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CIVIC, DEVOTED TO THE 1 np • ghany iim ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DF~' GALAX, VA. ( Published for SjiMta, N. C.) THURSDAY, JANUaj ns REPEAT 1834 TACTICS Those who watch political de velopments will recollect that af tre the congressional elections of 1934, there was something of a move on the part of business leaders to “get together” with the President Inspired stories in va rious newspapers played up every thing which the authors could And to indicate that the President had changed his mind and was drop ping some of his aims. In less than six months, however, the play was off and the chorus of big business chanted in unison in an effort to discredit and over throw the Chief Executive. It is interesting to note inac the same sequence of events is now underway. Some of his bit ter critics now find that the President is no longer radical and that he has moved to the "right.” They call attention to his good humored remarks, to his suave mdrner, to recognition of the separate domain of the legislative and the executive and And a bit of comfort in his reference to re tiring after his present term. PRESIDENT STANDS FIRM What is behind this? The an swer is, nothing. In less than six months,’ the anvil chorus will be in full swing again because the plain truth is that the President has not sacrificed his aims or policies. In fact, it is hardly sen-< sible to believe that he will aban don the course which established his first term record and won such an overwhelming endorse ment at the polls. Since the election the President has expressed himself with feel ing on the shbject of wages and hours of labor, condemning cer tain practices and warning busi ness that they must be ended if the unemployed are to be ab sorbed. He has urged the gover nors of a number of states to have the Child Labor amendment to the Constitution ratified because, in his view, it is vital to end the sweating of minors. He has sug gested Federal-controlled slum clearance and low-cost housing, called for a remedy for the condi tions under which tenant farmers and share-croppers exist, and In sisted that NRA problems, unfair eseapttition, sweated labor and wage cuts be legislated against. Moreover dispassionately but [with considerable emphasis, he 'has laid before the Supreme Court the imperative demand for the judiciary to do its part to enable Democratic government in this country to function, and hinted that, unless the judiciary gets into line, something would have to be done about it. He has reiterated the obligation of the Government toward the unemployed, stressed the value of social security legis lati' n. demanded modernization of jthe executive branch of the Gov ernment in order to function as the fiamers of the Constitution intended it to do. This recital does not indicate much, if any, shift or the part of the President. in fact, in his inaugural ad trffe the President, while couch ing his intentions in terms of a general objective, served abundant notice upon all concerned that he does not consider his task ended. There can be no mistaking his reference to the necessity for gov ernment to function in the battle against modern conditions, to the ne#d for governmental assistance to the citizens of the democracy and the imperative demand that conditions for one-third of the people of this country be improv ed. Details may he lacking but the general intent io clear and it is ip up wise a compromise with Refusal Of Sloan To Discuss Strike Hit By Roosevelt Head Of General Motors ■ Refuses To Make Trip To Capital At Request Of Secretary Perkins DISAPPOINTS PRESIDENT Says He Regards Decision As A Very Unfortunate One On Mr. Sloan’s Part. Lewis Accepts Invitation Washington, Jan. 26.—Secre tary of Labor Perkins was joined today by President Roosevelt in reprimanding the General Motors corpcgtation for refusing to accept Miss Perkins’ invitation to a strike peace conference. Mr. Roosevelt said at his press conference be had told “every body" today he “was not only disappointed in the refusal of Mr. Sloan to come down' here but I regarded it as a very unfortun ate decision on his part." Previously Miss Perkins told reporters General Motors “has failed in its public duty,” had made a “great mistake,” and had disregarded the “moral challenge" resulting from the strike. Miss Perkins had asked Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., General Motors president, and John L. Lewis, strike generalissimo, to meet her here tomorrow and try to work out an approach to peace negoti ations. Sloan refused to come, saying he could not see his way clear to negotiate while the striking United Automobile Workers still were in possession of General Motor plants. Lewis accepted at noon today, “without condition or prejudice," although he was known to feel the negotiations themselves rather than a discussion of the method of approaching them would be started in the labor secretary’s office. Between the time Miss Per kins talked to reporters and the hour of the President’s press con ference, Mr. Roosevelt talked about the strike with Lewis and other members of the Committee for Industrial Organization. Mrs. Bettie Doughton Dies Mon. Morning; Was Very Prominent Mrs. Bettie Reeves Doughton. wife of Frank Doughton, passed away at her home at Laurel Springs on Monday morning, January 26, after an illness of several days with pneumonia. The deceased was a daughter of the late Emmett Reeves and Mrs. Reeves, of Rich Valley, Vir ginia, and was of a prominent Virginia family. Among her con nections are an uncle. Press Reeves, of Independence, Va.. and a niece, Mrs. Frank Hackler, of Wilmington. Surviving are the husband; two stepdaughters, Misses Iva Grace Doughton and Bernice Doughton, and six sisters, Mrs. Marvin Doughton, Sparta, Mrs. Alex Kirk, Independence, Va., Mrs. Mahala Richardson, Marion, Va., Mrs. Byrd Thomas, of Smyth County, Virginia, Mrs. Tom P*es ton, Abingdon, Va., and Mrs. Hattie Hale, of Tennessee. . The funeral was held yester day (Wednesday) at 11 o'clock, at the Rich Valley Methodist church, of which Mrs. Doughton was,.a member. The services were conducted by the pestor, assisted by Rev. H. G. Ford, pas tor of the Sparta Baptist church. Mrs. Doughton was highly re spected among a large circle of friends and acquaintances and her death was an occasion of sorrow to many people in her community S w ^ which the deceased was held. If ■§§§1 RESIDENTS OF CO. WIN FARM AWARDS IN PA. Among persons who received first award for exhibits at the Exhibit just closed Pa., were several and Ashe . Hollywood premiere Held Last Week At Spartan Theatre In the Hollywood premiere held at the Spartan theatre on Wed nesday and Thursday nights of last week, in which the populari ty of each contestant was judged by- public voting, Miss Moselle Blevins, as Mae West won the three-months pass to tie theatre. Miss Ella Edwards, imitating Ina Ray Hutton, recevied the two-montbs pass to the theatre, while Gene Irwin and Howard Honaker, as Laurel and Hardy, won the one-month pass to the theatre. In the Shirley Temple contest, Betty Lou Scaggs won the Shir ley Temple dress that was award ed the winner by Belk’s Depart ment store. Roosevelt Ball In Galax To Be Elaborate Affair Arrangements Rapidly Going Forward For 4th Annual Rail To Be Held riday Night Elaborate preparations are rapidly going forward for the fourth annual birthday ball for President lfoosevelt to be held in Galax, which is to take place tomorrow {Friday), January 29, in Firemen-Legion hall. This event will be held on the eve of the president's 55th birthday anniver sary, which falls on Saturday, January 30. John Peddioord’s orchestra, of Winston-Salem, will f u r - nish music for the affair and a large attendance from practically all sections of Grayson and Car roll counties and portions of Al leghany county, and elsewhere, is expected. The affair which is looked for ward to for months preceding the time each year, and which is held for the benefit of the fight against infantile paralysis, from which the president himself was once a sufferer, is expected to be a really outstanding event. * The ball is sponsored ‘Jointly by the Galax Association of Com merce and Galax Rotary club. Floyd Williams is chairman of the committee on arrangements and is actively in charge of preparations for the event. Alleghany School Attendance Data Is Made Piridic According to a report of the State School Commission of North Carolina, the average daily enroll ment of white children in the high schools of Alleghany county for the scholastic year 1985-86 was 316, and elementary 1,434, making a total of 1,760. For colored children, the number is 85. There is no high school for Negroes in the county. For the same year, the average jiaily attendance of white children in the high schools was 801, and elementary 1,*18, making a total of 1,519. Colored attendance averaged 69. The state allotment of white teachers for Alleghany county for the year 1986-1986 was as fol lows- High school, 11; elemen tary,' 44, with a total of 55, f°ur colored, making a total of 59 teachers for the county. The total expenditures for Al leghany county’s schools for the icholastic year 1986-1986 are as follows: State fnnds, $47,888.80; local funds, $8,116.10, and total rtS wd tot# funds, $51,004.40. ikdware and implement *. REORGANIZED here The Farmers Hardware and Plement Company, Inc., was ■ l at a meeting held re The following lected: C. C, i River Levees Are Threatened By Rushing Flood UVateis 01 The Ohio Supreme Effort Being Made To Strengthen Mighty Levee System. High Crests Feared FLOOD DAMAGE PLACED AT $3000,000,000.00 Admiral Grayson Says Red Cross And Nation Faces Greatest Crisis Since World War In a supreme effort to strength en the already-strained levees of the mighty Mississippi river — gravely threatened by the history making flood onjthe Ohio river— a great, quiet * fight was being waged Tuesday night as the out look in the hard-hit Ohio valley brightened. Altogether |he floods—reaching from the upp«t Ohio to the deep south—had taken more than 130 lives; made an estimated 750,000 homeless; caused property dam age placed afe»*more than $300, 000,000. f: It was, aaid Admiral Cary T. Grayson, national chairman of the Red Cross, “the greatest emer gency the nation and the Red Cross have faced since the World war.” Along the - Mississippi, where a district engineer for the United States army at Memphis had pre dicted the wfffet flood of all time, men were ordered to build a solid sandbag-backed wall of planks stretching 300 miles or more from New Madrid, M<$, down to Lou isiana. At the New Orleans tip of the great river, W. P. McDonald, of the United States weather bureau, said the oncoming waters were expected to send the Mississippi at that city to 21 feet—four feet above flood stage—or as high as in the great flbod of 1927. And this estimate, he said, was based on “norqjal rainfalls here after and levefl. knee maintained intact." . ? A 65-foot stage for Memphis, some 10 feet above the 1927 high, had been predicted by en gineers. Between Cairo, HI., and Memphis the levees range in height from five to 10 feet above the 1927 flood stages. Other official forecasts were for a 57-foot crest at Natchez, Miss., 11 feet above flood stage, and for 46-5 at Baton Rouge, La., where flood stage is 36 feet. Louisville, where Ohio river flood water covered 30 square miles, was without lights or trans portation and faced a water shortage. Cincinnati was a vast lake except for its seven hills, its power curtailed and its in dustry paralyzed. Evansville, Ind., and Ports mouth, O., were being evacuat ed. Trains and busses moved northward through southern In diana with refugees. In some sections of Paducah, Ky., water stood six feet deep. - Meanwhile Mississippi levees as far south as Arkansas were re ported in danger. One near Hel ena, Ark., said an engineer, “might go out within 24 to 36 hours.” Army engineers received orders to drop rescue work at midnight to give their whole energies to the vast task of trying to save the great levee line. Other levee breaks were threat ened at Charleston and New Ma drid, Mo., and near Tiptonville, Tenn. In three Southern states—Ten nessee, Arkansas and Mississippi —and in the border state of Mis souri, more than 2,000,000 acres, or some 3,000 square miles, were under water, but no large cities were inundated. Memphis was prepared to care for 60,000 ref ugees. Louisville, Ky., Jan. 26.—Old man river swept deeper through Louisville’s doors tonight, then paused as a determined city, with all the help the outside world could rush to her assistance, fought back green-brown walls of water, hunger and cold, home lessness and terrifying fear. For four successive hours, the opulent Ohio, like a great octo pus pausing for breath, rested at the amazing flood level of 56.9 feet, double the ordinary flood conditions, or 10 feet higher than the previous record flood of 1884. And so there came tonight to the Deirby city, lazy, lovely metro polis of the blue grass country, the hope that perhaps the swollen river might start back toward her normal course after biting away almost one-third of the city’s area and inflicting damage of at least $100,000,000. Cincinnati, Jan. 26.—A water famine gripped this 'flooded city tonight flinging new problems at harassed officials anxiously safe guarding the health of a partial ly homeless population. The arrogant Ohio was master of a fifth of the city, eddying between buildings and whipping at walls ordinarily a mile and even more from its banks. Another rise pushing the yellow waters perhaps a foot above their record crest of 80 feet last night was officially predicted. Few were bothered by that, howejver. for by now such was the accustomed thing. Fluctuations In the flood stage tonight, though slight, indicated further rise might not occur. Representative Of PCA Is Visitor In Sparta Recently Mr. Snow, representative of the Winston-Salem Production Credit association, was in Sparta recently. If a sufficient number of people are interested, Mr. Snow nays, a branch office of this association will be established in Sparta. Farmers who need money for raising, harvesting and marketing crops may apply for loans from this production credit association. The association loans on all kinds af crops, including tobacco, cot ton, grain, fruit and truck crops. Production credit associations are cooperative in nature, consist of farmer borrowers, and make short-term loans on a business basis to fanners in every agricul tural county in the country. The Interest rate varies but at pres ent the rate is 6 percent a year. Interest is charged only for the time the money is borrowed. ■_ _ ...... Wayne Warden Is Alleghany Co. 4-H Corn Club Champion By producing 83 bushels of com at a cost of 64 cents per bushel, Wayne Warden, a mem ber of the Alleghany 4-H club, has been declared the county Com Club Champion of Alleghany county for 1986, and because of this will be presented with a gold wrist watch awarded by the dis tributors of Arcadian Nitrate of Soda. Young Warden’s record has been forwarded to State college, Raleigh, where it will be consid ered in connection with similar records from other counties in the Siate fpr district and State honors., ' 1 According to R. E. Black, Al leghany farm agent, who super vised this demonstration, 4-H com club members are doing much to encourage the use of " improved seed com, the use of balanced fertiliser, and practical cultural methods in growing com. DR. DEEDS AND FAMILY SAFE IN FLOPPED CITY Two Boys Taken Into Custody Sun. Night For Stealing Meat At nine o’clock Sunday night, Sheriff Walter M. Irwin was no tified by Mrs. Sherman Moxley, on New River, that five hams had been stolen from her a short time before. Clues were immediately picked up and about five o’clock Mon day morning Woodrow Maines and Doc Maines were arrested at Twin Oaks. The hams were found in the car the boys were travelling in. Loyd Maines, one of the thieves, escaped and is still at large. He recently served an eight months’ term on the road for stealing meat. Construction Work At Laurel Springs School Progresses Project Going Forward Under WPA. More Work Being Done At Sparta High School In spite of the rainy weather that has prevailed for the last month, marked progress has been shown on construction of the Laurel Springs school building, which is being built by the Works Progress Administration, and sponsored by the Alleghany coun ty commissioners. The Project Proposal for this work was approved for $8,251.60 Federal funds and $7,262.70 sponsor’s funds, however, antici pated adjustments have been made so as to complete this builds ing at a cost of approximately $3,000 to the county. Much of the material salvaged from the demolition of the old building is being used in the npw structure. , Twenty-five < men are now em ployed on this project and if fair weather is forthcoming for the next two weeks, the brick work will be completed and the roof on. After completion of these two items of work, weather will be of little consequence as the remainder of the work will be on the inside. The building is expected to be completed by March 1. With the ex ception of finishing hardware, in side doors, and a few other inci dental items, all materials are on hand necessary for the completion of the building. After the build ing was started and the order (Turn to page 8, Please) War Denounced By op McConnell In Winston-Salem Debunking the “glory of war11 and its “moral regeneration’’ a Methodist Episcopal bishop, Fran cis J. McConnell, urged in Win ston-Salem Tuesday night that campaigners for peace combat war with commonsense and a conviction that armed conflict of nations is not inevitable. Addressing a peace movement audience at the First Presbyterian church in the twin city, the min ister former De Pauw university president, denounced war as “mass slaughter,” destroying the mental balance of nations and the moral character of whole peo. His address in Winston-Salem —first in a local drive for peace sentiment—was one of a series being delivered over the nation under auspices of the emergency peace committee. Between 250 and 800 persons heard the New York churchman speak. .. Woman’s Club To Hold Postponed Meeting Friday i The regular Woman’s club, . last Friday January 22, is to* be hold next Friday afternoon, Janu ary 29( at 8.-SO o’clock, in the court house. The women o^parta and Al To Hold Dairy Development Meet Here Next Monday Similar Meeting Is To Take Place Mon. Night At Piney Creek H. Su G®od Attendance Urged BLACK IS \ INTERESTED Carnation Company May Run Milk Routes From Alleghany To When Plant Is Finished A meeting is to be held at the court house in Sparta on Mon day, February lf at 1:30 p. m., for the purpose of discussing the development of the dairy indus try in this section, in view of the fact that one or more milir routes may be operated from Al leghany to the Carnation condens ing plant now under construo tion in Galax. This plant, which is expected to cost approximately $275,000, will probably be ready for oper ation by April 1. If the farmers of Alleghany are ifaterested in furnishing milk for the Galax plant, the Carna tion company expects to operate milk routes from the county. The meeting is to be held at the in stance of R. E. Black, Alleghany county farm agent, in order that the farmers of the county may become better acquainted with what the Carnation company is doing. H. D. Quesenberry, Agricul ture teacher in Piney Creek high school, has also scheduled a sim ilar meeting to be held at Piney Creek high school on Monday night, February 1 at seven o’ clock. _ At both meetings, a reprsenta tive of the Carnation Milk com pany will be present, as well as J. J. Baker, of the Industrial department of the Norfolk and Western railroad. Mr. Black, county agent, urges every farmer in Alleghany coun ty who is interested in market ing whole milk to attend one of these meetings. If there are other sections of the county which would be in terested in having a meeting, Mr. Black would be glad to make ar rangements for such meetings if interested persons would inform him. TIMES Editor Meets Former Teacher Of Co. At Press Meet While in Fredericksburg, Vo., attending the mid-winter meeting of the Virginia Press association last Friday and Saturday, H. B. Zabriskie, editor of the TIMES, met Mrs. John Huff, a former teacher in Alleghany county but now teaching in Fredericksburg State Teachers college. Mrs. Huff will be remembered in Alleghany as a teacher in Glade Valley high school. The Virginia publishers were served a delightful banquet Sat urday night at Fredericksburg State Teachers college. 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