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AnvsUnn Driven
Qraenvllle, Nov. 6—State high
way {Mttfplmen last week-end be
gan arroBtlag^ persons driving au
tomobiles who have not applied
for their driver’s license, and a
number have already been haled
Into court.
Send Out Licensee
Raleigh, Nov. 5.—Though the
licensee are now going out at the
rate of around 16,000 per day,
only S00,000 of the new drivers’
permits have been dispatched to
applicants. More than 800,000
^^nons applied for permits be-
hj*n November 1, when a $1 fee
^became effective.
Liquor Profits Shown
, Rocky Mount, Nov. 5—Liquor
sales through Nash’s county-con
trolled stores between July 22,
^when the first store opened, and
"September 30 totaled $48,337.65
at a net, profit of $8,849.23, ac
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VOL. XXX, NO. 10 Published Mondays and Thursdays NORTH WILKESBORO, N. C.. rHURSDAY, NOV. 7, 1986 - - »1.50 IN-!rHS 8T^
OUT OF T)^ STAtlri
W P A Institutes
Sewing Rooms To
Give Women Jobs
Miss Ila Hohnan Heads Work
in Five-County District;
Headquarters Here
HAVE THREE IN WILKES
Sewin^f Rooms Now Located
at Maple Springs, Congo
and Wilkesboro
Three sewing room projects
have been started in Wilkes
county to provide jobs in relief
families where there are no em-
ploya'i’.i men, it was learned to
day from C. H. Smlthey, district
branch manager for the works
progress administration in five
A YOUNG PIONEER
cording to an audit fo; the board ' counties.
of county commissioners.
.Strike® School Hus
Thomasville, Nov. 5.—D. G.
Beard, of Charlotte, was charged
with reckless driving today after
his truck had crashed into the
rear of a standing school bus. re
sulting in injuries to six persons.
He was released on $100 bond.
p\>iir of Quints Walking
Callander, Out., Nov. 4. —Four
of the Dionne quintuplets toddl
ed without support today while
baby Marie, tiniest of the chil
dren. was able to make her way
a few feet with the aid of one
of her nurses' fingers.
(’oninieuds Duke Co.
Wnshin.gton, N^iv. 4.—.'lorris
L. Cooke, chief rural electrifica
tion administrator, toda,'"' com-
Miss Ila Holman, of Wilkes
boro. formerly connected with
the emergency relief administra
tion office here, heads the sew
ing room work in the five-county
district, composed of Wilkes,
Alexander, Alleghany. Ashe and
Watauga countie.s.
These projects will be of in
estimable benefit in furnishing
employment because of the fact
that 35 per cent of the priority
relief cases are women and be
cause of the large number of
destitute families which do not
have among their number men
that are able to work.
The three sewing rooms pro
jects already under way in
Wilkes are at Maple Spring.s,
Con.go and Wilkesboro while two
are being maintained in Ashe
county.
As vet there are only six WPA
mended the cooperative spirit of projects for men under way
the Dtike Power company in help- j wiikes hut others have been
ing piit electricity in
Carolina farmers.
reach of
Car Wrek Kalal
Durham, Nov. 5.—Mary King,
15-year-old daii.thtcr of Mr. and
Mrs. 0. J. King, of Rocky Mount,
was killed and four others were
injured when the car in which
approved and will be started as
soon as possible. The projects
now going and which are provid
ing jobs for more than 350 men
are road jobs and a street im-
((’ontinued on page eight)
To Rv$h Work
Scenic Parley
In This Section
Contracts Let On Soenk Road
For Construction To Mol* •
berry Gap
WORK IS~UNDER WAY
Virginia Lino To Deep Gap
Constitutes First Main
Sector of Parkway
WTien several hundred families were sent to Alaska from the i
middle w'est to settle the Matanuska Valley, the Red Cross sent a I
nurse, Madeline de Foras, to remain with them for a year to help pro-1
tect their health. Among the first friends she made were the little,
pioneer. Arthur Hack, 4 years old. and “Prince.” the pup who went
with his young master to Alaska.
Organization For Red
Cross DriveBeing Made
Want Homes For
4 Girls; 3 Boys
To Be Started In
Wilkes Nov. 18th
they were ridins skidded and
overturned on the Wake Porest
Ihyh^ay. six miles east of here.
Hog Pens To Be
this afternoon around 3 o’clock.
Outlawed Here
t old Dcstro.vs |-o|>.s
Seattle. Nov. 4- Freezing tem
peratures, causing millions of
dollars loss in frozen fruit, vege
table and forage crops, sent pric
es skyrocketin.g in the Pacific
northwe.st today. Buyers offered
potato growers $30 and $32 a
ton. compared with .$12 and $14
paid a week ago.
City Fathers to Publish Or-
dinano? Establishing Zones
For No Hog Pens
■Aldermen of the town of North
; Wilkesboro in regular .November
I meeting Tuesday night authoriz
ed the city clerk to draw up and
I have publistied an ordinance pro
hibiting the raisin.g of hogs iu
certain zones.
The ordittance. which will set
out the zones in which it will be
Direct Kelicf Stops
Washington, Nov, 5. - Boo.st
nine the number of states ■ unlawful to raise hogs, will be
their last | published at an early date.
Harry L. ' Mayor .McNiel and members of
the town board are advising the
people in the city who raise hogs
no! to buy others to he raised
when the ones they now have
are siaitghtered. It is under.slood
J. M. Absher, keeper of the
eounty home, is s«'efcing homes
for seven now homeless elill-
ftren that he has in his care at
(liat coiiiitv instiliitioii.
There an' four girl.s, :ii.:es
l:$, 1), 7 and .T years; one b,;y
7 years old and one Imy oiil.i
18 iiionths old. .All tlies' eliil-
(Iren are briglil and inteMigeiit,
Mr. .Absher states, and are
worthy of gMMl homes and a
de-ent live!ihM>d.
.Anyone interested in fnr-
:iisliiiig a fioiin* fi>r one or
more of these cliildi-en is i-e-
ipiestetl to gel in toiicli with
.Mr. Abslier or Charles >tc-
Niel, counl.v welfare officer.
Transfer of Rev. H. K. King
Cau.sfts Delay In Starting
Annual Drive
■ Although the dates throughout
j the country for the annual Red
i Cross Roll Call aro Armistice
Day until Thanksgiving, t h e
drive in Wilkes will not actively
begin until Monday, November
Ing to
which have received
direct relief grants.
Hopkins, today edged nearer his
goal of a doleless system of work
relief. Maryland. Delaware and
South Dakota were served notice
today that they “have been given
November Meeting
Of American Legion
Be On Friday Night
their last allotment.s of
funds bv the FF.R.A
Woman Is Suicide
Currituck, Nov. —Word has
been received here that Miss
Blanche Dowdy. 27. daughter of
M Granbery Dow'dy. of Harhing-
^ er^ killed herself at 9 o’clock this
J|bning at the home of lier sis-
Mrs. H. H (iregory. in B tU-
ley. Va.. with a htillet throu.gh
the temple. She Iiad been in poor
health for severiil months and it
-$y-was thought this was the cause
of her act. She left no note.
federal that they will be given until
-March 1 to dispose of the hogs
that are now being kept in the
zones to he affected by the new
ordinance
Kvery member of the Wilkes
post of the American Legion is
requested to attend a specially
important meeting to be held on
Friday night, eight lo'clock, tU
the Legion and Anxi'.iary
house.
Bids on the construction of tho
fourth segment of the scenic
park-to-park highway In North
Carolina, will be opened by the
U. S. Bureau of Public Roads De
cember 5', Chairman Capus M.
Waynick of the State Highway
and Public Works Commission
has just been advised. When
these bids are opened, they will
bring to a total of 43 miles of
parkway on which contracts have
either been let or -bids opened,
the first from Virginia line in
Alleghany county to its intersec
tion with State Route 21. Bids
were opened some weeks ago on
Projects B and C, extending from
Route 21 to Air Bellows Gap and
from Air Bellows Gap to Mul
berry Gap and construction on
these two segments, totaling
more than 17 miles, is expected
to start just as soon as the con
tracts have been awarded.
This fourth segment extends
from Mulberry Gap to Horse GnP.
about 12.5 miles and will bring
the parkway to within 12.5 miles i
of its intersection with N. C.
Route 60 at Deep Gap. It is ex
pected that bids on the fifth and
lasc segment from Horse Gap to
Deep Gap and Route 60 will
probably be opened about Jan
uary 1, Chief Locating Engineer
R. Getty Browning of the State
Highway Commission said today.
When all these projects are let
and under construction, the first
main sector of the parkway to
taling some 55.5 miles will be
under construction.
For the time being, It is not
planned to build this northeast
ern portion of the parkway be
yond Deep Gap and its intersec
tion with Route 60, but to fol
low Route 60 into Boone and
then on into Blowing Rock over
j Route 28, since these existing
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Jail Cases to
Be Tried in First Wedt
[ Santa’s Seaetary j
SANTA CLAUS, Ind. . . . The
busy season for Oscar L. Phillips
(above), is right ahead. He is post
master of this town and every year
receives hundreds of letters from
youngsters with lists of desired gifts
enclosed.
IS, it was learned today.
This delay is due to the fact i state roads are already paved and
cliih-
Progressive, Resourceful People
his
Velieim-nt (ie.sluifs
Oklahoma City. Nov. •
Charles B. Holden threw
jg^t arm out of joint today
'svbile arguing a case before the
Oklahoma Supitune court. The at-
ttrrney. gesticalatin? vigorously,
suddenly paused in his argument, j
Other lawyers jerked the arm |
back in place. Holden explained
he injured the arm playin.g foot
ball at the Ciiiversity
Carolina.
of North
Coca-Cola Co. Starts
Advertising Campaign
The local ('oca-Cola Bottling
Co., of which AV. A. McNiel i.s
president and manager, i.s
launching a winter advertis
ing campaign in today’s Journ
al-Patriot whicli will run
until February 7th. The firm
is one of the few, if not the
only Coca-Cola Bottling Co.
that Is running a newspaper
campaign this winter in North
Carolina.
gpecial letters are going out
every patron of the com-
advUlng that the special
gdnctlateS campalifB Is
my.
(Charlotte Observer. November .5)
The Journal-Patriot which announces itself, and truly, as hav
ing “blazed the trail of progress in the ‘State of Wilkets’ for .‘iO
years” lives up to that ambitious record in the publication of a
• Progress and Merehandiaing Edition.”
It is a handsomely completed bit of journalistic entcrpri.se with
three sections of its special issue given over to an eloquent recital
la" Iho eitic of progre.s.s which has been written by the people of that
community during the past ‘i.'i years.
In workmanship the edition is'^creditable to a much larger urban
center than North Wilkesboro; the editing is of superior talent and
the display of both news articles and pictures is of attractive tech
nique.
The Journal-Patriot is in the leadership in helping along in
the program of progress of Wilkes county.
It fittingly represents the new spirit of -agricultural and in
dustrial development thet has seized the citizens of that community,
a newspaper of enterprise, of progressive temperament and of
patriotic purpose.
And it is the hustling organ of a generation of North Caro
linians who have taken hold of their natural assets with a will to
realize thereupon and to make the best of the happy and fruitful
assets which nature has kindly laid in their laps.
And above all, as one will quickly find who no more than
makes a snap-shot visit among these aggressive people, they are
not yet covered over and masqueraded behind the mere rouge of
modernity, with all of their up-to-datenes.s.
Neither are these neighbors of ours so brutally under the
mania of mere money-making that no time is taken out for the
social amenities, a clever, cordial, home-loving, entertaining peo
ple who are building for themselves and posterity a civilization bet
ter than the blase, cynical and unsocial coupon-clipping culture of
the larger centers.
Life with them is meat, to be sure, but it is more than raiment.
Attention is paid to more sustaining resources than bread and
bank accounts—they are not liring on the mutable materialisms
alone.
Life is rhythmic there with the measured treads of an old-
fashioned. regal dignity and a quality of character that it is re
freshing to fall amid once in awhile.
that Rev. H. K. King had been
appointed annua! roll call chair
man tor this year and he was
transferred by the Methodist
Conference to the eastern con
ference. This left the local or
ganization incomplete but it will
be perfected in time for the work
to get well under way by the
ISth. Attorney J. H. AVlticker is
general chairman of the Wilkes
county chapter.
Tlie American Red Cross is
known throughout the nation as
the greatest humanitarian organ
ization apd the mother in times
of distress. Always ready tor any
call it has responded in a great
way during times of disaster in
every section during the past
year and the time is at hand
when the people of the nalion
are asked to contribute to its
treasury by tlieir memhership
tees.
With the improvement in eco
nomic conditions and knowing
lliat the rural people have bonn
blessed with hountifiil crops, it
is expected that Wilkes will give j
its full quota this year to thi.s!
great cause. I
offer almost as short a route as
the liToposed parkway route.
The parkway from Airbellows
Gap to Deep Gap will follow
closely the main ridge formation
of the majestic Blue Ridge and
several short sections of the
scenic road will be in Wilkes
county. This section of the park
way will offer unexcelled pan
oramic scenery because it will
follow the main ridge, alternat
ing on each side around the
higher peaks.
The next main link in the
parkway to he constructed will
begin at Buck Gap on Route 104,
and extend around Mount Mitch
ell and the Craggies to its inter
section with Route 694 just north
of .Asheville.
E. SPAINHOUR ON
BUYING TRIP THIS
WEEK IN NEW YORK
J. E. Spainliour. of this city,
head of the Spainhour chain of
stores, and' his son, Eugene
Spainhour. of Elkin, are on a
buying trip to New York City
this week. They will return the
latter part of the week.
Confaractors On
H^Hway Project
Making Dirt Fly
Thirty Men Placed on High
way 16 Project by Re-em-
ployment Service
Civil Docket To
Follow Criminal
Judge Phillips WiU Preside;
Grand and Petit Jurors''
Summoned For Term
Work began this week on con
struction of over seven miles of
the Millers Creek-Jefferson road
between Wllbar and the Ashe
county line.
Thirty men were placed on the
job the first of the week by the
re-employment office here, it was
learned today from J. B. Hash,
head of ih» office.
The contractors, T. M. Strlder
and company, of Nashville, Tenn.,
have one large deisel shovel and
four tractors moving dirt on the
grade and are expected to add
other equipment soon. It is
planned to use two forces of men
each day in six-hour shifts.
The contract calls for grading,
slructures and gravel surfacing.
County Board In
Quiet Session
The first of the extra fall
terms of WHlkes superior court
created by the 1935 general aa>
sembly will convene in Wilkes
boro .Monday morning with Judge
P. Donald Phillips, of Rocking
ham, on the bench.
The term will bo for two weeks
and will be for trial o' both,
criminal and civil cases. Jurors
sufficient in number for grand
and petit juries have been sum
moned for the first week.
It is expected that the grand
jury will complete its task in a
very few days because of the fact
that a grand jury functioned in
the regular August term.
The first three days of the
first week have been set aside
for trial of jail cases on the
criminal docket but dUe to the
fact that there are several de
fendants in jail awaiting trial,
including two charged with mur
der, it is exploited that more
thaft three days will be consum
ed with trial of criminal cases if
the jail docket is cleared.
The two defendants in jail on
charge of murder are Ornaville
Love, who is alleged to have
killed Phin Atwood in Jobs Ca
bin township a few months ago,
and David Cook, charged with
the murder of John Robinson in
North Wilkesboro only a few
weeks ago. Several other homi
cide cases are awaiting trial but
the defendants are out under
bond.
The association met re
cently and made out a calendar
of civil cases to be tried after the
jail cases are disiwsed of. Cases
continued during the last civil
term and set for trial in the
term beginning Monday will be
called first. Other cases will fol
low in the chronological order
of their origin.
Tax Delinquents For 19.34
Turned Over to W. W.
Gambill For Collection
Corn-Hog Checks
Are Distributed
To 81 Farmers in Wilkes
County; Part Payment
Totals Over $1,400
Checks made payable to eigh-
ty-one corn and hog producers in
Wilkes county have been distri
buted from the office of A. G.
Wilkes county board of com-
mi.ssioners held a quiet month- j
ly session Monday. All members,
D. B. Swaringen, M. F. Absher I
and Ralph Duncan, were present. |
After the routine business of | Hendren, county farm agent,
receiving reports and auditing ' The first hatch of vouchers to
claims were disposed of the board | the 81 contract signers are for
took up a number of matters of ' approximately one-half of the
minor public Interest. : total reduction benefits to be paid
All order directed C. H. Per- for the current year and totaled
giisoii, county accountant, to , $1,480.55. Tliere are forty con-
turn over to W. W. Gambill, de- tract signers whose checks have
linquent tax collector, the unpaid not arrived but are expected
1934 taxes for collection.
Peter Jarvis, Rhoda Ann Jar
vis, Nancy Cothren, John Watson
and I’nlly Watson were admitted
to tlie county home tor thq aged
and infirm.
Plan Sanitoi'iuiii
Raleigh, Nov. 5.—The archi
tect's plans lor construction of
the new western North Carolina
j liihcrculosis sanatorium near
Asheville were described as “95
j per cent coini>letc“ here today by
i Lee L. Gravely, of Rocky Mount,
chairman of the board of trus
tees, who said “work is expected
to start on the plant by Decem
ber 15’’.
Clarence Gregory
Is Taken At Stffl
within the next few days.
Practically all of the checks
had bc-eii given out from Mr.
Hendreii’.s office today. Those
for whom checks had arrived
were notified to apiily in person
and sign receiids.
Rogers Memorial Fund Contributions wilkesboro m. e.’s
Ma> Be Sent To Tbe Journal-Patriot n- Pasmr u To^^
Revenue Agents Make Raid
in Ekistem Part of
Wilkes Monday
Investigators of the federal
alcohol tax unit arrested Clarence
Gregory in a distillery raid In
eastern Wilkes Monday. He was
charged with the manufacture of
non-tax paid liquor and was re
leased under bond of $500 fol
lowing a hearing before J. W.
Dula. commissioner. In Wilkes
boro.
In addition to the arrest of
Gregory the raid netted the seiz
ure of a medium sJs^ still antiL
large quantities of materials for
liquor manufacture.
Readers of The Journal-Pa
triot who were admirers of the
late Will Rogers and , who desire
to contribute something to the
national memorial being planned
for the great humorist and actor,
may send in their subscriptions
immediately to The Journal-Pa
triot.
Carl Goerch, editor of The
State in Raleigh, is state chair
man tor the funds and has asked
the newspapers all over the state
to take up the task of gathering
funds in their respective territor
ies.
The Will Rogers memorial will
be in the form of a hospital or
other institution that will be a
service to humanity instead of a
useless shaft of marble. John N.
Garner, vice| president of the
United States, Is national ch^-
man and the national commission
has In its memhership many na
tionally known friends of the
great humorist from all -walks of
life.
Subscriptions to the memorial
fund may' he malted to: Rogers
Memorial Fund, Journal-Patriot,
and the funds will be mailed to
.state and then to national head
quarters.
Peojffe*^niay contribute to this j church, will fill the pulpit for
Rev. A. W. Lynch, new pastor
of the Wilkesitoro .Methodi.st
cause in any hmount from the
lowliest coin to as large denomi
nations bills as they are able and
care to give. The subscriptions
should be mailed with the fol
lowing coupon:
WILL ROGER.S MF-.A10RI.\L
FUND
Date
To the Editor:
the first times Sunday morning
at 11 and Sunday evening at
7:30. He succeeds Rev. Seymour
Taylor, who was assigned to
Broad Street cliurch iu Moores-
vllle.
Rev. and Mrs. Lynch and three
daughters are now occupying
1 the parsonage in Wilkesboro.
Wishing to have a part in per-j W. R. Vannoy Erecting ^
potuatlng the memory of one of I New Service Station
our most beloved and useful citi
zens, I enclose herewith my con
tribution of to the
Will Rogers Memorial fund. I un
derstand that this gift will be
added to others and will go with
out any deductions whatsotver
to the national fund to bo ex
pended, also without any de
duction, as the Memorial com
mittee may determine..
Name ...
Address
W. R. Vannoy, who is now-
operating the Midway Service
Station between the Wilkesboros,
Is erecting a tvfo-story brick
building beyond thk south end of
the Yadkin bridge' between
Wllkeeboros. ?
Tbe building, it i^ undersfaM,
will be used by Mr.\Vaandy a*’
a service station.
AJten, contractora,
afartsd »ork dn.
"aifd considerable' "proi
baea made. .
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