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iJ^fipATRIOT BMZI wdi^ si 5 Tffl :'''*.'wr':‘3': •rf-!;iS> ■ .-P 4l For mn4|j||t^, do your ( Wi&eBboro/tM |[. c«iter« of ; Kerthw«npiK^9 North CaitoBnA. tVfy' VOL. XXXII- NO. 39 Published Mondays and Thursdays. NORTH WILKESBORO, N. C.. MONDAY, DEC. 26, 1938 $1,60 IN THE STATE—$2.00 OUTOFTHESTA« m 5^ 6 Late News Of State ■ Nation Told Briefly FDirS MESSAGE 2ND Washington. Doc. 2l’. ron- eross—and the nation—will rind out On January 4 what kind of legislative program President Koosevolt has in mind. That was the day selected hy Mr. Roose velt and .Speaker Bankhead today for the President to deliver in person his annual message to the legislators. Congress convenes the previous day. MORE EMPLOYMENT M'ashington. Dec. 22 Secre tary Perkins reported today a continued rise of the employment graph in .Vovember, eontrary to th..' nsntil seasonal trend. She es- timatt'd rt'-cinployment for the month at JO.000 workers or an ag.gregatt' of 1.000,000 .sinct^ June. •‘Factory employment and pay rolls continued to rise.” the labor secretary's monthly report said. World War Battlefields Yield Metal Wealth Make Gradmg Of Highways Easier Local People Watch Mam moth Machines as Grad ing Begins,On 268 'M 1' %£3l‘ HOLIDAY TRAVEL UP Chica.go. Dec. 22. — Holiday travelers set out in tens of thous ands today for a Christmas at home. In Chicago, where most of the nation olianges trains, rail road officials estimated merrily that Christmas traffic this year would he from .5 to 10 per cent greater than the prosperous sea- .son of 10 37. Transcontinental air lines reported an extraordinary increase in holiday business, and the bus lines had thetr share of »he comings and goings at the na tion’s cross roads. WPA NEEDS .?700,000.0flfl Washington. Dec. 22.—Chair man Adams. Democrat, Colorado, of 'he .senate subcommittee which handles relief appropriations, e«- limated today that $700,000,000 would be TH'cded to keep the works progre.ss administration running from February, 1930, to the end of the fiscal year on .Iiiiie 30. He made this estimate, IIiiolfieitilly while awaiting word from, administrative officials as to their view of tl.e necessary sum. WPA stial yesterday that unless additional fttiid.s wore fortheoniing it would have to sii- .sneiid oimrafions Fehniary i. Although llie World war ended 20 years ago thousands of individuals continue to make a living from the batllefiplds of Fram c. In the tloinme, near Albert, workers find huge amounts of copper, lead and iron. All the recovered shells and borubs are first sent to an isolated spot near a special factory, where they are stored. Every safety prccauiiun is taken to avoid injuries from Uve shells and bombs, and constant prac tice has insured a minimum of accidents. In 1937 more than 4,000,000 pounds of war material was removed from the Somme area alone. Left: Nicknamed “The Negns,” this shell hunter is typical of the French work er in the battlefield. His divining rod, which probes the earth, tells him the type of burled war materlaL 4-H CLUB CHAMPS UNCOm J^OF?LE Holiday Business Sets Record Merchants B Postoffice Largest Volume ie PACT IS RATIFIED Lima. Peru, Dw. 22. The 21 republics of the* western hemis phere proclaimed tonight their “decision to maintain and to de fend’’ their continental solidarity against all foreign intervention or activities.’’ Following more than two weeks' exhaustive dis cussions they arrived at a unani- mouse decision to declare their “common concern » • * in ca.se ttif. pmace. se“.irity or territorial integrity of any American repub lic is threatened by acts of any na’nre that may threaten them.’’ The declaration which was final ly iupnroved was drawn up by Argentina, which hhroughout fhe conference had insisted that no mention he made sptx-ifically of aggression from all the conti nent. Argentina’s emiphasis of this point was regarded as a reflection of her fear that the United Suites some day might turn aggressor. APOI OGY DENIED Washington, Dec. 2„.- Th i'nited States, adopting the stiff- language used toward Ger- man^' since world war days, em phatically refused today to apolo gize for Secretary Tekes’ recent denunciation of the nazi regime and warned that such attacks could neither be prevented nor restrained. Sumner AVelles. acting seemetary of .state, told the Ger man charge d’affaires that recent policy in the reich had shocked American public opinion more profoundly than _ anything i n many decades and that indigna tion a-s expressed by Ickes at Cleveland last Sunday represent ed the feeling of the overwhelm ing majority of the people of this country. His -warning 'was delivered in a point blank refusal to accept Germany’s protest a- galnst Ickes’ speech. The protest was delivered verbally yesterday by the charge d’affaires, Dr. Hans Thomson, Who requested an offi cial e*I>re®*lon of regret. Hal Clark. l7-year-old youth from Clark’s Hill, Ind., and his grand champion 4-H pen of sheep. Clark’s sheep won honors at the thirty-ninth annual International Live Stock show in Chicago, where proud own ers from ail over the nation exhibit ed their animals. North Wilkesboro Favored Shopping Center In the North'westem Area MAIL SETS A RECORD Largest Volume Mail For Holiday Season In History of the City Is Reported 'tih„ 'Sr RAPID PROGRESS MADE 268 Will Be Popular Route When Ten-Mile Link of Road Is Completed Williams Speaks To Ashe B. & L. ,1, II. Willium.s. secretary of the North Wilkesboro Building and Iman a.ssociation. addressed a meeting of stockholders of the newly fnrtned .Ashe County B. & I.. ;>i Wtunt Jeffer.soii Friday night. Mr. AVilliams, one of the best known Building and Loan execu tives in the state, congratulated li'e .Ashe I'ounly people upon the progressive movement in organiz ing an association, saying “It’s the finest thing yon can have in Ashe county.’’ He to'.ii li' the growfb of the North A\’”s'ujro ^ association and how it htii! lielped |' to build a large per cent of the’' homes in this vicinity. J’ollowing his talk he an.swer- ed a number of tiuestions relative to the operation of an a.ssmcia- tion. Glenn Graybeal presided and a cominiUce Avas appointed: to col lect initial payiments. Plans call for beginning of operations hy the association the first of the year. Holiday husine.ss in North Wil- keshoro has set a new record for the city, according to the con sensus of information gained from a number of local sources. While holiday shopping start ed oft slowly, business gained headway during the last week and exceeded expectations. People from a large area in Northwestern North Carolina came to this city to do their Christmas shopping and went a- wav pleased with what they found and the great variety of merchan dise handled by the business firm.s in North Wilkesboro. The, North Wilkesboro postof- fice handled the largest volume of mail ill its history, with both incoining and outgoing mail reaching a greater volume than was anticipated. Extra help was used in order that the mail could be handled on schedule and with out curtailing the service of the institution. AUhongk a complete check was impos.sible at the time this news paper was printed, it •was evident that the volume of holidaly mall will result in a substantial in crease of po.stal receipts here over the total for 1937. Rusliie.sa houses here will be losed on Monday; December 26. which will be observed commer-1 daily a.s the holiday 'becansei Christmas Day this year is on Sunday. mm w Beneath the two men standing on the sculptured chin of Abraham Lin coln in the Mt. Rnshmore national memorial near Rapid City, S. I)., is a drop of 2,500 feet. Size of the pro file may be estimated by comparing the whole with the men standing on the chin. Mrs. C. C. Yates’ Funeral Is Held Funeral service was held Wed- .... nesday at New Hope Baptist (,sed for shaping the Giant machines which can scrape up 12 cubic yards of earth out of a cut and carry it to a fill are being used in grading new highway 26S between this city and Roaring River. Nello Teer, Durham contractor, has placed men and machines on tl;o Job of grading at this' end and the .south entrance of the hi.ghway by way of second stre,et is being graded first. He has contract for the finished road, which includes black top surfac ing. Several local people have watched with interest the opera tions and have been amazed at the progress made. The equip ment manned by only a few men can move more dirt in one day than a crew of fifty men could move with hand tooL"! in a month, it the opinion frequently express ed by observers. Road men looking over fhe work of modern machines are apt to recall the progress of road making during the past two de cades, Twenty years agfo the ma- jsHIilSriy WjnsWled 'Of seoop pan and the power was work horses and mules. Later the steam shovel, which now looks like a rickety contraption in comparison with other equip ment. became commonly used. It was succeeded by the diesel shov el, which is still very much in use for rough and rocky terrain. Rut machinery like is lieiii.c u.sed On the new grade here “lias many advantages over other methods. Le Tourneau, the ma chine which answers for both .shovel and truck or tractor drawn conveyor, is by far the fastest grading equipment. One of these machines which has a capacity of 12 yard.s and two with a c.apacity of eight are being used. The machine is pulled l>v a. giant caterpillar deisel wtiicii claws, snorts and squirms l>ut keeps moving regardless of tlie load or obstacles. The steel scrape at the bottom of the machine is easily regulated by the driver o! the tractor to cut thin or deep and the earth does not come too liard. itnle.ss there is solid rock, for it to work efficiently and gel its capacity load. The machine Is made for nii;- ged use and can go into almo.R any kind of place to deposit the dirt. Two powerful machines are dirt thus church for Mrs. Katie Lovette Yates, age 60, a resident of Red dies River township. The service was conducted by the pastor. Rev. A. \V. Eller, assisted hy Rev. Wade Houck ajid Rev. Tom Wat son. Mrs. Yates died Monday. She is survived by her husband, three brothers and one sister: Wiley Lovette, of Wilkesboro route 1; I. J. and W. H. Lovette, of Mora vian Falls; and Mrs. Ollle Kilby, of Reddies River. Operetta at Ferguson Children of Ferguson school gave an operetta, “Kidnapping of Santa Claius,’’ at the school Wed nesday. The .program was enjoy ed by large and apipreciaUve audience. Indignation very often divorces itself from righteonsness. Butterfat Record For Wilkes Cow l.attie Walsh, citizen of Mora-' vian Falls community, reports that he has an excellent cow which gives milk testing 10.3 per i cent butterfat. | The a"veiag© for this section of i all cows throughout the year ' 4.7 per cent, according to the. best information obtainable. j is Oompiete " "Dad, What part .speech ’woman’T" “Womiui isn’t J«»sc% son; she’s iJl of IL* J ournal“P atriot Is Printed Early Tills issue of Tlie .lournal- Patriot is being printed on t'’ri- day evening in order to allow the force a brief holiday rest. It has been the cu-stein Iicretofor© to miss one issue at Cliristniius time bnt In order to render a complete newspaper service and to provide an op portunity to extend Christmas greetings, we are Issuing this edition, which because of the lack of time is small and does no(. include all r^pilar fea tures. Evwy member of the per sonnel of The Jonmal-Pa- triot joins heartily ill wishing evety reader a Merry Chrlstc jnaal dumped where the fills aiv to bh made One is a tractor drawn roll er which. ha3 ma-ssive spikes. This machine conditions the freshly moved earth for the nc.xt opera tion. which is done hy the bull dozer. This machine literally pushes the dirt to the desired spot and with unerring accuracy the fill is made under the watch ful ©ye of the engineer. Thus amazing work is^ accomp lished with machineri- under the guiding hands of skillful opera tors. The grading machines cut the earth evenly in the cuts and when the desired depth is reach ed the task is practically com pleted. Even the task of smooth ing the banks is handled hy a machine, a large road scrape wit! a blade which can be adjusted to any angle. But with all the machinery there is a payroll with about 50 employes. The use of the modem machinery means that within a short time there will be a modern highway over the distance of ten miles between this city and Roar ing River and at about half the cost to the taxpayers that a road of mediocre gpeciOcatlons would have been 12 yenra ago. The distance from, North Wil kesboro to Elkin •will be lessened by several miles when the link of 268 la completed and Uue road will be one of,the meet wjdedy in. this aeiklon. L^J ' :