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VOLUME 55, NO. 47 AND STAR-TIMES— < CONSOLIDATED ON SEPTEMBER 2, 1941) —ALLEGHANY COUNTY’S ONLY NEWSPAPER. " SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA $2.09 a Year Out oi County security, too* THURSDAY, AUG. 19, IMA Polio Epidemic I la Still Showing A Decline Here Bam On Children fifteen And Under Extended Through September 3 With no new cases of infantile paralysis reported in Alleghany .county for the past 14 day^, the epidemic is thought to be declin ing rapidly, officials reported this week. However, at a special meeting last Friday, the county board of health extended the previous or dinance banning children from public gatherings through Sep tember 3. The ordinance, “making it un lawful for children under fifteen years of age to attend public gath erings or appear on the streets or other public places in Alleghany county during the quarantine without permission of a physi cian,” was passed when the epi demic began in the county. Mayor R. F. Crouse, a member of the board of health, announced yesterday that copies of the or dinance had been sent to all of ficers of the law in the county, with orders to enforce them in ev Pjery respect. The opening date of schools in the county has been postponed until September 4, it was also pointed out. ■> There are now five patients from Alleghany in the emergency hospital in Hickory, all of whom are reported to have satisfactory conditions. W. L. Irwin, 65, Buried Tuesday Well Known Stratford Man Died Sunday In Baptist Hospital William L. "Bill” Irwin, 68, well known farmer of the Strat ford community died Sunday at the Baptist hospital in Winston^-. Salem, following an operation. • ' Funerabsarvica'SsSir Hiirf at Atw tioch Primitive Baptist church, Tuesday at two o’clock, with Eld ers S. G. Caudill, Ed Douglas and Johnnie Williams and Rev. Ray Billings officiating. Burial fol lowed in the church cemetery, d Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Myra Watson, of the Strat ford community; one brother, Abe Irwin and one sister, Mrs. Press Irwin, of Stratford. His wife preceded him in death many years ago. Pallbearers were R. G. Warden, Eugene Mitchell, Frank Atwood, Bert Williams, Will Atwood and Charlie Edwards. . i Flower girls were Mrs. Lola Mae Williams, Mrs. Eugene Mitch ell, Mrs. Charlie Edwards, Mrs. Laura Warden, Mrs. Thelma Mabe, Miss Beatrice Absher, Misses Jennie, Ruth and Fannie Atwood, Mrs. Myrtie Reeves, Mrs. Anice Shepherd, Mrs. Lula Lan dreth and Mrs. Ed Taylor. Miss Addie Reeves, of West Grove, Pa., is visiting relatives A here. Mrs. Osborne Has 4 Sons In Service With four sons' in the armed forces, two of them serving over seas, Mrs. James M. Osborne, of Sparta, is kept busy With extra farm duties and a heavy corres pondence these days. JEL-Sgt. Clement G.Osfc&tne, wk to enter the sendee,. r _ in June, 1942 and receiv training at Ft. Dix, Vt. J. w. ■ Bragg. In May, 1943, he w» £ transferred oversea* .and.after spending sometime in North Af rica and Sicily, was moved to It aly where he is now stationed. Cpl. Jack P, Osborne entered the service in July, 1942, and was trained at Camp Forrest, Term., and Camp Phillips, Kansas. He recently notified his mother that he had arrived safely somewhere in England. Cpl. Woodrow Osborne, who i was recently promoted to his r pfesent rank, is with the infan try replacement training center at Camp Hood, Texas. -He entered the Army in December, 1943, and received his training at Camp Walters, Texas. His wife and two children reside at Volney, Virginia. A-S James left Osborne, the last to enter the service, choke the Navy and is now stationed at V Va. General Clark Meets King George i King George VI of England is shown here accompanied by Lieut. Gen. Mark W. Clark as he inspected American fighting men at a base in Italy. During his tour of the Italian front, the king reviewed 19,000 veteran American infantrymen and tank men as well as nurses and WACs. ? Allies Now Moving Toward Paris; Reds Planning New Drive Allied Troops In Italy Make Procress Against Germans On Arno The Canadians in their first great offensive in France smash ed five miles yesterday into some of the strongest enemy lines be fore Paris, whose defenses 110 miles t*r, the southwest were im periled ttjY.onrushing Americans |t 1,000 U. S. heavy dying flak as intense rover Europe—shat ng strong points be t the shortest route to and fought down the road to about 110 miles from the capital. The Germans are launching des perate counter-attacks along vir tually all of the 1,000-mile eastern front but are being “bled white”, Moscow reported as it appeared that the Nazis had managed to stem the Red army advances by drawing heavily on their dwindl (Continued on Page Four; Are To Assisi In Drive For Nurses Dr. T. R. Burgiss, prominent Sparta pharmacist, has been ap pointed chairman for Alle ghany county in the state drive to recruit 1500 young women in the United States Cadet Nurse Corps. The campaign is sponsored by the North Carolina Nursing Coun cil for War Service in co-opera tion with the North Carolina Pharmaceutical Association. Ap pointments were made by Hazel1 C. Williams, state student recruit- j ment officer, and Mr. Beamer, of Durham, state chairman of the pharmacy committee. Urge Farmers To Make Plans Now For Winter Crops Special AAA Payments May Be Earned; Plans Explained By C. G. Collins Farmers of Alleghany may earn a practice payment of $1.50 per acre under the 1945 AAA farm program for .^establishing winter cover from seedings this mixtures ctrtfltyfc was lins, chairman of the county AAA committee. To qualify for this payment, Mr. Collins said, a protective white cover must be provided and the crop must not be harvested for grain. • However, it may be pastured, cut for hay, turned un der as a green manure crop, or left on the land as a ‘go down” crop next spring. The seed bed should be well prepared and the (Continued on Page 4) C. C. Postpones August Meeting The August meeting of the Sparta Chamber of Commerce, scheduled to meet on Friday, has been postponed due to the epi demic of infantile paralysis in the county, R. F. Crouse, president, announced this week. A special program is being planned for the September meet ing, Mr. Crouse explained. This] meeting will be held on Friday,] September 8, and all members , are expected to be present. The program will be announced at a later date. County To Have Service Of Nurse For Three Weeks Visits To Be Made To Homes Of Victims Of Infantile Paralysis* Miss Idell Buchan, public health nurse, will be in the coun ty Monday, Tuesday and Wednes day, visiting the homes of Vic tims of infantile paralysis, it was announced. Miss Buchan, who is working with the National Foundation of Infantile Paralysis, will do a type of research for the foundation and also will give instruction to the parents in the care of patients with the disease. Miss Pearl Weaver, public health nurse, who formerly was in Ashe county, will be in Alle ghany for a period of three weeks beginning today. Miss Weaver will visit families and give instruction in the care of patients with iliantle paralysis. Repair Projects Begin In Schools Board Of Education Approves Projects At Piney Creek And Sparta Various repair projects for the schools of Alleghany county were approved by the county Board of Education, when they met in reg ular session on Monday, and work has already begun in some of the schools, it was announced this week. Work has been started on the in stallation of indoor toilets at Pin ey Creek high school, since the toilet condition there had been condemned by the State Health Department and the State Depart ment of Education. A levy for this project was approved by the county commissioners and G. T. Perry has been approved as con tractor. It was also announced that re pairs Were . being made on the plumbing system in the elemen tary building at Sparta school and that work was in progress on the Rich Hill school, which has been alloted an extra teacher this year. Work on various projects in other schools in the county is ex pected to be completed before school begins. Stores To Close Wed. P. M. In Sept. The business houses in Sparta will continue to remain closed on Wednesday afternoons through the month of September, mer chants unanimously agreed, when a vote was taken yesterday after noon. This move was taken, it was ex plained, in order that merchants and their employees would have time for work at their homes on one afternoon each week. The policy has been practiced in Sparta for the past three months and has proved valuable to both employer and employee. The drug store and bus station, however, will remain open as us ual, it was pointed out. Latest On The Argentine Full House Hie Diligenti quintuplets of Argentine sit for their nur sery portrait like the little ladies and gentlemen which they are. Left to right, they are: Maria Cristina, Carlos Alberto, Franquito (on the hobby horse), Maria Fernada and Maria Ester, smiling happily at the camera. Alleghany Far Over Quota In War Bonds, Final Reports Show Farm Group Will Meet Next Week At Turkey Knob Special Program Has Been Planned By Southern States , Cooperative -. Members and friends of South ern States Cooperative of this sec tion will meet in Carl M. Ken nedy’s store at Turkey Knob next Wednesday evening, August 16, at 8 o’clock when J. B. Cox, of Mouth of Wilson, will preside. Mr. Campbell will give the an nual report of Southern States and Carl M. Kennedy, of Mouth of Wilson, will report on local co operative activities. The group will select from the following nominees, together with any named at the meeting, suc cessors to the two members who are retiring from the Advisory board: Delton Deboard, Fred Os borne, Stratford, Everett Wyatt, Carl Halsey, Piney Creek. The farm group also will vote on the matters of policy which have been mentioned as coming up for consideration at the Galax meeting. An open forum and a social program, including contests, the awarding of prizes, and refresh ments, will be included. Carl M. Kennedy and Southern States Cooperative will be hosts at this meeting. Approximately 350 member (Continued On Page Four! Total Of $132,957.00 Is Sold; Quota For Fifth War Loan Set At $90,000.00 Final reports from the Treasury department reveal that Alleghany county sold $132,957.00 in the Fifth War Loan Drive when the1 quota was set at $90,000.00. The “E” bond quota was set at $57,000.00 and this was surpassed by $22,425.00, the report showed. A total of $79,425.00 worth of “E” bonds were sold during the drive, i The final totals include bonds' bought by men in service, cor porations which allgted their sales to the county, as well as those bought in the county. S. R. Nichols, chairman of the drive, received letters of congrat ulation from both C. T. Leinbach, chairman of the North Carolina War Finance Committee, and W. H. Neal, area chairman. Alle ghany was one of the 12 counties in the state to exceed their ;‘E” bond quota by July 15. , Mr. Nichols stated that he again wished to thank everyone for the splendid co-operation in making it possible for Alleghany county to attain such remarkable (.Continued on Page Four) AAA ANNOUNCES NEW SHIPMENT OF FEED WHEAT C. G. Collins, chairman of the AAA in Alleghany county, an nounced this week that a new shipment of feed wheat had ar rived and was now ready for sale. The wheat will be weighed out only on Saturdays, Mr. Collins again reminded farmers. Alleghany County Men Now Fighting For Our Liberty And Democracy ^ lames E. Carpenter, Or. and Mrs. Clay Car ol Twin Oaks, is now few Pvt. Grant M. Harless, Jr., who is recuperating in a hos pital in Italy from wounds re ceived in action Ofi June 9, has been awarded the Purple Heart lor military merit. Pvt. Harless is the son of Mr. and Mrs. G. Harless, of Whitehead. Mil Olin C. Beeves, Seaman 2-C, son of Mrs. S. G. Caudill, of Sparta, entered the Navy in March, 1944, and is now serv in the Hawaiian Islands, wife, the former Miss Ed llack end son, Bichard, se at Piney Creek. Pvt. Dan Davis, son of Mrs. Carrie S. Davis, of Piney Creek, is now serving on the Italian front and writes his mother that ha is getting along fine. He received his training at Camp Grant, Va, and left the states in September, 1943. Sgt. William H. Busic, of Sputa, has recently been pro moted to his present rating. Sgt. Busic, who fat a turret specialist, is stationed at an Army Air Force Service Sta tion somewhere in England. D]a J?_ ———1 mmi in Cl asm mam nib wuc reaiucB in «9|nhmu . County Schools Wilh Open Sept* 4 In Alleghany All Bos Drivers And Teachers To Be Announced At Board Meeting, August 29 Due to the polio epidemic and due to the advise of local, as well as state health authorities, th« opening date for schools in Al leghany county has been set for September 4, Supt. Clyde Fields announced yesterday. The opening date is subject to change, she pointed out, depend ing entirely on health conditions in the county. Schools were originally scheduled to open on August 21. “The board of education wishes to work hand in hand with the board of health, and we want to do everything possible to curb this epidemic,” Miss Fields stated. She also announced that die board of education would hold a meeting on August 29, at which time all bus drivers and all teach ers for the county will be approv ed. Miss Helds also pointed out that due to the fact that the majority of the patrons of the Vox com munity wished to send their chil dren to the1 Sparta school and since a school bus passed directly by the Vox school, the board «t education had decided to consol idate that school. The act has been approved by the State Transportation Department and by the State Department of Ed ucation, she explained. Hear Merchants In Price Cases Price Panel Announces Tem porary Freeze Of Brooms In County At a meeting of the durable goods division of the Alleghany price panel board, Tuesday night, cases of eleven merchants in the ^county, Who were charged with selling goods above the ceiling price, were heard. The cases were reported by price panel assistants in the coun ty, who conducted a survey of durable goods the latter part of July. Stores included: Allen and Templeton, Scottville; Roy Bryan, Roaring Gap; A. N. Evans, Bar rett; Carl M. Kennedy, Stratford; Roaring Gap Store, G. W. Todd, Ennice; Cash and Carry, Jay Hardin, Farmer’s Hardware and Western Auto Associate store, all in Sparta, ration board officials announced. Of the eleven stores in the coun ty, found to be in violation of OPA prices, ten were said to be overcharging for brooms and two were violating ceiling prices on hammers. Merchants, found in violation, stated that suppliers’ prices had increased and that it was im possible to conduct profitable sales on the two articles and com ply with the ceiling. Mrs. Robert Fleetwood, ration clerk, announc ed that an investigation would be made of suppliers and reasons for the increase in price, in order to clear the merchants’ stand. In the meantime, it was an nounced by the price panel, no brooms would.be sold in the coun ty until advised by the Charlotte district office. Mrs. J. M .Cheek returned home Sunday, from a visit with ha daughter, Mrs. George McKinley, of Waynesville. Parole Official Visits Alleghany James Anderson, parAle super visor for the State Board of Pa roles, visited the county last Sat urday, at which tiipe he confer red with the department of pub lic welfare. Mr. Anderson has supervision and auhority over paroled pris oners, assists them and those who are to be paroled in finding and retaining self-supporting employ ment, and promotes rehabilitation work with. paroled prisoners, to the end that they may become law abiding cttisena. He con tacts the paroldfes at leat quarter ly, and, present, there; in this
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