Y. M. C. A, is rais
building fund for the
don of ? modern Y. M j , t ^..
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North Wilkesboro has ft
trading radius of 50 miles,
serving 100,000 people in
Published Mondays and Thursdays NORTH W1LKESBORO, W. C, Thursday, Aug. 28, 1947 Make North Wltkasboro Your Shopping Canter
?r. John W. Lnke
Be Honored Sunday
At Glendale Springs
Sunday, August SI, will be ob
served as "Rev. John W. Luke
Sunday" at Glendale Springs
Presbyterian church in appreci
ation of 20 years of unselfish
service pandered by Rev. Mr.
Luke in Ashe and Wilkes coun
ties ag a Presbyterian minister.
The IV o'clock service will be
conducted by Dr. B. B. Gilles
pie, superintendent of home mis
sions In the Presbyterian synod
of North Carolina. Dinner will be
spread picnic style at noon and
Hev. R. H. Stone will preside at
the afternoon program.
Rev. Mr.Luke graduated from
A Hampdeh-Sydney College with A.
6. degree, and entered Union
^Theological seminary in Rlch
| fifetond, Va., where he received
r^nis BjT). degree in 1227. He went
to county to work with Rev.
R. H: Stone, who had preceded
him three years.
, i Briefly are listed some statls
i' j/Lzb which show the extent of
^Rev. Mr. Luke's ministerial ac
complishments :
Baptisms, 500; marriages,
250; funerals, 600; vacation Bi
ble schools, 150; attendance at
the above services, 60,000.
Revival services, 160; attend
ance at the above services, 102,
000.
He has been organizer and
scoutmaster of three Boy Scout
troops.
He has held 4,160 services
(averages 4 services per Sun
day) ; built 5 church ee?Low
Gap, Laurel Fork, Bethel, Miller,
and most recently, Glendale
Springs; built a manse at Glen
r dale Springs.
He was chairman of Local
Draft Board of Ashe County for
fy 5 years?received a citation from
Washington for this service. As
chairman of the draft board he
gave away 2000 New Testaments,
one to every draftee from .the
county, and always had a brief
onal with the boys before
r camp.
Br. Luke Is a member
of the American Legion Post of
West Jefferson. He was In World
War I.
Rev. Mr. Luke has sent 120
young people to Glade Valley
high school. He has sent a num
ber of children to Barium Springs
Orphanage. He has sent 6 young
people to college. s
Has been associate editor and
publisher of "The/ Ashe Presby
terian" (published quarterly) for
20 years.
Rev. Mr. Luke's hobbies are
- athletics, chicken raising and
gardening.
He has travelled over 500,000
in 20 years. He has refus
accept numerous calls from
churches during these
Mr. Luke married Miss
Shaw of Wagram, N. C. in
and they have two children,
Trances and John W. Luke,
men's Bible class of My
Mr. Luke with a "Kar
two years ago for his Va
Park Presbyterian church
on Bible School work.
Addresses
G.O.P.
Representative Fea
Speaker At Dinner
Meeting Friday ,
T. E. Story, Wildes
tatlve in* the legislature
the past several years and
leader during the past
was the feature speaker
Joint meeting of the For
Toung Republicans
itive committee held
Friday night at Downtown Cafe
teria in Winston-Salem. - '? ;
' "re Story , praised
of the Republican
in the last session and
the Democratic admin
in North Carolina for
to adequately finance the
[and failure to 1m
laws.
state chairman,
state vice ohalr
Repufbllcans, and
in the party in
on the program
meeting.
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Sept. 15
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very sue
Wilkes 4-H Boys To
Camp In Forestry
By JOHN E. FORD
(Farm Forester)
As a reward for their Interest
In 4-H Forestry projects two
Wilkes County boyB hare been
selected to attend a Forestry
Camp to be held at Singletary
Lake Camp In the Bladen Lake
State Forest near Ellsabethtown.
The Camp Is made possible
through the several pulp and
paper companies In North Caro
lina and the camp itself will be
under the direction of the North
Carolina Forestry Division. Twen
ty-five 4-H boys ana 25 FFA
boys are selected every year to
attend -this camp on the basis of
the boys intereet and accomplish
ments in their farm woodlands.
The two boys selected from
Wilkes county are Edwin MoGee
of Purlear and Charlie Black
burn of Ronda. Edwin was the
first prise winner of the recent
ly held woodlands thinning con
test while Charlie won second
prize in the same contest. Char
lie in addition helped to plant
5000 tree seedlings on hi8 fathr
er's farm. While at Camp the
Boys will be instructed in various
forestry subjects by foresters
furnished by the North Caro
lina Forestry Division and by the
Pulpwood Association.
Mrs. Johnson Is
Taken By Death
Funeral Service Held Wed
nesday For Member Of
Prominent Family
Funeral service was held Wed
nesday afternoon at the First
Baptist Church for Mrs. Alma
Shoaf Johnson, wife of Gorman
A. Johnson, of this city.
Mrs. Johnson died Monday
night following an illness of sev
eral months.
Mrs. Johnson was a member
of one of northwestern North
Carolina's best known families,
being a daughter of the late R.
S. Shoaf, and Mrs. Shoaf, of
this cityi Her husband has been
principal of Roaring River high
school for the past several years.
Surviving Mrs. Johnson are
her husband, two daughters,
Dorothy Louise and Carolyn Eliz
abeth Johnson; her mother, Mrs.
R. S. Shoaf, all of North Wilkes
boro; one sister, Mrs. Glenn
Green, of NoTth Wilkesboro; and
one brother, Paul Shoaf, whose
home is here but who now has
a position in Okinawa, Japan.
Mrs. Johnson / had been a
member of the First Baptist
church here since childhood.
The funeral service was conduct
ed by Rev. W. R. Wagoner, in
terim pastor, assisted by Rev.
Roger C. Gwaltney, of States
ville, who is pastor of Roaring
River Baptist church where Mr.
and Mrs. Johnson 'frequently at
tended services during the school
term.
Many beautiful flowers at the
funeral were fitting tokens of
respect and esteem for the life of
Mrs. Johnson in this community.
Burial was in Mount Lawn Me
morial Park.
John Stewart Wood
Claimed By Death
Funeral was held today, 11 a.
m., at Cranberry Baptist church
for John Stewart Wood, Jr., 72,
better known as J. A. Wood, who
died Tuesday at his home on
Ronda route two. A stroke-of
paralysis was the cause of his
death.
Mr. Wood is survived by his
wife, Mrs. Mamie Ray Wood,,
and the following son? and
daughters: Mrs. Ollie Sullivan
and John Mayford Wood, of De
troit, Mich.; Mrs. Ruby Jurney,
Taylorsvllle; Mfrs. Oca Sparks,
Winston-Salem; Mrs. Grace Hall,
North Wilkesboro. Also surviving
are seven grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by
two children in infancy. All of
his children with the -exception
of Mrs. Sullivan were present at
the time of his death.
Roy. Ralph Miller
2nd Baptist Pastor
Rev. Ralph Miller newly elect
ed pastor of the second Bap
tist church will preach there
each second and fourth Sunday.
Rev. Mr. Miller states that the
preaching dates have been
changed from the first and third
to the second and fourth Sun
days.
Everyone is invited to attend
each and every service.
Mr. and Mrs. Dallas Williams,
>f West Jefferson, visited ? reta
in the Wilkesboro route one
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13 From Wilkes At
4-H Club Week In
Raleigh Aug. 18-23
Wilkes County was represent
ed in Raleigh last week, August
18-23 at 4-H Club Week by 6
girls and 7 boys. 4-H Club Week
is held "annually at State Col
lege, Raleigh and is the high
light of 4-H Club work. Miss
Ruth Moore, State 4-H Council
President of Pitt County presid
ed at all sessions.
The thirteen boys and girls
from. Wilkes, along with the 1,
400 other 4-H Club membera
from nearly every county tn|
North Carolina, attended classes;
In homemaking, and farming!
during the morning. The after-!
noom were devoted to demon
stration!./ recreation and tours of ]
the State College Campus and
the city of Raleigh, particularly!
the Governor's Mansion, Our
State Capitol building and the,
museum. ]
She Bumgarner, of the Millers;
Creek 4-H Club, and winner of
the Wilkes County 4-H Dress
Revue competed in the State
Dress Revue on Thursday. She
modeled a tailord blue gabardine
dress with black accessories. Miss
Bumgarner was in a group singl
ed out by Misses Hunter and Mc
Iver, clothing specialists as hav
ing a very neat and striking out
fit, and ranked near the top. Sev
eral of the contestants, includ
ing Miss Bumgarner had indi
vidual pictures made to be used
by the clothing specialist in illus
trative material.
Others attending 4-H Club
week included Peggy Bumgar
ner, Rex ' Lovette, and Josephine
Crane of the Millers Creek club;
Buddy Mathis, Lucille Mathis,
and Royce Mathis of the Wilkes
boro Club; Edith. Marie Ferguson
of the Ferguson Club; Charlie
Blackburn and Betty Anthony of
the Ronda Club; Ken Woodie of
the North Wilkeaboro Club and
Mack Foster and Edwin McGee
of the Mt. Pleasant Club. Miss
Margaret Morrison, Assistant
Home Agent was with the group
for the week.
Special vesper programs were
conducted by Hyde, Edgecombe,
Stanly, and Cabarrus counties. .
The crowning of the State'
Prince and Princess of Health
was the climax of the Health,
Pageant, which was presented on
Thursday night under the direc
tion of Mrs. Willie Mae Gurrin,
Assistant Home Agent in Nash
County.
| During the week the delegates
heard speeches b y Governor
Cherry, and Secretary of War,
Kenneth Royall. Also outstand
ing 4-H Members spoi e at var
ious times during tie week.
Talks were made by Bryan
Coates of Johnston County, who
told of the National 4-H Club
C.ongrees; Mildred Hendrix of
Cherokee, whose topic was the
National 4-H Camp in Washing
ton, D. C., and Undberg Bunn of
Franklin talked on the Danforth
Camp in Michigan.
The State 4-H Club Council
officers for 1947-48 elgcted dur
ing the week and Installed on
Friday night and they are as fol
lows: President, D. G. Harwood,
Jr., Stanly county; vice presi
dent, Margaret Putman, Gaston
county; Historian, William
Moore, Edgecombe county and
Frances Lancaster, secretary, of
Edgecombe oounty. '
The State 4-H Dress Revue
winners were Sophia Perry, Ber
tie county wtho modeled a navy
blue suit and hat to match made
from her brother's discarded ser
vice uniform and flat hat. Run
ner-up was Margaret Putman,
Gaston county. First place win
ner in the school dress division
was Joyce Bell WilliamB, Chat
ham county. Hazel Dickerson of
Vance county was winner in the
formal dress division.
Revivol Services At
The Holiness Church
Revival services will begin
Sunday, August 31, at Zion Hill
Pentecostal Holiness church.
Rev. Woodrow Smith will be do
ing the preaching, there will be
special singing at each service
and all are Invited to attend.
Services will begin-at 7:30 each
evening.
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The word sausage as used to
day is derived from the Latin
"salens," meaning salted or,
literally, preserved meat, acoord
nig to the Encyclopaedia Britan
nlca.
A Toast to Wilkes
County
By R. DON LAWS
Here's to the grand old ''State
of Wilkes,"
Where the Native brooks do
odds,
Bnt forges ahead with a bearer's
zeal, *?
And sleeps In the laps of the
gods.
'Tie here the farmer tickles the
soil /
That laughs with abundance and
more
Which largely maintains the
people who work
In office and factory and store.
The breath of her dew and the
kiss of the snn
Paint blushes on Apples (JDeli
clous)
That beggar the poet and rival
the rose,
And make Wilkes maidens st>
^ sptcious.
Her valleys and hills, her rivers
and rills,
Her orchards, her gardens and
farms,
Her poultry plantations and
other creation?,
Comprise a vast Eden of
Charms.
North Wilkesboro
Public School To
Open On Monday
The North Wilkesboro Public
Schools will open Monday, Sep
tember 1 at 8:30.
The day is to be spent in or
ganization of classes and distri
bution of books and material.
A11 elementary pupils in
grade-; one through six should
return to their rooms of last year
in order to find out .to what,
teadher and section*" the^ should |
go. Beginners should go' to the
first grade rooms. New pupils
should bring report card or rec-J
ords with them and should go to
the same grgde they were In |
last year.
High school pupils and teach
ers should assemble in the au
ditorium at 8:30.
The school cafeteria will be
open for pupils on Tuesday.
Lunch will be served on Monday
for teachers only.
The faculty for 1947-48 is
complete with one exception. A
seventh grade teacher is to be
employed.
High school teachers are: Mr.
'James Sangee, principal: Mrs.
Pauline Woodward, Mr. Howard
A. Bowers, Mr, Wayne Church,
Miss Ruby Dancy, Miss Mary Jo
Ragan, Miss Mary Speer, Miss
Mildred Hughes, Mrs. Helen Bell,
Miss Blanche Irwin, Miss Cora
E. Ingram, and Miss Eva Bing
ham, bend.
Elementary teachers are: Miss
Lena Long, Miss Minnie Haire,
Mrs. Sarah Pearson, Mrs. Eliza
beth F. Harris, Miss Julia Gray,
Miss Elizabeth Finley, Miss Etta
Turner, Mrs. Mary W. Kilby,
Mrs. Susie Williams, Mrs. Hazel
T. Spainhour, Miss Ruby Black
burn, Mrs. Bessie Clo Kerbaugh,
Miss Myra Sale, Miss Mabel Hen
dren, Miss Mad Sue Pegram, Mrs.
Nell M. Helms, and Mrs. Edna
S. Bivens.
Wilkesboro Church
Will Have Revival
Dr. J. C. Stokes To Be Guest
Minister At Wilkesboro
Methodist
Revival services will begin
unday, August 31, at the Wil
esboro Methodist church.
Rev. H. M. Wellman, pastor,
as announced that Dr. J. C.
Itokes, pastor of the Maiden
Mrst Methodist church, will M
uest minister for the revival.
Dr. Stokes is a formal past* r
,f the Wilkesboro and VUnid \
Jethodist churches, having serii
id them before entering *?rvi?j
is a chaplain in the nan,
ias many friends in the com
nunlty who will welcome the
ipportunity to hear him during
he series of revival services.
Services will be held each evo
ling at 7:30 p. m. through Fri
lay and the public Is cordially
invited to attend;
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G. Miller and
Lights Being Pat
Up On Athletic
Field This City
Hope To Complete Lighting
Project In Time For
Game On Sept. 12
One of thi? community's most
badly needed projects got under
way Monday when work began
on construction of Memorial
Park on the old fairgrounds
field.
First work In development of
the .park Is the erection of ath
letic lights.
Contract was executed by the
Memorial Park committee with
Delta, Inc., a contracting firm In
Charlotte, to do all labor on
erection of floiodlights on the
combination football and base
ball field. That firm was current
ly engaged in Une construction
for Duke Power company In this
area and they were loaned to the
park committee for thlB job. Mr.
Oaither, a member of the Delta
firm, is in charge of construc
tion.
The ten 80-foot Douglas fir
creoeoted pole? arrived Tuesday
afternoon and were moved to the
park Wednesday, where they are
now being erected. Poles at the
back of the football field, which
will be outfield for baseball, will
have 12 floodlights each. The
double poles down first and third
base lines will have 24 lights to
each location and the two poles
back of home plate will have 12
> each, making a total of 120
Ifloodlamps of 1,500 watts each.
Left, center and right field
distances on the 'baseball field
will be 350 feet each, which is
100 feet piore than the minimum
allowed In official baseball rule?.
Ponds Needed
A report from W. Blair Gwyn,
Memorial Park fund treasurer,
today Indicated that the total
contributed to date Is somewhat
short of the total estimated cost
for lighting and grading on the
athletic field and to date there
are no funds for erection of seats
for the coming football season or
a grandstand for baseball.
The committee respectfully
asks for more donations in order
that the project may be fully
completed and thus fill a lonS
recognized need in this commun
ity. Organizations are asked to
help by sponsoring benefit events
for the park and individuals
are continuing to be solicited
for contributions.
Five Are Attending
Farm - Home Week
Five Home Demonstration
lub women from Wilkes county
re in Raleigh this , week attend
ig the annual Farm and Home
Peek Program.
Special features of the weeks
rogram will include t)he unveil
ig of the Portraits of Dean, I.
I Schaub and Dr- J??6 ^c"
:immon. Pioneer Extension
Vorkers. Addresses on Thursday
y Dorothy Thompson, Historian
,nd General Dwight D. Eisen
>ur. ' , .
Miss Margaret Morrison, ab
stant Home Agent will go to
aleigh Wednesday of this week
? attend a business meeting of
Le State Home Agents Associ
tion. She will return to Wilkes
;>ro on Friday,
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Vayne J. CaudUl Has
Master of Arts Degree
Mr. Wayne J. Caudill, son of
[rs H. B. Douglas, of North
/ilkesboro, N. 6., received his
[aster of Arts Degree from
George Pea body College for
"eachers. Mr. Caudill, who re
sived his B. S. degree from Ap
Alachian State Teacher? Col
age, Boone, in December 194 6.
I an Army Air Force overseas
eteran, a member of Kappa Del
a Pi, National Honor Education
lociety and Pi Gamma Mu, Na
ional Honor Social Science Fra
ernity.
Mr. Caudill his accepted a
position as critic and instructor
it Appalachian Demonstration
Jchool, Boone, N. C.
Mr. Robert B. Eller, who has a
lsiness in Los Angeles, Cali
rnia, is spending a few weeks
the home of Rev. and Mrs.
ones T. Nichols, with whom he
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Midget Watermelons,
Osage Orange, Apple
Are On Display Here
The Journal-Patriot 'freak de
partment has had a big week.
Among the Interesting Items
brought In this week were three
midget watermelons grown by F.
M. Jennings at his Valley View
nurserje at Fores Knob.
Housewives had so much trou
ble getting melons into refrigera
tors that producers decided to do
something about it, so they de
veloped a midget site watermel
on which' grows smaller and in
greater numbers than the usual
varieties. A midget melon,
which has a rind ' about one
fourth of an inch thick, occupies
about the same space as a gal
lon pail or Jar and are readily
chilled in a home-type refrige
rator. Mr. Jennings will grow
them on a commercial scale next
year.
What is thought to be an
osage orange was brought in by
Mrs. Richard Minton, of Wllkes
boro route one. It came from a
tree near Winston-Salem. It is
the size of a grapefruit, green
in color arfd with a corrugated,
rough surface. Rev. John Black
burn, of Wilkesboro route two,
brought in one of his big ap
I pies.
Scouts Advance
At Meet of Court
Seventeen Scouts Advanced
In Rank At Court Of
Honor Thursday
The regular Court of Honor
session for the Wilkeg District
for Boy Scouts was held at the
Presbyterian hut Thursday, Au
gust 21, with the following mem
bers present: Paul Osborne, Gor
don Finley, Cyrus McNeil, Joe
McCoy and Rev. H. M. Wellman.
Awards for the previous ses
sion were given and the Board of
Review passed on advancements
as follows:
Troop No. 35?E. 6. Wyatt,
second class; Billy Phillipe, ae*.
ond class; J. D. Saylors, second
class; Tyre Bidden, second class;
Billy Bumgarner, second class:
Wayne Absher, second class;
Dannie Pruitt, second class;
James Sidden, second class; C.
L. Wyatt, second class; Calvin
Hays, first class; Bobby Lee An
derson, star; R. Ivey Moore,
life; R. Ivey MooTe, wood carv
ing; R. Ivey Moore, conserva
tion;. Calvin Bays, home re
pairs.
L Troop No. 34?William A.
Hardister, second class; Harry
Steele, second class.
Rollerdrome to Open
On Friday Night For\
Skating; Is Modern
The Rollerdrome, a i^ew skat
ing rink for clean and wholesome
recreation, will open Friday
night on the top floor of the
fVrm Center building (between
Midway Pontiac company and
Barber Motor company between
the Wilkesboros.
- Red Morrison, professional
hockey skater formerly with the
Washington Blades and who was
for three years manager of Parar
mount Rollerdrome in Holly
wood, California, will be floor
manager and instructor. Free in
structions will be given begin
ners.
All are cordially invited to vis
it the Rollerdrome at any time.
Local Song Writer
On Radio Weekly
Jimmie Childress, singer and
song writer who makes his home
here, is heard each Sunday aft
ernoon, 2:45, over radio station
WKBC in North Wilkesboro.
Mr. Childress recently came to
North Wilkesboro from Mount
Airy and Is employed at Horton's
Drug Store. .
A baritone singer, Mr. Chil
dress has sung over WSJS and
WAIR in Winston-Salem and
WBT in Charlotte. He has writ
ten more than 50 songs and on
each Sunday afternoon program
here he sings one of his own
composition, all of which ar?
popular music. The public is cor
dially invited to hear his broad
casts.
State To* Office To
Be Closed Monday
C.
Dr. J. T. Wayland
Is the New Pastor
Of First Baptist
Wai Formerly Pastor At
Monroe, Durham, and
Was Wavy Chaplain
Dr. John Terrill Wayland, an
outstanding minister In the Bap
tist denomination, has assumed
his dnties a8 pastor of the First
Baptist church of North Wilkes
boro.
Dr. Wayland came this week
to North Wilkesboro from Bal
timore, Md., where he was pas
tor of Pimlico Baptist church
since receiving his discharge
from the navy, in which he serv
ed as a chaplain.
A native of Missouri, Dr. Way
land was born March 2, 1207,
at Moberly, Mo. At the age of
ten he dedicated his Ufe to the
ministry. He attended William
Jewell college, senior Baptist
college in Missouri, and gradu
ated tn 1028. For two years he
attended Southern Baptist The
ological Seminary at Louisville,
Ky., and later Yale' divinity and
graduate school, where he receiv
ed his Ph. D. degree in 1983.
? Dr. Wayland's first pastorate
was at the First Baptist church
in Monroe from 1933 until 1937.
For two year8 he was moderator
of Union County. Baptist associ
ation. From 1937 until 1944 Dr.
Wayland was pastor of Temple
Baptist in Durham. He served
as president of the Baptist Train- I
ing Union in North Carolina and
was a director of the Biblical Re
corder, official Baptist publica
tion in North Carolina. During
his Baptist Training Union work
in the state he visited North Wil
keeboro and gained a favorable
impression of the community.
In the navy Dr. Wayland serv
ed as chaplain at Fort McHenry,.
Md., and on the cruiser Houston.
Dr. Wayland married Miss
Eunice Fowler, of New Haven,
Conn., and they have three chil
dren: Bruce, 13; Terrill, 11; .and
nJeah, 6. Today they moved into
the Baptist parsonage jBPs'r
The new pastor was greeted
by a large congregation at his
first appearance at the church
Wednesday night for prayer ser
vice. After the service a recep
| tion for Dr. Wayland and fam
jily was held at the home of R.
T. McNiel and many greeted thus
new pastor there.
Here Dr. Wayland succeeds
Rev. W. R. Wagoner, who has
been interim pastor since Dr.
David E. Browning resigned to
become pastor of a newly .or
ganized Baptist church in Rich
mond, Va.
Thousands of Fish
Killed In Avery
Local Sportsmen Are Inter
ested In Outcome Came
In Court
According to reports brought
back from Avery county by lo
cal sportsmen, thousands of fish
were recently killed in the Lin
ville section when poison is al
leged to have been placed in
small streams running into the
state fish hatchery.
This alleged crime, which lo
cal fishermen think is just about
the foulest that could possibly
be committed against the game
life of'the northwest section of
the state, did damages estimated
to amount to 315,000 or more,
and will result in a big setback
to the sport of fishing in the
Linville section.
It is understood that arrests
have been made and that several
! parties of Avery county now a
:? wait trial in court. The case was
placed on the calendar of a re
. cent term of Avery superior
: court but wag not called up for
'trial, it is said.
| Local sportsmen, it is report
ed, are not only incensed over
j the alleged crime, but they are
J eagerly awaiting prompt court
action and sufficient punishment
meted out to all guilty parties.
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Southside Singing At
Boomer On Sunday
Southside singing association
will convene Sunday at Zion Hill
Baptist church at Boomer, Chair
man F. J. McDuffie announced
today. The singing program will