All Sections
OftheCounty
To Be Visited
All Idle People Will
Get Offer of Job
In Campaign
Itinerary for taking job
offers to idle people in every
community of Wilkes coun
ty was announced today by
Mrs. Kathryn Lott, manager
of tbe North Wilkesboro of
fice of the U .S. Employment
service.
The erea served by the North
Wilkesboro office was one of sev
eral selected in the state for an
experiment on recruiting work
ers tor essential war ,obs.
The plan is for Interviewers to
’ visit community conters, talk with
neighborhood leaders and learn
.the names and locatlooa of per
sons who are not working and are
not farming.
The idle people will be visited
end will be rftered jobs. It is ex
pected that the work will be fol
lowed up f^d action taken against
those who do not accept jobs.
Interviews from the employ
ment service will visit each des
ignated place weekly for four
weeks. Community leaders con
tacted by the interviewers are
urged to cooperate fully in giving
information about idle people in
their communities.
Following are the dates, ploces
and hours for visits of represen
tatives of the employment service
in WUkf-s county this week and
for the next three weeks:
MOMIVV—
^ Benham. 10:30 lo 11:00; .\u.s-
^ tin, 11:30 to 12:00; Thurmoad.
2:00 to 2:30: Traphill, 3:30 lo
4:00. I.omax. 5:00 to 5:30.
TI'RSD.AY—
Hays (Hayes store). S:30 to .s;
Dockery. 10:30 to 11:00: .A.bshers,
3:00 to 3:30; Springfield. 5:00 to
•5:20; Dehart. 7:00 to 7:30.
WKDXKSUAY—
H^lls Mills, 9:00 to 9:30; Mc-
Gradv. 10:00 to 10:30: Vannoy,
12:00 to 12:30; WUbar, 1:45 to
2:00.
THtTlSDAy—
Buck, 8:30 to 9:00; Copgo,
9:45 to lOtOO; Champion, 11:00
to 11:15; Adkins Shop. 10:00 to
12:30; Mount Zion. 1:15 to 1;30.
S fkiday—
\ Pleasant Home (A. T. Nichols
f "•'store). 9:00 to 9:3(0: Parsonsville
' (G. C. Parsons' store). 11:30 to
11:45; Summit (postoffice) 1:0C
to 1:15; Harley. 3:30 to 4:00;
. Maple Springs. 5:00 to 5:30.
gATi-anAY—
Boomer, 2:00 to 2:30; Ook-
woods, 3:30 to 4:00.
Three Face Trial
In Federal Court
On Liquor Counts
Arrested on charges of manu
facturing non-taxpald - whisky in
violation of the internal revenue
code, Cecil Holbrook, of Wilkes
county, and Worth Medley and
Taft Higgins, both of Alleghany
county, are at liberty pending
trial at the November term of
United States District court at
Wilkesboro, the office of United
States Marshal Edney Ridge re
ported yesterday.
Holbrook was arrested at
Wilkesboro by Deputy Marshal
Walter M. Irwin. Arraigned there
before United States Commissioner
J. W. Dula, he was released, on
$500 bond.
■Medley and Higgins were taken
into custody at Sparta by Deputy
Irwin and released on $300 bond
each after arraignment before
Dewey Sturdivant, United States
tTialmer Dyer, petty officer
tliird cla.ss, is now on sea duty
on a battlc-ship in the Atlantic
areji. He is a son of Mr. and
Mrs. C. A. Dyer, of Purlear, and
volunteered for service In the
navy on Sei)temher 9, 1942. His
wife is the foivner Miss Thelma
Brookshire. Prior, to entertng
the service Mr. Djw held a po
sition with the Parkway Bus
company here.
Commissioner there.
Meat Production
Subject Picture
At Kiwanis Meet
Post War
Survey Will
Be Set Up
Calendar Is Published
For August Term
Wilkes Court
Eshelman Chairman
For Post War
Planning
Club Has Interesting Meet
ing Friday Noon; Several
Matters Discussed
SOVIETS GAIN
IN MUD; TAKE
100 VIUAGES
indon.—Russian troops ad-
sd over muddy roads and
bogged fields Sunday to cap-
more than loo towns and
res In a general advance of
five to 7 1-2 miles around
mtlre rim of the Orel salient
northwest to southwest,
slov, 10 miles northeast of
and Nikullno, 10 miles south
e city,' were among the towns
ired against desperate Ger-
resisUnce.
ree Thonsand "Ot'* mans were.’
1 in one sector «t the north
of tfae salient alone when the
Lsna knrled their tanks and
tty nine times against the
Amy Ibi* attempt
advanen, „
577' -
North Wilkesboro Kiwanis club
held a most interesting meeting
Friday noon.
I’rogram Chairmen Daii .1. Car
ter brought the club a very in
teresting program in the form of
sound picture. “Meat Produc-[
tion in the U. S.’’ School super
intendent Pan! Cragan operated
the machine.
The picture portrayed the pro
duction of meats all the way from
the plains of the far west, through
the grazing, grain feeding and
marketing of dhe animals to the
markets ..;nd slaughtering places
to the packing houses and finally
to the purchasers in the far dis
tant places. This is indeed one of
our great industries and furnishes
occupation to millions of citizens
•'s well as food to many more mil
lions. The picture was enjoyed
by the members.
P. W. Eshelman called atten
tion to the need of replenishing of
the fruit juices for the T. B. Hut,
which project he started six weeks
ago, and immediately six members
of the club responded with $30.
Pat Williams called attention
to the need of cutting the shrub
bery on the street corners and P.
W. Sshelmrn stated that the street
shoulders were in need of repair
and said that he had taken up
the matter with Highway Com
missioner V. D. Guire last week
and he believed the highway peo
ple will do the work.
President J. R. Hix requested
the Public Affairs Committee to
appear before the Town Board re
garding the pruning of the shrub
bery and to write Mr. Guire about
the repairing of the street shoul
ders.
Rev. Sidney Crane, who had
previously been elected to- mem
bership in the club, was present
and was presented the member-
shin button by Joe McCoy.
Ray R. English, guest of Secre
tary T. E. Story, and the field
representative for the United War
Fund for North Carolina, was giv
en a few minutes to briefly ex
plain the campaign which Is now
being organized in every county
•of the state. I
On motion of J. B. Williams the j
I secrebiry was asked to send a
teiegrsm of congratulation to Dr.
Charles Armstrong, of Sa sbury,
on his recent election as a mem
ber of the Board of Trustees of
Kiwanis International at the an
nual’Tneeting held in Chicago. Til.
At the board erf directors meet
ing held TlmrsdaT. evening ^ E.
Caudill was elected ' to member-'
ship on the board, eucceedlhg S.
T. Taylor, who recently moved to
P. W. Eshelman, president
and manager of Wilkes Ho-
•Mry... Mil la company, has^vhavivd
been appointed chairman of
Post War Planning for
Wilkes county.
The national organization is
lieaded by Paul G. Hoffman,
>resident of Studebaker corpora
tion, and the North . Carolina
chairman l.s Robert M. Hanes, of
Winston-Salem, president of Wa
chovia Bank and Trust company.
Purpose of the organization is
to plan tor industrial employ
ment immediately after the war
in order that any great amount of
unemployment may be avoided.
Mr. Eshelman stated today that
local industries will be asked to
give a survey of employment be
fore and during the war aiid esti
mates of the number who can be
employed after the war.
The same procedure will he
carried out throughout the coun
try in order that accurate infor
mation can be obtained for post
war planning.
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Solicitor Avalon E. Hall,
of Yhdkinville, in meeting
with the Wilkes Bar Asso
ciation has arranged the cal
endar for the August term of
Wilkes superior court.
Court will convene on Monday,
August 9, and Judge J. Will
Pless, of Marlon, will preside.
The term will be for two weeks
and will be for trial of criminal
cases.
Dess than 100 cases are.calen
dared for trial. However, the so
licitor stated that defendants who
are in jail and whose cases do not
appeal on the calendar are sub
ject to call, at any time. The
same alTplies to any defendants
who are bound to the court and
whose cases are not i.'sted on the
calendar.
.Witnesses in cases not reached
on the day set by the calendar for
trial are required to remain in
court until the case is disposed of
or they are dismissed by the so
licitor.
The case of James Stamper^, IS.
with Hie
Bryce' Jennings, 12, in Mulberry
township on July 1 is calendared
for trial on Monday of the second
week. Stamper, who first denied
any knowledge of the Jennings
boy’s death and later changed his
story to say that he accidentally
shot Jennings while trying to kill
a bird, is under $5,000 bond.
Calendar of the court as made
out by Solicitor Hall and the bar
association, is published on page
two of this newspaper.
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L. M.’ Nelson, of this' city,
who was elected commander of
the 16th district of the Ameri-'
can Legion by the state con
vention in se^on recently In
Charlotte. Tlie 16th district Is
composed of the MooresvlUe,
Statesville, Taylorsville, Wilkes
county, Sparta and West Jeffer
son posts. Mr. Nelson is a for
mer commander of the WUkw
post of the TjCgion and has been
verj- active In the oiganlzatlon.
Are to Teach
Men To Read
And to Write
Illiterate Men May
Be Retained At
Induction
Rationing
Facts Are
Given Here
Those Failing to Get
Book 3 Apply
After 15th
Nelson On Staff
War Gas Course
At Chapel HiU
Gas Officers of Civilian De
fense Organizaitio^ to Go
There For Three Days
It will not help in trying to
keep out of the army to pretend
not to be abje to rMd and write. 1 ganizations in the state.
The course will cover study In
L. M. Nelson, assistant to Slate
War Gas Consultant Dr. H. M.
Taylor, of Duke Hospital, will be”
on the staff of a wrr gas school
to be held at Chapel Hill, be
ginning Wednesday.
Mr. Nelson, who recently at
tended the War Department's civi
lian school at Loyola University,
New Orleans, was niamed assistant
to Dr. Taylor because of his train
ing and experience in chemistry.
Prior to joining the personnel of
Standard Oil company In this ter
ritory, for which he Is regional
representative, Mr. Nelson was for
sometime chemist for C. C. Smoot
and Sons tannery here.
The school at Chapel Hill will
be’for three days and will be at-
ten'ded by war gas officials from
the county civilian defense or
L6»1officiaU
stated today that those who
do not receive ration book
fhrge through the mails may
apply to their local ration
ing board offices after Aug
ust 15th.
Applications for book 3 were
supposed to have been made in
June through the mails end all
books applied for are supposed to
have been mailed out.
However, It was learned here
today that many have not receiv
ed book three and they may ap
ply to the local rationing boerd
offices after August 15.
Book three, which will replace i
book one, will go into effect some
time this fall.
ENDORSE GAS COUPONS—
Rationing officials today warn
“d all persona who receive grso-
line coupons to immediately en
dorse each coupon with the state
license number of their automo
biles.
The license numbers and state
(Continued on page four)
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EXODUS HITS
CITIES AFTER
ALLIED THREAT
London.—Millions of Ital
ians were reported to have
fled their city homes yester
day in an effort to escape
the rain of bombs which Al
lied radios hour after hour
warned would fkll if ^the
Marshal Pietro Badoglio
government continues to
harbor Germans.
SwisB-Italian border dispatches
through Bern said 3,000,000
Italians were taking to heart the
solemn edvice of Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower to stay away from
military objectives If they would
escape with their lives from the
impending violent air offensive.
Meanwhile, fresh evidence
Axis dissension developed.
U.S, PLANES
HIT OIL FIELDS
IN RUMANIA
Cairo.—Mpfe than 175 U.
S. Liberators^truck a smash
ing surprise blow at tfae
great Ploesti oil refineries in
Romania by daylight yester
day dropping 600,000 lbs. ^
explosives and thousands of
incendiaries which were be
lieved to have crippled seve
rely the source of 90 per cent
of the German luftwaffe’s
gasoline.
About 2,000 American airmen,
specially training for this one mis
sion after the Allied command
‘‘decided to destroy the Ploesti
refineries,” roared out on the rec-
ord( 2,400-mIle flight across the
' Mediterranean and the bombard-
jlers loosed their explosives from
British Middle East headquar- only a few feet about their tar-
ters in Cairo announced that it : gets. Using delayed action
had conclusive proof that Ger-1 bombs, they were able to get clear
mans in Crete had disarmed some i before they exploded.
Italian units garrisoned there. One ..
unit, however, was said to” he f
standing firm and refusing to i
give up its weepons although sur
rounded and already fired upon
once.
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Caotain Johnston ,
To Address Scouts
Capt. Richard Johnston, who is
home on leave after a year of
combat service in the South Pa
cific, will address Boy Scout troon
number 35 at the swimming pool
Tuesday night.
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COAST FLANK
IS TURNED
Walker Gets
• Allied Headquarters in North
Africa.—American troops sweep
ing forward through German de
fenses in Northern Sicily were re
ported last night to have captured
nine key towns, lerding to the be
lief here that the Americans prob
ably have decisively turned the
German flank on the north coast.
In a swift advance of approxi-
’ mately nine miles made two days
ago and now disclosed for the
(first time, the Amerierns. attack-
r. T ' . J W n -IJ- ’"S over a series of steep ridges,
Will Be Located In Buiid'ng advanced to within two miles of
Next Door To Horton’s Sun Stetano. northern co.istal an-
Drug Store
J Their thrust compelled the Ger-
The Watch Shop, owned and mans to execute virtually a gen-
operated by Merrill Wiles, will bo eral withdrawal back to high
The Watch Shop Is;
Moving This Week!
For Larceny
Selective Ser.vlce boards are at
taching a note to each notice of
induction. The note srys:
“Those nf'lstant.s who cannot
read and write should ^pect
to he there (at Oic induction
center) several days as some of
them may be held over to be ^
tauglit to read and write well
enough to be accepted b.v the .
army.”
During the past several months
there have been m?ny rejectioge
of physically able men who >did
not pass the literacy tests.
Now the induction, center will
keep those borderline cases until
they can read and write sufficient
ly to pass.
It is also stated on the notice
that registrants should take to the
Induction center theiir rasor,
toothbrush Snd a towel, ,whieh
will be needed In the event they
are held over for a few days bh-
bore being aoceirfed pr rejected.
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Men Taken Here Had
Stolen Tool's F^rom
Shipyard
all types of was gases and how to
combat them. There will also be
Instructions In self aid, first aid
end the use of gas masks.
Mr. Nelson said that plans are
underway for furnishing each cl.
vlllan defense worker who must j
I he out In case of attack, with
masks. I
located after Thursday, August
5th, ^In the building located on B
stree*t between The Little Grill
and Horton’s Drug Store.
The business is being moved
from the Phillips building on
Tenth street to the new location
in order to have larger quarters
which will enable Mr. Wiles to
give his many friend* and cus
tomers an even better service in
the future and in order to dis
play, and carry a more complete
sftek of jewelry,
Mr.- Wiles, an experienced
wetch, clock and Jewelry repali
man, is very appreciative for the
splendid patronage extended hU
shop since he entered business, ^
and he cordially invites the put- COFFEE—
He to call on aim for their needs
at his new locrtion—next door
to Horton’s.
ground protecting the Srn Fra-
tello Troina Road paralleling the
new front.
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Rations
BLUE STAMPS—
(For csniicd, frozen and c«
tain dehydrated foods)
Blue stamps N, i’ and Q, are
valid through August 7. Blu,”
stamps R, S and T became
valid .August 1 and will be good
through September 7.
Wanting to PnbKc
Ray CJyde Walker, one of two
arrested by State H(ghwry Patrol
Sergeant Carlyle Ingle with $2.
000 worth of materials stole’-
from Carolina .Shipbuilding com
pany at Wilmington, was sentenc
ed In Wilmington last week to
from two to four years in the state '
penitentlary«
James Barlow, of. Boomer, -'t-
rested by Serpent Wgte along ^^/^ds Vn their 18th birthday.If
with Walker, was acquitted. birthday Is on Sunday, regls-^
Sergeant Iw e wps a wlt^ tratl«h taay be tha followtog day.;
Youths to Rep”'ster
'When Age 18 Yearf
Selective Service officials h- ve
pointed out as a reminder that
boys reaching age 18 are required
to.re-lster with their 'ocal dra't
RATION-FREE
W. E. McNeill, state food
spectw for the department of
arrlonlture, today tomied the
fnlloartng •warning to the pnb-
Mes' ,* '
“Drat bay oir ent nay fMid
daiM^ mwetty by ftn or
wider. As'Uiera ls,iio,.tnclni-
^rntor In operation. hern. It
ha.0 been necoesary' to
food te llio dtgr .dcf^j
the case at Wilmington,
learned that
miased from
a period ot
It was
msteriaU h^ '^*^’*‘ ' the fact that severe penaitfes are
the shlnyar^ over failure to register,
several months and r
Attention Is further called to
ait
thrt investl^tlons by local police
and' iiBL bad tailed to aolve the-,
thefts until the arrdst of Walker
and Barlow by Sgt; Ingle, s ;I5
The RMteriale wliieb Sgt;- Ingle
Mav
^ Ratlonltir tioard
offices -j
found ' In Wslkefs car Ineldded j b»ye classiftotldBi
tools of g*09v'valne 'end gr^ry storp mnst^jwet In -
Slainliiag and electrl^'anppllea: flow* ahowlnr la which .^ the)f4
Jndre John J. PtOsddeiJ hovo bead placed for- pMp cM
^.inga. All grocerymen 4»lio. ha»:
Snbber cnltivaHon in Russia
increaaedi aa the
aASOl’NE—
“A” book coupons No. A good
for three gallons each and must
last till November 21.
REIXSTAMPS—
(P'Vor meat prodnrta, ran nee
fish, most edible oils and chees-
-?es).
Red stamps .T and U are
valid now and stamp V will be
come valid Aagnst A ^T, U and
remain valid throogh
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