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Published Mondays and Thursdays. NORTH WILKESBORO. N. C.. MONDAY, OCT. 9th, 1944 Watch Your UbaU-K^ ifw Snbacrip^ Pmid In Ainoeu
LBERRY FAIRPLAINS HOME DEMONSTRATION CLUB
UnitedjWar Fund Drhre Is Undejjlfay
da
f on
One of the iargest and most active home demonstration clubs in Wilkes county is
the Mulberry-Fairplains club, which is sh own in the above picture In a meeting Tues
day at the home of Mrs. G. R. Andrews in this city. Left to right are: front row—
rs. Morgan Shatley, Mrs. Bruce Dearm an, Mrs. W. E. Colvard, Mrs. Everett El-
]«dge, Mrs. Glenn Eller, Mrs. Brantford Brooks and daughter Brenda, Mrs. Cecil El-
7edge and Mrs. W. E. Snow, president, Mrs. Aaron Brooks and Mrs. M. M. Wyatt; sec
ond row—Mrs. Kenneth Brooks, Mrs. Claude Deal and Mrs. A. A. Phifer, secretary;
Mrs. Annie H. Greene, home agent. Third and fourth rows—Mrs. Julia Roope, Mrs.
R. C. Tyndall, Mrs. Max Absher, Mrs. Claude McGee, Mrs. John Sanders, Mrs. Hubert
Deal, Mrs. G. R. Andrews, Mrs. Stamey Hayes, Mrs. WUey Brooks and Mrs. A. M.
Hsuady. This club has the largest membership of any in the county and has carried
out many activities. (Staff photo by Dwight Nichols).
YMCA Directors
In October Meet
Discuss Building
RATION NEWS
The October meeting of the di
rectors of the Wilkes YMCA was
held Tuesday. October 3, at Hotei
Wilkes.
Mr. W. D. llalfacre reported
for the site committee that they
bad come to the conclusion that in
. opyriMwi
r
devejloped to the proposed site at
the epmer of 8th and P and the
iltpraute location near the up-:
per water tower they would not ‘
yinake any definite recommenda j
tijns at this time except to ask
that all directors keep their eyes |
and ears open in case a more ac-1
ceptablc ’ocation should show up. I
This is a problem for the com
munity at large and the sugges- ;
tions of any citizen will be ap-'
preciated
Mr. .T. 13. Carter, treasurer, re
ported that signed pledge.s and i
cash totalling approximately $18.
000 had been turned in but he un
derstood that perhaps that much
more in pledges had not Izeen
turned in. j
As a member of the advisory j
council, Mrs. K. G. Finley recom
mended that a house to house
canvass for contributions to the!
building fund be made. She felt
this would be a good opportunity j
to. inform the ptiblie on what had j
been going on and give them a j
chance to ask questions, to make i
their contributions and begin to
feel that they are actually a part!
of the YMCA. After some dis-;
cussion it was decided to have the
house to house canvass sometime
in January and Mrs. Finley was
SHOES — Airplane stampe
So. I and No. 2 (Book 3) val
id Indefinitely.
GASOLINE)—Coupons No. 11
In A book good for three gal
lons became effective Aug. 9
dad will expire November 8.
SUGAR — Sugar stamps 30,
31, 32, 33 (book 4) good for
five pounds indefinitely.
PROCESSED POODS—Blue
■Aft-thiwtgh-ftS (Book-4-^ now
valid at 10 points each, for use
with tokens. Good Indefinite
ly.
MEATS AND FATS — Red
AS through ZS and A5 through
K5 (Book 4) now valid at 10
points each tor use with tokens.
SUGAR: Sugar stamp 40
good for five pounds canning
sugar until February 28, 1945.
Sugar coupons R-325 issued for
canning sugar arc valid in
definitely and did not expire
Oc':ober 1.
Wilkesboro Fire
Department Will
Collect Old Paper
elected chairman of the house-to-
house canvassing committee.
The directors approved a mo
tion to ask the United War Fund
chairman to include $3,000 for
operating e.xpenses of the Y'MC.A
for use when needed.
Menilx'rs of the Wilkesboro
firtT (lepurtnient will collect
waste piiper so vitally needed In
the prosecution of the war to
morrow evening. Have your
scrap i>aper tied in bundles or
in boxes and place it where the
lioys can see it. If the.v over
look your waste paper, please
notify Uoliceman .Arlie Foster
who will have It picked up at
your home.
MemlKTs of tlie fire depart
ment stiite Uiat about 3,000
l>ounds of wiisto pai>er have al
ready been collected In Wilkcs-
boro.
Selective Service
Beards Send Men
For Examination
Both Selective Service boards
in Wilkes county today forward
ed groups of men to the Induc
tion center for pre-induction ex
aminations. The mrn who are ac
cepted will be called into service
in the army and navy in the near
future.
The lists of men sent by the
two boards follow:
County Teachers,
Committeemen to
Study Health Need
County - Wide Meeting Of
Teachers Will Be Held In
Wilkesboro Saturday
Emphasis will oe placed on a
county health program when the
first county-wide meeting of
Wilkes county teachers will be
held at the Wilkesboro school
building Saturday. October 14,
ten a. m. until 12.
C. B. Eller, county superintend
ent of schools, stated that princi
pals and teachers from the county
schools will attend and that mem
bers of the school committees are
also being asked to be present.
Dr. Ernest A. Branch, director
of the division of oral hygiene, of
the State Health Department, and
Dr. J. Henry Highsmlth. director
of the division of instructional
service of the state department of
public instruction, will be the
principal speakers for the county
wide meeting.
The meeting is described as one
of the most important scheduled
for the year. A program of school
and community health work will
be .set up for the coming year.
Beer and Wine
Dealers Helping
In City Clean-Up
Seriously Wounded
Wine Sales Temporarily Sus
pended ; No Beer After 7
P. M. On Saturdays
Church Board Meet
The Board of Education of the
First Methodist church will meet
In regular monthly session Wed
nesday evening at the church af
ter the prayer service.
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Beer and wine dealers In North
Wilkesboro have voluntarily
agreed to carry out measures In
cooperation with the police de
partment’s efforts to better con
ditlons In North Wilkesboro.
Police Chief J. E. Walker said
today that at a called meeting of
the beer and wine dealers he had
explained to them the efforts be
ing made to better conditions and
that they had voluntarily co
operated with certain measures
which may be helpful.
The dealers voluntarily agreed
to suspend all sales of wine for
limited time in order to see what
effect that would have. They have
also agreed not to sell any beer
on Saturday after seven p. m. As
It now stands the law forbids sa
of bedr from Saturday midnight
until Monday morning. The vol
untary restriction will mean no
sales from seven p. m. on Satur
day until seven a. m. -on Mondays.
Chief Walker appeared before
'the city council last week re
porting many complaints about
public behavior and profanity on
the streets, and especially In and
near places selling wine and beer.
(The city council requested that
.Chief Walker confer with dealers
iot beer and wine in an effort to
work out a solution which may
result in improved conditions.
WILKES MAN MANAGER WINNING
VOLLEY BALL TEAM IN SO. PACIFIC
Six Divorces Are
Given In Court
At Camp Peary
BOARD NUMBER 1
Royal Edger Yates
Rayford Booe, Jr.
James William Barlowe
William WTieelor Ferguson
Arville Henson Hamby
Ciiailie Isaac Nichols
Johnny Oolet Dyer
Linvllle Martin Marlow
t'olgic H. Parsons
Earl Corbet Stikes
Kamuel Colin Pardue
Verlie Church
'ITiomas CTamont Sturdivant
Delbert Wolfe
Vender Lewis Harris
John Johnson Sanders
Charlie Marson Adams
Belo Wlnton Souther
Joseph Ijance Eller
Fred Cordell Henderson
Percy Lee Goforth
William Conrad Wyatt
Harrison Benjamin Hall
•Mont Hendrix Nelson
Cecil Ellis Shomaker
Robert WTnbome Huffman
Edward Andi-cxv Harley (tran.s.)
llirner William Church
Joseph Bruce Carlton
Calloway Joseph Spears
Garfield Greene
(Sec Draft List—page eight)
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SOVIET DRIVE
IS AIMED AT
EAST PRUSSIA
^ilfciv^ Term Adjourns Today J
Jntil Thursday; War-
lick Is Presiding
Six divorces have been given in
the civil term of Wilkes superior
court which opened ou Monday of
last week. The divorces were as
follows: -Earl Souther versus
Hazel Souther, J. E. Woods versus
Susie B. Woods. Grover Blanken
ship versus Helen Blankenship,
Ralph J. Beshears versus Gertrude
Beshears, C. O. Sebastian versus
Grace Sebastian, Arnold C. Hob-
8on versus Cora Evelyn Hobson.
J Several civil cases were disposed
G yif by consent judgment and by
Wr- nOll'BTlit.
T Judge Wilson Warllck, of New
ton, is presiding over the court,
which' adjourned today until
Thursday because a number of
, ,^the attorneys were scheduled to
WVi^pear -before the suprei^ court
. 'm Raleigh Tuesday and Wednes
day.
Emerson Hart, seaman sec
ond class, recently spent a ten-
day leave with hla parents, Mr.
and Mrs. David Hart, of Halls
MUlls. Eo.aman Hart has been
in service thiee months. He
has a brother. Pvt. Henry Ford
Hart, who is somewhere in Eng
land. ,
Ru.ssian armies have .smashed
C3 miles thTbugh Nazi lines on a
175 mile front in four days, over
running 2.000 localities in a drive
aimed at German East Prussia and
penetrating within 45 miles of the
Baltic port of Memel, Premier-
Marshal Joseph Stalin announced
last night in an order of the day.
The massive break-through,
with the double purpose of loop
ing off East Prursla and trapping
scores of thousands of Germans in
the Riga area and northwestern
Latvia, was announced shortly
after Berlin told of a Russian
crossing of the Danube northwest
of Belgrade, Yugoslav capital, apd
further Red Army gains In Hun
gary.
The Germans said the Russians
were using 200,000 men in the
Baltic offensive west of Slaulinl
in Lithuania.
Stalin’s order of the day, ad
dressed to Gen. Ivan Bagramian,
First Baltic Army commander,
disclosed that Telsial, 42 nflles
west of Siaullai and 45 miles
northeast of Meml In German
East Prussia, had fallen In the
still-rolling offensive.
»n aaaition to being a first sergeant, Oliver F. Ander
son, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Anderson, of Wilkesboro,
is manager of a winning volley ball team in an island
tournament somewhere in the far reaches of the South
Pacific. First Sergeant Anderson is second from left in
the back row of the above picture of the team. He re
cently wrote his father that his team had
games played in the last three months, winning out in
the Regimental League amd going to the semi-finals in
an island tournament and was in second place in a sec
ond island league. Members of the team shown above
were as follows: standing, left to right—Kenneth Bee-
sen, Manager Oliver F. Anderson, Anton Sonju and
James Collins; kneeling, left to right—Capt. J. M. Ta
tum, Jr., George J. Grindell and Lt. Robert E. Hall. In
a letter to his father 1st Sgt. Anderson stated his regrets
that his father did not have any luck on a recent fishmg
trip and went on to say that they get plenty of fish
where he is stationed but that they used an unethical
method (TNT, and Bangalore torpedoes), but that it got
results.
$18,000 b Goal
For Campaisn
In Wilkes CooDty
Give Once For AH, Is Slogan;
Campaign To Continue
Through 21st
James> O. Anderson, Jr.,
was seriously wounded In
France Angost 26, according to
an official War Department
message received by his wife,
Mrs. Annie Lee Honeycutt An
derson. A more recent letter
stated that he was improving.
Sgt. Anderson has been In the
army about five years. He Is a
son of Mr, and Mrs. J. A. An
derson, of Oakxvoods.
Eye CliniG Will
Be Carried Out
Monday, Oct. 26
Lions Club Sponsoring Clinic
for Underprivileged At the
County Health Office
North Wilkesboro Lions Club,
in cooperation with the county
welfare department, the county
health office and the state com
mission for the blind, is spoilsor-
Ing an eye clinic to be held at the
Wilkes county health office on
Monday, October IG.
Charles McNeill, welfare offi
cer who has made arrangements
for the clinic, stated that an eye
specialist from Winston-Salem
will make examination for the pa
tients at the clinic.
He also stated that the exami
nation will be given without cost
to needy people at the clinic and
that the clinic Is only for those
who are not financially able to
pay for examination and eye care
from physicians and optometrists.
The North Wilkesboro Lions
Club will furnish a part of the
cost for glasses for those needy
people who are found to he In
need of glasses.
One purpose of the clinic will
be to prevent further eye trouble
and possible blindness of under
privileged people who are not
financially able to receive proper
eye care and treatment. Already
a long list of patients for the
clinic has been made by the wel
fare department, but If there are
others they are requested to get in
touch with the county welfare of
fice and secure an appointment
Starting today and running
through October 21st workers be
gin drive to secure $18,000.00 aa
Wilkes county share for funds
for the United War Fund drive
which is being carried on all over
the United States during the
month of October.
Instead of having several dif
ferent drivefe throughout the year
22 agencies are Included in this
one drive and reduces the number
of drives by this number. The
agencies covered are:
USO, United Seaman’s Service,
War Prisoners Aid, Belgian War
Relief Society, British War Relief
Society, United China Relief,
United Czechoslovak Relief, Na
tional America Denmark Associa
tion, French Relief Fund, Greek
War Relief Association, American
Relief for Italy, Friends of Luxem
bourg, American Relief for Nor
way, Polish War Relief, Queen
Wilhelmina Fund, Russian War
Relief, United Yugoslav Relief
Fund, Refugee Relief Trustees, U.
S. Committee for the Care of
European Children.
We can’t let them down now!
Give as freely as they give. Vic
tory starts here—in the hearts of
men. Humanity is on the march.
Everybody wants to give -and
nearly everybody does. For this
is the big campaign of the year.
Ours Is one of ton thousand com
munity campaigns being held
throughout the country that will
raise a total of $250,000,000 for
war fund and home front agen
cies. The goal is big—^but so are
our hearts.
Yes, of course you’re going to
give. Because they share, you
will too . . . Because they’re giv
ing their all, you’ll give your ut
most. . . . Give now and give
enough . . . for our own—for our
allies.
Sometime during the drive
someone will call on you for your
contribution. Please he ready to
give as ho or she will have several
others to see. Give as generously
as possible. In the event you’re
not contacted by one of the work
ers bring or send your contribu
tion to W. J. Caroon at Insurance
Service and Credit Corporation or
C. J. Swofford at Wilkes Tire
Store.
Revival In Progress
At Hinshaw Church
Revival services began Sunday
night at Hlnsha* Street Baptist
church in this city and will con
tinue for two weeks.
The pastor. Rev. W. S. Luck, Is
being assisted in the revival by
Rev. Mr. Connell, of Winston-Sa
lera. Services are held each eve
ning at 7:30 and the public has a
most cordial invitation to attend.
WALSH-McGEE REUNION DINNER
Lions Picnic Held
On Friday Evening
Annual picnic of the North
Wilkesboro Lions Club members,
families and friends was enjoyed
Friday evening at Smoot Park.
About 60 were in attendance
and a splendid picnic dinner was
spread and thoroughly enjoyed.
Barnette Napier, club organizer
of Lions International with head
quarters at Chicago, delivered a
brief but Interesting address, in
which he recalled helping to or
ganize the club here seven years
ago. He commended the clnh for
its growth, prdgress and splendid
activity.
Skull Fractured
Here Saturday
B. C. Higgins, of this city, suf
fered a skull fracture In an alter
cation on Tenth street Saturday
evening.
Police said that Higgins was
struck In the eye by an unnamed
assailant and that his skull was
fractured when his head hit the
pavement. He was unconscious for
some time and was carried to the
Wilkes hospital, where he Is now
a patient.
Police are continuing their In
vestigation of the Incident.
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Thia picture shows a part of the large crowd and the
sumptuous dinner at the annual reunion of the Walsh
and McGee families held October 1 at Beaver Creek
Baptist cdiurch. The reunion was one of the most m-
joyable held by the two families and a most interesting
and inspiring program was carried out in the morning
and afternoon sessions. Shown at the fronf of this lmg
table which e$$tmided from near the fiwt of the chnrch
all the way sicross the church grounds into the fmrest are
John Waldi on the left and Rev. A. J. Foster on the
right, who are co-chairmen of the WalA-MeGee or
ganisation. (Staff photo by Dvriii^t Nfehols).
fMlTiTE TIME, PUT FORTH THE EFFORT TO SAVE WASTE PAPER-SHORTEH THE
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