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r*-* *~# * 4 «i TATC BuyimlM^nw ”” ° for/9^/rseeurity,too!i AND STAR-TlMEJs— (CONSOLIDATED ON SEPTEMBER 2, 1941) —ALLEGHANY COUNTY’S ONLY NEWSPAPER. VOLUME 55, NO. 51 11.50 a Year in Alleghany County SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA $2.00 a Year Out of County ***************** THURSDAY, SEPT. 7, 1944 County Teachers Will Meet7 Here Next Thursday __? ■ Plans For The Coming Year Are To Be Discussed; Ex pect Several Visitors A teacher’s planning confer ence will be held in the library of Sparta high school next Thurs day, September 14 at 1Q:30 o’clock, in preparation for the opening of Alleghany schools on Monday, Sept. 18, Supt. Clyde Fields an nounced this week. Every teacher in the county is expected to be present for the conference when plans for the coming school year will be made, she pointed out. A number of visitors are expected to be pres ent, among them representatives from the health and welfare de partments. The Alleghany chap ter of the North Carolina Educa tional Association will also be or ganized with J. B. Reed, presi dent, in charge. On Friday, Sept. 15, all teach ers are to report to their respec tive .schools to make plans, includ ing schedules, checking books, rooms, buildings and grounds, etc., in readiness for work on Monday, Supt. Fields explained. According to state regulations, all teachers are to be on duty two days prior (Continued on Page 4) Mountain Ass’n Met In Virginia S. P. Roberts, Moderator And J. M. Rector, Clerk, In . Charge Of Meeting The three-day session of the 146-annual meeting of the Moun tain Primitive Baptist Associa tion was held at Pilgrim’s Rest ehurth at In’dependnece, Via., Fri« moderator, in charge. Among the visiting Elders from other corresponding associations were Elds. J. A. Fagg, Winston Salem; D. P. Broadway, Salis bury; Morgan and Turner, West Virginia; H. M. Blevins, Marion, Va.; J. R. Worrell, Winston Salem; J. P. Goad, Hillsville, Va.; Charlie Hall, West Jefferson; Edd Davis, White top and C. R. Dancy, Marion, Va. (Continued on Page Four) Men Classified By Local Board The local board announced classifications of 16 men for mili tary service this week when 4 were placed in I-A and 12 in va rious other classifications. The classification list is as fol lows: 1- A; Thomas R. Edwards, Dew ey R. Evans, Edward K. Caudill i and Grady W. Bobbitt. 1 2-A: Bert Moxley. 2- A‘(F): ,Vilace L. Hamm and Curtis P. Carico. 2-C: Charlie G. Royal and John R. Delp. 4-F: Guy H. Wagoner. I-C (Ind): Wallace B. Halsey, Jessie McOsborne, Clive W. Stoker, George E. Irwin, Willie W. Smithers and McKinley R. Williams. Lift Polio Band The county board of health decided to lift the ban against children nubile ratherinss. last Sunday. This ruling was put Into force several weeks ago when Jefint broke It was explained that there ‘Invasion Kid’ Now Only Fifteen ~————^——————— He’s only 15 but he’s doing a man’s job. This coast guard “Invasion Kid,” Gerald W. Haddon, seaman second class, of Chicago, 111., who has been under fire of battle and is a veteran of 13 landings on the Normandy beach, granted to be the youngest invader in the Allied- forces. Many Are Expected To Attend Alleghany Baptist Association GETS PURPLE HEART Pfc. Frank Petty, son of Mr. and‘Mrs. Bert Petty, of Strat ford, has been awarded the Purple Heart for wounds re* ceived In Italy tn June. Clerk Explains Tire Allotment • . ■ ■■ ■— Members of the Alleghany county ration board explained to day that all persons having 4 tires in good condition on an automo bile might apply for a new tire but that in all possibility they would receive only a third grade. (Continued on Page Four) Two Day Session Will Open On Saturday At Mt. Car mel Church A good attendance is expected at the forty-eighth annual session of the Alleghany Missionary Bap tist Association, which opens at Mt. Carmel church, ten miles east of Sparta, on the Elkin highway, Saturday morning. John M. Cheek, moderator, stated that a number of state leaders including Dr. I. G. Greer, with Hagaman and others are expected to attend the two-day session which closes on Sunday. An interesting and informative program will be carried out. The opening sermon on Satur day morning will be preached by Rev. L. E. Sparks, of Moxley, following the opening of the as sociation business session when Rev. G. R. Blackburn will conduct the devotionals. An address by Smith Hagaman, superintendent of the Baptist hospital at Winston Salem, will be given in the morn ing session, along with the roll call of the ten churches in the as sociation. . One new church has been added recently, making a total of eleven churches in the association. Reports by various committees will be heard and appointments of committees will also be made at the morning session. Following the luncheon period, the after noon program will open with a devotional by Rev. Brice Barton. Following will be an address by Dr. I. G. Greer .superintendent of (Continued on Page 4) , Irwin Brothers In Service Lt Leo H. Irwin, left, volunteered for service in the Navy in March, 1*42, in Washington, D. C., where he was studying law at Georgetown University. He was promoted to his present rank in July. His wife and eighteen-months-dd daughter reside in/Norfolk, Va. Gene R. Irwin, Seaman 2-C, right, entered the Navy in Washington! D. C., in April, 1944, received his “boot” training at Camp Peary, Va. He was transferred to California and immediately sent to New Cale donia, in Hie South Pacific. His wife and son, Billy, reside in Sparta! They are the sons of Mr. and Mrs. W. Carl Irwin, of Sparta. 5 Grange Units Will Be Formed For Alleghany Organizations For Sparta, Lit tle Pine, Glade Valley, Piney Creek, L. Sprgs. Plans are being completed for the organization of five Grange units for the farmers of Alleghany county, with State Grange Deputy A. Crouse Jones in charge, it was announced here this week. Units will be perfected in Sparta, Lit tle Pine, Glade Valley, Piney Creek and Laurel Springs. The organization of the Glade Valley subordinate unit was start ed Tuesday night at the Glade Valley high school, when T. R. Greene was elected master. Elected to serve with Greene were Rush Thompson, overseer, Clay Thompson, lecturer, Mrs. Rush Thompson, secretary and Elmer Edwards, treasurer. (Continued on Page Four) T. C. McKnight To Speak To Sparta C. Of C. Sept. 15 The Sparta Chamber of Com merce will meet again for the first time in three months next Friday evening, September 15, at 7:30 o’clock at the community building when T. C. McKnight, head of the Elkin YMCA, is ex pected to speak to the group. A special program is being planned, members of the program committee pointed out and every member is urged to attend the meeting. A number of projects for consideration are expected to come before the group. A report from the treasurer and from the membership committee will also be heard, it was explained. Xfcp^W^nd AdtffT«»eetings wdre postponed dtte to the epi demic of infantile paralysis in the county and it was felt the public gatherings of this nature were not advisable. Members are again reminded that if they do hot notify Dr. N. D. Fox, chairman of the entertain ment committee by Wednesday, September 13, that they will not be present, a plate will automati cally be reserved for them and they will be charged for same. Members of the Lucille Ford Circle of the Sparta Baptist church will serve the meal. Applicants For Ballots Listed G. Glenn Nichols, chairman of the Alleghany Board of Elec tions, announced this week that a list of all men in service who had applied for and had been sent absentee ballots for the com ing general election had been post ed in the courthouse. Mr. Nichols pointed out that the list, now numbering 127 and increasing daily, had been posted on the bulletin board in the court house for the public to avoid fur ther confusion by receiving ap plication from both the man in service and his family. Names will be added as ballots are mail ed, Mr. Nichols explained. Sauirrel Season pen Sept. 15 ty county game warden ry pointed out this week fishing season on all fish in the, county is ccept f6r trout, which w-ed on September 1. announced that the squirrel a would open on 'September hen the bag limit will be six Hunting licenses are now Hardware of the re entry de kll hunters gore the found will Informal Chat At Dumbarton Oaks f Not all of the discussions of the postwar security confer ence take place around formal conference tables. Above, in informal chat, from left to right, seated, are Peter Loxley (Britain); Sir Alexander Cadogan (Britain); Edward Stet tinius (U. S.); A. A. Gromyko (USSR); Arkadi A. Sobolev (USSR) and Valentine Berezhkov (USSR). Rear are James C. Dunn (left) and Leo Pascolsky, both of the U. S. delegation. Americans Reach Nazis’ Westwall; 37 Jap Ships Struck WPB Will Scrap Most All Controls When Germans Surrender - •“ American armored spearheads were reported probing into two and perhaps three keystones of Germany’s westwall yesterday as the governments of Holland and Luxembourg proclaimed • the en try of allied armies of liberation into their countries* ■ Unconfirmed dispatches from the French-Swiss frontier said the Berlin-headed Yanks had cap tured Aachen and Saarbrucken inside the reich’s borders, but for the fourth day supreme head quarters continued tp cloak op erations in this Sector with silence, and field reports from correspon dents with U. S. troops told of stiffening German resistance along the Moselle river, well back on the French side of the border. The fury of relentless allied aerial smashes against Japanese shipping was reported by Gen. Douglas MacArthur yesterday to have resultcjd in the sinking or damaging of 37 additional Nip pon surface craft including a fleet of barges and small vessels loaded with troops. About 24 hours earlier, he and Admiral Chqtser Nimitz officially listed 56 Japanese cargo ships, (Continued On Page Four' Supervisors Are Named By Farmers During the past week farmers of Alleghany and Ashe counties cast their votes for three super visors to represent the < New Riv er Soil Conservation District. J. W. Gambill, of,West Jefferson and J. C. Little, of Clifton, were re-elected to represent Ashe and Dillon Edwards, of Al leghany county, to represent Al leghany. These men have serv ed in this capacity for three years and are elected for another three year term. NOW IN PACIFIC Pfc. Jessie M. Combs, right, son of Mrs. Fannie Combs Clark, is stationed somewhere in the South Pacific. He en tered service in August, 1943, and went overseas in January. Sugar Allotments Are Now Complete Mrs. Robert Fleetwood, clerk of the Alleghany ration board, announced this week that persons who had made a second applica tion with the board for canning sugar should not make a third. A number of such applications have been received, she pointed put, but no sugar will be alloted the applicants. Approximately 95 per cent of the people in the county have been alloted additional sugar be sides that alloted them when they registered in the spring, she point ed out. However, no further ap plication will be passed on by the board. Those persons who have sent in a third application should expect no allotment. Teacher Allotment For State Announced; County Gets 61 Raleigh—North Carolina’s pub lic school teacher allotment for the coming year has been set at 24,493 by the State Board of Ed ucation, which said total salary needs would amount to $29,600, 230, or an average of $1410 per teacher. The board, holding a special meeting, said the allotment was an increase of 437 over last year and that 23,901 of the 1944-45 al lotment had been assigned to the various administrative units. The board set aside 125 teachers to take care of opening day increas es in teacher loads. Alleghany county gets a total of 01 teachers this year. This in cludes 95 white teachers, five col ored and two vocational agricul ture teachers. . Acting on the recommendation of Rep. John Umstead of Chapel Hill, the board also adopted four changes in present regulations to provide for the increase in allot ments. They included: 1. Fixing the elementary allot ment at six teachers for each 179 pupils in average daily attend ance and one additional teacher tar each 36 pupils thereafter, in (Continued on Page 4) To Be Sponsored By Local Post Of American Legion Co-operation Of Public Is Asked; Paper Needed In War Effort The Alleghany Post of the Amer ican Legion, along with others throughout the nation, will begin an intensive drive here Septem ber 14 to collect waste paper. The co-operation of everyone is ask ed since this is badly needed in the war effort. Jess Moxley, commander, and Silas Nichols, adjutant, this week named members of the Legion in various sections of the county to serve on committees in the drive. The rural carriers in each section will also co-operate in the collec tion of the paper, it was announc ed. On Thursday, September 14, there will be a special collection of waste paper in Sparta and all housewives and business houses are asked to have their paper tied and ready for collection. The drive will be continued through Saturday, with Smitji* ey’s store serving as the collec tion center, it was explained. Throughout the county every one is asked to'get in touch with the Legionnaire in charge in the particular community, the mail carrier, who will pick up paper left by mail boxes, or to bring the YContinued on Page Four) Sparta Man Has Narrow Escape S.-Sgt. Kemp H. Caudill Is Saved From Electrocution By Two Buddies SifSgt. Kemp H. Caudill, son of Mr. and Mrs. Josh Caudill, White-. hdM, narrowly escaped electro cution recently while working oh a ship in drydock in Murrels In let, S. C., where he is stationed. S.-Sgt. Caudill has Cpl. James H. Linn, a buddy, and Luther Smith, a civilian employee, to thank that he is still walking around and performing his du ties. Had it not been for their presence of mind and quick ac tion he might have died “in the line of duty.” Caudill was operating an elec tric drill underneath a ship in dry-dock when suddenly a short circuit developed and he found himself struggling with an un controlable drill which he could not let out of his grasp. Luther Smith reached the socket and re moved.the plug to break the cur rent just as the drill reached Cau dill’s face. By this time, the Sergeant was (Continued on Page Four) through Z8 and A5 through GS Valid indefinitely and are worth 10 points each. Thirty meat and fat stamps are avail able to eaeh consumer every four weeks. Red tokens are good for change indefinitely. PROCESSED FOODS Book Four blue stamps A8 through Z8 and A5 through LS valid indefinitely. All blue tokens may be used for making change indefinitely. SUGAR Book four stamps 30, 31, 33 and 33 valid indefinitely for five pounds; stamp « good for Rationing Guide MEATS, FATS, ETC. Book Four red stamps A8
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