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GIVE TO THE RED CROSS The Alleghany News AND STAR-TIMES— (CONSOLIDATED ON SEPTEMBER 2, 1941) —ALLEGHANY COUNTY’S ONLY NEWSPAPER. GIVE TO THE RED CROSS VOLUME 57, NO. 21 $1.50 a Year In Alleghany County THURSDAY, MAR. 7, 1946 SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA $2.00 a Year Out of County Red Cross Campaign Now Underway Softball League To Be Organized By Sparta Lions New Uniforms Are Purchased By Local Team; Bob Al lison Is Chairman The organization of a softball league which will include the Sparta Lions Club and other civ ic clubs from adjoining towns is now underway, it was announced this week. Started by the Sparta Lions, teams from Independence, Va„ Fries, Va., West Jefferson, North Wilkesboro, Elkin and a number of other towns are expected to join the league. Much enthusiasm was shown by the local team last year, but no league was formed and games were held irregularly through out the season. The Lions have purchased 23 new uniforms of royal blue and gold with their name and the Lions’ emblem on the suits, Bob Allison, chairman of the softball committee, announced this week. “The schedule for the season will be announced as soon as pos sible,” Mr. Allison said. Practice by the local club will begin in the near future, it was explained and an exceptionally good team is expected for the season. Dairy Payments To Be Continued Plan Provides For Payment Of 90 Cents Per Hundred For Whole Milk The Dairy Production Pag .ment Program will be continuflj * ^-through June 36, and rater fl • the April-June period will fl the same as those for the cor responding period for last year, Herbert Osborne, chairman, Al leghany County AAA Commit tee, announced today. Under the program, Mr. Os borne said, the milk rate to be paid to North Carolina farm ers for April is 90 qents per hun dredweight for whole milk pro duced and sold and 17 cents per pound for butterfat. For the May-June period, the rates will be 55 cents per hundredweight for milk and 10 cents for butter fat. The AAA Chairman pointed out that the payments will be subject to termination or revi sion in the event of any general increases in price ceilings for milk and its products. According to the Stabilization Director’s announcement of Jan uary 29, the general level of re turns for milk producers will be maintained during 1946 at the 1945 level, either by subsidy pay ment or increase in price ceil ings should the subsidy be elim inated. The Dairy Production Payment Program was designed to make payments to farmers on the milk and butterfat they produce and sell to offset increased dairy pro duction costs and to encourage a continued high rate of milk production. The program has been in op eration since October, 1943. JOHNSON IS MADE SURGEON <£N -CHIEF Dr. Harry D. Johnson has been appointed surgeon-iii-chief of the Hugh Chatham Memorial hospi tal in Elkin, it was announced this week. Dr. Johnson is a member of the American College of Surgeons. Wilkes County Has Bad Fires North Wilkesboro experienced one of its worst fires in the busi ness section on Tuesday nighl when a theatre, drug store and pool room were destroyed. The Wilkes hotel was also threatened and fire departments from, neighboring towns called upon before tt Delegates Named By Republicans At County Convention NEW TREASURY AIDE Max Gardner, former gov ernor of North Carolina, has been named by President Tru man to the post of under secretary of the treasury. Special Meeting Of Town Council Called For Mon. Important Business To Come Before 'Town Governing Board, Mon. Night nes this week might .something like this, kcil Fails To Meet I because that is tx ftappened here last The newly elected Mayor, Amos Wagoner, arrived at the courthouse promptly on the stroke of seven, the appointed time set for the all-important meeting, and along with one faithful member of the town council, Dr. C. A. Thompson, began a long wait for other members of the town governing board. But 7:30 came and the mem bers did not show up, and the new Mayor went home quite dis turbed. , “If we are to carry on the af fairs of the town in the proper manner, it is both necessary apd urgent that we meet monthly to discuss and work out problems that may arise,” Mayor Wagon er said. “I, therefore call a special (Continued on Page 8) American Legion Post Calls Meet A special meeting of the Dean Parish Post 98 of the American Legion has been called for Fri day night, March 8, at 7:30 p. m., Post Commander Robert L. Nich ols announced this week. Cards have been sent to all Legionnaires and to a number of businessmen throughout the county, it was pointed out. W. B. Poole Again Chosen As Chairman; District Con vention Saturday All sections of the county were represented at the Repub lican convention at the court house on Saturday, when W. B. Poole was again named chairman of the Republican executive com mittee of Alleghany county. Delegates to the congressional district convention to be held in Lenoir on Saturday, were named as were alternates. Paul Swanson, Alleghany coun ty lawyer, who is now practicing in West Jefferson, was nomina ted by the group as a candidate for election to the state senate of North Carolina. Possibilities of other candidates in the coming election were discussed but no others were endorsed by the body. A meeting will be held on Friday, April 5, for this purpose, chairman Poole announced. Named as delegates to the dis trict convention were the follow ing: Glenn Johnson, Frank Brooks, (Continued on Page 8) Stock Clinic Is Big Success Here j- ___ 206 Animals Are Treated Dur ing Four Days Of Work- . stock Clinic ■ ■* -- * •ftie workstock clinfc for the treatment of horses and mules for botts; which was held in Al leghany last week was unusually successful with 206 animals treated, R. E. Black, county agent, said this week. The clinic was under the su pervision of Dr. S. G. Eddins, veterinarian, Galax, V*., and was conducted for four days in this county. More than 100 farmers brought animals to the clinic. “Despite the bad weather dur ing the first two days of the clinic, the response of the farm ers in bringing out their animals was excellent,” Mr. Black de clared. A number of farmers have al ready stated that they got ex cellent results from the clinic.. Sparta Teams Are Losers At Elkin Sparta boys’ basketball team marched to the finals in the Yad kin Valley Conference cham pionship tournament Monday night, only to lose to the Elkin team, 18-52. The Sparta team defeated Beu lah last Thursday night, after de feating East Bend in one of the first games of the tournament. The Sparta girls were elimin ated in the first game when they lost to the Yadkinville team, 13 14 in the final minutes of play. Much Interest In Local Politics; Candidates File Much interest in local politics was shown* here this week as small groups of men gathered on the street to discuss the candi dates for the coming Democratic primary in May. Humors circulated throughout the county of prospective candi dates but to date only three men have filed. Glenn D. Richard son and Arthur Gambill for sher iff and G. Glenn Nichols for rep resentative in the general assem bly. Gambill, prominent young farmer of Sparta, will enter the r&ce for his first public office, in the county government. He is now vice-chairman of the Alle ghany county AAA committee and in addition has served two years as secretary of the AAA. Mr. Gambill is married to the fM& former Miss Johnny Dale Tay lor, of Laurel Springs and they have one daughter. Mr. Nichols, who has announc ed his candidacy for representa tive, is a well-known figure in Alleghany county, having served in a number of public offices over a period of years. His first office, that of coun ty coronor, was held a number of years ago. Following that, he taught in the public schools of Alleghany for twenty years, aft er which he served as postmaster of the Sparta post office for five years. In addition to the chairman ship of the board of elections of this county, Mr. Nichols has served as a justice of the peace for the past sixteen years. (Continued on Page 8) Improving Pasture Land By The Use Of Phosphate Here is a good method of improving coun'y hillside pasture land. Dewey Roten is hauling phosphate which is being distribute 1 by two helpers. The picture was taken on the farm of G. O. Burgess in the Beaver Creek section of Ashe county. Local Lions Are Second In Drive For Membership Have Ladies’ Night Here On Tuesday Night; Ask For State Patrolman The Sparta Lions Club ranks second in the state of North Car olina in the recent membership drive, President Joe Bill Reed revealed at the regular meeting of the club on Tuesday night when Ladies’ Night was Qbs8£jj| ty ranked first in the state and Boone was third. It was also announced that tentative plans are underway to sponsor an Easter Dance, pro vided an orchestra can be secur ed. Definite plans will be an nounced later. President Reed also stated that the Sparta Lions Club would go on record as asking for a State Patrolman for Alleghany coun ty, adding that any other civic organization which desired to do so would be welcomed to join the Lions in securing action on this I move. i Plans for the horse show and the softball league were also discussed at the meeting. More than 65 persons were present for the dinner meeting, when the meal was served by the Wesleyan Guild of the Sparta Methodist church. Sweet Honored At Appalachian Starting with only the membership has no ed 42, he explained. Cl ed. The campus-wide election for Appalachian State Teachers Col lege superlatives, sponsored by the Rhododendron staff, elected Worth Sweet, former pastor of Laurel Springs charge, as Mr. Appalachian, the most valuable and most popular student. A run-off was necesspry to de termine who would represent the college and Worth Sweet was selected in a run-off with A. J. Smith. Worth has the rec ord of being an outstanding stu dent in physical education, hav ing played basketball two years and having wrestled this year. Miss Ellen Philbeck, of Shelby, was selected as Mi$s Appalach ian. Sheep Farmers Attend Meeting Farmers from three counties, Alleghany, Ashe, and Watauga, as well as farm agents from all of the counties in this area, at-, tended the special meeting and demonstration for sheep grow ers held at the Upper Mountain Experiment Station at Transou yesterday. In addition to the demonstra tions and moving pictures, lec turers, including George Litton, of V. P. I., spoke. Lions Now Making Plans To Sponsor Horse Show In May; Bleachers For Track Arrive Sparta Boys To Meet Reeds Team At Winston, Sat. Sparta Teams Make Good Record In Journal And Sentinel Tournament ft Sparta’s gold-did girls of Al leghany moved into the second round with a 27-18 victory over Dobson high school, of Surry county, in the first girl’s game of the 20th annual Journal and Sen tinel Northwest basketball tour nament, last Tuesday night at Reynolds high gymnasiqm. Bennett, Osborne and Andrews all scored well for Sparta while Marion dropped in 12 points to lead the attack for Dobson. The Sparta boys are scheduled to meet the boys’ team from Reeds high school on Saturday afternoon at three o’clock. 11 County Teams Enter Tourney West Jefferson— (Special) — Eleven county basketball teams have entered the all-star me morial tournament, to be held March 18-23, Zeb V. Dickson, principal of the West Jefferson high school, announced this week. Much interest is being shown in the tourney by adjoin ing counties and entry blanks have been sent in to the officials by Alleghany, Wilkes, Avery. Caldwell and Davie counties. A total of 17 men’s teams and ap proximately the same number of women’s teams have been sent blanks, the officials reported. County- teams which have en tered are the Lansing Snowbirds, Nathan’s Creek married women. Nathan’s Creek and Fleetwood. Show Expected To Be One Of Sparta’s Biggest Events Of Spring The Sparta Lions Club this week announced that plans are now underway for a horse show here in May and pointed out that the newly constructed track would be in fine shape for one of Sparta’s biggest events of the spring. Bleachers with a seating ca pacity of 500 have already ar rived and are ready to be set up, Joe Bill Reed, Lion president, announced yesterday. The bleachers are of the knock-down type and can be readily moved to any location, it was explain ed. Plans have been made by the Lions to loan the bleachers to the school for the football sea son this fall. President Reed pointed out that two horse shows would prob ably be held in Sparta this year, one in May and the other in the fall, since the show planned fer last October could not be held due to bad weather conditions. A special committee of the Lions club is now working on plans for the May show, which promises to be a big event in (Continued on Page 8) Betty Ann Miller Makes Dean’s List Miss Betty Ann Miller, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Van Miller, of Laurel Springs, and member of the junior class of the Wom an’s College of the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, has been placed on the Dean’s list, for work done the first semester. I To make this list, students j must average “B” or betten. This I honor carries with it the privilege 1 of unlimited class cuts and ex-1 tended social privileges. j President And Secretary Of UNO The two top men of the United Nations organization, left, Paul Henry Spaak, Belgium, president of UNO, and at right, Trygve Lie, secretary general, shown in confidential pose as they round up affairs in London before moving headquarters to the United States. Civic Clubs Are Asked To Make Contributions Drive Is Off. To Slow Start; Need Cooperation Of All To Raise Quota With one week of the annual Red Cross Drive in Alleghany county passed, only $102.50 has been reported to date, S. R. Nich yesterday. This leaves $522.50 yet to be raised before the quota of $625.00 is met. However, Mr. Nichols stated that reports from all townships had not yet been received and that a number of programs and entertainments are being planned for this week end. He stated that all quotas were much small er this year than they have been heretofore and the county quota . is expected to be met at an early date. Miss Minnie Lou Edwards, member of the Sparta high school faculty and representative of the school in the drive reported the $92.50, it was explained. Re ports were not available from other schools in the county. A contribution of $10.00 was re ported from the Young Business Women’s Club. Everyone who has not made, a... contribution to the fund this year is urged to do so at once. It was explained that in addition to the township chairmen, any rural letter carrier, Miss Clyde Fields, Miss Minnie Lou Edwards, Alton^ , Thompson or Mr. Nichols will take memberships to the Red Cross. A number of special as sistants have also been appoint ed by the township chairman. A square dance will be held at Laurel Springs school, Saturday night,' March 9; Ed Pugji, Cran berry township chairman, an nounced this week. , ols, drive chairman, To Keep Ration Book Number 4. Other Spare Stamps In Beal) ' Are To Be Designated For Sugar \ Raleigh—Housewives were ad* vised today by the Office of Price Administration to retain in their possession War .Ration Book 4 now used only to obtain sugar. Although the currently valid sugar stamp 39 is the last stamp in War Ration 'Book 4, that it specifically labeled for purchases of sugar, spare stamps in that book will be designated as sugar stamps from time to time. For this reason, War Ration Book 4 should be retained even after Sugar Stamp 39 has been used, . OPA emphasized. Sugar Stamp 40 was used for the 1944 home canning program, OPA explained. Dan Thompson Promoted To CpL Army Air Forces Reinforce* ment Depot In Europe—Fursten feldbruck, Germany—Dan T. Thompson, son of Mr. and Mrs, Robert V. Thompson, of Sparta, has been promoted to the rank of corporal, it was recently an nounced at this headquarters. While he is at this post, situa ted hear Munich in the heart of a picturesque Bavarian forest, Cpl. Thompson will have an op portunity to enjoy the famous scenery and. the supefb winter sports facilities which has made this region famous throughout the world. Within easy driving distance is Garmisch-Partenkir* chen, site of the 1036 Winter Sports Olympics, now converted into a luxurious Army rest cen ter. Cpl. Thompson arrived over seas in November, 1046, and he has received the El can-Middle Eastern Theater Rih bon. the World War. II Victory Ribbon and the Good Conduct Medal.
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