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VOL. XXXVI, No. 142
SHELBY.. N. C.
WEDNBSIVY, NOV. 20. 1930
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons.
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LA TE NEWS
THE MARKET.
Cotton, per lb. ....—— lOe to lie
Cotton Seed, per bu. .,--34We |
Fair And Colder,
Today's North Carolina Weather
Report: Generally fair and colder
tonight and Thursday, except snow
flurries In extreme west portion to
night.
Many Die In Quake.
..Tokyo, Nov. 2I>.— (Wednesday —
An earthquake stretched a belt oi
death and destruction across the
northern part of the beautiful hn
penisula early today with a toll of
dead and Injured mounting steadily
as fragments of the disaster story
emerged from the stricken area.
The chief of police ol Shiiouka Pre
fecture, which includes the Izu pen
insula. estimated the quake dead at
between 100 and 150, while the
number of Injured was lively to
bilng the total casualties to 900. The
fate of a large portion of southern
Izu was still undetermined, while re
ports from such important centers
as Ataml, Ito, Nagaoka and Shuzcnjl
were meagre.
Sun Shims As
It Snows Here;
Winter Arrives
King Winter Grips State. More
Than Score Die As Colli
Ware Hits.
Winter weather made an un
expected call on this section
Monday night and was linger
ing on today, although the tem
perature recorded here was not
as low as reported in several
other sections of the state.
Early this morning a flurry of
snow fell here while the sun was
shining and no clouds were appar
ent.
-'The lowest temperature recorded
n Shelby was 38 last night; arid
early today oh the Ebettoft ther
mometer, but in the western sec
tion of the state the mercury drop
ped to 20, and down to 36 in Char
lotte and 34 in Raleigh.
Cold Grips State.
Charlotte, Nov. 26:—Blowing in
.'rom the northwest, a snowstorm to
day peppered the North Caroline
mountains and caused temperatures
else where in the state to drop near
■rimer levels.
Along the north western frontier,
•he storm reached blizzard propor
ions and snow and sub-freezing
temperatures were general over the
mountainous section, At a few point
in the piedmont area temneratures
below freezing were recorded early
yesterday.
Snow To New Bern.
Getting a touch of the snowstorm
as it blew itself out early yesterday.
Salisbury and High Point had sleet
and rain. Snow flurries were re
.rorted as far east as New Bern.
Most cf the snowstorm’s force was
dissipated in sparsely-settled moun
aln regions. Banner Elk, in Avery
•ounty, reported a heavy snow with
he temperature at 20 degrees dur
ing the forenoon.
Asheville had a heavy snoiv, but
little of it stuck to the ground. The
temperature there early yesterday
was 24.
Low temperatures for Charlotte
and Raleigh were 34 and 36 respec
tively.
Score Lose Lives.
New York, Nov. 26.—The weather
man, after beaming unseasonally
ong upon the land, growled yester
day, shook snow from his long locks
and sent zero breath whistling
. cross the country.
More than a score of deaths most
of them in the Rocky Mountain reg
ion. have been reported in the first
- 'jitter wintry siege.
Blizzards swept Manitoba. Snow
-■.'hirled down upon the middlewest.
Mercury that only a few' days ago
flirted with the 80s shivered down
to the cipher. A man froze to death
in Kentucky—the winter’s first vic
, tim in the south.
Sleet-slain pheasants were picked
up in South Dakota by the wagon
load. Wires sagged and snapped un
der the weight of snow in the mid
dlewest. Trees, signs and small
buildings were blown down and
windows wrecked by a 51-mile-an
hour gale that howled across Neb
raska.
Snow Plows Busy.
Snow plows busked drifts as far
oast as Pennsylvaania. Many com
munities In the middle American
states faced isolation as the snow
laid a determined net about them.
Iowa weather reporters described
conditions as ‘'crazy,” with blizzard
like-blows dissipating under the sun
and then returning.
The middle west’s snow promised
to stop today, but the cold was due
to stay over the Thanksgiving holi
day. New England and the eastern
Atlantic states, for the mast part,
had felt only the suggestive rustle
of winter, but thermometers were
dropping steadily.
Mr. J C. Alexander, World war
veteran and son rf Mr. and Mrs. C
B. Alexander, Is tr the veterans
hospital at Memphis for an exam
ination.
County Cotton
Crop To Reach
Total Of60,000
55,604 Bales Ginned
To Nov. 14
Over 4,000 Bales Ginned In 11 Days
Between Report on Nov. 1
And Nov. 14.
The cotton (finning report for
Cleveland county uo to Novem
ber 14; just issued by Miles H.
Ware, ginn'ng agent, has caus
ed cotton men to revise their
estimates and place the 1930
cotton crop around 60.000 bales.
Up to Nov. 14, the report
shows that 55 604 bales had
been ginned in the county as
compared with 40,624 to the
same date last year when the
crop was at leant three weeks
later than this year.
Gain Is Shown.
Only 50 958 bales had been ginned
to November 1, the fortnight's gin
ning showing a big decrease over
the previous two wekes and sin'
there were only 11 ginning day
from the November 1 report unt l
the November 14 report cotton ob
servers did not think the new re
port would reach 55,000 bales. ar
many, or all, of the gins, were run
ning only part- time. However with
4,643 ba’es ginned in the eleven day,
it is believed that almost that much
has been ginned since November R
with quite a bit of cotton yet to bt
ginned. As it is now, by the Novem
ber 14 report, the county crop is
only 4,39S bales shy of the 60,000
bale mark. The final report in
March will show at least 60,003
bales according to the majority of
estimates made, while quite a num
ber believe that the hrt ginning re
port in March, of next year, will
show that the 1920 crop will not be
very, far behind the 1929 crop of
64,000 bales.
Robeson Behind.
The November 14 report shows
that Cleveland is outstripping Robe
son, the second cotton county, by
13,883 bales. Robeson had ginned
41,721 bales to November 14. John
ston came third with 32.109, Har
nett fourth with 27.183. and Halifax
fifth with 25,617.
Ginnings in counties neighboring
Cleveland up to Nov. 14 were as
follows: Catawba 13.619 bales, Gas
ton 11.376, Lincoln 16,675, and Ruth
erford 18.020.
Easts1 de Exchanges
Preferred Stock
Stockholders Vote lo Issue $300,000
Preferred to Take up $275,000
Preferred.
At a called meeting of.the stock*
holders of the Eastside Manufac
turing Co., held yesterday in the cu*
lector’s room of the First National
bank, it was unanimously voted to
issue $300,000 in six per cent pre
ferred stock to take up the $275,000
eight per cent preierred stock now
outstanding and to mature in Feb
ruary of next year. The Increase of
$25,000 in the amount of preferred
|Is to pay interest accruing this year
When the mill was about to go Ti
to receivership ten years ago in a
crash of prices, the preferred stock
was issued and sold, to be redeemed
in ten years. Some of it has been re
tired, but being unable to retire the
| preferred in the ten year period
which will elapse In February, it was
decided to convert 'he eight per cent
preferred into six per cent prefer-ed,
interest, payable semi-annually.
Holders of the present preferred
have agreed to accept in lieu there
of the new preferred.
So the Governor Took a Bride
Governor Morjran F. Larson, of
New Jersey, whose marriage to
Miss Ada Schmidt (left), 25
year-old companion to his
moth r ha® ho-o
The Governor’s first wife died
in 1926. The Governor and his
► bride are said to have left for
| a three-weeks honeymoon in the
! South immediately after their
marriage at the Grace English
f.uth'ra” Church. Perth Amboy,
by the Rev. Robert Schlatter,
Claude Cook, Ross Grove School
Boy Dies From Injuries When
Struck By Car On Highway 18
Hud Skull Fracture, Leg Broken \nd
Spinal Injury. Car Driven By
Ernest Clark.
Claude Wray Cook, six year old
son of Mr. arid Mrs. Alvin Cook cl
tue Spurring section, just, north cf
Shelby, died at the Shelby hospital
this morning at 9 o’clock from in
juries he received last Thursday
afternoon when st'uck by an auto
mobile driven by Ernest Clark.
Skull Fracture.
The Cook youth was returning
home from school with a number of
his mates, when he undertook' to
cross the road and the car caught
him. Ernest Clark, the driver of the
car picked him up and rushed him j
to the hospital where he has been
under treatment fo- a week with a
spinal injury, a fractured skull and
a broken leg. He was thought to
be petting along nicely until tnis
morning when he took a sudden
turn for the worse. It is thought n
blood clot formed rn the brain from
the skull injury^ causing his death.
The accident happened near Spur
ling’s store about 4 o’clock In the
afternoon and his school mates with
whom he was returning home from
school witnessed the accident, but
the Clark car was the only one in
sight, it is understood.
Funeral services will be held at
Frit lidship church. Fallston Thurs
day afternoon at 2 o’clock, and In
tel ment will be In the cemetery at
that place. Young Cook Is survived
by his grief stricken parents, two
brothers, Ray and Clyde Cook and
one sister, Mildred.
Court Of Honor
A special Boy Scout court of
honor will be held Monday night,
December X, in the court house at.
7:30 o'clock. All scouts of the sec
tion are asked to attend In uniform
whether or not they are up for ad
vancement.
Ten Cleveland Couples Help
Run Gaffney Judge’s Total Of
Marriages Over 10,000 Mark
Judge Stroup Has Married That
Many In 7 Tears. Thanksgiving
To Be Busy.
(Special to The Star.)
Gaffney, S. C., Nov. 26,—When
Probate Judge Lake W. Stroup, this
Gretna Green’s marrying magistrate
married 22 couples, 10 of them from
Cleveland county, last week he ran
the total number of ceremonies he
has performed in the last seven
years above the 10,000 mark.
Despite the hard time3 which
now prevail Judge Stroup is expect
ing a full day of ceremonies tomor
row, Thanksgiving, and it is likely
that Cleveland county, as usual,
will furnish a good percentage pf
the couples.
Married Last Week.
Couples from the Shelby section
who were married here last week at
Gaffney follows:
Perry Gold Noblitt and Annie Mae
Grigg, of Shelby.
Clyde Manus and Emma Ledford,
of Mooresboro.
Bulo Black and Alpha Panther,
of Hollis, R-l.
Nathan Fitzliugh Costner and
Hazel Heffner, Shelby, R-6.
Jerry F. Shetiey and Leola Gay
don, of Kings Mountain,
Nollie Origg and Irene Ford, Shel
by.
Colonel Walker and Gertie Cook
of Belwood.
Edgar Walton and Mattie Reid,
of Lawndale.
Robert Downs and Eula Costner,
of Belwood.
Virgil Brooks and Evelyth Patrick
of 8helby, R-3. 1
Thanksgiving Day
Dinners To Cost
Less This Year
New York; Nov. 26.—The
Thanksgiving dinner Ural cusi i
$7.70 for a family of five Iasi
year I* $2.18 rhea per now.
The New York American t
year ago published a menu fbl
the Thanksgiving day table
providing turkey, oysters
vegetables, fruit and coffee
at a total cost of $7.70. Th<
same menu Sunday, the news
paper said, costs $5.52.
The eight-pound turkey k ■,
$1.20 cheaper than a year ago
Every other item on the menu
cost less than a year ago. the
newspaper found.
Intestines Cat
In Fall On Corn
Stalk Near Here
Young Man Of Inion-Lattimon
Section Painfully Injured Tues
day Aft ei noon.
Everett Mode, aged 25. of the
t'nion-Lattimore section Is in
the Shelby hospital today suf
fering with serious and very
painful injuries as the result of
falling from a wagon yesterday
upon the stub of a corn stalk
which punctured iiis bladder and
intestines.
Young Mode, the son of Sam
Mode, was in the field working, it
is said, when he in some mannei
'.ell from the wagon upon the sharp
.stall: which ran into l>is body, punc
turing both his bladder and his In
testines.
He was rushed io the hospital here
where everything is being done to
! llevtate his suffering and to treat
tils severe injuries
Surgeons at the hospital today
described the injures as “serious.”
Mode’s condition depending upon
future developments or complica
tions.
Kiwanians Not To
Gather This Week
Nc meeting of the Shelby K1 wants
club will be held Thursday night Of
this week. The meeiing is postponed,
according to Secretary Chas. A
Burrus, because of the Thanksgiv
ing season and the fact that many
club members will be out of town
or unable to attend.
Mr. Wray Harrelion, of the Waco
section, out hunting recently caine
upon and killed a nine-pound ring
tailed raccoon. The 'coon, of a light
■jray color an dwith six rings on his
tail, was exhibited In Shelby yes
terday by Clyde Lingerfelt and Boyd
Cantpe.
Clothing Asked
For Destitutes
In This Section
Charity Committee
Make* Appeal
Main Families Need Clothing A*
Pad Or Worst' Than Something
To Kat.
An aI for old clothing to’
lit' given needy families of Shel
by and section was Issued today
by the committee in charge of
the city-wide charity drive. A
igeetlng of the committee was
held Monday night at the city
Itall and w a* attended hy rep
resentatives from alt the church
es and civic clubs.
First contributions of money to be
used for purchasing food and -fuel j
wiU be made through the churche
antt clubs this week, but the most;
immediate need, it is said, is cloth
ing/
Many Near Freezing.
“Right now the people of Shelby
cobM do nothing better than gather
up old clothes about their horn
and give them to the committee foi
ihtrtbution among the needy,” May
or 8. A. McMurry, head of the com
til'tee, declared today. “With wln
rer weather swooping down there Ir
a great danger of pneumonia, colds
and other sickness because there
are scores of people about Shelby,
particularly women and children, In
need of clothe* to keep them warm
Pood and fuel will be distributed as
the contributions come In, but we
can alleviate much suffering now
without any cost by giving clothes.’
A preliminary investigation re
veals, it is said, that many unem
ployed people used what little
money they had during the summer
months lor food. As a result many j
of them are without, sufficient cloth
ing to keep their bodies warm since j
cold weather has arrived. The sltua-1
tton is said to-be pathetic in main
Instances, and those who have not
visited unfortunate homes cannot;
resize just what their cast-ofl
clothing will mean.
Old suits, coats, sweaters, dresser,
shoes, and other clothing can be ■
used. Mayor McMurry urges that In
every Shelby home the house should
be searched for discarded clothing
which should be. brought to the city!
hall or to The Star office where dia- i
uibutlon will be made according to
sizes and needs.
’if the people of the city will
bring the clothing in, the commit
tee w ill take care of the remainder
of the Job.” the committee an
nounces. “Shelby people should re
spond immediately during this
Thanksgiving season to this appeal
because the need is really urgent."
Fox Hunters Hold
Annual Barbecue at
Bate Blanton Home
Great Quantity of All Kinds Of
Barbecued Meats Served To 150
People.
Tsiere was every evidence of *
p-osperous community at the annual
baroecue of the Brushy Creek Fo>
Hunters club held Tuesday after
noon at Bate Blanton's residence In
the Double Springs section. About
130 fox hunters, their wives, friends
and supporters gathered for the feed
which was served on long tables
down In the pasture where the se
vere, cutting wind was retarded by
the, trees.
Hunters had captured wild gam.
and ail expert, in preparing barbecue
served an abundance of ’possum
pork. veal, mutton, goats, etc., with
plenty of side dishes, such as pickles
slew, celery, friend chicken, calces’
cchee( buttermilk, etc., Mr. Blanton
had just received ov express a young
gray fox consigned to the club unri
laying about the big bon fires wait
many choice fox hounds, eager for
a chase. A fox den is provided neai
the scene of the orrbecue and dur
ing the fall and winter months, the
members of the club in Shelby and
that section, enjoy many races to
the music of the dog' in that nelgn
borhood.
This Is an annual affair at She
home of Mr, Blanton, one of the
most active membe-c of the club and
m spite of the coil weather ana
overhanging clouds, the gathering
was a roost happy and enjoyaoie
one.
Library And Depot*
Close Thanksgiving
The Shelby Pub! ■ Library and the
Seaboard and Southern stations
will be closed on Thanksgiving day
(Thursday.) The horary will be open
on Saturday afternoon from 2 to 5
o’clock, while the railway stations
v ill be open as usual on Saturday.
Greetings—as Higlif Kmls
Wing Commander Charles
K t ngsf ord-Smith photographed
with hi* fiancee, Miss Mary
Powell, shortly after his arrival
at Sydney, Australia, at the con
[elusion of his record-br*'nkiuK ■ f
flight from Kngland. Smith j
covered the 4itt»nce in 10h
day*, cutting marly five days
off the old record formerly
* held iiy Bert Hinkler
Removal Of Rafe King To Jail
At Chester Opposed By Sheriff
There; Decision Being Debated
Unemployed And
Tenants Offered
Free Want Advs.
Unemployed farm tenants
and landlords looking for ten
ants for the coming year, arc
offered two insertions of want
advertisements in The Star
Write your want adverlDf -
menU and bring them to The
Star office, using your nann
and address where ever pos
sible so that you may l>«
reached directly.
Mans unemployed have al
ready secured jobs through
these free want adv. The at
tention of lundlord wishing
tenants and people who wish
to employ labor, is called In
the want adv. column of to
day’s Star,
Mrs. Bennett Goes
To Greensboro, New
Teacher Comes Here
Miss Lucille Mulhollanri, of Dur
ham, comes to Shelby next week to
head the English department of the
Central high school. Miss Mulhol
litnd, graduate of Duke university,
succeeds Mrs. A R Bennett, who
leaves this week for Greensboro to
Join her husband who Is connected
with the trust department of a
Greensboro bank
Mr. Wells I»nproves
Relatives here have been informed
thai Mr. John K. Wills, retired sol
dier, Is regaining h:;. sight after an
operation in the government hos
pital at Washington Mr. Wells, who
served near 30 years In the army
had his sight impaired by cataracts
The cataract, it is understood, ms
been removed front one eye and that
eye is now good, and an operation
will be made on the other.
Mr. and Mrs Paxton Elliott will
spend tomorrow with the former's
parents, Mr. and Mrs, O. B. Elliott
at Polkvilie.
lawyer* Say Shrlbv Man's Canflne
mrdt Is Almost Solitary
Now.
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York, Nov. 20;—Motion to nans - i
ter Raft; Kin'?* of York county, con - j
victed of the murder pf his wife
from the state penitentiary at Col-1
stmbirt back to the Chester county |
jail was argued for arid against her*
Monday before Judge C. J. Rainag*
of Saluda, presiding over qqnrt here
who took the matter under advise -
tnent.
The motion for the transfer wa
supported by a petition from King
In which was set forth the fact that
since his conviction of murder th*
state supreme court had reversed
the sentence of the circuit court and;
rente tided the case to Chester for a
new trial
Physical Comfort.
t Contention was made by Thomas
P. McDow of York and B. T. Falls
of Shelby, N. C., members of King's
counsel, that King's physical Com
fort is in a large measure contin
gent on removal from the peniten
tiary to the. Chester Jail. They al
leged that King is kept In a cell
nine by four feet, feebly lighted and
that, his imprisonment amounts to
practically solitary confinement.
They said he had been treated
kindly by the penitentiary manage
ment, but that the facilities were
lacking there to make him comfort
able.
Emphasis was laid also on the
fact that his attorneys are prepar-!
tng for u new trial on the case and!
that the distance from York and 1
Shelby to Columbia are barriers tc
the frequent consultations necessary j
between them and their client- I
Representing Sheriff J, G. How.: 1
of Chester county, who is opposed to
bringing King back to the Chester
jail, and also the state, arguments
opposing the motion were made by
Solicitor Harry Hines, A. I*. Gaston
of Chester and W. G. Finley of
York.
^an'l Handle Him.
An affidavit was read from Sher
.iff Howae which it was stated that
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Governor Gardner Says There Are
Many Things To Be Thankful For,
Issues Thanksgiving Proclamation
Adversity Stirs l>s From Self-Con
tent And Into Action,
He Says.
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Raleiglv, Nov. 25.—Saying there
were many things to be thankful
for, Governor Max Gardner has
proclaimed Thursday. November 27,
Thanksgiving day and called upon
the people to observe the day "in
the spirit of their fathers.”
The proclamation follows:
"Our forefathers felt it a duty to
be both happy and thankful, and
over against the trist and doleful
fast day they gave us our national
thanksgiving.
It rules universal. The president
of the United States proclaims it
and there is not a governor in ail
the commonwealths so spiritually
impoverished as to withhold nis
doxology on this day. If in the sea
j sons of young abounding prosperity
I we have forgotten how this great
[Feast day flowed likd a merry
stream through the stern and rug
ged habits of our early fathers,
surely in this present hour we may
return to the normal ways of the
republic when thanksgiving stood
out as a mountain and other days
as a plain?
“We have everything for which to
be thankful. There have been more
: bountiful crops, greater financial re
wards and more material prosper
ity, but never have our people had
| more cause to be thankful for their
! moral acqdlsltlons, which take the
■ education which we call life and em
I cloy . it in the gaining of purity,
ifreedom and power; for the adver
©ONTimn® ON PAOI SIGHT • I
Orphans Benefit
By Early Church
Programs In City
Thanksgiving Service*
In Early Morn
Uptown Churches Make Annu.
Offrrlnji To Orphanage#
In Sl»(f.
TIip observanrc of Thanks
pivlne In uptown Shelby churcb
p.« will begin at 8 o’clock tomor j
row morning nnd continue tin
til around tl o'clock. At each at
the three uptown churches th
Thanksgiving program will cell
ter about the annual offering C*
the rhurch orphanages.
rite first service will be at 'V
Central Methodist church, begi
ting at B o’clock. It will be a pro >
■r and song service, or o Thant !
riving love feast, and Method*.!
till make their annual contrite,
Hons to the Children's Home r ' is
Winston-Salem.
The First Baptist service will h |
>ih at 8:30 and will la>t for 30 >.
T' minute^. The yearly offering for
la Baptist orphonagi. Mills Homt /'j
At, Thonm-sville, will be made at th. >1
time. , i: i
The Presbyterian service, a brie
urogram similar to the cegula
church service, will begin at Ji
■ clock In the morning, and will Iv
■ ollowed by the offering to the Bar ,
mnt Springs orphanage.
All citizens, whether or not mem
bets of the three congregations, a;
urged to attend one of the service.
■ >r a service at some of the subur
ban churches before going away fee
a day’s holiday.
RitsinPMs (lours Down.
All the banks and practically nl
business houses in the city will b<
closed all day, and with no espeeia
program in the city after the morr -
mg church services Shelby will tab
on a quiet. Sunday air.
Ancient Ceremony
At Central Church
Veteran Ministers To Participate •«
Central Methodist Lave
Feast.
A love feast, an old GhrisUa.
ceremony always. held at annuf »
conference, often at Thmiksgivitis
will be the program of the Thanks
giving service Sunday morning at
Central Methodist church. Tlie pro
gram consists of a well planned
ritual of psalms, hymns, prayers
scripture and appropriate music
The elements used in the love least
are usually bread and water, but
the Moravians always celebrate with
coffee and buns. Tfyese will be used
at Central Methodist,
Rev. J. E. Thompson, veteran min
ister, will be in charge of the serv
ices assisted by the pastor. Rev. L
B Hayes, and by Rev J. A. Lee and
Rev. C. F. Sherrill. Tile annual of
fering for the Children’s Home will
be taken, these contributions aver
aging about *500 each year.
Special Music At
Thursday Service
The annual Thanksgiving service
of the First Baptist church will b<
held or* Thursday morning at 8:30
o’clock. A special program has been
worked out for the hour. Dr. Wall
will conduct the service. The choir
will render two anthems: "Praise;,
the Lord. O Jerusalem,'' by Maun
der, and "Ye Shall Dwell in the
Land,” by Stainer. The annual of
fering for the Mills home at Thom
asville will be received during the
service.
Every member of the church is
invited to the prayer and praise
sen ice service, this evening from
7:45 to 8:30 o’clock. The Workers
council for the Sunday school will
be held at 7 o’clock. All officers and
teachers and class officers are urg
jed to be prerent. The public Is In
> tted to all services of the church.
Commercial School
To Open Here Dec. 8
i Headquarters Will Be Maintained
In Uneberger Building
Here.
I The Southeastern Commercial
college will open a school in Sheloy
December 8th. in the Lineberger
bulidlng, offering secretarial, com
mercial, stenographic, elementary
book-keeping and typewriting
couises, A similar school has been
opened by this college at Concord
where an old seminary building has
been purchased and will be convert
id into dormitory -pace.
It Is understood that this school
is fully certified, registered and* li
censed in accordance with the North
Carolina State laws and the state
department of education.