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The Jitters
Some Yadkin county politicians
must have had a spell of the jit
ters last Thursday when they
heard the inaugural address of
Governor J. M. Broughton.
Mr. Broughton expressed him
self very plainly on the topics of
the day and his ideas of conduct
of the state government. Among
the policies outlined was this sig
nificant passage:
“The protection of school
teachers against the arbitrary,
capricious or political dismissal;
and continuity of employment.”
The Governor should have a
link of the history of Yadkin
county schools and the treatment
of teachers who did not vote the
way of the Democratic leaders
and had the axe applied to their
jobs to such an extent that they
were entirely separated from
the jobs. Others promised to
“vote right” and held on to the
jobs but most of them were re
lieved of their positions.
The Governor might learn
some new tricks from the annals
► of Yadkin politics.
Labor the Slacker
Public officials, high and low,
throughout the land tha,t is the
United States, •' industry of all
kinds and the public in general,
has dedicated itself to the de
fense program as * outlined by
President Roosevelt, save and ex
cept one great organisation—
labor. ,;v; '
Most of the labor is also loyal
to the president’s suggestions,
but thousands of laborers under
the CIO have struck for express
ed or imaginary reasons, and
have held up construction of in
dustry that is vital to the de
fense program.
To us it seems a shame. It is
a double shame for men who earn
high wages, the highest industry
can pay, to be the slacker of this
country, when young men, in the
bloom of life, are torn from their
families, their friends and their
work, and sent into training at
approximately nothing.
And as Roosevelt cracks down
on one class he winks at this
slacker in the labor fields. The
labor that he has fought for to
the detriment of business now
steps in to be the only slacker in
the group, and bogs down the
production the president is ask
ing everybody else to aid.
ARLINGTON
The Arlington W. M. U. met in
the home of Mrs. Wayne Stroud
Friday evening, January 10. Sev
enteen members and two visitors
were Dresent.
The topic discussed was “An
Urgent Gospel Where they Live.”
The Bible study was conducted by
Mrs. Johnny Sears. Miss Eliza
beth Pardue presented the pro
gram. The following topics were
discussed: Urgency of the Gos
pel, by Mrs. James Frye; Where
We Live, by Mrs. Odell Holcomb,
Personal Service Finds the Need,
by Mrs. Carl Rose, and The Old
Year and the New, by Mrs. Jim
Dunman and Miss Omie Wag
oner.
After a short business session
a social hour was enjoyed, during
which the hostess, assited by
Mr. Jimmy Frye, served delicious
refreshments.
MRS. B. H. HOLCOMB
DIES SATURDAY NIGHT
Mrs. Addie Bryant Holcomb,
67, passed away late Saturday
night at the home of her only
son, Dallas Holcomb, near Jones
ville, following a lingering illness.
Mrs. Holcomb was the daughter
of the late Mr. and Mrs. Carlie
Bryant, of Yadkin county, and
the widow of B. H. Holcomb, who
died several years ago.
Survivors are her son, with
whom she made her home, two
grandchildren, five sisters and
two brothers.
Funeral services were held
Monday morning at 11 o’clock
from Fall Creek Baptist church.
The rites were in charge of Rev.
Clete Simmons. Interment was
in the family plot in the church
cemetery.
When patronizing local stores,
tell them you saw their ad. in The
Tribune. We will appreciate it,
and So will the merchants.
THROUGH
KEYHOLE
By BILL RUTLEDGE
NOW THAT WE’VE TRAILED
HER DOWN, WE’RE NOT
S-SCARED A BIT
The Lady Qhost: Those of you
who have been reading these dis
patches for several weeks will re
member that a short time ago
the writer became interested in
an old story of a girl who hitch
hiked rides with motorists near
High Point after she had been re
ported killed near the old High
Point-Greensboro underpass sev
eral years before. Finally, after
extensive questioning in that vi
cinity, we were given the names
of two different persons who were
said to have picked the girl up.
Last week we received letters
from both of them, whom we had
written regarding the story. Their
letters appear below.
713 Lindsay St.
High Point, N. C.
Bill Rutledge
The Yadkin Ripple
Yadkinville, N. C.
Dear Sir:
In answer to your letter of De
cember, Mr. Garland Good (of
the Thomasville police force) in
formed you wrong. I was not the
one involved, but happened to be
along a short time after it hap
pened. I would have answered
your letter sooner, but have been
hoping I could run into the boys
who were involved. I know twoj
of them and see them often, but'
I don’t know their names. But
the first time I run across them
I will get their names and ad
dresses and forward them to you. I
Yours truly,
A. W. Byerly
Basset, Va.
January 6, 1941
Bill Rutledge
Yadkinville, N. C.
Dear Mr. Rutledge:
In regard to the story you
wrote me about, it wasn’t .quite
like my brother-in-law told you,
but I will tell just what I saw and
heard.
About three years ago, work got
dull up here and I went back
down to High Point to get a job.
As I was coming on back, I was
by myself and driving at a good
speed up this side of Stoneville,
N. C., and I saw a light waving.
It looked just like a lantern, and
I thought it was a wreck, so I
slowed down and stopped just
right even of it and opened the
door of the car and there stood a
woman. She held out her hand
and I took hold of her arm and
helped her in. No quicker than
she got set down, she turned
around to me and said: “Have
you got a heart trouble?”
I thought then it was a foolish
question to ask me, but I said
“No.” And I looked over at her!
and she had on a lot of make-up,!
and had on a black dress with'
long sleeves and a high neck col- I
lar almost like a man’s collar. 11
said to her, “Are you going over
the road a ways?” She said “I
am going a long ways.” So, I
went on a little ways further and
I said to her: “Do you live around
here?” She said: “I haven’t lived
in a long time.” So I just flashed
my eye back in the road to see
where I was driving and looked
around at her again, and she had
disappeared.
It scared me. I thought she had
jumped out, so I stopped as soonj
as I could and another car camel
along about that time and I
flagged it down and asked him if
he had seen a woman jump out
of my car, and he said “No,” and
wanted to know what I was
drinking. I told him I wasn’t
drinking anything, and while we
were there, a state patrolman
came along, and seeing two cars
there he stopped to see what we
were stopped for. I told him
about it, and he said: “Well, you
can make what you want to of it,
for the same thing has happened
along here before.”
So, I came on home and was
telling it to some people who ran
a cafe, and they said they had
heard of a woman riding with a
man and he was going to Dan
ville, Va., and she told him about
the same thing as she did me,
only she told him where her peo
ple lived and she disappeared
from his car. He went to this
house and talked to her mother.
Her mother said that was her
daughter, that she had been dead
for seven years, and that she was
buried just like this man said she
was dressed.
v I don’t know who this man is.
I have Just told you the truth of
what I saw and heard. I have
often wondered how I stopped
»
Washington, Jan. 13 — Now
that the first week’s' sessions of
the 77th Congress have passed
into history, the last lingering
doubt of the tenor of legislation
and debate has been resolved.
War will dominate the picture for
1941—aid to Britain, our chances
of participation, ways and means
to finance our industrial effori.
All other questions and proposals
will hinge on how they affect the
war effort.
Although Congress held but
two meetings, feverish behind
the-scenes activity is taking
place. Committees are meeting
| to t enact enabling legislation to
carry out President Roosevelt’s
(“Lend-lease” plan. Other groups
are gathering to fight for mod
ification of the proposals. Demo
cratic party leaders are des
perately striving for a united
front behind the President, while
the Republicans, realizing the
impossibility o f presenting a
united group, have declared that
the old American policy of “Pol
itics stop at the water’s edge”
will hold true for Republican
members.
To Watch Spending
On some major issues, the co
alition of conservative Democrats
and Republicans which has unit
ed to defeat many spending bills
in the past, will be revived. Pre
saging this, Representative
Woodrum, Democrat of Virginia,
is proposing the creation of a
joint committee of the ranking
members of the House Ways and
Means and Appropriations Com
mittees to prevent any non-de-!
tense spending expenditures un-;
der the guise of defense needs.
This proposal is expected to
get early consideration in the
House where all revenue pro
posals must originate. The pro
posed committee would be bi-'
partisan and is assured of Re
publican support by Representa
tive Martin, Republican House
leader. The avowed purpose of
the committee is to effect an
early balancing of the non-de
fense part of the budget and
eventually to pay as much of the
defense expenditures out of in
come as is conceivably possible. !
The proposed economies are
expected to affect relief and pub
lic works construction most. That
they will be given Presidential
support is regarded as doubtful,
but it is just as doubtful that
they will meet with White House
resistance. Secretary of Labor
Frances Perkins gave encourage
ment to the economy bloc by is
suing a statement that the de
fense program should break the
back of unemployment by the
end of 1941. The Secretary^ in
her annual report, estimated that
5,000,000 to 6,000,000 new jobs
would be available in the next
eighteen months.
“About half of these will be
needed on construction jobs,”
she said, “in shipyards or in fac
tories engaged in making finish-,
ed products like airplanes and
engines, tanks and shells. Some
2,320,000 man-years of labor will
be needed primarily to supply
the contractors with materials.,
This labor will extend back into!
the mines and forests, into fac- i
tories making semi-finished pro- j
ducts, to the railroads and other i
carriers engaged in moving these'
just right even of her and what
became of the light. I thought
when she began to talk so foolish
that I had picked up a drunk
woman, but she didn’t stay with;
me long.
Prom
J. B. GORDON
♦ * *
And there you have the story.
Make what you will of it. If one
would believe Mr. Gordon, and
there is no reason to disbelieve
him, as far as we can figure, then
one would have to admit that he
rode with and talked to a woman
who had been dead seven years,
and who, it appears, was a
“ghost” endowed with superna
tural powers. To a newspaper
man, the story is#incomplete as
yet, because the story of the girl’s
parents whom we have been un
able to find, would have to be
checked to make the story com
plete.
r WINSTON-SALEM
JOURNAL and SENTINEL
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NEWS—
PICTURES— ,
FEATURES—
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goods, and to white-collar work
ers in administration ofices.”
Proposal for Housing
Yet with all the talk of strict
economies, a proposal for govern
ment construction of low cost
housing has been quietly dropped
in the lap of Congress. Nathan
Straus, United States Housing
Administrator, reported that $24,
OOO.OQ0 would be spent on defense
housing projects in 1941; this
construction to take place in
areas where private contractors
cannot take up the slack in hous
ing facilities.
The defense projects are meet
ing with opposition in many
other quarters aside from the
economy bloc. Typical of these
is the objection of American ship
operators to the transfer of
American ships to British regis
try. A shortage in American
shipping is rapidly developing
land the operators offered such
i strenuous objection to the placing
on the auction block of 24 Ameri
can vessels, that they were with
drawn from the bidding and
plans have been set up by the
United States Maritime Commis
sion to give American bidders
preference in future sales.
I Admiral Emory S. Land, chair
man of the commission, refused
to interpret the commission’s
statement, but it is understood
that if American bids are any
where near British bids, Ameri
can operators will be given the
ships.
Opposition Active
The out-and-out oppositionists
to the aid to Britain program are
forming under the leadership of
Senator Wheeler, of Montana,
and LaFollette, of Wisconsin. Mr.
Wheeler describes President
Roosevelt’s proposal for the
“lend-lease” plan as “idiotic.” He
recently told a New York delega
tion of the American Peace Mob
ilization calling at his offices in
Washington: “I would rather give
them (the British) supplies.
When you lease or loan you are
buying an interest in the war.
‘ some people say it is our war.
If it is our war, how can we
justify lending them stuff and
asking them to pay us back? If
it is our war, we ought to have
the courage to go over and fight
it, but it is not our war.”
This isolationist group may be
able to modify some of the aid to
Britain proposals, but they are
certainly due for a stormy time
of it. Already, they have been
bert Moser, a recent bride. She
received many lovely gifts. Those
attending were Mesdames R. J.
Carter, Bob Carter, W. L. Hanes,
W. V. Lufman, W. O. Key, Mel
vin Mauldin, W. M. Dickerson,
Nan Dickerson, Misses Lucille
Mauldin and Helen Dickerson
and Mrs. Moser.
Mrs. Ethel Horsley is visiting
her sister and family in Leaks
ville.
A Chinese was born with dou
ble pupils in each eye, which did
not interfere in any way with his
sight.
Epidemic of
Cold Symptoms
666 Liquid or 666 Tablets with 666
Salve or 666 Nose Drops generally
relieves cold symptoms the first
day. " — Adv.
Business Specials
22 head of good horses, mares
and mules to select from. See
them before you buy or trade.
I still handle roofing, feed, ce
ment, wagons and used cars.
R. M. Fletcher, Boonville, N. C.
1-23
Gas your car with that good Sin
clair Gasoline when in Boon
ville. I am operating the Sin
clair place in the R. M. Fletcher
building, opposite the bank.
Charlie Butner, Boonville, N. C.
l-23p
For sale or trade, three young
heifers to be fresh soon. See
Dr. L. S. Hall, Yadkinville. 1-16
For Sale or Lease—Big Nickel
Lunch, Elkin, N. C. Completely
equipped and now in operation
doing nice business. Easy terms
to responsible party. Owner
has other business interests.
Phone 333-J. tfc
Cruse Animal Hospital — Phone
4710. Dr. Charles L. Cruse, 930
N. W. Boulevard, Winston-Sa
lem, N. C. 1-30
For sale: one bay mare age 7
years, weight 1,100 pounds. See
# Sidney Williams, Yadkinville,
Rt. 1, near Union Cross. l-16p
For sale: dozens of one gallon
glass jugs. Carolina Drug Store,
Yadkinville. 1-16
Stock—For sale, one first class
pair of Percheron fijjies com
ing two years old; one pair real
nice mules coming 3 years old;
one mule colt coming one year
old; one saddle bred gelding 2
years old; one cheap saddle
mare. C. R. Groce% Yadkinville.
1-16
For Sale: Fifty acres of good
farming land. 2 houses, 5 and 6
rooms. Feedbam, 2 tobacco
bams, and pack house. Four
and one-half acres tobacco al
lotment. Also one pair mules.
See or write Thomas W. Davis,
Rt. 1, East Bend. l-23-41p
\
juration, 1941!.
I DO SOLEMLY SWEAE
THAT I WILL FAITHFULLY EXECUTE
THE OFFICE OF PRESIDENT OF THE
s United States, and will,
TO THE BEST OF MY ABILITY,
PRESERVE, PROTECT ANO DEFEND =
tub Constitution of'the >a
United S'eateS.'”
NOTICE OF RESALE
Under and by virtue of an or
der of the Superior Court of Yad
kin County, made in the special
proceeding entitled Alice Winters,
Widow of John Winters, et al, ex
parte, the undersigned commis
sioner will, on the 18th day of
January, 1941 at 1 o’clock P. M.
at the courthouse door in Yad
kin ville, N. C., offer for resale to
the highest bidder for cash that
certain tract of land lying and
being in Deep Creek Township,
Yadkin County, North Carolina
and described as follows, to wit:
Beginning at a stone on the
West side of the road at the
Bridge, runs South 22 East 5 chs.
to the N. W. comer of the dower,
then North 60 East 11 chs. to a
stone on the West side of the
branch, then North 4 East 5.33
chs. to a servis tree, then North
32 West 10 chs. to a stone on
Sheek’s line near a large white
All Kinds of Wines and
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The Rendezvous
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Short Orders — Sandwiches
Cold Drinks of All Kinds
Trade with ns and Save
Yadkin ville, N. C.
oak, then South 37 West 16.55
chs. to a sarvis tree, then North
then West 2 North 5.87 chs. to
the branch, then down the branch
as it meanders to the beginning,
containing 15 acres more or less.
This the 2nd day of January,
1941.
P. D. B. HARDING.
Commissioner
1-16
TAX NOTICE!
PLEASE PAY YOUR
1940 TAX NOW!
THE PENALTY WILL GO INTO
EFFECT ON FEBRUARY 2ND
And We Urge You to Pay Your County
Tax Before That Date, and Avoid
a 1% Penalty
A. L INSCORE
Sheriff of Yadkin County
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