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TM Mievielldmd Styx 8 PAGES TODAY v-. .-... , } VOL. XXXIX, No. 7 SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, JAN. 16, 1933 (Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons) ■*“ Muu. oet veai tin %avat)c*» um 0*rrt«t oci mi, up an?anc«t 13 f'« ™™B.. 111 i 1 1 ■1 jj_j Late News the market , ot tor -pot b“sis . .. 61/,c totton 'red. ton . S9-°0 Tuesday Warmer __ T North Carolina Weather K, ()0r, Fair and warmer tonight. Tuesday increasing cloudiness and warmer. Wednesday probably light rain | Seeking Action Washington. Jan. 16.—Democratic ( (ougressional leaders will besiege j President-elect Roosevelt when he j riir, here this week for counsel in; „nc of the most confused legisla- j tiv? situations in recent years. Dem- | rat is piled against Democrat In the Senate to produce a jam behind whjih important measures on the Roosevelt program are piled help- j If.sh. lleer, repeal, farm relief and | economy wait, while Senator Huey l ong, the Louisiana “kingfish,” j stands by and holds the Senate at has because of his opposition to the banking bill sponsored by Senator; ( jrtcr Class, a spirited Virginian, j the Democratic dilemma may be, railed more strikingly to the atten- j Don of the country on the eve of thr Roosevelt visit here Thursday j and F riday on his way south. Presi- ! dent Hoover, it was reported, has1 been contemplating for several days j a statement or message insisting j that the budget be balanced at this j session. Mrs. Thompson Buried Today Mr' Fannie Thompson, Widow Of Horace Thompson Died Sun day. Age 81 Years. Funeral services were being held Mils afternoon at 3 o'clock at Cen- j •ral Methodist church for Mrs.! Fannie Osborne Thompson, widow! of Horace Thompson, who died! Sunday morning at 9:30 o’clock at1 her. home on West Warren street j u the age of 81 years. Mrs. Thompson was born in No., 10 township in 1851 to Horace! Thompson, prominent lumberman. They moved to Shelby 30 years agoj and Mr. Thompson died in May,! 1923. She joined Kadesh Methodist | church. Belwood, in girlhood and moved her membership to Shelby1 thirty., years ago, identifying her elf with Central Methodist church. Mrs Thompson was n very indus trious woman and possessed an unusual amount of common sense and a keen philosophical wit. She had a wonderful amount of physi cal and mental stamina and in June 1931 was making an automobile trip near her 80th birthday to visit her uff^ner- in Washington state, when in the home of her son in Ok lahoma, she fell and sustained a broken hip. She had recovered to The extent that she could walk. About ten days ago she took in fluenza from which she could not recover at such an advanced age. Three Generations Of Twins In the Thompson family there >erp three sets of twfns. Mrs. Thompson’s twin sister, Mrs, Mar tha Porter, mother of Mrs. Chas. f Eskridge was born on Saturday, Not 30th and Mrs. Thompson Sun ■ay Dee. 1, 1851. Her sons Alderman J. Thompson of Shelby and Dr. c- A Thompson of Hugo, Oklahoma are twins and Z. J. Thompson has twins. Joseph and Lyle. Mi children born to Mr. and Mrs. Horace Thompson are living and te only grandsons are seven boys mi the z. J. Thompson household. grandsons are serving as pall bearers and interment will be u Sunset cemetery beside her hus band. Dr. E. K. McLarty, pastor, is .conducting the funeral service. Eight Children Surviving are the following chil uo'iv Z. J. Thompson of Shelby, lJ; c A. Thompson of Hugo, Ok ;unonu'.. Mrs. A. C. Durham and it? J. w. Austin of Bellingham, ash. Carl and Rush Thompson ana Mrs. a. R. Snyder of Shelby, i mrnett Thompson of New York ClTy. . onf’ brother in a family of 'rp- children survive, Squire A. J K -Hoyle of Double Shoals. A 1 crowd attended the funeral , j h*'autiful floral offering at ,l?'ca thf' esteem in which Mrs. Thompson was held. Youth Dies Here From Pneumonia "• Months-Old Boy Died Sunday In Hon Village. Funeral Held Today. White, 19-months-old son ^ and Mrs. Marvin White, died iU'l?av morning at the home in '■ nliagp. death resulting from I’honmonfa. /■> crnces are being held r,... •■•‘t-noon at- 2 o’clock at the s baptist church and inter _ follow at the New Prcs p* T; cemetery, SlTl flecei«ed is survived bv his ' '"p and two half Gardner Would Abolish Welfare Office And Put Duties In Hand School Head; 6 Day School Week Board May Provide Health Nurse Would Require Millers To Give Customer Flour From Identical Wheat. Health Nurse. Four local bills were introduced In the general assembly Friday in Raleigh by Representative Gardner and two more bills are certain, from an announcement he made in Shel by before leaving to enter upon Ills legislative duties. May Hire Nurse. One bill would abolish the office of county superintendent of public welfare, a position now held by J. B. Smith and transfer the duties as now performed to the office of J. H. Grigg, superintendent of county schools, with no addition in pay. The bill also provides that the coun ty commissioners in their discretion may employ a graduate nurse to act under the direction of the school superintendent as both welfare of ficer and health nurse at a salary not exceeding $75 per month, such salary to be fixed by_ the county commissioners. No provision is made in this bill for traveling ex penses. Another bill Introduced by Mr. Gardner, details of which will be given in our next issue, requires a mill to return to a customer flour and meal from the identical wheat and corn fuspished by said custom er. Fixing Salary. Then there is a bill to fix the sal ary of the county auditor. The sal ary of A. E. Cline, former county auditor and accountant was set by law- at $3,000 a year. When Mr. Cline resigned the new board of county commissioners elected Troy McKinney and set his salary at $1, 800 a year. The new bill no doubt repeals the old law fixing the salary and leaves the amount to the dis cretion of the county commissioners who do the hiring. Teach Six Days. A fourth bill, which is state-wide in its nature, would require the public schools to operate six days instead of five each week, thus cut ting down the present six months school term to five months and sav ing the tax payers one months pay for teachers. Children will not have a Saturday holiday but when school starts, it would run continuously for 120 days, Sundays excepted, and one month would be saved out of the six, giving the pupils a six months course of study in five months. The teachers would be paid for five months at the same month ly salary as present. It is understood this has been dis cussed in many parts of the county as an economy measure in the pub lic schools, but is locked on with little favor in North Carolina. Mr. Gardner's bill to abolish the office of game warden has not been introduced, but is expected later in the season. Then he has in mind new legislation as to the drawing of jurors for the recorder’s court. Mayor May Take His First Vacation Has Remained On Job For Four Years He Has Held Office. Mayor Sim A. McMurry, who has been directing the operation of Shelby's governmental activities for almost four years, has about decid ed to take a vacation Tuesday or Wednesday Mayor McMurry and Mrs. McMurry plan to take a trip to Lakeland, Florida, if the health of the mayor’s father, J. J. McMurry, veteran Shelby busi ness man, permits. When and if he goes it will be the mayor's first va cation of any type since he took of fice. Flu Claims Near Score Lives Here The influenza epidemie, which continues to rage throughout this section, is not as mild a* it might seem. A check through the files of The Star since the first of the year reveals that ortween 15 and 20 people in Cleveland coun ty or nearby adjoining com munities have died of influenza and pneumonia in the period of three weeks. With one or two exceptions all the deaths re sulted from pneumonia develop ing as an aftermath of the flu. Last week and the week-end led in number of deaths with eight resulting from flu and complications. Mrs. Goode Dies Suddenly Sunday Former County Woman, Wife Of Minister. Dies At Scotland Neck. Mrs. W. E. Goode, formerly of the Boiling Springs section. wife of Rev. W. E. Goode, Baptist pastor at Scotland Neck, died suddenly there Sunday afternoon about 2 o'clock. She had attended church but left In the middle of the service and her husband found her unconscious suf fering from a slight stroke of par alysis. A second stroke, an hour lat er, caused her death. She has lived there for four years and endeared herself to the whole community. Surviving Mrs. Goode in addition to her husband, also a native of Boiling Springs section, and a daughter, Mrs. Charles Saunders,, of Graham, are’ her mother, Mrs. Noah Hamrick, of Boiling Springs, and one brother and one sister, Jasper Hamrick and Mrs. Tom Jolly, also of Boiling Springs. Tile body, accompanied by Rev. Mr. Goode and the daughter, left Scotland Neck today and funeral services will be held at Boiling Springs Tuesday morning at 11 o'clock. McNeely’s Father Died Last Night Father Of Shelby Merchant Passe* At Greensboro. Son Had * Been There. Mr. R. F. McNeely, father of J. C. McNeely of this place, died at his home in Greensboro last night at 10 o'clock from an attack of heart disease. Mr. McNeely who was 72 years of age had been in ill health for a number of years, but death was unexpected following a severe attack which came on Saturday night. Mr. J. C. McNeely had gone on a visit to his parents on Friday and was with his father when the at tack came on Saturday night. He returned to his home here yester day afternoon thinking his father’s condition somewhat improved, but was called back last night by news of his death. Mrs. McNeely and two daughters. Misses Margaret Louis and Virginia, left this afternoon to Join the family in Greensboro. Funeral arrangements Rave not yet been made. Mr. McNeely is survived by his wife, five children, T. B. McNeely of Charlotte, Mrs. T. H. Norman, Mrs. E. A. McAdoo an* G. R. Mc Neely, all of Greensboro, J. C. Mc Neely of Shelby, and by an adopted son, Russell Thomas. State Pays Out Over 24 Million For Personal Salaries During Year Huge Sum Goes Each Year To Peo ple On Payroll In North Carolina. (By Julian C. Miller in the Char lotte Observer.) It cost the taxpayers of North Carolina last year $24,646,401 to pay the salaries of their public ser vants employed in the state. That amount Is the aggregate of the pay roll for personal services, excluding amounts oaid by local units of government, cities, towns and counties. The largest item of personal serv - ice cost is that for education. To pay superintendents, principals and school teachers for the six months’ .'Chdol term required in 1931-32 the sum of $13,427,515. j The second largest expenditure for personal sendee went to the state highway department which required $5,123,542 with which to meet its pay roll. The third in rank was the edu cational institutions in which $3, 289.200 was expended during the past fiscal year in salaries. Departments, bureaus and com missions .ook $1,602,310 with which to pay their employes; charitable and correctional institutions spent $836,798 and the judiciary required $358,036. , These facts are taken from a •.COimurrstJ O-N' J»AOK StX. J Six Widows of Ex-Presidents Now Survive * * * * * * Death of Calvin Coolktge‘Removed Last of Former Chief Executives and Added One More to List of White House Widows. /_M rs / Theodore ^_PoOSEV'ELT> Mrs^/1 Cai'W •!' Ji Mrs ThoMAs’ Rreston (Mrs Grover. Ci/evtevimr) With the death of her distinguished husband, the last ex-President of the United States, Grace Goodhue Coolidge, nobly bearing the weight of her aorrow, joined the lilt of Fint Ladiei who have survived their illus trious husbands. Before the death of ex-President Coolidge there were live widows of former Presidents still living—Mrs. Coolidge makes six. In addition thera are Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, 81, but strikingly hand some; Mrs. William Howard Taft, 72, who lives a life of complete retirement in the capital; Mrs. Theo dore Roosevelt, 71, but still bristlingly loyal to the Grand Old Party; Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, 75, who campaigned for President Hoover in the last election, and Mrs. Thomas Jex Preston, widow of President Grover Cleveland, the only White House widow to remarry. Since the death of Mr. Coolidge there has retirement fi i office. It has been said that we kill our Presidents with work. And proponents of the s fact that former First Ladies outlive their mates by many years. However, the most prob differences of ages. Almost alt of the White House widows were many years you-v^er than their husbands. Shelby, Post Office Holds First Class Rating By Postal Receipts Total 1932 Receipts Pass $40,000 Mark Despite General Busi ness Decline. Old Man Depression made quite a struggle to remove the Shelby post office from a first-class rating in 1932, but failed according to a re port made public by Postmaster J H. Quinn today. A post office to remain in the first class must do an annual busi ness of $40,000 or more. For several years the Shelby office has passed that mark and in 1931. despite the business slump then, the office had a postal business above $45,000. This year, however, the first-class quota was passed with little to spare, the total postal receipts for the year be ing $40,374.08. Parcel Post Helps, A considerable increase in parcel post receipts during the last quar ter of the year put the receipt total beyond the mark. In the first-class stamp department the volume of business done in three-eent stamps during the year was less than the volume of two-cent stamps in the previous year but the decrease in money was not so much. This fall off is attributed to the fact that so many business concerns sent their statements out by hand In stead of by mail. Another gain for the year. Postmaster Quinn said, was in postal cards. Big Month. December with a large quantity of holiday mail going out was the big month of the year and the last quarter of the year led the others, being slightly ahead of the first quarter. The receipts for the first quarter, ending Mar 31, totalled $10 497.56; for the second quarter, ending June 30, the receipts were $8,739.57; for the third quarter, end ing Sept. 30, they were $10,154, and for for fourth quarter, $10,982.95. No Definite Trace Of Bureau Robbers Officers are still working the matter but so far no definite clues have been unearthed in connection with the robbery a week ago last night of the State automobile li cense bureau and Carolina Motor Inn. service station, here. Several hundred dollars in money, a revolv er and a quantity of stamps were taken by the thieves who bursted the saffe combination Officers are busy on one clue but are keeping mum, until they are mo*e assured of its authenticity. Shelby Man NowNational Figure And Being Urged For Cabinet Position City School Again On Accredited List nouncement Saturday from Dr. Jos-1 eph Romer at Peabody college,1 Nashville, Tenn., that Shelby high' school Is again accredited by the association of colleges and second ary high schools of the Southern states. Can you answer it of these test questions? Turn to page two for the answers. /"' 1. What well known American poet had the middle name Wads worth? 2. From what language Is the proper name Elihu taken? 3. How long Is the anchor chain on ocean liners? 4. Is pure gold soft or hard? 5. Are aliens accepted for enlist ment in the U. S. army? 6. Name the author of the play “Street Scene?’’ 7. Of what religious denomination is Franklin D. Roosevelt a member? 8. How many America republic are members of the Pan-American union? 9. How old was Calvin Coolidge at the time of his death? 10. Who was Oliver Cromwell? 11. What is the nicknamf for the j religious Society of Friends? " 12. What actress, when in vaude ville, called herself “Queen regent of the kingdom of fun?’’ 13. When was New Mexico admit ted as a state? 14. Where was Lon Chaney born? 15. Who is heir presumptive to the British throne? 16. What class of persons can the president pardon? 17. In what year was- the first census of the U S, taken? 18. Who is Benjamin Cardozo? 18. Who was vice president during the Wilson administrations? 20. How did the electrical term “volt” originate? OTHER CITY AND COUNTY VKVVS, Pag*' g. Supt. B. L. Smith received an-1 Try Answering Time Magazine Reviews His Ad ministration. Manufacturing, . Labor and Banking Group Favor Him. There is much speculation as to what Ex-Governor Gardner will do now that his term as chief execu tive of North Carolina has expired. He is being talked for a position in the cabinet of Picsldent Rooee velt after March 4th and it is known that he and Mr. Roosevelt are personal friends and that large groups of interests have urged his appointment to.the Roosevelt cab inet. Urged For Cabinet. Several of the largest banks in America have been impressed with the able manner in which he fore saw the depression, brought about economies in state government and handled the financial affairs. Mr. Gardner came in direct contact with some of these bankers when North Carolina notes came up for renewal. Labor and textile interests both in the South and the North have recommended him as one well fitted by experience and breadth of vision as one who would help the next president In working out tire nation's affairs. Mr. Gardner will by no means join the army of unemployed. He (CONTINUED ON PAGE StX.i “Tin Can” Gymns Bring Cleveland County Schools In Cage Limelight Remarkable Basketball Talent Being Developed In All Sections Of County. The inauguration a few years back( of a new era of athletics in Cleve- j land county schools, by the build -. ing of so-called “tin can’’ gymnas iums, has made basketball the maj or sport of the county This year around 10 or more schools have their own gymnasiums and have built up cage teams that will rank with the best in North Carolina. Vergil Weathers, former I.attimore star, became the county’s first ull Southern college player, but the orowes- exhibited by numerous i youngsters over the county this year j indicate that he will not be the last. Just now, following the holiday, season, basketball is In full swing over the county. The gyms, however, section the “tin cans’’ are being packed several nights each week In giving the various rural sections their outstanding winter entertain ment. Prior to the building of the indoor gyms school athletics m Cleveland county were restricted to football and baseball In Shelby and baseball and outdoor basketball over the clunty. The gyms, however, hav* given a wide? field to all stu dents and girls are developing CO.NTOTO®.' Ofc caot HX. i . .... " - V ..f,. County Agents Here Continue To Serve; Have Contracts Said To Be Good; No Official Notice Given First Child Born ' In Parsonage Here To Young William Ito.ratl j Jessup. two-days-old, goes the honor of bring the first child born In tlir parsonage of Shel by's second Baptist rhulrh. The newcomer was born Hat urday morning to Rev. L. I,. Jessup, pastor of the church, and Mrs. Jessup. Mother and son were reported today as get ting along nicely. opring term lo Begin AtB.Spgs. On January 20 Enlarged Enrollment due To New Subjects Of Study KeoriAly Added. With .students busy preparing for semester exams, which begin Tuesday January 17 the Bolling Springs college officials are getting things in readiness for registration day, Jan. 20. Several new students have already registered for the spring tern* and quite a number more have signified their Intention of doing so. This enlarged enroll ment is thought to be due to the new subjects recently added. In which new students may enroll and receive full credit. Much credit Is also attributed to the good record made by the college this fall in scholarship and athletics. The school has made preparations to take care of this Increase In the enrollment and Is therefore prepar ed to receive as many as may de sire to enroll. The college has taken eveRy pre caution to safeguard the health of the students: And as a result of this there has been but little sick ness on the campus and this has been of minor nature. This Is con sidered quite a boost for the college when the entire state is suffering from A near epidemic of flu. Sev eral other schools have been forced to close for this reason but Boil ing Springs has successfully escap ed. This section of the Carollnas has long been noted for its health ful climate, and Bolling Springs is gratified In the fact that the con stant excellent health of her stu dents is a good cause in point in the establishment of this claim. High School Will Give Play Friday Dramatic Club Makes Initial Ap pearance With Two One-Act Plays. The Dramatic Clue or Shelby High school will make its initial bow to Shelby audiences at the Cen ■ tral High school auditorium on Fri day evening, January 20, at 8:00 o’clock. The two onc-act plays, a L-corfiedy -and a fantasy, which were postponed before Christmas, will be presented at this time. The casts for these plays have been well chosen and well trained. It is expect U that an excellent and thoroughly enjoyable program will be presented. While many of the players are new to Shelby audienc es, some are remembered for clever interpretations of characters in previous presentations. Dick Le Grand. who in the past has proved his ability will be seen in the lead ing male role in the comedy. Cor nelia Sparks, who w’ac a member of ! the state contest plav last year, will 1 appear in the fantasy. Some new comers who will be appreciated arc Mary Lewis Wilson, Walter Fan ning. Betsy Eskridge, and Louise Austell. Attorney General In Legal Ruling Both Shot I'ncr And Mrs. Wallace Continue Their Service*. Itullni from Attorney General. Will the county agents claim pay for their, services from Cleveland county from January 1 until June 30 on signed contracts they have with the former board of county commissioner, is a live question among the. people. Attorney General Rule* It Is understood that the attor ney general's office has reviewed the sign contracts entered Into bv the former board of commissioners July i of last year in which the services of Shoffner and Wallace were engaged for a year, or until June 30th; the end of the county’s fiscal year. An appropriation was set up in the county budget to' pay the county’s part of their salaries of $100 per month each, but, when the new board of commissioners camu into power the first Monday In De cember, they withdrew the approp riation. No Official Notlcr Both Mrs, Wallace and Mr Shoff ner, however, say that they have never been officially notified that their services are not wanted and both are continuing. Chairman J. E, Blanton had the telephone removed from Mr. Shoffncr’s office, but both the farn\ and home agents have been going on with their work, Peti tions signed by thousands of tax payers were signed asking that the offlbe be continued, but the com missioners let the matter rest. Borne people appeared before the board and presented counter petitions asking that the offices stay abol ished. It is understood that the contract which the county has with the ex tension agents has been reviewed tn the office of the attorney general of North Carolina and that his opinion furnished to the state ex tension department Is that the con tracts arc binding on the county until they expire. June 30th. What will be the outcome, remains to be seen. The agents are continuing their services, although their of fices in the court house will likely be diverted to other uses, It is thought they intend to test their, contracts in the court, asking the county to pay through the life of the contracts which continue Juno 30th. Mrs. Wallace Is meeting with her club women and Mr. Shoffner an nounced last week that he would take applications for crop loans, made by the government through the farm agents at a five and one half percent Interest: rate. Auto Tag Sales Show Gain Here, Only600Behind Patrolman Giving: Old lag Motor* 1st* Chance To Buy Within 48 Hour*. By the end of this week It is like ly'that as many 1833 automobile li cense plates will have been sold in Shelby and Cleveland county as there were 1933 tags sold Inst year. At the license bureau, located at the Carolina Motor Inn, It was said today that through Saturday nlgfil a total of 3.475 tags had been sold through Saturday night. Saturday was a rushing day at the tag office with 233 sets of tags being sold. With the sales to date totalling 3,475 it is said that this is only 654 behind last year, which is more than many believed would be sold this year. So far Highway Fatrolman Qeo. Allison, who is located in the Shel by territbry. has made no arrests for tag delinquents. The method he is following is to give motorists still using old -tags a ticket with orders to get their new tags within 48 hours. Fiddlers Gather In City Saturday ' It will be twee-diddle-dee and twee-diddle-dum, or something of that type, as the old fiddlers of this section gather in the court house in Shelby Saturday night, Jan. 21, and tunc up for their annual fiddlers convention. 'The event is announced by Mack Crow and is scheduled tu get under way at 8 o'clock with the proceeds going to charity. There will be plenty of entertainment on all the favorite old string instruments with Mack Crow. widely kown banjo picker. aiding the fiddlers *n<1 others. ft
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