0^ $9%Oo6 Paid
FATALLY BURNED '
A t>M- eeanto
B«etr"Vf> Kome tbne
allies «pwt of here abont pooa
fCoai borna \rhidc resulted^
said to have accl--
jUlen In a tiro two days
JPBBoraJ service will be held
aIXabianon Atirch near here.
employment Braefit* In
11 Moi^a of 1938
KILLED BY SAW
Carion, Dec. su. — Vernon
LM^hrldga, 21, state highway
a«m»inya and member ol a promi
nent family here, was fatally in-
Jared while sawing wood at his
hope in the Garden Creek setdion
TkaiMay. Mr. Laughridge. off
tor the holidays, was using
^portable saw for cutting a sup
ply of firewood, when, he accl-
*’ ■■ fell from a pile of wood
the saw. His forehead
badly mangled and he d‘ed
a Marion hospital.
STATE TO GET $.3,000,000
Washington, Dec. 30.—Secre
tary of Agricnlture Wallace to
day announced the apportionment
. of 1186,000,000 to aid the states
In highway^ improvement a n d
elimination of grade crossings in
'he niiraiber of marriage lic-
) issned ddrliig 1938 as com-
■ed w^ Mi6 aamher in 1937
>we4 h sharp decline, accord-
to reeord in th§,«dttlce of Old
lee, register of ddedn
hlrty-fonr marriajges during *
holiday season ejrelled the
. for 1938 to 21t, Which was
under the 257 issued du/ing
year 1937.
Liicensee to wed were issued
[jirlng the latter part of this
loath to the following: L. C.
^d, Lenoir, and Maggie Llv-
Ijigstone, Boomer; Dr. Ben Miller
wd Ruth Gambill, both of West
jelferson; Odell Yates, Salisbury,
jnd Elizabeth Fox, Moravian
Fills; Frank Bdminsten and Pau
line Walsh, both of Boomer; Dan
iel Steelman, Yadkinville, and
Gliiabeth Gillian, Cleveland: Earl
Cles'y and Nay Combs, both of
Abihers: Albert Livingstone and
Kile Jolly, both of Boomer; Elarl
German and Wllna Jones, both of
B«mer; Ray Michael, Purlear,
Lavon Greene, Deep Gap;
Czech soldiers arc now helping scores of farmers plow their Helds. Here is one working in a field near
Prague. During the crUls a widespread shortage of Ubor residted in help from the nnny, Ray Gord« W
St Louis just missed joining another army—the army of the nnemployed—when he Whs fired from a WPA
road Job. His fellow workers, who believed he had not been treated fairly, agreed to contrftnte a nickel a day
^ch until he received the regular WPA wage of $56 a month. He provided the shovel himself.
■ Jack SeCkJer, local yotfth, ap
parently failed Sunday ewening
in an »ttori to take hte own life.
Having left' a note saying that
he .would never see Ms people
again, the 16-year-old boy is said
to have taken a 2'6-caJlbre anto-
matic pistol from the home of his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Seck-
ler, and walked across the river,
where the shot was fired.
He walked beck to the house,
a distance of about 200 yards,
with s bullet in his skull.
He rras rushed to the Wilkes
hospital, where, the bullet was
removed.
The bullet entered his fore-
;ltesd, penetrated the skull but
fid, not enter the brain tissue,
having lodged against the cover
ing of the brain. He is given an
even chance to recover.
No cause for the boy's action
could be attributed.
52 COVERED EMPLOYERS
Paid ToUl of $62,17d:^ Im
Wage Tax to the Uaeai-
pIc^yniMt Fuad
MlUniuaUl/U ua gBQ XJctVd,>U VFI WUO,
the fiscaj year beginning next j Livingstone and Isabelle
Sclurene. both of Lomax;
..Joly 1. The funds were author-'
Ised by the federal aid highway Hayes and Ossie Mae
act of 1938 and consist of $100,- Knob-
990,000 for improvement of then - .
federal aid highway system in-j
San-
Bar-
Law-
1939 Is Ushered
In Here Quietly
' 1 rwee Brooks. Wilkesboro route
New Year Gets Off to Good
reaertti uu me.*. 2. and Louise Triplett, North Wil-
j eluding extensions through cities, route 2; Corbet Wiles,
‘ V maa a .-I a «AA/\m/4lWV AT . • -nw.zt
for secondary or
feeder roads, and $20,000,000 for
elimination of hazards at rail-
toad grade crossings. North Car
olina will receive $3,170,538.
steals three cars
Asheville, Dec. 30. — Police
Chief Charles W. Dermld said to
day a negro hooked as James
■ vlor, Clinton. S. C.. had
Umax, and Fannie Walker, De
art; Cale Prevette and Etta
Ifflderson, both of Cycle: Ho-
Brown, North Wilkesboro,
md Fannie Vannoy. Reddies Riv-
^r; Lattie Anderson, Pores Knob,
ind Hazel Hayes, Gilreuth; Jay
liwkshire and Mary Louise In- j
Start Without Serious Ac
cident or Disturbance
20il Young People Find Jobs On
Several Projects Maintained By
National Youth Administration
County Schools In
Last Half of Term
MODERN TRAVELER
The New Year was ushered in
quietly in Wilkes county, report.s
from the sheriff’s office, police
department here and other sourc
es revealed.
There was an increase in the
Acre, both of North Wilkesboro
number of drunks and tiring of
en arrested on
a c*'arge of
kHng three automobiles—all in
Jess than 24 hefurs. Dermld said
^Miylor told him he had just com
pleted a long term on a South
Carolina chain gang and decided'
tfi visit his grandmother here.
Chief Dermld quoted Taylor as
aaylng he stole one car at Clin
ch, another that suited his taste
tor ibotween there and Lsiy-
S. C.. and the third at Law
dbs.
laty ?; Floyd Gseaae and Nan-
'V>i|lds. both of Mt. Zion.
In addition to the above named
CO'jples license were issued to 16
copies who requested "no pub
licity.’’
SiUYcy of Business
,, ,Wen Shows Bright
"l^tlook For 1939
Capital Goods Improvement
li Held Significant; Sloan
Sounds the Keynote
BOARD FOR “REPEAT,
Raleigh, Deo. 30.—The stat
.board of elections recommend'
to Governor Hoey today the “ab-
aoiliate repeal’’ of the state’s pres-
oilt absentee ballot law. in it-s j
jilaod! the board recommended | y,e,w York, Dec. 30.—With op-
that the 1039 general assembly j jjjjujgg jg the field of capital
ansot a new absentee law which | industries as a significant
VMSrtd make fraud "well nigh im- * many indu.strial leaders ex-
pdiilble, and if eoramitted. cer- .business in the United States
firecrackers ca,used the i^lice
here some annoyance but other
wise there was. but little to mar
the peace of the occasion.
Perhaps the most serious of
fense was turning in a false fire
alarm about ten minutes after
twelve Saturday night, police of
ficers said. The alarm was turn
ed in at a box in the business sec
tion of the city and police are
hoping to be able to apprehend
the guilty i>arty, who caused con
siderable excitement and expense.
A few minutes after the false
alarm a real alarm was turned In
when grass was found burning
near Main street between Sixth
and Eighth streets. The false
alarm had momentarily delayed
the fire department but the fire
men reached the scene in time to
put out the fire without damage.
j Boys Building a Two-Room
Stru^*-ire For the Ronda
Home Economics Classes
System Gets Uniform Start
On Last Half of 1938-39
School Year’s Work
Raleigh.—Of the 100 com
in North Carolina, Guilford
the largest number of emplojM
workers, Mecklenburg had 9M
largest payroll and the larfwt
number of employing units, Guil
ford paid the most In, contiiRa-
tlons and the highest per cent «f
contributions, while Gaston re
ceived the largest amount
the largest per cent of bens
paid to unemployed workers, £||r
urea compiled In the Genital «f-
flee of the State Unemjloyineat
Compensation Com'missioB shsnr.
The number of workers is
based on the average for the last
10 months of 1937, and Is prbk-
ably slightly larger than 19M
figures would show. For the em-
tire State the nomb^ was 448,-
160. On this basis, Guilford led
with 36,878 employees, Mecklen
burg had 32,966, Forsyth 32,907,
Gaston 24,622 and Cabarrus 26,-
840.
SCHOOL DESKS MADE
Girls Make Fiber Chairs,
Work on Clerical, Lunch
Room Prbjisct’s '
All schools In the Wilkes coun,-
ty system today resumed work
following the holiday vacation
and all the schools are beginning
the second half of the 1938-39
term, it was learned today from
the office of C. B. Eller, county
supeMntehdenr. '
The first nait of the school
J
Rolls of the National Youth ad-.\ y?ar was featured by an increas
ministration in Wilkes county ed enrollment, passing the ten
have been increased to the point thousand mark, and there were
♦ala of detection." Condemninj
♦ law now in force as a "con
▼enient instrumentality of fraud,
the recommendation snecifiei
i. II V -- M-tnaea .
L that the propo.sed new act shouU theme echoed by other cor
th» “ciistodv. issuanc' j..
Mfa^nard the “custody. issuan(
and. atthsequent handling" of ab
afiotees.
ll^trictCommittei
Given Caroo
tn:mprove in 1939.
Alfred P. Sloan. Jr., chairman
of General Motors corporation,
scinded this keynote today, it
Wilkesboro Baptist
Bible Class Meet
A very modern miss is Beverly
Anne Barnebnrg, fonr-month-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Barnebnrg of Boston, who recently
boarded an American Airlines plane
for San Antonio where she visited
her grandmother.
where more than 200 young men
and young women, between the
ages of 18 and 25 are being fur-
' nished jobs, W. R. Craft. NTA
supervisor for Wilkes and 'aIox-
: under counties, said today.
I “We endeavor to provide pro-
! jects which will afford useful
training for all NYA workers,’’
he said, “and we require that
each one put forth an honest
day’s work for the wages receiv
ed.’’
The NYA during the pa-st two
years has been of much >alue to
the county as well as to the in
dividual young people working on
the projects. One of the princi
pal 'benefits has been in the man-
no epidemics of disease or ad
verse weather conditions to mar
progress or interrupt the uniform
schedule of the entire system.
Due to road improvement work
which has been carried out dur
ing the past two years, the trans
portation system was able lo ope
rate on schedule and no bus failed
to reach its destination hecanse
of bad roads.
With a uniform schedule, all
schools in the county will com
plete the term in the latter part
of April.
Mgixbn Local Club Naml
On Attendance Committc
Njjrgii^ Carolinas District
pantion heads.
‘!t seeftis reasonable to ex-
P'fl.’’ said §!oan. “that 1939. as
a viVole, will be a somewhat bet
ter business year than 1938 ha.s
boej. This belief is based on the
e-xwetation that the current re-
coffry movemenT will be extend
ed veil into the new year.
"There is an improved demand
The young men’s Bible class of
Wilkesboro Baptist church will
have a business meeting Friday
evening, 7:30 o’clock, at the
home of George Johnson. Every
number urged to be present.
The state’s 1938 peach crop!
BUILDS U-BOATS
Berlin, Dec. 30.—Germany in
formed Great Britain today that
she intended to build up to par
ity witht the British fleet in sub
marines, the dreaded German
world war weapon which was
complutely banned by the treaty
of Versailles. When Germany
.signed a naval treaty with Bri
to limit
new U-boal fleet—
which has sfliung from nowhere
to 1.5 per
Depart- j cent of Britian's submarine ton-
estimated at 2,418.000 bushels is j tain in 1935 she agreed
I i,er .shiny new U-boal
. al^Wplfitment of W J. Caroij
fittedSBce coimmittee chairm:]
^ North Wilkesboro Kiwan
M' a msm'ber of the attenl
-v4iBa ebBQtktee of the Carolinl
irf "Klwanis Internatior
i*filUMlunced today by Richa|
.ItiliBIWn of Charlotte, distr
idjrMis Clubs In North al
'Soidb CaroHna will place specj
. ip 1938 on citizens!
"Mr. Thigpen said
committee appoi>i
znpBtlJOt' tbo new year.
itozoBsbip program «l
jqeUpaVfipqBsorship of comm':i
-of noil
, tntohnatlon on rubl|
education al
duties and res||
pt t^tixenship.
" jmrgOfiii atattd for
, insure the
gh® eetablishe
-of jreedom and
tof consumer goods, perhaps j meni of A.gricunure.
zoffl^wbat accelerated by the' ef-1 ~
^ of large expenditures of;
iMic money. The future of the
cd^ery trend, of course, will be j
irtantly affected by political
sTelopments at home and a-
Mi. • • •
Fundamentals Here
the record Wrgest crop ever
grown, 1931 being the record^
crop with 2 940 Oi'O bushels pro-j in the last three years
duced, reports the State - -'su.h,
II age.
ufacture of desks and other items
of school furniture. With the
county as sponsor furnishing the
materials, the boys In the wood
working plant have turned out
hundreds of desks and other
items at little cost to the conn
ty.
.At present a total of about 90
girls are being employed on sevr
eral projects under direction of
Mrs. Lawrence Miller. OnC' of the
projects is making fiber bottoms
for schoolroom chairs and the
board of education is sponsor.
Some very creditable work .has
(Continued on nage eight)
Surplus Products
Help Many During
Mondi November
LOCAL PRODUCE MARKETS PAY ALMOST HALF
MILUON DOLLARS FOR POULTRY DURING YEAR
I "Un'*oubtedly there exist the |
For the past several years
isertJl fundamenUlB of a broad r North Wilkesboro has boasted the
ijMOTery that might well be su- distinction of having the
N^ined. • The establishment [ largest poultry’ market and the
a real confidence in the broad claim has not been contradicted,
ftilare opportunities of business I it is a cash market which no
• • • would be reflected In in-1 dottbt has had much to do with
ettajing activity of the capital | Wilkes, county becoming one of
sooit* industries — a necessary the principal poultry producing
rtVyilR IflUUDVa ^ r I
oociDonent of a sustained recov-1 centers in the state ana in
the
eri? novement. j entire south,
fin appraisal as to the prob- j pg^pig .within a radius of 60
iinues of the characteristics ol; ^j,gg gj North Wilkeeboro know
.TREES.
areeent trend » * • appoars
Bloate that the answer Is
•n area that might be de-
‘hopoful conjecture’.’’
|ard Swope: “With cl^r
.atlon between labor, ' In-
- and the govemment; wlttf
rer-lnoreaBta* nee 6t el«-
with the o»«a that
thli eonntry today $or
appUfiaoefi lia the home
r mora.flioywi'ln
fuid thfii
|»f ^^pratjng «M»iity ta
“ ’ .etJitio^lKHUT 'tWii WlH
lor
■0*
full well before the eggs axe set
that there will be a cash market
for the chickens In North Wllkes-
boro.
Selling chickens has no red
tape attacihed; no rambling a-
round to see who can buy a few
tshlckens ax, when Ihy'can ^
sold.
Whethtf It he (me ^Or ox.Ta.
.thottaand.heaig^a jiouH^ laspons '
knowr.thh$ M ^l. w »w„'
thh^weeh
for the;
If a poultryraan with two
thousand hens on hand wakes up
one morning' and finds that the
price of eggs has collapsed 6r
that his hens have gone on a
strike, he can cull out a thous
and. take them to Noyth Wilkes
boro and get the cash, stopping
that much of his feed 'bill. Or, if
for any reason he finds that the
poultry business Is no longer
profitable or to his liking, he
can sell out th^ day for cash.-
An accurate estimate of the
extent of the business handled by
poultry markets here was com
piled from Information from deal
ers and is astounding, to say the
least. Theie ^tlmAtae revepj that
during Ute year 1M8 a toUl
approxtoAtedJCWOb.WMl WM paid
f(»f ■«*r^W14ka»^.
Affd to M48.,pbount PS'S,
tul'kdijri. aM - i76,O60. tbr
by Uie -^dPato»
''tliB:
Nortlt
cs5b.miHA«*.W%- doPay I
cash. Ten thousand turkeys,
which graced dinner tables dur
ing the holidays in northern ci
ties, weighed about 120.000
pounds and netted farmers, of
Wilkes and adjoining counties a-
bout $26,000.
An accurate estimate on the
valne of eggs purchased here was
not available but should compare
favorably with the amount paid
for poultry.
For many years the principal
way of shipping poul^ from
North Wilkeeboro was'alive and
in coops but now the largest
firm, wliioh is recogpised as the
leading poultry market In
south, is shipping dn^ped pohltry.
There were 521 cases repre
senting 2,754 persons ceriitied by
Wilkes county welfare officials
as eligible to receive surplus
commodity^ products during the
month of November, Arthur E.
Langston, State director of com
modity distribution with the
State Board of Cliarities and
Public Welf-re. announced this
week.
A Stale-wide total of 174.710
persons comprising 38,105 cases
were certified during the month,
94.5 per cent of the number be
ing actually serviced during the
period, Langston said.
Following is a list of persons
certified In adjoining counties:
Alexander, 2,072: Alleghany
749;
696;
Ashe, 1,167: Caldwell.
Watauga. 1.182.
Stabbed Youth
Recovers Nkefy
Sam Segraves Returns Home
and Officers ^^pprehend
Ernest Yatea
Sam Segrares, youth of ^.the
Dellpplaue community who was
the serhaosly Injafsul two weeks ago
m/uvii, to stf A/vuiti^. whsu ha .was scabbed la .ah aiief—
on a Muege hfide'imid an many^fis .hsUofrrln’Mie'ddtt eombmolty, hfta
f Ixj ja. '■ • -
The wages paid is the total for
1937 and the first six montha of
1938, collected through July 31.
The total for the State, on this
basis, was $561,996,697. Meck
lenburg led with a $56,666,434
payroll, Guilford paid $51,476,-
220, Forsyth $43.7^8,496. Dir
ham $27,478,066. CaMmis $24,-
472,046.
The employing units are thote
renorting for July 1938, and by
thie end Af Angust 1938, whMi
gives only 6,848 for the State,
and is about 2,000 short of the
actual 8,860 employing units la
the State. Mecklenburg, on this
basis, had 654 employing units,
Guilford 593, Wake 359, Forsyte
320, Buncombe 307 and Durha**
240.
Contributions are those ppid
payrdlls in 1937 at 1.8 per cent
and at 2." per cent In 1931
through June 30. In the State,
$11,6.88,975.88 \va« paid on this
basis. Guilford led the counties
with paynnent of $1,101,828.68,
Mecklenburg paid $1,099,843.22,
Forsyth $911,764,01. Durham
$582,747.21. Cabarrus $537,256.-
06. Gaston $473.12.3.63,
Based on 100 p«r cent for the
100 counties. Guilford paid 9.43
per cent, of the total, Meckloa-
biirg 9.41 per cent. Forsyth 7.86
per cent. Durham 4.99 per c^mt,
Cabarrus 4.60 per cent, Crastoa
4.05 per cent.
Benefit payments cover 1933
through November 30 and a-
moiinte'' to $7,818,198.85 for the
III! ire State. Gaston unemployed
workers received $533,370.67,
Mecklenburg received $496,327.-
44. Forsyth $476,157.04, ' Guil
ford $459.:i91.89. Rockingham
$311,605.97.
Of the 100 per cent total paid
in the State. Gaston received
6.82 per cent, Mecklenburg 6.36 *
per cent, Forsyth 6.10 per ceat,
Guilford 5.88 per cent. Rocking
ham 3.98 per cent.
Wilkes county, on the bases
shown, had 1,960 employees cov
ered 'by the State Unemploymeut
Compensation Act, who received
$3,006,541 in wages in the 18
months period to June 30. 1938,
paid by 52 covered employers.
These employers ipald in contribu
tions to the State Unemployment
fund $62,176.43. This amount
paid by the employers of this
county was .53 per .cent of the
amonnt paid by all of tte 160 ' ■
counties.
The^ unemployed or, partially
unemployed workM^ in Ibis comtr ^ r.
ty for the first 41 aotrthayxof: •
1938, received Is. nniwi|i|toymentu^^'v
bfinaflts' $91,S7«.$7, whtel^ Is .1,1* '
per cent cf tli» tieibefita paid., to
all of the UBMsplo^ed or parti^
lyl nnemployed "Wbrli^ In
Carolina dniite vMtst . '
months of
■ kbd ‘poaUg^r^^ Aifae lea^lhf jed;
^defiiets i*. jElleR
rddeoAitfMMt A’M.,’Vomllnfipn kiti^ '
other ^ "
H'prodncef
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thb gil^lies ho!^^
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Ohhptlifed 'fine jm
fib 'cdfl^ifistloBfi np "
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