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ASSOCIATED PRESS AND CENTRAL PRESS | Relief Costs During June Near Normal $3Ol for Emergency, $260 Hospitalization; Over 100 Given As sistance from County Funds Relief costs paid by the county were about normal in June, Miss Clara Mae Ellis, welfare superinten dent of the county, reported to the Vance Board of Commissioners Mon day afternoon at their regular monthly meeting for July. Miss Ellis reported emergency expenditures amounted to $301.17, with $260.19 spent for hospitalization, and no out lay at all for pensions or burials. The emergency relief went for food, fuel, rent, medical services and the like. Work relief was given as $56.32, with $2.45 spent on aid to the blind, and with outstanding bills of $28.70 at the end of the month. Fifty-six families were provided with commodity clothing in June, and 58 received aid during the month, with 40 on the lists at the end of the period. Hospitalization was provided for twelve persons, and 18 who applied were rejected. Fifteen inmates were being cared for at the county home at the end of June, where there were 12 patients in the Scott Parker Sanatorium. Service but no financial aid was extended to $45 persons in June, the report showed. On the records- for old age assist ance from Social Security sources were 240 persons, with 223 receiving assistance from the aid to dependent children fund. This was said to be 41 children in excess of the county’s quota. Eleven blind persons were receiving aid. Twenty-three juvenile cases were handled in June, with eight juveniles on probation and seven on parole. There were 11 State parolees and six adoptions pending. Five child labor certificates were issued during June. Ninety-five in vestigations and visits were made, and the welfare department staff traveled 1,132 miles in the discharge of their duties. Seven visits were made outside the county, the report showed. HELD ON ASSAULT CHARGE Dunn, July 5. —Frame Giles, young Sampson county farmer, was arrest ed here Tuesday night and turned ovCr to Sampson authorities on charges of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill. He was wanted in Sampson for an alleged assault, which resulted in the loss of one eye to I. F. H. Taylor, farmer of near Dunn Never look a gift horse in the mouth. He might forget that you are. his new boss. checks LZIZIZ MALARIA IIFB FB in 7 days and relieves LIQUID-TABLETS pflf SALVE-NOSE L-V/LUO DROPS -symptoms first day Try “Rub-My-Tism”—a Wonderful Liniment Bit im - i WAS SI.3S 1 ( WAS $2.60 8 /v* 'y\ 1 NOW ONLY I L ffilssAi NOW ONLY *I.OO J w j *1.95 FULL PINT FULL QUART o! Si™,w Ba. VranKFORT <ay*SVUlfc* r £mt>Rj»oKATSO Frankfort Distilleries, Inc., Louisville and Baltimore 34 White And 16 Colored People Tried White persons defendants in coun ty recorder’s court in June num bered more than double the colored, the monthly report of Superior Court Clerk E. O. Falkner revealed today. Thirty-three white men and one white woman made a total of 34, while there were 12 colored men and four colored women, for a total of 50 for the month. Fees collected were $449.08' and fines $164.35, for a total of $613.43. There were 30 convictions, includ ing four sent to the roads and two to jail, and 24 who paid costs or costs and fines. Cases of three de fendants were nolle prosed, and 17 were acquitted. Twenty-three, or nearly half, of the total of fifty, were involved in one way or another in liquor char ges, including 13 lor possession of liquor for sale, six for being drunk, •three for drunken driving, and one for transporting liquor. Seven defendants were charged with an assault with a deadly weapon four with larceny, three with break ing and entering and larceny and receiving, and two each with reck less driving, giving worthless checks and murder. One defendant each was charged with embezzlement, unlaw ful lishing, operating an automobile without proper driver’s license, op erating a car after driver’s license had been suspended, non-support, kidnaping, assault. Receipts Os Post Office Gain Further Receipt of the Henderson post of fice continued in June to show an increase over the corresponding months of last year, with a gain of $160.47. Last month’s business a mounted to $4,079.20, compared with $3,918.73 in June last year, Post master J. R. Teague, announced to day. For the first half of 1939, receipts of the office have been $25,067.30, compared with $25,110.82 for the corresponding half of 1933, a loss this year of $43.52. One or two months early in the year, which showed a heavy loss under the like month a year ago pulled down the record sharply, but the other months have been showing gains, and these have wiped out all of the decline except the $43.52 re maining at the half way mark for the year. t CITY AUDIT IS NOW BEGUN BY CHARNLEY The annual audit of the books and records of the City of Henderson was begun today by accountants of the Walter Charnley Company, of Char lotte. It is expected most of the re mainder of the week will be required to complete the check-up. Mr. Charn ley himself is in charge of the work. His firm has done the city’s auditing for many years. A summary of the audit is usually published when pre pared by the auditors, and is expect ed to be ready by the end of this week or early next week. Heniicrson Baily Utspafrlj City Schools Lose Two Teachers For Next Year In the allotment by the State School Commission for the coming year, the Henderson city schools will have two less teachers than last year, Superintendent E. M. Rollins said to day. Allotment of teachers is based on attendance records for the pre ceding year. The loss is charged to the elemen tary white schools of the city, which, after the deduction, will have 42 teachers for the coming term. Hen derson high school will have the same as last year, or 14, not including Prof. W. D. Payne, the principal. Colored schools of the city gained one elementary teacher for the com ing year, as the result of good at tendance records. They will have 27 teachers next session. The Negro COUNTY PBJCB^ Mitchell Is Speaker In Morn ing Program; Field Day During Afternoon About 2000 people attended the Vance county-wide farm picnic for Negroes which was held at Nutbush No. 1 school on July 4. A program was given at 10:30 o’clock Tuesday morning, followed by a picnic lunch, and the afternoon was given over to a variety of sports and contests. The picnic was organized by the Negro county agent, H. E. Webb, with the assistance of a committee on arrange ments. An address, “The Four Sides of Man”, by J. W. Mitchell, district agent of A. & T. College, was fea tured in the morning. In it the speak er discussed the spiritual, physical, social and religious nature of man. A song opened the morning’s pro gram, followed by invocation by Dr. J. A. Cotton. Remarks were made by the presiding officer, and com munity song services were had, led by the wife of V. W. Webb. Among the songs was the North Carolina live-at-home song. H. E. Webb, county agent, present ed the speaker. A quartet contest was held, with three quartets par ticipating. In the afternoon, baseball, wom en’s contests including nail driving, milk drinking, and roiling pin, and 4-H club member contests of three legged race, sack race, potato race, foot race and horse shoe pitching were enjoyed. Prizes will be award ed to the .winners of the contests. A large variety of food was spread out for the picnic, including ham, chicken, cakes, pies, and many other dishes which add to the enjoyment of a country picnic dinner. The county agent expressed his appreciation today for the splendid work done by the committee on ar rangements, which consisted of Rob ert Hawkins, Robert Williams, Sr., John Henderson, H. L. Taylor, K. D. Carroll, Noah Young, and Edward Lee Durham. JOSEPHINE ADAMS HAS BROKEN ARM Friends of Miss Josephine Adams daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Adams, will regret to learn that she received a broken arm yesterday. She was playing on a bicycle in front of her home on William street when the accident occurred. She is reported resting as comfortaoly as jouid be expected. Dr. Gregg now at Home. Dr. A. D. Gregg, county health of ficer, who has been treated in hos pitals here and in Charlotte for in juries in an automobile wreck three months ago, has been removed from Maria Parham hospital to his home on Young avenue, but is still in i -ust. Mr„. Gregg, injured in the same wreck, was removed to the horn ev/eiai weeks ago, and nas sue i cientiy improved to permit of re moval of her cast. ONSLOW IS EXPECTING MORE TOURIST BUSINESS Kinston,- July s.—Residents of Jacksonville, Swansboro and other jnslow county communities today predicted the county will get a larger share of the increasing east ern Carolina tourist business. Open ing oi a new bridge over iNew river as Sneads Ferry has made the picturesque coast around Swans boro more accessible to motorists. The bridge displaced ferry service started several generations ago Work will be started the first of next week to deepen and widen the New river channel from the inland waterway below Sneads Ferry to Jacksonville. The channel will have a depth of 12 feet. Jacksonville business men say the harbor before the town will become a basin for many yachts which now refuel and reprovision at other North Carolina points, and serve as a refuge for small craft in rough weather. New river is unique in that its source and mouth are in the same county. HOLIDAY QUIET Sanford, July s.—The Fourth of July holiday was quietly observed here with practically all business at a standstill. Many Sanford people took advantage of the triple holi days and visited the beaches and mountains over the week-end. The Fourth of July celebration in the neighboring town of Carthage at tracted a large number of Sanford people, while many others attended me Sanford-Zebulon baseball gam here yesterday or Visited the muni cipal pool or golf links. _ high school, which is Henderson In stitute, will have ten teachers, the same as last year. This institution serves the entire Negro school popu lace of the county as high school. Allotments in the rural schools will remain the same as last year, with 19 high school and 36 elementary teachers. The 48 elementary teach ers in the colored rural schools will also be the same as last year. There are no colored high school teachers in the county schools. Allowing for the loss of two white elementary teachers and the gain of one Negro elementary leacher, the county will have one less school teacher than the past session. The total in city and county white and colored schools will be 197 in all. Last year the total was 198. Miss Taylor New Head Os County Home Miss Lucy Taylor was elected superintendent of the Vance county home by the Board of County Com missioners Monday at their regular monthly meeting for July. Her salary will be SSO per month, and she will live in the county home and give her full time to the duties of manage ment. Miss Taylor succeeds Mrs. Kath erine W. Stallings, who it was said did not have in an application for the work for the coming year, but who was understood to have prepar ed the expense list for the institution lor the year. Mrs. Stallings the past year had a salary of S9O per month. The board received a report from F. M. Dorsey, county tax collector, that collections by his office in June amounted to $4,824.60, but this item included $947.50 in privilege license taxes, which were taken in during the month. Rock Spring Has Two Sermons For Evening Service Revival services wnich got under way last Sunday at Rock Spring Baptist church at Townsville are at tracting large and interested congre gations, according to Rev. S. L. Mor gan, the pastor. The pastor’s son, Rev. S. L. Morgan, Jr., is doing the preaching, and two services daily are being held, both of them in the evening, one at 7 and the other at 8 o’clock. This system was used in the revival at Rock Spring last year, and was said to have been so satis factory that it is now being pursued further. The older Morgan preach ed morning and evening on Sunday, followed by his son Monday even ing and since tften. The public is in vited to all of the services. Shirley Temple in “Susannah of the Mountains” Stevenson Thursday and Friday. Setl Your I Apart with ... BARBER Genasco SHINGLES There's something about a BAR BER Genasco Individual or Strip Shingle Roof that lifts it out of the ordinary and into a class oi beauty an d durability of its own. TitC I* * s The Vital Element Trinidad Lake Asphalt—that gives these roofs their long-lasting protection. Trinidad Lak« AsphallisTh* , , ... ■ . u , Vital Element, it • brought They re beautitul and hre-sate, too. up trom the Tropics alter .... •ges oi natural weathering We estimate COStS Os TOOfing and •nd used in BAnBLH Caen* mcc jndivtdnai *od strip re-roofing free. Tanner Roofing Co. —> Phone 606. e V.--: Local Pastor Os Catholics Sent To Dunn Rev. Father Zjco G. Doetterl, for the past three and a half years pas tor of St. Paul’s Catholic church here, has been transferred to the Catholic church in Dunn, efiective immediately, and he has already gone to his new field, it was learned today. Father Doetterl will be succeeded here by Rev. Father Cletus Helfrich, Lor some time chaplain of St. Leo’s hospital in Greensboro. He has not yet arrived to assume his duties here, but is expected Friday, and is to hold his first services on next Sunday. The Henderson church is served by the local pastor, who also is pas tor of the Catholic mission church in Roxboro. Father Doetterl came here in Oc tober, 1935, from Hendersonville. Before leaving to assume his duties with Secred Heart church at Dunn, he was guest of a number of mem bers of the local parish at a dinner at the Capitol case Monday evening. A dozen or so were present, and the retiring pastor spoke in appreciation of his pastorate in Henderson and of the cordiality shown him. The church at Dunn is understood to have a lar ger membership than the one here. Many Cotton Blooms Shown The 1939 cotton crop in Vance county has advanced far enough to ward maturity until young plants are already in bloom, and a number of the early blossoms have been brought in for display. The crop in this coun ty is fair this year, and is small. It is understood many farmers are not even growing their allotments un der the AAA apportionment. Much of the land that has in some former years been planted to cotton is this year being cultivated in to bacco, which has a larger acreage than last year, since there is no gov ernment AAA restrictions on the leaf crop. One bloom found on July 2 and another July 3 were brought to the Dispatch office today, both from the farm of T. J. Richardson, in the northwest part of Vance county.- R. F. D. GROUP HERE AT SHELBY MEETING Mr. and Mrs. John S. Milne and Mr. and Mrs. I. R. Tippett returned last night from Shelby, where they attended the annual convention of the North Carolina Rural Letter Car riers Association, which was held there on Monday and Tuesday. Mr. Tippett was a delegate to the con vention from the district association centering in Henderson. Mr. Milne has been a delegate several times be fore. The convention voted to hold its 1940 convention in Rocky Mount. Among the speakers at the meeting was Governor Clyde R. Hoey. CAN YOU ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS? See Page Fom 1. What is the scientific name for “white ants?” 2. What is ;;nuff? 3. Name the capital of Uruguay. 4. How much is 1-3 of 1-2? 5. In what industry did the C. I. O. tart : ts organizing campaign? 6. What is the correct pronunciation of the word noxious? 7. What is the name for a word or phrase that reads the same for ward as backward? 8. Who recently .panned Lake Mich igan in a glider? 9. What is an interloper? 10. Can fish close their eyes? WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1939 Fourth Os July Holiday Quietly Observed Here Independence day was observed quietly here yesterday, with no serious or fatal accidents to mar the day of rest and recreation, so far as was learned. Most business was suspended en tirely for the full day, only the restaurants and some other shops of a kindred nature remaining in op eration. Drug stores were open for only a part of the time. Many people were out of the city at beaches or in the mountains, visit ing relatives at a distance, or were elewhere for outings. Many took the afternoon at Balance Rock, where there was a large crowd of swim mers in the lake. County Will Advertise Taxes Soon Property on which taxes for 1938 are in arrears will be advertised for sale by the County of Vance on the first Monday in August, the Board of County Cornmisstoners decided at their monthly meeting for July on Monday. The property will be sold at auction at the court house door the first Monday in September. The delinquent list this year is expected to be about the same as the -past several years, with little in crease or decrease The City of Henderson has already advertised delinquent 1938 tax ac county for sale, and will sell on next Monday, the second Monday in July, according to orders of the City Council Mayor Tries Three Cases Three cases were tried in police court today, with Mayor Protem F. B. Hight presiding in the absence of Mayor Henry T. Powell. Clarence Williams, alias “Hog Bear”, faced two charges. In one he was charged with assaulting Willie Rice with a deadly weapon, namely, a rock, and inflicting serious injury, and was sent to the roads for twelve months. In the other he was charg ed with stealing food valued at fifty cents from William Taylor, and was given nine days, this term to follow at the conclusion of the previous one. Hal Martin was charged with as saulting his wife, Josephine Martin, and the warrant was amended to in clude the woman also, and each was given 60 days on the roads, judgment suspended on payment of the costs and on condition of good behavior , for 12 months. “Mary—When It’s In The Bank lIPII 1 Know It’s Money you have saved to buy a home or educate your children, money you have guarded carefully to provide for the emergencies of life and peace of mind when earning power is gone, .cannot af ford to take chances. Sound management and deposit insur ance keep it secure—available the mo ment it is needed in First National Bank Henderson, N. C. i AJJ deposits up to $5,000 insured by the federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Banking Hours: 9 A. M. to 2 P. M. City and county offices wore closed for the entire day, as were railroad freight offices, the ‘banks, the post office and retail and whole sale establishments in general. Two or three baseball games were played in the vicinity, and these at tracted pleasure-seekers looking tor a thrill. Motion picture houses op erated as usual, with good crowds. The weather was not oppressively hot, as the skies were overcast most of the day, with rain threatening, but not coming during the day. It was one of the two or three holidays of the year when virtually all business of the community locks up entirely for the full day. Board Defers Adoption Os County Budget Action on the new 1939-40 county budget was deferred until a later date by the Vance Board of County Commissioners at their monthly meeting Monday. The board expects to return ten days hence for further study of the budget, but whether it will be adopted at that time cannot be stated now. Many different items of the budget as presented Monday were discussed by the board. Its total was close to the figure for the fiscal year just ended, and little change is anticipated at this time when the list of expendi tures for the year is finally and per manently adopted, possibly later in July, or certainly not later than the first Monday in August. CHILLS AND FEVER Here 9 8 Relief From Malarial Don’t let Malaria torture you! Don’t shiver with chills and burn with fever. At first sign of Malaria, take Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic. A real Malaria medicine. Made espe cially for tiie purpose. Contains tasteless qufhidine and iron. Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic ac tually combats Malaria infection in the blood. It relieves the freezing chills, the burning fever. Helps you feel better fast. Thousands take Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic for Malaria and swear by it. Pleasant to take, to 6. Even children take it without a whimper. Don’t shiver and burn. At Ma laria’s first sign take Grove’s Taste less Chill Tonic. At all drugstores. 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