?Dollar Days Will Be Big Event Here Friday. Saturday
THE JOURNAL-PATRIOT
The Journol-Potriot Hos Blazed the Troil of Progress In the Qf Wilkes" For Over 43 Years
Vol. No. 43. No. 85 Published Mondays and Thursdays NORTH W1LKESBORO. N. (X. Monday. February 13. 1950 Make North WUkesboro Your ShooDina Center
OUR CITY
North Wilkesboro tiaa ft
trading radius of 50 ndlsa,
?ervtng 1A0,000 people 1b
!forth western Carolina.
SUPPORT POLK
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One Of Mony Reosons Why Polio Goo I Should Be Reoched
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Patricia Ann Owens seems to be having a high ole time with her paper doll
book and her dolly in bed beside her. Patricia Ann is three years old and is t!?e
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Owens of Hall's Mills She is recuperating from
polio at the Central Carolina Convalescent Hospital in Greensboro where she has
been a patient since July. She insisted that the photographer take her dolly's picture
with hers. In the nation are hundreds with cases similar to that of Patricia, lney
are on the long and costly road to recovery from infantile paralysis. The National
Foundation must have a successful campaign to carry on this work. The goal ot >1U,
000 in Wilkes has not been reached. The campaign will extend through Thursday.
HIGHLAND MEET TO OPEN ON
WEDNESDAY IN WILKESDORO;
SIXTEEN TEAMS IN TOURNEY
Second annual Highland con
ference basketball tournament
will get under way at Wilkesboro
high school gymnasium Wednes
day afternoon and continue until
boys and girls champions are
crowned Saturday bight.
Eight girls' and eight boys'
teams will participate in the race
for cage honors in the Highland
loop. Sparta girls and Cove Creek
boys are defending champions.
The tournament is sponsored by
the North Wilkesboro Lions Club.
The conference yearly awards an
attractive trophy to champions.
There will also be a runner-up
trophy, sportsmanship trophy and
individual basketballs for mem
bers of the championship teams.
The conference schedule fol
lows:
Wednesday
1:00 ? Granite Falls and Cove
Creek girls.
2:00 ? Elkin and Wilkeeboro
boys.
7:30?Sparta and Hudson girls.
8:30?Valdese and Cove Creek
boys.
Thursday
1:00 ? Wilkesboro and Boone
girls.
2:00?Sparta and Boone boys.
-7:30 ? Elkin and Valdese
girls.
8:30?Granite Falls and Hud
son boys.
Semi-finals will be played Fri
day, with the first of four games
beginning at 6 o'clock.
Finals will be played Saturday
night, with girls' game beginning
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r leaders Workshop
Of Girl Scouts To
Open Wednesday
Girl Scouts Leaders workshop
will open Wednesday at the Lit
tle House and continue for three
days.
Mrs. C. T. Doughton, training
committee chairman, has an
nounced that the Brownie lead
ers and committee will meet Wed
nesday afternoon. Intermediate
leaders and committee Thursday
afternoon and Intermediate (13
14 years) Friday afternoon. The
workshop each afternoon will
open at 3:30.
Mrs. Doughton stated that all
leaders and committee chairmen
will find the workshop helpful in
their work with the Scouts.
Rummage Sale
Saturday
The ladies of the Woman's So
ciety of Christian Service of the
First Methodist church will con
duct another Rummage sale at the
Day Electric company's store Sat
urday, February 18, the hours be
ing 8:30 a. m. to 1 p. m. The pub
lic is cordially invited t0 attend
the sale.
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Friends of Mr. R'. B. Pharr will
be glad to learn that he is much
improved after being ill the past
tfdferal days. He is now at home
following treatment at Th? Wilkes
hospital.
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Mr. and Mrs. John Gray Kener
ly, of Mooresville, spent the week
rin the homes of Mr. and Mrs.
C. Jennings, Mr. and Mrs. W.
A. Jennings, and Mr. and Mrs.
Floyd Jennings, all of whom re
side in the Pores Knob commun
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Ronda High School
Will Play Older
Girls On Tuesday
A basketball game which
promises to attract much inter
est and many fans will be played
Tuesday night in Ronda gymna
sium.
The older girls of the com
munity, high school stars since
1930, have challenged the present
high school girls' team, and the
game will be played Tuesday'
night.
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P.-T. A. Meeting On
Thursday Night, 7:30
The North Wilkesboro Parent
Teacher Association is planning
an excellent meeting for Thurs
day night, 7:30 o'clock, at the
school hotfee. All members are
urged to be present.
A program on "Safety" has
been arranged for the meeting,
and in addition there will be a
five-minute observance of Found
ers Day, which will feature the
pageant, "P.-T. A. Cornerstone".
| A social hour during which re
freshments will be served, will
bring the meeting to an end.
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American Legion To
Meet Thursday Nite
The American Legion will meet
Thursday, February 16, in the
club room at 8 p. m.
There will be information and ,
forums -for former prisoners of
war ? W. W. II ? , and infor
mation for W. W. II veterans.
Several bills have been intro-,
duced In the Congress that will
affect all veterans, especially
those who may, in years to come, |
need hospitalization. The veter-'
ana will have to oppose that bill, j
All veterans are cordially in
vited to attend this meeting. ^
North Wilkesboro
Hos Three Dotes
Games This Week
North Wllkeeboro high school
basketball teams will have a busy
week.
Tonight they play Barium
Springs, with the girls' game be
ginning at 7 o'clock in the North
i Wilkesboro gymnasium. The girls'
game may be an important one
for the South Piedmont confer
ence race as both teams are
among the best in the loop.
Tuesday night North Wilkes
boro teams go to Boone for three {
games, with boys' B teams start
ing the action.at 6:30. On Friday
night North Wilkesboro teams
will g0 to Roaring River.
Wilkesboro teams have no play
ing dates this week except in the
Highland conference tournament,
which will open Wednesday after
noon in Wilkesboro.
Penney To Visit
North Wilkesboro
Wednesday Noon
Founder of J. C. Penney
Company Store to Visit
Firm's Store Here
James Cash Penney, founder
of J. C. Penney company and now
one of the nation's most famous
men in the mercantile business,
will visit North Wllkesboro Wed
nesday noon.
I Mr. Penney, who started at
Kemmerer, Wyo., the organiza
tion which has grown t0 include
1,607 stores from coast to coast,
will be en route from Bristol,
Tenn., to Winston-tlalem. He will
visit the J. C. Penney company
store here Wednesday just before
having lunch at Hotel Wilkes. |
After his visit here Mr. Penney
will proceed t0 Winston-Salem to
fill a speaking engagement. I
On Sunday Mr. Penney willi
speak at 11 a. m. at Wesley Me
morial church in. High Point, j
Manager Harold Snyder and sev
eral other members of the local
Penney store personnel will hear
Mr. Penney Sunday in High Point.
James White Is To
Address Optimists,
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mer governor of the eighteenth
Optimist district, will address
members of the North Wilkes -
boro Optimist club at its luncheon
at Hotel Wilkes tomorrow at
noon. Mr. White is one of the out
standing Optimists in this dis
trict, and it is expected that a
large attendance will hear his ad
dress.
Members are urged to be pres
ent to give Mr. White a hearty
welcome to the city.
Polio Total Is $8,000
Two More Days To
Reach The Goal Of
$10,000 In County;
All Who Have Failed To
Give Asked To Get Con
triutions In Now
Funds raised in the infantile
paralysis campaign in Wilkes
county today reached a total of
$8,000, Edward Bell,, campaign
chairman, stated today.
The campaign ? will extend
through Wednesday, February
15, with every possible effort be- j
ing exerted to reach the people
with appeal to raise the goal of
$10,000 in Wilkes county.
Schools have done a splendid
job, Chairman Bell stated, and
about all school reports are in. |
Coin boxes will be collected
(from business and public offices
Tuesday and Wednesday and
theater totals will be included at
the end of the campaign.
Campaign leaders today appeal
ed again to those who did not
make a return from the letters
early in the campaign, and asked
that donations be sent in immedi
ately in order to be included by
the end of the drive Wednesday.
On Saturday here the North
Wilkesboro Lions club members
manned the dime board on the
streets for the second time and
raised a ^total of $83.08.
In view of the fact that the Na
tional Foundation has expended
great sums of money in the treat
ment of infantinle paralysis cases
from Wilkes, it is expected that
Wilkes people will continue to
contribute liberally during the
remainder of the campaign, in or
der that the Foundation may have
funds to care for future victims
and those from former epidemics
who need treatment.
NCEA District
Conference Here
Tuesday 4 and 6
Afternoon and Dinner Meets
To Be Held Tomorrow
At Local School
North Carolina Education As
sociation conference of local unit
officers and committee chairmen
of the northwestern district will
be held Tuesday afternoon and
evening at North Wilkesboro high
school.
Mrs. J. Floyd Woodward, chair
man of the North Wilkesboro host
unit, stated that the afternoon
meeting will be held at 4 o'clock.
Dinner meeting will be held at
6 p. m. in the school lunchroom,
with the North'Wilkesboro junior
class serving dinner.
Miss Rosalec Andrews, of Ra
leigh, who is connected with the
state office of the fcorth Carolina
Education Association, will be in
charge of the conference.
Mrs. Woodward said today that
approximately 165 local unit of
ficers and committee chairmen
from ten counties are expected to
attend.
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Miss Mamie Sockwell
Local News Reporter
In order to provide more
complete news coverage, Miss
Mamie Sockwell, editor of so
cial and women's news, is de
voting increased time to writ
ing local news items. Miss Sock
well will appreciate a call at
any time to report local news
items in this community and
county. She may be reached by
telephone at her residence, tele
phone number 215, except on
Wednesday and Saturday morn
ings, whe she will be at The '
Journal-Patriot office, tele
phone 70.
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Old Time Square
Dance Wednesday
There will be an Old Time
Square Dance at the Legion Hut
Wednesday night at 8 o'clock.
This dance is sponsored by the
senior class of Millers Creek
school to raise money for their
senior trip. Bveryone who attends
is promised a good time. Music
will be furnished by a band from
near Tayloirrille.
Heads Young GOP
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ISAAC ELLER, Jr.
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Isaac tiler, Jr.
Elected President
Wilkes Young GOP
Enthusiastic Meeting Held
Thursday Night At the
Wilkes Courthouse
The Young Republicans of
Wilkes county held their first
meeting of the year at the county
courthouse at the call of E. R.
Eller, chairman of the Wilkes
County Executive Committee, on
Thursday evening, February 9,
with a good attendance and much
enthusiasm.
The meeting was called t0 order
by Chairman Eller, who stated
that there is need for the close
cooperation of both the young and
the older members of the party.
He stated the purpose of the
meeting was to give the younger
members the opportunity to or
ganize if they desired.
A temporary organization was
called for and Paul Osborne was
chosen as the temporary chair
man. The chairman, T. E. Story
and others discussed the impor
tance of having the younger mem
bers of the party organized in the
county and gave directions about
the procedure. Whereupon it was
indicated that it was the desire
of the group to perfect a county
wide organization.
The following officers were
nominated and elected:
President, Isaac Eller, Jr.; vice
president, Thomas Story, Jr.; sec
retary, Mrs. Blanch S. Triplett:
treasurer, Lomax Kilby.
Nine delegates and nine alter
nates were elected to attend the
state-wide Young Republican con
vention to be held in Charlotte,
February 25, at 10 o'clock a. m.
Their names will appear in this
newspaper later.
The principal addresfe of the
evening was made by J. Allie
Hayes, who has announced him
self as candidate for solicitor of
the seventeenth judicial district.
His talk was enthusiastic and well
received by the audience.
The following other persons
made brief talks: A. B. Johnston,
Richard Johnston, Troy Foster,
Kyle Hayes and Theodore Fair
childs.
ATI! Agents Blast
400-Gallon Still
One of the largest illicit dis
tillery outfits ever located in
northwestern North Carolina was
blasted to oblivion Friday by
agents of the Wilkesboro office
of the Alcohol Tax unit.
The still, found in Antioch
township, had a capacity of 400
gallons and total mash capacity
of 7,000 gallons. Mash destroyed
totaled 6,500 gallons and repre
sented a big investment, princi
pally in sugar, a member of the
raiding party said.
ATU agents making the raid
used dynamite to blast and des
troy the huge outfit.
The still had been in operation
only a short time. No arrests were
made during the raid.
Mrs. N. B. STmithey and daugh
ter, Mrs. Kyle Hayes, and Mrs.
Lee Hemphill were visitors in the
home of Mr. N. F. Keiger, of To
baccovtlle route 1, yesterday.
DOLLAR DAYS EDITION OF
THE JOURNAL-PATRIOT WILL
DE ISSUED WEDNESDAY P. M.
Wilkes Dollar Days, the event.
that brings the dollar back into j
its own, will be observed through
out the Wilkesboros Friday and
Saturday of this week, February
17 and 18.
On Friday and Saturday here
a dollar will buy more than at
any time since the war.
The event is a semi-annual
promotion of the Trade Promotion
committee of the Wilkes Chamber
of Commerce.
During Dollar Days there will
be numerous special bargains of
fered for one dollar by the mer
chants of the Wilkesboros in all
lines of mercantile business.
In additions to big values at
a dollar each, there will be sub
stantial reductions of prices of
merchandise above the dollar
class.
In smaller items, there will be
groups of items for one dollar?
in every case representing sav
igs which will be decidedly ad
Book Display At
The Wilkes Library
On Wednesday, Feruary 14th,
the Wilkes Public Library will
have on display the books from
the Home Demonstration clubs'
reading list.
This will be the members'
chance to see the books and make
requests before the books are put
into circulation.
The library is planning for a
large number to call between 2
and 4 o'clock.
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District Scout
Meeting Tuesday
The Wilkes District committee,
Old Hickory council, Boy Scouts
of America, will hold its Febru
ary meeting on Tuesday night,
February 14, 7:30 o'clock, at the
Reins-Sturdivant chapel in North
Wilkesboro.
All Boy Scout leaders are urg
ed to attend and help make plans
for the National Jamboree.
The meeting this month has
been moved up one week in or
der that district representatives
can attend the quarterly meeting
of the Old Hickory council exe
cutive board in Elkin on February
21.
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Little Theatre
Plans For Playi
The Community Little Theater
is completing plans for their sec
ond play of the 1949-1950 season.
This forthcoming production will
be a comedy familiar to movie
fans and theater goers, as it has
already won wide acclaim and a
reputation for itself on the stage,
screen, and radio. To those who
are already acquainted with the
play, "The Man Who Came To
Dinner" suggests an enjoyable
combination of a good story and
clever and witty dialogue.
Thp Community Little Theater
will present their rendition of
"The Man Wh0 Came To Dinner"
in the North Wilkesboro school
auditorium on March 10 and 11.
The cast will be headed by Mr.
Robin Wooten in fhe role of "Mr.
Whitesides", with Nellie Gabriel.
Bill Gabriel, Geraldine Caldwell,
Claude Jarrett, John Cashion,
Harriett Crutchfield, Mrs. Cecil
Williams, Jr., Mr: and Mrs. Cecil
Adamson, and others in support
ing roles.
Rehearsals are well under way.
and the group promises to live up
to expectations of all who have
seen previous productions of the
Community Little Theater.
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"Culture Of Roses"
Broadcast Subject
Mrs. A. C. Chamberlain, a mem
ber of the Garden club, will give
a talk on the culture of roses over
WKBC Wednesday morning,
10:45 o'clock, on Anne Martin's
program.
vantageous to customers.
Dollar Days are staged here to
promote trade, and are expected
to attract many additional custo
mers to North Wilkeebor0 from
an expanding trade area. Dollar
Days will be good for the entire
family.
Next Paper Wednesday
The Dollar Days edition of The
Journal-Patriot will be printed on
Wednesday evening this week in
stead of Thursday. All who have
news and advertisements for this
Dollar Day edition are asked to
remember the earlier publication
date and get copy prepared in
ample time.
The Dollar Day edition to be
printed Wednesday evening will
! carry the Dollar Day advertise
ments, listing many of the nu
merous values to be offered dur
| ing the two big days.
Readers are asked not to miss
any of the Dollar Day messages
by the business firms of this com
munity.
Wilkes County
Democratic Meet
Held Saturday
Robert M. Gambill and C. J.
Jones Named Members
Election Board
A meeting of the Wilkes coun
ty executive committee was held
Saturday in the city at the city
hall. The call for the meeting was
issued by Watson Brame, chair
man of the committee, a vast ma
jority of the precincts were repre
sented. -
The principal business to he
transacted by the committee was
making recommendations for
members of the county board of
elections who will serve for two
years. The executive committee
recommended Robert M. GambiH
and C. J. Jones as the two Dem
ocratic members of the county
board, and their names were rec
ommended by Chairman Brame
for appointment by the chairman
of the state board of elections.
The meeting of the county
committee was a very harmonious
one and all business coming be
fore the committee was handled
with dispatch.
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Kiwanis Meeting
Is Featured By
Miller Address
North Wilkesboro Kiwanis club
held an. interesting meeting Fri
day noon at Hotel Wilkes.
Program chairman, Hal Sny
der, introduced Dr. A. H. Miller,
of Monroe, who made a good talk
spiced with much humor on the
subject: "Our Opportunity As a
Group." A club has much value.
It offers the opportunity for fel
lowship: the various occupations
of the members compliment each
other and as we look across the
table at our neighbor in business
we may often fail to recognize
much that is worthwhile to our
own business. Every club has
three kinds of members, the mov
ers, the movables and the im
movables. Those who have the
extra quality of foresight will be
able to take the grades in their
turn. The speaker supported al
most every idea he suggested
with some humorous story.
Robert Morehouse made an
nouncement of the Carolinas dis
trict Key Club convention to be
held in Winston-Salem, February
23 and 24.
Guests Friday were as follows:
Howard Colvard with Paul Os
borne; A. B. Johnston with J. R.
Hix; M. L. Gaston, A. O. Bryan,
George Childers, Dick Gwyn and
| Dr. A. H. Miller with Harold Sny
der. Sig Holcomb and J. W. Brax
ton of Elkln, were visiting Ki
j wanians.
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Yields of some oat varieties
were reduced sharply in 1949 be
cause of a fungus which has not
yet been identified.