VOL. XXXVI,
No. 04
SHELBY. N. C. WEDNESDAY, AUG. 6, 1930
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10 PAGES
TODAY
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LATE NEWS f
THE MARKET.
Cotton, per It).-.....
Cotton Seed, per bo. . —
Showers Eikely.
Today’s North Carolina Weather
Report: Partly cloudy with local !
thunder showers this afternoon or
tonight In central and nerthwest
portions. Thursday mostly fair, not
much change In temperature.
Chinese Slaughter.
Shanghai, Aug. 6.—Two thousand
Chinese were executed while com
munists were in possession of
Changsha, Hunan province, Japan
M dispatches said early today, in;
addition 4,000 Chinese were miss
ing, either executed or kidnaped. J
Shanghai, Aug. 5.—Aroused by 1
further outrages against foreigners
in China by bandit-communist j
armies, foreign governments today!
ordered additional warships to pro- j
need up the Yangtse river to rein- j
force 11 gunboats at Hankow and
five at Changsha.
Postoffice At
South Shelby
Second Rural Station Is Author
teed— C. H. Reinhart Will Be
Clerk In Charge
The application for a second
Rural Station for Shelby has
been granted, effective as of
October 1st. It will be located
at the store of Charles H.
Reinhart and will be known as
"South Shelby Rural Station.”
Mr. Reinhardt will be Clerk-in
Charge.
These are known as Rural Sta
tions” because they are served by
rural carriers, and do business
through the main office. Practical
ly all business that can be trans
acted through the main office can
be transacted through the Rural
Stations—registering, insuring, pur
chasing money orders, sending C.
O. D., selling stamps, cards, stamped
envelopes, etc.
Millside Rural Station was the
first Station established in Shelby
and is located in close proximity to
Bastside Manufacturing company
and to the Cleveland Cloth Mills.
These stations are a great conven
ience to the people who live near
them and it is hoped that they will
be liberally patronized. This will,
to some extent, relieve the conges
tion at the main office at peak
hours.
These stations will not, in any
way, displace or supercede the city
service that those sections are re
ceiving now. While coordinate, in
part, with the city delivery service,
they render a great deal of service
that can not be rendered by the city
carriers.
Work Convicts
At County Farm
‘"Lions Club Here Makes Suggestion
i To County Officials At
Meeting
Cleveland county, or No. 6 town
ship, has more convicts than can
he employed on the township road
Work, so why not employ prisoners
rwho have had farm experience upon,
the county home farm
That was the question the Shelby
TJons club asked county officials at
>the weekly meeting of the club last
<nigbt. Attorney Maurice R. Weath
ers was the speaker and represent
atives of the board of county com
missioners and the No. 6 township
road commissioners were present.
The query was merely passed
Mong as a suggestion for officials
to think over, according to Mr. I
Weathers. He mentioned the fact
that around 200 acres of county
(home farm land is now being work
fed and that there are now approxi
mately 60 prisoners on the No. 6
fchain gang. No. 6 road commission
ers say they can only work 25 pris
oners, and Mr. Weathers in his talk
. thought it might be possible to take
those prisoners who are experienced
farm workers and place them on
the county farm. If such a plan
could be worked out the convicts,
he said, would be able to feed them
selves and perhaps have a surplus
to aid in feeding the inmates of the
home. Should there be a remaining
surplus it might go, he said, to the
welfare department to aid unfor
tunate families.
' Shelby Youngsters
Win In 2 Contests;
The baseball team of the inter
mediate class of boys at the Shelby
Jlrst Baptist church won two games
this week, defeating the Forest City
Intermediates Monday 7 to 6 and
the Rutherfordtan team Tuesday 4
to 3. In the Forest City same the
Shelby battery was R. K. Wilson, O
C. Connor and Wolfe. For Forest
City C. Doggett and L. Diggett. Q.
-'C. Connor hit a three-bagger and
•James a two-bagger in tins game.
Jonas Attempts
To Ride Smith
Issue For Win \
Getting Publicity
Out Of Report
Republicans Would Revive Smith ;
Fight To Orfset Hard limes j
Damage. I
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“Faced by what appear; to be sure '
defeat because of the lack of pros- i
perity. President Hoover and the
Republican party promised the
country. Congressman Charles A.!
Jonas now seems to be attempting!
to revive the A1 Smith i; : ue with
the hope of riding it back to Wash-;
ington,” Attorney W. S, Beam j
Democratic congressional commit
teeman for this district, stated here
today after reading a statement is
sued at Charlotte by the Republican
congressman for this district.
This week a report emanating
from Washington had it that a peti
tion signed by North Carolina Dem
ocrats who voted for Hoover was
asking that Smith become a candi
date again. Leading Democrats at
the time appeared to knew little.,
about it and authentic information
regarding the petition has not been
advanced.
North Carolina Democrats took
very little stock in tiie report. Many
of them considered it a shrewd move
on the part of Republican propa
ganda artists to stir up and revive
the friction among North Carolina
Democrats.
lTp Again.
Scant attention was given the
report, due to several mysterious
angles surrounding it, until the
Charlotte Observer this ,\v< ek pub
lished statements from Congress
man Jonas and Frank R. McNinch,
the anti-Smith leader of 1928, con
cerning it. Mr, McNinch said that
he did not believe Nortn Carolina
Democrats who voted for Hoover
had signed any such pet-lion, and
would not sign it. Mr. Jonas de
clared that he had a copy of the
petition, and the articles dated that
the signers may have bem original
| Smith men who were attempting to
bring the New York man into the
limelight again.
Weak Strategy.
"It's a laughable matter vO see Mr.
Jonas trying to win votes by such
weak strategy," Mr. Beam declared
here today. "I hardly believe that
any Hoover Democrats; started and
signed such a petition. And I doubt,
too, if any of the Democratic regu
lars in 1928 signed it. The party in
North Carolina seems to be harmon
ious now and I do not think the
Democrats of the state Cate to start
anything that will get them at odds
with each other again. It’s merely
a ruse to give Mr. Jonas an oppor
tunity of splitting the Democrats of
the ninth district so that he may
get in office again. That’s the way
he managed to slip in the iirst time
—that and his promises of liow the
textile Industry and agriculture
would flourish in North Carolina
with a Republican in Washington to
talk with President Hoover abo^it
the ninth district. From a sortie
what mysterious source comes a re
port that ‘Hoovercrats want Smith
now.’ The unusual aspects of such
a report caused party leaders to ig
nore it. But not Mr. Jonas. He saw
a chance to stir, up a fight, and he
needed such a chance. Major Bul
winkle can beat him hands down
this Fall with a united parly behind
him. Mr. Jonas can never explain
away these hard times we have in
stead of the prosperity he end Mr.
Hoover promised us. Now ht sees an
opportunity to hide behind a. revival
of the Smith fight. Wonder why he
doesn’t show the copy of the peti
tion he has? Why be so mysterious
about it? Why not publish it so
Plans to Harness the Waves
Gustav* Sachs looking: over his -
plans whereby he will develop
his four inventions to "revolu
tionize ocean travel both in
volume and .speed.” The In
ventions include a hydroplane,
an improved speedboat, an im
proved sea airport and an ocean
wave hydroelectric power plant.
With the last he intends to
renerate power from the ocean
.wave*.
flataraatlaaal Naarsraatt
Hoey Will Not Say Until Fall
About Prospective Senate Race
Preacher Has Young
Man Up For Talking
In Church, Acquitted
Witnesses Testify' That Defendant
Did Not Disturb Worship At
Revival
Hager Anderson, young white man
of the up-county section, was In
county court today charged with
disturbing religious -worship. The
charge was preferred by Rev. E. L,
McDaniel, woho is conducting a re
vival at Zion Hill Baptist church In
that section, Rev. Mr. McDaniel
charging that the young man talk
ed, laughed and otherwise disturbed
tire congregation.
Hive or six witnesses testifying for
Anderson declared that he had not
talked, laughed or otherwise disturb
ed the congregation and Judge Hor
ace Kennedy acquitted him.
Witnesses for the prosecution
were the minister and one other
man. Four young men and one girl
testified for the defendant. The
minister said there was talking in
the section of the church where An
derson was but did not say definite
ly that he was positive Anderson
w'as the talker. He further said
that he asked for quiet and atten
tion. The only evidence which di
rectly involved Anderson was that
of the other prosecution witness.
He said that his father went down
the aisle shouting and that Ander
son smiled. On this point the re
corder said he could punish Ander
son for not behaving or causing a
disturbance at church but that he
could not force him to be religious,
or keep him from smiling, In ac
quitting the defendant, however, the
recorder warned him that if he re
turned to that or any other church
he would have to behave or be pun
ished.
A large number of people from
the Zion Hill section attended the
hearing.
that the men whose names are
signed to it may express themselves
as to its validity. Then he would see
if it were signed by Smith support
ers or by Hoover supporters. Mr.
Jonas won two years ago because of
the Smith-Hoover fight, but he'll
find it even harder to do this year
than it is to explain why nis prom
ised Republican prosperity hasn't
reached this far South yet '*
N. C. Has Only Little More Than
One Auto For Each Seven People
Tar Heels Somewhat Conservative Aboui
Car Buying, Automobile Statistics Show
Raleigh, Aug. 4.—JS'orth Car
olina owns and continues to buy
automobiles conservatively, ac
cording to latest statistics pre
pared and barely one out of
each seven persons supports a
benzine buggy.
The exact percentage is 6.83.
so the national automobile
chamber of commerce has an
nounced. Considering the vast
federal taxes paid by the state
and the almost unmatched sys
tem of roads, the impression
had gone abroad (hat North
Carolina owns nearly half Ihr
Fords in Christendom! The
latest figures disillusion the
publicists.
Nation-wide tabulations by
(he N. A. C. C shows (hat:
North Carolina ranks Uth in
lota I motor vehicle registration
with 183,602 cars; 26Ui iti num
ercial increase during 1929 with
19,226 cars: 46th in per cent
increase of motor cars during
1929; 17th in passenger ear reg
istration, 430,651: 20tli in truck
registration, 52.995: 43rd in pop
ulation per truck; and 38th in
population per passenger car.
Shelby Map Relieves That Another
('ompalgn Should Noi t ome
Up Just Now,
Will Clyde Hoey be a candidate
for the United States senate in 1932?
That query is still being asked. Last
week a Greensboro News v,Titer was
in Shelby and while here lie at
tempted to get the question answer
ed,
Here's hi? story of all he could
learn:
"North Carolinians who aie spec
ulating over the likelihood of Clyde
Hocy’s entering the Democratic sen
atorial primary against Senator Lee
Slater Overman in 1932 will have to
continue their speculation until aft
er the general election next Novem
ber.
‘‘Mr. Hoey himself doet/i'l say
that.' although his actions Indicate
it, but the assurances etfijies from
his fellow-citizens, friends and
neighbors to whom he will natural
ly talk more freely than to inquir
ing newspapermen. The aveiage cit
izen on the court square here, to say
nothing of those who have their
business in the shadow of Mr. Hocy's
office or perhaps in the sane build
ing where Max Gardner s law books
are watting for him to come back to
them, can give the low down on
North Carolina politics past, present
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Waco Store Robbed,
Pennies Are Taken
Miller's Store Entered By Broken
Window. No Great
Loss
Stowe Miller's store at Waco, in
eastern Cleveland county, was brok
en into and robbed late Monday
night or early Tuesday morning.
Reports from Waco state that a
window glass was broken and that
between three and four hundred
pennies, some cigarettes and candy
were stolen. Because of the loot
taken it is believed by some that
young boys staged the robbery.
First reports circulated Tuesday
had it that the postoffice there had
been robbed, but the report was er
roneous.
Use* Gasoline To
Start Fire; House
Is Badly Damaged
Mrs. T. T. Moore, S. DeKalb Street,
Receives Bad Burns On The
Hands and Arms.
Mrs. J. I. Moore, S. DeKalb St,,
sent a child to a filling station to
get kerosene with which to start
fires in her kitchen stove early this
morning. The child came back with
gasoline and when the fire was lay
ed and a match applied the usual
explosion followed. Mrs. Moore was
badly burned about the bands and
arms, the rear rooms and contents
of her dwelling were chaired and a
hole burned through the ioof. The
fire department responded and sav
ed the dwelling from being, a com
plete loss.
Mrs. Moore was starting a fire in
the kitchen stove to prepa-e break
fast for her family of children and
her aged parents who live in the
house with her. Her husband who Is
a brick mason by trade u working
at Baden, but the brave woman did
not want to call him off tire job and
set: about with a woman ■ courage
to set the house back in Older.
County Board
Sets Official
Tax Rate Here
73 Cent Rate I*
Accepted
Old U»r Formally Fixrrt By Board.
Borders Bark To County
Home.
At the regular monthly meeting
of the county board of commission
ers this week the tax levy for
Cleveland county was officially fix
ed at 73 cents—the same levy as
prevailed last year.
Some time ago Mr. A. E. Cline,
board chairman, in announcing his
budget for the year stated that the
tax rate would remain the same.
Nineteen cents of the county-wide
rate is for county operation and 54
eehts for schools. The only change
in the budget list was the reduction
of the No. 6 township road levy from
24 cents to 20 cents. The b'ggest re
duction in a road district levy was
from 85 cents to 70 cents' in No. 1
township.
At the same meeting tils com
missioners employed Mr. John T,
Borders for another year as keeper
of the county home for the aged and
infirm, and Uscher Harden was em
ployed again as tenant there.
The commissioners authorized the
expenditure for burial expense for
Nancy Moore, and the placing on
the pension list of Hanlette E.
Jackson. Five dollars per month was
also allowed Lee Kendrick for sup
port, and $5 was authorized to be
sent as dues to the State Associa
tion of County Commisslonei s.
Publish Expense.
In accordance with ti e decision
of the commissioners to publish
each month the list of county ex
penditures. the following copy of
monthly bills approved and ordered
paid was signed by the commis
sioners A. E. Cline, R. L. Weathers
and G. R. lattimore, ant released
fpr publication:
Farmers and Planters hardware
company, county home, $135; Quinn
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Counly Ha* Up* On
It* Governor By Hi*
Own Bull Statement
Gardner Says Purebred Bulls Beat
Governors And Commissioners
Now.
Cleveland county may not have
but one governor down at Raleigh,
but the county has seven r.ew pure
bred bulls and that, according to the
county’s own governor, Is more Im
portant than several doaen govern
nors, or a flock of county commis
sioners, or what have you
Which is to say that Governor
Gardner thinks very fey things bet
ter for a county than purest ed bulls.
The bull story comes frcm Selma,
this state, where the governor spoke
Tuesday. Here It Is:
“Gov. O. Max Gardner, speaking
to 1,000 farmers and farmwomen
here Tuesday as the "North Caro
lina Livestock Development ’ special
train started a three weeks tour of
the state, declared "one purebred
bull Is worth more than any coun
ty commissioner I ever saw or any
four or five governors."
"Governor Gardner, calling on
the people of Johnston county and
the state to aid him in bringing
prosperity and happiness to the
farming people of the stste, ‘de
clared war’ on scrub cattle and scrub
people.
" 'Scrub cattle in North Carolina,’
the governor said, ‘have done more
harm than all the boll weevils and
are greater than all the pests.’ ”
Gretna Green Cupid
Feel. “Hard Time.”
The Dan Cupid who patrols the
Gaffney, South Carolina, area,
which is the Gretna Green for this
section, seems to be feeling the ef
fects of the business depression.
Last week only one Cleveland
county couple motored to Gaffney to
be married. They were Wayne Styles
and Mattie Peek, both of Shelby.
Whi.nant Reunion
On Saturday Next
The Whisnant reunion will be
held Saturday, August 9th at the
home of Bruce Whisnant at Polk
ville. All who attend are asked to
bring baskets of dinner and spend
the day. The invitation is extended
to the Whisnants of this section,
their relatives.
APPOINTED NOTARY
Mr. Paul Hawkins, of Shelby, has
been commissioned as notary public
by Governor Gardner, according to
Raleigh dispatches.
Hail Beats Out
Eyes Of A Calf
In Vale Section,
Rabbits Killed!
This Is another Horn about
last Friday night's hail storm.
And what an item!
Mr, E. F. Sigmon, who lives
in the vale section near the
Catawba - Cleveland - Lincoln
line, was In Newton this week
and while there related some
of the things the hail storm
did at his house.
Among other things, he said,
the hail stones, some of them
the slie of guinea eggs, beat
out the eyes of a calf, and now
the calf Is totally blind.
And In the Toluca corres
pondence to The Star today Is
an Item about the rabbits kill
ed In that section by the hail
stones.
Beam Head Of
Legion Post
One Of Men Vets Who Oiganir.rd
Legion In Paris Head., ohelbv
< Group.
At a meeting held l»ol fttghl at
the court house here Attorney W.
Speight Beam was named comman
der of the Warren Hoyle post of the
American Legion to succeed Com
mander Tom Abernethy.
In naming Mr. Beam to the office
the Shelby and Cleveland county
ex-service men honored the one
North Carolinian who attended the
first organisation meeting of the
American Legion in Paris fust aft
er the World war; Mr. Beam was
also on the first executive commit
tee and Is the first official named in
the act of Congress 'endorsing the
organization of veterans.
Other new officers named were;
Dale R. Yates and Robert, D. Crow- '
der. vice-commander; i’hos. H.
Abernethy, Jr., adjutant, Basil
Goode, finance officer; C. B Mc
Brayer, service officer; Oscar W.
Powell, guardianship offber; A. W.
Archer, sergeant-at-arms; Griffin
P. Smith, chaplain; Dr. B M. Jar
rett, athletic officer; P. H. Jones,
child welfare; Tom U. Stamey,
Americanism officer; E. B Jarrett,
membership officer; C. J. Woodson,
publicity.
The new officers will be install
ed at the Tegular meeting in Octo
ber.
Bike Rider Makes
Wilmington Jaunt
Spangler Covers Long Hop In
Twenty-Nine And One-Half
Hours.
It takes twenty-nine and one
half hours to ride a bicycle from
Shelby to Wilmington, a distance of
257 miles. That's the statement of
Albert Spangler, Shelby toy, and
he should know. Tuesday afternoon
at 5 o'clock he arrived In Wilming
ton on his bike, after leaving Shel
by Monday.
A telegram from the Shelby boy,
whose stunt was backed by local
bike dealers, says that he &*opped a
half dozen times. ‘‘No trouble,” he
wired, “only money getting low,
knees getting weak, and sunburn
stinging.”
Drought Hurts Less
Here Than In Other
Agricultural Regions
Returning Tourists Tell Of Parched And
Burnmg Sections. Hoover Told That Dry
Spell May Be Major Catastrophe Soon.
Want Cattle Moved.
The worst drought in the history of the United States,
one that may prove a great disaster to farming sections;
seems to be doing less damage in this immediate section,
than anywhere else in the South, according to returning
Shelby tourists and Department of Agriculture reports
Tree-Sitter Up A
Week Today; To Be
Up Until Christmas
Itotiis To Brat Durham's Boy's Rec
ord Of 413 Hours, IVte
Says.
When the noon whistla shrieked
here today Pete O'Shicltl.*:. Shelby's
youthful tree-sitter, stood up,
stretched himself, and declared to
his audience. ‘‘Well, that’s one week
gone. Guess I may as wdt stay up
until Christmas now,”
At noon today the young tree sit
ter had been up 188 hours in his
pear tree on the Campbell lot near
The Star office between Campbell’s
store and Courtview.
This morning p Shields was in
formed that "Arsenic” Taylor, of
Durham. who claims to be the
North Carolina champion, and
perhaps the American champion,
had climbed down Monday after
remaining up 413 hours. The Shelby
boy says he means to pas,; that rec
ord which will require 10 days and
five more hours up. An Atlanta
tree-sitter, however, Is still up and
has already passed the 416-hour
Hark. A message came In today from
Albemarle saying that Spinks Mel
ton of that town is going to give the
Shelby boy a race and will be up a
week hi the morning, a ldght and
one half day behind O’Shldds.
Hundreds of people still visit the
tree-sitter's perch daily, but yester
day the warning had to be issued
that only three or four people
could come up the tree at one time
to visit him so that there would be
no chance of the limbs auValng.
New Physician Is
Here For Practice
Dr. I'irkrr of Goldsboro Locales In
Shelby for General
Practice
Dr Shepherd F. Parker of Golds
boro, has come to Shelby to locate
for the practice of medicine. ' He
arrived this week and has secured
offices in the Judge Webb building
where he will open in a few days.
Dr. Parker is a native of Golds
boro and took his academic training
at the University of North Carolina.
Upon his graduation at the State
University he attended the Medi
cal College of Virginia In Richmond
where he completed his medical
education, after which he served his
internship in the Garfield Memorial
hospital in Washington, D. C.
Drought Dries Up Wells Used By
Cleveland Schools; Appeal Made
Situation Similar To 1925. Huge Enrollment
Is Perplexing To Board.
The lack of rain during the spring
and summer is giving the Cleveland
county school board a problem simi
lar to that of the 1925 drought.
In 1925 the county boatd or edu
cation had to dig wells at numerous
schools in the county due to the
drought, and at the monthly meet
ing of the board this week six coun
ty school made similar appeals,
three such appeals being heard at
one time by the board. At several of
the schools the wells are dry as a
result of the drought. At other
schools the school supply lias been
secured at neighboring homes, but
because of low water residents who
live near these schools a~e some
what adverse to taking the chance
of exhausting their entire water
supply by permitting the school chil
dren to use their wells. The board
has the matter under consideration
and unless the situation improves
mav be forced to dig nr drill new
wells lor several of the a hools.
1 Two weeks ago J. H, Gt'gg, coun
ty superintendent of schools, pre
dicted that there would b* a record
enrollment in the county this year.
Now with practically all of the long
term schools open his prediction is
verified and then some. At the
board of education meeting the
board members heard ons report
1 after another of crowded conditions
resulting from a record emoilment.
In nearly every school, particularly
in the colored schools, the enroll
ment is so large that school officials
are finding themselves handicapped
for space and sufficient teachers.
In one negro school, the beard was
informed, 201 children are enrolled
and there are only three teachers
in the school. In the matter of
teachers the board is helpless and
cannot act, but other requests are
for seats to take care of the un
expected new pupils and '.it certain
instances this congestion may be
relieved.
j wane other sections east of the
j Mississippi are in dire strats due to
die lack of rain, the section about
Shelby, and practically all of the
Piedmont Carolinas, do not teem to
be suffering to any great extent.
Two weeks ago farmers of Cleve
j land and adjoining counties were
worried. At that time the dry spell
here was assuming serious propor
tions. The com crop appeared al
ready doomed and cotton was be
ginning to burn at the top of the
ground. Just as it looked cs If the
crops were headed for ruin unless it
rained within r day or so the rains
came. Since that time showers have
fallen at frequent intervals, and at
present no crop seems to ue suffer
ing. although additional rain would
not hurt.
Such seems to be the utuation tn
other parts of the Piedmont sec
tion. One or two counties in the
Piedmont counties may be in need
of several good rains, but taken as
a whole the Piedmont belt Is in far
better shape than any. other simi
lar area east of the Mississippi.
Terrible There.
Shelby motorists who hate been
In the Kentucky-West Virginia area
in recent weeks say that condition'
there are terrible. The drought ha»
held on so long with excessive heat
that pastures have parched awa.v
and crops have wilted. In several
sections of those states cattle have
been shipped out to points where
they could get feed and water. For
est. fires have added to the perils.
Talks To Hoover.
This week Louis J. Tabei. maslct
of the National Orange, farm or
ganization. visited President Hocvei
and informed him that unless it
tained within, a short time the
drought would become a major ca
tastrophe for the farmers of Eastern
America, His plea was that railroad.?
grant special rates tn the effort to
move livestock out of the suffering
areas and in making the appeal he
said “the situation is more serious
than the nation understands "
Concerning the Taber statement
the New York World says
“On a tour of the district in hun
dreds of rural communities he found
pastures as black as if they had
been killed by frost, while the green
of the forest trees was broken by
autumn—like splotches of yellow. He
found forest fires a constant men
ace in the region east of the Mis
sissippi Aver, where at this season
of the year they are normally un
known. Streams and lakes had-re
ceded, he said, leaving in their beds
dead and dying fish.
Mountain Suffer Woist,
“Water shortage was especially
acute in the hilly region;, Many
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Patrolman Halts
Big Skating Trip
Shelby Boy* Will Hike To Wilmlng
ton Instead Of Going On
‘ Skates
The North Carolina highway pa
trol, acting through one of the pa
trolmen, stepped in Monday night
and stopped a publicity stuht plan
ned by two Shelby boys. Now the
youngsters are working upon a new
plan of making a record of some
kind,
Monday's Star carried an Item
about a proposed skating trip, over
Highway 20, from Shelby to Wilm
ington by two Shelby boys, Clyde
Weaver and Boyce Connor. In that
Instance advertising paid, or didn't
pay. Monday night a highway pa
trolman got in touch with the swo
lads and informed them that there
would be no highway skating as it
is against the law to skate on a
public highway.
Weaver, undaunted, is determined
to make the Wilmington trip. To
day he and Kendrick Jackson were
planning to hike it-ynot hitch-hike,
but walking—with tne hope of es
tablishing a walking record to ihe
coast The new plan, however, de
pends upon whether their backers
will support them in making the
trip afoot instead of on skates