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Won the 194* Trophy being best small newspaper in North Caro lma. ghany News AND STAR-TIMES- CONSOLIDATED ON SEPTEMBER 2, 1941) r-ALLEGHANY COUNTY’S ONLY NEWSPAPER. VOLUME 55, NO. 7 $1.50 a Ye«f in Alleghany County SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA $2.00 a Year Out of County N*#S-StA*-*tME8 a dt&feated to covering the wetfi MS6 to the promotion of ptbjfttm lot aft of'the people in Sparta and Alle ghany county. THURSDAY, NOV. 4, 1943 $496. More Needed In War Fund Drive Gambill Is Made Tax Supervisor; Listers Named Appointments Announced By County Commissioners Who Met Monday The county tax supervisor and the tax listers for the coining year were announced today by the Alleghany county commis sioners, who held their regular monthly meeting, Monday. J. C. Gambill was appointed county tax supervisor and the ■following were, appointed as list ers: Gap Civil, . J. C. Gambill; Glade Creek, A. L. Coomes; Cherry Lane, DeWitt T. Bryan; Whitehead,-1 Ed Hoppers; Cran berry, Horton Miller; Prather’S (^* Creek, Charlie Mitchell and Pin ey Creek, Guy Perry. They also announced that the tax lister^ are to meet with the county commissioners on Mon day, December 6 at 10 o’clock to receive their instructions for the listing of 1944 taxes, which will begin January L John W. Poole Buried Tuesday Died At His Home At Twin Oaks On Sunday At The Age Of .74 Funeral service for John Wiley Poole, 74, who died at his home in the Twin Oaks community, Sunday morning, following a short illness, was conducted Tues day at 2 o’clock at New Haven church, Rev. John A. Reed and Rev. W. H. Handy, officiating. Interment followed in the church * cemetery. —- Surviving ai# his wife, Mr$. Alice Poole and twelve children: Hurley, Dillon and Willie Lee, of Sparta; Jim and Corbitt, ol (gf Montcalm, West Var, Robert, of ^ Aberdeen, Md.; Pvt. Omar Poole, stationed at Camp House, Texas; Laro, Clyde, Ada, Mrs. R. A. Reed and Mrs. Robert Green, all of Sparta. Also surviving are twenty-three grandchildren and one great grandchild. Pallbearers were: Jomes, Kyle, Ralph and Donald Poole; Ted and Maynard Reed and Floyd and Dodge Sexton. Flower girls were: Mrs. J. M. Andrews, Ethel, Virginia, Lucy Mae, Alice Kathern and Norma (Continued on Page 4). Howard Hoppers Is Hurt By Fall Howard Hoppers, of Sparta, sustained a broken foot, Friday, when the ladder on which he was « standing overturned, throwing him on a cement floor. X-rays showed the bones broken in three places. Mr. Hoppers was employed at the D. and P. Pipe Factory. Permits Given By Ration Board Certificates for rationed items issued this week announced by Mrs. Susie O. Fleetwood, clerk of the ration board are as follows. Cooking stoves: Taft Higgins and Jack Napier; heating staves: W. A. Coomes, F. A. Edwards and Reid Hampton. Rubber, boots: John W. Jarvis and F. B. Caudill. Grade I passenger tires: M. A. Goodman, Bruce Whiteley, Elmer Bedsaul, L. F. Caudill, W. E. Hicks and Reid Hampton. Grade HI passenger tires: Wiley Combs, R. L. Hickerson, Taft Hig gins, J. B. Reed, E. L. Williams, John Grubb, Winfred Choate, Bayse Jarvis, Astor Joines and J. S. Landreth. Car tubes: Winfred Choate, R. • L. Hickerson, Taft Higgins, Bayse Jarvis, N. C. Jones, Elizabeth An drews, Creed Fender, Herbert Os ts borne and Clay Roberts. Truck tires: Clifford Brooks, H. J. Douglas, C. A. Miles and Rex Mitchell ^stubes: H. J. Douglag^ John fete Long Distance Raiders In England Pictured at a U. S. bomber base somewhere in England is one of the American bombing crews which have been shut tling back and forth across Germany. Left to right, Sergt. Thomas E. Therrien, Lieut. Henry F. Welfare, Lieut. Earnest B. Wilson, Lieut. Henry E. Nojdlya, Sergt. Richard Nobgoog, Sergt. Harold Insdorf and an unidentified crew member. 6,547 War Ration Books 4 Issued In County By Schools Those Who Have Not Secured Theirs hlay Still Apply To Board ' It was announced this week that a total of 6,547 of War Ra tion Books 4 had been Issued in Alleghany through the schools. Due to »-scarcity of. new ra tion books, Sparta high school was not able to take care of the public registration Thursday, and f therefore many people did not secure the new Book No. 4. Mrs. Susie O. Fleetwood urged that all those persons who have not secured book No. 4, should bring their No. 3 ration books to the local rationing office and fill out the application for the new book as soon as possible. Ration Book Four is now being used for processed foods and su gar. A complete rationing guide is published elsewhere in the pa per. It is anticipated that tokens may be used in the near future •with Ration Book 4. This will aid in making change and will eliminate worry on the part of the shopper having trouble in making points turn out conveni ently. FSA Supervisors To Meet Friday Miss Martha Plonk, FSA home supervisor of Alleghany, and Miss Lenna Gambill, who holds this position in Ashe county, will attend the meeting in Asheville on Friday when Miss Gertrude Drinker, regional chief of home management, will discuss home nursing and care of the sick. The Asheville meeting is one of the four to be held throughout the state for the 60 FSA home super visors. Coal Strike Is Called Off When Pay Is Boosted Agreement Reached Alter 2 Conference; Govern ment Wage Contracts Washington — United Mine Workers’ President J.qhn L. Lew is, last night called off the strike of 530,000 coal miners, effective immediately, after concluding government wage contracts with Coal Administrator Harold L. I Ickes providing more money for both soft coal and anthracite workers. The agreements, stemming from two days ,of conferences, stipulate: For bituminous miners—a bas ic wage of $8.50 for 8% hours of work including underground travel time. To meet conditions fixed by the War Labor Board in rejecting the original U. M. W. Illinois contract on those terms. Lewis agreed to reduce the min (Continued on Page 4) Accept 7 County Men For Service Of the seventeen men who went to Camp Croft last Tues day for induction into military service, seven were accepted. Inducted into the Army were: Grant M. Harless, Jr'., Donald Rush Kennedy and Thomas Gra ham Pugh. Accepted for the Navy were: Henry Hudson Vanhoy, Amon Kilby Choate, Rudolph Camet Edwards and Lonnie Lee Ed wards Public Is Urged To Post All Christinas Mail Early It was announced this week by the U. S. postal service that Christmas gifts, and mail, should be mailed during the month of November. It was pointed out that there can be. no assurance, in view of the unavoidable handi caps of war, that gifts and cards mailed in the weeks immediately preceeding Christmas will be de livered on time. Such matter must not impede the movement of war materials and personnel and military mail, it was explained. Transportation facilities are heavily burdened. The number of railway cars and airplanes available for handling Christmas mail is far below that of former years. Facilities are not available to transport, and de liver, in the last three weeks be fore Christmas, the 'tremendous quantities of mail that has here tofore been moved in that period. More than 30 thousand postal employees have gone into the armed forces, and have been largely replaced by less experi enced personnbL In the past, more than 200,000 temporary em ployees have been called in to help with the- holiday mails. Great numbers at these are now in the armed forces and war in dustries, else. “The only way, therefore, in which deliveries of Christmas mails can be made on time to by spreading the mailing over a longer period so that available ■Hon equip pereonnel; can more weeks, Ev to mail lifts and month of No Pace Tv*r) Ed M. Anderson Is Praised For NEA, WPB Work Item About His Work Last Month Featured In State Press Paper In the October issue of the North Carolina Press Association bulletin a news item entitled, “Anderson Praised,” was featured on the front page in bold face type. It stated: “Ed M. Anderson, publisher of five Western North Carolina weeklies, was given high praise by Senator Bankhead, sponsor of the Senate Bill for War Bond advertising, and by National Edi torial Association officials for the excellent manner in which he as chairman of the N. E. A. Legisla tive committee prepared and con ducted the “case” for the news papers in the hearing before the Senate on Banking and Currency in Washington during the third week in October. It was a diffi cult assignment, but how well it was carried through by Chairman Anderson and members of his committee, newspaper men who went to Washington from every section of the country, was in dicated by the favorable report given the bill, the "out” vote by the committee being 11 to'5. If it passes the Senate, the House com mittee will be the next ‘battle line’.” At a meeting of the advisory council of the National Editorial Association in Chicago, Mr. An derson was also highly commend ed for his work on die advisory committee of the printing and publishing division of the War Production Board. Mr. Anderson is publisher of this newspaper. Sparta Is Winner Over Piney Creek Proceeds Of 'Game Donated To United War Fund Of County The Sparta All-Stars triumph ed over the Piney Creek girls with a score of 27 to 24, in the play-off game, held Wednesday night at the Sparta gymnasium. Proceeds of the game, which amounted to $16.90, went to the United War Fund. Richardson scored 15 points, Johnson, 10, and Bedwell, 2, for Sparta. Scores for Piney Creek were: Marie Billngs, 11, Weaver, 10 and Ruby Billings, 3. In the boy’s game, Piney Creek lost to Sparta with a score of 18 30. The proceeds, which went to the War Fund, was considered a donation by both the Piney Creek and Sparta schools. McCann To Go To District Meeting Other Teachers Of County Urged By Supt. Fields To Attend B. F. McCann, president of the Alleghany chapter of the NCEA, will attend a preliminary meet ing of the district NCEA confer ence, at the Robert E. Lee hotel in Winston-Salem, Monday night when all state NCEA presidents will be the guests of the associa tion at dinner. Mr. McCann will remain for the meeting to be held on Tues day, November 9. Miss Clyde Fields, county superintendent, and other representatives from Alleghany county will attend the meeting, Tuesday. “We have been advised by the state department of education that any teacher who wishes to teach half the day and go to the meeting in the afternoon, is per mitted to do so without making up that school day”, Miss Fields stated. • j . She also explained that since the state department woiild not allow the schools to count the day as a holiday, the teachers who want to attend the meeting and make up the day later, are not only allowed but are urged to do Retaliating Against Japs On Wake One of several planes of a U. S. carrier task force which rained tons of bombs On Japanese forces at Wake island. This plane is about to dip earthward with a 1,000-pound bomb in dropping position. Allies Move Ahead In Italy; Russians Capture Key Town Jap Fleet Trying To Halt Al lied Invasion Is Driven Off By Navy Meeting with strong resistance, the allied forces continue to make gains in Italy this week. The Russians, too, are still pushing the Germans back and have re taken several key positions; Launching a heavy attack on the core qt the, German defense line across 'Italy, the Fifth Army has captured “important posi tions” on towering Massico Ridge and Matese Mountain in the face of fierce enemy resistance, the Allied command announced yes terday, and a spokesman describ ed the Nazi wall before Rome as “severely shaken.” American troops of Lieut. Gen. Mark W. Clark’s Salerno Army, fighting forward through rugged, rain-soaked Terrain, won a good part of Matese, the lofty peak that dominates the upper Vol turno Valley, while British units (Continued on Page 4) Army Deserters Are Caught Here .Benjamin F. Rector, son of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Rector and Benny McMillan, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie McMillan, were arrested on Monday by Sheriff Jesse Mox ley and Patrolman Richard Griggs for deserting the army. Patrolman Griggs carried them to the Charlotte airport, where they were turned over to military authorities. Rector, who was stationed at Camp Forrest, Tenn., had over stayed his leave -three weeks. This was the second time he had been arrested for desertion. McMillan, who was stationed at Fort Deposit, Va., had also been arrested before on the same charge, according to reports. Moxley Is Chmn. Of Draft Board; Rules Announced Raymond Miles Has Resigned And George Royal Add ed To Board Sheriff Jesse Moxley has been appointed chairman of the Alle ghany county draft board follow ing the resignation of Raymond Miles, who has served as chair man for the past eleven months, it was announced. George Royal, of Roaring Gap, has been added as a member of the board. The Local Board No. 1 now consists of the following: Jess Moxley, Chairman, Carl Douglas, A. C. Edwards and George Royal, members. j This board has adopted the fol lowing rules which they wish to call to the attention of the public: 1st, that they will not discuss any registrant’s classification ex cept at the regular meeting of the board; any other procedure is (Continued on Page 4) County Health Dept. Is Praised Miss Mabel Patton, of the state Board of health in Raleigh, has been working with Miss Ola Col lins, Alleghany county health nurse, this week. Miss Patton highly complimented the local health department for the fine work it has been doing in the county. " , Miss Patton and Miss Collins attended the annual meeting of the North Carolina Public Health association at the Sir Walter Ra leigh hotel, in Raleigh, on Octo 1 her 25 and 26. Plans Are Being Made To Collect Wgste Paper, Fats R. E. Black, chairman of the county salvage committee, an nounced today that plans are be ing made to collect waste paper from the business houses and from individuals in Sparta. He urged that those persons having paper whch they wish to donate to get that paper ready and they will be notified later this "Week by the Boy Scouts where to put it so it can be picked up by a truck. 'Those people outside Sparta in other parts of the county should contact Dr. T. Jt. Burgiss if they have wase paper which they wish to donate. The paper donated sold by the salvage < the proceeds to go to I War Fund, Mr. Black i He alee will be munity, church or organization wiahing to collect paper was urg ed to do so and to use the money secured from the sale of the pa per for any cause they desired. Paper to be collected includes newspapers, magazines, and card board boxes, thg latter to be flattened before being tied in a bundle. All paper should be tied in a bundle about one foot high, Mr. Black stated. The paper secured will be re worked and made into cartons for the shipment of ammunition and food. Mr. Black also announced that plans have been made for the collection of waste fate. e not it is definite that be a receiving station in Plan To Close Drive On Monday November 15th $632.00 Now Raised On Conn* ty’s Quota Of $1,128.00; Co-operation Urged Late reports received yesterday afternoon reveal that Allegha ny is still short $496.00 of the United War Fund quota of $1, 128.00, with Only a little more than a week left in the time or iginally scheduled for the drive. Dr. T. R. Burgiss, chairman, pointed out that all who have not contributed to this worthy cause should do so at once in or der that the quota may be raised before the drive ends, Nov. 15; Plans are being made for a big rally day to be held, Nov. 13. De tails of this are to be announced next week. Reports have only been receiv ed from a few sections of the county and it is felt that when these come in, the total contribu tions will be much nearer the quota. Schools, churches and other groups in the county are (Continued on Page 4) 1st Lt. Cox Wins Three Medals Fox Virginia Man Missing Since Feb. 8 Awarded Three Medals First Lieutenant Robert Aria Cox of the Fox community, miss ing in action since February 8» has been awarded the Air Medal and two Oak Leaf Clusters far meritorious performance of duties. The young bomber pilot’s par ents, Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Cox, were notified by the War Depart ment that the awards would bo sent tt h$hera since Lt Cad it missing. The message said the Air Medal and one Oak Leaf Cluster was being awarded by the command ing general of the Twelfth Air Force and that a second Oak Leaf Cluster was awarded by the com manding general of the Northwest African Air Force. Lt. Cox was stationed in the North African area. An officer of a nearby air craps base will make the presentation to Mr. and Mrs. Cox, the message asserted. Lt. Cox attended V.P.L and entered pilot training Novem ber 5, 1941. N. C. Motorists To Get New Tags North Carolina motorists will have brand new license plates for 1944, rather than the mere tab that was used this year, and dis tribution will start Dec. 1. The new plate will be the same size as that used in 1942, and will carry orange letters and numer als on a black background—ex actly the reverse of the 1942 color scheme. Only one plate will be requir ed, that on the front of the car, it was announced. Rationing Guide (CUfr this and carry along when shopping) PROCESSED FOODS—Book 2 bine, mmm x, ¥, and * valid through Nov. 20; book « green stamps A, B, and C good until Dec. M. NEATS — Brawn stamps G sad H good nntil Doc. A SUGAR — Stamp No. M Book 4 good tor five pounds sugar until Jan. IS. The stamp is marked “sugar.” SHOES—No. U coupon now good for indefinite period. No. 1 “Airplane” stamp in War Ra tion Book No. 3 now valid.
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