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. 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. 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.