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■7-- —, FAT BAT WAR (Al rat tnr srmnn—un xxim , VOLUME 15, NO. 12 “Six Ashe County Men Are War Casualties N. Q Solons Are Confronted With Problems To End Hit Snarl On Medical Care At Close Os 67th Day Os Wartime Session By Staff Writer | Raleigh —(Special) —As the 1945 wartime N. C. Legislature came to a close yesterday, after 67 sitting days, the bill providing for hospital and medical care was still a problem on which the Sen ate and House k compromised. The Senate adopted amend ments to the bill as passed by the House, but the House refused to concur in these and the bill was returned to a conference commit tee for a final agreement. The House this week, .passed a bill providing for a new 15-mem ber State hospitals board of con trol to be appointed for staggered terms by the Governor. The new board will be appointed from the ■State’s 12 congressional districts three members at large. The measure also provides that the hospitals board business manager be appointed for a six-year term instead of two. A measure placing the Roanoke Island Historical Association un der the patronage of the State also passed the House. The bill provides that the State set up a fund of SIO,OOO to underwrite the association’s historical production, the Last Colony, in case the money is needed to get the pag eant under way after the war. Meanwhile, the legislature pass ed measures Calling for a consti tutional amendment on whether to allow legislators $lO. a day for expenses in a regular 60-day ses sion; and lending moral support to War Mobilization Director Brynes’ curfew'directive. In the house, Rep. William T. Hatch formally announced for speaker of the 1947 session. He has served in all sessions, special and i regular, since 1936. Rep. Thomas J. Pearsall indicated several days jKgo he would be a candidate but deferred issuing a formal state (Continued On Page Feur) Arthur Bell, 44, Buried Monday Funeral service was held on Monday morning at ten o’clock for Arthur Bell, 44, of Warrens ville, who died on Saturday, March 17. The service was held at the Warrensville Methodist church and was conducted by Rev. Cicero Ashley, Rev. Arthur Ashley and Rev. R. G. Wagoner. Burial followed at the Wallace cemetery. The deceased is survived by his wife, the former Miss Georgie McNeill, and three children: <»nny, Bobby and Judy. The Rowing brothers and sisters al so survive: Homer Bell, Mrs. Tom Miller, Robert Bell, and Mrs. D. Collins. Improvements Are Cited By Austin W. B. Austin spoke to the Jef fersons Rotary Club last Thurs day night on “How Farming Ef fects Business.” He stated that all businesses in Ashe county de pended on the success of the farmer and for that reason busi ness men should be vitally inter ested in helping them. He also stated that the club should not overlook the educa tion, health and road improve ment that the people of the coun ty must have along with others to make real progress. Mr. Aus- Un was presented by J. L. Se agraves. REVIVAL SERVICES BEING HELD AT GREER CHAPEL Rev. Frank Tucker and Rev. G. M. Shepherd are conducting a series of revival meetings at the Greer Chapel at Ball, and are having a good attendance at each service. The meeting began on Sunday, March 11, and will close on Sun day, March 25. The public is cordially invited to attend. She |3ost $2.00 a Year in Ashe County WEST JEFFERSON, N. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 22,1945 $2.56 a Year Out of County Jap Fleet Is Blasted yiftericans Now Move » West Os Rhine s'’ SPraO HERE TONIGHT : <■ ■. E. H. Bakken, national di rector of rural scouting serv ; ice of Boy Scouts of America, who will speak to the Rotary , club tonight. Scout Director Is Rotary Club Speaker Tonight Plans Will Be Made To Extend Scouting Program To Areas E. H. Bakken, national director, rural scouting service, Boy Scouts of America, will speak to the Ro tary club and a group of other citizens from Ashe county to night at the community building. Rev. E. W. Powers will act as chairman. A special effort will be made by the Ashe district committee to extend scouting to boys in the rural areas, who have not been able to participate because of lack of leadership for troops. Through the Neighborhood Patrol and Lone Scout plans, it will be pos sible for any boy, who so desires, to have the advantages of Scout fC«nun«e< en Page 4) Ration Board Is Closed Two Days The local War Price and Ra tioning Board closed yesterday and will be closed today on orders from the District Office, T, P. Colvard, chairman of the Board, said today. “The rationing and price work load at the board is accumulating to the point where it will cause confusion unless we close the Board to the pubßc for two days and give the clerks an opportuni ty to bring it up to date,” Mr. Col vard explained. The Board Chairman has ask ed the public to anticipate their rationing and price needs in ad vance and not to try to transact any business at the Board on these two days except in a case of ex treme emergency. Must Apply For Canning Sugar Later In Season Ashe county people, along with others throughout the country, are expected to get the same al lotment of canning sugar as was allowed them last year, a maxi mum of 20 pounds per person, ac cording to information just re leased by OPA. This is to be secured through local rationing boards, but the public is asked not to apply until the date for receiving applications is announced. This will be some time after May 1, officials ex plained. The Office of Price Adminis tration says there will be enough sugar to preserve as much fruit as was actually “put up” in homes Russian Troops Wipe Out German Resistance On Banks Os Oder River American aircraft flying from the mightiest carrier fleet ever assembled attacked the Japanese fleet in the empire’s inland seas Monday in one of the boldest ex ploits of the war, and. damaged 15 to 17 enemy warships, includ ing one of two battleships, and destroyed at least 475 planes. The enemy fleet thus was hit in its home waters for the first time, but no actual engagement between surface units was an nounced. Adm. Chester W. Nimitz an nounced the daring attack in a communique which said prelim inary surveys of damage showed that two or three aircraft carriers, four light carriers, two cruisers, four destroyers and various other war vessels also were included in the bag. Six freighters were sunk and a number of ground installations were destroyed. The U. S. seventh and third armies formed a junction in the Saarland yesterday in a great co ordinated assault that virtually wiped out the last German re sistance west of the Rhine and captured the historic cities of Saarbruecken, Zweibruecken and Worms. \ (Continued on Page 4) Hemlock Man Is On Iwo Beaches Denver D. Robinson Is Mem ber Os Coast Guard Crew Carrying Men, Food, Etc. Aboard A Coast Guard Manned Transport At Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands, February 21 (Delayed)— Serving as a seaman in a landing craft, 21-year-old Denver D. Rob inson, of Hemlock, is one of the Coast Guard boat crewmen from this ship who since early on D- Day have been ferrying men and supplies into Iwo Jima’s shell swept beaches. “It’s worse here even today than it was on D-Day at Normandy,” Robinson, a veteran of the Nor mandy and Southern France land ings last summer, declared on one of his return trips to the ship to day. “The Jap mortar fire right on the beach and out into the water as the boats come in is heavier than anything I had to go into at Normandy,” he explained. “They began throwing all that mortar stuff on the beach at H-Hour and they are still putting it down as hard as ever.” The heavy fire concentrated on the landing area wrecked many of the boats and also hit a lot of equipment coming off boats at the water’s edge, according to Robinson’s description. “There’s more wreckage along the beach than I saw at Norman dy,” he said. “There’s so much of it now that the landing boats (Continued on Page 4) . last year. The same amount of sugar (700,000 tons) has been set aside this year for home canning as was set aside last year. Last year, however, 300,000 tons more sugar than the total amount al located for home canning was bought by housewives. A large part of this sugar was bought with Stamp 40, the home canning stamp, and much of it was used for ordinary household purposes. This year’s total sugar supply is smaller than it was in 1944. “If any over-issuarance of can ning sugar were allowed, it would have to come out of the amount allowed for other home use. In (Continued on Page 4) County Unit Os NGEA WiH Hold Banquet Mar. 30 Dr. Amos Abrams Will Speak; Raymond Francis Is President Raymond Francis, principal of Nathan’s Creek high school and president of the county unit of North Carolina Educational As sociation, announced this week that plans were beipg completed for the banquet meeting of the county group to be held at the community building here on Fri day night, March 30. Dr. Amos Abrams, of ASTC, will speak and there will be other interesting features on the pro gram, Mr. Francis said. All county members are cordially in vited to attend and are asked to send in their reservations to the secretary, Miss Blanche Pugh, at Nathan’s Creek, in advance. The banquet will be served by the Woman’s Society of Christian Service of the West Jefferson Methodist church and will start promptly at 7:30 o’clock, it was announced. New Board Will Meet On April 2 Expected To Organize And Name County Superin tendent Os Schools According to information re ceived here, the newly appointed county board of education, named in the omnibus bill of the N. C. Legislature, is expected to meet the first Monday in April, organ ize and name the county superin tendent of schools for the next term of two years. Members of the newly named board include: L. P. Colvard, W. G. Vannoy, H. H. Burgess, J. A. Blevins and Roby Lewis. The outgoing board, which has served efficiently for the past two years, includes: V. C. Lillard, chairman; Bryan Kirby, A. J. Houck, Clyde Houck and Mack Absher. In spite of handicaps brought about by wartime condi tions, county officials pointed out that these members had rendered real service to the county, as has A. B. Hurt, superintendent of schools. According to routine plans, the members of the new board will be sworn in office by the clerk of the court and begin their duties on April 2, the first Monday. Kenneth Dixon Buried Yesterday Funeral service was held yes terday morning at eleven o’clock at the Welcome Home Baptist church for Kenneth Dixon, 63, of Nathan’s Creek, who died on Mon day, March 19. Rev. Jess Shu mate and Rev. Herbert Caldwell conducted the service. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Zura Dixon and the follow ing brothers and sisters: J. R. Dixon, Mrs. Maggie Lyall, Mrs. Fields Goodman and Mrs. Claude Phipps. DRAFT BOARD NEEDS MORE INFORMATION Mrs. Louis Yelanjian, chief clerk of the local draft board, called attention to the fact that the board frequently receives incomplete information from registrants, which is no value. She stated that many com munications came to the board unsigned. “This is of no val ue and all communications should bear the former as well as the present address of the registrant, together with his name,” she declared. The following is a sample of the type of unsigned letter of ten received: Dear Sir, I am working at Glen L. Martin’s airplane factory, Baltimore, Md. Middle River. My address is: 9-A Byway North Riverdale Apts. Essex, Md. Ashe Men Are Casualties Os War " _____ ' : j .../ . Jis ter ' • JM MM /J| ■miwiwMnrnnmoiiionmnwniir." I B ? b IRS I ■ Pfc. Charles R. (Jack) Johnson, left, son of Mrs. Nettie Johnson, of West Jefferson, who died on February 19, from wounds received in action on Iwo Jima, and Pvt. Amon D. Wagner, right, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Wagner, of Deep Gap, was killed in Belgium on December 19. Sunday Is Red Cross Day In Churches; More Funds Needed New Charts For Apparel Prices Are Distributed Must Be Filed By April 20. Forms And Assistance To Be Supplied Merchants. “The job of calculating ceiling: prices for apparel, dry goods and 1 ’house furnishings will be greatly simplified by the pricing charts in accord with the new retail price regulation mailed to all local re tailers this week, L. P. Colvard, chairman of the War Price and Rationing Board, said. Each re tailer must prepare a pricing chart showing the costs and selling prices of the goods he offered for sale during 1942. Mr. Colvard, chairman of the committee, said "We welcome this simplification of our pricing pro cedure. We are pleased to cooper ate with our Price Panel to make sure that every merchant puickly gets the information he needs to make his pricing chart. “Copies of the regulations which explain how to prepare these charts have been sent to all local retailers of clothing and house furnishings. “Additional copies are available at board headquarters, West Jef ferson, for all merchants who de sire them,” Mr. Colvard said. (Continued on Page Four) COUNTY GETS THREE NEW SCHOOL BUSES Ashe county schools now have three badly needed new school buses. They were driven from High Point last week" by Supt. A. B. Hurt, Harry Koontz and Bower Calloway. Supt Hurt secured an order for these sometime ago and they were brought here as soon as they became available. Farmers Showing Interest In Feed Production Meetings Roy H. Crouse, county agent, announced this week that the in terest and attendance were unus ually good for the feed produc tion meetings being held in the county this week and announced a schedule for further meetings throughout the month. The schedule for next week is as follows: Wagoner School, Monday, March 26, at 8:00 p. m.; Elkland School, Tuesday, March 27, at 8:00 p. m.; Church near Graham School, Husk, Wednesday, March 28 at 8:00 p. m.; Warrensville Methodist Church, Friday, March 30, at 8:00 p. m. “Three of these meetings have $5,569.17 Is Reported Raised; Quota For County Is $6,700.00 Sunday is to be Red Cross Day in the churches of Ashe county and all of those that have not al ready taken up a special collec tion for the Red Cross, are urged to do so either during the Sunday School or church service. “Due to the great work the Red Cross is doing, we feel that all of the churches are interested and will contribute,” Chairman Sharpe S. Shoemaker said.. He announced late yesterday that $5,569.17 had been raised so far and that $1,150.00 was needed to reach the quota. “Many people have responded generously, but there are many who have not sent in their con tributions,” Mr. Shoemaker said. He explained that he wanted to go over the top this month, when the drive officially ends. Some contributions not previ ously published include the fol lowing: G. C. Grimes, Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Haynes, Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Bare, Mrs. Mamie Dixon, Mrs. XContinued un Page Four) Paul H. Goodman Is Given Award With The Dixie Division On Morotai—(Special Release)—For outstanding devotion to duty in operating supply dumps under combat conditions, the 31st Infan try Division QM unit in which Pfc. Paul H. Goodman of West Jefferson, is a supply man, has. been awarded the Meritorious Service Unit Plaque. Goodman has been overseas more than a year, participating in the Wakde-Sarmi and Morotai campaigns. been held to date with a total at tendance of 159 at Fleetwood, Baldwin and Green Valley school. The meetings are receiving good response in each community where they have been held. Colored pictures are being shown on the screen dealing with rec ommended practices being car ried out in Ashe county in the production of our most important feed crops and pictures of silo construction and cattle,” Mr. Crouse said'. Representatives from each of the agricultural agencies in the county and the local milk com pany are participating in the meetings with the county agents. TMB TOB FOR VICTORY aAtM united states w« BONDS-STAMPS PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY Four Are Killed And Two Others Seriously Hurt Yates, And Wagner Die On European Front; Johnson On Iwo Jima During the past few days, four Ashe county mein have been re ported killed on the batttefroat* and two others seriously injured. This list,of. casualties include* men from both the European and Pacific areas.. , Pvt. James Vasco Yates, son es Mr. and Mrs. Ben Yates, of War rensville, was killed in action in France on September 14, 1944, ac cording to a message received from the war department by his wife, the former Miss Virgiaaai Killen, of West Jefferson, this week. Pvt. Yates, who had been in service for 18 months, was ini the infantry. He was previously reported missing in action. Pfc. Charles Ross (Jack) John son, 19, of the U. S. Corps, died pn February 19, from wounds received in action on Iwo Jima, volcanic island, in the cording to a message received by his mother, Mrs. Nettie Johnson, of West Jefferson. Pfc. Johnson had been in service for almost two years and overseas for a year, having participated in the battle of Saipan. He is survived by his mother; one sister, Miss Polly Johnson, of Long Branch, N. J.; two brothers, Walter G. of Washington, D. C., and Lt Joseph S. Johnson, of the Air Corps, stationed somewhere in the Pacific. His father, W. E. John son, preceded him in death some time ago. The War Department has MdK fied Mrs. Ruby Wagner, of Jluig .wood, that Amon D. Wagner, was kHtan W action in Belgium, on December 19. Pvt Wagner entered service in February, 1944, and received training at Fort McClellan, Ala. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Wagner, of Deep Gap. Sgt. Carl Oliver, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Oliver, of Fig, va* killed in action in Germany m November 24, 1944, according te information received by his par ents this week. Sgt. Oliver was first reported seriously woundeA (Continued on Page 4) Funeral Rites For Lee Bare Today Funeral service will be heM the Wagoner school house this morning at 11:00 o’clock for Lee Bare, 70, who died on Tuesday, March 20. Burial will be hefai at the family cemetery. Mr. Bare, who was the son of the late Mr. Bart Bare and Mrs. Lois Coldiron Bare, was a native of this county. He is survived by his wife, the former Miss Dora Bare, and the following children: Quincy, David, Barney, z Kennie, Woodrow, Jen nie, Ida, Opal, Mary and Edith Ray. The following brothers and i sisters also survive: Ambrose, Jess and Mack Bare, Mrs. Mae Little, Mrs. Cora Morgan, Mrs. Jane Severt and Mrs. Myrtle Bare. Mrs. Richardson Buried Tuesday Funeral service was held at the home on Tuesday for Mrs. Samonia Richardson, 74, of Clif ton, who died on Monday, March 19. Elder Dewey Roten and Mrs. ' Warren Lewis conducted the service and burial followed at the Richardson cemetery. The following children survive: Roy, George, Jim, Jesse, Joe, Wil liam and Raleigh Richardson, of Clifton; Mrs. Paul Roten and Mrs. R. C. Mahaffey, of Cliftoix and Robert and Vance of Quarryville, Pa. ■ - ■■■■■„■■ ASHE SCHOOLS ARE GIVEN INSPECTION Ashe county schools are inspected by Sanitarian Wade K. Eller and Mr. Hubbard of the N. C. Department of Health relative to sanitary conditions as well as proposed improvements in Rte planning the postwar buHding program.
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