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w* BACKTHt ATTACK THiAmCK AND STAB-TIMES— (CONSOLIDATED ON SEPTEMBER 2, 1941) —ALLEGHANY COUNTY’S ONLY NEWSPAPER. $1.80 a Year In Alleghany County SPARTA. NORTH CAROLINA VOLUME 55, NO. 22 $2.00 a Year Out of County THURSDAY, FEB. 17, 1944 Classifications Of Men Announced By Local Board 18 Are Placed In 1-A; List Of Others Announced Follow ing Meeting The local board announced classifications of men for mili tary service this week when 53 men were classified, with 18 men placed in 1-A. The classification list is as fol lows: 1-A: Robert C. Walker, Dean M. Joines, Thomas J. Andrews, Cecil E. Crouse, Burnette J. Wil son, Emitt R. Andrews, Steve Loggins, Thomas H. Hoppers, Robert Vance Blevins, Gilbert Wilson Dancy, Robert Mack Thompson, William Floyd Maines, Oscar Cecil Nicholson, Robert E. Lee Triplett, Gary Wyatt, Robert Maynard Reed, Lebert Petty and Leonard Jackson (col.). I 1-A (H): Paul Franklin An drews. 1- C (Inducted): Millard A. Goodman, Jr., Donald M. Joines and Walter E. Frady. 2- A: Everette J. Houck, John’ >Sherman Pruitt and Munsey Tyre Crouse. 2-A (H): William Clay Thomp son. 2- B (H): Varley B. Rector. 3- C: Liford E. Rector, Martin E. Serber, Victor E. Dowell, Jessie R. Crouse, Willey G. Brown, James W. Church, James K. Mox ley, Wayne Smith and Claude E. Dowell, John David Higgins, Reeves Andy Blevins, Robert Ci cero Bowers, John Harvey Bray, Charlie L. Collins, Carl Henry Anthony, Herbert Fields Ed wards, Roby John Thompkins, Tommie Eugene Larue and Dean Clear Smith. r ’WT: Thomas E. Woodie, Gold en M. ftoyal, Gteek T. Rose dfcf Thomas H. Smith, Ray Willard Wqoten and James Walter Max well (col.). Collins Attends Va. AAA Meeting Regional Meeting Held At Roanoke This Week For Making Plans C. G. Collins, chairman of the Alleghany AAA committee, is attending the regional meeting of the AAA at Roanoke, Va., held Tuesday, Wednesday and today. The purpose of the meeting is for making recommendations for the 1945 program. Mr. Collins was chosen as one of the five AAA county commit teemen from the state of North Carolina to attend the regional meeting. The seven states represented in this East Central Region are: Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky and Tennessee. On me beaches of Italy, In the Jungles of the Pacific—planes, tanks, artillery must move—and fast; no !tt*Wng to build roads or airfields. when our soldiers must un “steel mattresses,” as you in this photo. Your War for them. V. S. Trmnry BtfUrntm Marines Who Led Marshall Invasion These three marines corps officers planned the success ful Marshall invasion. Left to right: Brig. Gen. Graves B. Erskine, Maj. Gen. Harry Schmidt, and Maj. Gen. Holland M. Smith. General Smith commands all marine and army amphibious troops in action. General Schmidt commands the Fourth marine division which established the Roi beach head. General Erskine is deputy commander. Green Islands Are Seized By Allies;. Reds Making Gains ■ . —.. . ... i _ No Permit Period On Hog Slaughter Extended Month Peltrtl Has Been Extended to March 17, Area Super visor Announces North Carolina farmers will ha^e an additional month in which to slaughter hogs without a permit or license and in which they may deliver any quantity of pork to persons not living on the farm, W. J. Velsor, area super visor of the War Food Admins tration’s Office of Distribution, Asheville, disclosed this week. The WFA, he said, has extend ed to March 17 the period of non restriction on farm slaughter of hogs. Regulations requiring a permit or license for farm slaugh ter, in effect since last spring, were lifted November 17 for a 90-day period; which would have expired February 17. Extension of the no-permit (Continued on Page Four) SQUARE DANCE AT LAUREL SPRINGS, FRI. A square dance will be held at the Laurel Springs school house Friday night, February 18, be ginning at 8:30, with music furn ished by Clifton Evans and his band, it was announced. Proceeds from the dance will go to the American Red Cross Drive which begins March 1, Ed Pugh, chairman of the drive in the Laurel Springs community, announced. Everybody is invited to attend the dance. Benedictine Monastery Shel led By Allies in Efforts To Smash Nazis Heavy fighting continued on all fronts of the war this week with much speculation as to when the Nazis would leave Finland. Direct peace negotiaions be tween Finland and Russia ap peared to be underway last night and Col. Gen. Eduard Dietl was reported to have urged Hitler to order evacuation of his troops in Northern Finland. American and New Zealand troops captured the Qreen Is lands Monday, isolating 22,000 Japanese troops in the Solomon Islands and drawing the Allied noose tighter around Rabaul. For strategic military purposes, this completes the campaign for the Solomons, General Douglas MacArthur said in announcing conquest of the islands. Two days before, we took Rooke Island be tween New Guinea and New Bri tain. The Green Islands lie midway (Continued On Page Four) Tax Experts Are Coming Here SoqA E. P. Rhodes and J. Sam Buie, Deputy Commissioners of North Carolina Department of Revenue, will be at the Sparta courthouse on February 24 and 25 for the purpose of filing income and in tangible personal property tax. Mr. Rhodes pointed out that he and Mr. Buie were filing state taxes and that it was not to be confused with the federal tax which many persons in Allegha ny county have already filed. New OPA Ration Tokens To Be Good Feb. 27; Dates Given 1 Alleghany county is to have 35,000 new red and blue ration tokens, 20,000 for processed foods and- 15,000 for meats and fats, when- the new OPA ruling goes into effect on February 27, it was announced this week.* All ration stamps in the pres ent ration books will be made a standard ten points and the new tokens are to be used for change, it was pointed out. All merchants vill be given to kens according to the needs of the individual stores and the tokens will be distributed through the Northwestern Bank, here, Alton Thompson stated. Mr. Thompson also explained that the tokens are scheduled to arrive today and that they will be distributed to the stores and will be ready for; use by February 27. These tokens are slightly small er and thinner than a dime and are madie of a light but durable plastic. Stamped on each token is “OPA 1 Red (or Blue) Point” To begin with, she will get some of these tokens as change from her grocer and butcher—red tokens in change from her new red stamps and blue tokens in change from her 'new blue stamps. Thereafter she can use these tok ens, at 1-point value, oh the same purchases on which' she uses stamps pf similar or equivalent color. To aid the housewife in switch ing over to the revised food ra tioning system, OPA has prepar ed the following calendar: (Continued on Page 4) Honor Roll For Men In Service Will Be Erected Sponsored By The American Legion; Will Be On Court house Lawn Plans are now underway to erect an honor roll board, bear ing the name of every Alleghany man and woman now serving in the armed forces, it was announc ed this week. The campaign to raise funds to erect the board on the courthouse lawn, in Sparta, is under the sponsorship of the American Leg ion Post “98”, with Jess Moxley, commander and S. R. Nichols, adjutant. Complete details' of the con struction of the board are not available at this time but it is understood that it will be made of lumber with a latticed found ation and with “Honor Roll” written across the top. Two small er boards will be constructed on either side, one for the American flag and the other to bear the names of those Alleghany boys who have died in service. The center board will contain an al phabetical list of the names of all those now in service, with spaces left for the addition of those, who will enter the service from time to time. The Legion will sponsor a square dance, Saturday, February 19, from 8 to 12 o’clock at the community building, proceeds of which are to go to the building fund for the honor roll board, Commander Moxley announced this week. He also pointed out that to all those who could not attend the dance that donations to the fund would be accepted at any time. Ellen Brooks, 85, Buried On Friday Funeral service for Mrs. Ellen Brooks, 85, wife of the late Rufus Brooks, who died February 11 at her home in the Chestnut Grove section, was held Sunday, Febru ary 13 at the Chestnut Grovd church with Rev. Quincey Hig gins, Eld. C. B. Kilby and Rev. Gwyn Blackburn, officiating. In terment followed in the Brooks family cemetery. The deceased had made her home for a number of years with her son, Luther Brooks, of Chest nut Grove, who survives. Also surviving is one daughter, Mrs. Mattie Caudill, of Edwards Cross Roads, and two sisters, Misses Cora and Anna Hudson, of Chest nut Grove. Meeting Of Red Cross Tonight W. O. Hooper, drive chairman of the Alleghany county Chapter of the American Red Cross, an nounced that he again wished to remind everyone that a meeting would he held in the community building tonight at 8 o’clock, when the annual drive will be discussed. 'C. C. Lovewell, field director of the Red Cross, will be present at this meeting and will assist in making plans and completing the organization of workers in the county: * • Members of the committee flamed by Mr. Hooper, are ex pected to be present at the meet NEW JANITOR IS NAMED FOR COURTHOUSE HERE George Edwards, formerly of High Point, this week succeeded Glenn Combs as janitor at the Sparta courthouse and keeper of the Sparta jail, Sheriff Jess Mox ley announced. Mr. Edwards and his family are now living in the quarters pro vided for the jail keeper and Mrs. Edwards Will cook for the pris-i oners. Sheriff Moxley also announced that a dean-up-j>rogram is now underway in the courthouse and many much needed changes are expected to be made in the near future. Wallace Plays Dishwasher At Canteen During his many recent speaking engagements in South ern California, Vice President Henry A. Wallace took in Hollywood boulevard and dropped in at the Servicemen’s canteen to help Comedian Bob Hope and Dinah Shore wash dishes. Pipes Being Made Here For Armed Forces; Plant Employs 65 Men; Has New Building To Import Swiss Cattle For New Test Farm Here Operations Are Expected To Start On Newly Purchased Farm Around March 1 _ West Jefferson — (Special) — It was learned here this week from reliable sources that a-herd of Brown Swiss cattle and 30 head of sheep would be import- j ed for experimental purposes on the newly purchased N. C. Test Farm, in Ashe county, where op 1 erations are expected to begin around March 1. In addition to these, 15 Here fords will be imported from the west and experiments in better grade production will be worked out, F. E. Miller, director of State test farms said. A small dairy will also be es tablished and experiments con ducted in this field, according to an announcement. Experiments will also be made in hybrid corn and with other crops. (Continued on Page Four) — PINEY CREEK GIRL MAKES GOOD RECORD Mary Frances, daughter of Mr. | and Mrs. M. F. Parsons, former; teacher of Piney Creek high school, was among the few of the j three hundred fifty 8th graders of the R. J. Reynolds High School, Winston-Salm, who were on the “A Grade” honor roll for the past six-weeks term. This record not only speaks well for her but also shows the effective work done by her former teachers at Piney Creek. The Piney Creek school is just ly proud of the outstanding rec ord its students usually make when they enter other schools ofi high standard. Smoking Pipes Are Made From Native Ivy And Laurel Burls " A special genuine briar pipe called the “Spartan” is now be ing manufactured at the D. and P. Pipe Works, located on the Elkin highway and owned by David P. Lavjetes, of Boone and Sparta. Many of the finished pipes made at the plant which recently assumed operation in the new building With 65 m^n'brr tiie pay roll, are sent overseas to the arm ed forces of our Allied nations. The plant is under contract to furnish these pipes to the navy, army and air forces, most of them going to Great Britain. The 70x80 feet, two and one half story building houses a mod ern factory with up-to-date equip mcit for the manufacture of smoking pipes from ivy and laur el burls. Sparta’s most important industry, pipe making provides employment for Alleghany coun ty’s men as well as a market for its unlimited supply of burls. The building, which has been under construction for the past year, is made of cement blocks and stuccoed with finely ground gravel. The basement is used as a receiving station where the burls are cleaned and trimed ready for cutting; the first floor contains the machinery and equip (Continued on Page 4) Must Get Permit To Burn Brush Dick Gentry, county fire and game warden, announced this week that the North Carolina state law requires that anyone burning anything 500 feet from their house must have a burning permit. These permits, Mr. Gentry ex plained, may be secured either from Sheriff Jess Moxley or from B. F. Wagoner. Severe Winter Weather Is Felt In County This Week Alleghany county, like much of the rest of the nation, experienced a siege of cold weather during the past few days, but King Winter also contrived to give this section a triple dose in extreme wind, snow and low temperature. Following one of the most se vere wind storms of the season, Saturday, the temperature drop ped to zero on Sunday morning. The official reading at Sparta was one degree above zero; but several thermometers registered zero and below, in other sections of the county. This was the low est for the season. Following a breathing spell, on Sunday, a six-inch snow fell ear ly Monday morning and contin ued for some time until sleet and rain fell, leaving a heavy coat of ice-covered snow. This was the heaviest snow of the season. Some of the county schools did not attempt to open on Monday, as few of the school buses ran. Those that did open, turned out early in order feat children might reach their homes in safety. While there is still much ice and snow on the ground, most of the main highways have been cleared, officials report. Piney Creek school was closed on Monday and Tuesday but re sumed work on Wednesday. The Sparta school turned out early Monday but held classes on Tues day. As far as it was learned most of the small schools reopened on Wednesday. Sales Reached $111,391.75 On Tuesday Evening County Among The Few Far Over Quota In “E” Bond Sales Alleghany county surpassed its Fourth War Loan quota of $77, 000.00 by more than $34,000.00 as the drive officially came to a close on Tuesday evening, when total sales for the county reach ed $111,391.75. Leaders pointed out that Alle ghany is one of the few counties in the state to surpass its “E” bond quota. Figures reveal that the county has gone over the top inthis quota of $60,660.00 by $20, 958.00. Reports from sources of sales in the county show the North western Bank far in the lead with $72,983.75. The Sparta post of fice reports $27,606.25 and the Roaring Gap post office, where Mrs. Carrie Inskeep is in charge* reports $487.50. The State High way Department made a pur chase amounting to $6,500.00. The Sparta post office pointed out that' 207 series “E” bonds were issued from there during the last -two days of the drive. The Northwestern Bank was completely out of $100.00 bonds Tuesday and the post office re ported a scarcity of certain oth er denominations. Total sales at the rally, held at Piney Creek last Thursday night, amounted to over $18,000.00, it was reported. Sales at the Spar ta rally amounted to $10,000.00. At the special sales conducted at these rallies, bonds were bought in honor of some boy now serving in the armed forces who had (Continued on Page Four) Add 2 'Members To Price Panel J. K. Wagoner And R. L. Al lison Appointed To Serve; Board To Meet Friday Two new members, J. K. Wag oner and Robert L. Allison, have been added to the Alleghany Price Panel Board, Mrs. Robert Fleetwood, Price Clerk of the board, announced today. The board formerly consisted of only three members, Rev. R. L. Berry, chairman; Alton Thompson and Mrs. Mexa Phipps. Mrs. Fleetwood pointed out that the new board would hold regu lar meetings every two weeks to discuss prices and handle any complaints that might come be fore them. She explained that anyone having any complaints for the Price Panel Board should either present them to her at the ration board office or bring them before the Price Panel Board at its regular meetings. A meeting of every merchant or business man who has filed a list of ceiling prices with the Price Panel Board, will be held Friday night at 7:30 in the OPA office, Mrs. Fleetwood announc ed. She urged that a special ef fort be made to attend this meet ing. Rationing Guide Meats And Fats Book Three Brown Stamps V, W.andX are valid through Feb. 26. Y becomes valid Feb. is and Will remain valid through March , 20. Z will be valid Feb. 20 through March Processed Foods Book Foot Green Stamps G, H, and i valid through Feb. 20, K, L, and jM, are valid through March fcO. Sugar Book Four Stamp 30 good for five pounds through March 31. Stamp 40 is good for five pounds of canning sugar until February, IMS. n^««nii» 9-A coupons good for throe gallons through May S. Plain “B” and “B-l” and “C” and “C-l” coupons good for two gallons; “B-2” and “C-2” cou pons are worth five gallons. ,fg| *
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