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Foundation For Infantile paralysis spent over $20,000 for Wilkes Polio Victims in 1948. Goal of the January campaign is $10,000. inr, JuuivnAL-rAiiuui The Journal-Patriot Has Blazed the Trail of Progress In the "Statetof Wilkes" For Over 42 Years ^Northwestern Carolina. Published Mondays and Thursdays NORTH WILKESB0R0, N. C., Monday, January 17,r 1949 Make North Wilkesboro Your Shopping Center YOUR'iNFANTILEPA^ ru The two bright-eyed youngsters in this picture breathe today because American people give to the Infantile Paralysis campaign. The little fellow in the iron lung the right is Clyde Wayne Luffman, one of the 42 in Wilkes county stricken with lio in 1948. He is the five-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Grady F. Luffman, of the eastern part of Wilkes county near Elkin. The other lad is Dwain Ray Barbee, of Stanley county. Mrs. Jane Lawrence. Polio Supervisor at Baptist Hospital, is shown in the picture with the boys. POLIO FUNDS SAVE LIVES OF LADS IN ACUTE STAGES OF THE DISEASE Clyde Wayne Luffman, 5, son of Mr. and Mrs. Grady F. Luff man, ^f State Road, Wilkes coun ty, is one of several North Caro lina children so badly striken with polio in 1948 that they could breathe only in an iron lung. I This Wilkes lad was pospita-1 lized at Baptist hospital in Win ston-Salem September 5th, with t a respiratory case that called for an iron iun'g Or immediate death. The National Foundation for In fantile Paralysis, with funds do nated in previous March of Dimes campaigns, had the iron lungs ready. They were brought into North Carolina by plane and rushed to points where respira tory cases were found. According to latest reports re ceived here, the Wilkes lad was making progress and by this time may be able to breathe without help and may be out of the iron lung. Like many of the other 41 cases, the Luffman lad's treat ment £°8t heavily, at the rate of $25 per day. Up to December 1, the sum of $2,450 was paid by thejflVllkes chapter of the Nation al^Aoundation For Infantile Pa i^|s for his treatment, which must go on until he is well. The Wilkes chapter exhaust ed all of its accumulated fund Jn paying hospital and treatment costs for Wilkes patients and now has received from the Na tional Foundation an advance of approximately $25,000. The National Foundation funds must be re-imbursed if it is to have the funds to save other chil dren in epidemics, wherever they may strike. In the campaign now going on, Wilkes is asked to raise $12,000. The National chapter's I funds for epidemic use have been used up, and a successful cam paign is highly essential to con tinue the work. Sixteen of the 42 Wilkes cases remain in hospitals, with bills mounting daily. Those who have been sent home must have brac es, special shoes an<j many of them need continued treatment. Instead of dimes, it will take dollars in the campaign this year to raise the polio funds needed. But the National Foundation, with the aid of contributions from all over the county, is the organization that can and will provide care and treatment for every polio victim. P7T. A. To Meet Thursday Evening North Wilkesboro Parent Teacher Asociation will meet on Thursday, January 20, 7:30 p. m. A picture will be shown to il lustrate the findings of the North j Carolina Education Commission,1 relative to needs of the schools and suggested remedies for edu-j cation of today and the future. Open house will be held to show parents results of the light ing projects, in which ade lightlng was installed in the school buildings. All who are interested in the schools are invited to attend. , o American Legion To Meet- Thursday Wilkes post of the American - Legion will meet Thursday night, t unary 20, at the Legion club use. «Mt's your organization, Legionnaires, keep It the 'best in the world", the anouncement said. | - o Board Of Review To Meet Thursday The Boy Scout of Review will meet Thursday, 7:30 p. m., at the Presbyterian Scout room. — o ' Pox' more than 30 years trac tors ^£4 motor vehicles have placing horses and mules Jirce of farm power. One -^results has 'been the re ■ of more than 55 million of cropland formerly re Ired for producing feed for -Tkatock. These acres have been -.Bed for the production of food for human consumption. North Wilkesboro Wilkesboro Split Jayvees And Girls Win For N. Wilkesboro; Wilkes boro Boys Win Thursday was a big night for basketball here as North Wilkes boro and Wilkesboro teams played three games before a ca pacity crowd in the North Wil kesboro gymnasium. The triple bill was started off with North Wilkesboro B team boys defeating the Wilkesboro jayvees easily 34 to 12. North Wilkesboro girls also won, with a score of 31 to 16 as they played their best game of the season, dnd Wilkesboro boys gained a commanding lead early in the game* to take the final event 34 to 26. North Wilkesboro girls, paced by Woodruff and Whicker, mov ed away to an early lead in the opener and were never headed. Wilkesboro boys rolled up a 22-9 lead in the first half of the game and withstood a late rally by the boys from across the Yadkin. Groce, Edwards and Whittington were the big threats for Wilkes boro while J. Eller and McNeill led the way for North Wilkes boro. Lineups and summaries: Girls' Game Pos. N. Wilkesboro Wilkesboro F—S. Eller 2 8 Long F—R. Eller 2 4 Bumgarner P—Woodruff 13 14 Bryan G—F. Harris Stone G—Pruitt Lowe G—M. Adams Yaught Substitutes: North Wilkesboro —Whicker 12, Coffey, L. Adams, P. Harris 2, Reavis, Holder. Wil kesboro—Billings, Johnson, Pen nell. McElwee Will Address Pleasant Hill P.-T. A. W. H. McElwee, attorney whc is a member of the Wilkes Cham ber of Commerce, will speak be fore the Parent-Teacher Associ ation of Pleasant Hill School 7:30 p. m. tonight. Wilkes County School Superin tendent C. B. Eller and Tom S Jenrette, secretary of the Nortl Wilkesboro Chamber of Com merce, will talk briefly. The Men's Chorus of Pleasant Hil] -Bantiat Church-will aing. o ■ Basketball Games In The Wilkesboros Wilkesboro high school basket ball teams will play Mountaii View at Mountain View Tuesdaj night. On Friday night Spartt will play Wilkesboro at Wilkes boro. On Friday night Mountaii View will play North Wilkesborc at North Wilkesboro. First game on all the above dates will begin at 7:30 p. m. o 1949 Chevrolets To Be Shown 22d Chevrolet's 1949 passengei cars, completely restyled ant possessing more mechanical Ira provements than any model with in recent years, go on display at Gaddy Motor Co. showroomi here Saturday, January 22. The automobile is the produc; of three years of engineering re search and design development Begun immediately after V-^ Day, experimental work has in eluded 1,068,000 miles of tes driving over the roads of the Gen eral Motors Proving Ground an< arid highways at the ,southwes The local showing will be hel< simultaneously with displays ii other cities ^pd is expected t< draw one of the biggest crowd in the history of events of iti kind. "From inquiries at our office and dealer showrooms, we knot that literally millions are waitin; to see the car," said T. H. Keat 1 n g, general sales manager '^Chevrolet's solid reputation fo value and reports of impressivi new features have kindled a na tionwide interest. "We do not believe the publli will be disappointed. While th< car carries numerous comfort anc convenience advances, it main tains our tradition of rugged, re liable transportation at the low est possible cost." Boys' Game Pos. N. Wilkesboro Wilkesbor< F—Hudson 10 Groc< F—B. Eller * 2 Garwooc C—J. Eller 9 8 Fdwardi G—McNeill 9 6 Triplet' G—Bussell 4 8 Whittingtoi Score at half: Wilkesboro 22 North Wilkesboro 9. Substitutes: North Wilkesbor< —Badgett 4, Day, Swofford, Nel son. Wilkesboro—Nichols, Hub bard, Linney, Parker, Eller. o North Carolina cotton groweri produced an average of 45' pounds of lint per acre In 1948 Building And Loon To Meet Jon. 24 The Regular annual ipeeting of the shareholders of the North Wllkesboro Building & Loan As sociation will be held in the Town Hall on Monday night, January 24, at 7:00 o'clock, for the purpose of electing direc tors for the ensuing year and the transacting of such other business as may come before the meeting. . U Caroon President Of Association Of Finance Companies Annual Convention Held During Past Weel^ In City Of Charlotte j W. J. Caroon, manager of the' credit division of the Insurance Service and Credit Corporation, 1 of North Wilkeaboro, was elect-! ed president of the North Caro lina Asociation of finance comp anies in annual convention last' week. i The 2nd annual convention of the association was held at Hotel • Charlotte Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, iln adition to Mr. I Caroon, the local firm was rep-1 resented at the convention by James M. Anderson, manager of the insurance department. Mr. Caroon during the past year was a member of the board of directors and second vice president. He was instrumental in organization of the association and has been one of its best known and most active members. Other officers of the associa tion elected last week week were:. C. H. Harris, of Atlantic Ac ceptance Corporation, Salisbury, first vice president: T. S. Roar ers, Local Finance company, of Charlotte, second vice president; Li. P. McKinney, Lenoir Finance company, secretary and treasur er. The association has ninety North Carolina firms as members i and it is a distinction to Mr. Caroon and to North Wllkesboro that he . was named president of this large and influential group. o All Farmers May Participate In AAA Program H. C. Roberts, chairman of the Wilkes county AAA, announc , ed* today that all farmers in Wilkes county have an opportun ity to participate in the 1949 Agricultural Conservation pro gram. The program will be used to meet the most urgently needed soil conservation without favor to any class or group of farmers. The farmers who cooperate in the program will be required to match the assistance provided under AAA with labor, money and experience. This program is a means of cooperation between i the Government — representing all of the people in the country— ; and the farmer. Through the . AAA, the Government helps to share the cost of approved and r needed soil conservation prac . tices. This program, based on t conservation practices approved . by each state's foremost techni [ cians as well as practical farm ■ ers, is proving the most effective l' and economical way for the na t tion to obtain vitally needed , conservation. , Mr. Roberts stated that the , program is for all farmers—and ay farmers are urged to take j advantage of this nation-wide ef r foirt to conserve soil. The first r stpp is t0 contact a farmer com ! mitteeman or visit the county of fice for information on conserva . tion practices being stressed in , this county. The county AAA of . fice is open each week day, Mon day through Friday, from 8:00 , a. im. until 4:30 p. m. J Mr. Roberts further stated that [ looking back on accomplishments . of farmers who have participated . in the program, farmers can be . proud of what has been done. , They are helping the nation pro ,! tect its most valuable natural re source, safeguarding the food , supply, and helping to make, a j stronger and healthier nation. [1 By cooperating in this program , farmers have worked for the welfare of the Nation and at the same time have made a better farm for themselves and for those who take over after they leave. o Chamber Commerce | Directors To Meet i Directors of the Wilkes <Tham ! ber of Commerce will meet Tues . day, 12 noon, at Hotel WItk*»s. Charles! Hanes, Jr., Victim Of Accident On Sunday Evening Young Man killed When Car Over+urna On Ber ry's Lane; Rites Jan. 18 Charles. W. Hanes, Jr., 2<8, a well known resident of the An tioch community of Wilkes coun ty, was instantly killed late Sun day evening in an automobile ac cident. ■Coroner P. M. Myers* report on the accident stated that Mr. Hanes was driving on Berry's Lane road, a country road be tween -highways 421 and old route 60 about ten miles east of Wilkesboro. His car ran out of the road, on the road bank for some distance and overturned. He was instantly killed. Cause of the accident cduld not be determ ined. i Mr. Hanes is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. ■Hanes; his wife, Mrs. Flay B. Hanes; one son, Ronnie Hanes; and the following brothers and sisters: Mrs. Audrey Goodnight, Kannapolis; Mjrs. Turner Swaim and Mrs. Y. Bi Johnson, Ronda; Jimmie and Jack Hanes,Ronda. Funeral service will be held Tuesday at two p. m., at Pleas ant Grove Baptist church with Rev. R. R. Crater in charge. j-O ; Duke Power Co. Has Banbuet Here Thursdi yEvening Duke Power ompany employes and their wive > and husbands enjoyed a bi nquet Thursday evening at Car. ilina .Restaurant. ^ifty-two we: e present to en joy the banque dinner and ad dresses by com >any officials. Of particular Interest was the address of C. !. Reid, rate ex pert and a dir« ctor of the com pany. He cited the outstanding growth of the a astern during the past ten years, an^ the prob lems affiliated - pith growth , and expansion. In 1' 3,8. the company had 206,000 cui tomers, and in 1948 there wer< 487,000—more than doubled in en years. Kilowatt hour use of electricity in 1938 averagec 640 per family. In 1948 the ave: age was 2,000. In that ten-y sar period the number of electi icity customers in the United Sti tes increased by 38 per cent. In tl e Carolinas area served by the I uka, Power sys tem the increase over the same period was 107 ] er cent. Mr. Reid explt Ined to the em ployes that the jreat growth of the system incre: ,ses the respon sibility of every smploye to ren der.Maximum 8ei rice to the pub lic. He also comniented on prob lems of operation] saying that the great increase in irice of coal had caused production cost of elec tricity to soar to hew heights. He states that 38.6 (cents of every dollar t&ken in ly Duke PoweT company goes to I buy coal to operate generating plants. He explained that thejBystem former ly depended onj hydro-electric power for 75 pen cent of elec tricity used and now coal must furnish 75 per cent and hydro electric only 25 ner cent. Robert S. GibHs, manager oi the North Wilkesporo branch ol the company, reported on expan sion during the past year. Num ber of miles of lines were in creased ten per cint, number oi cusomers increase! 14 per cent and number of lmlowatt hours used increased 25 per cent. In addition to employes of the local branch, the following were guests at the banquet: Joe How ard, of Greensboro, agricultural engineer, who acted as toastmast er; John Paul Lucks, H. E. Car ter and Roy A. Maimer, of the central office at Charlotte; Miss Addie Malone, home economist, of Winston-Salem; jr. S. Kenerly, mayor of North Wmkesboro; and Rev. Watt M. Cooper, First Pres byterian pastor. Square Dai For Polio! Ice 21 Benefit aravian Falls sponsoring a held Friday tight o'clock, People of the Mi community are square dance to be| night, January 21, for benefit of the injfantile paral ysis campaign. The dance will be held at the Moravian Falls community ifouse with excellent square dance mus ic, and a most enjoy uble occasion is anticipated. Admission will b i one dollar for each person at1 ending with all proceeds going ii to the polio fund. Gome Regulations Cited By Protector —— District Game Protector Joel Bentley stated today that under the authority vested in the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission by Chapter 263, Ptifblic Laws of 1947, and General Statutes, Sec tion 113, 82-126, the commission hereby resolves that if shall be unlawful to hunt or take upland game birds or animals, or trap within 500 yards of high water during a flood period. Junior Chamber Holds Interesting: Meeting Thursday To Aid In Bingo Party, Dime Board; To Sponsor Baseball League The Wilkes Junior Chamber of Comerce met Thursday evening at Hotel Wilkes with a large at tendance. The members and guests were highly entertained by Miss Lois Scroggs, who was pre sented by Program Chairmen Ro land Potter. Miss Scroggs' ren dition of several popular piano numbers was very well received by all present. During the business session which preceded the program, the club voted to join with the Lions 'Club in sponsoring a bin go party for the benefit of the March of Dimes campaign and to operate the "Dime Board" one Saturday in co-operation with the Lions and Optimist clubs. By a unanimous vote it was decided to again sponsor the Wilkes County Baseball League, which was so successful last summer in spite o' the Polio epidemic which cut the attendance during much of the season. ^ O ■ National Guard Vacancies Open To War Veterans "Veterans are eligible to enlist in Battery C 117th PA BN of the North Carolina National Guard, although recruiting efforts are being/ directed primarily toward men 17 to 18 years and six months of age," Lt. Don Story announced today. "There are just 21 vacancies remaining before Battery C 112th FA BN NCNG reaches its full authorized strength of 77, and we anticipate that these will be filled largely by the 17 and 18 year-olds who can elect to take their military training in the Na tional Guard rather than be sub ject to the draft," he stated. Veterans are wanted, however, to help train the inexperienced recruits, and will have an oppor tunity to work with the latest equipment. Both veterans and re cruits will receive regular Army rates of pay for their training. 'In addition, veterans will receive an additional five per cent in longevity pay for each three years of service, whether in the National Guard, the Army, the Air Force, the Navy, Marine Corps or Coast Guard. _ "Those men Interested in join ing Battery C 112th FA BN, NCNG should apply to M.Sgt. Allen or Sgt. Miller at the Na tional Guard Armory, located In Love Case Will Go To Sapreme Court In Feb. Wilkes liqupr Case To Be Argued On Constitution al Question Soon Charlie Love, who was con victed in federal court for manu facturing illicit liquor and was sentenced to 18 months in pris on, has appealed his case to the United States supreme court. Love's attorney, T. R. Bryan, * of Wilkesboro, was in Washing ton Thursday to be sworn in be fore the high court in anticipat ion of arguing the case in Feb ruary. Bryan was presented to the supreme court by Attorney Robert H. McNeill, formerly of Wilkes and now a prominent at torney in the nation's capital. !. Federal alcohol tax unit ag ents swooped down on the Love home about five miles southeast of Wilkesboro and made a search, 'which resulted in finding a large still and about 400 gallons of liquor in the basement of his home. The search and seizure e ventually led to finding similar outfits in two other homes near by. The appeal to the supreme court is based on the contention that the search of the Love 1 home was illegal. It was upheld in court at Wilkesboro by Judge Johnson J. Hayes on the conten tion of the government that the federal agents were making a search for a wanted man when the liquor still was discovered, and this decision was upheld by the circuit court. The defendant contends that his constitutional rights under the fourth amendment were vio lated by the government agents in that they searched three homes instead of one, and that they ov erstepped their rights in the al leged search. The defendant also contends that there was no serach warrant and that any ev idence found if the search was illegal should have been held null and void by the court. Dr. Long Rites On Sunday Afternoon Funeral service was held Sun day afternoon at Mt. Zlon Meth odist church at Cornelius for I Dr. Hollis M. Long, who died on Wednesday at his home at Lafay ette, La. He was the brother of Mr. William T. Long, of Wllkes boro. Those from Wilkes attending the funeral included Mr. and Mrs. Wm. T. Long and children, Dr. and Mrs. M. G. Edwards and son, Mr. M. G. Edwards, Jr.,W. C. Prevette, Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Fos ter, Mrs. J. W. White, Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Eller, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Tomlinson, Mrs. Claude Hutchens, Mr. and Mrs. Presley Myers, Mrs. A. R. Gray, Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Johnson and chil dren, Frances and Bobby, Zeb Dickson, Mrs. Eloise Starr, Mrs. Jay Jones and R. R'. Church. •»##»»»##########»############»## basement of American Legion Hut, between the hours of 8:00 A. M. and 5:00 p. m., Monday through Friday. Applicants also can report at the regular weekly training period which is held from 7:00 to 9:00 p. m. every Tuesday at the National Guard Armory. Telephone 814 for ad ditional information. COVER GIRLS HAVE ALL AMERICANS ; IN 2 SPORTS; PLAY BLUEJACKETS 3 / Dot Whalen, ex-marine, can do as well. In basketball last season, she earned the title of "deadeye dick'* with her sensational set shooting, and was the team's high scorer in last season. In the snmpier she plays with Max Carey's all-professional girls' baseball leagne, and is an out standing athlete. The New York Cover Girls, famous and glamorous basketball team which will play Eller's Bluejackets in Wilkesboro gym nasium Monday night, January 24, eight o'clock, boasts All-A merican girls in two sports. Aubrey Erickson, brightest itar in the aggregation, was All american in basketball and soft jail and has gained nation-wide ittention as the All-American jirl. The other girls on the team ire equally talented: They have :o play men because there is no :ompetition in basketball for :hem in girls' teams. The Cover Girls versus Blue lackets at Wilkesboro gymnas um will be one of the most out standing winter sports attractions n northwestern North Carolina n many years. The admis sion for this most unusual e rent, which is being brought here it great cost, will be $1 for a iults and 50 cents for children. _ o ' Primarily because of its to bacco industry, North Carolina is >ne of the leading states In the payment of taxes to the Federal government.