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MUCH FLOOD DAMAGE
EV>od waters rolled orer the
states of New York. Pennsylvan
ia, West Virginia and California
Sunday but in most instances
either were receding or were ex
pected to recede after reaching
crests expected some time today.
Thousands cf persons abandoned
tttSir homes on advice of Red
Cross and other officials. Proper
ty damage was high, particularly
to crops in northern California,
and transportation facilities were
blocked in many parts of the
flood areas. In northern Californ
ia approximately 200.000 acres
of low-lying farmland were
flooded.
LITTLE WAR NEWS
London.—German fliers scout
ed Britain's northern tip Sunday
and then hurried off with ali
bombs still in the racks as Brit
ish fighter planes and anti-air-
^t^aft guns went into action. An
^unstated number of enemy raid
ers caused a ten-minute air raid
aiarm to be sounded in the Shet
land Islands, and a single set off
w|a 40-minute alarm in the Ork
neys. where anti-aircraft shells
fell in the streets. Both groups of
islands are off Xortherii Scot
land.
VOL. xxxni, No. 31 Published Mondays and Thursdays. NORTH WELKESBORO, N. C MONDAY, AP^ 1, 1940 |1.60 IN THE STA1
OUT OF THE STAT«
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Anniversary Celebration Date Set Jue 30 To July 4
Population Coant Will Begin In Wilkes County On rawday
Verbal Bomber
ECONOMY STALLED
Washington. — Congressional
economy advocates whetted their
pruning knives for national de
fense appropriations yesterday
when a compilation showed a net
reduction of only $57,774,349 in
the 13 supply bills already acted
on by one or both houses. Earlier
in the session, the cuts in budget
figures totalled about $300,000,-
000 but this prospective saving
was nearlv wiped out by Senate
increases in the farm appropria
tions bill and House action last
F'riday i n bt>osiing President
Roosevelt's recommended appro
priations for the CCC and the
national youth administration.
I^T’t&»ARIE» TUESDAY '
Wahslngton.—Wisconsin voters
- go to the polls on Tuesday to
provide the first real test of
third-term sentiment and of the
popularity of two leading candi
dates for the Republican presi
dential nomination. The Demo
cratic race for the state’s 2 4 voles
is between President Roosevelt
and Vice President John N".
Garner. Senator .Arthur H. Van-
■denberg (Rt. Michigan, and .New
-Mi'ork District Attorney Thomas E.
Dewey .are competing on the Re
publican ballot. The primary is
binding. Some 400.000 Progress
ives will be a deciding influence.
|L They supported President Roose
velt in 1932 and 1936 but trend
ed away from the new deal in
1938. ruder state law they may
vote in either primary, a freedom
has complicated the pio-
A nember of the crew of ^ British
bombing plane demonstrated the
method of dropping propaganda
leaflets on enemy territory. The
verbal bonr'ist'gre slipped through
a chute and scatter as they faU.
which
ture.
Xew hnll-less oats have been
developed I'y the Xorth Dakota
State College Expeiiment Station
and distributed under tlie name
•'Xakota.”
Highway 2^ To
Get Surfacing
Treatment Soon
Workmen Engaged In Con
ditioning Gravel Surface
For Black Top
Work of reconditioning the
roadbed of highway 268 between
this .city- asd-^oariBs
preparation for application of
black-top hard surface has begun,
state highway officials said here
today.
The ten-mile link of highway
was graded last year and crushed
stoue surface was applied during
the summer of 1939.
0,1 account of weather condi
tions it was necessary to wait
until spring to apply the surface
treatment and tliis work will pro
gress as rapidly as weather con-
ditioii.s permit. .Neilo L. Teer,
Durham contracttir who c o n-
structed the roadbed, also lias
contract for surfacing.
The road is closed to through
traffic while the work is in pro-
When completed highway 268
will l)c one of llte most imi>orl-
aiu highways coniiecling Xorth
Wilkeshoro with points east. It
will lie a I'iiect route to Elkin,
Mount .Viry, Boonville and other
points.
Republican convention of the
24th senatorial district will
Saving seconds when you are
driving is faN.' economy.
City And County To Receive Space
In Highway Travelers Publication
. *
Shorter Funeral M. C. Woodie, Greyhound
Held^ Tuesday'
Funeral and bncial services ^
boro agent for Greyhound Bus
services
were held on Tuesday for Ben F- '
Shorter, age 4.5. who died sud
denly of a heart attack in the of
fice of Queen Trucking company
several days ago.
Efforts to locate relatives of
Mr. Shorter, who had been in this
city for several months, proved
futile.
The service was conducted by
Eugene Olive and burial was
Lines, has secured space in The
Highway Traveler, a Greyhound
publication, for some valuable son.
Wilkesboro
[Appointment 0 f;
! Enumerators I s^
jAnnounced Todayj
I Task Must Be Completed
I During Month Of April;
I Cooperation Asked
The 1940 decennial census wdll
h]egiii in Wilkes county on Tues
day morning, -\pril 2. A. S. Cas
sell. census supervisor for Wilkes
county, said today.
Combined with the population
count this year is a farm and
housing ceiisu.s.
Mr. Cassel said Dial Hie task
of taking the census must he
completed this month and re
quested the cooperation of all per-
soms contacted by the enumera
tors ill order that the work may
proceed rapidly.
He also pointed out that all
enumerators are sworn to secrecy
and no person need hesitate to
answer any census question on
the grounds that he or she does
not wish to make public such in
formation. The information gain
ed ill the census will be kept
strictly confidential by the census
bureau and by ail persons hand
ling it.
The law provides ‘'ine.s, im
prisonment or both for any per
son who refuses to give informa
tion to census enumerators.
S. E. Raper, of Lexington
Next First Lady? She May Be Here
Potential first ladles of the land are these wives of leading Repub
lican presidential candidaves pictured as they attended the Natitmal
Women’s Press club stnnt party bi Washington, D. C. Left to right are
Mrs. Thomas Dewey, wife of the New York county district sttomey;
Mrs. Arthur Yandenberg, wife of the senator from Michigan, and Mrs.
Robert A. Taft, wife of the senator from Ohio.
G.O.P. Senatorial Bishop^Pnrcell
Convention 13 th Will Here
Call For Convention In Yad-
kinville Issued By Dis
trict Chairman
To Address Youth Crusade
Rally At Methodist Church
On Thursday Night
Bishop Clare Purcell, of Char-1
Federal Official
To Address Qnb
On Friday Night
Charles C. Pearce, Special
Aasiatant To Attorney
General, Coming
Charles C. Pearce, of Washing
ton, D. C., special assistant to the
Attorney General of the United
States, will address the North
Wilkesboro Lions Club in meet
ing Friday evening, 6:30, at Ho
tel Wilkes.
Mr. Pearce at present is in
charge of the grand jury investi
gation of alleged violation of the
anti-trust laws by fertilizer com
panies and has lueen spending
some time in Winston-Salem,
where court action against com
panies has -been instituted In fed
eral court.
It is expected that his address
will be received with much in
terest and a full membership of
the club members: at the meeting
is asked.
Hadley Hayes and Phillip
Brame will have charge of the
program.
To Hear Oudine
OfPhns For Event
Contract With Producmff
Comlpany Signed For His
torical Pageant
MUCH INTEREST SHOWN
Civic Organization Here To
Cooperate With Com
merce Bureaus
Big‘‘Open House”
with the North Wilkesboro
Commerce Bureaus sponsoring
the Fiftieth Anniversary Celebrs-
tlon to -be held here starting Sun
day, June 30th, and ruaiing
through July 4th, the event Is ex
pected to be one of the most out
standing to take place since tha
founding of the city. The bureaus,
it is announced, will seek the aid
and help of all civic heads aad
the various civic'organizations la
an effort to make the event a
huge success.
First mention of having an an
niversary celebration was made
last year by Attorney A. H. Casey
before the local Kiwanis club, and
the event has been talked about
since that time iiy citizens of the
city. However, definite action was
recently taken when a group of
citizens met with Myron Calvin,
of Roanoke. Va., a represeutatlvo
met with 'Mr.
enumerators for Wilkes in a
meeting held on Friday, at which
time supplies were given out and
enumerators received their in
structions.
The list of enumerators tor
Wilkes county by townships and
towns follows:
.iVntioch. .Arthur Sales.
Beaver Creek. Clay Shepherd.
Roomer, J. E. German.
Brushy Mountain. Milford Ted
der.
Edwards ftown ot Honda) Mrs.
Richard Mathis.
Edwards, J. Q. Burcham. Irving
Key and Finney Anthony.
Elk, Clay Shepherd.
Jobs Cabin, Mis.s Dorotliy Be-
sliears.
I.ewis F'ork. Conrad Jones.
l.ovelace. E. E. Hayes,
.Moravian Eall.-:. Waiter S.
Heavis.
Miiltiorry. Charlir Sbatley and
J. S. Elledge.
New Castle, Craiiville Green.
Xorth Wilkesiioro (cityi. Miss
Janie .McDiarmid. Mr.s. Ralph
Bowman and .Mrs. T. t!. Perry.
X o r t it Wilke.sboro (rural),
Chelsie .^^dams.
Reddies River. C. J. Jones and
Mrs. Carl Minton.
Rock Creek, Marvin Johnson
and Paul Church, Jr.
Somers, Albert Myers.
Stanton, J. C. Parsons
Traphill, Wesley Jollies and
Foley Parks.
Union, Willie Whittington and
J. W. Staley.
Walnut Grove. Robert John-
Wilke.sboro
sell Gray.
Wilkes tihro
(townI, Mrs. Rus
'be^n Iwiled .by- Rutledgu.
chairman, and Walter Zachary,
secretary, of the 24th state sena
torial district, which is composed
o.f Yadkin. Wilkes and Davie
roiintie-*.
-•According to the custom usual
ly followed, the nomination for
stale senator will rotate among
the ttiree counties of the district
and Yadkin county will have the
nominee tliis year. The district
was represented in the senate at
the last legislature by Senator C.
H. Cowles, of Wilkes-boro.
The call as issued by the cbair-
inaii and secretary was as follows:
convention of the Republi
cans of tir,- 2tth Senatorial Dis
trict of Xo'tti Carolina, composed
of the countie.s of Yadkin, Wilkes
and Davie, i.s hereby called to
meet in the couiT liouse in Yad-
kiiiville. -X. C.. on Saturday. April
13. 19411. at 2 o’clock p. m., for
ihe purpose of endorsing a can
didate for tiomiiialion for the of-
lice of Slate Senator, perfecting a
(iislrict organization, and such
other Inisiiiess as may come be
fore the convention.
“All Republicans are hereby in-
I vited to attend and a special in-
I vitatiou is e.xtended the ladies.’’
Free Movie Here
Thursday, 10 A.M.
“Blame It On Lx)ve” Will Be
Shown Under Sponsorship
Of Duke Power Co.
4, 7:30 Wlofcic -•
The rally will be a meeting of
young people emphasizing and
cooperating with the Bishops’
Methodist Advance movement and
large representation from each
cliuicli in the district is asked.
Special music will be furnished
by young people from a number
of organizations in the district.
(rural), Frank
P.ev.
in the county home cemetery
I
Four Fire Calls
During March
Fire Loss In North
boro For Past Month
Was Very Small
publicity for Xorth
and Wilkes county.
The magazine, designed
pecially to interest tourists, has a Hendren and W. H. Hur ey
circulation of 300.000, mainly a-
mong tourists, and twice monthly
contains many articles about in
teresting scenes and places in
America.
Material for the two to four
pages to be devoted to Xorth
Wilkesboro. Wilkes county and
Die Blue Ridge Parkway in an
early issue of the publication is
being prepared by North Wilkes-
Wilkes-I boro’s Commerce bureaus.
W. P. Kelly, executive secre
tary of the Bureaus, said this
I'?*!
North Wilkesboro got through |
March witli a minimum fire loss, ,
it was learned today from mem- |
bers of the fire department.
The biggest loss of the month
was an electrified Easter ra ibit
, which caught fire and burned up
.. on Easter Sunday, the loss esti
mated at about ten dollars.
Of the other three fires which
the department extinguished dur
ing the month, two were gas fires
with no damage atl the other
waa a call to A. A. Sturdivant’s
Aome In WUkeeboro.
i moriiiiig that the article will be
j well illustrated with irictures of
' -ome of the outstanding scenic
! spots in this vicinity.
Those interested in advertising
Xorth Wilkesboro and Wilkes
county feel fortunate in the op
portunity thus afforded through
the efforts of Mr. Woodie to se
cure such valuable publicity and
feel assured that the advertising
will have excellent results.
Xorth Wilkesboro as the "Key
To The Blue Ridge Parkway”
wJll be the general theme of the
publicity material -being prepared
tor the puhlioation.
Police Seeking
2 For Robbery
Reddies River Service Sta
tion Entered On Tuesday
Night; Money Taken
Police Chief J. E. Walker said
today that no clues which appear
to lead to the identity and appre
hension of two persons who broke
into and robbed Reddies River
Service station last w'eek have
been uncovered.
By breaking a window entrance
to the building was gained on
Tuesday night. Ab.'iut $20 in
nickels was taken from a pin
board machine and other missing
merchandise Included some cig
arettes and canned goods.
Chief M'alker said tracks were
found back of the building and
some empty cans were found a
few yards away, indicating that
the thives had stopped tor lunch
after entering the bnildlag.
"Blame It On Love.” a full
length. 55-minute movie, will be
shown free Thursday morning,
April 5. ten ' clock, at the New’
Orpheum ”''.eatre and there are
no spring! to the offer to see it
free.
Joan Mar.sh and John King are
the headliner stars in the picture,
which will be shown under spon
sorship of the Duke Pow’er com
pany.
However, the picture is not of
the usual advertising type and
will be highly entertaining as well
Cbarlotte Man
Is Club Speaker
Dr. Richard Kingsby Deliv
ers Inspiring Address Of
Subject “Americanism”
The North Wilkesboro Kiwanis
club held an interesting meeting
Friday noon.
Prior to'tlie program Genio
Cardwell gave a report on the
inter-clut) nieeting held in Greens
boro Thursday night, at which
the local club was represented by
Mr. Cardwell. W. E. Jones, T. E.
Story and J. B. McCoy.
Program chairman Henry Lan-
don asked Joe McCoy to present
tlie speaker. He presented C. O.
Keiistor. of Charlotte, who intro
duced Dr. Richard Kingsby, of
California, and Charlotte, a news
paper publisher, who addressed
the Club In a very splendid man
ner on the subject of “American
ism.” He outlined most striking
ly the intracles of the American
system of government, how that
it has gone forward by means
of accepted propaganda.
He mentioned Eric Palmer as
a type of propagandist who in
time ot the World War was able
to determine policies by his ef
forts in shaping public sentiment
in Europe and America. In like-
manner said he there has devel
oped in our countr}’ a type of
propoganda in many quarters
that is gnawing at the vitals of
our government. While many civ
ic groups have been interested
in promoting in every way pos
sible the American Way, on the
other hand there are agencies
that are seeking to destroy these
Seventh Annirenary
Celebration
Laurel Springs.—Plans for a
big "Open House” nfarking the
seventh anniversary of the Civil
ian Conservation corps on next
Friday have been rounded into
shape by Camp NC NP-21 at its
location on the Blue Ridge Park
way near here.
Families and friends of en-
rollees. as well as all other in
terested persons in Northwestern
.North Carolina, are cordially in
vited to come out and join in the
festivities, Captain William Bak
er. company commander, has an
nounced. Numerous excursions
are planned to show the public
around Hie camp and over the
Parkway on which the boys are
doing landscaping work. Lunch
will be .served to visitors out
doors.
.^n inviiation to Congressman
Robert I-. Dougliton to speak here
at 1 o’clock and inspect the camp
and Parkway has lieen extended
by the camp personnel. "Recog
nizing his deep interest in the
CCC and this camp in particular,”
Captain Baker said yesterday,
"we feel that any program here
would not be complete without
his presence.” Already civic lead
ers from Alleghany, Ashe, Wilkes
and Surry counties, the area com
prising the homes ot most ot the
CCC enrollees, have accepted in-
(Continued tm page eight)
gtther nJeeOngr
day, March 28th, at ttifliidbity hall.
This meeting was held and over
one hundred citizens, many of
them heads of the city’s civic or
ganizations, were present to a-
gain hear Mr. Calvin tell about
the methods his company uses in
putting over anniversary celebra
tions.
Those speaking at tliis mpeting
were Mrs. W. R. Absher, Mrs. C.
T. Doughton, Richard Johnston.
Mrs. J. E. Johnson, L. M. Nelson,
Rev. Watt Cooper, Attorney A.
H. Casey. W. K. Sturdivant, and
(Continued oa page five)
Amateur Contest
And Show, Benefit
Of Baseball Club
An amateur contest, snpple-
Imented by an hour’s performance
‘by the .Southern Harmonizers.
widely known radio quartet, will
be held at the coiirilioiise in
Wilkesboro on E'riday night, April
a, eight o’clock.
Ten dollar.s in cash prizes will
be given for the best band, best
guitar player, best fiddler, best
banjo picker and best tap dancer.
All amateurs are invited to enter.
Admission charges will be 15
and 25 cents and 'he proceeds
will be used in financing the
North Wilkesboro baseball club.
All who will attend are assured
of a good show.
Giris’ Glee Club And Soloist Win
First Honors In District Contest
as instructive. The picture was
produced in Hollywood at a cost j biood bought privileges. It is even
of $110,000.
No charge will he made for
the tickets, which may be obtain
ed at the Duke Power company
office, and the public is cordially
invited to see the picture. Free
prizes will be given away at the
theatre.
TOP HOOS
Seventy-three per cent of the
4,732 hogs marketed last year
through the cooperative livestock
association at Chadboum were
tops, reports S. C. Oliver, Colum-
thu Coonty farm agent.
urged by some of these propagan
dists that we eliminate in our In
dustrial and business world the
whole Idea of profit and only pro
duce for Immediate needs. These
opposing groups have made their
greatest inroads through the
youth groups. He believes the
greatest need now Is a restate
ment on the part ot our people
of their devotion to our Consti
tution and to our country. He
traced the development ot this
country from its discovery and
the coming of our heroic forefath
er# to the present of great-
(ConUnned on '
Will Represent Northwes
tern District In State
Music Contest
North Wilkesboro high school
girls’ glee club and soprano so
loist won first place in the north
western district music contest
held Friday at Boone.
The local school entered in
three classes and won two first
places and one third. The girls’
trio was third place winner.
The school here will send its
girls’ chorus and soloist. Miss
Billie Barnes, to Greensboro to
compete in the state music con
test to be held April 17, 18 and
19.
North Wilkesboro competed a-
galnst the following schools In the
district contest at Boone Friday:
Granite Palls, Millers Creek, ^r-
ta, Appalachian, Spruce Pine,
Happy 'Valley, Newland and
Crossnore.
"Bird Songs at Eventide,’* bty
Eric Oentee, was the number
•31 X
soloist. TIIS chorus sang
Joy of Man:s Desiring,” by Bach,
and the trio, q^posed of Misses
Annie Ruth B^nkenshlp. Peggy
Nichols and Martha Ijou Frazier,
sang "Cossack Lullaby.”
The girls' chorus In the city
schools is under direction of Miss
Anne Jones, with Miss Ellen Rob
inson as accompanist. The stu
dents are Ruby Wanda Pardue,
Ruby V. Pardue, Edna Absher,
Edith Craven. Katherine Finley,
Sylvia Johnson, Mable Johnson,^
Ruth Herman. Rosezell Caudil
Gladys Templeton. Helen Bl
enship. Dare Bumgarner,
Ruth Blankenship. Mlldrwi^Jl^r-
ford, Josephine Martin,- iPOggy
Nlchoi^, Billie Barnes, Margaret
Rhodes, Ruth Wyatt, Luclle Cns-
ey, Kathleen Hayes. Helen Wy
att, Katherine Brewer, BUly
Rudd 'Trogdon, Dorothy^ Cnmp^
bell, Jessie Foster, Jackie j^r^
zler, Joyce Brewer. '
Local people who used thhlr
cars to carry the atndentg to the
contest were Mrs.'A;
Mrs. J. E. CibdUl," Mrs. A.'H. ’
whlch wne sung by Miss Barnol^'fiMW. Mrs, •.T*l Bame*,’ M.
Pnrdne. "
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