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MEMMW Zitw VOL. XL, No. 95 SHELBY, H. CL WEDNESDAY. AUG. 8. 1984 Published Monday. Wednesday and Friday Afternoona. Ilf Mail par raw. i la adranaa) _ M_M Carnar. par raar nn adranaa) _ UM Late News [ THE MARKETS Cotton. «pot- 12% to 13*4 (Wtlt Mod. ton, vifon .... 23.00 Cat! mi w*4p ton, carlots __28.00 Fair Tonight tfarth Carolina: Fair tonight, Itantaf partly cloudy. Probably ImI thundershowers in extreme Best portion. Estimate Is Low By UNITED PRESS WASHINGTON, Any. 8.—The 1984 Mitn crop, restricted even more than Undo Sam planned by the draught, «E total 9,175,000 bales Hm deportment of mfrienlture pre dieted today in Ho first formal pro duction estimate. The bulkhead act exempts 10,460, 00# bales from taxation, showing aoMtadrelf that the production will be below the Bankhead original Cotton at noon today, in response to the government's estimate, jump ed forty points, and December was seUhty at 13.75. Lauds Mayos By UNITED PRESS ROCHESTER, Minn., Aug. 8. — Xpeaking at a program honoring the famous Mayo brothers today. Pres ident Roosevelt declared that the unselfish service of medical lead ers is vitally necessary to his own social program. MerchantsSponsor Trade Sales Event Plains Laid At Meetliii This Morn Hi| For Special Event In September. Shelby merchants in meeting to day decided to hold a special sales event in connection with the Cleve land county fair this year. Special bargains will be arranged for the interest of fair crowds who vM be able to shop in Shelby in the morning and spend the after noon at the fair. Free checking service will be furnished all pur chasers by the Merchants associa tion. A checking place will be pro vided at the fairgrounds and an * other In the city. Free entertainment programs will be arranged each morning so that the crowds will have things to in tenet them all day long, either at the fairgrounds or In Shelby. George Wray, chairman of the Merchants association will today appoint a committee to work joint ly with Dr. J. S. Dorton of the fair association, to complete details for the event which it is thought will interest people from a large sec tion of fids state and adjoining South Carolina counties. Gardner Won’t Go To South America Behave Approaching Mill Crisis Is leaytaf Former Governor In ' Capitol. It wms announced In Washington ynsfcrdiy that O. Max Gardner had cancelled his proposed trip to South America with officials of the Fan American airways, of which he Is one of the attorneys. SB action in fids respect is re garded in some circles as having A bearing on the fact that the pres ent truce between employes and mot owners of the cotton textile in dustry expires August 25, when a a new arrangement must be made as to hours of employment and pay. The operatives are asking shorter hours and that the work be stag gered. Governor Gardner is chief counsel of the American Textile Institute from which George A. Sloan has resigned as president without any explanation. Sloan’s resignation becomes effective in September. Kiwanlans To Meet At Boiling Springs The regular weekly meeting of the Shelby Kiwanis club will be held at Boiling Springs college Thursday night. Instead of at the Hotel Charles, as is the usual cus tom. The feature speaker of the occa sion will be the Rev. J. L. Jenkins, president of the college, r Members are urged to be present and take their, wives, friends, and any other guests. T. P. Lail Joint Staff At Tillmant T. P. Lail of Lenoir is the new ■uperlntendent of repair work at Tillmans service station on North LaPayette street. Mr. Lail was connected for sev eral yean with the Chrysler agency •t Lenoir. He started work here Monday. He will move his family here la Judge Frank Hill Will Preside Over Fall Term Of Court Complete Jury List Is Announced Is One of the. Youngest Members of the State's Superior Court Jurists. Judge Prank Hill of Murphy will preside over the September term of Superior court it was learned today as a complete list of jurors for this term was released by the ^ county J commissioners. Judge Hill is one of the youngest of the state's Sup erior court jurists and the coming term will be his initial appearance in Shelby. Two capital cases remain on the unfinished docket of the August term, presided over by Judge W. P. Harding. They are the well known Sentell murder case and the Hen drick assault case. Want Special Term It is understood that the local bar has entered a petition to Gov ernor Ehringhaus for a special term of court here in October to provide for a complete clearance of the civil docket. i September’s court will be held I during the last two weeks of the [month, and following is a list by townships of the jurors drawn Mon day for the term: Jury List No. 1 Township, R. E. McCraw; No. 2, Zem Bridges; No. 3 Lander Putnam; No. 4, R. D. Daves, J. H. Dillingham; No. 5, Stough Miller, J. B. Smith; No. 6, A. E. Blanton, J. S. Hamrick, and O. P. Allen; No. 7, Cletus McSwain, A. L. McSwain; No. 8, J. D. Lattimore. C. C. Dalton; No.«, R. Frank Stamey, Vance Roy ster; No. 10, Ben Crott6; No. 11, William N. Buff. The July term under Judge W. F. Harding, just completed, proved rather void of attraction for the crowds which jammed the court house expecting to hear the Sentell and Hendricks cases. The Sentell case was postponed for the second time because “It was too hot to try a murder case”, and the Hendricks trial was put off un til the defense had more time to prepare their case. “Death Valley” Road Gets I More Victim Frank Gulley Injured, Car Destroy ed, On Road Near Wesson Bridge. Frank Gulley was slightly injur ed and a 1928 model Chrysler coupe was completely destroyed by fire Monday night when the car plung ed off an embankment on the Wes son Bridge road The accident occurred just be yond the river bridge as the road curves toward a lesser creek bridge. Gulley stated that the loss was covered by adequate insurance. "Death Valley” is the caption (given the above strip of road, as for a number of years it has been the scene of numerous accidents. The driver stated no reason for losing control of his car other than the treacherous road. He is one of eight salesmen of waterless cook ers in the county, and at the time of the accident had eight or ten of the utensils with him. They were destroyed. Beam Reunion Set For August 16th Thursday August 16th is the date set for the annual Beam reunion to be held at New Prospect church near Shelby. Dinner will be served in picnic style and there will be speaking, music, etc., according to the secretary, Miss Ruth Beam of Shelby. Mooresboro Plans Gala Fair Day; Balwinkle To Be Guest Of Honor Ballyhoo guns are blasting forth with publicity for Mooresboro's Wildcat Pair, to be held there Sat urday, which promises to furnish the most excitment this little town has seen in many years. It will be a gala day for the Mooresboro folk. The jubilee will in clude all kinds of athletic contests, addresses, and other events which naturally fall into this type of en tertainment. Congressman A. L. Bulwinkle will be the chief guest at the function, and will arrive at 10 o’clock Satur day morning. He will probably make some sort of speech to the vast crowd expected. A barbecue, negro dancing, box ing, foot races, and greasy pig catcnmg will be augmented by a free for all beauty contest. Fight j fans are looking forward to a ten tative battle between "Battler” Morrison and "Ironhead” Greene, contestants for the local heavy weight championship. In the morning, the Mooresboro Wildcats will claw Gaffney in a baseball game, and in the afternoon, they will tackle the strong Kings Mountain Goodfellows in a Twin State leaguer. The affair will last all days, and > nersons who have lived in Moore-1 boro, or who have friends and rela tives there are invited by the pub licity committee of the Fair to b" present for the full day’s program. ,: Hear President Praise New Power Era On the high bluffs overlooking the Columbia river in Washington, President Roosevelt is shown while 30,000 people hear him describe the dawn of a new »ra of power brought by the Grand Coulee dam project. The president predicted a day when thou sands of easterners will move into the northwest, attracted by opportunities the Coulee hydro-elec tric power and irrigation project makes possible. Fair Premium List Printed; To Complete Building Soon Oates Lived With 6 Women "I have lived with six different women of the worst kind and have never been married to any", wrote Joseph F. Oates, textile worker who took his own life last Thursday when he shot himself in the heart with ft .22 caliber rifle at the Eton Mill boarding house. It was first reported that he had lived with seven women, but his note, itemising the bills he owed and disposing of his life insurance money named six women and stat ed that he was in love with another woman who is married but he ex pected to do nothing about it. Oates had an adopted daughter Lois and the adoption papers were revealed this week showing she was addpted on Jan. 6th of this year by the Clerk of Court at Reidsville, upon recommendatton of the wel fare officer of Rockingham county. Lois fs about seventeen years of age and in regard to her, he stated in his suicide note, “Lois is my daughter, a swest child and has no desire to do wrong. I have made on» mistake after another in my life.” His body was called for by rela tives and taken to Easley, S. C. for interment. Miss Nannie Wiseman Dies In Danville, Va. • Miss Nannie Wiseman, age 88 years, only aunt of Mrs. Henry E. Kendall and Mrs. Lee B. Weathers of Shelby died at 3 o’clock Tuesday morning in Danville, Va., and was buried there this morning at 11 o’clock. Attending the funeral from Shelby today are Mr. and Mrs. Lee B. Weathers, Mrs. Henry E. Ken dall and Mrs. A. P. Weathers who will return to Shelby tonight. Howard-McCurry Buy Tailor Shop _ I R. J. Howard and William Me- j Curry have purchased the Shelby i Tailor Shop from William Hagley, it was announced this morning. The new managers, have taken over the' establishment. Huge Grandstand Is Near Completion With the premium list for Cleve land county’s 10th annual Fair on the presses, and with the FERA financed alterations nearing com pletion, Cleveland Is preparing for the biggest agricultural and live stock exhibition In its history. Each year the fair, one of the largest county affairs in North Carolina, surpasses all previous records, and from all indications,' this year’s will keep the fast pace. 2,000 Copies of List The premium list will be finished this week. Two thousand copies were printed in a 60 page booklet. Prizes to the extent of approxi mately 26,000 are offered by fair officials for winning exhibits. ^ Work on the huge grandstand and exhibit hall combination is progressing steadily, and Dr. J. S. Dorton, secretary of the fair asso ciation, says It will be completed in approximately 30 days. Are Laying Floor Workmen are at present employ ed in laying the floor in the 300 feet exhibit hall under the grand stand and In building and repair ing seats. The race track, one of the fast dirt tracks in Carolina, has been widened at the upper end, an im provement needed for years. Cattle Hall Finished The big cattle hall, built in the gigantic hall formerly used as an exhibit structure, is completed. The stalls used during previous years have been torn down, and a new fence has been erected. A new judging stand has also been constructed, and the free show platform improved. Improved sani tation has been put into effect. The six day exhibition opens on September 25th, and promises to be the largest ai*( best this county has ever had. Extra-Length Bean Brought To Office The race in the "lQng bean con test” being carried on by farmers of the coujoty advanced another lap yesterday when J. M. Carpenter of Belwood brought to the Star office a cornfield bean 29 inches long. Carpenter stated that he had about one and one half acres of the variety and that nearly all the beans measure from 20 to 25 Inches. Seasons in the Belwood section have been no better than average or, the owner states, his beans hight have been longer. Young Elliott Gets Job In (J. S. Mint William Martin Elliott, 3rd, a last year’s graduate of the United States School of Mines at Golden, Colo rado, has recently been notified of his election as assistant assayist in the government mint in New York city. Mr. Elliott is the 25 year old 'grandson of James C. Elliott of Polkville and received this position because of the scholarship rank in hia class last year. I Cleveland County Below Lint Quota First Reports Say Seven Percent Under IR Shown By Reports Of Measuring Committeemen. Initial reports from the 75 com mitteemen measuring and checking cotton and government-rented land In Clcvelad county show that the county as a whole Is approximate ly seven percent short of Its quota. This Is evidenced as the com mitteemen near their goal of meas uring fifty thousand acres In this county. So far results have been highly satisfactory and the cooperation from the individual fanners with the committeemen has been good. Reports turned in thus far to the county agent’s office indicate that only a few farmers have ex ceeded the terms of their contract* However, Mr. Shoffner explained that although the county as a whole has failed to reach Its allow - ed number of acres, this will In no way relieve individuals who have excess crops from plowing up, or in some way destroying, their sur plus. Letters will be sent out Im mediately informing farmers of the. amount of cotton they will have to destroy. If the designated amount of cot ton is not destroyed in compliance with reduction contracts, the grower will not receive a second payment and the first will be with drawn. Commerce Body To Ask City For Several Projects Committee Appointed To Investi gate Suitable Projects; To Ask Board Meeting. A committee of business men, named by officials of the Shelby chamber of commerce and mer chants association, will this week investigate what seems to be suit able FERA projects for the city and will then ask city officials for a special meeting of the board of aldermen to go over the proposed projects as a result of the meeting Tuesday night of directors of the or ganization. The committee will be composed of representative business men rep resenting all sections of the city as well as various lines of business and industry. Concensus of opinion at Tuesday night’s meeting was that Shelby and Celveland county have not secured their pro portionate part of federal relief work, mainly on account of the failure of local people to comply with regulations of the federal ex penditures. Discussion was. held concerning one or two industries which have shown interest in moving to Shelby. Pull investigation of the firms, their proposals and what they de sire was ordered. Telegram was ordered sent to Chairman E. B. Jeffress of the state highway commission remind indlng him of promise concerning the county highway program, par ticularly about the Grover road, and again extending to him an in vitation to visit the equity. \ All Three School Projects In County Will Be Completed County To Issue Full Amount Of Bonds iKedfrtl Government Refuse* to Abandon Arcade Project and Pae Those Funds. Cleveland County and Shelby will *ot all three of Its school construe - ’tton projects, in spite of the pre vtous opinion Mia* the high school arcade would have to be abandon* ed to moke the funds allocated sufftotent to cover the contractors' ■bids. When It was seen a short time ago that the bWs would he above the fund* available for the con struction, the county hoard of edu cation proposed to abandon the ar cade, and turn those funds In the Dover mill and colored school channels. Superintendent ,J H Orlgg car ried this proposal'to Raleigh but the Federal government which had agreed to pay one-third of the total cost, turned thumb-downs on the proposition The Dover Mill company had agreed to appropriate >8,000 toward the construction of the school In that community, and this amount, with the total >28.000 bond Issue agreed upon by the county, would have been sufficient, to cover the cost. The county however, wisher to cut the bond appropriation as much as possible, but the Federal govern ment, threatened to withdraw Its allotment If the full $28,000 Issue was not aubscrlbed. 80 the total cost, of the three con struetton projects Is now as follows: Dover mill, $27,773: Shelby high school arcade, $4,297: colored school addition. $13,639; architecture fee, $2,285; land cost, $500, and contin gencies, $1,000, making a total cost, of $49,48*. The amount set aside for the buildings Is divided as follows: Federal PWA grant, $13,709; bond Issue, $28,000; Dover mill company grant, $8,000 making a total of $49,709 available for Construction. The county, although subscribing the bond Issues, will not pay for the arcade at the high school, nor the colored school. Both will be paid for by the city school board. Mrs. Will Page Buried Monday Former President of Shelby Passes At' Ivanhoc, Near Wilming ton. Funeral services werr held Mon day afternoon at three o’clock at Sandy Plains ctjurch for Mrs. Will Page who died last Sunday night at her home in Ivanhoe, near Wil mington. Mrs. Page has been suf fering with a serious cancer for more than a year. 8hc Is survived by three children, Dan, Ellen, and Kassel; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Allen of Ivan hoe; four brothers and three sisters, Mrs. Ras Hamrick of Kannapolis, Mrs. Arthur Huskey of Shelby, Mrs John Harrill of Beaver Dam, Gaith er Allen of Ivanhoe, Joel and James Allen of Ivanhoe, and Dr. D. J. Allen of New House. The husband of Mrs. Page pre ceded her to the grave almost six months ago and since that time she has made her home with her par ents In Ivanhoe Previous to Mr. Page’s death the family lived In Shelby. Funeral services were conducted by the Rev. Rush Padgett of Grover and the Rev. R. C. Campbell of Texas. Cleveland Spent $450,509 In ’33 In Service, Amusement Concerns J An interesting table of statistics sent out by the United States De partment of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, shows that Cleveland County spent #450,509 for shaves, hair cuts, beauty treatments, shoe shines ana amusement in 1933. This, as compared to the neigh boring counties of Rutherford and Lincoln, shows Cleveland citizens go in for such things to a marked degree. Lincoln spent only $89,093 and Rutherford dished out $197,180. On the other hand, the sister county of Gaston, with a large pop ulation, spent $721,576. Cleveland county has 91 service establishments and places of amuse ment, with 99 proprietors. Full time employees total 139, and part time, 24. The total salaries for full time employees in such establishments j reach $94,911 and for part timers, *9,306. Mecklenburg spent the meet in service establishments and places of amusement in 1933, a total of $8,303,834. while Camden was in the cellar with only $2,000 expenditures. The table covers all counties in North Carolina, and was compiled during the recent nation-wide busi ness census sponsored by the Fed eral government. The state total shows that there were 5,832 establishments in North Carolina, which reported total re ceipts of $26,882,334. These estab lishments gave employment to an average of 6,862 full-time employees 2,327 part time employees, and 6, 599 proprietors. The total payroll (exclusive of compensation of pro prietors) aggregated $5,583,251, oi which $4,970,718 was paid to full time employees and $612,533 to part time employees, Probes Nazis Chari** Kramar Congressman Charles Cramer, above, who preside* over the con gressional committee on un American activities, is acting on information that a California or ganisation of “Silver Shirt*’’ is allied with the German Na*1 movement. A Sun Diego resident who has made several trips to Germany recently was to bo sub penaed by tho committee, ac cording to advircs from Los An geles. Tho “Silver Shirts’* were reported drilling armed force* called storm troops. Too Many Pupils In County Schools Says J. H. Grigg County Superintendent of Schools Attempts to Relieve Conges tion In Schools. With Cleveland County public schools running full sway for the six to eight weeks summer term, county superintendent, J. H. Orlgg t# trying this week to gel at least eight more teachers In both ele mentary and high School divisions. J Their presence will help greatly I to relieve the pressing congestion caused by Increased school enroll ment and the fact that the state department allocated the county four teachers less than last year’s quota. lose Teacher* In 1933 the county had 191 white teachers and 81 colored and for 1934 the allotment was 187 whites and 84 colored. Tills gave white j schools a loss of four and the col ored schools a gain of three teach- ' ers. a net gain for the county of j one for the, year. The measles epi demic of last winter Is said to have reduced the number by a large cut In average attendance. Superintendent Grigg has written an urgent letter to LeRoy Martin, secretary Of the state board of education In Raleigh, asking for a reconsideration In regards to the number of Instructors Cleveland county may employ. Schools Overcrowded A number of schools in the coun ty arc with extra pupils, and com plaints are coming in almost dally reporting cramped quarters and heavy teaching loads. Some of the schools which may get new teach ers ate Bethware, Mooresboro, Caesar, Bolling Springs. No. 8 Township, and perhaps others. All the placements of regular teachers have been made with the exception of orje or two In cases of sickness. Mr. and Mrs. John PhNbeck an nounce the birth of a son, on Aug ust 3, at the Shelby hospital. Aug. 29 Deadlui* To Obtain Tickets For Ginning Cotton Must Get Them to Gin Cotton Tax-Free Nhnffner Designates (Maces WVea Certificates Mar Be Obtained, * County P**rm Agent Bob Shoft ner ha* set August 30 m tha ab solute deadline for obtaining ootton ginning certificates. In a statement released thin morning, Mr. Shoffner says: "The main thing Is that the Washington office has set 1^ days for allotments to be mart*. H ap plication* for ginning certificates are not received In thla period, th" farmers not making, application* will have to pay tax on aM the cot ton they nave ginned. Working tinder haw "We are working under a lass end not a voluntary projeot. The low in question la the Bankhead bill. "The committeemen will bo sta tioned at the dealgnated places for one week, beginning Auguat IS. "August 20 ts the deadline at the county agent's office, "We are sending cards now to all farmers who have signed eon tracts with the government and tp alt we know who have not slgnadi*' Applies To AH The above announcement applies to both signer* of contracts add non-singers. AH singers who gin ubovp their allotment will hava to pay a tax of one-half the market price on all nbovo their contract. The non-signers who obtain Cer tificates will be allowed to gin six ty percent of their five-year aver age production tax free, and all above that, will have to pay the tax. Committees Station Committees will be stationed at the following places during the week beginning Auguat 13; No. 1 township. Holly Springe school; No. 3. Hamrick’s atone, Boiling Springs; No. 3, No. 3 school; No, 4, Bethlehem school. No. ft, Waco school; No. 11. Court House; No. 7, Lattlmora School; No. 8, Polkvllie school; No. 0, FaUston sohool; No. 10, Belwood school; ti ll. Cttsar School. Mr Shoffner warns the termers that they will have to pay a tgx on all their cotton if they do not ob tain their glnntng certificates dur ing next week. Auguat 30 ta ,th« absolute deadline. City’s Budget Published Today Shows An Increase Of tl&fM Over last Year. Debt Rervlee it quires 1113,500. The city's budget, tar ttp Raeal year of 1934-35 la puSlatMB todhy, showing appropriations for tha various departments amounting to $351,478 as compared wtth $345,773 last year. This Is an increase at $15,700 over the previous year ta the operating expenses of the etly. However, a year ago there was a reduction In the budget of $30,000 under the fiscal year 1033-33. Debt service, Interest and bonds, requires $113,536, the largest ex penditure. while the water depart ment comes next with $61,400 and the light department third with an appropriation of $31,575. This year the budget Is published showing the appropriations for the various de partments. Hatchell Hearing Set For Tomorrow Suspect In Hotel Liquor Raid To Be Tried Before Mull At 11 O'clock. Carl Hatchell. who gave himself up In Chester, S. C„ last week and was placed under a 92,000 bond for alleged connections in the fake liquor racket In the Isaac Shelby Hotel, will appear before commis sioner John P. Mult for a prelimi nary hearing tomorrow at ll:00 A. M. Commissioner Mull stated this morning that thus far no new de velopments have occurred, bet that he expects to hold the hearing to morrow. It Will be remembered that Hatchell’s name has been connect ed with several criminal occurrenc es In the county In recent yeara. He was sent to the Federal peniten tiary in Atlanta several yeara ago or a three year term, later paroled >nd was allegedly oonected with a $500 cigarette robbery of the A Blanton grocery.
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