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EDITORIAL WILL THE COUNT* * COMMISSIONERS ESTBALISH A COUNTY COURT? We hear the question asked, “Will Lee qounty have a county court after the^ present Recorder’s court is abol ished ? It will be recalled that the board df* commissioners passed a res olution some months ago abolishing the recorder’s court about the first ofr December. We believe that a resolution also passed giving the "board authority1 to create a county court to take the place of the record era court if they] saw fit. In other words they will create a county '* court if the amount of crime commit ted in the county will justify it. There is xery little difference in a county court and a recorder's court. The judge has about the same juris diction i'.-.x-r. >• ■» > ■ We fail tb-see how the eounty can very well gist along without a coun ty court of seme kind. There seems to be enough business to justify it. The jail is often pretty well crowded with prisoners awaiting trial at the Recorders cotirt. Should a county court hot be establshed it will prob ably be necessary to call for one or two more terms of superior court. It would be a pretty costly business to hold prisoners in jail for several weeks or months pending court trial. The figures are not at our command showing the annual cost of holding a recorders court We know the cost of holding a term of superior court is pretty heavy. It would not be so costly to the tax payers if the machinery of the court would func tion as it should. Judge McPherson is holding last term of recorder’s court week. This court was called to clean up all itigations that had not been disposed of before making re port to the county commissoners at their meeting next Monday. In the event that a county court is created the commissioners will appoint some member of the Lee county bar to serve in the capacity of judge. We have heard no one mentioned for the place and it is not known who will get the. appointment. Uni.i - PUNISH THE DRUNKEN AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS. If every judge in the country would take the vigorous stand taken by Judge Rosseau, of this state there would be less wounding and killing of people in automobile wrecks on highways by people while under the influence of whiskey. He made a very positive statement in court at Albemarle a few days ago to the ef fect that no man convicted on a j charge of driving an automobile while drunk can pay a fine and walk out pf his court a free man. This 1 probably means that the man so con 1 yicted in his court would go to jail or the roads The man Who will get! drunk and menace the lives of other people by driving on the highways deserves to wear the stripes of a con vict. He is more dangerous than a mad dpg, and should have the limit of the law This may be putting it strong, but it looks like it is only way to break up ths business whch is more dangerous than war itself if we are to judge by the statistics that are published annually giving1 the number of people killed or j wounded in wrecks by people while' under the influence of liquor. There is no excuse for a n?an to be guilty of such conduct. His own life is in danger as well as the lives of others who are not guilty of violating the traffic laws. During the past year or two a number of people have lost, their lives within a few miles of Sanford by drunken automobile driv ers. Some of these were killed dur ing the past few months. Discuss ing this subject, the L&urinburg Ex. change makes the following timely comment: aiic uiuii&cii unver la just a very i . troublesome phase of the liquor prob lem, which is as much of a problem today as it has ever been In the opin I ion of some, the law may not pre.. j eunie to tell a man what he may or j may not put into his stomach, what he may eat or drink. But the law j can and must tell him that if he drinks he cannot drive a automobile on the highways. And the law hav_ ing told him that must deal sternly with him who violates its injunctions “The utterly appalling death rate on the public highways is a national disgrace. To what extent the drunk en driver is responsible for the most delorable conditions, we do not ( know. But as Judge RoBseau right ly contends, he is a potential killer. He may be more deadly than a mach ine gun battery and a half dozen per eons ma die or suffer serious physi cal and mental injury because he takes a drink and essays to drive en automobile. Stop him, imprison Wm, employ the moat severe disci pline known td the law %nd the fourts to curb such evil,” *•- l. * aUlVigh school text books PROPOSED FOR RENTAL LIST. It will be of interest to the school people of Sanford and Lee county to know that the State high school text book Commission met in Raleigh last week, where a listing of texts in all high school subjects not previously listed was completed with a view to having all texts available for rental next fall. The new listing includes , .mathematics, Latin, industrial arts and music. I “The listing of texts for the new course of study in business repre sents perhaps the greatest single . step North Carolina has yet made toward realizing a fuller adaptation o!f the course of study to meet the business needs of our state youth. Such subjects as salesmanship prin ciples, retailing, store management, business organization, our financial systm, advertising, business, law, secretarial training, business corres pondence, and In addition to the usu al course of typing and shorthand, bookkeeping and business arithmetic will hereafter be offered in our high scliooVsJw^iere Ja 'sufficient number of teachers,* canT bp made available. Moreoyer the ^exo^llfcnt course tak ing t&e plaice of Algebra for many students is called ‘General Business’ which is an Introductory course of business information needed by ev eryone .whether he enters business as a vocation or not. This elementary course is followed by an advanced course later on in high school pro gram and covers considerable edu cation so greatly needed. MRS. FRANCES COX. Mrs. Frances Cox, 75, died at her home, Route 4 Jonesbor,o Wednes day, November 25 th, after a long illness. Mrs.. Cox, member of a well known Lee county family was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Hunt. She was long a member of the Christian church. Surviving are four children, Mrs. Ben Johnson, Mrs C O Spack, Miss Mary Cox, and T E. Cox, Route 4 Jonesboro; twp sisters, Mrs W. I. B nooks, and Mrs.. J J Edwards, R 4, Jonesboro, and 10 grandchildren, Funeral services were held at the home at 10:0 A M. Thursday, Inter ment was in the Hunt family ceme tery, near Jonesboro. NOTHING CAN STOP AMERICA. All indications point to 1937 as a year of still further progress in the rise of the nation out of the depres sion. Employment in manufactur ing industries has risen steadily in the past year and is likely to reach or surpass the 1929 levels in the near future—possibly in the coming month General unemployment has fallen sharply and many economists believe that pie census of the unemployed pow being planned by the Depart ment of Commerce will show two things: First, that those who are Without work and are seeldng work number less than 5J)00/)00; Second, that there is already an actual short age df skilled Labor in many trades, industries and communities. On this latter point no less an authority than Dr. Harold G. Moulton, head of the Brookings Institute, has already predicted that we shall have an actu al shortage of labor within the next five years if industrial production recovers to the 1929 limit. In othter words, the emergency phases of recovery $re past. The myth that we need such panaceas as the 30 hour week, federal fixing of manufacturing wages and hours and other arbitrary proposals emanating largely from professional labox lead ens, has been exploded. The above will hold good as far as Sanford is concerned. .In fact, there is now no such thing a^ p de pression in Sanford. All manufactur ing enterprises in the town are run., ning at full speed and all kinds of business give the town a prosperous outlook. It has been years since the future looked as bright along all lines as it does tdaoy. There is now not an empty business house of any kind on Steele, Wicker, Carthage, Moore, or Chatham streets. Less than 2 years ago almost half of the business housess on some of these streets were empty, and there was little prospect of their being occu.. = pied any time soon, but the reovery I has been marvelous. j The same thing can he said about dwellings in the residential sections of the town. We recall that just a few years ago dwellings in Sanford were torn down by the owners so as to keep from paying taxes on them. Thoy coud not be rented at any price. The owners found them a lia bility aa they had to pay taxes on the property. Now these dwellings would rent at a good price. This is one thing that shows what has been accomplished by the present admin istration in restoring the country to normal conditions A great change has not only boon wrought in San. ford, but it will hokl good in the our founding country. * I U. S. 1 Highway I Starts Campaign I For Safety I Organization Wants Four Uae ■ Roadway Entire Distance From ! Maine to Florida. Alarmed at the national increase in automobile fatalities and injuries and determined to make U. S. 1 a leader in a great safety movement, officials of the U. S No. 1 Highway Assocation met recently and resolved to make their highway the safest in America. This highway, America’s first all paved, North-South route and today the-only continuous Mainet-to-Fior ida road, has already taken steps in making its lanes safe It possess sea more three to four lane roads today than any other North.. South ’froute. With this wonderful background the association will open a campaign to make te entire route of extra lanes. The aim is four four..lane highways with a center spread of grass divid ing the lines olf traffic. It is the hope of the officials of the wide., awake U. S. No 1 Highway association to lesson the fact in creasing number of accidents along American highways. The associ ation has assumed the role as lead er in this humanitarian movement. The officials representing every state from Maine to Florida along U S. No 1, have already begun their job of getting public leaders inter ested in this safety movement. Sci entific studes have shown that extra lane, high speed highways are a leadin gimmediate solution to the problem. U. S. Highway Association con sists of members of civic and busi ness organizations in the point along the highway which runs through Bos ton, New York, Wasington,. Rich mond,Raleigh, Augusta, Jacksonville and Miami. The executive meeting was attended b^ association direct ors and state vie presidents. ^ SOIL ONSERVATION CROPS GROWN IN LEE COUNT\ .rs County Demnostration Agent, E , O McMahan states that a check uf on reports of our compliance sur veyors shows that the cotton produc ers of Lee Co grew 5123 acres of cotton in 1936 as compared with 5,350 in 1935. This was a decrease of 4.2 per cent of the county’s cot ton base The tobacco producers grew 4,727 acres of tobacco in 1936 as compared to 4,665 acres in 1935. This was an increase of 1.3 per cent and was 81.3 per cent of the county’s tobacco base Eight thousand, three hundred and .sixty nine acres of soil conserving crops ^ene grown in 1936 as compared %o 8,110 acres in 1935. This was an increase of 1.69 pep c*nt One thousand one hundred and twenty two farms were signed up to co-operate in the program last spring Of this number 948 or 84.r> per cent have complied and will re ceive payments They will receive approximately $63,000 for diverting cotton and tobacco acreage to soil conserving crops and about $5,000 for carrying out soil building prac tices. SEABOARD MILLS, INC. It was stated in this paper last week that D. C Lawrence and sun, D. C Lawrence, JrJ, had buugnt out the plant of the Seaboard Milling Company, which suspended opera., tions a few yeare ago, and \^ouid put the plant in operation at an early date. They have had the busi ness incorporated under the head, Seaboard Mills. The concern will do a general milling business with an authorized capital stock of $50,000, of which amount $300 has been sub scribed by D. C. Lawrence, Sr, and L C Lawrence, Sanford, and L C. Lawrence, Jr, Jacksonville, Fla. These gentlemen propose to begin ai once making repairs to - the plant and will put it in operation early in the new year. SANFORD TEAM WHIPS WHITEVILLE HIGH, l« 0 Sanford high school football team defeated Whitevilte’s eleven, 16_0, at Whiteville in a game that was an af ter math to the scoreless tie the two outfits played here two weeks ago. The first encounter was a semi-final contest in the Eastern Clafcs B title playoof,and following the deadlock Whiteville won a toss for the right to play Roanoke Rapids in the finals Suggs scored Sanford's first touch down in the First quarter, and Sey~ mour went over in the second quart, er for the second aix pointer. The final two points came near the close oif the game when a Whiteville man was tackled behind his own goal ilne for * safety. w Violators County Court Three State patrolmen Guarding the I Highway* 'ground Sanford— Driv Licenae Meat Violgt >rt to Lwt All the eAdiotiiti Si\urt;,y Judge McPherson Hu CUeu Slate J9M. Court moved up a peg | held forth Monday in. psual Tuesday session, ■son stated that this the reason that some l as to whether or not Jed to function on the | December. However, Iwaa finally settled in Jpourt until midnight, |ber 6th,that being the £r interpretations of ihe rosolution abolish. Recorder’® this week i stead of i Judge McP •was done question « his Court ] first day this, qu favor «tf Sunday,! zero hour t the :lawj ing the t More than$a dozen cases were heard Monday, and practically all defendants i^re charged with driv_ lng without % driver's license In two cases, bojs under 16 and with., out a licence* of course, accompan ied by their' fathers, answered to charges, '.^fafeach case the boy was turned over-to the juvenile court and their fatheR^nvicted of allowing a person to ^>«ate his car without a license. Ali traffic violators were left off with-'fthe costs, which, in each case, amounted to about $16 For the several days three patrolmen hfttrc ben guarding the roads around'Sanford on the lookout for petty traffic offenders. It is understood that this campaign h state wide, fend is intended to make more safe the state highways for the traveling public. This operating cars with defective brakes, no rear light, no reflector, one headlight, and Without drivers' license ,are all picked up and cited into court tc answer to whatever charge these patrolmen fin4 necessary to make Recorder's court willl be in session all this weekend on Saturday af. clearing up the l ’et, it will ad... journ eine jdie J-clge McPhersor has presided ivcr it since December , 1928, and has tried during that time over 1,300 .caiegs, with a low perceni age of low demand for Jury trials. Thu is a good record and shows thai Judge McPherson has ‘“been on the job” all through uiese years. His record as a judge speaks for itself. His host of friends wish him con tinued success in his profession. LEE COUNTY U. N C. ALUMNI INVITED TO CHAPEL HILL I Invitations have been extended a number of University of North Caro line . alumni in Lee County to attend ! the annual genera! alumni assembly which will be held in Chapel Hill, Dc cember 9th. The gathering marks the time of the annual business meeting of the University Alumni Associated, and representatives from various local alumni clubs and permanently org.. anized classes will attend In ad., dition to the regular items of busi ness the program will also include ons include D L St Clair, president; 1937.. 1939 appropriation request by President Frank P. Graham. Dr. Howard E Rondthaler, of Winston . Salem, is president of the University Alumni. University Alumni officers of Lee county who have been sent invitati ons include D L LSt Clair, president H M Jackson, vice president, and W E Horner, secretary. D B Teague, Sanford attorney, is chairman of the committee to make nominations for general alumni officers for 1937. Others from Lee county who have received invitations include J C Pitt man, J H Mclver, E L Gavin, A A F Seawell, Jr., Carl Thompson, and Dr. Lynn Mclver, all of Sanford. NEGRO EXONERATED BY CORONERS JURY A coroner’s jury summoned by Dr J F poster, Lee county coroner, to investigate the killing on Sunday night of Isiah Miller, 35, negro, who was shot by his brother in law, Shel ly Fuller, 25, Tuesday ordered Fuller released on a verdict of justifiable homicide. The killing occurred at the home of Fuller on Ihe fenr of M rs D F Harris, Jonesboro, located on Route 3 Sanford, where both negroes lived and according to the evidence offer ed Fuller shot Miller in self defense. The load from a shot gun entered his chest near the heart killing him instantly after Miller attacked him with a knife. Fuller voluntarily surrendered £o the offeers after the slaying. CHANGE IN SERVICE. The Sunday evening service ol the PresbytArin djurch which hat been held at 7:80, will now ha held at 8 P. II., beginning Sunday evening and will conttgja at that'hoar until •priM..•• C. C. COOPER DIES AS RESULT OF CAR WRECK Calvin Cooper, of this place, who was critically injured in an automo bile collision on Monday of last week at the intersecton of highways Cl and 62, nea<r the Guilford Randolph county line, died last Sunday at a Greensboro hospital, where he wa^ taken immediately after the sccl. cent He received a severe frontal fracture of the skull and never recor rd consciousness. Mr Cooper, who was born and reared in Randolph county, died at the age of 52 years He moved to this section years ago where<.*^"’;has since made his home He Was en gaged in the lumber business ' with Mr Harvey Hicker, who was alsW inv jured in the wreck in which " Mr Ceeper was killed, but is now improv ing and was able to return hota©-1' a few days ago. Mr Cooper, one of the countys best citzeris, WHT be sadly missed in the community in which he lived and especially 4**'Zfosrt Christian church of which he^afcf^tn active member He was a member .of the hoard of trustees of Deep River school and was always inter., ested in the many things that go tc build up a community. I Surviving are his widow, Mrs Fan nie Smith Cooper, one daughter, M;ss Margaret Cooper, of Reidsvilld* six sons, Lee, Roy. Paul, Louis, Wil liam and Joseph Cooper, all of R 5. I Sanford and Carl C Cooper, Jr., of J Sanford Several brothers and sis ters survive ! Funeral services were held Mon.. ! day afternoon at 3 o'clock from the Jones Chapel Methodist church .near Moncure, with the Rev J A Denton pastor, officiating Interment was made in the church cemetery. rihe large crowd that gathered for the services and the many beautiful flu ral designs that covered the grave indicated the high esteem in which, the deceased was held. - CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS | There are many beautiful dis plays of Christmas goods in the win dows of some of the stores bore, 'mo Chritsmas stock of goods are very at tractive, but it will be to your inter est to make .your purchase before thoy are'pfclred over; There, willtx a great rush here during the few days before Christmas, and the sales ladies and salesmen will be so rush ed that they will not be able to give each shopper the attention that tney would like to show. Going back to the decorations we j find that there are more kinds of de signs in the stores ana windows that we have never seen here before. The | decorations and lights of vario^ eel j ors give the town the appearance at (night of a fairyland. Some of the ■ merchants have not yet put in their decorations. When this is done it will add to the Christmas attractions of the business section of the town. HIGH COST OF MOTOR TAXES. Auto motive taxes paid by North Carolina vehicle owners average 314. per cent of their vehicles as compax ed with an average tax rate of 1.7 per cent on real estate and other property, it was estimated today by Paul Britt, chairman of the Lee coun ty Oil Dealers association. Pointing out that the average val ue of motor vehicles in this state is '$2.12,Mr. Britt sad that last year an I tomotive taxes averaged $66.63. At ! this rate, he added, the motorist pays for his vehicle in taxes in three i years and two months, whereas the owner of real and other proprty finds many years passing before his I tax bill equals the assessed value of I his property. He advocated repeal I of federal automotive taxes, and use of revenue from reasonable state gas line sales taxes and registration fees exclusively for highway financing. “Motorists of "this state on the aver age, pay $66.63 a year in special ad j which $10.98 represents the cost of I ditional motor vehicle taxes, of I federal motor taxes,” said Mr. Britt, i “These federal levies increase the motorists tax bill about 19.7 per cent. All in all this motor tax bili amounts to 31.4 per cent of the $212 lvalue of the average motor vehicle 1 In three years and two months the motorist will have paid for his motor vehicle over again in taxes! The national average of four years and ! seven months, but in the case of taxes on real and ether property 32 years pass before taxes are equiva lent to value. In this state the tax rate on real property is estimated at . 1.7 per cent. j The high cost of motor taxes in. dicates the necessity of being fair to the motorists, a*’ one of the state’s largest sources of revenue. Fair neess calls for reasonable state gaso * line sales taxes and registration fees, and use of the revenue- there .. from exclusively for highway fi nancing The motorist is paying for roads, and should have them. 1 Fairness also calls for repeal of the duplicate federal gasoline tax.” n_<D ffoiUit Mr T G Gunn, proprietor of the Gunn Veneer Works, gave a Thanks giving barbecue to 70 of his em ployees, a£ his plant last Thursday I The thing that made the occasion a happy one for them was the state, ment from him to the effect that he had increased their wages 10 per cent Mr Gunn has recovered from the depression and now has about all the business he can handle. ■ hr and Mrs Harvey Clayton and children, Harvey, Jr and Chas Mc_ Iver Clayton, of this state, spent the Thanksgiving season with Mrs Chas Watson and other relatives here. While here Mr Clayton had the mis_ fdrttaie to lose his Bu:ck car Two ybunft thieves while going to their home in Maine from Florida, drove up to the home of Mrs Watson last Saturday night and left an old car stolen at Southern Pines, and left in Mr Clayton's car After they had almost finished the trip, they werr arrested as suspects at Darien, Conn, by officers who upon making an in vestigation found that the car belong ed to Mr Clayton The car has been returned and the two thieves are in jail awaiting trial j Mr Carson Matthews, who has been employed at the Kelly gin, in this place, had the misfortune to lose his right hand in the gin Moi day morning while making some ad justments about the machinery He was wearing gloves at the time anu it seems that the glove on his right hand became entangled, drawing ins hand into the machinery, and before he could release it, is was so badly mangled that it had to be amputated below elbow at the Lee County Hos . pital Mr Matthews, who is a go. d man, is highly esteemed by a large "circle of friends who regret his mis fortune It seems that “1. ;tle“ Cur tis Kelly, who was ner ir Mat thews at the time the acc it occur red, saved Mr Matthews f im more serious injury by jerking him away from the mahinery Mr. A B Wicker can do other things besides faithfully performing his duty in preventing automobiles from being wrecked by c ..ng ir contact with trains at U.. .ossing near the Seaboard freig' ot. He has the reputation of b cne of the best hog raisers in i'i • section. We think he has proven in by two hogs he raised this year Something like a year ago he bought two Po land China pigs, paying $5 a piece for them. He killed these hogs last Monday and the combined weight of the two was 860 pounds Lf you can beat that, let us hear from you. We will be glad to hear from people in Lee county or this section who kill unusually large hogs during the sea son th^t is now on The one report ing the largest hog during the sea son will get this paper free of charge for one year As meat is ad vancing in price on the local market the farmers in. the surrounding county should be able to make s profit raising hogs. Mr T A Riddle, who has been en gaged in the mercantile business in Sanford for years, has moved hiS grocery business from one of tin rooms in the Smith building on Chat ham street, to the basement in the Lutterloh building on the corner of Chatham and Mclver streets The en trance to his new stand is on the Me Iver street side of the building Messrs Wilbur and Glenn Mclver, who were connected with the Lej Furinture Company, have organized the Mclver Furniture Company, and are now opening a new furniture store at the stand tformerly occupied by T A Riddle and Company. They are having the building overhauled and are now placing their stock of goods in the building The basement will be used as a storage room. Messrs Mclver are experienced in the furniture business and their friends wish them success in their new venture The customers and friends of Mr Riddle should call on him at his new stand FORMAL OPENING OF LEE COUNTY LIBRARY On Friday evening, at 8 o'clock there will be a formal opening of the Leo County Library given by the Library board which is composed of Mrs C M Reeves, chairman; Mrs W \V Robards. K K Semour, Rev A V Gibson, of Sanford Mrs S V Stevens, Broadway, and Miss Elva Bryan, of Jonesboro, and Miss Helen Rosser, librarian AH who are interested in the library are invited to attend 1 BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT Mr and Mrs Guy Matthews an nounce the birth of a daughter, Sun day, November 29th Mother and daughter are getting on nicely . tf*** ^ •» ■ « wm ' ^ Miaa Louise Long, student m FU»f* McDonald College, Bpen lipme Senator-Elect Pittman’s Road Bill He Has Drawn Up A Road M/e a sure Which Will Be Introduced in The State Senate Which Seems to Be Attracting Attention —State High way Commission Due For Some Shelling In commenting on this bill, Wade , H Lucas, who spins the political J pin wheel in the Raleigh Evening. Times, says: “Along with talk that the present State Highway and Public Works Commission is due for some shelling as well as some changing when Gov emor Clyde R Hoey and the mem bers of the 1937 General Assembly come to town next month, Senator elect J C Pittman, of Sanford, co.. I senator from the 13th Dictrict com posed of Lee, Chatham, and Wake, I is letting it be known that he has already drawn a bill to bring, as he | is wont to put it, the highway com. mission closer to the people as well is to provide for the election of the members of the commission by the people Into the Senate hopper Sen ator .elect Pittman says he will drop his bill early in January to provide for the members of the Council of State to serve as members. of the highway commission will probably other appointive members chosen by the Governor The popularly elected officials, however, under the Pittman bill will dominate the road policy as well as serve without dii . Iditional pay beyond that they draw j now The Senator. Elect says he •has talked with a good many people and the reaction has been favorable to his bill While here he diti not say whether he talkew with such couc.'l of state members as Chas M Johnson,, State Treasurer Thad Eure Secretary of State.elect Pub lic Instruction Superintendent Clyde Erwin and others who will re . main in their present position for an other four years Admitting the main purpose of his measure is the democratization of the highway commission, the Lee legislator elect has nothing personal^ against Highwayman Capua M Way1 nick, but he does not think the chairman should be called upon “approve his own actions” His bill further provides for the lieutenant governor who will be Chatham s W P Horton after January 7 or 8, to be chairman ex_.officio of the high way board and a full time secretary would be employed MB UNDERWOOD KILLS A DEER Mr and Mrs E M Underwood, Sr returned Sunday night from Branch vilte, S C where they spent Thanks, giving with Mr Underwood’s sister, Mrs Harry Byrd Mr Underwood spent Thanksgiving Day, his birth. <J«y—in the woods driving for deer with a party of hunters Two deers wre killed during the day, one of which was brought down by Mr Un derwood He shot the deer while he was coming straight toward him in the road As the deer moved off Mr Underwood shot him the second time Ater he ran a short distance in the woods he fell where the hunters found him This was the first deer killed by Mr Underwuod, although he has hunted for them a number of Mtt UlU I L KivLY FARM It was stated in these columns a few months ago that Mr Marvin C Reeves had in process of raising 300 young turkeys This is considered the biggest turkey farm anywhere in this part of the state In the early spring Mr Reeves bought 370 Out of the 370 he lost 70 This was a small loss, considering the fact turkeys are hard to raise Soon af ter they were hatched nut of the shell they cost Mr Reeves 35c apiece Mr Reeves sold a few of these tur keys for Thanksgiving He is off ering the others for the Christmas holidays The turkey crop is said to be good in this section this season It is estimated that there were 20,000,000 turkeys raised in this country this year There were 15,_ 00,000 last year Turkeys at 25c a pound :.s as cheap, if not cheaper than the price of various kinds of meat at this time PLAN CLINIC FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN 1 he local Rotary C iub will sponsor a special orthopedic clinic for exam j ination and treatment of under priv ■ ileged crippled children Wednesday, December 9th at Lee County Hospit al Dr F L Knight, presdent of the club, announces the clinic will be in charge of I>r W F Cole, Greensboro orthopedic specialist No charge Will be made and necessary materi tUH for treatments will be furnished \ hjf the Rotary Club These elinica ; w*U be held the second Wednesday 1 flkck month if attendance wav
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