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The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1937-07-23
]. W. WOODING RITES

The funeral OF the Rev. j w.
Wooding will be conducted to-
day at 3 80 p. m. at the Scott
Street Baptist Church. The Rev
X. II Mccoy. Of Brdmwcll. as
sisted by the Rev. r. b. Wright
will have charge of the services
The pallbcarcrs will be the
ministers of the Flat TOP Bap
fist association. The pallbear-
CrS are asked TO be at the Blue
field Funeral Home at 3 p. IN.
The Rev Wooding was the
pastor Of two churches, one AT
BARLEY, and one at Arista lie
was the organizer of the Blue
field Funeral Home and Wa-
serving as the president Of the
company at the time Of his
death. He is survived by his
wife, Mrs. Sylvia Wooding, a
son, James Wooding Jr, one
daughter. Mrs. Tansilecn CAL
away, three brothers, Elder
John Wooding, the Rev. Rich
ard Wooding, the Rev George
Wooding, one sister. Mrs ELLA
Moon. three grandchildren and
a host Of relatives and friends
The remains will be at the
Bluefield Funeral Home unit
time for the funeral. Friend
furnishing cars will be at the
funeral parlors at 3 p. m.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1937-07-23
KILLED IN EMPIRE MINES

a young colored man about
IL years old met with serious
accident in the Empire Coal
and Coke Company's mine Mon
day ABOUT Two O'clock. SO seri-
GUS wciie his injuries that the
poor fellow didn't live very long
The name Of the deceased MAS
Horace Oksy, son of Mn Cleo
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1937-07-23
What ABOUT
SOCIALSECUR[TY

AS announcer service to its read
ers, the Mcdowell Times each
week will give authoritative
answers to questions on the
Social Security law. BY special
arrangement with Mr.. U. A
Knapp. Manager of the Social
Security Board office at 3O6
Morrison Building in Charles
ton, the Social Security Board
has consented to pass on the
accuracy of answers to quest
ions on Social Security, which
may be asked by employers,
employees, and others, through
the Mcdowell Times. Address
inquiries to the Editor, the Nc
Dowlell Times, Keystone. West
Virginia. Answers will be Civ
Ell here in the order in which
questions are received. This
Is ar international service and
is not legal advice or service.
In keeping with Social Security
Board policy names will not be
published.-Editor.
QUESTION: Must an employee
be employed continuously dur
ing a five year period to quail
ify for old-age benefits?
ANSWER: No. One days gain
full employment in each of five
different calendar years in any
employment specifically
excepted under Title VIII of
the Social Security Act is suffi-
cient to meet the five-year
minimum requirement.
Q. Are wages from all types
of work included for Federal
old-age benefits?
A. No. wages for certain
specified services are not count
ed in the computation of bene-
fits.
Q. Will monthly Federal old
age retirement benefits be paid
to everyone after age 65?
A. No. In order to receive
monthly old-age retirement re
tirement benefits from the
Federal Government at the age
of Go, individuals must have
been employed in at least five
different calendar years after
1886 in what might be termed
"induStry" and commerce
and their wages from such en-
ploymcnt must be total of~at
least $4,000.
Q. May an individual buy
Federal old-agc retirement be
nefitS from the Federal Govern
ment ?
A. No. The Federal old-agc
retirement benefits are not
purchaSablp..
@. If my total wages is S62,-
100. what will my my monthly
Federal old-age retirement be
ncfit be.
A. The amount f your
monthly oId-age retirement be
nefit will be one-half Of one
percent of the $4,000, plus one
twelfth percent Of $4,000, plus
one-twcnty fourth percent Of
the remaining $l7100.
J.. Of. i percent of $4,000 ......
$500
IL narccnt of $4,000 d. $4,000
1-21 percent of $17,100 =. SIP
Your monthly Federal old age
retirement benefit will DC $57.-
12. 49,.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1937-07-23

The bolt and nuts are having
The dust and dirt scrapped off
ON the new bridge spanning The
Elkhorn River 1t is reported
that it will take at least four or
five days to complete the work
a good and easy job.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1937-07-23
KEYSTONE LOCALS

Mrs Georgia Stuart of Iron
ton, Ohio cousin to Mrs. Robert
Maloy OF this. city is spending
several days with her and fri
lends, they plan to leave for
several towns and cities of
North CorOlina next week.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1937-07-23

Germany may soon have to
read newspapers to keep out Of
jail. In certain cases where
defendants have excused them
selves; for disobeying new edits
by saying they didn't read the
papers and didn't know of new
rules. their ignorance has not
been excused.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1937-07-23

Labor trouble is i sign of
good business. It's one of the
best barpmeters we have. Roger
Babsonh noted financial expert.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1937-07-23

information has jus been re-
ceived 10 the effect hat DR..
Booker Mitchell of Martinsville
Virginia, father of our close
friend Rev. w. H. Mitchell is
quite sick at his home. The
friends of both the aged gentle
man as we'll as of Rev. Mitchell
who used to serve SO ably and
we'll III the capable OF mint
er Of the Gospel in this state.
VIII be very sorry to hear OF
III, illness and will pl,v Tor h.
recovery, despite the lact that
N is quite aged.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1937-07-23

DR. J. L. Brown made bust
nvSs trip to Bluefield Wcdnes
d.y Of this week. Fl, is one
more busy man.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1937-07-23
KEYSTONE LOCALS

Jake Haskin of .Lmdrraff,
one of the oldest, and most re-
.spcctsd public spirit citizen, ac-
compalfied by Robert Carter,
both warm friends Of the de-
ceased as well as warn friends
10 the family attended the fun
eral Of DR.. BridgefOrd.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1937-07-23
p r. I n TIN /

We are Doing Almost any Kind Of Joband commercial printing
such boces foders circulars stationery cards. pampht,s
bills, posters, statements etc
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-09
Other Editors Say
WHERE'S DEATH VALLEY SLIM?
THE Needles Nuggetl


For five weeks there a letter at The
Nugget office addressed to Death Valley Slim
care of The Needles nugget. It was returned
this week to its writer at Death Valley post
office. f,,.t.
Slim must have slipped up on his itinerary.
Something happened to turn him aside from the
route he told his friends in Death Valley he
would follow in his search for wealth. For
Death Valley Slim is surely proSpector, per-
hapS of the old timers who have turned
their burros loose and now follow the desert
trails in cars that almost as hardy as the
burros and can 90 nearly as far up a canyon.
Perhaps Slim shared by sprlngtime, whose
witchery made him forget that he intended to
come by Needles when he left Death Valley. May
be he was humping along the highway, or some
good dirt road and he came to the mouth OF
canyon that he could see carpeted clear
back to its first bend with flowers and blan-
keted up both sides with flowers as far as the
bare rocks.
Perhaps that what stopped Slim. He de-
cided TO camp up that canyon among all those
flowers. There would be water there, and he
could do a little prospecting. He may have
found pocket, prospect SO good that he
is now in Los Angeles lining up money for
development. Let's hope he struck it rich, and
has given his mine a pretty name after one Of
the flowers that made him stop.
Or Death Valley Slim may have heard of a
strike up country some place, and turned his
car that way. Anyway, he did not keep his
rendezvous wAta the naailman--atr-Ihe Nugget
office
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-09
Bruce Cation Says:>>
One State Can't Profit at Expense Of Others

one candid Florida editor prompt
iy rechristened "the Florida ruina-
tion bill"
This bill sets out to bar chain
stores, but it goes several miles be-
yond the limit which binds most
opponents of chain stores. 1t would
not only prevent any retail mer-
chant from operating more than
one store anywhere in the state; it
would bar the operation of any re-
tail establishment whose common
stock was not wholly owned by per-
manent residents of Florida.
This bill would wipe out chain
stores all right, and do the job
thoroughly enough to suit the most
rabid of individualiStS. 1t would
also drive some millions of dollars
OF outside capital straight out Of
Florida, put out of business some
thriving concerns-which buy Flor
ida materials, hire considerable
numbers of Florida citizens, and payl
substantial taxes to the Florida eX-
chequer-and provoke some of the
leading buyers of typical Florida
products, such as citrus fruits, TO do
their buying in some other state.
Considering the earnest way in
which Florida bids for outside capi-
tai it is extremely doubtful that
this bill will ever become a law.
But the mere fact that it is being
considered is instructive.
A good many of us often forget
that all the states in the union hang
together, economically. We get the
idea that if we can just keep mo-
ney in the state" we shall prosper;
we delude ourselves into thinking
that we can in some way boost our
states prosperity at the expense of
other states.
That line of thought leads direct
ly to a bill such as this one proposed
in Florida. If that sort of econom-
les is sound, then the Florida bill
is perfectly logical. And the next
step after that would be to put up
state tariff walls and insist that
foreigners" from the next state
have passports when they come to
visit.
This country grew great and rich
because its economy is not bound by
any state laws. The fantastic Flor
ida proposal is a good example of
the mess we could get into by for
getting that basic fact.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-09

One reason why it is an advant-
age to have our republic split up into
AZ states is that individual states
can make experiments in govern
ment which the nation as a whole
could hardly dare to make.
Nebraska, for instance, can test
out the one-house legislature, and
Massachusetts can experiment with
savings bank life insurance, and the
rest of the country has a chance to
see how these experiments work in
actual practice.
Now it happens that some of the
most instructive experiments of all
are laws that never actually get
passed. The legislators OF SOW
erign state occasionally get BRAIN
storm and bring in a bill that is
simply fantastic The bill may die
but the discussion it provokes and
the prospects it opens can do all
the other states great deal OF good
X
Florida seems to be engaging in
that kind of experiment right now
with a state recovery act" which
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-09
ELKS OBSERVE
MOTHERS DAY

FL Centre ElkS observed Mothers
day at a dinner Friday night at
which their mothers their wives.
and their Wives mothers we're
guests of honor. Some l25 members
and guests attended.
During the dinner hour music
was supplied by an instrumental
trio composed of Martha Jenkins
Rauenzahn, Pollyanna Stone, Bo-'
rine Linekin.
After dinner officers of the lodge
under the leadership of Charles A.
Bratton, esteemed lecturing knight
who was in charge of the program,
presented the lodge Mothers day
tribute. Norman C. Deaton, lead
ing knight. paid tribute to. the
mothers and other officers taking
part were Neal H. Gavin, eXated
ruler; Cal Rector, loyal knight;
Herb Gerrish, esquire and Grover
Baker, chaplain.
In the past the lodge has OBJ
served Mothers day on Sunday but
this year tried the experiment of
a dinner preceding the holiday, the
innovation meeting with consider
able approval.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-09
News Behind the News
More MuddIed Than EUer.. Politics
Confuse Capital FeU Definite
Trends Can Be Predicted
Thank you, please.

WASHINGTON.-If the uncertainty of many
who are here on the scene may be taken as in
dicative. seldom has there been such a period of
general confusion as to the underlying political
situation in Washington and the future move
mentS of government.
No gift of prophecy is necessary, however,
to enable one to outline the essential funda-
mentalS of the present state of affairs, and to
reveal what the chief characters in the play
going to do-f they can do what they want
to do
You may start with the premise that the
one great political force in the country today is
the President of the United States.
That does not that the power and
prestige of Roosevelt won't or can't be crippled
by coalitions of his opponents now forming or
yet to form against him. 1t does mean that it
will take quite lot to beat the man in the
White House and his program
There is now coming into the open funda-
mental clash between Roosevelt and his liberal
followers on one side and conservative Demo-
cratS-represented in Congress mostly by south
emerson the other Two great issues are at
state:
1. The successful progress drastic cur
taIment of the Roosevelt reform program.
2. Control of the Democratic party and
its presidential nomination in 1910.
The issues are closely entwined and the big
question here in most minds is whether the
Democratic party is to be liberal progressive,
forward-marching party sworn to social and
economic reforms or old-faShloned Demo-
cratic party, more nearly like the which
nominated John w. Davis, the Morgan lawyer,
for president in 1924. Roosevelt is definitely
committed to making a new party out OF it.
Virtually the entire legislative program has
been pushed off into a corner pending the
Senate vote on the Supreme Court reorganza-
ton plan. This it can be said, is due to Roose-
velts sense of strategy, his belief that if he
loses the court fight he can can no longer
be effective a guide of legislation, and fear
of taking on more than one big battle with
Congress at the same time.
If he wins the court fight you need not be
surprised to see him push right on with de-
mands for his reorganization program, wage
and hour legislation a broader and heavier tax
program with no curtaiment of relief; crop
control and other farm legislation; housing legis-
lation and national planning projects more or
less along the theme Of TVA.g.,-~
Six months after his tremendous election
victory, however, the President finds Congress
balkier than at any time in the last four years.
Vice President Garner is no longer willing to
follow Roosevets orders blindly, and various
senators report that Garner is working behind
the scenes against the court plan. Many Sena-
tors who disagree with Rooseyelts reforms are
no longer willing to pretend loyalty.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-09

Gelett Burgess has coolies of fun
with what he calls his Nonsense
Machine, No, 8. The problem is,
with only spools, elastics, hair pins,
cigar boxes and such things as come
to hand 10 create three motions-ro-
tation, oscillation and reciprocal
motion in the three planes KY,
w and XZ. The apparatus operat-
ing on the three planes is colored-
red, green and yellow and when it's
operating by electric motor it does
dozens of queer things and is 50
complicated you give up thinking
and rest your mind-Which is the
big idea. Altogether psychological.
If it accomplished anything like
operating a lathe or trip hammer
one would grow tired of it in a
iiffy The appeal is solely in the
utter futility-suggesting mankind
in its present state. Whirling, whir-
ring and tWirling but accomplish
ing nothing. Nobody has more fun
with life's ironies than Burgess.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-09
Strolls Thru Hollywood

Redheadcd Ann Shirley. 19-year~
old ingenue. will be given three
year course Of training as leading
lady. during which her costumes
makeup. coifflrc and accent will be
completely made over. RKO-Radlo-
men announce. Meanwhile Dickie
Moore, lass discovered in the Ben
Bard playhouse. local little thea
ter" has been signed to fill Shir-
ley's shoes.
Composer Sigmund Rombcrg gift
cd William Anthony Mcclure with
an inspiration. which Romberg says
should make a great motion pic
ture, but Mcguire is still trying to
figure it out.
This is the idea" said Romberg
land I'm only giving it TO you
because | like you. AS the scene
opens We have great eXpanse of
ice. see? Miles and miles of it, In
the middle of all this ice we have
man and woman. Now you write
| the rest of it,.
Changing pace on their annual
"Golddiggrs." the MeSSers. Warner
will title the 1888 version Gold
diggers in London" and are already
building a permanent Trafalgar
Square" set as principal unit in the
English background. Cast so far are
Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Ian
Hunter. Hugh Herbert and Jane
Wyman.
If she isn't careful Dorothy La
mour is going to become unpopular
through pressing her favorite theory
that all movie acting should bel
done at night.
Romance doesn't seem to like
daylight" she explained. There is
something about nightfall that
stimulates artistic temperament.
Make up your own gag about
that.
Joel McCrea wins the lead in
Frank Lloyd's "Cavalcade OF the
West" currently titled "An Empire
is Born" Lloyd, incidentally, direct
ed the original "Cavalcade.' Bob
Burns in straight role, is the only
other actor cast so far.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-09

HOLLYWOOD, May 8. CUP)-Bur-
ly Clark Gable. slow-motion race
horse fancicr, bought another oat-
burner but rallied a syndicate to
help him with the hay bill.
The year-old bay colt has more
managers than Primo Camera, in
cluding Director Jack Conway,
Jean Harlow, Lionel Barrymore,
Frank Morgan. and Una Merkel, all
promised to split the upkeep and
share the purses, if any.
Charles Brown, local breeder, was
the owner of the goat. He hired it
out to play an extra bit in Sara
toga" on the Metro lot where the
steed fell under the attention OF
old Col. Gable.
That" observed Gable, looks
like a racehorse.'
Sure enough" boasted Brown
"It has the same number Of legs
as Man O. War
II think" returned Gable, that
I'll buy it,
Lets all buy it," suggested Miss
Harlow. and right there the syndi-
cate was formed.
The corporation has named the
nag Saratoga after their picture
and it will probably debut as a 3
year-old on the Santa Anita strip
next winter.
Gable has arranged to train tn.
beast on his San Fernando ranch
where Beverly Hills, his first ven-
ture in the racing game, is retired
to domesticity and expecting the
stork after brilliant career of also
running.
No colors have yet been decided
on, but they will probably be split
six ways too, like fancy ice cream
| at a garden party.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-09

rash of poetry today. Even this one
geysered up like a hiccup:
I'm sure I'd have the heebie jeebies
If | lived life like Lucius Beebe's
And my future would be somewhat
darker
If | had to crack wise like Dor
othy Parker.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-09
Editorials and Comment
SUNDAY MORNING MAY g. 1897
q on Sny'~
. FRANK WATANABE
sY Ep HOLDEN
NE EXHAUST ARE FIERCE

So many thing trying to rent my
thoughts that l doanno where to place
my skull. Newspaper varieties, Maga-
zine knowledge, Moving Fixture glee,
Radio amazementS! For % hour each
day must READ LOOK & LISTEN.
How can picking scarce minutes to
reading latest Wind Went book? News
paper are bulging with such bright news
that l got no time to improving my
brains.
Magazine ad are telling how can be
popular with party of any mixture But
no time for parties please! All time
took up reading them ads. If NOT read
ing, shall never be good current event.
In order to getting started on life
till | are 40, l must exercise on cod
liver oil twice times daily with a orange.
If not, you are a maroon, magazine say
so. Each morning l washing teeth for
one hour and half. | Using ALL them
tube models, l not wish missing the
right one. Otherwise | might never be
Mr. Smith the Manager some day. Oh
are wore to a friZzeli
Thank you, please
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-09
$4,000 HANDICAP
RARE FEATURE

BAY MEADOWS TRACK, San
Mateo, Calf May 8. U,R)-The
$4,000 handicap Bay Meadows Der
by will feature the races on the
track here today with Sir Oracle
apparently favored to take first
position.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-09
The Grab Bag
One-Minutc Test

|. In what cities are U. S. coinage
mintS situated?
2. What is said to be the oldest
musical instrument?
3. What is the color of blood in
the arteries?
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-09
New York Day by Day
By O. O. Mcintyre

ed by skilled mechanics probably
as little interested as Huyler sales
girl in candy. But what small boy
wouldn't have as his highest ambi-
ton the job of the young man who
tests each repaired loco on cir
cular track? Think Of being paid
for thati
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-09
Ten Years Ago
MAY o, 1927

Notice of appeal from the de-
cision of the Mexicali courts in the
suit filed against the Imperial Ir-
rigation District for money alleged
to be due on customs duties has
been filed by the ditrict.
Babe Ruth, King of Swat blasted
out his seventh home run of the
season today.
The first car of valley canta-
loupes today sped across the nation
to eastern markets, officially open
ing the 1927 melon season.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-09

A gentleman who knows and tells
me radio executives are knitting
broWS and drumming desk tops over
the weakness of sketches and eSpec-
tally of comedians gags. The high
figured comedians won't split with
gag men even when proved their
skits are going blah. Buffoons may
get $4,000 or SO a night and pay $40
for gags. When told the laborer
with the typewriter is worth his
hire, they say, "Oh, give him a
grand" But they won't take it out
of their pay. not they though they
perish and are dialed out by mil
lions of listeners.
Popular stars on the down coast
may be heartened by the news from
London about Bebe Daniels and her
husband Ben Lyons. They had had
their glorious day on the screen
and the studios were beginning to
be "in conference when they drop
ped around to see what was what.
So more for their recreation they
sailed for England. For a time they
took small radio bits and today in
less than a years time they have
become two of the most popular
entertainers on the wireless. Top
salary, big town house, a special
table in the Savoy grill and all that.
This column has burst out in a
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-09
LOOKING
BACKWARD
What The Press Files
Tell of Imperial Val
ley for This Date in
Past Years.
Twenty-Five Years Ago
Nav 9, 1912

The rainstorm is over and pleas
and weather now prevails. Consid-
cradle damage Was done in some
parts of the valley. however, as
storm waters tore out bridges,
washed out roads and flooded
homes.
George H. Reed and Miss Lucille
Holman of Imperial we're granted
a marriage license in Los Angeles
yesterday.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-09
Hints on Etiquettc

Hints on Etiquette
F'aultless etiquette is never more
desirable tnan at the bridge table
The ideal player does not argue
snap the cards, whistle or take ev-
cessive time in playing.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-09

Next to the mechanical museum
in the Rockefeller Center, Boys
Paradise is found in the immense
show room of the Lionel Co., toy
makers and repairers in Union
Square. The building should be
haunted by spirits of the old Cen
tury contributors - Richard Wat
son Glider, Mary Mapes Dodge and
The Lady Or the Tiger-has any
story made such talk as Frank
Stockton's? There are electric rail-
ways all over the place. Hills and
valleys. streams and bridges and
every kind of locomotive imagin-
able. All operated by switches. Ev-
erything about a railroad is here.
And in the repair department what
a pile of injured locos the little Will
lies have brought being investigat-
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-09
Words of Wisdom

Observation more than books, cx-
perience rather than persons, are
the prime educators.-A. B. Alcott.