Odd But
TRUE
—By O. Max. Gardner, Jr.-1
Boston is one of the chief school
extbook producing centers in the
world. Here are printed all kinds,
of schoolbooks, for use all over the j
world. Some of these school books
make the selling of a popular book
look like a mouse beside an ele
phant. The books are not handled
by the dozen, but by carloads of
about forty thousand pounds each.
The St. Louis Browns is the only
big league team that has never won
a pennant.
Here in North Carolina there is a
law, still on the law books, that
twin beds must be at least two feet
apart.
The United States sold the
wreckage of the great dirigible, the
Macon, for one hundred and fifty
dollars. The cost of the Macon was
two million and fifty thousand dol
lars.
One half pound box of candy con
tains as much calories as forty four
big dishpans of spinach.
The first prize ever offered in
the Greek Olympics was an Olive
' Branch. This was a great honor
and exempted the owner from pay
ing public taxes for life.
The best state road in North
Carolina was made of planks. This
plank road connected Fayetteville
with Salisbury.
Beams Mill Girl
Weds Sharon Boy
(Special to The Star.)
BEAMS MILL. Nov. 23.—A wed
ding <jf much interest to their
many friends was solemnized
Thursday, November 19 at 3:30 o
clock in the afternoon when Miss
Corene Costner became the bride
of Mr. Fred Kendrick. The cere
mony was performed at the home
Of the bride's pastor. Rev. D. O.
Washburn, the ring ceremony be
ing used. Miss Ada Kendrick and
Woodrow Humphries were the only
witnesses.
The bride, who is a pretty blonde
was beautifully dressed in a med
ium blue swagger suit with which
she wore navy blue accessories. She
is the only child of Mr .and Mrs.
Tates Costner of the Beams Mill
community but has made her home
with her grandparents, Mr. Zlm
Williams and the late Mrs. Wil
liams since a small child. She
was graduated from the Fallston
high school in the class of ’35, of
which she was a leading member.
Since graduation, she has been
very popular In church and social
activities in her community.
The groom, a prominent young
man, is the oldest son of Mr. and
Mrs. Clem Kendrick of the Sharon
community. He was graduated
with the class of *34 at Fallston
high school, where he took an ac
tive part in school activities.
Mr. and Mrs. Kendrick will, at
the present, make their home writh
the groom’s parents.
Immediately following the cere
mony the happy couple were enter
tained at the home of the groom's
parnts with a bountiful dinner.
Covers were laid for Mr. and Mrs.
Kendrick. Mr. and Mrs. Yates
Costner. Mr. and Mrs. Clem Ken
drick. Misses Eula Williams, Louise
Williams. Lura and Ada Kendrick
and Woodrow Humphries.
Sick Improving In
Beams Mill Section
. (Special to The Star.'
BEAMS MILL. Nov. 23. — Mrs.
Clarence Costner and Mrs. W. T.
Hamrick are on the sick list. Mrs.
Plato Costner is improving some.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hamrick
and family of Kings Mountain
spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
Plato Costner.
Mrs, W. C. Bridges left Friday
morning with Mr. and Mrs. John
Norman of near Polkville, Roland
rorman and son, Billy, of Lawn
to spend a few days with Mr.
and\Mrs. E F. Hastings of Erwin,
Coot\Lutz made a business trip
to Charlotte Tuesday night.
Mr. and Mrs. Pressley Costner
spent Wednesday night with Mr.
and Mrs. Paul Bridges of near
Cleveland Springs. Dixon, oldest
son of Mr. and Mrs. Bridges, has
been ill, but is better.
Mrs. Kim Williams and daughter
Lena and son, Otha, spent Wed
nesday with Mr. and Mrs. Clarence
Grigg of New House.
Clyde Owens, W. H. Bridges and
Smith Gettys spent several days at
Bridgewater fishing this week.
Carfc Of Thanks
We wish to thank our many
friends and neighbors for the
kindness and sympathy shown us
during the long illness and death of
bur dear father and husband, and
also wish to thank our faithful
nurse and doctor, Mrs. Grace Wea
ver and D. B. B. Matthews. May
God's richest blessings be upon
them all.—Mrs. J. S. Connor and
children.
Whitehead Child
Ha* 9 Grandparent*
Little Doris Louise Whitehead,
13 month old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Hugh Whitehead of
Oak Orove community is bless
ed with many grandparents.
Doris has three grandparents
on her mother’s side: Mr. and
Mrs. Oliver Melton and Mrs.
Sarah Melton of upper Cleve
land.
On her father's side she has
six grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
J. I. Whitehead of Polkville;
Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Whitehead
of Bishop, Georgia, and Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Jackson of High
Shoals, Georgia.
PUBLIC PAYS FOR
ALL ACCIDENTS
Death Claims Passed
Back On The
Motorists
The prevention of automobile ac
cidents has become a major public
problem within recent years, but it
is more than that, it is a prob
lem that faces the individual auto
mobile operator. His safety as well
as that of the general public is in
volved, and by hts on carefulness or
amelioration or the growth of the
accident menace, as the case may
be.
As J. L. Buttle, Jr., of the insur
ance department of the Union Trust
company pointed out in a recent in
terview, it Is not so much the auto
mobile Insurance companies that
are effected by the rising trend ol
automobile accidents as it la the
individual motorist. In the final
analysis it is not the insurance
companies that must foot the bill
but the motorist. Insurance rates
are based on accident experience,
and if accident frequency and sever
ity rise to a point where Insurance
premiums are no longer sufficient
to meet claims and assure a reas
onable margin of profit, rates must
be increased until they are ade
quate. inus, in me eira me mow
1st pays the cost of accidents in
higher insurance premiums.
Of greater consequence than the
economic loss Involved, added Mr
Suttle is the appalling loss of life
and crippling of human beings. An
average of 596 persons are killed
and 30,961 are Injured in automo
bile accidents every week in th*
country. The highway accident rec
ord for one year is 31,000 killed and
1,000,000 Injured. No less than 4,0W
children lose their lives annually ir
automobile accidents.
Leaving safety to the other fel
low won’t do. Every individual whc
site behind the wheel of a motoi
car has a duty to himself and to th<
public to take the accident situ
ation seriously, and to take mon
than ordinary care to avoid injur
ing himself or others. Even the mar
who always considered himself tc
be a “careful driver” should earn
estly ask himself, Am I, really, a.<
careful a driver as I think I am?”
Rev. Dwight Ware
Going To East
Of interest here is announce'
ment that Rev. R. Dwight Ware
who has been pastor of the Mair
Street Methodist church of Thom
asvllle is to be transferred fronr
the Western North Carolina con
ference and will be given an ap
pointment in the latter conferenci
when it meets in New Bern soon.
Mr. Ware, a son of- the late Rev
W. R. Ware, native of Shelby dur
ing his. boyhood. The family li
well known in this section.
Burke Confederate
Veteran Diet, Age 91
.. »
MOKGANTON. Nov. *3. — D. T
Denton, 81, a Confederate veterar
who for 30 years was county sur
veyor, died Tuesday night at 10.4;
o'clock at his home on South
Green street after a serious Ill
ness of three months.
Physically active until two yean
ago, Mr. Denton, who was a civl
engineer, bore lightly the weight o(
his years until hls health began tc
decline at that time.
His death leaves only five Burke
veterans in the War Between the
States.
DATES SET FOB ANNUAL
NEWSPAPER INSTITUTB
CHAPEL HILL. Nov. 23.—Janu
ary 13. 14, 15 and 16 have been sel
as definite dates for the 13th an
nual Newspaper Institute which ii
to be held in Chapel Hill anc
Durham under the auspices of th<
North Carolina Press Associatior
with the University of North Caro
lina and Duke University cooper
atlng.
HANDS OUT IS ORDER
TO CHICAGO POLIC1
CHICAGO.—Hands and pocket
must be strangers for Chicago po
! licenser, ee daytime duty this win
ter.
Bailee Commissioner Allman salt
hands in pockets ‘are unnecessar
| and undignified."
The progressive penalties for in
fractions of the rule are: reprl
mand. fine, fine and suspension
i discharge.
Social Security Gets Under Way;
Here’s the ‘How and Wherefore’
.
w/HEN you get around to applying tor your £>o
” clal Security benefits, consider yourself part of
an undertaking exceeding in magnitude anything
of the kind ever before launched.
Excepting agricultural labor, domestic servants,
casual labor, public employes, and employes of
non-profit corporations, the government these days
is setting up machinery to enroll 26,000,000 per
sons in the greatest actuarial scheme ever con
ceived.
And it’s a Job, incidentally, that will be done be
fore the U. S. Supreme Court decides whether it
is all constitutional.
Passed by the last Congress as the first national
measure of its kind in this country, the Social Se
curity Act divides chiefly along three lines:
1— Old-age benefits through an employer
employe contributory system.
2— A federal-state unemployment compensa
tion system.
3— Public assistance through grants to states
for aid to persons over 65, the needy blind,
and dependent children.
• • •
BEGINNING Jan. 1, the government will collect
u a tax from both employers and employes on
the workers’ wages up to $3000 a year.
For three years the worker will pay 1 cent per
dollar of wages. The rate gradually rises until
it becomes 3 per cent in 1940. The employer, who
forwards all the money involved in the tax, con
tributes a sum equal to all the taxes his employes
pay.
Upon reaching the age of 65 under this plan, the
worker will receive in monthly benefit payments,
a sum computed according to his wages and the
number of yeais he has worked between Jan. 1,
1937, and the age of 65. Minimum monthly pay
ments will be $10 and the maximum $85, since, for
purposes of the act, earnings in excess of $3000 a
year are not considered as “wages." .
Specifically: A worker earns an average of $30
a week, or $1580 a year, for 30 years, after 1936,
before he becomes 65. He will receive govern
ment checks of $50.75 a month for the rest of his
life after 65.
If he dies before receiving any monthly pay
ments, his family will receive 3% per cent of these
wages, or $1638. Lump sums equivalent to 3%
per cent of total wages are paid to workers who
reach 65 before they qualify for monthly benefits,
which will not be paid until 1942. These and
death lump sum payments will begin to become
payable in 1937.
• •
rPO figure your own benefits, use this formula:
Estimate your total wages (not above $3000 an
nually) between now and your 65th birthday. Per
centage of those total wages payable as the monthly
benefit will be % of 1 per cent on the first $3000,
plus l/12th of 1 per cent on the next $42,000, and
1 /24th of 1 per cent on all above $45,000.
To receive the $85 maximum, your total wages
would have to be about $130,000. For each month
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
WHAT THEY DO
Each figure represents one million wage earners
0
TMSI MOWlI AM HOW MeritTID UNM* TMf
SOCIAL SiCURITr PROGRAM4
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
221
tmot- towuuiOH hoai
<y iiiiw.
ttAMSPoturiON aH MIN
communication- « miuon *om
Covered b> Railroad,
Retirement Act
THMf MOW AH MOT *T MOTICTU UNM» TMt
social security program
A
AMO KXUSTtr- II MAI ON ffOPl!
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muc uivia- 4 mauon worn
S-ltfll
Source: 1930 Census
*With Some Exceptions
This chart shows who vets benefits under the
Social Security Act, and who are exempt for
various reasons.
in which you are regularly employed after 65, a
month’s benefit payment is deducted.
The unemployment insurance provisions of the
Social Security Act hinge on federal-state joint
action. The act provides a payroll tax rising from
1 per cent of total payroll for 1936 to 3 per cent
in 1938.
The Social Security Board’s approval of a state’s
plan enables employers subject to that federal tax
to obtain credit up to 90 per cent of the tax for
contributions to their state unemployment com
pensation funds.
The tax applies to all who employ eight or more
persons for 20 weeks or more. The states with un
employment compensation laws withdraw nine
tenths of it for their own unemployed by collect
ing that percentage as contributions under their
own laws.
Employers contribute from 0.9 per cent of pay
rolls on a rising scale to 2.7 per cent until 1941.
Thereafter, credits are allowed to workers who
have had little or no unemployment.
Under the Social Security Act’s third provision,
public assistance, more than 1,000,000 poor and
aged persons now receive cash allowances. States
match the federal money to supply these funds.
For old-age doles, the federal government con
tributes half the payment up to a federal-state
total of $30 a month.
Other phases of the Social Security Act cover
grants to states for helping meet costs of maternal,
child health, child welfare, and crippled children
services, and for extension of public health and
vocational rehabilitation sendee*.
Davies Named U.S.
Envoy To Moscow
Joseph E. Davies (above), promi
nent International lawyer of Wash
ington, D. C., has been appointed by
President Roosevelt as United
States ambassador to Russia. Hs
succeeds William C. Bullitt who
recently was named ambassador to
France. (Associated Press Photo)
First Aid Station
In Orange County
CHAPEL HILL. Nov. 23.—Orange
county has the distinction of hav
ing the first highway first aid sta
tion to be established In North
Carolina.
Through the efforts of R. M.
Grumman, head of the Chapel Hill
Red Cross, the station was recent
ly opened at a filling station in
Carrboro.
The attendant* at the station
have been trained to render first
aid, the instructor being R R.
Williams. Jr . of Asheville, a law
student in the University
A 1935 Iowa agricultural census I
just reported shows that a majority
of Iowu farm operators have been
cn the V.r.d they now occupy more j
than five years.
W.D.McKee Buried
On Last Saturday
Funeral services for W. D. Mc
Kee, 61 were held Saturday after
noon at the home of his son, Ho
race McKee, who lives on Walnut
street at Eton. Mr. McKee died
late Friday of heart trouble after
in illness of several weeks.
Services were in charge of Rev.
R. P. Hamby and interment was at
Buffalo church cmetery at Stubbs.
Mr. McKee is survived by his
second wife, four sons, Horace and
niden of Shelby, John of Otto, and
Clyde of Panama, Canal Zone; a
daughter, Mrs. Mae Rolfe, one
brother and three sisters, all of
this county. Mr. McKee's first wife
died In 1918 during the flu eplr
demlc.
The United States geological sur
vey estimates that New Mexico
contains undeveloped coal lands
with 192,000,000,000 tons.
Shelby, O., Farmei
Invited Hunteri
Two days before the opening o
the hunting season In Ohio, say
Time, Joe Mitt, a farmer living
near Shelby, Ohio, inserted the fol
lowing advertisement in his Iocs
newspaper:
“Invitation to hunters! Huntin
is allowed on my farm southeast o
Shelby. There are plenty of rabbit
and pheasants and no danger (t
dogs) of hog cholera. If you don
get the limit of rabbits, shoot
couple of my chickens to make u
the number you lack. If you ge
hungry while hunting on my fari
come up to the house for a hand
out.”
Brooches, bracelets and necklace
have been forbidden to girls at
tending Newcastle, England, muni
cipal high school because sue
display makes less fortunate pupil
feel “outrlvalled."
“BOB BURNS SAYS:”
Daily In
The Charlotte News
Lively Editorials - General Hugh John
son — Heywood Broun - Dorothy
Thompson
All The News
The Charlotte News
1 Yr. 6 Mos. 3 Mos. 1 Mo.
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Old Glen Alpine
Hotel Burned
_
MORGANTON, Nov. 23. — When
the old Glen Alpine Springs Hotel
was destroyed by fire on Saturday
night one of Burke county’s his
| toric buildings and a place fraught
| with memories for many of an
older generation became an ashc
pile. The origin of the fire which
wiped out the already dilapidated
ruins of the large, rambling, 3
story fame building, is unknown,
but there have been hints of in
cendiarism, possibly the work of
marauders or the carelessness of
hunters. The building was owned
by Sam Goodman, of Mooresvllle,
who owns also the tract of more
than three hundred acres of moun
tain land surrounding. It was lo
cated south of Morganton, about
13 miles, Just off of No. 181, form
erly known as the old Rutherford
road.
Glen Alpine Springs Hotel was
built during the fall of 1877 and
spring of 1878. One of the original
owners and builders, John H. Pear
North Carolina.
Colored Conference To \)ffj
The 64th session of nle ,
Methodist church open- ai h
j Institute church, 821 High'-,,,?,’
Winston-Salem Wednesday N„
I with Bishop Jas. a Bra ',
' mg. J. W. Roberts p j
Kelly, hast. Rev. j l. Briscoe,
A. K. Roberts leaves Tuesday m
i ing to attend the session ‘ °
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