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VOLUME 22, NO. 25
$2.50 a Year in Ashe County
ASHE COUNTY IS . . .
Leading Livestock and Dairy
County in North Carolina.
Population: 21, 8C6
WEST JEFFERSON, N. C.THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1950
$3.00 a Year Out of County
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
JN. C. SCHOOL BOARD VOIDS ASHE PLANS
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Estimated Budget Is Adopted By Commissioners
•Proposed Budget
Based On Revenue
From $2.10 Rate
Estimated Expenditures For
Coming Year For County
Placed At $501,415.00
At the regular meeting of the
Ashe County Commissioners on
Monday an estimated budget
with total expenditures of $501.
415.00 was adopted for the fiscal
year ending June 30. 1951, with
the income the same.
The estimated property valua
tion is set at $7,700,000.00 with the
proposed rate at $2.10. if the
frdimated budget is adopted.
In the estimated expenses $42.
032.00 is the total amount allot
ed to schools. The estimated bud
get is published in detail else
where in this paper.
The largest amount, of ex
penditures. $180,000.00 is includ
i*d for old age assistance. The
next is $116,640.00 for aid to
dependent children.
The estimated budget received
the approval of all three com
missioners, W. E. Vannov, Chair
man. V. C. Lillard and John
Houck.
3Iovies Shown At
Wildlife Meeting
15.5W Trout Have Been Plac
ed In County Streams;
To Hold Ladies Night
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^Two motion pictures, “M; .ring
of a Sportsmen” and “Common
Animals of the Woods.” were pre
sented at the quarterly fish fry
meeting of the Ashe 'Wildlife
Clifb Monday night at the com
munity building which was .at
tended by 45 members, mostly
county farmers.
Roland Koontz presented the
pictures under the auspices of
the N. C. wildlife commission.
Mr. Koontz told the group that
15.500 trout had been placed in
the Ashe county streams and that
3000 additional trout were at the
State Hatchery at Roaring Gap
waiting to be placed in the
streams.
Leo Roberts, State Fish Hatch
ery superintendent, and Dewitt
Bryan, Alleghany fish and game
protector, spoke briefly to the
group.
Wildlife members present vot
ed to hold a ladies night at the
next quarterly meeting of club.
Brief Summary
Of Korean War
J
Tokyo—South Korean troops
who fled fallen Suwon link
up with advance American
ground troops in hopes of
stemming Communht drive;
North Koreans claim capture
of Inchon, port of captured
Seoul. American troops have
first contact with Communist
forces.
Washington—Navy says long
range patrol planes—the kind
used in anti-submarine war
fare—have been ordered to
escort ships moving troops and
supplies into Korean war
t
zone.
Washington—Air force says
American and Australian fliers
made 139 sorties against North
Korea, mostly against rail
communications, on Indepen
dence Day.
Moscow — Observers view
Gromyko’s denunciation of U.
S. for pushing “step by step
iiito open war” as further
widening of breach between
east and west; official Russian
navy organ says Russia is
threatened h? attack so long
as capitalist world exists.
Tokyo — MacArthur hints
North Koreans who mistreat
any captured Americans wTfl
face trial as war criminals.
Public Hearing On County
School Plans Is Scheduled
Before State Board August 3
RECEIVES COMMISSION
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Lt. Waiter R. Sexton, whoj
was commissioned as a second
lieutenant at Lubbock, Texas
last week.
| Walter R. Sexton
t Completes Pilot
Training Schools
Receives Second Lieutenant
Commission And Silver
Wings Of Pilot
Lieutenant Walter R. Sexton, of
West Jefferson, North Carolina,
now wears the bars and silver
wings of an Air Force officer and
pilot after thirteen months of in
tensive pilot traning. This an
nouncement was made today by
Major General Robert W. Harper
Commanding General, Air Train
ing Command, at Scott Air Force
, Base, Illinois.
j Lieutenant Sexton began his
I flying training, in Texas last
: year. During a six-month period
J of basic pilot training, he flew a
650 horsepower airplane, the T-6
“ Texan ” for aproximately 130
hours. This training includes night
flying, instrument flying, acro
batics, navigation and cross
counry.
In addition to the flying, he
(Continued on page 8)
Plans For Bible
School Announced!
Rev. Hoyt Wood, pastor of the!
West Jefferson Methodist church,]
announced this week that ^vaca
tion Bible School will open at
the church on Monday morning
at 9:00t
All children of the community
are cordially invited to attend the
Bible School, Rev. Wood said.
Keen Interest Being Express
ed By Citizens From Many
Sections of County
‘ What are we going to do
about our schools now?” is the
question many people have been
asking since the State Board nul
lified the plans for Ashe county
schools, it had previously ac
cepted.
Included in th:se plans was a
consolidated high school in the
Beaver Creek section for West
Jefferson, Fleetwood and Todd.
"If we don't get some action in
stead of more delays, many of
the children now in high school
will be through without having
the opportunity of the advant
ages which a lai^jpr consolidat
ed high school will offer.” one
t.acher remarked.
‘T wish some of the members
of the State board could see the
room I taught in last year,” a
member of the Fleetwood' faculty
said.
All action has been delayed
pending a public hearing before
the State Board August 3 ac
cording to information releas
ed from the State Board.
(Continued on page 4)
Ashe Man Killed
In Accident In
Tennessee Sun.
Funeral Service For Willet
Lee Price Held At The
Home Yesterday
The funeral service for Willet
Lee Price, 26, Creston. who was
killed Sunday afternoon when
his car turned over between
Trade and Mt. City, Tenn., was j
held yesterday afternoon at the i
home.
The car Price was traveling in, j
got out of control and turned
over down a bank. His chest
and neck were pinned under the
car. He was taken to the Ap
palachian hospital in Johnson
(Continued on page 4)
Triplets Born
Triplets, two boys and one
girl, were born to Mrs. Bradley
Goodman at the Ashe Hospital
on Sunday morning. Two of the
babies, one boy and one girl,
died shortly after birth. The
third is reported to be doing fine.
Graveside rites were conduct
edi on Monday by Rev. Rexford
Campbell of the West Jefferson
Baptist church* and interment
was in the West Jefferson cem
etery.
To Ashe
Dougliton Park Has Radio
And Telephone Service Now
Radio telephone service has
been inaugurated between North
Wilkesboro and Doughton Park
on the Blue Ridge Parkway. 25
miles north of here on the crest
of the Blue Ridge.
Radio telephones are operated
between the North Wilkesbcro
exchange of Central Telephone
Company and the park. This will
provide telephone communication
from the park by radio to North
Wilkesboro, connecting with thS
tele phone system to any point.
When eompl-ted. th£ radio
line will have three phones
which will operate much as a
rural telephone line. Th? phones
will be at the Park Service main
tenance headquarters at Dough
ten Park and also in the lodge
and coffee shop.
Telephone technicians here
said the system will operate on
, two frequencies, one to ring the
phones on a code system and
the ether to carry the messages.
With an ever increasing num
ber of parkway visitors, espec
ially at Doughton Park (formerly
Bluff Park), the need of tele
phone communication has been
acute, especially in event of
emergencies. Parkway officials
Tourist traffic on the Blue
Ridge Parkway is running far
ahead of last season, when more
than a million people piotored
ov,r the- mountain crest boule
vard. according to District Rang
er Anthony E. Stark. Stark saifl
that preliminary traffic counts
at Deep Gap revealed a high per
centage of out-of-state cars, with
especially heavy travel by North
Carolina cars on Sunday. The
Lodge at Doughton Park, former
ly the Bluffs, has been filled to
capacity every week end in June,
with heavy bookings for July
and August.
In The Good Old Summertime The Water Calls
Here's something this county needs, boting and swimming facilities. Those seeking
water sports go elsewhere to find them. A lake or a sizeable pool would be an added
attraction for tourists.
Contract Is Let
For Widening Of
Bridges In Aslie
Edwards, Of Orangeburg, Is
Low Bidder For Bridges
In County
Low bids totaling $3,340,406.05
on 31 projects were received by
the State Highway-* Commisison.
This was $68,393.95 below com
mission estimates.
State Highway Engineer W. H.
Rogers, Jr., said prices appeared
to be in line with those offered
on a group of 31 projects Tues
day. G.nerally. they were very
satisfactory, he added.
At the Tuesday opening, the
commission got low bids totaling
$2,566,096.36. The total mileage
covered by the two groups of
projects is 302.8. The comftiis
sion will review the bids art a
meeting in, Haywood county next
Thursday night.
Among the low bids received
were:
Ashe — widening five bridges
on N. C. 16 between Jefferson
and Orion. J. C. Edwards,
Orangeburg, S. C„ $45,0T6.
W. J. Post Office
Examination Will
Be Given July 22
It was announced this week
that Saturday, Jply 22 had been
designated as the date for the
merit examinations for the West
Jefferson Post Office.
It was also announced that
notice of the date had been sent
to seven applicants. There were
more who applied, but it is
understood that some of them
did not qualify, not having lived
in West Jefferson for as long a
pe: iod as a year.
Those sent notice of the
examination were Mrs. Charity
V. Barr, acting post master, Sam
Davis, Bradley Goodman. Robert
McNeill, Frank Barr, Mrs. Char
les Gordon and Jimmie Allen.
The Examination will be given
at the West Jefferso*, High
School, beginning at 8:30 a. m.
it was announced.
Legion Post 273
Will Meet Wed.
Commander Ray Blevins an
nounced yesterday that officers
would be elected Wednesday
night at the meeting of Lansing
Post 275 of the American Legion.
The meeting will be held at the
legion hut near the high school
and will start at eight o’clock.
Blevins stated'that all post
members are urged to attend this
important post meeting when
officers for the coming year
would be elected:
Safe And Sane July 4 Was
Observed In County Tuesday;
Record Crowd On Parkway
School Board To
Start Building
I Program In Ashe
Agriculture Building At Riv
erview And Elementary
School At White Oaks
J The Ashe county “oard of:
j Education this week took a for-,
ward step in solving some of
the school building needs in the j
county by going ahead with an
agriculture building at River-1
view and an elementary build-;
ing at White Oaks. Both of these!
projects were included in th#
over-all plan for the county I
which the State School Board
first approved and then turned
down.
The new agriculture building
at Riverview will enable voca
tional agriculture to b* taught
there. It will be located between
the two buildings now' in use,
will contain a shop and two or
three classrooms.
The new elementary ^rhoo!
building at White Oak will housfl
White Oaks; New Hope and Far
j mer school, one teacher unit.
Work is expected to get started
on these new county projects at
an early date.
The editorial section of this
| paper went to press before the
board decided on the Riverview
I project. The editor is pleased that
J the project advocated was ap
' proved before the paper was pub
I lished.
Picnicing, Fishing And Base
ball Game Highlighted Ac
tivities For Holiday
A safe and quiet July 4 was
observed in Ashe county Tues
day with picnicing, fishing and
baseball gam_> highlighting the
dav‘s activities.
Local officials stated that!
there were no accidents over the
holiday in contrast to the more
than 600 people that were kill
ed throughout the United States.
The Blue Ridge Parkway in
this area and the cool mountain
air attracted a record crowd of
visitors to the mountains for the
holiday.
Do ugh ton Park.1 (’forme r 1 y
Bluff Park) was the scene of con
gested activities with picnic
grounds filled to capacity thr
oughout the day. Thousands of
cars from not only North Caro
lina but other states were on
(Continued on page 4)
Reunion Held By
Dickson Family!
The J. A. Dickson family of
Grassy Creek held a family re-j
union on Whitetop Mountain
Sunday with all the children j
present. j
Among those present were Mr. i
and Mrs. Dickson, Mrs. Dewey j
Cox, Mrs. D. H. Walker, Dare
Dickson, Mrs. Bill Shmitt, Mrs.
Thomas Blair, Mrs. Jones Rudd
and Miss Bobbie Dickson.
Officers To Be Installed
At Meeting Of Rotary Club
: Officers fcr the new year will i
! be installed tonight at the meet-j
I ing of the Jefftrsor.s Rbtary
I Club at Graybeai’s Restaurant,
i Tom Duncan will succeed Jake
Caudill as president of the club.
[ Other officers to be installed
are Todd Gentry, vice-president;
Harvey Payne, secretary-treasu
rer and Coleman Payne, Sergeant
| at- arms. j
Club directors are in addition
I to th? president, Bruce Porter,
Jim Owen, Jim Graham, Jake
‘Caudill. Todd Gentrv and Hoyt
Wood. |
| Walter Nau. Hickory, is gover-1
nor of the 280th district of which i
I the local club is a member and!
j Arthur Lagueux is Rotary In
ternational president.
I Chairman of the various Ro
| tary committees for the coming
year are aims and objects, Tom j
. Duncan; club service, Ira T. j
I Johnston; community service, I
Gale McMillan; vocational ser
vice, Hoyit Wood; International
service, Bruce Porter; classifica
tion, Dr. Jimmy Rhodes; mem
bership. P. G. Wright.
Program, Dean McMillan; fel
lowship, Sharpe Shoemaker;
Rotary information, John Reeves;
pubr’ic information, De.lt. r Pie
graves; magazine, Lawrence Ty
son: attendance, Lar.gdon Scott;
music, Glenn Little; youth ser
vice, L. P. Colvard; agriculture,
Dana Tugman; crippled children.
Jake Caudill.
Rurai-u:ban, Jim Graham; stu
dent loan and education, Bruce
Hash; public health, Dt. Johnny
Miller; good roads, Wick Van
noy; industrial, Gwyn Little:
traffic safety, Carl Graybeal;
livestock. W. B. Austin; publici
ty, Jim Owen and competitor re
lations, Earl Graybeal.
Art the meeting of the club
(Continued on page 4)
Site At Beaver
Creek Is Turned
Down By Board
Jefferson Delegation Appears
Before Building Committee
With Other Plans
After approving the over-all
school building program as re
comended by the Ashe county
board of education and then later
for the second time re-approving
the proposed location of a cen
tral high school at Beaver Creek,
the State Board of Education
Thursday reversed itself and
withdrew its formal approval of
the Beaver Creek site and of the
Ashe County Board of Educa
tion’s plan of organization and
postponed action on the State
board’s building committee re
port until the August meeting.
The move came last week, after
the building committee having
heard a delegation of 20 people
led' by Jefferson reported that
it had “decided that the plan
of organization as submitted by
the Board of Education of Ashe
County be disapproved, and that
the following plan of organiza
tion with respect to the high
schools of Ashe County be ap
proved:
“A central high school be con
structed between Jefferson and
West Jefferson at a site to be
selected by the Ashe County
Board of Education for the pro
pose of a consolidated h:gh
school to serve the schools now
(Continued on page 4)
Joseph Cooper Is
At Great Lakes
Son Of Elizie Cooper Ls Tak
ing Special Nava! Train
ing On Lakes
Joseph H. Cooper, seaman re
cruit, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Elzie Cooper of West Jefferson,
is undergoing r-.cuit training at
the world’s largest Naval Train
ing Center, Great Lakes, 111.
Recruit training is the sharp
break between civilian and Naval
Life in which the new Navy man
learns the fundamental princi
pals of the Naval service.
In the course of his training
the recruit is taught seamanship
Navy customs, terms, basic or
dinance, gunnery, signaling and
navigation.
Upon completign of his train
ing the recruit is assigned either
to units of the Fleet or to a
service school for specialized
training.
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Bean Market
Making Record
More than 8000 bushels of
beans have been sold at the
Farmers Bean and Vegetable
Market since the opening on
June 26, Everett Roland, one
of the market owners, stated
yesterday.
Mr. Roland stated that the
top price paid for beans thus
far this season was S2.35 pel
bushel. The average price
paid on the auction market is
$2.10 he added.
Sales are held at the local
market, beginning at two
o’clock ,in the afternoon and
continuing every hour on the
hour until all' the beans are
sold each day he said.
‘‘We appreciate the patronage
of the growers and promise
the best possible service and
prices again this season,” W.
G. Vannoy said.
Officials of the market
pointed out that the beans
should be picked while they
are young and tender to get
the best market price.
Weather conditions during
the past few weeks have been
unusually good for the beans
and the crop is expected to
be extremely heavy during
the next few weeks.