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Vol. No. 43, No. 90 - ' Published Mondays and Thursdays WORTH WILKESBORO, W. C:, Thursday, March 2.1950 ? Make North Wilkesboro Your Shopping Center
Cooperation Topie
Of Address Here By
Senator Graham
Senator Addresses Joint Ses
sion Civic Clubs Here At '
Noon Today
Senator Frank P. Graham in an
address here today before a joint
banquet of civic clubs upheld the
United Nations as the hope of the
world to prevent destruction of a
civilization which has taken thous
ands of years to build.
Backing the United Nations, the
senator said, must be a spiritual
communion of peace loving peoples
of the world, and America must
rise to responsibility of power and
greatness to promote a brotherhood
of man with world cooperation.
Kiwanis, Lions and Optimist
clubs met jointly at noon at Hotel
Wilkes to hear Senator Graham.
Other distinguished guests were
Governon W. Kerr Scott, Highway
1 Commission Chairman Dr. Henry
? Jordan, highway officials and
guests from all counties in the 8th
highway division. Dr. EL N. Phil
lips, president of the Kiwanis club,
presided. Watson Bra me, chairman
of the steering committee which led
the campaign to roll up in Wilkes
the largest majority in the state
for road and school bonds, presented
members of that committee. C. C.
Faw, Sr., presented the speaker.
"Co-Operation" was the theme of
the address by Senator Graham.
He reviewed the history of progress
in the state in schools and roads
and stated that Governor Scott's
road program is the third stage to
"Make the road that leads by your
door the road that leads around
the world."
Senator Graham vigorously up
held the farm support and parity
plan, pointing out the interdepen
dence of agriculture with business
and industry. Parity, he said,
means equality and the farm sup
port plan is necessary to make an
equal partnership of agriculture
and industry so necessary to the
entire economy.
Praising rural electrification, the
senator also put in a word for
Governor Scott's efforts for ex
pansion of rural telephones, point
ing out that rural telephones not
only add to communications, but
provide great benefit to commerce
and business.
Senator Graham stated he sup
ported President Truman's decision
to build the destructive hydrogen
bomb. Russia with the H-bomb and
America without it could well mean
the end of all freedom, even the
freedom of religrion.
Civilization has progressed to
make the world one great, dynamic
b Industrial society, the senator said,
an^he cited the teaching of Christ
in behalf of a brotherhood of all
men everywhere as^ the solution to
the world's ills.
. Prior to the address of Senator
^jjcaham, many county officials,
civic club leaders and other guests
were introduced and recognized.
SJancho Anderson
Dies In Mooresyille
Funeral service was held today
at two p. m. at Hunting Creek
Baptist church (or Blancho W.
Anderson, 40, former resident of
the Oilreath community, who died
Tuesday in a Mooreeville hospi
tal. Last rites were conducted by
Rev. J. P. Robinson,
Mr. Anderson, a veteran of the
second World War, is survived by
two brothers and three sisters:
Buford Anderson, of Oilreath;
Jesse Anderson, of Wilkesboro
route one; Miss Ava Anderson, of
Oilreath; Mrs. Era Brooks, of
Mooreeville; Mrs. Vera Anderson,
of North Wilkesboro route one.
Bloodshed Boxscore
On N. C. Highways
Killed February 24 through Feb
ruary 27?8.
Injured February 24 through
17?95.
Killed through February 27 this
year?124.
Killed through February 27,
1949?125.
Injured through February 27
this year?1,843.
^injured through February 27,|
1949?1,254.
Art Exhibit Here
All are Invited to view tbe art
ibit which'will be on display
March 5 through 15 in the show
window of the North western Wall*
paper A Paint company.
Pictures, drawings and other
products of pupils of Mrs. W. 9.
Fletcher, art director, will be
Senator -frank Porter Graham
BALLENTINE SPEAKER AT
FATHER-SON BANQUET AT
NEW AGRICULTURE BUILDING
Seven Wilkes Teams
In Big Tournament
Seven teams, three of girls
and four of boys, are entered in
the Winston-Salem Journal-Sen
tinel northwest basketball tourna
ment in Winston-Salem. The girls
teams from Wilkes are Mountain
View, Traphill and Ronda. Wilkes
boys entered are Roaring River,
Traphill, Mountain View and Ron
da.
A record field of 175 teams
are entered in the tournament,
reputed to be the world's largest
basketball meet.
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Miss Toby Turner's
Sister Died Today
Mrs. W. A. Colvert, of Greens
boro, died in Greensboro today.
Funertil will be held in Greens
boro Friday afternoon.
Mrs. Colvert was a sister of
Miss Toby Turner, of this city,
and had visited here on many oc
casions.
Mrs. Smithey Is
Under Bond For
Husband's Death
Mrs. Hessie Brown Smithey,
charged with the murder of her
estranged husband, Frank Smithey,
50, at her home near Wilkesboro
Sunday, Monday was released from
Wilkes jail under bond of $2,000 for
trial in the March term of Wilkes
Superior court, it was learned from
the office of C. G. Poindexter,
Wilkes sheriff.
Mrs. Smithey told officers Sunday
that she shot her husband, whom
she had married, divorced, re
married and was separated from
again, when he went to her home
Sunday morning and tried to go in
the house. He had been drinking,
she said. The bullet from a 22
calibre target pistol severed an
artery in Smithey's right side and
he bled to death internally in a mat
ter of minutes.
Funeral service for Mr. Smithey
was held Tuesday afternoon at
Closer Walk with God Baptist
church in Wilkesboro with Rev.
Graham Smith and Rev. Fred Blev
ins in charge. Burial was in Moun
tain Park cemetery.
Surviving Mr. Smithey are his
wife, three daughters, Mrs. W. C.
Yarbrough, of Lincolnton, Mrs. W.
F. Little, of Charlotte, and Barbara
K. Smithey, of the home; two sons,
Calvin R. Smithey, of Burlington,
and Billy Smithey, of the home.
Coon Hunters Club
Receiving Coons
All members of the Wilkes
Coon Hunters club are asked to
attend a meeting Friday night, 8
o'clock, at Ray Minton's garage,
one mile west of this city. 8ixty
coons have-been .secured tor dis
tribution and those that have not
received their coons are asked to
get them at (he
| L. Y. Ballentine, North Carolina
Commissioner of Agriculture, told
a father and son Future Farmers
of America banquet in Wilkesboro
last night that the new frontiers
now are in education and training
of youth and in research labora
tories.
The banquet, attended by 60 F.
F. A. boys, many fathers and
guests, was in celebration of the
completion of the new building
for the agricultural depart
ment of Wilkesboro high school.
Previously the department has been
? housed in a dilapidated portion of
the old prison camp property ad
jacent to the school grounds. The
new building provides adequate
space for classes and shop rooms
and will be a great asset to the de
partment.
The Wilkesboro F. F. A. chapter
carried out the program as a reg
ular meeting, with President Hugh
Mathis presiding. Other F. F. A.
officers participating were Marvin
Ashley, vice president; Bill Caudill
secretary; Bobby Tevepaugh, treas
urer; Archie Combs, reports'*; and
Fred Davis, instructor and advisor.
The program opened with the F.
F. A. ceremony by officers, and in
vocation by Representative T. E.
Story. Marvin Ashley gave the
welcome address, with response by
R. E. Dunn. Fred Welborn spoke
briefly of what the F. F. A. is and
does and Edwin Marlowe explained
the F. F. A. emblem.
A. L. Teachey, of Raleigh, state
supervisor of agriculture education,
spoke briefly, telling of the work of
the department. He stated that
Instructor Fred Davis at Wilkes
boro has 70 boys in his classes a nd
is supervising education in Wilkes
for 167 veteran farm trainees. He
complimented the instructor and
boys highly for the work they had
done on the interior of the new
school building and commended
county and school officials for pro
viding the building. He also pre
sented the principal speaker, Com
missioner Ballentine.
Commissioner Ballentine deliver
ed a forceful address, urging that
youth be trained to use properly the
n^urf1 resources which are avail
able because it is no longer possi
ble to go west to find greater op
portunity. No state or nation, he
said, is stronger than its topsoil.
-North Carolina he described as a
place of opportunity, and urged that
youth be trained and remain in the
state to take advantage of the op
portunities which exist.
Other guests outside Wilkes
county at the banquet included Tal
" Stafford, vocational agriculture
district supervisor, of Asheville;
Lyn Nesbit, Raleigh newspaperman
and columnist; Howard Gryder,
from the vocational agriculture de
partment; Jim Graham, in charge
of the upper mountain experiment
station; A. H. Maxwell, district for
ester. Local guests included school
district and county officials and
representatives of civic organiza
tion in the Wilkesboros.
Ralph Davis Office
In Bank Building
Office of Ralph Davis, attorney at
law and secretary of the Wilkes
Credit Bureau, was moved this
week to room 2. on the second floor
of the Bank of North Wilkesboro
building. Previously his office had
been over Payne Clothing company.
Governor W. Kerr Scott
WILKESBORO CITIZENS DISCUSS
I NEEDS FOR SCHOOL BUILDINGS
Horry Hettiger At
Poultry Convention
Harry Hettiger, of Wilkes Moun
tain Poultry Products company, has
returned from Kansas City, Mo.,
where he attended the national con
vention of the Poultry Pact Find
ing committee.
One of the significant actions of
this national body was its going on
record against government sub-1
sidization of poultry producers.
Mr. Hettiger was accompanied on
the trip by Mrs. Hettiger. j
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North Wilkesboro
Defeats And Ties
Millers Creek Teams
North Wilkesboro and Millers
Creek county champion girls fought
to a 13-13 deadlock at Millers
Creek Tuesday night in one of the
lowest scoring games of the year.
The score 7-7 at the end of the
first quarter and the same at half
time. North Wilkesboro was four
points ahead with 30 seconds to go
and Millers Creek pulled into a tie
with two goals by Rachel Harrold.
Whicker and Eller had 5 each for
North Wilkesboro.
North Wilkesboro boys won 43
to 40 with a last minute rally after
trailing through 30 minutes. Kilby
led Millers Creek with 12 and Joe
Eller had 11 for North Wilkesboro.
Steak Supper
Euzelian class of Pleasant Home
Baptist church will serve a steak
supper at Millers Creek lunchroom
Saturday, April 4, from six to nine
p. m. Prices will be one dollar per
plate for adults and 50 cents for
children, with proceeds going to the
church building fund. The public is
cordially invited to attend and will
be assured an enjoyable meal.
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T. B. Committee
Plans Work For
Year In WHkes
Wilkes Tuberculosis Association
committee in March meeting plan
ned activities for the year.
Of special interest was the report
of Mrs. J. H. McNeill, chairman of
the Christmas seal sale campaign.
Mrs. McNeill reported total receipts
of $3,594.76, which was by far the
highest ever raised in Wilkes
county for the Tuberculosis Asso
ciation. The committee unanimous
ly passed a resolution commending
Mrs. McNeill for the excellent lead- \
ership displayed during the cam-1
paign.
Budget for work in Wilkes county
during the coming year was dis
cussed at length and several proj
ects were planned.
One of the immediate projects
will be the showing of a tuber
culosis film in schools of the coun
ty. This film will give many lucid
facts about tuberculosis, its preven
tion and treatment.
A mass meeting of citizens of
the Wilkesboro school, district called
by Wilkesboro Mayor W. E. Smith
ey at the school auditorium Tuesday
night voted to endorse a plan to
erect an additional school building
on the old prison camp site to re
lieve the desperately crowded situa
tion in present school buildings.
Vote foMhe motion was 71 to 38.
However, the meeting resulted
in much discussion, particularly for
the proposal to consolidate Wilkes
boro and North Wilkesboro high
schools into a central high school.
Attorney J. R. Henderson pre
sided over the meeting, which was
attended by about 200 people.
William G. Mitchell and F. J. Mc
Duffie, attorneys, were the first
speakers. They described condi
tions as they found them by visit
ing the school. They said they found
classes in halls, in the library, in th(
auditorium and in dressing rooms
of the gymnasium. Some students
Mr. McDuffie stated, had to wail
for a class to finish a room in ordei
to get in and have their class. The)
said the need for additional roonr
is desperate.
First mention of the proposed
central high school was by At
torney T. R. Bryan, third speaker
who praised highly the spirit ir
Wilkesboro, mentioning the erectior
of the spacious gymnasium and the
.ecord of the football team as evi
dences of school and communit)
spirit. He expressed the opinior
that consolidation of schools in th<
two towns is impractical. He out
lined a plan for the school to us<
money now available, which he saic
would be about $91,000 for Wilkes
boro on a per capita basis, an<
erect an additional building on th<
old prison camp site, which belong*
to the county. Speaking of con
solidation he said he didn't think il
will happen as long as the Yadkir
runs where it does "Unless we have
lots of funerals."
P. E. Brown spoke forcefully
telling of the fight in the legisla
ture for state aid funds and the
bond election fight. "Now that we
got this money," he said, "for God's
sake do the best we can with it foi
educational opportunities for chil
dren." He said nobody wanted t?
take Wilkesboro's money and build
a high school building for North
Wilkesboro. He stated he thought
consolidation was not only possible
but would bring about the best edu
cational advantages possible.
Paul Osborne spoke and outlined
briefly developments in the pro
posal for a central high school. He
said there is now from state aid
funds about $57,300 for North
Wilkesboro and $61,100 for Wilkes
boro. He said $83,000 was a pro
posed amount for a Fairphuns ele
mentary building and that those
students could attend North Wilkes
boro elementary school if the high
school was moved out of the pres
ent buildings. These sums, he said,
total over $205,400 which could be
made available on the cost of cons
truction of a central high school
In addition he pointed out that the
Wilkes Y. M. C. A. has in cash and
pledges about $165,000 which prob
ably could be used for a gymna
sium and physical educational
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PLAQUE HONORING WILKES
FOR LARGEST MAJORITY IN
BOND ELECTION PRESENTED
Lawrence Miller
Goes With F. C. X.
As Sales Supervisor
Lawrence Miller yesterday en
tered upon his new duties as super
visor of sales for the Farmers Co
operative exchange in the western
district of 15 counties. Recently
Mr. Miller resigned his position as
farm implement salesman for
Wilkes Implement company.
Mr. Miller will continue to re
side on his farm near Wilkesboro
and will retain his position as head
of the Production and Marketing
Association in Wilkes county. He
is also secretary of the Wilkes
Farm Bureau and is well known in
this part of the state.
March Term Of
Wilkes Court To
Convene Monday
.Judge Rudisill Will Preside
Over Three Weeks' Of
Criminal Court
Three weeks of Wilkes superloi
court to try one of the heaviest
dockets in many years will convene
in Wilkesboro MondajP, March 6.
Judge Justice C. Rudisill, of New
ton, will preside over the court and
solicitor Avalon E. Hall, of Yad
kinville, will prosecute the docket.
About 200 cases are pending trial,
including many traffic cases oi
charges for driving drunk, reckless
driving and driving without license
Expected to-be the case of majoi
interest will be trial of Granl
(Skinny) Holbrook, of Traphill, foi
the fatal shooting of Paul Hemri<
at Holbrook's store December 17
Holbrook has been in jail withoul
privilege of bond since the shooting
and is expected to be tried for firsl
degree murder. Date of the Hoi
brook trial has been set for Thurs
day, March 16, in second week o;
the term but may be re-calendarec
for another date during the court.
Calendar for the March term ap
pears elsewhere in this newspaper
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Musical Program
Features Meeting
Of Kiwanis Clul
North Wilkesboro Kiwanis clul
held an enjoyable meeting Friday
which was featured b^a progran
of music.
Program chairman J. R. Prevettc
was unable to be present to intro
duce his program, which was don<
by Cecil Adamson. The progran
was a delightful presentation o
song numbers by the Lincoli
Heights high school glee club of 41
voices under the direction of E. G
Barrett and accompanied by Mrs
J. R. Edelin.
The soloists were Geraldine Mar
tin, Mae Alice Davenport, am
Dorothy Denny.
The numbers were: "Break Forth
0 Beautiful Heavenly Light,1
"Jesus, Joy of Man's Desiring,1
"Hospodi Pomilui?Lord, Our Go<
Have Mercy," "Ave Maria," "Beau
tiful Savior," "His Name S<
Sweet," "Go Down Moses."
Prior to the program J. B. Mc
Coy presented a scrap book pre
pared by Tom Jenrette, setting
forth much publicity on activitiei
of the club. Mr. McCoy also rea<
the ten Kiwanis Beatitudes.
Secretary T. E. Story reporte<
on the directors' meeting, at whicl
time it was decided to sponsor th<
horse show this year under a mod
ified plan.
At the meeting Friday J. K
Herndon was guest of R. R.
Church, Max Foster was guest o:
P. W. Eshelman and E. R. Elle;
was guest of H. P. Eller.
At the meeting of the club Feb.
ruary 19 Maurice Bryant, Jr., o:
Marion, in charge of the state fisl
hatchery for trout, was the speakei
and gave an interesting account ol
accomplishments of the Wildlif<
Commission.
At that meeting George Verdone
of New York, was guest of J. B
McCoy and Charles Rogers wi:
guest of Dudley Hill.
It pays to have rood woodi
manners. Burned timber meani
somebody was careless. Nine out
of 10 forest fires in North Cara
lina are started through careless
ness.
Governor Scott Addresses A
Capacity Crowd In The
Wilkes Courthouse
Before a packed courtroom of
Wilkes county citizens Governor
W. Kerr Scott this afternoon pre
sented to Wilkes county an en
graved plaque for having voted the
largest majorities in the state on
June 4 last year for the $200,000,000
state road bond issue and for the
$25,000,000 state school building
bond issue.
Presentation of tne plaque by the
governor was to M. F. Absher,
chairman of the Wilkes board of
commissioners, and D. F. Shepherd,
member of the county board of edu
cation, representing C. 0. McNiel,
board chairman.
Watson Brame, chairman of the
steering committee which led the
fight for school and road bonds,
opened the meeting and recognized
members of that committee: W. J.
Bason, C. C. Faw, Sr., C. B. Eller,
C. C. Sidden, Max Foster, Paul
Osborne and P, E. Brown. C. C.
Faw, Sr., presided over the meet
ing. Officials and guests recog
nized included Senator Frank P.
Graham, who had spoken earlier at
a joint luncheon of civic clubs, Dr.
Henry Jordan, chairman of the
highway commission, Mark Goforth,
eighth division highway commis
sioner, State Senator B. C. Brock,
of Mocksville, Representative T. E,
Story, of, Wilkesboro, other stats
and county officials from north
western counties and members of
the parties of Governor Scott and
Senator Graham.
Highway Commissioner Mark
Goforth presented Governor Scott.
Beginning with "North Carolina is
on the march," the governor in his
usual and vigorous style promoted
his program in the state. Speak
ing specifically of the bond election,
he stated he wanted to pay tribute
to those in this part of the state
who voted so overwhelmingly for
the road and school bonds issues,
and added words of commendation
for Wilkes Representative T. E.
Story and State Senator B. C.
Brock, both Republicans, for what
he termed yeoman work in the
legislature to give people the op
portunity to vote on the bond pro
posals.
He recalled progress in t he fight
for public health, saying that the
state had provided means to fight
tuberculosis. Blental hospitals, the
governor said, are being brought
up to the point where they can take
care of the problem of mental pa
tients, which affects one family in
eight. Rural electrification is go
ing forward and homes are being
reached with power and lights.
The telephone subject was next
on the governor's address and he
began by asking a show of hands
of those interested in extension of
rural telephone service. 'Hands
from a great majority of the large
crowd shot upwards and the gover
nor declared, "We are going to have
telephones." Continuing he said:
"There are fewer telphones in
rural areas than there were 30
years ago in North Carolina. We
shall find a way to build telephone
lines."
Turning back to the subject of
the bond election, Governor Scott
said it was not his practice to
praise civic organizations, but he
wanted to pay tribute to the North
Wiikesboro Optimist club for do
ing "A whale of a good job" for
road and school bonds in the cam
paign. He said he was a member
of an optimist club.
Declaring that the highway pro
gram is moving along, the governor
said that before the bond issue was
passed the state was faced with
the need of spending available
funds to rebuild, repair and main
tain primary roads and that sec
ondary roads would have been mud
dy for another generation without
the bond money. He mentioned also
that progress is being made in
erection of school buildings. It
is our aim, he said, to leave the
next generation better off than
ourselves. X
In presentation of the plaque he
said the people there would in fu
ture years pay tribute to the record
of Wilkes county in the bond elec
tion.
Acceptance speech on behalf of
the county was made by former
Wilkes Sheriff P. E. Brown. He
said "You have never seen such de
velopment as will occur when this
road program is completed." He
stated that a momentous decision
was readied by this state many
years ago when the first railroad
bonds were issued, resulting in the
early development of 20 counties
which he termed "the rich counties."
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