kee Y. M. C. A. is raisa
building fund for the
-tion of a modern Y. M
L plant. Support it.
North Wilkesboro has a
trading radius of 50 miles,
serving 100,000 people in
Northwestern Carolina.
The Journal-Patriot Has Blazed the Trail of Progress In the "State of Wilkes" For Over 41 Years
Published Mondays and Thursdays NORTH WILKESBORO. N. C- Thursday, Oct. 23, 1947 Make Worth Wilketboro Y«ur Shopping Center
FIRST FOOTBALL TEAM IN THE WILKESBOROS
Here U a picture made wme time prior to 1920 of the firrt footb.1V team which
played for local high schools. This North Wilkesboro team was a^ «ffainst
with a number of players from Wilkesboro, an,d made a g Virginia
*ome of the better team. in this part of North Caroima and southwest V^gmia
Following are the names of the players pictured above, but no onewho saw the
picture this week could be certain of the identification of every P^yerf
James Hix, Jr., now deceased, in center of back row; Coach Luke 1Stacy, from
Oit on back row, brother of Supreme Court Justice Stacy; Prof. Ra
Pwkesboro principal, at right on back row; Albert Vannoy, on ^ Deans,
from right on back row: Walter Myers, in white jersey, front row; Dr,. J S. Deans,
center front row; others were Frank Hendren, Paul Swanson, Jim IM, Jeter
Blackburn, Tom Church, Bill Rhodes, Wm. A. Brame, Jim Hauser, Phipps Leckie,
Floyd Taylor and Clate Meadows.
Committee Set
Up For Lighting
Find Two Towns
Holiday Lighting for Streets
Will Be Greatly Extended
This Season
Trade Promotion committee of
the Wilkes Chamber of Commerce
in meeting this week
■worked ont detailed plans for
extension of holiday street lighting
in North Wilkesboro and
Wilkesboro.
Last year 36 streamers and
ten stars were used. This year
there will be 63 streamers and j
25 stars. Much of the wire used
last year must be replaced.
which paid for lighting, Farmer's
Day and other incidentals.
This year the fund will be J 3,000,
which provides for extension
of the lighting and for purchase
of wire to be replaced.
The committee plans to make
the holiday lighting outstanding
in Northwestern North Carolina.
It was pointed' out in the meeting
that the materials to be purchased
this year will reduce the
cost about 50 per cent for the
next several years.
In order to raise the merchants'
fund, the committee designated
the following solicitors: A
street, Arthur Venable and Ray
Shomaker; Cherry street, Paul
Osborne; Main street, south, 6th
to 5th, Harold Blankenship and
Richard Cranor; B street, 6th
to 5th, north, and 6th from
Main street north, S. B. Moore,
Harold Bumgarner and Gilreath's
Shoe Shop; Main street 9th to
Texaco station, north, Roy Foreteand
and Hyde Waller; Main
2pet, 9th to Texaco station,
south, Hubert Canter and' Bob
Kite; Main street, 9th to 10th,
north, Ira Payne and Carl Steele;
Main street, 9th to 10th, south,
L. S. Spainhour and R. E. Qlbbs;
C street, 9th to 10th, Thurman
Kenerly and Gilbert , Bare; D
street, Gaddy Motor Co. to 9th,
O. K. Pope; 9th street, west,
Charlie Day and H. T. Burke,
9th street, east, J. C. Allen and
Blair Gwyn; 10th street, west,
Walter Day and Clyde Pearson;
10th street, east, E. T. Hackney
and Robert Morrow; Forester
Avenue, Oliver Absher and
Jamee Ljowe; Wilkes HJosiery
Mills Co., P. W. Eshelman; Meadowg
Mill Co., R. G. Finley.
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Wilkes Coanty i
Firm Bureau Is
To Have Meeting
It vu announced today by
James M. Pardue, president of
the Wilkes County Farm Bureau,
that a meeting will be held Friday
night, October 24, at the
Honda High School Building from
7:30 to 8:30 p. m. All members
are requested to attend in order
that new officers may be elected
and, fell farmers are invited
to attend as the meeting is
open. ,
speaker of the evening
Flake Shaw, of Greensa
farmer most everybody
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Miss Templenton In
New Position After
12 Years In Office
Of Register Deeds
Miss Audrey Templeton, for
more than 12 years employed In
the office of Register of Deeds
of Wilkes county, resigned there
to accept a position In the office
of Dr. J. S. Deans. Miss Templeton
assumed her new position
Monday.
Miss Templeton served as the
very capable assistant to four
who held the office of Register
of Deeds. They were the late 0.
F. Bller, Oid Wilfes, C. C. Sldden
and Troy C. Foster, present register
of deeds. In that capacity
Miss Templeton served the public
well and made numerous
frieiyjlg throughout this part of
the state.
Musical Program
First Methodist
Under direction of Jay J. Anderson,
organist and choir director,
the junior and senior
choirs of the First Methodist
church in this city will present
a musical program at the church
Sunday, October 26, five p. m.
the program will be broadcast
over radio station WILX.
Following is the complete program:
Prelude: Prelude and Fuge in
B-minor, Bach; Call to Worship,
"Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence,"
Old French Carol; Processional,
"All Glory, Laud and
Honor'' (No. 128), Teschner,
Choirs and Congregation; Invocation,
Dr. Gilbert R. Combs;
Anthems — "Still, Still With
Thee," Speaks, Agnes Kenerly,
Robert Morrow, soloists; ''Souls
of the Righteous," Noble; "IFear
Not, O Israel," Spicker, Margaret
Anderson, Richard Johnston,
Robert Morrow, Dewey Minton,
soloists, Senior Choir; "Jesus,
Tender Saviour," Peery, Junior
Choir; Scripture Reading; Hymn,
■'Come, Thou Almighty King"
(No. 2), Giardini, Choirs and
Congregation; Offertory; Offertory
Response.
"We Give Thee But Thfne Own,
What'e'er the Gift May Be;
All that We Have is Thine Alone,
A Trust, O Lord, From Thee";
Anthems—"Fierce Was the Wild
Billow," Noble, Senior Choir;
"Prayer," Humperdinck, Junior
Choir; "Ye Watchers and Ye
Holy Ones," Gelstliche Kirchengesang,
Junior and Senior Choirs;
"I Walked Today Where Jesus
Walked," O'Hara; "Hark, Hark,
My Soul," Shelley; Senior Choir,
Mrs. C. T. Doughton, Jo Lassiter,
soloists; Benediction; Response,
"The Lord Bless You and Keep
You," Lutkin; Postlude, "Toccata
and Fugue in D Minor,"
Bach.
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Wake Forest Alumni
Dinner Be Tuesday
Jadge Johnson J. Hayes will
be host to alnmni of Wake Forest
college at a dinner meeting
to be held Tuesday evening,
seven o'clock, at John Brown's
White Pine Farm.
Future development of Wake
Forest College at Wlnston-fialem
will be explained and a field
director from the college will be
at the meeting. All Wake Forest
Alamnl have a cordial invitation
to attend. . \
Dickson Heads
WHkes County
UnitVLC. L A.
Wilkes Teachers Hold Successful
Meeting In Wilkesboro
Saturday
Zeb Dickson, member of the
Wilkesboro high school faculty,
was elected president of the
Wilkes county unit of 'the North
Carolina Education Association
at the first meeting of teachers
of the Wilkes county school system
held Saturday in Wilkesboro.
Mrs. Mable Smithey, of the
Mountain View faculty, was
elected vice preident and Miss
Lucille Scroggs, of the Wilkesboro
faculty, wa» named secretary.
The program for the meeting,
which was attended by most of
the 259 teachers In the county
system, was on the topic of
''Public School Music", and was
led by Miss Virginia Wary, head
of the music department of Appalachian
Teachers College,
Boone. Miss Wary was assisted
by another member of the college
faculty, who gave a demonstration
in teaching public school
music.
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Blood Bank Needs j
To Be Made Large
By I/CCY Ij. FTNTjET
(Chairman of Committee from D.
A. R.)
Many of us can not repay our
Wilkes Hospital and Its fine staff
of doctors and nurses foV the
things done for. us there, that
are never put on our bills. All
of us would like to. Some of us
can—here's how. The hospital
"Blood Bank" has become very
much depleted because the use
of Plasma in modern medicine
is a must, and at least 75 per
cent of the plasma used in our
hospital goes to charity patients
who can not afford to buy it.
During tlme8 of war, flood, or
other great disasters we offer
our blood for the relief of the
stricken, but in normal times we
too often put it off, or forget it
altogether. Can we afford to be
lees of a patriot in times of
peace, than we were in war
times, when our own hospital,
our own citizens need Just what
we can give them? The Rendez|
vous Mountain Chapter of the
Daughters of the American Revolution
urges all of you who can,
and will, to make an appointment
with Misg Stevenson at the
Wilkes Hospital, to give some
of your blood to increase the
small supply they now have. It
Is not necessary to be typed, and
your contribution may save a
life.
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LAUREL SPRINGS
YOUTH KILLED IN
WAR RITES TODAY
Military funeral service was
held today at Laurel Fork Presbyterian
church a t Laurel
Springs for Cpl. Johnny Re* Cox,
who was killed July 16, 1945,
while in service in the marine
oorps in the Pacific.
Cpl. Oox was a son of Mr. and
Mrs. John G. Cox, of Laurel
Springs. He is survived by his
parents, four (brothers and two
sisters.
John E. Parsons
Killed When Hit
By Car Tuesday
Stepped Into Moving Car
On Highway 16 Near
WUbar; Unavoidable
John E. Parsons, 58-year-old
resident of the Wilbar community,
died at the Wilkes hospital
Wednesday morning from injuries
received when he stepped into
the side of a moving automobile
on highway 16 near his home
Tuesday evening.
Coroner I. M. Myers .investigated
the accident and termed
the death accidental. No charges
were preferred against Odell
Dollar, of Smethport, Ashe county,
who was driving the car. Coroner
Myers said that Parsons
alighted from a bus and stepped
into the highway into the Bide
of Dollar's car. The car driver
tried to dodge the man but he
was hit by the side of the car.
Funeral service was held today,
11 a. m., at White Oak
church with Rev. Allen Staley In
charge of the service.
Mr. Parsons was a son of the
late Alexander and Elizabeth
Holloway Parsons. He was not
married and the only surviving
member of his family is one brother,
Cleve Parsons, of Sparta.
Hospital Births
The following births were reported
at the Wilkes hospital
during the week: Born, to Mr.
and Mrs. Auburn A. Parsons, of
Millers Creek, a daughter, Christine
Yvonne, October 18; Mr.
and Mrs. Lonzo W. Davis, of
Pores Knob, daughter, October
16; Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Ford
Call, of Wilkesboro route 2,
daughter, Brenda Carol, October
18; Mr. and Mrs. Robert C.
Wood, of North Wilkesboro route
one, daughter, Dianne
October 18; Mr.
Henry St
er,. son,
Mrvwnd Mrs.
North Wilkesboro route one, a
eon, Jerry Thomas; Octobers 19;
Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Hfrover
White, of North Wilkeiboro,
daughter, October 20; Mr. and
Mrs. Virgil Ray Handy, of Hays,
son; October 21; Mr. and Mrs.
William H. Benge, of Wilkesboro
route two, son, Robert Lee,1
October 21; Mr. and Mrs. William
Leonard Walsh, of Boomer,
daughter, October 22; Mr. and
Mrs. Cleo Golden, of Millers
Creek, son, Bill Monroe, October
'23.
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Two Badly Hurt In
Crash May Recover
Roy Mathis, of Roaring River,
and Fred Johnson, of Hamptonville,
who were badly injured
when Johnson's car ran off highway
421 and struck a tree ten
miles east of here Tuesday of
last week, are improving at the
Wilkes hospital and may recover.
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Benefit Card Party
At Moravian Falls
A benefit card party will be
held at Moravian Falls Community
House Saturday night,
October 25, 7:30, for the benefit
of the Community House improvement
fund. Prizes will be
donated in brdige, rook and setback.
Everybody is invited.
FOOTBALL!
Wilkewboro Ramblers vem*
Mills Home—Memorial Park
tonight, eight o'clock; broad..cast
qver station W1LX,. be-.,
ginning 7:55.
North Wilkesboro Mountain
Lions versus Klkin Elks—at
Elkln Friday night, eight o•
clock; broadcast over station
WIAiX, beginning 7:55.
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Chamber Body
PI an Progress
Good Reports From Com'
mittees Discussed by Directors
On Tuesday
Directors of the Wilkes Chamber
of Commerce in October
meeting with Tom Jenrette, secretary-manager,
planned a number
of progressive activities.
The directors voted to sponsor
projects as recommended by
the Agricultural committee on
forestry development, including
forestry field day, tree planting,
timber thinning contest and field
day for Bawmill operators.
The Civic Affairs and Recreation
committee made an excellent
report relative to the development
of Memorial Park for
athletic purposes.
The Fire Prevention report
was given by Mr. Jenrette. The
report showed that the chamber
bad been very active during Fire
Prevention Week.
It was recommended that a
committee be named to work
with President J. B. Williams on
efforts to have the highway from
Hays to Trapbill improved and
paved.
The Trade Promotion committee
report disclosed plans for the
holiday season, Including extended
area of Christimas lighting
for the streets.
The chamber purchased an air"rtatkH
tics and gives location of CAA
districts and offices. All are welcome
to refer to the directory,
which will be kept at the chamber
office om Ninth street. The
directors also agreed that the
chamber would furnish local
news items for the "Air Age
News."
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Teen Age Music
Club Is Organized
The Teen-age Music Club met
and organized Monday evening
at 8:00 o'clock at the home of
Dot Shell on C Street. Present
at the meeting were thirty-five
teen-age boys and girls. Officers
were elected as follows: Dot
Shell, president; Paul McGinnis,
vice president; Mary Anne Casey,
secretary-treasurer; program
chairman is Agnes Kenerly; and
the program committee is made
up of Corinna Finley, Margaret
Anderson, Francis Harris and
Deanie Gaddy. Plans were made
to hold meetings every other
Monday night, and programs
will be on all types of music from
Boogie to Bach.
Following the business meeting,
refreshments were served by
the hostess and her aunt, Mrs.
R. H. Shell.
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SUPPORT THE Y. M C. A.
VACCINATION FOR DIPHTHERIA IS
REQUIRED OF CHILDREN IN STATE
By DR. A* J. "FjTjTjKK
("Wilkes Health Officer)
To our friends, the general
public, The Wilkes County
Health Department and Board of
Health desires to state that:
Despite the existence of a law
which, if Jit had been adequately
enforced nad oberved since its
passage in 1939, could have eradicated
diphtheria In North Carolina
by this time; and Respite
repeated * warnings by public
health officials, both State and
local, a situation exists at the
present time which is anything
but encouraging. We have a case
of diphtheria in the county at
this time.
The situation In North Carolina
now has become so acute,
that the state epidemiologist has
launched a series of intensive appeals
to parents to have their
young children immunized without
delay, in cases where they
have not been immunized, and
booster shots in cases where children
were first Immunized as far
back as two years ago. In many
counties, local health officers
have set up the machinery for intensive
immunization programs,
but unless there is cooperation
on the part of parents and—or
—guardians, these appeals and
these immunization programs
will not accomplish the desired
results. Hence we earnestly beg
you to cooperate with us. By doing
bo we can drive this horrible
crlppler and killer of children
from our good and beautiful
county.
The law passed in 1939 states
that any parent who fails to have
his child mimunized against
diphtheria between the ages of 6
and 12 months has committed a
misdemeanor and 1b liable of
punishment of $50 fine or jlO
days in jail. We know that the
vaccination against diphtheria
will prevent the disease—now if
the parent of guardian of any
child failB to have his child vaccinated
or Immunized and that
.child should contract diphtheria
someone is responsible for such
sickness and violation of the
State Law.
Body Returned
PFC. HUGH M. GAMBILL
Pfc. Gambill Is
Dead To Arrive
Funeral Service Will Be
Held At Mt. Pisgah
Church at Dockery
Remains of Pfc. Hugh M. Gambill,
first of Wilkes war dead to
arrive home, will he interred at
Mount Pisgah church cemetery
at Dockery Sunday afternoon
following a funeral service to be
held at the church at two p. m.
Pfc. Gambill, son of Mr. and
Mts. Walter W. Gambill, of Dockery,
was one among the first
who left from Wilkes to fight in
World War H. He was assigned
to the army infantry and was
fatally wounded on February 3,
1944, at KWajalein, Marshall Islands.
Two days later he died.
The members of Pfc. Gambill's
immediate family are his father
and mother and the following
brothers and sisters: Cleve Gambill,
Traphill; W. S., Earl J.,
2>
L. Garwood, Winston - Salem;
Mary Nell, Martha Sue, Betty
Lou and Doris Gambill, all of
Dockery.
Rev. Watt M, Cooper, First
Presbyterian pastor here who
served during the war as a naval
chaplain in the Pacific, will
conduct the funeral rites. A military
detachment will carry out
military rites at the cemetery.
Girl Scout Week
Observance Will
Begin October 26
All Girl Scouts Asked to Attend
Wilkesboro Methodist
Service
Girl Scout Week begins Sunday,
October 26th, with church
service at the Wilkesboro Methodist
church.
All scouts are asked to be at
the church In uniform at 10:45.
Scout week is in observance of
the birthday on October 31st ot
the organization's founder, Juliette
Low. All the Girl Scouts
are requested to wear as much
as possible their scout uniforms
during the week and in other
ways show their awareness of
what their organization stands
for.
Valuable Property
At Auction Oct. 25
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One hundred homesites near
Mulberry school and Baptist
Home church north of this city
will be sold at auction Saturday,
October 25, 1:30 p. m., by Williams-Clark
Land Auction company.
This property, well located,
is a part of the C. M. Elledge
farm and is currently owned by
M. C. Woodie. P. E. Dancy Is
selling agent for the sale and
he or Mr. Woodie will gladly give
any Information desired.
' This sale represents a splendid
opportunity to purchase excellent
home sites at the purchaser's
own price. Free prizes,
including a $50 bill, will be given
away at the sale.
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Revival Services At
Gospel Tabernacle
Revival services are In progress
at the gospel tabernacle
near Coble's Dairy on highway
268 in Wilkesboro. Services are
held each evening, 7:15, with
Evangelist Rufus Mitchell, of
Anderson, S. C., In chargp. Everybody
it invited to attend.
Scout Fund Drive
Is Well Under
Way In County
$4,000 Budget To Finance
Boy and Girl Scout Programs
To Be Raised
Campaign to raise $4,000 in
Wilkes county to finance the Boy
and Girl Scout programs during
the coming year is now well under
way.
Boy Scout budget for the Old
Hickory council composed of several
districts total $30,500, of
which the Forsyth district will
raise $20,000. The remainder Is
apportioned among the districts
as follows: Surry, $3,000; Elkin,
$2,500; Wilkes, $2,000; Watauga,
$1,000; Ashe, $1,000; Stokes,
$1,000.
The Wilkes district receives
the services of the paid field
worker ten full days each month,
the time being devoted to developing
and promoting Scouting
In Wilkes county.
The Girl Scout organisation-"
has a definite program of expansion
of troops and activities during
the coming year and will use
their $2,000 of the $4,000 fund
in Wilkes most advantageously.
It is expected that the campaign
will receive splendid response and
that the quota will be ready in a
short time. Various workers have
been assigned different terri-'
torles for the solicitation campaign.
Solicitors are urged to complete
their task as early as possible
and to make their reports
to R. E. Gibbs, chairman of ths
campaign.
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Marriage License
License to wed were issued
since the last published report
by Troy C. Foster, Wilkes register
of deeds, to the following:
Roy C. Taylor and Louise L.
Payne, both of West JefferBon;
J. T. Mathis and Louise Love,
rSnow, Tnurmona," ana joSepnWw
Thompson, El kin; Charles Lentz,
North Wilkesboro route two,
and Bessie Cole, Roaring River;
Robert E. Lee Wellborn and Beatrice
Weatherman, both of Elkin;
Everette Jones, North Wilkesboro
route one, and Pauline
Smith, Lenoir; Earl Miller and
Marion Craven, both of North
Wilkesboro; Norris Huffman and
Virginia Eller, both of Purlear;
Theodore Hall Rainey and Vergie
Lyda Brookshire, both of
Lenoir; Joe Edworth Day and
Marie Pardue, both of Elkin;
Earl Bumgarner, Millers Creek,
and Mozella Faw, Wilkesboro
route two; Clyde Miller and
Ruby Jean Cox, both of Wilkesboro;
both of Wilkesboro; Harrison
Faw and Dare Miller, both
of Wilkesboro.
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Troop 36 On Air
Boy Scout troop number 3#
presented a radio program over
station WKBC Wednesday afternoon.
The Scouts gave a skit entitled
"Our Troop and Tour
Town."
Gordon Forester is Scoutmaster
for the troop and members
participating were Bill Bason,
Jimmy Carter, Gordon Finley,
Jr., J. C. Hayes, Lewis Nelson,
Jr., Wayne Pardue, Jimmie
Shook, Carl Swofford, Pete Reins,
Johnny Winkler, Jerry Day,
Smith Hudson and Bobby Brame.
The broadcast received many
favorable comments.
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Harvest Festival
Wilkesboro High
Sophomore Class Plans Big
Hallowe'en Party on Friday
Night, Oct. 31
Sophomore class of Wilkesboro
high school will sponsor a harvest
festival at the school on
Friday night, October 31, 6:80
to 11 p. m., with all proceeds going
to the gymnasium fund.
A good time for everybody attending
is assured with the list
of events as follows: men's beauty
pageant, ugly man contest,
cake walks, dancing, auction
sale, house of horrors, fortune
telling, games, Hallowe'en specialties,
costume parade, and refreshments.
Crowning of the king and
queen of the harvest festival will
be a climaxing event.
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UNION LODGE MEETING
Union lodge number 8S1, 1.
O. O. P., will meet Saturday,
7:30 p. m., for work in the initiatory
degree. All members are
requested to attend.