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VOLUME 56, NO. 25
SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA
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fHURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1941
Red Cross War Fund Drive Now $325
Legislature Is
Nearing End As
Solons Speed Up
Amendments To Revenue Act
Are Adopted; More Bills
Are Passed
By Staff Writer
Raleigh—(Special)—The 1945
session of the N. C. Legislature
comes nearer to adjournment this
week with the adoption of the
amendments to the Revenue Act
and the passage of other measures
under consideration as solons
speed up action.
Amendments to the continuing
revenue act, now estimated to
raise approximately $129,000,000
during the next biennium, were
passed unanimously Tuesday by
the House and sent to the Senate.
Changes in the continuing act,
adopted in 1939, would exempt in
secticides from the sales tax if
bought for, use on poultry or live
stock; and woifld raise the tax on
pure, fermented wines to 30 cents
a gallon, and the tax on synthetic
or imitation wines, to $1.20 a gal
lon. Other changes were classi
fied as minor. The present tax
is 20 cents a gallon on all wines.
A bill expected to be introduc
ed, which many predict will get
no further than the committee, is
that to divorce the fish and game
from the Department of Conser
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Sunday Schools
Subject Of Meet
To Hold County-Wide Baptist
Sunday School Meet At
,,, $parta On April 29
*
Plans for the enlargement of
Sunday schools in the Baptist
churches in Alleghany county
were discussed and talks were
heard on various phases of Sun
day school work at a meeting at
the Sparta Baptist church here,
Tuesday afternoon.
John M. Cheek presided in the
absence of T. C. Osborne, Sunday
school superintendent of the as
sociation.
Talks were heard by Dr. N. D.
Fox, Rev. E. B. Barton, W. F.
Dough ton, Mrs. Van Miller, Miss
Doris Wagoner, Mrs. R. E. Rich
ardson and Mrs. T. S. MOxley.
Rev. Richard L. West delivered
the main address of the meeting.
A special vocal selection, wBe
Still My Soul” was rendered by
Mrs. Gene Irwin, accompanied at
the piano by Mrs. S. L. Porter.
It was decided that an associa
tional-wide Sunday School meet
would be held at the Sparta Bap
tist church on April 29 in the af
ternoon.
Miss Emoryetta Reeves was
elected publicity director of the
Sunday School convention at the
close of the meeting.
Prof. J. M. Cheek
Speaks To Club
Informed public thinking wilt
play an important part in the fu
ture of peace loving nations- of
the world, Professor John M.
Cheek told members of the Spar
ta Woman’s club at the comiAuni
ty building last Friday.
•Mr. Cheek, who explained the
Dumbarton Oaks Peace Plan to
th$ club, delivered an interesting
message. Entertainment was
provided by a group of 20 colored
students from the Cherry Lane
school, who sang several negro
spirituals.
MISTAKES SNORES «
FOR ENEMY VEHICLE
With the 89th Infantry Divi
sion on the Western Front—Pri
vate First Class Coy Adams, of
Sparta, was on guard duty late
one night for Company L, 395th
Infantry. He was stationed near
a battered house somewhere on
the Siegfried Line, when sudden
ly he detected what he thought
to be the sound of an approaching
enemy vehicle.
He dashed down the stairs to
spread the alarm—rand stopped
short) There from the basement
came the real 'Cause of the noise.
It was the rhythmic, but stentor
ian, snoring of a visiting officer)
Cologne Captured By
Americans; Russians
Push To Oder River
IS HEADING DRIVE
Isom W. Wagoner, of En
nice, chairman of the Red
Cross War Fund Drive in Al
leghany county.
Former Sparta
Lawyer, Clerk To
House Committee
Robert Gambill Is Named As
CltpdtXaHouse Ways And
- "" Means Committee
Washington — Robert Gambill,
former Sparta attorney, has taken
office as Clerk to the House Ways
and Means Committee, replacing
C. Malcolm Hevenor, the tempo
rary clerk.
Gambill attended the University
of North Carolina Law School
and was admitted to the North
Carolina bar in 1936. He prac
ticed law in Sparta from 1936 to
1942, and then became affiliated
with the Department of Internal
Revenue with offices in Wilkes
boro. He is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. E. F. Gambill, of Crumpler
Gambill said that his wife, the
! former Miss Hazel Reeves, of
Volney, Va., and his four children
probably will not come to Wash
ington to live until after school
recesses in the Spring.
C. of C. To Meet
On Friday Night
The Sparta Chamber of Com
merce will meet at the community
building tomarrow night when
plans for the erection of a hotel
and a freezer locker unit will be
discussed.
All members are urged to at
by the Bledsoe Creek home dem
tend. The dinner will be served
onstration club.
Marines Open New Assault
On Iwo; In Last Phase
Of Luzon Fight
Cologne fell swiftly to the U.
S. first army in the climax of its
great east-war drive Tuesday as
General Eisenhower lifted the
news blackout on operations of
the American third army and re
vealed that its armor was racing
toward the Rhine in a break
through that covered 32 miles in
two days.
These dramatic developments,
coming when the ninth army and
its British and Canadian allies
had virtually completed occupa
tion of all German territory west
of the Ruhr, shifting the big
punches to the middle Rhine far
ther south and opened the way
for the allies to push the enemy
out of the area west of the Rhine
and north of the Moselle.
The first White Russian army
reached the Oder river’s north
eastern outlet to the Baltic yes
terday in a slashing 25-mile ad
vance that took 500 German
towns and extinguished the stag
gered enemy’s hopes of any ef
fective counterattack against the
north flank of the Soviet spear
head aimed at Berlin from the
east.
Preceded by the most intense
artillery bombardment of the
Iwo campaign, three marine di
visions resumed the. offensive on
the mirth end-of the tiny island
Tuesday and engaged the Japan
ese in "heavy fighting.” By 5:30
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Edwards Child
Dies Of Poison
Three-Year-Old Daughter Of
Mr. and Mrs. Olin Edwards
Eats Strychnine
Little Betty Lou Edwards,
three-year-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Olin Edwards, of In
dependence, Va., died last Thurs
day as a result of poisoning after
eating strychnine pills.
Both the little girl and her five
year-old brother ate some of the
pills not knowing what they
were, but the brother did not get
enough poison to harm him. Med
ical aid was called as soon as the
children were discovered but the
little girl died three hours after
taking the poison. She suffered
several convultions.
Funeral service was conducted
at the home of Sam Reeves on
Friday with Rev. Carlie McKnight
and Rev. Luther Shumate offi
ciating. Interment followed in
the Reeves cemetery.
Surviving are her parents and
one brother, five years old, and
one sister, one year old. The
mother is the former Miss Sophia
Reeves. -
Alleghany Brothers Serving Overseas
Pvt. James E. Carpenter, left, and Pvt. Olen G. Carpen
ter, right, are soijs of Mr. and Mrs. Clay Carpenter, of Twin
Oaks. James has been overseas with the 82nd Airborne Di
vision since May, 1943, and is now in Germany. Olen entered
the service in July, 1944, and recently notified his parents
that he had landed safely in France.
Japanese Are Burned Out Of Island Stronghold
Men of the famous and feared Americal Division are shown burning out a Jap machine
gun nest in a pillbox on Bougainville Island. Army Signal Corps Photo
Local American
Legion Post Is
Given Citation
Dean Parrish Post Exceeded
Entire ’43-’44 Membership
By ’44-’45 Enrollment
The American Legion Post 98
of Alleghany county was recently
awarded the 1945 Most Disting
uished Service Citation, resulting
form the Post having exceeded
its entire 1943-44 membership by
its enrollment for 1944-45, Ad
jutant Silas Nichols announced
this week.r
“The responsibilities of the
American Legion are many these
days,” Donald G. Glascoff, Nat
ional Adjutant, wrote. “The pow
er of a great membership is need
ed to carry out these obligations.
It is a privilage for us to salute
your Post for its part in making
the Legion’s influence felt in
buflding a better America to
which our fighting men and wo
men will be returning one of these
days.”
The Alleghany post, known as
the Dean Parrish Post, has a mem
bership of 35 to date. Three vet
erans of World War 11 are mem
bers. They are Cleve Nichols,
Terry Stone and Bertie R. Crouse.
Jess Moxley is commander of
the Post.
Want Vocational
Work In Schools
Appeal Is Made To Commis
sioners And Board Of
Education
A request that standardized
vocational home economics be
placed in the two high schools in
Alleghany county, was made on
Monday when the Piney Creek
school board and representatives
from Sparta school appeared be
fore the county board of educa
tion and the board of county com
missioners.
It was pointed out that if this
request was granted it would put'
the girls’ work on an equal plane
with the boys, who have voca
tional agriculture in both schools.
The work of a vocational home
economics teacher would be car
ried on ten months of the year,
it was explained.
The board of education studied
and planned a budget which will
be presented to the board of
county cohimissioners for approv
al at an early date.
V
Crouse Heard By
Hunting Club
West Jefferson — (Special) —
The possibilities and future of
a state-wide fish and game or
ganization were discussed before
the local club at an enchusuastic
meeting here on Monday night,
following a fish fry, when 40
members were present
R. F. Crouse, of Sparta, who
attended an organization meet
ing in Raleigh last week and
helped to organize the North Car
olina Wild Life Federation, dis
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Benefits Of Red Cross Are
Related By Sgt. Sommers,
Who Is A Prisoner Of War
Income Taxes
To Be Filed By
Next Thursday
Payment Of Postponed Tax,
Of Estimated 1945 Tax Are
Separated Transactions
Alleghany people, as well as
those throughout the state, are |
finishing up last-minute income
tax reports in preparation for .
filing before the deadline, next'
Thursday, March 15.
March 15 means a three-way
sock for some income taxpayers.
They will have to pay: (1) Tax
still owed on 1944 income, (2) the
portion of 1943 tax postponed last
March and (3) the first install- j
ment of estimated tax on their!
1945 income.
Collectors of internal revenue
have been sending out bills to all
taxpayers who postponed part of
their 1943 tax. (Remember the
“unforgiven” tax when the
change-over was made to pay-as
you-go?.) Persons who make
declarations of estimated tax for
1945 must pay at least one-fourth
of their estimated tax.
The payment of postpqned tax,
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Boyd Royall, 23,
Buried Thiflrsday
Funeral services for Boyd Roy
all, 23, was conducted at Woodruff
church at Roaring Gap on March
1 with Eld. Royall officiating.
The young man died on Febru
ary 27, following a prolonged ill
ness of about three years.
Surviving are his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Harrison Royall of
Roaring Gap.
Relative Of County People
Tells Of Packages Received,
Other Aid Given
With the Allied armies advanc
ing daily in Germany, Sgt. Virgil
O. Sommers, a prisoner of war
of the Germans for the past year,
has hopes of liberation soon. 1
Sgt. Sommer%feJ^|MN£fi of the
former Miss EllflLjft^ML .of Pin
ey Creek, writeJwBHPllPckages
he has receiveijgMBKh the
American Red Crasl^mc^ilso that
he gets letters from home once in
a while.
Sgt. Sommers recently wrote
that he was moving from a pris
oner-of-war camp near Danzig.
He wrote that they had been kept
pretty busy and that he did not
have much time to write. In his
last letter, he stated that he had
received one parcel and 18 let
ters from his wife.
The letters are written on paper
similar to our V-Mail and on all I
stamps is a picture of Hitler. In;
mail going to prisoners of war j
in Germany, no stamps can be
cancelled and neither are letters
bearing V for Victory or Win the
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Men Classified
By Local Board
The local board this week an
nounced classification of ten Al
leghany men for military service
when only two were placed in
1- A with eight others in various
classifications.
The classification list is as fol
lows:
1-A: Sidney D. Blevins and
Hugh Rufty. 2-A: Clifford G.
Pruitt. 2-A(F): William B. Ken
nedy. 2-B: Winfrey H. Osborne.
2- C: David L. Delp and Jefferson
L. O’Neal. 2-C(F>: Sidney D. Hig
gins and Earnest E. Medley, 4-F:
Hollie Atwood.
7th War Loan Goal Set At
14 Billions; Opens May 14
Washington, March 7 — Secre
tary Morgenthau has announced
a $14,000,000,000 goal for the
Seventh War Loan, divided even
ly between individuals and cor
porations. •
The $7,000,000,000 quota for in
dividuals is the highest ever as
signed them. The series E quota
of $4,000,000,000 is also more than
Mr. and Mrs. America have been
asked to dig up for that class of
securities heretofore.
The total quota is the same as
that of the Sixth War Loan.
In order to sell the unprece
dented amounts of bonds to non
corporate investors the treasury
set the longest sales period yet.
The formal drive with its cus
tomary great promotional cam
paign will extend from May 14 to
June 30—seven weeks as com
pared with (pur weeks in the
Sixth War Loan from November
20 to December 16.
Iu addition to this seven week
drive, an “intensification of ac
tivities” in the sale of series E
bonds will begin April 9, when
millions of persons in payroll
savings plans throughout the
country will be asked to enlarge
their participation as a part of
the Seventh War Loan.
Over a period of' nearly three
months—April 9 through July 7
—all series E, F and G savings
bonds and series C savings notes
processed through the Federal
Reserve banks will be credited to
the drive.
Morgenthau said at a news con
ference he feels that lifting the
quota on individual sales and E
bonds and extending the time
over a three-month period “ought
to have a good effect in curbing
inflation.”
Plan Programs
For Benefit Of
Drive This Week
Cooperation Of Everyone Is
Asked To Help Raise Coun
ty’s Quota Of $1,700.00
Contributions to the Red Cross
War Fund reached a total of only
$325.00 {luring the first week of
the drive in Alleghany county,
chairman Isom Wagoner announc
ed late yesterday afternoon. This
leaves $1,375.00 yet to be raised
before the county’s quota of $1,
700.00 is reached.
Citizens were again reminded
that every contribution of $3.00
or more entitles the donor to his
name being placed on a placard
to be displayed in the courthouse
along with the name of the sol
dier in whose honor the donation
is made. They were also remind
ed that the name and rating of the
man in service must be given
when the contribution is made.
Donations may be given to any
township chairman, to Supt.
Clyde Fields or to Alton Thomp
son at the Northwestern Bank.
Reports, Mr. Wagoner stated,
are slow in coming in, but to date
the drive is going well. “I want
to take this opportunity to appeal
to every patriotic citizen of this
county to make a liberal contribu
tion to this great humanitarian
cause and to do so soon as possi
ble. With victory in sight and
with many of our army hospitals
filled with wounded men, we
cannot afford to let them down.
Alleghany county has met and
exceeded every quota given it in
any drive pertinent to the war
effo
fall
Junior RedCross
Drive Is Success
Miss Minnie Lou Edwards,
Chairman, Makes Shipment
Of Games And Novels
Results of the recent appeal
made by the Junior Red Cross of
Alleghany county, have been
splendid and the quota has been
met with the exception of a few
articles, Miss Minnie Lou Ed
wards, chairman, announced this
week.
One shipment of games, novels
and ash trays has been mailed to
the JRC headquarters to be sent
out to hospitals and army camps
wherever they are needed, Miss
Edwards stated.
Old towels to be used for mak
ing wash cloths are needed as
well as a crochet or knitted afag
han, it was explained. All other
items contained in the quota have
either been secured or are being
made. r
The D. and P. Pipe Works pre
sented the Alleghany chapter of
JRC with 12 pipes to be added to
the collection. Mrs. C. A. Reeves
and Mrs. T. R. Burgiss donated
ten packs of playing cards and
Mrs. Reeves gave instructions for
telling fortunes. Mrs. Ed Rizoti
gave six \yash clothes and Mrs.
Fred Hardin and Mrs. Jay Hardin
gave scraps of material for afag
hans. Mrs. Hardin also donated
bridge score pads and tallies.
Most of the rooms in the Spar
ta elementary school and home
economics classes in the Sparta
and Piney Creek schools are co
operating by making some of the
articles needed to meet the quo
ta.
“The Junior Red Cross chapter
appreciates the co-operation of
these people who have helped to
raise the quota and also the stu
dents who have worked in the
drive,” Miss Edwards stated.
Whitehead Girl
Making Record
Mars Hill, (Special)—The name