. ^Ii«adoiL ^ HowUa*.
i* wlnl9 *«riy t«hiy sht^Wod
^Brltlsk \Um Jfrom tli® Nm*l Lutt-y
van* u Adolt Hltlar'a **ri»l
alec* ot lK>»doa wtt*r«d Its ssc-
.. wd dMBtb.irttli bombiaf destbs
down about Tl per cent ^ from
wbar* -they were a week ago.
OoBlldent that tSe itoge Is los-
jtiM tts twT» oniclala’ said that
Britain’s expanding detenaes are
jywoaiingi down” the Luftwatte,
->;ns' shown by confidential statis-
■)Uc8 showing a 75 per cent drop
and a 26 per cent re
in! uries * week’s
i ib deaths a
^knetlon In
fl^e. -
i ^ During S
I •^▼e-and-i
''Widespread at the Bmisn
ij machine-gunning streets of
I. bowns and in the heart of
^ During Sunday’s daylight hours
^*DiTO-and-run” raiders struck
widespread at the British Isles,
some
bowns 'and In the heart of London
bnrying sereral families in the
. I^brls of their homes.
" V^^At Folkestone on the channel
fire Messerschmltt-lOS
■^"ilgjiters, each carrying a 260-
Vl^bund bomb, were reported to
?BdTe attacked workers’ residen-
ipal areas, killing a number of
Imett- women and children.
'a: Quiet Night
At midnight, however, no at-
■ tack was in progress against Lon-
" ion for the first time since the
Tt of the “total” attack on
itember 7 and there had been
jtivlty since an “all clear”
il early Sunday evening,
t 4 a. m. the city still was
>t, having for the first time
a month passed a night with-
the sound of bombs or gun-
.Ire.
. . Now and then gunflashes were
ween far to the eas^t near the
.channel coast.
The bad weather, including
gale-like -wind, was believed to
be holding the raiders oft all
England as well as London.
Rounding out the first month
-of its “total war” against t«on-
don the Nazi Luftwaffe was un
relenting in its Sabbath attacks
' *fter London’s longest night raid
of her 30-day siege in which 37
dtotrlcts were bombed.
Berlin.—London is “a burning,
-Jmoking hell’’ after sraa^mg
new reprisal assaults against the
British capita' by waves p”'
lan bombing 'planes which blast-
dock areas and an armaments
the official Nazi news
claimed last night,
imialng no breathing spell
^ Brltlak c»plUl;
upon I-o*-
dgjflMig. sowing their exploe-
and incendlaiy bombe “with
stolon,” the DNB agency said.
Other squadrons of German
Oanes were reporiad to have car-
_led out heavy attacks on har
bors, airfields, railroads, arma
ment factories and troop camps
In south and west England.
AtPr^^erian
Church
Of Men III
Cornerstone of N e w Reli
gious Education Building
Laid Prior To Service
Cornerstone of tbe new Relig
ious Education building now un
der construction as a part of
North Wilkesboro Preebyterlan
church was laid in an interesting
and impressive service Sunday.
Just prior to the 11 o’clock
service J. R. Plaley, who was
superintendent Jt the Sunday
school for more than a quarter
of a century, placed behind the
stone a history of the church, the
present church roll stid a copy
of the church bulletin for the
da.y. After the cornerstone was
placed the large crowd assembled
in the church auditorium.
There the service program in
cluded reception of four new
members, a talk by J. R. Finley,
who reminiscently reviewed the
history and growth of the church
and Sunday school, and a talk by
Lewis Vickery, present Sunday
school superintendent, who talk
ed of plans for continued growth
and progress.
Construction of the Religious
Education building is progressing
satisfactorily. It will be a beau
tiful structure of native stone.
While the work is in progress,
services are being held in the old
church auditorium, which will be
replaced by a new structure after
the Religious Education depart
ment of the new church building
is completed.
teachers (^er
Their Services
For Repstration
Patriotic Move On Part Of
Teaching Pereonned I*
Greatly Appreciated
Teachers of the Wilkes county^-
and North Wllkesboro school
systems have voluntarily offered
their services to assist in the reg
Istratlon of men,on October 16
$4^ Verdict
b Court Case
for military service, it was learn
ed today from Paul S. Cragan,
superintendent of North Wllkcs-
boro schools, and O. B. Eller,
county superinte^ent of schools.
The county registration com
mittee decided that the registra
tion of men .between ages of 21
and 36 on October 16 would be
a difficult task for regular elec
tion officials and volunteers cap
able of doing the work.
' Tho proposal for teachers to
volunteer for registration work
and for a school holiday on Oc
tober 16 in order that teachers
might pertorro the patriotic duty
and that school buildings; could
be places of registrati«a was dis
cussed and the teacheA readily
volunteered their services with
out exception. . , , ,
The teachers, election officials
and others connected with tho
registration will not be paid for
their services on registration day
and their sacrifice will be appre
ciated by all who are Interested
in national defense.
Fletcher Heir* Are Awarded
Verdict In Suit Against
Town Of Wilke*boro
The petitioners were*" awarded
a verdict of $4,225 in a land suit
against the town of Wllkesboro
ate Thursday afternoon in
Wilkes court.
The petitioners were Mrs. H.
Soots, Mrs. Maggie Fletcher
and other Fletcher heirs, who did
not accept the appraisal price of
$2,655 for 140 acres of land on
'Large fires indicated the sue- {jjg watershed of Wllkesboro s
Helpless ^yktinw of Nazi Cruelty
Teamen
T|Q Aid R^trars
laTb^eg^ation
ft Be A School Holiday;
School Buildings To Be
Registration Place*
County h Divided Into Turn
District* With Headquar-
tors In Two Town*-
jr*ne, Jacqueline and John, .three pitiful little inmate* of the East
Grinatesd (England) snnshine home for bUn(U>ables, linrry to the heme’s
air-raid ahelter as Nazi bombs roar overbesdnnring one ef their “morsI»
softening” raids on non-military objeetivea in England.
VanDeman Talks To Be Ready For
North Wilkesboro
P.-T. A. Will Meet
18 of these attacks,’’ DNB said,
kndon is a picture of a burn
smoking hell.”
Convoys Attacked
Near the English east coast,
British convoys were at-
:ed by German bombers, the
command reported. One of
tbe ships was hit heavily and
two others were set afire.
Well-informed Nazi quarters
said that Saturday afternoon a
German bomb attacked a British
convoy at low altitude, setting
fire to ono of the merchantmen
Later another bomber pounced
on a convoy along the east cowt
Which was protected strongly by
destroyers. The Nazi quarters
said that despite heavy anti-air
craft fire the bomber scored
hlU on a 6.000-ton vessel, ’’caus
ing the ship to half.”
water works in the Brushiea.
The case, which was closely
contested, consumed lour days of
court last week.
Testimony as to the value of
the lands was greatly diversified,
values being placed on the
by witnesses as low as $l,600.y. ^
as hign as $15,000.
The case was heard before
Judge Allen Gwyn, who is presid
ing over the term of court, which
will continue through this week.
North Wllkesboro Parent-
Teacher aasoclatlon will meet
the high school library. Mr*, c.
O. Faw, program chairman, has
arranged an Interesting program
on “Use Of The P.-T. A. Maga
zine” and Mrs. Walter Newton
will be in charge. There will also
be musical numbers, group sing
ing and a presentation of use of
library facilities by high school
studenU. Student guides will be
on the groups to direct members
to the library room.
Collins Speaker
At lions Meeting
Andy Shook Makes
Front Page Sunday
Paper In Knoxville
Andy Shook. « local hard
ware merchant, didn’t feel
very good *bont the crushing
dafeat handed Duke Unlvera-
Blue Devils by the Unl-
verstty of Tenneesee's football
Umm in KnoivlUe Saturday
bat he made the front page of
» Sanday edition of the
^oxviUe News Sentinel-
Iwo-ooluinn picture of
was displayed way up on
) fyont page- ** showed him
a Duke football em-
opd saying; “It’s the
catastrophe that has hit
tbe Piedmont section since the
/flood.” With many others from
^ffT^ectton in Knozvlile for
Ibe game, he wstm’t enjoying
Poke’s humiltot^on.
Taxicab Parking
Case Thursday
Industrial Arts And Diversi
fied Occupation* Instruc
tor Addresses Club
Of New Methods Surheing' Parts
Of Apple Indnstry|l%hway 421 Sodii
Value Of Orgasuzatkm For
Purpctoe*,^
Marketing
StroMfd
Carl Edward VanDOBBtiv^^ or
ard specialist in charge it the
research laboraWiy on thef Bmsh-
ies, told the North Wllkesboro
Klwanls club Friday that experi
ments are under way at hto lab-,
oratory on a new type of airproof
apple storage which is thought to
be a great Improvement over
former plans.
The research worker also told
Repiaicing Fills And Grad
ing On Ficmd Dasaaged
ad Near
le huge task of grading and
ilacing fills washed out by
and slides on highway 421
in 'Western Wilkes and east Wa
tauga counties on August 13 is
almost completed and highway
officials here today said that eur-
fac’ng the reconstructed parts
of the highway can be done a-
bout November 1.
T o repair the litagnlficent
of variouB appple growing asso-.highway it has been necessary to
clations, organized and maintain-j move enormous quantities of dirt
ed for the purpose of marketing land stone and to reconstruct the
orchard products. Ho stated that
it has become more necessary for
Taxicab Owners Seek
Have Parking Restric
tion Ordinance Voided
A suit in which much Interest
has been shown locally will he
heard in Wilkes superior court
Thursday, October 10. when taxi
cab owners here protest a city
ordinance regulating parking of
taxis.
A recent ordinance prohibited
parking of taxicabs on certain
streets in the business section of
ihe city and prohibited the main
tenance of taxi station on the
sidewalks of the streets designat
ed, which Includes parts of B
street and parts of Ninth and
Tenth.
The owners will seek a judg
ment from Judge Gwyn declaring
the ordinance void and papers
have already been filed by their
attorneys. Some of the taxis re
sumed parking on the street*
as formerly in order to set up
grounds for the test case.
Bryan Collins, head of the
newly organized department of
industrial arts and di’Jerslfied oc
cupations in North Wilkesboro
schools, told the North Wilkes
boro Lions Club Friday nlg’.t a-
|bout the newly formed part of
To the school curriculum.
He explained that the depart
ment offers courses in Industrial
arts with part time employment
in various trades.
Also on the program were pi
ano numbers by Ira Lee Baker,
a member of the city school fac
ulty.
Emmet Johnson, who was pro
gram chairman for the evening,
pinned the Lions’ .button on Guy
Snow, who was received into
membership of the club.
•lOCES CHANGED
I "When I started in life, young
^ I worked twelve
hours a
«Ye* but in these rapid times
’) who took twelve hours
day’s work would get the
A total of 19,600 persons we:e
Had in traffic accidents at
it last year and 13,000 in
le traffic accidents.
To Open Church For
Prayer, Meditation
Attention is again called to
the announcement that North
Wllkeebpro Presbyterian church
is open every Wednesday after
noon, 6:30 to 6:00 o’clock, for
nse by the pubUe for meditation
and prayer.
Property damage In 1939 mot
or vehicle accidents totaled $760,
000,000.
growers to push gales and to
compete with other products. He
also talked of expanding facili
ties for grading and storing of
apples.
The program was in charge of
H. H. MorJhouse, a Brushy
Mountain orchardist who review
ed his experience a- a horticul
turist. Before p.esenting Mr.
VanDeman, Mr. Morehouse called
on Paul S. Cragan and he showed
a movie of the apple industry in
the Appalachians. It was a re
sume of the Industry from the old
days of making apple butter in
copper kettles in the back yard
to the modern business of produc
ing, storing and marketing of
millions of bushels of apples of
highest grade and quality.
At the meeting Robert More
house, Mary and Peter More
house, S. C. Stewart and Dr. M
highway at. many points.
Fills have been replaced at all
the culverts across Lewis Fork
Creek and a temporary one-way
bridge was laid across at one
point where a large concrete
was literally demollsh-
W. fl. McBlwee, chairman of
the Wilkqs county board of elec
tions and in that capacity direct
ing registration of men in Wilkes
connty on October 16 for military
duty, said today that North Wll-
keeboro and Wilkes connty school
systems have offered their ser
vices in the huge task of regis
tration.
The task of registering all men
between the ages of 21 and 36
will be so groat that regular elec
tion officials cannot accomplish
the job without the aid of more
than 200 other workers and with
out using school buildings there
would not be adequate places in
the various precincts to hold the
government registration.
Sdioola To Rescue
Tho school systems have come
to the rescue by the offer of the
school buildings and teachers for
registration day and a school
building in each precinct will he
designated as places of registra
tion.
No provisions are made for
payment of registrars or assist
ants for services on registration
day, the position being taken
that if men must sacrifice a year
in.military training that others
should gladly sacrifice one day in
the interest of national defense.
Teachers Offer Services
Teachers are gladly offering
tiheir ’services to fill out registra
tion blanks and Chairman EcEl-
weo sald.4hdlte,*WfTlee* will he
idd that they
deserve highest commendation
for their offer to serve In the
emergency. It is not compulsory
for teachers to serve in the reg
istration but officials and the
public will be grateful to those
who volunteer their services.
Chairman McElwee said. Others
capable of filling out the blankn
and who wish to volunteer for
a day’s work in any precinct may
do so by notifying Mr. McElwee.
School Holiday 16tl»
According to present plans,
schools of the Wilkes,county and
North Wllkesboro systems will
not operate on registration day,
October 16. and that day will be
a school holiday.
4,750 To Regi.ster
The hoard appointed to name
the two draft boards for the
Committee appointed by Gor-
emor Clyde R. Hoey to recogs-
mend personnel of two draft
boards for Wilkes county met os
Friday and. divided the couatF
into two districts, appointed »
physician and a lawyer for eaek
board but deferred until late to
day the selection of three mens-
bers for each of the two boards-
The committee named by - the
governor to select the boards la
composed of C. C. Hayes, clerk
of court; W. H. McElwee, chairs
man of the county board of elee-
tloos; C. B. Eller, county super
intendent of schols; and R. T.
McNiel, mayor of North Wilkea-
boro.
The county was divided into
district number one with head
quarters at Wilkesboro and dis
trict number two with headquart
ers at North Wilkesboro. The vot
ing precincts in each of the dis
tricts are as follows:
District 1—Antioch, Beaver
Creek, Boomer, Brushy Moun
tain, Bilk 1, Elk 2, Jobs Cabin 1,
Jobs Cabin 2, I.«w1b Fork, Love
lace, Moravian Falls, New Cas
tle, Reddles River, Stanton, Som
ers, Wilkesboro 1 and Wilkesboro
2.
District 2^—Edwards 1, Ed
wards 2, Edwards 3, Mulberry
1, Mulberry 2, North Wilkesborow
Rock 'Creek, Traphll) 1, TrapMll
2, Union, Walnut Grove 1 and
Walnut Grove 2.
Division was determined ac
cording to vote in the last elec
tion, that being considered by a
committee an acurate indication
of population. TTie last vote for
governor showed precincts la
number 1 polling 7,518 sad
number 2, 8,552.
The county!# .population thi*
aadtfca
committee eWmated that iQilafetor
of men required to register for
military service will be appnnd-
mately 4,760.
Dr. B. N. Phillips and Attorney
p. J. McDuffie were named to
serve with the draft board In dis
trict 1. Dr. J. H. McNeill and At
torney Eugene Trivette wera
were named to serve with th#
draft board in district 2.
Students Needed
For Courses Here
structure
ed. The temporary bridge will be - .
replaced by a permanent struc- county has estimated that there
tiire. In.the meanwhile traffic is
allowed over the road but all mo
torists are warned to exercise
caution throughout the damaged
area.
•Tlie newly replaced fills at
byidge culverts are being walled
by stone to prevent, if possible, a
rec Lirrence of the destruction of
portions of the highway by pood.
Federa' road emergency funds
have bet used in repair of the
highway and many .people in the
flood stricken area have been
furnished employment.
house a Forty-one per cent of the pe-
G Edwards were guesU of H. H. destrians killed last year were
Morehouse, Robert Hogan was a'killed while crossing
guest of Carl Edward VanDeman, ‘ tersectlons or coming from be-
(Continued on page eight) hind parked cars.
.memium»uip wj- ^ ~
All Must Resisier-These Will Be Exempted
YOU MUST REGISTER FOR DRAFT
UNLESS: '
You are already in the armed forc
es or in the armed reserve, subject to
call.
IF YOUR NUMBER IS DRAWN, YOU
MUST SERVE UNLESS:
You are physically unfit.
(Physical unfitness is part'ally de
fined as having the following ailments:
Color blindness; deafness; heart trou
ble; hernia; bad teeth; bad eyesight
(must be more than merely having to.
wear glasses); severe hemorrhoids; lack
of proper use of legs and arms; mental
derangement or feeblemindedness.)
*
You have persons dependent on
you who will, in the opinion of the
board, suffer hardships.
You are engaged in some industry
the draft boards declare to be of the
“essential class.”
You are mentally deranged.
You are a minister of the Gospel or
a student in a theological school.
You are a conscientious objector on
your own account.
You are a member of a religious
sect which does not permit military ser
vice.
YOUR DRAFT MAY BE DEFERRED
IF:
You are a student in some college
or university giving a degree in the arts
and science, such degrees being B. A.;
B. S.; UL,B.; M. D.; Ph D.^ M. A:,
(etc); schools of buMneM administra
tion, optometry and the like are not in
cluded. -
will be approximately 4,750 men
between ages of 21 and 36 who
will be required to register and
that a large number of regis
trars will be needed.
Selective service regulations
point out that a registrar will
not be able to fill out more than
30 blanks on registration day be
tween the hours of seven a. m.
and 9:30 p. m„ the hours set by
the president’s proclamation. On
an estimate of 20 minutes to each
blank, it will require a total of
1,583 hours to register Wilkes
men.
Absentee Registeation
The law makes provision for a
person who is sick to send an
agent to a place of registration,
obtain a blank, carry it to the
sick man to be filled out and re
turn to the place of registration
on registration day. Attention is
called to the fact. Attorney Mc
Elwee said, that no registrar will
call at any home or look up any
man, that registration of all per
sons who have reached their 21st
and have not reached their 36th
birthday on October 16 is com
pulsory and that severe penal
ties, including prison sentence,
fine or both, will be Imposed for
failure to register. Penalties are
also provided for giving false
answers or refusing to answer
questions on the blanks. 'The reg
istrars will be sworn to make
notation of arjr answers which
they know to bo false or to
promptly report to authorities
any refusal to answer questions
oh tbe cards.
A person registered wlll.be giv
en a card to carry at all times as
proof of regtotration and register
ed peiraons are reqnired to re
Iiort any change of address aftei
regtotration to the local board.
(Oontlsned on page eight)
School Offering Business In
struction To Oul-of-
School People
Paul S. Cragan. superintendent
of North Wilkesboro schools, said
today that several additional stu
dents can be accomodated in
the shorthand and typing classes
which are being conducted la
afternoons (or out-of-.school peo
ple.
The courses are offered under
the state department of vocation
al education and are taught by
Miss Lilyan Miller, Commerctok
subjects teacher in the schooL
Classes are from 3 to 4:30 iiz
the afternoon and nominal fee*
of $1.50 for one subject or $2.5*
for two subjects are charged
monthly.
Fire Prevention
Week Is Observed
North Wllkesboro schools will
observe ’’FMre Prevention Week’*
as proclaimed by Governor Hoey
this week.
'The observance will featura
fire drills in cooperation with tha
North Wllkesboro (ire depart
ment and special emphasis ow
the subject of “Fire Prevention*
by all classes.
Mineral Springs
WUl Play Uona
Mineral Springs high school
football team will play Nortto
Wilkesboro’s Mountain Lion* om.
the fairgrounds here Friday aft
ernoon, three o’clock. It is-ex
pected that football laos
turn out in large nuntoln ,. far
the ti^ home gaiM' of
JJPaorai eiwinfe to ,iho toifgai^
lioriihii connty aghori a^d Im*
good team, ■whWI 'r-"
*ioro two weeka A|q.-
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