warn iJTTEO STATES m J? WAR *k/ I BONDS W 1 AND W STAMPS 1I|I* -1? ? VOL. LVL?NO. 10 CHRISMAS GIFTS FOR SOLDIERS TO BE BOUGHT SOON Local Postmaster Gives Out Information Regarding Sending Of Gifts to Men in the Armed Forces: Must Begin Shopping For These Men by 15th. The Christmas shopping season i; here, even though the weather is yet warm, says Postmaster Joint E Brown, who reminds that mailing gifts for army and navy personnel overseas must begin by Sep tern be i 15th, if many of the men and women in our armed services are no1 to be disappoinled. and Septombei 15 isn't quite two weeks away. Christmas gifts. Mr. Brown explains. may be mailed by parcel posl to Army men and women overseas only between September 15th an j fauga's First Man to Die in ij la!oDai war. A knife-bowed destroyer escort, costing five million dollars, to be . named for Lieut. William P. Kcphart the first Watauga man to die in the present world conflict, and whose parents live at Blowing Rock, will be launched on Monday September ij, in the first Labor Day event of its ! kind in the history of the Charleston S. C. Navy Yard. There will be no launching ceremonies, it is said, but these will be held perhaps in January, and Mrs. [ Kephart has been named as sponsor of the ship named for her son and will christen the vessel later. . The keel of the U. S. S. Kephari was laid by WAVES, the first one laid by members of the Navy's Women's Reserve in the Charleston Navy 1 Yard. In addition to Dr. and Mrs. Kep\ hert a number of friends and rela' lives will be asked to attend the . launching ceremonies for the new fighting craft Mr. and Mrs. Kephart, it is reI vealed, have been asked to designate a city for a "Sponsor a Fighting Ship" bond campaign and have chosen Greensboro, the city in which 1 the late Lieut. Kephart was reared. COUNTY SCHOOLS ARE NOW OPEN An Unusually Large Enrollment is Reported; Blowing Rock Not [ Open; Ham rick Goes to Navy All the county schools opened on i Monday, with the exception of Blow , ing Rock, which was postponed for : one week due to reuairs heine com pleted on the building. Superintendent S, F. Horton states ; that first-day enrollments were un usually large throughout the couni tyi Bradshaw school is still without > a permanent teacher, but is open . with a temporary teacher. : Boone colored school has an ad> ditional teacher this year, who will teach high school subjects. Mr. A. Frank Hamrick, who has been principal at Blowing Rock, has I been selected tor the Navy, and will i leave soon for a training station. He i has accomplished much at Blowing Rock, and was former assistant prin cipal of the Boone High School. ; Preachers, Deacons To Gather On Monday ; The preachers and Deacons of the 5 Three Forks Baptist Association will meet September 6th at 2 p. m., at the ? Boone Baptist church and all are ur1 ged to attend. Rev. Ronda Earp, pro1 gram committee chairman has re1 leased the following program for > the meeting: Devotional, Rev. Raymond Hen" drix. What Gives a Church New Born - Souls, Acts 2-46:47. ? Rev. J. C. Ca nipe. 1 What Kind of a Message Docs the World Need in Time of War.?Rev. 1 G. A. Hamby. ? Is the Church Christ-Like Enough r to Stand the Day in Which We Live? ?Rev. R. C. Eggers. Pruv^r?Rpv. W. TV Ashlpv 1 COURT HOUSE CLOCK TICKS I 1 The large clock which hangs in I the courtroom at the county court s house and has been out of the run ning for several years, has been taki, en down at the instance of the county . officials and placed in tip top con dition by Will C. Walker, jeweler. L According to Janitor W. B. Carter, e the clock hasn't been running for about fifteen years. ' names of 38 white and seven colored draft registrants, who have recently been sent to an army induction center. They arc as follows. Dale Cloyd Norris Levi Coffey Thomas Francis 'Davis Charles Olin Wright Thomas Dee Greene Andrew W. Tester Roy Stanford Greene Grady George Moody Abram Franklin Hamriek Morris Wayne Barnett Basel Rex Taylor William Carrol! Greene James Paul Brown Everette Ward Walter Clark Thompson R. J. Main Vilas Triplett Lewis Vernon Williams Edgar Randall Hartley Blaine James Eller Carson Byrd Smith Glenn David Cottrell James Albert Hendrix Maston Morton Hodges Ralph Alor.zo Woodring Lorenzo Dow Cole Max Porter Andrews James Earl Bryan Gonnie David Watson Howard Dean Taylor Dallas Ray Loudermilk Martin McKinley Gyagg Harold Gray Farthing Burl Bingham Rominger Archie Ray Eggers Clarence Edmond Greene Robert Clyde Winebarger Harvey Blanc Hayes Colored Selectees: Billy Pink Whittington Henderson Edward Horton Robert Junior Haigler James McQueen Peter Cline Banner I David Horton I Linnie Whittington Opening of Lunch Room At Boone Schools to Be 1 Decided at Early Date The question of whether or not the lunchrooms at the Boone Demonstration School and the Boone High School will be open this year is to 1 be decided by the patrons of the two schools within the next few weeks. ' For the past several years, the manager and cooks at the lunchroom were paid by the WPA. Since that organization has been discontinued 1 the lunchrooms must be operated so that there will be enough income to pay the help. If the parents of the children will donate enough food this will be possible, otherwise it is said, there will not be enough cash to pay the help and buy the necessary supplies. The Boone PTA at the request of the two principals is making an ap- : peal to the parents to keep these lunchrooms open. They have accumulated through the past several years, enough equipment to serve meals to several hundred school children daily; the state government will give a few cents per meal for each child for staple groceries, but this will not be enough with food at the present price levels?there must be large quantities of donated food. This is what the patrons of the schools are asked to do: Those in the country are asked to donate whatever vegetables or fruit of which they have a surplus, and the mothers in town are asked to come to the cannery on Wednesdays of each week and help to can the donated fruits and vegetables. The school will furnish the cans. anyone wno nas vegeraoies or fruits to give may send them on the buses, or if any community can get a large quantity together there will be a truck come for it. Any woman who will help with the canning on Wednesdays is asked to call Mrs. B. R. Page, phone 150, so that it may be known how many to depend upon. Any quantity of any fruit or vegetable that may be canned will be accepted. Those having only a peck of beans or apples or beets or a few pumpkins, may send them in. Those not having a surplus in their gardens, are asked to buy some produce and send it. A nourishing hot noon day meal means much to a school child, and we who have it within our power to supply warm lunches to tile hundreds of school children in the Boone schools should not fail thpm Hrtar miif?h oro vnt 1 urillinrt fn I ?*? -? UJ. w jrwu ?T Utllljlj kU I help? n DEM< sr?Established in the Y T>LINA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMi A dvance on Li t tie M American fighters board an invj ces on Kiska Island in the Aleutian was the first time that the Japs h a fight. D. F. Thompson, Mabel Man, Wounded in Sicily; Lauded By His Captain D. F. Thompson, seaman first class. USNR. son of Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Thompson of Mabel, has been wounded in the Sicilian conquest. but is getting along well, according to word reaching his parents, and is expected to arrive soon at a base hospital in Norfolk. Va. In a loiter from Capt. Phillip P. Welch, it is learned that young Mr. Thompson has been recommended for the Legion of Merit Officers Class for "courageous services in the amphibious assault on the beaches east of Scoglitli, Sicily, on the morning of the 10th of July 1943." Seaman Thompson who entered the Navy in June 1942. has two brothers in the service, Walter C. who was sworn in as an air cadet last Thursday, and John W? U. S. army. Atlanta, Ga. SQUIRREL SEASON OPENS OCTOBER 1 Opening of Local Huling Season is Postponed for 15 Days; Trout Season Closed Tuesday. The open season for squirrel shooting in Watauga county will open this year on October 1 rather than on September 15th, as was the case last year. Mr. Walter Edmisten, county game warden says that the opening of the season was postponed to give young squirrels a chance to mature before shooting begans, and came as a result of conditions found by the state game officials in a survey recently conducted. Mr. Edmisten says squirrels are plentiful this year and that those who have some ammunition may ex pect plenty of fun this year. The trout fishing season closed Tuesday, Mr. Edmisten stated, but bass fishing continues, the only streams now open being New River from the Neal Blair farm down, and Watauga River from the high bridge below Shulls Mills, down. Warden Edmisten and District Game Protector H. Grady Farthing were in Taylorsville Thursday attending a meeting of county and district fish and game officials. Lee Stout Takes Lead In Big Bass Competition Mr. Lee Stout, local angling en thusiast, is out ahead in the loca' competition for the biggest bass o! the year, having landed one last Sunday which nosed out the big fisl landed by Dr. Wright by one-quarter inch in length. It weighed three and three-fourths pounds, the same as the one caught by the college professor and was 20inches long. When asked as to the exact location of the catch, Mr. Stout, whc is credited with catching bass strictlj for the fun of it and liberating msnj large ones, says: '1 caught him ir New River in Ashe county, neai Joe Crawford's home town of Ob ids." NATIONAL BIBLE WEEK Fighting America, continuing the battle for the four freedoms, will de vote sober consideration that "con ciousness of God produced America.' That week is national Bible Weel October 11-17, which will be launch ed in a coast to coast radio progran on n...,:-j i .?:n . wuiuii riesiuciu xunncvui, wiu ui asked to address the nation as t< the necessity of a true, religious at titude to maintain the soundness o the American v/ay. DCKA ear I 888. SE-R 2. 1943. en Who Weren't The*7" Sbk \, ^ ^ ^ is ion barge io attack Japanese foris. They found no opposition. This ave given up a major base without TWO HURT I.N CRASH OF MOTOR TRUCK Goldsboro Men are Seriously Injured When Bean-Laden Trailer Leaves Highway 421. Earl Lev/is and Gordon Lewis, of Goldsboro, are patients at the Wilkes Hospital, where they were token j early Tuesday morning for injuries I sustained when the motor truck in J which they were riding was wrecked and all but demolished near the Wilkes-Watauga line on highway 421. State Highway Patrolman Miles Jones, who investigated the accident ays the trailer-truck was going down the mountain at about 4 a. m., heavily leaden with green beans, when according to Iris information, Gordon Lewis, who was asleep in the cab, rolled to the floorboard and knocked the machine out of gear. The driver, was unable to get the gears to again mesh and the tractor and trailer left the road, caught on fire, burned a crib by the side of the road, and was all hut demolished. Both men were said to have been right, seriously injured. Mr. Jones immediately contacted Pate Dawson, the owner of the produce truck who lives in Goldsboro and told him of the accident. Eggers Re-elected as Baptist Moderator 2. Knocked 307 German fighters - out of the sky. ' 3. Inaugurated a shuttle-bombing c system between England and North Africa which holds great potentiali ities. i Enemy airfields in France and in 3 Holland were bombed intensively - throughout the month, comprising f the majority of targets for both the Fortresses and Marauders. Mr. S. C. Eggers was re-elected moderator of the Three Forks Baptist Association for a fourth term at . the 103rd session held last week at the Clark's Creek Church last Tuesday and Wednesday. Wade E. Brown was re-elected vice i moderator and Clyde R. Greene as Clerk. Rev. N. M. Greene and Gordon Hodges were reelected missionary and song leader respectively. Mr .Eggers is the thirteenth mod, erator of the Association. Coach Watkins Back From Aquatic School Coach R. W. Watkins, of Appalai chian College, has returned from an I American Red Cross Aquatic School I at Brevard, N. C. I Coach Watkins spent ten days tak; ing the advanced and refresher ; courses in first aid, swimming and life saving, functional swimming, boating and canoeing. Coach Watkins will conduct a first aid course for the citizens of 'U- 1-**? 1 - i? wwtic UJC ldnci paii ui oepiemuui. 1 Eight Airforce Deals Mighty Blow to Nazis I The U. S. eighth airforce dealt an E unprecedented blow to German air t strength in the month ended tonight i bombing airfields, plane factories - and probably topping the July record : of 506 enemy planes destroyed in the 5 air, i The month's drive showed that the British-based campaign has pro gressed from individual stabs at en> emy war facilities to a farflung ' smash against German air defenses, ' paving the way for a possible knock i out blow. " In one day, August 17, Fortresses - on the Regensburg-Schweinfurt raid 1. Knocked out an estimated 1-3 of Germany's facilities for producing day fighters, the Fegensburg Mess? erschmitt factory. k^T* Jpl|l $1.50 A YEAR?5c A COPY Local soldier tells of fight against rommel Stanford Coffey Wears Silver Star Awarded Him in African Campaign: Tells of Success Of Tanks in DcseH Warfare and Sees Growing Allied .Wight. Private Stanford Coney, son of the iatc Filmore and Mrs Coffc-y of Shulls Mills, has arrived home front, the African war zone, wearing a silver .star, for outstanding courage it: caitno, when the drive was on that pushed Rommel into the sea. Private Coffey, who was in the 13tn armored regiment, first armored division, was in fifteen major battles tn Africa, and was twice cit cd for initiative and courage in the face of enemy gunfire, and on one I occasion when the American forces suffered their one and only African. I setback he was lucky enough to be : a member of a crew of one of 3 tanks out of 5-1 that escaped. During his extended baptism of fire he lost four tanks, but came home safely with no injuries other than a damaged ear drum resulting from shell concussion. Private Coffey's regiment did not take part in the Sicilian invasion, he says, but "stood by" at Bizerte until the success of the assault was assured. Young Coffey, who speaks rather modestly of the magnificent part he played in the rout of Rommels' army, served intermittently as driver and tank gunner and likes that hard-hitting branch of the service. "The record shows," says Private Coffey "that the tank crew of which I was a member in our best day of combat, accounted for 6 German tanks, 6 anti-tank guns, I pill box, 1 dive bomber?or 86 Nazi dead, This is the official record." Priralp whr? ic nnn? urith the reserves, and on a thirty day furlough, gets a great kick out of the allied air superiority in the Mediterranean area. "1 saw our forces hopelessly outnumbered in the air, saw the power of the allies mount to a fifty-fifty break, and was there when the Nazis were driven out of the skies by the American and English forces." Mr. Coffey is "strong for Eng land." He says he has fought, eaten and slept with the English troopers and they're fine guys, and fine soldiers. The Germans he describes as "scientific murderers." "They won't fight you man to man?they must have some overpowering advantage when they fight." Referring to the captured Germans, he opines 'that the whole lot of them should have been shot." He desribes the Nazis as surly and "really ot the belief they are of a superior race." "But," he added 'there is a treatment, for this?you know we have some pretty tough guys in the U. S. Army!"'The Italians were said by the local soldier to be inoffensive. Mr. Coffey takes great pride in the allied accumulation of might on the other side of the Atlantic and believes "we are just about ready now to hit the continent of Europe." Private Coffev savs he's mientv proud to be a Watauga man, is glad to be back and wishes he could have accomplished even more during his sojourn in Africa. C&det Nurse Corps Candidates Are Sought County school principals are being urged to assist in the drive for U. S. Cadet Nurse Corps candidates. All high school graduates are eligible, and special training classes are conducted in September and February. The present training of students will continue without interruption when one joins the Cadet Nurse Corps, it is said, but with expenses paid, uniforms supplied, oportunities improved, and a monthly check in the bargain. Students may register at their school office, and become officially identified with their nation's drive for victory. At war's end students in training 90 days prior to the end of hostilities may complete their training at government expense. COUHT HOUSE BEING TREATED TO BRAND NEW COAT OF PAINT Painters are now engaged in putting a two-coat paint job on the wooden portion of the courthouse exterior, and this action on the part of the county commissioners not only adds much to the appearance of the aging building, but will help to preserve the wodwork for years to come. A number of needed repairs are being made from time to time on the interior of the building'too.