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PA^ REUEF BILL
. Wtuhinstot^, Jun» 29.—Coa-
greas tem tih» admlnlstnrtlon
11.500,000,000, tod&y to financo
work-reUef tor tho year startlnf.
July 1 fcttt bogged doiwn in a race
to proTlde funds for the war nnd
interfor departments for the same
period.
I New Aif^a^^jQhie^
Apply For Aid to Age0
JONES VOTES DRY
Trwiton, June 29.—Complete
but unofficial returns from Jones
eounty’j eight precincts tonight
gave opponents of county liquor
stores 6^6 rotes and proponents
441. Approximately one-third of
the normal vote was cast, officiate
eatimated. -
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ACCIDENT FATAL
Albemarle, Jane 29.—Walter
L. Mauldin, 26, died at Yadkin
boapltal ahortl.v before noon to
day from Injuries sustained In an
automoiblle wreck near Norwood
SJnday. Six others were hurt In
the collision of two cars, and four
are now receiving hospital at
tention.
PERSON VOTES DRY
Roxboro, June 29. — Person
county today refused by 22 vctee
to scrap the prohibition law and
sot up a system of county liquor
control stores. In a ballot con
sidered light, 1,113 votes were
cast against the legalization of
whisky and 1,091 advocated It.
Although a contest is possible, ob
servers tonight predicted that
none would be entered.
GOVERNOR SPEAKS
Buck Springs Plantation, June
29.—Governor Hoey warned here
today that “mass movement can-
,not take the place of indepen
dence and initiative_of the indi
vidual and we shall lose much
when we adopt a policy which
seek.s to place every person on a
dead level.’’
For Connery Post
Welfare Office
Swamped Today
With Applicants
•■••'-'•a!?'
‘I*’* .
Only Limited Number Can
Be Interviewed Daily At
The Welfare Office
WILL AID ABOUT 600
Each Home Will Be Visited
To Verify Statements In
Applications
Washington, D. C. . . . Richard
C. Gazley, the newly appointed
chief of the Safety and Planning
Division Bureau of the Depart
ment of Cemimerce.
New York City . . . Rop. Mary
T. Norton of New Jersey, who
may succeed the late Wm. P.
Connery as Chairman of the
House Labor Committee. Her
length of service entitles her to
post under House custom.
Parents Search
For Daughter, 15,
Who Left Friday
Edna Bell, Daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. W. E. Bell, Of
SpringHeld, Missing
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LATE ROMANCE
Rome. N. Y., June 29.—Bighty-
four-year-old Rev. Delbert Wit
ter, retired seventh day Baptist
cteQcyman, brought his Florida
Vetter rooNknee .to a climax with.
; 'blrtMiiar,
■‘'f ■brtde leeJdleij the three score
and 10 mark a few days before
their en.gageraen*. was announced.
Their marriage, in secret*. wn.s an
nounced today.
SAYS LAW O.K,
Fayetteville. June 29.—Super
ior Court .Tnd.ge N. A. Sinclair
denied today a petition for an
tjmjuaction against enforcement of
^'*^orth Carolina’.s 1937 anti-slot
machine law and gave the pe
titioner 30 days in which to get
his machines out of the state. The
petitioner. Joe Calcutt, of Fay
etteville. asked the court to issue
an order reertraining law enforce
ment officers from seizing ma
chines until their legality was de
termined.
EVADE TAXE8
Washington. June 29.—The
> treasury declared today that nine
individuals—'including Henry L.
Doherty and .Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.,
avoided full payment of income
taxes by dividing their incomes
with one, or more, personal hold-
Ing corporations. Before the joint
congressional committee on tax
evasion and avoidance, it present
ed Abe Forta.s, youthful securi
ties commission attorney, as its
witness. He told the committee.
Parents, other members of the
family and friends are frantical
ly searching for Edna Bell, age
15, wrho disappeared Friday night
freon the heme of her father and
mother, Mr. shd Mrs. W. E. Bell,
at SprlaAtteld'4b th* Blue Ridge .
th1#irtty. '
The girl, deecrlbed by her
mother as. being despondent bo-
cansp of epileptic fits and nervous
convulsions that afflict her fre
quently, slipped from the home
Friday night just after dark and
after her father and mother had
retired. 5vhe left the lamp burn
ing in the room where she had
!)fen reading.
On Saturday she was picked up
hy a neighboring man near Laur
el Sprin.gs and carried to Sparta,
where she said she was going to
visit her uncle, Harding Bell. In
quiry there later revealed that
she had not visited in that home.
She is reported to jiave been
seen near Laurel Springs Sunday
in company with two boys in an
automobile and it was also said — , .
that she was seen prior to that cations mu.st be sworn to by the
time with Fred Roberts. Fred applicants and false .statements
Farriitgton and Wade Stamper, make the applicant liable to
three young men of the McGrady | prosecution in the courts,
community who have been arrest- After the application is filled
ed in connection with her disap-' the «ase worker must visit each
pearanco and placed under ibond. I home and verify the circumstanc-
The mother described her; es therein. Therefore it is of
daughter as being tall, weight ] great importance that the appll-
123, dark hair and blue
upper front teeth slightly
trudiug. Anyone who has seen
the girl since her disappeaa^nce is
Hundreds gathered today at
the courthouse in Wilkeaboro,
eager to get In applications for
old age ibeneflts and aid to de
pendent children under the state
social security act going into ef
fect today.
Today was the first day that
applications could be taken at
the welfare office under the new
law and the people gathered as
If today wer© the only day appli
cations could be made. As a mat
ter of fact, applications will be
accepted for an Indefinite period
and there should be no rush.
In the crowd were aged men
and women, past the age of earn
ing power and yet facing the re
mainder of their lives with no
adequate means of sustenance.
There were also mothers, fathers
and other kinsmen of children
dependent upon someone for the
very necessities of life, seeking
the aid that the widely heralded
law hands forth to aid the un
fortunate. Ther© are also the
blind, wboj*dU b© «tT«O B ^l®^-
Like all'other things of value,
this aid to the aged and depen
dent children will place upon the
public a considerable exjkense to
be met in the form of taxation.
It is a three-way proposition with
the federal, state and county gov
ernments bearing the cost and the
cost to the county will he about
one-fourth of the total expended.
The county’s part will be paid
through an ad valorem tax levy
“et by the comml.ssioner.s in ac
cordance with the estimates of
the needs.
The application forms to be'
filled o-nt at the office of the
welfare officer are comprehensive
and cannot be completed in a few
minutes. In fact it is estimated
tiiat not more than two per hour
can be accomodated. Tlie appli-
Brame Succeeds
Mrs. Absher On
Welfare Board
Board Now Composed Of E.
S. Williams. Mr. Brame
and Wm. A. Stroud
P. J. Brame, widely known
citizen of this city who has (been
connected with the druggist busl-
nes« for many years, has been ap
pointed a member of the Wilkes
county board of welfare by Mrs.
W. T. Best, head of the state
board of oharltles and public wel
fare.
Mr. Brame will succeed Mrs.
W. R. Absher, prominent civic
and social leader here, whose
resignation went into effect to
day. 'Mrs. Absher resigned be
cause of buelness and civic du-Ues
that made It Irapossllbl© for her
to devote much time to the mul-
Uople duties as a menr^r of the
Total 249Teachers
Aflotted Sdiools
lu Wilkes County;
ft
30 In This City
ExccutiTe Secretary Qf
School Conuausion An**
noances Allotments
23,273 IN THE STATE
High School Teachers For
Wilkes System 43; Eight
For City System
According to annonlioement by
Lloyd Qriffln, executive secre-^
tary of the Northl Carolina state
school commission, the AV|Ilkee
county school system bas beea
alloted a total of 249 teachers for
the 1937-38 school term.
Of this number 43 will be high
school teachers and 206 will be
In the elementary grades. It may
be 'Possible that some fow other
teachers may 'be alloted to take
care of ^ergencles.
The Northi Wllkeeboro school
system was allotted a total of 30
teachers, eight in the hl'^ school
and 22 for the elementary grades.
Adding these to the number al
loted for the county system makes
a grand total of 279 teachers In
the county as a whole.
The allotments announced Mon
day at Raleigh totaled 23,273 for
the entire state, with teachers
yet to be alloted for Watauga and
Cabarrus counties.
Rev. Watt Cooper
Conference Speaker
Rev. Watt H. Cooper, assistant
pastor of the North Wllkeeboro
Preabyterian shurch, will be one
of the speakers at the third an- .
nual conference on “Conserva
tion Of 'iforrlage and th©
GLocioun
Hollywooti. Calif. . . Jean
Ohatburn. pretty motion picture
actres-i, will celebrate the ‘Fourth’
attired in a costume created en
tirely of firecrackers.
Monday Will Be
Observed Here
As A Hofiday
Independence Day To Be
(Generally Obaeryed On
Headquarters h ^
This Chy; Merger"
Of 4 Instkidioiiti
Charter Dolirerad By-Sjali
Banking Ccmmiwion^ In
Meeting Yesterday
RESOURCES $3,000,000
Branches At Sparta, Boonter
Blowing Rock, Bakersvillo
And JSumsvil’.e
License No. 215, signed by
Governor Clyde R. Hoey and by
Gurney P. Hood, C/ommissioner of
Banks, authorizing The North
western Bank to open for unre
stricted 'banking operations oa
today, July 1st, was del'.vjred to
L. L. Aycock, secretary of 'Wio
Northwestern Bank, on Wednes
day morning, by Mr. Hood In per
son.
Accompanying Mr. Hood to
North Wilkesboro on Tuesday,
were 14 State Bank Eiamlnors.
These examiners on Wednesday
morning were assigned to the
four banks and two branchsa
composing the consolidation, for
the purpof© of completing all
necessary details in connectloB
with such work.
On Tuesday evening, in the ball
room of Hotel Wllkee, the exam
iners, together with Conunlsslon-
er Hood, Carbis Walker, C. P.
of AgiBston.Salem, and John G.
Allen, representing the SMa
pwilL
MA.at-
.
J...- *4. In th»\growift
•ers are'/a number of nationally
known authorities whose fields
ar© related to the sipeclflc prob
lems of marriage and th© family.
welfare board innder tii© neif Bfcw
is to pass upon applications tor
old age assistaneo and aid to de
pendent children 'Under the state
social siecurity act. Another duty
will be to sit with the county
hoard of commissioners in the
election of the superintendent of
welfare for the county.
The Wilkes -board of welfare Is
now c#impoBed of E. S. Williams,
of Ferguson, chairman, P. J.
Brame, of North Wilkesboro, and
Wm. A. Stroud, of Wilkesboro.
Welfare boards in other coun
ties in this section ar© as follows r
Alexander—J. H. Burke, chair
man, H. C. Payne and Mrs. J. C.
Connelly; Alleghany — R- A.
Doughton, chainmun, M. L. Rich
ardson and W. V. Blevins; Ashe
—H. H. Burgess, chairman, J. B.
Hash and W. Bryan Oliver; Wa
tauga—^Mrs. Mary S. Harris,
chairman, T. C. Baird and Avery
W. Greene; Caldwell—F. H. ik>t-
tey, chairman, Mrs. A. D. Aber-
nethy and J. T. Moore; Iredell—
Mias Carrie Hoffman, chairman,
Zeb V. Turlington and Mrs. J. F.
Commissioners
To Meet July 6
Monday, July 5, Will Be
Generally Observed b;
Offices as Holiday
asked to comm-unicate with her
father or mother at Springfield.
Wilkes 83rd In
State In Value
School Buildings
Youth Fires Into
Robinson’s Home
I — Bowles; Yadkin—C. Nelson Dob-
eyes; j cant make no false statements in bins, ohairraan, Mrs. E. J. 'Veatal
pro- I the application. Each case will be - - — - • - -
thoroughly investigated and pass
ed or rejected by the county
welfare iboard, composed of E. S.
Will'iarae. of Ferguson, P. J.
Brame, of North 'Wilkesboro, and
Wm. A. Stroud, of Wilkesboro.
(Continued on page eight)
The current issue of School
^ "TFaets, published by th© state de
partment of public instruction.
Mats 'Wilkes as 83rd in the state
in value of school property per
atndonL
•Wilkes has ts buildings with a
total value of $359,088, or an
iHfrestment average of $75.84 per
pttjiU enrolled. Currituck ranks
first with $337.37 and Ashe last
With $32.38.
Officers Search For Cubert
Huffmsoi On Assault
Charge on Tuesday
Furniture Men To
Attend Exposition
WORK PROGRESSING ON
COCA-COLA BUILDING
- Workmen are making rapid
pronress on remodeling Coca-Cola
BottWeg company’s building on
the comer of Tenth and C streets.
In addition to the installation
of a new front and other chang-
.jlf^^econd floor is being added,
hioh will provide additional
for the rapidly growing bus-
fjIMa of the company. The entire
imllding will be used by the
ooi^any. Including the store
room formerly occupied by Tenth
Stifct^'Caah and Carry grocery.
Deputy Sheriff Odell Whitting
ton went Tuesday to the home of
Os Robinson in th© Purlear com
munity to Investigate reports of
a shooting thft-e that morning.
Mr. Robinson told the officer
that about ten o’clock Cuibert
Huffman, a youth of that vicin
ity, fired a shotgun through a
window of his horn© and would
have killed his wife if he bad
not jerked her away from the
window at that instant. Flying
glass Inflicted minor injuries on
her artn.
Huffman left the scene shortly
thereafter and search by th© of
ficer In the surrounding eonunnn-
Ity was tc no avail.
Representatives of furniture
manufacturing companies her©
will leave tomorrow to attend the
furniture exposition in Chicago.
Forest Furniture company will
be represented by N. O. Smoak,
Home Chair company by Henry
Moore and Jack Quinn, American
Furniture company by J. R. HIx
and A. B. Johnston, and Oak Fur
niture company by John E. Jus
tice.
and D. Holcomb; Surry—^Wm. M.
Allen, chairman, John G. Llewel
lyn and Mrs. R. G. Lovill.
Wilkes county 'board of com
missioners will meet on Tuesday,
July 6, instead of Monday, July
it wa.s announced this week by
R. G. Binley, chairman of the
lK>ard.
The reason for the change is
that July 4, a national holiday,
coines on Sunday and that Mon
day, July 5, is generally observed
as a holday. The other officers In
the courthouse with the excep
tion of register of deeds and clerk
of court will also observe a holi
day on July 5.
The Wilkes county board of
education will meet on Tuesday,
July 6, instead of 'Monday, July 5.
Annual Banquet
Merchants Here
On Friday Night
' . V.'
Junior Order Will
Install Officers
Will Be Held Friday Eve-
ninjr, >^7:30, At Hotel
Wilkes
A gala event Is expected Fri
day evening, 7:1.5, when the an-
uu/tl 'banquet of the Wilke© Coun
ty Merchants’ Association will be
held at Hotel WUkee.
'rickets ara being sold at the
office of th'e association and a
large-crowd of merchants, tbeir
North Wilkesboro council of
the Junior Order will install of
ficers In the meeting to be held
Tuesday evening, July 6, 7:30.
Every member is asked to be
present and hear the splendid pro
gram that has been arranged. Re
freshments will be served.
In announcing the meeting’
Claude Canter, secretary, saldr
"If you do npt attend you will
miss a good time.
“Do not forget tbi© group meet
ing to bo held with New Hope
council on Th'ursdBy evening, July
15. Every council Is asked to be
represented with a large., delega
tion.”
be on. d(iBd*T’ IMS'
holiday will ib© genordliy’obserTed
throughout the country on Mon
day, Jtjly 5.
The Wilkes County Merchants’
association last week announced
a list of stores in North Wllkes-
iboro which will 'he closed Mon
day, July 5. ’The list included a
great majority of the retail bus
iness houses In the city and it is
understood that many of the of
fices will be closed on that date.
Both banks will observe the
.holiday on July 5 and those who
have business to attend to with
the banks should transact it be
fore that date.
The Merchants’ association to
day announced the following
stores would be closed on Mon-j
day, July 5: |
Carl W. -Steele, Carlton Hard-j
ware, Klein’s, Jean’s, Harville’s,
Speinhours, Miller-I.iong, G. P.l
Store, Quality Cleaners, .A.bBher8, |
Blackburns. Belk’s Department!
Store, J. C. Penney Co., Yale De-!
partraent Store, Harrts Brothers, I
.Moore’s Meat .Market, Wilkes
Electric Co., Smoak Furniture
Co., Hadley-'Moore Hardware Co.,
Marlow’s Men’s Shop, Payne
Clothing Co., Jenkins Hardware
C o., Tomlinson’s Department
Store, The Goodwill Store, L. A.
Harris & Son, Bare-IJlller Furnl-
tur4 Store. Church Hardware,
Hayvs Hardware, Rhodes - Day
Furniture Co.. Roses B & 10 Cent
Store, Crest Store, I. H. McNeill
& Sons. Bare’s Fair Store, Duke
Power Co., Deans, Danrls & Co.,
Reins Meat -Market, R. & 0.
Grocery Co., Kash & Karry. A.
A P. Store, Childress Grocery.
' vtUI to cnek
ttemr'
important undertaking.
At the closing time for baak
operations on 'Wednesday, Jnn*
30, the following banking inatl-
tutlons ceaeed to actively op©-
rate:
MercheuLs and Farmers Bank,
Ba.kersv^ir and branch at B-um©-
ville.
Watauga County Bank, Boon©,
and branch at Blowing Rook.
Deposit and Savings Bank,
North Wilkesboro.
Bank of Sparta, Sparta.
At the opening hour for bank
ing operations today, there
(Continued on page eight)
Two Appointed to
Seed Work Posts
Miss Mildred German And
Miss Elsie W. Earp Named
Seed Analysts
Banks To Observe
rHolidaX On Mdnday
Legion Will Meet
On Friday Night
Limestone, phosphate and leg
umes are building a new farming
era in Haywood county say those
farrmers who are cooperating in
management demonstrations with
the county agent.
Wilkes poet of the American
Legion will meet on Friday night
at the Legion and Auxiliary club
house.
This will not .be a joint meet
ing with th© Auxiliary but all Le»l
gionnalres are urgently reqnesV-
wire© and friends* ar© expected
Ben Sronce, editor of the
StotesrRl«T>ail7> 'WHl ''be the fear
tnro speaker and others wilt be
presented, including W. L. Dow
ell, exMoUve secretary ^ the
North Carolina merohaats’ associ
ation. -r-Tt'.
An enjoyaUo occasion tei as
sured ail wlfo will attend-
Begin Compliance
Checkkig In July
Announcement was made to
day that botlb the 'Bank' of North
Wilkesboro and tbe Northwestern
Bank (foriherly Deposit A Sav
ings) win b© closed on Monday,
July 6.
V Independence Day.,July 4, will
be iSunday and the holiday will
be generally observed by bnslneee
firms on Monday.
„ —, Mj jjjyg farming, in,Mitii':
ed to bo present. Officers win b© ©u connly for 40 years, and :|’ve
f/v^ nAiV+- tckVkvM' owksl _ y.
elected for the next twm and
delegates will -be nanfo^ to tM
state convention In Durham July
25, 26 and 27
never seen crops, as a whole,^ look
better,” 'remadted oiie- toner to
cwnty agent J. C., Lynn,, last
week. .
H. A. Patto^ of -State College,
compliance saperlvtoor for North
Carolina, sp«nt a lew hours in
MHilkesboro - tpuesday conferring
With County Agent A. G, Hendren
relative to checking compl-lanee
In the soil • !^nserfhtldn prbgram
in Wllkee this year.
' Complianqb.'iini^jrvisdrs dr© «-
pectod to begin their taak lU;
TVMkos county on of abont July
BEAUTY SHOPPES ARE
TO CLOSE ON MONTAY
Announcement was made today
that ail beauty shoppee will be
cltised on Monday, July 6, bnt
wUl be open all day Wednesday,
the-date for the usual weekly
yreokiy haft holiday-'^'
MentHoIated eigarettes contain
abont the same miztnre of toliM-
co as Wenited cigarettes "with
menthol sprayed on. _
.Miss Mildred German of Boom
er, Wilkes county, and .Miss Elsie
W. Earp of Selma, Route 1, have
been named seed analysts for the
Department of Agriculture by
Commissioner of Agriculture W.
Kerr Scott.
They are scheduled to asaum©
their duties in the seed laboratory
of the department Immediately.
Miss German was graduated by
the Woman’s College of the ITnl-
rerslty of North Carolina wltK
the class of 1936, receiving her
B.S. degree in secretarial sciene©.
Wbll© in college she was a mem-
ber of the Horn© Economics Clnbi
Education Club, president and
secretary of the B.Y.P.U. and
vice president of the P..S.U. Coun
cil.
She is the daughter of Mr.
and Mra J. M. German and wan
reared on a farm in Wiikes coun
ty. Her father, regarded as on©
of the outstanding farmers In
tbe State, was awarded tibe covet
ed “Maater Farmer” award by tlHk
Progrseelve Farmer and Stntn
Extension Service recently..
Prior to accepting a pairttnn
with the Department o£ Agrtonk-'^
tarn. M4s« German wm a tesadter
at the School for the Blind.'
Rei^ded by the 'Woman’s Col
lage ak an exceptional student,
sh© wae recommended- by tb(v
Lead of the edneation ' depagh*
meat, head of the seeretsHM -
science department, .theTlaalliBhM
tor secraUurlnl tciedoe and '—.
Bapttet stmlent necreUry.
Miss Earp was bom and
on a-farm and'.-lB
Meir^lth Oolle
jored 'In home