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)kU1koi>a City, April 9.—Pilot
Ferry Mallbii^ S8. and Ralpk
KiMey, 28. died tnataatly vhen
tkeir air piano crashed from 600
teet near here-today.
PREDICTS PASSAGE
Waahlngtoa.—A congressional
aonreo today quoted President as
declaring confidently thal “We
have the votes’’ to enact the ad
ministration bill for re-organlsa-
tlou dt the federal judiciary.
KILLED IN COLLISION
-V'Nesrton, April 9.—Colt Kale,
•«»> bt Newton, was killed and
two companions were seriously
Injured near here tonight when
thelir antomoblle collided with a
Sonthem Railroad freight train
at a crossing near here.
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thur^ays NORTH WILKESBORO^ N. C.. MQNt)AT, APRIL 18^^181^ 11.50 OUT Oy^aiEg4^4i
4 8 Wilkes Youths
Are Now Enrolled
In CCC Projects;
ExaminationsHeld
Selected by Welfare Officer
On Baaia of Aid to Most
Needy Wilkes Families
MANY GO TO DOBSON
"#REND CONTINUES
New York.—Some branches of
^^business struck a more leisurely
pAce this week, but the vagaries
of weather nor labor unrest modi
fied in a pronounced manner the
forward movement. Dun and
Bradstreet said today in the re
view of business.
Is One of Largest Enlistments
In Several Months; 11
Enlisted Today
20 FAIL TO PASS
Raleigh, April 9.—The state
highway patrol reported today all
except 20 of the 8,662 persons
examined for drivers' licenses last
month received passing grades.
Tho monthly report of the divis
ion showed patrolmen traveled
326,735 miles during 43,025
hours of duty. A total of 23,298
vehicles were inspected.
FORD WAGE BOOST
New York.—Tho New York
Daily News said in a dispatch
from Washington today t ’i a t
Henry Ford planned to boost his
employees’ wages in an effort to
thwart the United Avtomobilo
Workers’ campaign to unionize
his factories. “The latest tip-off,”
the dispatch said, "is that Henry
Ford intends to lick the unions
with a generous distribution of
that great pile of Ford cash.
A total of 48 Wilkes county
youths were enlisted Friday and
today in Civilian Conservation
camps.
The first enlistment Friday
consisted of 35 white and two col
ored, who were examined at
j Greensboro.
Today Charles McNeill, welfare
officer, accompanied 11 others to
Charlotte for enlistment.
Tho young men were selected
cn the basis of need of employ
ment and the amount of help
they would be able to give fami
lies now being aided by relief
funds, by the county poor aid
funds and the welfare depart
ment.
Many of those enlisted from
Wilkes were assigned to camp
duty at the camp near Dobson in
j Surry county.
I Following are names of those
from Wilkes accepted in the en-
(Contlnued on page elKht)
Sparta MauWip.
M Executhre
Position at Bank
LeRoy Martin Declines Posi>
don; Edwin Duncan Se>
Elected By Directors
AYCOCK IS SECRETARY
Cashier Deposit db Savings
Bank Elected to Office
With Northwestern
EA^ PRAIRIE, Mo. . . . This family returned to their farm after the
winter floo^ and set up tents amid the wreckage of their former home.
Flood rehabilitation work is now being undertaken in areas of south
east Missouri that were afflicted.
'LIQUOR ELECTION
t Sparta, April 9.—The Alle
ghany county board of elections
has call for n referendnm on leg
al U«aor'«>^ held
was ennouheeek here today. The
electlsn waa celled after-the Alle
ghany board of ootfaty commls-
' stEhiAre rSade the Te4tfMt rdobatly.
Alleghany is the first county In
this section to call for an elec
tion under the 1937 county op
tion law passed recently by the
legislature.
HKlIYER WAS DRUNK
Fayetteville. -April 9.—After
witnesses testified he had been
drinking heavily three hours be
fore his car was Involved in an
antomoblle collision near here
Monday night which cost two
lives, a coroner’s iury today
bound Clyde Gaster, of Erwin,
over to the superior court. Cecelia
Anderson and Florine Isaacson,
vacation-bound Jamestown (N.
Y.) nurses were kilfed in the col
lision.
gTO IMPROVE ROADS
Raleigh, April 9.—The State
Highway and Public Works Com
mission gave formal approval to
day to a $500,000 road better
ment program, recommended by
its district engineers. Chairman
Capua M. Waynick said the mon
ey, which had been ear-marked to
repair possible “breaks’’ in the
asphalt highway system, would
■be used mostly to improve sec
ondary roads, particularly school
bus routes.
BUY STEEL BUSES
Raleigh. April 9.—North Caro
lina 1.ought its first lot of all-
■^eel school bus bodies today as
problem of transporting chil
dren to and from public schools
in safety was attacked on three
fronts. The state school commis
sion, meeting In executive ses
sion, recommended that a portion
of tbs $600,000 appropriated for
■buses by the 1937 General As
sembly be used to purchase all-
steel bodies, which would be put
Into service on “hazardous” high
ways.
Blue Ridge Snow
Covered Sunday
H
Winter'’* late -call over the
week-enjd capped >thq highest
peaks of the Blue Rifige In this
section with snow.
Meanwhile "^arch winds car
ried snow flurries eastward past
tke mountains into "Wilkes and
other counties bordering on the
piedmont section of the state.
Temperatures fell to around the
Ireezlng point but It Is thought
that little damage was done to
fruit or early planted garden
crops.
l,OOONewSigiiers
Is Goal For Soil
Act b the County
Eighth District
Building & Loan
To Meet In City
To Be Held at Hotel Wilkes
Wednesday Night; Ex
pect 100 to Attend
County Agent Hopes 2,000
Farmers Will Participate
In the Soil Program
The eighth district of the
North Carolina Building & Loan
League will bold its meeting
Wednesday night of this week at
the Hotel Wilkes. J. B. Williams,
secretary-treasurer of the North
Wilkesboro Building & Loan As
sociation will presidei in the ca
pacity of district president. A
largo number of building and
loan executives and other distin
guished guests are expected to
be present. ’Die elimination fpr
.the ^eesler Bssay
Wilkes county participating in
the soil conservation act and
qualifying for payments is the
goal set by County Agent A. G.
Hendren for this year.
with the f^lowlng «Suntle*('‘par
ticipating; Alexander, Burke,
Caldwell, McDowell, Watauga
and Wilkes, after which district
cash prizes will h© awarded the
Last year 1,041 farms were winners.
signed up for the program, which
effectively supplanted the invali
dated triple A, and more than
900 individual farmers, some of
whom operated mor© than one
farm, qualified for soil building
payments.
Mr. Hendren said that the pro
gram was new last year and many
did not sign because they did not
thoroughly understand the act.
There is a more widespread
knowledge this year, he said, and
ho expects that there will be dou
ble the number of signers last
year. Already more than 500 new
signers have filled out work
s.’neets and community commit
teemen reported much interest at
the appointments they filled last
week in various communities.
Attention is called to the fact
that those who signed work
sheets last year need not sign
again this year unless there has
been some change in the size of
their farm. The work sheets are
merely a statement of the crops
grown on the land to serve as a
basis for determining what prac
tices are carried out and there Is
no ohiigatlon or contract, a fea
ture which has made the. proposi
tion more popular with farmers
in this vicinity than the contracts
under the old AAA.
Mr. Hendren invites any inter
ested farmers who have not sign
ed to call at his office as early as
po.ssible in order that they may
be Informed as to the ben 'fits to
Other features will be talks by
Hon. O. -K. LaRoque, president
of the Home Loan Bank, Win-
Asks Dismissal
Of Election Case
Appeal b Court
Motion to Dismiss Demurrer
To Be Heard Before Su
preme Court Soon
Papers giving notice of Leet
Poplin, Democratic member of the
rresent board of county commis
sioners. that a motion to dismiss
his demurrer to the complaint
tiled hy D. B. 'Swaringen, Repub
lican, in quo warranto proceed
ings, in the supreme court, ibavo
been served Sheriff C. T. Dough-
Ion. Swaringen was former chair
man of the board of county com
missioners and alleges that he
would have been re-elected in the
Edwin Duncan, of Sparta, was
elected Saturday by the directors
of the Northwestern Bank as
executive vice president.
The position was offered Leroy
Martin, of Raleigh, vice president
and trust officer of the Raleigh
branch of tho Wachovia Bank and
Trust company.
Mr. Duncan is well experienced
in, executive duties of banking,
having been cashier of the Bank
of Sparta for some time. In the
first organization meeting bo was
elected secretary of the consoli
dated bank and in the meeting
Saturday L. L. Aycock, cashier of
the Deposit & Savings Bank, was
named secretary following the
election of Mr. Duncan to the
executive position.
The Northwestern Bank, i n
process of formation through con
solidation of the Deposit & Sav
ings bank here, the Bank of Spar
ta, the Watauga County bank
and Blowing Rock branch, the
Merchants and Farmers; bank at
Bakersville and its Burnsville
(Continued on back page)
At Prefibsrtery
Rev. C. H. Patterson, mission
ary tq China since 1923, who
will speak before the Winston-
Salem Presbytery in session at
Winston - Salem Tuesday and
Wednesday.
Presbytery Will
Have Meeting b
Winston - Saleir
Moonshme Drive
Continues With
Capture 3 Stillr
Several From Nrarth Wilkes
boro Expected to Attend
The Two-Day Session
Sheriff, Deputies and Feder
al Aceats Make Thrpe
vote'bt Rock Croak towUlm
The move by Charles G. Gil-
reath, J. H. Whicker and W. M.
Alien, counsel for Swaringen,
can as a surprise as dismissal
is asked on the ground that Pop
lin's counsel failed to docket this
appeal within tho twenty days re
quired hy law, the period of time
Bton-Salem, Hon- George W. i having elapsed April 5. Another
Crone, deputy insurance commis
sioner, of Raleigh, Hon. J. F.
Stevens, secretary of the North
Carolina Building & Loan League,
Greensboro, and Hon. Frederick
Willetts, President of the North
Carolina Building & Loan
League, Wilmington, and perhaps
short talks from other visiting
building and loan executives.
The meeting will begin at sev
en o'clock Wednesday evening
with a banquet in the ballroom of
the Wilkes Hotel. At least one
hundred building and loan men
and women are expected to be In
attendance at the meeting. Wilkes
County is to bo congratulated on
having this splendid meeting
within its borders.
Fmd Two Stills
SaturdayEveiung
Sheriff and Deputies Make
Another Pair of Success
ful Liquor Raids
Sheriff C. T. Doughton, depu
ties and federal officers con
tinued to meet with success in
liquor raids during the week-end.
On Saturday Deimty Odell Whit
tington and C. C. Watson, who
basis for dismissal of the demur
rer is on account of its alleged
I'rivllous nature and apparent ef
fort to delay the trial of the
quo warranto case, which must
bo expedited by the courts under
tlie statutes.
Motion for dismissal by the
higher court will be made by
Swaringen’s attorneys on April
2 8, and in the event the court
wishes to hear the entire matter
in controversy, Swaringen is ask
ing that tho hearing be set for
Tuesday, May 4, at the end of ap
peals from the ninth and twelfth
judicial district.
Embraced in the papers that
were served Poplin Is an affidavit
from Clerk of Court C. C. Hayes
which states that the filing fee
was not paid, and that no request
was made upon him that Poplin’s
appeal from the ruling of Judge
Felix E. Alley on his demurrer he
made within the limit as required
by law.
County and federal offlcbta
during the past several days have
continued their successful ' raids
on illicit liquor plants in Wilkes
county.
Deputies Odell Whittington
and George Holland cutj down a
prosperous looking outfit near
Congo Wednesday and destroyed
50 gallons of liquor and about
800 gallons of beer. In the same
vicinity on Friday evening Depu
ty Whittington and Constable
Winfield Nichols cut a small out
fit.
Sheriff C. T. Doughton, Feder
al Agents I.,eouard Uoop and J.
C. Fortner captured a 150-gallon
copper still fully equipped in the
Hunting Creek vicinity. The still,
one of the largest copper outfits
found recently, was carried to
the Wilkes Jail and has been the
subject of much comment by on
lookers.
Class 100 Per Cent
Library Donations
Cooper Secretary
To “Farmer Bob”
be derived and sign a work sheet, j was sworn in that day as a depu
ty in Union township, captured a
Marble Tourney
ToBeHeldSoor
Works Progress Administra
tion Recreation Project
Sponsor Sport Event
All boys and girls under 14
years of ago who are Interested
in entering a marble tournament
are invited to North Wilkesboro
high school Thursday afternoon,
•I:30, April 15, for coaching and
instructions relative to the ap
proaching tournament.
The recreational project of the
WPA is sponsoring the tourna
ment and valuable prizes, donat-
d by Prevette’s, will be awarded
the first and second prize win
ners.
large wooden still in the Brushy
-Mountain section. Near the still
they c''nfiscatad 1,300 pounds of
corn meal and 200 -pounds of
malt.
On Saturday night Sheriff C.
T. Doughton, Deputy Sheriff
Whittington and Deputy Marshal
W. A. Jones destroyed a still a-
bout 400 yards from highway 421
in the Call section. A run has ap
parently just been completed and
no materials op liquor were
found. No arrests were made In
the raids.
Music Recital On
Friday, April 16
Popular Local Attorney Ac
cepts Position in Capitol;
Here Two Years
The music department of Wil
kesboro school under direction of
Mrs. R. E. Prevette will render a
recital in the school auditorium
Friday evening, 7:30. The public
is cordially invited to attend.
Attorney J. Milton Cooper,
member of the Wilkes county bar
and a resident of North Wilkes
boro during the past two years,
has accepted a position as private
secretary to Representative R. L.
Doughton, of the ninth congres
sional district. He succeeds Syd
ney Gambill, of Sparta, who ac
cepted another position in Wash
ington.
Attorney Cooper is a native of
Rowan county and studied law at
the University of North Carolina
before beginning practice with a
Greensboro law firm. Two years
ago he established an office here
and had been actively engaged In
law practice since that time^
Attorney Cooper was chairman
of the Wilkes county board of
elections.
Miss Rosa Billings spent last
week-end with reiatlTee and
friends la Charlotte. ,
The second grade of Roaring
River school, taught by Mrs. J.
P. Pardue, has subscribed 100
per cent in membership In the
Wilkes County Public Library As
sociation. Every student of the
class of 32 made the necessary
donation to become a member of
the association.
The public library is growing
rapidly and people are asked to
donate a suitable book or cash in
an amount not less than 25 cents
to gain membership in the asso
ciation. However, the use of the
library is not restricted and any
one may use It.
Baseball Game On
Tuesday Afternoon
North Wilkesboro high school
baseball team will play Marion
high In a western conference
game Tuesday afternoon, 3:30,
on the fairgrounds field here.
Baseball fans eager to witness
a contest in the national pastime
are invited to attend and boost
the home team. Hammond Stray-
horn, assistant freshman coach at
U. N. C., la here this week assist
ing Coach Ralph Barker in prep
aration for the game.
Prof. Horace Sisk, superinten
dent of Fayettvllle schools, spent
Saturday visiting friends in Nortl
Wilkesboro. Prof, Stek Is a for
mer superintendent o f North
Wilkesboro schools and has many
friends here.
The 29 th stated meeting of the
Winston-Salem Presbytery will be
held In Winston-Salem on Tues
day and Wednesday of this week
at the Reynolda Presbyterlal
church.
M. W. Norfleet, the retiring
moderator, will present his son.
Rev. M. W. Norfleet. Jr., of Rich
mond, Va., who will preach the
opening sermon o n Tuesday
morning. Tuesday afternoon A.
C. Port, an outstanding business
executive, of Wlnston-Salem, will
;tyi9r. ui 4d4re«f ^«>,ii ‘'Min-
BmpA Edocatin
NamesGiiniiuttees
Sdioob In Wilkeg
For 2-Year Term
Central Committeemen Ara
Named For Eight Central
Districts In the County
ADVISORY GROUPS
For Each Individual School;
Is Plan Followed Dur- ■
ing Past Few Years
in Th^dajr
on Wednesday Dr J. B.  Green,
of Columbia Theological Semi
nary, Decatur, Ga., will address
the Presbytery.
Rev. "C. H. Patterson, mission
ary to China since 1923, will
speak on Tuesday evening.
Several Pre.sbyterlans from
this vicinity are planning to at
tend the sessions.
Steal Meat From
Poor Home Farr
Quantity of Meat Stolen Sat
urday Night; Two Farm
Workers are Jailed
Another candidate for the
distinction of the “world’s
meanest man” ha.s neon put
forth but his Identity has not
been disclosed. In fact officers
would like to know his name
and whereabouts.
Some time Saturday night a
quantity of meat was stolen
from the Wilkes county home.
Tile meat stolen Included a
number of liams.
Officers placed two men in
jail for drunkenness and dis
orderly conduct and it Is said
that su.spicion points to them,
although no formal charges
have been made. They arc
Charlie McGIamery and Numa
Poi-ter, who were serving a six-
months’ sentence working at
the county htMne.
It is said they became dmnk
Saturday night and created
some dlstnrbance. They had
been taken from the county
home farm to jail on a previous
occasion for being dmnk and
hod begged for another chance
rather than be transferred to
the roads.
Wilkes county board of educa
tion in session last week named
committeemen for the eight cen
tral schools in Che county and ad
visory committee^ for each Indi
vidual school. - ■
The board of education, com
posed of C. O. McNiel, chalrmad,
R. R. Church and D. F. Sheppard,
began the appointments Monday
and completed them in a reetw
session Friday, ' ‘ '
The plan of liehool admlaistne-
tlon is the same as followed lu.
former years, the centitU com
mitteemen employing the teas
ers for the schools in the district
with committeemen for ea«% In
dividual school acting as advisory
groups.
The list of committeemen fol
low:
Central Committees
District 1, Wilkesboro School—
N. O. Smoak, C. A. Lowe, D. J,
Brookshire, T. M. Foster, J. T.
Prevette.
District 2, Mt. Pleasant School
—T. O. Minton, Dr. W. W. Miles,
J. E. Hamby.
District 3, Millers Creek School
—Odell Whittington, J. P. Can-
dill, Troy Eller.
District 4, Mulberry School—
W. H. Hayes, H. H. Jennings,
Gordon Shatley.
District 5, Mountain View
School—G. C. Pendry, J. A. Qtt-
liam, Glenn Dancy, F. C. John
son, ■Silas ShnmsU*.
IMstrtct 6, THijftm 6ct
C. Castevens.
District 7, Honda School—
Granville Green, R. R. Crator,
Dean Bentley.
District 8, Roaring River
School—A. W. Green, OarflM
Blevins, B. L. Johnson, CuiHa
Johnson, C. N. Ward.
.Advisory Oomraltteemon
Uisti-lot 1
Arbor School—I. I’. Call, Jes
sie Anderson, Wlnt Call.
Boomer School—S. T. Walsh,
W. R. Craft. Elisha Ferguson.
Cheny Grove School—W. H.
Tevepaugh, Parks Robinson, Lon
nie Moore.
Edgewood School — Willie
James, Mrs. J. E. Winkler, Spur
geon Parker.
Gilreath School—Otto Smithey.
John Canter, E. I. Ball.
Hunting Creek School—Smith
(Continued on page eight)
Candidates File
For Town Offices
Attorney J. F. Jordan for may
or, Dr. G. T. Mitchell, Wm. A.
Stroud, James Lowe and W. E.
Smithey for commissioners com
pose a ticksit which has filed to
be voted on in the Wilkesboro
town election on May 4.
Candidates In Wilkesboro file
aoticea of candidacy with, the
:lerk to the town board.
Saturday, April 17th and Sat-
rday. May 24th will be reglster-
!oii days and all who are twenty-
ne years of age and have rMided
n the state one year, the county
months and the town ( four
months are eligible to register.
Associational
Men’s Meeting
Will Be Held With Fi«hin|r
Creek Church Sunday;
Fine Program Planned
>♦■ ■ev .S-.
A men’s meeting for pastors,
Sunday school superintendenta,
laymen and other interested per
sons in the Brushy Mountain
Baptist association will be held
at Fishing Creek Baptist church
on Sunday, April 18.
This will be one of 60 meet
ings being held in the state
through the laymen’s committee
and its purpose is “To create a
deeper spiritual attitude among
the laymen of the church.” It is
defined as a men’s meeting bat
ladies are also invited.
The program will open at 11
a. m. with an address by Smith
Hagaman, superintendent of th*
Baptist hospital at Winston-Sal
em, on "My Church and I—What
Are Wb For?”
Attorney Earl James, of Elkin,
will open the afternoon program
at 1:15 with an address on tho
subject of ‘‘Our 100,000 North
Carolina Baptist Men.'*' This ad
dress will be followed, by a roll
call of churches by T. E. Story
and it is hoped that every church
will be represented.
At 2:30 8npt. Hagaman will.
again speak, on the sahject, **A
Worthy Program' Por A Baptist
Church.” 'Thchlostag address wtD
be by Dr. R. .]t ha th*.
jahje^ “Men the'
ter of
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