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The Alleghany News AND STAB-TIMES The NEWS established February 16, 1940— The TIMES, 1986 and The STAB, 1889. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY At Sparta, N. C. THURSDAY, NOV. 15, 1945 ED M. ANDERSON_Publisher JOHN F. REEVES_Asst. Publisher Miss EMORYETTA REEVES.Editor MRS. ED M. ANDERSON.Associate SUBSCRIPTION RATES PER YEAR In County, $1.50- Outside County, $2.00 -->, The News is glad to pubish letters, not too long, on matters of general interest. But such communications must be accompanied by the real name of the writer, even when they are to be published under a nom de plume. Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Sparta, North Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879. “If the choice were left to me whether to have a free press or a free government, I would choose a free press.”—Thomas Jeffer son. Member of—North Carolina Press Ass’n Service Officer Needed The G. I. Bill of Rights provides many benefits to World War Two service men and women and in order that all of our veterans may obtain maximum benefits this newspaper urges the county commis sioners to employ a full time Veterans’ Service officer, with an office in the court house. Most of the counties in the state have already done this and we understand that the others are giving serious consideration to the proposal. The last session of the state legislature passed a law setting up a North Carolina Veterans’ Assistance administration. This law provided for a director and several dis trict representatives, but did not authorize any funds for employment of a county service officer. Since this Bill of Rights is so extensive and so complicated, it is almost impossible for it to be administered by voluntary com mittees and there are a number of agen cies that handle different phases of the Bill. These include the U. S. Employment Compensation, the Selective Service Board, the Red Cross, the Veterans’ ad ministration and other agencies. In this county we should have one per son who attends a school, makes a thorough study of all of the benefits and then is in a position to give advice and assistance to all veterans. It seems to us that this is a good project for the American Legion to promote. They could select a committee to appear before the commissions at their next meeting and urge such appointment. This should not be delayed because hundreds of our men and women have already returned and need this assistance now. — -—0O0-j Lost - 350,000 Automobiles So far, strikes affecting the automobile business have cost the public 350,000 auto mobiles which would otherwise have been delivered in 1945. That estimate, made by the Automobile Manufacturers association, was released before any of the big general strikes threa tened by the automobile unions had taken place. If major strikes do tie up the in dustry the last eight weeks of this year, the loss will of course be much greater. In addition to causing delay in getting new automobiles to market, it is also es timated that the strikers, and those out of work because of strikes, already have lost half a billion dollars in income—more than they could make up in a full year if the 30 per cent raise they are seeking material ized. Strikes are expensive for all of us—the public, the worker and the manufacturer. Yet we seem to be getting nowhere in ar riving at a way to end strikes. In a case like this, where everybody loses, there should certainly be some solution. We don’t believe in turning to govern ment for the solution of every problem. -0O0 Railroads Of The Future Because they are one of the nation’s heaviest employers and taxpayers, every body is interested in the future of the rail j roads. John J. Pelley, President of the | Association of American Railroads, en deavors to look ahead upon the basis of the past. He says: “Three facts which are fundamental in assessing the future of the railroads were clearly brought out in the test of war. The war demonstrated how essential railroads are to this nation, the remarkable techno logical progress of railroads, and the im portance of investment in railroads in pro viding better transportation at lower real cost. “The first of these facts will remain valid in peacetime as in war. There is nothing in existence, or in sight, to take the place of trains of cars on tracks in trans porting the vast volume of American com merce at rates which now, and for some years past, have averaged less than one j cent for hauling a ton of freight a mile. “The technological progress demon strated by results during the war will con tinue in peacetime at an accelerated rate. Much of this progress will not be conspi cuous. To the naked *eye, for example, steel rail rolled today looks about the same as ever, but, as a result of research, it ac tually has a rate of breakage per year of service only about one-fifth as high as that of rail rolled only 15 years ago. And that is but one detail in the composition picture of progress which enabled the railroads, in this war, to do twice as much work per day with nearly one-third less equipment, and to do it immeasurably better than during the first World War. “The third fact strikingly demonstrated by the war is that no amount of ingenuity and invention would have been enough to do the job without the investment of vast sums in better railroads. Between the two wars, considerably more than ten billion dollars of railroad money was spent for additions and betterments to plant and equipment. In that period, the average railroad investment went up from about $10,000 to $20,000 per man employed. Largely because of the better ‘tools’ pro vided by this doubled investment per worker, the men themselves received an average hourly wage double that of the first World War; the nation received bet ter services at freight rates no higher now than they were before the recent war; and the federal government received an aver age of nearly $4,000,000 a day in railroad taxes, in contrast to a deficit of nearly $2, 000,000 a day resulting from federal opera tion of railroads during the first World War.” Bright as the future of railroading looks, Mr. Pelley concludes with the warning that no other form of transportation provides, maintains and pays taxes on roadways to an extent comparable with the railroads. This is a competitive handicap which must be reckoned with before maximum railroad development can be expected. Men In Service Pfc. Omar S. Poole, son of Mrs. J. W. Poole, of Twin Oaks, was discharged from the military service at Ft. Bragg last week. Entering the army in December, 1942, at Ft. Thomas, K] ed 13 months in the theater of operfft three battle. stats, merit and good Before entering 3! Poole was employe company in Goodv STStming 'icate of ‘ ribbon, fly, Pfc. oner in a bombing crew, S. Reeves completed 50 mis in the European theater oi ttions. He plans to return | Negro Minstrel To Be Given Fri. A Negro minstrel will be pre sented at Piney Creek school on Friday night, November 16, at ,7:30 o’clock, it was announced . this week. The play will be given by the high school students and prom | ises to be outstanding entertain ment. The high light of the show will be a Negro wedding, staged by high school students. The average yield of flue cured tobacco in the U. S. has increased from 639 pounds per acre for 1920 to 25 up to 1,137 pounds in 1945. army last week, after spending three years and seven months in the. service. He served first in the pacific theater and second in the European theater of opera tions. VISITS GLADE VALLEY B. D. Phillips, of Raleigh, vis ited friends at Glade Valley high school, Tuesday. Mr. Phillips, who is now man ager of the Customers Account ing department of the Carolina Light and Power Company, Ra leigh, is a graduate of Glade Val ley high school with the class of 1917. He has been with the Car olina Light and Power company for several years. QUAIL SEASON TO OPEN IN ALLEGHANY (Continued from Page 1) season will end January 1. The bag limit on quail has been set at 10 per day while that of grouse is only two. Hunters are remind ed that the Squirrel season re mains open until December lS. The attention of hunters is'also called to the fact that they are to secure licenses before hunting. They are alsd asked to guard agsinst forest fires*, HONOR ROLL FOR SPARTA ANNOUNCED | (Continued from Page 1) Edna Mae Hampton, Bobby Lee Hoppers, Lorene Shumake, Mar jorie Truitt. Seventh Grade — Lorene Bill ings, George Heinz, Anna Lee Anderson, Delano Choate, Vena Miles, Sally Phillipps, Joan Phipps, Fern Hope Shepherd. Eighth Grade—Maxine Todd, Sue Evans, Patsy Edwards, Ruth Dutton, Ida Maud Black, Doro thy Andrews, Ralph Gentry, Jr. Ninth Grade—Gelene Andrews, Betty Jean Fender, Rose Marie Fender, Virginia Van Crouse, Daynard Atwood, Paul Edwards, Grace Crouse, Pauline Wyatt, Nellie Waddell, Tommy Burgiss, Carol Richardson, Junior Rizotti. Tenth Grade — George Bryan Collins, Dorothy Joines, Evelyn Joines, Zelma Choate, Imogene Carpenter, Ruth Crouse, Madge Wyatt, Gelene Wyatt, Mary Fran ces Smith, Virginia Poole, Lorene Holloway, May Key, Iva Dean Royal, Ellen Woodruff, Muriel Richardson, Alda Richardson. Eleventh Grade—Jean Bledsoe, Uptie Andrews, Adele Blum, Na omi Douglas, Annie Sue Bennett, Wanda Blevins, Reba Edwards, Helen Walker, Martha Norman, 'Evelyn Mitchell, Ennice Maines, I Juanita Spicer, Emalene Joines, Anna Blanche Pugh, Mary Ruth Miller, Jean Reeves, Tommy Sue I Moxley. JUNIOR RED CROSS DRIVE IS UNDERWAY (Continued from Page 1) bags have just been completed by the local chapter of Junior Red Cross and that Piney Creek home economics department was mak ing afaghans. Miss Edwards urged that all teachers, both white and colored, throughout the county, turn in : reports on the drive to her as soon 1 as possible. NEARING QUOTA IN UNITED WAR FUND (Continued from Page 1) Contributions not previously announced include: David P. La vietes, $25.00; D. & P. Pipe Works, 1 $25.00; Chamber of Commerce, $43.00; C. G. Collins, $50.00; Ben G. Reeves, $25.00; and Mrs. Isom ( Wagoner, $5.00, in honor of Her man Chapel; Rich Hill school, , $17.00. One of the principal ingredi- 1 ents in DDT is a chemical that is ' popularly known as “knock out 1 drops.” DDT knocks out a wider ] variety of insects than any other insecticide. The 1946 spring pig goal is 52 ^ million head, or about equal to . the pig crop last spring. , There’s no telling when that , 1.600,000 tons of sugar in Java . will be available for export. In- j ternal conditions in Java are re- ( sponsible. If there were more sugar this . year, there would be more honey for the table. Many beekeepers , are leaving extra honey in the , colony because they are afraid they cannot get sugar. Potatoes are being diverted into J the manufacture of butyl alcohol, an ingredient of paints and lac quers, and a source of synthetic ! rubber. ! ] The Answ s {* IP VVE DEStBE I • no Avoid insult | WE MUST BE BEADV^ j TO fcEPEL IT; . IF WE DESIRE TO SfcCl’GE PEACE i-IT MUST DE \ KNOWN THAT WE j ABE AT ALU TIMES | READY FOR. WAR. * VteKVuntfl&rtlt M-ssaiS'f' C.nffrts* D«c. i, 1794 u > MINING TW»w3enT TVumswV Mnta* to Coniita Oct. a*, 1945 FELLOW JACKETS TO MEET RURAL RETREAT IContinued from Page One) here last Friday afternoon by a icore of 26-7, when luck seemed o be against them in every peri >d. The Yellow Jackets out jlayed the Walker town team hroughout the game, but lost to he Forsyth lads. In the second period, Reeves 'lipped a pass to Adams for 24 fards and a touchdown and the :xtra point was made on a line blunge by Irwin. Irwin, Reeves and Davis stood >ut in the backfield, while Adams, rlolloway and Taylor were offen >ive threats. During the last half of the last juarter, Coach Reed ran in the vhole second string, who showed he Walkertown lads some strong )laying. The line-ups: 3os. Walkertown -.E—Self JT—Scott jG—McGee 2—Bowman IG—R. Waggoner IT—Sievers IE—Griffin JB—Vaughn jHB—Jones tHB—Myers '’B—C. Waggoner Sparta Adams Holloway Bennett Joines Gentry Hincher Shepherd Davis Andrews Osborne Reeves Valkertown _ 6 7 6 7—26 >parta _ 0 7 0 0—7 Sparta scoring touchdown— Vdams. Point after touchdown— rwin (scrimmage). Subs: Sparta: Edwards, Irwin, iloxley, Taylor, G. Roe, R. Roe, tizoti, Bryant, Douglas, Caudle. Announcement -0O0 We have moved into our new building on Whitehead ...... . ' ■ ' 'r':' street just below old shop. WE WILL HOLD Open House, Saturday, Nov. 17 When Every Person Visiting Us Will Be Given A Free Shoe Shine -0O0 Regular operation will be re sumed on Monday. For Best in Shop Repair—See SpaHa Shoe Shop Joseph Absher, Owner & Mgr. MRS. DOUGHTON, 82, DIED SUDDENLY HERE (Continued from Page l) Surviving are one daughter, Miss Mae Doughton, of Sparta, and one son, George Wooten, of Princeton, W. Va. A daughter, Mrs. Cynthia Perry, preceded her in death in 1919. A number of grandchildren and great-grand children also survive. Honorary pallbearers were: John Higgins, Champ Duncan, Dr. C. A. Thompson, John Robert Edwards, Glenn Duncan, Amos Wagoner, R. F. Crouse, C. C. Castevens and C. G. Lucas. Active pallbearers were: Luther Halsey, John Mac Edwards, C. R. Roe, Eugene Higgins, Claude Holloway and Wilmer Woodruff. r Flower bearers included: Mrs. Mexa Phipps, Mrs. Luther Hal sey, Mrs. John Mac Edwards, Mrs. Bill Halsey, Miss Marjorie Halsey, Mrs. C. A. Thompson, Mrs. J. T. Inskeep, Miss Minnie Lou Edwards, Miss Dona Duncan, Miss Edna Edwards, Mrs. Bessie Reeves, Mrs. C. C. Castevens, Mrs. R. J?. Crouse, Mrs. June Tompkins, Mrs. Claude Hollo way, Mrs. Wayne Waddell, Mrs. Jay Hardin, Mrs. Champ Duncan, Mrs. A. V. Choate and Mrs. Ed Rizoti. By proper cultivation, spacing, and fertilization and through the use of hybrid seed, A. B. Craven Of Richmond county increased hit corn yield from 17.24 to 68.4i bushels per acre in the same field. Thanksgiving Specials A? 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