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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-01-16
SATURDAY, JANUARY Is, 1897
K|WAN|S HEARS OF
COUNTY 4-H CLUBS
M. E. Aycock, Assistant
Farm Agent, Leads Dis.
cussion of Members

Work of 4-H agricultural clubs !.
the county and efforts eing made -
ward proper terracing of land aeainO.
erosion were outlined to the Kiwani'
club Friday evening at the cmbs
weekly luncheon meeting by .
Aycock, assistant county agenf u
spoke in some detail of the propraas
that was in process and answers
many questions asked by members ~
the club.
The program Friday evening wa,
in charge of w. B. Gooding M
Aycock and L. c. Castleberry. Of tbo
State office of the Farmers Coopera
tive Exchange in Raleigh. were guest,
of the club. r. D. Elrod was the gnnc
Of Horace M. Robinson and S. r. n.
rod was with E. o. Falkner, the n.
rods being the managers of the EIrod
Lumber Company, which is a new in.
dustry just come to Henderson
M. c. Miles, president of the club
presided at the meeting as its presi,
dent. The attendance included mos
of the membership, although the ex.
act percentage was not announced
Expressions of regret were heard
at the meeting over the absence of
Miss Helen Kimball, the club,
pianist.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-01-16
LOCAL MART ONE
OF HIGHEST SHOWN
December Sales Given as e.
282,224 Pounds for
$2O.63 Average

Ranking along with the best mar
kets in the State, the Henderson to-
baccO market resumes sales next
Tuesday for the remainder of the
selling season for the 1896 crop. Of
fetal figures from the Federal-State
Crop Reporting Service in Raleigh
this week revealed the sales and price
averages for December and total sea-
son sales for all Middle and Old Belt
markets and for Eastern Carolina
markets that operated in December.
Along with Henderson, the other
large markets of the two. belts will
reopen Tuesday to run until the end
of the season. Durham and Oxford,
other leaders in the Middle Belt, will
run with Henderson probably two or
three weeks, closing either at the end
of January or early in February.
The Federal-State Crop Reporting
Service showed North Carolina pro-
duced total of 464, 1896, 900 pounds of
tobacco valued at $1O5, 5O4, 600 in 1896,
compared with SIT ,435, 900 pounds in
1895. The seasons average price thro-
ugh 1886 for the State was $2265 per
hundred pounds, or $1.95 higher than
last season. Producers sold 422 sos, 1884
pounds this season, or only 81 per-
cent of the 522,646,845 pounds mar
keted during the 1885 season.
Producers sales during December
were 27,398,O22 pounds for the State,
slight decrease from December,
1885. The average price paid during
the month was 1892 per hundred
pounds, compared with $17.29 in De-
cember, 1885.
Winston-Salem, in the Old Bright
Belt, had the largest producers sales
in December, with 1896, 1924 pounds, at
an average of $17.61 per hundred
Durham was next, with 3724646
pounds at an average of $2293. Hen
derson's sales were 2,169,O54 at $2O.62
while Oxford rel orted 2,318,4 94 pounds
at an average of $19.17.
Asheville, only hurley market in
the State, had producers sales in
December of 1,7O5,468 pounds, deal
ers' re-sales of 1882 pounds, and
total sales of 1,842,634. The price aver
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-01-16
LIQUOR IS AVOIDED
BY COMMISSIONERS
Meeting in Raleigh Asks
Legislature to Move
Slowly, However
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.


Raleigh, Jan. 16-Carefully avoid
ing any mention of liquor or of any
particular form of liquor control,
members of the N. c. Association of
County Commissioners, meeting here
Friday, asked the General Assembly
tc refrain from passing local bills I'M
der suspension cf the rules, to enact
a simplied tax foreclosure law, to
change the cate for listing taxes to
January 1 from Arril ! and to divorce
the job of collecting taxes from the
sheriffs and county treasurers and to
place it in the hands of appointed tax
collectors.
The county commissioners also
went on record as opposing the tax
ing by the State of money in banks,
solvent credits and intangibles, and
especially asked the General Assem-
bly, to proceed slowly and cautiously
in considering the question of reclass-
flying property. In it's resolution deal
ing with the HOMESTEAD and reclaSSi-
fication of property amendments, the
resolutions adopted asked the Gen
eral Assembly to see that there would
be no loss Of revenue to the counties
in carrying out these amendments,
and approved the recommendation
made by Governor Clyde r. Hoey that
a commission be appointed to study
the Reconsideration problem before
any e;islation is enacted to put this
amendment into effect.
"There are many counties in the
State like Alamance county, for in
stance, where the average value of
the land listed in the county is $23
an acre and where two-thirds of the
land is in forest lands" Secretary
John Skinner, of Warren county, said
IF this land should be reclassified I'm
der the reclassification amendment,
with the forest land valued at 81 an
acre, say, as some propose, the value
of the land under cultivation would
have to be increased tremendously, or
else the tax rate would have to be
increased to from 81 to even So per
$1OO valuation in many counties. This
would be ruinous. That is why we
think the legislature should go slow
and proceed cautiously in putting the
Reconsideration amendment into eff
feet"
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-01-16
Two Liquor Bills
To Go Out Shortly
CONTINUED from Page One.)

sponsors, it was authored by Supreme
Court Justice Herriott Clarkson, ac-
cording to one of it's introducers
Judge L. r. Varser, Lumberton law
yer who Waged vigorous court bat
tie to have the county control laws of
1895 declared unconstitutional, is also
said to have had a finger in the pie
of preparation.
1t has received the blessings of the
United Dry Forces, of which Gale K.
Burgess is grand sachem.
On the other hand it is sure to en-
counter the opposition Of both State
control and county control groups,
neither of which wants any vote of
the State on the liquor question.
Oddly enough, although it isn't en-
tirely unusual in politics, the positions
of the two groups have become ex-
actly reversed in the short period of
two years. In the last session of the
legislature advocates of some form of
liquor control called loudly for a vote,
while opponents of liquor in all it's
forms held out adamantly against
such a plan, contending that the de-
feat of the Eighteenth Amendment
repeater was still the voice of the peo-
pie and should be needed.
AS for the Hanford plan, which
would put the State squarely in the
liquor business, with four State dis
tilleries in various sections of the
State small chance is seen by any con-
siderable group of legislators or OBJ
servers. None processes to believe
that the lawmakers will enact any
bill which enables the State to make
liquor. This, they believe, is still much
too far ahead of whatever wet SEN
timent has been aroused.
And so with both bills now before
the legislature apparently doomed to
defeat, there is much speculation as
to the next move and as to what plan
will ultimately prevail.
Best opinion lean to the view that
the law which will ultimately be en-
acted will follow, in it's broad out
lines, the majority report of the liquor
commission-that is, in essence, a
county option, county control plan
with the State getting not to- exceed
seven and half per cent of the gross
receipts and exercising a supervisory
sort of control.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-01-16
Book Truck Ends
Its Second Week

The book truck which the H. Les
lie Perry Memorial Library is using
during the month of January for SER
vice to people in Vance county ended
its second week yesterday. In spite
of rainy weather and muddy roads
the truck made it's trip each day as
scheduled. The circulation for the
week was 765, an increase of % over
the first week. Books which had been
asked for by patrons were supplied as
much as possible. The truck will
make its regular stops each day for
the next two weeks, and at the end of
the month will go to another county
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-01-16
MIR. Peace Writes About
Doings OF Legislature
Vance Legislator Favors County Liquor Control and
Is Against Statewide Re ferendum; Favors Return
to Electric Chair for Executions

stated before, I am member. From
my observation of the personnel of this
committee the bill will be reported
unfavorably and will be placed on the
unfavorable calendar. And then ii
will take a majority vote of the House
to recall it therefrom, and to get it
back into the House for discussion
where it then may be again referred
to another committee.
My stand on the liquor question is
perhaps known by all. I ran for the
legislature on a platform stating that
l favored a retention of the Abe
stores. And was IN favor of County
Control rather than State control. [
was elected and am bound by my pro-
misses. 1 do not favor State refer
endum and will not vote for that mea-
ure. 1 am not at the present time in
favor of State-owned distilleries nor
Of the State entering into the bust
ness of manufacturing liquor.
With kind regards to you,
I am,
yours truly,
j. MERRILL PEACE.
P. s.: l am in my office on Satur-
days and will be pleased to have any
constituent call in to express opin-
ion or views on any matter of legisla-
ton.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-01-16
CAN YOU ANSWER
THESE QUESTIONS?
See Page Four

1. Who wrote Merry Wives of Wind
sor?"
2. Through which two states does the
Androscoggin River flow?
3. What sort of material is haircloth?
4. Who was Vice-President during the
Wilson Administration?
5. What is a depilatory?
6. Name the known major planets of
the solar system.
{. When will the next population cen
sus of the u S. be taken?
s. What is aphasia?
9. On what bay is Miami, Fla?
10. What does the French phrase,
me passeront pas" mean?
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-01-16


ed and received records of Tacoma
criminal trials, including several sex
lal perversion cases.
The disclosure strengthened a fire.
iuently expressed theory the Mattson
kidnapping and killing was the work
Of a demented person who >oQssibly
Knew the Mattson family personally,
rather than well-planned abduction
by an organized gaEe or a "big time"
criminal.
Supporting points included
The pdG ransom demand-$28,000
instead of a round figure such as
100000 in the kidnapping of another
Tacoma boy, little George Weyer-
hauser.
The manner of the kidnaping-sieZ-
ure of little Charles December u at
home while his brother and sister
looked on, rather than abduction from
street or playground. George was
kidnapped on the streets).
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-01-16
Liquor and Taxes
Hold Spotlight in
State Legislature
Continued from Page One.)

House bill SIS, which would permit the
State to enter into the business of
manufacturing liquor and selling it
at wholesale to counties.
Liquor stores would be operated
only IN counties which had gone wet"
in county option votes The State,
which would operate four distilleries,
would retain the profits from whole
sailing. Counties, and municipalities
would divide retail profits, with the
former getting two-thirds and the lat
ter one-third.
The House committee on agricul-
ture received a tobacco compact bill
providing for cooperating with other
states in uniformly regulating and
controlling the week mart. In addi-
ton, the measure would create a to-
bacco commish ion and provide for
local tobacco committeeman.
Buses and Books
School buses and textbooks bills al
so found places in the hoppers. One
proposal would require each bus driv-
er to be at least 25 years old, exper-
fenced and competent, and would
make mandatory the presence of SAT-
ETY. glass and governors on the We
hicles
Bills were introduced providing for
free basal textbooks for children in
elementary school and unification of
the administration of schools, with
the superintendent of public instruc-
ton acting as head of the school sys-
tenn and executive secretary of the
state school commission.
ratification of a proposed Federal
constitutional amendment prohibiting
labor of children under 18 years of
age was urged in joint resolutions. In
both instances the proposals were re-
ferred to committees. Governor
Hoey had indicated in his inaugural
address that he favored State rather
than Federal regulation of labor.
Assistance to needy and aged resi-
cents of the State would be provided
in the House bill which also would
create department of county boards
OF public welfare to cooperate with
the Federal Social Security Board.
The unemployment compensation
phase of the Federal social security
bill was provided for during the spe-
clal session of the General Assembly
last December.
Lower Auto Tags
The bills have been introduced TO
lower the cost of automobile license
tags, IN line with suggestion of Gov
ernor Hoey.
A $25,0O0,OOO bond issue to finance
Improvement of rural roads was pro-
posed. Another money bill would au-
thorlze expenditure of $1,OOOOOO for
State-owned orphanage.
Described by it's sponsor as a.
means of preventing recurrence of
the Scottsboro case," a bill was Of
tered which would grant the presid-
ing judges of criminal term of sup
erlor court the power to dissolve the
grand jury.
Some other proposals would:
Allow for a constitutional amend
ment empowering the legislature to
make kidnapping a capital offense.
Substitute electricity for lethal gas
as means of capital punishment.
Reorganize the State Highway and
Public Works Commission.
Pledge the support of North Caro-
INA in President Roosevelt's neutral
lty program.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-01-16

lucky Ohio and Mississippi were the
states harassed by the weeks floods
caused by torrential winter rains.
City and county officials at Popu-
lar Bluff, Mo-. sheltered more than
100 families who evacuated their
flooded lowland homes. The turbu-
lent st. Francis river ripped through
levees m many spots, but damage was
Slight and no Gives were believed
ost. Four National Guard compan-
les were assigned to the southeast
Missouri flood area, where many ma
ior highways were blocked.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-01-16

600 volunteers had reached Madrid
through France and a thousand had
gone to the insurgents from Italy the
past week. In Berlin military and fin
ancial experts said $4,000 men was the
outside limit of German aid to insur-
gents. There are now between 10000
and 10000 German volunteers with
the Fascists, according to reliable es-
Inmates.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-01-16
Children'S Race.

Weather permitting a l5iccycle, tri-
cycle, schooter, and wagon race for
children from two to eighteen years
of age will be held under the direction
of the Recreational Project leaders in
front of the Episcopal parish house
Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-01-16
THEFT OF CHICKENS
IN COUNTY COURT

Charges of chicken stealing were
aired at today's session of county
court before Recorder r. E. Clements
Moses Lee Davis, Wallace Davis
Moses Davis, Wilbur Davis, and
Thomas Young, all Negroes, were de-
clared not guilty of stealing chickens
r. L. Collision, charged with reck-
less driving, was adjudged guilty Of
speeding, and prayer for judgment
was continued upon payment of the
costs.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-01-16

required. and that lots of hunters did
not have them because they did not
know about it.
I'VE had not shot any ducks, and
| offered to get out of the blind and
go to a nearby post office and get
one at once. The inspector was very
pleasant. He said it was not neces-
sary. He said to get one when we
ceased hunting. I thanked him and
got the stamp and put it on the Ii
cense the next day.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-01-16
Around Town

Release Deed-Elizabeth B. Pitt
man, executrix gave a release deed to
Eva Hart Brewer for 81 and consid-
erations to property on Clark Street.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-01-16

j. M. Peace, Vance county's rep
resentative in the General Assembly,
writes the Daily Dispatch of his OBJ
servations and experiences so far in
the legislature, and his article. in full
follows:
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-01-16

A Correctional was stated in yes
terdays Daily Dispatch that T. T.
Powell, charged with forging a u S.
Treasury check for $25 was connect
ed with the Rural Resettlement here.
1t was pointed out that Mr.. Powell
was area timekeeper for WPA, and
has never been connected with the
IRA.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-01-16

age there was $3743 per hundred
pounds, compared with $2124 per
hundred pounds last year.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-01-16
Commissioner of Banks State
Report of
CITIZENS BANK & TRUST COMPANY
Of Henderson, in the State a the
of business OF


ASSETS
c,sh ho,anoos with o+,o. ... -, -,
= f
T'
- s o " 'O
Other bonds notes .nd dohon+u Observation-Disclosures o
N Ao-e anu AiA'uieS '''''''.: o'r'' f
ohom oaeo ~ NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. o0-o
-
r~
~ --4A1
Deposits OF individuals partnerships
evidenced SAVINGS ns ooLs
Co Other time deposits
O'"'e' couny' municipal deposits
AeposAs Oh o1ner banks 91O52S
cbecks cold for ooah oa t -, :.
Reserve bankN ransit account) 11N8z
TOTAL DEPOSITS
=, 1884.
o'ner NaoAntes 13529G
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-01-16
Ohio, Mississippi
Floods Threaten

Continued from Page One.)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-01-16
NOTICE!

The Annual Shareholders meeting Of the
Home Building & Loan Association,
Henderson, N. c., will be held in the Of
flee Of the Association Tuesday, Jan. 10,
1887 at 1880 o'clock P. M. All share
holders are requested to be present.
If it is SO you cannot attend this meeting
please stop by the office and sign proxy.
Joel T. Cheatham, Sec'y-Treas
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-01-16
Fascists In Spain
After New Revenge

Continued from Page One.)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-01-16
Justice of High
Court Is Accused

CONTINUED from Page One.)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-01-16
Degenerate Sus-
pected At Tacoma

Continued from Page One.l
Evening star., 1937-02-12
Chemical Softens Meats.

Japan has a new chemical, ''Sofna"
to render tough meats and other food
stuffs tender.
Evening star., 1937-02-12
Manners
of the
Moment

ONE of our readers wants to know
whether or not it is all right to
give gifts to newborn baby If he is
not the first child in the family. She
says that her girl friend told her that
it was bad taste to give presents to
any but the first child. She says that
she took a gift to q newly arrived
third child, and her girl friend gave
her a very severe dressing down.
Personally, we'd say that her girl
friend was probably talking in self
defense. She was no doubt miffed
because she had forgotten to take a
bauble herself
We never heard of any such absurd
rule for gift giving. If there is one,
we blue pencil it right here and now,
and we don't care who made it. You
give gifts to celebrate things. And
the arrival of a baby, even if it's the
nineteenth, should be celebrated, we'd
say.
Even looking at it logically, it would
seem that the more babies, the more
gifts are needed. Maybe we're just
simple minded, but we believe in recog-
nizing the new generation. JEAN.
(Copyright 1s37J
Evening star., 1937-02-12
TT is a curious thing that married

TT IS curious thing that married
people resent criticism from each
other more than they do from any
L one else in the world. They will
stand with sweet amiability, some
times with gratitude, having their
families and their friends point out
their faults to them. But let a hus-
band even intimate to his wife that
there Is q single flaw in her entire
makeup, or let a wife hint to her
husband that she perceives a defect
in his manners or morals or person,
and it precipitates a domestic rumpus
that ends in recriminations and tears,
banging doors and often in divorce.
Why this is thus, it is hard to say,
unless it is that every one is lured into
marriage under false pretenses, and
they cannot endure finding out how
they have been deluded. During court
ship both the man and the woman
spend their time singing each others
praises, telling each other how beau-
tiful and wonderful they are. There
is never sour note in their hymn Of
alteration. If they see any blemishes
in each other, they do not mention
them.
Virtually every marriage Is founded
on vanity. Men and women marry the
particular she or he they do because
they have been led to believe that in
cold and censorious world they have,
found the ones who appreciate them,
who perceive their virtues and to
whose ideals they measure up. Others
may be blind to their perfections, but
in one pair of eyes, at least, they are
godlings. Hence, when this fond be-
lief is blasted, this rosy illusion dis
PEELED and they find out, as the movie
interviews always say. my husband
or wife is my severest critic, they
simply can't take it.
COMEHOW it seems necessary for q
~ man to see himself as a hero to
his wife and for woman to think she
is her husbands pattern Of femininity.
As long as a wife begins every sentence
with John says" or John does" and
the husband holds his wife up as
paragon among women, their happi-
ness is so secure that you could draw
money on it at the bank.
Far otherwise, however. is it when
married couple begins nagging each
other about their little ways and call
ing each others attention to their
shortcomings and making no secret Of
the fact that each regards the other
as such a poor, miserable, makeShift
of an individual that they wonder
why they did it. Then all Is over ex-
cept the trip to Reno, or q grim set.
ting down to q lifetime Of passive en-
durance. This Is why Intelligent hus-
bands and wives take their mates "as
d." without trying TO reform them,