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Would You Do In Tills Situation? If you had the choice of saving your own life or re maining on a doomed ship with your husband—which would you choose? Mrs. Renee Harris, sur vivor of the Titanic disaster, asks you to decide if she nfade the right choice. Don't miss her dra matic story "Did I Do the Right Thing?"—in the January 23rd Issue of The American Weekly, I Nation's Favorite Magazine with i The Baltimore Sunday American. Order from Your Local Newsdeal er. EISELE CONSTRUCTION CO. Tomlinson Building Phone 767 SEE US FOR ESTIMATES ON YOUR , BUILDING We Can Give You A Contract Price ; / BIOS FOR SVNMY STAR MUTE SOUGHT BY LOCAL POST OfFKE Winston-Salem.—Bids are be ing sought by the Winston-Salem Post Office for temporary star route service on Sundays between this city and WUkesboro. A request that sucb bids be se cured was sent Ira G. Shamel, local superintendent of mails, yesterday by J. B. MoGee of Gtreensboro, district superinten dent of Railway Mail Service. The Sunday star route will begin operating between Greens boro and Boone (through Win-t eton-Salem) 0n Feb. 4. The H. P. O. service' will run six days a week. In his letter to Mr. Shamel, Mr. McGee mentioned no date for the start of the Sunday route, nor did he say how long that service would be needed. The operator of the star route will have to furnish his own car and will hare to handle first class mall, newspapers, special deliv ery, and certain types of parcel] post. He will not he responsible for box delivery nor collection. ; The route schedule is: leatej Winston-Salem 3:55 a. m., arrive Wilkesboro 'by 6:30 a. m.; leave Wilke8boro 4:15 p. m., arrive Winston-Salem by 7 p. m. The route will cover Elkln, Ronda, Roaring River- ana North Wil kesboro, in addition to the term inal points. The Northwestern counties are now given mail serv ice by star routes but of Winston Salem and by an early Southern, Railway System train that leaves here at about 8:15 a. m. Boone Takes Pair From Wilkesboro Boone.—Appalachian High of Boone swept a double-header from Wilkesboro high here Fri i day night, the girls winning, 119-15, and the boys taking the second game, 32-22. Both games were marked by excellent defensive play on the part of the rivals. Lineups ana summaries: Girls' Game Pos. Boone 19 13 Wilkesboro F—Shull 11 8 Long F—Honeycutt 4 5 Bumgarner F—Greer 3 Morrison G—Green Store G—Hodges Vaught G—Presnell Johnson Substitutes: Boone—Bingham, Vannoy, Hughes 1, Greer, Dean, Hollars. Wilkesboro—Anderson, Jarvis, Billings. Boys' Game Pos. Boone 32 22 Wilkesboro ; F—Davidson 7 3 Triplett F—Edmiston 4 2 Whittington C—Barnette 2' Edwards G—Blackburn 6 7 Groce G—Hodges 6 9 Garwood Substitutes: Boone—Triplett 2, Barden 5, Crawford. Wilkesboro —Nichols, Parker. Moonshine Plants Closed By Officers Elkin, Jan. 6.—Yadkin and Surry county officers closed In on the moonshine business over the week-end t0 put a damper on the New Year for at least two .booze manufacturing plants. Yadkin officers arrestee Gwyn Rogan Mathis, of Wilkesboro route 2, Friday night after they stopped his coupe and found 60 gallons of illegal whiskey in it. Mathis is being held for a hear ing. The car and whiskey were confiscated. Early Friday morning Surry sheriff's deputies seized a 200 gallon illicit distillery near Kapps Mill. They didn't apprehend the still operators but destroyed 1,000 gallons of beer. o The average per-acre yield of tobacco in North Carolina in 1948 was 1,236 pounds, as com pared with an average of 999 pounds from 1937 to 1946. f()a, Ft>wi m>itr "Seeds for Peace," a project of the National Council of the State! Garden Clubs, has contributed; $40,000 worth of seeds, or: enough to plant 70,000 gardens, and these have been shipped to Europe and distributed to needy farm families there by Church World Srvice, the latter organiza tion reports. Mrs. W. Murdock MacLeod, of Atlanta, Ga., has been" named executive secretary of the United Council of Church Women—an organization representing the ac tive women's groups of some eighty-four Protestant churches in the United States—succeeding Mrs. Ruth Mougey Worrell, of Columbus, Ohio, who has retired. Mrs. MacLeod has ibeen promi nently Identified with the work of church women in Georgia and Tennessee, and has taught school In North and South Carolina. Recently she has been a secretary of women's work In the Presby terian church, U. S. A., in Atlan I ta. She is a graduate of Winthrop i College, S. C., and is the widow of Dr. W. Murdock MacLeod, prominent Presbyterian pastor of Pinehurst, N. C., and Nashville, Tenn. Mrs. Worrell was the first executive secretary of the Coun cil, serving from 1942 until this year. A widening horizon of social and community service on the part of rural women in these post-war years is reported by Miss Marjorie Winkler, an execu tive of the Woman's Society of Christian Service of the Metho dist Church. Recently she told a convocation of rural church leaders in San Jose, California: "Organizations of women of town and country churches, which in the past concentrated upon rais ing funds to pay the minister's salary, keeping the parsonage re paired and furnished, visiting the! sick and the shut-ins, have in most cases enlarged their concep tion of community service to in clude the promotion of Christian family life, the development of wholesome recreational opportun ities, the establishment of hot I school lunch programs, the build-j | ing of better roads, the develop | ment of health services, the pro-' vision of rural library service, the promotion of farmer's curb| markets, and the improvement of local government. . . . They are also studying about world prob-i lems, discovering world needs,j and getting acquainted withj world peoples. They are giving j time and money toward the build-; ing of a better world." Use Ads. For Results! ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE Having qualified as Administra tor of the estate of E. A. Caudill, deceased, late of Wilkes county, North Carolina, this is to .notify all persons having claims against the estate of said deceased to ex hibit them to the undersigned at Abshers, North Carolina, on or before the 30th day of December, 1949, or this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. All per sons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment. This the 30th day of Dec., 1948. GROVER C. CAUDILL, Admr. estate of E. A. Caudill, de ceased. 2-8-6tT
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