'Imi
JOU^^PXtEIOT has blaze©, the,.trail of PROGRESSIN the “STATE OV W HJCES"':
Utellt^of’
a;!’
t>w. _«.—^Oene Co'ey,
^^nurli mall «arried.
^^teHted satdMe by
_' ^ the top of bis head
, a tS-sanse ibotgun.
Tax Exempt Potatoes
Waahlngton, Doc. 6.—Moving
to ewe some of the drastic pro-
vlalons of the new potato control
law, the AAA today anriounced
increase of the growers’ auto
matic 'tax-free allotment from
^^Jlre to 60 bushels.
" '.^ liOuisiana For F'. I>. R.
,.£^^New Orleans, Dec. 6.—The
of Huey P. Long has placed
Loaiaiana’s Democracy solidly
behind President Franklin D.
Roosevelt for renomination to the
presidency. The Louisiana Demo
crats are at war over state issues
but on national policies they are
in agreement.
OVER 750 IN WILKES
;
Teachers Getting Pay
Raleigh, Dec. 6.—Pay checks
totaling an estimated $2,200,000
will be distributed to the ap
proximately 30,000 teachers, bus
drivers and other employes in
Aihple' time for the Christmas j
holidays.
Burns l*rove F'atal
Asheboro, Dec. 6,—Mrs. Katie
Thompson. 67. widow of Bob
Thompson, died at 2:30 o’clock
this afternoon in Randolph hos
pital of burns received this morn
ing, apparently after her clothing
had been Ignited while she was
iiiaking a fire at her home at
West Rnd. near here.
h
.m
Honolulu ... A most impres
sive reception was tendered Capt.
Edwin .\Iusick, master of the
liuge China Clipper, when he put
tlie giant airmail craft down here
on the history making first flight
from the T^. S. to the Far East.
Killed By \iiloiiiobilc
Gastonia, Dec. .7. -Babe Laws. ^
11-year-old Gastonia boy. w;is.
killed today wh^n a car driven |
by F. C. Hicks, of Gastonia, struck
him near an uptown railroad
crossing. Police said the acci
dent appeared unavoidable and
Hicks was not detained pending
a coroner's inquest tomorrow
night.
u
Say Wc Do Our Part
Washington. Dec. 6.—Declar
ing formally that the Cnited
States “should not let the world
down’’ in the current war crisis.
President Roosevelt asserted at
the same time today that this
^untry already ha.s done “its
jhare toward the restoration of
peace.”
Christmas Seal
Program Given
At Kiwanis Meet
E. E. Eller in Charge of De
lightful Program at Luch-
eon Meeting Friday
► ■
Need Other Jobs
For AU Eligibles
Hope to Have Wooten’s Creek
Road Job Under Way in
Short Time ;
Held if
Kills Girl and .S«'lf
Chicago. Dec. 5.—A rejected
suitor slew the girl who spurned
him, wounded, her new fiance
and killed himself today. Miss
Grave© ■nsborne. 2S, brunette, and
Joseph Downey. 27, met ends
when Downey terminated a year
of futile courtship with a burst of
pistol fire in a hotel near this
city’s gold coast. Lawrence
Lampo, L’S-year-old .son of a
physician, was seriously wounded.
(iiii Is Still yiis.siug
Hickory. Dec. «.—No trace of
Miss -\ellie fshort. 19-year-old
dau.ghter of Rev. and Mrs. R. G.
Short, of. Hickory, who disap
peared .Monday witli two (*aston ■
county youths, had been touiui by
local police tonight, althougli I
Glendale Atkins, one of the I
youth.s. was arrested near Gasto-1
nia today, was quoted as sayiiig ;
Under the direction of E. E.
Eller, an inspiring program was
given before the North Wilaes-
boro Kiwanis club Friday after
noon. ...
Mr. Eller presented W. D.
Halfacre, superintendent of city
schools, who introduced Mrs. R.
! T. McNiel. Christma.s seal sales
I chairman for the North Wilkes-
' boro Woman's club.
I The Woman's club is sponsor
ing the sale of seals for the pre
vention of tuberculosis and -Mrs.
.McNiel told the history of the
iwtivity. telling how [a Polish
cierk originated the project in
1903 and how the sale of seals
sale of seals locally and how
began in this country in 1910.
.Mrs. McNiel also told about the
three-fourths of the funds derived
from the holiday stickers are re
tained for local use and some of
the eomciulable things the funds
are used for.
\ group of students from the
fifth grade in the city schools
dramatized the sale of seals and
the henetits derived therefrom.
E. H. Hix. of Charlotte, was
a a nest of W. F. Gadtly at
meeting.
The Works Progress adminis
tration is furnishing jobs to 75B
men and women in Wilkes coun
ty, it was learned this morning
from C. H. Smlthey, branch man
ager for the WPA in Wilkes,
Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe and
Watauga counties.
Of this number 555 are men
from the .'ist of eligibles certi
fied by the relief administration
and 200 are women, given em
ployment in the sewing rooms
under tlie direction of Miss Ila
Holman, director of llie W’oman’s
division.
The 75.5 now at work is still a
hundred or more short of the
goal of jobs for every relief
eligilile, hut Mr. Smithey stated
that lack of projects in reach of
all is the reason why all eligibles
have not been placed. He stated
further that the Wooten’s Creek
road job will greatly alleviate the
situation when work is started.
“Work is going good in all five
counties,” Mr. Smithey^ stated and
tlien proceeded to comment on
the class of labor the relief cases
are furnishing, declaring that
ninety per cent of the cases
placed have shown a willingness
to give an honest day’s work and
that very few of those assigned
are refusing the work except for
those who have work at home
or find more profitable employ
ment elsedvhere.
fl '
YEARS':^*
Do Your
North
WmmfiNem
Santa Barbara, Calif. . . Mrs.
Dorothea Livermore (above), di
vorced wife of Jessie Livermore,
Sr., Wall-Street operator, was
photographed in the, county jail
here, after the Thanksgiving day
shooting of her 16 year old son
in a quarrel over his drinking.
$2,444.99 Paid
Wilkes Fanners
Nello Teer Low
Bidder On 4th
Parkway Sector
Bid Is $290,055 For Constrac-
tion of 13.4 Miles Along
Blue Ridge
•Nello Teer. Durham contractor,
submitted the low bid Tliursday
for construction of the fourth
Passe^er Car
Rates Rilled
No Change in Trude Plate
Priced; Early. Poirhase
^ This Year ia Urg^
Automobile and truck license
tags for 1936 will go on sale
throughout North Carolina on
Monday, Dscemiber 16.
Local branch of the Carolina
Motor club will handle licenses
for motorists in this part of the
state. .1. C. McDiarmId is mana
ger of the branch here, which Is
located on the corner of Ninth
and C streets at the Yadkin Val
ley Motor company.
Rates for passenger cars for
the coming year were substanti
ally reduced by the 1935 legisla
ture but particular attention is
called to the fact that there Is
no reduction on truck rates and
the same rates 'will be charged
for 1936 as in 1935.
The reduction in passenger
car rates is from 55 cents per
100 pounds of automobile weight
to 40 cents per hundred. 'There
will be only two classes of auto
mobile tags, one for the lighter
BccotdSwcft JPoMb
Clottt
WWW
from a point on the Blue Ridge
near the intersection with high
way IS southward past the inter
section of highway 16. Teer’s bid
was for $290,055, $20,000 under
the next lowest hid submitted by
E. W. Grannis, of Fayetteville.
The survey is being completed
On the fifth sector, which will
extend to the intersection with
federal highway 421 at Deep
Gap. and bids will be asked
sometime later in this month or
early in January.
Deeds from the state to the
park service for the right of way
on the second and third North
By Triple A During Months of Carolina sectors have been ap-
sector of the Shenandoah-Smoky weight cars and class 2 for the
,, , . . I heavier automobiles.
.Mountain scenic parkway. • ■ . „ f„..
The minimum tag price for
of
..... ............... —o price
The fourth section extends jgjg ^ reduction
rpjcn ,
san Gabriel, caltf. . . . "Speak
ing of sweet potatoes” say agri
cultural experts in this district,
“here’s the largest ever grown,
weighing 14 pounds, 3 ounces
and measuring 11 inches in di
ameter.” It is exhibited by Miss
Gwen Steel.
Robert Dyson
Is Removed to
Home at Boomer
which 1935 licenses cost $i».zu,; novo fn
will be $9.60 for 1936 and other j Ten Days In
$4.50 from the $12.50 in former
years. The minimum price will j
apply to all model T Fords. A :
car weighing 2,400 pounds, for ^
which 1935 licenses cost $1$.20,
July, August and Sep
tember This Year
the
he supposed she had retiinicd to
her home here,
Good .Automobile Business
Atlantic City, N. J., Dec. 6 — A
cosy picture of business prospects
the automotive industry in
1^36 was painted by B. C.
E'orbes, New York editor, in ad
dressing leading manufacturers
of automobile parts and acces
Teachers Meet
On December 10
At .3:30 I’. M.. in Wilkesboro!
School Buildiiig; Miss
Devers to Speak
Tile agricultural adjustment
administration poured almost
$3,000,000 into the pockets of
North Carolina farmers during
the months of July. August and
September.
Rental and benefit payments
to farmers co-operating in the
crop adjustment programs ac
counted for $2,578,086.71) of the
total, said Dean I. O. Schaub, of
Stale College.
The largest sum went to to
bacco growers, who received $1.-
4 43,792.83. f.olton growers got
$997,218.76. eol'n-hog producer.s
$128,642.57. and wheat growers
$8,432.63.
In addition, cotton growers
who placed surplus lax-exemp
tion certificates in the national
pool received $1,361.73 from the
sale of these certificates to other
growers.
The $437,904.5.3 iiii adminiis-
trative expenses went largely to
pay commilteemen. tanners who
helped administer Hie programs
locally. Dean Scliauh pointed out.
The rental and benefit pay-
proved and contracts awarded.
Work will get under way on
those portions of the parkway at
once and it is expected tliat there
will he no delay in getting work
started in the next few days on
the fourth sector.
Work is being rushed to get
construction under way on the
parkway as tar south as Deep
Gap. from which point the Boone
Trail will be used into Boone
and number 17 to Blowing Rock
as connecting links until the
Mount MUchell section is con
structed.
Contracts call for a twenty-
foot roa||bed and the regular
form of surfacing that is used on
mountain iiighways. The park
service will use the wide right
of way. in most places 1,000 feet,
for development purposes.
The expenditure of approxi
mately $1,000,000 on the park
way in this immediate section of
the state is expected to provide
i|iiite a boost of employment and
furnish jobs to all unemployed
along the route.
reductions are on a correspond
ing scale.
Cards have been mailed out by
the state revenue department to
all registered car owners and they
must carry these cards when
procuring licenses because the
cards give »H Information needed
to apply for licenses and also
gives the exact amount of mon
ey needed.
Due to the fact that tag prices
have been lowered and that it
is felt that general business con
ditions have improved as com
pared to former years, the state
revenue department is asking mo
torists to buy their license early
and avoid a rush during the lat
ter days in December.
The tags may I b used to re
place 1935 tag.s or on new cars
at any time after December 15
and those who are able to do so
are urged to get this matter out
of the way as soon as possible
after the plates are offered for
sale next .Monday.
.Mr. MeDiarmid -stated here to-
Well May Lose Toes
or a Foot
Robert Dyson, 42, who was
rescued from an old, abandoned
sawmill well In the Boomer com
munity on December 1 aftef tet)
days of thirst, hunger and ex
posure, was released from the
Wilkes Hospital here Saturday
and returned to his home to com
plete the task of regaining his
strength and weight lost by the
long fast in the well.
With the exception of frostbit
ten feet. Dyson is getting along
very well. His physician stated
today that he may not lose a foot
but that it is quite probably that
it will be necessary to amputate
one or more toes.
He has regained sufficient
District Admiabtrator '^tig
Ont Statemeiti On 8tat(k t *
MANY, PI.Agg^ BY;WFA
Oniy Unenployables Classed
as ReqponaibflU^ ef '
Local Agenmafi-- ^
Work and direct reHef admin-'
Istered by the ESmergency Relief'
-
Administration in North Carolina
came to an end at the close of
the day’s business 'Thursday, De*'
comber 5. The number of active
cases being handled by the Elmer-*
gency Relief Administration in
district 6 at the close of business,
on Thursday was 6,225, distribut
ed among the thirteen counties
In the District as follows:
Wilkes 690, Alexander. 319,
Alleghany, 127, Ashe, 586, David
son, 510, Davie 114, Forsyth,
907, Iredell 655, Rowan 718,
Stokes 207, Surry 76 8, Watauga
401, Yadkin 422.
Of the above number 1,063
were new and reopened cases
added since November 1. Accord
ing to official instructions BRA
has been required to carry as
active cases all clients on relief
until they receive a full two
week’s pay after being taken over
by the WPA. A substantial per
centage of the 6,223 have re
ceived assignments from WPA
but remain on the rolls of the
ERA, as relief clients, and must
be cared for by this agency until
they receive their first pay checks
from the W,PA. Those who have
not been placed by the WPA and
those whose checks are not yet
due will be without any source of
relief, since only those classified
as unemployables can be made
the responsibility of local govern
mental units.
The above facts were released
for publication by Mrs. E. M.
Land, of Statesville, district ad
ministrator.
Clock In Front
D. & S. Bank Is
Now Functioning
parched tongue during one rainy
.Mr. .McDiarmia-siaieo iiere
day that he has strict orders to f was to pray all the time for
deliverance after be became too
weak to try to work his way out
w’ith a pine stick which fell into
adhere to the office hours of
9 a. m. to 4 !'■ m. The office
window must close at 4 o’clock
The large electric clock in
stalled recently over the sidewalk
in front of the Deposit & Savings
Bank is now functioning and is
providing an accurate timepiece
He nas regainea suu.c.e.u ,
strength to tell something about large clock with the illum-
the horrors of ten days In an old | gome time
well without food and ivater. ex- ; some time was required
cept for what dropped on liis ^ ,„.oken piece of the
mechanism. It ran be seen dis
tinctly for 11 considerable dist
ance day or night and Is a con
venience appreciated by local
residents and visitors to the city.
.viiiaow must ciose at i u cujea , - un v.
,n the afternoon in order to give jell with him «;h»e ja
lime tor making a report of ther’,^•*‘ t ie
day and checking in the funds | of a
collected. Adherence to the of- .ny-’""; ^ family of a
fice hour.s prescribed, he said,
makes it all the more important I vevy ^
that auto owners procure their '‘o to the dog which attje ed
!otton Mills Open
At Roaring River
Teai'liers in all the central
schools and all other teachers
y .sories today at the opening of • wlio can possibly he present are
the National Standard Parts as- asked to attend a co.inty-wide
sociation’s annual convention, teachers' meeting to he held in
“The United States needs more tlie Wllkeshoro high school build-
things today than it has since ing on Tuesday afternoon, De-
I IP Civil war,” Forbes said. cembor lo. beginning at 3:30.
Miss -Nancy Devers, represen-
department of
IjwllliS \/pcD education, will be present to ad-
j dress the group and to aid In
discussing teachers' problems.
Teachers who have not enrolled
the Red Cross for 19 35 are
Manufacturing Plant Reopens invited to contribute their mem-
With One Shift; To Use ! bership at this meeting.
Two Shifts Soon
Gordon Cotton mills plant at
Roaring River, idle for more than
a year, re-opened last week with :
40 employes. !
J. E. Johnson, superintendent j
of the plant and Grier mills in |
this city, stated Saturday that all
of the machinery has not been
placed in working condition and
fthat he hopes to Increase the pro
duction and payroll of the plant
within the next few days.
News that the plant ia resum
ing o{>eratlon8 is welcomed by
many people in Roaring River
and vicinity who will be given
employment.
Rowan fawnera eay they have
IdV.OOO pounds^ of lespedeza
’ jieed. lor sale. Most of It Is Ko-
I rean
iJlcea.
Blankenships Back
menls are still flowing to the '■ From Hunting Trip
farmers. he added, hut the
aniouiu for October and Novem
ber liave not been tabulated to
date,
The payments ari; made from
funds raised by processing taxes
on the commodities covered by
the various adjustment programs.
Benefit payments on all crops
in Wilke.s county tor July, Aug
ust and September were $2,-
44 4.99. Payments to neighbor
ing counties were: Alexander $5,-
550.50, Alleghany $1,337.27,
-Aishe $6)0.16, Caldwell $2,-
369.09, Iredell $49,945.14, Surry
$39,462.16, Watauga $1,051.14,
A’adkin $24,621.95.
T. P. Elledge
Makes Big Yield
Of Irish Potatoes
John Snyder, who last year
found a lai-ge opossum In a
tree on Kensington Heiglhts in
this city, duplicated the catch
on Saturday night.
M’hile nearing his home Sat-
urtlay night he iWw the large
opossum In a tree and ctilled
Clay Pardue, crack rifle .shot,
to the scene. Notwitlistiuidlng
the darkness, Mr. P.trduc
bronght the meat down with
one well placed shot.
The animal, presumably a
mate to the one killed near Uie
same place a yeaa-ago, weighed
almost ten pounds.
Enter Contest At
Mars Hill College
Lee Settle and Eda Belle
Phillips Will Represent
Wilkesboro High
Wilkesboro high school, which
has 'met with considerable suc
cess In speaking and debating
contests in recent years, has en
tered the annual recitation and
declamation contest at Mars Hill
College, whh h will be held this
year on Friday, December 13.
Lee Settle and Eda Belle Phil
lips hav© been selected to repre
sent the schooT.
Ordinarily there are from 20 to
25 schools In the western portion
of the state represented is 4Iie
annual contest.
tags early to avoid inconveni
ence and delay during the last
j days in the month.
The 1935 tags positively will
expire at midnight on December
31 and any drivers on the higli-
ways without 1936 license plates
after that time are liable to ar
rest.
K. D. and Beech Blankenship
Bag 4)ne Deer and Ten Ducks
In Pender County
Beech Blanken.ship, of this
city, and K. D. Blankenship, of
Statesville, returned Saturday
from a week’s hunting trip in
Pender county.
While on the trip they bagged | ;—-
one deer, ten wild ducks, several Illustrated Artidcs on Hlgn-
squirrels and enjoyed good fish-1 way Safety To Be Far
ing, hooking a four pound cat-1 nished Each Monday
fish and several others of lesser j
weight. Mr. Blankenship here is | Through the courtesf of the
now enjoying venison from the Lumbermen’s National Casualty
tho attention of his master to the
old well by sniffing about the
top when Tommie Laws and an
other resident of the community
were looking over timber in that
community on Sunday morning.
December 1-
Safety Lessons
To Be Published
Liberty Lodge
Gives Produce
To Orphanage
Oxfoixl Orpliunage Recipient Of
Gifts Prom Lodge and Mrs.
W. 1). Woodruff
deer he killed.
Purse Stolen From
Under Lady’s Pillow
purse containing between
S80 and S85 was stolen from
under Mrs. Beecli Blanken-ship’s
pillow on IVednesday niglht.
Mrs. Blankenship was alone
in the room when the theft was
committed and did not ciscov-
er the loss until she arose the
following morning. No clue
has been found that promises
to lead to the identity of the
stealthy thief."
Marriage License
liclty,
Two licenses to wed were is
sued in Wilkesboro during the
past week, one to Wiley G. El
ler, of EVirt Bragg, and Rosa Mae
Porter, of North Wilkesboro..The -—r —~ --- —
etow-coairte re«««st«4 of Wayl" which ap»ears
> AVI. ' •aAvmsvkAMA*
company, represented In this ter
ritory by Wra. A. Stroud, of
Wilkesboro, The Journal-Patriot
is offering a series of eight il
lustrated highway safety lessons.
Realizing that the highway toll
of last year of 36,000 lives in
this country is alarming, there is
a nation-wide drive under way
to teach people to drive careful
ly and observe traffic rules that
are designed to prevent accidents
and make highways more nearly
safe for the motoring public.
This newspaper is offering the
articles submitted by Mr. Stroud
In the belief that they will be
beneficial and will be appreciated
by Its readers. The reader’s at
tention is called to, the first of
the tllustrated articles, " entitled
“Today’s Safety Driving Me^dge
—W%y Risk Toar Life For the
elsewhere in this newspaper.
Liberty Lodge number 45 A.
F. & A. M. last week sent to the
Masonic Orphanage at Oxford a
truck loaded with various kinds
of produce’ as a gift from the
lodge. The orphanage was appre
ciative of the sift and commend
ed the chapter for the splendid
spirit shown.
The orphanage was also in re
ceipt of two other appreciated
gifts, these being a piano and a
radio donated by Mrs. W. D.
Woodruff.
John Snyder Finds
’Possum In. City
T.vP. Elledge, well known
famerl of the Purienr 'icom-
mnnlty, reports the hdweet of
53 bnahels of Irish potatoes
from 2 1-2 bushris planted in
.the spring.
The exception yield of more
than 20 bushels fer bushel of
seed wa4fn>m the Green Moun-
taiii vanm add
harvest of
Captain Walker In
Command of Camp
Captain R. M. Walker, former
ly of Griffing, Ga., assumed com
mand of James C. C. Camp near
Pnrlear Friday.
I,lent. C. A. Ritchie, former
member of the school faculty
here, wa.s in command of the
camp following the removal on
account of illness of Captain
Thomas L. Long until the vacan
cy was filled.
oyste^aniTchicken
SUPPER DECEMBER 12
Ladies of the Wilkesboro Meth
odist church will serve an oyster
and chicken supper at the Won
der Oafe in Wilkesboro on Thurs
day, December 12.
Profits derived from the sup
per will be applied on renovating
the Methodist parsonage. The
public is invited to patronize the
supper.
Schoolmasters To
Meet December 13
Taylorsville School Head Will
Address Club in Wilkes
boro Meeting
Wilkes County Schoolmasters’
club will hold jts regular Decem
ber meeting in\the home econo
mics rooms of '|tbe Wilkesboro
high school on Friday evening,.
December 13, bei^nitlng at six
o’clock.
An interesting i^gcaln ha* TO
been arranged with wWf. W. L. j
Ingold, superlntendenV of- ‘Tay- ^
lorsvllle * school, as V wpjdpal ,
apeaker. '
• It will be a dinneT n^e^|pg; a|$d
7 uLLvu I aH who can ■ attend are]^^|niQgtod
4ho potatoes * ^ •notify Pfof. T-'
good Md fiater Uuui TTiursday of
Price of plate wlU bo 60,