Potriot Hos Blozed the Trail of Progress In the "State of WUkes" For Over 43
WORTH W1LKESB0R0, N. C„ Monday. March 13.iflfin
w WORK PROGRESSING ON 100-BED HOSPITAL HERE
This scene shows footings heme pound in the first phases of construction of the
Wilkes General Hospital, 100-bed institutim which is being erected on the site of
the old Gordon home just west of Red dies River near highway 421. P. S. West Con
'*?struction company, of Statesville, has general contract for the erection of the three
story building, which will cost approximately $947,000 when completed and equip
ped ( Photo by S. Lane Aktinson, Jr.)
^ADDITIONAL COMMUNITIES
TO BE INCLUDED IN MOVE J
FOR TELEPHONE EXPANSION
= —- .i- :r -
The way Is for *Mition
al communities to be Included In
the proceedings now before the
North Carolina Utilities Commis
ston tn effort to get expanded
telephone serrice, It was explain
ed to a meeting of interested cit
called by the Utilities and
Transportation committee of the
Wllkea Chamber of Commerce
•ad held Thursday at the Korth
WUkesboro town hall.
Any additional requests other
those covered in the order
«f the commission following
«abllc hearing here must be fil
ed with the Utilities Commission
by Msr«h-lS*r—
The "Wilkes Chamber of Com
merce, original petitioner which <
started the movement for Im
proved nad expanded serrice, has
volunteered to act as a clearing
house for petitions by citisens of
all areas and will compile their
4ata and include it in the organ
isation's report to the commis
sion, provided that such requests
are filed with the Chamber of
Commerce by March 18.
The several communities
wtQch were represented In the
hearing here and which have
been promised action by the
•commission may also file amend
ed petitions provided they have
snore prospective customers than
^vs*e set out in original petitions
or testimony. The Chamber of
Commerce would like to have a
copy of all petitions in order to
more closely follow develop
ments in the project.
.m'The meeting held here Thurs
day afternoon was well attended
with one or more representatives
present from the several com
munities which have previously
asked for telephone lines and a
•ew petition was filed by a group
«n the Mountain View commun
ity. Another new request vu
that the proposed Ferguson line
be sat—ded to the Caldwell
eoonty line and that the proposed
Boomer Hue also go to the Cald
well county line and that a line
be constructed through the Beav
er Creek community between
Ferguson and highway 18. It was
also decided that a supplement
ary statement be filed asking
that the area highway 268 east
of North Wilkesboro to "Roaring
EUver be better defined than was
set oat la the commission's or-'
Aai* T " *
In addition .to committee mem
bers, the following representa
tives of communities asking con
struction of telephone lines were
present: Mrs. Archie Lee Osborne
and Raymond Minton, Oak woods;
Mrs. Eugene Shepherd and Mrs.
T. W. Ferguson, of Ferguson; T.
O. Minton and C. M. Brown, of
Champion; A. G. Foster, Wayne
Stoster and Charles Shoemaker,
Congo Road; Bob Yale, Moun
tain View; R. G. Mathis, hlgh
fmm 421 east of Wilkes boro; J.
MfCareer and J. C. Walsh, of
Boomsr; Clifford Myers and Cox
A. Blevins, of Mulberry; J. O.
Huffman, North) Wilkes boro
route one; Reuben C. Blackburn
Florence Blaekbnrn, Lincoln
■eights sad Cairo; Jack field,
Charles Wiles, C. G. Johnson, U
B. Wiles and J. * Alexander, of
1(S sast; Ssfc ▼. Be
r. Om*. of
dammit; . J. Allie Hayes, of
Brushy Mountain.
Committee members -were Lar
ry Moore, chairman, who presid
ed, C. M. Brown, M. F. Bumgar
ner, I. L. Grogan, Paul Qreeae,
M. C. Woodie, Maurice Walah, J.
B. Williams and Richard John
ston, who filed tife original pe
tition M president of the Cham
ber of Commerce last year.
The Utilities Commission has
ordered the Central Telephone
company serving this area to
make a complete surrey of the
rural lines requested, including
coet, number of patrons and an
S&rS*
The chamber of commerce is
emphasising thfet communities
wishing telephone service should
file their petitions now, giTing
the number of people who will
take and pay for telephone ser
vice, and have such requests in
ln the matter to be sub
Sire? 25° "• b7
Mountaia View
Studeflt Winaer
Speaking Contest
Harrold Bennett Takes First
Place In Soil Conser
vation Orations
Harrold Bennett, student of
Mountain View high school, won
place ln the Wilkes county
5STratl0L. 8Peakln« <*>»
ITh ~ Pridar nl*ht and
W,lke" c°anty m
the district contest with 11 coun
| ty winners participating at Le
jnolr Friday, March 17. -
Beeond piace went to Miss Do
ihSr ** Roada- "<i
third to Miss Btllle Abser
TraphiU. other school
participating were George Prank
p.... T* "•▼ette, of Roaring
Rtrer, Miss Shirley Mlkeal, of
S *** **«d Flnley
Jr- of Worth Wilkesboro.
Tlie contest is sponsored in the
»Ute by the Bankers Association
•ad the local contest was
sored by the Northwestern Bant
b;;l% North *££5
126 iTk JnlnUsh<* Prizes of
,26' «ad |10 for the first
■,rl™ "•»—"
Staton Mclrer, head of the Soil
™frT8UKon with iSS
Mr..
H. Whicker, s, *°d Atton">T
Md"™ W,lke<"^r» Two'
coached Kt Mm »
«•*». PrJncip.1 B. o PL,"
s®cond Place winner aiuf r v
Abeher coached Mi* £mlftJ°hKn
®r. who placed th!?d
Pfe- Jack I*. Badgett, son of
nardlno, CaUf. H*r"
OPTIMIST CLUB
MEETS TUESDAY
The Qptimlst Club of North
Wilkesboro will meet tomorrow
at noon at Hotel Wilkes. All
members of the club are urged to
be present.
T.PJL Baifatf
Thursday Night
Banquet of Post L of the Travel
ers Protective Association will be
held Thursday, March 16, seven p.
m., at Hotel Wilkes.
Post leaders ate urging that
every member attend. The post is
bearing the cost of the Hfnrvof
with no extra expense to mem
bers.
One of the principal items of
business will be reorganisation. la i
add-on to business them will be
a program of interest to aB'^MH
j attend.
BHI McElwee Files
For Office Solicitor
WiH Be Democratic Candi
dale; Hayes And Hall
File For Solicitor
W. H. McElwee, a prominent
North Wilkesboro attorney, last
week filed with the State Board
of Elections as Democraltc can
didate for office of solicitor in the
117th judicial district. To date he
lis thte only Democratic candidate
for that office.
Two Republicans hare filed for
the nomination for solicitor: Soli
citor Avalon EX Hall, of Yadkin
ville, who has filed for re-elec
tion, and Attorney J. Allie Hayes,
a prominent North Wilkesboro
attorney. ,
Exhibit Of File
Pictures Coming
A splendid opportunity for art
education is afforded in the ex-'
hibit of Pine Art Prints which
will be on display, March 21-24
in the North Wilkesboro High
School. The traveling art gallery
contains 150 subjects. Including
latest works as well as the old
masters. There will be a small
admission charge which' will be
used for the purchase of plot ares
for our schools. Among the most
famous artists represented are
Gainsborough, Terborch, Murillo,
Van Dyck, Raphael, Titiau Da
Vinci, and many others of the
old masters. Among the more mo
dern are representative subjects
from the brush of Ben Foster.
George Innes, Ernest Albert
Harry Vincent and Gastone Wll
gand.
Union Township
Road Meeting
■very resident of Union town
ship is invited to a Union town
ship road meeting to be held
Wednesday night, March IB
7: SO o'clock, at Union Church.
Mark Goforth, of Lenoir, hlgh
dhirir"!?0?<or •*«***
division, will address the people
•ad discuss with them their
invention Recommends Board of Education
| Membership Be Increased To 5 And ^
Include Two Republicans
"Wilkes county Republicans in
onrention Saturday afternoon
manlmously passed a resolution
«king that the Wilkes county
toard of education be enlarged
rom tbfee to fire members and
hat two of the members be Re
ublicans. The convention endors
d for appointment to the board \
tussel G. Hodges, of North Wll
lesboro, and Dr. <K T. Mitchell,
f Wllkeeboro.
Allle Hayes Endorsed
The board of education reso
ution, which was offered by T.
3. Story, waa one of sereral mat
ers of importance to the party
jefore the convention, which
?ave its endrsement to Attorney
r. Allle Hayes, of North Wllkes
joro as oandidate for Republican
nomination for solicitor of the!
17th judicial district. His opposi
tion is Avalon E. Hall, of Yad
kin Yille, present solicitor seeking
a fourth term.
Officials Re-Elected
Chairman B. R. Eller and Sec
retary T. E. Story, of the Wilkes
Republican Executive committee,
were unanimously re-elected. I*
aac Eiler, Jr., of North Wilkes
boro, president of the Toung Re
publican Club In Wilkee, was
elected vice chairman, taking the
place of Max Foster who is mov
to Hickory.
Chairman Bller opened the
convention with remraks urging
greater activity among young peo
u tbe ,orm*tion of Repub
Women Clubs, h© designat
°flbo"le as convention
chairman, withf T. E. Story see
retary and Dwight Nkhols assis
tant secretary. -
Chairman Osborne named W.
. Somers, J. F. Jordan and Clyde
Hayes to nominate delegates to
TutJl . convention meeting
Tuesday, tea a. m„ in Charlotte;
P.
; Troy F
i . —a Fr*t M*en
leiegctes to"fte state
convention yet to be
called £ and .a credentials coramit
of T. R. Bryan, C.
and J. c. Grayson.
cal1 of Precincts showed
J *!****111'*1 w,th credentials
except one. There were no con
tests -from precincts.
MeJhbers of the county execu
tive committee were elected as
,rne!?m?en1fed ln P^inct meet
ings. P. E. Brown and W B
Somers were unanimously ' re^
elected members of the state con
ecutive committee.
Jones Praises Record
Keynote speceh of the conven
tion was by John R. Jones, for
mer sallcitor, who highly com
=ed the record o, mZ
county government by the Re
publicans and pointed out many
achievements accomplished while
Cvf1"/ the C°Unty ^ ra*
Clyde Eggers, of Boone, spoke
ZTV116 aSk6d Wilkea ^Pub
licans to support Clyd© Green, of
Boone, for state chairman The
conventon passed a motion re
commending Mr. Green as emin
ently capable of being state
lC^SBn bUt dW BOt lMUnct
OUter talks were made bv J R
Whfck,,.. Sr., Joo Ran. /
Hare* Mr, ,„ta H J*. ™
«f Court CMrtMM.
C.u«ll. Clort Sonrt CMkU
stfcZrss&r
w.T «
Polloirtns ,r„ th» Itau 0f ..I
h"Maraato. elected to
the three conventions:
State Convention
delegates - E. R. EllWi
P. E. Brown, T. E. Story, W B
£mers, John R. Jones, W^II
8 mi they, Lomax Kilby,
C. C Hayes, C. G. Poindextar
Troy Foster, J. C. Grayson M F*
Absher, C. C. Bidden, I. j' Br * I
JUI. u B. Dula. Kyi, Hayaa j"
• Jordan, F. J. McDufffc J *
'• ««• h,^; **
Myers, P. W. Eshelman w a
Fletcher, T. R. Brfan, cUud B11-'
ngB, Jr., Paul Osborne, H. p
Bller, John Joines, R. staley T.
H. Settle, Perry Lowe, M w
Green W M. Holder, w. K. HoU
der, W. E. Reynolds, Oora Can
dill, Blaine Sparks, W. M. Black
hurn, Richard Johston w w
Gam bill. ■
AWKIHATS8 _ Boat Btoo*.
WW.,*. A. Trtotott. w. A. Oaa
Tbarpe, Charlie Darnell, KcKln
ley Bnrcham, Coy Marley, Danard
Trlplette, Lake Meeslek, Regie
Waters, C. L. Kennedy, Theodore
Falrchllds, J. R. McNeill, Noah
Chambers, C. M. Pardue, Boyd
Cook. B1U Phillips, Old Wiles,
W. T. Royster, C. W.. Haynes,
Walter Martin, Mrs. John Joines,
Tal Pearson, T. J. Frailer, Joe
Godby, S. M. Shumate, Bd Crysel,
Oreen Bumgarner, J. W. Rob
bins, Henry Johnson, D. B. Swar
ingen, Marvin ' Joines, Jack
Hoots, Dewey Parker, A. L. Pre
vette, Bd Ashley, Larry Brook
shire, Claude Petty.
rTriiignaniiiiiel Convention
DELEGATES — P. BJ. Brown,
Ed Crysel, A. R. Miller, Walter
Anderson, P. V. Turner, R. J.
(Continued On Page 6)
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100 Fruit Growers
At Association's
Meeting On Friday
Brushy Mountain Frni
Grower# Plan More
Actire Organisation
More than 100 fruit growers
of Wilkes and Alexander coun
ties gathered at Pores Knob com
munity tyase Friday night for
a meeting of the Brnshy Moun
tain Fruit Growers Association.
Founded *5 years ago, the As
sociation plans a program of or
ganisation and expansion design
ed to render greater service to
the fruit growing area.
There wan much discussion of
organisation- plans, and definite
action was taken with the ap
pointment of a committee of four
to wri%*onsttt«tlon and by-laws
to ba submitted at the next
«feMrman, ant t. B. Williams, of
Wilkes, Pari Fortune and Oray
don Harrington^ of Alexander.
According to plans discussed
Friday night, the association will
meet Quarterly. A membership
committee will solicit every
fruit grower in Wilkes and Alex
ander counties for memberships
in the association. Present offi
cers of the association will serve
through this reorganisation per
iod. The officers are: Boyd Camp
bell, president; C. J. Hendren,
▼Ice president; Carl B. VanDe
man, secretary; I- J. BroyhiU,
treasurer.
This year the associaiton will
plan a special event la celebra
tion of its 25th anniversary, and
in the faH will stage an apple
sttow with prises for the best
bushel of apples submitted. Prize
winning apples will be auctioned
and proceeds will go into the
association treasury.
Several talks were made in
Friday night's meetnlg. J. B.
Williams, of A. ,B. C. Orchards,
pleaded for greater cooperation
and efffort in behalf of the asso
ciation, saying that the organiza
tion represents the entire fruit
growing area in this part of the
state and that growers in both
counties should consider the as
sociation as theirs.
Fntertalnment was provided
by two movies shown by Q. Sam
Winters.
Rubieoff Tickets
r Are Now 0a Sale
North Wilkesboro Lions Club
has placed tickets on sale for the
Rubinoff and his violin ooncert
to be given Wednesday, March
22, 8:30, at the V. F. W. club
house.
Reserved seat tickets wtyl be
12.40 each, including taxes, and
Rubinoff will give a personally
autographed paper violin with
each of the first 300 tickets sold.
Tickets are now on sale at
Brame's Drug store and the
Jewel Box in North Wilkesboro
and at Henderson's Flower Shop
in Wilkesboro.
Each member of the North
Wilkesboro Loins clnb is being
given five tickets to sell and
tickets may be obtained from any
nwwwiwMiwwwwniwww
Head Wilfce. G.O.P.
ISAAC 1ELLER, IB.
• i ^===a
Dwr tiary-Ti uiwifut
T. B. STORY
Fatal Accident
Scenes On Roads
Be Marked
Beginning. March 13, the high
way safety devision of the Norti
Carolina Department of Motoi
Vehicles will try to make the mo
toring public conscious of the fad
that death lurks on the highways
The place of each fatal acci
dent on the highways of North
Carolina will be marked with a
readily visible road sign.
The sign 'will hate three-fool
letters, signifying the Bomber kill
ed at «ach location.
Several years ago a plan was
adopted by which crosses were
erected at fatal accident locations,
but pressure of publie opinion
from people who didn't like tc
thing about death caused authori
ties to quit the plan.
Stocks of all types of leaf to
bacco owned by dealers and man
ufacturers in the United Btatea
and Puerto Rico totaled 3,879 mil
lion pound* on January .1, 1950,
Char
Red Grow fund
Wilkes county is
ed, it trw 1—mod today from the
office of tile Wilkes chapter.
Inclement weather, much sick
ness and other unfavorable con
ditions have made it difficult to
make much headway, and only
$1,400 has been tuned In to
date. '
W. G. Gaberiel, fund chairman,
said today that reports have not
been received from industrial
plants and only a few of the
business district canvassers have
reported. The amounts to date
include only a part of the Special
Gifts committee contacts and
very little from rural areas.
Special effort is urged during
the remainder of this week in
order to make greater headway
m the campaign. Workers are
particularly urged to complete
their assignments this Week: if
possible.
Workers in rural" areas have
been greatly handicapped by wea
ther and in several instances by
-sickness, but it is expected that
they will make, good headway as
soon as they can make contact
with residents living in their res
pective communities.
The Red Cross chapter here
duria? the past several years
has proved to be an indispensable
institution which- has rendered
great service to -hundreds of fami
lies. The goal of $7,800 represents
funds to carry on the work of the
Red Cross and failure to raise
any part of that amount will
greatly cripple-the chapter's use
fulness sad service in the county.
Workers are especially request
ed to cover ss much territory aa
possible and to reach all the peo
ple with an appeal to give lib
erally in order to carry on the
Red Cross work.
I ULlmn (atkiaaA
Lifiliilf $bD]66i
For P.-TJL Meet
irecent
lotte.
how mneh time yon spend under
artificial llgHfc? And how the
kind of light which surrounds
you affects your health, your dis
position— Yes— Tour life? As
we are coming to spend more and
more time under artificial light,
so the subject becomes more and
more important. Did you know
that one kind of light makes yon
look young and healthy while
another makes one look old
er; one kind can kill germs In
the air give one a sunburn, while
another can radiate a penetrating
heat that will warm you to the
bones or dry the paint on a new
car in minutes; one kind will
make your dress and draperies
stand out in all that brilliance
of their true color while another
makes them look dull?
Come to P-T. A. Thursday
night at 7:30 and see theee lights
and their effects *
Mr. Paul Tysinger, lighting snp
ervisor of the Duke Power Co.
Mr. Tysinger has been gathering
materials, oddities, and cadreta
Re
years of ex
the spedflca
lighting of
homes, and
industrial «■ tab
know* light and
program should be
"THE WW WHO CMK TO DflHIER"
PRESETTED BY LITTLE THEATRE
On Friday and Saturday nights
of last week the Community lit
tle Theatre printed "Th|e Man
Who Came To Dinner," a comedy
In three acts by lfoea Hart and
George Kaufman. \
The ca«t was led ty Mr. Robin
Woolen in tbe role 'of Sheridan
Whiteelde, critic, lecturer, wit,
radio operator, an Intimate
Mend of the great and near
great, and 1-HE MAN Vijo came
to dinner. The ■ access of the
play, hfcwerer, did not depend
upon any one character. Bach
member of the cast, In his own.
way, was responsible. Mr. and
Mrs. fltanley, who
Mr.
by
ter and son; Nellie Gabriel m
Mr. Whiteside'a secretary, Mag
gie; Bill Gabriel aa the very
British Beverly Carlton; Mrs.
Pat Williams, Jr. as Lorraine
Sheldon; John Cashion as the
inimitable "Banjo"; and others
too numerous to mention. Tha
characters, collectively and in
dl-ridaally, gare the andlenca an
evening of fun, laughter, and en
tertainment witt their splandid
performance.
This latest production lived up
to all expectations of those who
nto previous plays by this
Group, and assured them that
be entertainment as fine aa the
Community Little Th sails has i
CM la tha pwt,
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