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VOLUME 14, NO. 5
ASHE GETS N. C. TEST FARM
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County Bond Sales Over $107,000
$60,825 Yet To
Be Sold Before
Quota Is Raised
County’s Progress Slightly
Above Average. Want To
Reach Quota By Feb. 15
Ashe county marched a good
mile further toward the war bond
quota this week with sales reach
ing $107,175.00, according to re
liabe reports secured from sourc
es of sales, yesterday. This is
only $60,825.00 short of the quo
ta of $168,000.
Dean McMillan, drive chair
man, said that with a little extra
effort on the part of everyone,
that he believed the quota could
be reached by February 15, when
the drive is officially scheduled
to end.
Sales in Ashe took a slightly
upward trend this week, possibly
due to the proof of the treatment
of American prisoners by Jap
anese. “Let’s do all we can to
help bring the men back home as
soon as possible and put an end
to this war,” an official of the
treasury department, said
Sources of sales reported the
following amounts yesterday:
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Many Bonds Are
Being Dedicated
Many People Taking Advant
age Os The Dedication
Paper
A nuMßSOshe T
pie have been taking advantage
of the special offer made by this
paper and are dedicating bonds
to men in foreign service.
Among those having bonds
dedicated to them during the
past few days are: Cpl. Ray
Brooks, by his parents, Mr. andj
Mrs. John T. Brooks, of Tucker- j
dale; Pfc. James E. Poe, by -Mr. |
and Mrs. Paul J. Thomas, of;
Grassy Creek; Pfc. Donald Pierce,
by Mr. and Mrs. E. V. Pierce, of'
Crumpler; Burl Combs, by Odell
E. Sullivan, of Tuckerdale; Bue
ford Pendry, by his father, C. F.
Pendry, of Laurel Springs; Mr.
and Mrs. Lee B. Ham, of Husk,
dedicated bonds to the following:
Harry R. Graham, Pvt. Herman
E. Osborne, Sgt. Shirley Ham 1
and Pvt. Wells R. Hart.
The Post will send a free sub
scription to a man in foreign ser
vice with each bond of $500.00
or more purchased through this
paper during the Fourth War
Loan Drive.
Rationing Guide
Meats, Fats, Etc.
Book three brown stamps V
and W valid through Feb. 26.
Processed Foods
Book four green stamps G,
H and J good through Feb. 20;
K, L, and M valid Feb. 1
through March 20.
Sugar
Book four stamp 30 good for
five pounds through March
31; book four stamp 40 valid
Feb. 1 for five pounds for
home canning, good through
Feb. 28, 1945.
Shoes
Book one stamp 18 and book
three “airplane” stamp 1 good
indefinitely.
Gasoline
8-A coupons good for three
gallons through Feb. 8. B and
B-l and C and C-l coupons
good for two gallons. B-2 and
C-2 coupons good for five gal
lons.
Fuel Oil
Period three coupons valid
through Feb. 21. Period four
and five coupons, now valid
through Sept. 30. All coupons
worth 10 gallons a unit, with
most coupons worth several
units each.
the Bost
$1.50 a Year in Ashe County
Seabees Work On New Hebrides
mt
The above “Seabees” or worker-fighters, as they are call
ed, are stationed on New Hebrides. They are, left to right,
(first row): C. I. Fetch, J. T. Brodsher, J. M. Holcopibe, Bryce
G. Pugh, formerly of Ashe county, G. E. Snyder, and P. G.
Volyo. Bryce writes that the uniforms they are wearing are
all purpose uniforms.
County’s Red Cross
Quota Is $6,600.00;
Drive Opens March 1
Sharpe S. Shoemaker Will |
Again Serve As Chairman;
I.X More Funds Needed
x Citizens of the Jeffersons and
Ashe county wjll be asked to
give $6,600.00 toward the Ameri
can Red Cross national goal for
1944, when the annual drive
opens on March 1, it was reveal
ed at a meeting on Thursday
night.
> At this time, C. C. Lovewell,
I field director of the National
I Red Cross, was present and out
i lined some plans for the drive, as
I well as discussing the expansion
i of the work of this organization,
since last year.
Lovewell spoke to the Rotary;
Club, previous to the Red Cross i
meeting.
Ashe county’s quota for the
drive last year was $4,300.00 and
this was slightly surpassed. I
Sharpe S. Shoemaker will again
serve as drive chairman and he
will have a central committee to
assist him, as well as committees
and workers to cover the entire
county. These will be announc
ed later.
The chapter plans another i
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Spoke To Press
At Richmond, Va.
Ed M. Anderson, editor and
publisher of this paper, was the
luncheon speaker at the annual
institute of the Virginia Press
Association, in Richmond, Satur
day.
Editor Anderson spoke on post
war planning in relation to news
papers. ’
111 ' 1 ... a
148 Ashe County Men Given
Pre-induction Examinations
A group of 148 Ashe county
men were given pre-induction
examinations at Camp Croft the
past week end, when only a
small percentage of them passed,
according to unofficial reports. A
list of those accepted for service
will be published as soon as it is
released.'
Those who were sent to Camp
Croft for examination are as fol
lows:
Doughton Sheets, Winfred
Wayne /Sturgill, Gaither Clice
McNeill, William Wiley Church,
Fred Oscar Trivett, Thurman Ed
ward Hurley, Robert Davis, Free-
WEST JEFFERSON, N. C..
FUNERAL TODAY
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Mrs. Amanda Logan, who
died yesterday at the age of
92. Funeral service will be
conducted this afternoon.
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Mrs, Logan, 92
Will Be Buried
This Afternoon
Mrs. Amanda Logan, 92, one of
Ashe county’s oldest and most
popular citizens, died at the Ashe
county hospital, yesterday after
noon, after being a patient there
for several weeks. Funeral serv
ice will be held this afternoon at
2:30, at the Jefferson Methodist
church. Rev. R. G. Wagoner,
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man Sheets, Johnny Earman
Lewis, Ambrose L. Lyall, John
Mack Farrington, Smith Osborne,
Gordon Dale Sheets, Samuel
Thomas Worley, Gilmer Loval
Bledsoe, Edgar Lee Eldreth, Wil
liam Howard South, Clint Earl
Church, Robert D. Colvard, Ma
son Potter, Coy Oscar Snyder,
Paul Baker. Lewter William Ma
haffey, Millard Carl Johnson,
William Everett Burchett, Harley
Hugh Campbell, Woodrow Blev
ins, Rex Raymond Huffman, Wil
liam Clyde Wilcox.
James Garfield McNeill, Chas.
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THURSDAY, FEB. 3, 1944
R. L. Doughton
Again Candidate,
Makes Statement
Chairman Os Ways And
Means Committee, To Run
For Congress
Washington Representative
Robert L. Doughton, of Laurel
Springs, who intended to retire
from Congress three years ago,
found pressure on him to run
again so strong that he announc
ed Saturday his intention to seek
another term in the House.
In announcing that he would
be a candidate for re-election, as
far as he knows or could see at
the present time, Mr. Doughton
issued the following statement:
“I have undergone many con
flicting emotions recently with
respect to whether or not I should
become a candidate for re-elec
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Local Youths
Enlist In Navy
Recruiter Huffman Will Bd
Here February 7 For
Interviews
Four 17-year-old young men
were accepted for enlistment in
Raleigh last Friday in the Naval
Reserve, according to informa
tion released by J. E. Huffman,
Navy Recruiter, assigned to this
territory. They were Donald
Ray Dancy and Carl Dean Bare,
both from Jefferson and seniors
at Jefferson high school, Neal
Thomas Goodman, of West Jef
ferson, also a senior at West Jef
ferson high school.
Recruiter Huffman said that all
of these young men had been ac
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OPA Clerk WiU I
Enter Army Soon
Ralph Campbell Has Served
As Head Clerk Since Pro
gram Started
Ralph Campbell, who has ef
ficiently served as chief clerk to,
the local War Price and Ration
ing Board, resigned Monday and
will enter the army the latter
part of this month, having passed
pre-induction examination on
Friday.
Ruby Barker, who has been
connected with the local OPA of
fice for more than a year, has
been named acting chief clerk
and will serve in this capacity
until a permanent appointment is
made.
Campbell, who began his dut
ies as clerk when the program
, was first started, two years ago,
has done much to encourage co
operation with the program in
this county. He said that he
wished to thank the stores, in
stitutional users of rationed pro
ducts, the schools and all individ
uals who have helped to carry on
the program successfully.
111-A Farmers
• To File Forms
All farmers within draft age
who are in 111-A classification
should get their farm data sheets
in at once. The selective service
board needs this information in
determining whether or not a
registrant is doing sufficient farm
work to be classed as an essen
tial farm worker, Roy H. Crouse,
county agent, said.
The county war board urges
all farmers in 111-A to get blanks
f-om the county agent’s office in
Jefferson and not wait until they
are placed in 1-A before getting
the information in. These forms
should be returned to the county
agent’s office in order for the war
board to determine the farm
units.
$2.00 a Year Out o’s County
Aunt And Uncle Meet In Italy
Second Lieutenant Ethel Belle Hurley, daughter of the
late Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Hurley, of Silas Creek, and her
nephew, Cpl. Edd B. Little, son of Mrs. Lola Little, of Upper
Falls, Maryland, formerly of this county, met recently in It
aly, where they are both in service. Lt. Hurley is an army
nurse.
American Marines
Land In Marshall
Islands; Reds Gain
TO RUN AGAIN
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Congressman R. L. Dough-1
ton, who has announced that I
he will again offer his services
by being a candidate for con
gress from the ninth district.
New Plan Used
By Local Board
. Less Complicated
It was again explained by the
local selective board, this week,
that all men now classed in 1-A
will be sent to the examination
station to determine their physi
cal fitness for military service.
If a man is eligible for a de
ferred classification, such as 2-C i
or 3-C, for farming, or 2-B, nec
essary man in defense work, he
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Shortage Os Tires Growing
More Acute, OPA Announces
Washington OPA Rationing
Chief Colonel Bryan Houston,
announcing stringent new eligi
bility requirement for issuance of
new passenger car tires, said this
week that the supply available
for February will be short of eli
gible demand by at least 250,000
tires.
The February quota of new
tires, most of them synthetic, is
750,000 units, while the demand
from motorists on OPA’s list of
essential drivers is expected to
be for about 1,000,000, Colonel
Houston said at a press confer-
New Advances Are Chalked
Up In Allies’ Drive On
Rome
American amphibious forces
have invaded the very heart of
Japan’s fiercely-defended -mid-
Pacific Marshall islands, this
week.
Marines and soldiers landed on
Kwaj alein atoll, establishing
beachheads near the powerful
Japanese bases on Roi and Kwa
j alein islets.
The invasion units struck Tues-'
day, two years to the day after
the first American offensive ac
tion in the Pacific—a hit and run
raid on the same islands.
President Roosevelt said that 1
American operations in the Mar- 1
shall islands apparently were go
ing well and that they were aim-
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Need Workers In j
Red Cross Room
Mrs. Levern Johnson, produc-'
tion chairman of the local Red (
Cross chapter, announced this
week that the yarn for sweaters,
for the men in the armed forces, i
along with directions for making, j
had arrived. She urges that ev
eryone, who can give some time
to this work, call at her home for
material as these sweaters must
be made during a certain period
of time, and workers are needed
badly. Work is being done at
her home each Tuesday and Fri
day afternoon.
Shipments are being made reg
ularly, the amounts and descrip
tions of which will be announc
ed later.
ence.
“This means,” he stated, “that
local boards must decide which
drivers should have priority and'
the others will have to go with
out.”
Eligibility hereafter, he stated,
will be determined on the basis
of the purpose for which a mo
torist uses his car, rather than the
distance he drives it.
Under this system, virtually no
holders of “A” card gasoline ra
tions will be able to obtain new
tires, the rationing chief said,
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: LOAW
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
Transou Farm
Is Purchased By
State On Tuesday
Will Establish Mountain Test
Experimental Farm At
Laurel Springs
The department of Agriculture
of North Carolina, Tuesday com
pleted plans for the establishment
of a mountain test farm in Ashe
county when the purchase of the
W. M. Transou farm was made.
This farm which contains 425
acres was purchased for $24,000.
according to information releas
ed by officials. It is located on
the Laurel Springs Sparta high
way, not far from the Ashe-Al
leghany county line.
It is understood that the farm
will be converted to a beef and
dairy cattle and sheep test farm
operated by the state department
of agriculture and State College.
Details of plans to be carried out
will be announced later.
Some time ago the location of
such a farm in Ashe county was
under consideration and recently
interest in the plan was revived.
.Surveys have been made in
county during the past few Week,"*
which resulted in the final de
cision.
Ashe county officials, farm
leaders and others working in
the interst of such a farm are
gratified over the realization of
their plans.
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Regulations Are Explained;
Applications Are Made To
.AAA Committee
A revision of Conservation Or
der L-41 now permits farm build
ings including dwellings, to be
constructed on a farm to the ex
jtent of SI,OOO per calendar year
: without filing application for
permit, provided all materials to
be used in the construction are
, on hand or may be obtained with
. out making application for prio-
I rities assistance, and no utility
connections are required which
would necessitate filing an ap
plication for such connections
with the WPB, it was announced
this week.
i After the SI,OOO has been ex
pended, however, application for
a permit must be made, regard
, less of the type of cost of the
| building. Farm dwellings which
have been destroyed by fire
I since July 1, 1943, may be re
built or restored without filing
application, provided all materi
' als can be secured without pri
j orities assistance, and the total
estimated cost of such reconstruc
tion is not in excess of $5,000.
All applications for approval of
construction now should be made
to the County AAA Committee.
SCHOOL LUNCHES
MAKE PUPILS GAIN
According to reports, Ashe
bounty school children are not
only doing better work be
cause of the school lunch pro
gram this year, but some are
gaining in weight.
Miss Margaret Davis, of the
Trout School, where the chil
dren are participating in the
program one hundred
per cent, reports several of the
pupils showed an increase in
weight after the lunchroom
had been in operation for one
month. Pupils weighed at the
end <jf November, when the
lunchroom was not in opera
tion, showed only an average
of one pound per pupil with
10 pupils making no gain. In
December, when the lunch
room was in operation, the av
erage gain in weight was two
pounds per pupil, with only
two showing no gain.