IP IT IS NEWS ABOUT
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VOLUME XI PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY & THURSDAY THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1940 NUMBER FORTY-ONE
E. Y. Floyd To Be Speaker
At Crop - Control Meeting
Large Number of Person
Tobacco Growers Expected
To Attend Pre-Election
Session At Court House.
Plans are now complete for the
county-wide mass meeting on the
tobacco referendum issue, accord
ing to announcement made this
morning by officials of the Per
son Farm Agency office. Speak
er for the session, which will be
held at ahe court house at 7;30
Friday night will be E. Y.
Floyd, State AAA executive, of
Raleigh. Mr. Floyd is expected to
present a strong argument in fa
vor of the proposed three-year
control measure.
Each township will have one
voting place, and producers of
flue-cured tobacco will vote ir.
the township in which they re
side.
The polls will open at 7:00 a.
m. and close at 7:00 p. m., July
20, 1940. The polling places in the
nine townships are as follows:
Allensville, Allensville school;
Bushy Fork, F. T. Whitfield’s
store; Cunningham, Cunningham
station; Flat River, J. G. Cham
bers’ store; Holloway, Dixon's
old store on Highway No. 144;
Mt. Tirzah, Harmony school; Olive
Hill, F. D. Long’s store; Roxboro,
Courthouse, and Woodsdale at E.
J. Robertson’s store.
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-Reports Not-Yet
Received From
Hospital Drive
Although R. M. Spencer and O.
B. Mcßroom, together with a
‘ number of active solicitors, have
been engaged in the Community
Hospital Debt Fund campaign
since Monday, definite reports are
not yet available according to in
formation received today. It is ex
pected, however, that fairly com
plete reports will be released be
fore the end of the week.
Encouraging results have been
obtained, according to Messers.
Spencer and Mcßroom and it is'
hoped that the county-wide drive
for the needed $3,400 to match
previous conditional donations
will be successfully concluded by
the first of next week. Leaders
of the drive have emphasized the
fact that present contributions to
the fund will ibe received on a
conditional basis.
Rev. Mr. Millican
To Be At Church
Speaker at the Sunday morn
ing service at 11 o’clock at Rox
boro First Baptist church will be
the Rev. O. L. Millican, of Hart
selle, Ala. Mr. Milliacn, who is
visiting his son, J. L. Millican, of
Roxboro, has been here several
weeks. The Rev. Mr. Millican is
regarded as an interesting speak
er and a full attendance is expect,
ed.
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Leggett’s In
Annual Sale
Starting Today
Leggett’s Department store is
now staging its annual July Clear
ance Sale. The sale started today
and will continue for several
days.
Bargains are being offered in
every department and the public
is invited to visit this store at
« once.
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PROCLAMATION OF
REFERENDUM HAS
BEEN ISSUED
Mayor Nicks By Official
Statement Urges Voters To
Express Crop-Control Con
victions.
Mayor S. F. Nicks, Jr., of this
city, in view of the fact that Per
son and Roxboro tobacco grow
ers will on Saturday of this week
join other growers in voting on
acceptance or rejection of control
led production of the crop, on
Tuesday morning issued a pro
clamation designating the week
as “Tobacco Referendum Week*’.
In the proclamation Mayor
Nicks characterized tobacco as an
outstanding money crop in this
area, said that the income deriv
ed from it is of vital importance
both to growers and to those en
gaged in businesses and profes
sions and urged all persons en
titled to vote to do so upon the
basis of their convictions.
Sentiment in the county is
thought to be favorable toward a
doption of the three-year control
plan, although a number of grow
ers have to date been reported as
undecided. Township meetings
have been held during the past
two weeks and a large crowd is
expected at the county court
house on Friday night at 7:30 o’-
clock, whep the speaker will be
E. Y. Floyd, State Triple-A execu
tive, from Raleigh.
Headed by Gordon C. Hunter,
executive vice president of a lo
cal bank, a number of Roxboro
business men have been filling
speaking engagements in the
county. Polls for the referendum
will open at 7 o’clock in the morn,
ing on Saturday and will remain
open until 7 o’clock that night.
Central and convenient locations
have been designated in each
township.
The proclamation reads as fol
lows:
“THAT WHEREAS, tobacco is
the outstanding money crop pro
duced in Person County and that
the income from tobacco is of
vital importance to the citizens
of Roxboro and Person County,
both to the farmers that produce
it and to those of us engaged in
business and' professions;
“THAT WHEREAS, a tobacco
referendum will be held Satur
day of this week to determine
whether the production of tobac
co will or will not be controlledj
“WHEREFORE, I do hereby
proclaim this week as “Tobacco
Referendum Week” and respect
fully urge the citizens of the coun
ty to acquaint themselves with the
facts involved in the questions to
be voted on, and further urge that
every person entitled to vote go to
the polls on Saturday and vote his
convictions.”
Signed: S. F. Nicks, Jr.,
Mayor of Roxboro.
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RELIEF PURCHASES
Since the program was author
ized in December, 1939, the Sur
plus Marketing administration has
bought for-domestic relief distri
bution 241,000,000 pounds of lard
and pork products,
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FARMER’S INCOME
American fanners in 1939 had
a gross farm income of $9,769,.
000,000 from farm production and
Government payments, announ-'
ces the U. S. Bureau of Agricul. 1
tural Economics.
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“Neithera borrower nor lend
er be for loan oft loses both it
self and friend.”
Willkies Look Over Their Fan Mail
Mr. and Mrs. Wendell L. Willkie are shown at work on a fanndry basket
full of congratulatory letters and telegrams. While the avalanche of mes
sages that followed Willkie’s nomination for the Presidency at Philadelphia
tapered off somewhat, they continued to receive hundreds of letters every
day from all parts of the country. The Republican nominee took a short
vacation before opening his drive for the Presidency.
EBERMAN RITES
HELD ATCHURCH
Prominent Resident Dies
After Long Illness. Was
Native Os Lancaster, Pa.
Edwin Eberman, 66, a native of
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, but for
more than two decades a promin
ent resident of Roxboro, died
Sunday night at 11 o’clock at the
residence of his daughter, Mrs.
G. C. Vickers, of the Mill Creek
community, following a heart at
tack. Mr. Eberman, who came to
this city from Lancaster and was
engaged in the lumber business,
has been in failing health for sev
eral years. He was a member of
the Moravian church at Lancaster.
Funeral services were held
Monday afternoon at 4 o’clock at
St. Mark’s Episcopal church, Rox
boro, by the Rev. Rufus J. Wom
ble, deacon in charge. Following
the rites at the church the re
mains were returned to the fun
eral home and after cremation the
ashes were taken to Lancaster.
Surviving are one daughter,
Mrs. Vickers, wife of the late Dr.
G. C. Vickers, of this city; two
sons, Edwin Eberman, Jr., of
Brooklyn, New York, and John
H. Eberman, of Norfolk, Va., one
grandson and five grand-daugh
ters. His wife died several years
ago.
Pallbearers were G. C., Theo
dore, William and D. H. Vickers,
Richard Young and James Shot
well.
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Wake Forest
Alumni To
Meet Friday
Wake Forest alumni and the
Baptist preachers of Person coun
ty will meet Friday night, July
19 at Hotel Roxboro at 6:30 p. m.
Mr. Zan Robinson, director of
public speaking at Wake Forest,
will be the speaker of the even
ing.
A M. Burns, Jr. will have char
ge of the meeting and he expres
sed the hope that this meeting
would lead to a permanent or
ganization of the Wake alumni in
this county. He also stated that
he had tried to contact all former
students of Wake Forest, but that
if he failed in this attempt, all
were urged to come as arrange
ments had been made.
Mr. Alexander, of the Baptist
State convention, will be present
at the meeting.
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“When troubles come, ' they
come not in single spies but in
batallions.”
Zone Meeting To
Be Held Next Week
At Orange Church
Methodist women of the Per
son, Orange and Durham zones
will have a zone meeting Wednes
day, July 24, starting at 10 o’-
clock in the morning and continu
ing until 4 o’clock in the after
noon, at Orange Methodist church,
near Hillsboro, according to an
nouncement made this morning
by Mrs. W. M. Fox, of this city,
zone leader.
Speakers will include Mrs. H.
J. Faison, of Faison, and Miss
Ruth Brooks, church deaconess,
of Roxboro. A full attendance is
urged, since this will be the final
meeting of the church year and
the last pre-unification meeting.
Plans for the coming year will
be discussed and the Florene
Robertson loving cup for largest
increase in auxiliary member
ship will be awarded.
Special music is planned for the
event and a soloist will be Miss
Evangeline Fox, of Roxboro, stu
dent at Westminster Choir school,
Princeton, N. J., who is a daugh
ter of Mrs. Fox.
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CHURCH SUPPER
Members of the Senior class,
Brooksdale Methodist church, will
have a benefit ice cream supper
at the church tomorrow night at
7:30 o’clock.
Mrs. T. H. Clay To Head
Person County Council
Demonstration Club Women
Os Person Also Plan Fed.
eration Day Program.
With eight out of the eleven
clubs represented, a meeting of
the Person County Council of
Home Demonstration clubs, at
which new officers were elected
and plans for the Federation Day
program were considered, was
held Monday night at 7:30 o’clock
ot the Rural Center, this city.
New president of the Council
will be Mrs. T. H. Clay, of Hel
ena, while the vice president will
be Mrs. Joe Humphries, of Bethel
Hill, and the secretary will be
Mrs. Robert A. Gentry, of Allens
ville. Other officers will be Miss
Aurelia Long, of Hurdle Mills,
treasurer, and Mrs. B. J. Long, of
Bushy Fork, historian. Presiding
over the session of the evening
was Mrs. C. E. Brooks, who is
completing her term as president
Members of the nominating com
mittee were Mesdames Don Whit
Harris Rites To
Be Conducted In
Durham Today
Funeral services for Albert Tur.
ner Harris, 68,* resident of 507
Willard street, Durham, who died
yesterday, were held today at 3
o’clock at the Duke Memorial
Methodist church. Rev. H. C.
Smith, pastor of the church, of
ficiated. Burial was in the new
annex of Maplewood cemetery.
Mr. Harris was the father of
Mrs. W. Rainey Hawkins, of Rox
boro.
A resident of Durham since a
young man, he had worked with
the Durham Hosiery Mills for 38
years. He had been retired since
the plant at Edgemont was dis
continued several years ago. He
had been in ill health for a num
ber of years and critically ill for
the past two weeks.
Surviving is his widow, the
former Miss Sallie Betty John
son; two sons, Luttie T. Harris
and T. L. Harris of Durham; two
daughters, Mrs. Pudie Royal of
Durham, and Mrs. Hawkins of
Roxboro; four brothers, J. Alex,
Sam G., F. P., and A. S. Harris
of Durham.
Pall bearers were James Wil
son, Frank Belvin, Buck Gooch,
R. J. Broadwell, Tom Goss and W.
P. Thomas.
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Contributions
To Red Cross
Funrxisrsr"" —
Contributions to the Person
County Red Cross War Relief
fund made during the past week
have totaled $25.25, according to
announcement by Mayor S. F.
Nicks, Jr., county manager of the
campaign. Total contributions re
ceived to date have reached $882.-
19, which is still considerably less
than the goal set.
Contributors during the past
week were: Miss Addie May Mer.
ritt $2.50, Antioch Bible school
$2.50, Mrs. Mamie Merritt (2nd.)
sl, Flem Whitt 25c, Miss Sadie
Brandon sl, Miss Claire Harris
(2nd.) $5, Rev. J. M. Walker, Jr.,
$2, Allensville Sunday School $6,
H. K. Sanders Sunday School
class $5.
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Use the dimmer on your auto
mobile. It was put there for a
purpose and you may be saving
' other lives as well as your own.
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field, L. F- Guill and Zadok
Slaughter,
Tentative plans for Federation
Day, at which reports will be pre
sented from all the clubs, call for
a session late in August or early
September, depending upon dates
at which a representative from
the State extension service will
be able to be present. It was also
announced that the Person clubs
late in the winter will sponsor a
radio program on “Refinished
Furniture for the Home”, and
that the Council has been asked
to sponsor a booth at the coming
annual State Fair in Raleigh.
In closing Mrs. Brooks urged
members of the Council to encour
age club members to conserve
surplus foodstuffs by an intelli
gent program of canning. Also
discussed at the meeting was the
tobacco crop-control referendum
to be held on Saturday. Musical
features included the singing of
“America” and “Blest Be the
Tie That Binds”.
Person Dry Forces
To Stage Campaign
Two New School
Busses Are To Be
Added To System
Two new school busses, one to
take care of the over-load at Mt.
Tirzah, and another to provide
transportation facilities at Hes
ter’s Grove and Queen’s church
for Negro children, have been
authorized by the Person County
school board, according to an
nouncement made today by Sup
erintendent of schools, R. B. Grif
fin, who said that the additional
bus for Hester’s Grove and
Queen’s church will provide trans
portation facilities for Negro high
school students and will mean
complete facilities for such stu
dents in each elementary school
district in the county.
At the same interview Mr.
Griffin stated that following con
sultation with State school auth
orities in Raleigh, he has been
authorized to say that six school
bus replacements will be made for
the new year. During the past
year thirty-five school buses have
been in use for the transportation
of Person white school children
and seven have been reserved for
Negro children.
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Petition Given - |
To N. C. Newbold
Petition of patrons of Lee Jef
fers Negro Elementary school,
Person county, for the addition of
an eighth grade high school unit,
space for which was contingently
provided by the Person County
Board of education, was on Tues
day of this week presented to N.
C. Newbold, of Raleigh, Super
visor of Negro education in North
Carolina, by R. B. Griffin, Person
Superintendent, who reported,
however, that the petition has not
been recommended toy Mr. New
bbold, although it may be present
ed to the State school commis
sion.
In view of the fact that the pe
tition has not been approved by
Mr. Newbold’s department, Mr.
Griffin expressed doubt that it
will meet the approval of the
Stale school commission.
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Mr., Mrs. Thomas
Leave For Manteo
Mr. and Mrs. P. L. Thomas and
their small daughter, Miss Billie
Th<ynas, accompanied by Mrs. W.
G. Frazier, of Durham, mother of
Mrs. Thomas, will leave Friday
morning for Manteo, where they
will visit Philip Thomas, Jr., at
Camp Seatone. They also expect
to attend the “Lost Colony” page
ant and will go from Manteo to
Holden’s Beach to join a house
party at the cottage of E. R. Tho
mas, of Erwin, father of Mr! Tho
mas.
Also in the party at Holden's
Beach will be Mr. and Mrs. W.
G. Farzier, Jr., of Durham. Rox
boro members of the party ex
pect to remain at the beach about
a week.
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LECTURE TONIGHT
Miss Ruby Jane Wells, of Bos
tic, will lecture tonight at the
Roxboro Rural Center at 7:30 o’-
clock on metal craft Miss Wells
will devote special attention to
the creation of articles of ham
mered copper. During her stay in
Roxboro she is the guest of Miss
Ruth Brooks.
THE TIMES IS PERSON’S
PREMIER NEWSPAPER,
A LEADER AT ALL TIMES.
Proponants Os A B C Also
Say They Will Have An
Organization.
Although Person county’s sec
ond election on the legalized sale
of whiskey will not be held until
Saturday, August 24, pro and con
forces are now being organized
and a stiff contest is expected.
Heading the county-wide Dry
organization is the Rev. W. F.
West, pastor of Roxboro First
Baptist church, who was also an
active leader of Person’s Dry
forces in 1937, when the Drys
were victorious by a narrow mar
gin.
Secretary of the Person Dry or
ganization is K. L. Street, Rox
boro business man, who, with
Mr. West, was chosen at a recent
meeting of the steering committee
at Edgar Long Memorial Meth
odist church, which was attended
by Mr. West, Rev. T. M. Vick,
and Rev. W. C. Martin, commit
teemen, and other interested citi
zens. Both Mr. West and Mr. Mar
tin, of Long Memorial church, de
livered special sermons at their
respective churches Sunday morn
ing.
Advocates of the A B C system
have not yet effected formal or
ganization, although there has
been discussion of the formation
of such a group and a number of
prominent citizens have said they
will look -with favor, «q..the adop- _
tion of the ABC system. In the
meantime, the Drys are planning
precinct organizations through
out the county and it is expected
that a number of well-known ad
vocates of the Dry cause from
other parts of the state will be
asked to deliver addresses here
before the voting takes place.
Person, by reason of the coun
ty board of elections approval of
the petition signed by more than
six hundred qualified voters, be
comes the first county in the state
to seek a second election under
the county option measure of
1937.
Primitive Baptist
Association Will
Meet Three Days
With Person’s state senator
nominate, Flem D. Long, of Rox
boro, as moderator, the annual
meeting of the Lower County
Line Primitive Baptist associa
tion, will .be held this week-end at
Tar River Primitive Baptist
church, near Moriah, according to
announcement made today.
Services will begin Saturday
morning at 11 o’clock, with El
der Lex Chandler, pastor of T%p
River Primitive Baptist church, a3
speaker. A business session will
be held in the Afternoon and re
ports from ■ffre various churches
in the association will be pre
sented. Sunday services lasting
throughout the day, will begin at
10 o’clock in the morning. Busi
ness sessions will be resumed on
Monday and will be followed by
a closing sermon at one o’clock
that afternoon.
It is expected that many fam
ilies will arrive at the place of
meeting Friday night and will re
main in camp near the site
throughout the three days of the
session.
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CHILDREN KILLED
More children were killed by
automobiles last year than were
killed by scarlet fever, diphth
eria, measles and whooping cough
combined. jj