Mr. Couldh’t-run.
P. T. A. officials expressly de
sire to thank Miss Carney’s Mil
linery store, Raiff’s Department
store, Leggett’s Department store
and Dolian Long’s haberdashery
for cooperation in the presenta
tion of the style show.
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PLATES ON SALE
License plates for the final
quarter of 1939, at proportionate
rates, may be purchased at the
Roxboro branch office of the
Carolina Motor club on Saturday,
September 30, according to an
nouncement from Miss Nina Ab
bitt, office manager. The date for
the beginning of the quarter ie
Sunday, October 1, but the sales
date has been moved up one day
as an accommodation to the pub
lic.
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“Speak gently; ’tis a little thing
Dropped in the heart’s deep well;
The good, the joy that it may
. bring .. . .
Eternity shall telL” ,
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