davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-12-30
Explains How Soil
Goals Are Set

Editors note: This is the third
in a series of articles in which two
farmers discuss the agricultural
conservation program.)
John Brown has been telling Bill
Smith about the program. Bill
wants to find out more about it. The
conversation continues:
Smith: 'How do you know how
many soil-building practices you
need to carry out? Do they give
you an allotment of soil-depleting
crops?"
Brown: 'They figured out how
many soil-building practices you
need on your land-they call this
your soil-bui1ding goal.
Then they figure out what would
be your fair share of the soil-de-
pleting crops that can be grown in
this country, and they call this your
soil-depleting goal"
Smith: Show do they go about
figuring out a farmers fair share?''
Brown: "Well, the AAA has
trained men who are making a
constant study Of production and
demand. They have records Of
what production and demand has
been in the past, and they can make
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-12-30
So Students In
West Jefferson
School Exempted
Sixteen Were Exempted From
Final Exams On All Sub
iectS. 9Th. Grade Led.

There were a total of SO stud
ents in the West Jefferson high
school who were exempted from
taking final examinations at the
close of the term before the Christ
mas holidays, Principal B. H. Dun
can announced this week.
The local school does not have
monthly honor roll system, but
all students who make and main
tain an average of an "A" grade in
some or all subjects, are exempted
from final examinations at the end
of the term.
Sixteen of the SO honor students
were exempted on all subjects,
They were-8th grade, John Nor
gan, Marie Woodie, Jack Miller and
Evangeline McNeill; 9th grade,
Meredith Duncan, Gaynell Houck,
Thomas Oliver, Gale Lemly, F. B.
Jones, Grace Trivett and Edwin
Weaver; 10th grade, Robert Nc
Neill; 18th grade, Georgia Oliver
Sallie Miller, Julia Davis, Donna
Miller.
The other students who were
, exempted on one or more, but not
all subjects were:
9th grade-Jack Taylor, Nina
Bell Barr, Mary Digs, Haze
Miller, Bette Davis, Esther Mae
Hairless, Mary Hairless, Agne:
Houck, Alene Miller, Sherman My
ers, Ruth Riddle, Burley Woodie
Regena Wilcox and Ruth Wyrick.
9th grade-Myrtle Jean Wyrick
Hazel Lee Burgess, Hilda Gentry
Virginia Goodman, Irene Hudler
Clyde Morton, Hazel Scott, June
Smith, Grace Wyrick.
10th grade-Josephine Car, Geor-
gia Gentry, Myrtle Marsh, Geral-
dine Mcneil, Faye Smith and
Myrtle Lemly.
18th grade-Wallace Houck, Ford
Bare, Lee Caudill, Sam Davis, Bill
Garvey, Miller Ingram, Donald
Johnson and Stephen Triplett.
With a total of 18 on the honor
roll, the 9Th grade led the school.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-12-30
FARM
NEWS

a pretty close estimate of what it
will be in 1888.
$50 they figure out how many
acres of the different crops should
be planted to supply the country
with various things needed for food
and for industrial uses, plus what
we can sell other countries"
Smith: But how do they figure
how many acres for each farmer?"
Brown: "They divide up the to-
tai acreage So much for each
State-then so much for each coun-
ty.
''Then our county committee
takes several things into consider
alton: the size of your farm, how
many acres of soil-depleting crops
it would be best for you to grow
under a good cropping system, and
also how many acres of cotton,
corn, tobacco, wheat and other soil
depicting crops you have been
growing
Taking all these things into con-
sideration, and knowing how many
acres are available for the county
as a whole, they try to give each
grower what would be his fair
share"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-12-30
Discuss Reason For
Farm Program

Editors note: This is the fourth
in a series or articles in which two
farmers discuss the agricultural
conservation program.)
Bill Smith: "How do they GO
about paying you for what you
do?"
John Brown: ''They want you
to carry out all the soil-building
practices recommended by the
county AAA committee, but they
don't want you to plant more than
the acreage of soil-depleting crops
allowed in your goal.
eff you do so all the things re-
commended for building up your
soil, and if you don't go over your
soil-depleting goal, they will give
you the full amount of the payment
that has been figured for your
farm"
Smith: "That sounds kinda con-
fusing, doesn't it,"
Brown: "No, not if you under
stand what they want to do, and
the reasons why.
cts like riding a horse through
a barn door. You duck your head
to keep it from getting bumped,
and the horse has to pick up his
feet to get them over the sill"
Smith: "What do you mean by
that?"
Brown: 'In the program they are
asking us to keep down under the
soil-depleting goal to keep us from
knocking our heads off against
overproduction and low prices.
When we grow too much, the
price goes down in hurry.
''And we need to step up to keep
from humping our shins on poor
land that will soon be worn out if
we don't take better care of it. This
is where those soil-building prac-
tees come in"
Smith: '"That's not a bad idea.
I'm gonna sign up for 1888. Wish
I had got in last year,
Brown: I'm glad you feel that
way about it. The more farmers
who come into the program, the
more good we can do for our
selves"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-12-30

through next May over the like
preceding period is expected. Most
IF this will occur after the first of
he year.
In numbers, milk cows this win
,er will probably average about the
anne as last winter. There may be
a slight increase, Kimbr:y stated.
Feed prices already are lower in
citation to dairy products, and in
he next few months, feeders will
De at a much greater advantage
than they were last winter.
The number of milk cows, which
is now six per cent less than the
peak years ago, appears to have
passed the low point, the State Col
lege extension dairyman said.
However, the number is still some
what below average in proportion
to population.
If the price of cattle continues
high, as now seems probable, a
point may be reached soon when
large numbers of farmers will be-
gin to hold back breeding stock to
increase their herds. This would
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-12-30
Plans Now Underway To Or
ganize Local Merchants
Association Soon.

Young and old, people who live
in the Jeffersons as well as those
who reside in the county or in
other sections of the country and
merely spent short time visiting
or shopping in West jefferson,
have enjoyed the gay-colored
street lights and decorations here
and were high in their praise. The
little tots were also thrilled by the
visits of Santa Claus and are in
hopes that arrangements will be
made to have him back here next
year.
A large percentage of local mer-
chants realize the value and i'm
portance of having merchants as
ISOLATION and tentative plans are
under way to hold an organization
meeting shortly after the first OF
the year. Definite announcement
will be made later.
Many people who visited other
cities in the Virginias and Carolinas
declared that the street lights and
decorations here were prettier and
more attractive than those in many
other towns and cities.
In order to have the lights, the
following merchants and individu-
also contributed: Bare'S Store,
$500; Belk's Dept. Store, $500;
Central Radio Co., $500; w. ]. Parts
Co., $500; Bare-Little & Co., $500;
Ashe Motor Co., $500; Parker Tie
Co., $500; Kraft Phenix Cheese
Co., $500; T. E. Parker, $500; Park
way Motor Co., $500; The Skyland
Post, $500; DR.. J. X. Hunter, $500;
McNein's Store, $500; Duncan Mo-
tor Co., $500; Farmers Hdw. Co.,
$500; Burgess Furn. Co., $500;
First National Bank, $500; w. r.
Faucette Co, $500; E. E. Jones
Store, $500; Carl Miller Grocery,
$500; City Cafe, $500; J. F. Scott
& Son, $500; Parkway Theatre,
$500; Gulf Service Station, $500;
Reins-Sturdivant r. Home, $500;
Graybeal's Drug Store, $500; r. w.
Coward, $500; Central Hdw. Co.,
$500; Roten's store, $500; Smith
ey's Store, $500; P. G. Wright,
$500; DR.. Ed Jones, $500; Ideal
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-12-30
Dairynen To Find
Winter Profitable


Dairymen will probably find the
winter of 1878 one of their most
profitable since 1880, A. C. Kinney,
of State College, said in forecasting
the North Carolina dairy situation.
He explained that the production
of feed grains and hay in 1887 has
been large iS relation to livestock
numbers and that feed prices dur
ing the current feeding season will
average decidedly less than a year
earlier.
Kinney also pointed out that
milk production per COW is likely to
average the highest since the win
ter of 1882. An increase of
three to five per cent from October
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-12-30
ChristmassStreet Lights And
Decorations Here We're Enjoyed

Laundry, $500; Badgers Funers
Home, $500; Rhodes Furn. Co
$500; Vannoy Furn. Co., $500; Ra.
Drug Co., $500; West Jefferson Ho
tel, $500; Shell Cafe, $500; Casl
Wholesale Grocery, $500.
Others contributed as follows: J
]. Thomas, $3.50; B. F. Cook, $3.50
I. M. Cook, $3.50; Richardson's Fiv,
& Ten, $500; L. L. Scott, $500; Ba
zil Barr, $500; T. G. Miller, $500
Thomas c. Bowie, $500; DR.. B. E
Reeves, $500; Max's Cafe, $1.25
Dollar Service Sta, $1.00; Brad
shaw Myers, $1.OO; Austin Jones
$1.O0; c. H. Burkett, $1.00.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-12-30
BRIEF FARM NEWS

Seven Cumberland Cou
poultyrmen who kept records ],
an average of 1873 birds each fe-
port a profit of $2O9.12 per flock
for the year, or an income from
each bird of $1.58.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-12-30

]. c. Redfearn of Wadesboro and
Robert Batten of Route 3, Wades-
boro, both have hydraulic rams
pumping water for their barns and
homes. Other Arson farmers are
planning to add the simple water
systems.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-12-30

reduce the marketings of cows and
heifers, Kinney said, and support
or probably increase prices.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-12-30

w. Robert Everett Of the Palmy-
ra section in Martin County has
begun a new beef cattle project
and will fatten some animals for
the Fat Cattle Show to be held in
Rocky Mount next April.
Evening star., 1937-11-16

Board of Tax Appeals. Eugene Black
and M. j. Harron. chairmen, l50.1s
per cent of quota; Commodity Divi-
sion, United States Tariff Commission
Myror Walker, chairman, 1896 per
cent of quota; Field Artillery. War De-
partment, Capt. M. v. Cannon, chair
man, 1119 per cent of quota; Inquiry
Division, Washington, D. c., Post Of
flee, w. Carroll Gilbert, chairman
1854 per cent of quota; Postal Cash
ier Division, Washington. D. c., John
w. Quick, chairman, 10O.66 per cent;
Macfarland Junior High School, H. p
Stafford, chairman, 1886 per cent OF
quota; Paul Junior High School, L. J
Cantrell, chairman, 1873 per cent
OF quota; M. M. Washington Voca-
tional School. Miss L. c. Randolph
chairman, 1874 per cent of quota
Receiving Home for Children. Grady
H. Leonard. chairman, 124.67 per cent
OF quota, and Public Assistance Divi-
sion, B. P. W.. Miss NJ Alice Hill
chairman, 154:41 per cent of quota.
In the Group Solicitation Unit the
following organizations reported 10C
per cent subscriptions:
Ambassador Theater, Bank of Com
merce & Savings. Barney Neighbor-
hood House, Bureau Of Rehabilitati ton
William j. Flather, Jr., Inc; McLach-
len Banking Corp; Southeast House
Fairmont School, D. j. kaufman Co.
Inc, and Trio Productions.
Evening star., 1937-11-16
BRADY AIDE FACES
SENTENCE DEC. 6
Dalhover Heavily Guarded by
Special Agents in In
diana Cell.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SOUTH BEND, Ind, Nov. 16.-Spe-
cial Government agents, heavily armed
and taking no chances, kept alert eyes
glued today on a secret cell holding
James Dalhover, one-time Brady
"trigger-man," who apparently had
nothing to do except speculate over
what penalty Federal jury would de-
eide December 6 he must pay for
Staying State Policeman Paul V. Min
neman.
United States Marshal A. w. Hosin-
ski said Dalhover was being held in
communicate and that no pictures or
interviews would be permitted. The
special agents worked in 8-hour shifts
and declined to disclose any COM
ments the pint-sized gunman might
have made
Dalhover. captured at Bangor, Me-,
October IL by Federal agents who
killed his companions, Alfred Brady
and Clarence Lee Shaffer, jr., pleaded
guilty at Hammond yesterday to slay-
ing zimmerman last May 25 after the
S2,668 robbery Of the Goodland und. }
State Bank.
Federal Judge Thomas w. Slick ac-
cepted the plea and said the jury
would decide the first Monday of next
month whether Dalhover wor1i die in
the electric chair. or serve life
sentence in Federal prison.
The Federal Government assumed
jurisdiction in the Minneman Staying
case because deposits of the Goodland
bank were insured by the Federal De-
posit Insurance Corp.
Evening star., 1937-11-16
TAX CUT PUZZLE
FACES COMMITTEE
House Group, Agreeing on
Objective, Undecided
as to Solution.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A House tax subcommittee, spurred
by presidential suggestion that lin
equitable burdens" Of small business
men be lightened. attempted to work
out today q formula for reducing the
undistributed profits tax against cor
porations with incomes from 5000 to
$50,000.
Members were in agreement on the
objective. They were undecided how
to reach it.
Chairman Vinson, Democrat, Of
Kentucky said they were working on
a method Of allowing the corporations
tax exemption for percentages of their
income. The percentages would be
smaller as the amount of income in
creased.
Already the committee has agreed
to exempt from the levy corporate
whose profits do not exceed $4,000 a
year, thereby cutting down Federal
revenues by some sl0,000,O00.
That would bring to more than
$169, 100000 the aggregate which
would be lost to the Treasury by tax
revisions under consideration or ten
tatively agreed on by the subcom-
mittee.
Repeal Of the capital stocks and
excess profits taxes would cost some
$40, 10000 Permitting capital losses
to be carried over from one year to
offset capital gains in another would
reduce Federal income by $4,000, 900
A sum running into the millions
Vinson said, would be kept from the
Treasury by permitting a carry-over
of operating losses for offset against
later income subject to the undis-
tributed profits tax.
Chairman Harrison of the Senate
Finance Committee expressed the view
that without question the undistrib-
uted profits tax can be modified sc
as to help business He said, how
ever, there was doubt whether action
could be taken at the special session
Evening star., 1937-11-16
Congress
Continued From First Page.)


Chairman Vinson, Democrat, of Ken
lucky. was pessimistic over the pros
pect of framing legislation in time for
Q vote at this session.
Almost unanimous sentiment in
both Houses for modification or repeal
of the corporate surplus tax produced
dozens of proposals for changes in the
law.
The House Subcommittee agreed tC
exempt corporations whose profits dc
not exceed $1,000 year.
Throughout the comment on the
Presidents message yesterday rar
general approval for his proposal to
revise corporate taxes to aid small
business.
Republican Chairman John Hamil-
ton said last night:
Republicans in and out of Con-
gress can be hopeful now that their
repeated warnings have forced Presi-
dent Roosevelt at last to face realities
He finally promises us tax revision
His promises are indefinite as usual
but it does seem that the Roosevelt
recession has taught even Mr.. Roose-
welt that you cannot ignore economic
laws and get away with it forever"
Evening star., 1937-11-16
BEDR|DDENW WOMAN
TEST|F|ES IN SUIT.
300-Pound Plaintiff Carried
on StretCher to Ask for
$250.0OO DAMAGES.

Three-hundred-pound Irma L
Dabbs, who has been bedridden ir
Gallinger Hospital for more than two
years, was carried into District Court
on a stretcher yesterday to testify in
her s250,O00 suit against the Inde-
pendent Taxicab Operators Associa-
ton in connection with the accident
September IS, 1885, in which she was
disabled.
The trial started yesterday but Miss
Dabbs, who is 26, had not completed
her testimony when the session ended.
The young woman testified she and
several companions went to Herald
Harbor, Md. to dance, engaging a
taxicab to take them there and back.
On the return trip. she stated in her
suit, the taxi collided with another car
proceeding in the opposite direction.
She charged the cab was speeding at
about 70 miles an hour.
Her injuries prevented her removal
from the Emergency Hospital in An
napolis, Md. until October 20. 1885,
when she was transferred to Gallinger.
Because of shock and her weight, 1t
was impossible to set some of the
fractured bones, the suit stated. Since
the accident she has undergone five
major operations. She has left the
hospital only once-to go to North
Carolina to attend the funeral of her
mother several months ago. She
made the trip on a stretcher.
Representing her was Dorsey K.
Offutt. Attorney Ringgold Hart ap-
peared for the taxicab company.
Evening star., 1937-11-16

these workers receives penny for his
services.
The Special Assignments Unit re-
ported that the Sanitary Grocery Co.
has contributed $4,000 to the CAM
paign fund and that of 95 smaller gifts
reported Sc show increases over last
year.
Governmental divisions and depart
ments have been added to the list of
those reporting 100 per cent or more
of their quotas, as follows:
Bureau of Fisheries, Commerce De-
partment, DR.. ]. r. Manning. chair
man. 1l2.6 per cent of quota; Com
mission of Fine Arts, H. P. Caemmerer,
chairman, 100 per cent of quota; Ex-
animation Division, Farm Credit Ad-
ministration. j. M. Kearful, chairman.
1853 per cent of quota; Information
and Extension, Farm Credit Admins
tration, Mrs. Helen Ferguson, chair
man. 1924 per cent of quota; Legal
Division, Farm Credit Administration
j. A. Jordan, chairman, 1888 per
| cent of quota; Mortgage Corporation
Service, Farm Credit Administration.
Mrs. Dorothy A. Mahoney, chairman,
1912 per cent of quota; Alien Property
Bureau, Department of Justice, Mrs.
Mary Coyle, chairman, 1923 per cent
OF quota; Telephone Office, Depart
ment Of Justice, Miss Edna Biggs,
chairman, 1928 per cent of quota :;
Naval Records and Library, Navy De-
partment, H. F. Lunenburg, chairman,
| 100 per cent of quota; Agency Divi-
sion. Reconstruction Finance Corp.
G. B. Shepherd, chairman, l00.05 per
cent OF quota; Statistical and Eco
nomic, Reconstruction Finance Corp,
D. c. Elliott, chairman, 1888 per cent
of quota; Legal Division, Procurement,
Treasury. William K. Laws, chairman,
166.09 per cent of quota; Paper Gus
tody, Public Debt Service, Miss Mary
Howarth, chairman, 10544 per cent OF
quota.
Domestic Quarantine, Public Health
Service, c. E. Waller, chairman, 110.37
per cent of quota; Savings Division,
Savings Bonds Treasury, Mrs. Ger
trude M. Crown, chairman, 1922
per cent of quota; Securities Division
Office Of the Treasurer of the United
States. Mrs. Olga Hursh, chairman,
10l.39 per cent Of quota; United statea
Evening star., 1937-11-16
SENATE T0PUSH
/ OWN FARM BILL
Smith Asks Wallace to Ex-
plain "What All These
Measures Mean"
BY the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
Chairman Smith announced today
the Senate Agriculture Committee
would press ahead with its own farm
program, patterned along lines of the
"ever-normal granary," without wait
ing for House action on new farm
legislation.
Senator Smith said the committee
had voted to start separate action,
with the Pope bill as a basis.
This measure follows administration
farm plans.
A special committee of Southern
Senators, Senator Smith said, would
work out separate section for cotton
This group included Senator Bank
head, Democrat, of Alabama, who is
urging rigid compulsory control pro-
gram.
I'm going TO call this committee
together every morning" Senator
Smith shouted, until we get some bill
ready for the Senate We've asked
Secretary Wallace and his crowd up
here tomorrow to explain just what
all these farm bills mean"
Separate Programs Set.
The chairman said separate pro-
grams would be worked out for cot
ton, corn, wheat, rice and tobacco
and possibly some other commodi-
ties
Senators Bankhead, Pope, Demo-
crat, of Oklahoma: McGill, Democrat
Of Kansas; Ellenger, Democrat, OF
Louisiana, and Bilbo, Democrat. OF
Mississippi began work on the cotton
section at closed conference imme-
diately after the general committee
session.
Before Senator Smiths statement
President Roosevelt's appeal for en-
actment of an 'all-weather" farm pro-
gram had widened the breash be-
tween advocates of compulsory and
voluntary crop control.
Legislators favoring program that
would force farmers to limit produc-
ton said they interpreted his remarks
as call for compulsory control.
Believe They Have Free Hand.
The opposing group, on the other
hand, contended that since Mr.. Roose-
velts message to Congress did not use
the word compulsory" he left them a
free hand to go ahead with proposals
for basing the new farm bill on present
voluntary soil conservation practices
The House Agriculture Committee
resumed drafting its bill without
agreeing finally whether marketing
quotas would be approved. Neither
did it decide whether it or the House
Ways and Means Committee should
attempt to raise an estimated sl75,-
100000 to finance proposed additional
. benefits.
Representative Nelson Democrat, of
Missouri said he opposed any form
of compulsory control of corn produc-
ton which contemplated fines and
imprisonment for failure to cooperate
In the general program.
Evening star., 1937-11-16
LAWYERS GUILD TO HEAR
O'CONNELL ON SPAIN

Representative O'Connell, Democrat.
Of Montana will be guest speaker at a
meeting of the Washington Chapter
of the National Lawyers Guild at 8:l5
pm. tomorrow in the Labor Depart
ment auditorium.
Mr.. O'Connell will talk on his re-
cent tour of Spain, where he spent
some time studying the Loyalist de-
fenses. He will discuss also the effect
of the American neutrality policy on
the Loyalist cause, the war situation
in general and the necessity for new
neutrality legislation.
Evening star., 1937-11-16

preparation of indictments and the
presentation Of evidence to the grand
jury.
Mr.. Vernon will enter private prac-
tice here and will be associated with
the firm of Moyle, Wilkinson, Suydam
& Harlan, with Offices in the Earle
Building.
Mr.. Garnett said he deeply re-
gretted' the resignation, which will
become effective December !.
Mr. Mitchell will be assigned to Po-
lice Court. He is nephew Of Justice
Walter Mitchell of the Maryland
Court of Appeals. Since his gradua-
ton from the, University of Maryland
Law School in 1888 he has been prac-
ticing at La Plata.
Assistant United States Attorney
Eugene Carusi, heretofore assigned to
Police Court. will be put in charge of
grand jury work, Garnett disclosed.