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VOLUME 58, NO. 49
AND STAB-TIMES—(CONSOLIDATED ON SEPTEMBER 2, 1941)—ALLEGHANY COUNTY’S ONLY NEWSPAPER.
SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1947
with
$2.00 a Year In Alleghany County
« ^ear Out of
Guernsey Sale
jf Plans For July 18
Being Completed
32 Carefully Selects Ani
mals To Be Sold At Auc
i , t tion At Test Farm
Plans are now being completed
for the annual promotion sale of
purebred-registered guernsey cat
tle to be held at the State Tesft
Farm at Transou, on Friday July
18.
At this time 32 carefully se
lected animals, from some of the
state’s best known herds will be
offered for sale at auction begin
ning at 12:30.
The sale is sponsored by "the
N. C. Extension service and the
N. C. Guernsey Breeders As
sociation.
Officials Of the sale pointed
out that this would be a wonder
ful opportunity to secure ani
mals for calf dub work or foun
dation animals for herds as well
as additions. -
All dairy farmers are particu
larly invited to attend.
James Wagoner
Dies In Hospital
Well Known Alleghany Man
Succumbs After Four
s Week’s Illness
Funeral service for James M.
Wagoner, 80, who died last Thurs
day night at the Mount Airy
hospital alter an illness ol four
weeks, was held'Sunday at two o -
clock at the Little River Primi
tive Baptist church. Officiating
was Elder S. G. Caudill and bur
ial was in the Sparta cemetery.
The Son ttf «■* *’•
and Nancy Caudill Wagoner, he|
' "as bom on September 7, 1866
^Whitehead. He was married to
,4’late Charity Alice Edwards.
Survivors include six sons, Dr.
#p. A. Wagoner, of Wytheville,
Va.; Dr. B. G. Wagoner, of Blue
field, W. Va.; Oscar Wagoner, of
Monterey, Va.; J. B. Wagoner,
of Logan, Ohio; R. Earl Wagoner,
of China Grove, Edwin R. Wagon
er, of Athens, Ga.; five daughters,
Mrs. J. A. Higgins, of Sparta;
Mrs. A. L. Coomes, of Greens
boro; Mrs. Dewitt Sparger, of
Dobson; Mrs. Raymond Cook, of
Westfield; Mrs. Roscoe Childress,
of White Plains. »
.Also surviving are three Sis
ters, Mrs. R. G. Warden, Mrs.
Mattie Fender, of Stratford; Mrs.
Amanda Edwards, of Galax Va.;
three brothers, J. H. Wagoner, of
Nathan’s Creek; By-F. and G. R.
Wagoner, both of Sparta.
Pallbearers were grandsons ofj
the decased. They included Paul
Higgins, Page Higgins, Arlington
Wagoner, Bill Wagoner, Eugene
Higgins and James Cook.
♦ Flower girls were Miss Juanita
Higgins, Mrs. Eugene Higgins,
Miss Margaret Sparger, -Mrs.
John Higgins, Jr., Misses Nad
ene Cox, Lucille Perry, Evelyn
Mitchell, Bernice Jarvis, Irene
Hendrix, Lorene Hendrix, Doris
Wagoner, Ruth Truitt, Emma Lee
Mitchell, Myrtle Truitt, Mes
dames Isom Wagoner, Cleve Ni
chols, A. O. Joines, Sam Perry,
Ruth J. Choate, Hazel Joines,
G. L. Duncan, Myrtle, Hege, Joe
Blum, Parley Truitt and Hazel
Hampton.
(Continued on page 8)
Si*
Camp Meeting
To Begin Sun.
An interdenominational camp
meeting, stressing “eld fashioned
■k gospel preaching and singing,’’
wiU begin at the Transou Taber
nade on Highway 88, near Tran
*°u, next Sunday, July 18, it was
announced this week.
Rev. Grace Jones, the pastor,
assisted by Miss Barbara Arnold,
will conduct the services, which
. ar* to wmtttue through July 27.
The schedule calls tor Sunday
school to begin at 10:80 a. m.,
with the Sunday Morning Wor
ship how M »:30 a jn. Ser
vices will be held everv after
t 8:30
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Dr. I. G. Greer, who will
speak at the courthouse on
Saturday afternoon.
L G. Greer Will
Speak Saturday
Afternoon Here
Sponsored By The Allied
Church League; Pub*
lie Is Invited
Dr. Greer, superintendent of
the Thomasville Orphanage, has
long been active in Rotary work
and other civic and religious act
ivities. He is well known here
and throughout the state.
He is being sponsored by the
Alleghany Allied Church Lea
gue and will discuss temperance
in view of the local option vote
for an ABC store scheduled for
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Bowling Alley To
Open On July 19
Plans are now to open a bowl
ing alley Saturday, July 19, near
Twin Oak*, it was learned this
week. Th* bowling alley, which
is to be owned and operated by
Oscar Evans and Clay Sheets,
will be located in the building
formerly occupied by Goodman
Lumber company on the Indepen
dence highway, one fourth mile
north of Twin Oaks.
Four up-to-date alleys have
been installed and are now in
the process of being sanded and
varnished, it was learned, in or
der that they will be ready for
the opening on July 19.
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Four GJri Scouts Fri
ingf Gap Have
ttired Two Cl;
. >^athdrs$ermitting, indications
ncWit point to a very successful
horse show, scheduled fop: July
18 and^lfl at the Sparta
A total Of 78 entries have
been received and amonj
are a number of nationally
show horses.
The track is in good condition
and work is continuing on the
barns, Tom Greene, manner of
theshow, aghounced. He also
announced that tie staunchiohl
were being contsructed for local
horses. ^
There’are a number of local
horses enttafed as well as several
from a distance. Manager Green*
announced that four girl scouts
rom Roaring Gap have entered
the pleasure and three-gaited
classes. They will ride Tinyi Tim,
Starlight, Ginger and Dusty, hor
ses owned by Mrs. Florence Gli
des and Nancy Thornton.
There wiljt be three shows, Fri
day evening, Saturday afternoon
and evening. The public is cor
dially invited to attend.
VFW Members
Lay Foundation
For Building
Wayne Osborne Fost 7034, v :_
day began work on the founda
tion of the new VFW clubhouse.
Cinder blocks were being haul
ed yesterday and the building is
expected to show signs of pro
gress by next week, Cecil J. Mur
ray, post commander, stated yes
terday. *'
Although free labor has be4n
offered, more money than the
initial canvass produced will be
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Rites Held Sat. ,
For Mrs. Todd, 68
Last rites for Mrs. Loney Todd
of Glade Valley, 68, were held
last Saturday afternoon at 2:30
p. m., at the Crab Creek Primi
tive Baptist church. Officiating,
.was Eld. C. B. Kilby, and burial
was ip the cemetery there.
Mrs. Todd, well known
throughout the country, had been
in ill health for a year, ....
Survivors are her seven .chil
dren: Mrs. J. T. Boysette, P.
E. Todd, Mrs. J. W. Whitaker,
G. A., Earnest, L. B., and Jesse
Me Todd. Two sisters and one
brother also survive, Ollie Woo
ten and Leva Todd, and Avery
Pardue. ' ’V," '
Sparta At Top Of League;
Baseball Contest Begins
■Baseball fans will have an op
portunity to cast their ballots
for the nine favorite players on
the Sparta team in a contest
which is to end July 21, it was
announced this week.
The voters are entitled to only
one ballot it was pointed out.
Ballots may be secured from the
advertisement which will appear
in the July 17 issue of The
News. In the meantime, fans are
asked to make their selections.
Players in the contest include
Jack Thompson, Boyden Atwood,
Earl lee Joines. Bill Reeves,
Tom Reeves, Prank Atwood,
Mack Caudill. Ben Adams. Clay
Nichpls, Bert Wagoner Wayne
Carpenter, Hugh Choate, Wood
row Richardson, Claude Moxley,
Holloway, Jess Watson,
Andrews. ' v ;i ,.
be announced
the
tic tans from Alleghany journeyed
to Elk Creek Sunday and witnes
•ed the double header which de
throned Elk Creek from top
place in the Virginia league.
Sparta’a pitchers each made
tour bagger during the
noon’s games. Geyer made a
run in the first game with
man on tyse and Nichols
in with the bases; empty. Ca
in the first game Was Holi
and Moxley and Holloway in
second. Adams also pitched in
the second game.
Sparta was also the winner at
Grant on Saturday. Scores of the
games were not reported.
The schedule for the vteek end
Present And Some Past Tennants Of The White House
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A president, former president and three “first ladies” were among the guests of
t Jtpnor at Princeton university bi-centennial convocation. The group shown on the cam
pus lawn were, left' to right: Mrs. Harry S. Truman, Mrs, Thomas Preston* (the former
Mrs. GroVer Cleveland); President Truman; Ex-Presidenf Hoover; and Mrs. Woodrow
Wilson. . i
Ministers Of
Alleghany Meet; |
Organize Ass’n
Ministers representing five
denominations in the county met
Monday at the Sparta Baptist
church and organized the Minis-j
■^Association of Alleghany
Hpy. Named as chairman of
^association was Elder Bd
and vice chairman, Rev. I
W? <3.*'Thompson. Rev. W. H. Yo-:
kely was hatted secretary and
treasurer, 1
It was pointed out by officers
of the association that it was
formed because of the feeling of
the heed, of a closer fellowship
and a better understanding among
the ministers of the county.
The Second meeting will be held
Monday morning at ten o’clock
at the First Baptist church. All
countd ministers are cordially in
vited Ao be' present.
Chtirches represented at the or
ganization meeting included the
Union Baptist, Missionary Baptist,
Church of the Brethem* Method
ist and Presbyterian entireties. I
Conference To
Be Held Sunday
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Dr. J. H. Armbrust To Preach
At Chestnut Hill Me*
thodist Church
The quarterly conference for
the Laurel Springs Methodist
church will be held at the Chest
nut Hill church Sunday night at
7:30 p. m. with Dr. 3. H. Arm
brust, district superintendent, in
charge.
Rev. William C. Crummett,
pastor, announced this week that
the Sunday school at Mount Zion
had been reorganized with the
following teachers in charge:
Children’s department, Mrs. 'S
E. Smith; jilhior and intermediate,
Graham Pugh; adult department;
Dent Pugh; secretary and trea
surer, Miss Doris Blevins, and
superintendent of the school, Lee
Black. Sunday school will be held
at ten o’clock. A youth league,
only recently organized, will be
held each.Sunday evening at 7:30
o’clock.
Church services will be held
at Laurel Springs, Sunday at 11:00
o'clock at Transou at 2:30 o'clock,
Mr. Crummett announced.
<1 Of G Picnic
Planned For Fri.
Members at the Chamber of
Commerce are reminded of the
meeting to be held tomorrow
nieht at Bluff Part: at seven o'
clock. '■ " •? 'P
Members are asked to bring
their wives. A picnifc is beta*
oared bv member* of the 1
Woman's club.
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Plans Are Ready To Stall
Work On New Building For
Sparta Methodist Church
Plans Discussed
For Improvement
Of Water System
Mayor Nichols States That
Survey Is Being Made %
For New Well Site
Plans for improving the water
system of Sparta and preventing
a water shortage like the one
witnessed earlier this year were
discussed by Mayor G. Glenn
Nichols and members of the town
council at the regular meeting,
Monday night.
Mr. Nichols stated that town
is in need of a new well or some'
other source of water in the near
future and that definite steps
must be taken before schools
reopen August 25. M. T. Murdock,
geologist from Raleigh, made a
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Car Wrecks Here
On July Fourth
Alleghany had one highway ac
cident reported on July 4 when
a 1936 Ford coupe driven by Ross
Edwards of Sparta, collided’With
a car driven by Shaw, of Cherry
Lane, near the Shell Service Sta
tion, here.
Edwards was reported by in
vestigating officers to be driving
wtyle under the *influence of some
intoxicant when the accident ec-1
cured. The cars were damaged
only slightly and the drivers
were uninjured.
A hearing will be held Satur
day at ten o’clock before Mayor
G. Glenn Nichols.;,
Joe Finney Will Be In Charge
Of Construction Work;
Castevens, Chairman
Plans are how to begin actual
work on the proposed new
Sparta Methodist church, C. C.
Castevens, chaisman of the
huhding committee, announced
yesterday.
Joe Finney, well known Allegh
any builder, will be in charge of
the construction work, Mr. Cast
evens stated.
The new building is to be con
structed with brick and is to be
trimmed in granite and will fie
Located at the site where the
building stood, which was des
troyed by fire.
Members of the building com1-'
mittee in addition to Chairman
Castevens, are C. R. Rote, J. T.'
Inskeep, Robert Allison and
(Continued on page 8)
Bldg. Proposed
At Glade
Tentative plans for a proposed
gymnasium gt Glade Valle;
school were discussed by
bers of the investigating
mittee at a meeting at Glade Val
ley high school last Thursday.
Members of the committee,
Composed of' C. M. Norfleet,- A.
A. Cashion and Rev. John Luke,
met ' with J. C. Kellenbergef,
chairman , of tRe 'hoard of trus
tees, and difcussed possible build
ing sites a*>wetl as the.approxi
mate building cost. ; . •
The findings of the committee
will be submitted to the board
of trustees for approval ^nd for
future planning for the proposed
building.
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The 14th annual session of the
Royal, Miles and Brooks reunion
will be held Sunday, July 30, at
the newly constructed Liberty
Knob church located near the
Royal cemetery naile south
of Roaring Ga£. The session will
oped with the decoration service
at 9:80 a. m., following which
Rev. F. M. Royal, of Greenville,
S. C.f will deliver the sermon.
Rev. Mr. Royal, graduate of
Wake Forest College and Louis
ville Theological Seminary, well
known throughout the state, na
tion and world, has been a min
ister fofthe past fifty years.'He
has preached on four continents,
and has spent the
in mission work living in'
tine, it. was launed.' JBPB
Also expected to speak will
be Thurmond Chatham, of El
kin, who so generously contri
buted to the construction of the
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115 Lambs
To %rift
One-hundred and fi**n lambs
were shipped directly to Swift
and Company on Tuesday by Al
leghany county sheep ((rowers, R.
E. Black, county agetf£ repotted
this week. u
Choice lambs numbatd 88«nd
Name Teachers
For Coining Year
! At Board Meet
ParfaaJ List Submitted By Lo.
cal Committees At
Meeting, Monday
county tehoplj W;H
open tor toe 184?*« termon Aug.
Miss Clyde Fields, county su,
penntendent, announced thi
week following a meeting «
Monday of the county board of
education. ^
to ?^rtial 'sJ ^ teachers,
tor the neW School term has,
been approved by the local school
committees and Was predated to
the board at &e meeting, Man*
day. ' •
The teachers and schools are
given as follows: Sparta—B. It,
Walker, principal, Roy Ellison.
Mrs. Epfii K, Housier, Miss Minwi^.
Lou Edwards, Mr* Ida J.Wfc£
«rS' Kathifcea
Maxwell, Mrs. C. R. Roe, Ralph
B. Cheek, Mrs. Flora B. Dutton,
Mrs. Hazel Tompkins, Miss Iva
Grace Doughton, Mrs. Madge
Beeves, Mrs. Ruth J. Choate; Mrs.
Rebecca Choate, Mrs. F. G. Wal.
ker, Miss Ivazelle Taylor. Mr*.
Sam Miller, Mrs. Zelma tnw
Mrs. Bessie McMillan, Miss MU,
Taylor, Mrs. H. E. Single.
Piney Creek—C. R. Roe, prind.
pal, George M. Van Hoy, Mrs.
Ella Doughton, Miss Nannie Van
Hoy, Ernest C. Minnich, Gladys'
Robbins, Elmer Waddell, Jean
McMillan, Rachel Halsey, Mrs.
WaH^L?Sb0rne “d Ruttl
Cherry Ians- ‘Betty Joneat
Glade Valley — Mrs. Bertrice
Gentry; Liberty Knob—Mrs. Nan.
McCann; pine Swamp—
Mrv Rachel Thompson and
(Continued on page 8>
tt’C. Teacher Pay
To Be Set Today
Increase Will Be Determined
When State Board Of
ttr; ' Education Meets
Raleigh — Schoolteachers of
the State will leant today in
dollars and cents the amount of
salary increase they will receive
next school year.
The answer to the question the
teachers have been asking since
the 1947 General Assembly in. *
creased appropriations for their
salaries will be forthcoming when
the State Board of Education
meets here today to adopt %
budget for the coming anion.
The board’s finance committee
which has been studying the bud*
ah for several, weeks—and par.
tkularly the question of a teacher
Salary schedule—will mah^ its
report at the meeting.
■> Available for Operating the
schools next year is a(gn«Kk
roately $59,000,000 compared with
approximately $45,000,000 tojtog
'Wept this year. Approximately
*50,000,000 of the total available
or operating the schools has beep
earmarked for salaries tor the '
25,000 teachers and principals.
■ The remaining $9,000,000 will
go Is salaries for superintendents,
clerical help, bus mechanics. Janh
tors, and bus drives, for opera*
tion of plants—lights, water S>4
fuel and for supplies. .
During the Legislature, there
was considerable debate
whether the appropriation
teachers’ salaries would pro
salary increases of SO per
Rev. F. G. Walker
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R»v. F. G. Walker, pastor at
the Sparta Baptist (tern*, w9|
preach at the Osborne Mentor,
ial Baptist church. Sunday after.'
noon at 2;00 o’clock. A i “
invitation is extended to
one.
MT. 7W»N PTANS
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A memorial
conducted at Mt.
church on
at 10:00 o’clock,
thia week
William
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