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e Alleghany News AND STAB-TIMES—(CONSOLIDATED ON SEPTEMBER 2, 1941) —ALLEGHANY COUNTY’S ONLY NEWSPAPER. 9aiimMrfa6m . for/^/r security, tot! VOLUME 56, NO. 26 $1.50 a Year in Alleghany County SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA $2.00 a Year Out of County THURSDAY, MARCH 15, lMt At Legislature Is Expected To End Next Saturday Calendar Committee Is Nam ed; Several Bills Yet To Be Considered By Staff Writer Raleigh, N. C. —(Special)—As a means of expediting legislation during the waning days of this wartime session of the general assembly, Speaker Oscar Rich ardson this week named a seven man calendar committee, to which all new bills will be referred. On this committee Richardson named Reps. Bost of Cabarrus, Taylor of Wayne, Grimes of Beaufort, Horner of Lee, Kerr of Warren, Uzzell of Rowan and Bridges of Bladen. Meanwhile, a point roads com mittee requested by resolution the appointment of a five-member commission to report 30 days prior to the 1947 assembly session on the needs and facilities for transportation of property on mo tor vehicles. The commission would be named by the governor. —The resolution defers the hauler issue for almost two years to give time for study of what the utili ties commission calls a complica ted problem. In the senate a bill was passed providing for a vote on the sale of wine and beer in the counties of clay, Graham, Macon, Swain and Cherokee one year following the war. Senator Penland, of Clay, opposing the clause pro viding for the post-war referen dum, introduced other bills to al | low county commissioners of counties involved to decline is suance of wirie and beer licenses. Also adopted by the senate, was a substitute bill providing ap pointment of a new board of di rectors for the state’s four mental hospitals, and selection of a su perintendent of mental hygiene and a general business manager. In this connection the senate ^Isp passed a bill permitting com fttttnrfent of a patient to the men tal institutions for a period servation. The House cleared jor item from its legii get Tuesday, pass: reading a bill setting up a State wide Hospital and Medical Care Program on a scale endorsed by Governor Cherry as “all the State tContinued wn Page Four) nt to the men a period^* ~v id ajttl egi* Piney Creek To Give Play Mar. 24 All Faculty Cast To Present Three-Act Comedy, “Little Miss Fortune” Members of the faculty of Pin ey Creek high school will present a three-act comedy entitled, “Little Miss Fortune” on Satur day night, March 24 at 8 o’clock, in the high school auditorium. The public is cordially invited to attend the play. Characters are as follows: Mrs. Ada Coop er, a widow, Mrs. Joe Bill Reed; Katherine Cooper, her daughter, Mrs. Dick Doughton; William Cooper, her son, Joe Bill Reed; Augusta Smythe, a young society flapper, Jean McMillan; Vivian Nightingale, a dressmaker, Mrs. Marjorie Miller; Lily Henshaw, a little gossip, Mrs. Gertrude Blevins; Mrs. Jason Bindley, Mrs. Kathleen Maxwell; Mrs. Baxter Reeves, Mrs. Blanche Osborne, society matrons; Calvin Procter, E. C. Minnich; Randolph Blaney, a rich young man/Fred Pugh, a senior; Jerry Patrick, who runs the candy store, Edwin Wyatt, a Senior. Former County Minister Passes Eld. David Roten, 79, died at his home in the Poplar Grove sectifl|i of Wilkes county on March 3, after serving in the ministry for the past 60 years. Funeral service was conducted by Elds. J. F. Royal, Willie Hamm and Edd Hays on March 5. Eld. Roten was moderator of the Blue Ridge Baptist Association foif a number of years and had served as pastor of churches in Wilkes, Ashe and Alleghany counties. Surviving are ten children, 79 grandchildren and 83 great grandchildren. His wife pre ceded him in death seven years ago. 1 v. v \ v* • --L- - Led Raids On Japs In Philippines Capt. Fred W. Varney, left, and Maj. Cecil E. Walter, who were leaders of an American guerrilla band that terrorized the Japs in the Philippines for nearly three years, are shown aboard a navy flying boat which brought them back to an American base. Americans Advance In Germany; Gains Made By Russians Americans Continue To Ad vance In Philippine Area; Hard Fighting The Germans attacked the American Remagen-Erpel bridge head with at least 60 planes yes terday and fought stubbornly in the hills east of the Rhine river, but U. S. first army troops push ed relentlessly deeper and reach ed within two miles of the great six-lane superhighway linking Frankfurt-on-Main and the in dustrial Ruhr. Gain* made by American in fantry were measured in yards, J ^v* that the o'a.c i.ie doughboys f important heights con the bridgehead, which being speedily built up with the help of a newly-erected pontoon bridge. Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov, achieving a breakthrough in a frontal assault toward Berlin, has pushed nearly 100,000 Russian troops across the Oder river be tween Frankfurt and newly-cap tured Kuestrin and has sent spear heads within 33 miles of the reich capital, the Germans said yesterday. (Continued on Page 4) John H. Wagoner Killed In France Dr. and Mrs. Bert A. Wagoner, of Wytheville, Va., have been no tified by the War Department that their son, Pvt. John H. Wag oner, 19, was killed in action in France on February 20. Pvt. Wagoner, grandson of J. M. Wagoner, of Sparta, volun teered for service and reported for duty at Camp Hood, Texas, in September, 1944. He arrived overseas the latter part of Jan uary. A brother, Cpl. Arlington Wag oner, is stationed at the Maguire General hospital, Richmond, Va. D. M. Edwards Is Now Member Of County Board Appointed To Fill Vacancy By Resignation Of R. L. Hendrix Alleghany county now has a new board of county commission ers with the appointment this w«&:q£*D. M- Edwards to fill the uneXplred term caused by the resignation of R. L. Hendrix, on ly original member of the old board, S. O. Gambill, clerk of court, announced yesterday. Mr. Hendrix tendered his res ignation due to ill health, it was pointed out. Elected to serve for a term of four years, he had serv ed only two years. Mr. Edwards, a prominent farmer of the Ennice communi ty, has been connected with the AAA of the county" for several years. Present members of the board (Continued on Page 4) Club Leaders Will Meet Soon Plans are now underway for a county council meeting of Home Demonstration leaders in the of fice of the home agent, Mrs. Isom Wagoner, on Tuesday, March 27 at 3:00 p. m., at which time offi cers of the county Federation of H. D. Clubs will meet. Mrs. Haswell Rector, president, will be in charge. Other members are Mrs. Champ Duncan and Mrs. C. G. Collins. Officers of each club in the county are also expected to at tend when home demonstration work and plans fo rthe curb mar ket Will be discussed. The mar ket will open sometime the last of June, it was pointed out. Alleghany Women Urged To Save More Waste Fats Alleghany’s 1,854 families can fill an entire day’s medicinal needs of 1,889 battlefront casual ties if each home will save one tablespoon of waste kitchen fat, it was estimated today by the na tion’s largest single collector of this vital war material. “There are few direct ways a wife, mother or daughter can help safeguard the life of a loved one at the fighting front, and salvaging used fats is one of them,” said T. A. Connors, head of a meat department of a well known chain store. “The value of the 9,128,000 pounds salvaged by our customers throughout the nation last year is evident in the fact that a sing le pound of fat will process about 260 quarts of life-giving blood plasma.” The increased tempo of the war has . intensified the need for drugs, ointments and acids to ease pain and lessen mortality among our soldiers as well as for syn thetic rubber, protective coatings and other vital war materials in which waste fats figure, Connors pointed out. Further, he said, the OPA has continued its offer of red ration points for each pound of grease turned in at stores. “The importance of used fats in the manufacture of the imple ments of war and of thousands of products for the home front is widely recognized,” he said. “But little is known of the miracles be ing worked by military medicine with the aid of converted fats. Alleghany women, in making their contribution to this salvage drive, may take added satisfac tion from the knowledge that ev (Continued on Page 4) Sparta Stores To Close At 1:00 P. M. Each Wednesday Will Begin Closing On April 4 And Continue Through September 26 All Sparta stores will be closed on Wednesday afternoons begin ning on April 4 and continue through September 26, it was an nounced this week following a meeting of the merchants’ com mittee last Friday night at the Sparta Chamber of Commerce meeting. This policy, in keeping with the one observed last year and in previous years here, was made in order to give clerks and other workers in the stores one after noon off each week for working in victory gardens and doing chores for which no hired help can be secured. The drug store and bus station will remain open as usual, as will the garages and service stations, it was pointed out. All other stores will close at 1 o’clock for the remainder of the afternoon. Men Classified By Local Board Seven Men Are Placed In I-A And Eleven In Other Classifications The local board this week an nounced classifications of 17 Al leghany men for military service when seven were placed in I-A and ten were placed in various othr classifications. The classification list is as fol lows: I-A: Carl B. Edwards, Roy E. Lowe, Foster L. Mabe, Greek J. Hill, Bert Moxley, William C. Moxley and Bower F. Hoppers.* 1-C (Disc): Clyde S. Royall and Millard C. Edwards. 1- C (Ind): Joe A. Roberts. 2- A; Johnnie R. Parker. 2-A (I?).: Paul W. Adams. 2-Q <F): Odell H. Evans. 4-A: Virgil E. Petty and Field en W. Bullins. 2-C: Classified by Appeal Board: Orville H. Lyons. OPENS NEW STORE Amos Wagoner, of Sparta, who operates the Farmer’s Hardware store here and the Ashe Hardware store in West Jefferson, last week opened the Watauga Hardware store in Boone. “We had a most successful opening with more than 2,500 visiting our store on the opening dgy,” he de clared. Want Fireworks Prohibited Here Raleigh, N. C. —Alleghany was one of the fifty-three North Caro lina counties late Tuesday elected to come under a bill authorizing county boards of commissioners to prohibit the sale and use of firecrackers, thus following Meck lenburg county in accepting pro visions of the measure. ✓ The bill, originally introduced in the house by the Mecklenburg delegation as a state-wide mea sure, was amended in committee to apply only to Mecklenburg af ter opponents had testified that it would drive firecracker manu facturers out of business and make potential criminals and law breakers out of children. If fire crackers were prohibited from manufacture and sale in the state, opponents said residents of the state, still could get them through mail order houses. (Continued from Page 1) Alleghany Men Are Casualties Of War Sgt. Paul Ayers, left, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Ayers, of Roaring Gap, was killed in action in France on January 231 Sgt. Ayers entered the service in June, 1942, and went over seas in April, 1944. Pvt. Billie B. Settle, right, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Settle, of Sparta, was wounded in action in Belgium on January 20, and is now in a hospital in England. Red Cross War Fund Reaches $1,040,00; More Money Needed * Woman’s Club To Sponsor Sale Of Easter Seals Funds Raised Will Be Used To Aid Crippled Children Of County. The annual sale of Easter seals will begin on Monday, March 19, when Alleghany county has been assigned a quota of $100.00, Mrs. A. V. Cb%rte, chairman of the drive, announced yesterday. The seals have been received and wili.be distributed for sale throughdiit both the white and colored schols of the county, Mrs. Choate pointed out. The annual sale of Easter seals provides money for the care of cripple children throughout the state of North Carolina. Fifty percent of the proceeds from the sale will go to state headquarters and fifty percent will remain in Alleghany county to care for crip ples in the county. “Every citizen is urged to pledge his or her support to this worthy cause by buying seals,” Mrs. Choate said. She pointed out that the sale would be con ducted altogether through the schools and that students will act as salesmen. The sale is being conducted un der the sponsorship of the Sparta Woman’s Club. RELATIVE OF SPARTA WOMAN IS PRISONER Mrs. Cleo McMillan, of Piney Creek, has received word that her nephew, Pfc. William R. An derson, who was previously re ported missing in action since No vember 29, 1944, is a prisoner of war in Germany. The message stated that Pfc. Anderson is in good health. It was dated December 8, 1944 and was received last Saturday. Pfc. Anderson is the brother of Mrs. Welter Ray Maxwell. County Is $660.00 Behind Assigned Quota Of $1,700. Contributors Listed Reports late yesterday revealed that a total of $1,040.00 had been contributed to the Red Cross War j Fund Drive, leaving $660.00 yet I to be raised before the quota of i $1,700.00 is raised. Drive chairman Isom Wagoner j in an appeal to every citizen of | the county urged that those who had not contributed, do so at once either through the rural letter carriers, local township chairmen, county Red Cross treasurer Alton Thompson or Miss Clyde Fields. Mr. Wagoner pointed out that Cherry Lane township has sur i passed the quota of $125.00 as i signed them and that Glade Creek township has almost doubled the quota of $250.00. He explained that other townships had not been heard from but that others were expected to meet the assigned quotas this week end. All workers in the drive were urged to turn in reports either to Mr. Wagoner or Mr. Thompson as soon as possible in order that (Continued on Page 4) Father Of Sparta Man Buried Sat. Funeral service for Thomas Edward Burgiss, 75, of Elkin, was held at Zion Baptist church near the home, on March 10. Rev. Stephen Morrisett, of Elkin, and Rev. Grady White were in charge. Mr. Burgiss, father of Repre sentative T. R. Burgiss, of Sparta, died last Thursday morning at the Hugh Chatham Memorial hos pital, Elkin, after a brief illness and a protracted period of ill health. Surviving in addition to his 'widow are four sons: Walter Bur giss, of Elkin; Rev. Grady Bur giss, of Jacksonville; T. R. Bur ,'giss, of Sparta, and Bryte Burgiss, I of Buffalo, N. Y. Whitehead Man Is Home After Being Wounded, Decorated Pfc. Grant M. Harless, Jr., sor of Mr. and Mrs. Grant Harless, of Whitehead, modestly declines to tell any stories behind the cam paign ribbons and Purple Heart and Oak Leaf cluster he wears after serving ten months in Italy with General Clark's Fifth Army. Pfc. Harless returned home last Friday after being sent back to the States for further hospitaliza tion as a result of wounds receiv-i ed in action. Wounded twice sinoe he went overseas in April, 1944, the young Alleghany , soldier has spent six of the ra&hths overseas duty in the tittepRal. Going into ac tion in May in Italy after landings in North Africa and Sicily, he was wounded the first time, when a bullet struck him in the leg on June 9. As a result, he spent wo months in the hospital going lack into combat in August. He was wounded a second time in October when a piece of schrap nel hit him in the left hand. His outfit was about seven miles south of Bologna when he was wounded. For these wounds he was awarded the Purple Heart and Oak Leaf cluster. After spending 4 months in various hos pitals in Italy he was transferred iirectly back to the States. Pfc. Harless smiled when ask ed how he had gained so much weight and replied, “Who would n’t when th.ey have nothing to do but lie in bed with beautiful nurses to wait on them.” Following a thirty-day fur lough here with his parents, he will report back to the Crile Gen eral hospital, Cleveland, Ohio. County To Have Guernsey Cattle Sale Here Soon May 24 Is Date Set For Pro motion Event Of Purebred Cattle. A consignment sale of purebred Guernsey cattle will be conducted in Alleghany county with the tentative date set for May 24, R. E. Black, county agent, announced this week. The sale, which is under the sponsorship of the State Guern sey Breeders Association and the North Carolina Extension Serv ice, will feature 15 females and from three to four bulls, Mr. Black announced. The sale was announced at the Chamber of Commerce meeting on Friday night and a committee of five was appointed from the club to aid in the arrangements and to represent the club there. This committee consists of Lon M. Reeves, Hugh Choate, Fred Collins, C. G. Collins and Rush Thompson. Mr. Black pointed out that the total income in Alleghany coun ty for milk in 1944 amounted to $300,000.00 and stated that in view of this fact a number of dairymen would be especially in terested in the sale of these pure bred Guernsey cattle. He also stated that Young Col lins, a native of Alleghany coun ty, now living in Salisbury, was donating a purebred bull calf to be given to some Guernsey breed er in the county. The calf will be drawn for on the day of the sale by men in the county who purchase cattle there, it was ex plained. Anderson Heard At C. Of C. Friday Platts Fi Employment All ^ries Discussed; ' Chamber of Com* merce observed its first anniver sary as an organization at a din ner meeting held at the communi ty building last Friday evening when Ed M. Anderson, publisher, addressed the club. Mr. Anderson cited the three chief aims of the American peo ple today as first, winning the war, second, to have a just and lasting peace and third, to pro vide economic security after the war. “The last of these is the one which you, as an organization, can insure,” he stated. Pointing out that more and more industries are coming south after the war, he stressed the need for Alleghany feounty securing two or more new industries and thus providing jobs for returning soldiers. Taken up at the business meet ing was a discussion of the con signment sale of purebred Guern sey cattle set for May. A com mittee of five consisting of Lon M. Reeves, Hugh Choate, Fred Collins, C. G. Collins and Rush Thompson, was appointed to aid (Continued on Page 5) BOARD OF EDUCATION EXPENSE BILL PASSED Salary of $5.00 a day plus five cents per mile traveling expenses for members of the Board of Ed ucation of Alleghany county is [provided in a bill introduced in the House of Representatives last week by Representative T. R. Burgiss. This bill was passed by the Senate on Tuesday of Rite week. * Jrfc. O. S. Sidden Gets Bronze Star Pfc. Oscar C. Sidden, son of Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Sidden, of Sparta, has been awarded the Bronze Star for heroic achieve* ment with the 100th Division of the Seventh Army in France. The award singled out the pert Pfc. Sidden played in 3 months of Sidden played in three months of the division’s fight through the (Vosges Mountains and Alsatian* France sectors of the western front. Recent combat included, the push for thp most heavily de fended portion of the southeray Maginot Line at Bitche. Pfc. Sidden has been oversea# for the past five months and en tered the army in 1942. Be re cently wrote that he was getting
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