The Joinal - Patriot
INDBPBNDBNT IN POLITICS
Published Mondays and Thursdays at
North Wilkesboro, North Carolina
JULIUS C. HUBBARD?MRS. D. J. OARTRB
PablUhan
1>SI?DANIXL J. CABTBR?1M*
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
One Year $2.00
Hi Wilkes and Adjoining Counties)
One Year $8.00
1 Outside Wilkes and Adjoining Counties)
Rates to Those in Service:
One Year (anywhere) 82.00
Entered U the postoffloe at North WtftM
I'oro, Nurth Carolina, as Sacond-GUss mattar
iuiler act of Marah 4, lift.
Thursday, August 18,1949
fASSOCIATION ,
School Buildings
And Bond. Election
A majority of the people who voted in
the special election August 13 voted a
gainst the proposed issue of $600,000 in
bonds for school buildings in Wilkes coun
ty.
Evidently, the will of the people as ex
pressed in the election preferred a differ
ent type of financing for school needs.
None should be led to believe that Wilkes
county can fill school building needs with
the $551,000 to be received from the
state, in view of the fact that the county
is years behind in school building con
struction and in view of the fact that the
population has been growing most rapidly
in the past ten years.
A recent compilation by the county
board of education and County Superin
tendent C. B. Eller showed that at pres
ent prices it will take more than one mil
lion dollars to fill the needs for classrooms,
heat, sewage, plumbing and lighting of
schools. It is evident that the bare needs
cannot be had for the approximately
$700,000 available, counting state aid
funds and funds appropriated by the coun
ty.
In addition to classrooms, there are
many schools sorely in need of auditor
iums. Students learn much in auditoriums,
although some teachers discount the value
of students taking part in extra curricula
activities, possibly because it calls for
more work on the part of the teachers.
Schools also need auditoriums for com
munity gatherings and these should be
provided.
Since the majority of the people voting
have voted down the bond issue method of
school building financing, it stands to rea
son that another way must be used.
This year Wilkes county has about
$126,000 in the budget for school build
ings, this amount being provided by a levy
of 55 cents of the $1.38 total tax rate,
and by refunding some present bonds.
Since the people have voted out school
bond financing, they must of necessity be
prepared for school building construction
on a "pay as you go" basis, which could
be aided somewhat by refunding of some
of the county's bonds as they fall due.
The needs are great, the money now
available will not go around to all the
building projects so desperately needed
and the people should realize that money
must be raised in taxes for school build
ings, which in the long run is more eco
nomical and will provide greater value per
tax dollar than bond financing.
When Gasoline Was A Nuisance
Fifty years or so ago the oil industry
had problems. One of them was a nuisance
called gasoline, which was a by-product
of kerosene pproduction. It wasn't good
for mnch of anything and the oil compan
ies had a tough time getting rid of It.
* Even kerosene, which was the mainstay
of the business, presented difficulties.
Certain types of kerosene had a heavy and
unpleasant sulfur smell. Customers took
to calling it "skunk oil." Finally, the in
dustry came up with a new refining meth
od, and the small was eliminated.
As time went by, and it became appar
ent that the horseless carriage was here
to stay, gasoline was no longer a drug on
the market. Some visionaries even felt
that it would eventually outsell kerosene.
However, a production problem remained.
Tt was difficult to produce enough gas of
Jv-h ouality at a low price. So the oil peo
pie did some more research, and discover*
ed a process to take care of that.
Today, a typical large oil company
makes 2,000 different products, many of
which have nothing to do with driving and
lubricating machinery. There are 250,000
service ^stations throughout the country,
all competing for the motorist's business.
And there are thousands of producers and
refiners in competition with each other.
That's the way one industry has grown,
in less than a lifetime. This is the type
of enterprise that has given safer service
to customers and built American industry.
o
In the city of Boston, 85 per cent of
the children supported by public care had
to be committed to that division because
of the drinking of their parents.?Anna
Macay, Deputy Commissioner, Child Wel
fare Division.
o
Detroit Free Press: "Husband in Court;
How Welfare-Supported Drinker's Family
Told." Drink was more important to this
"man" than the well-being of his wife and
five children.
o
While campaigning for funds for its
own building program, the First Baptist
Church of Washington, D. C. (the church
President Truman attends) is also raising
$20,000 to rebuild bombed churches in
Europe and Japan.
: o
Date of the 1950 meeting of the South
srn Baptist Convention in Chicago has
been changed from May 10-14 to May
9-12, so ministers can return to their own
churches for Mother's Day, Sunday,
May 14.
? THE
EVERYDAY
COUNSELOR
By Rev. Herbert
Sp&ugh, D. D.
"Are you all in a hurry inside?" That
describes the condition of many of us. A
correspondent writes that he saw this
question printed in bold red letters on the
menu in a well-known Southern hotel. An
octogenarian of keen mind, he writes that
back in the 1880's the same thought was
expressed in these words, "Impatience
dries the blood faster than age or sorrow."
He adds this comment of his own, "It
probably did then and does now."
Call it what you will either impatience
of "inside hurry" it throws our whole pro
gram of living out of balance. We hear
much about tension today, and I am meet
ing it on every hand: in letters from trou
bled readers, and from those who come
to our office for diagnosis and treatment.
Dr. Henry Link in his book, "The Re
discovery of Man" which appears in digest
form in the August issue of "Your Life"
says, "At the bottom of most fears both
mild and severe will be found an overac
tive mind due to an underactive body:
too much energy churning the higher brain
centers in vicious circles, not enough en
ergy driving the arms and legs and hands
in useful work or play."
He then relates the case of a young
man who came to him suffering from in
somnia and the fear of not being able to
go to sleep. He went to bed later and later
but couldn't sleep. "He gave a long and
technical description of how this fear had
come about. The real causes could have
been stated in one sentence: too much
thinking, reading, and talking, and not
enough work and play with other people."
He wanted some prescription for relax
ation. The doctor said, ."Join a club or
gymnasium and get into some regular
competitive games. You do not need relax
ation; you need exertion. You put too
much of your physical energy into thinking
ancf imagining things. If you will run a
round the block you will have used some
of these energies through your lower brain
centers, that part which drives the body
and the legs. If you run hard enough and
.often enough you will automatically relax.
You have thought yourself into this fear
with your mind; you can run yourself out
of it with your legs." The young man took
the prescription and it worked.
Dr. Link has put his finger on a lot of
our "inside hurry" troubles. If we trans
fer some of that energy into outside physi
cal aciivity according to age and station,
then tension will come down. Then try
reading a Psalm each day followed by
reading from the Sew Testament starting
with St. John. Follow it up with prayer.
Prayer and physical work is what most
of us need. Try it for yourself.
Obituary Rachel
Minnie Johnson
Rachel Minnie Johnson, daugh
ter of Harvy and Polly Johnson
was born May 3, 1888, died July
17, 1949, age 61 years, two
months and 14 days. She was
married to R'. E. Johnson, Jan
uary 29, 1913, and* to this union
were born two daughters, Mrs.
Charles Higglns, Palmetto, Fla.,
and Mrs. Joe Staley, North Wll
keeboro.
She leaves her husband, the
two daughters, two granddaugh
ters, also two brothers and two
sisters, Mrs. S. P. Higgins, Miss
Jennie Johnson, Wilson Johnson,
Judson Johnson and a host of
friends and relatives.
She professed faith in Christ
early in life and united with
Walnut Grove Missionary Baptist
church in Wilkes county and
later moved her membership to
Warrensville Methodist church,
where she remained a loyal and
faithful member until death.
NOTICE
NORTH CAROLINA
WILKES COUNTY
By viture of an other of the
Superior Court of Wilkes County,
directing the undersigned commis
sioners to advertise and sell the
lands as hereinafter described, we
will on the 12th day of September,
1949, at 12:30 o'clock p. m., at the
courthouse door at Wilkesboro,
Wilkes County, North Carolina, of
fer for sale to the highest bidder
for cash, the lands as hereinafter
described:
First Tract:
Situate nwWalnut Grove Town
ship, Wilkes County, and more
particularly described as follows.
Beginning on a poplar, running
East (61) sixty one poles to a
chestnut, South (67) fifty seven
poles to a sourwood, West (Oil
sixty one poles to a pine, North
(59) fifty nine poles with the cross
fence leaving said fence on west
side of said line to the beginning,
containing (22) twenty two acres,
more or less. For further descrip
tion see deed from A. C. Bilnngs
to Dalton Handy, recorded in Book
44, page 131, in the office of the
Register of Deeds of Wilkes Coun
^ Second Tract:
Situate in Walnut Grove Town
ship, Wilkes County, and being
more particularly described as fol
lows ?
Beginning on a chestnut, Run'
ning East 40 poles to a stake,
thence North 100 poles to a chest
nut and hickory, thence 40 poles
to a chestnut oak, thence South 100
poles to the beginning, containing
25 acres, more or less. For further
description see deed from John A.
Myers to F. D. Handy, recorded
in Book 100, page 406, which is
recorded in the office of the regi
ster of Deeds of 'Wilkes County.
Also see deed from Frank Burch
ette to F. D. Handy, which is re
corded in Book 104, page 383, in
the office of the Register of Deeds
of Wilkes County.
Third Tract:
Situate in Walnut Grove Town
ship, Wilkes County, and being
more -particclarly described as fol
lows I
Beginning on a poplar, Dalton
Handy's corner, running East 61
poles to a chestnut, then North
(100) one hundred poles to a
chestnut, then West 61 poles to a
stake in line, then South one hun
dred poles to beginning, contain
ing 38 acres, more or less. For
further description see deeds from
T. L. Handy to Dalton Handy in
Book 66, page 20, and also Book
44, page 129, as recorded in the
office of the Register of Deeds of
Wilkes County.
Fourth Tract:
Located in (Walnut Grove Town
ship, Wilkes County, and being
more particularly described as fol
lows:
Beginning on a poplar, D.
Handy's corner, running North 100
poles to a stake, West then fifty
nine poles to a stake, the north
east corner of the Wilborn Billings
tract of land; thence South one
hundred poles with the said Bill
ings line to a stake, the said Bill
ings corner, thence East 59 poles
to the beginning, containing thirty
six acres, more or less. For further
description of this tract see deed
from T. L. Handy to Dalton Handy
recorded in Book 66 at page 20, in
the office of the Regfiister of
Deeds of Wilkes County.
Fifth Tract:
Located in Walnut Grove Town
ship, fWilkes County, and being
more particularly described as
follows:
Beginning on a red oak on top
of a ridge, running near north
west 48 poles to a chestnut, thence
South 86 poles to a chestnut in
a north and south line beween E.
U. Burchette and Dalton Handy,
then running Northeast 48 poles
to the beginning, cbhtainiingi 4
seres and 29 poles, more or less.
For further description of this
tract see deed from E. U. Burch
ette to Dalton Handy recorded in
Book 68, at page 571, in the of
fice of the Register of Deeds of
Wilkes County.
This adevertisement is to include
any and all lands of every kind and
description owned by Dalton
Handy, of which he died seized, in
Walnut Grove Township, Wilkes
County.
The above land is estimated to
have approximately 200,000 feet
of standing timber and trees suf
ficient to make approximately 3,
000 locust posts.
This the 27th day of July, 1949.
J. F. JORDAN
MAX F. FERREE,
Commissioner 9-8-4t(T)
Support T. M. C f
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