VM^ XXXV, No. 78
Published Mondays and Thursdays.
NORTH WILKESBORO, N. C. THURSDAY, DEC. 17, 1942
$1.S0 In the State — $2.00 Out of State
37,953 People In Wilkes
Get 'A' Rationing Books
Army Coffee Rationing Helps CiT^lians
Raleigh.—A total of 3,346.311.
'persons In Norla Carolina receltr-
I ed War Ration Book No. 1 dur
ing the inltlrl registration lor
svgar rationing held last summer,
W. Hence Holler, state OPA ra
tion ollicer, announced today.
Holler said that holders ol the
1 book will be eligible to re
tire the big No. 2 War Ration
ook which will be distributed
lion alter the first ot the new
leer. Persons who do not have
Ihelr No. 1 book must make ap
plication to their loOal ration
Mrs. Myers, 100,
Dies In Yadkin
Yadklnvllle.—Mrs. Nancy Jane
, Myers, 100, one ol Yadkin coun-
ember 15 11 they wish to be able
o receive the No. 2 book.
A total of 37.953 persons re-
eived the No. 1 book, which Is
^^“elng used for the rationing ot
"*ngar ani coffee, in Wilkes last
[jammer. Holler announced.
Following ere figures on the
egistration for nearby counties:
■f Alexander, 1.3,S77; Allegheny,
^V,315; Ashe, 21.474; Caldwell,
'*16,786; Surry, 30.097; Yadkin,
, 19,469, and Watauga. 10,661.
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*140,000 REGISTER
LIQUOR RATION
Raleigh,—Nearly 140,000 per
®8ons registered lor litiuor rrtion
{coupons December 7. 8 and 9 in
Jthe 25 wet counties of the state.
State alcoholic board of control
j headquarters hero said euch coun-
ty bad reported a decideq drop in
r the number ot registrants since
n last Wednesd“y..
Durham county led with a reg
istration of 19.000, followed by
Wake with 14,000, and New Ho.n-
over with 12,000.
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ty’s oldest women, died at her
home. Yadklnvllle. at 9:20 o’clock
Sunday night following a week's
illness.
Although Mrs. Myers had been
in declining health for some time,
she w»33 quite active until she was
stricken seriously ill about a week
ago.
Mrs. Myers was born in Yadkin
county Mcrch 2, 1842, the daugh
ter of Charlie and Barbara All-
man. She spent her entire life In
Yadkin county. She-was a mem
ber of Union Cross Friends
church.
Survivors include the husband.
.\bner Myers: one son. William
D. Myers of Winston-Salem; nine
grrndchildren and six great
grandchildren.
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Moimt Pleasant
Students Bay $1100
^onds and Stamps
Vandenberg Not
In Next Big Race
I In a recent War Stamp and
I War Bond srle by the Mount
Pleasant school over eleven hun
dred dollars worth was bought.
The sixth grade with the help ol
their teacher, Mrs. Fiinnle M.
Yates, handled the sales, and
kept the records. Prizes were ol-1
lered by the school to the three
home rooms buying the most.
Miss Cleo Jones’ section ol the
8th grrde won first prize by ac
counting lor over $300.00 worth;
Miss Reba McNeil's 9th grade won
second prize with over $200.00
w-orth, and the sixth grade with
/.nriM lAok steM til Mrs. Fannie M. Yotes as teacher
More than s year ago the army qnartermaster corps took ste^ M
ration coffee. As the table top routes, the army oCteers si^ and tasU,
each sample of coffee, at the quartermaster depot, In Chicago, whers
48,000 pounds of coffee Is roasted daily.
Mean Robber Adds
Insult to An Injury
Building & Loan
Here Has $60,000
In U. S. Bonds
fdlnrry hemp sacks, treated
_^la toxic preservative to pre-
at-Tmoulding, are used as Army
Indirnapolis.—A thief added in
sult to injury to Jack Ladin.
MTien Dadin, who has an “A”
gasoline ration pard, went out to
his car he found a thief had si
phoned all of the gasoline out of
the tank.
That was bad, but the thief had
filled the lank with w-ater and it
wa.s fro^e solid. Mechanics work
ed 7 1-2 hours before they could
got the tank, grsolino pump, car
buretor and fuel lines thawed out.
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Nicotinic acid, the third mem
ber of the vitamin B complex, was
first isolated from concentrations
■Of liver la 1937. ~ “
NOW
ISN'T TOO EAKLY TO LOOK FORWARD TO NEXT
CHRIST-MAS. TtiSN .AS NOW, YOU WILL .WANT
TO SPREAD niEER BY GIV'TNG TO THOSE YOU
/ LOVE AND ADMIRE. BUT THERE’LL BE MORE
' DEMANDS ON 'lOCil INCOME AS PART OF OUR
VICTORY PROGRAM! THE ONLY WAY NOT TO
BE CAUGHT IS TO ANTICIPATE NEXT CHRIST
MAS’ GIFT-CASH NEEDS, BY JOINING OUR
CHRISTMAS CLUB NOW. PAY AS LITTLE AS
25c A WEEK—OR AS MUCH MORE AS YOU WISH.
GET IT BACK IN A HEARTY CHECK NEXT DE
CEMBER 1. REMEMBER — YOUR CHRISTMAS
CLUB DEPOSITS ARE SAVINGS—AND SAVINGS
ARE USED BY OUR GOVERNMENT TO FIGHT
THIS WAR: SO YOUR CHRISTMAS CLUB FUNDS
WORK FOR VICTORY TOO'
Purchase ot $60,000.00 of gov
ernment bonds by the North
Wilkesboro Building & Loan As
sociation in the $100,000,000
campaign sponsored t>y the Unit
ed States Savings and I.«an I.«a-
gue contributed to the attainment
of the goal in the national drive a
month ahead of schedule, accord
ing to word received here today
from Germor S. Cannon, Indiana
polis, national chairman. He said
that the associations are already
$8,000,000 over tho top in the
first five month.s ot the six months
campaign and expect to reach a
$20,000,000 margin over the goal
by the close of the year.
This information wiis reported
In a statement Issued by J. B.
Williams, executive officer of the
local institution.
“Nothing could be better indi
cative of the way an impressively
large contribution to the war fin
ancing can be made up from the
performlincp of thousands of
units,” said Mr. Cannon. "As of
December 1, there were 2,900
thrift and home flnapclng institu
tions reporting their bond pur
chases. Many of our smaller as
sociations bought what looked
like a nominrl volume of bonds
when compared with sueh sums
as the $9,000,000,000 which the
Treasury is seeking this month,
hut when all the bond purcha.ses
by OUT associations in this cp.m-
palgn were pul together, they did
amount to 1.2 per cent of the
amount the TTersury needs this
month. It should be an illustr: -
tion to every citizen of how his
purchase of a $25.00 bond multi
plied by millions of others counts
conspiciously in the total.
“The savings and loan pur
chase of $108,000,000 of bends
this past half year contributed to
the control of Inflation as well as
to the financing of the war. The
Treasury is most anxious to fin
ance as large a part of the war as
possible out of accumulated sav
ings because of the non-inflatlon-
ary aspects of this type of financ
ing. The savings and loan asso
ciations expect to contribute much
more significantly in 194 3 as the
sa tngs of the public continue to
flow In and can be channeled di
rectly Into government bonds. A
goal of $300,000,000 has been set
for their bond p’urchase in 1943.”
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faxes Will Absorb
Fourth of Income
,. .THE...
Northwestern
...Bank...
Resources Over $7,000,000.00
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
-Give a War Bond For Christmas
W.-shlngton. — The federal re
serve board last night estimated
that in the present fiscal year ted-
ieral. state and municipal taxes
will absorb 24.5 per cent, ot the
national Income.
This compares with 38.9 per
cent, in the United Kingdom and
39.1 par cent, in Canada.
Total tax bill of the three na
tions were placed at $31,000,000,-
000 for the United States, $10,-
300.000,000 for the United King
dom, and $2,500,000,000 for Crn-
ado.
Of the American total 16.7 per
cent is federal taxes as compared
with 2 6.4 per cent In the United
Kingdom and 31.2 per cent in
Canada.
The boards basllelln for Decem
ber placed the n>.Ulonal Income at
$130,000,000,000 compared with
$28,000,000,000 for the United
Kingdom and $6,400,000,000 for
Canada.
Federal taxes in the United
States were placed at $21,800,-
000,000 and state and municipal
taxes at $10,000,000,000. In the
United Kingdom central govern
ment taxes wore placed at $9,400,-
000,000 and other government
taxes at $900,000,000, while in
Canada the central government
tax bill will he $2,000,000,000
and other government taxes
$.600,000,000.
All of the property taxes and
a part of the persona! and busi-
iie.ss taxes are collected by the
states and municipalities.
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William A. Watson
Funeral Wednesday
Broughton Will
Ask Raise For
State Patrol
Funeral service was held at
Gap Creek church Wednesday, De
cember 9, for William A. Watson,
well known citizen of the Stony
Fork community who died De
cember 7. Rev. I/evi Greene con
ducted the last rites.
Mr. Watson was 111 for three
weeks preceding his death and
died at the home of a daughter.
Mrs. ArAvllle Greene. He Is sur
vived by Mrs. Watson and two
children, Mrs. Greene, of Stony
Fork, and Mrs, Ollie Brown, of
Reddies River; also 15 grand
children and seven great-grand
children.
Mr. Watson was a member of
Gap Creek church and many
friends were saddened at the news
of his death.
UNCHANGED
The general level of farm prices
received by farmers for agricul
tural commodities remained un
changed during the month end
ing November 15 at 169 percent
of the 1909-1914 average.
fireenville.—Governor Brough
ton announced he would recom
ment to the 1943 General Assem
bly that salaries of state highway
patrolmen be raised su1«tantial
ly. and joined with Colonel Wil
liam S. Pritchard of Fort Bragg
and Major General William Bry
den ot Atlanta In asserting that
the patrol has a defiinite place in
the wartime protection of North
Carolina.
Broughton and Colonel Pritch
ard. who is officer in charge of
internal security for North Caro
lina, spoke at a barbecue dinner
after reviewing the 100 members
of troops A and B of the highway
patrol, their automobiles, wea
pons and other equipment. Gen
eral Bryden sent his compliments
by letter. *
Troop A recently requested to
be taken in the army as a unit,
and In reply to this the Governor.
Colonel Pritchard and General
Bryden pointed out that the pa
trol would be counted upon heavi
ly in case of Invasion.
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Thinks This Weather
Ideal For Swimming
Chicago.—Winter weather is
just rljfht for swimming according
to 73-year-oId Dr. France Blzew-
ski.
Yesterday, the elderly member
of the Polar Bear Club wtalked
out on the beach and dived into
the Icy waters of Lake Michigan.
Declared Dr. Blzewskl — "the
water at this time of the year is
good for the nerves.”
Miss Alvlne Due and MJss Edna
Grtent cavorted about the beach
dressed only In bathing suits. Ap
parently they weren’t nervous.
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Even though the contest has
ended, stamps are still on sale In
school. Sever.'1 pupils have
started lx)oks and plan to con
tinue buying systematically e-:cM
week.
The following students have al
ready bought bond.s: James
Walsh and Jrmes Greer, 1st
grade: Willur Greer, 2nd grade:
Walter Huffman, 5th gred"; .Max
Blackburn, Bth grade: C'ardino
Whittington and E.sther Lee B'r
nett, 6th grade; Dean Ferguson
Irene Payne, Reha Nichols, UMiru
Je>3n Blackburn. Della Mae Mich
ael, rnd James Michael, 8th
grade; Una Dell Boshears, John
son Church, Treva Huffman, and
Wpshington. — Sen. Arthur H.
Vandenberg of Michigan said that
he would not. be a candidate for
the Republican presidential nomi
nation In 1944, las he was In 1940
and 1936, fnd that he expected
the next nominee to be chosen
from "new timber which Is rich
ly available.’’
His reference to “new timber”
was taken by some political ob
servers to mean that he thought
Wendell L. Wlllkle, the 1940
standlard-tearer, would not be
nominated rgaln.
Sen. Robert A. Taft, Ohio's fa
vorite son in 1940, similarly has
served notice that he does not
want the nomination two years
hence. Taft declared specifically
for Gov. John W. Brlcker of Ohio,
however, while Vandenberg men
tioned no other possibilities by
nr me.
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JAPS CANT
LEAVE KISKA
Anchorag*^ Alaaka.—^The An
chorage Times sey* that the rea
son the Japanese still are ht Kls-
ka Is because they cannot get oft
the Island.
Reviewing events since the Jap
anese occupied the Aleutian is-
Irnd, the newspaper asserts that
all Japanese aircraft and mors
than 20 vessels have teen de
stroyed.
■Tbe government Is Investigat
ing a mineral deposit in New Mex
ico which may prove to be a new
source of the vital war metaJ
beryllium.
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Reports from farmers of Tran-
sylv>?nia county who planted Se
quoia Irish potatoes this year
continue to Indicate that high-
yielding ability of this N. C. State
College-developed potato.
Ella Mae Walsh, 9 th grade;
Muriel Mich; el, 11th grade.
FOR SALE!
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MARES
— AND
MULES
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Wilkesboro, N. C.
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