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a # . . “the realisation of our pro* . gram cannot be attained in six months. From Wteek to week f there will be ups and downs but j the net result is a consistent f gain.”—PPtT.dent Roosevelt. j ......a ALLEGHANY TIMES DEVOTED TO THE CIVIC, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF ALLEGHANY AND BORDERING COUNTIES QMiMiHiiMiiMiiiiiiiaiHiliMMiiiDKiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiinniifiiiml ■ . . “It is the people of the UnitedStates who have got to put it across and make it stick and they are doing it.” —General Johnson. 0 IIIIMIHHIIIHIIIHIIllllllllllllHiluitimiii VOL. 9. ALLEGHANY COUNTY, SPARTA, N. C„ THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1933. No. 27. ANNUAL RED CROSS ROLL CALL DRIVE BEING MADE IN ALLEGHANY COUNTY * LOCAL SIDE - GLANCES Birth—Mr. and Mrs. Hurst Bennetl announce the birth of a son Monday ?7ov. 20th. Attends Convention-—Rev. J. L. Un derwood attended the State Baptisl Convention in Greensboro last week He returned to Sparta Friday. Excuse Me—We note that Smith ay’s Store wants a pure bred wild e xt alive. We know nothing about the feline population of Alleghany, but our guess is that they could find several “blind tigers” tor every wild cat. Death—Dewey Sturdivant drove his ambulance to Washington, D. C., last Thursday to bring back the body of Herman Staley, who was killed in an automobile wreck there. The body wascarried to the home of the deceas ed near Wilkesboro. Zip—Jimmyy Wedell has the air speed record for land planes, and so far as we know, Sturdivant has the ambulance speed from Sparta to Washington and return. He made the entire trip, a distance of 835 miles in 15 hours and 20 minutes. Improved—Edwin Duncan, who has been in a Statesville hospital for two weeks, is improving slowly. He ex pects to come home within another week. The bones in the crushed arm were set last Sunday. Beat this—Alvin C. Edwards, of Whitehead, has a large hornet’s nest, which he believes to be the largest in the county. Alvin doesn’t say how large the nest is, but if he will get all of the hornets out of it, he is wel come to exhibit it in The Times’ of fice. Any of you fellows having a larger nest are entitled to the same privilege. Hamburgers, Extra—Uncle Sam’s pig meat arrived Tuesday and will be distributed by the relief office in the usual manner. Now, if Uncle Sam would just give some turnips to boil j with the pork—yum-yum—some fel lows have all the luck, anyway. Hurrah! State Engineers in town to survey the road from Twin Oaks to Roaring Gap. Expect to eliminate many curves and make road broader. We hope they will begin moving dirt soon—then we will know that we will have a standard width highway. Been hoping to see the work started all the summer. . A Stitch in time—There are two cases of diphtheria in the McMillan school. Miss Fowler has vaccinated the school children since these cases were reported. Applesauce—The apple house and woodshed at Duke Bledsoe’s place in Sparta were destroyed by fire of unknown origin late Sunday after noon. The dwelling is occupied by Mrs. Guy Duncan. Oh, Well—Did you know that Bad water is a town in Wyoming; that Bad Axe is a town in Michigan; that Beehive is a town in Montana; Bum ble Bee is a town in Arizona; that (Please Turn To Page 4.) EVERYCOUNTY ASKED FOR MINIMUM 6 PROJECTS Washington, Nov. 21—As part of the plan t<? put 4,000,000 men now on part-time relief work on full time, under the new Civil Works Admin istration, every State highway com mission has been urged to find a minimum of 6 road projects in each of the 3,000 counties in the country on which road maintenance expendi tures of not more than $5,000 each can be made promptly. If fully rea lized, this would mean some 18,000 projects involving potential outlay of $90,000,000. The cost is to be ad vanced in the proportion of 65 per cent from Federal relief funds and 35 per cent from Federal road aid to States. Highway Commissions were asked to list immediately projects available in unemployed areas. The new Civil Works Administration is conducted by the Federal Emergen cy Relief Administrator, with the same office force. President Roosevelt set apart for it $400,000,000 from the public works fund to hasten full-time employment of present part-time wor kers now on relief rolls, with the pur pose of making them self-sustaining. Meanwhile the road improvement plan is one of many to start the 4, 000,000 to work and to remove them and their dependents from relief rolls. CHURCH NEWS Regular services will be held at Laurel Springs Baptist church next Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. It is the sincere hope that a large num ber of the membe-sh:p will be present at this service. The pastor will also preach at the Baptist church In Sparta Sunday night at 7:30. This, in all probability will be the last message on the fielc here. The pastor plans to move to hit new ‘Work at Hayesville at an earlj date. j The executive committtee of th< { Alleghany Chapter of the Americac National Red Cross held a meeting ir the relief office in Sparta Tuesday morning. Mrs. T. W. Sprinkle, na tional representative of the Red Cross was present at the meeting and offer ed suggestions for the annual Red Cross roll call in the county. At this meeting C. W. Erwin, coun ty chairman of the Red Cross for sev eralyears , and C. J. Carson, county treasurer for the past 16 years, sub mitted their resignations. Both of these men have served well, and it was with reluctance that the group accepted their resignations. Both were given a vote of thanks for their past services. New officers elected are as follows: Erwin D. Stephens, county chairman; Dalton Warren, Vice-chairman; Miss Marie Wagoner, treasurer; Mrs. C. A. Reeves, chairman roll call com mittee; Miss Betty Fowler, chairman production committee; R. F. Crouse, home service chairman. A partial list of the roll call com mittee follows: Ijez Parsons, Piney Creek; Charles R. Roe, Sparta; C. W. Russell, rural churches; Mrs. Ed Mill er, Laurel Springs. Other members of the committee for various commu nities will be appointed later. Last year Alleghany had 69 mem bers. Our quota this year is 150 mem bers. It is hoped that citizens of the county will respond immediately to the annual roll call. The membership fee is one dollar, 50 cents of which goes to the National Red Cross and the remainder is used in the county. The Red Cross has contributed a great deal more to Alleghany County than the county has contributed to the Red Cross. Last year citizens of the county contributed $34.50 to the National Red Cross, and the National Red Cross contributed over $2500 in food and clothing to people in the wuii K,y. The Red Cross stands ready at all times to help m emergencies. A? a result of a storm on the coast some time ago hnudreds of people in eas tern North Carolina were homeless. The Red Cross responded to an ur gent call for aid and rebuilt and re paired 400 homes, clothed and fed 1750 families, and spent $45,000 among the stricken people. Last year in. the United States the Red Cross cared for people in 97 big disasters. Last year the teachers of the coun ty joined 100 per cent. It is hoped that persons who get employment with the Civil Works Administration will res pond with memberships. Join Now! Join for humanity’s sake! —— --——--- X Rev. C. W. Russell Returns To The Sparta Charge The Western North Carolina Con ference, which has been in session in the First Methodist Church in Char lotte since Wednesday of last week, finished its work Monday and adjourn ed sine die, with the reading of the appointments of the preachers to their fields of labor for the new con ference year. Rev. C. W. Russell re turns to the Sparta charge and Rev. J. C. Swain to Laurel Springs. The appointments for the Mt. Airy Dis trict are as follows: Presiding Elder, A. C. Gibbs. Ararat, G. B. Gwyn, supply. Boone, J. H. Brendall, Jr. Creston, A. G. Lackey. Danbury, J. B. Needham. Dobson, J. O. Cox. Draper, T. B. Johnson. Elkin, E. W. Fox. Helton, G. R. Stafford. Jefferson, J. E. B. Houser. Jonesville, R. H. Kinnington. Laurel Springs, J. C. Swain. Leaksville, R. O. Tuttle. Madison, E. E. Williamson. i Moravian Falls, W. H. Benfield. Mount Airy, Central, J. T. Man gum; Rockford Street, R. G. Tuttle Jr Mount Airy Circuit, R. E. Ward. North Wilkesboro, J. H. Armbrust. Pilot Mountain, A. L. Latham. Rural Hall, C. M. McKinney. Sandy Ridge, J. M. Green. Sparta, C. W. Russell. Spray, A. C. Waggoner. Stoneville-Mayodan.J. W. Campbell. Todd, P. L. Smith. Walnut Cove, J. B. Fitzgerald. Warrensville, T. H. Houck. Watauga, G. C. Graham. Wilkesboro, Seymour Taylor. Yadkinville, I. L. Sharp. , Professor Appalachian Teachers’ College, J. M. Downum. Thanksgiving Celebration j To Be Staged At Whitehead A Thanksgiving service and cele bration of the great victory of the 1 Dry Forces of the township and State will be held at Liberty church at Whiteheadon Thursday, November 30 at 1:00 P. M. Preachers and speakers from different sections of the county i have agreed to be present and take a part in the service. Everybody is cordially invited to attend. Sec. Ickes Approves Proposed Highway Expect New Road To P ass Trough Alleghany The proposed scenic, mountain crest highway between the Shenan doah and the Great Smoky Moun tain national parks was approved by Secretary Ickes, the public works administrator, last week. Ap proximately 100 miles of this 400 mile parkway has been surveyed in Virginia and work there will be gin soon, in all probability. Nothing definite Is known as to what sec tions the remainder of the highway will traverse. Some think It will eome down by WythevlUe, Inde pendence, and - Twin Oaks, and thence south to the Smoky Moun tains. Others think that It will not follow any roads already built, but will be a new road entirely. If it follows the crest of the Blue Ridge closely, It will probably comedown by Low Gap, Roaring Gap, and thence southwest by Laurel Springs to the Smokies. However, all ideas as to the location of the right-of way are pure conjectures as yet. Nothing definite will be known till surveys have been made. Tennessee will probably put up a great fight for the road to come within her bor ders part of the way. Delegations from Virginia, North arolina, and Tennessee discussed the matter with Secretary Ickes in Washington the latter part of last week. After a conference with the delegation, Ickes smilingly said an immediate survey had been ordered but that the public works board had not acted on the proposal. However, Senator Byrd and others wtre emphatic that Ickes assured them ‘ whatever it takes” of public wciks funds would Iv supplied for 1 the p; jeet. Ickes an roil t.-.e mat ter up with Presil'.ot -osevelt and .linnpi roval was uoiibiI'.-I *n in formed quarters to be tantamount to approval by the beard he heads. Prior to Byrd’s announcement, a conference was held in Secretary Ickes’ office at whici Governor! Pol lard of- Virginia and McAlister, of Tennessee, and Senator.) Bailey aiVd Reynolds, of North Carolina, on be half of Governor Ehringhaua, pledged the three states to furnish the neces sary rights of way and surveys. Also attending the conference were Representatives Doughton and Wea ver, of North Carolina. Name Committee. At a later conference in Senator Bailey’s office, North Carolinians in terested in the proposed park-to-park scenic highway named a committee to' represent their state in negotiations with the federal government and Vir ginia and Tennessee authorities on the route the road shall follow and matters pertaining to its construc tion. Members of this committee are Senators Bailey and Reynolds and Representative Doughton, Governor Ehringhaus appointed them some time ago to represent the State and they agreed to continue. Under consideration is a plan to secure a 200-foot right-of-way, to be put under the federal park service, and to build a road 32 feet wide. Follow Mountain Crest. Although the route is undecided Doughton said it would follow as near as practicable the crest of the Blue' Ridge mountains. He expressed belief | there would be little trouble obtaining t the right of way and displayed a let ter from J. K. McKnight and I. M. Woodruff, of Galax, Va., saying they would be glad to donate the rjght-of way through a 559-acre tract they own along the Blue Ridge crest west of Fisher’s Peak near the North Car olina-Virginia line. Those at the conference in Senator Bailey’s office included R. L. Gwyn, of Lenoir, secretary of the committee named by Governor Ehringhaus to represent the State in the negotia tions; J. Q. Gilkey, of Marion, chair man of the committee, and Charles Ross, general counsel to the North Carolina highway commission. Byrd said work might begin on the project in Virginia immediately since 100 miles of the route already has been surveyed. State Will Cooperate, Jeffress An nounces. North Carolina, through the State Highway and Public Works Commis sion, will cooperate fully in the park way project, E. B. Jeffress, Chairman of the Commission, said yesterday. Scout trips over the proposed route of the parkway and detailed study of maps of that section of the country will be started at once. As soon as the definite route is announced, the commission will begin work on secur ing the right of way and on surveying [the route. I Mr. Jeffress said he understood the parkway would follow the ridge of the Blue Ridge mountains from Virginia down into North Carolina and then over into Tennessee. Charles Ross, General Counsel to the Commisssion, and State Senator Charles Whedbee, a member of the Commission, attended the conference in Washington Thursday. The route which apparently had the most support among the North Carolina delegation is as follows: Cross the North Carolina line near Sparta, passing Roaring Gap, Boone, Blowing Rock, Linville Falls, Alta Pass, Little Switzerland, Buck Creek Gap, Mt. Mitchell, the Craggies, Ash ville and then to the park. Variations Proposed. A number of variations of the route are proposed. As an example Repre sentative Frank Hancock has been asked to urge that the route follow the Blue Ridge crest skirting Mt. Airy. Members of the Tennessee dele gation are understood to favor a route following closely the Tennessee and North Carolina line. sSuch a route would miss a large section of Western North Carolina which is considered essential to a scenic drive through the state. In selecting a route the Nation al Park Service wil be interested only in scenery and with this the dominat ing factor there is little doubt but that the park-to-park highway will take in most if not all the points list ed above. To Spend $16,000,000 The public works administration will grant a fund with which to make a preliminary survey of the road. After this is done the PWA is ex pected to formally approve an allo cation of $16,000,000 with which to construct the highway. A. E. DeMaray, assistant director of the National Park Serive, said this afternoon that his office is ready to begin preliminary work on surveying a route and will proceed just as soon as written instructions are received from Secretary Ickes. He said the park service will cooperate with the bureau of public works and the high way departments of the three inter ested states and no time will be lost in getting the work under way. Mountain Counties Report Heavy Damage—Forest Fires All day Saturday a pall of smoke from fires raging over large areas in Macon, Haywood, Transylvania, Jack son and Graham counties darkened the sky here. No fires have been re ported in Alleghany, but with the forests filled with dry leaves there is danger should any hunter carelessly fling away lighted matches or cigar ettes. In Jackson and neighboring coun ties there was little hope early in the week for rain to aid the hundreds of volunteer fire-fighters waging a des perate battle to check the spread of fires eating their ways through virgin timberlands. With 20,000 acres of timberland a picture of devastation, conservative estimates of the damage in Jackson county alone were placed at $800,000. Twelve new fires broke out in the county Monday. The wind which for the past few days had hampered fire fighters, died down somewhat in the afternoon. Volunteers were being called for on all sides, and men and women fought side by side in efforts to stem the onrushing walls of flame. The watershed of the Western Car olina Teachers College was in danger as fire broke out on the boundary and students and faculty fought back the licking flames which had approached the very edge of the property. Water there was low and if the watershed burns over, the college will be with out water. Three miners were forced to fire around their cabins as blazes closed in on them in the High Fork Balsams, and two men cutting wood on the Sa vannah Mountain near Cullowhee were trapped by walls of flame that rapidly closed in on them. The two escaped through a small opening in the flame, however. A sheet of fire on a five-mile front raged from Panther Knob to the Ma con County line, destroying thousands of dollars of valuable timber. A small fire on Jtoaring Gap moun tain Friday was reported under con trol Saturday. A DIRECT APPEAL TO YOU TheAnnual Red Cross Roll Call drive is on in Alleghany. Prof. C. W. Ervin, of Glade Valley High School, has the distinction of being the first person in the county to enroll for 1934. Within a few days workers in each community will canvas for mem berships. Our Quota is 150. Let’s get that number by Thanksgiving! What we give comes back home accompanied by a great deal more. When the roll call is over, will your name be among those who joined? Will you be able to say, “I did my part” ? In t he true spirit of Thanksgiving join the RED CROSS! JOIN TO-DAY! SAMUEL DAVIS, JR. Samuel L. Davis, Jr., scion of one of the older families in High Point, died Monday morning at 3:30 o’clock, from an attack of pneumonia which developed Sunday, after an illness since Thursday. Death of the well known young man came as a shock to the community in which he had lived all his life. Mr. Davis was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Samuel L. Davis, his father was a pioneer furniture manu facturer in High Point. The son in herited his father’s businesses and was active in their operation until his recent illness. He was for 10 years vice president of the Southern Chair Company, and on his father’s death became secretary-treasurer and gen eral manager of that business. In 1929 he was married to Miss Mabel Doughton, of Sparta, who sur vives. The funeral was conducted from the home Tuesday morning at 11:00 o’clock by Rev. G. Ray Jordan, and interment was made in the family plot in Oakwood Memorial Park. Dr. Doughton, of Sparta, and Mrs. Harrell, of Elkin, attended the funer al of Mr. Davis, who was a son-in-law of Dr. Doughton. Number of Families on Relief In N. C. Shows'increase Raleigh Nov. 21—The total num ber of North Carolina families receiv ing aid from public relief funds dur ing October shows a slight increase over September, according to figures releasedt oday by the Emergency Relief Administrator’s office in Ra leigh. There were 52,262 families aid ed in October as compared to 50,587 families aided in September, an in crease of slightly more than three per cent. In spite of the fact, however, that there was a State-wide increase of j destitute families during the month of October, this increase was by no means uniform throughout the one j hundredcounties. Many counties show ed a much higher increase than the State average while many others re pcrted a marked decline in the num ber of families unable to support themselves. Hertford county, for in stance, aided 200 families in Septem ber and 412 families in October, an increase of more than 100 percent. Macon county with 64 families in Sep tember reported 139 in October, an increase of 117 percent. Wilkes coun ty, also, during October more than doubled ots September case load. In contrast to the outstanding in 178 Men To Receive Employment In County COUNTRY CAN PAY MOUNTING DEBTS DECLARES TUGWELL The Country Can Pay Them, Declares Professor Raymond Tugwell. NewYork, Nov. 17—how is the ad ministration planning to pay the ter rific debt which is being incurred ror the recovery program? Prof. Rexford G. Tugwell, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, answers this question today in a statement published in the American Magazine A $10,000,000,000 recovery debt can easily be repaid in three years, he says- -if the program works. With a per cent revival in busi ness, Professor Tugwell figures that the Federal income should reach five billions a year. “Assume," he says, "that our revenues in the first year of recovery were four billions, in the second year six billions, and in the third year eight billions. Assume also that ordinary expenses continue at about two and a half billions. In the first year, then, we should pay off one and a half billions, in the second year three and a half billions, and in the third year five and a half billions. The recovery debt would be paind in three years, with half a billion dollars to spare.” He goes into further details as to what results he expects from the National Recovery Act. “The national income for 1928 was 82 billions, and the income tax yield ed 2.2 billions. Let us assume, on the present state of progress, that the recovery measures will bring us back 50 per cent toward the pros perity of 1928—and do this within a year. The national income, then, should increase from 40 billions to 60 billions for 1934, and the income tax yield should rise from 76 mil lions to 1.1 millions. Actually, when our income was 60 billions, in 1931, the income tax yielded 1.9 billions. We ought to be able to count on this much, and it is a substantial answer to those who profess so many fears at present. “In addition, immense revenue is expected from liquors, with the re peal of the Eighteenth Amendment, and from increased customs duties as international trade revives. It would not be extravagant to expect that, with a 50 per cent revival, our total revenues might be five billions for the year. “Figures like these are conjectural. No one can predict the percentage of recovery to be expected during any given period. But, assuming that the program produces substantial results, such an outcome is not at all fan tastic. Our national income fell from 82 to 60 billions in two years, and to 40 billions in three years. The fact that it was once as high as 82 billions means that we have the resources, the factories, and the man power to produce that much. We have capacities we are not using. These are not lost. All we need is the courage and the intelligence to put them to work. And if we fell off 40 bilions in three years perhaps we can get back in the same time. “The recovery plan is one v/ay to get back to prosperity. If it costs 10 billions over three years to set us on a basis of 80 instead of 40 bil lions of income a year, our effort will have cost us comparatively little. We shall have spent an average of 3.3 billions a year to gain 40. If you think about the country instead of any individual sacrifice which may be involved, this is worth working for heart and soul. “It is a national effort. Govern ment cannot do it alone. No few industrialists can help enough. The whole country has to go along. If it does, we shall get back to the 80 billion days in short order. And we shall pay the costs without particular pain to any one." creases, we have Jackson county will; 126 families in destitute circumstan ces in September, reduced the number t.o64, or less than half, during Octo ber. Sampson county, with 434 in Sep tember, had only 194 in October, a. reduction of 55 percent. Jones county supported 310 families from public re lief funds in Septmeber, but reduced the number to 157, the October load being only 51 percent of that for September. A study of the figures reveals the fact that the counties with outstand ing increases or decreases in families on ivlief from September to October, are by no means confined to any par ticularseeti on of the State, but to the contrary, they may be found >n ti e east, in the west, or in the Piedmont section. The total number of families aided in Alleghany during October were 221 as compared with 179 in September.. Subscribe for The Alleghany Times now—and get the home news of your county. Only $1.00 Per Year! Seven Work Projects Sent To Raleigh For State Approval With 14,000 unemployed, who have been on the relief rols at 30 cents an houlr and ess, automatically trans> ferred Monday to the rolls of the Civil Works Administration at wages rang ing from 45 cents to $1.10 an hour, theNorth Carolina agency of admin istration, which is headed by Mrs. Thomas O’Berry, State relief director, Monday began functioning at high speed in order to place a total of 08, 000 North Carolinians at work early in December. Claunde Miles, director of relief for Alleghany, and Sidney Gambill at tended a State meeting of relief di rectors in Raleigh Saturday and re ported to the county relief committee Saturday night the urgency for get ting county work projects to Raleigh by Monday. A total of seven projects for the county were submitted, and it is expected that these projects will be' approved and work on them started the latter part of this week. These projects are as follows: 1.—To beautify thet court house grounds by setting out shrubbery, ragding and leveling, and sowing grass. This project will give em ployment to 20 men for 5 days. 2— 25 men will be employed ap proximately two weeks on grading and improving the ball ground at Sparta High School. 3— The road from Glade Valley by Luther Gentry’s to the Surry coun ty line will be surfaced with crush ed stone. No grading will be done. This project will employ 75 men approximately six months. 4— 20 men will be employed two weeks in grading, surfacing, mu» improving the road from Highway No. 26 at Ed Hawthorne’s down the New7 River valley to the old Nile post-office. 5— 25 men will be employed a month grading and surfacing the road from Piney Creek High School to the south fork of New River near W. L. Halsey’s. 6— 20 men will be employed a month on the road from Piney Creek to Peden. This road will be graded and surfaced with crushed stone. 7— 20 men will be employed a month grading and surfacing the road from C. T, Edwards’ to Mt. Zion by Henry William’s place, there to connect with the Sparta Jefferson Highway near ScottvUle. Alleghany was allotted 178 men for employment by the Civil 'Works Ad ministration. These men will be re cruited from the county’s unemploy ed. No person who now has a job will be employed on these projects. All able-bodied men on county relief win be transferred to the Civil Works Ad ministration rolls. No moTe aid from the relief office will be forthcoming, according to Dircetor Miles. The hours of labor, wages, etc., on Civil Works projects shall b^ fixed I in accordance with the rules and reg ulations established by the Federal Emergency Relief Administration of Public Works as follows: Thirty hour week, except in execu tive, administrative, and supervisory positions, so far as is practicable. No individuals directly employed on the Civil Works projects shall be per mitted to work more than thirty hours in any one week. There are cer tain exceptions to this regulation. No person under sixteen years of age shall be employed on Civil Works pro jects. The wages to be paid range from 30 cents to $1.10 an hour. On road projects wages will be 30 and 40 cents an hour; recreation parks, etc., 45 cents to $1.10 an hour. Upon receipt of instructions from Mrs. Thomas O’Berry in Raleigh, Lo cal Civil Works Administrator C. A. Miles will notify unemployedpersons and those on relief and request that they come to the office immediately to re-register for the Civil Works program. Mr. Miles stated very emphatically that no person who gets discharged from work on any of the above pro jects need come to the relief office for aid. There will be no aid for such, if they are able-bodied men. All other relief cases will be handled as usual. On November 7 the President of tha United States created the Federal Civil Works Administration and ap pointed Harry L. Hopkins Federal Civil Works Administrator. It is ex pected that four million unemployed persons will be put to work by De cember 15. Marriage Koss Bateman, of Alieghany coun ty, and Ethel Wyatt, of Wilkes coun i ty, were united in marriage at Sparta last Saturday afternoon. F. N. Roup. . Justice of the Feace, officiated at the ceremony.