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VOLUME 15, NO, 2
Ashe County Far Surpasses Bond Quota
N. C. Solons Get |
Budget; Teachers
Given Attention J
Budget Presented Yesterday;
Committees Named And
Work Is Started
By STAFF WRITER
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Raleigh, N. C. —(Special)—N.
C. Solons were given some
thing to figure on yesterday
when they heard the report of the
budget committee.
The Advisory Budget Commis
sion recommended that the
record sum of $220,081,434 be
appropriated for the next bien
nium, and broke tradition by di
recting that teacher salary sched
ules be embodied in the general
appropriations bill.
The recommended appropria
tion, which is exclusive of $51,-
585,079 to be set aside for retire
ment of the State’s general in
debtedness, was greatly in excess
of the $178,505,823 in actual and
estimated expenditures for 1943-
45. A large part of the recom
mended increase would go for
highways.
Following the announcement of
the senatorial committees, Speak
er Oscar Richardson, Tuesday an
nounced the membership of 48
house committees at a brief morn
ing session. On appropriations he
placed Reps. Tom Pearsall of
Nash and A. B. Stoney of Burke
;as chairman and co-chairman, re
spectively. On finance, charged
with the responsibility of raising
money, he placed Reps. John Kerr
of Warren as chairman and Frank
"Taylor of Wayne as co-chairman.
Rep. Alonzo Edwards of Greene
was named chairman of agricul
ture and Rep. Glenn C. Palmer
of .Haywood, co-chai|MMUM| Ae
mental institutions
Richardson’s appeteSawnts
.came but 15 hours after Presi
dent L. Y. Ballentine of the senate
named Brandon P. Hodges of
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Ashe Men Are On
Many Committees
Both Hart And Thomas Are
Named On Several Legis
latives Committees
Edison M. Thomas, state sena
tor from Ashe county and Rep
resentative M. Donnelly Hart,
were this week named on a num
ber of committees as the legis
lature got down to business.
Thomas is serving on the com
mitte for constitutional amend
ments, appropriations, immigra
tions, institutions for the deaf, li
brary, military affairs, pensions
and soldiers’ home, senatorial
districts and appropriations.
Representative Hart is serving
on the following house commit
tees: agriculture, election laws,
game and inland fisheries, health,
manufacturing and labor, penal
institutions, propositions and
grievances.
In a letter to this paper this
week, Mr. Hart wrote:
“Now in regard to the sale of
wine and beer in Ashe county,
do the people want a bill passed
to stop the sale of it in the coun
ty or a bill giving the people the
right to zvote on the matter. I
am in favor of stopping it in the
quickest way that can be done.”
Miss Roland Is
New OPA ClerkJ
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was announced this week
Miss Mae Ola Roland had been
added to the staff of clerks at the
local rationing board. She is the
food and miscellaneous clerk and
takes the place of Miss Helen
Shatley, who has been made gas
oline and fuel clerk. This place
was made vacant following the
resignation of Mrs. Guy Dennjj,
who served efficently in this
capacity for more than two years.
It was also announced that the
office would be closed to the pub
lic on Saturday at 12:00 o’clock
noon, due to the fact that all :
stamps are deposited on that day
before the bank closes.
The office will be closed all
day next. Thursday,. January 18, „
because of a meeting with clerks
attending*
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SLSO a Year in Ashe County . ,• WEST JEFFERSON. N. €.. THURSDAY, JAN. 11, 1945 $2.58 a Year Out. of County
Americans Nearing
Manila; Gaming On
Belgian Front Now
GETS SILVER STAR
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Store Keeper First Class
George Scott Denney, son of
Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Denney, of
West Jefferson, has been pre
sented the Silver Star Medal
in recognition of his “gallant
action” as a member of the
First Beach Battalion during
landing operations on an as
sault beach in Southern
France on August 15.
Wilford Porter,
Ashe Bpy Makes
Record Overseas
Is Now Serving Under Gen
eral Hobbs, Somewhere
In Germany
T-Sgt. J. Wilford Porter, son
of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Porter, of
Helton, who is a member of the
30th Division of the Third Army,
somewhere in Germany, under
the command of Major General
L. S. Hobbs, recently wrote of
the great work his division was
doing. Some of the information
he sent is as follows: “When the
30th Infantry Division troops
charged through the greatest
concentration of artillery and
mortar fire they had met in the
Western Campaign to storm the
bunkers of the German Siegfried
line and establish a bridgehead
in the Fatherland, they reached
an objective for which, in three
I months of bitter fighting, they
had been paving the way since
the battle near the beaches.
Smashing the Siegfried Line in
the sector north of Aachen where
it was heavily manned and then
aiding in closing the gap that
forced Aachen’s fall constituted
one of the toughest jobs assigned
any division in the Battle of Eu
rope. But this was only the be
ginning for the 30th Division.
They participated in the break
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Ashe Hospital Has Successful
Year; Meeting Is Held, Mon.
At a meeting of the stockhold
ers and directors of the Ashe
County Memorial Hospital, on
Monday, tentative postwar plans
for expansion were discussed and
reports submitted for the past
year showed that this institution
had an unusual record for serv
ice.
Among the first building plans
will probably be a nurses’ home,
which is badly needed. A com
mittee will be named in the near
future to work out definite build
ing plans for this so that work
can be started as soon as materi
als are released.
The annual report submitted
shows that there were 879 bed
patients taken care of during the
year for a total of 6,244 days.
During 1944 a total of 174 new
babies were born at the hospital.
. There were a total of 36,550
meals served to patients during
the year. Other figures reveal
MacArthur Leads Troops
Ashore On Luzon; Formo
sa Is Bombed By Yanks
Tens of thousands of U. S. sixth
army forces, accompanied ashore
by Gen. Douglas MacArthur,
landed Tuesday along 15 miles of
Lingayen gulf cost on Luzon is
land from an 800-ship convoy and
pushed deep into flatlands lead
ing 120 miles south to Manila over
ideal tank-war country.
Tanks were among the equip
ment put ashore in strength to
make possible a powerhouse of
fensive.
From the beaches, cleared of
Japanese by fierce warship shell
ings and aerial bombings, the
lightly opposed Yanks surged in
land over the same crescent of
sand dunes the Japanese employ
ed three years years ago.
A field dispatch, disclosing that
MacArthur already has set up
headquarters on Luzon, said the
landings were on the southern
extremity of the gulf which in
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First Nat’l Bank
Passed $2,000,000
Mark Last Year
Annual 12 Percent Dividend
Paid; Officers And Direc
tors Re-Elected I
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The First National Bank had a
very successful year during 1944
and showed marked growth, when
resources passed the two million
mark as shown by the report of
J. L. Segraves, cashier, at the an
nual stockholders’ meeting here
on Tuesday.
The annual statement shows
that the resources have climbed
to $2,196,073.98 as compared to
$1,596,407.88 at the close of busi
ness in 1943. Deposits have
climbed to $2,110,154.81 and un
divided profits also show a gain.
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, T.
C. Bowie, H. H. Burgess and Edi
son Thomas.
The directors re-elected the
officers who are as follows: T.
C. Bowie, president; Edison
Thomas, vice-president; J. L. Se
graves, cashier; and Mrs. Lilly A.
Segraves, assistant cashier.
PARSONS IS OFFICER
Clayborne Parsons, well-known
local young man, has been named >
as a town officer and remains on !
duty in West Jefferson through- (
out the day. C. P. McMillan is
also continuing his duties as a
town policeman.
that the hospital made an out
standing record for service. It
is also in good financial condi
tion.
The stockholders re-elected the
trustees with the exception of
Professor R. E. L. Plummer, who
died a short time ago and B. L.
Hafer, who has moved out of the
county. J. F. Phipps and Wade
E. Vannoy were named to fill
these two vacancies.
The trustees are as follows:
Ed M. Anderson, Wade Eller,
Wade E. Vannoy, John Little
wood, W. L. Dent, E. R. Sturdi
vant, J. B. Hash, J. F. Phipps, J.
E. Oliver, L. P. Colvard, C. M.
Dickson, J. O. Blevins, J. G. Gam
bill, Bryan Oliver, Ira T. John
ston.
The officers are: W. B. Austin,
president; John Littlewood, J. E.
Oliver, vice-presidents; Wade E.
Eller, secretary; R. R. Badger,
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Farm Planning
Meetings To Be
Held In County
Opening Schedule Announc
ed; Will Conform With
War Needs
“As this is the beginning of,
perhaps, the most critical year of
the war it has become necessary
to make certain adjustments in
our agricultural planning in Ashe
County to comform more closely
with the war needs in 1945,” Roy
i H. Crouse county agent, said yes
terday. In keeping with this he
announced that meetings' had
been scheduled to assist farmers
and their wives with these plans.
All farmers, their wives, as well
as other members of the family
are urged to attend.
The following meetings have
been scheduled to date and others
will be announced next week:
Monday, January 15, 7:30
o’clock, Nathan’s Creek school.
Tuesday, January 16, 2:00
o’clock, Chestnut Hill, at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Pierce.
Tuesday night, at 7:30, Grassy
Creek, agricultural building.
Wednesday night, January 17,
at 7:30, Fleetwood school.
Friday at 2:00 o’clock, at Land
mark school.
Cars Wrecked At
Warrensville, Sat.
Warrensville was the scene of
an automobile wreck last Satur
day night, when a car driven by
Walter Brown and a pick-up
truck, driven by Orrin Gentry,
met in a collision.
Both cars were badly damaged
but occupants cnly
slight injuries. It as understood
that no action was taken In the
matter. *
Boone Market
Prices Are Good
Poundage and prices of the
Boone tobacco market continue
to rise and the three million
poundage mark was reached this
week with an everage of slightly
over $47.00 per hundred.
Roscoe Coleman, propritor of
the Mountain Burley warehouses
pointed out that they expected
to clear the floors this week and
in that case could sell tobacco
the same day it was brought in.
“We make every effort to give
the farmers the best of service
and appreciate their business,”
he said.
J. F. Friesland
Buried Monday
Funeral service was held at
Old Fields on Monday at 11:00
o’clock, for James F. Friesland,
82, of Fleetwood, who died at his
;home after an attack of pneu
monia on Saturday, January 6.
Rev. Carrol Burkett conducted
the service and burial followed
at the Old Fields cemetery.
Mr. Friesland, who was a well
known farmer in the county, is
survived by his wife, Mrs. Lillie
Friesland and the following chil
dren: Charlie, Ernest, Thomas,
Emmett, Wade, Gwyn and Donald
Friesland; Mrs. Lizzie Spencer,
Mrs. Effie Humphrey, Mrs.
Maude McNeill, Mrs. Fannie
Payne and Mrs. Rosa Brown. 112
grand and great-grandchildren
also survive.
Budget Calls For
$83,000,000,000.00
Here is the 1946 federal budget
at a glance. The estimates are
compared with estimates of the
present fiscal year (1945).
Total expenditures $83,000,000,-
000, decrease of $17,000,000,000.
War expenditures $70,000,000,-
000, decrease of $19,000,000,000.
Net receipts $41,300,000,000, de
crease of $4,400,000,000.
Debt increase $40,000,000,000,
to a total of $292,000,000,000.
Total appropriations $87,000,-
000,000, decrease of $10,000,000,-
000.
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Six weeks after he was hit by a crippling attack of infan
tile paralysis, small Jerry Hamrick, of Lincolnton, was on his
feet again. He was treated at the Hickory Emergency Infan
tile Paralysis hospital by the National Foundation for Infan
tile Paralysis.
Announce Plans For
Infahtile Paralysis
Fund Thrive In Ashe
Trivett Man Is
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Killed In Action;
Others Injured
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• Two Ashe County Men Have
Recently Been Awarded
Purple Hearts
Another Ashe county man was
added to the victims of war this
week and two others reported
prisoners of war.
! Rev. and Mrs. W. C. Trivett, of
: jOhio, formerly of West Jefferson,
jhave been notified that their son,
! Walter A. Trivett, has been kil
led in action somewhere in Hol
, land. He was reported missing
i the first of last December.
’ j Cpl. Jack B. Farmer, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. B. Farmer, of
Fig and Franklin, Va., who was
reported missing in action in
France on October 28, is now a
prisoner of war in Germany, ac
cording to a message received re
cently by his parents. Cpl. Far-
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WICK G. VANNOY IS
PAINFULLY INJURED
Wick G. Vannoy, prominent
local business man was painfully
injured Saturday night when he
received a severe cut on his right
hand while working on a truck.
;He was taken to the hospital for
1 treatment and several stitches
had to be taken in his hand.
| He has been confined to his
home much of the time this week.
County To Have Separate
Scout District For This Year
An enthusiastic dinner-meeting
of Boy Scout committeemen and
executives was held at the Com
munity building here on Monday
night, with around twenty per
sons present.
Following the dinner, an im
pressive moving picture was
shown to the group which empha
sized the advantages of scouting
and different forms of scout
sponsorship and activities. After
the showing of this picture, the
group was called to order by Mr.
Clyde Green, of the Watauga
circuit, who presided over the
business session.
The minutes of the last meeting
were read and approved and dif
ferent committee ' reports were
heard. Following the comittee
reports, the principle discussion
of the evening was taken up.
This question was whether or not
the Watauga and Ashe county
district should remain combined
This County Has A Quota Os
$3,549.00; T. E. Parker
Is Chairman
t At a meeting of the . central
committee" here on Monday night,
plans were made for the annual
i drive to raise funds to Fight In
fantile Paralysis In which Ashe
county has a quota of $3,549.00.
T. E. Parker, county chairman
, of the drive, pointed out that the
, co-operation of everyone was
needed and urged everyone to
make a generous contribution to
• this worthy cause.
The committee decided that a
’ solicitation of special gifts would
i be made in advance of the drive,
j In addition to the quota based on
I the population, the county is ask
:ed to raise a minimum of $50.00
, for each case of infantile paraly
, sis during the past year and every
individual, who can, is being
asked to make a contribution of
this size. There were 36 cases
in this county during the past
year.
The march of dimes will also
be used and other features in
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Deputy Graybeal
Now Recovering
Chief Deputy Carl B. Graybeal,
who has been confined to the
Ashe county hospital for some
time for spinal treatment is now
recuperating at his home.
His condition is greatly im
proved and he expects to be back
on the job soon.
or divided into different districts.
After expressions from everyone
present, it was decided that the
Ashe and Watauga troops would
be grouped as separate districts.
A nominating committe was
appointed for the Ashe county
district composed of Levern John
son, Rev. E. W. Powers, M. W.
Reynolds and Gale McMillan.
This committee will give a report
•at the meeting, February 12.
Much enthusiasm was shown at
the meeting and it is thought that
by being a separate district that
scouting will increase in interest
and activity in Ashe county in
the future.
Levern Johnson was laud
ed for his splendid service as a
scout executive and worker dur
ing past years, and it was ex
pressed that with more co-opera
tion from parents and citizens,
that the Ashe district should
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OVERJHETPP, I
FOR VICTORY
UNITED STATES WAR
BONDS-STAMPS
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
Over $277,000.00
Sold During 6th
War Loan Drive
$150,573.75 Sold In E Bonds;
Quota For County Set At
$131,000.00
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Reports form the U. S. Trea
sury department yesterday reveal
that Ashe county reached a total
of $273,453.75 in the sale of war
bonds during the Sixth War Loan
when the quota was set at $161,-
000.00. The E bond quota for the
drive was $131,000.00 and sales
in this group climbed to $150,-
573.75.
W. D. McMillan, chairman of
the drive for the county said that
he was well pleased With the re
sponse and pointed out that final
reports would ’probably make the
total climb higher.
Throughout the State. North
Carolinians set a new record in
the Sixth War Loan, investing a
grand total of $248,364,000 in Gov
ernment securities—more than in
any previous bond campaign
State War Finance Chairman
Clarence T. Leinbach announced.
The State achieved 205 per cent
of its $121,000,000 overall quota
for the Sixth loan and bettered
by $13,364,000 its sales in the
Fifth War Loan, which totalled
$235,000,000.
Releasing final figures on the
drive, Leinbach also disclosed
that E bond purchases and total
investment by individuals also
were substantially in excess of
the Fifth Loan figures.
Kemp B. Nye Has
Score To Settle
West Jefferson Man Was On
Duty In China When Ja
pan Started War
Atlanta, Ga. Marine Private
First Class Kemp B. Nye, 28, of
West Jefferson, has several
scores to settle with the Japan
ese—including the loss of a bar
becue beef dinner.
Now serving in a Provost Mar
shal’s office, Private First Class
Nye was on duty at the American
i Embassy in Peking, China, in
11937, at the time of the Marco
, Polo incident.
“I heard the first artillery bar
rage that set the powder keg off,”
he said, telling of incidents which
resulted in the Japanese-Chinese
conflict.
“The Japs had been holding
maneuvers in Chinese-controlled
area and claimed the Chinese had
kidnapped one of their soldiers,**
the Marine stated, “So the Japs
blew up the bridge in ‘retalia
tion.’ ” t
Not only did they destroy the
bridge, he explained, but they
I cancelled plans the Marines had
made for a barbecue beef pinner.
“Instead of the planned festivi
ties, the three-quarter beef had
to last as rations for eight days
for 175 men, ’ Nye said.
The North Carolina man first
went to China in early 1936,
where he served with the Ameri
can embassy. He has great re
spect for the Chinese’ fighting
ability.
Nye enlisted in 1935 and was
honorably discharged after three
years’ duty in China. Returning
to the states, he re-entered the
University of North Carolina to
complete study as a pre-medical
student. He re-enlisted in 1942
and has been overseas for nearly
a year.
He is the son of Professor and
Mrs. F. C. Nye.
Tax Collections
In County Good
Mrs. Elizabeth V. Miller, coun
ty tax collector, announced yes
terday that tax collections for
1944 have already passed the
$55,000.00 mark. This is more
than half of the assessment, she
explained, and pointed* out that
this was unusually good for this
time of the year.
“I want to thank all of those,
who have been so prompt in pay
ing their taxes and I hope every
one else, who can,-will pay his
this month before the penalty
goes on Feb. 1,” Mrs. Miller said.