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I V any News VOLUME 58, NO- 49 AND STAR-TIMES—(CONSOLIDATED ON SEPTEMBER 2, 1941)—ALLEGHANY COUNTY’S ONLY NEWSPAPER. -*- ' " » * SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, SEPT. 11, 1947 Alleghany County U Outstanding Unmtk. culture u( Tuurto With A Population of $2.00 a Year in Alleghany County $2.50 a Year Out of County Turkish Tobacco Profe*__ ijitiiti Groups To Unite To Present *>* Facts Before Utili ties Commission A' hearing before the N. C. Utilities Commission has been granted the citizt and Ashe countie*, the proposed increase asked for by the Cen nhnnft company, it was announced The date of the hear not been set, however, __public will be advised. The hearing was granted through the West Jefferson Mer chant’s association following widespread dissatisfaction over the telephone service as well as the proposed increase in rates. Officials of the town of Sparta as well as West Jeffersoi^ plan to unite with the merchant’s as sociation in order to present the facts before the Utilities Commis sion in a unified effort to secure better service and to stop the proposed increase in rates. Church Group To Prefeent Play Council Passes P Water Ordinance Fine To Be Imposed For Vio lation; Water Works Dept. Changes Hands The town council this week passed an'ordinance prohibiting the garage owners from washing cars or business men from wash ing windows in front of their places of business until the new town wall can be put into use, Mayor G. Glenn Nichols, stated he hoped the pump ded to the new well in the near future and that he would appre ciate the cooperation of Sparta Citizens until this could be ac complished. A copy of the ordinance may be found elsewhere in. this paper. Also in regard to the town water department, Lee Woodruff has been named superintendent of water works to replace Clay ton rtnder. C. Brant Taylor has been named as tax collector. Town water rent and taxes may be paid on Tuesday and Thursday only, between the hours of 8:30 a. m„ and 12:30 p. m., in the town office in the courthouse, the public is reminded. The co operation* of citizens in paying their taxes at this time, is asked. The junior class ot the Method ist church will present a play, en titled “A Certain Just Man,” on Sunday night at eight o’clock, under the direction of Evelyn Mitchell, it was announced here this week. It will be held at the Presbyterian church. The cast of characters is as fol lows: Joe Bancroft, Billy Edwards; his daughter, Jane Duncan; his secretary, Shirley Thompson; keeper of the King’s gate, Betty Jane Mitchell; preacher, Shirley Bumgarner; Mrs. Wilkins, Mar ' ipn Allison; guide, Jane Edwards. The public is cordially invited to attend. county calves to be held It and 17, agent, an MODERATOR ' Dispersal Sale To Be Held Fri Dr. N- D. Fox, who is mo derator of the Alleghany Bap tist association, which opens its session at Scottville on Sat urday. Cooperative To Elect Directors Next Saturday Congressman Doughton Will Speak; Ballots Sent To Members Hus Week According to the announcement," reports will also be heard and the guest speaker will be Con gressman R. L. Doughton. A ballot with the list of the present directors has been sent out to the stockholders. No re port as to the nomination of these is made. Also on the ballot card (Continued on page 4) Fanners of this section are re minded of the dispersal sale to be conducted at the Locust Grove farm near Sparta tomorrow at twelvfe o’clock. The fine Aber deen Angus cattle, which was the noted herd of the late Eugene Transou, is being sold by the administrators to settle his es tate. ^ The sale consits of 40 cows and heifers, 30 calves and 10 bulls, including the herd bull, Epponion, 3rd, of Le Baron. Farm machinery and supplies will also be sold. The sale is being conducted by W. M. Transou, sales manager, John M. Cheek, co-administrator, and Harry Hamilton, . Jr., of Boone, auctioneer. Hundreds Are Expected To Attend; Entire Pro gram Is Given A record crowd is expected for the two-day session of the Alleghany Baptist association, which will open Saturday morn ing at the Scottville Baptist church. Such prominent Baptist leaders as Dr. I. G. Greer, super intendent of the Thomasville Or phanage; Dr. W. K. McGee, of the Baptist hospital, and Rev. G. W. Bullard are expected to be present. The entire program has been announced this week by Dr. N. D. Fox, moderator of the associa tion. The morning session will begin at ten o’clock when Rev. Kenneth Snyder will be in charge of the devotionals. Following the recognition of visitors, reports will be given by the executive committee, by W. F. Doughton; religious literature report, by Van Miller; evangelism report, Rev. F. G. Walker; report of W. M. U., by Mrs. R. E. Richardson; report on associational missions and daily vacation Bible schools. Miss Dorothy Evans; and the ap pointment of committees Rev. G. W. Bullard will deliver the main address at 11:15 a. m., following which Rev. E. B. Barton will give the report on temper, ance. The introductory sermon will be delivered by Rev. Clar ence Gwaltney. (Continued on /page 4) e Board Thursday stance Cases Dis cussed; $2,695 Expended For September Public assistance cases were discussed at the regular meeting of the Alleghany county welfare board, last Thursday. The board approved eight applications for Old Age Assistance, rejected three, raised the grants of six recipients, lowered two grants and terminated three grants. For aid to dependent children, three applications were approved, the grants of four recipients were raised and two payments were terminated. For the month of September, (Continued on page 4) Show And Dance Net VFW $71.50 The musical show and dance sponsored by the Bruce Wayne Osborne Post of the VFW netted i the building fund $71.50, Gene Irwin, quartermaster, reported yesterday. Other contributions this week are Bill Collins, $25, and Emo gene Choate, $35. Burl Williams also gave 300 feet of lumber to (Contjjttuqd, on page 4) Sparta And Mt. View Team To Play Again Sat. Sun. Spart»y won the first game of the season's play off between the two Southwest Virginia baseball leagues here Sunday, when they defeated the Mountain View Team tram Fries, Va., by a score of-8 to 7 in a thrilling ten inning H Sparta scored four runs in the Urst inning. Joines reached first on an error, Jack Thompson and Richardson hit singles Mack Caudill connected for a home run. Sparta scored threw runs In the third inning and Mt. View scor ed in the the second, third and seventh and tiedthascore in the eighth. / In the top of the tenth fTithrow, first man up, Ha-base; Tom Reeves * POP Of' Atwood a Sparta will again meet Mt. View at Fries on Saturday .and then Mt View will journey here to play Sparta on Sunday. Local fans are promised a week ead of baseball thrills if they attend these games. Winners in the upper tri-state league will play the win ners of the lower tri-state league, officials pointed out EDWARDS ATTENDS I STATE WELFARE MEET Swanson Edwards, county wel fare superintendent, attended i ting of the State Association Superintendents of Public held at Wrightsvill* Sunday through Tuesday Winston, commit welfare, wai Ret of Publk No Juvenile Delinquency In Dunn. Knee Pantsers Play Ball Juvenile delinquency does not live at Dunn, N. C-, any more. The youngsters are too absorbed in the joyful pursuits of the Knee Pants baseball league, and are under rigid contract to be little gentlemen- Herbert B. Taylor, former mayor, organized the league 27 years ago. The candidates—ages 8 to 14—must sign a regular “big league” contract, which among other things, obligates the player to be at home not later than 10 o’clock, attend Sunday school, refrain from bullying and respect property, etc- The contracts are generally fulfilled and enforced and juvenile delinquency is unlmown, thanks to the Knee Pants baseball league. Photos show the members in action — and getting “mo ther’s” signature on the contract. . Meeting Of Dairy Farmers Will Be Held Here Man, Breed ■j Lfw Be. second meei — artificial bri tion here in the coi held at ten o’clock a. m., at the community building, E. Black, county agent, announc ed yesterday. C. W. Sheffield, of the Marketing Division of the State Department of Agricultures and Maury Gaston, field repre sentative of the organization wil be here for the meeting A survey has been the county since the first meet ing on August 11 in order to de termine how many cows will be available for this service in 1948. A board of directors of the coun ty organization will be elected and will name someone to be trained for this type of work here (Continued on Page 4) Sparta No w Has , Music Teacher Sparta high school now has a music teacher for the school year, R. H. Walker, principal, announ ced this week. Miss Joanna Cor nett, of Independence, Va., as sumed her duties here on Mon day, as teacher of piano. Miss Cornett will have music classes on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Approxi mately 40 students enrolled for music lessons on Monday. Miss (Jornett replaces Mrs. P. L. Choate, who taught mu$ic last year. , ■ N. C. GETS $2,241,509 FOB SCHOOL LUNCHES Winners In Dairy Show Are Announced; Plan To Enter District Show At Lexington 1 ■ * Hunters Reminded That Li censes Are Necessary; Many Squirrels Next Monday, September 15, squirrel hunters of Alleghany will have an opportunity to try their skill as the hunting season officially opens. They are remind ed by game protector, Dewitt Bryan, that they must secure licenses., The squirrel season will remain open until December 15 and from all indications, it should be a hap py one for the skillful hunters, as there seems to be a good sup ply of this small, bushy - tail animal. Hunters are reminded that the bag limit per day is five, however. Other dates for the hunting season are: Quail, NovemBer 27 through January 31; ‘Opossum (Continued on page 8) LIONS CLUB WILL MEET TUES. NIGHT The regular meeting of the Sparta Lions Club will be held at 7:30 at the Shell Cafe on Tues day night, R. J. Randolph, pre sident, announced. \ All members are urged to be present D. F. Cooley Is Judge; Nine teen 4-H And FFA /Members Entered __— Nineteen Guernsey 4-H and F. F. A. calves were entered in the Alleghany county dairy show, held yesterday afternoon at the Sparta horse shove, grounds. A number of others were expected to enter, however, the weather conditions yesterday hindered many from bringing their prize animals to the show. Eight of the top winners plan to enter in the district show to be held in Lexington on Satur day. Judge for the afternoon was D. F. Cooley, of the Klondike (Continued on page 4) * • “ . “ ' * Truck Drivers To Gel Permits Attention of all contract truck drivers is called to the North Carolina Truck Act of 1947 which will go into effect, October 1. All truck owners, who do con tract hauling, are to be required by the N. C. Utilities Commis sion to secure a certificate of operation before October 1. They may be obtained before that time with little or no trouble, it was pointed out, however, after Oct ober 1, truck owners will not be granted certificates without an application and a special hear ing before the Utilities Commis sion. Yellow Jackets Ready To ' Clash With Lions Friday I Members of the Sparta Yel low Jacket team will clash with the North Wilkaaboro Mountain Lions at Norm Wilkes boro, Fri day night, at eight o'clock, as the football season for title section; officially gets underway. Coaeh Joe Bill Reed’s boys have been hard at work on the local gridiron ever since die opening of school, in order to be ready to meet the South Piedmont Con ference team which is slated to have, a grid team built around IS lettenaen. Leaking good in practice in the line are Holloway, center; Wood* is£*5 Backfield then and fight, if the season'* snattsssar* ' The schedule which has been »«bW; i* as follows: Sep teasbw 19, open; September 38, BoeavQte at BoonviHe (May be changed to Ellda); October 3, Ruraljrtnet, hen; October 10, JonesviUe, here; October IT, Flat Rock, there; October 34, Walker town, then; October 31, Novem ber * «»d K open, and Novem ber 31, Hkta, then. « Thif Year’s Crop More Farmers Expected Be Included In Program Alleghany And Ashe The experiment of growing Turkish tobacco in this area, now in its third year, has possibilities of further expansion and mar include more farmers next year, John Wilkins, agronomist in charge of the project in this area, said, this week. , • yfar there are 33 farmers in Alleghany and Ashe counties cooperating with the project and the crops this season have been, more successful than ever before Mr. Wilkins said. He stated that while the project is still in the experimental state, the yield has been increased each year and has been unusually, successful this year. “We do .hot know yet as to the extent of the expansion of the-program, bht we feel that it will definitely be enlarged,” Mr. Wiljtins said. He also pointed out that a company was being formed to handle the output and as soon as more .information was avail able it would be passed on to the growers. Be also said he expected some limitations on the program for sometime, however. It was pointed out that the farmers like the experiment w«t that several have grown this to~ bacco since the experiment was started three years ago. Farmers in Alleghany txA Ashe, who grew Turkish tobacco this years are as follows: J. W. Bledsoe, R. H. Bledsoe, E. L* Vanony; L. J. Moretz, By num Holman, Fleetwood; G T. Phillips, Idlewild; J. W. Gam. bill, West Jefferson; G. C. Woodie, Robert Joines, Everett Hendrix, Everett Taylor, C. S. Wyatt, Vas ter Mabe, Major Mabe, George F. Taylor, Insure! Springs, •Bay- Hash, W, II. Barr, J; Les ter Phipps, T. E. Brown, Claude Berchett, John G. Brown, Ryle W. Cox, c. V. Hoppers, Meal Sturgill, Paul Kennedy, W. P. (Continued on page 4) ^Wagoner Rites Set For Today George R. Wagoner, WeU. Known County Man, Dies At Home Tues. Morning Funeral service for George Ru fus Wagoner, 74, of Turkey Knob, well known Alleghany county farmer, will be held this after noon at two o’clock at the new Hope Baptist church. Rev. W. K.. Caldwell, of Sparta and. Rev, Charlie McKnight, of Indepen dence, Va., will officiate. Inter, ment will be in the church cone, tery. The deceased succumbed at his home near Turkey Knob, Tuesday -mpreing, after'an illness of seven wefcks. He has recently returned honffe after undergoing treat .ment in . the Baptist hospital In, 'Wiriston. He is survived by bis wife, Mrs. Etta Wagoner and the tot' lowing children: Mrs. C H. BA* wards and I. W. Wagoner, Sparta; Mrs. David Osborne, Glade VaK ley; Bruce Wagoner, High Point; Bex Wagoner, Asheville; Roscoe Wagoner, Galax, Va.; Mrs. Clyde Goodman, Catawba; Mrs. R. L. Billings, Winston-Salem; Mrs. Hayden Goodman, WfSt Jetts*' son. Two brothers, B. F. 1 of Sparta; J H. Nathan’s Creek; and 1 W^Vmdwi Mrs. Glenn and Mrs. Mat survive. ,
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