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SPARTA, Alleghany County, N Our Want Ads are for every body to use to make their wants and needs known. 3c Per Copy A State Dentist • o ,0' will help local school children —to free dental work here Sin Sparta beginning Janu ary 15. School children who are unable to pay can h^ve. free dental work done by a State Board of Health Dentist, January 15. Dr. Robert H. King, Health Officer, has announced re ceipt of notice to this effect from Dx. Earnest Branch, Division of Oral Hygiene, Raleigh. Dr. Ed wards, who is a member of his staff will be here for the purpose of cleaning, extracting and filling teeth for school children up to twelve years of age, He will begin his work in Sparta School, and further an nouncements will be made in re gard to other schools in this leounty. Parents who cannot pay ■for this service, which is much Aeeded in this county, remember, bipd teeth may cause various dis eases, such as rheumatism, heart aftai kidney conditions which are. diffSfult to cure. LoAnie Gambill passled away Friday evening —at 5 Vclock ™ Bel Air, Mary land, and the funeral was held Tuesday fit Fountain Green, near by. \ Last we'iek word came that he had been taken to the hospital for an appendix operation. His passing will be mourned by many fiiends here in Alle ghany. He was a brother to Mrs. Van Reeves and Mrs. John Ed wards. ' flYA Office Moved The NYA Office of Alleghany County, which was originally in the Court House, has been mov ed across the street directly over tn* Irwin -Barber Shop, and op posite the 'Telephone Company en trance, according to Lee M. Woodruff, Supervisor for Allegh any County. Christinas Bride Mrs. Reece Caudell, Galax, who •was, before her marriage in Pu laski, on Saturday, December 23, "’-"Tiliw Virginia Elizabeth Joines, Sparta. The wedding ceremony was performed by Rev. Francis Hume Scdtt, pastor of the Pulaski (Va.) Christian Church.—Photo Courtesy Roahpke Times. A new serial— “Hills of Destiny” —will begin —in the Times next Thursday, January 18( and continue each week, for 14 weeks, until the entire story is published. “Hills of Destiny,” by Agnes Louise Provost, relates how Lee Hollister, strong of hand1 and stout of heart, returned un expectedly to the Circle V from a trip abroad to find— and correct—the strange situ ation confronting the girl he loves. Thrills , . . Romance . 4 . Love in a Western setting. That’s the “thumbnail” op “Hills of Destiny.” Miss Provost is the author of many best sellers, including “The Closed Door,” “Fortune’s Wheel” and' “Honeymoon Wife,” and spent years in the country she writes about. Don’t miss a single install ment of this exciting serial! John R. Watson bought a 120-acre farm near Stratford —during, this week. Purchase of the farm was made possible by the tenant-purchase program of the Farm Security Administra tion. That agency lent Mr. Wat son money to buy the farm and to add needed, improvements. Mr. and Mrs. Watson and their daughter expect to move to their new farm immediately. Improvements will include the repair of dwelling and construc tion of new outbuildings. Mr. Watson will have 40 years in which to repay the Government ■ for the money borrowed. A vari able payment plan will enable him to make lighter payments in bad crop years and heavier pay ments iri good years. The inter est is 3 percent. A short term loan of from 2 to 5 years from the same agency will furnish money, for seed, fertilizer, and other farming operations. He will follow a live-at-home program with tobacco, beans, sheep, and cattle for cash income. The loan entitles the family to advice from County FSA Super visors as to good farming prac tices. W. Bryan Oliver is the county supervisor for Ashe and Alleghany Counties. He may be consulted in his office at the Court House on Tuesday morn ings. In a Jackson Day message to the nation Monday —night, in Washington, D. C., President Roosevelt care fully shielded 'his third-term plans and warned ) Demo oratic leaders that the party must j cling to New Deal policies if it is to win in 1940. Speaking directly to the cream of the capital’s Democracy at a $100-a-plafe Jackson Day dinner and to thousands of radip listen ers at similar functions through out the nation, the President de fended the achievements of his administration and said they must not be “chipped away.” The American people, he said, recognize two facts today: 1. That the world outside our hemisphere ip “in really bad shape.” He said that this fact is so big that few people have girasp ed its meaning and so big that “our little partisan squabbles are shameful in the light of it.” 2. That the, nation has made “great gains” in our economic prosperity and the security of individual citizens. “These gains must not be chip ped away; they must be only a foundation on which to build fur ther gains,” he said. “Behind us lies accomplished a really big job.” Although his remarks were good-humored, Mr. Roosevelt’s warning that the Democratic party must continue to earn the support of liberal Republicans, progres sives and others who flocked to its standard in 1932 and remained there in 1936, was blunt and forceful. It was an unmistakable decla ration that Democrats can not win with a conservative candi date for the White House. The president pleaded guilty to the “soft impeachment” that too many persons in his administra tion are not active party Demo crats, but explained that he be lieves in party organization only in proportion to its proper place in government. In this, he said, he shares the feelings of most people who are more concerned with getting “the, big jobs” done than with the label of the party that does it. Because they did “the big job,” he said, Alexander Hamil ton, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln were his heroes—Hamilton because he brought stability out of chaos of currency and banking difficul ties; Jefferson because he estab lished the new republic as a real democracy; Lincoln because he made possible a united country and Jackson because he saved the economic democracy of the union for its westward expansion into a great nation. Speculation about his third term plans may well have prompt ed the President to observe that “I am supposed to be a self-made riddle—in fact, a cross between a riddle and a Santa Claus.” He professed humorous amazement at the refusal of three Republican congressional leaders to attend the dinner after being assured that his speech would be non partisan. i The Blue Ridge Parkway wiH be opened —to common carrier pas senger service soon. Facili ties.. of the nation’s most magnificent scenic drive are made available to a larger num ber of folks; development means much to all of western North Carolina. A highway nearly five hundred miles long, extending along the crest of the southern Appalachian range from the Great Smokies National Park to the Shenandoah National Park, unfolding a con tinuous panorama of forest-mantl ed hills and secluded valley farms, silvery streams and flashing water, falls-, billowy clouds below sun kissedi peaks, yet designed with such consummate engineering skill that it is as easy to drive as a city park—that is the Blue Ridge. Parkway. Construction of the Parkway and development of the adjacent area means that there has been opened up to travelers and sight seers a country whose natural beauty is unequaledi Not only has this development afforded op portunity for millions of people to enjoy the scenic beauty of the mountains, it has also provided communication with the modern world for a people whose section used to be known as the “Lost Provinc.es” because of its isolation and inaccessibility. The Blue Kidge Barkway be longs to the federal government. The states of Virginia and North Carolina provided the right of way, and the government is build ing the road. Approximately $20, 000,000 has been appropriated for construction, and most of it has been spent. When completed the Parkway will connect the Shenan doah National Park in Northern Virginia with the Great Smoky Mountains National Park on the Tennessee-North Carolina line, and will cost about $35,000,000. The, road is an integral part of the park system and is administered by the National Park Service. There will be no signboards along its 500 miles; no lumbering trucks will clutter the road; occasional filling stations and refreshment stands will be under strict govern ment supervision. There will be nothing to mar the pleasure of motorists who may glide along this cloud-high parkway at alti tudes heretofore attained only by airplanes. The average altitude of the parkway is just under 2, 500 feet, with its highest point of 4,355 feet near Grandfather Mountain. Besides the scenic beauty of unexcelled mountain vistas, Wes tern North Carolina offers attrac tions for the sportsman and pleas ure seeker. The famous deer and bear hunts in adjacent Pisgah National Forest bring hunters from all over the country each year. More bears have been kill ed this season in three Western North Carolina counties than were killed last season in the whole state of Maine. The Parkway is intersected by dozens of improved state roads, connecting with towns nestling among the hills and with quiet pastoral retreats, thus extending its advantages for miles on both sides of the main travel artery. Vational publicity given the two parks and the linking parkway is beneficial to the whole area and will bring into the state millions of tourist dollars. There remains only one step to make the scenic glories and [recreational facilities of this I bountiful land accessible to the (turn to page 4, please) A new principle of fish hatchery desisrn is ibeinsr I —tried out ii/vthe Roaring Gap Fish Hatchery jid is proving itself efficient, and promises to be of immense benefit- in growing young fish until they are large enough to be released in open streams-, Guy C. Wallace, superintendent, said here yesterday. The Roaring Gap hatchery is a part of a state-wide system oper ated through the department of1 conservation and development. Last ye^r approximately 750,000 young fish were released for fu ture angling, and* there are now on han-d a million more fingeilings and fries, the latter just hatched. Both trout and small mouth bass are being grown-. The new principle originated by Wallace and now apout half completed through a WPA project is an underground sewer line running along under the entire series of hatchery ponds with an individual drain for each pond. In the majority of hatcheries now in operation, the top pond is drained into the one below and so on down the line until all are finally drained. But at Roaring Gap each pond drains separately into the under ground pipe and all polluted mat ter is removed without it having to go through another of the ponds. It not only makes for healthier and disease-free fish but it speeds up the drainage and simplifies it considerably. The fish are kept until they at tain a length of ,four to six inches before they are released, which requires about $ year after they are hatched, V Mr. Ford preached his final sermon Sunday evening —in the Sparta Baptist Churdh to a large and appreciative«4uudience. Out side the smow was falling Ivaaviiy, but the full auditorium testified to the high place the Rev. Mr. Ford holds in the hearts ' of Sparta people. Mr. Ford has resigned so that he can go further with his own education. He leaves immediately for Texas to take up studies. Many earnest good wishes go with him* Another state law became effective Jan. 1st —requiring all expectant mothers tot take blood tests for syphilis. Under the measure, which was passed by the 1939 legislature, “every woman who becomes pre gnant shall have a blood sam ple taken and submitted to a la boratory approved by the North Carolina state board of health for performing the Wassermann test or other approved tests for syphi lis.” Violation of the act will con stitute a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of $25, imprisonment for 30 days, or both. Dr. Carl V. Reynolds, state health officer, summarized the law as follows: “Any duly licensed physician shall, upon application, secure the required blood sample and submit it to the laboratory. Mid wives may not take such sam ples but shall refer their pa tients to a duly licensed physi cian. Any pregnant woman who is not able to pay a physician to take the blood sample may have such samples secured by the coun 'ty health officer.” A. O. Joines Asst. Supervisor of Census » Carolinians Victorious in Texas Happiest visitors to Texas on New Year’s Day were Governor and Mrs. Burnet R. Maybank of South Carolina, who watched the Clemson Tigers of. the Palmetto State defeat Boston College by a score of 6 to 3. They are shown above at a dinner-given after the game by-fiends of Vice President John Garner, where the trophy emblematic of athletic supremacy and good sportsmanship was presented to the winner*. Miss Rowena Woods was recently elected class editor —of the Sampler staff at Sullins College, Bristol, Va. Miss Woods is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Woods, and granddaughter of Mrs. James W. Hawthorne, of Alleghany County. Miss Woods is a senior at Sul lins, where she was awarded a scholarship for outstanding work in her junior year. Sullins College won the all-1 American honor rating for college annuals two years in succession from the National Scholastic Press Association. Fourteen girls comprise the staff and write the annual for 1939-40. It’s news when a Sparta firm opens a branch —store at a place down in Rowan County called Salis bury. That is what is hap pening right now. The Delp Brothers, who conduct a furni ture and antique business in Sparta next to the Dime Store are branching out, and Mr. Frank Delp who is known as the “sell ingest” salesman hereabouts will have charge of the Rowan County store, a branch of the Sparta business. Only 12 in Alleghany There are 12 places of business I in Alleghany county licensed by the state to sell beer at retail, it was announced today. Figures, compiled by the* Brew ers and North Carolina Beer Dis tributors Committee as of Janu ary 1, disclosed that the state has issued retail beer licenses to 4,689 dealers in North Carolina. Mecklenburg County’s 321 easi ly tops Guilford’s 231. Forsyth is 'third with 210, and Buncombe fourth with 181. There are in the state 37 plac es of business which have lost their licenses as a result of the beer industry’s “clean up or close up” campaign in North Carolina, it was explained. Edgar H. Bain of Goldsboro, three-times state senator and state director of the Brewers and North Carolina Beer Distributors committee, directs the drive against objectionable beer outlets in the state. _i_ The North Carolina Supreme Court found no error in the —case of Glenn Maxwell, twice convicted of the first-degree mur der of Charlie Shepherd in Alle-t ghany County, some two years ago. The court’s ruling fixed Fri day, January 19, as the date of execution for this case, as well as for seven other death sentences confirmed from county coxrts. Who took two slot machines and an auto tire —from the D & W Motor Company store after closing time Sunday night? ’Twas done by someone with a key, and gave a certain thrill to the boys in the jail across the way who watched, and who claim they recognized gome of the three who apparently participated. The incident has caused two or more arrests, The slot machines were rifled and abandoned, and later found after considerable search. Around the town there is some discussion as to how far one can be prosecuted for stealing a slot machine, which has something of a questionable standing at best. Warning us to guard children against Diphtheria, —the County Health Officer, Dr. King says: “Immunization against dipther ia, or membranous croup, is re quired by law for all children over six months of age. It it also required of older children before they enter school in 1940. “This law is entirely in the in terest of the children, every par ent or guardian should see that it is complied with, not because it is a law, but because it is such a simple means of warding Off possible severe illness and ev en death. “The treatment is best given in two doses at intervals of three weeks. Formerly one dose was advised, but recent investigations have shown two doses to be best. “Those having children within the ages given above, i. e., six | months to six years, who have not been given this treatment, let me urge you to have it done at once I by your family physician or by ! your Health Department.” Health Department office hours: Tuesday, 9:00 to 12:00 a. m. Saturday, 9:00 to 12:00 a. m. — The first meeting of the new division of the Baptist —Woman’s Missionary Union will be held at Wilkesboro Baptist Church, January 19'th. Mrs. W. D. Briggs, State cor responding secretary, and Miss Mary Carren, Young Peoples lead er, will be present. Association officers are invited to attend. Special conferences will be held on Mission Study, Personal Service, Stewardship and Missionary Education of our Young People. Mrs. A. 0. Joines, Alleghany Association Superintendent of W. M. U., urges all officers to attend this meeting. ' Presbyterian Church Service this Sunday evening at 7:15, th« Reverend Mr. Berry preaching. Paul V. McNutt was the Jackson Day speaker in Raleigh Monday night, when the annual North Carolina Jackson Day din ner was held there in the Sir Walter Hotel. McNutt, fed eral security administrator, told North Carolina Democrats that “the things for which Franklin I). Roosevelt has given his best nrust not be allowed to perish.” McNutt is a candidate for the Democratic president.al nomina tion if Mr. Roosevelt does not seek re-election. Look at the record and be proud,” said McNutt, after prais ing Andrew Jackson as “one od tne giants of Democracy” and President Roosevelt as “another great Democrat.” L nder Republican administra tions, McNutt said, was “a rec ord of wasted resources, of firian cih’ bubbles, of a government that refused to take car ■ -of American rmd and American people. “Under the new deal, a record of building, of fighting against fire and flood, against poverty and disease—a record of youth and courage fighting its way toward a sound and solid prosperity. Look at the, record and be strong.. De mocracy marches on.” “The plain people of today adore Franklin Roosevelt,” assert ed McNutt. “And why shouldn’t they? Every ounce "of his strength, every thought of his waking hours is dedicated to their | service. No wonder the American [people are reluctant to have the president relinquish his high of fice. No wonder millions of the humble members of society plead | with him still to battle for their j cause. What his decision will be, ! he alone can say. i Noting that the Thirtieth Di vision of the American Expedi tionary Forcer in the World War i —------— 1—*— Jackson Day Speaker Paul V. McNutt, Federal Secur. I ity Administrator, who was the j principal speaker at the North | Carolina Jackson Day dinner Mon ' day night in Raleigh. j consisted mostly of North Caro i linians and bore the nickname I “Old Hickory,’’ the same given ! Andrew Jackson, McNutt said: ! “The events of the last 20 j years have taught us that we must stand apart from the war | resulting from the political intri gues of Europe, and have made ! us resolve that lands beyond the [seas must never again be enriched with the blood of American boys. ; We require a defensive system for America, second to none at sea and meeting the needs of i adequacy on land.” McNutt said Jackson was re membered not for his deeds as a [soldier but for his part “in the 1 war between the American people j and consolidated wealth and fi , nance.” The issues in Jackson’s time were clear, he added, jusj, as they | have always been clear between 1 the Democratic and Republican parties. The main point waa whether government was “to be a servant of the people or one that is their master.” Boys who enrolled at the Laurel Springs Camp, Thursday, I—January 4, from Alleghany County were: Clay Caudill and Earl Richardson, Whitehead; Ray mond Deboard, Redgie McMillan, and Coy Pettijohn, Piney Creek; Kenneth Jones, Galax, Route 2; Lonnie McMillan, Ennice; Roy Rash, Sparta, and Earl Stratford.
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