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THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1948
VOLUME 54, NO. 29
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Alleghany Surpasses Red Cross War Fund Quota
Alleghany Man
Awarded Medal
By Pres. Roosevelt
Ensign Edmond L. Edwards
Presented Medal For Dis
tinguished Bravery
President Roosevelt has recent
a warded an Air Medal to an Al
leghany boy, Ensign Edmond' L».
Edwards, of Newark, Del. He is
a son*of Mr. and Mrs. Q. p. Ed
wards, now of Newark, and was
born and reared near Sparta.
Recent newspaper photographs
show the President personally
presenting the medals to Ensign
Edwards and Major Hugh R.
Sharp, Jr., of Wilmington, DeL,
now commander of the Civil Air
Patrol base at Wilmington.
Flying as observer with Maj.
^ Sharp, Ensign Edwards assisted
in rescuing Lt. Henry T. Cross,
who had been forced down in a
CAP plane in rough “seas. The
citation said that the sea was too
rough for the rescue plane to take
off, so Maj. Sharp taxied it for
five hours, with Ensigp Edwards
clinging on to a wing, until the
plane was taken in tow by a
Coast Guard boat. Ensign Ed
wards later won his commission
in the Navy.
Navy Recruiter
Coming Next Wk.
James E. Meacham To Be
Here April 12 To See
Applicants
In his regular coverage of this
vicinity as a Navy recruiter,
Janies E. Meacham will open a
Navy recruiting substation in the
post office building at Sparta,
Monday, April 12, and man
and Women, interested in.vol
unteering for Navy duty are
invited go meet him for an inter
f view.
^ While enlistment regulations
still restrict wide-open enlist
ments of draft-age men, several
branches now are open to Selec
tive Service registrants. The
Seabees, the Navy’s construction
battalions, now are open to men
between the ages of 18 and 38
who have had experience in any
phase of construction. They are
consequently eligible for petty
officer ratings in the Naval Re
serve.
Seventeen-year-old men are
still eligible to volunteer for the
..Kiyy or Naval Reserve. How
ever, as soon as the youngster
reaches his 18th birthday, be is
placed under the jurisdiction of
Selective Service and is no longer
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Big Increase In
Quota Of Tires
^ Alleghany county’s quota of
tires and tubes this month far
exceeds any allotment for'recent
months, Mrs. Robert Fleetwood,
clerk, said here this week.
Sixty grade one tires were list
ed, 40 grade two, and 54 grade
three, with 39 passenger type
tubes.
Thirty-nine truck tires were
listed, 95 truck retreads and 41
truck tubes.
Easter Styles
Are Shown Here
Local merchants featuring
ready-to-wear and dry
have a food selection of spring
and Raster merchandise now
on display ready ter the parade
ef Stoppers.
Easter which cornea on April
*6, milady is espeetedto^have
“Pig Boat” Sinks 10 Jap Ships
Skippers and officers of the American submarine which
sank ten Japanese ships in a year’s operation. They are, left
to right, Lieutenants Franz Hoskins, Tacoma, Wash.; Charles
K,Miller, Williamsport, Pa.; Charles Manning, Cheraw, S. C.;
Luther K. Johnson, Atlanta, Ga.; William Ruhe, Emmaus,
Pa.; and Lieut. Com. William E Ferrell, USN, of Crafton,
Pittsburgh, Pa., the commanding officer.
Big War Loan Drive
To Open On April 12;
War Must Be Financed
Commencement
At Piney Creek
To Open Apr. 17
SdniorPthy Will B+Pfesented
First; Graduating Exer
' cises, April 23
The Piney Creek school will
begin its closing exercises on
Saturday evening, April 17, at
eight o’clock, when the senior
class will present, “Deacon
Dubbs,” a three-act comedy,
which will provide a full even
ing^ entertainment.
Kfcv'. W. M. Smith, Methodist
minister and Superintendent of
Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospi
tal* Elkhi, will deliver the bac
calaureate sermon on Sunday
moihiing; April 18, and graduation
exgrdises will begin the next
FHday evening at. eight o’clock.
Tile speaker is Prof S. J. Wood,
English Department of A. S. T. C.,
Bttpne.N. C. “Prof. Wood is an
abte: speaker whose services are
i« Wide demand, not only by high
schools,- but also by colleges and
universities” Prof. J. B. Reed
said here this week, “and we are
fortunate to secure him for our
speaker.” '
SERVICES AT NEW HOPE
Rev. W. H. Caldwell will
preach at New Hope church next
Sunday, April 11th.
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13 Billion Dollars Must Be
Raised; Alleghany Has Big
Quota For Month
Alton Thompson, C a s h ie f,
Northwestern Bank, has been ap
jAifiied chairman of' the V^ar Fi
nance Committee .for Alleghany
County, and 'WiU direct the sec
ond war loan drive in this coun
ty in April. The appointment
was made by Hugh Leach, presi
dent of the Federal Reserve Bank
of Richmond, district chairman.
The April campaign will seek
to sell Treasury bonds of all
kinds, with a goal of 13 billions
for the nation as a whole. North
Carolina’s quota is 62 millions,
Alleghany County’s quota of this
total has been announced as
$50,200.00.
Mr. Thompson stated that in
the forthcoming campaign the
War Savings Staff and the Vic
tory Fund Committee organiza
tions would be combined under
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WHITEHEAD SCHOOL
HONOR ROLL GIVEN
The list of children on the
Whitehead school honor roll are
as follows: First grade, Muriel
Caudil, Wilma Richardson, Shir
ley Talor. Second grade, Paul
Caudill, Thorval Caudill; fifth
grade, Gladys Caudill; sixth
grade, Ross Caudill, Carol Rich
ardson; seventh grade, Alda Rich
ardson.
Men 38 To 45 And 4-Fs Told
To Do Essential Work Or Fight
' Washington ^■"■•Selective service
headquarters Saturday night an
nounced what amounted to a
work-or-fight order for all draft
registrants, including 4-F*s and
men 38 through 44. In a Igngthy
communication to local draft
boards, selective service outlined
steps designed to expedite the
“back to the farm” movement
promulgated by President Roose
velt on Tuesday.
At the same time, selective ^ser
vice informed the nation that not
even men heretofore deferred for
physical disabilities or men in the
38-throUgh-44 age group would
be ahsolved from liability to mili
tary service unless they are per
forming essential work or have
taken steps to get into essential
jobs by May 1.
The announcement meant that
men will be
qualifications
of-de
•ta tha present
age bradtet 18 through
cal disability unfits them for mili
tary service or work other than
the kind in which they are now
engaged, , however, will be ex
empted from strict application of
the order, it was said.
A hint of a change in the status,
of the overage group had been
given last month when draft
boards were instructed to reclass
ify all 4-H men according to oc
cupation and dependency. Boards
were ordered to replgssify those
engaged in agricultural occupa
tions first and all others begin
ning May 1.
These and other developments
have led to widespread belief that
the top draft age may be put back
[ at 44, where It stood last year
until President Roosevelt lowered
it in his executive order stopping
voluntary enlistments in the arm
ed forties. Today's order provides
that men 38 through 44 who con
tinue in nondeferrable jobs will
be drafted like younger men.
JFj&ssaxssc
ed to issue waivers whereby n«i
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Miss Fields Will
Be New Supt. Of
County Schools
Board Of EducatioiT’Hfef*vi5n.
Monday; School Commit
tees Are Napued
Miss Clyde Fields was named
superintendent of Al3eghany
county schools to succeed W. C.
Thompson, on Monday, when the
new Board of Education met for
the first time after taking the
oath of office.
The new board is composed of
Carter Hash, of Piney Creek and
Gwyn Cox, of Vox, two new
members and Chairman Glenn
Edwards, a former member.
The new superintendent, Miss
Fields, who will begin her term
of office July 1, is widely known
in educational circles and is well
qualified for the position. A na
tive of Alleghany, she has been
identified with the Iredell coun
ty school system for a number of
years and is now principal of a
school in Statesville.
Mr. Thompson, who has served
as superintendent for eight years,
has made an enviable record dur
ing his tenure of office. During
the past eight years, six new
school buildings have been erect
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Rev. R. West Is
Coming Here Soon
Has Accepted Call To Serve
Sparta And Laurel Springs
Baptist Churches
Rev. Richard West, of Yadkin
ville, has accepted a call to serve
the Baptist churches of Sparta
and Laurel Springs, it" was
learned here this week ,and will
aa^e the of the 18th to
take over the new pastorate.
The parsonage in Sparta is be
ing prepared this -week for the
new minister and Mrs. West. They
have no children.
Rev. Mr. West succeeds Rev.
V. W. Sears, who served the
church here for several years,
leaving Sparta about a month ago
to serve as pastor of Rural Hall
Baptist church.
Scout Leaders
Meet April 16
Meeting To. Be Held In Elkin;
Alleghany WMBe Rep
A Scout Leader club meeting
will be held at the Gilvin Roth
Y. M. C. A Building in Elkin,
next ft-icfay, April 16, which Dr.
N. D. Fox, Scoutmaster, plans to
attend. v ,
Following the dinner meeting,
the court of honor will be held,
to which scouts, their parents and
friends are invited.
Gerald Ashwill, assistant scout
executive, will be present to start
the standard scoutmasters’ train
ing course, which will be taken
also by assistant scoutmasters as
well as chairmen of troop com
mittees and scout leaders. The
course will begin on the 16th,
the first . of a series of three
meetings, dates for the other two
will be decided upon at the first
meeting.
Dr.- Fox said here this week
that he hoped to have many ad
ditions to the troop soon, and that
all boys near enough to Sparta
who could attend regularly, who
were over 12 years of age, were
invited to join the Scouts.
New J. Ps Are
Now In' Office
Four of the five justices of the
Peace in Alleghany- appointed by
the last legislature, have qualifi
ed for their terms of office,
'which, tahgan April first Thte
fifth, Sam W. Brown, will prob
ably qualify within the 90-day
time limit if he returns to the
county from a recently -accepted
job in Portsmouth, Va.
F. A. Richardson and G. O.
Nichols are new justices appoint
ed in Gap
Brown and
er received
Wallace Enjoys Panama Picnic
Vice President Henry A. Wallace thoroughly enjoyed a
picnic he attended at Boquete, in the interior of Panama,
during his visit to the home of the Panamanian president,
Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia. The vice president is shown
in a group of singing natives with whom he made a hit by his
informality and his knowledge of Spanish.
Americans, British
Make Gains; Heavy
Bombings In France
Interest Shown
In Conservation
By Co. Women
Townships To Have “Food
Workshop” Exhibits* In
' Town Store Windows
The work of Home Demonstra
tion clubs begun in the Food
Workshop program in March,
gained headway early this week,
here and throughout the county,
!when Miss Rose El wood Bryan,
in the absence of a full-time
home demonstration agent,
launched the first of a series of
n\eetings to promote the pro
duction and preservation of food
for the coming season.
The window displays scheduled
by the Food Workshop will begin
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DEMONSTRATION CLUBS
TO HOLD FIVE MEETS
A series of home demonstration
meetings will be held over the
county beginning on Monday,
April 12, through Friday the 16.
Monday’s meeting will be in
the home economics room at Pin
ey Creek school at two o’clock p.
m,; The Whitehead club will
meet in Mrs. Grayson’s room at
the school at 3:00 p. m.; New
Hope, at the home of Mrs. Dan
Jones at two o’clock; Vox club at
the school building at 2:00 p. m.;
Laurel Springs school at 2:00 p.
m.
Russians Continue To Hold
Own Against Germans;
Jap Base Is Bombed
The Allies continued on the of
fensive on all fronts this week
with advances being made both
in Africa and Russia and heavy
attacks from the air e* tc^h this
Nazis and the Japanese.
The British eighth army re
sumed its offensive up the Tuni
sian east coast yesterday and
captured all its initial. objectives
while American troops, closing
a trap from the west, drove for
ward five miles in the El Guettar
sector where the Afrika korps
was reported retreating.
The Americans advanced in the
area east of El Guettar without
meeting opposition and are now
moving directly eastward toward
the Wadi Akarit, threatening to
trap the enemy forces farther
south in the Gabes road area un
less they completed their with
drawal quickly.
Gen. Sir Bernard Montgomery,
commander of the eight army,
sent his men into action to storm
the gorge-like wadi, on which
Rommel made his stand, only
after waiting for days with amaz
ing patience while he amassed
material and disposed his men.
Red army troops held off re
peated attacks by German tanks
and motorized shock troops at
two key points of the Donets riv
er front Tuesday and fought their
way with bayonet into a strongly
defended enemy village in the
Kuban bridgehead fortified belt,
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Newspapers Are To Push
Nation’s Big War Loan Drive
Washington — The nation’s
newspapers are coming to you
for $13,000,000,000 more—for Un«
cie Sam.
It’s the second war loan drive,
due to begin Monday, April 12.
Newspapers have been assigned
a leading part in conducting it.
The government calls it the big
gest war financing operation in
history.
Its initial stages will last about
three weeks, and it is designed to
sell the American public $13,000,
000,000 worth of war bonds.
Divide that figure by the num
ber of people in the United States,
and you arrive at the conclusion
that—on the average—about $100
worth of bonds will have to be
said for every man, woman and
child in the country if the goal is
met
Secretary Morgen thau and
Wank I. Tripp, president of the
AIBed Newspaper Council, said in
needed and this loan can only
succeed through such action.
Speaking for the Treasury and
the Allied Newspaper Council,
we ask you, therefore, to give
this drive your enthusiastic sup
port in your news and editorial]
column and by enlisting sponsor
ed advertising support.”
The Treasury is floating the
second war loan to:
1—Finance the war.
J—Help avoid inflation.
To meet the $13,000,000,000
goal, the Treasury says you can
help if you:
1—Divert into the purchase of
extra bonds every cent not ab
solutely needed for food, shelter
and other necessities of life for
the three weeks b ginning April
2— Buy at least one extra bond
each week for that period.
3— Forego eatne- -of- the things
you have been planning to buy.
m«r be buying through pay roll
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$1,904 Reported
Today And More
Gifts Being Made
All Workers And Contributors
Who Have Not Reported
Asked To Do So
Alleghany county’s Red Cross
War Fund quota of $1,900 has
been reached and exceeded, ac
cording to reports received here
this rimming, with donations
from all over the county yet to
be reported, to swell the fund
well over the required amount.
Up to Wednesday noon a total
of $1,624.44 had been deposited
with the Northwestern Bank, Tre
asurer Alton Thompson reported,
but a Check - with the treasury
this totaling showed additional
deposits had, brought the amount
up to $1,904.21.
Various entertainment features
in the different schools and
churches over the county are ex
pected to swell the fund con
siderably. A musical program at
Sparta High school Wednesday
night, a square dance at Laurel
Springs, a program at New Hope,
and others in the county have
been instrumental in raising the
fund since the drive began in
March, in addition to individual
contributions.
Drive Chairman W. O. Hooper
said here Wednesday that he
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Much Interest
In REA Hearing
Scheduled To Take Place
Here On Friday; Several
Cases
Keen interest is being shown
IB the hearings Scheduled
Friday J in the
growing out of claims by
that various members had
defaulted on notes.
Early last mouth, several of the
cases were tried here, when
judgment was made in favor of
REA, but a motion was filed by
counsel to have the judgment
set aside on the ground that
REA had brought suit on
the time of trial, and which were
not produced at the trial.
Defendants in these cases
claimed that the Blue Ridge Elec
tric Company had failed to live
up to certain contracts made
when the notes were executed by
REA members, for washing ma
chines, radios, refrigerators and
other appliances.
The hearing was first sched
uled' for March 27, but illness of
a part of the legal counsel for
REA caused the date to be set up
to April 9th.
Mrs. Spurlin, 84,
Buried^ Ou Monu
, Funeral rites were held Mon
day at, Glade Creek church in the
Hooker cOnUnunity for Mrs.
Emeline Spurtin, 84, who diEd at
the home' of her daughter, Mrs.
McKenzie, near Old Town, Va,
on Sunday.
Revs. Vt. P. Gibbs, of Galax, W.
H. Handy and W. Q. Higgins, of
Sparta, held the funeral service,
burial following in the church
cemetery. Mrs. Spurlin was a
former residetit of Alleghany.
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