ASSEMBLY CLOSES
1937 SESSION
Passed Laws on Security, Rum
OptiGn, Free School Books;
77-Dav Session
Raleigh, March 23?North Carolina's
1937 general assembly, which
balanced the largest budget in the
[history of the state, legalized liquor,
compiled with all phases of the social
security program and authoriz|
ed free text books for children in
elementary schools, adjourned sine
die at 0:38 o'clock this afternoon.
Officially, the legislature quit at
high noon, when the old-fashioned
'-locks in tho house and senate
chambers were stopped.
Actual adjournment, however,
came more than five and a half
hours later, after the enrolling office
had an opportunity to copy last
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minute uius, uic rx>ar<j 01 education
omnibus measure had been enacted,
am! the house had killed a measure
allowing counties and municipalities
to issue revenue anticipation bonds
to match federal funds.
A total of 1,804 bills were introduced
during the session, 1,313 hitting
the house hoppers and 491 being
offered in the senate. Clerks at the
secretary of state's office had not
completed a check on the number of
laws ratified, but "guessed" the total
would run over 1,200.
The 77-day session was the shortest
since 1929. In 1931, when the
sales tax and the operation of
schools, prisons and roads on a statewide
basis caused the first legislative
stretchout, the law-makers remained
in Raleigh for 113 days. The
1933 session lasted 132 days and the
1935, 122.
Passage of the liquor statute ended
2S years of state-wide prohibition.
T'r.dcr the measure, counties voting
wet will be allowed to operate alcoholic
beverage control stores, where
liquor may lie sold by the bottle.
Profits will go to the counties, with
the state receiving seven per cent of
gross sales.
Stepping' into unchartd territory,
the legislators made North Carolina
history by inaugurating a social security
program designed to aid the
indigent blind, aged, and dependent
children, at a cost of $8,000,000 a
year, to be borne jointly by the federal
government, the state, and the
counties.
"Riese measures, with an unemployment
insurance act passed at a
special session called in December
hy: former Governor Eluringhaus,
brought the state under all phases of
the federal security program.
Another' history-making law was
one allowing the textbook commission
to authorize issuance of $1,500,000
in bonds to give elementary
school children free text books.
As in former sessions, money matters
caused the longest debates.
Finally approved as a icoord-setting
budget, calling for expenditures, including
permanent improvements, of
1, ?1 7 AAft AAA .1 fka
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1937-30 bieiuiiuiii. Although the
sales tax was removed from nine
necessities of life, a flat $4.00-apump
tax was levied on tilling stations
and the cost of automobile license
plates was reduced from 40 to
31 cents a hundred-weight. Part of
the huge budget will be used to raise
the salary of teachers and other
state employees 10 per cent.
Local Artists to Have
Pictures on Exhibition
Lalla Clay. Julia Johnson and
Pranoine Holt, students at Appalachian
State Teachers College, will
be exhibiting artists in Rockefeller
Center, New York, when the art exhibition
called "Young America
Paints," is held there March 30 to
April 10.
Pictures by these students have
been accepted among those from students
in more than a hundred leading
American cities. "The paintings
accepted for this exhibition, in their
exuberance of imagination and wide
variety of subject and interest, show
that a new day has dawned in art
education in this country," declared
Miss Marie Falco, in charge of the
exhibition.
The mediums represented among
the pictures to be shown are watercolor,
crayon, freecol, which is a new
dry color applied with a felt-tipped
brush, and finger paint. This latter
is especially adapted to the use of
very young children, as it is a soft
jelly-like material in various colors.
applied with the hands directly to
the paper, which lies flat on a low
table while the child sweeps in the
color with broad free strokes, creating
new effects with each touch of
the hand or finger, thus (gaining selfconfidence
and free self-expression.
Exhibitors in Young Amrica Paints
are from kindergarten to college
age.
ATTEND FUNERAL
Mr. W. H. Gragg and his mother,
Mrs. S. E. Gragg, of Shulls Mills,
went to Collett8ville Friday to attend
the funeral of Mrs. Rosa Lee
Lindsay, a iirst cousin of Mrs.
Gragg, who died Wednesday after a
short illness. She is survived by one
daughter, Mrs. Leafy Davis, of the
CollettsviHe community, and three
sisters.
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San Francisco.?Over 50,000
people ascend Mount Davidson
each year to attend the sunrise
Easter services under the huge
cross. Visitors from ail parts of
the country arrive to join in the
impressive ceremony.
TO CONSTRUCT NEW
THEATRE BUILDING
Messrs. Hamby and Winkler
Close Deal for E. N. Halm
Frontage; Work Starts
Messrs. a. m. Ham by and w. R.
Winkler, owners of the Pastime
Theatre, have close<l a deal with Mr.
E. N. Halin for a fifty-foot frontage
on the site of the Halin residence
and expect to begin the construction
of a new theatre thereon in the very
near future. Meantime the Hahn
residence is being moved to the rear
of the property and will front on the
street passing lite wbodcraft Jtov
eity company ^
Mr. Hamby states that the actual
plans for the new building have not
been completed, but, that the construction
will be of brick, that the
building will represent the very latesL
in theatre construction, and will
be arranged to seat fram six to
eight hundred people.
When the specifications are ready
and approved, Mr. llamby states actual
construction will start and that
it is his purpose to be able to occupy
the building by mid-summer.
Mrs. F. M. Ray Dies
At Pennsylvania Home
Mrs. F. M. Ray. native Watauga
county citizen, but for the past mnnv
years a resident of Tayloria, Pa.,
died suddenly at the home on Monday
of lust week. Mrs. Ray had sat
rereu a service 01 parai^ ^cnne
lime ago, but was going about her
household duties when seized by Uic
sudden illness. She expired within
a few minutes. She was about 60
years old.
The body was returned to Todd
laat. Friday and funeral services and
interment were in the old home
neighborhoodSurviving
are the husband, six
sons and four daughters: Sam Ray,
of Marion; Joe, Tom, Vonley, Frank
and Jim of Tayloria; Lucy, Madon,
Dora and Mary Ray, of Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Ray was the daughter of the
late Alex Blackburn of Watauga
county and was reared here where
she was well known. Her husband is
a brother to the late Mrs. Wade McGhec
of Boone.
HUTCHENS DISPOSES OF
INTEREST IN MOTOR CO.
Mr. Claude Hutchens of North
Wilkesboro, has sold his one-third
Interest in the Boone Motor Sales,
Wn?ar?o "Will Pno-h * ftrifl S!arl 1
Cook, who are now the sole owners
of the local Ford dealership.
Messrs. Pugh and Oook state that
they are enjoying an unusually
brisk business in the disposal of new
Fords, and til at four were sold Tuesday
of thi3 week. They state that
thus far they are having no trouble
in getting cars, and that practically
all colors, types and models are
available. Sales of used cars are
also described as very heavy this
spring.
Mr. Will Payne, veteran automobile
salesman, has accepted a po3it- i
tion -with the Ford agency.
MUSIC RECITAL
The music department of Appalachian
College will give a recital in
the college auditorium Monday
evening at 7:30 o'clock. The public
is cordially invited to attend.
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BOONE, WATAUGA COUN'
NORTHWEST BANK
CONSOLIDATION
NEAR COMPLEX
Final Approval Expected Soon
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Million Dollar Bank, of Which
Boone Institution is a Unit
Hie formation of the Northwestern
Bank, through the consolidation
of five banks, serving six counties,
was definitely assured Saturday as
the Merchants and Farmers Bank of
Eakcrsville approved the merger,
thus removing the last obstacle to
the creation of the three million dollar
financial institution.
A meeting of the directors was
held in North Wilkesboro Saturday
evening, but due to a misunderstanding
only half of the officials were
present. Gurr.ey P. Hood, commissioner
of banks, was there and approved
the application for a charter
for the new bank, and with the signatures
of the remaining members
of the directorate the application
wilt be forwarded to Washington for
endorsement by the Federal Deposit
Insurance corporation. It is thought
quite likely that the remaining routine
details will be completed in
time for 'the Northwestern Bank to
be actually in operation by April 15
or shortly thereafter.
A directors' meeting has been
called for next Monday at which
time officers will be elected.
The Northwestern Bank will start
operations with a paid in capital of
$150,000, surplus of $75,000 and undivided
profits of no less than $25,000.
Total resources will approximate
$3,000,000
The bank will have offices and
branches at BakCrsviUf, Burnsville,
Boone. Blowinc Ilnek SJWil_
kesboro anil Sparta, and is formed
through the consolidation of the
Merchants and Farmers Bank of
Bakersvillc, the Watauga County
Bank of Boone, the Deposit and Sav-,
ings Bank of North Wilkesbogo arjllj
the Bank of Sparwuau .ajfarMpr -?
bireolors of the new hank win be:"
W. W. Mast of Valle Crucis, W. D.
Farthing and Paul A. Coffey of
Boone, R. I.. Doughton of Laurel
Springs, N. B, Smithey of North
Wilkesboro, J. T. Prevette of Wilkesboro,
R. A. Doughton of Sparta, M.
A. Higgins of Eunice, M. E. Reeves
of Laurel Springs, W. C. Berry of
Bakersvilie, John C. McBee of Spruce
Pine, and CI. W. Greene of Toecane.
MANYMENNEEDED
ON PARK HIGHWAY
Employment Service Representative
Will Be in Boone Friday
to Register Men
Work on the Blue Ridge Parkway,
which was discontinued several
weeks ago. will be resumed about
the first of April, according to Jas.
M. Anderson, North Wilkesboro representative
of the State Employment
Service, who states that a great
many men will be needed for work
on this project.
A representative from the employment
office will be in Boone at the
clerk of the court's office Friday of
this week for the purpose of registering
those who desire jobs, and all
those interested are asked to register.
Laborers, jack-hammer operators,
truck drivers and tractor drivers
will be particularly needed, says
Mr. Anderson.
COLLEGE PAPER TO BE
PUBLISHED IN SUMMER
Eugene Wike, editor of the Appalachian,
local college publication.
states that tne paper will be published
this year through both the summer
terms at the college, starting
about June 11.
An increase in circulation to perhaps
1,500 or 2,000 is visualized by
the editor, who states that the business
men of Boone are eager for the
paper to continue, and are willing to
give the publication their continued
support.
Mr. Wike states that a record enrollment
is expected at the college
this summer and that Appalachian
seems destined to become the largest
college of Its type in the south.
DESIGNS CHEESE KNIFE
The Sugar Grove Cheese factory
has designed a cheese-serving knife,
for which thre is said to be on enormous
demand, and which has been
accepted by one of the leading cutlery
manufacturers in the United
States. Production of the knives
will begin at an early date, it is reported.
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ternational naval review at Spithead
coronation of King George VI. T1
man's flagship when he commanded
I the World war.
Cheek is Drawn
Finances Into Cn
Yesterday town officials mailed ,
to Charles M. Johnson, state \
treasurer, a municipal check ill j
the amount of $3,547.50, represent- i
ing the full amount of interest at '
S per cent due on outstanding '
bonds, under the refunding proposal,
which would save the taxpayers
of the town an equal amount
each six months.
The refunding proposition, which
city officials believe will soon Ik*- :
come workable, has already been j
approved by more than one-half of j
the bond-holders, and their securi- j
CLGHC FOR BLLNDI
BEING SPONSORED
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Lions Club and Stale Blind
Commission Co-operate in
Helping Needy Blind
i ?
rue uooik Lions elub in co-operation
with the state commission for
the blind, has arranged for holding
a free clinic, for the indigent blind,
and others with impaired vision. The
clinic will be held in Boone April 67.
and Dr. Brokman will conduct the
optical examinations.
Attorney Charles T. Zimmerman,!
president of the Lions clnh, states
that the clinic is free, and that his
organization wiU aid the blind and
also help in furnishing glasses for
others who cannot possibly correct
their vision on their own resources.
A representative of an optical
concern will be present with glasses. |
and those able to pay will ire fitted j
at a cost of about $4.
j
Evening Economics
Classes to Be Held
Special evening classes under the j
auspices of the high school home j
economics department are being j
planned for the -week of March 2&th j
through April 2nd. The classes, [
which will be of an informal nature, j
are scheduled to meet each evening |
during the week from 7:30 to 8:30. j
Discussion will be centered around'
plans for the new spring wardrobe ;
with actual clothing construction
taking place.
The event will afford an opportu-!
nity to exchange ideas and to study j
advanced construction methods, pat- |
tern ..interpretation and new color
combinations.
Special prizes will be awarded for
perfect attendance, outstanding
workmanship, and most attractive
dresses fashioned during the week.
The local high school department
for vocational home economics is located
in the basement of Lavill dormitory
and those interested in at
I tending: the evening classes may see
:Mrs. Wade Brown for further details,
NO BED CROSS FUND
AVAILABLE FOR TRAMPS
. Mrs James Oouncill, chairman of
the local Red Cross chapter, states
that many tramps and other transients
are being- sent to her for aid,
and desires that it be stated that
such funds as are held by the chap;
ter must be used for local purposes.
! The organization does not have any
! money which can be used for the re!
lief of transcients, she stated.
Despite killing of 7,228 moose in
I Sweden during a brief open season,
the number of animals is increasing
, Vapidly.
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)AY.MARCH 25, 1937
Sails for Coronation
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-w i?m win participate in an in- I
on May 18 in connection with the
le New York was Admiral Rodthe
Sixth battle squadron during
lo Bring Town
irre nt Condi lion
tics have been forwarded lo the
state treasurer for exchange for
the three per cent bonds, when the
plan comes into effect. The new
bonds are to l>e dated duly 1, 193(?,
and at that time the interest will
be paid from the money sent to
Italeigh.
Thus, if and when refinancing
is accomplished, the town's interest
bill will be in current condition
for the first time in many years,
and a reasonable fax rate will provide
sufficient funds to allow regular
payments of obligations as
they become due.
CITY ELECTION IS
TO BE HELD MAY 4
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Officials Arc Named For Municipal
Balloting: No Candidates
Arc Announced
G. K. Moose, city clerk, has issued
the call for the election In lie hold
in the city hah on May 4th, at which
time a mayor and three aldermen
will be elected for the ensuing* two
years.
Mrs. Carrie C. Williams has been
appointed registrar and the registration
books will be open each Saturday
throughout the month 01 April.
Saturday, May 1, will be observed as
ehaMenge day. J. E. Holshouser and
J. M. Morotz have been named as
judges of the election.
Incumbents May Run
Although no announcements are
forthcoming it is generally believed
that the present incumbents will offer
for re-election, all being members
of the Republican party save
one alderman, L. T. Tatum. Lattle
interest has developed thus far in
municipal politics and there is no intimation
as to whom the Democrats
may nominate.
Town's Oldest Man
Observes Birthday
Mr. John H. Morris, Boone's oldest
citizen, was honored at a birthday
dinner at his home Tuesday,
celebrating his 88th birthday anniversary.
Those enjoying the repast, all near
relatives, were: Dr. and Mrs. R. K.
Bingham, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Cooke,
Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Morris, Mr and
Mrs. K. A. Dink of Lenoir, and Council!
Cooke.
Besides being the most venerable,
Mr. Norris is one of the community's
best men and most esteemed citizens.
and it is the collective wish
that he may enjoy many more happy
birthdays.
LOCAL OIL DEALERS
MAKE SALES RECORD
Mr. A. E. Hodges of the Hodges
Tire company, dealers in Purol products,
was in Hickory Tuesday where
he attended a meeting of the Purol
agents for the Charlotte district.
Mr. Hodges' firm was singled out
for special recognition in the meeting
by having produced a greater
percentage of increase in the sales of
motor oil and grease than any other
Purol bulk distributor in either
North or South Carolina
Elephants are said by scientists to
have inhabited the earth at least 50.000
years before man. and dinosaurs
are believed to have lived 30,000,000
years before the elephant.
RAT
ght
$1.50 PER YEAR
JURORS SELECTED^
FOR APRIL COURT;
4 MURDER CASES
Judge McElroy Scheduled to
Hold Two Wgojrg Court Tent1,
in April; Heavy State Docket
Includes Four Murder Indict
ments
The spring term of Watauga superior
court will convene April 19,
I and the names of those who will perform
jury service have been drawn.
I Judge P. A. McElroy was to have
[presided but resigned from the bench,
(this week, the resignation to become
effective as of March 27. Senator
I A. Hall Johnson, of Asheville, was
immediately appointed to fill the vacancy,
and the Watauga court will
'be one of his first judicial assignments.
Heavy State Docket
The state docket for the spring
term is heavy and for the first
' time perhaps in the history of the
county, contains indictments against
[four men on homicide counts. Roby
1 Warren, Dillard Coffey, Waiter Porter
and Glenn Brown will be arraigned
on murder charges, the next most
important case to be tried being
against Sam Strickland, of Tennessee.
who is charged with robbery
from the person in connection with
the loss by Mr. Grant Trivett of $51
when accosted by the defendant.
The remainder of the 35-case criminal
docket is devoted for the most
part to misdemeanors.
Following is a list of the citizens
selected for jury service:
First Week
Arl Parker Bald Mountain; Wade
L. Greene. Stacy Moody, D. C. Hagaman,
A. D. Heiison, Beaver Dam;
Will C. Knight, Henry E. Coffey,
Dan Klutz, Blowing Rock; G. J. Keller,
L. T. Elrod, Blue Ridge; Goo. A
Wilson, J. C. Hoducs. W. C. Lvon. S.
M. Austin, Z. V. Farthing, David
Greene, J, C. Brookshire, Boone; A.
N. Mast, lAwrance Mootly, B. H.
Henson, C. B. Moody, J. R. Mast, .1
B. Horton, Cove Creek; V. C. Oox,
II, C. nUu^w, ' ? ,, ?V? * w ,
Farthing-, G. A. Edirrtsten, Lauret
Creek; Alvin J. Cole, Lee Greene, H.
R. Txxikahill, W. S. Houck, Meat
Camp, W. C. South, North Fork;
Dallas Edmisten, J. M. Michael
Shawneehaw; W. M. Shirley, W. S.
Moretz. Stony Fork; D. S. Love, Toy
Rupard, Watauga.
Second Week
J. Allen Gragsg-, Blowing Rock;
Roy Dolaon, Boone; Dewey Rominger,
Laurel Creek; ,T. W. Winkler,
Boone; C. P. Moore. Watauga; Carney
Criteher, Blue Ridge; Fred
Yates, Watauga; Q. B. Cannon,
Blowing Rock; A. V. Howell, Boone;
M. A Ward, Laurel Creek; M. W.
Greene, Boone; T. T. Danner, Watauga;
John A. Beach, Cove Creek;
jonn i,inner, stony Fork; Uranville
Story, Blue Ridge; Roe Campbell,
Beaver Dam; 1. N. Minton, Watauga;
F. M. Blair, Boone.
Junior Class Initiation
Here Monday Night
Team From North Wilkesboro Will
Confer Work in Three Degrees;
3 Counties Represented
Monday night, March 29th, will be
a memorable occasion for Juniors in
Watauga, Avery and Mitchell counties,
when the third district wilt hold
its class initiation in the Junior Order
hall n Boone. The North Wilkesboro
degree team, rated as one
of the best in the state, will put on
all three degrees, and local members
should allow nothing to prevent
them from attending this meeting.
Refreshments will be served.
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'Every crippled child has the right
to considerate treatment, not only
from those responsible for its being
and for its care, treatment, education.
training and placement, but
from those with whom ft is thrown
into daily contact, and every possible
influence should be exerted
by this and affiliated organizations
to secure this right, in order rbae.
so far as possible, the crippled child
may be spared the stinging jibe
or the bitter taunt, or, worse
still, the demoralizing pity of its
associates.
(Article 8 of The Crippled
Child's "Bill of Rights.")