VOLUME LIX
UARY 10, 1935.
Most People In Asheboro and
Randolph County Read The
COURIER—It Leads
$2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE
NUMBER 2
f Hauptmann Goes
On 'Mai Charged
With Famous Crime
Ex - German Machine Gunner
Now Faces Grave Charges
In New Jersey Court
Parents Testify
Betty Gow, Pretty Nurse, Conies
■ From Scotland To Face
Accused Man
Bruno Richard Hauptmann, ex-Ger
man machine-gunner in the world war,
is fighting for hie life at Flemington,
New Jersey, on a charge that he kid
fnaped and brutally murdered the
youngest son of Charles and Anne
, Lindbergh almost three years ago.
This Hauptmann, before coming to
America, had already left a trail of
crime in his native land, Germany.
Defending Hauptmann is Edward F.
Reilly, a smart Brooklyn criminal
lawyer, known the nation over for his
uncanny ability of clearing men with
I criminal charges such as Hauptmann
is charged with. Prosecuting Haupt
mann is Attorney General David T.
Wilentz and his aides, who are also
well equipped in their knowledge of
the law. These two men have opened
the trial at Flemington, N, J., both
confident of victory, and both putting
out their utmost.
This trial has been going on for a
week, and each day as the trial opens,
multitudes of people are turned away
from the antiquated court house
where Hauptmann is fighting for his
life. Mr. and Mrs. Lindbergh have
already taken the stand and the for
mer has identified the voice of Haupt
mann as the man who received the
ransom money. When asked by At
torney for defense Reilly if he thought
that Hauptmann was the guilty man,
. Lindbergh answered “Yes, I do”. This
statement caused an uproar in the
court.
Hiss Betty Gow, nurse of the mur
dered baby is to take the stand some
time this week, and the outcome of
the ease depends much on what Miss
Gow testifies. Both Mr. and Mrs.
Lindbergh and alfo the prosecution
have the utmost confidence in Hiss
Gow, deep Ho all efforts that the de
fense council may make to discredit
her testimony in attempting to show
that some of the Lindbergh servants
were involved in a conspiracy with
outriders to kidnap the infant. She is
- a little
. ridicules the stdry that a
gang plotted the kidnapping, and feels
sure that the man who, committed
lids awful crime is in the court house
. at the present time fighting for his
life. After being on the stand for
three hours Monday, Miss Gow com
pletely collapsed from the nervous
strain and the cross-examination.
Twelve jurors were picked last
week, these being from the common
place walks of life, and in their hands
rest the life of one Bruno Richard
Hauptmann. Whether or not he is the
guilty party remains to he seen ss the
case continues to move along .
I
Sixty-Four Deaths
Occurred Dunns:
1934 In District
Lieut. Croon Issues Annual
Statement Concerning Deaths
And Finances
According to a report given by
Lieut W. J. Croom, divicion com
mander of the state highway patrol,
the fatalities in division two were
sixty-four for the year 1934. August
was high month with ten deaths and
forty injured while January was un
marked by a single death.
in December . the patrolmen col
lect**! $91,214.89 from this district
which is composed of thirty-one coun
ties. Road smtsmsM of twenty-two
years and fourteen days were meted
out to the 182 defendants tried. Only
two
A survey in Currituck county shows
an average of ever nine prospective
consumers per mile for the rural elec
tric lines being planned. Each con
sumer has promised to furnish his
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Local Health Department
Sets Weekly Office Days
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Dr. A. D. Gregg Will Be In Asheboro Office Two Days Weekly
Far Convenience Of Randolph County’s Citizens Who
J Are Asked To Cooperate In His WoWc.
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Prom the office of the newly orga
nised Health Department of Randolph
county conies the announcement from
Dr. A. G. Gregg, in charge of the
work, of his office days and hours
in Asheboro. Since most of the health
program etJle for rural work, Dr.
Gregg ii necessarily out of the Ashe
boro office, located in the basement
of the county court house, the greater
part of the time. On Tuesdays, bow
----- --n until 4:00 p. m. Dr.
. the Asheboro office,
hour* «r*00 and
Ramseor Resumes
School Work And
Normal Business
After Holiday Business Swings
Back To Routine And Is
Optimistic
Business Changes
Highway 64 Will Shorten Dis
tance Between Ramseur
And Coleridge
Ramseur, Jan. 8.—The outlook is
for a fair amount of business m 1935.
The manufacturing plants have some
business on file and everybody seems
to >be in good spirits as the year
launches out.
The folks who went away Christ
mas have returned to take up their
work as teachers, preachers and other
vocations. The school opened Monday
for the second semester, with a full
faculty and student body. A few cases
of influenza, chicken pox and usual
ailments affecting the work slightly,
but it is hoped all will soon be going
smoothly again.
Mrs. A. G. Burgess and Mrs. A.
C. Watcher, of Greensboro, were the
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Courier’s Bab
Proves W
Mr. Stork Is Busy
Muck teleteat has been manifested
in the. recent first baby contest pat
on bytbe merchants of the county,
and right to the end it was a eery
dose race aa to who weald be the
first baby to arrive. We are glad to
announce that the winner of this race
was the healthy young son of Mr.
and Mrs. Joe Winslow, of Randleman,
born January 1st, at 5:00 o'clock A. M.
So far, this young man has not been
named, but will be in the near fu
ture.
The first baby to arrive in Ashe
boro was Miss Norma Jean Caahatt,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William C.
Caahatt, of Dixon Street. Incidentally,
this was the only girl in the whole
Hat of new babies which were ushered
in with the new year. We, The Cour
ier, extend our heartiest congratula
tions to the winner and all the other
babies who were in this contest, and
sincerely hope that they will have a
long and prosperous life, and grow
up to be the leading citizens of Ran
dolph county!
nFinnfBODEH
Appreciation Expressed
The congregation and friends of the
Asheboro Baptist church greatly ap
preciate the beautiful shrubbery given
to the church by W. L. Monroe of At
lanta, Ga., in honor of his mother,
Mrs. E. J. Monroe, and his sister; Miss
Gladys Monroe. This shrubbery was
sat out Monday and adds much to the
appearance of^ the church. This
thoughtful act on the part of the
Monroe's will long foe remembered and
the church wishes to express its
thanks for this beautiful gift Mr.
Monroe is the president of the Mon
roe’s Landscape and Nursery Com
pany, of Atlanta, Ga.
bring any patients in need of immu
nising for vaccine, smell pox and
diphtheria and such, on those .days
mentioned..
Or. Gregg has visited the Asheboro
school this week where he was espe
cially interested in the supplementary
feedings of milk and crackers given
to undernourished children. Dr. Gregg
suggests, however, that if some or
ganisation could aid in providing
benches, even of the crudest type
these children may be seat
ed while they have this feeding, it
be double to the
County Wide PrOgri
Decided Upon By \
Will Further FA
Schools
Boards,
Facilities
A plan termed the County Wide
Plan ef Public Schools was the chief
item of interest among the many im
portant matters taken up and acted
upon by the board of commissioners
of Randolph county at their first meet
ing for the new year held at the coun
ty court house on Monday. So wide
were the interests for county pro
jects that the board continued their
session well into the afternoon *of the
following day.
This County Wide Plan for Public
Schools is designed for the purpose
of making it possible “for each and
every child in Randolph county, of
school age, to have the advantage of
grammar school and a high school ed
ucation under said county wide plan,”
according to the resolutions presented
at the joint meeting of the county
board of education and of the county
board of education.
Early in the resolutions it was
pointed out that “by reason of the ex
treme depressed conditions through
which the country has recently pass
ed, no further funds were available
for the purpose of further construc
tion of school buildings and the work
initiated aforesaid was temporarily
discontinued”. The recommendations
y Contest
ridely Popular
Randolph County’s Gay Old
Stork Has Had Busy Time
Around New Yeaj:
Old Bird Favors
Boys Decidedly
Only (hie Girl Among Many
Babies Reported Among
County’s New Firsts
Drawing interest from many sec
tions and from many people has been
the experiences of the baby contest
started last week in The Courier. The
plan of offering gifts from the mer
chants and business concerns of the
town for the first baby bom in 1935
hae focused wide interest upon the
population of Asheboro and Randolph
H,X.
in the page ad
vertisement appearing on page three
of The Courier of Thursday, January
3rd, 1935, the merchants whose ad
vertisements appeared on the page
will present the first white baby bom
in Randolph county in 1935, with a
shower of gifts. As was further ex
plained in the rules, the names of
the parties, addresses, doctor’s report
and birth certificate of all white
babies bom after midnight of Decem
ber 31st, 1934, wishing to compete for
this shower of gifts, must be received
by the Baby Page editor, of The
Courier, not later than noon on Wed
nesday, January 9th, 1935.
The winner, the young son of Mr.
and Mrs. Joe Winslow, of Randleman,
has not yet been named; The young
man, however, arrived at 5:00 o’clock
on the morning of January 1st, 1935.
Dr. A. B. Freeman, of Randleman,
was the physician in charge.
Coming second in this baby race
was Cavel Gibson, who was sent to
Mr. and Mrs. Wardon C. Gibson, at
Central Falls, in care of Dr. H. L.
Griffin, of Asheboro. This young gen
tleman arrived at 8:40 in the evening
of January 1st, 1935.
Two babies arrived in extreme sec
tions of Randolph on January 2nd.
Charles David Hunt was taken by Dr.
J. D. Bulla, of Trinity, to the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hunt at 3:00
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Asheboro Boy Scouts
Hold Weekly Session
To Plan Regulations
Walter Yow, Secretary Of Ashe*
boro Kiwanis Club, Visitor
At This Meeting
A qpecial meeting: of the officers
of local hoy scout troop number 24
«u called Thursday evening: at 7:00
o’clock and was held at the home of
L. H. Pierce, scout master. The fol
lowing: were present: John Beam,
Junior Assistant Scoutmaster; Steve
Millsapps, Jr., patrol leader; David
Stedman, Bob AM red, Bill Allred and
Bud Hedrick, patrol leaders; Truett
Frasier, Scribe; Thad Moser, reporter;
and William Green, of the program
committee.
The resolutions made and adopted
were as follows: That the troop pur
chase an American .flag, a troop flag
and a flag for each of the four pa
trols; and all scouts possessing uni
forms wear same to the scout meet
ings; that the troop laws be rigidly en
forced.
The regular weekly meeting was
opened by assembly call by David
Stedman, bugler. The scouts then
marched in, saluted and gave the
pledge of allegiance to the flag. Roll
call by Truett Frazier showed 26
members present and several boys de
airing membership in the troop. By
num Willi anil then gave the hoys
some drill work. The work of organiz
ing the patrols was then undertaken.
With the aeout’a fratiedHV* the troop
further pointed out ■
spread nted and da
tional school facility
of sections of Rendea
become to be recoga
necessity.
The plane will caU*
money to finance tS
commissioners set tip
to be expended not*
two thousand dolUm
commissioners andp
tion plan to apply ioj
state board of eduo
state literary fund, H
building projects in i
the original county 1
funds to be alloca »
said county as m i
from the state libn r
purpose.” As has Ik t
viously, there have i
available for this pft
many instances waw
time and work planfi
continued.
It was
board that Archdah
Union school distric
sideration in the 1
County N<
After the educati
ceming the county’)
Franklinvi
Of Currei
Of Per
Franklinville, Js
as and family, cd
guests Sunday at
Thomas.
■George McDani
spent the week m
Mr. and Mrs. W.
Mr. and Mrs. Jj
guests Sunday 9^
Buie.
Point, were via
Rev. H. V. <
Bible school «t
tian church, te?
third Sunday
Everybody is i
take part inth
Child Study , Course i
Resumed Tuesday For
Completion Of Work
The subjects and dates of Mrs.
Bess N. Rosa’s child study group for
the year is shown below. The time of
these meetings is 2 o’clock in the soc
ial room of the Baptist church. These
meetings are sponsored by the depart
ment of the Woman’s Club, of which
Mrs. L. F. Ross is the chairman. This
department has suggested that each
mother cut out the list below and
place it on the calendar, so that one
can see the dates and subjects at all
times during the next few months.
The programs which are to follow
are as follows:
January 15 (Tuesday 2 o’clock),
Subject: “The Child and Money.”
February 5 (Tuesday 2 o’clock),
subject: “The Child and Home Respon
sibility.”
February 19, (Tuesday 2 o’clock),
subject: “The Nervous Child.”
March 5, (Tuesday 2 o’clock), sub
ject: “Affection and Its Development.”
March 19, (Tuesday 2 o'clock), sub
ject: “Bex Education."
April 2, (Tuesday 2 o’clock), sub
ject: “Attitudes Toward Sex.”
January 1935 saw a series of
the Randolph County Building
and Loan mature. The maturing
of this series means the payment
of cash amounting to 524,900.00
to citizens of Rudolph county.
CaaoeUed mortgages were paid
amounting to 930,300.00 which
also went to people in Aaheboro
and Randolph county.
This same county-wide organi
zation, with Lee U. Kearns, sec
retary, opened a new series the
past October which has proved
most successful. When this series
closed in December, there were
approximately 1$00 shares sold,
according to Mr. Kearns, who
was quite pleased with the re
sults.
Randolph county is most for
tunate in having two steady build
ing and Loan organizations, the
Randolph County Building and
Loan serving the county as its
name indicates, and the People’s
Building and Loan Association.
This latter organisation serves
the people of Aaheboro, with W.
Randolph County
Citizens Receive
gram were disposed of, the board of
education retired and the ‘commis
sioners went rather thoroughly into
the financial matters of Randolph
county. The outstanding notes of
Randolph county amounting to $32,
000.00, which are tax anticipation
notes, and which will become due and
payable on January 23rd, 1935, form
ed a topic for consideration and dis
cussion. It was decided by the com
missioners to borrow the amount nec
essary to pay off these notes, vesting
■sufficient power in the chairman of
the board for signing these new notes.
,The alternative was offered of renew
ing the notes or borrowing the
amount and paying it off from the
collection of taxes.
y As to the matter of the county’s un
employables being again placed upon
[the county, it was moved by Mr.
WHttier and seconded by Mr. Haywor
th that all disbursements for the out
side poor or unemployables, be dis
bursed direct from the office of the
|County commissioners. R. T. Lloyd
having previously come before the
■Commissioners for a formal discussion
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Randolph County Board
Education Holds Meeting
Delegations From Many Sections
Appeal For Needed Changes
And Additions
Board Approves
Loan Application
School Committeemen Filled In
Where Resignations Leave
Vacancies
The meeting of the Randolph
county board of education, held Mon
day in the county court house, was
of more than usual interest and im
portance.
A delegation from Rocky Mount
School district came before the Board
of Edition and requested that in
the building program and
“ schools in Randolph
„ _ .. . - mtanfcriStafc to
be moved to either Coleridge or Sea
grove.
A delegation from Shiloh and Bethel
school districts came before-the board
to discuss the location of a high
school building to be located some
where between Bethel and the steel
bridge west of Coleridge on Deep river
A resolution was presented to the
board from Bethel, Shiloh, Union
Grove, Holly Springs, Coleridge, An
tioch, Rocky Mount, Cross Roads and
Oak Glade setting forth the inade
quate school facilities and stated in
the resolution that this section above
mentioned is entitled to better school
opportunities and that they wanted a
high school building built to accommo
date this section somewhere on No.
902 highway between Bethel and the
steel bridge across Deep River at
Coleridge. The matter of locating this
school was not considered at this
meeting but will be taken up at a
later meeting when money is avail
able for building a house.
Willie Brown was appointed to
serve as school committeeman for
Bethel in place of Kemp L. Smith,
who has moved away from this dis
trict.
The Board of Education approved
the sale of Piney Grove school house,
a lot in New Market township, and
Mountain View school house in Back
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Fiddler’s Convention
Will Be Staged For
The Marlboro School
Other News Of Community Of
Interest During The
Week Past
Sophia, route 1, Jan. 8.—There will
be an old time fiddlers convention
staged at Marlboro school Saturday
night, January 12th, beginning at
7:30 o’clock. Cash prizes will be
awarded for the best violin, banjo and
guitar. There will also he a beauty
contest in connection with the con
vention and a prize given to the pret
tiest girl present. A small admission
fee will be charged, the proceeds to
go for the benefit of the Marlboro
school. The public is invited to attend
and anyone playing string instru
ments is requested to come and take
part.
A public sale will be held at the
late Robert Gardner place on high
way 77 near New Market Saturday,
January 12th, beginning at 10 o’cock
a. m.
Fred Morton is having a well dug
at his home.
Clifford Poole, who has spent sev
eral months in the C. C. C. camp at
Hot Springs has returned home.
Miss Dorothy Cox is visiting her
brother, Jeffrey Cox, in Greensboro.
Mirs. Althea Brown, who has beep
ill from a son throat and cold is im
proving.
Masonic Notice
Balfour Lodge number 188 A. F. ft
A. M, will held a apodal mooting
r. January 11th, at 7:50
is for the purpooo of
ip-apprcntice degree.
Speakership Race
Waxes Hot Amon
State Legislate
g|Bl
m
Federal Labor Law
iVital Consideration
Of This Legislature
Robert Grady Johnson, Pendei
County Representative,
Wins Handsomely
Martin Is Clerk
Charles A. Jonas, Nominated
Republican Candidate For
House Speaker
Taking 67 democratic votes repre
sented in the house caucus and leav
ing his opponents Laurie McEachem
of Hoke only 19 and Willie Lumpkin,
of Franklin 17, Robert Grady John
son of Pender completely took the
speakership contest in the most un
certain race in years.
Senator Paul D. Grady, of John
ston county, meanwhile was nominat
ed president pro tempore for the 1935
session. He led Senator Carl Bailey,
of Washington, by a vote of 26 to 15.
Not since 1927 when R. T. Foun
tain threw himself in the house
speakership has there been such a
fight. There were no nominations that
year on first or second ballots but the
sudden collapse of the anti-Fountain
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John F. Condon
Called On Stand
In Jersey Trial
The last minute news of the
Lindbergh trial reveals that John
F. Condon, better known as “Jaf
sie”, was called on the stand to
testify in the most stirring trial
in the history of the Jersey courts,
i When asked by prosecutor Wilentz
who the man was that he gave the
ransom money to, Condon replied
in a stern and dramatic voice,
“Bruno Richard Hauptmann!” This
makes the third witness on the
state’s aide to identify Hauptmann
as the matt seen near the Lind
bergh e*#«te in Hopewell on that
fatal .afternoon in April, 1932..
A. Fred Boyd Dies
In Washington, D. C.
From Heart Attack
Grandson Of Late Dr. Worth
And Nephew of Hal M. Worth
Of Asheboro
A Fred Boyd, of Washington, D. C.,
died Wednesday from a sudden heart
attack at his home in the national
capitol and was buried Thursday in
Arlington cemetery with full military
honors.
The deceased was the son of the
1 late R. F. Boyd, of Greensboro. After
attending the public schools in Greens
boro he went to Oak Ridge Academy
where he graduated.
Mr. Boyd was connected with the
Ford Company for several ye^rs, with
headquarters in Charlotte. He saw ac
tive service in the World War and has
since that time made his home in
Washington.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Claire
Foster Boyd, a son, Fred, Jr., and a
daughter, Esther, all of Washington,
his mother, Mrs. Roberta Worth Col
lins, of Lovelock, Nevada, and her
sisters.
Mr. Boyd was the grandson of the
late Dr. J. M. Worth and a nephew
of the late Hal M. Worth, both of
Asheboro.
When A. D. Smith of Forsyth coun
ty began to plow a field which had
been in lespedeza for two years, he
found the texture of the soil so im
proved that plowing was a pleasure,
he said.
Randolph’s Quota Relief
Cattle Fast Moving Away
Orders From Raleigh Direct R. T. Lloyd, Local Relief Head, To
Move All Cattle Now In County To Georgia Before
January 10th; New Ruling.
Randolph county's verdant pasture
lands will no longer be the grazing
place for relief cattle—drought cat
tle—moo-cows, if you prefer, for they
have left her happy borders for
greener pastures. An order came with
in the past few days to Robert Lloyd,
county welfare director, to have all
cattle Georgia bound before January
10th. This was a state-wide order com
ing from welfare headquarters in Ral
eigh and will mean that the whole
state will soon be cleared of the ship
ments of cattle coming in large con
signments since the drought in wes
tern states last spring made it neces
sary for the cattle to be removed or
die like flies.
The county has had a total of more
than six hundred head of these cat
tle during the past few weeks but be
fore the first of 1036 most of them
have had march ingwders which took
from u*. Around lSOremsined
I be Legislative Council Active
I Supports The Ratification
I Amendment
en
[36 States To Act
enty-four States Not Yet
Ratified To Hold Sessions
During 1935
A proposal to ratify the Federal
Child Labor Amendment will be in
troduced at the 1935 session of the
General Assembly of North Carolina.
Supporting the amendment are the
State Legislative Council, composed
of fourteen state-wide organizations,
the American Legion, American Leg
ion Auxiliary, the State Federation
of Labor and other state and local
groups. Twenty-two National organi
zations are supporting it which in
clude the National Education Associa
tion, National Congress of Parents
and Teachers, American Home Econo
mics Association, American Legion,
General Federation of Women’s Clubs,
American Association of University
Women and the Federal Council of
Churches of Christ in America.
The Child Labor Amendment to the
United States Constitution is an en
abling act, which would give Congress
the specific power to enact child labor
legislation. It is permissive, not pro-'
hibitory. It is not itself a law, and
its ratification will not remove a sin
gle child from work of any kind, since
the nature of the regulations to be
adopted is left entirely to legislative
enactment. The Amendment is:
Section 1. The Congress shall have
power to limit, regulate and prohibit
the labor of persons under 18 years
of age.
Section 2. The power of the several
states is unimpaired by this article
except that the operation of state
laws shall be suspended to the extent
necessary to give effect to legislation
enacted by the Congress.
Its ratification will not compel'
Congress to pass any law, but will
only allow it to do so, without pre
scribing the details properly left to>
a statute. By being thus confined to
a simple grant of power without rigid -
specifications as to how that power
shall be exercised, the Child Labor
Amendment escapes the difficulties
experienced with the Eighteenth or
Prohibition Amendment. For If at any
time it seems advisable to amend,
modify, or repeal a statute enacted
under the Child Labor Amendment, ■
this can be done by vote of Congress
without repealing a constitutional'
amendment. The sole function of the'
Amendment, then, is to make the "'
enactment of Federal Child Labor'
legislation constitutional beyond any'
question.
In order to become a part of the'
United States Constitution, the Child
Labor Amendment must be ratified by
36 states. Twenty states have already
ratified. These are: Arizona, Arkan
sas, California, Colorado, Illinois,
Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota,
Montana, New Hampshire, New Jer
sey, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma,
Oregon, Pennsylvania, Washington,
West Virginia and Wisconsin.
Twenty-four states which have not
yet ratified, including North Carolina,
have regular legislative sessions in
1935. It is entirely possible therefore
to complete the process of ratification
within this year, opening the way to
the continuance of the child labor
standards set by the NRA codes. Pre
vious rejection of the Amendment
does not bar a state from ratifying.
Six of the states which have already
ratified had previously rejected the
Amendment.
Attorney General 111
Attorney-General Dennis G. Brum
mitt is ill with influenza at his home
in Raleigh. Late news.' from his bed
side Wednesday stated that his condi
tion was not good, flight and day
nurses are in attendance and Dr. B.
K. Hays, of Oxford, an unde of Mrs. >
Brummitt, is assisting local physic
ians with the case.
tie will be returned to the state baa
not yet been announced.
According to Mr. Lloyd, it is the
hope and plan to replace these relief
cattle with pure bred stock as speed
ily as possible. Sometime ago Mr.
Lloyd placed a request for 300 head
of pure bred cattle to be placed
among the families on the county re
lief rolls. The quota, however, has
been cut to 150, but Mr. Lloyd hopes
to secure this number in due time for
distribution in the county.
Mr, Lloyd presented his formal re
port to the county commissioners
which report was ordered audited by
A. T. Allen & Co. certified accountants
and a report from this made at the
next meeting of the board. Mr. Lloyd
also notified the board of their respon
sibility of the unemployable relief
load responsibility, formerly shoulder
ed by the welfare department and