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^ VOL. XXXIV, No. 86
AFTERNOON, NIGHT—
Ferguson Place
Regional Meet of
Grange Thursday
State Master Harry B. Cald
well Will Deliver Address
On Thursday Night
Regional conferenee of the
North Carolina Sta'e Grange will
be held at Ferguson school 15
miles west of Wilkesboro on ^
• Thursday afternoon and night, j
January' 22. T. W. Ferguson,
master of the Wilkes Grange and .
official of the Sta e Grange, said
today.
The afternoon .session will open
at three o'clock and a picnic sup
per will follow.
At the night session the fonr'h
degree will be conferred and H.
B. Caldwell of Greensboro, mas
ter of the State Grange, will de
liver an addresi'.
Following his addres.s the
Wilkes Pomona Grange will meet ,
and elect officers for the year, I
There will also be recreational
features and u large attendance
is desired.
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REMISaiSER
Published Mondays and Thursdays
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WITH “SEEING-EYE” DOG—
BLIND LADY IS CASE WORKER
WILKESBORO. N. c"- MONDAY, JAN. 19. 1942 $1.50 In the Stafe"— $2.00 Otit d State
I WEDNESbA^f NIGHT—
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FRIDAY EVENING—
McElwee Speaks
To Lions About
Civilian Defense
Preparation. Health and
Morale Essentials Outlined
In Address To Club
Cox Honie^&irned
Here Oh Sunday
The home of Mr. and Mrs.
Glenn Cox In this city was almost
destroyed by^ fire Sunday after
noon about four o’clock.
The fire, of unknown origin,
had made much headway when j
discovered. The building and the I Plan Remodeling Auditorium
furntehlngs were almost destroy-1 _ i» i- •
ed. Some Insurance was carried ! New Religious
all over WILKES COUNTY—
Here
To Plan Expansion
Church Buildings
Next Week WiB
“Scrap Iron Week”
W. H. McElv.-ee.. local attor
ney and chairman of the Wilkes
civilian defense council, address
ed the North Wilkesboro Lions
club Friday evening, using the
subject, “Am I Good Soldier?
The program was in charge of
Gordon Forester, who introduced
the speaker. He began his address
with an explanation of the local
cTvijjah"defense otganixation and
urged that all who can register
for some kind of civilian defense
duty.
The three es.sentials which the
speaker listed as being essential
for a soldier on lighting or home
fronts were: be prepared, be
healthy, have high morals.
.'tttoruey McKlwee said that
there have been far too few reg
istration-; lor civilian defense
and that Wilkes is not ready to
meet an emergency should one
arise. He explained v.arinils parts
of civilian defense, including air
raid posts and watcliers and air
raid wardens.
On the heal h phase of his
.subject he stres.sed six ingredi
ents of diet as milk, fr iils and
juices, eggs, meat ami fish, veg-
etal'les. whole wlieat or enriched
bread. •
He emplia.sized he importance
of morale, saying that morale is
a comprel'.ensive condition of
character of tlie people .tnd that
to have a high state of moral"
people mils' he entirely nnseliish. |
In conclusion he staled that
“We are going to win Ihi; war
by digging up our laieiits and
going to workk "
Prior to the program 'hree
new members were presented.
They were; W. B. Collins, indus
trial arts instructor here: James
Lowe, local hardware merchant:
Dr. J. C. Stokes, pastor of the
Wilkesboro Me’hodis* church.
The right hand of fellowship
was extended by Otl-s Keeling and
buttons were presented by Grady
(Continued on Page Five)
Miss nazei Long, blind case worker, and her “seeing-
eye” dog, Ping, as they left the Wilkes courthouse last
week to begin work among the blind in Wilkes and oth
er northwestern North Carolina counties. Behind Miss
Long are Mrs. Inez B. Wall, field supervisor for the state
commission for blind, and Charles McNeill, superintend
ent of public welfare in Wilkes. (Photo by Dwight
Nichols)
".iOW WORKING—
Laify.Wifl.
Werk With Blind
!r. Eight Counties
General Case Aid and Home
Teaching Will Be Duties
Blind Case Worker
Miss Hazel Long and Ping, her
“Seeing Eye" dog, have begun
work for the welfare department
among the blind in northwestern
Nor h Carolina and will work
the third week in each month
in Wilkes county.
.Mrs. Inez B. Wall, field super-
(Continued on Page Five)
IN THIS COUNTY—
Drive To Raise
Funds To Fig;:t ;
Polio Is Be.TOn
Program at Kiwanis On That
Topic; President’s Ball
Night of January 23
Dr. A. C. Chamberlain, ctmir-
man of the inifantile paralysis
fund camiuiign in Wilkes, launch
ed the dr’ve Friday noon before
the .North Wilkesboro Kiwanis
at the city hat
Many Failed To
List For Taxes
Time of Listing Here Extend
ed Through January 31
to Accomodate Public
County and city list takers for
orth Wilkesboro township
said today that many have ne
glected to list property for taxa
tion and that the time as adver-
tlised for list taking has expired.
To accommodate the public the
tax listing period has been ex
tended to include the remainder
of this month and all are urged
to list property for taxation or
list for poll tax before that time.
It Is pointed out that failure to
Itet Is a violation of the law.
E. M. Blackburn Is county list
taker and W. P. Kelly is list
taker for the city. Both are work
ing at the city hall.
|clnl) t)v nresentiil ion of ,i snien-
did program showing the need
for f'Mids and what can he ac
complished for infantile paralysis
vie ims.
j Dr. Chaml)erlain. " ho w's n'-r^
seined by .1. R. Ilix. program
chairman, read a paper outlining
findings which have been made in
studies of infantile paralysis and
presented four persons for short
talks.
Talk,- were made l)y Mrs. W.
F. .Mtsher. secretary of Wilki's
chapter of 'he organization to
fight infantile paralysis: Mrs.
Bertha Beil, county health nurse
who said there were 16 cases of
infantile paralysis in Wilkes last
year: Charlie Finley, who sta ed
that he had been afflicted with
the disease for several years; and
Sam Ogilvie. of Oakwoods. a pa
tient for several months at Warm
Springs, Ga.
He made a , nios' impressive
presentation of the treatment he
received at Warm Springs and
urged all person.-: to help fight
the disease. He said 'he funds
given to the cause constitute an
investment and that 'he move
ment should have the support of
all.
Each member of the club was
presented with !a blank check on
which to make a contribution.
Dr. Chaniberlain announced
that the President’s Ball to raiee
funds here will he held on 'he
night of January 2Srd at the f.e
gion clubhouse and that the mile
of dimes will be sponsored here.
At the meeting were the- fol
lowing gnes’s; Judge -A. R. Crisp
with W. H. McElwee; Earl Gar
rett with P. W. Edwards; O. K.
Whittington and W. P. Kelly with
R. G. Finley: C. G. Fordham
with W. E. Jones; Mrs, W. R.
Absher, Charlie Finley and Sam
Ogilvie’ with Dr. A. C. Chamber-
lain.
on the property.
I
Prison Camp
Education Building
WELL ATTENDED—
Representatives
Seven Counties
At Institute Here
Dr. Cutter and Dr. Garbee
Address Regional Health
Institute Saturday
Seven counties were represen
ted in the area institute on health
and physical edu-^a ion held on
Saturday at the North Wilkesboro
school.
Alleghany, Wilkes. Ashe, Wa
tauga, Alexander, Surry and
Yadkin were represented by the
echool authorities including sv-
perintendents. principals, and
eachers. 'The Institute was held
as a part ol the national defense
effort.
Dr. Walter Cut'er, of the state
highway safety d iston, discuss
ed safe y Heal' and physical
education was ti subject of. a
lecture by Prot E. Garhee. of
A. S. T. C., Bo.. J. At 10:45 tho.se
present heard a radio address by
Dr. Clyde A. Erwin, state superin
tendent of public ins’ruhtion. on
the general theme of the institute
The institute, which was one of
several held throughout the state,
began at 10 a. m. and continued
until noon.
Kiwaniaris Preparing
For 27th Anniversary
Program Jan. 18-24
Loc>»t Meinbefs W?M '.loin^Ith
AM in U. S. ttnd Canada
For Annual Observance
Navy doctors must be graduates
of accredited medical schools be
fore being commissioned in the
service.
WAR CLOSE HOME—
Oil Tanker Is
Sunk By Nazis
Off N. C. Coast
Norfolk. Va.—Twenty-three of
a crew of 36 men apparently
drowned or were l)urned to death
Sunday morning when the .Amer
ican tanker Allan Jackson wa^?
torpedoed by a .submarine, burs*
into flames and sank within five
minutes of the coast of North
Carolina, the fifth naval district
revealed ‘oday.
It was the third morchant ship
.sunk within five days ■ close to
the Atlantic seaboard. These at
tacks by enemy submarines and
o her sinkings in the North At
lantic indicated that the Ger
mans were stepping up their sub
marine warfare.
There were only 13 known sur
vivors. Six of them, including the
skipper and two of his mates,
were in ‘he naval hospital here
for treatment of “eerions injur
ies.’’
Four bodies were picked up
in the water by a vessel that
brought 'he survivors here last
night. There was little hope that
ary of the rest of the crew sur
vived. The others, it was feared,
were 'rapped and cremated when
the Standard OH tanker became
a pyre with flames shooting 144
feet into the air immediately up
on being s’ruck by two torpedoes
Only One Lifeboat lAonched
The survivors told of sitting
helplessly in the one lifeboat
which they were able to launch,
while their shf^a'es screamed
and burned to death on deck or
straggled in flamisg. oil-covered
“The 27th anniversary of Ki-
w'anis International will l>e ob
served by the Not h Wilkesboro
Kiwanis club during the week of
January IS to 24.’’ said J. B.
Williams, president of the clul)
today.
Kiwanis was founded in De
troit on January 21. 1915. In the
United Sta e.s and Canada there
are now nearly 2.200 club; with
114.000 meirb''rs.
Kiwanians in North Wilkesbo
ro will join with all the other
members from coast to coast in
ohesrving the occasion.
Ix>cail fAdebi'alion
“Charles S. Donley, of Pitts
burgh. president of Kiwanis In
ternational, will send a special
mei-sage to the local club for its
anniversary celelira'ion meet
ing," said Mr. Williams.
To Hold Stenog
And Typist Exam
In N. Wilkesboro
.A repre.sentative of the civil
service commission will be in
North Wilkesboro within the next
few days to hold a typist and
stenoifrapher examination.
While here he will give ’he ex
amination and tell the applicants
their grades. Those passing will
be referred to the civil service
commission for positions at once.
1 All who are Interested should
file applica'ions at the North
Wilkesboro postoffice immedi
ately.
Plans for remodeling the Meth
odist * church auditorium and
for construction of a religious ed
ucation building -will be formu
lated at an adjourned session of
the first quarterly conference to
be held Wednesday night immedi
ately after the mid-week prayer
service.
This announcement was made
today by the pastor. Rev. A. C.
Waggoner, who said all mem
bers of the church are Invited
to attend 'he conference. Rev. A.
C. Gibbs, superintendent of the
Elkin district, will preside.
At the conference a building
comml'tee and a finance commit
tee will be elected. The nominat
ing committee which has already
been named is composed of W. D.
Halfacre, Mrs. Edd Gardner and
Joseph White.
It is expected that plans for
‘he remodeling ond new construc
tion will be released following
the meeting on Wedne'day night.
The first prisvti camp since World
' IVar I is now being completed near
Patchogne, N. Y. It will accommo-
late some 700 aliens. The watch-
lower is shown above.
IN THIS CITY—
Disastrous Fire
At Bare’s Fair
Store Thursday
Large Stock of Merchandise
Destroyed and Building
Also Damaged
Fire destroyed merchandise
with an estimated value df $25,-
000 and did several thousand
dollars damage to Bare’s Fair
dtore building oil’'’’Toittli str^t
hei-e Thursday night about ten
o’clock.
No one had been in the store
for hours before the fire was
seen from the street and its
orl.gin was not known. The fire
■spread rapidly through all mer
chandise on the street floor.
Firemen soon had the fire un
der control but the merchandise
was almost a 'otal loss by fire
and water.
The merchandii-e was the prop
erty of Gilbert T. Bare, owner of l
Bare's store here and in Boone. |
He was attending a style show in
Morganton at the Mnie of the
fire. The merchandise loss was
only partially covered by insur
ance.
The building belongs to W. H.
McElwee. a local attorney. Dam
age to the building is partially
coher'd by ia-3Urance..-he said.
HERE ON THURSDAY—
Stockholders 0 f
The Bank of North
Wilkesboro Meet
28 Merchants WiO
Buy Scrap Iron In
WiDtesNext Week
County Agent Appeal* For
Sale of Scrap Metals To
Aid In War Program
Institution Had Very Suc
cessful Year; Reaches 50th
Anniversary March 2d
Mrs. DeWitt Huffman
Is Claimed by Death
Funeral service was held Sat
urday at Charity church for Mrs.
Velma Jolly Huffman. 22. wife
of DeWitt Huffihari, of .Bcnfi^m. j jrama'lc dog fight one Japanesf
HEAVY ATTACKS—
Imperial Army
Withdraws Near
Singapore Area
Singapore. — Japatie=e troops
attacked heavily today at oppo
site ends of a 40-mile line on'he
West Malaya front and forced a !
British withdrawal below the
mouth of the Muar river 90 miles
from Singapore.
Strong imperial airplane forc
es rpshed to the aid of *he ground
troops and made a heavy bombing
and machine gunlng attack or
Japanese transport along the
roads in the river area.
They also attacked ships and
invasion barges on the river.
A communique of the Malaya
command said Japanese fighter
planes attacked the imperia'
bombers and imperial fightlnr
fighting planes Intervened. In p
Stockholders of the Bank of
North Wilkesboro, largest unit
bank in this immediate section of
the state, in meeting here last
week heard reports of a very
succqwtal jear for the bank.
^■TSnrtorYh^ last
the year resources of the bank
increased more than one half
million dollars, reaching a record
j total of $2,769,360.68.
The s'ockholders re-elortod
'the I)oard of directors as follows;
E. M. Blackburn. Ralph Duncan.
R. G. Finley. J. R. Hix. W. D.
Halfacre, Jno. K. Jnstice, S. V.
Tomlinson, and R. W. Gwyn.
Following the meeting of the
stockholders the directors met
'and re-elected all officers of he
bank as follows: J. R, Hix, pres
ident: W. D. Halfacre. vice pres
idem; S, V. Tomlinson, vice
president: R. W. Gwyn, cashier:
W. W. Starr. J. G. McNeill and
W. R. Gwyn, assistant cashiers.
The rep'ort of President .1. R
Hix to the s ockholders contain
ed much interesting inforniation
The report mentioned that Mar'-t ‘
2nd this year will mark the fif i
elh anniversary of the bank a-
tliat R. W. Gwyn, cashier, will
have been with the bank for fif
ty years in July this year.
E.xcerpts from he report of
the hank's president to the stock
holders follow:
“The eventful year of 1941
has been added to history and
with it.-5 (losing we pause 'o re
flect on some of the activities of
your Bank. The year 1940, as
reported to you a year ago. was
a banner year, and now we are
glad to state hat 1941 even sur
passed 1940.
(Continued on Page Five)
By J. B. SnjpcH, Cotmty -Agent
A program has been organized
In all the counties of the state,
including our county, for the pur
pose of collecting ail kinds of
scrop metal and iron. The De
fense Officiajs tell us that It la
very important that all scrap
metal and iron be placed in the
hands of dealers as soon as poe-
slble in order that it may be used
for defense purposes. Below we
are giving you a list of merchant!
over the county who will handle
all scrap iron and metal the far
mers will sell them. Please con
tact the merchant nearest yon,
listed, below, and ask him the
prices -being paid tor scrap iron
and metal.
Some of the farmers are selling
this scrap iron and metal and
giving the money to the Rod
Cross, while others are using It to
buy defense stamps and bonds.
The Defense Officials are not as
interested in what you do with
the money as they are in getting
the scrap iron and metal, which
is very badly needed at this time.
So, keep in mind, while you
check your farm implements in
making out the parts you expect
to order, that parts which can
not be worked over or used in
any way—may be sold for scrap.
We would like to suggest how.
ever, that any parts which can
be worked over and used, should
not be sold for scrap since Or'ct-
machinery parts. ^ ^
The last week in January hais
been rot as scrap iron week and
the slogan is “Scrap the Japs
with Scrap".
R. r. J.irvis, Cycle: Or..s Myers.
Cycle: L. E. Woodie, Summit;
G. C. Parsons. Parsonville; Vir
gil Church. Feed and Grocery
Store. Piirlear: Taft Foster,
Chami'ioii: T. \V. Fi-rgiison, Fer-
snn: Scroggs & Comnaii,''. Mora
vian Falls: Comer-j S ore (C l..).
Union Grove; Press Inscore
Store. Kt :!. Nor h Wilke»l)oro;
I’errv I.owe, Pores Knoii: C. A.
r.owe and sons. North Wilkesbo
ro: Tom Grier Store. Boomer;
Morris Rendren, Gilreath: \V. W.
Harri.s Hardware Store, Roaring
River: i.eet I’oplin Store. Ronda;
I. 7.. .Adams Store. .Austin;
'^harlie Miles. Trapliill: I,onni»
Folhrook S'ore, .Al.ehers: W. \V.
.iambill Store. Dockery: Jesse
Templetoti. Hays: .M. F Absher.
RFD. Hays: W..M. Osl'orne Store,
McGrady: A. R. Miller. Vannoy;
A. T. Nichols. Route I, Wilkes
boro: R. H. Green. Ronda;
-Mont Jones. Oakwoods; Roliert
Spencer. State Road.
Mrs. Phoebe Joynes,
Succumbs Friday J
She died Friday in the hospital
at Elkin.
In addition to her hnsbarfd she
leaves four brothers and four
sisters: Mrs. Roxie Yarboro and
Mrs. Lexie Rose, of BenhamjeMrs.
Cooper Durham, of TTaphlH; Mrs.
Ina Huffman. IJ. D„ Marcus. Ban
ner and Bay Jolly, of Benham.
Dr. McNeill Moves
Office To Hospital
Offices of Dr. J. H. McNeill
have been moved from the sec
ond floor of the Horton Drug
store building to the upper -bund-
water arooad the sinking tanker.- lug of the Wllkee hoepital.
plane was downed, one was dam
aged and a third was probably
destroyed and it was admitted
that three imperial planes were
missing.
Two Attacks Made
Describing the new Japanese
offensive, the .communique said
the Japanese attacked in the Mu
ar River and Segamat fronts. In
the Muar area, toward the river
mouth on the west coast, it was
admitted that the Japanese enc-
ceeded in inflltrating a number
of 'inen along the coast and said
there had 'been some withdrawal
FOR THIS CITY—
Cecil Hayes Is
Superintendent
Water, Streets
\Dpointed By Board Mon
day Night And Has Beeun
Duties In New Position
Mrs Phoebe Joyn«=. 75. mem
ber of a well known family in the
Traphill section of Wilkes, died
Friday night at 'he home of her f
nephew, Blaine Siiarks. at Trap- ^
hill,. j
Funeral service for Mrs. Joynes
was held at the Traphill Baptist
church Sunday, 11 o'clock, with
Rev. Grant Cothren in charge.
Mrs. Joynes wa.-s a daughter
of 'he late I.#ewis and Mattie
Spicer Sparks. She is survive^
by one brother and one sister,
-Arthur Sparks and Mrs. Allle
Zolla. both of Rock Springs, Wy
oming. j|
Cecil Hayes, for the past sev-1
eral years sergeant on the local |
police force, has begun his duties ■
as superlntenden* of water and j
streets for North Wilkesboro. |
He was appointed to that post-1
tlon in a meeting of the city
council held on Monday night.
In that capacity he succeeds
John Tevepaugh, who held the
responsible job for several years
and until his death a few 'weeks
ago.
Wm. Allen Clanton
Claimed By Deaths
Funeral services for Willlauil
Allen Clanton, 77, citizen ofj
Moravian Falls Townehip wh««
died Thursday evenilng at
home were held.at 10:30 Satnr-i
day morning at Walnut GroTfi]
Baptist church with Rev. C.
Holland in charge.
Mr. Clanton Is survived by
sons and daughters; Mr
.Smith and Mrs. Dors
The vacancy on the police
lUBio u»u - 1 caused by the appointment j who llye In IlliBois; L.';
rf'’*imne^'’'^ooM to mTOt'ths'of Hayes to the water and strqet Pobell, Robert
mOTsmont. ’ ' ■" POoBfon lias not been filled. I Charlie Clanton, of