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SPORTS SLANT
Football Next Fall
No one knows now what next fall will bring and that
being true it is almost impossible to say just what will
be taking place on the football fields. In the Southern
Conference two schools have already decided not to
have teams. They are Washington and Lee and Furman.
All of the other members except Virginia Tech, David
son and State have had their spring drills and will prob
ably put teams on the field. Just what these teams
will look like is another question that cannot be answer
ed at the present time. It looks like the players will be
young fellows or boys who for one reason of the other
are being allowed to rdmain in school and complete their
course.
Duke has lost, during the winter, 20 players to the
armed forces. At William and Mary 45 players turned
out for spring practice and that looks like the school
might be represented by a fair team altho it is probable
that many of these will be lost before playing time
rolls around.
At the present time it looks like a majority of the
college teams will play baseball in a limited way.
Manure Provides !
An Important I
Dairy Return
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Manure represents an impor-i
ant return from the dairy herd,!
nd on account of the present
litrogen situation, it should be
most carefully preserved.
John A. Arey, in charge of
Dairy Extension at N. C. State f
College, said that this state-:
ment holds true especially for:
most North Carolina farms, be
cause their soils are badly *in
need of more organic matters,
in addition to the other essential
plant foods which are contained
in th? manure.
He poined out that the value
of manure depends to a large,
extent on the care which it re
ceivcs. If it is unduly exposed to
the weather during the winter,
about one-half of its fertilizing
value is lost through heating and
leaching. Where sanitary require-'
ments necessitate daily hauling.'
Legal Notice I
NOTICE SALE OF LAND
Under and by virtue of an or-*
der of the Superior Court of
Person County, made in that ac-.l
tion entitled The Board of Com-;
missioners of Roxboro vs. Willie ]
Barnett and wife, Lillie Barnett, i
and Bessie Barnett on the 10th :
day cf February, 1943, it being
that action to forecose tax liens,
the undersigned’ commissioner 1
will on the 20th day of March,;
1943. at twelve o’clock noon, in
front of the courthouse door in
Roxboro, North Carolina, offer [
for sale to the highest bidder, for j
cash, the following described j
parcel of land, to-wit:
Adjoining the lands of Natj
Barnett, the Roxboro and Hurdle |
Mills road et al and bounded as J
follows: That lot or parcel of
land situated in the corporate
limits of the Town of Roxboro,
on thie South side of the new
sand clay road leading from
Roxboro to Hurdle Mills, and on :
the West side of the old public j
road leading from Roxboro to [
Hurdle Mills and described asj
follows: i.
On the North by the lands of
Irving Barnett; on the East by,
thp old public road leading from
Roxboro to Hurdle Mills; on the
South by the lands of Nat Bar- j
nett and on the West by the
glands of W. L. Foushee et al,;
containing approximately three- j
fourths of one acre, more or less, 1
being a part of the lands convey- 1
ed to Nat Barnett by A. R. Fou- j
shee and of record in theoffice j
of the Register of Deeds of Pei;- j
son County.
This February 20, 1943.
MULJVTN H. BURKE,
Commissioner.
Fefc 21-28 Mar. 7-14
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it should be placed where the
fertilizing elements will be util
ized by some crop such, as small
grains or permanent pastures.
Where possible, it is an econo
mical practice to spread manure I
direct from the barn. Manure j
spread this month on small'
grains cr pasture, will showj
much greater returns than if it
is spread later.
Manure is not a balanced fer-;
tilizer, since it is lacking in phos- j
phorous. Arey suggested the use
of 50 pounds of superphosphate |
with each ton of manure, as it is'
hauled to the field.
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Civilian supplies of canned
vegetables frojn next summer's 1
estimated pack will be increased
about 10,000,000 eases under new]
food orders. Most of the increase 1
will be canned tomatoes and snap*
beans.
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The supply of vegetable seed;
promises to be sufficient for 1943
Victory Garden needs, but not]
large encugh to permit waste of
seed through careless sowing,'
neglect of a planted garden, or!
planting on a soil too poor to pro
duce good vegetables.
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Legal Notice
NOTICE SALE OF LAND
Under and by virtue of the au
thority conferred by a judge
ment of the Superior Court of
Person County made in the
special proceeding entitled An
nie Satterfield Walker et al vs
Lonnie Satterfield et al I will]
on Monday, March 29, 1943, at;
12 o’clock noon, at the court'
house door in Roxborc, North
Carolina, sell to the highest bid
der, for cash, the lands describ
ed in the petition in said action, ,
to-wit:
Lying and being in Allens-,
ville Township, Person County,!
North Carolina, adjoining the'
lands of James Peace, W. A.
Denny, W. O. Harris, R. J. Buch
anan and John Ed Perkins and
bounded as follows: On the]
North by the lands of James]
Peace; on the East by the lands:
of W. A. Denny; on the South]
by the lands of W. O. Harris and!
on the West by Let No. 3 owned:
by R. J. Buchanan and John Ed]
Perkins, containing 100 acres, 1
more or less, and being Lots Nos.,
1 and 2 in the subdivision of the |
j Newton farm as shown by plat!
and survey made by W. R. Cates,
! surveyor, dated May 23, 1921,
which plat is of record in the of
; fice cf the Register of Deeds of
j Person County in Book 32, page
1 145.
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| The successful bidder will be
I required to make a deposit of five
j per cent, on the date of sale. The
i sale will remain open for 10 days
for an increase bid.
This February 26, 1943.
MELVIN H. BURKE,
Commissioner
Feb. 28- 14- 7-14-21..
Pemberton Penn and
Others Study Future
Os Tobacco Business
DANVILLE, Va„ March 13.
This sauthern Virginia city
where tobacco is more of a busi
ness than a habit, can’t help
feeling a trifle uneasy, and it’s
qualms are matched by those of
tobacco men in scores of other
auction and market centers.
Pemberton Penn, a wiry and
amiable bet tart-tongued dealer,
distilled the plight of the inde
pendent firms which formerly
depended upon foreign markets
into one sentence:
“Ccme in”, he said, leading me
back through a raw of musty of
fices. ‘‘l got a heap more time
■han money.” .
Tell of Troubles
The problem of all dealers
such as Pemberton and Penn is
to switch their business from
foreigrs trade to the domestic
market.
In 1940 there were more than
80 places to which American to
bacco was exported. Now, elimi
nating the lease-lend business
which is in government hands,
you can almost count the export
countries on the fingers of one
hand.
A. Berkeley Carrington, presi
dent of the Tobacco Association
of the United States, says there
are four immediate and difficult
problems facing the industry.
They are:
New markets to replace those
lost through the war.
Farm labor to replace men now
in the army or in war plants.
Whether government grading
is to replace the old and pic
turesque system of auction.
Ships in .which to carry tobac
co to the new foreign markets
which are left.
Dealers Worried
Carrington, a genial, bulky
man with just a touch of English
in his ways, might have added
another thumb-tack which has
the industry squirming every!
time it attempts to settle down.
He left that to an associate, the
baldish Col. S. W. Minor, an old
China hand who never would
forget his slow, sure Virginia
ways no matter how many years
he spent abread. |
The problem Colonel Minor
mentioned is the urgent need of
American cigarette manufac
turers for the type of tobacco
called Virginia bright, and grown
all along the eastern seaboard.
‘They’re crying for tobacco,”
he said.
L. N. Dibrell, head of the film
cf Dibrell Brothers, was a bit
more cautious. He has a low,
husky voice and the quiet way
of a man who knows what he is
about. Yes, he admitted, the
manufacturers are using up sup
plies in storage, and some of
them are down to cured stocks
not more than two years old.
They usually have tobacco piled
up from at least three crops, and
j sometimes four.
Domestic demand, however, is
! bouncing up at such a rapid rate
! that, viih a third of the bright
i crop put aside each year for
| lease-lend purposes, they are
j digging into reserves.
I Habits Unchanged By War
| It’s the cigarette which now is
j taking most of the. tobacco.
• Carringon is sure the war
won’t change the tobacco habits
of smokers, no matter where
they live. American tobaccos, he
said, have a flavor and taste of
' their own, and no other soil ever
! has been able to match their
qualities.
There’s one odd trait all to
bacco has no matter where it is
grown. The Japanese tried to
eliminate thrir purchases of Vir
ginia by importing seed, but
within three years the plants
were entirely transformed to
PERSuW COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO. N. C
the Japanese type and flavor.
We never have been able to
grow Turkish tobacco for the
same reason. Within three years
it has “gone native” completely.
Soil and climate are the reasons.
The tobacco men have a high
regard for the thoroughness with
which the Japanese went after
the problem. Not satisfied with
just importing the seed and try
ing to match the climate, one
industrious Japanese bought 400
pounds of Virginia soil, packed
it in bags and toted it back to 1
Japan. Even that didn’t work, 1
and the Japanese went right on !
buying the best quality of Vir
ginia bright until the China war]
put their financial structure on
the skids.
Danville is cne of the oldest
tobacco districts and markets in
the country, dating back to re-j
voluionary days. Before the
farmers had wagons to haul
their leaf to market, they would
pack it in stout hogsheads of oak
big enough to hold half a ton, 1
drive a pole through the center
of the hogs and attach shafts to
the ends. Thus the hogshead
would revolve much the same as
a wheel.
I found no particular prefer
ence in cigarettes among the men
I talked with, and men who
know these canny merchants say
they have a trick to impress
buyers of tobacco.
They carry four packages of
cigarettes—one of each of the
Person Rationing
Board Bulletin
By Person County Rationing
Board
Two important changes have
been made in Amendment II to
Maximum Price regulation 238,
Retailers of Certain Foods, which
control the retail prices of a
large list of staple foods such as
canned vegetables, sugar, cereals,
dried fruit, lard, coffee, flour
and other items set forth on the
regulations.
Tha time within which re
tailers are permitted to calcu
late new prices on the basis of
new invoice costs are—has beenj
extended to May 1, 1943. This|
applies to all items in Appendix!
A and B listed under this regu-1
lation has been abolished. In,
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place of this operation retailers
will be required to show the cal
culation for a new maximum
price on the invoice and to seg
regate and preserve such in
voices for inspection and exami- 1
nation.
Wholesalers who handle the
same food items are controlled
under a similar regulation
Maximum Price Regulation 237.
The dates fer calcuating new.
prices under this reguation has \
been extended to April 15, 1943. |
leading popular brands which J
may make their pockets bulge a'
little suspiciously, but helps 1
business. The obvious question
was, don’t they ever make a
mistake and pull out the wrong
brand.
“No,” said my friend, “they
seldom slip between the pack
ages and the pocketbook.”
Effective April lOth
The Price of The
PERSON TIMES COUNTY
WILL BE
$2-oo
t Advance
New or Renewal Subscriptions Will be
Accepted at the Old Price ol $1.50 tor as
Many as Five Years in Advance ot April,
1943, Provided They are Paid tor by Aprii
10, 1943. After This Date the New Price ot
$2.00 Per Year Will Prevail.
All Subscriptions Now Past Due
Are $1.50
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This Increase is Due to Increased Cost in
Production ol the Paper. Your Co-operation
Will be Greatly Appreciated.
Person County Times
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'UJUat yO4l Buy With
WAR BONDS
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None that heating plant along for
it must do you for the duration.
Metal . . . every bit we can rake
and scrape up Is going into War
Production to provide the tools for
our Boys on the fighting fronts.
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But start saving now for that heat
ing plant by your purchase of War
Bonds every payday through a Pay
roll Savings plan. War spending goes
on month after month. So War Sav
ings must keep pace, month after
month. Put at least ten percent of
your income in War Savings through
War Bonds, {/, y. Treasury Department
However, in this case the re
quirements for filing reports by
wholesalers has not been elimi
nated but the date for such fil
ing ras been expended to April
25, 1943. !
MAXIMUM PRICE
REGULATIONS ON
FRESH VEGETABLES
What Items are covered:
Tomatoes, snap beans, carrots, ]
cabbage, green peas, lettuce and i
spinach.
Base Periods and Effective
Dates: Temporary Maximum
Price Regulation No. 28 freezes
the prices of the first five items
listed. It became effective on
February 23, 1943. The base
period is February 18-22, 1943. j
Temporary Maximum Price
Regulation No. 29 freezes the
prices of lettuce and spinach. It
became effective on February I
25, 1943. The base period is Feb-!
ruary 20-24, ICI3.
How Maximum Prices Are De- !
termined: The maximum price,
son each seller is the highest 1
price he charged during the base 1
SUNDAY, MARCH 14, 1943
period to each customer during
the base period, his maximum
price is the maximum price of
his closest competitive seller to
a purchaser of the same class.
The regulation covers all sellers
except farmers. The farmer is
also controlled in iyis sales to
ultimate consumers, if during
the proceeding month his sales
of all food products to ultimate
consumers exceeded $75:00.
Records and Reports: Each
seller must prepare before Mar.
15, 1943 and keep for inspection
a record of the highest prices he
charged for each item during
the base period. He is not re
quired to report or post these
prices, but' he shall preserve all
his existing records relating to
prices charged by him for these
commodities during the "base
periods.
AUTO
PARTS
We are doing dur best to
carry a fairly complete
line of auto parts and at
the present time we have
a good stock. Ccrne to see
us for your part needs.
SEAT COVERS
AUTO GLASSES
BATTERIES
TOUTS BATTERY
CO.
Court Street