Jesse EHhu Luther (center), celebrated his 101st
birthday September 10 at his home at Deep Gap and on
FViday was received into membership of the North
^ilkesboro Kiwanis club. He is the oldest Kiwanian in
Kiwanis International, which includes the United StatM
and Canada. The above picture, taken on his l^h
birthday, shows Kiwaniem Luther between J. B. Wil
liams, left, and J. G. Hackett, right, of this city.
J. E. Luther Now
The Oldest Living
Kiwanis Meniher
Confederate Veteran From
Deep Gap Elected to Mem
bership Here; Age 101
Millers Creek Home Demon
stration club will meet Thursday,
September 21, 2:30 p. m., in the
home economics room of the Mil
lers Creek school building. Mem
bers are asked to disregard let
ters mailed to them giving an
other date for the meeting. Mrs.
Annie H. Greene, home demon-
Jesse Elihu Luther, who cele
brated his 101st birthday Septem
ber 10 at his home at Deep Gap,
was received Into membership in
the North Wilkesboro Kiwanis
club at the club’s luncheon meet
ing at Hotel Wilkes Friday noou.
Mr. Luther, only surviving vet
eran of the Confederacy in this
part of the state, was a guest of J.
B. Williams at the club meeting.
Mr. Williams introduced :he aged
but active veteran to the club and
gave a brief history of bis life.
He stated that Mr. Luther, who
was elected into membership in
the club, is the oldest living Ki
wanian in the world.
Dr. F. C. Hubbard presented
Mr. I.uther with the Kiwanis
membership button. Mr. I^uther's
picture, with a historical sketch,
will appear soon in Kiwanis In
ternatlonal magazine.
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Halfacre Is Named
On Postwar Group
Millers Creek HDC
Will Meet Thursday
stration agent, said today.
Sam Gray Dies Of
A Self-Inflicted
Shotgun Wound
Funeral Service for Citizen
Of Mt. Pisgah Community
Held Sunday Afternoon
Local Banker Member North
Carolina Postwar Small
Business Credit Group
W. D. Halfacre, executive vice
president of the Bank of North
Wilkesboro, has been appointed to
membership on the North Carolina
Postwar Small Business Credit
Committee.
Appointment to membership on
this Important group of bankers
was made by J. N. Coburn, presi
dent of the North Carolina Bank
ers Association. Word Wood,
chairman of the board of the
American Trust company, Char-
(Se© Halfacre—pa^e four)
Funeral service was held Sun
day afternoon, three o’clock, at
Pleasant Grove Baptist church for
Sam Gray, who shot and killed
himself Friday afternoon at his
home in the Mt. Pisgah com
munity in the southeastern part
of Wilkes county.
Coroner I. M. Myers, who inves-
ti.gated the death, termed it sui
cide.
It happened shortly after noon
Friday when three of his children
had left the house to work nearby.
.Mr. Gray told his small daughter
i that he was not feeling well and
to go get someone to stay with
him. After she left the house a
shot was heard, and when the
children came In they found that
Mr. Gray was shot in the chest
and that a shotgun lay near his
body.
Coroner Myers stated that Gray
had apparently sat on the bed
and used his' toe to push the trig
ger of a 12-gauge shotgun w’hlch
ho held against his chest. With
Coroner Myers on the investiga
tion were Sheriff C. G. Poindex
ter and Deputy J. C. Grayson.
Mr. Gray is survived by four
children. His wife died a few
years ago.
Ill health was attributed as the
cause of the suicide.
ANGAUR ISLAND
IS INVADED;
LIGHT FIGHT
OWENS BlpBHiEBSJSfERyE IN THE ARMY AND NAVY
);irr«-#nfyirfrffilT(w'rfirfff i —^ FIRST ARMY
American soldiers of the 81st
Army Division landed Sunday
(West Longitude time) on Angaur
Island, southernmost of the Palau
group, while First Division ma
rines continued to face heavy ene
my fire In their fight toward
strong ridgetop entrenchments of
the Japanese defending Pelellu Is
land.
The landing on Anguar, six
miles southwest of Pelellu, was
announced in a communique from
Pacific Fleet headquarters. It
said “all initial objectives have
been gained against enemy resis
tance, which so far has been rela
tively light’’.
Meanwhile, American Southwest
Pacific Army Forces were unop
posed as they consolidated their
positions on Morotai Island, in the
Moluccas, 375 miles south of Da
vao, Philippines. The small Jap
anese garrison there took to the
hills and Yank engineers continu
ed the work of preparing an aii--
drome as a hopoft base for aerial
blastings in the Philippines.
Republicans Will
Open Campaign
Friday, Sept. 22
L. L. Wall and Watt H.
Gragg Will Speak At
Wilkes Courthouse
L. L. Wall, of Winston-Salem',
and Watt H. Gragg, of Boone, will
open the Republican campaign in
Wilkes county with addresses at
a Republican rally to be held at
the courthouse in Wilkesboro Fri
day night, September 22, eight
o’clock.
Local Republican leaders In an
nouncing the rally said it would
officially open tho campaign for
the Republican ticket in Wilkes
county and urged that a large
crowd be present. It was especial
ly asked that all parts of the
county be w-ell represented and
that ladles are especially invited.
Wall and Gragg are outstand
ing Republican leaders in the
state as well as in their respective
sections and are capable speakers.
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Supt. Proctor Is
Speaker Masonic
Danquet Friday
115 Masons of 33rd District
Hear Superintendent of
Oxford Orphspiage
C. K. Proctor, superintendent
of the Oxford Orphanage, ad
dressed a banquet of 115 members
of Masonic lodges of the 33rd
district at the North Wilkesboro
lodge hall Friday night.
Program for the banquet opened
with invocation by Rev. Noah
Hayes, assistant state grand
chaplain. Dinner was served by
the local chapter of the Order of
the Eastern Star.
Mrs. Howard J. Ford and Miss
Annie Ruth Blankenship sang a
I duet, accompanied at the piano
I (See Masonic—page four)
t
AN EDITORIAL—
)The Y.M.C.A. And YOU
Faith, hope and love, and the greatest
of these is love”. If that applies in the life
of an individual, don’t you think it applies
* in the life of a nation, state or community?
If we, the citizei^ of Wilkes county, had
these ’ virtues in even the very smallest
■ amount what a different place it would be.
Immediately we would have better homes,
schtjois, churches and business. Good,
well equipped and supervised playgrounds
wouW appear in many communities. Three
hundred thousand for a Y. M. C. A. would
- be no trouble at all.
f Faith—faith in our fellowmen, faith m
the fdture, faith that a program for a good
«ause wBl be worked out even though there
t to notkteg concrete at ^ bcvtonj”V- Ft ith
.'ih In soliciting funds for the Y. M.
C. A. one man said, “I don’t like so and so
who is one of the directors, that fellow is
hurting the cause”. Another, “You should
have so and so on the board of directors”,
and another, “I don’t think much of that
location. I won’t help any if the building
is going to be put there”. And another, “I
won’t help now but I will set aside so much
for the “Y” and see how things work out”;
and still another—yes, thank God! still
another. “That’s the finest, most courage
ous and most unselfish program that has
even been started here. Here’s my check
for $4,000”, and there were no strings tied
to that check. 'These are actual replies,
and that check was actually received. Now
who had faith? The faith, the confidence
(Continued on Editorial Page)
iHAZMAnAeK
I REAR COLOGRE
Commie Owei*^ seaman second class, recently spent a 10-day boot leave with his
wife and children the former Miss Grace Church. He has been in the navy since
June 9th. Pvt, Eau-l Owens, is stationed at Camp Mackall. He has been in the army
since January 1942. Pvt. Roby (Travis) Owens, who is somewhere in France,
has been in the anny since May 8, 1942. TTiey are the sons of C. M. Owens, of North
Wilkesboro route one.
United War Fund Drive Soon
Thousands of troops of the Al
lied First Air-ibgrue Army, car
ried in a sky train of more than
1,000 planes, dropped behind the
German lines in Holland Sunday
afternoon, quickly captured sev
eral towns and according to ene
my reports seized a bridgehead
across the Rhine 315 miles from
Berlin.
The greatest air-borne opera
tion of all time, the ibold stroke
outflanked the buckling Siegfried
Line and cut off thousands of Ger
mans who have been contesting
the British Secona Army’s ad
vance into Holland from the
Meuse-L’Escaut Canal.
The German radfo placed the
landing area along a 70-mile front
extending from the Rhine Delta
to Nijmegan only three miles from
the German frontier and said tha.
strong r^nforcements descended
by glider and parachute later in
the day. For security reasons.
Allied headquarters did not speci-
Pvt. Phil A. Thylor
Wounded InFrance
Pvt. Phil A. Taylor, .22, son of
Mr. and Mrs. J. G. -Taylor, of
Halls Mills, was seriously wound
ed in France August 28th. He
entered the army October 3, 1939,
and for four years was stationed
at Fort Bennlng, Oa. He went lo
Iceland in August, 1943; to Eng
land in December of the same
year; and was In Frouce on D-
Day. He is now liMQl^lized In
France or England, '4'ir.
Dr. D.E.Drowning
Accepts Call To
The First Baptist
Recent Graduate Of South
ern Baptist Seminary Ac
cepts Call Here
Dr. David. E. Browning, of
Loui.sville. Ky.. has accepted the
call as pastor of the First Baptist
church of North Wilkesboro and
is expected to arrive here to be
gin his ministry September 26 or
27.
Tlie call was extended Dr.
Browning in the church service
Sunday. Acceptance by Dr.
Browning of the call was confirm
ed following the service.
Here Dr. Browning will suc
ceed Dr. John W. Kincheloe, Jr.,
who resigned June 1 to 'become
pastor of the First Baptist church
in Norfolk, Va.
Dr. Browning is a native of Tex
as, but for the past tew years has
made his home at Louisville, Ky.,
where he received his doctor’s de
gree in May of this year at the
Southern Baptist Seminary. He
and his wife and two sons are ex
pected to arrive here early next
week.
I
State Executive Of
United War Fund
Speaker On Friday
Chester A. Kerr Speaks Here
To Kiwanis and Lions
Clubs
Wilkes county will ‘be asked to
raise 111,600 for the United War
Fund this year, Chester A. Kerr,
^liaBDSSdaJ8slans,^l^
retary of the United War Fund
eompalgn in North Carolina, told
the North Wilkesboro Kiwanis
and Lions Clubs in addresses here
Friday noon and Friday evening.
Mr. Kerr, in addresses before
the two civic clubs, gave much
information about the agencies
supported by the Uitited War
fund and the plans for continued
expansion during the coming
year. Last year, he said, a total
of J126.000.000 was raised for
the various agencies included and
an additional J36,000,000 is ask
ed this year.
In his address Mr. Kerr gave
especial attention to the USO,
Seaman’s Relief. War Prisoner.
Aid and the agencies giving relief
to people of Greece, .Russia, China
and other nations distressed by
actual warfare conditions. He
gave numerous illustrations about
how USO and Seaman’s relief aid
reaches the men in service in the
various parts of the world.
Mr. Kerr told of how the USO
provides recreation and other aids
for men in service right up to the
front in every theatre of war and
showed how the activities of the
various agencies for which the
United War Fund is collected are
inci^asing daily.
■rae Kiwanis program was in
charge of J. E. (iaudill, who ask
ed J. B. McCoy to introduce the
speaker. ‘ The Lions Club program
was in charge of C. J. Swofford,
who is United War Fund chair
man for Wilkes county.
Guests at the Kiwanis meeting
were as follows: J. E. Luther,
and J. G. Hackett with J. B. Wil
liams: Lt. S. T. Colvard with H.
P. Eller; A. H. Clark with J. E.
Walker: A. W. Horton with E. G.
Finley: Robert Morehouse with
H. H. Morehouse; James M. An
derson with W. J. Oaroon; W. B.
Boy Scout court of honor and
review will meet Thursday eve
ning, 7:15, in the religious edu
cation building of the Presby
terian church. All Scouts com
ing up for review or awards, all
members of the court, Scout
masters and others interested are
asked to attend".
Scouts to be before the court
for rank above first class must
mail their good conduct forms to
L. M. Nelson or carry them to the
forins may be secured from the
Scoutmasters.
Scout Court Honor
To Meet Thursday
4 4-Rooin School
Buildings Will Be
Erected This Year
Millers Creek, Wilkesboro,
Ronda, Mulberry To Get
Temporary Buildings
(See War Flund—page four)
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City And County
Schools Opened
Hew Term Today
Preliminary Repm^s Indicate
Large Attendance In
Spite Bad Weather
m. I£d(tle Myers arrly^ in
EngUnd Angnst 7. He ent««ed
the armed forces December 6th,
1048, received his basic train
ing at Clamp Barkley, 'Texas, and
Camp Reynolds,^ Penn. Pvt.
Myers is now with Uie medical
corps in the 160th General Hos
pital in Enfi^d.
the Wilkes county
North Wilkesboro
began the current
Schools of
system and
city schools
terpi today.
In spite of the heavy rain today,
enrollment was high at many of
the schools, according to pre
liminary reports.
Teachers had reported for du
ty on Thursday and a work con-
(See SdMiols-^fi^ four)
Pour school buildings of four
classrooms each are to be erect
ed this year for Wilkes schools.
Two of these buildings are now
under construction, at Millers
Creek and Wilkesboro. Others
are planned for Ronda and Mul
berry.
C. B. Eller, county superintend
ent of schools, stated that the
buildings are being erected prin
cipally of materials aalva.ged from
old school buildings, and at low
cost.
These buildings will be used as
additional classrooms until con
ditions permit construction of ad
ditions to the school plants. Af
ter school plants are enlarged the
four-room buildings to be erected
this year will be used for voca
tional workshops in a program of
vocational education to he inau
gurated in the schools.
fy the exact area of operations.
Public Relations
Panel Rationing
Board Is Formed
Rev. Sidney Crane Is Chsur-
man; First Meeting Held ■
On Thursday Night
Public Relations Panel of the
local War Price and Ration
Board was fonfied and organized
in a meeting held in the board’s
office Thursday night.-
Rev. Sidney Crane, pastor of the
North ■..WUUkwbQrp.,Pi
the Public Relations panel. The
other members and the organiza
tions they represent are as fol
lows: D. J. Carter, representing
the men’s civic clubs; Mrs. Ivey
Moore, women's organizations: C.
B. Eller, county schools; Miss
Mary Speer, city schools: Mrs.
Annie H. Greene, home demon
stration clubs: Dwight Nichols,
the press; Mrs. E. A. Shook,
clerk to rationing board; Mack
Moore, district rationing execu
tive.
Mrs. Gertrude R. Folgidis
trict volunteer specialist of the
information office of the Char
lotte district office of the Office of
Price Administration, was in
charge of the meeting. She ex
plained that the newly organized
panel to the board -was created to
inform the people how they can
best serve in the home fri nt bat
tles against inflation, black
markets and scarcity.
She explained that OPA is en
deavoring to hold down prlcee and
prevent Inflation, and to prevent
a price collapse at the end of the
European war. The Public Re
lations panel will keep the people
informed thtoogh the press, the
j schools and other means of the
I need for rationing and price con-
jtrol regulations and will keep the
! people posted on developments.
Me' tings of the Public Rela-
I tions panel will be held monthly.
DID YOU DO YOUR BIT LAST WEEK
IN THE WASTE PAPER DRIVE? IF
SO, THANKS... AND KEEP IT UP!
People of Wilkes county we again appeal to you to
conserve and bring in your waste paper. Did you know
that among scores of essential products made from sal
vage waste paper are . . .
Bomb Bands
Powder Blasting Kegs
Signal Aircraft Tracers
Ammunition Chests
Parachute Flares
Victory Containers
Medical Kits
. And
Shell Protectors
Cartridge Boxes
Practice Bomb Cartons
Blood I^Iamsa Cartons
Fuel Tank Linings
Ration Kits
Sun Helmets
Many Others
• ^iiu iTAcuijr
T3i>es of waste paper most urgently needed ...
Corrugated Boxes Wrapping Papa*
Store Bags Carton*
Newspapers Magazines
^ Waste Basket Paper
Po your bit this week and next wedx and so long as
the war lasts.
Sincerely, ^
A. G. FINLEY, JOHN E. WAU^ER J. B. WQiiAIIIS
Waste PA|^
MAIUMG PERIOD IS SEPT. 15 TO OCT. 1S-USE STRONG, SIH^YMitAL BOX^ 1010
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