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$1,500,000 BONUS
A toUl of 11,500,000 wUl be
distributed at Christmas time a-
mong employes ol the Great At
lantic and Pacific Tea company
earning lose than $5,200 annual
ly, an announcement by John A.
Hartford, president of the com
pany, discloses. The employes
who are to share in the distribu
tion have been with the company
more than six months.
DELIVERS HIMSELF
Raleigh, Dec. 15.—Paul Jor
dan, sentenced in Randolph coun
ty to three years in prison for
luanslanighter, delivered himself
to Warden H. H. Wilson of Cen
tral prison today. Usually peace
officers bring new prisoners here,
Jordan was accompanied only
liPW Warden Wilson tele-
' pho% Randolph counti »«ictals
to verify Jor4a»% story before
admitting him. Once before in the
two years that Wilson has been
f lWar^)^en a prisoner delh ered him
self.
KILLS TWO, GIVES UP
High Point, Dec. 15.—Elliott
T. Morrison, 36-year-old negro
man of East Commerce street,
ran amuck at his home this morn
ing, shot his housekeeper to death
and then killed a negro man. who
was reported to have attempted
to stop him when headed toward
the police station to sur-ender
himself. The negro girl, who lived
in the homo and cared for the
negro’s two children, was May-
xelle Torrence, and the man who
was shot was Oscar Bailey, of
Furlough street.
EXPLOSION FATAL
. Laurlnburg, Dec. 15.—Ernest
(BUI) Swlcegood, 48-year-old
^.WV>rld war veteran, farmer and
-- ■ reputed conditioner of fighting
chickens, died today In a local
i^ospltal of Injuries susUined
'^m a blast of dynamite. Both
eyes were blown out, both arms
were blown off and hla chest torn
"iSWable Is that Swlcegood was
tamping a stick of explosive In
a bottle and accidentally set off
the cap. The injury to his chest
was thought by local authorities
to have been caused by flying
glass when the bottle exploded.
THIRTY * TBrO YEARS*
For mutturi adtaataci
do your bnylnf in Nortii
Wilketdbore, ^ irattig
center of Nof&weatMM
Nofth Carolina.
VOL. XXXIII, No. 30 Published Mondays and Thursdays. NORTH WILK^^QRO, N. C. MONDAjQ^^D^C^_Jj2_1939^^£1.50JN^TTIE^STA^^^^$2^00^OUT^QyjVHE^T^ATB
Violators Liquor
Laws Get Prison
Terms In Court
Court Practically Clean The
Criminal Docket During
Week Special Term
with the sentencing of a num
ber of convicted liquor law vio
lators to prison terms, federal
court In Wilkesboro practically
cleared the criminal docket dur
ing the first week of the special
term.
Court convened again today
to try the remainder of the
criminal cases and to dispose of
several actions pending on the
civil docket. Judge Hayes Is pre
siding.
Following are the cases Is i
which prison terms were meted
out during the last three days of
the first week of the special
term; I
Jesse Anderson, six months in
Petersburg, Va., prison. j
Melvin Fleming, 21 months in,
Lewisburg. Pa... prison. j
Percy Johnson, 18 .months in'
Atlanta, Oa., prison.
John I'Vank Joines, year and a
day in Atlanta.
Margaret Foster, year In feder
al reformatory at Alderson, W.
Va.
TV)y Davis, year and a day In
Chlllicothe. Ohio, reformatory.
Otis Anderson, probation re
voked, year and a day in Chllll-
cothe.
E. V. Williams, fine of $350
and six months in Petersburg,
Va.
Mona Williams, year In Aider-
son, W. Va.
Mrs. D. S. Duncan
Taken By Death;
Funeral Sunday
Unlimited Market for
Milk, Cream Offered
.exington Firm
HasAReceivii^
Station Set Up
Heads Dokies
J. B. Carter, prominent ‘lti-
zen of this city, was elected
bend of Birjand Temple of fbe
D. O. K. K. when he was named
Royal Vizier at a recent meet
ing held in Greensboro. Pror
to his election to the hlghe.st
office in the temple be was dis
trict deputy of K. of P.
Lions Enjoy (»Ia
Event Thursday
At Roaring River
Cari Goerch Entertains
M«nbers And Guests At
Ladies Night Program
Achievement Day
Is Observed By
HomeCIubWomen
Many Awards Made In First
GIVES 50 PRESENTS
Wilson. Dec. 15.—The 13-year-
old daughter of one of Wilson’s
wealthiest men was asked by her
father the other day it she want-
- ed anything special for Christ-
k^as. “Yes, I would,’’ replied the
^ little girl, “I’d like to give every
child on our farms a Christmas
present and if you’ll give me the
money to do this you need not
give me one this year.” Because
there were numberless children
on the farms in question the lit
tle girl’s father thought part of
this idea impractical but suggest
ed that she give all the little ne
gro children on those farms a
present. She jumped at the Idea.
J Next day she went out and
picked 50 negro children from the
farm families. Then she started
out by herself with the money her
father had given her and bought
each a Christmas present.
Duncan, 84, member of one of
Wilkes county’s best known fam
ilies, died at her home at Moravi
an Falls at six a. m. Saturday.
She had been in 111 health for
several months.
Funeral service was held Sun
day afternoon, 2:30, at Moravian
Falls Baptist church with Rev.
Eugene Olive in charge.
Mrs. Duncan was a daughter of
the late James M. and Christeny
Kesler Canter and the wife of the
late Daniel Scroggs Duncan. She
wa.s the mother of four children,
Mrs. Sarah Della Duncan Smith,
!of North Wilkesboro, Dr. Hanni
bal G. Duncan, of Wilkesboro,
and -wo who preceded her in
death, Dr. Julius Kdgar Duncan
and -Mrs. Meek Helen Duncan
Leriderman. Al.so surviving are
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“MORAL*’ EMBARGO
Washington, Dec. iS.—Broad
ening its “moral embargo” a-
galnst the shipment of airplanes
to countries which boonb civilian
populations, the state department
called on Americans today to re
frain from shipping any mater
ials essential to the manufacture
of planes. The countries against
which the “embargo’’ Is openly
tn effect are Russia and Japan.
The state department specifical
ly included molybdenum (an es
sential Ingredient for hard steel)
and aluminum In Its ban. This
country has almost a monopoly on
molybdenum. Russian imports of
this material from the United
States have leaped enormously
since the European war started,
and reports are current here that
“some of it is being re-exported
to Germany.”
Vacant Tenant
House Burned
Fire said to have beeen on in
cendiary origin destroyed a va
cant tenant house on the premises
of Abe Anderson about eight
miles east of Wilkesboro, it was
learned today from Arlon Trip
lett. coiinty forest warden.
The fire occured last night a-
bout eight o’clock.
Some feed stored In the build
ing was also destroyed. The house
wa.s valued at about $400. Ac
cording to information given Mr.
Triplett, it was suspected that the
house was deliberately set on fire
although no names of suspects
were disclosed.
*^New Cook Book
^ By Woman’s Club
VTV North Wilkesboro Wom-
has recently compiled a
3l|KInstructlve cook book, which
[ now off the press and ready for
dlstrtbntion.
i^The book has 64 pages and
.tains many of the favorite
of well known ladies of
J WUkooboros.
^ viOitaln aay kitebett,
OftY wfiS^Mu^ aad puMisber.
New Newspaper Is
Published In City
The Northwestern Press
Makes Its Appearance
In Newspaper Field
'Tae Northwestern Press Issued
Volume one number one on
Thursday, December 14.
The new weekly newspaper Is
the product of the Northwestern
Publishing company, which was
organized here during the sum
mer and fall by local citizens. The
officers of the newly formed cor
poration are J. C. Reins, presi
dent; R. M. Brame, Sr., vice pres
ident; John R. Prevette, secre
tary-treasurer; and T. M. Foster,
chairman of the executive com
mittee.
The company 8a.sembled a
newspaper plant and leased It to
John H. Sikes, veteran newspaper
man and former pnbllsher of the
Sdentoa Daily News. Ba Is editor
Seventy-slx club women fro-m
ten of tbe 11 home demonstration
clubs In Wilkes county gathered
at the courthouse In Wilkesboro
Tuesday night for the first an
nual achievement day for home
clubs, MLss Harriet McGoogan,
home demonstration agent, said
today.
\ review of the year’s work
was given and four clubs rcceiv- |
ed awards for showing greatest
improvement. They were Gllreath.
Roomer, Mountain View and Pur-
lear.
The Ronda club received the
attendance award at the meeting,
the number present and mileage
both being considered.
Moravian Falls won the award
for largest average attendance al
meetings during the year. Indi- j
vidual awards were .made as fol
lows: Mrs. B. F. Prof fit, of Maple
Springs aud Mrs. W. H. Teve-
paugb, of Gilreath, for outstand
ing work in kitchen Improve
ment; Mrs. C. P. Bretholl, of Mo
ravian Falls, outstanding in or
ganization; Mrs. Sam Pennell, of
Moravian Falls, and Mrs. G. B.
Carlton, of Boomer, outstanding
in food conservation; M-s. J. M.
Costner, of Gllreath, perfect at-.
tendance at curb market.
Officers of the county co'uncil
o f home demonstration clubs
were installed for 1940 as fol
lows: Mrs. P. T. Moore, of Ron
da, president; Mrs. W. H. Teve-
paugh, of Gilreath, vice presi- ;
dent; Mrs. Eula Bentley, of Pores
Knob, secretary-treasurer
Games were played and re
freshments were enjoyed follow
ing the program.
Club work among the women
of the rural communities made
much progress during the past
year, according to the reports at
the meeting.
Four Milk Routes Have Be
gun In AVilkes; Can Use
100,000 Pounds Daily
Coble Dairy Products, of Lex
ington, has established a receiv
ing station here and offers prac
tically an unlimited market for
milk and cream here, a member
of the firm said today.
“We can use 100,000 pounds
of milk daily and pay highest
market prices,” a representative
of the company said in announc
ing that four milk routes' have
started and that at least six more
are 'oeiiig mapped out in this ter
ritory.
Following the closing of the
Scott Cheese and Butter factory
here, the Lexington firm set up
a receiving station in the building
formerly occupied by tbe-t^eari-
ery and employed Ralph JCaHlwell,
former creamerj' manager, as rep
resentative and H A. Wendland,
formerly with the cheese factory
and who has a lifelong experience
in the dairy business, as field
gent to contact the farmers and
arrange the routes.
Up to this time the firm had
only been buying cream because
the milk routes had not been
completed but two routes started
last week and two others today.
Lake Messlok has the milk
route along the Yadkiu west of
't.to
route which begins at Tadkln-
vllle, touches several communi
ties in. Yadkin and comes through
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All for Science
with horns blowing and rat
tlers going at top speed, members
of the North Wilkesboro Lions
club and lady guests assembled at
Roaring River school Thursday
night for the most enjoyable la
dles Night occasion In the history
of the club.
The principal feature of the
evening’s program, which was ar
ranged by Paul Cashion and John !
Kermlt Blackburn, was a hum
orous and highly entertaining ad
dress by Carl Goerch, of Raleigh,
versatile editor of The State mag
azine.
The Lions and guests assem
bled in the school lunch room
and enjoyed a sumptuous dinner
prepared by the faculty of the
school. Much merrimeat accom
panied the opening of the meet
ing.
Each Lion present Introduced
his f 'ests.
Richard Johnston, president of
the club, was toastmaster for the
occasion. Dr. H. B. Smith, a past
president, presented Lions keys to
Harry Pearson and Blair Gwyn.
The keys were gifts of Lion® In
ternational for members having
taken in two members each dur
ing the year.
Paul S. Cragan, a guest of the
club. Introduced Mr. Goerch, the
speaker for the evening. Mr.
Goerch delivered a side splitting
address with wisecrack following
wisecrack and with jokes which
kept the crowd of 65 In a con
stant uproar of laughter.
’The serious 'Parts of hi® address
dealt with praise for NorUi Car-
which he praised highly Iw' ^
many advantages and splSb^id
citizenship. His address wa« en
thusiastically received and drew
much favorable comment. ^ ^
Following the program ;.;tte
club voted to collect all the hotns,
rattlers, etc. at the banqurt tod
turn them over to the Chi^j^as.
cheer committee in its worlf^ a-
mong underprivileged homi6l&;“at
Christmas time.
Activities for the highly enjoy
able evening closed with a dance.
Superintendent Schools
At Banquet
Banqnet b Given
h Honor Of Si^t
Eller On Thursday
160 (Teachers Present And
Give Useful Gift To Head ^
Of School System
C. B. Eller, superintendent
or Wilkes county schools, who
was honored by a banquet giv
en by the teachers of tke coun
ty on the occasion of his birth
day Thursday, December 14.
Cooking School
Very Successful
Large Crowd Attends Final
Session Held On Fri
day Afternoon
’The Journal-Patriot Cooking
school held ’Thursday and Friday
afternoons at tbe.Woman’s Clab-
Kiwanians Have
A Good Program
Fourteen Volunteer to Treat
Needy Families At Christ
mas Time
For the sake of science Richard
S. Kaplan, president of the Gary,
Ind., safety connr'l, volunteered to
sit down with a or art of whiskey and
test the seen .cy of a “dmnkome-
ter,” device for testing drinking^
drivers.
After his fourth “boilermaker,”
Kaplan sees everything through
glowing eyes. He is happy, and aU’s
right with the world.
Quarterly Supper
Presbyterian Men
On Friday Night
Quarterly supper of the men of
North Wilkesboro Presbyterian
church was held at the church
hut on Friday night.
R. G. Finley, president, presid
ed and presented the principal
speaker. Judge Johnson J. Hayes,
who delivered a forceful message.
A. A. Cashion discussed the
church building program.
Forty-eight were present for
the meeting, which closed with
the presentation by each one pres
ent of a toy to Santa Clails, the
toys to be distriibuted to the chil
dren of the communities in Ashe
county served by Ber. ^ W. ^ke
«|td Ber. B.. H. ^ '
Kaplan blows into the “dmnkome-
ter” baUoon. Examination of hia
breath proved him to be in no condi
tion to drive"® car according to
Indiana legal standards. Kaplan
agreed with tbe machine’s verdict.
The test was made under n state
eBuperP^ snpervlatop.
The North Wilkesboro Kiwanls
club enjoyed a good program
Friday noon. P. M. Williams was
program chairman and talked of
local subjects. He also related a
number of jokes which he had
heard from Carl Goerch on the
preceding night at the Lions ban
quet.
C. O. McNiel called attention
of the club to the work of the
Cheer committee for Christmas
donations. The committee con
sists of Paul Cragan, city super
intendent of schools, Charles Mc
Neill and John Walker.
It was stated by the commit
tee that there are over sixty fam
ilies that have been listed as qual
ified for such donations. After
some discussion It was decided
that the various members of the
Club would select one of tte
families and present it with a
suitable Christmas dinner and
treat. 'The following volunteered:
Dr. F. C. Hubbard, R. G. Finley,
W. K. Sturdivant, J. R- Finley,
Rev. Eugene Olive, R. W. Gwyn,
Edd Gardner, Paul Osborne, Joe
McCoy, J. D. Moore, C. G. Day, A.
F. Kilby, J. C. Reins and C. 0.
McNeil. Several other members
Indicated that they are present
ing gifts to families other than
those on the list mentioned.
Assistant District Attorney
Robert McNeill, of Mooksville,
was a guest of Attoriiey W. H.
McDlwee and Frank Buck was a
guest of Edd Gardner. J. D. Hol
comb, of Elkin, was a visiting
Kiwanlan.
Copies of the Travel magazine
were dlsrtlbuted by Attorney A.
H. Casey, who called attention to
the fact that three pages were
devoted to scenes along the Park
way In North Carolina and Vir
ginia.
Judge: “Why did you steel that
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culinary art ever held in this vf-
clnlty.
The school, co-operatively spon
sored by this newspaper, Duke
Power company, many local bus
iness firms and Lever Brothers
manufacturers, was well attended
at iboth sessions, which
very much enjoyable.
Miss Florence Rogers, of Spry
Research laboratories, conducted
the demonstrations and lectured
on food subjects. She was assist
ed in the demonstrations by stu
dents of the homo oconomic.s de
partment of the North Wllkes-
Iwro high school.
Delicious foods were prepared
right before the audience and
each step was explained In orde.'
that those present might be able
to learn how to get the same
good results.
Several valuable prizes were
given away at both sessions.
Students of Miss Evelyn
Sharpe’s classes in home econom
Ics were among the number at
tending Friday’s session.
Sponsors of the school appre
ciate the assistance and coopera
tion of Reins-Sturdivant funeral
home and the home economics
department of the city high
school.
Public Programs
At City Schools
Public Invited To Five Pub
lic Program* Prior To
Christmas Holidays
A series of public programs
have been announced to be held
this week in North Wilkesboro
city schools prior to adjournment
Thursday afternoon for the holi
days.
'The first of these will be an
assembly program by students of
Miss Emma Eller’s second grade
Tuesday at one o’clock. Fifth
grade students under direction of
Miss Kathryn Troutman will give
an assembly program at 8:4 5. on
Wednesday morning.
The dramatic club under sup
ervision of Miss Esther Lee Cc^
will present a program at the
high school assembly Wednesday,
1:40 p. m.
’The home economics depart
ment Tea and Gift exhibit will he
shown Wednesday afternoon at
3:30. Forty-fllx second-year home
economic® girls under direction of
Miss Bvelyne Sharpe, instructor,
have made 76 gifts which will
be on display.
The final program *of the
One of the outstanding occas
ions enjoyed by the teaching pro
fession of WUkes County was th»
banquet given In honor of Ckmn-
ty Superintendent C. B. Eller on
hls birthday, December 14.
More than 160 Wilkes county
teachers gathered at the North
Wllkesihoro Legion Hut at 6:30
o’clock to begin a celebration
which is considered a forward
step In the social and profession
al outlook of Wilkes county teach
ers.
The purpose of the meeting
was unknown to Superintendent
Eller until all the guests had as
sembled and taken their places
at the banquet table. At a gives
signal a host of voices broke forth
singing “Happy Birthday to You,
Mr. Eller, Happy Birthday To
You.”
Prom then on there was not a
dull moment in the entire pro
gram. One enjoyable feature aft
er another was presented to the
teachers. The program consisted
of quartets, solos, dances, and
other features. Professor Gregory-
conducted a Professor Quiz pro
gram, the questions being taken!
from Interesting facts abont
Witter ocynty.^ diil»e^
birthday gift to tW gaiesf Of ion-
or. He was not reluctant in giv
ing praise to the work Mr. Eller
has done In the county since he
became county superintendent
seven years ago. He said, al
though Mr. Eller was a young
man and had come from one ot
the best families of Wilkes coun
ty, that he had reached his high
position as head of the Wilke®
county school through his own
merits and anon his own qualifi
cations. He presented Mr. Eller
with a large Gladstone bag which
was a present to him from the
members of the Wilkes county
teachin.g profession.
In receiving the gift from the
teachers of Wilkes county, Mr.
Eller said, “I have said that I
thought I had the best group of
teachers in the stale. Now I know
I have. All I can say is that I
thank you from 'the bottom of my
heart.’’
After the presentation of the
birthday gift. Attorney A. K. Cas
ey presented the speaker of the
evening, Dr. B. B. Dougherty,
president of Appalachian State
Teacher’s College, Boone. Dr,
Dougherty gave an .ispirational
address upon “Educational Ad
vancements in North Carolina.”
D r. Dougherty pi-aised North
Carolina’s program of education
for all the children throughout
the state on an equal 'basis.
The delicious two-course din
ner was served by the Wilkesboro
Woman’s club.
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glee chib on nrarsday mondng,
9:30. ■
’The irnbllo ■ ha* :'a cordial invl-
Program Tuesday
Wilkesboro School
A program of Christmas muslo
will be gdven at the Wilkesboro
school auditorium ’Tuesday, De
cember 19, 7:30 o’clock. Christ
mas music will be rendered under
direction of Miss Ruth Wright,
public school music teacher. The
public has a most cordial invlta-
tion to attend and no admission
will be charged.
Street Project In
City Progressing
WPA workmen are making
progress on the street Imiprove-
ment project now under way in
this city.
Work has begun on grading
and surfacing a half, block on
Eighth street between the new
city hall and A street and also on
grading the north end ot Tenth
street
The project calls for ImvroT^
ment of a number of streets In
Christmas season will be by the’fthe city, Including the allty bo-
tween Ninth tod A streets. It at-
ito provldea for ernah^ stoM «i>
lacing of several dirt streets la.