The Jacksonville Record from Jacksonville, Alabama • 1

rf rt IK ESTABLISHED 1907 JACKSONVILLE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16 1932 PUBLISH) i i INSPIRATIOIJ! FLU CA IIP Of All Things- f. With the definite number of flu cases in the'state unknown, Jefferson county reports 19,000 Leeds-Pell City Road -epidemic first, was noticed, and to 537 the total number of other county cases. ''Of course," these figures represented but a drop In the bucket of the actual number of persons' actually afflicted," Dr. J. D.

Dow- RECREATIONAL EXEECISES For Children and Adults BY Extension Division State Teachers College JACKSONVILLE, ALA. Test your knowledge and compare the answefs with those on mother page of this issue. cases in that county, of "which 1,420 cases are in the city for Birmingham. ii IllBlllliIill Sift I 'A Just how many people are Certain Fixed Expenses Eefuse to Yield The Jacksonville Record man was making a business call. in the Interest of advertising and printing, and our old friend, T.

G. Johnston, responded: "I believe In a reasonable appropriation for advertising, all right. I find that Judicious advertising pays. Well directed advertising is a good-investment. Our trouble is, conditions are such that there la not enough volume to meet the fixed overhead In the average business and Underway suffering from the malady GEOGRAPHY Calhoun county la not known, but at any rate, the number (of What country Is located north cases is considerable.

Several of the United States? Name the five great lakes. 'STILLERS' FEES ARE hundred school children are reported out of the various schools of the county. What river flows from the ling, county health officer, said Monday. "There probably are more than 19,000 cases. "Wet weather, such as this, does not cause influenza, but rather leads to pneumonia," added Dr.

Dowling. No county schools have closed on account of prevalence of the epidemic, according to E. B. Er- win, superintendent of county schools. 13! Mtf Concrete Work Mills At Work on Large Cement Order Birmingham, Ala.

Contract to supply 25,000 barrels" of cement for construction of tiew post- Great Lakes to the Atlantic Oc ean? About 250 pupils were absent this week from the white schools 1'i In what section of the United HIGH leave a reasonable margin of i i profits on investment. 'We have managed to cut our States are the Appalachian In what section of the United overhead practically as low as it( office at Jacksonville, has can be cut in everything over been awarded to the Universal A which we have control, but the las Cement Company, Birmingham States are the Rocky Mountains? Singing collegians were the Is the United States located in the north temperate or south tem chief victims of the flu at Birmingham-Southern college, appar trouble is the fixed items of ex- it was announced Wednesday. M-penee which have not come down, gernon Blair, Montgomery, is the materially, and which refuse to general of Piedmont, but no serious cases were reported. From the week end till Wednesday, approximately 50 cases fit flu were reported among the mill's employes. Yin Tuesday's edition ol The Birmingham Post, the following atery was carried: Hche latest victims of the flu Wave brought to 1,420 the total number of city cases registered with George Truss, statistician of the local bureau of vital statistics, since Nor.

28, when the. ently, for the annual mid-winter glee club concert originally scheduled for Tuesday night at Mun- At the same time, it was announced the structural steel con That old Christmas list! problem has hit the dressing el the tract for the building had been Ul ihee I Sing" company. Lou Cody, seated, couldn't think of tLio awarded' the Connors Steel Com-I ger Memorial Hall was postponed until Jan. 6 on account of sickness among club members, An Are Out After The Money Court costs and distillers' fees cost Alabama Convict Department during hex and November a total of Of this amount, consisted of court costs, while distillers' fees totalled 10,700. During the fiscal year 1931-32 court costs payable from Convict Department funds amounted to $201,960.3 t.whlle distillers' fees for the year, payable from the same funds amounted to $35,250.

pany, Birmingham. Approximate to give until Jeanette Lea, left, pointed out that mothers, cousins, aunts and friends like candy just as much as a chofus fLi toea, though they may not receive so much of it Joan jHi, right, tuinka it's a fine idea especially as the show is on tour and you can buy cand for i ly 330 tons of structural steel yield to the new conditions. I refer to taxes, business licenses, municipal, state and county; electric energy and such rates, gasoline; and some other Items. These are fixed items of overhead, and with the exception of a slight cut in some instances, on rents, the other items remain the same as In the peak of prosperity. ITj these Items of overhead could be drew Hemphill, musical director, said.

cvciyuuuy vuu kuuw uciween owns. will be used. The Connors Steel Company al- so was awarded the contract for perate zone? What is the leading state in the Union in Dairying? What is 'the leading state in the production of rice and sugar cane? Where Is the Mississippi River? What is the largest city in the United States? HISTORY was commander-in-chief of the American Amy during the Revolutionary War? What American General turned traitor during the Revolutionary War? What British General surrendered at Torktown? What was the date of the signing of the Declaration of Independence? $169,000 nmntEST PAD) BY STATE W. Stringfellaw Philanthrophist MONTGOMERY. Comptroller OPPOSE FEDERAL forced to yield in proportion to Hard Friday mailed a check for Financier, Dead the reduction in other rates, and $169,000 to the Chase National structural steel for the new pos'-office at Beaumont, Involving about 200 tons.

Shipment on the contracts will be made after the fiTst of the year. The Universal Atlas announced Wednesday, also, that it had be Distillers' fees are rapidly Bank of New the state's ANNISTON, Dec. 13. fiscal agent, to meet the payment of interest due Jan. 1 on approxi mounting.

Under the law the In Proportion to the reduced vol-Convict Department is required to' ume of businesB compared to pay $50 for every conviction for' nomal tlmes' Problem of do-dlstllllng. It appears that sheriffs ln business would be greatly of Alabama, at least in some conn-: simplified and facilitated." W. StTingfellow, financier, pbalanWosUt, churchman, civic mately $8,000,000 of Alabama's gun shipment of cement to the old funding bonds issued more Reader. and pipneer citizen, died here "Sunday" morning. Funeral contractors on the Bankhead Says Seed Loani Cc ties, are out after these fees with Highway between Leeds and Pell than 25 years ago.

The check was more than a week overdue. servjceawere held Monday morn- Case Will Walker's W. C. Whiteside, Prominent Oxford Citizen Is Dead OXFORD, Dec, 14. W.

Cooper Whiteside, age 46, prominent Oxford business man, died here Monday morning, at 6:30, after an extended illness. Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, from the Presbyterian church, the Rev. W. D. Ogletree, officiating.

Mr. Whiteside, who had been in the cotton buying business for many years, was connected with the firm of John Maybank Company, of Charleston, S. C. Mr. Whiteside was a Mason, a Knight Templar, a Shriner and.

member of the Oasis and Omar Who was the third president of vengeance this year. City. The first carload of cement X- tituteAPH- -ing from the StrlngfeHjw hane, was shipped Wednesday, Pave Come up January 10 the United States? Who was General Lafayette? Who Invented the telegraph? since regulations require that the moSiey Shall be deposited in the bank SO days before the payments become due. The check was MONTGOMERY. Hugh Walk Local Scouts Receive Honors ment of this road will require about 55,000 barrels of cement, Which is part of the Universale allottment of the 600,000 barrels MEMPHIS.

Extension Of Fed eral neeH Inana thrntipJiniit Where was the first battle of er, Anniston attorney, who wus suspended from the practice of A number of Jacksonville Boy law for two years by the State contracted for by the state when drawn on general fund of the state treasury, leaving a balance in this fund of slightly more than $9,000. the Revolutionary War foughtt Who wrote PoorRlchard's Almanac? Who was Jdhn Paul Jones? Scouts the weekly meet-j Bar Commission, will not be torn- the emergency road building pro ing of the Anniston Scouts, on ed to defend himself in the Su- gram was announced last Summer. All the Birmingham mills shared the evening of Dec. 6, when num- preme Court until the call of the the Rev. James M.

Stoney, officiating. "The body was taken to Montgomery, his old home, by Usrey, Interment. Surviving are the widow, a brother, Horace. of and a sister. Miss Evelyn Stringfellow, of Alexandria, Va.

Mr. Stringfellow, who came to Anniston when only a few country stores comprised the town, with the Nobles, Parkers and Tylers, had been a m'oving spirit in the business, industrial, civic and religious development of the cotton belt every year is 'more of 1 a detriment than a benefit to the. South, in the opinion of Frank Barton, president of the Memphis? cotton 5 Barton believes that if the Fed- eral Farm Board were abolished and the Federal seed loans continued, the Southern farmer' would ultimately be li5 inthe state's order. ESTIMATE Mr. and Mrs.

"Cooper Parker and little son, Lamar, spent the week end In Gadsden with relatives. While the company has a large stock on hand at its cement plant in Leeds at present, it is expected that shortly after the first of the rous local Scouts recieved envi- seventh division -January 10. able honors Benny Steinberg 1 Walker's case was on the docket and Glenn Nelson received Life with the -four cases involving Bir- Scout badges, while William Pos mingham attorneys Tuesday but ey, Rowan Prlckett ancl William was postponed until the call of the Irby, received Star Scout Anniston division. A majority of badges. Several merit badges' the bar commission held Walker i were also awarded.

guilty of unethical practices. Temple of South Carolina. He was a member of AlphaTau Omega Fraternity at the University of Alabama and at one time was a The Board of Stewards of. the First Methodist church held their meeting Tuesday evening. OF CROP GROWS year these stocks will have been reduced sufficiently to warrant resumption of operations at the Mr.

and Mts. C. C. Atkins have gone to Dothan where they will make their future home. Dr.

and F- M. Lawrnc were visitors to Birmingham re- cently. member of the Board of Tax Equalization, which formerly existed in this county. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. mill, which has been closed for some time.

Georgia Governor 'Elect Promises Lower Tags Brooksie Macon Whiteside, three Millions Guarded By Intricate Devices community. Retiring from active business several years ago, Mr Stringfellow had never lost bis intimate contacts and sympathetic devotioa to everything that meant for the development of Anniston's community interests. In 1905 ho resigned as -president of The First National Bank, after 15 years' seiprtesjln that positiqn. He held large and varied financial interests in many community besides having large land Interests in North Carolina, where he spent much of his time. He was twice married; the first time to Miss Susie Parker, Nov.

22, 1889, who died in 1920. Mr. Stringfellow's second marriage was with Mtes Nan Cannon, of Concord, N. who survives him. Highway Director Defendant in Suit In Calhoun County Landon C.

Smith, state highway director for Alabama, has been made defendant in a $2,000 damage suit in Calhoun County Circuit Court because of the construction of a highway in the northern section of the county. R. S. Anderson, the plaintiff, al leges that his farm was damaged to the extent of $2,000 because the highway department caused it to, be inundated by water. In sharp contrast with the policy of the administration of Alabama to squeeze an ever increasing tax levy of the autcjmobile owner, Georgia is about to give automobile owners of that state a great relief in'tne cost of license plates, according to the, announcement of Governor Elect 'Eugene Talmadge.who a'Sviseg own-ers of that state not to take out and pay for license tags, until after January .9, when he Is.

going to advocate a flat rate of $3 each: Under the present scale of fees and at the existing prices of cot ten, he said. It takes a bale to buy a license for a second hand cav. He is to be Inaugurated in January. Officials said the state would lose from $2,600,000 to $3,000,000 a year under the proposed reduction In license prices. Five per cent of revenues from licenses goea Into the state general fund and the remainder to the State Highway Commission, daughters, Mrs.

Alice Whiteside Norman and Adell and Mary Cooper Whiteside; three brothers, Judge J. Phil Whiteside, Anniston; Kenneth Whiteside, Oxford and T. M. Whiteside, Alexandria, and a sister, Mrs. T.

M. Shep-perd of Etowah, Tenn. r.U-" 't Active pallbearers were Dave Foster Mellon, Eugene Wilson, Dr. T. B.

Howie, Jim Grif fin and Dr. R. T. McGraw. Hon-oiiary pallbearers are Major A.

Orr, T. M. Gwlnn, W. C. Gray, Ellis Draper, W.

C. Borders, Sam Hallman, J. T. Gardner, P. Haynes, Mayor R.

R. Pope, T. H. Burton, Frank McCraw, Tillman Turner1, C. Fulton, Dr.

T. J. Patton, Dr. M. J.

Williams, Judge Thomas W. Coleman, G. C. Cooper and Walter Stephens. Government Report Boosts Figures To 12,272,000 And still the cotton crop grows.

Starting in with the fiTst Govern-' ment report last fall at a little over 11,000,000 bales, the yield' has climbed up to a total of bales, according to the Agricultural Department estimate, issued December 8. This is 780,000 bales more than the estimate of Nov. 1. The increase in prospective production over the November 1 forecast was attributed partly to better yields per acre being realized in all the cotton producing The department also estimated 11,631,361 running bales had been ginned prior to Dec. 1, compared with 15,837,099 bales for 1929.

The indicated yield of lint cotton per acre for harvest was estimated at 162.1 pounds, 'abandonment of acreage since July 1 at 1.7 per cent and acreage for hardest at 37,589,000 acres. bank ther men and other machines, are sorting waste paper one of the most important jobs of the -night. If money' or securities, have been lost on misplaced during the day, it is here that the search; starts. Anything as -valuable a a 3 -cent stamp is sifted as dear ot -the refuse and is checked back in-' -to the assets or the institution. After sifting, the matter Is labeled and preserved for at least tfcree weeks.

One bank saves 1U waste for a whole yeaT. Spclai guards armed with teat gas and riot guns, patrol the eor11" riders about the vaults. In one vault 74 feet below the Banks Save Refuse A Long Time As A Protection NEW YORK. This is a story of how men and" machines day and night protect millions down under a street that literally is lined with gold. And yet even that protection is not always euffiolent Five $100,000 Liberty bane's recently disappeared from the cage' of the Continental Bank ft Trust Company, and Wednesday two men are under arrest in Boston as Many Wall Street Institutions are interested In the outcome of this case because it may offer sug gestloos for Improved protection of money and securities.

During the day a great portion of the protection Is obvious even to the passerby. But during the night when millions rest In Power Company Pays All Taxes To Aid Schools 3 street level, michrophones take ftp the vigil inside the huge moSHT chamber as soon as the 60-toa door it locked. tew days. The total taxes of all I kinds during the entire year will Birmingham, Within the next two weeks Alabama Power be approximately iz.vvv.imiu. At the request of State authorities, the special hydro taxes of $277,000 were paid on October A man sits at an electrle boar-i In a control room many test away.

I Should a mouse were tSere oat -In the vault make -the slightest noise, this man- would, hear IC ST. PAUL. Stevens Brothers, St. fanl Contractors, announced vaults set tn the earth the de Saturday they had been awarded 1 first In advance of the date due, -Thrive "the aw THE serted streets give little Indication of the activity below. Beneath th sidewalks men and Company will complete the pay ment of $1,600,000 in ad valorem and special hydro tales, officials of the Company stated here today.

Of this amount approximately 1700,600 was paid- in advance during the months of Oeteber and November, the remaining to be paid within the next and in addition over $400,009 has been paid In advance to various counties upon urgent request of a gevernment. contract to construct lock and dam No. 3 in the Tennessee Biver, at Muscle Shoals. The bid was 11,738,000.. will be started the first week id jnachlnes labor, carrying tertunet Another device stops aid starts elevators hundreds bf feet aWl.

and a system ot righto advises tb maa Just where his men are M-, trolling In the te-atoiy buUaf to their hiding slates. the sehfol authorities to aid the In a hige room in another of almost aay metropolitan school situation In the State, January, at any tWae..