North Carolina Newspapers

The Journal-Patriot Has Blazed the Trail of Progress In the "State of Wilkes" For Over 41 Years North Wilkesboro has a trading radius of 60 miles, serving 100,000 people in Northwestern Carolina. '0 "" "• Published Mondays and Thursdays NORTH WILKESBORO. N. C., Monday, Oct. 6, 1947 Make North WHfeesboro Your Shopping Center Y. M. C. A. is rais a building fund for the of a modern Y. M C. A. plant. Support it. Vol. 42, No. 46 Massenburg Tells Lions About Jobs For Handicapped Lions Sponsor Sale of White Cane Emblems Here For Benefit of Blind J. 3. Massenburg, Employment Serrlce director o f selective placements for handicapped peo ple fn North Carolina, delivered an Inspiring message to the North Wllkeeboro Lions club Friday evening. Mr. Massenburg stated that this week is "Employ the Phys ically Handicapped Week." and urged employers to provide what ever jobs they can tor handicapp ed people on the grounds that it is good business to hire them. Mr. Massenburg gave figures to show that employment of physically handicapped pay8 be cause of stability on the Jobs and The program was in nt W. C. Marlow told the club about sale of white cane emblems for the State Associ ation for the Blind and club members are bow active in the campaign. - t of Blair Gwyn, who pre the speaker. The annual statewide cam paign for the sale of White Cane Buttons and enrollment of m%m bera in the association was auth orised unanimously by the state convention of North Carolina Li ons Clubs. It is annually the prin cipal over-all project of the more than 150 Clubs in the state. The Association, now 13 years old, prior to 1946 was support ed by spasmodic local campaigns and contributions of Lions Clubs and friends of tbe blind through out North Carolina. It serves as a connecting link between the State Commission for the Blind, 'which also is a product of the Initiative of North Carolina Li ons, and Lions Clubs and inter ested civic groups and individu als In all parts of the state. Chief aim of the Association, to Mr. Alford, is to !BiPNt#^rnr"iaons" tntfbs- aar other civic groups in projects in volving aid to the blind and con servation of sight; and especial ly to serve in areas where or ganized programs in behalf of the blipd and conservation of sight are not in progress. , ■ j Specifically, the Association aids in providing eye operations and hospital care in needy sight conservation cases. It provides examinations and eyeglasses for underprivileged school children; purchases supplies for deserving blind persons taking vocational and home handicraft training, and otherwise lends every pos sible aid to the more than 7,000 blind person8 in North Carolina. Guests Friday were: Troy Per ry with Blair Gwyn; N. O. Smoak, Jr., with Ray Stroud; H. C. Hubbard, Jr., of Salisbury with L. G. Critcher; Eddie Adel man with Wm. T. Long; Charles E. Jarvis with Zeb Dickson. Ray Landsberger and Charles Jarvis were inducted into mem bership in the club by J. H. fcfrlcker. Jr. fc-ank Stafford, a ^Krmer member, returned to membership. John A. Johnson Taken By Death John Andrew Johnson, 54, well known local citizen, died at 2:50 a. m. today at his home on highway 268 east of this city. He had been ill for several months. For many years Mr. Johnson lived in this city and was em ployed by Dnke Power company before his health failed. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Minnie Jane Carry John son^nd the following son8 and danfpters: Monroe and John A. Johnson, Jr., Mrs. Tony White, Mrs. William L. Blackburn, Miss es Mary and Alma Johnson, all of North Wilkesboro; also two half brothers and three half sis ters. Funeral service will be held Tueeday, 11 a. m., at Mt. Sinai church with Rev. George Curry and Rev. Andrew Call in charge. Miss Myers, Claude Canter to Wed Cheraw, S. C., Oct. 4.—Rev. and Mrs. Charles Herbert Myers of CherA*,' announce the engage ment of their daughter, Madge e Myers, to Claude Alex Cuter of North Wllkee N. C. The marriage will take place In the later fall. The production of Burley to ) in North Carolina to esti t at 16,000,000 pounds. Ten From Wilkes At Man Hill College j' Mars Hill.—Ten students from Wilkes county are enrolled at Mars Hill college this fall. These are: Mary Catherine Walls of Blkln; Helen Augusta Lowe of Pores Knob; Finley Clay Watts of Purlear; Colonel Dwlght Blackburn and William C. Cas te vens of Traphill; and Nancy Gordon Felts, Route 2, Cecil L. Porter, Route 1, James Bernard Shumate, Dean Lincoln Mlnton and Betty Gray Church, all of North Wilkeeboro. The total enrollment at the college of 981, exclusive of spec ial students in the departments of speech, art and muslo. These come from 18 states, District of Columbia, and two foreign coun tries. North Carolina, 717; South Carolina, 80; Virginia, 58; Flor ida, 37; Georgia, 35; Tennessee, 21; Alabama and Kentucky, five each; Maryland, four; Indiana, three; Pennsylvania^ New Jer sey, Ohio and New York, two each; Texas, Rhode Island, Mis souri, New Hampshire and Dis trict of Columbia, one each; Cuba,' two; Brazil, one. The North Carolina students come from 88 counties. i ° :— Ramblers Beat Jonesville 38-0 Saturday Here Wilkesboro Reserves Play Half The Game In One sided Contest Here Wilkesboro Ramblers scored almost at wjll Saturday night to defeat a big Jonesville eleven be fore a large crowd in Memorial Park. .Jonesville had a fine looking squad of boys and before the game started it looked like the Ramblers were in for a rugged night, in view of the fact that Jonesville had easily licked Mocksville the week before. work well against Wiikesboro's and the Ramblers' line mads holes in the Jonesville forward wall that you could drive a truck through. Jack Groce started the scoring after taking a lateral from Trip lett and also in the first period Lowe, Wilkesboro end, ran 20 yards to score. Groce kicked the ] point and the score was 13-0. In the second period Coach Ed die Adelman let his second team play Jonesville and it was an even contest with no scoring. Ray Triplett scored early in the second half and Whittington added another Wilkesboro touch down. Foster snagge# a Jones ville fumble on the kickoff and Triplett raced 20 yards to score to make the score 31-0. The sec ond team went in for the third time. The final touchdown was by Dancy, substitute back-, and Groce split the uprights for the final point, the score ending at 38 to 0. Wllkesboro will go to MocSe ville this week to tackle an im proved Davie county team and the Ramblers' big test will pQ against Boonville next week. Following are lineups and summaries for Saturday night's game: Wllkesboro 88 Jonesville 0 LE—Lowe .... D. Vestal LT—Hubbard Hemrio LG—Foster Davis C —i^arker C. Martin RG—Brewer Grace RT—Gambill ... __ B. Sparks RE—Craig Freeman QB—Whittington — Daye LH-^-Triplett K. Vestal RH—Groce ....—.—. Bowles FB—Glass . Everedge Substitutes: Wllkesboro, Lin ney, Garwood, Dancy, McClain, Prevette, Parks, Glass, Pardue, Emerson, Byrd, Staley, Terrell; Jonesville, Osborne, Price, Mar tin, Smith, Lineberry. Scoring touchdowns: Triplett 2, Lowe, Whittington, Dancy, Groce; Points after touchdown: Groce 2. Score by periods: Jonesville ~ 0 0 0 0 Wllkesboro 13 0 18 7 Officials: Venable, Bason, Johnston,- Lee. Aged Woman Dies Miss Elizabeth Greer, 86, resi dent of the Summit community, died Tuesday and funeral was held Wednesday at Blue Ridge church. She Is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Diana Eller, of Summit, and Mrs. Ellen Church, of Rhoadhlss. Support Y. M. C. A. Merchants Plan Ap Bigger Christmas lighting Program Trade Promotion Commit tee In Meeting Lays Pre liminary Plans Trade Promotion committee Qf the Wilkes Chamber, of Com merce in meeting last week laid plans for an expanded program of Christmas lighting for the coming holiday season. For complete coverage, the committee said, the lighting should be one-third more than last year in the Wilkesboros. A committee composed of W. G. Gabriel, Hubert Canter, E. T. Hackney, Presley Myers and Fred Henderson was named to contact business firms in the ad ditional arqa to be lighted this season. Bill Marlow and Link Spain hour were named to work out Christmas season features for the public. November 28 was set as the date for holiday lighting and Christmas opening in the Wilkes boros. Merchants here this year have bought heavily in a wide variety of merchandise to fill increased buying demand in northwestern North Carolina. W. C. T. U. Planning A Membership Drive The Woman's .Christian Tem perance Union of North Carolina has had a record growth In 1947 and Is now completing plans jfor Its annual Invitation . for new members, scheduled for Not. 12 19, Mrs. h. E. Brown, president of North Carolina WCTU has an nounced. Mrs. Brown said local Unions are apppinting committees to di rect the invitation in their home communities and will include ■entire families. The North Caro lina invitation, Mrs. Brown con tiawed, will be a part of the An-* nual National WCTU member ship enrollment week. The effort in thi8 State is being directed by Mrs. Guy Beaty of Charlotte, State WCTU Membership Direc tor, and plans will be emphasiz ed at the Annual Convention i held in Winston-Salem, October I 14-16, in the First Baptist church. "The National Woman's Chris tian Temperance Union carries on a broad campaign of welfare work in addition to Its major objectives to legally abolish the manufacture and sale of alcohol ic beverages. It now includes more than 10,500 state, district, county, city and affiliated un ions with a combined member ship of about 400,000 in the United States, Territories, and Insulor possessions. It is affiliat ed with the World's WCTU, now comprised of temperance and welfare organization in 46 coun tries. A membership gain of more than 65,000 was recorded by the National WCTU last year, as compared wltih 61,000 in 1945 and 40,000 in 1944. The North Carolina WCTU now has the largest number of members in her history. More than 800 new state, district, county, city or affiliated unions were organized' in 1946." Important Meeting Vets Foreign Wars All members are asked to at tend a very important meeting of Blue Ridge post of Veterans of Foreign Wars to be held Tues day, 7:30 p. m. o Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Caudill re turned a few days ago from week's trip through western"] North Carolina, Tennessee, West Virginia and Virginia. They went by way of Blowing Rock, Mount Mitchell,. Lake Tahoma, Ashe yille, Cherokee, across the Qreat Smokies national park into Gat linburg, Tenn., Pigeon Gorge, Greenville and Johnson City, Tenn., Matooka and Princeton, W. Va., Sugar Grove and Trout dale, Va., traveling 720 miles. Near Clingman'8 Dome they saw a bear which went near their car and seemed very gentle. While in Johnson City they visited three of Mrs. Caudill's cousins and in Matooka and Princeton, W. Va., they visited Mrs. Cau dill's brothers, Messrs. T. L. and S. P. Williams. In Trout dale they visited Mr. Caudill's brother-in-law, Mr. Rowan Pru itte. : o The production of flue-cured tobacco in North Carolina Is now 'estimated at 887,460,000 pounds. Home Demonstration Schedule For a Week Wednesday, October 8th, Mtn. View Home Demonstration club; place of meeting, Mrs. Harrison Wood, time 2 o'clock. Thursday, October 9th, Fergu son Home Demonstration club; place o f meeting, Ferguson school, time 2 o'clock. JPriday, October 10th^ Pores Knob Home Demonstration club; place of meeting, Club House, Mrs. J. M. Bentley, hostess; time, 2 o'clock. Tuesday, October 14th, R'onda Home Demonstration Club; place of meeting, Mrs. J. B. Bell; time, 2 o'clock. o Mountain Lions Play Best Game To Beat Bariam Local Team Beats Orphan age Eleven 27 to 12 In Thrilling Contest North Wilkesboro's Mountain Lions played their best game of the season to date to defeat a favored Barium Springs eleven 27'to 12 in Memorial Park Fri day night. Despite the one-Bided score, it was a contest throughout with the Lions holding a big edge in scoring punch. It was a team game with men in every position playing splendidly for the home team. The first quarter was about even .with Barium putting on their Scoring drive early—all the way down to the two yard line where the Lions' line rose up and held the visitors for downs. Later Caudill intercepted a Bar ium pass and the Lions drove to the ten. Early in the second period Badgett took a screen pass from Rousseau and scampered 25 yards to pay dirt on a beautiful run. Try for point failed and the Caudill recovering a fumble and a few plays later ^Rousseau want around right en<j4 to score. The point was good ffom scrimmage and the the scor* was 13-0. Barium Springs came back with two good passes Irom Mangum to Young, who snagged one in the end " zone witi a beautiful catch. Try for point:was not good and the score was 13-6. i On the kickoff #as the most' thrilling play of the game. Rous seau grabbed for the ball, which" skidded from his hands to the goal line. He picked up the ball and went down the right side line the length of the field to score. Blocking was very effective and Porter ran interference for the fleet back all the way, taking out the last potential tackier on the 30 yard line. Caudill made the point through the line and the score was 20-6. In the fourth period Barium's pass attack set up another op portunity and Barrett scored, but again the try for point iraB no good and the score was 20-12. A fumble ruined North Wil kesboro's scoring threat on the ten yard line and Barium kick ed. Badgett thrilled the crowd again after Church recovered a Barium fumble. It was a 55 yard run for Badgett as he raced through Barium defenders to the end zone.i Steelman at end was North Wilkesboro's outstanding defen sive player. The lineups: N. Wilkesboro 27 B*. Springs 12 LE—-Steelman —»— — Young LT—Adams Good LG—Church . Traywick C —Porter Everett RG—Stoker Clark RT—Shook .—— Baldwin RE—Hadley — Meroney QB—Badgett .....—.... Barrett LH—Rousseau .— J. Clark EH—McGinnis .... Mangum PB—Caudill Barnes Substitutes: North Wilkesboro, Davis, Winters, Absher, Stoker, Hudson; Barium Springs, At wood, Lippard, Manus, Reid, Lybrand. Scoring touchdowns: North Wilkesboro, Badgett 2, Rousseau j 2; Barium Springs, Young, Bar-, rett. Points ' after touchdown: North Wilkesboro, Rousseau, Da vis, Caudill. Score by period: N. Wilkesboro 0 6 14 7 Barium Springs — 0 0 12 0 At half time the North Wil kesboro band put on maneuvers on the field and made a big hit with tho jarge crowd of spec tators. AGRICULTURAL FAIR A SUCCESSFUL' EVENT Good Exhibits, Entertainment, Featured at Fair Dog Show And Horse Show Saturday Find Many Animals Competing v The first Wilkes Agricultural Fair sponsored by the Klwanis club was held successfully Wed nesday through Saturday at the horse show grounds. There were many exhibits en tered by community and organ ization groups and individuals. All the exhibits were excellent in view of the fact that the fair was organized on short notice and exhibitors had little time for preparation. The fair opened with a show by the Tennessee RamblerB on Wednesday night. Attendance was fair but cool weather doubt less kept many away for the opening. On Thursday night colored tal ent in the county put on a very creditable show in front of the grandstand. On Friday night was a show by local talent in the form of string music and quartets, and which was well enjoyed. On Saturday morning the first dog show in many years was held at the fair and many fine dogs were entered. A complete list of winners will be gathered and published. On Saturday afternoon and night was a local horse show with 43 Wilkes horses partici pating. Nineteen classes were carried out in afternoon and eve ning shows. The complete list of awards will be published Thurs day. Plans are to make the Wilkes horse show an annual T*fM.rfiTtFe fair. The fair had keen competition ill attendance with a football game Friday and Saturday nights and-a circus on Friday night. But attendance was surprisingly good and & much more successful fair is expected next year. The fair was staged by the Ki wanis club to encourage produc tion of quality products of farm and home in Wilkes county. During fair week Williams Rides and Shows were on the midway with many attractions. Kiwanians Meet At Fair Friday; Hear Special Talk Dinner Served By' Home Club; Kiwanians See 4-H Boys and Calves Thte Kiwanis assembled at the Pair Grounds Friday for the us ual luncheon and waB served din ner by the Falrplalns Home Dem onstration Club. The members passed the lunch stand and were served by the ladies and then they went to the grandstand to eat their lunch. Following the lunch W. H. Mc Elwee acted as program chair man for Robert GIbbs and Intro duced to the club James Massen burg, of Raleigh, who is serving with the Employment ' office there In the interest of physical ly handicapped people. Mr. Massenburg made an in teresting short talk presenting tM work of his department; say ing that last year more than 7,000 physically handicapped people in tUfe state were put to gainful employment through his office and that 5,286 of these were war Veterans. He stated that North Carolina lead the Na tion in this field of service. He stated that Ford Motor Co. uses 6,700 physically handicapp ed people In automobile plants. He stated that last year In the United States 41,000 such peo ple were rehabilitated at a cost to the government of $13,000, 000.00 and that this 41,000 peo ple made goods amounting to $73,000,000.00. Following the talk by Mr. Massenburg the Agricultural Committee had brought before1 wanl8 money and presented to 4-H club boys. Bob Smith intro duced the individual boys with whom these calves are placed. ■ o — Cub Scout Pack To Meet Tonight North Wilkesboro Scout cub pack will meet tonight, 7:30, at 1 the religious education building of the First Presbyterian church. Boys 9, 10 and 11, with one or both parents, are asked to at tend. The pack will be sponsored by the Kiwanis club with C. Arthur Venable, T. A. Finley and Bill Hardister as committee. Edward Bell is cubmaster. o Cripple Clinic Next cripple clinic will be held Thursday, October 9, at the Wilkes hosptial. Free examina tion will be given all crippled and deformed persons present. RECEIVING CENTERS SET 1|P HERE TUBERCULOSIS HOSPITAL GIFTS Due to numerous inquiries ar rangements have been made for two receiving centers for anyone wishing to make donations of food to the Wilkes County Sani tarium. Under the ledaershlp of Miss Margaret Morrison, assist ant home agent, the home dem onstration clubs of the county are donating most liberally cann ed foods. Other civic and church organizations, or individuals, wishing to contribute to this cause are asked to leave their donations at the Red Cross Pharmacy on Tenth srteet or at Mrs. R. J. Hlnshaw's Beanty Par lor on Main Street. There Is a fieed for canned fruits and vegetables, fruit juic es, jellies, preserves, and staple groceries. Tomato Juice Is a must for the patients' diet each day. If there are those, who would like to give and have no way of getting their gifts to eith er of the above centers, they may call1 or telephone Mm. Ivey Moore, and she will see that their packages are collected- Mrs. O. B. Lomax is to be responsible for delivering the packages to the Sanitoriuqi, that are left at eith er of thd above designated plac Sloan Hill Now On College Paper Staff Sloan Hill, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dudley 6. Hill', of this city, is one of the feature writers on "The Appalachian," publication of the Appalachian State Teach ers' College located at Boone. Sloan - is a talented writer, and is expected to have a number of outstanding articles appear In forthcoming issues of his college publication. —— o Woodward Thanks Patrons of School J. Floyd Woodward, who re cently assumed his dutles as sup erintendent of North Wilkesboro schools, today Issued the follow ing statement of appreciation to patrons and others for their pub lic spirited cooperation with the local school's program: "The consistent, enthusiastic support which has been given our schools during the past few weeks is deeply appreciated. The improvements on the athletic field have been very gratifying. "Many individuals have assisted in numerous ways; however, these organizations have been particularly helpful: "The firemen have done a splendid job of parking cars. • "The police force and the pa trolmen have directed traffic. "Students, patrons and teach ers have assisted in selling tick ets for our games. "The Lions Club has recently equipped our library with in direct lighting system. "Several Kiwanians were ac tive in selling season football tickets. The most amazing thing has been the rapid . coustru^feiu of our football bleachers. The Jun ior Chamber of Commerce, assist ed by other interested persons, has done a splendid job. These bleachers with a well lighted field have made possible a stronger and better -school ath letic program. "The P.-T. A. has made some definite plans for play ground equipment for our boys and girls. "Many other things have been done by individuals which have helped to make our schools stronger and better. ''For such enthusiastic and loyal support the school is deep ly grateful." , State's 4-H Club Members Are To Observe a Week North Carolina's approximate ly 100,000 4-H Club members will observe National 4-H Achievement Week November 1 , 9, according to L. R. Harrill, ! State 4-H Club leader for the State College Extension Service. The theme for this year's ac tivities, which has been the aim of these rural youth throughout the year, will be "Working To gether for a Better Home and World - Community." The results of efforts in carrying out this theme will be highlighted during National. 4-H Club Week. Locally, 4-H Clubs throughout North Car olina will recognize members who have done outstanding work in the projects they have carried this year. Many of the boys and girls whq are recognized as project winners at the' County Achieve ment Day programs will be se lected a& state winners. The re ward for the state winners will be a trip to National 4-H Club Congress in Chicago which wilj be held November 30-December 4. Ndrth Carolina will have 25 delegates who will share the thrills and experiences at this meeting with delegates from eve ry State in the Union, Mr. Har rill said. Discount Allowed On Tax Paid Now A discount of one-half of one per cent is allowed by law on all 1947 city and county taxes paid on or before November 1, 4947. Taxpayers are invited to pay now and save the amount of the discount . Wi i —o SUPPORT THE Y. M. C. A. Williams Reunion Held at Wallace ~ y A family reunion of the broth ers and sisters, of Mr. P. M. Wil liams, of this® ity, with members of their families, was held at , Wallace from September 24 until October 2nd. Eight of the ten ! brothers and sisters attended, the two being unable to be pres ent were Mrs. W. F. Thompson, of Houston, Texas, oldest mem ber of the family, and Mr. Jack Williams, of San Francisco, Calif., the youngest member. Around fifty-five relatives at tended the reunion, part or all of the time, and those going down from North Wilkesboro were Mr. Williams and two sons, P. M. Jr., and Charles Williams, Mrs. R. G. Finley, Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Hubbard, Jr., and younger son, Dickie. Mrs. Hubbard is the daughter of the Senior Mr. Wil liams. After the reunion Mrs. James F. Cobb, of San Francisco, and Mrs. C. A. Jackson, of Pennille, Ga., sisters of Mr. Williams, came to North Wilkesboro for a couple weeks visit, Mrs. Cobb to visit in the Williams home and Mrs. Jackson in the home of her daughter, Mrs. Finley. Mrs. Os car Gentry, siBter of Mrs. Finley, and two sons, Charles an<j Allen, of Knoxvllle, Tenn. attended the reunion, and on their way down were overnight guests in the Fin ley home, and on their way back to Tennessee, spent the night with Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Hubbard, f Benefit Card Party Wilkesboro Friday The Wilkesboro Woman's club Is sponsoring: a benefit card par ty at their club home on Friday night, Oct. 10. Play will begin promptly at 7:30 o'clock follow ed by an auction of home baked foods, lovely prizes hare been donated by local merchants, a list of which will be published next week. For reservations or farther In formation call Mrs. Presley My ers at 378-M.