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THE ALLEGHANY NEWS is first in news, first in lo cal pictures, first in circu lation and first in advertis ing in Alleghany county. Alleghany News A NEWSPAPER DEDICATED TO COVERING THE NEWS AND PROMOTING PROGRESS IN ALLEGHANY COUNTY VOLUME 2, NO. 30 $1.00 a Year in Alleghany County SPARTA, N. C., FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 29, 1941 $1.50 a Year Out of County PUBLISHED WEEKLY More Openings Are Announced By Office Here Pearson Lists Jobs Which Are Available Through Em ployment Service INTERVIEWS ON WEDS. More openings for local, intra state and inter-state jobs were an j nounced yesterday by C. S. Pear sen, district representative of the state employment service, who in terviews applicants in the court house here each Wednesday be tween 10 and 3 o’clock. Following are the local open ings: three doffers, three winders, three spinners, one card hand, 15 sales clerks, 15 domestic servants. On intra-state jobs there are the following openings: seven spinners, eight loopers, 10 elect rical refrigerator installers, one vocational teacher, four plumbers, one refrigeration mechanic, one hatter, one salesman, six metal workers, one draftsman, two dariy hands, one veneer silcing machine operator. Inter-state openings are as fol lows: 500 civil, electrical and in dustrial engineers; 20 building ar chitects; 50 instrument men; 35 electrical engineer or draftsmen; 50 rodmen; 100 shopfitters; two jig boring machine operators; one pharmacist; 100 coal loaders; 75 coal miners; one marine drafts man, two tree surgeons. The following Panama Canal jobs are available: tjvo ship car penters, eight sheet metal work ers, 169 machinists, 11. boilermak ers, nine blacksmiths. Applications, together with ad ditional information about the above jobs, may be secured from Mr. Pearson in the courthouse here on Wednesday. 674 Mattresses Have Been Made Notices Are Being Sent Out Each Week to Thpse on * Waiting List. With 674 mattresses having been made to date, the county agent’s office is sending out no tices each week to persons on the waiting list, whose applications have recently been approved by the AAA. Prospective mattress - makers are advised to be in Sparta by 8 o’clock on the morning designated and to bring at least three people with them. “Each person is expected to bring his or her own scissors, thimble and sewing needles large enough to carry No. 8 thread,” Mr. Black said. “They should al so come prepared to carry the mattress home with them in the afternoon.” Several hundred more mattres ses are scheduled to be made on the current project here, which is under the supervision of Miss Bertrke Absher. Miss Bates Plans Canning Lessons Miss Mary M. Bates, assistant home management supervisor with the Farm Security adminis tration, plans to give a canning demonstration in the home eco nomics department of the Piney Creek high school on Fri., Sept ember 5, at 1 o’clock (EST), it was announced yesterday. Any homemakers in the com munity who wish to attend the meeting will be welcome, Miss Bates said. Students in the high school are especially urged to at tend. FIRMS AND OFFICES TO BE CLOSED MON. Looking forward to nex Monday as the last holiday o the fading summer seasoi Sparta merchants, togethe r with a large number of count r office staffs, have announce* I that their establishments wil I be closed on September 1 li i observance of Labor Day The boards of commissioner ; and * education plan to hole their regular first-Monday on the Tuesday fol •abor Day, it is under stood. Filling Australian Planes Over Singapore Flying American-built Lockheeds and Australian-built Wirraways, a squadron of the Australian air force is shown winging its way over Singapore. The great British base at this crossroads of the world has been greatly reinforced since Japan began making threatening gestures. Con. R. L. Doughton Tells Press Nation Is Facing Critical Time Urges Care Be Shown In Use Of Electricity Inspector Woodruff Points Out Several Accidents That Have Happened. Warning against defective elec trical installations and materials, Herbert Woodruff, of Cherry Lane, electrical inspector for Al leghany county, yesterday point ed out several electrical acci dents which have happened al ready this year. Joseph Keith, of Durham, was attempting to connect a 20-foot length of half-inch water pipe to a vertical stub, which projected above the ground a few inches. In order for him to make the con nection, it was necessary for him to get the pipe in an upright po sition to make the threads. In do ing so the upper end of the pipe contacted a pole-line conductor of 6,900 volts, and Keith was elec trocuted. Charles Martin was killed while using an electric drill on his houseboat in the Alleghany river near Pittsburg. Rescue crews worked more than two hours in | an effort to revive Martin after his wife returned home and dis covered him unconscious with the • drill still running. It was be lieved that a short circuit de veloped in the drill while Martin was standing in water. “These are but a few of the electrical accidents this year which have been due primarily to carelessness,” Mr. Woodruff said. “If people would only show more care in the handling of elec trical appliances, these accidents could be annihilated.” Mr. and Mrs. Bert L. Edwards and sons, of Jacksonville, N. C., 11 spent the week end at Whitehead. | Spoke to Midwestern Press Ass’n. at Shatley Springs Saturday Evening. GOOD ATTENDANCE “We are in the midst of the most serious condition that has ever confronted our country, and with the press lies a great res ponsibility to arouse and awaken the nation to the seriousness of the times”, Congressman R. L. Doughton told the members of the Midwestern press association and special guests, Saturday evening, at the August meeting of the group held at Shatley Springs. “We will be called upon to make sacrifices for the salvation of our country which is now fac ing one of the most serious and solemn hours in this history,” he declared, and said that national unity was needed to face the pre sent crisis. In discussing the press and its importance to education and de mocracy, he pointed out that this was the only group or profession included in the constitution. In speaking of the keystone of de mocracy, freedom of speech, re ligion, and the press he explained that President Roosevelt had add ed another “freedom of fear from dictators.” “Freedom of the press has nev er been endangered in this coun try because of the worthy service it has rendered every worthwhile cause and because there is no pro fession or group that has kept their calling more unsullied", he declared. He said that the press is unusual because it as a pri vately owned public utility which bears a great responsibility of Holding public opinion and bring ing about response to public mat ters. He pointed out that Presi dent Roosevelt and all other pub lic officials were not only influ enced by the press but'were in (Continued on Page 8) Reds Fight Hard Against Nazis: Disorder In France 7 While Germany and Russia are carrying on a terrific battle from the Baltic to the Black Sea, the situation in Iran looked more fav orable for a peaceful settlement for Russia and England and Jap and appears les5 inclined to make an issue of the delivery of Ameri can aviation gasoline and other war supplies to Russia by way of Vladivostok. In tremendous air battles be fore Leningrad the Russians re ported 101 Nazi planes destroyed in the sky and on airdromes in two days this week. Below the almost continuous fighting for mastery of the air above the Soviet Union’s second city, Russian ipilitary dispatches said, German panzers, motorcy clists and infantry charging to ward the Baltic port were being mowed down in windows by So viet machine-gunners in forest canopied redoubts. In air clashes on Tuesday alone the Soviet Information bureau communique listed 93 German planes destroyed along the entire front and 63 the day before. It gave the Red air force losses for Monday as only 18. The fact that the greater per centage of the luftwaffe craft were downed in the Leningrad area indicated that the Germans now have launched an all-out aer ial offensive to try to soften up the city for Germans driving up from the south and southwest. The Germans declared yester day that they had at last stormed and captured Dnieperopetrovsk, described by them as the last Russian position west of the Dnie per river, and claimed moreover that they had made another men acing breach-in the Red defenses (Continued on Page' Four) 11 Registrants Sl&ted To Leave Sparta Sept. 16 Board Classifies Great Majori ty of 21-Year-Olds At Meeting Here. LIST IS TENTATIVE Eleven selective service regis trants were named early this week to answer the draft call on September *16, and the great ma jority of the 21-year-olds who registered on July 1 were classi fied by the board. While it is understood that sev eral of the men named have not yet undergone their physical ex aminations. the following are ex pected to fill the current quota: Daily William Halsey, of Piney Creek; Robert Linnie Fortner, of Ennice; Robert Lee Johnson, of Stratford; Frank Claude Atwood, of Furches; Stafford Dean Miller, Elmer Amos Hendrix, Arthur Calvin Woodruff and James Foch Watson, of Laurel Springs; Ben jamin Franklin Rector, Claude William Andrews and Dillon Con nard Sidden, of Sparta. Six of the above men are 21 year-olds and registered for training July 1. The board is not expected to meet again before September 16. Squirrel Season Opens Next Mon. Squirrel hunting season in Al leghany will open next Monday morning and remain open until November 15, Dick Gentry, coun ty game warden, announced yes terday. Hunting licenses are now on sale at the game warden’s court house office and at the Farmers’ Hardware and Implement coSW pany. Same as last yeat, the cost of a county license is $1.10; state, $2.10; and statewide hunting and fishing license, $3.10. The season for trout fishing closes September 1, while the bass season remains open urif,jl March. The quail and grouse season will open on Thanksgiving day. Report Two More ' Cases Of Polio Although the spread of polio in the county generally is experienc ing a downward trend, two more cases were reported to the health i department this week, one of which had already passed the 21 day quarantine period. Ruby Richardson, 2-year-old girl of the Glade Valley commu nity, is thought to have had the disease for three weeks before learning its identity. Thomas Nance, of Cherry Lane, is the oth er child reported to be afflicted. Infantile paralysis cases in the county this summer now total 14, according to Dr. Robert R. King, district health officer. But only four of the cases are still under Stores Sell Many Cans This Summer Homemakers in the county ap parently are doing more canning this season than in a number of years, if the sale of cans is any criterion for judgment. According to Smithey’s and Cash and Carry store, nearly twice as many cans have been sold this summer than were sold during the summer of 1940. Canning is said to be a vital factor in the home defense pro gram, and it has been urged by the agricultural workers coun cil of which R. E. Black is presi dent. Photogs. Meet At Bluff Park Members of the northwestern district of the North Carolina Photographers association enjoyed a picnic Sunday evening at Bluff Park with 35 present. Mrs. Valeria Smith, of Salis bury, was elected chairman to succeed Ben Stimpson, of States ville, who resigned. Johnnie Fris by, of Elizabeth City, president of Jhe state organization, was present at the meeting. A huge picnic dinner was spread. Group pictures in colors were made by Paul Harvel Jr., of North Wilkesboro. • ‘ . " T Huge Fire on Brooklyn Waterfront Brooklyn’s waterfront experienced one of the worst fires in its history, when explosions and flames recently swept over it. The Cuban liner Panuco, at the pier, is shown after it was towed into mid-bay in a near-sinking condition. Fire boats are playing streams of water on it. Democracy Is Now Facing A ‘Testing Time”, Dean D. D. Carroll Tells UNC Alumni JUST LIKE THIS Helen Crlenkovich of San Fran cisco is caught in this spectacular pose, executing the back jack knife dive during the National Women's A. A. C. swimming and diving championships held at High Point, N. C. Vernon, Murphy Are Bound Overj Following a hearing here Tues- ^ day before Justice B. F. Wago ner, Paul Vernon and Clyde Mur phy, of Edmonds, charged with! having been implicated in the jail delivery here on the night of July 6, were bound over to superior court. Murphy, who was arrested and jailed on July 18, has been placed under a $1,000 bond. Both men are still in jail. Vernon would, have answered a selective ser vice call on September 16. Cases against John Walker Ins keep and Dick Doughton, who were involved in an automobile accident on the night of August 12, were also bound over to court. Their cases were heard before j Justice S. W. Brown. Large Crowd Attended An nual Four-Cdunty Meet Held in Sparta Fri. Greater University of North Carolina alumni from three coun ties assembled in the communi ty building in Sparta last Friday night for their annual banquet meeting, heard an address by Dean D. D. Carroll of the Univer sity’s commerce school, and elec ted officers for the coming year. Chosen as new officers follow ing the banquet, prepared and served by the Woman’s Mission ary Society of the Sparta Baptist church, were Ed 1.5. Anderson, publisher of The Alleghany News and The Skyland Post, presi dent; Robert M. Gambill, Sparta, secretary; and the following vice presidents: R. F. Crouse and Miss Pearl Fields, representing Alle ghany county; A. B. Hurt and C. J. Rich, Ashe county; and Dr. J. Harold Wolf and Mrs. Clyde Col lins, Watauga county. Seventy-three people attended the banquet-meeting, said to have been the most successful one ever held by the northwestem.#lumni association. Avery county Was not represented. “Testing Time” In speaking on the future of democracy, Dean Carroll, des cribed the present as a “testing time” for this nation’s form of government. The question now facing us is can democracy stand the test, he stated, a democracy that is seemingly slow in action, and takes time to get the judg ments of 130,000,000 people. “The University of North Caro lina,” he said, “has plunged he roically into the front-line trench es of defense. In the face of this, the greatest of all emergencies, we are trying to do our part.” “Right now,” he told his alum ni audience, “we are all praying Russia, with a system we hate, can hold on until winter, until the Allies have had time to mus ter their resources against the (Continued on Page Four) Third And Last Cooperative Lamb Shipment Set For Today Last coperative shipment of lambs from Alleghany county this year is expected to be made late this afternoon, following comple tion of the weighing schedule, County Agent R. E. Black an nounced yesterday. “I have tried to make a sche dule of weighing that would ac commodate all farmers who have lambs to sell,” Mr. Black said. “If a farmer finds he. cannot get his lambs to one of the scales in the schedule, he should notify me Fri day (today) so that I can make other arrangements.” The current shipment marks the third one made from the county this year. Lambs are shipped to Jersey City, N. J., for sale to the Kerns Commission company. The weighing schedule is as fol lows: Grader No. 1—E. W. Shepherd, 7 a. m.; M. E. Reeves, 7:45 a. m.; W. F. Doughton, 8:30 a. m.; W. W. Warden, 9:30 a. m.; R. L. Dopgh ton, 11 a. m.; John M. Cheek, 12 noon; Eddie Hoppers, 1:30 p. m.; Lonnie Edwards, 2 p. m.; White head, 2:45 p. m.; R. N. Hollaway, 3:30 p. m.; Letcher Crouse, 4:15 p. m.; F. B. Caudill, 4:45 p. m.; iJohn Duncan, 5:30 p. m.; C. C. Wagoner, 6:15 p. m.; R. V. Thompson, 7 p. m. Grader No. 2—Etta Moxley, 7 a. m.; S. C. Richardson, 7:45 a. m.; Prathers Creek, 8:30 a. m.; Bruce Finney, 9 a. m.; D. J. Jones, 9:45 a. m.; Eustace Black, 10:30 a. m.; H. G. Black, 11:15 a. m.; F. S. Delp, 1 p. m.; John C. Halsey, 1:45 p. m.; C. L. Hash, 2:30 p. m.; C. F. Osborne, 3:15 p. m.; Elk Creek, 4 p. m.; Lee A. Hampton, 4:45 p. m.; T. R. Crouse, 5:30 p. I m.; Hiram Edwards, 6:30 p. m. The lambs are bringing excep tionally high prices this year. I Forms Available For Position As Postmaster Here ! - Application Blanks for Vacan cy May Now Be Had At Local Office. EXAMINATIONS SOON Prospective applicants for the job as postmaster of the Sparta office are advised that the civil service commission in Washing ton will accept applications from now until the close of business on September 12. Examinations for the job are to be given at an early date, it was understood; probably in North Wilkesboro. Application blanks may be had by calling at the Sparta post office. According to the civil service regulations, an applicant must be a citizen of the United States; must be an actual resident of the city or town in which the office is situated, for at least one year; must be at least 21 years old and must not have passed his 63rd birthday; and must successfully pass a physical and fitness exam ination to be given by a physi cian. Sam W. Brown has been acting postmaster here since July 23. Expect Nitrogen Scarcity In ’42 County Agent Urges Farmers of County to Plant Win ter Cover Crops. Because of the war situation there is a possibility that there will be a scarcity in 1942 of nitro gen, County Agent R. E. Black said yesterday, but our farmers may make a part of their nitro gen by planting winter cover crops. “Since much plant food leach es from the soil through the win ter when the soil is left naked, farmers are urged to plant crim son clover, or some other winter cover, even though thm plan,,*) seed oats in the spring," the coun ty agent declared. “When corn or buckwheat is harvested rye may be seded,” he explained. “It will hold the soil through the winter, furnish good grazing for livestock, and make a good green manure crop to plough under where a crop is to be seeded in the spring. In seed ing winter cover crops there should be at least 200 pounds of 4-12-4 fertilizer used when seed ing.” Two Bus Drivers Flunk Road Test Following the completion of the special school for bus drivers held here last Friday and attend* ed by all the regular and substi tute drivers in the Alleghany public school system, two drivers failed the road test which was given by the state highway pa trol. Before being permitted to drive a school bus, each driver was re quired to attend this school and pass two tests, a written and road test. This is a strict new regula tion and is in accordance with a law passed by the last session of the legislature. All of Allegha ny’s drivers successfully passed the written tests. Mrs. Bill Flythe, of the high way safety division, was in charge of the school here. Mrs. L. F. Halsey spent last Thursday in Winston-Salem. Oi JOCK McTttfr fAYS,*fCC7CHMSM PREFBR lU'KlLTT tuz PANJ7 orr strvwr..
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