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PRESS RUN — 1,12$ Net Paid 1,704 Coven Alleghany The Alleghany News Alleghany County la . . . Oatstanding Livestock, culture and Tourist With A Population of MU. AND STAR-TIMES— (CONSOLIDATED ON SEPTEMBER 2, 1941) —ALLEGHANY COUNTY’S ONLY NEWSPAPER. "VOLUME 57, NO. 11 $1.50 a Year in Alleghany County SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA $2.00 a Year Out of County THURSDAY, NOV. 2$, IMS ‘Victory Bond Sales Are Still Mounting Local Merchants Now Ready For Yuletide Season Hundreds Of Gifts Featured; Everyone Invited To Shop In Sparta Hundreds ox people are expect ed to shop here Friday and Sat urday when the Christmas shop ping season for Sparta and Alle ghany will be officially opened. An unusually large assortment of practical as well as special gift merchandise is now on sale here and the store windows as well as the attractive interior displays re flect the gay spirit of Christmas. While the selection of gift mer chandise is varied, merchants point out that many items cannot be replaced and urge everyone to shop early while stocks are complete. Today, The Alleghany News is sues its annual Christmas shop ping edition officially ushering in the Christmas shopping season here. Throughout this paper will be found hundreds of advertised \ values which are proof that Sparta is the place to shop. Nation-wide surveys show that this year, more than ever, peo ple are turning to practical gifts. Army Recruiter Is Coming Here Will Be Here To Seek Enlist ments Next Monday; Cites Regulations The U. S. Army recruiter will be in Sparta next Monday, y December 3, from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. Men between the ages of 17 through 34, who are interest ed in the re&i^ar.gfm^jjrf^ng^ to contact him in the post office building then. Men enlisting for the three year “hitchv now have their pick of the branchy of service and the overseas theater * that they want. There is also an eighteen months and two-year period of enlist ment. It was also pointed out that men who have been discharged from iVi"' have twen ty days to re-enlist to receive full benefits that the army offers. The recruiting station in Le noir is located in the post office building and is open six days a week, from 8 a. m. and 5 p. m., it was explained. Former Sparta Man Hies In W. Va. r News has been received here of the death of M. W. Joines, 78, of Princeton, W. Va., last Wed nesday, November 21, at his home there. The aged man, a former resi dent of Alleghany county, was the son of the late Mollie and David Joines. He spent his early man hood here and was employed in Sparta for a number of years. Surviving are two daughters and one son and a brother, John L. Joines, of Sparta. rormer County Woman Dies Wed. News has been received here of the death of Mrs. Ella Wagoner Shepherd at her home at Hayes ville, Pa., last Wednesday, No vember 21. The daughter of Monroe and Sarah Ann Wagoner, she was born and reared in Sparta. She taught in the Alleghany schools and was later married to Everett F. Shepherd, moving to Forest Hill, Md., in 1927. ' Funeral service was conducted in her late home on Sunday after noon with interment in the Ox ford cemetery. Surviving in addition to her husband are two sons, Thomas Shepherd and E. Claude Shep herd and 'two granddaughters, all of Oxford. She is also survived by a sis ter, Mrs. Agnes Edwards, of Mi ami, Fla:, and three brothers, Hilary Wagoner, of Portland, Ore gon; Amos Wagoner, of Sparta;; and Finis .Wagoner, of Shelby. I Problem Spot Of The Middle East Here is an all-purpose map of the Palestine area, now the problem spot of the Middle East. Jewish Palestine has launch ed a resistance movement against the British policy of keep ing down immigration of homeless European Jews. AAA Committeemen Will Be Elected For County On F r i d a y Voting Places Are Announced; Farmers Are Urged To Participate Alleghany farmers as well as j others throughout the state will jgo to their respective voting1 places on Friday to cast their ballots for the AAA committee men for the conflHHBlBIHtaGi ii f* w*1*? pointful ating meetings 9:00 a. m. Fridj[ _^_ that voting will begm immeS ately afterwards. The ballot box will remain open until 5:00 p. m. Members of the community AAA committee and delegates to elect members of the county commit- j tee will be elected at these meet ings. All owners, operators, tenants or sharecroppers on a farm on which AAA payments, whether in (the form of case, services or con servation materials, have been or may be made under the 1945 AAA (Continued on Page 8) Honor Roll Given For Pine Swamp Mrs. Clay Thompson, principal, and Mrs. J. B. Reed have an nounced the honor roll for Pine Swamp school for the past two months’ period. Students listed are: First grade: Avalee Andrews, Frances Atwood and Mary Lee Wyatt; Second grade: Wayne Crouse and Edward Joines; Third grade: Carol Joines and Ralph Vaughn; Fourth grade:] : Keith Brown, Bobby Joines and Mattie Caudill; Fifth grade: Ber trice Pruitt and Carlton 'Wagon er; Sixth grade: Gertrude Joines, Agnes Estep, Lou Reid Waddell and Mable Caudill; and Seventh grade: Myrtle Evans and Ruby Jean Wyatt. ' 1 Laurel Springs Man Is Awarded Italian Cross S.-Sgt. Taylor Presented Cross By Prince Umberto For Military Valor S.-Sgt. Arthur Dean Taylor,1 son of Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Taylor, of Laurel Springs, has been awarded the Italian Cross for | military valor in the Italian earn-1 paign on December 6, 1943, it was learned here this week. The citation, accompanying the medal reads as follows:' ‘The Italian Cross of Military Valor is awarded to S.-Sgt. Ar thur Dean Taylor by Prince Um-! berto of the Royal ouse of Sa- ■ voia, Lt. General i. the Italian, Army, through the Italian War Ministry for his magnificient display of courage without re gard for his own life, in our unit ed and successful stand against our common enemy, the Germans, at Mignon, Italy on December 6, 1943. t Continued on Page Four) Fire Last Night Caused No Damage The Sparta fire department was called out Wednesday evening about 5:30 when a blase- star ted, in the home of Mrs. Mexa Phipps,' in north Sparta. The fire was quickly, extinguished with no damage reported. Mrs. Phipps is reported to havej poured gas in the stove, mistak-i ing it for kerosene. The can con-1 taining the gas caught on fire, but was thrown outside before any damage was done. To Speak On Mission Rally Program Among the speakers for the Foreign Mission Bally to be held at Glade Valley, Wednesday, are: Pr. William Rule, left, and the Bev. John Vinson, right. Local Red Cross Chapter Will Be Saluted Tuesday Special Radio Broadcast Will Call Attention To'Excellent Work Of County Chapter The Alleghany County Chapter American Red Cross, will be salu ted Tuesday evening, Dec. 4, at 1:15 p. m.,* in the first of a, series’ of five broadcasts on the role played by North Carolina chap- [ ters in the Red Cross program at j home and overseas. The broad-! cast will come from Station W5JS at Winston-Salem. This honor will be rendered to the Alleghany Chapter in rec- j ognition of its outstanding work| in Claims. The salute to the1 Alleghany Chapter will come at the end of an interview on Red j Cross services to veterans, ' in! which two other chapters will al so be cited. j In referring to the forthcoming broadcast, Mr. Isom Wagoner, county chairman, emphasized the need of greater numbers of work ers in the chapters to carry on the ever-expanding services to, veterans. “Every day mo^?of our men are out of uniform and coming back home,” said Mr. Wagoner, “and it is the pleasure and priv (Continued an Pag-e Four) Teachers Shown Art Exhibit Here At Meeting Thurs. -/ Plans Made To Broaden Study Of Art In Schools; Paint ing Demonstrated The county - wide teachers’ meeting held in the liBSS&y of Sparta high school last Thursday night proved to be an outstanding affair with exhibits from the various schools throughout the county showing unlimited talent among Alleghany students. ! In the absence of Joe Bill Reed, NCEA president, Roy Ellison, vice-president, presided over the meeting. During the business meeting. Following the business meeting, the high school and elementary groups held separate meetings with the high school group dis cussing and making plans for corralating English with all other high school subjects. Plans! were made to place more emphasis on correct oral speech. The elementary group, headed by Mrs. A. V. Choate as chair man, composed of 45 teachers, man and composed of 45 teachers, study of art to improve teaching throughout the county and each ! teacher had been asked to bring to the meeting samples o' the work being carried on in the va rious schools which would be suit able for Thanksgiving and Christ mas, both in the school and in the home. The two home economic teach ers decorated tables appropriately ' l Continued wn Page fou» NEWS GIVING FREE THEATER TICKETS Again The Alleghany News is conducting Its annual Christ mas gift plan when dotens of tickets to the Spartan Theater are to be given away absolute ly free. In practically all of the ad vertisements except theee of national products in The News today will be feunf the names of Alleghany people. Bead all of the adyertteg|jiaate care fully and when yon discover yoor name bring the adver tisement in which it appears, into the office of The News and you will be given a ticket to the Spartan Theater. The names printed in the ad vertisements were ehosen Im partially from the pest offices on the mailing, Ret of The News. The tickets must be called for and used by Decem ber 15. , i Read all of the advertise ments, It may mean a free ticket for yon, as well as the solution to yoor shopping problems. Twin Brothers Serve In Navy Twin sons of Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Edwards, of Whitehead, Chief Petty Officer Lonnie Lee, left, and Charlie Dale, Sea man 1-C, right, are both serving in Uncle Sam’s Navy. Lon nie Lee, who has been in the Pacific area for the past 16 months on LST boat, is now on Okinawa. Charlie Dale vol unteered for the naval air corps 'in February and was recent ly transferred to Jacksonville, Fla., for gunnery school. Cpl. Walter L. Bell Is Home After Over 3 Years In Jap Prison Three Whitaker Brothers Held On Robbery Charge Under $5,000.00 Bonds In Vir ginia; Also Charged With Attempted Murder Paul, Ed and .Charles, three Whitaker 'brothers, of Sparfa, are being held in the Carrol coun ty. jail in Hillsville, Va., under a $5,000.00 bond each, on charges of highway robbery, local officers announced this week. * The thrdfe brothers, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Eck Whitaker, of Spar ta, are also confronted with charges of attempted murder in North Carolina after they fired at Gene Carpenter, shooting away ‘Continued -*n Page 4) Alleghany Men Bag Three Deer Three deer were bagged by Al leghany sportsmen at the Pisgah National Forest near Asheville last week bringing the total kil led by hunters from this county this season up to five. Robert. Nichols killed a 145 pound 8 noint buck; June Tomp kins, a 150 pound 9 point buck and Chap Edwards, jp 120 pound 5 point buck. Others in'the' par ty of five were Cleve Nichols and Howard Hoppers. Included in the first group ol Alleghany sportsmen to hunt at Pisgah this year were, Dr. C. A. Thompson, and Amos Wagoner, who killed one deer earn; and R. E. Black and Roy Crouse. I - Suffers Broken Arms When Tortured For Stealing Food; On “Death March” In an easy unfaltering voice, CpL Walter L. Bell, 25, hero of *15313811, this' week', quietly loM "of his three and a half years intern. jment in a Japanese prison camp, as though it had. been so many years of normal living. The young soldier, Alleghany’s only prisoner of-war of the Jap anese, returned home last Wed nesday for his first visit to Sparta in the past six years since he join ed the regular army at Baltimore, Md„ in, 1939. Cpl. bell, son of Mr. and Mrs Hardin Bell, of Whitehead, cap tured at Bataan, was a member of a chemical warfare company, special troops, Phillipine division. He was wounded twice, once in I the leg and once in the hand only ■ a few days before his capture aft t . uLiu-d on Page 4) Burley Sales To Open Mon;, Dec. 3 Tobacco growers of this section have been busy getting their jcrop ready for market and many I of them have already placed j theirs in warehouses to be ready ' when the sales open on Monday, December 3. The majority of growers in this section sell on the Bo4t& market and according to announcement ! by officials there, everything is in readiness for the opening of sales Monday morning. Chester Bowles, price adminis trator, has announced that ceil ings have been continued on the same level as of the 1944 crop. Missionaries Will Speak On Program At Glade Valley A foreign mission rally will be held at Glade Valley high school auditorium on Tuesday. Decem ber 4, at 4:30 p. m. and 7:30 p. m„ when four foreign missionaries, one of whom was a prisoner of war of tHe Japanese government, will speak, Supt E. B. Eldridge, announced this week. An interesting program has been planned and the public is cordially invit*jd to attend- It was pointed dut that file mis sionaries wili also speak at Spar ta high school on Wednesday morning, November 5 at 9:15 dur ing the chapel hour. '• . Appearing* with Candidate Secretary Richard T. Gillespie, of Nashville, Tennessee, popular) young minister known all through I the South, wtD be young men| Jit and women whose names are al ready bywords in many lan guages, it was announced. Dr. William Rule, M- D., of the Congo Mission, Southern Presby terian -Church, will tell the large crowd of young people expected to, attend of his experiences in the heart of Equatorial Africa and of the need for medical missionaries. Dr. Rule and one other missionary doctor were entrusted with the en tire medical care of over two mil lion people, and all during the war have been the only doctors available to staff eight hospitals. A native of Knoxville, Tenn.,' Dr. Rule graduated from Davidson College in 1932, U. p. Medical School in 1936, and after intern ship at Bryn Mawr Hospital and (Continued on Page 4) County Is One Of State’s First To Surpass Quota Public Continuing To Buy Bonds For Christmas Gifts Chairman Says Running a close second, if net "irst. in the Victory Loan drive n North Carolina, Alleghany county this week reported *'E>* aond sales amounting to $54,031 50 on the quota of $52,000.00,. Drive Chairman S. R. Nichols re sorted late yesterday. With the possible exception of Polk county, which to date has been first according to reports from the State Office on “E” bond sales during this drive, Allegha ny county is the first county ha the state to meet and exceed the assigned quota. Chairman Nichols reported that the overall sales now stand at $82,037.50 against the <fuota of $80,000.00. It was pointed out that bonds are continuing to be bought ev ery day and with the ChristmM season approaching, sales are in creasing. The total is expected to swell considerably within the next two or three weeks. “Bonds make ideal Christmas gifts, and with the security of the future in mind, we ought to buy more than ever before,” Chair man Nichols said. Accident Fatal To Paul Smith Husband Of Sparta Girl Is Killed In New York When Struck By Truck Cpl. Paul A. Smith, 23, husband ta, ^wa^fate^^ Mrijured ‘' \Wien struck by a truck in Staten Is land, New York, on November 14, it was learned here this week. Cpl. Smith, driver of the lead vehicle in a convoy of 27 army weapon carriers, was struck by the second vehicle as he stood in the roadway beside his own over turned truck, after sliding on a slippery hill. He . died within half an hour. A member of the 158th Rost Company at Brooklyn Army Base, Cpl. Smith was slated for dis charge within two weeks, it wan disclosed. * According to army officials, the convoy wa6 going from the Brook lyn Army Base to Carteret New Jersey. Smith was far in the lead of other vehicles and white going down hill his truck skidded, swung around and overturned against a pole. Dazed, but appar ently unhurt Smith got out et the overturned vehicle and wan standing beside it when the sec ond truck operated by his’buddy, came m view. Noticing Smith’s; plight Pfc. Shaver applied his brakes, but his truck likewise skidded and swung around, hit ting Smith. The three-quarter ton truck rolled over Smith and came to a stop against the first over turned vehicle. Funeral service for Cpl. Smith was held at Etzweiler Funeral home in York, Pa., on Mondays November 19, at 8:30 a- m. Re quiem High Mass was celebrated at 9:00 a. m. in St. Joseph’s Cath olic church. The pallbearers were members of York Poet 13ft of the American Legion. The fir ing squad was composed of eleven (Continued on Page 4) Business Group Organized Club A Sparta Business Womanfc Club was organized here yester day with Miss Boris Wagoner, acting welfare superintendent, as president Other officers and committee* named wefe: Mrs. Mexa Phipps vice-president; Miss Bettie Hal se/, secretary and treasurer, and Miss Emoryetta Reeves, reporter. Mrs. Gene Irwin was , chairman of the entc committee and Miss Opal and Mrs. Thelma Richardson were appointed to serve with he Plans are now underway Christmas party for BMP* m
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