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r ;« mi"*** i l IjUpfRI ii ill * THE ALLEGHANY NEWS is first in news, first in lo cal pictures, first in circu lation and first in advertis ing in Alleghany county. A NEWSPAPER DEDICATED TO COVERING THE NEWS AND PROMOTING PROGRESS IN ALLEGHANY COUNTY The Alleghany News SPARTA NEEDS NOW an industrial plant, a mo dem hotel, a federal post office building and a civic club. Let’s go after them! VOLUME 2, NO. 28 $1.00 a Year in Alleghany County SPARTA, N. C., FRIDAY MORNING, AUG. 15, 1941 $1.50 a Year Out of County PUBLISHED WEEKLY Farm Demonstration Tours To Begin Next Monday People YOU KNOW In Alleghany Rv Staff Writer DAVID HIGGINS For a young man only 30 years old, David Higgins might be called extraordinary. Practically overnight, just before Christmas last winter, he happened to find himself one of the town’s leading business men. Since then the word “successful” has appropri ately been added. Mr. Higgins is the proprietor of the Parkway cafe and the Hig gins Barber shop, two pool rcoms, a small farm and a spare-time jewelry shop. Supervising the operation of each of the above keeps him on the go almost con stantly; but even so, he still man ages to find time for fishing, hunting and other forms of re creation. Beginning his life in Carroll county, Va., August 31, 1911, son ^of S. C. Higgins, he first attended school at Crooked Creek in his native community. While still in high school he went to work fcr the National Food company in Winchester, Va. (Continued on Page Four; Tree Seedlings Made Available Alleghany Farmers Urged by County Agent to Make Applications Now. Tree seedlings which are avail able at the state forest nurseries near Raleigh and in Henderson county for forest planting in North Carolina for the fall of 1941 and the spring of 1942 may be obtained by Alleghany county j, farmers provided they make * their applications now, County Agent R. E. Black said yesterday. Species of trees available are as follows: loblolly pine, long ‘leaf pine, shortleaf pine, slash pine, black locust, yellow pop lar, red cedar, white pine and white pine transplants. Only the black locust, yellow poplar, white pine and white pine transplants are recommend ed for planting in Alleghany soil. No orders are filled for less than 500 of any one species. Prices for seedlings have been mailed to most farmers; others may secure them from the coun ty agent. Farmers are urged to order early to be sure of a supply. The shipping season begins about November 25, at Clayton for the southern pines and from Novem ! ber 1—November 30, and March ' 1—April 15 from Henderson coun ty nursery. The trees will be de livered as near as possible on the date suggested. Mrs. Todd Buried At Mountain View Death came Monday to Mrs. Tomsy Elizabeth Todd, 80, of Ga lax, formerly of Alleghany coun ty, and funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at Mountain / View church. Rev. Price Vass conducted the services, and burial was in the church cemetery. Mrs. Todd had been in ill health for some time. Only survivors are a daugh ter, Mrs. Lora King, at whose home she was living at the time i of her death, and a son, Dewey ’ Todd, of Galax Horse Show To Be Held At Gap Next Mon. Morn. Golf, Picnics, Dances Are In Spotlinght at Resort Over Week End. OTHER ACTIVITIES Golf, horse show plans, and the meeting of the district bar asso ciation occupied Roaring Gap over the week end and bright weather was the order of the day. Saturday afternoon a blind bo gy golf tournament was held for everyone who wanted to play. Dr. S. D. Hart was the winner with Dick Gentry and R. S. Dixon as runner-ups. A picnic was held at the lake on Wednesday. Thursday was bin go as usual with the mamas and papas horning in on the kids just as soon as possible. Last Friday at noon a beach luncheon was held for the mountain crowd. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Sims, the Ar thur Murray dance couple, per formed at the Saturday night dance. Harold Mickey and his or chestra did the music. Two very newcomers, Maureen and Ruth Mickey, Harold Mick ey’s twin daughters, were hon ored at a bridge party Monday af ternoon. Camp Circus Silver Pines camp seems to be supplying quite a bit of the mountain activities for the week. They held a circus Monday after noon with most of the kids on the mountain attending. Tonight the campers are entertaining at a barn dance which most of the small fry will probably take in. Plans are rapidly rounding into shape for the gala Roaring Gap show to be held next Monday. Sil-1 ver Pines and the mountain kids will combine for this activity. The show will be held at 10 o’clock in the morning and will be cli maxed with a horse show lunch eon at the beach club. All the kids are planning to ride, from those who still ring-bound to the youngsters who can still show the old-timers a thing or two about horsemanship. There will be clas ses for adults too. Dumpy Hagler, the golf pro, is back after a sojourn at Duke hos pital with a bum shoulder. His arm is still in a sling but outside of not whacking golf balls he seems to be doing everything else. Alleghany Girls Make Mag, Paper Photographic likenesses of two Alleghany girls last week graced the pages of a national periodical and a state newspaper. Look magazine, in an article on Leon Henderson, entitled “FDR’s Tough Guy,” carried a photo graph of Miss Lou Reid Lan dreth taking dictation from her boss man, who is head of the se curities and exchange commis sion and price-fixer for the de fense program. Miss Landreth is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Landreth, of Sparta. The Charlotte Observer, in its Sunday edition, ran pictures of several girls enjoying sun baths on roof tops. One of these young ladies was Miss Maxie Jones, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Jones, Furches, w;ho is employed in Charlotte. ALUMNI SPEAKER Dean Dudley D. Carroll, ol the University of North Carolina School of Commerce, will be prin cipal speaker at a banquet in Sparta, Friday, August 22, of alumni from Alleghany, Ashe, Avery and Watauga counties. Na tive of Stokes county, Dean Car roll has headed the Commerce School at Chapel Hill since its organization in 1919. He is widely known as an interesting speaker. Lawyers Hold Annual Meeting At Roaring Gap W. B. Austin Elected Presi dent. Gov. R. A. Doughton Chief Speaker. About 25 members of the 11th Judicial district bar association gathered at the annual summer meeting of the association last Saturday at Roaring Gap. Members met at 11 o’clock at the home of L. W. Ferrell. At ’l o’clock, the assemblage moved to the beach for an informal buffet luncheon. After luncheon, the no speech rule was abandoned at the re quest of Presiding Officer Robert Gambill, who stated that no meet ing of the association would be complete without a talk by for mer Lieutenant Governor R. A. Doughton. Gov. Doughton delivered a brief address stating his happiness at being present for another meeting of the association and urged the election of officers for the forth coming year, so that the organi zation might continue its exist ence. Accordingly, William A. Aus tin, of Ashe county, who was not present, was elected president. Other officers elected wire Ran som S. Averitt, vice-president for Forsyth county; Thomas Bowie, Jr., vice-president for Ashe coun ty; and R. A. Doughton, vice president for Alleghany county. Dallas DeLennan, of Forsyth county; Ira T. Johnston, of Ashe county and Floyd Crouse, of Al leghany coqnty were named ex ecutive committeemen. Calvin Graves was elected to the position of secretary-tteas urer, and Judge B. H. Hastings to the position of counselor. After the meeting there was a golf tournament. BIRTH IS ANNOUNCED Mr. and Mrs. Kyle Ward an nounce the arrival of a baby daughter, bom August 7 at the University hospital in Baltimore, Md. Germans Claim To Have Red Army Trapped; Japan Active This week the war assumed a more serious outlook for demo cracies of the world as the Ger man troops claim to have trapped the Russian forces in the Odessa area. While Japan moves south ward on the eve of invading Thai land and France completely lined up with the Axis regime, Con gress took cognizance of this and voted an extensiop of 18 months of armed service. Marshal Petain committed the Vichy French government to full collaboration with Germany and put himself morally on the Nazis’ side against the Russians in per haps the most profound develop ment of his policy since the French surrender. Petain turned : , v.:. \ over control of the whole Vichy military establishment to the bit terly anti-British vice-admiral Jean Oarlan. On the Russian fighting front it seemed clear last Tuesday that the whole of the southern Sov iet wing was in imminent peril. Moreover, in the Baltic theater a thousand miles to the north, twin drives intended to engulf Lenin grad were reactivated, the one operating above the city some 73 miles in the vicinity of Kakisal mi and the other 120 miles be low in the region of Soltsi. The Red armies were fighting with a desperation that had be come habitual and were unques (Continued on Page Four) Selectees Are To Leave Early Today For Camp County Receives Quota of 11 Men for Induction On September 16. BOARD MEETS TODAY Scheduled to leave here early this morning for induction into the army at Fort Bragg are 10 se lectees who were announced last week by the county draft board. The 10 men required to fill the current quota are as follows: Geo. Ray Long, Citron; Levi E. Broy hill, Laurel Springs; Romie Lee Spurlin, Ennice; Paul Allen Ver non, of Galax; Levi James Cau dill, of Whitehead; Holton Benja min Taylor, of Laurel Springs; Robert Linnie Fortner, of Ennice; Paul Vergil Evans, of Edwards Crossroads; Eddie Blan Smith, of Piney Creek; and Garnett Glenn Wagoner, of Sparta. Because one or more of the above men may not be inducted into the army by camp officials, a number of replacements were named but net revealed by the board. At a meeting of the draft board this morning the young men who registered for selective service on July 1, and who have already re ceived their questionnaires, will be classified. Alleghany this week received a quota of 11 men for induction at Fort Bragg on September 16. Draft officials have been un able to locate Fred Stanley Dix on, who gave his address at the first registration as Stratford. Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Dixon is asked to notify the lo cal board immediately. State Employment Office Several Openings C. S. Pearson to Interview Ap plicants Here Each Wed. From 10 to 3. Openings for local, intra-state and inter-state jobs were an nounced yesterday by C. S. Pear son, district representative of the state employment service, who plans to interview applicants in the. courthouse here each Wed nesday between 10 and 3 o’clock. Following are the local open ings: three doffers, three winders, three spinners, one card hand, one section hand, sales clerks and do mestic service workers. Intra-state openings are as fol loiws: one presser machine sup erintendent, construction workers, six fiscal analysts, one heating engineer, five technical engineers, one window trimmer, one phar macist, one cook, one chef, one train dispatcher, one station ag ent, one combination maintenance engineer and maintenance mech anic, one hair dresser, eight loop ers and 14 machinists. On inter-state jobs there are the | following openings: 15 glaziers (steel sash)^ 35 millwright, one anesthetist and 25 structural steel workers. The following Panama Canal < jobs are available: two ship car penters, eight sheet metal work ers, 169 machinists, 11 boilermak ers and nine blacksmiths. Applications, together with ad ditional information about the above openings, may be secured from Mr. Pearson in the court house here on Wednesday. Now Eight Polio Cases In County During the last week two more decided cases of infantile paraly sis have developed in Alleghany county, bringing the total up to' eight cases for the season, ac cording to Dr. Robert R. King, district health officer. Both of the cases reported yes terday are in the Cherry Lane community. First cases, that of a Rash child} is thought to have developed from a case in an ad joining house. The other was a four-year-old child belonging to Glenn Woodruff. Come On In - - The Water’s Fine! U. S. soldiers of the First Medical Unit at Ft. Devens, Mass., get a lesson in swimming with full army pack. They are shown here jumping off a dock as part of their new trail ing to avoid drownings in landing maneuvers. It’s no cinch carrying 50 lbs. of pack, uniform, helmet and army brogans through the water. Outlook For Further REA Extension Is Not Bright; Metal Scarce ARMY POST Mrs. W. P. Hobby, of the Hous ton (Texas) Post, has been named women’s editor of the army’s bu reau of public relations. She will interpret activities of the army to wives, sweethearts and moth ers, along: lines they are most in terested in. Plans For UNC Alumni Meeting Are Shaping Up Dean D. D. Carroll to Be Fea tured Speaker at Banquet On August 22. Plans, are now well underway to hold the annual four-county meeting of University of North Carolina alumni here on next Fri day evening in the community building, according to Dr. T. R. Burgiss, who yesterday announced a tentative program. Dean D. D. Carroll, head of the University commerce school, has (Continued on Page Four) Proposed Purchase of Local Power Company by REA May Be Affected. COPPER SHORTAGE The cutlook for expansion of rural electrification now is not bright, according to information released this week by Gwyn Price, state REA director. The federal government has greatly restricted the use of cop per, steel, zinc and aluminum, all of which are used in the construc tion of power lines and the short age of the essential materials will naturally reduce the REA expan sion program. This condition may also have a definite effect upon the proposed sale of the Northwest Carolina Utilities to the Blue Ridge Elec tric Membership corporation. The sale was first scheduled to be completed the latter part of July, but as yet no announce ments have been made concerning it. Despite the bleak outlook for (Continued on Page Four) Ira Halsey Dies At Piney Creek Final rites were held Wednes day for Ira Halsey, 90, of Piney Creek, who died last Monday at the home of his son, Jack Hal sey, after a serious illness of only a week. Services were held at the Po tato Creek church and burial was in the church cemetery. Rev. L. F. Strader and Elder Shade Cau dill conducted the services. Well known throughout this section, Mr. Halsey was among the oldest living resident of Alle ghany county. He is survived by a eon, Jack Halsey, and two daughters, all of Piney Creek. Miss Tumipseed Wins Medal For High Speed Typing Title Daughter of Mrs. R. L. Turnip seed, of Buhl, Idaho, the former Miss Bessie Williams, of Peden, Miss Essie Tumipseed has re ceived the gold medal award for winning the high speed accuracy typing record in a recent state wide typewriting contest spon sored by the schools of higher learning in the state of Califor nia. Miss Turnipseed entered the competition in the accuracy di vision with 100 other typists from several states, representing var ious schools in California and wrote .76 words a minute perfect for 15 minutes. In- a 10-minute speed test she typed «4 words a minute perfect and for the rec ords received the gold medal award from the state. According to the Idaho Evening Times, Twin Falls, Idaho, Miss Tumipseed “presides at the type writer as though it were a pipe organ, and the click of the keys is music to her ears.” The tests were given April 27 in Los Angeles and the winners were notified June 15 and re ceived their awards shortly after the first of July. Essie was born on the farm of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Turnipseed five miles south and two miles east of Buhl. She attended the (Continued on Page Four) Results Of Soil Program Will Be Studied By Group County Agent R. E. Black An nounces Schedule of Com munity Visits. FIVE DAYS IN ALL Farm demonstration tours, of interest to all demonstration far mers in Alleghany county, are scheduled to get underway at 7:30 (EST) next Monday morning and continue through Saturday after noon, County Agent R. E. Black announced yesterday. “We have been using phosphate on demonstration farms since 1936,” Mr. Black said. “Most of our farmers have obtained excel lent results. I feel that there has been marked improvement on our farms in many ways. “If the TVA can afford to con tinue giving us phosphate, I feel that we can afford to spend a lit tle time studying the results ob tained. I would like for each far mer to spend at least one day on these tours. He may choose the day.” More Meetings Later Being pressed for time the county agent stated that he was unable to schedule a meeting for all the demonstration farms, but that “I plan now to complete this sometime in September, for I want to hold a meeting on every demonstration farm in the coun ty.” Following is a schedule of com munity tours: Monday, August 18 — M. E. Reeves, 7:30 to 9 o’clock; Ever ett Hendrix, 9:10 to 10:30; Van Miller, 10:30 to 12; J. H. Dough ton, 1 to 2; W. W. Warden, 2:10 to 3:50; Charlie Roberts, 4 to 5; T. S. Moxley, 5:10 to 6:30. Wednesday, August 20—L. K. Halsey, 8 o’clock t.Q 9:15: J. A. Higgins, 9:30 to 11; Guy T. Per ry, 11:15 to 12:15; C. L. Hash, 1 to 2:30: Fred Osborne. 2:45 to 4; V. B. Phipps, 4:15 to 5:30; W. C. Brown, 5:45 to 6:45. Thursday. August 21—S. O. Gambill, 7:30 to 8:30 o’clock; Ray Hamptcn, 8:45 to 9:45; L. C. Hampton, 10 to 11; J. R. Gam (Continued on Page Four) Privies In Town Being Inspected Sanitarian - Webster Suggests “Unsightly Buildings” be Torn Down. Existing privies in the town of Sparta that are not in use are to be inspected within the next few days, and we are suggesting that they all be tom down, H. S. Web ster, district sanitarian, said yes terday. “Since these buildings are un sightly and unnecessary, their owners should make every effort to see that they are destroyed," the sanitarian declared. Many of those privies that are in use have been posted during the last week, and further inspec-' tion is expected to be made dur ing the coming week. Mr. Webster said further that “it is really against the law to use privies in a town where sewer age facilities are available, but if the town authorities wish to continue using them, we of the health department are willing to cooperate for the time being.” JG£ G//H
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