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AND STAR-TIMEN- iCONSOLIDATED ON SEPTEMBER 2, 1941) —ALLEGHANY COUNTY’S ONLY NEWSPAPER.
VOLUME 56, NO. 7
$1.50 a Year in Alleghany County
SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA
$2.00 a Year Out of County
1HURSDAY, NOV. 23, 1944
County Farmers
To Vote On AAA
Leaders Friday
Community Committeemen
'To Be Named On Friday;
County Meeting On Sat.
Farmers are again reminded
this week of the election of AAA
committeemen to be held through
out Alleghany county on Friday,
C. G. Collins, chairman of the
county AAA committee, pointed
out.
Farmers from each of the
twelve communities will choose
three committeemen, two alter
nates rand 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 schedule of the meetings in
each of the communities follows:
Cherry Lane—10:00 a. m., Miles*
Store; Barrett—1:00 p. m., Bar
rett Post Office; Blevins Cross
Roads, 3:Q0 p. m., Blevins Cross1
Roads; New Hope—10:00 a. m.,
New Hope; Stratford—1:00 p. m.,
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Sale Of Seals
Underway Here,
Miss Clyde Fields Is Chair
man; To Aid In Fight
Against Tuberculosis
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The sale of Christmas se^
Alleghany county is now iij
' eress with Miss Clyde ]
superintendent of school j
as ehairman and all school
ers conducting local campaigns.
Miss Fields said that 15,000 seals
have been sent out to all the
, schools throughout the county
u with the request that every stu
' dent co-operate to make the sale
a success.
‘The sale of these seals for the
benefit of the county, state and
national Tuberculosis association,
is conducted only once each year,”
Miss Fields stated, “And in this
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Piney Creek Man
Gets Bronze Star
With the 8th Infantry Division
In Luxembourg—Corporal Reggie
W. Van Hoy, Piney Creek, North
Carolina, has been awarded the
Bronze Star while serving over
seas with the 8th Infantry Di
vision in Trance.
His citation reads: “For heroic
service'in connection with mili
tary operation against the enemy.
CpL Van Hoy laid two lines over
a route exposed to constant enemy
artillery, motar and sniper fire.
“Throughout the day he ex
posed himself to the same danger
ous fire in order to maintain these
wires. Through his untiring de
votion to duty and disregard for
personal safety indispensible com
munication was maintained." i
Before entering military ser
vice, Cpl. Van Hoy was engaged
in farming. He is the son of J. P.
Van Hoy, of Piney Creek.
Yellow jackets
Beaten By Elkin
The Sparta Yellow Jackets lost
to Elkin a football game which
was much closer than the score
of 13-0 would indicate last Fri
day-afternoon on the Elkin field.
When the whistle stopped play
In the first half Sparta had .the
ball on Elkin’s two-yard line with
a lint down. Again a scoring op
1 portunity was lost when the final
' whistle caught the Yellow Jackets
on the Elkin fifteen-yard line with
another first down. Estep, Hincher
an?K Poole played excellent foot
ball ut the line. Billy Sexton In
tercepted a pass and returned it
for a thirty-yard gain. This along
wills a pass completed to James
set up the first scoring op
portunity for the Sparta boys.
Elkin scored in the first and
periods and made an extra
after the
win by a
Entire Nazi Army Is
Threatened By Allies;
Stop Japs On Leyte
PACIFIC SEA CHIEF
Adm. Royal £. Ingersoll,
commander-in-chief, Atlantic
fleet, has been appointed com
mander of the western sea
frontier. His job will be to
keep the supplies flowing for
bigger and better blows at
Japan.
Chinese To Study
Conservation Of
Soil In County
Allegh9qy
ounties
eek
Dr<*Walter.C. Lowdermilk,. As
sistant Chief Soil Conservator,
and at the present time loaned
by the United States to the
Chinese as agricultural advisor to
the Chungking government, will
be in this county Monday and
Tuesday. With him will be five
important Chinese agricultural
leaders, who will visit here to
observe and study at first hand
the program of soil conservation
and related work in Alleghany
fend Ashe counties. This party
will be accompanied by E. G.
Garrett, North Carolina Soil Con
servationist; J. E. Caudle, State
Soil Survey Supervisor of the
Soil Conservation Service; Staten
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Eye Clinic Will
Be Held Nov. 28
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Miss Doris Wagoner, acting Al
leghany county welfare superin
tendent, announced that appoint
ments for examination at the eye
clinic to be held at the welfare
department on Tuesday, Novem
ber 28, have been coming in this
week and that only a few remain
to be filled.
Miss Wagoner urged that all
those who are interested and have;
not done so, make an appointment
as soon as possible through the
welfare 'department. Only those:
who have appointments can* be
examined. An eye specialist from'
Winston-Salem will have charge
of the clinic.
Russians Have Started New
Push In Czechoslovakia
Making Gains
French and American troops
of the Sixth Army group battled
into the citadel city of Mulhouse
and drove well beyond Sarre
bourg to within 27 miles of the
JRhine yesterday in great encircl
ing movements that threatened
to pocket the entire German 19th
Army with its back to the river.
French First Army armored
forces speared into Mulhouse in
a race northward from their foot
holds on the French side of the
Rhine near the German-Swiss
French border to cut off the Ger
mans between the Vosges Moun
tains and the river. Unconfirmed
reports said the French already
had continued on to Colmar, 22 j
miles north of Mulhouse.
American troops slowly and
painfully loosened the Japanese
hold on northern, approaches to
the Ormoc Valley today despite
miserable weather and an ap
parent Japanese decision to sacri
fice an entire division if necessary
to hold present positions near the
village of Limon.
Weary units' of the 24th In
fantry Division—which has borne
the brunt gf the entire Leyte bat
tle—yesterday repulsed bloodily
the third determined enemy at
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Goat Devours OPA
Certificates For
. - Tires With Gusto
Robert Edwards Gets Replace
ment After Action Of His
Pet Goat
Goats will be goats, but Robert
Edwards, of Society Hill, S. C.,
and well-known former Alleghany
man, probably wishes that one
particular goat had satisfied its
appetite on tin cans rather than
paper.
Mr. Edwards had an unusual
experience last week when his
pet goat craweled into the cab of
his truck and proceeded to con
sume a certificate from the Marl
boro county ration board which
would have allowed him to pur
chase two new 32 by 6 truck tires
for his vehicle. Mr. Edwards made
affidavit before Henry A. Rogers,
clerk of the court, to this effect,
in order to get a replacement cer
tificate.
According to OPA rules it seems
that a lost certificate cannot be
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Sparta Grange
To Meet On Mon.
The Sparta Grange will meet
oh Monday, November 27, at 7:30
p. m. ih the courthouse for the
installation of officers.
State Grange deputy Av Clouse
Jones wilt'be present to assist
with the work. All members of
other grange units in the counter
are cordigbrjnvited to be present.
Public Is Urged To Mail All
Christmas Packages Early
Public response to the Post
Office Department’s “Shop Nowl
Mail in November” campaign k
good but needs to be better, ac
cording to local post office work
ers'. ' ..•*
“Extraodinary wartime condi
tions face us, Unless more people
buy and mall this month the Pos
tal service cannot do its. job of
delivering all Christmas gifts on
time, one official declared.
"» ignot pleasing to us to have
to ask the American people to
mail packages so far in advance
of the delivery date. We do so
only because it has to be done.
The job is a tremendous one, but
we are confident that it will be
done because we know from ex
perience that given sound reasons
Americans cooperate magnificent
ly, Postmaster General Frank C.
Walker declared.
“Unprecedented shortages of
man power and transportation
facilities growing out of the war
compel early mailing. The postal
service has given 90,000 exper
ienced employees to the armed
forces and 300,000 railroad work
ers have gone to war. Equally
serious is the fact that rail and
and other transport facilities are
taxed to the limit with the great
burden of war traffic which all
of us know must take precedence.
“I* a great number of our 43,
900 post offices the man power
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Alleghany Is Big Contributor To Thanksgiving
Here are two groups of the
flock of 1,223 bronze turkeys
raised by Bert L. Edwards, of
Whitehead, this year. Most of
these have already been ship
ped to military centers and
are perhaps the chief reasons
many men in service are
thamcful today!
Mr. Edwards, Alleghany
county’s largest turkey grow
er, ofters convincing proof that
these kings of the feast can be
raised at a profit and that Al
leghany county is well adapted
to them. He predicts more and
more farmers will be “talking
turkey” on a larger scale in
the near future and for in
creased income, too. The tur
keys shown here are of the
Wiigon-wheel bronze breasted
iWbfcty aid are heavier thah
the average. (Staff Photo)
182 County Men
Are Classified
By Local Board
Most Of The Group Placed In
4-A; Other Classifica
tions Listed
The local board this week an
nounced classifications of 182
county men for military service
when 138 were placed in class 4-A
and 44 were placed in various
other classifications.
The classification list is as fol
lows:
1-A: Elmer R. Sparks, Joe W.
Finney, Andrew K. Jarvis, Clyde
R. Gillespie, Zaac L. Rutherford,
Gwyn E. Blevins, William T. Hig
gins, Dewey G. Edwards, Glenn
M. Brinegar, Glenn C. Cochran
and Clifford G. Pruitt
1- C(Ind): Herbert C. Haw
thorne, Burnette J. Wilson, Ray
mond L. Toliver, Russell P.
Brown, Linville M. Richardson,
Charles F. Warden, Chester W.
Maines, Earl L. Joines, Rufus C.
Edwards, Clayton T Sheets and
Bert I. Wagoner.
2- C: John Holloway, Roy T.
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CHRISTMAS SHOPPING
EDITION NEXT WEEK
In co-operation with the
merchants, this paper will pub
lish the annuel Christmas
shopping edition next week,
November 30.
At this time, the public wiH
be, reminded of the man* ad
vantages of tradini
and will b
leetioa of
the
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Alleghany Farmer Raises
Flock Of 1,223 This Year;
Good Profit Is Realized
Many Turkeys
Are Sold At High
Price By Growers
Income During The Past
Week Is Estimated At
$22,720.00
Alleghany farmers have re
ceived several hundred dollars
during the past week for the sale
of turkeys to be shipped to north
ern markets for Thanksgiving.
Largest buyers in the county
this year have been the Produce j
Exchange, of Galax, Va., who j
has bought around 2,000 turkeys;!
Smithey’s Store, who purchased
around 1,250 and Carl M. Ken- j
nedy, who purchased around 1,000.
Kern Wagoner,, manager of
Smithey’s, said the turkeys are1
of better quality and larger thanj
in toe past few years. The hens
averaged around 13 pounds and
the Toms averaging around 20
pounds, Mr. Wagoner pointed out.
The fowls brought the ceiling
price of 35 Vt cents per pound. |
The total estimated income rea-j
lized by turkey growers of the]
county who placed theirs on the.
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B. L. Edwards Makes Record
In Production Of Thanks
giving Fowls
BY STAFF WRITER
“We are trying to get away
from the idea of turkey only for
Thanksgiving and educate the
public to thinking of it as a year
round meat,” Bert L. Edwards,
Alleghany county’s largest turkey
grower, said.
Mr. Edwards, who has a flock
of 1,223 turkeys on his Whitehead
farm this year, experimented with
his first flock in this county. He
has been connected with the
Cowan and Edwards Hatchery at
Mapel Hill for the past ten years
and brought the “late hatch” to
Alleghany this year as an experi
ment. t
Most of Edward’s turkeys were
dressed and sold this year to the
army and navy for Thanksgiving
dinner at local camps around Nor
folk. They were contracted by a
Norfolk firm and dressed there.
Edwards started in the hatch
ery business at Maple Hill with
his partner, Mr. Cowan, on a small
scale; but the business has grown
until the hatchery has already
contracted for next year 16,000
polts and orders are booked for
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Thanksgiving Expected To
Be Quietly Observed Here
Thanksgiving in Alleghany is
^expected to be observed as quiet
ly as the first one on the Ameri
can continent when the Pilgrim
fathers gathered in response to
that first Thanksgiving proclama
tion issued by Governor William
Bradford in 1622.
All stores in Sparta will be
Closed, including the bank. Coun
ty offices will also be closed for
the holiday. The drug {tore and
bus station will observe Sunday
hours while the ttoet office will
also be open a pint of the day.
The Spartan theater will be open
tonight. Due to rush orders from
the
Pipe
tkm
government
Works H|
for the day.
mad P.
will be closed for the holiday to
day, and tomorrow.
The annual union Thanksgiving
church service was observed on
Sunday night at the Methodist
church when Rev. C. W. Thomp
son, pastor of the Sparta Presby
terian church delivered the ser
mon. A combined choir from the
Baptist, Methodist and Presby
terian churches furnished music.
There will be no church service
here today.
Hunting season for rabbit,
grouse, quail and pheasant open
ed today. A large number ol
Alleghany sportsmen will haul
out their guns and take to the
fields.
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$18,918. Reported
Sold Yesterday;
Need Cooperation
S. R. Nichols Special Drive
Chairman Asks The Help
Of Everyone
Alleghany county ended the
first three days of the Sixth War
Loan Drive with sources of sales
reporting $l8,0i8.75 through yes
terday, leaving $55,081.25 yet to
be sold on the county’s quota of
$74,000.00
“The co-operation of every per
son in the county is needed to
make the drive a success,” Chair
man S. R. Nichols stated and he
urged that all township chairmen
turn in reports of bonds sold as
soon as possible.
Much interest is being shown
throughout the county and since
Christmas is near, officials urge
that all who can, purchase bonds
for Christmas gifts this year.
A number of rallies and enter
tainments will be sponsored by
the various townships in the coun
ty, the dates of which will be
announced later, it was pointed
out.
Sources of sales yesteday show
ed the following: Northwestern
Bank, $15,168.75 and Sparta Post
Office, $3,750.00.
Minor Accidents
Reported Here
Some Cars Are Damaged But
Individuals Escape
Injuries
Five cars were wrecked in thg
vicirity Sparta last Saturday!* * *
night, officers reported, with all
occupants escaping serious injury.
An automobile driven by Lloyd
Hudson and a pick-up driven by
Reuben Hash, colored, ran to*
gether one mile west of Sparta
on the Twin Oaks road about 8
o’clock Saturday night. The Hash
truck was damaged about $50.00
and the Hudson car about $100.00
officers reported. No charges were
made and each agreed to fix their
own car.
Late Saturday night a car own
ed by Kyle Watson and driven
by an unknown driver hit a car
parked in front of the Blue Ridge
Tourist Home, in Sparta, knocked
down a small tree and came to
a stop against a rock wall tin the
sidewalk. The driver escaped,
leaving the car. The car that was
hit was empty and owhed by one
of the guests at the tourist home.
Officers estimated the damage at
abount $30.00 with the damage on
the Watson car about $100.00. Of
ficers are tin the lookout for the
driver tit the Watson car.
Derol' Atwood drove into the
Little River Bridge, damaging
his automobile about $150.00. No
charges were made against him,
officers stated.
SPARTA PASTOR IS
HONORED BY GROUP
Instead of the customary
“pounding” the ladies of the
Methodist W.S.C.S. gave Rev. and
Mrs. C. R. Allison, pastor of
the Sparta Methodist church, a
Thanksgiving basket, consisting of
turkey with all the “trimmings,”
fruit cake, cranberries, pumpkin
pie and Traits for salad.
Rev. Mr. Allison will spend
Thanksgiving in Concord with his
family, this year.
Piney Creek hi^fi school boy*
and girls were the victors in two
double header basketball game*
played at Piney Creek last week.
In the tint game against Glade
Valley, the girls won with a score
of 31-16 and the boys piled up
a score of 34-14.
The second game against the