4.
m
told ftie%
IVORS PROFITS
I^Mhington. Peb. 1—l^retary
.(^ritommrce Harry L. .Hopkins,
/ojho has been meeting with the
Jon’s leading indnBtrialists,
'pledged himself today to do ere^
rything in his power to achieve
an increase in the national in
come and assure bnsiness a fair
and reasonable profit. “I am ful
ly aware that one of the import
ant elements in achieving a ris
ing national income is, amongst
other things, a fair and reason
able profit to ibusiness,’’ Hopkins
Mold at a press conference.
1
J^BEMANENT PWA?
^-N^^Washlngton, Peb. 1.—The ad-
V B^istration will soon ask Con
gress for legislation to make the
public works administration a
permanent. Jl,000,000,000-a-year
agency to combat unemployment
and to centralise federal relief
projects, it waa disclosed tonight.
A bill for the proposal has been
drafted, without the direct sanc
tion of PWA Administrator Har
old L#. Ickes, and it will be sub
mitted to the House and Senate
within two weeks.
DOUGHTON OFFERS BILL
Washington, Feb. 1.— Three
highly explosive issues—govern
ment reorganization, reciprocal
iaxatlon of state and federal sal
aries, and renewed life for the
Dies un-American affairs com
mittee—began grinding their way
through Congress today, each la-
deit with potential trouble for the
administration. President Roose-
' Veit’s fight for power to reor
ganise smd consolidate top-heavy
fgdwd a battle In
^hlch he was soundly jolted last
\esslon, was renewed with signal
success when Representative John
,OOchran (D). Mo., won Honsc ap
proval of his resolution reconsti
tuting the reorganlzaton commit
tee. The vote was 153 to 102.
$84,430 LOPPED OFF
Raleigh, Feb. 1.—Tihe appro-
nriatlons committee slowed down
in Ots tentative considera-
of expenditures for the next
two years, as supporters of bud
get recommendations waged a
more vigorous fight to prevent
sharp cuts to the 1935-37 level.
The economy bloc, led by Repre
sentative Pickens of Guilford,
was still able to force through
new slashes totaling $34,430.
This time, it was the state adver
tising fund, the department of
conservation and developmeiit,
and the industrial commission
which felt the pressure of the
money-saving movement. Even
Pickens, however, admitted that
the economy drive had lost some
nuMBentum. He predicted that the
committee instead o f lopping
$50 600 from the $250,000 state
Sdv4rtlslng .fund for the next two
years as it did today might have
eliminated the item altogether on
lesday.
VOL. 60 PttbUihed MoodayB and Thnrodayo.
OTKESSBOBO,^. a. THURSDAY, W. 2, J989 IIJ
ASHE MAN SUIGEDE
■West Jefferson, lOeb; 1.—8olo-
:g»on Peenlngton, 43 • year - old
' World Wsr veteran, ended his
Ufa this morning by tiring n .16-
;;gBage shotgun Into his heart. He
"was visiting at his father’s home
Tin the Brist&l community near
' JeCtersoD at the time. Of fleers
- were told Pennington was sitting
in a room with his stepmother
'When without any remark, he
^walked to a corner, picked up the
^gun and shot himself. He died al-
ioat tautantly.
msB
ManyExaiiiined |m
Crippled Cte b
Norm Wilkesboro
Need For Clinic Is Great,
Healtjb Officer Says!
65 Exaiained
Playmate GMie, Six-Year-OM WritM to CkmLJ
"We hope to hare orthope4ic |
clinics in Wilkes St regular IntOr-!
vals,’’ Dr. A. J. EJller, Wilkes i
health officer, said today in djis^
cussing the second clinic held at
the Wilkes hospital here Satur
day.
Dr. Eller said that the clinic
was highly successful and that
65 cases were examined by Dr. 0.
L. 'Miller, of CHavlotte, orthopedic
surgeon who came here to make
the examinations.
He added that the large num
ber attending was evidence of the
need of a clinic here, saying that
there is doubtless many cripples
and deformed people within the
county who have never been ex
amined to ascertain whether or
not their physical handicaps could
be corrected.
Another cBnic will be held in
March, he said. The clinic is be
ing sponsored by the North Wil
kesboro Kiwanis club in coopera
tion with the county health de
partment.
Among the 65 who were ex
amined in the clinic there was an
unusually large number of new
cases, persons who had not been
examined or who had not re
ceived treatment in an orthopedic
hospital. In addition to the new
cases there were seve.ral who have
been treated and who attended
for the purpose of a re-check ex
amination.
Dr. Eller deplored the fact that
many parents do not show prop
er interest relative to crippled
and deformed children and neg
lect to take advantage of, oppor
tunities provided for correction of
physical handicaps.
Groundhog. Sky*.
M/iuatier It. Gone
■ -A:—
Todby, tiM pseosMl l»y of
FWiniary bid biSiMsr Iosowb m
“'troaIldhOi^s Dsy,"-
the acid MsO to tiho s^^e*^-
fcion that tf die grotiBdliOfr does
pot see be AwlOw on. Eebra-
ary a that wibUk- > ovey.
Teday tbe» wtadher w 0 s
doedy all day and the sun did
raot evon sbiae oboe in this aec>
flan, eliaslanMaig all poadMltty
pdiat die "tefaUhde’’ .> weafker
prophet ooida bave seen bia
Shadow fesn dawn ondl- late
OTening.
Bat even thipse who swear
by the grontadhog'e ]^v;dlc«ieni
would not advise ns to ttiTow
away onr overcoats, rainooitta,
oviwshoes or neglect to order
cool Just becanoe the ground
hog says winter is over.
Be
On Highway 42‘1
Line From Dr. TriulMfk
Foot of
Fmnl Apprownl
Bobby Lewis of MiiuusipoUs, six yesrsw«r, attended the fnneral of his four-year-old pUymate, Floyd Hlgb-
strom and talked with Reverend Emil Heohardt, who told him that Floydie had gone on a long irii. to see
Ck)d. Ketumlng home, Bolbie addressed a Irtter “Xo God. In Heaven, Dp In the Sky," asking ^t he be
allowed to see Floydie when he went ‘-‘upstairs.’’
Stockholders Of
Loan Association
To Meet Feb. 25
Applications For i $35,000 b Taxes
2 Gyms Approved Paid h January
WPA Approves Projects at
Mt. Pleasant and Lincoln
Heights Build’ngs
Sheriff Doughton Says Col
lections Good Before the
Penalty Is Added
The Works Progress adminis
tration has approved applications
for construction of physical edu
cation buildings at Mount Pleas
ant high school and at Lincoln
Heights colored school in Wilkes-
bor, C. B. Eller, county superin
tendent of schools, said today.
Plans for the buildings, which
are to be of almost identical con
struction, were revised in order,
to reduce the cost and the spon
sor’s share of each building will
OakwS^'Road
be around $2,000.
-S«e»t lmt..that'^adltlonal penulty
To Be Built Soon
Work Expected to Start At
Once On New WPA
Read Project
District Highway Commission
er J. G. Hackett said today that
work is expected to start within
the next few days on the road
leading from the Wllkesboros to
Oakwoods, the project to be und
er the supervision of the WPA.
During the past few days citi
zens residing along the Oakwoods
road have been active in obtain
ing signatures for the road’s im
provement and working out right-
of-way in several places where
the location of the highw.ay is to
be slightly changed.
Commissioner Hackett stated
today that a check-up of the Oak-
woods road revealed the fact that
it is traveled approximately twice
as .miioh as any other secondary
road in the county, and this fact
accounts for the early construc
tion of the road to the point of
intersection with the Moravian
Palls road.
Wilkes county board of educa
tion is listed as sponsor of the
projects, but the. communities will
raise the money without cost to
the county.
Millers Creek. Ronda, an'd
Mountain View have gymnasiums
and Wilkesboro is working on
plans for one at the present time.
It is understood that Roaring
'River and Tfaphill, the other two
high schools in the county sys
tem ai'e interested in proposals to
erect gymnasiums with the aid of
WPA‘ funds.
Legion Banquet
On Friday Night
More than $35,000 in Wilkes
county taxes were paid during the
month of January, C. T. Dough
ton, sheriff and tax collector, said
today.
.Tanuary was a busy month in
: payments because it was the
lajt month when taxes could be
paid without penalty as prescrib
ed .by law.
Sheriff Dougihton called atten
tion to the fact that th_gypenalty
during this month is oL/ one per
Art Exhibit Next
Week Announced
Representative of Land
Bank and County Agent
to Address Gathering
150 Colored iReprokhictions
of Masterpieces Will Be
Shown In This City
will be added to ail taxes hot paid
on or 'before the first day of
March.
Officers Helping
To Locate Couple
Many Expected to Hear His
torical Address By Rev.
Douglas Rights
Police here today sought 'in
formation relative to the where
abouts of George L. Holbrook,
Who is alleged to have left his
home four miles west of this city
Tuesday with Mrs. Claude Bled-
eoie, next' door neighbor.
A‘; the request of the woman’s
husband police resorted to radio
broadcasts Wednesday in an ef
fort to locate the couple. Bledsoe
said that his five-year-old child
deserted by its mother is very ill.
Holbrook, according to infor
mation given the police, had sold
his home, bought a new car and
left for unannounced points with
his neighbor’s wife.
Reproductions of works of Ar
tists of many generations will be
on display at the North Wllkea-
b o r o school on Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday afternoons,
February 9, 10 and 11.
This collection consists of 160
Masterpieces representing the
French, Italian, Flemish. Eng
lish, Dutch, Spanish. German and
American Schools of Art. Most of
these are Jhe Masterpieces stu
died by the schools. Famous por
traits, landscapes, marines, and
pastoral scenes in the colors of
the original canvases are on dis
play.
There will Ik' 150 large colored
reproductions of the Old and
Modern Masters. Among the most
famous artists represented are:
Gainsborough, Titian Da Vinci,
Terborch, Murillo, Van Dyck,
P.aphael, and many others of the
Old Masters, while among the
more modern are representative
subjects from the 'brush of Ben
'Footer, George De Fofeet Brush,
George Jnnes, 'Eraest Albert,
Frank Duvaneck. Gardner Sy
mons, Bruce Crane, William
Wyant, Harry Vincent, Robert
Wesley Amlck, and Gustave Wle-
gand.
The exhibit will be open to the
public and a small admission
charge will be made, proceeds to
l)e used in purchasing plctiires
for the school. All are united to
The annual meeting of mem
bers of the Moravian National
Farm Loan association will be
held at North Wilkesboro on
February 25, at 10 o’clock in the
city hall, according-to an an
nouncement by P. E. Dancy, pres
ident.
An Interesting program is be
ing arranged for tbe meeting this
year, Mr. Dancy said, and a very
large attendance Is expected. As
usual, complete and detailed re
ports will .be made on the opera
tions of the. association and the
members will be made acquainted
with all of its affairs. In addi
tion, there will be a discussion of
the association’s part in tlie agri
cultural develoFmeDt of the sec
tion It serves.
A representative of the Federal
Land Bank of Columbia will at
tend the meeting and Dan F. Hol
ler, county agent of Wilkes coun
ty, has 'been invited to speak.
Directors of the association,
which serves Wilkes county, are
P. E. Dancy, B. C. Price, J. R.
Eller, J. F. Pearson, and U. G.
Foster, who served up until the
time of his death, January 3rd.
O. H. Bracey is secretary-treasur
er, with headquarters in the Bank
of North Wilkesboro building in
North Wilkesboro.
Local 'branch of the Dxko PofW
er company today recatred tAo
go-ahead signal for eonatraqtloB
of another major extMMdon oft
rural power lines. ^
M. G.' Butnet;*-local muagiig^
said that the company hMl.'.OB'
proved a proposal to extend tbd
line from the home of Dr. W. K.
Triplett 13 miles -west ot this etty
to tbe foot of the Blue RMge oa
highway 421 toward Boone, a to
tal .distance from this city oC
more than 20 miles.
The eight-mile extension will
serve several small communitieo
along the highway and will add
abont 40 customers to the branOh
of the company here, Mr. Bntner
said.
Meanwhile, work has begnn on
surveys and securing the right of
way for a six-mile extension in
Somers and New Castle townships
in eastern Wilkes, a line applies-,
tion which was approved several'
weeks ago. About 35 farm homss
and places of business will be
served by the extension, which
will extend into the western edge
■if Yadkin county.
Proposals for several other line
extensions in Wilkes, which him
well over 2.30 miles of rural lines
and ranks high In the state in
rural electrification and rural
homes electrified, are being stu
died by officials of the Duke Pow
er company, which owns and ope
rates all the lines, and it is ex
pected that several communities
will have the advantages of eles-
trlcity for the first time this year.
Andersoi^gaiiist
At a Large Charck
Local Youth Beconxes (kr-
ganist at Anderson, S. C.
First Baptist Church
Club Is T(JJ Of
Band’s Progress
see the exhibit.
Motitm Pictures Are Anoth
er Feature of Program
By Cragan On Friday
^»e
I
A ^
TVERSIONISTS WIN
Raleigh. Feb. 1. —Governor
Hosr’B supporters in tbe General
Aisonxbly.won a smashing victory
when the senate finance
ma.^oommlttee voted overwhelmingly
l i- against a proposal to pledge the
re against the so-called
gHerslbu of highway funds. On
aa oral vote, the result of which.
appeared to be 17 to 2. the com-
]i)rtee gave an unfavorable re-
pOTt to the senate "good roads”
which is diametrically op
posed to recommendations ex-
ji-Miml by Governor Hoey in a
ftgjiflng address to a joint legis
lative session last night. Negative
were cast by Senators
Batcher of Burke. Umstead of
Grange* who indicated they might
eairy the diversion battle back to
il> tt»e floor of the senate. But the
■■ ewnmittee report had the effect
of /plgoon-holelng the measure,
which cannot now reach a test
In th# upiKjr house unless two-
thMs of the senators vote to
tak» It from the unfavorable cal-
ssisr,
Lions Are To Hear
Rev. Eugene Oliv^
Regular meeting of the North
Wilkesboro Lions club will be
held at Hotel Wilkes on Friday
evening, 6:30 o’clock, with C. B.
Jenkins, Jr., in charge of the pro
gram.
Mr. Jenkins said that a feature
of the program will be an address
by Rev. Eugene OlVve, pastor of
the First Baptist church of North
Wilkesboro.
Dr. Leiby Helps
In Wilkes Clinic
Head of Venereal Control
Division
hig*. ^6 4
to Be
|h 5«rvice
rukes
lock Layin« At
Rate 70 Per Cent
sf Rd Roster, son of Mr. and Mrs.
, Ji^ ‘fy»etor. of North Wllheo-
TCnto 3. repots that bis
of 160 layers produced 368
Ewsigg* doling the tO-dsy per^
lt|»rora Jehoery ,1. to JohpeW
: gjt avorsge of flO ***”
on.
Dr. Leiby, head of the venereal
disease control division of the
state health department, will a-
galn be in Wilkes on Saturday,
February 4, to assist Dr. A. J.
Eller, county health officer, in
conducting a clinic, Dr. Enter said
today. "
Dr. Leiby will have with him
all equipment and suiH^Ues neces
sary for dUgno^ and treatment
of venereal diseases.
Hsstrs. A. T. Whittington and
R. Ci Goodman, of tho Markdqom
ittosp^mpany, attended Rto
famltah^hmoBltlon _■ 1 n
Point Wednesday'
The annual “Commanders and
Presidents” night of the Ameri
can Legion and the American Le
gion Auxiliary will 'be held at the
clubhouse on Friday night, Feb
ruary 3rd.
The festivities begin at 6:45 in
the evening when a chicken din
ner will he served to the I.,egion
the Auxiliary and guests.
Following the dinner. Rev.
Dougla.s Rights, of Winston-Sal
em, will deliver an address on
Revolutionary and pre-Revolu-
tionary history of northwesierp
North Carolina. Rev. iMr. Rights
is president of the Wachovia His
torical Society and is well versed
on this subject. He is no stranger
to Wilkes county, having given a
lecture before the Parent-Teach
er association some time ago on
a boat trip he took down the Yad
kin River to Georgetown. S. O,
He is also a student of Jndian life
and some time ago excavated an
Indian Mound in Wilkes county.
His many friends here are look
ing forward to his address on the
early history of this section of
the state with much interest. Due
to the fact that this subject Is of
unusual ..Interest. to many people
of the Wllkesboros and Wilkes
I county, the committee on ar
rangements haVe made provision
for the entertainment of invited,
guests a;ui friends who are inter
ested in the history of Wilkes
and adjoining counties.
The cost Of the supper will be
60c each. Tickets are on sale at
the office of the Yadkin "Valley
Motor company4ind at the desk of
Hotel Wilkes. The purchase of a
ticket guarantees a reservation
for the entire program.
The festivities will be'closed
with ad oiq^ fashioned' sqnare
dance.
Hundreds of Applicatiims For Soil
Payments Being Forwarded Daily
ladllaa^ys io. tl^p .lnunfeet dW
Mii^ in tbs wbrifijinot totnUed on navlg-
Applications for payment to
farmers under the 1938 soil con
servation program are being for
warded to Washington rapidly
and it is expected that checks to
Wilkes farmers will arrive during
the month of March, ■ it was
learned today from Lawrence
Miller, chief clerk of the Wilkes
county agricultural conservation
association.
Hundreds of applications are
being signed and forwarded-each
day. This work represents the
last transaction In the 1938 pro
gram until the termers them
selves sign receipts for payment
after the checks arrive.
,Meali^^frhlle, meetings are being
held in central cor,Hnunltle8
throughout the county.and farm-
era are being told .how to earn
the maximum payment for their
respective farms during the
coming year. '
The interest being shown by
the farmers in learning how to
earn government payments and at
the same time Improve and con
serve theii! soil is evidenced .by
the fact that the meetings' are
unusually well attended. Attend
ance has passed the 150 'mark at
some of the 'meetings, Mr. Miller'
said.
More than -6,0(^0 work sheets
were filled out for the 1638 prq-.
gram, repreeentiag. praetioUly
every, far-m In the county. Com-
pllsnoe workers have estimated
ihpt at least two-thirds of this,
.nomher -have, qnallfled -for pay>
; meat Jbat toe avwag^aiponnt will
be small, dao^ the. f>.
However, they are intensely in
terested in carrying out tnore soil
conserving practices for which
payment will be made this year
and it is expected that a great ma-
.fority of tbe farmers will earn
the maximum payment under the
1939 program.
Total payments to Wilkes farm
ers under the 1938,.program may
reach $90,000, Mr. Miller said.
Wilkes Marriages
Ucense to wed were issned
during tho-past 16 days in iWHkos
county by Register of Deeds Old
Wiles to eight couples as follows:
Joseph C. Miller, North Itokes-
boro, and Janie Watts, Boomer;
Harold Matherson and Janie Ow
ens, iboth of TaylorsviUo; Challie
Nieh^, Purlear, and' Pearlle
Mae Duncan, Wilkesboro route 1:
Fetitile Anthohy and'BWell Byrd,
Paul S. Cragan, superintendent
of North Wilkesboro schnols,
was in charge of the program at
the Kiwanis club meeting Friday
and presented Bill Greer, mem
ber of the school faculty, who
told about progress of band work,
which has been instituted in
North Wilkesboro schools. He
also presented a trumpet solo.
Mr. Cragan then presented two
motion pictures entitled “Alaska”
and "Life History of the Frog.’’
I both of which were enjoyed by
' the club.
John Prevette was inducted in
to membership in the club and
Rev. Eugene Olive presented to
him the Klwanlan button, review
ing briefly certain Ideals of Ki
wanis.
Secretary T. B. Story read
three reports which were sub
mitted by committee chairmen to
the directors meeting held Thurs
day evening at Hotel Wilkes. One
was a report by Rev. Watt M.
Cooper, chairman of the Boys and
Girls committee, in which he sug
gested that a "Mother-Daughter’’
banquet 'be sponsored this year.
The club voted to appropriate
$36 for the Boy Scout cdurt of
both of Roaring River; John ^
Beokeidlte, Winaton-^ei^^^^^ ^ buying m«Mt
Mildred Pearam. North Wllkee-1 j
iPhe other committee reports
J. Jay Anderson, of North Wil
kesboro. has recently became or
ganist of the First Baptist church
of Anderson, S. O. This church,
with Dr. Marshall L. Mott aa pas
tor, is the second largest church
in South Carolina, having a
membership of 2,400 members.
Young Anderson, a son of Mrs.
Annie Anderson, of North Wil
kesboro, has for the past twenty
months been connected with tho
Hammond organ company aa
demonstrating organist and organ
teacher. In this capacity Mr. An
derson has presented organ re
citals in most of the cities and
towns in Piedmont and Western
South Carolina, and he will con
tinue his work as teacher for the
company.
During his school days at Wake
.I'oresf College. Mr. Anderson
was assistant to Dr. Hubert Mc
Neill Poteat, was college organist
and had charge of all religious
music on the campus, being di
rector of a student choir of 26
voices which he organized. Since
his graduation, he was for a time
choir director at a church in
Winston-Salem.
.\t the presentation of tho
’’Messiah" by the Shandon chor
al club and the South Carolina
orchestra in Columbia under tha
direction of Hans Swiegert Just
before Christmas, Mr. Anderson
was asked to take charge of tho
Hammond used with the orches
tra and chorus. Mr. Swiegert is
the past conductor of the Berlin
opera and the Tokyo Imperial
opera.
On January 25th, an organ^|o>
cital was presented to the psoptoi"
of Anderson by the organist of
the FMrst Baptist, and Mr. Andep-
son has recently given a recital,'
at the Catholic church In Awter-.
son and will next ‘ week pnoeiit '
an organ reettnl at the Cayco Bap- -
tint church in Colunthia. ’
. it -
Mildred P^am, North
boro: Blrie Woods and Anjde
Church, both of Wilkeaboro route
1; Roscoe Combs, North Wilkar
boro route 3, and Leona Sparks,
r^d were one by S. V, Tomlin-
itpn, chairman of the pahlic af-
Doro route 8, ana committee, suggesting that
Dockefry; Charle*‘^'tha piub work toward aoeiulng a
Peail B. i Sommorlln,'» both T . . . , -
Stiecial Meeting
Worker’s Council
Friday Evemnir.ii
Walsh.*
- Mr. and Mrs. A;"G. BriMSal;'
«1 WOtoaboiro, aro e^ioctfnit^.to
bring their lltUe son, Ftonik,
home from Davia Hospital-tomor
row. Ho haa been cirlttei^y W
with pneumonla.'^'^ ‘
j^oQg underprivllofnd chHdrto,
iby .l B. WUllaras. ohalnnani- of
that eommltteo.
-M
Mr..
therp APo many small, fanns a»A, feg”
%eci4ia^ many taraera did ixd
” ' amount. ', .€-,1
, R. Oiay.Sr,
UNftto
, haa rotezBr
lali'’''sevo»'t
Yat',
'industry for tha vOlty.-and a
Thare win Be a special meetinc
ebinprehensive report of wqrk a-;i(.tho Walker’s Couucll of tha
^ Mr. H. H. Baaheara, well known
ettlsen of the community,
wap a visitor in thin city today.
, Mr. F. U Parka, woH known
of Eoaiitag Rfm,
today. looting
4|
->r-'- ''■■■■■ ■
Nteto,JinikM(bom Metoodist Sna-
day eaihoot .at the
l^riday. eveniag’, F*l«»«a>5r .,_
ho aOmd'^k ;
o’cloek after whieh ‘Carl
;8aHab«ry. teiitek. ifr, ;
Mtt haya:‘4r'*al
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