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SIXTH YEAR, NUMBER 41
Hash States Views and
Position as to Matters of
Interest to Ashe Voters
Democratic Nominee for N. C.
Legislature Says He Doesn’t
Favor Any Tax Increase
RESIGNS HIS FEDERAL POST
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J. B. Hash, former successful
county superintendent of schools
and at present candidate for the
state legislature on the Democratic
ticket, has given out the following
statement to the voters of the
I county:
\ “Now that I have been relieved
'from my post of duty as an Em
ploye of the Federal Government
under the rules of which I was not
permitted to issue political state
ments, I take pleasure in frankly
stating to you my views and position
on certain matters of interest to
yourselves, to me and to our County:
*“1. Taxation: The levying of taxes
is the duty of the Board of County
Commissioners and our candidates
for County Commissioners have ex
pressed themselves in a statement
against any increase in our present
tax rate. I want to assure the people
of Ashe County that I will not spon
sor or pass any legislation in the
General Assembly which would
make it necessary for the Board of
County Commissioners to increase
the tax rate or levy any additional
taxes. Neither will I repeal any ex
isting laws, the repeal of which
would result in an increase in our
tax rate or the levying of additional
taxes. The next General Assembly
will consider a proposal for the
State to take over a portion of the
indebedness of counties incurred in
the construction of roads. I favor
and shall support any feasible and
practicable measure which can be
worked out whereby the State can
assume our County indebtedness in
curred for roads or any part of it.
“2. Schools: The operation of
schools including teachers’ salaries
is financed with money furnished by
the SJate and none of which is col
lected from a tax on land or prop
' erty. I am opposed to any tax what
ever on land or property for this
purpose. As to the construction of
school buildings, while I was Super
intendent of schools, I was able to
put through a program under which
the County received a considerable
amount of Federal money for the
construction and repairing of school
buildings. In this program I received
the hearty cooperation of those in
authority in the CWA and ERA set
ups, the school principals, commit
teemen and the citizens of the vari
ous communities in Ashe County.
This work has been carried forward
under the WPA set up by my suc
cessor in office. All the money
which was spent came from the
Federal Government except small
amounts contributed by the differ
ent communities. This program has
saved the tax-payers of Ashe Coun
ty many thousands of dollars. Our
County with its present load of in
debedness as I then knew and as I
now know was not and is not able
to spend money for the construction
of new school buildings and I do not
favor any increase in taxation for
this purpose, feeling that our Coun
ty and its school can successfully
function with the improvements
which this program has provided
them. Therefore, I DO NOT FAVOR
•AND WILL NOT FAVOR ANY
INCREASE IN TAXES IN ASHE
COUNTY FOR ANY SCHOOL
I PURPOSES. However, I do favor
less centralization and more local
control of schools.
“3. Old Age Pension: I favor and
shall support State participation in
Old Age Pensions and other benefits
under the National Social Security
Act, promoted and passed by the
National Democratic Administration'
and introduced and sponsored in
Congress by our own Congressman
Doughton. I favor this without any
increase in taxes on land or prop
erty. My opponent states that he
favors this measure, although he is
supporting Candidate Landon who
is condemning the Social Security
Act which has made these ’ benefits
and pensions possible for our aged,
and needy people.
“4. On any other issues which
may arise, I shall strive at all times
to learn what is the majority senti
ment of the thinking and right
minded people of my County and to
ca. t my votes as they would have
me cast them as their Representa
tive, using the best judgment of
which I am capable in arriving at a
conclusion and welcoming at all
times the advice and suggestions of
my fellow citizens.
' “5. Having been nominated by ac
clamation for Representative in the
General Assembly by the County
Democratic Convention, I accept the
responsibility placed Upon me and
earnestly solicit the support of the
voters not only in my party which
has nominated me but of all parties.”
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She Sfeolflrt Host
■ SI.OO a Year in Ashe County
Commissioners and
Board of Education
Endorse Measures
Both Bodies Pass Resolutions
for Highway Improvement;
Capus Waynick Written
The County Board of Commission
ers at their regular meeting Monday
drew up resoluitons endorsing two
much peeded roads in the county.
The resolutions were mailed to J. H.
Councill, district engineer for this
section, and Capus Waynick, state
chairman of the State Highway and
Public Works
The commissioners endorsed the
completion of the road 221 at a point
near Richardson’s filling station,
known as the Cranberry road, which
intersects with the Jefferson-Laurel
Springs road at the bridge near J. C.
McNeill’s residence. The road is six
miles in length, about four miles of
which has been rocked by WPA la
bor, but it is the opinion of the au
thorities that the work done will be
wasted if the state does not complete
it The road would be of great con
venience to many residents of the
communities through which it passes
and would give a direct route to
North Wilkesboro and points in the
state for . Crumpler and Grassy
Creek residents
The road from J. H. Joines’s
store at the bridge across the South
Fork of New River on U. S. highway
221 to the Jefferson-Grassy Creek
highway, No. 181, a distance of five
miles, was included in the petition.
It was asked that the highway be
designated as a state highway and
given a number. This highway would
connect Virginia travellers with the
county and the state in a very con
venient way.
The Board of Education also pass-
resulutlofi endorsing improve
ments on the school bus route from
Fig to Millecoo near Grayson. This
route is handicapped by open fords
—one at Hemlock on the Big Laurel,
and one at Roaring Fork. Often,
when the water is high, crossing is
prevented altogether, and there is
always danger from wet brakes.
These open fords are reported to be
decided hindrance to the school at
tendance in that district.
SEWER PROJECT,
HERE APPROVED
Aldermen Interested in Getting
Approval for Other Projects
in Town of W. Jefferson
WORK WILL . START SOON
WPA authorities have approved a
sewerage project for the town of W.
Jefferson and it is understood that
work will begin on it at an early
date. It will be recalled that a dele
gation of the leading citizens here
made a trip to Winston-Salem and
to Raleigh during the past month
in the interest of getting a thirty
five-thousand-dollar project approv
ed for town improvement.
Now that the street project is ap
proved, the Board of Aidermen are
working to get a water project ap
proved. J. A. Reeves, member of the
board, spent Sunday afternoon in
Hickory conferring with a WPA en
gineer as to the possibilities of the
project. It is reported that the entire
water system will be rebuilt and
taken out of the Negro Mountain
and put in the Buck. It is said that
the supply in the Negro is not suf
ficient for the enlarged needs of the
growing town and during the past
dry summer residents have been in
convenienced a great deal.
A project is also being pushed to
improve the streets of the town.
Registration Books
Open 4 Saturdays
Before Voting Day
The registration books for the
November election opened in the
county Saturday and will be open
each Saturday except the last before
the big day on November 3rd. The
books will be close at the end of" the
second Saturday before the election
as the last Saturday will be used for
challenge day.
Both parties in the county this
year are anxious for all new voters
to register and all other voters who
have moved from one township to
another or who have moved away
from the county to have it properly
entered on the registration books. \
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1936, WEST JEFFERSON, N. C.
Makes Golden Gate Bridge Job Safe
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Pictured here is a section of the great net which has been swung be*
neath the Golden Gate bridge at San Francisco to insure its being “the
safest job in the world." The net, first of its kind to be used in construe*
tion history, has been swung thirty feet below the bridge and is designed
to prevent workmen plummeting to their death from the dizzy heights
of the bridge in the event of a fall.
SPANISH REBELS TO
ATTACK FORCES IN
CAPITAL OF NATION
Guidebook Ready
for Ashe County
Election Officials
Covers All Phases of Elections
and Duties of Officials;
Use of It Urged
The election officials of this coun
ty and all its precincts are being
urged by the State Board of Elec
tions to secure and use copies of the
64-page manual for their instruction
and guidance in the coming election,
just brought out by the Institute of
Government in Chapel Hill.
“The most valuable election guide
yet made available,” commented
Raymond Maxwell, Secretary of the
State Board. “I hope that every reg
istrar will be supplied with a copy,”
he wrote the chairman of the county
board last week. “I feel that it will
result in a more orderly election
and will reduce the chances for con
tests and other troubles. These usu
ally arise because of certain com
missions or omissions on the part of
the election officials. And these are
due generally to a misunderstanding
of their duties under the law.”
Beginning with the qualifications
and requirements for voting, the
Guidebook takes the election official
through each step in his duties from
registration through conducting the
election to canvassing and reporting
the results. Special sections are de
voted to the rules for absentee vot
ing and to the penalties in the Cor
rupt Practices Act for voters and
officials.
Odell Bare Killed
by Automobile
Others Hurt at Glendale Springs
When Car Driven by Moulton
Sheets Strikes Group
Odell'Bare was killed and two
others hurt late Saturday afternoon
near Glendale Springs when a car
driven by Moulton Sheets ran into
a group of five men, reported to
have been walking across the road.
Another report is that the men were
walking on the same side of the
road the car was on and that the
lateness of the evening caused the
car to be on them before the driver
saw them. All reports however, at
tach no blame to Sheets, the driver
of the car, and it is understood that
no arrests will be made.
Bare was 32 years old, and a son
of Mrs. Lizzie Watkins and the late
Rhudy Bare. He is survived by his
wife, Gertie Mash Bare, and five
children: Mayella, Bernice, Bemell,
Bina, and Jack. Two sisters and a
brother also survive: Mrs. Oza Cau
dil, Obids; Mrs. Arcie Miller, Glen
dale Springs; and Onnie Bare, Lau
real Springs. Funeral services were
held at Roans Creek Tuesday after
noon with Rev. John Luke in charged
Dr. and Mrs. B. E. Reeves are
spending the week in New York
City as the guests of the Norfolk and
Western Railroad.
Mr. Felix Barr and son, Edward,
visited at Creston, Tuesday.
Fascists Will Take Government
From Communists With
Capture of Madrid
HORRID TALES CONTINUE
The rebel forces in Spain, who
have been steadily driving back the
loyalists, have almost surrounded
Madrid, the Spanish capital city,and
are preparing for an attack this
week by which they hope to obtain
control of the government. The chief'
general of the rebel army is already
planning the sort of government
that he will install. He, himself will
be dictator with all the powers of
such an office. He will have under
him a number of “committees” who
will help advise him and who will
be empowered to make minor deci
sions for him.
From France, refugees continue to
tell tales of horror and one group of
refugees reports that bands of ama
teur “executioners” have killed se
cretly some 3,000 persons in Madrid.
The executions, they said, were
not done with the knowledge or con
sent of the constituted Madrid gov
ernment, but were summary execu
tions of those suspected of sedition
or fascist sympathies.
One day in September, the refu
gees said, 82 persons were shot to
death and left where they fell by
the free lance executioners.
On a quiet day, they said, only 15
riddled corpses were heaped on the
outskirts of Madrid.
Hoey to Speak
at Courthouse
DOUGHTON AND OTHERS TO
SPEAK AT NEW RIVER
HIGH SCHOOL WED.
Ira T. Johnston, county chair
man of the Democratic Executive
Committee, announces that Hon.
Clyde R. Hoey, Democratic candi
date for Governor of JMorth Caro
lina, will speak at the courthouse
in Jefferson at 7:30 o’clock Mon
day night, October 12. The public
is invited to hear this slivery
tongued orator, whom, it is prac
tically conceeded, will be the
next Governor of the state.
On October 14, the Wednesday
night following,Hon. R. L. Dough
ton, congressman and candidate
for re-election, will speak at New
River High School near Fig at
7:30 o’clock. At the same meeting,
candidate for the State Senate
Hon. Roby T. Greer, Democratic
will speak and the Democratic
county candidates will be present,
and deliver brief speeches.
The public is urged, stated Mr.
Johnston, to attend this meeting
and hear the issues of the day
ably and fairly discussed.
EXTENSION CLASS WILL
MEET HERE OCTOBER 17
Dr. Derendinger, who is offering
the extension course in this county,
will meet his class on October 17, at
ten o’clock in the morning in the
West Jefferson high school building.
Dr. Derendinger is a professor at
Catawba College.
$1.25 a Year Out of County
10th Annual Fair to Be
Held at Grassy Creek on
Saturday October 10th
GOP Candidate for
Congress to Speak
at Helton Saturday
Nominee for State Senate and
County Candidates to Be
Present at Meeting ■
Watt Gragg, Republican candidate
for the United States Congress from
the ninth district, will speak at the
Helton schoolhouse on Helton, Sat
urday night, October 10th at 7:30
o’clock. With the exception of his
speech at the Republican conven
tion, this is the first speech Mr.
Gragg has been scheduled to make
in the county and the Mr. Bauguess,
County Chairman of the Republican
Executive Committee, is anxious to
have all party members present for
the occasion.
Hon. C. M. Critcher, also of Boone,
will be present and speak. Mr. Crit
cher is the Republican candidate for
the state senate from this district of
three counties, Ashe, Alleghany, and
Watauga.
Other county candidates are ex
pected to be present and express
their views on the various political
situations of the day.
JOHN RACKLEY LEADS
DAVIDSON FRESHMEN
TO FOOTBALL VICTORY
DAVIDSON, Oct. I.—Led by John
Rackley, the Davidson Wild Kittens
opened their football season here
this afternoon on Richardson field
by outclassing a Presbyterian junior
college eleven, winning 20-0.
The Kittens scored in all but the
third period.
Rackley raced 13 yards for the
first score in the opening quarter.
Watkins went over from the three
yard line for the second score just
as the second quarter opened while
Jimmy Currie intercepted a P. C.
pass late in the same period and rac
ed 35 yards for the third touchdown.
Young Mr. Rackley’s friends in
Ashe county will be glad to learn
that he is continuing his good work
in athletics that he started while a
student at Lansing High School. Mr.
Rackley, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. L.
Rackley, of Warrensville,was among
the outstanding athletes in the
county last year, and it is no sur
prise that he is able to take a rank
ing place on the Davidson College
freshman football team.
Masonic Meeting
Here on Tuesday
There will be a regular communi
cation of Ashe Lodge No. 671 A. F.
& A. M. on Tuesday night at 7:30
o’clock, October 13 in the masonic
hall at West Jefferson.
Worshipful Master Ira T. Johnston
announces that there will probably
be work in the third degree and
urges every member to be present
and invites all Masons to attend.
The regular meetings have been
on the first and third Fridays but
have been changed to the second and
fourth Tuesdays.
Considerable interest has been
shown in the local lodge recently.
The officers who have been instru
mental in reviving such a great in
terest are as follows: Ira T. John
ston, W.M.; E. D. Barr, S. W.; J. E.
Johnson, J. W.; Charlie McNeil,
Sec.; T. E. Parker, Tres.; R. B. Myers,
S. D.; W. A. Campbell, J. D.; Capt.
G. B. Doggett, S. S.; Walter Burkett,
J. S.; Webb Cooper, Tyler; and
T. B. Grayson, Ed. Sec.
Mail Route Extended
to Fleetwood Today
Letters Go Direct to Fleetwood
Now; Route From Deep Gap
to Fleetwood Reversed
The mail route from West Jeffer
son has been extended to continue
on to the Fleetwood post office, be
ginning with today’s mail This will
give the Fleetwood people mail from
West Jefferson and other offices in
the county and state on the same
day it is sent. A movement has been
on foot to get this change made for
several years and 'residents along
the route will be glad to learn that
it has at last been accomplished.
The route from Fleetwood tb Deep
Gap has been reversed in order to
facilitate matters. The mail now
leaves Deep Gap on the arrival of
the Wilkes mail and goes to Fleet
wood. It leaves Fleetwood on the ar
rival of the West Jefferson mail.
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Blue Ribbons and Useful Prizes
Will Be Given as Awards
for Best Exhibits
808 DOUGHTON TO SPEAK
The 10th Annual Grassy Creek
Community Fair will be held Satur
day, October 10th, at the Virginia-
Carolina High- School at Grassy
Creek. The night before, Friday, a
fiddler’s convention and baby con
test will be held. Saturday night a
big boxing contest will be staged.
A feature of the Saturday’s pro
gram will be an'address by Con
gressman R. L. Doughton at two
o’clock in the afternoon.
The exhibits will consist of live
stock of all kinds, crop exhibits, can
ned and cooked goods, and needle
work. Blue ribbons will be awarded
for the first prizes, red ribbons for
the second, and white for the third.
Prizes will be awarded for receiv
ing the most points. The lady receiv
ing the most points will be given a
rug and the farmer receiving the
most points will be given a bag of
wheat fertilizer. Laying mash will
be given in the poultry exhibits.
Prizes, not yet decided on, will be
given to Future Farmers, and the
oldest lady present will receive a
porch rocker. Other contests will be
held and the day is expected to be
full of interest for all residents and
visitors in this section of North
Carolina and Virginia.
The faculty of the school and the
community of Grassy Creek urges
the public to attend and help make
the tenth annual fair the biggest
success yet to be had.
2 Men and 2 Stills
Taken by Officers
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Burkett,'Burgees, and Jones Get
Two Small Stills in Sheets’s
Gap and Ebeneezer
Deputies David Burkett, Wiley
Burgess, and J. T. Jones cut down
two stills last week and captured a
man at each still. The first still was
found near Lundy Darnell’s at
Sheets’s Gap on the Blue Ridge. It
was a fifty-gallon affair and 200
gallons of beer and 100 gallons of
low wine were poured out. Darnell
was found at the still and arrested
and brought to Jefferson but later
freed on bond.
The following day, the same men
captured a 25-gallon copper still
near Ebeneezer. 150 gallons of beer
were poured out and Clifford Shep
herd was arrested. He, too, was
brought to town and later released
on bond.
Ashe Cheese Wins
First Prize at Fair
Kraft - Phoenix Plant Manager
Feels That High Honor Has
Been Given Local Product
Leveme Johnson, manager of the
local Kraft-Phoenix Cheese plant,
has been notified that a cheese from
the local factory has won first prize
at the Tennessee State Fair. The
cheese was entered in the brick
cheese contest along with seventy
five other entries, all of which were
high grade cheese. Os the seventy
five, only five scored below ninety.
The display of cheese at the Ten
nessee Fair represented the largest
collection of its kind that has yet
been held in the South and entries
came from almost all of the South
ern states.
Mr. Johnson feels that he has a
right to be very proud of the Ashe
county product that was able to rate
first in such a high-class exhibit.
Air Circus to Be in
County Saturday
Captain Ed Newkirk to Be at
Dent’s Flying Field Saturday
and Sunday Afternoons
Musleh’s Air Circus v featuring
A. Thomas Katt, parachute jumper,
and Captain Ed Newkirk, stunt
pilot, and. Bob Williams, Wing Wal
ker, will be in the county Saturday
and Sunday afternoons. The air show
will be staged at the Dent flying
field near Jefferson. A number of
interesting and unusual stunts will
be performed and airplane rides will
be given.
Two planes will be on the field.
and the public is invited to attend
the show on both days.