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|| The Week in i \Y ashington A KESU1UE OF GOVERNMENj J1KNTA1, IJAPPF.NINGS IN THE N ATIONAL CAPITAL With the new farm ai<J bill out ol ? ' way Congress is trying to get . \vn to a working schedule that will let its members gel away before the political conventions. A dozen or so highly controversial proposals, however. are bound to come up for discission. and nobody can guess very accurately as yet what the outcome s going to be. Senator Robinson, the Administration's leader In the Upper House, has announced that there are sever, measures which he calls "live" bills whose consideration has been agreed upon by the Senate leaders. One of them .s going to stir up a lot of debate. Tnat is the rural electrification bill. There probably will be even more excitement when the bill to reguiate :hain stores gets on the floor. This would prohibit producers and distributors of merchandise from selling cheaper to the chain stores than they Jo to individual retailers. It is one \ Senator Robinson's nets with Sen to: Pattman actively interested. It ? will meet with strong opposition not from the chains and from manufacturers, but from consumer groups and from newspapers. It has about a even chance of enactment as things ool; now. Pour "Live" Measures The Cooliuge bill to tighten the arriers against undesirable aliens and make their deportation easier 5 on Senator Robinson's list. It has a good chance. Tire other four "live" measures, as the Senate leader sees them, are the Capper stockyards regulation bills. Senator Gore's Panama toll bill, Senator Fletcher's bill to increase the capital of the Commercial Credit Corporation to aid the marketing of agricultural products and another Fletcher bill exempting from taxation all securities of banks held by the RFC. Since the passage of the bonus bill less is being heard of the so-called "pressure groups" and their influence on legislation. "Pressure group" is just a fancy word for lobbyists. It does not imply brihery, necessarily, but the pressure groups work effectively up the fears of members of Congress thut they will not be reelected If they don't give these groups what they demand. A short time ago one of the strongest pressure groups .was the currency inflation bloc. It seems to be losing influence and Its particular measure, the Ftp tier-Lemke farm mortgage bill, looks to have a slim chance. The silver bloc, which was a very strong pressure group a year ago, is not so strong now. Coughlin and Thompson Father Coughlin, who has been the spearhead of Inflation, is not the influential figure that he formerly was. He was a powerful influence before the extent of his following was known. Now Congressmen generally poch-pooh the notion that he is actually able to influence any important body of voters, sufficiently concentrated in particular states or dis-I tricts to influence the election ol" particular Congressmen or Senators, j The Townsend old-age pension bloc is a. case in point. Outside of a few spots on the map its strength >s not yet sufficiently concentrated, cr at least so the leaders in Congress believe. The impending Congressional investigation into the Townsend movement is expected to disclose its real strength. But it will have the effect of postponing any cLULiuii tnong rownsenu i 'ian lines until next session, if ever. (Continued on Page 8) State Tax Collector To Aid Income Payers Mr. G. H. Holmes Jr., Deputy Commissioner, will be in the office of the Clerk of Court at Boone on the 11th Jay of March, 1936, for the purpose of assisting- taxpayers in filing their .state income tax returns for the year 1935. Unmarried persons, or married women with separate income of $1,000 or over during the year 1935, and maiTied men with an income of $2,000 or over, should file a return with the State Department of Revenue on or before March 15, 1936. WHOLESALE OIL PLANT NOW READY TO OPERATE The wholesale distributing plant for the Purol Company has been installed by the Hodges Tire Company and is now ready to operate. The large tanks haven't been filled due to the fact that the huge trailer tank cars can't travel to Boone until the load limit has been taken from the highways. The local distributors however, have the new motor fuel in their retail tanks, and promise bulk distribution within a short time. Mr. Chauncey Moody of Sherwood "has been employed by the local concern to assist in the management of the oil business and the outlook for business is described as bright. Meantime the store of Hodges Tire Company has undergone a renovation, newest steel display counter?, and cabinets have been added, the stock materially increased, and the popular place has a decidedly improved appearance. 1 WA1 j An j I VOLUME XLVII, NUMBER 36 MILLIONS IN GEMS Socialite Adorned with Million Dollars in Jewelry j i X I I ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ | NEW YORK . . The necklace worn by Mrs. Wm. R. K. Taylor Jr. (above), is the famous diamond "Star of Bombay". The ring is a 19-carat emerald. Jn all Mrs. Taylor was adorned with a $1,000,000 worth of jewelry at the diamond <' show held here. IL PAUL NORRIS ; FUNERAL TODAY; Pneumonia is Fatui lo Promi- ' ncnt Resident of Route 2; Valuable Citizen. Funeral services are. to be conducted this afternoon from the old J Mount Pleasant Lutheran Church for 5 j L. Paul Norris, who died at his home < on Route 2 Tuesday morning, fol- 1 ! lowing a ten days illness with pneumonia. The rites will be. in charge of I the pastor, Rev. H. A. Klstler, who I I will be assisted by Dr. W. A. Dc&ton I and Rev. J. A. Yount. Interment will | be in the nearby cemetery, air. N6fris was 36 years old. Active pallbearers included broth- | era and brothers-in-law of the deceased: I. A.. Earl, Dean, Dale Morris, Ira Coffey and Walter Coffey. Survivors include a wife, and four children, Kay, Bonnie, Wanda, and Stanley Paul Norris; five brothers ' | and one sister, Rev. J. L. Norris, Maiden; I. A. Norris, Oklahoma City; { Dean Norris, Hickory; Earl and Dale. ' j Norris, Boone and Mrs. Leon Cof- : ; fey, Blowing Rock. The parents also survive. Mr. Morris was a son of Mr. and I Mrs. M. H. Morris and was reared in ] this section. He received his educa| tion at Appalachian College, and was a member of the state militia during Use latter part of the world war. For the past several years he has been engaged in agricultural pursuits. He had been a devout member of the Lutheran Church since boyhood, and had served in the capacity of Sunday School teacher. He was especially active in religious activities, and lived an exemplary life. His death has brought deep sorrow to the community. Chicken Theft Foiled; Fountain Pen Is Left Mr. S. C. Eggers states that two shots fired from a revolver by him a few nights since put to rout an in-1 vader of his chicken house, and that no fowls have been checked short as a result of the nocturnal raid. However Mr. Egger3 next morning found quite an expensive fountain pen beside the chicken roost, and says he would like very much for the owner of same to have his property. Mr. Eggers will gladly return the pen when ownership is reasonably well established. Surveyors Work On Laurel Creek Information coming to Boone Wednesday morning is to the effect til at a crew of engineers from the State Highway and Public Works Commission are starting the preliminary survey on the road down the river from Sugar Grove. Information coming from another source indicates that the first letting on the big project will come as soon as possible, depending on the speed of the survey and will cover two and a half miles from Sugar Grove. HOLLER INFANT Bobby Eugene Holier, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Hight Holler, of Boone, died Thursday, and burial was on Friday. AUG Independent Weekly Ne BOONE. WATAUGA COl SEWING ROOMS TO PREPARE EXHIBIT OF ARTICLES MAD1 Supcrvivsor of WPA Project Tells of Work Being Done in the County. SEVENTY WOMEN ARE USEFULLY EMPLOYEl An Accounting of tlic Accompllsl ments of the Women's Work Under YV. P. A. is Given; Miss A*!ll * 1 - * luuivi i?i? -f iissisrams, A public exhibit of weating appan ant! other products of the Work Progress Administration sewin rooms in Watauga county, is to b held at an early date, according t an announcement coming from Mis Marguerite Miller who is supervise of tfrfa branch of the relief prograi in this section. Plans for the show ing of the handiwork of the relic workers have not been completed bu it. was definitely decided at a meet ing of the assistant supervisors t acquaint the public with the prograi through an exhibit. Miss Miller states that the co-op eration of the people of the count has been of untold benefit to her i 'aunching the work in different sec tions of the county, and expresses ap preciation to the merchnts, civic 01 gnizations and individuals who hav heiped in connection with the estat lishment and operation of the diffei ant sewing rooms. At the beginning of the work Nc member 8, two sewing rooms wer opened in the county with ten relic clients working. The program hs been expanded to the point where o February 28, 70 women were cmploj ad. During the time the following ai tiefes have been made: 339 quilts. 8 pairs pillow cases, 1147 towels an 1305 different garments for me; ivomen and children. Miss Miller's assistants are: Mr 2. B. Buchanan, Sugar Grove; Mis Stella Dunn. Valle Crucis; Mrs. To; Ui11?? Dl : ? xjiv.?wmg ?,ock, ancl Mr, Frank Critcher, Boone. OFFICERS NAMED B? CIVIC GROUI Chamber of Commerce in En thusiastic Meeting Discusses Many Subjects. A bout twenty-five members of til Boone Chamber of Commerce gathei :d Tuesday evening for the purges if naming officers for the ensuin gear and to discuss briefly a numho if questions of vital importance I the further development of the eon munity. Wade E. Brown was chosen pres dent of the body; Clyde R Green, vice-president, Richard Ke'dey, t>vs: urer, while Archie Quails continue as secretary to the chamber, a boar nf directors was named, consisting t Bernard Stallings, Tracy Council!, . E. Holshouser, and D. !.. Wilcox. The chamber expressed iUe:f s being particularly interested in h movement started some time ago ft the erection of a federal bui'din here to house the postofflcc, th scenic parkway came in for disuu: sion, and a committee was named t look into the possibilities for the o. tablishment of a standard golf cf uri in this immediate locality. Olh< items of public concern came up fc brief discussion. FALLING STONE" CRUSHES NEGR< Convict Fatally Injured as Roc Is Loosed at Rock Quarry On Ndw River. Jordan Miller, Winston-Salem n gro, sentenced to the roads for term of from four to seven years ft grand larceny was crushed to deat Friday at a rock quarry on Nc River near Boone, where a crew < convicts were engaged in taking 01 road-surfacing material. The accidei was unavoidable it was said, ar mere naa oeen no indication 01 UK)I stone above the rock pit in whic the negro worked. The huge boulih crashed down without warning, crusl ing the negro's body, death being ii stantaneous. The body was interred at the cenn tery near the county home Sunda Three convict-preachers took part i the services. Miller was 36 years old, and a though he had escaped from prise once, was described by Superintei dent Brown as a pretty good sort < prisoner. Fellow convicts mourn* Miller's passing, particularly fro the reason that he was a baseba player and star pitcher on the >risc team. ftSw > ' $8$ H A DE wspaper?Established iri tl JNTY. NORTH CAROLINA. TilUR | GIANT LENSE REA P; Astronomers Hope to Reveal New 200-inch Glass i ?! , CORNING, N. Y. . . Above is a b; >_ telescope disk, measuring 200-ir.che for shipment by special slow-speed e layers of felt and rubber. Astronon >_ Technology hope this giant telescope heavens. ^56 COLLEGIANS : NOW ON CAMPUS r "" j Spring Term Begins al Appala ,j chian With 15 States Keprei, sented in Student Body. s Nine-hundred and fifty-3ix stu,s dents were registered at Appalachian r, at the beginning of the spring term 3 last week, according to information coming from the office of I'rof J. if Downum, the Registrar. Mr. Downuni slates that 65 copntien in North Catolina and 38 wiwUes in fifteen other stateoV.re also repteseMte.1 Rlfl6?ig tlie J s'udcntSteachers. ! Watauga has the largest number of students, it is revealed, 145. foi'.ovcd by Ashe with 42. Lincoln county has 39, Trcdeli 32, Gaston 34, Cloveland 35 and Catawba 34. The other states represented o.i tlie campus of the local college are: L>ele aware, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi New 0 York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, ? Tennessee, Virginia and West VlrginFi >? n The Registrar further points out I that there are 253 students enrolled i from west of the Blue Ridge and 640 A , rrom Piedmont and eastern Carolina, j As is usual the number of female sludents is far in excess of the male (, | enrollment. There are 633 women stu: dents and 323 men. j The College year ends May 1 ,s OFFICES CHANGE LOCATION ie The offices of the Sugar Grove >r National Farm Loan Association have g been moved from the Watauga Counle ty Bank building to the Sebastian s- building, formally -occupied hy the o Emergency Relief Administration. >- Mr. C. D. Moore, local secretary says ie 1 that in addition to the regular farm ;r loans, he is able to now negotiate >r crop loans through the Winston-Salem Production Credit Association. CONVENTION ('All ) ISSUED BY G. 0. P. k Republicans to Gather in Convention March 21; Patton To Be Speaker. Hon. Frank Patton of Morganton, a former United States Attorney, will jj deliver the address when the Rcpubliw | cans of Watauga county gather in >f convention on Saturday, March 21 " jat 2 o'clock. Mr. Patton is known as ^ one of the leading Republicans of ,e the state and is recognized as an able ;h and forceful speaker. :r The official call for the convention i- issued by County Chairman Russell t- D. Hodges, and which appears in the Democrat today, states that the cons' vention is called for the purpose of y. naming a county chairman, members in of the executive committee delegates to state and congressional conven1 tions and for the transaction of such in other business as may be deemed a- proper. At the same time the precinct if chairmen have been asked to call a id meeting in their respective precincts m on Friday. March 20, at 2 o'clock til for the purpose of electing their nrein cinct officials and delegates to the county convention. moo ie "l ear Eighteen Eighty-Eij SDAY, iMARCH 5, 1S^ _ __ DYFORSHIPN f Much of Interest Wif SjSjligaiitic ; Eye for Telescope a 1 - s ' *> -,? ' jr '*% jb? w A-.> lair g t 1 D ack view of the world's largest glass s in diameter which is now ready b train to California. It is encased in \\ lers at the California Institute of b ; "eye" will reveal new secrets of the p RULESGIVEN IN ~ \ ESSAY CONTEST : ? Building & Loan Seeks Letters From High School Students; n $100 Prize Is Goal. n V The Kecsler Memorial Essay con- f* j test, sponsored annually by the North ti Carolina Buildinc and Loan Leamie. n | is now open to the high school stu- J j dents of Watauga county, according ir to W. H. Gragg, local building and P loan, official and chairman of the es- ri say committee in this section. All students in the high school are 1 eligible, Mr. Gragg states, and 500 I words should be submitted from some subject derived from thrift, home ownership, saving, or some other topic of similar scope as exemplified in the buiiding and loan plan of finance. * The essays are to be in the hands of Mr. Gragg; no later than March '.13, and three impartial judges will .i terrains the winner for this county, who in turn will be lakvii to Lenoir 1? April 1 to compete with the winners p i rom seven counties of the district, h The district winner will be taken to a Rocky Mount to the state convention in May and enter competition In the f statewide contest for a prize of $100. 1 Mr. Gragg is anxious" for a large V number of students in this county to V ; enter the competition and will gladly T give such further information as may t i be requested. e COVE CREEK FIRST IN { WATAUGA-AVERY RACE I ? Another interesting basketball year I for Cove Creek closed 'ast week witli i Cove Creek wearing the crown for [ the i rery-IWt.?ga restrict of the | Appalachian Association. The Cove ? i Creek quints ended their march by ' j defeating the powerful Boone quints i February 26, 23-31. 1 The girls ended the season cham- v pions of the Avery-Watauga district with no defeats. Cove Creek boys and girls will enter the Appalachian tourney March 4. They will play Wednesday night. 1 Their opponents are not yet known. 1 Cove Creek boys will start their ] spring baseball practice about the middle of March. Police Officer Is i 1 Target of Jokester * \ Tatrolman Ollis, of the city police s force Wednesday morning received a % small package from the postoffice which upon investigation proved to c be a vial of red and highly odorous 1 whiskey. A penciled note accompan- ^ ied the bottle which was enclosed in * a match box, with the information: - t una i3 ju-11. a. suiiipic. i1 you want to buy some see me." A rude face with the mouth cocked northwestward and a row of question marks ' served as the signature. A postscript ' warned against drinking all the li- ' quor, lest the chief get drunk. Mr. Ollis, in laughing over the in- 1 cident, warns the anonymous donor * that he is thoroughly capable of takl ing a joke, but the G-Men can't? and it's still against the law to send . liquor through the mails. 1 : ! In Macon county, fanners have co- 1 operated to order 23,853 pounds of i s I lespedeza seed to be used is so!! i j improvement work. ! " -v : ?v M": \AT ght ,, . .. . ? ... ^3 $1.50 PER YEAR IAD WEATHER IS CAUSE FOR HUGE HIGHWAY OUTLAY tate Moves to Remedy Damigcs to System, Estimated at Over Three Million. OAD LIMITS ON ROADS LEADING INTO BOONE IvUlon Engineers Go Over Plans lor Huge Spring Construction Program anil Tremendous Repair Project. W. Vance Baise, chief engineer for te State Highway and Public Works ommission states that the former ;timatc of three million dollars damto the highway system during ic winter freezing, has proven to * conservative. The statement from [r. Baise came after he had conrrred with district engineers relave to the damage in each section t" the state. Hard-surfaced highways leading in:> Boone from all directions are lim;ed to light loads, the first time in ic history of the system, and the uge trailer trucks can't operate unII repairs are made to the broken nrface. The division engineers, who assem!ed in Raleigh Monday discussed the 'ide repair program made necessary y this damage, and also went over lans for the spring construction proram in which about six million doltrs will be spent. Mr. Baise said he would likely .art this week visiting the various istricts to discuss road problems ith the key men in the highway setp. More equipment will be placed ver the state for the repair program, was said. Highway and Public Works Comlission is spending more money curmtly than it is receiving. Chairman r&ynick reported, and except for the let that revenues are exceeding esmates, there would be practically o money in the highway fund on une 30, 1937. The money for road nprovement will come from the sur lus being rolled up by increasing svenues, it was pointed out. 500NE MAN DIES FROM PNEUMONIA Viliiam Shcrrili Kites arc Held Tuesday", afternoon, at Advent Church. William Sherrill, 28 years old, lembcr of one of the community's rominent fnmiles. died in a Lenoir capital Monday after an illness of few days duration with pneumonia. Funeral services were conducted rem the Advent Christian Church "uesday afternoon, the pastor, Dr. Varman, Rev. S. E. Gragg and Rev. V. D. Ashley taking: part in the rites, nfermrnt followed in the Hine ccrae. ery one mile west of the city Surviving is the widow, the parnls. three brothers and four sisters: Lllen ShetTili, Somorville, N. J.: Eber nd Orrin Sherrill, Boorx-; Mrs. J. C. Iayes, Sheppards, Va.; Mrs. Annie ranr,oy. Boone; Mrs. Edna Penick, ioone; and Miss Stella Sberriii, of toone. Mr. Sherrill was the son of Mr. ,nd IT". _T"b'. it Sherrill and was on! and reared in Watauga county, ie had been engaged for several 'ears in the woodworking business zith his fAthpr hut latilw hod mployed as a cabinet maker at the ollege shops. He was a useful man, lonorable and upright, and leaves a lost of staunch friends in this comnunity. ; . Lenoir Negro Gets Penalty of Death Dave Withcrspoon, young colored esident of Yadkin river section was ound guilty Friday night in Caldvcll superior court of criminally as;auiting a 24-ycar-old Lenoir white voman. The verdict carried with it the leath penalty, which was pronounced >y Judge Warlick Monday morning. Vitherspoon is to be put to death in he gas chamber at state prison on day 15, between the hours of ten a. n. and three p. m. Glenn Knight, of Whitnel was bund guilty of assaulting with inent to rape a 12-year-old girl of his leighborhood and was sentenced to L2 to 15 years at state prison. Judge iVarlick stated that had rape actualy been accomplished the defender.", vould have been put to death. ATTENDS MEDICAL MEET Dr. Ronda H. Hardin of Grace Hospital, Banner Elk, is attending the neeting of' the American College of Physicians in Detroit. At the annual :orrvocation of the college on the eveling of March 4th, the College will idd F. A. C. P. to his name.
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