in Wilkes during the
campaign now in progress is
[£8.146. Help the Red Cross
" carry on by your gifts.
Wilkes" For Over 43 Years
North Wilkesboro lias a
trading radius of 50 miles,,
serving 100,000 people in<
Northwestern Carolina.
The
Vol. 44. No. 3
published Mondays and Thursdays NORTH W1LKESBORO, N.':C„ Monday, April 25. 1949
Make North Wilkesboro Your Shopping Center
Forestry Sibject
Kiwanis Program
Director State Forestry As-]
sociation And District
Ranger Speaker
The North WllkeSboro Kiwanis
club through its program at Friday's
luncheon - meeting learned
much about forestry and the tremenduous
importance of wood
products in local economy.
' The program was in charge 6t
Dudley Hill, who asked Paul Osborne
to present tho speakers.
A. D. Williams, of Lienoir, forest
ranger for nine counties, was
t (the tint speaker. He told of the
. work being done in Wilkes county
under the leadership of Arj
lie Foster, Wilkes forester, who
was presented during the prol
gram. Mr. Williams stated that
the number of forest fires in Wilkes
county has decreased from\
I about 75 per cent to 25 last
year. Ten fires this year, he said, j
bwned less than 25 acres.
/The speaker stated that Wil\
As has the largest forest area
| pt any county in the western half
/of the state, with 307,000 acres.
Fires are detected from two tow-,
ers within hte county and two
nearby in other counties. Plans
, *r% under way to equip the forI
edz- protection service with tw°way
radios, one of which will be
at the Rendeyous Mountain tower
in the western part of theC
county.
Wllliaih 8. Edmonds, executive
director of the North Carolina
Forestry Association, was
J the second speaker. He stated
a that the state has 18,500,000 ac«
res of forest lands, eight per
cent of which belongs to comJ
paratively small landowners,
1 while ten percent is on public I
i lands and ten on holdings of I
large corporations. In/1947 the
? state ranked 6th in lumber production.
This production, he
isald, could be increased four
s (times if all forests were protected
from fires and if all forest
. lands were properly aided to produce
to capacity. He further ex!
plained that forest fires are prei,
: ventable and that the association
through a program of education
is seeking to arouse pufbllc inIterest
In protection of forests, reforestation
and other subjects
(related to conservation and
greater development.
^ The program provoked much'
thought and was well received.
| Guests at Friday's meeting
were: P. E. Brown and C. C. Sidden
with Paul Osborne; Tom
Fiaatfer with C. Reins; Max
Feeler with H. P. Eller; Howard
Colvard, Fred Davis, H. C. Roberts,
<3. C. Tharpe, R. E. Dunn,
J. Floyd Woodward, Dwight
Nichols, J. <H. Whicker, Jr., and
B. R. Eller were guests of Tom
Jenrette and members of the
Wilkes committee to 'Keep North
Carolina Green'.
Murrell Funeral
In Atlanta Friday
I Funeral service was held Fri-1
day afternoon In Atlanta, Ga.,
I for Alfred H. Murrell, 67, promf
inent Atlanta business man who
r was killed in a tragic accident
| near here Wednesday afternoon.!
1 Mr. Murrell was driving a carl
I which proceeded from highway
I 115 into highway 421 east of
I Wilkesboro when his car was hit
I iby a tractor-trailer load of cinder
blocks from Elizabethton,
Tenn. His body was badly mangled
and the car was completely
demolished.
Mr. Murrell was president of
the Wheel and Axle Alignment
company, of Atlanta, 6a.
WilkesboroTown
Electron May 3
Wllkesboro town election will
be held on Tuesday, May 3, J.
R. Henderson, town clerk, has
announced. |
Mayor W. B. fimithey and all
members of the board of commlsstapers
have filed for re-election.
*1commissioners are Johnson
Sanders, Joe H. Pearson, Russell
[ Gray, Jr., and A. A. Triplett.
There will be no contest in the
election, which is expected to be
\ roan tine procedure.
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O. E. S. Meeting j
Wilkes chapter number 42, Ord•r
of the Baste/n Star, will meet
Tbvrsday, 7: JO. All members are
? asked to atts^d.
To Address Doctors
Dr. W. E. Burnett of the
Temple University of Medicine,
Philadelphia, who will address
North Carolina doctors in North
Wilkesboro, Salisbury and Raleigh
this week on the programs
of the Postgraduate Courses in
Medicine being sponsored in
those three areas by the University
o f North ' Carolina
School of Medicine and the Extension
Division.
Optimist District
Governor To Be
In City Tuesday
George Fella, of Charlotte, district
governor of Optimist Inter*
national, will be a special guest of
the local club at the regular club
luncheon to be held at Hotel
Wilkes Tuesday, twelve to one o'clock.
District Governor Fella will install
new officers of the club at
the luncheon meeting.
A fine attendance of members
is expected to greet Governoir
Fella, and his visit is awaited
with much interest.
House vr Uavra ^
Here On Tuesday
Flashers Perform Well In
Early Exhibihions; At
Elkin Tonight
Playing in mid-eason form; the
flashy Flashers of the Blue Ridge
league are having a successful
exhibition series, altohougfc emphasis
has be enplaced/ on training
and selection rather than
winning games.
Rhoades and Bentley Win
Here Saturday night Leslie
Rhoades and Lee Bentley, both
Wilkes county hurlers, gave the
local fans a fine pitching exhibition
as they teamed up to hold
Rutherfordton to five hits and
won 4 to 1. Rhoades hurled six
innings and had trouble only in
one when the visitors gathered
three hits for one run. One of
three fast douible plyas in the
game was very helpful in that
inning. Lee Bentley showed fine
form with speed and curves to
hold the visitors to one lucky hit
in three innings. The Flashers'
infield worked without error
and with increased speed.
Defeat Yadklnvflle
Sunday afternoon rookies had
a field day as the Flasher^ beat
Yadkinvllle 7 to 5. Long, Cuthbertson
and Bentley did the
mound work but were not extended
in their efforts. Cooper,
Winkelspeck and Manager Tom
Daddino did the heavy hitting.
Rookies working In the game included
Pescitelli, Childress, Gregory,
Proseia, Weatherman, Black,
Winkelspeck, and Bentley.
House Of David He^e
A treat in baseball entertainment
should be the game here on
Tuesday night, 7:45, against the
House of David Bearded athletes.
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Opening Night Is Planned
The Flashers' first home game
will .be against Mt. Airy here next
Tuesday night, which will be promotion
night with big cash prizes
and season tiskets to be given.
Special tickets have been
printed and admission that one
night will be $1.00 for adults
and 60 cents for children. Attendance
prizes will be a $100.00
bill and a $50 bill, and three season
passes. Season tickets and
passes will not be good on opening
night. Boy Scouts are selling
the tickets on a commission
basis.
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Use of commercial fertilizer
has increased rapidly in Texas
since 1934. ,
Doctors'Course
To Be Held Hen
Tuesday, 4 and 7
Chapel Hill.—Dr. W. E. Burnett,
of Temple University School
of Medicine, Philadelphia, will
speak on methods for decreasing
the risk of surgery in older patients
before North Carolina doetors
this week.
Appearing on the programs of
the three Postgraduate Courses
in Medicine being sponsored by
the University of North Carolina
School of Medicine and the Extension
Division, Dr. Burnett will
speak in North Wilkesboro Tuesday,
April 26; in Salisbury, Wednesday,
and in Raleigh Thursday.
Dr. Burnett will conduct a clinic
at the Wilkes Hotel in North
Wilkesboro Tuesday afternoon at
4 p. m., and address a dinner
session there thatv night beginning
at 7 o'clock.
The same schedule will be followed
in Salisbury Wednesday
with the clinic being held at the
King's Daughters Hut and the
dinner-lecture at the Yadkin Hotel,
while the Raleigh sessions
will be at the Rex Hospital Nurses
Home during the afternoon
and at the S. and W. Cafeteria
that night.
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Musical Arts Club
To Meet Thursday
The Musical Arts Club will
meet at the home of Miss Ruby
Blackburn Thursday evening at
8 o'clock.
A special feature on the program
will be musical selections
rendered by an acmomplished
violinist from EJlkln, Mrs. Barbara
Benson, who will be accompanied
at the piano iby her
mother, Mrs. Benson.
J. O. Wilcox Dies;
Last Rites Today
Funeral service was held today
at Flint Hill church for J. O.
Wilcox, 58, local citizen .who died
Saturday. Rev. Ed Hayes conducted
the service.
MtJfJi] ,wtu^T lfla™P tw Cnl]^wIngWbtas
and daughters: Davis,
MftKInley, Zeb, Woodrow, Griffin,
J. C. and Flossie Wilcox,
Mrs. Quincy Clonch and Mrs.. Albert
Settle, all of North Wilkesboro.
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2 Banks Sponsor
4-H Corn Projects
(By H. C. Colvard, Assistant
County Agent)
The Northwestern Bank and
the Bank of North Wllkecaboro
are sponsoring one hundred and
ninety 4-H club corn projects for
the boys of Wilkes county by
providing hybrid seed for each
project. On Saturday of last week
each boy was sent a letter in regard
to his project. In this letter
was a card to be returned to the
farm agent's office in case the
club member wants seed for his
project. No seed will be given
except to those who fill out and
return these cards. We want all
of those cards returned this week
as it is now corn planting time.
We appreciate the banks providing
this hybrid seed and would
like for every boy to take advantage
of this gift. Every effort
will be made to provide the best
hybrids available for these 4-H
corn projects.
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4-H CAMP
(By H. C. Colvard, Assistant
County Agent)
All boys and girls planning to
attend 4-H club camp at Manteo
during the week of July 18
are requested to bring or send
their deposit to the farm or
home agent's office this week.
This is necessary in order that we
may make final plans for transportation
and camp In general.
Forty-five boys and girls hare
sent in cards signed by their parents
stating that they are going
to camp.
Library Here Will
Be Closed Thursday
Wilkes Public Library will be
closed Thursday, April 28, in
order that the library personnel
may attend a North Carolina library
association meeting in Durham.
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Girl Scout Notice
A .call meeting of the Girl
Scout Summer Camp committee
will be held at the home of Mrs.
Walter Newton, Wednesday, April
27th, at 2 p. m.
Forestry division of the agricultural
committee of the Wilkes
Chamber of Copimerce#. with the
aid of cooperating agencies, will
do the work of the "Keep North
Carolina Green" organization in
Wilkes county, it was decided in
a meeting held Friday afternoon
in the Wilkes Chamber of Com'merce
office. > ?•
W. K. Sturdivant, chairman of
the agricultural committee, opened
the meeting and A. B. Johnston,
Wilkes' "Keep North Carolina
Green'' chairman, presided.
William S. Edmonds, of Wananish,
executive director of the
North Carolina Forestry Association,
explained the purpose of his
organization, which is the branch
of 'Keep America Green', a voluntary
organiation sponsored by
• American Forestry Products, Inc.
The program is principally education,
stressing protection of
forests from fires, reforestation,
timber management and other
practices in the interest of forestry
and increased forest development.
The work will (be Carried out
by news releases, radio programs,
distribution of license plate extensions,
phamphlete, talks and
movies in the schools. E. G. Finley
is chairman of the forestry
division of the agricultural committee.
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. was pointed out in the meeting
that Wilkes has the greatest
forest area of any county in the
westei n part of. the state.
Thoie attending the organization
re eeting of 'Keep North Carolina
0 reen' here included: A. B.
Johnson, chairman; Paul Osborne,
member of the forestry
committee; Arlie Vaster, Wilkes
forest ir; A. IK Williams, district
rangei; C.! Arthur Venable, of
the e uoation committee; H. C.
Oolvaid, wMHUnt county agent;
C. B. Tharpe, president of Farm
Bur$ai; B. R'.. Bller, newly elected
president of the Optimist club;
P. E. Brown, lumber manufacturer;
Robert Gibbs, Duke Power
ma lager; J. F. Woodword, city
school! superintendent; W. K.
Sturdi rant, agricultural committee
cliairman; B. O. Finley, forestry
committee chairman; R. B.
Dunn, of Soil Conservation Service;
Richard Johnston, Chamber
of Commerce president; Tom
Jenrette, Chamber of Commerce
manager; C. B. Bller, superintendei
t Wilkes schools; Paul
Churc! l, of the Farm Security Adminlst
ration; John Cashion, of
radio station WKBC; Dwight
Nichols, Journal-Patriot editor;
H. C. Roberts, Triple A chairman;
William Gray, president of
the Vilkesboro Business and
Professional Men's Club.
Girl Scout Caap
Will Be Held At
MountaM View
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Girl Scout Summer Camp will
open July 11th and continue
through the l'5th—which dates
are Monday-Friday, inclusive.
This summer the caipp will be
held at Mountain Vlpw. school
overnight.
In the past, the Seout camping
has been operated at Moravian
Falls as a day camp and it is a
step forward to be able to pffer
Scouts the four-day over-night
camping. Mountain View school
will afford the needed accommodations
and give the added interest
of new surroundings. A
Each camper, girl or adult,
will be responsible for her own
sleeping bag or cot. Parents will
be asked to get Scouts to camp
and bring them back home.
The fee will be $3.00 and Mrs
Walter Newton is now accepting
registration. Detailed information
will be mailed to each girl
wro registers for camp.
Volunteer counselors and helpers,
who are interested and can
possibly give this service to the
Scout work, are requested to notify
Mrs. Robert Gibbs, camp director.
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Colored Resident
Of Wilkesboro Dies
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Funeral service was held today
at Thankful church for Alma
Ona Parsons Matthems, 39, wife
of Richard Matthews; colored
resident of Wilkesboro. She died
Saturday.
Surviving are her husband and
one son, Harold Wayne Matthews
of Wilkesboro.
Oakjwoods Troop
Br
f*
Tig,
C«n;
los Camping Trip
Scout Troop 127 of Oakenjoyed
& camping trip in
ushy Mountains over the
nd. There were 17 boys
under the leadership 6t
aster Prank Walker and
tteeman Archie Anderson,
llowhig boyB • took part in
hiking, trailing and othp
activities: Hayden
[ Larry Baity, James Reins,
Walker, Chas.
HowaTd Mftore, Robert
Ray Joines, Ray S'mithey,
ntle, Jay Gentle and Jerffeill.
fishing trip was enjoyed
ja'y afternoon and a number
were caught by the Scouts,
pball game was played bethe
two patrols which was
by all.
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woods
the
week-i:
present
Scouti i
Comm
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cooki:
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I Joines
Bill <3e:
ry-jJKcb
Saturd
of fisbj
A ibasj
tween
enjoye|d
Martha Jane Brown
^.ast Rites Sunday
Funfe:
Sunda;
church
phany
Jane ]
near t
Mrs
follow
C. B.,
and
'North
and
Camp,
M
iral service will be held
•, 11 a. m., at Mt. Zion
near Scottville in Allecounty
for Mrs. Martha
rown, 83, who died Friday
Jiis city.
Brown is survived by the
jng.sons and daughters:
Thomas and A. J. Brown,
Mrs. Nannie Moxley, of
Wllkeaboro route one;
rsi'Jennie Parish, of Bel
Md.
Griffin Child Dies
fok
ral service was held today
family cemetery near WllKaty
Sue Oriffin, threefold
daughter of Mr. and
ttoward Griffin, of Wilbar.
(Jhild died Sunday. Rev.
Yates conducted the funIrvice.
ELKIN REPLACES ABINGDON IN
BLUE B1DGE BASEBALL LEAGUE
Elkin, April 24.—Elkin, home
of the state semipro champions
and runners-up in the national
tournament in 1948, tonight entered
professional baseball for the
first time in its history.
A group of some 30-40 local
citizens approved submission of
the town's application for membership
in the Blue Ridge League
at a gathering of sportsmen,
f Judge E. C. Bivins of Mt. Airy,
: president of the Blue Ridge
League, immediately accepted the
application and awarded the franchise.
Arrangements had been
made previously with the minor
league office for such action.
Elkin thus joins its neighboring
towns of Mt. Airy and North
WHkesboro in the league and at
the same time the Qlass D loop
acquires its sixth cliib, permitting
it to operate as planned before
Abingdon's withdrawal several
days ago.
An advisory committee of
George Royal, pr. Seth Beal and
Dick Freeman was named to
i { : i
handle 1 matters until the organization
pan be incorporated as the
Elkin £aseball Club, Inc. Charles
Neeves also has been among the
leaders in seeking pro ball.
Tige Harris, manager of the
semi-pi o club, will guide the pro
teaih.
"It's, a tough assignment, getting
a i club together in six days,
but wej wiH ready to go in our
opener! here Saturday nig/ht against
J Radford."
Hants may be able to use
some* cjf his semi pro players, but
a numoer of them are class men
and some are on the voluntarily
retired list of professional baseball.
Officials of Chatham Manufacturing
Company, sponsors of the
semi;pro teiun, have agreed to
withdraw that club and to furnish
the manager and the park for the
pro dob. The semi-pro team was
not la a league this season.
Citizens raised $2,500 in a oneday
drive Saturday.
I
To Speok Here
Mrs. Oarl Broome, of Hickory,
state president of the
American Legion Auxiliary,
will address a district meeting
to be held here Taowiay.
District Meeting
Lesion Auxiliary
Will Be Held Here
| Tuesday Date For District
Meeting | State Officers
To Participate
The 15th district meeting of
the American Legion Auxiliary,
department of North Carolina,
will he held Tuesday at 12 o'clock
at the Carolina Restaurant
with a luncheon meeting. Business
is to follow the luncheon,^
Wilkes County Post No. 125 will
be hostess.
Members who expect to attend
should make reservation today
with Mrs. Richard Finley. Among
the state~offlcerB ayl cotnmittee11
women who are expested to attend
are Mrs. Griffin Smith, of
Shelby, chairman of the legislative
committee; Mrs. Lee Frans,
of Hickory, scrap book chairman;
Mrs. Carl Broome, of Hickory,
state president; Miss Aurelia
Adams, of Raleigh, department
secretary-treasurer; Mrs. Weaver
Mann, of Newton, national security
chairman; Mrs. Bessie
.Smith, of Newton, publicity chairman.
Mrs. Wayne Rogers, of Statesville,
district committee woman,
will *be in charge of the meeting.
Miss Norma Stevenson, of North
'Wilkesboro, is alternate. Mrs. R.
i G. Finley, of North Wilkesboro,
is president of the hostess unit.
Talks will ibe made by Mrs. Carl
Broome, state president, and
Miss Aurelia Adams, secretarytreasurer.
The units represented in the
15th district are Statesville, Taylorsville,
Mooresville, West Jefferson,
and North Wilkesboro.
Venable Tire Co
In New Quarters
The Venable Tire Company,
formerly known as the V. & T.
Tire Co., a local concern owned
by C. Arthur Venable, In business
in North Wilkesboro since
1945, has opened new quarters
in the building formerly occupied
by the Kaiser-Frazier automobile
agency on Highway 115, next
door to the state highway garage.
The building is 70x100 feet
and is partitioned off for offices
and show room. The remaining
portion of the building contains
the stock of U. §. Royal and
, Hood tires, tubes and accessories
and a complete retreading
shop.
The Venable Tire Co. is the
sole representative in Wilkes
county of the nationally known
Hawklnson Tread Method of re!
capping. '
The Hawklnson method of tire
recapping assures the tire owner
, of mileage on a recapped tire
. _ equal or superior to that of the
11 original new tire. Mr. Venable
. said that it is not unusual for an
owner to have the original tire
j recapped three or four times and
. he recounted one instance where
, the original casing had been re,
capped a total of nine times.
l j The public is cordially invited
I to visit and inspect the headi
quarters of Venable Tire Co., and
{Mr. Venable, or one of his cap.
able assistants will be happr tc
'show the Hawklnson tire method
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Commissioner!
Will Nane Judge
Aid I Set Salary
Mayor Will Not Be Judge;
Salary of Mayor U Fixed
At $l#0 Monthly
Bills pasaed in the final week
of the legislative session at Raleigh
changed the framework of
the North W ilkesboro city cuuil
The bill which became bm and
went into full force upon its ratification,
eliminates the mayor aa
judge of the court and provides
for appointment of a judge by
the Ndrth Wilkesboro board of
commissioners. The bill set June
7, regular June meeting date of
the board, as the date for appointment
of the judge and solicitor
of the court and provided that
the judge may be an attorney but
the judge cannot hold «ny elective
office of the state, county or'
town. The judge most be an
elector of Wilkes county but the
bill does not state that he must
be a resident of North Wflkeaboro.
Under the new law the judge
of the city court will receive no
fees, but will receive a salary.
The solicitor and clerk are also
taken off the fee system. Under
the present set-up, mayor, solidtor
and clerk receive fees in
cases where cost is paid by defendants.
New Bill Seta Salaries
A separate bill was passed in
the legislature setting the salary
of the mayor of North Wilkesboro
at $150 per month, although
the mayor will not be judge because
of the provisions in the
court bill which ffrohibits one
holding an elective office from
being judge. Under the city
charter before passage of this bill
the mayor received a salary of
$50 per month.
The salary bill sets a limit on
salary of city court judge at
$2*460 per year and the salary
of the solicitor at not more than
$1,800. The amount of salary,
within the maximum, will be set
by the city board of commissioners.
The bill sets no salary or limit
for the plerk of the court.
Both the court and salary bill
were Introduced in the legislature
by request, through Wilkes Representative
T .E. Story. The court
bill was temporarily held dp in
the senate and sent back to committee,
but was reported out favorably
and passed after the salary
bill became law.
V.F.W. To Sponsor
Huge Carnival Here
Blue Ridge Mountain Post 1142,
Veterans of Foreign Wars, is
sponsoring the iMighty Page
Shows this week starting Mond
a y evening and continuing
through Saturday night.
The Mighty Page Shows is one
of the outstanding Carnivals playing
through the south. There are
attractions to appeal to every one
of all ages. Rides galore for both
young and old including a Merrygo-round,
ferris wheel, tiltawhirl,
octopus, chair plane, rolla-plane
and two rides for the small children.
Several shows for the entertainment
of the public will be
available including the Axless
Wonder Girl, a minstrel with a
cast of fifteen people and a circus
side show.
The feature attraction of the
Carnival will be Captain Shen
Songer who does a daring high,
dive act from a 110 foot tower
into a tank of water set on fire
with gasoline. This dive into fire
is a thrilling sight to see and it
is an attraction provided free of
charge by the V. P. W. and the
Mighty Page Shows.
The Blue Ridge Mountain Post
1142, V. F. W. cordially invites
the public to attend this mammoth
carnival. A percentage of
the profits from this carnival goes
to thdocal post and the officers
of the post are anxious to add as
much as possible to the building
fund. All proceeds going to Hie
post will go into the building
fund.
■ O Business
Club To
Meet Tuesday Night
Hie Wilkesboro Business and
Professional Men's Club will meet
Tuesday night at seven o'clock at
ithe Woman's dab building. All
I members are urged to be present.