Newspapers / The Alleghany News and … / Jan. 3, 1946, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of The Alleghany News and Star-Times (Sparta, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
= is PRESS RUN — 2,025 Net Paid 1,704 Covers Allegbany The Alleghany News AND STAR-TIMES- t CONSOLIDATED ON SEPTEMBER 2. 1941) —ALLEGHANY COUNTY’S ONLY NEWSPAPER. Alleghany County Is . . . Outstanding Livestock. Agit culture and Tourist Center With A Population of 8,341. VOLUME 57, NO. 15 $1.50 a Year in Alleghany County SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA $2.00 a Year Out of County THURSDAY, JAN. 3, IMt Local Dairy Industry Shows Big Increase Woman’s Club To Sponsor Polio FundDrive Here County Is Given A Quota Of $500.00; Drive To Open On January 14 The Infantile Paralysis Cam paign, which will begin in Alle ghany county on January 14 and last through January 31, will be under the sponsorship of the Sparta Woman’s club with no special chairman this year, it was announced here this week. A quota of $500.00 has been as signed this county, it was pointed out and every possible effort will be made to raise the money at the quickest possible moment. No special plans have been made to date, however. Under the chairmanship of Mrs. Buth J. Choate, the county gave a net total of $1,403.98 in the campaign last year, an excellent record. It is hoped that the cam paign will be equally as success ful this year. A call-meeting of a number of members of the Woman’s club is expected to be held before the drive officially opens, with defin ite plans to be announced next week. It was explained that a part of the funds raised will be used lo cally with the remainder going to the Foundation Fund, where research is being carried on con stantly to stamp the dreaded dis ease which leaves so many maimed and crippled for life. Baptist W. M. U. Group Will Meet The Wilkes boro Deii sion it the W.M.U. conference of the Baptist church will be held Wednesday, January 9 at the Y. M. C. A. in El’ bceHning at ten o’clock, Mrs. C. N. Kvers, superintendent, has announced. All Alleehany associational offers, W.M.S. officers and others who are interested are in vited to attend. Mrs. Doughton’s Father Buried Died At The Home Of His Daughter In Mocksville, December 24 Frank Click, 90, father of Mrs. J. L. Doughton, of Sparta, and one of the oldest and best-known Davie county citizens, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. J. H. Ratledge in Mocksville, Decem ber 24. Mr. Click, a member of one of the older families of Burke coun ty, was a retired farmer. Sur vivors include two sons: John G. Click, Kernersville; and Grady Click, Winston-Salem; and three daughters, Mrs. J, H. Ratledge, Mocksville; Mrs. M. C. Everhart, Statesville and Mrs. J. L. Dough ton. Sparta. The body remained at Walker Funeral home until ten o’clock Wednesday morning when it was removed to the home of Mrs. Ratledge, where the funeral was held at two o’clock Wednesday afternoon. The Rev. J. E. Pritchard was in charge of the service and was as sisted by the Rev. E. W. Turner. Burial was in Rose cemetery. iokyo Also Has While Christmas AUeghanians were not the only people In the world to have a “White Christmas”, according to a cablegram from Pvt. Thomas Hassel Hoppers in Tokyo. Pvt. Hoppers, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Hoppers, of Whitehead, cabled from the capitol of the Jap homeland where he is now stat ioned that they had 24 inches of snow for Christmas. The cable read as follows: “Wishing you all a Merry Christ mas and a Happy New Yetfr. I am O. K. We have 24 inches of snow. Tell everyone hello,” Love, Hassell.” Pvt. Hoppers has been over seas since June and has been in -.. Notre Dame Stars Are *10 Be Coaches Four former Notre Dame football stars who will coach in the San Francisco bay region next season. Left to right: Jimmy Phelan, St. Mary’s mentor; Marchie Schwartz, Stan ford’s head man; Larry “Moon” Mullins, new Santa Clara’s hed coach; and Maurice “Clipper” Smith, who will assume the U. S. F. football reins. > New Year Brings More Cold Weather, Snow, High Winds Arrival Of New Year Quietly Celebrated; Number Of Small Parties Held sections of the county. But along with the extreme cold weather came slight tempo rary relief. A limited amount of coal was shipped in for the pub lic as well as some for the schools. In addition to highways in ma ny parts of the county beipg cov ered with ice, the blowing snow made travel hazardous. Most business houses were open but with little trade, were busy completing inventory. A number of smaller parties watched the old year wane and the new 1946 come in. More gaiety and celebrating was in evidence here on New Year’s Eve than had been for the oast four years, many veterans home for the first time since the wAr began. Yesterday brought some relief to the cold weather as well as sections of the ice-covered roads. Pfc. Brooks Is Given Discharge Camp Lejeune, N. C.—Pfc. Ro bert G. Brooks, whose mother, Mrs. R. C. Brooks, lives in Spar ta, has been honorably discharg ed from the Marine Corps at this discharge center. He served over seas with the Marines at Roi-Na mur, Saipan, Tinian and Iwo Ji ma. He was awarded the Pur ple Heart, and Presidential Unit Citation with' star. 1946 was ushered ic wave here. Amid srt| vij hds, the mercur-f j the uncomfortable 1< from zero to 10 abov I Cicero Wagoner Home From War Laurel Springs Soldier Sees Action In 'The T Pacific Theatre Of War — Pfc. Cicero Wagoner, son of Mrs. Mertie Royal, of Laurel Springs, recently received an honorable discharge from mili tary service at the separation cen ter at Fort Bragg, having spent more than three and one-half years in service. Pfc. Wagoner entered the serv ice at Fort Bragg end received his basic training at Camp Wal ter, Texas. He was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific theatre, where he won two bronze service stars, | Philippine Liberation ribbon with one service star. Good Conduct , medal and the Victory Medal. Pfc. Wagoner saw action in the Northern Solomons, spending much time in Bougainville, in the Philippines, on Luzon and in Manila. He also went to the home island of Japan before re turning to the States. --: I C. of C. To Meet Here January 11 The Chamber of Commerce will hold the January meeting here next Friday at 7:30 o’clock at the community building, it .was announced this week. No program has been announc ed, but a special entertainment is promised for the meeting. All members are urged to at tend. President Harry Truman To Speak To Nation Tonight Washington — President Tru man started 1946 resolved to put across his legislative program in a New Year that poses many problems. Aboard the presidential yacht Williamsburg, Mr. Truman was knitting together a speech aimed at lining up public backing be hind that program. Tonight the President goes on the air to talk directly to the people. He has started, too, to draft a “state of the union” message for Congress, to tell it what he wants after it goes back to work Jan. 14. Congress so far has shown no hankering for shoving the Tru man legislative plan ahead in its entirety. * One of America’s biggest prob lems in this first, full, postwar year is linked directly to a late 'Hmm, . addition to the program. To help settle strikes, Mr. Truman has asked Congress to say that there must be no major work stoppages while fact-fioding boards look in to the labor disputes threatening to bring them on. Some of his proposals are tied in also-with such peacetime ques tions as spurring reconversion, combatting inflation, and keeping unemployment in check. Both the address to the people and the message to Congress may survey the international scene in the light of agreements on world political issues and on methods for tackling atomic energy controls. The agreements were worked out in Moscow at a conference of Rus sian, British and American For eign Ministers. County Schools Are Open Again After Holidays Bus Routes Checked And Drivers Are Urged To Be Extra Careful Alleghany county schools open ed this week in earnest and set tled down to begin work for the new year, after a period of al most two weeks’ vacation, due tc bad weather which has prevail ed throughout the county. A number of schools in the county opened on Monday, while most of the larger schools opened on Wednesday, authorities stated. A few schools, it was pointed out, resumed work on Thursday, De cember 27, since they were forced to close early, due to weather conditions. R. E. Richardson, superinten dent of the State Highway De partment here, said this week that all bus routes had been checked and the roads cleared of snow where there might be dan ger for the buses. It was also explained that me chanics have overhauled the bus “s and supplied every bus with chains and that bus drivers are being cautioned to be especially careful of driving, stopping to unload and pulling off the road to let other vehicles pass. Supt. Clyde Fields urged that all persons meeting buses on country roads, give them ample ♦’me to pass thus avoiding acci dents. RECEIVES DISCHARGE Pfc. Cicero Wagoner, of Laurel Springs, has been hon orably discharged from the army, after three and one-half years in service. Meeting Of Tax Listers Will Be Held Saturday G. Glenn Nichols, Alleghany county tax supervisor', announc ed this week that there will be a meeting of all tax listers for the various townships in the county on Saturday afternoon at two o’ clock at the courthouse, where they will be given final instruc tions and supplies. Mr. Nichols urged that every tax lister be present for this meeting. All appointments have been made and dates have been set for listing taxes in the various town ships, it was pointed out. A list of the places and dates will be found elsewhere in this paper. The listing is scheduled to be gin on Tuesday, January 8 and will last through January, Mr. Nichols explained. This year, as in the past, the listers will meet taxpayers of each township at an appointed meeting place. The law requires that every person list his or her property and all male persons between the ages of 21 and 50 are required to give in their poll. Those failing to do this are subject to penalty. METHODIST CHURCH FUND STILL GROWING The Methodist church fund drive, which is now underway here, is inereasing daily, it was announced this week. Gifts are being sought. Pres. Truman’s Fact Finding Board mmmm. wxmrn Photo shows, left to right: Judge Walter Stacy, chief justice, North Carolina Supreme court; Lloyd K. Garrison, chairman of the president’s fact finding board and Milton Eisenhower, president of Kansas State college and brother of General Eisenhower, who are serving as President Trutitan’s fact finding board on the General Motors strike. Ten Top Stories Of 1945 In Alleghany County Reviewed Reed And Stuart Attend Meeting Byron Stuart Rejoins Firm After Receiving Discharge From Service Joe Bill Reed and Byron Stuart attended a meeting of the Jeffer son Standard Life Insurance Company at the country club at Greensboro last week. Mr. Reed, local agent, pointed out that the home office agency of the Jefferson Standard Comp any had sold six and one-half million dollars worth of insur ance last year and that $590,000, 000.00 insurance is now in force, an all-time record for the com I pany. Mr. Stuart, former member of the Sparta school faculty, will be located in Winston-Salem with the Jefferson Standard company, ' there. OPA Office Here Closed On Jan. 1 The Alleghany county ration board office closed on January 1, local board members announced this week. Application blanks for sugar have been placed, in the office of G. D.' Richardson, town marshal, a-d may be filled out and mailed directly to Charlotte, it was point ed out. Mrs. Robert Fleetwood, clerk of the board since it opened here, left this week to join her husband in Concord. Mr. Fleetwood is connected with the FSA there. Reaction Of County People To Three Great World Events Tops List Outstanding news stories of the world, nation and state are chos en by news agencies and news-i papers at the beginning of each year, and this week the Alle-, ihany News staff has chosen the1 ten top stories of Alleghany coun ty during the past year, believed to be of most interest to the most people. i 1. The reaction of Alleghany ( people to three of the greatest /ents in world history during j 945, takes first place. Along! .vith the rest of the world, Alle- i jiianians were shocked and jrieved over the sudden death of resident Franklin D. Roosevelt, -n April. This was followed by /-is iJay, marking the end of die war in Europe as the people of inis county accepted the news with no visible elation, but calm ly and with deep, almost unspok j.i thankfulness. The last of the three great events, the surrender of the Japanese and the end of the war brought a different re action as all bedlam broke loose in Sparta following the announce ment of the surrender. Many wept, others shouted and yelled, main street was crowded with autos with horns and sirenes go ing full blast. 2. An extensive building pro gram got underway in Sparta. Buildings constructed or under construction include The Choate, Motor Co. garage building, the building located between the Sparta Garage and Western Auto Continued on Page 4) Tax Slash Became Effective On Tuesday; Many To Benefit Washington—Wage earners got a “pay raise” and big business a windfall Tuesday when new tax cuts become effective. Under the $5,900,000,000 tax reduction bill passed in Novem ber, both big and little taxpay ers benefit and about 12,000,000 people with very low incomes stop paying any taxes. The tax collector will claim a small chunk of the incomes of the 35,000,000 to 38,000,000 individuals left on the tax rolls. So extra dollars will start appearing in paychecks received on or after New Year’s Day—even though the pay is for time worked in 1945. For example, under the reduc ed tax rates, a man with no de pendents who makes $50 a week has had $8.20 withheld for taxes. This weekly deduction will drop to $6.80. Persons in higher wage brack ets and those not subject to with-1 holding will feel the difference1 when they file estimates of their 1946 taxes and make their first quarterly payments which are due March 15. The new law, first general tax cutting measure passed by Con gress in 16 years, is designed to reduce taxes of individuals by $2,644,000,000. Repeal of the au itomobile and boat use taxes in June will add another $140,000, 000 of relief. At the same time, lower cor poration tax rates and repeal of the excess profits tax are expected to reduce business taxes by $3, 136,000,000. The excess profits tax, which expired, was imposed before Pearl Harbor and by 1943 had risen to a flat rate of 95 per cent. More than $28,000,000,000 has 1 been collected through it. I (Continued on Page Four) Production Of Milk Shows Big Jump This Year Much Progress Is Also Made In Improvement Of Herds; Income Shows Gain The dairying industry in Alle ghany has shown a marked in crease during the past twelve months, bring into the county a. total estimated income of $375, 000.00, a gain over last year of more than 25 per cent. According to figures just re leased by R. E. Black, county agent, 10,500,000 pounds of milk was produced in this county in 1945. This shows an increase of 25 per cent over the 1944 pro duction figures of 7,875,000 oounds, it was pointed out Mr. Black stated that at the peak et the season. Alleghany farmers were producing around 40,0*5 pounds of milk per day. Mr. Black also pointed out that the milk subsidy, distributed through the AAA office hare added much to the income of dairmen, with $12,000.00 paid during one month at the peak of the production. Much interest is also being shown in building up dairy herdk in the county, he said, with five purebred Guernsey bulls bought by Alleghany farmers during 1045. Twenty purebred females were also added to the herds, he ex plained. The county has a total vt thirteen Grade A milk producers with a total of around 250 cows. Since Alleghany county has no milk receving station, the milk is shipped to the Coble plant in Lenoir; Carnation plant in Galax; Kraft Cheese plant in West Jef ferson and two Grade A pro ducers shin milk to the Klondike Farms in Elkin. Williams Rites Held At Antioch County Man Had Been III For More Than Two Years; Rites Are Held Funeral service for E. M. ■Wil liams, 83, of Stratford, was held December 23 at Antioch Primi tive Baptist church with Elds. S. G. Caudill and Coy Walker in charge. Burial followed in the church cemetery. “Uncle Man”, as he was com monly known, died at his home at Stratford on December 21, after being confined to his bed for more than two vears following a fall in which he suffered a broken hip. His condition became quite serious two days before his death. Well-known throughout the county, as well as in his oWn community, Mr. Williams was a highly respected citizen. Hun dreds of friends and relatives had visited him during his long ill ness. Surviving are two children, a daughter, Mhe, and a son, Kelly Williams. His wife preceded him in death almost a year ago. DR. C. A. THOMPSON OFFERS RESIGNATION Dr. C. A. Thompson has otter ed his resignation as president o# the Alleghany county Wildlife club, it has been announced here. G. Glenn Nichols, vice-presi dent, is now acting president un til the office can be filled by gen eral election, it was pointed out. Sheets Serving On Wisconsin Aboard the Battleship TJSS Wisconsin, San Francisco—Gar field H. Sheets, 20, seaman, fink class, USNR, of Laurel Springs, made the long voyage back to the States from Tokyo Bay with this 45,000-ton IOWA-class ship for her participation in the ob servance of Navy Day, Oct. Xt. The Wisconsin figured prom inently in the actions during the final eieht months of the war, supporting 3rd Fleet operations in the Leyte and Luzon invasions, taking part in 5th Fleet — against Honshu and the Rj in support of the I wo Jima ations at Okinawa^- an strikes with the
The Alleghany News and Star-Times (Sparta, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Jan. 3, 1946, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75