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SANTA IS COMING HERE SATURDAY DEC. 10 o VOLUME 21, NO. 39 WEST JEFFERSON, N. C. THURSDAY, DEC. 8, 1949 $3.00 a Year Out of County PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY SCHOOL BUILDING PLANS ARE PROPOSED * ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ******* Farmers Urged To Vote In PMA Ejection Thurs. Voting Places Are Announced By Committee Polls Will Be Open In All Townships From 9:00 A. M., To 6:00 P. M. J. \Y Gambill. chairman of the county PMA committee announ ced this week that voting places for the PMA community com mitteemen election to take place next Thursday, December 15 had been announced. The polls will be open from 9:00 a. m.. to 6:00 n. m.. and all farmers eligible to vote are urg ed to do so. All those who have an ir.ti rest as an owner, operator, tenant, or sharccr, pper nn a farm participating in the PMA program administered during the current year are eligible to if st their votes. Attention is also called to the fact that there will be important decisions to be made during the year and that it is vital to have the right type of committeemen to make them. The voting places announced by the county committee for the election next Thursday, Decem ber 15 are as follows: Chestnut Hill, regular voting place; Clifton, Warrensville post office: Creston, Robinson’s store; Elk, W. G. Cook’s store; Grassy Creek and Helton, regular voting places; Horse Creek, John Goss store; Hurricane, W. M. Little’s store. Jefferson, courthouse; Laurel, T. T G-ay^al's; ,Nb"th Fork, Stephens’ store; Obids, Delmer Rose store at Glendale Springs; Old Field, regular voting place; (Continued on page 8) Rev. John W. Luke fGets Scout Award Jk Rev John Luke was given the hightest award in scouting Tues day when he was awarded the Silver Beaver at the meeting of the Old Hickory Council Tues day night at the Home Moravian church in Winston-Salem. Th:s is the council’s highest award for service to boyhood and C. H. Sebring. Winston-Salem and Harry E. White, Sr., Mt. Airy, received the honor along with Mr. Luke. Officers for 1950 were elected at the council business meeting in the afternoon. Gale McMillan was named as one of t'ne vice presidents of the council. Mr. Luke is chairman of the Ashe district with Ed D. Barr as district commissioner. P. G. Wright is the Ashe member on the executive board. Millard Graybeal is one of the council’s three representatives on the national council of Boy Scouts of America. Silver Beaver ip JhairmaiiC cil Meeting ■ Dis Propose Name For C o u n t y9 s New High School Dozens of people have been expressing etnthusVsm over the proposed county high school, to which the countv hoard of education gave a 5 to 1 vote of approval on Mon day. it Someone suggested the name “Blue Ridge High School,” for this big consolidated county unit. The proposed new high 4 school would be located on the ' 4 county home property, accord »' ing to the suggestions made in the state survey. By combining the high school units of Jefferson, West Jefferson, Fleetwood and pos sibly EIKlapd, in the event that Watauga does not coop erate, this would give the county one large unit, with better equipment and facili ties for high school students. Prices On Local Tobacco Market Continue High HEADS SEAL SALE Mrs. Lola Porter heads the Tubercular Christmas Seal Sale in the county this year. Schools To Close | Wednesday^ Dec. 21, For 'Holidays Will Re-Open On Monday, January 2. Through out County If was announced this week that the county schools would close on Wednesday, December 121, for the Christmas holidays and would re-open again on January 2. It was announced by the coun ty superintendent of schools, A. IB. Hurt, that the majority of I principals and teachers favored I this date. ! Most of the teachers wanted i some time before Christmas as j well as after, he explained. ! It was pointed out that so far this seas n "-father conditions had been favorable and that at tendance had been unusually I good. i A special effort is being made ■ to increase attendance this year | and to see that every child of I school age is in school. “Every citizen can help in this by reporting to school authorities | any children, of school age, who are not in school,” one principal said. It was explained that if there were conditions making it hard for children to attend, an . attempt wouid be made to cor rect them. I More Than aOO.OOO Pounds 1 Sold For Over $235,009.00 Since Opening Demand continue.- .‘harp and i prices good on the W< st Jeffer son Tcbacco Mark-1. which is at tracting farmers from N< rth Carolina. Tennessee and Virginia. Unofficial reports revealed that through yesterday over 500.000 pounds had been sold for more than $235,000.00. since the sea son opened, at an avt rage of slightly more than $44.00 per hundred. Both warehouses reported plenty of floor space. Steve Tavlor. one of the oper ators of Tri - State Warehouse reported that they had sold near ly 500,000 pounds since the open ing of the season, with an esti mated average of around $44.00 per hundred. Quality tobacco continues to bring good prices. Yesterday's top basket was $63.00 per hundred. Unofficial reports from Plant ers Warehouse revealed that 1 nearly 50,000 pounds had been sold here for are estimated' av erage of around $45.00. In speaking of the sales, Mr. Taylor said that, consider ty*g the cold, dry weamer, thht the poundage handled at Tri - State ' was good and that much satis faction was being expressed on the part of the growers for both the service and the price. Minister 8 school To Start On Mon. At Baptist Church Revs. J. R. Mosley, Howard Ford And J. t. Pipes I Are To Speak Baptist ministers and church! workers of the Ashe Missionary! Baptist Association will conduct their annual minister’s school, December 12, through December 17, starting at 9:45 a. m., each morning. ! Revs. Herman Gentry, Roscoe! : Trivette, H. M. Winkler, A. C. Ashley and Kene Roark will be i in' charge of the devotions each j day for the morning sessions and Revs. John Goodman, Edgar Cole, Lee Waddell, A. P. Howell and Frank Tucker in charge of the afternoon devotionals, Rev. R. C. Ashley, secretary, stated. ! In the afternoon the following topics will be discussed: Sunday i (Continued on page 8) ' County’s Top Com Producer Kermit Jones, Creston, on top of corn and members of the Jefferson veterans’ farm class, are shown with the 123.5 bushels of corn produced on one acre of land by Mr. Jones. Santa Claus Will Be In West Jefferson On Saturday Lions Club Will Collect Toys For N e c cl y Children Citizens Asked To Bring Toys And Gifts To Collection' Points By Dec. 24 Don Blackburn. president of the West Jefferson Lions Club, announced yesterday that this organization is now conducting a toy drive, to set toys and gifts for underprivileged children of Ashe county. He pointed out that the follow ing stores have been established as collection points and that in terasted individuals are ask^ to bring their gifts and toys to one of these places by December 14: Blackburn’s Dept. Store, Ram sey’s 5 and 10c Store, W. J. Esso Station, W. J high school and the town hall. The Lions Club will work with the welfare department in the distribution of the toys, so that they will go to needy children. “Anv persons who do not get their toys in before December 14, are asked to call Ralph Camp bell at the town hall and make same arrangement so that they can be picked up.” Mr. Black burn said. Members of the Lions Club are going to repair and1 paint the toys and it was painted out that it didnft matter what condition the toys were in .the Lions would fix them and give them to the children. w inkier s Car Found In Tenn. The lSm> Plymouth, belonging to Tom Winkler, which was stol en from in front of his house Sunday night, was found Tues day in Lebannon, Tenn.. by offi cers there. The identity of the men who took the car was not known yesterday. The Lebannon police investigat ed the car, when it was brought in with a burned out clutch to be fixed, with papers in the car referring to Mr. Winkler in West Jefferson. Sheriff Bill Todd and Police Chief E. R. Sturdivant left Tuesday afternoon to go to Le bannon, near Nashville, to bring the oar back. Santa Claus To Visit Here Saturday; All Children In Countv Invited To See Him Dr. D. J. Whitener Speaks To Lions Spoke On The Satisfaction And Happiness In Doing Small Things In Life 1 D:\ D. J Whitener. Boone, and past district governor of Lions International, was the guest, speaker at the meeting of the West Jefferson Lions Club Tues day night. Dr. Whitener spoke on the satisfaction and happiness to be received from the small things of life in the form of assistance or even a friendly word to oth I i He stated that in his opinion j many persons were running ' themselves to death from one j (Continued on page 8) Merchants Report Business Off To Brisk Start: Good Selections Here Thousands of children are ex pected here this Saturday wher Santa Claus will pay an officia visit to West Jefferson to talk tc all the little children in prepara tion for his final trip of the yeai on Christmas eve. Santa, who will be here undei the auspices of the West Jeffer son merchants, will be on the streets and in the stores of Wesl Jefferson talking to all the child ren and parents. All of the children of this area and their parents are invited tc come to West Jefferson and see Santa Cluas who will be loaded with candies for all the children Santa made his first visit here on November 26, when he ap <Continued on paste Hi 123.5 Bushels Of Corn Per Acre Raised By Kermit Jones , Kermit Jones, Creston, veter an farm trainee instructor at Jefferson, has the highest corn yield in the county on one acre of ground this year, which was 123.5 bushels of corn by weight, S. B. Lacey. Jr., veterans’ su pervisor, announced this week. Mr. Jones planted West Vir ginia 1163 vellow hybrid variety of corn, furnished bv the Farm-' ers Supply Co. He planted around 17,000 plants with 32 inch rows and around eight inches in the ! row. Mr. Lacey stated. , | Three hundred pounds of Ru simon, 300 pounds of fifty per ■cent potash, 400 pounds of twen | ty peT cent phosphate, 500 pounds : of 0-12-12 fertilizer and 300 | ounds of amonia nitrate was i applied to this acre of bottom landi, used1 to grow the corn on. I J. G. Welch, Lansing, was sec-j | ond in the county with 119bush j els of corn. He used U. S. 13 yel low hybrid corn. John Zachary,] Grassy Creek, was third with 108 bushels. | Four other trainees in the, Jefferson Veterans’ Agricultural School produced over 100 bush els Mr. Lacey stated. They were Glenn Blevins, Crumpler; Mar tin Wyatt, Ball, Frank Graham, Husk and Garney Brooks, of Laurel Springs. Mr. Lacey pointed out that all of these trainees used West Virginia 1163 yellow hybrid variety of corn. The members of the veterans’ farm class at Jefferson harvest ed the corn crop produced by Mr. Jones and weighed it in ap proximately 35 minutes. Ed Greene, C. E. Gardner and Dana Tugiman assisted the veterans in harvesting and weighing of the :orn crop. HELTON GRANGE TO MEET DECEMBER 16 It was announced this week that there will be a meeting of the Helton Grange on Friday night, December 16. Everyone who is interested is urged to at tend. County Board Sends Proposal To State Office 5 To One Vote In Favcr Of Central High School On County Home Property At a special meeting of the Ashe county boat'd of education ■ >n Monday, tentative plans for the county’s use of the state funds for buildings were made j and w.ll be sent to the State De partment :r. Raleigh ft eon?id era :i( n. Included :n the plans was the m- po.-ed county’s centra' Con •’ *1 ic’atccl K,ij sci.ool to be erect ed on the county home property. The vote of the board was 5 to" 1 in favor of this, the minutes of the meeting shew. There has been much discussion of this county - wide project and board members said they were glad to approve this as a county, not a community project. Other plans which received tentative allotments by the board included elementary school projects at Helton, Glen dale Springs, White Oak and Fleetwood. Other projects of varying costs were approved by the board for Jefferson, Vir ginia ■■ Carolina, Healing Sp’gs, Elkland, Riverview, Lansing and Nathan’s Creek. It was explained that project; in several of these schools deal with sanitation and have al ready been approved, such as those at Jefferson, Healing Springs and Nathan’s Creek. Records of the board meeting show that West Jefferson, which is one of the worst crowded schools in the county, did not ask for funds. It was explained that this school was willing to give up anv consideration ^his time provided that a central high j school cc-uld be built. | While tentative figures for j these various projects are pro : (Continued on page 4) Whinners Named In W indow Contest Judge* Praise All Stores For Unus'ial Christmas Displays In the annual Christmas win dow contest sponsored each year by this paper the judges an | nounced that Rhodes Furniture Company was the winner of the first prize of $7.00; Ray’s won 1 second, $5.00; Blackburn’s and ; Davidson’s tied for third place for prize of $3.00. | The judges pointed out that all of the merchants were to be commended and said they want ed to give honorable mention to I Firestone, Wiles J?w<elry, Fra zier's, Smithey’s and the Chil dren’s Shop. The judges were professional people not connected with any local business house. In discus sing the excellent job most of the merchants have done one of ithe judges remarked that the , windows here were much better I than they had seen in some towns much larger than West JeffersdTt. 736-Pound Hog Killed In Ashe What is believed to be one of the largest hogs ever killed in Ashe county was the 736 pound dressed hog owned by G. H. Hardin of West Jeffer son. Mr. Hardin stated that the hog w*as a three-year old White Chester and that it was killed and dressed by Dewey Poe, Jefferson, last week. “The cool weather has beer death on hogs” one farmer said and pointed out that the cool weather during the past two weeks had been very favorable for this essential part of farm work. The extended mild weather in this section delayed the hog killing more than usual.
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