* 7,000 People Welcome You To Asheboro, “Center Of North Carolina” SSUED WEEKLY plume lix PRINCIPLES, NOT MEN ASHEBORO, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1935. $2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE ~ NUMBER 23. XT E W i- CONDENSED -OF State and Nation nstructor dibs in atal plans crash Raleigh, June 1.—Dr. J. <J. Bates, 30 year-old aeronautics instructor at State College was killed this after noon as his private plane cradled at the Raleigh airport. Estes, a native of Fort Worth, Texas, suc cumbed 15 minutes after he was tak en from the wreckage of his plane, 75 yards from the hangar. He had been an instructor at the college a year, coming here from Massachus etts Institute of Tedihology. KERSUADES SON TO AIL HIM TO CROSS . , High Point, June 3—R. J. Riggs, 36-year-old filling station operator, was found early Saturday morning nailed to a rude home-made cross with large nails piercing his hands and through the flesh of his heels. His first story after being taken to a hospital, was that three men broke into his house and committed this act. Later he confessed that he per suaded his 15-year-old son to nail him to the cross in an effort to re gain his wife who had. been, es tranged for sometime. Officers claim Riggs is a religious fanatic. His condition is not considered seri ous. DEATH TOLL FROM FLOOD IN NEBRASKA ESTIMATED 140 Omaha, Nebs June 4.—Death es timates in three mid-western states and in Mexico mounted to the 550 mark today as rampaging Roods continued their widespread destruc tion. Nearly 400 were officially es timated to have lost their lives when a wall of water awept down in the fertile valley of Mexico. Only seven of the throng of worshippers in San Pedro church escaped. Nebraska, Missouri and Kansas still were being lashed by raging Streams. An esti mate based on reports from relief workers placed the number of dead in Nebraska at 140. An official list compiled by the Associated Press included 94 Demons. Kansas had I Jim- - Property damage in NORTH CAROLINA GETS 19,544,131 ROAD FUND Washington, June 4.—North Car olina today was allotted $9,544,131 from the works program fund for construction of highways, roads, streets and grade crossing elimina tion. The allocation was divided $4,720,173 for highways, mads and streets and $4^23,958 for grade crossing elimination. A total of $400,000,000 was apportioned among the Mates, the District of Columbia and Hawaii for these purposes. Deaths Nolan Luck Nolan Lock, 12, died Sunday night en route to Randolph Hospital, Inc., after he had, in some manner, been drawn under the wheels of a truck. He and Ms fondly were returning home from services at Pisgtih M. E. church in a track, when his father’s hat Mew off. The «*2d attempted to jump fron* the trade before at had stepped and was drawn under the truck, the roar wheel passing over *d crushing Ids Rett Pugh's ana dance was called but the child was md before foe hospital could be ported. In the excitement, C. 1* sek, father of Nolan, sustained a bnd ’ sprained ankle. Funeral service was conducted Mon ty afternoon by Rev. Robert Varner ; Pisgah M. E. church with interment i foe church cemetery. He is sur ged by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. . Luck, and five sisters: Jewel, Edith, foeieen, Ruby Lee and Gladys Luck. Arthur Jarrett Arthur Jarrett, ef Macon Ga, died |Monday morning at his home, ‘with acute indigestion. His body arrived in Randleman Wednesday and was taken to the home of Frank Jarrett. Funeral service waa conducted Wed nesday afternoon at the Pilgrim Holi ness church in Randleman with inter ment in the church cemetery. f. Wesley Moon J. Wesley Moon, «6, died at his home at Farmer on Tuesday after a •lingering illness. In April Mr. Moon had a serious operation in a Thomas villa hospital end Me condition did not improved as was hoped. -Mr. Moon is a native of Randolph county having been bom and reared near Franklin villa. Several yearn ago he moved to ThomssviUe and it waa from there Joint Session Of Boards Name Robert Lloyd Again As County Welfare Head --- T Board Of Education And Com missioners Hold Brief Joint Session On Monday. Hear Petitions From . Many Rural Sections Coleridge Would Have Consoli dated School; Seagrove Appeals For Agricultural Teacher. In a joint session of the board of commissioners and board of education of Randolph county, Robert Lloyd was elected to succeed himself for another two-year term as county superintend ent of welfare. There were two other aspirants for this office, J. M. Canoy, now employed with the welfare de partment and Sam Miller, teacher at Shiloh. This was the only action of any im portance by the joint session of coun ty boards. The board of education then met in regular monthly session. The A. T. Allen company, auditors, were employed for another year to audit the school books of Randolph county. Coming from Seagrove community was a delegation with a petition ask ing for a teacher of agriculture. This request will be considered wheh the county budget can be worked out in a satisfactory manner. A delegation from Coleridge came requesting a consolidated school for this section of the county. The mat ter will be considered in view of the TWA funds now available for the county’s school building projects. The final action of the board of education in this June session was the appointment of D. W. Keeling, Zell Brown and Willie Brown as a school committee for the fifteenth district. This district is composed of West Bend, Brower and Bethel. G. W. Al len was added to the school commit tee from Coleridge. Ram sear Looks Forward To Em ployment Of Many People Dur ing Construction Period. Revival On Sunday Miss Helen Redding Presented In Studio Recital Assisted By Mrs. Boling Of Asheboro. Ramseur, June 4. — The CCC camp which is to be located near the Central Service station will cover quite a little space and will give some employment to outside workers while in course of construc tion. The camp will consist of nineteen buildings and will cover most of ten acres. This will accommodate around two hundred men all the time for pos sibly three yean. As the population of the camp varies, and the number drops to 190, another group is added, bringing the number to 216. The de velopment of this section through the work of this soil erosion project will he valuable in future days we believe. Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Leonard, and Mr. And Mrs Burton Leonard and Miss Eugenia Brady spent a few days at Wilmington the past week. Miss Brady remained for an extended visit. Mr. and Mrs. D. E. HighfiH attend ed the R. P. D. carries convention at t£be Guilford Battle Ground one day (Please turn to page 8) Drive For Books Begun By Woman’s Club Of Asheboro The local Woman’s club, as has been the custom for several years, has asked permission of the school board to open the school library during the summer months, and is making plans to open in the near future. However, ther^ is a handicap. The stock of books has been so depleted by wear and tear and losses that the members of the club doubt whether it will be proAtable to pay the salary of a li brarian unless some more books can be secured. The library contains a good stock of history, biography and poetry, but is sadly in need of Action. The Cet wick memorial fond will provide a few volumes, but not as many at the pres ent as are needed. So the club wom en are asking Hie people of the town to co-operate by donating novels and children's story books that have al ready been read in the various homes of Asheboro. Any one having such Great-Homed Owl Is Captured Wednesday By Randolph Citizen Among the visitors to The Cour ier office Wednesday afternoon was a large Great Horned Owl, which was brought in by its captor, Al ton Cox, who lives on Sea grove, route 1, eight miles from Asheboro in the New Hope churdi communi ty, and brother of Earl Cox, of Asheboro. . Mr. Cox reported that as he went to a cornfield Wednes day he heard a loud popping and much threshing about. Upon in vestigating he discovered the huge owl, caught by the tip of its wing by twine that had been previously stretched across the cornfield to keep crows'away. The owl measured 50 inches from wing tip t<y wing tip and weighed around eight pounds. Local woods men, who should know their owls, expressed their opinion that he was a “papa owl” and that it was little wonder that Mr. Cox had such a stiff fight in capturing him. Miss Robins Wins Honors In Finishing College Work Recently Miss Margaret Robins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Robins of Ashe boro was a member of the graduating class of Agnes Scott college. The graduating exercises were held on May 28th. Mr. and Mrs. Robins mot ored to Decatur, Ga., for this event. Miss Robins was a member of a class of eighty-six and one of seven teen who graduated with honors. Throughout her entire college career she has won distinction from time to time. She was a memebr of the K. U. B., the German and Industrial Re lations clubs, and the journalistic dub. Coming to Asheboro over the week end with the Robira^amily^wap Miss ins’, who is her house guest. Both young ladies plan to leave on Friday for Greenville, where they will attend the wedding of a class mate at high noon on Saturday. Next week Miss Smith will go to her home in Virginia for a visit to her parents before returning to Chap el Hill to attend summer school. Miss Robins expects to leave on Monday for Edisto Island, South Carolina where she will visit friends. Postal Receipts Now At 1930 Level, By I Farley’s Statement “The postal receipts have long been looked upon as a barometer of busi ness throughout the country,” said Postmaster General James A. Farley at the dedication of the new post office in Philadelphia last week. ‘T found to my surprise shortly after taking office,” he continued, “that while they were a good barometer, . they were some months late in registering rise and fall of business. We have correct ed that. Now we know on the 7th of each month the receipts and expendi tures for the previous month. “The improved system enables me to tell you that for the first ten months of this fiscal year there has been a gain in postal receipts of 10 1-3 per cent over last year in the smaller offices and 6 per cent in the larger offices. April, 1935, records the best postal increase since April, 1930, a gain over April, 1934 of 15 per cent or $7,900,000, and $1,000,000 less than in April, 1930. “In the actual business of handling and delivering the people's mail our income is greater than our expendi tures, a state of affairs that the coun try has not witnessed since the admin istration of Woodrow Wilson. And we have sacrificed no essential service in effecting this saving.” Asheboro Baptists dose Revival And Daily Bible School - The two weeks revival services held at the Asheboro Baptist church came to a close Sunday evening- with a rec ord-breaking attendance. Dr. Herman Stevens, pastor of the church, preached each evening and his ser mons were unusually fine for this se ries of services. He was assisted in the meeting by Plunkett Martin, a singer of wide reputation who is also a splendid worker among young peo ple. Twenty additions to the church was one result of the services. These candidates will be baptised and re ceived into church membership on Sunday evening in a special service. The Daily Vacation Bible school, closing also last week, touched more than 380 boys and girls of Asheboro who were enrolled in the eohool. In these two meetings a large number of young people made professions and will Join the various churches of the INSTITUTE OF GOVERNMENT SPEAKERS WE.CASTERUN& H.fr. BAITY City and county officials from every section of North Carolina will gather at the 1935 sessions of The Institute of Government in Chapel Hill, June 19-11, to discuss common problems, hear their State and National legislators interpret new legislation, and listen to the State heads of the various federal agencies outline the procedure for securing projects and appropriations under) the new 94,899,900,000 public works and relief act. Some of the headline speakers are pictured above. Senator Bailey and Congressman Doughton will be heard at the session on Federal Legislation next Monday evening. Mtg. O’Berry, Director of the North Carolina E. R. A., and Dean Baity, State Engineer for the P. W. A., will appear on the same program. A. A. F. Seawell, Attorney General, and Chas. M. Johnson, Director, and W. E. Easterling, Secretary of the Local Government Commission, are among the State officials who will Mi an hand to lead discussion and give opinions in person at the session oil Slate Legislation Tuesday morning and afternoon. Another aid to local offidatrwill ~be the summaries of new laws affecting each office and of new iJcgipiSltB affecting each town and county which are being prepared by The HujtJfih*'ft staff and which will be distributed at the rhayer And Leave W$d Rotary Cleveland Thayer, Governor nomi nee of the 57th District of Rotary In ternational, and Mrs. Thayer, left Wednesday morning, June 4 for Mexi co City for the International Rotary Convention to be held there June 17 to 22. Enroute Mr. and Mrs. Thayer will stop for a day in New Orleans after which they will join the Inter national Special, an official train of the Convention, at San Antonio, Tex as, which will take the official body of the Convention to Cuernavaca, Mexico. Here, amidst the beauty of Mexico’s highest mountains the Inter national Assembly will convene for a week prior to the regular convention at Mexico City. • Other Asheboro Rotarians are ex pected to make the trip. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ingram will drive a part of the way, finishing the trip by air. The president elect of the Asheboro Rotary Club R. W. Wood will also at tend as official delegate from the lo cal dub. Home From Colleges Among the young people from the various colleges are: Annie Gilbert Ross and Imogene Kearns and John M. McDowell, from High Point Col lege; Marianna Redding and Mildred Parks from Salem; Marion Stedman from Greensboro College; Rebecca Hedrick and Edith Milks, from Cataw ba; Walter Nance, Waldo Cheek, Her man Stevens, Wiley Whitaker, Donald Whitaker, from Wake Forest; Wil liam Coffin from Davidson; Tommy Bulla, Frank Burkhead, Hal Ham mer Walker, Feet Holder, Howard Fox, of U. N. C. Chapel Hill; Edward Armfield, Davidson college, Lucy Clyde Ross, High Point college; Mar garet Erwin Robins, Agnes Scott, Da catur, Ga. Singing Convention The Cedar Grove township singing convention will be held at Flag Spring M. P. church, instead of Farmer, as was previously announced, June 28, beginning at 10:30 A. M. There will be an all day service with a picnic din ner. Everyone, especially singers, are invited. Class Elects Officers The Friendly Friends class of the Aaheboro Friends church met Friday evening with Miss Mabel Cox, at her home on Stowe Street, with 7 mem bers and 4 visitors present. New of ficers for the next 6 months were elected as follows: Haael Cox, presi dent, Iris Stout, vice-president, Moline Cox, secretary and treasurer, Mabel Cox, assistant secretary and treasurer. After a social period, the hostess served refreshments. There will be a children’s day pro am at Union Grove, June Iff. Rev. C. Kidd, the pastor, will preach the ercise will be in the aftemo nic dinner on the grounds. ] is cordially invited to attend Many Citizens Attend Pomona Grange Meeting At Trinity Held On Friday Evening. Farmer, June 4.—A disastrous fire occurred in the community on Satur day morning when the dwelling oc cupied by Lee Buie and family was completely destroyed, with practically ly all its contents. The building was cimpletely destroyed, with practically all its contents. The building was owned by J. R. Hammond, and was partly insured. The fire started from sparks on the roof and as a brisk wind was blowing it was impossible to save the building. Mr. Buie is now living m Jhe house formerly owned and oc cupied by William C. Winslow, on highway 62. Dr. and Mrs. P. W. Wager and chil dren, of Chapel Hill, sepnt the week end with Mrs. Wager’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Lassiter. Dr. and Mrs. Wager and Miss Alma Lassiter went to Guilford College on Saturday to attend the alumni meeting there and class reunions. Farmer Students To Meet Yadkin College, May SO.—Former students, residents, and former resi dents of the community and Mends will gather here next Thursday, June B, for their ninth annual reunion. The program will begin at 10:30 and will be followed at noon by a big picnic dinner. Music wiU be furnished by Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Bingham and sons, Homer, Glenn and Carl were guests on Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Bingham of Spencer. R. H. Bingham suffered a painful injury a few days ago when his nose was crushed by a heavy hammer in the railway shops at Spencer. Miss Catherine Stokes, of Linwood, and Miss Sara Holman, of Snow Camp, were week end guests of Mrs. J. R. Hammond, and attended the Pomona Grange meeting at Trinity on Friday night. Others who attended the meet ing from the local Grange were L. L. Ray, C. C. Homey, W. L. Lanier, Al ton H. Kearns, Chas. Kearns Jr., Ma hlon Morgan, Miss Sara Kearns, Miss Ocia Morgan, Miss Hope Hubbard, Mrs. J. R. Hammond and Mrs. Chas. Keams. All of the above were mem bers of a degree team, conferring the 5th degree on several candidates. Mrs. W. L. Lanier, Miss Inez Trogdon, and Mis3 Mozelle Homey also attended the Misses Hope Hubbard, Anna B. Lowe, Sarah and Helen Byrd attend ed the Old People’s Day exercises at Worthville on Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Hammond and Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Nance visited Charles Parrish, a patient in Randoph Hospital on Sunday, and went on to Seagrove for a visit to Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Parrish. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Poole, with their son Ed, and daughter, Miss Ina, of Asheboro, route 2, were guests at Dr. Hubbard’s on Sunday. Richard Kearns, young son of Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Keams who suffered a broken leg in a fall from a bicycle some weeks ago is quite recovered from the effects of the accident. Randolph Commissioners Decide Upon PWA Funds Best Plan For Buildings Seven Randolphians To Gastonia Tuesday For Orthopedic Work Robert Lloyd, superintendent of welfare for Randolph county, took seven patients to the Orthopedic hospital at Gastonia Tuesday. The group included Raleigh and Pau lin Brim, Lewette Richardson, Odell Redding, Florence Cook, Mrs. Bingham and Hubbard Bingham. This work among children of Ran dolph county was launched by the Asheboro Rotary club and is one of the most important civic projects of the county. Sometime ago the Rotarians de cided to take over this work and they staged an orthopedic clinic for Randolph county’s children at the local hospitaL A survey of the crippled children in the county made by the Rotarians assisted by the welfare office of the county prior to this clinic with surprising results. A large number of chil dren have already been treated and the work will continue. From time to time the Rotarians have staged shows and have raised money, with the assistance of the citizens of Asheboro, to carry on this splendid piece of work in the county. Mr. Jones Returns Henry Jones returned Tuesday from Charlotte where he attended the meet ing of the merchants of the state. Mr. Jones is manager of the eight Jones stores in Piedmont Carolina. FranklinvilleNews Of Week Includes ■ ^ M m ^ ■ Ia VAJUlIllUIllbT UlOf Town Begins Building Of Side walks Under PWA Funds; A Much Needed Improvement. Franklinville, June 3.—Wm. Odell, treasurer of Kerr Bleachery and Fin ishing Works, Concord, was a visitor here Friday, and called by to see his old home, place of birth, near Mill boro, now owned and occupied by C. E. Julian. Mr. Odell left Randolph when a young man but he never for gets his old home and its hallowed in fluences. Randolph county gets a C. C. C. camp. This camp will be locaated on 90 highway, on a 10 acre tract of land opposite Central Service station, mid way between Ramseur and Franklin ville. The camp will consist of 11 buildings, including office, commissary and barracks and will accommodate 226 men. The houses will be built by local carpenters and are expected to be ready for camp by July 15 at which time they want to begin work if the farm erosion extension is officially confirmed. We are glad to have this camp in our community, which is cen trally located in the new erosion ex tension. “Red Headed Step Child,” a three act play, presented by P.-T. A of Ce dar Falls school Saturday night, was well acted and enjoyed by the large crowd present. Feddie Coble has sold his cafe in Brown building to E. L. Moon who ex pects to continue the business. It was necessary, in order to do a certain piece of work, to draw the water out of the mill pond at Ran dolph Mill No. 1, Saturday afternoon. After the crew, C. E. Henson and oth- j ers closed the gate, it was soon dis covered that carp were playing around i in a pool below the dam. They caught 8, the largest weighing 14% lbs. The (Please turn to page 5) Play ait Mt. Shepherd A play, “Thanksgiving Ann” will be presented at Mt Shephard Methodist Episcopal church Sunday evening, June 9th, beginning at 7:30 o’clock. The public is cordially invited. Visitors Leave Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Fields left Tues day for their home in Birmingham, Ala., after a visit to their son, Murray Field and Mrs. Field. They were ac companied home by Mrs. Murray Field and Jimmie Field. Mrs. Field and son will visit in Meridian, Miss., before returning to Asheboro. Mrs. Hammer Brought Home Mrs. Wm. C. Hammer who was in jured two weeks ago in an automo bile accident and who has been a pa tient at Duke Hospital Bince, waa brought to her home in Asheboro Tuesday in Pugh’s ambulance. Mrs. Ham mar’s injured arm and chest are 'here they will remain for | She will return to Duke ibout ten days for further Mrs. Funds Now Available For Start* ing Consolidated School Build* ings In County. Game Farm House Is Finally Rented Large Refrigerator Is Purchased For Randolph County Home As Summer Necessity. The Randolph county commission ers were faced with considerable im portant, as well as tedious, matters pertaining to the business of the coun ty, as they met in regular session on Monday, June 3rd, and held an ad journment session on Tuesday. Prob ably the most important matter dis cussed and disposed of at this meet ing was the decision concerning the school building ftinds for the county. As will be recalled, an application was made through the PWA for building funds. Time passed and nothing ma terialized and the eager and watch ful commissioners saw an opportunity to secure building funds through the state library fund. After careful study and deliberation between the good points of the two available funds, it was moved by Mr. Hayworth and seconded by Mr. Kearns that the county of Randolph obtain from the PWA under their new set-up which allows a 45 percent grant and inter est rate of 3 percent, a sufficient amount of money to carry out the present school building program of the county. This amount, however, shall not exceed a maximum amount of ?175,000,000. This matter was unanimously decided upon at the June meeting as was the case at the Feb ruary meeting when the matter came up for discussion. Another important action of the board was the appointment of C. M. Hayworth and A. R. Winningham to appraise or assess the new homes and buildings in Asheboro township since the listing of the property in 1934. It was further stipulated that these 70 has been vacant. The commission ers decided to rent the bouse to Guy C. Purvis for the sum of $40.00 per month to be paid in advance to R. C. Johnson, register of deeds of Ran dolph. An appeal for proper and necessary refrigeration for the county home came to the board at this meeting and the decision was made to purchase a Westinghouse refrigerator, model A. P. 200 at a cost of $498.95 of Hughes Morris hardware company, for use at this institution. Important to many citizens of the county and of interest to many more, was the decision for the county to par ticipate in the administration of the Mother’s Aid fund. Various appeals and petitions con cerning roads in the county were heard. Citizens of Archdale, Randle | man. Rack Creek township, from R. L. I Cheek’s to the Chatham line, and oth ers were heard. A cohtract from the A. T. Allen and Company, auditors, was accepted as presented. The board adjourned after dispos ing of several smaller items such as refunding dog tax and the like, to meet on Monday, June 17th. Jackson Creek News _ Records Neighborhood Visiting of The Week Medical Technician Examinations The United States Civil Service Commission has announced open com petitive examinations for the positions of senior medical technician, $2,009 a year, and medical technician $1,620 a year. Optional subjects are (1) Bacteriol ogy, (2) Roentgenology, and (8) Bac teriology and Roentgenology (coip bined). ' Certain experience is required. Jackson’s Creek, June 4.—J. P, Dalk and N. H. Prevost made a business trip to Richfield Tuesday morning. Mrs. B. W. Nance has been right sick for the past week, but is slowly improving. J. C. and Woodrow Ridge, of Cat R. F. D. 1, were in the community Monday morning on business. S. L. Duckworth, of Kemersville, was at S. D. Surratt’s Monday on legal business. John C. Ridge was in High Point Tuesday on business. The farmers are beginning to har vest some oats and barley, and the wheat harvest will soon be ready. The crop seems to be very good. D. E. Surratt, of Jackson Hill, is spending this week here with his son, S. D. Surratt, and family. There will be an ice cream apd cake supper at Mt. Tabor dhurch Sat urday night, June 8th, beginning at eight o’clock, given for the benefit of the church. Everybody invited to come and bring your friends.

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