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I Volume lxi
Oldest Paper Published In Randolph County
ASHEBORO, N. C., SUNDAY, APRIL 18, 1937.
PUBLISHED TUESDAY, THURSDAY AND SUNDAY
NUMBER 33
Program Complete
For Commencement
For Local School
Exercises Will Begin Sunday,
May 9th, With Sermon
By Dr. Taylor
Pageant Monday
Hon. Clyde Erwin, State Sup
erintendent, Will Make
Principal Address
J’lans for commencement are
practically complete at the local
jujrh school and the class of 53
seniors will have a busy four days
beginning on Sunday, May Oth. Dr.
S. W. Taylor, pastor of the Metho
dist Protestant church of Asheboro,
will preach the baccalaureate ser
mon At 31:00 o’clock.
The class day exercises this year
will be in character with the his
toric trend of education, using the
pageant, Out of the Past. This
pageant written by a North Caro
lina woman, Mrs. Beulah Bailey
Willard of Charlotte, deals with the
influence of the past on present
day education. In addition to the
interesting costuming of the an
cients that have formed a back
ground of culture for the education
of today, there are spoken lines,
and songs adding to the effective
ness and lesson of the pageant
This pageant will be presented on
Monday, May 10th.
Tuesday, May 11 is graduation
day when diplomas will crown the
eleven years’ work of the group.
Hon. Clyde Erwin, state superin
tendent of schools will address the
seniors and the audience assembled
for the occasion. This class of 51
is the largest to graduate since
1933 when sixty girls and boys
finished the course offered in the
local school.
On Wednesday, May 12th, report
cards will be given out to the
school and the final business of
the term completed, placing this
school year on the records of his
tory.
Safety Record Of
City Draws Award
jf'or the second consecutive year
Asheboro has won,, a place on the
National Traffic Safety Council’s
roll of honor for cities between
5,000 and 10,000 population. The
honor certificate, presented for an
unblemished traffic safety record
ot no motor accident deaths for
lO.'id, was received by City Man
ager Walter Yow Saturday.
Asheboro is one of only two
cities in its population class in
North Carolina to receive this
award, Mt. Airy being the other.
139 cities in the country were
placed on this honor roll.
Though there have been accidt nt i
fatalities near Asheboro, neither in
1935 nor in 1936 was anyone kill
ed in an automobile accident with
in the city limits. This record has '
already been extended through ;
three and a half months of 1937
and the city officials are anxious j
to have it continue for the entire
year.
City Not To Have
Primary Election
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There will be no primary election j
for selecting town officers City'
Clerk Amos Winningham said
Saturday morning as the last day
for filing Friday, passed without
any new candidates filing in opposi
tion to the single complete ticket
already filed. The municipal elec
tion will be held May 4.
The candidates, whose election
now becomes a mere formality, are
/or the chief part, already holding
the offices they seek. These are
Mayor Walter Bunch, the entire
city board, composed of John M.
Neely, W. J. Armfield, Jr., W. F.
Redding, Dr. O. L. Presnell, and
Francis White; and Charles W. Mc
Crary, member of the school board.
The only new officers will be King
Moore and Sulon Stedman of the
school board.
Seven 1937 Seniors Eligible
For Citizenship Honor Place
Among the interesting school
news of the week was the announ
cement of seven eligible seniors
for the honorary place on the citi
eens loving cup, which is an annu
al event of interest. This cun,
given in 1980 by C. C. Cranford
Sf Asheboro, has had one name en
graved on it at commencement
lince that time.
In 1931 Miss Lucy Clyde Ross,
the present Mrs. John Taylor, was
the senior chosen for the honor.
Edward Craven was selected in
1932; Miss Pauline Steed in 1933;
Sam Hayworth in 1934; James
Lane in 1936 and James Lowder
milk in 1936.
The high school faculty name3
ORPHANAGE HEAD ACCUSED BY GIRL INMATES
Charged with attempted assault on accusations or girl inmates, Philip l’rovandie, 65-year-old super
intendent of the Windham County (Conn.) Temporary Home for Children, was held in $1,000 bail at
I’utman, Conn., while investigation of the institution was conducted. Provandie (left above, flanked by a
state trooper guard) is seen as he appeared in coart to answer his wards’ charges of improper love
making. f
Building & Loan
Committee Busy
Ramseur Folk Hold Meeting
To Determine Desire For
Building & Loan Asso.
Lumber Co. Opening
Garden Club Holds Interesting
Meeting Centering Around
Wild Flowers
Ramseur, April 17.—Ramseur
folk want a building and loan as
sociation at least the best evidence
is the fact that they are willing
to back their good intentions with
their dollars. Recently a call was
made for a show of hands on rais
ing the required five hundred
shares to secure a charter and a
committee went out and sold about
700 shares. Soon the organization
will be formed and charter secured.
In the meantime several are ar
ranging to build homes.
Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Thomas and
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Lane spent
some time with Rev. and Mrs. W.
A. Elam at Shelby this week.
While there they visited the tulip
gardens at Lattimore, expressing
their wonder and delight at the
beautiful garden of two hundred
thousand tulips.
Mr. and Mrs. K. H. Phillips and
Miss Catherine Phillips of Jones
boro and Mr. and Mrs. Ernest
Kelly of Sanford were guests of
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Baldwin Sun
day.
Mrs. R. M. Hauss attended the
missionary conference at Mt. Airy
this week.
The Southern Lumber company
is buying considerable lumber,
which is being dried for planning
at the old Fleta Lumber company
stand. The- average buying the past
week was about thirty truck loads
per day, or around forty thousand
feet daily. The plant is to start up
in a few days.
J. C. Luther of Liberty was a
business visitor one day this week.
“Knowing Our Native Plants”
was the topic for discussion at the
regular meeting of the Ranoca
Garden club Wednesday when It
met with Mesdames Henry Curtis
and Walter Miller at the home of
the former, with thirteen members
and one visitor, Mrs. J. M. Mc
Alister present.
Mrs. J. W. Dixon read _an in
teresting article on wild flowers in
the garden which was followed by
a discussion on our own native
plants. Mrs. C. B. Brown had
charge of a guessing contest in
which she displayed a number of
wild flowers mounted on cardboard
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seven students who are eligible
for the honorary position. The
four qualities of industry, obedi
ence, loyalty and courtesy are con
sidered by the teachers in choosing
the students. The pupils then vote
on one of the seven whose name is
to be engraved on the cup. The
names of the 1937 eligibles are:
Betty Prevette, Sara Hayworth,
Margaret Pritchard, Helen H.
Brown, Bob Allred, Bud Hedrick
and Carol Lea Hall.
The names will be voted upon
by the pupils, but the winner will
not be announced until during
commencement when other awards
will be made public. This, also, is
a custom that was established
when the cup was donated in 1939.
Courier Cooking School Is
Already Focusing Interest
No Special Invitations Need
ed by Any Person Interest
ed In Home Improvement
A welcome invitation to the
the wise is sufficient.
Evidently The Courier will not
have to get out engraved announ
cements for that reunion of home
makers May 4, 5 and G in the Car
olina Theatre.
No door cards, coupons, printed
invitations, or cash will be needed;
just the countersign ' of all aler;
housekeepers, who are due to say
“Show me the latest home ideas,
when they advance on the Caro
lina Theatre at 10:00 a. m. on
May 4, 5.and G....... .._
Showing every person in every
theatre seat the triumphant 1037
Cooking School, direct from Holly
wood, will be no problem, for mot
ion picture ingenuity has joined
forces with scientific homemaking
to produce an original laboratory
course that deftly combines ron\
ancc, sprightly humor, originality
and profitable instruction.
All of the popular features of
the former Cooking School are
here: the free recipe sheets,
the atmosphere of congenial in
formality, the wise counsel, the
hints on clever short-cuts, the up
to-the minute suggestions for en
tertaining, the demonstration of
delicious and nourishing dishes,
the array of modern kitchen
equipment and the distribution of
daily gifts and real surprises.
All those elements of fun and
profit have been retained, and ail
are made doubly worth-while be
cause every gu,est of The Courier
will have an individual close-up of
every process.
This scientific new laboratory
of ideas has graduated out of the
| class where hundreds of women
craned their necks in a vain at
tempt to see what was happening
on the stage, or assailed the lec
turer with plaintive cries: “Hold
it up high, where we all can see.”
Now the camara will make the
course truly fascinating and valu
able, with remarkable close-ups of
each process in a series of modal,
c o n v i e n 11 y-equipped kitchens
real, workable kitchens, (not the
synthetic, false-front variety),
where trained homemakers will
plan, measure, blend, mix and com
plete appetizing cakes, pies, salads
and meat dishes that look as
though they could be picked rignt
out of the picturs and eaten on the
spot.
Keeping pace with the baking,
roasting and frying, a series of
saleds and frozen delicacies will
parade in and out of the adaptable
electric refrigerator, which will
reveal its host of possibilities for
simplifying labor and marketing,
and contributing to good health
and good food.
What to do with left-overs’.’
How to take the gloom out of laun
dry day? How to save time, ener
gy and temper in meal prepara
tion? How to be attractive in
spite of the daily rush? How to
make that piecrust the men love
to eat? How to give first-aid to
fallen cakes?
It won’t be necessary to ask
the questions, for expert home
specialists have anticipated these
very problems. They know what
bothers many an inexperienced
housekeeper, because it is their
job to know and to counsel help
fully.
And the camera has assembled
all that sound information—not
as a routine lecture, not as a for
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'Erect Marker To
Jonathan Worth
| Highway Marker Honoring
Gov. Worth, Asheboro Re
sident, To Be Placed Here
On Salisbury St.
Memorial Will Be Erected On
Old Court House Site
Thursday Morning
Thursday, April 22, has been set
as the date for the erection of
the highway marker in honor of
Governor Jonathan Worth, it was
announced Friday by L. H. Wilson
of Greensboro, division sign sup
ervisor for the estate highway and
public works commission. Mr. Mil
son was here to identify the site
chosen by Miss Mary Belle Delmar,
field worker, last fall—the old court
house location on E. Salisbury
street.
Plans for putting up a marker
in memory of this distinguished
former resident of Asheboro have
been under way for several months,
but have only recently been sue- j
cessfully concluded. Arrangements
are being made for a short pro
gram Thursday morning when the
marker is erected.
The marker is of aluminum and
will be set in a granite base. Just
what inscription it will bear is not
yet known.
This is one of a number of mark
ers in honor of noted persons in
the state's history which are be
ing established throughout North
Carolina under the supervision of
Paul Kelly, assistant director of
the department of conservation and
development. Since the markers
must be on a state highway, the
old court house site was selected
rather than Governor Worth's
home on Worth street.
Asheboro Women
Among Officers
At the closing session of the
annual meeting of the North Caro
lina Branch of Women’s Work of
the Methodist Protestant church at
Tabernacle church Thursday, Mrs.
R. M. Andrews of High Point was
elected president, assuming the
position held for 28 years by Mrs.
W. C. Hammer, who had asked
that some other woman than her
[ self bo chosen.
Mrs. D. S. Coltrane of Greens
boro, formerly of Asheboro, was
re-elected first vice president, and
Mrs. W. F. Redding, Jr., of Ashe
boro was named second vice
president Miss Esther Ross, also
of Asheboro, was chairman of the
nominating committee which made
the selections for office.
Other officers elected were: Mrs.
J, T. Bowman, of Denton, corres
ponding secretary; Mrs. Coy L.
Kearns, of Denton, treasurer; Mrs.
George C. Haltom, of Denton, re
cording secretary; Mrs. P. S. Ken
nett, of High Point, assistant trea
surer; Mrs. W. A. Homaday, of
Greensboro, auditor.
Mrs. Ross Improved
Mrs. J. D. Ross, who underwent
an operation at the Randolph hos
pital this week, is progressing
satisfactorily. She is still unable to
have visitors.
Asheboro Beautification Campaign
Plans Are Well Launched With An
Active And Broad Program Planned
Senator Ingram
Is Interested In
Vocational Work!
—
Especially Interested This j
Work In Randolph And In |
North Carolina
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Appeals For Help j
Has Written To Both Senat
ors, Congressman And Mr.
Barden For Support
Henry L. Ingtam, senatoi from
Randolph, has taken an active part
in the vocational educational pro
gram. Mr. Ingram says, “I am
deeply interested in vocational edu
cation, particularly in Randolph
county and North Carolina; and be
lieve that it is one of the most for
ward steps that can be taken edu
cationally at this time, because in
educating high school boys and
girls in some particular line of
work those who do not attend col
lege upon graduating from high
school can immediately, by reason
of vocational training, take their
place in the business world in those
Vocations which they have studied
in high school.
“All too often today our boys
and girls graduate from high
school and start out in the world
trying to find work and when ask
ed what they can do there is not
any one particular thing in which
they have been trained. They can
not say to the person questioning
them, ‘I can do plumbing, electrical
wiring, carpentry, brick-laying,
drafting, or any one of the many
Other things which one does to
make a living.’
1 have received replies from
the senators and representatives
idicating their approval of the
■ison-Black-Fletcher Bill. With
reference to Randolph county we
should, in order to further local vo
cational education, contact our
local school board, county school
board and county board of commis
sioners asking them to take under
advisement and promulgate plans
for this work and instruction be
ginning with the next school term.
He has written letters concern
ing this to Senators Reynolds,
Bailey, Congressman Cooley and
Hon. Graham Barden which says in
part:
“I am informed and believe that
the Harrison-Blaek-Fletcher bill
now before the house committee if
enacted into law will, insofar as
North Carolina is concerned, great
ly improve the schools in our state
and be of inestimable value to the
young men and women who will be
the future leaders of North Caro
lina.
“Since North Carolina has taken
forward steps toward offering
greater educational opportunity
for children we are today under our
present set-up excellently qualified
to participate in the benefits which
the aforementioned bill offers to
the states. I earnestly solicit on my
behalf and also on the behalf of
many other intere^ed citizens your
active support in the interest and
passage of this measure.
“I am also deeply interested in
vocational education and find
among our citizenship a like in
terest and belief that we should
immediately begin a program
heretofore neglected, which will
give to that very large number of
boys and girls in our high schools
who are unable to attend institu
tions of higher learning a specializ
ed training qualifying them for
immediate work in the many fields
of specialized endeavor, so they
may be able to step into such upon
graduation from high school.
“Should you be able to furnish
me information in the furtherance
of vocational education without
undue inconvenience to you or your
office I will appreciate it very, very
much.”
High School Room
Is Again Winner
Miss Virginia Barker’s eighth
grade room was the winner for
Sunday, April 11, in the church
and Sunday school attendance con
test being carried on in the local
schools. This room had a percent
age of 68.33, slightly less than
that which was made by Miss Mary
Little Steele’s room in winning
the week before.
An improvement was noted for
the entfre enrollment, however,
many of the lower ranking rooms
bettering their percentages great
ly. In second place, pushing the
■winners for the prize, was the first
grade room of Miss Ina Cockrell
in the west school, with 68.08 per
cent.
Backs Education
HAROLD D. COOLEY
Coolev Backing
Education Bill
Speaks Before Sub-Committee
In Favor Of More Voca
tional Education
George-Deen Act
Authorizes Large Sum For
Preparing Teachers, Sett
ing Up Subjects
Harold D. Cooley, congressman
from the fourth district of which
Randolph is a part, speaking be
fore the sub-committee of the ap
propriations committee in behalf
of vocational education, drew con
siderable attention during the past
week.
The George-Deed vocational act
was passed by the 74th congress
and approved by the president on
June 8th, 1936. The act authorizes
the appropriation of $12,000,000
for vocational education; $1,000,000
to be appropriated for preparing
teachers, supervisors, and direct
ors of agricultural, trade and in
dustrial, and home economics sub
jects; the act authorizes the ap
propriation of $1,200,000 for
salaries and necessary traveling
expenses of teachers, supervisors,
directors, and maintenance of
teacher training in distributive oc
cupational subjects.
The George-Deen act replaces
! the George-Ellzey law which pro
vides $3,000,000 annually for vo
cational education and which ex
pires June 30, 1937. The George
Deen act increased the authoriza
tion from $3,000,000 annually to a
total of $14,200,000.
The bureau of the budget has
recommended to the congress that
the appropriation under the
George-Deen act he fixed at only
$3,<MU,UUU.
Mr. Cooley said in part:
While I am not commissioned to
speak for the North Carolina dele
gation in congress I feel quite cer
tain that I express the sentiment of
our entire delegation in appearing
here to approve vocational educa
tion and to urge the appropriation
of the maximum amount which
has heretofore been authorized by
congress. I feel quite certain that
when this matter reaches the floor
of the house that every member of
the North Carolina delegation will
approve the action of this com
mittee in the event the committee
in its wisdom recommends the ap
propriation of the $14,200,000
which congress has authorized to
be appropriated for this very neces
sary and vitally important educa
tional work.
From communications which 1
have received with reference to this
subject from Honorable Clyde A.
Erwin, state superintendent of
public instruction, T. E. Browne,
director of vocational education,
from vocational teachers and others
interested in the work in my state,
I am thoroughly convinced that the
people of North Carolina are prac
tically unanimously in favor of the
maximum appropriation.
The governor of North Carolina
has expressed great interest in
vocational education and made de
finite reference to it in his inaug
ural address. Our people are sold
on the idea of vocational education.
In the language of our state sup
erintendent of public instruction,
“North Carolina has become vo
cationally-minded”.
1 am quite sure that every mem
ber of this committee appreciates
the value of vocational education.
I shall not therefore undertake to
discuss the splendid work which
has been done by the vocational
teachers in this country. I only
desire to impress upon the com
mittee the necessity of continuing,
enlarging and expanding govern
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Chamber Commerce
Takes Leadership
Charles Bossong, President Of
Chamber, Appoints Various
Sub-Committees
Any Citizen Of
Asheboro Eligible
Several Prizes Well Worth
Trouble 01 Beautification;
Homes, Gardens, Lots
I A proposition to carry on an ex
tensive movement to enhance the
appearance of homes, grounds, and
gardens in Asheboro as part of the
city beautification campaign being
conducted by the Chamber of
Commerce was presented by the
committee on homes and gardens
and approved by the entire group
at a joint meeting of all the various
committees entrusted with direc
tion of the improvement activities
Thursday afternoon.
This committee, composed of
Mrs. Dan Burns, chairman, Mrs.
Charles Fox, and Mrs. Janies
Neely, is making arrangements for
a contest to be designated as
“Asheboro’s Better Home and
Garden Contest.” The contest will
commence April 18 and close
October 15, and the selection of
the winners will be based on the
improvement made in this period.
Prizes totaling $115 will be
awarded, this sum having been
donated by members of the com
mittees and local organizations.
First prize will be $50: second,
$25; third, $15; fourth, $10; and
there will also be three $5
awards.
The homes and gardens com
mittee will appoint three judges,
qualified and experienced in this
field, to make the selections. To
aid the judges in their task and in
sure a definite standard for judg
ing the committee has worked out
a scorecard containing the good
points of an attractive home. Im
mediately after the contest opens
on April 30, the judges will make
the rounds of the homes entered in
the contest and check each good
point of every home. There will
probably be an inspection during
the summer, but the final inspection
will take place between October 1
and 15, when the judges will again
check the items. The difference be
tween the scorecard as checked at
the beginning and as it is on
October 15 will be the basis of the
awards.
Anyone within the Asheboro
city limits is eligible to enter the
contest. Registration opens Mon
day, April 19, and closes April SO.
The committee will have a repre
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Asheboro Senior Class Play
Decided Hit With Many People
Presented before a large and
highly appreciative audience at
the Capitol theatre Friday even
ing, the senior class play, “Three
Days of Gracie”, was decidedly a
hit. Led by Sarah Hayworth in the
title role, the entire cast gave an
excellent enactment of the humor
ous situations in the three act
comedy and showed the influences
of the expert coaching of Miss
Clara Gill and Miss Anne Fuller
Young.
While Miss Hayworth carried
off first honors by adding a clever
interpretation of her part as the
harum-scarum Gracie to the laugh
provoking lines given her by the
author, she received able support
from all involved.
Alice Rachel Frazier as Effie, a
lackadaisical maid, also won many
laughs from the audience, not only
for her drawlingly comic utter
ances, but also for the comedy in
her resigned attitude and her
swaying manner of walking, re
miniscent of a camel with an un
balanced load.
Clyde Shaw, with his “darling
mustache”, was a surprisingly
mature and capable Dr. Cashion,
and Thad Moser turned in a
splendid performance as Grade's
sneeze-ridden young swain. Faced
with the most difficult role in the
play, that of the old-maid aunt,
Mary Black Covington came
through with colors flying; and
Ruth Lloyd, Gracie’s school chum,
was thoroughly at ease in a part
which called for a good deal of
good acting without the op
portunity to make clever speeches.
The cast was as follows: Grace
Warner, Sarah Hayworth; Philippa
Waring, Ruth Lloyd; Kate Waring,
Mary Black Covington; Janet War
ing, Helen E. Brown; Effie, Alice
Decrease In WPA
Expenditures Is
Behind Schedule
Director Harry Hopkins Not
oving Workers As Fast
As He Had Planned
rital To Budget
lent Had Depended On
iucing Relief Costs To
Balance Budget
itc the president’s declared
J1HKlon °f reducing' WPA ex
pBKures, the decrease in the num
ber of workers is far behind the
schedule announced by Harry Hop
kins, WPA administrator.
In the month preceding March
20, the report showed 24,426 work
ers dropped. Hopkins proposed to
trim the total by 600,000 between
mid-winter and June 1.
On March 20, the WPA report
ed, there were 2,134,000 WPA
workers in the continental United
States. In addition, 380,000 per
sons were employed in CiviiTan
Conservation corps camps and
338,000 in other federal work re
lief activities.
The WPA figures were made
public while congress waited for
President Roosevelt’s recommenda
tions for relief in the next fiscal
year, which begins July 1. His
message is scheduled for early in
the week.
In his January budget message,
the President said that, exclusive
of debt retirement, next year's
budget could be balanced if re
lief expenditures did not exceed
$1,537,000,000.
WPA officials estimated today
that expenditures during the cur
rent fiscal year would run between
$1,800,000,000 and $1,850,000,000.
They said this would compare with
an outlay of $1,715,000,000 last
year.
Smallpox Case In
Randolph County
The first ease of smallpox in
Randolph county in seven years
was reported to Di. George H,
Sumner, county health officer, Fri
day. The person with the disease
is Lena Frazier, colored woman of
Trinity. Her chances are good, said
Dr. Sumner, but he and four High
Point physicians who diagnosed
the case before he was notified
agree that the matter is serious.
Dr. Sumner is urging ail people
in the county to be vaccinated
against the disease. The health
authorities have not been able to
discover how the woman gaught
smallpox, as she had, not been
away from home for several days
and there was no apparent point of
contagion. Since this is the case
there is no way of knowing wdieii
anyone may be exposed, so the
need for vaccination is more ur
gent.
Randolph county has a very good
record in regard to smallpox in
recent years, this being only the
fourth case in the past ten years.
Rachel Frazier; Dr. John Cashicn,
Clyde Shaw; Billie Jackson, Thud
Moser; Tommy Burns, Bernice
Ragsdale; Bebe, Helen M. Brown;
Sallie, Jewell Woodley; Charlotte,
Mildred Ferree; Lanny, Archie
Kirkman; Dick, Bob Allred; Jim,
Baxter Kearns; Mr. Smith, and the
telephone man, Leonard Smith;
the taxi driver and the telegraph
messenger, Raymond Petty. *
The stage crew composed of
Velna Williams, Betty Prevette,
Worth Shaw, and Bill Allred did a
fine job, as did the property
mistress, Gladys Steed. Carol Lea
Hall directed the ticket sale and
Milred Millsaps was in charge of
publicity.
Who’s Who With
Asheboro Shoppers
Shoppers today.
The Courier publishes another of
the Who’s Who with Asheboro
The photograph
shown was
snapped on Sun
set avenue
among the busy
shoppers a few
days ago. As
has been the
idea in previous
ly published
random snaos
the young lady
is unknown to
any member of
this newspaper’s staff.
All that is necessary for her to
secure two tickets to see any pro
gram she selects at the Carolina
theatre is to (fall at The Courier
office and identify herself. Another
photograph of an Asheboro shopper
will appear in this space next
Sunday. Watch for it—you may be
next.