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rif.' t-fM |i- *»^. •.' ■'• THE JOUKNAL-PATBIOT HAS BLAZED THB TRAIL OVER SK .taABsf;-.. r-.. ■■liacitetiMi anlM. .-•il ; 4A . VOUXXXIXy ™ ^ Now 99 PukHAod Mimdmy •md Tkandmf. NOKTH 12, 1««» Miw HiliS tJIUED FOR UVESTOd MORETET MRTH inijySBOM 10 sm RORmWESTEm R. C. RaMik—D«f«rtm«at «f Airrl- ««ltw« and raflraad offleials Fri day disenMed tUns for the e«- tabltahment of a c^tral Ureetock market at North WUkeehoro to aorro Nprthwestem North CaTo- R. 8. Cnrtls, sheep marketing apeolaUat 'with the agriculture de partment, said plans, now were to construct special liTeatock huild- ings and pens along tracks of the Sonthem Railway Company at North Wtlkesboro in an effort (to route liTeatock sold in the north western area to terminal markets from one central point. Cahres, sheep and other animals produced in Alleghany, Ashe, Watanga, Wilkee and Alexander counties would be shipped through ^/arm Loan Group the North Wllkoshoro center, he said. At the present time, aocording to Curtis, no deflnite plan for the marketing of northwestern lire- stock is followed. Animals routed through the Wilkeaboro center via Winston-Salem and Greensboro would reach eastern markets a day earlier then if handled through circuitous routes through Tennessee and Virginia, he said. There is little possibility, how- erer, Curtis said, that a market can be established at North Wilkesboro in time to handle this year’s crop of lambs. Co-operative lamb shipments in the northwest ern area will be made as usual in lien of a central shipping point. The agriculture department will again provide graders. I i To Hold Annual Meeting Apr. 16 Wounded In Action Fiurm Loan Association To Meet at North Wilkesboro Town Hall Monday The annual meeting of the North Wilkesboro National Farm Loan Association will be held in the North Wilkesboro town hall on Monday, April 16, ten a. m. An nouncement of the meeting was made by O. H. Bracey, secretary- treasurer. A feature of the meeting will be a round table discussion of farm land values and a sound invest ment program, the discussion on this subject to be led by Cscar H. Phillips, county agent at large. During the session four direc tors will be elected and financial and other reports of the 1944 per iod will he made by President P. H. Dancy and Secretary-Treasurer O. H. Bracey. All farmers and oth ers Interested in coroperatlve agrl- -^.Amltural predlt are cordially In- ^dhltetf to attWiirThe meeting, Mr. bracey said. • The association’s office is lo cated In the Bank of North Wil keaboro building In North Wilkes boro, and handles federal land bank loans In Ashe, Allegh any, Caldwell, Watauga and Wil kes counties. Pvt. Chirley K. Mayberry, son of Mr. and Mrs. S. G. Mayberry, of Cycle, was wounded in com bat on Iwo Jima. He states that he was getting along fine. Pvt. Mayberry took hJs boot training at Parris Island, 8. O., and New mver, and went overseBS In No* vembep. Sgt. T. C. Walker Given Bronze Sfar Town Does Not Have Garbage Containers Board of commissioners of the town or North Wilkesboro hav'e ordered Clerk W. P. Kelly to pur chase some covered garbage cans for sale to the people of the city at cost. However, Mr. Kelly has not been able to locate alfiy which can be purchased but is hopeful thsrt a purchase can be made in the near future, at which time the public will be Informed of the fact thru this newspaper. Southside Singing Little Rock Church Next session of the Sonthside Singing Association will meet with Little Rock Baptist church near Boomer on Sunday, April 29. P. J. McDuffie, chairman of the organization, said that an all day session will be held held and all gospel singers are Invited to attend and take part. Sgt. ’Tracy C. Walker, son of Mrs. Lottie Walker, of North Wilkesboro Route 3, has been awarded the Bronze Star medal. Sgt. Walker, serving with the 70th field artillery battalion, went overseas In August, 1943. His record was related by the public relations office of the 75th infan try division as follows: "Sgt. Tracy C. Walker has been awarded the bronze star for meri torious service in military opera tions against the enemy from 13 September, 1944, to 2 March, dj|45f In western Europe. Sgt. 'WRjer has served overseas with ybljKrmy in Iceland, England. Ffande, Belgium and Germany. In addition to the Bronze Star medal, Sgt. Walker has the Amer ican Service ribbon. Good Conduct ribbon,'the EAME theatre ribbon with two'bronze -service stars for battle participation In northern France and the Germany cam paign.’’ RATION NEWS MEA’TS, FA’TS: Red Stamps T6,tJ6.VB, and X6 will expire April 28; Red Stamps Y6, Z5, and A2, B2, C2, D2 will expire lane 2; Red Stamps E2, F2, 02, H2, J*, will expire June SO; Red Stamps K2, L.2, M2, N2, aad P2 expire July 81. PROCESSED POODS—Blue Stamps ca, D2, S3, P3, and Oa will expire April 28; Blue [stamps H2, J2, K2, L2, M2, wHl expire June 2 ; Bine Stamps N2, P2, Z2, R2f 82, will expire June dO; Bine Stamps T2, U2, wa, xa expire July I. SUGAR STAMP—86 will ex pire June 8. No new stamp will tM vallteted until May 1st. PTJBD On — All «>npons valued 10 gallons. Period 1, 8, t, 4, and 6 eonpons tor current hea^f aeeaon valid .tbroufli ooriwat SHOIS—^Alrvlane Stampa 1, rS. imi4 a tat Book Three, good bdeflattsiy. Now is the time to plan to harvest crimson clover seed, vetch or rye grass seed for a AAA payment of $3.50 an acre, but not to exceed $87.50 per farm. Now In Hawaii John Grant EUedge, machin ist mate second class, who en tered the navy two years *go, bam been In Eburall for the past fO months. He la a son ot Mr, and Mrs. O. M. EUedge, of North Wilkesboro Route 1. Friends sent him greetings on his birth day annivecBary, which wiw M«>nday, April 0. Gets Bronze Star PPO, ROY L. McGDIRE -V- Pfc. Roy McGHire Is Awarded Bronze Star F()r Bravery Wilbar Soldier Cited for Heroic Action in Saving Wounded Comrades Pfc. Roy L. McGuire, son of Mrs. nossle McGuire, of Wilbar, has been awarded the Bronze Star medal for heroic action in saving wounded comrades. The citation accompanying the medal was as follows; "Pfc. Roy L. McGuire, Co. C, Armored Engineer battalion, U. 3. army. For heroic achievement in connection with military opera tions against an enemy of the United States in Prance on 26 November, 1944. An engineer detail, of which Pfc. McG^,ulre was a member, was assigned the mis sion of demolishing the entrance to an enemy railroad tunnel In the vicinity of Waldwlsse, France. Earlier reconnalsance 'reports showed that enemy patrols were Infilterating through the tunnel at night. Shorti^ after the en gineer dStall''Began-Its task, two friendly aircraft, in the belief that an enemy patrol was again in the vicinity of the tunnel entrance, dove in and bombed and strafed it, causing casualties among the engineers. PTc. McGuire, realiz ing the danger of further air at tack, fearlessly proceeded at the risk of his own life, through an area known to contain anti-per sonnel enemy mines to the bomb ed area, where he assisted in the prompt evacuation of the wounded to a place of safety. Pfc McGuire’s initiative, determination and steadfast concern for the welfare of his fellow soldiers reflect great credit upon himself and ex emplify the high traditions of the armed forces of the United States. Entered the military service from North Carolina." Pfc. McGuire has two brothers in service. Pfc. Willie D. Mc Guire is in Manila and James D. McGuire la in service in the navy. V 0UIA1 mt! Guam. Thnrsdsy,:j( erican casualUes- ing 432 dud, 2,l(j 160 missing—in of the Okinawa nounced today Chester 'W. rines and in terly on both swept island juat' of Japan. ? Doughboys of Mg Hodge’s Twenty corps were stglemati em sector for the i day amid a fuU-n duel, arid for the fi the Easter Standay, ^ Marines in the norm ; ganized resistance. ^ Serves In Pvt. Willard J. Triplett has been reported missing in action in Germany since March 17. Pvt. Triplett, son cl Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Triplett, of Traphill, entered the fiftey May 10, 1944, received trsuning at Camp Hood, Texas, and went overseas in Decembw. His wife, the former Miu Frances Walker, of Benham, and two sons, Michael and Bobby, midce their home at Traphill. Mr. ^jkmd Mrs. Triplett have another son, in the army, Pvt. Claude (Rick) Triplett, home on furlough after serv ing-27 months in the Aleutian Islands. He will spend Tl days at the reanignment center at Miami, Fla. Mrs. W. A. Anderson Is Claimed By Death Mrs. W. A. Anderson, age 67, died Tuesday at her home near Wilkesboro. Funeral service was held today at 11 a. m., at Fishing Creek Baptist church. Mrs. Anderson is survived by her husband, one daughter, Mrs. Edward Andrews, of North Wil kesboro route three, and two brothers. Nurse Aides Will Meet On Monday Miss Toby Turner will entertain the nurse aides at a dinner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Brown east of this city Monday evening, seven o’clock. V Preachers’ Revival Oakwoods Church One of a series of “Preachers’ Revival” services being sponsor ed by the Wilkes Baptist Pastors’ Conference will be held at Oak- woods Baptist church on Sunday, April 16, 7:30 p. m. Rev.' Gilbert Osborne will be the-speaker for the service and a cordial Invitation Is extended to all to attend. Ministers are es pecially urged to be present. R. A. BLEVINS ARRIVES OVERSEAS R. A. Blevins, gunner's mate third class, has arrived at Adak Island, Recording to recent news received by his parents, Hr. and Mrs. C. 0. Blevins, of Haye. He has, been In the navy one and one-half yean and recently was stationed at St. Augustine, Via. Pvt. James L. Mr. and Mrs. Uoyd i Hays, entwed 1944, received i Hood, Texas, and ‘ In December. H» l| i with a tank de in Germany. Paris, April 11.—American 0th army tanks plunged 50 miles east ward today through demoralized German resistance and reached the Elbe river, last water barrier be fore Berlin, at Madgebnrg, 67 miles by superhighway from the blackened German capital and 115 niile8 from Russian troo]» massed along the Oder. Tonight Ninth army engineers were racing to throw a bridge across the stream so Lt. (Jen. Wil liam H. Simpson’s powerful forc es could continue the onslaught, which the Nazis appeared power less^ to check. A late front dis patch declared the Elbe could be bridged within a few hours unless unexpected opposition arose. A field dispatch said a juncture with the Red army in the east was expected within the next week. Essen and Bochum, great arma ment cities in the Ruhr trap fell to other Ninth army troops, and tonight the Paris radio said Dort mund also had been cleared in the IK TROOPS iRM ACROSS lANUBE CANAL Serves In Germany Kiwanis Speaker Here On Friday l^^jondon, Aprft 11. — Red army ’ troops stormed across the ibe canal in Vienna today, the Germans from half of island stronghold between i canal and Danube river and g more than nine-tenths of (HI the Danube’s south Pvts*.^ Is Missing In. ion Pvt. Ralph J. EUedge, son of Mr. and Mrs. 'Timothy EUedge, of Hays, has been repoorted missing In action in Germany since March 17, according to a War Depart ment message received by his par ents. Pvt. EUedge had been in the army three years and overseas for 31 months. . He has a brother, Sgt. Walter H. EUedge, an army vet eran of four years service and who is now in the air corps in the Phlll'ppines. V School Lunchroom Facilities Serving 3,000 Pupils Daily 11 In County System and 2 In North Wilkesboro Are Popular With Students The eleven lunch rooms being operated in schools of the Wilkes system are serving about 3,000 meals daily, C. B. Eller, bounty superintendent of schools, Raid to day. The figures show that approx imately one-third of the students in the county schools are now eat ing at school lunch-rooms, al though many of the schools do not have lunch-room facilities. 'This would indicate that In^scbouls fortunate enough to have lunch- lie a brief Soviet communi- i announced advances in Vienna 2,800 prisoners were tak- German' radio reported -^e Red Army had drive 42 ^West of the Austrian capital " I*»z and Himich. Kerosene Users Must Apply For Ration Coupons IXM^l rationing officials have announced that those who use kerosene for lighting or cooking must hereafter make out an ap plication form giving information amout the amount of kerosene re quired. Heretofore, users have had their ration renewed without fil ling out application forms. Stone Mountain Singing April 29 stone Mountain Singing asso ciation will meet with Fariplains Baptist chych on Sunday, April 28, beiriiU|wr at 1:30 p. m. In makl& the announcement of the singing, Chairman J. A. Gil liam urgdd all gospel singers to atend and take part in the sing ing program arranged for the day. V- Marriage License Marriage license were Issued by Register of Deeds Trpy Foster during the past three weeks to the following couples: R. B. Lowe, of Roaring River, Rnd Jettle Wil liams, of Wilkesboro route two; Virgil Rachel and Mable Johnson, both of North Wilkesboro: Roland Winfield Barker and Ethel Par- due, both of Honda; John Adams and Kathleen Byrd, both ot Hon da; Billie Minton, Wilkesboro, , and Hexle Kilby, Pores Knob; 01- rooms, the eating places are very SooU, both popular with the student body. Many of the materials for con sumption in school lunch-rooms are obtained from the Surplus Commodities Corporation. This week’s mall bad a requisition for 5,000 pounds of onions. 'That’s a big lot of onions In any language but not any big surplus for an organization serving 8,000 meafaj dally. In the county schools the price of a plate lunch is ten cents. The aim of the lunch-room program Is to furnish a nourishing meal at minimum cost. Of course, the funds are supplemented, and the dime does not wver the entire cost, thns leavlnig the meals in the price range of those with.low Incomes. In addition to the 11 Innch-rooma in the (Monty ^ whools, lunch rooms are operated in the white and colored s(diolB ot the North Wilkeeboro school system and ere largely patronised here by the students V‘ Government'knbsldfes on meat, butter and flodf. Intended'to keep down the eostl^ Itrlnr, hsT» al- readr araoantifeto fSdtiOOO.OOfi. of Ronda; Jesse Absher, Roaring River, And Belva Billings, North Wilkesboro route two: Claude Dancy and Helen Billings, both of North Wilkesboro; D. R. Phipps and Kate Combs, 'both of North Wilkesboro. Sgt. jHarvey W. Mabaifey, son of Mr, and Mrs. H. W, Mahaf- fey, entered service with the na tional guard company here in 1940, and was mobilized to the army in 1941. He received training at Port Jack.son, S. C., Carolina Beadi, Williamsburg, Va., Camp White, Oregon, Need les, GaUfomia, back to Camp White, Oregon, and Gamp Gm- ber, Oklahoma, before goin^ ov erseas In October, 1944. He has served in England, France, Bel- ginm, and is now* in Germany ■with the First Army. In recent letters home he stated he was well and getting aloilg fine. His wife Is the former Miss Glenda 'Townsend, who resides at High Point with her parents. One of every seven single girls now is headed for splnsterhood due to the unbalance in popula tion that will result from the war. On the Ledo Road /»VVV*V*%VWWW»V*iWt»WV»VW»W» Baptist Pastors To Meet Momiay April session of • the Wilkes County Baptist Pastors’ confer ence will b© held Monday, April 16, at Relns-Stnrdlvant chapel. 'The conference will open at 10:80 a. m. with devotlonU by Rev. C. J. Poole. Rev. B. O. Shew will discuss "What Does the New Testament Teach on the Baptism of the Holy Spirit?” His discourse will be followed by a grineral dis cussion of the quM7. At 11:80, Bev. J. N. Binkley, father of Dr. O. T. Brinkley, will deliver a sermon. The afternoon session will be devoted to the conreee bdng taught by Dr. David B. Browning and Rev. Howard J. Ford. Pvt. Ambrose Herbert Lyall, son of Mr. and hbs. A. V. Lyall, of North Wilkesboro, entered servloe May 12, 1944, and re ceived training at Gamp Plancfae, llew Orieans, La., and Camp Beale, Galif., before go ing overseas. In a recent letter received by bis mother he said he had arrived safely in France, stayed there two weeks and was transferred from there to somewhere on Uie Ledo Road, where be has been assigned to a quartermaster (xmapany,. do ing refrigeradoB work. He said he likes Jnst fine and said to tell an his friends ‘‘heUo’* and he would like to bear ttom those bade home. More en- twiag aerriee h« was an eleo trldm In th^Drydodt Ship- 'bafldiag yairds mt Newport News, Va. FROMBERLlR crumbling pocket. Dr. Harrison Is North Wilkesboro Kiwanis Club Friday noon held an interesting meeting. Prior to the program. P. W. Es- elman read a communication from Felix Grisette, secretary of the State Planning Board, requesting a survey for an available build ings in the town that could be used in the coming months for hew or enlarged business projects. Oenio Cardwell and J. B. Wil liams, co-sponsors of the pro- . gram Friday, the 2 3rd anniversary date of the starting of the club, were fortunate to have Dr. Nat M. Harrison, vice president of High Poipt College, and Lieut, ^v. of wants District, preSerit fot- thd ad dress. Dr. Harrison made a very force- able talk on the subject: "Ki wanis Solving The Problems In The Days Ahead.” Said he, “we are today citizens of the world. We are only 60 hours from the most remote corn er of this world. We are told that In the near future we shall be traveling at the rate of 800 miles per hour, and that we shall be able for $195.00^to take week end trips to Paris. Because of all this speed and the new associa tions that will come because of It, we shall have new problems the like of which we have never known. What are some of these prob lems: 1. There will be new moral problems. 2. There will be new and baffling economic prob lems. 3. There will be new edu cational and language problems. The solution of these problems will (M.11 for the best. We shall have to be Interested in people as a whole. It Is the sort of thing that Kiwanis is broad enough to encircle the world and that It can carry Its spirit of Individual help fulness to down and out peo ples of all countrler The objects of Kiwanis as set out for guidance of all clubs will make a better world: 1. Give primacy to human and spiritual. 2. Encourage living the Golden Rule. 3. Promote higher social and business standards. 4. Adopt 'by precept and exam ple civic responsibility. 5. Provide through this club enduring friendships. 6. Build a better community. Guests at the meeting Friday were as follows: F. F. Baker with A. P. Kilby, Oscar Phillips with Pan! Vestal: Bob Smith with W. D. Etolfacre; Lt. W. E. Jones, Jr., with W. B. Jeaes; J. H. C. Thomas with J. B. Carter. T. S. Kenerly Files For Office of Mayor (ty T. Scott Een^ly, who announc ed bis candidacy for the office of Mayor of North Wilkesboro some time ago, today formally filed hia notice of candidacy with the conn- board of elections. Mr. Kener- Vs filing statement follows: "I, T. 8.' Kenerly of the Town of North. I^lkesboro,. do hoefay file for the office of Mayor, saiv ject to the vote of the' i^ple. U elected.. I will endeavor i|t aU times to give good, clean goveni- ment and will always' be intawt* ed in both ehic 4uid prognariTa movemsDts”..
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