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Wilkes Y. M. G. A. is rate rag a building fund for the erection of a modern Y. M ATRIO North Wilkeaboro has a trading radios of 50 miles, serving 100,000 people in f> A. plant. Support H. The journal-Patriot Has Blazed the Trail of Progress In the "State ef Wilkes" For Over 41 Years NorUweatern Carolina. Vol. 43, No. 30 Published. Mondays and Thursdays NOBTH W1LKESB0R0, N. C? Thursday, July 29, 1948 Make North Wilkesboro Your Shopping Center Leonard Miller Hearing Is Set Friday, 2 P. M. Millers Creek Man Charged] With Poisoning Hi* Wife February 12 Preliminary hearing for Leon ard Miller, Millers Creek man charged with poisoning his wife, has been set for Friday, 2:00 p. m., before Justice of the Peace C. G. Glass in the Wilkes court room. Miller has been in Jail several weeks after he was charged with causing the death of his wife February 22 at their Millers Creek home. He has claimed in nocence throughout, fl The body of Mrs. Miller was taken from Pleasant Home Bap tist church cemetery over three months after burial and report of an autopsy stated that her stomach "contained more than enough strychnine to cause in stant death." / Miller is alleged to have hand ed her what he said was a head ache powder. She died in a few minutes after taking the pow o previously scheduled hear-1 lnga for Miller werb postponed. Turkish Tobacco Meets Scheduled For Wilkes County Turkish tobacco production in Vllkes and adjoining counties is poking very favorable an ad itlonal cash crop. Medium or mall farm operators with avall ble farm family labor are flnd ug Turkish tobacco to fit in with heir farming program to ad antage in this area'. The following field meetings ave been arranged by the local Jounty Agents and Turkish To acco Specialists for the purpose f -giving farmers of Wilkes Sounty an opportunity to obtain lore first-hand information on he production and handling of 'urkish tobacco. Tuesday, August 3 9:00 a. m.?Clyde Call's, 12 liles E. Wilkesboro on Highway 21. 10:30 a. m.?E. H. Black urn's, between Clingman and londa. 1:30 p. m.?Colon Barker's, tear Lorn ax postoffice. 3:30 p. m.?Walter Pardue's, rr Rock Creek church. Wednesday, August 4 9:30 a. m.?Kelly Pipe's, near Valsh's Orchard, Pores Knob. 1:30 p. m. ? Crom Ingool's, lockery. 3:30 p. m.?John Joines. * rs. Jane Sheets Claimed By Death Funeral service was held hursday at - Church of the irethren for Mrs. Jane Sheets, 4-year-old resident of Union ywnshlp who died Wednesday, ibv. J. W. Luke conducted the arvice. Surviving Mrs. Sheets are the ollowing sons and daughters: Trs. Taft Osborne and Mrs. Lee 'endry, Washington, D. C.; Mrs. till Boshears, Vannoy; Mrs. Iharlle Woodie, Nathans Creek; Irs. James Wyatt, Wagoner; Irs. Newland Miller, Cricket; llijah and Fred Sheets, Vannoy. August Session Of Wilkes Court Moy Be Postponed Wilkes court term scheduled to begin Monday, August 9, may be postponed because of the epidem ic of Infantile paralysis, it was learned today. County authorities haye writ ten Governor Cherry and hare asked that the court <be postponed but reply had not been received today. Six Polio Cases From This Comfy Baptist Hospital 1 Ten Western North Carolina counties were represented In the 28 cases of poliomyelitis being treated at North Carolina Bap tist Hospital Monday. Wilkes] County with six and Yadkin with 5 cases, were leading. Surry and Davidson County had four cases each, and Iredell Coun ty three patients. Others are Stokes County with two patients and Montgomery, Gaston, Rock ingham and Forsyth with one | patient each. Many other counties have also 1 'been represented In the census I kept on polio cases since the be-f ginning of the 1948 outbreak, but I the number changes daily with admissions and patients being | dismissed to their homes or trans ferred to convalescent centers. The Baptist Hospital has only I one patient from Forsyth Coun-| ty due to the fact that City Me morial Hospital restricts its serv-1 ices to patients from Winston-1 Salem and Forsyth County, so lo cal patients are admitted there, leaving Baptist Hospital facilities available to citizens of other J counties. One Winston-Salem patient was transferred from the Baptist to the City Hospital last week. The only one at the Bap tist Hospital now is twenty-year old Betty Conrad, of Forsyth County, who has been in an iron lung at th?~Baptist Hospital since last March. The entire second floor of the Baptist Hospital's pediatric wing has been converted into a polio ward, and eight additional nurs es, including one physical therap ist, have been secured for the hospital by the Red Cross through auspices of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralys is. Wilkes County polio patients at the hospital during the past week have included: Carl B. An derson, age 3 1-2 months, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl B. Anderson, of Oakwoods; Gail Smithey, age 21 months, daughter of Mrs. Gladys Smithey, Moravian Falls; Joe W. Spicer, age 17 months, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe W. Spicer, North Wilkesboro; Joe Gresmehr, age 15 years, son of Fritz Gresmehr, North Wilkes | boro; Patricia Ann Jones, age 3 1-2 years, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Odell Jones of North Wilkes i boro; and Roger Lee Love, age 4, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl R'. Love, Wilkesboro, Route 2. ? ? BOY SHOT BY HORSE Rome ? A horse shot 13 year-old Francesco Concigliello ati Messina Wednesday The news paper Republics said the horse, stomping around Messina's First of September Street, kicked a stray cartridge. It exploded and wounded the boy in the foot. SANITATION PRACTICES URGED THROUGHOUT WILKES COUNTY! RjrlC- R. SPRUIIjL and animals. WHk? Sanltoian 4. Keep garbage cans clean i The public has already seen and the lid kept on at all times the DDT spraying in action and 6 Do not n,,t u "l the notice of the Town Boards b?n*B H regarding certain ordinances that they ghonld . h ? are available. should be burned or buried. Thanks and recognition has already been extended to those who gave time, money, and en ergy towards the spraying pro gram for the towng and outly ing areas. However, this is not enough?it .is hte duty of each and every person, not merely in the towns, but all over the county to do .their part in fol lowup work?seeing that their own promisee are cleaned up and \ iarayed regularly. Atfiftlon is called to a few thinthat should be looked af ter at all times: 1. All pig and chicken pens, stables and dog houses should be feept clean and sprayed. t. Do not allow rubbish to ac 6. Be sure that all plumbing is in working order and that the disposal lineg are not working out of the ground. 7. IT you have a privy, see that it is fly-proof nad that the lids I are kept. closed. 8. Wash and peal all uncooked fruits before eating. > 9. Cook vegetables well. 10. Observe all general health i rules. " | 11. Screen all outside doors and windows in house. ^ I The Health Department sug gest that each one use plenty of lime around his premises and under the house and that each one should use a good DDT in sect spray regularly , . I If everyone will do their part, cumulate. / . . imui&te. , ? " cvwjvue win uo inetr pa f. Burn or bury dead chickens the program will be a success. Wilkes Polio Total Is Now 14 Sanitarian Aid Police To Cheek Sanitary Work Will Inspect Private Prem ises to See If City Ordi nances Are Being Kept Police Chief J. E. Walker and E. R. Spruill, Wilkes sanitarian, today began a check of sanitation measures In North Wllkesboro In the interest of infantile paralysis prevention and enforcement of city ordinances. The officials are checking con ditions of hog pens in portions of the city where hog pens are allow ed and are giving special atten tion to garbage disposal. Homes will be checked relative to the manner in which garbage is stored in covered cans and all phases of ordinances in the interest of sani tation will be enforced, Chief Walker said. Although spraying has been done, it Is up to every resident to keep premises clean in the in terest of sanitation, officials pointed out, and in the Interest of public health the ordinances must be obeyed. Lillie Geneva Cos* Funeral Wednesday Last rites were held Wednes day at Sweet Home church for Mrs, Lillie Geneva Cass, 57, resi dent of Somers township, who died Tuesday. Rev. Grady White and Rev. E. K. Wooten conducted the service. Mrs. Cass leaves the following sons and daughters: Miss Nettie Cass, Mrs. Minnie Gregory, Mrs. Nellie Brown, Miss Dinah Cass, Julius and R. C. Cass, all of Union Grove: Mm Stella May berry, Greensboro. o ? Raymond Blevins Bookkeeper Yadkin Valley Motor Co. Raymond Blevins today assum ed his duties as bookkeeper and office manager at Yadkin Valley Motor company. Mr. Blevins, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Blevins, of Hays, is a graduate of Mountain View school and Lenoir-Rhyne college, where he majored in business ad ministration. During the war he spent two years in the coast guard and served in the Pacific area. He and his wife are reeid ing in the Fhirplains community. ? o ? Nichols Purchases Whiteway Laundry W. A. Nichols, formerly of Spartanburg, S. C? has purchased the Whiteway Laundry from Gor don and Eddie Forester. Mr. Nichols, for 25 years was engaged in the laundry business in Spartanburg, and for the past three years operated the M. & N. Laundry in Taylorsville. He will continue to operate the Whiteway Laundry under the same name here and has brought about several improvements, in cluding very prompt service to patrons. Farm & Home Week For 1948 Cancelled By J. P. CHOFMN County Agent Dr. I. O. Schaub, Director N. C. State College Extension Service, has Just announced that the Farm and Home Week scheduled for the last pf August and the first of September at N. C. State College will be cancelled. This program is held annually for the farmers and farm women of the state. Various programs and demonstrations and enter tainment at these meeting^ have been of much interest to several thousand N. C. farmers and farm women. The College and Extension of ficials regret that this program will not be available to the farm people of North Carolina this year. Cotton Improvement groups in North Carolina have only un til August 15 to apply for free federal cotton classing and mar ket news service. SUPPORT THE Y. M. C. A Flashers' Schedule For Coming Week Tonight, Friday and Saturday nights ? North Wilkesbore at Mount Airy. Standay afternoon and Monday night ? North Wilkesboro at Abingdon, Va. Tuesday and Wednesday nights ?Mount Airy at North Wilkes boro. Galax, first place team the Flashers are trying to dislodge, will play Wytheville the remain der of this week and Mount Airy on Saturday and Sunday. Half acre Speaks At Optimist dab Meeting Tuesday | The regular bi-monthly meet ing of the North Wilkesboro Op- I timist club was held Tuesday | noon at Hotel Wilkes with a good attendance of members. The luncheon meeting opened with invocation being spoken by Chaplain H. M. Wellman. The program was in charge of I Forreet Yugman, who presented I to the cluib the speaker, W. D. Halfacre, and he rnhde a splen j did talk, using as his theme, the words, "What Have You to Give?" Guests at the luncheon were: Prseident Bill Hancock of the | Winston-Salem club and John Bverhart with President Maurice Walsh; Paige Choate with Op timist Herbert Marshall; George F. Brown of Charlotte, wiht Op timist Louis Hill Jenkins and Hal Snyder with Optimist Frank Wal- | ker. President Bill Hancock, of the Winston-Salem club, made a brief but interesting talk on his visit to the International Convention held at San Antonio, Texas. Dean Minton WHI Be Ordained Here I Dean Minton, ministerial stu dent, will be ordained as a Bap tist minister in an ordination service to be held Sunday after noon, 3:00 o'clock, at the Mrst Baptist church in this city. Rev. W. N. Brookshire will preach the ordination sermon and a presbytery will be compos ed of deacons and ministers. The young minister is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Minton, of North Wilkesboro. In Septem ber he will resume hiB studies at Mars Hill college. o City Cabs To Giro Sunday Receipts To Aid The Polio Fund City Cabs and Davis Cabs, owned by J. C. Davis/ of North Wilkesboro will give all receipts on Sunday, August 1, to the polio fund, it was announced today by Mr. Davis. In additon to the donation of receipts by Mr. Davis the drivers will also donate their pay for Sunday, Mr. Davis said, and the total is expected to result in a substantial contribution to the worthy cause. o Pores Knob H.D. Club Postpones Annual Recreational Meet The Pores Knob Home Demon |stratlon Club will postpone their annual recreational meeting, which had been planned for Au gust 14, to a future date, which I will be announced later when the polio epidemic subsides. Precautions To Prevent Spread Being Continued Three More Sent to Baptist Hospital And One to Con valescent Center Thirteen Wilkes people , have been reported as polio patients this month and official report is awaited on the 14 th which is re ported to have the disease, the Wilkes Health Department dis closed today. ThiB week three cases have been definitely added to the total. Roger Lee Love, age 4, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Love, of Wilkesboro Route 2, was hos pitalized at Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem. Mary Combs, three-year-old daughter of Mr and Mrs. R. W. Combs, who live on the H. M. An derson farm near this city, was reported as a polio case this week. The report stated that she be came ill three weeks ago and had recovered from her illness, leav ing one leg partially paralyzed. She had not been in a hospital but today was sent to the polio convalescent camp at Camp Sut ton, having passed the acute, or contagious, stage. Carl Anderson, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Anderson, who have been residing on D Street, in North Wilkesboro, is in Baptist Hospital. The child is an infant and the case has been diagnosed as infantile parailysis. j Bill Reavis, -11-year-old eon of | Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Reavis, who live on F Street, was taken yes terday to Baptist hospital in Win ston-Salem, and is said to have polio, although official report of diagnosis had not been received today. Meanwhile precautions planned to aid in prevention of polio are being continued. "? Parents are asked to keep their children at home and away from all types of public gatherings, including the-| aters, ball games, Sunday school, i church services and all other places where people congregate. | Additional airplane spraying j with DDT was carried out over outlying communities $arly this week. Home owners have been asked to spray their own prem ises, and in the Wilkesboro8 a rigid program of sanitation prac tices is being carried out in ac cordance with sanitation ordi nances. State Beekeepers Meet At Brevard The North Carolina Beekeep ers Association is holding its summer meeting on August 20, 1948 at Wild wood Farm near Brevard. This meeting is in con junction with field day planned by the Transylvania Beekeepers Association and promisee to be one of the best meetings which we have had for a long time. Mr. W. H. Arthur, owner of Wild wood Farm, is an amateur bee keeper hut has been practicing some very up-to-date' methods and has planted a considerable number of honey plants for his bees. Dwight York Band At Ferguson 30th Dwight York and his radio ?band from station WKBC will put on a show at Ferguson school Friday night, 8:00 o'clock. The show will be sponsored by the ^ Ferguson P.-T. A. for benefit of the school and all are invited to attend. u Bees must travel an average of 150,000 miles to gather a single pound of honey. MOUNTAIN LIONS TO HAVE EIGHT HOME GAMES FOOTBALL SEASON North Wilkesboro Mountain Lions, who will be gunning for a South Piedmont Conference championship this fall, have eight home games scheduled for the football season and will play only four games *way. The Lions plan to open here on September 10 against Mocks vllle, which is a much earlier date than usual. One week la ter on September 17 they will play at Granite Falls here before opening the conference schedule at Spencer September 24. Asheboro will play here Oc tober 1 and the Mountain Lions will go to Boone October 8 and to Barium Springs October 15. Back in Memorial Park North Wilkesboro will play Thomas ville October 2'2, Monroe October 29, Stateeville November 5, El kin November 12 and Wllkesboro November 19. Jack Sparks, of Spruce Pine, will coach the Mountain Lioni this year, succeeding Howard Bowers, who resigned to become coach at Kingsport, Tenn. Yodkin Voyagers Planning Broadcast Over Station WSJS Gordon Finley, Jr., end Iewii Nelson, Jr., who recently Jour neyed on a robber raft from North Wilkesboro over the Tad kin river to Cheraw, S. 0., will appear on a broadcast over radio station WSJS In Winston-Salem Saturday, 12:46, to tell some of their experiences. They will be oh "News of Northwestern North Carolina" broadcast put on by P. 0. Carver, WSJS new8 dlrectorr All are in vited to listen in. i o | Postpone Revivals At Moravian Falls A revival scheduled to begin 1 Sunday, August 1, at Moravian Falls Baptist church has been | postponed, and the revival which was announced to begin the (third Sunday at Moravian Palls Methodist church has also been postponed because of the polio epidemic. Dates for the revivals will be announced later. A tent revival which began | Saturday in Moravian Falls was f called off because of polio. o?? Coble Doubles Milk Production Wilkesboro Plant Due to the increased produc tion of fluid milk in Wilkes and surrounding counties, Coble Dai ry Products, Inc., of Wilkesboro, has had to double its operatiohs. It became necessary for the com pany to buy one 6-foot Rogers condenser, two 1,000 gallon cream cooling vats, and two 1,000 gallon skimmed condenser milk cooling vats. This new equip ment is the very latest improved stainless steel machines and will do the job for the betterment of qualty dairy products. This increase in the flow of fluid mTfk has been brought about by the dairy farmer,, of this area increasing their herds and many small grain farmers converting 100 per cent to dairy farming. At present, B. B. B. Broome, of Wilkesboro, is in Minnesota buying high bred dairy cattle and shipping them into this area. It is the aim of Mr. Broome to continue buying until ten thousand of these fine dairy cows have been sold here in North Carolina. He ig acting upon the instructions of State College and Coble Dairy Prod ucts, Inc. So far, over 500 have been shipped and the farmers over the state have been buying them as fast as they come into their section. Many have been purchased here in Wilkes Coun- [ ty. Most every farmer has been highly in favor of the idea and proved it by ordering cows ahead of shipment. Not only has the local plant doubled the operations, it was decided a good time to remodel and arrange all machinery to make it a much faster operation. H F. Marshall, the plant manag er announces "The increased amount of milk is helping great ly to meet demand, but that we still have a long way to go be fore we can produce enough milk to supply our local market. Support the > . M. C. A. MfHkes Schools Plan Opening On Monday, A eg. 30 Fewer Teacher Vacancies Than Year Ago In Wilkes County System Monday, August 30, has been tentatively set as date for open ing the 1948-49 term of Wilkes county schools, C. B. Eller, oounty superintendent of schools! said today. The date has been set ten tatively, depending upon the con ditions prevailing at that time relative to spread of Infantile paralysis, which health author ities think has reached its peak of intensity. One bright prospect for the coming school year is the fact that fewer teacher vacancies ex ist than a year ago. There re main several vacancies in the county system, and resignations are received at intervals, but the situation as a whole in Wilkes county is far better than a year ago. This is in contrast to the situation prevailing over the state, which is definitely no bet ter than last year as far as teach er supply is concerned. During the vacation period much work has been done in conditioning school buses for the coming terms. Minor repairs have also been made to a number of school buildings. ? o Benefit Baseball Game Nets $185 For Polio Fnnds Net proceeds of the baseball game played here Sunday after noon between North Wilkeeboro and Abingdon of the Blue Ridge league were turned over to the polio fund for erection of a per manent polio hospital in Greens bor.o. Extreme hot weather reduced the crowd but the sum of J18 5 was realized for the fund. After game expenses consisting of league fees, cost of balls, and share for visiting team were de ducted, the net gate receipts to taled $175, which was supple mented by about ten dollars in cash donated by fans at the gate. ' O ? Fairplains Club ! To Meet Tuesday; Picnic Cancelled Fairplains Home Demonstra tion club picnic planned for Tuesday has been cancelled, but the club will meet Tuesday, 2:00 p. m. at the home of Mrs. Wiley Brooks. E. R. Sprulll, oounty sanitarian, will address the club on the subject of "Sanitation." Meetings Junior Optimists Called Off During Polio Announcement was made today that all meetings of thfe Junior Optimist club, including play ground sessions, have been post poned for the duration of the in fantile paralysis threat in the county and that further an nouncements will appear when meetings can be resumed. WILKES POULTRY INDUSTRIES TO L SHOW IN POULTRY EXHIBITION [Valuable Property At Auction Saturday Fifty beautiful bomesltes on Highway 18, 4 1-2 miles north of this city will he sold at auction Saturday, July ,31, 2 :00 p. m., by Williamg and Clark Land Auction company of which M. C. Woodle and P. E. Dancy are local selling agents. A $60 bill will be given away at the sale, which Is expected to attract wide atten tion. The property includes some of the most desirable home sites now available in the vicin ity of North Wilkesboro. o v, | Import Meeting Of VFW Friday , _____ A very important meeting of Blue Ridge Mountain Post "of Veterans of Foreign Wars will be held Friday, 8:00 p m., at Car olina restaurant and all members are urged to attend, Commander S. L. Whltaker said today. By J. B. CHOPTJN County Agent The hatcherymen, feed dealers, and poultry processors had a din ner meeting recently at the Princess. Cafe and enjoyed a good fried chicken dinner and discussed some of the poultry probIems of Wilkes County. In order to promote the poul try business in the Wilkes area an organization was formed. For rest Jones, of the Mountain. Poultry Company was elected president; Hight Helms, of the Wilkes Farm Center, vice-pres ident, and Eld Mclntlre, of the Blue Ridge Hatchery, secretary treasurer. The officSrg are to draw up by-laws. This organization is to sponsor an exhibit to advertise Wilkes Poultry Industries at the Caro lines Poultry Exposition which isi to be held at Ashevllle, Septem ber 28. A booth for this pur pose hag already been reserved. A colored moving picture on the ''Control of Poultry Diseases'' was shown at this meeting.
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