Friday
A program bj the Southern
Harmoniiere and an amatenr
moalcal contest will take place
Friday night, April 5. at the
conrthouse In WUkesboro.
In the contest ten dollars In
prises win be distributed to the
best band, beat fiddler, beat banjo
picker, best guitar player and
best tap dancer.
The occasion is sponsored by
the North Wilkesboro ba-seball
team and admission charges will
he 10 and 25 cents.
^Mtcare DfesAs
Occur h State;
Fewer Births
Use the advertising columns of
this paoer as your shoDoinK arulde.
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Raleigh.—^There were 332 more
deaths and 194 fewer births in
North Carolina last month than
in February. 1939, according to
a report issued Friday by the
State Board of Health'.? Division
of Vital Ssatistics, * which Dr.
ft. T. Slins.mn i.s the director.
Deaths fro"i alt causes reported
for February, lO'O. totaled 2,877,
as compared with 2.3 15 the pre-
cedin.g Fe'jruary. while births last
"innth totaled ,'>,639. against 5,-
8.33 a year ago.
Influenza continued to take
heavy toll, claiming ISS victims
last month, as compared with 73
in February. 1939. making the
total so far this year '.12, against
only 126 the first two months of
1939.
With a total of 40G deaths a-
moiig children under a year old,
•ho infant nortality rate last
month W.1S 7 2.0, as compared
with 63.8 a year ago, when the
total number of deaths was 384.
There was a slight decline, how
ever. in the maternal death rate,
which dropped from 6.5 to 6.4.
Pneumonia last month claimed
290 lives, compared with 277 in
February, 1939, but there were
only 119 deaths from pulmonary
tuberculosis, against 12S a year
ago.
Deaths from prevetitahle acci
dents contiiried to climb, with 96
last month, against 93 a year ago.
Three deaths were reported from
air transportation accidents. None
Wit- reported in North Carolina
ill February. 1939.
SCentauu^
Die In February
Raleigb. — Death certificates
for eight persons 100 years oM
and over were received among
the February reports made to the
State Board of Health’s Division
of Vital Statistics, of which Dr.
R. T. Stlmpson is the Director.
This was the largest number of
such certificates received during
any single month within the mem
ory of veteran employees in the
Division, they declared.
Of the eight centenarians
whose deaths were reported, six
were colored and two white. The
oldest was Mary^Parks, colored,
of Wilkes county, listed as hav
ing been 112, whose death was
recently reported in the press.
She froze to death, her certificate
said.
The others, together with race,
age. location and cause of death,
were:
Margaret Williams, colored,
lOS. Salisbury; lobar pneumonia,
(•actured hip.
Chaney Spell, colored, 106,
Black Creek: old age, heart trou-
ile.
Flora Blanchard, colored. 103,
Hertford: definite cause unknown
—probably chronic glomerular
nehprhtis ending in uremia.
Squire James Odell, white, 102,
Mount Airy: Influenza.
Edmund Short, colored, 102,
Wilmington; old age, heart trou
ble.
William McCrary, white, 101.
Brevard; old age.
Henry Wilson Cabarrus, color
ed, 100, Washington county; old
age.
The informant in each ca.se wa.s
the attending physician, except in
the case of the last named. Ca
barrus. who had no doctor.
It will lie many years, how
ever. until there will he indis
putable proof of the age of a cen
tenarian, as North Carolina began
re.aistering tirths in October.
1913. However, death certificates
of persons Worn prior to that time
are liased on the best available
inlormation. this information in
niiiiierous cases coming from the
record in the family Bible, which
is taken as authentic.
"Prompt registration of births
is liecoming increasingly import
ant,” it wa.s pointed out bv Dr.
Carl Reynolds. State Health
Officer. "While the law requires
registration, the individual is the
real beneficiary,” he went on,
“as proof of the date of one’s
lirth is necessary for entrance to
scliool. for a child’s first permit
to work, for a driver’s license,
the right to vote in insurance,
•he right to marry, the right to
enter the civil service, the right
u) enter the military service, for
eillement of pensions, for social
security benefits to tlie tilind, re
tirement for the aged and benefits
tor dependent children. There arc
:iumeroiis otlier reasons.
"The ibirtli certificate is the
line indisputable proof. Hence,
every child is entitled to one.
Don't put your child on the .»pol
iiy neglect.•’
The Vila! Statistics Division
has adopted a method whereliy
persons born prior to 1913 may
late their births legally record
'd. Dr. Keynolds pointed out. De-
;ail.s of this method may We re-
•eived by addressing the Division
if Vital Statistics, care of the
State Board of Health, at Raleigh.
•Vlready, many have taken ad-
.anlage of tliis, it was pointed
Hit.
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First'Grade: Beatrice Holaelow,
Vera Mae PrareUd, PaaT Trl]>>
lette, Jo Anne Holbrook, Don Bil
lings, Myrtle Caudill.
Second Grade: James BUIings,
J. W. Bryari, Hadley Cothren,
Billie Absher, Luginla Ray, Mat-
Cle Jane Wood.
Third Grade: Clyde Brown,
Rose Mary Adams, WUhelmina
Billings.
Fourth Grade: Peggy Lou
Brown, Mary Lee Castevens.
Fifth Grade: Boyd BlaclCburn,
Reta Prevette, Blaine Speaks.
Sixth Grade: John A. Abeher,
Glenn Brdwn. Thomas Sherman
Bryan, Maynird Y’ale, Nancy Cau
dill, Nell Holbrook, Greta Swar-
ingen.
Seventh Grade: Ruth Bauguess,
Ruth Joines, Mary Llvingstqn,
James Livingston, G. C. Richard-
Q.
Eighth Grade: Claude Sldden,
Eldon Spicer, Kathleen Adams,
Evelyne Brewer. Bessie Lee
Hanks. Rosa Lee Triplett, Faye
Warren.
Ninth Grade: Violet Carter,
Beatrice Castevens, Lizzie Couch,
Janie Hayes, Olene Holcomb. Ma
bel Sldden, Benlce Smith, Myrtle
Spicer, Reba Wiles, Hazel Bil
lings, Helen Billings, Doris Pru
itt.
Tenth Grade: Mae Alexander,
Melba Billings, Okie Lee Billings,
Lois Carter, Rosa Cleary, Maude
Johnson, Metta Joines, Rozie
Mayberry, Melba Waddell, Oravel-
la Sparks, Mattie Jane Warren.
Eleventh Grade: Nina Yale,
Maxine Sparks, Sallle Bauguess.
Sallie Gilliam, Olene Cooper. Stel
la Casey, Anna Lou Collins, Mary
Belle McGrady, Kermlt Spicer.
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PENMfEY^S
Little Progress In
Teaching Children
Safety Principles
North Carolina apparently is
making little or .no progress in
the matter of educating school-
age children to walk, play, shale,
and ride, bicycles safely, judging
from a survey just completed liy
the Highway Safety Division.
A study of pedestrian fatalities
in the State from 1935 through
1939 shows that tie percentage
of school-age childi'-n killed on
tlie streets and highways showed
no decline during the five-year
iieiiod.
The total number of pedestri
ans killed from 1935 through
1939 was 1,780, of which 3S1, or
27 per cent, were under 15 years
of age. Of tee 331 pedestrian fa
la lilies in North Carolina h
year, 93, or 28 per cent, were
under 15 years of age.
"This clearly • points to the
need for the teaching of safety in
the schools,” says Ronald Hocutt,
Director of the Highway Safety
Division. “The schools play a very
large par in the forming of’chil
dren’s habits, and the schools
are the proper place to teach safe
habits of walking and playing.
And this—the teaching of safety
in the schools—ultimately will
be the most effective means of
reducing accidents, injuries, and
fatalities on our streets and hlgh-
wa;s. A few schools in the state
are teaching safety, but what is
needed is the Inclusion of safety
education in the curriculum of
all State-supported schools.”
People 6000 Years
From Now Will See
Beer Brewed In ’39
St. Louis, March 20.—Sixty
eentnrips from now, a stainless
stepl door will swing open and
the people of 8112 A. D. will see
people of 1939 A. D. making, age
ing and drinking Budweiser beer.
Besides, the fiiturites may even
ia.sle the King of Bottled Beer—
although there will be only half
a pint of it to go 'round.
Preparations for the event 6,-
000 years from now are lieing
completed by Oglethorpe Univers
ity of Georgia with what it calls
the Crypt of Civilization. Many
motion picture films and products
emblematic of present day civili
zation will be sealed in the vault.
As the Anheuser-Busch brewery
here i.s the largest in the world,
it was invited to provide the
Crypt with a sound-motion pic
ture depicting the maiiufacti e of
its product and with a sample of
1 lie product itself.
Elaborate precautions to pro
tect fie sample of Budweiser were
taken. The beer was poured into
a lulie of lead glass and the open
end sealed by a glass blower. The
tuliie then was placed iu a stain
less steel jacket.
The sound-motion picture de
picts every phase of Budweiser’s
brewing process—how samples of
liarley are examined by the lali-
oratory for quality before any
grain is bought, how hops blos
soms are stored in linen bales in
aid-conditioned vaults to safe-
.gnard their aroma, liow every
stop in the great plant covering
70 city lilofks is controlled from
the lalioratory in the interest of
purity and uniformity. Even the
creation cf artificial spring wea-
ihor with heat and moisture to
make tlie barley sprout is failh-
fnlly shown. Finally, the serving
of Budweiser to today’s consum
ers is recorded.
When the Crypt is opened, 10,-
000 years of Beer’.s history will
liave been written. The earliest
records of brewing were written
in stone 2300 B. C. They are
now in (he British Museum,
The low-rent Federal housing
program will he expanded to
farming sections on an experi
mental basis. President Roose
velt ha.s' announced.
TAXI
WILKES CAB STATION
—24 Hour Service—
Phone No. 431
C. L. SEGRAVES, Owner
CLOIE KNIGHT
Foriierly with Quality Cleaners
Announces The Opening
Of A Sewing Room In The
Basement At Penney’s
Store March 1st
All kinds of sewing and altera
tions at reasonable prices.
Telephone 37
Baltimore.—Fred^ck Cluurlei'
Jennln^',' 93, a retired, clergyman
and author of Plainfield, N. J„
planned hla third marriage when
a llce^e was issued for him to
wed Mrs. George Tyler, 70, of
Seven-Mlle-Pord, Va.
"There Is a difference betweee
me and the usual doddering old
man of 90,” Jennings had said
in announcing jilang to be mar
ried here today. "I’m only as old
as I feel, and I feel about 20.”
He was not present when Mrs.
Tyler obtained the license.
The couple met 40 years ago at
the Brethren meeting house at
Seven-Mile-Ford, where Jennings
was preaching, hut had not seen
each other for seven years. He
said they had been corresponding.
BANKRUPTCIES
Bankruptcies among American
farmers were at their lowest point
in almost two decades during the
1939 fiscal year, showing a 21
per cent drop under the .previous
year.
IhTv
London, March 18.—The ' 4v*
863-ton Italian collier Tyna Prl-
mo broke in two today alter lui
explosion off the southeast ooaik
of England. All 'hkit one member
of the er«w were .resened.
Ads. got iMaDtloa—and
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T. E. CAIN
(Sty BaxiMr fflu»p
21-2% Penalty
On 1939 County Taxes If Payment
Is Not Made On Or Before
AprO 1st, 1940
Pay Yoor 1939 Taxes Now Aad
Save This 2Vi% Penalty.
C T. Doughton,
SHERIFF OF WILKES COUNTY
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