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f * * y.v Alleghany News Albgbwy County b . . . wllure ud Tourist Ontac, With A Population «( M4L AND STAR-TIMES—(CONSOLIDATED ON SEPTEMBER 2, 1*41) —ALLEGHANY COUNTY’S ONLY NEWSPAPER. VOLUME 58, NO. I $1.50 a Year in Alleghany County SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, SEPT. 19, 1946 $2.00 a Year Out of County Dr. Robert King Named By Board As Health Officer Expected To Begin Duties Next Month; Taking Special Training Now Dr. Robert King, Jr., son of the former county officer of the tri-county unit, Alleghany, Ashe and Watauga counties, has been named to this office by the board. The counties have been without a full-time physician for this work and members of the board said they were happy to have young Dr. King to fill this place. He is now completing some spe cial training in public health and is expected to begin work in the three counties next month. Dr. Robert King, Sr., was health officer for the three counties for several years before resigning to resume his work in the medical mission in the, Belgian Congo. Miss Gambill Is Again With FSA Resumes Work As Home Management Supervisor After Red Cross Work Miss Lenna Cambill returned to work as Homo Management Sup ervisor with the Farm Security Administration in Alleghany and Ashe counties on Monday after a two and one-half years leave of absence. While on leave Miss Gambill did social case work with the American Red Cross Military and Naval Welfare Service. Her as signments included the Station Hospital, Camp McCain, Miss.; Regional Hospital, Fort Bragg, N. C.; U. S. Army General and Convalescent Hospital, Camp But ner, N. C. and Kennedy General Hospital, Memphis, Tenn. Miss Gambill says that she is delighted to be back... witb-fthe nrn aacurny and that she has already observed that many farm afcd home im provements have been made by the farm families in Alleghany county during her absence. Mias Ainslee Alexander who worked as Home Management Supervisor during Miss Gambill’s absence has been transfered to Caswell county. Welfare Worker Visits In Sparta Miss Christine Anderson, field representative for the State Com mission for the Blind, visited the local welfare department here last Thursday and Friday. Miss Anderson interviewed prospec tive people needing medical eye service or the services of the pre conditioning center at Greenville. This visit was made following the survey of blind and visually handicapped made by the Sparta Lions Club last year, Swanson Edwards superintendent of public welfare announced. New 4-H Clubs Are Organized John Burch, assistant county agent of Alleghany, announced this week that with the assistance of Mrs. Isom Wagoner, home agent, two new 4-H Clubs have i been organized in the county and a number of members added to the three clubs already in exist ance. The new clubs include Laurel Springs and Rich Hill, while Lit tle Pine, Sparta and Piney Creek already had clubs. The Little Pine club was only a girls club be- : fore it was reorganized. < To date, Mr. Burch and Mrs. ; Wagoner have met with the Lit- : tie Pine, Laurel Springs, Piney Creek and Rich Hill clubs. They < expect to meet with the Sparta 1 club the latter part of September. < Mr. Burch has made a special ' effort to enlafrge these 4-H clubs ] as well as organize new ones i throughout the county. 1 SERVICE ANNOUNCED Rev. W. H. Caldwell will preach at Chestnut Grove Baptist church on Sunday morning, September 22 at 11100 o’clock The public is cordially invi£3dib attend. Sparta Team Holds Lead In Mountain Baseball League RESUMES WORK HERE Miss Lenna Gambill. who has resumed her work with FSA in the county after a leave of absence for two and one-half years. Directors Are Named Saturday For Cooperative Fifteen Members Are Chosen; Rural Electric Rate To Be Lowered Directors of the Blue Ridge electric cooperative were named at the annual meeting held in Le noir on Saturday. The rural elec tric rate i* to be lowered, 4t was reported. The lowering of the rural rate however does not ef fect the present rate in Sparta, it was explained. Those named as directors are: A. G. Beach, D. R. Moore, C. G. Poovey, Clyde Perry, Clarence Newton, Bert Mast, C. B. Gray beal, A. B. Hurt, R. C. Halsey, A. W. Greene, J. C. Goodman, D. M. Edwards, C. L. Mast, V. C. Lillard and Dan Jones. American Legion Seeks Members Ernest E. Edwards, adjutant of the Dean Parish Post of the American Legion,this week called attention to members that the fiscal year, 1946, ended on July 1 and that many memberships have expired since that date. Mr. Edwards pointed out that the 1947 membership fees are now due and all Legionaries are urged to renew memberships as soon as possible by calling at the office of the Register of Deeds and paying their dues. The 1947 membership cards will also be issued, he explained. Any veteran who has not join ed the legion and wishes to do so, is urged to see Mr. Edwards at the Register of Deeds office. “There are now 98 members of the American Legion in Allegh any county,” Mr. Edwards stat ed, “and we are making a special effort to greatly increase this. Wins Double-Header, Satur day, From Roans Creek; Only Two More Games The Sparta .team is expected to win the series in the Mountain Baseball league, as they held the lead last week end, capturing a double-header from Roans Creek on Saturday and taking a game from Pond Mountain on Sunday. G. Glenn Nichols, manager of the Sparta team, said yesterday that the local players expected to take the next two games this week end to give them the series. They have lost only two games this season. In the double-header, Saturday, Sparta took the first game from Roans Creek, 8-2 and the second 14-5. Castevens gave up six hits for the winners with Holloway catching. Bower gave up 14 hits for the losers with Miller catch ing. In the second game, Atwood was on the mound with Holloway catching for the winners. Miller and Barr pitched for the losers and Bare was catcher. In the Sunday game, Pond Mountain was defeated by the Sparta team, 10-8. Carpenter pitched for Sparta with Holloway catching. Stidam was on the mound for Pond Mountain with Ham catching. Leading .hitters for Sparta were Dan Thompson with a double and a triple and Edwards with three singles. Pond Mountain defeated the West Jefferson team Saturday by the score of 18-14 with Dean Ham (Continued on Page 4) Sparta Lions Hear ■ Governor Tuesday Dr. D. J. Whitener, Deputy Governor, Also Present For Meeting Dave Mooney, Cherryville, dis trict governor of Lions Interna tional, spoke to the local Lions Club here Tuesday night on “Work of the Lions in North Car olina.” Lion Mooney explained that the Lions aided 3,960 blind persons in North Carolina last year and that their program this year would include improvement in North Carolina Education, since this state ranks 38th. in the 48 states. The district governor was in troduced by Dr. D. J. Whitener, of Boone, deputy governor. At the meeting, it was also an nounced that 12 members had agreed to take their cars to West Jefferson on September 25 to transport those who wished to take examination for tubercu losis at the clinic there. ALLEGHANY BOYS LEAVE FOR ARMY Three Alleghany boys, Tom Woodie, Eugene Cleary and Dean Richardson left Tuesday for in duction into the armed forces at Ft. Bragg, Mrs. Mexa Phipps, clerk of the Alleghany draft board, announced yesterday. Twin Oaks Man Serves As Starvation .Guinea Pig Do you know what it’s like to ;o without food for ten days? Borman Dodge Sexton, son of Hr. and Mrs. Garnett F. Sexton, >f Twin Oaks, can probably tell r'ou in a few days, because that s just what he is doing. Dodge, along with six other :onscientious objectors is now in he Metropolitan hospital off the oast of New York City where he vill serve as a starvation guinea >ig in research work. For three nonths he will be subjected to he Life Raft experiment to aid n this wark. Five days before the depriva ion period begins, he will exist n ‘7Hons. Medical examina ion is given every day, it was ex ilained and the temperature bad Hood test taken daily. After the leprivation period begins, he dll be given no rood, only four *• ' . glasses of salt water per day. He is required to stay in bed with out any personal priviliges what soever. This situation must last for ten days. Movies were taken of the unit in the hospital and Dodge was in fourteen scenes with one close up. Should the movies be shown here, the red headed freckle-fac ed boy who attended Sparta schol will be easily recognized. It will be shown in the “March of Time” which will be released in October, is was announced. Dodge was inducted into the Civilian Public Service Camp in August, 1945 and later six months of base camp at Radford, Va., he was given detached service at the Veterans Mental hospital located in Lyons, N. J. The salary allow ed C. O.’s amounts to $5.00 per month, paid quarterly. Baptist Ass’ll Names Officers At Annual Meet Dr. N. D. Fox Elected Moder ator; Walter Johnson, Clerk; Good Attendance Dr. N. D. Fox was elected mod erator of the Alleghany Baptist Association at the fiftieth anni versary association meeting at the Osborne Memorial church, Dr. Fox succeeds John M. Cheek, who has served for the past four years. Walter Johnson, of Sparta, was elected clerk of the association to replace Van Miller, who has serv ed as clerk for the past eight years. A. O. Joines was reelected assistant moderator. Claude Gaddy, of Raleigh, chairman of the executive board of the State Baptist Convention made a'short talk on Saturday af ternoon and the association was greeted by Everett Miller, of Mer edith college, Raleigh. The in troductory sermon was delivered by Rev. W. H. Caldwell. M. A. Huggins, secretary of the Baptist State Convention, also addressed the association on Saturday after noon. On Sunday, Dr. I. G. Greer, sup erintendent of the Baptist Or phanage at Thomasville, address ed the association on “The Rights of Children.” Dr. Greer was in troduced by Congressman R. L. Doughton. Special music was rendered by the Sparta Baptist choir under the direction of Mrs. Lilian Bott. Rev. F. G. Walker closed the meeting with an evangelistic ser mon The next association will meet with the Scottville church. Final Rites Held For Mrs. Spicer At Union, Sunday Alleghany Woman Die*. At Age Of 88 At Home Of Daughter In Trap Hill Funeral service for Mrs. Rose Emma Spicer, 88, well-known Al leghany county woman, was held Sunday at Union Primitive Bap tist chureh with Eld. C. B. Kilby and Eld. S. G. Caudill in charge. Burial followed in the church cemetery. Mrs. Spicer, who has been in declining health for the past year died on September 13 at the home of her daughter. Mrs. C. D. Hol brook, at Trap Hill, where she had made her home for sometime. The daughter of Allen and Nancy Edwards Fender, she was born and reared in Alleghany county and many years ago was married to Morgan Spicer. They made their home at Whitehead until his death, when Mrs. Spicer mov ed to the home of her daughter. She had been a member of the Union church for more than fifty years and attended the services there as long as she was able. Surviving are one son, Sam Spicer, of Bel Air, Md., and two daughters, Mrs. M. A. Bryan and Mrs. C. D. Holbrook, both of Trap Hill. One son, Grady Spicer, died in 1912. She is also survived by one (Continued on Page 4) Anderson Again Heads Committee Ed M. Anderson, publisher of this newspaper, has been re-ap pointed chairman of the legislative committee of the National Ed itorial association. This will make Mr. Anderson’s fourth year as chairman of this important NEA committee. The membership of the committee is composed of presidents or other officials of every state press as sociation in the nation. The legislative committee main tains a Washington office and is interested not only in legislation that directly concerns the press, but also in legislative measures which concern the general welfare of the people, Mr. Anderson said. Harvey Laffoon, of Elkin and immediate past president of the North Carolina Press Association, has been named on the committee to represent the state press. Mr. Anderson, who won the Amos award this year for dis tinguished service to the weekly and small daily press of the nat ion, is also chairman of the exe cutive committee of the Weekly Newspaper Bureau of the NEA Yellow Jackets To Tangle With Rural Retreat Tomorrow Kick-off Is At Two O’clock On The Local Gridiron; Large Crowd Expected The Sparta High Yellow Jack ets were drilled through every thing in the books during the last two days of practice in prepar ation for their tangle with the Virginia team from Rufal Retreat on the local gridiron tomorrow afternoon at two o’clock. Coach Joe Bill Reed said yes terday that the starting line-up had not yet been announced. However, the backfield is expect d to include four lettermen. The Yellow Jackets will be lighting hard to win Friday af ternoon. since it is the first game of their third season and they are anticipating a big year. Coach Reed said that despite the fact that two key men had been lost, in the line, the team is expected to be up to par this season. He stressed the fact, however, that the Rural Retreat team had gain ed a number of outstanding play ers since several veterans had re turned and was expected to be a stronger team than the Yellow Jackets met last year. The cheering section for the Sparta team has been organized and cheer leaders selected for the game Friday, it was pointed out. A capacity crowd is expected to be present for the opener. Charges will be made at the gate. X-Ray Clinic To Be Held Sept. 25 Persons Will Be Examined For Tuberculosis At West Jefferson Health Deftf. Plans were completed this week by the Alleghany Health Depart ment to hold a chest X-ray clinic at West Jefferson at the Ashe Health Department, on Wednes day, September 25, when a repre sentative of the North Carolina Tuberculosis Sanitorium will be at the office there for the pur pose of examining all old and ar ested cases of tuberculosis and any previously advised to be checked, Miss Mattielene Gam bill, county health nurse an lounced yesterday. All those persons desiring to be (Continued on Page 4) Carson Property To Be Sold Soon The A.S. Carson property, val uable real estate in the town of Sparta, is being subdivided and will be cut into approximately 125 building lots and small tracts, to be sold at public auction soon. The streets have been laid out and are now being graded. They include property from the Carson residence to the Rex Mitchell res idence across the street from the Modern Dry Cleaners. The new development is ex pected to attract many home seek ers, when the land is sold, it was announced. OUTSTANDING CHEMIST Prof. Charles Coale Price III, who has been awarded the American Chemical society’s prize in pure chemistry for 194(5. Masonic District Meeting Is Well Attended Wed. Grand Master Bundy And Grand Secretary Mclver Are Main Speakers Grand Master William J Bundy, and Grand Secretary Wil liam Mclver spoke to the masons of the 34th district at the meetin: held in the Ashe Lodge No. 894 last night. A lajge number of. masons from the district attend ed, and a successful meeting was held, EttWard J. Pugh, district deputy grand master, stated. The officers conference was held yesterday afternoon follow ing which the district meeting was held, at which time Grand Master Bundy and Grand Secre tary Mclver spoke to the group. Ashe Lodge No. 594 was the official host to the group. A num ber of members from the Sparta lodge attended the meeting. Candidate Speaks To C. Of C. Friday C. W. Ervin, Dt mocratic cand idate for House of Representa tives from Alleghany county, addressed the Sparta Chamber of Commerce at the ^“otember r ting last Friday night. Mr. Ervin made a oriel talk or the county and what such an or ganization as the Chamber of Commerce might do for its im provement. He was introduced by President Alton Thompson. Congressman R. L. Doughton, who was scheduled to address the meeting, was not able to be pre sent. Dinner was served by the Lu cille Ford Circle of the Sparta Baptist church to more than 40 members and guest?. This Veteran Lives In A Chicken House Like scores of other war veterans’ families Ex sergeant Oral Deaton, center, his wife, Louise, and their two-year-old son, Russel, have resigned themselves to living in a makeshift dwelling. They were swindled out of a new home, so must continue in the chicken-coop type until their deposit is recovered or their new home built. Public Speaking Contest Will Be Held In County Topic Will Be “Soil Conserve* tion; Sponsored By N. C. Bankers Ass’n. H. E. Singletary, soil conserve* tionist for Alleghany county, an* nounced this week that the public speaking contest under the spon sorship of the Banker’s Associa tion of North Carolina, would be conducted again this year with the subject for discussion, “Soil Conservation.’’ All high school students are eligible to enter the contest, he pointed out. Details and rules will be announced later. Mr. Singletary explained that the contest would be held in the county before Christmas this year. The state contest will be held in I March. Miss Belen Walker, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. F. G. Walker, of Sparta, was winner of the state contest last year, it will be recalled and was a guest speaker at the North Carolina Banker’s Association meeting at Pinehurst. This year, it was explained, the contest will be held in 47 coun ties, instead of the 12 that were contestants last year. Football Season Opens At ASTC Mountaineers To Play New* berry College Saturday In First Home Game The Mountaineers of Appalach* ian State Teachers College, with four weeks of hard practice un« der their cleats, appear to have one of the finest teams fielded at the Boone school in many years. They face their initial test Satur* day, September 21, when they tangle with the Newberry Indians of South Carolina. BiUy Larva), head roach of therltflwifchas tasted defeat at the hands at tha Mountaineers in their five pre vious meetings and will bring the finest team }te has ever had in to Boone this week seeking to end this record. Head Coach Flucie Stewart, as* sisted by E. C. Duggins and Fran* cis Hoover, has a fine array of fast and shifty backs behind one of the most rugged lines in th# school’s history to throw at the Indians. He hopes to show the homefolks the same brand of foot ball that the Brewer-Stewart combination produced in the late thirties. Already casual observ ers at the practice sessions are comparing Johnny Hollar, 205 pound hard-driving halfback, to Len Wilson, Little All-American scoring ace, who drew fans from surrounding states to watch hia sensational running. Both boy* are natives of Boone and further the little town’s reputation as the producer of great athletes. Others who will form the lineup are Art Spoltore, quarterback; Eddie Mammorello, fullback and Eddie Addelman, halfback. Boyce Brown will play right tackle and Bill Brennan, right end. The Mountaineers have a ten game schedule, with four game* being played at Boone. The home games are Newberry college, Sep tember 21; Elon college, October (Continued on Page 4) VFW Post Will Meet Sept. 26 The Bruce Wayne Osborne Po«t of the Veterans of Foreign War* will meet at the community build* ing on Thursday night, September 26 at eight o’clock, Amon Ed* wards, post commander, announc* ed this week. A special program of interest to all veterans has been planned, « he stated and urged that all mem* bers be present. Eugene Transou Is Critically III Eugene Transou, prominent Sparta man and well-known cat tleman throughout North Caro lina, is critically ill at the Baptist hospital, Winston-Salem. Mr. Transou, who has served in both the House of Representative* and the State Senate, recently announced his withdrawal a* Democratic candidate for the House in Alleghany county in th* coming general election.
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