_Q,
If I n,'
MTRKft mS BLAZED THE
ewsOf
State-Natkoi
y:T^ Bri^y
Q,tM)0 JOBLESS
WwridBiKoB. The JUa^ioui
redertti^ ot L*lw
- todBj-that moMt'lhan 8,^0,00,
peraotts w«re atU)>nemployed in
May d«i^t« th«r l^Alrtng ot 1,-
iOT.^OO hy Indnah^ and agricul
ture since January 1.
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BOY IS DROWNED
Mor^nton, July 9-—Joseph
MosW; 15, -was drtrvrned today In
CatawKa*’river, three miles from
Morgaaton, "when he tell from a
boat he vi’as rowing apparently
while subject to an epileptic selz-
ure.
ItECORD HARVEST
Washington. July S.^Govern-
ment experts predicted today that
thl^ year’s harvest will till the
country’s grain bins. They fore-
^st the largest wheat crop in six
il^ars, 882,000,000 bushels, and
(he largest corn crop since 1932,
.571,851.000 bushels.
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TO WRITE ARTICLES
Raleigh, July 8.—R. Bruce
Etheridge, director of the depart
ment ot conservation and develop-
ii ment. said today Mildred Seydrtl,
^ author, would tour the state this
summer and prepare a series of
articles in connection with Korth
Carolina’s $250,000 advertising
program.
KILLED IN CRASH
Seattle, June 9.—A navy Sea
man (1st Cl.l ^V. H. Myers
^ was killed, and Bruce Harwood,
seaman (1st Cl.) W. H. Myers
naval aviation officer, was injur-
“Ted today w^hen a plane from the
battleship Arizona dived into
Puget Sound near Three-Tree
Point, south of here.
SUICIDE BRIDGE
Pasadena. Calif.—The Colora
do Street Bridge, from which 80
persons have leapr-d to death, is
going to be made suicide proof,
city officials announced today. A
special “suicide patrol’’ by police
failed to prevent the death leaps
„SO a seven-foot fence topped by
'barbed wire will be erected to
Ducase toapers.
^ REPORT RACKETEERING
Raleigh, July 9.—Racketeering
in old age assistance 1s possible
without great vigilance, the state
board of charities and public wel
fare today warned in directing
the public's attention to reports
which have come to the board
citing the activities of “certain
unscrupulous persons attempting
to collect fees from aspirants for
i^»enefits under the social security
^program.’’
HEAT TOO m CH
Kingston. X. Y.—-Nearly 1.7 00
weary followers of Father Major
J. Divine bade good-bye today to
the bald-pated negro cult leader’.s
“promised land,’’ their two-day
“celectial Olympics” wilted by the
heat. Their scheduled “lympic
games’" postponed because of the
weather, the -faithful left between
200 and 300 pilgrims behind
•them to populate the land of
“milk and -honey,’’ and steamed
down the Hudson.
ACCIDENTS INCREASE
Raleigh. July 9.—Highway fa
talities in North Carolina during
the first five months ot this year
Increased 7 per cent over the
game period last year, .-Arthur D.
Fulk, director of the high safety
division, said today, but gasoline
consumption jumped 19.75 per
cent and motor vehicle registra
tion was up 10 per cent. The fi
gures, Fiilk said, revealed North
Carolinians were becoming safer
drivers.
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.Bd ThoredkTfc NOBTH WU^BOaO, N. C.. MONDAT, JULY 18, 1»37 »1.60 W fHaSTATE-2.00 OUT OV Tj
„AT KILLS 150
Two-tairds of the United States
aweltere'’ uader baking skiee Fri
day, as mperatnres and death
Mats monnted from the worst hot
wave of the year, with no relief
tn sight. The death toll by mld-
afternoon neared 150 for the
three-day heat wave, which laid
a hot blanket of humid air over
the country from the Atlantic
Seaboard to the Rockles-
Honke Coming At
Temple Hill 18th
July 18th Is home coming date
•at Temple Hill M. E. Church.
“All former pasture and members
are Invited to come and enjoy the;
day with ■ua.’’ Rev. J, L. A. Bum-
* gamer, paator, said In the .an-
Kioiincement.
f There will be service at 11 a.
m. and 2:30 p. m.; also at 8:09
p. m. "Come and bring your
friends with you.” The followlttg
•week will be revival serrlcee.
it Up Highway
ivision Office In
City; Stewart New
Division Engineer
Located on Second Floor of
Tomlinson Department
Store Building Here
WILL CONSTRUCT SHOP
Hearing On Highway Mat
ters Before Commissioner
Hackett Held Today
Offices for the eighth highway
division, composed ot ten coun
ties, have been set up in North
Wllkesboro on the second floor
ot the Tomlinson Department
store building on Main Streeet.
At present the district heart-
quarters consists of six office
rooms and a spacious store room.
The office personnel now in
cludes:
J. Gordon Hackett, ot this city,
highway commissioner, who
spends much of his time at the
office in the interest of highway
matters in his district.
Zeb V. Stewart, district engi
neer, who came to North Wllkes-
boro from Winston-Salem, where
he was a district engineer under
the highway set-up displaced by
the new act of this year. He and
Mrs. Stewart and three sons have
a residence on E street. His of
fice secretary is Mrs. Florence M.
Fulp, formerly ot Winston-Salem.
C. A. Hayworth, assistant di
vision engineer, came to North
Wllkesboro from Statesville,
where he was formerly a con
struction engineer.
George B. Lockhart, formerly
with the construction department
in Charlotte, is office engineer.
He and Mrs. Lockhart and young
.daughter are making their home
here. R. V. Peck is road oil auper-
viaor for the division; M. P. Alex
ander.. Is
ruperirlsor; and J. 8. Warren, of
Sallebury. Is bridge supervisor. Tl.
F. Hunter, division mechanic, and
Joe Zimmerman, who will he In
charge of the office of the divis
ion shop to be. located here, will
come to North Wllkesboro in the
near future.
Public hearings on highway
matters in the district are held
each second Monday at the court
house in Wilkesboro before Com
missioner Hackett.
Board Chairman Gives
Comprehensive Report
Wilkes County Finances
Gives Self Up
Chicago, 111. . . . Eluding the
police of several States for three
■months, Robert Irwin, wanted for
the murder ot three in New York
City on Easter, surrenders to lo
cal authorities.
Sentence Man To
Roads 24 Months
state highway and WPA forces
have practically completed work
of placing a crushed stone surface
on the Wllkesboro-Brushy moun
tain road, it was learned today
from J. G. Hackett, highway com
missioner, who has always shown
• much interest In vrovtdlng an
triouir secBottL
It is estimated that more thit
a million bushels of apples are
growing in the orchards of the
Brushles, admittedly the best ap
ple gro-wlng sectlo^ of North Car
olina.
During the past several wint
ers, and more especially the . ’J
two. orchardlsf.s have lost money
for the simple reason that roads
became impassable and they were
unable to tra'nbhort the luscious
and delicious fruits from the
orchards to Wllkesboro, the near
est point on a paved highway.
Frank Hall, young man of this
city, was .sentenced in city court
today to the roads for a total of
2 4 months, one year on a charge
of larceny and one year for break-
iii.g and entering.
He was convicted for breaking
into E V. Williams machitirf shop
and for larceny of some house
hold goods which had been stored
in F. C. Tomlinson’s barn.
No New Murder
Cases On Docket
Few Charged With Felonies
to Face Trial in August
Term of Wilkes Court
Although C. C. Hayes, Wilkes
clerk of superior court, bas com
piled about 150 cases on the
docket for the August term of
court, it is interesting to note
that since the grand jury conven
ed at the March term that there
has not been a new murder
charge.
And although two murder cas
es are pending trial there are no
new ones so far to go before the
grand jury. This' Is considered
quite an unusual situation in
Wilkes, recalling that only a few
years ago five murder charges
originated in the space ot thirty
days.
And it is also Interesting to
note that but few of the J50 odd
felonies. Many are charged with
tresiiM^. drunkennew, disorderly
conduct, and other minor crimes
while there'are some charging
larceny, abandonaient, seduction
and similar crimes.
Three new combines have been
purchased by farmers of Orange
County this season.
Brushy Mouotain
Road Is Surfaced
In Crushed Stone
Will Enable Orchardists To
Market Apples at Any
Time During the Year
FinleySaysCounty
Should Pay Part
Debt Each Year
County’s Total Debt Near
$1,500,000; Interest Bill
Is Near $77,000
GENERAL FUND BEHIND
Fmley Says Raised Valua
tion Only Solution to
the Vexing Problem
By R. G. FINLEY
Chairman Board of Commissioners
With the belief that the citizens
of Wilkes will be interested in
knowing just how the affairs of the
county stand at this time, and
without any idea or attempt on my
part to criticize past management,
reply to any published articles, or
enter into any controversy, or
take issue with any person or par
ties, I am taking the liberty to set
forth below in simple and plain
terms to the best of my limited
ability just how 'Wilkes stands fi
nancially, as of this date.
According to the stsfte laws gov
erning the financial administration
, of county and municipal govern-
(ments there are a number of dif
ferent accounts for which taxes
are levied, and these taxes lyhen
collected must be put into these
several accounts and all expenses
applying taken out of these same
accounts. To make it plain, it
would be the same as a man hav
ing several pockets for different
monies. Suppose he owed so
much borrowed money and Mt
lid* 40 per cast of ,Aia income
E. S. Williams,
Chairman Board
0fWelfare,Dies
Moved to Wilkes County
From Pennsylvania In
1920; Many Friends
lE^mate
Governor Clyde R. Hoey, pictured above addressing the people of
North Carolina over a state-wide radio network on July 2. when he
officially launched the $250,000.00 State Advertising program
which gets under way this month in newspapers and magazines
throughout the country. Pointing out the goal of the campaign, he
called attention to the “new responsibility” of all North Carolinians
to practice friendliness and courtesy toward the hundreds of thous
ands ot vacalionists and tourists who annually enjoy the famous
recreational facilities ot th© State. §ju
.It has been announced by
state Board of Charities Pub
lic Welfare that fiel^jitclal Work
’.e?n
E. S. Williams, chairman ot the
Wilkes county board of charities
and public welfare, died Thurs
day at the Wilkes hospital fol
lowing a brief illness.
The news of the death ot Mr.
Williams comes as an occasion of
sadness to the many friends
whose respect his life had won
since he moved from Pennsylvan
ia to Wilkes county In 1920 and
retired to private life at his beau
tiful home at Ferguson.
Mr, Williams gave freely of
hi.s time and means to community
and county affairs and his wil
lingness to shoulder the burden
of responsibilities as chairman of
the county board of welfare Is
considered typical ot his unselfish
character and desire to be of
service.
The funeral was conducted at
the Ferguson Methodist church
Saturday afternoon by Rev. J. C.
Gentry pastor of the church. A
number of testimonial talks were
made on the life of the deceased
by Attorney Hugh A. Cranor, Mr.
Peter Brame and Rev. John Cran-
fleld, all of whom spoke highly
appointed
routine
dutie® 'the Welfare Depart-
Uent, as well as'^ additional work
In connection with the Social Se
curity program, which went into
effect on -iuly 1.
Miss Lessie Toler, with head
quarters in Norblii Wllkesboro, is
social work supervisor for Wilkes,
Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Davie,
Forsyth, Mitchell, Stokes, Surry,
Watauga. Yadkin and Yancey
imY'IOc'
J'debt sei^ce pocket akd tSe
this Ji'„ for -nothing else but to
pay on interest or principal of
wlml he owed. This ma»„^ might , ,
get hard up and decide he heeded -
some of his money out of the debt
pocket for other purposes and
there would be nothing to
Kis taking r"- pc^ef and
putting it into another; but a
county or town can’t do this with
out breaking the law, because tax
es are levied for specific purpos
es and must, a :cording to law, be
spent or disbursed for these same
specific accounts. If you will look
at your 1936 county tax receipt
you will see that the county levied
for eight specific accounts, and if
you live in North Wilkesboro town
ship, your receipt shows nine ac
counts (the extra one being North
Wilkesboro township r ai 1 r o a d
bonds. This was for money spent
for Watauga & Yadkin River Rail
road right of way, which this
township bought and paid for and
gave gratis to the railroad com
pany.) Therefore we can say that
the county has nine separate pock-
6t.s for its money into which the
proper per centage of each tax dol
lar goes and out of which pockets
go the money in payment of bills
chargeable to the-ie particular
pockets.
Before taking up in detail how
each pocket stands, let roe give
you a few general facts. We had
an andit. made setting forth the
condition as of April 5, 1937 The
audit shows a surplus in all funds
except the General Fund. This
sounds and looks fine, but it is
deceptive and misleading because
the surplus is based on two iteims
of assets which in reality are par
tially worthless. The first is the
diversion of funds. The audit
shows money has been taken out of
five pockets and put into the Gen
eral Fund in the total amount, ac>
cording to the audit, of $57,183.62.
Therefore, these five robbed pock
ets don’t have this money with
which to pay their bills, but only
have a due bill from the General
Fund. If the General Fund could
pay the money back all would be
well and good; but the General
(Contimied on page three)
Miss Toler Now Lucas Speaks Of
Dbtrict Social | Progress Rural
Work Siq>ervisor Electrification
Appointed by State Board toj Official of Duke Power Co.
S^e Ift^ountiM; Heed-
As County’s Pj
OM Age _
Aid to Cbudr^A
AppHcatkmc Are Now
Taken at Office
Welfare OAeet
OVER 500 AITUCANTS
To Date for AwtitatyglO
Aged and to Many
pendent Chilsbren
According to a recent rMUiee
from the state board of chaittke
and puibllc welfare, It Is estimafed.
that Wilkes county's ahare ot tlw
cost of paying old age nnsjitn'aee
and aid to dependent shfl^ea
under the state social soenrity
act will be approximately
770.
Of this amount It Is estimated
that $9,450 will be for old ago
assistance and $5,320 fob aid to
dependent children. This repre
sents about one fourth of the to
tal cost, the remainder being paid
by the state and federal foren-
ments.
Over 500 people have called at
the office of Charlee McNoOl,
county welfare officer, to .make
application. Their names haro
been taken and they will bo notl-
flei on what day to return to
complete the application. It will
be useless for them to return on
any other date for the purpose of
making application,
So far applications have been
filled only for thos© who' havo
been receiving aid from the coun
ty but others who wish to apply
will be accomodated as early aa
possible. However, It must be
understood that T^er appUcidltm
is made that U ^ ^
the county board of 'welfSite and
each case must 'be investigated
before any payments are made.
I
Grai^ers Looking
ForwardtoAnnual
Picnic On July ^rd
Scott, Commiss’oner of Agri
culture, to Be Speaker
For the Occasion
ft to
age.:
at tl
of his life. There was special
cases now on the dooket charge music by a quartet composed of
#n1 AM (AO iLf o ae>A jsKm wrlfK __ _ ,
Mr. Peter Brame, Mr. Lonnie
Stroud, Mr. Roby Church and Mr.
Henderson, all of the Wilkes-
boroe. The floral tribute was rew
profuse. Interment took place
new cemetery on a most beauti
ful hill to®, overlooking the vil
lage and the Yadkin 'Valley. ’Nte
active pall bearers were J. R.
(Continued on page eight)
Place Veterans In
Veteran C. C* Camp
'to 1^1 ■ ' i’>'" • -
Charles McNeill, eounty- wel
fare officer, said today that the
Civilian ConseivaHeh oitttito_^wi)I
be slbla to place a number of wgr
veterans at an ©arty da^
Any veterans InterMted 'may
application blanks from .Mr.
McNeill, Avpllcation moat be
tilled within the next.few da$«. -
V-. V .V ‘
W. Kerr Scott, a former mas
ter ot the North Carolina State
Grange and now state commis
sioner of agriculture, will come
to Wilkes, home of the first Po
mona Grange In the state, to ad
dress the annual picnic of the
Wilkes county Pomona Grange to
be held on July 23.
The Pomona Orange held an
interesting meeting at the court
house on Thursday night, one of
the principal objectives being to
lay plans for the picnic, an an
nually antldpated event. The
place for the picnic will be an
nounced in a tew days.
In the meeting Thursday night
Master T. W. Ferguson presided
and the program under the dlrec-
t'r^n ot the lecturer, Mrs. C. F.
Bntholl, consisted of a round
table discussion on "'What can be
done for secondary roads.” All
menrbera present took part in the
discussion of this subject relative
to one of the main objectives ot
the Grange In the state.
Group Meetinsf
Of Junior Order
At New Hope ISth
All mmaberti of North Wiikea-
boro, Ronda, Cltdgmaii and New
Hope Junior order ooBhetto -
urged to attend the fibep jaask-
iog to be held, with ifstor
connell on 'Wiursdny evening, Jhly
15,7:80.
Some important matters will be
takmi up .and an enjoyable tim® to-
assured,all ▼^.:'wili.a^t®^- T4fr.
il&p. - , , -V/.-:
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John Paul Lucas, of Charlotte,
advertising and' merchandising
manager of Duke Power com
pany, told Kiwanlans Friday a
bout the rapid progress of rural
electrification during the past ten
years.
J. C. Reins was ip charge ot
the program and presented Mr
Lucas, who said that ten years
ago there were no rural lines in
Wilkes county. Today, he said,
there are a total of 150 miles of
rural lines placing electricity In
1,100 homes at an investment
cost to the company of $200,000.
Rural electrification, he de
clared, i.s not new -but has been
steadily progressing in the past
20 years as people are becoming
“electricity conscious.”
“Everyone has a stake in rur
al electrification because we on
ly progress in proportion to the
progress of the back country,
from which we still draw on for
leadership,’’ Mr. Lucas said and
continued with the assertion that
the Duke Power company does
not w'ant anyone to use electri
city unprofitably. Citing some of
the ways In which rural people
can us© electricity profitably in
a commercial, manner he mention
ed dairies, orchards, poultrymen
and truck farmers.
Two new members were taken
into the clu'b Friday, making a
total of five new members in two
weeks. Tlie two new ones Friday
were W. D. Halfacre, superinten
dent of city schools, and Attor
ney W. H. McElwee.
- J. G. Forester and H. V. Over
cash were guests of M. G. Biit-
aer at the meeting.
Dan Hofler Now
Assistant Agent
Rutherford County Man At-
sipned to Post in Wilkes
Succeeding Mr. Hanna
ing to apply" be able to furaisli
proof of age, Bible record ttolng
generally accepted as positive
proof of date of birth.,.
The following estimates o t
cost ot the program In the state
were released from Raleigh:
Estimates compiled by the
State Board of Charities and Pub
lic Welfare indicate that North
Carolina’s new Social Security
program, whlohi became operative
on July 1, will require federal,
state and county expenditures of
approximately $5,896,452 a year.
This information is contained
ill budget estimates sent to the
100 counties of the state by the
Division of Public Assistance of
the Welfare Department, of which
Nathan H. Yelton Is director.
The computation shows that
the counties will spend, in round
figures, the sum of $879,294 a
year for assi.stance to 26,270
needy aged, and $495,333 for aid
to 23,095 dependent children.
The county cost : ir old age aa-
sistance is one-fourth of th© to
tal. indicating that total expott-
ditures for that purpose will a-
mount to approximately $3,517,-
177, while more than $1,485,990,
based on the counties paying one-
third, will be spent on underprivi
leged children.
In addition to the two major
phases of the Social Security pro
gram, the sum of around $170,-
000 a year will be expended In
behalf of needy blind pereona,
and that fund will be admlnJater-
ed by the North Carolina Commis
sion tor the Blind, of which Dr,
Roma S. Cheek is director.
The figures compiled by bh»
Welfare Department indicate that
total admiaistrative costs, feder
al, state and county, will amouat
to aronnd $893,276.
Guilford county led the list
with estimated expenditures oP
$47,250 for 1,050 ne'edy aged,
and $23,800 for 850 dependent,
children, which Camden oonhty
trailed with approxiSMted costa
of $2,010 for 60 needy a^ 4nd
*5 dependent ehlMpen. “J
Social Seonrity 1^ thw
state are to pk finder
way within the faiir" wieeka.
Dan Holler, age 21, of Union
Mills In Rutherford county, has
been appointed assistant to Coun
ty Farm -Agent A. 0-. Hendren
for WUkes county.
Mr. Holler succeeds W. J. Han
na, who has rstuned to his home
in BUokshurir. '0. C.
■■■V..The II 1. 1. 1.1 -
ier. b- dradnite of. State CoUefe Judge JeAtisoii. //
and who comM to the eounty wcU upM iHi Roii^
keoonuneaded, UMde by the
extensloa service throagb O. F.
MeCta^, di^ct agent. He be
gan hto-dutltf on Jnly 1.
Judge Mogm ^Vlll
Spm:. At
^raoBot
too
church Mae'
day, Jnly
Is cordially iavlteji.,te
serviOto
a