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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-03
MEETING HELD

NEW BERN, April
Members of the Church Of
Jesus Christ, Latter Day
Saints, held a district meet
Ing here during the weekend,
with representatives attend
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-03
FOREST RICHARDSON

TABOR CITY, April 2 - Fores
Richardson of Route one, Cali.
wants Ferry, died, in the Conway
hospital today about 2 O'Clock
from injuries received from q
collision on the Georgetown high.
way.
Funeral services will be helc
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-03
w. O. w, MEET

April 2 -
Pine Camp No. 144, Wocd~en
of the World, will meet Fri
day at 7:3O p. m. in the Long
Branch community hut. A good
attendance is desired.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-03

The first five minutes of a fire
are more important than the mex
five hours.
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ed legislation unwiSe and deter
mental to the best interest of the
Town and its inhabitants for
several reasons which l consider
sound.
'The Town has always accepted
the valuation placed on property
by the County tax assessors in
evaluing property within the
Town for County taxes. A re-
valuation and increase of taxes
by the Town would result in a
corresponding revaluation and
increase in taxes by the County,
In other words the purposed ac-
ton of the Board of Alderman
would result in an increase in
both Town and County taxes. 1t
is my views that there should be
no increase in the valuation I'M
less the same is County wide
With both increased Town and
County taxes in West jefferson
it is my belief that the value Of
real estate within the Town will
be materially impaired, and that
people who would otherwise
purchase here will buy property
outside the corporate limits, and
further, that industry which we
have been trying and hoping to
induce to locate here will be less
likely to do so if taxes are in
creased in the manner purpoSed
by the Board of Alderman.
Il have been particularly in
tereSted in law enforcement while
| have been Mayor. and with the
cooperation l have received up
to this time from both the town
board, policemen, and citizens,
have been able to enforce the
general criminal laws and traffic
regulations to an extent of which
l am in some degree proud. Over
my strenuous protest the Board
Continued on Page -
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-03-06
Town Aldermen
Want Property
Revalued Here
Send Resolution To Blevins;
Parker Is Given
Discharge

At meeting of the board of
aldermen on Friday night a reso-
luton was unanimously passed
asking that J. O. Blevins, Ashe
county's representative in the N.
c. Legislature. introduce a bill
for a revaluation of property IN
West Jefferson, independent Of
the county. The bill was sent to
Representative Blevins for intro
duction this week.
This was done after a lengthy
discussion of ways and means OF
making taxes fair to all and at
the same time enabling the town
to have better financial rating.
In considering law enforcement
the board also decided that since
the state highway patrolman as
well as the county sheriff both
live here in town and are ready
: ITO cooperate, that in order to
economic, Policeman Joe Park
er, who has been serving the
town since December Is, would
no longer be needed.
All members of the board were
present. The mayor was absent,
however.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-03-06
All Ashe County
High Schools To
Enter This Year
Finals Of Tri-County Event
Are Scheduled To Be Held
On Saturday, March Is

The boys and girls teams of
Ashe county's nine high schools
are expected to enter the Appa-
lachian High School Athletic AS
ISOLATION Basketball Tournament
to be held at Boone March IL
through March Is, Herbert Gray
beal, president Of the Ashe asso-
citation, announced this week.
There will be a total of 80
teams from Ashe, Watauga, and
Avery counties entered in the
tournament which will get under
way on Wednesday afternoon at
ZOO o'clock. The semi-finals will
be played on Friday evening and
the finals on Saturday evening.
Pairings were not available in
time for publication this week.
1t Is understood that teams will
be paired according to their
standings to date, however.
This is the first time Ashe
teams have fully participated in
the tournament since before the
war years and much interest is
being manifested again.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-03-06
Plan Opening
For Saturday
Payne Truck And Tractor
Company To Hold Official
Opening On Saturday

Coleman Payne, owner and
manager of the Payne Truck and
Tractor company announced yes
terday that plans were underway
for the official opening on Satur-
day, to which the public is cor
daily invited.
In addition to handling Inter
national trucks, tractors and
much other equipment the firm
will also do all types of mechan-
lcal work on all makes of cars,
Mr.. Payne said.
The firm is located in the new
ly completed building on the
Boone road Just on the edge of
town. I'VE are happy to be in
the new building and will well
come everyone to our opening
Saturday to inspect our equip
ment and other features" he said.
He also announced that re-
freshments would be served from
one until five o'clock on Satur-
day afternoon for the opening.
Mr.. Payne, a we'll known local
business man, has a staff of train
ed people to assist him in the
operation of his business. Dewey
Sells is service manager. Fur
Their details of the opening are
announced elsewhere in todav's
paper.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-03-06
WAGNER Rites
Held Yesterday
Mrs. Nora J. Wagner Sue
cumbed At Ashe Memorial
Hospital, Sunday

Funeral service for Mrs Nora
]. Wagner, SO, of Nathan's
Creek, was held yesterday morn
ing at eleven o'clock at the New
Hope Baptist church. Officiat-
ing was Rev. F. G.. Walker, pas
tor of the Sparta Baptist church,
and interment was in the church
cemetery.
Mrs. Wagner succumbed in the
Ashe Memorial hospital at JEFF
ferSon Sunday night at $3.50
o'clock after an illness of several
weeks. The daughter Of Mrs.
Katherine Warden and the late
Andrew Jackson Warden, she is
survived by her husband, Henry
Wagner. of Nathan's Creek; one
daughter, Mrs. Ruth ]. Choate, of
Sparta; two sisters, Mrs. Myra
Cutshall. of Gordon, Nebraska,
and Mrs. M. S. Monkey, of indie
pendence, Pa; one brother, R. G..
Warden, of Stratford.
The following step-children
also survive: Dwight, of Pyles-
vile. Md; Eugene and Hoke, of
Baden, Pa: James A., of Oteen
hospital; Wing, of Muckogie,
0I>1o NH,,c&1o IJooo r VTy;-,&oo
Salem; Pressie Jenkins, of Joppa,
Md, Mrs. J. F. Cox, of Furches,
and Robert, of Della, Pa.
The body lay in state at the
Wagner home at Nathan's Creek
Tuesday night and at the church
prior to the service.
The Woman's Missionary So
ciety of the Sparta Baptist church
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-03-06
Urges Support
For Red Gross

Rocco Cutri of the Carolina
Briar, urges the support of all in
the Red Cross Campaign Fund
Drive.
Mr.. Cutri's statement is as fol-
lows:
The community of Ashe
county has been second to none
in every drive made during the
war. The response has been
most generous and patriotic in
the true sense of the word. We
all can be proud of our contrl-
buttons in winning the war. We
will certainly not fail to respond
with the same enthusiasm and
generosity in winning the peace.
To this task, there is no other
organization in the world that
can render a more humane and
more efficient service to alleviate
pain and suffering wherever it is
needed. Millions of our young
boys are still scattered through
out the world and we all know
what the services of the Ameri-
can Red Cross means to them.
I'VE do not fully realize the
blessings that we enjoy in our
country. God commands that we
share these blessings with Others
We can do so through the me-
dunn of the American Red Cross
by over-subscribing our quota in
record time Give until it hurts. y
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-03-06

formed the choir, the soloist was
Mrs. Matthew Reynolds, Of
Grassy Creek.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-03-06

Fries Y. vi. G. A. Team Wins
In Final Tourney Game, Sat.

In the most exciting game OF
the Northwestern all-star tour
nament which was entered by ID
teams, the Y. M. C. A. team from
Fries, Va, defeated the Miller's
Greek team by one-polnt lead,
52-51, in the finals in the Jeffer-
son gymnasium, Saturday night.
Miller's Creek was the first to
score and kept the lead in the
first quarter which ended in their
favor 1877. In the second quar-
ter Fries rallied and the score
was tied at 1919. BY the end
of the half Miller's Creek was in
the lead, 1923. From then on,
it was anybody's ball game, the
score being tied time and again.
With less than a minute to play
Fries scored a goal to end the
game 52-51.
High scorer for the winners
was Moore with Is points and
MCLEAN for the losers with IA
points.
Following the game a bronze
trophy was awarded the winning
team by L. P. Coward and gold
basketballs were awarded each
member of the two teams par
ticipating in the finals.
Named On the all-tournament
teams were: first team, Fink and
Mando, of Mocksville, and D. Jen-
ningS, A, Jennings, and Wikle. all
of Fries; second team, Eller and
MCLEAN, of Miller's Creek, Mast,
of Blowing Rock, Cox, of Crump-
Ter, and Greene, of Boone.
B. Bumgarner, of Miller's
Creek, was awarded the medal
for craftsmanship during the
tournament.
In the Semi-finals Friday night,
the Miller'S Creek team over
powered the Boone all-stars after
hard fought game by a ten
point lead, the final score being
47-37. The teams tied the game
at 1922 at the end of the third
quarter when Miller's Greek took
the lead.
Mac Eller scored IS points for
Miller's Greek and Mclean, IS
points. Green scored IL points
for Boone.
The Y. M. c. A. boys from
Fries, Va, won their bid to the
finals by defeating the Mocks-
vile Millers, last years champs,
by score of 1886.
The Fries boys took an early
lead and at the end of the first
quarter led the Millers 1874. At
the half they still led by 1919. D.
Jennings of the Fries team on his
long range shots, time and again
ran up the score against the
MOckSville team.
In the third quarter, Mocks-
vile rallied and the score was at
1925. though still in Fries fav-
or. From then on it was a tied
game, first at 30, then at 81, each
team scoring a basket to keep the
score tied. At the final play, it
was Fries game, 37-26.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-03-06

In the games Thursday night
Miller's Creek, Boone and the
Mocksville Millers were victori-
GUS and Fries Y. M. c. A. boys
won by a forfeit from the Mt
City team.
In the opening battle Miller's
Creek defeated the Hollar's Inc.
men by a score of 1875. Lead
ing the scoring for the winners
was Bumgarner with 18 points
and Hollar for the losers, with
Is points also.
In the Crumpler VS.. Boone
game, the score was more evenly
matched. The Crumpler Rebels,
defeated only twice this season,
once by Mt. City and once in an
out of conference game with the
West jefferson all-stars, met the
Boone all-stars in what was pre-
dicted as Walk-aWay game.
lead At the end of the first
quarter, Boone was leading 1914
However, Crumpler never got the
and at the half by score OF
1913. Boone held the lead all the
way through and at the final
play, the score was 24-2O. Bryan
scored 10 points for Boone and
Cox, six points for Crumpler.
The Mocksville Millers, defend
ing champions, scored a 66-45
victory over the Blowing Rock
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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-03-06
CO. Parsons, Mayor OF West
Jefferson, Resigns Position

Mayor G. 0. Parsons, on Sat
urday turned in his resignation
to the board of aldermen and
asked to be relieved of his duties
Immediately. Mayor Parsons, who
was serving his second successive
term in this office pointed out
that he was resigning because of
public reasons and because of the
fact he did not agree with the
board in some of their decisions.
81 He told representative of this
paper that he deeply appreciated
the cooperation he had received
from everyone, and he particu-
larly wanted to thank the citi-
zens for their support. MY rea-
sons for resigning are between
me and the board of aldermen
and not the good citizens of West
Jefferson, but l bear no malice
or i'll feeling to anyone" he de-
clared.
The full text of his resignation
which follows, points out that he
does not approve of the proposed
re-valuation:
Il herewith hand you my re-
signation as Mayor of West JEFF
ferson to be effective i'm
mediately.
my action in resigning is
purely for public reasons, and in
no wise because of any i'll will
toward any member of the Board
Of Alderman.
Certain questions Of public
policy have recently arisen con-
corning which majority of the
Board and l cannot agree. The
Board of Alderman has recently
passed resolution requesting
Hon. j. o. Blevins, Ashe County's
present representative in the
State Legislature, to have pass a
special act authorizing the re-
valuation for taxation of all real
estate and other property with
in the corporate limits of the
Town. l considered such purpos-
formed the choir, the soloist was
Mrs. Matthew Reynolds, of
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-03-06
PIT. A. POSTPONES
BENEFIT CARD PARTY

The benefit card party, which
was to have been sponsored by
the West Jefferson Parent-Teach-
ers association at the community
building on March 10, has been
postponed, Mrs. Dean Mcmillan
announced this week.
The date of the party will be
announced later, it was pointed
out.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-03-06
w. E. VANNOY, JR.,
MAKES HONOR ROLL

Wade E. Vannoy, Jr., was
among the group of students
making the honor roll for the fall
semester at Wake Forest college,
according to an announcement
just received from there.
Wade, who has completed his
studies there, is now spending
sometime at his home here.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-03-06
ONE MAN TRIED IN
MAYORS COURT, MON.

One man was tried and fined
in Mayors court, here, Monday.
Raymond Little, Of jefferson,
charged with public drunkenness,
was fined $40 and costs. Carl F,
Coward was acting mayor.
Evening star., 1947-04-09

director. Little Larry Hogan, who
stepped in as a pinch hitter when
John Shields resigned, has done
a grand job for the Hoyas, but
Larry is up to his elbows in school
work and adding the full-time
publicity chores would simply be
working good horse to death.
Black is one of those incurable
sports fans who spent his noviti-
ate in press releases under Jack
Espey and later Johnny Busick at
George Washington University
while studying for his degree.
At Camp Croft Jimmy was
chief cook and bottle washer for
the post eleven during the war.
Sponsored by Gen. Alexander M.
Patch, then a colonel, the squad
included Joe Katalinas and Fred
Teehan, former Georgetown
stars, Leroy Monsky from Ala
bama, Heine Adams from Pitts
burgh; Joe Manzo, who captained
the Boston College team that
whipped Tennessee in the 1941
Sugar Bowl game, and Tony Ca
vallo, who has two brothers at
George Washington.
The team lost two games be-
fore the personnel was scattered
around the world and the $23, 900
it earned paid for a new post
stadium. If Jimmy can publ-
cize the Hoyas as well as he did
Croft, we don't know where
Georgetown could find better
man.
Although a G. w. graduate,
Black has been one of the Hoyast.
stanchest supporters In basket
ball because the next door neigh
Dor in his home town on Staten
Evening star., 1947-04-09
CopitoIs, Whipped Again, Head
Home for 4th Game With Stugs

two previous encounters. Notning
the Caps did could stop them, and
the Stays now are the same pro-
hibitive favorites to win the series
that the Caps were before 1t opened.
Meanwhile, other Basket Ball AS
sociation teams are getting squared
away for series to determine
which meets the Chicago-Washin
ton winner for the championship.
Philadelphia, winner of the second
place series over st. Louis, will play
the winner of tonight's final game
in the third-place series between
New York and Cleveland at New
York. If New York wins, the second
round series opens in Philadelphia
on Saturday night, returns to New
York Monday and finishes off with
a third game. If necessary, back in
Philly on Tuesday. If Cleveland
wins, the schedule Is the same with
the exception of the second game in
Cleveland on Sunday night.
Don Carlson and Max zaslofsky
with "a and 20 points, respectively,
were the boys who ruined the Caps
hopes here last night. Carlson had
hot scoring streak in the third
period to pull the Stays away in
front at time when the Washing
ton quint was showing signs OF tax
ing the ball game. 1t was close until
that point, but Carlson ripped
(See CAPS. Page A-20.l
Evening star., 1947-04-09
Special pispateh TO The sias

CHICAGO, April 9-The Wash
ington Capitols are tired and beaten
and not little puzzled as they face
the nearly impossible task of tanning
the rampaging Chicago Stays In
four straight Basket Ball Association
of America playoff games. Both
teams are headed for Washington
and tomorrow nights next game at
Uline Arena in the best-four-of-
seven series in which the Stags just
about have a lock.
The Stays are riding high with
three straight wins and need only
to collect one more to register the
biggest upset of the waning basket
ball season. They moved to within
a step Of taking the first playof
series when they again blasted the
Caps, who had beaten them In five
of six regular season games, here
last night. The score was 67-55 as
the Stays put on third-perfod
surge to pull ahead Of the team
they previously had beaten, 81-65,
and $3.50, in opening games of the
playof series In washington last
week.
washington was ahead early In
the game and had a 1-point lead
early In the third period last night,
but most of the time It was the Stays
showing the way as they had in their
Evening star., 1947-04-09

First out-of- town teams to shoot
In the National Duckpin Bowling
Congress championship at Bethesda
Bowling Center will take their turns
tonight when the Baltimore Lions
and Essex (Md) Bowling Center
invade.
Dominating the program, opening
at 3 O'Clock, viii be II teams from
the Washington area. They are:
Men-Argo Express, Progressive
Printing, Patent Office, Old Colony
Laundry, Potomac Fish. Barrett
Service Station, Marshall's Silver
Spring Grin, Coffman Realty, Anna
dale Valet, Mount Rainier, CONNER
cial and Eddie Whites Amoco Sta
ton: wonerl-Annadale Valet Ser
vice, Federal Lthograph, George s
Grill. Arlington Cleaners, Colonial
Ice Cream and Arlington Bootery.
Several singles and doubles entrants
will shoot at 10 O'Clock.
The Harrison Roofers gained the
lead in wonen's booster teams last
night with a tally of 1853, trailed by
the Northeast Temple rollers who
counted 1852, Scorpions with 1,497;;
Arlington Bootery. 1888 and S. and
6. Garage, 1,486.
Northeast Variety, which rolled
i,760 on opening night, chung to
the lead In mems teams, followed
by Kavakos, IA, with l,755; Tele-
graph, 1,7l8, and Mariners. 1855.
The Evening Star Bears, led by
Charley Holhrook, moved into ffth
place with d tally OF I ,64S and The
= HHening Star Machinists. WIFE
Evening star., 1947-04-09
Navy Rumored Planning West Coast Grid Camp
Iroinina With Redskins Not Too Ear-Fetehed ON deo

Island, N. Y, was Elmer Ripley.
If you want to know how many
eggs Rip eats for breakfast, how
many games he won in 1885, or
where he played pro basket ball
in 1920, ask Black. He knows.
He had a system for the races,
he said, an announcement that
belied the genteel appearance Of
a distinguished looking gentle
man with just trace of Ken
lucky accent and a love for thor
oughbreds that had to be inbred
in him. This system was diff
ferent, he said. Well, you could
guess at the rest, but wait. There
was a note after his first visit to
Bowie. 1t had been highly
profitable day. He had the daily
double and picked five straight
winners out of seven races.
Two were 2-year-old maiden
races, he explained, and he didn't
rate 2-year-olds.
Evening star., 1947-04-09
Suspension of Lippy Recalls
Other Bio Baseball Penalties

Another noted Yankee, Frank
Crosetti, was suspended by Lam
dis for 80 days at the start of the
1912 season and fined $3.50 for
pushing Umpire Bill Summers
during the 1941 World Series.
Ben Chapman, now manager
of the Phillies, was banned from
minor league baseball for the
entire 1912 season by w. G..
Bramham, National Association
president, as a result of an at
tack on umpires during a Pied
mont League playoff season.
Chapman then was manager OF
the Richmond Colts.
Last year a number OF players
who jumped to the Mexican
League, among them Max Lam
ier and Lou Klein of the Cardi-
mails and Mickey Owen of the
Dodgers, were barred from or
ganized baseball for five years
as penalty for contract Jump
ing.
Evening star., 1947-04-09
BY the Assoeiofed Press

NEW YORK, April 9,-The
suspension of Manager Leo Du-
rocher of the Brooklyn Dodgers
for the entire 1947 season is one
of the severest penalties ever
handed out in organized base
ball.
Back in 1921 Babe Ruth and
Bob Meusel were suspended for
80 days at the start of the follow
ing campaign and fined their
entire share of the World Series
receipts for defying an order by
Commissioner Z. M. Lands
against engaging in post-season
transforming.
Ruth also drew a $1,000 fine
from Manager Miller Higgins of
the Yankees for failure to keep In
condition late in the 1925 season
but the suspension inflicted at
the same time was lifted after
a few dayS.
Evening star., 1947-04-09
By Lewis r. Atchison

Rumor Dept.-Three of the
hottest are: Navy's football team
to train on the West Coast;
Marine Lit. Col. Marvin Stuart,
Quantico grid coach, to spend a
couple of weeks at the Redskin
camp soaking UP T strategy. and
Jimmy Black to be Georgetown's
new publicity man. Somehow they
all add up.
Navy established travel prec-
edent last year when Capt.
Tom Hamilton took his brood
of bruisers to Martha's Vine
yard for their setting up ex-
ercises and jaunt to the
coast would be merely a days
travel by plane. Time, therefore,
is no barrier to the plan. What
we are wondering is whether
Navy is thinking Of training with
the Redskins at Occidental Col
lege in Pasadena. 1t isn't as far
: fetched as it sounds, for a couple
of years ago the Tribe almost
went to Annapolis for its pre-
Season training. The idea was
1t Navy would share in the
6sAem information being dis
ps&<EA by Clark Shaughnessy.
0ufntico wants to make
{ icom}back on the gridiron and
satiparently has decided to use the
", so it's smart to send Stuart
, out where the boys will eat. sleep,
drink and live T for a month.
Last year the Redskin camp was
a magnet for innumerable coaches
who had questions to ask, prob
lens to solve and who wanted to-
know If Shaughnessy had come
up with any new wrinkles, so
Stuart,s visit will not be lirlprec-
edeited.
An for Jimmy Black, vie don't
know where Georgetown would
find more persistent publicity
= =
Evening star., 1947-04-09

part of the campaign, Washing
ton nevertheless was topped in
club batting by only the Boston
Red Sox. The Mats aren't long
hitting outfit, but in Vernon,
Travis, Lewis, Stan Spence and
George Case they have five po-
tential 800 hitters.
The catching is adequate, though
far from sensational Despite the
return to the active list of Rick
Evening star., 1947-04-09
Many Golfers Turn Out
For Manor Ladies' Ddy

The Manor Country Club Women s
Golf Committee held its first MEM
ber-guest ladies day yesterday and
Mrs. H. l. Lacey reported a near
record turnout. Blind bogey win
ners among the members were Mrs.
S. K. Franks and Mrs. r. D. Watson,
net 9os. and Mrs. Keith Keppler and
Mrs. Ralph Zuber. Guest winners
were Mrs. A. B. Bower and Mrs. K.
Dyer, Indian Spring, with net els. :
Mrs. w. r. Stokes was not among
the prize winners but showed she
viii be on her game early this year
with an So. the best score of the day.