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>M. Late News Of State 'Nation Told Briefly THE JOURNAL - PATRM For mutual- ' i do your bujliy 'te 'Nfo >, the Wilkesboro, the center of Nortbv^> North Carolina. •'. i.* i«' JAPS ARE ANGRY Toklo, Aug. 23.—Resentment at the proposed German-soylet Russian non-aggression treaty was apparent among Japanese to day and comment was heard that Japan had been “sold out” by Germany. Officials remained si lent. however. Japan had count ed upon Germany as a strong mil itary and economic prop to her course in China and Asia, believ ing a constant threat In the west would prevent Russia from em barking upon any determined at tack In the far east. — ' I ——■ i.,.' ■ j-ggm— VOL. XXXII. No'. lOSPublished Monday, and Thursdays. NORTH WILKESBORO, N. C., THURSDAY, AUG. 24. 1939 tl.Wl:lk THE E?PATE^2.00 OOT OF THE ST^^ Brushy Mountain Baptists To Meet September 19, 20 Laughing Cavalier 66th Annual Session Of As sociation Will Be Held At Bever Creek TOBACCO MARKETS Raleigh, Aug. 22.— Tobacco prices at the opening of auctions today in the new bright belt fell ^ below expectations, but volume Jl of offerings at several markets ^set all-time records. The belt, em bracing 14 eastern North Caro lina markets, saw opening price avera.ges fall beneath the $1S a hundredweight farmers and de partment of agriculture represen tatives had hoped for. MORE ROAD FI NDS ’ Raleigh. Aug. 2 2.—Governor Hoey announced today that with in the next few days—probably Thursday — he would allocate from the highway surplus a spe cial fund for road work. The a- mount of the allotment has not been determined, he said. It will be expended in addition to the legislative appropriation tor road work. At the end of the fiscal year, the highway surplus was $5,423,827 in state funds, plus $2,283,001 in federal money which will not be available for the special allocation. TALK EVACUATION Washington. Aug. 22.—Ways of getting 'housand.s or Ameri- ^ns out of Europ-' and of pro tecting United States neutrality in case war comes were discussed ^ today at an extraordinary meet ing that brought together repre sentatives of five government de partments. A score of high offi cials representing the state, war, navy, treasury and justice depart ments attended the session, which was presided over by Sumner Welles, acting secretary of state. Any decisions that may have been reached were not disclosed to reporters afterward, but a spokesman for the maritime com mission said plans were being kept up to date constantly for ' u.sing American flag ships in European waters to evacuate United States citizens in event of war. 'FOUR DIE IN CRASH Rocky Mount. Aug. 22. -Eour men in a small Stinson mono plane perished this afternoon when their plan-e plummeted into a tobacco field in Sandy Cross a- bout eight miles from here. The accident, one of the worst in the historv of flying in eastern North Carolina, left no survivors to tell of the cirottmstances. Witnesses of the erash said the plane c’r- cled the field before plunging downward. The dead: Dr. b\ ■ C. House. 4!. prominent Tarhoro surgeon and Edgeoonitte faimer, commander of the Ka-ton-Tine post of the American tevion and head of the State Hospital asso ciation. Harry H. Hicks, 43, well known Tarhoro insurance maii- PhilUp H. Koonce, 43, Deggett farmer and lumberman. Walter Tharri-tgton, 31. pilot and Nash county farmer and tobacco buyer. R. E. Lee. manager of the Rocky Mount municipal airport, said the men had left the airport about 12:45 p. m. en route to Raleigh with Tharrington at the controls. He received first word of the crash about 1 o’clock. General theme of the 66th an nual session of the Brushy Moun tain Baptist assoeiation will be “Magnifying Christ and His Church,’’ T. E. Story, moderator, said today in announcement of the program. The association will meet with Beaver Creek Baptist church on September 19 and 20. A program touching on all im portant phases of Baptist work has been outlined for the two- day session. In addition to pastors serving churches in the association there I will be other speakers. Including Judge Johnson J. Hayes, of Wil- kesbnro: I. G. Greer, superinten dent of Mills Home; Smith Hag- aman. superintendent of the Baptist hospital at Winston-Sal em: and Dr. Olln T. Binkley, of. Wake Forest Coilege. | The full proaram as annonnc- j ed by the moderator follows: | Tuesday 9:30 a. m. Praise and Wor ship, •■4. J. Foster. 9:45 a. m. Roll call of rhurcii- es, recognition of visitors, ap pointment of committees by the Moderator. 10:00 a. m. Report of Modera tor and Objectives Suggested for Next Year. 10:15 a. m. Magnifying Christ in Our Reading: HI Report on Btiilica! Recorder, Charity and Children, and Mission Literature, Mrs. C. E. Jenkins: (2) Discus sion by representatives and oth ers. 10:45 a. m. Report on the Orphanage. Johnson J. Haye.=. Discussion by Superintendent I. n. Greer of Thomasville. 11:15 a. m. 'lymn. 11:20 a. m. Annual Sermon by Howard J. Ford, or alternate. E. K. Wooten. 12:00 noon Rnces.; and lunch. 1:15 p, m. Praise and Wor ship. B. F. Pe.der. 1:30 P. m. Mission Opportuni ties at Home and .\hroad: (11 Report on State Missions, C. C. Holland: (21 Report on Home Missions, N. T. .Tarvis: (31 Re port on Foreign Missions. Isaac Watts: (41 Discussion, led by H. J. Ford. 2:30 p. 111. The Challenire of the Cooperative Program. J. C. Pipes. 3:00 p. in. Our .Achievements in Contrast with Our Failures. Eugene Olive, 3:30 p. III. Miscellanceoiis Bus iness. ;’,:40 p. m. Adjoiirnmtnt. WiNlnesduy 9:30 a. in. Praise and Wor ship. E. K. AVnoten. 9:45 a. m. Magnifying Chri.st in Our Teaching: (11 In Our Sunday School iVork, D. E. El- ledge; (21 In Out Baptist Train ing I'nion Work. Mrs. J. F. Jor dan; t31 In Our Woman’s Mis sionary Union Work, Mrs. G. T. Mitciiell; (41 In Our Vacation Bi ble School Work. Miss Beth Jones. 11:00 a. m. Magnifying Christ Monday, August 28, Is School Opening Date AtS I Mass Meeting I Wilkesboro Schoo Monday Morning chool Officials 1 Asking No Mass Meeting Be Held Jitterbug Champa Citizens, Patrons Committee Asks People Of District To Attend Meeting School Committee and Coun ty Board Do Not Ap prove of Mass Meet The Wilkesboro Citizens and In a statement handed to a C. A. Canter Dies Near Wilkesboro C. A, (Giisl Canter. 94. one r Wilkes county’s oldest citi- >n.s, died Monday afternoon at le home of his daughter, Mrs. M. Lowe, near Wilkesboro. Funeral and burial services a= held Tuesday afternoon at 4 clock, at Mountain Park Ceme- Lgy with Rev. Eugene Olive In Surviving are one daughter. Lowe: one grandson. Ever- and one sister, Mrs. Lowe; 1 Duncan. Miss Holman Will Sing Here Sunday Jert Holman, who recent- ed her masters’ degree in the University of Mlch- 11 sing in the Sunday at the North >ro Presbyterian church, iman is a sin er of wlde- nized ability. Harold Bradley, Laguna Beach, Calif., garage owner, was picked ont on the street by Boy M. Ropp, di rector of the Pageant of the Mas ters program to portray Franz Hals’ famous pleture. “La'ig'n'ng Cava lier.” This is ho'.v h" i -n ired r- the pro’rai-. ' of f'’ ■ ■ Calendar City Schools Adopted Schools Open September 4; Holiday Periods Fixed; Close May 28th At a meeting of the Board of Education Monday afternoon the! Calendar for the school year I 1 939-40 was adontfri. Plans were completed for the operation of the schools for another term of nine full months. The term opens on September 4th. and if there are no interrup tions during the winter, will be completed with graduation exer cises on M'y 28th. Two days have lieen set aside for Thanksgiving holidays. Christmas holiday per iod win begin on 'Thursday. De cember 21st, and extend to Tues day. January 2nd. The snrin:’ hol idays at Easter time will extend from March 22nd to Tuesday, March 25th. rtiir'ng the summer months needed repairs to buildings and eeuipment have been made, and ■•vilh the oompletion of the clean-| in? of the buildings all will he in readiness to receive an anti cipated record enrollment on the opening day. During the vacation period both elementary and high school libraries have been classified and all books cleaned and repaired. The supply of State-owned text books has been repleiiisliod. and instructional supplies have been purchased for the new year. Eve ry indication points toward a highly successful term for 1939- 40. Patrons committee, a group rep resenting the views of over 1,000 citizens and patrons of the dis trict who asked the re-election of T. E. Story as superintendent of the school and all last year’s faculty, has again asked all the citizens of the district to meet at the school building on Monday morning, August 28, the date set for school opening. In a call issued earlier this week the Citizens and Patrons committee urged that all citizens and patrons of the district he present in a mass meeting at the erUeol building, “not to hinder or block the school,” but to meet "••th the school committee, board of education and countv superin tendent with the hope that Prof. ‘Jtnry and the ousted members of tbo faculty might he reinstated a-'d that the “goodwill and sup- oort of the patrons of the school might he regained.” “Above everything ehso, we "■ant justice done in our school,’’ the committee said today and "rved continued unity of purpose to the end that the fight for the mterests of the children of the district might be won. The statement calling the mass meeting for school opening date at the school i.-ilding was term ed a “call to definite action.” The Citizens and Patrons com mittee today requested and urged that the people of the district in terested in the cause of educa tion leave their work and make any reasonable sacrifice in order to be present at the mass meet ing Monday, joining with unity of purpose in appeal to the dis trict and county school authori- Children’s Day Progrram Sunday (Continued •on page four) There will be a Children’s Day | program at Union Baptist church | near Cycle pnstoffice Sunday: night. August 27, beginning at, 8 o’clock. The program will last I for 3 hours. Everybody is invit- ‘ ed. ties for a school which has as its supreme obligation the education of the children. Tlie committee again declared that there is no politics in the school fight at Wilkesboro inso far as the people are concerned. The Citi'/.ens and Patrt ns com mittee pointed out in its statc- mrht that the school authorities have repeatedly refused to meet with the people in an effort to settle the controver.=y. which be gan Iiefnre the end of the 1938- 39 term when by vote of three members of the district hoard six teachers were fired wilhout any cause or reason being given and that at a later meeting of the hoard Supt. T. E. Story was fired over the protests of more than 90 , per cent of the people of the dis trict. The Ci:’zens and Patrons com mittee requests that the people of the district gather at the .school building Monday morning not later than nine o’clock. representative of the press here today, the Wilkesboro school dis trict committee, the county board of education and the county sup erintendent of schools asked that no mass meeting be held at the opening of Wilkesboro school Monday morning, August 28. The statement, issued for the hoard of education and the WIl- keshoro school committee, was given out hy C. B. Eller, county superintendent and secretary to the board of education. It was in reply to a statement by the Wilkesboro Citizens and Patrons committee released to three local papers, and publish ed in two, earlier this week In which the citizens and patrons of the school district were called to gather in mass meeting at the school building Monday morning, August 28, nine o’clock, and asked the school authorities to meet with them in the hope that Prof. T. E. Story, superin tendent, and ousted members of la.st year’s faculty might be rein stated. The statement issued today by the school committee and the county board of education fol lows: “In reply to a statement in one of the local papers inviting the Wilkesboro school committee, the Wilkes county board of edu cation, and the county superin tendent of schools to meet in a mass meeting in Wilkesboro school Monday, August 28. we would like to make the following statement. "The local school board, the county hoard of education and the county superintendent are anxiou.s to confer at any time with anv parent interested in iho welfare of the children of this county hut we do not ap prove of a mass meeting, at the opening of the school, and ask that no such meeting be held. This is not meant lo discourage any parent from bringing his or lier children to school and ac companying them to their prop er class rooms. “Wilkeslioro school committee “Wilkes county hoard of edu cation ”Bv C. B. Eller, secretary to board of education.” Representative R. Activities OfNYA L. Doughton Sees in Wilkes County Teachers Elected At Mt. Pleasant Outline Program McNeill Reunion Fifth Annual Gatherinar Of Clan To Be Held At Mil ler’s Creek On Sept. 3 Speaks at Luncheon Prepar-' ed and Served By NYA Girls On Tuesday Representative R. L. (Farmer Boh) Doughton quit his hay har vesting on his .Alleghany county farm Tuesday to come down in Wilkes and get first hand Infor- ma'inr. about the activities of the National Youth Administration. J. M. Smith, area supervisor with headquarters at Wilkesboro, was in Alleghany county Monday and talked with a number of prominent people, among them being Repre.sentative Doughton. relative to proposed NYA work in .Alleghany county. He told Mr. Smith that he became so much interested in the work of the agency that he quit his haying '0 come over here Tuesday. Representative Doughton in company with Mr. Smith visited | the woodworking NYA shop in Wilkesboro Tuesday morning and j there saw boys between ages of 18 and 25 engaged In making school and office furniture and receiving training in woodwork ing trades. .At noon he attended a luncheon at the Wilkesboro community honse, where 24 girls are em ployed on a home making project. The girls were granted use of the building hy the Wilkesboro Wom an’s club. There they get training in housekeeping, cooking and many lines of work valuable a- bout the home. The girls cooked and served the meal at the luncheon attend ed by Representative Doughton and other guests, including: C. B. Eller. J. R. Rousseau, Mrs. A. B. Johnston. Mrs. F. C. Forester. Miss Zelle Harris. Charles Mc- Nei'i. Lawrence Critcher. Law rence Miller, Lieut. E. P. Robin son. J. M. Smith and Mrs. Law rence Miller, supervisor of NYA in Wilkes. | R'epresentatlve Doughton made a constructive talk, in which he ^ stated that he was very favorably impressed with the accomplish ments of NYA as had been dem onstrated to him during the day and that it was his first actual contact with work of the agency, j He stressed the importance and value of training, especially of training boys to become skilled laborers. On Thursday he will visit NYA projects in Watauga and Avery counties. Mrs. Harry Dula. of Wilkes boro. and C. W. Landrith, of Sparta, have been elected high school teachers at Mount Pleas ant to fill vacancies caused hy the resignation of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Elledge. who will be members of the Rutherford-Spin- dale high school faculty this year. Mrs. Dula will teach English and history and Mr. Landrith will teach math and science and he director of athletics. Mrs. Blanche P. McNeill has been elected as a member of the elementary school faculty a t Mount Pleasant. Joe F. Beshears Taken By Death Joe F. Beshears, 58, who had been making his home in Wins ton-Salem for two years, died Monday night at the home of J. M. Beshears near Cricket, where he had been for several days. Funeral service was held Wed nesday at ■ Yellow Hill Baptist church near Summit, his native community. He leave* the following chil dren: C. E. Beshears, Winston- Salem; Mrs. Baxter Shore, Lex ington; Delmar and Charlie Be shears, Winston-Salem: Denver Beshears, Elkin; Junior and El- wln Beshears, Summit. Supt. Eller Says County System To Open On Monday Teachers In Various Di»* tricts Will Meet On Sat urday of This Week DISTRIBUTE SUPPLIES Elementary Textbooks Are Free; Flat Rental Charge For High School Boolu Jimmy Brennan and 'fessie Fekan show off the acrobatics which helped them win the first national jimlor jitterbug dance contest held In New York. They won a cash prize and a chance to strut their stuff at a night club. Commissioners McCrary Confer District Agent Meets With Commissioners Relative To Agent’s Job Two McNeills prominent in the state and nation will be on the program for the fifth annual re union of the Appalachian As.so- ciation of the McNeill clan to be held at Millers Creek school on Sunday, September 3, it was an nounced here today. They are: Robert H. McNeill, a native of Wilkes and now a prominent attorney in Washing ton. D. C.. and Robert S. McNeill, of Mocksville, assistant district attorney in the middle North Car olina federal district court. C. O. McNiel. of this city, is nresident of the association and Ky'e Haves, of Wilkesboro, is sec retary. Judge Johnson J. Hayes, of Wilkesboro, is chairman of the program committee and will have an interesting program for the fifth reunion on September 3. TTie reunion of the McNeill family, one of the most widely known in this section, is always an annually anticipated event a- mong the many members of the family and yearly attracts large crowds. The full program for the re union will be announced in a few days. The various committees as ap pointed hy the president will, serve this year as follows: Program Committee: Judge Johnson J. Hayes, chairman. Thurmond McNiel, West Jeffer son E. E. Eller, North Wilkes boro. N. 0. and H. C. Kilby, North Wilkesboro. Committee on Publicity; Lin- ville Bumgarner, Wilkesboro, C. (Contiued on page four) 0. F. McCrary, of Raleigh, dis trict extension agent, conferred with the Wilkes county hoard of commissioners today relative to the appointment of a county a- gent for Wilkes county. No action was taken due to the fact that the hoard has not been informed of whether or not the appointment of L. F. Brum field by the board of commission ers meets the approval of I. O. Sehanb, dean of the extension service. Mr. Brumfield was the third appointed hy the commissioners to succeed Dan F. Holler as coun ty agent. 'They first appointed Edward Freas, of Traphill. and later Howard Colvard, of Reddies River, Both appointments xvere refused by tha extension service on the grounds that they were inexperienced. On Saturday the hoard appoint ed Ij. F. Brumfield, who for 12 | years was county agent in A ad kin county. Board members said that Brumfield has a reputation of being an outstanding countx agent. The extension service, it is understood, strongly favors the retention of Mr. Holler as coun ty agent for Wilkes, saying that his services have been very sat-1 isfactory. All schools in the Wilkes coun ty system will open on Monday morning, August 28, C. B. Eller, county superintendent of school*, said today. In preparation for the opening teachers in the various school districts will meet at their re spective central schools on St.tnr- day morning, ten o’clock, with the exception of Mount Pleasant, which will have its meeting on Friday. These meetings will he held for the purpose of distributing buji- plles to the various schools. Supt. Eller urged that all children be present on opening day in order to receive their books and begin work uniformly. This year all elementary text books will be free but there will be a small rental charge tor sup plementary readers, which will bo the same system as used last year. 'There will he a change in tho method of supplying high school textbooks. Instead o f rental charges for individual hooks, there will be a flat rental charge of $2.40 for each pupil in the high school grades, which will cover rental of all textbooks for the grade. Commercial courses will he added this year In Wilkesboro. Ronda and Mount Pleasant high schools. This was made possible, Mr, Eller said, because Ronda and Mount Pleasant gained a high school teacher each and there are sufficient teachers at Wilkesboro to justify the addi tion. This year home economics classes will he offered at Trap- hill. All high schools will have home economics departments ex cept Roaring River, where there are not sufficient teachers to add the coiir -e. The enrollment in tlie schools of the county system last year reached 9..505. School authorities are anticipating an increase this year. triiless there is interruption In .schedule the schools will complete half the term in time for Christ mas holidays, and will close dur ing the latter part of April. Virginia Stale Horticulturist Tells Growers of Management Practices Says Production Can Be Lev eled Off and Percentage Culls Lowered A. H. Tesky. Virginia state horticulturist, in an address be fore the apple growers of Wilkes and Alexander Tuesday told of many ways by which the orch- ardists could better carry on the business of producing and mar keting apples. The annual picnic of the Bru.shy Mountain Fruit Growers association was held at the home of Sam Wyke on highway 16 in Alexander county. The forenoon program consist ed of orchard tours for men un der direction of H. R. Niswonger./ North Carolina state horticultur ist, and a special program for women under direction of Miss Rose Elwood Bryan, home dem onstration agent at large. A sumptuous dinner such as only the wives and families of fruit growers can prepare was spread on a long table on the lawn at Mr. Wyke's home at noon and the crowd assembled for a program following the dln- The assembly was called to or der by County Agent Leagans, of Alexander county and Mr. Wyke spoke briefly, welcoming the fruit growers. Mrs. C. F. Bretholl, sec retary, reported on activities of the association. Mr. Niswonger introduced the speaker. Mr. Tesky explained that one of the difficulties of marketing the apple crop was the irregu larity of production with an Im mense crop one year followed by a small crop the next. He said the production could h® '"veled off to some extent by feeding the trees and emphasized the value of applying nitrogen and the use of cover crops, the latter to con serve moisture as well as to add plant food to the soil. He al.so.said that apple grow ers produce far too many culla which congest the markets and hold prices down. He said that the supply of culls could he re duced 10 to 15 per cent by prun ing out weak branches and leav ing the strong wood which would grow better apples. He demon strated his lecture on pruning methods by branches which he had taken that day from orch ards. Following his talk he conduct ed a round table discussion on fertilizer and pruning methods and answered many questions put forward by growers who showed much interest in the subjects dis cussed. Wilkes County Agent Dan Hol ler spoke briefly and introduced a number of visitors present. Miss Robinson To Teach Music Again Miss Ellen Robinson, for many years teacher of piano and voice In North Wilkesboro schools, will reopen her studio in the hlgli school building on Monday, Sep tember 4, the school opening date. Persons interested In entering students In her classes should see or call Miss Robinson.