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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-08-19
President Of Salisbury Firm Spends
Summers Here; Business Unusual
ly Successful

Friends of Mr.. and Mrs. H. z.
White will learn with interest that
an expansian program costing $780,
coo has begun for the enlargement
of the White Packing Plant in
Salisbury Mr.. White, president of
the firm, has been visiting this sec
ton for many years and he and Mrs.
White have made their home here
for several summers. This summer
they are at the Black Bear Inn.
The growth of the business which
was established in 1922, and has
been enlarged one time prior, ne
cesitates the addition and changes
to be made to the plant, it is stated
The contract is for approximately
$4,000 and calls for a 5O-foot front
to the present building, which will
be 18 feet wider than now and the
additional space from front to rear
will also be included.
The expanded facilities will be
one story high, but will be of such
size as to give the plant twice as
much floor space.
The new building will house the
shipping quarters, pork and smok-
ed meat coolers, bacon slicing room
and a new sausage kitchen. All
these departments will be complete
ly insulated and refrigerated; while
newest and most modern machin-
cry is to be installed.
Mr. Elliott states that the company
offers Chicago market prices to
Rowan and surrounding area farm
ers for their hogs and cattle. Dur
ing the past year, some $4,000 head
of locally raised hogs were handled,
and over 5000 cattle.
The company operates a large
farm of over 200 acres near the city
and on this raises grain with which
to feed fancy steers, this type of
food being especially useful in pro-
ducing choice meats, says Mr.. Ell
lott. In the past year more than
800 head of cattle were fattened on
this farm in preparation for choice
steaks and roaSts.
The concern operates a fleet of
two-ton equipped trucks which make
deliveries over a large area, there
by insuring to the dealers the ar
rival of choice meats in superb
condition. The plant now distrib-
utes its products over about two
thirds Of the state and when its
capacity is increased by the build
ing program planned, it will give
complete coverage over all of North
Carolina.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-08-19
Picnic Dinner Given At Crumpler

Mr.. and Mrs. Mattz entertained
one hundred or more guests at their
summer home Sunday near Crump-
Ter.
A sumptous repast was spread on
the green above the house. Part of
the dinner was prepared on the
lawn and served on the picnic
ground, a second course was served
in the home.
A number of the guests came
from out of the state. Those pre-
sent from here were: Mr.. and
Mrs. Jim Gambill, Mr.. and Mrs.
T. E. Parker and their son Mr..
Glenn Parker and wife.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-08-19

FOR SALE -21 acre farm located
on Grassy Creek highway near
West Jefferson. Ideal 10 room home
suitable for summer or permanent
residence, electricity, and bath.
One-forth mile from high school.
Beautiful large lawn and shade trees
for information write Mrs. Mae
Robbins 1924 N, w, Bid. Columbus,
Ohio
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-08-19

WANTED: BY family of two,
man and wife of good character
who can give good references to live
in home. Man to work on farm and
woman to keep house and cook.
Would be interested in good house
keeper if middle-aged and depend
able. Must make arrangements by
first week in September. Write or
see w. F. Doughton, Laurel Springs,
N. G.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-08-19

GOOD FARM FOR SALE-Located
in Cecil county, Md, and contains
112 acres. Lays fine; we'll watered;
good Groom house; frame barns
equipped for selling milk. For infor-
nation write owner: w. M. Cecil,
Colora, Md. 9-16p
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-08-19

Wanted: Around 20 good ewes to
keep one year for half the wool
and lambs. Have extra good graz
ing and large boundary. See or
write R. c. Barker, Grassy Greek,
N. G.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-08-19
WANT ADS
Twenty-Five Gents Charged
for Each Want AID

EDWARDS BUS will leave West
Jefferson on Sunday, August 10Th
at z a. m. for Bel Air, Md. Special
rates. For information or reservation
call at West Jefferson Hotel or write
w. B. Edwards, Darlington, Md.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-08-19

FREE! If excess acid causes you
Stomach Ulcers, Gas Pains, Indi-
gestion, Heartburn, Belching, Bloat-
ing, Nausea, get free sample doctors
prescription, Udga, at Ray Drug Co.,
West Jefferson, N. G.. 9-8
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-08-19

FOR SALE-A few regiStere d
Hampshire ram lambs and year.
lings. Also a few eve lambs. Glenn
Kilby, SturgillS, N. G. 8-26p
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-08-19

LOST A pair of spectacles in case
with chain attached. Finder re-
turn to Dr. B. E. Reeves and receive
reward.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-08-19

NEW BUS SERVICE for Sparta,
Elkin and Winston-Salem. Leaves
City Cafe, West Jefferson, at a. M,
arrives at Winston-Salem at 10 a. m.
E. o. Woodie Transportation COM
pany. 8-26c
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-08-19

LOST Last Monday in w. Jeffer-
son, small white dog, few black
spost, head slightly brown. Mouth
deformed so lower teeth show, one
upper tooth broken, wearing round
leather collar and will ride on run
ming board of car. Finder notify,
Coy Ham, Lansing, N. c.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-08-19

An elepha1% can swim easily six
hours at stretch.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-08-19

FORD ORDER for $4,000, will sell
for $1,000 cash or good note for
one year. M. G. Marsh, Obids,
North Carolina. 8-19c
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-08-19

FOR SALE:-Registered Hartford
bull calves, best breeding, also
Kholer Light Plant, ITO volt, first
class condition.
RIVER PLAIN FARMS, FERGU-
SON, N. c."
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-08-19

COLORADO BLUE SPRUCE $40
#. for sale.
9-2c Deep Gap Nursery, Deep
Gap, N. c.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-08-19

Wanted: To Buy Good Used
Girls Bicycle. Must Be In Good
Condition, And Priced At A Bar
gain Price. Address R. Core Sky
land Post.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-16
By O. O. Mcintyre

and in the evening TempuS fugits:
In a chidrens party for a group
around u years of age not one had
ever heard Of Mary Pickford. Most
accomplished amateur magician:
Hamish McLauren, the writer, Un-
forgetable dishes: chicken hash at
Dinty Moore's. pressed duck at
Tour d'Argent in Paris.
My father always slept with a
A revolver under his pillow and
my maternal grandfather racked a
loaded shotgun over the kitchen
door And neither would have killed
a house fly I once sat an hour in
the rain in the BoiS to watch Edith
Wharton drive by. DiSraeli interests
me as much as any figure in Eng
liSh history My wife recently came
upon a rejected love story manu-
script of mine and began reading
it to company. She read this much
when l fled: "Elizabeth'S gaze met
his in the eloquence of silence. Long
black lasheS yelled her eyes, the lips
he had so long sought slightly part
ed, she quivered and with a quick
catch in her breath rushed toward
him" When / returned they
were still laughing. No person I
know can get so incenSed over
political muddling as Percy Crosby.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-16
Thank you please.
News Behind the News
The Neir Deal School for Lobbyists -.
II Sends out Many Graduates -.
A Tablet in COn,nien1OratiOn

WASHINGTON.-The New Deal school for
lobbyists may not be graduating more effective
practitioners than any previous administration
but is has matricuated them more rapidly and
in considerably greater numbers.
For proof, look among the swarm of lawyers.
lobbyists, producers refinerS and hangerS-on
who have assembled here to influence the sugar
quota legislation which will replace the Jones'
Costgan act at the end of the year.
Sugar in the raw cost American consumers
s490.Q00,000 last year, and of that amount the
cost of protection through the quota system
and the tariff was 1854 100000 No one propoS-
es seriously to consumers any of that 1854
100000. The big fight centers on the question
of how various sugar interests are going to di-
vide the swag.
Possibly in time the sugar section of the
AAA will put up a commemorative tablet to
the flower of its youth which marched away
TO fight all sides in this war. Upon it you
would find the name of Jack Dalton, former
head OF the section, now generalissmo here
for the U. S. Cane Sugar Refiners Associations
lobby And James Dickey, former assistant,
now representing Puerto Rican sugar interests
with the aid of Dudley Smith, another erst-
while AAA expert
Chauncey Wightman, another former Sugar
Section official, is battling for the Hawaiians
against proposed discrimination based on their
insularity. Dudley Brown and Meyer Mariyn-
ski, respectively the sections former administra-
tive assistant and economist are working for the
American refiners under Dalton.
Prev Savoy, brilliant former head Of the
processing tax unit in the AAA legal division,
now represents Florida and Louisiana cane
growers, among other clients. He had much
TO do with writing the Jones' -Costgan act So
did Charles F. Boots, who was with the SenateS
legislative counsel and is now with the Aneri-
can Sugar Refining Co. Elisha Lee, Jr. left
the AAA Sugar Section to join the National
Sugar Refining Co. y
Now as to what all the shooting's about
The Agriculture, Interior Labor State and
war Departments submitted new quota bill
by request, providing a tax to replace the
whose invalidation by the Supreme Court had
hiked sugar profits and left labor provisions
and child labor ban unenforceable Mainten-
ance of policy which has meant average
retail price of 81 cents pound while the world
price has been cent is based on the
need of sustaining the economy of Hawaii,
Puerto Rico the Philippines, Cuba and more
than million persons in II beet-growing and
two cane-growing states)
House agriculture subcommittee, influ-
enced perhaps by refiners' lobbyists and chair
named by a former head of the beet growers
lobby, wrote in provisions denying the right of
Hawaii and Puerto Rico to send more than
a small amount OF refined sugar here cutting
the Cuban quota and generally Gripping Secre-
tary Huls trade treaty program.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-16
HOME COOLERS AND A NEW
ECONOMIC PERIOD

The increasing vogue for home and
office air cooling systems in Imperial
Valley seems to be ushering in a new
era in which summer is a time of vaca-
tions Just as it is elsewhere, but not
time when everyone who possibly can
escapes from the valleys heat
1t is an encouraging sign to those who
believe in the valleys future that more
and more homes are being equipped
with cooling systems, and that office
buildings, stores and similar establish
ments are joining the parade by Install
ing larger commercial systems
The result will be a shortening of va
cations to normal periods, slackening
of the annual summer exodus, an in
crease in year round business and a
lesser drain on the vitality of those who
of necessity remain in the valley most
of the summer. 1t is safe to predict that
cooler, more comfortable summer homes
in the valley will keep more families
here, which in turn means that the sum-
mer slump in business will not be so
pronounced.
Imperial Valleys heat is not unbear-
able when it does not penetrate into the
home and the office. The problem still
remains, of course, among those who
work out of doors, but even they will not
find the going so hard if they can re-
turn in the afternoon or evening to an
air cooled home Given a comparatively
brief period during the day or night in
which it can revive from the strain of
heat resistance, the human system will
not suffer greatly from periods of eX-
posure to the heat. 1t is the long, end
less blast of heat outdoors, in the office
and at home which saps the strength
and slows the mental processes.
Rapid development of air coolers of
various kinds here will prove one of
the greatest economic boons ever to come
TO Imperial Valley.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-16
Strolls Thru Hollywood

HOLLYWOOD, May Is. UP)-The
genus matinee idol is extinct as the
dodo, says pale, thin-faced Leslie
Howard who otherwise would prob
ably be one.
Pictures killed the fellow" he
explained "Of course, a few stage
actors have large following in GER
tain cities even today, but it's not
the same.
Your true matinee idol was a
chap who projected long-range SEX
appeal over the footlights SO sue
ceSSfully his progress from stage
door to street was a sort Of twice
daily triumphal march between rows
of palpitating feminine hearts.
There's nothing of the sort in
the legitimate theatre today. Play
er following now represent intelli-
gent appreciation rather than fan
worship"
Howard seemed to feel the Clark
Gables, Robert Taylors and Enrol
Flynns to whom fan worshippers
have transferred their attention
are beautiful but not real.
"A matinee idol can't be just a
shadow he said. And even if he
could, there are no matinees in
pictures. The screen idol is another
matter, entirely"
Germaine Aussey, French actress
who subscribes to the Mary Gar
den birthday suit" school of sun
bathing, thought she had perfect
seclusion in her screened garden at
Malibu until she noticed a couple of
inconspicuous figures at the top OF
the cliffs. They were two youths
equipped with binoculars.
HollyWood's newest sister act is
checked for the moment as War
ner Brothers passed up Gloria
Blondell. but if some other studio
doesn't sign her this column will
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-16
LAST MINUTE RUSH
IN LEGISLATURE

California's state legislature, nearing
the end of its current session, should
take warning from recent happenings III
Delaware, where the Delaware General
Assembly one night stopped the clock
and stayed in session all night to finish
up its years work. 1t was boisterous
evening.
Everything was cleared up, the legis-
lators thought-only now it looks like
a special session They're expensive)
will be necessary because nobody can
remember whether the $7,000000 appro-
priations bill necessary to run the states
schools was passed-and the records
are blank on the subject. Sometimes
haste does make waste.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-16
VACANT LOTS FOR
PARKING PURPOSES

One of the most unpretentious yet
most worthwhile projects undertaken by
the Ell Centro chamber of commerce
this year is that just launched through
appointment of a new committee con-
sisting of L. L. Odle, H. j. Heisch ard
Louis Moore The committee will make
a survey Of downtown streets to deter
mine where vacant lots are available
which might be used as free parking
places for retail shoppers.
To anyone who has hunted a parking
place on Main street, or on any other
street reasonably near the store to which
he wishes to go, it is readily apparent
that some arrangement will be neces-
sary in the near future to relieve con-
gested parking. The plan Of the cham
Der of commerce seems to offer the most
reasonable solution.
Once winter has set in again, Ell Cen
tro will face what may amount to crisis
in its parking problem 1t is necessary
to plan now to meet the situation when
it arises.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-16
Bruce Cation SayS:>>
Summing for Social Outlook is Useless

their tails. No man fit to be called
man feels abused because he has
to work for his living.
The real trouble is psychological
a feeling of helplessness, of inSec-
urity, of being adfift in a world
where all OF your best efforts.
your fidelity and your industry may
not avail to save you. You may be
frugal and industrious beyond all
measure; if a depression, a war, a
decline in foreign trade or some
fools monkeying with the currency
closes the factory where you work,
you are out of luck and there is
precious little you can do about it.
That is the sort of thing the man
on top can't get next to by a mere
process of working for two months
on an assembly line That feeling of
insecurity never will put its ie/
fingers on his heart.
In the back of his mind must al
ways be the knowledge that he is
in this only for IA little while He
Will return to security when his two
months are up. Short rationS are
no hardship when you know there
is a big chicken dinner waiting
for you little later.
A sympathetic understanding of
the troubles of the man at the
bottom is something that can't be
taught, Unless you have come up
from the bottom yourself, or have
been born with the necessary brea-
dth of imagination and sympathy.
you dwell forever in another world.
Summing parties may salve the
conscience, but they mean very,
very little.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-16
New York Day by Day

l have never heard anybody in the
Bronx talk like, WELL say Gregory
Ratoff. Prettily named rural high
way Saw Mill River Road.
X 4 X
H r. Webster, the cartoonist, and
Richard Richard Watts, Jr., the
dramatic critic, now on the same
morning paper, were both born in
Parkersburg, w. V. but never met
until recently. The first important
person I interviewed in New York
was Clyde Fitch, the playwright
whose kindness will never be for
gotten. He gave me a story that
saved a job I badly needed.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-16

NEW YORK, May l5-Purely per-
sonal piffle: Suggestion for a revue
title: Dit Donc!"-meaning Say
you'll" Top radio drool: Those Junior
G-Man skits. My wife never misses
naming hit song the first time she
hears it. Stage show | enjoyed most
this year: Excursion"
Spook stuff: An anonymous clair
voyant in Colorado for five years
has been sending me predictions
about my personal life that have
come true. You learn from a motor
trip to Wilmington that AZ duPonts
are listed in the phone book. Nat
ives say: "All the DuPonts are hard
workers"
Stay home, write travel stuff
and grow rich: Frank Sullivan has
made some nice chunks writing
about imaginary visits to Hollywood,
Paris, etc. And historians say one
Of the better descriptions of Vene-
zuela was written by James Jeffrey
Roche, who never been there.
For real Broadway color: Lindy'S
at the dinner hour. Cub reporter
thrill: Coming upon Alice Roos-
evelt LongWorth smoking a cigare-
tie in the garden of the LongWorth
home in Cincinnati. All the Eddies
in New York have of a sudden
become Eddys, for goodness sakes!
Only musician l ever heard to
make a mandolin orchestra enter
tanning: Dave Apollon. Some years
ago at a gallery l saw painting
AT the Ferry" which l have long
coveted, but dealers never heard
of il. The Ritz Carleton once had
patron who ate a chilled grape
fruit salad at 3 o'clock every morn
ing. He claimed it kept his weight
at normal, although he could eat
what he pleased during the day
Grand advertising psychology: The
air lines admitting that people are
becoming afraid to fly and showing
them how comparatively safe it is
Nothing was ever gained by evasion
save a lack of confidence. Movie
! disillusionment: The odds are
100 900 to against a movie extra
becoming great star. After hearing
most of the recent talkie tunes
one has a new appreciation for the
supremacy of Irving Berlin. Pre-
diction: Wynne Murray of Babes
In Arms will be the next Kate
Smith of the radio.
-
Dead ringer for Sam Bernard il
The Rich Mr.. Hoggenheimer" San
Rosoff all duded up in riding clothes
| for a canter in Central Park. For q
years | have averaged writing 850C
words a week. Voice: Why not cal
it day?" No columnist ever Great
ed a character to equal Don Mar
quis' THE Old Soak" The mos
futile hour of the day-between
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-16

It is an interesting little expert
ment that the German Nazis have
announced-this business of forcing
all high government officials and
cultural authorities to spend two
months each year as manual labor
ers.
The idea back of 1t to bring the
men who make policy and mold
opinion into closer contact with
the common people. AS Gen. Her
mann Goering remarks. "ThoSe who
want to lead the people must never
forget how the man of the people
feels"
So a number of starched-collar
Prussians have already closed their
desks and gone out to get jobs in
textile factories. coal mines, hook
shops and what-not. Two months
later they will be back at their re-
gular posts-full,no doubt. of deep
| fellow feeling for the man at the
bottom of the heap.
! Il
In theory, the idea Is swell. In
actual practice it probably will be
pretty much of a dud. For the one
thing that erring man cannot do, is
to find what it feels like to live on a
lower rung of the ladder by going
Summing. Lifting yourself by the
boot straps is child's play by COM
pariSon.
What is it that gets on the work.
er's mind and makes him dream
of a fairer and more decent world,
anyway? The mere fact that he has
to work with his hands and earn his
living by the sweat of his brow? Not
at all. That has been humanity's
common lot ever since men came
down out of the trees and shed
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-16

be surprised.
Gloria is Joan Blondell's younger
siSter-aS brunette as Joan is blond
Odd part, however, is that on the
screen you'd swear she Was Joan
with a dark Wig-same features.
same talk, and much the same voice
infections
The lass, too, is an experienced
actress, having played recently with
a road company of Three Men On
A Horse"
Warmers previously passed up
Joan Fontaine, blond sister of Olivia
DeHavilland, who is currently click
ing towards stardom at RKO.
Fred MacMurray, who was draw
ing down only $3.50 week a year
ago, as given new Seven-yealk
Paramount contract, his third In
two years. MacMurray was boosted
first to $3.50 and then to a reported
$500 weekly after he staged sit
down strike when cast with eXpen-
Sive Carole Lombard in The Prin-
cess Comes Across" It's said the
new setup calls for well over two
thousand
Robert Baldwin, who picked up an
eight-months-o old wire haired ter
rier when he found it confused by
WhiZZing traffic on Cahuenga Pass,
has become attached to the hound
and now hopes the owner never APP
pears He calls it Scarlet O'Hara"
because he says the pup goes like
the wind"
Bing CroSbys horses won him a
new set of golf clubs as well as
Mexican gold, when they turned up
winners three times in two days
at Aqua Caliente. Bill Frawley gift
ed him with the sticks in gratitude
for lucrative tips on the bangtails.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-16
TWENTY YEARS AGO
NAV Is, 1917

Mrs. Virgil McCmbs of Los An
geles is visiting Mrs. B. Solomon.
More than 200 crates of apricots
were shipped to market today by
the Americal Vile company. 1t is
expected that IL carloads of fruit
will be shipped by the American
Nile company alone before the
season is over.
Mrs. M. A. Adams, society
woman of Long Beach, has taken
apartments at the Hotel Barbara
Worth.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-16
LOOKING
BACKWARD
What The Press Files
Tell of Imperial VAL
ley for This Date in
Past Years.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO

Ray Edgar left for a few days
stay in San Diego.
M E. Stewart has let the con.
house on his ranch west of town.
The power was turned on today
at the great 1000 horsepower cleo
trical plant of the Holton Power
company.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-16
TEN YEARS AGO
May Is, 1927

Mrs. Jack Davis OF Ell Centre
is said to have been seriocsly in
iured in an automobile accident
on the San Diego highway near
San Diego last night.
SchoolmaSters of Imperial Val
ley gathered at the Hotel Barbara
Worth last night for a dinner and
a final get-together before school
lets out.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-16

Persons born today are usually
shreWd and calculating. They are
seldom duped by clever schemers.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-16
Horoscope for Sunday

If your birthday is tomorrow, you
may be inclined toward selfishness.
Your greatest pride is in self
achieVment.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-16
The Grab Bag
One Minute 4, st

l. Who is president of Mexico?
2. Where did the chief religions
of the modern world originate?
g. How many states seeded from
the Union during the Civil war?