Sparta High School Newt
Honor Roil For Fifth Meath
. Grade 1-1: Bobby Black,
■ George Bryan Collins, Bill Hash,
Lia Vagiio,y Malcolm Gambffl,
Duane Kilby, Howard Naylor,
Rowena Oelp, Wanita - Higgins,
Bonnie Sue McMillan, Opal Nich:
ols, Reva Mae Rector and Bottle
Lon Skaggs. \. :
Grade 1-B: Banc Fortner, Junior
Hudson, J. C. Mabe, Clinton Mox
ley, Andrew McKnight, . *V era
Wood and Dale McGrady.
Grade 2: J. M. Bennett, Jim
mie Davis, James Douglas, Nel
son Clyde Gibson, Glen Good
man, Billy Reeves, George Hoe,
Clive Pardue, Doris Collins, Naomi
Douglas, Imogens Gunter, Joan
Hash, Sue McGrady, Evelyn Mit
chell, Ennice Maine?, Martha Nor
man and Rosa Lee Pruitt.
Grade 3: Rosamond Doughton,
Ellen Hardin, Wynnogene Shaw,
Maybelline Richardson, Annie
Smith, Mattie Lee Sanders, Dodge
Sexton, James Poole, Dean Ed
wards Wade Irwin, Harold Irwin
and George R. Crouse, Jr.
Grade 4: Wanda Blevins, Patsy
Roy Burgiss, Peggy Cook, Eva
Edwards, Kathleen Harris, Irene
Hendrix Lorrene Hendrix, Ramah
Leah Jornes, Nada Landreth, Alma
McCoin, Lucille Mitchell, Jean
Montgomery, Ruth Smith, Ruth
Murray, Irene Richardson, Vivian
Reeves, Fay Richardson, Don Vag
lio, Cebert Jarvis, Thomas Zack
' Osborne, Brice Richardson, Bill
Woodruff and Raymond Woodruff.
Grade 6: Glenna Duncan, Ruth
Evans, Anna Rose Reeves, Donna
Lou Rutherford, Billy Carrol
Choate, Bobby McMillan, Gene
Blevins, M. A.- Goodman and John
Higgins.
Grade 6: Virginia Gentry,
Blanche Hendrix, Kathryn McMil
lan Ethel Poole, Iris Poole, Doris
Riciiardson, Euna Lee Richardson,
Pika Rizoti, Lois Smith, Virginia
Smith and Bill Alex Gibson.
Grade 7: Mildred Bennett,
Wanda Choate, Emogene Choate,
Mary Lucy Gunter, Georgene Mit
chell, Margaret Sexton, Elsie
Wagoner, Mildred Wagoner, Doris
Wagoner and Arza Richardson.
Grade 8: Ruby Atwood, Texie
Hoppers, Lois Reeves and Guy
McCann.
Grade 9: Jessie Lois Jones,
Louis Irwin, Mary Warren, James
Dalhouse, Patyrae Reeves,, Dor
othy Ruth Richardson, Beaulah
Estep, Frances Wrench and
Emoryetta Reeves.
Grade 10: Virginia Joines, Imo
gene Franklin, Alma York, Min
nie Richardson 'and Claude An
drews.
Grade 11: Ethel McCann, Cleo
Jones, Mabel Higgins, Minnie Ed
wards and Wilma Wilson.
Sparta Basketball Girls
Play Pinejr Creak Here
Tuesday night, the Sparta bas
ketball girls tied up with the
Piney Creek girls in a clean and
exciting game. The Sparta girls
started off in the lead. At the
end of the first half the score
was 9 to 5 in their favor.
Ruth McMillan, making 10 of
See Castevans Motor Co., for
radio batteries and tubes. tfc.
SALE OF LAND UNDER
EXECUTION
By virtue of .an execution in
my hand* for collection in favor
of The Bank of Sparta, now to
tha um of Mra. R. B. McMillan,
Truatee( against Charles W. Cox
and J. E. Miller, issued from the
office of the Clerk of the Supe
rior Court <upon a judgment tak
en and duly docketed on Febru
ary 27, 1934, for the sum of
Two Hundred Two and 31-100
Dollars ($202.31), and cost
$3.50, I will offer for sale on
Monday, March 1, 1937, at pub
lic auction to the highest bidder,
at the Court House door in Spar
ta, to satisfy said execution the
interest of the said Charles W.
Cox in a certain tract of land,
situate on the waters of Prathers
Creek adjoining the lands of The
Federal Land Bank and others,
containing 1H acres, mane or
less, being the land conveyed by
W. H. Williams and wife to
Charles W. Cox on July 17, 1907,
which (deed is »soon-dad in the of
fice of the Ratgieter of Deeds of
Alleghany County, in Book W,
Pago 52.
This January 11, 1937.
WALTER J*. IRWIN,
Sheriff of Alleghany County.
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FARM FOR SALE
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A food J house end 56
acres of lend for $780.
Bern, corn crib, spring,
epple trees, garden, free
ing, running water, fences
and wood.
C. W. Ervin,
Glade Valley, N. C.
the 14 points, was the outstand
ing player of the evening. At
the end of the second half, the
score was 14-14. A game will
be arranged later to {day off the
The boys' basketball team of
Sparta high school took the sec
ond consecutive Victory from
Ptney Creek by the score of 28
12, on Tuesday night of this
week- -• •
During the first half of the
game, Sparta’s basketeers com
pletely dominated the play. They
were leading 17-4 at the end of
the first half.
For the winners Roy all, of
Sparta, played a bang-up game.
He scored 19 of the winning
team’s points. Absher, guard, of
Sparta, turned in a fine perform
ance. For the losers, Miles, for
ward, played best. Much credit
goes to the losers for the fine
sportsmanship and good playing
exhibited.
Wolf Branch School
Has Several Pupils
On Jan. Honor Roll
Students of Wolf Branch school
who were on the honor roll for
the month of January follow:
Sixth Grade: Gene Atwood,
Pawnee Brooks, Katherine An
drews, Junior Harliss and uth
Crouse.
Fifth Grade: Mack Andrews.
Fourth Grade: Wilma Crouse,
Romaine- McBride, Elsie Watson,
Loraine Brooks and Odis Adams.
Third Grade: Amos Richardson,
Ernest Andrews, Mattie Reid Ir
win Junior D. Watson, Dale
Holfoway. Helen Watson and Nova
McBride.
Second Grade: Reeves Brooks,
Charles Alvin Brooks, Lacy
Brooks, Page Wagoner and Betty
Andrews.
First Grade: Lorene Holloway,
Ruth Brooks, Pauline Holcomb,
Norma McBride, Doris Watson,
Virginia Brooks, Edwin Brooks
and Marie Brooks.
40,000 Chevrolet
Workers Return To
Jobs In Detroit
Detroit, Mich., Jan. 30.—In
announcing the resumption of
part-time operations in Chevrolet
plants not involved in the strike
in Detroit, Flint, Saginaw, Bay
City, Indianapolis and Muncie,
M. E. Coyle, general manager of
the Chevrolet Division, emphasiz
ed that the program is being un
dertaken to furnish some employ
ment to 40,000 of its workers and
thus keep them off relief. The
company hopes to provide a mini
mum of two days employment per
week for these 40,000 workers,
he added.
“Due to the shortage of bodies,
the majority of our assembly
plants will of course be idle,”
said Mr. Coyle. “This means
that, instead of flowing through
the plants in accordance with the
normal routine, the parts manu
factured under this part-time op
eration plan must be stored until
assembly is resumed.
“We hope to operate the manu
facturing plants a minimum of
two days a week. In those de
partments where it is possible to
do so, additional days will be add
ed to’the schedule. Considerations
of expense and inconvenience will
be secondary to the one main is
sue, which is to relieve the pres
ent situation by providing as
many hours of work to as many
employees as we possibly can.”
Sailor—Say, cook, there’s some
thing wrong with these hot dogs.
Cook—Well, don’t tell it bo me,
I’m only the cook, not a veterin
arian. ,
So Very Hard
Customer—Give me some of
that prepared monQaceticacidester
of salicylicacid.
Druggist — Do you mean as
pirin?
Customer—Yeh! I never can
think of that name.
“Does your pastor sometimes
make the mistake of talking too
long?” asked one parishioner of
another.
And the other said: “Does he!
Yesterday at breakfast he talked
after his wife had told him to
quit!”
Reine-Sturdivant
Funeral Home
Licensed Embalmers
Ambulance Service
Day or Night
Phone 85
Sparta, North Carolina
Maple Shade
Mouth of Wilson, Va., P. 0.,
Feb. 1.—Rev. A. B. Bruton filled
his regular appointment at the
Potato Creek church.
Payne Gentry, Galax visited
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Phipps Sat
urday.
Victor Phippe was a business
visitor in Sparta today (Monday).
Misses Ethel Ward and Zenna
Virginia Osborne visited Mrs. Loy
Phipps, Independence, recently.
Mrs. Eugene Phipps and daugh
ter, Ailene, and Victor Phipps
were business visitors in Winston
Salem, N. C., Thursday.
Mrs. E. P. Osborne and Hoyt
Cox were business visitors in
Elkin, N, C., Thursday.
IN WASHINGTON
(continued from page 3)
to realize how much they are pay
ng. Only a comparatively few peo
ple would be able to sit down and
figure their total tax bill on the
basis of direct and hidden taxes
paid for all forms of government,
[f a great number did this, the
wave of public resentment would
bring quickly a new era of lower
taxes, economy in government and
the end of needless expenditures.
On the basis of estimates of
Federal tax revenue for the fiscal
year 1937, every man, woman and
:hild will pay an average of
145.00 in Federal taxes. In 1931,
drey paid an average of only
ibout twenty dollars. Per capita
figures on state, county and local
taxes are incomplete, but it is
indicated that with Federal taxes,
the total is in the vicinity of
5100. For a family of five, this
means a total tax bill of $500.
Obviously, this tax burden is too
?reat and it is carried because our
people do not realize its weight
on the family budget.
Of course, there are times when
taxes cannot be immediately re
luced without the curtailment of
widespread governmental activi
ties. We are passing through
such times at present. However,
it is not too early to plan for
normal conditions. Conferences
of Federal and state tax experts
with the view to drawing the
lines for sources of taxation, to
the end that one unit of govern
ment will not invade the tax
field of another, are sorely need
ed.
The basis for such conferences
is already at hand. Four years
ago a subcommittee of the
House Ways and Means Com
mittee, headed by the able Repre
sentative Fred M- Vinson, of
Kentucky, made an exhaustive in
quiry into the subject of double
taxation. Its factual preliminary
report offers a startling indict
ment of existing conditions.
In its review of the atuation,
the Vinson subcommittee offered
the following questions which, in
its opinion, should be discussed
and solved:
"First, which taxes are most
adaptable for the use of the Fed
eral government and which are
most adaptable for the use of
the state government?
“Second, what taxes may be
properly imposed by both State
and Federal governments without
serious objection from the stand
point of equity?
“Third, what means should be
adopted to set forth a model tax
system for the whole country.
"Fourth, what means can be
adopted to bring into practical
operation a model system of tax
ation.”
There is reason to believe that
farmers and workers in many
sections are bearing the brunt of
the existing multiplicity of tax
levies. Certainly important ques
tions are presented. Have high
taxes on certain commodities—
tobacco is a case in point—had
the effect of reducing the price
the farmers receive for their
products? Have these taxes been
a factor in the widespread re
placement of workers by machines
due to the narrow margins of
profit and intense business com
petition? Is the Federal govern
ment endeavoring to aid farmers,
business men, workers and unem
ployed on the one hand and re
tarding the effort on the other
by high taxes? These questions
and others certainly deserve at
least serious question on the part
of our tax authorities and econo
mists. Now is the proper time
for such consideration, so that
when eoonomic recovery is com
plete, add conditions are normal,
them can be a readjustment of
the'tax situation.
In 1981 our people paid a total
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Cherry Lane School
Pupils On Honor
Roll For January ■
Pupils of Cherry Lane school
who were eligible for the January
Honor Ron follow:
First 6rade; Billy Brooks,
Wayne Brooks, George Gentry,
John Robert Pierce, David War
den, Lloyd Warden and Opal
Spicer.
Second Grade: Harjel Brooks,
Carl Gentry, Gilbert Testerman,
Annie Lee, Crouse and Dorothy
Spicer.
Third Grade: Johnsie Spicer,
Helen Brooks and Mattie Reid
Crouse.
Fourth Grade: Kyle Gentry and
Buford Spicer.
Sixth Grade: Eva Jean Gentry.
Mt. Zion
Piney Creek P. O., Feb. 1—
Rev. Roscoe Billings and family,
of Piney Creek, were in this com
munity Saturday. They have
purchased the farm known as the
Isom CO* place and expect to
rngve onto it soon.
Mrs. Alpha Williams, of Filer,
Idaho, is still ill.
Wayne Osborne spent a recent
night with Ben Van Dyke, at
Peden.
Edna Black visited Logene
Pugh last week.
A number of people of this
community are working on the
telephone line. They have a new
line from W. F. Pugh’s to the
S. O. Edwards place.
Claude J. Smith, of Southport,
is spending a few days with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. E.
Smith.
Ethel Pugh visited Mrs. Roy
Co* and Mrs. T. E. Pugh Friday.
Those visiting Mrs. Rebecca
Smith last week were Mr. and ‘
Mrs. George F. Smith, Mr. andj
Mrs. H. Clay Smith and children,
Edna Rae and Howard, and Mrs.
W. R. Jones.
Whitehead
Whitehead, Feb. 1.—Mrs. Mack
Wagoner has gone to visit her
daughter, Mrs. Bill Johnson, who
is in the hospital at Greensboro.
Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Edwards,
of Minnesota, are visiting Mrs.
Edwards’ mother, Mrs. R. H.
Joines, and other relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Rex Billings are
the parents of a daughter, named
Loraine 'bom January 21.
Miss ’Mildred Toliver, who has
been ill tor sometime, is improved
and has gone back to work again
at Sparta.
Mrs. Sallie Joines, who has
been ill for sometime, is improv
ed.
Misses Jean and Lois Cleary
visited Miss Lillie Roy all, of
Crerry Lane, Sunday.
ROOKING AT
Washington
(continued from front page)
with General Motors and in con
flict with other labor groups, de
mands that the President take
sides with him, against the A. F.
of L. as well as the industry he is
fighting.
MAY HURT LABOR CAUSE
Undoubtedly, the people of the
United States are sympathetic in
their general attitude toward labor
and convinced that the income of
the worker and farmer must be
increased. This does not mean,
however, that the voters of this
country are willing to leave the
final decision in regard to labor
questions to lahor organizations.
There must be some authoritative
voice to represent the mass of our
citizens. Generally, the idea is
that the President represents all
the people of the country, not on
ly the organized labor groups, and
that in any approach toward a set
tlement of a strike that he will
l*ok out' for the best interest of
the nation as a whole. Labor
leaders, such as Mr. Lewis, can
make no more serious mistake
than to assume the right to de
mand either governmental or pop
ular support as a matter of
course.
SLOAN MISSES BALL
With newspaper men and the
public generally scoring a “bon
er” for John L. Lewis, the way
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seemed open for General Motors
to make some progress toward
winning public support. However,
Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., president
of the motor company, muffed
the play completely and exhibited
strategy of the rankest kind, re
fusing to attend a conference to
which he had been invited by Sec
retary Perkins. His action was
taken because the workers con
tinue “to hold our plants unlaw
fully” and thus no parley could
be held.
The President, commenting on
this, expressed his disappointment
and called Mr. Sloan’s refusal a
“very unfortunate decision.” Thus
the White House balanced the
scales and maintained an impar
tial attitude toward the strike,
which apparently had been shaken
a bit by his earlier comment on
the Lewis statement. The latter,
leaving a conference, was asked
whether there had been any ref
erence to what the President had
said but, without disclosing what
went on in the White House,
smiled and replied, "You know
there reallv comes a time. . . ”
PUBLIC REACTION
The public reaction to the sit
down strike, in which strikers re
main in plants without working,
has hardly been apparent. How
ever, the tactics of the C. I. O.
were likely to react against the
strikers, especially if A. F. of L.
workers commenced a battle for
the “right to work.” In other
words, by a policy of conciliation
the General Motors Corporation,
it seems to us, had a chance to
win public favor, which is what
will decide the labor' questions
involved. So long as its officials
flout all efforts to confer on the
issue and indirectly rebuff the
Government, regardless of the
reason assigned, there is little
prospect of winning public sup
port among the mass of Ameri
cans.
LEGISLATION AHEAD
The public interest in labor
questions becomes serious when a
strike in a few key plants can tie
up large-scale industries and im
peril national recovery. The lon
ger the impasse remains the
greater pressure will be for some
legislation permitting govern
ment agencies to intervene, con
duct hearings, make decisions and
put an end to the economic war
fare. Labor has a right to strike
and a right to work, employers
check*
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Dr. C. A. Thompson,
Sparta, N. C„ Saturday,
February 6, for the pur
pose of examining eyes
and fitting glasses.
Pennsylvania Farms
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have a right to shat down as well
as a right to operate, but the in
terests of society, as a whole, su
percede the rights of both sides
and will,' in future, be safeguard
ed by appropriate legislation. Tins
is likely to be one outcome of the
present strike.
RUNCIMAN’5 VISIT
The visit of Walter Runciman,
Britain^ president of the Board
of Trade, led to general discus
sion of the prospects of a recipro
cal trading treaty between Eng
land and the United States. At
least, so much has been admitted.
Whether the visit of the British
leader involved other world af
fairs, affecting this country, is a
subject of much speculation. A
guess has been heard that one of
the objects of Runciman’s visit
was to secure economic conces
sions from this country to Ger
many in order to relieve internal
pressure on Hitler and thus en
courage him not to start a war.
The situation in Germany is bad,
with the people living under con
ditions comparable to war-time
restrictions and there are some
who believe that Hitler will soon
have to “deliver” or the people
will give him trouble. If he is
unable to come through satisfac
torily, the experts fear he will
hazard a war.
HULL’S POLICIES GAIN
This is pure speculation, how
ever, so far as the White House
and Runciman’s visit is concern
ed. Few people believe that the
trip was made solely for a con
versation about reciprocal trade
treaties, although
Importance of such an
It seems probable that
governments will soon
in earnest to formulate
profitable concessions to
their commerce. Generally,
agreed that the end is
and that it should be
on the basis of the
Secretary Hull has been
with other powers,
is beginning to be
that political peace must
upon an economic peace
Mr. Hull’s work is tending
move trade obstructions an
to normal world
NOTICE
North Carolina,
Alleglhany County.
IN THE SUPERIOR
Gladys Edwards, Plaintiff
vs.
Oscar Edwards, Defendant
To Oscar Edwards:
Yorj are hereby notified
an action hat been brought
the plaintiff against you to
solve the bonds of matria
now exisiting between yon,
that you are required to
before the Clerk of the Sup
Court of said county and mm
to the complaint filed in the
tion within thirty days after
completion of the service of
summons, or the plaintiff will
ply to the Court for the
demanded in iher complaint.
This 20th day of Jana
1937.
A. F. REEVES,
Clerk Superior Court.
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