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VOLUME 14, NO. 2
FOURTH WAR LOAN OPENS TUES.
Practice Air Raid Drill Will Be Held Here Tonight
Black-out Will
Begin About 9:15;
Testing Purpose
Air-raid Wardens Are Asked
To Be on Job; Co-operation
Os Public Is Asked
B. B. Graybeal, chief air raid
warden of Ashe county, announc
ed this week that in compliance
with the policy of the Eastern
Defense Command and the fourth
service command, a practice air
raid drill would be held in the
county tonight, which will start
soon after nine o’clock.
The drill, which includes a
number of districts in the state,
is being held for the primary
purpose of testing the complete
mobilization of (civilian protec
tion forces within a short notice.
All air raid wardens are asked
to be on the job and the co-oper
ation of the public is asked in
the matter.
The signals and the time of the
practice raid drills are as follows:
Yellow, 9:05; blue, 9:16; red,
9:37; blue, 9.47 and white, 9:57.
The practice drill includes the
following districts: Tarboro,
Ahoskie, Weldon, Henderson,
Goldsboro, Raleigh, Greensboro,
Shelby, Statesville and Gastonia.
Announce Winner
Os Baby Contest
Mcßride Infant, Daughter Os
Mr. And Mrs. Robert Mc-
Bride, Is Winner
The young daughter of Mr. anji
Mrs. Robert Mcßride, of Smeth
port, was the winner in the an
nual first baby contest, sponsored
by this paper in cooperation with
merchants of West Jefferson.
And to her, The Post extends
best wishes. She was born on
January 1, at 10:30 a. m., at the
Ashe county hospital. Her name
is Walsie Alene Mcßride, and she
weighed 6 pounds, 12 ounces.
Her parents are requested to
come by The Skyland Post and
receive a letter which they may
present to the participating stores
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Will Organize
WCTU Tonight
A meeting for the purpose of
organizing a county unit of the
Woman’s Christian Temperance
Union will be held at the Com
munity building tonight, at 8:15,
it was announced by Mrs. B. E.
Reeves.
All women interested are urged
to attend, and a cordial invita
tion is also extended to the mem
bers of the Rotary club to remain
for the meeting.
One of the main objects of the
organization is to “give the
boys and girls scientific temper
ance in every class room in
America.
Mrs. R. E. Dean, of Stoneville,
president of the Western Divi
sion W. C. T. U., of this state, is
here, and will attend the meet
ing tonight.
FREE PICTURE SHOW
FOR BOND BUYERS
Russell Barr, manager of
the Parkway theater announc
ed that this establishment
would present a free picture
show to all bond buyers in
{connection with the Fourth
War Loan Drive, which opens
on Tuesday, January 18.
The picture is to be “Stormy
Weather”, and will be shown
at the Parkway theater, Feb
ruary 10, Mr. Barr announced.
He pointed out that he
would distribute tickets to the
following sources of sales:
West Jefferson post office,
First National Bank, Ashe
Building and Loan Association
and to the Northwestern Bank.
Other sources of sales may
contact Mr. Barr in connection
with the tickets.
MIM Bst
$1.50 a Year in Ashe County
Bombers Pounding
German Targets;
Soviets Still Gain
HEAD DRIVES
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T. E. Parker, Ashe county
chairman of the Infantile Pa
ralysis Fund Drive, which will
get in full swing the last two
weeks of this month,
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W. Dean McMillan, chair
man of the Fourth War Loan
Drive for Ashe, which opens
next Tuesday, January 18.
Release Francis
And Son On Bond
Dewitt Francis and his 17-year
old son, held in the Ashe county
jail in connection with the death
of Clarence Dent Baldwin, fol
lowing a disagreement over their
bond after a hearing last Wednes
day, were released this week.
Solicitor J. Erie McMichael ap
proved of bond and set that of
the fathers at $2,500. and the son
at $1,500. Both were posted.
Announce Changes In Physical
Exams For Selective Service
An entirely new rule has just
been issued to the local selective
service boards. These laws prac
tically do away with the medical
examination by the county exam
ining physicians, officials ex
plain.
Registrants will be classified
immediately in 1-A, 1-A-O, or
IV-E (1-A-O and IV-E are con
scientious objector classes), but
will not be examined by local
physicians. They will be sent
to camp to receive their physical
examinations before navy and
army doctors. This examination
at camp is called “Pre-induction
physical examination”, and it
will be given each registrant in
the above-named classes.
The pre-induction physical ex
amination will be given regis
trants without regard to whether
WEST JEFFERSON, N. C.,
New Russian-Polish Border
Is Expected To Be Estab
lished Soon
The eyes of the world contin
ued to focus on the European
war front this week, where ac
tion continued on both the Italian
and Russian fronts and there
was no let-up in the heavy
bombings, believed to be making
way for an invasion.
United States Eighth Air Force
planes in enormous numbers
spread ruin over Northwest Ger
many yesterday against probably
the most desperate enemy de
fense in air war history, a de
fense which according to a spec
ial German High Command com
munique resulted in the destruc
tion of 123 American planes.
There were indications in
Stockholm reports that American
heavy bombers operating not in
formation may have made their
first daylight assault on Berlin,
which has been raided 104 times
by the Royal Air Force.
Red Army forces, in a simul
taneous attack with Rovno re
gion guerrillas, tore through be
wildered Germans 35 miles in
side old Poland, forcing the
Sluch River near Sarny yester
day while Moscow announced
i that 15,000 Germans were killed
in last week’s smashing victory
at Kirovograd.
The Russians completely broke
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Post Will Give
Subscriptions In
War Loan Drive
Men In Overseas Service Are
To Be Honored By Paper
In Bond Drive
In connection with the Fourth
War Loan Drive, which opens
i next Tuesday, January 18, The
Skyland Post will give a free one
year subscription to a man in
service overseas at the request of
the purchaser of a bond of SSOO
or more.
It was pointed out that appli
cations for the bonds must be
written by The Skyland Post,
however. The bond buyers qual
| ifying for one of these gift sub-
I scriptions will turn in the name
1 and correct address of the man in
• service to whom they want the
i paper sent. The Post, in addi
tion to sending the gift subscrip
< tion, will send a notice to the
I man who is to receive it, giving
the name of the person who pur
chased a bond in his honor.
This offer will be for a limited
time and those desiring to do so
j are asked to take advantage of
| it at once.
or not the registrant has person
ally appeared before the local
board, or whether an appeal has
been or will be taken, it was
pointed out.
Another part of this law also
states. “A registrant in any class
may be given a pre-induction
physical examination if his in
duction will shortly occur.”
The usual furloughs given men
after induction are abolished, but
if a registrant passes the navy or
army doctors’ examination, he
will not be called for induction,
however, in less than 21 days.
The local board examining phy
sician’s duties are lightened by
this change, as a registrant is
only examined by him upon
special request, or by direction
of the local board. The local ex
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THURSDAY, JAN. 13, 1944
This Time Goodbyes Are Said In Reverse
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Wishing Red Cross girls goodbye are these soldiers stationed in North Africa. The
Red Cross workers are leaving a base in North Africa on the first leg of a journey to dis
tant posts.
First Nat’l Bank
Passes $1,500,000.
Mark Last Year
Annual 12 Percent Dividend
Paid; Officers And Direc
tors Are Re-elected
The First National Bank had a
very successful year during 1943
when resources passed the mil
lion and one-half dollar mark,
shown by the report of J. L. Se
graves, at the annual stockhold
er’s meeting here on Tuesday.
The annual statement, publish
ed elsewhere in this paper today,
shows that the resources have
climbed to $1,596,407.88 as com
pared to $1,127,621.46 at the end
of. 1942. Deposits show an in
crease as do undivided profits.
The bank again paid a twelve
percent dividend to its stock
holders as it has during the past
several years.
The stockholders re-elected the
directors at the meeting on Tues
day. They are: Dr. R. C. Ray,
Dr. B. E. Reeves, T. C. Bowie, H.
H Burgess and Edison Thomas
The directors re-elected the of
ficers, which are as follows: Dr.
B. E. Reeves, president; Edison
Thomas, vice-president; J. L. Se
graves, cashier; Mrs. Lilly A. Se
graves, assistaht cashier.
Dr. B. E. Reeves, E. A. Gray
beal, Edison Thomas and John
Littlewood were appointed as an
examining committee for the
bank.
Applications Os
Leaf Farmers To
Be Made To AAA
Farmers who are eligible for
new tobacco allotments may now
place an application for an allot
ment at the AAA office in West
Jefferson, according to T. J.
Graybeal, chairman Ashe county
AAA committee. These applica
tions must be in the AAA office
before February 1, 1944 to re
ceive consideration, it was an
nounced.
To be eligible for a new allot
ment the farm operator must be
living on the farm for which an
allotment is wanted and must
have had experience growing to
bacco for market within the past
r ive years. Farms on which to
bacco has been grown within the
past five years will be given an
allotment for 1944 without the
operator having to place an ap
plication. Applications should be
placed only for farms on which
no tobacco has been grown in the
past five years, AAA officials ex
plained.
$2.00 a Year Out of County
“Winning-The-War” Action
Is Necessary Now, President
Tells Congress In Report
Big Gains Made
By Northwestern
Bank Last Year
Resources Are Now Over 14
Million; Big Increase In
Deposits
Resources of the Northwestern
Bank showed a big increase in
1943 as shown by the annual
statement.
The statement reveals resourc
es have climbed from $9,073,108.-
53 at the close of 1942 to $14,207,-
554.89 during 1943.
There are ten banks in the
Northwestern group, which, in
addition to the Jefferson bank, in
clude banks at Sparta, Boone,
Blowing Rock, Burnsville, Spruce
Pine, Valdese, Bakersville, Tay
lorsville and North Wilkesboro,
with home offices at North
Wilkesboro.
Officers are R. A. Doughton,
president; Edwin Duncan, execu
tive vice-president and L. P. Col
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MOTHER OF A. B. HURT
PASSES IN PENNSYLVANIA
A. B. Hurt received word yes
terday, of the death of his mo
ther, Mrs. R. B. Hurt, in Penn
sylvania, where she has been
making her home with a daugh
ter, at Harrisburg. He left im
mediately for Harrisburg. No
arrangements were known here
in regard to funeral.
Congress Registers Resistance
Over Tax Demands Os Pres.
Congress, which re-convened
on Monday, after the holidays,
with finances and other impor
tant legislation to consider, of
fered resistance to President
Roosevelt’s renewed demand for
heavy additional taxes.
Tuesday the Senate evidenced
its temper in such matters by
voting 48 to 17 to freeze social
security tax rates at their current
one per cent level.
In his state of the union mes
sage the President called for a
realistic tax law to levy on un
reasonable war profits and re
duce war costs to “our sons and
daughters.” He said the pending
$2,275,600,000 tax measure now
in Senate debate fails to meet
the test.
Chairman Walter F. George
(D-Ga.), of the Senate Finance
Tax, Food, Legislation Are|
Among The Other Requests
By Roosevelt
Washington, D. C. President
Roosevelt Tuesday night called
on the nation to suffMM't a sweep
ing win-the-wiur
which he laid before \
earlier in the day including • a
national service law which “will
prevent strikes” and, with cer-.
tain exceptions, draft every able
bodied adult for an all-out home
front effort.
Such a law is necessary now
to carry the nation over the
last hard miles to victory, he said
in a fireside chat during which
he made a cryptic reference to
1944 as “this very fateful year in
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Boone Market Is
To Close Jan. 20
It was this week
that the Mountain Burley Tobac
co Warehouse at Boone would
close for the season next Thurs
day, January 20, but would sell
tobacco on that date.
All farmers are urged to get
their tobacco in before the clos
ing. Prices have been unusually
high on the Boone market since
the opening of the season. “We
have broken all records in price
and poundage”, Roscoe Coleman,
proprietor said. He also pointed
out that he wished to thank the
farmers for their cooperation in
making the season a big success.
Committee, said that despite the
request he saw no likhhood of an
effort to boost the yield of the
present bill.
“I think taxes can be too high,”
he said, “but if that premise is
wrong, then of course we can get
more money.”
Representative Harold Knut
son (R-Minn), ranking G. O. P.
member of the House Ways and
Moans Committee, said that Mr.
Roosevelt cannot expect enact
ment of additional taxes until he
reduces Government spending
and further demonstrates the
need for more revenue.
“It would seem that instead of
asking a patient people to take
on more and yet heavier burdens
in taxation,” he said, “the Presi
dent should have come out forth
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PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
County’s Quota
Set At SI68,000.;
Need Cooperation
Meeting Will Be Held This
Evening At Community
Building At 8:15
w. d. McMillan, chmn.
W. D. McMillan, Ashe
chairman of the Fourth War
Loan Drive, which opens next
Tuesday, announced yesterday
that a meeting of the executive
committee and others interested in
helping to make the drive a suc
cess, would be held this evening
at the community building at
8:15 o’clock. At this time, W. H.
Neal, of Winston-Salem, regional
director of the drive, will be
present and will assist in getting
the drive underway. Anyone in
terested is cordially invited to
attend.
Ashe county has a quota of
$168,000.00, for the drive, Mr.
McMillan announced. This is
slightly under the Third War
Loan quota which was $193,009.
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Lodge Officers
Installed Tues.
State Officials Were Here For
Ceremony; Banquet Well
Attended
State officials, including Grand
Master Charles Payne, of Salis
bury; District Deputy Grand Mas
ter Nichols, of the thirtieth Ma
sonic district, and District Depu
ty, Grand Master Charles Pugh
were among the officials who at-
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Prior to the meeting, the guests
were feted at a banquet at, the
community building, when* ap
proximately forty attended.
The new officers who were in
stalled are: Dr. J. K. Hunter*
worshipful master; Gwyn P. Lit
tle, senior warden; Sharpe Shoe
maker, junior warden; W. D. Mc-
Millan, treasurer, and Ira T.
Johnston, secretary.
Announce Days
For Feed Wheat
Due to the fact that the sale of
CCC feed wheat is very small
at this time of the year, it has
been decided that sales will be
made to feeders only three days
per week, it was stated.
Someone will be at the wheat
bins only on Tuesday, Thursday
' and Saturday of each wee., until
further notice, for the purpose of
weighing this wheat out to farm
ers. Feeders who wish to buy
some of this wheat should call
only on these days if they expect
to get any wheat, AAA officials
announced.
TORN BILL LANDS
MAN IN ASHE JAIL
Robert Roland, of Clifton,
was the. possessor of pne half
of S2O; but instead of a $lO
bill, it was only half of a
twenty. And when he at
tempted to redeem it, instead
of receiving $lO, he landed in
the Ashe county jail.
He was still there late yes
terday afternoon, upon failure,
to post bond.
According to reports, he was
in the company with Henry
Gilley and others when he
came into the possession of the
torn bill. According to Gilley
he possessed around SIOO. and
was relieved of it by Roland
or other parties. All he had
left of his SIOO. was the other
half of the torn twenty-dollar
bill.
A hearing of the case is ex
pected to be held early next
week, Chief Deputy Carl B.
Graybeal, said yesterday.