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NOBTH WILKESBORO. N. C, THURSDAY. FEB. 17, 1988,
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Demonstration Byi
Scouts on Streetsj
Saturday Attracts
*dblic Attention
Public Gets Glimpse of Some
of Training Afforded the
Boys of Community
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Wilkes Home Agent
PLAN UNION SERVICE
To Be Held Sunday Evening
to Present Eagle Badge
to Robert McCoy
Activities during the past week
have served to make citizens of
North Wilkesboro and adjacent
communities “Boy Scout con
scious.”
On Saturday afternoon and
night members of Presbyterian
troop number 36 put on street
demonstrations that attracted
the attention of hundreds of peo-
One group put on demonstra
tions in first aid having head
quarters fn a show window of a
department store. This demon
stration included picking up an
twjnrftd person on a stretcher
^ich the Scouts had made and
thduded all first aid treatment.
Another group gave a demon-
Itratlon of tower building with
poles and rope without nails,
gthey constructed a very substan
tial signal tower at the corner of
B and Ninth streets and the
crowd of onlookers almost block
ed traffic. After the tower wa.s
conrpleted the Scouts gave dem
onstrations of signaling.
On a vacant lot at the corner
]^; Of B street and Kensington drive
another group gave a demon-
litpatinn of camping. They^ con-
^ structed all the tents necessary
for a Boy Scout camp and cooked
^ their supper at the camp.
Trook 36 is under the leader
ship of Gordon Finley. Scout
master.
The demonstrations seiwed to
gain the attention of a large
number of people, many of whom
knew very little about >couting
or the type of training the or
ganization affords boys of the
• ^ity and community.
'^■fson Tuesday night the court of
^mnor for the North ilkesboro
district met and laid plans for
a Boy Scout night special serv
ice to be held at the North Wil-
kesboro Presbyterian church on
Sunday night, February 20. at
which, time P. W. Eshelman, Dep
uty district commissioner, will
be speaker and the Eagle Scout
badge will be presented, to Rob
ert Watt (Bob) McCoy.
Following a hymn and invoca
tion all Boy Scouts will repeat
the Scout oath. T. E. Story will
present the speaker. Mr. Eshel
man.
Presentation of t h, e Eagle
Scout badge to Robert McCoy will
.be by W. E. Vaughn-Lloyd, of
jJpjV’ip^on-Salem. Scout commis
sioner.
Allegiance to the flag will be
by Eagle Scouts Hale Jones, Joe
McCoy. Robert Wood Finley,
Paul Haig.wood and Pat Williams,
Jr.
Miss Harriet McGoogan. Wilkes
county’s first home demonstra
tion agent. Miss McGoogan, who
came to Wilkes from W. C. 1..
X. C. where ■'^he was assistant
dietician, finds the ladies of the
county much interested in home
demonstration work, (photo cour
tesy Winston-Salem Journal).
WPA Project For
Construction Of
Gyms Approved
Planning to Erect Adequate
Gymnasiums at Millers
Creek, Mountain View
Applications for WPA projects
calling for construction of gym
nasiums and landscaping of
school grounds at Miilers Creek
and Mountain View high schools
have been APPr-^.eiJn Washing
ton, T. D. Heffner, area supervis
or of WPA, said today.
Identical projects were set up
for each community and the com-
nuinicies are sponsors.
Cost of the projects was set up
at approximately S19.000 each
wiih the cost shared about 50-50
between the sponsor and the fed
eral government.
However, it is understood that
at each place plans call for sal
vaging old school buildings as a
part of the sponsor's contribu
tion.
Mr. Heffner said that it is not
likely that muc'u work can be ac
complished on the projects until
the school building in Wilkesboro
is completed because all WPA la
bor suitable for construction
work is being used there at pres
ent.
GoodwiN Tourney
Will Begin Here
On February 24 th
All High Schools of County
Invited to Take Part In
Basketball Contests
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Nabbed By Dewey
LOCALLY SPONSORED
Is an Annual Activity of
Student Activities Coun
cil at City Schools
Wilkes Woman Is
Robbed In Giphol
North Wilkesboro high school’s
third annual goodwill basketball
tournament for high schools of
Wilkes county will open on
Thursday. February 24, it was
announced today.
Boys and girls teams from the
eight high schools in the county
are expected to take part in the
tournament.
Mount Pleasant versus Fergu
son will be the afternoon games
on opening day, followed by
Roaring River and Wilkesboro at
night. Millers Creek, Mountain
View, Traphill and Ronda schools
will play on the second day.
The tournament is sponsored
annually by the Student Activi
ties association and has been
very successful in former years.
The county champions last year
were Mountain View boys and
Mount Pleasant girls. While
these teams are strong contend
ers for the handsome trophies the
Late News Of
State-Nation
Told Briefly
Philadelphia ... Dixie Davis,
disbarred New York lawyer who
acted as legal counsel for the late
gangster Dutch Schultz, is pic
tured here in police court after
his capture as a fugitive. Davis
is already under indictment for
conspiracy in connection with the
lottery racket.
Farmers To Be
Notified When
Checks Arrive
Applications for Pajrment
Forwarded; Checks Ex
pected About March 15
REDUCE ABOUT HALF
Washington, Feb. 16.—Secre
tary 'V^llace announced today
the 1938 cotton production goal
under the new crop control act
would be around 10,750,000
bales compared with a yield of
18,746,000 bales In 1937.
Ontstand^ Values are O^rra
People In Trade Area of' No
Wilkesboro During 3 • Diy
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Trade Days to Be Forerun-^ ]^|iyor Welcomes
ner of Expansion Trade VUitOF* To City
I During Trade Da^
Events for Year
MANY PARTICIPATING l Through cooperative ertost
_ ' .' ■ ■«. _ ^ i WUkee County Merchants^ Amo
Many Busmess Firms Quote | other-httirffeia Items
Unusual Values Friday,
Wilkes county farmers who
are to receive payment for com
pliance with provisions of the
FATALLY INJURED
Greenville, Feb. 16.—Joseph
Edgar (Jaylor, 30, cleaning com
pany employe, was fatally injured
today when his truck collided
with an automobile which Police
Chief George Clark said was driv
en by John H. McElroy, of Mar
shall. McElroy, whose injuries
were of a minor nature, was
j^aced under $1,000 bond pend-
^ a hearing.
farm program last year
CIS lor Liie nuuusuiiie uuiiiiitrs uiu **'— ^
other teams will be in the thick notified when payment
of the fight for fop honors.
The student council is rapidly
completing plans for the tourney,
which is expected to be the mo.st
interesting in the three-year his
tory of the event.
The tournament was begun
and is maintained as a promoter
of goodwill and sportsmanship a.:
mong the schools of “the county.
Mrs. Norma Yager, of Wash
ington. D. C., is recuperating at
the home of her mother, Mrs.
Lorene Jones, from injuries re
ceived on the night of January
29 in the nation’s capital when a
taxi driver hit her on the head
and robbed her of her cash,
jewelry, hat and coat.
Oddly enough, the robber did
Present for the court of honor »ot disturb a small package
' ~ “ * wrapped in drug store paper. In
bonds and
meeting’^Tuesday night were T. E
Story, chairman, J. B. McCoy, E.
G. Finley and Rev. Watt M. Coop-
' (OouHnued on page eight)
Walter Porter
IsFoondDead
Walter Porter, age 56, citizen
;>r Rock Creek township, was
^ifonnd dead beside the road be-
hlB home and where he had
.'Started to mill late yesterday,
jjp. Porter had started to
corn mill wHh a bag of corn and
Jwas riding a horse. Robert Stone,
'-MMittg tho road abc-ut two hours
after Mr. Porter left hds home,
•aw the rideriess horse In a near-
V .field and the body beside the
broker I M. Myers was sum-
d-’fM after Investigation de-
i -tiliaj, lia eajud
caneea,
jratteck.
wjg gurvived by his wife and
Roy
River; Mrs.
old/’ 'Wlhaton-Salwn;
' Elsie Por-
contained stocks
jewelry worth several thousand
dollars.
Mrs. Yager had decided to vis
it her mother here but was late
reaching the station and hailed
a taxi to take her back to the
hotel where she was staying.
After traveling a short distance
the taxi hit the curb, throwing
Mrs. Yager forward. Then, she
said, thei driver struck her over
the head with some steel object.
She partially recovered con
sciousness next day in the eraer-
ajgency hospital. She learned that
another taxi driver had discover
ed her baggage and carried it to
police iheaiSquarters. -Officers
found her several miles from the
spot where she said the taxi driv
er struck her. When found her
clothes were tattered and her
hands and finger nails were
bruised. Indicating that she had
trl^ to.crawl while in a seml-
cohsclons'coiifltleil.
Sht^ received treatment at a
Was’aington hospital for ’ several
days and last week was allowed
to bcr ln the trip to North Wllkos-
boro. Sbe arrived, Friday at the
home of her mother here but has
nob coi^btely recovered from
Better Service
For Unemployed
Representatives NCSES Will
Fill Appo-ntments Week
ly in Nearby Counties
In order to provide means for
satisfactorily administering the
Unemployment Compensation act
a representative will spend one
day each week i;i Sparta, Jeffer
son and Boone, it was learned
here today from B. G. Gentry,
manager of the branch office of
the North Carolina state employ
ment service.
Since January 1 monthly ap
pointments have been filled at
the three points but the rush of
applicants for job insurance and
the delay resulting in filing
claims only once each month .has
caused the employment service
to arrange to fill weekly appoint
ments, which will speed filing of
claims and delivery of checks.
Tuesdays at Jefferson, Thurs
days at Sparta and Fridays at
Boone complete the new schedule
of points served from the office
here.
Far exceeding expectations,
more than 400 filed claims at
, Jefferson,' while about half that
number of Jobless in Alleghany
county are seeking Job Insurance.
Change from monthly to week
ly appointments will also result
in. a more thorough service as an
employment agency.
will be
arrives.
County Agent Dan Holler said to
day.
It will not be necessary to call
at the office of the county agent
until the farmer has received a
card telling him that the checks
have arrived, Mr. Holler said.
Farm benefit checks for 1937
are expected about the .miiJi
Yfarch.
BODY I.OCATED
• Laurinburg, Feb. 16.—The bo
dy of Leo Douglass, 22-year-old
textile worker, who disappeared
13 days ago under suspicious cir
cumstances from a filling station
hear Beaver Dam creek, and for
whom officers of two counties
had been searching, was found
j late this afternoon floating in
I about three feet of water near the
j spot where he was last seen. Rur
al Policeman P. B. Odom, of
Marlboro county, S. C., said to
night.
Labor (Hfice Of
WPA Is Coming
Labor Department For This
Area to Be Set Up With I was responsible.
Area WPA Office
KTONDIKE RUSH
Burlington, Feb. 16.— With
buckets, pans, any sort of con
tainer, scores this afternoon es
sayed something akin to a^Klon-
dlke gold rush as
_ ga .
the top of one of eight derailed
freight cars' on the Southern rail
way two and a half miles east of
Haw River. The accident occur
red to train No. 65, westbound,
about 1:30 o’clock. The cause of
derailment was not definitely de
termined, although opinion was
Saturday and Monday
North Wilkesboro merch
ants and business firms have
merchandise which the peo
ple of Wilkes and adjoining
counties need.
And an event will be staged
Fi’iday and Saturday of this
week and Monday of next in
which the buyer and seller
are invited to meet for the
mutual advantage of both.
The event is “Trade Days”
and during the three days
outstanding values are being
offered by a number of fims.
North Wilkesboro merchants
have large stocks of merch
andise and are willing to sac
rifice profits in order to re
duce stocks during this event.
Trade Days is sponsored by the
Wilkes County Merchants’ Asso
ciation. One of its major purpos
es being to add prestige to North
Wilkesboro as the logical trading
center of a great section of
northwestern North Carolina.
In commeaUaS
other.
have designated Friday, Eatevday
and Monday, February 18, 18 and
21, as “Trade Hays” evTOt , in
North Wilkesboro. .
For this event the bnsiniiM
firms participating are offertaR
uniLsnal values whirii are calcu
lated to boost North WUkesboro’lB
popularity as the trading center
for a big section of northwestem
North Carolina with more than
100,000 potential enstomers.
North 'Wilkesboro expect*
many visitors during “Trade
r>ays’’ and a cordial invitation ts
extended all new patrons and tli*
many who are already convinced
that North Wilkesboro is the best
place to do business.
Come to North Wilkesboro dur
ing “'Iriide Days," or any time.
Your business visits wiU be mu
tually advantageous and a cordial
welcome awaits everyone.
R. T. McNIEIi,
Mayor of North 'Wilkesboro.
Wilkes County
Oil Men to Meet
Tuesday Night
'etroleum Intfoa-
tensive drive to convince people
that North Wilkeslmro merchants
and business firms offer better
values and services at lower costs.
“Other merchandising events
are contemplate! during 1938,”
Mr. Day said.
With the expected upturn in
Jiscuss I^.
VV-S >V11U Lllt» v-.a f/C WX.. VI wpvv.ii. . »•
expressed that a fallen drawhead I business almost any day, and ef-
A labor department for area 10
of the Works Progress adminis
tration will be set up with the
area office here, T. D. Heffner,
area supervisor, said today.
At present the labor depart
ment for both area 7 and area 10
is located at area 7 office in
■WUnston-Salem. It is understood
that the personnel of the labor
department office there will be
divided when the addition is
made to the area office here.
Mr.' Heffner said that the la
bor department here will facili
tate work in the area in that
workers can be assigned or trans
ferred without delay.
Schoolmasters To
Meet Tuesday Night
Wilkes county schoolmasters’
club will meet at Wilkesboro
school on Tuesday evening, Feb
ruary 22, 6:30 o'clock to hear
Dr. Susan B. Akers, dean of li
braries at the University of North
Carolina.
It will be a dinner meeting and
teachers who plan to attend are
asked to notify T. E. Story not
later than Monday.
INTERNATIONAL CRISIS
London, Feb. 16.—Great Bri
tain and France, gravely worried
over Germany’s drastic moves to
force nazi domination on Austria,
decided tonight to ask Chancellor
Adolf Hitler’s government to de
clare its future Intentions regard
ing the country. This decision
■was made public after a two-hour
forts of government officials to
raise commodity prices, the con
sumers may expect higher prices
in the near future. The person
who supplies his needs now will
be using his head,” Mr. D.iy said
in further commenting on the
trade event.
The full effect of this state
ment is realized when the fact
that regular prices of merchan
dise in practically all lines are
meeting of the British cabinet— lower than a year ago is consid-
tte second session of the day—
and was believed to reflect a
joint Anglo-French understand
ing to strengthen their weak re
sistance against nazi encroach
ment in Austria.
REVIEW PAYNE CASE
Raleigh, Feb. 16.—Attorneys
seeking to save Bill Payne and
Wash Turner, convicted murder
ers, from death in North Caro
lina’s gas chamber won a victory
In the state Supreme court today
when the tribunal agreed to re
view the appeal in the case. The
court granted, a motion of cer
tiorari, filed by Lyle Jones, of
Asheville, and counter-motion,
filed by Attorney General A. A.
P. Seawell, that the matter be
dismissed. Seawell claimed the
case had not been docketed in
compliance with Supreme court
rules.
ered.
But for the trade event cus
tomers may practice far greater
thrift and foresight. Regular pric
es have in many instances been
reduced more- than 25 per cent
and many reduced by half.
With higher prices forecast
because of monetary policies and
other causes. Trade Days event
offers an unusual and rare op
portunity to the people of North
western North Carolina.
There are many logical rea.sons
why people of this section of the
state can trade to advantage in
North Wilkesboro. The trading
area of this city is larger than
that of many cities five times its
size. In other words the merch
andising part of the business life
of the city has been built up on
par with business of much larg
er cities.
3 FORMER WILKES MEN KILLED SATURDAY
IN MINE EXPLOSION IN WEST WYOMING
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John Baker and son, William
P>nker, former residents of Pair-
t lains conimunlty and Denver
Holbrook, a former resident of
I>aurel Springs, were instantly
killed Saturday while working in
a coal mine In the Rocky moun
tains in Wyoming and near the
Idaho state line.
The mysterious explosion killed
five workmen, all instantly ex
cept one who ■was blown from
the mouth of the mine. He died
soon after the disaster despite
first aid administered by Mrsr
Baker.
Mrs. Baker traveled on skis
over* snow several feet deep five
miles to the nearest ranch to
give news of the explosion which
took the lives of her hnsband,
son and fellow workers. The ho-
tives in Wilkes was to the effect I day afternoon. The mine is own-
that all three bodies will be re- ed by Idaho Falls and Star Val-
turned to their native county for ley, interests.
coiBjUNeiy ---
wWtoh ixMdttded con-: (dtee w«4>i,^Yer^ from'
* J , fiditAttr Ail .hiir “MUm
burial and are expected to arrive
by train early next week.
Among their relatives ,ln
Wilkes are Mrs. Arlene Harris,
a daughter of Mr. Baker, and
George Baker, a brother. They
live near this city.
Following is an account of the
explosion,. The article Is taken
from the - Idaho Falls' Post-Reg
ister, Sunday edition:
• Flye ■’men; were bellev^ to be
dead Saturday as result of a ter
rible explosion' -which ,wrecked
the Vail' coal 'flUae; :le^ed['’4tp-
pfbxlmatety a hnndM -miles
northeast' of bwre Jost over ~!4h»
Wyoming Hm,
.
to ■ Sfeld-
iformation as to the blast was
rd^lVed in a telephone conver-
sanon with Sam Young, at the
Yonng ranch, which is about fi^
miles from the 'Vail mine. 'Mr.'
Young reported that an invest!;
gation at the mine revealed no
sign of life, leading him to iifr
llj^e that all are dead. One mln-
ef was blown out of the mine,
while the others were believed to
be .baried'under the debris in-
sMe';’'>-' •
The, dsed were listej| as John
of the mlnsy
W'illiam 19. his ton..rMear
17. Aati^.,j|mloii Irie and Denver
llolbrooiri^ end 'HOI-
Seeking Homes For
One Boy, One Girl
Charles McNeill, Wilkes
county welfare officer, is seek
ing homes for a girl 6 years of
atfe and a boy age 8.
They are infelHgent children
frmn a good family and no per
son need ask for either of the
children without being able to
good references, the wel-
•^ar* officer said.
“Wholesale and retail oil deal
ers and their employees, of
Wilkes county, will meet at 7:36
p. m., Tuesday, February 22. at
the Banquet Hall in Hotel
Wilkes, according to S. V. Tom
linson, Chairman of the Wilkes
County Petroleum Industries
Committee.
Chairman Tomlinson stated:
“The misuse of highway tax
fund.s in this State will he dis
cussed at the meeting.”
Of the 25c in taxes that the
State receives from every dollar
taken in for gasoline by service
station operators, approximately
3 per cent is being diverted to
non-highway purposes. This, ac
cording to Chairman Tomlinson,
is actually a diversion tax equiv
alent to 3 per cent of the gross
receipts of gasoline sales and is
greater than the net profits after
wages, overhead and other costs
are met.
The gasoline dealers are col
lecting 7 1-4 cents on each gal
lon of gasoline, which is equiva
lent to a sa1e« tax of 48 per cent
of the retail price.
S. Gilmer Sparger of Raleigh,
Secretary of the North Carolina
Petroleum Industries Committee,
will attend and address the meet
ing. He will discuss the program
recently adopted by the State
Committee, which urges the end
ing of diversion and the enact
ment of a Constitutional Amend
ment to prevent future misuse of
highway funds.
In 1936 North Carolina divert
ed more than $2,000,000. or 10
per cent of the $20,961,000 In
taxes collected by the State, ac
cording to the U. S. Bureau ot
Public Roads. 1'
Begin Road Work
On Highw^ 115
Fifty Men to Be Used in Rock
Quarry; Crush For Use
On Two Projects
Penalty Will
\T: Increase March 2
' Attention is called to the fact
that the penalty on unpaid coun
ty taxes after March If will be
doubled. ; "
A Penalty of one per cent was
a^ted to unpaid 193T taxes this
oion^ according to law and the
PRtg^ If the taxes are not paid.
* Of- beforr-Mach l vilU 1»o
AM .who OW «?•.
b IncNased’
Nello Teer, who has contract'
for grading and stone surfacing
highway IIS from new |PiJke»-
boro to the Wilkes-lr^idl -liBis.
has oitened a rock quarry on
Hunting Creek. . ■
From the quarry ^ tak«
stone for. shrfa^..the:.iili4 ^
high-way il6‘and a Hnk ^.tto
YadkinriUe •• Moq|kfrijl^l^1|^^
which Mr. —
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