M. C. i.
ilkes Y. M.*C. A. is rais
jug a building fund for the
erection of a modern Y. M
C. A. plant. Support it.
OUR CITY
serving 100,000 peopi
The Journal-Patriot Has Blazed the Trail of Progress In the "State of Wilkes" For Over 41 Years Northwestern Carolina.
North Wilkesboro has, a
trading radius of 60 miles,
serving 100,0^0 people in
Vol. 43, NO. 4
Published Mondays and Thursdays NORTH WILKESBORO. N. C- Thursday. April 29, 1948
Make North Wilkesboro Your Shonoinn Cantar
Democratic Convention
Called For May 15th
Precinct Meets
Will Be Held On
Saturday, May 8
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Meetings And Convention
Called By Chairman
and Secretary
Wilkes county Democratic con
i vention has been called to be
^ held Saturday, May 15, one p.
m., at the county courthouse in
Wilkeeboro, F. C. Johnson, chair
man, and Paul J. Vestal, secre
tary of the Wilkes Democratic
Bxecutive committee, announced
today.
Pre<9nct meetings will be held
throughout the county on Satur
day, May 8, one p. m. In the
▼arioug precincts committeemen
an«j delegate* to the county con
tention trill be named by the
MVemocratic voters.
The chairman and secretary of
the county organization stated
that the state convention will be
held in Raleigh on May 10.
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Legion Junior
Team Practice
To Begin May 1
American Legion junior base
ball practice will open Saturday,
May 1, 8:30 a. m.. on Memorial
Park field in North Wllkesboro,
Jim Sanges, who has been em
ployed as coach, said today.
This will be the second year
of Junior baseball sponsored by
thp Wilkes post of the Legion.
K KStift year the new team - played
a hard schedule'with inexper
ienced players but won some
games, including one victory over
Charlotte.
To date 120 boys have been
signed up for tryout for the
team and Coach Sanges empha
sized that all boys in the county
who were born on or since Jan
nary 1, 1931, are eligible.
Six exhibition games will be
played in May in preparation for
the 18-game schedule to be
h played when the junior season
* officially begins.
Optimist Club
Holds Meeting
Rev. H. A. Forester, in the
county conducting a series of
w services at Union Methodist
■ church, was a guest speaker at
the meeting of the North Wil
kes boro Optimist club held
Tuesday noon at Hotel Wilkes.
Rev. Mr. Forester was the guest
of Optimist E. R. Filer, and his
talk was thoroughly enjoyed by
the fine attendance of club mem
bers.
President Maurice Walsh pre
sided over the luncheon meeting,
the first to be held in the ban
quet hall at Hotel Wilkes.
Among the business matters
taken up and disposed of by the
club were the election of Tom S.
Jenrette to honorary member
ship and the election of Rev. H.
M. Wellmam, pastor of the Wil
kesboro Methodist church, as
chaplain.
The club outlined plans for
organizing and developing its
boyB* activities, and Secretary
Forest Tugman was authorized
to write J. B.- McCoy, proprietor
of Hotel Wilkes commending
him for the splendid manner he
and his staff served the recent
Charter Party dinner.
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Square Donee 30th
At Moravian Foils
The last old time square dance
of the season will be held Friday
night, eight o'clock, at Mora
vian Falls community house for
the community house Improve
ment fund. These dances have
ftfepi well attended and those
Uho attend are assured of an
enjoyable occasion.
H ST. PAUL's" EPISCOPAL,
71» / CHURCH
Rev. B. M. Lackey, Rector.
Vesper service will be held in
8t. Paul's Episcopal Church Sun
day afternoon. May 2nd, at four
o'clock. The public Is cordially
Invited to attend.
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William Harrold
Spelling Champ
Wilkes County
At the Wilkes county spelling
bee held Saturday, April 24,
William Harrold, of Mountain
View school, was winner. Wil
liam is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Charlie Harrold, of Hays. He is
a member of the eighth grade of
the Mountain View school and is
taught by J. H. Wood.
William won over Ida Mae
Bouchelle, ' daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Mastln Bouchelle, of Route
1, Wilkesboro. ' Ida Mae is- an
eighth grade student in the Wil
kesboro school.
Third place winner in the con
test was Joan Sprinkle, Mulber
ry school. Audene Church, Ron
da school, was fourth and Nancy
Gray Luffman, Pleasant Ridge
school, was fifth.
•Others competing in the con
test were: Louise Oancy, Mt.
Pleasant school; Bobble Hollo
way, Roaring River school; Bon
nie Minton, Cricket school; Peg
gy Cockerham, Traphill school;
Ira Dean Church, Moravian Falls
school; violet Church, Maple
Springs school; Virginia Pardu©,
Pleasant Hill school; Betty Lou
Taylor, Rock Springs school;
Christine Glass, Millers Creek
school; Nancy Alice Cockerham,
Benham school; Alvin Johnson,
Spurgeon school.
William Harrold will repre
sent the Wilkes county school
system in the State Spelling Bee
in Winston-Salem, Saturday, May
1. The Spelling Bee is sponsored
by the Journal and Sentinel of
Winston-Salem.
Or. GilBfcrt K. Combs pro
nounced the words and Mrs.
Palmer Horton and Dr. John W.
Wayland served as judges of the
County Bee.
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Chamber Group
Studies Phases
Safety Subject
Attendance At State-Wide
Conference In Raleigh
Soon Is Urged
•^Safety and Fire Prevention
committee of the Wilkes Cham
ber of Commerce in meeting this
week urged attendance of local
citizens at the state Safety Con
ference to be held May 7 and
8 at Sir Walter Raleigh Hotel
in Raleigh.
The conference, which will
cover many phases of the safety
subject, will be under auspices
of the North Carolina Industrial
Commission.
Cecil P. Adamson, secretary of
Wilkes Hosiery Mills company
and president of the Piedmont
Safety Council, is on the confer
ence program for Friday, May 7.
His subject will ;be "What our
safety program has done for us."
The Wilkes Hosiery Mills oom
pany has made an outstanding
record in safet^.
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Infant Endangered
By Cinder In Lungs
Hendersonville, April 28.—
Ten-month-old Alicia Odom was
reported in serious condition to
day at a local hospital with a
cinder in her lungs.
Her father is recovering from
an operation to remove World
Wv II shrapnel particles from
his lungs.
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Candidate Scott Is
Conning Saturday
Kerr Soatt, candidate for the
Democratic nomination for gov
ernor, will be in North Wilkes
boro Saturday morning and will
have headquarters at Hotel
Wilkee, it was announced here by
the Scott for Governor commit
tee. Mr. Scott, for many years
commissioner o f agriculture,
wishes to meet as many of his
friends as possible while here
Saturday. ' ,gLgL i
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Zipper weatherproof bags are
now used to protect Navy air
craft during relatively short per
iods when they are not tn use. -
CROWNING THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF BREVARD COLLEGE
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Brevard, April 27.—Miss Inez El ledge, of North Wilkesboro, is pictured a
bove being crowned Miss Brevard College in the beauty contest conducted on the
campus here by the faculty social committee. Vance Derby, of Charlotte, placed
the silver crown upon Miss Elledge's head at a recent dance here in the college
gym and presented the winner with a gold loving cup. Sponsored by the Home
Economic club, Miss Elledge was escorted by Archie Angel, of Franklin, who i*
shown at the right.—(Photo by John Anderson).
Annual Training
School Methodist
Churches to Start
Will Open At First Metho
dist Here Sunday and
Continue Through 6th
The annual training school for
the Methodist church of Wilkes
county will begin at the First
Methodist church, North Wilkes
boro, Sunday jttight, May 2, at
7:30 p. m. and will continue at
the same hour each evening
through Thursday. The follow
ing courses and .instructors are
scheduled:
"The Use of the Bible With
Children", Mrs. J. C. Goode,
Richmond, Va. This course is
for workers and those who
would like to become workers
with nursery, beginner, primary
and junior children, and for par
ents. Parents of children of these
age groups should welcome this
apportunity, as well as the work
ers with these children in the
church school.
"The Methodist Youth Fellow
ship"—Mrs. E. H. Sayille, Roa
noke, Va. This is a course on the
organization, activities and gen
eral program of the Youth Fel
lowship. It is for both the
workers with young people and
the young people themselves. It
Bhould be particularly welcome
and valuable,
'•The Teachings of Jesus"—
Dr. Richard L. Ownbey, Char
lotte, N. 0. This is a general
course that will be valuable to
teachers and workers with adult
groups and for those who want
to become better acquainted with
the Bible. It will be open to all
adults.
The following Sunday schools
and churches will participate:
Wilkesboro, North WiHtesboro,
Union, Beulah, Dunkirk, Fergu
son, Arbor Grove, Charity, Mil
lers Creek, Friendship, Roaring
River and Ronda.«
This school is sponsored 'by
the Western North Carolina Con
ference Board of Education, Box
828, Salisbury, N. C.
>It is confidently hoped and ex
pected that all of the Methodist
churches in Wilkes county will
support this school and profit by
the training that will be offered
by this excellent staff of in
structors.
0. K. Whittington, Jr.,
On Student Council
. 0. K. Whittington, Jr., son of
Mr. and Mrs. O. K. Whittington,
of Wilkesboro, -was elected a
memtoer of the student council
of Wake Forest College as a rep
resentative of the Junior class.
The group of candidates with
which 0. K. was affiliated won
by a large majority vote of the
approximately seventeen hun
dred student body.
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Despite the fact that the Unit
ed States harvested an all-time
record wheat crop last year,
world production of bread grains
(wheat and rye) was below the
1935-39 average. Thev 1947 wheat
crop Was 3 per cent less then the
1935-39 average and the rye crop
was 14 per cent less.
Flashers' Schedule
On Page 5 Today;
Clip Out and Save
Complete schedule of the
Bine Ridge baseball league is
being reproduce*} in tills issue
today on page five because of
request of baseball fans who
forgot to save a copy of the
schedule formerly published In
this newspaper. Fans are ask
ed to clip out and save the
schedule on page 5 today.
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Farmers' Meet At
Mountain View
tomorroWlight
The North Wilkesfooro Junior
Chamber of Commerce is spon
soring a farmers' meeting at the
Mountain View schoolhouse to
morrow night, starting at 7:30
o'clock, and all farmers of that
community are urged to be pres
ent. Timber men are also urged
to attend.
The program will consist of
a movie, and information will
be given centered around the
topic: "Soil Erosion and Flood
Control." An interesting part of
the program will be a discussion
led by Richard B. Johnston, fur
niture manufacturer of this city.
The program is especially
planned to give valuable Infor
mation to farmers and lumber
men, but it will prove to be of
much interest to any who wish
to attend, and all the people of
the Mountain View community
are invited by the Junior Cham
ber of Commerce members.
AUCTION SALES
ON SATURDAY
The Johnson ^Land Auction
Company hag two sales schedul
ed for Saturday, May 1st. The
first sale will be held In Wllkes
boro when a part of the Dr.
Mitchell property on College and
Highland streets will be sold.
The property has been sub-di
vided into 40 beautiful home
sites. This sale will start at 2
p. m.
At 4:30 p. m., a four-room
house and several valuable resi
dential lots on Highway 18 in
the Fairplains community will
be put up to the high bidders.
Prises will be given away at
the sales, and there will be
snappy music by a live-wire
band.
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Passenger Service
On Railroad Here
Will Be Resumed
The daily passenger train tem
porarily suspended on the North
Wilkeeboro - Winston-Salem run
wilt be resumed in a few days,
according to Information gained
from B. it. Stanfiel, district sup
erintendent of Southern Railway.
Mr. Cranfiel told Tom Jen
rette, secretary-manager of the
Wilkes Chamber of Commerce,
that continued coal shortage was
the re&*on the passenger, mall
and express train had not been
resumed and as soon as coal
stocks of the railroad were re
plenished that the train would be
put back on.
Schools Did Fine
Job Darius Polio
Campaign In '48
Schools Accounted For $1»
817.61 of $4,728.69 Dur
ing The Campaign
Final report of the infantile
paralysis campaign conducted in
Wilkes county early this year
showed that a total of $4,728.69
was raised.
Of the total amount- received,
$1,817.61 was raised by the
schools, the report of the drive
showed. R. W. Gwyn, Jr., cam
paign chairman, and mambers <Jl
the Wilkes chapter of thd "Nation
al Foundation for infantile pa
ralysis, pVaised the schools high
ly for their successful work
which helped so much to make
the campaign a success.
Amounts raised by the various
schools were as follows:
Clingman, $26.81; Mountain
View, $141,00; Cricket, $72,20;
Roaring River, $77*78; Pleasant
Hill, $18.87; Ferguson, $23.51;
Mulberry, $26j0,53; Maple
Springs, $32.40; Lincoln Heights,
$65.55; Wilkesboro, $281.07;
Mountain Crest, $17.77; Pine?
Ridge, $1.10; Buck, $2.00; Mo
ravian Falls, $41.25; Millert
Creek, $358.24; Ronda, $103.40;
Mt. Pleasant, $124.00; Boomer,
$6.75; Oakwoods, $6.30; Rock
Springs, $5.00; North Wilkes
boro Grammar School, $21.58;
Traphill, $118.32; Ben ham,
$12.68.
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Mrs. Roth Dies
At Elkin Hospital
Mrs. Elizabeth Hlckerson
Roth, 44, of Ronda died Tues
day night at an Elkin hospital
following a long illness. She had
been critically ill for several
days.
She was a daughter of Robert
L. Hickerson of Ronda and Mrs.
Sarah Lenoir Hickerson, whc
died six weeks ago, and was a
granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas Lenoir, prominent Hay
wood County family. She was a
member of the Episcopal church.
Twenty years ago she was
married to William T. Roth ol
Elkin, who survives.
Other survivors include one
daughter, Miss Louisa Roth; one
son, Robert T. Roth of Elkin;
two brothers, Charles and Thom
as Hickerson of Charleston, W.
Va.
Funeral services 'will jbe con
ducted at 1:30 p. m. today at
Bethel Episcopal Church, near
Canton in Haywood county, by
Rev. B. M. Lackey of Lenoir.
Burfal will be In the family plot
In the church cemetery.
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Rev. Richard Day To
Preach At Oak woods
Rev. Richard Day of ' Elkin
will conduct the evening services
at Oakwoods, Baptist church,
Sunday night, May 2. at 7:30.
Rev. Mr. Day will have one .of hla
quartets with him and* the pub
lic Is cordially Invited to heax
some good preaching and sink
ing.
Mrs. Nichols, 79
Taken By Death
Funeral Service For Mr».
Julia Nichols At New
Hope Friday, 2:30
Mrs. Sarah Julia Nichols, 79,
wife of the late D. V. Nichols,
died Wednesday night, 9:30, at
the home of a daughter, Mrs. R.
D. Hayes, at Millers Creek. She
had rfbeen Jn falling health f«r
several months and critically ill
for two weeks.
Funeral service will be held
Friday afternoon, 2:30, at New
Hope Baptist church. Rev. J. M.
Hayes, pastor of North Winston
Baptist church in Winston-Sal
em, and Rev. A. W. Eller will
assist the pastor, Rev. C. J.
Pool©, in the service. The body
will lie in state at the church
from 1:30 until 2:30. Burial will
be In the church cemetery.
A member of one of Wilkes
county's best known families,
Mrs. ^Nichols was born February
7, 1869, a daughter of the late
Adam L. Bumgarner and Mrs.
Mary Louise Brown Bumgarner.
On December 27^ 1885, she was
married to David'Vance Nichols,
who for many years was a merch
ant and farmer of the Purlear
community and was a member of
the Wilkes county board of com
missioners for six years. He died
in 1932. In early life Mrs. Nieh
ols united with New Hope Bap
tist church and faithfully lived
an exemplar Christian life.
Surviving Mrs. Nichols are
five son« and four daughters:
Mrs. J. L. Sikes, Broadway; E.
O.. Nichols, Sanford; W. H. and
R. D. Nichols, Purlear; Mrs. R.
D. Hayes Aid Mrs. Esther El
ledge, Millars Creek; Mrs. Dew
ey Mintoiy North Wilkesboro;
Ted R. "^Nlcholh, Wilkesboro,
route one; Dwight Nichols,
North Wilkesboro. Also surviv
ing are 37 grandchildren and 24
great-grandchildren. She was
preceded in death by her father
and mother, four children, Del
la, Tyndall, Rtfdy and Mary
Comilla Nichols, and one sister,
Mrs. Cornelia Vannoy.
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Beat Taylorsville,
To Play Elkin Here
North Wilkes bo ro's Mountain
Lions won a thrilling baseball
game 5' to 2 from Taylorsville
at Taylorsville Tuesday after
noon and* will take on F4kin high
school in Memorial Park here
Friday night, eight o'clock.
In the game Tuesday Jack
Badgett, a former catcher who
always wanted to "pitch, got the
call to the mound and pitched a
three-hitter. Taylorsville's runs
were scored on outfield flys aft
er the sacks were filled on a
walk and 'error. The Mountain
Lions executed one double kill
ing.
North WilkeSboro's first run
was batted in by Joe ChuTch's
booming triple and four were
added in the fifth. Jones Wood
hatted in two runs with a dou
ble and before the rally was
stopped the game was in the bag.
Coach Howard Bowers com
mented favorably on improve
ment of play of the boys, es
pecially in comparison with the
poor showing made last year
when practically all of the squad
were playing their first baseball.
Doctors' Offices
Entered, Robbed
North Wllkesboro police are
continuing work on two robber
ies In North Wlkesboro late Sat
urday night or early Sunday
morning.
The office of Dr. Win. K. New
ton In the Wilkes hospital was
entered and about $300 In cash
was taken from an office desk.
Other than the desk where the
money was located, nothing was
molested.
On the same night the office of
Dr. G. T. Mitchell in the Poln
dexter building was entered and
a quantity of narcotics was tak
en. The door lock had been Jim
mied. Fwiept for the narcotic
drugs, nothing Mse had been tak
en.
Leaksville to Play
North Wilkesboro
Flashers Saturday
Public Officials To Stage
Mock Game In Opening
Ceremonies at 7:30
North Wilkesbord and Wilkes
county will reach another mile
stone in progress Saturday night
when the first professional base
ball team in the history of this
community will take the field In
the opening game of the Blue
Ridge season in Memorial Park
here at eight p. m.
Appropriate pre-game cere
monies will begin at 7: SO and
baseball fane are asked to be in
the park by that time. Bleachers
are slated to arrivA Saturday
and the expected large throng of
people can be comfortably seated
for the opening game.
The pre-game ceremonies will
consist of a mock baseball game
by the officials of North Wllkes
horo, Wilkesboro and" the Wilkes
County Commissioners, who will
take the names and positions of
such baseball immortals as Babe
Ruth, Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson,
Bill Dickey, Hon us Wagner, Con
nie Mack, Lou Gehrig and oth
ers. Mayor Scott Kenerly is slat
ed to play the part of Walter
Johnson; Gilbert Bare wfll be
Leo Dnrocher, manager for the
team at bat; and Johnson Sand
ers will play the part of Connie
Mack, manager of the team a
field. J. C. Reins will be in a
hot sP<>t as umpire; Prank Crow
will be Lou Gehrig. Batter will
be Babe Ruth, Max Foster, while
Russell Gray will be Catcher
Bill Dickey. Wilkesboro Mayor
W. E. Bmithey, other (own coun
cil members anl the crtunty com
missioners will also have parts
of baseball's greats.
The North Wilkesboro high
school band will render the Na
tional Anthem and other music
for the opening festivities.
Leaksville, the new Blue Ridge
team managed by Bernie Loman,
younger brother of North Wil
kesboro's Manager Henry The
Flash Loman, will be the oppos
ing team in Saturday night's
opener. Coley Loman, father of.
the Loman brothers, whose home
is in Greensboro, will 'be an hon
ored guest for this unusual oc
casion of -brother managers op
posing each other in the same
league, a situation* which prom
ises to draw national Interest in
baseball circles.
Work has been in progress at
a feverish pace to get Memorial
Park ready for the opening. The
grandstand, dressing rooms, con
cession stand, fence and other
facilities have been provided by
the baseball club, of which Tal
J. Pearson is president and Jack
I. Johnson, vice president, in co
operation with the town of
North Wilkesboro. Fans are as
sured that there will be a seat
ing capacity of 2,500 around the
infield, in addition to 1,500 cen
terfield bleachers, making a to
tal stadium capacity of 4,000.
An electric scoreboard will be in
operation for the opening game.
North Wilkesboro will play
Leaksville at Leaksville Sunday
afternoon and Leaksville here
again Monday night, May 3,
eight o'clock.
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Revival To Close
On Sunday Night
The series of services which
have been in progress this week
at Union Methodist church near
this city will come to an end
Sunday night, according to pres
ent plans. The pastor, Rev. H. M.
Wellman, is being assisted In
holding the revival meeting by
Rev. H. A. Forester, pastor of
the Sea grove Methodist church,
and a native of Wilkes county.
Much interest has been mani
fested in the meeting and attend
ance has been eplendid.BajragS&I
Services will be held Sunday
at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m.
Mrs. Forester accompanied
Rev. Mr. Forester to Wilkes and
she is adding mnoh to the effec
tiveness of the series of services
with her special musical num
bers.
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Small grains In the' 'Stats are
going nicely and stands are bet
ter than average.