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is first tn news, first in lo cal pictures, first in circu lation ai|id first in advertis ing in Alleghany county. A,NEWSPAPER DEDICATED,TO COVERING THE NEWS AND PROMOTING PROGRESS IN ALLEGHANY COUNTY -.ft SPARTA NEEDS NOW . . . an industrial plant, a mo dern hotel, a federal post office building and a civic % club. Let’s go after them! VOLUME 2, NO. 1 $1.00 a Year in Alleghany County SPARTA, N. C.„ FRIDAY MORNING, FEB. 14, 1941 $1.50 a Year Out of County PUBLISHED WEEKLY People you KNOW In Alleghany By Staff Writer DR. J. L. DOUGHTON Oldest doctor in Alleghany, one of the more prominent citizens re siding in this secticn of the state, Dr. J. L. Doughton has rendered medical aid to families in this and surrounding counties for nearly a half century. The great majority of medical doctcrs, when they have passed three score and ten years, retire to private life, content to spend the remainder of their days re miniscing about their years of service. But not Dr. Doughton! ■ He is still keenly interested in the welfare of his patients and is happy only when he is admin istering. tb their needs. Born on May 20, 1870 to the late Rev. Joseph B. Doughton and Mattie Gentry, he was brought up on a large farm along New river. He secured his first schooling at Toliver. More advanced education—correspond ing to the present-day high school—was obtained at Sparta under the late and distinguished professor, S. W. Brown. Worked In Jefferson ► At 16, when he had finished school here, he went to Jefferson and became the assistant of his uncle, Dr. Levi Gentry, who was willing to teach him all he could about medicine. In those days Dr. Gentry received little actual money in payment for his ser vices. Dr. Doughton still recalls the many cold days spent in driv ing sheep across the mountains of Ashe county. In 1888 he entered the Balti more College of Surgery—now combined with the University of Maryland—and graduated in the spring of 1893. One year he was forced to stay out of school and work, so he came back to Jeffer son and was employes! again1, by Dr. Gentry. His last ye^r in college he'did two years work in one, and following" graduation he came to Sparta, set up his prac tice and has been here since. In 1917, along with R. T. Fin ney and Dr. H. T. Smith, he was named to serve on the draft board of examiners and exemptions for the conscription of men to serve in the World War. For a number of. years he has been on the medi cal staff, and has been a director, of theJHugb Chatham Memorial hospftal at Elkin. * ' Married to the former Miss Blanche Click, of Mocksville, for many years a nurse in the States ville hospital, he is a brother of (Continued on Page Four) Dentist Plans To Open Office Here | Statesville Doctor Will Estab lish Full-Time Practice In Sparta Soon. Dr. N. B. Fox, located in States ville for the past year, announced yesterday he planned to begin a dental practice here at an early date in the office formerly occu pied by the late Dr. C. A. Reeves. While several other dentists have mentioned working here one or two days a week, it is under stood that Dr. Fox will establish a full-time office, probably in the room now occupied by the coun ty agent’s' office. ; .. Dr. Fox said he planned to be gin his practice here next Week, but that “it may be the last of the month before the office is ful ly equipped for work.’* Dr. M. G. Cox, of Independ . ence, is gtfll planning to open an I office here and practice only two. days a week, acording to reports. * . ' ■ \X' . Battleship Delivers Ambassador ANNAPOLIS) Md. , . . Air view of the new British battle ship, King George V, as she steamed up Chesapeake Bay to ward Annapolis with her cargo of Lord Halifax, new British Ambassador to the United States. President Roosevelt shat tered all precedent by boarding the ship before it reached port and welcoming Lord and Lady Halifax to the United States. Alleghany County Health Dept. Made Much Progress Last Year Alleghany Gets $63,480.90 From Social Security $34,902,030.74 Distributed In North Carolina Through December, 1940. MANY ARE AIDED Raleigh, Feb. 12. — Operation of four major divisions of the So cial Security act’s ten divisions has resulted in the distribution of $34,902,030.74 to individuals in North Carolina through Decem ber, 1940, it is shown in figures released by Charles G. Powell, Chairman of the N. C. Unemploy ment Compensation Commission. Alleghany county individuals have received $63,480.90 from these funds . .through, December, 1940, divided as follows: old age assistance, $34,909; unemployment compensation, $15,704.90; aid to dependent children, $11,268; aid to the blind, $1,599. These four major divisions, in cluding unemployment compensa tion, old age assistance, aid to de pendent children and aid to the blind, account for about 82 per cent of the amount distributed through ten North Carolina so cial security program divisions to the end of the year. The other six divisions are the five “services”, including maternal and child health, crippled children, child welfare, vocational rehabilitation and public health services, and old age and survivors insurance, which is destined through the years to become one of the more important of the five major div isions,:. ' ■' Distribution of funds in North Carolina through the four divi sions in three years for unem ployment compensation and 3% years for the other three have been as follows: unemployment compensation, $16,792,820.20; old age assistance, $12,168,506.71; aid to dependent children $4,795,909. 19, and aid to the blind, $1,144, 794.64. Broken down by sources this $34,902,030.74 was furnished, $16, 792,820.20 or 48.11 per cent, by North Carolina employers; $8, 558,164.43, or 24.52 per cent, by (Continued on Page Four) 1883 Complete Immunizations Given. Hundreds More Reached By Dept. During 1940 the Alleghany county health department rend ered immeasurable service to the citizens of the county by not im proving sanitary conditions, but by making 1883 immune from contagious diseases, preventing the spread of communicable dis eases, sponsoring an educational program in connection with the schools, and carrying out many other worthy activities which have made Alleghany county a healthier, happier place in which to live. The following report to Dr. King’s give a brief summary of the work done during the year: “Communicate disease control is one . of the most important activ ities of ^health department, and Alleghany Ceppty has been' for tunate in having'very few of these to report during the last year. There were 8 admissions to service- in this classification with sub-divisions as follows, — dip htheria one case, scarlet fever two cases, measles two cases, and whooping cough three cases. Act ually there were more of some of these diseases, but many times where doctors are not consulted the diseases go unrecorded. The total in any case is one that we may well congratulate the county on. There was a total of 1883 com pleted immunizations given dur I ing the twelve months of this re port, which gives us a percentage of immunizations of more than twenty-two for the entire popula tion of Alleghany County. Of course some of the individuals (Continued on Page Seven) SCOUTS TO GIVE PROGRAM TODAY In line with the celebration of Boy Scout week throughout the nation this week, the local troop is planning to present a pro gram in the elementary school auditorium this morning during the regular chapel period, Scout master T. J. Haigwood an nounced yesterday. After several addresses on the work of the scouts, the 11 mem bers of the troop will demon strate methods employed i n achieving advancemnets in the organization. Alleghany Motor Co, Will Hold “Open House”, Sat. Residents of the town and coun ty are extended a cordial invita tion hy the Alleghany Motor com pany, Ford agency owned and managed by D. C. Bledsoe, to at tend its formal opening tomor row night between 7 and 10 o’ clock. “Open house” has been declared by tiie management for the pur pose of taking visitors through the modern new structure, which is larger and better equipped even than the building that was destroyed by fire a year ago. Several brand new 1941 Fords will be on display in the show room. The showroom is lighted with new fluorescent lamps, giv ing a blue effect. Directly behind the new car department is one of the largest used car storage apdces in this section of the state Downstairs is a service and parts department fully equipped for motorists’ needs. As a grand prize to visitors to the automobile plant Mr. Bledsoe is giving away one new Goodyear tire. Women visiting the garage will be given carnations and men will receive cigars. Refreshments and soft drinks will be served during the course of the evening. Since it was gutted by fire on the night of February 2 of last year, Mr. Bledsoe’s building has been in the process of reconstruc tion. Now it is complete and the new structure, built of stone,' is even more beautiful and better furnished than the former plant Merchants, business men and the general public are joining the town and county at large in con gratulating Mr. Bledsoe on the progressive spirit he has shown in building back his building. Mr. Bledsoe ind his entire staff of pifht assistants .will greet the AAA Checks Are Arriving Daily In Office Here Farmers Being Notified Upon Arrival of Soil Conserva tion Payments. EXPECTING 1,350 Soil conservation checks for farmers who participated in the AAA program last year are ar riving steadily, according to an announcement from the county agent’s office, and the number of checks to be distributed is ex pected to greatly exceed the to tal number for 1940. With. 193 checks received thus far,. totalling $2,114^,56. the total number is expected. to be around 1,350. Paid out in checks here last year was a total of $18,576.61, in cluding all payments except grants of aid. Each producer will be notified when his check has arrived, R. E. Black declared yesterday. Ap proximately 870 applications for payments have been submitted to Raleigh and Washington to be approved. Doughton Is Still Regular Tar Heel Continues to Remain “Farmer Bob”. Has Not Sold Laur el Springs Farm. Congressman R. L. Doughton, this week vehemently denied re ports recently published in a number of papers, that he had sold his farm at Laurel Springs and had moved his residence to Washington. “I trust that I shall never be crazy enough nor ungrateful enough to the people of North Carolina and the District I rep resent to move my residence therefrom. Certainly no other place would be home to me," he wro^ friends here. Congressmarj^poughgpn pointed out that the rumors tfiat he hhd sold his farm probably grew out of the fact that he had turned over the management of it to his Older son, Horton, temporarily, owing to the fact that he was un able to give his personal attention to it without neglecting impor-1 tant public duties. He explained i that it now appeared that this I Congress would be in almost con tinuous session during the entire term of two years, as was the case in the last Congress. Congressman said that follow ing his usual preceedure, he had rented a house in Washington to live in during the present session of Congress, and had sold none of his property in N. C. The News is very happy to have this information from Mr. Doughton and rejoices in the fact that he is still “one of us” and has not sold his property in Ashe and Alleghany. This paper is glad to correct any wrong impression! left by a statement in a column | written by Ray Lowery and pub lished last week in the paper stating that Congressman Dough ton had sold his Laurel Springs estate. The item had been pre viously printed in several N. C. and Virginia papers. Horton Doughton, like his fa ther, is tremendously interested in pure bred cattle with which the D o u g ht o n farm at Laurel Springs is stocked. I Rites Held For Eunice Citizen Ollie Crouse Buried Monday Afternoon at Whitehead; Suffered Stroke. Final rites were held Monday afternoon at the home for Ollie Crouse, 46-year-old resident of Eunice, who died Sunday after noon, following a stroke of pa ralysis. Mr. Crouse had been ill more than a year. Services were conducted at the Landmark church at Whitehead by Elders Coy Walker, Wiley Combs and Charlie Wooten. Bu rial was in the church cemetery. A large group of friends and relatives attended the funeral. Mr. Crouse was a prominent far mer in be Ennice community. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Janie Crouse; four sons Letcher, Paul, George and Billy F. Crouse, of Ennice; two daughters, lline and Rosie Faye Crouse, of En nice; two brothers and two sis ters. Recruits Assigned New Duties FORT DIX, N. J. . . . The first job - this., recruit showman was assigned to at Fort Dix was sentry duty, and it vyppld appear that he froze stiff while at it. It’s cold work; and someone should have given him a muffler. County To Send Four More Men To Camp Next Thursday BUSINESS LEADER D. C. Bledsoe, known to his many friends as “Duke”, Sparta Ford dealer who will hold “open house” in his new building, Sat. urday. Plans Are Made To Secure New Defense Plants Counties Organize to Unite Efforts. Dr. Burgiss Rep resents Alleghany. ANDERSON SPEAKS Plans to sell Northwestern and Western North Carolina to the the erection of proposed defense industries were made this week in Hendersonville when sixty war department as ideal sites for seven representatives of 14 cities and towns in this area met there Monday to form a Wester* North Carolina Industrial committee for the purpose of 'co-ordinating the efforts of this section in obtain ing industries. Secretary Fred M. Allen, Jr., of the Hendersonville chamber of commerce was named temporary chairman of the group and a steering committee was named to perfect the organization on a county, congressional district and sectional basis. The members of the committee are R. T. Green of Black Moun (Continued on .Page Four) Third Quota of .Selectees To Meet pere and Leave for Fort Bragg by Bus. j Early next Thursday morning i Alleghany county will send its J third contingent of'hnen to camp j at Fort Bragg, making a total of i 10 registrants inducted for ser vice in the United States army through the operation of the se lective service military program in the county. -Selected men, each of whom is a volunteer, are as follows: Alva Kyle Cox, Edwards Crossroads; Otris Jerdon Mickle, Sparta; Ho ward.LeVris Wagoner, Sparta; and James Maynard Landreth, Piney Creek. I ' ' - •‘ \ 1; These men must report to the local, board on Thursday morn ing at 'O o’clock, when they will be givenytickets entitling them to 1 transportation by bus and meals en route .to.Fort''Bragg. Cox'md Mi<$f« it-was learned, were liv ing iirjMaryland at the time of registration, but Since they are natty of this county, the local draft area will receive credit for tti4ir 'frfhstment. '*• Replacements Because one or more of the men named above may not be inducted at Fort Bragg by the armed for cesi-tor’ ohe reason or another— thy following named men may be requited as replacements: Fred Crouse, Sparta; Parnell Benjamin Finney, Mouth of Wilson; Claude Gentry Brinegar and Robert' Wayne Pruitt, Laurel Springs. [Baptist Meetings To Be Held Today Last of the Alleghany Baptist fellowship meetings are slated to be held in SpaTta today and to night at the Presbyterian church. Following a devotional at 10 o’ clock by W. F. Doughton, J. C. Pipes will discuss “The Church and Its Missions.” Rev. V. W. Sears will conduct the Bible stu dy. During the afternoon session J. M. Cheek will give the devotional and missionary societies will be discussed by Mr$. Sears and Mrs. Pipes. Evening services will feature a sermon by Rev. Pipes and dis cussion of the daily vacation Bi ble school, BTU and WMS (jun ior) work. 1 Balkan Explosion Expected; British Hit Invasion Ports The Balkans became the center of attention yesterday in the Eu ropean war when it was reported that 1,000 German Air planes had passed over Rumania and landed in Bulgaria. England has given notice that supply sources as well as communication in Bulgaria would be bombed in the event of occupation by the nazi troops. Further action is expected there this week. Rumania hurriedly strengthened her defense against any surprise British^bombings. •In the meantime, yesterday the British air force in its biggest sus-. tained offensive since September, heaped destruction on the Nazi “invasion front” after combine^ naval and air bombardments had set ablaze the Belgian port of Os tend and Germany’s industrial city of Hanover. . For the sixth consecutive night Adolf Hitler’s channel invasion ports were ! being ripped by tre mendous explosions that rocked houses on the English shore. . The new all-out assaults on Hit ler’s massed invasion strength along the french, Dutch and Bel gian coast?, bringing into action the guns of Britain’s home fleet and swanks of bombing planes, were said ;to be nearly as savage as those of last September when the British claiip to have “shat tered” German preparation for an invasion. J “ British forces led by Sudanese native troops Wednesday were re ported tq be rapidly encircling the Eritrean railroad town of Keren after storming and seizing in hand-to-hand combat a 6,000 (Continued on Page Four) * ■ *> Pension Bill Is Adopted Tues. By Legislature Sales Tax, New Education and Highway Set-Ups Are Suggested. BROUGHTON WINS By Staff Correspondent Raleigh, Feb. 12. — Education, sales tax, and finances, all of which are closely allied, have oc cupied the spotlight in the gene ral assembly during the past few days. A bill providing retirement pen sions for school teachers and all other state employes was enacted Tuesday after sailing through both houses of the general assem bly without opposition. The final third reading vote on the measure was 47 to 0 in the senate in the afternoon. Moves to reorganize the state government, meanwhile, took a new turn when Senators Stacy of Robeson and Brooks of Durham sent forward a measure to pro vide a constitutional amendment which, if adopted in the next gen eral election, would vest control of the public school system in a single agency. The senate passed on second reading a bill to appropriate $300,000 for an agricultural build ing at N. C. State college, and ap proved a house measure to per mit investment of state sinking funds in securities guaranteed by the federal government. Meanwhile, the joint legislative roads committee discussed the ad ministration backed bill to create a new department of motor ve hicles by consolidation of a num ber of state agencies. Charles Ross, general counsel for the highway commission, said he drafted the measure at the re quest of Governor Broughton and that it followed lines suggested by the National Safety Council. VThe new department would be made up of the mq^or vehicle bu reau, highway: patrol^ highway Safety dhrWShvewto^eft bureau and drivers license officials, all now in the revenue department. Governor Broughton literally staged a comeback this week in regard to his proposed sales tax removal which the joint finance committee scuttled last week; for on Monday the committee adop ted a report which exempts all foods and food products sold by retail merchants for human con (Continued on Page Five) Floyd Edwards Buried Monday Aged Resident Dies Here Sun day Morning Following Short Illness. Funeral services were held Monday afternoon for Floyd Ed wards. 89 years old, of Sparta, who died Sunday morning at the home of his son-in-law. Pet Maines, following an illness of less than a week. Services were conducted by Rev. Kyle Taylor, of Independ ence, at tiie home of Mr. Maines. Burial was in the Toliver cem etery on the New river stock farms. One of the oldest men in the county, Mr. Edwards was well known throughout this section and could claim a host cf friends. Surviving him are his daugh ter, Mrs. Pet Maines; and four sons, Coy Edwards, of Independ ence; A1 Edwards, of Galax; Glenn Edwards, Wilmington, Del.; and Dave Edwards, of West Vir ginia.
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