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I BUY MORE THAN BEFORE^ e Alleghany News Buymore#i$*£no» for/w!»r security, too! AND STAR-TIMES— tCONSOLIDATED ON SEPTEMBER 2, 1941) —ALLEGHANY COUNTY’S ONLY NEWSPAPER. ***********»***£•> 5SS9K VOLUME 56, NO. 28 $1.50 a Year in Alleghany County SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA $2.00 a Year Out of County THURSDAY, MARCH 29, IMS Churches Plan Special Easter Services, Sun Merchants Enjoy Good Busi ness; Fair Weather Is Predicted Easter is expected to be quiet ly observed in Alleghany with most of the churches holding fit ting services. Fair weather has been predicted and in spite of some shortages, the parade of Easter fashions should be up to par. Stores report unusually good business with'the feminine ele ment stressing hats, as usual. Several groups have planned egg hunts for the younger chil dren during the week end. Chicken Little has done her duty and there will be a bountiful sup ply of eggs for the occasion. Some of the special Easter church services are announced here: A special sunrise Easter service will be held at Shiloh Methodist church beginning at 6:45 with the Rev. C. R. Allison in charge. Music for the occasion will be furnished by a combined choir. Everyone is cordially invited to attend. A combined Methodist and Presbyterian service will be held at the Sparta Methodist church at 11 o’clock. Special Easter mu sic will be furnished by the Methodist choir under the direc tion of Mrs. Tom Noland. Regular Easter service will be conducted at the Sparta Baptist church with the Rev. Richard L. West in charge. The Rev. E. B. Barton will con duct Easter service in the new Osborne Memorial Baptist church (Continued on Page Four) Rites Held For Mrs. Whitaker _ | Aged Sparta Woman , Passes Alter I -ong lUneic; Burial At wnitehead Funeral service for Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Whitaker, 86, was con ducted Sunday at Whitehead Union Baptist church with Elds. S. G. Caudill, Walter Evans, Char lie Wooten and Johnnie Toliver, officiating. Burial followed in the church cemetery. Mrs. Whitaker, yrho has been in ill health for a number of years, died March 23. She was the daughter of the late Peggy and Hiram Crouse, of Alleghany county. Surviving are three children, Mrs. Mag Reeves, of Darlington, Md.; Mrs. Vertie Scott, of Piney Creek and John Whitaker, of Sparta. Pallbearers were Doc Whitaker, James Whitaker, Homer Rector, Walter Reeves, Gwyn Whitaker, and Charles Wiitaker. Flower girls were Marie Whit aker, Bessie Ann Whitaker, Jean Rector, Ruth Scott, Mrs. Mae Rutherford, Mrs. Bessie Rector and Mrs. Ruth Maines. Richardson To Issue Licenses Glenn Richardson, town mar shal, announced yesterday that he would issue driver’s licenses in Sparta on each Wednesday in stead of Friday as was previously announced. Richardson spent Monday, Tues day and Wednesday of this week in Raleigh, where he was given a three-day instruction course by the Department of motor vehicles there. WMU Announces Annual Meeting The executive committee of the Woman’s Missionary Union of the Baptist church at a recent meeting announced that the an nual meeting would be held on April 28 at the Scottville Baptist chuoch. Miss Margaret March man, missionary from Africa, and Miss Ruth Keller, representing the state office at Raleigh, will be the guest speakers. Mrs. C. A. Reeves was appoint ed to fill the vacancy of chairman of the Margaret Fund committee. Mrs. R. E. Richardson, Mrs. Van Miller and Mrs. John Maines were elected as a nominating commit tee. ' . .v m v. Allied Forces Push Deep Into Germany; Reds Making Gains HEADS DRIVE Mrs. A. V. Choate, president of the Woman’s Club, who will serve as chairman of the clothing collection drive. Red Cross Total la Still Growing; Far Over Quota $2,801.34 Reported; More Con* tributions Are Still Com ing In Returns late yesterday revealed that Alleghany county has sur passed the Red Cross War Fund quota by - more than $1,100.00, with $2,801.34 reported to date. The quota in this drive was $1, 700.00. Chairman Tsom W&goqjer again expressed his appreciation for the co-operation of everyone in the drive and stated that the board containing the names of those who gave contributions of $5.00 or more and the names of those men and women in service in whose honor the donation was made, would be erected at an early date in the courthouse. He urged that any person who had made such a donation and had failed to give the name of the serviceman in whose honor it was given, should turn in that name immediately. All townships surpassed their | assigned quotas, chairman Wag oner pointed out, some almost doubling them. Final returns re veal the following donations by townships: Gap Civil, $1,298.89; Prather’s (Continued on Page 4) Stratford Barn Destroyed By Fire Fire of unknown origin com pletely destroyed a large barn on the Stratford farm owned by Wal ter M. Irwin, of Wilkesboro, Fri day night. A team of horses and three milk cows, two of them belonging to Jess Wiles, a tenant, were trap ped in the building and burned to death New harness, feed, tools and other articles were also de stroyed. Mr. Irwin, former sheriff of Alleghany county and now a U. S. Deputy Marshal, estimated the damage at around $2,000.00. Strong Defenses Are Met In Philippines By American Forces Allied armies poured east in a torrent through smashed German lines yesterday, led by U. S. first army tank forces knifing 27 more miles eastward and breaking across the Dill river where the enemy was desperately trying to rally for a stand 235 miles from Berlin. The entire front blazed with the fires of victory as seven allied armies pressed home what Gen. Eisenhower declared was one of the greatest triumphs of any war. A front dispatch said “the rout is under way.” Armor-paced Russian forces plunged within 61 miles of Vien na’s City limits, herding the Ger mans back upon the Austrian bor der now 23 miles away from So viet units charging across the ta bleland of Northwestern Hungary, Moscow announced last night. Veteran Yanks of the 8th army’s American division landed on Cebu island against well-prepared beach defenses Monday morning after effective naval and air (Continued On Page Four) New Charts For Apparel Pricing Are Explained OPA Officials Discuss Plans At County-wide Meeting Of Merchants Around 50 merchants and as sistants heal’d a simplified ex planation of the new OPA pric ing charts to be filed by April 20 at a county-wide meeting of furn iture, apparel and notion mer chants, held at the community building on Wednesday evening. Harris F. Pearson, of the Char lotte OPA District office, explain ed the new forms and the methods of keeping them. Forms were distributed to the merchants and they were told how to compile them. The advan tage of this new system was also •brought out. It was explained that every clothing and house furnishings re tailer is required to prepare three copies of the pricing chart. Two copies must be filed with the OPA District Office, Price Chart Sec tion, 210 Law Building, Charlotte, North Carolina, on or before April 20. One copy of the pricing bombardment and quickly spear ed two and a half miles northward (Continued on Page 4) MAN PAST DUE FROM NAVY IS PICKED UP Derol Atwood, AWOL from the U. S. Navy for the past 60 days, was picked up Saturday after noon in the Stratford community near Antioch by Sheriff Jess Mox ley and deputies. Atwood is being held in the Sparta jail awaiting military au thorities. This was his second of fense, since he was arrested in February by Winston-Salem offi ■ cers when found there without an I official pass. 1 He had been missing from Camp Bradford, Va., since January 24. Many New Books Received Here By County Library The Alleghany county library received a number of new books this week with several more ex pected at an early date, Mrs. Car rie H. Jones, librarian, announced. Below are a few of the titles with a short review of nine of the books: “Death Was Our Escort,” the story of Lt. Edward T. Hamilton, USNR, written by Lt. Comdr. Er nest Vetter, USNR. It is a first hand story of PT boats in action and the men of one heroic squad ron in the South Pacific. The men are as human as the boy across the street, more interest ing than fictional heroes, and as American as the Stars and Stripes. “Queens Die Proudly,” by W. L. White. This is the story of a Flying Fortress crew in the air campaign that saved the day for the United Nations in the South west Pacific. No more vivid por trayal of the feality of air war fare has ever been written. “They Were There,” compiled by Curt Riess. This is first hand history of the war to date, com piled from the writings of war correspondents from all over the world. It is an invaluable record, a fascinating story to read and an indispensable contribution to his tory. “They Dream Of Home,” by Busch, the story of five ex-mar ines faced with the problems of life and love in a civilian world. (Continued on Page 4) New Air Strip Under Construction In China A U. S. soldier operates An American tractor and sheepsfoot roller, smoothing filled ditches on a field being prepared as an 0-47 strip in China. Coolies are cutting burning grass in the background. (U. S. Signal Corps Photo) Most Business Houses To Close Easter Monday Will Start Closing On Wed nesday Afternoons Next Week j All business houses in Sparta will be closed on Easter Monday as was the custom followed last year after closing rules were made by the merchant’s committee of the Sparta Chamber of Commerce. Most of the county offices, as well as the Sparta post office, will be closed, it was pointed out. Postmaster Nichols stated that | the windows at the post office I would be open a short time after the morning and afternoon mails. Rural letter carriers will make the regular mail delivery. The Northwestern Bank will al so observe the holiday, it wga ex plained. The county commission ers will' not meet on the first Monday but will postpone the meeting until Tuesday, April 3, (Continued on Page 4) Doughton Makes News In Germany Pictures Of Congressman Bob Doughton Found In Ger man Newspaper There is nothing at -all unusual about finding the picture of Con gressman Robert L. Doughton, Alleghany’s renouned statesman, in any paper or magazine today, but when Pfc. Ray Blevins, with the 101st Airborne division of the Paratroops in Germany, picked up a German newspaper recently and found the North Carolina statesman staring at him, he thought he was seeing things. A series of six pictures, show ing Congressman Doughton as he sat at a committee meeting in the Ways and Means committee, was shown in the newsprint with the following lihes of explanation: (Continued on Page 4) Rationing Guide MEATS AND FATS Book Four red stamps Q5 through S5 good through Mar. 31. Stamps T5 through X5 good through April 28; Y5 and Z5 and1 A2 through D2 good through June 2; E2 through J2 good through June 30. PROCESSED FOODS Book Four blue stamps X5 through Z5 and A2 and B2 good through March 31. Stamps C2 through G2 good through April 28; H2 through M2 good through June 2; N2 through S2 good through June 30. SUGAR Book Four stamp 35 valid for five pounds through June 2. Next stamp scheduled to be validated May 1. SHOES Book Three Airplane stamps 1, 2 and 3 valid indefinitely. OPA says no plans to cancel any. GASOLINE 15-A Coupons good every where for four gallons each through June 21, B-5, C-5, B-6, C-6, B-7 and C-7 ooupons good everywhere for five gallons each. B-5 and C-5 coupons expire March 31. _ County To Collect Clothes For Victims Of War Next Month 36 County Men Are Classified By Local Board Only Two Are Placed In I-A; Other Classifications Are Given A group of 36 Alleghany men were classified this week by the local board when only two men were placed in I-A with 34 in ^various other classifications; The classification list is as fol lows; I-A; Marvin G. Caudill and Donley O. Andrews. I-C (Disc): Wiley E. Mabe, Stafford D. Miller, William H. Billings, Elmer A. Hendrix, Wil liam R. Wyatt, Roy P. Roberts, I Garnett S. Mays, Charlie L. | Crouse, Rex L. Parsons, John R. Smith and Jonah Billings. 1- C (Ind); Winfred D. Choate. 2- A: Barnard T. Wagoner, Gra dy D. Brown, Walter Brown, Wil liam C. Moxley, Thomas Edison Atwood and Howard B. Gaylord. 2-A (F); Irwin W. Roberts. 2-B: Bower F. Hoppers and Ev erette J. Houck. 2-B (F): Frank L. Choate, Del bert E. Walker, Osbourne D. Maines. i 2-C: Roy W. Evans, Greek J. Hill and William W. Sexton. 2-C (F): Don K. Smith, Vilace L. Hamm and John H. Wagoner. I 2-C: Classified by appeal board: | Sam A. Miller. 13-D: Robert L. Evans, i 4-E (Disc): Floyd F. Sexton. Alleghany Men Leave For Army A group of nine Alleghany men left Tuesday for induction into military service at Fort Bragg. The group included: Clive Dean Crouse, Robert Ray McMillan, Clifton Phipps, Howard Dean Wil liams, John Page Billings, James, William Ayers, Ambrose Rush Billings, Odell Granville Evans and Irwin Joseph Pruitt. Mrs. A. V. Choate Is Chair* man; Clubs And Schools Asked To Assist Plans are now underway for the participation of Sparta and Alleghany county in the United National Clothing collection drive scheduled for the month of April with the nation’s goal set for 150 million pounds of clothing for re lief and rehabilitation of war vic tims in devastated areas. The drive, under the sponsor ship of the Sparta will be headed by Choate as chairman. «SI Wagoner, home agent through the home demonstrax!?^ clubs and Miss Clyde Fields, su perintendent of schools, will work through the schools. Letters and handbooks are being sent to all teachers in the county, it was pointed out. Collection days, as well as as sembly points, will be announced next week, it was explained. The national campaign will be conducted with Henry J. Kaiser as national chairman and represen tatives of civic, religious and edu cational groups presiding. It has been pointed out that 125,000,000 people in war torn countries are in dire need of clothing with as many having died from exposure as from starvation. All good sub stantial clothing will be accepta ble but women’s and children’s clothing are most needed. Although collection points and days will not be announced until next week, residents of the county are asked to begin collecting and saving their used clothing. A number of sub-stations for collec tions will also be set up. Every one is asked at this time to take inventory of his attic, basement and clothes closet to find spare (Continued on Page Four) OPA OFFICE WILL CLOSE ON MONDAY In compliance with the new ruling that the ration board office will be closed the first working day in each month, the office will be closed on Monday, April 2, Mrs. Robert Fleetwood, clerk, an nounced yesterday. Legislature Makes Record; Activities Are Summarized By Staff Writer Raleigh—(Special)—The 1945 session of the North Carolina General Assembly, which ended last week, was one of the most business-like sessions in the en tire history of the state. It was in session for 67 days, seven days more than the legislators receiv ed pay for, and there was very little legislative foolishness, idle debate over silly questions, or petty and partisan arguments. From the first day until ad journment last Wednesday, the leaders and members of both houses seemed to realize they had a big job to do and apparent ly they devoted all of their ef forts to doing this job for the best interest of all of the people of the state. Except for the hospital and medical care program that was inaugurated, this session was not a historic one, although it was very eventful. The question of “when will the war end?” made it necessary to deliberate on all permanent measures, subject to the answer to this vital question. The accomplishments of the 1945 session show a combination of good sense, conservatism and pro gressiveness, with minimum of selfishness on the part of indivi dual groups or classes. On the whole, its actions fol lowed closely the blue-prints that had been drafted by Governor X Continued on Page Four) Two County Men Killed In Action; Others Wounded James T. Wagoner And Pag* Thompson Die On Euro pean Front During the past few days too Alleghany county men have been reported killed in action on Eu ropean battlefronts and four oth ers were reported wounded, two from the European front and two from the Pacific area. Pvt. James T. Wagoner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Andy Wagoner, of: Ennice, was killed in action in Belgium on January 8, according to a message received by his par ents. Pvt. Wagoner had previouo ly been reported missing in actio* on that date. Pfc. Page Thompson, 27, died as a result of wounds received in action in Germany on March 3, according to a message received by his wife. With General Pah ton’s 10th armored infantry bdh talion, Pfc. Thompson entered th* service in February, 1944. Be trained in anti-aircraft at Canqp Stewart, Ga„ and Ft. Bliss, Tta as and was transferred to the ter fantry at Camp Maxey, Texan, sailing for overseas duty in Jan uary, 1945. Before entering the service, Pft. Thompson was connected with tin Pilot Life Insurance company, of High Point, where his wife, Mm Eula Moxley Thompson and daughter, Ann Page, now fiw. Prior to that time, he was con nected with the Glade Valley General store and Farmer’s Hard ware company, Sparta. Surviving in addition to his wife and daughter, are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Thompson Glade Valley; one sister, Mrs. Clayton Chambers, Nashville, Tenn.; and three brothers, Bert C Thompson, North Wilkesbero; J. his membership to the Fftd Pres byterian church at High FoiaV about two years ago. Mrs. Joe B. Tucker was notified by the War Department that her husband, Pfc. Joe B. Tucker, m (Continued on Page Four) Seventh Grade To Give Play April ( Will Present “Have Ton Sen Red?”, Two-Act Comedy, In School Auditorium The seventh grade class of Spar ta elementary school, under the direction of Mrs. Lon M. Reeves, will present a two-act comedy, “Have You Seen Red?” Friday night, April 6 at 8:15 o'clock tat the school auditorium. The play, shown to the student body here last fall, is bekn brought to the stage once more by popular demand. A small admis sion charge wiU be made, it va pointed out. Characters include: Tanunop Douglas, as Jared (Red) Sian; Bobby Adams, his -pal, Thai Reeves; Mother Sims, Clyde Brooks; Father Sims, Wade Mos ley; lone Sims, Patsy Edwards; Jack Adams, Ted Ivey; Let^P Sims, Dorothy. Andrews; Coral Clark, Ida Maude Black; )&*. Clark, Mary Lou Miles; Huldh, Ruth Dutton; Dewey, Bobby Dil lard; Kirk, Jimmy Todd; and Gregory and Sylvester Lamonr, played by Page Murray and Rich ard Workman. The public is cordially invited to attend. Alleghany Gels New School Bus Alleghany county has been sJ loted one new school bus, which was brought up from Raleigh on Thursday and is now in opera tion, Supt. Clyde Fields announc ed this week. The new bus was put on Qw Roaring Gap route to take tha place of the bus that was being used there. It was explained that this action was taken on the r*e» ommendation of T. E. Glass, tm supervisor. The new 21-foot will seat 75 passengers. It was pointed out that taken from the Roaring Gap n would be placed where it i needed in the county.
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