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Published Mondays and Thursdays at
North Wilkesboro, North C*#oKna
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SUBSCRIPTION RATBS:
One Tear 12.00
(In WilkM and Adjoining Ceantfet)
One Year 13.00
(Outside Wlikes and And Adjoining Cimatim)
Kates To Urose In Service:
One Year (anywhere) 32.00
Entered at t£a a—t office at North
lore, North Carolina, as 8econd*Claaa
Utder Act of fetfdk 4, 1879.
Monday, March 1, 1945
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Community Concerts
Commendable Project
Wilkes Community Concert Association
has been organized here.
This organization enables a community
to obtain noted concert artists that other
wise could not be obtained without great
outlay of money on the part of financial
guarantors.
Under this plan those interested in good
music join the association and pay an an
nual membership fee of five dollars
($2.50 for students). This membership
fee entitled them to admission to a mini
mum of three concerts. Admission to
concert is by membership only and non
members cannot be admitted, even by pay
ing an admission price.
The plan calls for a concerted member
ship drive for one week. The funds are
then used to get the best talent possible
for three concerts.
This plan enables all music lovers to
get what only the wealthy can have with
out organization, and nobody loses in fi
nancial guarantees.
Hospital Proposal Is
A Great Opportunity
Under provisions of the Hill-Burton
measure passed by congress two years
ago, and acts of the last legislature in
North Carolina, great sums may be ob
tained by counties and cities for hospital
construction.
The amount of aid which can be secur
ed is on a per capita basis, and the amount
which Wilkes could receive on a hospital
project is 77.4 per cent of the total cost.
That is a very liberal figure and if the
proposal is what it appears to be Wilkes
should take advantage of the opportunity
offered. ^
It has been proposed by the Health com
mittee. of the Wilkes Chamber of Com
merce that a 100-bed hospital be con
structed. Authorities estimate the .cost of
such a hospital at $1,200,000, which
wpuld include all needed facilities, equip
ment and furnishings. This also means
ample space for doctors' offices, labora
tories and facilities which small, private
ly owned hospitals cannot have.
The total cost is a large sum of money,
but the county's part, which would be
about $271,000, is small in comparison
We believe that the sentiment of the peo
ple would be against a long term bond
issue and that the people would rather
levy the tax and pay it off "in three to five
years. Long term bonds means that you
eventually pay two dollars for every one
you borrow, and there is nothing morally
right m burdening your children with
debts you should pay yourself.
A tax levy of 45 cents on each hundred
dollars valuation would net $270,000 in
three years at the ridiculously low total
valuation now of slightly more than $2i,
000,000 „for Wilkes county. At fifty per
cent of cash market value, it is estimated
that the valuation would be $30,000,000,
and 30 cents would amount to $270,000 in
three years. ^ v
It's Red Cross Tims,
Give Liberally
Today marks the opening of the Red
Cross fund campaign for the year.
It is not necessary for us to go into a
Jong discourse about the merits of the
American Red Cross or the Wilkes county
chapter. The Red Cross is too well known
r—
for that and the American people know
that the Red Cross is always first on the
scene with adequate aid when needed.
Wilkes is called upon to raise $81,151,
and more than half of that amount would
be used here in the county. The quota is
based primarily on the amount of service
the Red Cross renders at home. A recent
report of the Wilkes chapter showed how
well the Red Cross had performed during
the past year and rendered service to
Wilkes people in thousands of instances.
We call this to mind in the event that
any think that all the funds collected in
the fund drive in Wilkes will go to some
far away place.
The only disaster in which we needed
Red Cross help wAs the 1940 flood, and
let it be remembered that the Red Cross
had set up here even before the waters
went down to furnish aid to those who
I had lost their possessions. The Red Cross
didn't wait for the people to be half starv
ed; it was ready with the aid to restore
the flood victims to normalcy.
The Red Cross spent over a million dol
lars last year in the Texas City explosion
and fire disaster. It is the one humanitar
ian organization ready for any emergen
cy. It is ready because you give once
each year the funds to carry on.
This year the Red Cross is going into
the blood center project, which is needed
throughout the country to help suffering
people. It is a new service and one that
will call for expenditure of some funds.
This will be an addition to disaster relief
and the myriads of home services to vet
erans and their families.
Borrowed Commentl
WHAT IS BROTHERHOOD ?
(Greensboro Daily News)
It is well that Brotherhood Week brings
brotherhood to our minds. But brother
hood is more than-a legal-precept embo
died in a bill of rights or an intellectual
conviction v crystalliaed in a creed. It is
rather a feeling of the inestimable worth
of a human being, simply because he is
a human being, which is founded deep in
a man's heart and actuates all his daily
dealings in his fellows. Those who lack
it are not altogether alive.
Those who have expressed it best, their
words have lasted a long time. Tertullian,
for instance, observed that "throughout
the world man is one, though his voice be
various." And Terence said: "I am a man
and so I think that nothing human can be
a matter of indifference to me."
But it is not a blind adulation of human
ity and is quite consistent with cynicism
when one compares what man does with
what he is. Mark Twain, who was once
accused of prejudice, said: "I have no
class prejudice, no race prejudice, no
prejudice of any sort. All I want to know
about a man is that he is a human being.
He couldn't be worse."
The essence of brotherhood lies in lik
ing people because they are people.
• LIFE'S BETTER WAY •
WALTER E. ISENHOUR
Hifh Point, N. C., Route 4
SO MANY PEOPLE LOST
0 I see so many people
That are lost in sin today,
Going far away from Jesus
On the "broad and beaten way,"
Wasting means and precious talents,
With no plan nor aim sublime,
Eking out a mere existence
Here upon the shores of time!
Yes, I see so many people
Living now in sinful gloom,
Going on without a Savior
To an awful, final doom!
They are on our streets and highways,
In our homes and in our schools;
They are found among all classes,
Keeping not our Master's rules;
Held within the grip of Satan,
He will take them to despair,
i If they fail to seek the Savior
Through repentance, faith and prayer.
O dear Christian friend and brother,
[ There is work for you and me,
For the fields are white to harvest, "
As we surely all can see;
Let us then go forth with weeping,
Warning taien to seek the Lord,
If they'd have a home in heaven N
And we'd have a rich reward!
Sipport T. M. €. JL Efforts
Serious Counts
Vance Smoot of the Benham
section is at liberty under bond
of $1,000 on charges of attempt
ed rape and robbery of Irene
White, 20-year-old daughter of
Velt White, who lives between
Elktn and Dobsoa, it was learn
ed today.
According to the story Miss
White told Yadkin county offi
cers, the attempted rape occur
red Sunday morning about 3 o'
clock In the vicinity of Boonyllle.
Miss White said she escaped from
the car In which she and Smoot
were parked and ran to the home
of Efb Gough. No one was at
home, but neighbors were a
wakened by the noise. After
hearing her story, they oalled
Deputy Sheriff F. B. Hurt of
Boonville, who took Miss White
to the Yadkin ville Jail where she
spent, the remainder of the night.
The charge of robbery arose
from the fact that Miss White
left a" pocketbook containing a
bout $7 in csah in the car when
she escaped. H^r shoes were also
left behind.
Smoot was arrested Monday
and plpced In the Yakdinville
jail. He posted bond and Is under
orders to appear before Magis
trate J. E. Martin in Jonesville
on March 10.
Miss White is staying at pres
ent with ah uncle, Cleve Dotson,
in JonesYille.
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Conduct Medals
For Navy Veterans
Good Conduct Medals are now
being issued to all qualified Navy
veterans upon application, ac
cording to the Department of the
Nary.
Navy veterans who meet the
qualifications and have not been
previously issued this award,
should make application to the
Chief of Naval Personnel, At
tention Pers-10, Navy Depart
ment, Washington 25, D. C., stat
nlg name, service number, rate
and dates of enlistment and dls-i
charge.
The eligibility requirements
are:
1. For service, terminating on
or after August 16, 1945—three
years of continuous active service
with no convictions by oourt mar
tial, including deck oourt; not
more than one lesser offense; no
sick misconduct; no mark in
conduct less than 3.0; an aver
age mark in conduct of not less
than 3.8; an a final average of
not les8 than 3.5 In proficiency
in rating. (Under , the Navy sys
tem, 4.0 equals 100 per cent).
2. For service terminating on
or after July 1, 1931 and prior
to August 15, 1945—a clear rec
ord with a final average of 3.5
in proficiency In rating for the
I following service:
(a) First enlistment or minor
ity enlistment, and if extended,
for two year* the last four years
in lien hereof.
(1» For second, or subsequent
enlistment, or extensions of three
or four years.
(c) For a total of four years'
served in extensions of an en
listment.
(4) la * six-year enlistment,'
for first three yean
maining period If
with honorable discharge.
For service in the Naval Re
serve, three yean of continuous,
active service in time of natkjJW
emergency and—or war. w
Support Y. M. C. A.