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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-07-28
48 Killed By "A
Plane Cras h In
:ColombiaLas Sun,

Bogota, Colombia, July 25.-Eight
additional deaths today brought to
AZ the number of victims of stunt
ing military plane which crashed
yesterday into crowd OF 10000
watching a military review.
Many of the remaining 142 per-
sons injured by the hurting, fame
enveloped plane were reported in
grave condition. The injured were
visited during the day by President
Alfonso Lopez, who escaped unhurt
The stand he occupied was struck
by the plane.
Memorial services were held this
afternoon in the plaza Bolivar in
front of the cathedral where the
caskets of the victims were as
sembled.
Streets around the cathedral were
packed and traffic was suspended
there and on all streets leading to
the cemetery where funeral services
were held.
The government announced it
would pay burial expenses for the
dead and medical expenses for those
injured.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-07-28
Welfare Workers
Institute Is Held
Miss Tugman Attended Meeting
AT Chapel Hill Last Week.
Good Program.

More, than three hundred North
Carolina social workers concluded
their annual meeting in the nine
teenth session of the Public We'll
far Institution held at Chapel Hill
and the University of North Caro-
lima last week.
National as well as state officials
were present to instruct the assem-
bly, in the latest viewpoints of So
cial work and the new approach to
the social welfare problem.
Concerning the future of the well
fare situation in North Carolina,
Mrs. w. T. Bost, state welfare COM
missioner, at the opening session
said that public welfare is vitality
interested that each individual at
tain his full stature and strength"
and that it concern itself with COM
munity resources such as clinics,
schools, recreation centers and with
employment and wage rates.
"For more than 20 years." she
said, North Carolina has been
building philosophy of public well
fare, and two and half years ago,
through federal funds, the state de-
partment was enabled to broaden it's
scope of activities and be better pre-
pared to administer two phases of
the social security program in old
age assistance and aid to dependent
children"
Speaking at the assembly were
Kenneth Pray, of the Pennsylvania
School of Social, Work, Isabel Cor
don Carter, of the same institution
who were instructor of the assembly
throughout the meeting, and Miss
Lavinia Keys, regional representa-
tive of the federal Social Security
Board at Washington.
Miss Ruth Tugman, superintend-
ent Of the welfare department ia
Ashe county, attended the institute
and then spent the week end at the
beach.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-07-28
sILAs CREEK NEWS

Miss Cleo Dickson left Friday fol-
Mount Pleasant in Cabarrus county
where she began teaching her Sc
venth term last Monday.
J. w. Huneycutt, Jr., of Lexing-
ton. visited his father-in-law, c. M
Dickson, Saturday night. He re-
turned to his home, accompanied by
his wife, Sunday.
w. w. FISHERMAN, an aged citizen
of this section, is very i'll at present
A large crowd attended the com
niunion services at Landmarks
church Sunday.
Arthur FISHERMAN, son of the late
DIR. j. c. FISHERMAN, who has been
in West Virginia for some thirty
years, is visiting friends and rela-
tives in this section.
Oats that are both in the shock
and those that are not out are dam
aged considerably by the recent
rains.
Mr.. and Mrs. Zeb Dickson, who
have been visiting Mrs. Dickson's
father, j. A. Gettys, Of Glen Alpine,
N. c., are now at the home of Zeb's
father and mother, Mr.. and Mrs. c.
M. Dickson.
Miss Selma, daughter of Mr.. and
and Mrs. w. w. Dickson, who has
has been attending Draughon's Bust
ness College of Winston-Salem, is
is spending a few weeks at home.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-07-28

for three years. While at Lenoir-
Rhyme college he travelled during the
summer vacation, for Home Educa-
ton Co., of Concord, N. c. Later he
graduated from Wake Forest college
law school. While at Wake Forest
he ran pressing club and payed his
way through school.
He began his law practice in 1915
but when the call came for men to
enter the army in 1918 to fight the
world War, Monroe Adams respond
ed.
After returning home from the
war, he was made Commander OF
the Statesville Post of the American
Legion, and later district Command
er, and was state chairman of the
Americanism committee for one
year.
He worked for the Tallahassee
Power Co., at Badin for a year and
then went to Raleigh as Chief of the
Income Tax division for the FEEDER
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-07-28
COMET NEWS

The farmers of this section are
badly behind with their farm work
on account of so much rain the past
week. All roads in this part are in
bad shape
Several people from this section
attended the communion and foot
washing at Horse Creek Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Fletcher and
Miss Dare WEIGH returned to Chadds
Ford, Pa, Sunday after spending a
few weeks with friends and rela-
tives here.
The new store that has recently
been established at Low Gap, is
progressing nicely under the man.
agement of Everett Church.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-07-28
Winship Escapes
Assassination
Puerto Ricans Fail In Attempt
To Kill Governor Of
Island.

Ponce, Puerto Rico, July 25.-
More than dozen shots were fired
at Maj.-Gen. Blanton Winship, gov
ernor of Puerto Rico, in an attempt
to assassinate him today while he
was reviewing a parade celebrat-
ing American occupation of the is
land.
Governor Winship was not hurt,
although the attack precipitated a
shooting ARRAY in which two Puer-
to Ricans were killed and at least
81 wounded, including three wom-
en-.
Police said one of the men killed,
Angel Esteban Antongiorgi, was
among the governors attackers.
They described him as member of
the nationalist party, a group de-
handing Puerto Rico be made in
dependent of the United States.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-07-28
Leading Economist
In Nation Predict
Better Business
Survey Shows Fall Pickup To
Hit Slump Hardest Blow. Pre-
diets Improvement.

New York, July 25-Better bust
ness, improved economic well being,
seems on the way in remaining
months of 1888, in the sweeping ma
jority opinion Of more than a score
of leading economists.
Of % who answered an inquiry as
to their opinion on the prospect of
business recovery, all but three pre-
dicted improvement by the end Of
the year, some with reservations.
Such near unaniraity was regard
ed in economic circles as unusual, if
not unprecedented. It was thought
particularly significant, in that
opinions were sought from a broad
cross section of men holding varied
and conflicting economic and social
philosophers, from the extreme right
to the far left, and scattered geo.
graphically across the continent.
But several of the optimists care
fully qualified their opinions as to
the nearness of arrival, degree of
rise, and length Of the recovery
movement.
If the majority are correct, it
will not be Boom" Only one used
the term ''boom."
While nearly all predicted brisk
pickup in the consumer goods fields,
wholesale and retail, many qualified
their optimism as to heavy indus
tries.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-07-28

A sponge will hold more cold wat
er than hot water.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-07-28
WILKES MAN KILLS 48
SNAKES IN ONE DAY

Silas johnson, Wilkesboro citizen
and bee keeper, Killed 48 snakes on
highway 421 near Maple Springs one
day last week.
And the report is not the result of
delirium tremens or a snake tale
without a foundation. Ben Whit
tington, who was nearby, witnessed
the wholesale killing.
Mr.. Johnson was on his way to
Maple Springs to see if an apiary
Of bees had stored up bountiful
supply of sourwood honey. He saw
a snake lying on the highway but
did not see it in time to run over
it with his car. He stopped and
backed up, skidding the wheels of
his car on the snake.
He stepped out of his car to in
spect the dead snake and little
snakes 6 to 10 inches long were all
over the pavement. He killed Al
and saw three or more others hang
ing out of a whole the car wheel
had torn in the large snakes car
caSS.
The ar%e snake was peculiar in
appearance. Some who saw the
snake said it resembled highland
Observation-Disclosures
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-07-28

The weight of blood is 1-18 of the
whole body.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-07-28
NEW HOME DESTROYED BY
STORM IN PENNSYLVANIA

Walter Paisley, a native of Ashe
county who has been living in Penn
sylvania for a number of years, had
the misfortune recently of having
his new home destroyed by storm.
The. house was under construction
and a terrific wind blew it into
pieces. Mr.. Paisley is also native
of Ashe. She is the daughter Of
Chief c. P. Mcmillan, of West Jeffer-
son. They live in Avondale, Pa.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-07-28

One of Statesville's outstanding
attorneys, Monroe Adams, has been
chosen by the Republican party as
candidate for Congress from the
Ninth district.
In selecting Mr.. Adams the Re-
publicans selected a man whose ca
reer has been outstanding and ac-
tually reads like an Horatio AL
ger novel, Mr.. Adams rose from
the ranks of farmer boy to become
one of the outstanding attorneys in
Iredell County. He has always been
found to be fair in all his dealings,
and due to the fact that he is a
self-made man he understands the
needs of all his fellowmen.
He was born in Wilkes county, but
his family moved to Alexander
when he was about four years old,
and there Monroe became a ploW-
boy and went to school at Vashti:r
While at Vashti he hauled apples in
a covered wagon to StatesTille, Sal
isbury, Concord and Ghaf1otte when
it took a week to make the trip, due,
to the roads thatNorth Carolina had
those days. Eater bis family moved:
to Statesyille where he attended
school zand Worked.. in al Statesville
Gotten aflI& Serne few years later
he<menfs back tto9l,e arm Ito work.
fas bis gEapdfa the rate of.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-07-28
ASHE POST is PRAISED

The outstanding work being ac-
complished by the Ashe county post
of the American Legion is being ap-
plauded in the state by various Of
ficers and publications.
"You fellows have one of the most
active and best posts in the entire
state" Jim Caldwell stated, in a let
ter to Guy Badger, adjutant of the
local post, recently.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-07-28
TAXED COST OF COURT FOR
FISHING OUT OF SEASON

Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Miller, Mr. and
Mrs. Linn Hurley and little Ben
Miller, who were charged with vio-
lating state game laws by fishing out
of season, were taxed with cost of
court by Magistrate J. L. Gilley, in
Lansing last Saturday. Warnings
have been issued by Harve Good
man, county game warden.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-07-28
RONDA SINGING AT
BETHEL JULY 31St

Ronda singing convention will be
held with Bethel church near Ron
da on Sunday, July 81, beginning
at 1890 o'clock. All gospel singers
are invited to attend and take part
in the singing.
Announcement of the convention
was made by w. H. Jones, chairman,
and R. r. Crater, secretary.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-07-28
300 per month.

After working in cotton mill and
workingsh farms, -he went to Atha
ChairSs1 Company StatesxiAs and
worked hinBef up to a fofeaanship:
He had accumulated enough money
to enter Lenoif Rhyme college at
Hielery-whefe- he attended school
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-07-28

A 50-bushel crop of corn takes IS
pounds of nitrogen from the soil,
but an acre of good sweet clover
puts about 100 pounds of nitrogen
back into the soil.
Evening star., 1938-12-15

T. w. o. c. had "fired" Mr.. German
from its Advisory Council. Pre-
viously, Mr.. German had announced
his resignation.
Pay Restoration Sought.
The T. w. o. c. chairman charged,
too, that Mr.. German was attempt
ing to split the T. w. o. c. organiza-
ton at q time when 1t was seeking
restoration of a 1914 per cent wage
cut for 10000 woolen and worsted
workers. The wage cut was agreed
to during the recession, but the
T. w. o. G. has begun negotiations
to have it restored.
'Mr. Gorman's intention to revive
a defunct organization, If successful,
could serve only one purpose" Mr..
Hillman said. ut would split the
textile ranks and play directly into
the hands of that minority of en-
ployers who still seek to depress
conditions
Mr.. German announced Tues
day that he had become a member
of the A. F. of L.. asserted the U. T.
WIS contract with the G. I. o. had
been invalidated by Rhode Island
court and proposed a convention to
determine the unions future afiili-
alton.
He followed this up yesterday by
Evening star., 1938-12-15

ordering the U. r. w. treasurer,
James Starr, to leave the r. w. O.
Co.'S New York headquarters within
10 days and bring all funds and
property" to Washington.
U. T. w. officials estimated they
had $4,000 in their treasury in
March, 1887, when the T. w. o. C..
was established by an agreement
between Mr.. German and John l..
Lewis, G. I. O. chairman.
Mr.. German estimated the r. w.
o C. had collected $5OO0OO from
U. T. w. members since the agree
,melt was made and indicated the
U. r, w. would institute suit to re-
cover the money.
Evening star., 1938-12-15
Gloria Baker 10 Wed
H. J. Topping, Jr., Monday

By the Associated Prc SIS.
PALM BEACH, Fla. Dec. 15.-
Wealthy, vivacious Gloria Baker,
whose name had been linked ro-
mantically with half a dozen eligible
bachelors since her debut, will be
married Monday to Henry J. Top
ping, jr., heir to a tinplate for
tune.
Her mother, Mrs. Margaret EN-
erson, daughter of the late Capt.
Isaac Emerson, announced the en-
gagement at her Palm Beach villa
yesterday. The wedding will be held
here at 1:30 pm, with Alfred Gwynn
Vanderbilt, her half-brother, giving
the bride away and Mrs. George
Vanderbilt the matron of honor.
Miss Baker, 10. known as Mimi
to her friends, was New York s
Evening star., 1938-12-15
Blind Aides to Meet

The District of Columbia Associ-
alton Of Workers for the Blind will
meet at 7:45 o'clock tonight in the
Parish Hall Of Epiphany Church,
1877 6 street NV. Following a
short business session, the associ-
alton will hold its Christmas party,
Charlotte Garland, secretary, an
nounced.
Evening star., 1938-12-15
Women Sub for Suntos

EASTON, Pa, Dec. is (P.-Two
women who donned red suits and
white whiskers to pinch hit for
Santa Clauses at Christmas kettles
on downtown streets are putting
parents on the spot. A satisfactory
explanation isn't always at hand
when inquisitive youngsters want to
know why Santa's voice sounds so
much like mothers.
Evening star., 1938-12-15
Flood Of kilograms
Repudiates German,
HiIIman Declares
u. T. w. Head Ousted
From Advisory Unit
By T. W. o. C..
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Sidney Hillman. chairman of the
c. I. O's Textile Workers Organic
ing Committee, said yesterday he
had received "a flood of kilograms"
repudiating Francis Germans efforts
to lead the United Textile Workers
out of the C. I. O.
Asserting the U. T. w. presidents
attempt was doomed to failure"
Mr.. Hillman said locals everywhere
were testifying to their loyalty to
the T. w. o. c., and proving that
Mr.. German has no organization
and no following"
Mr.. Hillman announced that the
Evening star., 1938-12-15

glamour girl" after her $50,000 de-
but in September, 1887, at the EN-
erson estate on Long Island. She
Is the daughter of Mrs. Emerson
and the late Raymond T. Baker,
former director of the United States
mint and during the World War
Secretary of the American Embassy
in Russia. Her father died in April,
1885.
Mr.. Topping, called Bob" is "A,
He will inherit 100000 when q
years old. His father is Henry J.
Topping Of New York and Green
field, Conn, and his grandfather,
the late Daniel G. Reid, was presi-
dent of the American Tinplate Co.
Mr.. Topping married Jayne Shad-
duck, the actress, in 1885. She won a
divorce this week in Bridgeport,
Conn.
Evening star., 1938-12-15

Denmark finds 1888 its most pros
porous year since 1890
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-02-03
FARM
N EWS

equal or greater net income than
our mountain farmers because east
ern farmers are able to keep their
flock during the winter at a much
lower COST
Of 81 records turned in, %
showed gross income per eve of
more than $40. With one excep-
ton, all of these % focks produced
better than 100 per cent lamb
crop, or in other words, more than
one lamb was raised to market age
and weight for each eve.
Top honors among the records
went to the King brothers, Route 2,
Statesville, who made a gross in
come of $1753 per eve. They raised
Is lambs from 10 ewes, controlled
stomach worms by treatment and
the rotation of pastures, and locked
their lambs. The wool clip aver
aged over eight pounds per head in
animal husbandry at State College,
made this statement after looking
over records which sheep growers
from all parts of North Carolina
kept during 1887.
Sixty-one complete records were
submitted to State College which
show an average gross income per
eve of 1896. These incomes range
from as low as 1884 to as high as
$17.53, Case said.
The records indicated that Pied
mont and mountain farmers were
able. to secure a larger gross income
from sheep than were farmers in
the Eastern part of the State.
L. c. Hampton, Stratford, Allie
ghany county, made the next best
record, his ewes crossing $14.93
each.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-02-03

annual dollars in excess of what we
ouy or pay over what we sell or re-
ceive and this too heavily unfav-
orable trade balance must be
turned.
1T has been said that without a
distribution of goods and money to
the Southern masses, to the South
ern farmers and working people,
the South will never become the
market for its own goods it must
become if its economic destiny is to
be completed and we must,
through distribution, develop that
purchasing power. To create, to
retain, to distribute more of its
wealth-those are the three signs in
which the South can conquer now
and they must be made all at
once.
I'VE can agree, also, and our
press can serve, in welcoming to
the great voices of science. To the
sciences that tell us how to build
great machines and factories, to
employ new chemical process, to
make oil out of tung trees, starch
out of sweet potatoes, milk out of
peanuts, paper out of pine, power
alcohol out of vegetable products,
and all the other means of creating
new wealth. And to those other
sciences which tell us what to do
with the new wealth we create, how
to distribute it, how to invest and
save and multiply it, how to make
civilization out of it-social sci
ence, economic science, educational
science, and even, if such thing
should be, political science. And
we can welcome, too, I trust, the
psychological science which tells us
how great driving power is that
quality of romance which once be-
longed to this land, and how great
a balancing power is that serenity
which is still identified with this
land. Not the serenity which is a
mere going to sleep, which is an
other name for hookworm or ma
laria or plain ordinary laziness, but
the serenity which is the very &C.
cret of life, the answer to all the
Mysteries and hates and inanities
ami insanities of this aspirin and
amytal age.
'The covered wagons are coming
back! The urge that sent them
northumberland nine decades ago is
sending them now to the southeast.
The star of empire that shone for
so long on this nations Pacific face
is shining now on its Southern
shoulder The great grandsons. of
the young men who went west are
coming South. The continental
round trip is complete, and the COW
cred wagons are rolling now, on
rubber tires, to the country's last
economic frontier-the Southern
States of america! Upon the free
and enlightened press of the South
rests the responsibility of great
over this process and scene"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-02-03
State Engaged In
War On Syphilis
Large Posters Being Placed On
Highways CautiOning Against
the Disease.

Raleigh, Feb. 1.JFNorth Caro-
lima, now engaged in an active war
against SYPHILIS, has carried the
message to the highways and by
ways, said Dr. Carl v. Reynolds,
State Health Officer, in announcing
the fact that twenty-five 24-sheet
outdoor posters would be distribut-
ed throughout the State. 'These
will be in place by February 2,
which was known as Social Hygiene
Day and each bears the picture of
a father holding up a baby, with
the mother standing by. The word
ing on the posters is: Safeguard
baby's right to be born healthy.
Every expectant mother should go
early to a physician for an exami-
nation and blood tests.
''These posters have been located
at points where they will be seen
by the greatest number of people,,
Dr. Reynolds continued. "They
were erected under the sponsorship
of the North Carolina State Board
of Health through the cooperation
of the Outdoor Advertising Com
pany of America, Incorporated, to
which we are extremely grateful.
The newspapers have given us their
unstinted cooperation in our efforts
to promote public health and have
shown deep interest in the war
on syphilis. This cooperation on
the part of the outdoor adertising
company gives an add cudgel with
which to help combat the Great
Killer"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-02-03

QUESTION:: What treatment is
necessary for seed corn to protect
it from weevil damage?
ANSWER: Small amounts of
corn to be saved for seed can be
protected by mixing Thoroughly
about one part of lead arsenate with
1000 part by weight of corn. This
corn must be properly handled and
safeguarded to prevent its use for
food. Large amounts of corn would
have to be funigated with carbon
disulphide. This chemical must be
handled with care as the fumes are
explosive after mixing with air.
The room or bins should be tight,
or if the floor is tight, the pile OF
grain may be covered with canvass
after adding the fumigant.