always abreast with THE CHANGING TIME IN RANDOLPH COUNTY THE COURIER LEADS TRI-WEEKLY THE COURIER Est. As The Regulator February 2, 1876 PRINCIPLES , NOT MEN Changed To The Courier September 13, 1379 THE COURIER AND ASHEBORO MARCH IN STEP—AHEAD BOTH ARE LEADERS $2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE 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 _ i 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 (Please turn to Page 4) 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 (Please turn to Page 4) '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 _ | 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,