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. M.C. A. JiIkes Y. M. C. A. is rai*. ing a building fund for the erection of a modern Y. M C. A. plant Support it. Kl Vol. 42, No. 63 t. MSm, ■ ffimi The Journal-Patriot Has Blazed the Trail of Progress In the "State of Wilkes" For Over 41 Years Published Mondays and Thursdays M NORTH WILKESBORO, N. C., Thursday, Dec. 4, 1947 ~V North Wilkesboro has a trading radius of 50 miles, serving 100,000 people in Northwestern Carolina. Mate North Wtfkooboro Your ShoppiB Confer Woman Says She Shot Brother-lnLaw For Abuse - • Miss Myrt Woodie In Jail On Chaise of Slaying Tam Miller Monday Miss Myrth Woodie shot and killed her sister's husband, Tam 'Miller, 40-year-old mountain farmer, in the road between their' homes atop the Blue Ridge in i Wilkes county near the WilkesAshe line Monday evening, Sheriff C. G. Poindexter said today. Miss Woodie, clad in blue jeans, Tuesday related to Sheriff Poindexter and Wilkes Coroner I. M. Myers some of the events which she said led tof the shooting. Miller. Miss Woodie said, had been abusing his wife and children and that she had told him Jfltst if he didn't stop she'd stop Htfn. She was also quoted as say- j that Miller had threatened; her life and had made threats against his wife, whom he had beaten repeatedly, she said. She was al80 quoted by officers as | saying that the situation grew worse all the time and that she became so angry Monday evening that she walked down to the I road between the homes and shot Miller in the head. She used a .22 calibre rifle and the bullet 1 entered back of his left ear- He died while on the way to the hospital at West Jefferson. Assisting Sheriff Poindexter and Coroner Myers on the case were Deputy A. H. Holbrook and Constable J. F. Bennett. In jail Miss Miller was charged with murder and date for a hearing has not been set. She had been making her home with her father, George Woodie, and for some time there had been quarrels between her and the man she shot, officers said. Their homes are near the Blue Ridge Parkway in the vicinity of Peak I Creek. Funeral for Miller was held at ial was In Osborne cemetery. Survivors include his wife, the former Miss Annie Woodie; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. K. Miller of Laurel Springs; one daughter, Dorothy Miller of, North Wilkesboro; seven sons, T. C. Miller and Wills Miller, both of Norfolk, Va„ and Charles Miller, Wayne Miller, Elvin Miller, Herman Miller, and Guy| Miller, all of the home. o Ford to Address Baptist Training Mass Meet 8th Rev. Howard J. Ford, former pastor of Wilkesboro Baptist church, and now pastor of First . Baptist church of Elkin, will be Keenest speaker on the program Wmt the Simultaneous Associatlonal Mass Meeting of the Baptist • Training Union of Brushy Mountain Association, to be held in Purlear Baptist church next Monday, December 8, at 7:30 p. m. Outline of entire program Is as follows: Song service. Scripture reading and prayer,] Rev. C. J. Poole. Announcements and recognitions. Special music. _ "Our Accomplishments in 1947 || and Our Training Opportunities In 1948" — Associational Training Union Officers. Address: "Forward With Christ", Rev. J. Howard Ford. Every Baptist in the association is cordially Invited, regardless of whether they belong to a Training Union or not. Church Loyalty • Day Sunday First Baptist, This City Sunday, December 7," will be Church Loyalty Day in the First Baptist church In North WUkeeboro. Church loyalty day Is 1 an annnai event in the church when all members are especially requested to be present to enroll for service and support of their church during the coming year. It is particularly desired that every member of the church be present for the 11 a. m. service. 3 Wilkes Farmers Will Be Named On Soil Committee Six local farmers have been nominated for candidates for Wilkes County Soil Conservation Committee, according to P. IB. Church, supervisor of the TriCreek Soil Conservation District. These men will be voted on In an election to be held the week of December 1 to 6, 1947, as provided by changes made in the State Soil Conservation District law by the last Legislature. The three men receiving the highest number of votes will be elected. The candidates are: W. M. Absher, W. O. Barnett, P. E. Church, V. Bland Martin, H. C. Roberts and Paul Vestal. The Soil Conservation Committee will have the responsibility of representing the people of this county and developing and directing a soil conservation program. The chairman of this committee will represent this county on the Tri-Creek Soil Conservation District Board of Super visors. The committee will set up annual soil conservation goals and with assistance from personnel of agricultural agencies, develop plans for meeting these goals. In short, they will provide a medium, through which any o iTPPfY fyrgapjaatlon. or indivition can Work In reaching the farmers of this county. The candidate receiving the highest number of votes will serve for a period of three years, the next highest a period of two years, and the third highest for one year. Candidates are nominated by submitting a petition to the State Soil Conservation Committee in Raleigh. The signatures of 25 qualified voters residing with the county are necessary to place .a name In nomination. — Womanless Wedding And Beauty Contest At Mtn. View School Edd Dancy gives his daughter, Lemon Watkins, to Boyd Hlggina in a womanless Wedding at Mountain View high school, Friday night, December 5, at 8:00 p. m. Characters are as follows: Dr. Sol men Stumpholler, preacher, Earl Wiles; Miss Pearlle Petunia Snodgrass, bride, Lemon Watkins: Mr. Abraham Sneezy Trumbletor, bridegroom, Boyd Hlgglns; Miss Hanna Dollttle, maid of honor, Larry Emmerson; Mr. Alexander Applebloseom, best man, Garret Mayberry; Miss Merigold Cornshock, flower girl, Eugene Sebastian; Master Tommie Rainwater, train bearer, Roy Franklin; Mrs. George Washington Snodgrass, mother of bride, Glenn Dancy; Mr. George Washington Snodgrass, father of bride, Ed Dancy; Mrs. Abraham Sneezy Trembletoe, mother of groom, Mr. Abraham Sneezy Trembletoe, father of groom, Lester Gentry. After the womanless wedding come and vote on the most delicate and beautiful lady in .t o 'beauty contest. Participants n I TWO GIRLS MISSING FROM HOMES SINCE NOV. 23; SEARCH CONTINUES Relatives and officers are searching for two Wilkes girls who have been missing since Sunday, November 23. Mrs. Thursday Lovette, of Moravian Falls, reported to Sheriff C. 0. Poindexter that , her 15-year-old daughter, Dora Mae Lovette, with Ada Collins, • (iof Millers Creek, disappeared from Sunday school at WilkesJboro November 23 and had not seen since that time, exKpt for one report that they irere .in a car with two soldiers at Moravian Palls on the evening of November 23. Mrs. Lorette said that the Collins girl and her daughter went from their home to a Sunday school service at Gospel Tabernacle in Wilkeaboro and that they disappeared after the service. Dora Mae was described as weighing 115 pounds, with yfllow hair and wearing horn-rimmed glasses. 8he had on a green dress with white stripes, brown checkered scarf with yellow fringe, and red anklets. Ada Collins was described as being 21 years old, blond, and was wearing a brown fur coat. Anyone knowing the location oi either of the girls is asked to communicate with Mrs. Lorette at Moravian Falls or Sheriff C. G. Poindexter at Wilkeaboro. Business College Will Open Soon In Midway Building .. .I « Clevenger College Of Business Administration To Begin Registration 18 , Clevenger College of Business Administration will open classes January 5 on the top floor of the Kyle Hayes building at Midway between North Wilkesboro and Wilkesboro. C. E. Clevenger, who has been connected with business colleges as owner or instructor for the past. 18 years, is establishing the institution. He is owner of Evans College of Commerce in Hickory, vice president of the Southern Vocational Institute in Hickory, which have a total enrollment of more than 500 students. Registration for the new business training institution will begin December 18 in temporary quarters in the office of Sentinel Insurance Agency in North Wilkesboro, where Mrs. J. C. Allen will interview prospective students and accept enrollment applications. I Quarters in the Kyle Hayes building for the Clevenger College of Business Administration are now being remodeled and equipment, including the most modern type of machines, is being installed. The spacious quarters will be made into one of the most modern and attractive business training institutions in the south, Mr. Clevenger said. Latest "teaching methods will be used in all courses. Mr. Clevenger holds a degree from William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va., and haa done graduate work at the University of Virginia and Radford State Teachers College at Radford, Va. In Hickory he has-been very.active in civic and community work. North Wilkesboro high school band will give its winter concert Tuesday night, eight o'clock, in the North Wilkesboro school auditorium. Miss Eva Bingham, director, said today that the full program will be announced later. o Eastern Star Plans Bazaar Here Friday Wilkes chapter number 42, Order of the Eastern Star, will conduct a food bazaar Friday afternoon, one until five o'clock, In the T. J. Frazier office building next door to Liberty Theatre. Cakes, pies and other delicious home, cooked foods will be on sale and all patronage will be appreciated by the local chapter. o The Pearl White Circle of the Wilkesboro Methodist church will have a bazaar and food sale at the Wilkesboro community house tomorrow afternoon,, beginning at 2 o'clock. Fine foods and beautiful fancy work will be on sale. the beauty parade will be the gentlemen of the (Mountain View High school faculty. Admission: children 15c, adults 25c. Register of Deeds Catches Big Coon Troy C. Foster, Wilkes register of deeds, took his dogs on a very successful coon hunt near Traphlll Monday night and caught a 16-pound coon. With Mr. Foster on the hunt were T. R. Bryan, of Wllkesboro, Blaine Sparks and Bert Brown, of Traphlll. Mr. Bryan took charge of the large coon and later enjoyed a sumptuous coon supper. o Part Of Highway 268 Is to Be Let On December 19 State Highway and Public Works Commission on December 19 will receive bids for construction of part of highway 268 west of Wllkesboro. Map of the proposed construction has been posted in the Wilkes courthouse for some time. The new grade will follow closely the old road from the western end of Wllkesboro for a distance of 3.79 miles. The contract will call for grading and bituminous surfacing. J. Gordon Hackett, former highway commissioner, has long been advocating construction of that section of highway and had urged the commission to include it in the lettings this year. — o Shriners Taking Grid Lettermen to Annual Attraction • ■■ ■ Local shriners of the Masonic fraternity will take as their guests to the annual Shrine classic in Charlotte Saturday all football lettermen of the North Wllkesboro and Wllkesboro football squads for this year. The sfeine game is an annual ' raft ed as a tires up with many fine players on both teams. Bill Ludwig, of ^Salisbuiy, 1b coaching the Noiih Carolina team wit® Jack Adams, of Laurens, handling the South Carolina squad. W. J. Caroon organized the movement here to take the lettermen of the two squads to the game and Shriners in the com* m unity' have been cooperating fully ih this tribute to the members of the two highly creditable football teams. —J ° Pvt. Ira Smoot Bites Sunday Pvt. Ira Smoot, who was killed in action in Belgium January 18, 1945, will be burled Sunday afternoon, two o'clock, at Charity church near Traphlll. Pvt. Smoot was a eon of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie S. Smoot, of Traphlll route one. Rev. Grant Cothren and Rev. Charlie Miles will conduct the funeral service and military rites will be carried out under direction of Russell Burchette, with a detachment from the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars in Elkln. o SUPPORT THE Y. M. C. A. Forestry Field Day to Be Held In Wilkes Friday 82 High School Boys To Receive Instructions And Compete For Prizes JJWw° boys^"selected from Wilkes county high schools as the result of a forestry quiz, will gather In Wilkesboro Friday for a forestry field day sponsored »y the Agricultural committee of the Wilkes Chamber of Commerce. Wilkes attained leadership in the state on this type of project last year with a very successful field day and several other counties are carrying out similar! events this year. The Chamber of Commerce here is vitally interested in the subject because, forest products for years have been a great source of income and youth are being encouraged to become engaged in reforestation and timber management. The boys to take part in the field day will compete for a total of $176 Jn cash prizes furnished (by the Chamber of Commerce for a thinning contest and each one participating will be given 1,000 tree seedlings if he has a site for tree planting. With many thousands of trees planted annually through this project, the Chamber of Commerce forsees a substantial amount cf timber In future years resulting directly from the forestry field day. The purpose also ties in with the chamber's continuous fight Cor flood control, reforestation and soil conservation throughout the Yadkin valley. The boys selected for the field day will meet at the Wilkes courthouse at nine a. m. Friday and will be carried by school buses to forests selected for demonstrations. At 1:30 the boys, their instructors and members of the Chamber of Commerce Agricultural committee will be guests of Wilkesboro high school for ffnfrfrA Mfmbers of the commitW :1 Jir stirtltvants Ash* man, W. D. Jester, Tam Hutchison, R. D. Smith, John Leyshon, B. B. Broome, Perry Lowe, W. H. H. Waugh and E. a. Finley. J. B. Williams, president of the chamber, and Tom S. Jenrette, secretary, will also meet with the boys. Seven instructors from the extension srevice and forest service will conduct the field demonstrations and contests ana the afternoon program at Wilkesboro school. o Baptist Home Plans Harvest Sale Dec. 6 Ladles Aid of Baptist Home church will sponsor a harvest sale for the church building fund Saturday night, December 6, eight o'clock, at Mulberry Community Center. Many foods and other products of the harvest season will be sold at auction and everybody is invited. o Legion Square Dance Saturday Is Cancelled The square dance planned for Saturday night at the American Legion clulbhouse has been cancelled tor this week due to conflict with the big Saturday night jamboree to be held at the school auditorium Saturday Two Badly Hurt At Truck and a Lime Spreader Collide Paul Edward Lovette, 16-yearold son of Mr. and Mre. Fred Lovette, of North Wilkesboro route one, was critically, If not fatally, Injured Tuesday evening when a lime spreader which he was driving along Mountain View highway was hit (by a bakery truck driven by Dewey Templeton, of North Wilkesboro.' Mr. Templeton was also badly hurt with a broken left leg, shoulder fracture and cuts on his .right foot. Both are patients at the Wilkes hospital. x The Lovette youth's condition was described as critical. Ke had a fractured pelvis, skull fracture and internal injuries. o ;—s 'Teen Age Center WHI Be Operated Two Nights Week Board Of Directors Find Over 600 Students Wanting Center to Open Board of directors of Wilkes 'Teen Age Center in session here this week voted to re-open the center In the V. F. W. hall on C street as early a8 arrangements can be made. Decisions of the directors were based upon tabulations of Information gained iby a questionnaire filled out by North Wilkesboro and Wilkesboro high school students. The questionnaires showed that 60S high school students wanted the center to operate, and In order to accomodate a greater number it was decided that the center will be open on Friday and Saturday nights each week. Friday night will be for 13 and 14 year old groups, with 16 through 19 on Saturday nights. Those age 15 may Join either, but not both, groups. Directors present for the meeting were Cecil Adamson, J, B. *Sarfcer, Mss. Robert S. Gibba, Paul Osborne, Mrs. Lawrence Miller, Mra. Mary Moore Hix, D. E. Elledge, Page Choate, Mrs. R. G. Finley, Ivey Moore, Mrs. Sam Vickery, J. Floyd Woodward, C. B. Eller, Shoun Kerbaugh and Tom Jenrette. Cecil Adameon, chairman, presided. The directors suggested a budget of $1,200 for the year and organizatlbns will be contacted for contributions. Shoun Kerbaugh and Bill Lee were employed as paid directors. Because of the need for funds and the expressed willingness on the part of youth to pay a small membership fee, t^e fee was Bet at 50 cents each. A Junior board of directors composed of memibers will be set up. 1 The questionnaire showed that square dancing is the most desired of 16 suggested activities, with film showing, special holiday programs, talent shows and table games also very popular. Opening date for the center will be announced soon. Directors are hoping -that the center may be open at least one week before the holidays. o For safety, disconnect electric appliances as soon aa you finish using them. 3 Major Trills ] Are Calendared For Deo. Session Court Will Convene In Wilkesboro Monday, December 8, For 2 Week* Trial of Hugh West for abortion manslaughter of Mlas Pearl Jenkins, of Winston-®alem, near this city In August has been calendared for the December term of court beginning Monday, December 8, Solicitor Avalon B. Hall, of Yadkinville, said here Friday. J| Solicitor Hall said that he did not know now whether, or not West will be able to stand trial but that the case was being calendared for Tuesday, December 16. West lost a leg In a motorcycle collision several weeks age and his case was continued after being calendared In the November tprm of Wilkes court. On the calendar for the first week of the December term are two homicjde cases. Cling Minton, Boomer storekeeper who was convicted of seoond degree murder and sentenced to 12 to 15 years for the fatal shooting of Atwell Wilson Parson8 on December 7 • last year, was given a new trial by the Supreme court. Johnny COrrell, a tavern keeper near Lenoir, will be tried again for shooting Charles C. Baker at Club 40 and 8 near here last December. On a manslaughter verdict he was sentenced to from thi#B to seven years and won a new trial through appeal. The high court's decisions in the two cases were not certified back to Wilkes In time for trial in the November term and both were continued. Judge John H. Clement, of Winston-Salem, will preside over « the December term, which will hav*3 a docket of about 200 cases. With excentlon of the West, Minton and Correll trials, there will be but few defendants charged with major crimes. Bill Crais to Play In Optimist Bowl Another member of the Wilkesboro high school's Rambler football team has been invited to play In the Optimist Bowl football game at High Point on Saturday, December 13th. He is Bill Craig, first string right end, who played a fine, consistent game throughout the Ramblers 1947 season. Bill Whlttington, Rambler quarterback and splendid punter, has also been invited to be a> member of the all-etar western team which will meet the all-star eastern team In High Point in the Optimist Club's benefit contest. Both Whlttington and Craig are expected to leave Monday for pre-game training. Mrs. R. G. Fluley has returned to her home here following a two weeks visit In New York City, and in Washington, D. C. as a guest of Mrs. Alfred Brand, and in Baltimore, Md., as a guest of Mrs. Boyd Spiller. Mrs. Finley was accompanied on the trip by Mrs. Sam McDonald, of Charlotte. Good1 Program For Jamboree FOUR HILL BILLY GROUPS, TOP AMATEUR SINGERS AND OTHER FEATURES FOR JAMBOREE SHOW SATURDAY NIGHT FOR PARK FUND Plans were completed today for the Inauguration of a Saturday night jamboree Saturday night, December 6, eight untU ten P. m., in the North Wilkesboro school auditorium for the benefit of the Memorial Park fund. The foig jamboree will bring together for a two hour show four of the best known hill billy bands in northwestern North Carolina, and which are heard regularly over radio stations WKBC and WILX at North Wilkesboro.' Jimmie Childress, radio singer and song writer who is heard each Sunday afternoon, 2:45, over WKBC, will be master of ceremonies and has organized the show. The hill billy band groups are Carolina Pals, Carolina Plowboys, Yadkin Valley Boys and Wilkes Entertainers. To give the show variety Dot Gabriel au i Jamie Clark will sing popular I music. Bean Minton, soloist, will participate, and Mr. Childress will sing, accompanied at the piano .by Mrs. Joyce Clark. An added attraction will be nine-year-old Buddy Triple#, highly talented pianist, in classical renditions. Many Prizes Offered Among those attending the big jamboree will be those who will be awarded several valuable prizes given by North Wilfresboro merchants. Jenkins Hardware company has given a large pocket knife, and a set of four pots and pans. B. F. Goodrich store has given a set of Pyrex cooking ware and Steele's Jewelry has given a beautiful sterling silver bracelet. Bobby's army store has given two army or navy blanket^ which will ibe given to the family with the greatest number of members present at the show. The pots and pans will go to the most recently married couple present, while the coding set will he carried away by the couple who traveled fartherest to reach the jamboree. The oldest man present will get the knife and the bracelet will go to a 'teen age miss to be selected at the show. Tickets are now on sale at 30 and 25 cents each at Brame's Drug store and advance ticket purchase le advisable. Doors to the auditorium will open at 7:30 and all are asked to go early who want to be sure of getting a seat for the show, which will start exactly at eight o'clock. Radio station WILX will carry the show on the air from the auditorium stage. Many have expressed desire for the inauguration of the jamboree type of show here, which will be similar to the Grand Ole Opry, Carolina Hay Ride and other famous Bhows. There Is ample talent in the community for regularly scheduled jamborees if public response is as great ag anticipated. i* HIGHLAND ATHLETIC CONFERENCE FORMED HERE WEDNESDAY NIGHT On Wednesday night, Dec. 3, a new athletic conference w»b formed to be known as the "Highland Athletic Conference," W. T. Long, supervisory principal of the Wilkesboro school was elected president of the conference and R. W. Starnes, principal of Granite Falls school was elected secretary-treasurer. The following other persons were electas memlbers of the Conference ecutive Committee: Supt. N. H. Carpenter of Elkin, Coach Jimmy Miller of Jonesville, and Coach Eddie Adelman of Wilkesboro. Schools having the following representatives became charter members of the conference: Wilkesboro, Principal W. T. Long and Coach Eddie Adelman; Elkin, Supt. N. H. Carpenter and Coach George Watts; Jonesville, Principal A. W. Deal and Coach Jimmy Miller; Sparta, Principal R. H. Walker and Coach J. B. Reed; Taylorsville, Coach G. R. Rogers; Granite Falls, Principal R. W. Starnes and Coach Max Deal; Appalachian, Coach Quincy; Valdese, Principal C. B. Honeycntt and Coach Burton K. Barger; Maiden, Principal D. C. Mosteller and Coach Maurice Given. Rules and regulations were adopted and definite plans and schedule made tor the 1948 football season. A message was delivered from the North Piedmont Conference asking that an Annual Bowl Game be established between the winners of the Highland and the North Piedmont Conferenqp. This matter was referred to the executive committee for consideration. The conference rules follow very closely the rules of the N. t!. High School Athletic Association except a definite rule was adopted prohibiting any student from playing who becomes twenty (20) year8 aS» prior to October 1st of the participating year. The following games have been scheduled for 1948 by Wllkesboro school and the schedule is expected to be complete within a few days: Sept. 17, open; Sept. 24, Maiden here; Oet. 1, Granite Falls there; Oct. 8, Valdese here; Oct. 15, open; Oct. 22, EM kin (place not decided); Oct 29, Joneeville here; Nov. 6, Appalachian there; Nor. 12, open; Nov. 19, North Wllkesboro.