Hie Alleghany News
AND STAR-TIMES
The NEWS established February 16, 1940—
The TIMES, 1925 and The STAR, 1889.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
At Sparta, N. C.
THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1945
ED M. ANDERSON_Publisher
JOHN F. REEVES ___.Ass’t. Publisher
Miss EMORYETTA REEVES_Editor
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A Little Less Sugar
With the cut in sugar allotment this
week, many people will be lamenting this
slight inconvenience. It seems a hardship
in one way. But if we look at it another
way, it is very, very minute in comparison
to the other privations of war millions of
people are having to undergo.
There 'are several ways to look at a
slight decrease in sugar, too, for most doc
tors say that the average American eats
too many sweets. Of course, there is hon
ey, molasses, syrup and other substitutes.
We might get along on these unless we are
like some man we heard talking yesterday.
He declared that he just had to feel the
sandy texture of sugar in his coffee, tea or
on his cereal!
A Little More Gas
Will we get more gasoline after the
fighting ends in Europe?
The answer is “yes”—hut the extra quan
tity We will get will probably be very small
at first.
The most optimistic estimate we have
heard—made by Petroleum Administrator
Ickes—is that civilians will get 200,000 bar
rels more per day. At present, civilians are
getting an average of 547,000 barrels daily.
If Mr. Ickes is right—we would get an ap
proximate increase of 36%. So, if you are
getting two gallons of gas per week at
present, this might be increased to almost
three gallons.
But holders of “A” coupons may not get
that much increase. For the OPA has
found that there are many holders of “B”
coupons who do not now have enough gaso
line to carry on necessary war work.
Before the war our nation consumed 1,
750,000 barrels a day. So even though we
get a slight increase, we still won’t have
one-third of the gasoline we had “in the
good old days.”
And as the gasoline supply becomes
slightly more plentiful, it looks as though
the tire situation will become more serious.
All the signs indicate that this is not the
summer for planning any kind of a motor
trip.
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Milk And Health
Convincing evidence of world-wide im
provements in food selection is found in the
War Food Administration purchases during
the present emergency. Never before have
milk and its pro^ctas played so important
a part in the nutrition and rehabilitation of
afflicted peoples.
During 1944, this war agency purchased
foods for lend-lease, territorial emergency,
and for use by - the Red Cross and similar
humanitarian organizations to the extent
of a little over, one t billion, five hundred
and fifty million dollars. Of this-more
than two hundred and forty million dollars
were spent for dairy products. In other
words, nearly sixteen per cent of all such
food expenditures were for the products of
America’s dairy industry. This compares
with two per cent of dairy products in such
feeding programs during and after the first
World War, according to the United States
Department of Agriculture.
Most of the sacrifices'which Americans
are making through curtailed supplies of
butter, cheese, ice cream and milk are go
ing to the fighting forces, states the Nation
al Dairy Council. However, another im
portant reason for the scarcity of these vi
tal foods is due to the recognition on the
part of the Red Cross and other agencies, of
the need for proper nutrition in recovered
areas where serious malnutrition exists.
The people of this area, the foremost dai
ry section of the State, are fortunate to have
little shortage in dairy products for civilian
use. When there is a shortage of butter
and some other items, let us remember that
they are being used in the war effort and
consider it a privilege to do without.
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The Family Circle
Just before his death the late President
Franklin D. Roosevelt in a letter endorsing
National Family Week to be observed in
churches, synagogues and communities
from May 6 to May 13, stated that “The war
has brought to all of us the meaning of the
love and the joy and the spiritual unity
which derive from the home.”
The National Family Week Committee
consists of Rev. Harry C. Munro, Secretary,
Inter-Council Committee on Christian
Family Life; Rev. Edgar Schmiedeler, O.
S. B., Secretary, Catholic Conference on
Family Life; and Rabbi Ahron Opher,
Synagague Council of America. Pointing
out that families are the first to suffer from
war—in separation, bereavement, disloca
tion, neglect of children, hasty and ill-ad
vised marriages—the Committee believes
that “the responsible constructive forces of
the community must be brought face to
face with the rising tide of juvenile delin
quency due to disrupted home conditions,
and to increasing war-time hates, race
prejudices and intolerance.”
The child who learns, within the warm
and loving family circle, to obey the word
of God, and to respect the rights of others
as they respect his, grows up to be a ma
ture, democracy-conscious citizen. As
such, he will not be misled by the propa
ganda of religious and racial hatred spread
by our enemies to destroy the unity of
Americans. More than any other social in
stitution, the family is the guardian of the
human rights and civilized values for which
we are fighting today. It is, therefore, the
community’s responsibility to provide ade
quate facilities for health, education and
recreation, which can help each family
maintain a wholesome, healthful home en
vironment.
In the words of President Roosevelt,
National Family Week “is performing a
notable task in focusjng attention upon the
group—the family—which is the basis of
civilization.”
Full Time Farmers
Maybe it’s these Spring days that make
a fellow want to philosophize about the
weather. Whatever it is, Colonel James
N. Keelin, Director of Selective Service in
sunny Georgia, has been doing just that.
And his thinking has caused him to come
up with some interesting ideas about duty.
Reflecting upon the weather, the good
colonel points out that “weather and weath
er conditions can be controlled in an air
conditioned factory,” but the poor farmer
has to take whatever Mother Nature de
cides to give him, even if it means laying
off farm work for a few days at a time.
Which brings him around to duty . . .
And duty, thinks the State Director, is
purely a matter of “exertion.”
A fellow in an aircraft factory, Colonel
Keelin feels, who manages to squeeze out
enough extra “exertion” to sit on a ration
board or go to a Blood Depot to give blood
plasma is doing his duty.
But he thinks that a farmer who squeez
es out enough extra “exertion” on wet and
raipy days to go fishing—just isn’t
“If you are farming full time and can
spare a day or two in the voods occasion
ally,” said the State Director, “that makes
you more valuable in winning the war.”
Pointing to the urgent need for pulp
wood for vital war uses, Colonel Keelin
said: “When deferred farm workers have
a spare day or two when conditions make
farm work impossible, it is vitally impor
tant that they work in their own woods or
nearby pulpwood operations rather than do
less essential war jobs.”
We agree with the colonel’s viewpoint.
Wet and rainy days given over to cutting
peeled top quality pulpwood this Spring
ought to make fishing all the better next
Spring when maybe our boys will be back
to fish with us.
Funeral Service
Held Yesterday
For W. R. Jones
Died On Tuesday Morning At
The Age Of 83 After Long
Illness
West Jefferson — (Special) —
Funeral service was held Wed
nesday afternoon for William
Reid Jones,, prominent local citi
zen, at the West Jefferson Meth
odist church, following his death
on Tuesday morning. The Rev.
John S. Jordan, pastor of the
church, was in charge of the
service and burial followed in
the town cemetery.
Mr. Jones who was 83 years old
at the time of his death, had been
inactive for a number of years
because of declining health and
he and his wife had made their
home here with Dr. and Mrs.
Edgar Jones.
He was a native of Alleghany
county and for many years taught
in the schools of Ashe and Alle
ghany. He still had hundreds of
friends among the many he had
taught. He later gave up teach
ing and travelled for some time
before accepting a position in
Washington, D. C.
He is survived by his wife, the
former Miss Katherine Taylor,
and the following daughters, Mrs.
Edgar Jones, West Jefferson; Mrs.
Carolyn Miller, New Oxford, Pa.;
Mrs. D. L. Taylor, Kingstree, S.
C.; Mrs. Lewis Wilkins, Spruce
Pine and one brother, J. W. Jones,
of Glen Rose, Texas.
Funeral services here were at
tended by a large number of
friends and relatives. Active
pallbearers were: Earl Graybeal,
C. Taylor, James B. Hensley, Carl
Colvard, Russell Barr and Earl
Davidson. .
Flower bearers included Mrs.
R. C. Ray Misses Helen Ghorm
ley, Winona Roland, Norma Ro
land, Mrs. Robert Barr, Miss
Clara Cockerham, Mrs. William
Beatty, Mrs. Earl Davidson, Mrs.
Clayborne Parsons, Mrs. P. G.
Wright Mrs. Boyd Richardson,
Mrs. James Hensley, Mrs. Ray
Gilley, Mrs. Russell Barr, Mrs.
John Jordan, Mrs. Forrest McMil
lan, Mrs. Ed M. Anderson, Mrs.
Earl Graybeal, Mrs. Norman
Hege and Mrs. Dean McMillan.
VOTING POWER OF
NATIONS UNSETTLED
(Continued from Page One)
! the question of its voting pro
cedure still undecided. Yet to
be determined is whether majori
ty or two thirds rules, or a com
bination of these, should be em
ployed in reaching decisions. '
One authority said a proposal
had been blocked this morning in
the steering committee to require
a two-thirds vote on accepting any
amendment. Herbert Evatt, dep
uty prime minister of Australia,
was reported to have objected
strongly on grounds this would'
prevent small nations from mak
ing any alterations in the Dum
barton Oaks plan.
Then, reported members ^pres
ent, this was the course of action:
Foreign Commissar Molotov of1
Russia spoke ud for the require- ]
ment of a two-thirds vote to pass j
any amendment to the basic Dum
barton Oaks proposals.
Molotov said he was aware that
a bare majority could be consti-'
tuted from the American repub
lics alone and that there was dan- i
ger in allowing a proposal to be
adopted by a bare majority.
Evatt suggested amendments
should be decided according to
their importance, with special
majorities required only when
the proposals affected the founda
tions of the Dumbarton Oaks plan.
SPARTA GRANGE SETS
GOALS FOR YEAR
(Continued from Paee 1)
ferment. J. B. Reed, R. E. Black,
Lonnie Edwards. Lester Wood
ruff and T. R. Bureiss: roads. A.
T. Gambill, A. V. Choate, Ralph
Gentry. Robert Lee Crouse and
T. R. Greene.
“We feel that these goals, when
•they are met, will mean much to
the county as a whole and we
mean to put forth every effort to
reach them,” Grange Master Gam
bill stated.
W. O. Hooner. s''',re*arv of ♦he
Sparta Grange, pointed out that
the membership v/as steadily
growing and urged that all those
:nterested persons who had not
’♦.tended a meeting to do so and
to become a member.
As the automobile has displac
ed the horse for transportation,
so hybrid corn strains will dis
place standard varieties, say the
Extension agronomists of State
College.
WAR BONDS . .
help win victory.
. buy them
Death Agony of a Monster
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Clothes Drive
Will Close Here
Saturday, May 12
Collections May Be Brought
To The Courthouse, Mrs.
Choate Announces
Mrs. A. V. Choate, chairman of
the drive to colleot old clothes,
this week urged that those persons
who had not done so bring in all
donations of old clothing immedi
ately as the drive will end on
Saturday, May 12.
The response so far has been
excellent, but some of the schools
have not yet brought in their col
lections to the central collection
point here in Sparta, she pointed
out. The chairman again remind
ed teachers throughout the coun-'
ty that collections should be
brought to the rear of the court
house and placed $n the basement
room there. The key to this
room may be obtained from Sher^
iff Moxley.
Every effort is being made to
secure as much old clothing as
possible before the drive e;nds
and everyone is urged to make a
donation. Clothing should be tied i
in bundles and brought in to the i
courthouse or to any of the vari- j
ous schools throughout the coun- j
ty Mrs. Choate explained.
SUGAR RATIONING
CUT 25 PER CENT
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(Continued from Page One)
Europe might make the reduction
short-lived.
The move was attributed to “a
sharp reduction in sugar supplies,
tremendously increase^ require
ments for liberated Europe and a
rate of civilian consumption ex
ceeding allocations.”
“Consumers this year for the
fi st tr.«e.in two decades must de
pend entirely on current produc
tion.” the announcement said,
“domestic reserves are at rock
bottom.”
Americans used sugar in the
first three months of this year at
'a rate which threatened to ex
hause all supplies by this Fall,
WFA reported. The 1,340,000
tons rationed to civilians before
April 1 amounted to more than
one-fourth of the total/ supply
available for the year. Normally
the first three months are the
low consumption period.
Laurel Springs
Man Dies At 83
Funeral service for Franklin
Isaac Brinegar, 83, of Laurel
Springs, was conducted April 19
at Pleasant Grove church with
Pev. Mack Dowell and Rev. Mack
Tedder officiating. Interment
followed in the Richardson ceme
tery.
Mr. Brinegar died on April 17
at the home of his daughter, Mrs.
Donley Anderson. He had been
seriously ill for about two weeks.
He is survived by one daugh
ter, Mrs. Donley Anderson, of
Laurel Springs, ten grandchildren
and twelve great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers were Glenn Brine
gar, Ray Anderson, Wakie Brine
gar, Golden Anderson, Rudy An
derson and Boyde Caudill.
SUPERIOR COURT
ENDS ON MONDAT
(Continued from Page One)
Emerson Jones, charged with
forgery, was placed on probation
and ordered to pay $25.00 and cost
He was also given a one year sus
pended sentence. Hurley Bell
was fined $100.00 and cost and giv
en an 18 months suspended sen
tence on charges of breaking and
entering and larceny. On a sec
ond charge of larceny of gas,
prayer for judgment was contin
ued upon payment of cost in the
case of Bell; Clarence McGrady
was given a fine of $50.00 and cost
with an 18 months’ suspended
sentence.
Bob Couch, charged with assault
with deadly weapon, was given
12 months on the road. In the
c^se of Mildred Inez Atwood,
charged with having five gallons
of bootleg liquor in her possession,
was ordered to pay the cost
while her automobile, which she
was driving at the time, was con
fiscated and will be sold, the
money to go to the Alleghany
County Board of Education.
Four divorces were granted.
They include: L. T. Mabe vs. Ger
thia Mabe; Rose Johnson Boone
vs. Wade Boone; Ethelyn E. Rich
ardson vs. M. L. Richardson and
Ruth Eldreth Poe vs. Bernard
Poe.
M. T. Crouse was granted per
mission to make out bill of sale
and sell property of Clough Man
ganese Corporation and Royal E.
Horton as reimbursement for sal
ary the Manganese Corp. failed to
pay him.
Several cases were continued
until the fall term of court.
Among these were: Ray Burchett
and Gracie LaFon charged with
misdemeanor, fornication and
adultry; Ivan B. Wilborn, driving
drunk; Lincoln Hill, wreckless
driving and Albert Rutherford,
charged with bigamy.
Bell - Muller
Announcement has been made
of the marriage of Miss Dorothy
Muller, of Bel Air, Md., to Con
right Bell, son of Mr. and Mrs. N.
H. Bell, of Whitehead, on April
25.
The bride is a graduate of Bel
Air high school. The groom has
been employed in Maryland for
the past five years.
The counle plan to make their
home in Maryland.
Mt. Zion News
By MRS. S. E. SMITH
Staff Correspondent
Fred Pugh visited his grand
parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Pugh
Saturday afternoon.
Bob Faircloth, of Scottville, vis
ited Mr. and Mrs. Guy Pugh, re
cently.
A number of young people ol
| this community attended the par
ty given for Sidney Blevins at his
home last Tuesday night. H«
i left Thursday for Ft. Bragg.
I David Perry fias returned t<
Pennsylvania, after spending th<
past week with his parents, Mr
and Mrs. Walter Perry.
Mrs. Lottie Smith visited Mrs
Ruth Perry, Tuesday.
A number of people from this
community attended court ii
Sparta this week.
COUNTY-WIDE S. S.
MEETING IS HELD
(Continued from Paee One)
report and the superintendent and
secretary were elected.
The Rev. E. B. Barton and A.
O. Joines discussed, “The Meaning
| of a Sunday School and Its Re
sults in our Churches”. Mrs.
Blevins then gave a report on,
i “How to Increase Attendance”
and “The Importance of Training
In Our Churches Through The
Sunday School.” E. C. Minnich
discussed, “Young People and the
Sunday School.”
| Mrs. Gene Irwin, accompanied
i at the piano by Mrs. Walter John
son, rendered a solo.
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BIRTHS ANNOUNCED
Mr. and Mrs. Carey D. Blevins
\ announce the arrival of a son,
Jerry Paige, at the Ashe hospital,
Jefferson, on April 12; weight,
8V2 pounds.
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Williams
■ announce the birth of a son at the
Ashe hospital, Jefferson, on April
| 28.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish -to express our sincere
thanks to our friends and neigh
bors for their kindness and help
during the illness and death of
our father and grandfather, Frank
Brinegar; also for the floral tri
butes.
Mr. and Mrs. Donley Ander
son and family.
Obituary
WILLIAM LUNDY IRWIN
| William Lundy Irwin, son of
Frank and Sarah Irwin, was born
July 12, 1879 and departed this
life August 6, 1944, making his
stay on earth 65 years and 25 days.
He was married to Mat Estep in
1900 and to this union were born
two children, one daughter, Myra
Watson, of Stratford and one son,
I who preceded him in death at the
| age of about two years,
i He professed a hope in Christ
in early life and joined the church
at Antioch in February, 1904, and
lived a faithful member until
death.
He had been in ill health for a
number of years, his health being
very poor for the last three
months. He went to the Baptist
hospital at Winston-Salem, where
all the skilled aid of his physi
cian and the aid of his daughter
failed in his recovery. On the
sixth day of August at 10 minutes
until 12 o’clock, the Good Lord
saw fit to call him from his suf
fering to his home of perfect rest.
Bill, as he was known, will be
greatly missed by his friends and
loved ones as he was so good to
visit the sick and help in time of
need and to do everything he
could for those in distress.
He leaves one daughter, Myra,
and one brother, Abe Irwin, of
Furches; one sister. Nan Irwin, of
Stratford, and a number of neph
i ews and nieces, with a host of
‘ friends that greatly mourn their
, loss as we feel our loss is his eter
nal gain.
Dear Dad, it is hard to part but
I would say, sleep on, for your
t memory ever lives in my heart
i Written by his daughter,
. Mrs. Myra Wartaon.