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Cox’s Chapel News Grover Osborne, Frank Os iborne, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Osborne amd daughter, of • Battle Creek, JNebraska, who have been visit ing relatives in Virginia for three ■weeks, returned home last week. -Ray Osborne is the son of Mr. .-.and Mrs. Grover Osborne. Mrs. Osborne has been here for over a .year with her husband’s mother, Mrs. Jincy Osborne, who does not improve from a lingering illness. Mrs. Burton Osborne and small ‘-■daughter, Cornelia Sue, recently .returned from Elkin hospital and -spent three weeks with Mrs. S. O. •Gambill. They are now at home -■at Mouth of-Wilson. Mrs. Viola Phipps, Mrs. Verna ■Phipps and Mrs. Muncy Cox ■visited Mrs. Burton Osborne, ■Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Osborne -spent Sunday in the home of Mrs. -Jincy Osborne. Mr. and Mrs. Preston Osborne • and daughter, Zenna, visited in .*the Z. F. Ward home, Sunday ..afternoon. 'Bob Walls made a business trip i«to Sparta, Monday. Mrs. Frona Cox, who has been visiting -Mrs. Ruth Caudill in -New York, is expected home this -week Mrs. Flora Dutton and child ren visited in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joe B. Cox, Sunday. Tbe Woman’s Society of Christ ian Service will meet March 2 at Ahe home of Mrs. Allen Osborne. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Delay, of -Norfolk, Nebraska, were visit ing relatives here in this com munity last week. They spent one month in Florida before they «ame to Virginia. Mrs. Delay ’was before her marriage, Miss Ava Osborne. Open Forum COLUMN FOR THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE TWOW IS THE TIME TO BUILD ROADS "We have read the newpapers s*nd listened to our good friend, •Grady Cole, broadcast relative to aroad ©auditions with great inter -Having lived, and still liv i ingizr aaj -are* where the small -■ anrautu ; <ff money that has been spent-flon roads has tcome in what 1 may be described in “capsule” <• forth, nattirally, I can’t help but *iMM'dinue” tto be interested in ( Mlhtirodd ’ijyestion. We befreve all who think • straight should favor this pro JErsm’s 'being carried out. Mr. ' OLole ^/points out that the Eastern part o' the state has received the Larger part of the road funds, 1 which I suppose is true. But, be 1 it- rememhenad that the farther t wefei ' Itne ^smaller the .amount’' , •“dWpEht We. believe :that when this i 'money' is ’to 'be -allocated that our • road authorities will consider ithat in the mountains (and we fiisve no apologies for living ir. *She mountains), that they will irealize that in addition to the mud—which is “universal”—the bills add to the transportation troubles in the west. YWe resent .the epithet that is mhfteri 'usefci'to describe the moun gains as-' heing the “Lost Prov Cnee ” But IF this were true, i 'would be only Scriptural foi .-.some means to be used to “find' this lost area. Many actuallj ggood folks have .. the same opin ion of the mountains and the -residents of the same as a ^Northern lady who moved fron ^Pennsylvania to our section told me relative i» ■ what many folks 'who, like in the North, think of 4he South. She said that she had 4teen taught that the Southerners ■sate “back numbers” and were ; nut-progressive. She said that 1 ashe was never more surprised ir Crer Life to find it to be totallji wuntrue. As a further evidence of misf ] ^understandings even among well- j •■formed men, when I was su{ j r^perintendent of Schools of Asha ■•County (please pardon reference ’ riJ» myself—I want no glory not < - uffiqe) .nt -the. time that the corn ■ ? solidated program of schools be-5 ] ygan^in a meeting of school offi: j AauWs,‘*nar then State Superin- i steoMo&t <aow<gene to his reward) ] JndBt dthe sit fit ament that any -t counts' -superintendent who doe? nut s»dt ~Uas many as ten schools dtapsMwrds ^sleeping on his job.’; X merely asked the question it the had ervar -been to Ashe Coun-. •‘ty. “No,” -was his reply. I stat ited further that until the good HE’S GOT IT! OUR ADS DID JHEJOB | | Lord levels the mountain and changes the course of the streams that this is not only impractical, but impossibly. I also told him that in certain sections that it is easier to consolidate 10 schools in the Piedmont or the Tide wa ter section than it is to consoli date two in some mountain sec tions of the state. I merely men tion these things to show that in the allocation of funds that it should be done fairly and equit ably. I would not attempt to suggest to road men, b&t it is common knowledge that many miles of expensive roads have Been torn up and “paralleled” with more expensive roads to take out a little crook when numbers of farmers in the mountains have had to push and pull their “Tin Lizzies” through mud to the axle and at a slant of from 45 degrees on down. Within the memory of the present generation, this winter has been “unique” for rain and mud, but it is no uncommon thing in the past for school buses to stand for a week; for mails to have to stop, or carry it into the office part of the time, and for doctors to have to be pulled out of the mud at night in this sec tion. But let’s revert to Grady • Cole’* suggestion that the farm ers aid in the construction of these roads. A good road through any section i& an invest ment and not a liability. As an incentive to those who may think this is a burden, I will say that I distinctly remember (and I am by no means claiming to be old) when beginning at 18 years old, all able-bodied men had to put in 10 days “free” la • * . bor on the road, and in cases where a new road had to be built they had to walk as tat as five miles to do a part of this. We are all proud that North Carolina was first at Bethel; farthest at Gettysburg; last at Appomattox, and that she gave the first hero in the Spanish American War. Now, let’s forget about war and pursue this road-building program until ! Ashe shakes hands with Brunswick; Cherokee with Currituck and connect all the main highways so that we may all march into “Mudling burg” County and give Grady Cole such a serenade that it will make him feel young again. C. M. DICKSON, Silas Creek, N. C. Ashe County. February 14, 1946. it. Your 1946 AAA Program Offers $48,788.00 For Improved Farm Practices! Your Farm Plan Must Be Made Before March 15, 1946, If You Are To Get Your Share In The Allotment. REMEMBER No Plan—No Payments Your AAA Committee* With Other Agricultural Leaders* Have Selected 10 Of The Most Important Practices For Soil Conservation: .. % „ 4 1 - Liming Material. 2 - Phosphate; 3 - Contouring Drill Crops. 4 - Winter Cover Crops. 5 - Contouring Row Crops. 6 -- Permanent Pastures. 7 - Pasture Improvement 8 - Contour Strip Cropping 9 - Tile Drainage. 10-Forest Planting CONSULT YOUR COMMITTEE ABOUT THESE FARM PRACTICES NOW. County And Community AAA Committeemen: HERBERT OSBORNE, Chairman; ARTHUR GAMBILL, Vice-Chairman; B. H. RECTOR, Regular Member; L. C. HAMPTON, First Alternate. Community Committeemen: Barrett: Lonnie Davis, Fred Collins and Hurst Higgins. Whitehead: Lonnie Edwards, E. C. Mitchell and Letcher Ed wards. Wolf Branch: Arthur Gambill, S. L. Perry, and Robert Taylor. Cranberry: M. E. Reeves, Rob ert Joines and Charles Roberts. Cherry Lane: Lester Wood ruff, Burt Crouse and H. J. Spic er. Piney Creek: John R. Halsey, Ray H. Hash and Herbert Os borne. New Hope: D. J. Jones, F. G. Weaver and C. B. Taylor. Turkey Knob: R. T. Landreth, Harry Young and Howard Ken nedy. Blevins Cross Roads: W. C. Ev ans, Kemper Jarvis and Gwyn Truitt. Twin Oaks: G. C. Reeves, C. G. Fender and Eugene Hampton. Sparta: Charlie Edwards, Par ley Truitt and Champ Duncan. Stratford: C. G. Mitchell, Cary Edwards and Harvey F. Irwin. Sponsored By The Following In The Interest Of Better Farming: Shell Cafe Smithey’s Store -- Northwestern Bank I Belk’s Dept. Store Sparta Pipes, Inc. Edwards Furn. Co. Cash and Carry Y Modern Dry Cleaners Miles-Waddell-Thompson Firestone Store Heins - Sturdivant Funeral Home Castevens Motor Co. • ..11 Farmer’s Hdw. & *' ImpL Co. i .»—. .. 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