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VOLUME 58, NO. 9
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SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, NOY. 21, 1946
$2.00 a Year Out of County
Boy Scout Fund Drive To Open Monday
Fortieth Annual Sale Of
Christmas Seals To Begin
In Alleghany County, Mon.
County Schools
Active In Work
Of Jr. Red Cross
Miss Minnie Lou Edwards Is
Chairman; Reports From
Schools Announced
A report was made this week
on the junior Red Cross drive
which is being conducted in the
schools of Alleghany county. Miss
Minnie Lou Edwards, chairman,
reported that in the Sparta High
School, Mr. Ellison’s 12th grade,
and Mrs. Dutton’s 8th grade had
a 100% enrollment in the drive.
The following schools have
made no report and are urged to
do so as soon as possible: Glade
Valley high school; Piney Creek,
Stratford, Little Pine, Rich Hill.
The school making the largest
donation was Whitehead with a
k total of $5.64. This is exclusive
- of the Sparta High and element
ary school. Of the $5.64, Tommy
King and Dewey Hoppers each
gave a dollar and Jimmy Jones,
75 cents. The other county
schools and their donations are:
Cherry Lane, 50c; Pine Swamp,
$3.00; Laurel Springs, $2.50; Wolf
Branch, $2.50; Liberty Knob,
$1.25; Glade Valley, $1.00; New
Hope, $1.00. Colored schools: Gap
Civil, $2.40; Cherry Lane, $1.50.
Sparta school: 9th grade, Misa
Kennedy, $1.90; 9th grade, Mr.
Reed, $1.00; 10th grade, Mrs. Roe,
(Continued on Page 4)
the new building being erected
next door to the Firestone service
statiorf is almost completed and
will be open for a new business
about the 15th of December,
Claude Miles announced this
week. <
The building will house an up-!
to-date recapping and repairing
plant and will be run in connec
tion w|ith the service station.
Tires for both passenger cars and
trucks will be handled by fac
tory-trained help. A complete
line of steam equipment is being
installed.
Special Service
To Be Held Sunday
Special memorial services will
be held at the Cherry Lane Bap
tist Church Sunday morning at
11 o'clock for Vernon and Jimmy
Miles. The Revs. Guy Brooks,
Howard Royal and Cleo Crouse
will conduct the services.
Both boys are sons of Mr. and
Mrs. J. Paul Miles, of Cherry
Lane and both lost their lives
in the service. Vernon Miles was
killed on March 3, 1944 when he
was with the 99th infantry in
Africa. Jimmy Miles lost his life
m an accident on May l7, 1946 in
Italy. He was also in the infantry.
Miss Minnie Lou Edwards Is
Named Chairman; Public
Cooperation Asked
The fortieth annual sale of
Christmas seals for the purpose
of raising funds for preventive
and control measures for tuber
culosis will begin here Monday
as the drive opens here in the
county.
1946 Christmas seals will be
mailed out, to approximately 160
people on or about November 25,
according to Miss Minnie Lou Ed
wards, chairman of the Tubercu
losis Christmas Seal Drive. Each
year these seals are mailed and
those who receive them are ask
ed to keep the seals and send a
dollar to the chairman of the
drive.
The money gained from the
drive is disbursed as follows: five
per cent to the national T. B. As
sociation and the remainder to
the state association.
For the past two years the
county committee has planned,
with the cooperation of the coun
ty nurse to have all the children
in school take the T. B. tests.
Each time after the plans were
completed, even to the extent of
taking care of the positive re
actors, the county nurse resigned
and the committee has been com
pelled to be satisfied to depend
on the sale of seals.
The committee solicits the earn
est cooperation of every citizen
in this drive.
^yAlections
JHfcBflld H«re !<
To
Three Farmers, Plus Two
Alternates To Be Elected
In Each Community
The schedule for Agricultural
Conservation Program (AAA)
committee elections in Alleghany
county is now being prepared
and will be released soon, Her
bert Osborne, chairman of the
county committee, said this week.
The election will be held on De
cember 7.
Farmers in each community will
elect a committee of three farm
ers plus two alternates. At the
same time a farmer delegate to
the county convention will be
chosen who, with delegates from
other communities, will elect a
three-man county committee.
Polling places, dates, and hours
for the 12 farm-communities in
the county will be announced
soon.
Eligible farmers are being urg
ed to show their interest in the
local administration of national
farm programs by full attendance
at the meetings. Eligible to vote
is any farmer participating in the
1948 Agricultural Conservation
program—including owners, op
erators, tenants, and sharecrop
pers—and anyone who has a con
tract with the Federal Crop In
surance Corporation.
The duties of local committee
men include recommending pro
grams, action, determining acre
continued on Page 4)
Merchants Ask That Teachers
Receive Increase In Salaries
An increase in teachers salaries
was strongly advocated by the
board of directors of the North
Carolina Merchants association
at the meeting on Monday in
Raleigh, where the West Jeffer
Raleigh. The group stressed this
need and asked that the raise be
a minimum of twenty per cent.
Williard L. Dowell, executive
secretary, gave a comprehensive
explanation of many of the ma
jor problems expected to come
before the State legislature and
the raise for the teachers was the
first considered by the group.
TheJheeting opened at 11:00
o’clock at the Sir Walter Hotel
memtenf1 irom all parts of the
later be repealed when permitted.
The N. C. Good Health Associa
tion plans were approved in prin
ciple by the group and various
phases of this were discussed.
There was a strong expression
of sentiment against the cooper
atives allowed to operate in com
petition with private business
without paying taxes. The asso
ciation agreed to take steps to
curb this.
A number of other matters tak
en up by the group included prob
able legislation that would con
cern smaller merchants in par
ticular and Secretary Dowell,
together with the legislative com
mittee, was given blanket author
interest of this
On The March For Thanksgiving Feasts
Hundreds of Alleghany county turkeys will be sold
here this week to be shipped out to more distant points to
grace tables next Thursday, when Americans will really
“talk turkey.”
Quiet Thanksgiving Expected
In County; Hunting Season
To Open; Special Services
_ i-*
Business Houses, Schools To
Close In Observance
Of Holiday
Thanksgiving is expected to be
quietly observed in the county
next Thursday, November 28,
with plenty of turkey, with early
indications of an unusually good
crop of this prize Thanksgiving
The Sparta school will enjoy a
long week-end with a Thursday
and Friday holiday. Most of the
county schools will follow the
same schedule. The county board
of education announced that
county schools, not affected by
transportation, could close or re
main open, whichever best suit
ed the community needs.
A special union Thanksgiving
service has been planned for
Sparta and will be held at the
Baptist church on Sunday night,
November 24. The Rev. W. H.
Yokeley, pastor of the Methodist
church, will speak.
(Continued on Page 4'
Herbert Jones
Buried Monday
Rites Held For Former Allege
hany County Man At New
Hope Church.
Funeral services were held
Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock at
the New Hope Church for Her
bert Jones, 40, who died suddenly
Thursday at his home in Balti
more. Mr. Jones was a resident of
Mountain View but had made his
home in Baltimore for the past
three years. Prior to that time he
was connected with the American
Furniture Factory at North Wilk
es boro.
He was the son of W. F. and
Mollie Jones, of Sparta, and was
married to the former Miss Stella
Johnson, of Mountain View. In
addition to them he is survived
by three children, Sgt. Don Jones,
now with the U. S. Army and
stationed in Italy, and Polly and
Reba Sue Jones and one sister,
Mr& Clyde Jones, of Scottville.
He was a member of the Baptist
Church.
Final rites were conducted by
the Revs. Herbert Caldwell, Caud
ill and Barton with interment in
the New Hope cemetery.
DR. ROY BURGISS IS
RECUPERATING IN VA.
Latest reports from Richmond,
Va., where Dr. Burgiss is a pa
tient in a hospital there, indicate
that he is much improved. Dr.
Burgiss became ill about ten days
ago, was taken to Statesville to
the Davis hospital and from ther^
to a hospital in fochmond. Mrs.
Burgiss has beetjgitere with him
but arrived hom*X>nday to stay
a few de“* *
Turkey Buying
Is Started Here
With Prices Good
Thousands Expected To Be
Brought Into County Be
fore Thanksgh
buying far
ket sta;
week in
with prices, described as good,
but uncertain.
Due to the fact that the ceiling
has been lifted market prices
are slightly uncertain this year
and may either rise or fall ac
cording to information received.
W. G. Vannoy, one of the larg
est buyers in this area, said yes
terday that he started yesterday
by paying 32 cents per pound.
This was the average price paid
for turkeys on the Thanksgiv
ing market here last vear.
The turkey crop in the county
is believed to be unusually good
this year and growers are ex
pected to get good returns for
their efforts. Last year around
$56,000.00 was paid to growers
selling theirs on the Thanksgiv
ing market.
Yellow Jackets To
Meet Wilkesboro
There On Friday
Jackets Whipped By Elkin
Last Friday, 31-7, For Sec
ond Defeat Of Season
The Sparta High School Yellow
Jackets will meet Wilkesboro in
a game there Friday afternoon
to end the 1946 football season.
This will make the eighth game
for the Jackets, five of which
they have won. They lost to
North Wilkesboro in the opening
game and suffered a defeat at the
hands of the Elkin team last week.
Little is known about the
Wilkesboro team but Coach Jo
Bill Reed is planning to strat his
strongest team. The probable
line-up will be Caudill, right end;
Taylor, right tackle; Holloway,
right guard; Joines, center; Ben
nett, left guard; Moxley, left
tackle; Atwood, left end; Osborne,
right half; Reeves, left half; Ri
zoti, fullback, and Jimmy Davis,
quarterback.
JMKin goi oh to a tiying start
1 last week by scoring early in the
first quarter. The Jackets came
back and by a series of passes
scored early in the second quar
ter. But that was all for the
Jackets. They were never able
to even seriously threaten the
Elkin team again. The final score
was 31-7.
That placed the Yellow Jack
ets in the 5-2 class. A win this
Friday will make it 6 to 2 and
close a successful season.
Several Plan To
A11 e n d Welfare
Headed by Swanson Edwards,
Alleghany county welfare leader,
a delegation of several promi
nent citizens of the county, are
planning to attend the one-day
session of the Northwestern Dis
trict Welfare meeting to be held;
in Greensboro Tuesday. This j
meeting is one of six being held
over the state to acquaint the j
public with the aims and pro
jects of North Carolina’s social j
welfare program.
Others who will attend are Mrs.!
C. A. Reeves, Mrs. Amos Wag
oner, Mrs. Clennel Richardson,
Ben Reeves, C. W. Ervin, Roy El
lison, W. K. Sprinkle, D. F. Stur
divant, R. C. Halsey, Dr. Robert
R. King, Jr.
DRIVE CHAIRMAN
T7n3TC"IUUU5. -i
Prof. M. E. Gardner, head of
the horticulture department at
State College, in announcing the
abundant supply of potatoes pro
duced by growers throughout
North Carolina, as well as the en
tire United States calls atten
tion to the fact that prices of the
crop are relatively low and qual
ity high.
Total 1946 production has been
estimated at 471,146,000 bushels,
which is 46 million bushels great
er than the 1945 crop. This yield
represents an average production
of 167 bushels of potatoes per
acre.
The early and intermediate
crops of Irish potatoes have al
ready moved to market, Gardner
“dictatorship.”
Seven nations sounded off
against the veto in a three-hour
meeting of the 51-nation political
committee. Poland, the eighth
country to speak, was the nnlv
Mrs. J. E. Irwin,
Pioneer Citizen,
Died On Monday
Was Resident Of Twin Oaks
Community; Funeral Held
On Wednesday
Mrs. Emma Reynolds Irwin,
pioneer citizen of Alleghany ^
county, died suddenly on Monday
afternoon two hours after she was
stricken. Mrs. Irwin was visiting
a friend when she became ill and
died shortly after she reached
her home.
The wife of Joe E. Irwin, she
would have been 72 years of age
(Continued On Page 4)
Six Alleghany boys received
sentences in federal court held
this week in Wilkesboro. Garnet
Wingate, Dean Atwood, A. B.
Phipps, Maynard Landreth, and
Claude Maines all convicted in
the theft of a Greyhound bus
here in August, received pro
bation sentences and fines rang
ing from $200 to $300. Wingate
was fined $300 and given two
years probation sentence. Atwood
and Phipps both received fines
of $200 and two years probation
sentences. The other two boys,
Landreth and Maines each got
two years probation sentences.
Walter Brooks, convicted of
having illegal liquor in his pos
session was fined $650 and re
ceived a sentence of one year
and one day.
Doughton Hereford Takes Top Honors At Fair
HERE’S -THE CHAMPION OF «HEBI ALL, Meadows Domino 66, which was recently sold (or
$10,000. by J. Horton Doughton. Bred and raissd an the Doughton Meadows Farm at Laurel
Springs, this 10-months old Hereford was the Grand Champion of the N. C. State Fair held ha
Raleigh, last month. Holding Domino is James A. Graham, superintendent of the N. C.
Farm at Transsn. ■»
$500 Budget Set
By Officials In
1946 Campaign
—
New Interest In Scouting
Expected; Randolph Urges
Cooperation Of Citizens
Alleghany county’s drive for
funds for the Boy Scout move
ment will officially open on Mon
day, November 25, when a quota
of $500 has been set. Bob Ran
dolph, Scout commissioner and
drive chairman announced this
week.
A renewed interest in Scouting
is expected and advance predic
tions are that the drive will be
a successful one. Mr. Randolph
strongly urged that all citizens
cooperate.
Very, little interest has been
shown in Scouting here before.
There is only one troop in the
county and that a small one of
only ten members. With an in
crease in the budget, plans are
for The formation of additional
troops throughout the county so
that all of the boys in the county
may have an opportunity to join
in the Scout movement.
The drive has been planned for
one week and, if the quota is
reached, it will close on Saturday,
November 30. Chairman Ran
dolph says if the quota is not
reached by that time, the drive
will continue until it is reached.
“There never was a time when
the need for Scouts was felt more
keenly and I am confident that
the movement in the county will
continue to grow with this need,"
Mr. Randolph said in discussing
the drive.
Miss Clyde Fields, supterinten
dent of schools has been appointed
chairman of the Alleghany Cou- \
nty division of the North Car
olina Good Health association,
Harry B. Caldwell, the associa
tion’s executive secretary, an
nounced today.
As Alleghany county head,
Miss Fields will work with the
Good Health Association’s state
headquarters here in a campaign
to acquaint the people of North
Carolina with the fact that the
state ranks near the bottom in
national health standings.
A co-chairman to assist Miss
Fields in the formation of the
Alleghany. County Good Health
cpxnjRittee will be named in the
near futyje, Caldwell said.
D. Hiden Ramsey, of Asheville,
is chairman of the Western re
gion in which Alleghany County
is located.
S. S. BOARD ANNOUNCES
NEW WEEKLY SCHEDULE
Samuel Davis will be at the
Selective Service office here two
days each week, according to an*
nouncement from that office. Hi*
hours will be from 8:30 until 4:30
each Wednesday and Friday.
Although the draft is no longer
in effect, boys who reach the ago
of 18 are still required to reg
ister and boys returning from the
service are expected to report to
Mr. Davis.
Warehouse Now
Open To Farmers
Roscoe Coleman, manager of
the Mountain Burley Tobacco
Warehouse company at Boone,
announced this week that the
warehouse was already open and
receiving tobacco for the opening
sale Monday, December 21.
Manager Coleman,
■ together
with S. C. Eggers, an official of
the company, have been in ttw
county this week discussing plana
for the season.
“With Mountain Burley Ware*
house No. 1 which has served you
in Boone since 1940 and with our
second new warehouse, down at
the bus station now ready we
can offer fee farmers ample flow
space along with all other eon*
venienoas," Mr. Coleman said.