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Y. M. C. A. is rafea building fund for the tion of a modern Y. M A. plant. Support it. • Mi North Wilkesboro has a trading radius of 50 miles, <s serving 100,*000 people in The Journal-Patriot Has Blazed the Trail of Progress In the "State of Wilkes" For Over 41 Years Northwestern Carolina. ■■ ■" - - Vol. 42, No. 57 Published Mondays and Thursdays NORTH WILKESBORO. N. C, Thursday, Nov 1 ' * ']*■ Main North Wttkfttooro Your Shopping Carter Hope Is Held Marvin C AmI R. V. Litteral j»d To Die In Gaa Chamber at Raleigh Friday For Rape of Girl Raleigh, Not. 10.—Little hope Intervention was held today ! tor three men convicted of [criminal assault, two of them white youths, -who are scheduled to die .Friday in the gas chamber. The three, Ralph Vernon Litteral and Marvin Claude Bell, white, and Willie Little, Negro, already have been interviewed several times by officials of the paroles office, who make their recommendations to Governor Cherry. -»■ Litteral and Bell were convicted in Wilkes county of forcing a teen-age Sunday school worker iafptheir car and criminally as*HM|g her several times on a wil<?\ all-night ride. Litteral also allegedly forced her to commit an unnatural sex act, and cut her thigh with a knife. Bell, several hours before his | scheduled execution a short time f ago, succeeded in gaining a stay from Chief Justice W. P. Stacy , of the North Carolina Supreme Court pending the filing of an appeal to the United States Su| preme Court. The land's highest ! court declined to intervene. ! Pending Bell's legal maneuver, Governor Cherry' granted Litteri al a stay, holding that if both i men died, they should die togethi er. Litteral has been given another psychiatric examination but the report has not been received by the paroles office. Little allegedly criminally assaulted a Wake county white woman shortly after he escaped from a prison camp. Mrs. Odell Shumate Is Claimed By Death rs. Ada Eller Shumate, wie1t~§huma{eT died'!^ 5. She was born September 1,. 1912, and on April 4, I 1931, was married to Odell Shu| mate. Surviving are the husband and [ four children: Travis Lee, DelI la Mae, Media Jane and Virginia Dare Shumate, all of North | Wilkesboro route one. o SUPPORT »HE Y. to C. A. Square Dance And Harvest Sale For Gym Fund Nov. 25 Ninth grade of Wilkes bo ro school will sponsor a Square dance and harvest sale to be : held Tuesday night, November 25, for the school gymnasium i fund. More detailed announce" 1 ments will appear later. — O 1 Many Cases Are I Tried In Special Term of Court I The special term of Wilkes superior conrt in session - since Moiftlay morning of last week was expected to close today after disposing of many minor cases. Following are cases in which judgments were reached since the last published report: Rex Hawkins, housebreaking ! an<f> larceny, verdict of guilty; sentence not passed. I Walter Pruitt, larceny of car, ! six months suspended on payment of costs and $75 to Theopolis Tale. Weldon Royal, manslaughter, i dismissed. George H. Smoak, operating car while > Intoxicated, four months suspended on payment of $50 fine and costs. Warren Queen, abandonment, 12 months suspended on payment of $15 monthly to Foda , Queen. Glenn Pierce, reckless driving, l dismissed. Tyra Taylor, embezzlement, four months suspended on payment of $76.94 to Clate and Presley Kilby. John Foster, abandonment, 12 months on roads. Ira Hinson, abandonment, 12 months suspended on payment ot $30 monthly for family. Ed Marley, assault with deadly weapon, four months on roads. Herman Dula, assault with deadly weapon, four months on roads. George William Sattprwhite, drunkenness, 30 days suspended on payment of $10 and costs. Ralph Gentry, reckless driving, four months suspended on payment of $400 for Rex Wishon. Emory Lashmit and Floyd R. j Lashmit, resisting officer, four months suspended on payment | of $50 and costs. Alton Absher, hastardy, six I months suspended on payment of $600 for Jean Lambrose. T. C. Bowie, Ashe Political Leader, Dies at Age off 71 West Jefferson. — Thomas (Tam) Contee Bowie, 71, widelyknown Ashe county attorney, banker and political leader for many years, died at 6:30 p. m. yesterday in the Wilkes Hospital at North Wilkesboro, where he had been a patient since Monday. He apparently was in his good health until he became ill Sunday. Death was unexpected. He reportedly was suffering from gall bladder complications. Mr. Bowie, born in Louisiana, moved to Ashe County with his i mother when he was two years old and was one of the founders of West Jefferson. He had practiced law here for many years and during a long political career served nine terms in the North Carolina State Legislature —1909, '11, '13, '15, '21, '23, '25, '33, and *35. He was speaker of the House in 1915. In 1927 he was appointed by Governor McLean as a special Superior Court Judge for this State. He ran for Lieutenant Governor in 1924 and for the U. S. Senate in 1932 but was defeated both times. At~the time of his death, Mr. Bowie was serving as president of the First National Bank, of which he was the founder, in West Jefferson. o Attend Convention Representatives of the First] Baptist church who attended sessions of the State Baptist convention in Winston-Salem this week were Dr. and Mrs. John T. Wayland, Mr. D. E. Elledge, Mesdames T. J. Frazier, W. R. Harmon, A. C. Cb4mberlain, J. G. Chipman, Ray Barnes, Paul Billings, H. L. Keller, 0. D. Bentley, C. E. Jenkins, O. E. Triplett, John Kerbaugh. From Wilkesboco were Rev. and Mrs. W. N. Bi»okshire, Mr. T. B. Story, Mr. J. Jfc, Jordan, and-. Misa M«tfge Lew is. Rev. and Mrs. A. W. Eller, of Wllkesboro route one, were also among the Wilkes people at the convention. _ , Garvey Reynolds, non-support, six months suspended on payment $20 monthly for Elsie Reynolds. I Charlie Williams, Setting out fire, four months on i;qads. ^ • *►- # ti •. Joseph L Vanitoy Dies In Georgia Joseph L. Vannoy, 79, died Wednesday morning at the home of a daughter, Mrs. A. B, Yates, at Adel, Georgia. He had been in Idaho tot many years and was at the home of his daughter on a visit when be was fatally stricken. ' \ . Mr. Vannoy was the father of Worth W. Vannoy, of Cricket; Mack A. Vannoy, of Oxford, Pa.; Mrs. Yates, of Adel, Ga.; Allie and Ocie Vannoy, of Orofino, Idaho. Funeral will be held Friday, one p. m., at Old Fields church near Idlewild in Ashe county. $588.30 Raised At Womanless Wedding Here The Womanless Wedding sponsored by the North Wilkesboro Parent-Teacher Association and presented Monday and Tuesday nights before large audiences netted the sum of I5&8.30. Mrs. Arthur Venable, P.-T. A.j president, todaV thanked all who helped make the two-day event a success, including members of the cast, The JournalPatriot, radio stations WILX and WKBC, City Florists, Mae's School of Beauty Culture, Henderson's Flower Shop, ReinsSturdivant, Wilkes Laundry and all others who gave their valuable assistance. The fpnds will be used for playground improvement and playground equipment at the North Wilkesboro schools. Members of the cast who furnished so much entertainment for the large crowds were: Mrs. Gwyn Gambill, Jay Anderson, Lewis Vickery, Dr. Gilbert It. Combs, Carl VanDeman, Carl Steele, S. B. Moorg, W. G. Gabriel, Gilbert Bare, Forest Jones, Sam Winters, Max Foster, Bill Ma^law, Harvel Howell, Ivey Moore . Ray Hoover, Bill Sturdivant, Andy Shook, Gilbert Foster, Archie < R<waedau, Thurmond K^nerly, Ed Caudfrll, Jimmy Williams, Dick Qlbbs, Clyde Pearson, James gauges, Paul Cashion, Dr. John T. Wayland, H. T. Waller, John Cashion, Scott Kenerly, Bill Hardister, John T. Baity. A— Rev. Glenn Huffman, a well known Baptist minister of the Parsonville community, was a visitor-in this city Wednesday. Thinning Contest To Be Repeated In Wilkes County By JOHN B. FORD (Farm Forester) Due to the outstanding success of last year's timber thinning and timber Stand Improvement Contest for teen-aged boys, the Wilkes Chamber of Commerce, to cooperation with the Agricultural Extension Service, is repeating this project again this year. The Wilkes Chamber of Commerce has again made available one hundred and seventy-five dollars to be used as prizes for the ten boys doing the best job of thinning or otherwise improving one acre of woodlands on the farm where they are living. The following prizes will be awarded; first prize $56, second prize $40, third prize $30, fourth prize $20, fifth prize $10, and five additional prizes of five dollars each. Any boy in Wilkes county 14 to 19 years old is eligible to enter this thinning contest. Complete rules of the contest along with an application blank to enter can be obtained at the County Agent's Office In Wllkesboro. A great many acres of our woodlands In Wilkes county are In need of either thinning or timber stand .Improvement measures to increase the quantity and Quality of the timber being grown. Last year's contest set up a number of excellent demonstration acres, in the various communities around Wilkes County, showing what can be done with our timber if treated as a crop rather than just something to be mined. o * Marriqge License License to wed were issued during the past week by Register of Deeds Troy C. Foster to the following: Genio Smithey and Betty Soots, both of Wilkesboro; Allen • Bauguss and Helen Louise Tilley, both of Winston•Saiem; John L. Miller, Glendale Springs, and Gladys Shepherd, Cricket; Hayden G. Wood, Dobson, and Alma Rosella Stanley, Mountain Park; William Edward Jackson, North Wllkesboro, and Carolyn Johnson, Ronda; Cecil R. Gray&on, North Wllkesboro, and Mary Nell Morrison, Wllkesboro. — o Support the Y. M. Q. A., I «» xrwiiUUf tfUIMIIIH * Hoymeodow Church Stone Mountain Singing Association will convene In Fifth Sonday Singing Sunday, November 30, one p. m., at Maymeadow Baptist church two miles northwest of Hays postofflce. All singers are invited to attend and- take part, J. A. Gilliam, chairman of the association, said in the announcement Baptist Pastors [ To Meet Monday Wilkes County Baptist Pastors Conference will, meet Monday, November 17, ten a. m., at the First Baptist church In North Wilkesboro. Rev. Glenn Huffman will conduct the devotional, which will be followed by a business session. Rev. W. N. Brookshlre will dist cuss "Is Confessing Christ Sufficient for Salvation T" Rev. John Wells will deliver the morning sermon. Rev. Charlie Poole will conduct the afternoon devotional and Dr. John X- Wayland will lead a discussion on "•Has the way of salvation been changed since Christ was here on earth?" o J. W. Culler Dies In Winston-Salem James Willey Culler, 74, of 928 North Liberty Street, Wlnston-Salem, died unexpectedly at his home at 3 p. m. Sunday, following a heart attack. Mr. Culler was born in Wilkes county, October 28, 1873, son of Grover and Frances Bumgarner Culler. He spent most of his life in Wilkes and Caldwell counties, coming here from Lenoir in 1932 after retiring from High* briten Furniture Company, where he had been employed. He was a veteran of the Spanish-American War and a member of First Baptist church of Lenoir. He was married to Miss Minnie Mathis in 1906. She died December 15, 1932. Surviving are one son, James A. Culler of Winston-Salem; four grandchildren; two, brothers, Frank Culler of Maryland and J. E. Culler of Wilkesboro, and one sister, Mrs. Nan Shaner of Winston-Salem. Those attending the funeral and burial services Tuesday in Winston-Salem were Mr. and Mrs. J. E." Culler, Miss Irene Culler, and Mr. Clegg Culler. -- - . . == 38,Examined At i MPIPtSHMvfBNS ■■■Irli n m Eye Clinic NeM ' h Wilte Cw»ly 33 Fitted With Glasses And Frve Are to Undergo Corrective Surgery Charles C, McNeill, superintendent of the Wilkes, county Welfare Department, announced today that another eye clinic had been conducted in Wilke8 county, at which time a 'total of 88 indigent cases were examined. This clinic, which was one of the most successful ever held in the county, was made .possible through- the oo-operation of the County Welfare Department, County Health Department, and the State Commission for the Blind. Of the 38 examined, 15 were children. &n the case of the 15 children, it wag found that they were having considerable eye trouble and that in many of the cases they were behind ill their school, work and, in some instances, having to repeat their grades. All ot the 38 examined were found to be having trouble and a total of 88 were fitted with glasses. A total of five were found to be in need of surgery and - planB are now being made tor this to be done through the State Commission for the Blind. One girl will likely be sent to the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, for transplanting of the cornea. This is considered a very delicate operation and involves transferring the cornea from one per&on'g eye to that of another. This is being done with very satisfactory results at the present time. The clinic was conducted by Dr. Roy A. Stewart, ophthalmologist with the Catawba Gener .1 Hospital, Newton, and Miss Helen Trexler, medical social worker with the State Commission for the Blind. They were assisted by members of the staffB of the Welfare and Health Departments. Mr. McNeill stated that there were many more indigent cases in the county who were in great need of eye care. He pointed out that the State Commission for the Blind was willing to secure a doctor and pay for the examination. However, due to limited funds the Welfare Department was not able to provide glasses for the large number who were in need of this correction. Mountain Lions And Ramblers To Play FridavNiatit Annual Wilkes football classic ■will be renewed Friday nigBt when North Wilkesboro and Wilkesboro meet on Memorial Park field to decide the football championship of Wilkes county. Wilkesboro'* Ramblers will go into the game with an unblemished record, haying won eight d^jptight games this year, and jQp Mountain Lions will endeavor, to break the Ramblers' string ' of victories. North Wilkesboro, playing for the first year in the South Pied mont conference, also has a good record, having won four, lost three and tied one against strong competition. The team has been plagned by injuries this season with Julius Rousseau, Jr., Jack Badgett and Dan Hudson, three tailbacks, out with injuries. Coach Howard Bowers saidtoday that Hudson may be able to do the punting in the game Friday night, but will not be in condition to play Tegularly. He suffered a hip injury Friday night against China Grove and the first report was that he had a fracture. The injury turned out to be pulled muscles.. Badgett Is definitely out with a broken ankle, and Rousseau will not be able to play. Coach Eddie Adelman at Wilkesboro reported his squad in good condition with exception of minor injuries received by reserves in practice this "week and Story, a center, remain8 out of play following a fractured sinus a few weeks ago. He is expecting to start the eleven which have been regular starters all seasoi. Coach Bowers has shifted Steelman from end to tailback and Winters will start at end. Otherwise the starting lineup will be the same as used against China Grove Friday. Extra bleachers have been borrowed from Sparta in anticipation of a crowd of 4,000 to 5,000 people for the big game Friday night. Officials will be Wertz, Winston-Salem, referee; Plaster, Blkin, umpire; Day, Greensboro, field judge; Gibbons, Lenoir, head linesman. Tickets On Sale Admission for the game, which will be a home game for both schools, will be $1 for adults and 50 cents for children. Tickets are being sold by the North Wilkesboro Lions dub and all are urged to secure tickets before going to the grounds in order that the thousands who will see the game may pass through tbe gates rapidly-. Attention is again called, to the fact that the season tickets sold for NoTth Wilkesboro games expired with the fifth game, which was against China Grove Friday, and that the season tickets are not good for the Wllkesboro game. Tickets are now on sale at Brame's Drug Store, Wilkes TJre. Store, Rexall Drug Store, Marlow's Men's Shop, Nick Lawrence at WILX, The Huh, Belk's, Red Cross Pharmacy, City Barber Shop, and Gray Brother* Furniture store. Kickoff will be at 8:00, but all who can are asked to go early in order to avoid congestion of traffic. Two Bands For Game •Mr. and Mrs. George S. Parlier, of Wilkesboro, will sponsor the appearance of the Appalachian high school band from Boone to represent Wilkesboro at the game. The North Wilkesboro high school band will perform at the game, which is expected to have the maximum in gridiron color for a high school contest Here are pictured the North Wilkesboro Mountain Lions (left) and WUkesboro Rambler* it) football squads, who will meet Friday eight o'clock, in the annual Wilkes grid _ at Memorial Park. In the North Wilkespicture, left to right, are: front row, Eddie . Bill Absher, Jack Badgett, G. L. Adams, Davis, Joe Church, Paul McGinn is, Jim Bill Bason (manager); second row, i 1 . . •_,... '.^v-V'_'-.-. '■"•\,.u .w sy--^i. «;&\:r..*\.-->'^<T-£. ' '73 Charles Porter, D. M. Stoker, Jim Hadley, Buddy Forester, Dwight Pardue, Dudley Moore, Jim Day, Jim Winters, Jim Norman (manager); third row, Wade Foster, Julius Rousseau, Jr., Charles (Chip) Caudill, Kenneth Steelman, Dan Hudson* Carl Swofiford, Gordon Finley, Jr., J. S. Soots, Coach Howard Bowers; back row, John Winkler, Bill Bussell, Travis Hutchison, Caswell Brown, Gordon Forester, Jr., Jim Cartfr, Bill Pearson, Worth Ward, Roy Stoker, Gwyn Triplett, Smith Hudson. Ray Church, a manager, was not present when the picture wai made. In the Wilkesboro Ramblers picture (right) are, left to right: first row, Bill Byrd, Johnny Garwood, B. B. Banner, Shelton Prevette, Malcolm Gamhill, Bill Craig, Perry Lowe, Jr., Charlie Vaught (manager); second row, Edgar Terrell, R. H. Parks, Tony Emerson, Don Pardue, Buddy Hubbard, Jack Glatf, Joe Garwood; third rojpr, Joe Brewer, Dan Foster, Pete Glass, Bob Parker, Dan Linney, Sherrill McLain, Jack Groce, Junior Groce (manager); bade row, Bob Story, Ray Triplett, Bill Whittington, BUI Joines, Dale Staley, Harold Dancy, Coach Eddie Adelman, Principal Wm. T. Long. NOTICE—Avoid the Rush—Buy Tickets Now.
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