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Y.M.C.A, S^ilkes Y. M. C. A. is rais ing a building fund for the out cm North Wilkesboro has a trading radios of 50 miles, serving 100,000 people in _ _ ?? -w ?^ ^ v Northwestern Carolina sgfcction Of a modem Y. M . < progress In the "State of Wilkes" For Over 41 Yea 3Fa. plant, support it. , The joumal-PQtriot Has Blazed the Trail ot rroy Vol. 43, No. 10 Published Mondays and Thursdays NORTH WILKESBOBO. W. C- Thursday, May 20, 1948 Make North Wilkesbero Your Shoooina Center BAND TO RENDER CONCERT HERE ON FRIDAY NIGHT North Wilkesboro high school band stndents shown in the pic ture are as follows: Majorettes? Betty Blledge, Doris Kerbaugh, Peggy Sebastian, Billie Jo Zim merman, Pat Eller and Miss Eva Bingham; first row (left to right) Phillip Lomax, Doris God bey, Betty Jo Reavis, Frances Harris, Tommy Turner, Jimmie Hayes, Carolyn Deans. Ann Smith, Doris Wiles, Eric Dun can; second row?Pattie Gabriel, ! Christine Godbey. Betty Whick er, John Hubert Emerson, Jim mie Carter, Carl Swofford, Beck ey Reins, Robert Wells, Gladys Sebastian, Charles Summers; Third row?Betty Blackburn, Barbara Johnson, Patsy Hoover, Bobby Anderson, Betty Jean Wells, Jerry Day, Clate Duncan, Norma Gabriel; fourth row?T. C. Billings, Gordon Finley, Mary Ann Casey, Kenneth Phillips, Charles Starnes, Ann Carlton, Tony Marlow Jimmie Swofford; fifth row?Dottie Winters Dot Shell, Calvin Hayes, Tommy Johnson, Douglas Cleary, Corln I na Finley, Tyre Sidden. Otherb who were not present in the picture are: Jimmie Cald wAU, Kent Sturdivant, Nancy slltrdivant, Patricia Caldwell, Pa tricia Hutchinson, Jimmie Blair, Edward Moore,. Reggie Moore, Frank Bentley, Pattie Morgan, Martha Justice, Doris Dariington. Bruce Wayland, Roberta Gtbbs, James Sidden, Jackey Hartley. I New majorettes are: Nell Gwyn Brame, Florene Gilreath, Mary Hudson and Billie Jackson. lThe North Wilkesboro high -aol band will present its an 1-iW spring concert on Friday, May 2 let at 8 p. m. The program will be given in the high school auditorium and the public is cordially invited. There will be no admission charges. The concert is expected to be one of the most entertaining yet presented by the North Wilkes boro high school band. The selec [ tions -be played are: Tea For | Two, 'Toumans, Serenade oft the | Bells, Serenade (from "The Stu dent Prince") Romberg, Mos i quitoes' Parade, Whitney, Bart Ilesville Boogie, Paulson, Halle lujah", Youman's, Blue Devil ' Mounties, Richards, El Capitan March, Sousa, Overture H.on ? groise, Skornicka, Panis Angeli cus, Sesar Frank, Gaiety Polka (Trumpet solo, with band accom paniment by Carl Swofford), March Militaire (clarinet quartet, Betty Jo Reavis, Eva Bingham, Doris Godbey, Carolyn Deans), American Patrol, Meachan, Mon te Cristo Overture, Paulson. The North Wilkesboro high school band has been the pride and joy of Its school and com munity. They have had the op portunity to perform more in the public this year than ever before. Some of the occasions have been: music contest, festivals, parades, radio programs, ball games, ' as semblies, pep rallies, concerts, etc. Various students have per formed solos and ensembles in publ/je tfrom time to time. They hav*Jwso taken every opportun ity possible to hear other bands perform. school of North Wilkes boro has a band that it can well be proud of. The band owes much of its progress to band friends who have made their trips pos sible this year and who have helped to make the band a big Plan Finals In Commencement At Wilkesboro Senior Plav Friday Night; Sermon Sunday; Gradu ation Tuesday Night Dr. B. B. Dougherty, president of Appalachian State Teachers College at Boone, will deliver the commencement address Tuesday night. May 25, eight o'clock, at WilkeSboro high school. Wm. T. Long, district princi pal, said that 50 seniors will re ceive diplomas of high school graduation _ Tuesday night. Dr. John T. Wayland, pastor of the First Baptist church in j North Wilkesboro, will deliver j ! the baccalaureate sermon 'at Wilkesboro high school on Sun- j day afternoon, May 23, three o' clock, in the school auditorium. His address will be carried by radio over station WILX. Senior Class Play On Friday night this week the senior class will present their play in lieu of class night exer cises. "Wanted: A Hero," is the title of the comedy-drama, which is a story of the old west and should provide ample entertain ment. Admission price will be 25 and 50 cents. Mrs. Rosanna Mills Dies at Son's Home Mrs. Rosanna Foust Mills died quietly in bed sometime during the night for May 18th at the home of her son, R. J. Hinshaw, in North \Yilkesboro, N. C. She was born in Randolph county on January 14, 1861, the daughter of Daniel Foust an<j El vira Pugh Foust. Mrs. Mills was eighty-seven years of age at the time of her passing. She was first married to M'. L. Hinshaw about 1879. To this union was born one son, Rufus James Hinshaw, at whose home in North Wilkesboro Mrs. Mills was living at the time of her death. M. L?. Hinshaw died in 1881. About 1906 Mrs. Hinshaw married George W. Mills. Mr. Mills died in June of 1933. Mrs. Mills spent all of her early life in Randolph County. She moved to Greensboro, N. C. in 1906 and lived there until a bout a year ago when she came to make her home with her son in North Wilkesboro. Surviving members of her im mediate family are J. R. Rich ardson, a half-.brother, of Ran dleman, N. C., and Mr. R. J. Hinshaw, her son. The funeral service was held at three o'clock today, May 20th, at the Mt. Lebanon Methodist church in Randleman. The dairy farm of Jim Pos ter, located east of Wllkeeboro on highway 421, was auctioned off In a successful sale held Wed nesday by Williams and Clark Land Auction company, of which P. E. Dancy and M. C. Woodie are local selling agents. The sale was largely attended. / ger and better organization tban it has ever been before. Recital of Dancing Classes Saturday 22 Miss Grace Frank Kilby will present her dancing class in re cital Saturday, May 22, at the school auditorium in North Wil kesboro at eight }>. m. The public is cordially invited. William L. Mathis Suicide Tuesday Well Known Farmer Of New Castle Township Ends His Life > Funeral service for William L. Mathis, 5t?yerfrHt)ld flew C&stle township farmer who hanged himself Tuesday morning at his home, was held Wednesday at Pleasant Grove Baptist church near his home. Members of Mr. Mathis' family found his body hanging in the barn on his farm early Tuesday. Ill health was attributed as cause for the suicide. Surviving Mr. Mathis are his wife and nine children: Mrs. E. W. Byrd, Benham; Ernest Ma this, Ronda; Mrs. Reece Mays, Fairfax, Va.; Mrs. Ralph In score, Winston-Salem; Barney Mathis, No^th Wilkesboro; Press, Lucy, R. D. and Jake Mathis, all of Ronda. Manless Wedding At Traphill High School The members of the Cricket Home Demonstration club will give a manless wedding at the Traphill high school Saturday, May 22, 7:30 p. m. Don't miss this wedding which was recently given at the Millers Creek high school before a large and appreciative audience. See and hear Parson Parsnips (Mrs. W. E. Jones) as he tells of a dog fight and as he reads the marriage vows from a Sears Roe buck catalogue. Watch Cokey, the bride's small brother, (Mrs. Edd Bumgarner) play his pranks, such as, shoot the parson with his slingshot. Enjoy tlje very col orful costumes depicting the styles of the ''gay nineties." The reception which follows will feature a variety walk, the prizes oonsi^CWg of good home made cakes, *pies, candy, etc. There will, also, be plenty of good string music. Come one! Come all! Admission 40 and 2C! cents.?Reported. Sermon Sunday N. Wilkesboro Commencement Davidson College Minister Will Speak; Graduation Friday, May 28th Dr. Carl Pritchett, Davidson | College Presbyterian church min ! ister, will deliver the baccalau reate sermon Sunday, May 23, eight p. m., to the North Wil kesboro high school graduates. The service will be held in the First Baptist church with con gregations of tfie 'Firsl Methodist and First Presbyterian churches meeting with the Baptists there for the service. Dr. Gilbert R. Combs, First Methodist minis i | ter, will speak the invocation, scripture reading will be by Dr. John T. Wayland, First Baptist minister. Rev. Watt M. Cooper, First Presbyterian minister, will .present Dr. Pritchett. The high school glee club will participate in the service. Seniors - will carry out their own graduation program in the school auditorium on Friday night, May 28, eight o'clock, at .which time high school diplomas will be presented to a class of 41 seniors. ? o Riley Moore Dies Of Self-inflicted Wound Wednesday John Riley MooTe, an employe of the sign department of the State Highway Commission here, ended his life with a pistol shot into his heart at eight p. m. last pight. The suicide occured near the Highway Division Garage. No cause was attributed for the act. Moore was a sop of the late William and Mary Parlier Moore, of the Gilreath community. For some time he had resided in the old jail building in Wilkesboro. Surviving are his wife and three sons, Clark Moore, in Pen nsylvania; Virgil Moore, at Har mony; and Grady Moore, at Traphill. Funeral will be held at Liberty church Saturday 11 a. m., with Rev. Parks Robinson in charge of the service. ADELMAN QUITS AT WILKESBORO; MARVIN HUFFMAN WILL BE COACH Bddie Adelman, highly success ful athletic coach at Wllkesbaro high school during the past term, submitted his resignation to the Wilkesboro school iboard last night. ^ Coach Adelman stated that he was resigning to enter Peabody College at Nashville, Tenn., for post-graduate work. He* is a graduate of Appalachian college at Boone, where he played half back on the football team.. Under Coach Adelman's tutelage the Wilkesboro high school Ramblers went through a ten-game foot ball schedule undefeated and un tied, setting a record for the school with the T formation. Employed to succeed Coach Adelman is Marrln D. Huffman, whose home Is in STtatesrllle. Huffman 1 s graduating this spring from Appalachian College, where he was quarterback on the football team and a member of all-conference selections as quar terback. Several high schools had attempted to employ Huffman this spring, it was learned here today from school officials. ? o The Watauga County Coopera tive, Inc., did a volume business in excess of $32,000 during its I first year of operation. Brown Is Host To G. 0. P. Delegates P. E. Brown, former Wilkes sheriff and delegate to the Re publican National convention in June, with Mr. Ciceloff, other delegate from the $th district, entertained the North Carolina delegation to the forthcoming convention at a barbecue rally in Lexington Saturday night. Joe Martin, speaker of the House of Representatives, wag an honored 1 guest. In addition to the dele gates, there were about 300 peo ple present for the rally. PEN TERMS GIVEN IN US. COURT Moving along rapidly, the May term of federal court which con vened in Wilkesboro Monday has disposed of many cases in which Judge Johnson J. Hayes meted out prison terms. With few exceptions, sentenc es have been for violation of liquor tax laws. In a case moved | from Greensboro Henry Leon Groom waa sentenced for embez zlement of bank funds. In two counts he was sentenced to con current terms of three to five years, with execution of sentence suspended and placed under pro bation. A condition of probation was that he is to pay $100 monthly until $13,150 is repaid, j In liquor cases were the fol-l lowing sentences: Presley Cur ' ry. year and a day in Peters burg, Va., prison; Albert Minton, two years Petersburg; Theodore Cadell Flowe, year suspended on $200 fine; Farrell Eunice Flowe, year and a day in Petersburg: Gilmer Wiles, $300 fine and probation two years; Sebon Wai ter Gambill, 15 months Peters burg; Loy Craig Gaddy, $500 fine and six months suspended. ^ Garnice Lemmeth Blackburn, $500 fine and 15 months su spended; Alvin Freeman Bowiin, year and a day suspended; Glenn Dancy, year and a day in Chilli cothe, Ohio, reformatory; Herry Ford Shepherd, year and a day suspended; Wilson Lee Minton, $300 fine and probation; Argie Junior Anderson and Dallas Clifton Waddell, year and a day each in Chillicothe; Claude Everett Burcham, year and a day in Chillicothe; Junior Edgar Pearson, year and a day in Pet ersburg; Charlie Roy Williams, year - and a day in Chillicothe: Georgie Lee Pierce, year and a day in Petersburg; Slater Call and George Shew, year and a day in Atlanta; Lonnie Moore, yCar and a day in Petersburg: Calvin Johnson, year and a day in Chillicothe. The following were placed on probation: Lonnie Cockerham, Frederick Edward Rhymer (with year and a day suspended) Luth er Mose Joines (fined $250), Leslie "Vaughn Mayberry, Pres ton Lee Gregory; Loy Craig Gad dy, Wilson Lee Minton ($300 fine), Ralph Parks Shepherd, ! Arville Hamby, Jack Moore. Mrs. Church Opens Beauty Shop Here Mrs. Jake Church, who has an enviable reputation in the Beau ty Shoppe business, has opened a shoppe on the mezzanine floor of Wilkes Barber shop while per I manent quarters for her business i are being arranged over City l FloTist. Snavely Greets Alumni II. N. C. Football Coach Carl Snavely and Assistant Coach Jim Gill, of the University of North Caro lina, met with Carolina alumni at a banquet at Hotel Wilkes Friday evening, which was at tended by about 50 Carolina alumni in Wilkes county. Coach Snavely talked frankly and at length about current foot ball prospects at Chapel Hill and the tough schedule coming up next fall. In organization of the Wilkes chapter of Alumni Richard John ston was elected president and Tom Jenrette secretary-treasur er. ?.? o Music Recital On?. Monday at 8 P. M. Senior music recital of Mrs. Robert 3. Olbbs' music classes will be held at the home of Mrs. Gfbbs in Finley Park Monday night, eight o'clock. Parents and friends of participating students are Invited. Annual Home Coming Roaring River Church The annual home coming meeting of the Roaring River church will be held Sunday, May 23, beginning at ten o'clock a. n This church is about two miles west of Traphill. Elder G. Ben nett* Adams is to be there both Saturday and Sunday. The Sat urday meeting time is two o' clock p, m. The Sunday meeting will be a morning an<j afternoon meeting with dinner served on the grounds. Everyone is Invited to attend. "Come, bring a bas ket of food if you can, but if you can't bring a basket just come anyway," the announcement said. Scout Camporee Very Successful Here Week - End Boy Scouts of the Wilkes dis trict held a very successful cam poree in Finley Park here Satur day and Sunday. There were 73 Scouts in the Camporee, and tents were pitch ed at eight a. m. Saturday morn ing. There were seven troops and 12 patrols participating. Dr. Gilbert R. Combs, First Methodist minister, conducted service at the camporee Sunday afternoon, two o'clock. During the,day the flag was at half mast in memory of Dr. James E. West, national Scout leader who died. Winners of blue pennants were Wolf, Eagle, Raven, Pewitt, Cobre patrols of troops 35 and 36. Red pennants went to Indian patrols of troops 35 and 83, Cobre of troop 95, Hawk, Lion and Pelican. Four senior Scouts served as a service patrol. The Judging committee was composed o f Staton Mclver, Frank Crow, Edward S. Finley, W. A. Hardister, Blair Gwyn, John Ford, Robert Gibbs, Frank Allen, Glenn Andrews, Jim San ges, Edward Bell, George Wells, J. B. -Carter, Carl Bullis, L. M. Nelson, Shoun Kerbaugh. Harvel Howell and Gordon Finley. Scout ers who spent much time at the camporee included Isaac Dun can, Buster Bush, Ivey Moore, Gordon Forester, Joe Zimmer man, Cyrus Faw, A. C. Joines, Emmett Elledge. W. E. Vaughn-Lloyd, old Hick ory Scout executive, and Ralph Harbison, field Scout executive, visited the camporee. Dokies Put On A Big Ceremonial Birjand Temple of D. O. K. K., of which Dr. A. C. Chamberlain Is Royal Vizier; put on the spring ceremonial In the Wilkesboros Saturday afternoon. A greater part of the festivi ties were carried out at the Wll kesboro gymnasium, with the 12 candidates being put through hilarious street work In both towns In late afternoon. Supper was served at the Wllkesboro lunchroom, and was followed by ritualistic and eighth order work In the gymnasium. Over 75 members were pres ent from the North Wilkesboro, Winston-Salem, Greensboro and Lenoir clubs and the occasion was thoroughly enjoyed. o Health Officials 0. K. Water Here Dr. A. J. Eller, Wilkes health officer, and E. R. Sprulll sanitar ian, visited the North Wllkesboro Water Plant on Tuesday -after noon to investigate the com plaints that have been coming in regarding the city water. It wae found that due to the collection of sediments during the winter months and the heavy dosing of chlorine necessary toi cut this out, a taste has develop-1 ed. There Is nothing from a health standpoint to he alarmed! about and the city authorities' have assured that correction Is being made as soon as possible. This statement is made upon the request ot the mayor, by the lo cal Health Department. j SUPPORT THE Y. ML C. A Propose Line From Greensboro West Into Johnson City Concentrated efforts were launched here this week to se cure a highway postoffice to im prove mail service, which was described as inadequate at pres ent for the whole of northwest ern North Carolina. At a meeting of the boatd of directors of the Wilkes Chapter of Commerce, which wag attend ed by other interested citizens, it was pointed out that the inau guration of highway postoffice service from Greensboro to John son City, Tenn., would greatly improve mail service. Thomas R. Lehman, of Win ston-Salem, president of the third division of the Railway Mail Association, and Tom Cheek, of Greensboro, vice president of the Railway Mail Association, explained to the meeting how a highway postoffice could step up mail service in northwestern North Carolina and east Tennes see by 24 hours. At the present time a star route brings mail from Greens boro and Winston-Salem early in the morning and returns in the afternoon but does not carry parcel post or registered mail. Consequently, parcel post or reg istered matter mailed in North Wilkesboro after one p. m. does not leave the North Wilkesboro postoffice until the next after noon. The incoming mail service is equally inadequate, it was pointed out. It was proposed that a high way postoffice carrying and working all types of mall leave Greensboro about 3:30 a. m., after receiving mail from the main line trains of the Southern Railway, north and south, in Greensboro. Coming through Winston-Salem and Elkin, the mail truck would reach North Wilkesboro about seven a. m. and continue through Boone, Vi las and Elk Park, 1*. C? Hamp ton and Elizabethton, Tenn., to Johnson City, connecting there with mail line trains north and south and to points in the mid west. The highway postoffice would leave Johnson City at 1:15 P. m. and return to Greensboro at 9 :15 p. m., rendering the same service en route as a railway postoffice. The highway postof fice would be in addition to pres ent mail transportation by the Southern Railway from Greens boro to North Wilkesboro once daily, arriving here about 11 a. m., and leaving at two p. m. It was pointed out that an in justice now prevails for the peo ple of northwestern North Caro lina because they must pay spe cial handling and special delivery fees on any except first class mail to prevent long delay in mails reaching their destination. The highway postoffice would pro vide overnight mail service from northwestern North Carolina to New York, Washington, D. C.. other northern cities, to Atlanta and other points south. The board of directors favored the project an<j solicited aid of all other communities and towns affected to impress their needs ?upon Paul Aiken, second assist ant postmaster general, senators and congressmen representing the northwestern North Carolina counties. Postal authorities said that the route was surveyed and ap proved in 1945 but no action was taken at that time because of Inability of the government to secure a mail truck and equip ment. Postoffice Close Saturday at Rook According to government reg ulations governing all first class posto^fices, the North Wllkes boro postoffice will close at noon each Saturday, beginning Saturday, May 22. Acting Postmaster Maurice H>. Walsh said that the order closing the postoffice windows at noon on Saturday will enable the of fice to giro bettor service throughout the remainder of the week.
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