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Km News NEW8 - STAS • TIMES wtrartte IMS Trophy for being best small non-daily newspaper in North Caro lina. AND STAB-TIMES— (CONSOLIDATED ON SEPTEMBER 2, 1941) —ALLEGHANY COUNTY’S ONLY NEWSPAPER. NEWS-8TAR-TDWE8 is dedicated to covering the News and to the promotion of progress for all of the people in Sparta and Alle ghany county. VOLUME 54, NO. 49 $1.50 a Year in Alleghany County SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA $2.00 a Year Out of County THURSDAY, AUG. 20, 194S Alleghany County Schools Will Open On Monday County Assigned Quota Of $88,000 In 3rd War Loan Drive Drive Will Open Sept. 9; County Has Good Record North Cardin* Has A Quota Of $145,000,000; Drive • Opens Sept. 9 Alleghany has been assigned a quota of $88,000.00 in the Third War Loan Campaign of last April, Chairman C. T. Leinbach, chair man of the State War Finance Committee announced this week in disclosing goals for North Car . volina. This is more than was vlQo-aised here in April; but Alle ghany has an outstanding record in the sale of bonds and it is felt that this quota will be reached. The Third War Loan Quota for the State is $145,000,000, more than double the $62,000,000 quota for the April program, and con stitutes a “real challenge to the people of North Carolina,” Lein bach said. The Third War Loan effort will run from Sept. 9 through Sept. 30. Each person can invest accord ing to his means, buying any thing from a $5 war saving stamp up to a $1,000,000 Treasury bond, Fain pointed out. “We all know the work will have to be thorough and intensive to reach our quota,” Fain said. “1 firmiy believe that every individual citizen, every firm, corporation and organiza tion will do its part. We all must realize that this money is being loaned to the United States Gov ernment, and that every purchas er of a bond is getting an income earning investment ....of the best government bond* <m the face of the earth. This sale is our part toward winning the war." Alton Thompson, cashier of the ^Northwestern bank, who has al ways done excellent work on bond drives in the county, is chairman of the drive for Alle ghany. (Continued on Page 4) Fire Damages Home Here, Mon. J. M. Brown House Is Damag ed; Occupied By Mr. And Mrs. Robert Halsey An- early morning fire alarm Monday called put the department to the J. M. Brown house, occu pied by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hal sey, where a fire had gained suf ficient headway in the upper story that considerable damage was done before it was extin guished. A too-short fire hose prevented maximum efficiency in lighting the fire, some members of the volunteer department re ported. Mrs. Halsey stated that no fire had been in any of the stoves in the building since three o’clock Sunday, and the origin of it was unknown. Beds, linens and cloth ing in the upper story were a to tal loss. Superior Court To Convene Oct. 4 Superior court will convene in Alleghany county on October 4, instead of September 27, as was previously announced, with a -mixed docket of civil and crim inal cases. Judge Donald Phillips will pre side over the session. Jurors were chosen last week. Announce Hours Of Town Office The office at the city water and sewerage department will be open in the courthouse on Tues days, from 9:00 to 11:00, until ".September 30, Lee Woodruff, in change of collections, announced this week. Mr. Woodruff will be associated with Reins-Sturdlvant Company after this date, and payments will be made to him in person or by cheek in future. Alleghany Men Fight For Liberty Throughout Hie World • I These Alleghany men are now in Uncle Sam’s armed forces. Reading from left to right: Cpl. Arza D. Wyatt, now stationed in the Canal Zone, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Wyatt, of Piney Creek; John Moxley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Shelley Moxley, is now stationed at Camp Edwards, Mass.; Pvt. Odell Crouse, who entered the armed forces three months ago, is stationed at Ft. Eustis, Va.; Pvt. Roscoe Billings, Jr., a son of Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Billings, formerly of this county, is at Keesler Field, Miss.; Pfc. Paul M. Shumate, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Shumate, of Hays, recently received his promotion at Camp White, Oregon. Berlin Is Blasted By The Allies; Wewak Is Hard Hit From Air MISSING IN ACTION .' Seaman James Lee Crouse, listed as missing in action last month, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Crpuse, White head. He enlisted in the Navy in September, 1942 and receiv ed his training at Great Lakes Naval Training ^Station, in Illinois, rating as Seaman Second Class. Russians Continue To Ad vance; Many Germans Abandon Arms The allies continue to make gains this week with the biggest battles being carried on from the air while Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Roose velt met in Quebec to discuss in vasion of Europe and other plans. American Flying Fortresses which made the first daylight shuttle raid on Germany Aug. 17, blasted an aircraft assembly plant in Bordeaux, France, on the return leg of their journey which brought them from North Africa to their home bases in Britain,,it was officially announc ed. This latest demonstration of our increasing range of Ameri can air power coincided with the opening of the major allied air drive against Berlin Monday night when approximately 700 RAF bombers “hamburged” the German capital. In Monday’s raid on Berlin, the allied command fashioned a scale of destruction twice the weight of any ever heaped on any capital, and not far short of the weight of the attacks which swept Hamburg from the war in 10 (Continued on Page 4) Duty Of All Is To Hasten Victory, Doughton Declares ‘There are substitutes for. fuel, clothing .transportation and even food; but for honesty, frugality, industry, patience, kindness, in tegrity and courage, there can be no substitute,” Congressman R. L. Doughton told the graduating class at Appalachian State Teach ers’ College, last Thursday even ing, when he delivered the liter ary address. The speaker stressed the im portance of knowledge, but point ed out that knowledge,' alone, is not sufficient for success. “Greed, selfishness, cowardice, dishonesty, neglect or carelessness can un dermine or destroy the most in telligent and best informed in dividuals,” he declared. "The foal of every person is success and the only criterion of success is usefulness”, he said. He pointed out that material wealth is a trust and should be guarded carefully. tion the speaker said, “Unless ed ucation produces a well-rounded individual sensible to his duty to his fellowmen and devotion to the progress of civilization, it is not only an empty gesture but may be even dangerous.” He stressed that graduating in times like the present that indi viduals could not fit themselves in the usual schedules. “Now there is but one duty for each of us, young or old and that is to do oil in our power to bring this war to a successful conclusion as speedily as possible. To achieve total victory we must apply our selves with a singleness of pur pose and with a .determination unprecedented in peace time to do the Job to which we are best fitted,” he said. ■ He pointed out the cost of war to civilization and declared that Illness Fatal To Alleghany Man In Naval Service Funeral Held At Stratford On Tuesday Morning For Howard Joines . Funeral rites were held at the home Tuesday morning at 11:30 o’clock for Howard Joines, 18, apprentice seaman, who died in Great Lakes Naval Hospital at 2:30 last Saturday morning from pneumonia and meningitis. Eld ers John Williams, S. G. Caudill and Coy Walker conducted re ligious rites, burial following in the Antioch church cemetery with American Legion military ceremony. A son of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Joines, of Stratford, young Joines enlisted in the Navy in July, at Camp Croft, S. C., and was sent from there to Great Lakes Train ing Station, where he underwent an operation. Early reports from his operation indicated that it was successful, but pneumonia and meningitis developed, to which he succumbed before his mother and brothers could reach him. They left on Friday, but news was received en route that he had died and they returned to await the arrival of the body. Surviving are his parents, one sister, Evelyn Joines and five brothers: Lundy Joines, of.Selma, N. C.; Roy, Astor, Walton and Billy, of the home. (Continued on Page 4) Last Shipment Pooled Lambs Will Be Made County agent R. E. Black an nounced here this week the fol lowing schedule of weighing lambs for the last cooperative shipment by Alleghany farmers for the season. He urges that the lambs be at the scales at the time listed, in order that the schedule may be carried out on time. On Friday, September 3, at E. W. Shepherd’s, at 8:00 a. m.; M. E. Reeves, 9:00; W. F. Dough ton, 10:15 W, W. Warden. 11:30; John M. Cheek, 1:30 p.m.; Lonnie Ed wards, 3:00; R. V.' Thompson, 4:00; H. N. Holloway, 4:45; T. L. Crouse, 5:45; Coy Richardson, 6:30. Op Friday, September 3, on a different route, Elk Creek, 8:00; Fielden Ward, 9:00; Luther Delp, 9:45; Johp C. Halsey. 10:30; C. *=.,CTSHKMBL-g M. Mitchell. Moxley, IKK) p. m.; 2:00; D. J. Jones, inney, 3:45; Prath S. pt Brother Of Sparta Woman Active In Fight At Randazzo Mrs. Jay jtandin Has Interest ing News From Her Broth- , er, Capt. W. Corpening Capt. Wayne Corpening, brothi, er of Mrs. Jay Hardin, of Sparta, was among the American and British troops who held a tired, happy rendezvous in the ruined, booby-trapped streets of Randaz zo, Sicily, following their occupa tion of that mountain anchor of the main Nazi defense line on the island, after a four-day siege, re cently. Capt. Corpening was county agent of Haywood county before his entrace into the army. The dispatch, filed'' from Ran dazzo, is as follows: “With the enemy on the run, American patrols took the town without firing a shot, less than an hour after the last German de molition engineer had fled, fol lowing the blasting of bridges and the blowing up of a number of buildings to block the roads lead ing through the town. “Walking in on foot with bay onets ready after three jeeps were blown up on the mined and boo by-trapped road, a company of in fantry led by Capt. LeRoy Flori ana, of Michigan, moved quickly (Continued on Page 4) BOND DRIVE CHMN. .'V. y •"* Alton Thompson, cashier of the Northwestern Bank, who will serve as chairman ol the Third War Loan Drive in Al leghany county. Plan Governing Of Europe As War Parley Ends At Quebec Quebec, Que., — Disclosure that the Anglo-American conference here laid plans for the govern ment of reconquered European territories, plus the issuance of a virtual invitation, to Russia to join the next war meeting, made it apparent this week that the pattern for invasion of Europe was nearly complete. Ringing down the curtain on the Quebec war council earlier Tuesday, President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Chur chill had projected the question of European invasion into the forefront of conference specula tion by failing completely to make any reference to the state ment on their deliberations. They had, nonetheless, openly suggested the possibility that Rus sia would attend a three-power conference with them, knowing quite well that Russia’s main con cern is an allied invasion to draw a maximum of German ground pressure off the Soviet tories tooks invasion for granted. It was issued by a British official to a press conference. He asked that he be not otherwise identi fied but it was obvious that his information had come from the highest sources and was issued belatedly for some purpose not immediately explained. “Apart from strictly military questions,” the statement said, “the conference was able to de vote its attention to the princi ples which should be observed in the administration of territories in Europe liberated by our forces from enemy domination. Russia was virtually invited by the president and the prime min ister to attend the next Anglo American conference, which it has been decided to hold before the end of the year. Meanwhile, the two allied statesmen declared, Russia will be kept fully informed of Anglo American decisions, obviously in Germany and Italy. Teachers Will Meet On Friday For Final Plans List Of Teachers Announced; , Bus Drivers Are To Meet On Saturday Next Monday, August 30, marks the opening of Alleghany’s pub lic schools when hundreds of children will take up their year’s work in the seventeen white and four colored schools of the coun ty. A county-wide teachers’ meet ing will be held on Friday, Au gust 27, at Sparta high school, with Gov. R. A. Doughton and Mr. J. M. Cheek addressing the assemblage, Miss Clyde Fields, county superintendent, has an- * nounced. Last minute plans will be made at this meeting for the opening of school, and teacher assign ments. Colored teachers will meet at Miss Fields’ office later in the afternoon. Particulars re garding the opening of Glade Valley high school, private insti tution, had not been announced. On Saturday, August 28, all school bus drivers are to meet at the high school to make plans and take last minute instruction in safe driving under the direction of Sheriff Jess Moxley, Highway Patrolman Richard Griggs and county mechanic Paul Miles. At Sparta high school Monday morning a short opening program will be held with Rev. R. L. Ber ry conducting devotionals at 9:30, when other speakers will ^, also bring short messages. Tens.' tative plans are to 'have Sparta school* open at 9:3ilpach morning; other schools of the county will (Continued on Page 4) Mrs. John Blevins Buried On Sunday Sparta Woman Died On Fri day After A Long Period Of Illness Mrs. John Blevins, 64, died Fri day afternoon at her home in Sparta, after five months’ illness. Funeral services were held Sunday morning at eleven o'clock at Crab Creek Baptist church, burial following in the family plot in the cemetery. Mrs. Blev ins had been a member of Hook er Baptist church for many years. Surviving are her husband and the following children: Mrs. Hen ry Fender, Winston-Salem; Mrs. Guy Woodruff, Miss Lura Blev ins and Mrs. Erwin Roberts, of Sparta; Mrs. Lpster Higgins, of Ennice; Robert L. Woodruff, Ak ron, Ohio; Mrs. J. W. Poe, Galax, Va.; Press Blevins, Los Angeles, Calif.; Gwyn Blevins, Mrs. Win nie Fender and Reeves Blevins, ... .1 - Stores To Stay Open Wed. P. M. This week ends the Wednesday afternoon closing agreement, which Sparta business houses made this spring. The rule was adopted in order to 'give employers and employees time off from business to cultivate Victory gardns and for recreation al purposes. A survey indicates much benefit from the observance of the half-holiday. Men Classified By Local Board
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