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■irnsmt-:. ■ ■m* i # : • Ph« sUte low®rdi ita i^l- regjrt tor Mcaped proven toBaiMtiTe moktb only 18 got away in March. District ^diarii Taxes Ralelsk, Max«h Sl.^Twaire j North Carolina** school districts ^mre supplementlns state school tlunds to the extent of aronnd 11,000,000 for the current term 5r^nd sereral others are conslder- 3ng tax supplements tof" next ft:3rear. Heyaotds la Maiae ^ 1 l^wlstoo. Me., March 31.—Re- tnralog prosperity. Senator Ro- ]>ert.Jt. Reynolds, Democrat, of Morth Carolina, said today, was ■ a "dhrect resnlt” sof new deal ^jPolKies rather than "the so-can- ' oatttnl forces of recorery .' Which no one has erer been able *0 d^fne." Man Takes Own Life Krwln, March 31.—A message recslred here today stated th^ ^ James Bain, employe of the filff ^:Win Cotton mills here, kUlhd'lllm- at his home in the Sandhills htlon of Harnett Sun^j|or kight. It is alleged that domestic trou- ' t>le was the cause of Bain’s aet. Two Teachers Injured Durham, March 31.—Two An- ^er school teachers were injured, 4>Oe seriously, late this afternoon When the automobile in which they were riding toward Durham rtehed iiRo a car, driren by a negro' man. on the new Raleigh road ’Just beyond the Pine Hill cemetery. Found Dead, In Cbaln.s Eklwln, March 31.—The death ©f David Byrd, of Coats, widely known Harnett cqunty man, whose body, bound in chains and lying ou his bed at home. For A4^n To l^esCwathouse State WPA Headquarters Allots Fufids for Agn* culture BtiU4ing COST WILL BE $9,6^.48 | County to Furnish Sith s£d Portion of C^ jpf SkilL. ^ Labor Since the snnouncement from Rsldgh yesterday that funds hare been allocated tor an agri* cultural building for Wilkes, it Is expected that actual work of constructing the halldlng, which will be an addition to the court* house, will get under way with in a few days. State Works Progress admlnis- tAtion headquarters Tuesday al- tosated g9,683A8 for the project, which had previously been ap- .proved by the district, state and national WPA admlstetrators. Instead of- a sepante building Wilkes commissioners and the county farm agSht deemed it ad visable to build an addition to the present eoUrthottse and this addition would serve for addi tional office spsee n the court house and the top floor would he used for county agent, home agent, assiriant agent offices and an assembly and conference room for farm gatherings. This plan, originated after the extension engineer had drawn plans for a separate building, was readily accepted by all concern ed as a good substitute in that it would serve two separate and distinct purposes at little cost to the county. The county’s share In the cost Speiiks Tonight Dr. Ralph MeDonald, who will formally open hlS campaign for the Democratic nomination for governor in a radio address over the principal stations In the state tonight, 8:30 to 9 o'clock. 'I WV BD ^ found by his wife, Mrs. Stella M*' ^^e building site and a part of late Sunday night, was at- cost of labor, all of which j^rlbuted to heart attack today by ' physician. Would Deport Aliens Washington, March 31.—^Rep- [reseatative Green, Democrat of Torlda, Ijgtrodnced a bill ypetoe- lleghfly andt^revent^tny R ■>*»«» ** Federal relief being ^ ■r^ghanted to such persons. ] Sleep-Walking Is Fatal New York, March 31.—Ten- year-old David de Piua died to- the result of a fall from a third-story window while he was walking in his sleep. The boy’s gather said he had been subject to nightmares since the death of his mother five months ago. Truck Driver Held Danville, Va., March 31.—Har lan Bengar Norton, driver of a truck owned by T. H. Rash, faced a homicide charge today for the death of James Hairston, negro boy injured by his truck March 6. Police learned that Hairston died of his injuries last Friday and was buried Sunday. Duke Endowment Charlotte, March 31.—Trust- «es of the Duke endowment, meeting here today, appropriated 1962,499.22 to 103 hospitals and ’ 47 orphan homes in the Carolin- as. Of the total. $522,475 went to hospitals in North Carolina, 4343,769 to hospitals in South Carolina. $62,662.92 to orphan homes in North Carolina and 433,592.30 to orphan homes in South Carolina. will be less than one-third the cost of the building. Additional office space at the courthouse has been sorely needed for some time and the expanded aetivitles and duties of the county agricultural agent have made it , Assodatkm Is Ready To Gve Credit R^rts MeKhanta’ Association Of> fice Located Over Carl ton Hardware Store The Wilkes County Merchants’ Associatlen has an office estab lished and the work of compiling credit information has been going on for several days. Miss Frances Cashion, secre tary, is in charge, of the office and announced today that she is ready to give credit reports to the merchants. The office is lo-' cated on the second floor of the Carlton Hardware building and the telephone numbw is 120. 7di &kdk’ Td & ^Uniform F.»amination to . ^ GivM Students Tkrouidt out the State NOTIFY STODENTS Stiadents in Many Smaller | Schools Wilt Tskke Eauuni-^ nations at Central Units lliB'unlfoVm seventh grade ^* am'inatibh prepared by the'state department of education wiH be given In the schools on Thurs day, April 9,.: according to lnfor-4' mation gained from the office of^' C. -B, Bller, Wilkes county sup erintendent. of public instruction. As has been the custom in re cent years the examination will' be given in only the ^larger schools and seventh grade stu dents from many of the smaller units will take the examin^ftlons at the school designated by'their teachers. . The examination will be uni form throughout the state and 4rutu> Richard Hauptmann, under sentence to be^etoetroeuted m the New Jeraey stste priscm this week, was given a siky 4 execution by the warden after preRk'htion had been made for .ele^teeuti^' Um - Sectim Fim VirgmiiM to Dfaop G*p COMPLgtrt!f YEAR 'Jobs Providod For PructiB' alyl All AioQgRMte Bf PaHeway Woric of construing the gno * for the ffl^e Ridge Pagkwa/'|g' now progressing on a flfty-mito stretch frpm the North Carollnki- Virginia line to Dqpp ,Qap on the Boone Trail highway, ^ween this city, and Boone. Over 200 men ai^ now em ployed on the six seetiotts on which work has started and thia .number is expected to be mo- terially increased as weather con ditions permit the work: to pro gress more rapidly. Contracts on the six sections call for completion within a f year’s time and 1C is expected that ‘ contractors win rush the - work through the spring and summer':^! ..uim LUO «uu Tuesday night The stay of execution was granted at'dm revest of - - will be gljen in all counties on jnnr and the warden has set Friday, 8 p. mJ ta th«s exeeu- ^ The teat irill corer all subjects studied in the seventh grade in the regular school curriculum and is designed to tell Whether or not a student has absorbed the fundamentals of elementary school education and has ac quired sufficient knowledge to enter high school. However, It will be necessary for the student to complete the school term and pass the grade satisfactorily 'to the teacher regardless of the out come of the examination. The seventh grade test was scheduled for March but was moved up to April 9 because schools in almost every section of the state are hefaiud with their schedule on account of weather conditions or disease epidemics. Uon date and hour. Crippled Seal Sale Is Begun In die Schools Sale# Stiekerk Will Aid Underprivileged Crip- pi^ Children Services Jd M. L Church aT., rge Crowd Attending 'Early Morning and Eve- ' ■ ning Services '^ni» series of speclafserrlces wkieh began Sunday at the North VPUkesboro Methodist church will eoBtlnn* through next week. TTie pastor. Dr. R. B. Temple ton, Is doing the preaching, be ing a»Bl*ted In the meeting by all depal^tments oi church activity. The morning service is held from 8 to 8:30 and Is being wrfl attended. Larger crowds are ff- tendlng the evening service be- gtnnlng at 7:30 p. m. Quite much Interest is being shown and «n- 1 aplrlng gospel messages are de- Uversd by the pastor at each Baptismal services will be held Sunday morning, eleven o’clock ' at the church ajjd on Sunday eve ning. 7; 30, thsalltchell College ‘ilr, from SUatosvHle, wlU take in the service. CongtegatlOM j other churches will Join In , ttnloii service. have adequata office space. Wilkes Is the oaly county in this WPA district to receive an agricultural building. An arm ory will be constructed at Salis bury. NYA Meeting To Be Held Tonight Everybody Interested in Youth Program Invited to Attend Meet R. S. Proctor, of Raleigh, as sistant director in charge of stu dent aid and guidance in the Na tional Youth Adfninistration In North Carolina, will be the prin cipal speaker in a meeting of the Wilkes county NYA organization to be held at Hotel Wilkes on Thursday evening, April 2, (to night), 7:30 o’clock. Announcement of the meeting was made recently by T. E. Story, Wllkesboro district schools, who is chairman of the advisory committee of the organ ization'in Wilkes. L. W. Teague, district field representative of the NYA, will also be present at the meeting and take a part in ex plaining the activities of NYA. Prof. Story emphasized the fact that all people who are in terested In youth aid and in solv ing the youth pro'blem be pres ent In the meeting, regardless of whether or not they are connect ed with the organization set up in the first meeting held about a month ago. School principals, teachers, ministers, Sunday school workers and others connected with public life are especially urged to be present. One of the major objectives of the NYA is to supply part time employment to youths In order to keep them in school. Although this activity has been carried on for some time at many of the lead ing colleges and universities, it is comparatively new to Wilkes peo ple and for this reason it is ex peeted that there will be a large attendance at the meeting to night. Name Coininil„ tni raiui Hum WUl M«et On Morning Of April 10 With Members Extension Service Through the schools and civic organiiations people of Wilkes county are being given a chance to help crippled childreii by the purchase of Bast^ seals.' The sale is being ' conducted for the aid of crippled children similar to the tubeFcnlav.seal sale mess to- aid ■ »• Sholpn,WirelMs AidsMoojnhiners ToEsciqie'^eiib Eight Illicit Liquor Plants Destroyed in RfcM* W Of ficers Tuesday Federal revenue. officers raid ing in the Cycl^ R. ,P. D„ com munity Tuesday destroyed eight moonshine stills but on account of tha efficiency ot ^b»'grppetqne telegraph were not .a)>ia to. make ,ahy arrests at that time. ^ ^ According to cuirMt ravorts,^ ttift f in. Be- Ab- Bil- County Agent A. G. Hendren has named county and commun ity committees to .serve "Wilkes in administering the new farm aid program until a. permanent organization is perfected in the general meeting of farmers to he. held on Friday, April 10. The county committee Is com posed of J. M. German, H. C. Roberts and ioy Durham. The county has been divided into six central communities with com mittees as follows: 1. T. W. Ferguson, Paul J. Vestal and C. J. Hendren. 2. M. Wellborn,'' C. L. Com er and J. R. Calloway. 3. R. L. Proffit, H. H. shears and G. D. Wellborn. I 4. C. H. Colvard, W. M sher and A. R. Miller. 5. J. M. Blevins, Lonnie lings and Wiley Brooks. 6. L. B. Murray, Jack Hoots and Whiter Gentry. The county .and community commitffees will meet at the courthouse in Wllkesboro with members of the extension service to confer about the new farm aid program on the morning of April 10 at 10 o’clock and at one o' clock will be a general meeting to which every farmer in the county Is invited. The committees have been named by the county agent 'to serve temporarily and may be changed when the general meet ing is held in the afternoon. Farmers are' showing quite much interest in th© new farm- aid measttre.Mld"a ^rge rnttradatace is expected'in the mehUdi'^^lF Friday, April 1(>-- AMEWCAN MEET Three-Quarter Rate Went I into Effect Wedneaday; j Many Tags Sold The three-quarter rate on au tomobile license plates went into effect yesterday, April 1, and it is expected that sales of plates will Increase to some extent dur ing the next few weeks. The lo cal bureau on the corner of Ninth and C Streets is In charge of J. C. McDiarmid. A person who has not purchas ed license plates for the year may figure the cost by deductink one- fourth from the yearly rate. The three-quarter rate will be in ef fect until July 1. The state motor vehicle bn .eau in a final check late Tup jay an nounced 414,372 pairs of plates had been sold for the first quart er of the year, or 35,285 more than on March 31, 1935. The sales for three months were- only 97,804 less than the record-breaking total of 512,176 sold for all of 1936. During the last three quarters of last year, the bureau sold 133,089 tags, and If as many plates are sold the next nine months a new record will be set by a wide margin. and .a sUiaff'..-,- The funds d^l^d will be used to purchase special shoes and braces tor underprivileged chil dren who have undergone correc tive operations In the state ortho paedic hospital in Gastonia. The seal sale will continue until East er under the direction of Mrs. Bertha Bell, county nurse, who has taken a great interest In aid ing crippled children. GOP Senatorial Convention 4di Will Be Held At Yadkin- ville Saturday Afternoon, Two o'clock 'seareer than he«f teeth," ^ieere would pass a eertaia — . . Ittclement weather o f wlator' months. The parkway constradtion will provide Jobs for practically all along the Blue Ridge or within daily traveling distance of the scene of operations. During the past few weeks members of the office force of the re-employment office here have filled a number of appointments in Alleghany, Ashe, Wilkes and Watauga along the route in order to provide op portunity for Jobless people to register for work. The total sum of the contracts on the. six sections extending as far southward as'Deep Gap is approximately one and one-half || mlilion dollars and it ean-he emc PMted thiu Ah|i^ ppMegit- gKfk seiTiea wiirip91ld a cohslderaiip ‘ sU m_lnpi|rlFddveloB 'Wllkhs'i Asfie and Kentucky GOP For l^ndon Louisville, Ky.. March 31.— The Kentucky State Republican convention late today Instructed the four delegates at large to vote for Gov. Alf M. London of Kan sas at the .w Republican national convention, assuring' him of 18 of this State’s votee there. Two districts, each with two votee, havq voted to send unlnstructed delegstes. .Y NIGHT Wilkes post of the American Legion will hold its April meeting at the Legion and Auxiliary club house Friday night, right o’clock. Every member is asked to 'be present. ' GreepbCTg Signs Lakeland, Fla., March 2*.— Hack Greenberg, last of the im portant holdouts, signed a con tract to play first base tor the world champion Detroit Tigers after a long conference with club officials tonight Terms of the contract wero' not Announced, but git parties said they were "happy.” Teams Split b Debates Friday Elkin is Winner m Wilkes- boro> Mount Airy and Elkin Triangle WUkesboro teams split honors with Mount Airy and Elkin in the triangular debates held on Friday and the Elkin teams wo'n both sides, making them eligible to participate' In the stote wide contests to- be brid soon at Chap el'Hill. Wtlkesboro’B affirmatlvo, Tom Story and Paula Graft, lost to El kin’s negative at Mount Airy. Wllkeeboro’s negative, Lee Settle and Eda BeUe Phillips, won over Mount Airy’s affirmative at El kin. I. Elkin affirmative, Claude Mc- Nlel, Jr.,, and Barney Rhodes, de feated Mount Airy’s negative, Robert George a n d Frances Rotbrock, at Wllkesboro. , Bldacopal Service Vesper service at 8L Paul'a Episcopal Church, Sunday afteA-; and on a nearby hill woulu- the report of a shotgun, which would be answered from anoth er. and still another, hilltop. Thus what Is generally known as the grapevine telegraph has earned the more modern name of "shot gun telegraph.’’ Three of the stills raided Tues day had been In operation short ly before the arrival of officers. It was learned, and at one still scene moonshiners proved to he more fleet on foot ' and made their escape. Officers found a number of five-gallon containers of whiskey which were partially hidden in the haste to reach oth er parts. let on a number of sections the Mount Mitchell vicinity and It is generally expected that a major portion of the parkway in North Carolina will be completed by the fall of 1937. The Republican convention to nominate a candidate for the state senate from the 24th dis trict will be held in Yadkinyllle Saturday afternoon, April 4, two o’clock, instead of Saturday, April 18, as was erroneously an nounced by W. E. Rutledge, chairman, last week. An error was In'advertantly made in an nouncing th© date. it Is expected that many Wilkes Republicans will attend. The dis trict Is composed of three Repub lican counties, Wilkes, Yadkin and Davie and according to the custom previously followed the nominee for senator will be from Davie county this year. Music Recital Held Thursday In City Miss Ellen Robinson’s pupils in piano and voice were present ed in a music recital held in the North WHfceriJoro school audi torium on Thursday afternoon, 3:30. _ The recital was before a very appreciative audience and the pupils acquitted themselves well and made a very creditable show ing. YOUNG MEN MAY NOW ENLIST IN MARINES The examination of thirty-five applicants for enlistment in the U. S. Marine Corps will be held at the District Recruiting Head quarters, Post Office Building, Savannah, Ga., during the month of April, it was announced my Major Ralph E. Davis, the Offi cer in Charge. The Marine Corps accepte young men who are between 18 and 25 years of age, single, not less than 66 or more than 74 inches in height and who are in excellent physical 'condition, it was announced. Young men who meet the a- bove requirements and deeire service in th© Marin© Corps can obtain application blanks by writ ing the Savannah office, Major Davis stated. Lea Win Goo Free Aft« Two Years In Prison .Rev. B. charge. M. Lackey, Rector, STATE PLANS ON HIGHWAY PBOJBCrS Raleigh, March 26f—Road pro jects to be Included In the next letUng of the sUte highway and public works commission, ten tatively set for April 14 or 15, are In the hands of the federal bureau of roads in Washington and are li*™ The commlsalon is expected to EiPtBCOpfti i^ftiircui ow**'**w ** . noon. April «h. at four o’clock, meat eRbe' Ap^l « or 1 canvass the bids other businew. Raleigh. April 1—Golonel Luke Lea, World War hero and former United SUtes senator and “mak er of governors” from Tennessee, tomorrow will walk from North Carolina’s central prison here a tree man. Governor Ehrlnghaus late to day announced a parole, effective Ai^l 2, for the man whose teR- llant career as a soldier In France was climaxed with an unsuccess- Yul attempt to capture Kaiser Wilhelm in the (uncertain days that followed the signing of the arnifstice in 1818. Lea, a former financier in, Tennessee, was sent to prison to serve a six- to ten-year term for conspiracy to violate the ^te banking laws in connection wlUi the colUpee in 1#3* ot the Cen tral wypbing and Trust Cosspany transact ArtnrlHe, and has ewsfleted nearly two y.ears“of his rontriiSSr- Amateur Contest On Friday Night Wilkesboro Scouts Spoaaor Show On Friday NiEht at Liberty Theatre Wllkesboro Boy Scout troop Is sponsoring a Wttlkes County Ama teur Contest on Friday night at the Liberty Theatre. Auditions to select the best acts from many applications were held In the Wilkesboro school an ditorium on Tuesday night. i The contest will be conducted by Clare Shadwell, “The Old Shepherd,’’ from radio station WBT, Charlotte, and he will supplement the stage amateur shows at the Liberty Theatre with a special act by himself and Jane. There will be two shows, on© beginning at 7:30 and the other at nine o’clock with no adraaiM in prices and the Boy Scouts will benetlt In the proceeds of the 10 and 26 cents admission charges. Much interest Is being show* in the contest and a unique and highly Interesting program. Is ex pected. Two acts will be selected as winners and these performers will have the privilege of appear ing with Major Bowes’ Amateurs OB tour at the Liberty Theatre soon. Local High Nme Loses To Lenoir B High School Boya PUy WoII Against Strang Team In First Gsune North Wilkesbore high school baseball team, playing the first g^NOO- of the season, lost to Lo- nolr i to 5 here Tuesday after noon. Although the local attw bopp- ad the game tt that AMP reaUy pUyed iraf jmiUmm Oa tact that some , were in
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