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CITY Ngjjh Wilkeaboro liaa ing radius of SO miles. |ng I'M),000 people in lwestern Carolina. THE JOURNAL-PATRIOT The Journal-Patriot Has Blazed the Trail of Progress In the "State of Wilkes" For Over 43 Years "V* SCOUTS Wilke* district Boy and Girl Scouts organization have a program worthy of your at tention and support. Vol. 43, No. 41 Published Mondays and Thursdays NORTH W1LKESBORO, N. C., Monday, September 5, 1949 Make North WUkesboro Your Shopping Center Hospital Trustees To Meet Sept. 6th ? To Accept Plans Architects Have Completed Work On Plans For 100 Bed Hospital Here Board of Trustees of the Wilkes General Hospital, auth orised by voting a $2 75,000 bond issue of the Town of North Wil kesboro last year, will meet on September 6 to adopt plans, J. R. Hix, chairman of the trustees, said here today. J. N. Tease and company. Charlotte architects, have com pleted plans for the 100-bed hos ?tal, which is to be located on the hill just west of Gaddy Mo U^fcompany. ^r^gj^ntly the town of North WilkesbOTO sold a bond antlci .S a- in ? V? aiim of t (\ A _ tion note* in the sum of $50, 0, to defray architectural costs d other pre-construction ex nses. Only a small part of that money has been expended to date. The hospital proposal was based on estimated cost of $1, 200 per bed for the hospital, completely and fully equipped. Since those estimates were made construction costs have declined to some extent. The total cost of the project was estimated at $1,200,000, with the town's part to be about $275,000. State and ^pderal funds make up the "greater part of the cost. Wilkesboro To Play Wilmington Eleven Wilkesboro high school Ramb lers, who amassed one of the best high school football records in the state during the past three years, will ramble all the way to the coast for a game on Friday night, September 9th, against the high ranking double A Wil mington Wildcats. Arrangements for the game completed last week by of-| ficials of the two schools. Thirty- ihree players of the W lkesboro squad, a student iSbhager, Coach Marvin Hoff man and Principal Wm. T. Long will leave Wilkesboro school Thursday morning, traveling in a special charter bus, and plan to arrive in Wilmington Thurs day afternoon in time for a shoit workout on the football field (frhere the game is to be played ?Friday night, eight o'clock. On Friday morning the group will tour Wilmington and will spend Saturday and Saturday night at Carolina Beach, return ing to Wilkesboro Sunday. The past year undefeated champions of the Highland con ference, the Wilkesboro Ramb lers rolled up 20 consecutive vic f-t_-*ies before losing to Children's Home last fall in their lone set back in two seasons. During the seasons of 1946, 1947, and 1948 the Ramblers won 21 of 22 con secutive games. The Ramblers' fast-breaking T attack this year will be spearheaded by Ray Trip lets one of the fastest halfbacks in state high school competition. Other returning veterans will give the Ramblers a fast charg ing line, and new material will add to reserve strength. Wilmington for years has been a power in high school foot ball. The high school is by far the state's largest, and has 86 teachers. With a wealth of ma terial for the gridiron, Wilming ton is a pre-season favorite to cop the AA football champion ship in the state this season. Greensboro defeated Wilming ton 13 to 12 at Wilmington Sat urday night. Coach Hoffman scouted the game for the Ramb lers. Aaron M. Blackburn Rites On Wednesday Funeral service was held Wed nesday at Macedonia church for Aaron Minton Blackburn, 74 year-old resident of Edwards township who died Sunday. Rev. L. M. Cook conducted the last ^jtee. Surviving Mr. Blackburn are is wife, Mrs. Annie Curry Black . baru, one daughter and three I ; Mrs. Marvin Walls and A. ion Blackburn, of Ronda; J T. Blackburn, of Elkln; yford Blackburn, of Baltl re; one sister, Mrs. Dina ?itley, of Wilkesboro route t; two grandchildren and two "-eat-grandchlldren. . o . air. and Mrs. C. Monroe Wil liams and daughters, Anne and Lynn, have returned from two WMks vacation in Philadelphia. Wilkes District Scout Meeting On Tuesday, 7:30 P .M. Regular monthly meeting of Wilkee District of the Old Hick ory Scout council will be held Tuesday, September 6, 7:30 p. m., at Duke Power company of fice on Ninth street. Robert Gibbs, district chair man, said the meeting will be highly important and urged a41 members of the district organiza tion to attend. Ask Cooperation In Fight Here On Mosquito Hordes Since the flood waters on the Yadkin several days ago mos quitoes have been very trouble some in this community. Several requests were phoned in to the Wilkes Chamber of Commerce that some action be promoted to remedy the situation. I The town of North Wilkesboro today began spraying at several nearby points in the valley, us ing knapsack sprays which were used here last year for polio pre vention. Citizens of the community are asked to cooperate by immedi ately removing any barrels, cans or other things containing stag nant water, and which are breed ing places for mosquitoes, and to clean their premises of any stagnant ponds which would pro vide places for mosquito breed ing. o Trade Promotion Committee To Meet Trade Promotion committee of the Wilkes Chamber of Com merce will meet Tuesday, two p. m., at the office of the cham ber of commerce to make final plans for Farmers Day. Arrange ments for holiday lighting will also be djpcussed at the meeting. Mountain Lions Have Tough Foes Hanes, Mt. Airy, 6 Confer ence Foes, Wilkesboro and Elkin Stalwarts Mountain Lions of North Wil kesboro high school number a mong their opponents this season some of the titans of high school football in North Caro lina. Being a member of the South Piedmont conference brings on plenty of woe because every high school coach knows that the South Piedmont is a tough league. In addition to playing six conference foes, the Moun tain Lions will take on Mt. Airy and Hanes, and two of the strongest teams in the High land conference, Wilkesboro and Blkin. Coach Tom Boyette, beginning has career here, and Assistant Lott Mayberry have their work cut out for them. They are build ing a team with but few return ing letter men and with sever al new boys who lack both weight and experience. The Mountain Lions will open the season against Hanes high in Bowman Gray stadium in Winston-Salem at eight p. m. on Saturday, September 9. Remaind er of the schedule follows: September 16?North Wilkes boro at Mt. Airy. September 23 ? Spencer at North Wilkesboro. September 30?Mt. Pleasant at JNorth Wilkesboro. October 7?North Wilkesboro at Kannapolis. October 14?'Appalachian at North Wilkesboro. October 31?North Wilkesboro at Statesville. November 4?Barium Springs at North Wilkesboro. November 11?Mooresville at North Wilkesboro. November 18?North Wilkes boro at Blkin.0 November 2??Wilkesboro at North Wilkesboro. Miss Nancy Felts Church Secretary At First Baptist Miss Nancy Felts, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Felts, on Sep tember 1 began her duties as secretary at the First Baptist church. Miss Felts is a graduate of North Wilkes ho ro high school and Mars Hill College. Wilkes Will Set $549,840.86 III State School Aid $57,321.59 Of That Amount Is For North Wilkesboro Charter Unit The State Board of Education in meeting Thursday made allo cation of state school building funds made available by a $25, 000,000 appropriation of surplus funds and a $25,000,000 state bond issue approved by the peo ple iu a special election. The state board allocated $492,519.27 to Wilkes county and $57,321.59 for North Wil kesboro special charter schools, making a total of $549,840.86. Amounts allocated to counties adjoining Wilkes and to city sys tems in those counties were as follows: Alexander, $352,851.14; Alleghany, $300,501.88; Ashe, $408,317.54; Caldwell, $431, 383.05; Lenoir, $111,856.84; Iredell, $374,945.88; Moores ville, $97)290.18; Statesville, $141,016.79; Surry, $392,615.01; Elkin, $57,475.48; Mt. Airy, $129,118.52; Watauga, $368, 467.29; Yadkin, $402,205.54. tHHHWHWWWMWWWH In Air Force Pvt. George L. Adams, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Adams, of North Wilkesboro route one, enlisted in the army air force August 8 and is now at Lock land air force base at San An tonio, Texas, where he is squadron leader. G. L. gradu ated from North Wilkesboro high school in the class of 1949. He was a tackle on the varsity football team while in high school here. DIRECTORS OF LOCAL CREDIT CO-OP PLAN FOR COMING YEAR Directors of the North Wilkes boro National Farm Loan Asso ciation met with officials of the Federal Land Bank here Thurs day, August 25th, for the pur pose of reviewing the past year's operations and outlining a pro gram for the coming year. One of the major actions taken was the adoption of a contract be tween the association and tho bank covering the making and servicing of Federal Land Bank loans during the coming year. Under the new contract the as sociation will have an opportun ity to further build up its re serve and surplus. Mr. S. C. Eggers . of Boone, president of the association, presided at the meeting. Other directors attending were: Max C. j Wilson, Lenoir, Donald C Pot lin, Ronda, Carlis Lee Mitchell. Sparta, and Eugene S. Shatley, Jefferson. The new plan was outlined by T. M. Baker, Assistant to t.h> President of the Federal Land Bank. O. H. Bracey, secretary treasurer, who is acting manager of the association presented re ports on the past year's opera tions. These reflected a very suc cessful year with more than $850 added to reserve and sur plus. Mr. Bracey reported Fed ' eral Land Bank loans made through his office during fiscal year ending June 30, 1949, tota - ed approximately $100,000. More than half of these loans were to refinance existing debts, which will give these borrowers a lower rate of interest and longer terms for payment. The balance were for the purchase of farms, ma chinery, buildings, livesicck and other sound agricultural purpos es: v In commenting on the *u w service contract with the Feder al Land Bank, Mr. Eggers said "It is the best contract we have ever had with the bank. It places more responsibility on Jhe direct ors and provides greater incent ive to build the association into a stronger farmer-owned coope rative." The association has total assets of more than $46, 000, of which approximately $32,500 represents capital stock owned in the Federal Land Bank of Columbia. FLASHERS HAVE TWO-GAME LEAD OVER ELKIN FOR PLAY-OFF SPOT Continuing the type of spirit ed play which enabled them to take four of the last five games from Elkin, the North Wilkes boro Flashers defeated Galax here Sunday 4 to 1 behind the four-hit pitching of Leslie Rhoades, who hung Up his 11th win of the season. The Flashers jumped on Bud Masinick, Galax ace, for two runs in the second and two more in the third and coasted the rest of the way on Rhoades' pitching and excellent fielding. Cooper and Jacobson batted in two runs each. The victory put North Wilkes boro two full games ahead of the Elkin Blanketeers, who split with Radford. Today the Flashers play Mt. Airy two games and end the reg ular season against Galax at Ga lax Tuesday night. If North Wil kesboro finishes in fourth the Flashers will play the second place team, which will probably be Wytheville, in the first play off game at Wytheville Thurs day night, with Wytheville play ing here Friday night, and alternating daily between the two towns until one team has won three games. Playing inspired ball such as never been seen before in class D circuits in this state, the North Wilkesboro Flashers and Elkin Blanketeers played down to the wire and then some in a two game series Friday and Saturday with North Wilkesboro taking both games, 3 to 2 and 1 to 0. The Saturday night game here was a master piece in defensive baseball and it was not until two were out in the bottom of Che 14th that a run crossed the plate to end the scoreless marathon. Lefty Lee Bentley, one of Wilkes' own players on the team, hurled 11 scoreless frames before being relieved by Ray Blevins, of Lapsing. Ashe coun ty, who signed Saturday to help North Wilkesboro in the stretch drive for a playoff position. Bentley had pitched his heart out before the largV crowd, and with an insnired team behind him, and refused to be beaten. With two on Blevins went in to do the finest job of relief hurling ever witnessed here. The first batter beat out a bunt to fill the sacks. Essie grounded to second and the perfect throw forced the runner at the plate for the first I out. Shorty Brown popped to ( third and Hayworth lined to center to end the threat. Blevins retired the Blanketeers without trouble in the remaining in nings. In the 14th Blevins walked. Hite beat out a bunt. Blevins was forced at third on Pescitelli's bunt, Cooper flied out to center. Tom Daddino hit the playoff pitch when he drove a line drive between center and right for a double, scoring Hite and ending the game. Johnny Mostak went all the way for Elkin, giving up only five hits. It was not until the 13th that he showed signs of weakening when Davis and Win kelspecht lined with terrific power to Harris in right center. At Elkin Friday night Ralph Cunningham bested three Elkin hurlers to win 3 to 2 in a game with a breath taking finish. Bob Hite, the fleetright fielder, made his speed pay off in the fifth when he lined past Harris In left center and scored a homer standing up. His speed paid off again when he scored from third on an infield out and he drove in the other run with a single. In the ninth with one on and one I ont Blanketeer Manager Tige Harris slammed a homer over light field fence for two runs and the next batter got on and went to eecond. Cunningham < ?truck out Pinch Hitter Stock- J ton and the next grounded out* to end the game. Forestry Work Is Wilkes County , Planned By Group Five Forestry Field Days Will Be Held For High School Boys Forestry division of the Agri culture committee of the Wilkes ( Chamber of Commerce in meet-1 ing here Tuesday night laid plans' for extensive forestry d/hring the remainder of this year. E. G. Finley, chairman, pre sided. Others attending were Paul Choplin, county agent; H. , C. Colvard, assistant county [agent; Fred Davis, vocational agricultural teacher; H. C. Rob erts, Triple A chairman; Paul Vestal, committee member; Sta | ton Mclver and R. E. Dunn, of I Soil Conservation Service; Paul .Osborne, committee member; fJ. IB. Eller, superintendent of coun ty schools; J. Floyd Woodward, [ superintendent of North Wilkes boro schools; R. w'. Graeber and John Gray, Extension Service forester and assistant. The entire group highly com mended the Wilkes Triple A for including forestry in practices for which farmers will receive pay ment. Farmers will receive $5 per acre for timber thinning and $6 per acre for tree planting. However, it was pointed out that farmers must sign up for the Triple A program before the practices are carried out in order to qualify for payment. Chairman Roberts of the Triple A said that the organiza tion he heads was glad to include forestry practices, which had been urgently requested by the chamber of commerce because of the great importance of forest products in the economy of the county. Chairman Roberts asked the chamber of commerce to pro mote interest among farmers and woodland owners in complying with provisions of the Triple A for forestry payments. Plans were made to enlist aid of schools, press, radio. Soil re servation contacts, extension service personnel, 4-H clubs and rural ministers in this work. Forestry Field Day A new plan will be used for forestry field days for high school boys. The plan used in previous years was to select 50 boys from all the schools for one central field day. in order to have a much greater number of boys participating,* there will be five field days this year, prob ably in November. The five groups will be composed as fol lows: Ronda and Roaring River, Mountain View and Traphill! Millers Creek and Mt. Pleasant; Wilkesboro, North Wilkesboro and Ferguson, Lincoln Heights. Extension foresters, <arm for esters and other authorities will direct activities on those days, under supervision of Mr. Graeber. The afternoon of forestry day at each of the five places will be for adults, with particular emphasis on veterans in the farm training program. The sawmill field day will be held late in November or ^arly in December. A- site where "a sawmill is in operation will be chosen in order to have more ef fective demonstrations. Watch Presented To T. M. Whittington, Jr. In appreciation of the unceas ing efforts on the part of T. M. Whittington, Jr., to assist Veter ans in obtaining benefits right fully theirs under the G. I. Bill of Rights, Wilkes County Chap ter No. 33 of the Disabled Amer ican Veterans presented him with a beautiful Hamilton pocket watch. Mr. Whittington was instru mental in organizing the local chapter of the D. A. V. and he has worked untiringly in the in terest of the physically handi capped and disabled yeteran. Mr. Whittington is district commander of the third district of the Department of North Car olina, D. A. V. He entered Swanannoa V. A. hospital on Monday for treat ment of his own disabilities in curred when wounded in tjie service during World War II. The watch, an open face, rail road model is inscribed as fol lows: "Presented to T. M. Whitting ton, Jr., Commander, 3rd Dis trict Department of North Caro lina Disabled American Veterans by Wilkes County Chapter No. 33 For Voluntary Service render ed to Disabled Veterans, 1949.' Support the Y. M. C. A. Commercial Exhibit Space Is Available At The Wilkes Fair All requests for individual and commercial exhibit space at the Wilkes Agricultural Fair to be held the week of September 19 j should be made in writing as | early as possible. Requests, along with data of exhibits, may be made to G. Sam Winters, secre-ti tary of the fair, or to Tom Jen jrette at the Wilkes Chamber of i Commerce office. Enrollment For Sales Institute Oyer 100 Mark "Textiles" and "Supervis ory Techniques" Subject Courses With more than 100 enrolled, the Sales Institute being conduct ed here under sponsorship of the Trade Promotion committee of the Wilkes Chamber of Com merce is progressing well and those enrolled are showing much interest. "Textiles" is the subject of the courses offered each morn ing at Hotel Wilkes for employes of department and general mer chandise stores. Mrs. Delle Put nam, of the distributive educa tion division of the North Car olina Department of Public In struction, is the instructor. "Supervisory Techniques" is the topic of the course at 7:30 and 26 have been attending the sessions. The evening enrollment includes store owners, managers, assistant managers and depart ment heads. The Sales Institute will con tinue through Friday. Crook Is Manager R. & O. Grocery D. L. Crook, who for the past three years operated Crook's Es TBtr station and tourist Home be tween the Wilkesboros, is now manager of R. & O. Grocery store in North Wilkesboro. Mr. and Mrs. Crook have moved to 507 Ninth street, where Mrs. Crook is operating the Guest House for tourists and commercial travelers. Annual Reunion Of Welborn Clan 11th The Welborn family reunion, an annually anticipated event, will be held at Temple Hill church on September 11th, be ginning at 10:30 a. m. The morning program wil' feature a sermon by Tt>v. Seldc* Welborn. Everybody is inviteu with well filled baskets for the picnic dinner at noon. There will be singing by Sun light and Rosemont quartets am Pleasant Hill men's chorus. All Welborns, their relatives and friends are urged to attend. Blevins Reunion Near Cricket- Sunday There will be a Blevins reun ion at the home of Rev. and Mrs. T. E. Blevins near Cricket, N. C. op Sunday, September 11. All relatives and friends are in vited to carry lunch and attend this reunion. V.F.W. To Meet Thursday, Sept. 8th There will be a regular busi ness meeting held at Veterans of Foreign Wars headquarters on Thursday evening, September 8th, at eight o'clock p. m. Commander Ralph Williams announced that the building committee is to makq reports on the progress of the new building and that there will be several matters of importance to be dis cussed. All members are urged to bring guests who are eligible for membership. Presley Yates Rites Held On Wednesday Funeral service was held Wed nesday at New Hope Baptist church for Presley David Yates 69, who died Sunday. Rev. A. W. Eiler conducted the service. He was a son of the late M. W. and Alpha Summerlin Yates. Surviving are three brothers and two sisters: Vance and Mastin Yatee, of Purlear; Mrs. James Church, of Mardella Springs, Md.; Mrs. C. F. Yates, Purlear; George Yates, Kannapolis. Horse Show Will Be A Feature Of FairTwo Nights Horse Show Will Be Held On Last 2 Days. Sept. 23 and 24 Here A complete horse show will be one feature of the Wilkes Agricultural Fair to be held here the week of September 19. The horse show complete with all classes, will be the fea tured event for Friday and Sat urday nights, September 23 and 24, eight o'clock. In previous years the North Wilkesboro Kiwanis club had sponsored the two-day horse show on or about July 4, and the fair in September. In order to make a bigger event for northwestern North Carolina, the club has combined the fair and horse show for this year. Many entries have already been received for the horse show, including some of the fin est show horses in this and adjoining states. Trophies will be presented the championship winners in each class. Committee in charge of the horse show is composed of G. Sam Winters, W. K. Sturdivant and J. B. Carter. Give Apple Program Over Station WSJS County Agent Paul Choplin along with Carl VanDeman, as sistant county agent, D. S. Broy hill and Boyd Campbell, prepar ed and delivered a radio program on the production and distribu tion of apples in the Brushy Mountain area, over station WSJS, Winston-Salem, Tuesday, August 30. Mr. Campbell and Mr. Broyhill are producers apples in the Brushy Moun'ain area and the program gave in formation on how quality ap ples were produced, packed and marketed. Mrs. Volley Minf-on Funeral On Saturday Funeral service was held Sat urday at Pleasant Home Bap tist church for Mrs. Laura Vir ginia Minton, 69, wife of Volley I. Minton, of Wilkesboro route one. Rev. A. W. Eller conducted the last rites. Mrs. Minton, was a daughter |of the late Alford and Mariah Bullis McNeill. Surviving are her husband, two daughters and three sons: Mrs. T. H. Buckner, Durham; Mrs. R. B. Johnson, Burlington; R. F. Minton, Wil kesboro; J. W. Minton, North Wilkesboro; D. W. Minton, Win ston-Salem. Red Cross Annual Meeting Sept. 12 All members of the Wilkes County Chapter of the American Red Cross and all interested per sons are urged to attend the an nual meeting to be held in the City Hall on the afternoon of September 12th at four o'clock. Reports on chapter activities will be given by the Chapter Chair man, Larry S. Moore, and the election of executive officers and member8-at-large on the Board of Directors will take place. Ev ery person who has contributed as much as SI.00 during 1949 is entitled to one vote. At this open meeting three proposed revisions to the Chap ter By-la\^s will be adopted. In 1946 the Chapter By-laws were revised in accordance with the Code of Procedure as outlined by the American National Red Cross. The National Society now recommends three revisions to be adopted at this time, changing the number of regular board meetings to be held during the year to foun instead of twelve, regulating the length of term of officers, and providing for the election of the Fund Chairman at the annual meeting to serve as a regular member of the Board of Directors through the year. It is earnestly hoped that the public will show its Interest in the Red Cross and its support of the board members by being present at this meeting. Music Studio To Open Miss Ellen Robinson will open her music studio Monday, Sep tember 12, at the home of Mrs. J. S. Zimmerman, 402 D street. Registration is in progress this week.
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