BRIEF LOCAL NEWS
SIw EUUafl ftfaln, of Opellke,
la h«r« Tlslttnc her alaier,
Irs. JamM R. lieCartney.
Mra. Eileen Jones has accepted
poaitton in the offtee of Duke
?oaer company here.
Mlsa Marie Hailwood left Frl-
ay for Kannapolis where she is
po teach again the Kannapolis
chool.
Miss Naomi Broyhill, of Boom-
Ifer, left Wednesday to attend Ap-
INalachian State Teachers College
Boone.
Mrs. Presley Myers is ill and
IVs a patient at the Wilkes hos
pital. Friends hope tor an early
covery.
Attorney Parks Hampton and
BMr. R. L. Lovelace, of Elkin.
|were business visitors to the city
today.
Mrs. Frank Killian has return-
led to Lincolnton where she is
to teach again this year in the
liincolnton school.
of Alexan-
Mr. and Mra, Edd F. Gardner
and family are moving into their
attraotive new home in Finley
Park the first of this week.
Miss Rebecca Brame went to
Taylorsville Wednesday where
she will resume her work as a
member of the Taylorsville school
faculty.
Miss Lula Hester Brame and
Miss Alice Cassel will go to
Greensboro Tuesday where they
will enter the freshman class at
Gteensboro College.
Mlsa Irene Parsons entered W.
C. T. U. in Greensboro for anoth
er year Friday after spending the
summer vacation with her father,
Mr. E. T. Parsons.
Miss Alice Cassel, daughter of
Dr. and Mrs A. S. Cassel, of Wil-
kesborb, will enter Greensboro
College at Greensboro this week
for the coming college term.
Mra. C. C. Sm
ria. Va., is spending sometime year,
on the Brushy Mountains with
iMrs. J. C. Smoot.
Miss Elizabeth Alexander,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. M,
Alexander, has entered the Elkin
high school for the coming school
Miss Kathleen White has
Iturned to Salisbury where
Iwllljieach again in the
|sch«^.
Whitworth
[fceefc^ery ill at his home in WII-
Ike^^efo during the past few
Mrs. D. G. Wiles is confined to
I her home because of illness.
I Friends hope she will be better
[ soon.
Mr. R. L. Church and son, Mr.
j Paul Church, well known resi-
^ dents of North Wilkesboro Route
; 2, were visitors to the city today.
No change was reported today
Sin the condition of Mrs. Evy .My-
fers, who is a patient at the Bap-
[tist hospital in Win.ston-Salem.
Mrs. J. B. Henderson, daugh-
iter. Miss Betty Henderson, and
[Mr, and Mrs. Robert Henderson,
! of Wilkesboro, spent the week-
tend at Asheville with Mrs. J. B.
[Henderson's mother, Mrs. L. T.
^ Cordell.
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PETE ANTONAKAS,
Proprietor
Mrs. A. B. Johnston was car
ried to Davis hoepltal in States
ville Sunday for treatment of a
lag Injury received in a fall at
her home.
A daughter was born on Sep
tember 4, to Mr. and Mrs. Fred
erick Burcham at the Hugh Chat
ham Memorial Hospital. Mrs.
Burcham is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Billie Holbrook.
We are glad to state that Mr.
Arlle Foster, Wilkesboro’s chief
of police, is able to be out again
after being confined to his home
about a week by illness.
Miss Dorothy Jennings has re
turned to her home at Pores
Knob from the Wilkes hospital,
where she underw'ent an opera
tion for appendicitis.
Attorney Eugene Trivette, of
this city, and Attorney F. J. Mc
Duffie, of Wilkesboro, spoke at
the annual 'Wellborn family re
union in the eastern part of the
county Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. George Campbell
visited Mr. and Mrs. Newland
Campbell at Wake Forest over
the week-end. M r s. Newland
Campbell and Linda Lee returned
home with them to spend a week.
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eltel^Ay Judge Hayee who
lontinubd the probation terms for
tnother year. -
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lilacgaaafirijstjiNl-'aome .
Badta» for' tkla poat be
Advice froiir.>the National
tant that there 1e another
Ridge . poet already or,
makes a ebaage neceeaat^^
If the “bUU” strikes thU country the women Of WurtM^n wiu be prepare to do their bit tn the way
»f defense. Several hundred have already been enroUed. ln.Camp No, 1 of tbo “Green Guards of America,” an
grganlzaUon which wiU take up flrat aid and ambulance" »h» d«tlea in Ume of war—duties for which they have
itorted training. Members of the newly formed “Guards” are shown here in their dark green uniforms and
•veriest caps. ,
The fourth quarterly confer
ence for the Wilkesboro charge
was held Sunday night at Union
church. Prior to the business ses
sion Rev. J. S. Hiatt, district sup
erintendent, preached a fine ser
mon. Much business was transact
ed during the business session.
Miss Lucile Osborne from
Brentwood, New York, spent sev
eral days here recently with her
uncle, Mr. P. E. Brown. Before
coming to 'Wilkesboro she visited
with her sister, Mrs. C. S. Patrick,
at Tannersvllle, 'Va.. the former
Miss Bessie Male Osborne.
“Boom Town” Has
Four Big Stars
In Action Drama
Colonel Graham Hobbs and
Captain Burnett, of Raleigh, were
in the city Friday night in con
ference with local national guard
officers. Both Colonel Hobbs and
Capta’n Burnett are national
guard officers and will leave on
the 16th of this month with oth
er guardsmen for a year’s train
ing.
Royal, son of Mr. and Mrs.
George Stroud, of Wilkesboro,
was carried to the state school for
the blind at Raleigh Sunday. His
father and Raymond Cleary ac
companied him to that city.
Some im;provement was report
ed today in the condition of Mr.
S. Q. Myers, prominent Lenoir
citizen and a relative of many
people here. He has been serious
ly ill.
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Somers and
daughter. Miss Peggy Somers, of
Georgetown, S.' C., were visitors
here today. Miss Peggy Somers
will resume her studies at Salem
college tomorrow.
Mrs. Frank Tomlinson and Mrs.
R. S. Shoaf and Mrs. C. G. Poin
dexter, Mrs. Kyle Hayes spent
Sunday 'with Mr. and Mrs. Duncan
McKeaves in Salisbury. Mrs. Mc-
Keaves is remembered here as
Miss Zenith Smlthey. Mr. and
Mrs. iMcKeaves are the proud
parents of a daughter, Linda,
born two weeks ago.
Dr. Rufus C. Morrow, after a
brief visit here with Mr. and Mrs.
C. C. Faw, left for Detroit. Mich
igan, where he will begin his sur
gical internship in the Henry
Ford Hospital. Elizabeth Faw
Morrow (Mrs. Rufus C. Morrow)
is here now with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Fa's. She will re
turn to her studies in religion
at Yale University Divinity
School, New Haven, Connecticut,
by September 23rd.
State’s Tax Receipts
Replete with such spectacular
action scenes as a blazing oil well
being whiffed out by a blast of
TNT, oil gushers roaring In to
shoot derricks high into the air,
a dive Into a sea of mud to es
cape whizzing bullets, fist fights
extending from a frontier saloon
to a swanky Manhattaji office,
and other thrills of the oil fields,
“Boom Town” opens next Thurs
day at the Liberty Theatre for
an engagement of three days.
Overshadowing even the in
tense fast action of the story is
the stellar cast which comprises
Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy,
Claudette Colbert and Hedy La
marr as stars, supported by Frank
Morgan, Lionel Atwill, Chill
'Weills, -Marion Martin, Minna
Gombell, five-year-old Casey
John-son and Baby Quantanilla,
who made a sensational debut In
“Forty Little Mothers.”
The picture was ten weeks in
production and location scenes
■were made in more than thirty
sites to record all of the thrilling
drama of men who seek fortunes
in oil and of the women who love
these two-fisted men. It was di
rected by Jack Conway, noted for
his action pictures, and was pro
duced by Sam Zimbalist.
“Boom Town” covers the en
tire field of the fatiulous oil field
while following the story of two
men who meet in a rough boom
Ashe Appeals For
Aid To Open Flood-
Damaged Roads
town and form a partnership.
They remain friends through ad
versity, even when one marries
the sweetheart of the other. They
split when the husband apparent
ly is untrue to the wife, but are
reunited years later when both
men bury the hatchet at a time
when both are wealthy from oil.
Then a siren enters the story to
Miss Ruth Elledge and Mr.
Cecil Elledge, of North Wilkes
boro, explored the famous End*-
less Caverns at New Market, Va.,
while on a motor trip through
the Shenandoah Valley of Vir
ginia.
.Mr. Evan B. Souther, of .Mary
ville, Tenn., is spending his va
cation with his parents and
friends here. He is employed with
the Aluminum i;ompany of A-
merica in Maryville-Alcoa, Tenn
essee.
Misses Grace Frank Ki'.by,
Emily .McCoy and Jane Perry are
entering Salem College at Win
ston-Salem this week. Miss Kil
by as a freshman. Miss Perry a
sophomore, and Miss McOoy a
senior.
Keep Upward Climb'**"^*-c*‘ husband from his wife
and the friend resorts to one of
West Jefferson. — An urgent |
ap-peal for an additional 'WPA i
allotment and extra state high
way department forces to open up i
he flood-damaged roads and to
employ needy flood victims was!
made by a delegation of local j
citizens and Congressman R. L.
Doughton. ;
The group met with C. E. Mc
Ginnis, state WPA administrator: ■
C. M. Crutchfield, district WPA
supervisor and Z. V. Stewart, dis
trict state highway engineer.
Congressman R. L. Doughton
and others explained that there |
were hundreds of families in
Ashe county who suffered severe
flood lo.sses and that many of
them are in dire need of assist
ance.
■It was further pointed out that
the damage to roads and bridges
in the county has caused an acute
; problem, affecting the schools,
I sale of farm produce, and paralyz
ing trade and commerce.
By adding flood victims to the
WPA rolls, to 'work pn the roads,
two vital problenis could be solv
ed at the same time,” Congress
man Doughton emphasized.
He also said he would contact
WPA officials in 'M'ashington this
week to get an additional allot
ment for the flood area.
Instead of attending the dedi- j
cation service of the Smoky
Mountains National Park, Dough
ton spent last Sunday and Mon
day making a personal su.rvey of
damages in Alleghany. Ashe, Wa
tauga, Wilkes, Calliwell and Ave-
ry counties.
He said he ha' been so busy
checking on the damage in this
section that he had not taken the
time even to estimate his own
personal damages a t Laurel
Springs.
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JIM GENAPOLOS,
PropriNter
state t.ix receipts continue
their upward climb during Au
gust. totaling $5,987,843.90 com
pared witn $5,585,601.81 in Au
gust last year.
Total collections to date this
fiscal year, the revenue depart
ment announced are $12,374,-
190.83, compared with $11,661,-
027.78 during the same period
last year.
General fund receipts during
August were $3,422,496 “5. as
af-airst 8?.24S.486.64 in August
1939. Highway receipts were $2,-
565,347.95 compared with $2,-
437,115.17.
Some principal items of reve
nue with figures for this August
and last August respectively, • fol
low:
Franchise, $1,904,187.14 and
$1,662,162.93; . income, $189,-
488.88 and $98,708.8$; sales,
$930,602.18 and $899,153.35;
igasoline, $2,284,186.60 and $2,-
157,365.01.
Commissioners Offering
County Farm Land For
Indlustrial Development
(Continued from page one)
the most poignant schemes in
screen drama to break up this
affair and send the husband back
to his wife.
Church Opened For
Prayer, Meditation
the North Wilkesboro Presby
terian church again calls atten
tion to the fact that the church
will be opened for anyone for the
purpose of prayer and meditation
on Wednesday afternoons, 6:30
to 6:00. Any person Is invited to
use the church building for that
purpose at the designated hour.
Rains On Yadkin Are
Boon To Badin Plant
Walter R. Penix
Claimed By Death
Walter R. Penix, age 50. died
this afternoon at the Wilkes hos^
pltal.
For 28 years he was an ein-
Swamped with orders stemming |
from national defense prepara
tions and supplied •with abund
ant waterpower by the recent
rains, the Carolina Aluminum
Company at Badin now is pro
ducing pig aluminum at the fast
est cilp in years, according to!
SupeHntendent S. A. Copp. !
Mr. Copp said the seventh and
last pbtroom of the Badin plant,
unused for many years, has been
f0.0qulpped and was put into ser
vice the past week. 'When peak
production in this room is reach
ed, he said, the plant will 'be pro
ducing from 190,000 to 200,000
pounds of pig aluminum per day,
the limit Of Its capacity.
Recently, with six potrooms in
operation, the plant hM been pro-
4|ucing approximately 170,000
spur line or side track to this
point und, in order to induce the
said railroad to extend said line
or siding, we propose to sell to
them for a nominal price a right-
of-way On said County Home farm
property; and that we will co
operate with them and all other
firms and indivldsials to the full
est extent of our ability.
“Be It Further Resolved, that
we request Senators Joslah W.
Bailey and Robert R. Reynolds
and Representative W. O. Burgin
to use their influence and every
means at their command to bring
facilities that will prevent a re
currence of the. Ices of life and
property such as Wilkee County
|haa snataiaed . t|ie recent
fleod”. '
ploye of Chicago. Rock Island pounds per day.
and Pacific railroad but for the ■ Addition of approxlpiately .250
past several weeks he made his in the past few weeks to work in
home at Poree Knob. Surviving the extra room, Mr. Copp report-
are his widow, 3lr». Ha*«I iPenix, ed brings the personnel of the
and two daughters, Marjorie and plant to 1,000, the largest num-
Lois Anne.
Funeral eerrice ■will be held
Wednesday, two p. m., at Bethany
church with Rev. F. C. Watte in
charge.
her employed fn many years.
To Begin Revival At
New Hope Church
CongreM To Finish
Work By Oct. 1st
Washington, Sept. 4.—Speaker
Bankhead said todf«' Congress
should, finish It* work between,
September 16 and October 1. Ma-
A revival meeting will begin at, Jorlty Leader Barkley of the Sen-
New Hope church 'tear GUreath
Sunday, September 15. The pas
tor, Rev. Pervls C. Parks, will be
assisted by Rev. A. W. BUer. Ser
vices will be held each day at
10:30 o’clock and 7:30 at night.
The public is inTlted to attend.
North CareUna’s 84th annoa]:
State Fair will be held at Raleigh
OcCeberS'rilaMcIt ±t:' ' ■
ate forecast the legislators would
go home around Septem'ber 20.
SOYBEANS
Profitable maintenance of the
soybean Industry at its preCjUtL
level of tifoductiob may be mattt^
tally affected by „the.. r}gid
ade suToundi^' warring SS