;:you XXXV, No
Published Mondays agd ^brsdays. NORT^ WH^B^ORO, N. C.,' T&URSDAV,.nJLY 2, 1942
S1.60 In the Stato — fP.OO Out of SUU
TOYKp, OUR FIGHTING MEN AllE ON THE WAY— i
BUILDING SECRET BASE IN SOUTH PACIHC
Arrangements
nsmt
All Applications
Above A Cards To
Be At Town Hall
Details Of Registration July
9, 10, and 11 Announc
ed By Boards
to cp«t lililo AS H
JULY 8TH—
Hardware Stores
I To Be Closed All
-V a y Wednesday
Seven Hardware Stores Here
To Take Their Holiday
I Wednesday, July 8
All hardware etores in North
■Wllkesboro will be closed all day
otik,Wednesday, July S.
iNie to the fact that July
Fourth, a natioaal holiday gener
ally observed by everybody, will
be on Saturday and the store will
r [ to be open to serve the puh-
and that ,the ^next b^lnaM
day will be Mbad»y '"'I'®’' mahy JpoM to get gaMHnj
farmers find It nejeasary to come
fo town, the hardwe.re stores
hare decided to be closed all day
on Wedne«5day instead of in the
afternoon as usual.
The hardware stores here to be
all day on Wednesday, July
ere Carlton's, Smoak Furni-
CJre company. Jenkins. North
Wllkesboro Hardware, Church
Hardware, Hayes Hardware and
Shook Hardware.
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C. C. Sidden Sells
Blue Eagle Lines
C. C. Siddeu, Wilkes register
of deeds. hoU5 sold his Blue Eagle
I Bu6 lines in Winston-Stlem to 3.
L. and Powell Gilmer.
The transaction took effect
July 1. Mr. Siddeu has been own-
' er aK Blue Eagle Bus lines, which
opS^te several buses and were
accorded much patronage, for
four years.
Wilkes rationing boards have
completed arrangements for reg
istration for gasoline rationing
which will take place at central
ly located schools on Thursday,
Friday and Saturday, July 9, 10
and 11.
C. A. Lunsford, a field repre
sentative of the rationing admin
istrator, conducted a four-coun*y
meeting here Monday night to
j explain the program.
I Present for the meeting were
rationing authorities and repre-
[sentatives of the petroleum in-
I dustry from Wilkes. Surry, Ashe
• and Watauga counties. Mr. Luns-
j ford remained here Tuesday to
a.sslst rationing boards.
I It was explained that every
auto owner will register and get
Uhe "A” coupon book, the basic
ration, at the schools on the date
set.
In Wilkes truck operators and
anto operators who desire more
gasoline than the basic rationing
will make application at the North
Wllkesboro town hall, where
trained workers will handle the
applications. That will also be on
July 9. 10 and 11, and will be
'the only place in the county for
truck applications, also for the
B" coupon^ ' ...
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tractors and ell other uses not in |
motor vehicles.
Motorcycles will be registered
at the schools.
Gasoline rationing registration
win be at the following schools:
Wllkesboro. Boomer, Ferguson,
Moravian Falls. Mountain Crest,
laivelace. Mount Pleaaflnt, Maple
Springs. Millers Creek, Cricket. |
Clingn an, Mulberry, Mountain ^
View. Traphill, Benham, Ronda,,
Pleasant Hill. Roaring River, j
North Wllkesboro town hall,,
Lincoln Heights (for colored). i
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A naval officer and a couple of chiefs stand to water abov*^
their waists (left) as they pick a site for seaplane ramps at
a new base upon a« undisclosed island in the South Pacific.
Bight: The luxuriiuit fronds from the plentiful palm trees
quickly, effectively and toexpenslveiy camouflage the tents of
the army, navy and marine units that occupy this South Pa
cific isle.
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Bigger Quota 01,
$61^00 Is Set For
Month Of July
* J. H. Hix, Bond Sales Chair
man, says SaJes In June
$30,000 To $40,000
ON BRUSHIES—
I OPENED YESTERDAY—
That Bear ^QilOfficeForG
Counties Here
IN WILKESBORO— 1
Rev. A. C. Gibbs |
Revival Preacher i
Is:
District Superintendent --j
Guest Minister Wilkes- i
boro Methodist Revival |
loose In the hills of Wilkes.
On Tuesday afternoon Mau
rice Hendren encountered black
bruin on the Brushy Mountain
road.
Mr. Hendren nianeuvcretl Ills
tmek into a position to hit the
bear.
But tlie big, fuzzy animal
was not caui^t napping. He
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were gtmifi; to atiadk me car
with hts forelegs but pivoted
like a basketball player and
ran off the side of the road in
to the ftwest.
Pjresuiiutbly, it Is the sani'.!
bear which caused a near panic
and a lot of fun betw’een Oak-
wood-s and Wilkesiboro fen days
agfo. Tliere the bear was seen
by .several people and .some
(logs were gathered to give
chase but with no satisfactory
results. Someone took a shot
at the bear but failed to acore
a hit, although some shot pep
pered on the home of Sam Har
ris, colored.
Bears on the loose in this
section arc rare. Ohl timers say
hlack l>ears like hucklel>erries,
and they wander out of the
wilds of Grandfather mountain
and other rough terrain to eat
hiiekleberries on lower lands
before they ripen on the slopes
of the higher mountains.
Staton Mclver
Is In Charge Of
New Office Here
Iwo 0isU4t(«'9ofI .Uoflv
seWation Service
The baby carriage industry is
about to be converted from met
als to wood: 11.000 tons of steel
will be saved by .substiuiting
ur^d, for the most part, in the
c oEtfuction of coaches, strollers
and walkers.
On Sunday, July 5, the Wilkes-
boro Methodist church will begin
ti series of raviva'. services. The
Rev. A. C. Gibbs, district super
intendent of the Elkin 3istrict,
will be the guest minister. The
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Building And Loan -
Dividends Totaling
$8,677.19 Go Out
Late News Of
Fighting Areas
Lstopol Falls
xerman Forces
cem^uest of Sevastopol was
,ced last (Wed.) night hy
jrman high command, al-
heroic Russian resistance
ngered there, while In
70 abort Julies from the
Blta, the true battle for Su-
I Joined Jn all Its fury on
led last-ditch defense lines.
Ion, harbor and city of 8e-
jl lay crushed and under
srman-Ruraeniau war ban-
the Germans said, wTth
g left of the valiant garri-
ve a few troops who had
ider the enormous pressure
27-day as^ult to a narrow
ig peninsnla.
Base In
Completed
tates Naval Base, Lon-
Northern Ireland.
. The U. S. Navy has
k giant operating base
here guarding ibe western ap
proaches of Britain in the criti
cal battle of the Atlantic.
Londonderry in this war has
become the counterpart of Queens
town (Cobb), now in neutral
Eire, which during the first World
War was base for as many as 92
United States warships at one
time.
Semi-annual dividend to full
piiid sfoekholders of the Nortli
Wllkesboro Building and Ix>an
Asswiation totalenl (|i8,677.tP.
,T. B. Williams, secretary-
trea-rurer of the as-soeiation, on
June .TOth mailed out dividend
checks in that amount to the
holders of full paid stock as of
that dale, covering the first
lu»lf of the calendar .year.
The association is in splendid
financial condition.
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-BIJV WAR BONDS—
Administrative office for two
soil conservation districts began
operation here today.
The office, which is located on
the second floor of the Bank of
Nort! Wllkesboro building, will
be the administrative center for
the Trl-Crcek district and the
New River district.
The Tri Creek district, com
posed of Yadkin, Forsyth and
Wi’kes counties, formerly had
flices at Yadkinville and the
New River distric:. composed of
Aslie and Alleghany counties, at
West Jefferson.
Staton -Mclver, who had been
head of the New River district,
is in charge of the office here.
Others to be connected with the
office will be one soil man yet to
be selected and Mfes Grace Ro
land, of West Jefferson, who had
been employed in the office there.
Mclver stated that 'he consoli
dation of administrative offices
is being done in order to reduce
administrative overhead and
make it po.ssible for more men
connected with the service to
work directly with farmers in
support of the "Food For Free
dom" policy for American agri
culture.
Establishment of the adminis
trative office here will not affect
the Wilkes work unit office of
the soli conservation service,
which' will remain in Wllkesboro.
R. E. Dunm formerly of Char
lotte, is in charge of that unit
office. He succeeds P. W. Ed
wards. who has been transferred
to Albemarle.
Symbol Of
Victory
A calf, bearing the al
lied symbol of victory was
bom on Uie farm of John
ins was '
Tuesday and made a spec
ial visit to The Journal-
Patriot office to report the
incident.
“The calfs forehead has
a perfectly shaped white
“V”. Mr. Robbins stated,
“and I hope it is a sign
pointing to an early victo
ry for our country”.
' Wilkes county exceeded Its war
bond quota of $21,400 during the
month of June by a wide margin.
J. R. Hli, war bond sale chair
men for Wilkes,^ said today that
sales of bonds and stamps to the
.county last month totaled
between $30,000 and $40,000.
All reports today had not been
1 tabulated but It was evident that
the quota bad been for exceeded.
And now the people of the
county begin work on a quota
almost three times as large as ,
for June. |
The quota for Wilkes for July |
has been set at $61,300. |
July Is the first month In which
the treasury 1s asking for a bil
lion eech month in bond purch
ases.
The July quota for North Car
olina is $12,153,000.
If quotas as set are met or ex-i
eeeded throughout the nation, it
Is expected that the government
will not formulate a plan for
compulsory bond buying. The re
sponse to the sale of bonds and
stomps to finance the war will
determine policy on taxation and
on plans of compulsory bond buy
ing.
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SLAP THATJAP/
TO LEAVE SOON—
Dr. McNeill Is
Lt-Commander
In U. S. Navy
Prominent Physician Here
Volunteers Services To
Navy, Is Accepted
the ..MtioQ. this
*"
Dr. Jas. H. McNeill, for the
past several years a prominent
and widely known physician here,
has been commissioned as a lieu
tenant commander in the U. 3.
Navy re.serve medical corps.
Dr. McNeill elated today tb.nt
he bad ceased practice of medi-
to the Tiile of bond* imTrtatips =
during "Retailers Week". |
Yesterday merchants through-'
out the country suspended all
business except sale of bonds for there. Records of his pati-
fltteen minutes from 12:00 10 1^^^^^ j,jg
12:15 p. m. j(j,0 hospital for reference by oth-
V I er physicians.
station at Charleston, S. C., to be
assigned to service.
I He was on the staff of the
Wilkes hospital, maintaining an
AGES 18 AND 19—
Over 850 Young
fflen Registered
In County 30th
Over 850 young men were reg
istered in Wilkes under provis
ions of the selective service act
Monday.
The registration was for young
men ages 18 and 19 and those
who reached 20 since the last
previous registration.
Under existing laws the men
ages 18 and 19 cannot be called
for military service but It is ex
pected that the law may be chan
ged to allow their induction next
year.
Teachers and other volunteers
carried on the registration at
centrally located schools through
out the county and at the city hall
here.
Mr. Wiley Webster, of Wyco.
W. Va., is visiting his mother,
Mrs. J. L. Webster, and brother,
Mr. Paul Webster, and family in
Wllkesboro.
Formation Of Car Pools Is Urged
U. S. Convoys Reach
Port Of Murmansk
Moscow, — An overwhelming
tmmber of United States convoys
have successfully eluded the Nazi
blockade and reached Murmansk
safely, Lieut.-Comdr. Samuel B. |
Frankel, assistant American naval i
attache at that Arctic port, dis-'
closed yesterday.
Survive .Attack.s
He told American correspond
ents here that the largest convoy
arrived at Murmansk early in June
after surviving six days of dive
bomber and submarine attacks at
the cost of a very few ships.
In Order To Get More Gasoline Than A
Books Provide Motorists Must Form
Share Your Car Clubs”
t(
Wilkes county civilian defense,
council is urging all motorists;
using cars to get to their jobs to
form car pools before gasoline
registration on July 9, 10 and 11,
W. H. McElwee, civilian defense |
council chairman, said- today. !
In fact, motorists will not be j
able to secure gasoline In am-1
ounts above that allowed by the
‘‘A’’ coupon book unless they have
formed car pools or it ie impossi
ble to do 80.
Formatioii of car 900b in which
workers use their cars to carry i
other workers is one requirement j
of supplemental ration above the j
"A” coupons, Chairman McEl
wee said.
He pointed out In discussing
the matter that “share your car”
plans ere already In operation
among IndustrlaL workers here
and that practically every car
coming to local plants from m-
rsl areas is loaded to capacity.
However, he urged that any other
workers who have not formed
car poob form them at once in
order to conserve gasoline and
tires.
Gasoline rationing. Chairmen
McElwee said, b designed to
make certain that the available
rubber Is used for essential pur
poses. Only by strict conservation
of tires can more than 20 million'
cars, the number estimated to be
necessary, be kept la operation,
he said.
A Bike For Two
Two atlractive young ladles
—Mis-ses Ann Rousseau and
Betty Jean Frazier—guests of
their cou.'in, Miss Billie
Moore, liave solved the tire
and ga-s shortage, temporarily
at least, as far as tliey are
ooncemod.
They wore enjojing a ride
about the city on Bill Absher's
double bike today— the only
doable bike In this community.
It was purelia-sed by Mr. .Alisliei'
recently.
Dr. McNeill is a graduate of
George Washington University in
Washington. D. C. He bep'n prac
tice of medicine in North Wilkes-
boro on March 1, 1927. Several
years later he studied internal
medicine at Harvard University
and he has been recognized in
this part of (he state as an out
standing authority on internal
medicine.
i He pas.sed all the required ex
amination and was one of only
two physicians accorded theroiik
I of Lieutenant Commander by the
(Charlotte office of the naval re
serve.
County Offices To
Be Closed Fourth
Offices in the Wilkes court
house will be closed all day on
Saturday. July fourth, a national
holiday.
Legion Will Meet
Friday Evening
All members of Wilkes post of
the American Legion are asked
'o attend the July meeting to be
held at the I.egion and Auxiliary
clulihouse Friday evening, eight
o’clock. An interesting meeting
is planned.
IN WILKESBORO JULY FOURTH—
Victory Rally
Plans Mapped
Address By Judge Hayes, Singing and Other
Features On Program For Sat
urday Afternoon
Stores Will Be
Open On Saturday
Stores here will be open on
Saturd&y. July 4th. Bunks and
public offices win be closed on
that date.
Main feature of the Fourth of
July O'bservance In Wilkes will be
the Victory rally at the Wilkes
county courthouse in Wllkesboro
Saturday afternoon.
The gathering will be a com
bination of the victory rally as
requested by Governor Broughton
with the annual Fourth of July
singing, which has been held for
several years.
The program will open at one
o’clock with singing by clasees
and quartets present. J. A. Gil
liam, chairman of the county
sinalng association, said today
that all singers are Invited and
are asked to be on band even
jbhongh they have not received a
direct InviUtlon from the chair
man and secretary of the associ
ation. . _
1 Feature speaker for the rally
■will be Judge Johnson J. Hayes,
I of Wllkesboro, judge of the mid
dle North Carolina district of
.federal court and one of the
state’s best known speakers.
\ The rally will be staged under
sponsorship of the Wilkes Coun
ity Clviltan Defense council and
Pat Williams will be rally day
! chairman.
1 Wilkes people are asked to at
tend the rally and to rededlcate
themselves to the patriotic causa
of liberty during the nation’s cri
sis.
In addition to the addreaa by
Judge Hayes and the singing,
there will -be other Interesting
features for the afternoon pro
gram and It to expected that a.
large crowd will attend the rally*
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