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North Wilkesboro has
Vol. 42, No. 15 Published Mondays and Thursdays NORTH W1LKESBORO, N. C., Thursday, June 19, 1947 Make North Wilkesboro Your Shopping Center
Bob Faucett Will
Act In Capacity
Of City Manager
Wm Formerly With Works
Progress Administration
In This District
Town of North Wilkes bo ro
has employed a city engineer to
serve In the capacity of city
manager.
Robert C. Faucett, an engineer
with many years of experience,
has accepted the position as city
meager for North Wilkeeboro
agr will begin his duties on July
1, beginning of the new fiscal
year, jflJPor T. S. Kenerly said
here today.
Mr. Faucett for several years
was an engineer for the Works
Progress Administration and was
affiliated with the district office
In North Wllkesboro before go
ing Into service. He is now in a
Responsible position with the
^Tar Assets Administration in
Richmond, Va. He has much ex
perience in construction and civil
engineering in executive capaci
ties.
In North Wllkesboro Mr. Fau
cett will have supervision of
streets, water, lights, sanitation,
city properties and projects and
will act in advisory capacity to
the city council, which Is com
posed of the mayor, board of
commissioners and city clerk.
Salary for Mr. Faucett was
fixed by the city council at $400
i" per month. ?
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John W. Nichols
Fnneral Friday
John W. Nichols, for many
years prominent and widely
in Wilkes county,
On- Friday Mr. Nichols suffer
ed a heart attack at his home
near Millers Creek and was car
ried to Davis hospital in States
Yille, where another attack Wed
nesday caused his death.
Mr. Nichols was born August
8, 1883, a son of the late Pervis
and Rebecca Edmlsten Nichols.
For many years he made his
home here, where he was engag
ed in business as a lumber deal
er and had interests in a mill
manufacturing plant. Later he
retired from business to his farm
near Millers Creek, where he was
engaged in poultry raising.
Mr. Nichols was a member of
Pilgrim Baptist church and had
been active in church affairs. He
was beet known for his activi
ties in the Masonic lodge, in
which he had been a leader for
decades. For 18 years Mr. Nich
ols was deputy grand master for
the 33rd district, serving under
eight masters of the grand lodge
of North Carolina. He was also
a meihber of Knights Templar
islM Shrine in the Masonic fra
ternity.
Mrs. Gilbert Foster, of North
' Wilkesboro, was the only child
of Mr. Nichols' first marriage to
Miss Thresa Stout. He was later
married to Miss Alverta Alex
ander, who with two children,
Mary Ruth# and John W. Nich
ols, Jr., survives.
Funeral service will be held
Friday, 11 a. m., at the First
Baptist church here and burial
will be in Greenwood cemetery.
Knights Templar, of Winston
Salem, will conduct impressive
grave rites. The service will be
conducted by Rev. W. R. Wag
ons^ First Baptist pastor, and
Rev. Glenn Huffman, pastor of
Pilgrim Baptist church.
Red Caps Defeat
Shady Grove 18-2
North Wilkesboro gained an
easy victory over Shady Grove
there Wednesday by a score of 18
to 2. Whittington and Manship
formed the winning battery and
Shady Grove collected only 6
hits
jDoonvllle Here Saturday
rjpshl baseball fans should get
a real treat when the strong
Boonville nine comes here for a
game Saturday, three o'clock.
always a good team,
furnish the winning Red*
plenty of competition.
ternal parasites infest
and poultry can be
through better sanl
Turner Shew Is Held
For Resisting Arrest
Turner Shew drew a gun on
Sgt. W. C. Bentley, of the city
police force, Monday evening
while the officer was attempting
to arrest him for being drunk
at Princess cafe.
Highway Patrolman Tonl Rob
erts, who was nearby, stepped up
behind Shew, drew his own gun
and disarmed Shew. In the en
suing scuffle Shew was hit on
the head by a blackjack in the
hands of Sgt. Bentley.
Shew faces charges of resist
ing arrest, assault with deadly
weapon and drunkenness.
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Brushy Mountain
Fruit Growers To
Meet Friday, 20th
The Brushy Mountain Fruit
Growers will hold a special meet
ing on Friday evening, June 20,
at 8 p. m. at the apple research
laboratory. The main subject for
j discussion will be the apple mar
I keting program for this fall.
I More apple growers are realizing
the importance of grading and
packing their apples in order to
sell them for the best prices.
The growers who packed and
shipped their fruit last season
were very well pleased with the
results. The greatest benefit of
this marketing program can be
achieved only by following yup
each year with a good pack of
apples sent to these distant mar
kets as well as supplying our
nearby markets with well grad
ed fruit.
All apple growers are urged to
attend the meeting Friday night
and learn all about the details
of the apple marketing program
which their own cooperative, the
Carolina Refrigeration Coopera
work out for them.
Nine Resignations
In Local Faculty;
Now 4 Vacancies
The North Wilkesboro Board
of Education in its meetii^ Mon
day accepted the resignations of
nine teachers. $even of the re
signations were in the white
schools: Mrs. Emma B. Day, Miss
Lois- Edinger, and Miss Inez Wil
son who were teachers in the
high school in the past year:
Miss Betty Smith a primary
teacher and Miss L/ucile Young,
elementary principal and Misses
Nonie Gordon and Myrtle Tattle,
grammar grade teachers.
Teachers resigning in the ne
gro school were James C. Red
mond, and Mrs. Constance Hair
ston.
Teachers elected as .replace
ments for the 1947 term are:
Wayne Church, high school
math; Miss Minnie Halre, first
grade; Mrs. Elizabeth Frazier
Harris, second grade; and Mrs.
Nell M. Helms, eighth grade.
Miss Bernice Howard was elected
to fill one of the vacancies in the
negro school.
Positions now remain open for
two grammar grade teachers and
two high school teachers for the
subjects of English, French, and
Social Studies. The Teacher Com
mittee of the Board of Education
is composed of Mr. Ira D. Payne,
chairman, Mrs. Palmer Horton
and Mr. Blair Gwyn.
Additional matters considered
by the Board at its meeting were
reports and records for the year
just closed and adoption of or
ganization plans and the Budget
for 1947-48 term. The Board
hopes to have sufficient funds to
continue teacher salary supple
ments and to expand the school
services as much as available
funds and facilities will permit.
Wade Foster Winner
Trip to Washington
Wade Foster, 12-year-old son
of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Foster,
of this city, has just returned
from a three-day trip to the na
tion's capital, which was award
ed him by the Winston-Salem
Journal and Sentinel.
Young Mr. Foster, with 26
other boys in northwestern North
Carolina, were given the trip for
their excellent records as carriers
of the Journal and Sentinel.
Their records were judged on the
basis of courtesy, collections and
new customers.
FRIED CHICKEN BEING CONSUMED
This picture shows fried chicken and other good
fopds being devoured at the recent picnic given em
ployes of retail stores for their loyalty, cooperation and
attendance at a Sales Institute conducted under auc
pices of the Trade Promotion committee of the Wilkes
Chamber of Commerce. The highly enjoyable picnic
was held at Smoot Park and was attended by about
200 people.
MASS MEETING CALLED FOR FRIDAY
NIGHT TO BEGIN CAMPAIGN BEHALF
ATHLETIC FIELD LIGHTING PROJECT
A mass meeting of North Wil
kes boro citizens and others in
terested has been called to be
held Friday night eight o'clock,
to discuss ways and means of
lighting the athletic fields on the
fairgrounds.
North Wilkesboro board of
education, which has charge of
the athletic fields on the fair
grounds, has authorized Howard
Bowers, schools' coach and city
recreation director, to begin a
campaign for funds to light the
football field.
There is also great interest in
lighting the ibaseball field for
school and community play and
for professional baseball next
year and it is expected that de
cision on definite plans will be
reached in the mass meeting.
During the past two years in
terest in the proposed project
has increased rapidly and has
reached a new high with the
movement to launch an organiz
ed campaign to provide the-facil
ities which will give .local youth
the advantages others now have
in larger cities and other towns
of comparable size.
Coach Bowers, who will also
address the Lions Club in meet
ing at 6:30, will have cost esti
mates and plans at the mass
meeting, to which everybody is.
invited. j.
LOCAL JUNIORS LOSE IN NINTH TO
LINCOLNTON HERE OH WEDNESDAY
Playing baseball as the game
should be played, the North Wll
kesboro Legion Junior team
thrilled the small number of loy
al fans present by leading the
strong Lincolnton nine 2 to 1
going into the ninth inning here
Wednesday.
But the tension of the fast
game broke in the ninth and
Lincolnton scored four runs on
two hits and three errors to win
5 to 2.
Until the ninth Cardwell had
almost silenced the Lincolnton
bats, allowing only three hits
while North Wilkeeboro had
four and two runs. The first Lin
colnton hatter hit safely. The
next bunted and nobody covered
first. On a wild throw both run
ners advanced to second and
third. A douible then sewed up
the ball game. In their half of
the ninth North Wilkesboro got
two on base but the rally died.
Tonight North Wilkesboro will
go to Hickory.
On Monday night the Wilkes
juniors played their best game of
the season to date at Lenoir but
Lenoir won 8 to 7. The North
Wilkeeboro players hit freely and
played well afield but were lack
ing in hits with men on bases.
In fact the gam? ended with the
bases full of North Wilkesboro
players. Oardwall hurled a good
game for the Wilkes team. Rous
seau with a homer and two sin
gles and Triplett with three hits
were the ibatting leaders for the
North Wilkeeboro team.
? On Tuesday afternoon here the i
undefeated Oastonia team, made
up mainly of the Gastonia state
championship high school boy3,
defeated North Wilkesboro 13 to
4 by outhitting the local team.
Gastonia collected 14 hits, in
cluding a number of doubles.
Badgett and Church got two hits
each to account for four of North
Wilkesboro's six hits off Atkin
son and Roland. Johnson pitch
ed well for North Wilkesboro in
several innings, but was afflict
ed by wlldness in the opening
frames. Wilson and Cline were
the big guns for Gastonia with
three hits each. Cline played a
sensational game at shortstop
position and Gastonia players by
their fast fielding "robbed"
North Wilkesboro players of sev
eral hits.
LITTERAL, BELL
TO DIE FRIDAY
Unless there is a last minute
intervention by Governor Cherry
two men will die in the gas
chamber at Raleigh Friday.
Ralph Vernon Litteral, ot Win
ston-JSalem, and Marvin Claude
Bell, of Roaring- River route two,
are scheduled to be executed Fri
day for rape of Peggy Ruth
Shore, 15-year-old F-lkln girl, in
August last year.
Bell and Litteral were convict
ed and sentenced at the end of
a sensational trial in the Jan
uary special term of Wilkes court
before Judge H. Hoyle Sink. The
defendants lost their appeal to the
Supreme court.
In the trial Miss Shore, a pret
ty brunette, related a tear filled
story of how the two men kid
napped her when she alighted
from a bus at her home near El
kin, carried her throngh Wilkes
and Watauga counties, raping
and Kyle Hayes, of this city, and
J. E. Holshouser of Boone, claim
ed in the trial that Bell was
under the domination of Litter
al, for whom his attorney, Fred
Hutchins, of Winston-Salem, had
a plea of insanity. They also
claimed that, according to the
testimony of the prosecutrix, Bell
prevented Litteral from killing
the girl and enabled her to live
to tell her story which resulted
in quick conviction before the
Caldwell county Jury.
A determined effort has been
made to secure commutation by
Governor Cherry of the sentences
to life imprisonment but the gov
ernor yesterday indicated that he
would not intervene. Attorneys
were in Raleigh today to make
{mother desperate appeal for
clemency.
Commutation is sought for
Bell on the claim that he saved
her four times during the ride. (the girl's life and for Litteral on
Previously FBI agents had ob- the insanity plea, although three
tained signed admissions from specialists have pronounced him
the two men. ,! sufficiently sane to know right
Counsel for Bell, including from wrong and one has declar
Bugene Trlvette, Bill Mitchell ed him insane.
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CONGRESS
Wilkes Bakery
Changes Hands
JIM HENDERSON
The Wilkes Bakery Is now Key
City Baking Company and under
new management and ownership.
J. B. "Jim" Henderson, Jr., man
ager and co-owner is known as
one of the most qualified 'bakers
in the eastern states, having had
eighteen years experience in dif
ferent bakeries. He is a gradu
ate of Siebel Institute of Tech
nology, Technical Baking Course,
in Chicago, 111., and a member of
American Society of Bakery En
gineers, and is prepared to fur
nish the best bread, cakes pies
and pastries.
Mr. Henderson held a respon
sible position in hospital baking
at Fort Bragg during world war
two for sometime, and tji^ last
four years served as superinten
dent of Fox's Royal Baking Com
pany in Wilmington.
Mr. Henderson and Mr. Dick
Sale, veteran of World War II,
bought the bakery from the S.
V. Tomlinson estate January
21st and since that time Mr.
Henderson has taken over and
made many improvements. The
Key City Bakery products are
labeled "Jim Dandy" in your
grocery.
Local Pythians
Joint Hosts For
State Convention
North Wilkesboro and Blow
ing Rock Knights ~ of Pythias
lodges were joint hosts to the
state K. of P. convention held
Tuesday evening and Wednesday
at Blowing Rock.
The convention was well at
tended and the host lodges did
an excellent job in entertainment
for the delegates from all over
the state.
Among those from this com
munity attending were the fol
lowing: Mr.-and Mrs. Paul Os
borne, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Gil
reath, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Swof
ford, Mr. and Mrs. R. I. Moore,
Mr. and Mrs. Russell Hodges,
Mr. and Mrs. J. Q. Adams, Mr.
and Mrs. Presley Myers, Mr. and
Mrs. Forest Meserve, Mr. and Mrs.
Paul Cashlon, T. E. Story, J. B.
Carter, Isaac Duncan, Max Fos
ter, Lewis Vickery, Dr. and Mrs.
A. C. Chamberlain and L. Vyne.
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A. A. A. Offers
Ryegrass Seed
It was announced this morning
from the county AAA office by
Lawrence Miller, secretary, that
the county office again will of
fer about 200 bags Italian Rye
grass for all seeding, This mater
ial may be secured by any farm
er who has not used up his al
location in other conservation
materials and who is signed up
on the 1947 program, toy calling
by the office and filing his ap
plication and paying^ 3c per pound
for the farmer's part of this ma
terial. The balance of the ex
pense will be borne by the Gov
ernment.
This will probably be the last
ryegrass that will be offered to
Wilkes county fanners and all
who would like to secure It
should file their orders immedi
ately due to the small amount on
J. C. Miller, Jr., Is
Badly Injured From
Fall From Building
J. C. Miller, Jr., son of Mr.
and Mrs. J. C. Miller, of this city,
was badly injured Saturday when
a scaffold fell while , he was
painting a sign on an Elkin
building.
The young man fell 35 feet.
His right ankle was broken, there
was a fracture in his left ankle
and there was a dislocation of
his spine.
After emergency treatment at
the hspital in Elkin he was re
moved to the Wilkes hospital and
later to the veterans hospital at
Johnson City, Tenn. He was re
ported today to be recovering
satisfactorily.
Jaycees to Elect
Officers June 26
At Pinner Meet
Junior Chamber Rapidly
Taking Place As An Ac
tive Organization
At a called meeting of the
Board of Directors of the Junior
Chamber of Commerce on Mon
day night, June 16 President Ed
Finley announced the appoint
ment of a Nominating Commit
tee to he composed of C. C. Faw,
Jr., as Chairman, Charlie Day,
Charles Sink, William Gray and
Frank Allen.
All members of the Jaycees are
urged to attend the next regular
ly scheduled supper meeting to
be held at the Wilkes Hotel,
Thursday, June 28th, 7:00 p. m.
At that time, election of officers
for the coming year will be held.
Please be there!
"This is to acquaint the peo
ple of Wilkes County with the
fact that the Wilkes Chapter of
the Junior Chamber of Commer
ce was organized in a determined
bid to boost Civic Interest In
things that stand to materially J
benefit, not just the two river
bank towns, but the county, the j
State and the Nation in which we
live. The Junior Chamber of
Commerce pledges its > whole
hearted support to any Civic,
Social, Church and other worth
while organizations whose ideals
and purposes do not contradict
the very worthwhile standards
set forth in the Charter recently
granted Wilkes County by the
National Junior Chamber of
Commerce.
"The Jaycees, as the Junior
Chamber is familiarly known, is
truly an exemplary organization,
democratic. in principles and
practices. Its prerequisites for
membership are youth, good
character, and energy. High in
itiation fees and exorbitant an
nual membership dues are frown
ed upon. Service to the Com
munity is its prime purpose.
"Although the local Chapter
is still in its infancy, its very
able leaders and members have
great plans for the future that
will demand, and it is confident,
will receive, the full support and
active participation of each resi
dent of the State of Wilkes.
"Watch for further news from
the Jaycees!''?Contributed.
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Softball Leagae I
Opens Tuesday
Churches softball league In the
Wllkeaboros, composed of four
teams, will open play Tuesday,
6: SO, at Smoot Park and Wll
kesboro fields.
In order that all teams might
have sufficient players, the
league has been cut from six to
four teams. North Wilkesboro
Presbyterian and Methodists are
combined while the Baptists in
North Wilkesboro will hare two
teams. In Wilkesboro Baptists
and Methodists are combined to
form the Wilkesboro team.
On Tuesday evening the local
Presbyterian and Methodist team
will play Wilkesboro at Wilkes
boro and the two Baptists teams
here will clash at Smoot Park.
Games will be played Tuesdays
and Thursdays and the full
dule will be published
Congressmen Are
Urgently Asking
Action on Control
Deane, Folger and Both Sen
ators Active in Efforts
For Yadkin Valley
Just after the Yadkin Valley
was hit 'by a highly damaging
flood Saturday prospects in
Washington for favorable action
on the flood control project for
the Yadkin valley were reported
better this week.
The sub-committee group of
the House appropriations com
mittee now has the matter under
consideration following a hearing
several days ago and no action
has been taken to date on the
proposal to make an initial ap
propriation for the two retention
dams on the Yadkin and two on
Reddies river.
Representatives 0. B. Deane
of this district and John Folger
of the fifth are leading the fight
in the house. They are being aid
ed by Walter Lambeth, of Thorn
asville, a former representative.
Senators Hoey and TJmstead are
also in favor of the project and
are aiding in efforts for favor
able action.
Failure of congress to enact
a tax cut over presidential veto
is calculated to have a beneficial
effect for flood control efforts.
Numerous telegrams were sent
during the past week-end by lo
cal business people and by farm
ers in the Yadkin Valley. The
representatives were also fur
nished with photographs of the
flooded Yadkin Saturday and
with newspaper photos and news
articles about the flood and dam
age done iby the high waters,
which would have been much
higher had the ground been wet
when the heavy rains came Fri
day night.
ChampionshipAuto
Races June 22 On
the Auto Speedway
Bill France To Present 100
Laps With Top Drivers
Competing
Northwestern North Carolina's
greatest sport, stock car auto
racing, returns to the beautiful
North Wllkeaboro Speedway Sun
day when Bill France presents
100 laps of championship racing
featuring the nation's greatest
drivers.
Few fans in this section will
forget the tremendous crowd
wihlch turned out for a similar
program here in May?an esti
mated 10,000 speed spectators
were on hand, the largest throng
ever to assemble in this part of
the Old North State for a single
event. And the races, first of
their kind to be held here, lived
up to all expectations as Fonty
Flock roared to a thrilling first
place finish in the main event,
several care crashed through the
fence and Marshall Teague turn
ed over six smashing times after
having a blowout.
The same drivers will be back
again Sunday, with at least 12
o^her chauffers expected to be
on hand.
The program calls for three
10-lap sprints, a 20-lap consola
tion and a 50-lap main event?
100 laps in all or 30 more than,
were presented last time. In ad
dition, time trials will be held
starting at 12:30 p. m., with the
first race scheduled to get under
way at 2:45 p. m.
Buddy Shuman of Charlotte,
currently leading the national
point standing, will Ibattle Ed
Samples, 1946 national cham
pion; Fonty Flock, first place
man at Wilkes bo ro and Green
ville, S. <?,, last month; Bob
Flock, No. 2 in the point stand
ings and winner at Gteensbort^
last Sunday, and Charlie Combe
of Wilkes county.
The same field will partici
pate in a similar program, at
Charlotte on Saturday, the day
(before the North Wilkes boro
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