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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-10-02
MUCH INTEREST SHOWN
IN NAVY CAMPAIGN

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smoking stand, Rhodes Furniture
company; carton Of cigarettes,
Ashe Motor company; shaving kit,
GraybeaPs Drug store; billfold,
Langdon Scott; necktie, ]. F.
Scott & Son; "housewife", Blue
Ridge Electric Membership corp
Grafton.
Charles Stellar, commander of
the Ashe post of the American
Legion and a former Navy man
who spent 16 years in the SER
vice, states that the local Legion
post is one hundred percent back
of the Navy recruiting campaign.
eve are now making plans to
have all young men interested in
joining the Navy to attend our
October II meeting of the post, ="
he stated few days ago. Mem
bers of the county's Naval COM
mittee and school principals are
also boosting the campaign.
The latest statement concern
ing the Navy's ship-building pro-
gram brings the total number OF
new ships ordered since January
l, 1941, to 2,831-with 968 of these
ships already under construction.
Production line methods are be-
ing used wherever possible and a
pronounced speed-up has been &C
complished by the institution OF a
48-hour week and three-shift
24-hour day. $4,000 men are al
ready employed in shipyards and
another $4,000 men will be add
ed to this force of workmen who
are speeding ships down the ways
at the rate of at least one every
ten days.
AS a result Of this speedy
building program, the Navy is
now taking accepted new quail
fled men for training at the rate
of $4,000 to $4,000 month: These
men will be sent to one of the
four Naval Training stations.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-10-02

The U. S. Navy campaign for recruits
that was launched in Ashe county last
week through this paper, is already attract
ing considerable attention and interest. We
appreciate the fine cooperation offered by
Commander Charles Stellar, of the Ashe
post of the American Legion and by men
who have served in the Navy to boost the
drive. The Navy. and Naval Reserve offer
many advantages to young men to secure
valuable training and to serve their coun-
try. Enlistment now is for the duration of
the national emergency and number of
young men who have already been in our
office state that they prefer the Navy to
the Army All men between the ages of
II and 80 are cordially invited to stop in
and secure free copy of the booklet, "Ev-
erything you want to know about Life in
the u S. Navy.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-10-02
N. c. Utilities Comm.
Raleigh, N. c.
Sept. 80, 1941

Mr.. Ed M. Anderson
N. c. Press Association
West Jefferson, N. c.
Dear Mr.. Anderson:
I appreciate very much your
letter of September 26.
The Commission felt that the
nature of the telephone service
in West Jefferson and surround
ing territory warranted pretty
thorough investigation. believe
that we now have all of the facts.
The Commission will proceed as
promptly and as effectively as
possible in having the unsatisfac-
tory conditions improved.
I very much enjoyed being IN
jefferson and holding the hear
ing. The evidence was presented
in the most orderly manner OF
any hearing over which 1 have
presided. You and Mr.. Johnston,
7 am sure, were responsible for
all of this.
With highest regards, I am
Yours very truly,
HARRY TUCKER,
Commissioner
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-10-02
Il Would Again
Take The Navy
FordDealer Says
B. B. GRAPHICAL Served Eight
Months in the Navy Dur
ing World War.

IF I were young and subject
to military service, would again
choose the Navy as fast as I
could get there" B. B. GRAPHICAL,
local Ford dealer and World War
veteran, stated yesterday in dis
cussing the U. S. Navy campaign
now being launched in this coun-
ty for recruiting.
Mr.. GRAPHICAL served 8 months
in the Navy during the last war.
He was on the U. S. S. Arkansas,
27000-ton warship.
On this battleship he saw some
real service, too. fortunately, we
were only under fire one time"
he said. "On the morning of Oct.
%, 1918, German submarine
fired on us and only missed us
about 20 yards"
This ship was also present
when the German fleet surren-
dered on November 81, 1918.
Yes, l would choose the Navy
because it offers more vocational
training and I think, better op-
portunities for advancement" he
declared.
'When I went into the Navy I
only weighed 125 pounds and
when came out 8 months later,
I weighed 100 pounds and was
every inch a man. Frankly, I
would not take any amount of
money for my service in the Uni
ted States Navy"
Mr.. GRAPHICAL advanced from a
second class seaman to seaman's
rank.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-10-02
NEWSPAPER
WEEK BEING OBSERVED
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have a free press. jefferson, the
greatest of our apostles of dem
ocracy, put a free press as essen
tial to all other freedoms and to
democracy itself.
can informed press is one of
the great bulwarks of the people.
In any democracy, the people on
the street must be we'll informed
if democracy is to work and en-
dure; and the press and the radio
constitute the only means of
keeping our citizens up with what
is going on.
"The converse Of this is of
course true; it has been demon
strated that the first step of dicta-
tors is always to clamp down on
the freedom of the press and
freedom of speech and worship.
At the present moment, it is true
that only on the American con-
tinent do the worker and the
housewife and citizens generally
have the privilege of reading
about the world and its events
and about their neighbors with
out the obscuring touch of CEN
sor's pencil.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-10-02
Paragraphs

We have just learned with keen interest
that DIR. R. E. Repass, of Miami, Fla, who
recently purchased the Bromine-Arsenlc
Springs property, is planning extensive I'M
provements and modernization OF this
widely known summer and health resort
Having lived in Florida for a number OF
years, Dr. Repass appreciates the value OF
the tourist business and realizes how to
get it. 'Todays tourists and vacatlonlsts
are demanding good accommodations and
recreation facilities" he said few days
ago. "This section is. much more beautiful
and cooler than, the Asheville area and we
will get plenty of business if we advertise
for it and prepare to take care of it." With
those statements we are in perfect accord
and we congratulate DR.. Repass upon his
plans and hope that he will also build
small golf course.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-10-02
Nations New Defense Tax
Bill Went Into Effect Wed.
Ten Percent to Be Added to
Price of Many Articles
In Future.

The gigantic new defense tax
bill, recently passed by Congress
and designed to raise nearly four
billion dollars annually, became
effective yesterday.
Even here in this town, prac-
tically everyone is realizing the
effect of this new tax bill, which
includes a large number of items.
The first taxes to be felt are
the 10 per cent excise taxes added
to the retail prices on jewelry,
furs, cosmetics, toilet prepare
tions, electrical appliances, watch
es, and other specific items.
The customer will pay this 10
per cent direct to the merchant,
who will in no instance be al
lowed to make it appear that he
is absorbing the tax.
The tax must appear on the
sales slip given the customer and
a duplicate of which is to be re-
tanned by the merchant. It must
be listed as a separate item and
be ten percent of the retail price
paid.
Other items included in the
new tax bill are: 5 cents per
pound on rubber Gall tires); 7 per-
cent on factory purchase price of
automobiles, 10 per cent on tele-
phone calls and kilograms; more
taxes on radios, refrigerators,
washing machines, etc.
AS result of the tax on rub
Der, prices on tires here advanced
yesterday from $1.30 on some
passenger car tires to 1925 on
truck tires. All dealers had to
pay a floor tax of 212c per pound
on all tires on hand.
Single persons who make as
much as $3.50 per year and mar
ried persons who earn as much
as $500 per year, will have to
file income tax returns next
March.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-10-02
Lighting The Way!

Today our government, through no fault
of it's own, is in the midst of the greatest
national defense effort and worldwide ar
senal of Democracy program that has ever
been known.
The turn of world events has made it
imperative for us to prepare to defend our
way of life at home and abroad and the
hour may not be far distant when we will
be face to face with an active war across
two oceans,
The Dictator nations are plainly out to
conquer or control the world and to des-
troy the Democratic system of government,
that type of government which has made
America great and which we love above
everything else.
In Dictator nations, such as Germany,
Italy and Japan, the state is supreme and
the individual is comparatively nothing,
while Democracy regards the individual
citizen as being supreme, and its govern
ment is founded on the principle of "gov
eminent of the people, by the people and
for the people,.
Instead of promoting an informed public
and of listening to an informed public
opinion, the officials of these Dictator ma
tons tell their citizens what to think, what
to do, what to eat, and what to believe.
They do not allow any freedom of speech,
freedom of worship, freedom of assembly
OF, freedom of press. They severely punish
people who criticize the government, they
control all newspapers and radios and do
not permit the people to worship accord
ing to the dictates of their own hearts or
to gather as free citizens. The people are
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-10-02
Tucker Fined
Several Monday

John H. Blevins, of West JEFF
ferson, discovered that chickens
are not to be shot at, on Monday,
when he was brought before
Judge H. c. Tucker, charged with
shooting fowls belonging to Char
lie Davis. Judgment, however,
was withheld until next Monday.
Frank Greer, of Todd, and Arlie
Brooks, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, both
charged with public drunkenness
were each fined SIS and costs.
Stanley Patton was fined SIS and
cost for driving by a school bus
which had stopped on the high
way. Judgment as to fine was sus-
pended upon the payment of cost.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-10-02
Many Attended
Lewis Reunion
By REV. S. S. GRAPHICAL

Approximately five hundred
people attended the Lewis Re-
union held at Three Forks Bap-
fist church near Ashland. Sunday
September %, 1941. People were
present from Oklahoma, Kansas,
West Virginia, Virginia, Tennes-
see, Pennsylvania and North Car
DINA.
Many interesting facts were
brought out in connection with
the Lewis family. Col. Gideon,
Nathan, Isaac and Hiram Lewis
and their father (whose name is
unknown) were among the first
white men to cross the Blue
Ridge to settle in Ashe county.
Col. Gideon was born about
1882. He was captain in the war
of 1912 and trained a company
of men near Creston, North Car
Dina to fight in that war but the
war closed before they reached
the battle front. He was a great
hunter and traded with the In
dians. At one time he owned all
the land from DR.. w. J. Robin
sons place at Creston, North
Carolina to Hamilton Lewis place
near, Parker. His home was To-
Gated on this grant of land. He
became a charter member of the
Three Forks of North Fork Of
New River Baptist church in
1885. He was a very prominent
member of their old church
which was first located on his
land and is now 106 years old.
Many of his descendants live in
Ashe county, some in Tenn,
Maryland, Pennsylvania, Okla
homa, Kansas, Kentucky. Cali
fornia, Washington and Oregon,
and some whereabouts unknown.
Rev. T. A. Farmer. of Lansing.
Rev. Roy P. Jones. of Creston, and
Rev. Carl Sturgill, of Lansing,
preached interesting sermons dur
ing the day.
Rev. S. S. GRAPHICAL read his
tory of Three Forks Baptist
church and took an offering to
be applied toward the erection OF
new building for the old home
church of the Lewises. $1,000
was received from the congrega-
ton.
Mrs. Bertha Lewis Mahala read
the history of the Lewis family.
Special singing was rendered by
the Ashland Quartet, the Lewis
Quartet, of Milan, the Rotten
Quartet, of Hemlock. and Mr..
Vernon Lewis, Evangelistic Singer
of Fig.
Basket lunch was served on the
ground. Mrs. Bertha Lewis Ma
hala, of Ashland, was elected
president and Mrs. Frank Lewis,
of High Point, secretary. The
date of the reunion for next year
will be announced later. 1t will
be held at Three Forks Baptist
church.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-10-02
LIVESTOCK MARKET
HAD RECORD SALES
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Sales are held each Thursday
afternoon and the local market
has never failed to have a sale
each week since its opening. A
large number of buyers are al
ways on hand. Sales usually last
from 3 to 6 hours.
The market is owned by MIR.
Segraves and Walter Stringer. Lu-
Their Davis is auctioneer and Bill
Hughes is office manager.
The West Jefferson Livestock
market is one Of the largest and
most successful in this section OF
the state.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-10-02
The Loss OF Kiev

Russia has admitted the loss of Kiev, it's
third largest city, capital Of the Ukraine
and bastion of the immensely rich indus
trial area west of the Volga river. Kiev
was one of the Red army's three main de-
tense fronts, with Moscow in the center
and Leningrad on the north as the still re-
naming symbols of Soviet resistance
The fall of Kiev is significant for a va
riety of reasons. To begin with, it's name
has historical, religious and intellectual
associations treasured by generations of
Russians. In ages past it was the capital of
all Russia, ranking with London and Paris
as a commercial center. It has many tech
nical schools, scientific laboratories and
museums, as we'll as national library of
100000 volumes. In 988 A. D. it beanie a
religious center through St. Vladimir, who
established the Greek church as the Rus
sian state religion. Thousands of pilgrims
visited Kiev every year, and through the
centuries it became the "Ukranian Jerusa-
lem"
In recent years Kiev has experienced
commercial renaissance because of it's stra-
tegic location on the Dnieper and its web
of railway connections with all parts of
Russia. The great bulk of Ukranian indus
try, however, is concentrated east of Kiev,
the area toward which the Germans are
now driving. Kharkov, the next Nazi OBJ
jective, produces tractors, machine tools,
locomotives and similar heavy manufac-
lures in distinction to Kiev's consumer
goods industry. K ar k VS. industrial
wealth, according to our own Department
of Commerce, is about one-half by value
in all the Ukraine. A half-dozen other CEN
tiers of heavy industry Makeyevka, Stall
no, Konstantinovka and Voroshilovsk
among them-of the Donetz basin are adj
jacent to Kharkov and in the path of the
German advance.
While Kiev's loss therefore is not criti-
cal in itself, the capture of it's industrial
satellites would be body blow to Russia's
industrial resources. It is as though ION
much larger scale, of course) commercially
important New York had been conquered
with an enemy driving on toward Pitts
burgh, Akron, Cleveland, Detroit and other
American industrial cities Though the
comparison is disproportionate it offers
some illustration of the meaning of Kievs
conquest to Russians If carried to the con-
illusions suggested by Germany's continu-
ing and rapid advance from Kiev to the
east, the consequences will be graver by
far than either Russia or her allies might
like to admit-The Asheville Citizen.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-10-02
LIBERTY GROVE BAPTIST
Rev. Villas Minton, Pastor

Sunday school each Sunday
morning at 1000 a. m. except the
second Sunday we will have our
Sunday school at 100 p. m. S. B.
Howell, superintendent. Preach
ing the second Saturday at HOO
a. m. and Sunday at 200 p. m.
Our revival begins the second
Sunday night in October. Bro
Their Carl Triplett from Zionville
will do the preaching. We are
praying for an old time revival.
Hear Habakkuk's prayer; O Lord,
revive thy work in the midst Of
the years, in the midst of the
years make known in wrath re-
member mercy.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-10-02
All Violators OF
AttendanceLaW
Are To Be Tried

Paul w aver, compulsory
school attendance officer for Ashe
county, has announced that trials
for the violations of this law had
been postponed until Saturday,
Oct. 4.
Six more warrants were issued
last Saturday. Mr.. Weaver pointed
out that the strict enforcement of
the law this year was helping at
tendance and he felt would con-
tinue to do so. ~
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-10-02
SOUTH FORK BAPTIST
Rev. Villas Minton. Pastor

Sunday school each Sunday
morning at 1000 a. m. E. R. Mi
keal, superintendent. Prayer SER
vices each Wednesday night at
7:45. Preaching each second Sat-
urday night at 1880.
Bring the children and attend
all of these services. Take the adj
vice Of the Book. Train up a child
in the way it should go; and when
he is old he will not depart from
it. Proverbs 1915.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-10-02
AAA COMMITTEES
WILL BE ELECTED

Continued from Page One)
100 p. m. - West jefferson
township, West jefferson high
school gym.
800 p. Mold Fields and Elk
townships, church at Baldwin.
Wednesday,, October Is
1000 a. m.-Clifton township,
Clifton post office.
2:3O p. m.-Horse Creek town
ship, White Oak school.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-10-02

The nations en- tire surface
transportation system, including
railroads, water and motor car
riers, is being studied by a Con-.
gressional board to determine flu
ture possibilities in defense.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-10-02
West Jefferson
Stock Market
Report, Sept. Is

322 head sold for $14,642.53.
The following prices were paid
this week:
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-17

SAN DIEGO, Feb. II (UP)-Flyine
one of the smallest two place planes
built, two Burlingame, Calf, den
fists were due here today to start
a 14,0OO-mi round trip flight to
Buenos Aires.
Drs. Cecil Smith and Joseph j.
Lorenz will hop for Mexico City
as soon as they pass their customs
inspection at Mexicali. They were
forced down by bad weather at
Palmdale last night from San Fran
cisco in their tiny Culver Cadet, a
monoplane with Wingspan OF only
81 feet and powered by 75-horse-
power motor.
The dentists are not noviceS at
long distance flying. Last year they
made an $500 mile flight to Pana-
ma and returned in little less than
two weeks. On that occasion they
flew a Stinson monoplane.
Permission for the men to make
the flight was given yesterday by
civil aeronautics administration and
the state department. They carried
only 10 pounds of jerked beef for
emergency rations and small re-
volved for protection should they
be forced down in the jungles.
Hating briefly at Central Amei-
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-17
Fire Adds Terror to Destruction
Wrought by Hurricane in Portugal,
Northern Spain; Thousands Injured

- LISBON, Portugal Feb. II, CUP)
Fire added terror and destruction
today to a devastating hurricane
which swept Spain and Portugal
during the weekend.
Communication with the stricken
areas still was disrupted but more
than 1G0 persons were reported
killed and thousands injured. Pro-
perty damage was inestimable.
Reports from San Sebastian, the
former summer capital of Spain,
said that fires in nearby Santander
still were out of control and the
federal troops had been rushed
there to fight them. Among the
buildings destroyed were the ca
thedral and the Hotel Royal Con-
tinental. Part of the Santander
branch of the Bank of Spain was
destroyed. but money, documents
and securities were said to have
been saved At least zoo homes
were said to have been destroyed.
Twenty persons we're killed and
100 were injured in a train wreck
near San Sebastian during tn e
height of the storm according to
reports reaching Lisbon. Reports
from Madrid said that the tempera-
ture had risen to Is degrees after
three weeks of intense cold Com
municationS between Madrid and
northern provinces had been dis
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-17
Robert Tackett
Cut. Bruised When
Machines Collide
San Diegan Fined For
Drunk Driving After
Highway Accident

Cuts and bruises and Il
smashed automobile were the
share for Robert Tackett of
Ell Centre Monday in an au-
tomobile accident early Sun
day morning about four miles north
of Imperial.
Tackett, driving south toward I'M
perial, was struck by machine
driven by Tally Louis Holloway, 20,
of San Diego, formerly of Brawley.
Holloway was fined $50 in Imperial
police court Monday on drunk
driving charge.
Tackett's father. Ell Centre Officer
Jack Tackett, reported that the Hal
loway car. travelling north, was or
the wrong side of the road when il
sideswiped his sons machine, fore
ing him into the ditch. Young Tack
EFT suffered superficial cuts ano
bruises. Holloway, meanwhile. went
on without stopping. A blowout tire
finally halted him three quarters
of q mile from the accident scene
Young Tackett was picked up by
a Lieutenant Cole of the 11th Cav
AIRY and driven to a physicians Of
flee in Imperial. Then Lieutenant
Cole drove back to the accident
scene, located Halloways car and
brought the driver to Imperial. Hal
loway later failed TO pass sobriety
test and was lodged in the county
jail.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-17
Turkey
Backs
Down
Pact May Open Up
Bulgaria to Nazis,
Diplomats Believe
BY UNITED PRESS

Bulgaria and Turkey Mon
day issued a non-aggression
declaration which may open
the Balkan road for German
troops to attack Greece without
fear CT Turkish Intervention.
The declaration pinds Turkey and
Bulgaria against mutual aggression.
There Is no mention in the joint
declaration or the possibility OF
Nazi troop uacyement into Bulgaria
"a movement which the British
contend is already under way-or
The Turkish alliance with Great
Britain which has been expected
to bring her into the war at Brit
aims side in the event Of Ger
man offensive close to the strategic
DardanelleS.
The declaration OF neutrality,
friendship and non-aggression car
rieS preface in which it states that
it does not prejudice engagements
contracted with other countries"
This language would cover both
a Bulgarian agreement to allow
Nazl troops to come in and the
Turkish alliance with Britain.
There is no guarantee on Bull
garia's part, of course, to prevent
aggression against Turkey by Nazi
troops. However, such guarantees
would seem to be implied, at least
The very fact that the declara-
ton has been issued ct a1lr:oment
when the Balkans are filled with
alarms about forthcoming Nazi Of
fensives in that region would seem
to make the document mere paper
formality unless such an under
standing has been given.
In this connection, it has been
noted that the Germans have been
working overtime through diplo-
matte channels in an effort to win
assurance of Turkish neutrality in
event they move across Bulgaria
against Greece.
Suggestions have come from both
the Balkans and London that mass
German troop movements into Bull
garia can be expected very shortly,
possibly within week or 10 days
if weather conditions do not inter-
Continued on Page 3, Col. a.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-17
Rain Passes East
Into Arizona Area

Rain storms, which pelted coast
areas over the weekend had ap-
parently passed eastward into Ari-
zona, according to U. S. weather
bureau reports available Monday.
The storms brought only occas-
ional scattered showers in outlying
Imperial county districts and there
was no immediate danger of addi-
tional rains.
Weatherman Woodrow c. Jacobs,
who issued his last forecast of the
season Saturday, will remain in the
valley for two weeks to close all
weather stations and assemble his
equipment for moving. Jacobs an
nounced he would issue weather
reports in the event there was dang
er of frost or rain in the valley
during the two week period.