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Subscribe to the Vance News Leader $1.00 per year NCE -Leader “COVERS VANCE LIKp THE DEW” The Vance News Leader is drastically indepen dent of iK)litics. It is published for all Vance people. WE PROMOTE ALL MATTERS OF INTEREST; TO HENDERSON AND VANCE COUNTY VOL. I A !!\ Wee'-*^ PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1931 5c A COPY NO. 4 NORLINA BrllLLED : CITY PARKIM LAWS i If-ftOTO CRASH I TO MFORCED: Harvev 'Weldfl Of Norlina, Loses Life: Chief of Police J. H. Langston an- *iar\ey * x. ncunced last Saturday to the people When iuto Runs Into tsus Henderson and Vance County that Warrnton.jjuly 4.—One person was! the pai'king regulations will be strictly Icilled and fre others injured here to- i infcrcsd, starting Monday July 6th. dav about / 12-30 when a Chevrolet 1 Special attention was called to the aaj aooutj ^ hour parknig law which for the coupe sm^hed into a Norfolk-Dur- ^ months has not been inforced ham bus pf the Gresham bus line ■ also parking in front of water hy- 1 * i A/Toiv, ■strAPt i drants, Stevenson Theatre and on the block ^ro/ Maui Street, I The atJad man is Hai \ ey Weldon, ^ gjiief Langston is asking the public popH^r youny boy of Noriina, and! to co-operate with him and the offi- a member of the local military Com- i cers since there was no desire to make pany, Co. B. The injured are Mrs. aiiest. W. H. Harrison of Jackson, cut about the head and on leg; R. D. Rowe of Portsmouth. Va., cut about the head; Billie Lanier of Warrenton. broken shoulder; M. Fox of Oxford, arm bro ken and cut; Walter Parish of War- rer.Ton, side and back bruised. Not any of those injured were regarded as being in a serious condition. Was On Running Board SUPPLYfflG THE NATION IS Bi JOB Won Health Title i IT IS YOUR DOTY TO REPORT THE 153,306 ONE-TEACHER SCHOOLS PAY AV- OF m PER YEAR Among Americar. indstries, elec- ’ _ tricity and gas )*anlc third. The Ti>e bus was coming from Norfolk seventeen billion dollars in\csted in and was one block from the main, Pi'ovidmg the nation with the^ two strett when the Chevrolet driven by j exceeded only by the in-, Geo^e R. Prescot and carrying Billy i vestment in agriculture and the rail- Laniei> and Wlalter Parish on the in- 1 roads. ^ | side and Harvey Weldon on the run-! Supplying the nations n^ds ^}th; ning board, crashed into the side of; gas ana electncity cannot be consid-| it from an intersecting street, fractur-, f ed as two separate and distmct in- Ing Harvey’s skull, wrecking the left, dustries, they aie t\> in sei"v ices. They side of the bus and causing it to be : go hand m hand, supp ementmg each ; tiirown against an iron beam on the i "'O^J^^hop and fao-j right side of the road, which badly i tones. light, heat a^d power which damaged the side and top of the bus. properly are the products of a single ^ The Chevrolet also was practically i., • i-i. i. * ruinded. Mr. Prescott was uninjured.. ■ Together they comprise the most Dies In Doctor’s Office potent force in the advancement of Weldon was picked up from the, civilization, turning the \vneels of m- street in a dying condition and rushed , dustry, removmg the loads from the to the office of Dr. W. D. Rodgers, i backs of labor, making hfe easier and where he died a few minutes later. | its burdens le^ arduoi^. As yet the The injured passengers were removed i Pubhc has only supeifipal knowledge from the bus and also carried to Dr. I the electric and gas mdustrys ope- Rodgers’ office, where they received! I’atimis, its development and policies, medical attention The history of the electric gas Dr. Rodgers was assisted by Dr. q. industries has been one of constant H Macon progres. Either or both are today Mr. Lanier was attended by Dr. F.! avialable in Practically every com- P. Hunter.. M. J. Bishop, driver of j “unity in the United State. Auprox- the bus, whieh carried five passengers, lately 42,000,000 cusomers are using w'as not hurt ! them, and more than 1,000,000 cus- A coroner’s jury empanelled by Cor- 1 tcmers are being added to this tre- oner Ed Petar this afternoon, claimed.r^sndous total each year. | that Mr.. Prescott was rssoons;b!e\ for; le.ss than Si-OOp.OOn ^a. i.j- the acciasnt and recommended he be j'"ested in electric I'Sht and iiower held for the grand jury under $500 ^ companies. In 1920 $4,100,000,000 bond. The bond was given.' | and during the next ten years rnore Was leaving For Camp I *han double that of the preceding The young Noriina man was in ™'enty. , Warrenton to leave with the local! Today electric power and light re- militarv company this afternoon for Presents ^ investment of approx- camp at Morehead City. He left the “lately $11,800,000,000; manufj^tured baggage car of the train at the depot gas, $3,000,000,000 and lapidly de- and came with Mr. Prescott to get one ; , natural gas busmess bnngs more look at the town before leaving,' the total capita.1 imjstment in sup- it was said. They were on the tvay P'yu’g hght, heat aiid power to prob- back to the depot when the accident ably well in excess of $17,200,000,000. occurred, .Funeral arrangements have ^ri 1900 manufactured gas was used not been completed but it is under- almost entirely for illummatmg pur- stood that Mr. Weldon will be buried but m the next 30 years the gas tomorrow afternoon at Warren PlaUis, industry saw greater development Billy Fink is pouring out a drink £or Evelyn Jungles. They are the healthiest boy and girl in Cook County. STATE DAIRYMEN TO MEET ON JULY 23-24 Several Prominent Daii'ymen Of the Country Will Make Interesting Talks At the Convention Tliat Will Be Held in Winston Salem _ The second annual meeting of the N. C. Dairy Association will be held in the Fair grounds of Winston Salem, N. C, July 23r and 24th. An elaborate progi'am featuring some of the leading Dairy authorities in the country and an exhibit from the bureau of Dairlng in Washington, D. C. has been planned. The Government Exhibit w'hich w’ill show many important phases of the Dairy Industry will be composed of nine booths. One will contain a talking cow* which will tell her own story about the kind ^f feed and care which will enable you to produce milk more profitably. On the morning of July 23rd the prcgTAm wi'Il be devcted to ih-s disjfes THREE SISTERS DROWN IN RIVER (■Carolina. Motorist) The family of the young boy so bru- i taliy murdered Saturday morning by j a hit-and-run driver has the sym pathy of the entire community.. The section in which the boy lived is deeply shocked oy tne very sudden ness and brutality of liis pa:ssing. Alert, bright and a keen student, the 5’oung fellow had many friends. He was knov.'n throughout tire commu nity in which he lived and many mem'oers of the Country Club knew him as a capable caddy. He was en route home from an early morning trip to the grocery store and was walking along the road, off the pavement, it is said, when the speeding car struck him from behind. His little body was knocked a con siderable distance and life apparently was extinct when -friends reached him. The body lay by the roadside. But the driver of the death car paid no at tention to it, other than to see that lie had been the cause of a horrible death. He pushed the accelerator even „ ,, „ , , , .. ! nearer the floor, if such was ix)ssible, Daiig-t-tcrs of J. .1. \\ instead Lose Lives i gpgjj gg rapid was his flight At Dangerous Spot in Tar River i that he almost forced another auto- Spi-jng Hope. July 2.—The three' mobile over a bridge, a short distance' daueiiter-; of I T Winstparl of Pra7ipr’s ! accident. A little further up daughters of J. J. Winstead of Fia^ers stopped to have his fuel Cross-Roads, were drowned in the j supply replenished, thus indicating ••IndiPii Hole” in Tar River this after- | that the thought of flight was upper- , noon at 4:30 o’clock. Tiie girls, wiciilmost in his mind. i several others, had gone out to wade ini Information is that residents along: the sireani near Bryant’s Bridge, 1 the highway state that this driver has which i- located near the Winstead! made a practice of fpst driving. He is; home and about four miles from Spring said to have traveled the road daily,! Hope. . The Winstead girls were hand i en route home from his night job at i in hard. Suddenly they were seen by ' a local manufacturing plant. His ' their companions to go down. Thel, method of driving is said to have in hole if something iTke a whilrpool and, spired predictions that .some day he ’ drovn;ngs have occured there before. | would meet with disaster. I The bodies were recovered by use! if such is the case, these residents’ of gi-ippling hooks. First to be should have reported his reckless driv- found -.vcs that of Pearl, aged 10. Next ing. They should have notified ' v/as bi'ought up that of Marya, 18, the sheriff's olfice that this man -was and t’ e last Minnie, aged 21. The a menace to public safety, and then; bMie.^ iff^e not found until about two an investigation could have been ho;j the ."4;!= sank in the deadly_ ipade. It a ston befn^or*- to his ' _ __ at n;sUst„ltiiiijii norc recklessness, no duubt that little fellow ' Sion of Dairy Feed. Tliat afternoon j rulile.^ The river is very swift at the would be alive today. | a tour will be conducted to near by! point and it is stated that neither of j Rpcrting such conditions is not a' Daii*y arm. Here a study will bei the g^.s came up for the second time. | matter of "squealing.” It is a matter of | made of cows, pasture, lespedeza andi The|iamily was in such distress to-, citizensliip and no conscientious per- alfalfa. .On the night of the 23rd i night (that no arrangements for the son should fail to do his duty in help- there will be a banquet at which, funeral could be made. The mother ing to elimmate such dangerous men- time Dean I. O. Schaub, Director of | cf thd gii-ls died about five yeara ago. ‘ aces to safety.—Winston-Salem (N. C.) the Extension Service of N. C. State!They tu’e survived by tlieir father and Sentinel. College will address the Dairymen As- bijothers, one grown and one about ^ sociation. 112 years of age. On the morning of July 24th W. J. i Frazier, Prcfe.ssor of Dairy Farming I ir A n n i-»t T infl T»TlTV'n F7 I of the university of 111. will talk on| LESPEDiiZA Rural one-teacher schools of the United States employed 153.306 teach ers. whose average education docs not go beyond the high school and whose average salary is $874 a year, the cur rent issue of School Life. oHicial organ of the United States Office of Educa tion. reveals. The study of one-teach er schools and the “little red school- houses” over which they pre.side is re garded as significant in view of the national s.urvey of the education of teachers which tl'.e Federal Office of Education is now conducting througii- out the country. The education office calculated that; if these 153,306 teachers were to be im agined as standing side by side, one eveiy three feet, their ranks would extend in an unbroken line for a dis tance of 87 1-10 miles. TOBACCO TO BE CURED WITH UNUSUAL CARE East Carolina Growers To Put On An E-xtra Touch Kinston, July 6.—Unusual care will be used in curing and grading the now tobacco crop in Eastern Carolina. Since the harvest will be smaller than any in recent years, according to warehousemen and other authorities, growers will not be so rushed in the curing season and can give more 1;ime to the process. Experts have advised farmers to cure and grade carefully. Condition of the tobacco when it reaches market will have a material bearing on prices, which promise to be low for inferior grades, It will be aft unsatisfactory season at best, in the opinioik of most authorities. Production in this part of the belt is estimated to be 12 per cent off from last year. Curing started last week in a very few localities, and rii^, witnin Tffo 'tt'eelts' i' is estimated. ~ $350 FOR FIRST BALE 1931 COTTON THINGS THAT ARE DUE SOONER OR LATER with military -'hoi^^jrs. Capt. Claude Bowers, Lieut. A. J. Hundley and sev eral enlisted men remained for the funeral. They are expected to join First Liutenant Harold R. Skillman, who left here with the company this after noon and other soldiers some time to morrow night.—News and Observer, NO RELEASE FOR VANCE. SHORT TERM PRISONERS Henderson, July 7.—Sheriff J. E. Hamlet said today that he knew of no instruction having been received here from the office of Governor Gardner or elsewhere for the release of prisoners serving. terms of less than 60 days. It has been annomiced that prisoners doing less time than 60 days would be paroled after July 1, the date when the State Highway Com mission took over the maintenance of all public roads in the State, and also all county convict camps. The official parole orders were to come from the Governor. . It is said that about half a dozen men doing time in 'Vance county prison camp would be set free under the new policy. Executive Counsel Tyre C, Taylor stated last night that he had no spe cific recollection as to Vance county, but that 296 short term prisoners, comprising all of those whose names were furnished to him were released on June 30, Mr.i Taylor said he wtould investigate the 'Vance county situation Monday. than before the advent of electricity. Today 90 per cent of its product is used for heating purposes. THE RAILROADS PREPARE FOR ACTION “Breeding of Dairy Cattle for High Production.” Following this talk W. J. | Shillings, a member of the Federal Farm Board will talk on “Orderly Marketing of Milk."An exhibit of High producing N. C. dairy cows v/ill be used by Professor Frazier to illustrate his talk. The Dairy Association held Its meet ing in Greensboro last year and there was an attendance of about two thou sand people interested in Dairying. AID TO DAIRYING Corpus Christi, Texas, July 7,—Tlie. first bale of 1031 cotton grown in the ; I United States, brouglit here last week; by W. M. Thorne, of La Sara,Willacy ■ The growing of Korean lespedeza i County, was bought at auction by the' should be an aid to dairying in Texas Cotton Cooperative Association piedmont and western North Carolina ;• today for- $350. [ since it arrows successfully on most of j The bale will be sent to the Ameri- | the soil of that area. I can Cotton Cooperative Association at i (Providence Journal) | Upon the refusal of the Interstate Commerce ICommtoision to take the initiative in an investigation of the i possibilities of Increasing railroad ■ rates as a means of handling the problem of recurring monthly deficits of many of the carriers and of sharp- j ly decreased net earnings of all the roads, the rail executives themselves I have set machinery in motion to | bring foiTOal requests for Increased | ra,tes before the commission. It was: in the hope that the commission, with I its voluminous data on rates, would' be able to cover this preparatory I gi-ound with much less expenditure of effort and w'ith a vast saving of tremendously valuable time—for time is the essence of the situation regard ing a chsjige in the volume of earn ings—that the rail managements first appealed to the Government agency for its co-operation. As the Apill earnings repoi"ts begin to come in the wonder grows that the roads did not begin the sm’vey of possible rate changes at a^i earlier date. P. R. Farnham .dairy extension spe- j New Orleans. cialist of State College recently m^e The program this year Ls much more I an inspection of the Korean lespedeza] elaborate and should attract a large!fields in cabarus County for the pur-’ TO DISCARD BUI 1 UM gathering of Dairymen from all over]post of studying the crop as an aid. the state. ,, to dairying. A number of visits W'as i This will be a valuable meeting for | made to different farms in all sec- I anyone interested in Dairying and an j tion of the county and the Korean va- I inspection of the Government Exhibit | I'iety was found on about 21 different alone will be worth the cost of the‘ trip to Winston-Salem. LEAVES OF TOBACCO To THE SUN FLOWERS ARE NOW IN BLOOM HOW I WISH TO LIVE I wish to live ■without hate, •whim jealousy, envy, fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural, clean in mind and clean in body, unaffected—to say “I do not know,” if it be so, and to face any obstacle and meet e\*ery diffi culty unabashed and unafraid. I wish others to live their lives, too, up to their highest, fullest, and best. To that end I pray that I may ne\er meddle, interfere, dictate, give advice that is not ■wanted, or assist when my services are not needed. If I can help people, I’ll do it by giving them a chance to help themselves; and if 1 can uplift or inspire, let it be by example, inference, and sug gestion, rather than by in junction and dictation. —ELBERT HUBBARD. OPENING OF THE TOBACCO MARKETS Georgia Starts the Ball Rolling One Month and a Day Hence. One can .scarcely realize that the date on which the several tobacco markets wUl open is so near at hand. The Georgia, market will open on July 28. The crop in that State is said to be very poor this year, and ads a starter of low prices it will cause v.'ide-spread alarm. It is also stated that the crop in South Carolina is not as good as it W’as last year. Practically the same dates observed last year were announced by the To bacco Association of the United States for the opening of the tobacco mar kets in the southeast this year. The opening dates follow: Georgia district, July 28. South Carolina district, August 4. Eastern North Carolina district, September 1. Middle belt district of North Caro lina and ■Virginia, September 22. Old belt of North Carolina and Vir ginia, September 29. Dark 'Virginia district, October 27. Their Face Follow the Sun From East To West The big sunflowers now ih bloom, turn their face toward the east each morning to greet the rising sun, then as the source of light and heat pro ceeds on his journey across the skies, the flower gradually turn and keep their faces toward the sun and when the time for going down arrives the sunflowers are facing the west. It has been observed that at the break of day the face of the sun flower swings back to the east to greet the morning sim. Creates New Art Booat the Better Grades types of soil. 1 Rober.sonville, July 6.—Many farm- ‘T have been made under a mistaken 1 ers in Robersonville township are oil types and not solely by a few select- j planning to pull away the few bottom ed demonstrator. This crop should' leaves of their tobacco this season, impression about the acreage a/id pos- ” Tliat method will result in an in- ibilitis of Korean lespedeza in Cabar- creased period of tobacco is not cer- rus County,” he said. “It appears that tain. But it is advanced by those who the crdp is being grown succesfully by I i^ave recorded the costs of growing to* a large number of men on different i bacco from year to year that the prac- have great possibihties on the small I ycg of removing and throwing away grain fields of western Carolina. In j ^ few bottom leaves from every stalk the past, these landowners have al- of tobacco will result in a .savmg to! lowed their small gra n fields to grow grower. ! up in weeds after the grain was har- j^o farmer is advised to pull and vested. By planting Korean lespedeza! throw away what is commonly known on the small grain in late winter or | fi,.st primings, but for the sake early spring, a crop of legume hay j of economy, and as a factor in de may be harvested from the same ci-eased production, it is believed ad- (MemphLs CommerciaJ-Appeal) The quarter-century reign of the horseless carriage has seen many de velopments from the. seedless orange to wireless telegraphy and wireless broadcasting of sound. And it will only be a day or two until we have the fireless distribution of longdis tance vision. We now have, accord ing to a report from New Jersey, the stingless bee and residents near the Jersey marshes and beaches will hope for the time when they may boast of mosquitole.ss nights. The.se and other benefits can be confidently expected. But it appears as if the spineless poli tician will be W'ith us in the future as he has been in the past. Also does it seem as if we are a long way off from the noiseless town. We seem to be approaching the marriageless wedding to bring about a divorceless society, and if some one can bring about moneyless criminals we may have crimeless communities. THE PREACHER AND THE EDITOR AGREE land in the fall.' Boy D. Goomman, county agent of Cabarrus County, is enthusiastic about Korean lespedeza arid has been the cause of his county becoming the cen ter of production n this State. Ca barrus farmers, however, have not yet developed the Industry to the point where they have any great sur plus of .seed. Mr. Gcodman says farmr will increase their acreage as they become better informed about. the variety and are able to gee the seed at fair prices. A number of farm tours to study the Korean fields in Cabarrus County are planned for July and August. visable for him to destroy those leaves at the bottom, which have touched the ground or have been bruised in plowing. Mrs. Eimna Pack^ Routt County, CoL, makes pictures with sticks and •tOQ«s tbat l^k lilcc oil paiotiaica. ^‘BELIEVE IT OR NOT” London.—Twenty years ago a Scotch man made two trips between Paisley and Saltcoats with his three children, whom he passed off as being too young to need train tickets. Recently the stationmaster at Paisley received a let ter from the man now living in America, containing a check for two dollars, The Scotchman said his con science was troubling him. “I will never feel right with God until I make restitution,” he wrote, adding that his children had been old enough to re quire half-fare tickets on the trips made 20 years ago. eblood Both Must Use the Whitewash Brash A preacher came to the editor In this way: “You editors do not tell the truth. If you did, you would not live, your newspaper would be a fail ure,” and the editor came back at the minister in this manner: “You are right, and the minister who will at all times and under all circumstances tell the truth abcut his members, alive or dead, will not occupy hts pulpit more than one Sunday, and then he w’ill find it necessary to leave town in a, hurry. The press and the pulpit go hand in hand with the whitewash brushes and pleasant words magnify ing little virtues' into big ones. The pulpit, the ijen, and the gravestone are the great saint-making trium- vu-ate.” Tlie great minister went away looking very thoughtful while the edi tor turned to his work, and told of the unsurpassing beauty of the bride who was in fact as ugly as a mud fence.— Le "Vang’s Weekly. Richard Coke Marshall, 23, of Washington, D. C., has just gradu- ate^from Harvard Law school. He is a direct descendant of-Lord Chitl Justice Coke, of England. | AVERETTE FAMILY TO HOLD REUNION JULY 19 Will Gather Some Three or Four Hun dred Strong at Providence, Sunday, July 19, in Third Annual Reunion. Notices have been published in papers throughout the State of the third annual reunion of the Averette clan, to be held at Providence ^tation, about six miles west of Oxford in Granville County, Sunday, July 19. All members are urged to be present on this date. Members of the family, one of Gran ville County’s oldest arid largest, are scattered throughout this state and sections of Virginia, and many are ex pected to be present on this occasion, which has proven to be very popular for the last two years.