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VOLUME 53, NO. 5
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THURSDAY, SEPT. 25, 1941
Large Crowds Expected To Attend Alleghany Fair
People
YOU KNOW
In Alleghany
By Staff Writer
CLENNEL RICHARDSON
Amiable builder of houses, and
occasionally store buildings and
other edifices, Clennel Richard,
son, of Sparta, is one of Sparta’s
most popular men.
Mr. Richardson, who is the son
of the late William Richardson,
began his life on a farm three
miles west of Sparta. He first at
tended a small country school
known as Bledsoe, and later en
tered school in Sparta. He did not
get the chance to finish high
school, however.
After working on the farm for
a few years, he packed his belong
ings and set out for Seattle,
Wash., where lived a brother,
John Richardson. That was in
1919,/Wal'Tt wasn't ;but a few
weeks until he got a job as a log
ging engineer.
A year later he came back to
Sparta, secured employment in a
local shop, and began doing cabi
net work. Several years later he
went to West Virginia and secured
a job doing the same kind of
work.
About a year later he returned
to Sparta and went to work for a
building contracter. Since that
time he has worked with many
different contractors, and has
even acted as contractor himself.
Mr. Richardson’s last job in
town was the red brick building
housing the Western Auto and As
sociate store. He is half owner of
this building, along with Charles
R. Roe, Who owns the business.
First person in or around Spar
ta to build a rock home, Mr. Rich
ardson’s present residence, on
Highway 21 a mile east of town,
is certainly among the most beau
tiful homes in this county.
Marriage was to the former
Zenna G^mbill, daughter of R. L.
Gambill, of Elk Creek. Mr. and
Mrs. Richardson have one daugh
ter, Doris, who is a senior in the
local high school.
A great sportsman, Mr. Rich
ardson likes to hunt and fish, and
does so every time he gets the
chance. He and his wife and
daughter make frequent trips in
a modernistic trailer, which the
former built in his own workshop
a year or so ago.
Mr. Richardson owns a small
farm, raises a few cattle, but is
usually too busy with his building
contracts to put in much time
farming. Mrs. Richardson is coun
ty supervisor for the NYA. Both
are well liked.
562 PERSONS IN COUNTY
GOT FOOD SUPPLIES IN AUG.
A. E. Langston, State director
of commodity distribution for the
State Board of Charities and Pub
lic Welfare, said this week that
Alleghany county received 6,106
pounds of surplus food supplies
during the month of August
worth a fair market value of
$388.95.
General recipients served with,
commodities numbered 562 per
sons in 117 cases, while 673 per
sons comprising 146 relief cases!
were certified during the month
as eligible to receive the com
modities.
Total state distributions during
August amounted to 2^60,264
pounds valued at fl41,M5 and
reached 160,247 needy individuals.
U. S. Navy Launches
A Big Campaign For
Recruits In County
Attendance In
County Schools
Growing Better
Poilio Cases Are Now Non-Ex
istant; Basketball Prac
tice Begins.
PLAY BASEBALL
While the public schools of the
county have been in progress
only two weeks, the fear of a gen
eral polio epidemic has been sub
dued and enrollments are rising
rapidly in each institution, Sup
erintendent W. C. Thompson re
ported yesterday.
Basketball practice has already
begun at the Sparta and Piney
Creek high schools, and indica
tions are that both schools will
have winning teams this season.
Coach Byron Stuart’s teams are
planning to play their first games
in about three weeks.
Baseball is now in the spotlight
at Sparta, Piney Creek and Glade
Valley. In a game with Glade
Valley on Tuesday, Sparta’s boys
defeated Glade Valley by a score
of 8 to 5.
C. T. Edwards, catcher for the
locals, succeeded in chalking up
four runs. Harry Wingler, Glade
Valley fielder, got a home run.
Olin Carpenter pitched for Spar
ta, and Johnny Norman for Glade
Valley.
Mrs. Add McMillan, Miss Mar
jorie and Mr. Wade McMillan vis
ited in Galax Wednesday.
All Young Men Are Urged to
Enlist. Advantages Are
Described.
NEED TODAY GREAT
To build up its manpower for
the “two-ocean Navy” that is ra
pidly nearing completion, the
United States Navy is launching
this week in Alleghany, and
all other counties in the state,
and several other states in the na
tion an extensive campaign for
volunteers to enlist in the Navy
or Naval Reserve.
At the suggestion of Secretary
of Navy Knox, Ray Lowery
has been made Navy Editor of
this paper, to help the Navy in
giving ambitious local young men
information about the opportuni
ties the “two-ocean Navy” offers
for technical training and ad
vancement as they serve their
country in its emergency.
Men between the ages of 17 and
50 will be given a chance, by en
listment in the Navy, to get to
the top, with big pay, in jobs
which, by their aptitude and as a
result of examination they show
themselves fitted, from among
nearly 50 different trades and vo
cations. These include aviation
machinist, dental technician, pho
tographer, diesel engineer, radio
technician, electrician, welder,
storekeeper and baker.
Men enlisting now enter train
ing for the duration of the na
tional emergency. These men will
be sent to one of the four Naval
training stations and may have a
chance to go to a Navy trade
(Continued on Page Four)
Fall Term Of Court Is Set
To Begin Monday Morning
Navy Committee
Appointed Here
Group Is Asked to Organize
Solicitation Effort In
Alleghany.
In line with Secretary of Navy
Knox’s suggestion, an Alleghany
citizens’ committee has been ap
pointed to assist in the drive for
United States navy recruits.
With Sheriff DeWitt Bryan as
its chairman, the committee is
composed of R. F. Crouse, Lonnie
Souther, M. L. Richardson, Vance
Choate, T. R. Burgiss, Gl£nn
Richardson and Silas Nichols.
Committeemen are being asked
to organize the solicitation effort
in their communities immediate
ly. Any further information de
sired about the campaign may be
secured from the office of The
News.
Sheriff Bryan, who served on
a submarine destroyer in World
War I, said yesterday that if he
were again considering a military
service the navy still would ap
peal to him most.
“Not only is the navy, in my
opinion, the safest branch of ser
vice during wartime,” the sheriff
asserted, “but the work, I believe,
is easier. You have plenty of op
portunity for advancement in po
sition and pay.”
Judge Wilson Warlick, New
ton, to Preside; Expect
Light Docket.
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With the fall term of the semi
annual Alleghany county super
ior court scheduled to convene
hefre next Monday morning at 10
o’clock (EST), indications are
that no more than two days will
be required to dispose of the
small number of civil and crimi
nal cases on the dockets.
Judge Wilson Warlick, of New
ton, will preside and Erie Mc
Michael, of Winston-Salem, will
serve as solicitor.
Drunk driving cases outnum
ber all other cases on the crimi
nal docket, with 10 slated to be
tried by Judge Warlick. Six per
sons are charged with violating
the prohibition law, and four cas
es of reckless driving will be
heard.
Other cases on the criminal cal
endar are as follows: larceny,
non-support, assault, breaking and
entering, and carrying concealed
weapons, three eath; resisting ar
rest, two; hit and run driving,
manslaughter, and driving while
license is revoked, one each.
Only 11 civil actions are sche
duled to be tried.
Court attaches said yesterday
that the fall calendars should be
:ompleted by late Tuesday after
noon.
Reds Launch Counterd rives;
U. S. Cargo Ship Sunk By Axis
War continued on land and sea
this week with the Axis sinking
the S. S. Pink Star, in spite of
the warning of the U. S. This ves
sel, a former Danish merchant
man is the first U. S. Govern
ment cargo ship to be sunk since
the warning.
Authorized Nazis said they had
no information to indicate speci
fically that Nazi craft had sunk
the Pink Star, but that whatever
had happened to her was doubt
less “in accordance with the laws
of war.”
Red counteroffensives in every
major sector of the front appear
ed yesterday to have brought a
measurable improvement in the
Russian position, grave though it
remained in the long view. The
Germans acknowledged that the
Soviet armies had momentarily
taken the initiative in the lower
Ukraine between fallen Poltava
and the important Donets basin
city of Kharkov.
In the areas east of Kiev the
present advanced German posi
tions where Berlin says four
Soviet armies are fatally trap
ped, the Nazi High Command
claimed the most spectacular
victory of the war, the annihila
tion to date of 50 Red divisions
(Continued on Page Four)
Pop’ Patten Joins Seven Sons In Navy
Saluted by admirals and bluejackets alike, Clarence F.
“Pop” Patten, 52-year-old former farmer and sawmill opera
tor, joins his seven sons on the battleship Nevada. The navy
overlooked Pop’s age of 52 to enable him to join his sons. Top
row, left to right: Clarence Jr., Myrne, Allen, Gilbert and Ray.
Bottom row: Bruce, “Pop” and Marvin Patten.
Bookmobile Service
To Begin Here Oct.
6 On A Trial Basis
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COLUMNIST PUNCHED?
.Jimmy Fidler, Hollywood col
umnist, is pictured as he appeared
before the senate subcommittee
conducting movie propaganda
hearings. He testified war propa
ganda movies breed hate. Then
early Sunday morning in a Hol
lywood night club, Errol Flynn,
stalwart movie hero, is alleged to
have engaged the columnist in a
one-punch battle, charging that
“you told the senate one lie too
many.”
Last Rites Held
For Mrs. Moxley
Aged Resident of Topia Died
at Home of Son Late
Last Wednesday.
Funeral services were held last
Friday at the Mt. Zion church for
Mrs. Sarah Moxley, of Topia, who
died late last Wednesday at the
home of a son, O. E. Moxley, of
Topia.
Rev. Herbert Caldwell conduct
ed the funeral rites. Burial was
in the church cemetery. An un
usually large crowd attended the
funeral.
Mrs. Moxley, who had been ser
iously ill for only a short while,
was well known throughout Al
leghany county and this entire
section of the mountains. She was
one of the oldest persons in the
county*.
Surviving are her husband,
John Moxley, of Topia; two sons,
O. E. Moxley, of Topia, and W. H.
Moxley, of Congo; four daugh
ters, Mrs. Della Ward, of Crump
ler, Mrs. Delie Pugh and Mrs.
Myrtle Toliver and Mrs. Sam
Landreth, of Topia; two sisters,
Mrs. Metilda Smith, of Scottville,
and Mrs. Martha Boone, of Trout
dale, Va.
SERVICES ANNOUNCED
Elder C. R. Dancy, of Piney
Creek, announced this week that
he will conduct services at the
Piney Creek Primitive Baptist
church at 11 a. m. on Saturday!
October 11, and at Ip. m. on
Sunday, October 12. The public
is invited.
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“Library on Wheels” to Come
Here From Wilkes For
Week’s Service.
NEW BOOKS AVAILABLE
The WPA bookmobile of Wilkes
county, equipped with over 2.500
state-owned books, will begin a
trial demonstration of rural libra
ry service to the people of Alle
fany county on Monday, October
it was announced yesterday.'
In order to secure the perma
nent services of the bookmobile
one week out of each month, it
is understood that Alleghany
county is expected to raise the
sum of $300. At the present time,
no money has been raised for this
purpose. But the bookmobile will
begin its library service here
October 6 on a two-month trial
basis.
New books are to be sent here
by the state office periodically
and added to the shelves of the
public library, from which the
bookmobile will operate. The "li
brary on wheels” will make a
complete circuit of this county.
(Continued on Page Four;
Library Receives
1,200 New Books
Last Friday the Sparta public
library received 1,200 new books
for its shelves, bringing the total
number of books now available
to the public to approximately 2,
300.
Furnished by the WPA library
service, the new books are for
all ages and include some of the
newest fiction as well as many
classics an(J old favorites, accord
ing to Mrs. Carrie Hamm Jones,
who is librarian.
“The public is cordially invited
to come to the library and look
over this grand collection of new
books,” Mrs. Jones said.
The library, open every day ex
cept Wednesday, is housed in the
community building.
County To Send
11 Men To Fort
Bragg Thursday
List of Selectees Expected to
Fill Call Are Released
By Board.
ADDRESS UNKNOWN
Eleven men were named by the
draft board this week to report
here next Thursday, whereupon
they shall be sent to Fort Bragg
for induction into the United
States army under the operation
of the selective service military
program in Alleghany county.
Selectees expected to fill the
current quota are as follows:
Claude William Andrews, Porter
Clayton Wagoner, Benjamin
Franklin Rector and William
Blair Howell, of Sparta; Robert
Lee Johnson and Delbert Edgar
Walker, of Stratford; Frank
Claude Atwood, o f Furches;
Clyde Paul Kennedy, of Joynes;
Emmett Estel Bedsaul, of Ennice;
and Albert Smith Hamm, of
Whithead.
Draft officials do not have the
present address of James Hast
ings Lineberry, who, when he reg
istered, gave his address as Cher
ry Lane. Anyone knowing his
whereabouts is urged to contact
the draft board.
Yesterday it was again stressed
that registrants must notify their
draf board of any change of ad
dress or become liable to severe
penalties provided by the selec
tive service act.
The draft act provides that any
registrant who violates the law
shall be liable to fine and im
prisonment, General Van B.
Metts, state director of selective
service, pointed out this week.
This punishment, he also called
to attention, is specified as “by
imprisonment for not more than
five years or a fine of not more
than $10,000, or by both eueh fine
and imnrisonment.”
Baptists Plan
To Have Asso.
Little River Regular Baptists
to Convene at South Fork
On October 3.
Plans are now underway to
hold the forty-sixth annual ses
sion of the Little River Regular
Baptist association at South Fork
church, one mile west of the Pin
ey Creek post office, next week
end, October 3-5.
Elder L. T. Brooks, of Glade
Valley, is scheduled to preach the
introductory sermon next Friday
morning. His alternate will be
Elder Wiley Combs, of Whitehead.
With 15 churches in the asso
ciation, a record crowd is expec
ted to attend the current session.
Churches are as follows: Big
Springs, Double Springs, Land
mark, Laurel Glenn, Mt. Carmel,
Mountain View, Mt. Ararat, Mt.
Olive, New Salem, New Bethel,
Prathers Creek, Pleasant Home,
Roaring Gap, Saddle Mountain
and South Fork.
Total membership of the
churches in the association is 1,
321. Elder M. T. Brooks, of
Glade Valley, is moderator; W.
J. Wyatt, of Piney Creek, is sec
retary-treasurer.
To fortify the health of the
British people, the U .S. Depart
ment of Agriculture is purchas
ing large supplies of vitamin con
centrates at the present time.
Group Of Local Men Tour
Western Part Of Country
Back home from an extended
tour of the northwestern part of
the United States,' five Alleghany
citizens are this week entertain
ing their friends with exciting ac
counts of the places they went,
the people they met, and the
things they did.
Cleve Reeves, in whose 1941
Dodge the trip was made, was ac
companied by Alex Reeves, Paul
Carpenter, L. L. Cox and Dr. P.
L. Choate.
Going-out there via tfie central
route, the men succeeded in mak
ing Buffalo, Wy., their chief ob
jective, in five days. Altogether,
they traveled 6,000 miles and ex
perienced no car trouble whatso
ever except a flat tire on the way
there. They were gone four
weeks.
Alex Reeves, who is clerk of
court, spent some time in Wyom
ing with a sister, Mrs. Mazy Wag
oner, whom he had not seen in
50 years. Mr. Reeves also stopped
over in Oklahoma and visited an
other sister, Mrs. Jestin Helper,
whom he had not seen in many
years.
Mr. Cox, while in the west,
went on to Seattle, Wash., where
he paid friendly visits with num
erous acquaintances and relatives.
On their way bach to North Caro
lina, the* men stopped by Jeffer
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Exhibits Will
Be Entered On
Friday Morning
Varied and Interesting 2-Day
Program Is Planned.
Many Exhibits.
DANCE SAT. NIGHT
Featuring a varied program of
exhibits, dinners, contests, dan
ces, musical jamborees, and pos
sibly a baseball game, Allegha
ny's big agricultural fair of 1941
will open here Friday morning
and continue through'.,Saturday
night. ^
Exhibits will be displayed at
the Sparta schools’ gymnasium
and on the property adjacent to
the buildings. R. E. Black, presi
dent of the fair, has been busy
this week securing last-minute
exhibitors and making other ne
cessary preparations for the fair.
Special entertainment features
have been worked out by a com
mittee composed of Byron Stuart,
Joe Bill Reed and Hugh Choate.
Planned along much the same
lines as the fair last fall, the cur
rent exposition promises to be the
largest and most successful ever
held. Enthusiasm has spread all
over the county and an excep
tionally large crowd is expected
to attend.
With valuable prizes being of
fered on 192 different premiums
in 17 departments, in addition to
several sweepstakes prizes, the
fair is expected to attract a rec
ord number of exhibits.
Lunch will be served, cafeteria
style, from a counter in the exhi
bit hall Friday and Saturday by
several members of the Woman’s
club. Supervising the counter will
be Mrs. J. T. Inskeep, Mrs. R. E.
Black, Miss Ruby Woodruff, Mrs.
Vance Choate, Mrs. George
Reeves and Mrs. Ellen Parks.
A bingo stand is al§©. expected
to be operated Satufd«y by t e
Woman's club. Cold drinks and
candy are to be sold both days in
(Continued on Page 4)
B. & W. Case Is
Settled In Ky,
Sidney Gambill and Chas. W.
Waring Were Attorneys
For Government.
(Special to The News)
By agreement reached by at
torneys this week, the Brown and
Williamson Tobacco corporation,
1600 W. Hill, Louisville, Ky., is
to receive $750,000 from the Fed
eral government in settlement of
the firm’s $5,280,000 claim for re
funds on processing taxes, Sid
ney Gambill, of Washington, IX
C., announced.
In addition to the lump sum
the tobacco concern is to receive
6 percent interest from the dates
of payments made in 1933 through
1935 before the law was outlawed
by the supreme court in January,
1936.
Announcement of the agree
ment by Attorneys H. M. Robert
son and Louis Seelbach, Jr., for
the firm, and Sidney Gambill and
Charles W. Waring, for the gov
ernment, was made when Judge
Temple Seay, Washington, mem
ber of the U. S. Processing Board
of Review, was about to open a
hearing and five court reporters
from Washington and Chicago
were on hand to record the pro
ceedings.
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