THE ALLEGHANY TIMES
DEVOTED TO THE CIVIC, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF ALLEGHANY AND BORDERING COUNTIES
VOL. 9.
SPARTA, ALLEGHANY COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1933.
President Appeals To Nation For United Effort In National Recovery Program
Asks Employers Of U. S. To
Sign Common Covevant Of
Higher Wages-Shorter Hours
In a message broadcast to the na
tion Monday night President Roose
velt apealed to every employer in
the country to sign the “common cov
enant” of uniform higher wages and
shorter hours “in the name of patri
otism and humanity” and thus make
the “New Deal” an immediate reality.
The uniform code which has been
set up provides 35-hour week and a
$14 minimum wage for labor and a
40-hour week and $15 minimum for
the “white collar” worker. Failure
to get full cooperation will mean an
other desperate winter, and the “shir
ker" will play his part “at the ex
pense of his country’s welfare” said
the President.
lie aiscussea uie metnods by
which credit problems had been solv
ed. On March 6 every national bank
was closed. One month later 90 per
cent of the deposits in the national
banks had been available to the de
positors.”
To aid the individual in his credit
problems “the home loan act, the
farm loan act, and the bankruptcy.
act were passed.”
Portions of the Presidtn’s speech |
as given by the Associated Press, are
quoted below:
It was a vital necessity to restore
purchasing power by reducing the
debt and interest charges upon our
people, but while we were helping
people to save their credit, it was at
the same time absolutely essential to
do something about the physical
needs"|of hundreds of thousands who
were in dire straits at that very mo
ment.
Relief Measures
Municipal and state aid were being
stretched to the limit. We appro
priated half a billion dollars to sup
plement their efforts and in addi
tion, as you know, we have put 300,
000 young men into practical arid
sueful work in our forests and to pre
vent flood and soil erosion. The
wages they earn are going in greater
part to the support of the nearly one
million people who constitute their
families.
In this same classification we can
properly place the great public works
program running to a total of over
three billion dolars—to be used for
highways and ships and flood pre
vention and inland navigation and
thousands of self-sustaining state and
municipal improvements.
Two points should be made clear
in the alloting and administration of
these projects—first, we are using
the utmost care to choose labor crea
ting quick-acting, useful projects,
avoiding the shell of the pork bar
rel; and secondly, we are hoping that
at least half of the money will come
back to the government from pro
jects which will pay for themselves
over a period of years.
Thus far I have spoken primarily
of the foundation stones—the meas
ures that were necessary to re-es
tablish credit and to head people in
the opposite direction by preventing
distress and providing as much work j
as possible through governmental
agencies. Npw I come to the links
which wifi build up a more lasting
prosperity.
nan luiu nan.
I have said that we cannot attain
that in a nation hajf boom and half
broke. If all of our people have
work and fq.ir wages and fair prof
its, they can buy the products of
their neighbors and business is good.
But if you take away the wages and
the profits of half of them, business
is only half as good. It doesn’t help
much if the fortunate half is very
prosperous—the best way is for
everybody to be reasonably prosper
ous.
For many years the two great bar
riers to a normal prosperity have
been low farm prices and the creep
ing paralysis of unemployment.
These factors have cut the purchas
ing power of the country m half.
I promised action. Congress did its
part when it passed the farm and
the industrial recovery acts. Today
we are putting these two acts to
work and they will work if people
understand thir plain objectives.
First the farm act: It is based on
the fact that the purchasing power
of nearly half our population de
pends on adequate prices for farm
products. We have been producing
more of some crops than we con
sume or can sell in a depressed world
market. The cure is not to produce
sp much.
Without our help, the farmers can
not get together and cut production,
and the farm bill gives them a meth
od of bringing their production down
to a reasonable level and of obtaining
reasonable prices for their crops. I
have clearly stated that this method
is in a sense experimental, but so
far as we have gone, we have reason
to believe that it will produce good
results.
It is obvious that if we can greatly
increase the purchasing power of the
tens of millions of our people who
make a living from farming and the
distribution of farm crops, we will
greatly increase the consumption of
those goods which are turned out by
industry.
That brings me to the finalstep—
bringing back industry along sound
lines.
Industrial Goal.
Last autumn, on several occasions,
I expressed my faith that we can
make possible by Democratic self
discipline in industry general in
creases in wages and shortening of
hours sufficient to enable industry
to pay its own workers enough to
let those workers buy and use the
things that their labor produces.
This can be done only if we per
mit and encourage cooperative ac
tion in industry, because it is ob
vious that without united action, a
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ROARING GAP FAMOUS
FOR SCENIC VIEWS
Local Resort Compared With
Blowing Rock.
Roaring Gap and Blowing Rock,
North Carolina, perch atop their res
pective heights and admire each oth
er across an ocean of blue moun
tain waves—at least they should—
for they are two of the most delight
ful mountain top resorts in a State
which abounds with them.
When the mercury hits the 90’s
elsewhere in the vicinity, an icy wind
comes roaring up the gap, and around
the old grey rock fresh breezes blow.
Roaring Gap is famous for its
views. Through a telescope on the
brink of the cliff, where the sum
mer cottages cling to the dark rocks
you can pick out towns on the plains
below. There’s Mount Airy, with the
great white patch of its granite quar
ry; Elkin, known for its fleecy Chat
ham blankets; and thirty miles away,
a white-pillared county court-house.
At night, the village lights come up
to you through the trees like fire
flies.
At Blowing Rock, the first thing
you do is visit the rock itself. There’s
a tale that a hat or handkerchief,
thrown over at the proper place, will
drop to the bottom, where it is
caught by a strong upward current
and returned. We tried it—and lost
a hat.
Then there are golf courses on the
high plateaus; bridle paths between
fragrant pines and flowering moun
tain laurel; and quiet little lakes and
streams for swimming and fishing.
The mountains roundabout are full
of treasures. The well-traversed all
year-rounders can tell you of finding
fairy stones, supposed to bring good
luck. Or perhaps they’ll show you i
one of the “brown crosses’’; a sample
of “limber rock,” the flexible sand
stone which bends easily; or the
beautiful quartz which has caught
the light of the sky and air and im
prisoned it.
And the tales they tell! See what
you can find on a summer’s day in
the Blue Ridge.—Tours and Detours.
SPECIAL NOTICE TO
COUNTY TEACHERS
The County Board of Education
has made an order that the teachers
of the county that are holding low
grade certificates must aise them in
order to teach in the schools of the
county,
I hav been requsted to try to get
an extension class for this county. I
have communcated with the officals
of Extension work, and if a class
large enough can be assured I am
sure that we can get a class here.
I would like to hear from all teach
ers that are interested at once. The
Extension work will be given by some
reputable college.
G. GLENN NICHOLS,
Sparta, N. C.
Music Festival, Whitetop, Aug. 11-12;
Mrs. Roosevelt ‘To Be Guest Of Occasion
Many notables are expected to
attnd the third annual Music
Festival on Whitetop Mountain
on August 11th and 12th. Mrs.
F. D. Roosevelt, the first lady of
the land, and representatives of
American and English folk socie
ties have signified their inten
tion of attending.
Mountain musicians from Vir
ginia, North Carolina, Tennes
see, Kentucky, and West Virgin
ia will gather on Whitetop on
Friday, August 11th, for the pre
liminary contests, with an infor
mal program and square dancing
Friday night. Finals will be held
on Saturday, with a special pro*
gram from the winners and oth
ers, including some of the finest
folk talent available from sever
al states, in music, balladry, and
traditional dancing.
FAMOUS ARTISTS EXPECTED
Paul Green, famous writer of
folk plays and novels, and La
mar Stringfield, director of the
North Carolina Symphonic Or
chestra, are expected to attend
the festival. Last year over four
thousand people attended, and
this year the attendance is ex
pected to be even greater.
Roads leading to Whitetop
Mountain have been graded, wid
ened, and drained, and the thou
sands who attend will find the
place easily accessible. The C.
C. C. workers are extending the
government telephone line to the
camp and rebuilding the old tele
phone line across Iron Moun
tain.
A number of people from
Sparta and Alleghany County
have signified their intention of
attending the festival.
HIGHWAY 21 GETS
FEDERAL AID
Section Between Wytheville
and Independence to Be
Completed.
Now that it seems an assured fact
that a large portion of Federal High
way No. 21 between Independence
and Wytheville will be completed
within a reasonable length of time
folks living between Inpendence and
Speedwell have just cause for rejoic
ing. With the alocation of state funds
made several weeks ago, an alloca
tion of funds to be obtained from
the Federal Public Works fund, and
another allocation which Highway
Commissioner Shirley is reported to
have promised for construction work
on this road, it looks as though pret
ty much all of the road will be built
in the near future.
We are indeed pleased that funds
have at last been made available for
the completion, or hear completion,
of this road. To us it seems that this
is one of the most important high
ways in Grayson county, being a part
of the Lakes to Florida highway, and
the resident of Long’s Gap and Elk
Creek, we think, have been entitled
to a good road for a long time.
With the road’s completion will
come a great increase in tourist tra
vel North and South through Gray
son county and this will, in turn,
bring a more rapid development of
this section of the county.—Grayson
Carroll Gazette.
WILKES TO GET
C. C. C. CAMP SOON
Site Near Jones Creek Ap
proved by Army Officers.
One of the Civilian Conservation
camps will be located in Wilkes
county, it was learned definitely the
latter part of last week when the
lease for a campsite between Purlear
and Parsonville was signed and for
warded to governmental officials.
Only formal approval is necessary
to make the camp an assured fact.
The camp site was approved last
week by army officers who went to
Wilkes county to look over prospec
tive sites.
The camp will be located on the
property of Dewey Yates near Jones
Creek on the Purlear-Parsonville
road. Seven acres were leased for
this purpose.
Two hundred young men will be
put to work in the near future, it
is understood, in the mountain sec
tion, adjacent to the camp.—The El
kin Tribune.
Bible School Begins
At Glade Valley
A daily vacation Bible school, in
charge of Rev. O. W. Marshall, of
Glade Valley, is now in progress at
Glade Valley HiHgh School. Classes
began Monday morning July 24, at
9 o’clock and will continue for two
weeks. Children from two years to
18 years are eligible for enrollment.
All instruction is free.
The work will be divided into three
types: devotional study, travels in
Bible lands, and a period of hand
work. School convenes at 9:00 A. M.,
and adjourns at 11:30 A. M., five
days to the week.
Miss Clarise Thompson is principal
of the Bible school with the following
teachers assisting: Mr. Clay Thomp
son, Mrs. Wagoner, and Miss Fran
’'cis Cashion, of North Wilkesboro. It
is hoped that many young people of
the section will avail themselves of
the opportunity to study the Bible
in this school.
SCOTTVILLE DOWNS
LOCALS 6-4 SATURDAY
Sparta lost to Scottville by a score
of 6 to 4 in an exciting game pl&yed
here last Saturday. Sparta took the
lead in their half of the first inning
by scoring two runs, by a pass to
Moxley and Edwards an error, 'and
a hit by Joines. In the third MoXley
was passed for the second time. Ni
chols hit a single, Edwards singled
to fill the bags, Carpenter forced
Moxley at the plate, leaving the bases
full. Joines hit for two bases, and
two runs crossed the plate to end the
scoring for Sparta.
Scottvile scored two in the fourth
on a double by Jones, a single - by
Glenn Sheppard, a sacrifice by W.
Shepard, and a single by Gambill.
In the fourth they scored two more
to tie the score. In the eighth McMil
lan reached first on an error and W.
the scoring for the day.
Sheppard hit for the circuit, finished
Sparta will play Laurel Springs
at Laurel Springs next Saturday.
Scottville and Grassy Creek will
play at Scottville.
Box score and summary is as fol
lows: (
Scottville pos. Ab. R. H. PO.
Jones, If....4 2 2 4
Sheppard, G., 3b.4
McMillan, c. ..4
Sheppard, W., 2b..4
Gambill, ss, . 4
Black, rf.3
Evans, lb....4
Perkins, cf., 4
Absher, p., . 4
1
1
I
0
0
0
0
1
2
0
I
1
0
1 14
0 0
1 1
Sparta:
Pos.
35 6 8 27
Ab. R. H. PO.
Reeves, cf., .5 0 0 4
Moxley, c., .........3 111
Nichols, p., 2b., ..5 13 1
Edwards, ss., .4 2 10
J. Carpenter, 3b., .4 0 0 4
Joines, lb., .4 0 2 15
Boyer, If., .. 3 0 0 0
G. Carpenter, rf., .. 4 0 0 1
Wyatt, p., . 4 0 10
Gentry, c., . 1 0 0 1
37 4 8 27
WYTHEVILLE BOOSTERS
ENJOY SPARTA HOSPITA
LITY HERE WEDNESDAY
The Wytheville Booster Club head- .
ed by the Austinville band arrived in
Sparta about noon Wednesday on a
good-wille tour of this section. The
Woman’s Missionary Society of the
Methodist church served an appetiz
ing lunch under the big oak on the
church lawn.
After lunch Mayor Floyd
welcomed the Club on behalf of the'
town of Sparta. He then called uponj
Gov. R. A. Doughton, who spoke
briefly about the spirit of good-will,
that exists between Virginia and'
North Carolina. He spoke of the|
Park-to-Park Highway, a section of
which traverses Alleghany, and urg
ed the completion of the link be
tween Wytheville and Independence.
Then Dr. B. A. Wagoner, president!
of the Wytheville Business Men’s
Club, spoke of the purpose of the
tour, which is to foster a spirit of
good-will, to get acquainted, and to
advertise the Wytheville horse Show
and live stock market. Other Wythe
ville business men spoke briefly.
Just before leaving the band pa
raded up street and rendered two
selections in front of the court house.
Carl Goerch ate lunch here, but
was called away before the speaking
began. He will mention the good-will
tour over radio station WPTF, Ra
leigh, Sunday night.
Birth Announcement
Mr. and Mrs. Brantley Fender an
nounce the birth of a daughter, on
Thursday, July 20th.
Crouse
C. L JENKINS BUYS
WILKES RAILROAD
Operations May Be Resumed
After Years of Inactivity.
The Watauga and Yadkin Riv
er Railway, leading from North
Wilkes boro to Darby and Gran
in, has been bought by C. E.
Jenkins, of the Jenkens Hard
ware Company, of North Wilkes
boro. This road ceased opera
tions in 1918 when the second
disastrous flood in two years
destroyed sections of the road,
Built by northern capitalists
when the lumber business was
active, this road was operated
successfully for a number of
years. Mr. Jenkins intimated
that it may again be operated by
either his company or some oth
er concern.
The property consists of 32 miles
ot rails, three locomotives, 26 pas
senger, box, and flat cars, and one
wrecking crane. The trains have been
standing on the tracks one mile west
of the city since the road ceased op
eration. Workmen are now engaged
In repairing the track in order that
Lhe engines and cars may be moved
to the yards in thecity.
Alleghany Relief Families
Decrease 42 Per Cent
The number of families in Alle
ghany County receiving relief in
June was 42 per cent less than the
number in March, according to re
lent figures from the Governor’s of
fice of Relief. In March, 351 families
received aid and in June, 201 families
received aid. The decrease for the
State as a whole, was 41 per cent,
rhe number aided in June was 92,
272 as compared with 164,000 during
March.
The total represents a decrease of
nearly 13 per cent below the 11,
278 families aided during May. ,
Ronald B. Wilson, acting relief di
rector of relief, attributed the de
crease in aid needed to three causes:
Improved business conditions, a logi
cal seasonal decline, and the fact that
many families are now dependent
upon their sons who are enrolled in
the Civilian Conservation CoVps.
Despite the improved conditions
'enerall, there are six counties whose
relief load during June was higher
than at any time since Federal Relief
funds became available. They are
Cherokee, Columbus, Dare, Franklin,
Hertford andSwa in- Two of these
counties, Cherokee and Swain, are
mountainous and located in the ex
treme western part of the State; two
others, Dare and Columbus, are coas
tal, and Franklin and Hertford are
Easterly inland counties. Thus every
section except the Piedmont is rep
resented among the six counties
whose rate of destitute has not de
creased,
Inter-Racial Game Arouses
Much Interest for Fans
A ball game of unusual Interest
was played here last Thursday be
tween Laurel Springs and a negro
team from North Wilkesboro, The
white team won by a score of 10 to 4.
Some real good playing was done by
both teams. Bach team used two
pitchers and there were several strike
>uts. As far as any baseball fan can
remember this was the first game to
be played in the county between
teams of the different races.
There was a large crowd in atten
iance as has witnessed a game here
in several years and everybody pre
sent seemed to enjoy the game.
UNIFORM SALES TAX
SCHEDULE EFFECTIVE
AUGUST FIRST
New Schedule To Be Posted
In Every Store.
Beginning August 1st all North
Carolina retail merchants will use
one uniform sales tax schedule in
stead of the four-schedule plan used
during July, according to announce
ment of Commissioner of Revenue
A. J. Maxwell. Some difficulties of
collection of the three per cent sales
tax under the four-schedule plan
were anticipated by the Commission
er upon its adoption when he stated
that a more comprehensive and a
more uniform plan might become ef
fective in August.
The new schedule, applying to all
retail merchants, follows:
Less than 10 cents, no tax.
Ten cents to.35 cents, 1 cent.
Thirty-six cents to 70 cents, 2 cents
Seventy-one cents to $1.05, 3 cents.
Above $1.05, a straight 3 per cent
tax will be applied, fractions to be
governed by major fractions.
Placards with the above schedule
will be furnished merchants by the
State Department of Revenue. Regu
lations require that this placard shall
be kept posted by every merchant
where it may be conveniently seen by
the customer, and is intended to pro
tect both merchant and customer.
It is mandatory upon every merchant
to oollect the sales tax, and no more,
in addition to the sales price of mer
chandise.
No tax will be collected on flour,
meal, meat, lard, milk, molasses, salt,
sugar, ooffee, gasoline, fertilizer, and
public school books. Wholesale mer
chants will pay a tax of one-twenty
fifth of 1 per cent.
The statement from the depart
ment of revenue follows:
“Three week ith actual experience
with the sales tax has developed less
of friction and difficulty than was
generally anticipated.
“Regulations governing the appli
cation of the tax were promulgated
experimentally for the month of July
only. It was expected that exper
riences would suggest the need for re
vision of these rules. The July regu
lations have been unsatisfactory in
the following particulars:
"The use of a series of schedules
has been confusing, and has made
uniformity of observance and prac
tice difficult.
“Merchants in the same general
class would fall into different sched
ules because one would have a larger
percentage of sales below 10 cents
than the other. For instance, sched
ule three applies to one drug store
and schedule four to another.
“Merchants not in the same gener
al class carry some merchandise of
the same class, which would add a
tax in one store and not in the other,
by use of differing schedules.
“Merchants having a large percent
age of sales in the low price group
have not been able to collect the
amount of the tax. Drug stores, for
instance, using schedule three, have
collected only about two-thirds of
their tax, and having to absorb one
third.
a lie juiy avneuuies were set up on
the theory of setting the first tax
able line as high as possible to avoid
excessive rates of tax on small sales.
To compensate for the loss of tax on
sales below the taxable line the use
of a cumulative rule on purchases at
one trading period was denied, so as
to give the merchant an excess on
taxable merchandise to make up the
loss on non-taxable sales below the
taxable line. The denial of the right
of the customer to have the tax com
puted on the total of purchases made
at one time, rather than upon each
article, in many cases resulted intax
charges of 5 and 6 per cent when the
total purchases were large enough to
apply a straight 3 per cent. This was
so confusing that many merchants
elected not to use this advantage.
“These experiences have been
strongly persuasive in the direction
of a single schedule for al merchants,
starting with a lower taxable line for
the benefit of merchants having a
large volume of sales below the tax
able line and making it adjustable to
all merchants by using a higher top
range in each bracket and giving the
customer the benefit of a tax ad
justed to the total sum of his pur
chases at one trading period.
"Under the rule now promulgated
it will not be possible for the mer
chant to include the tax in the price
of each article of merchandise, be
cause the amount of tax on a given
article is not an exact sum, but will
vary with reference to whether two
or more purchases are made at the
same time, and depends upon the to
REV. W. E. POOVEY
PASSES AT MT. AIRY
Funeral Services Tuesday
Morning; Interment at
Hickory.
Mount Airy, July 23.—Rev. W. E.
Poovey, 54, presiding elder of the
Mount Airy district in the Western
North Carolina Methodist Conference
died at the Martin Memorial hospi
tal here tonight following a two
weeks’ illness of abdominal cancer.
Funeral services will be held from
the Cetral Methodist church, this
city, Tuesday morning at 10 o’clock
with Rev. J. T. Mangum and others
officiating. Interment will be made
at Hickory at 3 o’clock that after
noon.
While the condition of Rev. Mr.
Poovey had been grave since an op
eration on July 7 when the extent of
the cancer was discovered, his pass
ing came as a shock to the com
munity. He had apparently been in
excellent health until recently.
Rev. Mr. Poovey came to Mount
Airy four years ago as presiding
elder of 'this district in addition to
his church work. He has been very
active in civic and fraternal affairs.
At the time of his death he was
serving as master of the local Mas
onic lodge, and was orator of the
Grand Lodge of North Carolina.
William Edgar Poovey was bora
near Hickory on November 17, 1878.
He was educated at Rutherfordton
college, Rutherfordton, and Emery
and Henry College, Mmory, Va. He
was a minister in the Methodist
church for the past 27 years.
He was married to Miss Mabel
Stroup, who is also a native of
Hickory. To this union two children
were born, Miss Maybelle Poovey, of
Duke university, Durham, and Edgar
Poovey, of this city. He is survived
by his wife, two children, his mother
and several brothers and sisters. —
Greensboro Daily News, July 24thl
tal sum of such cumulative pur
chases. The single uniform schedule
gives to the merchant the advantage
of fair and uniform trade practice,
and to the purchaser the advantage
of tax applied to his cumulative pur
chases as near to the 3 per cent tax
paid by the merchant as can reason
ably be applied. The rule does not re
quire the use of coupons, stamps or
sales tickets and can be easily applied
by every merchant, and easily under
stood by the customer.
“Under this simple single uniform
rule the customer can never be over
charged more than a fraction of a
cent on any purchase or group of
purchases, and is given a part of the
break of fractions on taxable pur
chases and no tax on single purchases
below 10 cents.
“The general scope of this new
schedule has been discussed with rep
resentative merchandising groups in
the state, and has met with a very
pleasing degree of approval and as
surance of co-operation in its obser
vance.
“The practical unanimity with,
which it Ijias been accepted by mer
chandising groups is a fine indica
tion of their real desire to co-operate
with any set of regulations that pro
vide uniformity of practice and pro
tects them from absorption of the
tax, which was the clear intent of
the general assembly.
“In the interest of uniform prac
tice and understanding the new regu
lation has been put in the form of a
placard that is printed by the depart
ment of revenue and will be fur
nished without charge. The accom
panying cut is a fac-simile reproduc
tion of the placard. They will be fur
nished in lithograph printing on bris
tol board, size 11x14 inches, in such
quantities as may be needed to mer
chants’ associations for distribution
to their members and other mer
chants. In communities where there
is no organization of merchants it is
requested that some particular mer
chant 6rder a sufficient quantity to
supply the merchants in the commu
nity.”
Wytheville Live Stock
Market Sales of Tuesday
On the Wytheville live stock mar
ket Tuesday 380 lambs were sold at
&3.50 to $6.80 a hundred. 127 cattle
sold as follows: heifers $2.50 to $4
80; steers- $2.80 to $5.00. 87 veal
waives, $2.50 to $5.00. Stock shoats
sold from $1.50 to $3.50 a head.
Dr. Thompson On Vacation
Dr. C. A. Thompson and wife left
Tuesday for a ten day vacation. Dr.
Thompson expects to visit the lead
ing hospitals in Richmond, Va.; Bal
timore, Md.; Philadelphia, Boston,
and Atlantic City while away.