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AND STAR-TIMES— ^CONSOLIDATED ON SEPTEMBER 2, 1S41) —ALLEGHANY COUNTY’S ONLY NEWSPAPER. $1.00 a Year in Alleghany County VOLUME 54, NO. 38 SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA 31.50 a Year Out of County NEWS-STAR-1 and to the of progress for all of the people In Sparta and Alle ghany county. THURSDAY, JUNE 3, IMS No AAA Penalty For Not Meeting Warcrop Goals All Farmers Are Urged To Continue Efforts To Reach Goals Farmers of Alleghany county who fail to plant at least 90 per cent of their warcrop goals this year will not have deductions made from their 1943 agriculture al conservation payments to be made by the AAA according to W. F. Jones, chairman of the county AAA committee. “In order to encourage maxi mum food production in the face of weather handicaps of a late and wet spring over most of the nation, the War Food Administra tion has relaxed provisions of the 1943 AAA program which pre scribe these deductions”, Chair man Jones said. “When goals were being set this year, the AAA announced that failure to plant 90 per cent of individual farm war crop goals would result in a de duction of $15 per acre from ad justment payments.” The deduction provision, the chairman said, was announced along with a {dan to make incen tive payments on the acreages of warcrops between 90 and 110 per cent of a farm's goals. These payments, however, failed to re ceive Congressional approval, but special payments will be made on Irish potatoes and eight des ignated vegetables grown com mercially for fresh, marketing. “Removal of the deduction pro vision does not mean that farm ers should relax their efforts to reach their goals, and exceed them if possible”, Mr. Jones said. /‘The unfavorable weather con (Continued on Page 4) OPA Puts Cuffs On Men’s Pants Again ■. Length Is Set, However) Re section Went Into EUoei After Pearl Harbor Washington, June 1—’The war production board tonight lifted its ban on trouser cuffs—provided they can be made from the aver age 3-inch “turn-up” allowance on trousers manufactured from wool, gabardine and heavyweight cotton and rayon material. Effective immediately, it re moved all restrictions of altera tions of wool garments which soon after Pearl Harbor sheared the cuffs from all wool trousers and produced the wartime “vic tory” suit. But it broadened its trouser length*order to embrace all ma terials except non-wool summer weight cloth weighing a pound or less for each square yard. Trousers made from cotton gab ardine, corduroy and other heavi er cottons and rayons thus come under the same restrictions. ' WPB said 10,000,000 pairs of woolen trousers were in stock when the cuff ban was issued and that enough “excess wool” has been recovered to make “over 300,000 garments” this year. The cuff material was re-woven. Classifications Made By Board Classifications made at the May 25 meeting by Selective Service Board No. 1 are listed below: 3-A—Earner Sparks, Wayman Combs, Clifon Bowers, Odell Brown, Wade Wyatt, James Church, Floyd Brady, Hardin Joines, Golden Royal, Leonard Triplett, Robert Edwards, Oscar Richardson, Everett Handy, James Billings, Roy Rose, Thomas Mox fey. 3-A—Walter Royal, John Ev ans, Carlie Johnson Cliford Rec tor, William Royal, Rex Harless, Ernest Brannock, Harvey Greene, William Caudill, Clive -Holloway, Coy Caudill, George Sparks, Gessae Pugh, Oscar Key. 2- C—Dewey Brown, Franklin Shaw, Don Parsons. 3- C—Posie Pruitt, Coy Bobbitt, Oscar James Simpson, Joseph Holloway, Daniel Dixon, Jr. The names of Thomas Haigman, Jr., Reece Halsey, James Crouse, Willie Smithers, Clarence Pruitt, “ ayall, William Joines and were Army Rescues Flood Victims -——--- --- As flood waters continued to rise in the Midwest, army engineers brought barges and amphibious jeeps into the area. They not only rescued residents and their household furnish ings, but also removed livestock. Here two goats and three pigs are being floated on a barge from the flood zone. County Exceeds May Bond Quota $5,000; Has Made Fine Record AT FORT JACKSON Pvt. Bishop J. Lyons, who was inducted into the army November 29, 1942, has re turned to camp, alter spend ing an eight-day furlough with his wife at Ennice. Pvt. Lyons is stationed at Fort Jackson, S. C. Farmers Needing Assistance Are Asked To Register County Agent R. E. Black said here this week that farmers who wish to secure farm labor should register at his office, where an ef fort will be made to supply as much as possible. Laborers who wish to do farm work are also urged to register at the county agent’s office. Mr. Black said he did not guar antee to supply the demand for farm labor, but would do what he could to alleviate the shortage. He suggested that farmers make arrangements to swap work stock and machinery during the crop season. Interest And Buying Bonds Has Been Good For The Entire Year Alleghany county has again surpassed its war bond quota. For thfe month of May, $10,331.25 in bamds have been sold, $8,437 of s amount having been sold by Northwestern Bank, and the arta^fost Office, $1,893.75, ex r quota of $5,08.00 by Chairman Alton Thompson said these figures did not include pur chases made from other points, nor by the federal reserve. Alleghany county has made an outstanding record' in the sale of war bonds during the entire year, and the public is urged to continue buying to the limit of their means, thus backing up the boys on the fighting front. “Allegnatoy boys are making a fine record in the service and we must continue to supply them with fighting weapons through the purchase of bonds,” one offi cial of the bond sale, said. Miss Eldredge Goes To Lenoir Miss Evon Eldredge, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Eldredge, left Glade Valley Tuesday for Lenoir, where she has accepted the position of Director of Re ligious Education in. the First Presbyterian Church of that city. Miss Eldredge recently gradua ted from the Presbyterian As sembly Training School in Rich mond, Va. She had been at home only three weeks when she re ceived the appointment to her new job. TO HOLD SERVICE Rev. W. H. Caldwell will preach at Gentry Chapel on Sunday, June 6, at three o’clock p. m. Everybody is invited to attend. Rationing Of Ginned Milk Is Now Ordered By OPA Washington — Rationing of canned milk was ordered Tues day by OPA, acting without wanting to conserve diminishing supplies far babies. No actual restrictions were placed upon the purchase of eva porated and condensed milk for adult use, but canned milk will take red coupons, and moat adults are expected to save the coupons for meat, butter or cheese. The point value was placed at one per pound which means that the common tall can, 14% ounces, will coot one point The com mon small size, 8 ounces, will be taro -fon a point„ ^liuoe the J^tiui point however, anyone who buys a single small can will still have to pay a full point The order waa made effective at midnight Tuesday. OPA said it was issued at the request of .the w*r food administration be cause production of canned milk has fallen 5 per cent below ex pectations and because of huge army, navy and lend-lease re quirements. Officials' explained one reason for smaller production is a trend to divert milk into va rious manufactured products. OPA said specifically that no extra points, beyond the standard 1« per person per week, will be made available to ordinary con ned'milk^since bableTere*eligi ble for their own ration bools, (Continued on Page 4) Rural Carriers Meet; Officers Are Again Re-elected Business Session Held; Con tributions Made To Red Cross By/ Members Alleghany rural mail carriers held their annual Decoration Day convention in Sparta last Satur day. All forms of entertainment were eliminated and a short bu siness session was held, which was attended by seven of the ten carriers of the county. All the aid officers were re-elected for., the tenth consecutive year; W. Carl Irwin, president; Lon Me Reeves, vice-president; and R. Glenn Taylor, secretary- treas urer. The Ladies’ Auxiliary was rep resented at the meeting by Mrs. Edd Pugh, with all old officers also being re-elected: Mrs. W. Carl Irwin, president; Mrs. Edd Pugh, secretary ^treasurer. Mem bership, which has been one hun dred per cent since its organiza tion in 1928, Still retains its hun dred per cent. Each carrier contributed $1.00 to the Red Cross at Saturday’s meeting. Those present were A. Vance Choate and Lon Me Reeves, routes 1 and 2; Sparta; Isom W. Wagoner, route 1, En nice; R. Glenn Taylor and Edd J. Pugh, routes 1 and 2, Laurel Springs; Mack Woodie, route 1, Piney Creek, and W. Carl Irwin, route 1, Stratford. Those unable to attend were Ralph C. Gentry, route 1, Glade Valley, E. Leff Wagoner, route 1, Whitehead, and John Tucker, route 1, Purches. First Typhoid Clinic Is Held -—", Second In Series Will Be On June 9; Schedule Is -—Given "~~ The first of a series of immuni zation clinics for the prevention of typhoid was begun in the coun ty on Tuesday of this week. The second will be held on the 9th of June, at the same places, the third to follow on the 16th. Turkey Knob, Kennedy’s Store, at 9:30 a. m.; Piney Creek Post Office, 10:15 a. m.; Roscoe Bill ings’ home, 11 a- m.; Rocky Ridge Church, -11:30 a. m.; Scottville Post Office, 1:00 p. m.; Shepherd’s Service Station, 2 p. m.; New Hope Church, 2:30 p. m.; Strat ford Post Office( 3 p. m. Other schedules to follow, on which the dates will be announc ed later, include Edwards’ Cross Roads, Mrs. Lena Gentry; Ennice, Spurling Service ■ Station;% Ed monds, Tod.d’s Store, Barrett, Hooker. Miles, Elk Spur church; Roar ing Gap Post Office, Cherry Lane Post Office, Rich Hill school, Glade Valley Post Office, Furch es Post Office, Pleasant Grove church; Citron, Whitehead, Pine Swamp, Wolf Branch. Farmers Urged To Grow Tobacco “I want to urge every farmer in this section to set out his full quota of tobacco this season,” R. C. Coleman, operator of the Mountain Burley Warehouses at Boone, said this week. In discussing the threatened shortage of plants, Mr. Coleman said that he thought it would pay every farmer to get out his full allotment, even if he had to set it a little later than usual. He be lieves that burley tobacco will be in great demand his season and bring top prices. With the increased allotments which have been made, Mr. Cole man says that he thinks 1943 will be a banner year for the Boone tobacco market , DECORATION DAY TO BE HELD AT SHILOH On Sunday, June there will be a memorial service and dec oration at the Shiloh Methodist church, with Rev. C. R. Allison pastor, in the pulpit The service will begin at ten in the morning. with a to be roodevad by the church • o4phr I 'ttN'-inib Is cordially invited to attend. Horseshoes Won’t Stop Allies A Nazi official is shown peddling “Luck Iron,” horseshoe shaped good luck symbols, in a Nazi fund campaign in Ber lin. Perhaps Nazi leaders feel that their populations need the good Ittck in view of the heavy bomb raids they are suf fering. Strong Air Blows Axis; 7 Jap Ships Are Sunk By Americans Hit A Supply Line Of Japan; Soviet Front Is Active In The Air The spotlight of the war is in the air this week where the Al lied forces have taken the lead. The Allies appeared Monday to have gained over the southern Axis flank an utter air mastery unprecedented anywhere in the European war, Naples and Fog gia having been beaten by 150 odd big American bombers with out a single loss and only one Al lied, plane having been destroy ed of a grand total of 300 thrown against Italy iii all operations. Mussolini’s islands and home country were being laid open to the grand attack by all Allied arms; his defenses were almost incredibly weak. Some 60 ene my fighters rose to challenge Al lied planes with extraordinary lack of success, and ten. of them were shot down. Chinese troops, who for the better part of six years had sweated and stumbled and bled under merciless and almost unop posed Japanese air attack, were triumphantly on the march in a first-rank counter-offensive in Central China where for the first time in any battle of consequenc es in that theatre it was the Jap anese that was under overwhelm ing aerial fire, Tuesday. Seven more Japanese vessels, including a destroyer, have been blasted to the bottom of the Pa cific by American submarines in the accelerated war of attrition against enemy supply lines that has carried her raiders into Ja pan’s home waters, the Navy dis closed. (Continued on Page 4) LITTLE PINE CHURCH MEETING, ON JUNE 12 A council meeting will be held at Little Pine church on Saturday, June 12, preceding the home com munity service and decoration, on Sunday, June 13. The decoration will be held at ten o’clock ,Jn the morning on Sunday, preaching at 11:00; lunch at 12:00. Prcftching will be also in the aifternoon. Everybody is invited to attend and bring their own lunch. Elder W. H. Handy will be in charge. ‘DEAR ARCHIE’ This 21-foot letter was writ ten to Pfc. Audrey Hopkins I “Archie” Ball of the marines. “Arthie” is shown reading the letter on a pile of sandbags at an Alaskan base. Chatham Mfg. Co. WU1 Buy Pooled Wool County Agent R- E. Black an nounces that last week arrange ments were completed for the purchase by Chatham Manufac turing Company ,Elkin, of the wool output of Alleghany county, together with Ashe county, Gray son and Carroll counties, in Vir ginia. The wool crops from this grofip of counties is expected: to be around 70,000 pounds, for which farmers will be paid SO cents a pound for good clear wool. This is an average of three cents per pound over the price received last year. The United States government has taken over the wool crop in the states except where the wool is grown within a radius of 50 miles from the place of manu facture. Chatham Mills are now devoted to war contracts, supply ing blankets and wool far service (Continued On Page Four) Alleghany Girl Subject Of Newspaper Feature Story A young Alleghany county wo* man made headline* in a Wash ington, D. C. paper recently when * feature article by Frank Carey told of the activities of Mrs. Alice Joins*, 19, of Piney Creek, who testa the maneuverability of guns mounted in tanks, at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Maryland. tie aeacriDea tier appearance as being very attractive, and that you’d think She was climbing in to the^ rumble^ seat of a roadster ‘‘General Sherman” tank, to dam onstrate how to keep to* guHT side the tank trained oh munition pill box on die which could be seen only through a periscope. The girl had to work a wheel which swung the gun ner’s turret on its base, raising or lowering the 100-pound barrel oi the gun. VS Carey described Mrs. Joinea as being a “WOW”—the insignia oi the Woman’s Ordnance Workers of Aberdeen, who have replaced large numbers of men in such jobs as testing tank guns on the fly. operating huge . engines, drtv :ks and fir Farm Machinery Repair Classes For Piney Creek Groups Under Direction Of Teacher, Will Assist Farm ers In Repair Work Ernest C. Minnich, agriculture instructor in Piney Creek high school announces this week that on Tuesday, June 8, a series of farm machinery repair classes will begin at the school shop, be ginning at 9:00 o’clock and last ing until 3:00 p. m., for each Tuesday through the next six weeks. * A. second group will be held at W. ft. Barr’s blacksmith shop, be ginning on Thursday, June TO, to run. the same hours on Thursdays through the six weeks’ period. Mr. Barr wili teach both class es, and will assist farmers in re pairing any type of equipment or farm machine, or in building new ones. It will be necessary for farmers wishing to take advan take of this opportunity to put their farm machinery in. tip-top condition, to do as much of the work themselves as possible be cause of the limited time at Mr. Barr’s disposal. Special attention is to be given to harvesting equipment, such as mowers, rakes, binders, thresh ing equipment, ensilage cutters and other such machines. Must Pay June Tax Payment Greensboro — Existing or pend ing legislation should not be in terpreted as relieving taxpayers >me tax installment, it was learned from Charles H. Robert son, collector of internal reven ue, after word had been received from the Commissioner of Inter nal Revenue. "V&. from payment of the June in Clubs Announced Miss Rubie Hampton, home demonstration agent, announces her schedule of meetings for the coming week as follows: Wednesday, June 9, New club meets with Mrs. Jones at two o’clock; Thu June 10, Bledsoe Creek club, Lloyd Ahsher at two o’< Blevins Cross Roads club, on ! day, June 11, with Mrs. Haswett Rector. Rationing Guide SUGAR Stamp No. 13 valid for Arc pounds June 1 to August 15. Stamps 15 and 16 good for five pounds each for canning sugar May 24 to October 31. COFFEE Stamp No. 24 good for one pound through June 30. FUEL OIL Coupon No. 5 valid to Sep tember 30. Good for ton gal lons. Fuel oil consumers should save the stubs of their ration certificates pending to suamoe of rattans for the neat
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