North Carolina Newspapers

TgE St«te-)b|ii« told ij, lilACH BLOOM '\*4 Rockingham, Feb. 18.—Poach buds at4 as large as peas now— uausnaiiy far adTancod for this time of year. Barring unexpected a cold weather, the trees will be in full blossom the first week in March. 40-HOUR WEEK Columbia, S. C., Feb. 18.— Governor Olin Johnston signed the 40-hour textile bill today, de claring it was “biasing the trail for national legislation to elimi nate slave-driving forever from ^kdmtrlal life.” Trade Here Success FARM REFERENDA Washington, Feb. IS. — Tho first deferenda under the new ag ricultural adjustment act o f 1938 will be held March 12 a- mong the cotton farmers and pro ducers of flue-cured, fire-cured •• and dark air-cured tobacco, Sec retary Wallace announced today. The outcome of the referenda will determine whether market ing quotas will be applied to these commodities in 1938. The referenda on tobacco will be held in nine states, including North Carolina. i^PRAISES PRECEDENT Charlotte, Feb. 18.—Governor Hoey tonight described as a “wise example” George Washing- i*a refusal of ^l' third term as President of the United States. •‘President Washington establish ed the precedent of limiting his service to two terms in the White House and through the more than a century and a" half of our country's history that precedent has never been broken,'’ Hoey Take Advantage Unusual Values In 3-Day Event Trade Day* Result of Coop erative Effort Among the Business Firms Here Trade Days event .here Fri day, Satuiday and today w ere successful business stimulants and provided a source of substantial savings to the many who visited the city during the three-day event to supply their needs. Despite inclement weather Friday and a greater part of the day Saturday the city was busily crowded Saturday with shoppers who were de lighted with the values of fered by many merchants and business films of the city. Sponsored by the Wilkes Coun ty Retail Merchants association, id adding “his ideals of gov- j this organization believes that ament are' still sound.” ! the event has proved beneficial in acquainting people with many of the advantages of trading in No!”.h Wilkesboro. the logical trading center for a big area of Northwestern North Carolina. Trade Days, the initial trade event of the year, is only a stepp ing stone to bigger and better trade events in North Wilkesboro during the year, local business leaders say. The event was mutually ad vantageous to retails and to cus tomers. The‘Stores'needed to re duce stocks in anticipation of the arrival of spring and summer merchandise soon. And prices were reduced for the event to the point where people of Wilkes and adjoining counties could appreci ate substantial savings. TORNADO KILLS ‘25 Rodessa. La.. Feb. 18.— A winter tornado dancing a path of death and destruction through the little northwest Louisiana oil town of Rodessa left in its rain-sodden wake today 25 dead and scores of splintered homes and business houses. As rolun- 'teer and relief workers plodded through the mud in a search of the wreckage which until last night was the main street for .Rodessa’s 2,900 population, a survey showed three persons still missing and 41 others Injured. ON THE JOB jepresenU Named>Bf^ Hospitality Committee Con sists of One Person From Each County in State Joe McCoy, who was recently appointed to represent Wilkes county on tho Governor’s Hospi tality Committee,” would like tor Wilkes to be known as one of the most hospitable sections of the south. Bodies Victims Mine Explosion To Arrive Soon Heavy Snowfall in Region of Mine Slows Work Of Removing Bodies Joe McCoy, genial manager of Hotel Wilkes and an outstanding civic leader herei has been ap pointed by Governor Clyde Hoey to represent Wilkes county on the state hospitality committee. A part of the Intense drive to advertise North Carolina calls for a state hospitality committee composed of one representative from each county. The members serve as hospitality chairmen in the respective counties and ap point county committees. , Mr. Mli®^^S9‘’^r'plsniti»g * some activities to make people consci-;. ous of the value of making good impressions upon visitors and will ask that the people of North Wilkesboro and Wilkes county hte courteous toward one another to- all who co.me this way. “Peace officers, merchants, service station operators and oth ers who deal with the public and especially people from distant points should bear in' mind that impressions are always being made.” Mr. McCoy said in dis cussing the value of courtesy. A person who receives attention and courteous treatment will re turn at the next opportunity, he said. SinginR School At Moravian Falls UP TO FARMERS ^ , Raleigh, Feb. 18.—J. R- Hut son. assistant AAA administrator, told 5.000 farmers from three' ststps toflti" thst it wa-s up to them to make the I'arm bill work “so that it will result j la. continued soil coi’servation | so that it will help maintain | farm prices and farm income.’ j Hutson appeared with Senator. Candidate For Congress To James P. Pope, Idaho Democrat, j Named In Conven- at a mass meetine: of farmers from South Carolin.a, North Car olina and Virginia, sponsored by the North Carolina Farm Bureau Federation. |G. 0. P. District Convention 15th tion at Lexington HE’S RICH MAN NOW New Bern, Feb. 18.—From an automobile salesman to a multi millionaire was the experience of a New Bern man this week when he sold for $10,000,000 640 acres of Texas land which he for one dol- Attorney Kyle Haye.s, candidate for congress in the eighth dis trict in 1936 and present con gressional chairman, has called the congressional Republican con vention to be held at the court house in Lexington on Tuesday, March 15, 12 o’clock, noon. The call as issued by Mr. Hayes purchased in 1922 for one lar an acre. The man is Perry | is as follows: jaiand. originally from Raleigh i “Notice is hereby given to the Vho now lives at Vauceboro Republicans of the eighth North . • wv .. 'LJ rv wrx- ■ ^ v • . Ji ‘^DUl and works, in N'ew Bern. He re- turned today from Alpine. Tex., where he said he closed the deal for tho property on which 0*1 was recently found. He made the trip both ways by plane, leaving hererTuesday. Troop 35 Planning Big Scout Program In Spring - Summer With the feeling that spring is just around the corner, the boys in troop 35, Boy Scouts of A- merica, are beginning to feel the woods and fields calling them to come out and enjoy the things of nature, and are laying plans for an extensive out of doors Scout ing program during the spring and summer seasons. During the past few months the boys have been busily engag ed in .passing tests for advance ment in rank, and merit badges, and the work is going on in a ve^T-^icouraging way. ^n‘ April troop 35 will celebrate tti -^t^ hnilversary since its ' J g(^|^nt«ation. During this per iod of time. Its moiwborshlp has steadily and is today a rlro troop, with a fine group .banded together in a -At (he regular weekly meeting FWday night the boys were hi^ to weleomo Scoutmaster laiiao Dnncan back into the troop Carolina congi-essional district that a convention will be held in the city of I,exington on Tuesday, March 15, 1938, at 12 o’clock, noon, for the purpose of nominating a candidate for the United States congress and electing a state cennmitteeraan, and for such oth' er and further business as may properly come before the conven tion. The several chairmen in said district will comply with this note in accordance with the state Republican plan of organization.” New Type Spray To Be Introduced VanDeman to Explain New Type Rormant Oil Spray Offered Apple Men Carl E. VanDeman, specialist in charge of the apple research laboratory on the Brushies, said today that be wants a number of orchardlsts to try' a new type dormant spray this year. The oil spray for which he has the formula is very effective a- gainst aphis (plant lice) he said, and represents a substan tial saving In compsrlson with dormant sprays generally used in this territory. Interest^ orehardists are ask ed to get in touch with him at Bodies of W. H. Baker and son. Robert Baker, and Denver Holbrook, former Wilkes men killed in a mine in. which they were working near the Idaho-Wyoming state line February 12, will be brought back to Wilkes for bur ial and will arrive by train, it was learned here today. However, relatives have re ceived word that it was necessary to clear the road with snow plows for many miles to reach the highway leading into Idaho Falls, the railway station and city nearest to the .scene of the blast in which the throe Wilkes men and five others were instantly killed. The Messrs. Baker and Hol brook have many relatives in Wilkes who regretted to learn of the tragic accident. Kiwanians Learn Of Soil Program In a program Friday noon members of the North Wilkes boro Klwanls club learned how the government is sponsoring a soil conservation program de signed to aid farmers through payments for growing soil con serving crops in lieu of cash crops over their regular base. In a short business session President A. H. Casey said that he had been asked to learn if the club would sponsor a movement to obtain a bus schedule whereby a passenger could make, the round trip to Raleigh and back the same day. The club voted to sponsor such a movement if the “terminal facilities were made satisfactory.” J. B. Williams and J. C. Reins were appointed on a committee to communicate with the proper authorities. P. W. Eshelman spoke to ex press appreciation to the Presby terian church for the recent act of calling Rev. Watt M. Cooper as pastor. J. R. Finley was tr. charge of the program. He gave a brief his torical statement concerning the marriage of the Siamese twins to the Yates sisters. Following this part of the program County Agent Dan Holler and Lawrence Miller, chief clerk of the Wilkes soil conservation association, ex- pladned the government . program in force this year to aid faMPers. R. J. Hlnahaw was a guest of S. B. Richardson. Club guests were Jesse Giles, assistant county agent. John R. Church, Oharles Wiles, Paul, Ed Church and CUude Billings, 'Wilkes boys \von the 4-H Judging contest Lexington. Prof. J. Rector Robbins, grad uate of the Baptist Bible and Music Institute of New Orleans, will teach a church singing I school at Moravian Falls. The .school will begin Monday night, February 28. Prof. Rob'offts states that hie tgi'ilir xter otferiag, and every body who will attend are welcome. He said that he sometimes has as many as three hundred in attendance. “W e especially invito a 11 churches of all denominations to come and join with the churche.s of Moravian Falls in this school. We are expecting the churches at Wilkesboro, Union, Millers Creek, Adley, Walnut Grove. Cub Creek. Mt. Carmel and others to attend,” Rev. J. C. Gentry, who made the announcement, said. Attention Girls! Homestead Exemption Survey Will Show Effect Proposed Exemptions i »i'.-1 "■■I* - - »■ ' A homestead exemption survey! homesteads from taxation, is being conducted throughout j However, it should be under- the state to ascertain what effect | stood that the legislature has exemptions of homesteads from' never voted an exemption and taxation would have' on asse.ssed I that there cannot and will not be property valuations and tax lev-1 homestead exemptions until after ies. jthe legislature meets in 1939. It The survey in Wilkes is being Ms freely predicted that-the next conducted by labor paid by the I legislature will take up the mat- Works Progress administration ' ter but due to the tact that sub- and under supervision of W. P. stantial homestead exemptions Kelly, county accountant and tax | would greatly lower the total supervisor. j valuation of property for lax- In 1936 an amendment many obsen'ers are of the voted to the cnn.stltutlon of North ’ . , . , , „.j,, Carolina giving the legislature [ opinion that the legislature vill power to allow exemptions on i continue to reject the propo.sals. ISm- ot a. few.aionfh*4i^«.,- ^iorteant sprays \rr ft' ' ThMO are icebergs in the sortheni Raclfic, ocean. ■fX'-. ■ i.y ' >■; Five mouths in the Air Corps Troops for this mountain youth aad he was singled out by .the Tn»peoWr 'General as the most sbldtefiy looking soldier in the Corps Area.* He is Private G. A. Jx>ng,'- of North Wilkeebpro.— fPhoto eourteey • Raleigh^ ,_yews and'Observer Orpheum Theatre To Open Saturday Many Inaprovements Made In Reconstruction Fol lowing Recent Fire The New Orpheum Theatre will re-open on Saturday, February 2G, after being closed seven weeks because of a disastrous fire which occured on January 8. In reconstructing the theatre and repairing the building many improvejnents have been affected and which are designed to add to the comfort and entertainment of the theatre’s many patrons in Wilkes and adjoining counties. The entire building has been renovated and beautifully finish ed on the interior. The improve ments Include new and comfort able seats, RCA victor sound, new scenery, new drapes, new projec tors, new screen and new carpets. In . selecting equipment and furnishings for the theatre the 11 mgnageraent carefully selected 'what'they considered the best jar^lable. RCA victor sound, the management said, is the best and ' most modern available and thea- •-tr^ patrons will be assured of highest quality reproduction. 1 'The theatre is truly beautifu^ and pleasing to the eye. at the sa|^e time providing the utmost in - Comfort. A bfg double header program is scheduled for opening day Saturday and even more interest ing annonheementa are expected for week-iehd attractions. A de tailed account of ' the opening day’s program is contained In the New Qiiplienm’sadvertlsraeU elsewhere In this v:” Find Seven Stills Near Windy Gap Vast Quantities of Sugar, Destroyed by Federal and County Men Three .stills Friday broiiErht the total destroyed in tlie Windy Cap section of Wilkes county last week to seven. -Sheriff C. T. Doughton said on his return from raids there. One still was destroyed by Sheriff Doughton Monday, three Thursday and he and federal of ficers destroyed three Friday. The total amount of beer ready for distillation at the seven stills was 8,000 gallons. Spent mash totaled 3,000 gallons. With 100 pounds of sugar to the 100 gallons of 'beer, it is es- 1'mated that 10,000 pounds of sugar was used in the beer de stroyed at the seven sites. Only small quantities of liquor were found. The hlMdOOtamus is a iriH^ water a^al, hat j ft wUt tfavpf Samuel Miller Taken by Death ■ '‘;Samuel B. Miller, age 79 years and nine months, died at six o’- clpok this morning at his home tofif miles east of Wilkesboro on route 2. Mr. Miller, a widely known farmer, had been in ill health for several months and seriously ill during the past week. Funeral service will be held Thursday afternoon, two o’clock, at Fishing Creek Baptist charcb, whsra Mr. Miller had long been nieimher and active in chnr^ itud-spiBiBunity affairs. Burial wrtLbi4n the Bpiscopai cemetery • BA vaa a member of a well ^gpwn. WUkpe family a sea of Tile biennial Wilkes County Re- Tir* publican convention wUk^ keU- at--- , the courthouse in Wificesboro -'•dB,. Monday, March 11, 12 _ noon. The call for the convention was issued Friday by N. B. Smithey, chairman, R. Don Laws, secretary, and S. 6. Richardson, assistant secretary. The call states that the conven tion will be held for the purpose of electing a chairman and secretary of the Wilkes county Republican executive committee and to elect delegates to the State, congression al, judicial and senatorial conven tions. Precinct meetings will be held on the preceding Saturday, March 12, at two o’clock, p. m., with the exception of North Wilkesboro, which will meet at 12:15 p. m. The precinct meetings will be held at the voting places and will be used for the purpose of elect ing delegates to the county con vention, a member of the county committee, and precinct commit teemen. Mr. Smithey was elected chair man and Mr. Law.s and Mr. Rich ardson were elected secretaries of the executive committee la.st year following the resignation of Chair man J. M. Brown and Secretary Kyle Hayes. It is expected that the present chairman and secre tary will be elected without oppo sition in the convention on March 14. The call for the convention is as follows: “Notice is hereby -given that the undersigned, as Chairman of the Wilkes County Republican Execu tive Committee, hereby calls a convention of the Wilkes County Republicans to be held in Wilkes boro, N. C., at the courthouse, on March 14, 1938, at 12 o’clock, noon. The purpose of said conven tion being to elect a chairman and secretary of the Wilkes County ’^ Republican Executive Committee and to elect delegates to the State, Congressional, .Judicial and Sena-' torial Conventions, to elect two members of the State Eleecutivc Committee and to transact such other and further business as may I properly come before the said convention. 1 ‘‘A meeting of the vo'.ers of the various precincts in Wilkes county is hereby called to meet on March ,12, 1938, at 2 o’clock, p. m., except North Wilkesboro, where said meeting will be l\eld at 12:16 o’clock, p. ni., for the purpose of electing delegates to attend the ■»- County Convention heretofore called and to elect a member of the County Executive Committee and precincts committee and for such other business as nuiy properly come before said meeting.’’ Teachers Millers Creek District To Meet February 25th All teachers in the Millers Creek district are requested to attend a meeting to be held at Millers Creek school on Friday, February 25, 3:30, it was an nounced today by R. V'. Day, dis trict principal. County Superintendent c. B. Eller will attend the meeting and have a part of the program. The meeting will be devoted princi pally to the study of reports and the filing of individual students* records. Box Supper At Mountain View - A cake walk and a guess cake and all the other trimmings that usually go with such things will be found at the box supper that is to be sponsored by the Moun tain 'View Community Club and presented in the school auditor ium JVldsjr night at 7:80. .A- large'^’crowd ill expected out to enjoy the fun and frolic. Pr^ ceeds will be added-to the gnd- naslum fund. Spoetal nefle he fnrnlshM MkMt cheatto:'. Ppo-^-