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fai^
For Ifs Scrap
Quwtitlties Of Scriip
' Midi'
M«rk*«f4 Here
I tmikei''county iiuUT«R« commlt-
'tn .mMUng kt tho town hall
‘ VlrMay eTonlny* heard re-
th&t outlets (or scrap metals
are insufflciaat to handle
^^lome avallahle.
th the jrards^of the one 11-
dealer filled to capacity
with W Bhortage o( cutting
Machines, large quantities of
try ji^ntp here now hare no
»y of reaching the steel mtlle.
! The county salrage commltt^
Jet at the call of J. B. Snipes,
latrmau, and those present ex-
rened much Interest In the slt-
ktlon as It exists here. The com-
^ttee will contact state salvage
ithorltlcs and other sources in
feoi^ to find a way to secure
itlets for the available scrap
Shed Mondays and Thtttad«yB.^,yQRTO WILKySORO. N. Ct, MOKIUY,
Proudly in Austr^
FRIDAVvtVENING-r
HAVX.lNFORlilATl3I^S]!j^^
j.: -.n
mim
w
mideof
rt^jJk^CIdb
I'M! M
member of the committee
that there are at least
Junked care and truck# within
irth Wilkeeboro which could be
Idrketed immediately and
nghont the countiy there Is
uch larger number of old
and trucks and other junked
lues which can be sold for
p when the market can han-
enSicient quantities.
However, it was pointed out
tt all who have small amounts
scrap can market It immediate-
at Oarl A. Lowe and sons, lo-
,1 licensed scrap dealer, and are
to do so at once. Steel, iron,
m, copper, brass, etc.,
»f* tiadly needed by war indus-
It Is the patriotic duty
B. 8. trsops are marching on the wharf (top) at an onldeutiflcd port in Amtralia u^ct laiifflng.
tre part of the new conttaKCat. Below: Qper hUl and dale, som,;where in AnstraUa. Old Glory filea at the
tead or the U. S, troops. Citlea tt tents have sprung np everywhere.
DORIS SPARKS, OF MORAVIAN FALLS—
Wilkes Girl In Army Now
To ^liss Doris %arks, of
hloravtaji Falls, goes the ,^ou«
Or. of betn#; the first of th* fem-
ihine sex in Wilkes dhnnty to
be in the United States Army.
Miss Sparks was DAB of
about 40 NTA ifirls who left
the SardiLs center Mlnda.v for
Fort Monmouth, N. J., tve in
duction into the army's signal
corns. She bersn her N¥A
good record, Mrs. Maud S.
MUler, of WUkesbmo, NTA
per.sOonei Interviewer, said to
day.
Mrs. Miller said there is In
creased interest among the
girls in training for war in
dustrial work and that the
XY.A centers now have vacan
cies for several gMs. She pre
dicted that thiS' phase of h VA
In factories and shops.
This week Miss Okie Lee
Billings, of Trapfaill, and Miss
Helen BtIUngs, of Hays, left
to begin' STfA aircraft assem
bly tratning in the Greenville
NYA center.
Boyd and girls interested In
NYA trainiii^ for defense work
may intervlsw Mrs. MlUer at
her office 4 the Wilkes.ompyt
pr. B. £..,Go(>jiBl» fMiwwA,
Paul 4tshlSB,4 PoifC^ .yoiRig
^uslnesi man here, ,4nur^sleptsd,
president of the.Noi^ y^ilkesbo-
ro Kiwauls chib in 7**^9 meeting
held Frld^ evening,
Mr. Cashlon, who iteteMdi. Bm-
met Johnson as propldent, h«
been secretary of . «lub and
has 'been very active {g civtc work
here ' . ••
Other officers eleet|4 'Fere as
follows; J. >M. Apderson. Vemon
Deal and DtinJ. B. Oeahs. Vice-
presidents; C. B. 'Jealdns, Jr.,
secretaryr PhlUlp Bii|me, trea
surer, E. A. Shook, tail'twister;
O. J. SwoCord, Ltdn tamer;
Rev. A. C. Waggoner, Zob, Dick-'
son. Bill Barlow and Or. H. B.
Smith, directors.
The program Friday eysnlng was
In charge of L. L. Carpenter and
B. B. Broome, who presented
Jack L. Martin, manager of Co
ble Dairy Products plant in
Wilkesboro. Mr. Martin spoke
briefly and (.he principal address
was by Dr. B. E. Goodato, profes
sor of dairying at Clsmson Col
lege.
Dr. Goodale, who Is working
during the summer with Coble
Dairy Products, said that com-
T~ry Is now paying |125,000
monthly to fermers for milk and
that the amount will soon in
crease to $150,000. Tho plant in
Wilkesboro is now receiving
about 10,000 gallons of milk dai
ly and can use a much greater
amount as farmers increase their
milk production. ^
He told of evidence's of dairy-
t,?£t
RefutMAkm for Csuiiunf Sm^
ffAir W31 Begin On Next
Monday Afternoon
tive Service boards today
all persons 'who have re-
eivwo occupational quesiionnai-
es to properly fill them out end
eturn them to their respective
►oard offices. Only ten days from
he date of mailing is allowed for
filing out the questionnaires
nd returning them to local board
offices.
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PROSPECTS GOOD
Gardens
Now In Production
i
ed,i
.eturn
Questionnaires To
The Local Board
^ston^em
Lady k Killed In
Crash In Wilkes
Car Driven By Daughter Of
Mr, and Mrs. W. W. Har
ris Hit On Sunday
Mrs. Sarah G. Caldwell, 40, se
nior .staff member and member
ship supervisor
Hamps
With 500 Pennies
Xancy Trlvette, • four-year-
old (Liugiiter of Mr. and Mrs.
O. ft Trlvette, handed over
•oOO pennies at the booth In
front of .Allen Tlieatre Satur-
day for war .savings sanip.s.
Nancy has been saving pen
nies for a year.
25 Stores
Cldse One P. M.
On Wednesdays
Gwendolyn Hubbard
Gets Music Award
J, W Henderson Has Typi
cal Victory Garden; Thous
ands In Wilkes County
The planting of 'he early “Vic
tory Gardens" which The Journal-
PaHiftt enthusiastically advocat-
now beginning to bring in
iS^B, and. many home owners
(*( this community are enjoy.ug
[ijbbJi vegetables Troth their own
a^ens in their own back yards.
PnffMibly the best “Victory
gUrdiQp" in this entire section of
‘ :e is that of J. B. Hender-
l^n ra Wllk^boro. It is Indeed
rare to view this garden
Itlj-Yts corn as high as your
not quite so tall, and
‘ iftrtBAto vines with tomatoes
.*■ targe as your flat, to say
of thr beans, carrota.
peas, and other vege a-
that the Henderson family
(been enjoying “It is the
tt'MTden I've ever had, Mr.
^■mnn says, and he has been
# tka iwwluesr for over 40 years,
fjnndarson garden Is only
,wi of the thousands over
- ' eounty, and although the
weather cut them short to
aiSktent, the rains of the last
have caused them
rapidly, and now their
^“^are beginning to see
■^3«. wulto their labor.
and wBh a long season yet
fiir fntnre plaatlags, these
_Jtefwy Gardens?* are really go-
^^play a big part in helping
"^■wla the vra7.
produced at home In the
Gardens means that much
« ,b« sent from commer-
prtidacers to our fighting men
to oar «lU«s .0*
•V.
Boomer,
•Ifev On* Walsh, of
Noftk Wilkesboro rlsltor ^
of the Winston-1
Salem Chamber of Commerce, diedj
early yesterday morning in an El-, Miss Gwendolyn Hubbard, daugh-
kin hospital following head inju-1 ter of Dr. and Mrs. Fred G. Hub-
ries received in an automobile ac-1 bard, of North Wilkesboro. was
cident in Wilkes county. j awarded the Bentley Nicholson
The ear in which Mrs. Caldw'ell I Prize for Music, given each year
a.nd Mrs. W, F. Turner, also of at Hollins College to a student
Winston-Salem, were riding swerv-1 of outstanding attainment in the
ed around before stopping on the field of niusio. The award was
highway, state highway patrolmen made at the commencement con-
said. I I cert on Sunday afternoon (June
They quoted Mrs. TiTner as say-|V), when Miss Hubbard played
ing that the car was struck by a [ several piano numbers. Miss Hub-
hit-and-run driver just before com- j bard majored in music under
ing to a curve headed toward El- Don>ald Bolger, associate profes-
■ sor of music, and will receive her
kin.
The first person on the scene, of- A. B. degree on Tuesday. June 9,
ficers said, reported that Mrs.
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at the one-hundredth commence
ment at the college.
Official Vote of Primary, May. 30th
Department Store A, 5 & lO’s
and Jewelry Stores Plan
Half Holiday
PRECINCT
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Boomer 15
Brushy Mountain 20
EBc No. 1 8
Elk No. 2 8
ESwards No. 1 12
Edwards No. 2 122
EMwards No. 3 218
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Jobs Cabin No. 1
Jobs Cabin No. 2
Lewis Pork —
Loveface
, Moravian Falls ——
Mulberry Mo. 1
Mulberry No. 2 —..—
New Castle 
North Wilkesboro 152
Reddies River 102
Rock Creek — ; 84
Somers — 20
Stanton 18
Trt^hill No. 1 .127
1'r^JiiU No. 2 n
Union — 28
Walnut Grove No. l-_ 21
Walnut Grove No. 2 — 22
Wil^boro No, 1—91
'Wilkesboro No. 2 — ' 76.
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TOTALS
Beginning Wednesday of this
week, June 10, twenty-five North
Wilkesboi-o stores will be closed
after one p. m. on Wednesday dur
ing June, July and August. -■
The stores to close include the
department stores, 5, 10 and 35
cent stores, jewelry stores and
four furniture stores.
Today names of four furniture
stores were added to the list of
21 announced last week- The
furniture stores to close on Wed
nesday afternoons are Rhodes-
Day, Markdown, Wilkes Furni
ture Exchange and Gray Brothers.
Those who had already signed
the Wednesday afternoon closing
agreement were Jean’s Dress
Shoppe, Spaiilhour’s, Penney’s,
Belk’s, Rose’s, Prevette’s,* Harris
Brothers, Yale Department Store,
Crest 5, 10 and 25 cent store,
Payne Clothing Company, The
Goodwill Store, Marlow’s Men’s
Shop, Burke’s Jewelry, Ervin’s
Men’s Shop, Steele’s Jewelry store,
Hackney’s Department Store,
Southern Bargain Store, Bare’s De
partment Store, Tomlinson's De
partment Store, Lemer’s Depart
ment Store, Deans Jewelry Store.
Banks To Close
The Bank of North Wilkesboro
and the Northwestern Bank, in
ctvop^rationvWith the stores ob
serving t^e hAlf^ollday Wflfihes-
day. afteirooons. “will also close
each Wednesday at one p.m.
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Alfwittlii^
any community or'section of
the country. He spoke of tne far
mer’s contribution to lha war
program, saying that two new
slogans are "keep 'em milking"
and “keep ’em faying”. He spoke
briefly of pasteurized milk, which
the company is now delivering in
the Wilkeeboros. He said miik
was pasteurized by heating to
14 3 degrees for 30 minutes and
that it was not boiled, as many
supposed.
In the business session prior to
the program C. J. Swofford asked
the club’s cooperation In the “Go
to Church’’ campaign, B. A.
Shook mentioned the need of
further blood donations for the
blood bank at the Wilkes hospi-
Paul Oashlon, who was dec- '
ted preaident of the North
Wllkeal^^ro Lions dab in the
meetkag held Friday evening.
Mr. Guhion, with other newly
elected officers, will take office
at tho next meting.
U.S. Forces
Victorious
Washington.—Admiral Ernest J.
King; commander in chief of the
U-S l4*rTlllT*^
ihcoi^dcfable?' tn'file'conttomg
sea ‘bkttie with the Japanese
around Midway '.sland which he
said may determine the outcome of
the Pacific war.
The battle ground, he said, ex
tends from Hawaii to the Aleu
tians. The situation at Dutch har-
bar, target of Jap raids last week,
remains obscure because of ex
tremely bad weather, he declared.
Objective of the Jap fleet, he
said, was occupation of Midway.
He would not say that the Jap-
janese force was defeated, but he
said “they have withdrawn."
The American lighters, he said,
wilt not pursue the enemy into
their waters and described any
’’mop up” action as ill-advised be-
Ital, and the club went on record Icause of ene^ air pow^^^^ •
as asking the city council to ob
tain use of some grove property
of the International Shoe compa
ny for use as a .prrk. C. E. Jenk
ins, Jr., county USO chairman,
asked cooperation in the USO
campaign now on in the county.
Kenneth Bonner was a guest of
W. 0. Absher at the meeting.
Wilkes rationing boards h^vw
set dales for registration of faps-
Ules for extra sngar tor cu.mlhs
and preservlDg.
Tbla regletratlon will take placA
at the North Wilkesboro town
hall for.board area number 2 and.
at Wilkesboro school aul Lincoln
Heights colored school for board
area number 1 on Monday, Tues
day and Thursday, beginning on
Monday, June 15, and continuing
on the same days for three con
secutive weeks.
Tho registration work will b«
done by -volunteers and those who
can help in this work are asked
to telephone 546 for board land
616 for board 2. The registratloa
will be In afternoons only from
one until five o’clock.
Persons making application for
canning sugar must carry their
war ration books, or may send
them by some reliable person. In
any case, all ration books must
be presented for persons who
wish to obtain the sugar. They
must be able to tell the amount of
-sugar on band, the numler of
quarts canned lest year, the num
ber on hand and the number to be
fllled' this. year.
y; Ji»4ka.«vei>$>eMll Mm applicant
get more than bne pound for each
four quarts and only one pbuntL-
each for preserving and for jamo
and jellies.
Heavy penollies up to $10,000
fine and ten years imprisonment
are provided for making false
statements on rationing applica
tions..
Other Ration News
Rationing boards now have a
limited supply of official price-
selling regulations, which merch
ants may obtain by calling at
either ration board.
V-
Little information filtered thru
the tight censorship in Honolulu
and Washington but it appeared,
on the bass of fragmentary re
ports, that sections of the power
ful Japanese home battlefleet, in
cluding a number of battleships,
aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroy-
(Continued on page C;
OF HEART ATTACK—
Physician Dies
At Reddies River
FROM DISTANT POINTS—
Ad On Old Journal-Patriot Wrapped
Around Plants Brings In Customers
AT CROSSNORE—
26 From Wilkes
At IXstrict
Wilkes was second in the num
ber of ladies attending the diatriet
federation of 'home demonstration
clubs - held recently at Orosanore
School In Avery county, Miss An
nie Laurie Herring, home demon
stration agent, said today. ^
WOkes had 26 attending.'' The
roost iniKr^^ fedeiati«l Un#
held and Wilkes. ladies participi^
in vailoas of the profftaw.'?® '• Y*'^*«*
I'M! 8S6 89^
...wr WAR fiONDS^;^'
Since its establishment
over 36 year* ago, ibU
newspaper hsm brought re
sults for tU advertisers in
so manj instances that
they sue too numerous to.
mention, df course. But
here’s one that is just too
good ,to keep irtWI print.
A month or so ago a
new firm opened for bus
iness In North Wj.Ik®*"
boro—Hub’s Bee Line—
specialiamg in wheel bal
ancing and frmne and
wheel straightening. This
new firm is managed^ by..
E. L. Shulenherg«rv « cous^
in to Banker C. R. Shulen-
berger whom sunwoy Peo
ple here remsrtidjer ku
such a pleasing W»y.
here’s ManagerSchulen-
berger’s story: "
■rf toMfi ■fraga Banner
%lk, Avwry dowtji cm
to our place the ojher^
to get usvto striUghten
warped v^eeL? He mud
only other coaoty with a iMgsar ^ been in
number was Alexsndef with 29. A WatanfkvCIovnty, a
fmw days pur;
t Jhem
broi^tr
wrapped:, R
of The Journal-Patriot.
While I was out in the
field setting the plants, I
noticed your advertise
ment where you stated
that you straightened
warped wheels, so here I
am with a job for .you.”
' Tho wheel was properly
repaired, and the gentle
man from Banner Elk was
so satisfied vdth the job
that is gemg to *send
sewsral of his neighbors/
down to North Wilkesboro*
foT similar work.
Incidentally, Hub’s Bee
Line has. used The Jour-
ni|I-Patriot exclusively
the many/thottsAnds
.4^ pro^ieetive mutomers
\ia North Wilk^eshoro’s vsmt
tradkig avea^
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Funeral Held Today For Dr.
W. E. Whittington, Who
Died Saturday
C FeH. ,,
7 'At San Franoaco
PUi; Bruce 0.' FeUk, s msokkte
,giiti fitscbfhtet
Dr. W. E. Whittington, who
for many years practiced medi
cine in the Reddies River section
of Wilkes county, died Saturday
evening at the home of his moth
er, Mrs. J. L. Whittington, of
Reddies River.
He had been in ill health for
two weeks but was not seriously
111 until he suffered a fatal heart
attack about six o'clock Saturday.
He was a member of a prom
inent Wilkes family, being a aoo
of the late J. L. ’Whittington, and
Mrs. Mary J. Vannoy Whitting
ton.
He was well and favorably
known In Wilkes.
Dr. *yhlttington attended high
hchool ot Bocne and received ki»
medical training at Johns Hop
kins and the Baltimore Medical
College in Baltimore, Md. He had
been engaged In the practice of
medicine for about a querter of a
centory.
Surviving are his mother and
the following brothers and aistersr
Rev. W.' T. Whittington, West
Jefferson; O. K. Whittington, v
Wilkeeboro; Odell Whittington,
Reddies River; Mrs. H. J. Bum-
gamer, Goldsboro; Mrs. Sam
Ward, North Wilkeaboro: and
Mra Norman I Dancy, ReddJea
River.
Funeral service.was held today
at two p. m„ at/^Rbddles River
church' .mtb Rev. Mr. Mays-litw.
In the arffiy^ is
fine, 'aoocfrdtfiir to tha news re-
celvedl lir hk father And mother.
Pfc. ■
1( the slM of *■ larodnee h r&-
trow stationed at San Franelsoo, vstitb Ssowxa ixMazeib
CitlMovhia. and I» getUhg along. ^ mller ia not penaitted under
, J, K> Fetts, of Hays
bga, h jj^od In^d p.
ehazg«4
pdod mast be redaced propoitiou..