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No. 34 m Published Mondays and Ttwrsdays NORTH WtLKESBQRO, N. C., Monday, Aug. 25, 1947 IMce North Wifkesboro Your Shopping Center
LIKINGTHE SOUTH
MISS BETTY LOVELOCK
i Betty Lovelock, pretty
lassie now on an ex
ded holiday in America and
itly visiting in North Wil
boro, likes the south better
than any other part of America
that she has visited.
In fact, the beautiful brunette
' has gotten far enough away from
the "King's English" to drawl-Jpl
"yo all" on a par with any native
^'southerner.
Miss Lovelock is traveling with
her mother, Mrs. E. A. Lovelock.
They are on vacation from their
business of being distributor in
the Sydney area for Imported
American electrical devices and
appliances. Here they are visit
ing in the home of Attorney and
Mrs. Eugene Trivette with the
rettes' nephew, Attorney Bill
tell, with whom they be
riends while -Bill was a
in the navy during
the war. He spent two years in
amphibious transport duty with
headquarters at Sydney and oft
mF visited in the Lovelock home.
f The Lovelocks heard much a
it America from Bill and after
ha*war they took the first op
portujuity to come over for an
extended visit and enjoy some of
what they had been hearing a
bout. They arrived i* Vancouver,
Canada, on June 22 and after a
brief tour of Canada they went
to New York City, where Bill
met them in July. After several
days here they spept two weeks
with other friends in Lexington,
My., and have returned here.
They will tour western states be
fore sailing back to Sydney,
fj Miss Lovelock says she finds
^America very fascinating, and es
pecially the south where the gen
Vuine hospitality is so impressive.
?She is somewhat awed with the
? bountiful plenty of everything in
?America. But, unlike other Aus
Lv>ut
ft**.
tralians who hare visited here,
she thinks prices are reasonable,
particularly when quality of
purchased products are consider
ed. But she does remember that
food prices are high wihhn she
recalls that the favorite Aus
tralian order of "steak and eggs"
costs only about 40 cents over
there.
Maybe it is accounted for by
her commercial background, but
Mies Lovelock has no trouble
with American money. She gets
along with cents, nickels, dimes
and dollars just as well as with
the pence, shillings and pounds
in Sydney.
Miss Lovelock just raves about
the beautiful convertible cars in
the higher price range in Amer
ica. She thinks they are the
most beautiful things manufac
tured. In Australia, she Bald,
they had received only a few
new cars, and all of them in the
lowest price range of American
built automobiles.
VFW and Auxiliary
Will Meet Tuesday
Fo Plan Clubhouse
oint Meeting To Be Held
Tuesday Night At VFW
Hall On C Street
Bine Ridge Mountain post of
feterans of Foreign Wars and
he post's auxiliary will meet
Tuesday night, eight o'clock, at
he VFW hall on C street.
Main purpose of the meeting
?111 be to name committees for
he building of a Veterans of
roreign Wars clubhouse.
Preliminary plans for a club
louse call for a large building
vith an assembly hall which will
it 1,000 people, and with am
>Ie clubhouse facilities.
Initial funds for erection of a
jlubhouse were raised when the
VFW recently sponsored a suc
bessful air show here.
Further announcements rela
tive to plans are expected fol
lowing the meeting Tuesday
Mbt. Every member of both or
Pffzations is nrgently requested
to attend the meeting.
Organ Recital At
First Methodist
J. Ja7 Anderson will present
elen Caldwell, Mary Ann Casey,
id Dot Jenkins <in organ recital
t the First Methodist Church
1 North WilkeSboTo on Thurs
?y evening of this week at 8:00
'clock. The recital wlU include
mbers by a Quartet consisting
. Jo Lasslter, Agnes Kenerly,
Robert Morrow, and Bill Gabriel,
heaa assisting artists will sing
leaa i
ements of some of the
Jach 'organ works which ere to
played by the recltallsts.
On the program are to be giv
90 me of the works of the
i aster composer for the organ,
ohann Sebastian Bach, as well
s numbers by -Handel, Boell
tann, Wagner, Massenet, Weln
erger, and Franck.
The recital Is open to the pub
i and all are cordially invited
attend this outstanding musi
al event of the Wllkesboros.
Friends will be. glad to learn
Mrs. Presley E. Brown will
?|0e to return borne In a
from Daris Hospital
has been undergoing
Mrs. Brown is sbow
contlnned Improvement.
Certain speci'i of beetle* were
so sacred in ancient
titer were mummified,
to the Encyclopaedia
Blue Ridge Singing
Lewis Fork Church
The Blue Ridge Singing Asso
ciation will convene with Lewis
Fork Baptist church Sunday,
Aug. 31, beginning at one p. m.
All gingers are invited to par
ticipate and the public is cordial
ly invited to attend.
Tannery Property
Sale September 6
?Charles and Lewis H. Jenkins
recently purchased the property
known as the tannery property,
from sthe International Shoe Co.
of St. Louis, Mo.
The Jenkins brothers are cut
ting this property into lots and
it will be sold at auction on
Sept. 6. The lots, the buildings,
the machinery and all equipment
and supplies will be sold individ
ually.
This property will make a
beautiful industrial site and
would be easily converted into
some other type manufacturing
plant, although a survey shows
that there is enough extract
wood and bark left in a radius of
30 miles ta last a large operation
at least ten years.
The Jenkins boys say that they
wish to hold some of this prop
erty for their own use because
with flood control in sight, and
the work having already begun
on surveys for the dams, that
this will be ideal industrial and
business property. They Say that
they wish that they were able to
hold the entire site, which in
cludes about thirty-three acres,
for a few years until the flood
control dams are completed, at
wthlch time the property would
be worth a premium, but it will
be sold on Sept. 6 th. This will
afford badly needed railroad
sidings and sites for businesses
that need railroad unloading
places and more room for build
ings, stock, supplies, trucks and
parking. The flood control pro
ject which started two weeks ago
and the releasing of this prop
erty will bring a new era in the
undeveloped resources of Wilkes.
North Wilkeeboro, with the aid
of flood control, will grow into
an industrial 1 center, because
with all its natural resources,
efficient trouble-free labor condi
tions, water supply, quality of
water, moderate climate, and di
versified industry it will be un
limited in possibilities. r
"Should you neetf electric mo
tors, gasoline motorl, shop ma
chinery, tools, building slt^e, rail
road sldingB or sound investment
In real estate attend this sale.
The railroad extends into and
through the heart of this prop
lily," the owners said today.
Dr. W. J. Caroon
Opens Office Here
Dr. W. J. Caroon, Jr., who
graduated .from the school of
dentistry of the Medical College
of Virginia at Richmond and
received his degree In June, to
day opened Ms office for the
practice of dentistry In North
Wilkesboro.
Dr. Caroon's offices, which
are modernly equipped, are lo
cated In vthe right suite at the
top of the steps on the second
floor of the Polndezter building
over Rexall Drug store. He Is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Jv Ca
roon, of this city.
Johnson Cousins
Take An Appeal
ToSupremeCourt
Percy and Taft Johnson, Win
dy Gap oousins convicted of sec
ond degree murder In Wilkes
court. Thursday for the killing
of Lloyd Mayberry at the home
of Mrs. Shirley Johnson at Win
dy Gap June \4, have appealed
to the supreme court. I
Both defendants, whom Judge
Johh H. Clement described as
.being "very fortunate" In that
a verdict of first degree was notj
returned by the jury, are free
under appearance bonds of $25,-j
000 each. Meanwhile court ste
nographer Mrs. Faye Hulet was
instructed to write the record of
the case for review by the high
court In the fall term.
Evidence in the case was that
Percy Johnson shot Lloyd May
berry in the back with a 45 cali
bre automatic while Mayberry
was fleeing from Percy and Taft,
who was standing by with a
shotgun. The trouble had come
about over an ' accusation that j
Mayberry had stolen 40, gallons
of liquor from a moonshine still
owned jointly by the Johnson
cousins, who were also cousins
of Mayberry.
Wilkes court Friday ended a j
three-weeks term, during which.
jfbout 200 of. cases, docketed
were disposed of.
Following are results of cases
tried during the latter part of
the third week:
For operating slot machines
Charlie Hall, Vestal Bauguss,
George Myers, Seymour Hollo- j
way and C. G. Porter drew six
months road sentences suspend
ed on payment of costs and $100
fine each.
In the following cases the
judgment in each for operating
a car intoxicated was four
months road sentence suspended
on payment of costs, $50 fine
each and surrender of driver lic
ense for one year: Edward Clay
Bishop, T. H. Williams, Joe Dar
lington, Edward Ejigene ParkB,
Oliver Lee Grimes, Vinue Porter.
Pig Barber, colored, larceny
and breaking and entering, two
years on roads.
Guy HarriB, operating car
while intoxicated and violation
prohibition lawB, total of ten
months on roads.
Thomas Nance, non-support,
six months suspended on pay
ment of $25 monthly for Bupport
of family.
Lindberg Reynolds, colored,
four months suspended on pay
ment of $12 monthly for support
illegitimate child.
Willie Foster, operating car
while intoxicated, four months
suspended on payment $50 and
costs; violation prohibition law,
six months suspended on pay-1
ment $>50 and costs.
Leonard Kerley, abandonment,
six months suspended on pay
ment $30 per month for family.
, MonroO Perkins, Wouseforelak
ing, larceny and receiving, two
years on roads.
Oscar Brown, affray, sixj
months Suspended on payment
$50 fine and costs.
Roy Todd, abandonment, 18
months on roads.
The case against Millard and
Glenn BeU for highway robbery
was transferred to Yadkin coun
ty, where a greater part of the
crimes for which they are charg
ed were alleged to have been
committed. They are ' charged
with stopping motorists on the
highways and taking money from
them under pretense of being
law enforcement officers and for
robbery wfth firearms. They are
brothers of Marvin Claude Bell,
now on death row awaiting su
preme court appeal from con
viction and l9ath sentence forj
rape of Miss Peggy Ruth Shore.
Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Ogilvie and
daughters, Missae Barbara and
Carolyn Ogilvie, returned last
week to their home at Oakwoode
from a vacation spent at their
summer home on Harkar's Is
land.
Work Will Begin
Here Oil Tusfey
Fairgrounds Being Convert
ed Into Athletic Park In
Honor War Dead >
Contractors will begin work
tomorrow on erection of flood
lights on the athletic field of
Memorial Park in North Wilkes
boro.
The field layout and location
of the ten poles which will hold
120 flood lamps of 1,500 watts
capacity each were staked off
during the week-end in,anticipa
tion of starting the work, and
eyery effort will be made to
have the lights on for the first
football game here on September
12' between North Wilkesboro
and Sparta.
Delta, Inc., of Charlotte," has
contract for the' erection ef
lights.
The field layout leaves the
football .field in its present ,lo^
cation, which will foe the outfield
of the new baseball field. The
baseball field will have center
field, left and right field fences
350 feet from home plate.
In order that bleachers may be
provided for football, additional
funds above the amount donated
to date will be necessary. Con
tributions should be sent to W.
Blair Gwyn, Memorial Park
fund treasurer ,at the Bank of
North Wilkesboro.
Donee Tuesday Night
For Memorial Benefit
A dance will be held Tuesday
night 8:30, on the second floor
of the John Tomlinson building
on A street for benefit of Memor
ial Park fund. A popular local
band will furnish music for
round and square .dancing and
everybody is invited. Proceeds
from admission charges will go
to the park fund to erect lights
on the athletic field.
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Schools of Wilkes
Began Term Today
Wilkes county schools opened
the 1947-48 term today:
Increased enrollment is antici
pated in all the larger schools
of the county for the term.
Practically all teacher vacan
cies were filled and much im
provement in the teacher situa
tion is reported as compared to
last year.
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Birthday Dinner
Mr. Jim Eller, of Purlear, was
honored Sunday <by a surprise
birthday dinner in observance of
his 73 rd birthday anniversary.
The occasion was a complete
surprise to Mr. Eller when mem
bers of his family began arriving
with dinner. Forty were present,
including Ray EJler and family,
from Winston-Salem, and Bill
Eller and family, from Dublin,
Va. The occasion was very enjoy
able.
Millers Creek Club
In Annual Picnic
In spite of showers the Millers
Creek Home Demonstration club
enjoyed a lovely picnic Thurs
day evening, Aug. 21. First on
the lawn then on the side porch
and finally all over their house,
Mr. and Mrs. Clate Bumgarner
entertained the crowd,?-and a
crowd it was. Several members
failed to- appear but many came
with well-filled baskets, and vis
itors helped.
After eating, games and con
tests were played and prizes were
given away.
Associational
B. T. U. Meet
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Quarterly mass meeting of the
Brushy Mountain Associational
Baptist Training Union will be
held In the First Baptist church
in North Wllkesboro Tuesday,
August 26, eight p. m.
Two rellgiouB films, "The
Book of Books" and We, Too Re
ceive," will be shown as the main
Feature of the program and will
be Interesting to all who will
attend.
Planted acreage of cotton was
officially estimated at 21,889,000
acres on July 8, which is an in
crease of 18 per cent over 1946,
and the highest since 1948.
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Briefs Filed For
Marvin Bell For j
U. S. High Court
Convicted Man Contends
His Confession Was Not
Properly Obtained
The North Carolina 'Attorney
General's office filed a brief last
week with the clerk of the Unit
ed States Supreme Court In an
swer to the contentions of Mar
vin C. Bell that his confession
of criminal assault against young
Peggy Ruth Shore last August
was unfairly Obtained and that
he was not properly tried.
Bell and his companion in
crime, Ralph Vernon Littoral,
were sentenced to die in the
state's gas chamber in June aft
er being convicted in Wilkes
county last January. Bell's At
torney filed a writ of certiorari
with the Supreme Court early in
July after the North Carolina
Supreme Court bad rejected an
appeal of the case. His execu
tion was thus automatically
ly stayed until the contentions
set forth in the writ could be
studied by the nation's highest
tribunal, which will convene for
the fall session October 6.
Although Littoral did not ap
peal, Governor Gregg Cherry
granted him a reprieve until
Bell's case is disposed of by the
high court. f
In answer to Bell's contention
that bis confession to the crime
had not been given voluntarily,
the State claims in its brief that
the confession was voluntary be
cause no threats were made, no
torture administered and no pro
mises made.
Bell also contends that the
confession should be ruled out
because it was obtained by fed
eral officers before he was taken
'before a U. S. Commissioner for
a hearing. His third contention
is that the jury which passed, on
the case was illegally constitut
ed because it had no women.
The Supreme Court' will study
Bell's contentions and the State's
brief and will announce whether
it will review the case after it
convenes for the fall session.
AAA Offers Seed
For Fall Pasture
Announcement was made from
the local AAA office this morn
ing that information had been
received from the State Office at
Raleigh that pasture seed, would
be offered for seeding this fall.
A campaign has been started for
increasing1, acreages both for
temporary and permanent "pas
tures and in order to encourage
additional seeding of pastures
the State Committee has an
nounced the following changes In
the amount of minimum assist
ance which may be approved for
the farm.
"Payment in excess of the min
imum assistance approved for thd
farm may be made for establish
ing or improving five acres or
less of permanent pasture. Pay
ment will be made at the rates
for each kind of seed used as
indicated in the County Hand
book."
This was interpreted by Law
rence Miller, Secretary of the
County AAA, to mean that any
farmer who will agree to seed
pasture, any acreage from one to
five, in the fall of 1947 may re
ceive for seeding two groups of
pasture mixtures that are ap
proved by the County Committee.
It consists of 12 poun4s orchard
grass and 2 pounds ladino clover
and one mixture consisting of
10 pounds orchard grass, 6
pounds redtopf and 2 pounds
white dutch clover . (with 15
pounds lespedeza to be added in
the spring).
Mr. Miller explained , further
that this offer means that the
greater part of the cost of these
seeds will be borne by the Gov
ernment and the difference, will
amount to approximately one
third of the cost, will be paid by
the farmer at the time he places
his order for seed In the County
Office.
This offer opens on September
let and *111 close on September
20th.
Mr. Harry Dula, son of Mr.
and Mrs. L. B. Dula, recently
returned from an eight-months'
stay In Germany. Mr. Dula is a
civil engineer and Is now con
nected with Mr. S. P. Mitchell,
local engineer.
Mrs. fi. Q. Myers, of Lenoir,
visited in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Ralph Duncan last sight en
route to her home in Lenoir after
spending a short vacation at
Shatley Springs in Ashe county.
Buford Lee Penned
Is Cloimed By Death
Funeral service was held Sun
day afternoon at Moravian Falls
Methodist church for Buford Lee
Pennell, four-year-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. James Pennell. The
child died frrld&y night.
Buford Lee is survived by his
father and mother and three sis
ters, Mary Ann, Audrey and Lin
da Pennell.
Rev. Ernest Bumgarner and
Rev. N. S. Bumgarner conducted
the funeral service.
Miss Frazier Is
Vocalist Friday
At Kiwanis Meet
Miss Jackie Frazier entertain
ed the North Wilkeshoro Kiwan
is club Friday noon by delight
fully singing three numbers,
"Yours Is My Heart Alone,'
"The Man I Lore" and "Begin
the Begulne." Miss Lois Scroggs
was accompanist. The" program
was presented by Dudley Hill,
program chairman for the day.
The program was well receiv
ed by the club. I
r Guests Friday were as follows:
Mortimer Morehouse with R. L.
Morehouse; T. J. Frazier with
C. Arthur Venablfc; Dr. A. C.
Titus and D. B. McLaughlin
with Carl. VanDeman; A. W.
Horton and Phillip Rabbins with
Russell Hodges; Leonard Smith,
of Jacksonville, Fla., with H. H.
Morehouse. R. J. Foster, of St.
Petersburg, Florida, was a visit
ing Klwanian.
Mrs. Harrold, 32,
Is Taken By Death
Funeral service will be" held!
Tuesday at Dehart church for
Mrs. Fay? Louella Harrold, 32,
who died Sunday at her home
in Mulberry township. She was
the wife of Lester Harrold.
Surviving are her husband and
mother, Mrs. Retta Huie.
Last riteg will be conducted
by Revs. HiHery Blevins, Monro?
Dillard and Rusa Harrold.
J. F. Lovette, 51, Is
Claimed By Death
Funeral service was (held Fri
day at New Hope Baptist church
for J. F. Lovette, 51, resident of
the Millers Creek community
who died at thfc Wilkes hospital.
Rev. A. W. Eller ana Rev. W.
S. Luck conducted the last rites.
Mr. Lovette is survived by his
wife, one eon and two daughters:
Mrs. Raynard Goforth, Ruby
Mae Lovette apd Zollie Lovette.
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Piaat Will Begia
Projactioa Sow
New Plant Will Manufac
ture Anklets; Employe
Training Scheduled
Announcement was made to
day that a new manufacturing
Industry Is to be located In
North Wllkeeboro.
Through the efforts of the
North Carolina State Depart- *
ment of Conservation and De
velopment, repres e n t e d by
Messrs. Lehey and Kelly, and the
Wilkes Chamber of Commerce,
represented by President J. B.
i Williams and Manager Forrest
Jones, North Wllkeeboro has
been selected as the site for a
branch plant of Skyland Textile
company, which will manufac
ture hand-transferred anklets.
The new industry will begin
its organisation program in the
immediate future and plans to
start production on a limited
basis within thirty days.
A training school for person
nel not already experienced in
ribbing, looping and hand trans
fer anklet operations will be put
into operation as needed, an of
ficial of the company said here
today. Such trainees will consist
mainly of girls between the ages
of 18 and 30. Individuals in this
area already experienced in
these operations will form the
nucleus of the initial productive
force and may play a major part
in conducting training classes.
f The plant is located in a
stone and brick building 75 by
140 feet located on highway 115
opposite the Parkway Bus com
pany, one mile from the North
Wilkesboro city hall. The build
ing ? is new and modern and is
ideally located for manufactur
ing.
It is believed that many resi
dents of North Wilkesboro and
adjacent communities will be in
terested in obtaining positions
with this new company, which is
expected to prove tb be?a big
asset to this county and the en
tire state.
Miss Mary Gage Barber and
her roommate at the Appalachian
State Teachers College at Boone,
Miss Lois Eller, of Mars Hill,
spent the week-end here with
Miss Barber's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. William Barber. After an
other week in summer school
Miss Barber will be at home
with her parents until Septem
(ber 23rd, when she returns to
the college.
IN GREAT SMOKIES
Dennis Faw, -who with his fa
ther and mother, Mr. and Mrs.
R. C. Faw, recently toured the
Great Smoky Mountains national
park, is thrilled to tell of his
trip and experiences. Here he is
shown with "heap Hg injun
chief," who gets Quite a kick and
considerable pocket money pos
ing with tourists and exhibiting
his skill with blow gun and bow
and arrow.
What interests the visitor as
much as the scenery are the
Cherokee Indians, about 3,200
of whom live on. the Cherokee
reservation. They live back in
the hills and their homes are not
in sight, but they are on the
roadside selling trinkets and
souvenirs. The Indians have be
come very goo<j salesmen and
conduct profitable business in
that manner.
The Oherokees really put on
a show at the Indian fair, which
is about the only time the visi
tors get to see the Indian chil
dren who live back in the hills.
The fair is held during the first
week of September. The Indians
take in several thousand dollars
at the fair.
No policemen are necessary
for the Indians, because they a
bide by their laws and regula
tions and along the highways
they go according to the posted
signs. Apparently they are pros
perous and happy. They have
good schools and they are plan
ning to erect a huge hotel for
tourists. Everybody is thrilled
with the beautiful drive through
Soco Gap down the Cherokee
valley but to Dennis Faw
biggest thrill of all was, the
portunity to trade with
lian.
The black bear In the
Mountains park attract
Interest. Most of the
friendly, hut just in case
In bad humor the
warn tourists to lea
lone. One Is shown
Eompanying picture,
picture shows Dennis
Indian chief.
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