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VOLUME 55, NO. 44
$1.50 a Year in Alleghany County
SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA
$2.00 a Year Out of County
THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1944
Alleghany Man
| Sees Action In
Three War Zones
Spent 42 Days In Open Life
boat After His Ship Was
Torpedoed
Alex Richard Hines, of the
Merchant Marines, son of Mrs.
John Hines, of Sparta, boasts
three war zone service bars and
a Merchant Marine combat ribbon
for direct enemy action.
Seaman Hines, one of the “fight
, faiest” servicemen to datev with 25
shipmates spent 42 days in an open
boat after their freighter, the
Roger Taney, was torpedoed off
Cape Town, South Africa. All,
alive,' were picked up 20 miles
| off the coast of South America
by a Brazalian ship and landed
at Santos, Brazil.
A veteran of Army service in
World War I, Hines in the present
conflict has seen action in the
Pacific war zone, the Atlantic war
zone and the Mediterranean-Mid
dle East war zone. He was in the
vast convoy that landed American
doughboys in North Africa arid
was wounded there. Service bars
for all actions were presented him
H by the War Shipping Board.
“ Hines, ill and nervous from his
grim experiences, was forced to
leave his ship when it put into
port and went to the Marine hos
pital in Portland, Maine. At Ban
gor, Maine, where Seaman Hines
was extended assistance and many
courtisies by the Travelers Aid
and the USO, he reported modest
ly that he is not the only one in
his family serving Uncle Sam—
that his brother, Sgt. Bain Hines,
is with the Air Corps in New
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C. G. Andrews, 56,
Buried On Friday
Well Known Chestnut Grove
Citizen Passes After Se
rious Illness
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Funeral service for Rev. Char
les G. Andrews, 56, of the Chest
nut Grove community, who died
July 13, was held at Shiloh Metho
dist church on July 14 with Rev.
Mack Tedder and Rev. Carlie
McKnight officiating. Burial fol
lowed in the church cemetery.
The deceased, a prominent
Union Baptist minister, pastor of
the Whitehead Union Baptist
church, had been seriously ill for
the past month. He had made his
home for a number of years in
the Chestnut Grove community
but had lived in Canada in early
life.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Mae Andrews, and four children,
Claude Andrews, of the U. S.
Army stationed somewhere over
seas, Rita Andrews, of Indepen
dence, and Dorothy and Charles,
Jr., of the home. Also surviving
are his father,W. M. Andrews,
and two brother^.
Pallbearers were: Kenneth Hud
son, Hoke Andrews, Andy Evans,
Carl Andrews, Marion Joines and
Claude Holloway.
Flower bearers were Mrs. Cleve
Nichols, Mrs. Walter Andrews,
Mrs. Lon Reeves, Mrs. Mack Toli
ver, Mrs. Carl Andrews, Mrs. Sam
Perry and Mrs. Grover Reeves.
To the People
of this Community
The next time you write to
your fighting man or fighting
woman tell him or her what
you have done about the Fifth
War Lean.
You can
take the
word of
General
Eisenhower
that your
man or
woman in
uniform will
be deeply
interested.
Your War
Bond buying la a good tip-oil
to them about the state of affairs
in your home. The headlines in
this newspaper on the progress
of the drive, the items about par
ticipating individuals, the char
acter of the Fifth War Loan spe
cial events—all these things re
flect the morale back home.
Do you like to read a sorry
headline about the invasion
fronts. Our fighting forces,
made up of individuals with the
same reactions to good and bad
as you, will not be heartened to
read: "Fifth War Loan Lags."
Your silence in your letter
about your part in the Fifth War
Loan will mean non-interest,
perhaps non-participation to the
recipients. It’s up to you to make
your letters cheerful Write to
day. Write often. Write about
your war work, your war sup
port. Double your best previous
War Bond buying record and
then shout It to the housetops—
Just to that special service man.
p• THE EDITOR,
i
General DeGaulle In Washington
Gen. Charles DaGaulle, head of the French Committee
of National liberation, arrived in Washington for a series of
talks with high officials. Photo shows him (left) as he was
shaking hands with Gen. G. C. Marshall Gen. S. H. Arnold
stands in die rear.
Allies Make Gains
In France And Italy;
Reds Hit Nazi Lines
Americans Take Town Of St.
Lo; Huge Rail Terminal
Threatened By Russians
British and Canadian armored
forces broke through the German
line across the Orne river at the
eastern end of the Normandy
front Tuesday in a full-scale of
fensive which was rolling in dust
southeastward across the Caen
plain yesterday with a power
recalling the historic British as
sault at El Alamein.
On the American sector to the
west, Lt Gen. Omar N. Bradley’s
doughboys captured the hillside
hinge stronghold ai St. Lo after
an eight-day battle, forcing a
German withdrawal of a mile and
a half and threatening a crumb
ling of the Nazi positions west
ward all the way to the coast.
American troops crashed
through strongly held German
positions yesterday and swept
three miles across open country
into the town of Pontedera on
the Arno river between Pisa and
Florence, reaching the enemy’s
“Gothic line" defenses and vir
tually outflanking the great west
coast port of Livorno.
Pontedera is situated on the
south bank of the Arno—12 miles
east of Pisa, 18 miles northwest
of Livorno and 32 miles west of
Florence.
■ Red armies of the south in a
powerful new offensive have
cracked strong German defenses
around the great bastion of Lwow
in old Poland for three-day gains
of 31 miles on a 125-mile front,
and readied the Bug river within
five miles of the frontier from
which the Germans attacked the
' Sovief Union, Moscow announced
jlast night
BEQUEST IS MADE FOB
BAPTIST OBPHANAGE
It was announced this week that
those persons wishing to can for
the Baptist orphanage, could se
cure cans, as usual, at Smithey’s
Store in Sparta.
It was explained that beans and
tomatoes are especially desired by
the orphanage.
Price Panel Met
Here Tuesday To
Discuss Program
Board Sends Request To
Housewives To Keep To
kens In Circulation
“The merchants in Alleghany
county are co-operating in every
respect with the OPA in regard
to ceiling prices,” Joe Bill Reed,
chairman of the Alleghany Price
Panel board, said at a meeting of
the board Tuesday night.
“The fact that we have had
no serious complaints does not
designate a lack of knowledge of
ceiling prices on the part of the
buying public of the county, but
rather the excellent co-operation
of the merchants with the OPA,”
Chairman Reed further stated.
A request that tokens be used
more extensively by housewives
in the purchase of canned foods
and meats, was issued by the price
panel board. According to all re
ports, these tokens are not coming
back into the hands of the mer
chants as they should. It was
pointed out that they were as
valuable as stamps in the pur
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C. Of C/Team Wins
At Piney Creek
The Sparta Chamber of Com
merce softball team defeated the
Piney Creek team Sunday after
noon on the Piney Creek field,
after Joe Bill Reed pitched a no
hit game for a 3-0 victory.
Hugh Choate, Sparta second
baseman, led the hitting for the
winning team with two hits in
the fourth and seventh innings.
Cecil Rector, on the mound for
Piney Creek, pitched a four-hit
game, both teams battling des
perately all through the nine
innings. ;
Line up for both teams follows:
Sparta: Joe Bill Reed, p; B.
Allison, s.s.; T. Green, c; C. A.
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Former Sparta Man Writes
Of Experiences In France
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Pfc. Paul Irwin, son of Deputy
Marshall and Mrs. Walter Irwin,
of Wilkesboro and formerly of
Sparta, writes of his experiences
in France following the invasion.
Excerpts from several of his let
ters have been compiled in the
following:
June 21
“Dear Dad and Mother,
I bet I know what you have
been doing—one guess, worrying
about me, but here I am safe and
well so you see you worried for
nothing. See why I tell you jjot
to worry. This is the first time
I have ha'd a chance to write for
sometime, but I hope to be able
to write more often from now on.
I got mail this week f or the first
time in about a month; in all I
got 27 letters and believe me I
was really happy to get them. As
I said before I am safe and well
and in France; and I can’t speak
French. Now 1 see where I should
have studied more French in
school but I hadn’t planned on
coming to Franpethen. There isn’t
much I can say? I am a little
older and a lot Wiser. The Lord
has been exceptionally good to
me and I keep thanking Him all
the time and I am as confident
as ever that I will be back. So
just don’t worry and one of these
days soon Fll be there. Keep your
chin up; everything is going to
be ok.
'June 23
I am feeling good and doing
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172 Alleghany
Men Classified
By Local Board
112 Are Placed In l-A(H);
60 In Various Other
Classifications
The local board announced this
week names of 172 Alleghany
county men for military service
when 112 were placed in l-A(H)
and 60 in various other classifica
tions.
The classifications list is as fol
lows:
1-A: William A. Sisk and Clif
ton C. Sidden.
l-A(H): James O. Wyatt, Wil
liam P. Baugus, Wilmer C. Wood
ruff, Boyd M. Huggins, Oscar J.
A. Simpson, Liver F. Blackburn,
Charlie R. Roberts, Cary Brown,
Carey D. Blevins, John W. War
den, Carl R. Choate, Charlie W.
Phipps, Robert G. Cleary, Fred
T. Pruitt, Fred E. Handy, George
D. Todd.
William O. Shumate, Crockett
J. Poe, Joseph L. Larue, Virgil
L. Jenkins, Paul O. Smith, Vass
G. Lane, Floyd A, V. Poole, David
P. Jarrell, Lawrence E. Reeves,
Johnnie R. Todd, Estes Crouse,
Robert B. Vannoy, Ralph C. Gen
try, Mack H. Fender, Guy H.
Waddell, Mack F. Brooks, Harvey
F. Irwin, William P. Wyatt, Wal
ter S. Brooks, Lonnie H. Black,
Bryant W. Jones, Carper Osborne,
John W. Whitaker, Vester B.
Mabe, Chester W. Smith, Dan
Roberts, William E. Burchett,
William M. Smith, Zack M. Ward,
Willard B. Fender, Charlie G.
Collins.
uames cj. raiuuc, v^uiuniuus n.
Higgins, John E. Blevins, Bertie
H. Combs, John C. Reed, John
W. Combs, Edgar G. Anthony,
John R. Grubb, Rex S. Warden,
Conley W. Caudill, John C. Gam
bill, Roscoe Murray, Robert L.
Anders, George R. Douglas, James
S. Landreth, Thurmond H. Fritz
gerald, Claude J. Johnson, Raleigh
N. Joines, Homer W. Wilson, Les
ter V. Rutherford.
Theodore R. Spicer, Fred H.
Brown, Ryfus F. Phipps, Willis
M. Murrayi William R. Miller,
Jesse Sexton, John R. Gambill,
Omar H. Bedsaul, John R. Gentry,
Foster M. Hackler, Preston Cox,
Dent Joines, Isom C. Fender, Fred
L. Phipps, John R. Kennedy,
Newell W. King, Ray Halsey,
Center E. Mitchell, Garfield W.
Warden, Wheeler Nance, William
E. Hoppers, Joseph L. Bare.
Frank L. Roupe, James R.
Thompson, Reason T. Lyon, Ste
ven M. Scott, Joseph F. Irwin,
Lonnie H. Halsey, Claude R. Hal
sey, Glenn Wyatt, Eugene W.
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Local Officers
'Made 5 Arrests
Frank Duncan, Nine Weeks
Overdue At Camp In Fla.,
Taken To Charlotte
Town Marshall Glenn Richard
son announced this week that the
following arrests had been made:
Albert Rutherford, of Piney
Creek, was arrested on a charge
of bigamy and released on bond
by B. F. Wagoner, magistrate, on
Thursday.
Rufus Holbrook, of Sparta, was
arrested , Saturday, for public
drunkenness and was released on
bond for a hearing on Saturday.
Troy Fortner was arrested, Sun
day, for disturbing the peace and
public drunkenness. He was want
ed by the Federal authorities on
a charge of making liquor. Local
officers turned him over to Fed
eral authorities on Monday.
Frank Duncan, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Left Duncan, of Glade Val-|
ley, was taken to Charlotte where I
he was turned over to military!
authorities. Local officers arrested
him at his home when he over
stayed his leave nine weeks. He
had been stationed at Panama
City, Florida.
Good Prices At
Bean Mart Here
West Jefferson — (Special) —
Ashe county farmers along with
others in this section, selling their
beans on the market here are
continuing to receive good prices.
The demand remains good with
plenty of buyers on the market.
On Monday night 3,980 bushels
of beans were sold at auction and
on Tuesday night 3,900 bushels
were disposed of. The average
price for these two nights was
$1.80, netting the growers around
$13,608.00.
A Liberator Afire Over Vienna
A Liberator bomber of the tJ. S. 16th air force is shown
as photographed from another American plane after it was
mortally hit by a German ME-109 during mission over the
oil refineries in Vienna. Crew bailed out safely
County Bond Sales
Continue To Climb;
Quota Far Surpassed
N- C. Democrats
Meet For Caucus
At Convention
Miss Beatrice Cobb, Of Mor
ganton, Is Reelected Nation
al Committeewoman
Chicago—W. P. Horton, of Pitts
boro, was unanimously elected
national Democratic committee
man from North Carolina at a
state caucus Tuesday night and
Miss Beatrice Cobb, of Morganton,
was reelected national committee
woman. i
Gov. J. M. Broughton was
named chairman of the North
Carolina delegation, Lieutenant
Governor R. L. Harris, vice chair
man, and Mrs. E. L. McKee, of
Sylva, secretary.
Josephus Daniels, publisher of
the Raleigh, N. C., News and Ob
server and former secretary of
the navy, was named to the con
vention platform and resolutions
committees, and Luther Hamilton,
of Morehead City, was named to
the credentials committee.
Walter Lambert, of Thomas
ville, was named to the permanent
organization committee; Willis
Smith, of Raleigh, rules; John D.
Larkin, Jr., of Trenton, to com
mittee to notify president of the
convention; ex-Gov. J. C. B. Eh
ringhaus, honorary' assistant vice
president; Gov. J. M. Broughton,
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E. W. Thompson
To Act As Pastor
Rev. E. W. Thompson, of Glade
Valley, will temporarily act as
pastor of the Sparta Presbyterian
church in the absence of Rev. R.
L. Berry, who has gone to Bel
mont.
Rev. Mr. Thompson will hold
service at the Presbyterian church
on Sunday at 11:00 o’clock. A
cordial invitation is extended to
all to attend.
Rev. Mr. Thompson announced
that he would hold the regular
service at both the Sparta and
Glade Valley churches but that
he would attend the Rocky Ridge
church only on the second Sunday
in each month.
All Townships Over Quotas;
Commended By
Nichols
Final reports on the bond sales
for Alleghany county in the Fifth
War Loan Drive, reveal that the
$90,000.00 quota has been exceed
ed by $35,258.75, with $125,258.75
reported.
The “E” bond quota was ex
ceeded last week by more than
$9,000.00. Alleghany is one of the
eleven counties in the state to;
date to meet and exceed the "E”'
bo’-’H auota.
Chairman S. R. Nichols an-.
nounced the sales of each town
ship in the county yesterday.
Following is a list of the town
ships, their quotas and the total
sales in the drive:
Piney Creek, quota, $7,500.00
and sales, $11,343.75; Glade Creek,
quota, $7,500.00 and sales, $14,
400.00; Cherry Lane, quota, $5,
000.00 and sales, $6,483.75; White
head. quota, $3,750.00 and sales,
$4,387.50;. Cranberry, quota, $4,
000.00 and sales, $4,038.00; Pra
ther’s Creek, quota, $5,250.00 and
sales, $5,285.25; and Gap Civil,
quota. $57,000.00 and sales, $79,
320.50.
Whitehead township was the
first in the county, to meet the
quota assigned them and Glade
Creek exceeded and almost doub
led the quota assigned them.
“Each township is to be com
mended,” Chairman Nichols sta
ted, “because not one of them
failed to meet the quota.”
Keports from sources of sales
in the county show the North
western Bank in the lead with
$66,187.50. The Sparta post office
reports $28,556.25 and the Roaring
Gap post office, with Mrs. J. T.
Inskeep in charge, reports $315.00.
The state made a purchase
amounting to $26,900.00, and Al
leghany received credit for $3,
300.00 from the boys in service.
SOY BEAN MEAL IS NOW
AVAILABLE TO FARMERS
C. G. Collins, chairman of AAA
in Alleghany, announced this
week that a limited supply of soy
bean meal had been received and
was available to farmers, vffao
would call at the AAA office here.
Mr. and Mrs. L. K. Boyer, of
Charlotte, are visiting Mrs. T. J.
Carson and Dr. and Mrs. H. K.
Boyer.
Infantile Paralysis Outbreak
Expected To Decline In Aug.
Dr. C. P. Stevick, epidemiologist
with the State Health Depart
ment, in Raleigh, said this week
he believed the current outbreak
of infantile paralysis would reach
its peak this month and show a
considerable decline during Au
gust.
The new cases were listed Mon
day as follows: Alamance 2,
Ashe 1, Catawba 1, Durham 2,
Forsyth 2, Guilford 2, Haywood
1, McDowell 2, Mecklenburg 3,
Wayne 1, and Wilkes 1, bringing
tire total since June 1 to 336.
Dr. Stevick pointed out that in
1935 a total of 675 cases were re
ported, most of them during the
months of June, July and August.
The peak month was July, and
the outbreak was well on the
way to complete control in mid
August.
The State Board of Health has
asked that all possible conferences
and meetings scheduled in the
State be postponed in order to
help control the spread of infan
tile paralysis. It has also been
recommended that all nonprofit
camps be closed and that com
mercial camps operating in coun
ties where the disease “ has ab
normal prevalence” admit no new
campers. ,
C. H. Crabtree, State Repre
sentative for the Foundation, said
that $50,000 of the total came from
the national office, and the re
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Lambs Sold In
Pool Here Bring
Over 82.900.00
Black Announces Another
Shipment To Be Made
August 3
Lambs Which were pooled here
recently, were sold last week to
the Ke^ns Commission company,
of Jersey City, N. J., and brought
$2,942.80, a price considerably
higher than was received last
year, according to R. E. Black,
county agent.
In this first shipment of the
summer, 41 Alleghany fanners
sold 276 lambs, with 60 per cent
of them graded as choice lambs.
Choice lambs were sold for $16.80
per 100; good lambs for $16.10
per 100 and medium lambs tor
$15.00 per 100.
Sheep raisers in the county
were especially pleased over the
price the lambs brought this year,
it was pointed out.
Among the top sales in the pool
were the five lambs sold by B. f.
Wagoner, of Sparta. These lamb*
were sold at $78.10 net.
Another shipment is expected
to be made on August 3, Mr. Black
disclosed. A schedule of weighing
posts will be announced shortly
before that time.
County Library
Has Big Increase
Total Circulation Is 11,11%
With 486 New Books
Added This Year
The Alleghany county library
has added 486 new books during
the past year, Mrs. Carrie Ham
Jones, librarian, stated in her an
nual report this week.
There were 27 book stations in
the county last year, Mrs. Jones
pointed out. These book stations
are counted by the number of
teachers who carried a collection
of books to the schools to bo
circulated, she pointed out
The total circulation of the li
brary, not including the teachers,
was 11,119 and the volumns lent
to schools totaled 600. The num
ber of registered borrowers total
ed 461, she explained.
Only 21 books were discarded
during the year and only five
books lost and pair for.
The library receives two news
papers and ten magazines, Mrs.
Jones stated.
The library is open on Monday,
Tuesday, Friday and Saturday ot
each week from 9:30 to 4:00 p. m.
and is closed etch Wednesday and
Thursday.
In a financial statement of the
library funds, Mrs. Jones pointed
out that the state grant to be spent
for books amounted $1,125.00 with
the county appropriation $450.00.
Expenditures were listed as $976.
77.
Members of the county library
board include: Mrs. J. T. Inskeep,
chairman; Mrs. Albert Richard
son, secretary and treasurer; Mrs.
T. C. Osborne, Miss Clyde Fields,
county superintendent; Miis Pearl
Fields, W. C. Thompson and James
McD. Wagoner, county commis
sioner.
To tho Peoplo
of this Community
This is • borne front communi
que on the most vital war action
now In progress in every com
munity of lb# land—the Fifth