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a mm -?!S?j ^-k. ii ACT CHAUJ^fGSSD ITayHttiS^. •■ 30.—Tha eonatltut^allty ,6t the fair labor standards act Is qt-estloned in ri-' the answMr of Central Wearing % and Spinning company to a suit ■ filed here by James Miller as a- gent for 44 employes of the com pany. The answer denies allega tions that the employes did not receive proper wages, and con tends that the application of the wages and hours law to the de- tOndant would violcte the fifth «b4 10th amendments to the na- tibnal constitution. McNUTT IN RI>'G Indianapolis. June 30.—Indi ana Democrats accKslmed their favorite son for the 1940 presi- '^entlal nomination—47-year-old, »hiite-halred Paul V. McNutt—in a festive homecoming celebration today on his return from his post as United States high commis sioner to the Phlllpnine Islands. A cheering, flag-waving crowd, estimated by reception officials at 15,000, stood under a blazing sun in historic Monument circle hours to welcome the former Sj^foyernor and hear him voice a plea for world peace. GIRL, 2 MEN DROWN East Rutherford, X. J., June 30.—The body of a 12-year-old girl, who was swept into a culvert during a heavy downpour of rain, and the body of one of two men. who made vain attempts at rescue, were identified tonight two hours after beine taken from a sewer. Mrs. Gertrude Kostonbil- Is hysterically told police the body of the girl wp-; that of her daughter, Sophie. S uperintendent of Public Works John OTonnor identified one of the men as Wil liam Stlgleman. 4fi. an employe ^ of the public works department. The third body was not identified. V' VOL. 32 lNblUlhe4 SnJ’ m :iV- r'i.,.- w d6ji e«ni«i; m ^3^ N. c, MOiiDAY;: JULY^^ iMseeafcditegsMaBF*""'' ' State ABots 261 Wiikes Teachers; Increase Over ’38 Possibility Additionai Teach ers If Enrollment High In Schools N. WILKESBORO GETS 31 New High R^^ Number For State, 24,336, Made By Conunission S.JCg* fno diversion fiends Raleigh. June 30.—With gen eral fund tax receipts exceeding estimates by $2,117,102.64, North Carolina tonight closed out the |i -. V#»8-3« fiscal year without di- *’ verting money from highway levies, 'ftpjemor Hoey gnuuuuced this afternoon that the “healthy •condition” of general fund fi nances would make diversion un necessary. Under state law. he , was authorized to transfer np to $2,000,000. if needed, from the highway fund to the general fund during 1938-39. The diversion fty was not contemplated to balance the general fund during 1938-39, but rather to provide a surplus of $2,200,000 in the fund at the ^tsrt of 1939-40. The fact that 1^ Wtsx receipts run well above esti mates. however, Insnred the sur plus without diversion. DOG ALARM FAILS Wilson. June 30.—A North Carolina hound that acted as guardian of a Wilson county li enor still and barked at the ap proach of strangers and officer.^ to let its master know they were coming and give him time to get away gave the signal too late yesterday and Jesse Page, Wilson county man, was arrested on charge of operating a still in the Oldfields section of the county. Page was placed under $100 bond pending a hearing on the charge Ain county court in the near tu- ™ture. According to Deputy J. W. Brown the dog had been trained to bark at officers to let the moonshiners know when “ene mies” were around. As the offi- {■ers waited at the still the dog came into sight and let up a howl but Page was apparently too dose behind him and was ar rested before he could get away. DAM IS POSTPONED The city of High Point, which has encountered many difficulties In its persistent efforts to manu facture its own electric power, lYlday found a real stumbling block in its way when Resident Judge H. Hoyle Sink, of Super ior court, after two months of special hearings, signed an order restraining the municipality “from any further actlyltles, ope- w ration. development, advance ment or continuation of the pro- p o B e d hydroelectric project.” Counsel for the city gave notice of appeal to the state Supreme court. The order was granted ,$ plaintiffs in the two suits a- galnst the city after the court had found as a fact that “the Yadkin-Pee Dee river in North Carolina.” on which High Point proposed to build a $6,500,000 power plant, “is not now and sever has been, either by itself a^^y uniting with other waters, ^Kble of navigation for the mo- Bmt of trade and traffic In In- Bvtate or foreign commerce. The apld river, both In Ita natural condition and In Its prwnt con- ^^on. Is now and .-always has a npn-MTigaWa **ver - The State school commission through Lloyd Griffin, executive secretary, has allbted a total of 24,336 teachers for the state, which represents a new record high. Wilkes county received" in the allotment 261 teachers, which represents an increase of four over the final allotment of 257 for the 1938-39 term. There is a possibility that en rollment in several schools may justify additional teachers, it was learned today from C. B. Eller, superintendent of the Wilkes school system. North Wilkesboro city schools, which operate as a city charter unit and separately from the county system, was allotted 31 teachers, the same number as were employed last year. Of the 261 allotment for Wilkes county schools, 42 arc white high school teachers, 198 white elementary school teach ers. six negro high school teach ers and 12 negro elementary school teachers. The North Wilkesboro allot- I merit of 31 teachers has nine high school, 17 elementary, no negro high school and five negro ele mentary. Total allotment for systems of counties adjoining Wilkes are as follows: Yadkin, 147; Surry, 269; Asho, 178; Watauga, 112; Caldwell, 181; Alexander, 76; rreS^l, 221. • New Organization Absorbs Merchant Association Here Merchants Bureau and Cred it-Collections Bureau To Perform Services At a meeting of the board of directors of the North Wilkes boro Commerce Bureaus, a newly formed organization of all types of business in North Wilkesboro designed to promote the city s growth and progress, the Wilkes County Mearchants’ Association was absorbed. The dlrecttors approved the proposal of the association. The functions of ihe merchants association will be carried on by ,the Merchants Bureau and the Credit-Collections Bureau of the ^organization, officials said fol lowing the meeting. The vice president at the head of the Merchants Bureau, one of six in the North Wilkesboro Commerce Bureaus, Is W. G. Ga briel. Other members of the Merchants Bureau on the central hoard of directors are A. E. Kil by and A. A. Cashion. The vice president a* the head of the Credit-Collections bureau is J. B. Williams. Other members o fthe bureau with Mr. Williams on the board of directors are R- M. Brame and W. P. Kelly. Wilkesboro School Library Now Open Story and Reading Hour For Children Each Monday Is Annoiuiced igures Studied Estimated Rate Based on Valuation $14,- 671,150; Real Estate Shows Increase; Personal Property Decreases officers of the Oldei Rural Youth Organization 1939-40, elated at the third annual Older College June 6-10 are shown a^4e. »ell of Wi-Hc!--, R-1. B»'tie County, prMWpi tnms dred Mallard of Trenton. Jones County, ^**nr4id«SI* ^ Haigler of Monroe. wi£l CointJ^^ Ser«i^Is‘‘’rttracted’‘'l29 ,J}ge8tu’ R^^Harrill Tnd Mis^Franc^"MacGregor, 4-H ClnblUders, directed the very successful event. Merchants Prepare For Ei% Sales Event Sales Will O-en Here On Friday Death Drivers To Stage Thrill Shows at Fair ground Friday Night Many North Wilkesboro merch ants are busily engaged in prep aration for the city-wide July clearance sales event which will open on Friday morning, July 7, In the sales event mofpUl will sacrifice profits In c.Iear^etocks of sum dise in short order and, low prices will be in e: opening day until the merchan dise is disposed of. As a special added attraction, the opening day of the sales event will be climaxed Friday evening, seven o’clock, by Thrill Shows to be put on at the fairgrounds by Tony Kivett and his “Death Drivers.” The. show, which was scheduled for the first time in North Wll- kpsboro by the merchants and at great expense, will consist of some of the most thrilling and death-defying stunts known to operators of motor vehicles. There will be crashes, smash es. chills and spills and in the midst of it all the man who has torn up scores of cars will give a safety talk, telling how to drive automobiles without injury to drivers or others. There will be such stunts as auto collisions, turnovers, crash es. burning wall crashes and some hairrising s'lints on motor cycles. The shows will represent the first time that such attractions have ever been scheduled for showing ip North Wilkesboro and are expected to attract a record crowd. QUINTS ON DIET Callander. Ont.. .Tunc 30.— (Canadian Pres.sl—Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe announced today that a month of dieting had achieved ita aim in reducing the weights of the Dionne quintuplets. Dr. Da foe, deciding the little girls were too fat, reduced Quartet Singing At Baptist Home .\ quartet singing will be held Moptist Home church north of '•i'’ city on Sunday. June 16. • r-rording to an announcement ' ■d:>y. The singing will be the second of a quartet singing convention organized three months ago at Mountain View with J. A. Gil liam chairman and J. L. Gregory, secretary. All quartets, trios,^duets and Boloists who read?? 4Si4dSI.JWHlc. Speaker Friday At Kiwanis Meei Commends Banks For Co operation Md For Sound Financial Condition Altliongh no budget has been adopted and the tax rate lias not been definitely set, Wilkes coanty taxes for 1939 are being, otrflected temporsrtly at (he ^imated rate of 91-OS On inuft hundred 'dollars val uation, a deerease of one cent under the 10S8 tax rate. * C. 6. Poindexter, WOkee county accountant who accepts prepayment of taxes, said that the board of county commis sioners had made a study of (lie budget and had authorized prepayment of taxes at the rate of fi-O.*!, which is expected to be finally adopted. A three- cent railroad bond tax will make the tax rate for North AVilkcsboro township $1.08 com]tared with 91.00 in 1088. Mr. Poindexter, who is also county tax supervisor, said that the tot^ assessed valuation ihr tlifi county will be approximate- ;ly the same as last year. With some few adjustments to be made, the total valuation now .stands at 914,071,100, which Is. abonl 90,000 under laafe yedr'a figfures bnt does hot tn- dnde the ootporatlim ' exoetM to be set by the state. Totaling the tax books for all townships In the county showed an increase in re^ ee> tate valuations of 9177,000 but there was a decrease In person al property of approximately 9186,000. Number of persons listed for poll tax showed an increase of about flOO. PORTABLE BIRD CAGE ,-v- 1 J Po$tal Receipts Set New Record At Office Here First Six Months Show Gain Of $1379.23 Over Corres ponding Period Year Ago Postal receipts at the North Wilkesboro postoffice for the first six months of 1939 set a how high record, figures released J. C. RelBS »■ ■ T : jLfc"'. t For Help In Wil k^, Fmds Allotted By State Hoit Sufficient To Care For ‘* , All EUgiblee' : t ; MORE CASES APPROVED County’s Allotment For Aid To Dependent Qiildrp^ " Is Already Filled j . . : X ” , ., , According to information' fnnB state welfare anthorltUt-, '-Ute state allotment of pablio ance funds for Wilkes coantf not be sufficient to pay. old^*Bfe assistance and aid to depemAtiit eblldten to all ellgibles,' McNeill, Wilkes county superintendent, said after a 'c'oe- ference with state offlclal|(.’'Qi: ‘ The allotment will allow jm Increase in the old age aasistanew llrt of 72 for the fiscal “yanr. which began on July 1, Mr. Mc Neill said, but this figure win still leave many who have'alfn&dy been approved by the welfniw board without provision fort>aId. With 108 already on the wait-' Ing list, the county welfare board met last week and approved 4S more for old age assistance and ten additional families for aid to dependent children. According to Information given the county welfare superinten dent, the county’s allotment for aid to dependent children for tho ensuing fiscal year is already fill ed and no others can be added except as cases are terminated. When the 72 additional old age cases are added to the a»- sistance payroll for the year there will remain 79 who hare been approved as eligible for as sistance and for whom there will wmOaPB. Mt- Mo- Bird fanciers snd hat designers alike picked np a few new Mmb when this Znrlch, Switeerlaad, ttiiB appeared with her own pet in a cage atop her new tnmtner bonnet. The bird Sang gnlte happHy- Mrs. P. A. Lomax Is Taken By Death Last Rites Held Today For Member Prominent Local Family; Died Saturday $19,0$6.61 for the coirespoiidlng- period In 1938. The net gain for the first half year was $1,379.23. There nas been .a steady in crease in postal receipts at the North Wilkesboro office for the I past several years and if the present trend continues the In crease for the entire year of 1939 is expected to b-j approximately $2,500. to 6e approte^' by^Ihe" seiartili'fho federal appropriation for aid to dependent children will be in- crepsed January 1 and this will enable paying all eligible caseo. because state and county conti^- ■ butlons will be smaller. Gurney P. Hood, North Caro lina state commissioner of banks, addressed the North Wilkesboro Kiwanis club Friday noon. Mr. Hood made a very inter esting talk before the club, tell ing of the progress of banking during the past ten years. W. J. Oaroon, cashier of the Northwestern bank, was 1" , ... champ of the program. He pre- Mrs. Sarah E. Lomax, wife of - senl^ J. H. Bell, of Lenoir, who' the late P. A. Lomax and a mem-|Ceived from the office jlud^ Inirndiicpd the sneaker I ber of a prominent and well known Johnson J. Hayes, who will pro- T„ r f.»ily he,., died Salurd., .-.r th. .Med. „„d,d .n, b.dk. t.r .h.l, „„.|lns.dix.yack,.t jh,h.m,.fl,e, tencing about 75 who were con victed in four mass conspiracy cases in May will be taken up on Monday, July 17. The defendants were convicted Will Mete Out Sentences 17tb 75 Convicted Of Conapimey To Defraud Govemmaut To Be Sentenced According to Information re- cooperation during the crisis of daughter, Mrs. J. M. Quinn. 1932-33 and for their progress Mrs. Lomax had been in ill and sound financial condition ' Health for several years and be- sliice that time. He also talked came seriously ill Wednesday, about the growth in number and i She was 77 years of age. resources of Morris Plan banks. Her husband, who was well and . - He spoke in very favorable favorably known in this section of or either entered pleas of guilty terms of Federal Housing Loans! the state, died ten years ago. She'as the result of work of an under- which are made by banks and leaves four children: C. B. Lomax, j cover agent. M. A. King, who other financial institutions for Mrs. J. M. Quinn, Mrs. A. F. Kil-, operated out of Charlotte and by and Miss Oladys Lomax, all of bonght various quantities of li- bullding and purchase of homes. Such loans are made on a long term basis and are guaranteed by the federal government. The cjub received the address with much interest. put them on a diet of | Guests of Mr. Caroon at the starches and sugars on I meeting were a number of bank- Beginnlng Monday, July 10, there will be a story hour for children at the Wilkesboro school library. The story and reading hour will begin each Monday morning at ten o’clock and parents are -»sked to encourage attendance of all children from * h e first through the fifth grades. The school library is being kept open for the convenience and use Hy the public on Mon days. Wednesdays and Fridays from nine a. m. to four p. m. Some of the latest flcUon books have been added to the library, in addition to tbe many volumes which were on hand, and the li brary is also serviced by the WPA bookmobile now tonring the eoiutty. May 28. Potatoes were banned, ers from adjoining towns, in- Today's weights, with the change' eluding J, H. Bell and A. G. from last month, were announc- Ford, of Lenoir; Garland John- ed as follows: Mare, 49 1-2 son, of Elkin; and Edwin Dun- pounds, 1-2 pound loss; Emilie, can, of Sparta. J. H. Johnson was 51 3-4, 3-4 loss: Ceclle, 52, 1 1-4 a guest of George Kennedy and loss: Annette, 52, 1 3-4 loss, and R. M. ^rame was a guest of Yvonne, 49 3-4, 1 loss. Genlo Cardwell. this city. Funeral service was held at 11 o’clock today at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Quinn. Rev. Euf.’ene Olive, pastor of the First Baptist church, of which Mr.s. Lomax had been a member, was in charge of the service, assisted by Rev. A. L. Aycock, pastor of the Methodist Advertising Bureau Answers First Inquiry Relative To Industry Here The advertising bureau of North Wilkesboro’s Commerce Bureaus answered Its first in quiry about North Wilkesboro Tuesday. The Inquiry was addressed to Mr. H. C. Landon, who was once head of a Chamber of Commerce here and was directed .to the Commerce Bureaus for attention. The" Inquiry and reply, as written by the advertising bu reau and forwarded through. Wr, P. Kelly, executive secretary ofc the central or'gftnltttlBa, June 22, 1939. Mr. H. C. Landon, Chamber of Commerce, North Wllkekboro, N. C. My dear Sir: I will sincerely appreciate the courtesy If you can find'it con venient to rrall me literature bearing on the conditions In your section. If a list of Industries Is available It will be helpful. I partioularly desire to . a«!eft|iln the number gnd -the clan, ;ot In- ^try.tn North Wllkeeboro." * j quor from residents of the mid dle eastern section of Wilkes, meanwhile gathering evidence in tbe cases. About 50 cases remaining on the criminal docket will be tried during the week beginning JUly 10. Practically all of the defend- ~ ants are charged with violation church. Burial was in Greenwood I of the federal liquor tax laws, cemetery. j Trial of cases on the civil cal- Pall bearers were C. G. Day, Dr.jendar is scheduled to get under R. P. Casey, (Claude Canter, Q. A. I way on Tuesday, July 18. McNeill, P. E. Brovm, P. J.! :: Brame, Edd Gardner and A. H Casey. Flowers, beautiful in profusion and a fittijig tribute to the life of Mrs. Lomax, were carried by many friends of the famuly. Sam T. Johnson Funeral On Sunday Funeral serveo was held Sun day at Lewis church for 'Sam Thomas Johnson, age 62, who died Friday at his home In ^ve- lace township. Surviving are hla wife, 14 chlL dren, four'hrothers and' two »tt-' ters. , .’.i Hr. bavB HbA Sajur AssoiaatuHial W.M.U. Meeting MUaionary Union of Brushy Mountain Baptist Asso ciation To Meet Wednesday Last Day For Entries In Tennis Tourney Wednesday. July 6. will be the last day to accept entrlee in the county-wide tennis tourney to .be sponsored by the North Wilkee- boro Lions club and play will be gin on July 6 after pairings are made. Notice of entry may be made to William Brame at Braiea Drug store. Much Interest has been ex pressed since the tournament, the second to be conducted by tbe club, was announced and a very successful event is anticipated. Many hav:- already given no tice of entry and many others are expected as the deadline nears. The entries so far include many of the best known tennis players in thp Wilkesboros and some from the rural .sections of the county. Among the entries are Watson Brame, Rev. Watt Cooper, Dick and Blair Gwyn. Ab Garwood. L. Q. Crltcher. William, Scroggs. John Kermlt Blackburn. Wil liam and Phillip ..Brame. J. M. Smith. Otis Keeling and msuy others. The tournament will have men’s and boys’ divisions, .stu- glas. doubles and mixed doubles. To Bejfin Revival At Purlear Church Woman’s Missionary Union of Uie Brushy Mountain Baptist ^as- BMlation will hold Its annual mSeting at Pishing Creek Baptist church on Friday, July 7, begin ning tU ten a. m. _ V sifB. Bari C. James, of GUkin, fcvili: teethe feature speaker V:0«' ithe-prcytrsm for the murhlng ,9 fi9$twre rf, a» ........pft. Announcement has been made of a series of revival services, to begin on the third Sunday In July at Purlear Baptist chureh--* Rev. Vilas Minton, paetor.'wffl be assisted by one or more other ministers. Everybody Is cordially Invited to attend the servleee. Mrs. Alva Dancy,. Is Taken By Dehth Mrs. Alva Dancy, age »4,~oaa Wilkes county’s oWeet reel- 4enU, died this momliiir at her i ’ home in the Reddiee Rlyer eoss- Biajlity. She was the irife'of tho [IttiQv -g. ;Dancf U surytagS ■ be. - teM ’chhna;
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