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"3 V TEB JOURNAI/-PAT&IOT HAS BLAZED THE TRAIL OF FBOOlpK tK THE “STATE OF WILKES” FOR OVER 88 TEARS XXXIX. No, 77 PnUlihod Momioy* oiid TLvndor*^ NORTH W1LK1SB0IN>, 4* titolSDAY. JAN. 28,1948 Watch Yoar UM ■ 8wbict|^ h A4y—oo Jiniior Ord^ Cooneil H«m I Sols Up ContOT In Former ( Lecnliati Moom Hall North wnkMhoro oonncfl of the Xaaior Order United Amertesn lleehsaioe 'will establish a recrea tion center for yonth in North ■W likes boro. For the center the conncll has obtained nse of the second floor of the Lowe bnilding opposite the postoffice on C street. The room Will bo equipped •with games and other recreation facilities tor yonng people. The recreation center ■will be open for the first time on Satur day night of this week and all yonng people are in'vlted to make nse of it. Plans are to have the nter open each Saturday night )nn seven until 10:30 o’clock and ^ers of the council will be on as chaperons. After the cen- established arrangements m& be made to have It open two Bights each week. Farmers Mutual * Elects Directors, Officers For Year Pfc. Otta h. Chambers, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harley Chambers, of Cycle, Is now serving in Ger many. Pfc. Chambers entered service January 28, 1944, and received training at Camp Bark- eley, Texas, and Camp Reyijolds, Pa. He went overseas in Sep tember and has been serving in the medical corps. In recent let ters home he stated he was get ting along fine. Wilkes branch of the Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Association in recent meeting elected offi cers and directors for the year. Attorney J. F. Jordan, secre tary-treasurer, listed the direc tors as follows: D. M. Brendle, Bmest Edwards, J. M. German. Clarence Hendren, A. S. Spears, R. F. Eller and Frank Hobson, in addition to the following offi cers: W. M. Absher, president; G. B. Bell, vice president; J. F. Jor dan, secretary-treasurer. The association experienced a successful year In 1944. Br. Browning Is KiwtnisSiKMi i .ifeiwsting Meeting of Club Held Friday Noon; Inter- Club Meet Announced With W. K. Sturdivant In charge of the program. North Wllkesboro Kiwanis club held .an enjoyable meeting at Hotel Wilkes Friday noon. Dr. Browning addressed the club on “The Christian Consci ence and the Present Crisis”. Speaking of the mesa we are In, he said; “The power of an Idea caused the war. Though there be four or forty freedoms they all are stupid. Our civilisation is weak. We have lost the sense of ilirectlon. Democracy has not been fully developed. Our na tion Is everything but Christian, there Is a lack of healthy morals, we are seeking profit and promo tion Instead of service and the way out Is the religious way”. „.Prior to tl^ program President Paul Osborne read an Invitation for members of the local club to attend an inter-club meeting in Salisbury, January 31, at which time Ben Dean, president of Ki- wanis International, will speak. Guests Friday were as follows: J. O. Hackett with P. B. Forester; Harvel Howell with W. G. Gabriel; John A. Brown with Robert L. Morehouse; Oscar Phillips with Paul Vestal; Perry Lowe with lari E. VanDeman. BlUle Moore, JO rendered a delightful solo ,rly In the program, was a guest North Wllkesboro Basketball Team Is To Play Boone First Home Game of the Sea* son at School Gymnasium Friday Night At 7:30 the club. IXTH ARMY ENTERS REB WINTER BRIVE Wpplng through German Silesia ind" East Prussia at blitzkrieg jace, the Russians Tuesday cap- ;nred Oppein, Upper Silesian »pital, and reached within 4 1-2 niles of Breelan amid reports lhat they already had crossed the 3der River line and had snapped jjpijt the war’s aj^Mest trap on Prussia. f ( In we8temmo8tin[iand, against ‘.pparently stlffefffflg opposition, oriet forces nevertheless ed ahead a dozen miles in fllghborhood of Poznan on fost direct path to Berlin, 37 miles west of Poznan. Four orders of the day by Pre- iler Stalin and a long midnight ommuniqne broa'lcast from Mos- ow disclosed the 'continued weeping scope of the Russian lidvlnter offenslre and an- ounced that a sixth army had ploed the great diiTe. Birr MORE WAR BONDS First home game of the North Wllkesboro high school basket ball team will be on Friday night, 7:30, in the North Wllkesboro high school gymnasium against the strong team from Boone high. J. C. Williams, who is coaching the local boys, said today that they have shown much improvement after 'the first two games and have been working hard in prep aration for the engagement with Boone. The local cagers played their first two games against Millers Creek and Cove Creek teams, which are widely recognized as two of the fastest high school teams In western North Carolina. In the game against Millers Creek some of the North Wllkesboro players were playing their first game. Against Cove Creek the North Wllkesboro team scored only six points but had the dis tinction of being the first team this season to hold the Cove Creek quintet to a score under 50 points, the score being 49 to 6. Better team work has been evidenced In North Wllkesboro practice this week. Some of the substitutes have been looking good and are giving the regulars real competition for places In the starting lineup. Gene Foster, lanky center, who had been out of the lineup be cause of injuries, has been out for practice and may see action against Boone. The starting Ilnenp may find Caudill and Hudson as forwards. Turner at center, Rousseau and Winters In the guard positions. Others likely to get Into the game are Foster at center, Dick Sloope and Ballard. A large crowd of local basket ball fans are expected to witness the first home game. Rev. Howard Ford, Red Cross War Fund chairman, attended tha War Fnnd Conference Junary tO In Statesville. With Rev. Mr. Ford at the meettnr were Dr. David B. Browning, member of the speakers bareau, and Hiss Kathrln Sanford, executive secre tary. ’The pnrposa of the eonfarenca was to acquaint the representa tives with all available war drive Information and to help each chapter make its own plans for the fnnd raising campaign which will begin in March. Mr. A. B. Murphy, assistant manager of the Southeastern area, disenssed the organization for a speedy cam paign and urged all chapters to complete their drive within a week’s period. A Nazi flag, German gun, youth knife and other souvenirs were displayed by Field Director Char lie Skarron as an introduction to his remarks about Red Cross overseas work. Mr. Skarron land ed with his unit in France on D- plus-6 and served as Red Cross representative with the front line troops until his recent return to the United States. He pointed out the four major Red Cross overseas services that he had seen Euccessfnlly operating in the theatre to which he had been as signed. First he mentioned the general field director work which serves the men In every overseas station—this unit distributes com fort articles, secures welfare re ports concerning families at home and makes necessary loans. The second service Is the overseas clubs and rest centers where the men on furlough may get Ameri can food and sleep in regular beds. The third service Is the Clubmobile which is manned by Rod Cross girls. These units go almost to the front lines serving coffee and doughnnts, showing outdoor movies and playing re cordings of American music. The last.. jandea la the Bed CroM recreation and social work in the hospitals. This group of women conducts recreational programs for the men who are convalescing and secures medical and social history reports from the families of the serviceman for the doctor. Mrs. George Moore Is Taken Ay Death Mrs. Mary Moore, 97-year-old resident of North Wllkesboro, died Wednesday at her home Funeral service was held today, two p. m., at Hlnshaw Street Bap tist church In this city and burial was In the Baptist cemetery. Rev. George Curry conducted the serv ice. , Mrs. Moore Is survived by her husband, George S. Moore, and the following sons and daughters: Mrs. Ida Johnson, North Wllkes- horo; Lloyd E. Moore, Utah; Wil son Moore, Andrew Moore and Mrs. John Porter, North Wllkes boro. Joe Harrold Rites Will Be On Friday Funeral service for Joe Har rold, age 62, who died Wednes day at his home near Hays, will be held Friday, one p. m., at the home and burial will be in the Harrold cemetery. Rev. L. S. Blevins will conduct the service. Mr. Harrold leaves the follow ing sons and daughters: Boaz Harrold, Hays; Marshall Harrold, Buysvllle, Del.; Carlle Harrold, Fallston, Md.; Spencer Harrold and Mrs. Slna Sturgill, North WllkMboro. Polio Banco At HI School Gym Location Changed To Ac commodate Larger Crowd; Articles To Be Given In order to accommodate a larg er crowd, location of President’s Ball for the benefit of the polio fund has been changed from the Legion and Auxiliary clubhouse to the North Wllkesboro high school gymnasium, C. E. Jenkins, Jr., In charge of arrangements, has an nounced. An orchestra has been secured to furnish music for both round and square dancing. The dance will begin at nine o'clock. Mr. Jenkins announced that gifts of cigarettes, shotgun shells, chew ing gum and other “scarce” mei- chandise will be given away in stead of auctioned as formerly an nounced. Mr. Jenkins said this change in plans was in accordance with OPA celling price regula tions. A contingent of 16 soldiers from the training center at Greensboro will attend the ball as guests of the city and com munity and the Wilkes chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. The ball is one of several means being used to raise Wilkes’ quota of 36,250 In the polio cam paign. During the past yeax the National Foundation spent more than $30,000 In care and treat ment of the 37 polio patients in Wilkes during the 1944 epidemic. YANKS REACH THE EDGE OF CLARK FIELB Yank motorized patrols burst to the edge of big Clark Field Wed nesday, sparking a swift-moving drive which overran one of the prized airdromes on Sattellte fields. Right behind them In strength the 4th Division cracked the Bam- ben River line, where the Japanese had been expected to make a stand, to roll within three miles of the field with its 13 airstrips, only a little over 40 miles from Manila. CpL Lewis W. Meade, age 28, died in Luxembourg on Decern- ber 20, according to a War De- partment telegram received by his mother, Mrs. Imie Meade, of this dty. Cpl. Meade lost his life when a tank in whidi he was a crewman plunged through the rail of a bridge Into a stream. Cpl. Meade entered the army November 21, 1942, was In training at Fort Bonnlng, Qa., and Camp Gordon, Ga., be fore going overseas In Septem ber, 1944. He served with an armored division in the Third Army. Cpl. Meade, at the time he entered service, was employ ed by Forest Fnmltnre company In North Wllkesboro, He was a member of the North Wllkes boro Presbyterian church and was 'well and favorably known here. He is survived by his moGier and the foDowhig brothers and sisters; Matthew H. Meade, North Wllkesboro; Edward Meade, Chase City, Va.; W. B. Meade, North WUkes- bewo; Sgt. Howard B. Meade, in Englamd; Robert A. Meade, ahlpfltter In the navy and now serving on the Caribbean; Mrs. Bertha loiataon, Akron, Ohio: Mrs, Theodore Hpl^ aBd^l|tat $1,200 Railed To Date; The Qaola for CountF $6,280; Much Woric U Alioad InfeuBtUe Paralysis Fnnd cam paign is off to a good start in Wilkes and approximately |1,200 has been received, Sam Ogilvle, chairman, said today. While that is a substantial amount at this stage of the cam paign, Mr. Ogilvle pointed ont that it is only a start toward rais ing the county's quota of $6,250, and nrged all workers to greater efforts during the remaining days of the campaign. Some contributions have been received from the letters mailed to local firms and Indlvldnals in the higher income brackets, and many reports are expected next week from community chairmen in rural areas. .. ' Wnyao boro. His f^er 'wn A. & Mea^, who died in 1980. Methodists Regln Crosade For Christ Sunday morning marks the be ginning of Solicitation Week for "The Crusade for Christ” at the First Methodist church of North Wllkesboro. At the morning worship hour each member of the church will be Invited to make a pledge—pay able within 12 months, to the Cmsade for Christ which Is a pro gram for the next quadrenninm in cultivation of a new spirit of stewardship, education, evange lism, missions and to relieve some of the acute physlclal needs of Europe and Asia. The program will cover the raising of $25,000,000 among eight million Methodists. The quota for First Methodist church is $4,800, which is expected to be pledged by February 4. The church membership Is di vided into geogrpahlcal zones with two members from the board of stewards and two ladles from the Woman’s Society who will canvass every member of the church during the week January 28-February 4, who does not make a pledge at the church next Sunday. The membership of First Meth odist church Is expected to rally to this great need and wonderful opportunities to alleviate some of the suffering of the world to day. Check-Up Meeting Y.M.C.A. Workers Monday Afternoon Workers who have been en gaged In the T. M. C. A. canvass In the Wilkesboros are asked to meet at the home of Mrs. B. G. Finley Monday afternoon, four o'clock, at which time results of the work will be reviewed. Mrs. Huffman, 83, Funeral Tuesday Last rites were held Tuesday at the home In Stanton township for Mrs. Hannah Caroline Phillips Huffman, age 83, who died Mon day. Rev. A. W. Eller and Rev. Glenn Huffman conducted the service. Burial was in the fami ly cemetery. Mrs. Huffman is sarvived by two sons, Wallace and Albert Huffman, of Pnrlear, ■V Mr. Cyrus Wiles, who holds a position 'With Yadkin Valley Mo tor company, attended a Ford Tractor course of instruetloir in Charlotte Monday and Tuesday. In addition to canvass of the people a March of Dimes is under way on Main street, a President’s' Ball which will be held Friday night In the high school gymna sium and contributions are being received by mall by Mr. Ogilvle from those who are not contacted. Saturday will be “Tag Day” in the Wilkesboros. In this city troop 8 of the Girl Scouts under direction of Mrs. R. G. Finley will sell the tags and In WQkeeboro the Intermediate Girl Sconts under direction of Mrs. Graydon Watts wUl con duct the sale. The funds de rived will go into the polio fund. Both theatres here are show ing a special polio film during the remainder of this week. Mr. Ogilvle asks that people make their contributions as liberal as possible In view of the fact that approximately $30,000 was spent by the National Foundation for care and treatment of the 37 patients in Wilkes during the 1944 epidemic. All workers are urged to ^m- plete'their cihvaat and getln l^ porta by January 31, official clos ing date of the campaign, if pos- slUe. Apple Growers To Meet On Tuesday "Apple Growers Ball” Is being organized for Tuesday, January 30, by the fruit growers of the county and the county extension agent’s office at the courthouse. The music for the bail will be furnished by pruning shears and pruning saws in the expert hands of the famous H. R. Nlswonger. Of course, all apple and fruit growers, large and small in the county, are not only invited to at tend 'bnt they are reminded if they do not attend they will miss a rare opportunity in meeting their apple and fruit grower neighbors and In getting addi tional thoughts of the better care and management of their apple orchards. Mr. Nlswonger comes from the famous horticulture extension staff from the Greater University of North Carolina, and directly from State College at Raleigh. He will have with him the latest or chard management methods being handed do'wn through the various colleges and experiment stations of the nation and the U. S. Fruit Growers laboratories, etc., from Washington and throughout the states. County agent at large, Oscar H. Phillips, stated that It was Im possible to arrange one of these fruit growers and orchard man agement balls in every community in the county. These meetings are arranged to accommodate the con venience of the majority of the apple growers In the county. He stated that any apple grower from other sections who happened not to have a way and will meet at the courthouse Tuesday morning at 9:00 o’clock on Janufiry 30, he will be glad to have them go with him or Carl VanDeman, the U. S. laboratory expert. The first fruit growers and or chard management ball will be held In the apple orchard over on I. J. Broyhlll’s orchard near Boomer at 10:00 In the morning on January 30. TTie second meet ing will be held In the apple or chard of James Rltchlb at Pores Knob at 1:30 p. m. on the same day, January 30. The third ■will be held in the apple orchard of Clarence Hendren In the Gll- reath community at 8:80 p. m. on the same day. V Mr. B. O. Barnes, who Is en gaged in war work at Wilming ton, apent aoreral daya here week aa guest of Mr, and Mrs. W. Q. Blankenahlp. ‘ Sgt. Odell Haynee, son of Mr. and Mrs. Mertle Haynes, ot Red- dlee River, entered the army November 7, 1941, received training at Fort Bragg and went overseas In June, 1942. He has spent 31 monais In the Sonthwest Pacific. In a recent letter home he stated that he hoped to come home In the near fntnte. Over $1,000 ReeeivMl In Tim Campaign; Year Enda With Funds On Hand Association Has Annual Meeting North Wilkesboro Associa tion Has Good Year Despite War Time Handicaps Mrs. Jack Svofford, ehslrmsn of the Uhristmss seal campaign sponsored by the Woman's Clnb, has just released a splendid finan cial report. The report, as of January 22, shows that the fund, which is need in Wilkes to fight tnbercnlosis and help treat victims of the disease, now has |1,654.24 in the bank after expenses were paid. The seal sale this year brought in $1,012.42, and the receipts were from the following sources; mailing of seals, $630.26; colored schools, $41.00; white schools, $332.72, and Bangle day, $8.45. The last report, as of April 7, 1944, showed $1,080.48 in the bank, which, with current receipts of the last campaign, made a total of $2,092.90 for the fund. Expenditures since April 17 were listed by Mrs. Stafford as follows; Xrays and early case findings, $95.00; juices for tuber cular hut, $7.98; expenses for get ting out seals, $18.75; Christmas boxes for Wilkes tubercular pati ents, $49.17; sent to state office for 25 per cent of gross receipts in campaign, $253.10; sent to state office for one-half of sup plies used, $16.84. The expendi tures totaled $438.66. V ITie North Wllkesboro Building & Loan Association held its an nual shareholders’ meeting at the city hall in North Wllkesboro on Monday evening, January 22, at 7:00 o’clock. J. H. Whicker, Jr., was chairman and J. B. Williams, secretary of the shareholders’ meeting,' at which time a report was received from the secretary inr the 19«"~dpenttiemt.^’*"7r*Trf Reins, president of the associa tion, also made a verbal report which was very interesting. Other shareholders made fine booster talks on the building and loan work, in which they congratulated the management on Its success for the year of 1944, which they thought was splendid due to world conditions existing which affect very vitally financial Institutions. The old board of directors was nnanlmonsly re-elected^ namely; J. C. Reins, S. V. Tomlinson, J. H. Whicker, Jr., J. B. Williams, C. P. Walter, J. H. Rector, H. M. Hutch ens, D. J. Carter, R. G. Finley, W. H. H. Waugh, J. B. Snyder and C. E. Jenkins, Jr. It has been ascertained that the North Wllkesboro Association paid to its shareholders last year In withdrawal and maturity, $114,129.00, and in earnings to shareholders a total of $2'5,336.37 was paid. After the shareholders’ meeting the directors met and re-elected the old board of officers, namely: J. C. Reins, president; S. V. Tom linson, vice-president; J. H. Whicker. Jr., attorney, and J. B. Williams, secretary-treasurer. This splendid financial institu tion has now completed its 42nd year In continuous operations In serving North Wilkesboro and Wilkes county. No other Institu tion has been more instrumental In building homes in this county than this building and loan asso ciation, and it will In the future, as It has In the past, continue to assist all worthy applicants by lending them money to build or purchase homes. The report of the secretary- treasurer follows: The third year of total war has made Its Influence felt on your Building & Loan Association (Continned on page six) V KIwanlans Plan Special Program Purlear Community Is Working Hard In Polio Campaign •The people of Pnrlear com munity are working hard for the polio drive. There are three churches In this section, Purlear, New Hope, and Stony Hill. A con tribution will be taken from each church and personal contacts are being made. The workers In this drive are Mrs. W. S. Fletcher, chairman, Misses Doris Davidson, Ruby Tates, Ardona Vannoy, Valera Fletcher, Dare Watts, Delta Y. Tates, Annie Laura Canter, Mes- dames Alda Eller, Dorothy Van noy, Laura Church, Winnie M. Church, Johnson Crane, Jessie Rhyne, Edna McNlel, and Messrs Dixon Cooper, Don Nichols and Rev. Lea Beahears. BUY MORE WAR BONDS Members of the Kiwanis Clnb of North Wllkesboro will observe the 30th anniversary of Kiwanis International Friday with a pro gram baaed on the service organi zation’s 1945 administrative theme, "Win the War—Build for Peace”. president of the North Wllkesboro club, said today that plans for the anniversary meeting, to be h Id at noon Friday, January 28, at Hotel Wilkes, have been virtual ly completed. Outstanding features will include the reading of a mes sage from Ben Dean, Grand Rapids, president of Kiwanis In ternational,, and announcement of this year’s odjectives. Recalling that Kiwanis was bom In Detroit on the eve of World War I, Mr. Obsorne said the organization since Pearl Har bor has supplemented its com munity service activities with projects which contribute directly to the conduct of the United Na tions’ war program. He revealed that last year 139,- 000 KIwaniana in some 2,250 clubs throughout the United States and Canada bought and sold war bonds valued at more than $1,000,000,000. They also donated 65,000 pints of blood, purchased millions of . cigarettes for soldiers overseas, established canteens and entertainment cen ters, and kept in direct touch with upwards of 2,000,000 servicemen and women either by letter, or by sending them hometown news papers. Eleven men attended the meet ing which created Kiwanis during the winter of 1916. Its member ship since that time has increased by leaps and bounds, especially In the past year. More than 13,- 000 Klwanians are in the armed forces. President Osborne said that plans for the anniversary meeting were being directed by the com mittee on Kiwanis Education. V- U. S. TROOPS HACK OUT SMALL GAINS British Second Army tanka, reaching 10 miles Inside the Reich, stormed Into the Selgfrled fortress of Helnsberg today against thin ning enemt resistance, and It was disclosed that for three days Ger man railroads have been jammed with men and weapons shifting from the west to the eastern front. At Helnsberg, Field Marshall Sir B. L. Montgomery’s tommies were within 15 miles of the twin Rhineland industrial centers of Hunchen-Qladbach and Rheydt— extreme artillery range—and were just 29 miles trom the me tropolis of DuaseMorf on the Rhine. V- Hlss Ardena Vannoy, of Pur lear, spent Monday morning with Mre. J. T. Bdminston, of Wllkes boro.
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