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The Journal-Patriot Has Blazed the Trail of, Progress In the //State of Wilkes'/ For Over 40 Y^rs -‘V’ ’V
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Vol. 41, No. 61
Published Mondays and Thursdays NORTH WILKESBORO, N. C., Monday, Dec. 2, 19^ .,
SMffik 6LMS GREETS A LAIteE
OF CHILDREN HERE ON
FRIDAY; STREETS DECORATEli
Jolly Old Saint Nick arrlTed
In North Wllkeahoro Friday att-
emooB amid a big celebration
and greeted a crowd of about 1,-
000 eager and baupy, cbUdrein.
Throngb efforts of the WUkes
Chamber of Commerce, Santa
Clans was prevailed upon to
make a hurried rislt to North
WUkesboro by plane as a pre-
boUday erect.
Santa arrireid at the North
WUkesboro airport by plane, and
because he was In a hurry was
met there by the North Wllkee-
boro Are truck, which brought
him In grand style to the streets
here for a parade.
At the end of the parade San
ta paused In front of the North
WUkesboro postoffice long
pnough for the children to gath
er around and receive some can
dy from his hands. He also aC-
cpeted a large number of let
ters.
The Santa Claue event was ar
ranged and engineered by R. F.
Olbbs and Presley Myers, who
composed a sub committee of
the Trade Promotion Division of
Coiity Offieiab
Elected Roy. 5tk
DegiiTemToday
the Wilkee Chamber of Com
merce.
North Wilkeeboro people and
thousands of visitors Saturday
night were happy to see the
streets attractively decorated for
the holiday season. Laurel rop
ing streamers with varl-colored
lights and stars were used to
make most attractive decora
tions. This work was carried out
through the Wilkes Chamber of
Commerce.
Annual Chrbtmas
Seal Sale Now On
Raleigh.—The 40th annual
Christmas Seal Sale opened Mon
day throughout North Carolina
and the nation. The goal for
North Carolina has been set at
$300,000 according to D. Iliden
Ramsey. State chariman of the
campaign, and the funds raised
will be used to support the tuber
culosis control programs of the
150 tuberculosis associations
and committees affiliated with
the North Carolina Tuberculosis
-■Association.
Ninety-five per cent of the
iBBiby wlsod fii- 'North -43»rel{aa-
wIU remain in the State. Five per
cent will be sent to the National
Tuberculosis Association to sup
port the services which it per
forms on a nationwide basis to
further the campaign against the
disease.
Tuberculosis killed 1.403 peo-
■Old Boy
Six-Year-
Victim of Accident
Thursday Morning
Gun In Hands of Neighbor
Boy Accidentally Dis
charged In Fall
William Boyd Eller, slx-year-
old .son of Mrs. Nellie Eller, of
near Moravian Palls, was acci
dentally shot and killed Thurs
day morning in the yard ut the
home of his mother.
Quicken Minton, age 17, a
neighbor, was absolved following
tnverttgottwfc ea»dB«foi by' Coro
ner I. M. Myers, Shorlff C. G.
Poindexter and Sgt. A. H. Clark,
of the highway patrol.
Minton told the officers he was
■hunting with a single barrel
shotgun when he slipped and
fell. The gun accidentally dis
charged and the Eller child was
pie in North Carolina in 1945. hit with many shot on the left
In the nation as a whole, nearly ^ side of his face, neck, cheat and
55,000 people died from the di-' abdomen. He died while being
sease last year—killing at the ! carriod to the hospital here,
rate of one person every 10 min- Surviving the child are his
utes. It is estimated that approxi- | mother, one brother and four sls-
mately 500,000 people in the | tens.
I'nited States have active tuber
culosis today. Of this nu-mber,
only about one-half are under
going treatment while the other
one-half, consisting of a quarter
of a million people, constitute
the unknown cases—people who
do not realize that they are ill
and spreading the disease lo
others.
Dr. T. P. Vestal of the North
Carolina State Board of Health
estimates that there are at least
Funeral service was held Sat
urday at the home and burial
was in the family cemetery.
Dennyvitle Revival
Is Very Successful
Rev. L. T. Younger closed a
very successful revival last week
at Dennyville Baptist church.
.Sixteen were added tx) the church
by baptism and much interest
10,000 cases of tuberculosis in shown in the services. Rev.
the Slate at the present limo.
The State Bureau of Vital Statis
tics and the Schooi-IIealth Co
ordinating Service report that a-
mong the 10 leading causes of
death, tuberculosis ranks first in
negro females in the age group
10 to 14 years of age and in both
negro males and females In the
age groups 15 to 19 and 30 to
34. Exclusive of motor vehicle
accidents, the disease ranks sec
ond as a killer of white males
from 30 to 34 years of a,ge and
third in white females from 15
to 19 .vears of age.
In the nation as a whole, tu
berculosis kills more young men
P. C. Parks, of Cycle, assisted In
the revival.
Santa at Penney's
2 Times Saturday
Children will be very much
interested in the announcement
that Santa Claus will be at Den
ney’s Saturday, December 7, 10
a. m. until 12 o’clock, and on
Saturday afternoon from two to
four. Santa will accept letters,
greet the children and hear their
requests for Christmas.
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and women from 15 to 35 years
of age than any other disease.
These are the vital, productive
years when men and women are
building their homes and estab
lishing themselves in business.
Church Hardware
Now On ‘A’ Street
. . , Church Hardware company, a
It kills as many peop e m ; ■,yell known hardware firm which
other in '' ** has operated successfully in this
seases wmbln^. The disease an-I , ^enth street tor the past
nually kills about 2,000 children j
under 10 years of age. j ^
Tuberculosis knows no boun-
str^ci
dary lines of cities, counties.
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states or nations. It knows no
l>oandary lines of race or color.
It Is a communicable disease
which strikes rich and poor,
■white and colored, people of all
natkmalitles.
Tuberculosis can be prevented,
■^’he spread of the disease can
be controlled. The public’s pur
chase of Christmas Seals during
the current campaign will make
possible an intensification of the
mounres now used to prevent
and control this disease which
annually Wkes the lives of
many people.
The new and larger location
will enable the store to carry a
larger stock of hardware and
render a more complete hard
ware service.
All patrons of the store and
others Interested are Invited to
visit the store In the new loca
tion.
so
-vSupport the Y. M. C. A.
Mrs. W. A. Sydnor, well known
local lady who has been a pa
tient at The Wilkes Hospital for
several weeks, Is now much Im
proved and was released from
the hospital last week. Mrs.
Sydnor Is now visiting with her
Bister,. Hn. R. it. Houck, in Le-
iloir.
All Republican Incumbents
Were Re-Elected; Sworn
In Today
Wilkes county officials elected
in the November 6 election took'
oaths of office today.'
All officials elected were Re
publican Incumbents and no new
officials were included.
Sheriff C. G. Poindexter, Clerk
of Court C. C. Hayee and Coro
ner I. M. Myers were elected for
fonr-year terms. .
M. F. Absher, I. J. BroyhlH
and C. C. Bidden were re-elected
for two-year terms as members
of the county board of commis
sioners.
Tyre Casey today began an
other two-year term as county
snrreyor.
Oaths of office were admin
istered to the county officials by
Miss Elsie Foster, notary public
and justice of the peace.
Office of register of deeds was
not included In the election tbls
year. Troy C. Foster, Republlcab,
today reached the half-way mark
In a four-year term to that office.
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Square Dance 5th
At Moravian Falls
JoIhi Lm Slumata
, ts Tdkl^ By Death
Ywr^MAQ^iSSr
,
John Lee Shamate, 82, citizen
of the Mountain View commun
ity of Wilkee county, died Satur
day after an 'extended Illness.
Funeral service was held Sun
day, three o’clock, at Round
Mountain church with Rev. A.
B. Hayes in charge.
Mr. Shumate Is survived by his
wife, Mrs. Gay AMiley Shumate,
three children, Patsy, Nancy and
Lizzie; his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Silas M. Shumate; brother,
Walter Shumate; and three sis
ters, Mrs. H. S. Powell, of Gas
tonia, Mrs. Judson Tale and Mrs.
Bill Pendry, at Hays.
Gili Scouts Give
Program Friday
At Kiwanis Meet
Progress of Girl Scouting In
County Reviewed; Num
ber Scouts Take Part
An old fashioned square dance
will be held Thursday night, De
cember 5, 7:30 o’clock, at the
Moravian Falls community house.
The Smoky Mountain Moon
shiners, a well known string
band, will furnish music for the
dance, ■\vhich will be called by
the inimitable Pat Williams, of
North Wilkesboro.
Admission will be $1.00 each
for men with no charge for la
dies. and proceeds will go Into
the community house fund. All
who attend are assured of an
enjoyable evening.
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Mr. Roy Forehand attended
the home coming football game
at Preshyterian College at Clin
ton. S. C., Thursday, which Pres
byterian won 14 to 12 over New-
hf'Try. Mr. Forehand, a former
iilayer at Presbyterian, was plac
ed on the college alumni associ
ation committee.
Students of A. S. T. C., Boone,
home for the holidays included
Mr. Jack Hadley, Miss Patsy
Hadley, Mr. Jimmie Anderson,
Jr., and Mr. James Hemphill.
Mr. Glenn Golllher, Jr., spent
the week-ond at Ronda -with hla
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Glenn
Golliher.
T4 John P. Horton received
his discharge last week after
nineteen months In the army,
spending a greater part of his
time In the medical corps In It
aly. Mr. Horton, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Palmer Horton, of this city,
plans to resume his studies at
the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill.
Miss Mary Gage Barber has re
turned to Boone where she has
re-entered A. S. T. C. Miss Bar
ber bad to give up her studies in
college on account of Illness,
having undergone an appendec
tomy, and later being 111 with
pneumonia. Miss Barber is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wil
liam Barber.
Mrs. D. L. Crook and daugh
ter and son, Miss Mqry Evelyn
Crook and Charles Lee Crook,
spent Thanksgiving Day in Albe
marle as guests in the home of
.Mr. J. B. Crook, Miss Crook went
to Mars Hill Friday where she
visited until Sunday before re
turning to Winston-Salem where
she is a student nurse at the
Baptist hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. Veetal
of Moravian Palls had as their
Thanksgiving guests Mr. and
Mrs. E. M. Hutton and son, Paul
Soott Hutton, of Hampton. Va.
Mrs. Lawrence W. Laxton and
three children of Elkin, Mr. and
Mrs. J. C. Critcher and two sons
of Asheville, and Mr. and Mrs-
Ralph W. Laxton and daughter,
of Marion.
Mrs. R. J. Bullis returned to
her home near Sanford In Lee
county Friday after spending
several months with her son, Mr.
Carl Bullis, and family In Wil
kesboro. Mrs. Bullis’ daughters,
Mrs. Cliff Jackson and W. H.
McDuffie, came up from Lee
county to accompany her home
and bo spend Thanksgiving with
Mr. and Mrs. BuUls.
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A new soil conservation dls-
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trict has beeen approved In Cum
berland county. Eighty - four
counties of the State are now
organised In 82 distrietS.
North Wilkesboro Kiwanis
club held an Interesting meet
ing Friday noon, featured by a
program in which Girl Scouts
participated.
Prior to the program W. J.
Caroon read list of absentees and
urged members to make effort
to make up attendance.
Secretary T. E. Story made a
report of the directors meeting
held last Tuesday evening at the
hotel with all members of board
present and a majority with
written reports.
President E. F. Gardner stated
that the board of directors had
made recommendation that the
meniibers each draw names on
Dec. 13 for exchange of Christ
mas presents not to cost over
$1.00 each and that they be
brought to the club on Friday,
Dec. 20, for exchange. The idea
was heartily approved by the
members of the club.
The Secretary read Resotations
df ”R«ip^:0ii aeoonht 'W “ tb»
death of S. y. Tomlinson, pre
pared by J. B. Whicker, J. B.
McCoy and J. B. Williams, which
were unanimously approved.
Attendance prize, a package of
T.Bone Steaks, was given by Paul
Church and won by Sam Winters.
Program chairman W. K. Stur
divant had present a number of
Girl Scouts and Soouters to give
his program.
Mrs. W. K. Sturdivant took
charge of the program, and gave
a brief discussion of the work
being done in the Wllkesboros
and in Wilkes county for the Girl
Scouts. She then presented Mrs.
C. T. Doughton, who gave a de
tailed account of the budget for
the coming year, totaling $2,-
000.00. She also stated that Girl
Scout troops in the county had
increased from seven to 12 dur
ing the current year.
Mrs. Robert Gibbs, who is as
sistant council leader, discussed
the work of establishing the new
tpoops and of carrying on the
work in the entire county. She
then presented three girls repre
senting the three age levels of
Girl Scouting as follows: First,
the Brownies was represented by
Kay Forester who told some of
the things Waat Brownlee do;
Norma Gabriel represented the
Intermediate Scouts with a splen
did outline of the activities car
ried on in this age group. Betsy
Barber represented the Senior
service Scouts with a fine talk on
their activities, all of which are
character and citizenship build-
nig.
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Speral Teni Of
Coirt b Asked
For Dig Docket
FLAKE
Large Number Of Cases
Pending; Dec. Term To
Open Monday
Wilkes Bar ^.ssoclatlon In
meeting today with SoUcibor Ava
lon E. Hall arranged c.alendar
tor the term of couirt to begin
December 9 and asked for a spe
cial term to begin January 6 for
trial of criminal cases.
TALK
Anyone can be 'taught to fly,
so says the book, and your re-
... , . porter Is just about ready to go
With the largest number of saying, for a Ume
ItSdMNdBoifi
ToDcILossoM'
Aboit Forsstry
Chamber of Commercb Pro
ject In Interest Refor
estation Work
cases pending In many years, thej^^y^^y j ^y
December term will convene next
Monday with Judge William G.
Pittman, of Rockingham, on the
bench. Judge Pittman was ap
pointed to serve In place of Judge
P. Donald Phillips, who accept
ed a judgeship appointment In
the military government In Ger
man
On the Wilkes court docket
now are a number of capital
cases which are calculated to
take much time in trial. One of
the cases Is the new trial order
ed by the Supreme Court for
Claude Absher, of this city, who
was convicted and sentenced to
death during the August term
tor the shotgun slaying of Clyde
Watts here In April.
Other capital cases include the
first degree murder charge a-
gainst Richard Horton, colored,
for the robbery-slaying of Fran
cis Baker, local taxi driver, a
tew weeks ago.
Complete court calendar for
the December term will be pub
lished in this newspaper Thurs
day.
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Associaikmal
B. T. U. Meet
North Wilkesboro
Band Concert To
Be Friday Night
Forty-Five Members of Band
Here To Appear in An
nual Fait Concert
Annual fall concert of the
North Wilkesboro high school
band will be held Friday, Decem
ber 6, eight o’clock.
Miss Eva Bingham is director
of the band, which now has 46
members and Is In the midst of
Its most successful year. The
band has played at football
games and in a number of other
public appearances and has been
the subject of much favorable
comment this fall.
A splendid program Is being
arranged for the concert, and It
Is expected that a large crowd
will attend.
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[ Support Y. M. C. Al[
Rev. C. C. Holland, of States
ville, will address an assoclation-
al Baptist Training Union meet
ing to be held Friday, December
C, 7:15 p. m., at the First Bap
tist church in North Wilkesboro.
All Baptists of the Brushy
Mountain association, and es
pecially all who are interested in
B. T. U. work, are asked to at
tend the meeting.
James F. Porter, 46,
Is Claimed By Death
Plymouth, Nov. 30.—James F.
Porter, 46, died in Wilson Wed
nesday after an Illness of several
years. He was a native of Wilkes
county but had resided here for
some time. Funeral'was held Fri
day in Christian Hope Church
near here. Survivors include his
wife, Mrs. Annie Morris Porter;
a son, James F. Porter, Jr.; three
brothers, Robert of Plymouth,
Joe and Gaither Porter of Wil
kesboro: six sisters, Mrs. C. R.
Walker of Hays, Mrs. Carrie
Mills of Greensboro, Mrs. Phoe
bus Shaves and Mrs. Opal Wil
kins of Statesville, Mrs. Annie
Austin of Asheville and Mrs. C.
Vredenberg of Detroit, Mich.
Ramblers To Be
Feted at Dinner
Members of the WUkesboro
high school Ramblers football
team, cheer leaders of the school.
Coach R. B. Caldwell, and Supt.
Wm. T. Ixjng will be guests of
honor at a big turkey dinner at
the White Pine Farm, operated
by Mr. and Mrs. John A. Brown,
Friday evening, December 6th, at
7 o’clock. Plans for the dinner
have been underway for several
weeks. The event Is being spon
sored by fathers of members of
the Rambler team.
At a dance given recently by
the cheer leaders in honor of the
Ramblers, Coach Caldwell was
presented with a handsome over
coat and Mrs. Caldwell was giv
en a beautiful bedspread, both
being gifts from the members of
the football team and cheer
leaders.
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Bigger and better gardens for
1947 are plann^, with empha
sis on food, health, and good
living. Thare’a a national
eonfer^iM', in ■>' Washington ion
■ ■ ' '6^.Sn4l C' '
flying lesson last week from
Wood Wallace at the local field
and learned that even on the
first lesson you actually Gy the
airplane. On this lesson I learn
ed that It Isn’t hard to maneuver
an airplane but it is bard to
keep them flying on a straight
line. I put the nose of that plane
on line with one mountain fifty
times during this half-hour les
son and while il was checking the
wings to see if they were still
level the plane would swing a-
round so the mountain would
have a wing pointing toward it
instead of the nose. Some of the
old-timer.s say that flying in a
straight line Is pretty hard and
I felt on par with them because
I surely agree with them.
Then we tried turns. Now turn
ing a plane is easy, all you do is
to push the rudder with your
foot and gently push the stick In
the same direction. The only
trouble is you have to do these
things at the same time. Being
a believer in first things first, I
.tried to do ttflm oue.^.. a time
and it just doesn't work that
way. By the end of a half hour's
flying my turns were getting a
little better. Wood thought we
had better quit while I was a-
head of the game so he pointed
out the traffic pattern of our
local field as we came In for a
landing. Traffic pattern, that’s
the airman’s way of saying—stay
in your own lane, Buddy, and
we will all have plenty of room.
I haven’t been able to tell you
much about flying in this account
of my first lesson but if you de
cide to learn to take lessons just
remember this; fly the plane and
don’t let it fly you. In other
words, remember that you must
learn to think In the air just as
you do when you are driving a
car. The main difference is of
course, that you don’t find any
selfish drivers in the air.
Bo much for that and here is
the latest dop on who's been
where, by air; Wood Wallace Is
pretty proud of hls mother be
cause she took her first plane
ride this week. She enjoyed it so
much that she tells your reporter
that she plans on some longer
rides In the near future. Mrs.
Wallace has a host of friends
who have been telling her that
they will fly after she does and
now Is the time for them to en
joy an air trip over the beauti
ful Wilkes County.
Cecil Bumgarner and Richard
Johnston, on Saturday, flew
Johnston’s AT 6 “Texan”' on a
business trip to Augusta, Georgia
and several cities In South Car
olina. By any other means of
transportation this trip would
have taken at least two days.
Flyers who have landed at the
North Wilkesboro airport this
past week both for business and
pleasure include: Alton Alexan
der of 436 Donett Avenue, Ports
mouth, Va., Tom Swain, Butler,
Va., Bill Taylor of Elkin, N. C., |
Eddie Nkhelson of Greensboro,
Doyle Alexander, High Point, N.
C., C. E. Brunds, E. A. Maye, M.
E. Holcomb and J. W. Hart, all
of Morganbon, Jim Phipps and
Garnett S. Wengate, both of In
dependence, Virginia.
With all these people, an^
more, flying hack to their home
to’ffUB with words of praise about
Wilkes county, we have a tangi
ble asset In »ood public relat ons.
Lets build aviation Interest In
Wilkes county.
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Messrs. Pat and Charles J.
AAA Limestone
WilUams, students at Davidson
College, were at home with their
parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. M. Wil
liams, during the holiday*.
Guests' of CharMi were Mi.
QemypB .Cheek, o( Selma,
aid MirV Douifl**, Rtod, :
Final arrangements have been
made for the Wilkes Connty
Forestry Field Day which is be
ing sponsored by the Wilkes
County Channiber of Commerce
and the State Extension Service.
The fifty-two school boys who
have been selected to participate
are to meet at the Wilkee Coun
ty Courthouse at nine A. M. Wed
nesday morning, December 4th.
Prom the Courthouse a chartered
bus will carry the boys to Mr.
Clifford Moore’s ■woodlands on
Route 115. Mr. Moore, who Is
making hls woodlands available
for the purpose of the school,
has an interesting variety and
composition of timber jhst suit
ed for this type of a woods
school.
When the boys arrive in the
woods they will be split into dif
ferent groups- -each with a dif
ferent forestry instructor. In
structors will be Mr. R. W. Grae-
ber. State Extension Forester,
Mr. John Gray, A.ssistant Ex
tension Forester, Mr. A. Maxwell,
Farm Forester stationed at Mor-
ganton, and Mr. John E. Ford,
Farm Forester from Wilkesboro.
It is expected that the sandrick
Saw Company will have a repre
sentative attend the meeting to
' demonstrate the use and how to
file and set bow saws.
Mr.' W. T. Long, Principal of
Wilkesboro High School, has
made arrangements so the WU
kesboro School Cafeteria will” be
available at one-thirty for the
boys attending the Forestry Field
Day to have dinner. After eating,
the participants in the field day
will be shown forestry motion
pictures in the auditorium of the
Wilkesboro high school.
At the conclusion of the field
day each boy attending will re
ceive a card which, with his par
ents signature signifying approv
al, will entitle him to enter a tree
planting contc.st. Ho is then to
mall the card to Mr. R. D. Smith,
County Agent, and next spring
when tre^ planting season rolls
around he will receive one thous
and tree seedlings (enough to
plant one acre) donated by the
Wilkes Chamber of Commerce.
These plantings will be inspect
ed in the flal of 1947, at the end
of the Ilrst growing season. The
boy who has the best plantation
will receive a. prize which Is to
be furnished by the Chamber of
Commerce.
To Be Available
At Elections 7th
The County AAA Committee
has made arrangements to have
their representatives present at
the polling places In the county
on December 7 for the purpose
of receiving applications for
ground limestone under the 1947
program.
Under the 1947 provisions of
the AAA program, the producer
pays $1.60 per ton at the time
the order is filed. The least a-
mount of limestone that can be
accepted on an order is 4 tons.
This 1947 llivestone will be de
livered duri.ig the montha of
December and January unless
otherwise specified.
All producers are requested to
take the advantage of filing thelf
orders for this material on De
cember 7 as the supply for North
Carolina will not meet the de
mand for 1947 and those who
file their orders early can be a*-
snred of receiving this material.
The part that the farmer wUl
pay for the material delivered to
the farm will be $1.60 per toa
or as listed below:
4.0 tone ^.1 e.0f;:|
•6.0 tons —
C.O tons —
7.0 ton*- —
8.0
9:0 tons
10.0' tons