■ .. !V£ RED CROSS WAR FUND AND STAR-TIMES— (CONSOLIDATED ON SEPTEMBER 2. 1941) —ALLEGHANY COUNTY’S ONLY NEWSPAPER. VOLUME 55, NO. 26 $W)6 a Year in Alleghany County i. ’.iti. . ... i ........ , , . .. SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA $2.00 a Year Out of County THURSDAY, MAR. 16, 1944 Dr. Robert King Will Return To Central Africa Quits Health Department Af ter Nearly Five Year? Of Service Dr. Robert R. King, district health officer for Alleghany, Ashe and Watauga counties announced yesterday that he would leave March “12 for New York and would sail from there to Africa, via' Lisbon. He plans to take up his worki again as a medical missionary under the Southern Presbyter ian Mission Board in the Belg ian Congo. He served in this area for a number of years, but returned to this country several years ago 'because of the ill health of his late wife. Dr. King has served efficiently as health officer of three counties ‘ since the departments were '‘-stated in Alleghany, Ashe and ' watauga in 1938. He has made his home at Boone since 1935. As far as it could be learned yesterday, no one has been appointed to succeed him as health officer. OPA Making Check On Grocery Stores County-wide Survey Is Being Muje Of Food Stores For Prices A drive to mobilize price con trol forces among retailers and consumers in Alleghany is now being ttg^|^jm££r_the^ direc tion of J Of the pr to conduct a survey of i store in with the main objection^ -ifoig retailers to understand necessary price con trol requirements. In the survey, 10 popular mar ket-basket food items will be checked for selling and ceiling prices. A second check, about two weeks later, will be made of all food stores where price viola tions were discovered on the first check. Later, storekeepers who were fount^’out of line” during the second survey will be asked to meet with the price panel of the local board and deliberate viola tions wijl be referred to the OPA district office for enforcement ac tion. ' Meanwhile, a training period of price panel assistants and board represented ve% is underway at ty cal board headquarters, where preparations are being made for w .the drive. Price officials Aid that one of the pfimary jobs of th» ’ local *.1}oard noy is to show retailers that . complete compliance with price regulations will result in firm control , of living costs in this area. He also emphasized that the drive also will serve to pro tect storekeepers and their cus tomers from black market com petition' At the same time it will enable the board to bring deliberate vio lators to the attention of OPA enforcement officials as a pro tection for the great majority of honest merchants who are abiding by the price control regulations. W. M. S. TO MEET SAT. Circle I of the Women’s Mis sionary Society of the Baptist church will meet Saturday ater noon at 2 o’clock ht the home of Mrs. Amos Wagoner. ANNOUNCE TIME FOE ISSUING RATION BOOKS * Mrs. Robert Fleetwood, clerk of the Alleghany ration board, an nounced this wdek that ration books will be issued only between the hours of A to 3 o’clock. This ruling, die explained, was made in co-operation kith the . ..Northwestern Bank, smere the books are kept overnight The bank closes at 3 o’clock in the af ternoon and the books must be there at that hour. The ration board office will be opk» at the regular hours, she pointed out 10,000 Nazis Are Killed In Trap; 31 ‘ Jap Planes Doomed WINS MEDAL Lt. Dally P. Gambill, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cleve Gambill, of near Sparta, has been dec orated with the Soldier’s Med al for heroism at New Britain during the period from Sep tember 25 to October 6, 1943, the War Department recently announced- Lt. Gambill, who is with the infantry in the Pacific area, took part in the attack on Buna and was wounded in action, there. Kepubliea late Mt Charlo Six delegates and six alternates were elected Saturday night at the Republican convention held at the Sparta courthouse. . They attended the district convention of the Republican party in Tay lorsville, yesterday, and went from there to Charlotte, where they are attending the state con vention today. Delegates are: Cranberry, S. S. Landreth and W. M. Ham; Gap Civil, John Mac Edwards, D. F. Sturdivant and M. A. Goodman; Whitehead, M. H. Scott and Claude Holloway; Cherry Lane, (Continued on -Page Four) * Will Wf the North Carolina Press As sociation and publisher of the dorganton News Herald, conti nents on the industry and the edition in the following editorial: “North Carolina has a great liversity of industries. Poesibly tew people know that there has ieen developing in Western North (Continued on Page 4) ' Roosevelt Is First Red Cross Member In Current Drive President Roosevelt was the first member to be enrolled in the 1944 American Red Cross War Fund campaign, the goal of which is $200,000,000. The Red Cross emblem is being pinned on the Chief Executive’s coat lapel by Mary K. Browne, former tennis champion, as Leon .Fraser, campaign chairman, looks on. Record Big Still Destroyed Near Here By Officers Outfit Had A Capacity Of 10,000 Gallons; No Arrests Are Made The largest “moonshine” still ever found in Alleghany county was destroyed last week by Sher iff Jess Moxley ami Deputies Glenn Richardson ah'd George Royall near the old Duncan Mill on Little River. Officers stated that the still, when completely set up, would have had a capacity of 10,000 gal lons. Around 4,500 gallons of mash just ready to run, was destroyed along with nine pine boxes, av eraging 5x5x14 feet* with a ca pacity of around 1,000 gallons each. A large double- boiler, made with two 55-gallon barrels, was also smashed. It was pointed out that such an “outfit” would have had to been kept going steadily twenty-four hours a day to have taken care of all the liquor ran off. No arrests were made, officers pointed out, hs no one was on the premises. Federal men also made i an investigation of the case. Record Is Made By Sparta Girls The Sparta girls' basketball team lost to the Children’s Home girls by a score of 52-18 in the second game played by the Spar ta girls in the Journal and Sen tinel basketball tournament, on, Tuesday afternoon. I The Children’s Home team scored heavily against the Sparta, girls with the score standing 25-4 at the end of the half. Sparta came back in the last quarter to score 12 points but lost to the sure-footed Forsyth team. In the first game that Sparta entered, the Sparta girls won over the Shoals girls 19-17, in one of the most hard-fought games of the tournament. The Sparta boys’ team lost to the Franklin boys last Thursday afternoon by a score of 18-14. The score was tied during the greater part of the game, the Franklin boys coming up in the last quarter to win by 4 points. WHITAKER GRANTED PAROLE THIS MONTH Arthur F. Whitaker, of the Twin Oaks community, was grant ed a parole by the State Parole Board on March 6, local authori ties announced this week . Whitaker, who was tried and convicted in superior court last October on the charges of assault, resisting arrest and driving drunk, was sentenced to 12 months’ pris on term which began on Decem ber 1. ^ Merchants, Business And Professional Group Will Meet Here On Friday Night School Helps In Red Cross Drive tittle Pine Raiseijl $13X20 At Benefit Entertainment On Saturday Proceeds from the entertain ment presented at Little Pine school, Saturday night, for the benefit of the Alleghany Red Cross fund, amounted to $133.20, Chairman I. W. Wagoner an announced this week. Private donations amounted to $91.00, while proceeds from the sale of cakes, candy, cigarettes and chewing gum were $42.20. A Red Cross movie was shown and talks made by T. R. Burgiss, Alleghany chairman of Red Cross and W. O. Hoper, special drive chairman. Mr. Wagoner pointed opt that donations of articles sold at auc tion were made by people of the Glade Creek community. Those contributing cakes were Mrs. E. R. McMillan and Mrs. Elizabeth Easterling; Mrs. Woodrow Gal yean, Mrs. Clyde Wagoner, Mrs. (Continued on Page Four/ Bert Richardson Hurt In Action Mr. and Mrs. Troy Richardson, of Ennice, were recently notified by the War Department that their son, Pfc. Bert Richardson had been wounded in action. Pfc. Richardson was with the 5th army in Italy and has been overseas for a number of months. Dinner Meeting At Communi ty Building At 7:30; Plans To Be Discussed Business and professional men and merchants will-hold a dinner meeting at the community build ing on Friday night, when organ ization plans; started when the group met two weeks ago under the sponsorship of this paper, will be completed. Mayor Floyd Crouse, who was chosen president at the initial meeting, will preside and a num ber of important business mat ters, including the naming of the organization, the election of ad ditional directors and other mat ters will be brought before the group. At the preliminary meeting two weeks ago, it was unanimously agreed that the new organization would combine the functions of a civic club, merchants association and a chamber of commerce, since the county has none of these or ganizations. Plans for immediate activities are expected to be dis cussed at the meeting on Friday. (Continued on Page Four) Plan Memorial Service Easter Rev. R. L. West announced this week that memorial service would be held Blaster Sunday at the Sparta Baptist church for T-5 Cpl. Walter Woodrow Blevins, son of Mrs. Rose Blevins, of Spar ta. Cpl. BleVins died in New Cale donia, November 22, according to a message received by the War Department. Big Waste Paper Drive Is Now Being Sponsored By 4-H Clubs A waste paper campaign, un der the sponsorship of the 4-H clubs, is now underway in Alle ghany county, R. E. Black, chair man of the salvage committee, announced today. Members of the Sparta club be gan their canvass of the town yes terday and plan to continue the drive for an indefinite period. The paper, it is understood, will 3e stored in the Sparta school louse, awaiting transportation to Salax, where it will be sold. Mr. Black pointed out that the paper must be collected promptly and transported quickly to the dealers, since, unlike scrap me tal, it is a fire hazard when stor ed. He urgqd that die housewives, Farmers and businessmen of Al leghany |ounty begin immediate ly to collect the waste paper about the house or place of business and if you happen to live outside the canvassing area, bring the col' lected paper to the Sparta school or to the Piney Creek school, where it is understood, the 4-H club is also conducting a cam paign. It was explained that those per sons who had waste paper to con tribute and were in doubt about where to take it, should get in touch with Mr. Black, Miss Clyde Fields or Miss Emoryetta Reeves. Several rules for preparing the paper for easy handling were ex plained by Mr. Black. Newspapers should be folded flat, the way the paper boy sells them, and tied in bundles about 12 inches high. These bundles (Continued on Page Four) County Still Far Short Of Quota, Which Is $3,400.00 Half-way Mark Of Goal Not Yet Beached; Need Is Great Reports late yesterday revealed that $1,002.50 has been contribu ted to the Alleghany Red Cross Fund, leaving $2,397.50 yet to be raised on the quota of $3,400.00 W. Q, Hooper, chairman of the irive, announced that a complete sanvass had not yet been made of the business section of Sparta and that all reports from the rural immunities had not yet been turned in., Mr. Hooper urged that all com munity chairmen turn in a re port as soon as possible. It was also announced that a Red Cross movie would be shown in most of the schools of the coun ty and that special rallies would be held, the.d^tes to be announc ed next week. The ten, rural mail carriers of the cottniy, it is understood, each have a goal of , $100.00 to be mat before the drive officially ends. These n£n, it was explained, will take donations from the patrons on their routes. A partial list of contributions, not previously published, is giv en today. More will follow next week. This list includes the following: Mr. and Mrs, J. K. Wagoner, $10,00; S, C. Richardson, $5.00; Mr. and Mrs Emory Edwards and Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Edwards, $5.00 each. David P. Lavietes, $25.00; Al ton Thompson, $10.00; Mrs. Laura (Continued On Page Four, Deferment Age Limit Is Raised Occupational Draft Defer ments For Men From 18 To 25 More Limited Washington — Selective serv ice Tuesday night prohibited oc cupational draft deferments for men aged 18 to 25, inclusive, ex cept when approved by state draft directors or when engaged in an occupation specifically ex cepted from this policy by the di | rector of selective service. This extended to men aged 23 25, inclusive, a policy already in effect lor those 18 to 22. ,The move was announced coin cident with reports that a new plan ts in the making to “ration* occupational deferments -to war plants fe mtKti the same manner that scarce materials are now ra tioned to them—on the basis of the greatest need at the moment in the. light of shifting trends in arms production. Announcing the tighter restric tions on occupational deferment for men under 26, Maj. Gen. Lew is B. Hershey, selective service director, said state directors are expected to recommend defer | ments in the case of men “with out whose services the production requirements of critical industry cannot be met’’ |> “The making available for in duction of registrants under 28 years of age will permit defer ment of registrants >26 years of age and over in critical industries with progressive consideration for tfceir relative irreplaceability and increase in age,” Hershey said. •I- - Ki?hard8