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’ll IGF' i 4 aTTw,-« l/VA^ ■ . i, ' ' ! ' . ^ i '' ' A HARNETT COUNTY DEVOTED TO THE INTEREST OF HARNETT COlfNTY PRIMARILY. AND];OF THE STATE GENERALLY. VoJ. XX—No. 45 $1.50 PER YEAR—5c A COPY LUlingtwi. N. ,0.. Thursday, Novambor 10, >1938 "If It Coneama Haniatt. IPs in THE NEWS'* Democrats Harnett County F'inal Fall Session Of Harnett Superior Court Starts Monday Morning; V^illiams To Preside VARIETY CASES SCHEDULED FOR CRIMINAL TERM a» OFPKXDEKS, CHAKGEl) WITH VIOLATIXIi 27 SKUAHATK LAWS, SLATED EOH HEAKIXG BY .IITIIST OH GHAXD .Il’HY seldom aired In conrts. Mack Moore (Continued on page six) WELFARE OFFICE NOT GIVING JOBS i)fI>ar(iiiont Does Xot Have Aulhor- fty To Issue Uuids For Work On WPA l*i>oJ«*€ts, Says Miss Davis Replying to numerous liuiiilrlos iier office 1« receiving for cards ns-' slgtiioK workers to WPA projects In Harnett county, Miss Lillie Davis states that the welfare department accepts applications and conducts the necessary iuvesllga'tion but that final authority to Issue the cards Is vested with the WPA district office, in' Siuithfleld. ,On reci:lpt of , applications, the local welfare department Investigates- to determine whether or not the ap plicant needs work of the type and under regulations governing asslgn- mont of jobs on relief projects. Rec ommendations, based on those find ings, 'arc then forwarded to the Smlthfleld' office, from which final Instructions are given as to when and where the Job-seeker will go to work. Under this set-up, the welfare de partment is an Intermediary between (he district office, i which has final power to assign the Jobs, and work ers seeking WPA work. Wins Promotion An assortment of cases uuctiuallod In iHarnett's history are slated for ' I dlsposiiion at the two-weeks’ crlmln- ', al lerm of Superior Court which con venes .Monday morning and runs into ^ the second week as far as Is necos- \ sary to clear the docket. This is the final la the series of four session ' scheduled for Harnett county he-, tween .July 1st and December 3Is; and wlnd.H up the court’s activities,' for the half-year period. Civil court,' composed of disagreements over propii'ty, completed its work for the period in mid-October I'.vhen Judge Prank Kill presldell over a drawn- out ses.slon. Judge Clawson Wll,liams, resident judge of tlie Fourth Judicial District,' will wleltl^the gavel at the term which not only winds up Superior Court activities for 1938 but also brings to an end his tenure la this county until three years hence, after he lies been Into the other dis tricts arid the time rolls around for him to again preside In the Pourtli DLstrict. Solicitor Claude Canaday of Ben son, unopposed In Tuesday's election] will prosecute the docket. 'including the 13 cases which the Grand Jury will Investigate, there are 53 Instances of law violation on the calendar. Defendants involved in these cases are charged with vio lating 27 different laws, ranging liv degrees of severity^, from profauit,y and common nulsuiice to kidnapping! embezzlement, manslaughter and similar crimes. ^ ISome of the defendants will be hailed before Judge Williams and Solicitor Canaday for charges that seldom appear on the calendar. Al ton West, facing a Grand Jury Inves tigation for the kidnapping of a' fellow-Anderson Creek farmer and i robbing him of JU, Ts appealing^ from a suspended sentence given him in Recorder’s Court for violat ing the prohlhtion laws. As mosti defendants In the lower court are, satisfied with suspended ' sentences,! this Is a rare occurrence. West’s! .-illeged companion in the kidnapping' is Alvin Voncanaon, who Is a Co-1 defendant In the indictment which' will he given the .Grand Jury. The case of a father committing an assault on his children Is one MINOR CHANGES ARE PLANNED IN WEST HIGHWAY I’WO (T’HVE.S IX .lOHiX.sbxVlLIiE HOAD TO HE ELIMIA'ATKD HE- FOHE LINK UKACHIJ^jo .'tIAHOX‘.‘4 STOHE l.'^ T()!*..m RFACED Evidently agueing thttjhls service In the House of Roprosentatlvos en titled,.him too promotlop, Harnett Democrat.^ Ttusday gaye Fred S. Thom.is of Erwin :an overwhelming majority as one of the dislrlct’s two members of the State Soiiato.’ INSURANCE FOR SCHOOLS WILL BE ARGUED FRIDAY J. ('. HYHI), WHO FAVOIW .MUTU AL (OMFAXY UOLKMES, IN VITES 'i’AXUAYlORS 'I’O FRI DAY .MOHXIXC MEETING The BoaiM of Education will de part from Its roniluo, oftentimes monotonous, moetlug procedure to morrow (Friday) morning when Ihc tiiree school aulhorlllos" assomblo hero to dl.scuss the reiiewtil of Insur- .inco policies on notirly o!io-thlrd of a million do.'iars’ worth;! of school property, , J. C. Byrd, who openly ^favor.s con tracts with mutual insuiance com panies In preference to ol,l-llne com panies, lias issued an Int'ltntlon for taxpa>i'is to meet with jtho group. The meeting, scl)o'dule|l for 10 o’clock, will ho transforrod from the office In the Agricultural Building to the courthouse auditorium If the rooms are over-crowdedi; Mack M Jernlg.tn of Dunn Is chairman of the hoard and J. C. Sentir ol Kipling Is the third member. ' i The insurance plan advocated by .Mr. Bj'i'd was an ot'lstaiullng Issue In the June 4th primary—' ttit election which resulted In ou.stlng him from the board and putting D.j B. Dean of (Continued on page six) Two dangerous curves In the sec tion of the Johnsonvllle Rond be- iwtcn 'Llllinglou and Mason’s Store will be eliminated before the Stale Highway and Public Works Com- inlssloii carries out plans to put an all-weather surface on the stretch within .the next few months, The hazardous curve 'on the down- ,grade approaching Walker’s Creek will bo eliminated and the road will bridge the stream at aWther point. Tile second curve to be avoided is the turn which bear.s to .ihe,'rlglu a mile or so east of the orossro'ads at .Mason’s Store. These changes were ; agreed upon after a survey by highway engineers revealed the two dangei-s could be eliminated at slight extra expendi ture and' the road would be made safer for the large volume of traffic which'daily passes overjlt. The sur vey was made several j; weeks ago. shortly after the highway commis sion agreed to extend ll'je all-weather surface on the road as. far west as Mason’s Store, Dn the link of the road which runs out by the CCC camp and for a mile beyond .the town lltnits an all- weather surface has already been, ap plied. The constructiun crew will start al this point and;,! extend the Imitrovod road to Mason’s Store, a distance of seven inilesiiffom Lllllng- lon, as soon as the roatl'-bed is com pleted and changes In the route have been made, y The goal of loaders Is an all- woather ,N highway nciloss Harnett county, from the Jolijnston-Harneti border on the east to jPlnevlew' or Olivia In the west. Tibs dreamed-of road will be routed tjlirough Coats to Lilllngton either via;, Buie’s Creek ,or the northern section ''of .Nelli’s iCreek township and .will be routed .westward from Llllingion! out the , Johnsonvllle Hoad. Ir, will serve many families who now have to use .secondary, roads wheneyer they go to their countyseat or tvjolher sections of the county or State.i’ To secure approval !pf the entire project at one time intjolvos too big jan txptndiHure, ‘ Commissioner D. M. McCrary of Asheboro iias told Har- (Contlnued'on' piige slxl HEARING FOR PBRMUT TO RUN HU.S VIA ANGIER LS; POSTPONED , The State Utilities Ccimmlsslon-has iposlponed Indeflnltelyjj the hearing Ion .the Atlantic Qrpyhottndf Com- jPaiiy’s request for ' itermissl'on to ioperate a bus betweu jj Raleigh and Fayetteville v'la Angieri Distribution Cotton Checks Hogs First Monday Spotlight ' In Harnett's countyseat, the first Monday of each month is al ways a red-letter d.iy. The Com missioners convene on that day, and ;county officials outline plans for the coming weeks. Importance of "first .Monday’’ Is also om- , phaslzed Iry the fact that .praolical- " ly e;/ery project or movement of' county-wide Inurost Is timed so I, that. It is llnkodi in some manner with- the day which formally marks tho heglniiing of another 28' or 3G-i(lay fiscal period, November’s first Monday, throe days ago, was no exception and the countyseat teemed like a bee hive. It was election eve;, politicos scurried back and forth making lasl-inlnute contacts, determining the '.rend of opinion in' various, tov'nships and doing ejverythlng they could to. Insure victory for tholr candidates. Tho, Commis sioners were In session untU 'noon andi from different aeotlons ' came citizens who appeareefjbefore them with sunidry'Vequests.li The county foreclosed its. tax lleiis and judg ments on more than ItOiO' pieces of real estate and several persons who hud interest in the property auctioned came here ilpeclflcally to see it , sold. Emplollees ' in the county’s agriculture!: department were working .at a fast clip, wind ing up the'1938 pi'Ogi;am and pre paring to have cotton rand .tobacco quotas in growers* h'ands before tho vote on continuing control feature8!''ls, conducted December 'ioth. Those activities, important as they were, were ovenihadowed ^by the idistrlbutlon of privity adjuit- mciji checks on 'l'93'7i cotton. To facilitate handling'"tilese checks, (Continued bn page six) Some Left Tax Collfctor W. D. Harrington and Itls HS^4|l)tant, Mlati Klisabeth laisHter, liadi n busy day Monday ns ninny of t In* cotton farmero who rccelvctl parity ntlJusDiievit rlieck.s iiiado « bne'-lina for the collector’s offhs' to for tbetr 1( taxen. 'I By cltintng time a handtnl of ttiene votu.d.erH were in the cash Imx and many rt'celpts hatl removed from the tax books. Of nil (ho,se who iwld with the bhii'-coluredj clieck, not one had to .supplement' :[ the imynient wltli other fiindN'iliii oi-der to get their riisdpt. Knch vouclier was iiior than enoiigli'i to cover the cost and many {wyeeji reeelveil neat Hums a.s change. |! From Auditor Stedinaii McLean comeN word! there h* no dnnger of tlieM‘ funds, remaining Idle. Into ctiTiilatioii'they wilt go ns iiartinl puyment oiijj some of tlie county's over-due debts. Poll 2500 Majority In Election Marked By Surprisingly Small Number Of Ballots; 7000 Cast GIRL IS KILLED BY GUN IN HANDS OF LITTLE BOY LOADED BHpOTlNG IRON, LEFT WlTHilX REACH OP CHILDhKN, Pace Setter .UK8I*OX.SIBLR FOR lO-YEAlG OLD NEGRO’S DEATH BOARH MEETING MONOPOLIZED BY TAX BUSINESS COM.MLSHIO.N ERH, IN MONDAY I MOKNLVG i^KHNION, HEAR RE- II yUKSTH FOR LOWER VALUA- TIONH; llEEK LI(’EN.4E ISHUED •Meeting on the election day eve. members of Harnett’s Board of Com missioners Monday morning devoted Q four-hour ;session to imatiers con nected ,'^’lth mauaging'county affairs and. then adpourned so that those up foiMrelection;| might conduct, a Ust- minU'te cheek to make certain none of tholr political pop'ularity- had waned. ,i I) Ill order to -insure early adjourn ment, the C;ommiB8loner8 convened much eaidler than is ..their custom and by nooti—the time their noses are usually jjso ^completely "to the grlnd8ione’’-pthey hod cleared decks of matters'demanding attention and v’ere ready to quit tor the day. For two members of the Board. John S. Barker of Hector’s Creek township andjiGeorge T. Noel ot Dunn, .Mond^ay’s session was next to. tho last lime; they will sit as commis sioners. These, who have served ably during thelrlj tenure of office, are re tiring at the-close of their present term, which;} will end .the first Mon day In ' December. They will be re placed by Fvrd Jackson of Buie's Creek and R. L. Pate of EJrwlu. Chairman J^! B. Ennlfi, L. R. Byrd 'of Stewarits Creek and Angus Cameron of;iBarbecue were rejected ^'Tax matters and requests for ad justments mlonopollzed Monday’s ab breviated . nileetlng. Pet^sons asking for reduction or exemptions ,we.re'! G. T. Johnson of Buckhorn town ship was ip-anled free peddlers’ license for 1938-39. He Is physically disabled. Mrs. Chajs. Htghsmith asked for adjustments', on her property In Dunn. Commissioners Byrd and'Noel and Auditor Stedman McLean-were appointed to Investigate. The same committee was'appointed to investi gate valuatioiw on the property of Mrs. Mattie,Byrd in Averasboro, Mrs ■J, W, W'nlthead In Dunn, Mrs. S.'D. Sloan Estate in Dunn and Mrs. J. C. A loaded shot-gun, carelessly left withinjieiMj- reach of small children, was directly responsible for the Tuesday afionioon of I IC-year-old Negro girl who was killed by . her throe- year-old brother while death early II Rita iMcNeill, playluiji in their father’s they were home he- tween jDunu and Erwtii, Coroner Melvin .McLean and offi cers wjho investigated tho shooting were unable to reconstruct, in detail, the girl’s death.The child was kill ed as she and the little brother, so young [he did. not comprehend what had happened and was unable to throw !;any light on tho shooting, we.re playing in the room where their fkher, Cicero McNeill, had lefk HOWARD GODWIN HARRINGTON AND GODWIN SET PACE FOR CANDIDATES NOMINEES SKI«KCTEI> IN PHI* MARY KNDORHKD RY VOTRRH- AT-LARGE; M A J O R 1 T 1 R H RANGE FROM fHtT7 TO SHIM Endorsed hy 500 of the 7000 vot ers parllelpatlug. the Democratic re gime In Harueti^ county was extended for another two years'Tuesd-ty when the party’s c^tndldates polled .2600 majorities over tholr Repn’olican op ponents in an election, marked by the unusually small number of votes cu.^t. Unofficial returns—^thero' will be no others until Chairman Neill McK. Salmon and his -Board of Elect ions complete a canvass of the returns One of the pace setters In Tuesdayis I afternoon-show, that; Mrs. Inea Harrington, Register of Deeds, set the pace in voie-gettingl She re- them, j. He, a .widower,' had gone to’ general .elec}.ioM was Howard God win, new-comer to,-Harnett's official, family, who polled the second'hlgh- ,est majority. He ranked, next' to Mrs. Inez Harrington, Register - of Deeds. Godwin, tho first Monday in December, will begin' a four-year lerm as Clerk of Court. a nearby farm to assist with feeding stock, jj The only other .'persons in .the, house at the time were one or two youngi||,er8 about the same age of the lad who was playing with the gun when ;lt exploded. The'i father, who'hurried to the house ]|when he, heard the explosion and th,e children screaming, said- he did not know, the gun 'was loaded: The;! load entoied the girl’s fore head and bored through her head a celved 4832 to the 1955' i;eceived by Mrs, Elsie Byrd Qarton, her oppon- hole big around as a silver dollar. Bits of the child's brain and skull were' scat ter ed. about ih'e .room. I A grange of convicts, under avmed guard,'! had been working recently in the vicinity of MoNelll’s home and officers theorised ^ihe, youngsters may h'ave gotten the idea ot, handling the giiu from guards w-hom he had^.' 11 ‘i ' * watched. Officers: stated. .. too, that the gun might have exploded;,whem the'boy, barely large enoui^h.'to carry It,' drojpped it. Mdl^lelll 'with his children Jive In Averasboro, 'Just east of Black River. ROAD i>KTITION Al*PROVKD The petition,for Improvements on the two-mile road In Jonhsorvllle lownsliip which leads from the "old plankjiroad” to the "old gulf road’ .Ji In Lee county was approved. Monday, by the] Board of Commissioners, who order^ld that it be forwarded to D. B. McCrap, member ot the Slate High way' and Public Works Coi'nmlsslon i' 1 The link Is used as school bus. route for Bttnhaven school trucks,' NEGRO WOMAN IS KILLED SUNDAY NEAR SHAWTOWN :v LIZZIE McLKAN MISTAKEN FOR INTRUDER AND SHOT BY WII>. LIAM BROWN, WHO IS BEING HELD FOR GRAND .JURY The first captlal olfonse case for the next term, of Harnett Superior Court was added to, ,|he calendar Monday morning when a-, coroner's .Jury ordered tha( .WlUlam Brown, Shawiown''Negro,., be',ho.id' for .the Grand- Jury, to .conduct an investiga..^ .Mon of, circumstanced surrounding the death of Llszie McLean,, whdm he. killed Sunday night with a shot- gun. ^ The shooting occurred In the yard at Brown’s home, which Is on the Johnsouvine road Just outside the oily limits of Lilllngton. Broca’s stor.y, related to the six- man Jury empanelled by Coroner Melvlu; Mcl-eaiv to hold- 'the Inquest, was that about midnight, he heard someone pushing against his door as .If an attempt was that being ma^e to break, hub the house. Several- ;times he asked who,It was. No leply was received and he'seized his shot gun, wont to the door and shot at the ! (Continued ou page six) ... |t Goodwin inj Lilllngton, Averasboro and Duke townships. A. J. Barnhill was relieved of. poll tax for, 19S}8''39 on account of dis ability of his right arm. Paul Strickland property In Aver asboro wasjl reduced In Valuation from |10,0o|o tc 18,600. Mrs. Eff|le Allen .asked that the valuation of her property in Averas- boro be lowjered, Commissioner En nis and Auditor MoLean will investi gate. Auditor McLean was ordered .to release all claims against the D. Colon West;! property ^ In Anderson Cc^mmissioners Believe Early Birds Get Worms and Votes Creek township upon the payment of $1'25 by the 16th ot this month. Howard I-Iobbs was awa-rded a per mit to sell ^par at the Little -^Rlver 'Service Station, three miles south of Lilllngton. |i PREACHiINO AT CAPE FEAR C. I. Calcote ol Vast will preach at Cape eFar Church Sunday after noon at 3 [li’clock. Regular services havcj not' b;sen held" at this church and chose v^jho live in the coromunl- ly are 'asked to take notice of the date and time and to pass the word along to their neighbors so that a large congregation will be present. By-standers intereeted in tbe outcome of elections—It makes I little} difference whether they be, party contests or major conflicts' belWicen Republicans ' and^-,^ Demo- oratsj—derive a great deal of. plea;. surei'in watching the mad Hcra'inble'] for votes and,,the way candidates. matc^ skill and tempts to win. wits in their 'at- Expei’ienced politicians and those particularly adept «i ..secur ing votes know that in local' elec- tionsj the hours, directly preceding, the twlloling day are probably the- mostj Important ones in- the cam-' palgh. Many a weli-dlreoted' 'drivei has gone for naught because the eipple cart aes toppled over by more- alert seekers-atter-office as the campaign neared its end. 'Since .thls'j'ls so, candidates are always.^, cp..aad; about oii the day preceding .etectllon, keeping' "ears to .the groutad," Th'e iBoard of , Commissioners, three' of whom were chosen by the . Oembcrats for another term, were evidently handicapped by tbe fact that Monday of this week was regu lar meet lug day and failure uo.( to ' do so would have been shirking duties. To get around .this, the , executives were called,lii to meet ; earlier than u.-tutii.;. The session ,, was set for 8 .o'clock-f;the..tlroe'pt day offices are;, being! opened- and- pveparations mad-e for tbe day’s, work. By noon, the executives had" completed their day's work and were on the look-out for'any weak spots In their plans for re-election. Although -the two retiring mem bers of the board, Q. T. 'Noel of Dunn .and J. 9. Barker of iHector’s. Creek, had nothing personal at stake,, they went to bat for their party's candidates—they’re .that class of men and Democrats—and' used their influence, to secure their re-election. Q 'Whether or'not Monday’s early meeting had anything to do .with -the outcome no one knows, but a glance at the election -returns shows a great deal of work, not only for the Commissioner's but for the entire ticket. eut, for a majority of '2877. Close behind Mrs. Harrington waa Howard Goda-in of Dunn, candidate for Clerk of Court, who polled 477-2 votes to the 2161 -received! hy his op- poiient, J, E, -Dupree of Aligler. His majority was 2611. ' Sheriff Bill Salmon, whoso oppon.> ent was Bob Shaw of Erwin, was third in the list of unofficial lotala. His vole was 4769: his ^opponent's, 2215; his majority, ^55.l ! Fredi Thoiims of Krwiu, who will go buck to the General Assembly in 1939 but as a ineiubor of the Senate Instead of to his eusiomsiry place In the House of Representatives, was also In the 2500-inajorrt.v[ or more group. The 12tlt district, composed of Harnett, .Hoke. Moore} and .Ran dolph, will also be represented In (he upper chamber by Senator Boyette of .Moore. ' Solicitor Claude Canaday of Ben son and' Coroner Melvtn-J McLean of iLliUu'Kton,. unopposed In the election, ’ ipoli^d '417,34 andUfGL votes, respre- tlvely,. Neil] - McK, Ross of Lilllngton, against Attorney 'Bcrnardi McLeod of Buie’s Crock, received a 2387 major ity for lliarneu's seat in tlie House of Representatives. Judge Floyd Taylor, veieran Jtirlat of'the Recorder's Court, won a clear- cut victory over A. Dl' Wilson of An gler. The vote In this race ‘ i j (Continued on page six) was ROTARIANS SEE VISION FOOLERS .Slate Colii'ge Fw^fesnor L. O. Ami- MtroiiK MeiiilMw "In On" IRu- slona TIint fwist Eymlghl Professor L. O. ^rmetrong of the Department of Education at Stale College, Raleigh, was guest speaker at Lilllngton Rotary Club.'s weekly supper meeting last -Thursday night. Ho had with him some drawings on canvass to niH8trat.t> many" of the optica) iliusloim^iltat caua'e.estimates of dis'tances.'a'nd islzes to ; va-ry and fall for short of the correct figures. He also told some of tho secrets of movie making' that made Rotarians moretj"mbvle wise" thani ever. In-. Btead^lof seeking moving pictures,'ho told' ihem, they were looking at thousaiids. of poses that,|'pasBed be fore the, camera In such rapid auccea- ston that It appeared theyl.were mov ing. .‘His talk was received.- with great Interest. Prof. Armstrong was Introdueedi by Cliff Ammons,^ who had charge of the progr.-im, '' For the two preceding meetings local Rotarians. hadl'tajked of Rotary. SecretaiT, Lee Chaffin and' President siedm[an 'McLean had Impreased members with the , importance of digging deeper Into >ihe! principles and alms of the organisation, and their progi'ams were very inspiring. > The. meetings were held at Hotel Lilllngton, as will the -meeting Thursilay night ot this week. Dr. Hunter has charge of the’ program.
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