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VOLUME 18, NO. 40 02.00 Alleghany County Outstanding Llvestec culture and Tourist SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA THURSDA mm i:;-. .' ■ Plenty Of Action Exj^bted; Teams" Evenly Matched Kick-Off Scheduled For 1:30 O’clock; Record Crowd Is Expected Sparta’s Yellow Jackets, hard at work on the gridiron in the frosty football weather this week, are ready to meet the Rural Re treat eleven here on the local field tomorrow afternoon. The kick-off is scheduled for 1:30 o’clock and local fans are expected to turn out e^ mass for the second home game of the season. Several business estab lishments are planning to close during the game. Sparta lost to the Boonville eleven last Friday afternoon at Boonville when the home town boys scored a 12-0 victory. Both teams seemed evenly matched for the first and second quarters, while neither team was able to score. In the third quarter, cap italizing on a Sparta fumble and H an intercepted pass with which Bernard Pardue ran 60 yards to score, Boonville overcame Sparta. The fumble was made on the 30 yard line. A first down and rough ing penalty moved the ball to the four, from where Everett Brown hucked over for the score. Both teams threatened several times, Boonville halting Sparta several times after long passing rcks. One 70-yard pass play BoonviUe’s was called back due to a penalty. 12 0—12 0 0— 0 Pardue, Choate Gets J-3 Year Sentence Sparta Doctor Gives Notice Of eal To Supreme Court; >nd Set At $5,000 of criminal acquitted the Alle ity physician on a manslaughter in the ;h of Mrs. Annie Mae Charlotte at an Elkin * <f RG_s—^/Woodruff ..i-Gentry Miller __Steelman RE_Reeves —„_H. Lakey QB —..Bryant_Cockerham LH-Andrews ^_G. Lakey RH—. Brooks-Pardue FB-Gentry -Brown Score by periods: Boonville _0 0 Sparta -0 0 Scoring touchdowns: Brown. Substitutes: Sparta Woodruff, Scott, Murray, Rowe, Bryant. Boonville—Swain, Hood. Smith, Mosley, Dobbins, Wilkins. Dobson—Dr. B. O. Choate, prominent Sparta physician, was sentenced to from one to three years in State prison last Friday by Judge William H. Bobbitt after a Surry county Superior Court jury found abortion. The jury ghany county imyaiuau charge of manslaughter i abortion death of Mrs. Ai Anderson of Charlotte °* hotel in August, 1948, Dr. Choate gave notice peal to the State Supreme and Judge Bobbitt set b $8,000, which was supplier Judge Bobbitt found W. Seagle of Char’"**' on Dairy Farmers To Meet Oct 9 . ,.*** *■ r*' Animals From Overseas Are Agah Arriving In The U. S. • ’ *4 4 fet- SF 90 ik •* 1 .'..4 . t .. t Animals from overseas are emigrating to the u States again, now that shipping space is available. To protect American lives tot; ainst foreign disease they are held in quarantine at Athenia, N. J. Both domes;._ animals, imported mainly for breeding, and wild animals bound for a zoo must pass through Athenia. During the first six months of 1947, this animal “Ellis Island” received 261 purebred Jersey cattle, 52 an telopes, 16 giraffes, 10 deer, 6 wild swine, and one red buffalo. per Contest For High udents Announced; ble Prizes Are Offered Event Is Launched In Con nection With National Newspaper Week In connection with the observ ance of National Newspaper week, October 1-8 The Alleghany News is again launching its annual county-wide essay contest on the subject, “Your Newspaper Serves Freedom by Serving You,” the theme for the week. All high school students are eligible to enter the contest Prizes will be awarded the coun ty winners, by this paper. Prizes of $10.00, $5.00 and $3.00 will be awarded to the winners of the first, second and third places. The essays should be not over 1,500 words in length and the deadline for entering them is De cember 1. All should be type written if possible and sent to this paper before that time. It was pointed out that there must be as many as five entries from the county before county prizes can be awarded. (Continued on page 8) Grand Jury Hears Cases; Seventeen True Bills Found I. K. Doughton Is Foreman; General Inspection Made Of County Buildings True bills were found in 17 :ases heard before the grand jury this week and a general inspection sf the county buildings was made. The courthouse offices were found to be in good condition uid the jail was reported to be :lean and well kept. However, the jurors recommended better water facilities. An inspection was also made jf the prison camp which was reported to be in good condition. Repairs to the chimney of the :ommunity building were sug some time ago and part of the (Continued oy page 4) Kay Kyser Offers Salute To National Newspaper W eek By nay nyser Hey chillun, pay attention! Class is now in session and this is your Ol’ Professor telling you it’s about time you paid tribute to one of America’s greatest in stitutions — your hometow# This is National Newspa| Week and that's ao “Comedy Error*," to;, fact, it’s time .we agreed •ofltlng’. more fun thai PROFESSOR PRINTER Mural Painting Given To Sparta Baptist Church Painting By Former Alleghany Woman Is Donated By Patsy Burgiss Hanging in the Sparta Baptist church is an oil mural painting, depicting the “Baptismal of Christ,” given to the church by Miss Patsy Roy Burgiss, daugh ter of Dr. and Mrs. T. R. Bur giss, of Sparta. Formal dedication services and the unveiling were held at the churclj at the regular service Sun day morning when a number of visitors as well as active church members were present. The mu ral painting was presented to the church by Mrs. C. A. Reeves in the absence of the donor and Rev. F. G. Walker, pastor, re ceived it for the church. The painting was done by Mrs. Phillip Gray, of Boulder, Colo rado, the former Miss Ewing Cheek, of Alleghany county. Mrs. Gray, who is a well known ar tist, made the painting in Colo rado. She is known throughout the country for portrait work and is reported to seldom use models for her work. Mrs. Gray was present at the dedication and spoke briefly to the congre gation concerning its origin. The painting was done in oil colors and is seven feet high and nine feet wide. The canva3 was placed directly above the bap tistery. Tast Of Series To Be Played Sal. Local People Will Attend Telephone Hearing In Raleigh Scheduled This Afternoon; Will Be Joined By Other Groups A number of Sparta people as well as others in this county and Ashe will attend the telephone hearing to be held in Raleigh this afternoon, relative to telephone service and rates. The hearing before the utilities commission was called since the Central Telephone company serv ing this area has asked for an increase in rates. The West Jef ferson Merchants association had previously asked for a hearing in connection with the service, however. • County and town officials and other interested citizens from Ashe county will join the Allegh any group. Among the delegation from here are expected to be Congressman R. L. Doughton, Amos Wagoner, Julius Womble,. Levi Shores, Kern Wagoner and Claude Miles. The Central Telephone Com pany is asking in the petition for the authority to establish the fol lowing rates for business service in Sparta, individual line, $3.00; two party line, $2.50; business ex tension, $0.75; rural multi-party line, $3.00. For residence service, individual lijfte, $2.25; four-party line, $1.25; residence extension, $0.65; ru£al multi-party line, $2.00. bounty Health Dept. To Hold X-ray Clinic To Be Held Here, Thursday, October 16; Any One May Take Test The district health department will hold a chest X-ray clinic for the diagnosis of tuberculosis on Thursday, October 16, Dr. R. R. King, Jr., health officer, an nounced this week. The clinic will be held beginn ing at 9:00 a. m., and will continue until 4:30 p. m. All food handlers in the county who are connected with meat markets, cafes or school lunchrooms who would like to take the X-ray are asked to be at the health department on that day. Any one who has had a posi tive skin test or who has been in (Continued on page 4) PRAISES NEWSPAPERS President Harry Truman, who points out that news papers have played a splen did part in freedom’s cause Newspapers Are Lauded By Pres. Of United States Cites Need Of Defending Free dom At All Times And To Extend It In connection with the obser vance of National Newspaper Week, President Harry Truman has issued the following state ment: “We have the best and freest press in the world, but, as in all other fields of human endeavor, there is always room for improve ment Consequently, it is fitting that there should be a National Newspaper Week when the news papers of the United States may take stock of their services to their readers. “I like the slogan you have chosen this year—"Your News paper Serves Freedom by Ser ving You.” There can be no greater contribution to the wel fare of our nation and the world than service in the cause of free dom. We are too much inclined to take qur own freedom as a mat ter of course. We need to defend (Continued on page 4) Plans For Inspection Of Motor Vehicles Announced Raleigh — Plans for North Carolina’s motor vehicle mech anical inspection program which will go into effect next January 1 are well underway. Arthur T. Momre, chief of the mechanical inspection division of the depart ment Of Motor Vehicles, an nonnrid ■ must be inspected once during 1948 and twice a year thereafter. An inspection fee of $1.00 will be charged during 1948 and 1949 and thereafter 75 cents will be collect ed. Mooje said each of die stations would have one supervisor and at least four inspector*. Explaining ROW rhd in It Want iam will nnar eta Record Number Of Cases Tried In 3-Day Session Larceny And Violation Of Pro. hibition Act Most Num erous Charges Tried The three-day session of the fall term of superior court for Alleghany county came to a close at noon yesterday after a record number of minor cases were tried. Larceny and violation of the pro hibition act were among the most numerous to come before the court. Gilbert Johnson, pleading guilty to a larceny charge, was sentenc ed to 12 months of labor on the State roads. Second charge of assault and robbery was nol-proe sed. Paul Shumate and Robert Pollard, pleading not guilty to larceny charge, were given five year’s probation. Odell Roten, pleading not guilty to the same charge was fined $50 and costs and given three year’s probation. Charged with violation of the prohibition act were Ray Ander son, $500 and cost; Robert Mc Kinley Williams, $25 and costs; Hortie Crouse, prayer for judg ment continued: Steve Loggins. 12 months of labor on State roads; Ernest Evans, case continued, $150 cash bond forfeited Mrs. Ada Moxley, $50 and costs, good be havior for three years. Charges in regard to driving were; reckless driving charges, Paul Washington, cost of action; Lonnie Blevins, fined $50 and costs, six months sentence sus pended upon payment of fine and good behavior; James Jenping^, six month’s suspended iiiiflfciiua upon payment of $75 and costs and two years good behavior; Frank Choate, case nol-prossed; operating a car intoxicated; Ross Edwards, case nol-prossed; but Mae Owens, in the case of Ross Edwards, fined $40 and costs, for failure to appear as witness; Rufus Joe Long, $125 and costs; Ross Edwards, $125 and costs; Lonnie Blevins, 12 month’s SUS (Continued on page 4) 4-H Groups Will Name Officers To Make Plans For New twQ To Meet October 4 Through October 10 Alleghany 4-H club boys ud girls will meet beginning next Monday morning to name officers, and to outline plans for the com ing year, it was announced thin week. Meeting with the groups will be Mrs. Isom Wagoner, home, demonstration agent, and John Burch, assistant county agent. Project record books for the past, year will also be collected end new ones issued. The schedule is given as fol lows: Monday, October 6, Pinny Creek, 10:30 a. m.; Tuesday. Oc tober 7, Laurel Springs, 9:00 n, m. and Whitehead, 10:30 a. m.; Wednesday, October 8, Little Pina. 9:00 a. m. and Rich Hill. 10:39 « m.; Thursday, October 9, Sparta, senior club, 9:00 a. m. and Sparta junior dub, 10:30 a. m.; Friday. October 10, Glade Valley, 9:09 % m. and Cherry Lane, 10:30 a.
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