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Alleghany County
Ontatanding. Livestock. Viti
culture and Tourtat Center.
With A Population of MU.
>2.00 a Year in Alleghany County SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, NOV. 27, 1947 * >Mi | tf» Out of County
THURSDAY, NOV. 27, 1947
C o mm rt t e m e n
Named By Two
rv jQommunilies
Elections In Other Communi
ties Are To Be Held At
An Early Date
Reports from two of the five
elections of Agricultural Conser
vation Community Committee
men and ^delegates to the county
convention have been received
in the local PMA office here,
this week. Returns are from both
Turkey Knob and Stratford com
munities, Herbert Osborne, coun
ty PMA chairman, stated.
In Turkey Knob, C. L. Hash
was named delegate and W. C.
Brown, alternate; Perry Young,
chairman; R. T. Landreth, vice
chairman; Fred Brown, regular
member Dalton Debord, first al
ternate, and V. B. Phipps, second
alternate.
In New Hope, F. G. Weaver
was named delegate and Elbert
Absher, alternate; Bruce Finney,
chairmap; F. G. Weaver, vice
chairman; Tom Black, regular
member, Elbert Absher, first al
ternate and E. K. Templeton,
second alternate.
Farmers To Join
100 Bushel Club
Reports On Com Yield To Be
Sent To County Agent,
H Emerson Black
Alleghany farmers who have
grown more than 100 bushels of
corn are eligible for member
ship in the 100 Bushel Com Club,
R. Emerson Black, county agent,
announced this week. This is a
state-wide club and is beinf
sponsored to determine the in
creased com yield in the state.
Membership certificate# will be
sent to Alkgnany farmers ar*oon
as they are declared eligible.
Farmers seeking membership
should send in the following in
tnation to the county ssent’^
office: Name, addrcs®, county,'
hybrid or variety, yield, ."^ar,
row width, row spacing, planting
'■ date and number of acres.
' Also the pounds, . - rade cost
of fertilizer per acre, ihe cost per
bushel and the total realized. Al
so the rotation and previous
yields and «''’c.her the cover
< crop w: s turned.
A prize will be awarded for
the farmer "•**>. the top yield in
the county, County agent Black
stated. Any additional informa
tion may be secured from the
county agent’s office.
ANDREWS STILL
ILL AT HIS HOME
The _ condition of Claude An
drews, who sustained injuries in
a highway accident here last
Wednesday, is reported to be ser
ious, it was learned yesterday.
Mr. Andrews suffered head in
juries when the car, driven by
his son, Ernest, ran over an em
bankment directly past the Ir
win Motor Company.
TICKETS TO THEATRE
WILL BE GIVEN AWAY
Again The Alleghany News,
in cooperation with the Spar
tan Theatre, is conducting its
annnal. Christmas gift plan
LEADS GIRL SCOUTS
Mrs. G. Vaughan Ferguson,
Schenectady, N. Y., who was
re-elected national president
of the Girl Scouts'of America
at their annual convention
held at Long Beach, Calif.
Riles Held For
Mrs. Edwards, 79
At Whitehead Sat,
Succumbed At Her Home At
. Whitehead, Sat., After
Lingering Illness
Funeral servide for Mrs. Sar
ah Ann Edwards of Whitehead,
age 79, was held Monday at
11:00 o’clock at the Antioch
Primitive Baptist church with
Elders S. G. Caudill and J. M.
Williams officisting at the ser
vice and'burial followed at the
church cemetery.
Mrs. Edwards succumbed at
h«r home on Saturday after
in after a lingering illness
which became critical in the last
(Continued on page 8)
Fish Fry To Be
Held By VFW
The VFW, local post 7034, will,
have a fish fry at the community,
building neit Wednesday night
December 3, at seven o’clock, it
was announced tn:s week.
All members of the post, their
families and those eligible for
membership in the VFW are in
vited to attend. No admission
will be charged.
Number Raised In County
This Year Lower Than
That Of Last Year
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Hundreds of Alleghany county
turkeys are playing an import
ant part in the observance of this
American h'pljday, today, along
the Atlantic JSieaboard.
Unofficial; estimates placed the
number sold at 2,025, much less
than the total amount disposed
of last Thanksgiving.
Buyers reported that there was
no decrease in quality, and that
many were sent to distant points
along the Atlantic Seaboard.
These prize fowls averaged
around* 14 pounds and brought
an average price of 35 cents per
pound bringing the total income
of the growers to $8,505.00. This
was slightly more per pound than
turkeys brought last Thanksgiv
ing.
It was pointed out that due to
the increase in cost of feed that
even with the increase in price
per pound, growers found their
margin o£,.pi>p#ft less. The de
crease in the number of turkeys
grown, is attributed to the rising
cost of feed.
Sheriff Finds
Brandy Barrels!
Other Arrests Are Made By
Local Officers; Mabe To
Be Tried Dec. 6
Fifteen barrels, used for mak
ing apple brandy were discover
ed by Sheriff Glenn D.' Rich
ardson on a raid one mile South
of Hooker on Brush Creek, Tues- j
day.
Evidence ; showed that a run
had just'been made and truck
wheel tracks were traced to the
loading point showing that it had
just been hauled away from thei
still. The 50-gallon still and boil-1
er were destroyed by the sheriff.
Several arrests were made by
local officers this week on minor
charges. Qeprgie Hights, charg
ed with temporary larceny, of,
a pickup owned by Walter Spur
l}n. was'attested. A hearing has
been seffor ten o’clock, Decem
ber 8 before Justice B. F. Wag
ones. Rights allegedly stole the
pickup from Spurlin and wreck
ed it on the same day of the
theft
(Continued on page 4)
First To Bring Tobacco To Warehouse
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Hugh Halsey, left, and John Kennedy, right, of Piney
Creek, had the distinction of being fin first to bring
in to the new Tri-State Burley Tobacco Ware
Sri has Just been. completed in West Jefferson.
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Radio Program Given For Needy Is Successful
The ABC Breakfast Club’s Shakedown show was a huge success. Gifts brought in by
listeners to Don McNeill totalled an estimated value of $10,000 and overflowed the halls
and studio. Guests were admitted by gifts only for the special show. Don and the
Breakfast clubbers left the studio with representatives of the Cook County Bureau of
Public Welfare and made the rounds of the bureau’s list of needy Chicago families, dis
tributing the “loot.”’
Remind Schools
Essay Contest
Ends On Dec. 1
Contestants Urged To Have
Entries In By Closing
Date
schools are
Decem
Alleghany
reminded th
ber 1 is the
entries in
essay
sponsored by
The contest'was _
first week in October in connec
tion with^the observance of Na
tional Newspaper Week. All of
the details were explained fully
at that time.
All high school students are
eligible to enter the contest ‘and
prizes will be awarded th^ county
winners by this paper. Prizes
of $10.00, $5.00 and $3.00 will
go to the winners of first, second
and third places respectively.
The subject for the contest this
year is “Your Newspaper Serves
Freedom by Serving You.”
Wildlife Group
To Meet Friday
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All sportsmen of Alleg'.iany
county are urged to be present
at the meeting of the Alleghany
Wildlife Club to be held Friday
night at 7:30 o’cock at the court
house, G. Glenn Nichols, club
president, announced yesterday.
At this time deputy game war
dens for each township in the
county are to be named subject
to approval of the N. C. Wildlife
Commission.
All members of the club as
well as prospective members are
urged to be present, President
Nichols stated.
Lion’s Club Will
Meet Tues, Night
The1 regular meeting of fvp
Lion’s’ Club will beheld Tues
dajr nigltt at seven o’clock at the
Shell Cato* it was announced this
week.
All members are urged to be
present.
New Schedule At
~ Sparta School
County Quietly Observing
Thanksgiving; Churches
Holding Special Services
New Auto Tags
To Go On Sale In
State On Monday
_ Get License Plates For
Both Front Apd Back
This Year
Alleghany people along with
others in N. C. will have an op
portunity of buying their new
automobile licenses, on Monday
December 1. They will however,
have to order theirs from the
N. C. Motor Vehicle Department
in Raleitft or secure them else
where as they are not to be
handled locally, as far as it could
be learned this week. Those de
siring to do so may purchase
theirs from the office of the Car
olina Motor Club in North Wilkes
boro.
A license plate for the front of
the vehicle as well as the rear
will be issued for the first time
since 1042, when the wartime
steel shortage brought in the one
plate plan. .
The 1947 Legislature, simplifi
ed license rates, which formerly
were different for evgry weight
and model of car.
Next year the man with a Lin
coln or Cadillac-or with a bus
or hearse-will pay $15 for his
tags.
Bm for $12 he can get tags for
a Buick, Chrysler, Lincoln Zep
hyr, Packard or comparable cars
(Continued an page 8)
Hunting Season Opens; All
Alleghany Schools Ai '
Business Houses Close
o
tod
with
key is-'plen _
bountiful supply of other Thanks
giving favorites, everyone is ex
pected to be well fed.
Stores, banks, county offices
and other business houses are
to close, as well as the county
schools.
Some churches held programs
Sunday night and others have
been planned for today.
As the hunting season opens
several are expected to engage In
this favorite sport.
Football fans will have to go
elsewhere for their amusement.
(Continued on page 4)
Schools Are To
Close Dec. 19-29
Miss Fields, superintendent of
schools, announced this week
that it had been decided at a
meeting with principals to ob
serve a week of holidays for
Christmas.
The schools are to close on Fri
day December 19 and will re
open again on Monday December
29, it was announced.
Miss Fields said that all schools
were observing the Thanksgiving
holidays on today and Friday.
Soil Conservation Committee
Will Be Elected Next Week
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Four -local farmers have
nominated for candidates for the
Allegaanx_ Soil Conservation
Committee according to J- C.
Little. Chairman of the 'ASM
county Election Committee of the
flew Jtlver Soil Conservetk»l|i
strict. These men will be votpd
on In an election to be held the
week of December 1 to 8, 1947,
as provided by changes made in
the State Soil Conservation Di
strict law by the Legislature.
The three men receiving the
highest number of votes will be
’chosen. %
The" candidates are: Alton
'Thompson, Fred Collins and M.
E. Reeves.
i> The Soil Conservation Commit
tee wHl have the responsibility
of representing the people of thii
county and developing and di
on taa-Mtw'ittver SOU Conser
vation Board of Supervisors. The
Committee will setup, annual soil
conservation* goals a^d with as
sistance front personnel of agri
cultural agencies, develop plans
through which any agency, er
ganization. or individu*! interes
ted in soil conservation can work
in reaching the fanner* of this
county.
The candidate receiving the
highest number of votes will
serve for a period of three years,
the next highest, period of two
years, and the third highest, for
one year. Candidates are nomin
ated by submitting a petition to
the State Soil Conservatic “
mittee in Raleigh. The
i tures of 24 qualified
1 aiding within the,
pessary to place a
Lights Will Be
Turned On Fri^
Gifts Featured
Hundreds Of People Will Be
gin Christmas Shop
ping This week End
Hundreds of people are expect
ed to begin their Christmas buy
ing here in earnest this week end
when the holiday shopping sea
son is officially opened with the
turning on of the Christmas
lights and the completion of the
street decorations.
The cooperation of the mer
chants of the town and the of
ficials is asked in leaving as
much parking space as possible
for snoppers. Parking space for
employees can be found off the
main street, Homer Edwards,
chairman of the merchants com
mittee, pointed out.
Local merchants report an un
usually large assortment of gifts
as well as much practical mer
chandise. In fact, there are many
items back this year that have
not been available since before
the war. Window and interior
display all reflect the gay holi
day spirit and everything is in
readiness in all of the stores
to assist the public with Christ
mas shopping.
Today this paper, in cooperation
with the merchants issues its
annual Christmas shopping edi
tion officially used in the holi
day buying season. Throughout
this paper will be found many
advertised values which prove
that Sparta is the ideal place in
which to shop.
Cars Damaged
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Mrs. Ruth J. Choate, teacher at
Sparta nigh school, is now under
go*1'/ treatment in the Ashe
Memorial hospital at Jefferson,
following injuries sustained in
an automobile accident, Monday
morning about eight o’clock.
Mrs. Choate, en route to her
school work about eight
nUtc0f„Sp?rta near Stratford on
jLf No- Ml. collided
with a 40 Ford driven by Helen
Graves, colored school teach
er at Crumpler, also en route
to her work. The damage to the
41 Chevrolet driven by Mra.
Choate was estimated at around
?400. The car driven by the other
wreck victim was damaged ap
proximately $300. (in
Mrs. Choate was* taken to the
hospital by Walter Weaver, of
Ashe county, who passed by soon
after the accident. She suffered
a dees cut about her face as well
as other minor cuts and bruises.
Helen Graves was injured only
slightly. \
.The accident was investigated
by State Highway PatrolmeijLw,
Hi Hogan and Roger ParkerJNo
action has been taken it wat( re
ported.
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WINDOW CONTEST
TO BE HF.I.n Ht»H