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^Y;^M.C.A. Wilkes Y. M. C. A. is rais- inc e building fund for the erection of a modern Y. M C. A. plant Support it ,5 i\ r , '. r ^ " f ‘ ,r,5'^ X'* ■ iV. OORCITY- North Wilkesixm' has a THE JOURNAL-PATRIOT HAS BLAZED THE TRAIL OF PROGRESS IN THE “STATE OF WILKES” FOR OVER 40 YEARS trading radius of SO miles, serving 100,000 people in Northwestern Carolina. V 'i VOL. 40. NO. 98 Published Mondays and Thursdays. NORTH WILKESBORO, N. C., MONDAY, APRIL IS, 1946 Msdce North Wilkesboro Your Shopping Center > American Legion Is Giving Veterans A Buffet Supper All Veterans Invited to Din- near Meeting to Be Held At Mt. Pleasant Wilkes post of the American Legion will be host to all service veterans who will attend a buf fet supper and entertainment to be held Friday evening, April IS, seven o’clock, at Mount Pleasant school. Commander H. C. Landon, of the Wilkes post, said today that a buffet supper will be served free to all veterans and urged two ton-minute addressee, plenty of music and other entertain ment and a social hour. No charges will be made to any vet eran attending. Those going from this vicinity and who have no means to travel are asked to be at Landon's Ser vice station on Ninth street at 6:30. Those who are taking cars and who have room to take addi tional passengers are asked to be at Landon’s at the same hour. An Interesting and gala occas ion Is promised all who will at tend. Churches Softball League Will Open Play April 30th Six Teams Compose League; North Wilkesboro In Mountain League In recent meetings of softball players a six-team league has been formed In the Wllkesboros with play scheduled to open on April 30. The teams In the Churches league will be composed of two from the First Baptist church, one each from the First Metho dist and First Presbyterian In this city, and one each from the Baptist and Methodist churches In Wilkesboro. Games will be played on each Tuesday and Thursday evening, 6:30 p. m., on the Smoot Park, Fairgrounds and Wllkeaboro fields. Each sponsor Is asked to reg ister their lists of players and turn In entrance fees to Bill Lee, secretary of the league, not later than April 23. Charlie Manshlp Is president of the Softball league, Gordon Forester Is vice president, and Bill Lee ta secretary-treasurer. In addition to the churches league. North Wilkesboro will have a team In the Mountain Softball league composed of teams from North Wilkesboro. Elkin, Sparta and Independence, Va. In the Mountain I.«ague games will be played each Wednesday afternoon. The first games will be on May 24 with North Wllkes- ro playing Elkin and Sparta playing Independence. — o C. C. Hayes Seeks G.O.P. Nomination For Clerk of Court C. C. Hayes, clerk of superior court of Wilkes county, has filed for the Republican nomination to succeed himself. Mr. Hayes will have completed his third terin as clerk of super ior court In December this year, being elected for the first time In 1934. The other candidate for the nomination Is Winfield S. Fletch er of Purlear, who announced his candidacy several days ago. o Speaker Friday AtKiwanisMeet Former Methodist Pastor Here Delivers Inspiring Address Before Club SGT. WM. ABTHtJB NICHOLS iSPENDINO PUBIXHTOH HERE ' Sgt. Wm. Arthur Nichols, who Is sUtioned at the marine corps bass at Parris Island, S. C., Is spending a 14-day furlough with relatives and friends here and In the Purlear community. Featured by an Interesting ad dress, the North Wilkesboro Ki- wanls club on Friday held an In teresting meeting. Prior to the program Ca)i Van- Deman discussed the Family Garden Contest for this commun ity with rules and regulations to be set up later and asked the Club to be the sponsor. The Club voted to sponsor the project. W. D. Halfacre called attention to the Easter seal campaign and asked the members to support It liberally. Attendance prize was given by Carl VanDeman: one pound of frozen green peas and a month’s rent paid on locker in new plant. It was won by A. F. Kilby. Program Chairman W. G. Ga briel with appropriate remarks presented Rev. A. C. Waggoner, of Reidsvllle, who made an ap pealing talk on the subject, “Be ing Loyal to The Royal.’' He quoted from the Beatitudes for a background for his thought, and then stated there are two atti tudes among men about what constitutes success. The first Is the means of achievement, or worth, or what one has done or his social standing. The other is the measure placed on the Indi vidual of being something rather than having something. It Is definite that man is to be something or somebody. A three fold means for measuring man follows: First, what man has: He may have and yet be most poor; or, he may have not and yet be most rich. Neither poverty nor the having of great abund ance is necessarily a virtue, but the use to which either Is put may make all the difference. Second, What man does; He may do much and It avail but lit tle. How he does counts much. Third, What Man Is; The mas ter of men did not concern him self so much with what men have or what they do, but he did go to great lengths to impress the importance of what men are. This was a good talk and en joyed by the club members. Guests Friday were as follows: Tommie Phillips with R. E. Gibbs, T. J. Frazier with P. E. Forester, Richard Johnston with W. J. Oaroon. Harold Riley, of St. Louis, Mo., was a visiting Kl- wanian. Support the Y.M.C. A. Democrats Will Hold Conventioi On April 27th Precinct Meetings Will Be Held On April 20; Chair man Issues Cal! Democrats of Wilkes county will meet In county convention Saturday, April 27, 2:00 p. m., at the county courthouse, W. A. McNlel, chairman of the Wilkes County Democratic Executive committee, said today. In the convention call Chair man McNlel stated that precinct meetings will he held on Satur day, April 20, two p. m., for the purpose of electing delegates to the county convention. At the county convention the county organization will be per fected and delegates will be named to the state convention. All Democrats are urged to at tend the precinct meetings and the county convention. Hybrid corn Is expected to pro vide a |3,000,000-a-year seed business In North Carolina by 1950. Taken By Death Here is a recent picture of the late W. E. Oolvard, prom inent business leader who died recently at his home in Wil kesboro. Mr. Oolvard for sev eral decades was one of the best known citizens in north western North Carolina, hav ing been prominently affiliau ed with a number of business enterprises. LENTEN SERVICES BEING HELD IN CHURCHES OF THE WILKESBOROS —» Foster Brothers Open Shop Here John, Jim and T. G. Foster, experienced machinists, have opened the Foster Machine Shop on the basement floor of the Wilkes Hatchery building on the corner of C and Tenth streets. The new shop specializes in machinist and repair work of all kinds and Is well equipped. Mrs. Alice Watts lakai-By.Death Mrs. Alice Yates Watts, mem ber of a well known Wilkes fam ily, died Sunday night, 11 o’ clock, at the home of a daughter, Mrs. E. E. Hayes, near Purlear. Mrs. Watts, widow of the late Manley Watts, Is survived by two sons and two daughters: J. L. and R. G. Watts, of Taylorsville, Mrs. J. T. Vannoy and Mrs. E. E. Hayes, of Purlear. She was the mother of the late Rev. Fin ley C. Watts, well known Bap tist minister who died a few years ago. Also surviving are three brothers, W. L. Yates, of Wlikesboro, John Morgan and Tom Yates, of Purlear. Funeral service will be held Tuesday, two p. m., at New Hope Baptist church. Rev. Isaac Watts, pastor, will conduct the service and burial will be In New Hope One Change Made In Sche dule of Pre-Easter Ser vices Under Way The series of Lenten services under sponsorship of the Minis terial Alliance of the Wllkesboros opened Sunday night with a un ion service at Wilkesboro Meth odist church. Rev. Watt M. Cooper, Presbyterian minister, delivered an inspiring sermon. The series continues tonight with Rev. H. M. Wellman, Wil kesboro Methodist pastor, speak ing at the First Presbyterian church. On Tuteday night Rev. Howard. J. IkM, Elkin, wUl preach ^ the' Wilkesboro Baptist church. cemetery. Schools Entering Speaking Contest; Soil Care Subject Seven Wilkes county high schools have so far entered the soil conservation public speaking contest sponsored In Wilkes County by the North Wilkesboro Kiwanis Club, to be held at the courthouse In Wilkesboro at 10:00 a. m., Thursday, April 18, according to R. E. Dunn, Chair man of the rSDA Council of Wilkes County. Mr. Dnnn said that during this week and next week, Homer T. Boling Is carrying out a full schedule of field trips for en trants In the contest so that they may spend an hour or more on a farm having a complete soil conservation plan established. These trips were planned so that the student may gain first-hand knowledge of soil conservation work actually established on the ground. The seven schools so far enter ing the contest are North Wil kesboro, Ronda, Roaring River, Mountain View, Ferguson, Mil lers Creek, and Mt. Pleasant. Mr.. Dunn said that most of the schools were entering a maxi mum of two speakers In the coun ty contest. He also said that he, Bob Smith, county agent, and Homer T. Boling would be avail able in the next two weeks to assist any school contest entrant with his speech or in checking over the technical phases of the speech, so that each entrant would have a fair chance In the contest. 0—1 On Wednesday night Dr. David E. Browning, First Baptist pas tor, will preach at the First Methodist and on Thursday night Dr. Gilbert R. Combs, First Meth odist pastor, will deliver the mee- sage at the First Baptist. The series will close on Friday night when Rev. B. M. Lackey, rector, will conduct a Good Fri day service at the St. Paul’s Episcopal church in Wilkesboro. The service Friday will begin at 7:30 and all other services dur ing the series at 7:45. The Lenten services are for all congregations and all are in vited to worship together. Excellent Program For Band Concert On Tuesday Night Spring; Concert of North Wilkesboro High School Band Anticipated Spring prospects for moat all North Carolina crops are good. A most interesting program has been arranged for the Spring Concert of the North Wilkesboro High School Band. No admission charge will be made for the con cert which takes place at 8 p. m. Tuesday, April 16 In the school auditorium. The public is Invited to attend. Under the direction of Miss Eva Bingham, the band will pre sent a program which follows: 'Full Band Numbers: Flying Cadets March, Southern Cross Overture, Till We Meet Again, Wings of the Army March. Clarinet quartet, Lewis Nel son, Jane Cragan, Bill Bason, Frances Harris. Bass Solo, Tommy Johnson. Trumpet Solo, Paul McQinbls. Flute Solo, John Gibbs. Baritone Solo, Gordon Finley. Saxophone ’Trio, date Duncan, Betty J. Wells, Patsy Hawkins. darlnet Solo, Lewis Nelson. Trumpet Solo, Carl Swofford. Full Band Numbers: Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring, Sleepers Awake! Torch of Liberty March, and Tremontier Overture. Ushers for the program will be Dean Minton, Alvin Rhodes, Ann Wells, Kent Sturdivant, Ray Bowman, Betty Jo Reavls, Norma Gabriel, and Ann Lott. Robert Wells and John Hubert Emerson will handle curtains and stage lighting. There will be a reception and party for band members and their parent* following the con cert. SUPPORT Contests Slated For 3 County Nominations W. 0. Burgin, Representative Died Thursday Eighth District Congress man Dies in Capital Fol- loMring Heart Attack Y. M. C. A. Washington, April 11.—’The death early today of Rep. W. O. Burgin, Demo* at. North Caro lina, brought quick adjournment of the house after fellow mem bers eulogized him as "an out standing, conscientious and use ful man." Burgin died in Doctors hos pital where he was taken after a heart attack at bis home Sun day. Tho dean of the North Caro lina delegation. Representative Doughton, and Representatives Kerr, Democrat, North Carolina, Clark, Democrat, North Carolina, and Lecompte, Republican, Iowa, were appointed hy Speaker Ray burn, Democrat, Texas, to accom pany the body to North Carolina aboard a train leaving here at 11:45 p. m. Funeral service will be held at the family home In Lexington. N. C.. at 4 p. m. Fri day. Burgin, a member of the house foreign affairs committee, had announced recently he would retire after completing his fourth term In the house In January. He had intended to return to his law practice and business interests in Lexington. He was 67 years old. Speaking to the house, Dough- ton called Burgin "an outstand ing and useful man” who per formed "fine service” to his dis trict and his country. Wilkes Hosiery Mills Record For Mishaps Perfect The Wilkes Hosiery Mills Com pany completed one year’s opera tion on April 13, 1946, without a lost time accident, P. W. Eshel- man. President, announced to day. ’The employees of the Company are Justly proud of this record, as they are vitally Interested In the Safety Program of the Com pany. This record Is particularly gratifying at this time as the mill is entered in the Statewide Hos iery Safety Contest which Is now In progress. This contest is sponsored by the North Carolina ilndustrial Commission, and the Wilkes Hos iery Mills won first place In a similar Statewide Safety Contest In 1943. Githern Eller Is New Candidate In Sheriff Race Dwight Nichols Is Commissioner Of Amateur Softball Dwight Nichols, editor of ’The Journal-Patriot, has been ap pointed as softball commissioner for the North Wilkesboro district of the North Carolina Amateur Softball Association. Commissioners for various dis tricts In the state were appointed by the state executive committee of the association, of which Bill Alligood, of Mount Holly, Is com missioner. The state tournament to be conducted by the association will he held at Greensboro August 14-18 for men and at High Point August 21-26 for women softball teams. North Wilkesboro will be invited to enter teams in the i tournament. District commission-: ers of amateur softball will be concerned only with teams en- j tered for state competition. Githern L. Eller, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. R. (Grant) Eller, has filed for the Republican nom ination for sheriff of Wilkes county. Mr. Eller served two and one- halt years service with General Hodges’ FTrst army In Europe, and received his discharge Decem ber 21. He completed his high sebol course at Mount Pleasant before entering the army In Jan uary, 1943. Luther Saunders Viefim of Hit-Run Driver On Sunday LATE BUIiLETINI Tallle Anderson, of this city, was arrested today and placed under $2,000 bond on a charge of manslaughter for the death of Luther Saunders on lilgh- way 115 Sunday night. Forester Sells Ice Cream Firm To Coble Plant Coble Dairy Products Com pany to Serve Customers Forester Ice Cream Forester Ice Cream company, eatablished here In 1930 by N. S. FVjrester and operated very successfully by him since that time, has been sold by Mr. For ester to Coble Dairy Products company, of Lexington and Wil kesboro. Included In the sale, which will become effective Friday, ore all Ice cream manufacturing equipment, cabinets, trucks and other machinery and equipment. However, no real estate was In volved. Coble Dairy Products company will serve the territory now serv ed by Forester Ice Cream com pany In Wilkes, Alexander, Cald well, Ashe, Watauga and Alle ghany counties and service will be provided from the company’s plant in Wilkesboro. Mr. Forester will continue to operate the Forester Beverage company and the North Wilkes boro Candy company. Comment ing on the sale of the Piorester Ice Cream company, Mr. Forester luiid that he deeply appreciated (he loyalty and cooperation of the people in northwestern North Carolina who made the buslnesa pdssible and enabled it to grow and expand during the past 16 years. Luther Saunders, age 44, was Instantly killed by a hit and run driver six miles south of this city on highway 116 Sunday night. Sgt. A. H. Clark, of the high way patrol, and I. M. Myers, Wilkes coroner, investigated the accident, which occured at 8:15 p. m. They learned that Saunders was walking south on the high way when he was struck by a motor vehicle traveling north. A hoy at a home nearby heard the sound of the vehicle striking the man and saw It continue up the highway. Saunders’ dead body was found by the side of the highway. Sgt. Clark said today that the identity of the hit and run driv er had not been learned. Saunders was a son of Mrs. Minnie Saunders, 'TOf North Wil kesboro route three. He is sur vived by his mother and one brother, Earl Saunders. Funeral service will be held Tuesday, 11 a. m., at Fishing Creek church. Miss Alexander In Junior Recital At Limestone College Both Parties Have Sheriffs’Contest; G. 0. P. For Clerk Filing Time Closed Satur day Afternoon; Complete List is Published Gaffney. S. C., April 12.—The Music Department of Limestone College will present Miss Eliza beth Alexander in her Junior Re cital In Plano on Friday evening, April 19, at eight o'clock in Cur- tls Auditorium. She will be as sisted by Misses Anne and Betty McNeely, duo-pianists. 'Miss Alexander, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Alexander, of Wilkesboro, N. C., Is a student of Wllgus Eberly, Director of the Music Department of Lime stone College. Her Junior Recital program Is as follows; Arioso, Bach-Barth; Sonata in a minor, Opus 143, Allegro glus- to, Schubert; Etude In G Flat Major, Chopin; Eglogue, Liszt; Stnde In c minor, Chopin. Puck, Grleg-Gest; Aria, Aren sky; Grads (from Andolusian Dances), Infante, Retty and Anne MeNeely. Three Preludee, Gershwin: Al legro ben rltmato e decieo; An dante oou moto e poco mhato; Allegro ben rltmato e dedso. Primary contests for nomina tions for two county offices de veloped as the filing time for can didates ended Saturday. C. J. Jones, chairman of the Wilkes county board of elections, said there will be primary con tests for the Republican and Democratic nominations for sher iff and the Republican nomina tion for clerk of court, provided the candidates who file remain in the races. For nomination for sheriff there are three candidates on the Republican side. Sheriff C. G. Poindexter filed for another term and the new candidates are Bill Phillips and Githern L. Eller. There are two candidates for the Democratic nomination — Rufus B. Church and Joel Johnson Bentley. The other contest for nomina tion to county office Is between C. C. Hayes, who has filed for another term as clerk of court, and Winfield S, Fletcher, who has filed for the Republican nom ination for clerk. The complete list of candidates who filed, as released by Mr. Jones, follows: For sheriff: C. G. Poindexter, Bill Phillips and Githern L. Eller, Republicans;. Rufus B. Church and Joel Johnson Bentley, Dem ocrats. For clerk of court: Winfield S. Fletcher and C. C. Hayes, Re publicans; Thornton Staley, Dem ocrat. For Representative: T. E. Story, Republican: Larry S. Moore, Democrat. For county commissioner: M. F. Absher, C. C. Bidden and I. J. Broyhlll, Republicans: Grady Miller, Paul J. Vestal and Gilbert T. Bare, Democrats. For Coroner: I. M. Myers, Re publican; Dr. Seth W. Beale, Democrat. For surveyor: T. (I. Casey, Re publican; S. Pr Mitchell, Demo crat. For state senate: Paul L. Cashlon, Democrat; Republican candidate, whose name was not learned here today, filed in an other county of the district, com posed of Davie, Yadkin and Wilkes. C. O. McNiel, Democrat, filed for member of board of educa tion. For township constables: Re publicans—G. W. Triplett, Elk; J. F. Bennett, Rock Creek; Roby Elledge, North Wilkesboro; W. C. Beshears, Jobs Cabin; Demo crats—Howard H. Transou, Ed wards; J. E. Walker, North Wil kesboro. For Justices of the peace: Re publicans—W. H. Sebastian, Mul berry; P. E. Dancy, Union; J. W. Robbins, Antioch; Democrats— C. A. Forester, North Wlikes boro; W. E. Horton, Elk. Home Clubs Plan Federation Meet Here On May 7th Wilkes county council of Home Demonstration clubs in called meeting Friday made plans for the Bprnig federation of Wilkes county home clubs to be held Tuesday, May 7, at the First Bap tist church in this city. Mrs. Annie H. Greene, home agent In Wilkes county, stated that Dr. Jane S. McKlmmon, as sistant director of extension work in North Carolina, will be pres ent for the federation, which will convene at 1:30 p. m. At the meeting Friday plana were also made for the National Achlerement Week, which will be observed by home clubs May 6-11. Chicken Dinner At Union Friday Night Woman’s Society of Christian Service o f Union Methodist church will serve a chicken sup per at the church on Friday eve ning, April 19, six to nine o’ clock. Tie pnhUo Is cordially In- Ttted.