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Jr tie ,PPf®«ent time there are
, »'■■ > OBly three high school • teacher
Taeanclee hat these are hardest
to ,flll beoauee the teachers most
be able to teach certain' subjects.
One ot these Taeancles s at Trap^
J»m utd two are at Mt. Pleasant.
 In addition there are several
vacaneles In elementary schools,
particularly among the une-teach-
er units. •
Persons who are qualltied to
teach and who would consider a
teaching position are urged to get
In touch with Supt. Eller. ' ” '
A raise la salary which began
last year, and the addition ot t'he^
ninth month for the coming term'
hare helped to reliere the teacher
shortage end more people are In
terested in teaching, but there stilj
remains several vacancies due to
the fact that many teachers are
In the armed forces and othdrb
have taken position In war Indus
tries.
The school term will begin ou
August 16.
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John S. Bennett
Now Army Major
John S. Bennett, of Chapel Hill,
has been commissioned a major in!
the army and Is slated foi over
seas duty soon. It has been an-’
nounced. Mr. Bennett ma^rlpd
the former Miss Minnie ‘ Queen
who resided In this city for m^ny
years In the home of Mr. and Mrs.
€. P. 'Walter. t, i
The following news Item ap
peared in Sunday's Charlotte Ob
served:
‘‘John S. Bennett, chief of the
public utilities staff of the Uni
versity of North Carolina for 22
years, and now supervisor of op
erations, has received his com
mission as a major in the army
and is slated for overseas seryico
soon. A native of Morehead City,
he was graduated from State col
lege In 1916. He was city mana
ger of Morehead City from 1919
until 1921. He has bden'prom-'
Inent In club and civic life since
coming to Chapel Hill in 1921.
ChArlie Hayes (not our aitpcrior court clerk (Tlwlio)
who is engA(eld in war-work at Norfolk wai m town
this week. He told us about his eleven-year-old soih U.
B., the only famf worker left on his pln^ cultivatuig
four and one-half acres of com, to say nothmg »n®“*
taking care of a good garden. Our hats are off to O.
B. It takes a mighty smart boy to keep the home farm
going. And his father told us that his corn is ready to
‘Hay by” now.
J. E. Caudill has utilized some of his «P»r«
waiting for another government contract to see about
the almost cmnplete rebuilding of three of his tenMt
houses in the Woodlawn community. Each 6m of toe
liouses will have a greatly improved appearance when
the work is complete.
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John Irvin is one of the leading live-stock- dealers in
this section of North Carolina, has sold many a
horse and mule that is now producing food for vict^.
But John has had lots of fun this spring while earring
on his business. He was fortunate in securing about
eight dapple-gray mares. When -asked where Im g^
them, John would answer: “I bought them from Kmgl-
ing Bros, and Bamum & Bailey.” And most times, he
would make the prospective buyer believe his yarn.
W. J. Allen says he’s a symbol of hard luck. Back
several months ago, one thief or more, entered his thea
tre at night and vanished with 37 boxes of shells just at
the time that it is near Impossible to buy them if you
can buy them at all. Now only recently, someone stole
a perfectly new $8.00 hat from W. J. at the theatre.
The sad part of the story is that the thief had never
bothered his old hats left at the same place. But W. J.
just can*t get over losing those shellsj, his hunting friends
say.
The Ferguson sisters—Misses Blanche and Beulah
members of a fine old Wilkes family—are doing a great
work knitting sweaters and scarfs and other ueeded
items for our fighting men. Miss Beulah has knitted
right at 150 sweaters, and Miss Blanche has completed
a similar number of sweaters, scarfs, ■wristlets and sea
boots.
A. E. Spainhower, another one of our local Victory
gardeners, reports that he has gathered eleven different
vegetables from his garde'n located on the Fairplains
highway.
Mrs. S. B. Moore Buys!
Band Box Cleaners |
Mr, and Mrs. George P. Johnson, Wilkesboro resi
dents, enjoyed com from their Victory garden on Wed
nesday of last week—which was June 23, If anyone
can beat this record, let’s hear froit^ you.
The Band Box Clpaners., -es
tablished here several years ago
aad now located on Sixth street,
has been purchased by Mrs. S- B.
Moore. The cleaning establish
ment was owned jointly by the
Moore brothers. Cody and S. B..
and Mrs. Moore bought the en
tire interest of both in the busi
ness.
The cleaning establishment ■w-itl
continue to be operated at its
present location and will be man
aged by Mr. S. B. Moore, who has
been in charge of the business fcj^it.
sometime..
E. D. Bvrd. postmaster at Ronda for many years, was
a pleasant caller at The Journal-Patriot office several
days ago. Had Mr. Byrd served as postmaster at Ronda
16 more days he would have had 22 years of postal ser
vice to his credit. Ralph Martin is the present post
master.
COLORED WOMAN DIES
Funeral service was held al
Mountain Valley church for Artis
Hague Parks, age 29, wife of
ialmers Parks, local colored resi
dent. Surviving are her husband,
wo children, parents, five sister-"
and three brothers.
YOUR
AIRCRAFT-CARRIER
’SHANGRI-LA'
IS ON IT’S WAY!
"Beginning! today your local moving picture thea
tre along with 16.000 other theatres throughout the
nation, will embark on a new venture, a SHIP
BUILUING venture. You, the movie-goers^ Am
erica, are going to b«ld s 'shm r»t jnstla cMser or
a destroyer, but'A mighty iiirtaft carfitr tjgpL^tbe
Shangri-La’. ,We know already that- ft’s gwng to
be the mosf hated aircraft carrier that ever cut
through an enemy ocean, a more powerful bombing
iiase than even Simmy Doolittle’s original ‘Shangri-
La.’ For 130,000,000 Americans are going to build
No Restrictions
On Sale Wheat
Farmers Will Not Have To
Present Marketing Cards
To Sell Their Wheat
Farmers will not have to pre
sent marketing cards this year in
Older to sell wheat. S. L. Turner,
executive secretary of the Wilkes
Triple A, said today.
Quotas were lifted for the crop
tt'is year and farmers may sell
the wheut they produce without
cards and without being penaliz
ed.
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J. J. Wile» Rites
Will Be On Friday
it.
"That may sound like an impossible job to ask
yon, a housewive, or a lawyer, or a salesman to build
a ship, bnt this sluip of freedom won’t need experi
enced irorkmin—at least not yet. It will need only
\ u and your relentless insistence on Freedom, witl
enough trust in your government and your boys ov
erseas to lend them one dollar of your money. That
reailv isn’t much ... a dollar’s worth of stamps. But
r.ne dollar from everyone, 13«,00«,000 democraey-
ioving .\mericans, and the ‘Shangri.La’ will be as
much a reality to every Axis gangster as it is to
you. *
Funeral service will be held
Friday, two p. m., at Covenant
church for J. J. Wlleaymembmi -of
a well known Walnut Grove tdttui
.ship family who died Wednesdriy
at his home. Rev. Grant Cbthrea
will conduct the service, assisted
by Rev. Jimmie Bryant.
Mr. Wiles is survived by his
wife, Mrs. Stella W-iles, and the
following sons ond daughters:
Mrs. Rosa. Wiles. Mrs. Hessie
Handy. Miss Louise Wiles, Reece.
Ted and Jerry Wiles, all of- Hays;
and Dale Wiles, of North Wilkes-
b%o.
C^e.stions-An»wers
By State College
"The next time you go to your theatre, remember
to bet your dollar_on the U. S. A. Buy a dollar’s
worth of stamps and send ‘the ‘Shangri-La steam
ing off to Tokio!”
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[jHir Stamps Here!
Question: How can I control
ants around my baby chicks and
turkey poults?
Answer: Entomologist J. My
ron Maxwell of the Extension
Service suggests the use of car
bon bisulphide at the rate of 2 ta
blespoonfuls to the ant hill. Pour
the materi!>l into the hill and close
t’'e ,entran»e with mud. Some ant
baits, whi'-h are prepared witK a
sweet material, ftjay alsP be ef
fective in killing out the ants in
the area. ,
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^ur (jqope^tion
" mfeli a rriiich-heed-
ed ThanksI
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Michele Morgan and Alan. Cartis have vivid dramatic roles togethei
in Univeraal’s exciting romantic melodrama, "Two Tickets to Lon
don”, now showing at “nie Allen Theatre.
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ChevroIeC
I word cosmetics comes from
thi! qreek, meaaj^ Ito adoth
'bdantify. ‘ ' ■'
July 4th
July 4th
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Sfii EMPLOYEES
n SEOYIEE
RI BUTE TO the Patriots of ’76 is given far deep
er meaning when Honor is paid at the sanrre time to
the Valiant of ’43. We are proud of the^^65 mem
bers of our own organization now in the armed
forces. Some already have fallen in action.
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■ ■ E are proud, too, of tKfe men and women who
"^ivuico^inue at their posts here at home, carrying on the
work of those who are away and meeting the in
creased challenge of service to production In Indus
try, on the Farm, and in the Home.
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