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PuMi«li«d Mondays and Thursdays. NORTH WIUCgSBORO. H, C.. tHUgSDi^y, DEC. H, 1944 . ' Watch Your Ubat—Koap Vow i>*m h Ad^anea
Twice Woiu^^
iMwh&iesWork
Mist Be Boie If
Wounded In Action Report of Stores
Qiota Is Retthod
fS^olunteer Bond Salesmen
aad Retail Stores Urged
To Greater Efforts
l\ If Wilkes county is to retain a
perfect record in war loan cam-
paUms, SSS.OOO in *'E’’ bonds
'must b« purchased before the final
reports for the month are sent in.
likes has already passed the
11 quota of 1809,000, but has
cached the "E” bond quota
00. The total as of the
report at the close of busi-
yesterday showed only S106,-
•00 in "E" bonds sold during the
i campaign.
The total of “E” bonds sold is
only 54 per cent of the quota for
V Wilkes county, which is behind
the national average of 75 per
cent.
Is evident that the quota can-
be reached in Wilkes without
al sales solicitation on the
many volunteer bond sales
men. WW. D. Halfacre, war loan
chairman, has contacted all dis-
tricf committee ehatrmen and
city block leaders, asking that
they put forth a special effort and
If necessary make a second can
vass in this all-important phase of
[' the war effort on the home front.
Mr. Halfacre said that he rea
lizes that the pre-holiday season
is a busy time, but the war effort
cannot wait on holiday shopping,
but must go forward in order that
the fighting men may be supplied.
As shown by the accompanying
report, some districts have already
tached their quotas, but every
unteer worker is urged to sell
bond possible because of the
ftnat need at this particular time.
7 retail stores have not reach-
quotas in sales, and dur-
week every retail
StffpWy®'»
nrged to make additional
of bonds to customers.
And DistriGts 0i
Sale War Beads
N'orth WUkesboro
Residential Section— Sales j
Mrs. Gordon Finley 119,331.26 I
Mrs. Bd Gardner 10,237.25
Kura]
Districts Quota .
Boomer —| 4,000.00
Cycle 5,000.00
6,000.00
2,500.00
2,000.00
500.00
2,000.00
10,000.00
Sales
225.00
37.50
1.725.00
3.125.00
430.60
281.25
2.475.00
2,306.26
Pfc. Claude A, Taylor was
slightly wounded in action in
Germany November 34, 1044,
according^ to a telegram received
by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.
F, Taylor and wife, the former
Miss Nora Vannoy, all of Mc-
Orady. Pfc. Taylor has been in
service four years and went
overseas in June tills year.
Ferguson ..
Gilreath ....
Hendrix —
Lincoln Ht.
Maple Spr...
Millers Cr...
Moravian Falls,
Pores Knob 7,000.00
Mt. Pleasant
Mtri. View..
Mulberry &
Fairplalns
Rosfrlng Ri.
Honda &
Clingman .. 20,000.00 24,367.76
Summit and
Pansonville 2,000.00
Traphlll .... 3,000.00
Biiley Aiking
Yadkin Valley
Flood Snhrey
Wounded On Leyte
8,000.00
6,000.00
7,993.76
2.475.00
1.200.00
5.000. 00
8.000. 00
7,037.60
4,125.00
FIRST ARMY
HITS MIGHTY
BLOW AT ROER
Wilkesboro 60,000.00
1.237.50
3,243.75
8.287.50
American First army troops „
astride the Roer river in the vici-1f,
nity of Monschau, 20 miles south-I Valley Mot. Co.
west of Duren, opened a long-
awaited assault against the left
flank of German forces deployed
east of the river yesterday and
smashed nearly two miles along
both sides of the stream In a two
pronged thrust.
Bat^efront dispatches , aid ,
T-ieut.”Cgu. 'CuuiWl»irltr'Hp^p6t*|’
iPatrolman Will
Leave January 1
state Highway Patrolman La
mar Ratliff has resigned his po
sition with the State Highway Pa
trol to enter business with his
father in Wadesboro.
Resignation of Patrolman Rat
liff, who came to North Wllkes-
toro a year ago, will become ef
fective January 1. He has been
with the patrol seven and one-half
years and spent one year in serv
ice in the array, receiving a medl-
> cal discharge.
^ Patrolman Ratliff stated here
|| to^ that he had enjoyed his year
p .^B^ilkes and that he regretted
leaving.
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$99,142.76
Sales By North Wilkesboro
Retail Stores
Woman’s Aux. of N. C.
Pharmaceutical Asso—$
R. M. Brame & Sons....
Hotel Wilkes
Newton’s Dept. Store..
N. Wilkesboro Drug Co.
Southern Bargain Store
Spainhour-Sydnor 4,275.00
412.50
337.50
Allen Theatre
City Barber Shop
Relns-Sturdlvant
Ralph Duncan —
Rhodes-Day
Belk’s
2.400.00
450.00
1.050.00
300.00
411.25
37.50
Pvt. Aubrey A. Cbnrch, re
ceived his second wonnd in
combat in Germany on Novem
ber 18, according to a message
received by his wife, the form
er Miss Mary Nell Crysel, of
Wilkesboro route one. He was
slightly wounded the first time
In Germany on September 19, a
shrapnel wonnd over his rig|ht
eye. He has been awarded two
pnrple hearts. Pvt. Church, son
of the late Mr. and Mrs. Albert
Church, entered the army No
vember ao, 1948, and went
overseas in June this yoiir.
Prior to entering the army he
held a position with Chatham
Manufacturing company in Elk
in, HlS wife and daughter,
Nancy Carol, make their home
on Wllkeaboro route one. \
150.00
206.25
900.00
225.00
187.60
506.25
Juveniles Giving
Police Of City A
Big Headache
Washington.—North Carolina’s
first landscape project as a flood
control development is proposed
by Senator Bailey (D NC.)
Bailey said he has asked the
Department of Agriculture to sur
vey the Tadkln Valley as the first
step toward a new type of flood
control in his State.
‘‘I believe floods can be reduced
in the Upper Yadkin Valley by
landscape care”, he said in an in
terview.
Three weeks ago the North
Carolina Senator was successful
In eliminating the "Yadkln-Pee:
! Dee River Basin” project from the
lllllon-dollar postwar flood con
trol bill In the Senate.
At that time on the floor of the
Senate he asserted the project
proposes a series of dams ‘‘where j
absolutely no flood control is In
volved.” J
He explained that he favored "a I
flood-control project in the neigh- I
borhood of North Wilkesboro, and
declared, "I believe the floods of
the Yadkin Valley should be end
ed”.
Landscape care is the way to
reduce these floods and ‘T think
I’ll get It going”, he said.
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StIH Have Time
To Have Project
lociided In Bill
Flood Control Dam, Tribn-
tary Dame, Reforestation
Suggested Remedies
Splendid Projrram
For Lions Meeting
Pfc. Ray C. Wyatt, of North
Wilkesboro route two, who was
seriously wounded October 80
on Le.vte Island, In the Philip
pines, is getting along fine, ac
cording to the message received
by his mother. Pfc. Wyatt has
been in the army 89 months of
which time he has spent 83
months overseas.
SOVIETS SEIZE
ENEMY TOWNS
AT BUDAPEST
n n I I u Stickley, zone chairman
Two Boys Break Into Homea; i g region 4 of Lions |
Three Indictments For i Clubs In North Carolina, will ad- j
Not Attending School ' North wilkesboro Lions
Club Friday evening, 6:30, In
Red army armored columns,
smashing through strong Nazi de
fenses northeast of Budapest yes
terday, captured Kisalag, seven
miles from the Hungarian capital.
Senator Joslah W. Bailey’s an
nounced intention to seek a flood
control survey for the Yadkin
Valley and flood control by means
other than a hydro-electric project
has caused renewed interest In
flood control among the residents
of the valley of the Yadkin.
Senator Bailey had the project
calling for a huge dam near
Wilkesboro on the Yadkin re
moved from the flood control bill
because of the protest of the peo
ple whose land and homes would
be flooded in the Yadkin valley in
western Wilkes and the Happy
Valley section of Caldwell county.
At that time he stated that he was
in favor of flood control on the
Yadkin, but was opposed to a
project which had as its main pur
pose the generating of electricity
with flood control a secondary
purpose.
People of North Wilkesboro,
which suffered heavily in loss of
industries in the 1940 flood, aro
anxiously hoping that a flood con
trol measure can be placed Into
the bill during the next six
months, and many have petitioned
Senator Bailey and others in con
gress to work toward that end.
Alternate projects for the 175-
foot dam proposed and which
Senator Bailey objected to Include
suggestions for reforestation and
other soil conserving methods in
the mountains of the Yadkin’s
watershed, dams on t/lbutary
111,848.75
doughboys farther north drove
the Nazis from the west bank of
the Roer along a stretch of about
five miles In the fourth day of
their all-out effort to smash the
enemy salient across the river In
the Duren area, and yesterday’s
twin kickoff, extending the First
army’s front to 25 miles in width,
turned the struggle for the gate
way to Cologne plain into a two-
dimensional affair.
On the south end of the West
ern front, meanwhile, the specta
cular drive of Lieut. Gen. Alexan
der M. Patch’s Seventh army to
ward the German Palatinate was
checked by blown bridges across
the wide Seltzbach river east of
Haguenau and by jarring enemy
counterattacks south of the bord
er city of Wlssembourg.
Juvenile delinquency Is one of meeting at Hotel Wilkes. | .TinniiTw-AH
the toughest nroblems facing the Stickley, a member Of the Char-| Moscow announced.
' North Wllkoebora nollco depart-1 lo^e club, addressed the state | In addition, they seized the rail- 8treami,andasmaUer dampure-
m A ... Ill dav ' X ' tone of the most interesting «d.Tw WWnSf’WItlapqM, M ktn.~~
falttS rOr Unr III chief W^lker caned attention • dresses before the convention. It slans Increased their pressure with the help of'Ba!I-
to the fact that three parents expected that a large attendance , trojn that direction and hammered gy proponents of flood con-
CaUiAM HaUI OHA have been Indicted in North o* I'ions and guests will greet him the northeast and southeast e^ trol on the Yadkin feel they still
vOluIvlS ROW aUU , wikesboro during the nast two at the meeting here Friday eve- trance to the city with artlllerjf j,ave a good opportunity to secure
W. 0. Absher and A. A. and aerial blows. .. ! protection from floods. The peo-
Mrs. Young Bowers
Claimed By Death
Mrs. Carrie Caudill Bowers, age
)2, died early today at her home
n the Abshers community.
Mrs. Bowers Is slirvived by her
lusband. Young Bowers, and five
ions and daughters: Olen Bow-
srs, in the army In England: Ma-
ior Bowers, In the army In Mls-
jissippl; Mack Bowers, In the ar
ay In Callrofnia; Miss Fannie
Bowers, Abshers: Mrs. 11a Romin-
;er, Winston-Salem.
Funeral arrangements are in-
jomplete.
Band Concert
Friday Night
On Friday night at 8 o’clock
the North Wilkesboro high school
band will give a Christmas con-
*cert In the school auditorium.
I The majority of the program
I selections pertain to Christmas
and the band members have re
hearsed faithfully to make this
poncert a success.
There will be no admission
charges.
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TION NEWS
:H0ES — Airplane Stamps
/os. 1. 2, and 8 In book three
rood for one pair of shoes each
ndeflnltely.
GASOLINE—Coupons No. 13
A book good for four gal-
ng became effective Nov. 9
id will expire December 21.
SUGAR — Sugar stamps SC,
. 32, 33, 34 (book 4) good for
re pounds indefinitely.
MEATS, PATS—Red Stamps
A8 through Z8 and A5 through
35, good Indefinitely. No new
itainps until December 31.
:OCESSED FOODS — Blue
ps A8 through Z8; A5
igh Z5, A2 and B2 remain
' Indefinitely. No new
stamps will be validated
the first of next month.
SUGAR: Sugar fUmp 40
ood tor five pounds canning
ngar until February 28. 194 5.
JAPANESE
AIRCRAFT SITE
IS BOMBED
The Intermediate Troop of Girl
Scouts, under the direction of Mrs.
Richard Finley, collected and
packed the gifts for the wounded
and sick soldiers In camps and hos
pitals. The Red Cross office is
waiting instructions as to where
they will be sent so If anyone fail
ed to get their gift In it may be
carried to the office at once.
The gifts numbered about two
I WlkeSboro during the past two
I weeks for failure to keep their
children In school, and that sev
era! other Indictments will be
started within the next few days,
j In addition to staying out of
school, juveniles are giving the
, police department no end of
trouble with petty thefts and
other misbehavior and recently
two young boys wore arrested for
Sturdivant will have charge of the
program.
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F*ii>a4- RovxfJel- Ho*
Isaszeg was captured in a five-
mile rush south from Godollo,
which fell Tuesday.
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$17,000 Budget December Court
Is Called Off
The First Baptist chur.ch, in
regular business conference, |
adopted a $17,000 budget for the j
hundred and were beautifully | chief Walker requests more co
wrapped and tied with Christmas operation from all parents and
ribbons. It will certainly bring f^om other public spirited citl-
cheer to that sick soldier on his toward solving the juvenile
breakfast tray Christmas morn- delinquency problem in North
[Wilkesboro.
The camp and hospital council j y
breaking into homes and stealing year 1945. This is a decided in-
varlous articles. , .crease over the 1944 budget. It
is indeed challenging to the mem
bership of the Fibst Baptist
church, but Is easily believed
that the contributions will cover
the budget for the year.
Judge Warlick Calls Off
Term Because of Unfavor
able Weather Conditions
of the Red Cross wants to thank HiiL-o On Riiv«
everyone that contributed in mak- •
$30,000 In Bonds On
ing this project a
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CpI. Hudson Home
Cpl. W. Jay Hudson arrived
Tuesday night to spend a 30-day
leave with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs.'D. H. Hudson. Jay has been
in combat service with the marine
corps in the South Pacific for the
past two years.
hour,
at 11:00 o’clock.
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Protect wildlife as a forest as
set. A few good den trees made
for better squirrel shooting.
Quota Given Wilkes
Duke Power Company allocated
$30,000 in War Bonds pudehases
to the Wilkes quota during the . _
Sixth War Loan campaign. L^liriS tlliaS Jr FOgT'am
The bonds were purchased I s. OAtl,
through the main office of the rairpIainS
Duke Power company In Char- ! Fairplalns Baptist Sunday school
lotte and substantial amounts will give a Christmas program and
were allocated to the counties In Christmas tree at eight o’clock,
which the company operates December 24th. Everybody Invlt-
I branches. ed to attend.
December term of Wilkes su
perior court, scheduled for this
Sunday, Decern be.- 17, Is Church i week, was called off.
Loyalty Day. The members will I Judge Wilson Warlick, of New-
be given the opportunity of vol-1 ton, who was to preside over the
untarlly making their pledges roUerm, was unable to reach Wilkes-
cover the new budget. All mem- boro Monday becaues of the snow
bers of the church are expected .and icp on the highways and tele-
to be in the morning worship phoned the office of clerk of court
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3 STALEY BROTHERS, 1 WOUNDED, 1 MISSING
Perhaps the mightiest armada of
Superfortresses yet flung against _
Japan kindled huge fires and set'
off heavy bomb blasts yesterday
in the manufacturing area of Na
goya.
More than 100 B-29s, it was in
dicated, composed the force which
struck at the home of the Mltsu-
hlsh aircraft plant and one of Ja
pan’s four principal manufactur
ing centers.
A communique from 20th Air
force headquarters said the Sai
pan-based raiders reported they
were able to observe the results
of their visual bombing and that
heavy explosions and large fires
were seen in the target area.
Tokyo radio, tardily confirming
the first War department an
nouncement of the raid, ack
nowledged some damage and said
to adjourn court until Tuesday
morning.
On Tuesday morning, because of
weather and road conditions
which would make it impractical
for people to attend court. Judge
Warlick ordered the term cancell
ed.
A calendar of criminal cases
had been made out for the term.
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pie of the valley are definitely for
flood control, by whatever means
may be feasible.
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Cantata Sunday
At First Baptist
YANK DIVISIONS
PUSH ALONG IN
ORMOCAREA
On Sunday evening at 6:30
o’clock, the choir of the First Bap
tist church. North Wilkesboro, un
der the directorship of Mrs. An
drew Kilby, will present the can
tata, “The Story of Christmas”, by
H. Alexander Matthews.
The cantata Is for the four-part
chorus of women’s voices with
solo parts for soprano and alto. It
is divided into four parts, con
sisting of The Prophecy, The An
nunciation, The Journey of the
Shepherds, Voices .n the Sky, The
Quest of the Magi, and The Ful
filment of the Prophecy.
[ “The Story of Christmas” was
written some 30 years ago, and
it has gained renewed popularity
during the past few years. It was
written as a dedicatory to Edwin
Arthur Kraft, Trinity Cathedral,
Cleveland.
During this presentation. Miss
Elsie Nichols. First Baptist
church organist, will accompany
at the piano and the guest organ
ist will be Miss Lois Scoggs. Solo
ists will be Miss Martha I^ou
Frazier, Miss Dorothy Gabriel,
and Miss Betty Story.
Members of the thirty-voice
choir are: First sopranos: Miss
Margaret Peele, Mrs. Joyce Mor
gan, Miss Mary Ann Casey, Miss
Hilda Dennis, Miss Delores Jack-
son, Mrs. Shoun Kerbaugh, M'ss
Dorothy Gabriel, Mrs. A. C. Den-
PFC. ROBERT C. STALEY | ARNOLD L. STALEY | PFC. WAYNE H. STALEY
Three sons of G. H. and Sallie Segraves Staley are in service. Pfc. Robert C. Sta-
American troops are making
gains against the Japanese north
of Ormoc on Leyte Island, Inflict
ing "extraordinary heavy” losses
on the enemy, headquarters said
today. [nls, Miss Martha Lou Frazier,
The Japanese continued their Miss Blanche Hall, Miss Edna
efforts to get supplies ashore for Bullls, Miss Wanda Kerley.
their troops pressed Into the | Second sopranos: Mrs. Mabel
northwestern part of the Island by Atkins, Mrs. Nell McNeil, Mrs.
troops of the Seventy-Seventh, Flake Cook, Mrs. W. K. Stnrdl-
Seventh and Thirty-Sefeond dlvl- vant. Mrs. D. E. Browning, Miss
sions. I Grace Prank Kilby, Miss Helen
Three small enemy vessels try- Caldwell.
Ing to land near Ormoc, which fell 1 First altos: Mrs. R. T. McNlel,
I to the Americans Sunday, were Mrs. O. Gambill, Mrs. Ruby Fos-
I sunk yesterday by Yank gunfire, ter. Miss Peggy Nichols, Miss
j Catallnas and Mitchell medium ' Billie Moore, Mrs. Tal Barnes,
• bombers sank or damaged five,Mrs J. W. McClasky.
enemy coastal vessels and damag-1 Second altos:-Mrs. Chas. Hud-
ed a shipyard and docks In raids son. Miss Joanna McNeil Mrs.
Japanese Interceptors were “be
lieved to have caused heavy losses
to the enemy”.
BUY MORE WAR BONDS
ley, age 23, was,wounded in France on August 25 and is making normal improve
ment, according to t6e most recent message received by his parents. He is an army
veteran of four jresurs service. Arnold L; Staley, who entered the army in January,
1943, is now serving in a military police detachment in Kansas. Pfc. Wayne H. Staley
has been reported missing in acUon in Germany since November 6. Ho entered &e
army March 15, 1943.
on Sandaksn, North Borneo, Oen.
Douglas MacArthnr’s communique
said.
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’The percentage.of fixed carbon,
created by Palenzoic sunshine, de-
J termines the value of coal as a
' fuel.
Mildred Yates, Miss Betty Story,
Miss Martha Absher.
Dr. David E. Browning is the
minister.
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Horsea rest better and nse np
less calories standing up than
lying down.
Y. M. C. A. BIHLDING FDRD DRIVE NOW OK-YOHRIMOIFFEREHCE IS A VOTE A^T, YOUR CORTRIBDIM A VGIEfOR Y.IN^.A.