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AND STAR-TIMES— * CONSOLIDATED ON SEPTEMBER 2, 1941) —ALLEGHANY S ONLY NEWSPAPER. $1.09 a Year in Alleghany County VOLUME 54, NO. 40 SPARTA. NORTH CAROLINA ■ -'wrwn 'i* • - ^ ‘WTTnP’*'- • “ ..V-i ..- -L’an-i1, jaaggeanm"^ NEWS-STAR-TUB8 is dedicated to covering the News and to the promotion of progress for all of the people in Sparta and Alle ghany county. Urn-T-i,,.r-. ,n THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1943 War Bond Sales May Not Reach Qtiota In June County Must Do Some Heavy Buying In Last Week To Preserve Record Chairman Alton Thompson said here Monday that the sale of war bonds and stamps for the month of June are far below expecta tions, and that unless a rally in the final week of the month de velops, the county will for the first time fail to reach its quota of $5400. Up to noon Monday, only $2, 718.75 had been reported by the bank and the post office. Alleghany county has consis tently gone over the top on each and every months’ quota, last month almost doubling the quota. Mrs. A. O. Joines, chairman of the Alleghany county Women’s Division of the War Savings Staff, has received the following wire from C. H. Robertson, state ad ministrator: “We urgently appeal to you to put forth every effort with all committees functioning within the next nine working days to see that North Carolina makes her June quota of five and one half million dollars in sales of E bonds plus the five and one half million dollars in extra sales of E, F and G bonds, according to our let ters of June 2 and 8. You know how to do it, but if we can be of any assistance please let us hear from you. Looking forward to the extreme pleasure of saying to you on July 1, ‘You did it’.” Lagging sales in bonds and stamps up to press-time this week (Continued on Page 4) A. L. Fletcher Is Now Lt.-Colonel West Jefferson — (Special) — Lt.-Colonel Arthur L. Fletcher and Mrs. Fletcher, who have been spending a few days at their sum mer home in Jefferson, left today foe Rjleigh /-on* where they will go to Washington on Saturday. 1, -Colonel' Fletcher, was ad viseo of the promotion to his pres ent rank from that of Major dur ing his visit here. He holds an important position with the Se lective Service in Washington. Both Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher have many friends and relatives in this section who will be inter ested in his promotion. I To Graduate At Mt. Airy August 1 _ 0 Miss Annie Mae Truitt, of Sparta, will be among the group in the twenty-third annual grad uating class of the Martin Mem orial Hospital school of Nursing, of Mount Airy, eany in August. The baccalaureate sermon will be preached by Dr. C. N. Clark at the Central Methodist church on Sunday night, August *1, followed by the graduation exercises at the First Presbyterian church, on Monday night, August 2. Up Your Saving* There will be American Justice for (h imM at Tokio but oar trial fnbtaBMt of Tojo and Ida criminal! will coat Mood, aweat, tall and teare and money. Yoa can cup ply the money by uppln* your war 'bead buying through the payroll aae iage plan. figure it out youraaif and aaa where the money 1* liming tom. How mutdk^oes « coat . you. and your iaJhily'to How much moiBpfl■ . ep member* of your famUft Put I extra money Into b*ery penny of it Let IOl mt cent atarttag point to *gur m§-fem guo^eat We Are Now On The Way A prognostic warning is the essence of this sign in the Oro bay section of New Guinea containing a message from President Roosevelt. Allies Rain Bombs On Axis; Large Jap Force Is Repulsed Axis Rubber Plant Is Left In Mass Of Flames By Allied Bombers With the plans for the invasion of Europe drawing to a head, the Allies have continued their mighty air raids both on Germany and Italy with the Rus sians also striking heavy blows. Waves of American and British bombers, striking in whipsaw, fashion from bases in both North Africa and the Middle East, rock ed the Italian mainland yester day with shattering assaults on the port of Naples, the toe cities of Reggie Calabria and San Gio vanni and several other southern industrial towns. American Flying Fortresses and British Wellingtons intensi ;‘,J«*-£nt!c>atrced campaign to bomb Italjgn industry out of the war with ^ay-long attacks which left the vital factory area of Na ples smoking from 25 great fires, one covering an area a mile wide. Rounding out devastating, round-the-clock blows for the first' time into the German Ruhr —the heart of Nazi war produc tion—American Flying Fortress es set a square mile of fires roar ing through the German synthet ic rubber town of Huls yesterday soon after the RAF had blasted the important steel town of Kle feld with perhaps 2,000 tons of bombs. (Continued on Page 4) Will Observe Holiday, July 5 Alleghany county citizens and the town of Sparta will celebrate the Fourth of July on Monday, July 5th, it was announced here this week. All business houses in town, the bank, courthouse, and the post office, will remain closed all day Monday, except for the dis tribution of mail at the post office at mail time. Rural carriers are expected to observe the holiday also. No formal program of celebrat ion has been arranged for the day in Sparta. NOW OVERSEAS Pfc. Fred Crouse entered the army in March, 1941, now in overseas service, last heard from in South Africa. He is a grandson of Mrs. Mary Crouse, of Sparta. Young Adults To Attend Meeting At Lake Junaluska Rev. A. C. Waggoner Is District Director Of The Group The Elkin District of the West ern North Carolina Conference of the Methodist church is planning to send a large group of repre sentatives to the Young Adult Fellowship Assembly at Lake Junaluska July 12-10. Rev. A. C. Waggoner, pastor of the First Methodist church of North Wilkesboro, director for the Elkin district of Young Ad ult work, is eager to have a large number of church representatives from this district in the age group of 23 years and above to attend the meeting. Registration should be made through Mr. Waggoner. The registration fee of $9 takes (Continued on Page 4) Coal Miners Ordered Back To Work Until October 31 Washington — John L. Lewis Tuesday night ordered his mine workers back into the pits until Oct 31, with a broad indication tbat-during that time they would resort to the courts to obtain the portaMo-portal pay they, failed togetfrom the War Labor board ' action came just a- few hours after the WLB had referred the eoal strike to President Roosevelt with a call for the use of “all the power of government” to force Lewis into a working contract In line with WLB direc tions. ... ' from the fields indiea of the mines, closed for by the third work step weeks, will resume late Itajsday and vie i sured by today. William Hargest, secretary treasurer of the United Mine Workers district # at Pittsburgh, and several other UMW official^ in the chief coal porducing states of West Virginia and Pennsyl vania, said there was no doubt that the men would obey the back to work order. In Ohio, however, Adolph Pacifico, vice president of UMW district 6 and member of the union’s ptolicy committee, declared the men were/dissatis fied with the way the administra tion has kicked our contract .around” and . expressed belief it would be difficult to get the men Farmers Must ' Report Crops To AAA Office Here Eligibility For Incentive Pay ments Based On These Reports Arthur Gambill, secretary of Alleghany county AAA, said here this week that community com mitteemen report that only a small percentage of farmers in the county have attended the AAA meetings, and made their report of soil-building practices carried out this year, and on their average of tobacco and truck crops. Mr. Gambill said it is absolute ly necessary that all tobacco farmers measure and report their tobacco acreage before any mar keting card can be issued. It is also necessary that farmers hav ing truck crops in excess of 2.7 acres, to measure and report them m order to be eligible for the in centive truck crop payment. Where farmers have failed to make these reports to their com munity committeemen, it will be necessary for them to come to the county AAA office and make the report as soon as convenient. Baptist W. M. U. Held Meeting At Liberty Church Mrs. Farmer, State President, Present For Associational Meeting The Associational Woman’s Missionary Union held its annual meeting last week at Liberty Bap tist church, with splendid attend ance. Mrs. J. S. Farmer, of Raleigh, state president of the organiza tion and former missionary to Japan, delivered the chief adress on the theme of the program, “Christ pre-eminent in Woman’s Missionary Union.” k Ofher features of the day were reports, talks and young^people’s programs.'' Those taking leading parts on the program were Rev. G. R. Blackburn, Mrs. E. E. Cau dill, Mrs. J. T. Fender, Mrs Van Miller, Rev. R. L. West, Mrs. T. R Burgiss, Mrs W. E. Shepherd, Mrs. H Taylor, Mrs. C. A. Reeves, Miss Ivy Grace Doughton, Rev. W. H. Caldwell, Miss Una Lee Richardson, Mrs. Hugh Choate, Mrs. Ben Reeves, Mrs. W. F. Shepherd and Mrs. Glenn Rich ardson. Mrs. John M. Miles rendered a beautiful sblo, “He died of a Broken Heart”. The chorus by local girls, “The light of the world is Jesus” and the playlet, “How Shall we Pray”, by Laurel Springs children, dressed in na tive costumes of various mission icounttries, wiare pleasingly pre sented. An associational WMU consti tution was unanimously adopted during the business session. It was also decided advisable to fill only 75 dozen cans for the Mills Home Orphanage, due to the fruit crop failure in the section. Officers elected for the coming year were: Mrs. A.jO. Joines, re elected as superintendent for the eighth term; Mrs. Hazel Taylor, assistant superintendent; Mrs.\ Sam Porter, secretary-treasurer; Miss Ivy Grace Doughton, pianist; \ Mrs. Van Miller, young people’s leader; Mrs. R. L. West, commun ity missions; Mrs. V. O. Hooper, mission study chairman; Mrs. W. E. Shepherd, training school; Mrs. T. S. Moxley,. Literature; Mrs. W. (Continued on Page 4) Price Ceiling Placed By OPA On Emergency Tires Washington —» The Office of Price Administration this week established a $1 price ceiling on unrepaired “emergency tires” whose sale is pscmitted again un der a program sponsored by the office of the rubber director. The low-quaWjr used passenger car tires are among those turned in by the puhitr last fall under nergency tires 111 .deliver some of them do not standards for e tires.” as is permitted a ration board die No. 3 (used A Cautious Advance On Attu An American soldier, engaged in mopping up operations on Attu island, is on guard for a possible sniper in this Jap anese shack. Most of the Jap forces on Attu were either killed in battle or committed suicide. Wool Brings Farmers Of County $10,635; More Sheep Available GETS PROMOTION Pfc. Ray Reeves, who is sta tioned at Sheppard Field, Texas, has recently been pro moted to his present rank. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs, Lon Reeves, of Sparta. Robert Allison Is New Manager Of Belk’s Store Comes To Sparta From Boone Where He Has Been With Company Some Time Robert L. Allison, of Boone, ar rived here Monday to assume his duties as manager of Belk’s De partment Store, following the resignation of Mr. W. K. Sprink le, who resigned to manage his own business interests here. Mr. Allison has long been con nected with Belk Stores, having been associated with the States ville branch for three years, and the Boone store for seven years, where he has made an outstand ing record. Mrs. Allison, with their six year-old daughter and his mo ther, will arrive shortly to make their home in Sparta. (Continued on Rage 4) 1 County Agent R. E. Black, Urges That Farmers In crease Number Of Sheep Approximately 250 sheep grow ers of Alleghany county have s*>ld 19,081 pounds of wool for $10, 635.33, through the county wool pool, this season, County Agent R. E. Black, announced this week. This wool was sold to Chatham Manufacturing Company at 56 cents per pound for the best grade of wool, with approximately 1, 300 pounds bringing 51 cents be cause of burrs in the fleece. A representative of Chatham Manufacturing Company, who graded the wool, praised the Al leghany farmers for the way they were taking care of their vteol crop. He seated that the citfpjiof wool was improving each year, but that fajfrners should "be more careful in shearing sheep to see that the wool is dry at the time it is sheared, and either take time to remove the cockle-burrs from the farms, or else keep the sheep off the pastures having burrs.” Mr. Black continued: “There is no question in my mind that Al leghany county should increase the number of sheep from 50 to (Continued on Page 8) Two Are Tried On Theft Count At a trial held here Tuesday morning, Russell Brooks, 18, and Hugh Brooks, 18, were placed in the custody of the Clerk of Court S. O. Gambill, to await the disposition of their case by Pro bation Officer, P. T. McNeill. The boys were arrested Mon day afternoon on a charge of theft, having confessed to officers that they stole chickens from the poultry house of Mrs. Bryan Rec tor and sold them at Smithey’s. Store here. The store keeps a record of all poultry bought, and officers traced the boys through this sale. Both boys are under a suspend ed sentence for a similar offense, havirig been placed on probation at their trial in Superior Court. Motorists Musjt Purchase Auto Use Stamps By July 1 i ■ ...— The Federal Auto use tax stamps are'"'now on sale at the post offices in Allegany, but ac cording to reports from postmas ters, few are buying theirs now and it is expected that there will be a last minute rush. The stamps are in the denom ination of $5, show payment of the tax for the fiscal year be ginning July 1, IMS and must be purchased on or befofe that date if motor vehicle owners are not to be subject to penalties. Ve hicles using the public highways after July 1, must display the stamp. Each stamp is serially {number ed, gummed on the face and has provision on the baric for listing the make model, serial number and state license number of the When affixing the stamp the vehicle owner should dampen the windshield rather than the gum* med side of the stamp to guard against loss or theft. As a fur ther precaution the owner should record the serial number of the stamp; which should be affixed to the windshield in a location not conflicting with State re quirements. . It was pointed out that the stamps would be on sale during the month of July only at the county seat post . office, Sparta, and motorists are urged to buy theirs before July 1 st their own post offices. > This doss not mean that motor ists who use their cars m«y watt until July to purchase stamps. As explained, all cars in use must have stamps by July 1. Graystone Inn To Open Season On Friday Night Fully Staffed And Ready To Operate; Booked To Ca pacity For Week End Tomorrow evening, June 25, Graystone Iran, celebrated host elnt of Roaring Gap, will formal ly. open its summer season by ertfirtaining Burlington Mills ex ecutives and industrialists from all over the South and East, at ode of its famous dinners, manag er Walter T. Bovard said here Wednesday. '( „The hotel is already booked to capacity for the first week-end, f indications point to one of moat successful seasons in history. The golf course is open,, with E. P,\ Hagler, golf professional from. $ike University, in charge of the CpUrse, and Mrs. W. O. Moss, with horses from her “Mileaway” Stables at Southern Pines, arrived Thursday for the season. Hie tennis courts are in fine condi tion, and as is usual, the fishing and swimming privileges in the lake are limited to guests of the hotel and summer colonists. Summer-home owners are al ready arriving. Homes are now occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Jennings, of Miami Beach; Mrs. George Brown, of Winston-Salem; Mrs. John Hanes, Winston-Salem; Mrs. Blanche Alexander occupies Cavanaugh Cottage; Mr. and Mrs. Carter, of Martinsville, Va., in Pennell House; Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Sillaman, Lexington, in the Dan Chatham house for the sea (Continued On Page Four) Brevard, Elkin Papers Winners Ed M. Anderson Presented Award For General Excell ence Of Brevard Paper At the meeting of the National Editorial Association, held, in Cincinnati during the vast week end, The Transylvania Timeewon second place for general excell ence in the contest for larger non daily papers throughout the United States. Ed M. Anderson, editor and publisher, was pre sented the award. Harvey Laffoon, publisher of the Elkin Tribune, who also at tended, was awarded first place in the community service contest for his outstanding work of hav ing the lime mine opened and tested. The program, which was in the nature of a war conference, in cluded several outstanding fea tures and speakers, among whom was Gov. John M. Bricker, of Ohio, mentioned as a possible presidential candidate. During the conference Miss Beatrice Cobbi, of Morganton, secretary of the North Carolina Press association, presided at a special breakfast meeting of all women delegates to' the confer t(Continued On Page Four) Out Yourseli. How eaa r join in laving all tba of the world from hm* man M«Wtry, death and injury from tha Nazis and Japanese? Put mum and mm* o* your pay into war bond* ewary payday. Your savin** will go to war in tba form of war equipment and other munition*. How much mom ahould you put into war bond*? The only ana* who can answer drat are—you and your fam ily. It’* up to you to decide Just how much more you’ll do to win tha war. B you war* flyhtiac to toe mo* or in Africa or f in* in Europe you’d 1“ to* folks at T
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