THE JOURNAL-PATRIOT
The ' Hm Blazed the Trail of Progress In the "Stote of Wilkes" For Over 43 Years
Vol- 43, No. 78 Published Mondays and. Thursdays NORTH WILKESBORO, N. C? Thursday, January 19, 1950 Make North WUkesboro Your Shopping Center
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North Wilkesboro baa a
trading radius of 50 miles,
serving J ? 0,000 people in
Northwestern Carolina.
SECTION ONE
16 PAGES
Dime Board Will
Aid Polio Drive
Three Saturdays
lions, Optimists and Jay-1
cees To Alternate In
Dime Board Work
Dime board for March of
Dimes contributions will be in
operation on North Wilkesboro
streets for the next three Satur
days Edward P. Bell, chairman
of the Infantile Paralysis cam
paign in Wilkes county, stated
today.
The dime board will be mann
ed by members of the Lions club
Saturday. January 21, Optimists
will have the board on January
28 and Jaycees will be on hand
with the board February 4. Mr.
Bell said the three ciubs will
wage a spirited contest to see
which can raise the largest a
mount.
On Wednesday members of the
"?^Bpaign organization put on a
dl? program overs WKBC here
Wiet'v ? ,10? ln an hQur" A
*?T 8how Program will be put
6 air tor the polio cause on
Jgjnesday afternoon, 2:45, next
slnw011^^"0118 by maI1 hav? a
? ' Mr" Bel1 aaid, and
urged alI h(J hfid recelyed Jet
ters to make early and liberal re
w^r^ 18 gettiDS ?nder
y * the achools, which are
aid Bub8tantially in
ra sing the quota of *10,000 for
Wilkes county.
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Mrs. S. M. Shumate
Claimed By Death
^ ^Funeral On Friday
Mrs. Roxie Billings Shumate,
74, wife of Silas M. Shumate,
prominent farmer of the Hays
community, died Wednesday
night, ten o'clock, ln a Gastonia
hospital.
Mrs. Shumate was born June
30. 1875, a daughter of the late
Jack and Clementine Porter Bil
lings. Surviving are her husband;
three daughters and one son,
Mrs. H. S. Powell of Gastonia.
Mrs. Judson Yale, Mrs. W. D.
Pendry and Walter Shumate, all
of Hays.
Funeral service will be held
Friday, two p. m., at Round
Mountain church with Rev. A. B.
Hayes and Rev. J. C. Harrold
conducting the last rites.
Square Dance Here
On Saturday Night
A square dance will be held
Saturday night, eight o'clock, at
the American ,Legion clubhouse
here. The dance will be sponsor
ed by the j
Jf 95* high
junior class of Millers
school. Those who at
tend are assured a pleasant oc
casion.
Ham Supper Coming
Jjjm supper will be served
3aturaay evening and night at
Mulberry" community house at
the price of |1 for adults and
50 cents for children, with the
proceeds going to Baptist Home
church building fund. 'A most
enjoyable meal is assured all pa
trons.
Big Man Dies
Snddenly Here
Body Of F. W. Hossfeldt
Taken Yesterday to Mor
ganton for Cremation
Body of P. W. Hoasfeldt, 75,
was taken from here to Morgan
ton Wednesday for cremation,
following his unexpected death
here Monday night.
Mr. Hossfeldt, a giant size man
with weight of about 300, went
to the home of M. W. Green in
this city Monday night to get a
room for the night. He knocked
on the door and when the door
was opened he fell across the
threshold dead. Death was at
tributed to a heart attack.
It was learned here that Mr.
'eldt was born in Austria
ist he and other members
of hlS family went to Morganton
to make their home about 45
years ago. The other members of
the family migrated west and the
only su wiring member now is
one sister, Mrs. Glula Lugtnbuhl,
ofDee Moines, Iowa.
r the past several years Mr.
Hossfeldt had been engaged as
a roving timber dealer, with
headquarters at Morganton,
where he had a number of
friends.
The Revelers Coming Here Tuesday
REVELERS QUARTET COMMUNITY
CONCERT ATTRACTION JAN. 24TH
The Revelers, billed as the
world's most famous male quar
tet, will appear In Community
Concert program Tuesday, Jan
uary 24, eight p. m., at the Lib
erty Theatre. The quartet con
sists of:
Delbert Anderson, tenor, a
graduate of the University ?f
Washington with & normal de
gree and a B. A. in music, was
first heard in opera in Mozart's
"The Abduction from the Serag
lio," "The Magic Flute" and
"The Barber of Seville" with the
Lyric Theatre Company. He was
then selected by Sir Thomas
Beecham as tenor soloist for a
Mozart Festival on the west
coast; he has also been heard in
the Verdi "Requiem," Mendels
sohn's "Elijah," Handel's "The
Messiah" and other works with
the Seattle Philharmonic. He ap
peared on Broadway for 56 weeks
in the original cast of the suc
cessful musical "Brigadoon."
Harold Brown, tenor, was
singing over CBS in San Antonio.
Texas, when he attracted the at
tention of opera impressario Al
fredo Salmaggi, who invited him
to New York to audition. His
debut as the Duke in "Rigoletto"
created bo much comment that at
26 he was invited to guest-star
on the ".We the People" program.
His Broadway experience was'
further enlarged by a six-month
stint as the leading man of a
Shubert production of the peren
nial favorite by Franz Schubert,
"Blossom Time."
Wilfred Glenn, celebrated bas
so of the original Revelers, has
been familiar with the individual!
style which has made the Revel-'
ers world-famous for three dec
ades. With them, he has made
five tours of Europe, Including
many command performances for
royalty, and has enjoyed acclaim
which can only carefully be call
ed sensational.
The colorful career of Rand
Smith, baritone, ranges from The
Ziegfeld Follies to the far-famed
Bach Festivals in Bethlehem,
Pa. After circling the world
under the auspices of the USO,
he made his recital debut in New
York with such success that the
sedate New York Times was
moved to describe his appearance
as "nobly impressive," while The
Herald-Tribune felt that his con
cert was a "rare delight."
Paul Vellucci, pianist-arrang
er for the Revelers, is?along
with Dr. Frank Black and other
acknowledged masters of vocal
arrangements ? responsible for
many of the more than 2,000
special arrangements 'which have
brought delight to the thousands
of admirers of this quartet.
Former director of the Hartford,
Conn., School of Music, Mr. Vel
lucci conducted the American
premiere of Ernest Toch's opera,
"The Princess on the Pea," on
Broadway.
All of the singers believe with
all their hearts that music must
be sung?with immaculate dic
tion?in a language, which of
course is English, their public
can understand. They spare no
pains to get first-rate transla
tions of famous Lieder by Schu
bert, Schumann, and other com
posers; their interpretations of
music by their own contempor
ary Americans speaks for itself.
LOCALS
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Sales, of
Roaring River route two, were
visitors in Winston-Salem Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee McArtfiur, of
Greensboro, were guests over the
%eek-end in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Cecil Adamson.
Mrs. Faye Hulet, of Charlotte,
is serving as stenographer at
Wilkes superior court in session
this week in Wilkesboro.
Mrs. J. W. Allen has returned
home after spending several days
last week in the home of her
son, Mr. Ed Allen.
Friends regret to note that
Mrs. R. W. E<dwards has been
confined to her home for the
past several days because of
illness.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Wiles and
daughter, Tesa. of Concord,
spent the week-end with Mr.
Wiles' parents, Mr. and Mrs. Old
Wiles.
Mr. and Mrs. H, L. Snyder
and children left today to visit
Mr. Snyder's father and mother,
Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Snyder, at
Grove City, Pa.
Mr. C. D. Coffey, Sr., is ser
iously ill with pneumonia at his
home here. Slight improvement
was reported in his condition to
day.
Mrs. Joe Norris, of Boone
route two, visited here the first
of the week with Mr. and Mrs.
Russell G. Hodges. Mrs. Norris
is a sister of Mr. Hodges.
Rev. John L. Wells has accept
ed the call to be full time pastor
of Hiddenite Baptist church. He
and his family expect to move
there in the near futnre.
Attorney J. H. Burke, of Tay
lorsville, has been attending
Wilkes court this week and while
in the Wilkesboros visited his
son, Attorney H. D. Burke, and
family in this city.
Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Myers, of
Wilkesboro, tomorrow will carry
their small son, Gerry, to Duke
hospital in Durham for an exam
ination.
Much improvement is now not
ed in the condition of John Wil
liams, sixteen-months-old son ol
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Wil
liams, of this city. John has been
very ill with virus pneumonia.
Mrs. D. T. Trivette returned
Sunday from Miami, Fla. where
she visited for several weeks in
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wil
liam R. Keunzel. Mrs. Kuenzel
is her daughter.
Mrs. C. H. Gilreath, who re
sides west of Wilkesboro, is a
patient at Baptist hospital in
Winston-Salem. She is improving
and is expected to return home
the latter part of this week.
Mr. Perry Lowe, Mr. and Mrs.
Clyde Lowe, Mrs. M. B. Clark
and Mrs. John Pope visited Mr.
Joe M. Revis in Raleigh Tues
| day. After visiting in Raleigh
I Mrs. Pope, the former Miss Reba
Blevins, proceeded to her home
in Fayettville. She had been vis
iting her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
|J. M. Blevins, at Moravian Falls.
Fishing in the 15th Annual
Metropolitan Miami, Fla., Fish
ing Tournament, Mr. Frank
Smith o f North Wilkesboro,
landed a 14 pound ~12 ounce
kingfish, while fishing in the
everglades on the cruiser Sea
Pal. While not top fish in its
class, the catch will earn for
the local angler an E-ntry Award
and one of the attractive year
books issued at the close of the
tournament.
Beekeepers are showing much
interest in the possibility of
having hybrid bees that may
prove as valuable to them as
hybrid corn has proved to corn
growers. Hybrid queens are now
being-reared and distributed for
testing purposes.
Paul Osborne Is
Named President
WHkes Chamber
Officers Of Chamber Of
Commerce Elected In
Meeting Directors
Paul Osborne, prominent lum
ber manufacturer here, was elect
ed president of the Wilkes Cham
ber of Commerce in the first
1950 meeting of the board of
directors held here.
Mr. Osborne, a resident of
Wilkesboro, has for the past sev
eral years been very active in
civic work in the community and
county and is one of the coun
ty's best known young business
men.
Gilbert Bare was elected vice
president, Maurice Walsh treas
urer, Richard Johnston national
councillor, and Tom S. Jenre'te,
manager.
On the executive committee
for the new year are the pres
ident, vice president, treasurer,
I manager and two elected mem
jbers, R. M. Brame, Jr., and A.
F. Kilby.
The nominating committee was
composed of A. F. Kilby, F. G. \
Finley and C. J. Swofford.
Richard Johnston, retirinej
president, presided at the meet
ing of the directors, which was
attended by the twelve members
whose terms have not expired,
six newly elected members and
the retiring six directors.
Budget for the coming year|
was submitted by the budget
committee and adopted.
Plans were laid for the annual
membership meeting to be held
at Hotel Wilkes Tuesday, Jan
uary 31, 6:30 p. m.
The directors of the Wilkes
Chamber unanimously endorsed
Clem Johnson, of Roanoke, Va.,
for membership on the national
board of directors. Mr. Johnson
addressed the annual member
ship meeting here last year. |
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Earl C. Little Dies
Wednesday At Noon
Earl C. Little, of tfaylorsville,
died Wednesday nodn at a hos
pital in Statesville following a
brief illness.
On ChriBtmas Day Mr. Little
married the former Miss Clara
Parlier, of Wilkesboro.
Funeral arrangements were in
| complete tdday.
William Minton
Dies At Mt. Zion
Funeral service will be held
Friday, 11 a. m., at Mt. Zion
Baptist church for William Min
ton, 86-year-old citizen of the
Mt. Zion community who died
Wednesday. Rev. Ed Hodges will
officiate.
Surviving Mr. Minton are his
wife, Mrs. Eliza Minton, one son,
and two daughters, Robert Min
ton of Mt. Zion, Mrs. Ada Trip
lett of Darby and Mrs. Ina Pen
nell of Lenoir.
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J. C. Penney Co.
Store Redecorate
J. C. Penney company stc
in North Wilkesboro has ji
been redecorated and repaintec
The ? complete job, which w
accomplished by Northwests
Wallpaper and Paint compai
here, included all four floors
the large and modern store ai
the display windows. The windo
setup and arrangement is co
sidered one of the most moder:
istic in the entire Penney orgai
izatton.
Stone Mountain
Singing Jan. 29th
Regular fifth Sunday conven
tion of the Stone Mountain Sing
ing Association will be held with
Falrplains Baptist church near
this city on highway 18 on Sun
day, January 29, Chairman Ar
thur Warren has announced.
Singing will get under way
at one p. m. and continue
through the afternoon. All sing
ing classes, quartets, soloists and
others who render gospel music
are invited to attend and take
part.
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UNION LODGE MEETING
Union Lodge number 331 I. O.
O. F. will confer the second de
gree Friday night, January 20.
All members are urged to at
tend.
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Mr. Joe M. Pearson returned
to his home at Moravian Falls
this week after undergoing an
eye operation at the Wilkes hos
pital. - ..
To Celebrate 55th
Wedding Anniversary
Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Walsh,
parents of 12 and grandparents
of 44, will celebrate their 55th
wedding anniversary Saturday.
On January 21, 1895, T. J.
Walsh married Miss Victoria
Beshears and they have spent
practically all their lives in the
Walsh community on the Blue
Ridge 20 miles northwest of
North Wllkesboro. The 12 liv
ing children are: Mrs. Izand
er Spears, Wilbar; Mrs. Clar
ence Phillips, Wllkesboro; W.
1>. Walsh, Wllkesboro; W. H.
Walsh, Mrs. C. H. Harris, and
Glenn Walsh, Winston-Salem;
Clifford Walsh, North Wllkes
boro; Gurney Walsh, Wllkes
boro; Mrs. Albert Ohaney,
Baltimore, Md.; Mrs. Forrest
Yates, Purlear; Mrs. Sheridan
Whittington and T o m J.
I Walsh, of Purlear.
Board Community
Concert To Meet
Sunday, Jan. 22nd
The one and only yearly meet
ing of the board of directors of
the Wilkes?Comm unity Concert
Association will meet Sunday aft
ernoon, January 22, 3:30, in the
Ladies' Parlor of the First Meth
odist church.
The nominating committee,
composed of Paul Osborne, chair
man, 0. B. Eller, Mrs. R. T. Mc
Niel, Mrs. Paul Harvel, Jr., and
Mrs. J. M. Derr will meet at the
same place at three o'clock.
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Cooking School
Very Successful
The cooking school put on by
Horton Appliance company, local
Frigidaire dealer, Wednesday and
Thursday at the Liberty Theatre
was attended by more than 800
ladies and was a highly success
ful event.
The school was sponsored by
the Woman's Club and the Liber
ty theatre. John Cashion, of sta
tion WKBC, which broadcast
parts of the school, was master
of ceremonies. Instructor was
Miss Virginia Hull, home econo
mist of Frigidaire Corporation
assisted by Frank Farrier, Frig
idaire division manager.
Winning the grand attendance
prize, a $349.75 two-oven Frig
idaire electric range, was Mrs. R.
C. Jennings, Jr., of Pores Knob
Other prizes consisting of cook
ed foods, sets of dishes, Chatham
blankets, electric irons and cof
fee makers, went to Mrs. T. H
Waller, Mrs. E. S. Cooper, Mrs.
Harley Anderson. Mrs. Sam
Vickery, Mrs. J. C. Bauguss,
Mrs. Thelma Rhodes. Mrs. F. C.
Forester, Mrs. Will Blair, Mrs
Walter Hix, Mrs. Ruby Watkins,
Mrs. James Kenerly, Mrs. S. B.
Moore. Mrs. Warner Miller, Mrs.
John Snyder.
Mrs. Betty Osborne
Claimed By Death
Mrs. Charity Elizabeth (Bet
ty Osborne. 72, died early Wed
nesday at home in the Wilkes
boro route one community near
Cricket.
Surviving Mrs. Osborne are
her husband, T. M. Osborne, and
the following sons and daugh
ters: Trealy. Grayden and Gar
field Osborne, of Wilkesboro
route one; Bart Osborne, of
New York; Dewey Osborne, of
Ronda; Charlie and Emma Os
borne, Mrs. Villa Miller, Mrs.
Lillie Miller and Mrs. Alice Min
ton. all of Wilkesboro route one.
Mrs. Osborne was a daughter i
of the late Mr. and Mrs. Frank I
Qua bill.
Funeral, which will be held at i
home Friday, two p. m. <
Trade At Home and Save!
FIRST BAPTIST
RECEIVES BIDS
Proposals Received On Construction Of Two
Parts Of Religious Education
Building; Cost Near $120,000
Building committee of the
^irst Baptist church here Wed
lesday night opened bids for the
:onstruction of a religious edu
ation building for the church.
Hickory Construction com
>any, of Hickory, submitted the
ow bid for general construction
n the amount of {99,890. Ralph
Duncan, of North Wilkesboro,
lubmitted the low bid of $3,780
!or electrical work. Bids received
tor plumbing and heating were
lot accepted and bids remain
>pen on that phase of construc
;ion.
The proposal calls for con
struction of two of three parts of
.he religious education structure
md does not include the front of
the building, which is planned
tor later construction. The part
not included in the present pro
posal will contain a chapel and
social room and will front D
street.
The building program of the
First Baptist church started a
few years ago with erection of a
parsonage. The site of the old
parsonage, which is now being
used for Sunday school class
yooms, will be used for the re
ligious education building, which
j will. oonnect with the present
i church auditorium.
The building committee and
the board of deacons will sub
mit the bids to the congregation
Sunday.
The building on which bids
were received will contain 41
class and assembly rooms of var
ious sizes and a large Scout
room.
RALEIGH ROUNDUP
By EULA NIXON GREENWOOD
NOT OUT YET . . . Bill Um
stead's decision not to take on
Sen. Frank Graham this spring
Pleased a lot of people in North
Carolina, and at least one in
dividual of Managua, Nicaragua.
Friends here believe that our
ambassador to that country, one
Capus Waynick of High Point
and Raleigh, has not entirely giv
en up the idea of running for
Governor two years from now.
Labor and the Negro?good for
at least 100,000 Democratic votes
In the Primary or the General
Election?would be for him solid
Waynick will be through Ra
leigh on January 21 and may
show up here for the big regional
Democratic booster meeting on
January 28 and the Jefferson
Jackson Day Dinner that eve
ning. His avowed purpose in com
w!i'?r0llgh ?alejeh en route to
Washington for a conference on
the 21st is as follows: to pick upj
warmer clothing for this north
ern clime. Maybe he hasn't heard
about the winters we are hav
ing around here lately.
STRICTLY SECONDARY .
It used to be that the Jefferson
Jackson Day Dinner in Raleigh
was the Cadillac of party gath
erings hereabouts. However, that
was before Truman Sidekick Jon
athan Daniels got into the driv
er s seat. This season, the little
party meeting of North Carolina
Democrats will be strictly secon
dary in. many ways to the region
al conference to be held here on
the same day but several hours
before the dinner itself.
Among those attending the
conference, which Daniels will
chiarman, are Defense Secretary
Louis Johnson, Agriculture Sec
retary Charlie Brannan, Com
merce Secretary Charles Sawyer
Treasury Secretary John Snyder,
Budget Director Frank Pace, Jr.!
Arkansas Governor Sid McMath'
Georgia Governor Hummon Tal
madge. There will be others?all1
Vips (very important persons) I
and of sufficient greatness to
overshadow any good old North
State Democrat. Inferiority com
plexes and their various complex
ities may be the order of the
evening if all the aforementioned'
hang around for dinner. How a
bout your county's quota?
But?like it or not?it's go
ing to be the dedgummedest big
gest day us good old Southern
Democrats like Jonathan Dan
iels have had in nigh on to 50
years! Aside: The meeting might
also go a long way toward dis
couraging any further Dixiecrat
ting in these parts. You will note
too, that James Byrnes of Spar
tanburg, S. C., is not on the in
vited list.
NOTES . . . Remember how we j
counted Dr. Ralph McDonald out
when he was cheated out of the
1936 election ... so they say,
etc. . . . and how again in 1944
when Gregg Cherry beat him
soundly . . . well, he's still a
round . , . and is again the
March of Dimes leader in N. C.
and still one of the polite-edu
cational leaders ... in the Na
tion. . . .
? ? ? If you haven't done so,
jee "The Heiress" when it comes
to your town ... one of the best
. . They are still laughing a
round Stat? College about the
iiesel engineering prof, who
caughl the wrong train here in
Raleigh just before Christmas
and realized his mistake when he
awoke in Fla. instead of New
York . . . It's the truth . . . and
he never touches & drop . . .
Mrs. Herbert Peele, -wife of Her
bert Peele, E. City publisher and
radio man, continues ill with her
second attack of pneumonia this
winter . . . Scott Secretary John
Marshall lost his father two
weeks ago . . . Nell Battle Lewis,
after a stint with the Raleigh
Times'' and a period of illness,
is back on the News and Observ
er with her column "Incidental
ly" . . . Paul Dinan, the sopho
more whiz at State College last
fall, did not report back to
school after the holidays . . .
Three Stat.q footballers were su
spended a week ago for visiting
a house of ill fame in Raleigh
. . . Carolina has lost two assist
ant coaches since Jan. 1, Wake
Forest has loBt Bfrbby Kellogg.
WORTH REMEMBERING . . .
As the 700,000 Baptists of North
Carolina worry and, fret and
quarrel over whether to accept
the General Board's ruling and
take that $700,000 grant from
the State and Federal Gov'ts for
the Baptist Hospital in Winston
Salem, here is something they
should consider:
Accepting this grant from
Uncle Sam and, N. C. should not
interfere too much with the sep
(aration-of-church-and-state doc
trine. Why? Because the Bap
tist church ? and all other
churches?are already getting
millions and millions of dollars
a year from local. State and Fed
eral governments. How. Through
the exemption of church property
from taxation! If the Baptists
can accept these millions from
the backdoor, what is wrong with
accepting a few hundred thous
and from the front?
You're welcome.
OFF THE CUFF . . . Remem
ber 25 years ago right along
now when farmers were having
such a fuss over the tobacco co
op? On Jan., 13, 1925, there wag
a terrific fuss at Yanceyville as
farmers swarmed in asking for
a financial statement from tha
Cooperative Association and pay
See ? "ROUNDUP" _ Page Si*
Divorces Granted
In Wilkes Court
Judge Justice C. Rudisill
Presiding Over Three
Weeks Court Term
Seven divorces and one mar*
riage annulment have been grant
ed in the January term of Wilkes
superior court, which opened
Monday for three weeks' session.
Divorces were granted in the
following cases: James Cecil
Howell versus Janie Humphries "
Howell; Ella Mae Rhymer versos
Everett Rhymer; Ona Barnes
Williams versus Willard A. Wil
liams; Arless W. Jolly versus
Josephine Jolly; G. F. Call versus
V. B. Call; Willie Crook versus
C. F. Crook; Paul Ladd versus
Beulah Ladd, Annulment was
granted in the case of Evelyn
Mooney Frasier versus Dowell
Frasier.
Judge Justice C. Rudisill, of
Newton, Is presiding over the
court, which has a docket of
several scores of civil actions
pending trial.