s';:-*
ii!ii|Wii ni» )igjitiii -"
N^Of
:iifte*Natkm
Told Briefly
OHpUna Mills X/mA
Sept. 1.—^North Car-
mllls coDBumed 164,289
et cotton during July, % to-
larger than any other state
|id more than all New England
fetea combined.
Buried Colt lilTee
' Buried for 25 days beneath
re feet of snow, a colt recently
dug out in Iceland and, al-
|tOugh suffering from exposure
Bd ataryaton it walked two
Bites to ita home.
Gored By Bull
^enderson, ^Sept. 1.—Thomas
bress, a farmer near here.
a hospital here tday for
Bent after a bull gored him
Hospital attaches said
condition was serious.
Makes 285 M. P. H.
Los Angeles, Sept. 1.—Michel
LDetroyat, French speed king,
Chieved a rate of more than 285
Mniles per hour, airport officials
orted, in a practice flight yes-
ay for the $20,000 Thomp-
Eon trophy race, feature of the
natinal air races here Labor day.
^AS M^ISD THE«STA'I« OFJIfILKSS"
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VOL. XXX, NO. 94 Published Mondays
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and Thursdays NORTH N, SEPTr ife rtSff
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For mMual^^tawtn^j
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of MdHlnrMt BwCb '
thu. (g!
President Will
Speak at Green
Pastures Rally
To Be Held in Charlotte on
Thursday, September
10, Five P. M.
BIG CROWD EXPECTED
Thirteen Wilkes Men Named
as Marshals For Roose
velt Address
Revenue Collection.>i Pp
Manifestly indicative of a con
tinued healthy upswing in busi
ness generally, internal revenue
collections in the district of
North Carolina during the first
two months of the fiscal year
which began July 1, 1935. reach
ed the bulging total of $55,441,-
221.24.
To Electrify Caldwell
t«noir, Sept. 1.- —Members of
the' board of directors of the lo
cal rural electrification co-(>pera- —
tlve, which has been formally ap- be installed to accomodate 8,000
Many local people are Interest
ed in the announcement that
President Roosevelt will speak
at the Green Pastures rally on
Thursday, September 10, In
Charlotte.
Many are making plans to at
tend the rally and thirteen well
known Democrats have been
named as marshtls from Wilkes
county to serve on that occasion.
Attorney Hugh Mitchell, of
Statesville, is chief marshal, and
the county chairman of each
county names the marshals, ac
cording to plans that are being
worked out over the state.
Those named from Wilkes
county as marshals are J. R.
Rousseau, D. J. Brookshire, C. 0.
McNeil, C. B. Eller, C. T. Dough-
ton. Attorney J. M. Cooper, At
torney W. H. McElwee, J. G.
Harkett, J. C. Reins, D. J. Car
ter. R. T. McNiel, James Ander
son and N. O. Smoak.
The rally will be held in the
new athletic stadium, which ha.s
a regular seating capacity of
15.536, but temporary seats will
Landon Attradu in of
t Part Benefits Ezpect-
^or Growing Soil Con-
' serving Crops
^90 FARMS INCLUDED
ifb 'J^ymrats For Food and
. Cn^ . Reduction Un»
Home Consumption
'//*,{> r
wofk of checking compliance
with work sheets of 990 farms
county under the 1936
soil
•• •-
way, If was learned today
proved by the federal REA and
allotted $430,000 for the con
struction of rural power lines in
Caldwell county, will meet here
this week-end to perfect prelim-
In^/ plans for the beginning of
work on the project.
Mammy Cats Halt Traffic
foir^ Sept. 1.—Four west-
^t-^und.
additional.
People from several states are
expected to attend the rally,
which will be one of the largest
gatherings of people in the state
this year and one of the few
times a chief executive of the
nation has made a speaking en
gagement in North Carolina. His
address will be non-political and
jBgt ooanected with the preslden-
irvatlori act is now under
from
the office of A. G. Hendren,
Wilkes farm agent.
The work sheets filled out In
the spring listed crops grown on
the land' last year and the base
for the farmers w.ho participated
in (^'now invalid triple A. Sup
ervisors recently appointed are
now at work measuring acres of
various crops and from their
Must Be
By September
Engineer Wivks
Up Road Project
Local Banks To Be
Closed Labor Day
Both the Bask of North
WilkestxMTO and the.. -Deposit
and Savings bank will be
closed on Monday, September
7, It was learned today.
Labor Day, the first Monday
In September, Is widely ob
served thronghont the country
as a national holiday.
Those who have business to
transact with the banks are
requested to keep in mind that
both will be closed Monday,
September 7.
State Highway Commiaaion
Will Fumiah Thirty Per
Cent of Coat
PLAN SURFACE WORK
On Main Artery Dirt Roada;
Project Submitted For
Street Work
West Middlesex, Pa.—With relatives and among old friends, Gov
ernor Alf M. Landon, of Kansas, Republican, presidential candidate
ittended services here in the church where his grandfather. Rev. Wm. determined the
H. Mossman, was piistor when Landon was bom in the parsonage payment each farmer
nearby. Photo shows Governor Landon leaving the church with his
great aunt, Mrs. Emma Lininger, after the services.
To Soon Complete
Additional Rooms
To the Courthouse
Schools Of City
Open Wednesday
Brick Walls and Framing
Completed; Finishing
Work Under Way
Work of laying the brick wall
and framework of the agricultur
al quarters to the courthouse in
Wilkesboro has been completed
and workmen are now employed
on the inside of the building,
lOQring and othy work
trom tie
ssta' funeral home to the rear of
- the chamber of commerce build
ing. Four trips y were necessary,
halting traffic on one of the
Sanitary Ratings
city’s busiest streets.
I Hotel Wilkes Scored 100 by additional county office space and
Killed 111 .Argument
Asheville, Sept. 1.—Sheriffs
Officers said an argument over
the guilt or innocence of Martin
Moore, negro convicted of the
July 16 killing oi Helen Cleveng-
Sanitary Inspector; Oth
ers Improve
S. Odell, county sanitary in
spector. yesterday released sani
tary ratings of hotels, cafes, res-
uuij -- , taurants and sandwich shops.
er, ended fatally for Carl Brook-lThi.s was the second rating re
ef, negro taxi driver. The officers
said Richard Anderson, negro,
surrendered with the statement
he had shot Brooker in an ar
gument over Moore after Brook
er threatened him.
leased for publication and sev
eral establishments showed some
improvement.
The inspector was unable to
find anything to mark against
Motel Wilkes, which has just
Attempt# Suicide
Roxboro. Sept. 1.—Theodore
Gentry, resident of the Brooks-
dale nleghborhood. attempted
suicide this morning when he
drank a poison solution about
10:30 o’clock. A local physician
was called who administered
first-aid and the young man was
then rushed 'o the hospital. His
^^ndltlon is serious and it is re-
■kflvted that little hope is held
for his recovery.
I been redecorated and repainted,
and gave that hotel the amazing
ly high grade of 100. The ratings
follow:
Grade .4
Hotel Wilkes 100
(.a.s Made fYoin (’oal
Washington, Sept. 1.—Wheth
er gasoline made from coal may
propel America’s automobiles and
nes in the distant future
_ _abated by power experts
yMterday in papers prepared for
the forthcoming world power
* conference. The possibility of na-
tuill and manufactured gas be-
! *nt to similar use also was
Jttlised. In oil-barren Germany,
was reported, plans are already
being made for construction of
filling stations to handle gas in
steel flasks.
Wonder Cafe
.Moore Bros. Cafe
Black Cat Cafe
Princess Cafe ....
Call Hotel
Pete’s Sandwich Shop
Rock Diner
Bonnie Fay Lunch
Grade R
Liberty Lunch .
F Street Cafe -—
Snappy Lunch
Green Lantern
Broadway Tourist Camp —
Grade C
Eller’s Cafe ....
Central Cafe (col)
Southside Cafe (col)
Beeches Place 65.5
97
93.5
. 93
92.5
92.5
91.5
92
91.5
85.5
85.5
.. 84
.. 84
85.5
.. 75
.. 73
70.5
(D)
Mr. E. H. Forester, president
of Forester-Sales Lumber com
pany in Sumpter. S. C., spent the
week-end at Goshen with his mo
ther, Mrs. W. L. Forester.
Best Exhibits in Histoiy of Fair
Expected For Exposition Sept. 15-19
With opening date of the Great
-Rilkes Fair September 15-19 in
clusive) only a few days ahead,
farmers and housewives through
out Wilkes and adjoining coun
ties sre busily engaged in pre
paring exhlhlU for the exposition.
*. --Following a policy which has
been successfuly carried out dur
ing the past few years, the fair
association is again offering cash
prises In all departments and in
(er to create additional Inter-
^thls year and keep the exhibit
oent on a high plane with
Eot attractions at the fair
.iMfemlums were Increased by a
’^SiaMerable amount. The prem
ium list is patterned after that
Jof the North Carolina sUte fi ir
land l«l*e* offered for the
best in practically all farm and
home products produced in the
territory of i he fair.
Exhibits will be placed on
Monday, September 14, and can
not be removed until late Satur
day, last day of the fair. Super
intendents have been appointed
to look after exhibits in all de
partments.
Any who still desire a premium
list may secure one from J. C.
Wallace, secretary, by mail or by
personal call to his office at Ra
Considerable progress has been
made during the past few weeks
on the courthouse addition, w’hich
is to serve the double purpose of
offices for the county farm agent,
his assistant and office force
necessary under the new farm act
and other phases of agricultural
administration.
The second floor, which will
serve as an agrcultural building,
will contain three office rooms
and an assembly room for farm
gatherings. The first floor is cal
culated to furnish some much j
needed additional room for coun
ty offices.
Erection of the building is a
Works Progress administration
project, with the county furnish
ing about one-third of the cost
of construction.
North Wilkesboro city schools,
a city charter unit, opened Wed
nesday and work is now going
forward apparently as smoothly
as if the schools had been operat
ing for a month.
There was little confusion as
the children gathered yesterday
and were assigned to their rooms.
Books are provided at the school
either for sale or rent and in the
afternoon Wednesday children
were allowed to gather their
necessary supplies.
W. D. Halfacre, superlnten-
4llgNiK-aiuioiuM«»;tbat ^tormal-
opening for the elementary de
partment will be Friday morn
ing, nine o’clock, and formal
opening for the high school on
Monday morning, nine o'clock.
The public is cordially invited to
both exercises.
Although a complete checkup
was not available, indications are
that the opening enrollment was
by far the largest in the history
of the schools.
MerJiants Will
Gather Tonight
Missionary To
Speak Tonight
Newly Selected Medical Mis
sionary to China at M. E.
Church Here Tonight
Dr. Richard L. Strain, M. D.,
newly selected medical mission
ary to China selected by the mis
sionary board of the Southern
Methodist church, will speak at
the First Methodist church in
North Wilkesboro on Thursday
evening, (tonight) September 3,
7:30 o’clock.
Dr. Strain is the son of a
Presbyterian minister and a
graduate of Vanderbilt university
ill the class of 1934. In comment
ing on Dr. Strain’s appointment
to speak here Hr. R. B. Temple
ton, Methodist pastor, said: /
“We are sure that all mission
ary minded churchmen will want
to meet, and a.ssure this young
man of their prayers and interest
as he moves to take up his dif
ficult work in a strange land.
We therefore extend a cordial in
vitation to all such to come and
be present at the time and place
appointed. Your prayers and
sympathy will mean much to
this young missionary in his work
so far from the homeland.”
Improvements l^ade
Interior Of Hotel
Workmen have completed a
good job of interior decorating,
cleaning and painting at Hotel
dio Sales company on C street Wilkes, which Is rapidly gaining
opposite the new postoffice build- a repution as the leading hotel In
Ing In this city.
Other features of the fair In
elude grandstand acts that will of the Interior of the large build-
no doubt surpass the excellent ing and much Improvement In Its
(Continued on page eight)
appearance is easily noticed.
Retail Merchants’ Associa
tion to Have Important
Meet at City Hall
amount of payment each farmer
is to receive from the govern
ment.
• The bulk of the benefit pay
ments to Wilkes farmers will be
for growing soil conserving crops
and there will be but few pay
ments for crop reduction except
for tobacco and cotton. This is
because of a clause in the act
which specifies that payments
win not be made for food and
feeSl crop reductions under amount
required for the home. The logic
of this, agricultural authorities
say, can be readily seen in that
it tvould be folly to pay a farm
er to grow less than he needs
at home and buy the same pro
ducts before auother crop Is
grown.
Many farmers signed up under
th« new farm-act In early spring
and seadad \.aai)Be ^ land to clover
' -and- groMaa •• conserving
crops. However, many who enter
ed into the plan late in th® sea
son have sown peas in order to
comply with the provisions for
benefits for soil conserving and
soil building crops.
Despite the downfall of the
AAA, crops in Wilkes county this
year are planted to approximate
ly the same acreage as the 1936.
There is very little or no Increase
in tobacco and cotton acreage,
practically all of the farmers be
ing participants in the soil con
servation act. Com and wheat acre
age is estimated to be about the
normal average for the county
while bnick and vegetables are be
ing grown to supply the local de
mand.
Over 500 Volumes
Are Repaired by
WPA BookProject
Books Mended in Eight
School Libraries; to Work
in Others Soon
Wilkes County Retail Merch
ants’ association will have an im
portant meeting tonight, 7:30,
at the city hall. Attendance of
every member is earnestly desir
ed.
Plans under consideration and
to be discussed tonight include
the proposal of an important co
operative sales event and other
important matters. The meeting
to be held tonight is considered
of highest importance and the
view of every member may be of
value in formulating future plans
of the association
City Board Will
Meet September 8
Over 500 hooks have been
mended and reconditioned by
the book mending project of the
Works Progress administration,
it was learned today from school
authorities.
This work has been of special
benefit is schools in that worn
volumes have been catalogued,
repaired and placed in good con
dition for use by the students.
Many volumes, use of which had
ceased to be practical, have been
restored to their proper places on
library sbelvos by tbe worker*
employed In the project.
The county welfare officer has
on hand several hundred volumes
to be loaned to needy children
and many of these hooks, worn
by constant use, are among the
number repaired. The school li
braries in which much work has
been done include North Wilkes
boro, Wilkesboro, Boomer, Mil
lers Creek, Mountain View, Trap-
hill. Roaring River and Lincoln
Heights. Plans are under way to
continue the book mending pro
ject in libraries of other high and
central schools and some of the
larger individual elementary
units.
In addition to book mending
the project has included furnish
ing a librarian during the sum
mer months for North Wilkes
boro and Wilkesboro school li
braries and gathering books for
the public library sponsored by
the Wilkes County Council of so
cial agencies.
All WPA projects under
the work program of t^e cur
rent year must be submitted
not later than September 15,
it was learned here today
from T. D. Heffner, division
engineer.
Those who are interested
in submitting any projects
should keep the dea»dline in
mind and complete plam for
projects in ample time to be
submitted before that date.
District Engineer 'Leper, of the
state highway commission, spent
Tuesday here with Mr. Heffner
mapping plans for road work that
is to be done through the Wbrks
Progress administration during
the current year.
Plans call tor a permanent type
of improvement on leading sec
ondary roads. The work will be
centered on the main artery dirt
roads that serve the largest num
ber of people.
The state highway and public
works commission will furnish 36
per cent of the cost on road pro
jects, this part being mainly for
materials and equipment. Tba
WPA win pay the greater part ot
cost of labor while the state will
furnish trucks to haul sand aiid’
gravel to be placed on dirt roads.
Commujiities where road work
is done aw calculated to benefit
more from such a permanent type
of road improvement and an ef
fort will be made to place the
more important dirt and gravel
roads in an all-weather travel
condition.
The city of North Wilkesboro
has submitted a project calling
for widening C street between
Ninth and Tenth street, also for
widening the sidewalk on the
south side of the street by the
postoffice building and repairs
to the present street surface.
Other projects, it is learned,
are being considered for early
submission. It so happens that
there is a shortage of suitable
projects in this locality and spon
sors willing to pay their propor
tionate cost stand a good chance
of having desirable projects ap
proved.
Delegation From Council of
Social Agencies to Ask
Help for Playground
Wildcat Veterans
State Reunion 6th
County Boards To
Meet On Monday
North Wilkesboro board of
aldermen will meet in September
meeting on Tuesday evening, Sep
tember 7. This will be the regu
lar meeting date—Tuesday after
the first Monday.
At that time a large delegation
,.,,■0 from ^the council of social agen-
Business firms not members of cies, the Kiwanis club, and other
the association are Invited to be interested people vrlll appear be-
represented in the meeting.
fore the board to submit a
Plans for the North Carolina
State Reunion of the 7,200 Vet
erans from this state who served
with the Wildcats are progress
ing fine.
The.reunion open on Sun
day. September 6th with regis
trations at the O’Henry and King
Cotton Hotels in Greensboro.
An impressive memorial serv
ice will be held at 3 p. m. and
P''°- smoker at 8 p. m.; a reception
September 7 will be first Mon
day and county boards will be in
session on that date, both the
county board of commissioners
and the county board of educa
tion.
The North Wilkesboro city
board of commissioners will meet
on Tuesday evening, September
8. 7:30 o’clock.
Wilkesboro Tax
Rate Made $1.00
po3hl,wJiqreby the city can obtain tjje ladies will be held at 6
Lutheran Services
playground and rec- p
real^^V^rk through the Works Monday, September 7th. (La- sei-vices ai uiri ocuul nuuoc. .j.-
Pro'^i^'-administration provided bor Day), a business session at ble class and Sunday schoo., 7.
. 1 11.. . , _ _ . a. e .. . T» m • nranrhlne' service. olOv
m.
Our Savior Lutheran church,
(La- seiwlces at Girl Scout House. Bi-
$3,000 can.be raised locally, jq a. m.; luncheon at 1 p. m.; P
J AJ W II . I ^ X V SOS • » • xa i*'' r
Mrs. W. R. Absher, chairman parade at 6 p. m. and dance at 8 P
Town Board Gilts Taxes For
Next Year One-third;
Met Tuesday
Tile tax rate for the Town
of Wilkesboro for the year
lOJWl will be $100 on Uie
iiundred dollar valuation of
property. This is a reduction
of 50 cents per hundred or
one-third of the rate for last
year. This greatly reduced levy
was made at a special meeting
of the Town Board of Commis
sioners at a special meeting
hold Tuesday night. Those pres
ent for this meeting were May
or W. E. Harris, who presided,
,Joc B. Barber, C. E. Lendw-
man, and Ralph B. Reins, com
missioners, L. B, Dnla, fourth
member of the board, was un
able to attend the meeting.
The much-lowered tax rate
for the coming year will be
welcomed with pleasure by the
taxpayers of the town, and (s
expected to greatly encourage
the erection of new business
honses and residences in the
town. ,
of the council of social agencies, p pj will fill in the day.
has announced that the meeting
before th^\ board will take the vited.
place of the regular September
meetihg of the council. The pub
lic aJ^rs committee of the Ki
wanis club has been designated
to represent that body before the
city commissioners.
m.; preaching service, 8:00
m. Subject of sermon, “The
Savior’s Arms and the Savior’s
m. will 1111 in inn n«j. — - -
Every Veteran is cordially in- Yoke.’’ A hearty welcome to all,
Roswell E. Mennen. pastor.
Mrtii. J. C. Parsons
Is Taken By Death
To Open Rock Quarry and Road
famp on Parkway; Want Laborers
Perry McGlome, contractor for
construction of that section of
r „ the Blue Ridge parkway between
I-".’ ..a A„ B,U0..
and a member of a widely known gap. will open a rock ‘luarry near
Ashe county family, died at her Laurel
Springs i n Alleghany
Asne county ^
home near Glendale Springs "Wed- county within the next few days.
..a .X XII 1*. In A#1 ^ 1 n
Native stone will be mined'In
nesday following an Illness of -
pneumonia. The funeral service the quarry and crushed tor bud-
wlll he held Friday afternoon, surfacing the parkway grade
two o’clock, and burial will be In which is rapidly taking form,
the faaiUy cemetery. The re-employment office.
Surviving are six children: cated here, which furnishes la-
Charles E. Parsons, Crumpler, bor for all pubUc works projects
W Va : Mrs. Mae Bard, ’VYago- ip a five-county district. Is ask-
ner; Mrs.’ Virginia Whitley, Glen- ing registrations of laborers who
dale Springs; Fred Parsons, Co- would acc^t Jobs In the rock
lumbus. Ohio; Mrs. Bertha iSm» quarry. Mr. Hash, director of the
and Miss Eva Parsons, Glendale office, said that they wished r^-
springs. , / tetrattons quite a ““
number of laborers but specified
that those expecting to obtain
Jobs must be able bodied, season
ed, mature workers and that oth
ers need not expect to be assign
ed to the rock quarry Jobs.
Youths not seasoned to hard
work or old men not able to work
regularly need not apply, he said.
A camp Is being eSiablished^
near the quarry site, which will ”
be maintained by the contractor,
and board will not cost in excess
of 80 emits per day. By boardlos
at the camp a worker.will be
allowM to,put In ae iurars per
week Instead ot tO, which Jiw
been the mling on pnbUc works '
prejeets. The' pkge paid qnorrr
^rorfeen will- be JO - cents per -X
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