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most people in asheboro and . RANDOLPH COUNTY READ THE COURIER—IT LEADS *. .. 5,021 PEOPLE WELCOME YOU TO ASHEBORO, “CENTER OF nJ CAROLINA” r fjgJED WEEKLY vOl.IMfc LY PRINCIPLB, NOT MEN Aahcboro. N. C, Tlwfty, May 21. 1931.~ $2.00 A YEAR IN ADV»CE nBIki ER 21 Working Hard On Plans For Taking Charge Of Roads jfew State Highway Commission Said To Be Busy Mapping Method Of Procedure. Is Big Problem And A Large Force Of Men And Materials Will Be Handled— To Work Convicts. A matter of public concern and which is causing a great deal of speculation is the taking over of coun ty road systems- by the new State Highway Commission on July 1st. Folks are concerned over whether pre sent county organizations will be held intact for a while, or whether they will be discontinued immediately the commission takes the roads. little is known except that county highway machinery in the several counties of the state is being inven toried now on behalf of the new com mission, and such as of it that will pass state inspection and standards will be appraised and paid for by the state; that which the state does not want and does not need will remain in possession of the counties. News comes from Raleigh that of ficials and employes of the new State Highway Commission are hard at work on plans' for taking over the county road systems. Leslie R. Ames, chief engineer, is directing the efforts so far of the checking up on the county systems. The new chairman, E. B. Jeffress, will not assume active duties until the legislature adjourns, he being'a member from Guilford county. mm. However, Mr. Jeffress js keeping an eye on the work going on, and de clared in Raleigh Tuesday that efforts of the commission will be dir ected to “getting the dollars on the roads,” and overhead expenses will be reduced as much as possible. While it is realized that the commis sion will have to maintain a large force, and probably will have district of to offices in various sections State every effort will be prune the manpower and expense so that more money may be used for construction woriL The commission the _than are cared for State prison system under Boss Fou. The prisoners will he humanely treated, well-fed and comfortably housed, it is stated, but there will be no coddling. A full day’s work will be expected and required of every ablebodied prisoner. Definite an nouncement of the plan under which the prisoners are to be handled will be made sometime prior to July first, after the commissioners have had an opportunity to study this problem from every angle. The highway commission will have on hand July let accurate maps of all county highway systems, reach ing a total of about 56,000 miles. To this may be added the approximately 10,000 miles of the present state sys tem. About seven, million dollars worth of Toad construction now under way will be pushed to completion, and following this, it is said, that certain roads will be built which the federal government pays half the cost, thus finishing out 4,500 miles of federal aid road in the state. Equipment Arrives For National Guard Target Range Here Target frames, targets and other -:>fliMHial for the rifle range for the local military unit, 8rd Bn. Hq. Co., 120th Infantry, North Carolina Na tional Guard, have arrived, end are in process of installation fids week. C. B. Wood, local contractor, has charge of the work. The range is located near the mineral spring on the W. F. Redding land, just off highway 90 to the west, and about two and a half miles from the town. Shots will be fired into one of the several moun tains in that section, eliminating the construction of artificial butts and mulring the range absolutely safe. The local military company, which will go to Camy Glenn for summer training ' on or about July 4th, expects to have the range in readiness and to do some practice firing on it before camp time. This will be of especial benefit to members of the company when they go on the rifle range for record fire at Camp Glenn. „ ; ;.;i' ' WORK ON hospital To Build Large Addition To Plant Of Asheboro Hosiery Mill At Early Date An announcement of particular in terest was made the first of the week by G. C. Cranford, head of the Ashe boro Hosiery Mills, relative the con struction of an addition to present large plant of the enterprise. Ac cording to Mr. Cranford, contract will be let within ten days for construc tion of a building sixty feet and eight inches in width by 186 feet in length, adjoining the east aide of the pre sent Asheboro Hosiery Mills building. The new structure will be of brick and of the latest type approved mill construction, two stories in height with basement. J. W. Maxwell, Jr., of Raleigh, Is the architect. This addition will double the floor space of the Asheboro Hosiery Mills, and the installation of 200 knitting machines already on hand, will raise total number of machines in the mill to 822. Ample room will be provided in the new structure for addition of ether machines up to a total of 1,000, which Mr. Cranford hopes to have in operation at no distant date. The new addition will furnish em ployment for 100 more employes, and will increase the total number of em ployes of the Asheboro mill to from 475 to 500. The present mill has been in full time operation for several months, manufacturing ladies silk New Dry Cleaning Business Is Opened In City This Week Building Constructed By Jones To Be Occupied By Service Dry Cleaners. Construction has been completed on the building for the new Service Dry Cleaning Company, located on the south side of Trade street, and the business opened. The building, which is 24 feet by 50 feet in .size, is owned by H. C. Jones, and is situated on the lot back of Wagger’s store, and adjoining the back portion of Jones’ store, fronting on Trade. Machinery of the latest type has been installed. The new business is owned by Mrs. G. S. Brown and Edgar a Bruton, and _engaged in the dry cleaning business in Asheboro Include Fox Dry Cleaning Company, which is erecting a new building on Wainman Avenue and adding a laundry department, and the Asheboro Dry Cleaning Company, another well-established business on North Fayetteville street. It is also likely that a dry cleaning plant will be installed in the recent addition to the Asheboro Laundry, on Salisbury street. This building is owned by Arthur Boss and the business operated by Charlie Harrelson. The recent ad dition Is 30 by 45 feet and of brick construction. SOPHIA, ROUTE 1, NEWS Township Sunday School Convention At Early Date. Sophia, Itt 1, May 19.—There were 142 present for Sunday school at Marl joro last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. A E. Loflin spent Tuesday in pigh Point. Among the visitors at Mrs. Eliza Edward’s last Sunday we» Mr. and Mrs. Amos Davis and daughter, Irene, Misses Annie and Etta Cox and Mrs. A. E. Loflin and daughters, Treva and'Iris. Mr. and Mm. Wesley Cox, of Lynehburg, Vo., spent several days the past week with relatives in this tection. Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Brookshire spent Saturday hi High Point. Mr. and Mrs. Badger Griffin, Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Leaptrope and two laughters, Emily and Sylva, Misses I'era Spencer and Lucile Cauble; Misses Annie and Margaret Griffin and Mr. John Griffin, all of High Point, visited Mrs. Eliza Edwards the second Sunday. Misses Ruth and Glenna Farlow, >f * Greensboro, visited Miss Nannie Farlow Saturday afternoon. Mr. Clay Spencer, of near here, .is a jatient in the High Point hospital where he recently underwent an op eration for appendicitis. Mr. Harvey Davis spent Sunday vith his sister, Mrs. Sybil Barker, vho is ill at her home near Friends 11a, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Farlow and imily and Mr. and Mire. Rosooe Far >w spent Sunday at Elmer Beeson’S. New Market township Sunday jol convention will be held • at rlboro the first Sunday in June. Committees Appointed ’ By New Administration Various committees sently in the town hosiery. The latest in hosiery, by the way, made by this plant is fish net hosiery, which is said to be the very latest style for mi-lady’s legs. This hosiery resembles the meshes of a fish net i|i appearance, but is of silk and very durable. This style is by no means .'the output of the plant, but is merely mentioned to show how hosi ery mill pteople have to keep “on their toes” to stay with the changing sty les. This1 style will .be a great sum mer seller. If plans and ideas in the mind of C. C. Cranford are carried to comple tion, this latest addition to the Ashe boro Hosiery Mills will be by no means the last. His ambition—that of a man who .began his career on a small farm in the western part of the coun ty and has arisen to position among the leading business men of the state —is to eventually operate a hosiery mill that furnishes employment to 1,000 people, or twice the number, that will be employed by the plant when the contemplated addition is finished and machines in operation. It is am bition to be able to see a thousand men and women file in and out of the Asheboro Mill doors at the morning, noon and' evening hours. Progress this mill has made in recent years is an indication that Mr. Cranford’s dream isn’t far fetched by any means. Primary Grades To Present Program In Auditorium Tonight Witt Consist Of Playlets, Drills, Songs, Etc.; Grammar Grad es Friday Evening. The primary grades of the Ashe boro city schools will present a mis cellaneous. program of playlets, soups, drills, and other musical numbers in the school auditorium, this eight o’clock. Tomorrow, Friday evening, the grammar grades will give two one-act plays—“The Gooseherd and the lin” and ‘^The Estabrook Nieces. Teachers and students have much time in rehearsing for these en tertainments, and they will, no doubt, be worth seeing. There will Be no ad *'■ . ■■■• *- — *- *“ is cordially mission The yublw be as follows: T'- jm* With The Churches Presbyterian Church Church school, 9:45; morning ser vice, 11:00 a. m.; subject—“The Great Commandment;” Junior League; even ing service, 8:00 P. M.; subject, “He Is Mighty to Save.” Methodist Protestant Church Sunday 'll a. m., the music for the morning service will ibe in charge of the Asheboro' high school Glee club and directed by Miss Gill. Instead of the sermop some four-minute talks on "things seen and heard at the Wash ing Convention.” will be made by those who attend from the local M. P. church. At 8 p. ra., evening worship and sermon, the subject will be: "The Common People;” Sunday school at 9:45 a. m.; C. E., at 7:30 p. m. First M. E. Church 'The Changeableness of Change and the Changeless Change” will be Mr. Brantley's sermon subject Sunday morning at 11 o'clock at the First M. E. church. We can change things but we can never destroy them. The inherent values of substance can -be altered, but never destroyed. This is a divine law that automatically takes care of creation. We, however, live in a universe of change, which in herently preserves its status quo, in an altered capacity. A lake is beautiful as long as there is change, when »it ceases change, it becomes stagnant, stale and poisonous. The physical life of man is constantly changing, we are, as it were, poured from vessel to vessel. We are empti ed from infancy to childhood, from childhood to youth, and from youth to manhood. Therefore, we must be sympathetic with the constant ad justments .of ourselves to the inevi table change. All changes, however, may not carry the face value of good; neither may there be any apparent good to our limited vision from cer tain changes. The Hebrews were changed from Freedmen to slaves. They soondiscovered that it was wise to adjust themselves to their change. They did hot fight change but used it They began with a tribal deity FJohim and ended with God the Fath er. A stale, static stand-patter is contrary to the laws of the Cosmic Order. Change can deepen and vi talize our faith; faith not only in the past, but faith in future* possibility. Change rightly used can and will en [eld Veterans ting Them Others Gppy Day And Dollars d For Veter Families. |ttie red poppies billions of coats |l As the annual I the poppy draws bring to our minds 'this little flower. Poppy Day? the poppy once a e feeling of rever s in our hearts for on the poppy-stud e and Belgium dur \ The poppy is frew on the battle [ fought and died; • fresh graves, the ity and life in all itruction and death ut. Nothing can oemberance of the arid war dead in so the wearing of the Next Satan* will bloom 0 throughout ?jlfl day lor wearii near it is wel^ the significaa^ Why do ml First, we Wi year to expreei ence that is ah the men who d dad fields of Fi ing the world their flower, fields where t it grew over t one touch of ' that region of known as the symbolize ourj sacrifices of til fitting a way| poppy. Second, we :J lighten the b^j still undergoi? ships because^ veterans and % disabled. l£p employment ,|j veterans thrtnj otherwise wuj r the poppy to help i for those who are tuffering and hard he war, the disabled lies of the dead and * the poppies gives gndreds of disabled rat the winter who be unable to earn And Lived Here Until About 30 Years Ago. seeing he looked distressed, Stopped to speak to him whereupon he told her he was ill and requested her to drive him to his home; -after discovering he was seriously ill'ahe drove to a hos pital instead where an examination disclosed that he had died while in the car. % Mr. Moffitt moved to High Point in 1900 and opened a mercantile estab lishment on a small scale, later ex panding that business and entering into the manufacturing field, organiz ing the Moffitt Underwear company of which he was owner at the time of his death. In addition to his interests in this work he was owner of extensive real estate in Greensboro and High Point, and a director in sev eral business enterprises of his city. (Please turn to page 4) Big Car Production April production of the Chevrolet Motor Company reached 106,996 cars and trucks, which number was 4,000 less that production April a year ago, and 20,000 cars more than the com pany had originally scheduled for the month. April was the first month in eleven that the production in the Chevrolet plant had run over 100,000 units. Returns Miller’s Watch H. Grady Miller** watch, which was stolen from the men’s dressing room in West Market Street M. E. church about ten days ago, was returned to the owner by mail one tiay last week. The package containing the watch had been mailed at Winston-Salem, and contained a short note concerning re turn of the watch with the signature “X” signed to it. Baseball Game Saturday There will be a baseball game here Saturday, May 23rd, at 3 p. m. at Lindley Park, McCrary Full Fashion ed Hosiery Mill team vs. Siler (Sty. Bruce Pugh will do the pitching for the local team. An admission fee will be charged men and boys; ladies free. Comraunit: A community sii beginning >n, Some ite are ex uding the Chisholm Mr. H. A. Moffitt, a native of Ran dolph county but for thirty years a resident of High Point, died suddenly from a stroke of apoplexy from which he suffered while in a business sec tion of the city Monday night. Mr. Moffitt was sitting in reclining posi tion on the running board of his au tomobile when Miss Dowd, an em ployee, in his office was driving by, Prospects Bright For Locating Plant Here To Make All-Metal Airplanes At a meeting: of the board of direc tors of local Chamber of Commerce Tuesday evening, assurance was giv en that there was sufficient interest locally to bring the Lenert Aircraft Company to Asheboro. Assurance was in the form of pledges of a cer tain amount of capital to warrant moving of the plant here from Michi gan, where experimental work on the planes manufactured by the concern has been going on. Thorough investigation of the com pany, its work, paitents, aims, etc., have been made by the local Cham ber of Commerce until leading busi ness men of the town are satisfied as to the character of the work done and its possibilities. Mr. Lenert, president of the Lenert Aircraft Company, who has been in Asheboro the past several days, is one of the pioneers in the aircraft indus try, having built his first plane in 1910. The last seven years he has spent in perfecting, patenting and building the present all-metal plane, type which it is proposed to make in Asheboro. Cost of developing this type of plane to date has approxi mated $100,000. All experimental and research work Cost Of Disease In This Country Reaches Huge Sum Nation’s Bill For Illness More Than 3 Billions A Year— Chief Diseases Given. William T. Foster, director of the Poliak Foundation for Economic Re- J search, and author of popular books on economic subjects, argues that America should buy health instead of “things and more things.” He esti mates the annual “health” expendi ture in the United States at three bil lion dollars. He lists the leading American ail ments and their annual cost as fol lows: Four out of ten Americans have indigestion, the research experts found, a record surpassed only by the aggregate of respiratory diseases, including colds, tonsilitis, sore throat, quinsy, influenza, gripp* pleurisy. thousand. Everybody has a chance to cough and sneeze during the year. The fifteen other principal causes of illness were enumerated as: Epi demic, endemic and infectious dis eases, 92.5 per 1000; teeth and gums, 57.5; external causes, 54; childbirth, 47.2; women’s disorders, 31.9; gen eral diseases, including cancer, rheu matism and diabetes, 21.4; heart and circulatory system, 20.2; ear and mastoid process, 15; skin diseases, 14.8; kidney diseases, 14.4; lumba go and kindred ailments, 11.2; eyes, 8.5; boils and carbuncles, 5.1; bones and joints, 1.8; men’s disorders, 1.5. Annual Cost In its estimates of the nation’s bill for illness, the committee tal lied a $3,106,000,000 annual expendi ture, divided as follows: Physicians, $1,000,000,000; medicine and sup plies, $70,000,000; hospitals, includ ing outpatient departments, $550, 000,000; dentists, $40,000,000; extra household help, $123,000,000; nurses, except hospital, $112,000,000; public health, $86,000,000; optometrists and opticians, $50,000,000; chiropractors and naturopaths, $30,000,000; osteo paths, $20,000,000; midwives, $15, 000,000; chiropodists, $15,000,000; dis pensaries, not hospital, $5,000,000. A Heavy Rainfall "uring First Four Months Of The Year According to reports of the local branch of the U. S. weather bureau, located at the town office, total rain fall the first four months of 1931 has reached 11,07 indies. March was the wettest month of the four, hav ing had a precipitation of 4.01 inches, with April following closely with 3.74 inches. Precipitation in January reached 2.07 inches and in Februarv 1.25 inch December was tne wetxesi moncn re cently, precipitation that month hav ing reached 5.29 inches. The first 17 days of May rainfall has reached 2.18 indies. LABOR CHIEF BLAMES BANKS IN WAGES CUTS William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, in a statement the first of the week charg ed that “powerful banking interests” are seeking to force a general reduc tion in wages. Bankers, he dedared, have proved themselves “to be mighty poor doctors in treating the economic ills of the bituminous coal industry and should not be permitted to pre scribe for other industrial plants. “Mr. Green had reference to the recent wage cuts and strikes in the coal mining aretp, in which wages, he holds, have been “reduced below the subsistence level.” In many cases, Green alleges bankers have withheld loans from industrial plants until these have slashed wages. ' i ■ i i .. ■ - ai-lL* ■ has been done, the company is ready for production, having all machinery, tools, dies and material with which to proceed with the work. The plane, demonstrated at the Brittain flying field a week or ten days ago, although built of metal, will not weigh more than the conventional type of plane made of wood and fabric, and will stand a great deal more abuse and wear without material damage. The demonstration plane was flown to Asheboro by Henry Poindexter, mana ger of the airport at Winston-Salem. It remained here for several days for test flights and public inspection. Information in the company’s files show that letters have been re ceived from all over the country and from several foreign countries in quiring about the plane and many ask ing for agency rights. The company will use temporary quarters at the local airport until next spring, it is announced by Mr. Lenert, when it is expected suitable location and quarters may be made available for the industry. Such factory would employ 150 to 200 people, approxima tely 80 per cent of whom would be skilled tradesmen, such as welders, sheet metal workers and machinists. Large Congregation Attended Funeral Of Mrs. Byrd Thursday Rev. B. E. Morris, of Statesville, a former pastor of the Asheboro Bap tist church, was in Asheboro last Thursday to conduct the funeral of Mrs. Z. T. Byrd, a well known and i much loved woman of Asheboro. The 1 large crowd which attended the last 1 rites of Mrs. Byrd attest the high es teem in which she was held. Among those from out of town attending the funeral were: Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Teague and daughter, Miss Elizabeth, of Thomasville, Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Brooks, or High Point, Mr. and Mrs, Fred Morrow and Miss Grace White, of Mooresville, G. A. Byrd, of Win chester, Ind., Mr. and Mrs. John Cox, Mrs. Annie Barker, of Greensboro, I Mr. and Mrs. C. M. P,revatt, Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Prevatt and Miss Bailey, of Lumberton, Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Webster, w_li:_:n. if_t :_• Ingram Building A Filling Station On 70 South Of Town Another new construction project in the community is a service station near the Rich brick plant just outside the corporate limits of Asheboro on highway 70. The station is located on the west side of the highway and on the brow of a hill. It will be of brick and stucco and an exact duplicate of the Standard station on the comer of North Fayetteville and Salisbury streets, just opposite the First Metho dist church. Grounds will be turfed and place made one of beauty as well as of service. Station will be owned by H. L. Ingram, Standard oil distributor, personally, and will be operated on commission basis. Op erator for the station has not as yet been selected by Mr. Ingram. Minister Is Hurt A.uto Accident atural Bridge Suits, pastor of the Randolph circuit of the Methodist Protestant church, is confined to his home in High Point, the result of an automobile accident which was caused by the blowing out of a tire and an overturned car at Natural Bridge, Virginia, on their re turn from the denominational conven tion in Washington, D. C. Capt. and Mrs. A. W. Rankin, a daughter of Mr. Suits and Miss Snipes, also of High Point, were occupants. Capt. Rankin is suffering from three brok en ribs and Rev. Suis a slight chest injury. They were the only ones hurt. ANNUAL TOLL OF AUTO IN AMERICA 32,500 Since close of the world war, the automobile has caused the deaths of 264,449 people in the United States, or five times as many people as this country lost across the seas. This is at the rate of 32,500 a year. In ad dition to the. large number killed, more than a million persons have been in jured in car accidents since the war. The automobile leads the list of caus es of children’ deaths, and it ranks along with tuberculosis among the 10 major causes of death, while being 30 times as dangerous as a typhoid ba cilus. Besides this tremendous toll on human life, the automobile has hit new "high” for annual property damages at 850 millions—twice the in a Panama canal. Paul C. MitchB . Died Last Wto ' At Franklinville Born And Reared In South Caro* lina; Moved To Franklinville Spring Of 1929. - Buried Near Saluda i In His Native State—Susannah Wesley Class Gives Shower For Mrs. Allred. Franklinville, May 18.—Mr. Paul CL Mitchell, age 56, died of paralysis at his home a mile and a half Bast of Franklinville, Tuesday morning, May 12. He was a native of Saluda coun ty, South Carolina and was reared on a farm, loved farm life, was a quiet, peaceful citizen. He moved with his family to Franklinville in the Spring? of 1929 and his son, J. Harvey Mit chell, taught in Franklinville high school that year and was principal past year. He professed religion in early manhood and united with the Adventists church. A short funeral service was held at the home Tuesday evening, conducted by Rev. H. M. Stroup. Wednesday morning he was taken to the family cemetery at his old home near Saluda and after a ser vice Wednesday afternoon, conducted by Rev. H. B. White, was tenderly laid to rest. He is survived by seven children: Mrs. J. G. Bullard, of Hem ingway, S. C.; J. Harvey Mitchell and Misses Effie, Edith, Grace, Mildred and Fay Mitchell of Franklinville. Those from Franklinville attending the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Cheek, W. A. Martin, E. C. Routh, W. L. Grimsley and E. E. Pruett. Mr. W. ,R. Cox and family, of High Point, were guests Sunday in the home of W. C. Tippett. Rossie York, who has been farm ing with C. E. Henson for past sev eral years, has accepted a position with Mr. V. C. Martin, a large farmer of Eagle Springs section, Moore coun ty The Susanna Wesley Bible class gave a shower in honor of Mrs. Wood row Allred at the home of Miss Lilly Hughes Wednesday night. About 25 girls were present with the teacher, Mrs. D. M. Weatherly, Several gam es were played and paper and pencils were distributed to each ed them to go with her for a walk and they followed her out into the grove where a large bonfire was built, and there they roasted weinies and niarshmallons. After this they went back into the dining room where Mrs. Allred was presented with a large white basket filled with many use ful gifts. Franklinville and Staley baseball teams played ball on local diamond Saturday afternoon with a score of 15 to 14 in favor of Franklinville. Frank linville team will play Biscoe at Bis coe next Saturday afternoon. -** Bom to Mr. and Mrs. Ray Tippett, (Please trun to page 8) * iff* (Randolph County Health Dept.) Last week the State Hoard of Heal th received a letter from a woman re siding in one of the Piedmont cities requesting the Board of Health to make immediate provision for the de livery on her front porch every morn ing of three quarts of milk and for a block of ice on the iback porch through' out the summer months. She stated that she had been unable to procure ice for two summers and that condi tions now are worse than usual. On nearly every day’s mail requests are received from citizens of the State requesting medicines or treatment or the privilege of being examined by a State Board of Health physician. Na turally all of these inquirers receive a courteous letter explaining to them that the function of the State Board of Health is to exert itself in the field of prevention of communicable dis In the case of the woman who want ed the ice and the milk, she was. re ferred' to the health officer and the welfare officer of the city. She writes back, three days later, that she took the advice of the State Board of Health, but that the officials recom mended to her had told her that, be cause she lived just outside the city limits, she was out of their jurisdic tion. This necessitated a second letter giving her the names and address of the county welfare officer in that county. These matters, arising so frequent ly, prompt the Educational Depart ment of the State Board of Health to suggest that now and then, if the health officers, county physicians, county superintendents of schools, and welfare officers and other officials would take the pains to explain to their citizens that the offices of the State Board of Health in aiding in the prevention of disease are always wide open to them at any time, but that