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Evening star., 1944-04-09

There were few parties in Falls
Church the past week, but the ar
rival of many visitors, family re-
unions and small dinner parties for
visiting service people on leave en-
livened the social calendar.
Representative and Mrs. John S.
Gibson have with them for a visit
their son, 1t. Marvin M. Gibson,
who recently was graduated from
the medical school at Duke Univer-
sity. After a two-week vacation
with his parents, 1t. Gibson expects
to leave for the Canal Zone, where
he will assume his new duties in an
Army hospital. Miss Nancy Wah-
mann of the school of nursing at
Duke University, who was here
earlier in the week visiting the
Gibsons, has returned to her duties.
Representative and Mrs. Gibson's s
daughter, Miss Blanche Gibson of
the Marine Corps at Paris Island,
recently was promoted to private,
first class, and has been recon-
mended for the rank of corporal.
Evening star., 1944-04-09
Family Reunions Of Interest
Held IN Nearby Virginia

Miss Ann Ware, student at West
Hampton College in Richmond, is
spending the week end with her
parents, DR.. and Mrs. Macon Ware.
A family reunion is being held in
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. w. H.
Rem in Falls Church with visits of
their sons, Thomas o. Rem, who
has been transferred from Clemson
College to the medical school at the
University of Maryland, and Petty
Officer, First Glass, Frederick Rem
of the Coast Guard, who recently
reported to New York after duty in
Norfolk. Visiting at the Rem home
earlier in the week was Mrs. Renns
sister, Mrs. j. I. Jordan of Rocky
Mount, N. c., who has been visiting
her sons, Mr.. Wilbert j. Jordan,
U. S. NJ, in Philadelphia and Mr.
Harry Warren Jordan, who has
entered the Army.
Mrs. Clifford G.. Raub left Friday
for California for a three weeks
visit with her mother, Mrs. Lillian
Baldwin, in Pasadena.
Maj. and Mrs. Calvert G. De Co.
ligny have as their guests Mrs. Roy
Maxwell Garrett and her two young
children. who are making their
home in Richmond while Maj. Gar
rett jc M, fI1ty IL, TtaIy
Mrs. Edwin F. Locke returned
yesterday from Dover, N. j., where
she spent the past week with her
uncle and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. Peter
Vanderwolf. Her father, Col. w. F.
Barck, who is stationed In Rich
mond, is home to spend Easter with
his family.
Seaman (First Class Charles
Hurteau is here from Panama for a
visit with his mother, Mrs. Hattie
Hurteau. During his vacation they
plan to visit relatives in Mime
|apolis.
Mr.. and Mrs C, D. Todd have as
their guest for the week end, 1t.
Kirk Jeffery of st. Louis.
Mayor and Mrs H. H. Haertel are
spending the week end in Leesburg
with their daughter, Miss Helen
Haertel.
Miss Janet Cornelisen, student at
Madison College in Harrisonburg, is
spending the week end with her
parents, 1t. Comdr. and Mrs. Paul
D. Cornelisen.
Evening star., 1944-04-09
California Guests
In Falls Church

Mr.. and Mrs. Munson Lane have
as their guests the formers aunt
Mrs. Sanford Whitwell of Glendale
Calf, and her daughter, Mrs. Mar
garet Hopkins. Mrs. Whitwell ano
Mrs. Hopkins spent the winter ir
Merton, Pa, and will visit the
formers niece, Mrs. John r. Brown
ing, in Falls Church. Miss Virginia
Browning, daughter of Mrs. Brown
ing, is home from Madison College
in Harrisonburg for her Easter
vacation. Completing the family
reunion is Mr.. George Hopkins OF
Philadelphia, who is visiting his
cousins, Mr.. and Mrs. Edward G
FenWick.
Evening star., 1944-04-09

Mr.. and Mrs. John N. Critch-
low of 2120 Sixteenth street and
the Eastern Shore of Maryland
announce the engagement of
their daughter, Nancy Shannon
Critchlow, to 1t. Rafael c. Benz
tez, United States Navy, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Celestino Benitez of
San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Miss Critchlow was graduated
from Baldwin School at Bryn
Mawr and is attending her junior
year in Wheaton College, Mass.
1t. Benitez was graduated from
the Naval Academy in the class
of 1899. He has served in active
submarine duty in the South Pa
cific since 1941.
Evening star., 1944-04-09
Son Is Here

Mr. and Mrs. w. I. Peak have
been joined by their son, Mr.. Irwin
F. Peak, A. A. F., and his wife, the
former Miss Marie C. Huber of Den.
yer, Colo, who will be with them
for short time before Mr.. Peak
reports for duty in North Carolina
Evening star., 1944-04-09
To Be Hostess

Mrs. Clarence Warner will enter.
tain a small group of guests a.
luncheon Tuesday in her home ir
Arlington, the midday meal to bt
| followed by bridge.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-09-14
Blue Tokens To
Be Dropped Soon

Washington-Use of one-point
blue ration tokens, used in max
ing change for processed foods
ration stamps, will be discontin-
ued beginning Oct. l in line with
the removal of II foods from the
ration list, OPA Administrator
Chester Bowles announced.
Retailers are being instructed
to discontinue issuing blue to-
kens after Sept. II, when the II
items are made ration free, and
Bowles urged consumers to dis
pose of their supply as rapidly as
possible.
The OPA said that future food
values will be arranged so that
most items will have point values
in multiples of 10. This will en-
able consumers to use 10 point
blue stamps without the necessity
of making change.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-09-14
Program Will Be
More Inclusive
Than Last Year
County Led State With Num-
Der OF Lunchrooms APP
proved For 1884

A. B. Hurt, superintendent Of
schools, said this week that when
plans were completed he hoped to
have even more Ashe county
school children eating hot lunch
es that ever before, during the
coming session.
This county led the state with
20 approved school lunchrooms
last year. It is believed by officials
that there will be more this year.
Mr.. Hurt pointed out that while
all details had not been compile
ted the lunchroom program would
be carried out in the state, as a
whole, similar to what it was last
year, according to information he
received from officials while in
Raleigh, last week. He pointed
out that the exchange foods that
the lunchrooms would be given
credit for would be more inclu-
sive than last year, however, ac-
cording to advance information.
MIR. Hurt urged that all schools
get their lunchrooms started as
soon as possible this year, since
the schools were later in starting.
Some interesting experiments
were carried out in some of the
schools in the county in connec-
ton with the child feeding pro-
gram, where the children were
weighed.
Several of the school commune
ties have done considerable cam
ming for the lunchroom this sum-
mer, it was revealed.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-09-14
Lewis w. Brown Still Active
At Age OF lO2; Lives In Fla.

While he has been away from
Ashe county for more years than
most any one here can remember,
Lewis w. Brown, who last month
celebrated his 102nd birthday at
his home in Florida, can still re-
call some of the early history of
this section as we'll as many other
places in the country, where he
has lived.
When interviewed on his birth
day, at Westgate, Florida, three
miles west of Palm Beach, he re-
called happenings which took
place nearly one hundred years
ago.
1--WE been coming to Florida
since I was eight years DID," he
said. From the time I was 8
until I was II, I made four trips
to Florida with my father when
he traded with the Indians.
when we came to Jacksonville
we crossed the river in a flat ferry
carrying a two-horse wagon. The
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-09-14
Postwar Plans Are
Made For Parkway
Right Of Way Privileges Are
Secured For More Than
$50 Miles OF Parkway

Raleigh-The State Highway
Commission has obtained right of
way privileges to more than $50
miles of the Blue Ridge Parkway
route through Western North Car
DINA, Chairman Charles Ross said.
Construction work on the park
way was suspended shortly after
the war began but work on secur-
ing right of ways has continued in
preparation for a resumption of
paving when hostilities end, Ross
said.
Approximately $50 miles of the
scenic route through Virginia,
North Carolina and Georgia are
located in this State. Under terms
of the construction program the
State obtains the right of way and
the Federal Government does the
construction.
"A policy of obtaining rights of
way from 800 to 1000 feet wide
so as to preserve natural growth
and scenic possibilities, are being
continued, Ross said.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-09-14

next place we came to was St.
Augustine, then Fort Drum. Then
we followed a military trail, just
cut out, not made, camping at
night. Where Miami is now there
were three log houses where trap
pers lived and about rs soldiers
in the fort"
Only feet 6 inches tall, Brown
looked like a modern gnome as
he stood up to shake hands with
callers. His hair is white, his
goatee gray. His blue eyes are
failing and he is a little deaf, but
his health is excellent most of
the time.
He uses a typewriter to carry on
a lively correspondence. He also
is writing his autobiography.
81 have two more chapters to
WRITE" he said. Il would have
finished them last winter, but I
got the flu"
Born at Jefferson, in 1912, he
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-09-14

Eat eggs every day because
eggs have protein in the top class
with such foods as meat and milk
for building and repairing body
tissues. They also carry three Of
the B MISUNDERSTANDING, ribo-
flavin, niacin-plus vitamins A
and D, to help protect health. The
egg yolk holds a rich store of
iron for red blood cells and has
phosphorus and other minerals
needed by the body.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-09-14
>More Ashe Schools Are Planning Hot Lunches
Jury List Drawn
FOrOctOber Court
Criminal Court Scheduled To
Open Oct. % With Judge
j. HI: Clement Presiding

The list of jurors was drawn,
last week, for the October term OF
criminal court, which is scheduled
to open on the 23rd, with Judge
J. H. Clement presiding.
Those drawn to serve include
The following:
Hort Richardson, West Jeffer-
ION; Claude Ham, Hurricane;
Bradford Waddell, Helton; Avery
Bare, jefferson; D. c. Mash,
Obids; Iron Shepherd, Horse
Creek; E. z. Sexton, Horse Creek;
Earl Richardson, Piney Creek;
y. T. Faw, Piney Creek; A. c.
Howell, Helton; J. A. Eldreth,
hurricane; Moody Hale, Helton;
Arthur Childress, Clifton; NAL
:om Price, North Fork; M. G.
oasley, Helton; ]. K. Paisley,
Chestnut Hill; c. A. FISHERMAN,
Ielton; w. T. Rotten, Clifton.
o. J. Pennington, Jefferson;
-arnie Davis, Hurricane; CLAN
Weaver, Hurricane; Dave Snider,
North Fork; Wiley Johnson, Hur-
icane; c. C.. Blevins, Grassy
Creek; Tom J. Sheets, Clifton;
Tred Liddle, Peak Creek; w. W..
Rose, Hurricane; J. D. Mccoy,
4aurel; Monroe Perry, Horse
,reek; c. Emory Edwards, Elk.
Howard Vaught, Chestnut Hill;
T. J. Turner, Clifton; V. B.. Kri-
,er, Elk; G. M. Shepherd, Horse
creek; Hugh GRAPHICAL, Laurel;
,mmett Jones, Clifton.
Extra Jurors:
w. R. Hartsoe, Clifton; A. j.
Davis, Hurricane; G. F. Hart,
hurricane; J. w. Thompson, Hell
ION; Walter Sullivan. Piney
Creek; J. G. Howell, Walnut Hill;
\. F. Weaver, Grassy Creek; B.
I. Poe, jefferson; Orden Miller,
jefferson; Glenn Mccoy, North
'ork; E. c. Pope, Laurel; w. l..
heck, Pine Swamp.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-09-14

received his education at an aca-
deny in Portland, Ind; Christian
college, Lexington, KY, and
Michigan university. He special
lied in languages, later taught
them in schools and to private pu-
pills in North Carolina.
He has taken three airplane
rides. The last two were recent
ly. The first was as the guest of
Orville and Wilbur Wright, of
Dayton, Ohio, inventors of the
airplane.
'"They were good friends of
mine. lived in Dayton at the
time. I was in their shop when
they were experimenting"
Brown married twice, both
times while he was living in Ohio
A son and daughter of his first
marriage died under tragic cir
cumStanceS.
He has lived in Florida Al years,
in Palm Beach county for the past
81.
81 lived in town at first. When
World War I came, I started to
raise vegetables. The govern
ment wanted potatoes and things"
Although he was in his late 70's
at the time, Brown boasts that he
cleared his land in the flat woods
"grubbed palmettos, cut wood
plowed, planted and raised pota'
toes, cabbage, beans, sweet pota'
toes and roasting ears. I was the
first one to sell roasting ears il
this county for less than 81 a doz
en-" he said.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-09-14
H. ID. Clubs Plan
A State Meeting

The State Council of the North
'arolina Federation of Home
demonstration Clubs will hold its
nnual meeting in Raleigh at State
College, Sept. 1921.
The first meeting will be held
m the evening of Sept. 10 when
Dr.. Jane S. McKimmon, assistant
,irector of the Extension Serv-
ce, will bring greetings.
On Sept. 20, a business meet
ing will be held which will in
clude greetings from State Off
Gals and reports from the Nation
al Home Demonstration Council
by Mrs. w. c. Pou; the liaison
committee to the Associated
Country Women of the World;
Urban-Rural Conference in Wash
ington. Sixteen district chairmen
will report on activities of $4,000
club members.
On Wednesday night, the rural
women will join with the State
Federation of Women's Clubs, the
State Nurses Association for a
meeting. Governor J. Melville
Broughton will present a plaque
to a representative of the Sur
geon Generals office to be placed
in the hospital ship Larkspur,
signifying that it was purchased
by the bond buying of the three
organizations.
Several from Ashe county are
expected to attend.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-09-14
TELEPHONE COMPANY
MAKES CHANGE IN NAME

An announcement released by
r. A. Phillips, vice-president and
general manager of the Central
Electric and Telephone Company,
states: For some time the Off
GERS and directors of our organi-
cation have recognized that from
an operating viewpoint, it would
be advantageous to have our tele-
phone properties in a corporate
structure separate and apart from
our other utility properties.
Effective September l, 1914,
the telephone properties of the
company are, therefore, being
transferred to the Central Tele-
phone Company which is a new
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-09-14

organized Company of the Central
Electric and Telephone Company.
Since the Central Electric and
Telephone Company will no long
er directly operate telephone
properties, its name is according
ly being changed to Central Elec-
trio & Gas Company also as of
September l., 1914. Aside from
these corporate changes our or
ganization, its established policies
and practices will remain un-
changed"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-09-14

How far do you count cousins?
Someone remarked the other day
that it depended on how much
you liked them. One person de-
clared she never counted pas
third cousins unless she likec
them particularly well.
And speaking of cousins, die
you know that Dewey and Roose-
welt are distant cousins? Accord
ing to records, seventh removed
but anyway, like baseball, if yor
ebelieve in the seventh being the
lucky inning, one of them is sure
to be lucky enough to have the
President as cousin even after
the election on November 6!
Getting Things Down Pat!
We have always heard thai
getting anything down pat is real
ly getting it right; that is appar'
emily what doesn't always get
written or said about 1t. Genera,
George S. Patton, of the Ameri
can third army. And for once
he takes an exception to one stor.
about himself.
He appended the following note
to a recent report on military op
erations to Chief of Staff Gen
eral George G.. Marshall:
''In a clipping which just reach
ed me from home, I saw som
correspondent had stated that
arrived in Normandy waving {;
$1,000 bill and making bets. ar
rived in Normandy incognito.
have never seen a ST 900 bill"
Blooming Oddities!
This is conflicting year TO-
many things including bloom:
d Smith Dixon, of Nathan's Greek
brought in a branch of a locus
tree in full bloom. Several old
timers declared this was the frs
time they had ever seen such a.
oddly. Someone suggested tina
the locust tree was trying to &c
ahead of the blight, next year!
Turnips And Such!
From right here in West JEFF
ferson, Wayne Hurley brought il
an eight-pound turnip. It smell
led so definitely like turnip tina
we could only keep it in the win,
dow one day, however.
We have had many oddities tt
turn up from more distant points
recently. Pfc. Charles Jones
stationed somewhere in the South.
west Pacific area, sent an in,
scribed cocoanut. From Rome
Herbert Walters sent his wife
collection of postal card views Of
the country, which have attracted
considerable attention on display
in the window of this paper.
In The Mail Bag
, Mrs. T. B. Grayson, of st
? Charles, Virginia, writes that she
misses her many friends here anc
would love to be back and ex
plains that the next best thing tt
being back with them is keeping
up with them through the paper
Both Mr.. and Mrs. Grayson ane
their entire family have many
friends here, who miss them.
w. M. Jordan, of Mount Airy
father of John S. Jordan, pastor
of the West Jefferson Methods
church, asks for the paper and af
ter receiving it, writes: "You have
a splendid paper in a prosperous
town and one of the best coun
ties in the State"
Thanks, Mr.. Jordan. We thinl
we also have a fine Methods
preacher!
Kodiak mirror., 1944-02-12

Carrying their rifles above their heads US Marines wade through the surf from their landing craft and assemble on the beach at Cape Gloucester for their successful push inland to capture the Jap,held airport on New Britain island.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-02-12
NOTICE

The Island Transfer company has di'continued pickup of gar, bage from residences, effective now.
 Island Transfer company
Kodiak mirror., 1944-02-12
pDAK MIRROR

Originally charging forgery, 3 amended complaint was filed U. s. Commissioners court bis week by R. D. Russell, own r Of the Mems Store, against 2obert Johnson.
 At the trial Wednesday the olnplaint was dismissed and the efendant pied guilty to charge [ petty larceny and was sent. pced to 90 days in jail. The barge set forth that Johnson ave Mir. Russell a check for hos signed with the Dame of E. l. Collins, an allas, and failed to lake the check good.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-02-12

Buy U. s. Defense STAMPS
 and BONDS!
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-01-01
Tax Bill Scandal
Continued from Page One)

Continued from Page One)
war goods manufacturers who get
temporary gain from them"
The ''smartest thing business can
d." he added, is to leave the re-
negotiation statute alone, "unless
business executives want to spend
the rest of their lives on the Hill
before investigating committees.
Meanwhile, constitutionality of the
act was challenged in
a petition filed in Supreme Court by
the Alliance Brass & Bronze Co. of
Alliance, O.. to prevent the War
Dept. from proceeding with renego-
tiation of the company's 1912 con-
tracts. The law is invalid, said the
petition, because it confers on execu-
tive departments or administrative
tribunals "the power to make deter
limitations of all matters in relation
to what may constitute reasonable
profits"
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-01-01
Unions Are Warned OF Threats To ProLab0r Legislation

Despite Unions Attack.
A real tear-jerker, the story told
how ''the spirited little lady," was
bravely going on with her work,
martyr to vile insults. just what
these insults were the story didn't
quite clear. But they were ex-
planned as the unions revenge for
Comments Mrs. LOngstreet had
made on unions"
"a group came one day and solicited
my views on unions and | was not
in the least reluctant nor heSitant to
express them," Mrs. Longstreet was
quoted as saying. II told them l did
not believe a union had a place in
war plant during time of war. l might
add that l am an American and en-
titled to express my opinions = and
that many others hold my same be-
lief"
1t seems that Mrs. Longstreet had
been expressing such beliefs quite fire.
quently to the other workers in the
Bell plant. They said she was even
for IAN awful uproar go
ing on among workers in one of the
departments. But the company did
not object-in fact, they even fired
a good riveter to put Mrs. Longstreet
on "for publicity only" purposes this
fall.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-01-01
Co-ops To Meet On
Postwar Plans

WASHINGTON = Postwar plans
for rehabilitation will be made by
representatives of worldwide coopera-
tive organizations at a conference,
Jan. 10, 20, called by the committee
on cooperative reconstruction of the
Cooperative League of the U. S. A.
Committee chairmen praised direc-
tor general H. H. Lehman's proposal
to the United Nations Relief & Re-
Mobilization Administration that self
help" be the rule for postwar rehabili-
tation efforts. Cooperative leaders
from foreign countries have already
given approval to the Cooperative
Leagues rehabilitation policy: self
help not philanthropy"
Delegates to the conference will
represent Belgium, China, Czecho-
slovakia, Denmark, Greece, Neither
lands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland,
Yugoslavia, the Philippines, Canada,
England, the u. S. and South Ameri-
can countries.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-01-01
Japan Far From
Being Defeated,
Jenkinson Says
Labor Editor Shows Nip
ponese Empire Is Stronger
Today Than Ever

NEW YORK - Innocent vic
Tins of the negotiated peace now
movement, who may feel that the
war is all but over, are in for a
severe jolt if they read ''Know Your
Enemy: JAPAN" by Anthony Jen-
kinson Onstitute of Pacific Rela-
tons, SCI. Jenkinson is former
China correspondent for ''The Lon
don Daily Sketch. He is now editor
of Sailed Labor News"
The Nipponese empire is stronger
today than ever. Its material resources
have doubled and even trebled since
Pearl Harbor.
"By conquering Southeast Asia,
Japan secured access to about 800
of the worlds rubber supply and
66% of its tin-more than she can
use," he declares, in a chapter de-
voted to evaluating Japan's strength
now and before Pearl Harbor. He
continues:
"There is more than enough oil in
the area to meet her needs, and
enough iron ore TO SATISFY ABOUT OU3o
of her requirements" From China and
Indo- China she gets coal; from Meth
erlands Indies, bauxite for making
aluminium; from the Indies and Bur-
ma, nickel, lead and zinc And so on.
"Japan's strategy" Jenkinson
says, ''seems to be to build up her
industries Cher industrial develop
ment has not kept pace with her
rapid conquest of raw materially
in the north, in Manchuria-so
that, even after the reOccupatiOn of
Southeast Asia, the Allies will face
Japan's main industrial apparatus.
Japan could then count on Allied
war WEAKNESS to achieve a negotiated
peace" To combat this strategy, Jenk-
inson argues, the Allies must keep