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BUSINESS BETTER
Raleigh.—^Norfh Carolina bus
iness has been in the throes of a
aeasenal decline hjit an Associat
ed Press survey indica^ today
that the level was suhstantially
higher than in the corresponding
period of 1939. About this time
last year, however, the state was
edging out of the 1938 recession
aqd heading for the climb that
toi>k it to record-breaking leveis
laif fall.
MORE EXPENDITURES
Washington. — Two projected
waterway expenditures—an out
lay of 3100,000,000 next year for
flood control and a seven-year
navigation program costing
$231,090,950—threatened a new
blreak today in the congressional
economy dike. Several members
predicted approval by the Senate
approiprlations committee of a
$30,000,000 increase in flood
control funds above the $70,000,-
000 proposed in President Roose-
Ibelt’s budget.
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VOL. xxxiil. No. 32 Published Mondays and Thursdays.
NORTH WILKESBORO, N. C THURSDAY, APRIL 4,1940 fl.AO IN THB STAT&^I.OO OUT Of THE 8TATIT
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H.A.Cranorls
Candidate For
The Legislature
Wilkesboro Attorney First
To File For Office In
Wilkes County
Chauffeur
READY TO STRIKE
Berlin. — Marshall Hermann
Goering declared today that when
IFAdolf Hitler gives the word Ger
many’s armed force.s will “strike
the blow” that will win the war
in the west as decisively as Naxis
triumphed over Poland in the
east. Germany’s war machine
stands like a "closed iron- block’’
facing Britain and France in the
west, “with their (Germany’s)
back and flanks free’’ from dan
ger, the No. 2 Nazi told German
youth. “Here (in the west) the
decisive blow must fall.” Goering
said. “For this decision the fuehr
er has mobilized all powers.
H. A. Cranor, well known Wil
kesboro attorney, today broke
the political ice in Wilkes by fil
ing notice of his candidacy for
the Democratic nomination for
member of the house ol represen
tatives, subject to vote in the pri
mary to be held May 2-5.
So tar as could be learned to
day, he is the first of either party
in Wilkes to file notice of can
didacy. His notice of candidacy
was tiled with E. P. Inscore,
chairpian of the county board of
elections.
.Attorney Cranor has experienc
ed a long career in puMic life.
For many years he was mayor of
the town of Wilkesboro and in
1930 was the first Democrat to
be elected to the legislature from
Wilkes county in 56 years. His
election in a county which had
been so regularly Republican was
given much publicity.
He said today that he would
issue a formal announcement of
candidacy within a few days.
April 13 will be the last date
for candidates to file for county
or township office.
Mrs. Gordon-FeUowes, a ooasln of
President Roosevelt, in her mdform
as a worker of a motor ambulance
unit In London. Her husband Is in
active service.
F.D.R., DEWEY WIN
Milwaukee. Wis.—District At
torney Thomas E. Dewey, of New
York, and President Roosevelt to
day were assured majorities of
the Wisconsin presidential nomi
nating convention delegations, on
the basis of returns from more
than half of the state’s 3,011 pre
primary. Dew-
1^
the twenty-fourth dele-
.^.^V fgato designation was close be-
^ tween a Dewey supporter and one
* pledged to United States Senator
Arthur H. Vandenberg, Michigan,
his only opponent in the primary.
Mr. Roosevelt appeared certain to
get the support of 21 Democratic
delegates, with three going to
Vice President John N. Garner.
By W, B. McNKIli
, Tie Veterana of Forelfn
oriBe U^-TWRrfBeirTnreiMt
4>>tarves. suicide
Zeballos, B. C.—A diary found
between the shriveled bodies of
two trappers told today how' one,
w^-ak and Raspins from hunger,
f, had watched his partner die of
slow starvation. But the one who
had survived the longer could not
die the same death. He shot him
self. All but two pages were writ
ten by Lloyd Coombs. 27, who
had been flown to lonely Van
couver Island last autumn with
James Ryekman. 56. They had
not been seen since last .August,
when hey disappeared into the
wilderness. They were apparently
trapped by flood^^. .A searchin.g
party found their bodies yesier-
day after an airplane pilot had
sighted them. It was Ryekman
who starved: Coombs who com
mitted suicide. The last entry ui
the diary was dated March 17,
the day Ryekman died. “If I do
anything I shouldn’t. I hope that
it will he forgiven,” Coombs
wrote. “I d like to have my Bi
ble. It’s in th' bottom of my
packsack. I’m l->o weak to get it.
I’d like to have said a prayer for
Jim.” It was after that, apparent-
tf. that Coombs pulled his rifle
over to him and killed himself.
Veterans Foreign
Wars Form Post In
Meeting Monday
Twenty-Four Members Join
In Initial Meeting Held At
TTie City Hall Here
Week Of Services
Begin Sunday At
Methodist Church
Rev. John W. Moore To As
sist Pastor In Series Evan
gelistic Services
nary meeting Monday night at the
City Hall for the purpose of or
ganizing a V. F. W. post here.
No post of this kind has been or
ganized here in Wilkes county
before, and not many peonle know
much about the V. F. W. This is
an old organization founded in
1S9 9 by veterans who have
fought America's wars on foreign
soil.
It wa.s first organized by
Spanish American war veterans,
but today it has over 500,000
World War veterans who saw ^
service in France, or some other (
foreign country. I
This is a service organization
for men who have seen service
in foreign countries.
To be eligible to join this or
ganization one must have had
foreign service. Any World War
veteran "ho is eligilile to receive
a victory medal with service or
battle clasp is eligible for niein-
hership in this organization.
The meeting was in charge of
Virgil L. Chandler, Stale Depart
ment Commander, and Bryan M.
Crosby. State Department Chap
lain. Mr. Chandler lives 1 n
Greensboro, and Mr Crosby is
from Hickory.
The meeting wa: tailed to or
der, and the speakers were in
troduced by W. B. McNeil.
Each one of the speakers made
(Continued om page eight)
Rev. John W. Moore, of Moores-
ville. widely recognized as one of
the outstanding ministers in the
Methodist conference, will assist
the pastor, Rev. A. L. Aycock. is
a series of evangelistic services
beginning Sunday, April i, at the
North Wilkesboro Methodist
church.
The revival will open with the
Sunday morning service at the
church and Rjv. Mr. Moore will
preach on S'unday night and each
night during the coming week at
7:30 o’clock.
Hour for day services will he
^ifsnactuneed Rnnday morning. 'The
revival will continue through
Sunday. April 14.
The church extends a cordial
invitation for congregations of
other churches to attend the
services and participate in the
revival.
Postal Receipts
Continue Upward
First Quarter At North Wil
kesboro Postoffice $333
Above Year Ago
Postal receipts at North Wil
kesboro postoffice continued tbeir
steady increase during the first
quarter of this year. Postmaster
J, C. Reins said today.
The normal increase of re
ceipts during the past several
years has been altoiit $1,000 per
year hut the increase during the
first quarter of 1940 was sub
stantially above the average.
Records show that receipts in
creased $111 per month over the
corresponding period in 1939, or
333 for the quarter. If the rate
of increase for the first quarter
continues throughout the year the
business of Uncle Sam here will
show a larger increase than in
1939.
Fountain Pen Is Offered With Year’s
Subscription To Journal-Patriot
Another Clinic
On April 11th
Crippled and Deformed Will
Be Examined Without
Co*t As Hospital
The April clinic for examina
tion of cripples will be held at
the wnikes hospital on Thursday.
April 11, according to informa
tion released today by the Wilkes
county health department.
An orthopedic surgeon from
Charlotte will' conduct the clinic
and no charge will be made for
examination of cripples and ad-
Ylce relative to corrective treat
ment. Persons who know of any
crippled or deformed Individuals,
eapecially children, are asked to
cooperate by providing facilities
for them to attend the clinic.
Wlfey: “Here’s h riddle. WTiat
makes my life so miserable?”
The colonel: “You’ve got me.
'Wlfey: “That’s right!”
The .lournal-Patriot is gratified
to be able to announce to its read
ers that the Morrison Lifetime
Service Fountain Pen—the finest
quality pen made under that fam
ous name—will be given free
with a year’s subscription to this
newspaper at the .'egular price
of $1.50 a year in the state, $2.00
out of state.
The Morrlaon fountain pen is
brought to us under our special
Cooperative Advertising 0 o n-
tract. This contract is placed with
a limited number of newspapers
in this state for the purpose of
making it possible to advertise
the manufacturer’s products by
having them used in circulation
goodwill campaigns by these
The Morrison is one of Amer-' newspapers.
ica’s outstanding products in the
line ’of writing instruments and
is sold widely in the exclusive
gift shops and large department
stores of New York City and oth
er Metropolitan centers.
Full details of our offer will be
found In our large announcement
ad on page eight of this issue.
An Explanation
In bringing this amazing offer
to our readers, we feel that an
e.xplanation should be made as to
how it is possible for us to give
away with a year’s subscription,
an article of such high value. We
believe that all of our readers
know we could not do this if we
were required fo pay even the
factory cost of production on the
pen.
Under our contract, we are per
mitted to requisition a certain
number of Morrison Lifetime
pens for use as goodwill gifts to
our readers and we are asked to
pay only a fraction of the factory
cost on these pens, the balance
of what it costs to build them Is
pa d for by their manufacturer
a'.d charged off to their national
advertising expense account.
These are really high priced
pens, but don’t let that worry
you—we are not allowed to sell
them. W’e are permitted only to
give them as good will gifts to
our readers in connection with
our circulation building cam
paign. We cannot sell them and
still obtain them under this con-
(Continued os page elghtj
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ForThilfCS&ty
Will Represent County Sys
tem in Contest; Aimie
Johnston City Winner
Because he spelled ‘misspelled’
correctly, Arthur Newima i, a sev
enth grade student ot Traphlll
school, was crowned spelling
champion of Wilkes county In a
match of school district winners
held Saturday.
The county winner is 13 years
of age, a sbn of J. W. Newman,
of Elkin route 1. Hnth Ellis,
Wilkesboro student, had to be
content with second place ‘because
she misspelled “misapelled.”
Other district winners compet
ing in the county finals were:
Blaine Oliver, of Union school,
representing Millers Cr^k dis
trict; Tommy Hinshaw, of Mul
berry; Edwin Byrd, of Mountain
View; Evelyn Mathis, of Ronda;
and Lacy Lowe, of Roaring River.
Rev. Eugene Olive, pastor of
the North Wilkesboro First Bap
tist church, conducted the contest.
Other judges were Mrs. W. R.
Alisher and Mrs. Palmer Horton.
C. B. Eller, county superlnten-
(leai of schools, will accompany
the county winner to Winston-
Salem Saturday to participate in
the Journal-Sentinel spelling bee
there.
North Wilkesboro city school
system winner who ■will also take
part in the W’inston-Salem con
test is Annie Johnston, ot the
sixth grade.
‘Adopted’
Cause Of Public
Welfare Is Helped
By Contributions
W^are Oepartment Appre
ciates Help Of; Organi
zations, Individuals
Civic and church organizations
and individuals who contrib|ute
to welfare calls tor funds render
an invaluable service and their
contributions often result in the
department lieing able to answer
urgent calls, a statement issued
today by the Wilke.s county wel
fare department said.
The article, which expresses
appreciation for the aid rendered
and explain.s many phases of wel
fare work, follows:
“Emergenc.v call.s and situa
tions are always arising in con
nection with tlie work of the de
partment of public welfare. The
department has no funds with
which lo answer emergency calls
and therefore is deeply appreci
ative of the cooperation of organ
izations and “welfare conscious”
citizens less fortunate than the
physically handicapped and un
derprivileged children o t our
county.
“The Lions Club ot North Wil-
(Continued on page eight)
Need For School
Building Talked
Many Patrons At Meeting At
Cricket Friday; Next
Meeting Tuesday
Parent-Teacher association of
Union .school three miles west of
this city will have its last meet
ing of the year on Tuesday night.
April 9, according to an an
nouncement today by Ralph Be-
shears, principal. First and third
grades will put on an interesting
program, to be supplemented by
numbers by the Key City Song
sters quartet, and all school pa
trons are invited.
At the meeting held on Frid.ay
night a large number of patrons
were in attendance, at which ti .e
the need tor a new school build
ing was discm«ed.
C. B. Eller, superintendent of
schools, addressed the gathering
and pointed out that the school
needs a modern school plant with
ten classrooms and an auditor
ium. Some federal money Is avail
able, he said, and the county’s
share of the cost would equal a
tax levy of 14 cents on each hun
dred dollars valuation of prop
erty. C. 0. McNiel, chairman of
the county board of education,
also spoke at the meeting, ep
pressing the desire on the part of
the school authorities that the
school obtain a building to re
place the present overcrowded
and dilapidated trame .8true$j»e>.
•‘Adopter’ daaghter of Mbl
Franklin D. BooMvelt te three-yMr-
fM Joan Cameron o( PhlladripMa.
Fa. Tbe “adopUoa” oimM meaaa
liMt Mro. BeoooTott kas agreed to
iuoamo |M per year ezpeue to
jgaaraatoo proper food and care for
4bo child In a FUIadel|diia nraery.
Public Assbtance
Funds For Mrath
Total $7,232.50
565 Needy Aged Persons In
Wilkes County Get Al
most $5,000 In March
Public assistance funds paid
out to needy aged, dependent chil
dren and blind in Wlllces county
reached a new high of $7,232.50,
figures released Hoday from the
county welfare’ office showed.
■Old age awistance recipients
number 565 for the month and
their total was $4,994.50. an
average of about $8.84 each.
Families receiving grants of
aid for dependent children total
ed 146 and they received $1,766.
Dependent children In the fami
lies eligible for aid were ;(37.
Payments to 27 blind persons
totaled $472.
On the approved list for old
age assi.stance but not receiving
payments because of lack of funds
are 141 cases. They have been
certified as eligible and passed
iiy the county board of welfare.
Singers Gather In
This City Sunday
What was described as the
most successful session in the his
tory of the Stone Mountain Sing-
ng association was held Sunday
at Hinshaw Street Baptist church
in this city.
Fifteen groups repre.senting
five counties participated in the
day’s program and several hun
dred were present to enjoy the
singing.
Decides Against
Dividing Precints
Quartet Singing
At Rock Creek
Church April 21
stone Mountain quartet singing
convention will be held at Bock
Creek church on Sunday, April
21, J. A. Gilliam, of Hays, chair
man of the organization, said to
day.
All quartets are Invited to par
ticipate in the program, which
will begin at 1:30 p. m. Rock
Creek church is located 2 1-2
miles east of Mountain "View on
the Mountain View-Roaring Riv
er road.
G-Man Will Train
Officers In Course
To Be Held In City
Week’s School For Law En
forcement Officers To Be
Held During This Month
Police Chief J. E. Walker has
made arrangements with Edward
Scheldt, G-Man in charge of the
Charlotte office of the bureau of
investigation, to have a law 'en
forcement officers’ school here
during the latter part ot this
month.
An instructor from the United
States department of justice will
be sent here to conduct the
school, which ■will be for ail law
enforcement officers of Wilkes
and adjoining counties. Sessions
will ibe held at the city hall.
Chief Walker said that a rep
resentative of the FBI will be
here next week to set definite
date for the school and to make
final arrangements.
Instructions will be given in
Identification, fingerprinting, use
of firearms and various, other
phases of law enforcement work.
Youth Dies Of
Gunshot Wound
Funeral Services For Robert
Glenn Wyatt, of Reddies
River, To Be Friday
The regular monthly meeting
ot the Wilkes county post of the
American Legion will be held in
the Legion-Auxiliary club rooms
on FYlday evening. April 5th, at
7:30.
Rolicrt Glenn Wyatt, nineteen-
year-old resident of the Reddies
River community, died at the
Wilkes hospital Wedne.sday from
effects of a gunshot wound in his
leg:
He was said to have been
wounded one day last week when
a gun in his hands accidentally
discharged.
He wa.s a son of John M, and
Aliza Royal Wyatt and in addi
tion to his parents is survived by
his wife, Mrs. Lillie Belie Wyatt,
and two children.
Funeral service will be held
Friday afternoon, two o’clock, at
Royal cemetery, to be conducted
by Rev. Eugene Vannoy.
29,705 School Lunches Served In WPA
Lunch Rooms At 9 Schools In Month
Large Quantities Of Apple*
and Raisins Also Dis
tributed In County
Nine school lunch rooms ope
rated in Wilkes by the WPA
se -ved 29,705 school lunches dur
ing a 30-day period ending
March 21, accordln.g to records
compiled in the Wilkes county
welfare office.
In addition to the nine WPA
lunch rooms, the National Youth
administration maint a 1 n e d a
lunchroom at Boomer school,
serving 50 students, and a facul
ty operated lunch room at Wood-
lawn school served 130.
The WPA school lunch rooms,
under supervision of Mrs. Mabel
Smlthey, are located at Wllkes-
boro. Roaring River, Millers
Creek, Mountain View and Fer
guson high schools and at Mora
vian Falls, Plney Ridge, Harmon
and Congo elementary units.
In* these schools during the
month 10,917 lunches were served
without ChMge td underprivileged
children. Lunches paid for by et-
Schange ot food products totaled
10,612 w'hile the number of
lunches paid for in cash was 8,-
143.
A plate lunch is served for a
nickel. Pie and salad may be pur
chased for a nickel each it the
plate lunch is not sufficient.
The -B'elfare department has al
so cooperated in securing surplus
commodities (apples and raisins)
to be furnished schools without
lunch rooms. These products are
supplied to encourage these
schools to provide lunch room
facilities next year.
The schools, and the number
ot needy children in each who re
ceived apples and raisins, were as
follows: Austin 50, Buck 22,
Flint Hill 38. Loggins 21, Miller
35. Newlife 30, North Wilkes
boro 300, Scony Ridge 50, 'White
Oak 12. Hendrix 80, Roaring Gaj?
30, Union 140, Big Ivey 15.
Oakwoods 37, Shepherd 15, Spur
geon 49, Sherman 56. Underprivi
leged children receiving the ap
ples and raisins in the schools
totaled more than 1,000, mem
bers Of the welfare department
said. *' ' ■■■
Nwth Wilkesboro
win Renuun One
Electiim Precinct
Board Of Elections In Meet
ing Monday Night Fixos •
Number Voting Places
Wilkes county board of ele©-
tlons in a pubOlc meeting hera
Monday night decided againat di
vision of any precincts’ in WilkM
county and voted to let the pre
cincts remain as they are.
The meeting was called for
purpose of hearing any peredtoi
interested relative to dlrisioa ot
large precincts, particularly Korth
Wilkesboro township, wUA gall
ed a rote of about 2,600 in tks
1938 election.
Attendance at the meeting was
small.
F. C. Forester, prominent local
Democrat, proposed to the county
board of elections that North Wil
kesboro be divided into fire pre
cincts; one west ot Reddies River,
another In the Fairplains vicinity
north of the corporate limits of
this city and east of Reddies Riv
er, and three within the city. Ha
also suggested that a committee
of three Democrats and two Re
publicans be named to divide th»
city into three precincts.
The board, which Is composed
ot E. P. Inscore, chairman, J. C.
Grayson, Republican member and
secretary, and C. €. Staley, re
tread isi dteeass the pro'pae^ df-
vuion and on motion of C. C.
Staley, seconded by E. P. Inscore,
the board voted not to divide the
township and to let it remain
as one precinct.
On motion ot Mt., Staley and
seconded by Mr. Inscore, the fol
lowing precinct voting places
were established: Stanton at New
Hope schoolhouse: Rock Greek at
Mountain View schoolhouse; Red
dies River at Millers Creek
schoolhouse; Lovelace at E. P.
Inscore’s store; Antioch at Tom
Mathis’ service station on high
way 421; Edwards number 2 at
Roaring River schoolhouse.
The lioai'd will meet on Satur
day. .April 6, one o’clock, at tha
city hail in tliis city to appoint
registrars and judges. Chairman
of each political party will furnish
a list of five for eacli precinct,
from which the board will ap
point the judges.
15th Is Deadline
For Farm Sign-Up
Only One-Fourth Of Farm
ers Of The County Have
Signed This Year
All farmers in Wilkes county
who do not sign up for partlcipa.-
tion in the soil program for 1946
before April 15 will receive no
payment, it was learned today
from Lawrence Miller, clerk of
the Triple A in Wilkes.
He pointed out that there are
about 5,000 farms in Wilkes
county and to date less than 25
per cent have 'Ween signed up to
be under the program this year,
in spite of the fact that dates
were set aside for committeemen
to meet farmers in the various
townships.
Mr. Miller said ‘that ail the
forms have been turned over to
the township committeemea and
that every farmer who has n'pt
signed is urged to see his town
ship committeeman on the earl
iest ’ possible date.
City Board Talks ^
Water, Sewer Lines
North Wilkesboro board of
commissioners in regular meeting
Tuesday night discussed with en
gineers plans for water and sew
er line extensions but deflpita
action ■'vas deterred. ,
M&ny routine matters were
disposed of during the meeting.
All members of the board ivoTO
present -with Mayor R. T. Mo^lsl,
for the meeting. The board me$^-
bers are Ralph Duncan,* V. K.
Sturdivant, H. M. Hntchoi»,\V
G. Pinldy and J. B. Ckrter.