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*7* " OVER THE TOP FOR VICTORY jk yWz with Wffik IHHTED STATES WAI , VOLUME 14, NO. 3 FOURTH WAR LOAN UNDERWAY ■’■rsf . tVA- —, . .., ■ - . ’\\Y Large Group Os Married Men To Leave For Army Around 200 In Group Which Leaves Here Latter Part Os Next Week A large group of approximate ly 200 Ashe county men will leave here the latter part of next week for pre-induction examina tions preliminary to entering the armed forces. The local draft board announc ed that around 85 percent of this group were married, many of whom are fathers. The remain ing 15 percent are single men. It is expected that the Ameri can Legion and Rotary club will have a special departure serv ice and as usual, those leaving will be presented military man uals as well as some type of re freshments or cigarettes. A list of those leaving will be published later. Warn. Stations ? About Coupons Through the first week of this month all service stations were visited by a representative of the Charlotte district office and the local War Price and Rationing Board. At that time, all station opera tors were informed about proper - identification on all gasoline ra tion coupons. ’ ‘ Gasoline distributors have also been informed not to accept im properly identified coupons. Any coupons not bearing proper iden tification or endorsement will be that much gasoline inventory loM by the service station sub mitting such coupons, Mr. Camp bell explained. ' ' ■ II l—l I■■ ■ ■ 1— ■ < FIRST BABY OF 1944 DIED ON WEDNESDAY Walsie Alene Mcßride, the 18- day-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. > Robert Mcßride, of Smethport, died at the home of her parents, yesterday morning. Funeral service will be held at .the Pond Mountain Church this afternoon at 2:00 o’clock, with Rev. Ed Da vis in charge. The deceased was the winner of Ashe county’s first baby of 1944, as announced in last week’s issue of The Skyland Post. She was born on January 1, at 10:30 A. M., at the Ashe county hospi tal. Black-out Here ? Was A Success The black-out held here, as well as in several other districts in the state, last Thursday night, was one of the most successful ever tried, according to officials. B. B. Graybeal, chief air raid warden, said that most of the wardens were on the job and that the public, as a whole, co-opera ted in making the black-out a success. Deputy Graybeal Uncovers Liquor Chief Deputy Carl B. Gr «y --beal went after a soldier, overdue from the army, re ported hiding in the Whitetop section, last Saturday night. And Deputy Graybeal usual ly gets his man, but this time, the man was not in the barn where it was reported that he was hiding. After making the trip, Mr. Graybeal, however, decided to search other barns in the vi cinity. In one, belonging to Connie Miller, he discovered a large pile of straw, which he promptly tested with a pitch fork. He then found a hard object which turned out to be eleven and one-half gallons of liquor stored there and said to be more than a year old. This was confiscated and the own er arrestc He later made bond and was released. • 'i .14 file Wt , ■ < $1.50 a Year in Ashe County Churchill Is Back Ou The Job ■w One of the first pictures of Churchill taken since his re cent illness shows him conversing with General Eisenhower (left) and General Alexander. Churchill is attired in a color ful dressing gown. Important Gains Are Made By Allies In Russia And In Italy American Unit Gains Ground In Tough Jungle Action Agaist Japanese As the Fourth War Loan operf ed on the home front this week, action continued on all of the battle fronts with .Hie Allies win ning hard-fought gains. Hitler's 10th German army withdrew to the powerful Gus tav line, several hundred yards northwest of the Rapido river, for a final bloody stand to pro tect Cassino on the road to Rome, headquarters announced yester iday, as American patrols crossed the stream north of Cassino and probed enemy positions. French troops, swinging in through the mountainous terrain to the northeast, advanced 1,000 yards and captured Sant’ Elia, a village situated on the lower bank of the Rapido about three miles from Cassino, further tight ening the arc around the Nazi; stronghold. Lashing out in two new northern offensives the Red army has successfully shattered (Continued on Page Four) Many Are Now Paying Taxes ■ Mrs. Elizabeth V. Miller, coun-i ty tax collector, said this week I that tax collections have been ‘ unusually good this month. Ma ny people are paying theirs in the month of January in order to avoid penalties, which begin February 2, Mrs. Miller said. t She poinreu out that she now had the 1941 and 1942 tax books also, in her office. Ration Tokens Explained By OPA; To Be Valid On Feb. 27 Washington lntroduction of ; ration tokens throughout the country Feb. 27 will bring a num ber of changes in the present method of paying the ration cost of processed foods, meats and fats. The Office of Price admin istration has prepared the follow ing information to give consum ers a better understanding of how.the new system will work. Q. Will OPA give each consum er a certain number of tokens when this new program begins, just as everybody was given a supply of ration stamps? A. No. The only tokens you will get are those your retailer gives in change, beginning Feb. 27. Q. Why will I need ration change? A. You will need change when tokens go into use because each red and each blue stamp in your ration book will be worth 10 • points. It will not longer be easy WEST JEFFERSON, N. G, THURSDAY, JAN. 20,1M4 Wade E. Eller Now With N. C. Board Os Health Has Resigned As Ashe Qmih ty Chairman Os Demo cratic Party Wade E. Eller, who served as principal of the Riverview High School for the past several years, has accepted a position with the N. C. Public Health Department. He is now taking some special training prior to beginning his work as a sanitarian. Before accepting his new posi tion, Mr. Eller, who has served as Ashe County Chairman of the Democratic party for sometime, resigned from this position. In a letter to the secretary, B. !H. Duncan, announcing his res ignation, Mr. Eller expressed his (Continued on Page Four)* Ashe Bldg. & Loan Meeting Tuesday The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Ashe Build ■ ing and Loan Association will be | held at the office of the associa -1 tfon in the Parker Tie company building next Monday night at 7:30 o’clock. i The purpose of the meeting is to elect directors for the coming iyear and transact other business. Notices have been mailed out to all stockholders, concerning the meeting. to give your dealer an exact num ber of points as it was when you had eight, five, two and one point stamps to use. Q. If each stamp will be worth 10 points, will I have more points to spend than I do now? A. No. You will have almost exactly the same number of points that you have now. You will simply use fewer stamps during any one ration period. That’s one advantage of the new plan, since handling fewer stamps will cut down the work of your retailer and will make your ra tion book last longer. Q. When each stamp is worth 10 points, how will OPA adjust the rationing program so as to give me the same number of points per month that I have now? A. At present, three sets of processed foods stamps, a total of 12 stamps, are worth 48 points. (Continued on Page 4) Waste Paper Is To Be Collected In Ashe County B. H. Duncan Is Chairman; Schools To Co-operate In Countywide Plans Professor B. H. Duncan, prin cipal of the West Jefferson High School, who has been named as chairman of the Waste Paper Salvage Drive in the county, an nounced yesterday that the cen tral schools in each district would be used as collection points and that the principal in each of these schools would serve as chairman of his district. All available waste paper is to be collected at the central schools and then sent to West Jefferson. The Todd Drug Company is co operating in the drive and will , allow its building to be used as. , the collection point here, for baling and shipping the paper, Mr. Duncan said. The final date for getting the paper into West Jefferson is Feb ruary 11, it was announced. The public is asked to take or send their collection of paper to the central school in their district and the schools will then trans port it in large lots to West Jeff (Continued on Page 4) No Extension Is To Be Given For ’44 Car Licenses January 31 Is Final Day For - Use Os Old 1943 License Plates There will be no extension be- .the Jan. 31 deadline for purchasing 1944 motor vehicle license plates, State Motor Vehi cles Commissioner T. Boddie 1 Ward announced this week. ■ Ward said that only 396,198 ’ plates were sold through Jan. ! 15, compared with 438,613 sold ’ during the same period a year J ago, and that this was in spite of 1 a 60-day “grace period” this year while there was only 30 days last year. J He urged that motorists buy the new plates as soon as possible so ’ that a last-minute rush may be avoided. The State highway partol will ' begin enforcement Feb. 1 of the 5 regulations requiring new plates by that day, Ward said. The majority of people in this county have already purchased theirs. Those who have not done r so are urged to secure their new 1944 licenses at once, by State Patrolman W. C. Thomas. j The nearest office for purchas- • ing tags is at North Wilkesboro, ■ in the office of the Carolina Mo- • tor Club. Motorists may also or ’ der theirs from Raleigh. ’ WCTU Will Meet On Friday Night I ! Following a preliminary or ganization of the Woman’s Chris tian Temperance Union, held last Friday evening at the community building, it was announced that , another meeting would be held on Friday night of this week at 7:30 o’clock at the home of Dr. and Mrs. B. E. Reeves. All women interested in the i cause are cordially invited to at . tend. Complete organization plans are expected to be made at i this meeting, after which, com- ■ mittees and officers are to be an nounced. t Mrs. R. E. Dean, of Stoneville, f was present last Friday and as t sisted in the initial meeting. She 5 holds a state office in the organi zation. r It was announced that the men . as well as the women, are cor- • dially invited to attend the meet . ings and to become members. i GRANGE MEETING t . > A meeting of the Laurel Grange f will be held at the Riverview > high school building on Tues day r night, January 25, at 8:30 f o’c’Lk, it was announced by V. E C. Lillard, master of the Grange. All members and the public are cordially invited to attend. $2.00 a Year Out of County Active Against Infantile Paralysis x 's' Y 'fa * < -x* ' "• : T ' MB > Mary Pickford, Chairman of the Women’s Division of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, is shown with her adopted daughter, Roxanne. County’s Quota Is Set At $374.00 To Fight Infantile Paralysis Schools Will Be Awarded Prizes In Bond Drive Quotas Are Assigned Each School District; Co-opera tion Is Asked In order to stimulate interest in the Fourth War Loan Drive, it was decided yesterday to offer prizes in the schools. There will be a $25.00 bond prize to be awarded by the prin cipal of each district to dent making the highest sales or selling the greatest number of i bonds. The winner will be de ! cided by the school principal. High school students, as well as those from the smaller schools, are eligible. There will also be a $25.00 bond , prize awarded to the school dis . trict making the best showing in j (Continued On Page Four) I I (Stafford Visits Jefferson School Tai H. Stafford, supervisor of! vocational agriculture in the high schools of this section of the state, was here this week and visited the Jefferson school,' where plans are being worked out for some of the courses in i war production, now being taught in connection with this work. Progress is being made in the new department in the Jefferson school under the direction of In structor Vaughn Eller. Much Pro gress Made In Soil Conservation Work In County; The annual report of the board of supervisors of the New River! Soil Conservation District, shows that much work is being accom plished in this field and that the increase of interest is reflected by the ever-growing list of appli- i cations received from the farm ers. The report submitted to the U. I S. Department of Agriculture 'reveals that 470 soil and mois ture conservation plans covering 49,721 acres had been completed in the District. According to Wade E., Eller, • chairman of the board, the dis-| trict has made progress during the year towards its goal of com-! plete soil conservation on all ! farms. “Further evidence of progress and popularity of the i program with farmers,” he said, “is indicated in the increased number of applications received : for cooperation with the district.” The district has added to its Co-operation Os Schools, Churches, Individuals And Others Asked At a committee meeting on Monday night, by the County Chairman, T. E. Parker, plans were made for the official, open ing Friday night raise funds to paralysis, when a ball game, featurißps|ft. Retort ans against the Odd Fellows and two other games, will be held at the West Jefferson high school gymnasium. Details of the games are published on page 8, today. It was announced at the meet ing that the county’s quota was $374. and several plans for rais ing this were outlined by the (Continued on Page 4) F. C. Nye Speaks To Rotary Club , j Prof. F. C. Nye told the mem i bers of the Rotarv Club last 1 Thursday night, that if everyone would follow the Golden Rule, and do their duty, there would be no strikers or other labor i trouble, at this time, when it is 1 needed so badly. The speaker was introduced by W. G. Van noy, program chairman. W. H. Neal, of Winston-Salem, district director of the Fourth V7ar Loan Drive, was present and i gave a brief statement about the drive. Clint Goodman, popular Wegt Jefferson merchant, was taken in the club, as a new member. He fills the classification. “Retail of Ladies’ Ready-to-wear.” program of soil conservation practices the sampling of various soils found on the farm. These samples are sent to the State De partment of Agricultrue labora tory for analysis to determine the best use of available fertili zer and lime materials. It is es timated that this practice alone | has saved farmers several thou -1 sand dolars in the last two years by providing them an accurate analysis of their soil require ments. The supervisors also reported ! that the conservation program I has aided farmers in obtaining • increased yields per acre which i are necessary if the war food ' production goals are to be met. Member of the board of su pervisors from Asne county are: Mr. Wade Eller, chairman; Mr. J. W. Gambill, and Mr. J. C. Lit tle. Serving in Alleghany coun ty are Mr. Alton Thompson, sec retary and Mr. Dillon Edwards. EVERY VBglggS PAYDAY WAR Hl >7; BOND DAY hop spuvoMo— savi ootuar PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY Drive Began On Tuesday; Much . - Interest Shown , 1 r.VvY County’s Quota Is $168,000; Everyone Is Asked To Aid In Drive WW..... . The Fourth War Loan Drive got underway in Ashe county, as well as throughout the nation, on Tuesday, with much interest be ing shown. While sales were not rushing on the opening day, interest was higher than usual and unofficial reports from sources of sales show that > around $12,000.00 worth were sold. The West Jefferson post office reported yesterday morning, $5,- 512.50 on the drive and the Northwestern Bank at Jefferson* $4,512.00; the Jefferson post of fice report showed $206.25 and Lansing, $525.00. This week end is expected to see the total shies climb much (Continued on Page 4) Rail Dispute Is Settled Tuesday Army Gives Up Control Os Carriers By Order Os President Roosevelt Washington The railroad wage dispute was settled this week with raises all around, and the government-seized lines were ordered returned to their owners Tuesday. The return of the railroads to private management, effective at . midnight, was ordered by Secre itary of War Henry L. Stimson, J Tnave been informed by the 1 president that all unresolved i questions have been agreed upon , by the carriers and the railroad labor organizations and that the agreements have been approved by the wage stabilization direc tor,” Stimson said in a statement. “These agreements provide as surance that there will be no stoppage of rail service and that the employes of the railroads will continue to discharge their re sponsibilities faithfully and con scientiously so that there may be ( no diminution in the rising tide of our military might. “I have therefore ordered that war department possession and ] operation of the railroads cease iat midnight, January 18, 1944.” NEED HELPERS IN RED CROSS WORK Mrs. Levern Johnson, produc tion chairman of the local Red Cross chapter, announced that there were still many things to be made, and urged that every ione who could, to come to her j home on Jeferson Avenue, for | material. Bedroom mules, housewives, kit bags, and several other things l are being made, and more volun teers are needed badly, she said. ‘ \ - I , Ist BOND DEDICATED TO SGT. E. D. BARE ■ ■ 1 Jesse G. Bare, of Laurel ! Springs, bought the first $500.- 00 bond from The Skyland Post in connection with the special offer, announced last week, for the Fourth War Loan Drive. The Poet will send a free subscription to a man in for eign service with each bond of f $500.00 or more purchased through this paper during the > Fourth War Loan Drive. Mr. Bare’s bond is dedicated I to his son, Sgt. Edwin D. Bare, who sailed from New York some time ago, for for eign service. A notice is be ing mailed Sgt. Bare of the honor accorded him in the Fourth War Loan Drive by his I father. Mr. Bare also has another [ son in service. Others want i ing to take advantage of this special bond dedication are asked to write or eall by the office of this paper.
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