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VOL. 40. NO. 87
Publiahed Monday, and Thur«Iay. NORTH WILKESBORO, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1946
Malta North Wilkeaboro Your Shoppiii( Center
POINDEXTER BUILDING FIRE DAMAGE HIGH
Court Is Making
Progress In Trial
Of Criminal Cases
Judge J. A. Rousseau Pre
siding Over Term Which
Convened Monday
I Much headway has been made
in Wilkes superior court this
I week on the docket of criminal
I eases calendared for the March
L term, which opened Monday
I morning with Judge Julius A.
I Rousseau, of North Wtlkesboro,
I presiding.
I On Monday morning grand
I jurors were drawn and Gwyn
Nichols, of Millers Creek, was
appointed foreman. Judge Rous
seau delivered a most Instructive
charge to the Jurors.
A number of divorce cases
were pending and divorces were
granted In the following cases:
K. C. Duncan versus Lucy Dun
can; T. G. Bauguss versus Stel
la Swaim Bauguss; Laura How
ell versus Lincoln Howell; Wat
son Prevette versus Cordla Pre-
vette; Farthing Dancy Versus
Alva Dancy; Lass H. Church
versus Louisa Wellborn Church;
Alice Kilby versus Roby Kilby;
Rosa Fletcher Cunditf versus
Reginald Cundlff; Cuius Edward
Burns versus Violet Daphine
Burns.
Judgments were rendered In
other cases as follows;
Mrs. Austin Woodie, keeping
disorderly house, six months In
jail suspended.
Robinet Gray Nichols, operat
ing car while intoxicated. 60
days suspended on payment $50
fine; driver license revoked 12
months.
Avery Daniel Barnes, larceny
»nd receiving, 90 days suspended
two yaars.
* '’ James Roderick Parsons, alias
Stacy Parsons, assault with in
tent to commit rape, seven to ten
years in state prison.
Woodrow Wilcox, carrying
concealed weapon, 60 days su
spended two years.
Basil Holloway. non-support,
six months suspended two
years on condition he support
his wife aad children.
Warren G. Osborne, judgment
of $5 fine and costs in lower
court put into effect on pay
ment of additional costs.
Baxter Spears, operating car
while intoxicated, two cases, 4
months suspended on payment
$50 fine and costs; and tour
months suspended on payment
$10 fine and costs; driver license
revoked.
John Henry Roberts, operating
car while intoxicated, 60 days
suspended on payment of $50
fine and costs.
THE VISIBLE SIGN
Southern good manners, southern courtesy, are
traditional ideals to which all southerners cling.
Suddenly everyone realizes that manners have sad
ly deteriorated, not only in the nation, but in that
bastion of good manners, the South. , . j
“The pressure and haste of war’, we_ claimed,
defensively. Perhaps, in part . . . but that is not the
whole story. Courtesy is an inate quality, resulting
from an attitude toward life and toward other peo
ple.
Good manners come from people who have a
strong sense of individual human dig;nity. Courtesy
is the fruit of the recognition of this individual dig
nity in others, no matter what their class or calling.
When political philosophies arise that stimulate
envy in the less fortunate and snobbery in the more
fortunate, the general sense of human dignity is de
stroyed. Discourtesy and ill manners are only the
outward and visible signs of inward decay.
But courtesy is the main lubricant of smooth
human relationships. It is the indispensible element
in successful business and social activities. When
courtesy deteriorates it is time to seek out the cause,
and to do everything possible to repair the corrosive
degeneration.—Southern Hotel Journal.
Workers In R e d
Cross Drive Asked
To Complete Tasks
Early Reports Desired In
Annual Fund Campaign
Which is Under Way
S.Sgt. Anderson
Will Give Organ
Concert Sunday
Widely Known Organist To
Render Program at Wil-
kesboro Methodist
Marriage License
OURSOfff
WITH TIM fOi0RS\
L, GRAYSON, JR.,
3 for week-end
il Grayson, Jr., seaman
class, of Charleston, S. C.,
the week-end In this city
Ills mother, Mrs. E. C. Nich-
Staff Sergeant J. Jay Ander
son. one of the best known or
ganists In the Carolinas. will
render a concert Sunday, March
10, eight p. m., on the new Ham
mond organ In Wllkesboro Meth
odist church.
8. Sgt. Anderson, son of Mrs.
Annie Anderson, of North Wll
kesboro, was. chapel organist, at
Wake Forest College for three
and one-half years and was as-
sirtant to Dr. Hubert M. Poteat
for three years. Later he demon
strated the Hammond organ In
South Carolina for 18 months
and was choir director at the
First Baptist church at Anderson,
S. C., for three and one-half
years before entering the army.
In the army he continued the
same type of work and was assist
ant to the divisional chaplain at j
Camp Breckenrldge, Ky., later
holding a similar position at
Fort Benning, Ga. Also, while
on full duty at Fort Benning, he
was choir director at the First
Baptist church at Columbus, Ga.,
and organised a number of army
and civilian choirs which sang on
the, air, at 'JSO services, festivals,
chapels and army hospitals.
The church isiies a cordial in
vitation for all to attend the
concert and a large congregation
is expected.
Continuing the high average,
Troy C. Foster, Wilkes register
of deeds, during the past week
issued license to wed to the fol
lowing 12 couples: Boss Green,
Hendrix, and Louise Wagner,
Whitehead; Silas W. Johnson
and Magdalene Higgins, both of
North Wllkesboro route three:
Smith Blevins, Roaring River,
and Myrtle Bauguss, Lomax;
Tolbert Hall, Halls Mills, and
Elma Alice Hanks, Purlear; Hyte
Blevins, Jefferson, and Albertlne
Faw, West Jefferson; Manual
Gregory, Union Grove, and Nellie
Mastln, Ronda; Robert Johnson
and Betty Mary Kennedy, both
of Joynes; Harrison Luther
Stakes and LUy Johnaon.-hotli,.of.
Cycle; Daniel B. Pennell, Boom
er, and Carmine Eller, Moravian
Falls: Jake Triplett, Purlear,
and Marlness Church, Champion;
Charles D. Collins and Mary Lee
Lyon, both of Elkin.
Wilkes Red Cross chapter of
ficials today reported that the
annual Red Cross fund campaign
is well under way in Wilkes
• and some progress has been
made toward raising the goal of
$10,500.
However, few funds have been
received to date by the chapter
treasury and all workers, and
canvassers, are urgently request
ed to contact all In their terri
tories and to make their reports.
The Special Gifts committee
composed of P. W. Eshelman,
R. G. Finley and J. R. Hix have
been contacting business firms
and larger contributors for ad
vance gifts in the campaign.
Several workers in North Wll
kesboro and Wllkesboro have not
begun their soliciting and it is
hoped that within the next few
days that they can contact the
people in their territories and
collect the donations.
With the slogan this year be
ing “Your Red Cross Must Car
ry On,” liberal contributions are
asked in order that the Ameri
can Red Cross may have ample
funds to continue Its valuable
work with the men In the armed
services and the rapidly expand
ing activities of the chapters
throughout the nation. Last year
the Wilkes Red Cross chapter
had its most active year and
rendered service to thousands of
people, including many returning
veterans and their families. This
work Is of great value and must
be carried on. (
John A. Brewer
Last Rites Held
F’liiural service was held to
day at Round Mountain church
for John A. Brewer, age 78, who
died Tuesday at his home in
MiiH)etry township.
Mr. Brewer was a member of
a well known Wilkes family and
is survived by one brother, W.
E. Brewer, and one sister, Mrs.
Tilda Owens, both of Hays.
Hits Parked Car
As Driver Sleeps
Basketball - Cake
Walk Friday Night
Local Monogram
Club Is Formed
IBI h
L. O. AVILLARD, JR.,
rvES DISCHABOB
L. C. Willard, Jr., son of
nd Mrs. L. C. Willard, of
jboro, has received his dls-
) from the army and has
ed home. Sgt. Willard
three and one-half years
army in chemical warfare
[uartermaster corps and
.atloned on Okinawa be-
etuming home.
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IX>D PENNEIX,
2-0 HOME ON liKAVB
ilallst Edna Lou Pennell
Officer 2-c. has returned
orfolk Naval Shipyard,
louth, Va., after spending
k with her parents. Mr.
Irs. Sam Pennell of Mora-
The North Wllkesboro High
School Monogram Club made
up of 23 high school boys who
earned letters either last year or
this year, met Wednesday after
noon, March 6, 1946, at the lo
cal high school.
Officers were elected for the
group. The officers were as fol
lows:
Dwight Pardue, president;
Charles Winters, vice president:
Bobby Kerley, secretar ■ Julius
Rousseau, Jr., treasure'
Coach Charles N. .vlanshlp,
who is advisor for the club, sug
gested that each boy in the club
attend at least one church service
every Sunday.
It was suggested that the club
meet again next Wednesday aft
ernoon, but due to the fact that
a large number of the boys have
part-time work in the local
stores, the next meeting will be
in Coach Manshlp’s room at
12:30 p. m.
The Monogram Club sells can
dy, etc. at each ball game and
Friday night they will sponsor
a cake-walk.
Bl ^ A
PFUS MOSELEY
rED HOME SOON
Rufus Moseley, son of
Mrs. C. A. Moseley, of
is, is expected home
:e arrived In the States
I. Ho has been on Guam
Stone Mountain
Singing Mar. 31
Regular Fifth Sunday eesslcn
of the Stone Mountain Union
Singing association will be held
at Mountain View school build
ing on Sunday, March 31. J. A.
Gilliam, chairman, said the sing
ing will begin at one p. m. and
that all are Invited.
Elkin.—^Grant William Hol
brook, 32. of Traphill, was placed
under $300 bond late yesterday
following his release from a lo
cal hospital. He was treated for
injuries received yesterday about
1 a. m. when his car crashed in
fo a parked automobile three
miles southeast of here on the
Winston-Salem highway.
Corp. IV. S. McKinney of the
State Highway Patrol said Mr.
Holbrook told him he was re-
tfirning to his home from Balti
more, Md., and went to sleep
while driving.
Corporal McKinney said the
coupe left the highway, struck
a oar parked in the driveway at
the home of Orie Willard and
knocked the lid off the trunk of
the machine. The lid crashed
into a window of the home,
breaking the pane.
North Wilkesboro will play
Taylorsville in the last basket
ball game this season Friday
night. The local fans have sup
ported the basketball teams ex
cellently this year and large at
tendance is expected for the last
contest. Taylorsville boast two
strong teams. Although the boys
won in the first engagement of
the season, two exciting games
loom.
Coach Manshlp announces in
addition to the ball games, ar
rangements are being made for
another exciting cake walk. The
attendance and interest last Fri-
night for the cake walks have
mads it almost impossible to
close the season without another.
Let’s all plan to be at the High
School Gym Friday night.
Frame Building
At Millers Creek
School Destroyed
Fire of Unknown Origin
Burned 4-Room Build
ing On Monday
4-H Club County
Council Formed
Forty representatives from the
ten 4-H Clubs met in the Relns-
Sturdivant Chapel on Saturday
morning, March 2, for the pur
pose of organizing the 4-H
Wilkes County Council.
Mrs. Helen P. ’White, the as
sistant Home Agent, presided.
Mrs. Paul Greene, Home Agent,
and R. D. Smith, County Agent,
were present and spoke to the
group.
The following officers were
elected: president. Buddy Ma
this, Wllkesboro Club: vice pres
ident, Peggy Henderson, Roaring
River Club; secretary-treasurer,
Charlie Blackburn. Ronda Club;
cheer leaders, Linda Bumgarner,
Millers Creek Club, Ronald En-
glebert. Millers Creek Club; re
porter, Sammy Greer, Moravian
Falls dnb.
A four-room frame structure
erected a year ago as a part of
the Millers Creek school plant
was totally destroyed by fire
Monday afternoon.
Persons near tbe building a-
bout five p. m. noticed fire In a
back room and many gathered
and were able to remove from
the building the school furniture
and books. The North ’Wilkes-
boro fire department was called
to keep the fire from spreading
to the large school building and
the other frame buildings on the
grounds. A brisk wind from the
northwest kept the fire from
threatening the other buildings.
School authorities were unable
to find the origin of the flie.
The building, which was car
ried on the school inventory as
a value of $5,000 but which
could not he replaced for any
thing near that sum now, was
erected partially from old school
buildings. It was built with the
intention of sometime making it
Into a vocational agricultural de
partment building but was be
ing used for four elementary
classrooms.
The four classes which used
the building are being tempor
arily housed in halls and base
ments of the other bnlldings un
til better arrangements can be
made.
County Officials In
Raleigh This Week
M. F. Absher, chairman of
the board of county commission
ers, C. B. Eller, superintendent
of Wilkes county schools, and C.
C. Sldden, member of the board
of county commissioners, were
in Raleigh yesterday In the In
terest of the county school sys
tem.
Dr. Sink’s Office
Now Located Over
Horton Drug Co.
Dr. C. S. Sink, well known lo
cal physician whose office In the
Poindexter building burned Tues
day night, has opened his office
in temporary quarters over Hor
ton’s Drug Store.
Dr. Sink stated today that he
wished to express his • appreci
ation to those who removed
equipment and supplies from his
office Tuesday night and thus
saved them from the fire.
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Dr. W. F. Jones
Will Have Office
Over Tomlinson’s
$200,000 IS ESTIMATE DAMAGE
INCURRED IN DISASTROUS FIRE;
LIBERTY THEATRE DESTROYED
Wilkes Motor Supply, Vaimoy's Studio, Offices of Dr.
Sink and Dr. Jones Burned; Rezall Store and Pool
Room Are Hearily Daaaafed
One of the most disastrous fires in the history of
North Wilkesboro swept the Poindexter buildinjf on Main
itreet Tuesday night.
The Liberty Theatre, Wilkes Motor Supply, Vannoy’s
Studio and offices of Dr, C. S. Sink and Dr. W. F. Jones
were burned out, Rexall Drug store and the pool room
between the drug store and theatre were badly damaged.
The theatre was playing to a
Rexall Store To Be
Open Again Soon
Dr. "W. F. Jones, whose dental
office In the Poindexter building
was destroyed by fire Tuesday
night, will open an office over
Tomlinson’s Department store
within the next few days. Dr.
Jones Is now busily engaged re
placing his equipment, which was
destroyed in the fire.
Thomas L. McNeill
President Juniors
School of Medicine
Thornes L, JJcNelll, of
” —
Purlear, was elected president of
the junior class at the Bowman
Gray school of medicine of Wake
Forest College In Winston-Salem
last week. A group picture of the
student officers was carried In
Sunday’s edition of the Winston-
Salem Journal.
L. G. Critcher Is No’W
iVith Carter-Hubbard
Mr. Lawrence G. Critcher, of
Moravian Falls, an expert lino
type operator, Is again a mem
ber of the mechanical personnel
of The Carter-Hubbard Publish
ing Co., being connected with the
newspaper department of the
company. Mr. Critcher was con
nected with the company prior
to serving In the navy several
years. His addition to the force ^
adds materially to the production i
of ’The Journal-Patriot. ■
Mr. Critcher succeeds Mr. ]
Thomas C. Price, who tendered
his resignation several weeks
ago to look after his drug store
Interest In Burlington.
Dr. J. H. Johnson stated this
morning that his drug store,
widely known throughout this
section of the state as The Rex
all Store, will be open for limit
ed business within the next few
days. The stock of merchandise
and fixtures suffered much dam'
age by water, but plans are
under way now to thoroughly
clean the building and place a
temporary roof over the store.
Dr. Johnson requested The
Journal-Patriot to publicly thank
the fir© departments of North
Wilkesboro and Wilkesboro for
their efforts to control the fir®,
and also expressed appreciation
to the many citizens who have
expressed regret over his loss of
merchandise and the severe
handicap he Is experiencing in
not being able to carry on normal
business.
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full house but the more than
600 people filed from the the
atre rapidly and the building
was emptied without injury to
anyone.
“Producing Clean
Series Meetings
Millers Creek Boys
Cage Champions
Millers Creek boys and girls
cage teams won a claim to the
Wilkes County championship
Tuesday night by defeating North
Wilkesboro In a twin bill. The
boys won, 32-29 while the girls
came off with an 18-10 win.
It marked the second succes
sive year the Millers Creek boys
had copped the title, holding a
brand new team for this year’s
campaign after losing five flrst-
strlngers. Chuch led the scoring
by nine polnta.
The lineups:
Pos. 'M. Creek N. Wllkesboro
P....Brooks 4 — 2 Hayes
P....Mltchen 6 6 Felts
F. ...Parsons 8 —- 2 Wells
G .-Bumgarner —- Bare
G. ...Cooper — Johnson
G—McGlamery McNeil
Substitutions Millers Creek—
McNeil. Nichols, Canter. North
Wllkesboro — Adams, Powell,
Cragg, Moore, Harris.
Boys* Game
Pos. M. Creek N. Wllkesboro
p Church 9 — 5 Johnson
P....Caudlll 2 4 Turner
C—Watkins 6 10 Ballard
O Eller B .... 3 Hudson
G....011ver 6 — 6 Caudill
Substitutions: Millers Creek—
B. Church. North Wllkesiboro—
McGinnis, Badgett, Rousseau.
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The North Carolina Hereford
Breeders’ Association will con
duct Its annual show and sal©
at Statesville on March 18, 19.
R. D. Smith, Wilkes county
agent, has announced that a se
ries of meetings will be held In
Wilkes to discuss methods of
producing clean milk.
Mr. Smith said that Joe Pou,
extension dairyman, will be
present at the meetings to dis
cuss the subject and that all par
ents and school children are es
pecially invited. The schedule of
meetings follows:
March 11: 10:00 a. m.. Mul
berry; 11:00 a. m. Mountain
View.
March 12: 10:00 a. m., Trap-
hlil; 1:30 p. m., Moravian Falls.
March 13: 9:30 a. m.. Millers
Creek; 11:00 a. m.. Mount
Pleasant.
March 14: 9:30 a. m.. Boom
er; 11:00 a. m., Ferguson.
March 15: 9:30 a. m., Ronda;
11:00 a. m.. Roaring River.
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City Council In
Brief Meeting
The fire was first discovered
In the theatre when the opera
tor in the projection booth saw
flames through the overhead cell
ing just under the roof. It was
the concensus of opinion that the
fire originated from a short cir
cuit in electric wires in the at
tic of the building.
An alert theatre attendant
saw the blaze just under the
roof and above the projection
room. The alarm was given and
the crowd filed from the theatre
while the picture still ran on the
screen. After the crowd had
passed through the doors, a
check was made of the building
to see that no one was left In
side.
Meanwhile, the North Wilkee-
boro fire department had ar
rived and the long fight to get
the flames under control was
undar way. The fire spread rapid
ly under the roof of the large
building and It was soon evident
that the loss would be great.
The fire departmeata of WU-
North Wilkesboro board of
commissioners in session Tues
day night with Mayor R. T. Mc-
Nlel held a brief session and
transacted a number of routine
matters.
Taxi driver permits were
granted to Edd J. Brooks, Robert
J. Gettman, Luther D. Saylors.
Joe Todd Caudill, William C.
Sloope, Thurman Shepherd, Wil
lie Lee Minton and William Clay
Sebastian. A colored taxi permit
was granted to Clem E. Redmon.
A delegation was present ask
ing improvement of Fifth street
from P street north to a point
between G and H streets.
Spring’s Here And
Chickens Gn Loose
Police Chief J. E. Walker
knows when spring arrives, re
gardless of the calendar or any
other factors to the contrary.
He knows that It Is gardening
time because he is getting com
plaints about chickens on the
loose doing damage to gardens.
And in the way of warning
CMef Walker states that it Is
a [violation of the law to allow
Ickens to run loose In the city
d that chickens must he con
fined and cannot he allowed to
damage gardens and flower beds
of neighbors.
the call for help and aided ma
terially In extinguishing the fire
and saving other property from
destruction.
Outside walls of the large
building, which Is the property
of Mrs. C. G. Poindexter, remain
ed Intact. The theatre interior,
including all equipment. was
totally destroyed. The newly re
built front of the theatre re
mained intact but was badly
damaged.
The large stock of merchandise
carried by Wilkes -Motor Supply
in the rear part of ,the building
was almost a total loss.
The Rexall Drug store, owned
by J. H. Johnson, was in the
part of the building which did
not totally burn, but the merch
andise was heavily damaged by
fire and water. The pool room,
property of B. J. Robinson, did
not burn but was greatly damag
ed.
On the second floor of tbe
building was V’annoy’s Studio,
owned by Ed Vannoy, which was
totally burned and on which was
no insurance coverage. Offices
of Dr. C. S. Sink and Dr. W. F.
Jones on the second floor were
wiped out but much of In-. .Sink’s
j equipment was removed.
Mrs. Poindexter, owner of the
building, and the firms and of-
I fices with the exception of Van-
' noy’s studio had some fire in
surance but in no case was the
insurance sufficient to cover the
loss.
Tentative plans were under
way today for rebuilding of the
burned portions of the building.
Ivan D. Anderson, Liberty
Theatre owner, said today that
the theatre will be rebuilt as
rapidly as possible.
Official estimates of the total
damage, or damage to any spe
cific part of the building or the
firms Involved, were not avail
able today, although unofficial
estimates ranged upward to
$200,000.
Extreme heat from the flames
set fire to roofs of buildings a-
cross the street and guests va
cated many of tho rooms In Ho
tel Wilkes.
Hurt In Accident
Elkin, March 6.—Mrs. Bruce
Pardue, about 40, operator of B
and M. Grocery company of
Ronda, suffered flesh injuries
and a broken nose early this
morning when the pickup truck
in which she was driving toward
Clingman went out of control,
crashing a bank.
Support the Y.M.C. A.
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Dicken
son and Mr. and Mrs. Bob Ma
son, of Troy, Pa., are spending
several days with Mr. and Mrs.
Dave Hall. Mrs. Dickenson Is a
sister of Mrs. Hall.
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