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WE PROMOTE ALL HL4TTERS OF INTEREST TO HENDERSON AND VANCE COUNTY
VOL. I
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAV, JULY 2, 1931 5c A COPY
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PLAN PROGRAM ; HENDERSON FANS ARE
FARM MEETING ASKED TO BACK CLUB
A short course for farm women, a
meeting of the State Federation of
Home Demonstration clubs, discussion
of late findings in agricultural re
search, and general speeches and
lectures will feature the 29th annual
session of the State Farmers’ Conven
tion to be held at State College dur
ing Farm and Home Week, July 28,
29, 20 and 31
The final draft of the program is
now being prepared by the secretaries
s,nd presiding officers, says I O.
Schaub, secretary of the convention.
C. A. Sheffield, sasistant secretary,
has been busy on the details of the
program for the past week and an
nounces some interesitng features. As
in the past, the lectures in the sec
tional meeting will be repeated for
the benefit of those wishing to got
information on different topics. Some
outstanding speakers and lecturers
have been secured and preparations
have been made for a number of cam
pus gathring.s if weather permits.
Dean Schaub says an increased
number of rooms will be available in
the dormitories over last year. Re
pairs under way laftt summer have
been completed and one whole dormi
tory, 'not available at that time, can
be used this yeai’. All the rooms are
free of charge and will be assigned In
order of application as long as they
last. Meals will be served at a low
cost of 35 cents, each.
Fai-m organizations active in the
State will hold their summer meetings
during the four days and the North
Carolina Cooperative Cotton Associa
tion plans to give a beautiful pa-
egant showing the history and uses of
cotton. The farm women will also
give a cotton dress style show one day.
Fii-e outstanding farm women will be
awarded the title of Master Farm
Homemaker. Other program features
will make this convention one of the
most interesting in years, believes
scertary Schaub.
Help Mu.st Come From Somewhere
Or Gamecocksi Will Disbaprt
; Accorlng to statements made by Of-
: ficials of the club, Henderson' baseball
* fans will now have a chance to de
cide whether or not they want to
, continue having baseball in Hender-
ison. The club has run into financial
difficulties owing to the poor support
given the team by the fans.
I The club officials called a meeting
last night to decide just what steps
to take regarding he continuance of
i Hender.4ya BajsebaM. The out come
i of this meeting has not been made
public at this writing but it is expected
, that they will ask the Henderson
; fans and business men for aid.
■ From reports received the total
: gate receipts from the Henderson-
Asheville game played Monday night
W'ere only $200.00 which is hardly
enough to pay the players for one
day. Unless some radical change is
made or the f:ns support the team
but few more gamfc will be plaj'ed be-
, fci'e the gamecocks disband.
PEOPLES DRUG STORE
DAMAGED BY FIRE
t of Flying
Before He tver
SOUTH HENDERSON ! SEVERAL NEW STATE
BAPTIST CHURCH I WIDE LAWS BECOME
HOLDS REVIVAL EFFECTIVE JULY 1
Revival sen'ices began at South
Henderson Baptist Church last Sun
day. The services this year are be
ing conducted by Rev. L. B. Reavis
of Wake Forest, who is attracting
large crowds. Everybody is cordially
invited.
COL FRED SEILERIO
SPEAK HERE TONlGHTii
AViil Address Salvation Army In
South Hcndei*son Ilall
Col, Fred Seiler will speak to the
Salvation Army tonight iii the Salva
tion Army Hall located in South Hen
derson. Mr. Seiler wiil be accom-
: panied by his wife wiio will make a
' brief talk also.
Col. Seiler Ls one of the leading of
ficers of the south and is in charge
of the largest Salvaiion Army divi
sion in the U. S. A. The jiublic is
cordially invited to attend the speak
ing.
Prompt Response . By City Firemen
Save Possible Damage
Early Wednesday morning peoples
Drug Store' at North Henderson was
■slightly damaged by fire, but owing
to the prompt response of the City
Firemen it was soon extinguished by
the use of chemicals without a water
connection being necessary. The fire
originated in the rear of the store,
but the cause has not been deter-
I mined as yet. This business is owned
! by Mr. E. G. Dorsey and W. C. Reedy,
who estimate their loss to -be several
hundred dollars, which loss Is covered
by insurance.
COOPER AND O’NEIL i
MAKE CANOE TRIP
Mr. David Jackson Cooper and Mr.
Gilbert O’Neil launched their canoe
in the Neuse river, Tuesday, for a
trip down the river to Morehead.
Mr. Cooper and Mr. O’Neil are mem
bers of the National* Guards Company
“C” which will take their regular en
campment in,the next few days, and
it is the plans of these young men
to meet the company in Morehead.
We wish them the best of luck.
BROOKTON CHURCH
HOLDS REVIVAL
WANTS TO KNOW HOW
HE GOT HIS JOB
Revival mee'ting is novr being held
at the Brookton Presbyterian Church
north of Henderson in the Braystone
Section. The services are conducted
by Rev. Lassiter of Benson, N. C.
The meeting is expected to con
tinue through Sunday and a success
ful meeting is hoped. The public Is
cordially invited.
(Brisbane)
Mr. Mason, an editor, wants the
best story about “How I Got My Job,”
only graduates of 1931 classes to
answer.
Getting a job is only moderately
important. Keeping a job, and
achieving success where you start, is
the big thing.
When James Simpson was young he
decided to work for Marshall Field,
because Friend was the greatest mer
chant in the world. He worked for
Marshall. Field, and is now head of
Marshall Field & Co., and owns it.
John S. Burke, out of Yale, walking
along Fifth Avenue in New York,
building, and said to himself. “I
liked the looks of the new Altman
think I’d like a job there.” He got
it, stuck to it. Now, since the death
of Colonel Friedman, he is head of
Altman & Co.
These are axcepfion, but success us
ually consists in sticking. If you
can’t succeed in one place, you prob
ably will not succeed in another.
8,000 AMERICANS KILLED
BATHING LAST YEAR
RETAIL SALES IN U. S.
REACHED 53 BILLION
In Excess Of Fifty-Three Billion
Dollars
Washington, June 29.—Commerce
Department announced today that re
tail sales in the United States during
1929 were in excess of $53,000,000,-
DOO. \
Retail stores sold approximately $50,-
000,0000 worth of goods and approx
imately $3,000,000,000 W'ere direct sales
by manufacturers and other produc
ers.
The figure, the department said, was
approximately two-thirds of the un
officially estimated total annual in
come of the country from all sources
and five times the value cJf the ave
rage annual farm crop.
NEW SCHOOL CODE
PRAISED BY ALLEN
Safety Council ,Report Shows 30,000,
Fatalities Occured in Homes in
1932.
The National Safety CouncU has
made public alaxming figures regard
ing the number of lives lost in acci
dents last year.
L^st year, the report shows, 32,500
fatalities occured from accidents in the
homes of the nation. Industrial acci
dents accounted for 20,000 more.
Of the home deaths from accidents,
the bathroom contributed the most,
taking toll of 8,000 home deaths.
Asphyxiation and suffocation came
next, many infants being smothered
under bed clothing. Cuts and j
scratches ranked next, largely from in- i
■fection, and electric shocks, burns andi
scalds, poisons, falling objects, and in- i
sect bites followed in that order. |
Tells Educators Education Is Made
More Economical and Efficient
Raleigh, June '29—Dr. A. T. Allen,
State superintendent of public instruc
tion, says the responsibility of educa
tion rests entirely upon the State and
the State must pay the entire bill.
Addressing he annual conference of
secondary education here Friday night.
Dr. Allen praised the new school law,
which, he said, eliminates “county
lines,” makes education more efficient
and reduces costs.
‘■The general assembly,” he concluded,
“says that the education of a single
child is more important than any
county line.”
TREASURY BILLS
PUT ON MARKET
STORES TO CLOSE
Practically all the stores in Hen
derson will close on Monday, July
6th in-stead of Saturday, July 4th,
in order to observe the spirit of
the Fourth. This delay in clos
ing is made in order to accommo
date the many who do their shop
ping on Saturday for the week
end. Bear this in rain^ and lay
in your supply.
Washington, June 30.—An offer of
$100,000,000 in treasury bills dated
July 1 and 2 and maturing September
30 was announced by acting Secre
tary Hills.
The bills will be issued in two series,
each approximately $50,000,000, and
will be sold to highest bidders. The
July 1 issue will be 91-day bills while
the July 2 issue will mature in 90
days.
They wUl be issued in the usual
denominations of $1,000, $10,000, and
$100,000, on the basis of maturity val
ue.
The announcement by Mills begins
the first of the large refunding opera
tions for the next fiscal year. Before
the end of the calendar year the
tresaury must meet maturing obliga
tions of $2,074,205,000.
Col Lindbergh was a real American boy twemy-odd yearb ago. even
in his lovo for dogs. Whatever he expected to b.“Come, at that time,
it certainly was not an aviator.
HAS 30,000 REASONS pWCE NEWS LEADER
FOR STAYING SINGLEii IS CONGRATULATED
DEMPSEY ASKED TO
MEET FIGHT WINNER
Reno,
fcrmer
Drivers Of Cars Ar Required To Post
Bond Or Carry Liability Insurance.
Under the North Carolina new
“Fininclal Liability 55 act which goes
into effect tomorrow, all for hire and
Jitney drivers will be required to post
bond or to carry liability insurance.
Tlie law applies as well to all drivers
of private cars in that It requires
he same bond of insurance of any one
who may have outstanding against
them 5 judgment for pei.sonal injury
or proijerty damage. Until the judg
ment is paid, the State will refuse to
issue a drivers' permit.
The act constitutes wliat may lie
called the first along the path of
compulscry Insurance for both classes
of automobiles, public and private.
That the present enactment will prove
to be of benefit is reasonable to ex
pect, but that such benefits will be
limited by the narrow scope of lie law
Is inevitable. Tlie provisions appli
cable to drivers of private vehicles too'
much resemble the fallacy of locking
the stable door after the horse has been
stolen. A great many> instances of un-
;:ettled claim and insolvent defendants
are ."ure to arise, and the fact that
herealter bond or insurance is required
in no way reacts to the immediate ben-
fit of tiae pc-rson who has been harmed
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Nev. June 30.—Jack Dempsey,
heavyweight boxing cham-, .
pion, tcday received an offer of $750.- | IH'cviousiy. _
000 to meet the winner of the Schmel- | *' "'J' Changes
P ! The last Legislature provided for
addition to
ing Stribling championship bout in
CiirLstmas day charity program in
Cleveland.
The offer was' made by Ed Bangs,
Cleveland newspaper man associated
with the promoters of the Schmei-
ing-Stribling flglit July 3
CAMP CRAGGY
London—“I claim to have 30,0001 Tl’.e Vance News Leader,
reasons for being single.” 1 Dead Friends: -T)AV Cr*ATTTC XT
So says Santos Casani, well known I want to express to you my ap- Aj.
dance teacher who has been the un- preciation, for your kindness in print-
yielding object of many a young girl’s;ing article last week. Your paper is
affections. ' 3iie, and with others I say, we think it
^ , . Itlie coming paper. You surely gave
“Dm-mg the 12 years I have been j^^me, and we are glad to,
teaching dancing I have taught at Uaeak a gc.od word for the News Leader,
least 30,000 women, and I hav^jivi-rever we^ia\^ an opportunity,
learned something from each of ‘tliCi.'.ljjjR MRS. R. J. 'HEWTON,
that has either mcreased my admi-,
ration of the fair sex or the opposite,”' Route 2
he says. j Henderson, N. C.
“No man is the Impossible con-: June 29, 1931.
glomeration of charms and virtue.s vance News Leader,
of a w'oman’-s imagination. Nor, in Henderson, N. C.
my opinion, is marriage merely a state Dear Editor:
I wish to congratulate you on your
The last Legislature
five major changes, in
many minor ones.' in the State govern
ment. In the first place, it changed
the State’s relation to the public
schools, making them State institu
tions, in v.'hich the counties atid towns
co-operate, rather than county
by tlie-State.
Road ExiNTimont
The law by which the State will, on
July 1, take over the maintenance of
every county road. Is another of tlie
majjor changes. It can be the begin-
nlng of the first really Statewide road
Scout Troop NO. 30 left Sunday'
inent on whicli and on the handling
Boy
■ for two weeks encampment at Camp I , . ■ , , ^ j
1 Craggy in Wake Co. while there they depends,
iwill study a;lvanced scouting in all of ConuuKsions Job
I its phases.Tiie C4mp is under thcrdi- , ‘Change provid^
Ircction of Bill Bry;n, Scout Master, the Lt^islacure; can not actually •-,
and his several a.ssistants. Those from
in which a woman has the spending
of her husband’s money iiad must be
continually flattered and loved. But
this is just what women do expect,
and the do not hesitate to tell me so.
“I have learned always to beware
of any woman who seems nicer and
more considerate than the rest I
know it is only a pose. So single I
shall remain.”
FORMER SERVICE MAN
DIES AT OTEEN
first issues of Vance News Leader.
Many compliments have been paid
to this paper, and I think the story
which began in Thursday’s issue adds
much to its success.
Yours for a better Vance News
Leader.
yours truly,
MISS VERGIE HICKS.
Hendersicin attending are; Hodge
Newell, James Jenkins, Billie Powell,
Eric Flannagan, Thomas Royster, Ed
Wilkerson, Doug Poindexter, Edwin
Watkins, AI Wester. Frank Legg and
Ei'skine Clements, Jr.
BRUMMITT DECIDES
ON SCHOOL LEVIES
Attorney General Says Uniform Ad
I Valorem Tax Of Fifteen Cents Is
O’Neil a veteran of the S^hf^'june 30.-The ad valorem
mrld War died Sunday morning at i te levied for support of the six
Oteen. His wife was with him at the months schools under the 1931 act will
end and accompanied the remains
K„„v American', a unilorm
back to Henderson. The
Legion Auxiliary assisted
aiTangements for the ftmeral and
Mr. O’Neil was buried Tuesday after
noon at Sandy Creek Cemetery with
military honors.
15 cent levy on each
, , $100 worth of property at the 1930
m making ■ .j^^luation under a ruling Saturday by
Church
« Seek Unionj
Attorney General Dennis G. Brum-
mltt
Mr. Brummitt held that the 1931 re
venue act does not provide for a net
sum equal to 15 cents on eaxih $100 but
for a gross sum subject to the same
discounts and penalties as are allowed
for other county taxes.
Henry Burke, assistant director of
the budget, said this afternoon that
the , ruling of Mi*. Brummitt would not
have any effect on his estimates of
anticipated revenue for the next bin-
nium. It is estimated that the state
will have an almost certain deficit in
1933 aggregating $3,700,000 or more.
OVERHEARD ON STREET
WILEY H. PITTMAN
TAKES STATE JOB
pie but it was started by the a.ssembly
and will be carried further by a com-
mis.sion, already appointed by the
Governor. That is the revision of the
constitution, and through it the revi
sion of the State government, through
a series of constitutional amendments
to the constitution,
Brower Announces His Assistant Pur-
chasinff Director For Schools
Raleigh, June 29— The appointment
of Wiley H. Pittman to the position of
assistant director of the DivLsion of
Purchase and Contract in charge of
public school purchasing, was announc
ed Saturday by A. S. Brower, director
of the Division of Purchase and Con
tract. Mr.
A GUESS AS TO HOW
MUCH A MAN IS WORTH
The revelation that the late George
F. Baker’s estate is only a paltry
$75,000,000 or so, instead of the esti
mated $250,000,000 or more, is evidence
that it is not of much use to guess at
the size of great American indivi
dual fortunes. This is particularly
Pittman will report for | of men who have sons ac-
*
duty on July 1
Mr. Pittman for the past five years
has been Superintendent of Public In
struction in Edgecombe coun;ty and
prior to that time he was director of
the Division of Publication and did all
of the purchasin for the State Depart
ment of Public Instruction for a period
of several years. He has served in
various capacities in the public schools
of the State, as superintendent, prin
cipal and teacher.
BENTON BLALOCK
GIVEN CO-OP HONORS
Rev, Frank G. Coffin, Columbus,
O., of the Ciiristian Church, (above)
and Fred B Smith, New York, Con
gregational minister, are working out
plans for a union of the two sects^
Named President Of National Cotton
Co-Op Association.
U. Benton ±5iaiock, vice-pesldent
nad general manager of the North
Carolina Cotton Growers Co-opera
tive Afl.^ociatiion who Thursday was
elected president of the American
Cotton Cooperative Association by Its
board of directors at Washington, is
a firm believer in diversification^
In adilltion to cotton, Mr. ' Blalock
That— raised on his farm livestock, fruits
To thank success is the best way to; ^ay and grain crops. All his life
obtain it. j he has been Interested in banking.
That— farming and merchandising and for a
When the people understand {the number of years was a cottton buyer
Trinity of Faith. Prosperity will fol- shipper. ALso at one time he was
low. , I president of the Hardware Dealers’
That— , 11.U T Association of the Carollnas.
The Trinity of Faith is—Faith In American Co-operative, to
God, Faith in Man, and Faith in Your- ^jjich Mr. Blalock succeeds Allen
self. I Northington, of Alabama, as presi-
That— J ' dent, is a central association composed
It is better to keep silent and be eleven state co-operatives, which
thought a fool than to talk and prove ^ handled over 2,000,000 baie-s
that you are one. jof cotton with a total value of over
That— I $100,000,000.
When a man cannot sit suu m gjalock has been general man-
church during the Sermon it is prooi of the North Carolina association
that he is where God intended him to organization nine years ago.
be. I Under his management last year the
That^ , . I state ass.sociatlon handled over 177,-
Worshlp is not religion, it is the cotton,
fruit or religion. I
That—
The best w'ay to live so that people)
wont talk about you, is to do nothing j BANKS CLOSE SATURDAY
' Saturday being July 4th, a legal holi-
When the world becomes Christian,
poverty will be looked upon as a Sin.
REV. LEWIS P. SPENCER.
day in North Carolina, the Banks of
Henderson will not be open for busi
ness.
tively engaged in finances. Both for
the purpase of avoiding burdensome
inheritance taxes and through a de
sire to pass on to the younger gen
eration a part of the responsibilities
of weath, other noted men of great
possessions may_ have made transfers
that have not come to public know
ledge. The Baker incident is likely to
make newspaper men rather cautions
for some time to come in putting es
timates upon the wealth of members
of the older generation of American
financiers—Lowell Courier—Citizen.
NEW BERN MAN IS
STILL GOING STRONG
Has the World Record For Sunday
School Attendance
New Bern, June 29.—Claiming a
world record for Sunday school atten
dance, E. F. Lewis of Raleigh, a na
tive of New Bern, went to two Sunday
schools here Sunday for his ,1361st
consecutive week. He wears bars prov
ing his 26th unbroken yeax of Sab
bath school attendance.
Some time ago he received a dia
mond for the establishment of his re
cord over 79,754 registered Sunday
Sunday school students. The cham
pionship is acknowledged In the
United Stats, Canada, Elngland and
France. His record Is kept officially In
New Yerk and he has to account for
every Sunday that he happens to be
out of Raleigh.
Born in March 1867, at New Bern,
Mr. Lewis is now 64 years old, but
never misses a Sunday from Sabbath
school. On one occasion he was rolled
in two blankets and carried to Sun
day school from a Raleigh hospital;
at another time he was physically un
able to be taken to the church, so 44
of the cia-ss members met with him at
his bedside.
A member of the Simms Baraca
class of the Tabernacle church in Ral
eigh, Mr. Lewis is so far ahead of
other Sunday school attendants that
church authorities in Nashville, Tenn.,
have had to have his last three, bars
made by special hand order In New
York.