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■ALLEGHANY COUNTY’S ONLY NEWSPAPER. THURSDAY, VOLUME 54, NO. 28 fl.00 * Year in Alleghany County SPARTA. NORTH CAROLINA 81.50 a Year Out of County Post Office Is Modifying Rule On Overseas Mail Packages May Be Sent And Renewals To Papers Made Without Requests You may now send packages to the soldiers overseas, But they may not weigh more than eight ounces, and they must be sealed and carry first class postage, j This is a new order from the postoffice department modifying its order of Jahuary 7, which prohibited the sending of any packages to men on overseas duty, unless by direct permission of the commanding officer. ■ Under the new order, said postoffice authorities here to day, packages weighing not more than eight ounces, sealed and carrying first class postage, may be mailed to soldiers overseas without approved request. This order was modified to permit the sending of small packages of ’ essential items with approved re quest. The current order also pro vides that employees’ publica tions, church bulletins and simi lar publications may be sent un der the same weight and post age restrictions. Renewals of subscriptions for overseas soldiers for papers, magazines and other periodicals is to be considered in conform ity with the January 7 order, re gardless of whether requested by the soldier or not. This means, it was explained, that the subscription may be paid for by persons other than the soldier, though no complimentary sub scription may be sent by pub lishers. Postmaster Davis said postal authorities felt that the modified order would be welcomed by (Continued on Page S) Wm. H. Harris juried Saturday / J ir ' William H. Harris, aged citizen of the Laurel Springs communi ty, died March 25, burial follow ing at the family cemetery March 27, after conclusion of funeral rites conducted by Rev. Mac Tedder. Mir. Harris 'was 83 years of age. Surviving him are his wife, Mrs.* America Harris, one son, Tom Harris, and one daughter, Mrs. Verna Taylor, of Laurel Springs. Two brothers also survive. Willard Halsey Buried Sunday Willard Halsey, 23, passed away at the home, of his mother, Mrs. Myrtle M. Halsey, of Pihey Creek, last Friday, after a prolonged period of illness. Funeral rites were held Sunday by Elders J. M. Williams and C. R. Dancy, buAal following at Piney Creek. Surviving him are his mother and one half-brother, L. Hr Hal sey, of Sparta. 1 Many New Books I Library Now mwiy new books have been re ceived at the Alleghany county library, according tcS Mrs. Carrie H. Jones, librarian. Those ready for lending to the public are listed: Guadalcanal Diary, There is Today, Silvertip’s Stripe, The Border Kid, The Silver Flute, The Enchanted Bam, The Soli tary Horseman, On the Dodge, The Medicine Man, Twin Som breros, The Far Call, Happiness ’Round the Comer, The Girl From Nowhere, Restless Heart, Saturday's Child, Golden Eagle Mystery. The Works Project Administra tion, once a bis operator on a na tion-wide scale, is already reduc to operations in 14 states and 'go out of yUM 1, H. Field, said all but final ac had halted this a—. . Rommel Is On Run; Allied Forces Strike Heavy Aerial Attack WALLACE WELCOMED _ Vice President Henry A. Wallace is shown smiling broadly as he was welcomed to Balboa by Edwin C. Wil son, U. S. ambassador to Pan ama. County Farmers Are Invited To Poultry School Will Be Held On April 8 In Y. M. C. A. Building At Elkin R. E. Black, Alleghany county agent, has announced that on April 8, there will be a one-day poultry school and egg show at the Elkin Y. M. C. A., starting at 10:00 A. M. The poultry speci alists from State College Exten sion Service will conduct the lschool and - will give, valuable ’information on feeding and man agement Of poultry. Valuable prizes will be offer ed for eggs, both white and brown shell. Mr. Black further i stated, “I hope a good number of our farmers can attend this school and take or send an ex hibit of eggs. In selecting the eggs, pick one dozen of uniform size, color, and shell texture, free from blood spots and rough shells. The eggs must be ab solutely fresh. With the increas ed demand for poultry and eggs I would like to urge our fanners to attend this school, and I am sure they will receive informa tidn which will be of much value >in producng poultry under war time conditions.” SCHEDULE FOB H. D. MEETINGS ANNOUNCED Alleghany county home dem onstration meetings scheduled for April 6, through the 10, are an nounced as follows: Sf&f£*fel«b, Community Build ing, Tuesday, April 6, at two o’clock; Roaring Gap club, Wed nesday, April 7, with Mrs. Worth Smith at the same hour; Bledsoe Creek club, April 8, Mrs. R. B. Richardson; Elk Creek club, April 9, at Gambill’s store; Blev ins Cross Road club, April 10, with Mrs. Early Smith. Soviets Halt Nazi Push On Donets Front; RAF Raids Berlin Agaiii Allied air forces took the lead in the . war this week, both in Af rica, Europe and the Pacific. Whipped on land ahd furiously bombarded from the air, Marshal Erwin Rommel’s weary Africa corps plunged toward Sfax after being thrown out of Gables and El Hamma, with the conquering British eighth army in hot pur suit and with American forces threatening his left flank. The axis forces were drawing back on the coastal highway run ning 90 miles around the Gulf of Gables to Sfax under relentless pressure. The German luftwaffe tried in vain to fend off the devastating allied air attacks, but these were pressed home against the fleeing enemy transports, and 300 vehi cles were either destroyed or da maged. Lighted by the fires of his wrecked motor carriers, Rom mel’s retreat highway was like a scene from Dante’s inferno. Rommel’s rear guard maintain ed stubborn resistance, and his sappers planted thousands of, mines and booby traps to cover the withdrawal, a retreat that had no aspect of a rout. Allied heavy bombers inter cepted a convoy of four enemy destroyers attempting to run sup plies into New Guinea Tuesday, probably sank one with a direct hit five miles off Fir.schafen, and forced the rest to flee northward under cover of heavy weather, it wask announced yesterday. While Berlin still staggered un der the shock of its second bomb ing by the RAF in three nights, German authorities acknowlerg ed yesterday that the wave of al lied aerial blows possibly “marks the beginning” of an invasion of the continent, and Britain started clearing the coasts for use as a springboard for landings in Hit ler’s Europe. Red army guardsmen, smash ing an attack by massed German tanks supported by artillery and planes, knocked out at least 42 enemy tanks and 18 planes in a day’s fighting on the Donets riv er front, Russia’s Tuesday mid night communique said. Suddenly intensifying their at tack in an attempt to break the Donets line which had held so firely, the German command sent an entire tank division against a sector held by the guardsmen, pick of the Red army. Superior Court To Open April 27 ■ - « The term of superior court in Alleghany county for April, will begin on Tuesday, April 27 instead of Monday the 26th, as Easter Monday is a legal holiday. Judge Allen Gwyn, who will pre side Over the session, has notified county officials to this effect. All witnesses, litigants and jur ors called for the term will there fore not be required to attend until Tuesday. Point Values Of Some Foods Are Altered; Meat Rationed Washington — Fruit juices re quired fewer of your blue ration coupons starting Monday while prunes and raisins now take none at allr the office of price adminis tration disclosed Saturday in a re juggling of the point values of processed foods. The point value of dried soups is being slashed 50 per cent, but more points will be needed for canned beans, catsup 'and chili sauce, tomato paste and sauce, ap plesauce, fruit cocktail, peaches and pineapple. The fruit juice reductions range Up to 00 per cent. These and the cuts on dried soup were made be products were not sell expectations, officials greatest reductions are on 4$H>uhce cans of juice. This si*e can of grapefruit juice, posted for S3 points in March, takes On ly nine points. A 46-ounce can of tomato or pineapple juice re quires 22 points instead of 32. Apple juice was opened to un restricted sale along with raisins, prunes and other dried fruits. Officials explained the dried fruits are in danger of spoiling in the coming warm months, while the country has a surplus of ap ples that can be turned into cans or jugs of apple juice. Dried fruits were left on the official chart, at sero value, as a reminder that they may be ra tioned again when the new crop is packed. OPA said no overall in increase in rations is possible at present. Kenneth E. Stauffer, chief of the processed foods division of OPA, explained: “This new values.” (Continued on Page 8) v Red Cross Deals Out Doughnuts To Men In Service A Red Cross worker examines the doughnut making machine, part of the equipment of the “clubmobile” of which she is a crew member in the picture at left. At right: Miss Fern Maddox, of Oklahoma City, serves doughnuts to a soldier at an airfield “somewhere in England.” Center: Members of a Red Cross mobile unit distribute coffee and dough nuts to U. S. soldiers in the British Isles. Town Election Officials Are Named By Board All Candidates Seeking Elec tion Must File On Or Before April 20 At a meeting of the town coun cil on March 29, S. W. Brown was appointed registrar and G. Glenn Nichols and Robert Joines as judges, to hold the town election of Mayor and five members of the board of commissioners on May 4th. It will be necessary for all can didates for these offices to file their names with the registrar on or before the 20th day of April, in order that the ballots may be printed. Mayor R. F. Crouse said here Tuesday that he is definitely not to be a candidate in the coming election. It was not learned whether or not the aldermen will enter the race for re-election. J. M. Wagoner, D. C. Duncan, Dr. C. A. Thompson, D. P. Sturdivant and J. A. Hardin have served'in this capacity during Mr. Crouse’s tenure of office as Mayor. Under Mayor Crouse’s leader ship the town of Sparta has ac quired a new. Water and light system, besides rhany other im provements of benefit to citizens within the corporate limits of the town. A taxpayers' meeting will be held at the courthouse next Wed nesday night at 8:0* o’clock for the purpose of discussing ques tions of finance and government, Mayor Crouse stated. .All persons interested in the subject are urged to attend. Praises Local Board Officials Local Board Is 'Visited By State Official, Who Ex amined Records A representative of State Se lective Service recently visited the Alleghany county local board office, reporting the office and files to be in excellent condition, it was learned here this week. The board members and clerks were commended for doing a splendid job, no errors nor de parture from regulations were noted in the classifications, with adequate information in the files to justfy the classification given, the representative said, according to the category system. No post [Girl Scouts To Help Red Cross The Girl Scouts of Sparta met Friday at the borne of Lucille Mitchell. The Scout* have begun making candles, cakes, pie* and cookies, which will be sold for the benefit of the Red Cross War Fund. The pastry and candy is befog sold in the Jay Hardin store. a Value Of Red Cross Cited At Rally; More Needed To Reach Goal Major Hubbard Plans To Return To Civilian Life Chief Surgeon Of Ashe Hospi tal To Receive Discharge From Army North Wilkeshoro ■*— Major Fred C. Hubbard, who has been in the army medical corps since July 17, 1942, will receive an honorable discharge and will re turn to civilian life in the very near future, it was learned here this week. Major Hubbard, before he was accepted in the service, was chief Df staff and chief surgeon of the Wilkes Hospital in North Wilkes boro, which position he will re turn to when he receives his dis charge from the army’s medical corps. Major Ifubbard also served as chief surgebn of the Ashe hospital and it is expected that he will resume this work again, too. Major Hubbard is now station ed at Springfield, Mo. He enter ed the army at Charleston, S. C., was sent to Camp Atlerbury, [fid., and later to Camp Crowder, Mo., before he was assigned to Khe general hospital at Spring Held, Mo. rHE BAPTIST HOUR TO RUN THRU APRIL Hie Baptist Hour, popular ra dio program, heard on Sunday mornings, will continue to run through April in North Carolina onlyi. Tlfe program, formterly broadcast throughout the South, features many famous Baptist leaders. County Still Short $300 Of Quota; All Are Urged To Make Contributions The vital necessity and service 6f the Red Cross was forcefully presented to an attentive audience here on Tuesday night when Rev. A. C. Waggoner, of North Wilkes boro, spoke at the courthouse at a war fund rally. ' . The speaker, wtyr i.<^chairm» of the Wiikes chapter*, to'd in vivid manner, the work of the" Red i Cross in the present world conflict, as well as in the past. Notable among the little-known facts listed was that the ambu lances to serve the armed forces overseas are not furnished by the government, but furnished and manned by Red Cross; that hos pital gowns and dressings are not furnished by the government, but that they are furnished, and the expense of transporting them to the point of embarkation, is paid by Red Cross; that the only means of contact with a prisoner of war is through Red Cross; the only means of verification of a soldier’s request for an extension of leave, or his family’s request for an emergency leave, must be verified by Red Cross. Many other invaluable services were cited, “all of which cast money,” ReV. Mr. Waggoner sta ted. “Therefore, I would me as hamed NOT to give until it be came a real sacrifice. Those boys over there are making a real sac rifice for me, and for you, gnd if we can’t be over there fighting with them, the least we can do is expend every effort to see that their needs are adequately met. So GIVE, and generously, of your time and money, to a cause that is second only in importance to the Church.” The speaker was (Continued On Page Four) Alleghany Boys In Service Corporal Boren Farmer, left, entered the Amy in June, IMS, and is now serving in North Africa. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. W. L, Fanner, of Sparta. Corporal Robert Guy Brooks enlisted in the Marines in October, IMS. He b sta tioned at Parris Island, S. C. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Brooks, of Piney Creek. , s .. Farmers Are To Collect Stamps From Customers Are Urged To Produce Sur plus Meat And Butter For Sale Raleigh — North Carolina farmers who produce meat and tn^ter at home for sale must, collect from their customers the correct amounts of red point stamps in War Ration Book 2, the office of price administration said this week. During the past week, while re tail sales of butter were frozen, farmers of the state were permit ted, under a ruling by OPA, te sell butter without collecting point stamps from customers. This authorization ended at mid night Sunday, March 28. Under the meat-fats rationing program, a farmer who sells meat or blotter or other home produced items covered by the program should keep a recced of all such products sold. At the end of each month he will be re quired to go to his local war price and rationing board and report the number of pounds he has sold, and he must turn over to the board the red point stamps he has collected during the month. He must comply with this regu lation, the OPA said, whether he sells tdVindividuals or to stores. At the same time, the OPA re quested that farmers who pro duce more meat, butter, etc., than their families can consume, re frain from spending their own red point stamps in War Ration Book 2. While farmers may do so if they wish, the OPA emphasized, (Continued on Page 5) TO HOLD BOX SUPPERS BENEFIT RED CROSS Red Cro$s War Fund Chairman W. O. Hooper announces that two box suppers will be held in the county for the benefit of the War FwHi. The first ,^11 be*«t New Hope on Satiirde&w>lkh» a (height tainment features will be offered free of charge. Boxes will be auctioned off by R. E. Black, and all proceeds will be turned over to Red Cross. On Tuesday night, the same program will be held at Laurel Springs School, Miss Ivy Grace Doughton, principal of the school, announces, except that the pro gram will start at 8.30 instead of eight. Cordial invitations are extended to the public to attend both functions. Guide Is Given For Rationing SUGAR—Stamp No. U good for five pounds through May n. COFFEE — Stamp No. 2* £&%. ,“”4 GASOLINE — Coupon No. S ' in A book good for three cab* • Ions but must last through In ly 21—four months, instead of two as heretofore. TIRES — Holders of Radon A coupons must have tires in spected by OPA on or before March 31. Owners of passeng er cars and commercial vehi cles may get their casings re capped with reclaimed rubber cam el back without applying to their local War Price and Rationing Boards for certifi R 36. April 4—B (16 April 11—C (18 April 18-0 (16 36 April 85*—• <16 !%.)—*• valid ns.)—April . - ' ■■ caies. . SHOES - Sujfar and entitles
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