mnSRAL DECORATE LOCAL YOUTH
Tmmm
GERMftRS S«Y
Major General Charles L. Bolte, cwninanding general
* the 34th infantry division, is shown placing the bronze
• medal on Pfc, James M. Anderson, right, for meri-
the nazis recently in
nu service in combat agamst the nazis
Its3y. The picture above was personally autographed for
Pfc. Anderson by General Bolte, as shown by the in
scription at lower left. Pfc. Anderson is a son of Mr. and
Mrs. James M. Anderson, of North Wilkesboro.
CAROLINA REFRIGERATION CENTER
COLD STORAGE SIGN-UP UNDER WAY
AND CONSTRUCTION PLANNED SOON
Movement to secure e freezer
locker and cold storage plant for
Noith Wilkesboro Is well under
way and the necessary sign-up of
looker space Is now In progress.
Carl B. VanDeman, orchard re
search specialist, is in charge of
the sign-up and has plans for the
storage plant, which were pre
pared by architects.
Tha preliminary plans call for
over 500 freezer lockers, with
large spaces for commercial and
fruit storage as well as processing
room. The plant would have two
order to get War Production
approval and necessary prl-
B'
oiitles, 60 per cent of the freezer
lockers must be rented in advance
of construction. Mr. VanDeman
and a number of others have the
forms for locker rent and the
sign-up is already under way.
The storage pant would be
constructed as a oo-operative with
common and preferred stock to
cover cost of construction. It
would be operated by proceeds
from locker rent end storage
charges.
A storage plant would be of
inestimable value to orchardists,
to commercial firms and to Indi
viduals who wish to freeze and
store meats and vegetables for in-
pazloda ^.tii$«.
In discassisig the project. Mr.
VanDemian said that similar
plants have been constructed dur
ing the past year in many Oaro-
llna cities and towns.
Boys
Who Want
To Play Ball To
Meet On Tuesday
he-
Boys of the Wilkesboros
tween the ages of nine and 16 and
who are not members of any of
the organized softball teams are
asked to meet at Smoot Park on
Tuesday, April 24, 6:30 p. m.
O. R. Andrews, president of the
softball league sponsored by the
churches, said today that the
meeting of all boys who want to
play ball was called for the pur
pose of finding out how many boys
want to play and how a boys’
league can be organzled.
A practice game will be played
Tuesday afternoon, after which
the available players will bo or
ganized Into teams for play thru-
out the summer.
Parents interested in the soft-
ball program for boys are urged
to send their boys to the meeting
Tuesday afternoon and to encour
age a large attendance.
4 Softball Teams
Compose League
Here This Season
Part of Players Selected;
First Game Will Be Play
ed On May 8th
RATION
*^NEWS
MEATS, PATS: Red Stamps
T6,UB,y6, and X6 will expire
April 18; Red Stamps T5, Z5,
tnd A», B2, C2. D2 will expire
Jane S; Red fUmps B2, P2,
01, H2, JS, will expire Jane 80;
Red Stamps K2, L2, M2, N2,
and PS expire July 31.
PROCESSED FOODS—Blue
sumps C8, D3, S2, F2, and
as will expire April 28; Blue
flumps H2, J2, R2, L.2', M2,
fliui expire Jane 2 ; Blue Stamps
N2, P2, Z2, R2, 82, will expire
Jnne 80; Blue Stamps T2, tJ2,
V2, WS. X2 expire July I.
SUGAR STAMP—SB will ex
pire June 2. No new stamp will
be vall(teted until May 1st.
fuel oil — All eonpOBS
veined }0 gallons. Period 1, 1,
S, 4, end B conpons for eflrrent
heating seeson valid through
earrent seMoa.
SHOES—^Airplane Stamps 1,
tr sfl4 S in Book Three, good
IndeflnlMy.
Churches of the Wilkesboros
will again sponsor teams In a soft-
ball league here.
Four teams this year will com
pose the league. Three North Wll-
kesboro teams will be sponsored
by the First Presbyterian, First
Methodist and Jlrst Baptist
churches and there will he one
team from Wilkesboro.
O. A. Andrews has been named
president of the league with Bill
Lee us secretary. All players are
asked to meet at Smoot Park for
practice on Thursday this week
and the league schedule will op
en on May 8 with games at Smoot
Park and on the Wilkesboro ath
letic field. 'There will be two
games each Tuesday and Thurs
day afternoon throughout the
summer.
Players have been selected for
the three North Wilkesboro teams
and the Wilkesboro team will be
selected In the near future. The
three North Wilkesboro teams
have the following membership:
First Methodist—Pat Hunt and
Buster Bush, co-captalns, Julius
Rousseau, Jr., Lloyd Turner,
Johnny Redman, Andy Shook,
Dick Chamberlain, B. Moore,
Thurmond Kenerly, W. B. Col
lins, Dan Hudson, Joe Byers, BUI
Hardlster, Eddie Shook and Quy
. Llllard.
I First Presbyterian — Boyd
Stout and Staton Mclver, co-
captalns, J. C. Williams, Jim
Steele, Gordon Finley, Dwight
Pardue, Claude Key, Harry Klutz,
Elbert Bowman, Charles Winters,
W. J. Bason, Gilbert Bare, Gor
don Finley, Jr., and Jack Bad-
gett
First Baptist—John Kerbangh,
captain, BUI Lee, Maurice Walsh,
G. R. Andrews, Tommy Temple
ton, Chip Candlll, B. F. Bentley,
Wade Wallace, 0. K. Stephens,
Paul McGhinnis, Gilbert Pardue,
>J*age Choate, Ray Hoover, Dick
McNeUl and Cyrus McNeill.
V
London, Thprsday. — MiUions
of Russians, spearheaded by. new
*T>reak-throu^” tanks and auto
matic weapons throwing 325 sheHs
a minute, were reported by the
Germans today to be pouring ov
er the Oder and Neisse Rivers
northeast and southeast of Berlin
and directly into the city’s east
ern environs.
Moscow gave no official confir
mation of any assault toward Ber
lin. The nazis, however, reported
heaviest pressure on a 60-mile arc
18 to 20 miles east of the city and
said other powerful armies had
crossed the Lower Oder below the
Baltic port of Stettin toward the
plains northeast of Berlin and
were across the Neisse River in
Saxony south of the capital.
V.
Iteliikns Imi
iWl
McNiel-Kenerly
CoDtest Monday
In Primary Here
Itfl^^flt hfl w^
T.M. Opoms, of _
one, fbnt he has i|M
the like of which nM
never laid eyee pn. r'*^’
Quoting from ttlO Mteri. Pto.
Osborne said: "Today IwM 'trork-
tag and I saw a tafntafilpkrwlng,
and he was plowlhlf''wSthl two
milk cows! Those vMilo donlt' plow
cows dig up the dirt Wltlr a ehbvel.
They milk and plow th« •: oows.
Now, have yon ever Milk «iie& do
ings? II so, tall ihflflad yon win
the ping of tobaoeo. In Sicily l
saw a tanner plowing C mate and
a mUk cow togethag. itod' their
plows are not like onr plows hack
home. They are Just toga sharpen
ed and with a pole nailed to the
log—^Just one pole to hold to. And
where they plow a furrow u is
Just Uke where a log had been
dragged through soft dirt. Have
this put in the paper so aU the
farmers can see It. They .might
want patterns of the plows here.’’
Race For Mayor Only Con
test In Ninlh Wilkesboro
Municipal Primary
With the mayoralty contest be
tween Mayor R. T. MciNiel and T.
S. Kenerly the only thing to be
voted on, the North Wilkesboro
municipal primary will be held
Monday, April 23.
County board of elections in a
meeting today with Carl J. Jones,
chairman and M. B. McNiel pres
ent certified the present members
of the board of commissioners as
nominated, there being no other
candidates filed. Members of the
board are J. R. Hix, R. G. Finley,
A. F. Kilby, H. M. Hutchens and
Ralph Duncan. Also certified as
nominated were the three who
have filed for membership on Ihe
school board, there being no other
jcsAdidates.. They ^ Janes,
IrsTD. Payne and Euftis B. Church.*
For the town primary J. M. El
ler is the registrar and Harry
Pearson and Claude Key are the
judges. Voting will be from seven
a. m. to seven p. m.
V.
Court of Honor To
Meet Tonight, 7:30
Boy Scout Court of Honor and
Review will meet at the Presby
terian church hut tonight at 7:30.
■V.
Wounded In Action
_ Major Thomas O. Pardue, right, received the bronze
medal frcHn General Lawrence, left, fw meritorious serv
ice with the air force in Italy.
MAJOR THOMAS 0. PARDUE GETS
BRORZE MEDAL AWARD IR ITALY
Pvt. Hancll Wtaglec, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Wingler, of
Vannoy, was woonded in action
in Gemcuiy Mardi 18, 'accord-
tag .to a
herd, of Vaimoy.
Returns to U. S.
Major Thomas O. Pardue, son
Of Mrs. P. H. Pardue, of Ronda,
has been awarded the bronze med
al for meritorious service In di
rect support of combat operations
as an executive officer in a 15th
AAF flying fortress squadron.
Major Pardue, whose home Is
id Durham, Is a brother of H. A.
Pardue, of Blkta, Maynard and
Max Pardue, of Ronda, and Mrs.
M. P. Bumgarner, of Millers
Creek. His wife and two children
live in Durham.
The citation accompanying the
medal awarded Major Pardue was
as follows;
"Since location In Italy, Major
Pardue has spent immeasureable
length of time fixing the camp
area. He has supervised the con
struction of a shower, office
bnildings, officers’ mess hall_ of
ficers’ club, enlisted men’s club
and mess hall.
"He has designed and construc
ted on ingenious mess kit wash
room and cleansing unit whleh
Cragan Re-Elected
Superintendent Of
City School System
Paul S. Cragan was re-elected
superintendent of the North Wil
kesboro schools Monday for an
other two-year term.
Announcement of his re-elec
tion was made by D. J. Carter,
chairman of the North Wilkesboro
board of education.
Supt. Cragan came to North
Wilkesboro from Ruffin school
near Reldsvllle In 1938. succeed
ing W. D. Halfacre as superin
tendent of the local school sys
tem. Ip North Wilkesboro he has
made an excellent record, main
taining the high standards of the
schools, despite wartime handi
caps.
ervlsed the lighting system thru-
out the squadron area.
"Major Pardue has carried out
all these Improvements at the sac
rifice of many hours of bard labor,
besides his executive duties which
were given the rating of superior,
euperlor and excellent at a rec
ent administrative Inspection.
“Major Pardue, by his unfail
ing good humor, his personality,
his unceasing devotion to duty far
beyond that required of him has
reflected great credit upon him
self and the United States Army
Air Forces."
V.
Wage and Hour
Law Meeting To
De Held Friday
Pfc. Ode Adams has arrived
back in the states and Is now
in California after serving two
years In the Pacific theatre of
the war.Pfc. Adams was wound
ed In action on the Philippines
In the later part of 1944. He is
a son of Mrs. Maggie Hutchison,
of Buck, Wilkes county.
BUY MORE WAR BONDS
Mrs. Pauline W. Horton, feder
al representative of the wage and
hour law administration, will be
at the North Wilkesboro town
hall Friday afternoon, 3:30, to
address local employers.
Announcement of the meeting
was made here by Mrs. Kathryn
Lott, manager of the local em
ployment and Manpower Commis
sion office. Mrs. IjoU urges that
employers subject to provisions of
the wage and hour law attend the
meeting.
Now In Arizona
Pvt. CSiande E. Ashley, son
Mt.
Paris.—Intuttrym^ and taokn
of the U. S. Hiird Army shuAfl^
across the border of Czecboelova-
kia yesterday, cutting Germany In
two geographically, while olbe!'
American forces conquered Madge-
bnrg, 60 miles aoulhwest of Berlin
and drove almost to the heart of
Leipzig, the Reich’s fifth largest
dty.
The historic crossing into the
Sudetenland, which Hitier annexed
in 1938, was made north of Aach
by doughboys of the 9(lth Infan
try Division riding in jeepe and
on the backs of tanks. Last night
they were reported two miles in
side Ccechoslovakia in the vicini
ty of Gott Mannszgrun, 10 miles
east of the German dty of Hof.
•V-
Distriet Patrol
Camporee Sites
Scouts Chosen
Council Camporee To Be
Held A't Bluff Park On
May 19-20th
Camporee sites for the annual
patrol camporees of the Old Hick
ory Council have'been selected by
the camirlng and activites com
mittees of the seven districts in
the area. Six separate camporees
will he held on May 5-.
Ashe and Watauga districts will
co-operate in combining their
camporee, which will be held on
Negro Mountain near West Jef
ferson. ’The Blkln-Yadkln district
event will take place at Neaves
Park In Elkin.
’The Forsyth district camporee
will be held at Camp Lasater, the
council camp near Winston-Sa-
Surr* dtaWct’s
at home wlm WT
and wife, the fonner Miee Rath
HuSman, who had been with
htai in Denver, GMo., and King-
man, Arizona, for the past few
weeks. Pvt. Ashley entered ser
vice June 25th, 1048. He re
turned to Arizona to begin gun
nery school. His wife is making
her home with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Gaither Hnffman, at
Reddles River. His father.moth-
er and friends are wishing for
him a safe r^nm.
INFANTRYMEN
LAND ON ISLE
OF MINDANAO
Manila — Infantrymen of the
24th Division made another land'
ing Tuesday on Mindanao, second
largest island of the Philippines.
They went ashore on the northeast
shore of More Gulf with air and
naval support and secur^ a 35-
mile beachhead.
’This was announced today by
Gen. Douglas MacArthur, who said
guerillas had aided the operation
by constant attacks on the Jap
anese.
American troops already have
control of the Zamboanga Penin
sula. southeastern top, of Minda
nao. They landed March 10.
FOUR SHUMATE BROTHERS FROM WILKES SERVING IN ARMY AND NAVY
Four sons of Mr. and Mrs. L. H.
Shumate, of the Mulberry com
munity are In service and are get
ting along fine, according to their
most recent letters home. Seaman
First Class Lewie E. Shumate has
been serving on a ship In the Pa
cific for the past six months. He
entered the navy In June, 1944,
and received boot training at
Lime is badly needed on most
farm and pasture land.8 In North
I Carolina, says the aaa ta dis-
Icnssing conservation materials.
liEWK E. SHUMATE, Slo
Camp Peary, Va. His wife, the
former Miss Ora Burgess, and
two children, Martha Jane and
Jerry, reside on North Wilkesboro
route one.
Pvt. Rex L. Shumate has re
cently arrived In France, accord
ing to news received by his wife,
the former Miss Rosa Lee Myers.
He entered service October 11,
1944, received basic training at
Camp Blandlng, Florida.and spent
a ten-day furlough at home before
going to Fort Meade, Md. He Is
serving In the Infantry.
TB Paul W, Shumate Is now
serving with a tank battalion in
the Third. army. He entered ser
vice August 31, 1943, went to
England In May, 1944, later going
PTT. REX It. SBIIMATB „
to France, Belgium and Luxem
bourg.
Pfc. Richard B. Shumate is
serving with a M. P. company
somewhere in the Philippines. He
entered the army April 15, 1943,
and went overseas in October,
1943. Pfc. Shumate was in Aus
tralia three months and in New
Guinea nine months before
PFO. aiCaaABB -IbSHDAATK
Airy.
Stokes district will conduct Its
own camporee for the first time at
Hanging Rock Park near Dan
bury. Wilkes district will have Us
affair at Finley Park in North
Wilkesboro.
All events In the camporee are
on the patrol basis, with patrols
competing against standards for
pennant. Each patrol earning
774 or more points of a possible
880 will receive a blue pennant,
and will be eligible to attend the
council camporee at Bluff Park in
Wilkes county on May 19-20.
Patrols develop their own
menu, provision list, equipment
list. Improvise their own equip
ment as far as possible and bring
everything needed except wood
and water. Patrols must register
with the district commissioner
not later than April 2 8 In order
to take part.
The camporees will open on
Saturday morning at 8:30, and
will close Sunday afternoon at
3:30. Church service will be on
the Sunday program.
V-
Car Wrecked After
Stolen; Recovered;
One Man Arrested
An automobile was stolen,
wrecked, recovered and the alleg
ed thief Jailed here, all Tuesday
night.
A 1936 Ford belonging to Carl
Royal was stolen at 11:30 p. m.
from where It was parked on
Tenth Street. The car was driven
off the highway and overturned
one mile west of this city a few
minutes later by Roscoe Harding
Wyatt, of Vannoy, who was ar
rested by local police and charg
ed with auto theft, driving while
Intoxicated, driving without driv
er license and reckless driving.
Wyatt was given a hearing be
fore Mayor R. T. McNiel and was
bound over to Wilkes superior
court.
V-
HEBBERT W. MARLOW
GETS OAK LEAP CLUSTER
With U. 8. Forces ta France.—
Private Herbert W. Marlow, son
of Mrs. Della Marlow, of Oll-
reath, North Carolina, has been
awarded an Oak Leaf Cluster to
a Purple Heart for wonnds re
ceived ta action on the Western
Front.
Pvt Marlow, an Infantry sold
ier, was wounded by artillery fire
on March 10, 1945, ta Germany. ’
’The decoration wSs presented
by Lieutenant Colonel Joseph If.
Bnrksky, commanding offl^' of'
the U. 8. Army's'2S6th G«MnI
Hcwpital ta France.