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people in Sparta and
ghany county.
VOLUME 24, NO. 27
'$1.90 a Year in Alleghany County
SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA
$1.50 a Year Out of County
THURSDAY, MAR. 25, IMS
Two More Banks
Have Been Added
By Northwestern
Old Fort And Black Mountain
Banks Are Added To
Northwestern Group
The Old Fort and Black Moun
tain Banks ware taken over by
Northwestern Bank last Thursday
—within 24 hours of notification
by state and federal authorities,
Edwin Duncan, executive vice
president, said here, Wednesday.
D. S. Hill is active cashier at
Black Mountain, and Mr. Early
at Old Fort ;
Gov. R. A Doughton is presi
dent; Edwin Duncan, executive
vice-president; D. V. Deal, North
Wilkesboro, secretary. '
The addition of these two
makes a total of 12 banks in the
Northwestern chain' with assets
of more than ten million dollars.
Banks are located at Sparta, Jeff
erson, North Wilkesboro, Taylors
ville, Valdese, Blowing Rock,
* Boone. Bakersville, Burnsville,
r Spruce Pine, Black Mountain Mild
Old Fort.
Richard Hampton
Given Commission
Stratford Man Finishes Of
ficer’s Training At Fort
_ Benning, Ga.
Richard C. Hampton, of Strat
ford, was commissioned a secpnd
- lieutenant in the army, March 17
upon successful completion of the
officer candidate course at the
infantry school at Fort Benning,
Ga.
Lt. Hampton is a son of Mr. and
Mrs. L. C. Hampton, of Stratford.
He enlisted and was inducted in
to the army on September 2,
1942 and served with the Re
placement Training Center, Camp
Croft, S. C., before going to Of
ficer Candidate School three
months ago. He held the rank of
corporal before being commis
■A,ined. .*■ *
the new officer attended Pin
ey Creek high school and N. C.
y State College, Raleigh, N. C.,
football player and boxer.
At Infantry School, the world’s
largest institution of its kind, the
local officer took a three months’
course to fit him for his new re
sponsibilities. The course cov
ers the technique of handling all
the varied modem infantry wea
pons and the tactics of leading
small infantry units in combat.
It also includes study of many
varied subjects which future of
ficers must know along the lines
of administration, military law,
prominent as a
and like subjects.
SIX ADDITIONS TO
GLADE VALLEY CHURCH
Rev. Marion Gordon Bra dwell,
of Reynolds Presbyterian church,
Winston-Salem, assisted Rev. R.
L. Berry in a meeting at Glade
Valley last week. Rev. Mr. Brad
ftwell brought interesting and in
spiling messages twice each day.
Six were received on profession
into the Glade Valley chvffch.
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WAR BONDS
. MW win help win the peace, putting
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and tt* triads oeenlry tide over the
reedlustment period from War to
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British, Americans
Press Rommel; Reds
North Of Smolensk
NOW IN GEORGIA
SGT. CLIFFORD H. GEN
TRY, who was inducted into
service, April 10, 1942, was
assigned to the air force and
was sent to Sheppard Field,
Tex. He was later sent to
Savannah, Ga., where he is
now stationed. He is a son of
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Gentry, of
Roaring, Gap.
Cooperation In
Washington Is
Npt -'A Problem
Congressman Doughton And
Others Are Interested In
N. C. People
By Ed M. Anderson
(SpecialTo The News)
Washington, 1). C., March 19—
In -spite of rationing, price con
trol and many other restrictions
imposed as a result of the war
effort, Democracy still lives in
the United States.
There are many ways by which
this fact can be proven, and one
of the clearest and most dram
atic proofs was revealed here this
afternoon at the office of Con- ]
gressman R. L. Doughton.
Mrs. Margaret Rash, of Cycle,
N. C., in Wilkes county, came to
Washington this morning to see
Farmer Bob about an important
personal matter.
“I’m glad to see you. but Wilkes
county is now in Congressman
Burgin’s district and I suggest
that you see him,” the able chair
man of the House ways and
means committee told the lively
mouritain farm woman.
“I know that, but I really want
to sCe you,” she insisted as do
hundreds of other citizens from
all becdons of North Carolina,
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HAS PERFECT RECORD
AT SUNDAY SCHOOL
Little Eva Ruth Edwards, four
year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Wayne Edwards, has attended
Chestnut Grove Sunday School
twelve months without missing a
Sunday. She 'was presented with
a Bible March 14 by Mrs. Annie
Perry, Sunday School superinten
dent, as a reward for perfect at
tendance.
Men Classified
By Local Board
County Group Will Leave
Next Week To Enter
Armed Forces
At two meetings of Selective
Service boards on March 16 and
19, two men were placed in class
1- A; John D. Higgins and Kermit
R. Pruitt
Class 2-A lists James W. Church,
John R. Andrews, Bert A. Combs,
2- C: Wade J. Boone. Jones K.
Andrews, Palmer S. Walls, Eu
gene J. Poole, Fletcher A. Church,
Grant M. Harless, Jr., Clay W.
Roberts and Lonnie Davis.
Robert J. Joines is in 3-C, and
Cases pending
m no " "
C. Gamb
4-F
will
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Rain Big Bombs On Rabaul,
New Britain; Japs Are
Hard Hit
American forces showed their
power in North Africa this week
as they went forward toward the
sea and the British, flanking
forces, made every effort to en
circle Rommel.
Striking suddenly out of the
desert, the light but powerful
British force had driven' nearly
100 miles from the Ksar Rhilane
sector along a route 20 to 50 miles
behind the Mareth fortifications,
yesterday.
The last few miles were Won
with difficulty through thick
mine fields laid by the Axis in
anticipation of such a movement,
official dispatches said. At last
reports, the British were battling
strong enemy forces ten miles be
low El Hamma airdrome at a
point only 20 miles from the
coast, below Gabes.
With his whole southern army
thus in danger of being split in
two and hammered to pieces,
Marshal Erwin Rommel threw 50
tanks and other forces into a
heavy counterattack at dawn
against the southern fork of the
two-pronged American. advance,
on the coast road east of El Guet
tar.
American gunners with light
and medium artillery halted the
first enemy thrusts and inflicted
heavy casualties, front dispatch
es said, and heavy fighting was
continuing with American guns
on the heights to the rear pour
ing withering fire on the attack
ers.
Russian troops have driven to a
point north of Dukhovshchina,
only 30 miles northeast of Smol
ensk and 12 Vi miles northwest of
the defense bastion of Yartsevo, i
Russia^ midnight communique \
revealed yesterday.
Resisting desperately, the Ger
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Black-Out Here
Was A Success
Another May Be Called At
An Early Date, It Is
Announced
The practice blackout in Alle
ghany last Thursday was very
nearly a complete success, accord
ing to Civilian Defence Chairman
Alton Thompson.
The blackout was called by
state officials as further practice
under the revised army rules and
regulations. It is expected that
another blackout may be called
at any time, and officials and citi
zens are asked to be in readiness
to carry out instructions which
were so effective in last week’s
trial.
The alert signal, a steady blast
of the fire siren, sounded at 8:50
and lights were quickly extin
guished, A few automobiles trav
eled a short distance and parked.
At nine o’clock came the dan
ger signal, a zig-zag blowing of
the siren, which means “danger,
all traffic stop and take cover.”
The next and last signal meant
immediate danger had passed but
not turn on lights. The all clear
was given by turning on street
lights and by radio and telephone!
signals.
Roy lance Will
Leave For Ga.
Junior Soil Conservationist
Has Been Given Recent
Promotion
Richard Roylance, who, for the
past eighteen months, has been
Junior Soil Conservationist under
the U. S. Department-of Agricul
ture, has been promoted to As
sistant Conservationist and has
been transferred from Alleghany
county to Nahunta, Ga.
Mr. and Mrs. Roylance and lit
tle daughter, Judith Ann, will
leave Sparta, Monday, for their
new home. Coming from Salis
bury, Mr. and Mrs. Roylance have
made a wide circle of friends in
Alleghany county, who will re
*gret their leaving.
No announcement has yet been
made as to a possible succesor
tp Mr. Roylance in Alleghany
county conservation work.
Red Cross Serves At Home And Abroad
Bed Cross volunteer workers are contributing to the nation’s war effort. Left, a Red
Cross Motor Corps member adjusts the engine of her car. Right, complete confidence in
this nurse’s aid is registered by the infant she holds.
Associational §.
S. Meeting To Be
Held Here Apr. 1
Rev. Tom Lawrence Of Win
ston-Salem To Be Guest
Speaker
An Associational Sunday School
meeting will be held at Sparta
Baptist church April 1. Mr. T. C.
Osborne is Associational Superin
tendent and Miss Ivy Grace Dou
ghton secretary.
The meeting will he held pri
marily for associational Sunday
School officers, pastors, general
superintendents of the various
Baptist churches in the county.
It is hoped that each church will
be represented, officials of the
organization said here this week.
Rev. Tom Lawrence of Winston
Salem will be the guest speaker
and every one interested in pro
motion of Sunday School work is
invited to 'attend. An interesting
program is planned.
Plenty Jars, Lids
For Home Canners
Several New Types On Mark
et. Preservation Of Food
Is Very Essential
Washington — The government
is-ready for a rush by housewives
to get home canning equipment.
An all-time record home can
ning season is expected because
of food rationing and the Victory
Garden program, but the War
Production Board reported its
belief that it has provided enough
jars, lids, and rubber rings to
meet demands.
There won’t be as many pres
sure cookers as housewives want,
WPB said, although steps have
been taken to permit the produc
tion of 150,000 cookers, twice as
many as last year.
WPB has released enough metal
to permit manufacture of almost
all types of lids, jar rings, and
other closures. More than 3,000,
000,000 new noes will be turned
out, and these will supplement
an estimated two billion old cov
ers which are fit for re-use.
Zinc lids are banned but four
other types of closure* are being
made. About 600,000,000 null be
self-sealing, three-piece units,
consisting of rubber ring, flat
glass cap and metal screw band.
About 2,500,000,000 others will be
thin, metal discs for use ' with
metal screw bands—the familiar
two-piece closures. X ?
ANNOUNCE SERVICES
AT BAPTIST CRUSHES
Elder S. G. Caudill announce*
the preaching appointments of
Elder Ed Douglas, of Galax, from
April 4 through April 11.
Bock Creek, April 4; Pilgrim’s
Rest, April 5; Beach Bottom, 6th;
Elk Creek. 7th; Antioch, 6th; Un
oin, 9th; Zion, 10th, all these ser
vices to be held at 11:00 A. M.
Services wil be held at Elk Creek
the afternoon of April 10th at
2:30, and at Little River at night.
On the the 11th, services will be
again held at Zion at 11:00 A. M.
S. S. LEADERS TO MEET
Leaders of the Methodist church
Sunday School will meet at the
church parsonage on March 30th
bt OiOO p. m. tor the^ purpose of
the Sunday Schools.
(Will Hold Red Cross
Rally On Tues.; More
Contributions Needed
Meat Rationing
To Start Monday
Allow 16 Points
Red Stamps To Be Used For
Several Items; Freeze To
End On Butter And Fats
Beginning next Monday, Ashe
county housewives along with the
rest of the nation will start using
red stamps from their No. 2 ra
tion books for meats, cheese, blit
ter, margarine, lard and other
edible fats included in this ra
tioned group. Red Stamp A will
be good for 16 points during the
first week.
Items in this group except the
cheese and meat have been frozen
since last Sunday and will remain
so until the rationing begins,
March 29.
Disclosure today of coupon val
ues of meat showed that Ameri
cans will be allowed, starting
Monday, to buy a maximum of
2% pounds of steak or 3 1-5
pounds of hamburger per person
per week, under rationing.
Actually, most people will buy
less, because they will want to
use some of the same coupons for
butter, lard, cheese or canned
fish. They will have 16 points to
spend per week at an average
coupon cost of 8 points per pound
for the whole group of foods.
Instructions as to the registra
tion for Institutional users of the
above foods have not been re
ceived by the local office. Insti
tutional users will be notified as
to when to come into this office
and register.
Hie period of March 29—April
10 will probably be used for the
registration of the institutional
users of processed rationed foods.
As stated sbove these dates will
be verified by a letter of notifi
cation' for this office to all insti
tutional users, it was explained.
Rev. A. C. Wagoner To Be
Rally Speaker; Far Short
Of Goal
A Red Cross War Fund Rally
is to be held at the courthouse in
Sparta next Tuesday night at
8:00 o’clock, when Rev. A. C.
Wagoner, of Wilkesboro Method
ist church, will be guest speaker,
Chairman W. O. Hooper announc
ed here, Wednesday. Everyone
is urged to attend.
All chairmen and township
workers are asked to complete
and brin^ in their reports to this
meeting, when taburations wilt
be made to ascertain the amount
needed to reach the county’s quo
ta of $1900. To date, only around
$600 has been raised.
“Just one more week in March,
and in this week Alleghany will
either go over the top or fall
short of her hope of reaching the
goal set for the Red Cross War
Fund,” Chairman W. O. Hooper,
said.
“A special effort will have to
be made by each and' every in
dividual in the cunty if the goal
is to be met," Mr. Hooper con
tinued, “Scores of chapters in
nearby communities have reach
ed and exceeded their goals, and
surely Alleghany county will not
let it be said that she failed in
this important service to our boys
on the fighting front”
Chairman Hooper, Rev. R. L.
Berry, Isom Wagoner, R. E.
Black and W. K. Sprinkle, repre
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COUNTY AGENT R. E.
BLACK MOVES OFFICE
County Agent R. E. Black now
occupies the office in the Com
munity Building formerly used
by WPA, instead of the one in
connection with the Triple A on
the same floor.
Mr. Black has resigned from
the secretaryship of AAA, Ar
thur Gambill being appointed by
the county commissioners to suc
ceed him in this capacity.
Point Values On Some Dried
Foods Have Been Lowered
The point values on dried
prunes, raisins, all other dried
fruits, dry beans, peas and len
tils have recently been lowered,
the local War Price and Ration
ing Board announced this v»eek.
Dried prunes were listed for
the tint four ounces at three
points, four to eight ounces, six
points; eight to twelve ounoes,
nine points, twelve ounces to one
pound, IS points.
Raisins had exactly the same
point value. AU other dried
fruits were listed at two points
for the first four ounces, four
points up to eight ounces, six
points from right to IS ounces
and eight points from IS ounces
to one pound.
Dry beans, pess sad lentils,
one point for the first four ounc
es, two points from four to eight
ounces, three pints from eight to
twelve ounces, four points from
twelve ounces to one pound.
Dried figs and dried dates, (un
less hermetically sealed and ster
ilized by use of heat) were re
moved from the list of processed
The point value of any item
weighing over four pounds shall
be arrived at by multiplying the
number of pounds of that item
by the point value per pound of
that item as given in the per
pound column. Fractions of a
pound should be figured in quar
ter pounds; fractions of a quarter
pound would be figured to the
next higher quarter pound. Thus
an item weighing four pounds,
nine ounces would he considered
as weighing four pounds IS oun
ces for the purpose of getting the
point value of that item..
Two-Day School
Of Conservation
Of Food Is Held
Plan Of Growing More Aai
Preservation Of Food To
Be County-Wide
The vital importance of food
conservation was stressed here,
Tuesday and Wednesday, when
Miss Willie Hunter, of the State
Extension division, conducted a
two-day Food Workshop, a pro
gram which is. being presented
in every county in the state, this
month.
On Tuesday, Miss Hunter met
with the trained home econom
ists in the county, instructing
them in the latest methods of
food preservation, including can
ning, drying ,and storage.
Tho.se present were: Miss Lena
Thompson, home economics teach
er at Glade Valley school, Miss
Eula Kennedy, Sparta home econ
omics teacher, Miss Mildred Sod
berry, Farm Security home super
visor with FSA in the county;
Mrs. A. O. Joines and Mts. T, J.
Carson? also attended part Of the
meeting.
After demonstrations on can
ning in the hot water and pres
sure canners and preparing sul
phured apples and green beans
for drying, the group discussed
ways of getting the program over
to all the women in the county.
April 9-12, inclusive, was set as
the date to begin the program.
During that time, all community
leaders will meet with the wo
men in their neighborhoods' for
discussions on gardens, canning
equipment, prices on equipment,
budgets on canning and to set
dates for canning demonstrations.
High school students will be
asked to make posters and win
dow contests will be held at the
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Lees-McRae Has
Bad Fire Monday
BannetElk — (Special)—Lees
jmk '
Elk, suffered the greatest prop
erty loss in its history Monday*
afternoon when fire destroyed
Tennessee dormitory for girls.
The loss was placed at between '
$50,000 and $75,000, partially
covered by insurance.
Members of the faculty were at
lunch when one of the girls who
stayed in the dormitory rushed in
and said the building was on fire.
The alarm was sounded and stu
dents, teachers, citizens and chil
dren of the community rushed to
the scene to aid in any manner
they could in extinguishing the
blaze.
Banner Elk itself has no fire
department, but firemen were
called from Boone, Newland, and
Elk Park and they arrived with
in 30 minutes.
Through the work of students,
teachers, and townspeople, who
formed a line to pass the books
from one to another, the college
library of more than 11,000 vol
umes was saved. It was housed
on the first floor of the dormitory.
Dr. Tate said that destruction
of the dormitory will not inter
fere with completion of the work
of the current college year nor
will it interrupt plans for the
summer school.
war Bakes
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Norse .that heating plcnt along for
'it must do you for the duration.
’Metal . . . every bit we can rake
and scrape up is going into War
! Production to'provide the tools for
our Boys on tbs fighting fronts.
But start saving mi for that heat*
tag plant fey your purchase ot War
Bonds every payday through a Pay
roll Savings plan. War spending goo*
on month after month. So War Sa*»
must keep pace, month
But at least ten percent