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Published Monday* and Thursdays NORTH WILKESBOBO. N. C.. Thursday, Oct. 2, . 19947 T. M. C. A. is rata a building fund for the ion of a modern Y. M A. plant. Support it. ss North Wilkesboro has trading* radius of 50 miles, serving 100,000 people in The Journal-Patriot Has Blazed the Trail of Progress In the "State of Wilkes" For Over 41 Years Vol. 42, No. 45 ' ,t ^34 ■ •: -'■* **' Your Shopping Center BROAD PLAN OF FLOODCONTROL IS ADVOCATED * ' * ' ' . f Representative Deane and Other Officials Of Government Confer With Local People Wednesday In Efforts to Speed the Work £ Representative C. B. Deane of the eighth congressional district with a group of U. S. forestry of ficiate and scientists met here Wednesday tA explain a broad program of flood control and soil conservation in the Yadkin ▼alley- basin. The visit of Representative Deane and other officials here was unexpected and a hurried meeting was called and held at the Wilkes Chamber of Com " merce office. V^n E. Justice, of North Wil eaboro, chairman of the Tadkin alley flood control committee, presided and presented Represen tative Deane, who emphasised to the group that flood control is a broad program including more than the erection of the propos ed detention dams on the Yad kin and Reddies rivers. He said that complete flood control could be brought about by the reten tion dams, reforestation, con servation of timber, soil conser vation and development. He also urged that the cooperation of all the counties in the Yadkin valley basin be solicited to urge con gress for necessary appropria tions, not only for the flood con trol dams, but the other phases of flood control. Milton Bryant, of the Forestry division of the Department of Jamboree Planned For Memorial Park Fand In This City String Bands, Quartets And Other Performers May Take Part in Events A movement was begun here this week to organize a Saturday night hill billy Jamboree for. the benefit of the Memorial Park i fund. Additional funds are needed for Memorial Park for erection of a fence, grandstand, dressing | rooms and other improvements. Several thousand dollars are needed to make of the park an | athletic field like this commun ity should have. Jimmie Childress, local radio singer, has volunteered his ser vices for organization of the Sat urday night events, which would be patterned after the Carolina Hay Ride In Charlotte, Grand j Ole Opry in Nashville and oth er highly popular Saturday night events. Mr. Childress said he knew of -At. least ten string bands in this I pica who might take part in such a program, and there is a pos sibility that quartets and other groups might .volunteer their services to this commendable It sufficient response 18 given by the prospective entertainers, it is expected that additional an nouncements will be made soon relative to the date of the first Saturday night event. Agriculture, told the group that a survey la being made on for estry practices In the Yadkin val ley area down to the Rocking ham level and that recommenda tions will be made to the next congress. He explained the Im portance of re-forestatlon, proper timber cutting, forest fire pre vention, soil building practices and erosion prevention to flood control in a complete program. Herbert Stone, of the National Forest department, said that only one of 18 million acres of foest lands in North Carolina are in national forests and advocated national forest expansion in the state. Dr. Charles Hurst, of Ashe ville, who Is engaged in scien tific research on land manage ment and soil resources, said that water can be controlled by use of land. Water management science, he said, is comparatively new. Because of the hard clay subsoil, he said that topsoil must be built up to absorb more water. Local people present for the meeting included Mr. Justice, J. B. Williams and Tom Jenrette, president and secretary of the Wilkes Chamber of Commerce, Vernon Deal, N. S. Forester, Hadley Hayes, A. B. Johnston, P. E. Brown and Watson Brame. To Reorganize Cub Pack Here Tonight All boys in North Wilkesboro, 9, 10 and 11 years of age, with their parents, are asked to be present at a meetnig to be held Thursday night. Oct. And, 7 o' clock at First Presbyterian church, to reorganise Cub Pack No. 36, sponsored by Noth Wil kesboro Klwanis club. Edward Bell will be the new Cub Master. Arthur Venable will be pack com mittee chairman; T. A. > Finley and Bill Hardister other com mtitee members. All boys who want to be Cub8 bfing parents, or parent, and be, there. Sweet Potato Tips Scales at 7 3-4 Lbs. Allle McGlamery, of the Miners Creek community, should have the title for grow lnK the largest sweet potato of the season. On Tuesday he brought to this office a sweet potato and three - fourths pounds, which tipped the scales at 7 From the same vine he took two others with a combined weight of four and one-half pounds, making a total of 12 and one-fourth pounds. He carried the potatoes to the Wilkes agricultural fair which la now in progress. — — Legion to Meet Wilkes post of the American Legion will meet tonight at the Legion and Auxiliary clubhouse All members are asked to attend. EMPLOY PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED WEEK PROCLAIMED OCTOBER 5-11 Pursuant to Proclamations la sued by President Truman and Gcmraor Cherry and Act of Con grejjp (69 Stat. 530) the week of'October 5-11, 1947 will be ob served as National Enfploy the Physically Handicapped Week. Cooperating with the State Employment Service, Mayor T. S. Kenerly has Issued the follow ing proclamation: "Whereas the people of North Wllkesboro are conscious of the debt they owe to the Veterans who were wounded in line of ser vice and to those who have suf fered industrial and other acci dents and "Whereas the employers of North Wilkesboro have an op to show faith and par in our democratic life in the national effort habilitate qualified but iy handicapped workers ploying their services, I do upon the people of our town .by taking inventory job openings and listing such openings with the Employ ment Service for the ultimate purpose of hiring handicapped workers. I do further call upon leaders in religion, education, civic organizations, and every other agency to exercise every ef fort to enlist public support of a sustained program for the em ployment and development of the abilities and capacities of those who are physically handicapped. "T. S. KENERIiY, "Mayor of North Wllkesboro." Mrs. Kathryn Lott, Manager of the local office of the State Em ployment Service, urges all em ployers to canvass their employ ment needs and If a physically handicapped worker can be used, to place an order with the Em ployment Service now. Mrs. Lott further urges all employers to help make the National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week of October 5-11 a big success In Wilkes County. "Employ the Hnadicapped Workers ... It's Good Business." I PRESIDENT'S PROCLAMATION FIRE PREVENTION WEEK Whereas each year preventable fires claim the lives of thousands of our citizens, both young and old, and cause permanent disability or painful in jury to countless others; and Whereas the destruction by fire of our natural and created resources has almost doubled during the past decade, and cost this nation more than five hundred and sixty million dollars in the year 1946; and Whereas this ravage, if .unabated, threatens an even more calamitous loss of life and waste of ma terial wealth; and Whereas the program promulgated at the Presi dent's Conference on Fire Prevention held at Wash ington in May, 1947 is designed to assist in stem ming the tide of death and destruction from fires: Now, Therefore, I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate the week beginning October 5, 1947, as Fire Preven tion Week. ^ I earnestly request every citizen to eliminate all possible causes of destructive fire in his home and in his place of business, and I urge that vigilance against fire be extended beyond Fire Prevention Week and zealously continued throughout the year. I invite State and local governments, the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, the National Fire Waste Council, the American National Red Cross, business and labor organizations, churches and schools, civic groups, and agencies of the press, the radio, and the motion-picture industry to cooperate, fully in the observance of Fire Prevention Week with the objective of initiating a fire prevention campaign continuing throughout the year. I also direct the appropriate agencies of the Federal Gov ernment to assist in every feasible way in arousing the public to the seriousness of the fire problems. In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington this fourteenth J A L J.1. * ▼ J —* * * seventy-second. HARRY S. TRUMAN. i. DALE CARNEGIE COURSE COMING "Wilkes Junior Chamber of Commerce will bring to North Wilkesboro the famous Dale Car negie course in effective speak ing, personality development and art of winning friends and in fluencing people. Decision to sponsor the course, which has been exceedingly popu lar and successful in other cities, was reached in a meeting of the Jaycees directors Wednesday night. Dr. A. P. Wilson, professor at Burton Junior College in Char lotte, will be instructor of the course, which will begin on Tues day night, October 14, ana con tinue once each week for 17 weeks. Place and hour of the course will be announced later. Dr. Wilson has 40 years ex perience in speaking and teach ing and is a widely recognized authority in his profession. The course is fully approved for veterans training under the G. I. Bill of Rights and veterans may take the course at the ex pense of the government. Local Jayeees released the following information relative to merits of the course: "When you join the Dale Car negie Course, you will meet for seventeen weeks as one of a group of 40 adults. You will be trained by certified Dale Car negie nistructors. You will parti cipate in each session. You will talk in the first tew sessions a bout such easy topicB as your business or profession, why you Joined this Coarse, or the story of .your life. "Remember, your audience will be very sympathetic, for they will all be in the same boat. Yoti | will be surprised to discover how quickly you will develop confi dence and ease. "Aa the course progresses, you are shown how to plan, prepare and construct your talk, how to illustrate your point, how to be clear, how to be impressive and convincing. Yon are shown how to win confidence, how to get anyone to agree at the outset, how to state your proposal, how to appeal to the motives that produce action. "You are taught to remember what you want to say, how to be gin and end your talk. You are continually drilled in the fine art of winning friends and in fluencing people. "This course hag groWn out of Dale Carnegie's more than thir ty-four years of experience in teaching over 100,000 men and women the principles of more ef fective speaking an<j better hu [ "While the instructors are dif man relations. ferent in different cities, they have all been trained in Car i negie methods and techniques and all are guided by the same Instructors' Manual. The same experience-tested class sessions are used all over the United States and Canada.'' [ o 25th Anniversary Jewel Box Stores Special Event Is Being Cele brated Locally By Jew el Box Store Here The 25th anniversary of the Jewel Box chain of Jewelry stores began October 1 and will con tinue until November 1 with spe cial values at all of the Jewel Box stores from Miami, Florida, to Winchester, Ya. Ray Landsberger, manager of the Jewel Box store here, said to day while discussing the event that the Jewel Box organisation was started 25 years ago In a store six • feet wide and 15 feet long, and located in Greensboro. Now the 47 stores compose the second largest jewelry chain In the nation. The organization has a direct source of supply from all leading manufacturers. The Jewel Box opened here in October last year In the Poindex ter building and has enjoyed good business with wide patron age in northwestern North Car olina. Some ot the anniversary values are quoted in Jewel Box advertisements which appear In this newspaper today and which will bs published during the next several days. V ; — • — . Support the Y. M. C. A. FOOTBALL! Friday night, eight o' clock, at Memorial Park: North Wilkesboro versus Barium Springs; radio broadcast by station WILX. Saturday night, eight o'clock, a t Memorial Park: Wilkesboro versus Jonesville, Radio broad cast by station WILX. — fc Baptists In Brier Creek Association In Annual Meeting The Brier Creek Baptist asso | elation is meeting in its 126th • annual session October 2' and 3 ! with Holly Springs Baptist 1 church, near Harmony. It 1b one of the oldest and one of the larg 1 est in N. C., being one of the 114 original associations antedat j ing the state convention, the Biblical Recorder and Wake For i est College. | The association was organized Nov. 23, 1822 at old Brier Creek church, but met semiannually in 1834. The original churches Join ing the association were Brier Creek; Bethel (not the Bethel near Ronda); Fishing > Creek; Little River; Mitchell's River; Snow Creek; Old Roaring River; Zion Hill; and Cool Spring. The first moderator was Rev. Thomas Mastin and the first clerk James Martin, a colonel in the war with the Creek Indians. "She program for Brier Creek association follows: Thursday 10:00, Devotional, Guss Myers. N. L. ©avis. 10:55, How to deal with mem bers who are absent, G.' D. White, and L. M. Jarvis. 11:20, Sermon, Dr. O. T. Bink lej; alternate, Rev: L. T. Young er. V 12:00, Intermission. 1:00, Praise and Worship. J:15, Tithing, L. T. Younger, Mi#s Elon Myers. 1:45, Hospitals, R. R. Crater. 2:10, Special Music, Pleasant Grove Quartet. 2:20, W. M. U., Mrs. Richard Martin, Mrs. Ray Madison. Friday 10:00, Devotional, h. c. Sprinkle. 10:15, Christian Education, Graham Madison, C. C. Holland. 10:45, Mills Home, E. R. Crat er. , 11:20, Sermon, J. A. Isenhour. Alternate, J. L. Wells. 12:00, Intermission. 1:00, Praise ana Worship. 1:15, Evils of Alcohol, J. C. Gwaltney, Irvin Wallace. 1:45, Instruction in Christian Growth, J. N. Binkley and J. B. Ray. 2:15, Special Music, Pleasant Grove Quartet. 2:30, Report of Committees. Finance, T. J. McNeill, D. C. Prevette. Obituaries, H. A. Jurney, Coy Mathis. 1 1 v 'Central Telephone Co. Is Improving Its Local Facilities * Central Telephone company is improving facilities here as rap idly as materials can be obtain ed, J. R. Redman, local manager, said today. , At present work is under way on installation of two additional positions on the North Wilkee boro switchboard. This will in crease the number of positions from four to six and will result in greatly improved service, par ticularly * in handling calls promptly. Mr., Redman said today that the new switchboard positions will be installed and in use with in 30 days. Poles . have been erected and strand for hanging cable has been installed on the new Ninth street cable line, which will ex tend from the telephone office up Ninth street and along high way 18 to Fairplalns. Because of the lead shortage, shipment of cable for this job has been de layed. The cable line will greatly extend city telephone service MANY FINE EXHIBITS DISPLAYED; FAIR PROGRAMS TO BE CHANGED EACH DAY THROUGH SATURDAY Wolsh-McGee Clans Plan Reunion Oct. 5 Annual Walsh-McGee family reunion will be held Sunday, Oc tober 5, at Beaver Creek Bap tist church 14 miles west of WU kesboro on highway 268, accord ing to an announcement by Rev. A. J. Foster and John Walsh, co chairmen. There will be a special program throughout the day and dinner will be spread at noon. All kinsmen and friends of the Walsh and McGee families are invited to attend. t o " Football Seats In Memorial Park To Be Ready Friday Seats For More Than 1,500 Fans Will Be Available For Games This Week Bleacher seats have been erect ed this week in Memorial Park for football gameB and will be ready for use Friday night when North Wilkesboro will play Bar ium Springs and on Saturday night for the Wilkesboro-Jones ville game. Some of the lumber for the seats was donated and much was purchased. Seven rows of seats &00 feet long are calculated to seat about 1,500 people. In addition there are some seats on the north side Other developments in Memor ial Park this week included com pletion of grading for the base ball infield, which is located north of the football field. The infield has been filled in on a level with the football field, which will be outfield for base ball. Future construction in the park will include a board fence around the combination field, and erection of a grandstand or bleachers for baseball. Auxiliary lighting system has been installed for the conven ience of the crowd8 before and after the floodlighting system is used. The floodlights, 120 in number, make the field* one of the best lighted in the entire state, according to opinions ex pressed by electrical engineers and many visitors here. Memorial Park has been de veloped entirely by contributed funds, which to date have a mounted to about $10,000. The total estimated cost for complete development of the park wag es timated at $20,000. In order that the work may continue in pro gress, additional funds are need ed. Fiddlers Convention Friday; Dog Show and Horse Show On Saturday Wilkes County Agricultural Fair got under way Wednesday evening at the horse show grounds and will continue through Saturday night with a change of program each day. The fair this year is sponsored by the North Wilkesboro Kiwan is club, which expects to make of the fair an annual event. In spite of the cold weather, there was a large attendance at the fair Wednesday night and many enjoyed the program by the North Wilkesboro high school band and the stage show put on hy the Tennessee Ramb lers. Williams Rides and shows are on the midway. Notwithstanding the fact that the premium list was issued only a few dayB ago, there are many excellent and interesting exhibits under the big tent. The com munity exhibits are most strik ing. Communities represented are Falrplains, Roaring River, Ronda, Boomer, Moravian Falls, Thankful and Cairo. Other gt-oupa with fine exhibits include Boy Scouts, Future Farmers, North Carolina Employment Service and the American Red Cross. A num ber of commercial exhibits are educational and interesting. Today 1B colored education day with all colored school children admitted free. Local colored tal ent will put on the grandstand show tonight. Friday will he education day stand show will be an old time fiddlers convention and* music by quartets and family groups. Friday will also he the day for the dairy calf show and over 30 calves have already been enter ed. Saturday morning will be the dog show and on Saturday after noon and night will be the horse show, featuring local horses. The high school band will give a concert at seven p. m. Satur day. First Methodist Promotion Doy Sunday, October fifth, is to be observed as Promotion Day in the North Wilkesboro First Meth odist church. The entire church school will assemble in the church auditorium at 9:45 o'-. clock for the worship Bervice, which is to be given by members of the Junior department. Fol lowing the presentation of cer tificates the classes will meet for their regular sessions. It ig very important that the children be at the church by 9:40 if possible. FARMERS' DAY CROWD TREATED TO GOOD SHOWS ON WEDNESDAY Farmers and other visitors in North Wllkeaboro for the an nual Farmers' Day celebration Wednesday were treated to ex cellent shows and they thorough ly enjoyed the day. Wednesday was the second an nual Farmers' Day sponsored by the Trade Promotion committee of the Wilkes Chamber of Com merce. The weather was brisk and cool and many farmers were ao busy harvesting feed crops and seeding grain that they could not attend the day's celebration. In addition to the announced program there was an added and unexpected feature. Repesenta tive C. B. Deane, here in the interest of promoting a broad program of flood control and soil conservation in the Tadkin basin, greeted the crowd briefly from the stage on Ninth street and praised the citizenship of this area. The program mainly featured entertainment. Short talks were made by T. S. Kenerly, North Wilkesboro mayor, J. B. Wil liams, president of the Chamber of Commerce, and Tom S. Jen rette, secretary-manager of the chamber. Cecil Campbell, leader of the Tennessee Ramblers, was master of ceremonies for the two street shows and his band was mnch enjoyed throughout. These enter tainers of stage, screen and ra dio are always popular. Bobby Nell Oooper, six-year old actress from Hollywood, was guest star on the program and she made a big hit with dance and recitation numbers at the two shows. She also appeared in a skjt from "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Officer Pressley's Safety Show from Charlotte was presented on ly one time because of conflict in schedule with school appear ances, but the show, featuring trained dogs, was much enjoyed by a large crowd. The. show was put on under auspices of the North Carolina State Automobile Association. Farmers' Day program con tinued at the Wilkes agricultural fair, which began ' Wednesday night at the horse show grounds and will continue through Sat- ' urday night with a change of program each day and night. The Tennessee Ramblers put on an other good show at the fair. Visitors to the Wilkesboros Wednesday greatly benefitted by the many special values offered by local merchants.