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More Drunken Drirers
Ralelsb, Dec. 13. — Fifteen
more dranken drivers were ar
rested in North Carolina in No
vember than in October, the state
higlrway patrol reported today,
and 72 more than were pinched
in September. ^
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KiUed In Crash
Parris Island, S. C., Dec. 13.—
rAn army flier identified as Ma-
j« Arthur K. Ladd, of Langley
Field, Va., was killed in the
wreck of his single-seater fight
ing plane near Dale, a tlnv ham
let of this (Eeaufort) county to
day.
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Fewer Confederates
Raleigh, Dec. 13.—The ever
present scythe of Old Father
Time cut another wide swath in
the thinning ranks of surviving
Confederate veterans from June
to December this year in North
Carolina, and there were 54 few
er names on the soldiers' pension
rolls today. ^
Mayor’s Safety f^odamation
Whereas, the President of the United States has called on the
people to unite in a national effort to cut down the rismg tide of
death and destruction on the streets and highways of the nation;
Whereas, the Governor of North Carolina has pledged the co
operation of this state in this national effort;
Whereas the law enforcing oficers of North Carolina have in
augurated through the Institute of Government a systematic and
continuous prog;ram of accident prevention and motor vehicle law
enforcement through the distribution of 500,000 copies of “Guides
to Highway Safety,”
Now, therefore, I, R. T. McNeil, mayor of North Wilkesboro,
call upon aU Wgh school authorities, all local officials and employW,
all citisens’ organisation and antomobi'e itovers, and the hraos
of all business enterprises, to procure and study “Guides to High
way Safety” without deUy, and to devote the first meetings of their
respective organizations in January, 1936, to a program of accident
prevention and motor vehicle law enforcement as the starting point
of a larger program of crime prevention and criminal law en
forcement,
R. T. McNEIL, Mayor.
Safety Program Beii^ Taught In
Schools of County Thru December
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Sl.v Million Visit Parks
i Washington, Dec. 13.—Secre
tly Ickes ieP9rted today that
visitors to naiional parks, monu
ments, and other areas adminis-
torod by the Interior departments
totaled 6,337,206 during the
fiscal year ended June 10.
Check Up On Sun
Berlin, Dec. 13.—^Two German
physicists claimed today that
three years of observation with a
special clock has shown a day has
4-1,000 seconds less than 24
hours \jecause of the varying
' speed of .he earth’s rotations.
Killed In .Auto Wreck
, Fayetteville. Dec. 13.—Joseph
E. Hulon, 4 6, plant overseer of
■ the Rockfish Cotton mills at
Hope Mills, died in Pittman hos
pital here at 8 o’clock this morn
ing from injuries received seven
hours earlier when his car over
turned on the Fayetteville Lum-
berton highway, in upper Robe-
.son county.
Indian.s Block Parkway
Cherokee, Dec. 13.—A com
promise proposal advanced by
Ihe federal government in an ef
fort to reach an agreement with
the Cherokee Indians concerning
the route lor the scenic parkway
through the Indian reservation,
was rejected today by the tribal
council following a two-day de
bate. The vote was four for the
government’s proposal and seven
against it.
Two Cliildren Bumel
Morganton, Dec. 13.—The ex
plosion of an oil lamp was blam-
^ today for the death of two
children in a fire that destroyed
their farm home six :nile.s from
here late last night. From the
ruins of Mrs. Ralph H. Spain-
hour’s residence, searchers today
brought the bodies of her 13-
year-old daughter, Barbara, and
her 11-year-old son, Dan.
Many Descendants
.Mount Airy, Dec. 13.—Mrs.
Eliza Burchett Phillips, who died
here last week at the ag© of 85,
had, so far as can be .nscertained.
the record In this community and
perhaps in this part of the coun
try for the largest number of liv
ing descendents. Mrs. Phillips is
survived by 9 children, 61 grand
children and 54 greatgrandchil
dren, a total of 126 living rela
tives in direct descent. Most of
them are residents of this sec
tion.
^. County Farm Agent
Attending Meeting
A. G. Hendren, farm agent for
tVilkes county, is attending the
annual meeting of county agent
at State College this week.
The meeting will begin Tues
day morning and adjourn Friday
afternoon. Mr. Hendren will re
turn Saturday.
Important Meeting Of
Juniors Tuesday Night
Every member of the North
Wilkesboro Junior order council
is especially urged to be present
In the important meeting to be
held on Tuesday night. There will
be degree work and nomination
of officers. Other matters of im
portance will be taken up.
Trenton . . . Detective Ellis
Parker (above), noted New Jer
sey detective, reported to still be
working on the Lindbergh kidnap
murder case, is quoted as hav
ing said that "Bfinio'Hauptmanii
is not Ihe man.’’
R. G, Finley Buys
Hotel In Boone;
McCoy 1$ Manager
Management Plans Improve
ments On Widely Knowrii
Tourist Hotel
R. t:. Finley. North Wilkes
boro manufacturer, has purchas
ed the Daniel Boone hotel in
Boone.
The hotel, named after the fa
mous pioneer, was offered for
sale by the Security National
Bank, Greensboro, trustee, and
Mr. Finley's bid was $36,750 for
the hotel and realty at the fore
closure sale.
Tile hotel was constructed by
a company of Boone and Wat
auga citizens as a tourist hostel
ry and is a modern brick struc
ture with a construction cost far
greater than the amount of Mr.
Finley’s bid in the foreclosure
sale.
.1. B. .McCoy, manager of Hotel
Wilkes in this city, and wh() has
been manager of the Boone hotel
for the past few years, will be
retained as manager. Many im
provements have been planned to
be eifected this wintr in time for
the next tourist season.
Outline of Safety Program by
Institute of Government
Given
Through the aid and coopera
tion of the school system, the
Institute of Government in North
Carolina is carrying on a safety
program In the schools.
Many pamphlets on "Highway
Safety" have been distributed in
the schools and much attention
is being given this extra curricu
la work.
Following i.s an outline of the
safety program now under way in
tlie state:
1. Difstribntion during Decem
ber of 500,000 copies of “Guides
to Highway Safety’’ as the basis
of instruction (1) to all officials
and employees in city halls,
county court hou-es, and state
departments: (2) to members of
citizens organizations, business
houses, and automobile drivers,
(33. .to,^ 15.0,000 students and
teachers in 851 high schools, as
the beginning of a state-wide
program of accident prevention
and motor vehicle law enforce
ment.
2. Sj'stematic discussion dur
ing the first weeks of January
(1) by 150,000 students and
teachers in 851 high schools, (2)
by all citTzens organizations of
men and women, (3) by mem
bers of all business
tions, (4) by city
ty commissioners, and all groups
of public officials and employ
ees.
Systematic Instruction in
Schools of l4iw Enforcing Offi
cers to be conducted every month
every city and county of the
Sales of Auto
Ucease Plates
Sta^ In City
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,T. C. Md^iarmid Reports
Brisk Busiotss at Branch
Bureau Here
state by Judges and Solicitors of
the Suiverior Courts, Recorders’
Courts, Sheriffs and Chiefs of
Police, analyzing accidents of the
previous month and mapping out
progrum.s of proveution for the
next month.
4. Copies of "Guides to High
way Safety" may be procured
from City Halls, local school au
thorities, or the Institute of Gov-
ermneiit. Chapel Hill, N. C.
5. The monthly magazine,
"Popular Government.” will fur
nish a clearing house of Informa
tion each Tnonth on street and
highway accidents in North Car
olina and safety programs and
campaigns as they develop
throughout the State. Write to i
REDUCTKmS WELCOMED
Patrolman Handling Ap|dka>
tions For Hire licenses
At City Hall
SALES OF AUTO—
Sale o f automobile licenae
plates for 1936 began in North
Wilkesboro Saturday at the
branch office of the Carolina Mo
tor Club located at Yadkin Val
ley Motor Company on the cor
ner of Ninth and C streets.
J. C. McDlarmid, manager of
the license bureau, reported a
brisk sale of plates all day Sat
urday and all indications this
morning pointed to a steady sal^
today.
Reduction in automobile plate
prices from 65 to 40 cents per
hundredweight are welcomed by
the motorists but attention Is
called to the fact that truck ratea
are the same as last year.
For hire licenses to be used
on cars or trucks for hire may be
api>Iiel for at the city hall, where
Patrolman Johnson will handle
applications.
Automobile and truck owners
are again warned that the 1935
plates will expire at midnight on
December 31 and all who can
possibly do so are asked to, buy
their plates now in order to avoid
a rush and congestion at the
license bureau office during the
latter days of.lJils month.
Members of Corn
Clubs In Wilkes
MakeGoodRecorl
Thirty-two Members Make
Average Yield of 63 Bush
els; 103 Highest
Thirty-two members who made-
up the 4-H corn clubs in Wilkes
county this year gave the county
the host record in the state for
yield and achievement, it was
- learned from L. R. Harrill, club
less organiza- j-gy ji,g ^tate, on a recent
councils, conn- wilkesboro.
The highest yield of any corn
club member In Wilkes was 103
bushels on the club acre grown
by Don Gregory, of the Hays
community. The average yield for
the 32 corn club members was
63 bushels per acre or a total of
more than 2,000 bushels on the
32 one-acre projects.
Th(ls splendid yield, together
with the fact that Wilkes club
members made almost a clean
sweep on prizes for exhibits at
the state fair, including sweep-
stakes and county prize, placed
Wilkes corn clubbers in an out
standing position in the state.
An achievement day was ob
served in November and each of
the 32 members exhibited ten
ears of corn, making up what
visiting agricultural authorities
declared was one of the best corn
shows of its size they had ever
witnessed.
the Institute of
Chapel Hill, N. C.
Government.
Honor Ho«e Buyer
p. W. Eshelman, president of
Wilkes Hosiery. Mills, was one a-
Tnang more than 100 hosiery
- nuutstactnrers and si&lling agents
. Who gathered at Hotel Flaza in
' jiftm York etty ’Thursday night to
. kdoorjluribat B. Cutting, who Is
"titijMBt after 28 years ae buyer
Or'the F. W. Woolworth Coin-
Conferences In
M. E. Churches
Held Sunday For North WB-
kesboro, Wilkesboro and
Moravian Falls
Rev. A. C. Gibbs, presiding
elder of the Mount Airy Metho
dist district, attended quarterly
conferences at Moriah’s Chapel
for Moravian Falls charge. Union
church for Wilkesboro charge
and North Wilkesboro Methodist
church Sunday night.
At each conference the presid
ing elder preached and the busi
ness session followed. An all-day
service was held at Moriah’s
Chapel with the sermon by Rev.
Mr. Gibbs in the morning. In the
afternoon he preached at Unloifc
I and representatives of the three
churchea on the charge, Wilkes
boro. Union and Roaring River,
were present. A budget for the
year was adopted.
On .Sunday night the confer
ence was held here and in the
buslnees aeesion reports disclosed
that All departments of the
church are in excellent slmpe
with all organizations and ide-.
Holidays In City
School Begin 2^
And Work Will Be Resumed
On January 1; Closing
Date Is May 29
In a meeting of the North
Wilkesboro school board Friday
afternoon It was decided that
city schools will disband for the
Christmas holidays on December
20, Friday of this week, and that
work will be resumed on Jan
uary 1.
A full two-weeks will not be
given this year, due to the fact
that opening of the school was
delayed In the fall on account of
the textbook situation.
By allowing ten days for
Christmas holidays the city
schools will close on May 29,
getting in the net term of 176
days required by schools that
are members of the Southern As-
BOdfatlon of Accredited Schools.
Marriage Licenses
Licenses to wed were issued
during the past few days by Old
Wiles, register of deeds, to the
following couples: G. F. Reavis
and Lizzie Brandon, Yadkinville;
John Caudill, Dehart, nd Janie
Hamby, Absher; Hugh M. Wil
son and Ruby Davis, both of
Statesville; Relller Love and Le
ona Blackburn, -both of Roaring
River: D. M. Hamby and Pearl
Mabe, both of Ronda; Charlie
Small and Octavia Jarvis, both
of Roaring River.
Roaring River
P. 0. Is Looted
Several Dollars In Money Is
Stolen and Postoffice
Ransacked
CHICAGO . . . Crowning the 1935 Boy and Girl 4-H Qnb ehiunpions
thi* year was difficult enough, even before they came to the "Health”
’riien tb« ^eadloek devdoped. . .. The scoring was eo close that the
ju&ea named -aevea ehampiona. They are shown in the top pietnre, reading,
left to Hbwn^Cohb,, lA Greene, K. T,; Eloiee Oairtnfe
Oadsd^ Ala.; Marion McTiWighHa, ISTJlttMzj,
Mleh.; J. Alton Riffle, 20, Pleasant Hill, Mo.; June Caetine, 15, Ridgeway,
e. C.; and Charles Jordan, Jr., 18, Beloit, Kas. Below, are the nationel Boy
and Girl Leadership champions, VUey Johnson, 19, McAlester, Okla. and
Betty Brown, 19, Emporia, Kas.
N^o Prisoner
Returned From
Circleville,0iiio
Clemmons Fletcher To Be
Tried For Throwing Man
Into Hot Slop
('lemmons Fletcher, negro who
is alleged to have thrown Jim
Cheek into a vat of boiling slop
at a still in the Traphlil com
munity about a year ago, was
brought from Circlevllle, Ohio,
Saturday night and placed in the
Wilkes jail to await trial in the
March term of court.
A message from Ohio police to
Sheriff W. B. Somers several
days ago stated that Fletcher, a
negro with a bad reputation, was
being held and had been Identi
fied as the one wanted in
Wilkes. Requisition papers were
filed and H. C. Kilby, chief
deputy sheriff, left Thursday to
bring Fletcher back. He was ac
companied by D. B. Swaringen,
chairman of the county board of
commissioners.
Federal Officers
Arrest 3 Men In
Distillery Raid
John Foster, John Henry Ford
and Curtis Blevins Facing
Federal Charge
Investigators of the federal al
cohol tax unit working In Wilkes
county Tuesday afternoon de
stroyed a medium capacity still
and arrested three men in the
Brier Creek community.
John Foster, Curtis Blevins
and John Henry Ford were the
three men who are facing trial in
federal court as a result of the
successful raid by the federal of
ficers. Foster and Ford filled
bonds in the sum of $500 each
and Blevins was remanded to jail
in default of bond.
The still, which apparently had
been operating busily, and large
quantities of materials were de
stroyed.
Officers taking part in the raid
were J. C. Fortner, L. L. Kirksey,
Deputy Marshal W. A. Jones and
Robert Jones.
Wilkesboro Student Wins Trophy
In Mars Hill Declamation Contest
Window Display
By Children In
Kindergarten Class
f'las.s Making Splendid I’lx^tress
Under Direction Mrs. J. L.
Clements
The noted Bay State Orchestra,
which was so favorably written
up In the "MUs Charlotte” col
umn of the Charlotte Observer
reomUy, will tarnish the music
dance to be under the au-.
%lcm of the Junior Wjoman’s
loia- {nrtmenta the church actively. I^udi on the night of
Thieves entered the postoffice
at Roaring River some^tlme Sun
day night and stole several dol
lars.
The theft was disoovered. this
morning by Mrs. Bessie Caudill,
postmaster. After the thieves had
entered the building the small a-
mount of funds not in the safe
were taken aiit gmekages were
opened and ransacked. Attempts
to open the offl^^.safe,-however,
were futile.
So far , DO clues kave been dis
covered. that'prpj^se. to .lead to
dr ci^tnre of the
par^ or parties, ui
The window display of toys
and art work at the Carter-Hub-
bard Publishing company on
Ninth street was made and pre
pared by children in Mrs. J. L.
Clements’ kindergarten classes
this year.
It is an interesting display
which the public is invited to
inspect and reflects the splendid
training the children are receiv
ing under Mrs. Clements’ direc
tion. , j,-*”.
JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL4V4
TO GIVE OPERETTA
"The Magi’s Gift,” a colorfiil
operetta of the Christmas season,
will be presented by the North
Wilkesboro jnnlor high school in
the high school ■; audltorinm on
Thursday ovening of this week.
A simall admission fee will Mr
. charged?: A|L are JUrRod to al-
tehlifi^^ 10 an
Nine^_
0j|K itSitpd
Oiot of Rimi
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Negro Recaptured; Larga^
Posse Searekkq; For Nine
Other Esopees .
Of the ten prisoner who
escaped from. .-the CiATiet
camp in Wilkesboro. ^tur>
day night, nine were stiU at
large today, it was learned
from E. L. Hight, camp so--
perintendent. '
The prison break," the
first in recent years at the' j
Wilkesboro camp, took
place Saturday night about
six o’clock while the guards
and camp force were eating
supper. The escape was
made through a hole in a
wall of one of the buildings
! and camp officials are at a
loss to learn when and by
what means the hole was
made.
The escapees Include nlno
white prisoners and one negro,
John Gambill, who was sentenced
to two years in Cleveland county
for larceny. He was recaptured
soon after the break an^. th»-.>i
nine whites are ’sHll at large, al
though a posse of 18 men are
being used in a diligent search,
through the hills of this section.
The escaped convicts not re
captured so far are Roy Beck,
serving two years for larceny la
Guilford coiyity: Howard Brack
et, sentenced at Gastonia to serve
three years for larceny, Leo Wfl-
liams, sentenced from Guilford
county to three to five years for
bigamy; Jack Presnell, serving
a two-year sentence for larceny
in Haywood county; Price Miller,
sent up from Guilford county to
serve six months for assault on
female; Ray Hoffman, sentenced
In Greensboro to serve 15
months for forgery; Will Brown,
serving a two-year sentence im
posed In Mecklenburg county
for larceny; Bernard Ball, four
years for larceny and receiving In
Forsyth county; Knox Brown,
two years on a larceny chargg^ln
Iredell county.
Camp officials expressed >.
hope that some of th'*- esof^ees
can be apprehended shortly. ->
Before the break Saturday
night prisoners in the camp num
bered 83, all of whom are short
termers used to work'on roads In
this section.
3 Wilkes Youdis
At Wake Forest
Growth and Progress of Bap
tist Institution Told in
News Disqpatch
Wake Forest, Dec. 14.—Three
men from Wilkes County are a-
mong the 100 students enrolled
this year at Wake Forest College.
They are J. S. Brock, a sopho
more, son of Mr. and iClrs. T. J.
Brock of Pores Knob; Bill Dancy,
a junior, son of Mr. and Mrs. C.
H. Dancy, of North Wilkesboro;
and J. J. Anderson, a senior, son
of Mrs. Annie Anderson, of North
Wilkesboro.
These men are taking a promi-
nent part in the campus life at
the Baptist institution. Mr. An
derson is organist hnd " (tester
of the student chofr. He w also
a member of the Euzeliaii Llter-
Lee Settle Winner in Contest
Among High Schools In
....^Western North Carolina
Lee Settle, student of Wilkes
boro high school, returned from
the recitation and declamation
contest at Mars Hill Saturday ary Society and music director of
night and brought with him the the Baptist Student^ Union,
silver trophy awarded to the ’~ •
school winning in the. declama
tion contest for schools of west
ern North Carolina.
The title of the winning decla
mation was "Tonssalnt L’Over-
ture.” The preliminaries were
held on Friday afternoon and the
finals on Stanrday morning.
Twenty-nine .high schools 1 n
various parts of • western North
Carolina were represented in the
declamation contest.
.fa*, the recitation contest Miss
-Edit Phillips r^TOeonted Wllkes-
bof».. The contestants' were car
ried' to Mars HlU-by Prof. Zeb
Dickson, a member of the high
school faculty..-^ ....
Ybnng Mr, 8ettlA,'*a sanlor this
year, has ihade » repnUtlm
In. speaking kid dieting
debating team'that i^ra-
•sonted the sijiooLin the state-
During the Past five years, the;-
administration o t President
Thurman D. Kitchin, the eawrtl- :
ment at Wake Forest has almost
doubled, and the physical - plant
has been materially expanded.
Beginning in 1932 with the
construction of a new medloal _
building, not a month has passed ’
when some building project waa
not under way. The college now
points Vlth pride to over I800,-
000 woi^ of new bulldingh, in-
.cluding, tbeeldes the medical
school struirture, a new admiid*-. _
tratlon bulldtag, athlAlc eUttWBf '
gymnasium a^^-students’ onion.
"defbibpaent at I
lorth '^ Carollnn’n
itlon and the
This' recent?
Wake J\)^t,’
senior Baptist
oldest and lar
for inen In, the
iiade pbstdhie H
for all
plant, axcept 15.0.,^
are sU "
ptist college
LStatee, waa
iby'tts 16,-^
. nei