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■ m. Vol. 42, No. 55 eg Y. M. C. A. is raisa building fund for the tion of a modern Y. M C. A. plant Support it.* ■■■■■■■■ OUR CITY '■ For Over 41 Years Published MondayTDid Thursdays NORTH WILKESBORO. W. cTfhursday, Nov. 6, 1947" North Willcesboro trading radius of 50 serving 100,000 people in Northwestern Carolina. 5r Make North Wilkesboro Your Shopping Center WINNERS IN HARVEST FESTIVAL Here are photos of the winners in the contests at tSbe narvest Festival held at Wilkesboro school Hallowe'en night. In the top scene are the king and queen of the festival—Malcolm G&mbill, son of Attorney and Mrs. Robert M. Gambill, and Miss Joyce Webster, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Webster. Below are winners in the masquerade contest. Miss Unalee Richardson, left, faculty member, won as the lady . best dressed as a man. In center is William T. Long, principal, wbo took top honors for male in female dress, while Alvin Sturdivant, right, was a close second. The festival netted $689.46 for the school gymnasium fund. Williamson W9I Be County Agent Of Yadkin County Assistant County Agent In Wilkes Resigns To Take Better Position 0p|>wlght D. Williamson, assistant farm agent in Wilkes county since March 1, 1946, has resigned his position to become county agent of Yadkin county. Mr. Williamson said today that he will assume his duties in Yadkin county December 1. He is a graduate of Mississippi State college in the class of 1942. He taught, vocational agriculture for 14 months, and served in the navy two and 6ne-half year. After naval service he began work in Wilkes and made an excellent record in the extension: service. Resignation of Mr. Williamson will leave Wilkes without a county agent. R'. D. Smith, county •agent, has resigned to become assistant manager of Klondyke Far** near Elkin January 1. Ho^frer. it is expected that a county agent will be appointed before the end of the year. Legion Meets Tonight We the Legionalres of America Raise our voices loud in song Loyalty and praises to our country I8 our prayer the whole day long Comrades, Auxiliary, Veterans of our nation With them side bj side we serve To keep the world free and equal Nation's fights and Liberty preserved. There will be a meetipg of the Legion »t the Legion of 6th Street Thursday, r «th, at 8 p. m. / All and honorably dlschargjxs urged to be present. a social. rather than a eetlng. Refreshments * *.j 7 ' Jack Badgett Has A Broken Ankle Jack Badgett, hard running tailback in the North Wilkesboro Mountain Lions football team since Julius Rousseau was sidelined with a knee injury, is out for the remainder of the season because of a broken ankle sustained in football practice Wednesday afternoon. Latest reports indicate that Rousseau is also out for the remainder of the season. < Coach Howard Bowers said today that Swofford and Hudson will alternate at tailback in the game Friday night against China Grove at Memorial Park here. o • Truck Load Cowsln Accident Monday A truck load of cowb being hauled from Wilkesboro to Elkin Wrecked Monday night on highway 268 three miles east of this city. Claude Walls, driver of the truck; said he was blinded by lights from an approaching vehicle in the fog and he ran off the road on the right. One cow was killed and two others were hurt in the crash. a — Wright Jewelry How Open In Wilkesboro Newest addition to the business district of Wilkesboro 1b the Wright Jewelry Btore, which has opened for business in the building next door to Charlie Howard Grocery. Mr. E. R. Wright is manager of the new business, which will carry a large line of many types of Jewelry and will feature watch repair work. All are invited to visit the new store. o ' ■ Banks To Be Closed Tuesday, Nov. 11th Both banks here will be closed on Tuesday, November 11, which will be Armistice Day and will ba observed as a holi1 oay. ' Union Service In Memory War Dead To BeOn Sunday Churches To Unite In Memorial Service At First Baptist Sunday Night Community Memorial Service In the Armistice season to honor all war dead who fell for the canse of liberty throughout the world will be held Sunday, November 9, 7:30 p." m., at the First Baptist church In North Wikesboro. It will be a union §ervice with the First Baptist, First Methodist and First Presbyterian churches participating, and everybody is invited. The program will open with organ prelude by Miss Marie Eller, followed by call to worship by Dr. John T. Wayland, First Baptist pastor. W. C. Grler will read the roll of honor. of war dead and John Cashion will sing "There Is No Death." Prayer for our country will be led by Rev. Watt M. Cooper, First Presbyterian minister. Dr. Gilbert R. Combs, First Methodist minister, will be the speaker and hi8 subject will be "Let Us Shun the Gods of The Enemy." u ■ Ask Old Minutes Brushy Mountain Baptist Sessions Dr. H. G. Duncan, of Wilkes1>oro, historian of the Brushy Mountain Baptist association, is endeavoring to complete the files of the association and is asking anyone having minutes of the association for any of the following years to contact him: 1873, 1874, 1875, 1886, 1887, 1888, 1889, 1890, 1892, 1894, 1899, 1900, 1902, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1910, 1913, 1914, 1919, 1920, 1938; also minutes of the Lewis Fork association for I860, 1861, 1862, 1864, 1871. Jr., Taken By Death Mrs. Margaret Jottaes Tedder, wife of Everett Tedder, Jr., of Wilkeeboro, died Wednesday afternoon at-the Wilkes hospital following a brief illness. Mrs. Tedder was the daughter of the late W. L. Joines, and Mrs. Joines, of Wilkesboro. Funeral service will be held Friday, three p. m., at Wilkesboro Baptist church and burial will be in Mountain Park cemetery. Mrs. Tedder is survived by her husband, mother, one brother and one sister: Presley Joines, of Wilkesboro; and Mrs. Don Smoot, of Baltimore, Md. ; —- O Mrs. Faw Injured In Auto Accident Mrs. C. C. Faw, Jr., sustained serious injury, including a broken pelvis, when the car in which she and Miss Corinne Faw were riding Monday afternoon skidded on wet pavement and overturned on highway 421 near the Wilkes-Yadkin line. Miss Faw, who was driving, sustained minor injuries. Mrs. Faw is a patient at the Wilkes hospital, where she is improving satisfactorily. FOOTBALL! Tonight, eight o'clock, at Memorial Park — Wilkesboro Ramblers versus Boone. Radio broadcast oVer station WTLX. Friday night, eight o'clock, at Memorial Park—North WUkeeboro Mountain Lions versus China Grow. Radio Inroad* cast over station WILX. ■ u— ;—'—— Buddy Poppy Day Here On Saturday Veterans Of Foreign Wars Auxiliary To Sell Memorial Poppies 8th " . .. Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary -will sell buddy popples here f>n Saturday of this week as an Armistice season memorial in honor of war dead and for the welfare of families' and orphans of deceased veterans. Statement of President In a letter to the national V. P. W. commander President Truman said: "The VFW sale of Buddy Poppies is a worthy reminder that the welfare of veterans and their families is of continuing importance. "Supported by this annual poppy sale, the VFW National' Home at Baton Rapids, Michigan is performing a splendid work in behalf of< the orphaned children of veterans. "The wearing of a Buddy Poppy this year i8 an excellent way to express approval and participation." uocai Aonouiimnoni I The following was prepared and released by the V. F. W. auxiliary here: j "Buddy Poppy Day is an im-; portant day, to every thoughtful j American citizen, ft is the day j when we concentrate our grateful thoughts on those noble men! who crossed the seas to repre- j sent America on the bloody battlefields of two world wars. It is to those men—the ones who made the supreme sacrifice and who did not come back, the ones those who came back unhurt— that we dedicate this Buddy Poppy Day, Saturday. November 8. This is a fftting time, for even now some of our war dead are heing brought home to ub— but so different from when they went away! j. "Buddy Poppies are made by disabled American Veterans as a livelihood and also as a means of passing tedious hours of time. When you wear a Buddy Poppy you help those men who gave their splendid manhood that you might enjoy a full free life. These poppies will be on sale on the city streets all day Saturday November 8th, by members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary. Two troops of girl. scoutB, wearing Buddy Poppy armbands, will assist in the sale and will compete for three cash prizes that will be presented to the ones who sell the most poppies. ''Honor the dead by serving the living." "In Flanders Fields the poppies grow Between the crosses row by row." "Show your, loyalty! Wear s Buddy Poppy!" In Mexico, Missouri, the women of the c hurches recently inaugurated a clean-up campaign Flood Control Advocates Meet 1 In City Tonight Outstanding Authorities To Address Gathering At City Hall Here i i n i i iii ii tr• iy-: ",•} y'. "'1 Some of 'the nation's outstanding authorities on floo'd control will address the flood control meetihg to b« held In the North' Wilkesboro town hall Thursday night, (tonight) beginning at 7:30. % i John E. Justice, Jr., of North WllSes boro, chairman of the Yadkin Valley Flood Control committee, will preside. >- i Flood a control advocates in Wilkes, Surry, Tadkin and Forsyth counties are expected to attend the gathering, which is designed to promote a program of, complete flood control in ths valley, and especially to urge the necessity of' hastening an appropriation for erection of detention dams on the Yadkin and Reddles rivers as, the first step in protection from flood disasters. First item on the program will be the showing of a film, ''Lifeblood of the Land," which was prepared by Carl Q. Krueger, of Asheville, forest supervisor of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Mr. Krueger will show and explain the film. '» :..y. oecona on me program win be Milton Bryant, of the forestry division of the Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. The second discussion leader will be Dr. Charles R. Hursh, of Asheville, who is in charge of the water research management of the southeastern forest experiment station, U. S. Department of Agriculture. He will also present Harvey J. Loughead, who for several years was in charge of flood control on the Patomac river! He is represented as on3 of the best informed men on the subject of flood control m the Yadkin watershed following the disastrous flood in 1940. Representatives of the office of War department engineers, now working out technical data on siteo for the four proposed detention dams on the Tadkin jind Reddies rivers, will be next on the program to explain the engineers' recommendations and progress being made. Two representatives of the National Forest Service will also be on the program, along with H. G. Edwards, of the water facilities division, Soil Conservation service. A large delegation is expected here from Blkin to attend the meeting. Elkin is very much Interested in flood control because the town suffered great damage in the 1940 disaster. Among those expected are Chamber of Commerce officials, farmers,) farm agents, newspapermen, radio station operators, city and county officials, representatives of all civic organizations, forestry men, soil conservatfbn officials, flood control committee members and representatives of any other interested organ' zations in the Yadkin valley. The meeting is open and everybody may attend. o Support the Y. M. C. A. ,,w MEDICAL SOCIETY OFFICERS AT BANQUET HERE"" "" 11WWMHMmmtntnmuu tlere are pictured Medical Society officers at the speakers' table during the eighth district Medical Society meeting in this city Friday. Left to right are: Dr. F. C. Hubbard, of North Wilkesboro, president of the eighth district Society; Mrs. Hubbard} Dr. Frank Sharpe, president of the North Carolina Medical Society; and R. L. McMillan, secretary-treasurer of the State Medical Society. The meeting here was well attended at both afternoon and night sessions.'— (Photo by I Atkinson, Jr.). IWWWWWWMMMmWWWHWWWWWMMWiMWMWWWM APPLE SPECIALIST IN WILKES G|j|g|| - A. H. l'eske, lett, horticulturist at Virginia Polytechnic Institute* Williamsburg, Vs., is shown here with J. B. Williams, center, Wilkes Chamber of Commerce president, and Carl E. VanDeman, freezer locker manager, at the apple storage house of the ABC orchards on tjie Brushies Friday. Prof. Teske addressed the North Wilkesboro Kiwanis club here Friday and stated that this section is not taking full advantage of its opportunities in apple growing and marketing. He m considered one of the nation's outstanding authorities on apple production. '' • «r ^ PS /if-'. A public meeting of all who are interested in enlisting in the National Guard battery here will be held Monday, eight p. m., at the North Wilkesboro town hall, Major Roy Forehand, who has t accepted command of the battery, said today. | He explained that the meeting would also include all who are interested in re-organization of the guard, regardless of whether or not they wished to enlist. Progress has already been made toward securing the $750 fund needed to make changes at the Legion clubhouse so that it will be approved as temporary guard headquarters until an armory can be erected. The town of North Wilkesboro appropriated $250, the town of Wilkesboro gave $100 and a committee will go before the oounty board of commissioners Saturday morning to ask for $250. Frazier Lumber company has agreed to donate the lumber to be used in construction of an arms and ammunition room and whatever other construction is necessary. Major Forehand said that names of persons interested in enlisting will be taken Monday night but that actual enlistment will not >be in progress until the proper military orders are received. Much response has al- » ready been given the call for contributory, or honorary, members. For $25 annually a person may be a contributing member, which has valuable privileges, including lawful excuse from jury duty in the state. Major Forehand said tjiat organization work for the National Guard is receiving good cooperation from officials, the public, newspapers, radio stations and many organizations, particularly the V. F. W. and American Legion. The unit here will be battery C of 112th field artillery batallion of the 30th division. MEN WILL STAGE WEDDING FOR CITY SCHOOL PLAYGROOND FUND All ig in readiness fol- the womanless wedding to he staged Monday and Tuesday nights, eight o'clock, in the North Wilkesboro school auditorium under sponsorship of the Parent-Teacher Association. To keep away from an obnoxious solicitation drive, the P.-T. A. is staging thi3 entertainment event to raise money for the purchase of Bchool playground equipment and playground Improvements which have been sorely needed for years. The sixth, seventh and eighth grades are selling tickets, with room and individual prizes to be awarded. Win. A. Brame is heading the ticket sales downtown and Brame's Drug Store is downtown ticket headquarters. Admission charge is very reasonable when it is considered that the event will take the place of si solicitations campaign The cast of characters for the hilarious event Monday and Tuesday nights is as follows: .Bride, Miss Fannie Pearl Pedigree, Carl Steele; groom, Mr. Jasper Mortimer Buckskin, S. B. Moore; maids of honor, Miss Petunia Tinkle, W. G. Gabriel; Miss Deborah Duckbill, Andy Shook; Miss Tryphine. Tupper, Gilbert Foster. Bridesmaids, M i s B Aurelia Tubbs, Archie Rousseau; Miss Valencene Leghorn, Thurmond Kenerly. Best man, Mr. Augustus Quick, Gilbert Bare; train bearer, Ma»ter Leroy Lushby, Forrest Jones. Ushers: Mr. Lancelot Pry, Harvel Howell r Mr. Bruno Binns, ' Ivey Moore; Mr. Cephas Ketchum, Ray Hoover; Mr. Ambrose Pumbhrey, Bill Sturdivant. Flower girls: Miss Arbutus Trotter, Sam Winters; Miss Girleen Allbright, Max Foster; ring bearer, Percy Blossom, Bill Marlow. { Sojoists: Miss Urania Ballad, Lewis Vickery; Miss Lily Sharp, Dr. G. R. Combs. Preacher, Dr. Abraham Drowsy,' Carl VanDeman; mother of bride. Mrs. Theophilus Pedigree, Ed Caudill; father of bride, Mr. Theophilus Pedigree, Roy Forehand; mother of groom, Mrs. Japper Mortimer Buckskin, Dick Gibbs; father of groom, Mr. Jasper Mortimer Buckskin, Clyde Pearson. Relatives: uncle of bride, Mr. Zeno Grimwig, James Sanges; aunt of bride, Miss Grade Tweedy, Pat Williams; uncle of groom, Mr. • Uriah Sour berry, Paul Cashion; aunt of groom. Miss Hannah Bumble, Dr. John T. Way land; child cousin, Roger Button, Jobs Cashion; -nurse. Primrose Waddle, Scott Kenerly; baby, Perky Winkle, Bill Hardister. ' ■
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