-ALLEGHANY COUNTY’S
VOLUME 55, NO. 49
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THURSDAY, AUG. 24, 1944
Final Shipment
* Of Lambs To Be
Made On Sept. 1
R. E. Black, County Agent, An
nounces Schedule For Grad
ing And Weighing
The final shipment of lambs
to be sold in cooperative pool will
be held in Alleghany on Friday,
September 1, when two groups of
graders will be in tne county, R.
E. Black, county agent, announced
yesterday.
Following is the schedule for
the places where the lambs will
be graded and weighed:
First Group: 8 a. m., E. W. Shep
herd; 9 a. m., M. E. Reeves; 9:45
a. m., W. F. Doughton; 10:45, W.
W. Warden (Mt.); 1 p. m., John
M. Cheek; 2 p. m., Eddie Hoppers;
2:45 p. m., Whitehead; 3:30 p. In.,
Bob Thompson; 4:30 p. m., Kell
Edwards; 5:30 p. m., T. L. Crouse;
6:00 p. m., R. ,E. Black.
Second Group: 8 a. m., R. E.
Richardson; 8:30 a. m., S. C.
Richardson; 9:15 a. m., Prathers
Creek; 9:45 a. m., Bruce Finney;
10:30 a. m., D. J. Jones; 11:15 a.
m., H. G. Black; 1:00 p. m., Etta
) Moxley; 2:00 p. m., F. S. Delp;
2:45 p. m„ L. K. Halsey; 3:15 p.
m., S. C. Halsey; 4:15 p. m., John
C. Halsey; 5:15 p. m., Lee Hamp
ton; 6:00 p. m., Ruby Woodruff;
6:30 p. m., R. L. Crouse; 7:00 p. m.,
J. C. Gambill.
Anyone having lambs which
are not convenient to one of the
above scales, should notify the
county agent, R. E. Black, prior to
shipment.
Marines Rescue
Wounded Comrade
Pfc. Walter Frank Osborne,
Jr., Of Sparta, Aids Three
Others In Rescue
Saipan, Marianas Islands—(De
layed)—Though one man already
had been hilled, four Marine ar
tillery meh">hlunteered to rescue
a wounded comrade whom Jap
Snipers ware using as "bait”.
One of the flour volunteers was
Marine Private First Class Wal
ter F. Osborne, Jr., of Sparta.
The wounded man was hit by
a group of Jap snipers. He fell
into a shallow depression out of
their line of fire. Anyone ap
proaching was exposed to the
fire, however.
While other Marines poured in
a strong covering fire, the four
volunteers rushed in, picked up
their man, and departed. The
Japs fired but were so harried by
Marine fire that they couldn’t
take careful aim and none of the
rescuers was hit.
D. & P. Employees
Entertained Sat.
The D. and P. Pipe Works en
tertained the employees with a
fish fry Saturday evening at the
picnic grounds at New River.
David P. Lavietes, owner of the
factory and Sam Porter, general
manager, were in charge of ar
rangements. About fifty employ
ees and guests from the Boone
and Sparta factories'were present.
Among guests from Sparta was
Mayor R. F. Crouse.
Rationing Guide
MEATS, FATS
.. Book four red (tamps A8
through Z8 and AS through
D5 valid Indefinitely and are
worth 14 points each. Thirty
meat and fat stamps are avail
able to each consumer every
four weeks. Bed tokens are
good for change indefinitely.
PROCESSED FOODS
■ ByA four bine stamps AS
through ZS and AS through FS
valid indefinitely. All bine
tokens may he used for making
SUGAR
Book tour stamps 34, 31 and
S3 valid indefinitely for five
pounds each; stamp 44 good
for five pounds for home can
ning through Feb. 38, IMS.
SHOES
Airplane stamps 1 and 3 In
Book Three valid indefinitely.
Good far one pair each.
GASOLINE
U-A coupons valid for three
gallons through Nov. *. B-3,
B-4, C-S and C-4 coupons are
. Forces On Road
y; |jParis|
Been Liberated
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PRESS SPEAKER
Col. A. L. Fietcher, who will
be the guest speaker at the
meeting of the MidWesteffn'
Press Association meeting on
Saturday evening at Shatley
Springs.
Midwestern Press
Meets At Shatley
Springs, Saturday
Interesting Program Planned;
Several From Sparta To
Attend
West Jefferson — (Special) —
Around 60 members of the Mid
western Press Association and
guests are expected to attend the
meeting at Shatley Springs on
A?^L^TetOT^ Will be the guest
speaker.
Colonel Fletclier, who has re
cently returned to North Carolina
to resume his position as director
of the Unemployment Compen
sation Commission, after serving
for more than two years on the
Presidential Board of Appeals, of
National Selective Service, will
discuss die G. I. Bill of Rights and
the Kilgore Bill. He will be pre
sented by Ed M. Anderson.
Included in the entertainment
features of the program will be
string music by Clifton Evans and
his band, from Sparta; a reading
by Miss Nena Bell Barr and vocal
selections by Miss Rachel Rader.
L. P. Colvard, mayor of Jeffer
son, will extend an official wel
come to which Miss Beatrice
Cobb, secretary of the North Car
olina Press Association, will re
spond.
In addition to Miss Cobb, sev
eral officers of the State associa
tion are expected to attend. A
number plan to spend the week
end at Shatley Springs.
Mrs. Ed M, Anderson, president
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SOYBEAN MEAL IS NOW
AVAILABLE FROM AAA
C. G. Collins, chairman of the
AAA, announced this week that
a shipment of soybean meal is
now available for farmers. Any
farmer wishing to secure the
meal should call at the AAA of
fice here, he explained.
New Invasion Is Reported In
Bordeaux Sector; Many
Germans Killed
French Patriots have liberated
Paris, it was announced yester
day while Allied Armies tight
ened a great noose around 93,000
survivors of the beaten German
Seventh Army and American fly
ing columns lashed out far be
yond the capital to within 160
miles or less of the German bor
der.
An American armored column
has driven more than half way
across France on the road to
Germany, plunging past the an
cient town of Sens, 58 miles
southeast of Paris* in a 65-mile
smash against only meager op
position, a dramatic front dis
patch disclosed yesterday.
Sens is a full 180 airline miles
from the original Normandy in
vasion beachhead—much farther
over the road of battle—and only
165 miles from the German bor
der to the northeast near the Saar
town of Neunkirchen. Germany
also lies due east, 200 miles away
at the Rhine.
French military authorities said
a third allied landing in France
started Tuesday nght in the area
of Bordeaux, which was reported
under a co-ordinated attack by
American and French columns.
(There was no immediate con
firmation in other allied or axis
quarters of a Bordeaux landing.
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower’s su
preme headquarters has been si
lent upon the progress of a spear
head from the U. S. third army
since it broke 10 miles south of
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Annual Banquet
Of Northwestern
Bank Held Fri.
Gov. R. A. Doughton, Presi
dent, Speaks To Group;
Good Attendance
Gov. R. A. Doughton lauded
employees and officials of the
Northwestern Bank for the splen
did success of the banks during
the past year, at the annual ban
quet held at Boone, last Saturday
night.
W. D. Farthing, cashier of the
Boone bank, acted as toastmaster
at the dinner which was held in
the cafeteria of ASTC.
In addition to Gov. Doughton,
president of the bank association,
Vernon Deal, secretary and treas
urer, of North Wilkesboro; W. B.
Austin, a member of the Ashe
county board of directors, and
Edwin Duncan, executive vice
president, spoke briefly to the
group.
Guests were then invited to
Mayview Manor at Blowing Rock,
where they enjoyed a dance in the
ballroom of the hotel. About 150
guests attended. Light refresh
ments were later served in the
Hunt Room.
Those attending from Sparta
included Gov. R. A. Doughton,
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Duncan, Mrs.
Robert Fleetwood, a former em
ployee of the Sparta bank, and
Miss Doris Richardson.
Gift Problems For Women,
Men In Service Answered
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Local people, as well as those
throughout the nation, have really
started doing their Christinas
shopping early and are on the
hunt for gifts for men in service
overseas. But it isn’t so early af
ter all; for thesg gifts must be
mailed between September 15
and October 15,
The question of what to give
comes up; but the office of War
Information has made a survey
and hds the answer to that ques
tion. .
Soldiers in all theatre* would
like wallets, pipes and tobacco,
razor blades and small shaving
kits, pocket-sized books and pho
tographs in waterproof folders,
cigarettes and cigars* automatic
pencils, stationery, games, cards,
pussies, hard candy, soap, dried
fruit, vacuum-packed nuts and
■ wrist watches, the Office of War
Information reports.
Sailors everywhere want pock
et-sized dictionaries, novels, my
steries, westerns and humor—but
no war stories;, sneakers for show
ers and moccasin-type bedroom
slippers; pocket knives with at
tachments, Bibles, alarm docks,
playing cards, dice, poker chips,
insect repellents, small snapshots,
toilet Uts and shaving kits, foot
powder, sunglasses, fountain pens,
writing pads, fruit cake, tinned
luxury foods like olives, sardines,
nuts; coat hangers, wash clothes,
small homemade personal articles,
steel mirrors and favorite tobacco
mixtures.
Army nurses want washable
brunch coats, clothes pins, buttons,
needles, thread, mending equip
ment, lingerie, bobby pins, hair
nets, elastic, cosmetics of all
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U. S. Veterans Can Still Smile Even Though Wounded
These are wounded American veterans of the Southwest Pacific area, being treated in
a station hospital. Note the happy smiles on these men. One of them is' reading a letter from
home. (Army Signal Corps Photo)
Many County Men
In Armed Forces
Request Ballots
More Than 60 Applications
Received; Others Coming
In Rapidly
Applications for absentee bal
lots for use in the November 7
general election by members of
the armed forces are coming in
rapidly, G. Glenn Nichols, chair
man of the Alleghany county
board of elections, announced yes
terday.
He has received and mailed out
60 applications to date, Mr. Nich
ols announced, and seven marked
ballots have been received. He
stated that it is hoped that at
least 500 men from Alleghany
county would vote in the coming
election and that everything pos
sible is being done to get the
ballots to them.
Mr. Nichols also urged that im
mediate members of families hav
ing sons or husbands in service
fill out an application blank im
mediately in order that the boys
may get the ballots and send them
back in time to count them in the
election.
“I have received applications
from numerous points in the
Pacific War area, India, Italy,
France, England and from many
posts in the states,” the chairman
said, yesterday.
He again explained that appli
cations for civilians will not be
avalable before October 8.
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2 Pugh Brothers
Meet In England
Pvt. Thomas G. Pugh and Cpl.
Dent B. Pugh, sons of Mr. and
Mrs. D. M. Pugh, of Topia, recent
ly met somewhere in England.
Pvt. Thomas Pugh, who suf
fered the loss of his left foot in
the invasion of France on D-Day,
has been awarded the Purple
Heart. He is reported to be mak
ing normal improvement in a
hospital somewhere in England.
Before going overseas he receiv
ed training at Camp Whdfeler, Ga.
Cpl. Dent Pugh, who has been
in service for the past three years,
visited the younger brother in
the hospital, where they spent
seven hours together, talking of
experiences since they were last
together in March, when Cpl.
Pugh visited Pvt. Pugh at Camp
Wheeler, Ga., prior to their sail
ing for overseas duty.
Business Bldg. Is
Bought By Choate
Sally’s Beauty Shoppe building,
next door to Smithey’i on Main
street and the house belonging to
Miss Sally Bledsoe, on the White
head road, was purchased this
week by Dr. P. I* Choate.
Miss Bledsoe announced that
the beauty shop would be oped
for at least two weeks, at the end
of which time, she and her mother,
Mrs. Dema Bledsoe, would move
to Edgewood. Maryland. The
shop equipment will be stored,
she pointed out A sale of her
kitchen and household furniture
will beheld, Saturday, September
a. 4 *■
Miss Bledsoe has operated a
beauty shoppe in Sparta for the
past twelve yean, Dr. Choate
has made no announcement of his
plans for the use of the building.
Two Alleghany Men
Reported Killed And
1 Injured In Action
Farmers May Get
Necessary Lumber
With Application
Should Apply Through AAA
Office In Sparta For Their
Needs
Farmers of Alleghany are
entitled to rated orders for lumber
if they use it for essential main
tenance and repair of implements
and farm- service buildings, ac
cording to C, G. Collins, chair
man of the Alleghany county AAA
committee.
“A farmers’ lumber certificate
is a rated order,” he said. A dea
ler who fills a farmer’s order sup
ported by a certificate may ex
tend the rating and place a certi
fied and rated order with his sup
plier for replacement of his stock,
he explained. “During this time
of lumber shortage, the use of
farmers’ lumber certificates is the
only way we can be sure of keep
ing enough lumber in the yards
to meet essential farm needs”, he
continued.
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Lt. R. C Carson Is
Killed In Action
First Lieutenant Robert C. Car
son, 22-year-old pilot, grandson
of the late Robert S. Carson, of
Peach Bottom, and son of the late
Oscar A. Carson, Orlando, Fla.,
has been reported killed while on
flight over Burma.
Lt. Carson, who has a num
ber of relatives in Alleghany,
volunteered for overseas service
in June, 1943, while stationed as
flight instructor of advanced fly
ing at Craig Field, Selma, Ala.
Entering the army as an air ca
det shortly after Pearl Harbor,
Lt. Carson received his wings
at Montgomery, Ala. He attend
ed Duke University for two years
and was studying mining engin
eering at Michigan School of Min
ing and Technology when he vol
unteered for service.
Pvt. Marvin Fawlkes, Scott
ville And William Nichols
Are Casualties
The war came closer home to
the people in Alleghany county
this week when news was received
that two men had died in action
and one had been seriously
wounded.
Pvt. Marvin Fawlkes was re
ported to have died from wounds
received in action somewhere in
France on August 8. He is the son
of Mrs. Gord Roupe, of Winston
Salem/' formerly of Seottsville,
and haAv^ei^ in service since
1943. He left for overseas duty
around three months ago.
In addition to his mother, Pvt.
Fawlkes is survived by his wife
and 11 month-old son, Richard,
who live in Sparta. He is also sur
vived by two sisters, Mrs. Ralph
Crouse, of Sparta and Mrs. Cecil
Billings, of Tazewell, Va.
Pvt. William J. Nichols, son of
Mr. and Mrs. William Nichols,
formerly of Alleghany, was re
ported killed in action July 15.
Pvt. Nichols, with the 4th Division
of Marines, was killed on the is
land of Saipan in the Marianas.
In addition to his parents he is
survived by his wife, the former
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Black Speaker
At Rotary Club
West Jefferson — (Special) —
R. E. Black, county agent of Al
leghany county, told the Jeffer
sons Rotary club last week that
there was greater need of leader
ship on the farms now than ever
before and that the club should
sponsor the movement to make
the farms ol Ashe county more
attractive for the young people.
“They should be encouraged to
want to stay on the farm,” he said.
He stated that a large majority of
the farms had electricity now and
most people could have running
water and bath rooms in their
homes with a little effort and
money.
Mr. Black was introduced by
Ed D. Barr.
Former Register Of Deeds Is
Active In Invasion Of France
Cpl. Ernest E. Edwards, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Emory Edwards re
cently returned to England after
taking part in the first invasion
of France with the glider troops;
of the 82nd. Airborne Infantry
Division, according to information
just received here.
11118 division, which landed
hours before the invasion began,
was holding off two full German
divisions which were trying to
break through to stop the land
ings of the American, English and
Canadian soldiers who were wad
ing to the beaches of France, re
ports reveal.
The unit fought for 33 days
without relief or replacements;
they accomplished every mission
them and no ground
was ever relinquish
ed. Though casualties were heavy,
nothing could stop or drive back
their tenacious hold.
The regiment landed south oi
St Mere Eglise in the midst oi
heavy machine gun fire. Several
of the gliders crashed into treei
and hedgerows bordering the
narrow French fields. Many oi
the men wore engaged in hand
to-hand fighting immediately, ye1
within five hours, most of the
regment had assembled and forc
ed crossings of the Merderet rivet
at La Fiere and Chef du Pont
over the Douve river,
Cpl. Edwards, who was Re
gister of Deed* of Allegheny
county, prior to his entrance inti
the army, is a veteran of the land
ing in Skdly and Italy.
School Opening
Is Delayed Until
Monday, Sept. 18
Opening Planned For Sept. 4;
Delayed Because Of N. C.
Board Of Health Ruling
In accordance with the date
set by the State Board of Educa
tion, Alleghany county schools
will open on Monday, September
18, Superintendent Clyde Fields
announced this week.
The county Board of Educa
tion had formerly set the opening
date for September 4, but follow
ing the meeting of the State Board
on August when they conferred
with the Board of Health, a uni
form date for schools all over the
state was set for September 18.
“County school officials in Al
leghany are glad to work with
the state officials in any way from
the standpoint of the schools and
the health of the children”, Miss
Fields said.
Miss Fields also stated that the
teachers and bus drivers for the
county would be announced next
week.
E. B. Eldridge, superintendent
of Glade Valley school, announc
ed that students were expected to
arrive on the campus on Septem
ber 18 and that school would be
gin ori Tuesday, September 19. A
list of the faculty members will
be issued soon, Mr. Eldridge point
ed out.
23 County Men
Are Classified
7 Men Placed In I-A, 7 In 2-A
And 6 In Various Other
Classifications
The ideal ;taard this week an
nounced classifications of 23 men
for military service, when
la,
cations.
The classificat
lows:
I-A: Robert H. Choate, Bert I.
Wagoner, Winston W. Taylor,
Clifford L. Crouse, Clayton T.
Sheets, Rufus C. Edwards, and
James L. Joines.
1- A (H): Fred Caudill.
2- A: Joe W. Finney, Hicks H.
Hash, James A. Reeves, Alton W.
Thompson, Oscar W. Billings,
Oliver M. Proffit and Lester E.
Vaughn.
2-A (H): Varley B. Rector.
2-B (F): Irwin W. Roberts and
Ralph T. Brooks.
2-C: Clarence J. Hendrix, Har
vie G. Greene, Walter J. Crouse
and Glenn Sturgill.
4-F: Levi 'T. Shores.
Psychologist Is
Visitor In Sparta
Miss Marion Stanland, psychol
ogist, for the child welfare divi
sion of the State Board of Chari
ties and Public Welfare, visited
Sparta, Tuesday, and gave psy
chological examinations to chil
dren over whom the juvenile
court has custody and who are
under the supervision of the wel
fare department
The mental tests are given to
determine the child’s mental abil
ity. This information is essential
when consderng boarding, home,
adoptve and orphanage ' place
ments of children.