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VOLUME 56, NO. 30
$1.50 a Year in Alleghany County
SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA
$2.00 a Year Out of County
THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1945
\ Counterfeit Gasoline Stamps Circulated In County
Committeemen Of
District Schools
Named By Board
Most Of Former Committee
men Are Reappointed By
County Board
Newly appointed district com
mitteemen for the coming school
year were announced by the coun
ty board of education this week
and are as follows:
District No. 1: Walter Osborne,
George Crouse and D. F. Sturdi
vant.
District No. 2: Fred H. Brown,
J. H. Douglas, Herbert Osborne,
M^ck Woodie and Blake Hamp
ton, who succeeded Guy T. Perry.
Mr. Perry is now serving as coun
ty commissioner.
District No.. 3: Little Pine
school; A. M. Greene, G. M. Cau
dill and H. B. Spurlin.
District No. 3: Rich Hill school,
Frank Brooks, Jimmy Wagoner
and Tom Greene.
District No. 4: Van Miller,
Colonel Jones and Eugene Shep
herd.
Colored Districts: Prather’s
Creek, O. G. Spicer, Gaston Max
well and Tom Maxwell.
Cherry Lane: Johnny Edwards,
Letcher Bryant and Sabe Choate.
Gap Civil: Johnny Havener,
Ruben Hash and Lennie Maxwell.
Glade Creek: Mrs. Susan Baker
and Lee Choate.
The only new committeemen
were Blake Hampton, C. M. Cau
dill, H. B. Spurlin and Lennie
Maxwell.
Several Arrests
Made This Week
Youths Are Held In The Theft
Local officers this week ar
rested Roy Poole, Clyde Murphy
and Rufus Jarrell on charges of
stealing and accepting stolen
goods.
Murphy and Jarrell were al
ledged to have accepted the stolen
goods, which were found in the
Poole store at Edmunds. The men
' were turned over to authorities
from Surry county and are now
being held for hearings at a later
date.
Two Alleghany youths were al
so arrested this week by local
officers. Clarence McGrady, 19,
son of Ross McGrady, of Edwards
Cross Roads and Hurley Bell, 17,
son of Hardin Bell of Sparta, were
arrested for theft of gasoline and
for stealing an automobile in Ga
lax, Va. The youths are being
held here awaiting trial at April
term of superior court.
C. of C. To Meet
Here Fri. Night
The election of officers will
highlight the Sparta Chamber of
Commerce meeting tomorrow
night at the community building,
President R. F. Crouse announc
ed.
All members of the club are
urged to attend this important
meeting when the Chamber of
Commerce hold elections of of
ficers for the second time since
its beginning in March, 1944.
A program of negro spirituals
will be the feature attraction on
the entertainment program. Din
ner will be served hy the Cherry
Lane home demonstration club.
Piney Creek Girl
, Is Yale Student
Miss Edith Woodruff Hash,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carlie
Hash, of Piney Creek, was among
the 37 students who registered last
week as a member of the class of
1947 at the Yale School of Nurs
ing, Yale University, New Haven,
Conn.
The majority of the new stu
dent nurses were also voluntarily
enrolled in the United States
Nurse Corps, and are pledged to
remain in essential nursing for
the duration.
Miss Hash received the degree
of Bachelor of Arts at the Uni
versity of North Carolina in 1944.
She is a graduate of Piney Creek
high school.
Yanks Move Toward
Berlin; Resistance Is
Strong On Okinawa
EDITOR IN INDIA
Cpl. Ray Lowery, former
editor of The Alleghany News,
is carrying on in his chosen
field in the army. He is edi
tor of the “Basha Breeze,” of
ficial army publication of the
44th Air Service Group, Air
Service Command in the In
dia-Burma-China theater of
war.- ‘
Reed To Again
Head Local NCEA
Unit For Teachers
Other Officers Are Named
And Business Matters Dis
cussed At Meeting
Joe Bill Reed, of Sparta, was
re-elected president of the local
unit of the North Carolina Edu
cational Association last Friday
afternoon at Sparta high school
at a meeting called by Supt.
Clyde Fields.
i Mr. Reed, acting principal of
Piney Creek high school, has long
been active in school affairs of
Alleghany county and has served
as president of the NCEA for the
past year.
Roy Ellison was named vice
president to succeed Mrs. Dalton
Warren and Miss Eula Kennedy
was elected secretary and treasur
er succeeding Miss Minnie Lou
(Continued on Page 8)
JAMES HOPPERS AT
PEARL HARBOR NOW
Pearl Harbor, T. H.—James
Hoppers, of Sparta, has arrived
at Navy Yard Pearl Harbor to
assume his duties as a civilian
war worker.
Mr. Hoppers has signed a con
tract to remain at this large Naval
base for 18 months to support the
great Pacific Fleet. He is resid
ing in the large civilian housing
area adjacent to the Navy Yard
which is operated by the Navy
for the thousands of workers.
Mrs. Hoppers and son, Billy,
reside in Sparta.
Russians Extend Hold On
Vienna And Drive On
Toward Brno
The U. S. ninth army, in a neck
and neck race with the American
first army toward Berlin, quick
ly toppled Germany’s 12th city
of Hannover yesterday and swept
on 28 miles into Brunswick’s out
skirts at a point only 110 miles
from the reich capital.
While tank units of the ninth
also overran Salzgitter, site of the
Goering steel works 10 miles
southwest of imperilled Bruns
wick, U. S. first army troops in
a 40-mile advance on the south
smashed into Nordhausen and
likewise struck within 110 miles
of Berlin with the seizure of lo
calities near Auleben, 45 miles
west of Halle and 57 miles from
Leipzig.
American fighter pilots and
bomber gunners destroyed 397
German aircraft yesterday and
shattered eight aerial warfare
records in the most devastating
blow ever delivered against the
once-feared Nazi luftwaffe.
Countless other German craft
were damaged as both American
and British planes again assault
ed the German reich.
The American steamroller cam
paign in the Philippines has en
gulfed the strategic Sulu archi
pelago, liberated all of Southern
Luzon and freed the famous Cul
ion leper colony, Gen. Douglas
MacArthur reported late Tues
day. 4 '
These sensational developments
were announced almost simultan
eously with Adm. Chester W.
Nimitz’ report that Yank dough
boys fighting on the Southern
Okinawa front were held to a
standstill by the Nipponese de
fenders. Marines to the north
(Continued on Page 4)
22 Men Classified
By Local Board
11 Are Placed In I-A; Other
Classifications Are Listed
Below
The local board this week an
nounce classifications of 22 Al
leghany men for military service,
when 11 were placed in I-A, four
in 4-F, and seven others in vari
ous other classifications.
The classification list is as fol
lows:
I-A: Reece Bedsaul, Robert I.
Johnson, Howard R. Andrews,
Glenn T. Edwards, Reeves A.
Blevins, Clifton L. Cox, Joseph E.
Smith, Elmer C. Bedsaul, Garnett
G. Greene, Ottis J. Wilson and
Leonard B. Tompkins.
I-C (Disc.): Roy B. Ayers.
1- C (Ind.): Clive D. Crouse.
2- B (F): Earl H. Hash.
2-C: Arlice D. Farmer, Boyd D.
Roberts, John F. McMillan, and
Robert L. Gambill, Jr.
4-F: Emitt R. Andrews, Delmar
I. Maxwell, Howard W. Dowell,
and Willie Lee Poole.
Early Postwar Work On The
Blue Ridge Parkway Planned
Washington — The Blue Ridge
Parkway probably will approach
completion in the first three post
war years, the Public Roads Ad
ministration predicted this week.
The administration stated, how
ever, that the $10,000,000 author
ized by the federal aid highway
act of 1944 (for post-war expendi
ture) for construction and main
tenance of the Blue Ridge Park
way likely will be insufficient for
completion of the Parkway. Of
ficials also said it would take
more than three years to do the
work.
First work is expected to be on
approximately 130 miles as yet
untouched. This will, include
about 40 miles in Virginia—30 in
the vicinity of Roanoke, and 10
north of the James river. Initial
work also will include construe
tion of about 90 miles between
Asheville and the Great Smoky
Mountains which has not been
started, aad probably cannot be
finished within the first three
post-war years, PRA said.
In addition to the parts of the
Parkway not yet begun, there is
work to be finished on other sec
tions where only foundations have
been built. Quite a few sections
require either a top or pavement
course, PRA explained. Guard
rails also are needed in a number
of spots.
The National Park service said
that while the Blue Ridge Park
way may not be finished within
the three-year program period of
the 1944 act, it probably will be
nearer completion than will the
other two parkways.
Three Alleghany Men Are Casualties Of War
Reading from left to right, Pfc. Page Thompson, who died as a result of wounds received
in action in Germany, March 5; Pvt. James T. Wagoner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Andy Wagoner,
of Ennice, was killed in action in Belgium on January 8; and Pfc. Ben F. Taylor, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Everett Taylor, of Laurel Springs, was killed in action on Iwo Jima on March 3.
Trout Season To
Open April 15;
Rules Are Cited
Banger Liles Announces The
Opening Of Parkway
Streams
Fishermen are eagerly await
ing the official opening of the
trout season, April 15, and due
to a number of well-stocked
streams, luck should be unusually 1
good, according to predictions of j
old-timers.
R. D. Gentry, game warden,
reminds fishermen to secure li
: censes before attempting to ex
ercise skills.. He also pointed out
that the bass waters will be clos
ed from April IS until June 10.
He explained that this applied to
all waters in the county.
The superintendent of the Blue
Ridge Parkway this week inform
ed fishermen and sportsmen that
streams in Bluff park will not be
| open until May 15. All other
streams outside of Bluff Park,
along the Parkway, will be open
ed for fishing, however, in ac
cordance with North Carolina
State fishing laws.
Warden Gentry explained that
i fishermen could fish in any of
j the streams designated as trout
streams, for any non-game fish
such as suckers, chubbies and hog
fish. He explained that game fish
(Continued on Page Four)
PRESSURE COOKERS
ARE TO BE CHECKED
Mrs. Isom Wagoner, home dem
onstration agent, announced this
week that all housewives in Alle
ghany county wishing to have
their pressure cookers checked at
the clinic to be held in Wilkes
county on April 26, should bring
them to the home demonstration
office here before April 25.
Mrs. Wagoner pointed out that
it is extremely important that all,
cookers brought to her office
should be tagged with the owner’s
name and address and that the
cookers should be thoroughly
cleaned before being brought in.
Rationing Guide
MEATS, FATS
Red Stamps T5, U5, V5, W5,
and X5 good through April 28;
Red Stamps Y5, Z5, and A2,
B2, C2, D2 good through June
2;Red Stamps E2 F2, G2, H2,
J2, good through June 30; New
stamps validated April 1—K2,
L2, M2, N2, P2 good through
July 31.
PROCESSED FOODS
Blue Stamps C2, D2, E2, F2,
and G2, good through April 28;
Blue Stamps C2, D2, E2, F2,
good through June 2; Blue
Stamps N2, P2, Q2, R2 S2 good
through June 30; New stamps
validated April 1—T2, U2, V2,
W2, X2. good through July 31.
SUGAR
Stamps 35 good through
June 2.
No stamps will be validated
until May 1.
SHOES
Airplane stamps Nos. 1 2, 3,
in Book Three continue valid
indefinitely.
Three Alleghany Men Are
Reported War Casualties
In Europe And Pacific Area
Clothing Is Now
Being Collected
For Needy Allies
Good Response; Public Asked
To Bring In Contributions
Now
Mrs. A. V. Choate, chairman of
the drive to collect used clothing
for the ne&llugeople of-the: war
torn areasTsarcrthat good response
was being received so far and
asked that all Of those who have
not done so to bring their contri
butions in to the various com
munity collection points.
Each school in the county is
serving as a collection point, Mrs.
Choate pointed out, and teachers
are co-operating by conducting
the drive in the various schools.
The central collection point is in
the basement room of the court
house in Sparta.
The drive is being conducted
(Continued on Page 4)
S. S. Convention
To Meet April 29
T. C. Osborne, associational
Sunday School superintendent,
announced this week that the an
nual Sunday School convention
would be held at the Sparta Bap
tist church on Sunday, April 29,
when Rev. Howard J. Ford, of
North Wilkesboro, will be the
principal speaker.
The meeting will be a county
wide affair and several local
speakers are expected to report
on the progress of Sunday schools
during the past year. An attend
ance from every Baptist Sunday
school in the county is expected,
Mr. Osborne pointed out.
The public is cordially invited
to attend the meeting.
Ben Taylor. Of Laurel Springs,
Is Killed In Action On
Ivvo Jima
During the past few days, one
Alleghany county man has been
reported killed in action in the
Pacific theater of war and two
others were reported wounded in
action in Germany.
Pfc. Ben F. Taylor, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Everett Taylor, of Lau
rel Springs, wag killed in notion
on IWo JinStf-oif March fl? accord
ing to a message received ■ by his
parents from the war department.
| With the Fifth Marine division,
Pfc. Taylor entered service in
i October, 1943, and went overseas
I in September, 1944. He received
his training at Camp Pennington,
i Calif. While in training he re
: ceived medals for outstandng
' achievement in bayonet, sword
! and swimming.
: Pfc. Taylor is survived by his
parents, three sisters, Miss
Blanche Taylor, of Baltimore,
Md., and Alma and Nancy of the
home, and one brother, Edward
Taylor, of the home.
Pvt. Harold D. Mitchell, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Mitchell, of
Piney Creek, was wounded in ac
tion on March 29, in Germany, ac
(Continued un Page Four)
House Destroyed
By Fire Saturday
The one-story, three-room
■ house belonging to Pvt. and Mrs.
! Samuel V. Wooten and located
I six miles from Sparta on High
I way No. 18, was completely de
stroyed by fire of unknown ori
gin on Saturday morning.
Passers-by saw the blaze, but
were unable to save anything
from the building. Mrs. Wooten
and two small children were vis
iting in Sparta. Pvt. Wooten is
stationed at Camp Wheeler, Ga.
Proclaims Cancer Control Month
Governor R. Gregg Cherry hands his proclamation of
April as “Cancer Control Month” to Mrs. George E. Marshall,
of Mount Airy, commander of the N. C. Division of the Field
Army of the American Cancer Society.
Stations Are
Warned Against
All Loose Stamps
Will Have Allotment Of Gaso
line Cut Down By Accept
ing Illegal Stamps
The shadow of the black market
fell on Alleghany county during'
the past few days when hundreds
Df counterfeit gasoline stamps
were circulated among practical-*
ly all service stations. Attendants
have been notified of the danger
of accepting these, as well as any
loose stamps, and efforts are be
ing made to' determine the source
of supply of these illegal forms.
To date, 3,784 gallons of gas
have been bought with these ex
pertly made counterfeit stamps
and a total of IS gas stations in
the county have had several gal
lons of gas subtracted from their
regular allotment, Mrs. Robert
Fleetwood, chief OP A clerk,
today.
The stamps, when collected a"41
sent to the Charlotte office are
placed under ultra-violet rays
that detect instantly any count
erfeit stamp. The station that ac
cepted this stamp is then notified
and the gas allotment is cut the
number of gallons designated by
the bad stamp. Some stations in
Alleghany county have been cut
as much as 970 and 814 gallons, it
was explained.
Station attendants state that
most of the counterfeit samps are
C-5 and those taken from the old
A books. The paper from which
they are made is thinner than the
regular stamp paper, they stated.
The wave of bad stamps sweep
ing through the county during
the past two weeks is thought to
S<
authorities stated.
Station attendants are warned
against accepting any loose stamps
and to be on the look-out for any
suspicious gas ration books.
Edmunds Man Is
Hurt In Affray
Paul Vernon Shot In Legg
Clyde Murphy Released
On Bond
Paul Vernon was shot through
both legs last Wednesday after
noon in the Edmunds communi
ty in an affray, with Clyde Mur
phy, who was released under an
$800.00 bond for appearance on
April 25, before B. F. Wagoner.
Vernon, in a serious conditioa
at a Mt. Airy hospital was shot:
just above the knees with a 12
gauge shot gun at a distance es
timated at 10 feet. Officers re
ported that both Vernon and Mur
phy were under the influence ef
liquor.
Murphy claimed that he shot
Vernon in-self defense, after Ver
non came toward him with a 22
revolver.
Officers investigating the shoot
ing, stated that there was no evi
dence of a quarrel between the
two men but that both were drink
ing.
Vernon is the son of Earl Ver
non and Murphy is the son of
Fred Murphy, both of Edmunds.
Lions To Sponsor
Jamboree Apr. 20
The mountain Jamboree, fea
turing the lovely Smith sisters
and funny guy, Walter Hanfca,
will be presented at the Sparta
high school auditorium, Friday
night, April 20 at 8 o’clock.
The entertainment will be apeak
sored by the Sparta Lions Club
and proceeds will go into the fund
for buying glasses for those chil
dren who are not able to sectary
them. Tests are now being made
in the schools to determine those
children who are badly in need
of glasses and it is hoped that
they can be fitted at an early
date, N. D. Fox, president of the
club, pointed out.
The public is cordially
to attend the Jam
I will be chucked full
entertainment for
family. A small
charge will