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The JoHiial - Patriot
independent in politics
Published Mondays and Thursdays at
North Wilkesboro, North Carolina
JULIUS C. HUBBARD?MRS. D. J. CARTER
Publishers
1932?DANIEL J. CARTER?1945
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One Year $8.00
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Entered st the vostofffce st Nerth Wilkes
boro, North Carolina, as Second-Class matter
under Act of March 4, 1897.
Monday, January 9, 1950
This Community
Is Growing Up
The year 1949 witnessed much pro
gress, and growth in the Wilkesboros.
With business maintaining a high level,
commercial firms in this area have ex
panded their business and are rendering
better service to a growing patronage.
During the year the business of home
building revived from a previous slump
and the building business in the county
during the latter half of the year reach
_ ed a new high in intensity. .
Building has not been confined to
homes and business. Several churches
during the year had building programs
under way, and a number of highly credit
able churches and additions were con
structed. During the latter days of the
year ground was broken for the erection
of a 100-bed Wilkes General Hospital.
During the year a road program was
begun designed to get the rural people
out of the mud. This is a long range pro
gram which will-probably take four years
reach a climax, but was begun in 1949.
In this city much street work was done,
with several paving projects being car
ried out by the city and property owners.
Traffic -has increased to a new high of
intensity, which always brings on a num
ber of problems, such as parking space
and the need, for orderly and prompt
movement of traffic at all times.
The past year was very definitely a
year of progress of a community rapidly
growing up and naturally suffering its
proportionate share of "growing pains."
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Many Beautiful New
Automobiles For 1950
During the early part of this month
several automobile dealers here are show
ing new cars. Some displayed the 1950
models in the latter part of 1949.
Local dealers are to be congratulated
for their splendid showrooms, offices,
and repair departments. They are as well
equipped to serve the motorists in new
vehicles or in repair business as dealers
in any towns or cities.
The new models are the most attractive
fever put out by the industry and show
clearly that the automobile business is
highly competitive again with each man
ufacturer and dealer doing more to pro
mote his particular make and make it
more appealing to the motoring public.
Last year was a record high year for
the automobile industry, and it appears
that this high rate of business will con
tinue through 1950 but with more em
phasis on the job of selling and holding
the customer.
Showings are being well conducted and
the new model displays are events of
genuine interest to many people. Local
dealers have shown much initiative in
providing good plants and shops to serve
the people. The automobile business very
definitely is a big factor in this commun
ity and is one which affects many people.
Not only is the volume of business great,
but the industry provides much employ
ment directly or indirectly and the pay
roll of those who are in the automobile
business or allied lines has a great effect
upon the economic life of the community.
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One trouble with fact-finding is that
too often they seem to h?e determined to
idmnee whnt fneto they ?re cotog to find.
Adequate Hospital
To Become Reality
Approval of bids, letting of contract
and beginning of grading the site assures
this area an adequate hospital.
The 100-bed hospital will stand as a
monument to the humanitarian spirit of
the people of North Wilkesboro, who
took upon themselves the financial bur
den of erecting the hospital when the
county authorities had failed to call an
election on the hospital proposal as a
county-wide project.
By overwhelming vote the people of
North Wilkesboro who participated in
the special election approved a bond is
sue not to exceed $275,000 as the local
financing of the large project. State and
Federal funds, already appropriated and
to be spent somewhere, were available in
the amount of slightly over 77 per cent
of the total cost. With the need of a large
hospital so acute, the people of North
Wilkesboro would not let the opportunity
pass to build a hospital at less than 23
per cent of cost furnished locally. Natur
ally, all of us will pay our part of the
federal and state funds, regardless of
whether the money is spent here or else
where.
Listed patient capacity of the Wilkes
General Hospital will be 100 beds. But
the large institution will have every need
ed department and the facilities which
go to rendering excellent hospital service
to a large community.
This community can be justly proud of
this undertaking, which will provide an
adequate hospital to the many people in
Wilkes and adjoining areas.
A prominent economist says that thei
is not a nation in the world that can a
ford another war. Everybody know
however, that people always enjoy mo
those things they can't afford.?Clippei
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LIFE'S BETTER WAY
WALTER E. ISENHOUR
High Point, N. C., Route 4
WISE BEHAVIOR "
There is a passage of Scripture over in
First Samuel, the eighteenth chapter and
the fourteenth verse, I want to call your
attention to. It reads, "And David be
haved himself wisely in all his ways; and
the Lord was with him."
. This was said of David when he was
a young man, sometime after he -had
killed Goliath, the .wicked giant who was
defying the armies of Israel, and after the
jealousy of King Saul had kindled to
the extent that he was seeking the life of
David. It would have been very easy for
David to have done things'?t this junc
ture of his life that would have wrecked
him forever, and that would have "kept,
him from becomjttjgking/apd from wield
ing a powerful influence over Israel, and
down across the. centuries 9'f time for the
9alvation of souls and for the glory ^ of
God. However, though a young man, he
"behaved himself wisely in all his ways.'
We realize that good common sense, wis
dom and forethought, along with the
presence of God, brought David out" iri
a large place. It enabled Kim to become
I great king, a great writer, ft great
servant of God, and wield an influence
that has blessed the world for more than
two thousand years. He acted wisely at
an opportune time. What if he had done
the foolish, unwise thing at such a time,
like many people would? In all probabil
ity we would never have heard of David
as "a man after God's own heart," neith
er would we have heard of him as a great
king, a great writer, a great saint, nor
as the "sweet singer of Israel.".
It means so much to act wisely in ear
ly life by taking Christ into one's life, fol
lowing and obeying Him, praying and
keeping true to God, thus laying a good
foundation upon which to build life for
days and years ahead. So many of our
young people fail just here. They go out
in early life into -sin and wickedness,
thereby laying^ bad foundation upon
which to build*As .a consequence they
live without God, waste their precious
time, neglect their souls, go on the wrong
road, keep bad company, waste their
means, and oftentimes destroy their
health, and at last die and meet God as
a total wreck and failure. Whereas, if
they had acted wisely in early life they
would have made a grand success. Wise
behavior, and God with us, can mean
heaven instead of hell
Dellaplane News
Services were held New Year's
day at Antioch, and the- 2nd
Sunday at Cranberry.
Mrs. Prank Sparks, who had
been sick several weeks and
who had been at Kannapolls
with her oldest daughter, Mrs.
J. E. Wheeler, since a week toe
fore Christmas, is said to be bet
ter.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Johnson
and part of their children were
out calling on friends Friday be
fore New Year. Mr. Johnson is
custodian of the Roaring Riveri
school buildings and they seldom
have time for visiting.
We received several more
nice Christmas presents than we
expected. Among them was an
autographed copy of his new
hook of poems, 'Plowed Oround',
from James Larkin Pearson, the
eminent poet laureate Wilkes
gave "The Old North State." Mr.
Pearson, often compared with
Burns, is especially gifted In dia
lectic poems; this is shown in
"Glngersnap," the opening po
em, and many others. Mr. Pear
son, who became a septuagenar
ian In September, was a friend
of our father, the late James
Claiborne Llnney, but about
eleven years younger than Papa.
The little girl of Mr. and Mrs.
Quincy Sebastian, of*the Brier
Creek community, who was crit
ically 111 a while, is now all
right, according to her brother.
Dr. Beal, of Elkin, is said to
have bought the old Douthit
farm, near Brier Creek church,
from the estate of the late
Claude Bell. It originally belong
ed to Ensign Benjamin Martin
who came to Wilkes in 1782 and
later to his grandson, another
Ben Martin.
North Carolina's 359,000 milk
cows on farms produced an av
erage of 340 pounds of milk per
cow during November. This com
pares with a production of 328
pounds per cow during Novem
ber, 1948.
litz-Carlton Hotel
To Be Demolished
New York.?The Ritz-Carlton
lotel, a longtime city landmark,
will be demolished early next
rear for construction of a 26
itory office building, it was an
lounced yesterday.
(Frank L. Swadley, a former
nanager of the Hotel Robert E.
^ee in Winston-Salem, is the
>resent manager of the Ritz
3arlton.) *
The Uris Brothers real estate
'irm announced the plan and
laid the snm involved in pur
thase of the hotel property was
nore than $20,000,000 and that
.he new office building would
:oet some $15,000,000.
NOTICE OF SALE
North Carolina, Wilkes County.
Under and by virtue of the
power -of-sale-contained in a
certain Deed of Trust executed
by G. W. Adams (widower),
dated July 14th., 1947, and re
corded in Book 235, page 180, in
the office of the Register of
Deeds of Wilkes County, North
Carolina, default having been
made in the payment of the in
debtedness thereby secured and
said deed of trust being by the
terms thereof subject to fore
closure, the undersigned trustee
will offer for sale at public auc
tion to the highest bidder for cash
at the courthouse door in Wilkes
boro, North Carolina, at noon, on
the 4th day of Feburary, 1960,
the property conveyed in said
deed of trust, the same lying and
being in the County of Wilkes,
and State of North Carolina, and
more particularly described ft
follows:
Beginning on a stake on the
West bank of a small branch Just
above the spring, running North
west with John Church line to a
Spanish oak in Calvin Adams
line, thence South with Calvin
Adams line to a sourwood in
*Tl7.a Wood line, thence Bast with
said line about three poles to the
corner of a sourwood, thence
South with said line to a stoae
in Dock Higgins, now deceased,
line, thence with said Higgins
line to a branch, thence up and
with meanders of said branch to
the fork of said branch, thence up
the left prong of said branch to
the beginning, containing 19 acres,
more or less.
This 8rd., day of January,
1960.
CLYDE HAYES. Trustee
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