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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-09-26
Late Opening of Schools Pre-
vented Most Schools
From Participating.

On account of a delayed open
ing, the schools of Ashe county
did not have time to prepare for
participation in the fair last week.
However, VIC high school,
which opened a week sooner than
the other schools did, entered an
attractive exhibit and students
from this school participated in
the athletic contests, winning
first place for getting the high
est number of points in the high
school contests and second place
in the grammar grade contests.
The home economics department
also won exhibit prizes. The Hell
ton grade school won an $500
prize.
About the only other school
taking part in the athletic con-
tests was Healing Springs, which
won second place in high school
contests and first place in the
grade department. To this school
will go a voHey ball and play
ground ball. VIC gets a basket
ball, soft ball and bat. A. NJ
Jones, of West Jefferson, won
the broad jump.
The individual winners of the
athletic contests are as follows:
High School Boys
SO Yard Dash-1st, Elwayne
Sexton, VIC and End, Kent Dick
son, Healing Springs.
IS Yard Dash-1st, Joe Weiss
VIC; End, Blaine Cox, Healing
Springs; 3rd, Townley Lemley
Fleetwood.
High Jump-1st, Earl Baker
Healing Springs; End, Joe Wad'
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-09-26
Farm Program Of
1911 Will Follow
Defense Set Up
To Emphasize Maintenance OF
Abundant Supplies. Al
most Same as in 1910.

With national defense the para
mount issue in the country to-
day, the 1941 AAA farm pro-
gram has been designed to tie IN
closely with defense aims, says
E. Y. Floyd, AAA executive Of
ficer of State College.
The new program, which has
Just been announced, will en-
phasize conservation of the soil
and the maintenance of abundant
supplies through an ever-normal
granary plan.
Based on recommendations OF
farmer-committeemen who met
in Washington earlier in the sum-
mer, the 1941 program will fol-
low the same general lines of the
1899 and 1910 program.
Small farmers needs have been
given further consideration in the
new program, Floyd said. For in
stance, the provision under which
at least $40 may be earned on
any farm through conservation
measures will be continued in
1941. If as much as SIS is earned
by planting forest trees, any
farm may receive as much as $50
under the program.
The program also provides that
on small farms where the maxi
mum payment is not more than
$40, any part of the soil-bulld-
ing allowance may be earned by
carrying out locally adapted con-
servation practices not included
in the National program.
This provision will be applica-
BILE in designated areas where
needed, and the practices for
which payment will be made in
this special group will be recon-
mended by local committeeman
Likewise, Floyd said, in areas
where feed crops are not general
ly produced for market, any
farmer may grow as much as 81
acres of soil-depleting crops with
out mourning a deduction for ex-
ceeding the total soil-depleting
acreage allotment.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-09-26
Jurors For Oct.
Term Announced

The jury list for the October
term of Ashe superior court,
which was drawn this month by
the county commissioners, as as
follows:
J. S. Absher, Chestnut Hill;
Carmie Bare, Peak Creek; Ralph
Parsons, West jefferson, M. A.
Elliott, Laurel; ]. A. Reeves,
Chestnut Hill; A. L. Sheets, Peak
Creek; W. C. Edwards, Old
Fields; c. R. Francis, Walnut
Hill.
R. M. Howell, Elk; Banner
Baldwin, Hurricane; j. J. Will
liams, Peak Creek; Worth Greer,
Piney Creek; E. F. Gambill,
Chestnut Hill; Henry Teaster,
Grassy Creek; Henry A. Howell,
Old Fields; J. A. Vannoy, Walnut
Hill; S. w. James, Clifton; Nor
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-09-26
VOLUME 10, NO. 80
U. S. Population Cain Only
Z Percent In Last 10 Years
Total Is 131, 4O9,881. Which
Is Smallest Gain In
Any Decade.

Washington-The census bureau
announced this week that the
population of the United States
on April l was 131, 409,861. This
was a gain of z per cent since
1930-the smallest percentage in
crease in any decade of American
history.
The 48 states and the District
of Columbia reported 8,634,835
more residents than they did 10
years ago, but individual states
had widely differing stories.
By percentage, Florida gained
the fastest of the states, 27.9 per
cent, while South Dakota lost the
most, rs per cent. The District
of Columbia, where the number
of government workers has dou-
bled, outpaced all the states with
a 36.2 gain.
In actual numbers, California
gained the most, 1,196,437, and
Kansas lost the most, 1882.
The Z per cent national gain
was less than half the ratio in
any previous decade. Census Di-
rector William L. Austin said this
was due to a declining birth rate
and a virtual stoppage of immi-
grafton during the last 10 years.
From 1910 to 1920, the gain was
14.9 per cent, and from 1920 to
1880 it was 1871 per cent.
Austin said many sociologists
had predicted that, eventually,
the population would reach some
*.static" level and stop mcreas-
ing. While his bureau is unwil-
ling to make an official predic-
ton. he said the peak might be
reached in 1870 or 1880.
The effect of birth rate on the
population total was shown, he
added in the fact that the north
ern states accounted for only one
third of the national gain, while
the southern half Of the country
where the birth rate is higher
and the Pacific coast states ac-
counted for two-thirds Of the in
crease.
All the southeastern states had
important increases, New Eng
land barely gained at all, and in
dustrial states like New York and
Pennsylvania gained less than the
national average.
Parts of the Middle West,
where droughts and dust storms
have plagued the people, had
losses. The population declined in
North and South Dakota, Nebras-
ka, Kansas and Oklahoma. The
only other state to lose was Yer
mont,
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-09-26

$4,000, and would principally af-
feet the Seth Cavalry Brigade
(Texas), the 31st Division (Flori-
da, Alabama, Mississippi and
Louisiana), the 35th Division
Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri)
and the 36th Division (Texas).
The plan calls for mobilizing
1877 officers and men from the
seth Cavalry on November Is, at
Fl. Bliss, Tex, and the remainder
on November Is, at Camp Bland
ing, Fla, Camp Robinson, Ark,
and Brentwood, Texas. No addi-
tional guardsmen are to be called
until after January l..
The CONSUMPTION forms were
forwarded to be printed by the
millions locally, and were the
first of 81 cards, questionnaires,
placards, and booklets, which will
be sent out. The total printing
bill, it is estimated, will run to
$1,5OO,OOO.
Army officials computed that
they would need 100000 regis
tration cards, 24,OOO,OOO registra-
ton certificates and 24,O000,000
questionnaires. No explanation
was given as to the size of these
figures when compared with the
16,5O0,O00 who are to be regis
tered.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-09-26

man Greer, Piney Creek.
J. w. Day, West Jefferson; F.
M. Rotten, Clifton; Ambrose Pen
nington, North Fork; w. M. May
berry, Laurel; w. E. May, Cliff
ton; Mason H. Dollar, West JEFF
ferson; Gilbert Waddell, Helton;
Joe Humphrey, North Fork; l..
M. Faw, West jefferson; T. E.
Campbell, West Jefferson; Geo.
A. Perkins, Chestnut Hill
Walter Ham, Clifton; c. H. Hol-
land, West Jefferson; Fields
Sheets, Pine Swamp; Dent Spen-
Ger, Helton; J. R. Phipps, Wal
nut Hill; R. C. Graham, Hurri-
cane.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-09-26
KIDNAPPER OF CALF.
CHILD WAS CAUGHT

Hillsborough, Calf. - Three
year-old Marc De Tristan, Jr.
was kidnapped last Saturday by
a man who left a ransom note de-
handing 100000, and a few
hours later "a spokesman for the
parents, Count and Countess
Marc De Tristan, said the family
was ready to meet "all demands
of the man."
On Sunday the kidnapper, a
German, was arrested and the
child returned to its parents.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-09-26

ted as a flying cadet at Tulsa,
Oklahoma, on November 18, 1889,
and received his commission as
a second lieutenant in the air
corps reserve on July q, 1910,
at Kelly Field. He will serve as
a reserve officer on active duty
for a period of three years, or
until he is commissioned in the
regular army. Examinations are
held once each year for regular
army commissions. At the pre-
sent, he is assigned to the goth
Pursuit Group here.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-09-26
HOuck Now With
Air Corps Group
In California

Moffett Field, Calf, Sept. "a
Reporting for his term of active
duty for tactical training, fellow
ing the successful completion Of
the flying cadet course at Ran
dolph and Kelly Fields, Texas,
Lieutenant Louis T. Houck has
been assigned to this Air Corps
station.
Lieutenant Houck, formerly Of
Todd, N. c., is the son of Austin
Houck, also of Todd. He is a gra-
duate of Fleetwood high school,
at Fleetwood, and attended the
Appalachian State Teachers col
lege, Boone, North Carolina,
where he was member of the
dramatic club.
Lieutenant Houck was accep-
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-09-26
Plans Made For
Calling OF More
National Guards

Washington. - Tentative plans
for calling $4,000 more national
guardsmen to active duty in Nov
ember were announced by Secre-
tary Stimson, while airmail
planes rushed master copies Of
civilian draft registration forms
to central points in each state.
The new militia orders would
bring the total of guardsmen
mustered into active service to
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-09-26

Reedy, VIC.
Is Yard Potato-No contest.
Three-Legged Race-1st, Eller
Blevins and Irene Brooks, Heal
ing Springs; End, Ruth Walton
and Jessie Lee Reedy, VIC.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-09-26
AsHE COUNTY

is the air-conditioned section Of
North Carolina whose altitude
ranges from 5000 to $500 feet
above sea level. twenty-five miles
Of the PARKWAY run through
the county.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-06-06

Matte Kamp and Mr. and Mrs. 7. B.
limbaugh attended the funeral of
the late Mrs William Willard, Shady
Grove, West Va, on Sunday, and the
funeral of the late John Fike at Haz-
elton, W. Va, on Saturday.
Lloyd Jenkins and family spent Sun
day at Cove with Mr.. and Mrs. Olive
Glass.
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Frantz and
Mrs. Minnie Frantz returned to Cum
berland after visiting Miss Ida Frantz.
John Williams and son Darrell were
in Cumberland on Saturday where the
latter was under observation by an
optician.
Mrs. Robert Brown has returned to
her home here after visit at Union
town, Pa, with friends.
W. j. Glenn, principal of the local
school, with Betty Mccullough, Ellen
Thomas, Gladys Fike and James Skid
more, seniors, visited the Sang Run
school Wednesday morning to acquaint
students in the seventh grade with the
courses of study, work in the several
departments and the activities of the
school in general Further visits viii
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-06-06

| planned about Chronic summer wa
ter scarcity curbing production
schedules and furloughing of work.
men. One plant built dam on Stoney
River to impound water for its own
use, and another considered building
an auxiliary unit elsewhere.
River Board Organized
| To Tackle Problem
This was the situation in 1929 when
the Upper Potomac River Board was
organized to tackle the North Branch
pollution and summer water scarcity
problems at the insistance of Dr.. Rob-
ert H. Riley, director of the State De
partment of Health. 1t was an unoffi-
cial agency composed of State health
experts, engineers of the larger in
dustrial plants and representative OF
Cumberland's city government. High
points in the boards work were a
North Branch free of pollution, an es i.
innate of how much of a supplemental
flow would be necessary and survey
of rivers watershed to determine
where to erect inpounding dam.
This unofficial agency was succeeded
six years later by the Upper Potomac
River Commission. The General AS
sembly Act of April 30, 1885, which
created the commission, instructed it
to secure Federal assistance in fnanc-
ing an impounding dams construction
cost.
In June, 1885, the commission sub
mitted a project application to the
War Department to secure full Federal
cost participation in building an i'm
pounding dam. The application, how
ever, in the light of the proposed dams
"purely local" benefits, was referred
to the WPA for review as a workrelief
activity, and eventually it was indi
Gated to the commission that spon-
sor's contribution in excess of a mil
lion dollars would be necessary to make
it Federal project.
Federal officials say the dam pro-
ject will continue for twenty Eight
months. State WPA Administrator
says approximately a thousand relief
workers are being employed on its
various activities.
Since early spring work has been
progressing on the tunnel and dam it.
self until at present the tunnel is
within a few weeks of completion and
workmen before long will begin to fill
in the earthen structure.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-06-06

Mrs. Paul Friend, Mrs. Earl Guard
and Charles Welch were in Cumber-
land on Tuesday.
Miss Thelma Shultz, Somerfeld, is
here for a few weeks with her aunt,
Mrs. E. Shoemaker, who had been ILL.,,
but is now able to be out again.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Friend and
son spent Friday in Confluence with
the latter's sister, Mrs. Bayard Liston,
who is i'll at her home there.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Haenftling and
August Haenftling, of Accident, Wis
tied relatives here on Friday.
Milton Forsythe and Miss Leone
Selby went to College Park Friday to
attend the graduation exercises of
the formers son, Carroll Forsythe
The young man returned home with
them on Saturday night; also Mrs.
whitehall, of near Boston, Mass,
came here to visit for few days.
Mrs. j. w. Mitchell and sons, of
Oakland, were here on Wednesday
visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs
Clarence Wicklow.
George Funds and family, of Hag-
erstown, spent Sunday here with M.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-06-06

be made at an early date to the White
Rock, McCabe, Sand Spring and Asher
Glade schools.
Clarence Wicklow and family were
guests on Sunday of Mr.. and Mrs.
James Mitchell at Oakland.
William Smearman, Keyser's Ridge,
is here with his son-in-law and daugh-
ter, Mr.. and Mrs. Orval jenkins, for a
visit.
Miss Hope Welch and friend, of
Terra Alta, were guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Earl Statler over. the weekend.
Mrs. A. ]. Mason, Mr.. and Mrs.
Daniel Brown and Miss Lucille Ken
dali, Frostburg, visited Mr. and Mrs
Albert Phillippi on Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. U. Guilliland and
family, Hagerstown, were guests on
Sunday of Mrs. Effie Friend.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford Shipley and
family, Confluence, were guests on
Sunday of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Shevel
Miss Jean Young returned home
Sunday evening after visit in Wash
ington, D. C.
NJ. j. Forsythe was business caller
in HagerstoWn on Wednesday.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-06-06
By ALEXANDER LANE,
In the Baltimore Sunday Sun

Six and half billion gallons is a lot
of water-more than one will find in
two-thirds of Minnesota's 10000 lakes,
and well over a quarter of the capacity
of Loeb Raven itself. Attempts to Wis
ualize such a volume of it backed up
behind dam in an out-of- the-way,
narrow, winding valley in far Western
Maryland becomes little bewildering
to those who know that part of the
State. And yet, something like three
years hence a massive impounding
dam will stand in that Garrett county
valley and back of it will lie lake
more than three miles long and a mile
wide. Its dam wall depth will be ITS
feet, 70 feet higher than Conowingo's.
Cumberland Talking About Dam
For Six Or Seven Years
The lake isn't going to remain at
constant level. Each late October will
find it nearly empty; rains in the fall
and spring, melting SHOWS and the
natural flow of Garrett county noun
tain stream will fill it again. Then i'll
early July each year, outlet conduit
valves are to be opened and the i'm
pounded water discharged in method
zeal daily installments into the North
Branch of the Potomac River through
out this rivers low flow season.
through July to early October-in
sufficient quantity to meet water needs
of all Potomac River valley industrial
establishments in the Cumberland area
and at the same time relieve what the
State Health Department calls ma
jor pollution problem.
Marylanders have heard much about
the Savage River Dam. Cumberland,
twenty-five miles downstream to the
northeast and its chief beneficiary,
has been talking about it for six OF
seven years. Had local financing been
possible, the dam would be functioning
today.
The Upper Potomac River Commits
sion acquired rights of way and the
Works Progress Administration start
ed operations last fall.
1t has been necessary for Allegany
county to match the 81 ,882,3OO WPA
ALLEGATION with a local contribution of
$987,79O. Last spring the Legislature
authorized the Allegany County Com
missioners to raise the necessary cash
with a million-dollar bond issue. These
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-06-06
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

THIS is TO GIVE NOTICE, That the sub,
scriber hath obtained from the Orphans Court
of Garrett County, Maryland. Letters OF Adj
ministraton the estate of
RICHARD w. BECKMAN,
late of Garrett County, Maryland, deceased All
persons having claims against the deceased are
hereby warned to exhibit the same, with tne
vouchers thereof duly authenticated, to the SUD-
scriber on before the Both day of November
1910, they may otherwise by law be excluded
from all benefit of said estate. All persons
knowing themselves indebted to said estate
are requested to make immediate payment
Given under my hand this 2Sth day OF May
1910. MARY E. BECKMAN,
Administrative,
Swanton Maryland.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-06-06
LOOKING FORWARD
By FRANKLIN MAILMAN
Publicity Director, Republican National Committee

tative government failed. It's first OBJ
ject was to destroy the two-party sys-
tenn and if that had succeeded we
would have the same situation that
exists today in Germany, Italy and
Russia. Ironically the New Dealers
proposed that in preparing to defend
ourselves from one-man government
in Europe, we should establish one
man rule in this country.
Lest anyone think all of this has
been said in partisan spirit, let them
turn to a recent column written b.
General Hugh S. Johnson, a Demo-
crat, one-time high ranking New
Deal official and patriot who loyalty
served his country for many years in
the army.
"This barefaced use of a national
crisis for the purposes of partisan
political attempt to perpetuate a par
ticular President and increase his
powers" General Johnson wrote of
recent events in Washington, sis the
blacklist mark with which this Adj
ministration has yet smirched its own
record-more impudent and impious
than the 1887 conspiracy to revolu-
tionize this to personalized govern
ment by the court-packing and other
Detected legislative plans-worse than
the purges and the WPA political brib-
cry and coercion of 1888. AS in those
other cases there is strong hope that
its stencil is SO great that it can't be
swallowed"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-06-06

and Mrs. B. w. Frantz. Mrs. Jack
Rumbaugh and children, who had Wis
tied here for a week, returned to Their
Hagerstown home with the FUND.-,
family.
George Coddington and Playfore
Ryan, Washington, visited relative,
here over the weekend.
Miss Columbia Pritt and friend of
Hopemont, w. Va, spent Saturday ev.
ening with Mr.. and Mrs. Adair Dailv
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Lyle and son and
E. V. Thomas visited Mrs. James Hiles
at Maple Summit, Pa, Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. ]. Black visited
friends at Confluence on Sunday.
The Methodist Ladies' Aid will meat
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Oryal
Rush Thursday evening. Husbands Of
the members are invited.
Miss Mildred Mcclellan, Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Timmons, Mrs. Georgia
Hamill and Miss Beatrice Lininger, all
of Baltimore; Mrs. Glenn Barnett and
daughter Leah and Miss Clara Lin.
niger, all of Akron, o., left here on
Thursday after being in Friendsvillo
for few days to attend the funeral of
their relative, the late Adam LINN.
per on Wednesday,
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas B. Hinc.
baugh had as guests over Decoration
Day and some until Sunday Mr.. and
Mrs. Mason Lowdermilk and sons
Vernon and Douglas, Mr.. and Mrs.
Lawrence limbaugh and family and
Miss Alvatine Sharp, all of Akron,
O.; Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Hinebaugh and
family, Blooming Rose; Mr.. and Mrs.
William Casteel and son Dana, Mr.
and Mrs. Arprentis DeBerry and Mrs.
Ethel DeBerry, Terra Alta, and Mr..
and Mrs. William Boatman, Morgan.
town, w. Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Holman and sons
John, Jr., and Harry, left Sunday for
Baltimore to witness the graduation
of another son, Wallace "Bud" Ho.
man, at Johns Hopkins University on
Monday.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-06-06

TODAY'S GENERATION of youth,
far from having to face dismal fu-
ture without hope of jobs or any
thing beyond subsistence living, will
find that as result of industrial
progress, born of research and tech
biological advances, there will be new
frontiers to conquer far exceeding
in promise those physical frontiers
of the past which won for America
the name Land Of Opportunity"
This was the encouraging mes
sage which several hundred stu
dents, representative of American
youth of college age, received from
leaders of American thought at a re-
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-06-06

More than that-ff an economy such
as Senator Byrd proposes should be
adopted, it would raise their repre-
sentatives in the esteem of the people
and reconcile them to the even heavier
taxes bound to come. The difficulty is
that Mr.. Roosevelt has opposed con-
sistently every effort to cut down.
Still, sufficient public sentiment may
hange him again. Pressure of one
sort has made him abandon the plan
of borrowing without taxes. Pressure
of another sort forced him to modify
his plan to put the industrialists re-
Gently brought to Washington under
Mr.. Harry Hopkins. Perhaps pressure
can bring him to the point of favor
ing vital economy in a great crisis.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-06-06

cent dinner given by Alfred P. Sloan,
Jr., Chairman of General Motors, at
the Corporations Highways and
Horizons exhibit at the New York
Worlds Fair.
Recognizing that youth today faces
serious problems of adjustment just
as society does as whole, these
leaders nevertheless expressed the
conviction that new inventions and
new products, tanning out on an
ever broadening industrial front,
would open up frontiers far more
limitless than those Horace Greeley
had in mind when he said, go west,
young man."
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-06-06
ORDER NISI.

Ernest Ray Jones and Walter W. Dawson
Assignees for the Purpose of Foreclosure w.
Michael P. Smith and Anna Smith, his wiie'
No. 1856 Equity. In the Circuit Court for Jar
rett County, Maryland
II is ORDERED, This 18th day OF May
l940 by the Circuit Court for Garrett County,
Maryland, in Equity, that the sale made anu
reported of the property mentioned IN tnt e
proceedings by Ernest Ray Jones and Walt
W. Dawson. Assignees, be ratified and con-
hrmed, unless cause to the contrary thereo'
be shown on or before the 18th day OF june
1910; provided a copy of this order De IL,
serted in some newspaper printed in Care"
cessive weeks before the 18th day of June l'tv
The report states the amount of sale 70 Oe
100000. A. G. ROSS, Clerk
True copy-Test: a G. ROSS. Clerk.