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■S- ;'V HAS BLAZED THE TRAIL OF ^ PROGRiSS IN THB “^ATE OF -WILK^ THAN THIRTY ^ i- ]k,y^ M: ■nr -mi ite N«ws (M TiM Briefly For nWaal adroMai^ tfo low bajrfiic ta Nottti WV* keobmo, tlw tmdlac oaMw of Iforthwoot N’' Om^ VOi* XXXI, NO. 48 Published Mondays and Thursdays NORTH WILKESBORO, N, ENLARGE MILL > '^Winston'Sslem, Moxdi G. ^ Hanes, president of H»e , ^ mill Iwre, «iuto«Be8d '' -plana for the constfoorim of 76,000 addition to thp pbnt. FATALLY BURNED Danboiy, Harch fi. —Marjorie Aan t)SIl^ dvo-yoar-old 4aatd>ter of Mr. and Mrs. 0. Tv IHUtm* Lawsonvill^ died fat a ;VfliB(dtal at Va., this afteAwoa from bums received vdien hw dotting oaoffht fire before an oxn fire* -plioe. PaUk library Be Formafly Opened In Tbis City On Friday, March 19tL Suitable Location Found On Main Street; Building Being Refinished 1^’ SENTENCE COMMUTED Berlin, Mtcech 9.—Chaaoellor Hit ler cominkiad to five years im- Hijleoniaest -t^sy tha ideatb sogh twee of Fran Ema ^Sdiroeter, owvicted of poieoaing her bus- band, whom she termed an incor rigible drunkard afflicted with a communicable disease. She lives in east Prussia. HAVE 600 VOLUMES At Timo of Opening; Hope to Double This Number In Very Short Time Road Contractors To Resnifie WwT OfScenieParkway 3y First of Apr)' C., TgUmAY^ MAR. U, 19W iK ^ijrAT OF Expect to Complete Parkway In Alleghany, Ashe and Wilkes Counties NEED MANY WORKMEN BAN SEX PAP^ Hickory, March fi.—A resolution requesting tbs Hickory city coun cil to prohioit the public display and sale of saladoos literature on local ne\m stands’has been nnatii- mwisly ad^ted by the Kiwanis cltfi). UM'Stctioajaas takes te- sponse ^ a suggestiob from'Bev. J. H. Armbrost, city probation of ficer, who declared “sexy” maga zines have.been getting into the hands-of young children in Hick cry, helpfa]^ to complicate juve nile delinquency problems. CHILD IS KILLED - Mount Airy, March 9.—Robert Man ay, Jr„ 10, died in Martin Me mbrlal HospitiQ here early this j0mlng from injuries aaeceived when he was hit by a truck after stepping from a Bannertown school bus;on the ,Winston.-Salem highwasr^o milM south of this city yxiarday afternoon. The youngstw alighted from the bus on the right side^as tt stopped on the brosp 'i^'Briton Hfll at a road tntgtMctfp^ and darted from be- biod diiwdy into the path of an finapachiiirifnck. ^ state chair ' Wilkes county public library will have Its formal opening On Friday, March 19, It was an nounced today by W. K. Sturdi vant, chairman of the Wilkes County Council of Social Agen cies, central civic organlratlofl sponsoring the project. A suitable location for the li brary was found on Main street, near the offices of Reins-Sturdi- va.. t Funeral Home and Dr. E. S. Ccfoper, The building Is being renovated and fixtures are now being installed to accomodate the public institution. Many people in the county have resronded to tlie call for book donations and thc.se volumes -will be supplemented by the loan of a shipment of books from the state library commission. The library will open with a- boiit 600 volumes and it Is hoped that the call for book or cash do nations will result In the early addition of several hundred vol umes. The library is being promoted as a public institution for all the people of the county and public support is solicited. A library as sociation will be organized ftnd the only requirement for mem bership is the donation of a book suitable to go into the library or a .caah donation of not less than Boston . . . Mrs. Carrie B. Sa bin, 61 years old, who has been chosen by the Greenfield, Mass., Townsend Plan Club to spend 1200 in the next 30 days to test the working of the Townsend plan there. £mplo3rment Office Urges A Full Registration of All Who are Interested Left 38 Years Ago, Measure Returned Absher Gives Up CountyHomeJob To Clinard Jones Consent Judgment Signed In Wilkes Court Wednesday Afternoon by Judge scmpuiltea voted onani* tnously toiilght .j report favorably on a bill to revert to use of the electric chair in place of the lethal gas chamber as a method of cap ital punishment. The poll was taken shortly after the committee heard Dr. G S. Coleman, prison physician and execution official, say “in my opinion death by gas painful, tedious and hHtfi>}e Death by electrocution, ks said, "is a quick proces.s and I feel Sure is without pain” nected with the library project of the Works Progress administra tion, will be in charge of the li brary. J. M. Ah.sher, Republican keep er of the Wilkes county home, went into court Tuesday after noon with his attorneys and a con.sent judgment in the man damus action agreeing to relin quish his post and responsibility as keeper of the county home to Clinard Jones, Democrat, who was elected by the pnesent board of commissioners to assume hi.s duties on March 1, -was signed. It is recalled that Jones was elected by the two Democratic members of the board over the protest of Absher, who said he was under contract and bond to look after the institution until -August 19, 1937. On Friday Jones went to . the home with a load of bis hons^ hold belongings on a truck to take charge as previously agreed, he said, but Absher refused to vacate. GEORGIA VOTES DRY Atlanta, Ga, March 9—The house of representatives today defeated, 109 to 84, a bill to repeal "Georgia’s 22-year-old prohibition law. The vote, on a bill by Representative William Hastings, of FMlton (At lanta) county, came after two days of debate. The Hastings measure would have provided for sale of liquor in packages at pri vately-owned stores, and sale by the drink in hotels, clubs and din ing cars. Anti-repealists took the lead in the first 10 votes cast and never lost it. Superphosphate To Be Available W. J. Hanna, assistant Wilkes farm agent who was In charge of TVA demonstration farms i n Wilkes last year, announces that 'Tennessoo Valley superphosphate will be available to farmers this year. Tie cost of the superphosphate will bo $32.25 and the cost will be deducted from tho farmers’ soil building allowance under the soil program. A charge of $6.00 per ton for freight must be col lected when the phosphate Is re ceived by the farmer. Tiioso wno are interested in obtaining the phosphate are ask ed to get In touch with Mr. Han na. Court Makes Much Progress During March Term; Adjourns On Tuesday Epidemic of Flu Among At' torneys Makes Court Pro cedure Inadvisable j Meeting Of Junior Council Postponed vi^«( Featuring news of the March term of superior court, which .djourned Tuesday afternoon be cause of illness of Solicitor John R. Jones and several members of the Wilkes Bar association, was the large number of cases dis posed of while court was in ses sion. Judge Felix A. Alley, of Way- nesville, presided over the term. While there were no cases of outstanding Interest, trials of de fendants for misdemeanors and less serious felonies proceeded with remarkable dispatch. Sever al civic matters, including a num ber of divorce actions, wer® al so heard during the abbreviated term. Some of the cases disposed of this week follow: Leonard Adams, driving car while under influence of liquor, $50 an'd cost and six months sentence sufuiended. A. O. Shepherd, driving car while under Influence of liquor, $50 and dost and six months sen tence suspended. Boy Gray, assault, taxed with costs. (Contlnned on page eight) Local council of the Junior or der will not meet on Tuesday night, March 16, the meeting having been postponed on ac count of the revival at the Meth odist church here. All members are urged to attend the meeting on March 23, when interesting matters will be befor© the coun cil and side degree work will be conferred. A degree team will confer de grees in a district meeting at Boone on March 29 and on March 30 a special meeting of the coun cil here will be held. ’There will be entertaining features and re freshments will be served. To Resume Work L. A. Lush, superintendent for Perry McGlome, contractor on the Blue Ridge parkway between Laurel Springs and Airbellows, has announced that drills gangs will resume work on March 22 and shovels on March 29tb. Scientists estimate that 40 per cent of the land area of the earth is desert, 30 per cent is productive and 30 per cent is poor grazing ground, forest, high mountains and waste. On Saturday a mandamu.s ac tion was taken out In the name of the county by W. H. McEIwee and J. M. Cooper, county attor neys, citing Absher to appear Wednesday afternoon and show cause why he should not turn over the institution to Jones. However, it developed that court was to adjourn for the term on ’Tuesday afternoon due to the illness of Solicitor John R. Jones and several members of the local bar and the matter was disposed of at that time. The order by Judge Alley Tues day afternoon allowing Absher five days to turn over the job to his newly appointed successor was by consent. C. G. Gilreath and J. II. Whicker, counsel for Absher, signed the agreement The order calls for an Inven tory of tile county home property and is without prejudice to the rights of Absher, who is given the right to answer the petition and have his cause heard at a later date. Contractors who suspended opergations on the six projects of the Blue Ridge parkway in Alle ghany, Ashe, Wilkes and Watau ga counties during the winter months plan to resume work In the tew weekiS and begin a big push to complete the grad ing and surfacing this spring and summer. James M. Anderson, head of the district employment service I office which serves the counties I through which the parkway Is be- I ing constructed, said today that he bufi received a requisition from one contractor for 90 labor ers and skilled workman to be gin! work soon and that every contractor is planning to push operations when resumed. He urged a full registration of all who live within the vicinity of tile parkway or who can reach any of the projects dally. Those who have formerly work ed on parkway construction pro jects but have not renewed their registrations within the past few months are advised to call at the office and renew application If they are Interested in working when operations of the biggest Public Works project In this part of the state are resumed. In the meantime the office is in receipt of calls for varloup types of labor for -private Indu*- try, ntngiBZ dl tk* way teein la)^ orers at prevailing wages ‘to skilled men who command lucra tive salaries. Some of the calls are as fol lows: three Jacquard loom fix ers, rayon preparatory foreman with {jcperience in quilling, wind ing, wraping and slashing, watch maker and engraver, bottling me chanic, marker and cutter In garment factory, two designing mechanics, bridge designers and other types of skilled and exper ienced labor. There was also a call for three waitresses at seven dollars per week and tips. New York . . . R. Norman Red wood (above), "sandhog” union leader, was riddled with bullets in his automobile iu front of his home. The slaying has stirred the widest Investigation into labor union affairs here in search of the mobsters who committed the crime. Clerk Hire and Fee Measure In Assembly Killed {Representative McDuffie Ob- I jects to Measure Intro duced by J. P. Hash Thlrty-^g^t years ago Hack Witherspoon, of Ashe county, sold Mrs. R. M. Finley s half bushel of turnips and left them In a half-bushel measure at her home with the Intratlon of re turning for the oo^^lner. Acres In ■4 * Abstract Titles To Property Located Near B^in Creek S,000 Acres in AllegliaBF County Will AUo Be Part of Bluff Paris He did not immediately re turn and the measure was placed in the basement. On Sunday, March 7. 1037, Mr. Witherspoon’s grandson, Fred Colvard, of West Jeffer- ijpfi, visited the home of Mrs. Ffiiiley and she gave him the measure that his grandfather lu^. left with the turnips, hir. Witherspoon died 10 years ago. BEAUTIFUL SCENERY Is Made Accessible by Con struction of Parkway On Blue Ridge Elect Dr. Eller Health Officer R; G. Finley and Dr. H. B. Smith are New Members of County Board Upon nfeommendation of At torney F. J. McDuffie, Wilkes county’s representative In the leg- islatu.'e, the measure introduced by J. B. Hash, of Ashe county, relative to fees and clerk hire for' Wjfkes offices was killed In commi^e this week. The measure. It Is understood, would have abolished the $2.05 fee for the sheriff on land sale certificates and would have re pealed the measure of 1936 add ing $60 per month for extra clerk hire for the offices of sheriff, clerk of court and register of deeds. In the committee hearing it is told that R^resentatlve McDuf fie recommenced that the bill be ropbribd anfaverahly and tua committee' acted upon his recom mendation.' The newly constituted Wilkes county board of health In a re cent meeting re-elected Dr. A. J. Eller, of Purlear, R. F. D., to serve for the ensuing two-year term. Dr. Eller has been health officer since the death of Dr. J. W. White several years ago. The board of health Is com posed of R. G. Finley, chairman of the .Wilkes county board of commissioners; W. E. Harris, mayor, of Wilkesboro; C. B. El ler. county superintendent of Schools; Dr. H. B. Smith, I.r. F. H. Gilreath and R. P. Casey, D D. S. R. G. Finley succeeded D. B. Swarlngen'as a member of the board and Dr. H. B. Smith succeeded Dr.'C. S. Sink. Begin Baseball Training Early Specia4 JServices Are Under Way At Methodist Church Lady Evangeltst Assisting Pastor In Three-Weelts' Scries Of Meetings Players Seeking Place On Team to Be Formed Will Start Practice March 30 Clean-Up Week In Wilkejb oro Mayor Harris Issued State ssued to Cl ment Relative to Clean- Up Week; Starts 19th Lexington, March 9.—Tom Reid, 37, unmarried farmer, was found lying in the back yard of his home early today with a broken neck, apparently resulting from a fall from a high flight of steps some time during the night. Sheriff Raymond Bowers and Dr. J. R. Terry, coroner, pronounced death due to accident. Mayor W. E. Harris of Wllke.s- boro has issued a statement pro claiming the week beginning Monday, March 15, as clean-up week for the town of Wilkesboro. His statement, which explains itself, follows: "Clean-up week in Wilkesboro will begin on March 16. All citi zens having trash to be hauled will please have same placed at a convenient place so the truck can get it on Friday, March 19. All irarties having trash to he hauled will be expected to pay 15 cents. Please communicate with Mrs. A. R. Gray." Although plans so far are only In the primary stage and much yet remains to be accomplished, local baseball fans are enthused over prospects for a good base ball club here this year and the announcement was made today that players seeking a berth on the team are requested to report on the fairgrounds field for train ing on Saturday, March 20. As yet the organization of a baseball club has not been per fected but plans are being defi nitely formed . where"*y North Wilkesboro will put a team ou the field and baseball enthusiasts are hopeful of securing a berth in a semi-professional league. The Wilkesboroa and Wilkes county are a fertile field for baseball, the national pastime being by far the most popular game and there arc but tew who have not learned the game on sandlots, back yards, pastures and almost any kind of a place suitable for child’s play with a thread ball and at'.ck. Without a club last year, In- (Continued on page eight) With Mrs. C. L. Steidley, of High Point, doing the preaching and assisting in other phases of the revival, the series of evange listic services which began Sun day at the North Wilkesboro Methodist church are well un der way and the services are be ing well attended. A cordial invitation Is extend ed by the church and Its pastor. Dr. R. B. Templeton, to attend the services, which are being held at 8 a. m., 4 p. m. and 7:30 p. m. The four o’clock service i.s planned especially for children. The United States government is making preparations to acquiro a 6,000 acre boundary of land In Wilkes county for) park develop ment purposes. The land for which titles ara now being abstracted and whicli has already been optioned lies south of the Blue Ridge parkway and on the face of the Blu® Ridge in Walnut Grove township. Ad joining this area will be 6,00® acres in Alleghany county* mak ing a total of 11,000 acres in the Bluff Park area, long noted for its scenic beautiy but inaccessible before the construction of tho parkway along tlf^sTiWiHff ?ff*’ttie' Blue Ridge in Wilkes and Alle ghany counties. Attorneys and engineers hand ling the legal matters in connec tion with the land option and purchase have established an of fice in the newly constructed ad dition to the courthouse in Wil kesboro and J. L. Cockerbam is supervising attorney. Other attor neys include R. C. Jennings, of the Wilkes bar, and A. W. Mew- shaw. F. N. Egerton is the engi neer. Whentba abstracts are eoss- ‘plotedi Is dfe'dgwtood, the gov-" ernment will deliver paymento for title to the land, which In cludes home of many families who are to be cared for through the Re-settlement Administra tion. Park development work has al ready begun on the optioned lands under direction of W. P. Weems, of the national park serv ice. Labor is being taken from WPA rolls with people whose homes are located in the area be ing given first consideration. Although detail.s of the plans have not been divulged, it Is un derstood that tho Basin Creek area will be developed into a beautiful mountain park and that a lake will be constructed on the creek. The Bluff Park is to be e of several parks along the parkway between the Shenandoah and Smoky Mountains national parks. A death and the subsequent obituary notice in a daily news paper was the clue that led to in formation, uniting several mem bers of a family who had not seen each other for fifteen years. On Sunday, March 7, Mrs. Ag nes Pearson Smith met her mo ther and two brothers whom she had not seen since she was four years old and whom she did not know whether they wer^ Alive or dead. When she was only five years old. James Larkin Pearson, who has become familiarly known as North Carolina’s poet laureate, adopted Agnes Mlcenheimer from a children’s home In Greensboro. Acting upon advice by officials of the home Mr. Pearson did not make mnch inquiry into the,his tory of the child’s family. How ever he learned, that the child’s father had died and that the five children, as in many “unfortun ate cases, were scattered among children’s homes and private homes for s'..‘PPort and mainten ance. Agnes gieup with the Poet and his Invalid wife but often expressed a desire to know where her mother was, if she were still alive and what her two brothers and the two younger twins were doing. In the meantime Mr. Pear son and his adopted danghter had lost all track of her family—^the Mlcenheimers—and knew of no way to go about lorivting them. Yet he oontinnall.v scanned t]te pages of dally ne-^npapers |jr mention of the name nntU only a few weeks ago he road an ohttii- ^ry notice of the death of HM. James Mlcenheimer, who lived at Jonesville, only thirty miles from Boomer, where Agnes was reared in the Pearson home. Knowing that his daughter, V. ho married Clifford Smith, of this city about a:year, ^o, would stil be delighted to know some thing about her. relatives he wrote Jamee Mieenhrilner to learn If he remembered a sister named Agnee. He replied that he did and subsequent inquiry let out the inforinaticn that the mo ther James and Agnes 'was mriHw.fier hoir.e''with Jamee at Joni^lnlie and that another hror ther, Fred, lived at YadkinvlUe, also in ^Yadkin county. -On Snnday Mr. to North WllkMbqro and carried (ISentInued on page, eight) : ’ Will Launch Sale Crippled Seals For Benefit of Crippled Children Mother Of B. R. Underwood Passes Mr. and Mrs. B. R. Underwood left this city Saturday for Mari etta, Ga., where on Sunday they attended funeral services for Mrs. D. D. Underwood, mother of Mr. Underwood, of this city. She died Friday night. She is survived by her husband and four sons, Weldon, of Mari etta, Ga.; E. D. Underwood, of AdStel, Ga.; Ferber Underwood, of Rock Hill, S. C.; and B. R. Underwood, of this city. Movement Is Sponsored By Health Department; So licits Public Support Similar to the sale sponsored each year prior to the Christmas holidays, a sale of “Crippled I Seals’’ to aid crippled children j will be promoted in Wilkes coun ty by the health department schools and civic organizations beginning now and continuing until Easter. Through the cooperation of the Kiwanis Club the health depart ment has been able to secura treament for crippled children at Mtn. View Wins ' In Tournament Mountain View high school won both cbam'pions'hips in the finals of the Goodwill tourney sponsor- i^'by the North Wlkwboro high school. * Mountain View boys defeated Wllkeehoro and Mountain View girl/ deftoted Roudk ffi tfi» fin als. * Much interest was shown in t'he tourney and some very good high;'school games wore played. In tiii United States a baby is boiqi.fiwiF foonteen seconds,, one Pearson eam^d^ttbrooedrs awry twenty-two mc- one immigrant aiTlv^ evnzy his' Adopted daughter and her miantes, ont imadgrant evriy eeven minntas. .....,. the state orthopaedic hospital in Gastonia. ’ Some of the children have been from families in good'' circum stances 'While others have been from poor families quriile to pay the cost and more, especlaily u»- able to pay for special shoes and. braces that the childron - must wear after being treated If th«y,‘ are to recover. - . v, , The seals to decwnto'^lettora - and packages in Uto fflirila wiH be sold mainly throog)i tiip at no fi^ prioe^^ j* hoped tfifit each " pay at least one cant eatii for each seal and more it they so do- rire. All Of the funds raised bF tb« sale Of seals will bo used in ttb county to aid.oritip%d cblUbiMt^ and in addltioB w« match tka amoni € (Contfamed^ ■a. -1 "ia
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