Has
I»iwnr(i^prfi^f«r Un-
(fmmt r
tiioB) B^gak^JPHdfy -
P«anto, iormi^ la-
with tlto B*ak of
^ Wilkeeboro, uBomed Ills
‘dntlM Uat rridax, .Pocember
4^, as Claims Interrlewer for
^ Unemplorment CompisBsatioii
Oommission, aceordiiuc to. an-
aoBncament this weak by James
Hhun, field representative of that
oicmtization.
Mr. Blum states that after
making application for compen
sation, a two weeks’ waiting per
iod will be necessary, and that
results of the application should
be known on the last of the third
wpek or first of the fourth week
fellowing. Mr. Blum states that
any person who has worked as
much as eight weeks In 1937 and 1
who is not now employed Is eligi
ble for compensation, and these
persons are advised to register
with the local employment office
and put in a claim for benefits
under the program.
VOU xxxn, NO. 21
Wreck Victim
i Banquet
December 28
University Alumni Will Hear
^ , Pean. House an^ J.
Maryon Saunders
The WWkes County Chapter of
the ^Tniversity of North Carolina
’ XldSinl Association will hold Its
f.''*^g^ual ban(inet in the ball room
'j^'vof Hotel Wilkes on the night of
December 28. The meeting will
^,^ln at 6:45 o’clock and the
Aarge for each plate will be
seventy-five cents. An interesting
program Is being planned, fea
turing addresses by R. B. House,
dean of administration at Chapel
Hill, and by J. Maryon Saunders,
General Secretary of the Alumni
Association.
There are over sixty members
in the Wilkes County Alumni as
sociation. It Is expected that a
large percentage of the member
ship will be present for this
meeting. Any member desiring to
bring his wife or some friend in
terested in the University is urg
ed to do so. Those desiring reser-
Tjflnui—«at
- - Watt M. Co*por»»-proWoot,
'B. Story*, secretary, Reeer-
VSttlons should be in hand by
^Monday night.
Reidsvflie Man Is
Placed In Charge
Of NCSES OfHce
For Lockl Branch
B. G. Gentry, Former Reids-
ville Attorney, Manager
Branch Office Here
On Saturday afternoon, De
cember 11, Clay Otis Insoore, the
nineteen-year-old youth pictured
above, was alive and well. That
evening he had joinedi the in
numerable throng of the dead,
killed when a car he was driving
overturned on a road near his
home in the Windy Gap commun
ity. He was a son ot Mr. and Mrs.
S. O. Inscore.
Officers Making !
Snccessfnl Raids
Fisftikoiireis...,
OSffiefMo^y
In Laboratory
Gardner and McCrary Talk
In Optimistic Manner
Before the Growers
Charlie Sparks, Arthur Par-
lier and Clifford Church
Face Federal Charges
Apple growers of the Brushy
Mountains in Wilkes and .Alex
ander counties gathered at the
new research station erected by
the state at Kilby’s Gap Monday
afternoon in the first meeting in
11 the new building, which has just
illicit still, I been completed,
gallons of I The meeting was well attend-
! ed by fruit growers who listened
with interest to M. E. Gardner,
head of the horticulture division
O. F. Mc-
agent, as
aids during the past week by
feral and county officers in
T'llkes ^eitted one
.three men and 140
liquor.
Federal Officers -A. R. Wil
liams and C. S. Felts with Deputy
Sheriff Odell Whittington cut ajof State CoU>.i.', and
small 50-gallon still in the, Crary, northwestern
Boomer vicinity Monday and ar
rested Charlie Sparks and Arthur
Pftrlier. who were placed under
bond for trial in the May, 1938,
.terjpf of federal court. Three gal-
of liquor were found at the
11.
Earlier in the week federal
officers searched the premises of Vermont
Clifford Church fifteen miles
'west of this city on Highway 421
and found 140 gallons of liquor.
H« was booked for violation of
the liquor laws and faces trial
In federal court.
The raid was made a few dayi
after his log cabin service station
was destroyed by fire.
GRADUATE OF U. N. C.
Jobless Urged to Register
Now in Order to Get
Security Benefits
GREETINGS
Mrs. Maude Foster
Last Rites Today
Funeral service for Mrs. Maude
tley Foster. 52, who ' died
iflPfweday, 4:40 p. m., at her home
ear Porw Knob after a linger
ing illness, was held today, 11 o’-
dpek, at Walnut Grove Baptist
^nreh with ilev. C. C. Holland
fa* charge, assisted by Rev. E. V.
Bamgarner.
Pfester, who was well and
iTsbly known, was a daugh-
of the late John J. and
Phillips Bentley and
of the late Ed C. Foster.
Surviving are the following chll-
Awmn- Gienu Foster, Duabar. Va.;
>tn. O. S. Barker, North Wll-
ro;,. Jim Foster, Mrs. W. P.
T. 0. and Rachel Fos-
^ n Pores Knob; and John
If, of Wllkmboro-
they talked in an optimistic way
about the future of the fruit
growing industry and the bene-^
fits the fruit growers may expect "ill he Monday,
from the research station and the those who have
service ot the specialist in charge.
Carl E. Van Deman, former hor
ticulture specialist in the state of
and with experience as
manager of a large orchard in
New York state.
Mrs. C. F. Bretholl gave an ad
dress ot welcome in which she
explained that the research sta
tion Is tor the benefit of gll fruit
growers, is a state institution
and that its services will be avail
able to all fruit growers in the
state.
The growers are now in the
midst of a drive to raise funds
with which to defray cost of fur
nishing and equipping the labora
tory in order that a maximum a-
mount ot the state appropriation
may be used for research work.
CHRISTMAS SERVICE
AT ST. PAUUS SUNDAY
The Rector, Rev. B. M. Lack
ey, will hold service at St. Paul’s
Bpl^opal church Sunday morn
ing, December 26th, at eleven o’
clock. Sermon and celebration of
the Holy Communion. Visitors
and friends are welcome.
Elder E, A. Long, of Laurel
Springs, will preach at Rock
Springs Primitive Baptist church
on Saturday, December 25, and
Sunday. December 26. The pub
lic Is invited to these Christmas
services.
B. G. Gentry, until recently a
practicing attorney in Reidsville,
has been appointed manager of
the North Wllkesboro branch of
fice of the North Carolina State
Employment Service, succeeding
James M. Anderson, who was re
cently appointed manager of dis
trict 1 with headquarters In
Hickory.
The North Wilkesboro branch
serving 'Wilkes, Alexander, Ashe,
Alleghany and Watauga counties
is a part of district 1.
The appointment of Mr. Gen
try as branch manager was from
the merit examinations given
several months ago. Before hts
appointment as head of the of
fice here- Mr. Gentry was con-
sire Trohday?
He is a graduate of the Uni
versity of North Carolina, whwe
he studied Law and Commerce
and was president of the gradU'^'
ating law class and the Dialetlci
Senate. As a practicing attorneF
he was a member of the Nortlb
Carolina Bar and the Virginia
Bar.
Mr. Gentry is married and has
one child. His family will move
to North Wilkesboro about Jan
uary 1.
In making the announcement
of Mr. Gentry’s appointment by
the state director of the employ
ment service Mr. Anderson, dis
trict manager, also called atten
tion to the fact that it is import-
an at this time for jobless peo
ple to register, especially if they
have any Intention of filing a
claim for unemployment Insur
ance under the state social se
curity act.
The first day tor filing claims
January 3, but
been at work
during 1937 and are now out of
jobs are urged to take the first
step now toward getting the ap
plications under way. The first
step required by the law is regis
tration with an office of the em
ployment service.
It is required that the persons
registering for unemployment in
surance have their social secur
ity numbers.
4
In honor and in reverence of
Him, the Greatest Gift, and on
this anniversary of His birth, in
the spirit of that first Christmas
when “Peace On Earth, Goodwill
To Men”, was proclaimed, we
deem it indeed fitting that we
wish every reader and patron of
this newspaper a joyous holiday
season.
THE JOURNAL-PATRIOT
I ^ f
Shenff'Oi
Mak«
For 1^
Gets’ll B'o^«
'' ■ %
Fee of S5c Allowed Slsortf
On Each Tax Sale Gar*
tificate For Year ■
BOARD MET TUESDAY
3
Wilkes county boafd of :coki-
missiouers In recess sesslod'ItaM*
day made settlement with Sheriff
C. T. Doughton for 1936 taxea
and turned over the 1937 tax
books to him for collection.
Chairman R. G. Finley and
Leet Poplin were present at the
meeting. M. F. Absher, Re^b-
Hcan member, was absent: ■
The order of the commission
ers relative to tax sale and land
sale certificate fees was at fol
lows:
“By mutual agreement with,
the sheriff It was ordered that
Sheriff C. r. Doughton be allow
ed a net fee to cover cost-only,
amounting to 55 cenU for each
land sale certificate for 188*
taxes. It was further ■ -ordered
that $1.50 be retunded'-.tib Mtik
taa^j'^Twho" bat ‘ been
Help For Destitate People By
Several Groups Is Appreciated
Old Age Checks
Sent Out Early
State Makes Effort to Make
Holiday Season Easier
For Dependents
For the first time since th®
state social security act went In
to operation on July 1 the state
lij sending out monthly checks
for old age assistance and aid to
dependent children on the 26th
of the month.
This is construed to mean that
the dependents will have some
thing to spend for Christmas hol
idays.
A total of 172 checks for old
age assistance were forwarded by
the state tor Wilkes people whikr
there were 28 retiring ehec^
for aid to dependent ehildrgn.
Journal-Patriot
Will Miss Issue
Monday, Dec. 27
Following a well eetabltsb-
ed custom The Journal-Patriot
will miss one issue, that of
Monday, December 27, in or
der to allow the editorial and
meclianical staff a brief holi
day vacation.
In the i»«e ot Thursday,
December 30, we shall en
deavor to give full coveraflje of
holiday news and greetings for
the new year.
Merry Christmas!
I Junior Woman’s Chib, Le-
I gion and Sunday School
i Classes Help Needy
Many Asagned to
WoHi Projects
Eft^fivo, after January first,
25,000 additional workers in
North Carolina will be assigned
to work. projects, according to
the local area supervisor, T. D.
Heffner.
In the new allotments made to
states la .Washington last week,
this number was assigned to
North Carolina. Thor© has been
an Increase of 325 workers as
signed to Jobs in the past two
months in this area, and
the new quota ..will be assigned
to projects now in operation.
The hlgheet percentage of jobs
will be In 'Caldw^ county,
where * miU workers, tbnyra, out
df by tbb .i^bn^ of the
liiH Approx-
IfO #fU be pat jtq work
Charles McNeill, Wilkes coun
ty welfare officer, said today
that In behalf ot a number of
I needy families that he wished to
! express appreciation to organla-
tlons and groups which have
rendered help.
A diet of canned blackberries
for three days is what the Buzel-
lan Sunday school class of the
First Baptist church found In a
home while out On a mission of
mercy In giving a shower to a
needy family recommended by
the welfare office.
In a class meeting a member
of the class who is connected
with the office told about a fam
ily which had been investigated
that day and it was learned they
had found a sick mother and
father with seven small children.
The class went to the home, car
ried food and clothes and offer
ed every reasonable assistance.
It so happened that with all the
•various types of aid that the
welfare office has been able to
give that the department had no
funds, food or clothes on hand
with wWch to aid the family
fund so badly destitute at that
time.
’The North Wllkesboro Juntpif
Woman’s club, went to the rescue
of an underprivllwred -boy and
purebased gluses" to rehabilitate
hit' ’ 0 y e '• 1 * h t. ^ Investigation
showed that be wai'anable to see
distinct^, iritboat glasses; and
SchMl attendance was out of the
question qniier elrcumstanoee. as
the (lasd irdrker found them.
:. ^lin, lifflkes post of the Anieri-
ead Ziogioh V«y generously for-
! (^onttouW
■v'.-' .* I'-, ‘J.'t. .
Schools piish
First Half Tenn
Before Holidays
County Schools Able to Op
erate This Year Without
Serious Interruption
Schools in Wilkes county have
completed the fourth month and
have reached the halfway mark
in the 1937-38 school year.
The central schools and manyi
of the dnialW units will reopen
following the holidays on Mon
day, January 3, with prospects
bright for another successful half
year.
In contrast to a year ago, all
schools in the county have been
able to operate practically on
schedule and there have been no
serious interruptions on account
of weather and road conditions.
Activity on the part of the
state highway commission and
the WPA to place ail-weather
surface on many of the leading
secondary roads is given credit
for much of the improvement.
Soil Conservatiim
Office Is Rushed
mm
unduly pennttiirtf.'^fMi»‘/dfeibF7hp-.;
pHes only to yrT
'it was ordered-that th*, settle-'
ment with Sheriff C. T. Dough-
ton for 1936 laxes, as prepared
by C. P. Smifh, public acoo’.int-
aut, be accepted.
The land sale fee item has
been of special Interest because
one ot the campaign pledges of
Sheriff Doughton was that he
would not accept the $2.05 al
lowed the sheriff as fees on each
certificate by an act of the legis
lature in 1935 and that he would
not accept the extra $600 'per
year clerk hire authorized In
another act passed the same year.
In commenting on the matter
Sheriff Doughton said that the
55 cents allowed him on each
certificate for thb 1936 taxes
represented actual cost of adver
tising, printing and making out
of the certificates. He said fur
ther that the difference between
the allowance of 55 cents and
the $2.05 allowed by the law rep
resented a saving of $2.7^ ’o
the taxpayers, which adde^ /
the clerk hire refused by \
sheriff makes a total for
year of $3,300.
Sheriff Doughton now hs.s tk
1937 tax books for collection a%
early payment on the part
those who can pay is urged be
fore a penalty is added.
County Accountant W. P. Kel
ly, who received payment
1937 taxes before the boolu^dW*^
turned over to Sheriff Doughtth,
now has the land sale certlfkSjiteB
for 1936 and any who wish^te'
pay taxes for 1936 or prior
should call at'the’offibe .
county accountant. - --.
Lawrence SCiller,. cleric' of the
Soil Conservation Program, an-
nounoea that eveiy effort . pos
sible is being made in checking
the farms under the- program
which ie necessary-before'pay
ments may be made, and requests
farmers to whom payments, are
due or those who have made
pHcatlonx. to be patient. Bffdtta
win b» made' to > qoipplete tbq
ebpic . ot. tiiel
yee^ of ag soon after aa Iraman^
L'f0r*■
Sunday School
Observe Chiii
Wilkesboro Metlu^t S
school will .exchange gUte
have a treat for .every mMi
of the Sunday school''t’Stiiil
morning.' A full atteadatelh
urged. .,T. f '
On Sunday evening,
a special Christmas pi
the primary, and** jtutSoi^
jQpnta -Qiider
Auuidit.TtterO^j
tifi^ nofe>^f;a
jra*.n.
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