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Vol. 41, No. 96 Published Mondays and Thursdays NORTH WfLKESBOBO, N. C., Monday, March 31, 1947 Make North Wilkesboro Your Shopping Center
EASTER
MONDAY
HOLIDAY
Stores, Business Hous
es To Be Closed All
Day Monday
According to a plan of holidays
arranged and accepted by local |
merchants early this year, Easter
Monday, April 7, will be a holi
day in North Wilkesboro.
Stores, banks and other busi
ness houses and offices will be
closed all day on Easter Monday.
/The public Is asked to remem
hpk the closing and make pur
chases to tide them oyer through
the holiday week-end until stores
will be open again on Tuesday
morning.
Forest Thinning
For More Profit I
Campaign Begun
Educational Materials Will
Be Distributed in WUkes
Through Schools 1
I '
A forest thinning for more
profit campaign of education in
Wilkes County will be aided here
in the future by the Southern
States Forestfire Commission,
Inc., Birmingham 5, Ala., and a
group of other private and state
and government agencies, it was
stated by W. L. Shaddix, secre
tary-treasurer of the commis
sion, who spent two days in the
Wilkeboros and adjoining area
the first of the week to set up a
distribution of material through
the schools of the county.
^ The commission is a non-profit
tucatton corporation sponsored
about one thousand furniture
tber interests of the en
to help alarm timber growers a
bout a growing scarcity of tim
ber, due to fire destruction and
the clear cutting iby wood con
tractors associated in the pulp
and lumber industry. The organ
isation was begun in 1939 and
was helped by broadcasts on Sat
urday nights toy "Grand Ole
Opry," and other rural programs,
and also by hundreds of weekly
papers and some big farm pub
lications which continue to de
vote full pages to the appeal for
timber protection. ' .
Mr. Shaddix asserted that the
bill before the North Carolina
legislature to penalize anyone
who harvests a tree below ten
inches in dameter should be a
mended to require only 100 heal
thy young trees left on each acre
for a future crop. ''A third of
the timber in Wilkes County
should be thinned out, both big
and small, as timber is like corn
?it must be thinned to produce
good crops," Mr. Shaddix assert
ed further.
Every teacher, numbering 334,
in the county is to toe offered free
forest education material, includ
inV, 16 mm sound films on re
qrost, Mr. Shaddix added. The
campaign will be followed up lat
er with more appeals for thin
ning Instead of skinning, he add
ed further.
Wilkes Man Lost
Both Feet Tuesday
In Train Accident
WB. Elledge, of Route 1, Pur
lear, was seriously Injured about
2:10 p. m. Tuesday in a railroad
accident at Pomena Yard, Greens
boro, losing both feet when he
apparently lost his grip and fell
beneath a moving freight train,
according to Southern Railway
officials.
Elledge was listed by railway
officials as a brakeman working
out of Winston-Salem. They said
he had made the trip to Greens
boro with a brain and was pre
paring to return when the mis
hap occurred. Mo one witnessed '
the actual accident, it was said, |
aM Elledge was unable to give
an account of it early Tuesday
night.
He was taken to Wesley Long
Hospital whore further ambula
tion of both limbs was perform
ed by surgeons.
ELtedge had been employed by
SonMp-n Railway since last Au
Support Y. M. C. A.
James Baker Stare
Dstroyed By Fir#
Fire of unknown origin .de
stroyed a store building and
stock of merchandise owned by
James Baker and located on the
Congo road near Cricket about
1:30 Sunday morning. No one
was at the building at the time
of the fire.
The building, of concrete block
construction, and stock of merch
andise were totally destroyed.
Some insurance was carried on
the building.
Escaped Convict
Broke Into Bros
Store Thursday
Arrest of a prisoner In Mount
Airy Saturday, who had escaped
from a federal prison in Texas,
solved the break-In of Red Cross
Pharmacy drug store here on
Thursday night.
Police Chief J. E. Walker said
'here that he questioned Boddle
R. Bruitte, who was arrested In
j Mount Airy and is now being
(held in jail at Yadkinvllle, and
I that Bruitte admitted entering
the drug store here on Tenth
street, where five pen and pencil
sets were taken. The drug store
narcotics cabinet was also brok
en into and an undetermined a
mount of narcotic drugs were
taken.
Chief Walker said that federal
authorities were holding Bruitte
for breaking out of prison, for
transporting a stolen auto over
state lines and for violations of
the narcotic act.
BIRTHS
A son was born March 30 at
the Wilkes hospital to Mr. and
Mrs. Wallace Harvey Adams, of
North Wllkesboro.
Mr. and' Mrs. John Stuart Alex
ander, of North WilkeSboro route
two, are parents of a son bofn
.Marffoi aft,a* ithtt Wilkes hawtfrtr
A daughter was born Wednes
day at bhe Wilkes hospital to Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Clay Dowers, of
Moxley.
A son was born March 27 at
the Wilkes hospital to Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Minton, of Wllkes
boro.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. William
Wesley Higgins, of North Wll
kesboro route one, a daughter on
March 31 at the Wilkes hospital.
A daughter was born March 31
at the Wilkes hospital to Mr.
and Mrs. William Rbscoe Pardue,
of Wllkesboro route two.
Mr. and Mrs. William Grant
Waddell, of Roaring River, are
parents of a son born Wednesday
at the Wilkes hospital. f
Kenerlys Return
To Radio Business
A. G. (Red) Kenerly, who was
formerly in radio repair business
here, and his father, T. Soott
Kenerly, have established the
Kenerly's Electronics Sales and
Service company here.
The new business firm is locat
ed in a part of the Dick Cashion
building at the Intersection of
Hinshaw and Trogdon streets,
adjacent to the quarters which
will house the new radio station.
For five and one-half years A.
G. Kenerly was employed by the
Navy department as supervisor
of radio and radar overhaul at
Norfolk, Va., wihich position Be
resigned to return to business
in North Wilkesboro.
The new firm will feature all
types of radio and electrical re
pair, including electric motors,
appliances and other types . of
electrical equipment.
Friends regret to learn that
Mrs. W. A. Sydnor is ill. She is
a patient at the Wilkes hospital.
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Vienna, Austria.?In recogni
tion of his very capable work
Cpl. Edward E. McNeill, hus
band of Mrs. Edna William Mc
Neill, PO Box 47, Bryson City,
N. C. has been promoted to the
grade of Sergeant according to
a recent announcement by Head
quarters, 116th AACS Squadron.
As an Aviation Mechanic at Tulln
Air Base, Vienna, Sgt. McNeill
is contributing to the vital work
the Airways and Air Communi
cations Service is performing in
maintaining communications fa
cilities and radio navigational
aids essential to the IT. S. Air
Forces which are policing occu
pied countries and providing the
necessary air transport for occu
pational forces.
SsSfcT '- ' -V
CHRIST BROKE THE PATH
It's strange isn't it, to think of God's becoming
man??To think that Ho was born a helpless in
fant; just as We are born helpless infants; that He
grew from childhood to manhood; that He ate and
drank, shivered and perspired; that at times He got
tired and set down to rest; that He died and was
buried, like any other son of man.
He did it, He told us, to- be our example in all
things. And that is the key to His resurrection. If
He was our example in life, then He was our path
finder in death, too. We can't believe that He set
aside His humanity at the resurrection. No, the tomb
was empty. He had.his human body with Him. The
difference is that it was now glorified. Notice how
the apostles were tempted to believe that He was
no longer man; but Our Lord pointedly ate dinner
with them to show that He was still human, because
everyone knows that a ghost has no stomach. An
other time, He had St. Thomas push his finger into
the nail-holes and drop his hand into His slit side.
You can't feel any ghost, and Thomas seemed to
have been satisfied that it was his. friend Jesus
Christ, for he dropped to his knees at "once and
cried out?"My Lord and My God."
Then this is our ordinary human destiny: to be
born, to die, and to rise again. That is the only con
clusion we can logically draw, especially in view of
Our Lord's many assertions during His lifetime?
"I am the resurrection and the life: he that believ
eth in me, although he be dead, shall live; and
everyone that liveth and believeth in me shall not
die forever" (John,.11:25,26).
Our Lord might have switched?He might have
changed from man to God; He might have left His
body in the grave and flashed over the hills and
lakes of Galilee like the lightning appearance of
God in the Old Testament?but no, He takes with
Him the body we know, the face kissed by Judas,
and the feet anointed by Magdelene. It is the same
Jesus before and after. So that if His previous life
was like ours and a pattern for ours, then this pres
ent life, this risen life, is a token, a pattern, a demon
stration of what we are destined to experience in the
life to come. ?
METHODS OF PREPARING FOODS
By ANNIE H. GREENE
(Home Demonstration Agent)
The Home Demonstration A
gents and Miss Addle Malone,
home representative of the Duke
Power Company, have planned
to hold a series of demonstra
tions to teach how to prepare
foods for the freezer locker. Miss
Malone will conduct these dem
onstrations at the Duke Power
kitchen.
The first demonstration will be
held on Wednesday, April 9, be
ginning at 2:00 p. m. This dem
onstration will (be for the Cricket
and Millers Creek Home Dem
onstration Clubs. All members
and visitors are cordially invited
to attend this demonstration.
On Wednesday, April 15 be
ginning at 2:00 p. m. This dem
onstration will be given for the
Moravian Falls and Fairplains
Home Demonstration clubs. All
members and visitors are cor
dially Invited to attend this dem
onstration.
On Thursday, April 17, begin
ning at 10:00 a. m.: this demon
stration will be for the people in
Wilfcesboro and North Wllkes
boro who are interested in learn
ing how to prepare their food
?Ipn
tor the Freezer Locker. At 3
p. m., on th^ same day there
will be another demonstration
given fpr all of the wonien in
the county or men who are in
terested in learning about prep
aration of the food for their
locker.
On Friday, April 18, at 8:00
p. m.: Miss Malone will conduct
this demonstration for women
and men in the county or in tjie
I towns in She county who have
! not had an opportunity to at
jtend one of the above demonstra
tions.
We are hoping that a large
number of women as well as men
will take advantage of this op
portunity to learn how to pre
pare their food for the freezer
locker. , Since this is the first
Freezer Locker we have ihad in
our county, it is most important
that we learn how to use it to
the best advantages.
A great number of the people
in the county have already had
a chance of hearing Miss Malone,
and as you know, she is well
trained and gives a splendid dem
onstration.
Please make every effort pos
sible to be present and attend
one of the above meetings.
All Patrons Wilkesboro School
Asked To Meet On Monday Night
PLAN TO COMPLETE GYMNASIUM FUND CAM
PAIGN, WHICH HAS NOW REACHED TOTAL
$3,700; GOAL $12,000
Wilkeeboro school gymnasium
fond today had reached $3,700
and a meeting of all school pa
trons . was called to (be held at
the school Monday night to make
plans for successfully completing
the campaign for a $12,000 fund.
Monday will be gymnasium day
in the school and each student
is expected to bring in a donation
to the fund, which will show all
patrons of the largest school in
the county that the students are
deeply Interested and that they
do not wjmt to be handicapped
longer by lack of gymnasium
facilities.
Every patron of the large
school is especially asked to at
tend the Monday night meeting,
which will begin at eight o'clock.
Plans have been drawn for a
modern gymnasium, which would
have a large court and facilities
for seating about 1,000 specta
tors.
On the school grounds is a
thermometer indicator which
shcTs progress of the gymnasium
fund and is watched by much in
terest daily by the student body.
SUPPORT THE Y. M. C. A
Mrs. J. H. Benge Is
Claimed By Death
Last rites will be held Friday,
11 a. m., at'Blue Ridge church
near Benge Tor Mrs. Millie Jane
Benge, 62, wife of J. H. Benge,
i of Parsonyille. She died today at
her home.
Mrs. Benge is survived by her
husband and two children: Ver
isle Benge, of Parsonville, and
I Wells Benge, of Summit.
Women Wanted In
Washington, D. C.
Women, ages 18 to 32, with
8th grade education or better,
are needed for work In Washing
ton, D. C. If interested contact
the "State Employment Service at
once.
n !
Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Absher re
turned to their home in the city
Sunday after enjoying a 10-day
motor trip to places of interest
in Florida. They were accompan
ied on the trip by Mr. and Mrs.
C. K. Avery, of Morganton.
Scoutmasters
Basic Training
Course Launched
The first session of the
Scoutmasters basic training
course was held Thursday night
at the Duke Power Office, Sub
jects presented during this ses
sion were as follows:
1. Opening and closing cere
monies.
2. Patrol Methods, (film and
discussion).
3. Patrol Spirit, Patrol Organ
ization and meetings.
4. Troop Leadership.
5. Local Council Program.
The following men were pres
ent: L. M. Nelson, Gordon Fin
ley, R. I. Moore, Isaac Duncan,
G. R. Andrews, Arthur Venable,
A. M. Bush, Ralph Harbinson,
Carl VanDeman, Edward Finley,
E. P. Bell, Forrest Jones, Gil
bert Foster, R. S. Gibbs, Shoun
Kenbaugh.
| This course is being offered
for all Soouters and prospective
Scouters in Wilkes county. There
is a lot of fellowship and fun
to be had for all attending this
course. The Leadership graining
Committee wtould like to urge all
Scouters to enroll in this course
before the next session, April
3rd.
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Teen Age Center .
Plans Square Dance
Saturday night activities at
the Wilkes "Teen Age center will
feature a square dance, with
lusic to be furnished by Wan
Thomas M. Wellborn
Funeral On Friday
iFaneral sendee for Thomas M.
Wellborn, 86, well known cltisen
of the Cycle community who died
Wednesday morning, will be held
Friday, 11. a. m? at Temple Hill
church with Her. P. O. Parks
conducting the service.
Surviving Mr. Wellborn are
two sons and two daughters:
Preston and Harvey Wellborn,
Greensboro; Mrs. Nina Harris, |
Ronda; Mrs. Minnie Pinnix, Cy
cle.
Cancer Campaign
WHI Open Monday
In Wilkes County
W. H. McElwee Chairman,
Mrs. R. J. Hinshaw Field
Chairman
Campaign to raise funds for
the American Cancer Society will
get under way in Wilkes county
Monday, April 7.
Attorney W. H. McElwee is
chairman in Wilkes for the cam
paign, which is being sponsored
by the North Wilkedboro and
Wilkesboro Woman's Clubs.
Mrs. R. J. Hinshaw is field
chairman and W. Blair Gwyn is
treasurer. An intensified cam
paign will be carried out to raise
funds for cancer research and
education.
April has been designated as
Cancer Month for the benefit of
the fund raising campaign and
to acquaint people with the dan
gers of cancer and the import
its
remedies.
Eastern Star Chapter Here Has
Public Installation Of Officers
On Saturday evening, March
29, Mrs. Maurice Walsh was In
stalled as Worthy Matron of
Wilkes Chapter No. 42, Order
Easter Star, in the presence of
many Eastern Star members,
Masons, and other interested
friends. Genio Walsh, of Mount
Pleasant Masonic Lodge, was in
stalled as Worthy Patron.
Other officers installed were:
i Mrs. H. G. Duncan, associate
[Matron; Ed Crysel, Associate Pa
Itron; Mrs. Bernice Greer, secre
tary; Mrs. Arlie Foster, treas
urer; Mrs. R. J. Hinshaw, Con
ductress; Miss Breta Poe Scroggs,
Associate Conductress; Mrs.
Genio Walsh, Chaplain; Mrs. A.
A. Sturdivant, Marshal; Mrs.
Fred Gaither, Organist; Mrs.
Page Choate, Adah; Mrs. John
son Sanders, Ruth; Mrs. Jones
Bowles, Esther; Mrs. Shoun Ker
baugih, Martha; Mrs. Flake Web
ber, Electa; Mrs. W. R. Harmon,
Warder; Mrs. Albert Vannoy,
Sentinel.
' Immediately upon assuming
her station in the East, Mrs.
Walsh called on Rev. W. N.
Brookshire to lead in prayer for
God's guidance, wisdom, and
strength in the chapter's efforts
to fulfill its purposes. Mrs. Clif
ton Miller followed the prayer
with the solo, "The Easterner's
Prayer."
Particularly impressive was the
presentation to Mre. Walsh of a
white gavel iby her hUBband, who
is Master of North Wilkesboro
Lodge A. F. and A. M. No. 407. J
Mrs. Clifton Miller, guest so
loist, accompanied by Mrs. How
ard Ford, sang ''Star of the
Blast" as the star was illuminat
ed and "I Would Be True" as
Mrs. Walsh approached the Bast.
The Past Matron's jewel was
presented from the chapter and
Jerry and David Day to Mrs. Em
ma Day by Mrs. C. B. Lomax,
and the gift from the chapter to
the past patron, Kyle Hayes, wi
presented by Miss Breta Poe
Scroggs. The white baton given
by Mrs. Day to the chapter was
used in Installation service.
C. P. Walter, spoke for the
Masons who were guests of the
evening.
The installing officers were:
Installing Officer, Mrs. Gilbert
Foster, P. Matron; Marshal, Mrs.
Ira D. Payne, D. D. G. M.; Chap- j
lain, Kyle Hayee, P. M.; Secre
tary, Miss Maible Hendren, P. M.:
Treasurer, Mrs. F. C. Forester,
P. M.; Organist, Mrs. Howard
Ford; Worthy Matron, Mrs. Em
ma Day; Worthy Patron, W. P.
Kelly, Past Patron; Associate
Mfetron, Mrs. H. T. Clark; Asso
ciate Patron, H. T. Clark; Con
ductress, Mrs. W. P. Kelly; As
sociate Conductress, Mrs. C. B.
Lomax; Warden, Mrs. A. A.
Cashlon.
Dr. Cooper Will
Lecture At Meet
Of Chiropractors
Dr. and Mrs. E. S. Cooper, of
| this city, are attending a district
meeting of Chiropractors being
held today in Asheyille.
In the meeting Dr. Cooper will
deliver a lecture on ''Methods of
Removing Gall Stones and Kid
ney Stones by Chiropractic Ad
justment and Diet Only," which
Dr. Cooper states he has been
using successfully for ten years.
Proposed Strike
Thone Workers
Not Called Here
If Strike Materializes Long
Distance Will Be Limit
ed To Emergency
The proposed strike of tele
phone workers called for Mon
day, April 7, will not affect the
telephone system Ihere, John R.
Redman, local manager of the
Central Telephone company,
said today.
Local service will continue as
usual, but if the strike mater
ialises long distance calls to
points outside of the Central
Telephone oompany exchanges
will be limited to emergency
calls. >
Government efforts to prevent
the threatened strike are con
tinuing.
ROCK CREEK BAPTIST
There will be a sunrise service
held at Rock Creek church Eas
ter Sunday morning. The public
is invited to attend.
Miss Ruth Louise McNeil, stu
dent of Mary Washington Col
lege at Fredericksburg, Vav is
spending the holidays here with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.
Glenn McNeil.
Sunrise Services
Will Be Held At
Number Of Places
St. Paul'* Moravian Falls,
Mount Lawn, and Others
To Have Services
Churches throughout this com
munity have planned special ser
vices for Easter Sunday, April 6.
Included in the Easter services
which have been announced' will
be sunrise services at St. Paul's
Episcopal, Moravian Palls ceme
tery, iby young people of the
Presbyterian church on the
Brushies, Rock Creek Baptist
church ana a 7:30 a. m. service
at Mount Lawn cemetery.
Following are the Easter ser
vice announcements.
Sunrise Service Sunday
St. Paul's Episcopal
The Easter Festival Service
will be held in St. Paul's Epis
copal Church on Easter Day at
sunrise, 6:00 a. m., as has .been
the custom for the past fifteen
years. The service will consist
of a celebration of the Holy Com
munion and sermon by the Rec
tor, Rev. B. M. Lackey. The
choir will Bing Easter hymns and
carols in the churchyard before
the service begins in the church.
The special offering taken at this
service will go to the Presiding
Bishop'e Relief Fund to support
the needy in foreign lands. A
cordial welcome is extended to
everyone to attend this service.
Sunrise Service at Moravian Falls
Twelfth annual Easter sun
rise service will be held Easter
Rev. S. N. Bumgarner, Metho
dist pastor, and Rev. Rogers
Gwaltney, Baptist pastor, will
conduct the service, to which
everybody' is invited.
The service will be held in the
Moravian Falls cemetery, which
is one of the most ibeautiful and.
best maintained rural cemeterlea
in this section of the state.
Easter Morning Service
At Mt. Lawn Cemetery
Second annual Easter morning
service will be held at Mount
Lawn Memorial Park north of
this city on Easter Sunday morn
ing, 7:30 o'clock.
Rev. Eugene Olive, former
Baptist minister here and now
chaplain of Wake Forest College,
will conduct the service. Choirs
of all churches are especially in
vited to take part in the singing
for the service:
Mount Lawn Memorial Park is
located on highway 18 two miles
north of North Wilkesboro. The
Easter morning service will be
an annual feature at the ceme
tery.
First Presbyterian To
Have Sunrise Service
Vouth Fellowship group of the
First Presbyterian church will
conduct an Blaster morning sun
rise service near the home of
Miss Tofby Turner on the Brush
ies at sunrise Easter morning.
All are invited.
Regular church services will
be held at the church morning
and evening. ;
First Baptist
Rev. Eugene Olive, formed
pastor and now Wake Forest
College chaplain, will preach la
the Easter morning worship ser
vice at the First Baptist church,
at 11 a. m.
First Methodist
The Easter theme will be car
ried out In the morning worship
service at 11 a. m. Church school
will be held at the regular hour,
9:45 a. m.
There will he no evening ser**
vices.
' Wilkesboro Baptist
Regular services will- be half
Easter Sunday. Sjunday school
will begin at 9:45 and at 11 a.
m. the pastor will deliver pa Eas
ter sermon. Baptist Training
Union study course will meet at
6:30 and evening worship wll\
be at 7:30.
WLLKB8BORO CHARGE \'
Rev. H. M. Well man. Pastor.
Holy Commnnion will be ob
served at both Union and Wil
kesboro Methodist churches Sun
day:
Union at 10:00 o'clock, and
Wllkeeboro at 11:00. Easter Is
the most appropriate time of the
year for this' observance. Let all
our people join in this