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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-03-17
Legion To Sponsor
A Junior. Baseball
League In County
To Have Teams In Vari-
GUS Communities In County.
Committee Appointed.
TO CELEBRATE 4TH.

The Ashe county post of the
American Legion will sponsor q
Junior baseball league in the coun-
ty this spring and summer, it was
decided at the March meeting held
last Saturday night.
Commander Frank Johnson, OF
the Wilkes post and Dick Bason, who
was manager of the junior teams
for the Legion in Wilkes county last
year, were present and explained the
proposed set-up.
They stated that they had decid-
ed to have Junior baseball again
this season and said they hoped that
the post in Ashe, Allegheny and
other counties would promote base
ball for the boys so that a "little
world" series could be played at
the conclusion of the regular sched-
uled games next fall.
According to the proposed plans,
the Ashe post will endeavor to form
league composed of several teams
from various communities in the
county. All boys under the age OF
II will be eligible to play on these
different junior baseball clubs.
Commander Ed Barr appointed
the following men on a committee
to work out definite plans: Con
Ireson, B. D. Barr, w. L. Hughes
and Rev. John W Luke.
The meeting Saturday night was
the best attended and three most en-
thusiastic one that has been held in
several months. Approximately IS
legionnaires were present.
A number of "sons of legion
,naires" were also present and L. P,
Coward told about his plans for or
ganizing the "Sons of the Legion
unit. Measurements for special caps
were also taken.
Y The possibility of sponsoring 8
9TH. of July celebration this year
was discussed and the members
agreed to promote such a celebra.
ton. Details relative to it will be
worked out later.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-03-17
West Jefferson Town
Election Called For
Tuesday, May Third
Town Fathers Now Considering
ACCESSIBILITY OF Calling Bond
Election.
IMPROVEMENT NEEDED

This week the West Jefferson
fathers issued a call for an election
to be held on Tuesday, May 3rd, for
the purpose of electing a mayor and
five aldermen, to serve for the next
two years.
In discussing the ensuing election
two members of the board declared
that they had not decided definite
ly as to whether or not they would
be candidates for reelection and
two others said they had no inten-
ton Of running again.
The present board of aldermen is
composed of DR.. B. E. Reeves, j. A.
Reeves, Wade Vannoy, j. w. Cam
bill and Earl GRAPHICAL. Rufus Col
ward is mayor, having been appoint
ed last spring. Mr.. GRAPHICAL, town
treasurer, has been serving on the
board continuously for the past
IL years. Mr.. Reeves is secretary
and has given good deal of time
to the job during the past two years.
In order to complete the sewer
age project and to take advantage
of the $26, 100000 street improvement
project that has been approved by
WPA, it is necessary for the town
to reaise several thousand dollars
and the board has been giving this
vital matter serious consideration
during the past few weeks.
It is estimated that the sewerage
project will require an outlay of
around $1,000 before completion.
Nearly 1000 feet of pipe have been
purchased and are on hand at, the
present time, but unless the town
fathers can arrange to furnish ce-
ment, brick, etc, and provide trans.
portation for tiae. workers, the pro-
ject will terminate unfinished the
last Of this month, B. w. Jones,
WPA supervisor, states.
Realizing the dire need for street
improvement and the splendid OPP
portunity afforded by the WPA pro-
ject, under the proper guidance, the
town fathers are thinking serious
ly of calling bond election, to raise
ten or fifteen thousand dollars.
They have consulted the Local
Government Commission and have
been assured that they can call such
an election even though the town
failed to meet some of its bonded
obligations during the past two or
three years.
The town, it is pointed out, really
doesn't owe so much money in COM
parison to other towns of similar
size. It's total Indebtedness is only
around $45,00O.00, about $4O,0O0.00
of which was bonds issued to install
the water system.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-03-17
Around $1,000
.JObless Checks
Delivered Tues.
Approximately 200 Ashe Work
ers Get "JObless" Pay. Some
Failed To Report.

Tuesday was really payday for
around 200 unemployed persons in
Ashe county.
Representatives Of the State I'm
employment Compensation Commits
sion, who spend each Tuesday at
the courthouse in Jefferson, brought
along with them this week .jobless
checks" amounting to total Of
$4,138.01. There were approximate
1y 200 of these checks and they
ranged from $500 to $4,000 each.
A large percentage Of them IN
clude more than one week of pay
due the applicants, which was made
possible by the installation of a
new check-writing machine at Ra-
leigh.
There are around 400 persons in
the county who are eligible to re-
ceive unemployed compensation,
but many Of them did not get a
check this week because they had
not reported regularly each week in
accordance with the regulations.
I'VE are now getting things pretty
well lined up and hope to be able to
operate more or less on a regular
schedule, Mr.. Ball stated. He said
that the checks are being delivered
more raepidly now than in the past.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-03-17
NEWELL ELECTED AS
COP STATE CHAIRMAN

At the state Republican conven-
ton held in Charlotte yesterday,
Jake F. Newell, of Charlotte, was
elected to succeed w. c. Meekins
as chairman. Charles A. Jonas
of Lincolnton, was endorsed as the
COP nominee for the position as
United States senator.
Colonel Frank Knox, Chicago
publisher and Republican candidate
for vice president in 1896, was the
keynote speaker He delivered a
bitter attack on the New Deal and
declared that he believed the Re
publicans could easily win in 1910.
A number Of delegates from Ashe
attended the convention.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-03-17
Republicans Hold Harmonious
Convention, Reflect Bauguess
Mrs. Boyd Richardson And Ed
Farmer Elected ice-Chair-
men. WEIGH Re-Elecfed.
BLEvINS ENDORSED

With nearly all of the precincts
represented, the Ashe county Re-
pubhcans held an unusually har-
monious convention last Saturday
afternoon at the courthouse and
unanimously reelected Grant Bau-
guess to serve a third term as
chairman.
Mrs. Boyd Richardson, of West
Jefferson, was elected as vice-chair-
woman and Ed Farmer, of Lansing,
was chosen as second vice-chair-
man by reclamation. 81 p Welch,
of Lansing, Was re-elected Eecge-
tary and treasurer.
County Chairman Bauguess opened
the convention and j. D. Baker, of
Idlewild, was selected to serve as
temporary chairman of the meeting.
It was unanimously voted that
the township officers would consti-
tute the county executive committee
during the ensuing year. BY vote
of 38 to 81, Ed Osborne was elected
to serve as the county's member of
the state executive committee.
The convention endorsed Upton
Blevins, Of Crumpler, as candidate
for congress from the ninth district.
During the state convention two
years ago, Mr.. Blevins almost got
the nomination. However, yester-
day reports from Statesville where
the congressional convention was
held Tuesday, stated that the Ashe
candidate was defeated by Monroe
Adams, Statesville attorney, for the
nomination. The convention also
went on record as endorsing the
candidacy of Jake Newell, of Char
lotte, as state chairman to succeed
w. c. Meekins, of Hendersonville:
The convention recommended
three men as candidates for the Re-
publican place on the county board
of elections. They are Lester Stur-
gill, Ed Osborne and B. B. Gray
beal- Miss Dorothy Perkins and
Gwyn Graham served as secretaries
of the convention.
The following delegates to the
congressional, senatorial and state
conventions were chosen: Ed Farm
er, w. J. Robinson, Walter Halsey,
L. B. Ham, Joe Elliott, Grant Bau-
guess, Glenn Graham, Clint billiard,
D. A. Bare, r. c. Parsons, c. E,
WEIGH, Hampton Blevins, Carl Gray
beal, Cleve Sturgills, r. E. Farmer,
Volney Phipps, Max Barlow, Coy
Rash, H. H. Brown, J. A. Carson,
Jake Graham, Oscar Elliott and r.
II. Blevins. Alternates named in
Guided John Rhodes, A. P. Howell,
III. L. Gil1ey, Jesse billiard, Claude
Sheets, Price Sheets, w. c. Black
burn, E. E. Trivett, Dan Penning-
ton, Joe Robinson and Worth Ora
ham.
In short speech Upton Blevins
declared that if he was nominated
as candidate for congress he be-
lieved that he could be elected and
if elected he pledged his efforts to-
ward reducing taxes, helping indus
TRY go forward and checking the
trend towards dictatorship in the
United States. 'If the present trend
continues it will only be a matter
of time until the freedom of speech
and press in this country will be de-
stroyed,' he said.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-03-17
PRE-EASTER EDITION
FOR NEXT THURSDAY

IT'S springtime and Easter is
not far of.
To officially open the spring
and Easter shopping season in
West Jefferson and to prove to
the citizens Of Ashe county that
il IS not necessary to go elsewhere
TO buy their spring and Easter
needs, The Post, togethes with
the cooperation Of Of the pro-
gressive merchants here, viii is
sue q special 'Pre-E Easter edi-
ton" next Thursday, featuring
many special values.
All merchants are urged to as
sist The Post by getting copy for
their ads ready as soon as pos
sible.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-03-17
Ambrose Clark To
Be Buried Today,
Died Tues. Night
Prominent Ashe Farmer And
Former Sheriff Passed Away
AT His Home Near Lansing
CHARITABLE DISPOSITION

Ambrose Clark, Is, prominent
Ashe county farmer and former Re-
publican sheriff and representative,
died at his home near Lansing Tues
day night from a blood disease.
Funeral services for this outstand-
ing man who loved Ashe county, its
people and especially children, will
be conducted this morning at the
home and interment will follow in
the family cemetery.
Mr.. Clark lived an exceptionally
active and useful life and UP until
last fall when his health began to
fail, he took a keen interest in the
affairs of his community and coun-
ty. Last week his condition grew
worse and members of his family
were not surprised when death
came Tuesday night.
Mr. Clark was born and raised in
this county and devoted his life
to its service, to his family and to a
great host of friends He served
two terms as sheriff and it was dur
ing his last term that Will Banks,
the last person hung in this coun-
ty, committed his crime of killing
another negro. When Banks escaped
from the county Jail, Sheriff Clark
was the man who went to Indiana
and brought him back. He was an
efficient officer and believed in en-
forcing the law, but he was opposed
to hanging the negro. Some of the
old timers state that this was one
reason why he was defeated that
spring by Sheriff George Austin, al
though the hanging didn't take place
until early fall, Others stated that
he resigned before his term expired
Ifnt order that he wouldn't have to
participate in the hanging
In 1915 he was elected as repre-
sentative and served one term.
Mr.. Clark was one of the most
kind-hearted, sympathetic citizens
Ashe county ever had. He was al
ways willing to help any friend who
was in distress and it is estimated
that he spent at least 100000 en-
dorsing notes and aiding those who
went to him.
Besides raising eight children OF
his own, four boys and four girls
members of his family state that
he raised at least 25 orphan or de-
pendent children.
Mr.. Clark also engaged in the
lumber business, and livestock as
well as general farming. A few
years ago he had the misfortune
of having his home burned down.
He is survived by his wife, four
daughters. The daughters are Mrs
Matte Braswell, Canton, Ohio; Mrs
Mamie Denny, Apple Grove; Mrs
Carrie Bare, Wagner; Miss Ruth
Clark, Lansing. Four sons-Russell
Clark and Fred Clark, of Akron
Ohio; Lester Clark, Of Lansing and
Charles Tucker Clark, Chilhowe
Va. He also leaves three brothers
and one sister, William, Harvey and
Monroe Clark, all of Ashe and Mrs
Alice Blevins, of Emory, Va.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-03-17

Sitting running board of the Model Ford shown above
are Mr. and Mrs FISHERMAN of Heton, of Ashe
remarkable couples who united in marriage
Sept Mr. FISHERMAN 80 years old and his wife so
years of age They have children living A. D. FISHERMAN
Gertrude Paisley of HeltOn They have IL grandchildren
grandfather
one of the first settle in that section
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-03-17
EAsTRIDGE GIRL PASSES

Miss Hazel Eastridge, is, who
lives near Grayson, died last lSatur-
day and was buried Monday in the
family cemetery. Services were
conducted by Rev. George Camp
bell. The deceased was the daught-
er of Mr.. and Mrs. E. S. Eastridge.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-03-17

In the third round Of the Journal
Sentinel cage tournament yesterday
afternoon, West Jefferson boys were
defeated by Rural Hall, SO to "A.
Cove Greek beat Madison, % to 10.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-03-17

SHANGHAI--Japan's invasion of
China seemed stalled i'm central
China; new japanese foreign ex-
change restrictions were seen as
a threat to Shanghai's dominant
position in Far Eastern finances.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-03-17

NE0SCOW.--Highest Soviet author
ity de1iea cfementy - n doomed
plOtters convicted at the recent
treason trial; some believed the
death sentences already had been
carried out.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-03-17

HENDAYE-Insurgent troops cap
tured important eastern Spanish
railway city only IS miles from
the Mediterranean, driving east
to split government Spain; gov
crnment troops retreated before
air and land powers of insurgent
offensive.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-03-17

BERLIN-Germany's belief grew
that CzechOslovalxia could be MAJ
fled without military interven-
ton; Field Marshal GOering be-
lieved slate1 to- become active
chief of German government
while Hitler maps "reich of all
Germans"
PRAHA = CzechoSlOvakia'S NaziS
jubilant over Hitler's absorption
of Austria.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-03-17

IL
LONDON-Prine Minister Cham
berlain, pointed toward full war
time footing for Britain's man.
power to check Hitler in central
Europe; Chamberlain bluntly re-
jected German contention that
Austrian affairs were not her bus
mess; Home Secretary Hoare
asked for 100000 volunteers to
act as an air raid defense corps.
PARIS Socialist Leon Blum'S new
Peoples front government prom
ised Czechosiovakia military aid
if Hitler turns next to the $780,
900 Germans in that tiny repub-
lie.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-03-17
BRIEF News
FROM
Everywhere

VIENNA - A million Austrians
cheered AdoIph Hitler's trium-
plant shout mo force on earth
can shake us. from the new Aus
tro- German c0lesOlatiOn; fear
mounted among Austrian Jews as
Nazi beatings, arrests and plum
dering increased.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-03-17
ASHE COUNTY

is the air conditioned
section Of North Caro-
lima w hose altitude
ranges from 5000 to S.
900 feet above Sea level.
Is miles Of the PARK
WAY run through the
county.
Evening star., 1938-12-11
AsHoRr WAVE !
How Polly Meredith made a man hero
by Hoffman BizneY

She'd asked few questions of the groaning
c. Agnew. then had vetoed the castor oil and
sent Kane hurrying through the fog for Dillin,
the medical missionary.
Dilin had poked, prodded, and diagnosed.
Two hours later he operated on the master of
millions as nonchalantly as he might have
trimmed the stump of crushed finger on one
of his pet Aleuts. Polly administered the
anesthetic and Dillin. while he worked, told
her through his mask of amputations by the
light of seal-oil lamps in Eskimo huts, of
sailing two hundred miles to clean up, sur
gically, after battle between the crews of
two sealing schooners - poachers both. He
called a bistoury, No. iron and hemostat,
a niblick, asked her to tell him all about
Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs,' and
performed deft and successful appendectomy
circumstance which Polly Ann Meredith
twenty -four hours later almost regretted.
c. Agnew Wingate had not been ill since
childhood's measles, and he was a patient
calculated to drive nurse into gibbering
mania. He complained of the care he received,
of the food. of the Bering fogs which closed
down on the island like cold gray curtains.
and of Dr. Dillin's ultimatum that he must
remain in bed for two weeks and not for three
weeks could he even think of returning to
civilization. At intervals he said that he would
probably die.
You won't" said Polly. I've never seen
patient as cranky as you are who didn't get
WE'LL"
He snarled at her. promised to report her
insolence as soon as they reached San Leandro,
and snarled again when she laughed. She
laughed at him frequently during those days
- it was situation where one either laughed
or murdered. On the fourteenth day the
patient sat up, on the seventeenth he walked.
somewhat shakily, out of DOORS and on the
twentieth he announced triumphantly that
Evening star., 1938-12-11
Illustrated by Covstnsy Aiisn

they would leave for the mainland the follow
ing day. 1t was that night that Ross Kane
caught on his receiving set the signals of the
Soviet plane. vladimir Iiyich
No one knew that the Russians were in the
air. Their flight to shatter all long distance
records, had been launched in strictest secrecy
and the crew of three had set Mexico City
as their goal - Moscow to Mexico over the
top of the world Boreal storms had driven
them far off course; then, with the Pole far
behind. the oil pump drive shaft of the huge
single-motored bomber had failed. Polly hung
over Kane's shoulder as the voice of Borgasleff,
the Russian pilot. doomed from the loud
speaker.
I'VE are over the Bering Sea" he said. His
English was thToaty and heavily accented,
but not difficult to understand. We will
probably have to make forced landing. on
the water, very shortly"
Polly dragged the huge volume of North
Pacific charts from beneath the table.
Ask him for position, course, and weather
conditions" she ordered, and transferred the
Russians figures to the map. Il make it three
- three-sixty - nearly four hundred miles
almost due north-northwest. Two hours in the
Nereid. Give them the corrected course. Ross.
Well go after them!'
There were countless things to be done.
Oil had to be heated and poured into the tanks
and the cold motors turned over by hand to
break the CONCEALED film of the cylinder walls.
The wing tanks had to be filled, course
plotted. and all flight and navigation instru-
ments checked. Many precious minutes
licked away before the Nereid was poised,
xopellers turning, at the foot of the ramp.
Kane released the friction clutch and rode the
pontoon as the ships weight pulled the dolly
down the ramp and permitted the Nereid to
float. Polly TAXED off shore, turned into the
wind, and pushed open the throttles. Little
Dromio was ten miles astern before Kane
spoke Il left note for Mr.. Wingate. telling
him where we'd gone ="
Gosh! l never even thought of him."
Polly chuckled.
Neither did I. to tell the truth, until l
ran back for the chart and protractor. left
the switch open. Maybe he'll hear the Rus
slams signals and relay them to US. He knows
how to handle the transmitter."
The miles fell astern. three of them to the
minute There was little to do but watch the
(Consinvsd on poss ~
Evening star., 1938-12-11

had seen the hide of an Alaskan brown bear
and their schedule had been turned upside
down His determination to kill one of the
huge creatures had sent them winging to
Juneau and Sitka for a hunting license and
rife and then westward through the fOgrack
of the Alaskan Gulf over places with names
like kena and Afognak and Big and Little
Dromio.
Some day Little Dromio would be the most
important station on C-BAT'S route to the
Orient. Now it was an outpost for meteoro-
logical observations forwarded by short
to line headquarters at San Leandro. There
was seaplane ramp and a hangar for the
experimental ships which landed there in
their tests of instruments and motors and
house where lonely young engineer named
Ross Kane did his own cooking, read his
instruments and tested fog lights and arestors
and radio BEAM His domain was the eastern
end of the island. On the western tip was an
Aleut fishing village. another house. and
Steve Dillin, a medical missionary who,
having a WIFE was somewhat less lonely than
Ross Kane Twelve miles away was Big
talk OF men in Sitka was true - one might
find the biggest brown bears in all the world.
To test those stories, Ross Kane had taken
Wingate to Big Dromio in power whaleboat,
had obtained two filthy, grinning Aleuts as
guides, and had shown him bears which.
through the binoculars, looked larger than
boxcars.
They had returned to Little Dromio and
that night Wingate had complained of
sharp pain in his right side. 1t was more
severe in the morning, and Mrs. Wingate
spoke of canned foods. of fish, of ptomaines,
and of the advisability of a tablespoonful of
castor oil. Polly Ann Meredith had started
her flying career as a stewardess and all
G-BAT stewardesses were registered nurses.
Evening star., 1938-12-11

VN THE beginning - and that had been three
months before - Polly Ann Meredith had
- vetoed emphatically the suggestion that
she take leave Of absence from Great Basin
Air Transport to pilot c. Agnew Wingate and
his wife on their air tour OF the Northwest and
Alaska She would not. she declared, become
an aerial chauffeur Clyde Barron. president of
G-BAT, had made the matter personal one.
1T S for the Line Polly. He S on the boards
of a dozen organizations that mean contracts
and bread and butter to you and me. Also,
he's crazy about flying and his wife is just as
enthusiastic. He's bought six-pace Nereid
seaplane and wants you as pilot and company
for Mrs Wngate while he's off inspecting
mines and going fishing and hunting. He's
asking favor of G-BAT and the time may
come when we really get going on the
trans Pacific service - that C-BAT will want
favors from him Double-pay. Polly. and it's
for the Line
Polly had Welded Not for the double pay
or for c. Agnew Wingate and his millions, or
for Mrs Wingate, who knitted placidly while
the Nereid roared over forest and mountain
and sea and who mothered extravagantly the
girl who hadn't known mother since she had
been four years old, but for the Line. For
Great Basin Air Transport and its men and its
far flung service and its traditions. Now.
tramping the beach of Little Dromo Island
she reviled herself for that moment Of weak
ness and groped for new words to describe
c. Agnew Wingate, who had waited until this
lonely Pacific Island to discover that he had
an appendix.
Up to that discovery the trip had been
grand - Yellowstone and Glacier Parks
Seattle and Vancouver and the inland passage
to Juneau - Snow-clad mountains breath
taking in their naked beauty. Nome and the
Yukon and the limitless tundra ending at
lonely Point Barrow and the Arctic, lump
rose in her throat as she dipped the Nereid's
wings over the spot where Will Rogers and
Wiley Post had died Gorgeous evenings of
shoptak with the men of Alaskan airways
who forgot she was girl and talked to her as
a fellow pilot They'd given her maps and
shared knowledge gained by many hours OF
Arctic flying, and told her what to expect and
what to do when the magnetic compass went
completely haywire so close to the Magnetic
Pole. 1t had been grand, all of it, until Little
Dromio.
In Yukon mining town, c. Agnew Wingate
Evening star., 1938-12-11


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