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Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1940-03-07

be imposed. He explained that
such an ordinance would not apply
to dogs on the streets of towns.
and that in no case would any
dogs be killed unless there was no
known owner and the dogs were
unlicensed.
Members of the Board express
ed themselves as favoring an ordj-
nance of the kind, but decided to
postpone action until the next reg
ular meeting in order that the
public might be better informed
as to the object and provision. At
the next meeting, X. w. McNas-
ser, the district ranger, will APP
pear and explain the object and
provisions Of the proposed ordi-
nance.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1940-03-07
NATIONAL

On March 3 President Roosevelt
rounded out seven eventful years
as chief executive of the Nation.
At the beginning of his eighth
year he still had no answer as to
his intentions regarding a third
term. Immediately after his re-
turn from cruise in southern
waters his first official act was to
sign bill whereby the Import
Export Bank would be given au-
thority to make loans to Finland
up to $2O,O00,OO0 non-war ma
terials from the United States.
The Hatch Bill is under debate
in the United States Senate this
week. Under provisions of this
bill the civil service commission
could stop payments to state agen-
cies whose employees were en-
gagged in politics. This would pre-
vent employees of state highway
departments, social security barn
acles, ETC., from taking part in
any way in politics.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1940-03-07
V.tl! New.
STATE

Another week has passed and
another session of the Virginia
Legislature is about to come to a
close without very much construc-
tive legislation being passed. The
House of Delegates spent most of
last week slashing and adding to
the budget as proposed by Gov.
Price. Appointees of Governor
Price, in particular department
heads, were the targets of salary
reductions at the hand of the low
err house. But on the other hand
the Senate affirms that the budget
must be balanced regardless of
method. It's spokemen point out
that Virginia has too long pro-
crossed under the pay-as-you-go
plan to revert to deficits in the
budget. What items in increased
appropriations by the House OF
Delegates will receive the pruning
knife cannot be predicted. The
legislature will adjourn on Friday.
For the most part only uncon-
tested bills were passed this past
week.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1940-03-07
Forest Service Official Brings Dog
Question Before Board Again

John Shipley, of the National
Forest Service, appeared before
the Board of Supervisors Monday
in advocacy Of an ordinance pro-
hibiting dogs from running at
large in the county in order that
Dickinson county may share in the
distribution of deer by the Nation
al Forest Service.
He explained that no deer
would be liberated in any county
where such an ordinance was not
in effect, and that such an ordi-
nance would apply only to habit
ual stray or roaming dogs and
dogs chasing deer, and that in
first eases the dog owner, if
known, would first be notified, and
that in second offenses fines would
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1940-03-07
Board Holds
March Meeting

Little other than routine bust
ness came before the Board of
Supervisors at the regular meet
ing on Monday, March a. Adjourn
ment came at the unusual hour
of three in the afternoon.
The usual item of claims for
sheep killed by dogs came before
the meeting. Several such claims
were allowed.
The Board ordered the publica-
ton of the county budget thirty
days prior to the deadline for
adoption on April s. 1t is under
See Page a
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1940-03-07

Russian military machine will
eventually win unless Finland re-
ceives plenty of outside help.
A German airplane bombed the
British liner, Domola, in the Eng
lish Channel on March 2 with a
loss of 1O9 lives. The ship was
able to reach port with her cargo
of dead.
The British report the sinking
of several German submarines and
the shooting down of three Ger
man warplanes.
France reported two German
planes were shot down early this
week.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1940-03-07
INTERNATIONAL.

The Firms continue to fall back
to new lines of defense before the
ruthless mobs of oncoming Rus
slams. However, the defenders
continue to repel enemy thrusts at
different places and assert that
they are far from even thinking
about making peace terms. Russia
continues to suffer heavy losses in
men and supplies daily. According
to military observers, no matter
how gallant has been the Finnish
defense forces to date, the great
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1940-03-07
Republicans
Prepare For
Coming Battle

Evincing a determination to
give battle in real earnest, Repub-
licans from over the county as
sembled in Clintwood Saturday to
reorganize the county committee
and select delegates to the Marion
convention.
When the meeting was called
to order, w. S. Penland of Bucu
was elected temporary chairman
and responded with short speech.
Robert Baker acted as temporary
secretary. A Mr.. Gillispie, chair
man of the Republican committee
of Wise County addressed the
meeting briefly.
County officers, district officers,
and county committeeman were
chosen within a short space of
time. Anvil Kiser of Leck was cleo
ted county chairman. Mrs. Velva
CA. J.) Mullins of Splashdam was
selected as vice chairman. A. M.
Phipps Of Clintwood was elected
as secretary-treasurer.
District officers were chosen as
follows: Kennedy, Enoch Rose;
Clintwood, w. B. Trivitt; Sand
lick, w. S. Penland; Willis, A. J.
Mullins; Ervinton, M. d. Mccoy.
The following precinct commit
teemen were chosen: Lick Fork,
j. E. Dotson; Ridge, K. D. Ken
nedy; Chase North Ward, Nelson
STANLEY; Chase South Ward, Fred
Baker; Kerr, Sherman Mullins;
Mountain, Alonzo Couch; Haysi,
Roy Penland; Breaks, w. I.
Large; Tarpon, brewery Pickett;
Grassy, Parks Epling; Bartlick,
Bert Nowlin; Rose, Finnis Mccoy;
Stratton, Jack Kiser; Roaring
Fork, C. C. Long; West Dante,
Carter Phillips; Caney, Charles
Coleman.
Forty-six delegates and the same
number of alternates were named
to attend the Marion convention.
Of the total, thirteen were women.
The delegation goes to the conven-
ton uninstructed. All Republic
ans from Dickinson County pres
ent at the meeting were author
lied to act as delegates.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1940-03-07
kiWanis Hosts
to AEP Officials

The local Kiwanis Club, with
about fifteen officials Of the Appa-
lachian Power Company as guests,
held its regular weekly meeting at
tine Methodist Church on Monday.
In addition to the guest speak
ers furnished by the Appalachian
Company, there was presented by
the visitors a rather comprehen-
sive sound movie on the origin, de-
veloplnent and territory served by
the American Gas and Electric
Company Of which the Appalacb-
ian Power is subsidiary. The
picture took those present at the
meeting to the source of the COM
pany's power - the streams and
the coal mines, then through a
series of pictures, though some
what technical, one could watch
the processes by which electricity
was distributed throughout the
territory.
The officials Of the power COM
pany were present at the request
of the Kiwanis Club. Through the
efforts of the club some plan is
trying to be worked out whereby
the "blackout" in Clintwood will
soon become history. Officials of
the company expressed ther elves
as ready to help find the so.ution.
In addition to the regular mem
bers present there were also in at
tendance Mayor E. J. Sutherland
and Councilman Claude Reedy.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1940-03-07
LITERARY CONTESTS BY
HIGH SCHOOLS SATURDAY

On Saturday afternoon repre-
sentatives from the FIVE high
schools of the county will hold the
annual literary contests at Erwin
ton High School. Following the
afternoon events each school will
give a one-act play at night. At
ternoon events will be open to the
public at no charge, but a small
admission price for the one-act
plays will be made in order to
help defray expenses of the meet
ing.
A spelling match, with boy
and girl representative from each
school, will open the afternoons
program. This will be followed
in order by recitation, declama-
ton, story telling, and extempora-
neous essay contests. An added
attraction this year will be the
oral quiz on current events.
Medals to individual winners of
the afternoon events will be
awarded, and a plaque to the
school winning the one-act play is
being offered.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1940-03-07
Now They Come To Dickinson

Nineteen couples were married
in Dickinson County during the
month Of February. Two trends
are indicated by the marriage rec
ords. One is that out of county
couples come to Dickinson, revers-
ing the old order when Dickinson
couples went elsewhere to enter
the bonds of matrimony. Another
is that minors in increasing num-
bers are marrying. The record
for February reads:
Clifford Rasnick, %, N e aly
Ridge, Va, and Nora Perrigan,
q, Nealy Ridge, Va.
Herman helms, FL, Georges
Fork, Va, and Jewell Delong, IS,
Georges Fork, Va.
j. H. Bentley, So, Louisville,
KY, and Ruth Vermillion, 22,
Whitesburg, KY.
Ray Rasnick, 10, Nealy Ridge.
Va, and Louise Perrigan, 16.
Nealy Ridge, Va.
Carlos Rose, 20, Bartlick, Va.
and Geneva Wallace, 10, Bartlick,
Va.
Charlie Senter, 26, Isom, Va.
and Orlena Mullins, 10, Isom, Va.
Ebert Webb, 46, Clinchco, Va.
and Make Hoard, 81, Cliichco,
Va.
) Hanniebel Lockhart, 20, Clint
wood, and Roma Adkins, 10, Coe-
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1940-03-07

burn, Va.
Eugene Kerr, 81, Clintwood,
Va, and Irene Stone, Is, Clint
wood, Va.
Wilburn Branham, 10, Nealy
Ridge, Va, and Margie Baker, 10,
Nealy Ridge, Va.
Bill Buchanan, 20, Darwin, Va.
and Florence Fleming, IS, OAR
win, Va.
Earl Tiller, 21, Clintwood, Va.
and Geraline Hughes, FL, Coe-
burn, Va.
James Abbot, 81, and Ada Lee
Pace, 21, both of Jenkins, KY.
Cline Sluss, 10, Clintwood, Va,
and Jerline Mullins, 16, Clinchco,
Va.
Charles B. Wax, "a, Norton.
Va, and Gladys Copeland, 27.
Bristol, Va.
Grady Williamson, 26, and Lula
Halliburton, "a, both of Steinman,
Va.
Mack Holbrooks, %, st. Paul.
Va, and Edith Marshall, 18, West
Dante, Va.
Duran Ratliff, 81, Norland, Va,
and Mabel Wheatley, 21, Isom.
Va.
Floyd Spriggs, %, Splashdam,
Va, and Ethel Stiltner, FL, Haysi.
Va.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1940-03-07
OSBORNE GAP NEWS

Press Barnette and family have
moved from Ritter's Camp to Os-
borne Gap.
Carson Swindal is now working
in Wise County.
Many pupils of the Osborne
Gap School have been absent due
to sickness.
Mrs. Lille Cox and Mrs. Cuzzie
Swindal have been i'll during the
past week.
Tollie Davis has opened store
at the old Bill McFall place on
Pound River.
Harlan Keen has been ill with
flu.
Granville Colley Of Jane was a
Clintwood visitor on Monday.
Elihu and Caleb Sutherland of
Stratton were visitors in Clint
wood on Saturday.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1940-03-07

brewery Pickett of the Tarpon
community was among the Re-
publicans attending the mass
meeting in Clintwood on Satur-
day.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1940-03-07

II. j. Kiser of Wise was bust
ness visitor to Clintwood on Tues
day.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1940-03-07

George W. Mullins of Tarpon
was a business visitor in Clintwood
on Monday.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1940-03-07

Joel Phipps of Skeetrock was
among the Clilntwood visitors on
Saturday.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1940-03-07

Granville Colley Of Jane was a
Clintwood visitor on Monday.
The Valley settler. (Palmer, Alaska) 1937-195?, 1940-05-31

ECrodit croCtos en- illusion of
i2urcllcs ing powor until the bubble
purats-- Leaving t greasy scum Of
Nohu. install lmont credit by 1857
< @lclloG the ;mount boforo tho panic
of TO md W, S for longer Cure ton.
!. And now, ono third Of Ill rotoil
&&los re for credit!
f'5ou1a XVI scid, 'Crodit supports
tac borrower s {. ropo supports tho
hln sod. Whom othors stick thoir
n2ol1s out---Co-ops, stay clocr Of
tbs moose! From cn q Of tho East
prn Co-oporG tive Wholesale. --Co-op
Builder.
The Valley settler. (Palmer, Alaska) 1937-195?, 1940-05-31

loft ,TOndcT for IN extended visit
outs ido. Tho p1cn to visit
round Soattl0 Cnd Portland.
The Valley settler. (Palmer, Alaska) 1937-195?, 1940-05-31

IN LOQUzNT INDIC7sEuT
(rrenGo Cooperative T2wa)
F'ou would be arhcst It tho store
!lGnc or reached into tho cash dr.
ever coG said, '9ol-o what you We Mt
OF otho1 pooplc's money, but try
to bring IL back in so 2c-st.
Yet this is exactly whet happens
cVorJ time {. cons nlor csl:a FOR
credit, FOR the goods no takes out
represent money othor nooplo have
paid in.
"You wouldn't expect to got gro
corios It tho bank, so why credit
st the grocery? Tho store mcnGror
should not be called on to di8cri I'm
inoto in { fold in which he hcs nc
apoc icl tire lining. And it's not fei
to the cash Gus tomors to h1, vo to
pcy for incvi t. bic lossos under c
'doublo-s tcndcrd' Of tr>do morals.
"Tho Swedish co-opor@ tivos in 1919
broke the back Of credit trond
1hct Wt.s racing g,hotd OF invoa ted
ccpitcl. average 1onb1r invost-
mont Wc.s SIS and indebted noss $40.
Eight Cocrs lctor, indobtodnoss
WIS 80, and invas t1lont $40, pro-
vidinG resources for c.chicvoacnts
which have become tho wonder OF
tho world.
Continued on top OF paco)
The Valley settler. (Palmer, Alaska) 1937-195?, 1940-05-31
NOTICE

The ''o>1ona' Auziliarv Of tho
Poororc tive Will hold its Regular
rootinG on .londcy Juno 3rd.
The Valley settler. (Palmer, Alaska) 1937-195?, 1940-05-31

RS. Loron 1-cI-ochnio loft last wook
Pith tho large group or out3oors.
bho plans to visit CALIFORNIA; and
innoaotc Whilo conc.
The Valley settler. (Palmer, Alaska) 1937-195?, 1940-05-31
NOTICE

pis trict 5 will hold {. mootin on
EuosdfJ June 4th ct the HonnInS
Benson hor2o.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-13

certain that the mex congress will be asked
to end the practice by the Simple statute"
suggested by President Roosevelt once before.
The question of tax-exempt bonds is a old
one. Under both Republican and Democratic
administrations congress has been urged to
take action to stop the practice, which does
have aspects that are admittedly open to crit
cism. Recently it was generally agreed that
a constitutional amendment would be neces'
sary, and the difficulty of obtaining ratification
by states anxious to preserve their borrowing
ability was recognized.
: But the Supreme Court has handed down
a number of decisions tending to undermine
the principle that the federal government can
not tax state and municipal bonds and these
lesser authorities cannot levy on federal bonds
and notes. On this ground, President Roosevelt
has asked congress in the past to handle the
issue by statute.
Now the question is injected, in a broad
way, into the defense program. Just how con.
gress will view it remains to be seen. OBJ
viously it should be dealt with only on its
merits, without appeal to emotionals stimu.
lated by the defense program.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-13
Editorial Comment
THE r IN A l.
N. Y. Herald-Tribune

While the bells were pealing throughout
Greece yesterday for the taking OF Argyro'
kastron, the Italians (who had not been al
lowed to know that ~Argyrokastron had been
lost were learning that the head OF their navy
was following Badoglio, the head of their army
and their greatest soldier, into an abrupt re-
tirement sat his own request" Admiral Cava'
gnari has been the responsible chief of the
Italian Navy since 1888. If he was less famous
than Badoglio, he was even more deeply iden.
titled with Fascist militarism. The disappear
ance of one such leader could be set down to
some personal divergence of views. The dis
appearance of two of ~them-along with that
Of de Vecchi, Governor of the Dodecanese,
who was one of the celebrated "quadruum-
virs'' of the Fascist march on Rome-means
that something serious has been happening.
And it will mean just that to every Italian.
What is it? There are at least three possible
explanations that will spring to every mind,
in Italy as well as abroad. One is that the war,
in Albania, in Egypt and at sea, has been so
badly bungled that the men whom Mussolini
picked to put at the very top of his military
organization have had to be thrown out to
save the situation. This would imply a shock
ing incompetence. The second explanation is
that the men at the top were only lukewarm
Fascist, and that Mussolini has been cleaning
house in order to get thoroughly dependable
people in sympathy with his policies in COM
mand. This would imply a dangerous schism
opening under the dictatorial feet. The third
explanation is that the trouble is not between
the Fascist and non-Fascist elements but be-
tween the pro-Germans and anti-Germans;
this would imply that the Germans are moving
in to take over the country, which would re-
duce Mussolini to a cipher and so destroy him.
No one knows which may be right. The point
is that each explanation must spell serious
difficulty if not disaster for the Duce. 3
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-13
Planning For The Future

It is a helpful and gratifying thought that
Wilmington, New Hanover county and South
eastern North Carolina have risen above the
comfortable assumption that regional planning
is a pleasant sideline rather than a task which
has a vital bearing. on our future welfare.
During the first World war Wilmington ex-
perienced the tremendous impact that a re-
armament program can have. Population ex-
banded rapidly; houses were hurriedly built,
highways were under a heavy strain. Today,
with the rapid expansion Of defense activities,
we are facing a roughly similar situation. This
city and coumty-this entire southeastern Sec
ton of the state-are in the center Of an area
where major projects under the defense pro-
gram will be carried out.
We can sit by and allow ourselves to be
overrun and overwhelmed, or we can lay
There can be no doubt that we are at the
crossroads of opportunity. If our choice is
right, all will be well; if wrong, we must ex-
pect only confusion and Illustration. 1t is for
%tunate, indeed, that these basic facts are &C.
knowledged and understood in our civic, social,
official and religious circles.
The need now is for constructive planning
a program that will be comprehensive enough
to deal intelligently with every phase of the
new life we must live at no distant date.
This first step in planning-to recognize the
p~roblem-has already been taken. The second
is to decide how the problem is to be met.
That is still to be reckoned with. Charles w.
Eliot. a member of the National Resources
Planning Board. suggests that cities and re-
gions situated as this area is cannot better
meet their opportunity than by creating a
planning commission, amply financed and
competently directed, with adequate powers
to do a thorough job. He says that such a
commission thus equipped cooperating
with other regional planning bodies ''can be a
potent force for the orderly development OF
the commu<ty."
We have had one experience, with most
other American cities similarly situated, of
the evils and discomforts Of hasty,, painless
expansion, in the midst of an emergency. This
time, if we are wise, we will do a better job
by drawing the blueprints in advance.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-13

its offensive in Africa, a move Mussolinl an
~ticipated would be started at about the time
he laid his ultirnatun on the doorstep OF the
Athens government. Now Britain, by striking
with tremendous force at the armies under
in Africa, has placed Mussolini IN
such a tight place that he must either abandon
the African campaign, and let GRAHAM be
wiped out, to make a last effort to stop the
Greek advance in Albania, or withdraw from
Albania, giving the Greeks a major triumph
with the hope of bolstering Grazianis tagging
cause across the Mediterranean, with his abil-
ity to land reinforcements and supplies in
doubt.
The Italians are in such a precarious posi-
ton in both areas that it is improbable they
can win in either.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-13
TOP O. THE MORNING

Most Christians are fairly familiar 1oith the
beattitudes of the Sermon on the Mount. . i.
But there is q little beattitude in Matthew II
(11;6) that We often miss. . "And blessed is
he, Whosoeuer shall not be offended in Me-! The
ruth of this 5eattitude needs to be called to
our remembrance in q time like this. -. When
things ire see euen to contradict the things zee
believe, we must not be offended. . Christ
has not failed. He is carrying on eractly on
schedule. -. He has neuer missed an appoint
ment, and is never late. We need not be offend
ed that He is not converting the Dorld. He did
not promise to do that, but to return in great
glory to reign until all enemies are put under
His feet. That blessed hour drdaDs ever near
er, and the darker the dogs, the surer His soon
return.
VANCE HAVNER IN
1.-THE KINGS BUSINESS'
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-13
Funds To Complete Work
OF Recodifyng Laws To
Be Asked OF Legislature

RALEIGH, Dec. 12.-R-A group
of legislators, lawyers and state off.
Gals voted today to ask the 1941
general assembly to appropriate SUI.
ficient funds to complete the work
Of recodifying North Cardinals laws
by 1913.
The group also recommended that
funds be made available for the
printing Of $50 to 300 copies of the
recodified statues, for distribution to
the lawmakers in 1943. Under the
plan, the 1943 assembly would pass
the recodified statutes in bulk, and
they would become the official law
of the state.
The recodification was started in
1889, after the last general assembly
appropriated $4,000 a year, for two
years, for the work.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-13
Different Definitions

II words meant the same things to Ameri-
cans and Japanese it would be possible to be
encouraged by the conciliatory remarks For
eign Minister Matsuoka addressed to foreign
correspondents in his recent press conference.
Unfortunately every statement he made must
be understood in the light of definitions
placed on those terms in the past by Japanese
deeds.
Mr.. Matsuoka declared that he hopes and
prays for a better understanding between the
two countries. Since the beginning of Japan's
career of conquest Japanese statesmen have
our inability to see the situation with
their eyes. What he actually wants, then, it is
fair to assume, is American willingness to
have Japan do as she pleases in the Orient.
Again Mr.. Matsuoka expressed the convic-
ton that all differences between the two coun-
tries can be adjusted if both keep their heads
cool and mind their own business. That ought
to be true, but the trouble is that Japan has
announced it to be her business to create a
new order in East ASIA contemplating, to
judge from the record, Japanese hegemony
in that sphere at the-expense of the indepen-
dence of China and the legitimate interests of
all other nations.
On one point the Japanese foreign minister
was perfectly frank. He admitted without cav.
il that the Three-Power pact was intended to
keep the United States out of the European
war. That is the way we understood il, too.
To call it a peace pact" on the other hand,
is disingenuous as far as Americans are con.
cerned, since its real purpose is to win the
wars in which its members are engaged.
So there was nothing to indicated that Japan
has actually relinquished any of her ambitions
or modified her aims, unless we accept Mr..
Matsuoka's denials that the idea of political
domination of the Orient for the sake Of eco.
nomic exploitation is. far from Tokyo's mind
These denials we cannot credit in the face
of the plain facts.