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Make North Wilkesboro Your Shopping Canter 'JfUkea Y. M. C. A. is rais es a building fund for the erection of a modern Y. M C. A. plant. Support it. OUR CITY Vol. 42, No. 91 The Journal-Patriot Has Blazdd the Trail of Progress In the "State of Wilkes" For Over 41 Years North Wilkesboro has a trading radius of 50 miles, serving 100,000 people k> Northwestern Carolina. Published Mondays and Thursdays NORTH WILKESBORO. N. CM Thursday, Mar. 11, 1948 ■ ;« Major Gases Are Tried In Superior Coort This Tern Woman Pleas Guilty Second Degree Murder; Jury Frees M in ton Cling Minton, Boomer resident who was otfnvlcted and sentenced ten to twelve years In March, 1947, for fatally shooting Atwell Wilson Parsons, Boomer youth, was acquitted In WYkes court Wednesday as the new trial granted him hy the supreme court terminated. The Jury returned the acquit tal verdict after deliberating the case for two hours. In the trial Tuesday, the de fense was permitted to introduce evidence that Parsons with oth ers, was ak the Sliver Dollar place of business near Minton's and that a brawl originated there. When the place closed they proceeded to Minton's small store a short distance away. There was evidence of a non-oommuicated threat on the part of Parsons. A new trial was won on the con tention that testimony shonld have been admitted. State's evidence was to the ef fect that 'Minton shot Parsons with * revolver shortly after he entered the building and without provocation. Defense witnesses said that Mintop ordered Parsons out and that he refused to leave and that he shot in self defense. Through counsel Miss Myrt Woodie, resident of the Peak Creek community atop the Blue Ridge near the Wilkes-Ashe line, entered a plea of second degree murder for fatally shooting her brother-in-law, Tam Miller, on a mountain path between their homes last Decmber 1st. age Di Wednesday. Sheriff C. (J. Poin dexter related his conversation with the defendant, In which she said that she shot Miller because he had been abusing hlg wife (her sister) and their family of sever al children. She claimed that Mil ler had run hie children aWay from home and caused them great hardships. Judge Dan K. Moore today sentenced Miss Woodie to ten years in prison after attorneys had made pleas for light sen tence and the prosecution had spoken for full punishment. Judge Moore explained that in the dis cretion of the court he could mete out sentence from two to 30 years. Miss Woodie, age about 45, took the sentence calmly. She had been free under bond and was es corted to jail to await beginning of her sentence. The following minor cases have been disposed of since the last published report: Frank Barnes, operating car while intoxicated, six months suspended on payment $100 fine and costs, and to pay 1207 for Marvin Dobe Eller; driver license revoked 12 months. George Carl Bard, speeding, fine of $25 and costs. Ruffin Kennedy, assault, six months suspended on payment og $616 to Hugh Chatham Me morial hospital for Esther Bau guss. Jones Edward Miller, speed ing, fine of $25 and costs. Quentin Ferguson, operating car while intoxicated, sentence changed to six months suspended on payment $150 fine and costs; driver license revoked twelve months. A divorce wag granted In the ■ case of Sibil Mae Williams vre sus Buster Williams. ■i n HOME DEMONSTRATION WOMEN LEARN COMFORT MAKING ————————are- —I i il I - ' ii Home Demonstration club women ere pictured here admiring a beautiful com fort made of feathers and cloth in a comfort making demonstration recently con structed here by Mrs. Annie H. Greene, home demonstration agent. Left to right on the picture are: Mrs. Taft Foster, of Champion; Mrs. Greene, home agent; Mrs. W. J. Proffit, of the Lewis Fork club; Mrs. Lizzie Walsh, of die Pleasant Ridge club; Miss Margaret Morrison, assistant home agent.—(Photo by Lane Atkinson, Jr.). ; - ' V , ■- ■' G. 0. P. County Conveation Will Be HeM Saturday Wilkes comity Republicans will meet In biennial convention . Saturday, March IS, one p. m., at the Wilkes courthouse, accord Ins to the convention call by N. B. Smithey, chairman, and T. E- .Story, secretary of hte county Republican executive com mittee. At the convention a chairman and secretary will be'elected'' and delegates will be named to the state and congressional conven tions. The state convention will be held in Durham on March 18. Republicans will perfect pre cinct organisations In meetings at the polling places throughout the county on Friday afternoon, one o'clock, with the exception of Nprth Wilkeeboro, where the nleetlng will be held at four p. at the town hall. The meet mugs, in addition to setting up I precinct organizations, will name delegates to,the county conven tion and select members of the executive committed. One of the prominent party leaders who will attend the coun ty convention will be Attorney Roflfert H. McNeill, of Washing ton, D. C., former candidate for governor and now one of several { ^candidates for the post of nation Kl committeeman from North North Carolina Wilkes Baptist reachers' School school will be held for all ' Baptist preachers in Wllkee | county Monday through Friday, t March 15-19, at Wllkesboro Bap tist chnrch. Many Baptist leaders will take part in the school and attendance of ajl Baptist ministers in the county Is highly desir illowing is the schedule for tional service each morning " at ten o'clock: Monday, Rev. Vic tor Watts; Tuesday, Rev. John Higglns; Wednesday, Rev. W. S. Luck; Thursday, Rev. A. W. El ler; Friday, Rev. Glenn Huffman. "Acts of the Apostles" will "be the subject s of Dr. W. K. Mc Gee, religions director of the Baptist hospital in Wln«ton-6a lem, at 10:30 dally. Rev. N. B. Phillips, of Headersonville, will discuss "The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit as Revealed in Scripture and in Christian Ex perience''. For afternoon sessions Mica Madge Lewis will discuss asso ciational work and Rev. E. C. Shoe will have the homilectlcal etudy. Rev. J. C. Pipes, of Tay ijnville, state missionary, will deliver the inspirational mesages. DANCE POSTPONED W The square dance planned for Friday night at the Moravian Falls community house has been psotponed to a later date, due to the arrival of the body of Pfc Robert Laws, who was killed in the Pacific, and funeral plans in the community. 'The Hasty Heart", Broadway Play, At Liberty March 16 Coming Tuesday, March 16th, at the Liberty Theatre Is Freddie Bartholomew, In person, In the outstanding Broadwa^ success "The Hasty Heart", written by John Patrick. Of all the delightful and charming plays that have come out of Broadway, ''The Hasty Heart" has more real wit and comedy than any two plays com bined. Freddie Bartholomew, wba jrtSQl tfce 8tar jjart, Js very unusual an<j almost uncanny hi his dialect Impersonation of a good Scott. Not even a native of that country oould find any fault with bim. The play is extremely well-written, and gives him a chance to display all of his var ied talents. Theatre-goers are probably un aware that once in a life-time does a star get a part like "Lach Jen" that would seem "made to order" for him. For in this play, Bartholomew runs the gamut of emotions, and under a supposed crusty exterior, he really has a heart of gold. His tenderness and love for "Sister Margarpt" shows the real man! Among the eight men and one woman comprising the cast, he shines like a lone star—so per fect is his performance! Not only will we accept Freddie Bartholo mew in this play, which Is his greatest vehicle at this time, but let us look forward to all future plays with all eagerness—we have a genius in our midst, and they are Tare! VI Kidnapping Betty At Mt. Pleasant "Kidnapping Betty," a three act comedy, will be presented by the Junior class of Mount Pleas ant high school Tuesday, March 16, 7:30 p.' m. In .addition to the play will be a good movie. The public is cordially invited to the program, which assures plen ty of Mertainment for the ev ening. Veterans Foreign Wan Memorial Building Fund By g. L. WH1TAKER (Post Commander) As has been announced thru the press and by radio, the Local Post 1142, Veterans Foreign Wars Is going to build a home, just outside the city limits on Highway No. 421. We believe there are many ettisens of/.the county who want to oontribute to this memorial building. It will be dedicated to the service men and women of Wilkes county of all wars, who gave their Uves, that we who are left, mar continue to enjoy living our chosen way of life. Some of you may want to contribute money, other lumber and still others concrete blocks. We will need about 20,000 of these blocks ana they will cost almost 25c per block. They; may be dedicated to a relative or friend who died in service, and the name will be posted in the building as a permanent record. A convenient coupon is 'below and you may use this to indicate the number of blocks you wish to give for this splendid memor ial building. Any • number from one up, you wish to buy will be very greatly appreciated. - We want the names of all who give so that the names may be pub lished. I•'" i ' ' V Coupon I will give Concrete Blocks for Veterans Foreign Wars Memorial Building and en close % — (dollars) to cover cost of same. Please dedi cate them to (deceased). Signed , ..—„ Address Support the Y. M. C. A NORTH WILKESBORO HIGH SCHOOL BMP TO BE HEARD IN CONCERT On Monday, March 15th at 8 p. m., the North Wllkesboro high school hand will present a con cert in the high school apdltor lnm. The program will be as fol lows: "Bine Deryll Mountles", Rich ards;* "Prelude and Fugue In B Minor"; Bach; "The New Colon ial March", Hall; "Song of In dia", Rimlsky-Korsakov; ''The Scarlet Mask Overture", Zamec nik; "The Magic Piute", three melodies from Mozart; "Corona tion" (a musical Episode), Skor nicka; "Invercarglll March," Lithgow; "The Old Grey Mare", Yoder; "Stars and Stripes For ever" Sousa. There will be no admission, and the public 18 invited. Recently three local band stu dents were selected to go to the Northwestern band clinic held at High Point. The clinic was spon jo red toy the North Carolina I Bandmasters Association and lasted tor two days. Those who! represented onr band made ai good showing. Frances Harris,' John Oibbg and Corina Flnley were chosen to go. Mr. Bone, the Duke University band director, was director of the clinic band. Thirty-four high . school . bands were represented In the clinic band. The first night the David son band gave a concert foT the guests and the second night the all state clinic band gave a con cert. Saturday, March 13th, the North Wilkesboro high school band plans to take part in the district contest at Winston-Sal em. There they will be criticised and rated. The judges will be Mr. Bone, the Duke University band director; Mr. Slocum, Chapel Hill band director; and Mr. Pfohl, the Davidson College band direc tor. " . k •' . i-ir ■ \ New Dotes Mode For Soil Consenrotion Speaking Contest By PAUL CHOPLHV (County Agent) Due to the anneually bad wea ther which has necessitated the closing of schools throughout the state, we have decided to postpone the Soil Conservation speaking contest. The dates have been set as follows? school elim ination, March 26; eouhty elim ination, April 2; group elimina tion, April 9; state final, April 16. The .Wilkes county elimination will be held at the North "Wllkes boro Town Hall, Friday, April 2, at 7:30 p. m. — 4 LOCAL Mrs. TV R Hayes visited In Greensboro last week. Mr. T. R. Hayes ana family visited relatives in Greensboro Sunday. Mr. Junior Lovette is erect ing a garage at his home near Millers Creek. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Lee left Sat urday for a several days' vaca tion at Miami, Fla. Miss Vera Bumgarner spent the week-end with her sister, Mrs. M. O. Caton, at Ayden. Mr. Vernon Minton is erecting a new home In the Arbor Grove community near Millers Creek. Mr. John Andrews, of Boom er, is recovering from an opera tion performed at Blackwelder hospital in Lenoir. Rev. Fred Blevins, of Oak woods, will preach Sunday night, seven o'clock, at Gochen Bap tist church. The public is cor dially invited to service. the week-end with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hethcock. Miss Blanche Ferguson, of. Wil kesboro, will leave Friday to visit her brother, Mr. W. H. Ferguson, at Curies Neck farm near Rich mond, Va. . 9 • Attorney J. E. Holshouser, of Boone, member of the law firm of Trivette, Holshouser and Mit chell, has been attending court in Wilkeeboro this week. Miss Jean Caudill, an exper ienced cosmotologist, has accept ed a position with the Hinshaw Beauty Shop. Miss Caudill form erly was in Winston-Salem. Mr. J, R, Owens, well known citizen of the Wilbar community, is 111 at the home of a son near Millers Creek. Until recently, Mr. Owens was keeper of the county home. / Mrs.1 L. R. Toburen and young son, Lawrence Ricker, Jr., arriv ed here Tuesday from Denver, Oolo., to visit with Mrs. Tobur en's mother, Mrs. R. M. Brame, and other relatives. Born to Major and Mrs. Hen ry M. Wellman, Jr. of Hickory, a son, Henry Wellman, -HI, on March 9. The new arrival is a grandson of Rev. and Mrs. H. M. Wellman, of Wilkesboro. Mrs. M. |H. Blythet returned last week to her home at Prince ton, Ky., after spending two weeks in Wilkesboro with her sister, Mrs. W. W. Miller, and her brother, Mr. Prince E. Forester. Mr. and Mrs. R'. R. Smoak, Mr. Charles Sink, Mr. William Gray, Mr. and Mrs. Bryce Caudill, at tended the Southern Conference basketball tournament Thursday through Saturday at Durham. ' Mr. and Mrs. EHmer Lowe have moved into their new nine-room i residence in Forest Hill develop I ment. Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Curry | have purchased the residence formerly occupied by Mt. and Mrs. Lowe, and will move there. Mr. H. G. Nichols is able to be out again after an illness of two weeks, during which time he was a patient at the WilkeA hos pital for several days. Mr. Nich ols expects to Teturn to his po sition at Carter-Hubard Publish ing company within the qext few days. Mr. and Mrs. Ruffln Bailey, of (Chapel Hill, Miss Frances Rous seau, of Raleigh, Miss' Nancy Rousseau and her roommate, MJss 1 Betty Ann Skale, of Raleigh, both | students at Duke University, were here for the week-end with Judge and Mrs. J. iA. Rousseau. Mrs. Ba|ley and the Misses Rous seaus are daughters of Judge and Mrs. Rousseau. Grand Jury Has BusySessioa In Superior Court Several Recommendations Made After Inspection County Properties The grand jury in the current term of Wilkes conrt had a busy session and made a number of recommendations, report of Joe God bey, chairman, disclosed. ' Of 80 bills of Indictment ex amined, 65 were found true bills, six not true bills and- nine were continued for lack of evidence. At the school bus garage the grand jury recommended that the grounds be surfaced to elim inate mud and that the place be given a thorough cleaning. Several repairs were asked at the county courthouse, including new plaster in the office of the clerk of court and as usual the report asked additions to the vaults in the office of the clerk of court, register or deeds, and construction of a vault, for the county accountant. Meanwhile, the county commis sioners have asked for bids on enlarging the vaults. | At the county home, the grand I jury reported that some Improve ments had been made recently in correcting conditions cited by the state welfare department and that a new keeper had been em ployed. Large water pipe and septic tank improvements were asked at the county tuberculosis sani torlum. It was also recommended that the staff be enlarged be cause two workers and one vol untary worker are trying to care for a. 2 patients. Formal Opening . Brame's Friday Brame's Drug Store, for al most a half century one of north western North Carolina's best known wholesale and retail drug firms, will have formal opening of the newly remodeled and modernized store Friday, March 12th. The store, located on the cor ner of Main and Ninth streets, has been remodeled into one of the state's most attractive and modernistic stores. For the opening Friday, spec ial arrangements have been made to receive and serve a record number of visitors. Door prizes and souvenirs will be given. Interior of the building was completely remodeled and reno vated, including new celling, new foors, Tenovated walls, new heat ing system and the cold cathode system of Interior lighting. Re modeling also Included the stock rooms. A deluxe fountain wa8 install ed, along with new fixtures, new booths and a glass enclosed pre scription counter. ' Brame Drug Store was, found ed here by the late Dr. R. M.' Brame and la now owned and op erated by two of his sons, Phillip and William J. Brame, both of whom are registered pharma cists. » With the formal opening an nouncement is another develop ment 4 of major interest. Brame Drug Store here has obtained the Walgreen Agency, famous from coast to cojist. This agency will enable the store to have full ad* vantage of the group buying power of the Walgreen system. F.merson Bell, of Valdosta, Ga., district manager for Walgreen, la here for the opening and helping to set up the Walgreen system in the highly modern store. i Additional drugs and merhan dise are now stocked to make the store one of the most complete drug firms in North Carolina. In addition to a wider variety of drugs, the store now stocks a complete line of drugs and sup plies for v«ternarians. Everybody is invited to visit the newly remodeled store Fri day. Eller's Blue Jackets Beat All Stars 72-58 Eler'e Bluejackets staged a mild upset last night to defeat Millers Creek all-stars 72-58 and win second half championship of the Wilkes Industrial League. The all stars won the first half. Meet Industrial Committee To Be Held Friday, 7:30 The Industrial committee of the Wilkes Chamber of Coffi merce, of which J. B. 'Williams la chairman, will meet Friday, 7: 30 p. m., at the Chamber of Com merce office. A representative of the North Carolina department of Conser vation and Development will meet with the committee for a discussion on possibilities for in dustrial expansion in this com munity. expansion in this community. There will be a discussion of ideas which have worked success fully at other pblnts and what can be done here. Plans are under way for filing with the state department data on this community's Industrial possibilities. This is a very important meet ing of the committee and every member is asked to attend. Duke Power Co. Improving Lines In Wilkes County Two Contracting „Crews and Local Men Rebuilding And Maying: Lines Like every business in Wilkes County the Duke Power Com pany is haying growing pains. Two contracting crews, In ad dition to their own local men, are working every day the wea ther will permit on new con struction and maintenance. It was explained by the local office that lines are sq overloaded that, even though the back log of new additions is Immense, men must be diverted to' rebtflWRug' wfclu* ever new materials' arrive. One crew is now rebuilding the circuit from the substation along D Street to the Reddles River Bridge. This will have two fold effect of increasing the capacity of the line feeding the Millers Creek section and re lieving the overloaded city lines. The service to both will there by be greatly Improved. Several rural lines also are on the program for rebuilding as soon as materials are available. Transformers that were order ed in 1945 are expected in' April. Whfen their Installation is completed the Rapacity of thd local substation will be more than doubled. New automatic regulators, re closing switches and other de vices to improve the quality of the service have been on order for many months but are not ex pected for several more. When all improvements on schedule have been completed Wilkes County will have as good service as any-in the Carolinas. Ask For Bids Or ' Building Vaults To Courthouse Wilkes county board of com missioners is asking for bids on construction of additional vaults to the offices of clerk of court and register of deeds. J Plans call for vaults 19 by 30 feet to be erected on each side of, the front °' the courthouse. The vaults are to be of brick and concrete construction. Plans and specifications may be obtained from the office of Troy C. Foster, register of deeds and clerk to the board of county commissioners. Grand juries for several years have recommended enlarged vaults for the two offices for safe keeping of county records. ....... n - Joycees Sponsors Bill Monroe Show Friday Night Here Bill Monroe end his Blue Grass Boys, famous radio show, will appear In person Friday night, 7:30 o'clock, In North Wilkesboro high school gymnas ium under sponsorship of the Junior chamber of Commerce. All profits from the show will go into the North Wilkeeboro school gymnasium improvement fund. All who will attend are assured of a good show. Laws Funeral To Be Oa Saturday Funeral service will -, be held Saturday afternoon, two o'clock, at Moravian Falls Methodist church for Pfc. Robert Laws, who was killed while in service in the marine corps in the Pacific area. Pfc. LawB was. a son of Mr. and' Mrs. S. R. Laws, of Brent* tfood, Md., and grandson of Mr. R. Don Iawi, of Moravian Falls. He was killed on Tulagi"< Decem ber 9th, 1942. His body will ar rive at Moravian Falls Friday. ■ ■■ —o Support Y. M. C. 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