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News AND STAB-TIMES— iCONSOLIDATED ON SEPTEMBER 2. 1941) —ALLEGHANY COUNTY’S ONLY NEWSPAPER. NEWS-STAR-TIMIg 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. 52 • $1.50 a Year in Alleghany County SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA $2.00 a Year Out of County THURSDAY, SEPT. 16, 1943 Prisoners Make Escape From The Camp Near Here Officers Still Searching For Sam Wilson And Ed Shew, Who Escaped Toes. Two prisoners, Sam Wilson and Ed Shew, who were inmates of the State Highway camp at Spar ta, made their escape Tuesday af ternoon about 4:30 by sawing out a bar of their cell at the camp. Pretending illness to avoid go ing out with the gang on road construction, the pair effected their escape, according to reports. Both were long-term prisoners in the .camp, which houses only white prisoners, Wilson serving U sentence of from five to seven years for highway robbery, and Shew from 10 to 15 years for se cond degree murder. Wilson had served all but 18 months of his sentence. Wilson is described as being 28 years of age, five feet eight in ches tall, weight about 128; dark brown hair, gray eyes, ruddy complexion. Shew is five feet five and one-half inches tall, weight 132 pounds. No complete description was given of him. He is a native of Wilkes county. Wil son is from Concord. An intensive search for the es capees was made Tuesday after noon and night, but they were still at liberty late Wednesday af ternoon. # Will Hold Sale Of Feeder Calves Department Of Will Assist ... * u culture , *■« •/or Whst Jefferson (Special) — Plans are now being completed the big sale of feeder calves to la held St the West Jefferson Livestock market in Tuesday af ternoon, Sept 11, with the co operation of the N. C. Department of Agriculture. This will be an excellent op portunity for farmers of Ashe, Alleghany, Watauga and ether nearby counties to aell their good beef calvee and yearlings as « large number of buyers are ex pected, these in charge painted out The sale will Open at 2:90 o’ clock in the afternoon, but farm ers are asked to bring their calvee to livestock market earlier in the day so that everything will in weight from 3M to MO pound* me wanted for the sale, but n was explained tost atoms could probably be handled. This is the first sale of this type f\o be held here this season and is expected to attract much atten Funeral Riles .For Mr. Evaop Died Thursday Altar Long Illness; Buried At Land mark Saturday Henry Evans, aged citizen of the Whitehead community, pass ed away at his home last Thurs day, September 9, following a long period of ill health< Burial was in Landmark church cemetery at Whitehead, following the funeral service Saturday af ternoon. Elder Charles Wooten and Raleigh Joines conducted the religious ceremony. Surviving Mr. Evans widow and six children: Evans, who is now j Marines; Kemp Evans, of! Md.; Frank Evans, of Ws ton, D. C., .. " and Myrtle Evans, of the Americans Battle Desperately Here At Salerno, just below Naples, the American forces are locked In a desperate battle with the Germans. Farther sooth, die British Eighth Army report the capture of Cosenza, this week. Game Regulations Cited For Alleghany Comity; Squirrel Season Opened This Week N. C. Hereford Breeders Met With Doughton J. H, Doughton post To The Inspection Of Farm ^ Visitors Tito North Carolina Hereford Breeders’ Association held its an Btial directors’ meeting at the home of Mr. J. H. Doughton. Wednesday night, and on Thurs day, members of the group, with a few county citizens, were guests of Mr. Doughton at a barbecue lunch and an inspection trip over his farm at laurel Springs. .Geo. W. Pate, of Rowland, is president of the group, with Mr. Doughton, vice-president and Dr. 1.jEjpjWieh, secretary-treasurer. Directors include Mr. Pate, Dr. lynch, John Long. C. T. Francis, (Continued from page one) Fall Fatal To Sidden Youth Howard Sidden, small son of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Sidden, died in a hospital last week as a result of a skull fracture suffered when he fell 18 feet from an open win dow. Burial was in Glade Creek church cemeterja Surviving are his parents, and one brother, Dwayne Bidden, his grandparents and many other relatives.. Flower girls at the funeral ser vice were: Gwendolyn Blevins, Shirley Blevins, Ruby Sidden, Madge Edwards, Bobbie Edwards, assisted by Roger Hendrix. Deer Hunt For Holly Shelter Announced; Rules And Dates Given Alleghany county Game War den R. D. Gentry, this week an nounces a memorandum received from the North Carolina Division of Gaige and Inland Fisheries relative to the deer hunt at Holly Shelter, which will be held No vember 2 to 13, with six days’ hunting. ■ , Hunts Will be held on alternate days, three days each week. Mr. Gentry stated that it would be necessary for those wishing to participate in the hunt to make application direct to the division headquarters, at Raleigh, with the proper fee, when application blanks would be sent to them. Address Frank W. Eatman, N. C. Division of Game and Inland (Continued on Page 4) Dr. L G. Greer Give® Program Lectures On History Of Folk Music At The Baptist Church The Baptist church of Sparta was filled to capacity Friday night to hear Dr. I. G. Greer and Mrs. Greer in their program of folk songs and mountain ballads. Dr. Greer gave a brief history of the type of music for which he has become noted in the South east, and gave a number of illus trations of the types discussed. After attending the Baptist As sociation on Saturday, Dr. and I Mrs. Greer returned to Thomas ville, where he is superintendent of Thomasville Orphanage. Alleghany Men In Service Set Oscar K. Crouse, left, entered the army January I»41, and has been oversees since April, 1942. He is a aea He is a son of Mr. end Mrs. Walter Watson, He took his basic training at Fort Biley, Kansas. 8.8.S Announce Change In Office Hours Of Draft Board Group Left Today For Army; Name Those Previously Accepted For Service Mrs. Mexa Phipps, clerk of Se lective Service Board No. 1 in Alleghany county, has announced that in accordance with a nation wide course of procedure, the doors of the local office will be closed at one o’clock each after noon, beginning on Monday, Sep tember 20, through September 30th. The purpose of the closing is to make a thorough and complete survey of each registration on file, in order to properly classify them under the new regulations governing Selective Service. Boys who become 18 years of age are requested to register with the board between the hours of 6:30 and 12:00 noon, as are other registrants who wish information concerning their draft status. A group left Sparta today for physical examination preliminary to induction, and four boys who were accepted in the last group left, to enter service. The group included Fred Roberts, Claude Dancy, Rale Billings, and Dean Mac Bell, a brother of Walter Bell, who is held a prisoner of the Japanese in the Philippines. Union Baptiste Will Hold Ass’n Friday, Saturday Two-day Session Is Planned 1 f By Church Thin Week &hd The Union Baptist Association will be held Friday and Saturday of this week at Pleasant Grove church, near Laurel Springs. C. S. McKnight is moderator of the association, and J. R. Miles, clerk. Churches to be represented in clude Cherry Lane, Saddle Moun tain, Glade Creek, Liberty, Mt Unioii, Pleasant Home, White head and Weteoaae Home, and the host church. A large delegation is expected to attend the two-day session. : J AAA Material Is Available Kfere A limited allocation of addition al 1943 program funds had been made to the East Central Region for the purpose and distribution of 1943 conservation materials, AAA Secretary Arthur Gambill, has announced. This material will be furnished as “1943 supple mentary materials” and the ma terials so furnished any farm and properly used before December 31, 1943 will not be charged against the farm’s 1944 produc tion practice allowance, it was explained. Materials for which orders have been approved as 1944 ma terials will be considered as “1943 supplementary materials. Orders will be taken for lime and phosphate from farmers who have already earned their 1943 production practice allowance, it was stated. Mis# Plonk To Be With FSA Here Replaces Miss Sedberry In Week; Is Trai—d And Experienced Miss Martha Plonk has been transferred from Mitchell county to Alleghany by the Farm Securi ty Administration to fill the va cancy left in the organization when Miss Mildred Sedberry was. transferred to Watauga county. Mias Plonk is a Cleveland county, i ate of Woman’s « of native of Ugradu rof the <Tir»Hnn, With tte Tribute To Fallen Attu Heroes On a lonely strand of land on the far northern island of Attu, wreaths are placed on the graves of fallen American fighters as a bugler blows taps. Americans Wage Big Battle At Salerno; Russians Still Gain Officers Named At REA Meeting On Saturday P. M. R. C. Halsey, Of Alleghany, Is Named Vice-president Of Co-op At the annual -meeting of the Blue Ridge Electric Membership Corporation, held in Lenoir on Saturday afternoon, officers for the coming year were named and other matters discussed. Clyde Perry of Watauga coun ty, was elected president; replac ing G. W. Sullivan, who becomes head of the board of directors; R. C. Halsey, of Alleghany county, vice-president; A- G. Beach, of Caldwell re-elected secretary treasurer, G. F. Messick, of Cald well, re-elected superintendent; Max C. Wilson, of Caldwell, re elected attorney. The following directors were named: A. G. Beach, Lenoir; D. R. Moore, Granite Falls; G. W. Sul livan, Yadkin Valley; C. C. Poov .. (Continued on Page 4) Former Native Pays Visit Here ■ Mr. R. A. Truitt, of Galax, Va., has been spending several days in Sparta, a guest of Dr. B. O. Choate, Dr. L. P. Choate and Mr. A. V. Choate and their families. A native of Alleghany, having been born within two miles of Sparta, Mr. Truitt said he had not spent a night in Sparta for 43 years, until his visit here last week. He left Alleghany in 1900 for California, then spent some time in Florida returning to Ga lax to make his home. Now re tired, Mr. Truitt war connected with a railway company in Ga lax for several years. Allies Make Progress Against Japanese In Southwest Pacific American and British troops fought hand to hand last night with elements of three crack Ger man divisions on the Salerno bridgehead as Field Marshal Al bert Kesselring made a supreme effort to drive the fifth army into the sea. During the <fky and into the night allied warships poured out everything from machinegun bul lets to shell fire to help protect the narrow beachhead extending 24 miles south of Salerno, and the entire fifth army was engaged in a grim battle. The Mediterranean was alive with ships and plants as the al lies poured reserves into the Ital ian fighting under the direct su pervision of Gen. Dwight D. Eis enhower. Following German announce ment of the abandonment of Bry ansk, Moscow declared' yesterday that toe Red army had cut the Crimean railroad north of Meli topol by a swift mechanized thrust across the flatlands of toe Southern Ukraine. The Red banner now has been carried back half way from Rost ov to Odessa. Still ignoring toe German an nouncement of toe Nazi with drawal from the key rail city of Bryansk, a supplement to the Russian midnight communique (Continued on Page 4) ORGANIZE SUNDAY. SCHOOL AT NEW HOPE Rev. Richard L. West preached Sunday afternoon at New Hope Baptist church, and following, the service, a Sunday School was or ganized. Mrs. Ruth Choate is superin tendent, and Mrs. Carrie Mitchell, secretary. The public is cordial ly invited to attend the school. First Coupons Books Became In New Ration Valid This Wk. Washington — The first cou pons in the new Ration Book No. 3 became valid this week, its brown “A” stamps now being good for rationed meats, fats, oil and butter. They will remain valid through October 8, and, under the over lapping changeover procedure an nounced by the Office of Price AdmJnifctratkgn, the remaining X, Y and Z stamps in Book t are al meats, in addition to the valid red X, Y and Z points. SCHEDULE IS GIVEN . FOB H. D. CLUBS ■The schedule of Home Demon stration meetings for the next two weeks are listed by Miss Hit bie Hampton, hom^ agent. On Monday, Sept. *0, at Tur key Knob Community building at 2:00 p. m. On Tuesday, 21, at Gentry’s Chapel; 27 at Rooky be held at 2:00 p. m. Sept. M, a r * be held at Laurel at 3.-00 o’ Much More Must Be Raised Yet? Far Below Quota ^ \V \' ■' ^.,, All Groups Are Asked To Double Their Efforts In Order To Beach Quota Alleghany county ended the first, week of the Third War Loan Drive, with around $22,000, re ported yesterday afternoon from sources of sales. This leaves $66,000.00 of the county’s quota of $88,000.00 yet to be raised. Sources of sales report that there have been a large number of small bonds sold with the largest purchase totalling $4,Q00l There were two $3,000.00 bonds reported sold as well as several $1,000.00 denomination. Much interest is reported -and Alton Thompson, chairman of the drive, urges everyone to co-oper ate by buying bonds before the final days of the drive in order to raise the quota now and to avoid last minute rushes. On Wednesday night a picture was shown at the Spartan thea tre regarding bonds and a short talk was made by Mayor Floyd Crouse. No reports have come in from the schools as yet but it is un derstood that many of the stu dents are working toward the prizes offered. NCEA Group Will Meet On Tues. Units From four Counties To „ Hold Fall Planning M^ft West Jefferson — (Special) — Plans are now being completed for the Fall Leadership Confer ence of the N. C. Educational As sociation of this area to be held at Jefferson on Tuesday afternoon in the auditorium of Jeff moon high school, at 3:00 o’clock. There are twenty-two similar meetings to be held throughout North Carolina this fall and the units of the NCEA expected to attend the meeting here include tfaoee of Ashe, Watauga. Wilkes «id Alleghany. This is the first time a meeting of this kind has been held in Me comity, r' *.» The program will be arranged by the North Carolina Education al Association and is expected to cover some of the wartime' activ ities!,>«fc the schools as well as problems arising from the war. SA OFFICE . . , F&MOTMS VO BE OPEN TUESDAY, FRIDAY Van V. Mi!**—«- . . , Yaniiu Killer, Farm Security Admipisferatoe: for Alleghany county, announced here this weak that the office in the courthouse wl be opan each Tuesday and Friday of the week, for transae
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