Sale Uquor
^NetsCoanty
$17,747,00
Sale Included Phillip
and Tim Yates
Liquor
Wilkes county received
ap|i^f47 for the liquor seized
from Pb
Phillip Yates and from
,Tim Yates, Paul J. Vestal,
chairman of the Wilkes
coimty board of commission
ers, said today.
'ne seized liquor included 603
cases taken by Highway Patrol
and SBI olficers from the home
of Phillip Yates neer Purlear on
June 1, and 160 cases seized by
Sheriff C. G. Poindexter from Tim
Tates on a later date.
Mr. Vestal stated that the li
quor was sold to the ABC stores
according to order of superior
court and that the highest prices
allowed by the ceiling price regu
lations were received by the coun
ty.
According to the state law, the
■fconey derived from sale of seiz
ed tax-paid liquor was placed In
the school's current expense fund
for school operation.
The sale was perhaps the lar.g-
est ever made by a county under
the law governing sale of seized
liquor.
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Many Cases Tried
In Federal Court
Cases Involving violations of
Sfca federal liquor tax laws have
Omb disposed of rapidly in the
term of federal court which open
ed l^d^y In Wllkesboro with
^jgMf*Johnson J. Hayes presid-
\tng.
Review of the cases, In which a
great majority of the defendants
entered pleas of guilty, Indicated
that liquor making has been on a
small scale but that moonshiners
have been able to secure some
sugar tor making of Illicit spirits
in spite of rationing.
Officers telling of still seizures
said they often found sugar mash
but that grain and chop have
been used more extensively than
before the war.
The following defendants re
ceived sentences of one year and
a day in Petersburg. Va., prison:
Archie Priitt, Ira Williams, Van
Bidden, James Blevins. Camie
Leander Williams. George Burette
Richardson. Jesse Anderson. Free
man Garris and Ernest Dowell re
celved a year and a day each In
Chllllcothe, Ohio, federal refer
r ifory.
Harry Charles Bloom, whose
^ case was moved to Wllkesboro
'from the eastern part of the Mid
dle North Carolina district, receiv
ed & sentence of four years In the
: prison at Mill Point, W. Va., for
violation of the Selective Service
act. *
J The following have been placed
■ on temporary or term probation:
Presley Anderson, George W. Jar-
Lvls, Curt Moxley, Rellln Lowe,
iWayne Sparks, Marshal Harris.
rSoy Anderson, Lonnie Benga.
Iftmes Randolph Hendren, Troy
Greene, Claude Whitley, Ina
William' Cleve Gamblll.
tuther Burchette, Sebon Gamblll,
William Anderson. William R.
Johnson, Rockford Glenn Bau-
JU88, Leona Parker, Dora Blevins,
Dewey Shafter Joines, James
Frank Hemrick, William Everett
Farrington. Lloyd Bare, Tom Wel-
terd Austin, George Lowe, Kermlt
trvln Dacus. Cecil Holbrook,
irmps Clark. Monroe Clark. Les
►er Sparks, James Carl Shaver.
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Pfc. Dan E. Smoak
Is Missing In Italy
Pfc. Dan E. Smoak has been
„„ llToe at Taylorsville.
Text of the official War
De-
eretary
press his regret that your son
Farmers who are entitled to
'Barnes recently received a these payments are urged to
18 In lUly. - , ^ ^
ilia or other Information are celve payment at
red yon will be promptly no- make the call
* TSa 1—e AAA A
rapidly In lUTy.
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s cabe of foW barely over 14
JH ^tmenelon WOUld
' Mias Carolyn Culpepper,
daughter of Mrs. Zella Culpev
per, of North Wllkesboro, has
received her wings In the
WASPS (Woman’s Airforce
Service Pilots) at Sweetwater,
Texas. The WASPS are train
ed to rellere army pilots Jn non
combat flights and to release
tnem for nghtlng duty. (See
story on page six).
Williams Case
of In Greensboro
A feature address by Dr. Amos
,*» ^ 1AbrIiHBi~-bPf'^JpeB«, end three
The question of dlspost- talks by local Legionnaires
1 pjjnjpoaed a most Interesting pro-
T. H. Williams, proprietor of
Williams Motor company, was
convicted In federal court at
Wllkesboro Tuesday afternoon on
charges of violating the tire ra
tioning regulations.
Verdict of guilty on nine of ten
counts In the bill of Information
was returned by the jury just be
fore court adjourned Tuesday.
The case was called Wednesday
afternoon for judgment and Judge
Johnson J Hayes, who Is presid
ing over court, allowed prayer for
judgment until December 8 In
federal court at Greensboro, when
judgment will be passed by the*
court. The question of disposi
tion of the several thousand dol
lars worth of property seized from
Mr. Williams was discussed and
will be determined when the case
is called for judgment In Greens
boro.
Mr. Williams was charged with
buying and selling tires without
exchange of rationing certificates
and with operating a recapping
machine without permit. He was
also charged with violating the
ceiling price regulations on tires.
In one count It was charged
that Williams purchased 10 re
capped truck tires and 125 used
tires from Victory Retreaders and
Vulcanlzers, 1164 Garrison Ave
nue, Bronx, N. Y., Illegally.
Several thousand dollars worth
of tires and rubber were seize-’ by
federal officers at Williams’
place of business after OPA agents
had made their investigation and
search warrants were obtained.'
Defense counsel Eugene Tti-
vette, J. E. Holshouser and J. AI-
lle Hayes made a motion to quash
the indictment on grounds that
the evidence was obtained Illegal
ly but Judge Hayes overruled the
motion. They contended In the
motion that the Investigating of
ficers had not followed the law In
handling the investigation and
selzhre.
, It was brought out that Mr.
Williams was under probation In
a liquor conspiracy case tried a
few years ago and his probation
was revoked by the court and he
was given a sentence of 18 months
In the Atlaiua, Ga., prison How
ever, execution of the sentence
was suspended until disposition
of the OPA violation case.
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U. S. Bombers Strike visits Home
Along South Europe
striking along a 1,000-mlle
aerial front In Southern Europe,
powerful American bomber for
mations ripped Nazi airfields near
Marseilles and Athens Tuesday
while the mud-bound Allied ar
mies in Italy hammered out slight
gains in their laborious march on
Rome, It was announced yester
day.
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Nazi Attack Forces
Reds Into Retreat
A mounting German counter
attack with a field force reported
to total 150,000 men sent the Red
Army Into reserve yesterday in
the Zhitomir-Korostyshev region
of the northern Ukraine—^a small
sector of the vast eastern front—
in the,first admitted Soviet set
back since the Russian offensive
began four months ago.
However, In the Dnieper bend
Soviet, troops. killed 2,000 Ger
mans and seized several towns
and In the Korosten rail junction
area 60 more towns and hamlets
were captured. Advances were
also made In the Gomel-Rechltsa
area and e new Soviet drive was
reported under way near Orsha.
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It. Gen. George C. Kenney’s
Filth Airforce, centering its, at
tacks on Japan’s hard-pressed
merchant marine, have scored
blows on two more merchantmen.
General ■MacArthnr’s headquarters
reported today.,
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l*vt. Walter H. lowe of Fort
Worden, Washington, recently
spent a 16-day furlough with
bis parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. O.
Lowe, of Pores Knob.
American Legion
And Auxiliary In
Annual Banquet
Addresses Feature Program;
Dr. Bentley Tells of Serv
ing with Geo. Meu*shall
DAIRY FARMERS
MAY GET PAID
FOR OPPED COST
a
gram for the annual joint Armis
tice Day banquet of the Wilkes
post of the American Legion and
Auxiliary on Thursday night.
Dr. J. Q. Bentley, of Pores
Knob, who served as a medical
corps captain in World War num
ber 1, gave some very Interesting
experiences. He not only told ol
serving In the first World War,
but recounted reminlscenses of a
period several years previous to
the first World War, when he
was in the army as an en
listed man; During that time
he served with Lt. George C.
Marshall, who Is now General
Marshall, chief of staff of the
United States Army.
Dr. F. C. Hubbard, who served
In the army last year as a major
in the medical corps, told very in
terestingly of progress In medicine
since World War number 1.
J. B. McCoy was the third
speaker and he told In an instruc
tive manner of the new Inven
tions during World War number
1.
Subject of a most Inspiring ad
dress by Dr. Abrams wag “Post
War Problems”.
W. C. Grier, commander of the
Legion post, was toastmaster and
total attendance of Legionnaires
and members of the Auxiliary was
over 60.
The program closed with baps
In honor of World War dead and
prayer led by W. G. Gabriel for
men now In service.
A square dance was enjoyed
following the program.
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At Camp Rucker
Laura,
Mother, Dangbter
Cut 1 Cords Pnip
For Nation’s Ned
MacArthur’t Airmen
IfitTwbJapVemk
I. Third In 48
- 'Hours AgAinst Area
Kinehdoe New
President Cf
Pastor Gronp
Local Pastor Named Presi
dent of Pastors Confer-
V ence of State Baptists
Slogan In the enrrent cam
paign for more pnlpwood rat
ting Is “An Extra Cord for
Every Man In Service”,
Some of the women In Wilkes
have sharpened their axes and
saws and have gone to the woods
to help put the drive over and
snppiy uncle bam with the
needed pnlpwood.
Mrs. Nancy Ballard and bee
daughter, Beatrice, of Rack
Creek township, have adWed two
cords of pilyiropd(, |o gte
ptiR, -
ed to be sia lasptratMn to the
stronger sex and the pnlpwood
campaign In Wilkes should, go
over during the month of No
vember 11-Deceniber 11, when
it is asked that an extra cord
be rat for every man In service
from the county.
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Dr. John, W. Klncheloe, Jr.,
pastor of th'e First Baptist church
In North Wllkesboro, was elected
president of the Pastors’ Confer
ence of the State Baptist conven
tion.
The pastors conference was
held Monday in Wlneton-Salem as
a prelude to the Baptist State con
vention which opened at the First
Baptist church In Winston-Salem
Tuesday and continued through
today.
Numerous friends of Dr.
Klncheloe here were delighted to
learn that he was accorded the
highest honor in the organization
of Baptist pastors. Other officers
named were as follows;
Rev. BlUott R. Stewart, pastor
of Green's Cross Field Baptist
church, Windsor, was named vice-
president and Rev. Zeb Caudill,
pastor of Lower Creek Baptist
church, Lenoir, secretary.
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-Uberator bombers of
[4tb« U. 8. Seventh Army Air Fores
I^BCk at the Marshall and Oll-
I bort Islands for the third time in
|ieM than 48 hoars Monday, wreck-
'iag enemy ships and Installations,
a U. 8. Pacific fleet communiqne
a^onneed yesterday.
The fonr-motored bombers, In
the deepest penetration yet by
land-based planes of Japan’s east
ern defense perimeter, blasted
Janllt and Mllle Atorrs in the
Marshalls and Makln Islands In
the Gilbert’s late Monday after
noon.
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Wilkes Soldier
Dies In India
Son of Mr. and Mrs. W. S.
Curry Died In Asiatic
Theatre On Nov. 6th
Dairy farmers in Wilkes coun
ty may call at the 'I’rlple A office
ilsslng In action since October in the courthouse and receive
according to news received by payment for Increased feed costs
h mother Beatrice Barnes, for the month of October, S. L.
»rmer resident of Wilkes who Turner,Triple A executive officer
said today.
In order to climiijate red tape
Jililirant telegram follows: “The Monday, Tuesday and Saturday
— of War desires me to of each week during the remain
der of the month of November
n B Smrak has been re- have been set aside for making
missing in action since these payments, and farmers who
If further take their sales records will re-
the time they
Pfc. Talmadge S. Curry died In
the Asiatic area of war operations
on November 6, according to a
War Department telegram receiv
ed by his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
W. S. Curry, of North Wllkesboro
route three.
Pfc. Curry entered service No
vember 27, 1941, at Fort Bragg.
He was In training at Fort Eustis,
Va., and at Fort Bliss, Texas,
where he was schooled In antl-
olrcraft artillery and search light
use.
Before going overseas he joined
the airborne troops. He -was In
service six months before being
sent to India, where he was sta
tioned at the time of his death.
Pfc. Curry was bom in Wilkes
county March 27, 1920. He is
survived by his father and mother
and fhe following brothers and
sisters: Mrs. Hugh Smithey, Eliza
beth City; Lawson Curry, North
Wllkesboro; Mrs. Myit e Black
burn, Baltimore, Md.; Mrs. Sarah
Ann Poster, Morgan ton; Mrs
Edmlnsten, Wllkesboro:
Pfc. Isaac Curry, now In Iceland;
Pvt. Millard L. Curry, Camp Stew
art, Ga.; Miss Helen Curry, North
Wllkesboro route three.
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Haifacre, Carlton
Two North Wllkesboro youths
have been accepted Into the navy’s
V-12 program of college training.
Bill Halfacre, son of Mr. and
Mrs. W. D. Halfacre, and Hill
Carlton, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs.
Hill Carlton, havh passed their
wrlt^n examinations and will be
assigned to training In the V-12
program If they pass their physi
cal examinations at Raleigh this
week.
Both are students of North
Carolina State College at Raleigh.
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Singing At Welcome
Home Church 21st
There will be a chorus singing
at Welcome Home Baptist church
Sunday, Nov. 21, at 1:30 o’clock.
Everyone Is Invited to attend, al
so quartets, choirs, and duets.
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Moke your doUora fichk.
In Mcidical Corps
OdeU Wlngler,
ond class and who has beoa on
sea duty with an aircraft car
rier In the Pacific theatre of the
war, celebrated his 18th birth
day oh Armistice Day at hom*
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Q. O. Wlngler, of North Wllkes
boro.
Mrs.JackSwofford
Will Head Seal Sale
In Wilkes County
Program Planned
For Year-’Ronnd
Girl Scout Work
Girl Scout Leaders To Meet
Monday For First Meet
ing In Joint Training
Girl Scout leaders will meet in
the Girl Scout office in the City
Hall in North Wllkesboro on Mon- '
day evening, November 22, from
7:30 to 9:00 o’clock for their
first meetlag of joint
■R Mm-leaders
^otititles for the girls to one phisse
of the year-round program plan
of the Wllkesborog Girls Scout
Council.
“In order to keep the program
vital, leaders have always had the
task of relating this program to
the girls In the troop—their In
terests, their potentialities, their
ages, their abilities,, and their
needs”. Miss Robertlne McClen
don, traveling Girl Scout execu
tive secretary working locally at
the present time, commented in
At a meeting of the Woman's
piub Monday, November 16th,
Mrs. Ivey Moore, president, ap
pointed Mrs. Jack Swofford chair
man of the Christmas Seal Sale
for Wilkes County Tuberculosto
Association for 1943.
The Christmas Seal Sale, held
by the association In conjunction
with the nation-wide campjdgn. Is
the only appeal made throughout
the year for funds to support the
work of tuberculosis control. The
North Wllkesboro Woman’s Cluo
has for years sponsored this
Tuberculosis Seel Sale in Wilkes
county.
This year the Seal Sale fund is
to help carry out a county-wide
organized year 'round program of
tuberculosis control and preven
tion. With th;^ as their goal, the
cooperation of every citizen will
be needed.
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In Membership
Wilkes Post Gets Rating Of
Four-Star For Exceeding
Quota For The Year
Wilkes county .post number 123
of the American Legion has been
awarded a four-star rating In the
state by having exceeded Its
membership quota for the ensu-
discussmg plans with council j^g year.
members. “When the world
changes as rapidly as it is chang
ing today, noticeable changes are
made In girls. The leaders, there
fore, have the task of patting the
program in tunb with these
changes. Leaders are finding
everywhere that this task to made
easier because of the flexlMIity of
the Girl Scout program”.
The Girl Scout program to on
three levels to meet the basic
J. W. Leyshon, post adjutant,
said today that 66 members for
the coming year are already In
and paid and that the membership
may reach 76 before the end of
the campalgrn. The quota for the
post was 64 members, which was
the same as last year’s member
ship.
W. C. Grier la commander of
the Wilkes post, which Is one of
juost active In this part of the
needs of girls—the Brownie for gtate.
Private Waddell
Is Fatally Injured
om her son, in which he make their application promptly,
they hod been moving and If all records are in order
* they will receive Immediate pay
ment
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Mezico City is trying to rid
theatrea of a pock of pid^ockats.
Ffc. Charito Gregory to now
stationed at Camp Bncker, Ala
bama. Pfc. Gregory, son of kto.
and Ml*. Johnnie Gregory, of
Union Orore, entered die amy
Ai September 1948. He
„qjent two doxa M
Elkin, Nov. 16.—Private How
ard .Waddell, formerly of Mouur
tain Park, near Elkin, was fatal
ly injured In ak accident near
Naahvillo, Tenn., where he was
stationed In army service, accoid-
tng to official Information receiv
ed by his sister, Mrs. Russell Pr»-
-vette with Whom he had resided
two years prevloaa to his call Into
wrvice. He woe a native of the
Anatln oonunnnlty in Wilkes
county and had been In aervlee al
most a year. The body, accom
panied by an army eacort. wfU ar
rive here Wednaaday for prepara
tlon for tanenl Hfea.
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Lt Margaret Knott, formerly a
high school teacher in the Millers
Creek school, is now with the Med
ical Army Corps arf a Physical
Therapy Aide at Ft. Meade, Md.
Lt Knox received her basic six
months training at Walter Heed
Hospital in Washington, cran-
pleting it in April Since complet
ing the course she worked m duty
as an apprentice Physical Therapy
Aide. After completion of a year
of service she became 2nd lieO-
tenant, with orders to head A de*
partment ^ the Station HoaidM
at Ft. Meade. ,
PhyiUa' Therapy is a copipara-
tively new fieW, hat its toapo^
tance fa World Wfar' H to rteadfly
girls from 7 to 10, the Girl Scout
for girls from 40 to 14, and the
Senior Scout for girls 14 years of
age and up.
Miss Marie Halgwood, Mrs. R.
G. Finley, Mrs. G. T. Mitchell,
* Miss Polly Kennett, Miss ^ Mary
I Speer, and Mrs. R. H. Shell are
Girl Scout leadera. Hra. Bill
Phillips, Mrs. Fred Loftis, and
Miss Lula Hinton are
Scout leaders. Miss Mary Charles
Alexander Is the leader of the Se
nior Scout troop.
A cordial Invitation to all Girl
Scout parents and persons wish
ing to know more about the work
ings of the Girl Scout organlza-
• tlon is extended by the training
chairman of the looal council, Mrs.
R. T. McNlel, to take this course.
Other meetings will be held on
following Monday nights while
Miss McClendon is here working
BO closely with the local organl
(Continued on page five)
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Fined at Durham, England, for
steeling three bicycles, a 10-year-
old boy was stated to have sold
two of them for J4.60 and spent
the money on beer.
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One man with a three-and-e-
half foot pulp saw con do almost
as much woodcutting as two men
^ownie gjjj crosscut saw.
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An oak tree in Wicklow, Eire, is
consuming 400 tons of water this
year.
days at hozn*
Tweaty-fhraid'bl «vt^ 100 pec«
aona.. under .0$, japiji of Jf/gt kaTA
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Attorney Faw In
Position In Office
OfJndpMeekins
Attorney' Margaret Taw, who
was recently admitted to the'
Wilkes Bar, has oceepted tha fa>-
altioa as tow. clerk to Judge L M:
Ifeakfas. Judge of the vlBastem
North Oarolina dtotriet dt feftora!
court ‘
£ Attorney Faw gradnafad
the Unmirity »f Nbrih oaraltoa
tow abhool oh June
state her examinattw^
Iftnce m Vfwiu A* MUlMr MH: ,^,vea-^»
{nfmring Thys^ Ikenipy It a ud was fwora fa 49 Ml Mk)Cti9
tzeatihaat of piMenta ttiohgh before • Judsa B. Hun^.?jKrk^,fa
physfaal metiui, favelvfag moirda- wOkwibore fa SapbamMr. " “
^toetribal ’Altomey Few taswtoad her ^
aa/nhabiUfatioa of the tleg to ***^^^^?®f* **
RATION NEWS
SUGAR—Book 4, stamp SO,
good for five pounds, will ei-
plre January 6. '
GASOLINE—Coupons No. 8
In A book good for three gal
lons became effective Nov. 9
and will expire February 8.
SHOES — Coupon 18 In the
sugar and coffee ration book
valid for one pair of shoes has
no expiration date. No. 1 air
plane stamp In book three be
came valid November 1 for one
pair ahoea. .
FOOD — Book 2, blue
stamps X, T and Z valid thru
Nnr.> 20. Brown stamps, book
8, mcatfl and fats. G. H, J K.
aspire pfaumbor 4. OMsa
stampa, '^boofc' 4, /proesaasd
foods. A, B, ft axpire Dcedmbw
ftrmt C0r-^vi Vo. t aou-
..POB, OitoMahifat, good for It
^hma (I uitjh^MfatrM J««
»: ath No. 1 cfafatfat Clatb-l
Aoat good ttir W gilMt tP
u«i^, aqilna Jutmf ti-jm
Up. % eoupoa, OtmJ»
«iod for caH|aa^^
«spli»,Jah5^ -
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