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JMBAw >• • eMitfaMal • prfflrfwrt »t iMpeT is rUmi for wrxtioB of PImM T. M. C a. IwOdlM tavV to OM it ttUTMtllT THE JOUKNAI^PATBIOT HAS BLAZED THE TRAIL OF PROGRESS IN THE “STATE OP Wllkis FOR ovrai 88 YB^ STti^T b vbU ti tdmee. XXXX. NO. 29 Publiihod Monday, and Tliurwiaya. NORTH WIMCESBORO. N. O. THURSDAY. AUa 16. 1948 Watch Yoy faabal-4Ee^ fM la Adraaco SURRENDER SIGNING TNANKSGmNG SERVICES AND A STREET CELEBRATION MARK END WAR HERE; HAPPY EVERT Worth WllKesboro celebrated the end of the war Joyfully Tues day night. Many were listening by theTr radios when the seven o’clock Bash gave the sensational news that Japan had accepted surren der. Immediately the hre siren sounded as a uniform signal t tte people In North Wllkesbor Wiat olticlal news of the end of the war had arrived. According to previously an nounced plan, services were held In the Churches 30 minutes after the news was received. Ministers reported that large congregations NMt^hded the special services held especially to thank God for the vlctoiT and to pray for a just and lasting peace throughout the earth. By eight o’clock the celebration on the streets was In full sway. By far the most noise was made with auto horns, but some joyful shouting and other noises added to the din. Police Chief J. E. Walker sta ted that the celebration, although noisy as expected, was orderly. There were very few If any Intoxi cated persons and no damage re sulted from the actions of cele brants. Wednesday was a complete holiday here, with all business nrms, stores, factories and offices closed for the day. Reaction of the average man on the street to the biggest news of the century was gladness, and the choice of General Douglas Mac.^rthur as allied commander in chief over Japan was received with lusty cheers. “He’ll handle the situation. He knows the Japs,’’ was a typical comment. Local Boy Scouts In Victory Parade In City Yesterday Thirty Boy Scouts from troops 35, 36 and 32, led by R. I. Moore, Scoutmaster of troop 36, conduct ed a most Interesting victory pa rade here Wednesday. Assembling at the town hall the parade went by Main, Tenth and O streets to the memorial marker on Memorial avenue, where salute to the flag was giv en. The parade was well carried out and received much favorable comment from spectators. WilkaBboro Boy Scouts, under the leadership of Carl Bullis, also j^^ded through Wllkesboro. Local Kiwanians And Lenoir Club In Joint Meeting Enjoyable Meetinif Of Two Clubs Held At Ferguson On Friday Evening. 'The ■members '>f the North Wilkes ooro Kiwanis Club, ■with a number of their wives, journeyed to Ferguson on Friday evening. August lO.to meet the members of the Lenoir club with their wives, in an inter-club meeting, and en- ^Joyed together a fine dinner served by the Parent-Teacher As sociation The meeting was in charge of Presidents Harlon Deal, of Le noir, and Paul Osborne, of North WilkesboTO. Both presidents ■made brief remarks and presented cer tain outstanding members of their respective clubs. .Attorney James Pritchett, mem ber of the N. C. General Assem bly from Caldwell, made response for the Lenoir club and T. E. Story, the Wilkes representative in the legislature, responded for the North Wilkesboro club. Bd Allen, of Lenoir, introduced the speaker of the evening, G^wyn B. Price, chairman of the Rural Electrification Authority of North Carolina, ■who addressed the audi- . ence on the increased demand for . “Electri.-'cation tod Oommunica- tion in the Rural Areas of North Carolina.’ He pointed out t'-at as the state increases in its output of poul try, dairy products and other farm goods, that the demand for elec trical power ■will increase by leaps and bounds. There was produced last year in one small county of Ashe sixteen and one-half million pounds of milk. To continue to do this in an increasing manner will require great quantities of feed, which also must be produced m the local farm. This cannot be without the increased use of ^ctricity. •niere ia now a great need for telephones. The reco. ffcw that there are now less h. >• phones in this State than there urere 20 years ago. There are per- hape 12,000 rural phones in Nortii jKgreltoa- This ehonld be donbled mmy times. At the recent session of Legislature a bill was passed setting out a plan whereby a rural community may apply to the neM- eat tffephone system for relief andi if it does not give it then the community can go to the newly conatitnted SUte Authority and get leUef- Heads Legion H. C. Budian, Jr., veteran of Word War H. v'iH head the Wilkes County Post of the .American Legion during the coining year. Buchan, a lieu tenant at the time he was hon orably discliarged from army service, i.s one of the city’s most progressive young merchants. He Is the son of H. C. Buchan, of Philadelphia, but spent most of his life In Raleigh. Genio Cardwell Last Rites Held Declared Dead CAPT. GEORGE R. WALL. V Capt. George Wall Reported Missing Is Declared Dead PEACE! Capt. George R. Wall, 27th Squadron bombadler on a B-24, reported as missing In action over Italy since April 10, 1946, Is now reported dead. He was on a bombing mission aimed at an Installation east of Bologna, Italy, which was his 33rd sortie. Over the target the ship was seriously damaged when one of tbe engines was hit by flak, immediately the stricken aircraft left tbe formation and began t losa—altitude rapidly In a spin. Retuanlng airmen state that the plane" finally crashed In the tar get area. Capt. wall received hla edac§> Beautiful Tribute Paid Life Of Civic And Business Leader In This City. Funeral service was held Tues day afternoon at the First Meth odist church for Genio Cardwell, who died early Monday at his home In this city after an extend ed Illness. Kev. A. C. Waggoner, pastor, conducted the service, which was largely attended. Mr. Cardwell a native of Ab ingdon, Va.. came to North Wilkesboro In 1904 and was en gaged In the lumber business here since that time. He was very active in church and civic work and was one of the city’s bert known citizens. Surviving Mr. Cardwell are his wife, Mrs. Irene Clements Card- V 11; two daughters. Mrs. Fred erick Hemphill, of North Wilkes boro, and Mrs. S. L. Atkinson, of Salisbury; one sister, Mrs. Mary Cardwell Berry, of North Wilkes boro; and six grandchildren. Active pall bearers were J. B. Carter, Dr. H. B. Smith, Dr. F. C. Hubbard, J. B. Williams, R. W. Gwyn and J. R. Hlx. Members of the Kiwanis club were seated to gether at tbe funeral as a token of esteem for the splendid leader ship given the club by Mr. Card- ■,«ll as a former president and for many years a most efficient club secretary. Many beautiful flowers, fltting tribute to the life of Mr. Card- well, were In charge of members of the Mary Brame circle of the Methodist church. interment was In Baptist ceme- ery In this city. tion at Wilkesboro high '^t^Oo' Wilkesboro. N. C., and Appalach ian State College, Boone, N. C. He was employed at Cannon Mills. Kannapolis, N. C.. ■until he en tered the Service on March 28, 1942, as an aviation cadet. He received his training at Ellington Field and Midland, Texas, being commissioned as second lieuten ant In December, 1942. For i year he was stationed at Galves ton, Texas, with the 10th Anti submarine Squadron. Shortly after that Capt. Wall went overseas, where he was ■with the Fifteenth Air Force In Italy. He was a veteran of more than 50 missions over Germany, France, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Bul garia, Boland, Yugoslavia and Italy, r'br heroism and extraor dinary achievement while partici pating in aerial combat he has been awarded the distinguished F’lylng Cross. The Air Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters has been awarded him for meritorious ser vice. He has also ’oeen awarded the Bresldentlal Citation. His wife has been recently informed that the Burple Heart has been award ed posthumously to her husband, who sacrificed his life in defense of his country. Surviving Capt. Wall are his wife and young son, Edwin George, of Kannapolis, N. C.; his father, Ed^wln Wall, of Akron, Ohio, and his grandmother, Mrs, Victoria Wall, of Boomer. (AN EDITORIAL) Peace again reigns over the world after long,>hard and bitter years of the most terrible war in the history of mankind. The capitulation of Japan Tuesday'marked the end 9f a conflict which started with Italy’s grab of Ethiopia and Japan’s invasions of China. The rise to power and the lust for power on the part jf a comparatively small number of greedy dictators and war lords has cost the world millions of splendid lives and unestimable resources. ■What price freedom? What price liberty? What price is the peace which has come to us again? First of all in the momentous cost were the lives sac rificed on the altar of freedom. America has lost heavily in this war in lives of numerous of its best manhood. Localizing the subject, let us pause to pay tribute as best we know to the valiant men from Wilkes whose bod ies lie beneath white crosses in cemeteries which have sprung up all over the world—in North Xfrica, Italy, France, Belgium, Luxumbourg, Germany, Guadalcanal, New Guinea,Guam, Saipan, Peleliu, Iwo Jima, Okinawa —and those who found a watery grave in the sea. To them all honor and reverence as we celebrate the return of peace! Lest we forget, let us always remind ourselves of the debt we owe to every veteran of world war number 2. They won the victory for all of us. No part which any had in the home front war effort can be compared to the men in uniform who faced and defeated the enemy. As an improvement over the situation at the end of the first world war, our nation has incorporated many op portunities in the G. I. Bill of Rights for veterans. It should be the duty of every citizen to see that they get full bene fits as provided, but more important is our gratitude for what they have done. Peace, according to President Truman, brings with it problipaft as graat as those, wjiich this countiy faced at the JAPANESE ACCEPYED TERMS OR TUESDAY, DORDLAS MmARTHDR IS NAMED COMMAIIDER IN GRIEF In Command Japaneae Repracentatives To Sign Surrender "In Ma nila' GEN. DOUGLAS MacARTHUR problems are many and varied, and upiited and cooperative action is as essenfial on the part of America in building the peace as in winning the war. The price of raycn staple fiber has been reduced from 60 easts a ponsd in 1930 to sbont 24 cents at present. This means keen com petition from cotton. Local Boys Win First and Second Places Swimming Dudley and Jimmie Moore, sons of Mr. and Mrs. R. I. Moore, of this city, tvon a number of awards at the swimming meet at Camp Yonohlosee at Blowing Rock Saturday. It was the final meet at the camp and tbe Moore brothers were competing against the best swimmers picked from h^un- dreds of campers, in addition to a team from Boone. Jimmie Moore won first place in the 60-yard dash for the jnnlor group and Dudley Moore won sec ond place In senior diving. Dud ley’s relay team won first place, with Jimmie’s team a close sec ond. EyaiiHelist Mitchell At Liberty Grove Evangelist Rnfns Mitchell wQl pnadt at liberty Grove Baptist chorch Sunday, Agunst 19, It a. m. The public is cordially invi ted to attend. Let US never forget that we as a nation must be wor thy of peace if we are to retain it. There is one fundamen tal rule of conduct—-the Golden Rule—observance of which would solve all the problems of the world. America surely has learned the lesson of world co operation. The United Nations Charter is a step in the right direction. Nations which uphold justice must join together to crush aggressors before they rise to such pow er as Hitler, Mussolini and the Japanese war lords used to plunge the world into war. Discovery of how to use atomic force in the form of a bomb for destruction also presents a grave problem. The atomic bomb is so powerful that comparison with, other means of destruction is absurd. Atomic force can bless the world or destroy the world, and the answer depends upon the kind of people who know the secret of atomic bomb manufacture and use, or will know these things in years to come. “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.’’ With this truth in the minds of men, refreshed by the happenings of the past decade, surely men have learned to live in peace. Car Stolen And Recovered Soon On Tuesday afternoon A. F. Kilby's Mercury automobile was stolen from where It was parked In the driveway of his home on Sixth street. On Wednesday morning the car was found near Traphlll and offi cers arrested William Mack Jolnes, who was charged with the theft. The car had received rough treatment and had been dam aged. Jolnes Is reported to have been already facing one charge of auto theft In Wilkes court. V Roy Osborne Gets 20 - 35 Years For Shooting Brother Baptist Pastois To Meet Monday Wilkes county Baptist pastors conference ■will meet Monday, Au gust 20, 10 a. m., In Relns-Stur- divant chapel. The program vHll open with de votional by Rev. C. J. Poole. Rev. Howard J. Ford will discuss “The Post-War Church,’’ and "Minis terial Problems’’ ■will be tbe sub ject of a discourse by Rev. B. C. Bhew. The morning sermon wUl ■he by Rev. 8. I. Watts. Announcement of the con ference stated that all ministers, deacons and others interested are invited to attend. State Accepts Plea Of Sec ond Degree Murder In Case Heard Tuesday Hoy Osborne, Union township resident, charged with the mur der of his brother, Tom Osborne, on July 1, near Sheets Gap, was sentenced In Wilkes court by Judge William H. Bobbitt to serve 20 to 26 years In the penitentiary. Roy Osborne, through counsel, submitted a plea to second degree murder, which was accepted by the state. in evidence beard briefly by the judge before passing sentence, it was revealed that Roy Oslwrae and Tom Osborne, brothers, had difficulties prevlons to the date on which Roy Osborne shot and killed Tom Osborne from ambnsb with a high powered rifle. in November lest year Tom Os borne inflicted serious knife wounds on Roy Osborne, who was hospitalised several days, accord- ing to tbe BTldextce. Today the con.,v -^egan the first degree m'nrder trial of Walter Hightower, colored prisoner at the camp near here, who is al leged to have fatally stabbed Wil liam Bnnker, another colored prisoner, on April 1. Schools of Wilkes County System to Open August 20th List Of Teachers Announced From Office Of County Suptointendent. Schools of the Wilkes county system will open Monday, August 2U. C. B. Eller, county superintend ent, has released the list of teach ers for the schools. Several vacan cies are listed, but every effort Is being-niade to seenre ’ gttfflclent teachers before Mondey morning. The list of teachers by grades follows: Wllkesboro school—W. T. Long, principal; science, vacancy; ESng- llsh, Mrs. Jessie Pharr; Home Economics, Ghlta Tuttle; Eng lish and Library, Mrs. Vera L. Johnson; mathematics, Thelma Laws; French and History, Mrs. Helen W. Jester; Commercial, Mrs. Lorene Clontz; 8. Wrenn Duncan; 8, Louise Pearson; 8, Mrs. Ruth Bessent; 7, Naomi Broyhlll; 7, Mrs. Jennie H. Cra- nor; 6, Blolse Starr; 6, Mrs. Grace WatWT 6, Mrs. Rebecca B. Ingram: 6, Della Bumgarner; 5, Mrs. Gertrude Steelman; 4, Mrs. Oora H. Eller; 4, Mrs. Marion H. Banner; 4, vacancy; 3, Lucille Scroggs; 3, Mrs. Lillian Foster; 3, Alda Greene; 2, Mrs. Willie G Dickson; 2, Mrs. Edith P. Burle son; 2, Mrs. Willie Billings; 1, Mrs. Zola Gage Barber; 1. KaU Ogllvie; 1, Mrs. Agnes K. Len derman. Boomer school—6-7, W. B. Craft; 3-5, Eva German; 1-2, Lu- clle German. Ferguson school—L. C. Hollar, principal; Bngllsh-Hlstory, va cancy; 6-7, Mrs. Juanita Hollar 5, Bessie Brock; 4, Beatrice Se bastian; 3, Mrs. Vera J. West; 2 Mrs. Frankie J. Williams; 1, Eliz abeth Redman. Gilreath school—Mrs. W. O. Scott. Lewis school—Mrs. Katie Felts. Lovelace—Vacancy. Moravian Falls—7, E. I. El- ledge; 6-6, Mrs. Bertha Hodges; 4-5, Mrs. Roxle Jennings; 3, Mrs. Bernice P. Greer; 2, Mrs. Ma Hendren; 1, Mrs. Mattie H. Par- due. Mountain Crest—Mrs. Alma C. Michael; Mrs. Eva B. Glass. Mt. Slnla—M. P. Mastin. Oak woods school—^Vacancy. Somers school—Vacancy. Shady Grove school—Mrs. S. J. Goforth. Spurgeon school—S. C. Hutch inson. Windy Gap—Bernice Crabb. Mt. Pleasant school—O. M. ProfUt, principal: Home Econom ics, Mrs. Rena Spicer; Math, and Science, Mrs. J. W. Norris: Science And History, Mrs. Blanche Greene; 8, VlrglnU Gregg; 8, Robert Teague; 7, vacancy: 6, va cancy; 6, Mrs. Mae Whittington: 4, vacancy; 3, Lucy Cowles; 2, Mrs. Margaret D. Watson; 1, Stel la SherriU. Hendrix school—John Barnett; Mrs. Anna W. Mllee. Big Ivey school—Mrs. Agatha Parsons. summit school—Mrs. Nora B. Miller. Maple Springs school—6-7, T. (Goutined oa patfb four) Manila, Thursday, Aug. 16.— General of the Ai-my Douglas Mac.^btl^r will deliver surrender terms to the Japanese tomorrow in hlB Manila headquarters close by the hallowed shrines of Ba taan and Corregldor. MacArthnr instructed the Jap anese to cease hostilities Immedi ately and send plenipotentiaries by plane to Manila to receive tfie allied terms. For the password through American lines he or dered them to use the bitter American battlecry of the Pacific war—“Bataan." The Japanese surrender party was ordered to leave southern Kyushu island between 8 and 11 a. m. Tokyo time on Friday (7 and 10 p. m. E.W.T. Thursday) in a white Japanese plane and fly to le Bhlma island off Okinawa. - From there they will be flown In an American plane to MacAr- thur’s headquarters In Manila to hear what they must do to stop all the shooting along the 6,d00- mlle Pacific battle arc from outer Mongolia to Rabaul. Instructions Acknowledged Tokyo acknowledged MacAr- thur's instructions and declared that strenuous efforts were being made to reach all Japanese fight ing forces on land, at sea, and In the air. It warned allied ships, however, to avoid Japanese home waters until the surrender is signed. .V- On Gasoline, And Other Necessities Washington, Aug. 15.—The OPA today ended rationing of gasoline, canned fruits and vege tables, fuel oil, and oil stoves, and promised the earliest possible re moval of every other item on the ration list. Civilians, bent on pleasure or business can now order up a full tank of gas and OPA said it does not care If they use their "A’’ and “B" ration books to light cigars. The petroleum administrator for war, Harold L. Ickes, said: “Am ple quantities’’ of gasoline are available immediately. 7’hat goes lor beating and fuel oil, too, and hlgh-teet gas will soon return. OPA Chief Chester Bowles said it was too soon to predict when all buying restrictions will end. He said that meats, butter, and everything else will go off the ra tion list "tbe minute we hear that supplies are anywhere near big enough to go around.” Price controls, meanwhile, were lifted on “luxury" furs, jewelry, loy-coet toys, J .tirette lighters, pipes, some photographic appa ratus, some sports equipment, Clothespins, and notions, Bowles asked the 5,500 local ration boards to stay on the job for the present. “We will continue to need their help at least until meat, tire and shoe rationing can be eliminated," he said. OPA said rationing of meats, fats and oils, butter, sugar, shoes, tires, and other commodities -will continue indefinitely until mili tary ^cutbacks and increased pro ducts 1 can balance supply and demand. Rationing of tires, which early in 1942 started the nation on the ration program, ia expected to end quickly. Automobile rationing will be continued temporarily, for the first new cars off assembly lines. •V- Big Farm ADCtion Near City Aog. 23 The 170-acre farm owned by Mrs. F. D. Forester, Sr., and lo cated In Rock Creek to'wnahlp, one mile forth of highway 268, has been subdivided into small tracts and will be sold at auction on Thursday, August 2S, 2 p. m. Penny -Brothers, widely known land anctloneen, who have con ducted several sales in this vicin ity, will conduct the sale. The farm is excellent real ee- tbte, near good chnrcheo, sc&oiRa and roads.
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