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Fire Here Today
Oil Stove Explosion Starts
Fira; Upper Floor Of
Residence Burned
Haarr lUlsr was badly barn-
ad at his apsrtmant on C straet
aarly this morning when an oil
store exploded and set fire to the
baildlDC.
The fire' ocenred in a resldMiee
owned by J. B. CaadlU sad whleh
honsed two families: Vance Wat
son and family on the first floor
and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bller
npstalrs. The fire spread rapidly
following the erploslon and the
upper part 4 the house was bad
ly bomed before firemen got the
fire nnder control. A greater part
of Mr. and Mrs. Eller’s furniture
was destroyed. The lower floor
was damaged by water.
The fire occnred at six a. m.
wbra Mr. Eller lighted the oU
store. Tho expiosion inflicted
Nusrere bnms on Mr. Eller's
^snds, face and npper part of his
body. He Is a patient at the
Wilhee hospital.
Wilkes ooiuity 4-H Clab eonn-
ty oooncil will meet Saturday,
11 a. m., at the North Wilkes-
boro town hall. A most interest
ing program has been planned
and all officers of the clobe in
the county are expected to at
tend.
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Auul Pkiie Of
UoK Is Enjoyed
Hoirth WUkeaboro Uoos ClWb’s
annual picnic held Friday ers-
ning at Smoot Park was desorbi-
ed as a most enjoysible occasion.
Families and friends of Uons
were i>reeent and the wires wmw
especially delighted rrith the
food supply problem haying bemi
assumed by a Lions committee
composed of Dr. J. S. Deans, Bill
jestar and Paul Casbion, who
did a fine job of supplying plen
ty of eats and drinks.
To the music from a string
band, and calling by Pat Wil
liams, square dancing was enjoy
ed following the meal.
SUPPORT THE Y. M. C. A.
Many Activities In
Red Cross Chapter
Each School Now
Being Furnished
A First Aid Kit
Gsuments Bem^~ Made For
Suffering People War
Torn Countries
jeet-
of the Wilkes county chapter of
the American Red Cross held on
Monday, September 9, chapter
workers reported a very heavy
home service case load for the
month of August. Red Cross ser
vices were given to 354 service
men. veterans, or their families.
During the last week of Angus',
the office workers assisted 213
veterans in filing their claims for
terminal leave pay.
The executive committee voted
to furnish a kit of first aid sup
plies to each white and colored
school in Wilkes county. As soon
as these kits have been prepared
they will be placed in the office
of C. B. Eller, superintendent of
schools. School officials ■will be
notified to call there for them.
Isaac Duncan is chairman of the
First Aid Committee.
Mrs. H. B. Smith, chairman of
the chapter Nutrition committee,
reported that her committee Is
preparing kits of material on nu-
^rritton and health for the use of
W. In a lirtrat ATTIAnf In W
the schools In supplementing
their health courses and as aids
in planning and preparation of
school lunches. Mrs. Smith also
reported plans tor two nutrition
oonrsee to bo held In the near
future.
The chapter has a quota of
300 baby shirts and 100 sleepers
for foreign relief. All those In
terested in assisting with the
cutting and sewing of these gar
ments are requested to get in
touch with the Production Charl-
man. Mrs. Harry Pearson. Wool
is also available for knitting for
active members of the army and
nayy.
Winston-Salem’s versatile Paul
Gibson, who had to fill in at
tackle for the all-clvlllan team
at State College in 1945, will be
back at his natural poeldon, end,
this season. He weighs 180.
Marriage License
License to wed were Issued
during the past week by Wilkes’
Register of Deeds Troy C. Foster
to the following: Jesse Ward
Kenerly and Mildred Zelma Wil
liams, both of North WUkesboro;
Roby Watson, Boone, and Edna
Dollar, Mount Zion; Lloyd Miller,
Boone, aqd Myrtle Wall, Todd;
Her G. Dyer, Champion, and Des-
kad Le^S'wW^Sw,
both of Vannoy; Edward Felts
Teei-Ase Ceiter
Plans Drawi Bp
In Mediig Here
Committee Named To Hire
Supenrisors For Centers
In The Wilkesboros
and Pauline Taylor, both of Mc-
Grady; Aren Beshears and Ruby
Mae Shouns, both of WUkesboro
route one.
Mitchell-Phillips
Will Move Offices
To N. Wiikesboro
Physicians Offices Will Be
Located In Poindexter
Building Here
The Mltchell-Phlllips clinic,
which consists of the offices of
Dr. G. T. Mitchell and Dr. E. N.
Phillips, will be moved from Wii
kesboro to North WUkesboro.
The new location for the
Mitchell-Phillips clinic will be In
,tho Poindexter building on. B
street when the building is com
pleted. It is now being rebuilt
following the dlsastro-us fire
which swept the building on
March 5 this ysar.
Until the new quarters are rea
dy, which is expected to be 30.
days or more, Dr. Mitchell and
Dr. Phillips will continue to
have their offices in the Dr.
Mitchell residence In Wiikesboro.
A committee composed of Mrs.
R. S. Gibbs, Cecil Adamson, and
Forrest Jones was chosen at a
mass meeting of Gtrle organha>»
tion representatives, to set up
definite plans for hiring some
one to direct the North Wllkee-
boro and WUkesboro Teen-Age
Centers, and to prepare a neces
sary budget for the operation of
the proposed centers.
Attending the meeting called
by the Education committee of
the Wllkee Chamber of Com
merce were the following organ
ization representativee; Claude
Canter of the Junior Order, Wil
liam Gray of the American Le
gion, Dr. J. H. McNeil of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars, Ver
non Deal of the Dokles, D. E.
Elledge of the Masonic Lodge,
Mrs. Emma Day of the Eastern
Star, Mrs. R. S. Gibbs of the Girl
Scouts, Miss Rebecca Moeeley of
the American Red Cross, Mrs.
Claude Doughton of Wiikesboro
Woman’s Club, Mrs. R. T. Mc
Neil, of the North Wiikesboro
Woman’s Club, and members of
the Education committee.
In an opening statement Cecil
Adamson, chairman of the cham
ber Education Committee stated
that the chamber of commerce
had called the meeting to co
ordinate the affairs of starting a
movement and bringing about a
realization of the need of recre
ation for our young people to our
organization. Dr. J. S. Deans sug
gested that the only Way the or
ganization could ibe successful
woa
Wilkaibofo .SebM
Cafataria i« OpMi;
Will Fm4 Ovw 700
WUkesboro school Imwkroom,
one of the largest food dii^suars
of iu type in the state, vui be
gin operation Monday, S^item-
ber 18, Wm. T. Long, district
principal, said today.
Last year tho Wllkeshoro
school lunchroom served approx
imately 700 Innchee daUy. Thwe
were bnt few eetablishments of
any type in the state serving a
larger number o f noon-day
meals. '
In order to accomodate suoli a
great volume of buEineas, a num
ber of Improvements Wsre made
in the lunchroom quarters, which
are located in the high school
buUding. Workmen hare been
engaged in enlarging the quar
ters and in installing new equip
ment during the past two weeks.
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Termini Leave
Pay Applieatiois
At Schools 18th
3Snl Bisirial Of
Hbsoiie Lodge
Meets Here 17th
IUcorI Ean^iiiM
GNng WfllcMHIra
Additioiiof Toochen
A record breaking ehrollaent
I has entitled WUkesborO district
Gramd Master uid Other
Grand Lodge Officers to
Address Sessiosu
I OBB tvuumi TTAlJBWBUVav Mwavs
schools to four addition^ teach-
Major Fonhaid
Hied To Lead
Parade OiOoL 2
and the kaggestlon was adCjpted
by those present.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars
and tho North Wiikesboro and
Wiikesboro Women’s clubs offer
ed their meeting facilities for
bases of operation for a Teen-
Ase center.
A committee of three chpsen to
set, up the budget and hire a paid
director, wiU meet next week to
consider applications for this po
sition. Anyone Interested in this
job contact Mr. Cecil Adamson,
chairman of tho committee, at
the Wllkee Hosiery Mills.
Good Baseball Games
Are Scheduled Here
Local baseball fans will be
treated to two good games here
Saturday afternoon when Rock
Creek and Pores Knob teams will
play Bamboo in aucceaslve games
on the Fairgrounds field.
On Sunday afternoon Rock
Creek won a thrlUer from Pores
Knob 5 to 4. ’The score was tied
a number of times during the
game and two hits with two er
rors gave Rock Creek two scores
in the ninth to sew up the vic-
Dokies Club Will
Meet On Friday
North ■Wilkeebono Dokles cluib
will meet Friday evening, seven
o’clock, at the home of John A.
Brown ea“,t of this city on high
way 421. An Interesting program
has been planned and all mem
bers are urgqd to attend.
4-H Girls Dress
Revue Sept. 14
Applications May Be Com
pleted at Seven Schools
Wednesday Night
William Gray, Commander of
Post Numiber 125 of the Ameri
can Legion, announces that
through the co-operation of C.
B. Bller, county superintendent
of schools, the use of certain
schools had been obtained to as
sist veterans who wish to file for
their terminal leave pay. Special
meetings will he held for this
purpose at 7:30 p. m., Wednes
day, Septemiber 18, at the fol
lowing schools: Mount Pleasant,
Moantaia View. Trap^, Rond^
Highest officials of the Grand
Lodge of North Carolina 'will ad
dress the meeting of Masons of
the 33rd district to be held In
North WUkesboro on 'Pueeday,
September 17..
Grand Master William J. Run-
ry, of OreenrUIe, Deputy Grand
Master Luther T. Hartsel, of
Concord, and Grand Geci^ t
William Mclver, of Raleigh alid
Sanford, wUI be speakers for the
meeting of Masons of the dis
trict, who will be guests of North
Wiikesboro Lodge number 407.
John W. Nichols, district dep
uty grand master, announced
that an officers conference will
opep the seealoiiiB in the North
WUkesboro lodge hall at four p.
m.
At 6:30 in the lodge hall will
be a chicken sppper, which will
be follorwed by the district bus
iness meeting at eight p. m.
Officers of all lodges in the
district are eapeclally urged to
attend tbe officers’ conference in
the afternoon and all Masons are
Invited to the seesions, Mr. Nich
ols said. WUkeaboro. North WU
kesboro, Traphill, Mount Pleas
ant and Deep Gap lodges are in
cluded in the 33 rd district.
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Pastors Conference
Monday, Sept. 16
Wm. T. Long, district princi
pal, said today that enrollment
at the WUkei^ro school has
rssohsd 1.I1B and Out enroll
ment in the other schools of ths
dMtiiet .hM proportionately In-
cAassd.^ In Wilkeebbro school
the enrotlmsnt Is already np
175 over the figure for the cor
responding date one year ago.
Two of tho additional teach
ers will be placed in WUkesboro
school, one in the high school
and the other in tbe elementary
grades. Tbe other two wUl go to
Boomer and Windy Gap schools
A great part of the increase
In WUkesboro school is attribut
ed to three factors; 12th grade
in high school, a larger ninth
grade class indicating fewer leaV'
Ing school at tho end of the
elementary grades, and a larger
first grade earollment.
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Vetanm Wfll Meet At
Bmeot Paa4t to Form P«-
rauie At 12:30 P. M.
Fonr Juveniles
Are Taken Here
For Shoplifting
The Baptist pastors
Four colored boys of juvenile
age were tried before Juvenile
Judge C. C. Hayee yesterday on
charges of shoplifting and lar
ceny.
Police Chief J. E. Walker re
ported that Harold Barber, Al
fred Barber and Julius Brown
were convicted of taking about
$26 worth of merchandise from
J. C. Penney company. Motor
Market, Western Auto Associate
Clontz Shoe shop
llts Trade PromoUon commit
tee, of the WUkes Chamber of
Commerce decided at a meeting
at the Chamiber office on Tnee-
day to Invite aU of the veterans
of WUkes county to be In a pa
rade on "Farmere Day," October
3.
Major Roy For^and, Pacific
theatre veteran, bolder of the
Bronse 6tar and Legion of Mer
it, will serve as parade com
mander. Ha has asked aU vetw-
ans in the county who would like
to participate bo meet at Smoot
Park at 12:30 o’clock on Wed
nesday, October 2, 1946.
The parade will be led by the
North Wllkeeboro high school
band. Veterans are asked to wear
their uniforms if they have
them, but Major Forehand also
stated that any veterans wonld
be welcomed to march In the pa
rade, If they are not able to use
their uniforms.
Letters of notification about
this parade will go to all mem
bers of the Veterans organiza
tions during the coming week
from Dr. Jim McNeil, command
er of the V. F. W., and Mr. Wil
liam Gray, commander of the
American Legion. The chamber
Trade Promotion committee felt
that this veterans parade and
the subsequent recognition for
the veterans’ service to his coun
try, would be a very necessary
addition to the recognition to be
given farmers for their valuable
service to our,country during the
at Relns-StnfdiKranf ^apel
their regular monthly confer-
Veterans who ' wish to
claims for terminal leave pay j nece. Program for the day is as
are requested to have with them follows: 10:15 a. m., devotional
certified or photostatic copies of
their discharges. Members of the
Legion, school teachers, and not
ary publics will be on hand to
complete the applications.
2 Miles Mountain
View Road Being
Surface Treated
Project Begun This Week
Will Complete Hard Sur
faced Road To Hays
Girls WUl Wear Dresses
They Made; Winner Goes
To District Revue
Support the Y.M.C.A.
HflLKESBORO RAMBLERS HAVE 6
HOME GAMES IN THEIR SCHEDULE
Six home* games are on the
scbedule of Wllkroboro high
sehool football team, which
returns to the gridiron this year
Kfter a war time lapse of three
years. '
Tho Wllkeaboro Ramblers will
open the season at ’Taylorsville
on September 27 and cloee on
^beir homo field against North
' ^^fUkesboro’s Mountain Lions,
t their arch rivals from the north
side of the Tadkin.
Wllkeeboro’s complete football
schedule follows:
..:r September 27 — Taylorevlllo
there.
October 4—'Boonville at WQ-
kshboro.
; - - Ootober 11 — MocUmvllle at
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Granite Falls
1 — JoneevUle at
Wiikesboro.
October 18
there.
October 25—Granite Falls at
Wllkeeboro.
November
Wllkeeboro.
November
Wiikesboro.
November 16—Open.
November 22—North
boro at WUkesboro.
Coach R. E. Caldwell, who has
retnmed to the school after a
long period of service In the
army' has a squad of 36 boys, oU
8—^Taylorsrllle at
t^kes-
jtre showing
practice.
np well In asrtr
1,
4-H clubs
Girls of the
Wilkes county will show their
wares Saturday in the WUkes
county dress reivue to be hold
Saturday morning, 10:30, in. the
North WUkesboro town haU.
Mrs. Annie H. Greene, WUkes
home agent, said that 4-H club
girls will wear in the reivue
dresses and other garments they
have made tbemselvee and that
there wUl bo two revues, junior
and senior.
The winner In the senior re
vue will represent WUkes in tbe
northwestern district revue to
be held in Winston-Salem Sep
tember 25.
State highway forces began
this week the placing of bitumin
ous surface on approximately two
miles of the Falrplains-Traphlll
road.
The link now being surfaced
Is from JJulberry creek to tho
hard surface which extends
through the village of Mountain
View.
When the two-mlle link Is sur
faced the road will be complete
to Mountain View.
Before the war the road was
surfaced from the intersection of
highway 18 at Falrplains to Mul
berry Creek. Also a short dls-
ance was surfaced through the
Mountain View, or Hays, com
munity. The link now under
construction wUl connect the two
hard surfaced portions.
Plans are to eventually con-
jji struct a hard surfaced road from
' Mountain View by way of Dock
ery and TraphUl to highway 21
at the foot of the mountain be
low Roaring Gap, which is con
sidered a critically needed road
and which wlU serve many peo
ple In a big area not touched at
present by an all-weather road.
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by Miss Madge Lewis, asaoci-
ational missionary; 10:30 a. m.,
discussion on “Our Doctrines”
by Rev. W. N. Brookshire; 11:16
a. m., morning message by Dr.
David E. Browning; 1:15 p. m.,
devotional by Rev. W. S. Luck;
1:30, afternoon message by Rev.
S. I. Watts; £:16, Homelltlcal
study by Rev. Howard Ford.
taking a pocketbook containing
$80 from clothing belonging to
Jack Hoots while Mr. Hoots was
in a bath at a local barber shop.
Two of the four boys, ages 13
and 14 were sent to reform
school and two received suspen
ded sentences.
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Stone Monntain
Singing SepL 29
Fifth Sunday session of the
Stone Mountain Unlo® Singing
association will be held
Haymeadoiw Baptist church on
Sunday, Septemiber 29.
J. A. Gilliam, chairman, an'
Farmers May Still
Seenre Limestone
Brushy Mountain
Road Building Is
NowWeiiAlong
It was announced today,that
the County AAA Committee met
In executive session yesterday
and reviewed the allocation of
funds for conservation materials
in Wilkes County and found that
not quite ail the money has
been spent for this purpose that
may be.
The Committee decided that if
Much progresB Is being made' any producer had stated on his
on construction of three miles of farm plan that he Intended to
the Brushy Mountain road.
_ Contract was recently let for
with' construction of about three mllee
' of the much needed highway.
New construction begins at the
end of the present bard surfaced
nounced that the singing will >bc- highway at Oakwoods and ex
tends through the summer col
ony on the Brushles.
The Brushy Mountain road
will serve many orchardlsts in
gin at one p. m. anS invited all
gospel singers to take part In tbe
singing for the day.
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First News of '47
AAA Program Is
Annonned Today
Injured Man Builds
His Own 1946 Auto
Peoria, HIj—Marshall Presa-
ley, 87, never would have aoy-
tbing to do -with automobUee, bnt
lately he has been handicamed
by an injured leg.
So,he built his own 1946 mod
el-—a three-wheeled affair,made
of junk yaird eerap. Iron bed raJDa,
of whom are Inexperienced fence pasta and a one and
one-kalf horaepower gaaollne ei^
gine.
Sale Photo Coupons
Strictly Reguloted
.Local authorities have pointed
out that tbe sale of coupons or
certifleates to be exchanged for
photographs is unlawful in North
Carolina unless those selling the
coupons have iposted )3,000 bond
with the clerk of court for com
pliance with the oonpon offers.
This law was passed by the
North Carolina leglslatare to
protect the pnbllo from oonpon
sellers wiw fail to comply with
the offeia made on the coopaua.
Those .,a*proeehed by coupon
aalecBUOi are req^eated to tn^
voatigate and find whrthnr or
not the imw has been oomiMed
with, and report-Ttolatloot' ifo
eal pidtee. '
Lawrence Miller, Secretary of
Wilkes County AAA announces
today that information has been
received in this office that prac
tices for small grain cover crops
on the 1947 Program. Tho an
nouncement war, made in a letter
from H. A. Patten, Acting State
Director of Prodnetion and Mar
keting Administration, that pay
ments will he made on the 1947
Program for estahllshing a satis
factory winter cover from seed-
ings of wheat, oats, barley, rye,
or a mixture of these, erbps and
seeded in the fall of 1946.
Credit Bate'
(a) Wheat, rye, or mixture of
wheat and rye—12.50 per acre.
(b) Barley or mixtures of bar
ley, wheat or rye—32.00 per
acre.
(c) Oats, or mixtures of oats,
barley, wheat or rye—31.60 per
acre.
Spbdflcatlons.—A BaOsfactorx
cover will be considered to have
been established when tk® l*»d
Is uniformly ooveared ifith :. a
growth from which a reasonable
tonnage of forage could be .har
vested. The crop must not be
hi^ested for g^n or cut tor
hay. The seedbed shonld be w»B
prepared, fertlUser mater)al« ap-
pUed where needed, aepit
sowed
fe iRtthstaod (nea-
ly. •••»-.-
fe.
the famous thermal belt on the
Brushles, and will open np ad
ditional areas for summer colony
development.
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V. F. W. Carnival
Under sponsorship of Veterans
of Foreign Wars, the Golden
Harvest Festival will play all
next week on tbe fairgrounds
■with a big variety of rides, shows
and thrilling free attractions on
the midway.
The carnival was originally
scheduled for this week but was
necessarily postponed until tbe
week of September 16-21.
use limestone he may still pro
cure this material up until Sep
tember 20. Farmers who have
received some limestone may file
applications for an additional ,,-
mount. This application will be
reviewed by the County Com
mittee with the possibility of
granting the application for a
mounts equal to conservation
material that has been requested
on other farms and later cancel
ed.
The above action may be taken
to assist farmers who need lime
stone to carry out the seeding
practices for cover crops and
winter pastures that they may
seed this fall and had not stated
their intentions on the farm
plan when it was signed in the
spring.
Red Cross has learned that ai^-
proximately 64 peV cent of work
ers killed accidentally daring
1945 were killed in non-occupa-
tional accidents—In their homes,
on streets and highways, or in
other puibllc places.
SIX HOME GAMES ON FOOTBAU
SCHEDULE OF MOUNTAIN UONS
Six of the nine games on North
WUkesboro high school’s foot
ball schedule 'will be home
games.
Opening the season early this
year. Coach Howard Bowers’ boys
wlU tackle Boamvfllei’B eleven on
the local field on S^tember 20,
and wUl end the season at Vni-
keobewo with WUkes counts
famous grid clsssle of WUkes-
boro versos North Wllkeeboro.
The t complete' echedule fol
lows: J
September 20—JSeonvUle hei%.
Septmeber 27 -parta hare.'
Oetob«. 4—Mook^e. thm»
:Ootob«r 11—aonaavllle here.
Ootober 18—Beene thof*.
Qe^i^, 2G—nkm
November 8—Open.
November 16—^Valdese here,
Novemiber 22' — WUkeaboiro
there.
North WUkesboro Llona dun
will put eeason tickets on sale
this week for the six hcHna
games. The Lions wUl seU the
tickets at 38.00 each, which wUl
be six games for the price of ftra
st 60 cents each.
The Uons obramlttes appoteb-
ed to handle hale of football Mg*
son tickets la oompooed ot BMr,
OMhtos*>
Gwyn, djalrman, Paul
Rufus' Chords Glean ' Aadruwa
sod BIU Iforibw. ‘ *
tn addttfoa to tha tlekat
moaben ot the Ltaos Chub wffi
at,sthe
all
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