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Bob Hanes of
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VOL. XXX, NO. 39 Published Mondays m>d Thursdays NORTH WILKESBORO, N. 'C., THURSDAY^ J^N. 16,1^86
m
S Generations JaUed
AsbeTille, Jan. 14—Three gen-
•ntlpiia of one family—a grand
father^' his son and the latter’s
■ere held in the same cell
Asheville police station to
rn charges of drunkenness.
Savings In Insurance Costs To
No. Wilkesboro People Assured
BooDier Farmers
Suffer Loss From
Several Robberi^
SOB-
Mayor Received Official Notice That Fire Department
Has Been Raised To Second Class'And That Rates
Will Be Lowered Accordingly.
at
kidnaping Clharge
Jan. 14.—A man
gflonald Ueaver. 26, of
Teas arrested here to-
ter a school teacher be-
snspicious that he planned
O^ki^ap. the two young sons of
*V. Morton, local business man.
Seed Loans .Approved
Washington. Jan. 14.—Legis-1
tetlon to provide $40,000,000 fori
•eda and feed loans to farmers in j
the 1936 crop year was approved |
today by the House agriculture!
.-committee.

Mayor K. T. MrXiel received
offiriHl notice this week from
the Southeastern Underwriters
.Association that fire Insnnuice
rates are to be revised down
ward in North WllkesIbOro.
The city fire department has
met all requirements for a sec
ond class fire department and
j»s a result it is being raised
from third to second, which
will bring about the lowered
insurance costs.
Thi.s was made possible by
the improvement of the city
water works, addition of a sec
ond fire truck to carry hose
and additional equlpincnt. An
other requirement that has
been met was the appointment
of a fttll time day fireman and
a full time night fireman.
Ijocal Insurance men have
e.sti mated that the difference
in fire insurance rates in North
Wilkesboro wlU mean an an
nual saving of from gl.'S.OOO to
$‘.20,000 per year in fire in
surance costs. In addition to
the monetary saving, i>eople
can feel a greater sense of .se
curity in the knowledge that
the city has a modem fire de
partment ready to respond im
mediately to all calls.
Approximately 1,000 Pounds
Pork Taken From Home
of Marvin Earp
OTHER PEOPLE ROBBED
Chickens Taken From Sev
eral Henhouses; Officers
Seek Guilty Parties
Held For Murder
^Wilmington. Jan. 14.—A true
charging Alec Buie with the
of French Lewis, at the
JJarolina Beach roadhouse
Sht of Xovembe’ 24. was
returned by the giand jury in
New Hanover Superior court to
day.
Senate Bonus
Bill Approved
By Committee
Baseball President
\ Five Iturn To Itcatli
Voplar Bluff. Mo.. Jan. H
Mp4. Vergie Willard. 2 6, and her
four children were burned to
death at their home near Taskee,
Mo., today. A can of oil used by
the husband and father. I’oney
W'iUard. to start a stove fire e.\-
ploded. He was critically injured.
Hitchhiker?
«ky Slount, Jan. II Kuy-
bnhd Hunt, of Whitakers, opera- \
i'^ tor of a casket firm, told police j
hspe-'tbnight that one of two,
young men to whom he .gave a
’ ride kndtked him on the head
four times, took change in his
■ pocket and drove away In his au-!
Washin.gton. Jan. 14. — The
compromise "baby bond'' bonus
bill was swept toward a Senate
vote today over testimony by
.Secretary Morgenthau that its
passage might increase to a $11,-
I’.Oil,000,00(1 ‘‘miiiimum’' thei
necessary treasury financing in !
the ne.xt 17 1-2 months. |
Morgenthau privately told the;
Senate finance committee, just 1
before it approved the proposed
substitute for the House bill by a
l.')-to-2 vote, that the measure I ; ' ' .
(night reanire a $2 000.000.000 (
money-raising operation. Nal.unal League base
Senator Couzens (R). 'vin-ii • ■ -
Farmers of the Boomer com
munity have been looted of sev
eral hundred dollars worth of
grain, meat and poultry during
the past few weeks, according to
reports Investigated by the sher
iff’s office.
About 1,000 pounds of pork
were stolen from the home of
.Marvin Earp one night recently,
while other thefts on a whole
sale scale have also been report
ed. Mr. Parsons, a farmer in that
community, lost 38' bushels of
wheat. Dodson Watts and other
farmers liave reported heavy
losses in poultry.
Sheriff W. B. Somers and
deputies liave been investigating
the thefts and not altogether
without results, it being believed !
that clues have been found that |
may lead to the apprehension of
those who so wantonly steal from
the farmer.-; on a comparatively
large scale.
Circumstances indicated that
thtj, robberies may have been
committed by the same parties,
who conveyed the produce by
truck or automobile to distant
points.
of HortbwOat f^*****
^OQ OtJT
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... Here are the ABCD Perrieone ^dfnp _ ,
six-years oi age. They are Anthony, Bnroo, (brio and Bnira^' Tbelf
BEAUMONT, Tex
•t
mother, Mra. PhiUp Pernoone snya as babies, Bmno was the aHghti»t ix4
is the bright^' She thinks the slightest of the IHoane quintuple will abs
be the smartMt.
SHRUBBERY PLANTED ABOUT
TORY OAK NEAR COURTHOUSE
Clinging Vinea Will Beautify Plot Where Tree On Which
Ben Cleveland Hanged Tories Now Stands; Life
of Historic Oak Apparently Near End
Co-operat!i^
Being Ghren to'
Schoob'(^iw
Many Children Given Pro-
liminary Testa in Schools
of Wilkeaboroa
MAY EXTEND CUNIC:
To Include Several Larger
Schools in Rural Seetioo.'; ^
Need is Urged
BROOKI-YN, N
Y.
Mrs.
I ball team, suicocds her father in tliat
([noted him as li.sting iheso oth-: ;ntieely nian.ige the club’s
i (-r amounts which the Treasury ' affair;,
might have to raise to meet it.s i .—
Name Sanitary
Insector For
Wilkes County
In his 3'i-j before June 30. ISS". I A,ifn
pmobile late today near Battle-j AutO KlatCS
lOroL -
$5,800,000,000
f ottlSVatfdfng^bUgations; $2,000,-
] G. S. Odell Begins Work;
~ 1 j 1 Make Inspection of Dair-
Must Be Displayed ; rie, and Eating Places
3’.. p Jan. 14—An Ameri-; 000.000 possibly to be needed for
Wue/4agie was killed on Dun-; roHff (and not included in the
S>ek near here bv Wavne "f«' budget); and $1,500,000.-
Sales Good So Far, Reports Chief i
.Anderson; Very Few I>elln-
ijiiciit Motorists
C
14-year-old local boy.
Fhe eagl^ nieasured si.x feet and
Fthre« inches from tip to tip. The
|«agl« was killed by young Hamor
while bird hunting. The feet
Lwere sold for 25 cents each.
0()() which I’resident Roosevi'U
estimated as ne.xt year’s deficit.
Not iloiiiid to .SecrH-j-
Saying he would not be bound
James M. .Anderson. North
Wilkeshoro’s chief of police, re
ported yesterday that sales of
(o
,ny.ng ne we^u.a noi oe oo.ii.a
secrecy which Morgenlhan and , _ . . ,
a-
McDonald Raps "Machine"
Leaksville. Jan. 11.—Crossing
fpralse for the policies of Presi-
{dent Roosevelt with a bristling
‘attack, on "the Ehringhaus-Card-
I mer-Graham-Hoey machine.’’ Dr.
Ralph W. McDonald, seeking the
I Democratic gubernatorial nomi
nation. brougbi his campaign
I here today.
(’hairman Harrison (D). .Miss.,
impos(’d upon themselves after
the e.xechtive comraittee session,
Couzens also iiuoled the cabinet
officer as saying the public debt
iiii.ght rt'ach $35,500,000,000 by
the end of rhe next financial
yea r.
Declining a.gain to comment on
head of last year and that prac
' lically all of the automobile own- i
ers in the city have purchased j
: their city plates along with the
I state tags. ^
’ City plates aip being sold by J. '
C. .McDiarmld at the license bu
reau on the covuer ot Ninth and
I C streets, making it necessary for
Get.s IJfe Sr-nloiice
Winston-Salem, Jan. 14. The
lllrst to receive maximum penal
ity under North Carolina's 19.35
Ikidnaping law, William Barham
and Fred Stevens, sentenced lo-
Iday to life imprisonment for the
fabduction of W. W. Pollock,
' witmton-Salern draftsman, were
[taken to state prison at Raleigh
llonlghf.
the bonus question. President j
Roosevelt expressed surprise at
his press conference when he
was i’.;formed that .Morgenthan's,
sudements had been made pub-j
lie. Remarking that he had not i ,,,
heard what th
secretary said.
the auto owner to make only one
trip to get .state and city tags.
There ar,> still some few dclin-
([(leiits who have not purchased
the city tags and they are asked
to purchase them imn. (diately.
for city plates is one dol-
Roosevelt asked who talked.
Ml
He joined in the laughter when j
.1 newspaperman said that would ;
be telling.
Only Couzens and Senator (Jer-
I ry (D). R. 1.. voted against ai
, favorable report on the bill which
1 lar for each vehicle.
S. Odell, formerly an em
ploye of the health department
of Tennessee, has been named
sanitary inspector for Wilkes
county and has- entered upon
his duties.
Thp work carried on by Mr.
Odell ill Wilkes is in connec
tion with the state ami county
health departments and he will
niaiiitain headquarters at the
county health office in the
courtlipuse in Wilkesboro.
Ilis ditties during the next
few weeks will be cotiftned
principally to inspection of
dairies, cafes, restaurants and
food handlers, he stated today.
Other phases of the work
will consist of promoting school
sanitation and cooperation w\th
individuals who desire to (‘feet
sanitary privies.
The plot on which stands the
Tory Oak, for a centurj- and a
half a landmark on the court-
liouse square in AVilkesboro,
luis been beautified by planting
■shrubltory and vines.
This work is bein^; sitonsoretl
hy the Rendezvous Mountain
chapter of tlie Daughters of the
•American Revolution, who sev
eral years ag!o took measuro.s
to preserve the life of the his
toric tree by filling the hollow
trunk with concrete.
Yesterday workmen from
A’iilley A'iew Nursertes, of I’ores
linob, were engaged in {daut-
ing FJnglish tvey and periwin
kle alKtnt the D’ve trunk. This
Is to jidd materially to the up-
|K‘nriutc«* of the plot on which
the tree stands on a mound in
tlio center of the street that
makes up the courthouse
square.
nie Tory Oak has an inter
esting history dating back to
the time Col. Ben {Tcvcland
lianged. a number of fories
from its limbs during the Rev
olution. There are still a num-
Iter of live branches on the
free, which has decayed on one
side, biitsM jg
life is Its
Carrier Serves .
Route 30 Years
j F. L. Parks Retires at Roar
ing River After 30 Years
of Service
LAWRENCE GRAY HELD UP; ,
ROBBED OF CAR AND CASH
Held For Homicide
3r, Jan. 14. — Probable
^as found by Judge A. R.
ere today in the hearing
ayson Bryant on a murder
Harrison said he hoped to get be-, Daring Daylight Robbery Tuesday Afternoon Near Mo-
fore the Senate when it recon-L _ - • m«_ —
venes Thursday. .Administration ~
leader.s predicted it would he en-
IjtWTCiice
ravian Falls; Officers Search For Man Giving
Name As “Padgett’*
acted Into law this month.
Couzens was the only one of
—.-^"in connection with the , eisht committeemen who will be
of Walter Carlton on De-;np tor re-election next Novem-
sAber ^ report. After he
BrVant was bound over J bad disclosed .Morgenthau’s tes-
andet * I*®®** $2,500, and will
J tried in the February term of
pujerfer court.
_pwigfaC Beard ('.-uight
Tex.. Jan. 14.—Angus-|
-Beard, 35 escaped |
I* ner from North Carolina, j
•was arrested here today, and of-.
Hcers ssid he was identified in
.two holdups tonight. He stead-!
fastly denied an accusation that
i.-he kfllcd John B. Roberts, former'
i'Dallas detective, here on Decem-
fTAter 23. they added.
timony administration leaders
were quick to explain that the
$11,300,000,000 figure Morgen-
tliau mentioned did not involve
all “new money’’ raising, since it
included the $5,800,000,000 in
refunding operations.
(d-iiy, Wilkesboro
riii-nitiire dcjiicr, wjis lielU up
iind ix»bbel of his automobile,
wiitcb and about $7.5 in mon-
^Funeral Rites For
Mrs. J. B. Bullis
Tax Penalty Will
Be Added Feb. 1
County and City Tax Collect
ors Urge Payment in Jan
uary to Avoid Penalty
ey by a man giving hi« name as
Charles Padgrtt near Moravian
l-'iUls Tncslay afternoon.
I’arlgetl was in Wilkesboro
Tuestlay, aeeoi-dln;i to reports,
and wa.s sup|M>sed to be making
aniingements to go into the.
Irueking business rvitcii Mr.
Gray oblidglng gave him a lift
toward Lenoir.
.A short dLstaiiee from >io-
raviun F'ulLs on highway IM the
two men .stepped out of the
automobile and Padgett sud
denly threw a gua on Mr. Gray,
telling him he wanted his car,
his money and his watch.
The holdup took plar-e about
Itiree o’clock.
•After looting Mi‘. Giity’s
|K>eke(s Padgiett steppetl into
the automobile and raced to
ward liCnoir, leaving the car's
owner by the roadside. Officers
were ininiedlatel.v notified and
on Wednesday a descripaon of
the automobile, a 1035 model
Pord coach, and an account of
the robborj’ were broadcast
over rtidio from Charlotte. Of
ficers throughout the state
have licen askesl to wateh for
the stolen car.
ROARl.NG RIVER, Jan. 14.—
F. L. Parks, veteran rural car
rier and prominent citizen of
Roaring River, had distributed
the mail on Roaring River, Route
1. for 3U ye.ars and 4 montli.s
when he retired December 31,
lfl.35. He began on this route
Sept. 1, 1905. For twenty years
the route was 23 miles long, but
became 4 5 miles long after being
consolidated ten years ago.
For twenty years Mr. Parks
used horses to carry the mail.
He used 5 buggies, one cart and
! one mail wagon, drawn by sev-
I oral different horses, during that
' time. Since 1925, he distributed
i it in an automobile and used
five cars. He traveled over 254.-
844 'niles.
Mr. Parks is 64 years and 9
inonth.s of age. He is a descend
ant of one of Wilkes county’s
best and oldest families, a son ot
the late Col. Lindolph Parks and
I l.ucy Petty Parks, and he mar
ried Mrs. Davie Wellborn Greene.
His brother, H. E. Parks, rural
carrier on Route 2. is also a vet
eran distributor of letters, but
has con.siderably shorter record
than the older brother, F. L.
Parks. Both are also farmers.
B.
The tuberculosis clinic which
started In the schools of WIlk*»
county Monday is meeting with
good cooperation from school pa
trons, it was learned today from
Mrs. Bertha Bell, county n»««
who is aiding the clinician In
conducting the clinic.
Preliminary tests have been
given children in the North Wll-
kesboro city schools, white and
colored, and WilkMboro .school.
Dr. H. L. Seay, clinician from the
state sanitorium, will give the
examinations.
Present plans of the county
health department call for con
ducting the clin;o in the central
schools of the rural communities
but the extent of the clinic will
depend to a great extent on
funds available for that purpose.
The school clinic for Wilkes was
not scheduled until 1937 but au
thorities were able to move up
the date one year on account of
the fact that in some counties
where clinics were Id he b Id Ihit
year preparations had not been
made.
In the schools where the clin
ic i.s to be held preliminary tests
by an injection into the arm,
which is quite harmless, are giv
en and the number to be
examined is reduced to suspects
while those that are known to be
lefinltely free from the disease
ilnated. X-ray pictures
,yljj when necessary
Monday, Jani
Stockholders of North Wil
kesboro Association to
Have Annual Meeting
consult
Regular annual meeting of the
stockholders of the North Wil
kesboro Building and Loan asso
ciation will be held on Monday
night, January 27, according to
a notice mailed out by J. B. Wil
liams, secretary-treasurer of the
association.
The meeting will be held in
the city hall and will begin at
7:30.
The year 19 35 was a very suc
cessful one for the association
and a report of the year’s busi
ness is being prepared by the
secretary. It is expected that the
stockholder.s’ meeting will be
well attended.
The meeting on January 27
will be for the purpose of elect
ing directors for the ensuing year
and the transacting of such oth
er business as may come before
the meeting.
The 4 8th .series is now open!
for sale of installment stock. I
afit •dViued to ■
their family! Jdiyslcian.
Before the clinic began Dr. A.
J. Eller, other health authorities
and practicing physicians issued
a public plea for cooperation and
so far the clinic has been accord
ed almost 100 per cent support
from ihildreu and their parents.
In continuing the
operation and permission to ex
amine suspects, it was pointed
out that childhood tuberculosis
is different to that in adults in
that it responds more readily to
treatment if the disease is discov
ered before much damage is
done.
District Junior
Order Gathering
Will Be Held In North Wil
kesboro On Night of FrT
day, February 21
Hotel Company
Stockholders To
Meet On Jan. 23
I Winston-Salem. Jan. 13.—Mon
roe .Adams, of Statesville, state
councilor of the Junior Order
^ United American Mechanics, has
1 issued a call for (ii.«tfict-wide
I class initiations throughout North
— i Carolina to be held Friday night,
I February 21, .and to be known as
; the (Jeorge Washington birthday
, clas.ses.
Making Rapid Progress Qn; At least one class initiation will
Grading Highway Across ^ ^ every dtstnet m the
D, state and some of the larger dts-
The Blue Kidge arranged for two
4 Miles Graded
Oh Highway 16;
or
FIRE MONDAY NIGHT
IN TELEGRAPH OFFICE
(je Be Held Thin Afternoon At
Grove Church: Passed
Away Wednesday
Ipuneral rites will b© held to
rn., at Shady Grove
Irs. J. B. Bullis. who
nesday morning, four
her home on Wilkes-
1.
; survived by her hus-
Uis, and the fol-
p.-^Iter, Mack,
[inchud Bullis,
1; Roby BalUs,
C. Cbttrt^l.
on: MlBSL.f'- It
If Mrs.
J Mrs. J. P. Welch
.A penalty will be added to all
unpaid county and city taxes aft
er February 1. it was pointed out
this week by W. P. Kelly, tax
collector for North Wilkesboro,
and W. B. Somers, sheriff an'd
tax collector of Wilkes county.
All who have not paid their
taxes are urgently requested to
do so and avoid penalties. Taxes
during January can be paid for
the face amount of the tax state
ment but a penalty wii be added
after February 1.
LICENSES ARE LOST
BY 30 MORE DRIVERS
Raleigh, Jan. 13.—Thirty re-
rocationa are announced by the
ll(DeM« department
A fire that was thought to
have started in the boiler room
beneath did small damage to the
Western Union Telegraph office
here Monday night about eleven
o’clock. The tire was quickly ex
tinguished by the fire depart
ment.
Woodie Seeking
New Bus Route
BUND MAN IS SURE
JUSTICE IS BLIND
13.—Sam
see the
High Point, Jan.
Moon, blind, couldn’t
ways of Justice today.
Arrested with four others in a
mid by police oii an alleged gam
bling game, h® was the only one
of the five who was found guilty
when arraigned in municipal
court today.
E. O. Woodie. local bus line
operator, appeared Tuesday be
fore the Utilities Commission in
Raleigh to seek a franchise to
operate a bus passenger service
between West Jefferson and
Charlotte, by way of North Wil
kesboro and Taylorsville.
The petition was opposed by
the Queen City Lines of Winston-
Salem and the East Tennessee
and Carolina-Lines.
At conclusion of the ^hearing,
it was Indicated hyAiembera of
counsel for the contesting groups
an' agreement might be reMhed
without action of the
'iaiOB; ■ ■ '-.v-'v
Annual meeting of stockhold
ers of the North Wilkesboro Ho
tel company, owner of Hotel
Wiilkes. will be held at Hotel
Wilkes on Thursday. January 23,
at 7:30 in the evening. E. G.
Finley, secretary of the company,
has mailed out notices ot the
ifieeting.
The meeting will be for the
purpose of electing a board of
directors for the coming year,
hearing reports of officers and
transacting such other business
as may come before the stock
holders.
IX)CAL MANUFACTURERS
RETURN FROM CHICAGO
Representativee of lotml fur
niture manufacturing plants have
been attending the furniture ex
position in Chicago.
N. O. Smoak, representing For
est Furniture company, is expect
ed to return some time this week.
J. D. and H. L. Moore, of the
Home Chair compiriny, have , re
turned bat J. M. Quinn muiaed
for a more extended stay. J-R.
Hik and A. B. Johnston, ot the
American Furniture company, at-
md«d' the «xs»iHo& laM jifiM*
Workmen engaged in the con-; three classes. Each district deputy
stniction of highway 16 between! state councilor will have the re-,
Wilbar and the Aslie-Wiljtes line ^ sponsibility of arriinpng for tl^
have completed rough gra!ding on i classes and for a speaker' who
about four mites of the 7 j.oJ Will deliver a bnef message at
11 -^4 I place.
™; , ninunv J C, W. Snyder, field secretary
T. M. Strider and company,-)
Nashville. Tenn.. contracting
firm, has been using about 100
meu in two shifts daily in the
work. However, inclement weath
er has delayed the work to a
great extent during the past sev
eral weeks.
When the project under con
struction is completed by way of
what is commonly called the
"jumping off place’’ the new
highway froip Millers Creek will
lack about fo(ur miles of reaching
the connecting point with the
old highway 16 near Glendale
Springs. The new highway wilj
be on© of the most picturesque
routes acrewB the Blue Ridge In
western North Carolina and will
connect with the route of the
Scenic Parkway near the Asher
Wilkes line on the summit of thq
Blue Ridge.
Exaininatiffiitt Going-On
This week is examination we^
for students of the North Wllkee-
boro high school. The !mld4erp$
its tfe
for the western division ,of the
state, announces the following
places in this section where class
initiations will be held in his dis
trict:
District 7 with North Wilkes
boro council No. 61 at North Wil
kesboro and with Copeland joun- ■
Cil No. 101, at Copeland; district
No. 3 with Elk Park council No.
86 at Elk Park; district 6 with
Statesville council No . 399 at
Statesville and vrith Newton coun
cil No. 24 at Newton.'
Neuse River Overflows At
Han>erBviIle, Floods Land
Kinston, Jan. 13.—The Neuse
river overflowed into Happers-
vllle, opposite this city, today^but 
residents believed there would ,hs:'
iHrie damage from the flood an.d
the'ktream) would start (ani>
Ihg In a- lew houmf v- ..
Cv Klnston-Wilmihliton read x-
J " Meefeedv, Howhm!ja wsaiNd'. -(
road, rnns ihld tbs
fIVB miles' out. Msap ateres .of low
i|
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