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■■'**■ll I OVER THE TOP FOR VICTORY A y W/ with VtS, UNITED STATES WAR BONDS-STAMPS VOLUME 14, NO. 18 Ashe Democrats At Convention In Raleigh, Today Delegates Named At Conven tion Held In Courthouse, Saturday Delegates from Ashe county, along with others in N. C., are at tending the State convention in Raleigh today. Ashe delegates were chosen at a convention held in the court house, Saturday afternoon, for this purpose. Delegates named include the following: G. B. Price, W. E. McNeill, P. T. McNeill, W: C. Thomas, Russell Barr, W. E. Vannoy, E. F. Gam bill, H. M. Miller, V. C. Lillard. J. T. Brown, Dr. B. C. Waddell, Paul Weaver, E. D. Davis, Ira T. Johnston, Herbert Graybeal, B. H. Duncan, G. O. Burgess, Todd Gen try. R. L. Austin, T. W. Phillips. C. G. Robinson, R. E. L. Plum mer, Everet Stansberry, Robert Reeves, Charlie Blevins, Austin Jones, L. S. Vannoy, A. G. With erspoon, Felix Bare, T. G. Dun can, T. O. Little, A. P. Bare. Alternates are: J. C. Crawford, Paul Jones, J. E. Koontz, Tom Goss, H. H. Lemly, Emmet Stan ley, D. A. Perkins, J. E. Roland, Tom Baker, V. B. Krider, A. J. Blevins. John Littlewood, A. A. Perry, W. B. Austin, Charley Arnold, R. P. Lewis, H. H. Burgess, A. J. Houck, W. R. McNeill, Broadway Hartzog, Bryan Davis, S. V. Alex ander, J. W. Hampton, C. N. Da vis. W. M. Roten, T. C. Bowie, J. D. Burgess, David Burkett, J. B. Hash, W. G. Little, Fred Colvard, C. W. Phillips. There was a good attendance at the meeting Saturday with all townships represented. Warn Draftees About Drinking Local Board Cites RanaflpflMß Men Are Liable To Be Jailed ■ “From time to time registrants reporting for induction in Ashe county report on the morning of induction under the influence of intoxicants. This is a regrettable fact, especially when a man is not able to report, for duty to his country in a sober condition,” an official of the draft board said yesterday and added that some thing must be done about it. “It has been brought to the at tention of the local draft board that considerable trouble has been experienced with men who have reported under the influence of intoxicants, and the following statement comes from the Navy Recruiting station in Raleigh, but is applicable to all recruiting sta tions,” J. W. Luke, chairman of the board said: “In as much as Navy Regula tions will not permit a man to sign a contract with the Govern ment while under the influence of intoxicants, it will be appreciated if instructions are issued to the different local boards advising men reporting to this Recruiting Station that any man arriving here with the smell of intoxicants on his breath, that he will be con fined in jail until such time as the Officer-in-Charge sees fit to (Continued on Page 4) Cite Rules For Canning Sugar The public again is reminded that no applications for home canning sugar will be accepted at the War Price and Rationing board. Dates for registration will ' be May 15 and 16, at the central , schools, as previously announced. The hours for registration will I ■ be from 9:00 a. m. until sp. m., it !was announced. Registrants will note that they should not detach spare stamp 37 but must present ration book number four at time of registra tion, Chief OPA Clerk Ruby Bark er, said. Each applicant will be allowed j/f 10 pounds of sugar per person it $ is stated. Stamps No. 40 in ra ‘ * tion book No. 14 allows five pounds of extra sugar and any body needing more than the amount to be issued at registra tion sites must apply after June 15 to local ration boards, and show that an additional amount is ac tually needed for home canning and preserving, it was explained. Be nl anli lost $1.50 a Year in Ashe County Wounded And Missing In Action gy/ ja H ■ y!| Pvt. Wm. Sidney McMillan, left, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. McMillan, formerly of Nathan’s Creek, has been seriously injured in action in Italy, according to a message re ceived from the War Department. S.-Sgt. Ra ym° n d A-Gen try, right, of Todd, who was recently awarded the Air Medal for meritorious service, has been reported missing over Ger many since April 9. Invasion Coast Gets Blasted By Allies; Pound Japs At Truk Light Vote For Town Officials Here On Tuesday C. O. Parsons Is Named Mayor; Only 219 Votes Are Cast • jw *e wag unusually light in on 219 came aowft w ’me porTCro name their choice for mayor and aidermen. Charles O. Parsons defeated Judge H. C. Tucker for mayor by a count of 141 to 59. In the race for aidermen, T. E. Parker led the ticket with 168; J. L. Segraves was second with 159. Other aidermen elected were: Glen B. Graybeal with 143 votes; Gale McMillan with 120 and Russel W. Barr with 95. Other candidates for aidermen were J. A. Reeves with 90 votes; H. R. Vannoy, 87 and W. V. Woodie, 55. W. J. Seniors To Give Play Tonight “Adam’s Evening”, a comedy by Katharin Kavanaugh, will be pre sented by the Senior class of the West Jefferson high school in the auditorium at 8:30 o’clock tonight. It is under the direction of Mrs. James Barlow, who has success fully coached many high school plays. This well-known royalty play scored a great hit in the movie version entitled, “His Night Out,” starring Edward Everett Horton, the movie star. The cast includes Adam Adams, (Continued on Page Four) AAA Announces Phosphate To Farmers Will Be Limited Due to the limited supply of phosphate available to farmers on the 1944 AAA program, it has be come necessary to reduce all or ders which farmers have placed for superphosphate to about one third of the amount requested, AAA Officials announced today. In view of this, it is necessary for farmers who are interested in earning the full benefits offered them by the 1944 program to turn to some other means of earning the farm allowance established for their farms, it was explained. The prospects for getting lime on this year’s program are the best they have been for the past three or four yars and farmers who can use lime are urged to call at the AAA office in West Jefferson and change their requests to lime. If more orders are received than can be filled those who place their or ders first will be given first con sideration, it was stated. Farmers who wish to do so may WEST JEFFERSON. N. C- THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1944 $2.50 a Year Out of County Rail Lines In France Bombed; Soviet Bombers Also Hit Railroads Sky-filled allied armadas spear headed by hundreds of U. S. Lib erator bombers hammered Ger man invasion coast defenses and rail feeder lines from dawn to dusk this week, hurling explo sives at a two-ton-per-minute clip and smashing key junctions at the rate of one an hour in an unexampled display of aerial might which went almost unchal lenged by the Germans. Jittery German radio announc ers predicted that the big allied land invasion was “imminent” came on the air just before mid night Wednesday to shout: “At tention! Attention! Enemy in truders entering Western Germa ny.” Truk, Japan’s heaviest bombed Bastion in all the Carolines, and its buttresses of Ponape and Sa tawan, were battered last week end by mightly Pacific fleet car rier task forces that destroyed 126 enemy planes. Adm. Chester W. Nimitz an nounced the blow was struck with but light American aircraft losses and no damage to a single United States warship. Carrier-borne planes threw the weight of their attack against (Continued on Page 5) J. G Goodman Is On Draft Board Announcement has been made of the appointment of J. C. Good man, local teacher, a member of the Ashe county draft board. He replaces Dave Harless, who has served in this capacity for the past year. Mr. Harless has re signed because of his work. buy phosphate from commercial dealers and receive credit for the application of this phosphate to legumes and-or grasses in the same manner that credit is giv en for phosphate received on the AAA program, it was pointed out. “Many farmers may earn a large part of their payment by establish ing a good winter cover crop this fall from seeding crimson clover, vetch, Austrian winter peas or a mixture of these legumes. The AAA will probably have some of these seed for distribution to farmers as a conservation materi al as they did last year, but the amount of seed and the time they will be available is not definite now. The credit for establishing a good winter cover crop this year is $4.00 per acre. This is consid erably higher than it has been in the past, however, if a good stand is not obtained this year no cred it is allowed for seeding,” Edgar Greene, of the AAA office, said. Farmers Are To To Produce More Grade “A” Milk Meeting Held On Monday, When Plans Are Discussed By Group The possibility of more grade “A” milk in Ashe county was dis cussed by a group of farmers- who met in the office of the county agent on Monday night. Plans for an organization of grade “A” milk producing farmers were discuss ed, to be worked out later. Field men from companies pur chasing milk in this area were present and assured dairymen that they were in the market for more grade “A” milk. It was explained that there are a number of dairy farmers of the county that can qualify in this group with only a few minor im provements in their buildings, equipment and herds. Those who are interested in pro ducing grade “A” milk are urged to contact the county agent’s of fice in Jefferson to secure plans and more detailed information as to requirements to produce Grade “A” milk. “We have entirely too many farmers milking beef type cows or cows crossed with beef and dairy and call it dairying. Dairy ing pays if you keep good type dairy cows with good production and produce an abundance of home grown feeds as silage, le gume hays and improved pas tures,” county agent Crouse said, and urged farmers to improve practices. Transou Named Foreman Os Test Farm In County Three Barns Are Planned For Beef, Dairy Cattle And Sheep It was announced this week by F. E. Miller, director of the State Test Farms division of the State Department of Agriculture, Ra leigh, that W. M. Transou has been named resident foreman of the newly acquired Ashe county test farm, which was purchased from Mr. Transou for $24,000.00. Officials of the Department of Agriculture have conferred on plans for the erection of three new barns on the Ashe farm, for beef cattle, sheep and dairy cat tle. In addition to Mr. Transou, two other families will reside on the farm and supply much of the la bor for it, Mr. Miller said. Construction work on the barns is expected to start in the near future. Ferree Is Guest Speaker At Club Importance Os Permanent De fense Stressed By Speaker At Rotary Club A. I. Ferree, Republican candi date for the U. S. Senate, was the guest speaker at the Jeffersons Rotary club last week, when in addition to members a number of others were present.. The speaker, who was introduc ed by the club president, Ira T. Johnston, told the members that the lawmakers of the country should adopt a policy of perman ent preparedness. He reviewed the history of the United States, showing that while this is a peace ful nation, there has been a war on the average of every 25 years. He pointed out that this was the time to lay plans for a prepared ness program for the future. The speaker pointed out the ad vantages of a world court, but stressed the fact that this would '(Continued on Page Four) CAPT. BASIL D. BARR, FORM- ER POSTMASTER, HERE Captain Basil D. Barr, who was postmaster of West Jefferson be fore entering service, is spending a few days here with his family. Capt. Barr, who came to attend the graduation of his son, Winfred, reports that everything looks good to him here. He has been stationed in New Mexico for some time in connec tion with a training unit of min ing engineers for the army, but expects to be moved soon. “I enjoy The Skyland Post, par ticularly the column on men in service,” he said. Flood Drives Citizens From Homes I f- •' Moir-’< '• •• ■•?••• |g ' rv Flood waters from Little Arkansas river drove thousands of families from their homes in Wichita, Kan. This scene on East Douglas avenue, 13 blocks from the downtown business area, shows hundreds of cars stranded in deep water, and blocking the path of a fire truck en route to a fire. Firemen are laying hose from the truck. Finals For Five Ashe High Schools To Be Held Fri. And Sat. Many To Graduate; Speakers For Several Schools Are Announced .. r -’HIM Commencement exercises in five of the nine high schools of Ashe will be held this week end, when a number of outstanding speakers are to be heard. Others are to be held later. Finals will be held at Jeffer son and West Jefferson and Elk land tomorrow night. Dr. Amos Abrams will deliver the address at West Jefferson. Rev. J ,S. Hiatt, of Statesville, will be the speaker at Jefferson and A .B. Hurt, superintendent of schools, at Elkland. The commencement exercises at Healing Springs and Nathan’s Creek will close Saturday night with the graduation exercises. Rev. J. S. Hiatt will deliver the address at Healing Springs and A. B. Hurt at Nathan’s Creek. Dr. B. B. Dougherty, President of ASTC, will be the final’s speak er at Fleetwood May 10, when the seniors will be awarded their di plomas. The junior-senior play will be given here on May 9. Honorable Ira T. Johnston will deliver the literary address at Riverview on Saturday, May, 13. The baccalaureate sermon will be delivered on the Sunday before, May 7. (Continued on Page 4) Attending Rotary Convention Today Among those who are attending the annual convention of the 188th Rotary District at Pinehurst today and Friday, are the newly elected president, Gale McMillan; Secre tary Larry P. Colvard, Roy H. Crouse, Dr. and Mrs. J. K. Hunter, Mr. and Mrs. Levern Johnson, Rocco Cutri and Sharpe S. Shoe maker. District Boy Scout Camporee Last Weekend Well Attended The district camporee held last Saturday and Sunday near Ash land, with 9 patrols participating, was well attended with 55 Boy Scouts from various troops of the Parkway district present. The boys arrived about 8:00 o’- clock Saturday morning and were inspected as to their packs, ap pearance and suitable clothing. During the rest of the period they were judged on choice of camp site, kinks, patrol organization and leadership, proper menus, sanita tion, projects and in addition, en joyed various group games. A list of patrols participating, and awards follow: Red pennant: Hound Patrol, C. P. Calahan, leader, troop 41, Boone; Eagle patrol, W. B. York, leader, troop 41, Boone; Flying Eagle patrol, Grady Moretz, lead er, troop 41, Boone; Black Bear patrol, Fuller Horton, leader, troop 71, Sugar Grove; Flying Honor Roll Is Erected In Hall Os Courthouse More Than 1000 Names Are Listed; Others Are To Be Added The honor roll of Ashe county people serving in the present war, has been erected in the hall of the county courthouse and incudes The board was erected under the co-sponsorship of the Jeffer sons Rotary club and the Ashe Post of the American Legion and more names are to be added to it from time to time. J. W. Luke, chairman of the war records committee, has asked that all families of Ashe county men, who were inducted else where, turn these names into him if they have not already done so, in order that they may be added to the list. Mr. Luke has also requested the names of all of those who have died while in service. Potatoes Are Being Shipped Twelve cars or 5,400 bags of Irish potatoes have been shipped from West Jefferson during the past week by 130 Ashe county farmers. Two additional cars are expected to be loaded by noon to day, at which time all surplus po tatoes in Ashe are expected to be delivered to West Jefferson, coun ty agent Roy Crouse said today. J. B. Gourlay of the N. C. De partment of Agriculture, has been j assisting in the marketing and (grading of these potatoes. The (Continued on Page 4) Eagle patrol, N. Graybeal, leader, troop 93, Ashland. Yellow pennants: Flying Eagle patrol, Bernard Graybeal, leader, troop 37, West Jefferson; Horse patrol, Fred Miller, leader, troop 41, Boone; Black Bear patrol, Paul Milam, leader, troop 93, Ashland, Green Pennant: Eagle patrol, Tom Diggs, leader, troop 37, West Jefferson. “There seemed to be a great im provement in the differenc of this and last year’s camping. The boys are to be highly praised for their grades, considering that this is on ly the second camporee in which they have taken part,” one offi cial said. Acting as judges were: R. C. Busteed and Lee Stout, of Boone, and Levern Johnson and Harvey Payne, of West Jefferson. Other Scouters visited. Rev. John Jor dan was in charge of the church service Sunday afternoon, follow ing the noon meal. Hmake every PAY DAY WAR BOND DAY stop iummt—un tauts PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY McDonald Wants Higher Incomes For N. C. Farmers Advocates Removal Os Sales Tax; Would Improve Pub lic Schools Speaking at the Ashe county courthouse, Tuesday evening, Dr, Ralph McDonald, Democratic candidate for Governor, advocated a constructive 12-point program for insuring higher income for the farmers of the State, improvement of the public schools and the re moval of the sales tax with no state tax on land. “Since the real basis of our economic life is farm income, the State should do everything with in its power to insure a high farm income,” McDonald said. “Farm income in North Carolina can be increased tremendously,’* he declared, and pledged his sup port to 12 measures by which he said the State Government could help to increase farm income. The measures were: Improved marketing services and facilities; encouragement of processing and manufacturing plants for farm crops; rural electric power for all farms; more liberal support of all agricultural services of the State, particularly for experimentation, research, and improved farming methods; shows, sales, fairs, and other means of encouraging live stock raising; promotion of pure seed and pure'bred stock; Increased facilities for teaching vocational agriculture and home economics; encouragement of co operative mechanism of farming; encouragement of fruit, berry and truck crop cultivation; diversifica tion; encouragement to farm or ganization and to farm youth (Continued On Page Four) Navy Recruiter Is Coming May 15 Ash. High Sdyt ' J. E. Huffman, Navy Recruiter, who has been coming to West Jefferson twice a month, announc ed this week that he will be here on Monday, May 15, until 1:00 p. m. and that he will then be de tached for several weeks from re cruiting duty and sent to a Naval hospital for treatment. While enlistments will still be open to seventeen year old young men it will be necessary for them to see Chief J. T. Stephenson at North Wilkesboro on any Wednes day. Recruiter Huffman said that Chief Stephenson would cov er only a part of his present terri tory, and that any Ashe county young men should see him on the morning of May 15 to make en listment arrangements. Recruiter Huffman announced that three additional Ashe county youths had enlisted in Naval Re (Continued on Page Four) Ashe County Men Leave For Service Sixteen Ashe county men left last Thursday, to enter military service. Fourteen entered the Navy and two the Marines. Those entering the Navy are: Claude Austin Key, Avery David Eller, Paul Edward Bare, Russell Burton Bard, Ralph Dixon Marsh, Fritz Arnold Howell, Arvel Wayne Hartsoe, Howard Rufus Riley, Roy Huston Bare, Bruce James Little, John Clifford Lit tle, Dale Junior Blevins, Artie Hopkins Owen and Wilborn Cla born Weaver. Major Fieldon Brown and Mack Blackburn entered the Marine Corps. J. C. Barker, 79, Buried Yesterday Funeral service was held yes terday afternoon at 3:00 o’clock, at the Sabbath Home Baptist Church for Jess C. Barker, 79, of Lansing, who died at his home on Monday, May 1, after a heart attack. Burial followed at the Goss cemetery. Mr. Barker, who was a native of this county, the son of Ely Barker, and Tamsey Ballou Barker, is sur vived by his wife, and the follow ing children: Mrs. Celia Riley,' of Charlotte; Mrs. Clyde Keys, Lans ing; Donald Barker, Elkton, Md.; Miss Ada Barker, and Miss Helen Barker, of Lansing. >ND DAY MFI DOLLAR
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