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Oldest Paper Published In Randolph County
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ASHEB0R07n~C., TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 1937?
Changed To The Courier
September 13, 1373
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awmakers Would
lave Tax Revenue
Of No-Man’s Land
[illions Of Acres In Several
Southern States On Tax
Hooks As No-Man's I .and
Florida State-Owned
fcovernor Cone States That
Half The Area Of Florida
Off Tax Rolls
A press dispatch from Atlanta
Announces that millions of acres of
■and in the south are catalogued
In the lax books as “no man’s
land" and have been taken over
ly the various states because of
lax delinquency. Lawmakers are
lurnihg their attention toward the
troblem with an eye to making
these tracts again revenue produc
ing sources.
| Tax books in half a dozen states
Ihowed large holdings of delin
quent lands—in one case half the
area of a state.
Attention was focused anew on
Ihe problem of Governor Fred l’.
Tone of Florida in addressing legis
lators recently. He informed them
17,000,000 acres, or half the total
(rea of Florida, are off tax rolls.
Two states have laws enabling
lunation of such land to home
(teaders, as suggested for Florida
|y Governor Cone, thereby rcturu
ng it to a taxable basis.
Arkansas, under a 1933 statute,
ermits donation of as much us
|(JO acres for $10 to homesteaders.
Land Commissioner Otis Page said
roster-day a rush to obtain dona
tions indicated a “back to the farm
movement’ ’is under way in the
fetnte.
Louisiana, hplding title to about
boo,000 acres, also has a home
stead law but has made no use of
(he provision thus far.
I From one to five years is allow
ed by Southern States for redeem
ing foreclosed property,
j Charges of fraud halted sales of
ktute-owned land in Mississippi. An
investigation is in progress, and
Jdrastie changes are expected in the
■aw permitting sales. Officials esti
[matc between 1,500,000 and 2,000,
100 acres are off the Mississippi
| tax lists.
Attorney General Roy Beeler of
(Tennessee reported his state “pos
jsibly holds title to thousands on
[thousands of acres” without know
ling it. County officials hold tax
■ delinquent sales and buy in prop
j erty for the state.
I In Georgia, officials said few ex
ecutions have been made because
counties have been required to pay
taxes to the state after taking over
the property. The law was amend
ed this year to make such pay
ments unnecessary until the prop
erty is sold or redeemed.
Owners in Alabama have until
1939 to redeem property now de
[ linquent under an act approved last
[year. The legislature also passed a
[iaw exempting homesteads oc
cupied by owners up to $2,000
j valuation from the state 6 1-2 mill
levy.
Florida also has exempted home
steads up to $5,000 assessed valua
[tion and officials regard the prob
[lem of returning tax delinquent
[land to a revenue producing status
las a major one for the legislature.
SThe homestead exemption law re
moved $00,000,000 of taxable prop -
erty from Florida rolls.
Lake Junaluska
Program Prepared
The Methodist assembly at Lake
Junaluska will have an increased
program of activiteis during the
coming season, June 27 to August
31, according to Prof. J. M. Or
mond, of Duke university, who has
just been named program manager
by the assembly trustees.
Professor Ormond, who has
served as dean of the North Caro
lina Pastors’ school and the Rural
church institute, states that an en
larged program of recreation,
music, dramatics, and other activi
ties will be carried out this year.
The assembly program this year
will feature missions, educational
evangelism, and social service.
One of the south’s beauty spots,
Lake Junaluska annually attracts
thousands of visitors, not only
those in attendance at the various
conferences but vacationists and
summer tourists.
)r. Weston Makes
Milk Inspection
Dr. B. M. Weston, milkg in
spector, having completed Iris
semi-annual check-up, reports that
the following dairies are now sell
ing Grade A milk in Asheboro:
Asheboro Dairy, Breeze Hill Dairy,
East Side Dairy, Garland Lake
Dairy, and Maple Grove Dairy.
There has been a growing demand
for Grade A milk for some time,
which has led Asheboro dairymen
to make every effort to keep their
products up to standard.
.. :..
3000 WORKERS, 1000 CLOCKS IN INTERIOR BUILDING j
Built to house all tne scattered department units unuer one ruor, me new m.eriur Duncing, above, in
Washington, was planned strictly along utilitarian lines, minus frills. It has a wide center wing two blocks
long, six block-long wings on each side and will accommodate 3000 workers. It has 1000 clocks, escalators
between the first, second and third floors, a 100,000-volumn library, auditorium, cafeteria, conference
rooms, basement garage and a broadcasting studio. The cost was $13,000,000.
Complete Ticket Filed For j
City School Board Posts
Holiday April 23
For Local School
In Observance Of 100th An
niversary Of Public Schools
System In State
To See Pageant
Magnificent Pageant in Dur
ham Will Mark The Oc- j
casion; 3500 In Cast
On April 23 the schools of Ashe
boro will have a full holiday in'
observance of the 100th anniver
sary of the founding of the public
school system in North Carolina,
Superintendent Reginald Tunjpr
announced Monday. It was decided
to take a holiday on this day in
order that teachers and students
might have an opportunity to i£t>
to Durham to attend the great cen
tennial pageant to be presented in
Duke Stadium that day.
More than 3500 people will be
in the cast of this pageant, en
titled “A Century of Culture”,
which promises to be the most
spectacular outdoor presentation
ever staged in North Carolina.
There will be musical programs by
a 70 piece symphony orchestra, a
massed band of 1200 high school i
musicians, a chorus of 500 white j
children, and a chorus of 500 color-,
ed children.
The pageant will be the high
light of the annual convention of
the North Carolina Educational As
sociation, which meets in Durham
April 22-24. Practically all the lo
cal teachers will go to the pageant,
and Superintendent Turner hopes
that a number of children and
parents will be able to bn present.
Although none of- the county
schools is planning a full holiday,
said County Superintendent T.
Fletcher Bulla, several will stop
work at noon on April 23 so that
teachers may attend the conven
tion.
The company of professional
actors who are presenting the
pageant have practiced for several
weeks to perfect their performance
and are now entering the final two
weeks of rehearsals with every
thing shaping «P f°r a truly magni
ficent presentation. Because spon
sors of the pageant were unable
to secure an appropriation of public
funds with which to get it up, thero
will be a nominal admission
charge.
More than 10,000 spiders, all
obtained in Connecticut, were add
ed to Connecticut’s agricultural
experiment station collection in
1936. i
Asheboro Kotarians rlan lo!
Attend District Conference
A large number of members of
the Ashaboro Rotary Club and
wives are expected to attend the
57th District Rotary Conference
which will convene at the Carolina
Hotel, Pinehuret, Sunday and Mon
day, May 9-lb. The Sanford club
will be host upon this occasion.
The Sunday meeting will be in
the form of a vesper service in
the dining room of the Carolina,
at which time the Rev. Sylvester
Greene, president of Coker college,
will be the speaker. .
Hon. Abit Nix, an attorney of
Athens, Georgia, has been appoint -
ed as the official representative of
Rotary International. Mr. Nix was j
Citizens Will Vote For City j
And School Officers On
Tuesday, May 4th
H. N. Moore and S. 15. Stedman
filed their candidacies for posi
tions on the Asheboro city school
board with the town clerk, Amos
Winningham, Monday. This makes
a complete ticket for all of the
city offices which are to be voted
upon by the townspeople this year.
The primary, if necessary, will
be held April 26, with the local
election set for May 4. With mat
ters standing as they do at pre
sent, however, there will be no
need for a primary and the gen
eral election, will be but a for
mality, since there is now only
one candidate for each office. The
final date for filing candidacies is
Friday; .April 16.
The two most recent candidates
for the school board, Mr. Stedman
and Mr. Moore, if elected, would
fill the places held by J. M. Cave
ness and E. H. Morris, whose terms
expire this year. The third board
member whose term is out this
year, C. W. McCrary, who was ap
pointed to the board upon the re
signation of J. 0. Redding, filed |
his candidacy Saturday to succeed
himself.
Former Resident
Of County Dies
Mrs. Ellen Fuller Welbom, 81,
died Sunday in a Greensboro Sani
tarium after an illness of four
years. She was born in Randolph
county, a daughter of Col Hezekiah
and Jane Kearns Fuller, and taught
in the county schools until her mar
riage to the late Rufus Welborn.
Funeral service was held Mon
day afternoon at the Hanes Fun
eral Home, Greensboro, the officiat
ing ministers being Rev. W. A.
Stanbury, D. D., pastor of West
Market Street Methodist church,
and Rev. S. B. Turrentine, D. D.,
president emeritus of Greensboro
college. Burial was in Green Hill
cemetery.
Life Long Chapel
Resident Is Dead
l’holix L. York, 72, a life long
resident of the Gray’s Chapel com
munity, died Sunday night at his
homo on Pleasant Garden route
one. Mr. York had been in declin
ing health for a long time and
had been seriously ill for three
months.
He is survived by his widow, the
former Miss Martha Swift. Fun
eral service was held this morning
at Gray’s Chapel Methodist church
by the pastor, Rev. G. L. Reynolds,
and Rev. W. F. Asburn. Burial
was in the church cemetery.
a member of the board ot directors
of Rotary International for 1981
32.
The 57th District is composed of
58 Rotary clubs with approximate
ly 2,000 members in Central and
Eastern North Carolina towns and
cities. Some 700 to 800 Rotarians
and Rotary Anns are expected to
be in attendance at the Pinehurst
conference.
Edmund H. Harding of Wash
ington, N. C., is governor of th*
67th district. 0. P. Makepeace of
Sanford and T. S. Johnson of
Raleigh are chairmen of the Pine
hurst conference.
Randolph County
Project Is Asked
Water And Sewer Project In
Archdale-Trinity District
Recommended
Cost $173,000
Part Of Long Range Program
For Improvement Of Our
Water Resources
An $173,000 water ana sewage i
project in the Archdale and Trinity
drainage districts of Randolph
county was among a dozen such
jobs recommended to the president
by the National Resources com
mittee for immediate action in a
report made Monday. This is part,
of a long-range water resources1
program which will combat polhi-'
tiort' and- floods as weli aa. provide
for the development of natural re
sources.
Water supply and sewer sys
tems, treatment of municipal ana
industrial wastes, abatement of
soil erosion and malaria control
were among the projects recom
mended for North Carolina.
The report said long-range plans
also include provisions for naviga
tion, flood control, power produc
tion, recreation and wildlife conser
vation.
Navigation facilities, the report'
said, were ample for present needs j
and flood control was not a press
ing question “for the paradoxical
reason that floods are so frequent
. . . as to discourage land develop
ment in the affected areas.”
Estimated costs of projects for
North Carolina were:
Tarboro, $245,000; Raleigh,
$790,000; Wilson, $998,000; Arch
dale and Trinity drainage district,!
$173,000; Morehead City, $231,000; |
Durham, $350,000; Albemarle,
$280,000; Tabor City, $104,000;
Pilot Mountain, $127,000; Landis,
$176,000; Morganton, $120,000;
Lenoir, $251,000; Hickory, $216,
000; Charlotte, $1,000,000.
Short Work Week
Not For Leaders
The corning of the shortened
business week has not lessened the
necessity for working extra hours
for the boy or girl who would be
successful, according to F. K.
Searle, superintendent of the Henry
Ford Trade School in Dearborn,
Mich. Addressing about 600 young
persons at the second annual career
conference at Rockefeller Center in
New York, he advised them to
follow the example of business
leaders who do not know what a
40-hour week means.
The earnest, energetic man who
is willing to pay the penalty of
extra work can always find a posi
tion, Mr. Searle declared, adding
that industry was looking for skill
ed help and that individuality,
imagination and skill were far
more significant than “breaks.”
Robert Coltrane
Funeral Is Held
Robert Lee Coltrane, 74, well
known farmer of Randleman route
one died Sunday night at his home
after a brief illness. Mr. Coltrane
was a life long resident of Ran
dolph county and a member of one
of the county’s oldest families.
Surviving are his widow, two
sons, J. W. Coltrane and W. N.
Coltrane of Sophia; a daughter,
Miss Flarra B. Coltrane of Ran
dleman route one; and a brother,
Harris Coltrane of Idaho.
The funeral was held this after
noon at Old Uhion Methodist
churdh, with interment in the
cemetery there.
Washington Now
Turns Attention
To Economy Plan
Senator Robinson States
Spending Must Stop Or New ,
Revenue Sources Necessary j
' ■ l
Borah Also Warns
Dougbton Of North Carolina
fs Consulted As To His
'Committee’s I‘ians
Senator Robinson, Democrat of
iiljsasu made it quite plain to
congress, on,Monday that it is
high time to call a halt on ^pend
ing, ar seek new sources of re
venue with which to meet appro
priations..
The Democratic leader, urging
that '‘careful consideration” be
given, to a proposal for $1,000,000,
00*) five-year federal subsidy for
education, warned colleagues of the
danger of an “enormous increased
deficit”
• :A similar warning from Senator
jBprah (R.-Ida.) drew from Chair
man Harrison (D-Miss.) of the
senate finance committee the “per
sonal” prediction that no new taxes
Were likely at this session,
f Almost simultaneously Chairman
Doughton (D-NC) said the House
ways and means committee prob
ably would defer until next session
4ny revision of the new tax on un
distributed corporation profits.
Expressing belief “it will have
to be changed some time,” Dough
ton said the Treasury should have
tjme to study effects of the 1986
levy and report to congress at the
n&xt session.
>The committee, Doughton said,
probably will take up soon exten
sion of the so-called nuisance taxes.
He predicted no major changes
would be made. The administration
is. counting on the tobacco, gaso
line and other taxes to produce
nearly $500,000,000 the next fiscal
year, he explained.
Sienator Robinson, without defi
nitely opposing the Harrison-Black
ion. subsidy bill, told the
abou$ exhausted
to which
to.re'-:
“Manifestly, we can not go on
extending federal activities into
new spheres of action, and in
creasing our expenditures, without
making some provision for meet
ing those expenditures,” he con
tinued. “As every Senator knows,
the deficit already is large.”
Appropriations to finance the
education bill, he said, would make
imperative increased taxation and
probably a search for new sources
of revenue.”
Newberry Singers
Stop Here Monday
The Old Hickory Cafe and its
regular, patrons were over-whelm
ed at the height of the noon meal
time Monday by a surprise attack
by a band of Newberry College
“Indians.” After the South Caro
lina collegians had their hunger
appeased, however, their ferocity
disappeared and Asheboro. citizens,
coming timidly out of hiding, dis
covered that their mission was
really peaceful.
They were the Newberry College
Singers, on a two weeks’ tour dur
ing which they are giving concerts
in several North Carolina, Virginia,
and northern cities. The 52 boys
and girls are traveling in two
busses and are having a grand time
in the process. Paul Ensrud is the
director of the singers and T. E.
Epting is the treasurer.
The Singersi opened their series
of concerts in Gastonia Sunday
night, sang in Raleigh Monday
night, and are to sing in Roanoke,
Virginia, tonight. From there they
go to Baltimore, Allentown, Pa.,
North Plainfield, N. J., and New
York City. On their return triD
they will sing in Haddonfield, N.
J., Harrisburg, Pa., Shepherdstown,
W. Va., Staunton, Va., and Rural
Retreat, Va.
Clary Weston Is
News Tip Winner
.Clary Weston, son of Dr. and
Mrs. B. M. Weston, is the winner
of today’s Courier News Tip Con
test and receives two tickets to
see M'riam Hopkins in “Men Are
Not Gods” either Wednesday or
Thursday at the Carolina. Clary ac
companied his father on his in
spection rounds of the Asheboro
dairies, this week, and discovered
a cow with a clear letter “A” out
lined in the regular markings on
the animal’s body. He immediate
ly reported the find to The Courier
and the story was so unusual that
the judges awarded the prize to
him.
The next period starts Wednes
day morning at 8 o’clock and ends
at 1:30 Thursday afternoon and
the winner will get two tickets to
see Vinton Haworth in “China
Passage” at the Capitol theatre
Saturady. _ ]
Supreme CoiMrt Declares
W agner Laborakct To Be
Entirely Cons«utional>
Wagner Labor Act
Important Base
Act Gurantees Right Of Or
ganization To Workers;
Collective Bargaining
Five Essentials
Compose The Act
This Act Leaves Question Of
Reorganizing Court More
Involved Than Ever
The Wagner Labor Act, consid
ered by many to be vital element
in the New Deal labor program,
was declared constitutional by the
Supreme Court Monday, leaving
the question of reorganizing the
court still more involved than ever.
Five cases came up, in all of which
the court ruled in favor of the
Wagner Act, one unanimously and
four by a 5-4 margin.
The Wagner act, the legislation
involved in the decisions, guaran
tees the right of organization to
workers and forbids employers to
interfere with or coerce em
ployes in the exercise of that
right. It undertakes to. compel em
ployers, to bargain with represen
tatives of their workers.
The essentials of the act are
contained in the following state
ment:
“Employes shall have the right
to self organization, to form, join
or assist labor organizations, to
bargain collectively through repre
sentatives of their own choosing,
and to engage in concerted activity,
for the purpose of collective bar
gaining or other mutual aid or pro
tection.”
The act also states that it shall
be an unfair labor practice for an
employer:
•'“'Trt ffitcrfere with, restrain • w
coerce employes in the exercise of
the rights guaranteed in the de
claration of policy.
To dominate or interfere with
the formation or administration of
any labor organization or contri
bute financial or other support to
it.
By discrimination in regard to
hire or tenure of employment of
any term or condition of employ
ment to encourage or discourage
membership in any labor organiza
tion.
To discharge or otherwise dis
criminate against an employe be
cause he has filed charges or given
testimony urtder the act.
To refuse to bargain collectively
with the representative of his em
ploye.
The act also sets up a labor re
lations board of three members to
enforce the act’s provisions and to
conduct elections among employes
when a dispute arises as to which
of two or more labor organizations
represent a majority of the em
ployes for collective bargaining. It
provides that the majority unit
shall speak for all employes in col
lective bargaining.
Prince Gives Up
Purple For Wife
Because he demanded high social
status for his wife, Mme. Jana
Lucia Deletj, left, Prince Nicholas
of Rumania, right, was stripped
of his royal status and faced de
portation. He had demanded that
his lovely dimpled commoner wife
and his son, 4, be recognized as
members of the royal family.
Franklinville Has
Building Program
Roy Davis Building New
Home; Other Improve
ments Now In Progress
Tom Thumb Wedding:
W. R. Cox Buys Pine Timb
er, Plans To Commence
Saw Milling Shortly
Frankiinville, April 12. — Roy
Davis has bought a lot from W. A.
Grimes on Highway 20, opposite
Miss Maggie York’s residence ana
is preparing to build a nice home.
This is a beautiful location and
other lots are available as ]}lr.
Grimes is 'offering for sale, lots
facing the highway running north.
The Tom Thumb Wedding at the
school auditorium Friday night
sponsored by the P.-T. A. was a
unique attraction and was enjoyed
by a large crowd. The stage was
decorated and the children in at
tractive costume for the event.
Tom Thumb (Charles Pugh) and
Miss Vera Pugh were united in
marriage by an impressive cere
mony, Billy Frazier, Esq. officiat
ing.
W. R. Cox has bought the pine
timber on W. A. Grimes’ farm and
expects to place a saw mill in a few
wee(ks for the purpose of sawing
this timber.
Mrs. J. C. Hayes spent the week
end with her parents in Asheboro.
W. W. Wilson, Miss Margaret
Wilson, Worth Coward, Fred Wil
son, Mrs. J. A. Wallace, Miss
Katherine Buie, Miss Mattie Buie,
Miss Elizabeth Wallace, Mrs. C. F.
Caveness and Mrs. Jennie Jones
were visitors in Greensboro Satur
day.
P. H. Mitchell and family, Mrs.
J. R. Groce and Miss Glennie Groce
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Flower-Framed II. S. Capitol
Rare as the proverbial day in Jnne is the springtime beauty of the
nation’s Capitol shimmering in the moonlight and framed by the fairy
like tracery of blossom-laden branches of the Japanese cherry frees.
The sight pictured above draws thousands to Washington, D. C, each
year.
Major 5 And 10
Chains Of State
Reach Agreement
Solution Of Problem Is To
Substitute Tokens For
Ten-Cent Sales Tax
To Apply May 1st
Commissioner Maxwell Ex
pects Other Chain Stores
To Join In The Plan
An agreement reached Monday
by major five and ten chainB in
North Carolina is seen as the
answer to one of the greatest ob
jections to the sales tax, the in
equality of paying a cent on a num
ber of dime purchases so that the
tax actually amounts up to more
than the legal three per cent. The
solution is the use of a sales tax
token, which received official
approval from Revenue Commis
sioner A. J. Maxwell Monday.
It will apply May 1 in stores
such as Kress, Rose, Woolworth,
Green, McCory, Scott-Burr and
others whenever the customer pays
more than a three per cent tax on
his purchase.
D. E. Henderson, Charlotte at
torney, representing the stores,
subitted to Commissioner Maxwell
a printed slip similar to the ones
that will be used. At the bottom,
it has figures that may be marked
or punched out to indicate the
amount of the sale. On the card
are two “tens” and three “fives.”
A customer, for example, will
pay one cent on a ten-cent pur -
chase. He will be given the slip—
with one “ten” marked out. He
then may purchase other articles,
but all in the same store, and no
tax will be collected until the mem
orandum has been “punched out.”
No tax is collected on a five-cent
purchase.
The stores originally planned to
make the memorandum invalid
after the customer left the store—
that is, if he failed to make enough
purchases to use up the memoran
dums—but that feature was omitt
ed. The memorandum will also $»e
given to purchasers who pay two
cents tax on a purchase that does
not equal 66 2-3 cents. The stores
will figure the 66 2-3 cents as 65
cents, and give out the memoran
dums accordingly.
Maxwell said that other chain
stores were expected to join the
plan and that it was “likely” thaT
other merchants would be encour
aged to adopt similar plans. He
said it would mean they would col
lect slightly less tax because thi£
collection would be more exact
“The plan is the solution to one of
the greatest objections to the sales
tax,” he said. Maxwell said, how
ever, he probably would not issue
a general ruling on the use of
tokens, to apply to all stores.
Former Merchant
Of County Dies
John Watson Petty, 75, who was
for many years in business in Ran
dolph county, died Saturday in
Morganton, where he had made
his home for several yeaSs.
Mr. Petty, who was a son of the
late David M. and Mary Sicks
Petty, was educated at old Trinity
college, Guilford college and Moses
Brown’s school, the last named id
eated in Providence, R. I. For some
years he was a member of the mer
cantile firm known as W. C. Petty
company, of Archdale.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Mary T. Petty, of Greensboro; two
daughters, Mrs. Waldo Porter and
Mrs. Martha T. Hannah, of Greens
boro; a son, David M. Petty, of
Bethlehem, Pa., and five grand
children, Waldo Porter, Jr., Hunt
Hannah, Jr., and Mary T. Hannah,
of Greensboro, and David . M.
Petty, Jr., and John S. Petty, of
Bethlehem, Pa.
Funeral service was conducted
Sunday at Springfield Friends
church by the pastor, Rev. Clara I.
Cox, and Rev. George G. Higgins
of Greensboro. Interment was in
the church cemetery.
Doctors Discuss .
Spinal Diseases
A large attendance was preset)
as the Randolph Medical Society
held its regular monthly meeting
at the hospital Monday. A consid
erable amount of general business
and correspondence was taken cate
of, after which the society turned
to its program.
The subject of the meeting waft
“The Spine,” about variousphased
of which the members have been
presenting papers during the win
ter meetings. Dr. Dempsey Barnes
read a paper on medical diseases
of the spine, which provided food
for thought, and provoked a length
ly discussion of the points fab
brought out. Because of the press
of time a paper by Dr. R. P.
Sykes on surgical diseases of the