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Test Farm To Be Established In Ashe County
Transou Farm
Is Purchased By
State On Tuesday
Will Establish Mountain Test
Experimental Farm At
Laurel Springs
West Jefferson — (Special) —
The department of Agriculture
of North Carolina, Tuesday com
pleted plans for the establishment
of a mountain test farm in Ashe
county when the purchase of the
M. Transou farm was made.
, I This farm which contains 42S
/acres was purchased for $24,000.
according to information releas
ed by officials. It is located on
the Laurel Springs Sparta high
way, not far from the Ashe-Al
leghany county line.
It is understood that the farm
will be converted to a beef and
dairy cattle and sheep test farm
operated by the state department
of agriculture and State College.
Details of plans to be carried out
will be announced later.
Some time ago the location of
such a farm in Ashe county was
under consideration and recently
interest in the plan was revived
Surveys have been made in the
county during the past few week,
which resulted in the final de
cision.
Ashe county officials, farm
leaders and others working in
the interest of such a farm are
gratified over the realization ol
their plans.
Bond Bailies In
Schools Planned
Laurel Springs And Sparta
Schools To Conduct Spec
ial Bond Sales
The second in. a series of War
Bond rallies for the Fourth War
Loan Drive will be conducted
Tuesday night at 8 o’clock at the
Laurel Springs school, when May
or R. F. Crouse, prominent Spar
ta lawyer and veteran of World
* War I, will speak, it was an
nounced today.
S. R. Nichols, chairman of the
Fourth War Loan Drive for Alle
ghany county and W. C. Irwin,
chairman of the RFD carriers in
the county are expected to make
short talks.
Ed Pugh, chairman of the drive
in the Laurel Springs township,
will conduct the sale of bonds, it
was also announced.
String music will be furnished
and everybody is urged to attend
■ and buy a bond. The children
Hbrill be able to buy stamps at the
rally and those who have stamp
books started are especially urg
ed to finish those books and buy
their bond at the rally.
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To tho People
of thl* Community
YOV ARE IMPORTANT
There is no such thins as a
"little” investment in the Fourth
War Loan.
WAR LOAN
Your $25 or *50 or $100 Extra
War Bond may not have great
importance
in your mind
in making up
a 5ti billion
dollar total
for individu
als.
But multi
ply yourself
by 130,000,000
and then you
see in real perspective how truly
great each citizen becomes in
massing national strength
against the Nazis and the Japs.
Capt. Maurice Witherspoon,
Navy chaplain aboard the Car
rier Waap when she sank, tells
of a rescued wounded sailor,
who, as be regained conscioua
- "Did 1 do my
afs the only question you,
to ask yourself when
extent of your
ition in the
County’s Red Cross
Quota Is S3,400.00;
Drive Opens March 1
W. O. Hooper Will Again
Serve As The Chairman;
More Funds Needed
Citizens of Sparta and Alle
ghany county will be asked to
give $3,400.00 toward the Ameri
can Red Cross national goal for
1944, when the annual drive
opens on March 1, it was reveal
ed at a meeting here Thursday
afternoon.
At this time, C. C. Lovewell,
field director of the National Red
Cross, was present and outlined
some plans for the drive, as well
as discussing the expansion of the
work of this organization since
last year.
Alleghany county’s quota for
the drive last year was $1,900.00
and this was slightly surpassed.
W. O. Hooper will again serve as
drive chairman and he will have
a central committee to assist him,
as well as committees and work
ers to cover the entire county.
These will be announced later.
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Hears Details
Of Son’s Death
Mrs. Rose Blevins Receives
Letter Front Chaplain, Re
garding Son’s Death
Mrs. Rose Blevins, of Sparta,
mother of Tec. 5 Walter W. Blev
ins, of the U. S. Army, who died
in New Caledonia, November 22,
received word that her son died
as a result of drowning.
Mrs. Blevins recently received
the following letter from Capt.
Vernelle W. Dyer, Chaplain of
the 8th General Hospital:
“Since I am the chaplain of the
hospital where your son was a
good patient, it fell upon me to
conduct his funeral. You will be
glad to know that he was buried
With military honors. Since you
and your boy were Baptists, it
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May Get Ration
Book 3 Here Now
The OPA has announced that
authority for issuance of War
Ration Book number Three has
been completely transferred to
local boards, and that issuance of
Book Three from the Charlotte
Control Center has been discon
tinued.
Applications for Book Three are
still being received in the Con
trol Center and must naturally
be rerouted to local boards for
processing. Authorities request
that these applications be mailed
direct to the local boards and
thus avoid all the unnecessary de
lay and expense of transferring
the applications.
KILLED IN ACTION
Sgt. Warren Stone, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Stone,
formerly of Alleghany coun
ty, was killed in action in It
aly, December 5, 1943. Sgt.
I Stone, 22, who had been over
seas for the past two years,
had been awarded the Purple
Heart for bravery in action.
Sgt. Osborne Is
Killed In Action
In Pacific Area
Decorated For Bravery; Was
Reported Missing For
Some Time
Columbus F. Osborne, of Spar
ta, recently received a message
from the War Department that
an official finding of death had
been made in the case of his son,
Sergeant Bruce W .Osborne, who
was reported missing in action,
September 24, 1942.
Sgt. Osborne had been awarded
a i r medals for meritorious
achievement on Sept. 7, and 9,
1942, in air operations over the
Solomon Islands area. On Sep
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ALLEGHANY GIRL MAKES
HONOR ROLL AT U. N. C.
Edith Woodruff Hash, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Hash, of
Piney Creek, is among an unus
ually high percentage of students
who made the honor roll at the
University of North Carolina
during the quarter just ended, it
was announced this week by Ad
ministrative Dean, R. B. House.
To rate the honor roll, a stu
dent must make an average grade
of B (90-95) on all courses.
Miss Hash is a graduate of Pin
ey Creek high school and attend
ed ASTC at Boone, before enter
ing Carolina.
Former Alleghany Woman
To Christen A Destroyer
A destroyer escort noW being
fitted for service at the Mare
Island Navy Yard in California,
will be named for a navy pilot,
the late Ensign Delbert W. Hal
sey, who died in the battle of
Midway, and the pilot’s mother,
Mrs. Earl V. Halsey, of Rt. 1
Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, who will
be remembered as Miss Anna
Mitchell, formerly of Alleghany
county, will christen the ship
when it is ready to be launched.
Mrs. Halsey is the daughter of
the late William Mitchell, of
Alleghany, and the sister of Eu
gene Mitchell, of Stratford.
Ensign Halsey, pilot of a dive
bomber on the Enterprise, won
the purple heart, the air medal
and the navy cross for his cour
ageous exploits against the ene
my In the Pacific. He took part
in the attack of the Marshall and,
Gilbert Islands, participated in a
task force attack on Wake Island
and Marcus Island and in the
battle of Midway, where he was
killed.
A correspondent described the
American attack on Jap-held
Wake Island, which said in part:
“While the three fighters were
malting short work of the bomb
er, a young ensign from Idaho,
in a dive bomber, was showing
himself to be a terror of the bat
tle-filled sky over Wake.
“He made repeated runs on his
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R; L. Doughton
Again Candidate,
Makes Statement
Chairman Of Ways And
Means Committee, To Run
For Congress
Washington — Representative
Robert L. Doughton, of Lhurel
Springs, who intended to retire
from Congress three years ago,
found pressure on him to run
again so strong that he announc
ed Saturday his intention to seek
another term in the House.
In announcing that he would
be a candidate for re-election, as
far as he knows or could see at
the present time, Mr. Doughton
issued the following statement:
*‘I have undergone many con
flicting emotions recently with
respect to whether or not I should
become a candidate for re-elec
tion to Congress. If there had
been no consideration other than
my private interests and personal
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Spoke To Press
At Richmond, Va.
Ed M. Anderson, who is the
publisher of this paper, was the
luncheon speaker at the annual
institute of the Virginia Press
Association, in Richmond, Satur
day.
Editor Anderson spoke on post
war planning in relation to news
papers. ,
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WELFARE HEAD
Swanson Edwards, who be
gan his duties this week as
superintendent of public wel
fare of Alleghany county.
Farm Building
Now Permitted
Regulations Are Explained;
Applications Are Made To
AAA Committee
A revision of Conservation Or
der L-41 now permits farm build
ings including dwellings, to be
constructed on a farm to the ex
tent of $1,000 per calendar year
without filing application for
permit, provided all ’materials to
be used in the construction are
on hand or may be obtained with
out making application for prio
rities assistance, and no utility
connections are required which
would necessitate filing an ap
plication for such connections
with the WPB, it was announced
this week.
After the $1,000 has been ex
pended, however, application for
a permit must be made, regard
less of the type of cost of the
building. Farm dwellings which
have been destroyed by fire
since July 1, 1043, may be re
built or restored without filing
application, provided all materi
als can be secured without pri
orities assistance, and the total
estimated cost of such reconstruc
tion is not in exceas of .$9,000.
All applications for approval of
construction now should be made
to th* County AAA Committee.
American Marines
Land In Marshall
Islands; Reds Gain
TO RUN AGAIN
Congressman R. L. Dough
ton, who has announced that
he will again offer his services
by being a candidate for con
gress from the ninth district.
Quota Is More
Than Doubled In
JPolio F|ind Drive
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Schools Make Contributions;
Mrs. Thompson Is Highly
Praised
Alleghany county’s Infantile
Paralysis Drive quota of $96.00
has been reached and more than'
doubled, according to reports re
ceived yesterday, with a few
more donations yet to be report
ed.
A total of $229.00 was raised
during the drive with $31 deduct
ed for expenses, leaving $198.00
to be put in the fund, Mrs. C.
Thompson, chairman, announced.
The square dance in honor of
the President’s birthday, held at
the community building on Sat
rday night, amounted to the larg
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Mrs. Edwards
Buried Friday
Funeral service for Mrs. Nancy
Edwards, of Vox, wife of the late
Hasten Edwards, who died Jan
uary 26, was conducted Friday at
Pleasant Home Union Baptist
Church with Elder Walter Evans
officiating. Burial followed in
the church cemetery.
Surviving are three daughters:
Mrs. Letcher Cox and Mrs. Glenn
Truitt, of Baywood and Mrs. Hort
Spurlin, of Ennice; and three
sons, Luther Edwards, of Bay
wood; Kelly Edwards, of Hook
er and Arthur Edwards, of En
nice.
New Advances Are Chalked
Up In Allies’ Drive On
Rome
American amphibious forces
have invaded the very heart of
Japan’s fiercely-defended mid
Pacific Marshall islands, this
week.
Marines and .soldiers landed on
Kwajalein atoll, establishing
beachheads near the powerful
Japanese bases on Roi and Kwa
jalein islets.
The invasion units struck Tues
day, two years to the day after
the first American offensive ac
tion in the Pacific—a hit and run
raid on the same islands.
President Roosevelt said that
American operations in the Mar
shall islands apparently were go
ing well and that they were aim
ed at an objective of utter defeat
for the Jepanese and a drive on
Tokyo itself.
Moving westward and, in col
laboration with our allies east
ward from Burma and Malaya,
Mr. Roosevelt said, the American
objectives are complete defeat of
the enemv.
The Red army has captured the
frontier railway station of King
isepp (Yamburg) and has driven
to the Estonian border in steady
advances along' a 50-mile fftht
from the Baltic to Lake Samro,
Moscow announced yesterday.
More than 2,000 Germans were
killed and quantities of war ma
terial—still being counted—were
scooped up in the westward drive
by Gen. Leonid A. Govorov’s
Leningrad front troops, said the
midnight Moscow bulletin record
ed by the Soviet monitor from a
broadcast. Fifty communities
were captured during the day.
Reinforced American and Bri
tish troops, striking out in their
first major offensive since the
landing on the Anzio beaches 10
days ago, have fought into the
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Blood Donors
Are Asked For
It was announced this week that
all those persons in Alleghany
county wishing to donate blood
to the blood bank of the Ameri
can Red Cross, to be used for our
fighting men on all war fronts,
should get in touch with either
Dr. T. R. Burgiss or Miss Emory
etta Reeves as soon as possible.
Dr. Burgiss, chairman of the
Alleghany chapter of the Red
Cross, explained that conveyance
would be furnished those inter
ested persons to Winston-Salem,
where the blood will be donated.
Dr. Carl Reynolds, head of the
State Health Department, is spon
soring a state-wide campaign' for
blood donations to the American
Red Cross.
Shortage Of Tires Growing
More Acute, OPA Announces
Washington — OP A Rationing
Chief Colonel Bryan Houston,
announcing stringent new eligi
bility requirement for issuance of
new passenger car tires, said this
week that the supply available
for February will be short of eli
gible demand by at least 250,000
tires.
The February quota of new
tires, most of them synthetic, is
750,000 units, while the demand
from motorists on OPA's list of
essential drivers is expected to
be for about 1,000,000, Colonel
Houston said at a press confer
ence.
“This means,” he stated, “that
local boards must decide which
driver* should have priority and
the others will have to go with
out.”
Eligibility hereafter, he stated,
will be determined on the basis
of the purpose for which a mo
torist uses his car, rather than the
distance he drives it
Under this system, virtually no
holders of “A” card gasoline ra
tions will be able ^o obtain new
tires, the rationing chief said,
and the only “B” card holders eli
gible will be those whose driving
is rated high on the essentiality
list
The shift Is necessary, it was
stated, because of serious deple
tion of the supply of used passen
ger car tires available for low
$16,479.00 Yet To
Be Sold Before
Quota Is Raised
Connty's Progress Slightly
Above Average. Want To
Reach Quota By Feb. 15
Sources of sales revealed late
yesterday afternoon that war
bond sales in the Fourth War
Loan Drive had reached $60,521.
00, with $16,479.00 yet to be sold
before the quota of $77,000.00 is
reached.
Bond sales on Saturday and
Monday were doubled and neared
the triple mark, following the
news release about the savage
treatment accorded American and
Filipino prisoners of war by the
Japanese, after the fall of Ba
taan and Corregidor.
S. R. Nichols, chairman of the
drive, urged that everyone make
a special effort to buy extra bonds
now, in order that the goal may
be reached before the drive ends
on February 15.
Reports from sources of sales
reveal that the Northwestern
Bank is in the lead with $47,346.
00. The Sparta post office re
ports $6,675.00. The county re
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Many Bonds Sold
At Special Rally
$5,000.00 Worth Bonds Sold
At Little Pine FrL Night;
B. F. Crouse Speaks
Atihe- «hrt spOeiifl War -
rally launched in Alleghany coun
ty to aid in completion of the
county’s quota of $77,000 in the
Fourth War Loan Campaign, $5,
000.00 worth of bonds were sold
at Little Pine school, Friday ev
ening, I. W.. Wagoner, township
chairman, announced.
Mrs. Cecil Gibson, who pur
chased $3,250.00 worth, was
awarded the prize for the person
buying the most bonds. Mrs.
Gibson bought two $1,000, two
$500, two $50 and two $25 bonds.
R. F. Crouse, who delivered a
stirring address at the rally re
viewed for those present the
struggle between the forces of
barbarism and the forces of civil
ization from ancient to modern
times, pointing out that Germany
and Japan now represented those
barbaric forces, and that in order
to crush them we must buy war
bonds.
“Bonds are a good investment,
a fine thing for a community, an
investment that will be an asset
to a community after the war”,
Mr. Crouse pointed out
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Rationing Guide
Meats, Fats, Etc.
Book three brown stamps V
and W valid through Feb. M.
Processed Foods
Book four green stamps G,
H and J good through Feb. M;
K, L, and if valid Feb. 1
through March 20.