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WEST JEFFERSON. N C. THURSDAY, MAR. 25, 1948 $3.00 a Year Out of County PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY Finals In Basketball Tournament Saturday Night Easter Seals On Sale This W eek; Support Asked Sponsored By Rotary Club For Aid To Crippled Chil dren; Caudill Chairman The sale of Easter Seals, un der the sponsorship of the Jef fersons Rotary club, for the bene fit of crippled children is under way in the county this week and the support of everyone is ask ed. J. V. Caudill, chairman of the drive said that seals had been mailed out to a number of indi viduals and others had been con tacted personally. Those who have received seals in the mail are asked to send in their contri butions so that the drive may be concluded. Serving on the crippled chil dren's committee with chairman Caudill are G. B. McMillan. John Wilkins and Dean Jones. Other members of the club as assisting with the sale. Reports reveal that a large number of crippled children are aided through this fund and for that reason, the cooperation of every interested citizen is asked Miniature Easter lilies are also to be sold on the street on Sat urday by school girls, to raise money for the fund, Mr. Cau dill said. The Jeffersons Rotary club has sponsored the aid to crippled children movement for a num ber of years. Camping Trip Well Attended Scouters End Week Of School ing With Out-Door Trip Near Bina The week of study for Ashe county scouters was climaxed Friday night when around twenty men took part in a camping trip near Bina. Ralph Harbison, scout executive of the Old Hick ory Council, was here for the camp trip as well as the meeting last week. The men were divided into three parols, the Wildcat, Squir rel and Tiger Patrols. Aiding in the course of instruction were Revs. Hoyt Wood and J. W. Luke. These who are eligible for a ful scouters certificate are L. P. Cclvard, Dick Houck, Millard Graybeal. L. B. Tyson. S. S. Shoemaker, W. C. Kunaman, J. V. Caudill. Sr.. W. R. Blevins, P. G. Wright, Joe Robinson, Gale McMillan, John Wilkins and Revs. Hoyt Wood. J. W. Luke and Cecil Cailis. (Continued on page 8) Richardson, 53, Dies In Hospital Funeral service for Jesse Rich ardson. 53-year old resident of Clifton, was held Sunday morn ing at ten o'clock at the Clifton Methodist church. Officiating were Rev. Frank Tucker and El der Ed Davis and interment was in the Hartsoe cemetery. The son of tire late Santonin Stone and J. F. Richardson, he succumbed at the Memorial hos pital in Charlotte on Friday. He is survived by his wife. Mrs. Car rie Richardson and the follow ing children: Mrs. Ruby Roten, Mrs. Mae Steel. Wayne. Breece, Dear, and Josephine Richardson. Amateur Contest Planned April 8 Th-. senior class at Riverview high school is sponsoring an ama teur cont:st to be held at the school gymnasium. April 8 at 7:30 o'clock, it was announced this week. The contest is open to all types of talent and anyone who would like to become a con testant is asked to notify the senior class immediately as to what he plans to do in the con test. Prizes will be awarded, it was pointed out. In the past, the school has sponsored two similar contests, the proceeds of which were used to purchase an electric stove for the home economics department and to making other improve ments in the school. To Reach Quota In Red Cross Drive I COUNTY GOP HEAD J. F. Yales, who was recent ly named chairman of the Ashe county Republican Ex ecutive Committee. Baptist Ass’11 To Have B. T. U. Meeting, Sunday All Churches Having A B. T. U„ Are Asked To Be Represented The association meeting of the B. T. U. of the West Jefferson j Baptist church will be held Sun day afternoon beginning at 2:15 o’clock, it was announced this week by D. C. Severt, associa tional director. Each church in the association i that has a training union may | enter the junior, intermediates, j young people's and adult’s con- I t.st to be held during the meet- j ing. Juniors will be judged on ; memory work, intermediates on , a sword drill and the young peo- i pie will be judged on speaking while the adults will be judged (Continued on page 8) _ Seed Orders To Be Plaeed Now The closing date for obtaining purchase orders for grass and clover seed, for pasture, is Fri day, April 2. No purchase or ders for seed will be issued by the PMA office after this date until time for fall seeding. Any producer who wishes to use lime this spring, and who has not already taken the farm allowance in phosphate or seed, should place an order in the PMA office at once. Purchase orders are being is sued for phosphate which is be ing brought into the county daily by truck. Want To Close Drive: But Must Have All Reports Turned In At Once Reports ycsVrc'av afternoon - voaled that a total of $1014.27 had been raised on Ash.e county's quota of $1250 for the Rod Cross. Tt was pointed out, however, that there were several schools, as well as individual workers who had not turned in their reports and they are requested to do so at once. “We want to end the drive this month and must have re ports b.fore we can close it." Chairman Ray Blevins said and asked the cooperation of every one in this. The following contributions have not previously been pub lished: West Jefferson high school. $23.00; Jefferson high school $70.00, Riverview high school, $10.00. R. W. Benchley, $15.00; Rmith ey's Store. $15.00. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Blevins. John Littlewood. Clara Perkins, Mable Vannoy Circle. B. F. Cook. W. J. Food Center. Bruce Houck, G. W. Ed wards, M. G. Edwards. $10.00 each. ttOCK scnoni. wos Icyan Guild of the W st Jeffer son Methodist church. Betty Tin ley. Don Francis. Helton W. S. C. S., A. D. Gambill, Scott Cox. J. N. Tulbert. Ruth McNeill. Mr. and Mrs. D. I. McGrady. W. B. Austin, Duvall's Grocery, Forrest McMillan. Virginia Dare Teague, Norman Hege. Sr.. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Pierce, $5.00 each. Personnel of Coble Dairy. Cash Harrlwaie, $3.0G each. Mr. ji'.d Mrs. Ed Eller. Callie G. Plum mer, F. C. Dillard, S2.00 each. A. H. Campbell, J. T. Sturgill, Isom Wagoner, Frances Little wood. Sue Littlewood, Frank McMillan. D. W. Cook, Vivian (Continued on page 3) Asked To Attend Drama Festival The Jefferson Dramateers are eligible to enter the annual Caro lina Playmakers Drama Festival to be held at Chanel Hill, the week of April 12 through 17. How. ver. Mrs. Gertrude \ aught, dramatics coach, stated due to conflicting meetings, the group would be unable to attend this year. The Dramateers presented a play entitled “Darkness at the Window." recently in the Wes tern district dramatics festival at Lee Edwards high school at Asheville. Students in the play were Bil lie Oliver. Bernard Bare, Anna bel Colvard, Nod Rash, Lloyd Oliver and Mary Gordon Aus tin. Formulate Western European Union Benelux (Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg) leaders and British and French diplomats gather to for mulate a western European union. The move is being made to offer a united front against the further spread of communism. Left to right: Sir George Rendel, Bri tish ambassador to Belgium; M. Fernand Van Langehove, Belgium U. N. representative; Belgium premier Paul Henry Spaak, and Count Jean-Marie-Francois De Haute cloque, French ambassador to Belgium. Sincere Wishes To All For A Joyous Faster N. C. Education Commission To Conduct Survey *' i Parents Of County School Children Urjed To Fill Out Questionnaire A. B. Hurt, superintendent of the schools of Ashe county, stated this week that he hoped that every parent who receives a copy of the questionnaire sent out by the North Carolina State Education Commission would take time to fill it out. The com mission was authorized by the legislature and appointed by the governor to make a study of all phases of education in the state as a means of determining pro blems and recommending im provements. “The questionnaire is not for the purpose of getting adverse criticism of the schools, nor for getting p r a i s e,’’ Mr. Hurt sta ll'd. "But in order to got a frank j answer from the parents of Ashe county on their opinions as to the needs of the public schools." This is a state-wide questionnaire it was pointed out and does not involve Ashe alone. Parents of every school pupil in North Carolina are be ing asked to answer these quest ions in order that all the wide (Continued on page 8) Want Students rfi ri-t | rji • • io lake I raining Mrs. R: ~i'oo Cain, education;)1 | jdirector of the Rowan Memorial j | hospital, Inc., of Salisbury, will! j be in the county Tiiursduy. April j | 1. to talk with hit’ll school se [ niors. it was anr.ounc. d this week j thr aiaii the county superinten dent's office. Schools to bn vi'sti d by Mrs. Cain on Thursday are Jefferson, West Jefferson. Lansing and V.r ginia-Carolina. DR. CLYDE JONES TO CONTINUE TO WORK WITH ASIIE HOSPITAL It was announced this week that Dr. Clyde Jones, who has been associated with the Ashe hospital for some time, would continue to work, with this in stitution on a part time basis. He had announced some time ago that he planned other ar rangements beginning April 1. Due to the fact that no one had been secured to fill his position, he has agreed1 to continue to see the out-patients from 9:00 until 12:00 and to be on emergency call for some nights each week, it was announced yesterday. Many Special Observances Planned For Easier Sunday By Churches Of Ashe County House, Senate j Step Up Work On | A i <l M e a s 11 r e s 279 Million Approved To As sist Greece And Turkey; Final Vote, Apr. 1 Washington — The Senate and House drove toward final pas sage of President Truman’s glo bal foreign aid programs with increasing speed Tuesday. The Senate, which already has pass d the 85.300.000.000 Euro pean recovery bill, kept well ahead of the House by approving by voice vote the second of Mr. Truman's foreign n:d plans — 8275.000,000 of military help for Greece and Ttirkev. Still awaiting Senate action is a proposed military-economic aid measure for China. The For eign Relations Committee lias recommended a 8403.000,000. une year program with $100,000,000 'if the funds to bo used for mili tary purposes if China wants it that way. Meanwhile, the House opened debate on its own "single p >ek (Continued on Page Five) Sunday Schools Will Also Have Programs. Com- > munion At Churches Easter will be fittingly obser ved in the church- s of Ashe county Mrs year with many spe cial services over the week end. Some have planned egg hunts for the children on Saturday and movies on Easter will also be shown. The regular morning worship program will consist of Easter sermons and music. The public is cordially invited to at tend these services, ministers an nounced. At the West Jefferson Method ist church Sunday morning at eleven o'clock. Rev. Hoyt Wood, pastor, will preach the sermon. Special music has b en prepared and the preparato-w class will be presented for membership in the church. Sunday evening at 7:30 o'clock, a motion picture entitled, "A Journey Into Faith,” will he given. On Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock, the children of the Sunday school will he given an egg hunt. Rev. W. C. Ciummett. pastor of th. Nathan’s Creek-Methodist church, will preach Sunday morn ing at eleven o'clock on the sub ject. "The Message of the Em (Continuid on page 8) Washington — President Trt: man sot the Taft-Ilartlry labor law in motion this wo. k to try to stop the nine-duy-eld oeai strike. He ordered a hoard of inquiry to bring iiim within 13 da\ . the facts of tiie miners’ pension dis pute between John L. Lewis and the operators. When this is done, the govern ment can ask tiie federal court to issue an injunction to halt the walkout. This carries with it a threat of CQntempt of court pen alties — jail or fines — if it is ignored. Mr. Truman acted six hours after Lewis, president of tl»’ Uni ted Mine Workers, scorned a government plan to settle his quarrel with the soft coal oper ators. Federal Conciliator Cyrus S. Ching went immediately to the White House to announce failure in his efforts to make peace. Mr. Truman set up a three hirod. He expects tn apP.t '1mcmb< rs tomurn - ,v. T•:!■ i. I> will b in i. ii him the situ ation: not to make recommenda tions. Thi v must report April 5 or before. It was the third board of in quiry Mr. Truman has named un der the act. The others are in the meat packing strike and a contract dispute in a laboratory at fit' Oak Ridge atomic energy center. In those two cases. Mr. Tru man asked both sides to continue negotiations and remain on the job under existing conditions. ILL IN HOSPITAL Little Alice Kirk “Cookie” Graham, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Graham, of Lau rel Springs, is a paitient in the Long’s hospital in Statesville, where she underwent an opera tion there, Monday night. Srnii- Finals Are To Be Held Fri.; Attendance Good All Nine High Schools Of The County Are Participating In Annual Kvent The annual As ho county high h<>f>1 tournament with all nine high schools participating, got underway at the West Jefferson high school gymnasium, Tuesday n:ght when the W st Jefferson and Virginin-Carolina boys and the V.-C. girls were victorious in the first round. The finals will bo held on Sat urday night following the semi finals and elimination contests on Friday night. A record crowd saw the open ing games in the annual event ns the high school teams began the fight for top place honors here in Ashe county. The West Jefferson boys, tied with Jeffer son for firs* place in the high school standings, gained an early lead on th • Rwerview team and won by an easy 70-20 score. The Virginia-Carolina lassies, rated at the ton of girls’ standings, al so won an easy victory from the Lansing girls after ringing up a score of 47-11. The Virginia - Carolina boys, rated fifth in the standings, came tlvough on ton to win a 46-27 vict u-y over the Elkland boys. Results of West Jefforson F’eetwood girls' game, the Na than’s C’r ek - Healing Springs gk Is’ game, and the Lansing - JeR’e-son boys’ game were not a\ 'liable in time for publication Iasi night. The schedule for the remair. d r of the week is as follows: Tonight — Girls' game. V-C vS. Riverview. 6:00 p m.: boys’game West Jefferson vs Healing Spgs.. 7:00 p. m.; Girls' game, Elkland vs. Jefferson. 8:00 p. m.; boys’ game, Nathan’s Creek vs. Fleet wood, 9:00 p. m. Friday eight at 6:00 p. m., the winers of the V-C - Riverview | girls' game will challenge the j winners of th. W. J - Fleetwood game: at 7 30 n. m.. the winners i of the West Jefferson - Healing Springs boys’ game will meet I the winn rs of the Nathan’s Creek - Fleetwood games; at 8: 00 p. m., the winners of the Na than’s Creek - Healing Springs j girls' game will nv et the win (Continu- d on page 8) Civw Is (Hearing Link Of Parkway Kxpect Bond In Mt. Mitchell Area To Be f'omnleted Sometime This Year i A crew is at work completing the clearin’ of the right-of-way [on the Bui! gan-Baissm gap link of the Blue tb • . parkway in I preparation for further grading aud stone surfacing of the strip, it' was learned yesterday at the i Asheville office of the parkway. The link, approximately 15.5 I miles long, was partially graded ! before the war. : The hjello H [Te.r firm of Durham hajfja con tract tn eompb b the graefipg and stone surface the strip, but park* ; way officials here said they did not know when the firm would j move in construct-on equipment and begin this work. Sim P We ms. parkway su perintend. nt. , arlier this year 1 express's! hope that the work ran be c'c- pa t. d befo: e the end of the year. Its v.'wpletion will reduce the d-i\ '.■■■: distance from As’ ■ ville ■. the summit of Mount Mitchell to about 2" miles. Riles Held Wvil r For Mrs. Miller Funeral se vice for Mrs. Si Iona Wyatt Miller was held at her home at Whitetop. Ya., Wed nesday morning at 11:00 o'clock. Officiating were Revs. Carl Stur* gill and Ambrose Miller and in terment followed in the family cemetery. The deceased, who was 89 years of age, is survived by the fol lowing: her husband, two child ren, Charles and Wade Miller, all of Whitetop; 10 grandchild ren, 10 great-grandchildren and three brothers, George Wyatt of Konarock, Va., Millard Wyatt of Sturgills; Alex Wyatt of Laurel Springs.
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