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VOLUME IS, NO. 20
’County’s Valuation Around $5,000,000
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Seventh War Loan Off To Good Start In County
Reports Show
$82,147 Sold On
“E” Bond Quota
Public Urged To Double Elf
forts; E Bond Quota Set
At $212,000.00
Incomplete returns from sourc
es of sales show that Ashe coun
ty has a total of $82,147.50 toward
the E bond quota of the Seventh
War Loan Drive now underway.
“We are off to a good start but
we must not let up in our efforts,”
Chairman L. B. Tyson said. He
particularly urged township chair
men to double their efforts.
Totals from the following
sources of sales were reported
yesterday as follows: West Jef
ferson Post Office, $40,837.50;
Northwestern Bank, Jefferson,
V 533,343.75; Lansing Post Office,
”$7,987.50; Todd Post Office, sl,-
481.25; Jefferson Post Office,
$412.50; Crumpler, $175.00.
The county has an overall quo
ta of $235,000.00.
President Will
Be In Statesville
Is Coming To N. C. In October
At The Invitation Os Con
gressman Doughton
Washington—President Harry
S. Truman has accepted an. in
vitation to address a one-day
closing session of the get-togeth
er meeting of the ftepte
and the
helq in Statesville on ■Ra&rdt
in COctotygr, acceptablXjJl.
Pres ident, Represeidfettv^
L. Dc, U ghton announced this*A. k
after . a conference with Preside®
at the White House.
invitation was'extended fc w
-Representative Doughton on be
*half State Senator G.
Mitchetn, of Statesville, chairman
of the; special committee of the
North Carolina Senate. This will
be President Truman’s first of
ficial/ visit to North Carolina and
the ffirst invitation he has accept
ed tci. speak away from Washing-
Tl/ie get-together meeting will
be jiield in Hendersonville, June
25 so 30, inclusive, and will recess
for# the final one-day meeting to
be 1 held in October to hear Presi
dent Truman at Statesville. Since
' '<*:tober was the earliest date on
■fhich the President could ac
iT 4 a speaking engagement, it
-vv |us decided to hold the closing
session at Statesville at that
tbpe.
Truman told Con
gressman Doughton that he was
hippy to accept his invitation to
jjr : orth Carolina.
Winners In Bond
Contest Given
It was announced yesterday by
L. B. Tyson, county chairman of
the War Bond Drive, that West
Jefferson high school was the win
ner of the first prize in the con
test conducted in the schools dur
ing the month of April, and that
Jefferson was the winner of the
second place. Prizes will be
awarded to them within the next
few days.
More Ashe Men
War Casualties
First Sgt. F. H. Church, son of
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Church, of
Idlewild, was seriously wounded
information received from the
War Department. He has been
overseas since November, 1943,
and has two brothers, Pfc. Robert
L. Church, who is recovering
from wounds received in action
in France,, at a hospital in Ala
\ bama, and Pvt. William W.
Church, now stationed in Ger
| many.
y Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Phillips, of
, »val, have received notice that
, eir son, Richard Phillips, is
issiiig in action.
(Lite MDIoU Dost
$2.00 a Year in Ashe County WEST JEFFERSON, N. C„ THURSDAY, MAT 17, 1945 $2.50 a Year Out of Comity
Special Dedication
Memorial Service To
Be Held On Sunday
TO SPEAK SUNDAY
i * 'M
Dr. I. G. Greer, who will
speak at the special service at
the courthouse on Sunday af
ternoon.
Some Ashe Men
Who Were POW
- Are Heard From
Several On Way Home; Red
Cross Will Answer All
Inquiries
downfall of Germany,
twhich meant the liberation of
ijrisoners, has brought extra good
news to many Ashe county peo
ple; for several Ashe county men,
who have long been prisoners of
war, have been heard from and
some of them are on the way
home.
Pfc. Darwin H. “Shorty” Walk
er, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. A.
Walker, of Grassy Creek, has no
tified his wife, the former Miss
Alta Dickson, that he has been
liberated from a German prison
camp and hopes to be returned
to the States by the last of June.
Pfc. Walker, who was reported
missing in action on February 9,
had not been heard from since
that time.
Pvt. Letcher May, son of Mr.
and Mrs. John Henry May, of
West Jefferson, has been liber
ated from a German prison camp,
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Sgt. Freeman E. Bauguess,
formerly of this county, was
seriously wounded in Ger
many on April 6, according to
a message from the War De
partment, received by his
wife, Mrs. Joyce Bauguess, of
Warrensville. He is now in
an army hospital somewhere
in England and will be return
ed to the states soon.
I. G. Greer To Speak At Court
house; Will Be Sponsored
By Legion
Plans are now being completed
for a special dedication-memorial
service to be held at the court
house Sunday afternoon at 2:30
o’clock, when Dr. I. G. Greer,
superintendent of the Thomas
ville orphanage will be the chief
speaker.
The program will be sponsored
by the Ashe Post of the American
Legion, with the cooperation of
other organizations and the public
is cordially invited to attend.
The members of the Legion and
auxiliary will wear uniforms and
sit in a body. All ex-servicemen
of World War II are cordially in
vited to attend and sit with the
legion group.
The Boy Scouts will act as ush
ers. Special music will be un
der the direction of Miss Lorene
Perkins. There will be other
short features on the program.
Sunday has been acclaimed as
“I Am An American Day,” by or
der of the President and the pro
gram on Sunday will be in ob
servance of this as well as Me
morial Day.
Must Apply For
Canning Sugar
Before June 1
Should Write To Local Ra
tioning Board For Appli
cation, Now
It was announced this week by
the local OPA office that all ap
plications for canning sugar should
be filed before June 1, in order
that they may be handled.
Those, who do not have appli
cations, should write to the local
OPA office for these. They
should enclose a stamped addres
sed envelope and the applications
will be mailed to them, it was
pointed out.
OPA officials pointed oyt that
the public should remember that
there is a shortage of sugar this
year and that allotments have
been cut from what they were
last year.
The public is also reminded that
the local board must pass on all
applications this year.
These Ashe County Men Are Reported Casualties Os War
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Cpl. Burley G. Church, son
of Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Church, ,
formerly of Oval, was killed in i
1 action in the invasion of
France on August 1, 1944.
| Cpl. Church was with the 10th
• Armored Infantry Division
i when he was killed. He had
1 served overseas for sometime
and had been in service since
I June, 1942.
From Here U. S. Planes .Take Off To Bomb Tokyo
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Ajmile from the shoreline, over a flat plain, Katena airfield stretches out its full 4,900
feet of coral landing strip. This field is 3 miles from Naha, “metropolis” of Okinawa.
Scout Camporee
Held In Ashe Is
Very Successful
Two W. J. Patrols Receive
Blue Pennant; Eight-Five
Scouts Attend
Eighty-five Boy Scouts from
Ashe and Watauga counties held
the annual district camporee on
Negro Mountain Saturday and
Sunday. These scouts represent
ed five troops and were made up
of fourteen patrols.
The local scouts from Troop 37
were on the streets early Satur
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West Jefferson
P. O. Will Go 2nd
Glass On June 30
Due to greatly increased postal
receipts, the West Jefferson Post
Office will be advanced from
third to second class on June 30,
according to information received
yesterday from Washington.
Congressman R. L. Doughton
made the announcement to Pub
lisher E. M. Anderson after he
had received it from the post of
fice department.
A number of people here have
been looking forward to the ad
vancement of the post office and
it is hoped that as soon as build
ing restrictions are lifted, a Fed
eral post office building can be
secured for the town.
Sgt. Richard B. Phillips, son
of Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Phillips,
of Idlewild, has been reported
missing in action since April
19, somewhere in Czechoslo
vokia, according to a recent
message from the War De
partment. Sgt. Phillips has
been on overseas duty since
March 10, and served as a gun
ner on a B-17 Flying Fortress.
Carrier Planes Hit
13 Jap Airfields;
Fight On Mindanao
A. B. Hurt Will
Speak At Elkland
Finals On Friday
Sixteen Members Os The
Senior Class Will Receive
Diplomas
Commencement at Elkland high
school will be brought to a close
tomorrow night at 8:00 o’clock
when A. B. Hurt, superintendent
of schools, will deliver the liter
ary address, afterwhich the six
teen members of the graduating
class will be awarded their diplo
mas. The public is cordially in
vited.
This is the first high school in
the county to come to a close as
most of the others will close on
June 1 or slightly later.
It was explained that Elkland
has cut short Christmas holidays
and had made up some lost time
on Saturday, which accounts for
the early closing.
The baccalaureate sermon was
delivered on Sunday, May 13, and
the play on Friday night, May 12.
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Pfc. Eugene Miller, Jr., of
Jefferson, has been awarded
the Purple Heart decoration
for wounds recived in action
on March 12, while fighting in
Germany. Pfc. Miller is mar
ried to the former Miss Della
Mae Teague, who is making
her home in this county. He
has written that he is recover
ing nicely. *
357 Enemy Planes Are
lieved Destroyed On 18
Homeland Bases
Carrier planes hammered 18
Japanese homeland airfields and
destroyed, damaged or strafed 357
, enemy planes in a sweep begin
ning Satift-day night and continu
; ing through Monday.
I Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, an
nouncing the carrier raids on the
fields from which Japan has been
staging aerial onslaughts on the
American forces at Okinawa, said
fierce ground fighting continued
there yesterday.
| Fighting so savage that Ameri
cans attacked Japanese with bay
onets, knives and their fists, with
i at least two Yanks drowning ene
my troops by holding their heads
below waters on a river, raged
west of Ravao City on Mindanao
island yesterday.
' The Japanese had fled west
ward from Davano toward rug
ged mountains inland but their
i retreat was clowed by two rivers,
I the Talamo and Davao, between
which Maj. Gen. Roscoe B. Wood
j ruff’s famous 24th division trap
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Pfc. Charles B. Oliver, son
of Mrs. Clint Oliver, of North
Wilkesboro, formerly of this
county, was killed in action on
March 6, while on duty with
the Seventh Army. Pfc. Oliver
\ entered service in January,
1944, and landed in France in
i December. He was awarded
the Bronze Star Medal and the
Combat Infantryman. Badge.
OVER THE TOP,
«FOR VICTORY
UNITED STATES WAS
BONUS-STAMPS
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
Raise On Real
Estate Brings
Total Higher
Slight Decrease In Personal
Property; Rate Is Expected
To Be The Same
Valuation of property in Ashe
county for taxation purposes this
year is expected to show an in
crease of nearly $500,000 in spite
of the decrease in personal prop
erty, according to an estimate
made yesterday.
Final tabulations of the listers*
reports from the 19 townships
have not been completed by H.
H. Burgess, tax supervisor, but
re-cap figures completed to date
show that combined total $4,835,-.
963.00 of real estate and personal
property.
This is in excess of last year’s
valuation of approximately $500,-
000.00 The valuation of corpora
tions is unofficially estimated at
what it was last year, $256,000.00.
This would bring the total valua
tion for purposes up to $5,091,-
963.00.
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Saturday, May 26
To Be Poppy Day
Cooperation Is Asked; Money
Will Be Used To Help Vets
And Families
penny froyA poppies that
will be .sold on the streets of this
and thousands of other towns,
villages and cities in the country,
Saturday, May 26, is contributed
to the welfare and rehabilitation
work of The American Legion and
! Auxiliary,” Mrs. Guy Badger,
1 chairman of the sale of poppies
for the Ashe unit of the American.
Legion auxiliary, said today. “Be
cause this work is being done by
volunteers the money goes a long
way.
“Many people have wondered
what will become of the money
collected by the volunteer work
ers. I wish everyone could see
, what help this money brings to the
'disabled and their familes. Chil
dren left fatherless by two world
wars are the special concern of
the Legion and the Auxiliary.
.Their needs are often great, es
pecially their human needs. We
try to give them comfort both for
the body and the mind.
“Os course the government looks
after the physical welfare of the
disabled men who are in hospitals
iin almost every state, but there
are things which the government
cannot provide, such as the under
standing aid and the personal at
tention that so often helps a dis
abled man and which aften helps
to keep a family together when
I the chief breadwinner is incapaci
tated.
“This is what the money from
the poppy sale helps to accomplish.
And we hope that this year more
and more people will buy the
poppies and show their interest in
and their sympathy for the men
who have fought for them and are
now struggling to get back to the
point where they can again be
come self supporting.”
Soil Treatment
/ Topic At Rotary
Dr. Ivan E. Miles, head of the
State Soil Testing Division of the
State Department of Agriculture,
in Raleigh, gave a very enlight
ening talk on the importance of
feeding the soil, minerals and
elements necessary to grow
healthy plants. He pointed out
that a deficiency of some of these
minerals and elements could and
would impair the health of the
people throughout the county and
nation.
Dr. Miles was presented to the
club by J. T. McLaurin, program
chairman.
Bernard Graybeal, Jr./ is the
Junior Rotarian for the month of
May and was present for the
meeting.