'More Than 4,000 Illiterates Learn To
Read And Write While In CCC Camps
Some 4,839 illiterates who en
tered the Civilian Conservation
Corps camps during, the fiscal
year, were taught to read and
write, it was stated in a com
munication issued to Mr. Robert
Pechner, Director of Emergency
Conservation Work, by Mr. How
ard W. Oxley, Director of CCC
Camp Education for the U. S.
Office of Education.
According to a survey by the
CCC Office of Education, made
with the assistance of the War
Department, there were 7,369
illiterates in the Conservation
Corps during the fiscal year end
ing June 30, 1935. A total of
5,406 were persuaded by the
educational advisers to receive in
struction. Of these, 3,607 were
enrolled in classes, and 1,799
were given individual training.
About four-fifths of the number
who received training achieved
the objective set for them by
their advisers. Over 1,950 re
fused to avail themselves of the
opportunities afforded.
The proportion of illiterates to
the total enrollment was about
2 per cent, but varied in each
corps area. The Ninth Corps
Area, bordering on the west
coast, had the lowest proportion,
with a figure of three-thirds of
1 per cent, Mr. Oxley stated.
The survey showed that 78 per
cent of the illiterates were under
twenty-five years of age; 5 per
cent, between twenty-six and
thirty-five years of age; and 16
per cent, over thirty-five years of
age. Nearly 96 per cent of the
illiterates were American-born,
and about 4 per cent, foreign
born. More than half of them
came from rural communities;
about a third, from small towns;
and the remainder from large
cities.
Continuing, Mr. Oxley said: “In
teaching illiterates, advisers have
employed a variety of techniques.
Individual instruction has been
found to be the most beneficial.
The use of visual aids, such as
motion pictures and newspaper
comics, has proven helpful. Ad
visers seek to begin their learners
with word and phrases common
to daily life. Simple stories and
news-items are read to the men;
then they are taught to read them
or write up the material in their
own way. Later on, the men are
shown how to express their
thoughts in the form of a letter
or a brief account.”
Washington News
For U. S. Farmers
ANIMAL RECORDS
Animal breeding has not kept
pace with plant breeding in de
veloping, cataloging and perpetu
ating superior strains,According to
a survey by the Department of
Agriculture.
This is easy to understand when
one reflects that animals are much
more complex than plants and
that the larger animals reproduce
much more slowly than plants. It
is, therefore, more difficult to
differentiate effects of environ
ment from those of inheritance.
Moreover, there are inherent dif
ficulties in the producing of ani
mals that do not confront the
plant specialists.
However, farmers are urged to
pay attention to the importance
of milk records for dairy cows,
speed records for horses, egg rec
ords for hens and other definite
data in relation to animals on the
farm. In fact, this applies parti
cularly to meat animals where the
SALE OF LAND FOR ASSETS
North Carolina,
Alleghany County.
In The Superior Court
Lula Jonas, Administratrix of
W. H. Billings, deceased,
Plaintiff
vs.
Cleo McMillan and others,
Defendants.
By virtue of a decree of the
Superior Court in special pro
cosidings anti tied “Lula Jones,
Adair, of W. H. Billings, vs. Cleo
McMillan and others’* 1 will offer
for sale on the premises on
SATURDAY, APRIL 18th, 1936
AT 1:00 P. M.
a certain tract of valuable land
formerly belonging to W. H.
Billings and sold to create assets
to pay his indebtedness, which
land is situate on the waters of
Potato Creole, in Piney Creek
Township, bounded by the lands
of Mary Anderson, Carl Parsons,
Lula Jones, C. L. Hash, Lena
Billings, J. M. Mahe and others,
supposed to contain about 240
acrae. The land will bo sold as
a whole or in separate parcels ae
may bo deemed host for the
estate.
Terms of SaW: One-third cash,
one-third on a credit of six
months, and one-third on a credit
of twelva months, purchaser re
quired to give bond and good
security lor deferred payments
and title retained until payment
W TWU^March 18th, 1936.
LULA D. JONES, Adnsr. of
W. a Billings, deceased.
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SPARTA. N. C
methods of detennining quality
and quantity are less definite and
need considerable improvement.
SOME HAWKS DO GOOD
Six of the seventeen most com
mon species of hawks are “good
friends of the farmer,” says the
Bureau of Biological Survey. Ex
amination of the stomach content
of 5,181 sawks show these re
sults:
Sparrow hawks seldom prey up
on birds but grasshoppers form
their chief food. The Swainson’s
and American rough-legged hawk
are almost entirely beneficial. The
red-shouldered, broad-winged and
ferruginous rough-legged hawks
are preponderantly beneficial. The
red-tailed hawk and the golden
eagle are more beneficial than in
jurious. . The marsh hawk and
prairie falcon are about balanced
in harmful and beneficial habits,
as are the bald eagle and osprey.
Pigeon hawks are destructive in
large numbers and goshawks,
sharp-shinned coopers and duck
hawks do more harm than good.*
Concerning the red-tailed or hen
hawk, the Bureau says that prob
ably one of twelve meals consists
of chicken. Otherwise, it is a
good “mouser,” doing more good1
than harm, but unless poultry is
protected, this hawk has to be
controlled.
SOYBEAN IMPORTANCE
A cooperative soybean indus
trial research laboratory has been
inaugurated at Urbanna, Illinois,
through the cooperation of twelve
North Central states and the De
partment of Agriculture. The im
mediate objective are; Improve
ment of industrial uses, the study
ing of various processes on qual
ity and quantity of soybean prod
ucts and testing varieties, for
adaptability to industrial uses.
Possibly through experiments,
breeders will develop varieties
better suited to industrial de
mands.
Soybean acreage rose from 2f
100,000 acres in 1924 to 5,000,
>00 last year and production in
:reased from five million bushels
n 1925 to forty million bushels
ast year. The beans are used
for food, feed and industrial pur
poses and enjoy immunity from
:inchbugs and other pests. Brices
compare favorably with other
grain crops.
The Department of Agriculture
points out that 35 soybean mills
ind a number of cottonseed oil
mills are crushing the beans for
oil and oil meal, twenty concerns
ire manufacturing soybean food
products, fifteen mills are making
soybean flour and fifty factories
■re turning out various soybean
industrial products.
Already the beans are being us.
ed in making paint, enamel, var
nish, glue, printing ink, rubber
substitutes, linoleum, insecticides,
plastics, glycerine, flour, soy
sauce, breakfast food, candies,
livestock feeds, etc. The leading
soybean producing states are: II
See CuUrent Motor Co. for
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Announcement
; . . w i
I hereby announce myself as a candidate for
the office jof Register of Deeds of Alleghany County
subject to the Democratic primary. 1 am unable
to do manual labor and need the office.
The support given me will be appreciated
very much.
This March 12, 1936. £
W. Carlie Evans
mi. ■mi. 11——MW—I .mi... .
linois, Iowa, Indiana, North Caro
lina, Louisiana, Missouri and
Ohio.
INSECT DAMAGE
Thirty-four insect pests cause a
damage of about $900,000,000 an
nually, according to the Bureau of
Entomology and Plant Quarantine
which cites the boll weevil as re
sponsible for a yearly toll of
$164,000,000 and the corn ear
worm, which also attacks cotton
and tomatoes, as guilty of depre
dations oosting $104,000,000.
The world has more than 700,
000 kinds of insects that have
been named and described, with
new ones turning up every year.
In North America, out of 60,000
kinds, there are 6,600 which are
consistently destructive. Alto
gether, Lee A. Strong. Bureau
Chief, estimates the yearly dam
age at not less than $2,000,-000,
000.
Little Pine
Ennice P. O., March 23.—Mrs.
Pearl Boone is very ill.
Miss Helen Bedsaul, who has
been ill is able to attend school
again.
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Edwards
'and children, Jackie and Betty
Lue> spent Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs! Page Wilson.
Miss Zelm,a Greene spent Sun
day with Alphagean Murphy.
Mrs. Bell Hampton, Norfolk, is
visiting relatives in this county.
Omir Bedsaul and family, of
Bel Air, Md., are moving back to
this county.
Several persons engaged in a
horseshoe ^ game Sunday after
noon at tile home of Guy Wilson.
Those present were Ernest Godd,
Roby Tompkins, Cum Evans,
Odell Evans, Odell Daney, Ralph
Green. Ray Andrews, Glenn
Smith, Claude Johnson, Loyd
Bedsaul, Page Wilson, Homer
Wilson, and Glenn Edwards.
Mr. and Mrs. Reece Bedsaul
who have been ill wjth “flu" are
able to be out again.
Jackie, the infant son of Mr.
and Mrs. Andy Wagoner, has
been very ill with a cold.
Carl Wright and Marvin Wil
son, Kistler, W. Va., were visit
ing relatives here during the
week-end.
Hersel Hill has been ill with
“flu.”
Mrs. Lester Greene spent Sat
urday with her daughter, Mrs.
Homer Wilson.
Reece Bedsaul spent Friday
with his aunt, Mrs. Guy Wilson.
Mrs. Allie Franklin visited the
home of Guy Wilson Friday.
Stories
“Only last year in India,”
boomed the club bore, “I sudden
ly found myself face to face
with a man-eating tiger.”
“And only last week,” murmur
ed the quiet little man in the
comer, “in a restaurant, I found
myself face to face with a man
eating fish.”—Answers.
Hollywood Star-Lites
by Chuck Cochard
Hollywood, Calif., Mar. 14.—
Hollywood has a challenge for
the motion picture supremacy of
the world—that being London. At
least England is making a vain
attempt bo take the title from
Anierica by luring Hollywood
players, writers and producers
with unheard sums of money.
Recently, Marlene Dietrich was
offered 50,000 pounds ($250,000)
per picture, and Marion Davies
was told to name her. own price
if she would make her pictures^
across the ocean.
The “latest rage” in Hollywood
is to travel to London once a
year to .make a picture or two.
Most every prominent player has
a clause in his contract which
permits him to make a film in
England. To most stars this is
just like having a vacation.
Hollywood’s most beloved pro
ducer, Louis B. Mayer, has been
offered one million dollars a year
to head a merger of English com
panies and show England how to
supply the world market from
London.
Outside of once being'a Royal
subject Mr. Mayer has only one
other reason for leaving the Unit
ed States, that being the tremen
dously high federal and state
taxes which takes more than 80
per cent of his earnings. How
ever, he thinks his place is in
the United States where he has
been earning his living.
All the ballyhoo about Eng
land taking the crown away from
America is just plain bunk as
far as your correspondent is con
cerned. London will never be
the center unless all the brains
in Hollywood go there to' make
the pictures for them.
XXX
STAR-LITES: Leslie Howard,
who plans to head his own film
company after finishing his role
in “Romeo and Juliet” and ap
pearing on Broadway in “Ham
let,” will produce his first pic
ture, entitled “Bonnie Prince
Charlie,” in Scotland. . . War
ren Williams, who has been va
cationing since he completed “The
Gentleman Prom Big Bend” will
return bo his studio to commence
work in “The Case of the Velvet
Claw,” another novel by Erie
Stanley Gardiner dealing with the
crime solving exploits of Perry
Mason, . . . Joan Crawford will
star in “Parnell’* which will be
her first costume picture. It’s
the story of a girt, Katie O’Shea
(played by Joan) who’s in love
with Charles Stewart Parnell,
great leader in the struggle for
Irish home rule.
IN SPRING A MAN’S FANCY
TURNS TO:
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., recently
left Hollywood for New York
where it is reported there is a
Manhattan society girl whose
name he would not reveal. How
tjxmA
loo know yon can’t chop down a
pole If yon are going to chop at
random, hltttn’ wherever yon hap
pen to strike. You gotta direct yonr
shots to the same spot and the pole
will fall easily, and where yon want
It The same holds good with every
thing yon do. Remember, aim at
the mark, especially in advertising.
In that case the mark is the peo
ple yho live In the town and always
want to know what their merchants
have to offer.
ever yours truly finds it to be a
Miss Whitig. While in Hollywood
he kept the phone busy continu
ously. Instead of flying which
was his original plans, he took
the train so nothing might delay
the trip.
This was young Doug’s first
visit to Hollywood after an ab
sence of more lhan two years.
Today he is one of England’s
foremost producers. He intends
to make three films this year of
which one will be here. He will
line up Hollywood talent for all
three.
XXX
15-Second Biography: Victor
McLaglen, the winner of the 1935
Motion Picture Academy award
for the best performance in “The
Informer,” was born December
10 in a suburb of London (date
of birth not revealed), but was
taken to South Africa by his par
ents when he was seven years
old ... his father was an Epis
copal bishop. . . McLaglen saw
service in various British colonies
in South, Western and East
Africa and when the 1914 catas
trophe occurred he enlisted at the
outbreak of the war . . . his
ambitions then turned to boxing
. . . after a long string of vic
tories McLaglen finally was given
a match with Jack Johnson, then
champion of the world, in Van
couver, British Columbia . . .
after the war he got his first
film part in “The Call of the
Road” . . . later came “What
Price Glory” which made him
famous over-night . . . McLaglen
is six feet three inches tall and
weighs 210 pounds.
XXX
DO YOU KNOW: That Roch
elle Hudson is an accomplished
pianist, composer, poet, singer
and painter? She was a child
prodigy, and was able to read
Obituary
HIRAM P. EDWARDS
Hiram P. Edwards, familiarly
called "Bud” was born Septem
ber 7, 1864, and departed this
life March 7, 1986, age 71 years
and six months. He was mar
ried to Adeline Baitley. To this
union were born three daughters,
all living. These are Tamsy,
Martha and Mary. His first
wife died when the girls were
small. He was married to Miss
Qoskie Osborne February 1,
1899. They lived happily to
gether for a little more than 87
years.
"Uncle Bud’* professed a hope
in Christ many years ago but
never united with any church.
He lived an honest upright life
and was a hard-working man
and had plenty to live on com
fortably in this life.
He had special care- and all
was done for him that could be
done, but when the Lord says
“Come to me,” friends and loved
ones have to stand back and say
“Lord, thy will be done.’’
He gently passed to the great
beyond with a smile, leaving evi
dence that he was nearing the
rest that waiteth for the people
of God.
Written by Elder Willie Hamm.
when she was only three years
of age.
INSIDE GOSSIP: Last week’s
famous up'-and-ooming male ac
tor was Robert Taylor and his
new heart interest is reported to
be Barbara Stanwyck while only
a few weeks ago he was being
seen with Janet Gaynor, the girl
he was playing opposite in his
latest, “Small Town Girl.”
WHAT sensational singer, who
made his picture debut with three
famous comedians, is just that
way about a new starlet? That’s
all for today. Waith till next
time.
WHEN CORN IS NOT CORN
Sounds like a trick riddle but
there is a legitimate, answer that
justifies the question. True
enough it would be surprising in
1936 to order com in a restaur
ant and have the waiter serve up
some wheat or oats or even rye
as the fancy took him. And yet
if “com” meant today what it
did in ancient Rome, that might
easily happen.
The word has a much wider
range of meaning in antiquity
when “com” was used much as
we use “cereal” now. How
well the American breakfaster
knows which one of many cereals
he must definitely specify!
To us, “com” indicates one
thing only, the Indian maixe na
tive to this country. But even
today in Scotland, “com” means
oats. A field of rye is referred
to a* * "cornfield”
'an ear of corn."
All of Which seems
that Corn is still a very
term. As the word
came from "kernel" whicl
any edible grain, it is
cule to see why com i
a variety of grains depenc
on the date or place
ring to it.
This difference in mean
lows through several Blbli
sages of the Old Testamei
asked to go into the field
er ears of com during
of the barley harvest,
the wheat harvest
that Samson burned
com of the Philistines
firebrands to the tails o
and then sending then3?
the grain.
And in the New Testan
cording to some translate
Master said, "Unless a
wheat falling into the grot
itself remaineth alone."
So wherever and s
“com” has meant kernel,
our word “cereal,” the an
found to the absurb s
question, “When is co
eom?”
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rvest. 1
it Id 9
id the J
tines o
SALE OF LAND
UNDER DEED OF Tlj
North Carolina,
Alleghany County. A
rm
By virtue of a Deed
executed by J. A. Gamh
wifo Mattie Gambit! to the
signed as Trustee to sea
the Bank of Sparta paM
$5,362.20 due by seven
aggregating said sum and
fault of payment and at
mand of the Bank of S
will offer for sale at du
House door in Sparta on I
April 13, 1936, at 12
M., for cash to the highest
the following described lai
First Tract: A certah
situate in said county Jj
New River, adjoining the f
W. F. Cox, Wiley Taylor
Crouse, Gwynn Boyer and
said to contain about 175
Second Tract: Consisting
acres deeded by W. S. I
and wife to J. A. Gambil
described ' in _ the bounaari
tained in Book N, Page
the office of Register of
of said County.
The Deed of Trust unde:
this sale is mada is recot
Book 16, Page 121, of th
Of the Register of Deeds
county.
This March 10th, 1936.
D. C. DUNC
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