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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-11-25
Over 10000 Turkeys
Sold In County For
Around $4l,925.OO
Many Are Shipped To Distant
Points For Use On This
Thanksgiving Day

Thousands of Ashe county tur-
Weys will really do their bit in
the war effort today as they grace
the tables of army camps, while
others will reign on the feast
tables in homes all along the
Atlantic seaboard.
Unofficial estimates placed the
number of these prize Thanks
giving fowls bought and sent out
Of the county the past week end
at around 1880. The turkeys
were shipped out by motor and
rail to many distant points.
These fowls averaged around
II pounds in weight and brought
an average of 321a cents per
pound. The total estimated in
come realized by turkey growers
of the county who placed theirs
on the market last week end is
estimated at SAL, 925.O0. This was
the highest price growers have
received here in several seasons.
w. G. Vannoy, one of the lar
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AAA Community
Committee Will
Be Named Dec. ]
Voting Places Are Listed; To
Choose Ashe County
Delegates

Farmers of Ashe county will
meet on December 3, at commun-
ity meetings for the purpose of
electing committeeman who will
be responsible for administering
the AAA Program in Ashe coun-
ty during the next year.
In addition to the regular
committeeman and alternates,
farmers will elect delegates to
the county convention to be held
on December 4, for the purpose
of naming a county committee.
This year, more than ever be-
fore, it is important vI->4t the best
available men be elected on the
committee. Each year more re-
sponsibility is being placed on
committeeman and since 1914
will be the critical year in agri-
cultural production so far in this
war, committeeman will have a
big job in getting the correct in
formation to their neighbors,
leaders point out.
The community meetings will
be held on Friday, December 3, at
800 p. m. The county conven-
ton will be held at the court
house on Saturday, December 4,
at 100 p. m.
Community voting places are
as follows:
Ashland, C. E. Osborne's store;
Baldwin, Baldwin service station;
Buffalo, Buffalo school; Chest
nut Hill, voting place; Creston,
Creston church; Crumpler, the
Crumpler postoffice; Elk, Elk
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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-11-25
Former Ashe Man
Is Highly Praised
J. w. Gentry Is Making An
Outstanding Record In
Tennessee

A very complimentary article
with reference to J. w. Gentry,
a native of Jefferson, and a grad
uate of the Jefferson high school,
appeared in recent Sundays is
sue of the Chattanooga Times
written by Frank w. Prescott,
head of the Department of Gov
eminent of the University of
Chattanooga.
Mr.. Gentry, about a year ego,
gave up his position as chief en-
gineer of the State Highway De-
partment of Tennessee to accept
the position of county manager
of Hamilton county, Tennessee,
in which the City of Chattanooga
is located. He was selected with
out term at a salary of $6,000.O0
a year and has general supervi-
sion of county departments and
agencies and control and super
vision of the county budget.
The article states that he has
effected savings for the year that
he has been in this position
amounting to more than $685.
10000 and has reduced the tax
rate and at the same time, vari-
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Helton Charge
Has New Pastor

Rev. Cecil Greenhaw, of Gar
land, Texas, has been appointed
as pastor of the Helton Methodist
Charge. Rev. Mr.. GreenhaW is
a graduate of Southern Methodist
Univa1S ~ at Dallas. Texas.
The Helton charge now in
cludes the Lansing church, in adj
dition to the Helton, Greenwood,
Grassy Creek and Trinity church.
es, that formerly constituted the
charge. The Fairview church has
been transferred from the Helton
to the Warrensville charge.
Last Sunday, Rev. J. S. Hiatt,
District Superintendent of the
Statesville District, presided at
the first quarterly conference of
the Helton charge, at the Green
wood church.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-11-25
Much Interest In
Proposed Bus Line

Much interest is being shown
here in the proposed new bus
franchise which E. O. Woodie is
seeking to operate from Wilkes
boro to Lexington, via Mocks-
vile.
This will give direct truck
line from east Tennessee to Lex
ington, through the Jeffersons
and at Lexington will connect
with all of the main lines, it was
explained.
1t was pointed out that this
would offer many advantages in
transportation to this section.
Mr.. Woodie said that he ex-
pected to get this through in the
near future and would be happy
to extend this service to the peo-
pie of this section.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-11-25
A Big Christmas
Shopping Season
Is Planned Here
Streets Not To Be Decorated
But Santa Will Make His
Appearance Dec. 4

West jefferson merchants met
here Monday morning and made
plans for the coming shopping
season when every effort will be
made to supply the needs of the
buying public.
At the request of the WPB,
the town will not have the
beautiful street lights, this year.
The merchants voted, however,
to sponsor the appearance of
Santa Claus who will officially
open the Christmas shopping
season here Dec. 4. The Sky
land Post agreed to publish a
Christmas shopping edition,
Thursday, Dec. 2 and announce
the arrival of Santa.
Merchants stated that they
would begin to unpack and dis
play merchandise as it came in
and would have everything in
readiness soon. Some items have
already been placed on display
in order that the early shoppers
sending packages to distant
points could be served.
The Post agreed to again spon-
sor a window contest. for the
merchants, the details of which
will be announced later.
At the meeting, Jack Rhodes,
who served as chairman of the
merchants committee last year
was thanked for his services and
w. w. Terry was selected to sue
coed him his year.
Mr. Terry named the following
to assist in the collection of
funds: Dean Mcmillan, Dwight
McGrady, Sharpe Shoemaker,
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remain about the same.

remain about the same.
Cost of condensed and evapo-
rated milk will be unchanged
Most of the price revisions will
be in processed fruits and vege-
tables, where there are increases
of about a cent for some brands,
and slashes of a cent for some
other brands.
Tomato juice prices will be
about the same.
Most brands of butter sold in
Glass 3 and 4 stores, the larger
establishments, will be reduced
from one to two cents a pound.
OPA officials said the new cell
ing list is being mailed to all
grocers, and they warned mer-
chants they are required to take
down their old schedules and post
the new prices.
The prices apply to the counties
of Ashe, Allegheny, Alexander,
Arson, Avery, Buncombe, Burke,
Cabarrus, CALDWELL C w b a =,
Cherokee, Clay, Cleveland, David
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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-11-25
al Men Left On
Monday To Enter
The Armed Forces
Recent ClaSsificatiOns Are
Announced By Local
Draft Board

The largest group of men to
leave Ashe county for military
service departed on Monday with
a full dose Of cold weather.
There were 247 scheduled to
leave, but for various reasons on
ly 241 left, according to reliable
sources of information. This in
formation was not released at
the office of the draft board.
An unusually large crowd of
civilians was present to bid the
group farewell and shivered
along with them as a service was
held and there was much delay
before the six loaded buses left
with the young men.
Members of the American Lee
gion, the Rotary Club and other
groups were present and the
young men leaving were present
ed with gifts.
A number of them came back
last night and others are expect
ed today, after they have been
given an examination.
The list of those who left on
Monday was not available for
publication from the local board.
{ No married men who have
married since Pearl Harbor,
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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-11-25
Many White Pine
Seedlings Here

J. T. McLaurin, soil conserva-
zionist of the New River Soil
Conservation District, announced
this week that $4,000 white pine
seedlings had arrived ard would
be planted in the near future on
around 20 farms cooperating in
the soil conservation work.
Mr.. McLaurin said that a num-
Der of locust trees were en- route
and will arrive here soon.
Roy H. Grouse, county agent,
said that those desiring trees and
not securing them through the
soil conservation district, could
order them through the county
agents office. They are advised
to place their orders early.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-11-25
Americans Gaining
liz Pacific; Berlin Is
Shattered By Bombs
Russians Are Forced To Make
Slight Withdrawals In
North Ukraine

The u. S. Marines came to the
front this week in definite gains
made in the central Pacific. In
Europe, Berlin received the
heaviest bombing of the war and
the Canadians put a stop to heavy
German attack in Italy.
Success of the first American
offensive of the war in the CEN
trail Pacific is assured, Admiral
Chester w. Nimitz announced
triumphantly yesterday.
Already the 9th division has
captured Maxim atoll. The cap
ture of Tarawa, where the Ma
rines have consolidated their po-
sitions, is certain. Amphibious
forces cracked the beach defens-
es of both places last Saturday.
T e situation on Abemama
atoll, 80 miles south of Tarawa,
was reported we'll in hand. The
Marines landing there was an
nounced only yesterday.
An excellent bomber field with
in striking distance of strong
Japanese bases in the Marshall
islands to the north will become
available with the capture of Ia
rawa. Fighting on Tarawa was
believed to be confined to Betio
island. which has air base facili-
ties. The enemy was strongly en-
trenched on Betio, at the south
western tail of TaraWa atoll. The
island is a sand waste less than
two miles long and about thou
sand yards wide.
The marines were making good
progress on Betio, where it was
indicated they had landed on the
western end of the islet and had
pushed the Nipponese back to the
eastern portion.
Charging before a back-drop of
burning towns and villages being
destroyed in a "scorched earth"
withdrawal to their winter line,
German troops struck sharply at
Canadian units of the 9Th Army
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West Jefferson
High School Wins
7 Jeeps In Bonds
Certificates Are Sent To The
School By Secretary Nor
genthau; Highly Praised

The West Jefferson high school
has just been awarded seven
jeep certificates showing that the
school had sold, this year, enough
bonds for the purchase of this
number of jeeps for the army.
A letter from Allison James,
associate manager Of the N. c.
war fund committee, to B. H.
Duncan, principal of the school,
commends the school on the rec
ord made.
"This is an unusually fine rec
ord and one of which the students
and employees may be extreme
ly proud We wish to congratu-
late you and the students on this
worthy achievement, Mr.. James
writes.
The school records show $45,-
100000 bonds sold. Each jeep
costs $6,255 each, thus giving the
school credit for seven jeeps.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-11-25
Christmas Seal
Sale Drive Now
Underway In Ashe
Cooperation Of The Public
And Schools Is Asked.
Mrs. Hurt, Chairman

The annual sale of Tubercular
Christmas Seals is now under
way in the county with Mrs. A.
r = Hurt, as chairman.
The general public, as well as
the schools, are urged to Coop
crate in the sale of these seals.
It was explained that seventy
five percent of the proceeds is
used in Ashe county for the pre-
vention and cure Of tuberculosis.
A number of local patients
have been helped in the past and
it is hoped that this service can
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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-11-25
Giant Hawk Shot
By J. E. Parker

Early last Saturday morning,
]. E. Parker, of Parker, had
the good fortune to kill a
hawk that had annoyed the
poultry yards of his section of
the county for the past five or
six years, and has destroyed
many dollars worth of chick
ems and turkeys for the farm
ers over a wide area of terri
tory.
The hawk measured four
and one-half feet from tip to
tip, and has been known to
devOur a three-pOund chicken
at a meal. "With more than
40 years of killing hawks, this
is the largest I have ever met
with and the largest ever
heard of being killed in this
section, Mr.. Parker said.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-11-25
John NJ. Church
Buried On Friday

Funeral service was held on
Friday morning at ten o'clock at
the Lansing Presbyterian church
for John M. Church, 90, of Lam
sing, who died on Thursday, No.
vember Is. The service was con-
Quoted by the Rev. Carl Stark,
Rev. Tom Farmer and Rev. E. z.
Sexton. Burial followed at the
Lansing cemetery.
Mr.. Church, who was we'll
known throughout the county, is
survived by his wife, and two
daughters, Mrs. Lillian Pugh, of
North East, Md, and Miss Nam
ME Church, Of Lansing.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-11-25
Legion
Members Wanted

L. P. Coward, membership
chairman of the Ashe Post of
American Legion, said today that
he wanted to urge all members,
who have not done so, to pay
their dues at once and by doing
so renew their memberships.
eve need more members in our
post and I believe all ex-service-
men, who have overlooked paying
their dues will want to do so,' he
declared.
1t was pointed out that those
men who have been given an
honorable discharge from service
during this present war are eligi-
Bile to join the American Legion.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-11-25
Hawley Cobb Is
Rotary Speaker

Hawley C. Cobb, of Wades-
boro, Acting District Governor,
met with the Jeffersons Rotary
Club, last week in an assembly,
and later spoke at the regular
meeting.
He stressed the principles of
Rotary and outlined a big task
ahead in postwar planning.
The meeting tonight has been
abandoned on the account of
Thanksgiving
The club voted to hold their
regular Christmas party and la
dies night Thursday night, De-
cember 16.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-11-25
James Stanley
Buried On Wed.

Funeral service was held at
the home yesterday afternoon at
two o'clock for James Franklin
Stanley, 81, of Hemlock, who
died at the Ashe county hospital,
on Tuesday, November %, after
being i'll for some time The
service was followed by burial at
Hemlock.
Mr.. Stanley, who was a well
known farmer and minister, was
the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Stanley, formerly of Wilkes coun-
ty. He had made his home in
this county for several years.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-11-25
MRS. LULA LEMLY
DIED ON WEDNESDAY

Mrs. Lula Lemly, well-known
woman of the Todd community,
died yesterday, following a peri
Cd of serious illness.
She was the daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Nathan Waugh, pioneer
family of Ashe county and had
spent most of her life here.
Plans for the funeral were in
complete early this morning, but
it is expected that she will be
buried on Friday.
Evening star., 1943-05-16

per bird per week. This would be at the rate
of between 2O8 and 26O eggs per bird per year.
Hooked up egg production records, and found
this is getting right up among the super-duper
birds.
hadn't realized that the little twirps
were doing we'll.
We are planning now for the time when our
flock will have to be replaced, because after the
first year of laying, egg production begins to
drop. We have placed an order with nearby
Evening star., 1943-05-16
Don't let woshday
methods fade pretty coIors

Now when fabrics may be irrepIaceable, give
your colorful cottons suPer-safe Lux care, just
you do washable silks and rayons. Washday
methods, strong soaps and cake-soap rubbing
may fade colors, spoil textures. Use new, i'm
proved the mildest, safest Lux ever made!
I'm giving washabIes Lux care" says Mrs.
H. F. Hellegers. New, improved Lux gives rich,
long lasting suds in hard water It's thrifty.'
Evening star., 1943-05-16

hatchery for so one-day-old, straight-run,
pullorum-free March chicks. Qt took only two
hours to make the brooder. You can get direc-
tions suited to your locality from your state
college of agriculture.) We will eat the cocker
els and save the best of the pullets for flock
replacement. Your state college of agriculture
can also furnish directions for caring for the
baby chicks.
If it isn't convenient to have brooder,
you might order started chicks from
hatchery. These chicks vary in age from four
to IL weeks "a pullet begins to lay at six or
seven months, depending on the breed) If you
would like to brood some chicks for meat only,
you can often get ''sexed chicks (cockerels)
much cheaper than straght-run chicks.
Stay Near Home
IT is good plan to do any ordering from
nearby hatchery, because of the present strain
on the transportation system. You wouldn't
want your birds held up on some siding with
out food or water.
believe that everyone who is suitably sit
uated should consider raising chickens, either
for meat or for eggs, or both. In the days imme-
diately ahead, l believe that the American
people wiH be what they grow.
We are pleased that we have our hens.
Especially Bill! He decoys visitors out into the
back yard Here is the chicken house, he says.
"Rat and sparrow-proof, and the cat and the
dog next door can't bother the birds. No
noisy rooster to wake up the defense work.
ers. :.
"You mean hen can lay an egg without
rooster?" someone inquiries.
Its high time Bill tells me later that
city people got back to some of the funda-
mentals.'' FRANCES TURNER
Evening star., 1943-05-16

ed to lay Moving hen gets her fustered, and
it is sometimes month before she gets to
thinking about an egg But that first egg
Symmetrical perfection!
One authority says that a flock of 10 or IL
purebred hens should lay from 1,4O0 to 1900
eggs a year. According to my figures, that
means that each hen is expected to lay from
125 to 140 eggs year. My hens started to lay
in January at six and one-half months, and
have given us an average of almost five eggs
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-14
Walter Lippmann SAYS:
Many European Nations
Arrayed Against laps

tant Pacific power and our ally
since the first hour of the Japa-
nese war. Belgium, Czechoslo-
vakia, Poland, Yugoslavia are at
war with Japan; Norway and
Greece have broken relations with
Japan.
ALI of them have the strongest
reasons for proving in action their
solidarity in the war against ag-
gression, and each is capable Of
making a very substantial contri-
button. They have veteran fight
ing men, pilots, bombardiers, sail
ors, merchant crews, as brave and
experienced as any anywhere.
Some of them, particularly France,
Belgium, Czechoslovakia, a recon-
stituted Poland, and we may add
Austria, will have war industries
which will in some considerable
degree survive our bombing and
the German devastation when the
Germans retreat. Several of them
are great seafaring nations, for
example Norway, which in 1889
had larger merchant fleet than
Continued on Page Eight; Col. n
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-14
BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON

Military aspects of the italian
war declaration against Germany
must remain subordinate to polit-
ical effects until the will of the
rank and file of Italian m d
forces and the Italian people to
fight as co-belligerents of the Unit
ed Nations has been tested.
There is small reason to doubt,
however, that eventual, Italy can
become factor of greater impor-
lance in the battle to smash Ger
many than she was in abetting
Nazi dreams of world conquest.
The war against Germany doubt
eddy is a popular war throughout
Italy, which the war as Nazi
puppet never was. That gu d
make all the difference in h e
fighting ardor of Italian troops.
1t could mean early employment
of the remnants OF the once power
full Italian fleet, now in ALI e d
hands. The valor and fighting abil-
ity of Italian Alpine troops, never
was questioned in the First World
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-14
BY WALTER LIPPMANN

,.; ~ making plans for our relations
WIN WIN the European continent i'm
,',e after the German defeat.
F ~ must not forget how MANY
Iuropean nations will still be at
war with Japan. The popular as
sumption, and to a considerable
5ao11 !. the official assumption, has
Sss.a mat liberated Europe Will
nave ..4s to be relieved and rehabili-
, ~'ru out OF the scant surplus re-
c cSurces Of the United States and
can eat Britain while we are con-
lpemtIaHlng gigantic forces in the
tia aeiilc c.. But in fact the. very ma
t 5Vl ns,, which have the first claim
sllj tehet and rehabilitation are our
tba t.o IN =, the japanese war, and
Cd cd ~ ds e. that they are can be turn,
- T W 'n 4ei advantage and our own.
sllies me ne. French, have been our
sftsr a against Japan since the d 1ay
to 'e wire pearl Harbor. They will wish sb
trea rlpe out the dishonor Of the
lnd Sseffy Of viehy in surrenderi ing
lands IL to Japan. The Neither.
" 9oufse' very impor-
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-14
Kirke Simpson Says:
Italy May Soon Make
Great Factor In War

War. There is heavy mountain
fighting still to do in Italy.
Italian mountaineers familiar
with every trail of their native
ranges and with their hearts in
the fight. could prove effective
there.
The fundamental Nazi error al
ways has been that man could be
dragooned by fear and oppression
into accepting comparatively tn
rule Of German supermen. Italy's
collapse is the outstanding DEM
onstration of the fallacy of that
conception. Her people lacked the
will to fight with the taskmasters
Germany and their own Fascist
rulers placed over them. They
may have that will fighting on the
other side and with their ultimate
right to choose their own form Of
government solemnly assured by
London, Washington and Moscow.
The repercussions of the Italian
about-face on Nazi satellite areas
in the Balkans is yet to be weighed.
Coming as it did Immediately in
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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-14
EISENHOWER HAS
M0MENT0US YEAR
U. S. General Celebrates
His 53rd Birthday
This Morning

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 - tR -
1t has been quite a year for Ike.
Meaning Ike Eisenhower-Gen-
eral Dwight D. Eisenhower. And
meaning his fifty-third year, be-
cause tomorrow is his birthday an
niversary.
The general has been rather busy
in the twelve months since he
celebrated his fifty-second birth
day.
He has won a campaign that Sc
cured the continent of Africa for
the Allies, another that opened the
door to Europe and Cleared the
Mediterranean for Allied shipping.
He has toppled the strutting Mus
solini off his balcony. and it isn't
every general who has the oppor-
tunity to put a dictator out of
business.
Now, in the last day of his fifty
third year, he has produced a de-
claration of war against Germany
by the Italian government - in
twelve months he has met the
Italians as enemy in the field, enc
nv surrendered and co-belliger-
ent.
He stirred up storm of criti-
cism by accepting the cooperation
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