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PAGE FOUR THE SUNDAY REGISTER. BECKLEY. A I COUNTY. W. SUNDAY MORNING.

AUGUST 16. 1942. The Raleigh Register EVEWNGS (Except Saturday) and SUNDAV MORNING Published by BECKLEY NEWSPAPERS CORPORATION ind entered In the postoffice at Bockley, W. Va. as second-class mail matter.

W. RANDOLPH NORTON Managing Edltni the Associated Press is exclusively the use or publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in mis paper and also he local news published herein. National Advertising Representatives THE KATZ AGENCY 500 Fifth Avenue, New York City SUBSCRIPTION RATES Daily and Sunday By Clrrler In Beckley and nearby lowns, one Kitls By month (By Mail omsii3e of BecUay only) Dally and Sunday, one year In advance Dally and Sunday, sir monltis In advance Wect days only, one year In advance tH stale Silcs Tax must be added to above Mall for nil "Ithln West Virginia. 2Bc ll.lt' 17.60 it.SC S5.00 Ratei SUNDAY I AUGUST 16, 1942. Profits in Jail Food The Raleigh comity sheriff's income for the fiscal year I'JJO-Ml totaled the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce i a The sheriff-received.

in salary and the a says his profit from feeding prisoners was the total The chamber said it i a a i feeding costs between 22 and 28 cents per prisoner per day. The sheriff collected 42 cents per day for feeding each county prisoner, and 65 cents per federal prisoner. In neighboring Fayelle the state chamber figurecMhe sheriff's- income for the year 1940-41 totaled $10,, profit from feeding prisoners and a salary of $4,000. Wyoming county's sheriff in the same year had an estimated income of $7,529, of which $4,720 was feeding.profit and $2,800 was salary. Iif'Mcrcer county, the sheriff's annual income for the same year was estimated at from salary and 55,721 from jail feeding profits.

Smaller Summers, Monroe and Greenbrier counties didn't do so well by their sheriffs': Summers paid its sheriff in 1940-'41 a total estimated income of $4,838, of which $2,000 came from salary and $2,838 from jail feeding. Greenbrier's sheriff earned as 'salary and $3,020 i from feeding prisoners. The sheriff of Monroe made only an estimated $311. from i prisoners and collected $1,800 in salary, making his income $2,111 for Hie year. In all, the state chamber i a Virginia sheriffs reaped a i feeding profits in 12 and col- There are some who i a Ihe sheriffs make even larger i I I a the amounts compiled by the a but whether the i be large or a they are a disgrace lo a i They tell the a story of i i i a collecting comfortable salaries from the taxpayers a a the same lime a i a i by feeding a a Avboni the law places i care! As the chamber says, il is an "archaic fee system" which should no longer be tolerated by the slate's taxpayers.

Whether Ihe sheriffs of the a are entitled lo any i from feeding prisoners i be decided le.gnlh/ by Ihe state supreme i i Ihe few Human justice and common sense already i i a a no i is lo per- day allowed him for i his a brothers. A Cabell a a is asking the high court to force Ihe Cabell i lo pay back to the coimly all his i from jail feeding. A a i i i i volves such things as an i i i statement of i costs i the sheriff is required lo give Ihe court before being a i i i i and whether a can a pay a sheriff the i i i of per day for each i i sheriff's showing a i i a that he spent V2 for a a i The whole slale i a a i I supreme court's decision. If it in a of the a a and a a i Ihe Cabell i then arises the i ing question of a a in all counties a sue bnlh present and former sheriffs for profits i reaped from feeding prisoners. If Ihe should a a i can legally collect i i prisoners, then Wcsl i i i a not let the nexl session of i a come to a close i a i Ihe a in such a a as lo i i anyone from a i a persona! i from i the a charges of Ihe public.

Dean Swift in "Gulliver's Travel's" had a scheme i i Henry .1. Kniser's plan. He i a i country whose ruler, when the people down below misbehaved, i down and squash 'cm. Service in the Navy A drive for i in (he navy is i way Ibis week. Newspapers, radio, and local i are media by i i is hoped lo secure i for Uncle Sam's a a forces.

II comes a i a to a one a expect, 'the a is the a likes a i hoys for sailors. The i learned of preference i on a i i to and the nearby a a base last summer. A i 'officer, i a former West i i i a spoke i pride of (he Wcsl i i i a boys in service there as the "Appal a i a Navy." And he added a more of would lie welcome. "Yes, it follow," be was asked, a boys from the a a areas would lake more a a lo seafaring, and make sailors'?" "Perhaps it should," was reply, "but we like the boys from the a i they lake i work seriously and are in becoming a at the life on a front." Xo doubt the idea of Ihe officer in question is shared by a of his fellows. They like to i up an "Appalachian Navy," a force made up of young fellows of a i all Ihe way slnle-lo Georgia.

A a we West i i i a hoys i be given a a at i i i a I state, but also at the a i i bases to which they may he assigned. TOusTWihTri'fHTDays From two British sources a. prediction has come i i i tlie week a by 1 of I i year the flood crest of Axis a a i power will have been Speaking in London, Oliver Lylllelon, British i i of i said England would face the gravest hours of her history i i i ihe "next eighty clays." a a i Bernard Newman of the British i i of i a i was even more specific. Speaking in Canada he a i "If by November 1st we are still i i hard, if by November 1st we i hold Egypt, I i we i have won the war." a can be traced in bolh slate- is Ihe i a i i and his A i accomplices reach a decisive i before i sels in a a i in Hussia, or not at a And grave as arc Ihe a Caucasus, seonis yel no i i i a i Russia can he crushed or forced lo her knees in a i lime. now on the defensive i a lo of Ik: the reaches of Ihe Don.

i a armies are i a i I a Caucasus, Ihe a a of i Caucasus range lo Ihe i a Ihe a oil fields. By a Russian i al i a i from Voronezh on Ihe upper Don, lo of a a i a a are reported by Ihe a Moscow gives Iliem a i i may i i a a vasl a a i a a pressure i i up all a Hie of I long i a a i a a i forces i the a a c.xlcnded. '4'rememlous new a advances lo a i a Moscow and Volga I below a i a be a before. if I i is to i in Russia and be a lo a a a a i A A i a power gathering across I i a i A i a a a a i forces a last on Ihe i in Ihe Soullnvosl a i i however, a i i of I Japanese a A i a i well a be in a i a i Ihe in i a i a i a i a i i a a i a i i view a i I a a i reach i crisis before November seems veil The i of a i is said, i be raised. This may nol a a i we are in a a bul if il goes on, jam will not be in us.

One can wish, no a i how i a i a or i i Ihe I i a Hie i i succeed i a i a a i There may soon be a lax on i i a a a i a a i a consumer a i of bolh sexes a a a a i i i i i i special "play I I i a reliable a i i il cosls lo a i Stales navy flier. a bargain! Bug By Randolph Norton If any others of you have a tomatoes, (win squash (or squashes), striped gourds, or V-shaped spuds, just bring 'cm in. We're getting i a collectioon here in inner sanctum of The Register. And newsfolk's appetites are just as insatiable as anybody else's. Farmer Blair Bennington, of Cool Ridge, the fellow who heads the county A.C.P.

and who got in the hair of those federal bureaucrats who were frying to force Raleigh county farmers out of their old offices, came in here toting a whole pasteboard box full of red plums, the most delicious things a molar ever punctured. That, was about noon on Saturday. By midnight the last one of a peck of plums had gone into the a segment of the mill which turns out the Sunday Register. We put the box of plums in the copy basket and said, "Everybody who brings up a piece of copy (a news story) is entitled tot take one plum." Well, you ought to have seen how the news room staff turned out all sorts of stories --and how those plums receded. We had thought the wet summer had spoiled many a garden, but it's not so.

Mr. of Piney View (formerly a Grandview Carper), yesterday came in with a V-shaped squash--the is an omen of a swift Allied victory, he hopes--and he was telling us about his tomatoes, the biggest and best he ever raised. Hains hurt, says Mr. Carper, but he outwitted the weather with a spraygun. All summer long he sprayed his tomatoes with a bordeaux mixture.

It kept the vines from blighting and the tomatoes i "(if you can think of a more elegant word for what happens to a tomato when it reaches Ihe stage where your finger smashes through it and it smells like a fish factory, it'll be acceptable). 0 Tomatoes, unlike plums, are hard to share with one's comrades, so I didn't say much about two half-pound red tomatoes sent to the desk yesterday by Mr. James Hannibal Jones, the genial keeper of the Prince bridge. They're about the largest tomatoes, and most perfectly formed, of any I ever saw. "They're Republican tomatoes," said Mr.

Jones, who honors, the Grand Old Parly. Friday's news told of the passing away of "Aunt Mary" Davis, of Pax, but the mere obituary didn't tell much about this lady, born on Paint creek in 1848 and having spent her 95 years in two states without ever moving from the Pax neighborhood. (Paint Creek was a Virginia settlement i West Virginia became a state in '63.) Yes, she was a Lively, one of the first of the long line of Livelys who people the banks of the historic creek. Her parents, Dr. and Mrs.

Elias Lively, were among the first settlers in the neighborhood. Sports Editor "Needy" McQuade enticed us into entering a tennis tournament now in progress. It turned out that McQuade was our opponent in the first round (and that turned out to be the last, as you shall see). We met over on the court, with a hot August sun reflecting off the sports editor's bald head and causing us no end of grief (the sun, we mean). The game got off to the tempo of two old dray horses vainly trying to get into a gallop again.

Tennis, as you know, is a job for legs that do not stick under a desk day in and day out' We finally heaved to the end of the first set, with McQuade i i and the sun extracting two gallons of sweat (not perspiration, but plain old sweat). There were yet two more sets to go. We sat down, found a drink of water and a shady place, before taking off again. McQuade just gave us the next set, I believe, or else liis bald pale was twisting the sun in his own eyes. And that left us even Stephen, as the sports writers say--right back where we started, except that we were all-in and McQuade was getting his second wind and becoming more-nimble all the time.

We offered to i a coin for the next set, but McQuade hardly felt that was fair. So we just compromised. The. fellow in the next bracket is going to have to play McQuade half the time and us the other half. And if we're lucky and draw some fellow who, too, has to keep his legs poked under a desk, the two us may be able to wear down the one of him.

DEOPLE AND EVENTS Their 18-Year Separation is Ended DECAUSE HER MOTHER died when she was a tiny baby, and her large family was scattered to the four winds, a Beckley girl enjoyed a strange experience this week --striking up an acquaintance with a brother she had never seen. She is A a Lee Trent. 18-ycar-oUl adopted daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F.

W. Trent, of Garficld Street. Her a story began when she was just six weeks old, her mother died leaving her father with seven children. The Trcnls were then neighbors and friends of A a Lee's a i at Pemberton, and they took the i a to raise her as their own child, fn subsequent years the family scattered, and Ihe child heard no more of her own i except, for reports that her a had remarried and was living in Virginia, and a an older sister lived somewhere in Wyoming County. About two years ago, however, Anna Lee received an i i a i to a high school graduation in Butler, Pennsylvania, and the sender turned out lo be her brother, four years older, who had been adopted and reared in Butler by his father's brother.

The youth. Dwight Click, wrote to Anna Lee a he had learned of her whereabouts by i i to his real father, and would like to see his young sister whom he. had been loo young to remember at the time of their separation 18 years ago. The result was a a correspondence grew up between the two, although fate seemed benl on keeping them from seeing each other. On Labor Day last September Dwipht had planned to visit his sister here, flying from i a friend who owned a plane, but a Ihe Trefits waited all day for Ihe visitor, he never appeared.

A letter soon explained the cause--he had been at Ihe airport, ready to leave, when i i a "tagged" the plane because there was something wrong with it. "I'm as disappointed as you are," he wrote in apology. Since then, Ihe has been unable to leave his job i baking company in Butler, a job of which he wrote proudly lhat he works in an office- "with a desk and So recently he telephoned urging that Anna Lee come to Butler to visit him, and the i was arranged. Anna Lee from a (en-day visit i her brother, and a letter lo her fos- ler revealed a the reunion was a happy one. The two arc "so much alike," Anna Lee wrote.

Bolh are interested in music and dancing, and they even like and dislike the same things to eat. And the accompanying picture is graphic evidence that she found her brother "very nice looking." A Hig Family A 44-YEAR-OLD Charleston laun- a i five children under 18 approached Ynoman Dorscy Biggs about enter- ing the coast guard, the former Beckley printer who is now recruiting coast guardsmen in Charleston thought he was kidding. The a i a was Dewey Dexter Porterfield, a former Beckley resident and native of Monroe County, who is now a foreman for the Charleston laundry, for which he once managed a branch in Beckley. Yeoman Biggs knew him from their a residence in Beckley, and also lor huhcireds" of shows and amateur contests, Biggs had often run across Porterfield's daughters, Ruth and Pauline, known throughout southern West Virginia as a sweet-singing harmony team. Mr.

Porterfield," he told the would-be coast guardsman, "you don't want to get into any service; you have a family- and besides I doubt if you could pass the physical examination." But Porterfield proved a he could not be dismissed with the advice of a personal friend. "Thai man hounded me for two days," recalls Biggs. "I really thought he was pulling my.leg.all along, and finally I-invJted him to come up for a preliminary check. "Believe it or not," the recruiter continues, "he could have passed an air corps test." His medical record is negative, which means he has never been sick in his life, and though he has six teeth missing, all the others are good. His eyes and ears are above average, and all other checks regular.

He passed a tough doctor here with flying colors," Biggs adds. Porterfield is now an accepted applicant iu the i Stales Coast a and will soon be sent to one of the a i i stations. He is well-pleased i the outcome of the incident, and declares that "I've never really done a i i i in my life. I've always worked hard and I've been busy raising a family. Under this new service pay set-up, il looks like the government can take care of my wife and kids pretty well, and, doggone it, I want lo get i something." The only i i experienced by the Charleston recruiting office was in gelling a record of Porterfield's schooling.

He received his a i in Ihe schools of Monroe County over 20 years ago, and lold the officers lhat "I don't believe they kept any records 'way back then." Bul his mother, who still lives at Hock Camp in Monroe County, may be called upon for an a i a i lo prove thai he i ished school. His wife, Mrs. Grace Porterfield, who readily signed consent papers for his enlistment, will receive $50 a month, $20 addilon- al for one child, and $10 for each of the'other four, a total of $110. "That will take care of my tribe all right," Porlerfield insisted when he was applying. "Besides I can still send them (ho money I will get and Grace can work wonders i lhat much money.

I'll get my board and clothes, loo, and I won't have any use for money." Yeoman Biggs finally came to Ihe conclusion a Porterficld wasn't so dumb after all. For if he gets any i of a i his pay will be even more, and Ihe recruiter figured he would have lo have an income of $245 a month in civilian i to net as much. "They must have taught nolhing but arithmetic over there in Monroe county schools 20 years ago," was Biggs' conclusion. "I believe Porlerfield had the i figured out in advance, bul don't try it yourself unless you have five children under 18," Men 0'. War In the News Gordon Richmond PROM AN ISLAND somewhere in the Pacific, Sergeant Gordon Richmond sent back this picture to show one of the principal pastimes of the soldiers there.

The party or nine men, pictured here with Sergeant Rich mond at right front, caught 19 big game fish on one fishing a the heads of some of the catch he- ing barely discernible in the foreground of the photo. Richmond, who went to Camp Shelby with the National Guard, was made a sergeant before he left Mississippi for Panama. His present address is -unknown, but he recently wrote from an army hospital, where he had been placed because of a dislocated shoulder, "POMEWHERE IN ENGLAND" is the only idea Mr. and Mrs. Henry Mitchell, of Slab Fork, have of the whereabouts -of their son, James T.

Mitchell, who enlisted in the army air corps on January 19. Mitchell wrote to his parents recently that he likes England fine," and said'the only faults the soldiers found were "getting used to the money," and the fact that the days are so long--from 5 a. m. to 11 p. m.

The 21-year-old soldier was stationed at Savannah, Georgia, before he was sent to England. Two of about a dozen soldier "pen pals" of Miss Virginia Pugh, of South Avenue, are the two young men pictured here--Private First Class Burley Pugh and Private First Class Jesse Peltry. Burley, who is Virginia's brother, is stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, jifter a transfer from Camp Wolters, Texas. He vol- James Mitchell Jesse Peltry (left) and Burley unteered in January, is 24 years old, and has won two medals for his abilities with the rifle and machine gun. Peltry, an Athens youth who accompanied Burley on a recent furlough, is also stationed at Fort Bragg.

Pogh's brother, Herman, who volunteered in April, is stationed at West Palm Beach, Florida, and transferred there from a Missouri post. Herman and Burley are among the seven sons and seven daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Sam H. Pugh, of Lawton, who are "willing for Um'le Sam lo take them all." Among "olfier soldiers whom Miss NE SON OF.Mr.

and Mrs. J. Q. Treadway, of Eccles, chose the army, and another the marines, but both are emulating their father, who served i the last war. Corporal Delbort Treadway is back at his post at Hulen, after a ten-day furlough.

Drafted on March 17 after previous serviciP Delbert Trcudway John Trcathvay, jr. in the marines, he became a corporal on July 1. Private First Class John Q. Treariway, stationed with the marine corps at San Francisco, and hasn't been home since he enlisted in July of 1940. Ho spent several months at Pearl Harbor after the December 7 a a but wrote to his parents urging them not to worry about him as he was "trained and prepared for the Japs." QN COMPLETION OF his a i i at Parris Island.

South Carolina, i a Wilbur Broyles, 18-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Broyles, of Itmann, was stationed as a guard in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

Private Broyles enlisted in the marines on January 26 of Ihis Wilbur Broyles, jr. Jackson Luther Reed year. While taking his I i i a training he won medals for his rperlness as a sharpshooter. The home port of Jackson Luther Reed, who enlisted in the navy March 27. is now San Francisco, California.

The son of Mrs. Fern Reed, of Crab Orchard, Reed attended Beckley schools prior to his enlistment..