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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-10
ALL L A

New window shades are neces-
sary in a new type of house bath
room, although one entire outside
wall is built of glass. The glass
is used in glass blocks, however,
which are translucent, and will
admit light, but are not transpar
ent. The room thus has complete
privacy.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-10
r

NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 9.-R-
The average price Of middling
15-16ths. inch cotton today at ten
designated southern spot markets
was 6 points higher at 9.61 cents
a pound; average for the past 80
market days $50 cents; middling
7-8ths. average $40 cents a pound.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-10

NEW YORK COTTON

NEW YORK, Nov. 9.-LP-Cotton
futures today moved into new high
ground for the season, finishing S to
8 points higher after active trading.
Price fixing for mills and Bombay
and professional support accounted
for the upturn. Quotations we're up
as much as II points at one time
but Increased selling by spot inter.
ests pared the gains.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-10
COTTONSEED OIL

NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 9.-(R-
Cottonseed oil closed S e a d y.
low 5.55 nom. Prime crude $50.
Dec. 5.2lb, Jan. 5.27b, Mich. 5.39b,
May 5.47b, Jly. 5.52b. B-bid.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-10
PEANUTS

SUFFOLK, Va, Nov. 9.-R-
Peanut quotations: Jumbos 8 IL
to 3 SO; bunch 3 1-8 to 3 IA; run
ners 3 1-8. Market quiet.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-10
NORFOLK SPOT

NORFOLK, Va, Nov. 9. - Up -
spot cotton S points higher. Mid
ding fair 10.40; middling 9.85;
good ordinary ITO. Sales 427 bales
receipts SO shipments none stock
1872. 2
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NEW ORLEANS COTTON

NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 9.-UP-
Broad activity in Worth street, trade
buying and short covering lifted cot.
ton futures to additional high levels
for the season here today. Closing
prices were steady S to 8 points net
higher.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-10

NEW YORK, Nov. 9.-R-
detachable cottonseed oil futures
closed 5 to 7 higher. Sales IS con-
tracts Dec. Sob, Jan. SITS; Mch.
5.88; May 500 to 81.
Bid. ?
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LARD

CHICAGO, Nov. 9.-R-Lard
tierces 4.80; loose 4.85; bellies
HOO. 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-10
SPOT

CHARLOTTE, Nov. o. Up Spot
cotton $50.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-10
Local Stocks
And Bonds
Quotations furnished by Allen {
and Coz
STOCKS

S1UChS
Bid Asked
A. c. L. Co. Of Conn. - Tx 10
Car. ms. Co. of Wilm. 28k 80
Car. P. and L. Co. 81 Pf. 100 11Oh
Car. p. and l.. Co. Sc Pr. 1852 1O7
Mass. Investors Trust 1888 2O.25
PEG. Saw. b. and T. Co. 80 80
Rem. Arms Co., Com. 8A 7B
Sec. National Bank of G. 1917 II
Taylor-C olquitt Co. $500 20 81
7. w. Pow. Co, Sc Cum.
Pfd. 80 AZ
Will. Saw. and TT. Co. 80 80
BONDS
Bid Asked
A. C. L. RR., First Cons.
Mtg, As due 1852 --- 6S& 70
A. c. L. RR., l.. and N.
Coll. Tr. As due 1852 81 67A
A. c. L. RR., Coll. TT. SIS
due 1864 - 54A 55A
Fla. East est. Rwy., list
and Ref. SIS due 1874 8 81
C. and w. Car. Rwy.,
First SIS due 1916 1890 100k 102
(All quotations nominal and are
subject to change without notice.)
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NEW ORLEANS. Nov ga

NEW ORLEANS, Nov 9.-R-
Spot cotton closed steady 6 points
higher. Sales 1900, low middling
8.51, middling 9.76, good middling
1926, receipts 1900, stock $685.
69S. 2
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-10
Wanted

(-ITrcS col EGE Girl
bI1,,I5 like board and room in pri-
w. home in exchange for helping
'a'Ss household duties. Dial 1918.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-10
Open High Low Clsoe
DETACHABLE

Middline spot 10.12N, up s..
Nominal. .
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-08-15
Hospital Assn.
Official Was In
County Friday
Russell Rogers, of Charlotte.
Here Making Survey. Ac-
cOmpanied by Hubbard

Russell J. Rogers, of Charlotte,
executive secretary of the North
Carolina Hospital Association and
managing editor of the Southern
Hospital, an official hospital pub
LEGATION for several states, and
Fred Hubbard, Jr., business man
ager of the Wilkes hospital, were
in town last Friday making a sur
vey of the county.
Results of the survey will be
made available to the Hospital
Savings Association of North
Carolina, the states pioneering
statewide, non-profit group hos,
pitalization plan, which will
launch an extensive drive fol
membership in the county in the
near future.
Through this plan, members gel
a total of 81 days of hospitaliza-
ton at a cost Of only around two
cents per day. "This is a fine
thing for individuals and Tor the
hospital too" Mr.. Rogers said.
He praised the county upon the
establishment Of a hospital anc
declared the building is one Of
the finest in the Carolinas.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-08-15
More Vocational
Training Needed
In Ashe Schools
]. B. Coward made Other Sug-
gestiOns in Speech To JET
Persons Rotary Club.

More vocational instruction
should be given in the central
high schools of Ashe county, J.
Bower Coward, of Cleveland,
Ohio, who was born and reared
at Jefferson, told members of the
Rotary club, their wives and
guests at a ladies night meeting
held last Thursday night at Shat
ley Springs.
"You should, by all means, have
agricultural and manual arts
training departments in the high
schools so that the boys could be
taught to do more things to in
crease their income in the future
and to live here in Ashe and help
build a bigger and better county, -
he said.
Excellent progress is being
made in the county, but the pos
sibilities for further development
are numerous, Mr.. Coward de-
clared.
GAS a mecca for tourists, this
section is ideal and there should
be a modern hotel and golf course
constructed" he declared. "You
should also be advertising the adj
vantages, especially this cool eli
mate, to the rest of the world"
Another suggestion made was
the development of the electric
power possibilities in the coun-
ty. "a tremendous amount of
power could be generated on the
New River he said.
Mr.. Coward is the son of the
late and beloved DR.. Coward. He
has been living in Cleveland for
a number of years where he is
engaged in the banking business.
He was introduced to the club
by L. P. Coward, register of
deeds and cousin of the speaker.
The club will meet tonight at
the West Jefferson hotel and
Glenn B. GRAPHICAL is program
chairman.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-08-15
j. Everett Roland Is
Appointed AsSheriff;
Mrs. Miller To Assist
Compensation of Office to Be
Divided Equally Between
The Two of Them.
OFFICE CUT $4,000

Tuesday afternoon the board OF
county commissioners appointed
J. Everett Roland, of Clifton, well
known farmer and cattle man, as
sheriff and treasurer of Ashe
county, to fill out the unexpired
term of w. E. Miller, who COM
mitted suicide last week.
Mrs. Elizabeth Miller, widow OF
the deceased sheriff, was appoln-
ted clerk in the office Of the
sheriff and assistant treasurer and
tax collector, a position which
she has held for nearly four
years.
In making these appointments
the commissioners also reached
an agreement with Mr.. Roland
and Mrs. Miller, which provided
that each of them would receive
one half of the compensation to
the office.
At the same time, the commits
sioners reduced the compensa-
ton to the office in the amount
of around $4,000, which was said
to be as much as they could cut
the pay and commissions under
the present law.
AS a result of this reduction, il
is estimated that the total pay tc
the office will amount to approx
mately $500, which will be di-
vided equally between the two
appeiatees. - 80
The appointments will become
Continued on Page Eighty
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-08-15
May Take Month
Restore Train.
Service In Ashe
Track Are Severely Damaged.
Many Bridges Washed Out.
Train At Tuckerdale.

The tracks of the Norfolk &
Western railroad in Ashe county
and across White Top mountain
were badly damaged by the flood
waters and yesterday it was esti-
mated here that train service
cannot be restored for perhaps a
month.
A number of railway bridges
were washed away and miles of
track were left swinging in the
air with no roadbed underneath.
Even in the station at Lansing,
much damage was done when wa
ter rose to height of 4 feet in
side of the building. Four bridg-
es between here and Warrens-
vile were washed out and much
of the track Carried down
stream.
It will cost thousands of dol
lars to rebuild the line and may
take four or five weeks time. The
damage was said to be much
worse than in 1916 when it took
Is days to restore service.
It was reported yesterday that
the train only reached Tucker
dale Tuesday afternoon.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-08-15
Damage Estimated
Around $l,2l0,OOO;
Homes Destroyed
COmmunicatiSnsAr Cut Off;
Highways Impaired And
Bridges Washed Out.
CROPS HARD HIT

After four days of more or less
continuous rainfall, Tuesday
night Ashe experienced the worst
flood in the history of the coun-
ty, causing an estimated damage
to highways, crops, business pro-
perty, railroad and soil of be-
tween a million and million and
one-half dollars.
Practically all streams reached
a new high level, breaking rec
ords made by the disastrous flood
of 1916; and spreading over wild
er area. This time, the flood wa
tiers also proved to be far more
damaging than those which in
undated sections of the county
nearly quarter of century ago.
Numbers of families were left
homeless and others were forced
to evacuate. Practically all means
of travel and communication with
the outside world were cut off
and yesterday Ashe again be-
came more or less an isolated,
lost province. s...
A total of 9 bridges over the
New River in the county were
either partly or totally washed
away, and several bridges over
creeks were moved by the terri
fic force of fast-running water.
The foundation of a number of
hardsurfaced roads was washed
out and landslides were .1aumer-
Gus, particularly towards Horse
Creek section, up old is, to Boone
and in the Idlewild section.
The highway to Boone, which
CONTINUED on Page Eight
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-08-15
Silas Greek Man
Is Electrocuted
Was Instantly Killed While
Attempting to Attach To
An REA Line.

Funeral service was held Sat
urday for Walter Worth Brooks,
of Silas Creek who was Instant
ly electrocuted Thursday evening
when he touched a live wire
while attempting to connect ra-
dio to an REA line at the home OF
his brother-in-law Oscar Blevins.
Rev. w. E. Denny was in charge
of the service and burial followed
in the Barker Cemetery.
Brooks who was native or
Ashe county was only q at the
time of his death and was mar
ried a few weeks ago to Miss
Laura Church.
Those who witnessed the TRACE
dy said that the house was not
connected with the power line
and that Brooks secured a long
ladder and was attempting to
connect the radio. The minute he
touched the wire his hands were
badly burned and he fell to the
ground. His death occurred in
stantly.
G.. F. Messick, Caldwell mutual
official said that the wire prob
ably carried a $500 voltage. He
stated that several people had at
Continued on Page Flve)
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-08-15
Making Plans To
Open Schools On
Thurs, Aug. 20
Complete List of Teachers to
Be Published Next Week.
One Change Made.

Preliminary plans are now be-
ing made for the opening of
schools in Ashe county on Thurs
day, August 20, two weeks from
today.
In order to cooperate with the
county fair, the West Jefferson
high school will open two days
earlier.
A complete list of teachers will
be published in next weeks pa
per. The list was available in
time for publication today, but
due to the interruption in power
service, this list as we'll as some
other news was withheld until
next week so as to get the paper
out on scheduled time.
The Jefferson school got an ad-
ditional teacher in the high school
and Miss Bonnie Dickson has
been elected to fill that position.
Lawton Woodie has been added
to the staff at Nathan's Creek,
giving that school 5 teachers in
the high school department.
At the last county board of edu-
cation meeting, a study of en-
rollment and attendance in the
West jefferson district was made
and it was decided to transfer one
teacher from the grade depart
ment of the West Jefferson school
to the Duncan school. Supt. Hash
pointed out that the enrolment
at the Duncan school averages be-
tween so and go, which is too
much for one teacher. Which To-
cal teacher will be transferred
has not been determined, it is
stated.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-08-15
Medical Staff OF
Ashe Hospital To
Be Considered
DIR. Rankin, of Charlotte, Will
Meet With The Executive
Committee Today

DR.. w. S. Rankin, of Charlotte,
director of the Duke Endowment
Fund, is scheduled to meet this
afternoon with the executive com
mittee of the Ashe County Me-
mortal Hospital Association to
discuss the selection of a surgical
staff for the hospital, w. B. Aus
tin, president and chairman OF the
board of trustees, announces.
A number of experienced sur
geons have already filed appllca-
tions and due to DR.. Rankin's WIDE
knowledge and experience in ope-
rating hospitals and his interest
in the local institution, the ex-
ecutive committee invited him to
meet and advise with them IN THIS
highly important matter.
Careful consideration will be
given before any selections are
made, it is stated.
The members of the executive
committee are: w. B. Austin.
Wade Eller, J. B. Hash, REID
Sturdivant and Ed Anderson.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-08-15
British Are Meeting Attack
With Continued Resistance

Berlin had a 47-minute air raid
alarm this morning, and the big
wireless station at Bremen shut
down abruptly, a possible sign of
r. A. F. planes in the vicinity.
In the English channel itself,
a force of German warships-both
surface craft and submarines
was declared to have been beaten
off by British motor torpedoboats
in the dark hours of the morning.
The second attack upon the is
lands was not disclosed until long
after the guns were silent in the
channel, but these were its essen
tials as the admiralty described
the fight. a.
German reports indicated that
Continued On Page Five)
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-08-15

Adolf Hitler's long threatened
aerial blitzkrieg of Britain which
was launched in full this week
continued yesterday and today
with Britain meeting attacks with
deadly resistance.
The defense of this stubborn
island kingdom mounted in tenn
po with the mountaineering
threat of invasion, a threat en-
HANGED by a clash Of 1ight-draft
naval vessels in the channel dur
ing Tuesdays gigantic aerial con-
flict.
The British, despite their pre-
occupation with bringing down 50
German planes, apparently found
time to give. Germany new dose
Of her own medicine.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-08-15
Jefferson School
Building Project
Waiting Approval
Sent to WPA in Washington.
Proposed New Building
To Have Auditorium.

The Jefferson school building
project, which has been pending
for some time, has been approved
by district WPA authorities and
is expected to be sent to Wash
ington Immediately, it was an
nounced this week.
This project calls for the demo
1ition of the old school building
and the construction of a new
building on the same location
The new building will have c
classrooms and an auditorium.
The county board of education
and the Jefferson district board
are sponsors of the project. Nc
estimates on costs were an
nounced.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-08-15
Ashe Cow Club
Elects Officers
Interesting Discussion Heard
Met at Cheese Plant
Saturday.

Members of the Ashe County
Cow Production Club met at the
Kraft Cheese plant on Saturday
to perfect the organization and
to outline future plans.
Billy Owen, of Sturgill was
chosen as president Of the new
organization and Billy Joe Dixon,
of Nathan's Creek as secretary.
It was decided that the club
would hold regular meetings and
that the next meeting would be
held at the cheese plant, Aug. "a
Levern Johnson, manager Of
the Kraft Cheese plant, assited by
assistant county agent H. D
Quessenberry led a general dis
cussion on the care and treat
Continued on Page Four)
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-08-15
ALL COMMUNICATION
SERVICES ARE "OUT

Except for an open highway
between West Jefferson and
Boone West Jefferson and
Sparta, and West Jefferson and
! Trade, Tenn, this town Is cut
off from the rest Of the world.
The telephone and telegraph
lines are down and commune
cation service over them may
not be restored for two or
three days. The tracks Of the
N & w from Abingdon to West
Jefferson are severely dam
aged and completely torn up
for miles and consequently
there will be NO train service
into the town and county for
days and perhaps for a month.
OF course every effort will
be made to restore commune
cation service as quickly as
| possible.
The telephone and power
service I'm the Jeffersons how
ever, Is open.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-08-15
NYA Projects To
Be Continued

Mrs. Thelma Dent, county NYA
supervisor who has just returned
from the state meeting in Ashe-
willie pointed out that plans were
being perfected by the NYA to
coordinate with the national de-
tense movement.
These plans include 3 large
resident centers in N. c. where
around $500 additional youths
will be assembled she said. She
pointed out that number of the
county projects would be discon-
tinued, however, this does not ap-
ply to Ashe at the present time,
she explained.
Ashe projects were favorably
commented on at the meeting
when reports were made.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-08-15
Nation Wide Recognition To
Be Given Post Readers For
Outstanding Kindly Deeds

Persons whose kindly deeds are
worthy of being told to the en-
tire country are being sought in
this community through The Sky
land Post. Such humanitarian acts
need not be Of gigantic scope or
Notwithstanding Importance; what
matters principally is that there
be a genuine human interest sto-
ry, one that is calculated to in
spire those who hear it.
information sought is needed to
incorporate in the new radio pro-
gram Of Richard Maxwell on the
Columbia Broadcasting System,
"a Friend in Deed, which will
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-08-15

be carried in this section by sta
ton WBIG, Greensboro.
In addition to public acknow-
ledgment by radio, the benefac-
tor will be presented with suit
ably engraved medal as a token
of the broadcast. Many readers
Of this newspaper are doubtless
familiar with some outstanding,
meritorious, unselfish act Of a
neighbor, acquaintance or friend.
That is the sort Of story CHS and
WBIG, Greensboro, want and
need to insure the success Of the
series of real life, real fact sto-
Continued on Page Four)
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-08-15

RECORD RAINFALL
HERE THIS WEEK

Jupiter Pluvius set a new re-
cord for rainfall in Ashe cOun-
ty this week.
Joe Worth, u. S. weather Of
ficial reported 1926 inches fall
ling from six O'clock Sunday
night until six o'clock Wednes-
day night.
MIR. Worth said this was by
far the heaviest for that length
of time, which has ever fallen
in Ashe county, since he has
been keeping the records. The
heaviest reading for a 24-hOur
period was from 6 O'clock
Tuesday evening until six o.
clock Wednesday. This was
5.88 inches.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-08-15
CHARLESTON AND
SAVANNAH ARE HIT

Savannah, Ga. - A hurricane
which struck along a 15O-mile
stretch of South Atlantic coast
over the week end swept inland
with diminished force, leaving
Charleston and Beaufort, S. c.,
partially isolated as a result OF
storm damage.
The federal hurricane warning
system reported at $50 p. m,
Sunday, at Jacksonville, Fla, that
hurricane and storm warnings
had been ordered lowered from
Cape Hatteras, N. c., 10 Fernan-
dina, Fla.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-08-15
Fifteen Persons Are Killed
In Watauga County By Slides
Deep Gap Avalanche Des-
cribed as Awful. 500 Home
less In N. WilkeSbOrO.

Scores of people were killed in
Wilkes and Watauga counties as
death and destruction rode the
crest of the flood waters and
landslideS in those two counties.
AT deep Gap, just a short dis
lance to the left towards Wilkes
at the intersection of the Park
way, a huge n10l1nt,:i@ slide that
extended over a two hundred feet
area and travelled miles down
the mountain, swept everything
in its wake and wiped away two
service stations and several hOus-
es. Eight or ten persons were
killed, several others seriously in
jured and eight are still missing,
perhaps some being buried under
tons of earth. The complete list
of dead was not available, but in
cluded several Greens.
Two other avalanches in Wat
auga caused several deaths. w. L.
Townsend and his son, Roy at
Vale Crusis, were swept down
streams near their homes.
Rescue workers were busy all
day yesterday at Deep Gap try
ing to find the bodies Of all those
believed to have been victims OF
the landslide. Several are in the
hospital at Boone.
The death toll at North Wilkes
bOrO was not available, but the
town was hit hard. Fires that des-
troyed two Of the towns CHIEF
industrial plants, throwing 2,5Os
persons out of work and leaving
500 homeless, added to the ser
iOus conditions.
Galax was reported as being
the center of Virginia's flood de-
vastatiOn. There around 1000 are
said to have been. driven from
their homes, and many injured.
So far as could be learned
there were NO injuries or death:
in Ashe or Allegheny cOUntle:
from the flood.
The Northwest Carolina Utili
ties $4,000 power dam at Shull'
Mills i'm Watauga and the Boone
power plant were washed away
At Todd several buildings were
washed away, but no deaths o.
injuries were reported.
Damages at Lansing were re
ported at around $4,000. Stand
ard Oil storage tanks were flOate'
off. Victor Clark reported $1,OO
damage from waters in his store
Other stores in Lansing sutfere
greatly when about four feet o
water flooded through.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-08-15

Twenty-Five per cent Of the per-
sons killed in traffic accidents IN
this state from January to July,
1910, were driving at the time
they were killed.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-08-15

Pedestrian fatalities in this
state for the first six months OF
1910 decreased IL per cent from
those for the same period OF last
wear.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-08-15
AsHE COUNTY

is the unconditional section of
North Carolina whose altitude
ranges from 5000 tot $500 feet
above sea level. twenty-five miles
of the PARKWAY run through
the county.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-08-15
BELKvE-n-OR-NOT

The Skyland Post is the only
paper in North Carolina having
an audited circulation of over
three times the total population
of the town in which it is pub
lished.