>*r
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>&>
feS'
ft* ^Lleeivm Rented
Sept.' IS.—*nie motor
- -vvMele bure»u ^^aonaced today
the rerocatidhjjtor 4ruDke& drlr-
ins of 24 mote irivers’ Ilcenaes,
making 5,503 revocations since
the law went into effect last No
vember.
Oh, How Cmel!
Cleveland, Sept. 18.—It was
not being robbed of $1.80 or even
the wallop on the jaw that both
ered Lawrence Dll worth so much.
It was having his clothes remov-
|.ed and being tossed by the rob-
Into a yard, where a police
bit him.
Says FR Election Xecessarj’
Omaha, Neb., Sept. 18.—Sena
tor f^rge W. Norris, of Ne-
tonight assailed “financial
opposing the new deal
^imd warned that re-election of
-President Roosevelt “Is an abso-
lute necessity’’ to save this coun-
■ try from the “dangers of bol-
,ahevlsm and ultimate dictator-
L»Alp.’’
She’s Still Her Daugliter
Chicago, Sept. 18.—The law
today complicated Mrs. Dorothy
L. Beatty’s relationship to her
daughter, Lois, 5. Mrs. Beatty’s
parents adopted the child today
witB consent of Arthur d, Beat
ty, whom Mrs. Beatty divorced.
Thus, the child’s mother is also
her foster sister.
Highway Patrol Radio
Raleigh, Sept. IS.—T’-> state
highway patrol’s short-wave po
lice radio will cost bel-yeen $120,-
000 and $130,000 if any of the
bids received today for construct
ing the system are accepted, it
was shown by unofficial tabula
tions of bids submitted the divis
ion of purchase snd contract.
ibUTOrTftBL
II I' I-
Sounds I.ike A Pop Gun
Kansas City, Mo., Sept. 18.—
Patrolman Lou Meyers thinks
be gun shy for several days,
^^mle reaching for a riot gun in
the back seat of his police cruis
er car, it discharged, narrowly
missed him and disabled the
d, laid down his re-
volver. It fell to the floor, also
discharged. The bullet just miss
ed Myers’ head.
Feel Building Sway
New York, -Sept. 18.—Howling
winds sent approximately 400
aembers of the ‘Tm-from-.Mis-
r-i’’^oehool to the tower of the
Empire State building today to
see whether it really swayed with
the wind. F. H. Krankland, chief
engineer of the American In
stitute of Steel Construction, said
the world's tallest building sways
Big Inorc^ In
Amoonf S^es Tax
Paid From Wilkes
Wilkes’ Share of Sales Tax
Last Fiscal Year Amount
ed to $85,138
ABOUT $53,000 IN 1935
Bigger Volume of Business
Accounted For Greater
Part of Increase
A total of $68,138 was collect
ed in sales tax in 'Wilkes county
during the fiscal year ending
Juni) 30, 1936, according to fi
gures recently released by the
state revenue department.
The total sales tax collections
for the entire state was $10,184,-
301.57. Guilford county, with a
total of $777,317, led all other
counties in the state.
Mecklenburg, with a revenue
of $643,205.43, ■stood second in
the list of counties. Forsyth with
$524,468.05, Buncombe with
$501,795.99 and Wake with
$499,922.01 followed in that
order.
'The amount collected in Wilkes
represents a big increase over
the figures for the previous fis
cal year, when about $53,000 was
collected by the “painless’’ meth
od.
This increase, tax experts st-y,
was duo mainly to a larger vol
ume of retail business and high
er prices, although the removal
of exemptions on certain food ar
ticles accounted for only a small
per cent of the increase. Better
collections also figured in the
rise in sales tax revenue.
Figured on the basis of the
sales tax being three per cent,
the retail sales in Wilkes during
the fiscal year would have a-
mounted to $2,271,200.
Sales tax collected in counties
adjoining Wilkes during the past
fiscal year follow: Alexandei
$15,496.94; Ashe, $16.,6Jl».j..4
.A
SaMrikty;
Patton Is Speaker
Broadside Against
Deal in Address in
Wilk^boro
fl^YES OPENS ^ DRIVE
^ Attomeit Saya Lann
/!/|>eTii"'Neglecting Interests
of the People
Frank Patton, of Morganton,
.^ahlican candidate for United
„iat^'eenate, Saturday afternoon
.delivered a broadside against the
'tffyf Deal. His address was deliv
ered before an audience at the
courthouse in Wllkesboro.
Kyle Hayes, local attorney, al
so addressed the gathering of
ilepublidlinB from every precinct
jurlth the exception of one in the
September 23, 19U Earl Ovingthn/ receritly ^unty in the opening address of
UKik ,K C . smiJI «.ld .1 CIW, Un, W.nd, »d J •
10 mile. .0 Mine.!., 1. I., ■.h.im he dumped • “2”beS te' pel™.. WuS” Smbeth. He
mail overboard from his tiny Blenot monopl^ , j *1, , charged th© present representa-
rough to land. Postmaster General Frank Hitchcock sponsore a "neglecting the interest
flight. This year, Garden City and Mineola are observing the people of the eight dia
ler of a century anniversary by having the American Airline’s flag- (.jigf,. charged that the New
-ship, a great Douglas 21 passenger craft, fly the same course, carry- twontv
ing ’passengers and 2,700 pounds of mail and express matter.
One Kflled and Three Injured in
Automobile Accident Siaiday Near
Wilbar On New Grade Highway 16
Is Injured In
Auto Accident
Miss Grace Reynolds, daugh- [
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Morgan Rey
nolds, of Thurmond, was injur
ed in an automobile accident sev-
■S lutp i/oat eral days ago on the Elkin-Ronda
Alexander highway and was treated at the
’ hospiUl in Bikin for internal in-
iMiss Ruby Blanche Miller
I Accident Victim; One
j Critically Hurt
>Il.s.s Ruby Blanclie Miller,
17-.vear-oll daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. H. C. Miller, of Wil
bar, wn.s kUled and three oth
ers weni injureil, one critical
ly, when an automobile said
to have iK^n driven bv Mias
Deal has been spending twenty
Gmes as much In New York as
81 North Carolina, whereas North
Qarolina pays as much in federal
taxes and has one-fourth as many
iahabttants. Mr. Hayes plans an-
^reasive campaign in every coun
ty in the district.
• The G. O. P. senatorial candl-
(ttite charged the new deal with
pending as much in three years
ah it cost to run the government
from George Washington’s time
t| Wilson’s administration—over
2» billion—and declared that on-
ly about 50 cents of each dollar
for relief actually reached those
need.
Turning to state politics he
said that Senator Bailey has a
different concaption of the elec-
Atlanta, Ga.—Senator Richard
B. Russell, Jr. (above), led the
ticket in the 2 to 1 defeat of (jov-
emor EJugfene Talmadge, who
sought nomination for senate seat
in the Democratic primary elec
tion. The entire Talmadge en
dorsed slate also trailed far be
hind.
October 1 Final
Date Plant Soil
Buildup Crops
September Last Chance to
Qualify For Benefit Pay
ments in New AAA
All soil-conserving crop’s to bo
counted in the 1936 soil-improve
ment program in North Carolina
must be planted by October 1.
Conserving crops planted aft
er that date cannot be used to
iMiT'iiiwr-tiii iiiaiin-r g-r--^*-
Largest Crow
In Hntm On
$139,623.41; Surry. $122,756.61
Yadkin, $15,113.71.
.MiiuT'k Buy Homos
Kinloch, Pa,. Sept. 18.—-Ml
tho home.s and buildings in this
mining village of nearly 1,000
inhabitants went under the auc
tioneer's hammer today. Hardy
miners and their families bought
their own houses, mostly smoke-
blackened frame dwellings, for
figures ranging from $100 to
$260 at a sale held here in the
general store. The auction came
as a conseiiuence of the closing
of the town’s main industry—
coal.
rWilkes Funeral
Home Established
Will Be Operated at Turner
Location on B Street; to
Be Remodeled
^ Announcement was made today
of opening of Wilkes Funeral
, Inc., to be located in the
ng formerly occupied by J.
[ Tnmer and Son.
“^Mrs. Ed Turner, Mr. and Mrs.
Carl W. Arnold purchased the
equipment and supplies of the
former establishment and will be
assisted in the operation of the
business by Mr. and Mrs. Carl
W. Arnold, formerly of Thomas-
vflle.
Mrs. Turner is president of the
new corporation, Mr. Arnold secre
tary and manager and Mrs. Arnold
vice president. Mrs. Turner is
Well and favorably known in
Wilkes and has many friends who
wish her success. Mr. Arnold is a
Jbraduate of a nationally known
School of embalming and comes to
the city well experienced •in his
profession, having been formerly
employed at niomasville.
The‘equipment of the firm, the
announcement said, is modern and
^to-date and such items will be
3ed as are necessary for a full
complete undertaking service.
building is to be remodeled
/‘ifK .the most modern and con'venl-
wt quarters possible.
The aBnouneement appearing on
page fire tdls other details cou-
asniiig file opening of the new
ftmk ■ . m
Representative
Of FHA Coming
J. Marion Bolick to Be at At
torney McElwee’s Office
Wednesday
.1. Marion Bolick. field repre-
•■icntative of the Federal Housing
administration, will spend Wed
nesday in Nortti Wilkes’joro for
tlie purpose of giving information
relative to FH.4, loans to build
residences or to repair, improve
or remodel exi.sling buildings.
While in North Wilkesboro
.Mr. Bolick wil! maintain head
quarters at tile law office of W.
H. McElwee in the Bank of North
Wilkesboro building and any
who are interested may get in
touch with him there.
-\ttorney McElwee has receiv
ed many inquiries about FHA
loans and he is advising those
who desire further information
to see -Mr. Bolick. He will be ac
companied by a representative
of the Housing and Mortgage
company, of Hickory.
Life Underwriters
In Meeting Friday
Miss Reynolds, who holds a po-
^ sition here, was on her way to
** Elkin when the car, said to have
been driven by Brite Fall, left
the road and overturned over a
steep embankment. He was not
injured.
Last Rites Held
For Gun Victim
Funeral service was held at
Harmony Baptist church Tuesday
for William Benjamin Minton,
age 17. who was accidentally
killed a week ago today when he
dropped a shotgun on a running
board of a car in the Woodlawn
community.
He was a son of Mr. and Mrs.
Richard Minton and is survived
by his parents and five brothers
and sisters: Arvil, Beatrice, Clay-
liourne, Millard and Everett Min
ton.
The Local Life Underwriters
of Wilkes county, held their sec
ond regular monthly meeting Fri
day, September 18. The speaker
for the meeting was Attorney
Charles G. Gilreath.
Mr. Gilreath centered his re
marks around the idea of Hu
man Reaction to Necessity. He
pointed out that life insurance
had its ibeginning as a result of
the necessity of man to accumu
late for future needs. 'When man
began to protect himself from
the elements, Mr. Gilreath said,
and to provide for his dependents
the insura"-ce idea had its begin
ning. The life companies today
funiish an answer for this prob
lem in the form of a guaranteed
Income for the “rainy day.’’
Mr. Gilreath further stressed
the value of the insurance com
pany as a trustee for minors and
widows, a service which is sorely daughter, Nora,
needed, and which is free to the
family of the deceased policy
holder.
A -I o o A on A Members of Circle No. 2
Aiken, S. C., Sept. 20.—A low- ,,,
’. ’ e tijQ Presbyterian Auxiliary will
flying airplane spun and crashed ^ Brunswick stew supper at
S. C. Ellis Die!
At Home In City
Funeral Service Conducted
at Residence Saturday;
Was Well Known
S. C. Ellis, age 57, well known
citizen of 'this city, died Friday
morning at 12:30 o’clock at his
home here after an extended ill
ness.
Mr. Ellis came to North Wilkes
boro when the town was still
young and for many years work
ed a'c the building trade. He was
forced to retire from active work
when he was injured in a fall sev-
draJ years ago and His health
failed.
Funeral service was held at the
residence on F street Saturday
afternoon at two o’clock, with
Rev. J. H. Armbrust, of Hickory,
in charge. He was a member/ of
the First Baptist church and the
North Wilkesboro council of the
Junior order, which conducted the
grave rites in the Baptist ceme
tery.
Mr. Ellis is survived by his
wife, one son, Harley, and one
banknient on the new grade of
highway Id near Wilbar Sun
day.
The injur(‘d were George
Pahiier, who is reiiorted to bo
in a critical condition, Mias Vi
ola Carsons and Ralph Whit
tington, all of Wilbar.
.According to an account of
tile accident gained by a high
way patrolman last night, tlie
four were riding in the front
seat of a iiopular make road
ster and the girl who wn.s driv
ing turned to se^ wliat one of
the others were doing to the
rear view glass when the car
left tile road and overturned.
AIi.ss Miller (lied at the AV’ilkes
iiospital wltliin a short time
after the accident from severe
iiruises and internal injuries.
She is .survived by her fa-
tlier and motlier, two brothers
and three sisters: Herman and
Clyde .Alillcr, Mrs. Calvin Whit
tington, Eula Fao and Wtuida
Miller.
Ihineral .service will be held
tomorrow and burial will be
in the MiUer family cemetery.
Rev. D. A. Roten will ho in
charge of the service.
macblhe and corrupt election
policies.’’ He read from an ac
count of an address delivered by
Bailey In Raleigh in 1926 in
which he was quoted as saying
that a setter dog voted in one
ward and that the election laws
designed to keep negros from
power were being used to per
petuate certain candidates and
interests in office.
The meeting was presided over
by J; M. Brown, chairman of the
county Republican executive com
mittee, and several leaders in
the party addressed those as
sembled. Attorney Joseph M. Pre-
vetle,'^ 6f’Jefferson, candidate for
legislkture in Ashe county, and
Mrs. Prevette, were present and
spoke briefly. Mrs. Prevette’s re
marks urged greater activity a-
mong the women of the party.
The meeting Saturday was
primarily an organization meet-
(Continued on page four)
land waterway four miles
Coinjock.
jinjOvK* schools*
Earlier fears had been expressed own.-
Worm Clinic Will
Be Launched Soon
Health Department Will
Tackle Problem Through
Schools in Wilkes
Dr. A. J. Eller, county health „
officer, ’said 'today that the health er will be allowed to earn is at
department will conduct an intes- least $10, no matter how small
'chrough
schoolsjn the county.
^B^work will be done in co- depleting crops have not been
operotion wfeh the state board of greater than the base acreage,
he m- health, which has prepared the xhe payment will be made for
below following letter to be sent to par- carrying out spll-bulldlng prac-
ents by 'cheir children from the tlces and for the ■”
Only Three Persons
Missing In Storm’s
Wake In This State
Edenton, Sept. 18.—The. lis't of
missing from the jWest Indian hur- worm clinic
ricane which raked the northeast
coast of North Carolina was re
duced to three tonight with the
finding of two barges occupied by ^aa prepared the
WPA workers aground_in the m- hearth,
a farmer is allowed to earn, said
H. A. Patten, state compliance
supervisor at State College.
A number of farmers have re
duced their acreage of soil de
pleting crops and carried out
soll-bulldlng practices, but have
not planted enough conserving
crops to qualify them for the full
amount of the payments they
have earned, Patten added.
Each acre of conserving crops
qualifies the farm on which they
are grown to $1 In soil-bullding
or diversion payments.
If a farmer has diverted
enough depleting crops to earn
$25 and has conducted enough
soil-building practices to earn
$25, he must have 50 acres in
conserving crops to qualify for
the $50 he has earned.
Patten urged every grower to
check his acreage of conserving
crops and make sure he has
enough. If not, he should plant
the required amount before it is
too late.
Among the soil - conserving
crops are crimson clover, vetch,
Austrian winter peas, red clover,
and other legumes, if planted on
land where no depleting crops
were grown this year.
Patten pointed out that there
is an exception to the regulation
limiting payments to $1 for each
acre of soil-conserving crops.
The minimum payment a grow
Ford Automobile GiTen to
Charles Frank Higgins,
of Mulberry
WILKES’ BIGGEST FAIR
All Departments of Fair
Measure Up to Expecta>
tions Through Week
With perhaps the largest crowd
ever assembled in North Wilkes
boro for| any event, the Great
Wilkes Fair Saturday night closed
'the most successful expositioii' in
the 11 years of its history.
The fair opened Tuesday with
school children’s day and a new
record of attendance was set but
this record was broken Saturday
night when 'the fairg^round was
literally filled with an amusement
seeking mass of people from all
parts of Wilkes and adjoining
counties and many visitors from
distant points.
And no department of the fair
this year failed to be up to expec
tations and the full program as
advertised was carried out each
day and night.
Exhibits a'c the fair were of un
usual excellence in practically all
departments. The apple displays
w'ere the source of much favorable
comment, along with the general
farm displays, Grange exhibits,
special booths, agricultural prod
ucts, poultry, flower show, cakes
and pastry and other departments.
Knt prize for live-at-home ex
hibit wen'c to Rev. M. F. Barker
and second to Cletus Settle.
Mountain View won first for
Grange exhibit and Little Moun
tain second. In 'cha 4-H clubs Ver
non Carlton and Arnold Jarvis won
first prizes on calves.
'The grandstand acts played to
cheering crowds at every perfor
mance. Outstanding were the
“Four Devils’’ on the high acro-
ba'cic act, the Jackson bicycle
troupe, and the impersonating
dogs.
Fireworks eclipsed any previous
offerings at the fair here.
On the midway were Marks
Shows, the largest aggregation of
shows and rides ever assembled on
the Wilkes fairgrounds. The mid
way proved to be qufee popular.
TTie 1936 Ford Uidor given by
the tslr went to Charles Franklin
Higgins, of North Wilkesboro
route 1, on Saturday night. On
Friday night J. A. Carmichael,
of this city, was awarded tho
(Continued on page four)
Gordon Forester
Gets Cuba Trqi
Selected as One of 225 Lead
ing Salesmen of Electric
Refrigeration
that more than BO men aboard the
“The sta^ department of
lie health lot North Carolina
diversion of
land from soil-depleting to soil-
pub- conserving crops.
IS
Stone Mountain
Association 25th
Brunswick Stew Supper
Set For Friday Night
barges had been drowned when the ^ study of hookworm and
fierce winds tore the craft from jn’cestinal worms in people
their moorings early this mormng. ^his is being
A negro known only as “Po^ye” j^^^g jjg^ ^f getting rid
who had been reported probably ^j^g and teaching people
drowned was found uninjured. getting them in the ' will Ra.-
Occupants of the two bsiges said , These worms cause sick- Three-Day Session Will Be-
they suffered no hardships, al- ^^g^^ sometimes prevent chil- gin Friday at Union Church
though some of them said they j,en from growing as they should.
were badly frightened h|r the ^j,jg county is be-
storm. Most of them expressed jng.done through the co-operation
doubt that the three missing men county health officer, your
had drowned, ^^ng they probably gg,jaty superintendent of schools
: physicians of your
Your help is needed
, make it a success.
“In order to find out whether a
had drowned, saying they probably superintendent of 1
were making their way back to the ^^g physicians of
WPA camp near Coinjock, on'Al- j-on^uyty. -* ’ ’
bemarle sound.
of
MiM«D^STOAIGHT person has wonns, it is necessary
RECORD STKAKaHI ^ ghiall amount of the
. Believing in keeping his court bovfiEd .movem^t. CdntainerB fOr
record straight, Wayne Hedgeewk -fiie examinatian of your family are
last week wrote the Greensboro tmugiseat home today with this
- rv-. .- • ' ' .(:>■ h ■
“I see where you had my case
^examination will be made
F— - -F - JIHVO DlUIiBWiClk Stow ttl.
into the roof of a vacant house the Presbyterian hut Friday eve-
near the business section here to- ning from 6 to 8 o’clock. Supper Daily News:
day and killed two men. Eugene will be served for only 25c, and “I see whi— ,— —. ,—
May, 26, the pilot, jumped from the proceeds- will go for the that I plead guilty last of without cost to you. -The result
‘ He died benefit of the Barium Surinas oA/nnH Hpo-tm murder. 1 did ndtlAf aaeli etemlnatlnn can be d)*
Orphanage.
’The public is most
Nesu* Wilbar
Stone Mountain Baptist associ
ation will begin a three-day ses
sion at Union Baptist church near
Wilbar Friday, it was announced
today by C. C. Gamblll, modera
tor, and A. C. Yale, clerk.
The association will, continue
through Sunday with an inter
esting and inspiring program
planned for ^ch session. It Is
hoped that each church in the
association will be well
sented.
Gordon Forester, of the Duke
Power company, Kelvinator deal
er for North Wilkesboro. receiv
ed word today that he had been
selected by Kelvinator corpora
tion as one of its 225 leading
salesmen of domestic refrigera
tion in the entire United States
and awarded a trip to Havana,
Cuba.
Mr. Forester will sail from New
York today ■with a group of more
than 600 Kelvinator salesmen,
executives and invited guests
aboard the Cunard-White Star liner
Franconia, which has Seen char
tered by Kelvnator for the round
trip. The group will include 225
leading salesmen of domestic re
frigeration, 25 leading salesmen of
commercial installations and 60
salesmen engaged in wholesale
operations under the Kelvinator
organization. The party will reach
Havana on Friday, September 26,
remaining in the Cuban capital
fox two days, arriving back ^ in
New York on Thursday morning,
October 1st.
“The cruise in part ■will take the
form of a *floating universi^,”
said Mr. Forester,
ally-known authorities
on subjects pertinent to tbe t
erafion industry.. Among- , .
wiU be Prof. Robert P.
the plane before it felL
in a ihospital tonight. A. R.
Oomer, 26, of Aiken, was deu4 — — ——
when he was taken from the plane, invited to attend the supper.
fmtmlnaHon (an be
^ur coofSg
Springs second degree murder.. 1 did not eif
and my smtence only wag from 18
cordially to 16 years. I plead gtdlty of sdf offiew fefMr afi of the ,
defense. Correct Jt" kdut h«im been completed.’*
Two community bnUdl^ and
an agricultural building are be- nologjr, Dc Bee^^ of y Ppf
lag constructed In Hertford conn- S. Depertoent
ty by the^^rki pfogress Ad- Thomas Beek,
jql&litration. ^
(Oottfiaued oa