BOONE' SKETCHES By J. C R. A MAN OF PARTS Congressman Bob Doughton, representative from North Carolina's Ninth. District, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, politician from away back yonder, close advisor to President Roosevelt, in truth and tn fact the biggest "pebble" on Capitoi Hill ... is a fanner through and through. Down in Alleghany County the Congressman maintains a few hundred productive acres. Every now arid then he casts aside the cares and wees of official duty, packs his bag and slips away for a few days' rest at the old home place, where blackfaced sheep and white-faced cattle and grunting pigs and sleek horses cavort about the broad pastures . . . where his aged mother, his sisters and brothers and nephews and nieces and cousins and boyhood friends forget the formalities of high position and call him "Bob." It's a pleasant sight . . . watching Congressman Doughton assume the role of "Farm t-r dod ... 11 s nice to near mm discuss the masculine proclivities of a Hereford bull, or the proper care of a Shropshire flock, or the price of spuds or cabbage or corn . . . for Congressmen arc usually made of softer timber. Twenty-four years in Congress, a period that has witnessed the administrations of six different Presidents, seems like a mighty long time . . . but Bob Doughton is the same Bob Doughtou who drove cattle by the hundreds out of Watauga when the writer was a mere "chub." The honors bestowed upon the Alleghany representative are greatly appreciated .. . he'll tell you as much . . but he clings to the simple traditions of his stalwart mountain forebears, he cherishes the friendships of yesteryear, he eats and sleeps and lives the life of a farmer ... in other words, he just refuses to be changed. A leader in Washington, an ordinary citizen at home . . . perhaps that's a part of the reason why it would almost be a sacrilege for any Democrat, Dig or little, to oppose Congressman Doughton for his scat. AN .ADDED ATTRACTION A lew nights ago down at the local picture theatre a good-sized audience watched wittl considerable interest as the hero and heroine and villain anu sucii-iiku exhibited their wares on the sliver sheet Occasionally a flapper giggled, aa flappers often do . . . and a bald- , headed gentleman munched serenely away on a suck of non-com. Having a right good timo, every? body was. But an unscheduled attraction .... a rather nasty attraction . . . thrust itself on the innocent shAuvneis as some twenty- J five intellectuals, students at the local college, formed a flying wedge in the lobby, knocked an uususpect- ' Ing manager into 11 rocked hat, and scurried Into some twenty-five un- ' occupied scuts . . . just like so J many vveasles. Grown men, sons of good men or sons of something, this group of swashbuckling collegians has persisted in the gate- ' crashing racket for the past sevor- 1 al months . . . acting exactly like a gang of sodden sailors on shore leave. In aD Institution of higher learning, where science and socio! j ogy and higher mathematics and } civics and what-not is dished out | In prodigious measures ... an ignorant layman desires to suggest that a departmenl of manners and ' common honesty would add greatly to the curricula. m ii WE WONDER? , As the glorious pageant of Spring r unfolds itself here in the hills, and i the fish worms crawl from their win- ] ter hibernation deep down in the soil, i ^ and the robins return from the low- i lands, and the sweet, young things pa- i rade in garments gay ... we inhale < a couple of gentle zephyrs, ca3t a cartload of juicy razzberries in the j path of our dear old coal man, direct 1 a reverent message of thankfulness i I toward the high heavens . . . and < v wrestle with the whys and wbiches of Creation, even as Jacob grappled 1 with the angel: . . . Why the hya- ] cinth, drawn by warm sunshine, and ; i refreshing showers from a withered 11 bulb, blossoms in exact conformity | to last vear's bloom ? . . Who whls- I I per Ml in the elongated ear of a mother rabbit, bearing her first litter, and : advised her to cover those embryo bunnies with a furry quilt from her ' own body? . . . Why pasture fields, ; deadened by the freezes of winter and : dry as a Under box, take on an emerald hue, each root and seed pod of : each grass blade and each weed re- i spending to the mute call of nature? . . . . Why a tiny wren, after a sojourn of months In sunnier climes, returns : to last year's nesting .place ? . . . Why 1 every creature, large and small. In , the universe picks a mate and renews its amorous philanderings? . - . Why young maids and old maids and se- i date matrons use their eyes just a trifle carelessly as the genus homo passes by? . . . Why that drowsy, far-away, no-count feeling that Bull; velops everybody . . . aw, heck, it's spring! . . . we'll , . . just . . . let . . . somebody . . . else . . . flgger ... it out ... WA1 An I VOLUME XL.V. NUMBER 11 Ace of the Secret Service Washington, D. C.?William H. Moran (above) is rated one of Uncle Sum's most valuable Secret Scr- | vcie investigators. He reached retirement age of 70 late in March. By a s^jecial order, President Roosevelt retains him as chief for two years more. BOOM SEASON IS PREDICTED FOR STATE RESORTS Head uf Carolina Motor Club Concludes Survey and Avers that More Visitors Are to Be Entertained in Mountains this Summer Than at Any Time in the Past. Prosperity Will Reign, Soys Roberts. Mountain and beach resorts of the two Carolines will experience the best business a.ue advertised and 'sold' to the world for their scenery and recreational advantages." Tue Charlotte man said iliiit everywhere he traveled ever the two states tourists told him that they yvere amazed at the State's resort facilities, beautiful scenery and good roads and that prosperity seems to be back in the Carolinas. Hotel operators ir. the Blowing Etock section have implicit faith that SJr Robrets' nredietions will he home >ut by their receipts this season. Diversified Farming Program Under Way Banner Elk College Banner Elk.?Carl Silver, manager 5f the Eces-McRae farms, announces i more diversified program of spring slanting than in previous years. A iumber of Lesc-McRae students are io\v working on the college farm and will be employed during the summer. There will be a twelve-acre garden, :o supply Pinnacle Inn, the summer resort operated by the college during the summer. This will include an icre of head lettuce, two acres of tomatoes, an acre of onions, and other vegetables including beets, carrots, cauliflower, cucumbers, b r u s s e 1 s sprouts, asparagus, spinach and rhubarb. Two acres of raspberries and strawberries, set out last year, are sxpected to do well. The college farm took thirty-five bushels of certified Irish Cobbler seed potatoes from the Carolina Mountain Co-operatives, new project sponsored by the Tennessee Valley Authority. Edgar H. Tufts, president of LeesMcRnc College, is chairman of the board of directors of the Carolina Mountain Co-operatives, and Dr. W. C. Tate, head of Grace Hospital at Banner Elk, is also a director. There are 17 acres in potatoes, including 2 in certified seed. The farm is planting 6 acres in string less green pod beans end 7 acres in golden bantam corn, for canning purposes. Forty acres were seeded in rye last tall. Barley was tried last year for the first time. There are now twenty acres set aside for permanent pasLure, 2' acres are In soy beans, 30 In Danish roundhead cabbage, 14 in insllage com for the silo and 1 in com to go with it. The Grandfather dairy, part of the farms, now lias a herd of 20 cows and is gradually building up a registered Guernsey herd. The dairy now produces Grade A milk. A new bam to hold forty cows is projected for the near future. AUGi 4 independent Weekly Newspj ? 1 BOONC, WATAUGA COUN U. S. DEPTFEARS POTATO ACREAGE MAYBETOOLARGE Planting Intentions Point, to Increase and With a Normal Yield Crop Would Be Largest Since 19^ May Be Above Average- Favorable Returns on Last Year's Crop Ca;ise of Increased Acreage. Washington, D. C.?The usual aftermath of a j>rofitable crop--an Increased acreage the follow trig year and consequent lower prices for the larger production?is predicted in ef] feet if not in so many words by the Department of Agriculture in the potato situation for 1934. j Planting intentions as received by 1 the department from growers thru|out the country indicate a total of ! 3,400,000 acres in potatoes this year Last year the crop totaled 3.184,000 acres, large enough to produce aD average crop. However, last year heat and dry weather reduced production in the intermediate and late states to the smallest average in 12 years, ! and as a result of the short crop, prices to growers were much better than the year before. The crop hi 1933 was about 317,000,000 bushels. The average for the last five years Is about 355,000,000 bushels. Should the crop be normal this year, if the acreage is as large as intentions to pldnt indicate, there will be a total crop around 375.000,000 bushels, the largest since 1928 when large quantities could not be marketed because of low prices. It was further pointed out by the Department this week that consumer demand for potatoes is fairly constant, and that small crops during the past 25 years have con- 1 sistently returned higher gross in- d comes to growers than have the large <1 crops. 1 "If a crop the size of that now in s prospect had been produced last a year," the bureau said, "growers r would have received a gross income only about one-half that returned from the short 1933 crop. About 3,- H 000,000 acres will ordinarily produce what can be marketed at fairly satisfactory prices to growers. This would reouire a reduction in acre age Of about 6 per cent, from 1S33 instead of an increase of 7 jjor-eeat-" ? The prospective increase in pota- C to acreage is indicated to be quite general throughout the country. 'Tfi the 11 early producing states, some of which have already begun to market this season's potatoes, the total an acreage already planted or intended ic< to be planted is increased 14.1 per bi| cent over that harvested in 1D33, iu- ca creases ranging from 2 per cent in ou Texas to 42 per cent in Florida. *>Tj$ g* In the intermediate states, which by begin to market the commercial por- re; tion of their crop in late May and ap early June, the intended acreage in- wi crease is 11.2 per cent above the cc 1933 harvested acreage, and ranges from 2 per cent in Maryland to 15 Gi per cent in Kansas In the 39 late Gc producing states. Intention reports in- W dicate an increase of 5.5 per cent Ja over 1933. Gr Th beureau says that the acreage Pa planted last season was large enough Rc to produce about an average crop, Gr but that yields were reduced by heat Da ntiu u:uu^ut w Ult: UIUtJIXlltiUiaLe iUlU late states to the smallest average in an 12 years. Repetition of this condition, cli this year is considered as 4 unlikely." ca hogTontracts 5 must be signed s 3U Prompt Action Id Necessary to Take a ; Advantage of Government Proposition to Place Pork on Paying Basis. Must Product Evidence. W? Another meeting of the hog raisers Cc of the county is set to be held at the N< offices of S. C. Eggers in the Wa- Ci tauga Bank building on Staurday lei morning at 10 o'clock for the pur- Gc pose of signing contracts in the hog W reduction program of the Agricultural sp Adjustment Administration. sti Messrs. L. F. Brumfield, county ov agent of Yadkin, and A. G. Hendrch. ou who holds a similar position in P< Wilkes County, explained the work- M ing of the New Deal in- so far as it W relates to a group of farmers at the courthouse Tuesday morning, and in p turn arranged the Saturday meeting. These gentlemen point out that the I run id nownnnrr aVinet fri anfa* tha ??M?v w OUU1 ly VU VIUVl VUV agreement with the Government and contracts must either be signed or in gh the process of completion no later da than Saturday. th Farmers are urged to get names and addresses of those buying pigs gr and hogs during 1932 and 1933 and bring this evidence to the meeting, nt which is strictly a sign-up gathering, be Only growers giving some sort of evidence of sale are eligible to receive th compensator. Blanks and other in- Uv formation may be secured at Mr. Eg- B< gers office. An estimated four thousand dollars de will be received by Watauga farmers Hi from the ccm-hog adjustment con- m tract. Failure of local growers to act V) will divert the funds which should W come here to other channels. le V DE aper?Established in the 'IT, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSD, Members Institute of G? Pictured above are the four membei nstitute of Government. Top row, lei lirector; Henry Brandis Jr., Dillard S i rectors. Appointment of the assocint rhe Institute also announces that del tudies being: "undertaken by thai bo< dmini strut ion, and the accounting nental units. IGHTEEN SEEK RURAL ROUTE 2 iree Veterans and Three College tradables Included in Number Seeking to Curry Uncle Sum's Hail on Local Routs. Eighteen persons, seventeen men :d one woman, took the Civil Serv: examination last Saturday rnorng looking to the oppointment of a i-rier for Rural Route Number 2 t from Boone. The examination was ven at' tine graded school building I B. H. Watson, local Civil Service presentative, and from among the plicanta an eligible list of three 11 be chosen, one of whom will reive the coveted position. Those handing in papers included: ady Moretz, Walter Edroisten, Joe lodnight, Rex Hagaman, R. Clyde Inebarger, Mrs. B1 a 11 Clawson, mes Cross, Ralph Greer, Walter eene, Plato Greer, Dana Cowlc-s | ail Norris, Deward Norris, Marvin >use, Douglas Redmond, Howard agg, Newell Patterson and Wilford ivis. Three veterans of the World War d three college graduates are inided in the list of those seeking the rriership. About twenty residents Ashe County took the examination the same time for vacancies oerring in that county. R. F. D. 2 has been served for sevil months by Howard Gragg of >one as temporary carrier. The reIt of the examination will furni3h permanent carrier. FARTHING PCA DIRECTOR Mr. H. Grady Farthing of Boone is named a director for Watauga :unty at a meeting Monday in >rth Wilkesboro of the Production edit Association, farm moneyiding organization of the Federal ivemment. At the same tune Mr. ade Byers of Boone was named ineetor, and will check up on liveDck and farm machinery on which Tiers would offer mortgages to sere loans. Mr. S. C. Eggers, local 3A representative, accompanied essrs. Farthing and Byers to North ilkesboro. ommencement Begins k ?. _i nri s i>einei i nursaciy j Commencement exercises will bei at Bethel High School on Thursy evening, April 12, 3 o'clock, with c senior class exercises. On Friday evening at 8 o'clock the aduating exercises will be held. Saturday evening, April 14, the seor play, "Beads on a String," will presented. On Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock e baccalaureate sermon will be de'ered by Rev. P. A. Hicks, pastor of >one Baptist Church. The commencement address will be livered by Mr. C. M. Dickson of eiton, N. C. The high school diploas will be awarded by Mr. Howard alker, county superintendent of atauga. Tlit public is invited to atnd. Year Eighteen Eighty-Eigi \Y. APRIL 12. 1934 jveramcnt Are Named j|j ^ ^ | 1BBBA ^ -? :<^Shb rs of the staif of the North Carolina ] ft to right, they are: Albert Coates, . Gardner and T. N. Grice, associate I e directors h -3 jnt-t been announced. * finite progress is being made in the ly in tax, criminal Jaw and judicial A methods and practices of governBURIED STILL IS . TAKEN BY SHERIFF: F s ITitiaiio ISIioit W.n.t ?? *ri? Thirty-Second for Sheriff Howell y in 15 months of Office. Dugout t Is Completely Hidden. y ? it A good sized whiskey distillery in- e cated near the top of Eiik Knob, and B completely concealed in an under- tl ground compartment, was the thirty- ti second illicit plant captured by Sher- p iff Hcwell and his deputies since their s, induction into office fifteen months tl ago. Tihe capture ot the unique plant came last Wednesday a3 the Sheriff and his deputies noted old still fur- o naces and fresli tracks in newly- a moved earth. Following these clues an underground vault twelve feet I square and six feet deep was uncov- ? ered. containing a complete whiskey- a making outfit, still, furnace and all A equipment, including about 75 gallor.3 A of beer. C Sills had been placed across the E top of the subterranean still house, ii and poles and leaves were used to B completely cover the illicit operation, v No operator was present and so far I as is known, no warrant has been G issued in connection with the find. 7 DOUGHTON GETS \ OLD POST OF POU ? V Ninth District Congressman Chosen e by North Carolina Delegation to g Represent State on Democratic f Congressional Committee. e c Washington, D. C.?The honor of a representing North Carolina on the v Democratic Congressional committee g that has for years been held by the c late Representative Edward W. Pou of Smithfield. Tuesday passed to Rep- jj resentative Robert L. Dcughton of Laurel Springs, The Tar Heel delegation met yesterday afternoon, with all members p present except Representative Bui- a winkle of Gastonia, to fill the post, p Mr. Doughton was unanimous elect- a ed. Members spoke feelingly of their p late associate ixt the house, and a committee was named to prepare n suitable resolutions on the life of Mr B Pou, comprising Representatives u Doughton, Lambeth and Warren. s The delegation then endorsed Representative J. Bayard Clark of Pay- i etteville for the vacant place on the rules committee, of which Mr. Pou was chairman. As Mr. Doughton is chairman of the wava and mea-nn a committee, which-selects the commit- a tees, it is thought" that Mr. Clark n will be dhosen. s It was also decided to work and a vote for the bill of Representative p John H. Kerr of Warrenton which t would control tobacco production on t the same plan as proposed for cot- I ton in the Bankhead bill. ; s Miss Clara Dohme of Baltimore. < Md., is visiting at the home of Rev. s and Mrs. J. A. Yount in East Boone, r : # . ; &mga8l tit tIA PFR VaAJK ffiEFGARDEN FAMILIES ASKED TO SIGN BLANKS an tracts Must Be Sigaed by Those Planting GbVernraent Seed With Government Fertilizer. Provender for Family to Be Provided Before Any of Crop Is Sold. More Than "SOU W/II Plant Belief Gardens. All persons securing fertilizer, seed, V/? for nlartino- roli/.f . i vm-i. gaiutilO ul eiug urged by Miss Theodocia Wat>n, local relief bead, to call at her ffice and sign the government con acts. Under the terms of the con act, states Miss Watson, the relief tnant agrees to use the proceeds om his garden or acreage for the rimary purpose of providing food jr his family, and to desist from de of the products until after a jrplus is assured. Landlords, in the ise of rented plots, are also required j sign the blank with the relief farter, but the landowner is not obliated in any way other than to an greement not to take the present rop or any portion of it, for old debts ue him by tenant. Seven Hundred to Plant Mis3 Watson stales that already ever, hundred on the relief . oils have greed to plant gardens with the govrnmeilt aid, and that these projects ange Croro small family gardens to ive and six-acre truck patches. It is he purpose of the administration, he states, to clear the relief rolls by inter through the agency of those idividual farm projects. rROUT SEASON IS )PEN NEXT SUNDAY inglers Expected to Have Better FpicW This Year. Licenses Put oil Sale in Many Sections of County. Many Trout Streams Stocked. The trout fishing season officially pens in Watauga County Sunday, .pril 10, and according to the belief f County Game Warden H. Grady artliing. anglers will enjoy greater access this season than for several Tub principal tiuui ie county are Boone's Fork, if eat amp. Howards Creak, Middle'' ' tinkler's Creek, laurel : el Fork, New Hivcr, Watauga Rlvr, Trivett's Branch, Bald Branch, eech Creek and Buffalo Creek. All lese streani3 have been stocked with. -out in liberal quantities during the as! years, and Warden Farthing :iys they urc in fine condition for tie opening of the season. Many Sell Licenses Following are the names of those ffering Eishir licenses this season, nd their addresses; Farmers Hardware Company, toone; Victor Ward, Sugar Grove; ten Watson. Triplett; Ed Mast, Sugr Grove; John Isaacs, Mabel; VV. W. 1,'ist, Valle Crucis; Ed Harbin, Shull3 Sills: Conley Trivctte, Sugar Grove; toy Billings, Vilas; Robert Greene, Slowing Rock; T. T. Triplett, BJowlg Rock R. F. IX; Grady Trivett, teech Creek; Ronald Ragan, Zionsiile; James McNeil, Zionsville R. F. >.; Jim Brown. Meat Camii; L. L. ragg, Shulls Mills R. F. D.; Clark "rivette, Rominger; Horace Cook, uowmg itoca; rtooy fencuey, fc'enley: Coy Rogers, Deep Gap: Marion 'ofiey, Blowing Rock R. 5'. D.; Harison Baker, Boone Route 2: Bob entry, Laxon; A, N. Tbomas. Trade, enn., R. F. D.; A. E. South, Boone. It. is stated that there are some wardens who are not suitably situatd to sell fishing licenses but do have ood localities for hunting. State oficials request all Wardens to aid in nforcing the fishing laws during the oming season, even if they are not 11 selling licenses. A strong etfo1.1 rill he made to see to it that all aulera provide themselves with the 11ense before going fishing'. BLOWING SOCK LADY IN SPRING BLOSSOM CONTEST Miss Marjorie Coffey of Blowing .ock is an entrant in the Spring Blosam Festival Contest at Southern ines, it has been announced, the lull young lady having entered by opular demand. Miss Coffey is a daughter of Mr. ad Mrs. Henry Coffey and has been mployed at the resort city during the rinter season as dietician in Mr. tames' cafe. OCAL LADIES CLUBS TO OBSBBVK MUSIC WEEK Plans are being made to observe tationai Music Week this year with . musloal program on Monday eve- ^HaSS ing, April 23. The program will be ponsored by the Friday Afternoon ad the Worth While clubs. A varied irogrnm is being planned, one fenuje of which is to be numbers given >y a chorus of all the singers in ; ; W ic ne. A rehearsal has been called 01 Saturday evening at 8:00 o'clock it 'he Demonstration School and eviry person in Boono who sings at ill is invited and urged to be at this -ehearsal. . : r W; , * ,,vf