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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-05-04
BIvffton High School Notes

The State Scholarship Tests were
given Friday. Those who took the
tests and their subjects are as fol-
lows: Biology, David Stearns and
Robert Ramseyer; Chemistry, Juan
ita Bame and Eileen Weinhold;
General Science, Jean Anne Burcky,
Malcolm Basinger, and Eldon Beery;
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-05-04
Willis King Hired
As Mt. Cory Coach

Willis King, coach at McComb high
school has been hired as coach of
Mt. Cory high school for the coming
year. He will also be instructor in
history.
King will succeed Robert Schultz
who resigned recently to accept work
in a Toledo war plant.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-05-04

are taking steps to train the boys in
the proper handling of weapons.
Parents should not give these guns
to young boys unless the youngster
is properly instructed in its use and
dangers.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-05-04

Federal agencies are advocating a
plan to establish in every county a
non-paid committee organized by the
county agricultural agent to advise
war veterans about purchase or
operation of farms.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-04-27
the farm.
Repair Machinery

Another type Of work done
through the Jefferson department
is the supervision of farm machin-
cry and other war productive food
training courses in the county.
The two courses were completed
at tn e Jefferson agriculture
building and at Gentry's shop on
Buffalo Creek, repair and con-
struction of farm machinery val
ued at more than $4,000 has been
carried on. More important, men
who had heretofore depended on
the men at the repair shop doing
their work, even though it meant
leaving piece of needed ma
chinery idle, sometimes for days,
have learned that they can make
most of their repairs at home.
Another important part of the
program is that the services of the
agricultural teacher are available
to any farmer in the community
any afternoon after school and at
any time during the summer
months.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-04-27

and Mrs. Lille B. Perry, New
Hope; Paul Weaver, Alta Virgin
ia Perkins and Mrs. Bette Moore,
Helton; Mrs. lola B. Jones, Chap
ell.
Mrs. Bryan Kirby, Little Hell
ton; c. M. Dickson, Silas Creek;
c. F. Dickson, Landmark; Juan
tia Darnell Church, Burnt Hill;
Mrs. J. c. Miller, Peak Creek; Ida
V. Bare, Low Gap; Mrs. Gladys
w. Cox, Laurel Fork; Mrs. Lucy
K. Dixon, Friendship.
Mrs. Vista Dollar and Mrs. Eu-
la Hardin, Baldwin; Mrs. Maude
w, Smith, Boggs; J. c. Crawford
and Vivian Parsons, Obids; Vir-
ginia Goodman, Othello; Mrs.
Thomas c. Hardin and Mrs. Voro-
ma M. Witherspoon, Duncan; Mrs.
Matte Goodman Parsons, Oval.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-04-27

Seine of the woodwork done
by the agricultural department
may be seen in the top picture,
where members of the class
and the school principal, J. B.
Hash, are gathered. The
teacher, E. v. Eller, was ill at
the time the pictures were
made.
Another view of the depart
ment, shows the forge and
other equipment of black
smiths shop, where farm
machinery has been repaired
this spring. Special night
classes, which were held for
the farmers of the community,
were we'll attended and ma
chinery was repaired at no
cost except for necessary new
parts.
In the bottom picture, the
students are at work ON power
driven machinery. I'm the
front is a turning lathe, a Jig
saw and in the rear is a joiner.
\ (Staff Photos)
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-04-27
172 TEACHERS IN
ASHE COUNTY SCHOOLS

Continued from Page One)
Stuart, Parker; Grady Robinson,
Rye Cove; Eugene Lewis, Hem
lock; Mrs. Vina K. Love, Flat
woods; Mrs. Allie E. Denney,
Thaxton.
J. Floyd Jones and Mrs. Edna
McNeill, Stages Creek; w. L.
Jones and Mrs. Lena P. Burkett,
Warrensville; Orion Shepherd,
Fairview; Mrs. Gladys Ball, Os-
borne; Harriet Eastman and Wa
die Wood, Meadow View.
John Burkett, Sugar Grove;
Guy w. Spencer and Mrs. Kate
Spencer, Graham; Mrs. Aline
Reeves, Hurricane; A. A. Perry
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-04-27
Jefferson Has A
Successful Year
With Large Class
More Departments Of This
Kind Needed In Schools
Of Ashe County,

One of the goals for which this
paper has long striven, as well as
others, was realized when voca-
tional agriculture was started for
the first time in Ashe county high
schools this year.
County commissioners approx
ed plans for two teachers, but due
to the shortage of manpower in
the teaching profession, only one
teacher was secured. And be-
cause of it's central location and
available building, the department
was started at Jefferson.
Even with limited facilities, due
to wartime conditions, the depart
ment has enjoyed a marked sue
cess from the beginning. In the
years to come it should pay big
dividends to Ashe county. And
it is hoped that this will only be
a beginning of training in this
field.
IhlS paper mas long advocated
more vocational training in all of
the schools and is particularly
anxious to see vocational agri-
cultural department in every high
school of the county.
Activities Described
A brief review of the activities
of the department at Jefferson,
this year, is given here for the
benefit of the public.
The school was fortunate in Sc
curing a county man, E. V. Eller,
as teacher. Mr.. Eller is a gradu-
ate of N. c. State college and has
long been interested in vocational
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-04-27
COURSES RELATED TO
WAR ARE POPULAR
Continued from Page One)

Continued from Page One)
One of the most popular new
courses added was ''Man and the
Motor Car" This course appealed
to both boys and girls and they
learned many essential safety
rules as well as becoming better
acquainted with a motor car from
a drivers viewpoint.
In order to include these special
courses and other war work the
teachers have carried extra work,
and are to be commended for it.
However, they have been re-
warded by enthusiasm on the part
of the students and have accom-
plished definite results in the war
effort.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-04-27
Agriculture Is Started In Ase

agriculture in which he took spec
ial training. -.
The class work began with the
opening of the school when the
boys, under the direction of the
teacher, made improvements and
repairs on the building. This is
the old brick building used as a
girls dormitory many years ago
when students boarded at Jeffer-
son. The boys were given some
first-hand experience in convert
ing the building into class rooms
and a shop and repairing it.
Another early PROJECT was in
landscaping, when the school
campus was greatly improved.
The department was fortunate
through the cooperation of FSA
in securing some power-driven
equipment, motors as well as good
hand tools and a complete black
smith OUTFIT.
Practical Training
Including the eighth grade stu
dents, there are around 35 boys
taking the course this year and
their work in the agricultural de-
partrnent consists of about rs per
cent class room work and Is per
cent shop work. In class the boys
are given an opportunity to learn
improved methods of farming and
livestock raising.
In addition to his regular class
work, each boy carries one or
more farm enterprises through the
year, usually at least one in field
or truck crop and one in live
stock or poultry. These enter
prises are supervised by the
teacher and the boys are given
any advice or information needed
at any time.
In the shop, the boys are en-
couraged to learn the proper use
and care of tools, the repair and
maintenance of farm machinery
and simple construction work on
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-04-27

Mrs. Myrtle Fletcher and Mrs.
Pearl McGinnis, Idlewild; James
R. Houck and Beulah Scott, Mill
Creek; Mrs. Minta Grubb and C.
H. Williams, Toliver.
Mrs. Pauline Martin and Mrs.
Mamie w. Donnelly, Green Val
ley; Mrs. J. M. Barlow and Esther
Osborne, Rock Creek; Mrs. Irene
5. King, Sutherland.
Teachers for the county colored
schools are as follows: Lennie w.
crimes, Bristol; Oddie J. Cox,
erosion; Corene Bass, Crumpler
institute; and Fay Beamer, Pine
Swamp.
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ASHE STUDENTS ACTIVE
IN THE WAR EFFORT

Continued from Page One)
the Junior Red Cross work in
raising funds and collecting sup
plies.
In many of the schools they
have collected empty tubes, tin
cans, waste fats, old silk hose,
victory books and other things
asked for in the war effort.
Many of the students who will
graduate this year will soon en-
ter the armed forces. AS they
go they leave behind them a fine
record of war work for their sue
ceSSors to follow.
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1t is the peculiar quality of a
fool to perceive the faults of 9TH
ers and to forget his own.
CICERO
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-20
Painter Authorized
To Retouch Pictures
OF Former NC Leaders

RALEIGH, Jan. 10. -(P)- Dr.
Arthur Edwin Bye, well-knowr
painter, has been authorized by
the council of state to retouch ano
lenovate "a portraits of former
North Carolina leaders which now
adorn walls of the various State
departments.
Governor Broughton said the
council authorized expenditure Of
81, $40 from the emergency and
contingency fund to work over
portraits in Capitol offices, the
Governors Mansion and in House
and Senate halls.
The Governor said many of the
portraits, originally painted by
some of the greatest artists of their
time, were badly in need of work
especially in paint finish and
frames.
DR. Bye recently has been doing
portrait work at the University OF
North Carolina.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-20
Local Man Is Elected
Vice President Of
Nurserymen's Group

RALEIGH, Jan. 10. -(Py- S. D.
Tankard of Hickory was elected
president of the North Carolina
Association of Nurserymen at the
ganization's closing meeting at
N. C. State College today.
James Ferger of the Horton
Plantation, Wilmington, was elect
ed vice president, and L. G. Nc
Lean of N. c. State College was
reelected secretary and treasurer.
W. C. Daniels of Charlotte was
appointed member of the execu-
tive committee from the state at
large by the new president.
Six nursery operators who have
attended three consecutive short
courses in nursery practices at
State College were awarded dip
tomas by the college extension
service. These included.
E. l. Tanga Of Castle Hayne. w.
.C. Daniels of Charlotte, M. L. Har-
key of Charlotte. D.. E.. Copeland,
of Apex, L. r. McSWain of Kings
Mountain and L. R. Casey of Colds
boro.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-20
0PA IS CHECKING
RENTS IN DURHAM

DURHAM, Jan. 19-lR-Normau
C. Shepard. OPA district enforce.
ment attorney, here in connection
with the current OPA enforcement
drive, warned persons renting
rooms who have not registered
with the Durham rent control Of
flee to do so at omen.
At the same time, Shepard an
nounced that Judge Johnson J.
Hayes, of the middle district U.
S. Federal court, had signed an
injunction today against Mrs. Hugh
R. Smith, of Richmond county, re-
straining her from renting room
ing house Accommodations until she
has registered her property as re-
CURED by the Laurinburg defense
rental area
Shepard said OPA charged that
Mrs. Smith had been renting rooms
to service II en- and their wives
and had refused to register her
rental units as required by OPA
rent control regulations.
He said that check-up is bs-
ing made in the rent controlled
areas of the Raleigh OPA distric,
and that a number of injunctions
for failure to properly register
all rental living quarters were now
pending.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-20
PERSONALS

First Sgt. S. F. Sistrunk, Jr.
who has been stationed at Arubs
for the past tow years, is expected
to arrive in the city in a few days
to spend a furlough with his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. S. F. Sistrunl
in BrookWood.
Clides Potter, Merchant Marine
is visiting his parents, Mr.. ane
Mrs. V. B. Potter on Nun street
Mrs. L. A. Raney and Miss julia
Raney of Country Club Pines, are
in Windsor, Va. attending the pre-
nuptial parties for Miss Jean Whit
ley, whose marriage to w. A
(BilD Raney, will take place Sat
urday, January %, in the Wind
sor Christian church.
Sgt, Amos Allen of Camp Wal
tiers, Texas, is spending his fur,
Tough with his parents, Mr.. nd
Mrs. j. J. Allen at their home
on Nun street.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-20
HOSIERY UNION
ENDS ITS MEET

DURHAM, Jan. 19.-tR-The ma
tional executive board of the Amer.
lean Federation of Hosiery Work
ers, CLIO, today closed its three
day meeting here without assum-
ing a concrete stand on the holly
debated issue of a national service
act.
The draft of American labor
requested by President Roosevelt
in his recent message to Congress
Oh the State of the Union-was
considered of insufficient national
interest to justify declaration of
the issue at this time, according
to Alexander McKeoWn, president
of the union.
McKeown declared that mem
bers of the executive board did
not feel called on, at this time, to
make formal declaration of their
views on the subject.
The president of the union, how
ever, did stress that a formidable
discussion of this matter was held.
and that during the forum. it was
pointed out that Great Britain. de-
spite the existence of a national
service law in that nation, lost
more man-hours in 1943 from
strikes than did the United States.
Even Canada, which has strin-
gent regulations governing subver-
sive activities by it's inhabitants,
and equally rigid rules against
strikes, had w h McKeow1
termed a ''rnultitude' of strikes
last year.
Formal business sessions were
concluded Tuesday night by the
executive board, and this morning,
the entire group went to the grave
of Glen Norwood, a Durham youth
who was killed in the infamous
Philadelphia hosiery mill strike OF
1888. At NorWood's grave, the
board placed a wreath in tribute
to him.
A large number of the out-of-
town officials of the hosiery union
went on a tour of Durham's in
dustries during the day.
Later today it was learned that
during last nights session, there
was lengthy discussion of the
training program for women no
siery workers which has been
started in some of the nation S
mills.
This program, which repeatedly
has been more in evidence in the
Southern states than in any other
section of the country, has been
totally unsuccessful. it was stated.
AS a result, men-who before
entering the armed forces were
employed in the hosiery industry
need have no fear on returning to
civilian lie after the war has end
ed that they will be unable to OBJ
tain employment. There will be
full-fashioneds, knitting Jobs a-plen-
ty, it Stated. .7% 8 III Z. ~. Z.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-20
Supper Club
Of USO Plans
Meet Tonight

The Service Wives Supper club
of the Fifth and Orange USO will
hold the regular meeting Thurs
day evening at $50 o'clock at the
clubhouse.
The chairmen for this week are:
Mrs. Betty DeBore, Mrs. Mary
Pagana and Mrs. Thomas sabetti,
chairman Of the club.
Following supper class in pot
terry making will be given by Mrs.
NJ. Monroe Riley, with bowls and
pottery being made from clay of
North Carolina.
All interested in joining this
class are requested to register at
the club and if a sufficient num-
Der of reservations are made a
class will be held again next Tues
day evening. All service wives are
invited to join and may do so by
calling the club. New bridge class
es will be formed for day and
evening groups and persons inter
ested are asked to contact the USO
at telephone 2-1269.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-20
|RUML OUTLINES
POSTWAR PLAN

WASHINGTON, Jan. 49, Up -
Banker Beardsley Ruml called
upon Congress today to lay the
foundation Immediately for ma
tional postwar fiscal policy which
would insure full employment
while stabilizing or reducing taxes
and balancing the budget.
The mali who touched off the
historic legislative battle over pay
as-you-go income taxation listed
elimination of mass unemploy-
ment as peacetime's first require
ment, and declared that govern
ment aid and cooperation with bus
mess are essential to achieve that
goal.
Ruml, chairman of the Federal
Reserve Bank of New York, laid
before the House Buildings and
Grounds Committee aine-point
program and asserted there exist
ed no constitutional or technical
reasons why it could not be adopt
ed now ''if it makes sense. II
called for:
1. Appropriations for efficient
and economical carrying out OF
worthwhile activities to accomplish
our national purposes and no
public spending for its own sake
or for the sole purpose of support
ing purchasing power.
2. Lower tax rates to the point
where they will balance the budget
at an agreed level of high en-
ployment.
3. Standardization of taxes with
use of, the surplus, at times Of
high employment, to reduce the
national debt.
4. Retention of the principle Of
progressive income taxes and es-
tate taxes, but lower rates on the
individual income tax ito stinlu-
late consumption and to make pos
sible investment in new enterprise
on a business basis"
5. A planned public works pro-
gram mot to balance the whole
economy but to help toward sta
billing the construction industry
6. Revision of the Social Security
program to balance the rate and
benefits of the old age security
program, and to fix unemploy-
ment insurance ito that intake and
outgo balance at high levels of
employment
7. Retention of the important
excise taxes for the time being
and get rid of the rest"
8. A foreign loan program so ar
ranged that it will support rather
than contradict fiscal policies
adopted to strengthen our domestic
economy"
9. Reorganization of the federal
governments fiscal affairs to pro-
vide clarity in policy, consistency
in administration and cooperation
between the executive and legisla-
tive branches
He told the committee, now
studying plans for the postwar pc
riod.e that the nine-point program
would provide a flow of purchas-
ing demand which springs anthem
tically from the tens of millions
whose tax burdens will have been
reduced"
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-20
Three Are Appointed
To Represent State
AT Philadelphia Meet

RALEIGH, Jan. 10. -(P,- Gov
ernor Broughton today appointed
three delegates to represent North
Carolina at the annual meeting of
the American Academy of Political
and Social Sciences at Philadel-
phia April 14-15.
The three are DR.. Calvin Hoov-
er of Duke University, Dean B. F.
Brown of N. c. State College, and
Albert Coates, director of the insti.
tute of government at the Uni
versity of North Carolina.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-20
Literature Group
OF SOrOsis Meets

A meeting of the Literature de-
partment of North Carolina Soro-
sis will be held this afternoon at
4 o'clock in the clubhouse with
speakers on the program being
Mrs. T. T. Hamilton, Mrs. C. B.
Newcomb and Miss Shirley Jean
Beasley.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-20
OAR Chapter Meets
Tonight At SOrOsis

The meeting Of Stamp Defiance
chapter, Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution scheduled for Fri
day, January IA, will be held this
Thursday evening. at 8 O'Clock in
the Sorosis clubhouse.
Members are urged to be in at
tendance.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-20

thinks, Here
something 70 !,
me. Here's my
chance to take on
a full-time job.
But when she
goes to apply
she is turned
down fatty be-
cause Of her age.
At least that is
the story dis
couraged middle
aged women have
written me again
and again.
They list the
times thew have
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-20
Virginia Rlvenbark,
Pvt. Safret Engaged

Mr.. and Mrs. Teal A. Rivenbark
of Watha, announce the engage
ment of their daughter, Virginia
Dare Rivenbark, to Pvt. Leanard
Y. Safret, USA, of Fort Jackson.
S. c., son of Mr.. and Mrs. r. w.
Safret of Beaufort, N c.
The wedding will take place
within the near future
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-20
BIRTH ANNOUNCED

Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh E. Bell, Jr.,
announce the birth of daughter,
sybil Ailine, on Saturday, January
IS. Mrs. Bell is the former Elaine
Dusenbury of Georgetown, S. c.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-20
Kector's Reserve
Will Meet Friday

The Rector's Reserve of St..
James parisl. will meet Friday
afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the
production room. Of the American
Red Cross to do sewing for Camp
Davis.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-20

had just that same experience, and
they usually end up their letter:
$50, I've just quit trying to get a
job. I guess nobody wants woman
my age"
And there is another willing,
maybe capable woman lost to bus
mess and industry.
1t would be a good idea if
when there is an age limit in an
employers mind, a limit he in
tends to stick to when he inter-
views applicants - for that age
limit to be printed in his adver-
tlsements for workers.
LOSS TO INDUSTRY
That way, the women who are
''too old' wouldn't have to be told
SO to their faces.
For that seems to be the most
discouraging thing that ever hap
pens to a woman who is eager to
work and who thinks when she
reads an advertisement, Maybe
this is my chance" She doesn't
like to be told outright: 'fYou are
too old for the job
After that happens to her few
times, her ego has been so de-
fiated and she has become so dis
couraged that she gives up.
And many times, such an ex-
perience must result in a woman's
being needlessly lost to job she
coud do just because she was en-
couraged to apply for a whole list
Of jobs she couldn't fill because
Of her age.
The first law school in the U. S.
WAS established in ifchfield
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-20
20 DIE IN WRECK

LONDON, Jan. 19-lR-Twenty
persons were killed and $50 injur-
ed by derailment of 2au-Tou.
louise express train. the Vichy ra.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-20
INDICATED POWDER
40 YEAR FAVORITE

with : thousands of families, asitrelieves
ltchlng irritation of minor skin rashes-
naby' diaper rash. Sprinkle on Mexsana.
the soothing, indicated powder contain
ing ingredients many specialists often rec
ommend. Costs little. Demand Mexsana.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-20
Would-be Workers
Face Needles
DiSCour agement
BY RUTH MILLETT

The advertisement says, "Wom-
en- needed for such and such a
job. No experience necessary"
And so Mrs. Jones, housewife
who is so or maybe 60 years old,
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-20
BIRTH ANNOUNCED

Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Loosen of
Leland, announce the birth of a
son, George Albert, Jr., at Bullock
hospital on January Is.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-20

Sugar, gold and coffee in sue
cession have dominated the eco
nomics of Brazil.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-20

do said tonight The broadcas.
recorded by Reuters, did no; an.
nounce the cause.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-20

at 2::3O o'clock in the school.
Miss Cordelia B. Foster, home
service director of the Tide
Water Power company will be
the speakers of the afternoon
and will also show a film,
Excepting Fit.''
The Myrtle Grove Home
Demonstrate ton club will have
the January meeting and
luncheon Thursday at 10
o'clock at the home of Mrs.
Henry J. Getaway.
North Carolina Sorosis Gar
den club scheduled to meet this
Thursday afternoon, will not
meet until Thursday, January
q, at 4 o'clock at the club
house.
The Crepe Myrtle Garden club
will meet Friday afternoon at
$50 o'clock at the home of
Mrs. w. c. Mebane, Jr., in
Winter Park.
The Past Pocahontas- leagues
will meet Thursday evening at
8 o'clock at the home of Mrs.
D. H. Barnett, 715 Carolina
avenue.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-20

The first law school in the U. S.
was established in Litchfield,
Conn. in 1874.