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IT IS NEWS ABOUT PERSON COUNTY, YOU’LL FIND IT IN THE TIMES, VOLUME XI Wilhelm Describes Work Os American Red Cross National Field Representa tive Talks To Person Coun ty Connell. At the monthly luncheon meet ing of the Person County Counril of Social agencies, held Wednes day, C. Leo Wilhelm, field rep resentative from national head quarters of the American Red Cross, as chief speaker stressed the point that he wished to “Talk with and not speak to” the members of the Council. Fitting his talk into the plans of the local Red Cross Roll Call, which will be held during the week beginning November 11, Mr. Wilhelm, who is a native of North Carolina, ended his infor mal address by quoting the words of another Red Cross official on the every day effectiveness of the Red Cross program. He said: “The reason we should enroll in the Red Cross is because the Red Cross does what the man on the street would like to do, if he was in the position to help to the same degree that the Red Cross is.” At the Council meeting full co operation with the Red Cross Roll Call was discussed and a re ' port was given by Miss Lake Al len on the progress of the Milk Fund campaign now being spon sored by the council. Giving part of the historical background of the American Red Cross organization, Mr. Wilhelm said that it was chartered by an act of Congress in 1905: that it is intended to act as a volun teer relief agency in time of war; that it renders distinctive “Home Service” work through the co operation of local chapters; that it endeavors to discover ways and means of the prevention of disaster; that it sponsors First Aid work, and through the Jun ior Red Cross, the development of Red Cross ideals in young peo ple. Commenting on the work of the Roxboro and Person Red Cross chapter, Mr. Wilhelm com mended the First Aid program to be given by Miss Lake Allen and seemed especially appreia tive of the support that the Coun cil of Social agencies can give and has been given to Red Cross work locally. In that connection Mr. Wilhelm took special pains to show that 50 per cent of all local contributions remains at home to do home Red Cross work, such as medical aid for crippled children, hospitalization and the like. j The Red Cross, as Mr. Wilhelm indicated is today a strong or ganization, ready to help at home and abroad. Last year there were t (Continued On Back Page) ! o ' JESSIE ROGERS BACK Jesse Rogers of Washington, D. C., has taken over the stand that is located at the entrance of the Palace theatre. Mr. Rogers is a native of this county, but has been away for many years. He has a number of friends in Roxboro and Person county who remember him from the "days of long ago.” o SALES’ CARD PUBLISHED On an inside page in today’s Times is a complete sales card to December 20 for three of Roxboro’s warehouses, the Pio neer, Winstead and Hyco. Those who are interested in the time of selling at these houses are re quested to turn to this advertise ment and cut it from the paper, it wil come in handy when your next load of tobacco is ready for market. PUBLISHED EVERT SUNDAY ft THURSDAY TOBACCO SALES GOOD With tobacco sales in Rox boro reaching about two mil lion pounds, the market is now ending its third week. Tobacco has been selling much better here the entire week. On Monday of this week one house averaged $19.98 for every pound sold. Another house averaged $17.00 for an entire sale this week. Much tobacco is being sold in the thirty-five and forty cent class. Big sales are expected to morrow and Monday and prices are expected to remain firm. Every house in Roxboro gets a sale every day and there is no delay. Victory Sunday To Be Observed By Methodists As a final step in completion of the church program, prior to the opening of the North Carolina conference of the Methodist church in Fayetteville, Novem ber 8, the members of Edgar Long Memorial Methodist church, Rox boro, will, obesrve next Sunday a special “Victory Day”, it was an nounced today by Rev. Jesse H. Lanning, pastor of the church. On “Victroy Day”, at the 11 o’- clock morning service, all mem bers of the local church will be given an opportunity to bring special offerings to the church and to fulfill their financial ob ligations pledged to the church during this past year. The service this Suday will be much the same as it was last year, with a special sermon by the minister and a roll call of all members who have united with the church during the past twel ve months. Mr. Lanning said he -is especially anxious to have all new members and young people present. o Local Officials Have Campaign Conference Here Plans for the annual Person county and Roxboro Red Cross Roll Call starting here on Nov ember 11, are being rapidly work ed out in complete detail, County Chapter chairman, Gordon C. Hunter, vice-president of the Peoples Bank, said today. It is expected that Mr. Hunter, F. O. Carver, Jr., 1939 Roll Call chair man, and other members of the executive committee will soon be able to announce the Roll Call campaign committee personnel. Following the Council of Social agencies meeting Wednesday, C. Leo Wilhelm, field representa tive from the national headquar ters of the American Red Cross, spent some time in conference with Miss Lake Allen, chairman of the campaign division of the Junior Red Cross chapter here, and with J. B. Snipes and Miss Velma Beam, of the county ag ency staff, who are directing the Red Cross work among members of Person County’s 4-H clubs. Mr. Wilhelm also conferred with Mr. Carver and Mr. Hunter and it is expected that the local campaign for Red Cross member ships and for larger contributions will meet with more response than it has for several years. flmonlMinifs THREE BOYS TO BE RECIPIENTS OF TOP AWARDS Will Be Given Eagle Scout Rank At “Scout Night” Program. r Three Roxboro and Person Boy Scouts, Robert Dickerson, “Tiny” Milam and Lawrence Moore, all of whom are members of Scoutmaster J. G. Gussy’s troop at Ca-Vel will receive awards en titling them to rank as “Eagle Scouts”, according to announce ment made today by Mr. Gussy. Their admission to Eagle Scout ing will take place on Thursday evening, November 9, at the Ro tarian-Kiwanian “Scout Night” program to be held on that date at 7 ;30 o’clock in the Roxboro high school gymnasium, and will be an important feature on the program. Action in these Eagle scout applications was taken last Friday night at the regular monthly meeting of the Roxboro and Person Court of Honor held at Ca-Vel. Scout officials present for the Court included City Man ager James C. Harris, Glenn Ti tus and Henry O’Briant, of this city, and Scout Executive A. P. Patterson, of the Cherokee coun cil, Reidsville, Two of these boys, Messrs. Mi lam and Dickerson, have but re cently completed the Eagle Scout course of training, including spe cial merit badge work, but young Moore passed the requirements sometime ago, said Mr. O’Briant, who added that the distinction of Eagle Scout not only requires the acquisition of a specified number of merit badges, but also presup poses exceptional distinctions of character, service and leadership on the part of the recipients. All three of these young men deserve congratulations, observed Mr. O’Briant. All of them live in the Ca-Vel community and are students at Bethel Hill high school and in all phases of com munity and school life they have carried forward the principles of Scouting. When they become Eagle Scouts on the night of November the 9th., they will join the ranks of Eagle Scouts George W. Kane, Jr., Joe Blanks, Jr., Matt Long, Jr., George Cushwa, Jr., and Bil ly Garrett, who have previously received the award, the highest in scouting, from the local Court. In the meantime, plans qre go ing forward rapidly for the com plete “Scout Night” program. It is anticipated that there will be this year, as last, an abundance of brunswick stew and soda pop for the boys and their leaders, parents and friends. Mr. Patter son, of Cherokee Council, and other leaders plan to be present to participate in a program de signed to emphasize and explain the worthwhile work being done here by the Scout organization. Third Week Finds Some Tobacco Markets Congested; Local Market Is In Good Shape At the beginning of the third week of the reopened tobacco markets of the nation there still remains around 400 million pounds of tobacco to be sold, ac cording to J. B. Hutson, assistant administrator of the AAA, in a first of the week comment on the general market congestion. Mr. Hutson points out that if sales all oyer the area are slow ed up one-third, .300 million pounds of the 400 million could be sold in 20 selling days and the redrying plants might handle 15 million pounds per day. In Roxboro, fortunately, since the opening day, the market has Five Thousand “Little Fishes” Find Home Here TThe City Lake now contains five thousand more fish than it contained last week. Here’s how it happened. Two or three years ago the Roxboro Chamber of Commerce, under the administra tion of Hugh Sawyer, ordered these fish from the Department of Conservation in Raleigh. The fish arrived Monday afternoon of this week and have been de posited in the lake. All of the fish were of the brim family and were apparently in good physical shape. They were sent here from Hoffman, N. C. and there were no charges at tached. The state supplies fish for lakes whenever it is possible. The peculiar thing about this fish story is that practically ev eryone in Roxboro had forgot ten that a request had been made for the fish. Mr. Sawyer left here soon after he made the request. Needless to say, local fishermen were glad to see them. HEFFNER HEADS PERSON WORKS PROJECT NOW Main Project To Be Fin ishing Os Local Country Club. T. D. Heffner, of Henderson, N. C., has been placed in charge of all W. P. A. work in Person coun ty. Mr. Heffner has had charge of W. P. A. work in several coun ties and on October 15 was given Person county in addition to oth er counties. His main project in this county will be the Country Club and the golf course. Mr. Viverette has been placed in active charge of the Country Club and will make his headquar ters in Roxboro. Heffner will maintain headquarters in Hen derson. Mr. Viverette is a grad uate engineer of State college and comes to his work here well recommended. H. T. Goodwin who has been resident supervisor of the Coun try Club project is no longer with the W. P. A., stated Heffner Monday morning. The privy project that has been in progress here for some time will be discontinued and all the workmen on this project will be 1 moved to the Country Club pro-1 ject. This should mean eleven more men. Mr. Heffner stated that he in tended to start to work in earn-' est on the golf course and to try to finish the project at an early date. He realizes that work there has been dragging and intends to' see to it that the project is push- 1 (Continued On Back Page) not been over crowded and to bacco sales have been made with promptness and profit to all concerned. Under the daily first, second, third and fourth sales plan in operation in Roxboro sales are held each day in each warehouse and little time is lost by either the buyers or sellers, and as a consequence there has been locally little, if any discol oration or damage to the tobacco on the market. Commenting further on the national .tobacco market scene, Mr. Hutson said that, based on incomplete reports, gross sales of flue-cured tobacco during the THURSDAY, OCT. 26 ,1939 Harris Announces Candidacy For Lieutenant - Governor FUND FOR BAND GROWS RAPIDLY Expected That Goal Will Be Reached Or Surpassed Before Closing Date. H. C. Gaddy, principal of! Roxboro high school, announced' Wednesday night that the drive! for funds to equip the high school | band is meeting with splendid ■ response and that he has little j doubt that the goal of SI,OOO to purchase instruments for the band will be reached and, per-1 haps, surpassed before the cam-! paign will be completed. Mr. Gaddy said several teams 1 of workers have been busy this; week securing funds. Many con-‘ tifbutions have been made in ' cash and a number of pledges have been promised, so that Mr. Gaddy thinks that the drive may | be terminated with the next ten 1 days. When he was interviewed Wed nesday night Mr. Gaddy seemed quite optimistic over the pros pects for band work in Roxboro. Although there have been courses in musical instruction offered in the public schools here in times past this will be the first year in which band music courses can be presented. There has been no hign school band here for the good and simple reason that there has been up to the present time no supply of instruments for the would-be blowers of horns and beaters cf drums. Teacher of the band when it is organized will be Frederick Moore, of the high school music faculty. o Roxboro Citizens Elected To Hold Office In Order At a meeting of the 10th. Dis trict of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics, held 1 in Oxford, representatives from; councils in Person, Durham, Or-' ange, Caswell, Alamance andi Granville counties, elected S. M.' Murray, of Roxboro, as vice coun- ! cilorjand W. A. Wrenn, also of Roxboro, was chosen as sentinel.! Tyree Jones, of Durham, was el-1 ected district councilor, and oth er officers chosen were Frank! Adams, cf Durham, secretary; B. W. Taylor, of Oxford, treasurer,' H. T. Currie, of Oxford, warden; C. R. Mann, of Graham, conduc tor; R. T. Snapp, of Milton, sen tinel; J. D. Foust, of Graham, as (Continued On Back Page) period from October 10 to Octo ber 20 exceeded 200 million pounds, and that this market congestion has in some instan ces resulted in damages to tobac co and losses to farmers. For the nine selling days dur ing this period, gross sales per day averaged 22.5 million pounds, department records show. Re jections were comparatively light and net sales were in excess by far sales during any correspond ing period in any previous year. During previous years, net sales in excess of 12 million pounds per day have not been maintain (Continued On Back Page) Candidate IpIHK SL 9| R. L. Harris today announced that he would be a candidate in the Democratic Primary for the position of Lieutenant-Governor of North Carolina. MISS ALLEN TO OFFER FIREMEN SPECIAL COURSE First Aid Will Be Given Other Interested Citizens Asked To Enroll. A course in First Aid is being planned here for the members of the Roxboro Fire department, it was learned today from Fire Chief Henry O’Briant. Chief O’- Briant said that the course, be ginning Friday night at 7:30 o’- clock, at the Fire house, will be taught by Miss Lake Allen, of the Person County health department staff, who will be assisted by Dr. A. L. Allen, assistant department head. It was indicated that while the course in First Aid has been de signed especially for members of the local fire department, all oth er citizens interested in obtain ing a knowledge of first aid are invited to attend. Except for the cost of certain booklets used in connection with the work, the course is free and it is open to all Mr. O’Briant said he expected a number of Boy Scouts and Scoutmasters will attend and that he hopes other people of the town and community will also join with the firemen in learning the basic principles of First Aid work. Frst Aid certificates must be renewed every so many years, it was learned, and for this rea son alone it is expected that lo cal interest in the course will be sharpened. A general course in First Aid usually includes methods of treat ment of burns, sprains and acci dents as well as instruction in ruls for the restoration of victims of drowning and electrical shock. THE OHIO STATE DRIVE For this month all new busi ness written is in honor of Pre sident Adams. Your agency has always been one of the top not ches in honoring him. We will appreciate you taking out a good dividend policy which has Dou ble Indemnity on it and for fifty cents a thousand dollars of acci dent insurance. Knight’s Ins. Agency. IN NORFOLK Mrs. N. A. Edwards, who has been ill for the past several weeks, is now recuperating at the home of her parents in Norfolk, Va. Mfs. Edwards holds a posi tion as teacher in the Olive Hill school. THE TIMES IS PERSON! PREMIER NEWSPAPER A LEADER AT ALL TIME! NUMBER FIFTEEN Served In General Assem bly In 1927, 1929, 1931, 1933 * 1935; Speaker in 1933. Roxboro, N. C., Oct. 26 R. L. Harris of this city today made an announcement of his candi dacy for the position of Lieuten ant-Governor of North Carolina in the next Democratic Primary. His announcement is as follows: “It is my ambition to serve as the next Lieutenant-Governor of North Carolina, and although the time for choosing is still seven months away—l believe I should acquaint the people of my Coun ty with my purpose to be a can didate in the Democratic Primary to be held May 25, 1940. I shall find it difficult to recommend myself, but I feel qualified by ex perience to aspire to and dis charge -the duties of this honor able and important office .1 sin cerely hope a majority of my fellow Democrats will feel the same way about it.” Mr. Harris has been a promin ent Democrat all of his life and has devoted many years of use ful service as a public state of ficial, having represented Per son county in the General Assem bly in 1927, 1929, 1931, 1933 and 1935. In the 1931 session he was chairman of the Appropriations Committee. In 1933 he was speak er of the House. In 1935 he served as chairman of the Education Committee. He has also served with the Budget Bureau and in many other capacities. For the past twenty-four years he has been treasurer of the Roxboro Cotton Mills and is a director of the Peoples Bank and the Roxboro Building and Loan association. He is an alumnus of Virginia Military Institute. Mr. and Mrs. Harris have six children, R. L., Jr., William, HI, Katharine, Page, Mary Louise and Betsy. It is a known fact that many prominent people of our state have urged Mr. Harris to announ ce for this position. People of Roxboro and Person county, who have known him for many years feel that the voters of North Carolina could not select a finer official or one who is better qual ified to fill the position of Lieu tenant-Governor of North Caro lina. MILLCREEKTO SPONSOR YEARLY HARVEST EVENT Will Be Held At Mill Creek Baptist Church. Rev .W. F. West To Speak. Completing plans begun by the late N. J. Todd, Mill Creek Baptist church will observe its annual Harvest Day program Saturday, November 4, 1939. At 10;30 in the morning the Woman’s Missionary union will meet in the Mission Chapel for a short business session, with the president, Mrs. I. C. Tingen in charge. At 11 o’clock the con gregation will assemble in the church for the regular Saturday morning service that is held the first Saturday in the month. Rev. W. F. West, pastor of the First Baptist church in Roxboro, will speak. Mr. West is well known in the community. At noon the Woman’s Mission ary union will serve a" benefit luncheon, the proceeds of which will to to a fund to repair the Mission Chapel built and given to the W. M. U. of Mill Creek church (Continued On Back Page)
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