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Miss'Sanforctf and/Miss Few
Resigning ta Enter College;
' ^iss Mofeley /Coming
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reslgn-
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}tain Ernest M. Eller, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. E.
Eller, of^iorth Wilkesboro, is shown here with his fam
ily while OT^eave following many months duty on the
staff of AdmV^I Nimitz. Captain Eller is now on the
west coast and\^ill soon assume command of a trans
port ship on the tTtfific. His wife and two sons, Peter
and John Christian, Ki^ye been with him for the past few
weeks on the west codst, but are returning to their
home in Winston-Salem.
M'
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will
soclolo
Miss Y^orlnne
case woKer tiere,
ed, ellecMve Ang
Kaw also Vans to
SucceedVg Miss
cutlTe secAtary wllllbe Mns R3-
becca fiosetfy, form« men»er of
the local sVool facAty wV re
cently recel'Ad an hoiorabllfc dis
charge IromXhe WAOt afterVwo
years serrtce. lAt the tftae of yer
discharge, Cpl.N^oseley Vas s
tloned at 'lynda^ Field, Ga. Ml
Moseley Is now Salting V Re.
Cross short course at Atlanta,\Ua.,
prior to entering npOn her MW
duties.
Miss Dorothy Ann B^Il, of
Kannapolis, will succeed Mlsrf-.Faw
as Red Cross case worker. Miss
Hell recently graduated from
Woman’s College In Greensboro,
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BOMBERS WIPE ! Now in Gemiiliy
•d, executlTe
:es chapter
cross, has
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;er lan>T tJnlver-
Lal where she
work In
JAP BASE
Manua.—AdlirUUIn 7th Dtvls-
lon troops hi^e made a new land
ing In the headwaters of Balik-
papan Bay on Eastern Borneo
while Allied heavy bombers in the
northern Celebes across Makas
sar titrait. General Douglas Mac-
Arthur announced today.
The new Bortaeo landing was
made Friday night and Saturday
morning at Tempadoeng, 14 miles
northwest of BaUkpapan, after a
stz-mile shore-t*-Bhore jump.
There was no opposition and the
Anstralians sent patrols six miles
southeast to the village of Beran-
goe without meeting opposition.
BATTLESillP
ARB 55B PLABES
AREBESTROYEB
where she majored In sociology.
ning Veterans
j Snbji^mPrograni
i! At Lions ^RiMeet
BOYS
• • •
Three Speakers Offer
gestions for Better Aid
Men Who Fought in War
PVT. AIXEN CAMPBELL
IS HERE on LEAVE
Pvt. Allen Campbell, who has
been In the marine corps for four
months. Is spending a few days
here with hla parents, Mr. and
Mrs. George Campbell. Pvt. Camp
bell was accompanied here by his
\'fe and two children, who make
ir home In Norfolk, Va.
“Wnat the community Can Do
For Returning Veterans” was the
\ theme of the program before the
Vorth wilkesboro Lions Club
i>yi(iay erentiig.
ieimes M. Anderson and Bill
.jvere In charge of the pro
gram; Mr. Anderson presented R.
U. Godwin, of Raleigh, head of
the veterans’ placement division
Of the U. 8. Employment Service
in North- Carolina. Mr. Godwin
explained'., that the employment
service htis prepared to be of
special service to returning vet
erans. not otUy In Job placements,
bnt in giving information and ns-
Blstance to veterans concerning
benellts provided them under the
O. 1. Bin of Rights. He explain
ed that each office of the employ
ment service has. a specially train
ed staff member to assist vet
erans.
A. BREWER
FINDS||ES NAVT OOCRBE
wuRn A. Brewer, seaman sec
ond cUu^l^eoenUy completed a
course in wVition ordnance at the
naval traldw station at Norman,
Ukla. 8eam& Brewer is a son of
Mr. and Mrs/fl^brose C. Brewer,
or .North WllTObofo Route 2.
.ARNOLD KILBIION
DUTY IN NA
Arnold Kilby, Shaman, second
class, son of Mr. aw Mrs. Rowan
Kilby, of Wllbar, ^ered service
Uct. H. 1944, recelWd his train
ing at Camp Peary, and left
for sea duty April 1^ 1945. He
writes that be is gejUng along
nne, and hoping to r^Vfb home
soon.
Major B. P. Robinson, comman-
(der of the Wilkes post of the
r American Legion, spoke briefly
concerning ways which people of
the community may assist veter
ans during the period of read
justment, stressing the fact that
much encouragement can be given
them as well as material benefits
. and opportunities.
j. B. Williams spoke, briefly of
the community’s duty to return-
lilg veterans. Locally, he said
that North Wilkesboro Is bddly In
need of an ecttve chamber of com
merce which could secure new In
dustries and gr'eater Job opportn-
nllles here. The program was well
receives by the club.
A more complete report was
given on the financial results of
the JOly 4th horse stiow sp'an«y-
ed by the club. ’The report show
ed a cash profit of approximately
|1,SU0 and assets on the grounds
the form of equipment with a
* value of about ?800.
RATION
NEWS
PROCESSED FOODS: Blue
Stamps T2, U2, V2, W2, X2 ex
pire July 21; T2, Z2, Al, Bl,
01 eacpi™ August 21; Dl, Bl,
PI Ol, HI expire September
lO;’ Jl, Kl. lil. Ml. N1 expire
>ber 21.
u
MHATS & FATS: Red SUmps
L2, M», P2 expire July II;
R2. 8», T*. U2 arpire Au-
B«st II; VI. vr*. X*. **
pgpire Septwnber 10; Al, Bl,
Jl, Dl, El MPlre October 11.
3AK: Sugar Stamp No. SO
for 8 Ibe. expiree August
li.
BOOM; Airplane Stamps No.
I, Ho. I, aa4 No. I now good.
A-10 eoopou var
Hi thru Berteasber II.
for 18 montfis. He was a
Umon
Eight Stores and
Ywo Restaurants
Fined By OPA
Pvt. E. jNWelboria Is now
serving somewbere in the South
fic. He Is the son Of Mr.
andHMrs. H. A. Welbom, of Cy
cle, Welbom entered serv
ice JnSu4, 1944, amd was In
training aAFort Bragg, N. C.,
and Camp^^®, Texas, gefore
going oversea^^i June, 194S.
Pvt. Welbom Is the 679th
Field Artillerjr. In^a recent let
ter home he si4d telh^ll hls
friends In. good. Old.
“HeUo”,
SUPER FORYS
RAIR BOMBS OH
JAP OIL SUPPLY
:onday evening, July 16th, the
r’oSb^nd Apparel Panels of the
local Price and Rationing
Board held hearings on restau
rant and awnrel price violations.
Tne panels w^e assisted at these
hearings by C. ^ Hayes, price of-
nclal of the AtlWa regional of-
ttce, F. Gelder Robinson and Miss
Pearl Humphrey, of i^e Charlotte
district ofnee.
Two restaurant owH^ were
found to b« In violation\n num
erous Items of food oCend on
their menus and were glve^flnes
ranging from 876.00 to IlttO.OO,
and requested to sign a Compli
ance Statement, and roll back uv-
erenarge items as priced In th^r
original tiling with the loc
board.
in tbe apparel hearing, eight
stores were found In violation on
sales of one or more Items of
women and children wearing ap
parel, and were given fines rang
ing from 812.'J2 to 825.00. They
were requested to sign a Retailer
Compliance Statements and or
dered to correct items in violation.
Boy Scout Troop 36
Plans Camping Trip
Boy scout Troop No. 36. of
whlcn Boyd stout Is scoutmaster
and ivey Moore assistant scout
master, nas about completed plans
tor several days’ camping at the
old C.C.C. camp at Mortimer, near
Lenoir. The Scouts Lad orlginallly
planned to go Wednesday but the
transportation proWBin made It
necessary to postpone the trip un
til tne latter part of this week.
All Scouts and commlttemnua
are aakud to 4m a1v. lliii limillMC
meetiarTb umI Tu«Mti^RI|ut
at 8 p. m. at the Preebytwlan
church. The troop officials would
also be delighted to have any In
terested parents attend this meet-
A task force of B-29 Super
Fortresses, continuing the cam-
palbn to destroy Japan’s dwing-
llng fuel supplies, heaped almost
6UU tons of explosives on a giant
synthetic oil factory In Sonthwest-
Uonshu last night, striking
honr^^ltar more than 100 Mus
tang fightenl'*ki(^ered targets
around Usaka by^ab>l|ght.
Ficklng up the AmerlsM aerial
blasting of. Japan which was In
terrupted Saturday by bad wheth
er after 46 consecutive days,
to 100 Marianas-based Super
u orts struck at low altitude In
a midnight assault to pinpoint the
Ube Goal Liquefaction Company,
one of the enemy’s leading eyn-
thetlc oil centers.
’I'he Mustangs—Tokyo said W)0
attacked a 90-mlle stretch of In
land Sea coast westward from O-
salw — roeksted and machine-
gnlfeM" iihwwb; ’
military installations and shipping
through medium to Intense artl-
alrcraft fire.
Pfc. John W. F»w, son of Mr.
and Mrs. A. O. Paw, of WUkes-
boro, la now stationed some
where In Germany. He entered
the army on August 16Ui
1944, receiving hls basic train
ing at Camp Croft, 8. C., and
went overseas January 4, 1946.
He has received two battle
stars. Ho was with the First
Army, and the 84th Infantry
Division from the Root to the
Rhine, and from there to cen
tral Germany.
Guam.—^Adm. William F. Hal
ley’s mighty Third Fleet, aug
mented by units of tbe Britisb
Nivy, destroyed or damaged 41S
ships. Including the 32,702-ton
battleship Nagsto, and 656 planes
in their sweeping attacks along
the coast of Japan which are now
m their Itth day, it was disclosed
today.
Lifting the curtain of secrecy
which had shrouded activities of
hlstorFs mightiest fleet since It:
bombarded the Japanese shore
line south of Tokyo early last
Thursday, Adm. Chester W. Nlm-
^tz announced that light units op
drsting In the same area today
destroyed or damaged an entire
four-ship convoy.
Nlmltz disclosed that in last
Wednesday’s aerial bombardment
of tne ’Tokyo area by some 1,600
American and British planes, U.
S. Navy pilots attacking the Yoko
suka Naval Base 30 miles south
of Tokyo heavily damaged the bat
tleship Nagato, previously damag
ed In the FhlliDptnes Sea naval
battle last October.
V
Montview Baity
Nearly 5,000 Japs
Killed or Captured
On Borneo Fronts
Is Yo Be Sold
Ing.
Connie 4^. Johnson
Claimed By Death
Cycle Sailor Viwim
Of Bomb /ULtack
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. We, of
Cycle, have been notified tw the
Navy Department that thw son,
Kay Edsel Sale, 20, was kind in
action by an enemy bombfi^ at
tack on bis ship on May 11.'
Betty Oltlcer Sale was burl\j^ et
sea on .May 12 with services
ducted by the chaplain. A
mortal service with full honol
and the ship’s company attendlnj
was held May 20.
Following hls graduation from
Honda Hlgn School In 1942, Sale
enlisted in the navy. He attended
the Aviation Radioman School at
Jacksonville, Fla., and the Navy
Gunnery School at Hollywood,
Fla. He served as an aviation
radioman, havlsgj>een In tbe Pa-
Singing July 29
At Pleasant Home
Connie Lee Johnson, resident of
[ndy Gay community died at hls
nome Sunday.
ir. Johnson Is survived by his
wlf4 and the following children:
Dorathy, Connie, Jane, Clara and
Sidney Johnson.
Fifceral arrangements were In
complete today.
“Agricnltare” Is
Program Subject
At Kiwanis Meet
W. A. Bolin Talks to Club
and Shows Picture of
Agriculture Methods
elate H. Brown
Last Rites Held
'I'he Blue Ridge Singing Asso
ciation will be held at Pleasant
Home church near Millers Creek,
July 29th, at one o’clock, and all
singers are cordially Invited to
attend and take part.
•V’
Llmhemeck in chickens occurs
^Btly during the hot summer
:BS, according to Dr. R. S.
Dealjh^ne, head of the State Col
lege *^8artment of Poultry Sci
ence.
Funeral service was held to
day at Mountain Valley “church
for date H. Brown, North Wllkea-
boro citizen who died Sunday.
Mr. Brown is survived by bis
father and mother, Avery E. and
Eula Higgins Brown, three sisters
and one brothers Mrs. Otto Keav-
is, Mrs. Verlle Blankenship,, Mr.
Hubert Vickers -and Robert
Brown, all of North Wilkesboro.
farmCensusShowi
Serves Tm
member of the Union Baptist
churen.
'TUe i^rents and twb sisters,
Mtses Wilma and l^pi^ha Sale of
Cyele,-^Survlve.
Wilkes Connty Has
Yotal 5,438 Farms
-a- T '■ ""
Beautiful Lots At
Auction On 25th
A sub-dlvlslon of beautiful resi
dential lots, known as “Wllbel-
mlna Park”, will be sold at auc
tion on Wednesday afternoon at
4 o'clock by Ferris & Johnson
Land Company. This property Is
near Moravian Falls on the
Wlikesboro-Moravlan Falls high
way, and Is Ideally located for
homes, it Is owned by the estate
of the late W. W. Greer, and faces
a hardsurfaced highway. It has
the advantage of electricity and
regular bns service.
A nnmber of lots are to be sold
to tbe high bidder, and there will
be music by a good band and free
prizes.
me public Is invited to attend
the sale.
A pilot flying at an altitude of
26,000 feet can see aproxlniately
200 miles In every direction.
Seaman Second Glass Charles
M. GOreadi, hnsband of tbe
former Miss Pauline Billings,
of North WilkeebOTo, hag been
fwomoted to bis present rating.
He recelyBd hls baeio mining
at Great Lakes, HI., and after
a few days’ leave, vra« taraiie-
fesved to Bboenaaker, Oalifor-
nla. He has recently notified
bis wife that be is now serving
on a ship. Seaman Gllreath is
a son of Mr. aad Mrs. John GO*
raatb, of this city.
’Tbe nnmber of farms In the
County of Wilkes, State of North
Carolina, as shown by the pre
liminary count of returns of the
1946 Genaus of Agriculture was,
6,438, as compared wiht 6,360 1
1940, iUd 6,630 In 1935. This wp
announced today by H. Hayae
Bancom, supervisor for the 1946
farm census in the 6th N^'j Car
olina Census • District wjfh head
quarters at Monroe. /
Tbe total land In farms In Wil
kes Connty, accordihg to the pre
liminary 1946 census count, was
843,114 acres, as compared with
346,261 acres in 1940, and 372,-
349 acres in 1935. Average size
of farms shown In the preliminary
1946 census count for Wilkes
County was 63.1 acres, as com
pared with 64.6 adtes In 1940, and
66.3 acres In 1936.
in announcing the 1946 cenans
totals of farms and land In farms
In Wilkes connty, Snpervlabr Ban-
corn pointed ont that the figures
are preliminary and subject to
correction. Final tabnlatloas of
Wilkes connty farm census re
turns win be made by the Bnrean
of the census and announced from
Washington when completed, Mr.
Bancom said.
North Wilkesboro Klwanls Club
held an enjoyable meeting Fri
day noon at Hotel Wilkes.
Program chairman Sam Win
ters introduced W. A. Bolin, of
Charlotte, a member of tbe Inter
national Harvester organization,
who spoke briefly and then show
ed a sound picture on the subject
of "Permanent Agriculture.”
The picture and the accompany
ing speech set out very plainly and
effectively the results of our past
and present mine farming In the
Southeast. The results have been
that many thousands of fertile
acres of farming lands have so
eroded that they will never again
be suitable to produce farm crops.
The disclosure then set forth a
nine-point program for these
•Bgjne farmers that will result In
theffTh^lng more money and at
the sa^\tlme continue to build
their soli ip a high state of fer
tility. Some of these points are:
Proper wifter disposal, terracing,
strip aiming, crop rotation, prop-
f. «^Mtlon to pastures, attention
t /w.iodlands.
, Pi .or to the program it was an-
pjounced that members of the local
club will attend an Interclub meet
ing with Lenoir at Ferguson Aug.
lu. Gwyn B. Price and Harry B.
Caldwell will be speakers for the
program. Members may take their
wives and lady friends. '
Kiwanis Division 3 meetfilg
will be held July 27 at Rigb
Point.
D. J. Carter, chairman -of the
public relations committee, read
resolutions which the club Is send
ing to senators and congressmen
urging ratification of the San
Francisco charter.
. Gutots Friday were as follows:
Capt. Ralph Bowman with A. F.
Kilby; Col. Henry T. Blair with
K. w. Gwyn; R. B. Dnnn and
Homer T. Boling with R. D.
smith; Lt. Walter Call, lA. Henry
l*odd nnd Cpl. Gordon Ofilvle
with Pat WUUams; MI« Mary
Morehonse and Archie OgUvle
with H. H. Morehouse; Pfc. P. W.
Eehelman, Jr., with P. W. Bshel-
man; Attorney J. H. Whicker, Jr
and .as. L. Durett with Attorney
J. M. Whicker; John Bolen mid
W. A. Bolen with Sam Wlzders.
J. M. Geman and Charlie Ger-
,n, owners, last week signed
coiifcract with Penny Brothers,
land tor the sale of
their Videly known Montview
Dairy ai\Boomer.
'Th^s larW dairy, livestock and
grain '■'fam is located on high
way 1S\ between North Wllkes-
’boro and\Lcnot^nd 1s. ten miles
^
stils of 2^9 acrest on Warrior
Crebk and Is wld^ recognized
as o^e of N'orthwntern North
Carolina’s leading fams. A few
years ago Mr. Geman was desig
nated at one of ten Master Fara
ers in the state.
includ^ with the faraVor sale
will be thefdarge, purebred\erd of
Jerseys, mddern dairy equlppent,
mar • types of modern farna ma
chinery, pair‘draft mares and\oth-
er equipment and Implemmts.
The fam has fezcellent pasture!
blue grass sod'and's well feui
r'orest portions contain m
white pine and other tmber.
To secure information about
fara, those Interested should
J. K. Rousseau ?t- North Wllkes|
boro or communicate with Penn;
Brothers, Jefferson Square,
Greensboro.
Manua—Nearly 6,U00 Japanese
troops have been killed or captur
ed on all fronts In Borneo, com
pared to Allied casualties of some
1,7 60 killed or wounded, Gen.
uouglas MacArtnur announced
Saturday.
MacArthur listed the Jap losses
as 4,3Uu killed and 441 captured,
while tbe Allies lost 386 killed, 1
missing and 1,361 wounded.
Six more Jap ships have been
sunk and at least 3.d damaged
-ky‘-wto#«angtBg planas or the
Far Eastern Air Force block
ading enemy shipping in the
Southwest Pacific and South
cnina Sea, .MacArthur announced.
in land operations on Borneo,
DUten troops smashed another
mile and a half north of the cap
tured Sambodja oil field center to
take the village of Bambodja. The
drive was supported by swaras
of Australian P-40’s which hit
motor transport, barracks and fuel
dumps in the area Inland from
BaUkpapan.
V
Junior Order Meet
Local Junior Ofder Council
will meet Tuesday, eight o’clock,
for consideration of Important
business matters and for third de
gree work. A large attendance Is
desired.
OAPT. RALPH BOWM.AN
VISITS MOTHER HERE
Capt. Ralph Bowman left this
morning for Robbins Field, Ma
con, Ga., after visiting hls mother,
Mrs. Ralph Bowman, Sr., in tMs
;Clty. Capt. Bowman was acompa-
hied by his wife, who has been
making her home in Ijos Ange
las, California. He recently re-
ttirned from Europe, where he a-
m«86d a most brilliant record In
theVnny air corps.
StafeJoard of
Local Youth Wins
Honor At R. A. Camp
Edwin Chlpmaa, a member ol
the David lAvingston Royal Am
bassador chapter of the First Bap
tist church, recently attended a
western North Carolina Royal
Ambarrador Camp at Ridgecrest.
He received the Star Camper lor
condnet and aetlvitiM during the
camp and received the cape he Is
wearUif for haying attained the
advanced step of Ambassador Ex
traordinary In the Ranking Bya-
tem of the Royal Ambeaeador
work. He may now wear tbe earn
with the royal Una aide omt, bat
la looking forward to the time In
the near fntnre when he will obn-
piete tne last etep of Ambaaeadof
Plenipotmtlaryi and tnm the «e®e
vrtth the gold Bide ont.
ure Will
and oth?
Interest
Carolina teat
things of agrl-
the state.
The fcniovAng are memb^ of
the party malting here: A^cul-
ture Comm/ssloner Kerr Sqott and
Mrs. Scott* D. S. Coltracai; assist
ant comiflssloner, and yme; F. E.
Hiller, /ilrector of theyest fams
division of the StatyDepartment
of Agriculture; Tb^pson Green
wood, director f the depart
ment of publlcatfona division, and
Mrs. Greenwyod; Lynn Nlsbet,
editor of state Afternoon
NewspapeK^Associatlon; Mr. and
Mrs.' Lionel Well, of Goldsboro;
Mr. and .'Mrs. Claude Hall. Rox-
boro; Mr. and Mrs. Hoyle Griffin,
Monroe; Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Yy-
brook, of Advance; Ivan Blssette,
Urmon; MIm Ethel Parker,
Gateevllle; Mr. and Mrs. 0. F.
Cates, *Mebane; Mr. and Mrs. W.
B. ATUtin, dtiferson; Mr. and Mrs.
D. R. Noland, of Clyds, and Mr.
aad Mrs. J. H. Pe«le, of West
End.
sute College reaeareh workers
are hhgy trying to diaoover new,
invpcoved aethode of agrienltnre
and are attempting to find better
control mcaonns^to enrb crop
aad UTeatoek diseeeee wbleh
hamper the pregrea ot Tar Heel
Members of the State Board of
Agriculture will spend tonight In
this city,
’They are on a tpdr Of North