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- -' 'iW if 'n> *■• ■ SANFORD The Fastest Growing Town - In Central Carolina ' FOREMOST t* IN CHARACTER anil »s-r^V-iCTf?" 1 :S®VaV' SANFORD, NORTH CAROtlN j^UULY 6, 1933. VOLUME 47, Number 47* I •wte Published WEEKlA. 4 TAR HEEL t SCRAP BOOK ■y.' BY ' ' A Rotating Tar Heel ... Elsie Robinson in her widely spread column, “listen, World,” says the an nual row is on in thousands of Ameri can homes.- “Shall or shan’t young Bill or Blessfle go to college?” is the 'Subject of the annual row, ' She concludes with these words, “Or maybe you have done plenty of think ing about colleges and'their results. ;I| so, what are your conclusions? Let’s hear them.” From the looks of America today I doubt if more than four of five per sons have dome “plenty thinking” |sbouit anything. America seems to rue a result of too; much lost motion. Ac- - tlon without thought—and sometimes, •perhaps, thought without action. , I /'^College strives to help us -combine ' S. But the colleges themselves ' itly hampered-with no end of tlon. Colleges, like evoryfiffllg' else today, have lost their balance. Tfou tv21 find more/young inmates jjj -tensely interested in making a soror .ity, a fraternity or an athletic letter; '.than you will- in learning to adjust themselves to world conditions, or to understand themselves-^to balance j themselves and .properly correllate - • thought with action. ~ > r~“ , - -j The bridge party, Auto spinning, home atmosphere from which these youngsters come, is largely to blaipe. I have thought much on the college situation, visited - dozens—attended their lectures and concerts when avail able, known many of'.ths professors and Instructors and of oburse hundreds of the students from .all * over the , country. The days that 1 have spent in college walls I' treasure as most valued of them all. Jtt-is my belief'' that there still remain in every instj tutidm .rrf learning j| ||ew earnest, sin cere teachers who' Will eagerly strive to help the maddened,, blinded youth threatening years. In each of institutions is at least a hand of pupils who really wish to be' :*.? ■- benefitted, and who earnestly desire -tit broaden their sympathies, enrich .. . y-:toeir lives, deepen their capacity for C v thinking and for solving life’s riddles wX&ih other words those who wish’to develop themselves into beings capable SI?? U®‘IW tor the good of posterity all •the talents or abilities latent within, e;'* Ip^These few deserve every possible SE - opportunity for development. College j . - . offers the quickest and best, and the | ftp fleast expensive in the long run, which f|W------- —» - y' -'Ccador bemuddled and befuddled civiliza • .••r/Si,- _ ,_. _. . ; ... -lion has yet produced. If Bin or Bessie is a Very frothy 6 person and can’t, see beyond rjij |p the athletic field or the sorrority dance p*. _ffloor, I should send him or her any a , ‘^ ay—right on to college if X coulu lijilftt sll afford it—if notrr-and if "they , - -Were not willing to work their way | * -through, why then I should send Bill ' •.behind the soda fountain, if neat and 'dainty—or place him behind the wheel Ifepf a truck if strong and sane enough as for Bessie, there is always) " the costume jewelry counter. These v -Will turn out'.-just as well perhaps—■ and just as conceited-—never fear they ’SRA^rill lose any of theSy conceit. -\. Sg; But—when there are no jobs oj any j |.-sort available—what then? f. hlake them help pay their way if “‘l^^possible and strain your own self a < .keeping—some of them may develop bit and put them in college for safe a bit in spite of fate. The earnest old will do their best—and you will V have more time for bridge and the jfpgfpNlter more time for home brew or !® ,‘4 #1 fThe brief sessions which I have been privileged to attend in college,! Miss Robinson, were sometimes paid ^ for by waiting tables, sometimes by■ passing up all the alluring clothes of-. fared in tht shop windows of Los ' Angeles, sometimes by passing up' the1 boating parties and the long hours in the sun on the Miami beaches— Perhaps I did not g^in much—how ever,; it helps one to stand tip under adversity,, to see both sides of life-— to see “sermons in stones’’ and that sort of thing. Perhaps 1 am just odd and queer— but I |am still glad I gave rapt atten tion to an earnest old prof—while across an alley1 a few feet away hun dreds of youths and maids in the ex treme dress of the day swayed to the popular, savage music in the Cinder ella RocSf—glad too, I turned down the invitations to the week end, parties' on the Mexican border—glad that •when I got a job with a millinery shop book store, or post office, I saved for night courses in whatever my city »n’ versity had -to offer. > Have I become rich by ft? NO—and would not have become riph anyway. Did not seek to do so—and if I had (Continued On Page Six.) > JrV -- '> : GUARANTYBANK TO HAVE CAPITAL STOCK OF $1,500,000 Local, Citizens Take Hopeful At titude As Progress Is Made Toward Bank Opening. INDUCTION ONLY HOLD-UP The proposed Guaranty Bank will be formed the latter part of the week with funds from liquid assets of the three banks, $450,00 from the North I Carolina; $800,000 from the Page j Trust Company, and $150,00 from the Independence Trust Company. The re-1 maining necessary $600,000 of the $1,-! 500,00 -capital and surplus will be supplied Jby; the Reconstruction Fiu ance Corporation.’ It was planned list week for directors elected at a meet ing in Ytateigh by, representatives of the three banks, to 'meet again'%1 Raleigh Wednesday kand organize the Guaranty Bank, tart tde meeting was postponed until late in ther week. j Unless there is a hitch of some kind in the proceedings Sanford, along with a number of other towns, will probably soon have a new bank. The town has been without a bank for about four months and the citizens of the place are losing patience over tfce natter. ■ ■ The new Sank will have its home office in Greensboro,(and if it serves, without duplication,' all communities formerly served by the three banks, will have 29 "ifices in the State. Af- I er the new bank is formed a charter j will be issued, and Gumey P. Hood, State Banking Commissioner, said he thought the new bank should be in >pe ration before the end of July. "The representatives of the old banks the stock of the banks in. the meeting yesterday, will serve aa directors in the liquidation for these institutions, low in the hands of liquidating agents if the State Banking Department. As I soon as thie new bank, is set up and egal procedure complied with, the li luidating agents will turn over the >anks to the new boards. Their first ask will be in providing, the much iiscussed 20 per qeiit distribution to iepositors, which is not guaranteed inder thie new bank plan... | The boards will also vote the stock >f each old bank in thie' new bank, the hree closed banks putting up fnun heir best assets;. $90O$G<L of the $1, >00,000 capital and suqdu’s. j At a meeting held in Raleigh last week Kenneth C. Royal, who has been imployed in; the-yebigahization move- J nent, was .elected chairman of the Heating and J. C. Leigh, of Aberdeen,' ■epresenting stockholders of the Page ryust Company, was, named secretary. Gurney P. Hood; State Commission nr of Banks, addressed the meeting uid said that stock assessments cob ected from .the. three, old banks had ilimbed near the million dollar mark, I issurin^r success of the plan unless stopped by court injunction. i A 20 per cent cash,dividend will be' paid depositors of the three old insti-' aitions when the urbanization is com pleted and the balance due will go through regular process of liquidation. The directors will elect a board of iirectors of the new bank to serve! mtil the first annual; stockholders’ meeting, select the name and home jffice of the bank. ' LEGION MEETING TTie Lee Post No. 18, American Le t'on, will meet Friday night, 7th.,-at i o’clock for the purpose of electing! >fficera for the coming year and the transaction of other business that may some up1 for consideration. All Legion laices axe invited to be' present. Re freshments will be served. * I Club Hears Coleman Mr. Arch W. Coleman, former firs assistant ^postmaster-general of thi United Staten, who Is spending a few dbys here with his sister, Mrs. W. A Crabtree, was the principal speake: at the meeting of the Rotary Club a: the Wilrik Hotel Tuesday at luncheon Mr. Coleman used. as the subject 01 his address “International Relations.’ He made a most interesting talk or this great question that is now upper most in the minds of the people oi this apd other countries. ■ i—-—:— PROMINENT CITIZEN DIES AT HOME HERE K, J. .Yates Dies Here Monday . Morning After 79 years 'sfe - r A§ Good Citizen. -jp Sunday morning, July 2nd., at twc o’ilock, Robert Joseph Yates pa|sed away at his home on Mclver streei with his entire family at the bedsiue He had been in deciding health mor< than a year. Mr. Yates was born ii Chatham county about ' seventy-niru years ago, the son' of Mr. and Mrs Lucian B. Yates and: a nephew of th< late Matthew T. Yates, who gave him self to Baptist Mission work in China In 1882 Mr. Yates was.-happily mar ried to Miss Sarah Ellen Thontas ol Chatham County, who survives witl the following sons: E. E. Yates, ol Spencer; and E. M. Yates, of Rich mond,” Ya.; three daughters:.Mrs. C. P. Farrell, of Leesburg, Fla.; Misses Luna and Katie Yates, off Sanford; and two grand children, ' Carl Yates Farrell,, of Golden, Colorado; and Ro bert Francis, Farrell, of Leesburg, Fla.; two brothers, W. S. Yates, oi T.r.YateSiYfcajf? riSviHe; two slaters, Mrs. W. R. May nard, of Durham, and Mrs. C. C Tilly, of Chapel Hill. Another brother the late M. T. Yates, died recently. Mr. and Mrs. Yates celebrated theii BOth wedding anniversary last year Forty years they lived at Merry Oaks where Mr. Yates engaged in farming and merchandising, later in banking For many years he was postmaster there. On coming to Sanford nn< years ago to make his home, Mr, Yates opened a store. Then he became a justice of the peace until his health failed. Mr, Yates whs a soldier of the Cross and took time to be holy, iden tified himself with the Baptist church early in life and was faithful and loyal to its precepts. He readily iden tified himself with community inter ests that stood for edification. He has left a priceless legacy to his family in his emexplary life. He was a-Mason and this order sad charge of the fun eral. The following Masons acting as pall bearers: T. S, Cross, J. B. In bram, Talmadge Smith, O, P. Make peace, A. H. Mclver, F. P. Strong, H. M. Jackson and G. G. Dorsett. The funeral- services were conducted by Mr. Yates’ pastor, Rev. Frank C. Hawkins, of the First Baptist church. Most fitting were the Psalms used, 1st and 28rd. The Lord Is My Shepherd, bespeaking a relationship of Mr. Yates to his Heavenly Father. The prayer was lead by a close friend of the family, Rev. Coy Muckle, president of Wingate College. The flowers were beautiful witnesses of the esteem of friends. The Fidelis class had charge of these. Miss Anna Rogers played “How Firm a Foundation” and the acccm panifent to a quartette, . "Q* Faith That Will Not Shrink,” sung by Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Brooks, Mrs. Wall and Mr. Leo Pendergrass. Mrs. H. C- Rob erts was pianist for a duet, “O, Morn ing Land,” surtg by Mrs. W. H. White and Leo Pendergrass. Miss Rogers (Continued On Page Six.) LOCAL YOUNG DEMOCRATS SEND GROUP CONVENTION UNINSTRUCTED ON REPEAL The Lee County Young Democratic 3iub at a meeting here last Monday tight after an animated discussion de eded to send a delegation to the State Convention of Young Democrats which will be held at Wrightsville Beach next Saturday, uninstructed as to the rote <m the question of repeal of the ISth Amendment. Some favored send ng a delegation instructed for repeal, iut this motion failed to carry. ; The. meeting Was addressed by Sens', tor T. S. Cross and W. R. Williams. Senator Cross discussed briefly some of the measure^ that came up fit the' last General Assembly and told • how many of the proteins were solved. -• ,1. £ys*£? Hr. Williams, who was a delegate from this State to the Democratic National Convention, which met in Chicago'last summer and nominated the man who" ia now guid'ng the ship of state from the White House’ in Washington, gave his impressions of the convention and how President Roosevelt Was nominated. Roosevelt was mot his first choice, but he is now glad that he was nominated. He is opposed to tying the hahda of a dele gation sent to a political convention. The following delegates were elect ed to the convention at WrightsviUe Misses Chai#)tte Chaffin and Ma< Oliver, Mra. W. T. Dowd, C. H. Crab tree, E. C. York and W. T. Dowd; i 'three sessions OF COUNTY COURT held this week ■■ . - Unusually Busy Week For Judge As' Court Is Called Three i Times On Docket. ;/s PROHIBITION IN JLIMELIGHT Tramway Boys GajnJDismiasal After Juidge Goes Through- i, ^ Evidence In Caie. t* Recorder’s Court held sway three different days last week iti disposing of a heavy docket. The already report ed Jonesboro-Trmaway fracas finally 1 ended in a dismissal of charges ! against the Tramway boy* At the | conclusion 4of the* State’S'; ^ case and before the Tramway defendant*/had their inning, some of the appear ed 3to/ face a'serious situat®^ Jlbwf; eyeltafter listening to the defShdants’ aide for a whole day, the Oitirt seed ed satisfied that no crime** had been, committed and dismissed 'Hie whole I affair, and ordered that yrimjases be not allowed to prove’their attendance. *■ ;Other cases 'tried last wa$c were: ' P. Thomas, of the Broadway section, was given three months ahd fine and costs, suspended bit payment . of the latter, on a cparjge of | of a quart of bootleg whig Dannie ' Buchanan, lo^jg'colored^ youth, was charged with theft a number of chickens fromp- the hen roost of Mrs. Chas. Lilly, Uyhlg a thq f Groce settlement. .Mrs. Ralph Crocs v#as the •pitedpal. witnealr^gaiirtp Buchanan, and testified thaffihile at home a few days” before thecal her. ' attention was attracted to a car pass ing her home andthe sudden stopping. of it within a few hundred tfeet; in. fact, it stopped so Suddenly that she thought it had turned Overhand went to a window to see just yhat was * happening; She then saw BiuChanan (jq? into the woods and come out with1'* number of hens, theijolor of whlch she .could identify, andafter which he drove away. Some of the hens; were fbjmd srib" a local chicken dealer aiid fied^by Mrs. the charge against him be dismissed. The court found h!m guilty and sen tenced him to 18 months on the roads. He gave notice of appeal to the Sii perior Court. . Paul James, youSg white man from Swann Station, was convicted of tem porary larceny of an automobile, the property of Miss Margaret McLeod, of Broadway, court records disclosed the fact that James was under suspended sentence, one of the conditions of suspension being that he refrain from violat on of any law of the state. Hire former sentence was put into effect and James sent to the roads for a stretch of nine months. ; I W. C. LaFrage gained a dismissal of a charge of jumping his hoard biH, Mrs. Lottie Sanders, of Lemon Springs being the complaining witness. | Willie Gray Buie, charged with as sault upon his wife with 'a deadly weapon, and other charges, was held in jail, in default of a $2,000 bond, for appearance at the July term of the criminal court. ' . j A number of cases were quickly dig ' posed of at the Wednesday morning session of this week’s work. Tuesday being a holiday, no session was held. The first case called was that uf the State against William May charged with assault with a deadly weapon ' upon Ingram Cotton. Mr. Hoyle, ap pearing for May, requested a continu ance, and the case went over the Cal endar -to August 8th. j Hasty Thomas, Jonesooro you\\, was in court charged with'possession and transfportation, in one warrant, land with reckless driving and operat ing a car under the influence of some intoxicant in another. Was found guil ty of possession and of reckless driv ing and sent to the roads for *three months. ■■ - | Jerry Douglass, colored, was aent to the roads for four months ora a conviction of .helping operate a distil lery. Jerry claimed he was just pass ing by the place and got caught. De puty Taylor, of the Broadway section, captured Douglass with little effort. Taylor testified that he was looking for a still and shortly after sighting it Douglass left it and Walked to within a few feet of him and sat down to attend one of nature’s demands, and while thus engaged it was an easy mat tor to arrest him. Taylor further tesH fied% that a second man took to his heels when he saw what had happened toils partner. - |' Letta Cotton, local barber,’ faced the coart on a charge of letting Jiiasty Thomas have half a gallon of home brew last Saturday night. Cotton, in experienced in court, sat tout* when offered opportunity to gd upon the stand in denial of Thomas’ charges and the court directed a verdit of guilty. He later requested that he be , allowed to present his case, and the case was re-opened an4 thne given 1 him |to get ready. . '•CsV' ’ . .. . . :.. ; ■; - SSSSft: 3 PROPERTY OF WAKEFIELD; START WORK What is' known as the North Caro* lina Coal Mining Corporation which was recently organized. has taken over and Will operate the Wakefield coal property at Haw.Branch station, two and one half miles above Carboonton, in Moore county, litis mine has heed operated by O. A. Wakefield in a limited way for i^ie. past two years; Much of the coal taken out -of the mine has'been sold1 here . in Sanford. It is found to be bituminons coal. It is a soft free burning coal and is good for heaters and furnaces; Mr*#/#. Wdliams/ who; is connected with . the company, and who Kas; been* on the field for some time, says it is equal to the best free burning coal taken from the mines in the doai fiekls of Pennsylvania and other, coal beating 8taths>*jSr,:..Wh. A. Kajrat.'jM. Ihng Beach. Dal, is coimected wifh the hew company. Both these gehtlcmen are expert painers and have had long ex perience in handling coal in the coal fields of Pennsylvania arid otter Northern states. -~ A sloping shaft ids been sunk to a depth of 500 feet and a 32-irich vein of high grade coal has been tapped; Mr. D. B. Teague, who ; visited the mine the first of the week brought a sample of the coal -to Sanford. It look ed to be A fine grade of coal. Some mining machinery has been installed at the miu^and aSme 10 or 12 miners are miriing a limited amount °f eoal. Other modem machinery will be added and the operating force in-j creased to 50 oiK more/ 'Jfliis mine is! near the line of the Norfolk Southern i Railway and if looks as if it will"1 ; be worked on a large Scale in the near future; The principal offices of the company are in Sanfonf'ftis 16 miles ,fr0na Sanford to the mine which is reached by a griod rtjpdT/K ‘ - i Farmers Signing *E. 0. McMahan, County'De^ moft^tration1 Ageijt, and • his helpers ha^c been busy, all the week canvass ing lie county and giving' the farm ers an opportunity to. sign up for ij. reduction of the cotton acreage. They have secured-the signatures of 162 fanners up to this date and the sign-' up amounts to 420 acres. Mr. 'JHc iMahan tells The Express that he bias visitedf 'a number of farmers who re fused to sign on the dotted line, for some-yeason changed their minds iatei; and signed, the contract. He thinks the. required acreage to put the th ug over, in Lee county will be signed for by the farmers. ^ ' u i ' /.> The stock of the Baldwin Bargain Store was moved from the old stand .which Mr. Baldwin has occupied for the past two or three years on Steele street to the stand formerly occupied by Patterson on the same street this week1 and Mr. Baldwin and his sales ladies are now busy placing the goods and putting the store in order, The Express carries an advertisement for\ Mr. Baldwin this week. It will pay you to look it over, see what he has to offer the trading public, ju^d call and examine his stock. His new stand 1 is only a few doors from the old stand on the same side of the street. Lee Hospital Items His many friends will be pleased to learn that Woodrow Seymour is con valescing nicely after an operation Tor appendicitis on Tuesday. The Hospital Auxiliary will meet on Tuesday afternoon in the solarium at 3:30 o’clock. A full attendance of members is urged. Miss Catherine Judd is Visiting her' sister, Miss Mary Lynn Judd, in Ala bama. _ Mrs. D. D. Riddle, who underwent a major operation last week, is rapid- * ly improving. ( -* Mrs. Frank Brinn has returned home much improved. * Mr. Raymond Gregson is recuper&t ring riicely after an operation for ap-*1 pendicitis. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Campbell, of, Greenville, are visiting Mrs. Bessie Buchanan. Mrs. Nolnan Prevatt, Miss Anna Rogers, Messrs. Fred Ray and Morris Lazarus spent the Fourth at Myrtle Beach. Tuesday was the coldest Fourth of July ever experienced in Sanford by the oldest inhabitants. There was a j sudden drop in the temperature fljon- j day afternoon. At noon people were [ Sheltering with the terrible July heat ! and the mercury in the thermometer j stood 97 to 98. By seven o’clock it had dropped down 39 to 40 degrees and stood at 60 to 70. In order to keep ; [comfortable some of the people of the town built fires in their homes*. The Fourth opened1 up clear and bright*. but a chilling wind made it Uncom- J fortjable in the open. Many of' the stores and other places of business re mained closed for the day, while oth ers closed at the noon hour. As there Was no program put on for celebra tion of the day, the day was quietly [spent by the people of Sanford. i JOWANJANS MEET j AT ST. ANDREWS V. Z 7,r.Ei,j$y» A Real Feast With St. Andrews; V 1 - V . Hear McMahan. • The Kiwanjs Club Was served lun~' cheon.at St. Andrews Presbyterian' church, near Lemon Springs, last Fri day evening by the ladies of the <*Prch- phe" rain 'inteftermpwith the} attendance of the chib. Those who tailed to attend missed one of the greatest feasts *the club '-has , enjoyed-' history. A£t§r alidad appeased their hunger it was found tnat they:! had hardly made a dent in the sum-' ptuous feast that was? fanti '•Je/vre them-. community. At the conclusion of supper all as sembled in the auditorium of the church and enjoyed a program of mu se. This was followed by a talk by County Demonstration Agent E. O. McMahan on the farmers reducing their acreage in cotton to simulate the price. He explained the workings of the plan of procedure in plowing up the cotton. Next Mr. D. B. Teague made a most interesting and instruc tive talk on the “Emergency Farm Loan Act.” A synopsis of his talk ap peared in The Express last week. It is regretted that more farmers were not present to hear these two talks. We shall have more to say about our trip to the St. Andrews section in the | next issue of The Express. . 1 Drug Store Moves jj The Thomas Drug Company moved ' from the stand which it occupied for ■ several years on Wicker street to the I building formerly occupied by the 1 United Bank and Trust Company on 1 Steele Street this week and Mr. Tho mas and his clerks have been busy for 1 the past two or three days putting 1 things in the new store in order. Their | : friends and customers are invited to 1 call and see the new drug store and 1 make a note of where to go wheh they 1 wish to select from a stock of up-to- ' date goods kept in a first class drug 1 store. Mr. Thomas has been in the' drug business for a number of years i and is well known to the people of i Sanford and this section. 1 Mr. and Mrs. Graham Denton visit- . hd Mrs. Denton’s grand mother, Mrs. i T. J. Bland, Sunday. They were on ': their way from Raleigh to Asheville i where they are to make their future 1 home. , Misses Mae and Virginia Gilmore, < who were here visiting friends, have ■ returned to their home at Olney, Md. J HE ATEDDISC USSION f,i OF TAX HEARD AT , JVfERCftANTS I^feEt $||yH . . : ^■ Merchants of^Towji Showing Ire : ,’;pv«r.Ne^ General Sales' *£■*,^ : ‘ Tax Evefy Day, v TAX SCHEDULE IS LISTED yu'»--,.«?.■ ; i {■ .. . .MJ>f ■ : ',. A • large number of the merchants. ' * of Saiford and Jonesboro gathered in' ^9 the Wilrik Hotel, last Thursday night for .g lengthy and some times heated ■ discussion of the,new 'sales tax law, . which went into effect Saturday,; ' Those who voiced opinions, andjtltiy* ,'v were nunwrous, w^ere ^ef practicaliyv' ' one accord fthat the tak must b'0*'pg£^jr ed on to the consumer, that'fo^ a % merchant to try to absorb^-.'thS' fax.;. . . ; would Be cutting his business. throat.) . It was agreed* that a, definite Schedule, should be adop^d and. followed 4 merchants as nearly as possible. The ; meeting was presided over by A.'.K. Miller, of the Sanford Merchants’ ikSiji sociation. « ' , ' , , (. After discussing the piatter frogip every angle it appeared < fiiat ^.v&ipS .-d*’;], . . were going, to pass.the. tax on irohsiinjer in' spijig of the items. ' Alti.j& iolt that • the-tmisumers should knotf ; i-?, ;hey are paying th% tax and thafthef i* ’ arice of the merchandise they buy.;. '' . s h%h&r because, of the tax. Pinner f ' yas served during <the meeting, ‘ ’" SiS Tljere,,arei!oni,y p articles* .exempt Irbia the tax, these being: meat, lard,;;'. ilogr, sug^r, coffee, salt, molasses, - n^k and corn meal.’ All other'item® ' • ‘ iriir have lo carry the tax, which )e applied' Ipcally according ,to .the.- ., ''1 ' idUoWing schedule: from 1c to 14c, no • ajcj .Vs® $3c, 1c; a<c to 66c, 2c; 67^ Q, WGy ♦I.OMO W,'OCt-Ull ItPfflS OF bills of goods above $2 the tax will be figured at 3 per cent, with the frac tion of a cent, if less than a half, ba ng allowed the customer. The schedule to be followed by the iOc stores is different from the sche lule-for other types of merchandise. 1 ttieir tax bejgins at 10c and is sche luled as follows: 1c to Or, tax free; Oc to 33c, lc; 34c to 66c, 2c; 67c to .1, 3c. W th each 10c purchase the :ustomer will be given two coupons " mtitling him to two 10c purchases on ’ vhich the tax is paid with the coupons. ;■ TTie merchants passed resolutions lealing with the sales tax and the par icipatlon of the merchants in politics, is follows; “The Sanford Merchants Associa- J ion hereby goes on record as favoring he entry of merchants into politics 0 the end that representatives will 'e elected to the next legislative who rill do the bidd'ing of the per/,!e as a riiole. To this end, we pledge oursel ■es to closest scrutiny and examina ion of all candidates, their records, ind their attitude in matters of taxa ion particularly, I “FURTHER, this association goes in record as criticising the attitude of " Governor Ehringhaus, who, after speci * ically stating in his campaign he was , inutterabiy opposed to any form of ales tax, got up out of a sick bed, ' •leaded for a sales tax, and threw the ' 'V weight of his office in favor of such - 1 tax, : '' “FURTHER, we criticise Commis--’- ^ loner Maxwell, who ran for gover- ' lor on a non-sales tax platform, and hen, during the legislature, recom nended that a general sales tax be •Copied because in his opinion a com nodity tax would not raise the neces ary revenue; and, further, for so rui ng on the mandatory passing-on of he tax, in direct violation of the sta ute,, that it is possible for some mer hants to include the tax in the ad ertised price of goods which is un air to 'the small merchant.’’ JONESBORO WIT INFORMS DOCTOR AS TO ABILITY TO TAKE CARE OF WORM CURE Years ago a number of children in . Jonesboro were bitten by a dog afflict t 3d with hydrophobia. Their parenfs liadl them sent to Raleigh to bo treat- 1 sd by Hr. Shore, who was connected with the State Board of Health and treated all hydrophobia patients sent to Raleigh for treatment. Back in' those days the serum was not sent, out to various sections oi the State to be administered by doctors. It was necessary for all patients to go to Rale:gh to take the cure. Many of the older readers of The I Express will recall that years ago a hookworm, campaign was put on in ( the State by; Dr. Shore and other doc* j ors, and 'it— was claimed that much ?ood was accomplishd by restoring children to health who were afflicted •vith the disease. Dr. Shore Wanted to examine every child that Came under lis observation. While treat ng the Jonesboro children for hydrophobia he examined them for hookworm. He found/ that Jones McFarland's child had hookworm. He wrote and told Mp. McFarland of the discovery that he had made and wanted instructions as fc> what course to pursue. ** -r V McFarlland wrote on the margin of the letter and returned" it saying: “You get the damn dbg out of my boy and I will take care of the worms.’* t
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