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VOLUME 54, NO. 26
$1.00 a Year in Alleghany County
SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA
$1.50 a Year Out of County
THURSDAY, JAN. 22, 1942
County To! Make Quota In Red Cross Relief Fund
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People
YOU KNOW
Iii Alleghany
By STAFF WRITER
William Franklin Parsons,
known to Piney Creek folks a
“Squire Will”, was born on th"
old Parsons homestead about two
miles west of Piney Creek post
office, the son of John Stokes and
Rebecca Sturgill Parsons. He re
ceived his early education at the
old King Creek Academy, and
higher learning at Grassy Creek
and at Sparta under Prof. Brown.
During his youth he traveled
extensively. He made several
trips to South Carolina for cattle
trading with his father. One trip
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TVM. FRANKLIN PARSONS
was made to and from Missouri
in a wagon, bringing with him
one of the first Shepherd dogs
ever brought to the community.
He was united in marriage in
1895 to Miss Alice Sturgill and
thews' ware bom fainM-hUdr-w,
all living at Piney Creek: Mack
F., Mrs. L. K. Halsey, Mrs. Grover
Enopier and Miss Mytrle Parsons.
In 1913, Mrs. Parsons died of typ
hoid, leaving Mr. Parsons to rear
his family alone.
About 1911, the site was chosen
for a new school building at
Piney Creek, and being a trustee
of the old Kings’ Creek school,
he was made trustee of the new
•school. He still holds this position
and has been chairman of the
school board since it was estab
hshed. He has been trustee of the
Methodist curch since its dedica
tion in 1911.
An active Mason, he joined the
lodge at Kings’ Creek about fifty
years ago.
It would be hard to find a more
public-minded individual. Al
ways keenly interested in affairs
of state, and more keenly interest
ed in the community. As Justice
of Peace, he has united many
couples and to his knowledge not
a divorce among them. Being a
man of rare wit, he has ironed out
many delieiate situations arising
from little disputes among fam
ilies and neighbors.
Stricken with ill health over a
year ago, he doesn’t go out much
anymore, but he keeps up with
the times by reading, the radio,
and chatting with his many
friends.
Hobbies? He’s been to busy
with his farm and other affairs
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DAYLIGHT TIME
IS JUST AHEAD
This county as well as the
nation today (aces the com
plex problem of readjusting
its sleeping, working, eating
and recreation schedules to
meet the exigencies of nation
al daylight saving time.
He has 20 days or, to be
more specific, until 2 a. m.,
Mohday, February 9, to get
himself reoriented. At that
time and on that date clocks
will be advanced one hour
under provisions of the nation
al daylight savings bill which
President Roosevelt signed
Tuesday.
The new "fast time” sched
ule-designed to conserve elec
tric power and generally in
crease efficiency of (he war ef
fort-will remain in effect for
the duration of the war and
for not more than six months
thereafter, provided Congress
dees^not nullify tt in the in
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Widow of War Hero Aids Red Cross
Mrs. Colin Kelly, Jr. is pictured here, flanked by the
color guard of the Army and Navy Union during a Red Cross
parade in New York city. Mrs. Kelly is the widow of the late
flying army captain who sacrificed his life to sink the first
Jap battleship after war broke out. After the parade cere
monies were held to dedicate New York city’s Fifth avenue as
the Red Cross street of mercy of the nation.
Two Events Be Held
For Celebration Of
F. D. R.’s Birthday
Weather Warms,
Days Lengthen
Old Man Winter let up on
shivering weather during the
past week as balmy days and
rain combined to erase the
snow ram the landscape.
The days were also noticed
this week as becoming long
er, and the sun is now setting
a minute later each day.
Turner Now In
Alleghany Jail
Hearing Held In Wytheville
Monday; Charge Is False
Pretense
W. C. Turner, who was indicted
by the grand jury here at the
September session for obtaining
property under false pretense, was
brought to the Alleghany county
jail yesterday from Wytheville,
Va., following an extradition
hearing in that city on Monday
before Judge Draper of Pulaski,
Va.
Attorneys R. F. Crouse, of
Sparta and Paul Parsons of
Wytheville reperesented the State
at the hearing, while Frank Rat
io was representative of the de
fendant. Judge Draper ordered
thelreturn of Turner to this coun
ty from Virginia because of bad
checks he had written here last
year in obtaining cattle.
Gov. Broughton sent a requisi
tion to Virginia last October for
the return of Ttfmer, and the
state of Virginia had in turn ac
knowledged the requisition. The
hearing was held in Wytheville to
determine whether or not Turner
should be returned to North Car
olina, and the court held he
should.
Wytheville officers brought
Turner to the jail in Sparta,
where he is now being detained.
Auto Stamps On
Sale Here Now
The automobile tax stamps
received this week by Alleghany
county post offices and are on
sale for the public. Sam Brown,
Sparta acting postmaster, said he
had sold a number of the stamps
but that there was no rush on
them as yet.
The “auto use” tax goes into ef
fect February 1st, with owners
being required to pay $2.09 per
vehicle for the remainder of this
fiscal year. On July 1st the full
tax of $5.00 will fall due, and it
will be effective until July 1st,
1943.
Benefit Ball Games And
‘President’s Dance’ To Be
Next Week
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The President’s Birthday Cele
bration will be observed in Alle
ghany county next week with two
events scheduled in Sparta from
vftiich all proceeds will be turned
over to fhe Infantile Paralysis
fund, according to Mrs. Alton
Thompson, who is chairman of
the drive in this county to raise
$160 with which to fight poliom
yelitis.
A benefit basketball double
header will be played at the
Sparta high school gymnasium
Thursday night of next week with
the Fries, Va., teams playing
Sparta’s boys and girls. First
game will start at 7:30, and the
Spartans will be out to redeem
an early season loss to the Vir
ginia squads.
Since losing their first game to
Fries, the Sparta boys have im
proved with experience and are
now rated one of the best teams
• in the Yadkin Valley conference
The Sparta girls have also shown
improved play, and many persons
are expected to be in the stands
for the benefit game^next Thurs
day.
A square dance has been an
nounced for Saturday night, Jan
uary 31, and all proceeds raised
will go towards fighting infan
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Bank Officers
Are Re-Elected
Directors Meet In North Wilk
esboro And Again Name
Sparta Men
R. A. Doughton, of Sparta, was
re-elected president of the North
western Bank at a directors meet
ing last week in North Wilkes
boro, and Edwin Duncan, of Spar
ta, re-elected as exectuive vice
president.
Other officers re-elected are
John C. Mabe, Sr., of Bakersville,
vice president, and D. V. Deal, of
North Wilkesboro, secretary.
The stockholders voted to in
crease the board of directors from
13 to 14 members, and J. D.
Brinkley, of Valdese, was the
added member. W. F. Hughes, of
Bakersville was also elected a di
rector to succeed G. W. Greene, of
Bakersville, whose term had ex
pired.
The re-elected directors are as
follows: R. A. Doughton, Harry
Bailey, W. C. Berry, W. B. Collins,
R. L. Doughton, Ralph Duncan,
W. D. Farthing, M. A. Higgins, W.
W. Mast, J. T. Prevette, M. F.
Reeves and N. B. Smithey.
Bank officials and directors afe
anticipating another successful
year for the Northwestern
branches at Sparta, Jefferson,
Boone, Blowing Rock, Bakersille,
Burnsville, Valdese, Taylorsville,
and at North Wilkesboro.
Scrap Metal Be
Collected Next
Monday - Black
Also Papers. Rags, Tires Be
Gathered At Places Named
In Alleghany
BEFORE 12 O’CLOCK
“Scrap the Jap with Scrap” is
the slogan for the drive which
Alleghany county i? conducting
this week, as County Agent R. E.
Black called upon every citizen
in the county to collect;, as much
scrap metals, papers, rags, and
tires as possible.
“Collections will be made at
designated places in the county
on Monday, January 26,” Mr.
Black announced. “Each person
having scrap to be collected is
asked to have it at the nearest
place to him by twelve o’clock
Monday so that the trucks may
pick it up.”
The places of collection are as
follows:
Piney Creek high school, Piney
Creek post office, Landreth’s
store. Elk Creek church, Carl
Kennedy’s, Taft Higgins,’ Hend
ricks’ store, Hooker, Edmonds,
Blevins Cross Roads, Edwards
Cross Roads, Vox, Marvin Dough
ton’s filling station, Twin Oaks,
Sam Reeves’, Meyers’ filling sta
tion, J. E. Osborne’s, Bob Taylor’s
Mack Edwards’.
Whitehead post office, Carey
Brown’s, Peden post office, J. H.
Waddell’s, Mrs. C. B. Shepherd’s,
D. J. Jones’, Will Atwood’s, Strat
ford post office, Roaring Gap
post office, Roy Bryant’s, Cherry
Lane post office, Rush Thomp
son’s, J. A. Osborne’s, Chestnut
Grove, Saddle Mountain church,
George Todd’s, Barrett post of
fice, and Arthur Murphy’s.
[County Man Is
Fined For Fire
Burns Acre On Parkway And
Found Guilty Of Forest
Fire Law
Hershel Anderson, who lives on
Bullhead mountain near Deep
Gap in Alleghany county, was
brought before United States
Commissioner Dula in Wilkesboro
last Friday morning at 11 o’clock
and charged with the violation of
the Federal Forest Fire Law No.
293 following a fire which burn
ed about one acre of Parkway
land on January 14.
Mr. Anderson pleaded quilty to
the charge and received a fine of
$17 and three months imprison
ment in a federal penitentiary.
The imprisonment portion of the
sentence was suspended on pro
mise of good behavior. However,
the judgement stipulated that
should Mr. Anderson be found
guilty of violating any Parkway
rule or regulation during the next
twelve months, the full sentence
would become affective.
The forest fire spread from the
property of Mr. Anderson on to
the Parkway land, and he was
then apprehended by Parkway
Ranger R. H. Coombs.
The federal Forest Fire law
causes a charge to be made by
“carelessly allowing a fire to
spread from his property on to
lands under the jurisdiction of the
Blue Ridge Parkway and damag
ing them.”
Ranger Coombs said he hoped
there would be no more violations
of this law.
Junior Wagoner
Going Into Army
Amos Wagoner, Jr., popular
young Sparta and West Jeffer
son business man, has volunteer
ed for service in the U. S. Sign
al Corps and leaves Monday for
Fort Jackson, S. C.
The young man is a graduate
of Sparta high school and was a
member of the 1940 class of the
University of North Carolina.
Quotable
Quotation
“Feeding and improvement
of barns is the problem for
dairy farmers In the county.
More silage and more legume
hay is needed.”—R. H. Crouse,
dairy specialist.
U. S. Commissions New Cruiser
A new threat against the Axis goes into the struggle as
the cruiser U. S. S. San Diego is placed on commission at Bos
ton, Mass. Named for the city of San Diego, Calif., the vessel
enters active six months ahead of schedule.
Enemy Subs Active;
Reds Retake Key Post;
Philippines Fighting
Tanker Bombed Off Of The
Coast Of North Caro
lina. Other Hit
War came closer home this
week when the Standard Oil
tanker Allen Jackson was tor
pedoed pff the coast of North
Carolina. The submarine that at
tacked it, however was not iden
tified.
On the Atlantic side of the
wbrld front, the United States
navy disclosed without any de
tails that there had been sub
marine, attacks on ships off the
U. S. coast other than those on
four tankers which already had
been reported, and added:
“Strong counter-measures are
being taken by units of the navy’s
east coastal command.”
The navy announced, too, that
in the western Pacific a little
American motor torpedo boat had
crept at night into the entrance
to Subic bay in the Philippines
and torpedoed an enemy vessel of
5,000 tons. The victim was not
identified.
It was announced yesterday
that the major Japanese-held
base on Mindanao in the Phillip
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Churches Will
Have Revival
Five Baptist Churches Plan
Week Of Fellowship
Meetings
Fellowship and revival meet
ings will be held in the Baptist
churches of the Alleghany as
sociation next week, and pro
grams were announced yesterday
by Director A. O. Joines.
Day meetings will be Monday
at Chestnut Grove, Tuesday at
Liberty, Wednesday at Laurel
Springs, Thursday at Scottville,
and Friday at Sparta.
Evening revival services at 7 o’
clock will begin this Sunday in
the Sparta church with preach
ing by the Rev. J. C. Pipes of
Asheville, and in the Laurel
Springs church with preaching by
the Rev. W. G. Russell of Moores
ville. These services will be each
evening through February 1.
The day programs to be in the
churches is as follows:
10:00 a. m.—Devotions:
10:15 a. m.—W. M. S. possibili
ties in the Country church—Mrs.
V. W. Sears.
10:30 a. m.—New Testament
Evangelism, Rev. V. W. Sears.
11:10 a. m.—New Testament
Giving, Rev. Russell.
11:40 a. m.—Preparation for and
Rresults of Pentecost, Rev. Pipes.
12:15 p. m.—Lunch by host
church.
1:15 p. m.—Preacher’s confer
ence and associational—wide prob
lems.
3:15 p. m.—-Adjourn.
Chairman Asks
Drive Reports
Chairman of all townships
were urged yesterday by
Chapter Chairman R.Her.
ry of the Red Cross to send in
reports immediately.
“We have been asked to ex
ceed our county quota, if pos
sible,” Mr. Berry said, “and
our citizens can show their
patriotism by putting Alle
ghany over the top.”
Ration Board
Issues Tires
Two Passenger and Ten Truck
Tires Granted First Two
Weeks
The tire rationing board for
Alleghany county announced this
week that two passenger tires, 10
truck tires and two truck tubes
have been alloted in the first two
weeks of January.
Alleghany’s quota for the
month is five passenger and 23
truck tires, with four passenger
and 18 truck tubes.
The tire allotment was as fol
lows:
DeWitt Bryan, sheriff, one pas
senger tire.
Glenn Combs, garbage, two
truck tires.
D. C. Truitt, milk route, two
truck tires.
J. E. Rector, fuel, one truck tire.
R. C. Gentry, mail carrier, one
passenger tire.
Huie Templeton, mail carrier,
two truck tires.
Carl M. Joines, lumber, two
truck tires and one tube.
S. J. Spurlin, deputy sheriff
and produce, one truck tire and
one tube.
The temporary rationing board
for Alleghany is C. R. Roe, C. C.
Castevens and D. C. Bledsoe, all
of Sparta, but these men have
said they are serving until anoth
er board can be appointed.
The board has named R. D.
Gentry, town officer, as inspector
of tires of the applicants.
Penalty To Be
Added On Taxes
Tax Collector DeWitt T. Bryan
of Alleghany county warned tax
payers this week they have until
February 1st to pay their 1941
taxes before a penalty will be
added.
A one per cent penalty goes in
to affect Monday week, and those
who have failed to settle their
last year’s taxes are being urged
by Mr. Bryan to do so before the
payment will be increased.
Alleghany Will
Reach, Surpass
Quota Of 8750
A” Reports Not In Yester
day And Total Was $747.
38 Reported
Alleghany county is going over
the top m contributing to the
Ked. Cross war relief fund, it ap
ofar«7-5nthlS W'eek With the clu°ta
$<50 practically reached and
f Reports still not in, according
to Chapter Chairman R. L. Berry.
• The county lacked only $2.17
yesterday of reaching the $750
quota, and Mr. Berry said this
would probably be made, and
more, before Alleghany’s report
is sent in the latter part of this
week. The total figure stood yes
terday as $747.83.
Reports of contributors during
the past week who helped the
county reach its quota include:
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Inskeep, $25;
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Transou,
$10; Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Irwin,
$10; Ivy Grace Dough ton, $5;
Alice Taylor, $5; Hazel Lee Tay
lor, $5; Laurel Springs Dance,
$29.40; Ruth J. Choate, $5; Mr.
and Mrs. J. R. Gambill, $4; Mr.
and Mrs. Glenn Richardson, $4:
S. C. Richardson, $5; Mr. and
Mrs. C. W. Ervin, $5; Mr. and
Mrs. Rush Thompson, $5; Mr. and
Mrs. R. C. Gentry, $2; Miss Su
san Inscoe, $2; Miss Mada Mc
Cutcheon, $3; Mrs. Ellen Guer
rant, $2.25; D. C. Duncan, $2.
Glade ’Valley high girls, $2.25;
Glade Valley boys, $1.21; G. E.
West, $2.$0; Mr. and Mrs. R. C.
Gentry, $2; Kays 5 and 10, $3.50;
Elma Waddell, $2; W. O. Hooper,
$2; Julius Womble, $2; D. W.
Motor Co., $3; J. P. Absher, $2;
Miss Lena Thompson, $1.50; Mr.
and Mrs. W. F. Joines, $2; Mr and
Mrs. M. A. Goodman, $3; Mr. and
Mrs. M. E. Reeves, $2; Mr. and
Mrs. Reece Miller, *2; - Mr. and
Mrs. E. J. Pugh, $2? Mr. and Mrs.
Van Miller, $2; Mr. and Mrs. R.
L. Pugh, $3; Mr. and Mrs. Eugene
Shepherd, $1.50; Mr. and Mrs. R.
G. Taylor, $2; Mr. and Mrs. T. S.
Moxley, $2; Laurel Springs Sun
day School, $3.
Other contributors, whose
names could not be included, will
be named next week.
Anderson Attends
An OPM Meeting
Ed M. Anderson, publisher of
this paper and president of the
North Carolina Press association,
spent two days in Washington
this week, attending a meeting of
the OPM printing and publishing
advisory committee, of which he
is a member.
Mr. Anderson's appointment on
this important committee was
announced at the closing session
of the NCPA newspaper institute
at Chapel Hill last Saturday
morning. He is the only weekly
newspaper publisher in the
United States on the committee.
Rev. Otte Utt, of Galax, Va.,
will preach at the Mt. Carmel
Brethren church Sunday, Jan. 25,
at 11 a. m. k
DON'T TAKE THIS
LYING DOWN . . .
When men are fighting and
dying, you must do your part.
Be sure you enlist your DOL
LARS for DEFENSE. Back our
armed forces—and protect your
own life—with every single dol
lar and dime you can.
America must have a steady
flow of money pouring in every
day to help beat back, our ene
mies.
Put Dimes into Defense
Stamps. And put Dollars into
Bonds. Buy now. Buy every
pay day. Buy aa often as
n
Don't take this lying down.
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