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VOLUME 15, NO. 40
United War Fund Drive Opens Friday
W. Jefferson Is
On Post Office
Building List
Included In Proposed Build
ing Projects Submitted To
Congress
West Jefferson is among the
list of N. C. towns put on the post
office building list and included
before Congress for eligible pro
jects in the proposed building pro
gram.
The North Carolina projects
were listed in proposed legislation
submitted jointly by the Post Of
fice Department and the Public
Buildings Administration of the
Federal Works Agency. Authori
zation of an appropriation of $193,-
000.00 for Federal projects would
be granted under the terms of the
bill.
It was pointed out in a statement
by PBA officials that such a pro
gram would take some time to be
worked out, however, after the
proposed legislation is passed.
West Jefferson was in the list for
■a proposed building within a limit
of $85,000.00.
Following a petition submitted
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Former Ashe Man
Now Discharged
Clyde Campbell, Veteran Os
Six Airborne Invasions,
Visits Mother Here
Clyde Campbell, of Columbus,
Ohio, was discharged from the
army in September with a total
of 90 points, and is now visiting
his mother, Mrs. Annie Camp
bell and his sister, Mrs. Carl
Hodgson, of this coun+y.
Mr. Campbell is a veteran of
three and a half years service,
two and a half years, of which
were spent overseas. He was a
member of the 82nd Airborne
Division and participated in six
airborne invasions including Si
cily. Italy, Normandy, the Rhine
land. Central Germany and the
Ardennes. He also took part in
the invasion of North Africa.
In spite of the fact that Mr.
Campbell saw much active duty
in his two and a half years over
seas. he states that he did not re
ceive even a scratch. He also
stated that even though the dan
ger was great in the airborne di
visions. that would be his choice
of service if he should ever have
to return to the army.
While waiting to be returned to
the States, he spent several
months in a rest camp in France
which had formerly been a health
resort and the servicemen lived
in the hotels there. During this
time there was little to do but
rest and Mr. Campbell states that
he has had enough rest now to
make him anxious to return to
work.
ATTENDS TREASURY
MEETING IN MIAMI, FLA.
Mrs. Ed M. Anderson, chairman
of the women’s division of the
eighth district for the sale of war
bonds, attended the regional
meeting of 11 southeastern states
in Miami, Florida, this week,
where plans were discussed rela
tive to the Victory War 1 Loan
Drive.
A number of officials of the
treasury department as well as
other war loan drive officials,
took part on the program held at
the Roney Plaza Hotel.
Rationing Guide K
MEATS AND FATS
Red Stamps
Al, 81, Cl, DI, El, now val
id, expire October 31*
Fl, Gl, Hl, JI, KI, now val
id, expire November 30.
LI, Ml, Nl, Pl, QI, now
valid, expire December 31.
Rl, SI, Tl, Ul, VI, now val
id, expire January 31.
SUGAR
Sugar Stamp No. 38, now
valid, expires December 31.
SHOES *
Airplane Stamps No. 1, No.
2, No. 3, No. 4, now good, r
(Hit Bost
$2.00 a Year in Ashe County WEST JEFFERSON. N. C.. THURSDAY, OCT. 4, 1945
Newspaper Contest For High
School Students Announced;
Valuable Prizes Are Offered
HEADS NCEA UNIT
Mrs. R. C. Vaught, who has
been named president of the
Ashe county unit of the North
Carolina Educational Associa
tion.
Ashe County Red
Cross Chapter To
Meet Tonight
Organization Plans Are To Be
Made; Attendance Is Urg
ed By Chairman
Mrs. Wick Vannoy, chairman
of the Ashe county chapter of the
American Red Cross, has an
nounced that a meeting would be
held at the community building
this evening immediately follow
ing the Rotary Club meeting, and
the public is cordially invited to
attend.
Organization plans are to be
made and a number of important
business matters are to be taken
up. “The work of the Red Cross
is dependent on the interest of the
people and I hope that every in
erested citizen will be present,”
: Mrs. Vannoy said.
W. J. Man Serving
On Carrier Now
ON THE USS BON HOMME
RICHARD OF JAPAN (Delayed)
—Cloyd E. Hodges, fireman, sec
ond class, USNR, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Charlie E. Hodges, West Jef
ferson, N. C., is serving on this
aircraft carrier, which has been
assigned to duty as part of the
U. S. occupation fleet.
For 45 days preceding the end
of the war, the vessel steamed up
and down the Japanese coast as
the 3rd Fleet staged 13 air raids
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Following Ashe County Men Still Serving In The Army And Navy
Dempsie A. McNeill, F-IC,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Allen Mc-
Neill, of Obids, is now aboard
the Wisconsin, in and around
Tokyo Bay. McNeill entered
the service in December.
1943.
Essay Contest Launched In
Observance Os National
Newspaper Week
This is National Newspaper
Week and in connection with
this observance, The Skyland
Post and the North Carolina
Press association are launching a
county and state-wide high
school essay contest on the sub
ject of, “Newspapers Serving the
Community.”
All high school students are
eligible to enter the contest. The
winner of the county contest will
receive a $25.00 Victory bond and
the entry will be submitted in the
state contest to compete for the
first award of a SIOO Victory
bond and second award a SSO
Victory bond.
The essays should not be over
1,500 words in length and the
deadline for entering is Decem
ber 1. All entries are to be sent
(Continued on Page 4)
Surplus Cabbage
Will Be Shipped
Out This Week
Farmers Having Surplus Are
Asked To Get In Touch
With Agent Tuckwiller
The production and marketing
administration will purchase up to
25 cars of cabbage from Ashe
county this week, it was announc
ed by L. E. Tuckwiller, county
farm agent. Loading of the cars
has already begun and will con
tinue the next few days. Farm
ers desiring to take advantage of
this market are urged to act
quickly.
Mr. Tuckwiller stated that the
farmers are to furnish the bags.
A fee of one cent per bag will be
charged for inspection and an ad
ditional fee of not more than one
cent per bag will be charged to
cover the cost of checking bags,
making tickets, postage, billing
and other items.
Farmers interested in sellinj
•surplus cabbage through this me
dium are asked to get in touch
with agent Tuckwiller.
j Howell Dies At
Home Here, Fri.
I ’
Funeral service for Walter
(Roy) Howell, who died at his
home in West Jefferson, last
Friday, was held Monday at 2 o’-
clock at the . Ball Mt. Church.
Burial followed in the Howell
cemetery. The Rev. Mr. Grover
Trivett officiated.
Survivors are his wife and
three children, Mrs. Nora Howell,
I Mrs. Myrtle Hopkins and Doddie
I Howell.
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Pfc. John G. Gentry, former
ly of Glendale Springs, and
husband of the former Miss
Geraldine McNeill, of Obids, i
is now serving with the 9th
Army in Germany. He has ;
been overseas since February.
Something New Is Being Grown ~ Turkish Tobacco In Ashe
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It is strung and dried on racks. At the left are Mr. and Mrs. Joe Norris and son, Paul,
in front of racks of tobacco. Upper right is a scene taken on the farm of Walter Bledsoe, of
Brownwood, and below, Turkish tobacco in the process of curing in the sun.
(Staff Photo)
Role Os Press In
Winning War Is
Lauded By Nelson
Stresses Importance It Will
Play In Building Os Post
war World
Los Angeles—Donald Nelson
declared this week that “no sin
gle force in this country—no sin- 1
gle institution—ranks higher in
its contribution to winning i l *'/:
war than the Amercan press.”
The former War Production i
board chief told press represen
tatives among 500 business and
civic leaders at a National News
paper week luncheon:
“The prestige of America as a
nation in the postwar years is
now largely dependent on your
wisdom and leadership.”
“When our dire need for paper
to keep our military effort going'
was pointed out to the press, |
they got into action again and our i
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Calves Will Go
To Elkin Show
Four 4-H club members of
Ashe county will show and sell
their baby beef calves at the El
kin fat stock show and sale on
October 9 and 10. These mem
bers are: Walter Bare, of Glen
dale Springs, Jack Graybeal ,of
Creston, and Jo and Betty Lou
Thomas, of Grassy Creek.
Annabel and Ralph Colvard,
of Jefferson, started calves on
feed but had bad luck with the
calves and were forced to with
draw from the contest, County
Agent Tuckwiller said.
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Pfc. George L. Maye, son
of Mr. and Mrs. William E.
Maye, of Warrensville, is now
stationed somewhere in Italy.
He recently wrote that he had
spent a 10-day furlough in the
Alps.
Seven Ashe Farmers Are
Growing Turkish Tobacco
In Experiments This Year
Water Supply Os
County Schools
To Be Improved
Board Os Education Makes
Plans To Standardize
Water Supplies
At a meeting of the Ashe county
Board of Education, on Monday, |
plans were made to improve the
water supplies of many of the
schools of the county.
These plans were made follow
ing a report made by the sani
tarian, Wade E. Eller, and B. E.
Duncan showing that many of the
supplies for water were both in
adequate and below standard as
| far as sanitary rating.
(Continued on Page Four)
Veterans May
Get Shoe Stamps
Servicemen leaving the armed
forces may obtain shoe ration
stamps from any ration board in
the United States rather than hav
ing to wait unil their return home
it was disclosed yesterday by L.
P. Colvard, Chairman of the Ashe
county War Price and Rationing
Board.
Up to now, they have been re
quired to apply to their home
boards for the two shoe stamps
v»n Hago Four)
Cpl. Lee Gail Phipps, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Ed C. Phipps, of
Grassy Creek, was recently
honorably discharged from the
Army Air Force. Phipps has
served over three years in
overseas duty.
$2.50 a Year Out of County
Most Os Crop Harvested; Sue- J
cessfully Grown; Quality j
To Be Tested
It is a far call from Ashe county'
to Turkey, and likewise there is
a vas". difference betw ccn the I
burley tobacco, long successfully |
grown in this county, and the.
aromatic Turkish leaf, yet this is,
being tried out successfully on 1
seven local farms for the first'
time.
Extension Agronomist, John'
Wilkins, of State College, is in
.charge of the experiment and has
been working with representatives
i from Duke University interested
in the production of the famous
Turkish tobacco. ,
Agronomist Wilkins reports that
practically all of this experimental
i tobacco has been harvested and
i that it looks unusually good. “The
experiments have definitely pro
ven that it can be grown in the
county,” he declared and explain
ed that the quality would have to
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t School Leaders
j To Meet Friday
; B. H. Duncan, superintendent of
.' schools, announced this week that
: | there would be a meeting of high
;' school principals in his office on
i Friday afternoon, this week.
A number of important school
and community matters including
; the United War Fund will be dis
| cussed.
. |L.
Pfc. Edison Wingler, son of
Mrs. J. D. Bowlin, who has
served with the 68th Armored
Infantry, expects to be home
soon. His wife is making her
home at Glendale Springs at
the present.
ASHE COUNTY IS ...
Leading Livestock and Dairy
County In North Carolina.
Population: 22,664
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
Initial Gifts Are
Being Received;
Goal Is $5,000.00
Many Generous Gifts Are
Needed To “Finish The
fc Job”
The United War Fund Drive
will be officially opened in Ashe
county tomorrow and everyone
is being asked to make a generous
contribution in order to raise the
county’s quota of $5,000.00.
Initial gifts are now being
sought and a list of these will be
published next week, it was an
nounced.
B. B. Graybeal, county chair
man, said that he wished to re
mind everyone that the war re
lief agencis served only through
this fund are counting on it as
never before. “The need is great
and we must have some generous
gifts to put the county over the
top,’’ he declared.
President Truman opened the
1945 National War Fund cam
paign this week with an appeal
for generous contributions to help
war fund agencies “finish the
job they were set up to do.”
“War service has not ended,”
said the president in a broadcast
from the White House. “I don’t
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Calf Sale Brings
. Total Os $821.03
Attendance And Prices Are
Unusually Good; Many
Animals Entered
The third annual feeder calf
sale held last week at the West
Jefferson stock yams, brought in
a total of $821.03 for 200 animals
entered. The event was one of
the most successful of its kind
ever held here, officials pointed
out.
Murphy, of the livestock mar
keting division of the U. S. De
partment of Agriculture, graded
the calves with the assistance of
H. M. Stamey, animal husbandry
extension specialist from Raleigh.
Paul Fletcher, of the U. S. De
partment of Agriculture, was al
so present in the grading pen.
The N. C. Department of Ag
-1 riculture was represented by T.
.L. Gwyn and Robert S. Curtis,
livestock marketing specialists.
H. L. Meacham, marketing spe
cialist with N. C. State College
Extension Service, also assisted.
Visiting county agents includ
led Emerson Black, from Alle
jghany; R. D. Smith, Wilkes; Har
ry Hamilton, Jr., of Watauga, and
Neill Smith, of Surry.
The first animal in the ring
brought SIB.OO and the price for
[ good calves remained high
throughout the sale. The audi
[ence had a good laugh when the
blocky, thick, low set registered
Angus bull calf topped the sale
at $19.50 only to have the own
er promptly “no sale” him.
Most of the cattle were sold to
feeders within the county.
Farmers as well as buyers
were well pleased with the event.
Services Os This
Paper Lauded By
Mayor Parsons
The wartime and peacetime
services of this newspaper
were highly praised in a state
ment issued today in connec
ion with the observance of
National Newspaper Week by
Mayor C. O. Parsons, of West
Jefferson.
Proclamations designated
October 1-8 as National News
paper Week were released re
cently by President Truman
and Governor Cherry.
“The Skyland Post, as well
as the other newspapers of the
nation, made a great contribu
tion towards winning of the
war and the preservation of
world peace is dependent in
a large measure upon a free
press,” Mayor Parsons de
clared.
He also commended this
newspaper upon its service to
the community and county.