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VOL. XXIX, NO. 57
Published Mondays and Thursdays NORTH WILKESBORO, N. C.» THURSDAY, APRIL 25,1935
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Late News of
State and
Nation
House Favors
Liquor Bill By
Vote of 49 to 41
Killcl lly Tniin
Thomasville, April 23.—Odell
Revamped Day Liquor Bill
Pa!-3ed Second Reading
Wednesday
Bell, 12, of Thoraasvjlle. was
found dead at 2 o’clock this
morning by the railroad tracks
about i.OOO feet from the sta
tion. Hi.s skull was crushed and
he had been dead some time.
Kncl Spending Spree?
Washington, April 23.—The
administration tonight called
upon Congress to end its spend
ing spree and warned that new
taxes must be imposed to finance
the soldiers’ bonus and other
proposals not provided for iu
President Roosevelt’s budget.
>Iake.s Succe.ssful Miglit
.\lameda, Calif.. April 23.—
Pan - American Airways' huge
clipper plane flashed into its
home base today, completing the
first round-trip commercial flight
to Honolulu and opening the
-way to round the world air
.service.
Panidc .\«ay Depression
Greenville, Miss., April 23.—
The planters of this cotton met
ropolis are “getting tired of all
this talk about hard times,” be
cause “tires are better.” They
are going to “parade" the “de
pression” out of the delta.
Trusties .Make Hscape
Raleigh, April 23.—Tliffe pri
son trusties, including Bill Saw
yer who was servin.g a 25 to 30
year sentence for murder in Dur
ham county, escaped from the
state convict farm at Cary late
yesterday while working without
guards.
PASSAGE IS HELD UP
Proponents Say it Would
Open Way For Exemption
of Food From Sales Tax
Xegro Is Convicted
Gaston, April 23.—A Gasloii
county superior court jury late
today convicted John Pressley,
Ressemer City negro, on a first-
degree murder charge. Pressley
was accused of fatally shooting
Sylvester Pressley, negro, in a
gambling argument.
DefcndiUit On Jui-y
Wilmington, April 23.—Capt.
W. M. (Billl Reynolds, whose
tavern was raided Sunday morn
ing by federal agents who seized
a large quantity of whisky, was
called as a member of the grand
jury when federal court conven
ed .Monday morning. He was dis
missed.
Raleigh. April 24, —Legisla
tive forces who hope to settle
the difference between revenue
and appropriations bills by a tax
on liquor gained a partial vic
tory in the House of Representa
tives today when the revamped
Pay liquor hill was passed on
.second reading by a vote of 49
to 41.
An effort to push the bill
through its third reading failed
when Representative Jonas, of
Lincoln, objected and support
ers of the bill felt they could
not muster enough strength to
suspend the rules and pass the
measure.
The bill will come up for
- third reading tomorrow.
If it passes the House many
observers here believe it will
have comparatively little diffi
culty in the Senate after the con
firmed dry.s have made their
speeches for their constituents.
The bill would probably open
the way. it is hoped by its sup
porters, for reduction of the
sales tax rate or assurance of
exemptions on basic foodstuffs
and would assure salary increas
es for .school teachers and other
state employees.
As the House ri'ce.sscd its ses
sion to return at :!:3u p. m. to
consider the Pay bill the reve
nue hill remained in conference.
It appears that the parliament
ary strategy underlying pressure
on the liquor bill today revolves
around the hope that it it is
passed the revenue bill may be
rewritten by the conference so
as to reduce the sales tax bur
den iu some degree.
One of the major questions
which faced the General Assemb
ly when it convened in January
was settled by the Senate at its
morning meeting today after
brief but fiirvid debate the up
per house tabled, with 29 sena
tors rising to a call for a divis
ion. the bill of Senator M’eath-
ers, of Wake, to repeal the ab
sentee voters' law.
Dr. McNeiU To
Leave For Study
Colonel Blair To
Address Meeting
Guilford Alumni
Dinner .Meeting To Be Held This
KveninK .\t Princess CaJe
In This City
VVill Take Special Course In
Internal Medicine .\t Har
vard University
Dr. J. H- McNeill, prominent
local physician, will leave Sat
urday for Harvard University
medical school, where he will
study for the next three months.
Dr. McNeill will take n speci
al course dealing with internal
medicine and treatment of non-
surgical diseases. The course is
for three months and he is ex
pected to return to his practice
here about August 1.
Mrs.F.D.Meadows
I^es In Charlotte
iWiner Resident Of This City
Succumbs Today; Funeral
Here Tomorrow
Mrs. F. D. Meadows, age 60.
died at five a. m. at her home in
Charlotte this morning.
Before she moved to Charlotte
' two years ago Mrs. Meadows was
an esteemed resident of this city
and many friends here were sor
ry to learn of her passing.
,-She was a daughter of the
'f^ate O. O. Eidson, of Elkin, and
came to this city to make her
» home when she married F. D.
g-Meadows, who tor many years
^'■wa.s prominently associated with
business interests here. There
are two children, J. C. Meadows,
of Charlotte, and Mrs. H. B.
Keck, of this city.
Funeral service will be held
at the First Baptist church here
Friday morning at 10:30. Inter
ment will be in Walnut Grove
church cemetery
Col. Wm. A. Blair, widely-
known M'instou-Salem speaker,
will address the dinner meeting
of Guilford College alumni to be
held this evening, six o'clock, at
the Princess Cafe. Dr. C. A. Mil
ner. president of the college, will
also be present.
To Give Minstrel
Show Tuesday Night
Under the auspices of the Wil-
kesboro Parent-Teacher Associ
ation a splendid cast of 25 local
people will present a negro min
strel show- in the North Wilkes-
boro school auditorium on Tues
day night, beginning at eight
o’clock. Admission will be 10
and 25 cents and a large audi
ence is expected to witness the
show.
The minstrel will be made up
of the latest song hits, many of
which were especially ordered
from New York City, dancing
and brand new jokes that are
calculated to produce side-split
ting laughter. Another feature
will be a four-piece colored or
chestra.
SHE’S HAPPY
Girl Who Had “Innards”
Righted Is Now
Normal
Government Buying
Submarginal Lands
Driver Of Truck
Escapes Death By
A Narrow Margin
Transfer Truck Rolls Over Four
Times .And Driver Kscapes
Without Injury-
Fall River, R. I. . . . Alice Mc
Henry of Omaha (Above), whose
“upside down stomach’’ opera
tion here was quite successful,
is now up and about playing w-ith
her Easter gifts.
Farm Census In
The District Has
Been Completed
George Jackson, driver of J.
O. Emerson’s transfer truck, mir
aculously escaped death three
miles north of Danbury late
.Monday night when the truck
ran off the road, rolled over four
and one-half times down a moun
tain side and landed bottom side
up in a creek.
A oar was parked in the high
way and the occupants of the
car turned on their lights as
Jackson drew near, blinding him
to such an extent that he ran
off the road, he .said. Although
the Ford truck was damaged
considerably the cab did not
crash, which is attributed as the
reason of his escape from death.
He remained in the cab until the
truck stopped rolling, walked
back to the road and flagged his
way into Danbury.
Represent Wilkes
In Essay Contest
Wilkesboio Student Will
Speak In District Keesler
Memorial Contest
By virtue of winning first
place iu both school and county
Office In Lexington Closed eliminations, Miss Annie Lou
*• ' " .. T-i Ferguson, of Boomer, a student
Monday: Reports From
Enumerators Tabulated
Work of compiling the farm
census in the eighth congression
al district has been completed, it
was learned yesterday from D.
J. Carter, of this city, district
supervisor.
The farm census in the dis
trict was carried along smooth
ly and efficiently and reports
from every- enumerator have
been filed, tabulated and for
warded to the census bureau in
Washington.
Wilkes county, perhaps the
largest in the district, was the
first to be completed. The enum
erators in Wdlkes warked rapid
ly and covered the large area in
the allotted time. The farm cen
sus this year showed 5,667 farms
in Wilke.s county as compared
with 5,125 reported in the regu
lar decennial census in 1930.
The census of agriculture was
made throughout the nation for
the purpose of gathering com
prehensive data that is expected
to he of much help to the gov
ernment and more especially the
department of agriculture in
carrying out the Agricultural
Adjustment Administration’s pro
gram.
Trucks Collide
In Wilkesboro
Highway Truck and Mont-
vieH- Dairy Tnick Crash
Near Federal Building
A state highway truck driven
by Quincy Huffman and the
Montview Dairy truck driven by
Charlie German collided early
Tuesday morning at the street
intersection near the federal
building in Wilkesboro.
The milk truck was crossing
the main street when it w-as hit
in the rear by the highway truck
and both vehicles were badly
damaged. Jethro Satterwhlte,
colored occupant of the milk
truck, suffered a concussion of
the brain and other injuries
while the others involved iu the
crash received only minor in
juries.
Three More Days of ‘Clean-up Week’
For Residents of North Wilkesboro
This w-eek is “Clean-Up-M’eek’’
for residents and business hous
es in North Wilkesboro, accord
ing to a proclamation i.ssued last
w-eek by Mayor R. T. McNeill.
Only three more days of the
clean-up event remain and city
authorities and the Woman’s
Club, cooperating, are urging
everybody to observe tho week
in its true sense to the end that
the streets, vacant lots, business
houses and residences of the city
may present a pleasing appear
ance.
For those w-ho so far have not
observed this week as "clean-up
time” the city officials wish to
assure them of every coopera
tion. All rubbish should be plac
ed at convenient points for the
employes of the sanitary depart-'shorten the time of
ment, who will haul it away'' ’
of Wilkesboro high school, will
represent the schools of Wilkes
county in the district Keesler
.Memorial Contest to be held in
Morganton Friday night.
North Wilkesboro and Wilkes
boro schools were represented in
the county elimination contest
held on Tuesday afternoon in
the directcu»’-ui**Hr--xft the - Bank
of North Wilkesboro and judges
were Dr. M. G. Edwards, Rev.
Eugene Olive and E. G. Finley.
Those taking part in the con
test were Miss Annie Lou Fer
guson, representing Wilkesboro,
and Miss Alice Handy, of North
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Sunrise Service
Very Impressive
Despite the inclement weather,
the Sunrise Services held at St.
Paul’s Episcopal church on East
er Sunday morning were very
impressive. The quaint old
church w-as very pretty with its
decorations of Easter and calla
lilies. The vested choir, trained
by Mrs. B. M. Lackey, of Lenoir,
sang lovely Easter carols.
Bishop Robert E. Gribbin, of
Asheville, was present and made
an inspiring talk after which he
held the Holy Comraunion .serv
ice.
Immediately following these
services, the members of the
church with a few guests from
out of town, assembled at tlie
horn, of Mr. and Mrs. C. H.
Cowles, where a buffet breakfast
was served. The home was
thrown en suite and cheerful
fires in open grates added to the
hospitality of the occasion.
The dining room table was
beautifully arranged with a bowl
of white lilacs surrounded by
white candles in silver holders
for a centerpiece.
Mrs. C. P. Morrison and Mrs.
H. M. Scott, aided by Misses
Helen and Marjorie Dula and
Carolyn Cowles, assisted the hos
tess in serving the breakfast.
BUS ROUTE HEARING
TO CONTINUE TODAY
free of charge.
Many people from this section
of the state went to Raleigh yes
terday to attend a hearing be
fore Stanley Winhorne, utilities
commissioner, on application by
the Greyhound Bus Company
for a francliise to operate buses
between Greensboro and Raleigh
over the Chapel Hill route. More
than 500 people attended
Those from here who attended
were M. P. Absher and Ralph
Duncan, members of the county
board of commissioners, J. B.
McCoy and J. G. Hackett. The
proposed bus service would
round-trip
travel between this part of the
Number of Proposals Made by
Land Owners In North
west Part of Wilkes
Government field agents work
ing in AVilkes county on the pro
posal to buy up vast areas of
siibmarginal lands for reforesta
tion are making considerable
progress, according to informa
tion received from J. M. Pleas
ants, in charge of the office lo
cated in the Carter building on
Ninth street here.
The government proposes to
buy all submarginal and waste
lands in Wilkes county between
highways 16 and 60 for the pur
pose of reforestation and game
preserves and develop the prop
erty into a project similar to a
forest reserve.
Those who own mountain
land, cutover lands, badly erod
ed lands or any type of lands
not specially suited to commer
cial farming in the suggested
area are asked to get in touch
with Mr. Pleasants and let him
explain what the government
proposes to do.
The first step is up to the
land owner, who proposes to sell
his land to the government and
fixes his price in a lump sum
per tract. The tracts are then
surveyed and appraised and the
government will buy according
to the appraisal, whether the
appraised value be above or be
low the price proposed by the
land owners.
If the land owners propose to
sell their submarginal lands and
tlie option to buy is exercised by
the government, development of
the property will get. under way.
Some of the poasibillties outlined
are the establishment of a sec
ond civilian conservation camp
in the area, reforestation of cut
over lands and erosion control
work, all of which woul^ furnjsh
a ^Teat-amount of ““
^UT OF THE ST^
CHIPPED POT
Paid No Taxes But Want
ed To Help Gov-
v '* eriftnenr .
Oakland . . . C. H. McCaslin
(above), who owns a typewriter
repair shop here, owed no feder
al income tax. He wanted to
help the government so sent $35
to President Roosevelt who turn
ed it to the Treasury department
where it was accepted with
thanks.
“eoT.jcte
Organization
Formed In
Internominational Group To
Create Interest in Church
Activities
PLAN UNION MEETING
Union Prayer Service To Be
Held On May 1; Commit
tees Are Named
and would reclaim lands that are
now considered as submarginal
or waste lands.
Scouts Attending
Chapel Hill Meet
Troops of Wilkesboros Well
Represented In Jubilee
At University
Wilkes Court
To Convene On
Monday Morning
Criminal Docket Will Be
Taken Up First; Remain
der Term For Civil Cases
The first term of Wilkes su
perior court under an act pass
ed in the present legislature pro
viding two more terms yearly
will convene in Wilkesboro on
Monday morning. April 29, with
Judge F. A. Daniels, of Golds
boro, on the bench.
The term is for trial of both
criminal and civil actions and
the criminal calendar will be
taken up first. , What time re-
ould furnish maips after the criminal docketj »»aeested
state and the state eapltol.
Twenty-four Scouts and four
scoutmasters will represent the
four Scout troops of the Wilkes
boros in the jubilee at Chapel
Hill today. Friday, Saturday and
Sunday, in commemoration of
the 25th anniversary of Scout
ing.
The hoys will house them
selves in tents on the campus of
the University of North Carolina
for the three-day jubilee, which
will be filled with entertaining
and beneficial activities. More
than 1,500 are expected to at
tend the gathering.
Scouts who left here this
morning for Chapel Hill were as
follows:
Troop 34—William Covington,
Junior Jones. Bobbie Hathcock.
Ralph Bowman, Ralph Crawford.
Robert and Harry Schafer, Scout
master H. F. Bouknight in
charge.
Troop 35—John I- Myers. Jr.,
Raymond Minton, Paul Haig-
wood and Houston .Steelman,
Scoutma-ster R. C. Jennings. Jr.,
in charge.
Troop 36—Joe McCoy, Jr., Pat
Williams, Jr., Sam Vickery, Bob
Finley, Paul Warren, Edward
McNeill, Ray Cashion and Roy
Cashion, Scoutmaster Gordon
Finley in charge.
Troop 37—M. G. Edwards, Jr.,
Don Story, Douglas Linney, Wil
liam Gray and Luther Saylors,
Prof. T. E. Story in charge.
of criminal cases.
No calendar has been made
out for the term and witn.jsses
have ,l»een subpeonaed to be
present Monday and remain uu-
UI the cases in which they are
involved are tried. Solicitor John
R. Jones has stated that cases
will be disposed of as they are
called and warns all defendants
and witnesses to b© present iu
order that the work of the court
can go forward without inter
ruption.
On the docket are around 200
criminal cases, the majority of
which are for minor offenses,
and the docket will be cleared if
possible, the solicitor empha
sized.
Officers Get One
Man at Distillery
Fred Hamby Arrested In Fer
guson Section Monday By
Federal Agents
Federal revenue agents made
a raid Monday night near Fer
guson that resulted in the cap
ture of Fred Hamby, the destruc
tion of a still and 90 gallons of
liquor. Hamby was committed to
jail in default of a bond of $500
following a hearing before Com
missioner J. W. Dula in Wilkes
boro Tuesday morning.
Officers taking part in the
raid were C. S. Felts, T. M. Set-
zer, and M. S. Phillips.
Mr. and Mrs. Wpaver Starr
had as their guests during the
Easter holidays Mr. and Mrs. A.
R. Moore and two children, Bet
ty Ray and FVank, of Timraons-
ville, S. C. and Mrs. S. F. In
gram, of Pageland, S. C. Mrs.
Starr and Mrs. Moore are daugh
ters of Mrs. Ingram.
Local Baseball Nine Getting b Sha
On Tuesday night in a lay
men's meeting held at the Meth
odist church hut an interdenomi
national movement was started,
having as its purpose an increase
in church attendance with &
resultant increa.se in Interest in
church activities.
With only a- few hours notice
there were more than fifty lay
men from the leading churches
in the city present and although
the meeting was of an extempor
aneous nature, a permanent or
ganization was formed.
Attorney A. H. Casey is chair
man of the organization. Pastors
of the First Baptist, Methodist
and Presbyterian churches make
up the advi.sory committee and
the committee appointed to map
out a program of activity is com
posed of three members from
each church as follows: Presby
terian, J. C. McDiarmid, Gordon
Finley and Mrs. J. B. McCoy:
Methodist, W. D. Halfacre, Genio
Cardwell and Mrs. W. P. Hor
ton; First Baptist, E. M. Black
burn, D. E. Elledge and Mrs. R.
P. Casey. W. D. Halfacre is
chairman of this committee.
The committee composed of
the three pastors and three mem
bers from each church will meet
at Hotel Wilkes on Monday night
at 7:30 to lay out a program of
work to be submitted in a union'
midweek service to be held at
the First Baptist church on
Wednesday night. May 1.
Emphasis is placed on the fact
that the movement is interde
nominational and cooperative
that.. rural
churches take up the "Go To
Church” movement to the end
that an increase in interest in
church work throughout this
section may result.
Big Stage Play
Today and Friday
“The World’s All Right” To
Be Presented Tonight and
Tomorrow Night
Tonight at S:15 and Friday
night at the same hour a great
array of local talent will present
“The World’s All Right,” master
stage play, in the- auditorium of
the city school building.
The presentation is sponsored
by the local post of the Ameri
can Legion and the Legion Aux
iliary and their share of the prof
its from tlie admissions will be
used in most worthy causes.
Miss Louise Moore, represen-’
tative of the Universal Produc
ing Company, is directing the
production, which is expected to
be one of the outstanding stage
productions of the year in North
Wflkesboro.
The scene of the entertaining
spectacle is laid in radio station
WAR (call letters standing for
“The World’s All Right”). How
ell Gabriel plays the part of the
station owner and announcer,
who has plenty of financial dif
ficulties but who comes out all
right when the office boy (Joe
Brame) comes to the rescue with
his act with the high steppers,
featuring Marcella Pendley.
The Hill Billies are quite out
standing, in fact, there are no
dull spots as the play rushes
from feature to feature with the
audience wondering what is com
ing next.
For 1935 Season; New Players Sig
With the advent of sunshiny
days and periodic attacks of
spring fever the people of this
section are becoming baseball-
minded and are watching closely
the progress of the North Wil
kesboro (Home Chair Company)
baseball club.
H. V. Overcash, former direc
tor of athletics in the high
school here, has taken over the
helm of the team and is whip
ping it into shape for a schedule
that is expected to put baseball
in the spotlight in Northwest
North Carolina during the sum
mer season.
With an abundance ofi ma
terial on hand the team looks
forward toward playing the
Brown and Williamson commer
cial team from Winston-Salem
here Saturday afternoon on the
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IMPROVEMENT NOTED
IN THE CONDITION OF
CHARLES JENKINS, JR.
Some improvement is noted in
the condition of Charlie E. Jen
kins, Jr., who is a patient in a
Greensboro ho.spital suffering
from Injuries sustained Sunday
night when hi.s automobile crash
ed into a closed driveway in
Greensboro.
Young Mr. Jenkins was un
conscious for many hours after
the accident and fear was held
that his Injuries were fatal. Al
though there are severe lacer
ations about his head and body,
it is hoped that he will rapidly
recover.
^0 To the Church of Your Choice, But Go To Church—Laymen*s Committee