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piATC Boymore#vS*^nW ■ ^ for/^rsecuritK, tool AND STAR-TIMES— (CONSOLIDATED ON SEPTEMBER 2, 1941) —ALLEGHANY COUNTY’S ONLY NEWSPAPER. VOLUME M, NO. * ' $L50 a Year in Alleghany County 'i*'1...' . 111 1 ..*■.—— -■ ' SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA $2.00 a Year Out of County THURSDAY, NOV. 16, 1944 Sixth C. Of C Sponsors Football dub Of : Sparta Hi School Rev. R. L. Berry Speaks At Meeting Friday; Commit' tees Are Appointed The sponsorship of the Sparta football dub was adopted as a current project by the Sparta Chamber of Commerce last Fri day night when more than 90 members and guests were present for the Nor ember meeting. Her. R. L. Berry, of Belmont, and former member of the club, made an interesting talk on “Wfa*« ning the Peace”. He was intro duced by Joe Bill Heed. It was decided that the Chamber of Commerce would invite mem bers of the football club to be their guests at the December meeting. Appointed on the com* rtee for arrangements were T. Burgiss, W. O. Hooper and Alton Thompson. In connection with the sponsor ship of the “Yellow Jackets”, a square dance will be held in the community building on Saturday night, with proceeds to go for the purchase of equipment for the team. The committee in charge of arrangements for the dance are C. W. Irwin, Ralph Cheek and Glenn Richardson. In addition to the football club, special emphasis will be made on membership of the Chamber of Commerce, R. F. Crouse, presi dent, pointed out. Added the membership committee is R. E. Black who will serve with Ben Beeves, Mias Clyde Fields and J. K. Wagoner. L. Allison and L. E. Ivey on the marking of the streets and erec tion of signs made their reports and were Jnfad ky fbe club fdt Eye Clinic Will Be Held Not. 30 An eye clinic will be held in the Alleghany County Welfare department, Tuesday, November 30, with an eye specialist from Winston-Salem in charge, Mies Doris Wagoner, acting welfare superintendent, announced this week. Miss Wagoner pointed out that anyone interested in making an appointment should get in touch with die wefare department as fftffn m possible, because of limit* fd tins, siie only thfisr can be ex Sparta Men Hunt Deer At Pisgah Deer hunting seems to have been the sport of the week with eight men from Alleghany coun ty enjoying hunts at the Plsgafa National, Forest near Asheville.' Two deer were bagged by Cliff Swans and Cleve Nichols, who ware among the first group of nfc ntmters rrom in is cotimgy* Along with Evans and Nichols on the hunt last Thursday, Friday and Saturday, were Howard Hop per*. Cliff Holloway and Clint Glade Valley Hi To Present Play, s Sunk; ximencang And sians Make Gains Hunters Urged To Buy Licenses Hunting Season Opens On Thanksgiving; Limits Are Cited Thursday, November 23, will give sportsmen of Alleghany an added reason to be thankful, for the hunting season for quail, grouse, and rabbits opens at this (time, county game warden, Dick Gentry, announces. Mr. Gentry said that he would like to remind hunters that the bag limit per day for grouse in the county is two and for the sea son, 10. The bag limit per day for quail is 10. AH hunters are urged to secure; their licenses before the season; opens. The licenses are ton sale at the Farmer's Hardware store, he (Continued on Page Four) To Hold Special Service, Sunday A special union Thanksgiving service will be held at the Spar ta Methodist church on Sunday night, jfcwmber 10, at 7:30 clock with Rev. E. W .Thompson, pastor of die Presbyterian church, conducting the service. A combined choir from the Bap tist, Methodist and Presbyterian f churches grill render special mu- [ sic for the-service. The public is cordially invited to attend. 1 V. S. Airmen Shoot Down 28 Japanese Planes In The Pacific Area American Third Fleet carrier planes sank or damaged 14 Jap anese ships and one floating dock, and strafed ' on the shot down 28 plan 130 more Manila ar«* Srinaiy. .■j&e enemy counterattacked tke-earrier task group but no American ships were damaged, Admiral Chester W. Niroitz an nounced in a communique yester The powerful Fortress ring around Metz, impregnable to frontal assault of any war since the fifth century, was breached Tuesday by U. S. Third Army doughboys who swept within two miles of the city and stormed last-ditch German defenses after capturing six fortified towns and the huge but dismantled bastion of L’Yser. On the Allied north flank, the British Second Army opened a tremendous, twilight drive in Eastern Holland toward the Ruhr 'Valley behind an earth-quaking barrage from 400 guns and smash ed almost seven miles of the Reich frontier in the first hours. Far to the south, the French First Army went over to the of fensive in the Belfort Gap amid indications that the Germans might abandon the whole south ern half of their line and retire behind the Rhine. Red Army troops yesterday wiped out the last enemy bridge head on the Danube River’s east bank south of Budapest and bat tled forward seven miles in an outflanking movement east of the Hungarian capital as Berlin re ported that violent street fight ing had flared again in the city’s southwestern suburbs. Ceiling Price On Hogs Is Given - . ■ AAA Chairman Announces That New Ceilings Art Effective Now The ceiling price on live hogs' weighing 240 pounds and under has been extended to hogs weigh ing 270 pounds and under, accord ing to information received by C. G. Collins, chairman of the Al leghany county AAA Committee. The price is $14.75 per hundred weight, Chicago basis. Hogs weighing over 270 pounds are priced at $14.00 per hundred weight. Mr. Collins pointed out that this action, effective October 30, 1944, was taken because of the greatly improved feed situation in rela tion to the number of hogs and because the hog crop for the cur rent season at 1945 is below anti cipated production.- Mr. Collins further pointed out that whole sale and retail twice levels will not be effected as to dressed pork or meat cuts. TWifKfWr fi1*??-Sot iyiai Tdd*eri Iw.- •*■ • -u H. D. Club Achievement Day Is Well Attended By Women 'hliLA.i ox uie cuuw un summer, nn Anna C. Rowe, district home afent, talked to the group on "Future Planning for Home Dem onstration Clubs”. Miss Wanda Truitt, 4-H dub member, modeled the costume she wore in the dress revue, winntaf'ttMf contest im the A delicious picnic lunch was served in the hail at the lunch hour with tables piled high with foods of every kind. hour, Miss extension spe IWuif, gave an in l on “Christmas Spi -1~ated a number •n could make _,_ by using ma r had at home. - muted foods, doth , etc. were display ■ on Pago •) Three Reeves Brothers Now Serving Uncle Sam Above are three sons of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Beeves, of Sparta, who are serving in the armed forces. Pvt. Harrison Reeves, left, is with the medical corps in England and entered service m January, 1943. Pfc. Cleo Beeves, center, is with the ordnance department in Eng land and has been in service since November, 1942. Pvt. Willard Beeves, right, entered service in March, 1944, and is stationed at Camp Blanding, Fla. OPA Clamps Down On Black Market Cigarette Sales Cooperation Of Public Is Urged To Help Out In Shortage Washington—The Office of Price Administration was disclos ed to have ordered a crackdown on black market sales of cigar ettes in Detroit and Minneapolis as the first step in efforts to solve the widespread and growing cig arette shortage. . OPA Administrator Chester Bowles pledged that the agency will fight illicit operators* by ev-i ery means possible but called on the public to help—by buying cigarettes “in the normal manner” and refusing to pay more than the price ceiling. He announced after a confer-, ence with War Food Administra tor Marvin Jones that OPA and WFA are agreed that cigarette rationing at this time would be “completely impracticable” and would be of little help in smooth ing out uneven supplies. He attributed the current shortage to a combination of black markets, hoarding by smokers, (Continued on Page 4) Pine Swamp Box Supper Success The box supper held at Pine Swamp school on Saturday night was an outstanding success with the total proceeds amounting to $230.80. Mrs. Lura W. Spaulding and Mrs. W. C. Thompson, teach ers, sponsored the entertainment for the benefit of the school. Music was furnished by the Smith brothers’ band with John nie Wagoner acting as auctioneer. He was assisted by Carl Andrews. The cake for the prettiest girl was won by Mrs. Etta Lou Ed wards with Miss Emaline Joines runner-up. Tom Pruitt won the pickles for the ugliest man and Carl Andrews was runner-up. Two cake walks were held, the first cake going to Miss Dorise Billings and the second to Audry Andrews. y ' Mias Dorise Billings welcomed the audience with a presentation of a sketch by Minnie Pearl, ra dio star. Lewis Porter, 69, . Dies In Virginia Lewir' Porter,' sSdf r ■ prominent farmer and catde dealer, of Spring Valley, Va., died at the Mt Airy hokpital on November 11 fol lowing a short tHniss. Funeral service was held at Spring Valley Providence church on November IS with Rev. Mr. Mayberry of ficiating. Surviving is on* daughter, Mrs. H. L. Lundy, at Independence, Va., and (me grand-daughter, Miss Fettia Lundy, of Radford Teach er’s college, Radford, Va. Mrs. J. K. Wagoner, of Sparta, Sunday. Alleghany Farmers Are To Vote On AAA Committeemen Throughout County, Nov. 24 Junior Red Cross Drive Underway Miss Minnie Lou Edwards, Chairman, Urges Teachers To Turn In Reports The Junior Red Cross Drive, under the chairmanship of Miss Minnie Lou Edwards, is being conducted in the schools through out the county with more than $20.00 reported to date. Miss Edwards explained that the Junior Red Cross was open to membership only to school boys and girls and that the work carried on by the organization is a varied one. Christmas boxes for children overseas are made by the Junior Red Cross along with party favors to be used at army camps here and abroad, garments to be used by army per sonnel and various other services. The latest project conducted by the Sparta chapter was the cover ing of 300 decorated match books (Continued on Page 8) Book Week Is Observed Here National book week is being observed in Alleghany county this week with the schools putting on special programs and conduct ing a detailed study of books. Mrs. Carrie H. Jones, county librarian, made an interesting, iisplay of boks about every land j in the window of Cash and Carry j store. Mrs. Jones urged that all teachers who had not done so, get their book, collections from the! library. These collections may be taken to the various schools and used for a certain period at time when they may be exchanged for ithers. i Voting Places Are Listed; Fanners Are Urged To Cast Votes Farmer AAA committeemen, who will have important roles in | war and postwar farm problems, will be named at elections to be held throughout Alleghany coun-1 ty on Friday, November 24, C. G. Collins, chairman 4 „the county AAA committee, announced this week. Farmers from each of the twelve communities will choose three committeemen, two alter nates and one delegate, who will represent their community in the county committee. These dele gates will in turn attend the coun-: ty meet, which will be held at a later date, to name three commit teemen and two alternates to rep resent Alleghany county in the Agricultural Adjustment Agency of the state, it was pointed out. A program is being arranged for a discussion on conservation1 practices for 1945, production goals and the general agricultural outlook for the coming year, Mr. Collins said. He urged that ev ery farmer attend the meeting in his particular community and take part in the discussions to be (Continued on Page 8) Sugar Stamp 34 Worth 5 Pounds Washington—Sugar Stamp No. 34 in war ration Book Four will be good for five pounds of sugar beginning November 18, the‘Of fice of Price Administration an nounced. The stamp will be good indef initely; other stamps already val idated and good indefinitely in clude Nos. 30, 31, 32 and 33. “Can ning” stamp No. 4 is good until March 1. Twin Oaks Man Writes From Batdefront In South Pacific Seaman 2-C Gene Irwin has plenty of action since leav ing the States early in July. In in interesting letter written to Ids wife, Mrs. Ruby Irwin, who -aside* atTwin-feSa, he gives a dvid description of the recent sapture of ftngaur bland of the Palau group in the South Pacific. Hoe Seaman- Irwin writes he got his first real glimpse of war. “We left the island we were on me day in September around 12 o'clock. We were in full battle pack plus our sea hags, hammocks >nd all our other belongings. We were dressed in greens with hel mets, gun, knife, ammunition, gas mask and all the rest that*goes with battle dress. We got on a LCM landing craft and went cut to the ship. We marched up the gang plank and were assigned to a compartment. The trip was real nice and we had good chow. It is pretty hot here so we slept on and even sleeping on the deck was none too cooL I cannot say how long it took us to make the trip <from Tulagi, Solomons). We were one «f enlarge convoy which was a beautiful sight to me. We had plenty of protection all the way. Seeing a force moving as that one did you caneasily see why the folks beck home have to. keep buying war bonds. War fcf a long, hard and big Job.. Wa ar rived at the Palau Islands on foe day set for D-Day. When daylight came we were in si^tt of our ob jective. Boats began going over side the ship at break of d4tf. The Marines were ready for "H" hour. Then the planes came bombed the Island for t or more. Big ship* wen (Continued On Page Goal Is '*74,000; Much Interest - Alton Th«mp?«4) Is County Chairman; Everyone Is Ashedfo Help Plans are now being completed for the opening of-the Sixth War Loan Drive in Alleghany county on Monday, November 20, Chair* man S. R. Nichols, announced yesterday. The county's' quota has been set at $74,090.00 and it was pointed Thomgjfcr.tyliipp the buyers “shop^.ltseriy1* tbiS‘ryear, as an ef fort !»• being made to meet the quota by Dec: 16. Any person buying a bond now, may give credit .to any township and a rec ord will be kept, .he pointed out. At a meeting of the steering committee' yesterday, township chairmen Were appointed and each of the seven townships in the county were assigned definite quotas. > It was also pointed out that special drives featuring enter tainments of various sorts are ex pected to be made in each com munity. The home demonstra tion clubs and ■ home agent are expected to work with the chair men in each township on the pro gram. R. E. Black and Miss Frances Capel are expected to work with the farm groups. Sheriff Jess Moxley will head the drive in the American Legion and Lon M. head of the Reeves RFD Porter drive at while R. ed official spokesman for campaign. Robert Allison will head the retail merchants of the county. Miss Clyde Fields, of the wo men’s division, pointed out that township chairmen would be ap pointed at an early date and that the women would work in co operation with the home demon stration clubs of the county. Miss Fields will also work with the schools. The list of township chairmen, together with the quotas, are at follows: Gap Civil, Dr. N. D. Fox, $47,600.00; Glade Creek, Isom Wagoner, $6,000.00; Piney Creek, Joe Bill Reed, $0,000.00; Prather’s Creek, Jones Waddell, $4,200.00; Cranberry, Edward Pugh, $3,200.. 00; Whitehead, R. E. Richardson, $3,000.00; Chferry Lane, Ralph Gentry,'$4,6“ Pasl dents ■f Rev. Wayne Thompson, pastor of the* Presbyterian church, spoke to the students of .Sparta high school on Wednesday morning in observance of nationffl book week. Rev. Mr. Thompson stressed the use of time for worthy purposes and the importance of youth in preparation for a happy future. He referred to the time of youth is the summer time of life, lead ing te the reaps bis His inspiring talkwaa conclud ed with the aaosal: “Sow a thought, reap an net; sow an act, reap a habit; sow fc habit, reap 1rnrn -rLM. .
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