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Mem Wilkeaboro lias a iding radius of 50 miles, 1*0,000 people in Carolina. THE The Joumol-Potriot Has Biozcd the Trail of Progress In the "State of Wilkes" For Over 43 Years BUT SBALS NOW . AND HELP FIGHT T. B. OtfTt HfrL 43, No. 65 Published Mondays and Thursday! NORTH W1LKESBORO, M. (X, Monday, November 28, 1949 Make Worth WHkesboro Your Shopping Center E. M. Blackburn, Pioneer Leader, Funeral WOl Be Held Two P. M., at First Baptist Church ?- M. Blackburn, 85, a busi ness, 'church and civic leader whose career and influence figured largely in the building of North Wilkesboro from a Tillage into a thriving city, died Sunday evening, five o'clock, at the Wilkes hospital. Active throughout his long and useful life, Mr. Blackburn became ill only a week ago. Born October 18, 1864, Mr. Blackburn was a son of the late B. Spencer Blackburn and Mrs. evlra Wiles Blackburn, who re led in Rock Creek township. fie received his education in public schools and at Moravian Falls Academy, where he later , was-an instructor. He also taught V" public schools while a young man. Soon after the founding of North Wilkesboro, Mr. Black burn entered the mercantile bus iness here and over a period of more than 35 years operated the widely known Absher and Black burn clothing firm with the late W. R. Absher. After his mercan tile career Mr. Blackburn enter ed the real estate business, which he operated until hiB death. Jfcju addition to mercantile and veil estate business, Mr. Black burn was associated with other successful business enterprises and for a quarter of a century was a director of the Bank of North Wilkesboro. Being one of the best known ^tizens of Wilkes county, Mr Blackburn held a number of po sitions of leadership. In 1896 he was elected register of deeds, in that office succeeding his fath er-in-law,, the late Robert Ed wards. He served in that office for two terms. Later he was mayor of North Wilkesboro, and city board of education. In the First Baptist church he was for more than 30 years Sunday school superintendent and was a member of the board of deacons for several decades, being made a life member of the board. He was also active in fratern al groups, being a Mason and g#briner and a member o f Knights of Pythias over a long period. Mr. Blackburn was married to Miss Myrtle Edwards, who died in 1944. The surviving members of his family are two sons, Jeter M. Blackburn, of North Wilkes boro, and John Kermit Black burn, a furniture merchant and 'civic leader in Waynesboro, Va.; one daughter. Miss Ruby Black burn, of North Wilkesboro; and |t*o sisters, Mrs. J. A. Sebastian, of North Wilkesboro route two, and Mrs. John A. Burcham, of Roaring River. - Funeral service will be held Tuesday, two p. m., at the First Baptist church. Dr. John T. Way land. pastor, will be in charge of the service, with former pastors participating. Burial will be In Mount Lawn Memorial Park north of this city. Young Democrats ^Will Form Club Tuesday Night Wilkes Young Democrats Club will be organized in a meeting to be held Tuesday, - November 29, 7:30 p. m., at North Wilkes boro city hall. The YDC has not been active in Wilkes^for some time and the meeting has been called by an interested group to perfect a county organization. Young Democrats from all precincts in the county are in vited and urged to attend the meeting, the announcement said Jb o? Ralph Davis Has V Moved His Office V Ralph Davis, attorney at law, moved his law office from the Carter building on Ninth street i quarters over Payne Clothing inipamt on Main street. new location Attorney also be manager of the Bureau, which had been from an office on the floor of the Deans Build Died Here Sundoy E. M. BLACKBURN Several Injured In Collision Near City Sunday Eve A number of persons were injured and two vehicles were badly damaged Sunday evening, six o'clock, in a collison of a pickup truck and an automo bile two miles north of this city on highway 18. The pickup truck was travel ing north and was driven by Mrs. Mabel Taylor "Johnson, 87, of Laurel Springs. With her was her mother, Mrs. Alice Dancy Taylor, and her daughter, Rose Ellen Johnson, 13. The car involved in #the acci dent was traveling south t and was driven by Thomas Gordon Foster, of North Wilkesboro. With him was his wife, Mrs. Fern Helms Foster, and two children, Joe B. and Judy Fos ter, and Mrs. Lorraine Shumate, of North Wilkesboro. Patrolman R. H. Dillard and C: R. Shook investigated the ac cident. Mrs. Johnson, driver of -the pickup, was quoted as say ing that Bhe was following a car and that the driver in front of her apparently gave a signal as if to turn or stop. She said she pulled toward her left to avoid hitting the car ahead of her ^and the collision occured with the car traveling south on the highway. The accident oc cured in front of W. B. Bea mon's home. The pickup over turned off the west side of the road. Mrs. Taylor in the pickup re ceived severe cuts on her head and Rose Ellen Johnson had minor injuries. Mrs. Shumate in the car was severely cut on her head and face and sustained some chest injuries. None of the other occupants were . seriously hurt. District Banquet j Scouters Tuesday ??? The arm of Liberty has been strengthened through Scouting during 1949. The exact extent of their activities will be report ed at the annual district ban quet to be held Tuesday, Nov. I 29th, at 6:30 at the Carolina Restaurant. Reports will be made by the professional staff of the Old Hickory Council and the princi pal speaker will be Mr. .Stanley Harris, a former professional scouter connected with t?e Na tional office. All Scouters, their wives or sweethearts and friends o f Scouts are invited to attend and, if their name is not in the pot, hey are asked to notify Sam Vickery or Robert Gibbs. Bobby Eller Member Of Bowl Game Team Bobby Eller, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Eller, plays left tackle on the Fork Union Military Acad emy football team at Fork Union, Va. Fork Union this year was un defeated in its conference and won the military academy champion ship for the state of Virginia. Fork Union will be one of the teams in the Orchid Bowk game to be played December 1 in Chatta nooga, Tenn. Bobby, whose weight is now 185, has been a pillar of strength in the Fork Union forward wall this fall and has added much to the team's successful play during the season. Support The Scouts LOCAL NEWS Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Crook spent Thanksgiving Day In Albe marle with Mr. Crook's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Crook. Mr. John E. Justice, III., stu dent of Yale University at New Haven, Conn., spent the holi days here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John E. Justice, Jr. Mr. Bobby Eller, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Eller, returned Sunday to Fork Union Military school at Fork Union, Va., after spending Thanksgiving at home. Mr. Gordon Finley, Jr., stu dent of Leas. McRae College at Banner Elk, was here for Thanksgiving with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Finley. Miss Margaret Anderson, stu dent at Woman's College in Greensboro, visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Anderson, during the holidays. Miss Margie Gabriel, a mem ber of the Greensboro city school faculty, was here for the I holidays with her parents, Mr. 'and Mrs. W. G. Gabriel. Miss Agnes Kenerly, a student at Greensboro College, came home for Thanksgiving to be with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thurmond Kenerly. Miss Betty Ruth Morrison, a student at Cabarrus S'chool of nursing in Concord, was here for the Thanksgiving Holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Luther Morrison, of Wllkesbofo. Mrs. D. S. Lane, formerly of North Wilkesboro, has been re covering splendidly from an operation for appendicitis per formed a few weeks ago in Washington, D. C. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Hoover and daughters, Misses Patricia and Anne Hoover, spent Thanks giving Day in Newton with Mrs. Hoover's mother, Mrs. W. F. Rader. Miss Elizabeth McNeill, who holds a position with the Y. W. C. -A. in Greenville,-Br-O;, was here for the Thanksgiving holi days with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. B. McNeill. Mr. Bob Hubbard, a student of Richmond Professional In stitute, Richmond, Va., was at home for the holiday season with his parents, Dr. and Mrs. F. C. Hubbard. Miss Mary Hannah Walker, who teaches in the Training School at the Appalachian State Teachers College at Boone, spent the week-end here in the home of Mrs. C. L. Sockwell. Miss Sue Landon, who is at tending the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was here for the Thanksgiving holi days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Landon. Friends . regret to know - that Mr. Paul Richardson is very ill in Mercy Hospital in Baltimore, Md., and is not expected to re cover. Mr. Richardson is a form er resident of the Fairplains community here. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Miller spent Thanksgiving Day with relatives in Shelby. They were accompanied by their son, Mr. Lawrence H. Miller, who is at home from State College for the holidays. Miss Irene Richardson and Miss Sara Jane Judy spent Thanksgiving Day at Mars Hill College with Miss Carol Rich ardson, sister of Miss Richard son, who is a student at the college. L. M. Nelson, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs.. L. M. Nelson, and Mr. Phil Mitchell, son of Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Mitchell, were at home from Davidson college during the Thanksgiving holi days. Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Long and children, and Mrs. W. E. Long, of Cornelius, who was spending the week in her son's home, all spent Thanksgiving Day at Har mony with Mrs. W. T. Long's mother, Mrs. R. L. Reid. Vistors on Thanksgiving Day at the home of Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Bumgarner were their children as follows: Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Prevette and two daughters, of Salisbury; Mrs. Hutchy Friend i and two sons, of Roanoke, Va., Mr. and Mrs. Howard Cannon and two -sons, of Guilford College; Mrs. George Pitts and little son, I of Tampa, Fla.; M. F. Jr., at home for the day; and George Bumgarner of Phiffer Junior Col I lege at Misenheimer. Other call I era during the day were? Rev. J. L. A. Bumgarner, Rev. and Mrs. G. W. (Bill) Bumgarner, of New i ton, Mrs. Allie Hayes, and Mr. Ralph Kirby, of Asheville. Fiaes Aid Prison Terms Meted Oit In Federal Conrtl Many Cases Tried fat U. S.| Court In Wilkesboro During Past Week Prison terms and heavy fines were meted out to a number of federal liquor law offenders in the November term of United States court held in Wilkesboro during the past week. Judge Johnson J. Hayes presided. Robert Glenn Johnson, who plead nolo contendere to a charge of possessing illicit whis ky, gave notice of appeal from a sentence of 18' months in Pet ersburg, Va., prison and fine of $1,000. The appeal was based on a motion to quash because of the search for whisky involv ed. Vaughn Blackburn was fined $3,600 and drew a sentence of 18 months suspended while he was placed on probation. Conrad Eller paid a fine of $2,500 and his sentence of a year and a day was suspended. In other cases the following sentences were meted out: Hard in Simpson, year and a day; Chester Billings, execution of prison sentence suspended until next term; William Henry Smith, 18 months in prison; Marvin Bil lings, year and a day in Peters burg prison; Henry Edgar Clonch, year and. a day in Pet ersburg prison; Robert Wayne Bray, year and a day In Peters burg; Frank Hutchinson, year and a day in Ashland, Ky., pris on; Phoebie Hutchinson, $300 fine; Ollie L. Brown, year and a day in Petersburg; Carl Dean Cothren, 18 months in Chilli cothe, Ohio, reformatory; Hard in Wesley Simpson, year and a day in Petersburg; Justus Odell Richardson, 18 months in Pet ersburg; Archie E. Pruitt, year and a day in Atlanta prison. Walter Hague, two years in I Atlanta; James Willie Sales., two MATS in Atlanta; ifestgli Ty/e Holld'tray1, year and a day In Chillicothe; Richgrd Lucfen Chambers, year jlffd a day in Chillicothe; Garnett Anderson, Ernest Dowell and Billy Mack Todd, $300 fin^ year and a day suspended, probation; Edmund Clay Holbrookf, year and a day in Atlanta; ? Spurgeon Cheek, $500 fine and six months in jail; Russell Cheek, year and a day in Atlanta; Vestal Lee Par due, year and a day in Peters burg; CommodoFe Triplett, dis charged on restitution $200 to Veterans Administration; Otis Jones, four months in jail. The following defendants were placed on probation for terms of varying lengths: Hu bert Hawkins, Clay Holbrook, Banner Billings, Dean Bauguess, cted For Christmas Season Proclamation WHEREAS the Wilkes Chamber of Commerce has arranged appropriate and attractive Christmas seasonal features in North Wilkesboro and Wilkes boro from November 25th through December 24th, and WHEREAS a special Christmas Program has been scheduled at Memorial Park for the evening of December 2nd at which time Santa Claus will make his first official visit to the Wilkesboros, and WHEREAS local merchants have taken great care in having available for their customers a wide and attractive selection of merchandise for the Christmas season, WE, THEREFORE, designate the period of No vember 25 to December 24 as the official Christmas season in the Wilkesboros, and We join the Wilkes Chamber of Commerce in inviting our customers and friends to visit the Wil kesboros during this Christmas season and to be our guests at the special Christmas program at Me morial Park on Dec. 2nd. R. T. McNIEL, North Wilkesboro W. E. SMITHEY, Mayor Wilkesboro. Dean Forest Bowers, Vaughn Blackburn, Charles Odell Led hetter, Ira W. Nicholson, Baxter Mack Spears, vEllus > Brown, Phoebie M. Hutchinson, Ted Smith, Opal Dora Eller, Irene Blackburn, Harry Lee Gentry, Dwight L. Mathis, Robert Chil dress, Lester Adam Davis, Gene Harry Smithey, Roy Anderson, j Lottie Fay Cardwell, James Irvin . Cothren, Bill Hayes, Richard ( , Wilmoji?tJt>-. Lawrence Allen Pru irt, Jrose McWarter, Dwight Sta ley, Sid Walah. Wilkes G. 0. P. Committee Will Meet On Tuesday .. Meeting of the Wilkes* County Republican Executive commit tee will be held Tuesday, No vember 29, 7:30 p. m., at the Wilkes county courthouse. Call for the meeting was is sued by Chairman N. B. Smithey and Secretary T. E. Story. All members of the committee and other interested members of the party are invited to attend. The Rural Church Topic Of Speech At Kiwanis Meet Key Club Charter Will Be Presented At N. Wil kesboro School Dec. 9 -North Wilkes boro Kiwanis club held an enjoyable meeting Friday noon at Hotel Wilkes. President W. H. McElwee presided and invocation was spoken by Rev. W. N. Brook sTiire. It was announced that the charter for the newly organized Key Club in North Wilkesboro high school will be presented at the school on December 9. Ki wanians are asked to attend the presentation ceremonies. T. E. Story introduced Rev. J. Earl Pearson, missionary for the Brushy Mountain Baptist Associ ation, who gave an interesting talk on the subject, "The Rural Church." Mr. Pearson pointed out that the rural church is a most vital institution in our whole scheme of things. Its economic importance is most noticeable and its means of shap ing the thought of our great rural people is not to be measur ed. In the past year the strictly rural churches of the Brushy Mountain Association expended more than $100,000.00 in their religious endeavof. Twenty-two of the thirty-four churches in this Association have within the past year carried on a building program. The rural church has had and continues to have many problems; th?ir location, equip ment, absentee pastors, and un trained leadership offer some of the barriers to more rapid progress. Directors meeting was an nounced for Thursday evening, December 1. Guests at Friday's meeting were as follows: John E. Justice, III, with John E. Justice, Jr.; Bob Hubbard with Dr. F. C. Hubbard; Bob Eller with H. P. Eller; L?. M. Nelson, Jr., with L. M. Nelson; Joe Barber, Jr., with Joe Barber: Bill Caroon, Jr., with W. J. Caroon; Dr. F. L. Gibbs and George Childers with H.-L. Sny der. R. E. ,Gibbs, of Anniston, Alabama, a former president of the club here, was a visiting Kiwanian. Kills Giant Porker John Smithey, of the Oak woods community, has an envi nhle reputation for producing large porkers. He recently butch ered one that tipped the scales at 653 pounds. This hog was a *>erkshire-poland china cross a bout one year old. 0 Friends will be glad to learn that Mrs. Jesse W. Yale, of North Wilkes bo fo, Route 1, who has been confined to bed for a bout five weeks, is improving. Will Be Held Or. Friday, Dee. 2 At Ball Park, 6 P. M. Several Group* Will Sing Carols; band to Play; Santa Will Arriye Santa Claus will make his first official visit to the Wil kesboros at a special Christmas program to be held In Memorial Park In North Wtlkesboro Fri day evening, December 2, six p. m. This program, in which many groups will participate, is expect ed to attract a record crowd and will be held in the ball park where there are seating facili ties for several thousand peo ple. | Tom Jenrette, manager of the Chamber of Commerce; Richard Johnston, chamber * president; Gilbert Bare and W. G. Gabriel, Trade Promotion and Christmas I program chairmen; Rev, C. J. Winslow, Wilkesboro Methodist minister; and Dr. John T. Way land, pastor of the First Baptist church here, who will deliver a Christmas message. Carols will be sung by groups from Pleasant Hill. Musical Arts club, colored group, Wilkesboro high school glee club group. Millers Creek glee club group. North Wilkesboro glee club and numbers by the entire group, with accompaniment by the North Wilkesboro high school band. Santa Claus will arrive in a big sleigh atop a tractor trailer and will distribute candy and gifts to children. His arrival will be during the singing of "Jingle Bells'* by the entire group, and his departure will be to the tune of "Silent Night", by the* entire assembly. Santa Claus will be invited back to the Wilkesboros to meet children on the streets and in stores Saturday, December 3. He will pick up Santa Claus letters at the special program at the ball park and while here Satur day. The Christmas season official ly opened here Friday. Street lighting and decorations have been turned on and the decora tions have been subject of much favorable comment. Vari-colored lights on evergreen and alumi num garland streamers, with stars and other symbols make a very attractive pattern of street lighting and decorations. Roy Crouse And C. B. Eller Head Alumni Of State Elkin, Nov. 23.?The follow ing new officers were elected for the current year when North western State College Alumni Club met Saturday evening at Gilvin Roth Y. M. C. A. The Northwestern area includes Sur ry, Wilkes, Yadkin, Alleghany and Ashe Counties. Roy Crouse of North Wilkes boro was elected president; H. M. Willis of Elkin, vice presi dent; and C. B. Eller, superin tendent of public instruction of Wilkes county, secretary-treas urer. Chicken Supper At Gaither Store 3rd The women of Friendship church Will serve a chicken sup- . per at the J. M. Gaither store building, five mifes west of North Wilkesboro on 421, Sat urday evening of Dec. 3, begin ning at-six o'clock. Everybody is invited there to enjpy a warm supper in a warm room and receive a warm wel come. Proceeds of the supper will be applied to the building fund of the church. Plates will be $1.00 for adults and 50 cents for children. There will also be an auction sale of home baked food, and articles suitable for Christmas gifts. | o Mrs. Ii. A. Hauser left Wed nesday to visit her son, Mr. Walter Hauser, and Mrs. Hauser in Washington, D. C. Horror Thriller By Little Theatre This Week Mrs. Robert Foster, seated, and Bill Gabriel are shown here enacting a scene from "Night Must Fall" the horror thriller tO' be presented Friday and Satur day nights here by the Community Little Theatre. The drama is filled with suspense and the cast members are ready for excellent performances.
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