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The Alleghany News
POLITICALLY INDEPENDENT
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
At Sparta, N. C.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1941
ED M. ANDERSON _Publisher
JOHN F. REEVES_Ass’t. Publisher
RAYMOND LOWERY..Editor
MRS. ED M. ANDERSON—„-Associate
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In County, $1.00-Outside County, $1.50
Entered as second-class matter February
23, 1940, at the post office at Sparta, North
Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
The News is glad to publish letters, not too
long, on matters of general interest. But
such communications must be accompanied
by the real name of the writer, even when
they are to be published under a nom de
plume.
"If the choice were left to me whether to
have a free press or free government, 1
would choose a free press.”—Thos. Jefferson.
Member of—North Carolina Press Ass’n.
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Polygraph
While the fr^sh peach crop in North Car
olina is at its peak, County Agent R. E.
Black is urging homemakers to continue to
take advantage of fresh peach values dur
ing the r^njAindfit-Of the season. Now is the
time to lay in a good supply for home can
ning, preserving and pickling. Merchants
are now offering feicceptional buys on quali
ty fresh peaches. With the season rapidly
drawing t^,;>a close, housewives should
make the. mek^t the present favorable
market.
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Proof of| thfi'vplue of the Alleghany
County Spor^mWh’s club was clearly dem
onstrated a fti^Miays ago when the State
Board of Conservation and Development
endorsed the resolutions passed by the lo
cal club to pr8te<A and to promote fishing
and hunting i^AIleghany. These resolu
tions, whic£ Ijfe’now laws in-so-far as their
application is concerned, are published
elsewhere in this issue.
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Congratulations to Congressman Dough
ton upon his; outstanding leadership and
ability in ^vpr^g out the nation’s gigan
tic defense, tfpc bill and getting it passed
by the house of representatives by the vote
of 369 to 30. Of course we are not looking
forward to paying more taxes, but the war
is responsible fpr this urgent necessity and
not Farmer Bofc. At a critical time like this,
it is indeed foMunate for the nation that
our own distinguished congressman is still
in Washington.- The ways and means com
mittee has never had a chairman who was
as fair to rich and poor, farmer and indus
try, as is Congressman Bob.
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Are We In The U. S.?
The new aluminum plant which is to be
erected by the Aluminum Company of
America in cooperation with the Office of
Production Management is to be located
at Badin, N. C., rather than at Andrews.
This information which has all of the ap
pearances of being official comes as a pain
ful surprise to the people of Western North
Carolina who had been earnestly hoping
that the plant would be built at Andrews.
Perhaps there are sound patriotic and
technical reasons why the plant should be
built at Badin rather than at Andrews.
But the hard fact remains that not a sin
gle defense enterprise has yet been locat
ed in Western North Carolina. Other sec
tions of the country are being stubbed with
war plants. Other sections of the nation
are revelling in the prosperity stimulated
by this activity. Actually the prosperity
of this region is being retarded by the de
fense program. Our labor is being carried
off to other and more fortunate sections.
Our boys are being called into the fight
ing services. If non-defense production is
restricted—as it probably will be—our eco
nomic situation will become serious for
our normal business activity will be re
duced without any offsetting advantage
from the quickening of defense production.
The action of the Office of Production
Management in choosing Badin as the more
likely site for the aluminum plant may
be justified hy very practical reasons. The
Citizen-Tin»|s does not venture to say. But
no one can imously contend that West
ern North Carolina is such an accursed reg
ion that it should not be permitted to share
effort and the de
f, there is some
war industry which can be located in West
ern North Carolina without injury to the
nation’s welfare and with some elemental
fairness to the American citizens who live
in this mountain region. — The Citizen
Times.
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The Silk Shortage
The United States’ economic war with
Japan is not only creating a grave situa
tion for the Japanese, but also it is hav
ing its effect in this country, as every wo
man is now beginning to
President Roosevelt’s order freezing Jap
anese assets in this country and thus im
periling silk imports has led silk hosiery
manufacturers to close their lines tempo
rarily. The hosiery people, who use from
80 to 85 per cent of the silk imported into
the United States, were forced last week
end to curtail production and in many in
stances, to close down their plants because
of the freezing for government purposes
of all raw silk now on hand in this nation.
Faced with the possibility of not being
able to buy silk when present supplies are
exhausted, women have been stampeding
stores this week.
There is now an estimated three months’
supply of silk in this country, but it is be
ing frozen to be used to make parachutes
and gun powder bags.
As the rayon, cotton and woolen indus
tries get most of their raw materials in
this country, there appears to be no short
age of these fabrics. The new Nylon pro
duct is also native to the United States and
will not be affected by the Japanese em
bargo.
We sympathize with the ladies over the
apparent shortage of silk hose, but it
might be good for them to have to wear
cotton stockings like their grandmothers
and great-grandmothers did. This will also
help business in the south where most of
the nation’s cotton is raised. The ones who
will be hurt worse by this order are the
hosiery manufacturers and employees.
The silk stocking shortage emphasizes
the fact that every one living in this para
dise of the globe is going to have to make
sacrifices before the second great world
war is over.
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We Mean Business
The embargo banning the export of avia
tion gasoline and oil to Japan comes none
too soon. If it is to be questioned at all, it
is on the score of its tardiness.
The other day the President conceded
that the United States had permitted the
shipment of gasoline and oil to Japan in
the hope that such consideration on our
part might appease Japan and prevent the
spread of the war in the Far East.
That policy has lost any usefulness which
it might have ever possessed. The most
that can be claimed for it is that it post
poned Japanese aggressions to the south.
Now Japan is again on the march and noth
ing short of force or of a show of force
will restrain her.
The American people have found scant
comfort in the fact that we were supply
ing much of the gasoline and oil that en
abled Japan to wage brutal war against
China. Professing warm sympathies for the
Chinese people, we were allowing some of
our resources to be used in crushing them.
Japan does not take kindly to the em
bargo. Her newspapers are fairly squeal
I ing in their rage. Commerce Minister Sa
Konji warns: me present international
situation is so tense that a single spark may
be sufficient cause for an explosion.”
The situation in the Far East is critical.
We may as well face up to that grim fact.
But it is critical solely because Japan is
apparently bent on expanding her territory
and gaining control of raw materials vital
to Britain and to the United States.
Appeasement did not work. It merely en
abled Japan to build up her gasoline stocks
and to entrench herself more securely ip
the Far East. She took advantage of our
placatory attitude to rivet her policies to
those of the Axis powers.
The upshot? It may be a shooting war
in which the American navy will be en
gaged. That is a prospect which we can not
ignore altogether. But there is no safety in
a cowering policy. Dangers can not be
overcome in a dangerous world by the sim
ple and cowardly Expedient of running
from them.
The American people, we believe, en
dorse the embargo. The critics may make
much noise, trying to supply in vehemence
what they lack in numbers. But these ob
jectors represent at best only a fragment
of public opinion.—The Asheville Citizen. j,
Nat’l Geographic
Magazine Gives
Section To N. C.
Vivid Picture of State is In
terestingly Presented.
Fine Advertising.
North Carolina’s amazing in
dustrial upsurge in a generation j
forms the background for an ar- [
tide, “Tarheelia on Parade,” ap-'
pearing in the August issue of the
National Geographic Magazine.
The author is Leonard C. Roy, j
staff writer for the magazine. j
The article covers 44 pages of |
the Geographic, including 45 il-1
lustrations, of which 21 are print
ed in natural color. In addition a
map of the state spreads across
two pages. The illustrations show
scenic views, college campuses,
industries, places of historic in
terest, and North Carolinians at
work and at play.
Will Be Distributed Widely
This article is one of a series
of American State and city stor
ies being published by the Nat
ional Geographic Magazine, offi
cial publication of the National
Geographic Society. Appearance
of the article in the Geographic
means that it will reach more
than a million home's of members
of the Society. This membership,
the largest of any educational and
scientific body in the world, is
represented in every communi
ty in the United States of 100 or
more inhabitants, and in many
foreign countries. Nearly 10,000
members of the Society live in
North Carolina.
President of the National Geo
graphic Society is Dr. Gilbert
Grosvenor; Dr. John Qliver La
Gorce is its vice-president. Not
ed trustees include former Chief
Justice Hughes, General Per
shing, Admiral Pratt, and Charles
F. Kettering.
Mr. Roy was particularly im
pressed with the industrial
wealth of North Carolina, and
spent many days inspecting the
large -'factories of the state. At
Greensboro, in the world’s larg
est mills producing denim, he
watched the machinery which
normally turns out 100,000 yards
a year, and half as many yards
each of flannel and cotton print
and piece-dyed fabrics.
He visited several of the 30 fur
niture factories at High Point.
“By 1.918,” , . he writes, “North
Carolina furniture was sold
throughout the United States.
North Carolina now leads all oth
er states in the production of
wooden household furniture.”
Kannapolis Textile Center
At Kannapolis the writer saw
the mills which daily convert
about 500 bales of cotton into tiny
baby bibs, towels, bath and beach
robes, sheets and pillow cases. He
also inspected mills turning out
500,000 dozen pairs of hosiery
each year and a giant paper mill
where daily one* thousand cords
of pine, poplar, hemlock, chest
nut, gum and cottonwood are
made into thirty kinds of paper,
including stock for one-cent post
al cards. This latter plant also
oreduces turpentine and tanning
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extracts.
Mr. Roy found that one chemi
:ay company at Greensboro prin
ted its advertising folders in four
teen languages, and had plants
normally operating in England,
Ireland, Mexico, Chile, Brazil,
Argentina, Spain, New Zealand,
Australia and South Africa.
The-article emphasizes the ex
cellence of the state’s highway
system. The writer, in his exten
sive tour, noted the vast acreage -
devoted to tobacco, but still was
surprised to learn that North
Carolina, with its 120,000 tobacco
farms employing half a million
people most of the year, was the
greatest tobacco growing state in ■
the union.
“Three tobacco companies ope
rating large plants in the State
each use more than a quarter of
a million dollars’ worth of reve
nue stamps every working day,”
he writes. “Do you wonder that
North Carolina is the fourth
ranking state in the payment of
taxes to Uncle Sam? I saw hun
dreds of machines each produc
ing more than 1,200 cigarettes a
minute. Other machines packed
them at the rate of 120 packs a
minute.”
As the author of an article in
the Geographic in recent years on
the Great Smoky Mountains Na
tional Park, the writer took ad
vantage of the opportunity again
to visit the Park, and he devotes
considerable space to the State’s
icenk attractions and health re
sorts.
SERVICES ARE ANNOUNCED
Elder Ed Davis yesterday an
lounced the following appoint
nents to begin this Sunday; Elk
Sreek church, August 10; Anti- 1
>ch, August 11; Union, August 12;
Little River, August 13; Zion,
August 14; Crab Creek, August
i; Cross Roads, B., August 16;
On the Home Front
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People You Know
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lowing a short period of employ
nent with the Yellow Poplar
lumber company in Doran, Va.,
le returned once more to Ashe
rounty and settled down on a
!arm.
Not long afterward he moved
:o West Jefferson and joined his
sorther-in-law. in the mercantile
business. After building a home
lear there, he sold it and built
mother one, nearer town, and
;wo years later sold it and moved
;o Maryland.
In 1925 he returned to Sparta,
jut six years later moved to
Pennsylvania. Then in 1933 he
:ame back to Sparta and firmly
resolved to “stay put.” Mr. Kil
>y said he realized finally that “a
rolling stone gathers no moss.”
In 1905 he had joined the Pri
nitive Baptist church, and in
L909 he was called to the minis
;ry and ordained in 1911. Since
;hat time he has traveled and
^reached in 15 states, from the
Atlantic to the Pacific coast. Fi
lancially, he .declares, he has not
seen prosperous; but he has sac
rificed much in the cause of his
teachings.
Marriage was on December 27,
1905 to the former Miss Maxie
iCoontz. Mr. and Mrs. Kilby, who
low live near Sparta, have four
children living and one dead.
Mr. Kilby once took an active
)art in all available sports. As
i baseball player there were few
n this section better. He was also
i swift runner, high jumper and
iwimmer. Even today he enjoys
'ishing for mountain trout.
Nowadays he "isn’t as active as
le was in his youth, but he con
inues to preach the Word of
!lod and fulfill all the other mul
ifold duties of a minister. He is (
veil known and well liked;
hroughout this and surrounding
:ounties.
VACCINATION AGAINST
DIPHTHERIA REQUIRED
With the opening of school? in
'Uleghany slated to take place
m Monday, Sept. 1st, Dr. Ro
sert King, county health officer,
:his week called parents’ atten
tion to the fact that the state law
requires that all children be vacci
lated for diphtheria before en
tering school. This law applies
particularly to children who are
Altering school for the first time.
Clinics are held at the health
iepartment every Tuesday and
jntil noon on Saturdays.
ATTEMPT IS MADE
TO CIRCLE KIEV
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m what was called a training
rruise.
The London Daily Mail carried
i Washington dispatch which said
here were reports in United
States official circles that Prime
Minister Churchill or perhaps
Lord Beaverbrook might fly to
this country for a discission of
‘closer Anglo-American collabo
rations.”
Jalax (evening), August 16;
”ross Roads, August 17; Rock
-reek, August 18; Pilgrims Rest,
August 19; Peach Bottom, Aug
ist 20; Saddle Creek, August 21;
Fox Creek, August 22; Piney
Sreek, August 23. j
Dairy Specialist Announces
Six Meetings For Next Week
J. P. Leagans Plans to Discuss
Winter Feeding of Cattle
At Meetings.
Dairy Specialist J. P. Leagans,
as an initial step toward assist
ing the dairy farmers of the coun
ty in their work, has called a
number of special meetings to
be held during the early! part of
the week.
Since it is impossible to meet
with each farmer, Mr. Leagans
has arranged meetings for six
communities and urges tHe farm
ers to attend the meeting nearest
them. .!
At the present time Mr. Lea
gans is interested in working with
dairymen on the problem of the
winter feeding of cattle. Color
slides are to be used at evening
meetings to illustrate the lectures.
The schedule of meetings (on
DST) is as follows:
August 11—New Hope, 2:30 p.
m.; Piney Creek school, 8:30 p.
m.
August 12—Blevins Crossroads,
2:30 p. m.; Glade Valley, 8:30 p.
m,
August 13—Laurel Springs, 2:30
p. m.; Sparta courthouse, 8:30 p.
m.
OLD FIDDLERS PLAN
TO HAVE CONVENTION
IN GALAX AUG 15-16
Sponsored by the Moose and J
Parent-Teachers association, the
eighth annual old fiddlers’ con-1
vention is scheduled to be held in '
Galax, Va., on August 15-16, be- j
ginning at 7:30 (DST) each even
ing.
More than $132 is being offered
in cash prizes.Contestants must be
registered in person or by letter
by next Wednesday evening. Folk
songs must be sung without mu
sic. Only those contestants who
perform both Friday and Satur
day everiings will be eligible for
Topia News
By MRS. D. M. PUGH
Staff Correspondent
Miss Sara Blevins, of Berwyn,
Md., is visiting her mother, Mrs.
Belle Blevins. Mr. and Mrs. Alvis
Blevins, and smpll daughter, Ju
dith ,Ann, of Pa., are also spend
ing a few days with relatives
here. .■?
Mr. and Mrs. Denny Angel and
daughter, Thelma, of Kannapolis,
spent the week end with their fa
therland grandfather, Mr. W. R.
Pugh. V
Mr. and Mrs. F. G. Weaver were
dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. O.
E. Moxley, Sunday.
Mr. Ruffin Taylor, of Scott
ville, visited his aunt, Mrs. J. A.
Moxley, who is ill, Monday.
Miss Mary Fields, of , West Jef
ferson, spent the week end with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. W.
Fields. She was accompanied to
West Jefferson by her sisters,
Misses Beulah and Grace Fields.
Mrs. D. M. Pugh arid daugh
ter, Velma, were dinner guests of
Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Smith, of Pin
ey Creek, Sunday.
Mr. H. C. Smith, of Piney
Creek, visited Mr. and Mrs. J. A.
Moxley, Sunday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Carey Blevins vis
ited Mrs. Belle Blevins Friday
evening.
Miss Jacqueline Faircloth visit
ed Mis$ Farye Lee Black, Friday.
prizes.
Bands must register under band
name. Individual members may
also enter one other string instru
ment contest, as well as folk
singing and clog dancing. No in
dividual shall enter more than one
band, and neither shall he enter
more than one instrument contest.
Mrs. R. C. Bowie, 304 N. Main
St., Galax, is in charge of regis
tration.
Defense
Bond
QUIZ
Q. In what denominations are Defense Savings Stamps avail
able?
A. Ten cents, 25 cents, 50 cents, $1 and $5. An album is given
free with first stamp purchase to mount stands of 25
cents up.
Q. In what denominations are Defense Savings Bonds avail
able?
A. You can buy a Series E Bond for $18.75, $37.50, $75, $375,
or $750. The prices of Series F Bonds range from $74 to
$7,400; Series G Bonds from $100 to $10,000.
NOTE—To buy Defense Bonds and Stamps, go to the nearest
post office, bank, or savings and loan association; or
write to the Treasurer of the United States, Wash
ington, D. C., for a mail order form.