ius of SO milM, ,000 people & a Carolina. f ress in the "State of Wilkes" For Over 43 Published Monday. April 24.1950 . ma JL TvlVH DivWh# Ih Fish Like Snday Meal Highway 115 Arthur Byrd Sinks In 12 Feet Of Water In Lake Sooth Of This City Arthur Byrd, 16-year-old student of Wilkesboro school, drowned Sunday afternoon In a fish lake near highway 115, twelve miles south of North Wilkesboro. The boy was swimming In the lake, watchers on the bank told Coroner L M, Myers, who investigated the death, when he sank in IS feet of water and did not eome jap. Efforts to recover his body failed until Highway Patrolman Sidney Carter arrived on the scene, and dived and brought up the body. The drowning victim was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Byrd, Mpef the Rock Creek community. W Recently he had made his home with Mr. and Mrs. Lester Beshears near this city in order to continue school at Wilkesboro ■ after his parents had moved from this community. The fish lake where the accident occurred was constructed the past year by Robert Holland and Lester Beshears. The lake had not been opened for fishing and swimming. Surviving the Byrd youth are his father and mother, Harvey and Bvie Sales Byrd, of North Wilkesboro route two, and two brothers, Monroe Byrd, of Greensboro, and Eugene Byrd, of North Wilkesboro. Short Story Contest Will End April 30th Short story contest sponsored by the North Wilkesboro Junior Woman's Club will end April SO. This contest Is open to all high school students in Wilkes County. Prises of five and ten dollars will be given in two groups: the junior and senior group and the freshman and sophomore group. Entries must be sent to Mrs. James Ford, North Wilkesboro. o—■ Attorney and Mrs. J. H. Whick-1 er were business visitors in Ra-| leiKh Friday. Wilkesboro Chorus In Music Festival Twenty-five members of the Wilkesboro high school mixed chorus participated with 45 othei high school groups in the state music festival held in Greens bore Wednesday night. The total chorut had 500 voices* The Wilkesborc group, under direction of Mrs. 0. T. Doughton, gained the privilege of participating by having received a rating of "very good" in the district contests In addition to chorus memberi those frpm Wilkesboro attending Included John Prevette, Mrs. Lacs Huffman and daughter, Miss Lac; Huffman, and Mr. and Mrs. Slater Prevette. o—; Smith And Horner Deliver Speeches In Wilkes Connty Candidates Active In Campaigns Fpr Congress And Senate Seats Willis Smith, prominent Raleigh attorney who is making a determined bid for the United States senate seat now held bj Senator Frank Graham, and W. E. Horner, Sanford publisher opposing Represnetatlve C. B. Deanc in the primary for the Democratic nomination for congress, were busy in Wilkes last week. At noon Friday Candidate Smith addressed the North Wilkesboro Kiwanis club and on Friday night delivered' a campaign address to an audience at the Wilkes courthouse, where he was presented by Attorney W. H. McKlwee. The candidate was well received by audiences at both places. In addition to speaking, Mr. Smith called on many of his friends in Wilkes during the day. He was accompanied by his son, Willis Smith, Jr. Candidate Horner spoke on Wednesday^pight at Ron da school and on Thursday night at Millers Creek. In both speeches he attacked spending policies of ■ the federal government and the record of his opponent in congress. Mr. Horner had with him a complete string.band, which entertained the crowds with folk music. M.-SGT. LONG, PLANE CRASH SURVIVOR, IS VISITING HERE M-Sgt. Gwynne A. Long, U. S. Air Corp:,, has returned to WaahViagton, D. C., and thence to Ottawa, Canada, to re-enter a hospital there for farther treatment after a visit of several days with relatives and friends here. M-Sgt. Long is recuperating from injuries tWecelved when he Jumped from *T&e burning plane on which U. S. Ambassador Laurence A Steinhardt and four others lost their Jives, March 29. With reference to the crash M-Sgt. Long said: "I told them to get out of the plane." said Long, who was crew chief of the air force C-47 transport. "But something happened and they didn't move. I guess there wasn't time. Everything was happening so fast. And there was a terrific noise. I've only a vague memory of what went on in the cabin in the few seconds before I decided to Jump." Long said the plane's right wing blew up in "very spontaneous fire" when the plane was about 3,000 feet in the air and that flames shot Into the cabin within 45 seconds after the explosion. He said the pilot, LL Col. W. F. Trueblood, told him he would fly . a level course to give passengers a chance to Jump. "He told me to go back and get the others to Jump," Long said, "I realize there were only si* to seven seconds left before we would crash so I balled out. I went through the door on the left side of the plane." ' He said he did not remember to push any of the pasout the door. There was no question of arguthem," he said. "There time, any more t^an to tell _ __ get out of the plane. They i't say anything at all that I and sisters of M-Sgt. Long who reside in North Wilkesboro are: Mr. and Mrs. Bron Long, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Long, Mr. and Mrs. Hobert Long and Mr. and Mrs. Bryce Hlgglns. : O T. S. Myers, Age 65, Dies Unexpectedly Tyre Sylvester Myers, 65, member of a widely known Wilkes family, died unexpectedly Saturday at his home near Dockery. ? Wilkes Coroner I. M. Myers, who Investigated the death, attributed death to a sudden heart attack. Mr. Myers was stricken Just after he had walked from his house to his barn. Born June 29, 1884, Mr. Myers was a son of the late George Ellha and Mary Staley Myers. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Maude Bryan Myers: one son, Staley Myers, a chief machinist mate In the navy and three daughters, Mrs. Vaughn Prultt of El kin, Mrs. Dock Wheeler and Mrs. H. o. Martin, of North Wilkeeboro. Funeral will be held Tuesday, 2:80, at Mt. Plsagh church near Dockery. Rev. L. E. Sparks and Rev. Mr. Weatherman will conduct the services. o Senior Class Of Millers Creek To Give "Spring Fever" "Spring Fever", the three-act comedy by Ray Hodges will be presented at the Millers Greek auditorium by the senior Class of Millers Creek high school on Friday evening, April 28, at 7:45. Admittance will be 50c for adults and 25c for children. [>•' 0 Renew Concert Membership. " 'y "" -nil ■■ Two Auto* Collide Head-on; Three Are Critci&lly Injured Saturday A six-year-old boy was killed and three critically injured Saturday afternoon when two can collided on highway 421 eight miles east of here. Monroe Sparks, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sparks, who reside about 1* miles east of this city, died at six p. m., two hours following the accident. His mother sustained multiple injuries and nay not recover. His father received severe cuts, bruises and possibly internal injuries. Lawrence Call, of North Wilkesboro route three, received severe cuts and chest injuries. All persons are patients at the hospital here. The car driven by Call was traveling west on the highway when it collided head-on with the car driven by Robert Sparks. Both vehicles were demolished. Renew Concert Membership, * mwwn nv«*w, mwucur r*ui female, 70, oi Amiens, France, pose* with his wilt and the newest addition to the Demaie family after he became a father tor the thirty-sixtlr time. His first wife bore him twenty-four children and the present one, twelve. (International) SCHOOL BOARDS. AND P.-T. A. FAVORING SCHOOL MERGER ■ u. m ' At a joint meeting of members of the Wilkes County and North Wllkesboro boards of education held Friday night the proposed annexation of Wllkeeboro high to North Wllkesboro high was discussed at length and certain recommendations were made. The meeting recommended that tba lfcmgjUon property In 1n highway 421, 23 miles west of lere and crashed. John Mel Gunter, 26, elected 0 jump from the speeding truck ind was killed. With him was Jlyde Barnes his partner in the rucking firm of Gunter and Barles. Barnes remained in the ruck and sustained only bruises ind shock. atrol Investigated the accidnet Sarnes told them that he snd hunter were carrying a load of nerchandlse by. tractor-trailer rom Clncinsttl, Ohio, to Georgia, md that Gunter was driving. They lacked only one mile of ■caching the bottom of the long Blue Ridge grade when the >rakes weakened to such an exent that they would not hold the oaded truck In _pheck. They had ust passed over the 110-foot tigh Wade Harris bridge when lunter tried vainly to change the ruck into a lower gear to slow its irogress. Barnes said the motor tad stalled, apparently from carinretor trouble, and the drtrer :ould not change the gears. Gutter chose to jump from the cab md apparently was run over by 1 wheel Of the heavily laden trail>r. Barnes said he tried to stop the truck with the emergency Mrakes but it sweveted Into the eft side ditch sad the tractor >art stopped after partially climb- % xactor. Merchandise from the ruck scattered .over a wide area >f the highway and roadside. Body of Gunter was taken to rhomasville, Georgia for buriaL u Local People To Establish Radio Station In Boone Tbe Wilkes Broadcasting Com>any announces that through the (ffort and cooperation of - the 3oone Chamber of Commerce, the federal Communications Oomaiasion has granted them a permit o establish a 250-watt station at Soone. The station will be a local >utlet and will begin operation iround July 1. The Wilkes Broadlasting Company operates WKBC, ;he 1,000 Watt station in North Wilkesboro. Owners of the Wilkes Broadlasting company, which will opsrate both stations, are Mrs. Doris 3. Brown, president and general nanager; John T. Cashion, rice (resident; Roland B. Potter, secretary-treasurer. . I O Mrs. Godfrey Is Taken By Death Mrs. Tennie Mae Godfrey, 60, rife of L. !>. Godfrey, for many rears a well known resident of Wilkesboro, died Saturday morning following a brief illness. Funeral service was held Sunlay, 2: SO p. m., at Wilkesboro Baptist church with the pastor, Eter. W. N. Brookshlre, In charge i—toted by Rev. Howard J. Ford, >f Elkin. Burial was in Monnt L