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SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, AUG. 28, 1947
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VOLUME 58, NO. 47
$2.00 a Year in Alleghany County
Baptist Ass’n
To Hold Meeting
At Scottville
Rev. Clarence Gwaltney Of
Elkin To Preach Intro
ductory Sermon
The fifty-first annual session
of the Alleghany Baptist Associa
tion will be held at the Scottville
Baptist church, September 13 and
14, Dr. N. D. Fox, moderator, an
nounced this week.
♦ Rev. Clarence Gwaltney of El
kin will preach the introductory
sermon. Named as alternate was
Rev. Fred Blevins, of North
Wilkesboro.
A number of State Baptist
leaders are expected to be pre
sent including Claude Gatty,
State Christian education chair
man. Prominent Baptist lay lead
ers are also expected to be pre
Tetails of the . two-day session
will be announced next week,
it was pointed out.
Farm Week Draws
County People
Alleghany Is Represented m
Raleigh Tins Week For_
Farm Program
Alleghany along with others
in this State is being rep
resented at the 40th annual ses
sion of the State Farm and Home
Week program being held in Ral
eigh.
The program includes many
headline speakers among whom
are General Dwight Eisenhower,
army chief of staff; Dorothy
Thompson, newspaper .columnist;
Representative Stephen Pace, of
Georgia; Dean I. O. Schaub, di
rector of the College Extension
Service; Dr. L. D. Baver, dean of
the college’s School of Agricul
ture and director of the State
Agricultural Experiment Station,(
assistanTdirector of'tMlExBmsltm
Service, and Thomas Pearsall,
of Nash county, speaker of the
House of Representatives in the
1947 General Assembly.
R. Emerson Black, county a
gent, left yesterday morning to
attend»and a number of other
county people are expected to go.
| VFW Will Meet
Next Thursday
Members of the Bruce Wayne
Osborne Post 7034 are reminded
of the regular meeting of the
post to be held Thursday, Sep
tember 4 at Twin Oaks.
Plans are now underway for
the local post to sponsor a musi
cal show and street dance in an
effort to raise money for the
building fund. Details will be an
nounced later.
Work still continues on the
building. Any pledges which have
not been sent in will be appre
ciated, Gene Irwin, quartermas
ter, stated.
Parents of deceased veterans
who have not sf. yet sent in ndmes
to be added to the national honor
roll in Washington are urged to
R do so at once. Names may be sent
F to Eijjest Edwards, adjutant, of
Gene Irwin, quartermaster.
Revival To Open
Here Next Week
It was announced yesterday
that thpre would be a revival In
Sparta, to be held in a tent, be
ginning Sept. 1, conducted by a
former Alleghany county mwi,
•Rev. Kay Billings, pastor of White
Plains Baptist church. He wiU
be assisted by a veteran of World
War n, Rev. David Oldham.
The public is cordially invited
to attend.
Demonstrations
tk To Be Held Tues.
demonstration for the build
Grade “A” barns will be
County’s Schools
Opened On Monday ;
Attendance Is Good
CITED FOR RECORD
. ...
G. D. Richardson, Alleghany
county sheriff, who was prais
ed for work done here in coun
ty.
School To Open
At Glade Valley
On September 1
Students To Arrive Monday;
Registration And Class
Work Begin, Tuesday
Glade Valley high school will
open the thirty-seventh annual
session on Monday, September 1,
Superintendent E. B. Eldridge an
nounced this week.
Most of the students will ar
,rive <*i the ipinwis on .Monday,
September 1. On Tuesday morn
ing, registration will be held and
class work will begin.
Mr. Eldridge pointed out that
the doanitories were filled to
capacity.
Faculty members for the year
1947-1948 have been announced
by Supt. Eldridge as follows: W.
C. Thompson, principal, David
son College, science and agricul
ture; R. L. Joines. Appalachian
I State Teachers’ College, UNC,
French and Mathematics; Rev.
Charlton D. Hutton, Milsaps Col
lege and Columbia Seminary,
Bible; Miss Frances Mashburn,
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Crouse To Speak
At C Of C. Meet
R. F. Crouse, Alleghany attor
ney and member of the North
Carolina Wildlife Resources Com
mission, will ^peak to the mem
bers of the Chamber of Com
merce, at the monthly meeting
Friday night, September, 5.
In addition to Mr. Crouse, De
witt Bryan and George Royal,
district game protectors, will
speak on their wofk in this dis
trict. *
Further details of the meeting
will be announced next week.
lunchrooms Will Open To
day; Enrollment Shows
Increase Over Last Year
Hundreds of Alleghany county
jhildren entered school on Mon
Jay as the 1947-48 session opened
with unusually good attendance.
Sparta high school had an ein
. ollment of 230 students and the
grammar school had 460 pupils.
Piney Creek had an unusually
good attendance, also.
Piney Creek had a special open
ing exercise when Congressman
R. L. Doughton was the speaker.
Mr. Doughton pointed out to the
group that there were no sub
stitutes for work, education or
character. He was introduced by
Principal C. R. Roe. A number
of guests and parents were pre
sent.
The lunchrooms at Sparta and
Piney Creek will both be open to
day when the regular schedule
will be resumed. The lunchrooms
at Rich Hill and Little Pine plan
to open next week.
Several improvements have
been made at Piney Creek, it
was pointed out Work continues
on the new agricultural building
which will offer class rooms for
instruction as well as a general
workshop. New equipment has
been added to the lunchroom al
so.
Porter Named
Purina Dealer
Porter Milling Company Will
Carry Feeds Made By
The Purina Company
’orter Milling
damid dealer
has been
for the Ralston Purina _
manufacturer of Purina Chows'
and Sanitation products for live
stock and poultry. Supplied from
Purina’s mill at Charlotte, the
Porter Milling company will be
in an advantageous position to
serve the Sparta market prompt
ly on the famous “Checkerboard
Bag” line of feeds.
The Ralston Purina company,
St. Louis, Mo., is now in its 54th
year. Its merchandise is the re
sult of an exhaustive research
program in labratories and on
farms, including Punlna’s 738
acre Research Farm at Gray Sum,
mit, Mo. Through many years of
leadership in nutritional research,
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Pfc. J. L. Poole
Lands In Tokyo
\ News was received here this
week that Pfc. James L. Poole
has landed in Jhpan, He is sta
tioned in Tokyo with the honor
guard for General Douglas Mac
Arthur.
He was inducted in the army
duing March, 1946 and re-en
listed in the regular army for
three years. He is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Hurley Poole.
Rale Increase Is Sought
By Central Telephone Co.
The Central Telephone Com
pany this week tiled an applica
tion with the North Carolina U
tilities Commission asking a gen
eral increase in telephone rates.
jin its application, the Com
pany cited increased operating
costs and the lowest earnings in
its history. i
W. E. Sparger of Mount Airy,
North Carolina Manager of the
Company, said the Company’s op
erating costs are the highest in
its history, resulting in a low re
turn on its investment and asked
that increased rate* be made ef
fective at an early date.
The requested increases in rates,
which the Company safd would
vary with localities, generally
ranges frpm 25c (to $1.25-per
""onth for ~ '
15c to 75c ‘
deftce Service,
k"+ 1927 rates are not enough lor
resort that we are as
lief now, to more ne<
some of the tremendous
in telephone operating expenses."
Sparger reported Company
earnings have dropped until at
i present less then 214 per cent is
; being realized on the Company’s
investment.
“Current earnings in North
Carolina." he said, “are among
the lowest to the Company his*
tory.” • ..' i
The Telephone Company; in its
application tp the State Utilities
Commission, said it "was spend
ing large^sums of money for plant
visioned for the next two yean,
additions in 1947 and a larger
construction program was en
If the proposed rate increases
were granted, the Company add
1. it would give them an a<*J1
revenue of at
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4)
Hundreds Attended The Singing On Grandfather Mountain
Thje singing on Grandfather Mountain during the summer is an annual event looked
forward to by a large number of people from North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia
mountains. Shown above is a part of the crowd, which took part in the recent “sing.”
Mt. Primitive
Baptist To Hold
149th. Meeting
Session To Open Friday, Sep
tember 5, At Crab
Creek Church
art e
meeting, it $ras Staffed. Among
them ate Eld. George Denny,
Pilot Mountain; J. A. Fagg, Win
ston-Saem; Watt Tpttle, Danbury;
P. P. Broadway, Salisbury; W. I.
Kilby, Welch, W. Va.; J. D. Vass,
of Hillsville, Va.; past moderator
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Man Jailed On
The one hundred and forty
ninth annual session of the
Mountain Primitive Baptist as
sociation wil convene at Crab
Creek church, ten miles north
east of Sparta
No. 18. Septerr
day session.
Hundreds
North^Carolii
Larceny Charge
-,
Gilbert Johnson, Released On
$300 Bond; Bound To
Superior Court
Gilbert Johnson, of Ashe coun
ty, was bound over to superior
court on a larceny charge, follow
ing a hearing before G. Glenn
Nichols, here yesterday. He was
. eleased on $300. bond after be
ng housed in the county jail
Tuesday night.
Carl Baker and Bobby John
son, also of Ashe county, were
lined $10 and costs on public
nuisance charges.
1 Johnson, accompanied by the
jther two boys was reported to
lave stayed ovevnight at a cabin
iwned by Mrs. Carl Irwin at Twin
Jaks, and took with him ypon
i leaving, two blankets, two quilts
■ nd a pillow. He was apprehend
! '■d by the local authorities and
1 the property was returned to the
| owner.
i Handy Murphy has been re
I leased on $200 bond on a tres
[ massing charge. A hearing will be
I held September 13.
Sheriff Cited
For Record Here
_j_ I
According to a report at the
Work On Methodist Church
Continues; Foundation Ready
To Be Laid; Money Is Needed
Well Drilling
Reaches 284 Ft.;
Work Continues
Sparta Residents Asked to
Conserve Water Until
New Supply Is Added
Drilling in the new town well
has progress to 284 feet, Mayor
G.-Glenn Nichols, reported yest'er
day Officials of R. E. Jaw and
reported that a large
■Hr veil was near at hand and
work would be completed
Mr. Nichols pointed out that
additional pipe line had already
been ordered and that as soon
as it was delivered, it would be
connected with the main water
line, located approximately 40
feet from the new well site. A
new pump is to be secured also
for the new well.
Town officials pointed out that
they hoped the residents of the
town of Sparta would cooperate
in conserving water until the new
water supply can be added to the
old. Since schools opened, an ex
tra amount of water is needed
and in order to avoid another
shortage, the cooperation of the
citizens is asked.
Mrs. Reeves, 35,
Succumbs In Va.
Mrs. Willard Reeves, age 35,
died Monday at her home near
Independence.
Funeral service was held Tues
day at 11:00 o’clock in Brush
Creek church and interment was
in the Reeves cemetery.
She is survived by her husband
and five children.
Farmer Tells Of Benefits
Of Conservation Farming
By L. S. RICHARDSON ,
i --
When I was a boy we used to
clear land and roll large logs in
a pile and burn them. We had no
idea then, that this nation would
ever use the timber as fast as it
would grow. Only a few yean
ago we would plow these steep
hills from top to bottom and plant,
them in corn. After the corn was
cut we would haul rocks and
logs to fill the gullies so we could
plow the field agaias for the next
crop. We had no idea then, that
his nation would ever be so short
u» land needed to produce our
'ood and feed.
Seven years ago 1 kept three
cows cm this farm and they had
i hard time finding enough to
eat. In fact I may have had enough
feed and pasture to properly keep
two cows; The soil on my hills
was washed away and the streams
were so full of mud and silt from
my neighbors farms and
that I could not harvest a crop
on my bottom land;
My first experiwpe with soil
K$r
con sera vtion farming was by Us
ing lime and phosphate on a field
I had seeded to red clover. It was
hard to realize the increased
yields I got from this one field
with so small a cost 1<f me. I then
began to see what the representa
tive of the Soil Conservation {Ser
vice meant when he told me that
the conservation fanning really
pays.' /
The farm plan with the New
River Soil Conservation District,
the conservationist and I worked
out for my farm, includes such
practices as seeding a six acre
field to sericea lespedeza, contour
stripcropping a five acre field on
the hill and using a good rotation
of row crops and legumes on this
field as well as on the six acres
of bottom land not subject to
overflow by the creek, treatment
and reestablishing of, >4 acres of
pasture, seeding a wildlife
der of sericea and bicolor
deza, ((■
of my '
Pledges And Contributions
Should Be Sent To Robt.
Allison, Secretary*
With grading work completed,
the foundation for the new
Sparta Methodist church is now
ready to be laid, C. C. Castevens,
building chairman, reported yes
terday.
Contributions toward the new
building are needed, Robert Al
lison, treasurer, stated, this week
and has made an.,urgent a]
to the church
as friends to ,
possible in the
Dr*. Willard
son, of Maryland,
,,1.J. Li. Qos^itbn, here
this week, both donated gener
ously to the building fund. Pled
ges may be made to Secetary Al
lison and contributions will be
accepted at all times. All those
who have made pledges are ur
ged to send in the money as it
is needed to nurchase the nec
essary material's.
The*new building is being e
rected on the same site whete the
other church stood. The old
church was destroyed by fire
sometime ago.
Roe To Attend
NCEA Meeting
C. R. Roe, president of the
Alleghany county unit of the
NCEA will attend the annual
meeting of North Carolina Ed
ucation Association at Catawba
College in Salisbury, September
5, 6, and 7.
Mr. Roe said that he hoped
that all officers and chairmen
of the various committees would
clan to go, as much of the work
i of the organizat/on is expected to
| be discussed, there.
Stores Will Be
Closed Monday
Cor Labor Day
County Commissioners Post
p°ne Monday Meeting
Until Tuesday
AU business houses in Sparta
are expected to close Monday,
Scpteniber 1. in observance o*
Labor Day, Homer Edwards,
chairman of the merchant’s com
mittee, announced this week All
public offices will be closed also,
it was pointed out.
A number of people expect to
observe the last holiday of the
summer fishing, picnicing or
staying home for a rest
The Board of County Commis
sioners and the Board of Educa
.on will meet Tuesday morning
nstead of on Monday morning.
The town council will meet Tues
^ay night at the courthouse in
stead of Monday night, G. Glenn
Nichols, mayor, stated
The Northwestern Bank will
be closed for the day
No. special entertainment ha,
beenplanned here to date and
Lt. Col. Miller
Dies In Hospital
Grandson Of Mrs. F. Milk*
Of Laurel Springe.
Hero Of World War U
JNews has been received here
this week of the death of Lt CoL
Rufus O. Miller, 27, son of Mr,
and Mrs. Robert C. Mili«>r g|
tonia and grandson of Mrs. F.
Miller, of Laurel Springs. Ho
was one of Gastonia’s most dec
orated war heroes and succum
bed at 6:30 p. nx, August 13 at
Walter Reed hospital in Washing
ton, D. C., after suffering for a
bout four months from a strange
malady which he had apparently
6d1 Miller i» survived by Mg
widow, Mrs. Betty Griffin Miller,
now living in Arlington, Va.,
a native of Sydney, Australia,
Two children survive, Sandra, a
bout 18 months of age. and David
Anthony, about four months,
Surviving also are one sister,
Mrs. Ed Spicer of Durham, and
two brothers, Jim of Raleigh, and
Robert Grady of Gastonia.
Stationed at Langley Field, Va,
Colonel Miller has been seriously
ill for the past four months^ He
first became a patient at'the
Langley Field Hospital but wag
moved by air to Oliver General
Hospital in Augusta, Ga., a short
time later. From there, he wag
flown to Walter Reed Hospital ia>
Washington where he was under
the care of the Army’s finest
physicians.
Few persons in the Army Air
Forces could equal the record
made by Colonel Miller, a pilot oft
B.-24 bombers. He was awarded
the Silver Star for gallantry in
action during an aerial flight to
Balikpapan, Borneo, when ha
was leader of a group of B-M
aircraft which took' part in a his
tory-making mass formation
strike' against the strongly de
fended and strategically import
ant Japanese oil/efining center at
Balikpapan.
A member of the Fifth Air
Force, overseas for almost three
years, Colonel Miller returned to
the United States in January of
1945 and was assigned to EFTC
headquarters in March.
Colonel Miller also received toe
Distinguished Flying Cron with
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northwestern
sed agent for i
orces Leave bonds for 1
owners, after September 1,
th||t all owners keep bonds unless,
it is absolutely necessary to casjb.
Wmmtis
It was pointed out that tM(f «
be cashed at any tine tn tbft fu
ture without dels* ‘’Unless you
are in real need of t"
the banks and
to earn