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■ ' ■ * 1. THE JOrnmAh-FATBlOT HAS BLA^ THS THAIL OF PBdOfUBB IN Tm "STATSi OF WHiSaBS" FOR OVER 88 YEARS 7M an Wfm •fmmmt ■oiaeoM fei aarfiM, ■abMriiiMMi «cpif«. AM XXXIX. No. 86 PnbHslMd Mdwiaya knd T1iitnd«]r». NORTH WILiBBgBORO, N.‘ €.> MONDAY. FBB. 26. 1945 N^tdi Ymu UM mKtp tmm Paid la AdrAaso Three Are Killed bTwo Highway Accidents Two Veterans Of Overseas Service Accident Victinis Prt. Chadcie L. Pennell And Pvt. John W. Shew Are Both KUIed Two soldiers, both veterans of overseas combat, were killed in » an automobile accident Saturday f hlght, 10:45, on highway 115 one *^lo from this city. 1^, ■'VPvt. Chadcie Lee Pennell, 27, #Mne on 80-day furlough after 29 -flonths service with the army air ‘ ^rees in England, North Africa, Sidfly and Corsica, was killed In stantly when the car which he was driving plunged off a 30-foot embankment between Parkway Bus company garage and Broad way Service Station Pvt, John W. Shew, wounded soldier who lost his left leg in action In Italy several months ago and was home on furlough from Lawson General hospital, Atlanta, Ga„ died at 11 a. m. Sunday at Wilkes hospital from injuries re ceived In the accident. His head was crushed. State Highway Patrol Sergeant A. H. Clark Investigated the-ac cident. He said that in addition to Prt. Pennell smd Pvt. Shew, there were four other occupants of the car. They were Oscar White and Guy Harris, soldiers, and Burl Kilby and Burman Holland, civi lians. Holland ^stained serious Injuries but White, Kilby and Harris escaped with minor hurts. Sgt. Clark reported that the car by Pvt. Pennell was evi- ATA MKir TStC^ \ BP«^ WWie -pawtaK a taxi hta Vcar sldeswlped a fender and left the road over a fill. For more than 60 yards the car traveled along the almost, perpendicular side of the embankment and overturned. Pvt. Pennell was either thrown from the wrecked car or had crawled out and his body was found In a sitting position, reclin ing against a tree near the car. Pvt. Pennell was a son of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Pennell. Since he arrived home on furlough he mar ried Miss Virginia Phillips, of Mebane. He is survived by his wife, his parents, who make their home here, six sisters and one brother: Mrs. Ruth Johnson, of Baltimore; Mrs. Nolene Beane, Mrs. Delbert Phillips. Blanche, Dva, Florence and James Leon ard Pennell, all of North Wllkes- boro. Funeral service for Pvt. Pen nell will be held Tuesday, two p. m., at Little Rock Baptist church near Boomer. Rev. Otto Johnson will conduct the service. Pvt. Shew, age 22, entered the army In June, 1942. On June 8. 1944, he was wounded in Italy and lost his left leg. He was a tank crewman and an 88 mm shell from an enemy gun penetrated his tank and shot off his leg. He crawled from the burning tank and suffered burns during his es cape, and received a bullet wound }n his other leg from an enemy ^ ■fejachlne gun after he had crawled Msway from the tank. He was later [l^tumed to the states and asslgn- /nd to Lawson General hospital In Atlanta. Pvt. Shew Is survived by his wife, Mrs. Julia Ann Shew and daughter, Anna Belle, who live at 616 D street. North Wilkesboro; his father, Milton Shew, of North Wilkesboro route three; two bro thers, Clay and Carl Shew, of North Wilkesboro route three; two sisters, Mrs. Mae Estep, of Pores Knob, and Miss Mary Shew, of North Wilkesboro route three; also three half brothers, Pvt. Floyd Nance In the army in Eu rope, Clyde Nance, In the navy, and Sherman Nance, in the mer- ■'yiviehant marine. Funeral service for Pvt. Shew will be held Tuesday, eleven a, m at Antioch Baptist church. -V Accident Victim Pvt. Chadcie Lee Pennell, home on furlough after over seas service, was killed in an automobile aoddmit near this city Saturday night. Shown here with Pvt. Pennell is his wfe, the former hOss Virginia Phillips, of Mebane. Dairy Production Suteidy Payments Will Be Continued Plans for the continuation of Dairy Production Payments thru the last nine months of 1945 have been annoonced by the War Food ty AAA. Gthnniiltee. “This announcement definitely extends the program for another 3-months period, through June 80, 1945,”he declared, “and continua tion of the program after this date is necessarily conditional upon the approval of Congress. The spe cific rates of payment after June 30 must also remain subject to la ter revision”. “Subject to these conditions”, Mr. Roberts continued, “the rates of payment on whole milk for April, May and June will be 55 cents per hundred weight; for July, August and September 65 cents; for October, November and December 90 cents. The rate of payment on butterfat deliveries will be 10 cents per pound, thru September; in October and thru December 16 cents per pound”. The AAA leader pointed out that under the proposed program, the seasonal pattern of rates is adjusted so as to encourage more milk in the fall and winter months when it can be more effectively utilized and will relieve season al shortages. “The scheduled program will give dairy farmers about the same average rate of payment on whole milk as in 1944 and a substantially higher rate on butterfat in cream,” Ed Laws Is Killed When Thrown From a Trnek Field Director Of Red Cross Speaks ToLocalCInbs BROTHERS FIGHT ON I WO JIM A Colon Hayes, Colored Man, Held For Manslaughter In Death of Laws Ed Monroe Laws, 60-year-old farmer of the Marley Ford com munity of Wilkes county, was in stantly killed Saturday evening when he was thrown from a truck on highway 421. ten miles west of this city. Sheriff C- 6. Poindexter, Cor oner L M. Myers and State High way Patrol Sergeant A. H. Clark, who investigated the accident, said that Mr. Laws was riding on a load of lumber and brick on a truck driven by Colon Hayes, col ored man of the Marley Ford sec tion. The driver had lost control of the truck and It swerved across the road twice and Into the yard at the home of T, P. Elledge, where Mr. Laws was thrown off. His skull was crushed and his neck was broken. He died instantly. With Hayes in the cab of the truck were Hayes’ wife and Mra. Laws. They were not Injured. With Mr. Laws on the load of lumber and brick were Bud Marley and the nine-year-old daughter of Mr. Laws. They were slightly injured. Charles L. Skarren, Jr., Re lates Experiences With Army Overseas Charles L. Skarren, Jr., who served as an overseas field direc tor of the American Red Cross In England, France and Germany for 18 months, addressed the North Wilkesboro Kiwanls club here Friday noon and the Lion club Friday evening at Hotel Wil kes. Mr. Skarren delivered Inspiring addresses about work of the Red Cross overseas. His appearances were prelude to the beginning of the Red Cross War Fund drive March 1. Beginning his addresses here, Mr. Skarren showed a number of souvenirs collected in Germany, Including a nazl house flag, a nazi youth knife and a P-38 German automatic pistol. The speaker told first of the services which were rendered by the Red Cross to American forces in England. Then he recounted his experiences from the time he landed in France on D-Day plus six, on through France and into Germany near Aachen. He told of Investigating offic^ reported; personal services rendered to that Hayra was drinking. He was. gervlce men overseas, of contacts jailed on charts of manslaugh- ^jth their families. Red Cross ter, driving while intoxicated and girls In hospitals, serving of meals for having no brakes on his truck. Mr. Laws is survived by his wife, Mrs. Zora Green Laws, and childrea: Rev. Gtnu TWaS iiraM, 'Wilkesboro; Sanford Laws, Wilm ington; Dallas Laws, Pnrlear; Mrs. Cade Seacrest, Lmoir; Pay- ton and Romillus Laws. I«noir; Ora Belle Laws, Purlear. Funeral service was held this afternoon, 2:30, at the Laws home and burial was in Marley Ford cemetery. Rev. Alfred Foster and Rev. Fred Foster conducted the last rites. V Methodist Board Of Stewards To Meet The Board of Stewards of the First Methodist church will meet In their monthly meeting Tuesday evening at 7 o’clock with Mrs. T. D. Moore. St. Lenten Services Service will be held In Paul’s Episcopal church every Thursday evening during Lent at 7:45 o’clock instead of 7:30 as heretofore announced. The public is cordially Invited to attend. •V. SHOUN KERBAUGH HERE Sboun Kerbaugh, seaman sec ond class, who has been in radio and radar school in Chicago, is spending a few days with his fam ily here. At the end of his leave he will continue study at a naval school in New York City. in Red Cross service clubs, ciga rettes, candies, games, books, art craft courses f^lshed wounded . .addlaqi .ottt«Mt..aex» vices rAd^rdd. He closed his ad dress with explanation of the Red Cross services to prisoners of war—how the Red Cross sends food packages to supplement the diet of prisoners In German prison camps to assure that they will have a healthful and balanced diet. At the Klwanis meeting Rev. Howard J. Ford had charge of the program and presented the speaker. Prior to the program. President Paul Osborne appointed Paul Cragan and C. B. Eller as chairmen of the Easter Seal com mittee. Guests at Kiwanls luncheon were as follows: Richard Cham berlain wittf Dr. A. C. Chamber- lain, Mrs. J. B. Carter with J. B. Carter, Maurice Walsh with C. B. Eller, E. R. Spruill with P. E. Forester, Mrs R. G. Finley and Grady Miller with R. G. Finley, R. M. Brame with W. G. Gabriel, Miss Kathrin Sanford with R. E. Gibbs, Mrs. W. D. Halfacre with W. D. Halfacre, Hayne Baucom with Robert Morehouse, Mr. tnd Mrs. Brie Pltz with H. H. More house, Charles Skarren, Jr., Mrs. Marion Rltzert and Rev. A. C. Waggoner, club guests; Miss Co- rlnne Faw and Mrs. M. F. Bum garner, Red Cross guests. Skarren was presented to the (Continued on Page Four) Sgt. Henry Pearson and Pvt. Alvin Pearson, broth ers, are fighting with the fourth and fifth marine di visions on Iwo Jima. The Pearson brothers in the ma rines are sons of Mrs. Rosa Pearson Holcomb and the late G. E. Pearson, of Millers Creek. They have two brothers serving in the army. Sgt. Henry M. Pearson volunteered for marine corps service prior to Pearl Harbor. When Alvin became of age he stated that he was going to get into the marines smd join his brpth- er, even if he had to go all the way to Tokyo to find him. Alvin was assigned to the fourth division and Henry to the fifth. A few weeks ago they met at a Pa cific outpost where the fourth and fifth were getting ready for the Iwo Jima campsdgn. March Term Of Superior Court ToIlpeakNli-K^ Pardue, Rock Creek; S. S. Minton, North 'Wilkesboro; L. E. Pelts, Walnut Grove; Wesley V. Cheek, Traphill; H. C. Damerrai, Traphill; Lester Glass, North Wilkesboro; O. F. Ai»eher, Mulberry; U P. March term of Wilkes Superior court for trial of criminal cases will convene on Monday, March B, with Judge Frank Armstrong, of Troy, on the bench. One of the lightest dockets In recent years—only 120 cases to date—^have been calendared for the term. Jurors for the March term were recently drawn as foDowa: FIRST WEEK Archie D. Rhodes, North Wilkee- boro; W. E. Bell, Walnut Grove? Percy Myers, Rock Creek; George Kennedy, Wilkesboro; J a m e ■ Lunsford, Somers; A. C. Staley, Rock Creek; W. M. Pardue, Red dies River; Tommie Hayes, Brushy Mountain; J. G. Adams- New Cas tle; L. M. Colvard, Union; J. B. Sheets, Union; E. H. Eller, Mora vian Falls; Sherman Blevins, Wal nut Grove; W. C. Triplett, Lewis Fork; Carl Lane, iWilkesboro; C. A. Hamby, ,Tilk: Shober Minton, Jobs Cabin; W. M. Harris, Rock Creek; Walter McGuire, Jobs Cab in; L. B. Wiles, Rock Creek; Vic tor Wood, Eldwards; J. G. Greene, Wilkesboro; Monroe Faw, Reddies River; P. C. Eller, Lewi? Fork; Vincent Faw, Reddies River: J. G. Billings, Walnut Grove; Sher man Elledge, Rock Creek; Joe GambUl, North Wilkesboro; H. B. North Wilkesboro; B. C/ ^K»kB, Traphill; Ralph Shumaker. Red dies River; W. G. Hamby, Elk; S. M. Fox, Moravian Falls; W. M. Ashley, Union; J. F. Owens, North WUkesboro; D. C. Lowe, Moravian Palls; L. G. Watkins, Mulberry; J. M. Bowers, Traphill: F. M. Taylor, Mulberry; G. M. Eller, Beaver Creek; Silas (W. Johnson, Antioch; D. 0: Clary. North Wilkesboro; J. Carl Bumgarner, North Wilkesboro; N. S, Forester, Jr., North Wilkesboro; J. G. Shep herd, EHk; W. L. Price, Boomer; J. W. Snyder, North Wilkesboro; N. V. Pardue, New Castle; Fred Huffman, Stanton; Leo N. Ander son, North Wilkesboro; James Joines, Brushy Mountain; W. V. Pendry. Rock Creek; H. B. Dodson, North Wilkesboro; K. W. Souther, Somers; Hill Hendrix, Elk; Craw ford Myers, New Castle. - SECOND WEEK J. A. Anderson, Brushy Moun tain; T. W. Ferguson, Beaver Creek; C. L. Parsons, Union; J. P. Triplett, Elk; T, H. Harless, Un ion: Andy Cleary, Union; W. F. Kilby, Reddies River; H. H. Rhodes. Mulberry; Jason Elmore, Rock Creek; 'SL T. Mathis, New Castle; D. H. Blackburn, Rock Creek; Steven V. Bumgarner, Bock (Continued on Page Bight) ^Mr. Charles Leckie, who recent ly received an honorable discharge from the navy, has arrived home. Hr. Leckie was a first-class water lender and was attached to the F^clfle fleet. He Is a son of Mr. snd Mrs. J. H. Leckie, of Wllkes- t>oro. -V C3iile has ascertained that 81 fer cent of its total government apenditores goes for salaries, foooaes and pcaeimis. Orfanization For War Fund Drive New Completed AH In Readiness For Annual Campaign; Liberal Re sponse Requested Campaigrn to raise a mimimum of 119,400 for the Red Cross War Fund will get under way in Wilkes Thursday, March 1, ten a. m., Rev. Howard J. Ford, War Fund chair man for the Wilkes chapter, said today. A complete organization to reach every community in the county has been set up under the direction of Chairman Ford, and a most successful campaign is an ticipated. Division and township chairmen meet here Friday for a conference with Charles L. Skarren, Jr., field director for the Red Cross who recently returned from serving 18 months in England, France and Germany, and Mrs. Marion Rit- zert, of Lincolnton, field represen tative for the Red Cross in West ern North Carolina. Chairman Ford has urged all division and township chairmen to appoint sufficient workers to have a complete organization to contact all the people. Because of the large quota of $19,400 set for the county, liberal contributions are mged. goal is $1,200 over quota of $18,200 for 1944, but in view of the fact that people of Wilkes gave more than $22,000 to the Red Cross last year, War Fund leaders feel that response this year may set a new record. To Incretse Salaiies Wilkeo County Officials Story Introduced Bill To Raise Pay of Three of the County Officers Wilkes’ Representative T. E. Story has introduced a bill in the state legislature which would raise the salaries of the Wilkes sheriff, register of deeds and clerk of superior court $50 each per month. Commenting on the bill while home for the week-end, Represen tative Story said that the Wilkes officials were serving the county at salaries which were establish ed by act of the legislature in 1911 and that the salaries are too low and out of line with salaries being paid by other counties in the state. The present salaries in Wilkes are $2,000 per year each for register of deeds and clerk and $2,900 for the sheriff. Representative Story said that similar acts calling for increased salaries for county officials have been introduced in the house for 52 counties in the state. by SGT. HILLARD H. MOORE SGT. HUBERT L. MOORE PVT. JOHN R. MOORE VIRGIL C MOORE, S2c R. G. BRYANT, S2c Three sons and two sons-in-lqw of Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie L. Moore, of GUreiith, are serving in the army and navy. Sgt. Hillard H, MoMre a. « * . _ ^ A —__f L —* -1 M _ _A ^ a-.H..- —1—C ^ J /^M«waaA ^^1M I m MwaJ r* MAAar Axoa t«n I^Alvy entered service in Septmnber, reerived training at FH+4lackson, S. C., and Camp Claiborne, La., and is now somewhere in Italy. Sgt. Hubert L. Moore entered the arnhe^in June, 1940, received trainmgat Frnrt Bragg, was wounded in action in March, 1942, was discharged Text of the bill introduced Representative Story follows: The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Section 1. That in addition to the salary now paid him by au thority of Section one of Chapter five hundred and eighty-seven of the Public-Local Laws of one thousand nine hundred and eleven, and in addition to the compensa tion he now receives as judge of the Juvenile Court, the clerk of the Superior Court of Wilkes coim- ty shall receive fifty dollars ($50.00) per month. Sec. 2. That in addition to the salary now paid him by authority of Section two of Chapter five hundred and eighty-seven of the Phiblic-Local Laws of one thousand nine hundred and eleven, the Reg ister of Deeds of Wilkes County shall receive fifty dollars ($50.00) per month. Sec. 3. That in addition to the salary now paid him under exist ing law, the Sheriff of Wilkes County shall receive fifty dollars ($60.()0) per month. Sec. 4. That all laws and clans- es of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. Sec. 5. That this Act be in full force and effect from and af-, ter its ratification. in December, 1944, and is now in a veterans’ henne in Tennessee. Pvt. John R. Moore entered the army in August, 1944, received training at Fort Bragg, Feurt Jackson and Camp C(|pft and when Isut heard from was in New York. Virgil C. Moore, seaman second class, son-in-law -, of. Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie L. Moore, and h'fuband of the former Miss Letha Moore, entei^ the navy in December, 1943, received boot train ing at Bainbridge, Md., and is now in England. R- G. Bryant, seaman second class, aI^dliel: son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. Moore and husbud of the former Miss Gladys Moore, entered the navy in Api^, 1944, was in tranuag at Camp Peary and Oceana Field, Norfolk, Va., and is now in naval school at Charlestmi, S. C. \ ' Some improvement was note_ today In the condition of Mr. C. D. Cbffey, Sr., prominent local business man who has been seri ously ill for sometime. Mr. Cof fey is a paUent at the Wllksa hospital. 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