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Alleghany News AND STAR-TIMES-(CONSOLIDATED ON SEPTEMBER 2, 1941) —ALLEGHANY COUNTY’S ONLY NEWSPAPER. ***************** BuymordM^nmr for/fer security, too! ***************** VOLUME 56, NO. 24 a Year in Alleghany County SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA $2.00 a Year Out of County THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1941 Slate Bone-Dry Bill Is Killed By Committee N. C. Assembly Is Now In Fin al Stages; Cherry Supports Medical Bill By Staff Writer Raleigh — The N. C. General ■Assembly moved a step nearer the close this week as the pro posed liquor referendum met a quick death and other important matters came in for consideration. * The Senate finance committee voted Tuesday to give an unfav orable report to a bone-dry bill calling for a state-wide liquor referendum six months after the war. Swift action was taken by the committee following a public hearing at which opponents of the measure attempted, to show the “evils” which they said would follow passage of the bill. A motion by Senator Charles Rose of Cumberland that the aye’s and nay’s be recorded was defeated, and Senator Rose, who introduced the measure, said he did not plan to offer a minority report. Governor Cherry went person ally before the Legislature and supported the general principles of the hospital and medical care bill, but reminded that teachers had a priority on any surplus. Too, he said, many of the incor porated proposals “must be post poned‘until some future date.” Pursuing his oft-voiced advo cacy of conservative spending and a balanced budget the Gov ernor said that “We cas and securely build al our**tt& sePWttrite prosperity.” The bill, introduced after weeks of discussion outside the legislative chambers, would appropriate $100,000 for expenses o the North Carolina Medical ..are commission; $100,000, if (Continued on Page 4) Cox Rites Were Held Wednesday Mrs. Flora Ellen Cox Passes On Monday At Age Of 85 At Twin Oaks Home Funeral service for Mrs. Flora Ellen Cox, 85, wife of the late Calloway Cox, was held yesterday at the New Haven Church of the Bretheran at Xwin Oaks with Rev. Carlie McKnight and Rev John A. Reed, officiating. Mrs. Cox, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Autery, of Montgomery county, died sud denly at her home at Twin Oaks on February 26. She had been in ill health for sometime. Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Rose Andrews, with whom she made her home and two grandchildren, Mrs. Vilace Ham, of Glade Valley and Talmadge Andrews, of Twin Oaks. Pall bearers were J. R. Sexton, G. F. Sexton, L. T. Sexton, W. M. Sexton, Willie Lee Pole arid Ro bert Greene. Flower girls were Mrs. J. .W. Richardson, Miss Lola Ham, Miss Clyde Poole, Miss Reba Sanders, Miss Mattie Lee Sanders, Miss Pauline Sexton, Miss Ethel Poole, Miss Nan Reed, Miss Margaret Sexton and Miss Iris Poole. Meeting Of WMU Called For Tues, A meeting of the executive com ■mittee of the Alleghany Associat ion of the Woman’s Missonary Union has been called for March 6 at 3:30 p. m. at the Sparta Bapt ist church, Mrs. A. O. Joines, su perintendent, announced this week. The purpose of the meeting is to decide on the date for the an nual meeting and to make plans for the year. Members of the committee are Mrs.„ W- E. Shepherd, Mrs. Van Miller, Mrs. Hugh Choate, Mrs. Ben G. Reeves, Mrs. W. 0- Hooper, Mrs. Richard L. West, Mrs. T. R. Burgiss, Mrs. E. E. Caudill, Mrs. C. A. Reeves and Mrs. R. E. Richardson. Americans Gaining Through Nazi Lines; Big Battle On Iwo LEADS SIXTH GROUP Lt. Gen. Jacob L. Devers, commanding general of the U. S. Sixth army group, made up of the 7_th and 9th armies, both giving excellent accounts of themselves on the German front A'-. ■- ■ 1»'-— Funeral Service For R. M. Joines To Be Held Fri. 'ell- Known Stratford Man Qf Haori At tail Yesterday Roan McClellean Joines, 73, well-known man of the Stratford community, died at his home here on February 29 of a heart at tack. He had been critically ill since November and was a pa tient in the Wilkes hospital short ly before his death. Funeral service will be con ducted Friday at 11 o’clock at the Antioch Primitive Baptist church [with Eld. S. G. Caudill, Eld. Coy | Walker and Eld Walter Evans, of ficiating. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. Mr. Joines was the son of the late Major Joines and Molly Ed wards Joines and had made his home in the Stratford community all his lifetime. He was married in early manhood to the former Miss Martha Jane Richardson, who survives. In addition to his wife, six chil (Continued on Page 4) ALLEGHANY CITIZENS HONORED BY HOUSE On motion of Representative T. R. Burgiss, the House of Repre sentatives of the N. C. Legislature adjourned last Friday morning in honor of the late James Mac D. Wagoner, chairman of the board of Alleghany county commission ers, who died on February 21, and also in honor of Sgt. Sam Os borne, of Alleghany county, who was killed in action in Germany. Russians Smash 44 Miles Through German Lines Toward Danzig The American infantry and armor smashing across the flat lands of Western Germany yester day in advances of ten miles or more, plunging all the way to the Erft river and within 8% miles of Cologne in a great drive that threatened the whole industrial Ruhr. German prisoners were scoop ed up by the hundreds and town after town fell to the waves of troops racing forward by truck and afoot. The spearhead of Gen. Eisen hower’s mighty four-army offen sive was tlie U. S. ninth army, which by-passed the steel center of Muenchen-Gladbach on the west and drove to the Erft river at the village of Morken, 18 miles from Duesseldorf. German resistance was so fee ble and apparently demoralized that a complete news blackout was clamped on all operations of ninth army divisions which have broken through in this area. It was thought the Germans them selves might not know the full extent of the American break (Continued On Page Four) Capt. Mitchell * Killed In Action Husband Of Fonner Miss Vir ginia Gentry Killed In stantly In Germany Cantain James S. Mitchell of the U. S. First Army was killed in action in Germany on February 5, according to a message receiv ed from the War Department by his wife, the former Miss Virginia Gentry. Captain Mitchell, the command er of the infantry battalion with which he maintained field artil lery liason, was hit when a num ber of mortar shells fell among the group of men with whom he was working. Medical attention was immediately available but could do nothing to save him, ac cording to a report from Lt. Col. Donald W. Adams. Captain Mit chell became unconscious and died very shortly after being wounded. Due to the shock and, the administration of ansesthetic j he said nothing and did not appear' to suffer, Col. Adams reported. Captain Mitchell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Smith Mitchell, Jr., and grandson of the late Rev. and Mrs. S. S. Mitchell, Sr., of Tampa, Fla., entered service in May, 1942, and went overseas in October, 1944. He was married to Miss Vir ginia Gentry, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Gentry, of Sparta, in September, 1943. They have one child, Virginia Ann, born Janu ary 6, 1945. Roosevelt, Churchill Meet In Crimea President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Wins ton Churchill get in a huddle over their cups at the palace at Yalta, Crimea. Russia, during the* conference of the Big Three, from which Roosevelt has just returned. Gov. R. Gregg Cherry Launches N. C. Pulpwood Campaign Inaugurating an emergency pulpwood production campaign in North Carolina, Governor R. Gregg Cherry urged farmers and pulpwood workers to cut pulpwood for war. With him are Curtis M. Hutchins, right, chief of the WPB Pulpwood Production Branch, and John W. Goodman, assistant director of the N. C. Extension Service, who acted as chairman of the recent meeting of U. S., state and industry representatives in Raleigh. North Carolina’s coal is 450,000 cords by June 30. Will Continue ‘ Dairy Subsidy Farm Payments Will Be Continued Through 1945, AAA Chairman An nounces This Week Plans for continuation of dai ry production payments through the last nine month? of 1945 have been announced by the War Food Administration, according to G, C. Collins, Chairman Alle ghany County AAA Committee. “This announcement definitely extends the program for another 3-month period, through June 30 1945,” he declared," and contin uation of the program after, this date is necessarily conditional up on the approval of Congress. The soecific rates of payment after June 30 must also remain subject to later revision.” (Continued on Page 4) Commissioners’ Pay Is Increased Raleigh—Proposals to put the Alleghany County clerk of Su perior Court on a straight salary of $900 a year rather than fees i were reported unfavorably last week by a House Committee. The proposals were incorpora ted in a bill introduced in the House by Representative Roy Burgiss, of Sparta, who said he was offering it “by request.” Two-thirds vote of the House is necessary to get a bill from the unfavorable list. Another bill introduced by Bur giss to raise the pay of county commissioners from $3.50 to $5 a day was ratified. The commissioners would re ceive $5 “for each day in which they are engaged in the discharge of the official duties” of the board. They would also be paid five cents a mile for use of their cars on official business. Rationing Guide PROCESSED FOODS Blue Stamps . . . X5, Y5, Z5, A2, B2, now val id, expire March 31. C2, D2. E2, F2, G2, now valid, expire April 28. H2, J2, K2, L2, M2, now valid, expire June 2. MEATS AND FATS Red Stamps . . . Q5, R5, S5, now valid, expire March 31. T5, U5, V5, W5, X5, now valid, expire April 28. Y5, Z5, A2, B2, C2, D2, now valid expire June 2. SUGAR Sugar Stamp No. 34, good for five pounds, expires Feb ruary 28. Sugar Stamp No. 35, good for five pounds, expires June 2. SHOES Airplane Stamps No. l, Nf, 2 and No. 3 now good. Local American Legion Post Making Plans For Permanent Memorial For Men In Service Alleghany Men Are Classified By Local Board Out Of Group Of 52, Only' 8 Are Placed In I-A; Classi fications Listed The local board this week an nounced classifications of 52 Al leghany men for military service when eight men were placed in I1A and 44 in various other classi fications. The classification list is as fol lows: I-A: Boyd D. Roberts, Russell G. Moxley, James H. Stevenson, Robert L. Gambill, Jr., Estel R. Billings, Thomas E. Miller, Clay F. Crouse and Howard H. Irwin. 1-C: (Ind..): Kyle S. Nichols, Clifford W. Johnson, Walter Zrinegar, Ardell Hawkins, Jr., (Continued on Page 8) __i Gambill To Serve As Commissioner J. C. Gambill was appointed this week by Clerk of Court, S. iO. Gambill, to fill the unexpired term of James McD. Wagoner; on the board of Alleghany county commissioners. Mr. Gambill, who has served for eight years as county commission er from, 1934 to December 1942, will take the oath of office at the March meeting on the first Mon day. The two other members of the board are Guy T. Perry and R. T. Hendrix. Commander Jess Moxley Will Welcome Suggestions From The Public Initial plans are now 'being Considered t6'r the erection- of a suitable memorial to Alleghany county men of World Wars I and II, the project to be sponsored by the American Legion. The nature ot the memorial and plans for the erection will be decided and worked out by a committee appointed by Com mander Jess Moxley. Members of the committee include R. F. Crouse, Dillon Edwards, Victor Phipps, Ed Pugh and Cleve Nich ols, veteran of World War II. The committee, which will make a report to the Legion at the next meeting, plans to take up the matter with the State and National Legion headquarters for assistance in working out the plans for the memorial. “We are planning a permanent memorial to the veterans of both wars, a memorial of which the people of the county will be proud,” one member of the com mittee pointed out. (Continued on Page Four) CADET RICHARDSON IS MADE CORP. AT ORMI Cadet Officer and Non-com missioned Officer appointments for 1944-45 in the Oak Ridge Mili tary Institute Reserve Officers’ Training Corps were announced this week by Captain Charles R. Simons, Infantry, Professor of Military Science and Tactics. Corp. R. D. Richardson, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Richardson, of Sparta, is listed among the cadet non-commissioned officers. Tired Fighting Men On Way To Rest After a week in the front line, every minute of which might have been their last, these three doughboys are leaving the German front for a 48-hour break. Their faces plainly show the effects# of the strain. ' * Township Chmn. Are Named And Quotas Assigned County’s Quota Of $1,700.00 Is Divided Among The Various Townships Plans for Alleghany’s Red Cross War Fund Drive were com pleted Tuesday night when town ship chairnidn and quotas were assigned by county chairman Isom Wagoner. It was decided that the drive would officially open on Monday, March 5, and close March 15, provided the bounty’s quota of $1,700 is raised within that time. Mr. Wagoner announced that any person who makes a contribu tion of $5.00 or more to the Red Cross will have his or her name printed in the Alleghany News along with the man in service in whose honor the contribution • is made. At the end of the drive, Mr. Wagoner stated, a placard containing the' names of donors and those men in whose honor the donation was made, will be posted in the courthouse. “We will need the co-operation of every citizen in the county in order to make a successful drive,” Mr. Wagoner pointed out. “If we can double our quota it will be to our credit and if we can triple it we will have done our duty to this great humanitarian organization,” one leader stated. The drive will open with a box supper and moving picture at Rich Hill school, Saturday night, March 3 at 8 o’clock. Everyone is urged to bring a box. Township chairmen and assign ed quotas are as follows: Gap Civil, $625100, Bill Sprink le; Cherry Lane, $125.00,V'jg.‘. CS. Thompson; Prather’s Creek, $200. 00, Mrs. E,,C. Mitchell; Whitehead, $125.00, Mrs. Ethelyn Richardson; finey Creek. $250.00, Made Woodie; Glade Creek, $250.00, Isom Wagoner and Cranberry, $125.00, Ed Pugh. Each of the ten rural carriers in the county were assigned quo tas of $100.00 each. Lon M. (Continued on Page 8) Doughton Again Heads Welfare tve-appomted Head Of Boadl By Legislatures Other Ap pointments Soon Gov. R. A. Doughton has been re-appointed by the State Board of Charities as Alleghany coun ty’s appointee for the county welfare board, it was announced this week. Through a special act of the legislature, all county welfare boards throughout the state were cancelled and on recommenda tion of the state board of chari ties, the legislature appointed one man for each county. The board of county commis sioners will appoint a second member and the two members in .turn will elect a third member. The new board will become ef fective on July 1, it was point ed out. Present members of the board are Gov. Doughton, John H. Cheek and John A. Higgins. Alleghany now has no superin tendent of public welfare since Swanson Edwards was ^ drafted into military service; Miss Dor is Wagoner is acting secretary, dent. It is hoped that in addition to a superintendent of welfare, a coun ty nurse will also be secured in the near future, Gov. Doughton stated. OPA Raises Some Ration Points Washington—The OPA ordered a boost in the ration fioint values on lard, shortening, salad cooking oils and margarine, effec tive at 12:01 a. m., Sunday. The margarine value goes to five red points a pound from three, the ration eost of the other products will be four red points * pound instead of two. •.■sartar.’—v? The increases reeult from * tight supply situation, OPA ««<«*
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