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AND STAB-TIMES— (CONSOLIDATED ON SEPTEMBER 2, 1941) —ALLEGHANY COUNTY’S ONLY NEWSPAPER. SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA $1.50 a Year in Alleghany County $2.00 a Year Out of County THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1944 VOLUME 55, NO. 33 Carpenter Hurls ^ Sparta To Victory Over Galax, Wed. Sparta Scores Eight Runs In Sixth Inning To Win From Virginia Team Wayne Carpenter’s five-hit pitching and timely hitting by the Sparta high school batters gave them an 8-7 victory for sweet re vnge over the Galax high school team in a baseball game played on the' Sparta diamond yesterday afternoon, before an unusually large group of spectators. For five and one-half innings, Galax held a 4-0 lead, counting out four easy scores. An eight ' rim outburst in the sixth broke a scoreless slab for Sparta when Adams came in for the first run. Sparta bases were loaded during the remaining part of the sixth inning. All scores were made on hits. In the fielding, Sexton came through with a brilliant catch in the seventh to rob White of a hit. Carpenter was in superb form throughout the game, with Hallo way doing a brilliant piece of ^ work behind the plate for Sparta. || Cullop was on the mound for Galax, the team scoring in the se cond and sixth inning. Galax juggled their team sever al times but failed to stop the Sparta nine once they were start 1 The Virginia team won over Sparta at Galax last Wednesday with a score of 10-4. Lt. Chas. Smith Gets Decoration Former Alleghany Man Cited For Bravery In New Guinea Area Lt. Charles Preston Smith, son •of Mr. and Mrs. O. O. Smith, of Independence and formerly of Alleghany county, was recently decorated with the Distinguished Plying Cross in the New Guinea theater. This decoration was made in recognition of courageous service to his combat organization, his fellow American airmen, his country, his home and to his pa rents. Lt. Smith was cited for extra ordinary achievement while par ticipating in aerial flights in the Southwest Pacific area from Sep tember 7 to November 20, 1943. He took part in sustained oper ation activity against the enemy during which hostile contact was probable and expected. These flights included dropping supplies and transporting troops over ter ritory that was continually pa trolled by enemy fighter aircraft Lt. Smith received his wings in the Army Air Corps in March, 1943, at Pampa, Texas. Welfare Dept. To Mail Checks Out Swanson Edwards, Alleghany * 'Welfare superintendent, announc " ed this week that the mailing of old age assistance and aid to de pendent children checks would be carried on from the welfare office. He pointed out that it would no longer be necessary to call at the office for these checks, as has been tiie practice til the past Woman’s Club Is Helping Russia With Mrs. Clennel Richardson acting as chaiman, a committee of women from the Sparta Woman’s club are conducting a drive to collect clothes for the “Clothes for Russia” campaign. Serving on the committee with Mrs. Richardson are Mrs. Alton Thompson, Mrs. Add McMillan, Mrs. R. E. Black and Miss Pearl Fields. Mrs. Richardson pointed out that every member of the Wo man’s club had been contacted, either personally, by telephone or by letter and that a prompt re sponse was expected. The central collection point for the Woman’s club will be the of fice of the superintendent of schools in the courthouse* it was explained. S*he also urged that the bundles be tied neatly and se curely in order to make the pack ing and shipping of the garments The Woman’s club has no defin goal in the campaign, but it is • •' * contributions of old Alleghany Aerial Gunner And Pilot Sgt. Bay S. Reeves, left, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lon Reeves, of Sparta, recently completed his training for combat duty and won his wings as an aerial gunner on a B-24 liberator bomber. Sgt. Reeves, a graduate of Sparta high school, en tered the service in January,, 1943. Lt. Dale W. Click, right, of Washington, D. C., is the pilot of the crew of which Sgt. Reeves is gunner. The crew is now stationed in Topeka, Kansas. Invasion Coast Gets Blasted By Allies; Pound Japs At Truk Rail Lines In France Bombed; Soviet Bombers Also Hit Railroads Sky-filled allied armadas spear headed by hundreds of U. S. Lib erator bombers hammered Ger man invasion coast defenses and rail feeder lines from dawn to dusk this week, hurling explo sives at a two-ton-per-minute clip and smashing key junctions at the rate of one an hour in an unexampled display of aerial might which went almost unchal lenged by the Germans. Jittery German radio announc ers predicted that the big allied land invasion was “imminent” came on the air just before mid night Wednesday to shout: “At tention! Attention! Enemy in truders entering Western Germa ny.” Truk, Japan’s heaviest bombed Bastion in all the Carolines, and its buttresses of Ponape and Sa tawan, were battered last week end by mightly Pacific fleet car rier task forces that destroyed 126 enemy planes. Adm. Chester W. Nimitz an (Continued on Page 5) Edwards Makes Record In S. S. Wayne A. Edwards, of the Chestnut Grove community, who has recently completed a Sunday School worker’s training course, was granted a diploma on April 28, by the Baptist Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, Nashville, Tenn. Mr. Edwards has been teaching in the Chestnut Grove Baptist Sunday school for the past three years and is the choir leader and director. He is a former student pf the famous U. S. School of Mu sic. Transou Named Foreman Of Test Farm In County Three Barns Are Planned For Beef, Dairy Cattle And Sheep West Jefferson — (Special) — It was announced this week by F. E. Miller, director of the State Test Farms division of the State Department of Agriculture, Ra leigh, that W. M. Transou has been named resident foreman of the newly acquired Ashe county test farm, which was purchased from Mr. Transou for $24,000.00. Officials of the Department of Agriculture have conferred on plans for the erection of three new barns on the Ashe farm, for beef cattle, sheep and dairy cat tle. In addition to Mr. Transou, two other families will reside on the farm and supply much of the la bor for it, Mr. Miller said. Construction work on the-barns is expected to start in the near future. Democrats Go To Convention Delegates from Alleghany coun ty, along with others in North Carolina, are attending the State convention in Raleigh today. Alleghany delegates were chos en at a convention held in the courthouse, Saturday afternoon, for this purpose. Among those attending are: Hon. R. F. Crouse, Walter Osborne and Jesse Mac Osborne. Surprise Move By OPA Frees Most All Meats From Points Washington — All meats except beef steaks and beef roasts were made ration-free at midnight last night and red point values will not be restored to them again “unless absolutely necessary,” (he Office of Price Administration announc ed unexpectedly yesterday. Th surprise move was at once a tremendous blow to black mar ket operators and a bonanza to consumers, farmers and harassed storekeepers—a number of whom had quit business because of com plicated bookkeeping and check ing systems necessary under strin gent rationing—as well as to housewives who have been hard put to make ends meet with the points available. The action was revealed by Ad ministrator Chester Bowles, who announced simultaneously that, effective Sunday, the monthly al lotment of red points will be cut from 60 to 30 per consumer be cause so many points no longer will, be needed. Henceforth, red points will be needed only for beef steaks, beef roasts, butter, margarine, cheese, cheese products and evaporated milk. Consumers no longer Will be required to surrender red points for pork, veal, lamb, mutton, beef flank steaks, beef hamburger, beef stew meat, all variety meats, sausage, ready-to-eat meats or canned meats or fish. Yesterday’s action was attribu ted to record meat production. The fact that army and navy demands for meat, particularly beef, have been brought to a “current basis" and the fact that pork no longer is going into lend-lease which or dinarily took up to 35 per cent of the pork production but which now has adequate stocks. Bowles made it plain that pres | ent point values of beef steaks and beef roasts will not be changed. I (Continued on Page 8) Work Of Health Dept. Is To Be Carried On Here Nurse From Watauga Will Supply In Absence Of Full time County Nurse Mrs. Virginia B. Smith, public health nurse, Watauga county, will be in the Health Department of fice in Sparta on Friday, May 5, from 9:30 a. m. to 4:00 p. m. and every Friday thereafter until fur ther notice, it was announced this week. Anyone wishing to have chil dren immunized against diphther ia and whooping cough and vac cinated for smallpox are request ed to bring them to the health of fice in the community building tomorrow. Typhoid fever vac cination will also be given. Other people having children who will enter school next fall for the first time are requested to bring them for a pre-school ex amination so as to prepare them for school entrance during the summer months. Expectant mo thers are invited to come to the office for health supervision, it was explained. Since the county health nurse, Miss Ola Collins, left for entrance in the U. S. Naval Nursing Corps, recently, the Alleghany health department has* had no county nurse. Navy Recruiter Coming On May 9 Cites Opportunities Offered To High School Graduates Who Enlist Specialist, First Class J. E. Huffman, Navy Recruiter, who has been coming to Sparta every other Tuesday, will be at the Post Office on Tuesday, May 9th, for his last trip for several weeks, and any seventeen year olds wish ing to enlist in Naval Reserve should*see him then. On May 15 the recruiter-wiH be detached from recruiting duty and sent to a Naval Hospital. It will still be possible for seven teen year olds to enlist according to the recruiter, but it will be necessary for them to go to Elkin on Thursdays where Chief J. T. Stephenson, in charge of the, Winston-Salem station, will be at the Post Office pending Huffman’s return to recruiting duty. With the close of schools it is thought that a number of seven teen year old boys will want to enlist and try for the fifty-five trade schools maintained by the Navy to train qualified men for special work with the Navy. Re cruiter Huffman said that any Alleghany county youths wishing to enlist should see him on Tues day, May 9. Some Shoes Are Now Ration-Free OPA has announced that mer chants may sell children’s shoes priced up to $1.60, sizes 8V4 to 3, without ration stamps until May 20. These shoes should be advertis ed and marked,” OPA released, it was explained. NOW IN ENGLAND Sgt. Walter M. Andrews, brother of Mrs. Zollie Atwood, of Sparta, is now stationed somewhere in England. He writes his sister that he was on board ship for five days and received a big surprise when he met another Alleghany man, Howard Lyons. Sgt An drews has been in the service for the past two yean. <. ‘vi Flood Drives Citizens From Homes Flood waters from Little Arkansas river drove thousands of families from their homes in Wichita, Kan. This scene on East Douglas avenue, 13 blocks from the downtown business area, shows hundreds of cars stranded in deep water, and blocking the path of a fire truck en route to a fire. Firemen are laying hose from the truck. Superior Court Ends Here Tues.; Several Cases Disposed Of McDonald Wants Higher Incomes For N. C. Farmers Advocates Removal Of Sales Tax; Would Improve Pub lic Schools West Jefferson — (Special) — Speaking at the Ashe county courthouse, Tuesday evening, Dr. Ralph McDonald, Democratic randidate-terGovemor r'advocated a constructive 12-point program for insuring higher income for the farmers of the State, improvement of the public schools and the re moval of the sales tax with no state tax on land. “Since the real basis of our economic life is farm income, the State should do everything with in its power to insure a high farm income,” McDonald said. “Farm income in North Carolina can be increased tremendously,” he declared, and pledged his sup (Continued On Page Four) Register For Canning Sugar Although complete returns were not available, ration board offi cials anounced that registration for canning sugar was unusually heavy at the various schools in the county on Monday. No further registration will be held until after June 15, officials pointed out. Mrs. Robert Fleetwood, chief clerk pf the ration board, explain ed that the manner in which this registration was carried out made it a more simple , task than it had been in the past. She also ex pressed her thanks to the teach ers in the county for their valua ble assistance in the registration. Howard Honaker Ordered To Pay Cost And Enter The Armed Forces Alleghany county spring term of superior court for the trial of criminal and civil cases, came to an end Tuesday afternoon, after several cases had been heard be fore Judge Hoyle Sink. In the case of Howard Honaker, who was charged with manslaugh ter in the' deaths of Sam Richard son and R. C. Wagoner, a plea of involuntary manslaughter was en tered- .awl no witnesses were called. Upon the recommenda tion of Solicitor McMichael, a prayer for judgment was contin ued until the next term of court with the provision that Honaker shall pay the cost and present him self and be accepted by any branch of the armed forces, and that the prayer for judgment be dismissed and no further punish ment be imposed. A number of minor cases were tried and three divorces heard. Those granted divorces included J. A. Moxley vs. . Lena Moxley; Racine Fender Goodman vs. Wil born Goodman and Coy Evans vs. Zella Evans. (Continued on Page Four) Men Classified By Local Board The local board announced classifications of 11 men for mili tary service this week when 5 men were placed in I-A. The classifi cation list is as follows: 1- A: Harold D. Mitchell, Bert C. Edwards, James L. Joines, Sam Barker and James H .Honaker. 2- A: Buren D. Evans. 2-B: Nelson McMillan. 2-C: James G. McCann. 2-B (H): Arthur Brown. 4-F: James H. Lineberry and Ronald Brawley. FSA Farmers In Alleghany Helping In Food Production Eighty-four small farmers of Alleghany county joined with oth er family-type farm operators in the Farm Security Administration program in North Carolina last year to produce enough extra food to feed thousands more of the fighting men, production figures just compiled by the War Food Administration show. Van F. Miller, county FSA su pervisor and Miss Ainslee Alex ander, associate supervisor, an nounced that this week they have been advised that the “little farm ers” who planned their farming with the assistance of FSA have set new records for the second straight year in production of cer tain war-vital crops and livestock. The figures, they said, show that the 13,252 rehabilitation borrow ers who operated farms both in 1942 and 1943 in North Carolina planted 16,903 more acres in 1943, and sent to market 70.9 per cent more hogs, 105.2 percent more cattle and calves, 39.7 percent more milk, 28.7 percent more chickens and 48.8 percent more eggs. The additional milk that these families produce in 1943 is suf ficient to supply 6,344 fighting men for a full year. Hog produc tion by the same families went up enough that the increase alone would meet the pork requirements of 19, 087 soldiers for a year. The beef and veal increases are equal to a year’s supply of 9,659 men; lamb and mutton for 3,598 men; chickens for 15,825 and eggs for 36,116 men. Besides what they have sent to market, families in the FSA pro gram are producing more food for their own tables. Every FSA bor rower has a home garden and most of them have increased the garden area and greatly added in J.94? to the number of quarts of food canned for home use, the super (Continued on Page Four) Clothes Being Collected For Needy Russians Schools Are Active In Drive; Good Response Is Expect* ed Here Every school in Alleghany county has been asked to secure all the clothing they can for the “Clothes For Russia” campaign, now underway, Miss Clyde Fields, superintendent of schools, announced this week. The drive will continue through May 14. Since no central warehouse is available in which to collect the clothing, each school is asked to prepare its own bundles for ship-> ment by express to Russian War Relief, Inc., Warehouse, 401 Wash ington St., New York City, Miss Fields pointed out. However, it was explained, a record of all shipments made should be kept and turned in to the office of the superintendent. All charges on the packages will be paid when they reach the office in New York. Reports from all the schools were not available but the cam paign in the Sparta school is well underway, with several hundred pounds of clothing already collect ed. A canvass of the town was made by the school children this week. Supt. Fields pointed out that the goal for the State is a pair of shoes and four pqunds of clothing for each school child in North Caro lina. Alleghany school children are expected to respond well as they have to all of the drives in connection with the war effort. New Tires For r Motorists Now _ mt Occupational drivers with “B” and “C” books may get tires Charlotte, May 2—All motorists using their cars for occupational driving “B” and “C” book drivers are eligible for new passenger tires effective May 1 as a result of increased civilian allocation from the office of the rubber director, L. W. Driscoll, District Director of OP A, has announced. Two other steps also were taken to broaden eligibility for tires: (1) Motorist holding basic “A” rations now become eligible for the small remaining stock of used tires, Grade IJL in areas where used tires are available. However, in areas where none are available, boards will be instructed not to issue certificates for used tires. (2) Light delivery trucks, pre viously eligible only for used tires, may receive new passenger tires, upon demonstrating need. Nichols Is Named On Election Board It was announced this week by the State Board of Elections that G. Glen Nichols has been appoint* ed as a member of the Alleghany county board of elections to fill the vacancy caused by the resig nation of L. E. Edwards. Elmer Edwards is now chairman of the county board of elections with S: S. Landreth, the other member of the board. Local Scouts Go To District Meet The district camporee held last Saturday and Sunday at Elkin, was well attended with Boy Scouts from 12 various troops in the Old Hickory council, present. The Skunk Patrol from Sparta won second prize in die inspection of the various patrols. The boys arrived about 8:00 o’clock Satur day morning and were inspected as to their packs, appearance and suitable clothing. During the rest of the period they were judg ed on choice of camp site, kinks, patrol organization, proper menus, sanitation, projects and in addi tion, enjoyed various group games. The Skunk Patrol was accom panied by R. E. Black, assistant Scoutmaster. Scouts from Sparta participa
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