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SCHOOLS
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War Prognim
;P« WOke* Sd^ols Map--
P«d By Connty Boal^
eraa
of th« prtaclpAl post irw
"Weta plansad tor WUkea ooun-
•onalBU of school bnihMngs fpr
•▼ercrovded schools.
■ B. Bllhr; oonntr ■npeiintand-
«f schooU, s&id today that
for school bttlldln« in
county have already been
'^tlTely adopted by the county
aducatlon and haye been
itted to W. P. Credle. head
baUdln* dlTlalon of‘the state
tyittment of education.
I^mmentlng on the tentative
ns, SuMr Eller said that every
Uni school district In the coun
ts in need of additional
facilities, and that North
boro city schools also have
plans to rolieve over-
conditions.
Boylng that erection of bulld-
» now Is practically impossible
to the scarcity of materials
*s4 labor and the need to use all
I^Uable materials and labor in
war effort, Supt. Eller said
e being made ready for use
conditions will permit
g good type bnildings at
i.«—»~able cost.
POur-room frame structures are
being erected this year to relieve
Bonditions at Millers Creek,
Wilkesboro and Roaring River,
gfter the war when it becomes
practical to erect more permanent
type buildings, the 4-room struc-
tnraa will be used for vocational
cation. The frame buildings
being erected mainly from ma-
iarlala salvaged from old school
Minings.
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flOV. 2, >944- - W>tdh Aiw«nc«
^KiUcid On Peleliu
INar Fvid Total
Reaches $9^000
la Wilkes County
Those Not Contacted Asked
To Send War Fund Dona- I
tiona Campaign Leaders
Iks. Lowe Clerk
For Draft Board
David Lowe Succeeds
i. A. Sdroud, Resigned,
Clerk of Board No. 1
- *t. o-jurge* JB. Mitchell, U.
S. Marine Corps Reserve, was
killed October 1, 1044, at Pel©-
liu Island!, according to an of
ficial message received by bis
mother, Mrs. Ella Mitchell Mnl-
Us. Pfc. Mitchell entered the
Marine Corps on Oct. 13, 1943,
received boot training at Parris
Island, S. C., and New River.
He went overseas in April,
1944. Ho is survived by his
mother, one sister, Mrs. Ernes
tine Jolnes, and three half-
brothers, Vance, Billy and
Charles Mullls. Another broth
er, S.Sgt. James P. Mitchell, U.
S. Army quartermaster corps,
died in Puerto Rico on May
20, 1941.
■ w -X-'. ^
ows
Campaign to raise $18,000 for,
the United War Fund and com
munity chest program In Wilkes
county picked up materially this
week. '
The total of contributions to
date have reached $9,000, which
^ is exactly half of the goal. Con-
i tinned effort on the part of
i workers and numerous and liberal
contributions are needed to reach
the goal.
Reports not yet received are
expected to swell the total and it
is evident that the task of canvass
ing the people of the Wilkesboros
and the rural communities has
not been completed.
Doubtless, many will not be
reached by the canvassers. Those
who are not called on for dona
tions are asked to mall them to C.
J. Swofford, chairman, or W. J.
Caroon, treasurer of the United
War Fund, North Wilkesboro, N.
C.
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Sbiners Township
Citizen Commits
Suicide Nov. 1st
Wounded In Holland
R- L. Jennings Takes Own
Life By Firing Shotgun
Into His Abdomen
Bishop Gribbin To
Visit Saint Paul’s
ALL BUT ONE
JAP ESCAPE
ROUTE IS CUT
American Infantry, meeting in
creasing resistance from Japanese
rear guards, pushed two more
miles up the Leyte Valley yester
day to within six miles of the
north coastal stronghold of Cari-
gara In a drive that cut all but
one escape route for an estimated
2,000 Japanese threatened with
has bbei pro
to the position of clerk to
^rvlce Board number 1
eotrapihsat.
~ mi' -
fci tt'J., ■hisliBswBId^ I
h that capacity Mrs. Love sue-
mds Wm. A. Stroud, clerk, who
o^gmed to devote his full time to
insurance business and his
>ositlon as secretary-treasurer of
Wilkesboro Building and Loan
tMOciatlon. Mr. Stroud had been
erk to the board since it was es-
ibllshed in the fall of 1940.
Mrs. Lowe has served efficient-
’ as assistant clerk to Selective
lofTice board number one since
ialective Service was established,
(he Is succeeded as assistant clerk
ly Miss Wllla Mae Tevepaugh,
has been employed In the
Kiard’s office In Wilkesboro for
ime time.
Members of Selective Service
rd number 1 in Wilkes are O.
Whittington, chairman, and J.
Dula, of Wilkesboro, and T,
Mln^ea, of Champion.
Division, moving along the north
coast from Barugo, meanwhile
advanced some three miles west
ward to the vicinity of Carlgara
itself and engaged In sharp clash
es with the enemy. Gen. Douglas
Mac.4.rthur’s daily war bulletin
announced.
The 2,000 Japanese, along the
north coast were fighting des
perately to hold open their lone
escape route to the west coast
port of Ormoc, 21 mlUs to the
southwest. The road runs seven
miles west along the coast to the
port of Pinamopoan, and then
bends 21 miles south to Ormoc.
The 24th Division, pushing up
the Leyte Valley In a drive ap
parently aimed at cutting the last
Japanese escape hatch west of
Carlgara. slashed an overland
trail leading 19 miles southwest
across the 4,000-foot, jungle-
covered Mamban Mountains to
Ormoc.
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SOVIET ARMY
HOW 33 MILES
FROM CAPITAL
The Red Army trust within 33
flea of Budapest Monday in a
,t drive rolling rapidly north-
'eetward across the Hungarian
plain between the Danube and
WriMti Rivers.
Armored spearheads undoubted-
riy already were even nearer to
r Ijie imperilled Hungarian capital
the midnight Moscow com-
lunique announced definitely
of the railway town of La-
,j, ^nly 33 miles southeast,
Vlth more than 100 other
itles in the marsh-dotted
J b^ween the rivers.
^ ^toese was Kechkemet
sreat raflway Junction point and
mAjor dofense bastion 44
I {piles Bontheast of Buda^st
•TKecskemet fell after 24 hours
of heavy etredt flghtlng during
Vhleh the Russians also pushed
Eugene Trivette To
Speak at Benbam
Eugene Trivette, prominent lo
cal attorney, will discuss issues of
the current election campaign In
an address Friday night, Novem
ber 3, eight o’clock, at Benham
school. The public is cordially in
vited to hear the address.
Serves On Saipan
Pfc. Granville Baldwin, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur .Bald
win, of North Wilkesboro route
two, recently sent home a Jap
anese sword which was captur
ed on Saiptm Island. The sword
Is now on display at The Jour
nal-Patriot office. l*fc. Bald
win. who received training at
Camp Welters, Texas, and In
Oallfomla, has been overseas
31 months. In a recent letter
home he stated that he obtained
the Japanese sword “the hard
way".
the city on both «ldes,
The Germans contended this by-
OMBing WM what finally forced
fggm to abandon Kecskemet, but
tlw Rnaslans also thrust straight
Sough the .city of 80,000 and
oorthwestward another 11 miles
imp the railway toward Budapest
ulao announced capture of
gyhaza. 10 miles west of |
emet
^_ j -
on a spur railway, and
e 17 miles northeast of
Xacakemet-Sxolnok line.
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_^year BBA' plan for
e^ectrlflcatloa In-
a probable ta^*"*™*®*
a dollars for dlatrlbn-
la Karth " Carolina and
on doUMB for rolatod
The Rt- Rev. Robert B. Grlbbln,
D. D., Bishop of the Diocese of
Western North Carolina, will
make his annual visitation to St.
Paul’s Episcopal church on next
Sunday, November 5th, -at flvo
o’clock p. m. At this service he
will preach and administer the
Rite of Holy Confirmation. The
public Is cordially invited to at
tend.
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Pvt. Richard D. Ham was
killed In action In HcflNpd on
October 9. Pvt. who
served In the glider tkihntry,
entered the army Jaaaary 3,
1943, received training agXlainp
Wheeler, Ga., and went orwseas
in July. 8u3rvlvlng ara'bfai par
ents, Mr, and Mrs-'tSoasle C.
Hayes, of Pnrlearj bJ* wife,
Mrs. Mary Martin Hay^ and
son, Charles Davldv of Win
ston-Salem route twt>; and tiie
following brothers and sisters:
Petty Offloer Se»nd Class Con
rad D, Hayes, In the navy; Pvt.
Carl Hayes, Atlanta, G*.; Miss
Louise Hayes and Mrs. Agnes
Cook.^Wlnston-Salem) and Mrs.
Ella Bennington, Rock BUll, S.
C. f ‘
R. L. Jennings, age 42, ended
his own life near his home In
Somers township early Wednes
day by firing a shotgun charge
into his abdomen.
Coroner I. M. Myers, who with
Sheriff C. Q. Poindexter investi
gated the death, termed It suicide.
Jennings, unmarried, lived
alone in his own home but took
his meals at the home of a broth
er, Turner Jennings, nearby., Wed
nesday morning he ate breakfast
heartily, and returned to his own
residence.
Coroner Myers said that indica
tions were that Jennings had fed
Finishing Tonebe;
Pnt On Campaign
For El^ion 7th
Pvt. Bonnie M. Minton was
seriously wounded in. Holland
on October 13, according to a
his hog, walked about 30 steps War Department telegram re-
Girl Scout Hut Is
Now Ready to Use
Girl Scout leaders announced
today that the Girl Scout hut Is
now ready for use.
The Girl Scout hut was moved
from D street to Its present loca
tion near tha Woman’s ,Qiah
Girl Scout Meet
Saturday, P. M.,
At Smoot Park
from the path, placed the butt of
the shotgun on the ground and
used a piece of plank to push the
trigger. He died Instantly.
In a pinned up pocket of Jen
nings’ overalls Coroner Myers
I found a penciled note which said:
I “Nobody Is tcj- blame for this but
me—R. L. Jennings”.
Relatives could attribute no
cause for the suicide. They said
that Jennings was apparently In a
normal state of health. He was a
fanner.
Jennings was a son of the late
Z. O. and Della Ladd Jennings.
Interest In Presidential Race
I High; County Politics
I Also Interesting
i Interest In* the November 7
election campaign in Wilkes has
greatly accelerated during the
pest week.
Political workers In both par
ties are feverishly engaged in
“personal work” among tha
voters, although the number of
political gatherings has been limit
ed during the campaign,
j In Wilkes this year attention is
centered on the race for county
commissioners In two of the
county’s three districts, and for
I the office of representative Tn the
legislature, member of the state
senate, and register of deeds. Of-
offices of sheriff and clerk of court
are not to be voted on In this
Girl Scout Week will reach a
climax here Saturday with the
annual “Out-of-Doors” Day Sat
urday afternoon, November 4,
three to six p. m., at Smoot Park.
The occasion will be annual
registratloB day for fb^ Girl
to
celvod by his mother, Mrs. 'election, the Incumbents being In
Dora Minton, of Cricket. Pvt.
Minton entered! the army In No
vember, 1948, and been
overseas since June this year.
NAZIS BELIEVE
ALLIEB SHIPS
TO ANTWERP
the middle of four-year tei*ms.
] Representative T. E. Story Is
j seeking a third term in the gen-
leral assembly as representative
from Wilkes on the’Republican
I ticket. His Democratic opponent
Ms Claude C. Faw, of North
I Wilkesboro.
I For register of deeds the Demo
crats are seeking ihe election of
IH. H. Beshears, of Walsh. 'Troy
' Foster, of Wilkesboro, is the Re-
I publican candidate. C. C. SIdden,
present Republican register of
Allied shipping already has en-
.tered the three-mile-wide Schelde le®l8, la not a candidate for re-
three brothers, W.' Rjver Estuary with supplies bound election but Is on the Republican
y., T. W. and J. T^ennlngs, and Belgium port of Ant- ticket for county commissioner In
four sisters: Mrs.jme Gray, Mr^ district number 1, In which Wil-
John Gray, Mrs. Talmadge Cheek liam S. Tomlinson is the Demo-
and Mrs. Webster Henson.
Funeral will be held Saturday,
tact Mrs. W. K. Sturdivant.
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HINSHAW FIDELIS CLASS,“Xse attending are asked to
WILL MEET ON FRIDAY | carry nosebag lunches and drinks.
Fidelia class of Hinshaw Street lln case of rain, the event will be
This reported movement of cratlc candidate,
u shipping toward the Important | Paul J. Vestal, Democrat and
11 a. m..^ ^on Ba^t c^rch. ,„p«cted to supply chairman of the present board of
ata a reitoseaUWvo win conduct the aerviae. - I stalked the last Germans within tr^ct number t#d, wh^a Wii Re-
■V ' > gunshot of the vital 50-miIe long Publican opponent Is I. J, Broy-
tratlon wifi!
to present the money at the cere-
Baptlst church will meet Friday
American Legion
To Meet, Friday
inland waterway.
hill, of Boomer. Mr. Vestal’s mar-
“German E-boats attacked ene-, Ihe election two years ago
my shipping In the Schelde Estu- was 45 votes and a close vote Is
Wilkes post of the American fary", was the way the Berlin ra- again this year. District
evening, 7:30, at the home of
Mrs. Paul Bumgarner with Mrs.
Richard Whittington as co-host
ess.
staged in the religious educational Legion will hold an Import^^'^jg stated the situation, "and de-|"“’**her 1 normally gives a sub-
o w mu OUOvvaA VUtJ OlHAwbiV/Uj CtUU UC I
building of the First Presbyterian meeting Friday evening, 7:30, at gtroyed one vessel of 2,00T> tons ‘Democratic majority. F.
church.
the Legion and Auxiliary club
house. A large attendance of mem-
BUY MORE WAR BONDS bers is especially desired.
SAMPLE BALLOT
Official Ballot for State Senator, House of Representatives
and County Officers
'X
INSTRUCTIONS
1. To vote a straight party ticket, make a cross (X) mark in the circle of-
the party you desire to vote for.
2. To vote a mixed ticket, or in other words for candidates of different
parties, either omit making a cross (X) mark in the party circle at the
top and mark in the voting square opposite the name of each candidate
on the ballot for whom you wish to vote; or, make a cross (X) mark in
the party circle above the name of the party for some of whose candidates
you wish to vote, and then mark in the voting squares opposite the names
of any cajididate of any other party for whom you wish to vote.
3. If you tear or deface or wrongly mark this ballot, return it and get
another.
DEMOCRATIC
FOR A STRAIGHT TICKET
REPUBLICAN
FOR A STRAIGHT TICKET
O
w
MARK WITHIN THIS CIRCLE
MARK WITHIN THIS CIRCLE
For State Senate, 24th Senatorial District:
□ HENRY A. BRANDEN
For State Senate, 24th Senatorial District:
□ W. B. SOMERS
For House of Representatives:
□ C. C. FAW
For House of Representatives:
□ T. E. STORY
For Register of Deeds:
□ H. H. BESHEARS
For Register of Deeds:
□ TROY C. FOSTER
For County Surveyor:
n
For Connty Surveyor;
□ T. G. CASEY
1 1 .... ..
For Connty Commissioner:
Division No. One
□ WILLIAM S. TOMUNSON
• For Connty Cbmmissioner:
Division No. One
□ C. C. BIDDEN
Member of Board of Education:
□ D. F. SHEPHERD
Member of Board of Education:
□
Election November 7,1944.
Qiairman Wilkes County Board of Elections.
and a small gunboat. |H- Forester, present Democratic
The enemy broadcast was the commissioner for district 1, is not
first Indication that supplies had j® candidate for re-election and the
started moving Into the estuary to I contest for that post Is between
build up stores for the eventual j^’’- Tomlinson and Mr. Bidden,
great offensive again the Reich 1® district number three M. F.
itgglf 'Absher, present Republican mera-
The front lines facing Germany, j bor on the board of commis-
and at many places lapping Into jsioners, is unopposed in the elec-
the Fatherland are but 75 miles Hon. District number three nor-
cast of Antwerp. Until now Allied
supplies have come 400 miles by
road and^ail^rom Cherbourg or
a sligh-riy shorter distance from
prefabricated bcachharbors on the
Normandy Channel coast.
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Get 13 ’Opossums
One Night’s Hunt
A group of men with one dog
claim some sort of a record In
opossum hunting Saturday night.
Hobert Smlthey and son. Jack;
Howard Ferguson' and son, Dan,
Elijah Crews and Carl Davis with
one dog caught 13 medium-sized
opossums on Saturday night.
■y
Ministers to Meet
On Sunday Night
The Ministerial Association of
mally has a large Republican ma
jority.
W. R. Somers, former Republi
can sheriff of Wilkes, is candi
date for the state senate for the
24th district composed of Wilkes,
Yadkin and Davie counties. Dr.
H. F. Brandon, of Yadkin county.
Is the Democratic candidate. The
24th district Is normally Repub
lican.
Tyre Casey, of Somers township.
Is on the ticket as the Republican
candidate for the office of county
surveyor and has no Democratic
opponent.
The Roosevelt-Dewey presiden
tial race Is the main topic of poli
tical conversation in Wilkes and
Interest In national polities Is
running high. There Is also con
siderable interest In the governor
ship race between R. Gregg Cher-
the Wilkesboros will meet Sunday ry, Democrat, and Frank Patton
evening at nine o’clock with Rev. I Republican, and the senatorial
A.' C. Waggoner at the parsonage | and congressional contest come In
of the First Methodist church in ifor the lion’s share of the politi-
North Wilkesboro. f’ jcal spotlight.
In Letter to Mother S.Sgt. Russell
Tells of Killing Six and Capturing
18 Nazis In Taking German Pilltox
NOTE: The above is a reproduction of the sample ballot for commis
sioner district number 1. In number two the ballot will have-the naxoM
of Paul J. Vestal, Democrat, and I. J- Brqyhill, Republican, for eounty
commissioner. In district number. Ithree M. Ahshen is the Republican
candidate for comml^oner atod has ptf kite bflllot.
In a recent letter to his mother
Staff Sergeant Roy C. Russell
casually mentioned the fact that
be had captured a nazi pillbox in
the Siegfried line and had killed
Six Germans anA captured 18 In
the acbomplishm^nt.
- Mention •' of hl#:xdeed8, which
were so oatotandl^ thkt news
papers throughout the ^^ntry
carried a> war correspondent’s
news account of his feat, was in
terspersed In the letter with good
wlshm tor the health of his people
at ho'ine and m'ention of the had
weather where he was.
TM of biB letter follows:
“Hallo, mhther gad all: I will
answar your totteVJthat I got to
day. waa.tflM'toAaar from yon
all, and ,I hiilto this will find yon
all wall and dotfle fine. Thla
laam BU oki and dotaf fine. . It
la' -bito 'Wiaather..oTsr hara. 1^,-
(flaa flU. -Iwiaatoni Bue 1S9