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The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1937-05-14
WOMAN MAY RULE TOWN
IN UPSTATE COUNTY

Friendly, VIVA. May 1.-Two
men may rule the roost in this
northern West Virginia town.
Electors nominated Mrs. Stell
Eddy for Mayo and an entire fe
minnie ticket of the community
party at a primary.
The ticket at present isunop-
posed,
The other nominees are Mrs.
corder; Mrs. Ella Williamson
Eye Rustmyers (incumbent) re
Mrs. Clara Williamson, Mrs. Lee
Bowles Mrs. John May and Mrs
Maud Livingston for council.
John Flesher is the present
Mayor. 1888
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1937-05-14
County Becomes First In State
To Vote Additional Funds
For The Schools

Mcdowell became the first CO.
unity in the state to vote for a
special tax levy to support the
public school system, when the
citizenry cast better than 2 to !
in favor of the levy yesterday.
The election was held in &C
cordance with provisions of the
special legislative supplement of
1888 which authorizes a county
court or board of education to
call a special election and ask
for as much as SO per cent in
crease in the existing tax rate
for school purposes.
A total of II, 500 people of the
$4,000 registered voters of the
county went to the polls yester-
day to express themselves on the
question with the result of 8,O7S
voted in favor of the special levy
Eleven of the IT precincts in
the county voted against the
levy. These were: Newhan AS
co, Black Wofe, Crumpler, Rod
erfield, Norwood, Landgraff, Mo
hawk Brewsterdale. Northfork
No. 2 and Paynesville.
The percentage of the vote in
favor of the special levy by dis
tricts is as follows:
Browns Creek, 66.04, Sandy
River, 1922; Elkhorn, 65.47.
Northfork 65.46; Big Creek and
Adkin 1886.
Of "a percent of the total re
gisteration voting, 1918 percent
of the vote vas, cast r. favor Of
The Mcdowell County Board
waited until the legislature ad
journed to detedmine whether
action on the proposed increase
in state school appropriations be
made and then called the levy
election, in accordance with the
advice of Gov. Holt. The new
levy voted is as follows: the add
itional levy on each 500 valuat-
ion of property on class 1, 9.425
cents; on class 2, 1914 cents and
on class 8. 1925 cents and on
class a. 1925 cents.
This additional levy is designed
to run for three years and tc
bring in for school purposes a
sum of approximately $260,00O
annually.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1937-05-14
PLAN MAN
ELECTED TO CONGRESS

Harrisburg, Pa, May ID, 1897
Richard M. Simpson, Republic
an, who campaigned on a plat
form of opposition to President
Roosevelt's court reorganization
program, was elected to congress
today in a SPECIAL elction in the
18th Pennsylvania District.
Simpson defeated Lowell Alex
ander, Democrat. who expressed
sympathy with the ideals of the
Roosevelt administration. Both
candidates were members of the
state legislature.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1937-05-14
NEGRO CONGRESSMAN
ELECTED FROM PULLMAN

Washington, May 14.-Repres
tative Mitchell of Illinois, declar
ing that he was elected from a
Pullman car in Arkanas because
he is a negro, announced today
he had filed a $4,000 damage
suit designed to end such Jim
Grow" segregation in that state.
He said his attorneys filed
the suit in Chicago against the
Pullman Company, the Illinois
Central Railroad, and the trus-
tees Of the Rock Island Railroad
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1937-05-14
Personals

Mrs. Albeta Montgomery of
Roanoke, Virginia is visiting her
mother and sister, Mrs. Louise
Tanzymore and Mrs. Matthews
Collins. 80. E. =.
Mr.. Whitfield and Mr.. Mccoy
spent the week end in Detroit
visiting friends. =.
Mrs.A. E. Bolding Of Charles
ton, VIVA, spent mothers day
with her parents Mr. and Mrs. r
Jackson. 80. -.
Miss Elizabeth Scales; Student
of B. S. T. G spent Mothers Day
with her parents, Rev and Mrs
L. r. Lilly. ...
Mr. and Mrs G. T Davis were
the dinner guests of their daugh
ter, Ms ]. L. Woody at her home
on the Churh Street.
Miss Cortez Adams spent the
week end visiting friends here
over the week end.
Mr.. Grant Johnson, Clarence
Jones and Frank Johnson spent
week end in Bristol, Virginia.
Mrs. Tom Whittico was dim
err CREST Of Miss Ocie Bethel al
her home on Church st.
Mrs. Louise Tanzymore ant
daughter Mrs. Montgomery Of
Roanoke, Va, spent the weel
end in Cooper w. Va visiting hel
dauohter Mrs. ALTA Luck.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1937-05-14
INDEPENDENT ORDER
ST. LUKES SET UP NEW
COUNCIL IN KEYSTONE

Monday night members of st
Luke Order still enthusiastic and
loyal met in the Pythian Hall
where initiation of several mem
bers took place. Eight new mem
bers aRreedto wear the embelms
of st. Bukes and readily agreed
to undergo the mysterious init
alton in the presence Of a large
number of organized members.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1937-05-14

hontas, Virginia will long be re-
membered. The chuch was near
ly filled. An impressive sight
her in the center of the church.
was the 81 mothers sitting toget
Four persons joined at the morn
ing worship and two at night
The Mothers had charge of the
pulpit and services.
The pastor Rev. John Williams
delivered the sermon. The sac
rement of Holy Communion was
served at night. The Spiritual
Tide ran high al day but at night
it soarded to a new high. The
Church Covenant was read, the
Right Hand of Fellowship was
extended to the new members
and those who were baptized re
ceived the Baptism Certificates
Sunday afternoon 7 car loads
went with the minister to Elk
horn to assist Grocer Temple in
their rally. The vested choir of
eighteen sang. The Flat TOP
Choral SOCIETY," also was there
and did they sing!
The First Anniversary of the
pastor Rev Williams will begin
Sunday, May 16 and close with
an Informal reception May 26th.
The Rev w. H. Mitchell, pastor
of the First Baptist Church of
New River and Cor. Sec'y of the
Association Will preach the An
niversary Sermon Sunday May
23rd. He will be the guest speak
er all day. ......
The Golden Jubilee of so years
Of services as the First Baptist
Church will be celebrated in
July. Great plans are made for
the affair. -. e..
Please pass your news to Mrs
10000, NU0nL ,.nf Iota~ H.. IT,
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1937-05-14

Alligators grow very slowly.
At Is years Of age, they are only
two feet long, according to est
mates,
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1937-05-14
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH

Mothers Day services at the
First Baptist Church of Poca-
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1937-05-14

Please pass your news to Mrs.
Agnes Wood not later than Tues
day. KENNETH WOODY
Agent.
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plete system of vouchers and checks
and cards, and other details of keep
ing track of Uncle Sans dollars. and
making sure that not one of them j.:
diverted from the purpose for which
1t was appropriated and received
presidential approval.
EFT us follow through a request
from a town or city for certain
work it wishes to have done within
It's boundaries, and to which it be-
lleyeS itself to be entitled under the
provisions of the act That is to say
the project must be one by which the
public will benefit. 1t cannot fall into
the classification of private en-
terprise
The first step is to secure a local
sponsor for given project
If a city, county or other political
subdivision of a State or Federal Gov
ernment sponsors the project. it makes
application to the State Works Prog
ress administrator. who forwards it
to the Project Control Division of the
w. P. A. in Washington.
The w. P. A. investigates the appli-
cation. and satisfies itself that it falls
within the scope of the relief act II
it approves the project. it forwards
the application to the Bureau of the
Budget, The Bureau of the Budget
then gives the project it's own atten-
ton, and exercises individual author
ity of approving or disappearing. II
the bureau, in turn, approves, it lists
the project with other approved prof.
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forwards this warrant. together with
| the Presidents letter and the schedule
Of approved projects. 10 the controller
general of the United States. The con-
troller general then examines the listed
projects and approves or diSap pprovas
| according to his Judgment. and may
thus reject or delete some project
already marked for approval, If he
chooses.
The list schedule is not the on.y
thing examined in the office of the
controller general. The warrant itself,
AS forwarded by the Secretary of the
treasury, comes in for close scrutiny
before 1t is passed. The warrants are
checked for correctness as to form and
, legality and if found satisfactory they
are counterslgned If they are not
found satisfactory they are returned
to the Secretary of the Treasury with
out countersignature, with objections
stated
In determining approval or disap-
! proVal OF the listed projects on the
! schedule. consideration is given to
| their legality-this is. If the work con-
/ templated tails actually within the
purpose Of the relief act and whether
the fund allocated is allocated under
! the proper heading of the act. AS
particular classes of projects come
| under various provisions Of the act All
improper projects are deleted and only
approved ores are returned to the
| Treasury.
Now begins the intricate system Of
checking individual projects within the
| General Accounting Office. All ap-
| proved projects are recorded on green
cards and on ledger sneets, one for
each project, and these cards are filed
| numerically and alphabetically in
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than for initial guidance. While a
great many tourists get by with a
fair degree OF success by following
State and United States route num-
bers, 1t is matter of observation
that whenever detours are met such
hand to- mouth" tourists find them
selves unable to proceed by selecting
alternate routes. Avoiding the de-
tours Is one Of the essential features
OF any well-conducted Summer or
Fall tour Unless one has the lay
OF the land. knows his cities and has
consulted his maps sufficiently to
know OF possibilities in the way Of
alternative routes, he simply takes
the detours and road construction as
it comes. And it comes hard
Sign posting still is handicapped
by lack OF uniformity, in spite OF I'M
portaf strides in the markings along
national routes. Most Of the trouble
lies in cities and towns where there
is not only variation in the size and
kind of markings, but in the loca-
tlons for signs Too often the tour
ist has to crane his neck to read
signs, sometimes overlooking safety
signs while he is trying to decide
which way to turn next. The WE'LL
conducted tour is fashioned on a diff.
ferent order Before starting. tho
modern tourist obtains through route
maps of the principal cities he plans
to traverse. 1t saves him many a
headache,
In one Eastern city large direc-
ton sign definitely points to a bypass
which is not only a longer but a less
easily traversed route II one ignores
this sign he meets another one later
which actually leads out Of the Vay
TO get to the next large city. A
glance at one of the small-size tour
lst maps OF the city would show that
the easiest way through is to ignore
the sign
Much by-passing has been lacking
IN judgment. Often bv-passlng is
difficult process for the traffic au-
thorlties by virtue of the peculiar law
out OF the city. In numerous cases
II is far simpler to drive straight down
Main street, rather than to attempt
mileage and time saving by following
the so-called through route" Tour
ISIS are finding that by following the
main streets of some cities they bene-
Mt by faster traffic and traffic signsl5
that do not tie them up 90 long. On
rainy nights visibility is better on the
wider, better lighted streets.
signs need not be taken too liter
ally In touring. the driver should
kno" enough about his routing in
ADVANCE to avoid any pitfalls occa-
stoned by trusting to luck that h.
will always find the right sign in the
right place
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pendlture before the requested check
Is drawn. If the project exceeds in
cost the amount allocated, vouchers
are not approved after the ALLEGATION
has been used up, although in special
instances and at the discretion of the
President additional funds may be
made available, according to the
circumstances.
The General Accounting Office is
housed in the old Pension Building
IN Pension Park-one OF Washing
tons historic buildings, which makes
up in charm what it lacks IN floor
space. due to the great columns thai
rise from the first floor straight as
arrows 10 the roof, with the other
stories opening on TO narrow galleries
surrounding this center open court.
Within the various Offices are filed
millions OF cards Identifying the
w. P. A. projects all over the country.
Likewise. there are thousands of ledger
sheets. all neatly and accurately tabu-
lating to the last red cent the moneys
Uncle Sam is expending.
One wonders, looking at them in
countless rows, covered all over with
their precise entries, how it ever all
comes out straight And as one who
personally experiences the greatest
dif1culty In subtracting or adding
check stubs. I dofY my hat to those
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master files. The ledgers are filed
numerically and every expenditure on
the project, as it is paid out is recorded
on the ledger sheet.
MEANWHILE, in the Treasury De-
partmert, where approved prof.
ects have been received. authorize tons
are issued to the w. P. A.. authorizing
prosecution of the approved projects
and advising the allotment-that is.
specifying the amount to be spent. This
amount is sometimes less than that
approved by the President. but It is
never more. A project supervisor is
then authorized by the State admins
traitor to proceed with work on the
project
Those projects which have beal
oeleted or dlSapproved are not set up
on the books of either The Treasury
or the General Accounting Office. They
may be resubmitted. if their scope is
changed or if other objections have
been removed and may be subsequently
approved. During 1885 and 1886
objectionable projects involved those
that were sponsored by quasi-publio
bodies; work on private property with
no showing of benefit to the genera.
public; indefinite description of the
work to be done or the purpose to be
served: work on Federal aid highway
roads by local sponsor instead of by
or under the direction Of the Secretary
OF Agriculture; leased property without
showing the term of the lease as iusti.
flying the expenditure. Approved prof.
ects are often resubmitted on new
schedules by letters OF the President
changing the scope or amount.
The relief moneys are set up In
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Mold Easily Found.
THE microscope can't be fooled

THE microscope can't be fooled.
Two bottles OF tomato catsup
may appear equally red and allurinr
on the shelf, but the microscope will
reveal Immediately If one was made
from sound. well-ripened fruit and
the other from cracked, sour and
moldy stock.
A f1attened drop of tomato material
between two plates Of glass, when OBJ
served through the microscope, NAV
show filaments Of mold. The analyst
examines successive fields Of view"
by moving the slide on the microscope
stage. He then calculates what per-
centage contains mold-commonly re-
ferred to rs the mold count" II it
Is beyond normal for good stock pre-
pared under suitable MANUFACTURING
conditions, the shipment represented
by the sample, and the shipper like
wise, are subject to legal action.
Tomato products continue as the
most important field for the mold
counters activities. The Microanaly-
tical division OF the Food and Drug
Administration does, however, use the
method for jams, jellies, fruit buffers,
strained vegetables, butter and other
foods, with such variations Of tech.
nioue as differences n tissue structure
and other factors require.
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dulplS BuNdIlCC lil1CI IHdGloll dS W uS"
tour possibilities and road condi-
tions.
Many tourists, says Mr.. Russell,
have recently reported sign posting Of
such low order as to mislead and con-
fuse those who travel haphazardly.
Signs have been found pointing in
exactly the wrong direction. while in
many instances the signs have been
turned just enough to send tourists
of on the wrong fork at an intersec-
ton OF highways. Signs frequently
are posted for purely selfish or COM
mercial reasons, leading tourists into
streets that unnecessarily detain
them. Many signs are designed to
indicate alternate routes that may
have no appeal to the tourist who is
interested in reaching his destination
as quickly and conveniently as pos
sible.
In the past few years there has been
such marked increase in sign post
Ing as to lead to the questionable
conclusion that 1t is no longer neces-
sary to have any advance information
Or to consult maps The svingba ok
to the earlier and sounder principle
about being forearmed by being fore
warned is a natural result OF the hard
lessons learned through touring from
sign to sign"
Safety advocates are finding that
motorists who tour without the aid
OF good counsel and the latest maps
are more prone to accidents. The
danger lies chiefly in the need for alb
rupt stopping at every intersection to
read the sign posts II a tourist does
not have all Of his advance towns
well in mind he finds it necessary to
clutter up each intersection to get
his bearings This takes time, and
to make up for this loss he is tempted
to step on the gas in between signs.
Coming to each intersection at too
high rate of speed has its obvious
hazards
BY consulting his road map and
obtaining few facts from his auto
mobile club, one motorist was able
to get out OF large Eastern city with
only little suburban traffic. There
are at least two dozen ways of enter
ing this city from one point of the
compass, whereas sign posts are seen
pointing the way to it only on a half
dozen routes. Much OF this routing
is OF the cross variety. involving
secondary roads and special streets,
To benefit by this convenience it is
not possible TO rely on signs. On
week ends and holidays IT saves con.
siderable congestion to be able to
avoid the more heavily Travelled
routes.
NDER the newer plan sign posts
are used for confirmation rather
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get date with bureau film you have
to put in far ahead of time, like boy
trying to date popular debutante
or coed.
THE most expensive film ever made
under bureau auspices was the
100000 "A Trip Through the Oil
Lands of Europe, Asia and Africa"
financed by one Of the Nations big
petroleum refining companies. An
other refining company paid $4,000
for the privilege of sponsoring movie
of Shenandoah National Park. Record
annual expenditure by industries for
films of this sort was $l75,000 The
average is less than half that, each
reel costing about $4,000.
At this time the Bureau Of Mines
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tfeless and palnstaking individuals
unoer the supervision of the COMP
troller general, who can break I'm
billions. fling them all over the coun-
rf. and when vouchers stream in.
make 1t all come out even again.
IL is our guess that if Congress
appropriated $3.50 900 900 and one
haf cent instead OF the $3.50 600
ooo that was appropriated altogether,
mat one-half cent would turn IN
Jauntlly at the end of the final ac-
counting. to exclam. with mis-
chleVous flip. IF you expected me to
get lost in the shuttle, you're very
much mistaken"
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appropriation accounts and are req
uisltloned by the disburslng officers.
These may be local disbursing agents.
in the neighborhood of the project, or
the central ONCE in Washington TO
pay bills involving Nation wide prof.
ects. or the United States Treasury
State disbursing officer, to pay local
bills
All these disburSlng officers of the
Government are bonded and have
been subject to Investigation before
taking Office Past conduct and cur
rent accounts Of every disbursing
officer are checked before checks are
forwarded for payment on any
project. AS an approved disbursing
officer sends in vouchers for expendi-
lures as the project progresses, checks
are draWn and the amount charged
against the ALLEGATION on the filed
ledger sheets in the General Account
ing ONCE.
THE exactness exercised with re.
spect to these payments may b<
appreciated from the fact that the
smallest expenditure made must fall
precisely within the purpose OF the
act and the project for which it re-
celved presidential approval. Fol
example, il moneys have been ap-
proved for Improvement OF schoo
playground by grading" not one
penny can be spent on that projec,
for any other purpose than grading
If. for example. a voucher is for
warded that covers purchase OF .
sandbox for that playground it i.
not approved. Likewise. the tools
bought must be for grading anc
purchased only for the purpose stated
| There Is minute scrutiny Of every ex.
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MINES BUREAU MAKES MOVTES|
Industry Stands the Expense and Morton Leo o Mines Safety
Engineer, Arranges Films Mineral Industries for
Exhibition by Schools and Organizations

in first aid through the medium of
bureau films.
Besides taking care not to include
in bureau films anything that can be
construed AS publicity. Leopold says he
has to watch out for the presence of
unsafe conditions.
I'VE won't take a picture unless it
stresses safety, unless all safety factors
are present. he said. If we are
filming in a factory where regulation
goggles should be used, we are careful
to see that these are on the ewes of
the workers. FlyWheels, cogs and
geareo machinery must be properly
guarded. In mine only closed lights
must be shown"
Actual filming of the movies is done
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by companies chosen by the CO.
operating industries with the approval
of the Bureau of Mines. The industry
which is doing the financing must pay
Tor all production costs, including
actors and costumes where these are
required. When a film has been COM
pleted. copies are made and kept in
flreproof storage at the Pittsburgh
distributing center, where they are
available to any borrower Just like
public library books. but usually harder
to obtain because of the demand. To
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head OF the British government film
department called on Leopold recently
to discuss the possibility of an ex-
change Of films between the two gov
ernmentS. He said about 10 of the
bureau films are being used by educa-
tlonal institutions throughout England
The bureau is shipping its films to
borrowers at the rate of l80 reels a
day. Orders are now filed in the
films to be shipped division" which
are scheduled for shipment in June.
1888. In many instances where the
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bureau has as high as 100 copies OF a
subject for circulation they are three
or four months behind in date of
shipment.
Leopold thinks it would be a good
idea to make movies of governmental
acuvltles-the work of the G-men, of
the Coast Guard. soil conservation
agents. the Navy. the Army. all Fed
eral activities adaptable 10 effective
filming. He would like to have some
industry or industries put up 100000
for the job.
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has in its film library 3,775 reels. which
during the fiscal year ended June 30
were shown on l00,342 occasions-a 81
per cent increase over the previous
fiscal year--to audiences totaling g.
tendance at these films is student
INDEPENDENTLY grade school and
high School-and the bureau has on
file nearly half million report cards
complmentlng individual films. The
movies also are shown to groups with
in the industries of which pictures
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have been made. to engineering So
cletles, chambers Of commerce and all
classes of civic, military and religious
organizations.
Within the past year 1859 separate
organlza tlons avalled themselves of
the use of these pictures.
Many foreign governments have
purchased copies Of Bureau of Mines
films for use IN their educa tional in
StltutlonS. Two weeks ago a request
was received from Brazil for permis-
sion to buy u films. Thomas Baird