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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-05-13
ASK THE AID YOU NEED

MANY A CONTRACT cannot
De made except with the aid Of
kindly opponents. There is never
any sense in giving up on a con-
tract which you see is unmakable
with your own devices alone. First
study the situation to see II there
is any possible way the defenders
could help you make it. In. case
you see one, give them a chance
to do just what you want. They
may pleasantly surprise you.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-05-13
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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-05-13
Announce Engagement

Mr.. and Mrs. A. f. Squier an
rounce the engagement OF their
daughter. Shirley Ellen to Guy VII
liam Miller, son OF Clare Miller
Silvery Lane, Dearborn. The mar
rage will take place in June.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-05-13

On North's diamond lead. South
won the dummy's singleton Q
with the K. Fearing rufus in the
dummy, he then laid down the
spade A and then the 3 to the Q.
Seeing just a remote chance to
make his contract. even with the
bad defense so far offered him,
West shot the works by leading
q small heart to the X. When
North won this with the A, West
prayed that he would return a dia-
mond to try to get out OF the
dummy by a force the trump
which otherwise would be an en-.
try. O
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-12-16
Roosevelt Visits Sicily And
Decorates 9TH Army Officers;
Is Expected Back Home Soon
Reviews General Patton's Ar
my And DecOrates Officers
For Bravery

President Roosevelt, flying
within some $50 miles of the bat
tlefields in Italy, visited Sicily on
his homeward journey from Cal
70, reviewing seventh army
troops of 1t. Gen. George S. Pat
ton, Jr, and decorating Lt.-Gen.
Mark w. Clark and several other
officers for bravery.
The president came from NAL
ia to Castelvetrano airfield, ii
was disclosed officially Monday
with his C-54 transport guarded
by II Lightning fighters.
Accompanied by Gen. Dwight
D. Eisenhower, Mr.. Roosevelt
drove in a jeep along the run
ways lined by hundreds of sew
enth army troops who helped wiz
Sicily in blazing campaign
Castelvetrano is at the south
western tip of the island.
Continued on Page ~
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-12-16
Eden Reports That Date For
Invasion Has Been Agreed On

London - Foreign Secretary
Anthony Eden told the House Of
Commons yesterday that the time
for military operations against
Germany in the great assault
planned by the Allies had been
agreed upon at Teheran and that
in due time the decisions would
be revealed to Germany on the
battlefield.
Asserting that the conference
meant the war would be short
erod, Eden said:
"The close cooperation of all
our military plans by the con-
ference, and reached at the con-
ference, shows clearly that we
can do better and that there is
close interplay in every move.
We have not had that until now.
The Teheran conference | a d
plans to this end. All are now
agreed, and the time is now
agreed, and in due course the
decisions of the Teheran confer
ence will be enrolled on the field
of battle"
Eden said that the greater part
of the Allied Teheran and Cairo
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-12-16
Allies Blast New
Britain; Russians
Capture Cherkasy
Canadians Now Down Hun
dreds OF Germans On
Italian Front

In spite of winter weather, al
lied forces continued to push for
ward in Europe and in the Pacif-
ic the Japanese suffered heavy
bombings in New Guinea
More than 100 Liberator anu
Mitchell bon.bers blasted Japan
csc positions in the Gasmata area
on the southern coast of New
Britain Monday, dropping 248
tons of bombs in a record three
hour raid, it was announced yes
terday.
General Douglas MacArthur's
Wednesday communique report
ed that the escorted heavy anC
medium bombers met opposition
from only 10 enemy fighters, two
of which were shot down, while
CONTINUED on rage ~
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-12-16
ASHF, EXPERIENCES
WINTER WEATHER

This section, along with ma
nv other parts of the nation,
experienced an extreme cold
wave this week end.
Officia: government Their
mometers dropped 20 TO above
zero on Tuesday, arose on
Wednesday morning and start
ed dropping again yesterday
afternoon, reaching 50 this
morning.
This section also experience
ed unusually high winds over
the week end, as well as
some slight snow flurries.
Some damage was reported
by the winds. Sections OF
roofs of houses as well as
windows were damaged by the
winds.
In the down town business
section, a large plate glass
window was blown out of the
building occupied by the Bur
CESS Furniture company.
Since this was the first con-
tinuous cold spell of the sea-
son, many people complained
of being extremely uncOm-
Portable.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-12-16
Public Urged To
Give War Bonds
Ashe People Asked To Give
The present With A Flu
ture" This Year

Ashe county people, along with
others throughout the nation, are
urged to give war bonds and
stamps this year.
War bonds have been aptly de-
scribed as "the present with a
future" and are suggested as
gifts, particular to replace items
that cannot be secured this year.
Many people are giving bonds
and are labelling them "a new
electric refrigerator" or some
similar item not available now,
which they plan to purchase, Ia
ter.
w. D. Mcmillan, county chair
man of the sale of bonds, said
that the quota for December is
the same as it was for November,
$31, 10000, and reports show that
the county is far short of this
goal.
Il hope that the many bonds
people buy for gifts will help to
raise this, Mr.. Mcmillan said.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-12-16

conferences were devoted to mill
tary problems for defeating Ger
many and Japan and that the
plans were brought to a state OF
completeness in collective prep
arations exceeding anything pre-
viously possible in the entire war.
Reminding the House that Brit
ain had been committed even be-
fore Pearl Harbor to fight beside
the United States to the end IN
any war against Japan, Eden said
that the detectives of the Pacific
war had been set out internatlon-
ally for the first time at Cairo.
eve are committed to them
because we understand that to
destroy Germany and then to
make a compromise peace with
japan would only sow the seed
of a third world war;" he said.
g. Japan is just as great a
menace to the security of the
British commonwealth as she is
the security either of the United
States or China. We have to
fight Japan to the bitter END
whatever the cost and however
long it takes"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-12-16
School Program
Subject At Club
Rotary Club Will Have An
nuai Christmas Party;
Ladies Invited

J. B. Hash, prominent Ashe
county educational leader, who
was the guest speaker at the
Rotary club last week, outlined
a school building program for the
smaller schools of the county.
He showed how improvements
could be made in the smaller
schools and that their advantages
might be increased The speaker,
who has long been interested in
the educational progress Of the
county, made practical and help
full suggestions. He was intro
duced by A. B. Hurt, superinten-
dent of schools.
Wade E. Eller also made some
brief remarks on the educational
program.
Tonight the club members will
have the Rotary-anns as their
guest and the annual Christmas
party will be held. w. B. Austin,
chairman Of the good fellowship
committee, will be in charge.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-12-16
Ashe Churches
Plan Programs
For Christmas
Several Special Services And
Programs Will Be Held
On Sunday

Christmas will be fittingly OBJ
served in the churches of AShe
county with many of them having
special programs this week end.
The West Jefferson Baptist
Church will have a program, di-
rected by Coleman Payne, Sun
day night, December 10, at $50
o'clock.
The pageant to be given at the
West Jefferson Methodist Church,
on Sunday evening, December 10
at 7:3O, will be THE Prince of
Peace" There will be a decorated
setting to form the proper Christ
mas atmosphere, with Palestinian
background. The cast will be
composed of people of all ages.
There will be parts portrayed by
the adults, young people and the
children, and it is centered around
the nativity scene. The costuming
CONTINUED On Page Four)
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-12-16
Boone Market
Sets Record In
Price, Pourdage
Sold Over 100000 Pounds
Opening Week For Average
Of Over $4,000

The Mt. Burley Tobacco Ware
houses at Boone passed the mil
lion pound record yesterday and
have averaged over $4,000 per
hundred pounds, for this amount,
S. C. Eggers, supervisor of sales,
said.
Eve are very pleased over the
prices and the service we are
able to give the farmers, MIR.
Eggers declared and said that he
wished to thank all the farmers
of this section for their patron
age and to invite others to sell
their tobacco in Boone.
Mr.. Eggers said that one lot
sold for $4,000 yesterday.
Roscoe Coleman, proprietor of
the warehouses, stated that he
was pleased over the record SO
far and pointed out that they
were not only happy over the
prices being paid for the tobacco,
but had been, and would contin-
ue to render all possible service
to farmers.
He said the quality of the to-
bacco raised in this section was
unusually good this year.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-12-16
Record Farm Production Goals Planned For Ashe
Goals Planned
AT Meeting OF
County Leaders
Increase In Poultry, Eggs,
Milk, Livestock And Field
Crops Planned

Record farm production goals
were tentatively set up at a
meeting of the Agricultural
Workers Council, and other
farm leaders of the county, for
1914, when Ashe farmers, along
with the rest of the nation, are
asked to do all possible to help
feed the world.
Meetings will be held early
next year, in all sections of the
county, when community commit
teemen and farm leaders will
discuss the production with farm
ers of each community in order
that every farmer may do his
part, Roy H. Grouse, county
agent, said yesterday.
Each farm operator will be
asked to set up definite goals for
production for 1914. Because of
the labor shortage, farmers will
be asked to increase production
on acreage instead of acreage, If
at all possible
There is an increase of 1863
milk COWS in the proposed new
goals as we'll as an increase in
milk produced, and in poultry
and eggs. The egg production
asked for in 1914 is 15,487, $50 in
comparison to 9,499,588 as asked
for in 1913.
Other quotas in the proposed
goals for 1914 are as follows:
For farm products in acreage:
Corn, 1922; oats, 10000; rye, l.
1913; wheat, 800; barley, 100; sor-
ghum, 70; tame hay, 20,821; les
pedeza for seed, 1873; tobacco, L.
104.6; Irish potatoes, 2,157; fresh
vegetables, 1000, and home gar
dens, $500
Livestock and poultry in nu--1-
! (Cortinued on Page ~
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-12-16
Turkey Market
Will Open Today

The Christmas turkey market
will open today and large
number of these favorite Christ
mas holiday fowls are expected to
be sold in Ashe and shipped
throughout the country.
Several thousand were sold on
the Thanksgiving market, but a
number were also held back for
Christmas.
Prices are expected to be about
the same as they were on the
Thanksgiving market.
Some turkeys are expected to-
day for the opening of the mark
ct and larger numbers on Friday
and Saturday.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-12-16
Santa Is Coming
Again Saturday
And Next Week
Stores Will Stay Open Even
ings For Convenience Of
The Public

Santa Claus will again visit
West Jefferson on Saturday and
all next week until Christmas
and all children of this entire
section are cordially invited to
see him.
In spite of the cold weather, a
large crowd Of children was
here last Saturday to see Santa.
Local merchants reported bust
mess was unusually good.
Parents are cordially invited
to bring them again and shop in
West jefferson. Santa will be
glad to listen to their wishes and
give them peanuts. He is appear
ing in West Jefferson under the
sponsorship of the merchants.
While there is a shortage of
some items there are still a num-
Der of gifts available here. Stats
sAics show that the majority of
people are turning to practical
gifts this year. Toilet goods,
clothing of all kinds, furniture
and foods are among the practi-
cal items in demand.
Merchants announced that for
the benefit of the public, that the
stores would start, this week end,
staying open in the evenings I'M
til Christmas in order that those
who work throughout the day
might have ali opportunity to
shop.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-12-16
Red Cross
Chapter Active,
Reports Reveal
Plans Are Discussed AT Meet
ing; Mobile First Aid
Units Suggested

At meeting of the Ashe coun-
ty chapter of the Red Cross, on
last Thursday night, at the COM
building, number Of
interesting reports, made by
committee chairman showed the
various activities of the chapter.
Mrs. w. C. Vannoy, chapter
chairman, was in charge of the
meeting and called for the re-
ports.
J. A. Martin, first-aid chair
man, presented a plan for pur-
chasing equipment, whereby
three mobile first-aid units
would be established in the coun-
ty. The plan was adopted and
Continued on Page A.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-12-16
Stores Plan To
Close Sat. And
Mon, Dec. 25-27
Cooperation Of Public Is
Asked For Closing BY
Merchants

At a recent meeting of the
West jefferson merchants, the
group decided to close two days
for Christmas, on Saturday, De-
cember, Is, which is Christmas
day and the following Monday,
December, 27.
I'VE want to serve the needs of
the public, but feel that we
should give store employees this
holiday, one merchant said.
The public is urged to do shop
ping in advance so as not to be
Inconvenience by this closing.
This two-day closing, of course,
does not apply to drug stores, it
was explained.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-12-16
Mrs. Mcneil, Y,
Buried Tuesday

Funeral service was held at
the Oak Hill Baptist church on
Tuesday morning at 1000 o'clock
for Mrs. Alice Mcneil, II, of
Bina, who died at her home on
Monday, December Is. Rev. A.
C. Ashley, Rev. Ezekiel Sexton,
and Rev. Mr.. Campbell were in
charge of the service. Burial fol-
lowed at the family cemetery.
The deceased is survived by
her husband, Rudy Mcneil and
the following children: Avery,
Cleveland and Thomas Mcneil,
Mrs. Callie Brooks, Mrs. Emma
Barker and Mrs. Birdie Lambert.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-12-16
Rationing Guide
SUGAR

SUGAR
Stamp No. 20 in Ration
Book No. 4 good for five
pounds of sugar until January
Il. This stamp is marked
sugar"
PROGRESSED FOODS
Green stamps A, B, and c
i'm Book 4 good until December
20. Green stamps D, E. and
F became valid December l,
and good through January 20.
MEATS AND FATS
Brown stamps L, M and N
expire January 1. Brown
stamp p becomes valid Dec.
IL, and stamp @ becomes val
id Dec. 10 and expires Janu-
airy 1. Brown stamp r be-
comes valid December 26 and
expires January 20.
GASOLINE
Stamps No. CAS-" from new
"A" book good for three gal
Ions each and expire Febru-
airy 8.
SHOES
t. No. Is stamp in Ration Book
l good any time. No. 1 "Air'
plane" stamp in Ration Book
3 now good for one, pair Of
shoes.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-12-16
J. N. Graphical, 90,
Buried Monday

Funeral service was held on
Monday for J. N. GRAPHICAL,
80, of Treetop, who died at his
home on Friday, December 10.
Rev. Tom Farmer. Rev. Mr., Pow
ers, and Rev. Mr.. FISHERMAN con-
Quoted the service, which was
held at the home. Burial follow
ed at the family cemetery.
Mr.. GRAPHICAL, who was a we'll
known farmer in the county, is
survived by one son, Adolphus
GRAPHICAL.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-12-16
TROUT SCHOOL IS
MAKING A RECORD

Supt. A. B. Hurt announced to-
day that Ashe county has another
school making a one hundred
percent record in the hot lunch
program.
At Trout, where the hot lunch
program has recently been start
ed, there are So students enroll
ed. All of the students eat the
hot lunch and all drink milk.
Miss Margaret Davis is principal
of the school.
Other schools of the county
having similar one hundred per-
cent records are Green Valley
and Baldwin.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-12-16
PLANNING TO EXTEND
BUS SERVICE IN ASHE

E. o. Woodie announced this
week that he plans to operate
buses between Lansing. Helton,
jefferson and West Jefferson in
the near future in order to bet
ter serve this section.
Mr.. Woodie said that he had
received inquiries relative to this
and that a schedule would be an
nounced as soon as plans were
completed.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-12-16
ASHE MEN GO TO FLORIDA

A group of SO Ashe men left
yesterday for Florida to assist in
the harvesting of oranges.
They were chiefly farmers, who
have little or no work scheduled
for. the next two months, Roy H.
Grouse, announced.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-12-16

Flight Officer Cecil M. Miller, left, of Mr. Floyd L.
Miller of WAGNER for IA months and
graduated gnners school before becoming pilot
GENTLY He stationed at Hobbs New Mexico M-Sgt
Wavne K Fowler right who has been in service for several
years. now stationed Texarkana Texas He recently
turned from Hawaiian Islands, where he has been sta
toned for time. Sgt Fowler is the OF Mrs Jacob
Oliver of Silas Creek.
Evening star., 1943-11-07

Some of the mystery is taken out
Of song writing for musicals when
the job is reduced to simple musical
architecture. Each melody is con-
ditioned by the situation in which
it's to be sung-the simplest song
Evening star., 1943-11-07

being between a boy and girl. Per-
haps they have never met before
but are intrigued by each other at
first sight. A song at this time
should be warm but not passionate
and the tune as well as the lyrics
should express this that's the
how Of People Will Say We're in
Love-"
Suppose the fourth number song
Is coming up. The one before has
been a ballad and the next is to be
a waltz. Right away you can see
1t must not be slow. You know
from the book whether it can be
comic and then you know the char
acter who is to sing 1t. OF course
it's even better If you know the
actor playing that character. Per-
haps his voice range has limita-
tions."
But, with all this under control
it's still mystery where the tunes
come from.
Oklahoma thinks so much of the
show that bears its name that Gov.
Robert Kerr came to New York to
present State flag to the cast and
producers. Rodgers wrote the mu-
sic for the show but he never has
been in Oklahoma. The nearest 1
came to It," he says, was the din
ner with the Governor"
Evening star., 1943-11-07
Heffernun
Continued From Preceding Page

pouring in. Sonia was now cold,
aloof, These same producers had
turned her down only a few weeks
before. Now, the they wanted her,
they were going to pay-and dearly.
AS everyone knows, Sonia wound up
on deal that has netted her close
to a million in six years of picture
making.
Small wonder that Hollywood
climbers got interested in the show
case system. Next to put over
fast one was Laird Cregar. The big
boy had been wearing himself out
trudging from one lot to the other,
always receiving the discouraging
answer. He was soon typed around
the studios as that fat man." and
the best he could hope for we've few
stray bits in the background. Finally,
he couldn't even get those He took
to eating on schedule hardly de-
signed to keep that immense frame
hitting at top speed and he spent his
nights sleeping in a friends car.
Cregar wasn't the type to take it
sitting down. He fought back. First
he dug into his trunk and came up
with the play oscar Wilde" Feel
ing the title role was well-suited to
his acting abilities, he went in search
of an angel. He found one in the
person of Arthur Hutchinson, and
within a few weeks the play was
being staged in prominent Holly
wood theater.
oscar Wilde" didn't make money.
but it won the plaudits of the critics,
and soon every one in the screen
colony was talking about the Wilde
performance by the fat man whom
nobody seemed to know. It was a
complete Cregar show. He domi-
mated every scene. Again, it was
Zanuck and Goth Century-Fox that
dug down and provided a fat con-
tract for the exhibitionist. Four
other studios also wanted him and a
thrilling bidding bee resulted. A few
weeks before any lot in town could
have bought Cregar for peanuts.
Today he is one of Hollywood's top
flight actors
'Released by the North American News
paper Aliance)
Evening star., 1943-11-07
Martin
Continued From Preceding Page.

his own small place. BY careful
planning, Don is able to do the chores
about his own place, IL miles from
Gladstone in New Jerseys Long VAL
ley, in his spare time.
Don spent part of his childhood on
a Cincinnati farm which his father
owned.
Il don't think town people know
how nice farm can be-" he told me
at dinner in the Burrs large spicy
kitchen the other night. Farmers
don't work too hard because the
work isn't continuous. You may
grow limp from pitching hay but
there's always the wagon ride to
the barn afterward."
Don and Billy Worth, his dainty
dark-eyed dancer-wife, who is a
brunette edition of Jean Arthur,
keep their lives divided into two
compartments: One for the country
and one for the city Though the
country people who sell them gro
cerles and take their laundry know
them by their first name, few of
them know exactly what they do
when they 60 to New York.
1T was hard trying to make
friends with them" Billie said. Not
until Don took his fellow-fa farmers out
for some beers did they feel he was
really one of the boys.
For their own home, the Burrs
bought a 150-year- old stone farm
house, ripped the thin plywood from
the ceiling to expose the original
beams, cut out all partitions ON the
first floor to make one large living
room with two flreplaces, and then
made bedrooms of the attic.
While there was still no ceiling for
the living room, Don and another
farmer pushed the double bed up
through the beams-since the STAIR
way was too narrow If they ever
move, they'll have to leave note
for their successor: This bed is
yours because We can't find way
to take it with US
They'll never forget the first DAYS
IN the house when they slept up
stairs with only half the flooring
laid and had no plumbing.
But now things are humming.
They have apples from their own
trees, sauerkraut from their cab
bages. They have peppers. corn,
asparagus, tomatoes, string beans,
beets, eggs, lettuce, blackberries.
plums, rhubarb, pears, currants,
Billie came home from rehearsal
for Bright Lights of 1914" to can
tomatoes.
Billie gave Don a calf named
Rosalinda for his birthday. And
their house is filed with dogs named
after parts they've had, Feste,
after clown that Don played in
Twelfth Night is one of the gay
est. Don, who expects to be drafted
soon, wants to put Captain Absolute,
named in honor of his part in The
Rivals into Dogs for Defense. But
he has a doubt. Maybe the other
dogs would get mad and scream that
he got his commission by pull"