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AND STAR-TIMES—(CONSOLIDATED ON SEPTEMBER 2, 1941) —ALLEGHANY COUNTY’S ONLY NEWSPAPER. - - ... < NEWS-STAR-TIMEIs *' is dedicated to covering the News and to the promotion of progress for all of the people in Sparta and Alle ghany county. THURSDAY, DEC. 23, 1943 VOLUME 55, NO. 14 $1.50 a Year in Alleghany County SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA $2.00 a Year Out of County Sparta Plant Is Helping Santa Claus This Year Wooden Wagons Made By Clennel Richardson Are Widely Distributed The Sparta Manufacturing Company, under the ownership and management of Clennel Rich ardson, prominent Sparta con tractor, is supplying Santa Claus with plenty of wagons this year. With metal toys almost unheard of articles on the market, Santa was beginning to wonder what he would have to offer boys and girls in their places but the prob lem seems to have been easily solved by Mr. Richardson and his wooden wagons. During the past two weeks, Mr. Richardson has sent out over 2000 wagons to be shipped by rail to the far corners of the country. California, New York, Michigan, Illinois, Georgia and TOorth and South Carolina are ■among the states that will dis play the wooden toys from Spar ta this Christmas season. The manufacturing plant, lo cated in the old D. and P. pipe factory, was started in the late summer and has been in opera tion since, employing seven workmen. A new building to house the plant is now under con struction east of Sparta on the Elkin highway. The new build ing is expected to be completed i soon, Mr. Richardson stated. The wagons, made in three] sizes, large, medium and small, are made entirely of wood except (Continued on Page 4) Mrs. Maines, 64, Buried Friday Died Suddenly At Age Of 64, Last Wednesday, Dec. 15 At Her Home Funeral service was conducted Friday at, Shiloh Methodist church for Matilda Jane Maines, 64, who was found dead in her bed Wednesday, December 15. iShe was the wife of Elmore Maines, of Sparta. Service was conducted by Rev. W. H. Handy and Rev. Mr. Caldwell. Inter ment followed in the church cemetery. Surviving are the husband, four daughters: Mrs. Bessie Mont gomery, of Bay wood, Va.; Mrs. W. S. Moxley, Sparta; Mrs. Wil lard Reeves, ■ Independence and Mrs. Edith Hamm, Whitehead; and four sons: Sam Maines, of Whitehead; Talmadge, Owen and Arno Maines, all of Sparta. Two Are Fined By G. G. Nichols At a hearing Sunday morning before Justice Glenn Nichols, Carl Testerman and Emory Haga, of Fox, Va., were fined $78.00 to nover damages and costs, after being,arrested Satrday night by Deputy sheriff Glenn Richardson at the Parkway Cafe on the charge of disturbing public peace. According to a repart by Depu ty Richardson, the two men en tered the cafe and raised a dis turbance. Upon being ordered out of the building by John Reeves Watson, manager, they refused to go and as a result started a free-for-all fight in the cafe, in which property was des troyed. ' ! Testerman and Haga were also placed on probation for a year. SCHOOLS OBSERVING A WEEK’S HOLIDAY Alleghany county schools are observing, a week’s holiday this week (or Christmas, but will Apen next Wednesday, Dec. 29, Supt Clyde Fields, Sincere Christinas Greetings To Everyone, Everywhere! XWAJL BOKlD Russians Are Making Important Gains; 20 Jap Planes Bagged Heavy Fighting In ; Italy; Slavs Open Up Offensive Against Nazis The approach of Christmas sees fighting intensified on all fronts and the Allies gaining, -which isjan indication that peace and victory is not, as far distant as it was. Russia’s Baltic army, storming down from Nevel toward the Vi tebsk-Propoisk rail line, has cap tured more than 100 populated places, killed 1,600 Germans and reached to within 20 miles of the German defense bastion of Vitebsk — Now menaced from two sides—Moscow announced, yesterday. At the same time the Russians announced the liquidation of a (Continued on Page 4) Dairymen Are To File Forms C. G. Collins, chairman of the Alleghany AAA committee, an nounced this week that any milk producer who had not filed an application for the October pay ment in connection with the sub sidy payments on milk and cream made by die government, could include the October sales in the application for the November and December sales. , ‘ • He also announced that the No vember find December payments would be made together and that no payments would be made until January 18. New Gas Tickets Available Soon, OPA Announces New Type Tickets Aimed To Helping Stop Present Gas Black Market Mrs. Susie Fleetwood, clerk to the local OPA board, stated that the first quarter gasoline rations for 1944 will be available after Dec. 27. Coupons have been revis ed and are now in what is known as Theatre ticket rolls. Each coupon bears a serial num ber. Identification folders will be issued with the coupons show ing the highest and lowest serial numbers contained therein. “This should be an important step in stamping out black mar ket operations on TT gasoline coupons. If every service station will check these new coupons against the identification folder and serial numbers, there should be no leaks on illegal use of these coupons,” Mrs. Fleetwood said. NO APPLICATIONS FOR MARRIAGE LICENSE HERE Mr. L. E. Edwards, Alleghany county registrar of deeds reports that to date not one marriage li cense has been issued from that office during the month of De cember. That means no Christ mas weddings; strange, to say the least. Making Record In Army Andrews, left, son *»f Xn. Lee A. An has recently completed t> specialists’ course igines at the Flint section of the Ordnnnw ichigan. T-5 Andrews was specially'selected ■se. Cpl. Arthur Dean Taylor, right, son ip Shelby, 15 Men Placed In 1-A By Local Board This Week Classifications Of 61 Are An nounced; Several In 3-A And 4-F The local board announced classifications of men for mili tary service this week, when 61 men were classified, 15 in 1-A and 32 in 3-A, with only one man in 4-F. In 1-A: Carl L. Lowe, Jess An drew pfaylor, Clay Franklin Crouse, Arnold Reed Norman, Andrew Benjamin Taylor, Paul William Crouse, Jess Long Cox, Delbert Edgar Walker, Odell Tal madge Brown, Dewey George Edwards, Homer Ezel Jones, Jesse Mack Osborne, Thomas Boyden Smith, Lee Carl Choate (col.) and Winfred Decatur Choate (col.) 2-A: Johnnie Ralph Parker, Paul Emory Crouse, Gerald Mos tyn Rector, Clifford Wilson Johnson, Robert Royal Allen, Ir win William Roberts, Joseph Os car Ray, John Robert Andrews (Continued on Page 4) Turkeys Bring High Prices On Christmas Mart Alleghany county farmers, who raised turkeys for the market this year, were well rewarded, as these prize fowls brought an unusually high price here this past week and averaged 35 cents per pound. While the Christmas market was much lighter than usual, since most of the crop raised in this section was sold Thanksgiv ing, and a much smaller number than usual held over for Christ mas, those sold here the past week brought 35 cents per pound. It is estimated that around 1,800 turkeys were sold weighing an average of around 12 pounds. Unofficial estimates from dealers placed the income to growers at around $7,560.00. Record Prices On Boone .Mart Sales at Mountain Burley ware* houses, in Boone, were closed yesterday for the holidays and will re-open again, Monday, Jan. 3, officials announced. The warehouses, however, will be open to receive tobacco, during thfc holiday, season, -beginning next Tuesday, and those desiting,' may bring them In, in order to have it there when the sales re open, fan. 3, .officials point out. So tar, the Boom market has A Quiet Christmas Is Expected Here; Record Business 78th Congress Adjourns; Will Meet On Jan. 10 Several Major Issues Are To Be Decided' After The 20 Day Recess Washington — The 78th Con gress headed homeward yester day to learn, during the next1 twenty days, what the voters think of a nine-months first-ses sion record of all-out co-opera tion with the war effort and sporadic but successful onslaughts against the Administration’s ■ home front program. Routine proceedings in the Sen ate and the House closed the books on a session that marked loss of Administration legislative control for the first time since Franklin D. Roosevelt became President in 1932. Returning on January 10 for an election-year session that threat ens to be sparked by Partisan battles, the law-makers will face a heavy docket of highly con troversial legislation sidetracked in the last minute rush. (Continued on Page 41 STOLEN PROPERTY IS RECOVERED HERE Property beidnging to the pub lic schools of Alleghany county was stolen last week from Duke’s Garage, when thieves took four gallons and one quart of prestone, one hew tire, one headlight and a prestone tester. • Sheriff Jesse Moxley and Dep uty Glenn Richardson report that all the goods have been recovered but that no arrests have been made. Santa Paying An Advance Visit Here Today And Again Friday Christmas is expected to be Quietly Observed in Alleghany, Saturday, with the cessation i4 business, and according to ad vance reports, will be a gener ous one, judging from the amouftt of gifts purchased. The shortage of gas and tires and other war conditions will keep most people at home, where they will enjoy an old-fashioned quiet Christmas. Merchants are all reporting an unusually good business and will be closed all day Saturday and on Monday following Christmas. Santa will be in Sparta Thurs day and Friday to listen to the wishes of the children and tc give them candy and nuts. Ali children are cordially invited tc see him. The post office here will be closed on Saturday and there will be no RFD delivery of mail or that day, Postmaster S. R. Nich ols said. The Northwestern “bank will be closed Saturday and. Monday in observance of the holiday, of (Continued on Page 4) Needy Are To Be Remembered While there are fewer needy families in this county than there have been in several years, ac cording to reports, the less for tunate families are to be remem bered at Christmas. Individual and church groups will distribute clothing and many baskets of food will be carried out to these families on Christ mas morning. Public Asked To Help Make * Christmas Safe This Year “A safe Christmas on the home front ahould be the inter est of every citizen as the season of increased travel and addition al winter highway hazards ap proaches”, declared Ronald Ho cutt, Director of the North Car olina Highway Safety Division, today. , “As the Chyistmas season ap proaches, when North Carolin ians strive to keep alive the trad ition! our sons are fighting to preserve—we must all feel a deep concern la keeping ourselves and others alive for this Christinas, and other Christmases in a better world", Mr. Hocutt continued. "Gold Stars in many homes at test the sacrifice of life that has already been made op the battle fronts to preserve our Nation— But there are no Gold Start for the more than 700 tr<.iiu. deaths on our highways this The pity of this death ton on our highways is its uselessness. Traf fic accidents are preventable and serve no purpose—but defeat” : “The call of our country on the home front is to conserve and produce. Every hour last from injury or death in accident is lost in production. Every vehicle da-' maged or demolished is lost to conservation and transportation.’* "The December fatality rate on our highways is high and. unless it is- stopped, what Yuletide hap piness can emerge from a back ground of war, will yet be shad owed in many homes by high way casualties on the home front,” V, (Continued On Pane , ’“North Carolina mukt 11 Tax Listing In County To Start Tuesday, Jan. 4 Public Asked To Co-operai* ■With Listers; Times And Dates Announced Tax listing for 1944 in this county will get underway Janu ary 4 in the various townships and will continue at designated times through January 22. Property owners and tax pay ers in each township are requir ed to return to the tax listers for taxation all their real estate and personal property, which each one owns or is required to give in. All male persons between the ages of 21 and 50 are required to list their polls during the same time. Return of property and giving in of polls are required, under the penalties imposed by law. Notice of the places and times of tax listing appear on page three of this issue. Merit Exams To Be Given Jan. 29 Applications Can be Secured From Welfare Department, It Is Announced Miss Edith Guffy, field social work representative, of Winston Salem, visited the Alleghany wel fare department, Tuesday, when she announced that merit exam inations for machine operators, general clerical workers and stenographic clerical workers to fill vacancies as they occur with the local health units, state board of health, state commission for the blind, unemployment com pensation commission, state board of charities, public welfare and county welfare departments, will be held January 29. Applications for the examin ations must be filed on the ajfl fQrm, which may not later than midnight, Ja 18, it was explained. It was also pointed out that workers to fill these positions are badly needed and all persons interested are urged to take the examination. Laurel Springs H. D. Club Mel The Laurel Springs home dem onstration club enjoyed a delight ful Christmas party at the Laur el Springs school house, Tuesday afternoon, when the students en tertained the club with a pro gram of Christmas carols and other features. Little Rebecca Moxley sang “White Christmas." The auditorium was beautiful ly decorated with a brightly trimmed Christmas tree and hol ly. After the program, the club members held an informal meet ing and exchanged gifts. Miss Frances Capel, home agent, was presented a luncheon cloth by members of the club. At the close of the mo^-ng, Mrs. Ruth Choate and Miss Ha zel Lee Taylor, members of the Laurel Springs faculty, served refreshments to members of the club. Miss Doris Richardson, student at Radford $TC is spending the holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clennel Richardson.
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