N4w B«ra, tun. 81.—ClartoB
B»nks and 91cdon Hardison,
koth ot vero killed
early today truck on
'•Wsk Ui«y lifwMlftng struck a
brtd^ at Bowaiv'Hill, between
Saffolk and Petersburg, Va.
ACdDBNT FATAL
Odldsboro, Jan. 26.—Rufus R.
Thompson, 86, formerly of Golds
boro, brother of^^rs. J. B. Hope-
welt, of New Hoipe township,
Whyne county, was killed white
drtricg bis car near Blkton, Mr..
da^. Details of the accident
sere nrt learned here.
Get
murance. Checks
Here Next Week;
Regdatwns Told
Persons Whose Claims Hare
Been Approved to Receive
Checks At NCSES
report regularly
SURRY ..SCHOOL BURNS
Mh-Alry, Jan. 26.—Beulah
.Jdsh achool, one of Surry coun
ty’s consolidated schools, located
10 miles northwest of Mt. Airy
on highway 89, burned to the
ground this afternoon about 5:30
o’clock. The damage was estimat
ed at $20,000, of which $13,000
was covered by insurance, accord
ing to John W. Comer, county
school jsuperintendent, who said
the building will be replaced
at oace.
First Checks To Be Given
Out Monday At Branch
Office In City
First checks for Jobless under The “come hither look Is Just
the state social security act are Part of her act but her elaborate
x. IntarnPA.
expected to arrive for dlstribu
tion on Monday, January 31, G
costumes and difficult Interpre
tations are capturing the heart of
B.
I UU iUUUUa/y aimiiUttij VI. , , n t rtX. a i
Gentry, head of the employ- San Francisco where Sal Shokl,
•fW
edtn WAVE FELT
A wave of cold engulfed most
of the nation Wednesday while
storm-bound residents of Michi
gan’s upper peninsula burrowed
through towerl^ ' mounds o f
Driftn'Tfinglng up to 30
feet in some ot the northern
reaches of the state confronted
highway crews seeking to open
engineers reported rural areas
Intercity travel lanes but county
would remain isolated at least
until tomorrow.
SLENN COX KILLED
"• rjberty, Jan. 26.—Glenn Cox.
27, employe of Staley Lumbar
ment service office here, said to
day.
The checks which are to be
given out next week will cover
the week ending January 22.
Mr. Gentry again called atten
tion to the fact that workers who
filed claims for Job Insurance
must report weekly and the law
says weekly means on the same
day of each week.
Those who will receive checks
Monday if they arrive from the
state office will 'be only those
who filed claims on Monday, Jan
uary 1, and Vho have reported
on each following Monday and
who have not found any employ
ment. Those who have been re
porting on Tuesday will get their
checks when they call on Tues
day, February 1, and the same
;ule applies to the other days of
the week.
A person who filed his claim.
celebrated Korean dancer Is be
ginning a world tour. Miss Shokl,
stage star of North China, Man-
choukuo and Japan, is shown in
the above pose from the "Fortune
Teller of Miko.”
Street Project
Here Is Started;
Forty At Work
Several Dirt Streets To Get
Surface of Crushed Stone;
Crusher Bought
m I f vUi'ytK/j x/a w —• — — — — ^ yc sovu
company, was Instantly killed ^ays for instance, on Thursday
o’clock w'ill get his check on Thursday
4hls afternoon about 4 „„ ^
when a truck he was driving and it will be needless for him
turned over about eight miles oj. her to call for the check
north of Liberty, near Nathanael any other day of the week.
Greene high school. He was de
livering a load of building supply
materials when he apparently
lost control of the truck, which
turned over and threw him sev
eral feot In front of th^ivebicle.
He suffered a crushed skull.
About 40 men have been
placed on the street improve
ment project here, it was learn
ed today from T. D. Heffner, area
WPA supervisor.
The street improvement pro
ject begun this week, calling for
a total expenditure ot approxi
mately $20,000, is sponsored by
the city with the cost shared be
tween the WPA and North Wll-
keeboro.
The project calls tor surfacing
several dirt streets in the east
3,600 Signers In
1938 Soilfcogram em end of the city. The dirt | from u^er the debris.
MAY USE CONTROL
Washington, Jan. 26.—Secre
tary Wallace said today a con
trol program for flue-cured to
bacco could be placed in opera
tion this year if Congress pa.ssed
a farm bill "within the next two
County Agent Reports Much
Interest Among Fanners
Of Wilkes County
streets are to be surfaced with
crushed atone, which is now be- most sbrlously injured of the ex-
Ing mined and crushed at the cavation crew, was brought to
lAAO M44V* w* —w ViCTT, vveaa
rock quarry near the lower Yad- Petersburg hospital, where phy
kin bridge. The sponsor has sicians said the full extent of his
Interest farmers are showing
in the soil conservation program
offered by the government indi-
a, - .cate that more than 3,500 Wilkes
weeks.” He told a press confer-. county farmers will enter the
enco this would provide a means | program this year, County Agent
■ »r "handling the tobacco situ- i Holler said today.
XkXil —ww SlCiaUb OtilU tUO lUll Ui. X*10
placed a crushed on the grounds, injuries had not been determined.
The project also includes wid- two others injured, S. C.
New Law Makes It
Unlawful To Hunt'
On Sunday in Wilkes
Homer Brookshire, county
game protector, calls attention to
the new game law which makes
it unlawful to hunt on Sunday.
The Board of Conservation and
Development, in accordance with
authority vested by Chapter 486,
Public Laws of 1935, met In reg
ular session at Ral^b on Janu
ary 19, 1938, and voted to pro
hibit the hunting or taking of
game birds Or animals on Sunday
In North Carolina.
Mr. Brookshire stated that this
law is now effective In this State
and he expects to have if enforc
ed In Wilkes county.
Boomer Man Dies
In Earth Slide
H. M. Hamby Dies When
Excavation Caves In Near
Petersburg, Va.
Petersburg, Va., Jan. 24.—
Loosened by heavy rains, tons of
earth fell into a highway exca
vation on the Richmond-Peters-
burg highway two miles north of
here today, killing a foreman
and injuring three workers.
H. M. Hamby, 30, of Boomer,
N. C., was pinned beneath the
muddy clay and scaffolding In
the pit being dug to house an
abutment for the Atlantic Coast
Line railway underpass, 'which
was being widened. He was dead
when workers and a crew from
the Petersburg and Colonial
Heights fire departments pulled
J. W. FarfStog, of Petersburg,
Lewis and Richmond Williams,
Itlon” which he said had been
causing concern among growers.
The total number of work
sheets signed in 1937 was 2,040,
ening Forester Avenue with ad
dltional concrete pavement. The were permitted to leave the hos-
materials have been purchased' pjtal after dispensary treatment
but the work will not be started foj cuts and bruises,
on that particular phase ot the* Train service was not disrupted
project until freezing weather is ),y tjje. cave-In which occurred
over, Mr. Heffner said.
«*4x*v**o - auctJtn *1* X «/V I »• fce*,* .vix.v,
He also said programs could be jir. Holler said. To date this year
made operative for corn and there have been 1,600 new sign-
wheat but that cotton presented, ers with every indication that
Grover C. McGlmsey, whose
tact at getting work out of WPA
laborers has been the subject of ^
"greater difflcultlea.”
PAYNE, TURNER TRIAL
Asheville, Jan. 26.—Van Pat
ton, on whose farm State High
way Patrolman George Penn was
shot to death last August 22,
Identified Wash Turner today a.s farmers
several hundred additional farm
ers will decide to have a part in
the program during 1938.
A concerted drive has been
under way to get every farm
under a work sheet for the year
regardless of whether or not the
wish 10 participate.
much favorable comment local
ly, is foreman on the street im
provement project. He was also
foreman of the sewer line exten
sion project, which was complet
ed ahead of schedule and at less
than estimated cost.
Will Erect New
Buildinsf On lOth
A
an armed man he saw near the. Goal.? will be set for each farm
dead officer’s automobile shortly ■ and every farmer will be encour-
after the shooting He said he | aged to reach his individual goal,
could not Identify Turner’s com- j if he does not wish to comply
panion. Turner and Bill Payne, j with provisions of the program
long escaped convicts, are on i for which payments arc made he Beech Blankenship Lets Con-
trial for the r lives on a murder jg not obligated to do so, Mr. — - - — —
irbarge In t e death of Penn, Holler said.
slain after he had chased into a The soil conservation program
dead-end road two men in a ] has proved to he more popular
blue car who had wheeled about j among Wilkes farmers than the
and sped away from a highway’ ....
tract For Building To
House His Cafe
irei^dBg station.
^ ‘ ■" ■
1,M2 CLAIMS PAID
.. iSIrment of 1.062 lump-sum
clidjas was made iu North Caro-
.^RnSr daring the first year’s ope-
- ratjff" of the Federal Govern
Beech Blankenship, who for
triple A. In the first year of the many years has operated a cafe
substitute plan there were one known as Beech’s Place on Tenth
thousand signers, last year there street, has let contract to T. H.
were over 2,000, and there are In- Settle for erection of a modern
dications that last year’s figure brick building on his lot "
may bi doubled for 1938.
Meanwhile the office force is ed.
where
the small cafe building was locat-
The 'building will be 25 x 40
.forwarding applications for pay- — _
ms^’s old-age Insurance system, j ment under the 1937 program feet and will be erected specially
to wage earners who had reach- and it is hoped that checks will for a eafe, Mr. Blankenship said,
ed Age 65 and the estates or rela-
tlaae of those who had died, W.
C. Bprulll, manager of the Salis-
Field Office announced to-
,-These payments, represent-
per cept of the total
-oaM Ur the worker, a-
^Smted to $17,945.24. or an
of $16.90 lor North Car-
arrlve in time lor the farmers to Every effort will be
use them in putting out early
Penalty On Taxes
After February 1
Urn.
been called to
tha law a
ttat'nndfir the law a
per cent will 'be
to'" iJotihty and city taxes
February 1.
iy, 'February 1, will be
day bn which county or
iiaxee for the year 1937 may
^pald without penalty being
‘aSded- .Taxpayer* are ysed to
b pay^lr tax^ to or before Feb-
-ruary 1 and ^ the amount of
^ the .aiseonnt
crops. The compliance checking
revealed that many farmers fail
ed to comply with provisions of
the act and will not receive pay
ment. These are being notified
and the county agent or some
member of the office personnel
points out in what way the farm
er failed to comply and why he
win not receive payment. The
most prevalent reason among
those who will not be paid Is
that they exceeded their soil de
pleting base as set up by their
work sheets.
made to
have the building ready for oc
cupancy in two months, he said.
The old cafe building his been
moved to an adjoining lot where
the business will continue to be
operated until the new building
Is completed.
shortly before 2 p. m. The work
ers. employed by a North Caro
lina construction company, were
engaged in widening the under
pass to accommodate the new
four-lane highway.
Funeral service was held Wed
nesday at Boomer for Horace known Wilkes family, a son
Moody Hamby, 30, who was kill- Mr. and Mrs. Wp G. Lowe,
Plans Laid For
Special Event
At City School
C. W. Phillips, of W. C. U.
N. C., Will Be Keynote
Speaker For Day
INVITE SCHOOL HEADS
“Attitude*” Will Be Theme
of Conference Laatingr
Throughout Day
Aliail
Pi^end^s
Outstanding among coming
Feb-
ence at the North
high school on Thursday,
ruary-3.
In a faculty meeting held Tues
day afternoon general plans
the all day event, to which stu
dent leaders and principals from cabinet falls after Chamber fails
all high schools In the county are to approve labor and fiscal pol
Invited, were made.
In making announcement
icy. President t«ebfun calls on
of Blum to form new cabinet. (Bul-
the event W. D. Halfacre, super- letin) Leon Blum gives up task
intendent of the city schools, said of forming cabinet, fails to rec-
the general conference theme win on die Communists. (Extra)
be “Attitudes.’’ The conference Chautemps Is forming new cabi-
should be worth much to the net to Include, among others,
school and community, he said
'because the students of the high
school and the sevgfnth grade will
have the opportunity of hearing
outstanding people discuss vari
ous phases of the general theme
and it will provide the student
council, the immediate sponsor of
the event, with opportunity for
leadership and Initiative.
In addition to the students in
the seventh grade and high
school the student council has
extended an Invitation to the
president of the student body, the
president of the junior class and
the principal of every high
school In Wilkes county.
The classes will assemble as
(Continued on page five)
Muncie Lowe Is
Taken By Death
Munsie Stamey Lowe, age 18.
who held a position here with
Carl W. Steele, jeweler, died this
morning in a hospital in States
ville following an illness of two
weeks.
He w! 3 a member of a widely
Of
of
ed In an accident Monday near Moravian Falls. He is survived by
Petersburg, Va.
A resident of the Boomer com
munity, he was a son of the late
W. H. Hamby and Mrs. Margaret
Dula Hamby, who survives. Also
surviving are the following
brothers and sisters: Mrs. Carl
Fincannon, Mrs. Claude Walsh,
Burchette and Tarnce Hamby,
of Boomer: and Mrs. Roy Deal,
of Taylorsville.
his parents, one brother and
four sisters: W. Herman Lowe,
of Farmington; Mrs. Masten
Walsh, of Moravian Falls; Mrs.
Frank Pearson, Boone; Miss
Winnie Lowe, of Moravian Falls;
and Miss Bertie Lowe, ot Bur
lington.
Funeral service will he held at
Moravian Falls Baptist church
Friday afternoon, 2:30 o’clock.
1937 Was Best Year In History Of
Buildup And Loan Association Here
The annual meeting of the i few of North Wilkesboro’s lead-
stockholders of the North Wll- Ing citizens. lU first president
kesboro Building & Loan Assocl--was J. C. Smoot,, who* at that
Gordon Mills Has
Conunenced^^H^lm
Warning Issued
About License
Gordon cotton, mill, located at
Roaring River, resumed ' -opera-',
tions last week and has been
atlon was held Monday evening,
January 24, in the city hall In
North Wllkesboro. The meeting
was well attended and the reports
of the officers were made, which
included a lengthy report of the
Secretary - Treasurer which Is
found in this issue of The Journ
al-Patriot.
The old board of directors
was re-elected as follows: J. C.
.RiiSns, S. V. •’Tomlluson, C. P.
!.Walter, J. H. Rector, J. B, Sny
der, D. J. Carter, H. M. Hutch-
Qpg^ W. H. H. Waugh, R. G. Fin
dley, A. H. Casey, J. B. Williams,
C. E. Jenkins.
J. C. Reins, genial postmaster,
was again re-elected as president
of the association, S. V. Tomlln-
workjpg full time since thal date.
Police Chief J. E. Walker said
today that a checkup revealed
that many locel people have not
purchased city automobile and
truck license for 1938.
Those who fall to purchase 11c-
:-n3e In the next few days will be
cited $0 court, he said.
The mill, which affords em
ployment to many people of that
section, had been closed for sev
eral weeks.
Grier Mills, located west of
this city, are now operating part urer,
time “
son, prominent merchant and
'manufacturer, as vice president,
A. H. Casey, prominent attorney,
wes re-^ected as .the association’s
legal head, and J.v B. Willlama,
was re-elected as secretary-treas-
time was the head of the Smoot
Tannery, which was later pur
chased by the International Shoe
company. There are a few of the
charter members of this associ
ation still active In business In
North Wllkesboro. A. K. P.earson,
K. M. Allen and J. B. Deans are
three men who were charter
members.
North Wllkesboro should * be
and . Is justly proud of this very
fine institution, which has done
(-Continued .on page eight)
'f-At/si-—-.'
Twenty-five per cent of the wa
ter in the Dead Sea is salt. Bit-
‘uminous coal will float in it.
-k" '-'V r-ia:- ■ -’•'r-’
Paris (Special) . . . Leon Blum
events In educational circles will (above) Socialist leader resigns
be the Social Standards Confer- post as Popular Front Premier
"Wllkesboro after Chamber refuses vote of
I- confidence. (Late Cable) Camille
Chantemps. (inset), forms Cabi
net fo'succeed Blum who accepts
of portfolio of Vice Premier in new
i- cabinet. (Radiogram) Chautemps
Leon Blum. (Latest Dispatch)
Leon Blum —.
Aurora Borealis,
Nature s Neons,
Shine Brightly
Nature Put* On Big Show
In NorAern'SKy Tt^-
day Night
The Aurora Borealis (northern
lights) spread its beautiful light
rays across the northern sky
'Tuesday night.
One of the most brilliant dis
plays ever seen, was the way the
lights were described by older
residents here. Many younger
people saw nature’s big show for
the first time and were much Im
pressed.
While northern lights are vis
ible at 4ifferent Intervals the dis
play Tuesday night was one of
the greatest recorded by scient
ists and people throughout the
northern hemisphere gazed in
wonderment at the neon rays as
they flashed across the sky.
In many sections the
fore seen the lights, streets were try In the county will grow.
crowded with awe-stricken peo-
Will Be Held At . _
Hall Beghmmg at
o’clock Fridar Nifiit
MANY TICKETS SOLD
Good Time Aasutudj,
ceed* Go Into
Fight PariUJawf"*'
Mayor R. T. McNMi. •eereti^F-
treasurer of the M’gnnhwtieu.
promoting the President'*' .BilMi!''
day Ball at the armory hatL eu,-
Friday night of this week', "keV/
ported this morning tbeti the M*'
vance sale of ticket* ha* :.-4iaaar
good and a large crowd
ed to be present to enjoy the oe>
caslon. • '
The ball Is one of hundred*
being held throughout thel conn-''
try to raise funds with which to
fight infantile paralysis. Coopera
tion from the pnbitc is soIicRed
on the merit, of the movement
and the humanitarian cause for
which the annual event was In
stituted.
The 'ball Friday night will be
gin at eight o’clock and the com
mittee on arrangements he*
everything in readiness to afford
entertainment, Including good
orchestra music, for all who at
tend. Assurance Is given that the
ball will be wall chaperoned and
that the best ot order will be
maintained.
Tickets are one dollar each or
as much more as any person
wishes to pay with the assurance
that practically all of the price
of the ticket will go into the na
tional fund with a minimum tak
en out for Incidental expenses
curtailed in staging the event.
There will be both round and
square dancing, something to af
ford entertainment and anruse-
ment for all who attend.'.
Tickets -mdy be purchased in
advance from any of the follow
ing: R. T. McNicI, C. T. Dough-
ton, H. A. Cranor, C. B. Eller, J.
B. McCoy, George Forester,. R. G.
Finley, 0. K. Pope, A. A. Cash-
ion, H. M. Hutchens and T. 8.
Kenerly.
Dairy Fanners’
Outlook Better
Famham Says Farmers Wb#
Stuck to Industry Meeting
With Greater Success
"About 70 Wilkes farmers who
lu mail/ Dcvimuo u...^ lights continued their interest and pro-
were mrs'taker"forfirre\t dist- Rress and dairying through the
were iiiituitAcu lui auto . ,
ant points. In some parts of Eur- depression will lorm the nuclee*
ope where people had never be- around which the dairying indus-
the opinion expressed today
was
by
pie who feared some great un- F. R. Farnham, dairy specialist
natural phenomenon like the end the extension service, on a
visit to Wilkes.
The cheese and butter factory
the '"’as established here when high
the butterfat prices prevailed, Mr.
of time was close at band.
Scientists explain the lights as
"gigantic neon tubes of
stratosphere—the gales of -
upper air touched off by the elec- Farnham said, and many b^amo
tricity of the magnetic storms discouraged when prices fell to
high above the earth. These same low levels during the depression,
magnetic storms penetrate the But there were about 70 farmers
earth.”
The magnetic storms play hav
oc "with radio and telegraph com
munication and in some areas-said.
who stuck with the Industry
through the low pricM aird oth
ers are becoming interested, he
these forces of communication
were temporarily out of order.
Radio Interference was notice
able here Tuesday night.
Officers Locate
liqwir In Homes
Sheriff'E^ghton and Depu
ty. Shdo***ful In Two
' Recent Raid*
To Erect Service
Station and Parking laon itiu weei ui tuio v*ij «***«
Lot On “C” Street found' six quarts of liquor. Ad-
T. Doughton on
night raided the estab-
lisb]^*)^ of Virgil Adams on Gor^
dbn Hl'u west of this city and
ams operates the place formerly
F. C. (Toni) Forester, owner occupied by Carl Wallace, who
of Poreetsr’s Nu-Way ’seirlce,’ reived a jail sentence in f^-
has be«ua construction of a serv- eral court.'Adams was not pfos-
ice statldiiS^ parking lot on’C ent "when the search-wa* tiad^’
street ohWlot adjacent to the ’ The homo'of Charlie D«^
postotflee Yalldlag. ’^
, According to present'plans the «y Depirtr Odell WWOlp^n a
establishment will' offer a ’ coita-pew-dajaal^'aad tmf gallon* eC
The leading ones, he said, hay*
gradually improved their heeds
and an amazing improvement ia.
their farms has resulted. This h*
considered one of the principal-
benefits of dairying In conneetto*
with g'eneral farming'. _
The general outlook ‘now,
said. Is for' better and more ste-
ble prices! and since the famen
who continued their dairying ope
rations are meeting with greater
success .others will be.' attirectsC
to dairying, was the opinion h*
expressed.
While In Wilkes Monday and
Tuesday Mr. .Faniham visited, a
number of farms in company with.
County A^nt Dsn Holler and Aa-
sl'kant Agent Jeme OUes,^
m
-fk
Wwrns People Abovt
^vash Dumping Here ^
Police ewet J." B. Walker In k
3^tement .taeaed, for. ppMioattpik. b*
this .ai^nf^t|p.ed k warning to _
all p*e#We4ti,ll*ye^|ww du^ “
lag trUa ift iar O i
ftha$;:i-t|mn.
Rh arthd ttiat no one hMl ttiS:
pdkit.-
■ay:'
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