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News AND STAR-TIMES—(CONSOLIDATED ON SEPTEMBER 2, 1941) —ALLEGHANY COUNTY’S ONLY NEWSPAPER. $1.09 a Year in Alleghany Co unty SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, FEB. 48T IMS $1.50 a Year Out of County Ed Casey Makes His Escape From Prison Camp Sat. . . - - • Youthful Wilkes County Man Was Trusty At Sparta Prison Camp Saturday night about ten o’clock, Ed Casey, prisoner at the Sparta Prison camp, took advan tage Of his status as a trusty and walked off, Prison Superintendent A. M. Greene said here this week. Ha was still at liberty yesterday afternoon. A former citizen of Wilkes, Ca sey’s address was Joines, in the Trap Hill section of the county. He was serving a term of from five to eight years on a charge of larceny of an automobile, his term beginning in March,; 1941. He is described as being 27 years old, about five feet, six inches tall, weight 150, with light complexion, brown hair and. blue eyes. His record shows that he has been married, but separated from his wife. ifl|/ Supt. Greene says the camp now has 34 inmates, all white prisoners. Recaps Available Without Permit May Use Recap Camel Back Without Board Au thorization The Office of Price Adminis tration has issued a bulletin to all War Price and Rationing Boards that effective February 20 the rationing of grade F camel back tire rerapping material was discontinued. This will permit any person, including operators of light trucks, to have his own tires re mapped with passenger-type cam Bkack. A dealer who is not a Rtr who is not a recapper will Bjb be required to sell hi* Bble tire canvasses to a re Br wi'L no linger be re H teJien his rrjcappable (ire cWRsses to a recapper. He may now have a recappable tire car cass recapped with passenger type camelback and returned to him without certificate. Ration boards will be instruct ed further from the OPA, the bulletin said. Child Is Struck By Car, Tuesday Violet Tate, 10-year-old daugh ter of Mrs. Violet Tate, pf Cher ry Lane community, was pain fully injured Tuesday afternoon when struck by an automobile on the highway near her home. Exact details of the accident were not available, but Dr. B. O. Choate, who treated the little girl's injuries, said the driver was a Mr. Porter, of Galax, agent of the Twin City Motor Company, who brought her to Sparta for examination and treatment fol lowing the accident, ft The injuries sustained appear not to be serious at present. There will probably be an addi tional cut of 10 percent in Print Paper on April 1 to meet con ditions caused by the war. ★ ★ ‘kJUat'ljou&uif, With WAR BONDS While we hare net heard so much about them,-our air-borne command is interior to none. We have thou sands of these especially trained treepe and the glider is a necessary factor in their successful operation. S' U. S. Wounded From Tunisia At a west country hospital in England, United States Infantrymen and paratroopers are recovering from wounds sustained in battles in Tunisia. Here, out for a morning walk, are six soldiers and two of their American nurses. Alleghany Citizens Are Now Registering For Ration Book 2 NOW IN FOREIGN SERVICE Capt. THOMAS H. KING, U. S, Army, who formerly practiced law in Sparta with Atty. George Cheek, is now in foreign service. Capt. King was married to the former Miss Jessie K. Fender, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fender, of Whitehead. Rep. Doughton Enters Hospital For Check Up ■j - Is Expected To Remain In Hospital For At Least One Week Washington, D. C. — Chairman Doughton (D., N. C.), of the house ways and means commit tee has entered Naval hospital at Bethasda, Md.. “for a diagnostic study and checkup,” Dr. George W. Aalver, congressional physi cian, said today. The announcement said that “it is expected that he will be in the naval hospital for approxi mately a week. In order to give him an opportunity for rest, and at the same time not to interfere with his examinations, he will not be permitted visitors during this time.” • Registration Will Continue Through Friday; All Ex pected To Register Hundreds of Alleghany people have already been issued Ration Book No. 2 this week through the schools registration which continues through Friday, when it is expected to be completed. All schools of the county have been open with classes dis missed in the afternoons for the purpose of registration. Merchants report quieter busi ness this week with few types of canned goods offered for sale. Merchants have been given large charts, .shewing the. points of the various rationed items. These are to be posted in the stores. .Merchants who have not rtefc^rved them are asked to call at “the ration board for them. Merchants this week were given largat charts showing the points of the various rationed items. These are to be posted in the stores. Merchants who have not received them are asked to call at their post office for them. Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard last night denounced “irresponsible sources” for circu lating reports that the nation (Continued on Page 8) Early Tobacco Beds Are Better S. C. Eggers, official of the Mountain Burley Tobacco Ware house at Boone, made several suggestions this week regarding the tobacco crops this year. “Plant two tobacco seed beds instead of one and put them where they are close to water, in case of drought,” he said. Mr. Eggers also advised that they be covered in cold weather, “Use a good seed, preferably root resis tant, sow early, set early and harvest early as this will go a long way toward a top crop and top price.” he declared. R. C. Coleman, operator of the Mountain Burley Warehouse says that he believes that tobacco will be as high or higher than it was last season. Revenue And School Bills. Are Debated By Legislature Raleigh — Two major bills, one to raise $105,000,000 in reve nue and the other to set up a State-wide nine-month school term, were debated in the Leg islature yesterday. And in the hours the Assembly was not in session, committees worked in dustriously to report on a multi tude of bills, most of which were local. Apparently determined to reach final adjournment within a fort night, the Legislature kept a weather eye on its joint appro priations committee which was itself over a $3,507, Ute spending group another executive session effort to the ,07$ ! . fx HI th $118,849,427 expected to be raised through taxation and gen eral fund surplus anticipated next June 30. Of the State surplus, $20,000, 000 has been set aside for post war use, leaving $13,463,399 to be applied to next biennium expen ditures, if need be. The revenue bill passed the House unanimously after a pro posal had been defeated to cut the sales tax from 3 to 2 per cent. The ninth month measure pass ed the Senate, 40 to 2, after an effort failed to make its pro visions mandatory throughout the As the bill now stands, any school district may decline th and the unused Many Men Are Reclassified By Local Board 1 List Of Classifications Given; Several Are Now Pending At a meeting of local board No. 1 of Selective Service Feb. 19 the following men were classified: Charles E. McCann into 1-A; John B. Richardson 2-C; Marvin F. Lyon, 3-C; and in 4-F, Odell Jones, Dean C. Higgins, Carl J. Hodge, Dewey G. Edwards, Claude M. Farmer, Rodney F. Bu sic, Kelly C. Anderson, Russell Brooks, Vernon B. Andrews. Pending classification are Carl W. Busic, Don R. Tolliver, Eu gene W. Waddell, William W. Warden, Kelly N. Sturgill, Eu gene Pruitt, Thomas E. Joines, Robert G. Halsey, Jim L. Os borne, Elmer L. Cheek. At a later meeting, Ted Roose velt Wyatt was placed in 1-A, James Howard Brown, Tam Smith Gambill -and Eugene Hor ton Spurlin in 2-C. Alleghany Youth Writes Of Camp Army Life Described By Bob Nichols In Interesting Let ter To His Parents The following letter, written by Bob Nichols, from Pendleton, Oregon, was received by Mr. and Mrs. Smith Nichols and it is be ing published since it will be of general interest to many readers: “Was very glad to get your let ter today, and to learn that you both were well, and getting along fine. I am feeling fine and en joying the best of health. It is much warmer here now than it has been, is beginning to look as if spring is not so far away, and how glad we will be to see the wide open spaces green once again! I do mean the wide open spaces; from the field here we can see many thousands of acres, and not a tr«e to ,b^*aeen any where. For the pgfit few months the land has lien covered with snow—have. never seen so much snow as we have had here this winter. As you both know, I have always been very fond of snow, but after one winter in Oregon, think I have had all that I will want for some time to come. Had you all thought about it? Just one year ago yesterday I left for the service. I must say that it has been one of the short est years that I have ever spent. I have enjoyed every minute of the time, would not have missed it for any thing. We all have had a lot of fun, and also we have had a lot of work to do. When we have fun, we don’t let any thing interfere with our fun, but when we work, we really try to do the job well. During the past year I have come in contact ,with boys from all over the country, and it was (Continued on Page 8) Announce Tire And Tube Quota Approvals for the third week in February for tires, tubes and re caps are listed: Grade one: Glenn Johnson and Isaac Wright; grade two: Wiley McMillan, Mildred Sedberry, Coy Wolfe; grade three: Winfred Choate, Willie Johnson, S. L. Per ry, . C. Rector, Kyle Todd, Ottis Wilson. Car retreads: Gene Gambill, J. R. Greene, T. L. Grayson, Mag gie Johnson, Leo Roberts, Worth Spilth. Car tubes: Ottis Wilson, Coy Wolfe. Truck tires: Sam L. Por ter, E. C. Pruitt; truck retreads: Vaughn Edwards, E. C. Pruitt, Grover W. Shepherd. Will T. Pugh; truck tubes: Sam L. Por ter, E. C. Pruitt Friel Andrews Buried Friday 1 Friel Andrews, 87, died at the family home last Thursday at his home at Ennice, burial following in Crab Creek cemetery on Fri day after a funeral service from Crab Creek church. Rev. W. M. Handy was in ^of the religious rites. Sur Mr. Andrews are his wid French Battleship To Be Refitted The Richelieu, newest of French warships, limped into New York harbor with only three of her four propellers op erating and her hull pierced. The 35,000-ton battlewagon, shown above, will be repaired and refitted before going to sea against the Axis. Axis Thrust Halted In N. Africa; Reds Retake Nazis Bases Rommel Is Forced To Relax Pressure On Tunisian Front The spot light of the war was turned on North Africa this week where the Allied forces have been engaged in a bitter struggle with crack Axis troops and have been pushed back in several sectors. Hurled back in one sector and stalled in another, the German armored units of Marshal Erwin Rommel relaxed' their pressure along the Tunisian front yester day, giving the stubborn allied defense forces their first resit of the bitter, three-day struggle-w keep Nazi spearheads from crack ing their lines. “The fighting has died down,” said a terse dispatch from the front, and both sides apparently prepared to make the most of the lull by regrouping and bringing up supplies and reinforcements. In the hills north of the Kas serine gap, Rommel’s most dan gerous thrust had been halted! by, British and American tanks and i infantry four miles from Thala, i the gateway to the strategic Kre-, manas plateau near the Tunisian Algerian frontier. j As the Germans tried despe- j rately to gain the Thala road junction 25 miles northwest of Kasserine, British tanks and A merican gunners held on stub bornly in one of the bitterest battles of the Tunisian war. (Continued on Page 4) PVT. AMON EDWARDS HONORED AT DINNER On Saturday night, Mrs. James Dalton, of Galax, and Mrs. Fred Williams, of Monrbe, entertained at dinner in the home of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Connie Edwards, honoring their brother, Pvt. Amon Edwards, who was home on a ten-day furlough from the Army. Guests in addition to the family and a number of other friends, wereMisses Frances and Georgia Bryan, Iris Brooks, Lois and Ann Reeves and Mr. Tam Gambill. Pvt. Edwards left Sparta, Sun day night, for Wytheville, on his return trip to Camp Atterbury, Indiana. AFRICAN AIR CHIEF Prominent in the lineup ot Allied leaders in the African war theater is Air Marshal Sir A. W. Tedder (above), of the British Royal Air force, who heads all the Allied air forces in this area. Miss Bryan Now In Demonstration Work In County State Home Demonstration Agent Is Doing Organiza tion Work Here Miss Rose Elwood Bryan, Home Demonstration Agent at large for North Carolina, of Raleigh, is spending some time in the coun ty assisting in the work of or ganizing home demonstration clubs for the gardening and can ning season. In the absence of a full-time home demonstration agent, Miss Bryan is this week contacting the presidents of all the home dem onstration clubs in the county. Miss Bryan will be here until March 4th, when she will return to Raleigh, then back to Alle ghany the first of April. Miss Bryan spent several months in Ashe when the work was first organized there and has a large number of friends in this entire section. Simple Conservation Practices Urged For Alleghany Farmers Recognizing the need for a wi der application of soil conserva tion as a means of increasing food production in 1943, supervisors of the New River soil conservation district are recommending the es tablishment of simple conserva tion practices which can be ap plied with labor and materials available on the Jarm. These practices include con tour cultivation, the use of lime and fertilizer, pasture improve ment, crop rotations, terracing, planting of grasses and legumes, and many others. W. O. Hooper, county conser vationist of the district points out jtha< the development of meadow stripe is also a simple conservation practice nenjliiring little technical skill, but which will prove its worth by provid ing hay and supplemental graz ing needed in the food produc tion program. This practice has already been put into effect by many Alleghany farmers who recognize the advantages of keep ing the natural draws in per manent vegetation. Mr. V. B. Mabe, of Laurel Springs, cuts two tons of hay per acre from a meadow strip at one end of his field and then manages to graze it considerably. There has been no coat of maintenance, because row water has continually de posited lime and fertilizer which (Continued on Page •) t‘ida-ii«it*'-r-nrt-y I. arifriial Red Cross Drive Meeting Will Be Held Here Mon. All Interested Workers Urged To Attend Meeting At Community Building Next Monday, March 1, an or ganization meeting will be held by Red Cross officials and other interested persons, to begin the War Chest drive to raise the Alleghany county quota of $1,900, W. O. Hooper, chairman, said here Tuesday. The meeting will be held in the Community Building at 8:00 p. m. Pep talks will be given by Mayor R. F. Crouse and Governor R. A. Dough ton, and invitations have been issued to prospective work ers throughout the county to at tend, though tiie public is urged to attend also and take an active part in the meeting to organise leaders to work in each commu nity of the county. It was pointed out that new have the American people had such an incentive to give or nev er has the Red Cross needed funds so badly. The cooperation of all will be needed to put the drive over. Want Red Cross Knitted Work Mrs. R. F. Crouse, Alleghany county production, chairman for the Red Cross, said here this week that all persons who are knitting for Red Cross are urged to complete the garments as soon as possible and turn them in, as the demand for them far ex ceeds the available supply. It is hoped that a shipment can be made within the next week or two, Mrs. Crouse ?aid, and addi tional supplies obtained with which to keep more workers busy. Rufus Phillips Dies Suddenly Funeral services were held last Saturday morning for Rufus Phil lips, 78, who died at the home of his niece, Mrs. John Hoppers, of Piney Creek, Februray 18. Fol lowing the service, which was conducted by Rev. Mr. Wompler from Bridle Creek church, inter ment was made in the church cemetery. Mr. Phillips was a resident of Bridle Creek, Nebraska, and had just arrived at the home of his niece when he collapsed from a heart attack. Mrs. Hoppers is the only know relative in Alleghany, though Mr. Phillips was a former resident of Independence, Va., and had some acquaintances in Independence and Galax. Group Left For U. S. Army Today A group of 21 boys called for induction last week left this morn ing for camp. There they wiU undergo intensive physical exam ination to determine their fitnesg for military service. A short service was held at the Selective Service Board office be fore the group boarded the bus for camp. _ ★ ★ Wkat%Jou&u4} WUU WAR BONDS ★ _★ Every shipyard in our country la setting amazing records in the con struction of a merchant marina aa essential to the transport of supplies snd men.to the^seven^seM^The ships now building runs into asE> Many of them ara called “Yleto iy** xhipi and you are coatributiag to this victory by your purchase of War *—*• .. .at leaat ton per» •eat at your Income, every payday. We’ll need these ships after We tnr. too, triton Peace cornea.
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