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MORE THAI BEFORE ■v l : ‘ ■ Alleghany News Buymore/^^nov for/wfor security, too! AND STAR-TIMES— (CONSOLIDATED ON SEPTEMBER 2, 1941) —ALLEGHANY COUNTY’S ONLY NEWSPAPER. ***************** VOLUME 56, NO. 22 $1.50 a Year in Alleghany County SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA $2.00 a Year Out of County THUltSDAY, FEB. 15, 1945 Will Grow Turkish Tobacco In County Teachers’ Pay, Other Problems Confront Solons Fifth Full Week Ends With A Number Of Imporant Ques tions Unsettled By Staff Correspondent Raleigh—(Special)—Going in to the sixth week of sessions, members of the N. C. Legislature are still confronted with a num ber of vital problems, one of which is where the necessary money is coming from for the proposed increase in teachers’ salaries. Governor Cherry, Tuesday, in a pointed statement on teacher sal ary requests, a problem that looms large on the legislative horizon and has brought deluge of telegraphic and other messages to the executive desk, said that to meet the requests the Legisla tor would have to provide ex penditure of “approximately $12, 000,000 in excess of estimated revenues.” A delegation of some 15 Guil ford county citizens met with the Governor in the interest of the Moseley resolution defining the State’s policy in fixing teachers salaries and providing that this is a function for the State De partment of Education and not the Legislature. A public hearing before the Joint Insurance Committee this week opened consideration ol eleven big bills seeking to pro vide North Carolina with firm, adequate State regulation of in surance. A House fight developed this week over a measure to create the offices of chancellor and three presidents; %* the Greatewtfniver sity of North Carolina and its three units and a vote on its passage was deferred until Feb ruary 20. Rep. Caveness of Guilford, au thor of the bill, led the floor scrap over postponing action but the motion finally carried, 53-47. '(Continued on rage Four) County Woman Making Record Mrs. Maxie Wagoner Is “Lady Gunner” At Aberdeen Proving Grounds Mrs. Maxie Wagoner, the for mer Miss Maxie Sanders, daugh ter of Mrs. C. M. Sanders and the late Mr. Sanders, of Stratford, is doing a man-size job in this war, and doing it well. Mrs. Wagoner, who has been employed as a civilian gunner at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Aberdeen, Md., for the past twen ty months, works outside six days a week, eight hours a day, firing the big guns as they come off the assembly line. Many times she has worked with snow and sleet frozen to her hair. This “lady gunner” has receiv ed two Army and Navy Stars which represent outstanding work, and also she has earned two Army and Navy “E” awards. Mrs. Wagoner is the mother of two children, Georgia, 10, and Johnson Wagoner, 8, both of whom she supports and educates with her wages. Study Course Is Given For WMU Miss Ruth Keller, field worker of the State W. M. U., Raleigh, is teaching a mission study course each night this week in the Spar ta Baptist W. M. S. Miss Keller is teaching a book on “Evangelism.” The Monday night meeting was held with Mrs. C. A. Reeves; Tuesday with Mrs. W. K. Sprinkle; Wednesday with Mrs. Ben Reeves and tonight with Mrs. A. O. Joines. The women of the Laurel Springs and Liberty W. M. S. are meeting with the local wom en. Miss Keller is also holding af ternoon classes for the G. .A. and R. A. organizations. In this course she is teaching, “So This Is Africa,” which tells the story in the Dark Red Arijiy Is Still Advancing; Manila Battle Is Near End DIES IN ACTION The Purple Heart has been awarded posthumously to Pfc. Audie L. Presnell, Jr., who was wounded in action on July 22 in Normandy, France, and died of his wounds on the same date. Pfc. Presnell was buried in a military cemetery in Normandy. He is the son of Eld; and Mrs. A. L. Presnell, of Sparta. Youths Arrested Fj|r Forgery Here Charles Reeves And Emerson Jones Taken Into Custody By Officers, Wed. Two Alleghany youths, Charles Reeves, of Sparta and Emerson Jones, of Stratford, were arrest ed yesterday on charges of for gey, officers stated. The youths were reported to have forged two checks and j tried a third on Lewis Mitchell, of I Piney Creek. Checks were I passed at Western Auto Associate Store and Cash and Carry in the (Continued on Page 4) Tax Experts To Aid In Listing Taxpayers are again reminded that representatives of the Fed eral Tax Department will be in Sparta on Monday and Tuesday, February 19 and 20 at the court house for the purpose of assisting in the filing of 1944 income tax returns. There will be no charge to the taxpayer for this service, it was pointed out, and it is suggested that taxpayers who are required to file a return, do so at this date or as early as possible since all returns must be in by March 15. Patton Breaks German Lines Below Pruen; Enemy Driv en From Luxembourg The shattered remains of Bu dapest fell to the Red army yes terday after 49 days of street fighting that cost the enemy 49, 000 men killed and 110,000 cap tured in the greatest individual disaster since Stalingrad, while some 300 miles to the northwest the Russians slashed 10 miles farther westward through Ger man Silesia toward Dresden. Capture of the Cavite naval base and Nichols airfield were announced yesterday by Gen. Douglas MacArthur, who said the end of Japan’s trapped Manila garrison was “in sight.” MacArthur reported enemy casualties of more than 68,000 for the five weeks of the Luzon cam paign as compared with American casualties of 9,683, including 2, 102 killed. Capture of the Cavite naval base put the Yanks on the shores of Manila bay for the first time. (Continued on Page 4) County Schools To Operate Sat. Schools Will Make Up Lost Time By Operating On Saturdays Man£ of the Alleghany county schools are operating every Sat urday while others aer open ev ery other Saturday in an effort to make up for time lost during the recent bad weather, Supt. Clyde Fields announced this week. Schools are operating on Sat urdays in order that children be given every educational oppor tunity possible and parents are urged to co-operate by sending childen to school, Supt. Fields pointed out. Teachers and school officials are making the day as short as possible by cutting out play periods, she explained. Harrison Cook Buried Sunday Funeral rites for S. Harrison Cook, 75, well-known man of the Stratford community, who died at the Baptist hospital, Winston Salem, February 9, were conduct ed Sunday at Shiloh Methodist church with Revs. Carlie Mc Knight, Walter Evans and C. R. Allison officiating. Burial fol lowed in the church cemetery. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Ellen Cook and two children, Mrs. Homer Smith and Carl Cook, all of Stratford. Alleghany Men Now Serving Overseas T-4 Sgt. Walter M. Andrews, left, who is now in France, whites his sister, Mrs. Zollie Atwood, that he is getting along fine and to give everyone his best regards. He has hem over seas for the past year. Pvt Leonard M. Anders, right son of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Anders, of Sparta, entered service in Jnly, 1M4, and received basic training at Camp Wheeler, Ga. He is new stationed in France. Farmers Urged To Collect All Rationing Points Necessary To Cooperate When Selling Any Farm Pro duced Rationed Items Emerson Black, county agent, pointed out yesterday that the Charlotte OPA Office had re ported receiving persistent re ports of farm slaughterers not collecting meats and fats points on their sales of farm1produced rationed meats and fats commodi ties. “The 1945 meat production is estimated to be approximately two billion pounds less than the 1944 supply. Since farm slaugh tered meat, therefore, represents a much greater proportion now of the civilian supply, full coop eration and compliance is funda mental to the success of the en tire meat rationing program,” Mr. Black said. “Alleghany farmers are ad vised to conform to the rationing regulations in regard to collect ing points on all sales or gifts of farm slaughtered meat. Failure to do so violates principle of fair (Continued on Page 4) Progress Made In Crusade Program Drive To Raise $400.00 Under way; Shiloh Oversubscribes Individual Quota The Methodist churches in the Sparta charge are progressing rapidly toward raising the quota of $400.00 assigned them in the “Crusade for Christ” being car ried On in the Methodist churches throughout the nation, leaders an nounced this week. The Shiloh church raised a to tal of $103,00 last Sunday, more than doubling the quota of the church, it was announced Serv ice was in charge of Rev. C. R. Allison and Mrs. Gertrude G. Blevins. The Sparta church recently started a series of Sunday even ing study classes, using as a text book, “Abundant Living,” by Dr. E. Stanley Jones. The class is under the leadership of Miss Wil ma Crouse. Similar classes are being conducted at Piney Creek by Mrs; Gertrude G. Blevins. Men Classified By Local Board The local board this week an nounced classifications of 60 Al leghany county men for military service when three men were placed in I-A and 57 in various other classifications. One man was classified by the appeal board. The classification list is as fol lows: I-A: Dovy Choate, Clay W. Roberts and Glenn Roberts. I-C (Disc): Crockett Hines, James Y. Evans, John R. Sparks, Johnnie W. Hines, Donald R. Kennedy, Robert L. Fortner, Rex C. Wagoner, Zerna W. Pollard, Porter C. Wagoner, Bertie R. Crouse, Walter M. Farmer, Her bert C. Hawthorne, James E. An drews, Platt W. Waddell, Wiftiam C. Wood, Richard W. Taylor, Leonard W. Cox, James G. Huff man, Charlie L. Andres, Ray E. Maines, Edward P. Richardson, Frank M. Sanders, Lewellom E. Norman, Howard E. Hodge, Ro (Continued on Page 4) Pfc. Greene Gets A Purple Heart .. i ■ .' I Pfc. Ray Greene, son of Mr. and Mrs: Lester Greene, at Eu nice, has been awarded the Pur ple Heart for wounds received in action in Germany on November 25. Pfc. Greene, who is now in a hospital in England, was one of the first four volunteers for the armed service from Alleghany county. He entered service in January, 1941, and went overseas in January; 1944. Pfc. Greene had seen action in France, Belgium and Germany before he was wounded in the right arm. Map Strategy At Burma Meeting Shown as they met in Burma to map future strategy are these Allied leaders. Left to right, Lt. Gen. Daniel I. Sultan, commanding general of U. S. forces in India-Burma theater, Lt. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer, commander of U. S. forces in China theater, Adm. Lord Louis Mountbatten, supreme Allied commander in Southeast Asia, and Maj.' Gen. William J. Donovan, chief of the U. S. offices of strategic services. Erection Of Modern Hotel Is Planned By Chamber Of Commerce; Duncan, Chinn. t Big Three Agree On Plans To End Nazism At Meet Plans To Start Organized Peace Also Outlined At Dramatic Conference Washington —The Big Three, winding up an eight-day confer nce around a white-draped table in an old play spot of the czars, announced this week their for mula for the triumphal conclusion of a war and the beginning of organized peace. Their nine-point program, an nounced at the end of the fateful day-and-night sessions, projected this nation fully On to center stage in European affairs. That in outline is the record of the meeting concluded in the one time Summer palace of Czar Nich olas 11 on the Black Sea at Yalta (Continued On Page Four) Gas Rules Are Cited By Board Mrs. Robert Fleetwood, clerk of the Alleghany county ration board, anonunced this week that no gas will be issued unless the application is accompanied by the mileage rationing record. This record, Mrs. Fleetwood pointed out, may be found on the white slip sent to all car owners with the new “A” books which were issued a short time ago. Plans Are Outlined At En thusiastic Meeting Of Group On Friday Definite plans for the financing of a modern hotel in the town of Sparta, were presented to the Sparta Chamber of Commerce last Friday night when Edwin Duncan, executive vice-president of the Northwestern Bank, talked to the group on the long-discus sed and much-need project. Mr. Duncan was appointed chairman of the committee on the hotel with- other members to be named at an early date. The com mittee has been authorized by the club to proceed with plans im mediately. The plan, as Mr. Duncan gave it, provides for the appointment of trustees to collect immediately $30,000.00 for the erection of the hotel as soon as materials are available. The money will be held (Continued on Page Four) Still Captured By Sheriff, Sun. A 50-gallon illicit still was de stroyed Sunday near Rich Moun tain creek, Roaring Gap, along with 200 gallons of beer and more than three bushels of meal, Sher iff Jess Moxley announced this week. The wooden outfit, in a well concealed hollow of the moun tain, was completely destroyed by the sheriff and his deputies, Glenn Richardson and R. E. Richardson. No arrests were made. FSA Farmers Make Record In Food Conservation Here “A family may not grow rich living on a farm, but they can eat like a king.” FSA Supervisors are making every effort to con vince their families that the above statement is true. Each year when new farm and home plans are made, families are encouraged to grow, produce, and conserve suf ficient food for their use through out the year. 'If a fellow wants to get ahead and own a little “Stay Place,” he’d better raise his own food,” one of the bor rowers agreed. The purchase of garden seed package through the local pur chasing and marketing Associa tion, has made it possible for many families to have a bigger, and better garden and a wider variety of vegetables than ever before. During the summer months, a total of fifteen canning demon strations were held in the county by Ainslee Alexander, the home supervisor. The thirteen families who purchased new presure cookers were given a special dem onstration in the use of {he cook ers for canning and cooking. A total of 49,500 quarts or an everage of 450 quarts of fruits, vegetables and meats were canned by FSA familes in 1944. Bushels of food, dried and stor ed for winter use, numbered 550 bushels or an average of 5 bu. per family. Apples, potatoes, turnips, rutabagas, and other vegetables stored amounted to 3,080 bushels. The majority of the families planned for an adequate meat supply. Pork was found to aver age 460 lbs. per family. About eighteen families butchered and canned beeves. Many are beginn ing to can their surplus fryers; a few others had mutton to vary the meat in their diets. Approximately fifty two FSA families in the county have ex cellent storage houses equipped with shelves tor canned goods and bios tor holding fruits and vefe (Continued on Page 4) Experiments To Be Carried Out On Seven Farms Dr. E. R. Collins And Dr. F. R. Darkis, Of Duke, Start Project Alleghany county, previously producer of only burley tobacco, will have supervised experiments in Turkish tobacco for the first time, this year, according to plans stated this week. Dr. E. R. Collins, Extenstfon Agronomist, of State College and Dr. F. R. Darkis, of Duke Uni versity were here working with County Agent, R. E. Black in the selection of farms to take part in the experiment. The object of the experiment is to introduce something new in a leaf product, for which there is much demand and which is be lieved can be successfully grown in this area. There will be two acres grown in this experimental district, with not more than one-half acre al loted to a farmer. Three allot ments have been made of one fourth acres each. Farmers tak ing part in the experiment in clude Lester Woodruff, Glade Valley; M. E. Reeves, Laurel Spr ings and Robert Joines, Laurel Springs. Mr. Black pointed out that any other farmer interested in taking part in the project should get in touch with him. Seeds will be furnished and no extra tobacco land allotment is needed, he said. Supervision and study will be carried on throughout the season. Farmers taking part in the ex periment are guaranteed a good price for all tobacco produced, Mr. Black explained. “We believe there are real pos sibilities in the production of Turkish aromatic tobacco in this county,” one expert said yester day in discussing the object of the experiment. Capt. Bloodgood Sees Greek Riot Husband Of Sparta Woman Is Aide To General Saddler; Plenty Of Action ' Captain Richard M. Bloodgood finds that being aide to a General proves to be anything but dull, taking in everything from light ing the General’s cigar to spend ing two and one-half months with him in a hotel room during a riot. Captain Bloodgood, husband of the former Miss Imogene Miles, of Sparta, was with General Sad dler, head of the United Nation’s Relief program, in Athens, Greece several weeks agb during the up rising and riots there. The General and his aide, along with many famous personalities from various countries, were among those who were forced to stay in Hotel Grande Bretogne, A then’s number one luxury hotel, during the recent ujprising. According to Captain Blood good, howeyer, die werd "luxury” had nothing to do with the hotel during the two and one-half months that he spent there. Thera was no heat nor power, not very much water and what food and water was available, was ration ed. The guests ran the kitchen and cleaned their own roms. No one ventured into the streets for fear of stray bullets from snipers. He had no way of getting out any communication Whatsoever, but did persuade a “Life” pho tographer who flew in to get pic tures of the riot for the magazine, to cable Mrs. Bloodgood at Wins ton-Salem, where she is employ ed. Whma> the General’s mail was flown in to him at ’Christmas, Captain Bloodgood also, found let ters and a cable from his wife. -- - ... .. I -- Five Alleghany Men Go To Army A group of five Alleghany coun ty men left Monday for induction • into the armed force* at Beat They included: Letcher Victor I Brinegar, Odell Evan* and - Hawkins. t
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