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TEOt JOUBNAL-fA&OT HAS BLA^ THB IZRAIL OF PBQ^IUaW .m TH^. Ti? 'h^' ovm 88 YBABS L 1MI»^P1mm I FAru^ 1^ f iMim :> w. Thiifdi^ WQjrraiwuat^^ c, rauRsb^^ Y««r Ufc^Vtlly** A4»«pc« Staff Sergeant Roy C. Russell, right, receives silver sta^ from Major General Walter M. Robertson, com- —iding general of the second infantry division of the ’St army at a ceremony in Belgium. S.Sgt. Russell, who |i«-4d previously received the bronze star and purple heart, was awarded the silver star few capturing 18 and killing four nazis while capturing a German pillbox on the Belgium front. On Tuesday S.Sgt. Russell arrived at Pores Knob for a surprise visit home. S.SGT. RUSSELL, TWICE DECORATED FOR DRAVERY, HAS ARRIVED HOME OH A SURPRISE VISIT FOR 30 DAYS Farm Committee To Aid Returning Vets Will Meet Friday The Farmers Committee, ap pointed hy the Agricultural Work ers Council, will meet with the conncil In the town hall In North Wilkesboro on Friday, January 19 at 2:00 p. m. All members are urged to be present at this time, as an excellent program has" been ptaaned. j,„4C-thls meeting, plans will be nade for giving assistance to the ^turning farm war veterans. Therefore, it is Important that all members be present and give your luggestions as to how the services —..o nay best be carried out In Wilkes ibefore he was awarded the covet- county. Ralph Duncan Again Heads Telephone Co. Ralph l>uncan, of this city, was re-elected president of the Caro lina Mountain Telephone company In the annual meeting of the stockholders held Monday In Asheville. Mr. Duncan has ex tensive holdings In the company, which operates telephone lines ind exchanges In a number of towns In the western part of the state. He went to Asheville Sun day and remained to attend the meeting of the stockholders and directors Monday, -V drs. Polly Jordan Funeral On Friday Funeral service will be held rlday, 11 a. m. at White Plains lurch for Mrs. Polly Jordan, age 4, who died Wednesday at her ome In Edwards township. Rev. g. Bryant will conduct the last tea. Mrs. Jordan, widow of the late . W. Jordan, Is survived by two >ns and one daughter: B. C. and O. Jordan, of Roaring River, kd Mrs. Minnie Bell, of North fllkesboro. •V iRUEGER’S MEH EHTER POZORRUDIO Progress stepped up along the ft flank of Gen. Douglas Mac- rthur’s wide Luzon beachhead I Sixth army patrols entered azorrublo and cut the main high- ay, headquarters reported. Other units were within a half lies of Rosario, nine miles to the >rth. Action In this northwestern *tor had been slowed for days flstlff opposition and one tank- d counterattack. Other Yank forces, driving 17 from captured Alamlnos on lit flank, secured the north rthe Bollnao peninsula by aching the northern extremity. Driving southward from Alaml- iB, another force vas headed to- ird Dasol bay. -V staff Sergeant Roy C. Russell, fresh from the First Army front where he was decorated with the bronze star, sliver star and purple heart, arrived Tuesday on a sur prise furlough to his home at Pores Knob. The furlough home was a pleas ant surprise for the twice-deco rated sergeant as well as his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Rus sell. After 15 months’ service ov erseas, and while on duty with his outfit at the front, he was surprbMd to g®t ord!#r.l9,,report at headquarters, where he was told to get ready in a few minutes for the coveted trip home. Sgt. Russell got his baptism of fire on the third day of the Nor mandy invasion. It was not long ed badge as a combat Infantry man. It was In Normandy that he received two wounds which kept him In hospitals In England for a month. Shrapnel from a mortar shell got him In the right leg and left arm. Back In France, he was on duty cleaning out nazis In Brest when the squad leader directly In front of him was killed by enemy ma chine gun Are and the man di rectly back of him was wounded by two bullets. Sgt. Russell was not hit. but a bullet tore through his steel helmet and knocked It from his head. He brought that helmet home with him. Later, on the Western front. Sgt. Russell made the headlines when he. single-handed, used a captured machine gun and a lew hand grenades to capture a nazl pillbox. He got nine prisoners the first attempt and nine when he cleaned out the pillbox the next day. In the meantime, he killed four and was under constant fire from snipers. From the pillbox where he bagged the 18 prisoners and killed four, he took three ma chine guns, nine pistols, four verp guns and three bazookas. Sgt. Russell, whose demeanor Is calm and like that of any other peace-loving country lad, won high praise from the men of his company, but he Insists that what he did "was not a bit of trouble”. He doesn’t comment much about the report of the Associated Press correspondent who said he kept the Germans In the pillbox awake all night by his wild yelling. He guesses he and his buddy nearoy were "a bit noisy” during the night. When Sgt. Russell arrived home unexpectedly, one of the first things his father had him to do after he had greeted members of the family was to take out the old rifle and see If he could still shoot as accurately as he used to while squirrel hunting. When he placed a bullet In the same hole he had put It years before, his father concluded that "the army hadn’t hurt his shootln’ none.” Sgt. Russell expects to rejoin Ms outfit on the western front at the end of his furlough home. ■V Pvi. Kilbjr Home Pvt. Lomax Elby, avlntlon ■dent At Lincoln. Nebraska, is snding this week here with his rents, Mr. and Mra. A. F. Kilby. Pvt. Henderson Home Pvt. Jack Henderson will re turn to the army air base at Florence, S. C., Saturday after spending several days furlough in Wilkesboro with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Henderson. Selective Service boards in Wilkes on Wednesday sent the following men to the indnetion center for examination to deter mine their fitness for military service. Those accepted will be inducted in the near future r BOARD NUMBER 1 CSarl Edward Parks John Clarence Brooks Paul Russell Eller Claude Presley Jolnes James Oscar Faw Ralph Duane Chnrch Carl Hollar L. P. Johnson Roy Lee Mathis Leonanl Eller Ray McDonald Walker Charlie Dancy Charlie Richard Smlthey Howard James Walker Ulysses Vernon Dyer Mount Vernon Jarvis Finley Olbson Nichols Charlie Raymond Clanton Hugh Daner Sale BOARD NO. 2 William Lawrence Lee. Harrison Ceidl Byrd, Frank Reynolds. Weldon Odell Brown. Claude Allen Ellis. Cleve Mannel Rose. John Isaac WOes. Roy 'Thomas Wells. James Albert Wood. James Daniel Hollnway. BnrUe Odell Wiles. John Roscoe Cockerham. Stamie Odell Bowers, Lonnie Caldwell BLandy, Fred Monroe Adams. Clande Holbrook (Volunteer) Bill Mason Myers, (Volunteer). James Carter Carson. Walter A. Holtoook. Jessie Ward Hodge. Gilmer Eugene Clonch. Robert Thomas DhnmeCte. Billy Ervin Absber. James Wesley Shnmate. Willie Eugene MBler, Alvin Barney Sloop. CYaude Boy EUedge. Lonnie M. Heynce. Marvin Matord BJrrd. Robert Clande Walk Jack S]doer. Leonard William I^att. Connie Dancy. Vernon Eubanks Johnson. Franklin Paul Adams. Marvin WilUe Shephevd. Woodrow Wilson Palmer. Thomas Ralph Blackburn. Jusdoe Aldean Gentry. James Monroe Yarfooro. Grady Walls. James Edwin Bnrchant. Robert Reece Jolly, J. C, Blackbnm. Thomas Hood Byrd. Monroe Cecil OamblU. Sam Wade Colbert. Board Number 1 on Monday sent the following men to begin service. George Washington Blmore William Harrison Adams WUUam Conrad Wyatt Calvin Arthur HoUeman Edmond Jones Melton Garvey Clay Mathis James Eldon Spicer Panl S. Paardne ' Delmar Milton Osborne Bobbie Eugene Wall Paul Weymonth C*vambers Dewey Gaither Privette Y.M.C.A. Canvass In Wilkes County To Degin Monday On Monday, January 2'2, the house-to-house canvass in behalf of the Y. M. C. A. building fund will begin in the Wllkesboros and throughout Wilkes county. Mrs. E. G. Finley is chairman of the house-to-house canvass committee. The rural contacts will he through the schools, with emphasis on Informing the people of the benefits which may be ex pected from a Y. M. C. A. here. The goal for the fund to erect u modern Y. M. C. A. after the war Is S160,000. During the past year 136,000 was contributed and it Is expected that a greater part of the necessary fund may he raised before the end of this year. / Polio Campaign Workers Named For Wilkesboro W. D. Jester, polio fund cam paign chairman for the town of Wilkesboro, has announced ap pointment of the following co workers: H. H. Dotson, George S. Parlier, Mrs. N. B. Smlthey, B. P. Hettlger, Wm. T. Long, Rev. How ard J. Ibrd and Rev. J. O. Ervin. Girl Scouts will make a house-to- house canvass of the town. Pvt. William Howard Jones, sou of Mr. and Mra. J. C. Jones, ot North Wilkesboro route one, has been repotted missing in ac tion in Germany since Decem ber 21, according to an official War Depkrtment telegram re ceived here. Pvt. Jones entered the army December 80, 1948, and went overseas In Novem ber, 1944. Since that time he had served with a field artil lery outfit on the western front. He has a brother, T-5 Clarence A. Jones, who is serv ing in Belgium. Woimen’s Division Of Polio Campaign Plans Activities Guests At Parties To Give Quarter Each; Prize Ex. pense To Polio Fund As chairman of the Woman’s Division of the Infantile Paralysis campaign, Mrs. Richard Finley Is asking all social clubs as they have their meetli^ the week of January 22, to paj^ to the host or boatSBa »M®|Me,fop nre of Wtir Those having card>I>artWS are ask ed not to give a prize but to con tribute the price of the prize to gether with the amount given them by the guaats to the Infan tile Paralysis Fund. Mrs. Finley Is asking that everybody have par ties and teas next week, with no prizes and very little refresh ments, with each guest contribut ing the 25c to the fund. Lets all have fun that week and help a child have more fun by learning to walk. North Wilkesboro’s newest In- Mhis^^ Is manufacturing small cloth hags" for packing smoking tobaoeo. ‘''VFor'imany years bag manufac turing companies have been send ing the bags into Wilkes county to be "strung” In homes. String ing baga/Musists of placing the draw strings in the hem at the top.' ^lievlng that It would be prac tical to manufacture the bags here as well as string, Millhlser Bag Company, of Richmond, Va., has established a North Wilkes- boro branch plant with L. L. | Godfrey, of Wilkesboro, as man ager. Mr. Godfrey for many years had previously represented that company here as stringing agent. Six automatic machines have been Installed in a part ot the Coffey building on Gordon Avenue and the plant is In operation. Each machine has a capacity for making about 25,000 bags dally, which will make the ca pacity of the small plant here about 1,000,000 bags per week. One operator can care for two ma- ebines. George Wells is in charge of the machines. The machines make the bags complete except for Insertion of the draw strings, which still must be done by hand and the bags are sent out to homes for stringing. A strip of cloth from a large roll goes Into the machine continuous ly and a bag well hemmed and sewed comes out at the other end at the rate of one per second. The small plant has been es tablished here on a trial basis and if results are sat; factory It is expected that the plant op erations here may be expanded to supply a greater part of the com pany’s output of small, cloth bags. Need Furniture For Girl Scout Rooms Girl Scouts are endeavoring to place furniture in the Girl Scout Little House, where meetings are held. Two couches, some chairs and a table lamp are needed. If there Is anyone who would donate one of more of the needed arti cles, please call Mrs. L. S. Spain- hour, troop leader. In Wilkesboro the Girl Scouts are In need of furniture for their place of meetings and If anyone has anything they wish to donate for that purpose there, please call Mrs. J. M. Derr, Jr. GREAT RED DRIVE TAKES IN WARSAW The Russians captured ruined, long-embattled Warsaw yester day In a breath-taking encircle ment maneuver as a third great red army group plunged Into the winter offensive rushing the Ger mans westward across Poland In cataclysmic retreat. In southern Poland the Rus sians drove to within 15 miles of the German border, capturing Czestochowa, 126 miles south west of Warsaw, and Poland’s second city of Krakow also was reported captured In thfe fast rolling soviet drive. On a front at least 260 miles long, 2',000,000 or more Russian soldiers sped westwaid beyond shattered nazl defense, reaching points from 260 to 290 miles from Berlin. As'the Polish capital fell after five years and four months of nazl ocenpation and the Rnsslans raced their mammoth new Stalin super-tanks along the main high road due west towards Berlin, the soTlet-sponsored Polish provi sional government at Lnblin an nounced that Krakow, seat of the German regime for Poland, had fallen. The German radio at Krakow suddenly went dead. A8$fetant Chairman Cross War Fund Manrice Walsh has been nam ed assistant War Fund chair man for the Wilkes chapter of the American Red Cross, Rev. Howard J. Ford, War Fund chairman, announced today. Mr. Walsh, manager of the Men’s Department at the Goodwill Store In North Wilkesboro, has been very active In church and c4vlc affairs and he is expected to be a valuable addition to the organization for the annual War Fund campagln, which will be carried ont in Marrii. Jas. M. Yates, 76, Dies In Wilkesboro James M. Yates, age 76, well known citizen of Wllkesb o, died at bis home shortly after midnight this morning. He had been in ill health since August, 1944, and critically 111 for several days. Mr. Yates was a member of a well known Wilkes family, being a Bon of the late Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Yates, of the Purlear com munity. He was born and reared in the Purlear community but moved to Wilkesboro many years ago. At one time ho served as keeper of the Wilkes county homo, and for the past several years had devoted his time to the poultry business. Mr. Yates is survived by his wife, Mrs. Pearl Yates: three brothers, W. L. Yates, of Wilkes boro, John Morgan Yates and Tom Yates, of Purlear; two sisters, Mrs. Alice Watts of Purlear; and Mrs. Alpha McNeill. Kansa^ City, Mo,' Funeral service will be con ducted Friday, one o’clock, at the^ l^ltoro Baptist church, with Rift\®»ward J- For® ^ charge. bSwI irfl! be in the New Hope cemetery, j, Pvt, Geoi^ Miles, who was wounded In Italy on September 29, 1944, Is now a patient at Northlngton General hospital, Tnscaloosa, Alabama, whwe he recently nnderwent a head operation. Before going to Tuscaloosa he spent a 21-day tnriongh with his wife, the former Miss Jennette Shumate, and daughter, Portia, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Mil ler, of Hays. Pvt Miles enter ed the army In September, 1948, and received training In Texas. Crusade For Christ Union Service Here Sunday ARernoen All the Methodist churches of Wilkes county will participate In a union service In the Interest of "The Crusade for Christ” at the First Methodist church of North Wilkesboro Sunday afternoon at 3:30. The speaker for the occasion will be Dr. Benjamin G. Childs, lay leader of the Durham District and professor of education at jjuks UByixs^ji^. Drs,chiida ia well and tavornbly known dmong Methodists of Wilkes county, hav ing spoken here at a Laymen’s Day program and In a training school last winter. All Methodist churches of America are now engaged In the program of “The Crusade for Christ” which has as Its objec tives the raising of 25 millions of dollars and an Intensified pro gram for four years in Evange lism, Education, Crusade for a New Order, World Relief and Re construction and Stewardship. The entire program will be of Interest to people other than Methodists and everyone la Invit ed to attend the service. Milk From Plant At Home Reaches Lieut. Spainhour After 18 months overseas Lt. Jack Spainhour, who Is serving In the navy on a landing craft ship, got his first bottle of milk and was agreeably surprised to find that It came from his home town. While off the shore of Eng land another officer brought to the ship a bottle of milk for lA. Spalnhonr. Imagine hls pleas ant surprise to find on the la bel that it had been bottled at Lexington and frozen at the Wilkesboro plant of Coble Dai ry Products company. Lt. Spalnhonr Is now in New York after 20 months of over- seas duty, during which time he has participated in at least three invasion campaigns. He is expected home In a few days to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Spalnhonr, and hls wife. Ceiling Prices On Used Motorcycles J. R. Henderson, local ration ing official In, charge of celling prices, anounced today that us ed motorcycles now have OPA celling prices. Information on ceiling prices may be obtained from the rationing board office In the Relns-Sturdivant building. ■V License to Wed During the past week marriage license were Issued by Register of Deeds Troy Foster to three couples: Stancel Gefitry, Ben- ham, and Edna Stone, Benham; Ronald Green, Mt. Zion, and Viola Green, Deep Gap; James B- Bailey, Raleigh, and HqBe Rone- sean. North Wflkeaboro. Mur It Gogdon Fkllejr Is Accorded Ht|^ Hoilmr Monday At Conncil Meeting With hot few changes, 1946 of ficers of the Old Hickory Conncil of Boy Scouts of America, were elected at the annual meeting held in Winston-Salem at the Home Moravian church education build ing Monday night, January 16th. John M.’ Brown was re-elected as president. Other officers chosen were R. B. Lasater, honorary president; R. W.'Harris, J. B. Carter, Levem Johnson, and J. Raymond Smith, vice presidents; John M. Brown and H. Banks Newman, patlonal councU representatives; H. Banks Newman, conncil commissioner; and E. C. Goodman, treasurer. District chairmen named were: W. N. Vogler, Forsyth; Tom Roth, Elkln-Yadkln; R. M. Green, for Stokes; J. F. Yokley, Surry; Clyde R. Greene, Watauga;Levem John son, Ashe; J. B. Carter, Wilkes. District commissioners are J. Mark McAdams, Elkln-Yadkln; R. C. Whltoker, Stokes; W. S. Por ter, Surry; Dr. R. C. Busteed, Wa tauga; Gordon Finley, Wilkes; Roy Hinshaw, Forsyth. A com- mlBsioner for Ashe will be nam ed later. Executive board members elec ted were Parks D. Hunter, W. F. Garter, J. Harry White, A. O. Bryan,. E. T. Mickey, Sr., Dr. S. H. Templeton, J. T. Reece, Gordon Finley, and Dr, Robert Busteed. The Silver Beaver award was presented to Gordon Finley of Wilkes, and posthumously to B. M. “Tom” Holder. H. Banks New man, council commissioner, made the presentations of the highest award a local council may bestow for "distinguished service to boy hood.” Certificates for bravery were presented for Mr. Holder, who lost hls life last summer while aiding In the rescue of a Scout in dis tress in the Uke_at camp, and to Seont'Kyte Sraes, who took part In the rescue. Dr. E. S. ’Thomp son, chairman of the Health and Safety Committee, presented the awards. B. Urner Goodman, national director of the Division of Pro gram, spoke on the "Scout Trail to Peace.” While scouting Is only 36 years old as an organization. Its Ideals date from the Ten Com mandments and the Sermon on the Mount. It Is a part of our life that will go on for generations and Is a world movement. One of every two boys now becomes a Bcont. "Peace will not cor.-' unless the state retains dtsclpl. and man liness that is an outgrowth of army life,” Mr. Goodman stated. “Human life without hardihood would be contemptible." Scouting provides virility and hardihood through combat with old Mother Nature herself. 'Through the op eration of the Patrol system and with the Oath and Law to guide them, the declpllne that comes to scouts Is from within. They do things because, they are right, not because of force from without. Scouters and their guests pres ent from the Wilkes District were Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Carter, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Finley, Miss Mary Elmore Finley, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Anderson, R. S. Gibbs, and L. M. Nelson.' BRITISH PUSH TAKES VILLAGE OF DIETEREN White-clad British Tommies advanced 1,000 yards and captur ed the village of Dleteren In their new offensive In the Dutch pan handle yesterday as the United States First army in two-mlle gains to the south lunged through snow-drifted battlegrounds to a point within four miles of the strategic Ardennes communica tions center of St. Vlth. Farther southward In the bulge the United States Third army cleared the entire Bastogne-Houf- falizer road and hammered the enemy back toward the St. Vlth- Wlltz ridge. Below the bulge American Third army Infantry, fighting on German soil between the Moselle river and the Saar east of Luxembourg, closed a trap around an enemy force of undis closed size In a woodland south east of Tettingen. The Germans appeared to bo digging in again in the Ardennm, stiffening their reslstaneO with the first armor seen In days. BoylioreBoidil
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