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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-09-05

The 87th. annual session of the
Senter District Primitive Baptist
Association will convene at the
Horse Creek church near the
home of Joe Hampton tomorrow,
Saturday and Sunday.
A large representation from the
IL churches in the Association is
expected. These churches are:
Senter, Roan's Creek, Bear Creek,
Riverview, North Fork, Pond
Mountain, Horse Creek, Big Hell
ton, Beaver Creek, Pleasant
Grove, Silas Creek and Cranberr-
y.
Elder Ed Davis of Tuckerdale,
is moderator and Floyd T. Miller,
of Wagner, is clerk.
The following visiting elders
are expected to attend-E. o. Lii
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-09-05
Funeral Service
Held Monday For
W. IL. Wyrick, 48
Well known Local Man Died
Rather Suddenly. He was
A Great Trader.

Funeral service for William H.
Wyrick, age 48, who di1ts,,, rather
suddenly at his home here last
Saturday night, was held Mon
day morning at the West Jeffer-
son Methodist church, with Rev.
Hoyt Wood and Elder Worth De-
Wis in charge. A large crowd at
tended the funeral.
For some time he had been
suffering with high blood pres
sure and a kidney disease, but
death came rather unexpectedly.
Mr.. Wyrick was born and
reared near Jefferson and was
widely known throughout this
section where he was engaged in
a livestock, wool and produce
trading business for number OF
years. He was also a merchant
here for some time, serving both
wholesale and retail trade.
The deceased is survived by his
wife, who has charge of the local
telephone system; six children
Myrtle Jean, William, Daniel
Carl, Frank and Carroll; his mo-
Their, Mrs. Shade Wyrick Bare, Of
near Jefferson; two sisters, Mrs
Luther Wyles, of Elkin and Mrs
Roey Hall, of Wagner; three
brothers, Lester Wyrick, Of
Crumpler; Ben Wyrick, of JEFF
ferson and Everett Wyrick, Of
| Beaver Creek.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-09-05

tons hardest hit were along the
outskirts of the city.
Night bombers, however, at
tackled the industrial midlands
Northwest and southwest Eng
land, Wales and Scotland. Al
least IS cities reported raiders
heard overhead.
The r. A. F. continued through
the week to blast at French coast
towns and observers in England
saw anti-aircraft shells and
bombs bursting in the Calais re-
gion.
HELPING in the defense of Bri-
tain, newly-formed Czech
squadron was officially saluted
and credited with destroying sew
eral German planes during the
last few days.
Continued on Page Eighty .
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-09-05
To Hold Annual Session OF
Senter Assn. This Week End

ly, J. R. Foley, I. w. Kilby anc
Lowell Lilly, of West Virginia.
c. B. Kilby and S. G. Caudill, AL
leghany county; Teddy Ball and
Joe Thacker, Kentucky; F. P
Stone, Winston-Salem and w. j.
Brown, High Point.
Elder D. D. Rotten is pastor OF
the host church. Elders Worth
Davis, Ed Ham and Blair Kilby
will no doubt preach.
The Senter Association is the
oldest Association in the county.
The membership Of all its church.
es numbers around 400.
A large crowd is expected to
attend the annual session. All
roads to the Horse Creek church
are said to be in fair condition.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-09-05
w est Jefferson
Bond Election Is
Carried, 90 To 2
Street Improvement Project
Is Assured. Work Expec-
ted To Start Soon.
VOTE is LIGHT

By an overwhelming and al
most unanimous vote of SO to 2,
the voters of West Jefferson Tues
day expressed their approval OF
an ordinance passed recently by
the town board of aldermen, au-
thorizing the issuance of $4,000
worth of bonds for the improve
ment of streets and sidewalks.
The town fathers will meet to-
night in special session to make
final plans for the sale of the
bonds. This sale will be conduc-
ted by the State Treasurer and it
is understood that the First Nat
ional Bank here will be one Of the
bidders on the bonds, thereby in
surfing the sale.
No definite information could
be obtained as to how much time
will be required to complete the
bond sale, but it is estimated that
work will commence on the
streets within the next 80 to 60
days.
The money raised through the
sale of bonds is to be used to pay
the sponsors part of the $4,000
90 WPA project.
B. w. Jones, county supervisor,
said that he was sure sufficient
labor will be available when the
project starts.
Streets in the business district
will be the first to be improved,
it is stated.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-09-05
Local Group Met
With Highway &
WPAOfficials
Acute Highway Condition Is
Emphasized. Con. Dough-
ton Urges Aid.
SEE GOV. HOEY

An urgent appeal for an addi-
tional WPA allotment and extra
State Highway Department crews
to open up the roads in Ashe
county was made Tuesday night
by a delegation of local citizens
and Congressman R. L. Dough-
ton.
The group met with c. C. Nc
Ginnis, state WPA administra-
tor; Mr.. Crutchfield, district
WPA supervisor and z. V. Stew
art, district state highway engi-
neer, at North Wilkesboro.
It was explained that there are
hundreds of families in the coun-
ty who suffered flood losses and
that many of them need direct
assistance. It was also pointed out
that the damage to roads and
bridges by the two floods has
caused an acute problem and that
by adding flood victims to the
WPA rolls to work on the roads,
that two vital problems could be
solved at the same time.
The WPA officials and Mr.. Ste
wart promised to do all they
could to relieve the situation.
Congressman Doughton said
that he would contact WPA Of
ficials in Washington this week
to get an additional allotment for
the flood area.
"The situation is bad and I'm
going to do all I can to get re-
lief" he said here Tuesday.
Instead of attending the dedi-
cation service of the Smoky
Mountains National Park, Mr..
Doughton spent Sunday and Mon
say making a SURVEY IN lAllegha-
ny, Ashe, Watauga, Wilkes and
Caldwell counties.
He returned to Washington yes
terday. Il expect we will vote on
the draft bill in the House some
time this week and I've got to
get back" he asserted Monday.
"Of course I'm busy, but not too
busy to forget my home section
and district. The flood was GER
tainly terrible and destructive"
HIS said he had been so busy
checking on the damage over the
territory that he hadn't taken
time to estimate his own dam
ages, which were heavy.
The group attending the meet
ing included L. P. Coward, Miss
Anne Lindsey, Red Cross repre-
sentative here, Rev. and Mrs.
Hoyt Wood, H. D. Quessenberry,
w. B. Austin, Ira T. Johnston and
J. B. Hash.
Ed M. Anderson discussed the
same matter with Gov. Clyde
Hoey and Gordon Hackett Mon
day and both of them promised
to push restoration of roads and
bridges in the county as rapidly
! as possible.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-09-05
TO PUBLISH FAIR
ISSUE NEXT WEEK

Next week The Skyland Post
will publish an Ashe County
Fair edition, which will carry
full and complete information
about the Fair that is to be
held here on Sept. Ii, 10, 20
and FL.
1t will carry special messag-
es from local merchants. In adj
diti0n to The Posts large cir
culatiOn, hundreds of extra CO.
pies will be printed and dis
tributed in neighbOring cOun-
ties.
All merchants are urged to-
cooperate in making the edi-
ton a success and to have their
copy ready as soon as possible
in order that the edition may
not be late i'm making the
mails.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-09-05
Rotary Governor
To Speak Tonight
Ed X. Kills, of Concord, To
Pay Official Visit To
Local Club Today.

Ed K. Willis, who is engaged in
the hosiery manufacturing bust
ness and is member of the Ro-
tary Club of Concord, North
Carolina, will attend the meet
ing of the Rotary Club of Jeffer-
sons, on Thursday, Septem-
Der S, at 1880 o'clock, in his Off
cial capacity of Governor of this
Rotary District.
He will meet with President
Langdon L. Scott, Secretary Gale
Mcmillan, and other officers and
members of the Rotary Club of
Jefferson-West Jefferson to con-
suit with them and advise on
matters relating to club admins
tration and Rotary service activi-
ties.
Mr.. Willis was elected to the
office of district governor at the
1910 Rotary Convention which
was held in Havana, Cuba, dur
ing June, and will continue tc
serve until the 1941 convention
in Denver.
The 5000 Rotary clubs of more
than go countries of the world
are grouped into 149 districts
The 18TH district of which the
Rotary Club of the Jeffersons is
a part, consists of 43 clubs loca-
ted in cities of North Carolina
and has a membership of approx
imately 1900 Rotarians.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-09-05
ARREST DARNELL TUES.

Deputies Harve Goodman and
Walter Phillips Tuesday night
arrested Lundy Darnell at his
home at Glendale Springs.
Various papers for his arrest
have been issued for some time,
but officers had been unable to
catch Ashe county's elusive Slim
Jim.
Among other things, he is wan
ted for making threats on Earl
Sheets, officers said.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-09-05
Toe Neal Wins
Trip To Coast

J. F. Neal, general agent here
of the Occidental Life Insurance
Company, is leaving today for a
weeks trip to Wrightsville Beach
as the guest of his company.
Mr.. Neal won this trip by out
standing sales production during
the past three months.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-09-05

Salespeople were placed in H.
1913 jobs by local public employ
ment offices in three and one
half years in North Carolina.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-09-05
AsHE COUNTY

is the ir-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 Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-09-05
BELKvE-m-oR-Nor

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.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-04-11
Fleetwood High <
School News

Fleetwood Home Economics De-
partment was represented in the
Belk's fashion show by Vera
Houck and Billie Edwards in
West jefferson last Friday after
noon.
Prof. James A. Stanley made a
business trip to Chapel Hill this
week.
The seniors will present their
play, "Aunt Tillie Goes to Town" !,
April 20, in the Fleetwood audi
forum at 1880 P. M.
Louise Fletcher, a student in
the eighth grade, represented
Ashe county in the Journal and
Sentinel spelling bee held in Win
ston-Salem, Saturday afternoon.
The contest lasted three hours
and our contestant stayed in the
line until the end of the second
hour. The contestants were en-
tertained at a luncheon at the
Robert E. Lee Hotel in Winston
by the Journal and Sentinel. The
contest was won by Lewis Hayes
of Southern Pines, N. c.
Mesdames, Myrtle Swan and
Gertrude Vaught accompanied
Louise Fletcher to Winston Sa-
lem Saturday.
Honor Roll
The honor roll for the seventh
month is given below: first grade
Betsy Hughes, Wanda Lynn
Brown, Rufus McNeill, Ola Belle
Lemly, Esta Spaulding; second
Glenna Howell, Norma Lee Scott,
Anna Lou Greene, Betty Joe
Greene, Kathleen Greer, Iva Jean
Baldwin, Tommy Baldwin, Wan.
da MCGUIRE; fourth - Marlean
Hartzog; fifth-Robert Hartzog,
Helen Norris, Elsie Wilcox; sixth
Mary Greene, Jean Goodman;
eighth-Clara nellie Bledsoe, Ann
Cowles, Louise Fletcher, Edith
Yates, Othello King, Margaret
Hughes, Ella Goodman, Mona
Church; tenth-Pauline Miller,
Edith Greer; eleventh Ava
Goodman.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-04-11
Grassy Greek News

Miss Undine Nye, who is at
tending college at WCUNC, in
Greensboro, spent last week with
her mother, Mrs. F. c. Nye.
The Junior-Senior reception
was held Saturday night, which
everyone enjoyed.
Miss Madge Blevins and Miss
Albertine Walker were visitors in
West Jefferson Saturday
Mrs. leila Handy, Of Obids,
spent Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs.
c. G. Barker. =
The Masons had special meet
ing Friday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. A. GRAPHICAL,
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul GRAPHICAL and
son, Billy and Mrs. Straley Live
say were visiting in the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM GRAPHICAL in
Lansing, Saturday afternoon
Mr.. and Mrs. M. w. Reynolds,
Miss Myrtle Pugh and Miss Min
ME Haynes spent Saturday in
Bluefield, w. Va.
Mrs. J. c. Cline and children,
Jimmy and jamie, of Hickory, are
spending a few days with her pa
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. G. D. Stur-
gill.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hale Williams
visited Mr.. and Mrs. Boys Hcff-
man, Grant, Sunday.
Mrs. E. M. Osborne and daugh-
tiers, Claryce and Lorene, of
Roaring Gap, were dinner guests
in the home of Mr.. and Mrs. M.
F. Spencer Sunday.
Mrs. w. J. Pugh, Miss Myrtle
Pugh, Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Tho
mas were dinner guests in the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. E. Thomas,
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-04-11
Fashion Show
Well Attended
Many Schools In Contest
Sponsored by Belk's
Dept. Store.

The fashion show sponsored by
Belk's Department Store, for the
high school students of this coun-
ty, last Friday afternoon and
night at the Parkway Theatre
was well attended.
Around 40 students from the
various schools of the county en-
tered, with Nathan's Creek hav-
ing the greatest number.
The contestants were an
nounced by Mrs, Ed M. Anderson
who commended the excellent
work of the schools in home eco
nomics.
The winners selected by the
judges were as follows:
Cotton dresses: LIST prize-Bar-
bara Badger, jefferson; End prize
Helen Woodie, Nathan's Creek;
3rd prize-Mildred Gambill, Ma
than's Creek; 4th prize-Irene
Baldwin, lansing; honorable
mention - Ophelia Galloway,
West jefferson; Eva Bard, Ma
than's Creek; Mary Hazel Hodge,
Jefferson and Daphney Eller,
Lansing.
Silk dresses: 1st prize-Virginia
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-04-11
Graybeal's Will
Have l Cent Sale

It has been announced that
Graybeal's Drug Stores one cent
sale will open on Wednesday,
April II and continue through
Saturday night, April 20.
This original one cent Rexall
sale will enable customers to
literally purchase two for one in
many lines Mrs. GRAPHICAL said.
The sale which is Rexall pro-
motion will offer hundreds of
items in drugs, toilet goods and
other necessities on sale for one
cent. After the purchase of a sale
item is made the customer can
pay one cent more and get an
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-04-11

Here is farmer doing what thousands of ether farmers
have done during the past weeks signing his AAA Farm
Plan for 1910 There many the State who
have worked out their Farm Plan which essential
fore anv payments can be received for agrcu
tural conservation and soil building work this E.
Floyd AAA executive officer of n c. State College,
nounces that April the deadne for signing Farm Plans
There nothing binding about the Farm Plan something
happens prevent carrying out the practices listed then
farmer still his payments by carrying out other
practices named ON of the Farm Plan However
Floyd that every farmer who has not done should
Immediately visit his county AAA office and work out
plan There will of time beyond April Is The
farmers i'm the above picture are; left to right Claude
Falls of Faston George Wolf of Waco and Mike Borders
member of the Cleveland County AAA Committee
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-04-11
Egg Cookery
Is Important
Miss Mary Thomas, State Nu.
tritionist Offers Helpful
Suggestions.

There is difference between
"hard boiled" and 'hard cooked"
eggs, says Miss Mary E. Thomas,
nutritionist of the State College
Extension Service. Likewise, soft
boiled eggs may be hard cooked,
she says.
''In discussing the chow" of egg
cookery, Miss Thomas offered sug-
gestions in connection with the
second week of the Springtime
Egg Festival, consumer-pro-
Queer campaign to increase the
use of eggs, which begins April
IL. This drive has the support of
c. F. Parrish and other Exten-
sion poultrymen of State College.
The Southeastern Chain Store
Council, through P. D. May, it's
North Carolina representative, is
also active in the Egg Festival.
Miss Thomas explained that
eggs should always be cooked
slowly, at moderate, even heat.
High cooking temperatures make
eggs tough. "For either soft
cooked or hard cooked eggs with
tender whites" the nutritionist
said, "the eggs should be placed
in boiling water and then the YES
sci should be set back from the
heat where the water will sim
mer but not boil. For soft cook
ing, leave the eggs in the water
six minutes; for hard cooking, al
lowing 20 minutes. -,
"The same general method is
following in poaching eggs. That
is, the water should be boiling
when the eggs are put in, but the
heat should be lowered imme-
diately and the eggs cooked at the
summering temperature"
The State College poultry spe-
cialists point out that eggs are
cheap now, and the wise home
maker will use quantities of
them in the family meals, since
they are one of the protective
foods needed in every diet.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-04-11
Wilkes Man Cuts
Throat With Razor

North Wilkesboro.-Will Hig.
gins, 70, ended his own life Mon
day afternoon by slashing his
throat with razor, Coroner I. M
Myers said following an investi'
cation of the death.
Members of the family at the
home, two miles southwest OF
Wilkesboro, said that Higgins
went from his house to the gran
airy to feed the chickens and after
feeding them slashed his throat.
He had taken the razor from the
house. His body was found by
his son.
Coroner Myers said the lacera-
ton was deep enough to puncture
the jugular vein and the larynx.
He fell on his face and died al
most instantly. No cause was CIV
en- for the act but relatives told
the coroner that only recently
Higgins had taken a number of
strychnine tablets and said he was
going to die.
Surviving are his wife and four
children, Harrison Higgins, Bland,
Va; Lester Higgins, Wilkesboro;
Mrs. Worth Church, Moravian
Falls; c. J. Higgins, Wilkesboro.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-04-11
Helton News

Mr.. Wiley FISHERMAN is very il.
at this time.
Mr.. John Lee Davis has moved
to Cabin Creek. .
Mrs. Ella FISHERMAN is ill al
this writing.
Mrs. Minnie Paisley has gone
to Maryland. It has been repor-
ted that her son Bradley Blevins
was injured in an automobile &C.
cident there.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hurdle Hash are
the proud parents of a son, born
last week.
Rev. Edd Mcclure filled his re-
gular appointment at Baptist
Chapel, Saturday and Sunday.
Rev. G. L. Barker and Lee
Campbell, of Troutdale, visited
relatives in the community Sun
day.
Mrs. Ruth Paisley and little
daughter, are spending sometime
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
George Williams, of Buffalo.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-04-11

Church, Nathan's Creek; End
prize, Edith Rowe, Lansing; 3rd
prize-Eva Morton, West Jeffer-
son; honorable mention, Mary
Lee Witherspoon, Nathan's Creek.
Sharpe S. Shoemaker, manager
Of Belk's, said that he wished to
thank everyone who co-operated
in making the sewing contest and
fashion show a success.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-04-11

J. B. Webb of Chowan County
was highly pleased with the re-
suits of the sulphur busting dem
onstration he conducted with pea
nuts last year, reports N. K. Ro-
well, assistant farm agent of the
State College Extension Service.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-04-11

Oklabar is the name of a new
breed of chickens developed by
the Oklahoma A. & M. College.
Their sex can be determined as
soon as they hatch.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-04-11

at Grant, Sunday.
Mr.. Laurence johnson, of Mt.
Airy was a visitor here, Sunday
afternoon,
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-04-11

other.
Mrs. GRAPHICAL pointed out that
these sales create hundreds of
friends for Rexall products as
they enable customers to take ad-
vantage of a tremendous savings.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-04-11

Mrs. Vivian Spaulding and
daughter, Bobbie Lee and Mrs.
Fancy Vannoy of Oval, were here
Saturday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-20

a century, today's 80,0O0,OOO Germans
have become 250,000,0 900 Germans on the
continent Of Europe.
So far the record has been one Of CON-
plete success. Thirty millions of con-
Quered people have passed beneath the
German yoke They have become helotS,
condemned to perpetually inferior place
by a racial order that considers itself
superior. Conquered Poles have been up
rooted and sent to Germany for virtual
forced labor, while their fruitful farms
are awarded to Wurtemburgers plucked
with equal ruthleSsneSs from their anceS-
trail homes and sent to consolidate the
Polish conquest.
Thus the picture of a Germanized
Europe becomes clearer day by day. A
central European German Reich, in
habited by 250,OO0,000 Germans OF self
designated superior" race. A cluster of
conquered provinces around its edge, in
habited by "inferior" races, who would be
ruled politically and economically from
Berlin, allowed some fragments of their
own culture, perhaps, but never admitted
as equals of Germans, economically, polit-
ically, or socially.
Such a Europe, once established,
could not fail to influence the rest Of the
world at every point of contact. 1t would
be as though a vast new planet should
suddenly be tossed into the midst Of the
solar system. It's new gravitational pull
would affect the course of every body in
the system, setting up new influences,
paths and orbits. That is why the United
States cannot be Indifferent to the fate
of Europe.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-20
Redistricting Dangers

The Democrat, together with many
other newspapers in this state, has re-
NAMED consistently steadfast in its de-
mands for redistricting of our senatorial
and congressional districts. The time to
think about making these necessary
changes is now, for shortly we'll have
the figures of the 1910 decennial census
on which such a change should actually
be based And furthermore, as explained
SO many times, our state constitution spe-
officially provides for redistricting author
ization to be given in the year following
such census.
But there's no denying the fact that
any reapportionment, whether for sena-
torial or congressional districts, is diff
ficult proposition. 1t should not be
handled as a piece of patronage by the
Legislature, for example. 1t can't be
done this way because that would only
result in the same sort OF thing that's
causing so much trouble up in Massa
chusetts now. That state made
change in it's senatorial districts and
adopted such changes year ago. But
gerrymandering was charged and mas
much as Republican strength in the
Senate is almost bound to increase by
seven members, the charge might seem
to be justified.
If there is to be redistricting it should
he entrusted to a non-partisan board or
group Qf one can be made up) whose
sole concern will be to provide adequate
representation for the people of GER
tain territory in both the State Senate
and in the House Of Representatives OF
Congress. Even then there's going to
be lot of complaints, but we don't see
how all of them can possibly be avoided.
Redistricting, however, is virtual
necessity.