VOLUME 18. NO. 42
$2.50 a Year in Ashe County
WEST JEFFERSON, N C.
ASHE COUNTY IS. ..
Leading Livestock and I lair'
County in North Carotin*
Population: 22.664
THURSDAY. OCT. 16. 1947
$3.00 a Year Out of County
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
BOY SCOUT FUND DRIVE OPENS OCT. 22
Manslaughter Cases On Court Docket Next Week
Armstrong Will
Preside; Many
Cases Scheduled
Expected To Continue
Throughout The Week
To Clear Docket
Ashe county's October term of
Superior court for the trial of
criminal cases will pet under
way Monday morning, with a full
docket including several man
slaughter cases. Judge Frank
Armstrong will preside and Wal
ter Johnston will serve as solicitor.
Manslaughter cases expected
to be tried includi that of Mrs.
Daryl lta e in connection with tile
fatal shooting of Guy Dare, in
August 1«M6.
The manslaughter ca-e of
Bryce Mash and Bill Miller in
connect ion with the hit and run
death of Claude Dancy, is also
expected to be heard.
The case of Alex F. Brown, ar
rested in connection with the
fatal shooting of his wife. Mrs.
Judy Reeves Brown, is also to
Come before the grand jury.
Aurthur and Ezekiel Campbell,
charged with cattle theft, are
scheduled to be tried.
There are a number of cases of
breaking and entering, and lar
ceny on the docket, including that
of Paul Lewis and George Wood-1
ie.
Charged with assault with a
deadly weapon are Pago Sheets.
A: val" Li w is. Ned Key. Howard
ID ark. James Greer. Guy Brown.
Ted Fa.-:ridge. Val Sheets and
F ink Miller. Frank Miller and
Val Sheets are charged with as
sault in connection with injuries
sustamed bv .He'-— Bare in con-1
paction wit ' :>i < xplosion, last
Decerr .nfr. * rC nMrk is plso
charged with disturbing a public|
v. r.-rdp as a e Warner Roark
and Eugene Roark.
Wo; th D. 'Pile:4 s charged wit.i
selling b.er without a license and
operating gambling devices.
Charge 1 with operating a car
(Continued on page 8)
Farmers
t o Allend Show
Labor Saving Show To Be
Held In Independence
Ya.. on October 27
H. D. Quessenbcrry. county
agent, announced that the Labor
Saving show, sponsored by ihe
Extension service and the Emor
I
will be held at Ind pendence. Ya.,
on Monday. October 27..
Tl1.’ dio\v will benin at 10:00 a.
m. and close at 4:00 p. m. This
is an excellent show, consisting
of over 100 ideas for reducing
labor cost on the farm and in
the home, it was stated. All items
are simple enough to be construct
ed by 'he average farmer and
detailed plans will he furnished
to those requesting them.
The show will be held in the
Grayson County bean ri arket ■>
cated on the eastern edge of In
dependence. and will be especial
ly ini' resting and valuable to
farm clubs, veteran's classes,
vocational agricultural classes
and home demonstration clubs, it
was pointed out.
Thb is to be the near' t show
that will be held to this county
and all farmers are urged to at
tend. Mr. Ques-enberry said.
The Man's Slor
(Changes Owners
The Man’s Store, owned and
operated by Dan Campbell, wa -
purchased this week by T. E.
Parker. Mr. Parker was one of
the original owners of the Parker
Tie company and later operated
Parker’s Store.
He also served as town clerk
and is now serving as mayor of
West Jefferson.
Mr. Parker stated that the
Man’s Store would carry the
same line of quality merchandise
that Mr. Campbell had carried
Mr. Campbell is leaving West
Jefferson to accept a position else
where.
Brown Bound Over
To Court Without
Bond In Shooting
DISTRICT CHAIRMAN
Gale B. McMillan, chairman
of the Ashe District Old Hick
ory Council Boy Scouts of
Amercia.
Vs I it* Schools ! o
AUgihI Alhlcltc
.Mreling t Sal.
Officials Will Be Org
To * s igned Games V
Three Counties
All Ashe county high schools
at the fall nicotine of the A"P J
achian High School Athletic as
sociation will be held in the
gymnasium of Appalachian State
Teachers college on Saturday, Oc
tober 18, at 9:30 a m. T e n
ing has been called by R. W.
Watkins, president.
Sixte n schools will be repre
sent.d at the meeting, including
schools in Ashe. Avery and Wa
tauga counties. The football
schedules for these schools will
be completed. Ont important j
item on the agenda will be the
soc:;t!ion, so that officials can !•
assigned for the games to 1
played in these three counties.
Among the speakers for the
occasion are expected to be Dr.
B. B. Dougherty and Dr. J. D.
Rankin, president and dean.
Schools expected to be repre
sented by their principals and
coaches are: Appalachian. Boone;
Blowing Rock: Cove Creek, Su
gar Grove: Cranberry: Crossnore:
Elkland. Todd: Fleetwood: Heal
ing Springs. Grumpier; Jefferson;
Lansing: Nathan’s Cre k: N« '
land: Rivvrview. Fig; Virginia
Carolina. Grassy Creek: West Jef
ferson a.nd Bethel. Sugar Grove.
Arrested In Connection With
The Death Of His
Wife October .‘5
Preliminary hearing scheduled
for yesterday afternoon before
D; vicl Bc Uett for Alex F. l’.rown.
arrested in conns etion with the
fa’al shooting of his wife. Mrs,
Judy Beeves Brown, on Octo
ber 3. was waived and Brown
was ordered hi Id in jail without
bond, to appear lit fore the grand
jury on Monday when criminal
court opens.
State’s witnesses called at the
hearing and ordered to appear
on Monday included W. R. Pre
vette, Paul Reeves, Fred Hart
Kenneth Absher, Mac Absher.
Guy Lyles, Joe Davis. Reid
Sturdivant. Hal ve Goodman. Paul
Reeves, Harold Harless. Hoke
Francis. Dave Houston. Doyl
Pennell. Jim McLaurin. Edg.v
Greene, Clifton Prevette. Lessi
Porte r and Will Porter.
Ira T. Johnston and Eugen
Trivette, attorneys appeared f >i
Brown at the hearing and Bowie
and Bowie for the State.
Mrs. Brown was found dead in'
the kitchen of he. farm home in
the Laurel Springs section or.
Saturday. October 4.
According to reports, the your:
son of the deceased, Cha: It
Brown. 8. returned home I'd
and upon questioning his father
about it. he was immediately
• i ed t . b- d. He arose earls
next morning, however, and voa;.
to the home of relatives toll",
"'hat had happened. Officers a: :
tl: • con.orer were sent for ; nd
lour.d her dead, on the flora ■■!
tiv kitchen. Brown was in b 1
at the time and denied know] .*•
• •f the si' "ting. Coroner Bail
reported.
Officers investigating, said M
Brea.vn hail evidently 1m en silt : r
by the table sewing at the tit
of the shooting, as scissors, tint i
and material were scattered
around the room.
(Continued on page 8)
Elliott Kilos
I fold Vf I ,a!isifi«i
Last rites for Mrs. Jane- KIJi-.tt,
7.’. ef Lansing, were held M i y
meaning at eleven o'clock at the
For. ■ Honn Baptist church. Of
ficiating were Revs. Tom Former,
E. Z. Sexton and Rev. Mr. Shep
herd. Interment was in the Ilam
cemetery.
The deceased, who had been in
ill health for the past year, suc
cumbed at her home on Saturday.
She is survived by twit children,
Mrs. Loura Goss and Fied Elliott,
both of Lansing.
Knsrrf a ad(‘t s t Prc-.
Congressional leaders who were called to the White
house by President Truman to discuss foreign aid crisis
and prices at home, and the possible solution. Left to right
are: Rep. Leslie Arends (R.. 111.), Sen. Styles Bridges (R.,
N. H.), Sen. Wallace White (R., Me.), Rep. Charles Hal
leck (R., Ind.), Rep. Sam Rayburn (D„ Tex.), Rep.
Charles Eaton (R., N. J.), and Rep. Sol Bloom (D., N. Y.)
Canada Answers The Pulp wood Problem With A Log Jam
Photos show the log-jammed Lake La Tu ;ue alter the drive down the St Maurice
Ki\er. in Quebec. Twelve mi'lion logs are Kindled in this one huge operation and is
the greatest pulp log drive in Canada's hist ry. It's Canada's answer to a world-wide
paper demand. Logs make paper, and pap r makes the wheels of industry turn. Alii
gator boats plow through the log-jammed lake: pulp logs are sent down a hundred
loot chute and log jams are dynamited to k op (lie pulp moving to the sorting gap.
\sh<‘ Ministers
K<‘ - \ j) j)<> i il { r <j
\! (l(»nf(T(k is <• c
Hoyt Wood Again Named To
West Jefferson; (1. X. Need
ham At Jefferson
Mai k : . ‘1: i. atm nut .11 , ,f the
Weste 1 11 N01 j, C'nruling eonfor
eaC' V anruiii’ session held in
C-r otte. ii'i ontmepls were
Mint Monday by IVshop Clare
PurceH.
Most of the Ashe county min
isters wen re'■;rued > the.r re
! ■■ ■ ' i\'e ehurche. I.; v 1 h >yt Wo -d
was ay a in named as pastor of
■ ■ W< ' Jetfi rsi>n chui eh; W. C.
Eastridye. H< Iton: W. C. Crum
metti I .aure 1 Springs; Ernest
Stephens. Todd: Warrensvitle will
he served by R, C. Goodchild and
Jeffirson by G. 11. Needham.
Jefferson has been served bv a
supply during the past year.
J. M. Taylor, former Jeffer
son pastor was returned to Cool
Springs. John S. J. rdan, former
\\ • st Jefferson castor. w;is re
turned to Franklin in Surry coun
ty. A. C. Wagoner, who has of
ten preached in revival services
(Continued on page ii)
To !»<•<*
S £ i 11 l{(‘(jiiire<!
Attention was again called to
the fact this we k by Mbs Rut,:
Toyman, welfa: superintendent.
M-- t all begga •- should h< refer
red to the \\ 1 Hare department.
Business houses ml jndivi
dua Is. who k.av< so ieitoi s of th -
type calling on them, are asked
': 1 core act tk wolf • re depart •
mere at once. Mbs Tug1* an aid.
She |."tinted out that under th
new law passed by the 1 ■gislature
■ ii ; • in wit! ut h approv
: f the u ll'are di pa: tn • nt is not
[lowed.
\YaU*li 2liin Gain!.
He’s plaving on the team
right here in West Jefferson.
V/a-'eh Hie football field in
Belk’s window. Von can help
the players out; for the gains
they make will he determined
by the gifts made in the Boy
Scout Fund Drive.
Mrnii
And Thu
Little* ll
Actions On S urs,
rsdav Arc* Kecc*i\ hut
espouse I lore So I Air
Luke Is Named
A s »8 o<ie i*a i <> r
Of I*res I) v !e rv
Foster Memorial Is Host To
Group: \e\ i Meeting To
Be Held \ov. 17
R. v. J• >hti Luke was elm-, n
moderator of tl • Winston-Salem
Presbytery in the stated fall me, t
ir.g heid at Foster Memorial
church, on Tuesday, when ap
proximately 150 delogat. s from
the various churches of flic Pre
byeti \ w 1 presnt.
R e \. R It. Sr me. a former | >;
tor and now executive secretary
of the Mecklenburg Presbytery
(Continued on page 4)
(ilaudr Phipps
Succumbs I ucs.
Funeral service for Clauda
Phipps. 72. of Crumpler. will be
held this ;ift■ . on at 2:00 o'clock
at tm Mt. I’!> . it Chape; T:;t ■:
men! will follow in the Sc-.a
cemetery.
Mr. Phipps, who ha tl been i: i
ill health for sometime, died at
his home at Crumpler. Tuesday.
He is serve ed In his wife ami
one son, .Tohr. Wiley Phipps.
Huntington. W. Va.
People faking Scr
S res! He o'\ Request
F o v ? Savings
rid Vi learnpH
\ 'ti ' ay by t ’
Pre-;lent T: • td; request for
nn .tli' Tut -
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rupean count r
C'a fo. n .<!u i V i ii' i CM III'- -1 • ■ i >
owners ti ? ... \V st Jeffers
have va ni in.- : : ■ i - One ■ icuvi
report 'd to ' it v. tild he in -
j os.-ible I. r ii i'j >)' bushn ■
to refuse 1
customer • n,: ed. . it w
on thi. n. lu; So fa- ..II cm
i rs have con ::i . .1 to i Ii
meat and none v< . leni ; -
Are tin !'
although ! . |' dtry ,■: d ays
! act not bee- t ■ pt f mi tin.
menus oat i req nssl .!
' ' t it ! ! ■' 11 nt • 1 : ,
eii early d ’■ . O . cm-'■ tn .
person who . u; v c.d.-\- th
in < >re sol ,1 : ■ .. . 1;." ■■ i. !y
denied hin in the d > - dc s::
a.'ted liy f. t - -dent.
llou.-.ew I'. ■■ ' t I- 1 i ■
<■' r t' idle tli : .111' ill :■ "I i
if any good . ; ; ice. n id ,- ti i
it vnil, oi o! I ' cc -inpli ■1 -
I tliruueh ! i (Wi 1 J‘-t
ft i'm'll .
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py
isc1
S V s
The \Y
prow to in Hr uoeimng gun,i
ball 1,ramie.
crowd at I.an idr. West Jcffer
fnn capturi.il a 10-2 victory over
>!ic I.ansin:. ball club, v inters ..f
the first half of the season in
the league. On the mound for the
winners was Awry Miller, who
ga\ up in hits and struck out
six. Lefty Blevins pitched m
the Lansing men, giving up 12
hits and striking out 11. No horn ■
runs were scored during the
game.
Approximately 1.000 spectators
saw the 3-2 victory won by West
Jefferson here on the local dia
mond. It was a pitcher’s duel be
i„ m. doss \k>vi:s
STtiRI-: AT LANSING
L. M. G< ss, deal’T in grocerii s
and notions, has moved his store
at Lansing into the Maxwell
budding and will r.mv Ik located
there, the owner announced this
week.
The store was rennet ly located
in the building directly across
from the new location.
Goal For County
Is $ 1500;Luke
Drive Chairman
Plan To Increase Number OI
Troops To Include All
School Districts
Ashe county’s annual Boy
Scout fund Drive will open next
Wednesday October 22. when a
goal of $1500 has been set in or
dor to continue to expand thi
important youth training pro
gram.
Rev. J. W. Luke, long active in
Roy Scout work i . chairman of
tic drive and Gale B. McMillan
i. treasurer. Supporters are asked
to nvol in contributions. Letters
:uc b ing mailed out to a number
of individuals and the coopera
tion of every one is asked.
Chairman Luke said that the
drive to raise funds would be a
short one. opening October 22 and
closing October 20,
In speaking of the drive, Chair
man Luke called it a great invest
ment. He cdecl he fact that a fine
way to ..top the present crime
of today i to invest in charade:
building of youth. He asked the
support of everyone.
A. B. Hurt is vice president of
the Old Hickory Council, of which
the Ashe district j...- part. Gale
B. McMillan - chairman of the
Ashe district, Millard Graybeal.
vice cha .man, I. P. Colvsrd.
commissioner, E. W, Powers.
Chain an of ore oilsaMon and
exten -. a: L. B. Tyson, chairman
>f leadi : nip t amine: s. S Shoe*
and Wade E. Eller, chairman of
\\ i I i S j> <> n o i*
Etsdina Fc-lhal
I’:4!i Schools ot County In
vited To Enter Event Spon
sored It. Jclferson
t place
EY-uiiingloii Is
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North C ■ I ! n . d on
<.! 1. go of
, mi , ic i:,. pa t
i n’v; lit,
urses ior
■■ to make
t'i. t quar
■ jm : 5 led
All 5 ■ . '• Service
Tlir all >l. v • vies held at
El> a < i -h\ an church, on
Sunday. m .■;i:■ i ■ lion with the
cold': at * 11 of the r ftieth anni
versary of the luuHing of the
duicch, was wa 11 attended, in
spile of the rainy weather.
Or. E. E. Gillespie, organizer
and builder of the church, was
present for the celebration, as
j was Rev R. H. Stone, who ser
I ved as pastor of the church for
many years. Rev, J, W Luke,
I pastor, was also present.