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AND STAR-TIMES-(CONSOLIDATED ON SEPTEMBER 2, 1941) —ALLEGHANY COUNTY’S ONLY NEWSPAPER, $1.50 a Year in Alleghany County VOLUME 55, NO. 43 SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA $2.00 a Year Out of County THURSDAY. JULY 13. 1944 1 New Case Of Polio Reported For Past Week Total Of 4 Cases In County Since Epidemic Started 3 Weeks Ago Swanson Edwards, welfare su perintendent, said yesterday that one new case of infantile paraly sis, or poliomyelitis, had been re ported in Alleghany county dur ing the past week, bringing the total cases up to four in the coun ty since the epidemic started around three weeks ago. The new case reported during the past week was Alice Billings, three-year-old daughter of Estel Billings, of Sparta. The child is now in the emergency hospital at Hickory. It was painted out that recent cases from Alleghany county are being treated at the center in ^Hickory. Officials explained that p if cases brought there were found to be in light form, after being examined, they would be sent back home for recuperation.' Parents of children with the disease are asked to contact Mr. Swanson Edwards, welfare direc tor, so that necessary contacts may be made with the hospital for receiving them. * The three other cases in the (Continued on Page 4) COfC Meeting To Be Postponed Due To Epidemic Of Polio; Meeting Will Be Held At Later Date R. F. Crouse, president of the Spartd Chamber of Commerce, announced this w*«k4taat the July meeting of the club which was scheduled to take place on Friday night had been postponed due to the epidemic of infantile paralysis in the county. Mr. T. C. McKnight, of the YMCA in Elkin, had been secur ed to speak to the group and a number of business matters were expected .to come before the house at the meeting. Mr. Crouse pointed out that the meeting would be held at the reg ular meeting time in August ac cording to present plans. How ever, an announcement will be made at a later date as to time and place. 'Whitehead Girl Made Home Agent Miss Kathleen Jarvis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Beal Jarvis, of 'Whitehead, has accepted a posi tion as assistant home agent of Transylvania county, it was an nounced this week. Miss Jarvis will work in Tran sylvania this summer as the as sistant to Miss Annabel Teague, home agent there. Miss Jarvis, a graduate of Spar ta high school and Radford State Teacher's College, Radford, Va., taught last year in the Low Gap high school. CHECK PAPERS FOR MEN IN SERVICE The attention of parents and other relatives subscribing to this paper for men in service is called to the date of expira tion. tine to postal regulations, the subscription list of this pa per must he kept up-to-date and for that reason parents are asked to cheek the expiration dates of papers they are send ing to men in service and to renew them promptly. Many men in service are on able to receive notification of the expiration dates and are at a loss to know why their papers are sometimes stop ped. Due to the fact that a large number of the men write about how much they enjoy the paper, The News would ap preciate the co-operation of parents in renewing the pa pers, when they are due, so Unue to receive their home pa per without interruption. Americans Drive, Mai Reds Goii KILLED ON D-DAY Cpl. Leff J. Caudill, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Caudill, of Twin Oaks, was killed in France, June 6. Alleghany Man Killed In France During Invasion Cpl. Leff J. Caudill Was Son Of Mr. And Mrs. Joe Cau dill, Of Twin Oaks L Cpl. Leff J. Caudill, 29-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Caudill, of Twin Oaks, was killed in ac tion in France,on June 6, the day of the invasion, according to a re port received by his parents from the War Department this week. Cpl. Caudill, the first Allegha ny man to die in the invasion, had served in the North African campMgn, where he was wound ed in action in May. There he was awarded the Purple Heart, an award given for singularly meritorious service and wounds received in action. Following his recovery, Cpl. Caudill was transferred to Eng land, where he received addition al training in preparation for the Invasion. He entered the serv ice in July, 1941, and received his (Continued On Page Four) Rev. R. L. Berry Given Dismissal Rev. R. L. Berry spent Tuesday in North Wilkesboro and Belmont, where he received his certificate of dismissal from the Winston Salem Presbytery and enrolled and was received into the King’s Mountain Presbytery. He was ac companied by Mrs. Berry. Rev. and Mrs. Berry plan to leave soon for Belmont, where he has accepted a charge in the Bel mont Presbyterian church. In New ing Gains; ig Forward One Of Heaviest Battles Of Invasion Being Fought Near St. Lo American tanks and infantry men in a powerful new offensive smashed to within two miles of the mid-Normandy , communica tions hub of St. Lo, this week, and late dispatches said that one of the heaviest armored battles of the war was being fought outside the city as Marshal Erwin Rom mel hurled in select panzer units diverted from his hard-pressed Caen front. The Germans’ entire western flank from St. Lo to the sea was imperilled. Hundreds of American big guns and dive-bombers were support ing the American tank-infantry units. Thunderbolt dive-bomb ers in one of the biggest air-tank battles of the campaign already had destroyed more than a score of Rommel’s tanks. The Americans had captured heights dominating St. Lo. Russian armies plunged stead ily toward East Prussia and the Baltic sea Tuesday, continuing to bowl over all Nazi efforts to organize effective opposition, while late German broadcasts cried, “The enemy is at the gates of Germany,” Daugavpils (Dvinsk), big rail center in Southern Latvia, rapid ly was being outflanked from the south and advances up to 20 miles (Continued on Page 5> Alleghany Girl Promoted At VPI Mrs. Mattie Lou Sholes Is New Home Economist At Blacks burg, Virginia Mrs. Mattie Lou Sholes, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Ed wards, of Whitehead, has been promoted to Home Econo/nist for the Virginia Agriculture Experi ment Station at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacks burg, Va., it was announced this week. As a member of the staff of the Agriculture Experiment Station, Mrs. Sholes will direct nutrition research dealing with frozen and dehydrated foods She has been associated with the experiment station for the past year and a half, having done experimental work in the field of nutrition. A publication dealing with her work on the retention of the nutritive elements in dehydrated vegeta bles will soon be issued. Mrs. Sholes is a graduate of Sparta high school. She gradua ted from-the Woman’s College of the University of North Carolina in 1939 with a B. S. degree in Home Economics and in 1943 she received the faster of Science degree in Nutrition from V. P. I. She resides in Blacksburg, Va. Here’s Another Fighting ‘Teddy’ ' French Partisans Help In The Fight Against Germans t \ The Frenchman on the right talking to one of our paratroopers killed this German and three others when he took up hidden arms when “D-Day” came. He and his other two com patriots waited only for the signal to strike. The Germans had used them as forced labor at | two dollars a week. Do your part in this fight by buying extra War Bonds. (Army Signal Corps Photo) Red Cross Will Get Information On Polio Victims Parents Of Victims May Con tact Local Office For News Of Children Mrs. Edwin Duncan, Red Cross home service chairman for Alle ghany county, announced this week that she received a report each day on the condition of the polio patients from this county in the emergency hospital at Hickory. Mrs. Duncan explained that through the co-operation of a Red Cross unit in Hickory, the information was sent out each day about 5:00 o’clock and that parents might call or visit her to secure same. It was also explained that since the children suffering from infantile paralysis are isolated and no one is allowed to visit them, this service serves as a link between the children and rela tives and friends. Pres. Roosevelt Ready To Serve Will Accept Nomination If Named At Convention; Will Serve If Elected Washington—President Roose |Velt, with a nonchalant smile on his face but his hands atremble with emotion, announced Tues day that he would accept a fourth term nomination and, if elected, would serve “reluctantly, but as a good soldier.” The announcement, which sur prised newsmen and politicians only as to its timing, was made at a White House news confer ence. The president read a let ter from chairman Robert E. Hannegan of the Democratic na tional committee informing him that more than a majority of con vention delegates are already “legally bound” to support his renomination and asking that he “again respond to the call of the party and the people.” Then he read his reply: “If the convention should car ry this out, and nominate me for the presidency, I shall accept. If the people elect me, I will serve.” He asserted that he will not “run" for either nomination or election “in the usual partisan, ‘political sense” but would take orders from a “superior officer— the people of the United States.” His personal choice, the presi dent said, would be to retire to his home on the Hudson and leave public responsibilities and the publicity attendant upon the of fice of chief executive. “But we of this generation chance to live in a day and hour when our nation has been attack ed and when the future existence of our chosen method of govern ment is at stake,1* Mr. Roosevelt went on ... * Building Program On N. C. Test Farm Started This Week Tire Situation Is I Critical; Prices Set On Used Cars, July Quota For New Passen ger Cars Far Below June i Allotment Although all inner tubes are now ration-free, L. W. Driscoll, district director of the OPA at Charlotte, pointed out this week that the tire situtaion is still cri tical, since the demand for them exceeds the supply. Tubes are not needed nearly as badly as tires, Mr. Driscoll said, and so it is possible for synthetic rubber production to keep up with this demand. Tubes are al so a great deal easier to make than tires, for the man-power needs are much under those for the manufacture of tires. Passenger and truck tires will go to only the most essential driv ers again this month, he declared. The July quota for new passen ger automobiles is 22 per cent be low the June quota and 30 per cent under the May allocation, the Charlotte OPA district office announced. The Western North Carolina district will have fifty new cars to ration this month as compared with sixty one for June. The original stockpile of 530,000 , new cars available on February, 1, 1942 has dwindled to 30,000 to- [ (Continued on Page Four) Officials Were Here Tuesday And Selected Sites For Buildings Work was started this week on a highway through the N. C. test farm at Laurel Springs and pre liminary ground work for build ings is also expected to start this week. 4 number of officials from the State Department of Agriculture, including F. E. Miller, director of experiment stations; D. S. Wea ver, agricultural extension engin eer; Dean Colvard, R. W. Shof fner and others, visited the farm Tuesday and selected sites for the barns and other buildings that are to be erected. It is understood that three model barns, a caretaker’s house (Continued on Page 4) S. S. Convention Was Postponed The Baptist Sunday School Convention, which was scheduled to be held in July has been post poned because of the epidemic of infantile paralysis in Alleghany county, T. C. Osborne announced this week. -The convention will be held sometime either in August or September, he pointed out. “We wish to co-operate with the health authorities in the county and we feel that a gathering of this na ture would be unwise at the present time.” Health Officers Recommend Measures For Fighting Polio Raleigh—Health officers of eight southern States and officials of the U. S. Public Health Service and the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis closed a one day meeting on infantile paral ysis here Monday afternoon with recommendation which they of fered as the best protection a gainst the disease “in the light of what is known today.” The recommendation, drafted by the group and presented for final approval by Dr. Don W. Gudakunst of New York, medical director of the National Founcfa tion for Infantile Paralysis, stated: “In the, light of what is known today a few essential recommen dations should be stressed. “Any program limiting the number of contacts of people of susceptible age groups in areas where there are outbreaks of in fantile paralysis should be en couraged by every possible means. In rural areas where infantile paralysis is present or in com munities adjacent there to the opening of schools would defin itely increase the amount of con tact between children, therefore, should be delayed. However, there is no point in closing schools and allowing children to congre gate in groups elsewhere; at pic nics, on the streets, churches, swimming pools, theatres, day nurseries, homes and play grounds. . “The improper disposal of hu man excreta may be an important factor in the spread of infantile paralysis, since the virus which causes this disease is known to be present in stools and sewage. Where approved sewage systems do not exist, excreta should be disposed of only in fly-proof X Continued on Page Pour) One Of First N. C. Counties To Go Over In ‘E’ Bonds Drive Chairmen Express Ap preciation For Splendid Co-operation Here Alleghany county surpassed Its Fifth War .Loan quote of $90, 000.00 by more than $33,000.00 as the drive officially came to an end on Saturday evening, when total sales for the county reached $123,312.00 Leaders pointed out that Al leghany is one of the first coun ties in the state to meet and sur pass its “E’’ bond quote. Figures reveal that the county had grata over the top in this quote by $9, 412.50. Drive chairman S. R. Nichols and county chairman Alton Thompson expressed their appre ciation of the splendid co-opera tion shown by workers, town ship chairmen and every individ ual who bought bonds in this Fifth War Loan Drive. “We are indeed proud of the record we have made on the over all quota and we are especially proud of the total “E” bond sales,” Mr. Nichols stated. Reports from sources of sales in the county show the North western Bank in the lead with $64,856.25. The Sparta post of fice reports $28,256.25. The state made a purchase amounting to $26,900.00, and Alleghany receiv ed credit for $3,300.00 from the boys in service. Total sales at the bond rally at Piney Creek last Saturday night as the drive officially ended, amounted to $11,000.00, surpassing the quote of $7,500.00, officials (Continued on Page 4) Mrs. Brinegar, 67, Buried Sunday Funeral Service Conducted By Revs. Mack Tedder And Mack Dowell ' Funeral service for Mrs. Nan cy Caroline Brooks Brinegar, OT, was held Sunday, July 9, at the Pleasant Grove Baptist church, with Rev. Mack Dowell and Rev. Mack Tedder officiating. Inter ment followed in the Richardson cemetery. Surviving are six children, four sons and two daughters: Charlie Brinegar, Laurel Springs; Glenn Brinegar, Sparta; Paul Brinegar, Springfield; Pvt. Claude Brine gar, who is serving with the arm ed forces somewhere in France; Mrs. Haywood Wagoner, Roaring River and Mrs. Clyde Brown, State Boad. Her husband, Parsh Brinegar, two sons and one daughter preceded her in death. Pallbearers were: Odis Brine gar, Ben Osborne, Van Brinegar, Haywood Wagoner, Wokie Brine gar, Clyde Brown and Cal Rich ardson. Flower girls were: Annie Brine gar, Grace Petty, Pearl Brinegar, Mrs. Josie Roberts, Grace Brine gar, Pauline Wagoner, Hazel Brinegar, Zell Brinegar and Kath leen Brown. Rationing Guide Processed Foods Blue A8 throach Z8 and AS (Book 4). now. valid, at 10 points each, for use with tok ens. Good indefinitely. Meats And Fats Red A8 through Z8 (Book 4) now valid at M points each, for use with tokens.. Good In definitely. Suiar Sofar stamps No. 38. No. SI and No. 32 (book 4) good for five pounds each indefin itely. Canning Sugar Sugar stamp No. 40 good for five pounds canning sugar un til February 28, 184S.
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