ALWAYS ABREAST WITH
THE CHANGING TIME
IN RANDOLPH COUNTY
THE COURIER LEADS
TRI-WEEKLY
THE COURIER AND
ASHEBORO MARCH
IN STEP—AHEAD
BOTH ARE LEADERS
$2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE
VOLUME LXI __Oldest Paper Published In Randolph County _ASHEBORO, N. C., TUESDAY, FEB. 2, 1937._PUBLISHED TUESDAY, THURSDAY AND SUNDAY NUMBER t
Big 300,000 Extra Vote, Offer Will End Siurday
Important Bills
Now In Hopper Of
State’s Assembly
Piactically Every “Must ’ Bill
Has Already Been Intro
duced By Members
Highway Bill Due
Governor Will Probably Pre
sent Highway Reorganiza
tion Plan This Week
Going into the 27th day of the
state’s general assembly on Mon
day, the members realized that
practically every “must” bill
scheduled for action this session
has already been introduced, with
the exception of the Governor’s
proposal to reorganize the state
highway and public works commis
sion. The measure, according to re
ports, is now being drafted and
may reach the legislature this
week.
The federal child labor amend
ment and the tobacco compact act
are the two important bills for
consideration and will probably
engage the attention of the solons
at an early date.
The reapportionment issue was
settled with a positive “no” vote
by the House last week. Revenue,
appropriations, social security, and
liquor bills are in the hands of com
mittees. A resolution for ratifica
tion of the child labor amendment
and the compact bill are on the
House calendar, set as special ord
ers for today.
Kxcept for those two measures,
the House and Senate must wait on
committee action before it can be
gin double-timing towards adjourn
ment. Revenue, appropriations, so
cial security, and liquor proposals
all hinge on each other.
“When we pass the liquor and
social security bills, we will be on
the highway towards getting the
revenue and appropriations bills
out of committee.” Speaker R.
Gregg Cherry of the House of Re
presentatives commented yester
day.
Members of the joint committees
on Public Welfare predicted last
week that the old age assistance
and children’s aid bill sponsored
by the administration could be re
ported to House and Senate by
Thursday or Friday.
House Finance Chairman Victor
S. Hryant, a member of a sub
committee of House Judiciary Com
mittee No. 1, charged with drafting
a substitute for the state-wide
liquor referendum bill of Mrs.
Charles M. Hutchins of Yancey,
indicated that the measure might
be reported as early as Wednesday
for action by the House.
Decisions on the amount of
money needed for social security
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Care Of 230,000
On His Shoulders
There are tired lines in his face,
but the quizzical look which
Mayor-Provost Marshal Neville
Miller, above, gives the two con
stantly jangling telephones on his
desk at Louisville, seems to indi
cate he is bearing up well enough.
On his shoulders fell the burden of
carying for 230,000 homeless in
flooded Louisville, which was three
fourths under water, threatened by
a water shortage, fire and epidemic
and damaged to the extent of at
least $25,000,000.
Series Dinners
To Clear Deficit
Democratic National Com
mittee Plans To Wipe Oat
’36 Campaign Deficit
Date March 4th
Prices Of National Victory
Dinners Vary In Various
Sections Of Country
Washington, Feb. 1.—The Demo
cratic National Committee is com
pleting plans for wiping out its
1936 presidential campaign deficit
with a series of nation-wide victory
dinners, according to a joint state
ment given out this week by Chair
man James A. Farley and W. For
bes Morgan, treasurer.
The plan as outlined is similar
to that followed last January when
the Jackson day dinners raised
nearly $350,000 with which the
eight-year-old party deficit remain
ing from the 1928 campaign was
wiped out. At that time nearly
2,000 dinners were held in every
state in the Union as well as in
Hawaii, Porto Rico, and the Virgin
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Active Workers are Getting
Results. New Workers Urged
To Start Now And Win Cash
Biggest Extra Vote Offer Now On
MR. PUBLIC, Now is the time to help your favorite campaign
worker to win the $600 cash award. One subscription given now will
count more votes toward the big prills than two will later in
campaign.
WATCH NEXT ISSUE FOR CHANGE IN VOTES
10 MORE WORKERS WANTED
List Of Workers In The “Cash Offer” Campaign and
Votes Accepted For Publication
NAME TOWN VOTES
Mrs. Walter E. Yow .Asheboro . 38,500
Mrs. Iula Routh Jones,.. Franklinville . 39,000
High Point . 35,000
... Asheboro . 36,000
Miss Katherine B. Freeman_Greensboro . 31,000
Mrs. Glenn, Southern
Mrs. Lane Russell
Mrs. Bob Cheshire.
Mrs. Charles Luck
Miss Cora Edwards
Mrs. C. J. Hiatt ..
Miss May Caudle .
Harmon Hastings ..
Hal Lanier .Farmer ...
Mrs. R. V. Anthony.High Point, R. F. D.
Asheboro . 37,000
Seagrove . 35,700
Sophia . 37,000
Trinity . 37,200
Randleman . 20,000
Asheboro . 38,500
20,000
31,000
Mrs. Clarence Ward. Central Falls . 34,000
Mrs. A. B. Copenhaver .Asheboro . 30,000
Mrs. T. A. Jordan .Asheboro . 30«»M)
Miss Dorothy Bennett... Asheboro . 20,000
Harold Ellis .. Millboro . 34>500
Miss Minnie Lee Kennedy.High Point . 20,000
Mrs. John Cameron.Asheboro, R. 2 . 34,400
Miss Etta Kearns .Trinity. R. F. D. . 20,000
M|ss Doris King .Seagrove . 38,000
Miss Loula Andrews .Caraway . 34,000
Mrs. Jesse Crotts .Flint Hill. 20,000
Mrs. M. J. Myrick.Worthville . 20,000
Mrs. Lacy Poole.Coleridge . 36,800
Mj«* Joe Uneberry.Climax, R. 1 . 20,000
3<M),000 Extra Votes For Every $30.00 Club ofF Subscriptions Turned
>n During First Period—Get Your Winning Votes Now.
MORE WORKERS ARE WANTED
—AH candidates are requested to make report to Campaign
™*«e Saturday and Wednesday each week, in person or by mail.
Billion Dollars |
Started Through !
Congress Monday1
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First Bill Including Large
Appropriation Introduced
In House Monday
Early Passage
To Finance Veterans Board
And Social Security Bureau
During This Year
The first regular appropriation
bill carrying a huge fund appeared
in the House on February 1st and
created little stir. More than a
million dollars started rolling
through Congress when this bill
appeared which will provide for
the financing of the Veteran’s ad
ministration, the Social Security
board and other independent agen
cies during the next fiscal year.
Speaker Bankhead sought pass
age by nightfall Wednesday to
make way for legislation extending
President Roosevelt’s trade treaty
powers.
But the House, in time-honored
fashion, devoted the early hours
assigned for appropriations debate
to extraneous matters.
Its appropriations committee, be
fore sending the bill to the floor,
pared $5,950,000 from the total re
quested. A slash of $5,000,000 in
the security board’s salaries and
expense fund accounted for most
of the reduction.
For the second time in a week,
the committee struck at the prac
tice of using WPA workers in
Senate investigations. It wrote into
the bill a provision forbidding gov
ernment agencies to use their reg
ular appropriations for expenses
connected with inquiries ordered by
either branch of Congress alone.
The prohibition would not apply to
investigations ordered jointly by
House and Senate.
Chairman Buchanan, Democrat
of Texas, disapproved the borrow
ing of WPA workers by Senate
committees investigating railway
financing and civil liberties viola
tions.
His committee strongly criticized
“disproportionate expenditures” by
some emergency agencies for print
ing “devoted to overpretentious
publications whose apparent pri
mary objective is to sell their acti
vities to the public.”
(An elaborate report published
by the Resettlement administration
had been criticized previously in
Congress.)
The committee added $1,000,000
to the $8,500,000 sought for the
Housing administration, on the
ground that many communities had
not been afforded the home mort
gage insurance benefits offered by
the FHA.
The largest single items in the
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Mrs. May Evans Gets
Washington Post
Receives Appointment As
sistant Director Woman’s
Division Natn’l Com.
Raleigh, Feb. 1.—The appoint
ment of May Thompson Evans of
Raleigh, North Carolina, as as
sistant director of the women’s di
vision of the Democratic National
Committee was announced by Miss
Mary W. Dewson, vice chairman of
the committee, today. Mrs. Evans
will assume the position on March
1, with offices in the National Press
Building in Washington.
She resigned recently as director
of the North Carolina State Em
I ployment Service and National Re
employment Service, a position she
has held for the past year and a
half. She is one of the four wo
men in the country to hold a state
directorship in this important New
Deal Agency. Previous to this post,
she served as state supervisor and
assistant director in the National
Reemployment Service. She has al
so been a member of the State Em
ployment Insurance commission.
Mrs. Evans has a vibrant per
sonality and keen intelligence. She
is widely known for her ability as
a speaker and an organizer. In
1932, first as vice president and
then as president of the North
Carolina Young. Democrats she
toured all the congressional dis
tricts in the state building up a
strong organization.
Upon graduation from West
hampton College in Richmond, Vir
ginia, she taught in the public
schools of Detroit, then went to
Columbia University where she
took her Master’s degree. For
four years she was on the faculty
of the Woman’s college of the
University of North Carolina at
Greensboro. At one time she was
recording clerk of the Senate Con
stitution Committee of North Caro
lina.
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THOUSANDS OF
ONLY OPEN
FUGEES JAM
OAD TO MEMPHIS
Out of the lowlands of eastern1 Arkansas and Missouri came this
never-ending stream of refugees across the Harahan bridge into
Memphis. It was the only open route into the city and from the-flood
districts of the devastating Ohio and Mississippi rivers came the
stricken residents—in autos, trucks, carts, on muleback and in wagons.
All carried supplies and movable belongings. Some drove livestock be
fore them. Memphis, already caring for 10,000 among which were 500
cases of influenza and uncounted Other ailments, prepared to receive
50,000 and prayed the city would be spared an epidemic.
Senator Ingram 01 Randolph
Urges 12 Months Teacher’s Pay
Is Of Opinion That Legisla
ture Is Dispatching Work
With Considerable Speed
An interview with state Senator
Henry L. Ingram of Randolph con
cerning his bill relates to teachers’
pay which he discussed from the
Raleigh radio station recently. The
bill has attracted considerable in
terest throughout the entire state.
Mr. Ingram is on several com
mittees this year. He is chairman
of the committee for counties, cities
and towns, and a member of the
following committees: constitution
al amendments; courts and judicial
districts; federal relations; fin
ances; Insurance; intemational im
provements; Journal; justices of
the peace; public roads and salaries
and fees. In discussing the progress
made by the legislature, Mr. In
gram said:
“The legislature is making the
most progress in a shorter time
than I have ever seen and other
people who have had more ex
perience say the same. A very con
troversial question was disposed of
yesterday in the joint finance com
mittee meeting when the sub-com
mittee report on sales tax was
adopted ih toto. In other words, a
three per cent tax with exemptions
on nine basic foods, ices, and doc
tors’ prescriptions filled by drug
gists, and exemption of meals was
recommended. This, as you know,
carries out the pledge of the
Democratic state platform and was
advocated by Mr. Hoey in the gen
eral campaign.”
“I have written a number of
people in Asheboro relative to
funds which will be available for
vocational education in the hope
that they will lay plans to make
use of at least our proportionate
parts of the money and it is my
opinion that we must begin teach
ing our boys and girls in high
school something of the vocational
nature. The percentage graduated
from high school who attend col
leges in further additional pre
paration for work in the world is j
very small—less than 10 per cent,
in fact—and I believe that if these
young people are taught in high
school trades by means of which j
they can make a living, it will be a ]
forward step in building better and ■
more satisfied citizenship. I
Concerning the teachers’ pay bill,
Mr. Ingram said:
“The bill which I have introduc
ed providing for the payment of
teachers’ salaries in twelve equal
monthly installments is the result
of careful study of this question on
my part, and is in accordance with
the expressed wish of many teach- j
ers who have discussed this pro- '
blem with me. The bill as proposed j
will not add to the cost of the
schools but will simply divide the.
regular salary provided into twelve j
payments instead of eight. Under
the present method of payment,
teachers often go for the entire
summer period without any income
whatsoever. This means a struggle
throughout the term to catch up
with expenses. It is my thought
that the plan proposed in the bill
would provide a regular monthly
income even though the monthly
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Two Children Are
Hurt On Tuesday
Virginia Moody Seriously
Hurt And George Teague
SHghfly Injured •
One In Hospital
Children Said To Have Been
Running To Catch Bus
When Accident Occurred
Two Balfour school children were
: hurt about 8 o’clock Tuesday
j morning when struck by a truck
| driven by Curtis Davis as they
were crossing the highway to their
school bus. The accident occurred
in front of Hamlet’s filling station
north of town on the Greensboro
highway.
The injured children are Virginia
Moody, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Charlie Moody, and George Teague,
Jr., Son of Mr. and Mrs. George
Teague. The little Moody girl suff
ered a broken leg and head in
juries and is in the Randolph hos
pital. The boy’s injuries are not so
serious and include a injured hand
and after treatment at the hospital
he went home. Both are about 8
years old and in the second grade.
According to County School Sup
erintendent T. Fletcher Bulla and
others who have been checking on
the accident, a group of some 15
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Asheboro Groundhog Has An
Opportunity To See Shadow
With all the bad weather of the
past two months, surely the little
groundhog would be forced to peep
rise nose out from his den and sniff
the rare sunshine of Tuesday morn
ing. Opinion is divided as to wheth
er he can see his shadow anytime
during the day and that will affect
the ensuing forty days, or whether
it is at 12 o’clock. Anyway, the
little animal has had ample op
portunity to see that shadow.
The groundhog myth, or fact as
it may be, is especially interesting
in Asheboro where a little ground
hog resides—the property of the
Green family.
Grounny is the pet groundhog of
Jeff Green, son of Mr. and Mrs. W.
M. Green of Kivett street. Grounny
had quite a checkered career be
fore being adopted by Jeff. Cap
tured when a youngster in the Blue
! Ridge mountains of Virginia he
i seemed destined to be eaten until
i he took the fancy of George Kivett.
I who was living in Virginia at that
time. Mr. Kivett bought him and
j sent him to Tink Phillips, the son
j of Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Phillips,
i Grounny proved too much for Tink
i to take care of, so he was present
i ed to Jeff, and the two have gotten
'along famously ever since.
New about three years old,
Grounny is a fat, well-grown young
fellow. He tips the scales at about
Commissioners
Restore Salary
Cuts In Randolph
Ten Percent Cut Made Dur
ing Depression Is Restored
To Three County Officers
Deputies Included
Contract For Tax Supplies Is
Placed; Road Petitions
Heard; To Meet Feb. 10
A matter which has been of great
interest in Randolph county for
some time and which has been a
cause of considerable discussion
both pro and con was settled Mon
day when the county board of com
missioners voted to restore the
salaries of county officials to the
amount paid them prior to the 10
per cent reduction during the de
pression. Delegations of citizens
have appeared before the board
several times on behalf of this
move.
The restoration of salaries was
effective February 1, the day the
action was taken. Those included in
the raise are the sheriff, the clerk
of court, the registrar of deeds, and
the deputies of each of these of
ficers.
The $50,000 worth of revenue
anticipation notes dated January
28, 1937, maturing May 28, 1937,
have been purchased by the Cabar
rus Bank & Trust company of
Concord. The interest rate is to be
6 per cent, with a premium of
$876, the amount of interest being
$124 on $50,876 for four months.
A contract for tax supplies for
1937 w as awarded to Burkhead-De
Vane Printing company of Fayette
ville.
It was ordered that Otis R.
Holder be exempt from peddler’s:
tax because of his being a disabled
war veteran.
Several petitions for new roads
and road improvements were dis
cussed and ordered sent to the
highway commission for action.
These included the opening of a
■ road from Highway 77 to the
j Greensboro highway, a distance of
| about a mile; the opening of a road
i from Clark Hinshaw’s on Highway
| 77 to join the Greensboro highway
! at White Hall; and the improve
! ment of the Worthville-Central
[ Falls road.
The board adjourned to meet in
1 a call session February 10.
INFLUENZA PREVALENT IN
COUNTY IN JANUARY
Influenza and chicken pox, with
27 and 23 cases respectively, were
the chief forms of disease in Ran
dolph county in January, the coun
ty health office reports. Other di
seases were reported as follows:
chancroid, 1; diphtheria, 2; Ger
man measles, 1; gonorrhea, 19;
| pneumonia, 16; pellagra, 1; scarlet
I fever, 5; syphilis, 20; tuberculosis,
i 1; and whooping cough, 3.
Undergoes Operation
! Mrs. Vance Welborn underwent
an operation at a High Point hos
pital on Tuesday morning and is
reported to be progressing satis
factorialy. Mrs. Welborn is the
former Miss Alice Lewallen of
Asheboro.
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JEFF AND GROUNNY
six pounds, and can take care of
himself against all comers, being
willing any time to mix it with a
warring cat or small dog, and
knowing without getting rattled
the best places to seek cover if the
dog is too large.
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Workers WubAre In To
Win Are Striving Hard
During Big Vote Offer
When Lawrence Lipton, English
flyer at right, takes off in August
in the New York to Paris Inter
national Air Races, his 15-year-old
son, John, left, may act as his co
pilot. The boy has flown 400
hours.
Bitter Fight In
P. 0. Civil Service
Fight Expected Over Bill
Placing Postmasters Under
Civil Service
To Affect 13,729
Ramspeck Measure Has Mul
tidinous Aspects That Will
Probably Invoke Figjit
Boy, 15, May
Fly Atlantic
An especially bitter fight is ex
pected in Congress over the matter
of civil service for postmasters.
The bill will affect 13,729 post
masters of'first, second and third
class offices and a bitter fight over
the confirmation of the bill will
probably be a highlight of the ses
sion.
The act as passed by the House
reveals that provisions are not so
rigid as were rules and regulations
that had been made under the Pres
ident’s executive order of last June
placing postmasters under civil
service with requirement that the
one making the highest grade must
be appointed. The new law simply
establishes a list of three eligibles
from which a new postmaster shall
be named. It does not prohibit the
civil service commission or the
Postmaster General from following
the advice of a Senator or Con
gressman in making selections.
The Ramspeck measure provides
that first, second, and third class
postmasters shall be appointed
without terms by the Postmaster
General under the provisions of the
civil service act of 1,883. Incumbent
postmasters will be permitted to
serve out their four-year terms.
Then they may be re-appointed
without a limit on their terms after
passing a non-competitive ex
amination conducted by an agent
of the civil service commission, or
by filling out a questionnaire. If
the Postmaster General does not
rename the incumbent, he may pro
mote a postal employe in the de
livery area of the post office on
the same basis, or, finally, he may
call upon the civil service commis
sion to hold open, competitive ex
aminations. I
The three persons making the
highest rating would be placed on
the eligible list for appointment,
with a Senator or House member
interested free to make recommen
dations to the Postmaster General,
provided they are of the political
party in power.
Already a movement is on foot
in the Senate to reserve the right
to confirm postmasters with no
minations by the President. Should
such a provision be placed in the
Ramspeck bill, it would give the
Senate complete veto power.
The age limit for appointment of
first class postmasters is 65 years
and for others, 67. It is estimated
that the average age of all post
masters in the service is 55 years.
With the retirement age of postal
employes fixed under the law at
65 to 70 years, based upon service,
it is estimated that in 10 years two
thirds of the postmasters, if all
were retained at expiration of their
terms, and continued to serve,
would have passed out of the ser
vice.
Jimmy Field Better
Jimmy Lee Field, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Murray Field, who has
been confined to his home for a
week with an attack of influenza,
has improved rapidly and is now a
great deal better.
Cash For Every
Willing Worker
Subscribers Urged To Give
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Count Most
Still Room For More
Workers In Campaign
One Subscription Now Counts
More Votes Than Two Will
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Saturday night, February 6th, is
the end of the biggest votes oil
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This offer was made to boost early
workers and to attract new mem
bers. By turning in to campaign
headquarters $30 worth of old and
new subscriptions on or before
Saturday night, any member may
obtain 300,000 extra votes. Two
clubs would earn 600,000 extra
votes and so on. Get as many of
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when opportunity knocks at our
door, we seldom recognize it. The
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woman in this territory an op
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they have probably dreamed of all
their lives—a new car—the down
payment on a new home—the start
of a college education—a vacation
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The “Cash Offer” campaign
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termination to CREATE PROS
PERITY FOR THEMSELVES.
Many wait until late in life and
then say, “I never had an oppor
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Success or failure, is in very few
cases a matter of luck. It depends
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Flood Residents
Take No Chances
The army met with unexpected
difficulties in its task of moving
residents of Arkansas and Missouri
from their homes in the path of the
flood to safety. Before the army
could move these people it had to
learn to simplify its language.
The army first sent out notices
to those endangered by the flood to
“evacuate.” Reaching the scene
later to help in the evacuation,
army officers found the residents
sitting tight. They weren’t going
to take any chances in such a dang
erous situation about doing any
“evacuating” when they didn’t
know what the word meant. As
soon as the officers explained that
all they had to do was move ev
thing was fine and the tangle
straightened itself.