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VOL. 9. LDVERTISE IN ALLEGHANY TIMES —YOUR HOME PAPER— THE ALLEGHANY TIMESf DEVOTED TO THE CIVIC, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF ALLEGHANY AND BORDERING COUNTIES THE ALLEGHANY TIMES $1.00 PER YEAR CASH IN ADVANCE SPARTA, ALLEGHANY COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1933. No. 9. OUTSTANDING NEWS EVENTS —OF THE PAST WEEK Plans are being made to resscue Jimmie Mattern, round-the-world flier, who has been lost for 16 days in the Siberian wilds. Mattern’s plane was badly damaged in a forced landing, and the flier was cut and bruised. Paul Huff, 13, and his 11-year-old brother, Jasper, were instantly killed by lightning Monday at their home six miles southeast of High Point in Randolph county. Hosiery workers in High Point have threatened to go on a strike unless they are given an increase in pay. Miss Ennis Lane and Jack Aberly, of New Bern, were robbed of cash and clothing when they were held up by three unidentified negroes on the Oaks highway north of New Bern Sunday evening. The plane of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lindbergh was forced down near Rockland, Me., Sunday on account of fog. The Lindberghs were on a mapping tour of the northern Atlan tic to determine the feasibility of an air route to Europe. Edward V. Gladstone, 72-year-old mountain farmer, visited a town for the first time last Friday. He was •so impressed by what he saw that he spoke of buying a car and moving to town where he could attend the movies. He lives 13 miles from Mur phy, N. C. John D. Rockefeller, Sr., celebrated his 94th birthday Saturday. The aged oil magnate is in robust health. President Roosevelt has formally approved the cotton textile code, which provides for a minimum wage of $12 weekly for the southern states. Although Chairman E. B. Jeffress was confined with illness in a Dur ham hospital, the new State High way and Public Works Commission held its first session Monday morn ing in Raleigh. Members of the new commission are: Charles Whedbee, of Hertford; W. G. Woodward, of Roc ky Mount; James A. Hardison, of Wadesboro; Luthern Hodges, of Leaksville-Spray, and Frank W. Mil ler, of Waynesville. Dr. Henry Herman Kapp, age 53, prominent medical practitioner of Winston-Salem, was found shot to death in his room Sunday. A four year period of ill health is attributed the cause of his death. Schedule For Administering Typhoid Vaccinations Free typhoid vaccine will be given at the following places: Cherrylane store, Aug. 1, 8, 15, at 10:00 o’clock. Wolf Branch School, Aug. 1, 8,15, at 2:00 o’clock. KLaurel Springs School, Aug. 2, 9, Ip, at 10:00 o’clock. ,/Wtaitehead School, Aug. 2,9, 16, at 2:00 qt’clock. Pinfy Creek School, Aug. 3, 10,17, at 10:00 o’clock. Turkey Knok, Aug. 3, 10, 17, at 2:00 o’clock. Rock Crgek School, Aug. 3, 10, 17, |lt 3:00 o’clock. .Little Pine, Aug. 4, 11, 18, at 9:00 JEUch Hill, Aug. 4, 11, 18, at 10:00 ’clock. NCW Hope, Aug. 4, 11, 18, at 3:00 ’clock. 'clock. ffeottville, Aug. 4, 11, 18, at 4:00 JSpfrta School, Aug. 5, 12, 19, at 0:001 o’clock. There will be a small charge for fipntheria vaccine. 117 agoner Family To Hold Annua! Reunion •t/The annual reunion of the Wago * ’ ? ill he held on the fifth Sunday -July 30th—at Mr. R. G. Warden’s p borne near Stratford, or what is laiown as the property of the late A. Wagoner, of this county. A program of exercises has been rranged which will open at 10:00 |»*<Slo«k A. M. Special music will be ished, numerous speakers of note ill address the occasion, and an old fashion picnic dinner will feature the day. A discussion of the family history will be taken up at this reunion for the first time, and all the descendants and their near relatives are invited to attend. 3y2 billion appro priated FOR NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL RECOVERY Act Provides for Huge Public Works and Construction Projects. The following is an outline of H. R. 5755, which appropriates $3,500,000, 000 to aid in national industrial re covery : 1 Title I—Industrial Recovery, deals with codes for trade competition, trade union agreements, etc. Title II—Public Works and Con struction Projects. Section 201—Administration. (a) President authorized to appoint Federal Administrator. The Adminis trator appoints and utilizes such fed eral and state officers and employees as he sees fit-fixes duties, tenure and salaries. (b) Expenses paid out of appro pria. (c) The Act becomes inoperative after two years or sooner if declared inoperative by the President or Con gress. Section 202—Scope: (a) Construction, repair and im provement of public highways and parkways, public buildings, and any publicly owned instrumentalities and facilities. (b) Conservation "and development of natural resources, etc. , (c) Any projects of the character heretofore constructed or carried on either directly by public authority and with public aid to serve the in terests of the general public. (d) Low cost housing and slum clearance projects. (e) Any project heretofore eligible for loans under Emergency Relief. Section 203: (a) With a view to increasing em ployment quickly the Administrator or delegated authorities may: (1) Construct or aid public works projects undertaken previously. (2) Upon prescribed terms make grants to states or other public bod ies for public projects not in excess of 30 per cent the cost of labor and materials. (3) Acquire property in connection with any public works project. (4) Aid in financing railroad main tenance and equipment. (b) All expenses on federal pro jects charged against the projects. (c) The President, in his discre tion, and under such terms as he may prescribe, may extend any of the benefits of this title to any state, county or municipality, notwithstand ing any constitutional or legal res triction or limitation on the right or power of such state, county or mu nicipality to borrow money or incur indebtedness. Section 204—Sets up conditions un der which not less than $400,000,000 may be spent on highways and relat ed projects. Section 205—Sets up conditions un der which not less than $50,000,000 available under this Act may be spent on national forest highways, roads, bridges and related projects, etc. Section 206—Conditions under which loans and grants will be made: (1) No convict labor shall be em ployed. (2) Except in executive, adminis trative and supervisory positions no )ne shall be permitted to work more than 30 hours in any one week. (3) All employes shall be paid just and reasonable wages for limited nours of labor to insure a standard zf living in decency and comfort. (4) Employment preference shall be given to ex-service men with de pendents and then in the following order: (a) Citizens and aliens declaring for citizenship who are bona fide re sidents of the political subdivision in which the work is to be perform ed. (b) Citizens and aliens declaring their intention of becoming citizens who are residents of the state, terri tory or district in which the work is to be performed: Provided, that these preference shall apply only where such labor is available and qualified to perform the work to which the employment relates. (5) That the maximum of human labor shall be used in lieu of machin ery wherever practicable and consis tent with sound economy and public advantage. Section 207—The president is em powered through the administrator to approve any assignment executed by a contractor with certain limiting provisions and conditions. Section 208—The Act authorizes an expenditure of $25,000,000 with which to purchase subsistence home steads. Section 209—Grants the President authority to prescribe the rules and regulations. Section 210—Authorizes the Secre 3C0TTVILLE WINS ANOTHER VICTORY Downs Laurel Springs By 6 To 3 Score. The Scottville ball team of the Tri County League chalked up another victory Saturday, July 8th, when they journeyed over to Laurel Springs and defeated the second place team in a fast game, 6 to 3. Perkins, the local rookie, pitched an excellent game for 7 innings and was replaced by McMillan at the begin ning of the eighth. W. Shepherd, Black, and Glenn Shepherd led the hitting for Scottville with three hits each, while Bare, for Laurel Springs, was the hitting star of the game. j Batteries for Scottville: Perkins and E. McMillan, pitching; K. Mc Millan, Gambill, catching. Score by innings: Scottville —101 300 010—6. Laurel Spgs.—001 100 010—3. Batteries for Laurel Springs: Shep herd and Sheets, pitching; Craven, catching. Scottville, Pos. R. H. H. Jones, ss....0 0 K. McMillan, c. 2 1 Z. Gambill, cf. 0 0 W. Shepherd, 2b.1 3 E. McMillan, lb. . 0 0 E. Black, rf.;. . ..1 3 G. Shepherd, 3b. . 0 3 P. Perkins, p.1..1 0 R. Cox, If. . ...1 1 Laurel Springs Jno. Osborne, ss. .1 1 Jas. Osborne, 3b. 0 0 D. Thompson, lb..0 0 E. Bare, 2b. .... ....... . 0 3 T. Tucker, rf. 0 0 George Shepherd, p..2 0 R. Craven, c. 0 2 T. Moxley, cf. . .....0 1 J. Tucker, If. ... 0 0 COOPERATIVE MACHINE NEEDS COOPERATION Farmers Profit By Helping Each Other. The American Cotton Cooperative Association makes this sage com ment: “Before cooperative spirit can get steamed up the cooperatives must understand what they are trying to do, and how they are trying to do it. They must know their machinery, and put the power to it themselves. The machinery must be c1o.jc to them. That means working in the home community, in a local association, or in a local unit of a larger association. “American farmers handled more of their products cooperatively dur ing the depression than ever before. Cooperative factories of Europe dur ing the depression made more boots and shoes and light globes and scores of other items. Cooperative associa tions have been forging ahead while most other enterprises were unsuc cessfully trying to stop the backward slide . . . “The cooperative machine that doesn’t work is usually one where the members are standing too far off and just looking at it. The power to make it go must be supplied by the mem bership, not by the hired hands. Co operation is doing it yourself with the aid of your neighbors. . . ” The cooperatives which are pro gressing now, and broadening and improving the markets of their mem bers, axe those where the member “does it himself” and bends his shoul der actively to the wheel. The cotton producers of the South, the mill pro ducers of New York, the walnut growers of California—these groups have created and maintained strong cooperatives because they have given loyal support. Their work is constant and permits no let-downs. Farmers in every section of the country, pro ducing each and every kind of farm commodity, can observe their exam ple and profit by it. He Took No Itisk Casey, whose work lay close to his place, often sneaked home while the boss was away. One day he returned all out of breath. Some of the boys asked why he had come bacxk so soon. “I looked through the window and saw the boss hugging and kissing my wife,” he said. ‘‘And what did you do?” “Nothing,” replied Casey. “Do you think I wanted the boss to find out I was away from work and fire me?” tary of the Treasury to borrow under the Second Liberty Bond Act such amount as is necessary to meet ex penditures authorized by this Act. Application blanks for loans may be had by addressing Donald H. Saw yer, temporary administrator, Feder al Emergency Administration of Pu blic Works, Washington, D. C., Full instructions are issued with the blanks. DOUGHTON AS GOVERNOR The possibility of Congressman Doughton becoming a candidate for Governor four years from now is be ing whispered, but it may turn out to be nothing more than the fancy of some political guesser. The present place of power and prestige being held in the National Capitol would seem to argue against the likelihood of Mr. Doughton quitting that legis lative chamber in order to gamble in a Democratic primary at home for the honor, and the greater hard ship, of being Governor of North Carolina. Certain, however, is it that in the event that such should be in his head and that he does decide upon this course, he will give plenty of fright to all others whose names have been mentioned in this connection so far, and some of whom are, no doubt, grooming themselves for this contest. Congressman Doughton would be a tough foe for any now in the field.— Charlotte Observer. DISTRICT SUPERVISOR GIVES SOME FACTS REHABILITATION WORK Physical Restoration Given Children Free. Mr. Charles H. Warren, district su pervisor of the N. C. State Depart ment of Vocational Rehabilitation, has made the following statement concerning the work in North Caro lina : Cases Attended 900 active cases, 177 cases in special training. 1000 cases have been rehabilitated. The work consists of making phy sical renovation wherever possible, and then special training or place ment in employment, or both, before job is considered complete. State and Federal funds are used. The State matches Federal money. The work has been going on ten years. To be eligible for rehabilita tion service one must be a bona fide resident of the State, be sixteen years old, and have a physical dis ability which constitutes a vocational handicap. Children are given physical restor ation in the various clinics free and placed in line for vocational training when they become of age or finish high school. Clinics for this section are held as follows: Winston-Salem, second Saturday in each month. Mt. Airy, fourth Friday in each al ternate month. Lenoir, third Thursday in each month. BAPTIST CHURCH NEWS The regular morning services at Scottville will be held next Sunday at 11:00. It is the day set apart by the church to observe the Lord’s Sup per. Members from other Baptist churches will be welcomed to worship and to observe the supper. Sunday School convenes at 10:00 o’clock. Revival services are in progress at New Hope this week, in charge of the pastor. The Assoeiational W. M. U. had a good day at the Laurel Springs church last Wednesday in their an nual meeting. The ladies who had parts on the program or reports to read did splendidly. Mrs. Edna R. Harris, Corresponding Secretary of State W. M. U., was present and made the main address of the morn ing. It was an inspiration to listen to her speak. Lunch was served by the ladies of the church and commu nity. In the afternoon the Sunbeams of the Liberty, the Laurel Springs, and the Sparta churches, had parts on the program. It was a good day and the only meeting of it’s kind held during the year. Surely some of the other churches should have enough interested women to foster a Wo man’s Missionary Society in the churches. J. L. UNDERWOOD, Pastor. DUTIES OF COMMITTEES SET FORTH BY ATTY.-GEN. Districts May Use Funds Col | lected From Delinquents. Supt. John M- Cheek has a letter from Raleigh, which points out duties of district school boards and the use of funds collected from delinquents. This letter, from Attorney General Brummitt to Dr. A. T. Allen, Supt of Public Instruction, is as foilogisf “1. In a special charter district, whether it is or is not classified as an administrative unit, the existing board of trustees* and their duly elected successors will, under the proviso at the end of the second paragraph in section 4 of the (school) act, be retained as the gov erning body of such distrist. The membership of such board, as vacan cies occur, will be chosen in the man ner as heretofore set up under the particular special charter. “Such a district, when not erected into a city administrative unit, be comes a part of the county school system and the county school sys tem and the county administrative unit. Teachers in such a school are to be selected by the board of trus tees, subject to approval of the coun ty superintendent of schools, and subject to the making of the con tracts with them by the county board of education. And, in all other respects, except as indicated in the paragraph above, such district takes the status of other districts within the county system. “2. Unused and unspent balances in the operating or maintenance fund of a district, proceeds of special maintenance taxes collected prior to the date the Act was ratified, May 15, 1933, may be budgeted and spent in the next school year, in accordance with the purpose for which they were voted—that is, ‘to supplement the funds for the six months public school term for that district.’ “3. The proceds of special mainte nance taxes, uncollected at the date of the ratification of the Act, May 15,1933, should, in a district having debt service requirements, be applied to that purpose, payment of unpaid teachers vouchers for the year in which the tax was levied, being a preferred claim. “4. A different situation is presen ted with respect to such uncollected maintenance taxes in a district which has no debt service requirements. A portion of the language in the con cluding paragraph of section 4 of the Act is susceptible of the construction that in case such taxes as collected are to be used as a part of the coun ty debt service for schools. Since these taxes were voted and paid by the people of the district, the pre sumption is that such result was not intended. So long as a school is main tained for the children of the district wherein the taxes were voted and paid, the proceeds of such mainte nance taxes, there being no debt ser vice requirements, are to be used for the purpose for which they were vot ed—“to supplement the funds for the six months public school term for that district.” “Therefore, such taxes as collected under the circumstances set out should be so used for the school year 1933-34, or subsequent school years.” FARM NEWS W. B. Collins, County Agent. There will be a purebred Ram sale held at Sparta on the first Monday in August. At this sale 14 purebred yearling Rams will be offered to the farmers of the county. In connection with the ram sale we will have a ram trade day. Any farmer who wishes to exchange his ram for an other may bring him to Sparta on that day, and an effort will be made to secure another ram as good to take his place. Last week the different townships Pools sold their first crop of lambs. The Pooled lambs a sold for 6 cents per pound. Mr. Hiram Edwards has sold $60.00 worth of string beans that were grown on little more than 1-4 acre of land. The price received from the beans was from 5 to 7'oc. per pound. Any farmer who has a surplus of string beans, should get in touch with the store at Sparta and arrange with them to handle the beans. Dillon Edwards, Ennice, N. C., has sold $245,38 worth of wool and lambs from 34 head of sheep kept. He still has two lambs to sell. This goes to prove that sheep pay well when they are properly fed and cared for. Mr. Steve Mitchell is rapidly build ing up his farm with soy beans, les pedeza and clover. He rotates with corn, barley, wheat, and other crops. Mr. Mitchell uses lime along with his legumes. PROCESSING AND FLOOR TAXES ON WHEAT NOW EFFECTIVE Wheat Ground For Home Consumption Not Taxable. Raleigh, N. C., July 8—The Office of the Collector of Internal Revenue is working under pressure to inform Millers and Merchants as to the Pro cessing and Floor taxes on wheat and wheat products. The tax is effective at midnight, July 8, 1933. Millers grinding wheat for the farmer for consumption by the farmer, his family or tenants, will require an affidavit of the far mer to that effect. If farmer sells the flour, no exemn tion is allowed. A wholsaler who is also a retailer, carrying on business at the same place must pay the tax on his entire processed wheat stocks as though the retail phase of the business did not exist. If a retail merchant has such stocks stored elsewhere than his re tail floor, the tax attaches to such stocks. A floor tax is imposed on all pro cessed wheat products in the hands of millers, wholesalers, bakers, res taurants, cafes, and cafeterias, as well as to stocks held by retailers in storage. Retailers have until August 7th in which to dispose of all stocks on hand in his store at midnight, July 8th but must keep a record of goods re ceived from July 9th to August 7th and make an inventory August 7tli of stocks on hand at the close oj business then. GOVERNMENT PUTS NEW TAX BURDEN ON AUTOIST Washington, D. C., July 8—Con gress handed the motorist hi3 share of the Industrial Recovery Act’s $3, 300,000,000 appropriations by allocat ing 12 per cent, or $400,000,000 foi roads. Then it imposed an additional fed eral gasoline tax of y2c a gallon tc finance more than 30 per cent of the cost of the Industrial Recovery Act It will cost apporximately $70,000, 000 per year for 15 years, the amorti zation period of the Act, putting me torists in the position of paying mor than $1,000,000,000 for $400,000,00* worth of roads. It continued until June 3, 1935 th< “emergency” federal) gasoline tax o: lc per gallon, costing approximately $135,000,000 pearly. It continued until June 30, 1935 al the existing excise taxes upon motoi vehicles, excessories, tires, tubes parts, lubricating oil, etc., the cost o which amounts probably to roundly $50,000,000 a year. All in all this means that the feder al government is taking from motor ists’ pockets every year for the nexl few years something like $250,000, 000. To this must be added abov\ $500,000,000 annually in state gaso line taxes, about $15,000,000 in coun ty and city gasoline taxes, and somt $400,000,000 in registration fees. The total motor thus may be es timated at $1,165,000,000 per year, oi an average of about $50 for each ol I the 24,000,000 motor vehicles now ir use. Since the average value of each vehicle is estimated at $200 through out its seven-year life, these taxes re present an assessment of 25 per cent upon the average vehicle. This is 10 times the highest rate ever considered for a general sales tax, about five times the highest ta> rate upon property, and undoubtedlj places the motorist definitely in a class by himself among taxpayers. DEATHS Charles Marshall Kennedy, age 81 of Turkey Knob, died Friday even ing and was buried at Mt. Carme Church at 2:30 Saturday afternoon He was a highly respectedc itizei of the community. Emily Lemons, age 87, of Indepen dence, Va., died Friday morning anc was buried at the Independence Me thodist Church at 2:00 P. M. Satur day. John Ander Cleary, age G4, diet July 9th at Laurel Springs, route one and was buried Monday at the Rich ardson cemetery. The burial service.1 was conducted by Elders Willii Hamm, J. W. Hoppers, and A. C Walker. The deceased was a goo( citizen, highly respected by the peo pie of the community. He leaves t wife, one son, and many relatives. Dr. F. G. Woodruff, of High Point was a local visitor in the city ovei the past week-end. RECENT CONGRESS GAVE PRESIDENT UNPRECE DENTED PEACE POWER Major Bills Designed to Re lieve Depression. The late Congress will go down in history as an extraordinary body. Its total appropriations were exceed ed only by the World War Congress. Almost without a dissenting voice, it gave up to the President powers and prerogatives it has prized since revo lutionary days. It was the most docile the most obedient, and the least ima ginative Congress since the war. A list of its major bills, passed mainly at the request of the President, fol lows: 1. A bill enabling the President to inflate currency by forcing the Fed eral Reserve to buy Government se curiues, to issue new currency up to $3,000,000,000, to lessen gold content of the dollar up to 50 per cent, to ac cept up to $200,000,000 in silver, in stead of gold, in war debt payments. 2. A bill giving the President, through a coordinator, wide powers in reorganizating and revising the railroads of the country. 3. A bill authorizing vast Federal developments in the Tennessee Val ley. 4. A bill creating a Civilian Conser vation Corps to employ 250,000 oth j erwise unemployed young men in j the national forests at $1.00 per day. 5. A bil authorizing the President :o regulate transactions in credit, currency and other coinage; to place an embargo, in whole or in part, on ■old; to forbid the hoarding of gold by an individual in excess of $100, ind to restrict the activities of the federal Reserve System. 6. A bill authorizing beer, in spite jf the Eighteenth Amendment, thru revision of the Volstead Act. 7. A bill initiating a $3,300,000,000 public works program in the interest of employment, to be controlled by .he President through a director of public works. 8. A bill to reduce agricultural acreage in production, with compen mtion to farmers for all land with drawn from use. 9. A bill giving the President un precedented control over industry, with powers to eliminate competi tion, fix minimum wages and maxi mum hours of work, regulate produc tion, etc. There were other bills, of course, jut these are outstanding. Most far eaching of all is the last—it has not yet swung into action and it is not widely understood, Operation of the bill, in relation to particular indus tries,' will be as follows: A trade group will draw a plan designed to settle wage, price and production problems. It will apply to the admin istrator of the bill for authorization :o put its agreement into effect. The idministrator will then find out if he plan meets with the favor of most mits within the industry. Represen ;atives of labor, and a group of con iumers, will be consulted. When all has been settled, the agreement will go to the President. If he finds it equitable, he will authorize it. If not, it will have to be withdrawn. When industries are unable to agree among themselves, the President will be able to force a pact on them, bthe pow er of a '’censing system. The bill will strike directly at “de pression born businesses”—unheal thy sweatshops paying employes 15 and 20 cents a day, and similar anti social institutions, and will eliminate disastrous, depression - prolonging competition. The danger or weakness in the bill is that it will very likely make it more difficult for the small business to operate, and will favor the more efficient, better-financed large business. PINEY CREEK NEWS Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Wilson, of Roa noke, Va., visited Mrs. Wilson’s moth er, Mrs. Mae Halsey, over the week end. They were accompanied by Miss Lillian Halsey, also of Roanoke, who will spend her vacation at home. Mr. and Mrs. John C. Halsey, Nan cy and Dean Halsey were business visitors in Galax Saturday. Rev. C. W. Russell filled his regular appointment here Sunday. A large crowd was present. Messrs. Lonnie Busic, Hale and Zena Halsey, of Galax, spent the vVeek-end at home. Mrs. Harold Hesser, and children, of Wilmington, Del., are spending a tew weeks with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Parsons. Miss Edna Fletcher, Home Econo mics teacher, returned to her home at McCall, S. C., last week. Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Weaver and family, of Galax, spent Sunday with Mrs. Sarah Weaver,
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