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-> Alleghank County. Outstanding Livestock, Agri cnlture and Tourist Center,! With A Population of 8.J4L . VOLUME 58, NO. 35 $2.00 a Year in Alleghany County SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, DEC. 18, 1947 $2.50 a Year Out of Counts' Officers Raid Still In Glade Creek Township Destroy 100-Gallon Boiler And 1,000 Gallons Of Mash; Make Other Arrests A 100-gallon still with the boil er still warm from a recent run, was captured and destroyed by local officers in a raid last Thursday. Approximately 1,000 gallons of mash was destroyed also. The still was located in Glade Creek township near Fox Hunter’s Paradise. No arrests were made in connection with the raid. Several arrests were made by local officers this week. Worth Darnell, of Furches is charged with stealing and removing posts from the property Of Mrs. Laura Plummer near Cranberry church. A hearing will be hfeld for Dar nell before Justice B. F. Wag oner, Saturday. Otho Edwards, of Sparta, was arrested Sunday on a public drunkenness charge and a hear ing has been set for January 10. Jesse Mac Reeve* of Sparta, was also charged with public drunkenness and a hearing has been set for Friday, before Jus tice Wagoner. Canned Food Is Given Orphanage 37 % Cans Of Food, Valued At $522.00, Sent To Thomasville of Allefpiany coun jave generously to. the Baptist Orphanage at Thomasville, and according to a report from J. P. ■cvoiey, treasurer of the orphan of food were sent value of the food was at $522.00. Two contri MAKE TRIP TO MD. Ross Richardson . and Wayne Hoppers accompanied Sheriff G. D. Richardbon to Baltimore, Md., lr»t week on official business. Letters Sent To Drive Chairmen Tew uship Quotas Not Yd Announced; Committee . Now At Work Laities are being sent to town ship chairman in die VFW build ing fund drive, W. Carl Irwip. county chairman, stated this week. Due to conflicting meetings last Friday night, all of the townahip chairmen were unable to be present. The importance of the drive was stressed by Mr. Irwin at the meeting of the Chamber of Com merce and after the play, given at Piney Creek high school, Sat urday night. The county’s quota has been set at $6,000 but aa yet township quotas have not been announced. VA committee, however, has been appointed to assign quotas and they should be ready to announce by next week, l|r. Irwin Tax Listing Will Get Underway In Alleghany, Jan. 1 TAX SUPERVISOR Ernest E. Edwards, who was named tax supervisor for 1948. Sparta Teams Divide Honors; WiH Play Fri. jrieas basketball teams split honors here on the local court last Tues day with the hometown girls being victorious and the visiting boys. The boys, fighting a team that holds the record of being unde feated in seven games, held them to‘a 36-29 margin. The an easy 20-10 victory. Is, how otOS’ Grove, again winner and the girls the losers. The Sugar Grove lassies won a 37-30 victory and the Sparta boys a 47-25 victory. The last game before Christmas holidays begin for the school, will be played here at seven o'clock tomorrow night when the Miller’s Creek teams will come here. 4-H Clubs Will Have Xmas Parlies All county 4-H chibs are en joying Christmas parties this week. Piney Creek, Tuesday morning; Laurel Springs and Whitehead, Wednesday; Sparta, two Junior clubs Thursday morn ing; Sparta, Senior, and Glade Valley, Senior Clubs will have their Christmas party at the Community Building Thursday night, and Cherry Lane, Little Pine and Rich Hill clubs will have their party Friday. 4-H club members exchange gifts by, drawing names and re freshments are furnished by dub treasurers. Christmas songs and various recreation activities are enjoyed by members. Ernest E. Edwards Is Named Supervisor By Commissioners Tax listing for 1948 will get underway in the county on Jan uary 1 in the various townships, tax supervisor Ernest E. Ed wards announced this week. List ing will begin it^ Glade Creek township on January 1 and in the other townships on January 5 and 6. A list of the various commit tees and time and place of listing will be published inr full next week. Listers are Arthur Gambill Gap Civil; C. G. Mitchell, Pra ther’s Creek; Blake Hampton, Piney Creek; W. E. Hoppers, Whitehead; MrS. T. S- Moxley, Cranberry. The lister has not been named for Cherry Lane township. Mr. Edwards was named by the county commissioners to serve as tax supervisor. He re places G. Glenn Nichols who had previously held that position. Tobacco Sales On W. J. Mart Total $380,000 Plenty Of Buyers, Govern ment Graders; Prices Are Considered Good West Jefferson (Special) Sales at the Tri-State, -Burley Warehouse surpassed the 900,000; mark yesterday and are expected to go beyond a million pounds to day, with an average ■» for the season of 40 cents, f totalling more than $380,000.00. Since the market opened a week later than others, the vol ume is tWmS*. unusually gOOd1 as well as . the average prica, judging from the quality of to bacco offered far sale. The bat ter grades have brought as Ugh as sixty cents.. The market has plenty of buy ers from all of the larger com panies, as well as independent buyers. Government graders are also on the job. Grower* from North Carolina, Tennessee, Vir ginia and West Virginia, have brought tobacco here to be sold. Farmers, near and far, are ex pressing their satisfaction over the prices brbught on the West Jefferson market. -=* i Sales Will close on Friday until after the holidays, but the ware house will remain open contin ually to receive tobacco except on Christmas day, it was an nounced. Junior Guild To Give Party, Sat. The Junior Guild of the Sparta Methodist church will hold their December meeting and Christmas party, Tuesday night at 7:00 o’ clock in the home of Miss Bon nie Sue McMillan. Each member is asked to bring a present and visitors are wel come to attend. Dressef Are Packed For Europe ' fa response to the urgent need ofthe distressed peoples of Europe tor textile produets, U. S. mills under a vol untary program initiated by die American Cotton Manu facturers Association have contributed enough cloth to Mput equivalent of a quarter of a million dresses. Of ...... ,» shota inspecting some of thnclofa prior to Agricultural Picture Of Europe Related To Marshall Plan This map made by the office of foreign agriculture relations of the U. S. department of agriculture, should figure prominently in discussions of the Marshall plan. The black ’ circles show the areas and the amounts of wheat and rye exported. The shaded circles indicate the amounts of wheat and rye th it are imported by the respective areas. County Schools Will All Close Fri. For Holidays Will Re-Open December 29; Attendance Is Unusually Good For December Alleghany schools will all close on Friday for the Christ mas holidays and will re-open on Monday, December 29, Miss Clyde Fields, county superintendent, an nounced yesterday. Most of tae schools are hav ing special Christmas programs and gome of them, treats for children on the closing day., Mis* FiCWs pointed outthat the attendance had been unusually ghdd this fall and that, favorable winter weather had helped this. Favorable weather has also cut down transportation pro blems and as a whole the roads are in better condition than usual for tills time of year, it was ex plained. ~ C. Of C. Meeting Is Well Attended Members of the Chamber of Commerce and specially invited guests were shown tie movie on North Carolina, shown through the courtesy of Esso Marketers, Friday night. Around 45 members were pre sent for the dinner meeting which was prepared and served by C. G. Teitz. Carl Irwin, county chairman of the drive to raise funds for the VFW building fund, was also present for the meeting and spoke to the group concerning tie drive. The picture on North Carolina was also shown in the county to school children at Piney Creek, Sparta and Glade Valley. Name Officer For New Year Mrs. Ben Reeved was named president of the W. M. S. of tie Sparta Baptist church at a meeting held recently at the home of Mrs. F. G. Walker. Na med to aerve with her for the coming year were Mrs. Hugh Choate, vice president;' Mrs. Joe Bill Reed, secretary; and Mrs. Wayne Waddell, treasurer. , Others named included Mrs. Clennel Richardson and Mrs. Richardson Amos Wagoner, young people's! director; Mrs. Sam Porter, pian ist; Mrs. Roy Burgiss, publicity chairman; - Mrs. Isom Wagoner Churches Of County Plan To Observe Christmas With Program; Schedule Given Wade E. Ellar Heard At Meet Of Farm Bureau Speaks On Proposed Hospital; Committee Named To Work With County Group At the meeting of the Alleghany Farm BUreau- last week, Wade E.' Eller, district sanit#lan, was pre sent and spoke to the group on possibilities of a county hospital. Rush Thompson, president of the bureau, named / a committee to work with the rliaspital commit tee here in the county. Named on the committee were Charlie COllins, Arthur Gambill and Left Joines. Also present at the meeting was George Farthing, field rep resentative of .the North Caro lina Farm Bureau. Watauga string band furnish ed music during the meeting and refreshments were served. County Offered X-Ray Machine Mrs. Mary Taylor Britt of the veteran’s hospital in Roanoke, Va., and her husband, Dr. Britt, have offered to donate an X-ray machine for the Alleghany hos pital if one is built in the near future. Tnis machine cost $10, 000.00 new and has been used in a hospital in Georgia. This hos pital was closed and Dr. Britt is now working with the veterans hospital in Baltimore, Md. Mrs. Britt 4s the sister of Chief of Police Brant Taylor. Most Services Planned For Sunday; Pageants And. Plays Planned ' Alleghany county churches are making plans to fittingly observe Christmas as are other organiza tions and the schools here in the county. A service will be held at the Sparta Baptist church, SundH morning at eleven o’clock, vvfl i,“Song of the Nativity^ will* the theme of .the Service. evening service will be held at seven o’clock and a special pro gram of Christmas carols has been planned by the choir. The subject of the program will be ‘The Other Wise Men." Hev. F. G. Walker, pastor, cordially in vites the public. Christmas Blessings,41 a story, and colored slides will be thow& at the Maple Shade Methodist church, Sunday night at 7:30 o’clock and at the Piney Creek .Methodist church on Monday night at 7:30 o’clock. The slides and illustrations will be given by Rev. W. H. Yokeley. A service will be held Sun day night at 7:30 o’clock at the Osborne Memorial Baptist church. (Continued on page 8) Boy Scout Meet Called Tonight -— All persons interested in reviv ing the Boy Scout Troop of Spar ta, are asked to meet tonight at 7:30 o’clock at the Sparta Baptist church. This meeting will determine whether or not the troop will be continued in .Sparta, R. J. Ran dolph, scout commissioner, stated and said that he hoped all scouts and persons interred in scout ing would be present . Dr. Zeno Wall Succeeds Greer As Orphange Head Dr. Zeno Wall of Shelby will succeed Dr. I. G. Greer as super intendent of the Baptist Orphan age of North Carolina, and Dr. Greer will succeed Dr. Wall as chairman of the institution's board of trustees. ' The appointments were made Tuesday at a meeting of the trus tees. in Greensboro. Dr. Greer resigned as superin tendent to become executive vice president of the Business Founda tion of North Carolina on Jan uary 1, with' headquarters in Chapel Hill. He had been super intendent of the orphanage for 15 years, and in recent years also served as president of the North Carolina Good Health AssoCia meat in selecting a man so em inently fitted to carry on the or phanage’s activities.” Dr. Greer said that the or phanage—both at Mills Home here and at Kennedy Home, in Kinston—was in the soundest of financial and organisational con dition, and that he was leaving the post only because his new position will present enlarged op portunities for service. Dr. Wall is a native of Ruther ford county. He attended Macs Hill college, the Southern Bap tist Theological Seminary at Louisville’ Ky., and received his D. D. degree from Mississippi college in 1916. He was pastor of the First Baptist church of Gbkisboro from 1922 to when he moved to the church. Mrs. Duncan, 66, Passes At Home Here Fri. Night Last Rites Held Sunday Al« - ternoon For Well-known Alleghany Woman Funeral service for Mrs. Della Woodruff Duncan, 66, well-known Sparta woman, was held Sun day afternoon at two o’clock at the Presbyterian church. Offi ciating was Rev. w. H. Yokeley, pastor of the Methodist church ana he was assisted bv Rev F G- Walker. Burial was in the church cemetery. Pall bearers were C. G. Porter Bryant Collins, Alton Thompson, Doughton Perry and R. C. Todd. T.ie daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Welburn Woodruff, of Alleghany, she was married to D. C. Duncan, who survives. She succumbed at her home here Friday night after a lingering ill ness. * In addition to her husband she is survived by one son, Edwin Duncan, of Sparta; two grand children, Jane and Edwin Dun can, Jr., one brother, Dr. Fred Woodruff, of High Point; and one sister, Mrs; M. 4 Collins. Cars Collide On Parkway Saturday Pick-up Hits Taxi Head On; Damage Estimated At $400.00 Dale Atwood, of Stratford, driving a ’37 Ford pickup, owned by Lonnie Musgrove, collided with a ’46 Plymouth Taxi driv en by Lloyd Maines, of Sparta on Lie Parkway near Fox Hunt er’s Paradise Saturday night around eleven o’clock. Atwood was enroute to Cumberland Knob when he head-on. Neither howev ceny hearing been set. Investigating State Highway patroimtu, Hpgan and Roger Parker, C. Brant Tayl Caudell. Breeders Ass’n Has Equipment The artificial breeding pro gram will get underway in the county, January 1, as all the nec essary equipment will be avail able then for UtC insemination work in the county, Harry Lee Wingler, Alleghany technician, stated this week. Already 89 farm members have joined the county breeder’s as sociation. They will be sent ship ping tags which may be attached to milk cans for service re quests. There is no chance of spread ing Bang’s Disease in the breed ing program,,it wa£ pointed out and only a $5 service charge is made. The new artificial - breeding program is a non-profit organi zation and is sponsored by the John p. Rockefeller Foundation in me interest of better dairying in Alleghany as well as nine other counties in North Carolina. . Mr. Wingler has urged that all farmers interested nservice pay their lifetime membership fee to the organization. * Gifts Will Be SentToNeedy The. Sparta Lions Club wffl The packages will be distri buted by club members next week end and they wil ge to ed by the
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