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VOL. XL, NO. 5 Amended School Bill Passed by Assemb Raleigb, March 16?Cafpitulati -after three days of refusal, I house today accepted the sens amendments to the Hancock schi bill, chief of which was a reducti in the equalization fund to $8,50 <100. The house had set the figure $7,500,000. Agreement by the house to 1 senate changes left only fors ratification awaiting the bill bef< it becomes law. The amount state aid for the schools provided the measure is exactly double t! of the present school year. Wednesday the house refused concur in the senate amendments ^ .ike bill and appointed a conferer J committee. The committee, coinp cd of Representatives McLean Beaufort, Harris of Person, a Winston of Bertie, brought in a port recommending later changes the bill, but retaining the equalizi fguie set by the senate. Represen _f /"si i > u*c i'lun ui uicvujana inuvea ti the committee be instructed to bri in a report asking the house agree to the senate amendmer His motion was carried, 48 to 34, a the report was presented and ado ed, 53 to 30. Under the provisions of the b the sum of $5,250,00 will be set as an equalization fund for the months ten,is, and a fund of $1,25 00 in addition as aid for the spec tax districts supporting schools i eight months. From the equali t:on fund $300,000 is to he held ' an emergency fund for the relief schools suffering unforeseen cat trophies through fire, flood, etc. RED CROSS RESPONSIBILITY TO DISABLED EX-SOLDI E It will ho of interest to the me bers of the Wntaugu county chap of the Americnn Red Cross to kn thnt Mrs. Smith Hagaman has heme service. Mrs. Hagaman is Red Cross nurse and served in i World war and is well qualified premier su ii assistance as the ch: tor may be prepared to give to I disabled ex-service mar. and his i pendents. This service consists assistance when necessary in 1 preparation and prcsntatiun claims, or temporary relief if ne. od when the disability originated war service. Chapters are daily finding voter! who have never filed claims, or i pendents who have never known th rights resulting from the death men in service or thereafter. The estimate was recently ms by Brigadier General Frank Mines, director of the veterans' 1 reau, that the need for assistance ex-service men suffering from mi tal disability as a result of war se ice will gradually increase for 1 next 18 years, when the peak is i nected to he reached. With its 3,000 chapters in 1 United States and its insular a foreign possessions, and throu close co-operation from the sti department, when soldiers' clai involve international problems, i American Red Cross is aires handling an average of more th 56,000 service and ex-service me cases each month. The strength the Red Cross lies in its inter-lo ing system of chapters which h each other in preparing claims s in many other ways. Mdr. chas. e. maddry at baptist church sund, Dr. Charles E. Maddry, gene secretary of the State Baptist ci " ventoig will speak at the Bapl church here Sunday momng at o'clock. In making announcem for the services Sunday, Pastor A. Hicks, says: "We are planning make next Snndtty, March 24th, epoch-making day in the history our church. We have set as our s 600 pupils for the Sunday schi We hope to report the completion the subscriptions for the build program. Our aim is to make a c 'offering of <2,000 as the first p ment on our subscriptions, would like for all our people to h: a share in this initial offering, are going to keep the names of who make a contribution in "Book of Remembrance" and j serve it as a part of our church 1 tory." Officials of Bangor, Me. der Senator Thomas J. Heflin the use S the city ha'.! for a Klan address, ? ing the second Maine city to t down the Alabaman in one day. BOON 1 joUTSTAMNG ACT! I! OF 1929 ASSEMBLE ;he ' School Equalization Fund Doubled Gasoline Tax Raised; Australia 'on Ballot; Workmen's Coropensatior. Highway Patrol and Others . .'.-j Outsatnding achievements of th ;he 1929 session of the North Carolir. Iia' general assembly summarired; >re School aid law?Providing $(>,500 ?* 000 to six months term, and S1.250 by 000 for aid of eight months teri special districts, for each year of th biennium. This is double the equal ing fund appropriated at the 192 fG session. The act also prescribes ac lce minstrative changes intended to pre ?3" i mote economy in tlie schools. A 3 ?' cent participating levy is establisl nd ed. re" County highway aid law?Increa; l!1 es gasoline tax froitt four cents nS gallon to five, and creates a count ~ aiu fund of KpuMvciFii&teiy $3,000 iat 000 a year to be allotted to the 10 US PAiinfioc I wwuviwo vx bire auivc uil a pl!pUI6 I tion-area basis, on condition tha l*s- the counties reduce their ad valorer nt* taxes for roads by an amount equs P^~ to their quota; also establishes $500,000 equalizing fund to be di; burscd by the state highway con ^P mission without regard to county o 3IX district lines. Maintenance appropriation act? 'a j Authorizes expenditures of $38,000 i 000 for operation of state govcrr za* j ment and institutions during tw &3 i year period beginning July i. j Bond issue as" ! Permamcnt improvements apprc | priation act?Authorizes bond issu jef $1,972,000 for building at stat c educational and charitable instit.i ^ | tions. ".I I Revenue act?Provides for ii I creased franchise taxes oh railroati I and power companies, the rates b? re- * ing doubled, and various other it a creases, principal v in business?-! cense rates. License tax 011 so: . drink bottlers doubled. Australian ballot law -Kcquirt secret voting in nil primaries an elections, but allows "markers" t be designated to assist illiterat ^ i voters. * f Workmen's compensation ? Pr< ^ vides for compensation based upo -n CO per cent of average weekly wag of injured employe, with minimui of ?7 a week and maximum of $1 ins a week, with limitation of fC.Oti . for compensation for daeth ov pe f ; manent disability: sets op industri! j commission of three members to I ide S[E governor to admil tj j ister provisions. Executive counsel act?Abolisht ^ - position of pardon commissioner, an creates instead office of executiv liRcounsel to governor. With salary c > $C,500 a year, who will periori ^ duties of pardon commissioner an such other functions as may be a: _he signed to him by chief executive. , Senatorial vacancies ? Author!? nd ^ governor to name successor in ever . either of United States senators di< ite so . , . . .. : or resigns oexore expiration or tern successor to serve until next generi , election, idy Eugenics Measure n>s Sterilization of mental defective ?Lays down method by which ster rj. lization of mental defectives in pnl lie "institutions may be ordered, an also conditions upon which sarr operation may be ordered for defei tives in institutions. Highway patrol act?Establish! kY force of 36 patrolmen and one chie ral to be appointed by and serve ur.d; on. I the state highway commission, wit ti3t I principal duty protection of higl Xj ways against too heavily loade enx trucks and other abuses, p Aviation cod'e?Series of five ac t0 setting forth regulations for ti an operation of airports in the state. &f Cons titutinoal amendments um Submitting to voters questions i )01_ adding two associates justices to si 0f preine court, thus increasing persoi ing ne' seven; separation of solicitor ash al and judicial districts, and autho ay_ izing general assembly to classii \Ye property for taxation with view 1 I taxing so-called intflnffihles. \V(. Muritge Re|nUte4 n]| Marriage banns?Requires th: a five days notice be given before a >re- plication for marriage license his- granted, but applies only to minors Bar examination^?Restricts urn leges of standing state bar examin lied tion to natives of state and to boi i of fide students of law in state instit nak tions. urn Appointment of revenue comnr sioner-?Makes office of commissio Newspaiir-r. Devoted to the S E, WATAUGA COUUNTY, NORTH CAI J R. A. Doughton Named j 3 i Highway Commissioner i , I! \{ l j Governor Gardner Saturday ap-1 v. j pointed Rufus A. Doughton, state J j. revenue commissioner, as chairman A of the state highway commission, r and A. J. Maxwell, corporation commissioner to succeed Mr. Doughton. j The governor has also offered the ? j corporation commission job to 1. M. a I Bailey, attorney for the commission, u t Mr. Doughton was lieutenant gov- ? _1 ernor during the administration t f e Governor Elias Carr. He has held n the post of revenue commissioner for -' e six years. He succeeds Frank Page, t; j_ who resigned the first part of the it j year to accept a banking position. A. L S. Hanes of Winston-Salem, highway j commissioner from the seventh <ii?- Q q trict, has been serving temporarily tl until a permanent commissioner was n appointed. n PAUI. G. SPA1NHOUR DEAD tl vi I yj Paul G. Spainhour of Valle Cru-j j cis, 30 years old, died in the Mount i a ? |[ Alto Hospital, Washington. D. C..iu ' I u l" j Monday morning, where he had been j c ' for several months taking govern-1 " : merit treatment for tuberculosis. | y | Mr. Spainhour was the son of Mr. | a j and Mrs. Joseph Spainhour of Mor-! ' I ganton, attended school at Boone in I ^ '*1 his youth and for the last several j ^ 1 j years had been a citizen of Watacgai ^ {county. In the early days of Amer- j ,, -1 ica's participation in the World. ' | war, Mr. Spanhour enlisted in the! service of his country and was with [ ? j one of the first .contingents to be " I sent to the relief of the Allies ill ! France. He remained in line of duty I SHE ?- ?i SIMHM nn,| - j i.ijwi -watt; unooaviv/it v?x? nvrjnrivivaj-???~-i? ^ J iL was while on foreign soil he con- " ,e I tractcd the malady which led to his 1? ' ? v j <ieath. He spent u greater part of ( | last year in Otcen hospital, near J ^ 1 Asheviliii. urire il was finally deem} od wise to remove him to Washing-1l. * ton. From the end of the war until j . | last year, however, he had been able ? to gu about his usual duties. He was a prosperous farmer and a leading ? citizen of the Valle Cruris section. Remains arrived in Boone yestoio day at noon, where they were re- ^ ceived by members of the American Legion. A military escort was formed and the body taken to Henson's Chapel. There a guard of honor stood while the funeral was being conducted by Rev. W. R. Bradshaw a of Morgantcn, pastor of the Baptist . 0 church of which deceased was a ' member. Interment was in the Cove Creek cemetery. ^ Surviving are a widow and one T ( i child, Gordon, besides a father and j several brothers and sisters. j ^ j COVE CREEK NEWS ITEMS ; ^ e Sugar Grove, March 19.?Rev. K. ' A. Taylor was a visitor at Cove T v' Creek high school chapel on Wed^ nesday morning and conducted devo3" tional exercises. gj- v John E. 1 Perry., father of B e Prof. W. Y. Perry, was a visitor at ' the school on Friday. Mr. Perry 1 !S made an interesting talk to the pu- c pils at chapel. He contracted The v present, day school advantages with ' those at the time he was a student. ' The school is always glad to welcome 4 ;s visitors. * The play, "All on Account of 3 rj Polly," presented on Sato-day r.ight | * by the junior class was a decided I * :e success. The characrers were es- j * " U'f?11 pVitiQon an/1 no/?K 'SJiJ V?ic ? fc - E - ?? *" 51 or her part well. More than $t!0 j t ,s Was realized from the snle of tick- I ' ets. Attention is called to the no-;v > v I tice elsewhere in this issue of the " ' ' play to be (riven by the Mountain | City high school on Friday night. ' March 22. <: ?? . r ts er of revenue filled by appointment ; ie of the governor, instead of by election by the voters. v ? Automobile licenses?Act requires j >f each automobile" to display two liu-' cense plates. I a- Divorce ? Statutes amended to i- make five years of involuntary sep- v r- aration, as when husband or. wife is T ty in prison, grounds for divorce. ^ lu 1 Alootiolic I avgbt l ? Alcohol and narcotics ? Public! schools required to teach evil effects , at on human system of alcohol and i p- | narcotics. is < Salaries?Attorney general's pay | . I raised to $7,500 from $4,000, with * ri-1 stipulation that incumbent give full; t a- time to duties; act passed limiting| ] la pay of any official or employe of t '.i- state highway commission to maxi- ( mum of $10,000 a year. Frank Page > is- received $15,000 as chairman of j n- commission prior to his resignation, i iest Intere sts > Jorthwt tOLINA, THURSL MARCH 21, EGISLATURE END! IN ITS 70TH DAY idjournment Came Tuesday 'Night After Day of Clearing Up legislative Odds and Ends; Has Substantial Record of Accomplishments Attended by only a handful i f lembers, the 11)29 general assembly | -longest on record?was terminat ' d at eight. o'clock Tuesday night. he 70-day session ended after a jdious day of waiting and uncer- j lintv as to when struggling enroll- i ig clerks could finish the flod of! ist-Diinute bills dumper, on tjiem. A majority of the members alsady were headed homeward before le end. The last of important b?isiess hod been disposed of Monday, nd Tuesday was devoted to clearing dds and ends and the horseplay tat every assembly amuses itself ] ith in its dying hours. .The 1929 session o the assembly' dded 1,060 new laws to the statute! ooks. Its 61-day predecessor passd 1,205. 1APPENINGS OF WEEK IN AND ABOUT BLOWING ROCK j Blowing Rock, March 21.? 'uneral services were held last Fri- \ ay at the Reformed church here for j Imory Young, whose death in I tatesville was the result of compli- ; ations following an attack of acute j ppendicitis. Mr. Young was rush d to Statesville when he became iil% j ut the operation was Inn lata to. ave his life. Mr. Young belonged to one of the] lost prominent and respected fami- j ies of Blowing Rock. He is sur-1 ivid by his widow1 and eight j htldrcn, all at home in Blowing i took, and several brothers and sis- j 3S51 S;'&5ft2S& -- e S=sE? ers in various- parts an uie )ne bTother; Edgar Young, lives in Slowing Rock. SSfe-SselgKlalock. Mrs. Young's ister, ntfs,; arrived h?re from Bend, jMfegorr, and uuH-wake' -her ho?fe^ ;ere Sfaitaigywhilpf yShe is? accomnicd by her daughter Hazel, who w..v.ii.u mi: JUUIUI wiosb 111 J> 1UW i ag Rock high school. Mis. fllalook mi Huzel arc ifrftking their home .ith Mrs. Blulock's niece, Mrs. J. tllcn Giagg. Miller-Brillon A wedding- announcement of much nterest to Blowing Rock is that of arrie O. Mil'er to James W. Brillon ! ,t Colfax, Wash. Mr. and Mrs. i Srilton will make their home in i iiberton, Wash. Mrs. Brillon is the sister of Mrs. j I. C. Robbins and Mrs; Ward of ! Slowing Rock, and the daughter oi' Irs. Thomas H. Robbins of Lenoir. Ihe was formerly an employe of he postoffice here. Fire Dept. To Be Honored The citizens of Blowing Rock I 111 ???i.1-: : ' * " I >?? cutciujui tnuay iii^ni ai me ,'entral Hotel, honoring the Blowng Bock tire lJepercnient, "iiu rVjCOglition of the excellent work of the department last week during the rindstorm, when the home of Mrs. lattie Story was destroyed by fire. Uthough the firemen were unable I o save the house, because of the iigh wind, they prevented it from preading to the surrounding louses, which would certainly have leen destroyed also, with such a j iigh wind blowing, if the firemen lad not fought as strenuously as1 hey did to save them. The roof of May view Manor.! .'hich was damaged by the same j '.'indstorm, is now being repaired, i Personal George H. Coffey and son Arnold | >f Hickory, former Blowing Bock j esidents, spent a recent week-end i< Blowing Buck. Jesse Burns of Black Mountain .'as a recent visitor of Miss Ethe! iolshouser. Mrs. Sallie Beeves and Miss Lena teeves left Monday for Hot Springs, fa., where they will spend some time vith Mrs. Beeves' daughter, Mrs. Erlest Davis. They were accompanied . ? f C* T) 1-- ?s?? ry mis. v. o. nevene, who returnid to Blowing Rock Tuesday. Ambrose Underdown is building a lew brick veneer residence in the .Vindwood section. Milwaukee has an airplane pilot | vho has flown th equivalent of three ,mes the distance to the moon. Fritz rlolterhorr has 8,500 flying hours ;o his credit. He served with the Scrman air corps in the world war rnd saw service on the Russian front rail against the French in AlsaceLorraine. :st North Carolina 1929 | Financier Passes | j ft j i | ' , Su ha NEWTON L. MAST 0v nc CITIZENS' MILITARY pM TRAINING CAMPS so' ! v/r Wo vol- P p PT_T e l_ny AUUjVl XV. JLf. J UbtviQUU, u. o. Army, and his assistant. Serjeant Lo Jack Schneider, visited Boone last Wednesday and Thursday in behalf im of the citizens' military training! camps. Major Patterson spoke to | the high school students of Cove 1ce: Creek on Wednesday and tl) th.ej students of the Boone high school j * and Blowing Rock up. Thursday. After commending Watauga couit- j <IU ty very highly for sending more \ than its quota of boys" to camp iasc' ?1 summer. Major Patterson spoke of 1 the mission of these camps. He said that strenuous efforts are being *u made to familiarize every young ' ? man in the state with the . oppor- j1' tunities offered by these camps so a that-_RlI -mav_haye_ an equal chance j n* to apply. President Coolidge's son,] and the sons of' thirty-two state gov-1 ernors have attended these camps | a with the sons of men from every Cl tjgfc. ..JThey all have had an ! st cqiiai chance and as in the past a' ffifiy con-.c together again next summer they will eat, drill, c play and bunk side by side. These car.-.ps were inaugurated by ' President Roosevelt and are the direct descendants of the pre-war cl Plattshurg camp originated by the m late General Wood. They have been sponsored and endorsed by our last Il"1" our presidents, by leading churchmen and educators, by the Ameri- \ can Frdciat.iori of Labor and by Vl many other prominent citizens and organizations. Physical examina- (.1 tions during the war indicated that . nearly half the young men of the country were physically unfit for active military service. This alarmir.g situation was partially met by , congress in 1920 by creating the I ? citizens' military training camps, ^ which now annually provide about forty thousand young men with proper diet and exercise amidst M halthful outdoor surroundings. These j men return to their homes ardent in mc .niiU'ULilll prillCl- | pies of physical health and fitness. The mission of these training; camps, said Major Patterson, is to te bring together for a month's train- Wl ing, under healthful surroundings, at young men from all walks of life on a common basis of equality and hv supervised athletics, military drill and instructions in citizenship to de- & velop them physically and morally, C< to promote a wholesome respect for nI discipline, to teach the value of team th work, fit them for leadership in M peace or war and impress upon them their obligations and responsibilities. H Military training is not the pri- it1 mary objective of the camps and; they are placed under the war de- si partment by congress only because th it is the one existing agency with pi the necessary personnel and because j military training is the most effect-' M ive means with which to accom-1 'v plish the mission for which the M camps exist. If You can go to one of these camps N at government expense provided you | te get your request in early enough, j B Enrollment began a month later 1R' this year so you'll not have as much ! H time to think the matter ov?T as j G [was the case last year. ; ? The boys who attended camp last | vi yar from Watauga county are: ' ai Allen Smith Adams, Albert C. Farthing, Ralph Farthing, Len D. r? Hagaman, John W. Hodges, Jr., e: Boone; Paul William Foster, Blow- ai ing Rock: Troy Howard Harmon, ai j Sugar Grove; Cloy Joe Mast, Zion- It FIVE CENTS A CurY Xmastdied MONDAY NIGHT ddcn Passing Came as Shock to Family and Friends; Funeral and Interment Yesterday Afternoon at Cove Creek Newton L. Mast, presideS of the itauga County Bank and widely own business man, died almost Idenly at his home at Mast Mony evening. He was 60 years of Mr. Mast had left Boone in the ;ernoon about six o'clock, having mt the day in Avery county lookr after business matters, and was his usual good spirits when he l wwn. nuwevt-r, at nome, news aited him of the death of his sonlaw, Mr. Paul Spainhour. After ving conversed with a close friend er the telephone relative to fural arrangements, Mr. Mast cokiiined of a shortage of breath. His I, James, assisted him to a chair icre he expired within about ten nutes. Heart trouble is supposed have been the cause of his death. Mr. Mast was one of the foremost irehants of the county, having ened his place of business to the blic about 49 years ago. llis sucm was phenomenal, he was an able ancicr, and was one of the wealjest citizens of the county. He is one of the founders of the Watga County Bank, and was the esidcnt of that institution from its ganizatidn nearly twenty-five ACS ago, ur.til his death. The rapid owth of that organization from a ly country hank to one of the reinosl financial institutions ih rthwest North Carolina, was due rgely to the keen business judg nt and vision of its president. Mi. Mast v.-ar. r. leader always <? iblift- affairs end was ever closely filiated with those movements cal! in ted to bring about more wholeme conditions for the citirenship . a a bole, (Ic was one of the leadg spirits in the Cove Creek Baptist lurch, bavng beer, a member since rly youth. He was broad in his lurch views and a co-worker with e Methodist people. Ho was a so al and moral leader and his liusisss ability has been a great asset the development of his native unty. Funeral services were conducted isterday (Wednesday) at 2:30 clock from Benson's Cliapel Methlist church, by Rev. Will O. Gor>n, pastor of the Cove Creek Baptt church, Kev. R. A. Taylor assistg. Rev W. R. Brandshaw 89of organton was also present and conicted the funeral of P. G. Spain >ur which was held immediately folwing in the same church. Inherent was in the Cove Creek cemery, Mr. Mast is survived by a widow id two children, James Mast and G. Spnibhour. - <M '-r.<ax y gcty-BOONE H. S. BANQUET The boys' and girls' basketball ams of the Boone high school ere entertained at a banquet given the Boone Trail Cafe last Thurs-KS ty evening at 7 o'clock. Between courses talks were made i Earline Mast, captain of the rls' team; Len Hagaman, Anne x>ke, high scorer of girls' team; id Baleigh Cottrcll, high scoier for e boys. Mr. Cottrell presented r. C. L. Hewctt, coach, with a ft frim the two squads. At the end of the banquet, Coach ewett made a talk which was eatly enjoy el by all. Following the dinner the boys and rlr. were taken to the Pastime eater, where they enjoyed a good cture. Those attending were: Mr. and rs. C. L. Hewitt, E. L. Ball, Evcn and Pauline Bingham, Earline ast, Anne Cooke, Reha Gambill, .... nn^ ri i n?? c?i? f >?? aiiu JUJW.CJ VHO^Kl EiVCiyil DUry, ell Trivett; Raleigh Cottrell, Walr Edminsten, Ralph Estes, Edgar rown, Len Hagaman, Glenn Wyke, oger Greene, Bill Casey, Frank agaman, Maude Clay and Councill ooke, cheer leaders. He; Ralph Jones Williams, Mabel, id Joe William Todd, Boone.Mr. Smith Hagaman, the county jprescntative for the C. M. T. C., irnestly recommends these camps ad believes that this year Watjga will send even more boys than
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