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tea Y. M. C. A. is rais building fund for the ion of ? modern Y. M THE JOURNAL-PATRIOT ou cm North Wilkeaboro has a trading radios-! of 50 miles, serving 100,000 people in C. A. plant. Support it. The journa|.patriot Hbs Blozed the Trail of Progress In the "State of Wilkes" For Over 41 Years Northwestern Cretan. Vol. 43, No. 18 Published Mondays and Thursdays ; NORTH WIUCESBORO. N. C., Thursday, June 17, 1948 Make North Wilkesboro Your Showing ? ??????? i CHARTER GRANTED INDUSTRIAL AND INVESTMENT CORPORATION [ FOR EXPANSION OF INDUSTRIES Charter was granted this week by the Secretary of State to In dustrial and Investment Corpora tion, which was formed here under auspices of the Wilkes Chamber of Commerce to pro mote and assist In Industrial -ex pansion and development In Wilkes county. Application for charter was made In the name of Industrial Development Corporation, hut the name had to be changed be cause of -a duplication in the state. Charter stockholders Include citizens, who indlcat iMWUkes elffVy theli their Investment that they are Interested In progress of the Wilkes bo roe and all Wilkes coun ty The corporation was formed for the purpose of furnishing capital for construction of indus trial buildings for Industries which desire to operate In tMs vicinity. Svgest Measares For CfeanfiRess On Streets off City ' Chamber Of Commerce Di rectors Propose Measures For Improvement Directors of the Wilkes Cham ber of Commerce in meeting this week nn&nimously and urgently passed a resolution asking co operation for greater cleanliness of North Wilkesboro streets and sidewalks. The particular measure urged was to ask that all merchants and other business firms clean 'i sidewalks after closing hours' on F Saturday evening. This will en \ able the city street cleaners to \ wash off trash and dirt and the rtowtr - wfH- -have a cleaner and neater appearance on Sundys. The resolution' also asked co- j /operation from home owners in I maintaining metal containers f with tightly fitting lids for garb ! age. Dr. F. C. Hubbard, chair man of the Health Committee, pointed out the importance of this measure in the interest of health in the community. At the present time a polio epidemic is threatening in nearby counties and medical authorities point out flies are carriers of this dreaded disease. The board of directors was ad vised by Mayor T. S. Kenerly that the town officials and work ers will extend full cooperation in these efforts for greater clean liness. Hashers Playing Galax Leafs Here Tonight Is Ladies Night; Wytheville Coming On Monday, Tuesday After enjoying top spot In the leagne for 24 hours the North Wilkes bo ro Flashers dropped last night's game at Galax to go In to a tie with Galax for second place while Leaksville went on top with a double win over Wythevllle. Mount Airy defeat ed Radford 4 to 1. - Paul Pryor was the starting and losing pitcher at Galax last night and was relieved by Young.' Welnbach kept six Flash . er hits scattered. Worth Cnthbertson is slated to get the call tonight against Ga lax in Memorial Park before a ladies night crowd. All ladies will be admitted free for to night's game. The Flashers will play Galax here again Friday night and go to Mount Airy Sat urday ""and Sunday. Wythevllle Statesmen will play here Mon day and Tuesday. Landsberger Is Named To Post Ray R. Landsberger, manager ; of flThe Jewel Box of thlg city, wa.0 named third rice president North Carolina Retail Jew Association at Its conven hehl this week at Blowing ck. Mr. Landsberger was a the Jewelers of the state tending the conrentlon. Ned W. Cohen, of Greensboro, associated with The Jewel Is . Following are hte names of charter stockholders as listed on the charter received here this week: > J. B. Williams, J, R. Hix, E. F. Gardner, C. J. SWofford, J. E. Justice, Jr., L. S. Spainhour, R. M. Brame, Jr., W. F. Gaddy, R'. G. FInley, J. H. Whicker, Sr., W. D. Halfacre, W. C. Marlow, R. E. Gibbs, Eugene Trivette, C. E. Jenkins, Jr., W. F. Absher, W. K. Sturdivant. D. V. Deal, Forrest E. Jones, W. O. Absher, Edwin Duncan, G. Sam Winters, R. R. Church, C. Arthur Ven able, Dr. W. K. Newton, Dudley I S. Hill, R. W. Gwyn, H. P. Eller, A. F. Kilby, P. E. Brown, H. P. Hettiger, E. P. Hettiger, Jr., E. P. Hettiger, Sr., W. G. Gabriel, F. O. Tomlinson, Julius O.- Hub bard, A. T. Lott, W. Roscoe Mc Neil, Tom Jenrette, B. G. Fin ley, N. S. Forester, Jr., Wilkes Hosiery Millg Company. LOCALS Miss Betty Gwyn Plnley, who has just returned home from the University of North Caro lina, has brought home as her house guests; Miss Jean Gardner, of Wilson, and Miss Nell Ring, of Kingsport, Tennessee. They plan to ibe here and In Blowing Rock for several days. Daring the past two weeks they have been visiting in Wrlghtsvtlle Beach and Wilson, and attended the June German at Rocky Mount. Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Snyder, of Washington, D. C., Mr. and Mrs. Harry Veasey and small son, of Aberdeen, Mr. and Mrs. William Parlier and Mrs. C. C. Parlier, of Charlotte, were week end guests of Mr. and Mrs. Bon Perkins. Mr. Boone Pennell, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Pennell and son, Jerry, of Post, Texas, were the week-end visitors of B|r. -and] Mrs. James Parsons, of Boomer, Route one. They also visited Mrs. Fred Land. Several relatives dropped in during visit. Mr. Boone Pennell and Mrs. Parsons, brother and sister, had not seen each other in nine years. Mr. B. B. Broome, for several years District Field Manager for Coble Dairy Products, Inc., was transferred to Minnesota April 1, this year. He is directing a cat tle buying program that was in augurated by his company. Mrs. Broome and children, Harry Lee, and Bonnie Beth, joined Mr. Broome May 6 and they have es tablished residence in Moose Lake, Minnesota. Mr. Sam Ogilvie and Mr. Paul Cushion, of the Wilkes Chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, attended a regional meeting in Greensboro yesterday, during which regional plans were made for handling pa tients in the epidemic now threatening in the Piedmont sec tion of the state. Baptist hospital in Winston-Salem, Grace hospital in Morganton and the State Orth opedic hospital in Gastonla are now set up to handle patients. Guests of Mr. and Mrs. George B. Ward of Guilford College are their grandchildren, Roderick and Margaret Morrow, children of Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Morrow of North Wllkesboro. Next week end the Morrows, who are In Chicago for a few days, will cpme for the children. Also expected this week-end are Mrs. George H. Jennings, Jr., and children, Marth Wahite and George, III, of Portsmouth, Va., who will stay several weeks. The women are daughters of the Wards.? Greensboro Daily News, June 15. U " Fairplains Defeats Mulberry By 13-5 Fairpalns baseball team de feated Mulberry 13 to 5 in the first of a series of games be tween Wilkes county teams at Memorial Park Monday night. The Wilkes Junior Chamber of Commerce is sponsor of the league to provide better recre ational activities for the rural people of the county. Kerbaugh was Fairplains' first pitcher and pitched three and two-thirds hitless Innings before giving up a series of walks and hits. He was relieved 'by Deal, who held Mulberry scoreless for three innings. Shumaker was the third and final hurler for Fair plains and Badgett was the catch Brown started on the mound for Mulberry and was relieved by Owens. Catchers were Stamper, Brown and Collins. The score by Innings: ? Local Boys Honored By Wajie Fraternity Jimmy Mooie, son of Mrs. Eth el V. Moore, and Billy Casey, eon of Mrs. A. It. Casey, of North Wllkeaboro, tlfis week were elect ed to fraternity offices at Wake Forest College. Jimmy was elect ed president ef Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity and Billy was named fraternity rept-esentative to the Pan Hellenic council. \ - i-o Funds For Aid To DependentChildren Cut For the County The Wilkes County Welfare hoard held thpir regular monthly meeting in the welfare office on Thursday, June 3rd. All three members of the board, composed of Dr. P. J* Brame, chairman, F. C. Johneop and C.' C. Sidden were present., Charles C.I McNeill, secretary to the boards advised them that information fcad been received from the State Welfare Depart ment to the ;effect that Wilkes' monthly allotjndnt for Aid to De pendent Children beginning July 1st had been reduced. He also pointed out that a very slight in crease had been granted for Old Age Assistance. The present al lotment for Aid to Dependent Children is St,420. However, the monthly allotment beginning July 1st has been 'reduced to $7,200. The present bid Age Assistance allotment of $13,420 will be in creased to $13,920 beginning July 1st. Mr. McNeill advised the board that '"JVe were now sev enth from tlje bottom in the average grant we were paying to our Aid to Dependent Children families, and that in view of our present allotment beginning July 1st it would he necessary for the' average grant to be reduced be low the present amount if we 1 were to be able to take on addi Itional cases during the year. We | were now slightly exceeding our monthly Aid to Dependent Chil dren allotment and we are al ready confronted with the pros pect of having to reduce our present average grant in order to come within .our allotment in July." The board expressed con siderable disappointment in the reduction In| allotment for Aid to Dependent; Children and sug gested that *the secretary write a letter to tl^e State Department, requesting that they reconsider Wilkes allotment and point out to them that Wilkes is already considerably Ibelow the state av erage in the average grant for Aid to Dependent Children, and urge them it at all possible to restore the cut in allotment at least to the' amount Wilkes is I now receiving. Due to the fact that the county is already ex ceeding the Aid to Dependent Children allotment, the bo^rd de cided that no increase in Aid to Dependent Children grants would be sent in to the'state office for paym- at at this time. I Mr. McNeill advised the board I that Miss Clara Ogilvie, case work trainee with the depart ment, had how completed twelve months of work and was eligi ble for promotion to the position of case work assistant. He recom mended that she be promoted to the higher position and that her salary be adjusted to correspond with the higher rating. The board approved the promotion of Miss Ogilvie, effective June, 1948. At this tijme the board renew ed the expenses of the depart ment for thfe month of May. This report Indicated a total expendi ture for all assistance purposes of $22,565.(2. 868 received Old Age Assistance in the amount of $13,000.50, giving an average grant of $14.98; 268 families, representing. 800 children, re* ceived Aid to Dependent Chil dren in the amount of $7,347, making an average monthly pay ment per child of $9.18; 40 re ceived Aid to the Blind in the amount of $1,079 for an average monthly payment of $26.98. Oth er expenditures including Gener al Assistance, Medical and Hos pital care, Boarding Home cars, etc. amounted to a total of $1, 135.02. The remainder of the meeting was devoted to hearing reports from the case workers Mrs. Ines Bowles, Mrs. Vera Cas ey and Miss Clara Ogilvie, who presented a number of cases which were disposed of by the board. 1 ? o Decoration Service There will be a decoration and all day service at Bethany Bap tist church ahe 4th Sunday of Jane. r ' Revival Services At Wilkesboro Baptist Church REV. LAWRENCE HIGHFTELD i ? A series of revival services will be conducted at Wilkesboro Baptist church Sunday through Friday, June 20-25, at 7:45 p. m. These services will supplement the Vacation Bible school which began Monday of this week, and will continue until Friday, June 25. The school is each morning from 8:30 to 11:30. Boys and girlB ages 4-16 are invited to at tend. The visiting minister for the evangelistic services is Rev. Lawrence Highfill, graduate of Wake Forest College, and the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is now on the fac ulty at Mars Hill College, teach ing in the Department of Relig ion. These services will be of spe cial interest to the young peo ple, however, all ages are cor dially invited. o '?? For Jr.'Council North Wilkesboro council of Jr. O. U. A. M. this week elected officers to serve during the lat ter half of 1948. Barney Harrold was elected councilor to succeed Allen Phil lips. Other officers were elected as follows: Jesse Blankenship, vice councilor: C. A. Canter, re cording secretary: B. F. Bentley, assistant recording secretary; Bradley Dancy, financial secre tary; Northwestern Bank, treas urer; Roscoe McNeill, conductor^ A. G. Anderson, warden; L. A. Gudger, Inside sentinel; Neil Cashion, outside sentinel; B. F. Bentley, Clay Pardue an<i Char les Leckle, trustees; R. B. Church and R. C. Goodwin, rep resentatives to state council, with Charles Leckie and Clay Pardue as alternates; H. L. Mechem, chaplaip; Russell Bentley, as sistant chaplain; Allen Phillips, Junior past councilor. . Bible School At Liberty Grove Plons For Commencement The vcaation Bible school In progress at Liberty Grove Baptist church will close sessions Friday with a weiner roast at noon. On Sunday night, eight o'clock at the church a commencement pro gram will be given and all are cordially invited to attend. e Preaching Services Rev. Rufus Mitchell, well known evangelist In charge of services at Gospel Tabernacle in Wilkeaboro, will preach there Saturday night, 7:30, Sunday afternoon at 2:30 and Sunday night at 7:30. Rev. Ben Wood will lead the singing. Everybody is invited. 1949 Fords Will Be Shown Friday Yadkin Valley Mdtor company, local Ford dealer, will show the 1949 model Fords here on Fri day. Announcement of the showing of the new Ford has created much interest and it is expected that numerous vtsitora will see the highly modern Ford Friday. A news article describing many of the new features -of the 1940 Fords is published elsewhere in this newspaper. Pfc. Talmage Curry | Last Rites Saturday ; Funeral service for Pfc. Tal-I madge S. Curry, who lost his life in World War II, will be held Saturday, two p. m., at Antioch Baptist church. Surviving Pfc. Curry are three brothers and five sisters: Law sQn Curry, Wilkesboro route two; Isaac end Millard Curry, North) Wilkesboro route three; Mrs. | Lillie Smithey, North Wilkesboro route three; Mrs. Myrtle Black burn, BAltimore, Md.; Mrs. Sarah Ann Foster, Morganton; Mrs. Laura Edmisten, North Wilkes boro route three; Mrs. Helen) Cothren, Statesville. Optimist Club News Plans for forming a Junior Optimist Club were made Mon day night at a meeting held at the American Legion Hut, ac cording to a statement made to day by J: C. Williams, Jr., chair man of the club's Boys' Work Committee. At the meeting Mon day night an interesting 'movie secured through the courtesy of Optimist C. M. Brown, Jr., was shown, and refreshments were served by members of the com mittee. Coble Dairy Products had plenty of ice cream on hand, this being a contribution from the company through 'the courtesy of Optimist Archie Hege. Attention! Knot Hole Gang! You must come to the front gate for all games played here by the Flashers at Memorial Park. A portion of the bleachers on the third base line has been re served for you. You must sit 1 there in a body, and entrance to the games will be given only upon presentation of your Knot I Hole pass. Members of the Op timist club will be on hand to co-operate with you in every way possible. J. Hinsha*. .Takes Oath Office According to reliable informa tlon furnished by J. Gordon Hackett nad others, Mrs. R. J Hinshaw has the distinguished honor of having received the first and only appointment of a Wilkes woman to a State office. Mrs. R. J- Hinshaw was duly ap pointed by Governor R. Gregg Cherry, to the position and ot | fice as a member of the North 1 Carolina State Cosmetologist Carolina State Cosmetology Board. Mrs. Hinshaw received Board. Mrs. , . I her appointment and commission and Judge J. A. Rousseau resl-1 dent Judge of the 17 th Judicia District, administered to her the o2h of office in North Wilkes boro, on Saturday, June 12. Marriage License During the past week license to wed were issued by Wilkes Register of Deeds Troy C. Foster to the following: Claude Ashley, Warrensville, and Virginia Elliot, Fig; Frank J. Dresser, Appama tox, Va., and Margaret Louise Jones, North Wilkesboro; Arlie Durham, Traphill, and Laura Bell Hall, Roaring Rirer; Buel Call and Alma Ladd, both of Wilkesboro; Wrenn Odell Hayes,, North Wilkesboro route 1, and Manoline Vandenberg, North Wilkesboro route 2; Marvin Os borne, Lansing, and Pauline Jones, Clifton; Eldon K. Wiles, Traphill, and Peggy Jane Hem ric, Thurmond; Calvin Chambers ana Arma Anderson, both of Wil kesboro; (Hurley Haye? Billings and Ruby Ruth Billings, both of Lomax; Roby Lee Bowers, Elkln, and Helen Artie Johnson, Dob son. Boomer Wins Gome 10 to 2 On Tuesday Boomer defeated Purlear in a county league baseball game here Tuesday night 10 to 2. Felix Holder iheld the pitching edge orer Bnd Nichols in what prored to be a close contest nntil the 9th, when four hits were com bined with four errors and one walk for six runs. Longest hits of the game were doubles by Gwyn Nichols, Junior Eller, Gil bert, Greer and Kirby. The score by Innings: Batteries: Boomer, Holder, Phillips and Gilbert; Purlear, B. Nichols, G. Nichols and EHler. o Mr. and Mrs. N. W. Weldon, of Oxford and Storall, spent last Friday through Sunday with Miss Thelma Laws. Mr. Weldon i8 an assistant professor of Agronomy at State College, in charge of tobacco research at the State Experiment Station at Oxford. Horse Show July 2-3 Angus E. Chambers Is Claimed By Death Angus Everett Chambers, 65, well known citizen of this city, succumbed Tuesday following a second stroke of paralysis. A brief service was held to day, 9:30 a. m., at the residence here and the body was taken to Pisgah church on the Statesville highway for funeral and burial at 11 a. m. Rev. Noah Hayee was in charge. Mr. Chambers is survived by his wife, Mrs. Cora Chambers, and ten sons and daughters: Mrs. Paul Johnson, North Wil kesboro; Mrs. Olin Groce, Union Grove; Clyde Chambers, Mel dale, Va.; Mrs. Arthur Limldie, Winston-Salem; Arvill Chambers, Rural Hall; Clark, Willie, Har vey and Charlie Chambers, North Wilkesboro; Angus Chambers, Jr., Winston-Salem. Johnson and Scott In 2nd Primary Saturday, Jnne 26 Democrats Will Vote In Run-Off To Name Gub ernatorial Candidate Democrats of North Carolina will go to the polls again on Saturday, June 26, to nominate a candidate for governor, which is tantamount to election. In this run-off primary are only two candidates?Kerr Scott and Charles M. Johnson. Scott called for a run-off primary when the official count showed that, Johnson failed to receive a ma VM-ftir in prsiiCnflnuuy My 29. Johnson's lead over Scott was1 about 8,000 votes and there were four other candidates. C. J. Jones, chairman of the Wilkes board of elections, said here today that polls will open on June 26 at 6:30 a. m. and close at 6:30 p. m. Democrats! have been appointed as Judges | for the primary to replace regular Republican judges, who will be retained to serve with the Demo crats in the fall election. ? With The ? CHURCHES ST. PAUL'S EPISCOPAL Rev. B. M. Lackey, Rector Vesper service will be held In St. Paul's Episcopal Church Sun day afternoon, June 20th, at four o'clock. A cordial invitation is extended to everyone to at tend this service. W1LKESBORO METHODIST Rev. H. M. Welknan, Pastor Sunday School 10:00, Johnson Sanders, Superintendent. There will be preaching at the 11:00 o'clock hour by Dean Min ton. There will be no evening service. Union Church ? Preaching Sunday morning at 11:00 o'clock by the pastor. The Daily Vacation Bible School begins Monday morning, June 2'lst, at 9:00 o'clock. All the children of the community are invited to attend. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH John T. Wayland, Pastor 9:45 a. m. Sunday school, D. E. Elledge Superintendent. 11:00 a. m. Service of "Wor ship, "A Real Man." .7:00 p m. Training Union, Wrenn Vannoy, Director. 8:00 p. m. Service of Worship, "Beliefs For The Brave." WILKESBORO BAPTIST Rev. W. N. Brookshlre, Minister Sunday school, 9:45 a. m. T. E. Story, superintendent. Morning Worship, 11:00 a. m. Rev. Lawrence Highfill, speaker. Training tfnion, 7:00 p. m. Evening Worship, 8:00 p. m. The picture, "Romance of a Cen tury" will be shown. Plan Vacation Bible School at Fairplains A vacation Bible school will be held at Fairplains Baptist church, beginning Monday, Jnne 21, and continuing for one week. A train ed worker will be in charge. All are invited to attend. Committees For All Phases Big Event Appointed John' L. Bowers Will Be Manager; Prospects Good For Excellent Show Kiwanis cluib committee chair men today began intense work on arrangements: for the club's annual sponsored horse show here July 2 and 3. The committee! chairmen are hoping to eclipse last year's erent, which was considered one of the outstanding horse shows in the state. . { W. K. Sturdlvant is general chairman for the Kiwanis horse show and the Wilkes Agricultur al Fair, which will .be held in the fall under sponsorship of the club. Other chairmen for both events are: : Joe Barber, ad vertising; Dr. Wm. K. Newton, horse show tickets; Paul Church, fair tickets; Paul Vestal, stables and livestock; | Paul Osborne, grounds; John Walker, police and parking; John Cashion, pub licity; Paul Choplin, exhibits; Robert Gibbs, public utilities; Pat Williams, dog show for fair; Sam Winters, concessions; Dr. F. C. Hubbard, first aid; Mrs. A. F. Kilby, awards. I Box seat tickets have been mailed to all Klwanians and re turn check is expected not later than June 25, instead of July 25, I as was erroneously stated in the letter with the tickets. Every member will help in sale of tick ets and those who want box seat tickets in advance may contact Dr. Newton, tiCfet chairman. fhi-OT the south, will be horde Wow* manager and is expected here ? soon to supervise final arrange ments. Additional stables are be ing constructed and there will be ample seating capacity with box seats all around the track and bleachers in the | background. The track will be placed in excellent condition for thf show. it - i ? Furniture Men In Annual Meet John E. Justice, Jr., Heads Southern Furniture Man ufacturers Association The annual meeting of the Southern Furniture Manufactur ers Association I met Wednesday at the Mayriew Manor in . Blow ing Rock. t John E. Justice, of the Osk Furniture Company, is president of the Association and presided at the meeting. Those attending from North Wilkesboro were the following: Mr. and Mrs. Henry Moore, of the Home Chair com pany; Mr. Norman Smoak, Mr. Bob Smoak, Mrs. D. J. Carter, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Grier, of the Forest Furniture company; Mr. J. B. Caudill, Mr. B. J. Caudill. of the Key Cit^ Furniture com pany; Mr. Edd Gardner, Mr. Ralph Buchan, Mr. Hampton Mc Neill, of the Carolina Mirror Corporation; Mr* and Mrs. Dick Gwyn, of the American Furniture company; and Mjr. and Mrs. John E. Justice, Mr. I and Mm. Jim Carter, of the ' Oak Furnitnre company. The .meeting dosed. with a dellghtfu day night. dinner Wednes New Stalefciker Tricks Are Here i Motor Market,! local 8tudebak er dealer. Is nahr showing the 194$ model Stujdetoaker tracks at the company*?? showrooms on Ninth street. The mew Stttfebaker tracks hare many features which will be of Interest t<> the public and all are cordially inrlted to see the new trucks now. i ;now Im V. f. W.' Meeting '? Blue Ridge Mountain post of Veterans of Foreign Wars will meet Friday. 7:lQ p. at., at Car olina
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