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VOLUME VI, NUMBER 7
Doughton Hopes
n New Taxes Will
Not Be Necessary
New Farm Legislation And Bonus
Payments Might Call For
More Money
I Chairman R. L. Doughton, of the
House ways and means committee,
f ' said after a White House discussion
' - Thursday: “I think we will surprise
the country by not having to have
as large a tax bill as is expected.”
He said no new taxes for the bon**
us payment were indicated and “I
am still hopeful new levies will not
be necessary on that account”
V - The North Carolina congressman
and Representative Bankhead, Ala
> bama, Democratic leader, had lunch
with President Roosevelt just be
fore heads of the l government’s ma-
I jor spending agencies arrived for
another conference on expenses and
possible ways to cut down on
spending.
J Doughton predicted that a tax
• bill required to meet the demands
j; of the new farm legislation would
be ready by the first of the week.
He said he expected no additional
legislation beyond the bonus and
farm relief that would require fur-
• ther taxes.
The President had given no indi
cation of what levies would be
sought except to state that there
would be a tax bill of about half
a billion dollars to provide substi
tute levies for the outlawed AAA
processing taxes.
The week in Washington was
marked by frequent conferences
between the President and the
revenue and spending authorities
wrestling with the perplexing
problem of taxes and expenditures
—a problem made acute by the
passage of the bonus bill and the
death of the processing taxes.
One day’s developments relating
to the problems of Federal revenues
and spending illustrate what tran
spired during the week in connec
tion with the subjects involved:
1. One Capitol Hill quarter re
ported word Mr a Rqgpevelt
that present plans do not contem
pt*; plate a request for new taxes to pay
the soldiers’ bonus.
2. The House inflation bloc
launched its drive for an early vote
on the Patman currency expansion
proposal.
3. Administration officials began
a new study of next year’s relief
load to try to pare the estimated
$2,000,000,000 cost.
Study Season Being
Observed By Ashe
Co. Presbyterians
“Faith of Our Fathers”, a study
book written by Dr. D. Clay Lilly,
of Reynolda, is this month being
studied at the week night sessions
of the Lansing, Jefferson and Foster
Memorial Presbyterian Churches.
The book is written in keeping with
the plans for the celebration of the
Diamond Jubilee in in commemora
tion of the seventy-fifth birthday of
the Southern Presbyterian Church
as a separate communion.
The chapter headings of the book
are as follows: I. Who' Through
Faith (which tells of the stirring
war days and of the beginning of
the church); 11. Reviewing the Past;
111. Surveying the Present; IV. Fac
ing the Future.
On the covers of the book is the
picture of the historic first Presby
terian Church, of Augusta, Ga.,
where on Dec. 4, 1861 the first As
sembly met. The next Assembly
convenes there on May 21st.
Rogers In “Steamboat
Round The Bend” Here
One of Will Rogers’s two last pic
tures will play at the Jeffersonian
Theatre Monday and Tuesday—
S', Round the Bend”. A
Will Rogers picture needs no de
. .scription, for those who knew and
read about the beloyed American
know that he is always good in
whatever he did.
Because of Rogers’s untimely
death, almost all of his shows have
been on the local screen and the
public is anxious not to miss any.
His other last picture is “In Old
Kentucky.”
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SI.OO A Year In Ashe County
WON’T SELL VOICE
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The rich contralto voice of Mrs.
Lillian Ulrey “belongs to God” and
she will not sell its golden notes to
radio or any other commercial me
dium for any price. She is reported
to have rejected a radio offer of
SSOO a week. Mrs. Ulrey is a worker
for the Volunteers of America, and
she sings at the Bowery Mission,
New York.
Red Cross Roll Call
To Be Opened Mon.
Katherine Duncan, county
chairman of the 1935 Red Cross
roll call, is appointing assisting
committees over the county
preparatory to beginning the
annual 1935 drive for member
ships that was not held on the
regular dates of Nov.ll-28, 1935.
This drive is being put on
since the National Red Cross
has promised a resident nurse
for the county in the event
such a drive is held.
Mrs. Charles Carson
Passes Suddenly In
Bluefield, West Va.
Former Resident Os This County
Buried Saturday; Was Native
Os Beaver dreek <
Mrs. Charles Carson, aged 61, di
ed suddenly at her home in Blue
field, W. Va., last Thursday, Feb. 8.
Mrs. Carson had been in good
health until a few days prior to her
death and she had been down town
to visit a doctor the morning she
died. Her physician had prescribed*
rest and she had come home and
gone to bed when she suffered a
heart attack and died at once.
Mrs. Carson’s husband died in
1929.
The deceased was married in 1899
and left this county with her hus
band in 1900. She was a prominent
and beloved woman in Bluefield,
having lived there for the past 35
years. She was a daughter of the
late Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Hardin, of
Beaver Creek. She is survived by
two sons, John M., and Charles H.,
both of Bluefield; one brother,
Fields Hardin, of Beaver Creek;
one sister, Mrs. Mary J. Howell, of
Russell, Mont. Mrs. Carson was a
sister-in-law to Mesdames Flora
Johnson, J. D. Perkins, and W. J.
Ray.
Due to the bad weather, relatives
from here who planned to attend
the funeral were unable to do so.
It is reported that Mr. Lee Camp
bell and son, Clyde, attended. Mr.
Campbell is a nephew of Mrs.
Carson.
West Jefferson Radio
Moves To Bare Bldg.
The West Jefferson Radio Com
pany, owned by Earl A. Ray, is now
occupying the Bare building next
door to the office of Dr. B. E.
Reeves.
The company carries Atwater-
Kent radios and Stewart-Warner
radios and refrigerators. Service
and repair work on all makes of ra
dios will be available.
Council Meet To Be
Held At Jefferson
A council meeting of the Y. P. U.
will meet with Miss Anne Worth
Monday evening, February 9. All
the officers are urged to attend this
meeting as there is very important
business to be discussed.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1936, WEST
Mrs. Carrie Royal
Dies At Scottville
Mrs. Carrie Osborne Royal, aged
17, died at the home of her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. George Osborne, at
Scottville, on February 4. Funeral
services were conducted by Rev. T.
M. Hayes and the body was laid to
rest in the Osborne graveyard with
the Badger Undertakers in charge.
Mrs. Royal is survived by her
husband, Weldon Royal, an infant
son, her parents, and two sisters.
BOON TO SUFFERERS
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This is Dr. Leroy L. Hartman,
Columbia university professor of
dentistry, discoverer of the new
teeth desensitizer which makes the
dentist’s drill a painless instrument.
The substance, which it was said,
“will revolutionize the practice of
dentistry,” was discovered after
twenty years of research by Doctor
Hartman.
Clyde Jones Makes
Fall Term Honor
Roll At W. F. C.
Clyde Jones, son of Mr. and Mrs.
F. B. Jones, was listed on a news
release from Wake Forest College,
dated Feb. 8, as being on the fall
semester honor roll at that college.
The number of students making
honor roll at Wake Forest represent
only twelve per cent of the student
body.
Young Mr. Jones is a member of
the Sophomore class at Wake For
est. He has been on the honor roll
during the fall months, but this list
represents the entire fall term.
Mrs. Emma Grant
Sutherland Dies
Os Heart Attack
Aged Resident Os Creston Com
munity Is Stricken In Road
And Dies Immediately
Mrs. Emma Grant Sutherland,
widow of the late David Suther
land, died suddenly from a heart
attack last Thursday.. Mrs. Suther
land had been to visit a neighbor
and renter on the place and was re
turning home when she was strick
en. She fell in the road at the mouth
of Rock Creek Men working near
by heard her call for help, but she
died before they were able to carry
her to the house.
Funeral services were held Sat
urday morning and interment fol
lowed in the family cemetery. Rev.
A. G. Lackey was in charge of the
services.
Mrs. Sutherland is survived by
one daughter, Mrs. Minnie Suther
land.
Free Cheese-Flavored
Pop Corn To Teachers
The Carolina Food Products
Company, of Mt. Airy, N. C., is of
fering to send, free, sample pack
ages of O-Ke-Doke cheese-flavored
pop com to school teachers for
their pupils, provided the teachers
will write in to the factory at Mt.
Airy making the request and at the
time send in five names of stores in
the town or community where they
teach that might handle the pop
com.
This offer is made as a part of an
advertising scheme in order to ac
quaint the public with the new
Kraft-Phenix Cheese product, and
it is thought that many of the
teachers in the county will be glad
to take advantage of the offer.
Central Radio Co.
In FERA Offices
The Central Radio Company has
moved into the old FERA offices
next door to the theatre building
and are now ready to serve their
patrons.
E. D. Barr is owner of the com
pany which deals in Philco radios
and radio fixtures. Other and all
makes of radios may be repaired
there, however.
HONOR FOR A HERO
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Lietu. Robert K. Giovanoli of
Lexington, Ky., who is on duty with
the army air corps at Dayton, Ohio,
was selected to receive the Cheney
award for 1935, in recognition of
his “extreme bravery” in the rescue
of two men from a* burning plane
at Dayton on October 30.
Schools Ordered To
Close If Attendance
Not Good In District
Supt. Miller Asks Principals And
Teachers To Maintain 90%
Average Or Close
Superintendent J. Ivan Miller is
requesting all teachers and princi
pals in outlying districts to close
their schools unless they can main
tain an average of at least ninety
percent of their regular attendance.
This request has been made nec
essary because many of the teach
ers have kept schools open when
only a small portion of their pupils
have been able to attend. The re
duced attendance which has to be
filed in Raleigh will be used as a
basis for the alloting of teachers to
the county next year. Continued
low attendance reports will result
in the losing of teachers for the
county. Prof. Miller is also anxious
for the schools to be run for the
benefit of the students, which can
not be done if the weather is such
that it is impossible for the stu
dents to attend.
The discontinued schools will
have to run longer in the spring,
but the unprededented cold weath
er makes Superintendent Miller’s
request necessary.
30,000 Tracts Sent Out
By Charles Keys, Jr.
Charles Keys, Jr., of this city, has
sent out over N. C., around 30,000
tracts and small editions of St.
John’s gospels during the year 1935.
Any one wanting a supply of this
literature should write to Keys
Free Gospel Missions, West Jeffer
son, N. C.
Glee Club To Be
Here Monday Night
The Appalachian State Teachers
College National Youth Administra
tion Glee Club will be at the West
Jefferson High School, Monday
night, Feb. 17, and will give a pub
lic performance of music and song.
Admission is ten cents to all-Prof.
John F. Donnelley invites the pub
lic to attend.
Mrs. Howard Dixon
Buried Last Week
Mrs. Howard Dixon, who lives
near Jefferson, died Thursday and
was buried at the Wallace cemetery
the latter part of the week. Mr 3.
Dixon was a daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Arthur Mullis.
$1.25 A Year Out Os County
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Europe best knows the immense
ly wealthy Aga Khan as the owner
of racing horses which persistently
win the great classics of the British
and French turf. He is not known
to Europe in his rightful role, how
ever, in which he is pictured above.
The Aga Khan is one of India’s
most famous men and has been so
since he was nine, at which time he
became spiritual head of the Shiah
Imami Ismailis and of the Khoja
community of western India. In
these robes he is celebrating the
fiftieth year, the golden jubilee, of
his reign. The Aga Khan is the
forty-eighth in direct decent from
Ali, nephew and son-in-law of the
Prophet Mahomet. His word is di
vine law to millions.
LATE NEWS
BULLETINS
Disease Follows Cold
Spell In Mid-West
‘tlhe Llinois director of the
State health department states
435 new cases of pneumonia have
been reported during the past
week and many are already down
with the disease. According to
the director, the cold wave has
reached the “pneumonia stage.”
Farm Relief Bill May
Reach Vote Friday
A final vote on the soil-conser
vation subsidy bill is expected to
reach a vote in the Senate Friday.
This bill is offered as a substitute
for the recently declared uncon
stitutional A. A. A.
Mrs. Long Takes
Oath As Senator
Letting it be known she would
continue the “share-our-wealth”
campaign of her slain husband,
Mrs. Rose McConnell Long of
Louisiana was sworn in Monday
as the second woman member of
the senate.
In a low, soft drawl, the black
garbed widow responded to the
oath of office administered by
Vice President Gamer. Then she
took a seat beside Senator Hattie
Caraway of Arkansas, who came
to the senate partly through the
campaign efforts of Huey P. Long.
CCC Boys Rescued
From Ice Floe
Seven game CCC lads who,
wrestled and danced to keep from
freezing on windswept ice floes
off Cape Cod the first of this week
are warm and safe now—thanks
to daring airplane pilots and coast
guardsmen.
“Boy, it sure was a swell feel
ing to see that aviator,” Fitzsim
mons said as he told of the plane
that spotted the drifting men at
daybreak.
He said the seven men went on
ice for a photograph and 10 min
utes lated found they were adrift
on a huge ice cake.
“We spent the afternoon and
night talking and smoking,” Fitz
simmons said. “Several times, we
kind of danced around with the
main idea of keeping warm”
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EACH THURSDAY
Cold Holds Firm
Grip On Ashe And
Nearby Counites
Western States Face Coal, Food,
And Water Shortage; Last
Friday Coldest Night
Ashe county continues to be held
in the cold and unyielding grip of
King Winter as thermometers fall
to zero during nights and barely
rise above during the days. Several
days of sunshine have failed to
make any decided impression on
the heavy snow fall of last week.
The main highways have melted off
after being scraped and are clear,
but side roads, fields, and moun
tains have melted little.
According to the government
thermometer kept by Mr. Joe
Worth in Jefferson, Friday night
was the coldest night of the year,
six below zero registering. Hereto
fore, only one, two, and three de
grees had registered in Jefferson.
Residents of the Jeffersons were
surprised at the reading since there
was no wind blowing, it did not
seem so cold. Reports from western
and mid-western states tell of coal,
food, and water shortages. Many
farmers are faced with the problem
of getting water for their cattle and
other stock since streams are frozen
almost solid.
! Chicago faced a serious milk
shortage. Some dairies supplied on
ly hospitals. There were no regular
deliveries in Des Moines, lowa City
dairymen reduced their allotments
by 50 per cent. In other lowa towns
: the fluid was given only to families
with children. Fort Dodge ran short
of meat.
Henry, Bureau and Star counties
in Illinois were low on milk. The
rural areas of Southern Minnesota
were pressed for provisions. Sleds
and hand-drawn toboggans brought
food to snow locked homes.
Many households were without
coal in temperatures that ranged
down to 25 below zero. Mayor R. S.
Polard
and public places in Co
lumbia, Mo., closed for a week.
Coal Is Rationed
Coal was rationed at Moline, Ot
' tawa and Bureau county, 111. It was
1 carefully doled out in many South
ern Minnesota communities and in
Yankton, Mitchell and Sioux Falls,
S. D.
The University of South Dakota
and innumerable schools in the
Midwest closed. The bituminous
coal commission at Washington
I warned it would fix maximum
prices if necessary to protect con
sumers. . . j
Although the mercury rose dur
ing the day, no substantial relief
from the abnormal cold was prom
ised until Thursday.
Mrs. Finley Mast
Passes In Lenoir
Mrs. Finley Mast, of Valle Crucis,
died at a Lenoir hospital Sunday
morning. Mrs. . Mast had been on a
visit to her son at Patterson when
she was taken ill and carried to the
hospital. She was around seventy
five years of age and a widely known
woman. Her home was a gathering
place for many notables and she
was instrumental in helping put
much of the handicraft of the
mountains before the public.
Funeral services were held at
Valle Crucis Monday. Hon. and Mrs.
Ira T. Johnston and son, Thomas, of
Jefferson, attended the funeral.
Young People’s Union
Meets At Lansing
The Young People’s Union of
Ashe county met at the Lansing
Methodist Church, February 10.
Mr. Bell gave a splendid talk on
temperance, followed by a couple
of special hymns by Miss Clara
Perkins, Miss Lois Dickson, and
Prof. Joe Martin. Afterwards a
short business discussion was held.
Jefferson won the banner as us
ual, with a large majority.
Refreshments were served by the
i Lansing league, for the benefit of
the visiting leagues.
i The meeting adjourned to meet
t again, March 9, at Jefferson, with
Grassy Creek giving the program.