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volume lxi
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February 2. 1876
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September 13, 1879
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ASHEBORO, N. C., TUESDAY, FEB. 9, 1937.
PUBLISHED TUESDAY, THURSDAY AND SUNDAY
NUMBER 1
Governor s Plan
Reorganizing N. C.
Highway System
Measure Now Under Discus
sion In House; Many Drastic
Changes Proposed
To Increase Board
Governor Hocy Has Not Con
sidered Naming New Head
At Present Time
Among the “must” measures fac
ing the North Carolina legislature
is the revamping of the state high
way organization. This measure
was slated for discussion this after
noon in the house.
The proposal, last of the major
inaugural recommendations of Gov
ernor Hoey to be submitted to the
law-makers, provides for division
of the state into 10 highway dis
tricts, with a man from each dis
trict being appointed by the gov
ernor, would increase the member
ship of that body to 11.
Although Hoey’s original recom
mendation* called for only nine dis
tricts, he said in an interview to
day he had requested that the bill
be drawn to provide 10 districts so
there would be an odd number on
the commission, eliminating the
possibility of tie votes, and because
it had proven easier to divide the
state into 10 geographical units.
He declined to say whether
Capus M. Waynick, present chair
man of the highway and public
works commission, would be re
tained as head of the new body.
“I haven’t had time to think
about that yet or about the ap
pointment of commissioners,” he
stated. “The measure would not be
come effective until July 1.”
Under the bill, all commission
members, except the chairman,
would be paid on a per diem basis.
Delegations interested in road bet
terments would appear before the
-MMimssionee in their district, in
stead of presenting their requests
to the full commission. Appeals
could be made to the full commis
sion, however.
The chairman of the commission
would receive not more than $7,500
a year and his tenure of office
would be six years. Four members
of the'commission would serve two
years. Three for four years and
three for six years. Members of
the commission would receive $10
a day while in discharge of their
duties.
Under the proposed plan, the
state would be divided into ten
districts. Randolph would be align
ed with Chatham, Hoke, Lee, Scot
land, Montgomery, Moore, Rich
mond, and Robeson counties.
Dog Was Right;
Miner Rescued
1
His dog playing a hero’s role,
Robert P. Jofinson, top photo, 3G,
was brought out alive from the
Flemington, W. Va., mine in which
he was trapped eight days and
nine nights. When Johnson, wh,>
dug coal in the abandoned shaft
for sale to neighbors, disappeared,
his dog, lower photo, led searchers
to a subterranean pool. Guided by
this tip, rescuers drained the
pool and found Johnson trapped
behind a slate fall on the other
side.
Prefers College
To Being Mayor
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Unusual 1s tttrrase*t)f Drrirfw:
Harber, middle aged millionaire
who resigned as mayor of Semin
ole, Oklahoma, in order to go back
to college.
He is enrolled as an unclassified
student at the University of Okla
homa, committed to such studies as
Spanish, English, government and
economics. He surprised the
Seminole City Council Tuesday
night, when he announced his
resignation, saying only that he
would be away for several months.
“I have never been able,” said Dr.
Harber, “to break away to do some
of the things I wanted to do. Now
I think, perhaps, I may study the
rest of my life.”
He first became mayor in 1937
and was reelected twice afterward.
Extra $25 Cash Prize For
This Week Creates Wave
Of New Enthusiasm
C9PC nn in cash to the candidate who turns in the largest amount
V tl.VMJ uf money for subscriptions from Monday, February
8th, to Saturday, February 13th.
WHO WILL WIN?
282,000 Extra Vote Offer On $30 “Clubs”
Ends Saturday Evening
A BIGGER DROP IN VOTES NEXT WEEK!
With the race so close most candidates listed here have a re
®»rkable chance of winning. Final showing may depend on whai
Ihey do by Saturday. Work now!
CHANGE OF VOTES IN NEXT ISSUE
NAME TOWN VOTES
Walter E. Yow ., . . Asheboro . 49,200
lula (touch Jones,.Franklinville . 48,000
t “,88 Cagle .Archdale . 40,000
Katherine B. Freeman .... Greensboro . 4»»
Bob Cheshire.....Asheboro . 47,
*«• Charles Luck .Seagrove . 43,00 )
S'88 Cora Edwards.Sophia . 44,000
C. J. Hiatt . Trinity .•. 39,000
May Caudle. Randleman . 20,000
•naon Hastings.Asheboro .. 48,0
Eanier .Farmer . 20,000
R- V. Anthony.High Point, R. F. D.. 36,000
Clarence Ward.Central Falls . 43,401
A. B. Copenhaver.Asheboro . 36,50
Ellis .Millboro . 42,500
! Minnie Lee Kennedy.High Point . 42,000
John Cameron.Asheboro, R. 2 . 45,500
Etta Kearns ..Trinity, R. F. D. .. 42,000
.Seagrove . 46,000
i Uneberry.Climax, R. 1 . 20.000
Books Open For a Few New Workers Who Are Not
Afraid of a Little Competition—Enter Now.
>rt — Wednesday and Saturday.
1 Dor U
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Randolph County
Ministers Meet
Business Lunch
--
Rev. H. P. Powell And Gerald
Ford Hosts To Ministers
At Monthly Meeting
Discuss Prohibition
Gambling And State Control
Of Whiskey Form Basis
For Resolutions
Members of the Randolph Coun
ty Ministerial Association held a
luncheon meeting Monday at noon
at the First Methodist church din
ing room. Rev. H. P. Powell, pastor
of the church and Gerald Ford,
director of young people’s activit
ies, were hosts at this meeting over
which Rev. H. M. Stroup, new
president of the group, presided. D.
B. McCrary, chairman of the board
of stewards of the church, was a
special guest of the association at
this luncheon business meeting. Mr.
McCrary welcomed the ministers
to the church in a cordial fashion
before the business began.
From the standpoint of attend
ance this was the best meeting
since the association was organiz
ed in 1935, twenty-eight being
present, and representing the vai •
ious denominations in all parts of
the county. The following new
members were added to the roll:
Paul R. Taylor, Liberty; John W.
Simpson, Itandleman; R. M. Ross,
Ramseur; P. F. Snider, Cedar
Falls; O. P. Ader, Coleridge; and
N. M. Harrison, Asheboro. Rev. W.
E. McDowell, and Revs; J. B. and
Mrs. J. B. Fulp were present as
invited guests.
The pastor, Rev. H. P. Powell,
provided an interesting and pleas
ing feature of the meeting in a
carry-over from his Sunday night
service at which time his church
observed Moody Day. A large life
“rac cccfting1 T7i i«r. iuOOaX wao ci*
fectively displayed at the pulpit,
showing him in a preaching pose.
Miss Johnson, the church organist,
played a number of revival songs
frequently used in Mr. Moodj s
meetings. This novel and unex
pected feature of the program pro
vided an interesting and pleasing
ten minutes for the ministers.
The regular routine business had
its normal course. Arrangements
made for next meeting include an
address by Rev. S. W. Taylor on
“The Major Problems in a Minist
er’s Work.”
A matter of much concern to the
association is the liquor legislation
pending at Raleigh. The ministers
think of liquor as not only a social,
but a moral and religious problem
—one, if not the major, evils of the
world. A joint resolution of the
county association and the Ashe
boro association, embodying the
feeling and the judgment of these
two groups, was unanimously pass
ed and ordered sent to the Hon.
Henry Ingram, Randolph county
senator.
The resolution follows:
The marked tendency toward
gambling is a matter of grave con
cern to the pastors. Modern gambl
ing devices are so subtly conceiv
ed that the casual observer and
participator is liable not to sense
the danger of such devices and
such practices as they encourage.
Any device that promises little for
less, or much for nothing, may well
be questioned as to its social and
moral effect.
Be It resolved, That we, the Ran
dolph County Ministerial Associa
tion and the Asheboro Ministerial
Association, meeting in Asheboro
today, jointly and unanimously de
clare ourselves as follows on the
liquor issue now pending in our
legislature:
1. We are uncompromisingly op
posed to the bill recently passed by
the house, and now pending in the
senate, providing for the state-wide
sale of liquor by county option.
2. We respectfully urge our
senator, the Honorable Henry In
gram, to oppose this bill when it
comes up for action in the senate.
3. We are in complete accord
wfth the idea of a state wide re
ferendum on the issue, as advocat
ed by Governor Hoey in his cam
paign for governor, and recom
mended by him to the legislature
in his inaugural address. The peo
ple of the state have spoken twice
on the matter, and each time they
have declared themselves over
whelmingly against liquor. Before
we depart from this policy, demo
cracy in government demands that
the people, by their registered ’’"ill
at the polls, should order such
change.
4. We beg to further urge upon
our senator, the wisdom of sup
porting, by his vote and his in
fluence, the governor’s recom
mendation of a state wide refer
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Mentioned As New Court Justices
■ i. V in » i i ■ ■■■—i-.'
Among those mentioned as posable appointees to the supreme
court in the event President RoosdjMt’s court enlargement progrant
becomes law, left to right, top rovf: Donald Richberg, former NRA
administrator; Jadge Florence E. Allen of the sixth circuit court of
appeals; Felix Frankfurter, presidential adviser. Lower row, left to
right: Attorney General Homer S. Cummings, Senator Robert F.
Wagner, Solicitor General Stanley'F, Reed.
Contributions Of Workers At
McCrary, Acute,; Sapona Mills
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Courier.
January Births
Exceeding Deaths
Births in Asheboro'and the coun
ty were far in advance of the num
ber of deaths for January, the
county health office reports, after
two months when deaths and births
were practically equal.
In the city there were 15 births,
13 white and 2 colored, and only
6 deaths, all white. In Asheboro
township, outside the city limits,
there were four additional births,
all white, and one white and one
colored death.
The total of births for the coun
ty was 69, 61 of them being white
and 8 colored. -There were 30
deaths, 26 white and 4 colored.
There were two white stillbirths
in the county, one of these being
in Asheboro.
Dr.. Pearman of the division of
oral hygiene of the state board of
health, began a dental clinic in the
Randleman school Monday. Dr.
Pearman will later conduct similar
clinics in other schools in Randolph.
Dr. L. C. Holliday, colored
dentist who has been working in
the Asheboro cqlored school, began
on Mpnday a series of clinics in
the colored rural schools.
Powells Tp Florida
Rey. Howard. P.. Powell, Mrs.
Powell, and Mrs, Powell’s mother,
Mrs. Lettie Rich,, will leave Wed
nesday for a trip to Florida. They
vtoll visit in Miami and Sarasota in
addition to stopping at other points
of interest. Mr. Powell plans to re
turn in about a week, but Mrs.
Powell and Mra. Rich will be away
for some time.
pearly $1000,Raised For Ran
Fund In These Mills
Among the keenest in response
to the call for contributions to the
Randolph Red Cross Relief Fund
have been the employees of the
McCrary interests. With the work
ers .atr the McCrary Hosiery Mills,
Acme Hosiery Mills, and Sapona
Cotton Mills all participating, and
the mill officials matching the sums
donated by their employees, close
to $1,000 dollars was raised.
Following is a list of the em
ployees of these mills who have
helped the Red Cross drive:
J. R. Brown .$ 1.00
Dossie Lewis . 1.00
Tyson Foster.25
Edwin Hill . 1.00
Grace Lowe. 1.00
Novie Cagle . 1.00
Esther Tucker.50
Pearl Horne.60
Edith Cranford. 1.00
Zena Brown . ' 1.00
Ruth Hursey . 1.00
Elsie Quick . 4.00
Lola Hinshaw.50
D. T. Wall . 1.00
J. C. Pearce . 1.00
Alfred Beane.50
B. F. Lewis . 1.00
Agnes Kennedy . 1.00
Florence Jenkins.50
Bertha Cooper ...50
Grace Strider . 1.00
Robert Hunsucker. 1.00
Cline Cockerharn . 1.00
G. D. Andrews . 1.00
Cammie Clark . 1.^0
Berta Wise.o()
Alice Hall . 1.00
Worth Foster . 1.00
Coble Maness . 1.00
Henry Bulla . 5.00
Lester "Farlow . 1.00
Carl Luck. 1.00
Lula Lowe. 1.00
E. K. McLeod.50
Clyde Hendricks. 1.00
! Stena Cagle . 1-00
Leon Jones . L00
Irene Dickens . 1-00
John Branson... L00
Daisy Trogdon .50
Atress King.50
Elsie Cagle . L00
Eli Bdone ................ 1.00
N. D. Ray . 1-00
Blanche Cox.25
Evelyn Jones.25
Mary Boone.26
Gladys Brown .25
Elizabeth Wallace.50
Mary Lee Cooper.50
Mardecia Maness.50
Bettie Poole.50
Minnie Moffitt . *50
Margaret Lewis.50
Iola Clark . LOO
Pauline Lewallen.50
Odell Wright.50
Myrtle Hogan.25
Edith Rush . 100
Esther Hooker.50
Minnie Hinshaw. 50
Estelle Vestal .25
Janie Loman .251
(Continued from page 2)
Superior Court
Begins A Second
Week’s Session
Tedious Details Slow Down
Progress Of This Special
Term Of Randolph Court
Restores Citizenship
Judge Felix Alley Presiding
Over Two Week’s Special
Session
The court was able to cover only
a few cases Monday, chief of which
was the handing down of judgment
in the case of Mack Pickett vs.
John M. Allred et al. The case,
concerning a mule which died soon
after it was sold as being sound,
was complicated by several issues.
The court held that Mack Pickett,
plaintiff, and S. A. Pickett, de
fendant, recover of the defendant,
John M. Allred, the sum of $165
plus 6 per cent interest. It also de
clared that Mack Pickett and S.
A. Pickett are the owners of a
second mule on which a chattel
mortgage was taken out as se
curity for the mule that died, and
ordered that they have possession
of the mule; also that they recover
from John M. Allred and E. H.
Cranford the sum of $320. It was
finally held that Allred is foreclos
ed of his equity in the mule and
A. I. Ferree be appointed to sell
the mule.
Judge Felix Alley, who is presid
ing over this special session,
granted a restoration of citizenship
to George M. Vuncannon.
The case of the Bank of Ran
dolph vs Zell Brown, administrator,
was taken up, but the court ad
journed with the matter still pend
ing. The case was continued Tues
day morning and consumed most of
the day.
Brother Of Local
Man Dies Sunday
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Bass were
called to South Boston, Va., Sun
day night by the death of Mr.
Bass’ brother, Carl Bass, who died
in Louisville, Kentucky, where he
was employed by a hardware firm.
The body will be brought to Rich
mond for burial. Details of the
funeral have not been arranged.
Lowell Bass, another brother, has
gone to Louisville to bring back
the body.
Carl Bass suffered a fractured
skull in an accident Saturday, but I
was believed to be recovering until
spinal meningitis set in, and he
succumbed Sunday morning. He
had been on duty aiding in flood
relief for ten days and nights, his
place of business having been
turned into a relief center, and
for a large part of the time he had
been working in water up to his
knees, and that it is believed that
a lower resistance due to these
causes was largely responsible for
his death.
Ministers Talk
Of Prohibition
The regular meeting of the Ashe- I
boro Ministerial Association was
held Monday morning in the
directors’ room of the First Na- ,
tional Bank. The president, Dr. S.
W. Taylor, was in charge of the
meeting.
The matter of greatest moment
taken up by the association was the
proposed liquor legislation now be -
ing worked out in Raleigh. A re- j
solution was passed approving the J
plan for a state wide referendum
by popular vote and opposing the (
legal sale of liquor in the counties
by local option. Plans were made
for several Asheboro ministers to
attend the hearing Thursday on
the local option liquor bill before a
senate Judiciary Committee.
Such usual items as attendance'
and coming church work consumed I
the remainder of the session.
MEDICAL SOCIETY
HOLDS DINNER MEET
The Randolph County Medical
Society held its annual banquet at
5 o’clock Monday evening in the
Randolph hospital. The members of
the society dispensed with the ser
vices of a speaker and devoted
themselves to the enjoyment of the
dinner.
A brief business session at 4:30
preceded the banquet.
Tonight at 8:30 the staff of the
hospital will hold its regular meet
ing, which had been postponed |
from February 2. ,
Attends Kelvinator Meeting
Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Amos, Jr.,
are spending today in Raleigh,
where Mr. Amos is attending
meeting of Kelvinator dealers.
Special Club Vote And
$25 “Extra” Cash Prize
Creating New Interest
Hearty Response
By Subscribers
- Very Gratifying*
The people of Randolph and
adjoining counties have respon
ded in a spirit most gratifying
to the publishers of The Courier
in the Big Cash Offer campaign
which is now in progress.
Hundreds of friends and ac
quaintances of . the candidates
came forward with their sub
scription and renewals during
the first period which ended
Saturday night, making that
period a huge success from the
standpoint of circulation and
cash returns.
We appreciate the splendid
effort put forth by our candi
dates in the campaign up to this
time in covering a wide area on
this special vote offer and extra
$25.00 cash prize offer and feel
sure that they will lose no time
on the new offer of extra votes
while they are still much higher
than they will be after February
13th.
Call Meeting Of
Town Board Mon.
Called To Pass On Resolution
Concerning PWA Grant For
Financing Building
Plans To Government
Name Will Be Changed From
Community To Municipal
Building Under New Plan
A call meeting of the city
board of commissioners was held
Monday evening, the chief object
of the session being to pass on a
resolution asking for a PWA
grant for the financing of the new
municipal building. This was more
or less of a formality as the same
resolution had already been passed
with regard to a community build
ing, and the move at this meeting
was in the nature of an amendment
substituting the term municipal
bUilding.
The commissioners also authoriz
ed Walter A. Bunch and Walter E.
Yow to furnish the government
with such information as it re
quired in regard to the city’s plans
i for erecting the building and fin
ancing its share of the cost. The
WPA has stated that the more
clear and detailed is the data the
better will be the chance of hav
ing the project pushed through
quickly.
The board considered several
other improvement projects but
took no action on them at this
meeting. Routine matters were left
for the next regular meeting of the
| board.
Officers Elected
By Farmers Coop
The members of the Randolph
Farmers Coop held their first an
nual meeting Saturday in the
warehouse.
Directors for 1937 were elected
as follows: W. R. Brown, Charlie
Kearns, Frantz Macon, John Jack
son, and M. Clinton Aurnan. The
directors then chose Mr. Brown as
president and Mr. Kearns as vice i
president.
The progress made by the coop
since its organization during the |
past summer was brought out at
the meeting. It is now running
smoothly and the members arc I
looking forward to continued deve- j
lopment.
Another Randolph
Firm Incorporates
Another of the numerous Ran
dolph county firms to incorporate
recently is the Smith Motor Com
pany of Liberty, which filed notice
of incorporation Monday. Associat
ed in the company are C. P. Smith, j
Jr., C. Troy Smith, and Elizabeth j
D. Smith, all of Liberty.
The firm will have authorized
capital stock of $100,000; the sub
scribed stock is $300. The principal
office will be Liberty. The firm will
“buy, sell, and otherwise deal in
new and used automobiles, trucks,
tractors, and all motor vehicles.”
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Bigger Vote Drop
After Saturday, 13
Worker Turning In Most
Money This Week Will Win
Extra $25 Prize
New Workers Can
Enter And Win $25
This Week Is The Time To
Build A Reserve Of Votes
To Win $600 Award
It can be truly said that the real
campaign for the big cash awards
is just starting. With the announce
ment this week of the second big
extra bonus vote offer which lasts /
only one week the candidates are
striving with renewed interest and
enthusiasm for the big awards.
Candidates realize that this special
vote offer lasts only six days and
then comes a greater drop in votes,
and are losing no time on this im
portant period.
Extra Prize
Twenty-five dollar ($25.00) extra
cash prize will be awarded the
candidate who turns in the most
money for both old and new sub
scriptions to The Courier from
Monday, February 8th to Saturday
evening, February 13th.
Extra Votes
Here is another offer given the
willing workers in the campaign
to further enhance their possibil
ities of winning one of the bigger
awards. It will, no doubt, be a
pleasant surprise., to each and
everyone who is in the race to
succeed, to know they will have
another opportunity to further in
crease their vote totals this week.
This new offer is a very liberal one
indeed, and can be made the means
of securing enough votes to carry
one to victory.
It follows: 282,000 Extra Votes
will be credited on each and every
$30 “club” in subscription pay
ments turned in this week. New
subscriptions and old subscriptions
will count. It is the very best extra
vote offer that will be made from
now on and is almost as good an
offer as the one which closed last
Saturday night.
This extra vote offer will last
just one week and will end Satur
day night, February 15th. It is
“short and sweet” and too much
importance cannot be placed upon
it. The workers now will be the
winners when the campaign ends,
and there is no time for hesitation
on the part of anyone who desires
to win one of the biggest awards.
The offer this week is a golden
opportunity for new members to
enter the race and win. You can
put your spare time on a revenue
basis, if you will but grasp the
opportunity offered you under this
week’s offer. Get them in this week
and don’t wait until Saturday to do
the entire week’s work. The wise
ones will start out early with de
termination to make this week’s re
port the very best possible.
It would be hard to find a person
who does not desire the cash re
presented in any of the awards
oirfered. The motives actuating
members who seek one of the
handsome cash awards at stake
are many and varied, but under
lying them all is the fact that in
this campaign it is possible to ac
quire something of tangible worth
in return for spare time. It isn’t
often that spare time can be made
so productive.
Mrs. May Hall Gets
Theatre Tickets
To Mrs. May Byrd Hall goes
the prize for the best news tip
■for this issue of The Courier.
Mrs. Hall telephoned the news
of the deatfi of J. A. Goodman,
who died in North Asheboro
Tuesday morning.
Mrs. Hall will receive two
tickets to the Carolina Theatre
for the Wednesday evening
stage show, “Girls In Platinum,”
or “Pennies From Heaven on <
Thursday.
The next tickets will be for
“Outcast”, which will be
at the Capitol Theatre o
day and Saturday,
bring your news tips
and receive two free
tickets as a reward for
efforts.