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VOLUME 10, NO. 24
German Troops Nearing Paris As They Advance On Allies
Austin Is Chosen
New Commander
Os Legion Post
Election of Officers Held Sat
urday Night. Plan Box
ing On July 4.
DELEGATES CHOSEN
Hon. W. B. Austin was chosen
as commander of the Ashe coun
ty post of the American Legion,
to succeed J. G. Rhodes, at the
annual election of officers held
at the regular meeting, Satur
day night.
Others elected to serve with
Commander Austin are as fol
lows: first vice-commander S. N.
Baldwin; second vice-command
er, C. H. Ireson; adjutant, P. G.
Wright; sergt-at arms, B. W.
Jones. Delegates to the depart
ment convention at High pcint
are J. G. Rhodes, W. B. Austin
and L. P. Colvard. The alter
nates chosen were Ed D. Barr,
C. H. Ireson and S. N. Baldwin.
Reports from the various com
mittees revealed that the work
of the Legion is going forward.
Plans are now being worked
out for the boxing to be staged
here on July 4. C. H. Ireson an
nounced that a number of pro
minent boxers had been» secured
and that others were being con
tacted for the event.
Larry P. Colvard reported that
progress was being made toward
the plans for a road to be built
to the proposed boys’ camp site.
He staged that the consent of
most of the land owners had been
secured for right of way.
In connection with the Boy
State Movement, the post voted
appropriate sls in order to spon
sor the attendance of one or
more boys for this meeting at
Chapel Hill. W. B. Austin and
Larry P. Colvard were appointed
to supervise 'the detection in this
case.
Plans were discussed for the
entertainment of the State Com
mander Junius Rose who speaks
here tonight, and Cecil Pate,
Grande Chef de Gare of the
Forty and Eight.
3,500 Pounds Os
Wool Pooled For
39 Cents Per Lb.
Production and Quality Good.
To Pool Lambs Early In
July, Rich Says.
Nearly 3.500 pounds of wool
were pooled here yesterday after
noon by 48 Ashe county farmers,
at 39 cents per pound.
The pooling was sponsored by
the farm agent’s office. Three
other counties, Alleghany, Gray
son and Carroll, co-operated in
the pool. The wool was bought by
C. M. Osborne, of Grayson
county and was shipped to Balti
more. Local farmers received
over $1,200.00.
The quality of the wool was
said to be exceptionally good and
production reports were good.
B. W. Austin pooled 151 pounds
which came off of 20 sheep, or
in other words over pounds
to the animal. Others reported
production as high as high as 8
pounds per animal.
A lamb pooling will be hi Id in
the county the first part of July,
Mr. Rich announces. All farmers
are invited to enter.
Gets Sentence For
Cattle Stealing
Pioneer days of the Old West
were recalled here Monday, when
James McKinley Roark, young
West Jefferson man was ar
raigned before the court for the
stealing of a young heifer.
According to reports the hei
fer was stolen from George
Sheets several days ago, and
young Roark attempted to trade
it in to’a local motor company.
He was found guilty of the
theft and was sentenced to 12
months on the roads by Mayor H.
C. Tucker.
Hildred Bare, of Wagoner, was
tried before the Mayor for pub
lic drunkenness and was fined
$5 and the cost.
$1.50 a Year Out us County
Hitler’s Flame Throwers Ln Action
FRANCE . . . The first jets of fire from the type of tank
leading the attack against French positions. Flame-throwers
like these blasted the Nazi army to the Channel ports and
now are threatening all of France.
Ashe County Fail* Will Be
Held Week Os September 16
DIED SUDDENLY
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John F. Jchnson, father of Le
vern Johnson, manager of the
cheese plant here, passed away
unexpectedly last Thursday af
ternoon.
John F. Johnson
Funeral Saturtlay
Died Suddenly From Heart
Attack. Body Taken To
Wisconsin For Burial
Funeral service was held at the
West Jefferson Methodist church,
on Saturday for John F. Johnson,
well-known West Jefferson man
who died suddenly on Thursday
evening at the home of his son
here, following a heart attack.
The Odd Fellows’ lodge of
which Mr. Johnson was a mem
ber was in charge of the service,
and Rev. Hoyte Wood, pastor of
the church, spoke briefly.
Following the service, the body
accompanied by members of the
lodge and others was taken to
Witheville where it was sent by
train to Wisconsin for burial.
Members of the Johnson family
drove there for the burial ser
vice, held on Monday.
Mr. Johnson, who was 77 years
old at the time of his death was
a native of Scandanavia. He came
to America when he was nine
years old and made his home in
Wisconsin, for many years before
coming here six years ago with
Mrs. Johnson to make is home
with his son, Levern.
Mr. Johnson had made many
friends here, and was well known
for his genial, friendly disposi
tion and his active mind. In spite
of his advanced years he was in
terested in youth and numbered
many of his friends among the
younger generation. His sudden
death came as a shock to all.
He is survived by his wife, two
sons, Levern, of West Jefferson,
manager of the Kraft Cheese
plant, and Harry, of Pulaski Wis
consin. Several grandchildren al
so survive.
Members of the Odd Fellows
Lodge who accompanied the body
to Wytheville were:
T. E. Parker, G. P. Little, L. P.
Colvard, Rev. Hoyte Wood, Glenn
Taylor, Charlie Mullis, Charlie
Hodge, Walter Lewis, B. H. Rich
ards, Ed Waddell, Emmit Stan
ley, Reid Sturdivant, Guy Hud
dler and Earl Scott.
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WEST JEFFERSON, N. C. THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1948 SI.OO a Year In Ashe County
Midway Attractions Will Be
Provided by The Bullock
Amusement Co.
The ’4O presentation of the Ashe
County Fair will be held here
the week of September 16, open
ing on Wednesday 18 and clos
ing on Saturday, 21, it was de
cided at a meeting of the execu
tive committee held Monday
night.
Midway attractions will be fur
nished by the Bullock Amuse
ment Company and will include
four rides, fourteen concessions
and fireworks.
Offers from other amusement
companies were presented but the
executive committee voted to
have Bullock again because of
the clean and wholesome attrac
tions provided by the Bullock or
ganization which has appeared
here a number of times in the
past.
Committees are now busy re
vising the prize and premium
lists, selecting township execu
tive committee members, depart
ment superintendents and var
ious other things. The prizes and
awards are expected to be about
the same as last year, however.
The executive committee will
meet again Monday night at 8
o’clock and final arrangements to
get out the fair catalogues in the
near future will be made at that
time.
The.week of September 16 was
chosen because the Elkin and
North Wilkesboro fairs will be
held the week of the 9th and the
23rd was thought to be a little
too late.
Carl Colvard has replaced Les
ter Segraves on the executive
committee as a representative of
the West Jefferson board of ai
dermen.
To Discuss County Defense
Plans At Meeting Saturday
In line with the national de
fense program that is being
pushed forward rapidly, and
with a firm conviction that the
United States will be actively
engaged in war with the Allies
against the dictator nations with
in less than three months’ time,
Upton Blevins, well known citi
zen of the Crumpler community
who is an ex-marine and ex
sailor, this week proposed that
extensive plans for defense and
for possible entrance into the war
be made immediately right here
at home.
In proposing this new and
unique idea for preparedness,
Mr. Blevins, who is also quite a
student of world affairs, gave a
summary of the world war out
look as he sees it and predicted
that Russia and Japan will join
Germany and Italy in the war to
defeat the Democracies, which of
course includes the United
States.
To formulate local plans for
preparedness, he announced that
a meeting of all those who are
interested will be held at the
courthouse Saturday afternoon at
one’oclock.
“There is no use to become
alarmed, that time has passed,”
he said. “We should go about
getting ready just as we would
Supervisors To
Start Checking
Farms Next Wk.
Twelce Compliance Checkers
To Be Chosen at Conclu
sion of School Today.
23 ATTEND SCHOOL
After attending a two-day ses
sion of classes directed by J. H.
Enloe, junior AAA field officer
for this district and G. E. Tester,
state AAA supervisor, 12 com
pliance checkers will be selec
ted this afternoon out of the 23
Ashe county young men present
at the triple A conservation pro
gram school being held at Jef
ferson high school, announced
Clark Houck, county supervisor,
yesterday afternoon.
“The purpose of the school is
to instruct those present in me
thods of checking the farms in
the conservation program,”
Houck said, “and when the class
es are over, an examination will
be given. The 12 having the best
rating on the exam and their
field work, will be the 12 chosen
to aid in the county’s conserva
tion work. They will begin work
next week.”
G. B. Price and Selma Dick
son will be responsible for the
reports of the supervisors as they
come in. They are attending the
school as representatives of the
county office.
The group from which the 12
compliance checkers or field sup
ervisors will be chosen is: Bob
Baker, Leonard Bare, Howard
Blevins, J. T. Brown, G. M.
Campbell, Woodrow Davis, Tom
Dent, Wade E. Eller, Jr., Chas. F.
Francis, Zeb Graybeal, Joe
Grubb, Claude Houck, A. B.
Hurt, Jr., Herman Little, Fred
Oliver, Ralph L. Perry, J. B.
Pierce, Tom Price, Ralph Tom
linson, Everett Trivette, J. G.
Welch, Ray Wiles and Edwin
Young.
Pennington Boy
Struck By Auto
Robert Pennington sustained
a cut on the back of his head
last Friday night when he, rid
ing a bicycle, collided with a car
driven by Walter Miller, of
Glendale Springs, who was said
to be bringing Mrs. Cleve Long
and her daughter to see Dr.
Reeves.
R. W. Banta, of Minnesota, and
his wife narrowly escaped ser
ious injury Tuesday when their
car skidded on a curve this side
cf Warrensville and plunged
down an embankment. Mrs. Ban
ta was slightly hurt and the au
tomobile was badly damaged.
Dr. and Mrs. Frank Gambill,
of Lincolnton visited relatives
here Sunday.
go about any other disagreeable
task. It will not be as easy as
it was in 1916. Ashe county can
probably furnish half as many
soldiers between the ages of 21
and 31 as she did in the World
War. I believe the same condi
tion prevails throughout the na
tion.
“The task we must face is much
greater than it was then. It will
require every able-bodied man,
single or married, from 16 to 60,
in the field. It will require the
efforts of every other man, wo
man and child to support the
armed forces. It may last for
years. The only sensible thing
is to get ready as fast as we can.
Why should Ashe county wait for
some other county or city to
start. We should meet and talk
things over. We could take stock
of our man-power, and our sup
port. We could start preliminary
training.
“Time and space do not per
mit us to go into details. We
should know how many and
who would be in the first, sec
ond and last drafts. We should
know the best marksmen. We
should know who would make
good plane pilots. We should
know our expert truck drivers.
We should know how many ar
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To Speak At Bancjuet Here Tonight
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Department Commander June Rose who will deliver an
address tonight at the Legion-Rotary banquet at the Com
munity Building.
American Legion Department
Commander To Speak Tonight
At A Legion-Rotary Banquet
ON PROGRAM TONIGHT
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Cecil Pate, of Charlotte, Grande
Chef de Gare, who will be one
of the speakers on the program
tonight at a joint meeting of the
Legion and Rotaiy club.
A SSO Reward Is
Offered In Ashe
Public Asked to Protect Deer
Now In Several Sections
Os This County.
Game Warden Harvey T. Good
man announced yesterday that
steps were being taken to protect
the deer now in the county and
that to assure them from harm
a SSO reward was offered for in
formation leading to the arrest
of any person killing one. There
is also a reward of $lO offered
for information leading to the ar
rest of a person dogging or an
noying the deer in any way.
Mr. Goodman pointed out that
there were several deer in the
county now and that if they were
protected it might enable this
section to get a good start with
these animals.
“There is no open season for
deer in Ashe,” he said and urged
everyone to protect rather than
molest them. Recently deer have
been seen in the Helton, Chest
nut Hill, Todd and Jefferson
communities.
He also cautioned the public
not to violate any of the fish or
game laws.
Head • f 40 and 8 in State To ;
Speak Also. To Meet At I
Community Bldg.
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Hon. Junius H. Rose, of Green
ville, Department Commander of
the American Legion, will be
liver an address tonight at 7:30
o’clock before a joint meeting of
the Ashe county post number 171,
of the Legion and the Jeffersons
Rotary Club, at the Community
building here.
Commander Rose is expected
to speak on the present world
v*a.r crisis and plans for national
defense in this country. P. G.
Wright, vice department com
mander, will be in charge of the
program.
Cecil Pate, of Charlotte,
Grande Chef de Gare of the For
ty and Eight, will also be present
and will appear on the program.
The banquet will be prepared
and served by members of the
Legion Auxiliary, with Mrs.
Wright in charge.
Mr. Rose, who is superinten
dent of the Greenville city
schools, has made an outstanding
record as department commander
this year and members of the Le
gion post and Rotary club are
urged to attend the meeting to
night, to hear him.
Ashe Received
$98,826 From
Social Security
Nearly Half of Amount Went
to Old Age. State Total
Over 29 Million.
Ashe county received nearly
SIOO,OOO of the $29,143,262.12 dis
tributed in the 100 counties in
North Carolina in aid, assist
ance, insurance and services pro
vided in the 10 divisions of the
National Social Security Act,
through last year, generally, it is
estimated from official sources by
Charles G. Powell, chairman of
the N. C. Unemployment Com
pensation Commission.
The exact figure for Ashe coun
ty’s receipts from the 10 divisions
is $98,826.93. Os this amount,
payments to old age assistance
totalled $43,153.50, or nearly one
half.
Aid to dependent children
came next, amounting to $11,181,-
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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.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
Italy’s Entrance
In War Criticized
By Roosevelt
Practically All Civilians Have
Evacuated French Capi
tol. City Quiet.
MANY ARE KILLED
With Italy’s entrance into the
war alongside Germany and the
Nazi forces gradually creeping up
on Paris in the battle of France,
the defeat of this nation appears
to be definitely near.
The Germans reported yester
day that they had reached the
Marne river, the valley of which
is a natural »entrance to the
French capitcl, and that the city
was within their reach.
The allies 26 years ago de
cisively halted the legions of im
perial Germany there in the first
battle of the Marne, with the
augmenting “taxicab army” from
Paris battering down the kaiser’s
men into their eventually disas
trous trench warfare.
In a vast enveloping advance,
the Germans claimed yesterday,
400,000 to 500,000 French in two
armies were taken prisoners or
killed and others were “pock
eted”, as in Flanders, with low
skimming planes bombing and
straffing columns on the move
and blasting bridges from the
Marne and loxfrer Oise to cut off
retreat.
Residents in the outer parts of
the city reported hearing the roar
of the night battle and seeing the
gun flashes on the northwestern
horizon.
Although the Germans were
trying to encircle the city, com
munication by highway and wire
still was open to the nerve cen
ter where the government had
moved in central France.
Most people who had transpor
tation already had left .the one
time capital of the Republic of
France. As to 50 persons
crowded ab ;ut available taxicabs x
and it was almost impossible to
i board one of the infrequent sub
way trains.
, Automobiles still were leaving
i the city, but many were without
I gasoline. Others there expected
train service to be restored that
would enable them to leave.
Frenchmen of the central ar
mies took their stand behind the
Marne, where their fathers died
to stop the German advance on
Paris of 1914.
Italy struck her first blows at
Tunis and Malta. British air for
ces raided Italian Libra and the
British navy began to clamp
down on Italian ships, immedia
tely.
Italy’s entrance into the war at
this time received severe criti
cism from President Roosevelt
who in his address at the Uni
versity of Virginia, on Tuesday,
declared that “the nation which
held the dagger stuck it into the
back of its neighbor.” He pledged
material support to the Allies
whom he declared were giving
their life blood for democracy.
Italy openly admitted that she
was entering the war for terri
torial expansion.
President Roosevelt’s public
championship of their cause
gave the Allies confidence ac
cording to reports from both Eng
land and France.
Hailing his assurance as insur
ing victory for the Allies, Clem
ent R. Attlee, lord privy seal, of
England told the house that Ita
ly’s entrance into the war “does
not cause us dismay.”
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