ASHE COUNTY
is the air-conditioned section of
North Carolina whose altitude
ranges from 3,000 to 5,500 feet
above sea level. Twenty-five miles
of the PARKWAY run through
the county.
VOLUME IX, NO. 41
Record Docket Awaits Opening Os Ashe Court Monday
Crippled Children’s Clinic
Will Be Held Here Tomorrow
Free Eye Clinic Oct. 30-31.
Sponsored by Rotarians |
and Welfare Dept.
Plans are now being perfected
for the second cripplea children’s
clinic to be held here tomorrow,
under the sponsorship of the Jef
fersons Rotary club, in coopera
tion with the welfare department.
The clinic will be held in the
basement of the West Jefferson
Methodist church, and lunch will
be furnished by the Woman’s
Club and Rotarian Gywn Price
will supply the milk.
All crippled children previous
ly approved by the welfare de
partment will be given free ex- ;
amination at this time.
Dr. John S. Gaul, orthopaedic
surgeon of Charlotte, will be here
again and will be assisted by
public health nurses.
Miss Ruth Tugman, welfare
superintendent pointed out that
between 30 and 35 children were
expected and asked that all of •
them come in the morning, since*
Dr. Gaul wants to leave soon as- i
ter lunch. !
Gale McMillan, Rotary chair
man of the crippled children’s
clinic, said that all transporta-1
tion details had been worked out
and that everything was now in
readiness for a successful clinic.
Mr. McMillan who is also Ro
tary club chairman of the two
day free eye clinic to be held
here on Oct. 30-31, in the base
ment of the West Jefferson Meth
odist church, said that nipch in
terest was being shown in this.
A specialist from Duke Univer
sity has been secured to' come
here on those two days and to
give free examinations and pre
scriptions for gla.'W:.
Everyone in AsiL county and
especially children, who have
been approved by the Welfare
department will be eligibly to re
ceive the benefits of the,- clinic,
which is believed to be the first
of its kind ever to be held in the
county.
Applications will be approved
on the basis of need and all of
those who are interested in tak
ing advantage of this splendid
opportunity to have their child-;
ren’s eyes examined by a special
ist free of charge a;id to obtain i
glasses for them at a very small I
cost, must apply to the welfare
department before Saturday as
ternoon, October 21 and fill o’
application blanks, Miss Rr
Tugman stated.
Ashe 4-H Club
Boys Attend I
Accompanied by H. D. Qulo- .-tt
berry and C. J. Rich, twelve 4-H at
club members in Ashe county at- o:
tended the State Fair at Raleigh I i
last Friday. | -
Those from the Nathan’s Cree’
club who made the trip w-
Bill McMillan, Carson Mt
Keys, Tom Gentry, Jack M
and Willard Brown; from
New River club Were: John 1
Brown, Charles Graybeal, I.
man Little and Joe Gwyn Pr.
G. C. Greene, Jr., of West Jesse
son, who is more or less a 4-i tx
club member at-large, was tl le
12th attendant.
HEAVY FROST AND /
LOW
Jack Frost made hir ase,f
known here very effec* y ]
on Saturday and s^J n f ? y
nights by putting an end 0 6 I
remaining flowers and ' v f se ~
tables as well as to mo** of
summer’s greenery.
While there was some c*^* y
weather and a slight frost ear "
lier in the season, last year,* -J
there were no killing frosts
until much later in October.
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Many people said the frost (
on Monday morning, was one 1
of the heaviest they had ever j
seen. Stoves were rushed into ]
action over the week-end and j
local stores noted an increase i
in the sale of blankets.
Early risers reported that j
the thermometer dropped as (
low as 20 above zero around 5 (
o’clock Monday morning.
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$1.50 a Year Out of County
GIVEN MUCH PRAISE
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H. D. Quessenberry, assistant
Ashe county farm agent, who has
received much praise for his fine
work as secretary of the Ashe
county fair. (Photo by Parkway
Photo Shop.)
Legion To Have
A Corn Shucking
Hallowe’en Dance To Be Held
In Community Building,
October 31.
Plans are now being perfected
by the American Legion to hold
an old fashion corn husking in
the near future to husk the corn
donated by Major Arthur Fletch
er, the proceeds of which will go
toward the community building
fund. The date was set for Friday
night, but due to weather condi
tions has been postponed until
later.
Major Fletcher vlo is assistant
in the wage and h ’ ’ division of
the U. S.- Departi j of Labor,
has been spending few days at
his summer horn n Jefferson
and was the gw «eaker at the
Lee ion meeting ’day night.
H'e commen ' Legion of
the work her ave to them
hpif of the /own on his
whicl probably run
1 ?tween 80 00 bushels. At
p price o bushel, this
'uld amoi SBO or more.
the i <• on Saturday
ght, the icers were in-
ailed. Jack »des succeeds
apt. J. B ' is commander,
nd Glenn ybeal succeeds
-has. McPb .he new adju-
ant.
The re officers of the
jxiliar -e installed at
he mec ay night were
s foil P. G. Wright,
>ro« ; I Miller, first
■i< rs. Norman
’ ce-president;
?retary-treas-
ing worked
m dance to
agion in the
ding, Tues-
Sd D. Barr
the dance,
special costumes
be opv.. ial but that priz
es would be g’/en for the best
costumes.
Rate Os Pay Set
For Substitute
Teaches In N.C.
Substitute teachers cannot re
ceive over $3.00 per day for their
services, according to a state re
gulation which supt. J. B. Hash
received this Wo e k.
The regulation was passe d by
state authorities on October 6 and
provides the following.
cases v z here a substitute
teacher 15. payment is
to be madeuy the regular teach
er upon a basis of sixty-six and
two-thirds percent for the first
five days and 75 percent for the
remainder of the period taught,
provided that amount paid does
not exceed $3.00 per day.”
Determinded not to be near the
bottom again this year, Moore
County is putting an on a sustain
ed drive to interest more farmers
in planting winter covers crop
this fall.
THURSDAY, OCT. 19, 1939 WEST JEFFERSON, N. C.
Farmers Voting
On Committeemen
For Communities
Ballots Must Be Returned To
County Agt’s. Office Not
Later Than Oct. 23.
3,200 COOPERATING
Ballots and letters of instruc
tion have been mailed out to far
mers of Ashe county cooperating
in the Agricultural Conservation
Program, for the election of com
munity delegates, committeemen,
and alternates to serve in con
nection with the program for the
ensuing year. County Agent C. J.
Rich pointed out that there were
around 3,200 of 4,000 farmers in
the county who were participa
ting in the conservation program.
Ashe county has been divided
into six communities, each com
prised of three or more town
ships, from which the committee
men, alternates and delegates are
to be elected.
The six communities are as fol
lows: Jefferson, which includes
Jefferson, West Jefferson and
Walnut Hill townships; Peak
Creek, which includes Peak
Creek, Chestnut Hill and ObidS'
townships; Helton, which in
cludes Helton, Grassy Creek and
Piney Creek townships; Old
Fields, which includes Old Fields,
Elk and Pine Swamp townships;
| Laurel, which includes Laurel,
Pond Mountain, Horse Creek and
Hurricane townships; Creston
which includes Creston, Clifton
and Northfork townships.
When ballots have been proper
ly filled out and signed by farm
ers cooperating in the agricultural
conservation program they should
I be returned to the office of the
i county agent not later than Mon
day, Oct. 23.
> Ballots will be checked on the
I following Tuesday by members of
! the present agricultural county
committee, and the new county
committee will be selected before
Oct. 31.
Those chosen from each of the
six communities will be in charge
of the conservation program in
their respective communities and
| will assist and advise all coop
erating farmers.
! The present members of the
county committee are: R. W. Har
din, Chairman, J. R. Phipps, vice
chairman, W. L. Dent, J. C. Lit
tle, first alternate, J. C. Good
man, second alternate.
Wright Installed
V - Commander
American Legion
Impressive Ceremony Held in
Greenville. Home of New
Dept. Commander.
P. G. Wright, West Jefferson
freight agent and one of the
state’s outstanding Legionnaires,
was installed in office as vice
commander of the American Le
gion of the Department of North
Carolina during an impressive
service held in Greenville Mon
day night.
The installation was a grand
climax- to a two-day program of
the department officers. Junius
Rose, superintendent of the
schools in Greenville, was in
stalled as state commander, suc
ceeding Burgin Pennell, of Ashe
ville. Mrs. Weaver Mann, of New
ton, is the new president of the
department Auxiliary and Cecil
Pate, of Charlotte, grand chef de
gare of the Forty and Eight.
Henry Stevens, past national
commander, was in charge of in
stalling the Legion officers.
Various committee meetings
were held on Sunday and Mon
day. In the afternoon a large
parade was staged and following
the installation ceremony, a dance
took place.
Commander Wright was ac
companied by Mrs. Wright and
Ed M. Anderson, who also visited
that section of the state in the
interest of the North Carolina
Press Association.
FAIR COMMITTEE TO MEET
An important executive com
mittee meeting of the Ashe Coun
ty Fair will be held Friday night
at 8 o’clock in The Skyland Post
office. During this meeting, plans
for holding the fair next year will
be discussed.
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For a distance of over 100 miles along the frontier be
tween France and Germany, where the Allies and Germans
are engaged in another great war, there are millions of men
either in action or ready to swing into the battle. Shown
here are three Belgians watching the frontier.
German Bombers Repeat
Air Raids On British Ships
NEW POLISH PRESIDENT
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Paris—Photo shows Wlahislaw
Raczkiewicz, president of the new
Polish government set up in Pa
ris to take the place of the refu
gee government interned in Ru
mania.
All High Schools
In County Are On
Accredited Lists
Representatives From State
Dept. Visited Schools On
Monday and Tuesday.
All high schools in Ashe coun
ty are on the accredited list, but
only two of the nine central
schools have the required num
ber of supplementary readers and
other equipment necessary for the
elementary departments to be on
the accredited list, it was learned
from Supt. Hash yesterday.
A. B. Combs and David Miller,
representatives of the state de
partment of public instruction,
were in the county Monday and
Tuesday and visited all of the
central high schools except Vir
ginia-Carolina.
They stated there is been much
improvement made in each school
that they visited and expressed
the belief that all of them will
meet the new standard of re
quirements relative to supple
mentary readers and various
equipment as soon as necessary
funds can be raised by the local
schools.
Thomas Promoted
To Corporal Rank
W. C. Thomas, popular State
Highway Patrolman, who has
been Stationed here since 1935
was promoted to a corporal rank
on Friday by Major John Arm
strong, commanding officer of the
state highway patrol.
Mr. Thomas who has become
recognized for his ability and ef
ficiency as an officer has many
friends here, and throughout the
state who will be pleased to learn
of his promotion.
Carlyle Ingle, corporal of North
Wilkesboro was promoted to a
sergeant. Lee Phillips of Elkin
was among the others promoted
to a corporal rank.
Turks Reject Soviet Terms
And Turn To Allies.
Hitler Blamed.
LONDON German warplanes
struck twice Tuesday at the Sca
pa Flow lair of Britain’s fleet,
hitting and damaging the train
ing ship Iron Duke, and ranged
over the east coast of England
and Scotland in widespread scout
ing raids.
Four German planes were re
ported shot down, bringing their
losses to eight in two days.
The attacks followed Monday’s
raid on the Edinburgh and Firth
of Forth area in which three Bri
tish naval vessels were slightly
damaged, 16 sailors and officers
killed and 45 injured.
They came as the government
disclosed that the heavily-defend
ed Scapa Flow harbor was the
scene of the U-boat sinking Sat
' urday of the battleship Royal
Oak, with 786 men lost.
In the first attack Tuesday, at
10:30 a. m., four German planes
damaged the training ship Iron
Duke, Admiral Jellicoe’s flagship
in the world war, Scapa Flow was
the scene of one of the most dra
matic incidents in naval history
when the German high seas fleet
was scuttled there June 21, 1919,
iby German sailors who opened
I the seaclocks rather than let the
I British have the surrendered
ships intact.
One of the four planes was said
by the British to have been shot
down in the first attack, and an
other damaged.
The second attack was from
12:30 to 2:30 p. m. and was by
“two formations of six and four
airplanes” the admiralty said.
No damage was done and one
German plane destroyed, the ad
miralty reported.
TURKEY TURNS TO ALLIES
ISTANBUL, Turkey. Prime
Minister Refik Saydam, in an of
ficial communique Tuesday night
said the negotiations with soviet
Russia had failed because the so
viet demands were contrary to
Turkish security.
It was reported reliably that a
definite agreement with Britain
will be signed in Ankara this
week, probably Thursday or Fri
day.
The official communique said
the prime minister, in a statemenf
to a parliamentary group of the
republican people’s party, de
clared the soviet government had
suggested to Turkey proposals
entirely different from those pre
viously agreed upon.
HITLER GIVEN BLAME
LONDON —Britain made pub
lic Tuesday the “final report” of
Sir Nevile Henderson on his am
bassadorship to Berlin in which
he recounted in picturesque
phrases the last days of peace,
the “tragedy of Adolf Hitler and
sidelights on “yes men” around
the nazi chieftain.
The 12,000 word white paper
stressed repeatedly that Hitler
alone made the decision to go to
war, Sir Nevile writing that
“though he spoke of his artistic
tastes and his longing to satisfy
them, I derived the impression
that the corporal of the last war
was even more anxious to prove
what he could do as a conquering
generalissimo in the next.”
SI.OO a Year in Ashe County
AAA Supervisors
To Finish Their
Work This Month
Over 2,700 Farms Checked.
Farmers Asked to Report
Application of Lime.
RECORD IS MADE
Supervisors of the soil conser
vation program in Ashe are now
rapidly completing their work of
checking the 3,200 farms in the
county that are participating in
the 1939 farm program, it was
learned this week from the coun
ty farm agent’s office.
To date over 2,700 of these
farms have been checked to de
termine the amount of compli
ance with the ’39 program, leav
ing less than 500 more to be
checked before the end of this
month, it was announced.
Clark Houck, county supervis
or, has requested all farmers
who have applied lime or phos
phate on their farms to notify the
agent’s office immediately so that
full credit can be given.
Gwyn Price emphasized the im
portance of making these reports
to the office and explained that
probably a good deal of lime
have been applied after
the supervisor had made his
check.
In connection with this pro
gram, Mr. Price said that a final
order for two carloads of super
phosphate were dispatched last
Friday and that this order
brought the county’s total requi
sition for phosphate through the
AAA program to 500 tons, which
is nearly twice as much as any
other county in the state has got
ten this year.
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He further-said that a number
of farmers have bought right
much lime and phosphate through
other sources, all of which means
that Ashe farmers are making
splendid progress in building up
their cultivated soil and pasture
lands.
Major Fletcher
Spends Vacation
In Ashe County
Returned to Washington Yes
terday to Investigate De
partmental Changes.
Major and Mrs. A. L. Fletcher,
of Washington, D. C., who spent
the past week at their summer
home in Jefferson, returned to
the capitol city last night.
They had planned to stay until
Saturday, but the sudden resigna
tion of Elmer F. Andrews as ad
ministrator of the wage-hour di
vision of the United States labor
department, which took place
Tuesday, caused Major Fletcher
to cut short his vacation and re
turn to Washington.
Major Fletcher is assistant to
Mr. Andrews and intimate friends
of his here state that the resigna
tion may prove to be a “break”
for Mr. Fletcher for he has been
handicapped in putting across the
enforcement program because of
some of the Administrator’s po
licies.
Col. Philip Fleming has been
appointed as acting head of the
division until another adminis
trator is appointed. Intimate
friends also believe that Major
Fletcher may get this appoint
ment.
The Major said he hated to
leave before he got around to see
many of his old friends. “I love
Ashe county and its people and
always look forward to the oppor
tunity of coming back here for a
little vacation. This is a great
county and has wonderful possi
bilities for futher development,”
he declared.
ARMY OFFICER RETIRES
Friends of Col. Walter S. Stur
gill will be interested to know
he has retired and is living at
Pellwood, Highland Falls, N. Y.
He graduated at N. C. State
college in 1900 and taught there
one year before going to West
Point Military Academy.
He is the son of the late Mr.
and Mrs. Byron Sturgill and bro
ther of Mrs. C. E. Carty, of Lan
sing and Mrs. E. G. Caudill of
Bina.
WANT A HOSPITAL?
If you want a Hospital in Ashe
County, JOIN the ASHE COUN
TY HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION.
Co-operation and support from
everybody is needed to put the
movement over. We now have
a Golden Opportunity!
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
Several Murder
And Assault Cases
Listed For Trial
Judge Felix Alley to Preside.
Large Crowd Expected
Each Day of Court.
60 CASES IN ALL
One of the heaviest dockets
ever compiled in Ashe county
now awaits the opening of the
October criminal term of super
ior court which will convene next
Monday morning and last for one
week, with Judge Felix Alley
presiding and Attorney Earle Mc-
Michael serving as solicitor.
There are three murder cases,
three assault with a deadly wea
pon with intent to kill and one
manslaughter case listed on the
60 cases recorded on the docket
so far.
The murder cases are, Clifford
Church, of Warrensville, charged
with the shooting of his wife;
Boyce Means Cole, charged with
running over and killing Charlie
Blevins near Jefferson last sum
mer and three men, Clarence
Graham, Bowie Weaver and
Wells Stedham, of the Horse
Creek section, charged with mur
dering Edward Hampton with a
rock. It is stated that the Cole
charge may be changed to man
slaughter.
Clay Greer and Onnie Greer
are under bonds and will face
trial on assault charges of injur
ies to Harley Campbell. Tom El
dreth, of near Lansing, who was
bound over to superior court by
Magistrate Paul Williams last
Friday on a charge of assaulting
Winfield Poe with intent to kill,
is slated for trial next week and
James Potter is charged wit& as
aaulfing a Roark boy.
Roscoe Eldreth, of Horse Creek,
who has been under bond of $2,-
000 for about a year following a
manslaughter charge resulting
from the fatal accident of Reeves
Other cases on the docket are
as follows:
J. H. Jordan. Woodrow Greer,
Everett Richardson and Onnie
Miller are to face assault charges.
Howard McGuire, Hunter Tuck
er, Earl Founts, Boyd Darnell.
Fred Walker and Weldon Royal
are charged with stealing. Rebec
ca Miller, S. T. Blackburn, Kyle
Shumaker and Lee Wilcox have
violation of prohibition charges
lodged against them. Jess Hurley,
Walter Brooks, Frank Taylor,
Ford Bare and Joe Stike are to
face drunken driving charges.
Hurley Lyles and Lundy Darnell
are charged with making whis
key. Dr. J. O. Tucker is charged
with obtaining money from the
First National Bank here through
false pretense and forgery. Ray
mond Sharpe and Harry Bare
face seduction charges. Judson
Cope is charged with operating a
slot machine and on the docket
are also a number of other more
or less minor cases.
It is pointed out that all of
these cases cannot be tried dur
ing a one-week term and a num
ber of them, including perhaps
some of the major ones, will be
continued.
A large crowd is expected to
pack the courtroom each day.
Union County has enough certi
fied Coker 100 Strain 2 cotton
seed to plant most of the county
next year, reports T. M. May
field, assistant farm agent of the
State College Extension Service.
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