Liberty Theatre
k Purchased By
M.L.Curry,ofGa.
Theatre Is Closed This Week
For Installation of West
ern Electric Equipment
TO REOPEN SATURDAY
Interior To Be Renovated and
Celotex Haced On
WaUs
Store* WUl Be
Opeti Evening*
Thi* Week
North WUkesboro stores will
be kept open at evening this
week fM- the Christmas trade,
a survey among th ebusiness
houses revealed this momldg.
Additional clerks have been
employed in many of the stores
and the stores are prepared to
take care of holiday sho{>t>tTS
In a most satisfactory luanner.
A deal of considerable import-
, ance was completed last week when
M. L. Curry, of Milledgeville, Ga.,
^amrehased th® Liberty Theatre,
v’wpular local movie house, from
C. G. Poindexter, of this city.
At the same time the deal was
disclosed, Mr- Curry announced
that the theatre will be closed this
'U. L. HaferOff
To See New Car
Local Chevrolet Dealer To De
troit To See the W34
Model Chevrolets
U. L. Hafer, president of Hafer
Chevrolet company, left Saturday
that the th^trej«u^c.o»-
he has been
week until Saturday m order that
ch.^ in the equipment and the | through-
interior of the pu-ldmg may be ^ J yj.ed States in pre-
W«tem Electric sound equip- vising the 1934 model CheYO-
4pfe^inent considered among the best'let passenger ^ is a'd
^^«i the market will be installed there are many surprising iu-
and ready for use when the theatre provements, in the new Chevro-
reopens Saturday. Mur. Curry said. let.
Western Electric equipment will' Mr. Hafer was accompanied by.
.Western Electric equipment win
♦ ^'insure the best sound possible, it Mr. R. C. Freeman, of Elkin,
was declared. I Mr, Hater was very enthusias-
Celotex walls, which will absorb; tic over the prospects of seeing
the hollow tone which is naturally ■ the new car and learning just
created, will be put in as one 6f what i.s meant by "knee action'
the outstanding changes in the in-1 wheel and many of the other im-
terior. There will also be some' provenients. They will return
renovation work done in the lobby about the middle of this week. A
of the theatre. . siroiip meeting of the local or-
Mr. Curry announced that the ganization will then be hold,
theatre will reopen Saturday with It is expected that with the
an etxcellent Western picture. large amount of public interest
The new owner of the theatre in the showings of the new cars
has had 16 year.s of crperience as this year thousands of Chevrolet
owTier and manager of several of; dealers throughout the United
the leading theatres of the south
and is famil ar with the desires of
the theatre-going public with re
spect to pictures.
Metro-Goklwyn-Meyer and Para
mount pictures will be featured by
the new management. Mr. Curry
^ said he had already contracted for
some of the outstanding screen
productions of these two companies
to be shown in the immediate fu
ture.
Mr. and Mrs. Curry have already
moved to the city and are making
their home at Hotel Wilkes.
i
States will avail themselves of
the opportunity of this pre-view.
Ferguson School
Project Approved
Total Salet^ lift
Collectioiit For
Wilkes $8,739J
Total Fm: tte First TlirM
Bfoaths Annomiced
Revenue Commisskmer
amount is INCREASPrg
County Would Have Paid $49,»
524 bi Property Tax Bat
For Sales Tax
(This pictur’ is used through the courtesy of the Greensbor Daily News)
Dr. Newton Heads
Medical Society
Burned Building To Be Re
placed Soon; Work to Be
gin On Wednesday
The Ff-rgusoii school project
I for the rebuilriing of the build
ing which was burned recently
was approved Saturday, accord
ing to a telegram received by
ministrator.
This is to
eWA projects
Officers Are Elected At Meet-j{,np of great
ing Held At City Hall
On Friday
he one of tile major
in Wilkes and
I one of great importance to the
i school system. splendid build-
ling, far superior to the one bixrn-
I ed, is to be built.
I Mrs. Foster stated Saturday
Dr. W. K. Newton was elected
president of the Wilkes County „„
Medical Society for the ensuing ^ Wednesday morning
year at the December meeting of
the society which was held at completion.
city haD Friday evening. .
Other officers elected were Dr. | ^ 0 C *
H. B. Smith as vice president and | ^ ijClTVlCC
Dr. J. H. McNeill as secretary-'
Stage Pepularity
Contest Thursday
At Millers Creek
Attractive Popularity Contestants
Four Young Ladies Are Now
Being Voted Upon By Com
munity Citizens
CAKE WALK IS FEATURE
Pro-i
Christmas Celebration
gram Also Thursday
Evening
treasurer. Dr. G. T. Mitchell was ;
elected as a member of the board j
of censors for a term of three ^
years. )
Dr. Newton, following his elec-'
tion, appointed Dr. H. B. Smith j
and Dr. C. S. Sink as members of l
the executive committee.
Station Opened
The. final count in the girls'
popularity contest which is being
Staged at Millers Creek high
school will he made Thursday
evening during a Christmas cele
bration program wiv.cii will be
given in the school auditorium .
there.
A representative from each of i
the four high school grades was '
selected last week and many
votes have already been turned j
in. The four girls to be voted i
upon are: Hester Tulburt, sen
ior; Annie Ruth McNeill, junior;
Marianna Church, sophomore,
and Arabella Parsons, freshman.
The winner will he determined
Tobacco Farmers
. Meet This Week
Prepared To Give Motorists
Complete Service; Carl
Colvard. Manager . .
and much Interest Is being shown
in the outcome.
Speeches, poems, songs and
r—.. — - plays given by grade and high
opened for business Saturday and students will make up the
jis now prepared to give the mo-^jj^j,j of the program which
torists of this section a complete . _ ... j_..
one-stop service. Mr. Carl Col-
Christmas Cheer
Committee Makes
Appeal For Funds
Picture of Empty Stocking Is
Portrayed In Words By
Publicity Chairman
IN NEED OF CLOTHING
Need Is Great
This Year,
Says Halfacre; Supplies
Committee Busy
By ,T. B. WILLIAMS
(Chairman Publictty Com nlttee)
Good people of North Wilkes-
boro are you going to permit the
above picture to 'become a reality
here on Christmas morning? We,
your Christinas Cheer Commit
tee, have confidence in you to the
extent that we believe you will
not permit this to happen. This
is an old picture but It tells the
same story.
The bright rays of the sun
penetrate the window Christmas
morning. The landscape, perhaps
! covered with Immaculate new-
fallen snow, carries a message of
1 i. t /.rmfeat I cheer. In the distance may be' property tax relief
luc - Above are the four attractive contestonts m the p p heard the gleeful voices of happy the en,tire state amounted to
I by the largest number of voles I which is being staged at Millers Creek high school. Each was s lecie j happy because in some nn
During the first;, three months
of the new sales tax,
was collected In Wilke§ tjonnty,
according to a statement fur-
nlehed 'The Journal-Patriot by A.
J. Maxwell, North Carolina com
missioner of revenue.
Sales tax collections are pick
ing up and the collections for
the first three months are below
the anticipated average for the
year. However, the sales tax has
resulted In substantial relief to
the property owners of the coun
ty, in the opinion of Mr. Maxwell.
But tor the sales tax, Wilkes
property owners would have
been assessed a total of $49,524.,
Mr. Maxwell declares in his
statement.
Following Is Mr. Maxwell’s
statement;
“We take pleasure in furnish
ing you herewith information
taken from our records, show
ing the amount of sales taxes
collected in North Carolina for
the month of July, August and
September which has been tabu
lated for each county in the sUte.
“We take pleasure also in en
closing herein tabulation show
ing property tax reductions af
forded by (1) Removal of 15 cent
levy for schools; (2) Elimina
tion of levies for current erpenso
for distrlcte county-wide and
special charter schools.
“From these tabulations yon
will observe that we have the
following results in your county:
Sales Taxes Collected
July . .. i 2,415.73
August — 2,582.57
September 8,739.57
TOTAL - i 3,739.57
Proi»erty Relief Afforded
District levies, cur
rent expen.se $ $,781.00
Special charter, cur
rent expense 17,741.00-
15 cent county
wide levy - 26,002.00
TOTAL $49,524.00
“Figures given above repre
sent the actual reductions in dol
lar levies which were relieved in
your county by reason of the fact
that the State of North Carolina
took over the operation of the
entire eight-months school term.
In taking over our schools, the
State reduced the cost of oper
ation in the schools which
amounted in 1932 to approxi
mately $23,000,000.00 to ap
proximately $16,000,000.00 for
1933. thereby resulting in a
saving to the taxpayers of the
state of approximately $7,000,-
000.00 in operating cost. The
afforded for
The C. & C. Service Station, lo
cated In the C. & C. Chevrolet
company building on “D” s'reet.
I as a
I M 'o— — . J J n, i enunren—uaypy uei-wuae m aumc jii,4V6,dsu.>;u as
representative of one o.f the high school grades and the com- tabulations.
munity will decide the winner Thursday evening, December 21. They
are: Standing (left to right) Hester Tulburt. senior: Arabella Par
sons. freshman; sitting: Marianna Church, sophomore, and Annie Ruth
McNeill, junior (Photo courtesy of Blue Ridge Studio.)
vard, of Wilbar. ■who has been
connected with the W. J. Chevro
let company at West Jefferson
for the past two years, is man
ager of the station.
Two new Shell gasoline tanks
were installed a few days ago
“lower end" of the county near' and are now in use. The tanks
They Will Study Acreage Re
duction Contracts Offered
By Government
Tobacco farmers of
most of whom reside
Wilkes,
the
in
the Yadkin county Hne, will meet
this week to study the acreage
reduction co.itracte offered by
the government.
County Agent A. G. Hendren
are the most modern on the
market and are so designed as to
register -what each motorist re
ceives separately.
The C. & C. Service Station is
v;uuiu/ AftcuL .fx. \j. **cMiA*v,**|
announced Saturday that he hadP’ca^'luarters for Shell gasoline
icheduled four meetings and^d in this territory,
that he was anxious for every I The station has the distributing
grower of tobacco to attend one
of them.
The schedule follows:
Thursday, December 21, at 7
p. m. at Dennyville schoolhouse.
Friday, December 22, at 7 p.
m. at Cedar Hill schoolhouse.
Saturday, December 23, at 2
p. m. at Maple Springs school-
' house in Edwards township.
.Saturday, December 23, at 7
p. m. at Little Mountain school-
house.
‘*Rifht Answer” WUl Be
^iven At Mountein View
“The Right Answer" is the
of an excellent play which
111 be presented In the audltor-
i,of Mountain View high
ol Wednesday evening at
o’clock. The pubUc Is cor
dially invited to see this perform-
ance. The admission chargee will
I only 15 and 20 cents.
agency for Goodyear tires and
tubes and a complete stock of
this popular make of tire has
just been received.
A new battery tester has been
installed and for a limited time
batteries will be tested free for
the convenience of the motorists
of this section.
The station Is carrying a full
line of automobile accessories
and they are prepared to oil,
grease, wash, repair and service
all makes of autoimoblles.
The service station is complete
and np-to-date in every respect
and the management invites the
motorists to pay the station a
visit.
begins at 7:30 o’clock Thursday
evening.
A sale of pie boxes and a se
ries of cake walks will precede
the popularity contest finals. The
grade which brings In the largest
number of cakes as contributions
to the program will be given a
picnic.
Votes in the popularity contest
are one dollar per hundred and
many votes are being mailed to
R. V. Day, principal of the
school, by those who may not be
able to attend.
Charles Elledge, a member of
the Mt. Pleasant school faculty,
will act as aucltioneer.
The public is cordially invited
to attend the program and thus
help in a worthy cause.
All the money received from
the, sale of cakes, pies and the
popularity contest will be used
for school Improvements.
Mount Pleasant
Wins And Loses
;he
The condition of Pev. W. 0.
Meadows, of Pores Knob, who is
a patient at the Wilkes Hospital,
continues critical. Little hope
has been held out for hi# recov
ery.
Girts Are Defeated By Close
Score, But Boys Win Eas-
Uy 29 To 6
Mount Pleasant divided a
doubleheader with Mountain
View on the Mountain View court
Thursday In the county tourna
ment basketball games.
The Mount Pleasant girls were
defeated by the narrow margin
of 13 to 14, while the boys came
througih ■with an easy victory,
the final score being 29 to $.
Holiday Trading Is Brisk As
Thousands Visit Stores Here
Immense Throng of Buyers Expected During Remaining
Days of This Week As Christmas Nears; Only Five
More Shopping Days; Shoppers Pleased
Christmas shopping was brisk
here Friday and Saturday as
thousands visited local stores.
Not In years has trading been so
heavy a week before Christmas,
according to merchants of the
city.
Stores were thronged with
buyers on the Inst two days of
the week and the Yuletide spirit
absounded on every hand.
With only five more days until
the Christmas trade will be over,
Immense throngs are expected for
the remaining Christmas shop
ping season. Trading Is expected
to reach Its peak Thursday, Frl-
DODGE AND PLYMdUTH
CARS NOW ON DISPLAY
day and -Saturday of this week.
Many shoppers have been heard
to comment upon the excellent
array of Yuletide merchandise
which the merchants have on
hand and judging from present
indications there will be little
shopping out of town. Most shop
pers have been convinced that
the variety Is ample and that
prices are the most satisfactory
to be found.
The final messages of the sea
son will be carried by local
merchants Thursday and Janrnal-
Patrlot readers are requested to
take special note of these in mak
ing their last-minute purchases.
I season has been brought to them
But Inside the bright rays re
flect the drabness of an humble
home. The crisp air breezes
through cracks In the walls. No
heat radiates from the fuelless
stove. Bowing on the bed, the
coverlets of which are all too
meager, is a child clutching an
empty stocking.
The Empty Stocking! It has
brought heartaches. It has
wounded the soul of the child.
The faith of childhood has been
blasted. All because of circum
stances brought about through
no fault of the little form that
bows over the thinly-covered bed.
This same picture will appear
as true as life Itself here In
Two Dodge trucks, one Dodge
sedau and on© Plymouth d© lux©
coupe a$e now on display at
Wilkes Auto Sales, Inc. which te-
cently opened for business here.
The new cars were brought back
from Detroit yesterday by Mr. F.
D. Forester and Mr. R. T. Mc
Neill.
BUY GH^STMAS SEALS.
STORY SPEAKS TO
CALDWELL TEACHERS
Prof
T. B. Story, superinten
dent of Wllkesboro high school,
delivered a splendid address to
Caldwell county teachers at Le
noir Friday evening, using as his
subject, “Language Materials and
Objectives.” He -was accompanied
to Lenoir by Mrs, Pearl HarUey
and Mrs. Grace'Ed*rarda.
(Continued on page fire)
To Give Pageant
In City ^ools
Christinas Pageant W31 Be
Presented Tomorrow Eve-
/ niug at 7:30 O*dodc
A Christmas pageant will be
presented in the city school au
ditorium tomorrow evening at
7:30 o’clock by 185 elemenUry
and high school children of the
city schools. '•
The pageant tells the story of
Christmas In a moot efteethre
manner and the public is cordial
ly Invited to see It.
There will he no admission relief
charge, this being the school-
children’s eontrlhntion to the
community for the holiday sea
son.
$11,476,540.00 as shown by the
I
'Sales taxes collected in your —
county for the first three months
are below the average collections -
for the entire year as our collec
tions are being Improved from,
month to month. But, after al
lowing for the reasonable In
crease In the sales tax collections
In your county which are antlct-
pqted, It will be observed that
the property owners In your
county are relieved of property
taxes In the considerable amount
shown and that the sales tax col
lections In your county will be
far less than the property tax re
lief afforded.
“The sales tax payments are
made by all of the people In the
county rather than those who
happen to be owners of 'property.
“If the relief afforded prop
erty taxpayers In your county Is
not fully reflected In the actual
levies made In your county for
1933 taxes. It would not be be
cause the relief was not afforded
by 1933 legislation, It would he
on account of levies being mads
for purposes which were not In
cluded In the levy of 1932 or for
Increases la debt servloo re
quirements or relief work.' In
saying this^we are not erlttelsing
any local authorities as situations
have arisen in some conntite on.
aeconnt of debt servieo require
ments, reUef pnzpoaes, ete.. tor
which local authorities hsTS
found that they must make to-
Ties tor county purposes otBar
than schools or In consldenklon
conditions la their
county.
“In 1983 property owners iu^
(Uontlnned on page four)