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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-04-22
commencement at
Nathans Creek Will
Last Through Week
Seniors Will Receive Diplomas
Friday; isis Perkins" to Be
Presented on Saturday

The commencement exercises at
Nathans Creek High School opened
Sunday afternoon, April Is, with
the baccalaureate sermon being
preached by Rev. John Hoyle, Jr.,
OF Statesville. Special music was
rendered by Rev. John Luke.
The programs continued through
out this week, and Principal Paul
Miller extends cordial invitation
to the pubic to attend them all.
On Thursday, April %, at 7:3O, the
primary and grammar grades will
present an operetta, ''Taffy Ann.
On Friday evening, the senior
class day exercises will be held. At
this time, the seventh grade promo
ton certificates will also be award
ed. The address of the evening will
be given by Rev. John Huneycutt,
of West Jefferson. At the conclusion
of the exercises, the senior class will
be presented diplomas.
On Saturday evening, April "a, at
1880 o'clock, the senior class will
present their play, isis Perkins.
The play is typical comedy and
one that will be enjoyed by old and
young alike.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-04-22
Hoey Steps Out on
Side of State Drys
States Chief Executive Believes
Counties Voting for Liquor
Will Suffer in Morals

Aligning himself solid1y with
North Cardinals dry forces, Cover
nor Hoey asserted today the defeat
of liquor stores in the elections soon
to be held would be most whole
some and beneficial to the whole
state"
Under the county option liquor
law passed by the 1887 general as
sembly, counties may vote to decide
whether to repeal prohibition.
The governor said he believed
that any county which legalized the
sale of spirits would suffer "such
wreckage in the character of its
young men that the profits derived
will pale into insignificance in COM
parison with the havoc wrought"
Mr.. Hoey ended his statement by
saying "The defeat of liquor stores
in the elections soon to be held
would be most wholesome and bene-
fetal to the whole state"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-04-22
Efforts Will Be Made to Get
Income to Equal OutgO; Tax
Receipts Disappointing
DEFICIT OVER $2,OOO,OOO, 900

President Roosevelt will ask Con-
gress for $1,5OO,OOO,OO0 for relief in
the year beginning next July l,
Senator Robinson, Democratic lead
er, reported this week after con-
ference of administrative leaders
with the executive.
He added that the conference
agreed to bend every effort to limit
expenditures and appropriations to
close the gap between income and
outgo.
He indicated that disappointing
tax receipts had accumulated the
estimated deficit Signs pointed to
an unbalanced budget at the end of
the 1878 fiscal year, but he ex-
pressed belief that means could be
found, without increasing taxes, to
bring the deficit down to Every
narrow margin"
r An outlay of $1,500,000,O00 next
year would compare, according to
WPA officials, with expenditures of
between $1,8OO,000,000 and $780,
100000 in the current fiscal year.
DoughtOn at White House
President Roosevelt had called to
the White House for late afternoon
conference Vice President Garner,
Secretary of the Treasury Morgen-
than, Acting Budget Director Bell,
Speaker of the House Bankhead,
Senate Democratic Leader Robinson,
House Democratic Leader Rayburn,
Senate Finance Committee Chair
man Harrison, Ways and Means
Committee Chairman Doughton,
Senator Byrnes and Representative
Taylor, Colorado, to read to them
the draft of the relief message he is
preparing to send to Congress.
The federal deficit was revealed
this week to have hurdled $4,000
100000 as of April 16, while the
public debt amounted to $34,832, OBS
94O.47, with every probability OF
materially exceeding that figure as
the government continues upon its
short-term borrowing policy to pro-
vide funds to make up the differ
ence between income and outgo &C.
casioned by the failure of tax re-
ceipts even to approximate the de-
sired balance
Even with the present unpromis-
ing government-finance picture fac
ing it, the administration continues
to ''hope" that there will be no need
for tax increases this year. Never
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-04-22
Townsend, Abrams
to Speak at Lansing
"The Judgment Bar" and Better
Than Cold to Be Presented
by Senior on Monday

Lansing, April 2O.-The Lansing
High School commencement will get
under way Sunday night, April Is,
at 800 when Dr. Paul w. Townsend,
pastor of the First Methodist Church
of Boone, will preach the baccalau-
reate sermon.
On Monday night, April 26, the
senior class day exercises, featuring
a play ''The Judgment Bar" will be
put on by members of the junior
and senior cl.asses The Elay, which,
depicts typical courtroom scene, is
expected to be intensely interesting.
Tuesday night, April 81, Dr. Amos
w. Abrams, head of the English de-
partment of Appalachian State
Teachers College, will deliver the
literary address. Everyone who has
heard him speak declares that he is
a gifted and talented speaker of the
very highest type. Following the
address, Principal Joseph A. Martin
will present diplomas to ii seniors.
Medals to the best boy and girl ath-
1eteS and the best senior in school
studies will also be awarded at this
time
The following are members of this
years senior class: Lewis Childrey,
Pearl Dolinger, Ruth Davis, Marga-
ret Faw, Ramon Moore, Ruth Owen,
Claude Powers, Maude Patton, Shir-
ley GRAPHICAL, Mabel Spencer, Flor
ence Yates, Charles WEIGH, Mrs.
Frances Sturgill and Delta Hartsog.
On Wednesday morning, April %,
at 1920, the 9TH grade graduating
exercises will be held, and diplomas,
will be presented to all seventh
grade graduates of the Lansing
school district.
This years commencement will
close Thursday night, April 20, with
the giving of the senior play, Better
Than Gold" This play has been or
dained as a great success wherever
staged. It produces plenty of laugh
ter as we'll as tears. Many unusual
and entirely unexpected incidents
happen in it, and it keeps the audi
ence in suspense until the end. The
following seniors are members of
the cast: Mrs. Frances Sturgill,
Florence Yates, Maude Patton, Ra-
mon Moore, Lewis Childrey, Mabel
Spencer, Claude Powers, Hubert
Jones, and Charles Welch. All night
programs will begin at 800.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-04-22
MURDERER THREATENS
OTHERS IN HAMLET

Corp. Thomas Currie of the
Maryland State police Monday
brought to Oakland, Md, details
of mountain tragedy in which,
he reported, one man shot another
dead in a wheat field with high
powered rifle and then threatened
to "clean up" the neighbcriloOd.
The hamlet of : Friendsville,
scene of the shooting in the hills
40 miles north of oakland, was in
high state of excitement.
E Quinter Hook, weIl-to-do CO.
year-Old farmer, was killed short
ly after he had gone to the field
to tend his cows. His body was
pierced by bullet fired appar-
entity from a distance of about
10 feet.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-04-22
Sheep Meeting and
Shearing School on
May 4 at Writ Neal's
Talks to Be Made on Outlook
for Lambs and Wool, and
Proper Handling

On Tuesday, May 4th at 10 a. m.
a sheep meeting and steering school
will be held at J. w. (Wirt) Meals
farm, one-half mile west of Jeffer-
son.
The morning program will consist
of talks on the outlook for lambs
and wool for this year, the grading
and marketing of lambs, and the
proper methods of handling wool
after it is off the sleeps back in or
der that it may bring the high dol
lar.
Then there will be shearing
demonstration by E. S. Bartlett of
Chicago, Illinois. Mr.. Bartlett is an
expert in his line and has put on
demonstrations in nearly every state
in the union.
In the afternoon Mr.. Bartlett will
conduct a shearing school for a
number of men and boys who want
to learn how to shear sheep in the
easiest and best way.
Those attending the morning pro-
gram and planning to stay for the
afternoon program are advised to
bring lunch.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-04-22
Johnston to Deliver
Literary Address at
Riverview School
Variety Program by Grades and
Home Economics Class on e.
Friday; 10 to Finish

Riverview High School will close
another successful year Saturday,
April "a. Saturday morning at II
o'clock the senior class graduating
exercises will be held with Hon. Ira
T. Johnston delivering the literary
address. Special music for the occa-
sion has been planned by Miss Irene
Eller. The ten members of the class
to receive diplomas are: Hal Barlow,
Robert Barlow, Mary Lea Brown
Nancy Eller, Clyde Hartsoe, Reba
Hartsoe, Hazel Jenkins, Dewitt Lew
is, James Roland, and Verna WelcfE
Saturday evening, at 7:30, the
high school play, "Superstitious; Su-
san," will be presented in the school
gymnasium. The play has been
coached by Prof: Bower Duncan and
promises to be highly entertaining.
The Dowell brothers string band
will render music. Small charges of
twenty and thirty cents will be
made which will be used toward
paying for obligation incurred: in
the building program for the, year
and for the new buses bought.
On the preceding Friday, April q,
at seven o'clock in the evening, a
variety program will be given by
the fifth, sixth, and seventh grades
and the Home Economics classes.
This program is sponsored by Mrs.
J. T. Hoyle, Miss Elizabeth ToGbert,
and Messrs. Bruce GRAPHICAL and M.
H. Eller. Charges of ten and twenty
cents will be made. The Cook-Har-
less quartette will sing and the
Dowell brothers will play on string
ed instruments. Special music has
also been prepared by Miss Eller.
Principal Wade E. Eller invites
the public to participate in all the
exercises and states that he conf
IDENTIFY expects that when the COM
mencement is finished the school
will be entirely out of debt in every
way.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-04-22
Survey to Be Made
of Road to- Trade
Citizens Hopeful That Promised
Survey Will Mean Early
Letting of Contract

According to assistant district
highway engineer; Ford King, state
surveyors have been ordered to
make a survey of route Is from
Warrensville to Trade, Tenn. Citi-
zens who will be benifitted by the
road are hopeful that the survey
will mean that a contract for hard
surfacing the road will be let at an
early date.
This road is most important one
in the county and delegations have
gone to Raleigh from time to time
in it's behalf. It affords an outlet for
big portion Of the county toward
the Jeffersons and the state OF Tens
nessee as well as North Carolina.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-04-22
President Wants l,5OO
Million Dollars for Next
Years Unemployed Aid

theless, observers were prone to
forecast today that Congress would
of itself be Unanswered into the po-
sition of initiating revenue legiSla-
ton by being permitted to make ap-
preparations not contemplated in the
budget.
The balancing of the budget en-
visioned by President Roosevelt for
the next fiscal year must await a
more propitious time, it was reveal
ed to the conference this week.
Furthermore, no account is being
taken of increased expenditures not
contemplated by the budget.
Avoid "UnsOcial' Tag
No one in the administration
wishes to be tagged as "unsociaP'
and so there is always a qualifying
statement when budget balancing is
advocated that this should not be at
the expense Of relief for the unem-
ployed. .
To the extent that it is possible, it
was indicated today, the treasury
will endeavor to make up the diff
ference between income and expen-
ditures by the issuance of short term
bills. There is in prospect 100000
900 issue at the rate of $50,000,0oO a
week in a program adopted a week
ago.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-04-22
Weaver Pitches
Winning Game

Monte Weaver, Ashe county's
ace baseball player, pitched the
Washington Senators to a 3 to 2
victory over the New York Yam
KEGS Tuesday in New York at
the Yankee Stadium before a
crowd of 45,85O people.
Except for the third inning,
when the Yanks showed traces
of the power that enabled them
to pace the field by Is IL games
last season, Monte Weaver, vet
eran highlander who went the
route for the Senators, would
have scored a shutOut. In this
frame, the Yankees punched
four of their 10 hits to score
both their runs.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-04-22
Prominent Speakers
to Be Here April Is
Representatives of Ashe and
Allegheny Associations to
Meet at Local Church

A meeting of the Baptist men OF
the Ashe and Allegheny Associa-
tions will be held at the West jeff
erson Baptist Church Sunday after
noon, April Is. The program will
start at las o'clock. Every pastor,
deacon and layman in the two asso-
Citations is earnestly requested to be
present. Music will be furnished by
the Cook Hairless quartet.
Speakers will include Smith Hag-
aman, Superintendent of the Baptist
Hospital, Winston-Salem, Rev. ]. c.
Canipe, Boone, A. H. Casey, North
Wilkesboro, and B. H. Duncan,
Trade, Tenn. Plans for the associa-
tional work will be discussed by J..
c. Goodman, of West Jefferson, and
w. B. Reeves, of Whitehead.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-04-22
BRIEF News
From the
State and Nation
COURT HEARINGS TO
CLOSE WEDNESDAY,

The Senate judiciary committee
headed into the final 10 days this
week Of its public hearings on
President ROosevelt's court reOr-
ganizatiOn bill.
Opposition witnesses have been
allotted another week to conclude
their arguments. If they desire it.
proponents will then be given
three days of rebuttaI time. The
committee agreed Saturday ia
make April 28the closing deadline
The Supreme Court itself will
not convene again for announce
ment of decisions until a week
from last Monday.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-04-22
John Hoyle Will
Speak at Jefferson
7th Grade Will Get Diplomas
Friday Morning; Seniors to
Graduate Friday

Presiding Elder John Hoyle, Jr.,
has been secured by Prof. G. B.
Price to speak at the graduating ex-
ercises of the Jefferson High School
Friday evening, April %, at 7:3O
o'clock. The public is cordially in
vited to attend these final exercises
and all other exercises in connection
with the school commencement.
Friday morning, April %, at 10
o'clock, the graded program will be
presented and the seventh grade di-
plomas will be awarded.
Tonight Thursday, at 7:30, the
high school play, my Mother-in-
Law" will be presented. Small adj
mission charges win be made to
help with commencement expenses
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-04-22

E. M. Hanson, of Raleigh, was
an interesting visitor at the Kit
Carson Hotel in Jefferson last
week and while there told of a
telephone conversation he held
with his family in Denmark last
Christmas.
Mr.. Hanson, representative
Arcadian Nitrate of Soda, was
born and brought up in Den
mark, and while he has made
good in America, he often gets
very homesick for his friends
and relatives across the water.
Longing to speak to them per-
sonally, he placed a call in Ra-
leigh last Christmas morning at
2::3O for his fathers house in
Denmark. The call was answer
ed at 3:15, which was a little
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-04-22
Son in Raleigh Speaks to
Father in Denmark

early by Raleigh time, but was
about $50 in Denmark and so
Mr.. Hanson found all his FAM
lily, mother, father, brothers and
sisters, gathered at a Christmas
morning breakfast together. He
talked to each of them in turn
and said he could recognize
them as well as if they had
been in the next room.
After an absence OF fifteen
years, Mr.. Hanson said one
could imagine his joy and ap-
probation of the inventions OF
the modern age which enabled
him to get first-hand informa-
ton as to how Santa Claus was
behaving in Denmark. The call
cost $1,000, at the night rate,
but was well worth it.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-04-22
Sunday Brings First
Warm Day to State

After hanging around half-heart-
eddy for a few days, summertime
returned to Ashe county and North
Carolina Sunday, and shirt sleeves
were noticeable as the mercury shot
toward the high eighties.
There were no records broken, but
for most places it was the hottest
day thus far in the season.
Winston-Salem, Raleigh and Dur
ham reported maximum tempera-
lures of 80 degrees, and Charlotte
and Greensboro were not far behind
with 88.
Wilmington, down by the sea, re-
ported a maximum of 80, and Ashe-
Vile, in the mountains, "a degrees
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-04-22
Davis observation-disclosures
Years In State Prison on
Manslaughter Charge
2 Others Go to Prison; Number
to Work on Roads; Miller
Homicide Continued
4 DIVORCES ARE GRANTED

Everett Davis was sentenced to
the state prison for not more than
} five and not less than three years on
a manslaughter charge which was
tried for the second time in the
April term of court held in Jeffer-
son last week. Davis, who shot and
killed Dewey Pennington about a
xyear ago, was tried during the term
of court prior to this one but the
case resulted in mistrial. Davis
pied self-defense. Strong pleas were
made for Davis by his attorneys,
T. G. Bowie, T. G. Bowie, Jr., and
Ira T. Johnston. Solicitor Allan
Gwyn and Attorney R. A. Doughton
represented the prosecution and de-
1ivered forceful pleas to the jury.
The case took up the latter half of
the week and a crowded courtroom
was evidence of the wide interest in
its outcome.
Two others sentenced to the state
prison were w. H. Myers and Ben
Lambert. Both pied guilty to charges
of forgery and were given two years
each.
The grand jury returned true
bill of indictmen against Willard
and Roosevelt Miller in the second
homicide case that was to have been
tried last week, but continued for
lack of time Nelson Severt acted as
foreman of the grand jury.
A humber of divorces were grant
ed and several were sent to the
roads.
Cases disposed of are as follows:>
Divorces granted: A. L. Barker VS.,
Clyde Barker; F. B. Cox VS. Clyde
Cox; ]. A. Wayman VS. Ruth N.Way-
man; Gurtha Parsons Moore VS. T. A.
Moore. ~, .~~-.
Lester Brooks, vic. prohibition
law, to pay fine Of $500.
Ernest Cornett, .housebreaking and
larceny, Il months on roads.
Coy Reeves, violation of prohibi-
ton law, six months on roads.
Rash Miller, assault with deadly
weapon, judgment suspended on
payment of costs.
& Niley Trivett, forgery, IL months
{ on roads; Jess Atwood, forgery, four
months on roads.
Arthur Price, carrying concealed
weapon, so days on roads.
Martha Jane Byers, continued SUI
S5ended-sentence of good behaviour.
Anvil and Hugh Phillips, continu-
ed suspended sentence for good be-
haViour.
Scott Cox, defendant paid $1,000
and case was continued.
Fieldon Osborne, f. and a., SEN
tence of two years in county Jail to
work on highway suspended on pay
ment of costs.
Willie Ham, HOUSEKEEPING and
larceny, not guilty.
Robert Woodie, assault with dead
1y weapon, judgment suspended on
payment of costs.
Alt Miller, aw.d.w., defendant
pied guilty and judgment was SUI
spended on payment of costs.
J. D. Stevens, non support, judg-
ment suspended on payment of
costs.
John c. Names, operating car
recklessly, judgment suspended on
payment of costs.
Howard Shook, operating car
without license, Defendant pied
guilty and judgment suspended on
payment of costs.
Evening star., 1937-11-20
Stock Averages
BY VICTOR EUBANK,
Associated Press FInanclal Writer


NEW YORK, Nov 20.-Shaky stocks
Of yesterday displayed more backbone
in todays market and many leaders
recovered fractions TO or more points
Selling at the start put the ticker
tape behind for brief period and top
pied averages to new lows for more
than two years before buyers began to
raise bids.
Prominent on the comeback were
rails, steels, motors, coppers and spe-
cialtles. While the return journey was
only moderately fast transfers for the
two hours approximated 1000
shares
Brokers attributed improvement
largely to the belief of some the Friday
slump called for at least part Of the
lost ground being retraced even II
the basic trend is still downward
Efforts of union officials to break
the unauthorized "sit-doWn" strike
at General Motors helped to bolster
automotive issues. Announcement OF
Goodyear it would open it's plants
Monday for those who wished to
work" was coincident with mobil-
ization of Ohio National Guard units
and indicated this labor problem was
still unsettled.
Steels edged forward despite esti-
mates next weeks mill operations
would register another substantial re-
cession.
Wall Street opinions regarding the
Presidents call for an inquiry into
higher living costs we're mixed. In
some quarters this was interpreted as
another attack on corporation profits
Among the better share perform
ers-several slipped just before the
close-were United States Steel, Beth
lehem, Youngstown, Santa Fe, New
York Central, Southern Railway,
Great Northern. Union Pacific, Balti-
more & Ohio. Chrysler, General Mo-
tors, Anaconda, Kennecott. Aneri-
can Smelling United States Rubber.
Goodyear, j. l. Case, International
Harvester, Westinghouse, General
Electric. Du Pont, Allied Chemical.
Consolidated Edison, North American.
Electric Power g. Light. American
Telephone, Douglas Aircraft, Allis-
Chalmers, Eastman Kodak, Loews
and Air Reduction.
Backward were Sears-Roebuck J.
c. Penney, Philip Morris, Briggs Man.
ufacturing, Texas Corp, Radio and
Corn Products.
Evening star., 1937-11-20
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK.

CHICAGO. Nov. 20 (P) Omitted States
Department of Agriculture).-Hogs. H.
900. including 10000 direct; 1915 lower
than Fridays average; early sales, good
and choice 200-250-pound averages, 7.9O-
500; top. 500: compared week ago.
around LOO lower.
Cattle. 1000; calves, 100: compared
came. back after sharp decline early. net
doWntourns for week being 25-75, with me-
dun to S, good Teigshty steers of most;
short-fed steers and yearlines predomi-
mated. selling slowly but in large numbers
at 300; down to ZOO at low time; not
much above 1900 and extreme top 1886
on yearlings and medium weights: liberal
down do to 5.55; or 25-5O lower; heifers 25-
25-4O lower: bulls rs lower and vealers
5O-75 of; sharp decline in hogs regarded
as very bearish influence in fat cattle; no
prime steers offered. but choice and prime
NATIONAL iSH sshow; curtailed runs short-fed
- Sheep. 1000, including 1000 directs.
For week ending Friday 5000 directs.
Compared Friday last week: Fat lambs very
slow, 1.O0-1.25 lower: yearlings sharing
fsedins LAMBS neminaily Is 'S to iyS 100 nis ieWer
weeks fat lamb top. 1O,25. paid for choice
natives early: bulk native and fed come
back offerings this week, S.75-1O15: clos
ing top, 800: late bulk. $3.50 90: bulk
small supply Montana rangers. $500. 80;
$40, late top; .7;75; weeks top slauehter
bulk. 500: bulk feeding lambs, SIS
e.26; choice auotable around 900 late.
Evening star., 1937-11-20
NEW YORK PRODUCE.

NEW YORK. Nov. 20 Up.-Eges. 131s5,
nrm. Mixed colors: Special packs 3OI2-
"a standards, 29-3O: firsts, 26-2S: sec.
onds. 22l2-24: mediums. %: dirties. No. i
lSa; 49,. average a, checks. 1919; Refriger-
ards. goa; frsts 1898: seconas. 1sIa-ioia;
mediums 8, and small, 1919; dirties, ls-
Butter, 6.sl4: firm. Creamery, extra
t9S score), asa. Other grades unchanged
Cheese, 11S114; market slow. Prices
i, Dressed poultry steady to firm. Fresh
.boXes): Turkeys, Southwestern. 1922:
MARYLAND. 26-3l Other fresh all frozen
prices unchanged
Evening star., 1937-11-20
FOREIGN MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL. Nov. 20 R.-Wheat fu-
to absence of milling demand for actual
grain and in sympathy with North Amer
ican markets yesterday. Final prices were
70 to / "a pence a bushel lower.
Cotton closed quiet land unchanged
Outside interest was lacking. Trade call
ing and short covering were supplied by
liquidation and hedging.
London and Paris, closed.