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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-05-23
Blue Ridge Parkway Fund
May Reach Budget Request

this, SIS million was obligated I'M
der contract authorizations-$2,-
100000 for Blue Ridge projects
and $2,004,000 for Natchez Trace.
Blue Ridge is slated to get $780,
900 of the remaining $4,000, 900
and 100000 would go to the new
Foothills Parkway in Western
North Carolina. Doubling this
$2,5O0,00O would boost the final
total to $40 million, two-thirds of
the budget recommendation. This
is expected to be the ultimate de-
cision.
Sen. Clyde r. Hoey already has
pledged himself to seek larger
appropriation in the Senate,
where hearings on the interior
bill are progressing.
While admitting the $7,50O,OOO
for the four parkways is only
half the budget figure, the House
committee observed cit is actual
ly in excess of prior appropria-
tons, with the possible exception
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Little Helton School House, 100
p. M; Sussex Store, 2:30 p. m.
Wednesday, June S, IL, 10 -
Nathan's Creek Post Office, 900
a. m; Joins Store, River Bridge,
1880 a. m.
Thursday, June 6, IS, 20 -
Grassy Creek-Sturgilps Store,
$50 a. M; Weavers Ford Store,
HOO a. M; Fairview-Paisley's
Store, loo p. M; Crumpler Post
Office, 200 p. M; Silas Creek
Phipps Store, BIS p. m.
Monday, June "a, July 1, g.
Othello School House, $50 a. m;
Obids-Colvard's Store, HOO a.
M; Glendale Springs - Bare's
Store, lis p. M; Wagner Post
Office, 2:3O p. m.
Tuesday, June Is, July 2, 9 -
Tuckerdale Depot, $50 a. M;
Whitetop-F'armer's Store, 1880
a. M; Nella Post Office, 2:30 p. m.
Wednesday, June 81, July 3, 10
-Meadowview School House, 9:30
a. M; Fairview School House,
Continued on page g.
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WASHINGTON - Blue Ridge
Parkway development funds for
1947, pared by so per cent in the
House, will be increased by Sen
ate-House conferees to an amount
closer to Budget Bureau recon-
mendations, Rep. Robert l..
Doughton, of the Ninth Congress
sional District, has been assured
Pioneer advocate of the 480-
mile scenic highway, Representa-
tive Doughton had contemplated
urging the House Thursday to re-
store the Parkway development
funds slashed from the Interior
Department supply bill by the
Appropriations Committee. How
ever, survey indicated Republican
members almost solidly against
amendments to increase spending,
with several Democrats also in
favor of accepting the committee
recommendations without change.
The committee cut appropria-
lions for parkways, including
Blue Ridge, from SIS million
budget estimate to $7,500,000. Of
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-05-23
West Jefferson Merchants
Will Hold Charter Night On
Monday; Greene 10 Speak
IA Interest IN Organiza-
ton; Special Program
Monday Night

'lsaezt Jefferson merchants VIZ
lold charter night next Monday
at the community building, when
directors Of the new association
viii be named and Clyde R.
Greene, president of the N. c,
uercnants Association Will de-
liver the principal address.
"A special program has been
tanned and between so and sc
merchants are expected to attend
IN addition to music there will
be some other entertainment
along with the business. The din
2er meeting will open at Zoo
o'clock.
This membership committee ap-
,oi-ted recently by Chairman
~%yn Little Is now MAKING {
lContsnued on Page 12)
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Lansing IL. S. To
Give Play Tonight
Drama Entitled "A Fortunate
Calamity" Presented By
High School Students

A three-act comedy drama, en-
titled "A Fortunate Calamity, "
will be presented by the students
OF Lansing high school, tonight
at o'clock in the school gym
nasium.
The scene of the play is in Ken
lucky and the plot is taken from
an Incident occurring near a
small village along the Ohio Riv-
er.
The names of characters and
those who will portray the roles
are as follows:
. Mrs. Merkle, a proud mother,
Lorene Powers; Alta, her daugh-
ter, whose desire is to become
rich. Pauline Weaver; Ruth, just
a plain girl, Sammie Johnson;
Kate Van Lyle, a good-natured
cook, Gladys Caudill; Dinah
Johnsing, a servant, Helen Gillie;
Rastus Johnsing, an honest coon,
Thomas Roberts; Joe Brown, a
revenue officer, Kyle Key; Ber-
nard Gullion, jovial young man,
Kenneth Dolinger; Albert Camp
bell, who plays a crooked game,
Staley Powers.
The public is cordially invited
to attend.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-05-23
Jefferson High
School Closes

Jefferson high school came to
a close Tuesday, without any for
NAL exercises as there were no
graduates this year. The addition
of the twelfth grade necessitated
one year without graduates.
The annual awards in dramat-
les presented on the last day by
Mrs. Gertrude Vaught went to
Betty Joe Bare, Imogene Barker,
Annabel Coward, Clayborn
Sheets, Edgar Burkette and Bill
lie Marie Oliver.
The first and third grade STU
dents gave a very entertaining
program in chapel last week. This
consisted of poems, songs and a
play and was under the direction
of Miss Louise Sutherland.
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Vote Is Expected
To Be Light In
Primary On Sat.
Ashe County Democrats To
Vote On Solicitor
For District

With only one contest to be
decided by Ashe county Demo
Gratis at the primary on Saturday:
that of the solicitor for the elev-
enth judicial district, the vote is
expected to be unusually light
throughout the county.
Some of those following tbs
situation closely estimated tina
there will be much less than zoo
votes cast in the entire county
The only race in question is thai
between Erie McMichael, the So
licitor incumbent and Walter E
Johnston. Both are veterans an0
attorneys of Forsyth county. In
.Iuded in the eleventh district are
ne counties Of Asha, Allegheny
and Forsyth.
Congressman R. L. Doughton is
ne party's choice for the candi-
ate for congress and ali county
candidates of Ashe are named il:
the convention. This will be hello
AZ later date.
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Memorial Day
TO Be Observed
In Aslle, Sunday
I Am An American Day" To
Also Be Celebrated; Hoyt
Wood To Speak

Plans are now being perfected
by the Ashe Post III American
Legion and Auxiliary for the OBJ
servance of Memorial Day and
Il Am An American Day. at the
courthouse, Sunday afternoon at
three o'clock, when a special pro-
gram has been planned.
Captain Hoyt Wood, former
West jefferson Methodist pastor,
who has been in the armed forces
for several years will be the chief
speaker. Rocco Cutri, native Of
italy, now a well known citizen
# West Jefferson. will speak
briefly on why | Am Glad l An
Al American"
Music for the occasion will be
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Play To Be Given
AT VIC. Friday
Hay Day To Be HeIcfl
On School Grounds; Nalse u
Halsey Named Queen

The high school students of
Virginia-Carolina high school will
present a three-act play entitled
Sunshine" Friday night at 8
o'clock in the gymnasium.
Roles will be played by the fol-
lowing: Betty 10 Grove, Lena
Ruth Gore, Olive Pierce, Maxine
Roupe, Bill Davis, Doris Nc
Grady, Max Seagle, Curtis Med
ley, Junior Medley, Freda Hash
and Betty Sexton.
May Day exercises will be held
by the elementary grades Satur-
day at 1890 a. m. on the school
playground.
Nancy Halsey has been named
queen and the attendants are Bar
bara Jean Hall, Kathryn Hash
Ruby Eller and Eva Watson
flower girls, Linda Young anc
Mildred Eller; heralds, Billy Pau
GRAPHICAL and Jerry Sexton
crown bearer, Master David Par
sons.
In case of rain, it was an
nounced that May Day exercises
will be held in the gymnasium.
The public is cordially invited
to attend both the play and May
Day festivities. School will Of
ficially close on Saturday.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-05-23
Red Cross Work
Praised By G. |.

Work of the Red Cross was
highly praised by Pvt. GilmeF
w. Paisley, now stationed in
KaSsel, Germany, who i'm a re-
cent letter to his mother, Mrs.
@. G. Paisley, of Grassy Greek,
wrote:
"PleaSe be sure to contribute
to the Red Gross. 1t has done
more for the boys here in Ger
many than anything else"
Pvt. Gilmer is serving with
the first cOnstability regiment
on patrol between the Russian
and American zone I'm Ger
many. Mrs. Paisley came TO
the office Of this paper and
made a contribution.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-05-23
More Than $500
County Farmers
Sign AAA Plans
Around 1000 Tons Of Lime
And Ten Million Pounds
Of Phosphate To Be Used

A recent summary made of 1915
Farm Plans filed with the Ashe
County AAA Committee, as re-
quest for assistance through the
1916 Agricultural Conservation
Program, reveals that IS per cent
of the county's 1900 farm oper-
ators have mapped out their plans
for the current year.
According to J. w. Gambill,
chairman, Ashe County AAA
Committee, approximately 1000
tons of limestone and 100000
pounds of phosphate are expect
ed to be used to improve the quail
ity of crops and to promote the
Continued on Page 12)
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mt Needs More Applicants
Judge Pless To
Preside; Several
Cases Scheduled
A Number Of Cases On Mo-
ton Calendar; Suits To
Recover Property

Ashe county's spring term OF
superior court, for the trial OF
civil cases will open On Monday
at the courthouse in JeffeEson,
with Judge Will Pless presiding.
There are a number Of cases
on the motion calendar and sew
eral others on the calendar that
are expected to be settled before
court opens.
There are a number of minor
damage suits and others that are
expected to be tried.
Among the tax cases on the
calendar are those of the county
of Ashe VS.. H. G. Tucker, T. c..
Bowie; county of Ashe VS., Mrs.
w. r. Bauguess; county of Ashe
VS.. Will Lambert, Blanch Lambert
and T. G. Bowie.
Of interest here is the case OF.
Continued on Page Six>
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Some Response To Renewed
Effort To Raise Asl1e Countv's
Red Gross Quota; Need More
ZsFe County Still Behind
1855. Workers Urged
To Continue Efforts

Since special community work
ers were announced last week in
an effort to raise the county's Red
ross quota, some of them
have already reported and others
are working hard to raise their
assigned quotas. A report through
yesterday showed that the coun-
ty is still $1286.75 behind on the
assigned quota.
Mrs. John Littlewood and Miss
Alta Perkins reported $23.50 and
A. H. Church $7.35. AS list of
these individual contributors will
be published next week. Other
community workers are urged to
complete their canvass and turn
in their reports.
A list of some contributions to
Continued on Page 12)
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From 800 To 500
Women Workers
Will Be Needed
Should Sign Applications
This Week; Much Interest
Being Shown

Since the announcement of the
possibility of the location of a
new work clothing plant in West
jefferson was announced last
week, much interest has been
shown in it and a number of peo-
pie have made application for
work.
Members of the committee TAX
ing applications said, however
that many more were still needed
The location of the plant here
is contingent on a sufficient num-
Der of people available for en-
ployment and for that reason
more applicants are necessary be-
fore further plans can be made
about the plant.
Applications are being taken
in West jefferson by the w. G.
Vannoy furniture company,
Continued on Page g.
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JONES NOT TO ISSUE
DRIVERS LICENSES

R. Austin Jones, who has been
the official to issue drivers
licenses in this county for some
time, announced this week that
he had resigned from this because
of his other duties. He will no
longer issue licenses, but pointed
out that the department would
most likely have some one else
appointed for this work, within
a short time.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-05-23
1916 Ashe Wool
Pool Contracted
Shearing Demonstration On
Friday; Wool To Be Col
lecteG June Ill And IL


The Ashe county wool pool fox
1916 has been contracted along
with pools from Allegheny, Wa
tauga, Grayson and Carroll coun-
ties to J. Cam Fields, of Fields
Manufacturing mpany, OF
Mouth of Wilson, Va, at 52k
cents a pound for clear wool, H.
D. Quessenberry, county agent,
announced this week.
The decision was reached fol-
lowing a conference of repre-
sentative sheep raisers of the
counties involved few days ago.
The wool will be collected, as
has been done over the past sew
eral years and will be paid for
as collected.
MI. ttuessenberTy said that a
schedule for collections would be
published shortly, giving the
sheep raisers ample notice on
when to make their deliveries.
Collections for Ashe will be made
June IL and IL.
There will be no d1fferentia1 in
price for clear wool between tied
or united fleeces.
Mr.. Quessenberry again re-
minded the farmers that a sheep
shearing demonstration would be
held at the State test farm, at
Transou, Friday, starting at Q
Continued on Page Six)
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Osborne Funeral
ToBe Held Today
Mrs. Osborne Succumbs After
Long Illness In Charlotte
Hospital

Funeral service for Mrs. Chessie
GRAPHICAL Osborne, As, who sue
cumbed at the Memorial hospital
in Charlotte Tuesday night, will
be held today at the home of the
deceased at Fig at 2 o'clock. Rev.
John Barden will officiate and
ioterment will be in the Suther-
land cemetery.
Mrs. Osborne, who had been i'll
for sometime, had been treated
in the Ashe Memorial hospital
and was taken to Charlotte last
Continued on Page 12)
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Curtis Miller Is
Buried SUNDAY

Funeral service for Curtis Mill
er, 12-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Att Miller, of Glendale
Springs, was held Sunday at 2
o'clock at the Severt cemetery.
Burial followed with Rev. J. w.
Luke officiating.
Curtis died at his home Satur-
day morning after a long and Sc
rious illness.
In addition to his parents, nine
brothers and four sisters survive.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-05-23
Healing Springs
Finals Beginning
To Be Concluded Friday;
Phipps Portrait Will
Be Unveiled

Commencement exercises for
Healing Springs high school will
begin today with the unwilling
of a portrait of the late Jacob F.
Phipps, a former teacher of the
school.
Other exercises planned for
tonight are the presentation of
the following plays by the pupils
of the grade school:
tom Thumbs Wedding" tom
Continued on Page 12)
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Leonard Brooks
Is Discharged

Leonard R. Brooks, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Tom Brooks, of Grassy
Creek, was honorably discharged
from the navy at the U. S. Navy
personnel separation center at
Charleston, S. c., Sunday, it was
learned here this week.
Brooks, who served with the
rank of seaman, second class,
spent % months in the service,
Is of which were spent overseas.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-05-23
improvement For
Lansing School

According to an announcement
made this week by Ron Davis,
principal of Lansing high school,
the school lunchroom now has a
grade-A rating.
Considerable work has been
done this year on the lunchroom
in order to obtain this rating.
This is the second school in the
county to achieve this rating this
year. Elkland was the first.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-05-23
S. S. Convention
To Meet Sunday

The Ashe Baptist Sunday
School convention wall be held at
the West Jefferson Baptist church,
Sunday, May 26, at 2:30 O'Clock,
at which time G. w, Bullard, OF
the State Sunday School board
will be guest speaker,
During the convention, definite
plans for the associational Wide
Sunday School enlargement will
be discussed. Churches are urg-
ed to send representatives.
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-06

IT WAS in the spring of the year, nearly a cen
1 tury ago. that two Boston gentlemen stopped
y speaking TO each other except to exchange in
suits and accusations and it getting along
toward Thanksgiving when of the gentlemen
ceased speaking entirely. In fact he ceased doing
anything, including the exercise of breathing
These two erstWhile friends were DR.. George
Parkman, 66, in 1919, q wellto-do physician and
business man, and DR.. John W. Webster, 56,
financially insecure professor of chemistry and
mneralogy at Harvard College.
Parkmanr brother of the Rev Francis Parkman,
veteran pastor of the New North Church of Bos-
ton, regarded eminently just man. while
Webster also had a fine reputation, although sub
ject to fits of temper.
Parkman and Webster had been on cordial
terms for many years. Then in 1872 the ply
SiCian, who also something of a financier,
lent $l00 to the professor, Webster pledging
security certain personal property, including his
collection of minerals Five years later, Webster
still owed $34SS3; nevertheless PaTRman and
other friends granted him second loan of 81, 800,
Parkman subscribing $500.
Came the spring of 1S48, and additional finan-
cal embarrassment for Webster, who lived in
Cambridge and had wife, son. and three daugh-
tcrs to support. Feeling he could not borrow any
more from Parkman or his other creditors he
went TO Robert G.. Shaw, brother.inlaw of Park
man. and offered to sell him his collection Of
minerals, which he had already morgaged to
Parkman, and the result that Shaw paid
about 81 200 in instalmentS.
When Parkman heard of this deal he waXcd
indignant. Thereafter he often denounced Webster.
In October and November, 1S49, Parkman called
Webster several times to demand payment of
the debt on which Webster still owed Si5627 10
Parkman and $63750 to the others Eventually,
Webster promised to pay Parkman's share on
Friday, Nov. %.
On the morning of the Odd, Webster called at
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-06

the doctors residence between and 9, and made
an appointment TO meet Parkman at his lecture
room at the close of Webster's lecture at 1:30
D. m. Webster then proceeded TO the medical
school, which North Grove St, Boston.
That same morning Ephram Littlefied, jani
tor of the recently completed medical building
the ground for which, incidentally, had been
donated by Parkman-noticed that sledge ham
mer customarily kept in the laboratory, had been
removed to Webster'S private room. Littlefield,
purely in a spirit of neatness, carried it down TO
the laboratory. He never saw that hammer again.
Professor Webster lectured from y 10 /, and
between 80 and various persons observed the
angular Parkman striding at his usual fast gait
toward the medical college.
lecture by another professor terminated
about 2:15, the students left the building, and Eph
Lttlefied, who for an ordinary janitor certainly
played extraordinary role in what many per-
sons consider Americas most celebrated murder
case, began to tidy up the lecture rooms
He found all the doors leading to Websters
lecture room and laboratory bolted inside. He
heard someone moving about, and heard water
running in the sink.
At about $50, Webster came down and passed
out through the door
That evening, the professor took tea with his
family, and at 8 the Webster daughters left to
attend a party at a neghbors, while the parents
called at the home of a fellow professor, where
other friends and acquaintances had already
rived A social evening was enjoyed by all, and
the Websters were back home and in bed by ! a. m.
Eph Lirtlefield, who lived at the medical .eo!.
lcge with his wife Caroline also attended party
Illustrated by JOSEPH WATSON LITTLE
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-06

that evening returned at about 1920 locked up
for the night, and went TO bed.
As for DR. Parkman. he failed TO reappear.
When Webster arrived the next morning, he
ordered fire built in the stove in the laboratory.
He remained in his room during the morning,
and dined at home at about 1. During the after
noon, the jantor heard water running
QY THIS time the Boston police had been in
- formed of Parkmans disappearance. An adj
vertisement inserted in the afternoon papers
announcing the disappearance and offering re-
ward At about dusk, Webster bought a copy Of
Millions III PenseroSo,' and he read aloud 10 the
family after tea. The rest of the evening was
pleasantly passed playing whist.
Sunday, Nov 25-Webster remarked at break
fast on the odd disappearance of DR.. Parkman.
At p m. he went TO Boston and met Samuel
p. Blake, nephew of the missing man. He told
Blake of his visit TO the Parkman home, and of
Parkman's subsequent visit to the medical college(
He said he had paid Parkman $+S3 the amour ~
owed and that the doctor had told him he would
go TO East Cambridge and discharge the mortgage.
Webster told Pastor Parkman the same story.
Still that same Sunday, Webster called at the
irohe Of the city clerk al GanDtfdge, and inquired
whether the mortgage had been Cancelled mot
yet" the clerk replied.
BY Monday morning, the disappearance of
January o, IO16
Evening star., 1946-03-07
IBaer-Naier
Ceremony Held

Easter lilies decorated st. Ga
briels last Saturday for the wedding
of Miss Esther Elizabeth Maier and
Mr.. Norman Charles Baer. The
bride is the daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Albert j. Maier of this city
and her husband is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. August Baer of Glendale
N. Y. A wedding breakfast fol-
lowed at the Broadmoor.
Given in marriage by her father
the bride was gowned in white satin
and she carried a shower bouquet
of Easter lilies and white orchids.
Mrs. Harry E. Woodworth of
Berkeley, Calf, sister of the bride
was matron of honor. She was cos
TUNED in blue point d'esprit and
carried shower bouquet of blue and
gold spring flowers. The brides
maids, Miss Judith Barret and Miss
Elizabeth Crisp of Washington and
Miss Gloria Fink of Allentown, Pa.
wore pink organdie and carried
shower bouquets of pink and blue
spring flowers.
Mr.. Joseph Link Of Long Island
acted as best man, and the ushers
were Mr.. Raymond Gelish, Mr..
Charles BoWlas and Mr.. Philip
Geiger all of New York.
Mrs. Baer attended Dunbarton
College and Wilson Teachers Col
lege. Mr.. Baer attended Richmond
Hill School. He was discharged
from the service last fall
Evening star., 1946-03-07
By Gretchen Smith
Women's Club Editor.

/ A warning that propaganda is
being disseminated in the United
States, bearing a terrifying SINH
larity" to that started by Nazi chief
propagandist, Joseph Goebbels, in
1888 was sounded by Howard Bald
win, advertising manager of the
New Yorker magazine, yesterday.
Guest speaker at luncheon meet
ing of the Women's Advertising Club
at the Sheraton Hotel, Mr.. Baldwin
based his assertion on experience
and research gained in his three
years service abroad
That master propagandiSt, Goeb-
bels, started propaganda scheme
which almost took over Europe" he
said.
Quoting the late brilliantly dan
gerouS" NaZi, who took his own life
rather than be captured by the
Allies, Mr.. Baldwin said, "propa-
ganda is the force with which YOU
control the masses. Hatred can &C
compliSh more than any other
emotion"
Reviewing briefly some of Goeb-
bells tactics which eventually built
and trained the German people in
brutality" the speaker added,
though Goebbels is dead, his line
goes marching on"
The speaker pointed out the SINH
larity between Nazi propaganda in
its early stages when Goebbels used
Jewish minorities to arouse German
hatreds, and that which started in
the United States shortly before
Pearl Harbor, when "95 Semitic
papers were published in the coun-
try. He also quoted a well-known
national figure who at that time