Newspapers / The Skyland Post (West … / May 8, 1947, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of The Skyland Post (West Jefferson, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
PRESS RUN 4,000 Net Paid • I 3 ’ 595 I viIUD/ Covers • | Ashe County X- 9 1 •*——. VOLUME 18, NO. 16 152 Graduating From Ashe County High Schools Officers Named By Warrensville And Jefferson L. P. Colvard Mayor Os Jef ferson And John Paul Jones Os Warrensville Citizens of Jefferson went to the polls on Tuesday and again named L. P. Colvard as mayor. Chosen as members of the town board were J. Bruce Porter, Roy R. Badger and Lawrence Tyson. All of these candidates were un opposed. Warrensville also named offi cials this week. Here John Paul Jones was chosen as mayor. Nam ed to serve with Mayor Jones, on the Board of Aidermen were Mrs. C. R. Latham, J. A. Johnson and Q. H. Ashley. Chester Race has been named as special deputy for Warrensville. New officials of the town of Warrensville pointed out that with the cooperation of the san itary officer Wade E. Eller, some improvements in sanitation would be made. Clothing Drive Still Continues Clothing To Be Collected At Jefferson Methodist And Presbyterian Churches With a goal of “a pound a per son” a statewide drive for cloth ing, bedding and shoes for over seas relief is now underway and will continue through Mother’s Day. May 11. The drive is being carried on in Jefferson this week and any one there or elsewhere in the county who has something to give to the l drive may send their package to the Jefferson Meth odist or Presbyterian church where : t is being collected. The campaign for material do nations is being sponsored by the North Carolina Council of Church s because of the pressing need overseas. Despite two years of peace, millions of human be ings are living on an animal level, it w°s nointed out. If N orth Carolina's goal is roach, d. ? * n o.ooo pounds of clothing will be s a nt to the Church World Service Center at New Wmdsor Md.. where it will be sorted and packed in water proof bales. Rev. Henry G. Ruark, director of the campaign stated. Gifts of money will also be ac cepted and should be sent to the local churches here. The people of Ashe county are asked to join in with the state and nation in sending relief to the suffering overseas, it was stated. REVIVAL IS BEING HELD AT SCOTTVILLE A revival is now being held at the Scottville Baptist church. Rev. Paul Phipps, pastor, an nounced. The pastor, assisted by Rev. Mr. Paisley, is in charge of the services. Services are being held each evening at 7:30 and the public is cordially invited to attend. Boy Scout Camporee Held Last Week Well Attended The unusual progress made by Boy Scouts of Ashe county was demonstrated at the annual camporee last week end when 4 boys were present, with six troops participating in 'he activi ties in spite of the unfavorable weather. Troops 113 Cobra and 113 Eagle of Jefferson were the blue pen nant winners and will be eligible to compete in the big counc l ' camporee to be held May 17-1 officials pointed out. The Bob White patrol, of Glen dale Springs, under the direction of John W. Luke scored enough points to win the blue pennant but was disqualified because the unit did not have the required number of boys participating. L P Colvard, commissioner, presented Scout Master Lemly, of Fleetwood, a handsome hunting knife given by Grant Bauguess for the outstanding progress made by this troop during the Be $2.50 a Year in Ashe County Two Additional Toll Lines Are Being Built To North Wilkesboro THREW FIRST BALL Harry S. Truman, the Mis souri southpaw, inaugurated the newly-installed bowling alleys in the basement of the White House and threw the first ball with his left arm. The alleys were installed as a birthday gift to the President. To Demonstrate Sheep Shearing Tuesday, May 20 All 4-H Club Members Invited To Attend Demonstration On Eller Farm A sheep shearing demonstra tion will be held on the farm owned by Lt ster Eller at Lansing. May 20. O. M. Fulcher, assistant county agent, announceo this week. All 4-H boys who are interest ed in shearing sheep are particu larly urged to attend, Mr. Ful cher stated. He advised all Ashe county sheep growers that in making plans to shear their sheep that they plan to tie the indi vidual as the county pool will probably be sold through the (Continued on Page 4) Dr. J. S. Gaul To Hold Clinic Dr. John S. Gaul will be at the health department in the Ashe Memorial hospital on Friday. May 16, for a crippled children’s clin ic. it was announced here this week. ast five weeks. This is one of the newest troops in the county. Most of the scout officials vis ited the camporee during the week end and witnessed some of the activities. J. Harvey Payne, chairman of the camping activi ties committee. Ralph Harbison ind Scout Master Lemly spent "ight at the camporee. which held on the Ambrose Bare property below Jefferson. Scout officials said that they wanted to thank Mr. Bare and ass others for their cooperation in making the camporee a big suc cess. Boy Scouts and scout mas ters are to be highly congratu lated on the progress they have made. “We are very proud of it,” one official said. Officials who attended the first camporees held stressed the fact that there was a vast improve ment to be noted in the camporee held last week end. Now Nearing Completion; Will Insure Better Long- Distant Service An announcement made this week from W. S. Beddingfield, of the Central Telephone company reveals that the copper toll cir cuits under construction from West Jefferson to North Wilkes boro are now nearing completion and when activated will increase the present number of toll lines from two to four. This will re lieve some of the long delays many long distant calls are sub ject to. Mr. Beddingfield also an nounced that his company had received July 1 as scheduled date that the Southern Bell company would bring into service two ad ditional circuits from North Wilkesboro to Winston-Salem and North Wilkesboro to Statesville, orovided materials are available. These should cut down delays many calls are subject to after being passed to North Wilkes boro. It was further announced that according to present plans the company would convert the local i system to a dial system in the summer of 1948, provided ma terials are available. Rotary flub Is w inner Os Award At Conference Has Record Number Os Sub scriptions To “The Re vista Rotaria” Seven members of the Jeffer sons Rotary club attended the Ro tary District Conference at Char lotte, Monday and Tuesday when the club won recognition for ac , complishing the most work in in ternational service. The award was made by District Governor Holt McPherson at the banquet. Monday night. Rocco Cutri. head of the maga zine committee, spoke to the group in regard to the club sub scribing to ‘‘The Revista Rotaria,” The club was given the certifi cate of award for having paid for more subscriptions per member ship to the international Spanish edition of the Rotarian magazine (Continued on Page 4) Legion To Have Initiation Sat. It was announced this week that the Ashe Post 171, Amer ican Legion would hold initiation night on Saturday at 8:00 o’clock, at the community building. All eligible members that have not joined are urged to become members and be initiated at this time. Following the initiation light refreshments will be served. V.-C. Leads County Schools With Three Best Spi llers E? ji w if Uh Jj I f.w J; <. < S w- SH : f W fll M&fMHi M. iwiJ ~s ,In the recent county-wide spelling bee sponsored by the American Legion, Vir ginia-Carolina. led other schools in the county with three first place winners. Reading from left to right: Jim Pierce, ninth grade; Guida Parson, eleventh grade and Lois Waak, twelfth grade. WEST JEFFERSON, N. C. THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1947 ! I 91 H| 11111 l nF WE.. w • I Bof W IB BB WMifey HP® Ml wkl ' IB wr Rev. Hoyt Wood, left, will be the finals speaker at Fleetwood, May 15. Rev. Worth Sweet, center, will deliver the baccalaureate sermon at Nathan's Creek, May 11. Dr. D. J. Whitener, right, will deliver the literary address at Healing Springs, Satur day evening, May 10. Poppy Day To Be Observed Here Saturday, May 17 Will Be Sponsored By Amer ican Legion Auxiliary; Mrs. Miller Is Chairman May 17 will be Poppy Day in West Jefferson, Mrs. P. G. Wright, president of Ashe County Unit of the American Legion Auxil iary, announced today. On that day everyone will be asked to wear a memorial poppy in honor of the dead of the two world wars and to make a con tribution for the welfare of the disabled veterans, their families ; and the families of the dead. Volunteers from the Auxiliary I and young women’s groups of the city will distribute th.? flowers on the stret ts throughout the day Mrs. Elizabeth Miller. Poppv chairman of the Auxiliary, wil 1 !be in general charge. Plans are being made to cover the city com pletely so that everyone will have an opportunity to honor the war dead and aid the living vic tims of the two conflicts. “Poppies have been worn in memory of the war dead ever since the close of World War I. | They arc replicas of the wild ■ flowers which grew on the bat i tiefields of France and Belgium. ! fought over in both wars, but they have come to symbolize memory for those who di id in any part of the world. “The poppies which the Auxil iary will distribute are all hand (Continued on Page 4) Commissioners Met On Monday | Members of the Ashe county i board of commissioners met on i Monday and took up a number of 1 routine matters and claims. At this time the welfare budget was considered. A petition for a short section of a road in the Horse Creek section was present ed. The commissioners met with the group in the county superin tendent's office to consider an ag ricultural teacher. Some Os The High School Commencement Speakers Ashe County Farmers Receive Over SIOO,OOO For Carrying Out AAA Program Last Y ear CP Start Plans To Secure Teacher Os Agriculture Would Enable More Veterans To Take On The Job Farm Training Next Year Definite plans to secure at least one vocational agricultural teacher for the county in the near future were discussed on Monday at a meeting in the office of the superintendent of schools, B. H. Duncan. Superintendent Duncan pre sented the plans, possibilities and requirements to members of the board of county commissioners, L. P. Colvard. chairman of the county board of education. J. B. Hash, principal of Jefferson high school: members of the staff of assistant teachers on the vet eran's training program. Walter Miller. K< rmit Jones and Roy Beck, and G. G. Welch who has recently join d this staff: a pros pective teacher and the editor of this paper Jefferson is one of the schools : n the county that meets the re quired qualifications at the pres ent time. The value of the pro gram to the county, not only for ■he boys now in school, but to the (Continued on Page 4) Meeting Held By NCEA Group Miss Rosa Andrews, field sec retary of NCEA met with the advisory council of the Ashe unit this week to make some plans for the coming year. Mrs. Gertrude Vaught, presi dent of the Ashe unit, announced that plans were discussed toward holding extension classes which might give teachers credits on re newing their certificates. $3.00 a Year Out of County Soil Improvement Practices Are Varied Report Os Work Reveals The conservation program car ried out by Ashe county farmers last year has netted them SIOO.- 993.27 Melvin Campbell, chief clerk of the AAA announced this week. This huge sum was paid out by the government to the farmers under the AAA program and not only enabled the farmers to carry out better farm practices, but to improve their farms for the fu ture generations. The conservation practices, number of farms using them, the quantity of materials or acres handled and the actual money paid out on each practice is giv en in the report which follows: lime. 1.016. 13.153.6 tons, $42.- 091.52: phosphate. 1.941. 52.961.4 cwt.. $41,383.16: 0-14-7. 16. 195.0 cwt. $156.94; potash. 110, 395.9 cwt.. $831.39: crimson clow. r. 532. 35.929 pounds. $5,389.35: vitch. 7. 328 lbs., $39.36; rye grass. 12. 806 pounds. $64.48; small grain. 32, 987.6 acres, $1,481.40; perma nent pasture. 24. 121.5 acres. $730.98; pasture improvement. 493. 1.974.2 acres. $7,895.24: strip cropping. 59. 610.0 acres. $610.00: sericea, 27. 53.0 acres. $265.00; forest planting. 4. 12.1 acres, (Continued on Page 4) Name Principals For Two Schools Reports from committees re veal that two more school prin cipals for Ashe county high schools have been named. L. K. Halsey was again named prin cipal at Virginia-Carolina and James Miller at Elkland. No re port has been made from the Fleetwood committee, yet. Principals for the other six high schools have previously been elected and announced. Graduation And Educational Progress Edition Is Published Tlr- Skyland Post is publish ng today, in connection with tlr regular section of the paper, tin igh school graduation and edu •ational progress edition, dedica’- “d to the 152 graduates and to he progress of education in the county. In addition to giving informa *'on on th. individual high school graduates and their respective schools. teachers and commence ment. an effort has been made 4 o sh >w the over-all p'eture of the county's educational system and point out some of the needs. Some of the special activities of the high schools are featured, athletics, dramatics, debating. soePing. essay writing and music in the sixteen page section de voted to the schools. The Post is happy to publish this edition in the interest of the schools and again expresses thanks to the fine cooperation of ASHE COUNTY IS ... Leading Livestock and Date* County in North Carolina. Population: 22,664 24 PAGES TODAY Elkland, Healing Springs Finals Friday, Saturday Others Are Later; Many Prominent Speakers Are On Programs This year 152 graduates, 60 boys and 92 girls are being awarded diplomas from the nine high schools of the county at the commencement exercises, some of which get underway this week. Several outstanding speakers, have been secured, many of whom are local people. Other special programs have also been planned including plavs as well as grade programs. The public is cordial ly invited to attend all of these. Elkland finals will be held to morrow night, when A. B. Hurt, incoming superintendent of schools, will be the speaker. Healing Springs finals will be held on Saturday night when the graduating address will be deliv ered by Dr. D. J. Whitener. Most of the other finals will be held next week. Dr. J. S. Hiatt will deliver the graduating address at Nathan’s Creek, May 13. Rev. Worth Sweet will deliver the baccalau reate sermon. Sunday, May 11 Finals at Riverview will be held May 14 when Wade E. Van noy, Jr., will be the sneaker. On May 15 finals will be held at Jefferson and Fleetwood. At Fleetwood. Rev. Hoyt Wood will be the speaker and at Jefferson. Dr. Wiley Smith. West Jefferson finals will be held May 16 when Dr. John G. Barden, head of department of education at A. S. T. C., will be the sneaker. He will also be the speaker for the baccalaureate sermon at Lansing. May 11. Sen ator Wade E. Brown will be the finals speaker at Lansing, May 17. Virginia-Carolina finals will be the last to be held. The gradu (Continued on Page 4) Officers Hurt In Car Wreck. Sat, Sheriff W. B. Todd And C. P. Injured In Collision Chief of Police Charlie Mc- Millan suffered severe concus sion and was badly bruised when the '46 Chevrolet two-door town, sedan in which he was riding, and driven by Sheriff W. B. Todd, had a h.ad on collision with a '3B Chevrolet four-door sedan, driven by Lee J. Moretz. of Fleet wood. The wreck occurred around 11:00 p. rn. Saturday night in front of the Greystone service station, investigating officer, Dave Houston, reported. Sheriff Todd suffered a broken nose and chest bruises. Riding with Moretz were Joe Blackburn, who received cuts about the face and body, and Belle Blevins, whe received minor bruises. Mr. Houston estimated the damage to both automobiles at around SBOO. Both officers were treated in the Ashe Memorial hospital where Mr. McMillan remained for a few days. school officials, as well as to busi ness houses in making the edition possible. Bee Specialist Is Coming Friday H. D. Quessenberry. countv agent, s-’"d that he wished tr again remind apiarists that plans are bring made for a meeting at. Bower Walters’ farm near Jeffer son on Friday at 1:30 p. m. at which time bees from the old type gum will be changed to a patent bee gum and re-queen the colony. “W. A. Stephens, Extension Boe Specialist, will be present for this meeting, and I am sure will be able to answer questions in re gard to beekeeping in Ashe coun ty,” Mr. Quessenberry said.
The Skyland Post (West Jefferson, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
May 8, 1947, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75