PRESS RUN • Net Paid X. Ashe County | VOLUME 18, NO. 21 Property Valuation In Ashe County Shows Increase Ask Farmers To v Hold Wool Until Prices Settle Uncertainty Os Government Subsidy Has Market In Um „ settled Condition „r. . * Tanners of this area are ask ed by the wool pool committee io hold their wool until prices become more stabilized. A meet ing was held last Friday of the w,ool pool committees from five northwest counties to discuss the possibilities of sales. w - It was pointed out that there is actually nut & wool market at mC present time due to the gov ernment support program still being unsettled. The support is still in the hands of Congress and it is felt sure by sheep men aU over the country that & govern men support program will e ventually be passed with ap proximately last year’s support on wool. KfSince it is not fair for some sheep producers in the United States to sell their wool under the support program that went out of effect x April 15, .jve feel sure that farmers should hod their wool for the pool and not sacrifice it at the present time due to no satisfactory market/’ a member of the committee Sfiid.- , The wool pool committees plan io meet again as soon as definite action is taken by the govern ment on the support program. “In the meantime, store your wool carefully and hold on to it,” committee members concluded. Campbell Men’s ■ Bond Now 53,000 . r 1 Arthur Campbellßeleased/ Ezekiel Still Being Held In Jail Arthur Campbell was releas ed from the Ash? county jail on 53.000 bond following a hearing before Judge H. G Tucker on Friday. Ezekiel Campbell, held on the same charge of cattle stealing, is still being held in the* county jail on §3.000 bond. The Campbell brothers were M . rested May 23 on the charges cattle stealing and had been held in the jail since then pending the hearing on Friday. The hearing was scheduled for an earlier date but was later postponed. The -Campbell youths were reported to have sold some cattle at a sus piciously low price at Wytheville, Va„ and an investigation was made leading to their arrest. Officers reported yesterday that several of the cattle stolen by the Campbell men had been recovered and returned to the owners. Sturgills Is To Have A Revival A tent revival will begin on Sunday night at 7:30 p. m. near the Sturgills Baptist church, and will continue for two weeks, it was announced here. Rev. E. W. Powers, pastor of the West Jefferson Baptist church, will preach at the ser vices. All persons of all denomina tions are cordially invited to at tend these services. Pastor Assumes Summer Duties Rev. Marion Fisher, of De fiance, Ohio, has assumed his position here as pastor of the Jefferson Methodist charge for the summer. He plans to enroll at Duke Divinity school this fall Daily vacation Bible school ha been announced this week b? Rev. Mr. Fisher to begin at th- Jefferson Methodist church or Monday at 9:00 a. m. Registra tion of children will be at 8:45 and classes will begin immedia tely afterwards. All children arc invited to attend this school for a time of fellowship, study and recreation. The following schedule of church services has also been an nounced for Sunday: Orion, 11:- 00 a. m.; Jefferson, 8:00 p. m. (The $2.50 a Year in Ashe County Measure To Lower > Income Taxes Is Killed By House AMERICA’S FATHER I \ Warren Austin, U. S. mem ber of the United Nations se curity council, who has been selected as the outstanding Father for 194-7. His selection Was based not only upon his family record but the inter est he has taken in the youth of the world, Sparta Liuiisi T o Have Hoi’se Show On Fri. And Sat. Hundreds Os People Expect ed; Nationally Known Horses Entered Sparta-of people are expected attend the sec ond annual hon?e *how to be held at the local show grounds Friday and Saturday, under sponsor ship of the Sparta LioN's Club. Already approximately 10 0 horses, gome of them nationally known, have been entered and will be Shown in the three show ■ which have been planned. The first event will get under way at eight .’/clock Friday eve ning when eleven Classes will be shown Classes ifiClude open three gaited ponies. I'2 hands and under; open pleasure horses; open jumpers: open three gaited: local five ga'ited; junior wa!k (Continued on Page 4? NATHAN’S CREEK TO HAVE SERVICE SUN. Preaching service wifi be held at the Nathan’s Creek Methodist church at 11:00 o’clock, it Wks an nounced this week by Rev; W. C. Crummett, pastor. Rev. Mr. Crummett will also hold a service at Chestnut Hill at 8:00 p. m. The public is cordially invited to attend thsee services. Crowned Dairy Queen In Ohio :A -. j j f f N * . ' ''' . - awM*. ■■■■•' ■ XaVi.ia ■ * i ■■ .. . t.. ■— —.. .i - - .1..-. j. . Miss Evelyn Priddy, Pickerington, Ohio, who was crowned dairy queen at the Mid-America exposition held at Cleveland will make a personal appearance tour of various Ohio cities during this months as a feature of traditional Dairy Month.- WEST JEFFERSON, N. C. Body Votes To Sustain Veto i Os President Truman By— A Slight Margin Washington—The House Tues day upheld President Truman’s veto by a hair-breadth margin and killed the Republicans’ $4,- 000.000,000 income tax-slashing bill. The tax reduction issue thereby thrown jntp the 1948 presidential campaign. So close was the vote in the tense, strained House that Repub lican Leader Halleck, of Indiana, demanded a recapitulation. How ever, the recount confirmed the original tally. A shout went up from the Dem ocratic side when the final Vote was announced. It all sums up to this: Some 48,000,000 income taxpay ers will go right ahead paying the same Federal taxes far the time being. The Republicans’ and Mr. Tru man’s clashing ideas on whether this is right or wrong will go be fore the people in the next elec tion. Even if Congi'eSs passes a tak fut bill early in the new 7 session starting in January, the result of Democratic and Republican atti tudes on a 1947 cut would never theless SUiely be carried over into th campaign. -« *• Representative Knut su ii (ft- Minn) told reporters the Hoiiic (Continued on Page 4) ]\. G Merchants Pledge Efforts To Hohl Prices i Judsoii Blount Is Electee! Pre sident: Other Officers Art? Chosen Raleigh A iVsiolution tha’ "we will dd everything within ■ our power to hold prices in Jin , was unanimously adopted l>y tin • North Carolina Merchants Asso- Ci-'-'u-n at its 45f*b annual c<»u ! ven : i '-n here this wL’-k ! The' resolution says further that 'the merchants ‘’will pass ?n to I our customei"« the benefit of i every reduction in the price i/f 1 goods at the supply level" and | that “we will continue to mark i all goods sold by us at the lowes + ’ possible price consistent with a , reasonable profit.” I Judson H. Blount, of Green ' ville. first vice-president, was e lected president succeeding. O. IP. Matthew’s of Gastonia. The ' two-day meeting ended Tuesday ' night with the annual banquet. As usual, the merchants passed a resolution condemning the sales tax and asking the State’s law , makers to “repeal the tax in its (Continued on Page 4) THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1947 Proposed Christopher Columbus Memorial Lighthouse Jr I IK ‘ ' -x ' n;'.7 *' ■ v* ... ... • - —— , A project sponsored By the assembly of the Uhitsd Jtfatibfifc find ike Pan American Union has been given impetus by Pres. Rafael L. Trujilld wf ,ih£ Dominican Republic for Christopher Columbus memorial at Ciudad Trujillo, Republic. The me morial, shown above, will be a flat lighthouse 1,200 feet long and 120 feet high and will resemble a giant recumbent cross. The bones of Columbus will be entombed in the main building which will house a Pan American museum containing Columbian and his toric relics of the Americas. The cost is estimated at five million dollars. Mrs. Tyson Will * Head Ashe Legion Auxiliary Unit Other Officers Named At Special Meeting Held On Friday Night The finhual i)T of the Ashe co'uniy bf th ’ Ainerican Legion Auxiliary k r «s held Oii Friday night at a special meeting when Mrs. Lawrence Ty son was as president to succeed Mrs. p , G. Wright, the vutgoing presided?■ Mrs. Tyson has long active in auxiliary work, as has hbus-- band in the work of the and members said they felt foi ‘ I uiiafc 1 in securing her as presi- I lent. - .. Others (Officers nMned to , vith Mrs. Tyson were as follows: ♦'l;>l .vice president, Mrs. W. H. Yusim: seeortd vice-president. Mrs. Glorin B. Grayiioal secre ,ary ano Lieasur.er, Mrs. L. P. Colvard; C'haplairu Mrs. Vfalter : Weaver: Su» ♦'•• r-’i- . for Park E. Watts. 67. former Wi.s'f Jefferson citizen, was held at she West Jefferson Presbyterian, church on Tuesday morning at li 30 w Interment was in the Je/feibJon cemtf rv with Revs. J. Vv Luke •and W'. P Boyle, officiating. The bodj' lay in state at the church from nhbe until eleven o’clock Mr. W.atts, who was engaged in road tfiunstruction work here .or several y.ars, di.d at his ‘ aome in Oak. Ridge, Tennessee, ! iarly Saturday morning. Through his vKork here and his friendly disposition, he had hund reds of friends in s ction who gretted to Lai n 0.l his death. The deceased is survived by lis wife. Mrs. Lena Russ. Il Watts. Partners Urged To Plant Tobacco Roscoe Colman, operator of the Mountain Burl y and Farmer’s Burby tobacco warehouses in Boone said this week that he was very anxious for all fanners n this section to get out tobacco slants on their full allotment of acreage this season, as indica-' fions are that the better types of. smoking ’ tobacco will bring as : much or more than they did last year. He explained that there would be a forty dollar government flooring and he felt that with this, no other money cron in this sec tions could bring the returns to bacco does. “Set out your full crop, even if it is to be a little later than usual,” he advised. Immunization Clinics Being Held In Various Sections Os Ashe By Health DeparfriiCnt Uni o u Services | Are Planned By Local Churches Baptist, Metiiodist And Pfes- I byterians To ihdd Joint Sun. Night Services The churches of West Jeffersof* I. have made plans to have union i sprvictS each Sunday night tho •nghout the summer, it was this week. Cocpe'aHng' jn the joint session i are the Baptis-t. Presby’! Him and • Methodist churen's of West Jef-* i j'son. Service* will be held each Sunday evening beginning at 7'36 o'clock. Tile first of the joint meetings will be h.k j Sunday night at the West Jeffei-*or. Bap tist church. The place of each .service will be announced c-ch « (Continued on Page 5) Trfking Summer Courses At ASTC i ' Six from county are at tending the sirnwer session at Appalachian Stat: Teachers Col lege which got >; derway last Thui .Maj ; Tho»p ;rom here to' 'i/rm 1 in cluded ' iob Davis, Chai .> €<Mbling everyone to ( take advdht#f« of them. j Dr. Robert Kihg sf the health department pointed out *mly clinic would be held at each place'this time, due to the fact that tho June. Sunday c * A cruvH of several thousand people from ‘ear and far gather ed at the history Senter Baptist Saturday and Sunday, at ■ xatnan s Creek tor the Big June : meeting, which has been held : mere tor nearly a century. Tile crowd there this yeai re vakd that of some of the pre war years. In addition to the jounty and community many came from distant points and several states, an unofficial es timate placed the total atien iance at nearly 5,000 people. Elder Ed Davis, moderator took jart in tne services as did sev . _-ral visiting eiders. The pleasant weatht r, made it possible for many to come, who would have otherwise -had to re nnin away. For many people it .vas a real homecoming. W. Pey .on Colvard, of Seattle, Washing ton, a former resident of Ashe who had not been to a Big June in 15 years was among those, who came from a distance to the services this year.