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THE OANKURV REPGRi tiK
Established 1872
FIRST STOKES '
WAR CASUALTYj
JERRY R. DODSON REPORTED j
MISSING IN ACTION IN j
NORTH AFRICA—FIVE DOD- ,
SON BOYS IN SERVICE.
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Jerry R. Dodson, son of Mr. ,
* \ and Mrs. Jerry R. Dodson of San-1
>
dy Ridge, is reported by the War ,
Department as missing in action 1 ,
tin the North African war zone ;
since Feb. 17.
It is presumed that the Sandy
Ridge young man was probably
captured by the Rommel forces in
uTelr Vig urive against the Amer
j
icans and British in February.
i
Stokes county has upwards or
900 men in the service now, and
this is the first casualty reported
among our boys.
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry W. Dodsoi
have now five sons in the service,
counting the missing one ani
Guilford Waine Dodson, who left
today for Camp Croft, S. C.

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£ J. A. Mitchell
f Dies In Ohio,
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J. A. Mitchell of Lima, Ohio, 1
brother of the late Jerry M. Mit- j
chell, of Stokes county, and uncle'
Of W. R. Mitchell-of Pilot Moun- j
tain, died at St. Ritee Hospital, 1
Lima, Ohio, Saturday night at 10
o'clock.
He had been employed by the
State of Ohio Tor the past 29
years.
Funeral services were conduct
ed Wednesday afternoon at 1 o'-
clock at the Brim Grove Baptist
Church in the Pilot Mountain
community with Rev. Dennis M.
Larkins officiating. Burial follow
ed in the church graveyari.
L
"y New Business
For Walnut Cove
»/ E. O. Creakman, well-known
Walnut Cove business man, has
opened a restaurant and confec
tionery in Walnut Cove hi the
corner next to Riley Turner's
Store.
Mr. Creakman cordially invites
his friends to call when in town.
He has a very convenient and at
tractive place.
Death Of Yancy Sams
Yancy F. Sams, aged 89, of
Pinnacle, Route 1, died at his
home Monday night at 11 o'clock.
Funeral services were held Wed
nesday afternoon at 4 o'clock at
the Brim Grove Baptist Church.
Rev. Fletcher Manuel and A .Z.
Shumake officiating ministers. Bur
\ 1 ial in the church graveyard,
f*' Survivors include the wife and
the following children: Mrs. J. R
i Hicks of Rural Hall; Mrs. J. S
' * Hicks, Mrs. M. H. Hill, and Mrs
C. R. Combs, all of Winston-Sa
lem; and Mrs. J. W. Caudle, E. R
Sams, and Mrs. J. W. Hicks, a)
of Pinnaote; and James Saaw o:
PI-.. .fcjrAAtv.
Volume 72
changes in
iaies, Distribution
Of Beer in State
Raleigh, March 9.—S everai
changes in the laws regulating
the sale and distribution of beer
in North Carolina were made by i
the 1943 General Assembly.
A compilation of the new sta-1
tutes, prepared by the Northi
Carolina Committee of the Brew
ing Industry Foundation, follows:
j Sale of beer between the hours 1
of 11:30 p. m. and 7 a. m. is pro
hibited. This statute also stipu
. latcs that no beer shall !;e con
sumed on the premises of the
I
dealers between midnight and 7
a.m.
Municipal governing boat'id an 1
county boards o; conraiasion-.-i.;
'may regulate or prohibit sr.la of
| beer on Sundays. Municipalities
have exclusive jurisdiction within
their municipal boundaries, th o
statute provides.
| Retail "off-premises" license
ifces were reduced; county from
1 $25.00 to $5.00 and municipal
».from SIO.OO to $5.00. No chfihge
(was made in other retail license
I
taxes.
I
j An amendment to the Beverage
Contral Act makes it a violation
'of the law and grounds for revo
cation of a retail dealer's license
to
| 1. Sell beer to any person un
der 18 years of age.
j 2. Sell beer "to any person
while such person is in an intox
icated condition."
! 3. Sell Bieer or permit its con
sumption upon licensed premises
during illegal hours.
| 4. Permit any disorderly con
duct, breach of peace, or any
lewd, immoral, or improper en
tertainment, conduct or practices.
5. Sell, offer for sale, possess or
' permit consumption on licensed
, premfses of any kind of alcoholic
, liquors not authorized by law.
.! This amendment also permits
> revocation proceedings to be filec
,' with the State Commissioner oi
5 |
j Revenue, and clothes him with
, authority to revoke or suspenr
retail beer licenses. The law does
no? change the provision permit
jting local geverning boards to re
voke licenses.
These changes in the laws'wen
approved by the organized bee;
f industry of North Carolina whiri
s has conducted a self-regulatioi
•• program in this state for foui
" years.
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'* J Meadows Artist
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YounT Wilson Johnson, 14
o
years-old, in the 9th school grade
d possesses fine talent in drawing
t. His father, Clem Johnson, of Wal
5. nut Cove, Route 1, was here Tues
t
3. day and showed some samples o
i- his boy's work which evidenc
I. marked ability which shoul
H certainly be developed. Wilson ha
>f in him unquestioned artistic abii
. 1 1
Danbury, N. C., Thursday, March 11. \m
j STOKES IROIS Diil'OSiTS MAY iiE 3
developed
1 The State Department of Conservation has re- 
eently, probably at the suggestion of the federal
government, started a movement for the develop-,
ment of the State's mineral wealth, which will
ibe of special interest to a great many Stokes;
! County people.
H. A. Brassert, world-famed mineralogist and I
engineer, has been employed to make a thorough 11
■ survey of the State's mineral possibilities.
Mr. Brassert and several eminent
are expected to begin the survey this week, start- c
ing with the coal fields in Lee and Chatham coun- i t
_ . i
ties and working westward to ine mica, copper ,
and iron beds of the mountains.
Along Dan river from Clemmons ford to Dan
bury, and in quite a wide area elsewhere, there
v seme of the finest quality of iron ore as weU
as manganese and other minerals.
In the days cy the Civil War iron in large quar.- ,
I.ities was taken from the profuse beds in this
.section of the county and manufactured into
pigs or ingots in Catalan forges. One of these
forges operated at Danbury and another at
l i Clemmons. I
t ' !
The mica deposits in the Sandy Ridge and (
j Brown Mountain sections are now being de
' iveloped.
U-BOAT IS LOSING THE FIGHT
11
[ I The German submarine has wreaked terrible,
" havoc with the allies' shipping since the war be
igan, but is now rapidly being overcome. i
The best proof of the fact that the U-boat is
, losing the fight comes out this week in the an
. nouncement of reduced premiums on shipping
insurance. j
- The big insurance companies like Lloyds of
s [London are now offering cheaper rates for ships
| plying the oceans from America and England
-1 loaded with ammunition and food going to the
y United Nation's battle fronts. i
- America and England have achieved superior
! iity in the air over the Germans. In the Pacific'
r |the American Flying Fortresses have all but run
d the Japs out of all contested areas.
0 In Africa, caught between the British and
American armies, supplemented by the Free
s French, Rommel is faring hard. Only a question
d of time before Tunisia will be cleared of the
11 Huns and Italians.
h
d A temporary German counter-attack has halt
,s ed the Russian drive near Kharkov, but Joe
t Stalin has taken charge and the gain by the
2 Huns will hardly be held for any length of time.
The allied skies are steadily growing brighter.
1 GOVERNOR LANDON ACHIEVES FAME
•h
m Former Governor Alf M. Landon of Kansas in
:r a speech the other day advised the Democrats to
join with the Republicans in kicking out the
Roosevelt administration which "has prevented
us from returning to the prosperity of Hoover."
4 Thus the 1936 candidate against Roosevelt
J clearly reaches the pinnacle of fame so abrupt
e' ly denied him in 1936, by establishing himself as
* America's prince of jokers.
s . Mr. Landon's sense of humor is so kgen it will
Df set the whole country grinning. In North Caro
ce lina it is the funniest gesture since the Union Re
i,i publican discovered the Stokes »county Gestapo,
as Even the horses, if they did not envision their
u- steak fate now no imminent, would join in with
their laugh, too. k i.,. >, v
Published Thursdays
MARCH BOND 1
QUOTA *IO,OOI/
i
UURMAN MISS UK VCi; i \\ - j
LOR APPEALS TO ALL C OM
MITTEES AND WORKER."* To
1)0 THEIR BEST TO BRING
UP THE COUNTY'S ALLOT ,
/
MENT.
r
War bonds sold in Stokes dui
ing February amounted to sl7,- ''
850.
Chairman of the Stokes Com-
i
mittee Miss Grace Taylor, announ- >
ces that the quota for March has 1
been set at $10,1)00 and she ap- '•
peals to all committees and work- |
CTS to use their best efforts tii.u I
our allotment may be rai.vd.
Everybody, men and \v->i !•••!
and ciiil lien are onraiHi;. i..vi • :
t> uuy boil is an I stain; s i • i >
of 1 litii ability. Ti;is i.- 1
bopt and f.alVst i.iwstiuein in ' •
world and the money is to lx uk I
to elothe, feed ami arm our boy- -
in the service who are doing their
whole duty.
I
County War Board
To Aid Deferment
Of Farm Laborers
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In a move to relieve the short
age of farm workers, the Stokes
' County L'SDA War Board has
been asked to make requests for
deferment of farm workers to lo
cal Selective Service officials, ac
cording to Jacob Fulton, chairman
of the board.
I
' Under a new program announe
ed by Secretary of Agriculture
Wickard and Selective Service Di-,
rector, Lewis B. Hershey, County
USD A War Boards have been ask
'ed to take steps to place farm
workers in deferred classifications
even tfiough the worker or his
employer does not seek deferment,
the chairman said.
If a local draft board finds a
' farm worker is not producing
1 enough war units to warrant de
i
ferment, it must refer the case to
| the local war board and allow 30
'days for the worker to be placed
in another job before calling him
f i
j for induction into the armed for
ces, it was pointed out. Cases of
farm workers producing an insuf
' ficient number of war units for
deferment previously have been
referred to the U. S. Employment
Service.
"This latest move by the Man
' | power Commission is designed to
I keep as many workers as possible
, on farms in order that the na
tion's food production goals may
', be met this year," Mr. Fulton
! said. "TTie memorandum to draft
' jboards provides that farm work
ers are to be retained in deferred
. classifications even though it
means quotas for the armed for
• ces cannot be met immediately.
The "County War Board also has
. been given the privilege of ap
j pealing from decisions" 7>T local
(Continwd an OMk page)
Number 3,697
UEI) CROSS ASKS
.$5,1>0 OF STOKES
I'lltST ( AMI'AK.N IN STOKKS
SINCE 1911.
The War Fund Drive ol' the
American Red Cross, in its first
request ior contributions since
1941, is asking Stokes county for
$5,480 as its quota.
Each township in the county;
will be organized and workers
will solicit donations from each
family in that particular town
ship.
, Quotas for the nine to? >j'.s
of th.' county ;•!• ■■- : >.v*:
Yo-ikin tuw.-i.v Sa it
;ov.n •- i '»• •; y
•••'. >: P.-iv.. i. . ! "
>r>Mr; Snow Civ !•: t •■vn.siiip,
Soli(I; !,i j Ctivk 1i.?.-.:;v;ip, n.jiiO,
C. R. Wall Reminisces
! C. 11. Wall, the Beaver island
philosopher and the Madison Mes
senger's iconoclast, was here Mon
day, looking around for some in
come tay L j; Ivi. Mr. Wall said
any instructions or instructors
about filling out income tax
blanks, didn't appeal to him. What
he wanted was to fill out his out
go.
Mr. Wall while in town did
some quite interesting reminisc
ing. He told of a visit he made to
an old Baptist Association held
at Old Clear Spring Church back
I
in the old days before this church
was moved to its present location
;
at Meadows. Then the site of
Clear Spring church was at a
place between the Joe Blackburn
place and the Reuben East place,
i When Mr. Wall got there he
: stopped at a spring near the
1 1
r I church where he saw a steer
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hitched to a one-horse wagon on
( which a barrel of brand> sat.
j The driver, he said, sold booze all
. day, and although there were 1500
'people at the Association there
was less drunkenness than he saw
.' at a certain town the other day.
I j
. | "If we had that barrel of bran-*
r| dy in Danbury today, cold as it
n is," Mr. Wall remarked, "as many
t farmers ss there are here, I won
-1
( der how many income tax blanks
'would be correctly filled out." '
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; Men Inducted Must
| Give Up Gas Ration
!; Washington, March G. Men
t inducted into the army must sur
. render their ration books the day
j they enter the service, the War
I Department announced.
-j There is one exception—the
. Basic "A" gasoline ration book
s may be kept by the soldier if he
I
- stiTi tTwns Ms automobile and the
I _ _
1 «ar will fee used by an authorized
person while b« ia in the ar*f.