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1 PRESS RUN — 2,025 Net Paid 1,704 Covers Alleghany The Alleghany News AND STAR-TIMES- (CONSOLIDATED ON SEPTEMBER 2, 1941) —ALLEGHANY COUNTY’S ONLY NEWSPAPER. Alleghany County Is . . . Outstanding Livestock, A git culture and Tourist Center, With A Population of 8,341. VOLUME 57, NO. 4 $1.50 a Year in AHeghany County SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA $2.00 a Year Out of County THURSDAY, OCT. 11, IMS * United War Fund Drive Now Underway Pfc. Walter Bell Liberated From Japanese Prison Alleghany Man Has Been A Prisoner Of War More Than Three Years * News of the liberation of Pfc. Walter L. Bell from a Japanese prison was received here this week by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hardin Bell, of Whitehead. The message from the Red Cross read as follows “The Secretary of War has ask ed me to inform you that your son, Pfc. Bell, Walter L., has re turned to military control 17 September, 1945, and is being re turned to the United States, with in the near future. He will be given an opportunity to communi cate with you upon his arrival if he has not already done so. The following message was received in the war department from your son, ‘Good health, be home soon,’ Waiter.” Pfc. Bell was Alleghany coun ty’s only prisoner of war of the Japanese and many friends throughout the county had been anxiously awaiting news of his liberation after the fall of Japan. Captured with General Wain wright at the fall of Bataan, he had been a prisoner for more than three years. Pfc. Bell was also wounded in action before he was taken prisoner. Thus, one of Alleghany’s first men to be wounded in action in this war as well as the county’s only prisoner of the Japanese, is being return ed home. Yellow Jackets Down Boone, 13-0 Sparia Semn4 Victory Of Season; No Game Saturday In a drizzling rain, Sparta High’s Yellow Jackets smashed tb-ough for two touchdowns to defeat a scrapov Boone eleven here Friday afternoon, 13-0. The Yellow Jackets rolled into action early in the game when Royal, fleet Sparta halfback, car ried the ball over the goal line, but a penalty was called for off sides in the last plunge. The Sparta eleven came back in the third quarter when Reeves flipped a beautiful 30-yard pass straight into the arms of Shepherd in the end zone to post the first score of the game. The attempted pass for the extra point was in complete. Early in the final quarter, the Yellow Jackets tallied again as Davis intercepted a pass on the Blue Devils’ forty yard line and the ball was driven down the field to the Sparta five. Royal came back to carry the pigskin over for the second touchdown. Hincher plunged through the center for the extra point. Adams played an outstanding defensive game for the Yellow Jackets, with Hincher and Ben nett sharing honors. Royal, Da vis and Reeves featured the back field play. Aldridge and Yeyo were back field stars for the visiting team. , Line-ups: Pos. Sparta Boone LE— Taylor Miller LT— Hincher Hamby IiG-r- 3 Roe Council C — Joines Harrison RG— Bennett Elrod (Continued on Page Four) Naomi Douglas Is Contest Winner Miss Naomi Douglas, winner of the Sparta 4-H Dress Revue here last week, was also one of the four outstanding contestants in the district revue held at Lenoir last Wednesday, it was announc ed. The four top contestants tied for honors and it has not been an nounced which will be selected to attend the state revue, which will be held in Raleigh. Miss Douglas wore a wool suit which she made. She maH. her accessories, a pocket book and hat 1 Army Combat Baby Show Winners James Caraway and Barbara Barker, winners of Combat Baby show, held at USO club in Oklahoma City. Jimmy’s father lies buried in the China-Burma-India theater. Bar bara’s father is in the army in Naples, Italy. Sparta Elementary School To Sponsor Baby Contest; Rules Are Given For Entry Votes Will Be Solicited By Students; Babies Three And Under May Enter *A baby contest will be sponsor ed by the elementary department of Sparta school, it was announc ed this week, and all mothers are urged to enter their babies. The contest will be held in con junction with a Hallowe’en Car nival, which is being planned by I Sparta High School and will be I the elementary department’s con tribution to the carnival. Details of the remainder of the program were not available this week. Officials of the baby contest announced the following rules: Babies entered in the contest may not exceed three years of age. Mothers may enter their babies ! from Monday, October 15 through Friday, October 19, after which entries will be solicitated by grammar grade students. One cent will be charged for each | vote made. For additional infor jmation, either Mrs. F. G. Walker, 'Mrs. Ruth J. Choate or Miss Ed na Edwards, of the elementary faculty of Sparta school may be contacted. 1 (Continued on Page 4) C. of C. Cancels ' October Meeting R. F. Crouse, president of the Sparta Chamber of Commerce, announced this week that the Oc tober meeting had been cancelled and that the next meeting will be held on Friday night, Novem jber 9, at the regular meeting ! time. i The cancellation was made due jto the failure to secure any or ganization to prepare a meal for the group, it was pointed out. I President Crouse stated that a ! special program was being plan ned for the November meeting and that members would receive notices from the secretary. Wm. F. Joines, 75, Buried Monday At Antioch Church I. . _ Well Known Alleghany Man Died Sunday After Long Illness Funeral service for William Franklin Joines, 75, was conduct ed at * Antioch Primitive Baptist church on Monday with Elds. S. G. Caudill, Coy Walker and J. M. Williams officiating. Interment | was in the family plot of the ] church cemetery. | The well-known Alleghany man died October 7 at his home west of Sparta, of a heart attack, after two years’ illness. I A prosperous farmer for the past several years, he was also associated with the public j schools, having served as super intendent of schools of Alleghany | county for eight years and having taught school for more than thirty years. He was born at Stratford, Jan uary 29, 1870, the son of the late (Continued on Page 4) Many Teachers To Attend Meet Supt. Clyde Fields announced yesterday that more than fifty percent of the teachers of Alle ghany county ar expected to at tend the Northwestern district teacher’s convention which will be held at High Point tomorrow. Miss Fields pointed out that in order to enable teachers to attend the meeting, that schools where fifty percent of the teachers are going will be dismissed at noon. The Northwestern district in cludes the following fifteen coun ties: (Continued on Page 4) 2-Year-Army Men Eligible For Release By March 20 Washington—Enlisted men with two or more years of service in the army will become eligible for discharge by March 20, regardless of point spores, Brig. Gen. Robert W. Berry, Assistant Army Chief of Staff for personnel, estimated this week. He told the House Military Af fairs Committee that this does not mean' that all two-year service men will be released then, but that they will become eligible and will start to flow out of the army on a “first-in-first-out” basis. Simultaneously, the army re vealed that it had released 235, 000 soldiers last week, bringing the discharge total to 1,350,000 since last May 12. Brig. .Gen. Raymond W. Bliss, acting surgeon general of the ar my. discussing release of doctors, disclosed that the War Depart* ment last Thursday arrived at a “firm schedule” for discharge of physicians in the Pacific theatre in a decision which apparently overrode General Douglas Mac Arthur. MacArthur had advised that hospitals were “swept clean” of key specialists, and had requested replacements. The War Depart ment replied that it would be “im possible” to meet the request. Bliss said nearly 30,000 doctors will be discharged by June, leav ing about 15,000 in the army. The patient load should be. down to 20,000 or 30,000 by then, he added. He predicted that 3,000 doctors will be released in October and that the total number of physi cians discharged WjlJ reach nearly (Continued on Page 4) ■ > Wagoner To Head Alleghany Red Cross Chapter Mrs. John Mac Miles Succeeds Mrs. Edwin Duncan As Home Service Chmn. Isom Wagoner was named chairman of the Alleghany chap ter of American Red Cross at a meeting of the executive commit tee here Monday night. Mrs. John Mac Miles was also named home service chairman for Alleghany county. Mrs. Miles succeeds Mrs. Edwin Duncan, who resigned the office several weeks ago. Mr? Wagoner, well-known ru- ] ral mail carrier of the Ennice | section, has been very active in Red Cross work, having served as township chairman in a num ber of drives as well a serving 1 Continued t?n Rage Four! HEADS RED CROSS I Isom nice, county can Red Cross iamed as me Ameri Alleghany. County Teacher’s Meet To Be Held Here October 18 Ralph House, ASTC Professor Of Education, To Speak To Group A county-wide teacher’s meet ing will be held here Thursday night, October 18 at 7:30 p. m. in the reading room of Sparta high school, Supt. Clyde Fields an nounced this week. Featured on the program will be a talk by Ralph House, pro i fessor of Education at ASTC, I Boone, who will speak on “Ob jectives of Reading in the Lan ' guage Arts Program,” it was ex plained. Professor House will bring with him a group of children who (Continued on Page 4) Town Of Sparta Finds That It Is Without Mayor Sparta has suddenly found itself without a mayor! Just whose fault it is, no one seems to know but nevertheless, if the mayor needed to be found, it would be like look ing for “the little man who wasn’t there.” When Mayor R. F. Crouse, who had served in that office for the past 15 years, resigned in July, the town council, according to the report, named Alton Thompson as mayor. It seems that Mr. Thompson was present at the meeting and de clined the offer, but his name w|nt down on the records as may or of die Town of Sparta. When Mr. Crouse is addressed as “Mayor," he politely corrects the title to “Former Mayor” and when Mr. Thompson is addressed as “Mayor” he politely corrects the title to “Mr.”; and so the circle goes. Whether the town council will correct this in the near future or not, no one seems to know. There is only one thing of which every body seems to be sure, however, and that is, “Sparta has no may or.” Nylons—Ready For The Asking Soon You can stop dreaming about the nylons you are planning to buy. Very soon you can go out and make that dream a reality. This scene is in a hosiery mill in Philadelphia, show ing the finished nylons folded and boxed, ready for shipment. County Wins Top Honors In Elkin Fat Stock Show; Nancy Gambill Has Grand Champion Resignations Of Welfare Supt., Nurse Are Given Frank Ledbetter Resigns As Welfare Supt.; Mrs. Led- j better As County Nurse ! --r— I It was announced this week that both Frank M. Ledbetter, | superintendent of welfare of Al lgehany county, and Mrs. Led-' better, county health nurse, had submitted their resignations. j Mr. Ledbetter will leave on Oc-i tober 19 to take up the office of j I superintendent of welfare of I Montgomery county, it was an nounced. Mrs. Ledbetter will join him on October 24 when her work is completed in Alleghany, j “We appreciate the co-opera tion that has been shown in Al leghany county during the short time we have been here and re gret that we are leaving,” Mr. Ledbetter pointed out.' (Continued on Page 4) Gentry Resigns Post As Warden R. D. Gentry has resigned as forest warden of Alleghany county, it was announced this week and George Royal, of Roar ing Gap, has been appointed to take his place. Mr. Gentry has served in the] office of forest warden for a number of years. He also served a number of years as county game warden, an office which he re signed several weeks ago. Mr.) Royal was formerly game war-j den for Surry county. It was pointed out that Alle- \ ghany now has no county game warden but that H. T. Goodman,! of Ashe county, is handling the license sales here. Other Prizes Won By Entrie From County; Several An imals Bought Alleghany county walked awa; with> top honors in the third an nual Elkin Fat Stock show thi week when ten-year-old Nanc Gambill, daughter of Mr. and Mr J. C. Gambill, received the gran championship ribbon on her entr; And there were also other honoi coming to the county. To the county went first plac for the best group of five calve These included e.-tri^s of Nancy Gambill, Dwight Brown, Keith Brown, Ida Maude Black and Bob by Black. This is the second year the county has won this honor. Bobby Black also won second place in the showmanship contest. It was also announced that out of the top 22 calves 10 were from Alleghany county. A member of the Sparta 4-H club, young Miss Gambill won over 123 contestants from 4-H and FFA clubs from 10 coun ties in Northwestern North Caro lina. She paraded her animal through the show like a veteran (Continued on Page Four) Demonstration Of Slip Covers Here Mrs. Isom Wagoner, home dem onstration agent of Alleghany, an nounced this week that an all day meeting of home demonstra tion club women and other inter ested persons would be held at the community building next Thursday, October 18, when a demonstration on “Slip Covering” will be given. Miss Rose Ellwood Bryan, home demonstration agent, at large, will give the demonstration which will feature the actual covering of a piece of furniture. Mrs. Wagoner pointed out that everyone is invited to attend the meeting and bring a picnic lunch. Sparta Horse Show Cancelled Due To Rain Here Saturday Mother Nature showed no mer cy here last Friday and Saturday as a heavy downpour of rain con tinued .info the morning, making it impossible to continue with plans for the horse show, which was to have been one of Sparta’s biggest events of the season. Members of the Lions Club, under whose sponsorship the show was to have been conducted, held a call meeting on Friday night and after deciding that it was impossible to go on with the show, contacted owners who had entered animals in the contest, it was pointed out More than fifty horses were to have been shown in the event here, Saturday, officials of the <dub stated. It was explained that the new ly constructed track was only a deep mire by Saturday noon and that it would have been impossi ble to have held the show there, At a second call meeting of the Lions here, Monday night, it was decided to cancel the show for this year and plans were made to hold the event next spring, prob ably in June. “We appreciate the efforts of every person who helped to pre pare for the horse show,” Presi dent J. B. Reed said yesterday, and added, “We are looking for ward to a bigger and better show next spring.” SUES FOR MAINTENANCE Through error in the court docket the case of Haael Waddell vs. Platt Waddell was listed' in last week’s paper as divorce in stead of a suit for maintenance and support Need Many Gifts Before $1,850.00 Goal Is Reached All Organizations Urged To Help; Letters Are Being Mailed * The United War Fund Drive, which got underway here on Mon day, is gaining headway but many generous gifts will be needed to put Alleghany county over the top on the quota of $1,850.00, cam paign chairman R. Leff Joines said yesterday. Initial gifts are now being sought, it was pointed out and letters asking for contributions have been sent out to people throughout the county. A list of these will be published next week, it was announced. A square dance is being held at the community building here Sat urday night, proceeds of which are to go into the fund, Robert Allison, Gap Civil township chair man, announced yesterday. Pointing out that the need for war service in the ravaged coun tries of Europe and China is great ttiMtitiittkiiili icken persons Dies eep Accident Alleghany Man Dies In Ger many, August 26; Burial Held In France Additional news on the death, of First Lieutenant William Bry an Taylor was received this week by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. Glenn Taylor, of Laurel Springs. According to official informa tion, Lt. Taylor was driving a jeep accompanied by Lt. George P. Madsen, of the same organiza tion, from Hanau to Wiesbaded, Germany at about 8:30 on the night of August 26. When about, six miles from Frankfurt on Highway N-40 they collided with another U. S. Army vehicle, a 2 Vi-ton cargo truck. An ambu lance came along immediately and both officers were taken to the 97th General hospital in Frank furt. On the way to the hospital, while being treated by medical personnel, Lt. Taylor died with out having regained conscious ness. Funeral service was held on August 29 at the American Mili tary Cemetery in St. Avoid, France, located between Meta, France and Saarbrucken, Ger many, with Capt. Moore R. Mil ler, a Presbyterian chaplain at Headquarters Engineer Com mand, officiating. A firing party of eight soldiers fired three vol (Continued on Page •) Much Interest Is Shown In Contest Much interest is being in the .newspaper contest for high school -students, sponsored by this paper, it was pointed out this week. No entries^have been received but students are working on es says on die subject, “Newspapers Serving the .Community,’' it was explained. The North Carolina PjM|. As sociation and the Alleghany News launched the contest in -- will be ; the! die be mm
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