North Carolina Newspapers

BOONE SKETCHES By J. C R. I IT S DRIVIN' US NUTS! Getting out this column i3 r.o pic nic ... if we allow stale "chestnuts find their way into it, people sa; we are silly ... if we don't they sa; we are too seriou: HHHBBBI - - -ir c51i) lhingi from other papers f * wc are too lazy U 8 J*li' write them our don't we are struc) ji! on our own stuff . . fe- wc c^?se ^ r ' ' ^ ought to be out hun \ - ting up sonic item, !f ? > iSSt of interest ... if w? I| do go out and tr^ : hustle we ought t( "Jim" hp Ulf; joh jn t!i< office. ... If we don't print contri buttons, we dont appreciate true ge nius . . . and. if we do print them the old column is filled with junk ... If we try to pay a compliment to some gentleman or his lady, w< are always criticized for not having spread "it" on a wee bit thicker, ant ... if wc tell the truth about the same lady or hei gentleman . . . why we just lay it out in a hospital. . . Criticism evcrytime you try to ex press yourself . . . criticism if yoi fail to. . . . Now, like as not some guy will swear we swiped this out of a magazine . . . WE DTD! WE FURNISH THE LAUGH! No stories today about the incon sistencics of our fellows . . . no stor ies about the whims of youth . . . nc tales about girls and their beauty shop problems ... no parables, if you please ... no sarcasm, no repartee no baloney . . . for WE j meaning "I") ARE FURNISHING THE WHOLE SHOW . . . for we (meaning "I") eel?bra,tcd the Fourth ef. July ^ _Hirth] day of the Republic . . . birthday ol The Democrat . . season of Independence! Many are the stories which hove reached our ears concerning this specific "orgy" of "Freedom" . . . maiij arc the yarns that have passed from ?.u >vuj5 . . . jOKea conceived anc ^ born during the post week-end . . jokes which had to do wiui a gangling printer who dipped his toes ir the pool of Bacchus . . . and sang songs, tuneless songs, of amity . . who bought chickens by the dozer . . . who imagined himself to be, not ?i patriot, but & heaft-warming gigok of the Gable strain . . . broke as c convict, but willing to give to lanli stranger or bosom friend, even his frazzled undershirt! That's what they're telling, all ovei town . . . and we guess it's the truth for THEY never He! And when WE lay it before the public eye in what is commonly known as "cold type," the Good Lord knows it's not done in f spirit of iKjastfulnesf? . . . far from it Geraldine, far from it! But just be cause we take a flier now and then right dab into the center portion oi the flowing bowl . . . and it had beer a full twelve months since it har happened before . . . it's 110 reasor why we should be cast by those 01 hypocritical disposition into the rcaltr of degredation, or be forced by sterr righteousness to accept a bleary-eyec horde of sugar head hoboes as oui equals and fraternize with them ai such! Surely not! We are not attempting to forc< forgetfulness ... it must have beei a funny sight . . . disgustingly fun ny! We're merely reciting a stoin created by its author in a momenl of human weakness ... a moment "when the Sketch Man, unable to fine a kindred spirit, preferred to fill lib skin with the liquid inspiration o Mr. Hiram Walker! And during th< period of his delinquency the Sketcl Man, if reports are true, couldn't ob serve correctly the "passing show' from which comes his weekly soiilo quies. Yea, no . . . he was busily en gaged "looking for an angel to sinj a love song to" . . . the same of whicl ne didn't ran across, we hope! Si wnat was there left to do but to tel the story which he, himself, created But WE don't remember! Dame Rumor . . . and she's a long tongued old hussy . . . will have t care for this particular assignment All we can do is to hope that it's no a3 bad as we're led to believe . . . t plead with otir dear farmer friend that we've had plenty and plenty o chicken ... to deny to the bitter en that story about the gentleman hoi-s ... to pray that out of the seethin: cauldron of human error and weak ness will come some day, the strong tinyieiding metal of self-denial. Wa tor Malone one day wrote a poer which he called "Opportunity." j verse or two, picked at random frot his inspiring work, might be apprt priate: Wail not for precious chances passe away, Weep not for golden ages( on il wane! Each night I burn the records of th day? At sunrise every soul is born agaii Art thou a mourner ? Rouse thee froi thy spell; Art thou a sinner? Sins may 1 forgiven. Each morning gives thee .wings I flee from hell; Each night a star to guide thy le> to heaven. WA1 An I ! VOLUME XLVII. NUMBER 2 I = ! INSIDE STRATOSPH Captains Stevens and Anderson f In Giant U. S. s PA Pin f:TTY J3. n CadUur A11j and Captain Orvil A. Anderson, pilot the National-Geographic-U. S. Army ed favorable weather for their plannej - i Hills natural bowl, near here. i FLOY COTTRELL ; BEAUTY QUEEN Boone Girl Chosen Most Beautiful for Second Time in > July 4th Pageant. i ?? Miss Floy Cottrell, daughter of Mr. i' and Mrs. D. Jones Cotlrcil, was for the second time adjudged Watauga i County's most beautiful young iady . | in the beauty pageant staged in Col * j lege Ball Parle as a climax to the July I ' 4th celebration. As a result of the j - decision of the judges, Miss Cottrell j i will be privileged to compete for . state honors at the American. Legion e convention in Fayetteville 011 August , 5th and 6th. ' Miss Cottrell, whose qualities of 1 pulchritude were first publicly ac1 {knowledged when she was crowned i * I Beauty Queen in a pageant held here P j more than two years ago, won this j * | j'ear over a field of forty reigning j beauties gathered from different I - parts of the county, before an assem-j cJ bLage estimateil ai 2,000, and was j s j sponsored by Walker's Jewelry Store. I The judges were Mr. Clir.e and son - i William of Charleston, W. Va., and a II Morrison of Mooresville, guests -'at the Daniel Boone Hotel and unf ] known to either ol the contestants. t j Winning second place was Miss t Emma Miller of Meat Camp who was 1' entered under the sponsorship of 3 Greene's Dry Cleaners, while the third f most beautiful young lady was ad? judged to be Miss Estelle Watson of 1 Boone, who was entered by the Belk White Company. The beauty pageant was the final - event on the Fourth of July calendar - of activities, and drew the principal ? interest of the day. Large throngs, * however, attended the ball games, and o the town was filled front early rnornJ ing with visitors. Practically all busi* ness houses of the town allowed their employees the day off, only drug - stores and restaurants remaining j 0 j open. 1 I I Sixteen Go from This ? i County to CCC Camps f I *! The following young Watauga men e | left Monday for Wilkesboro for ex -! animation, from which point they will " j be taken to some encampment of the > | Civilian Conservation Corps for servHice: ! n i Roy Miller. Roby Oliver, Charlie ^ | Hodges, Triplett; Roger Trlvett, Rornnlinger; Ray Miller. Bamboo; George Greene, Deep Gap; Richard Gillam, Romingcr; Jones Greer, Triplett; d Clate Prcsnell, Beech Creek; John Henry Tester, Shulls Mills; Dillard ie Rerley, Blowing Rock; Lane Miller, I Triplett; Austin May, Reese; Lewis ie | Hicks, Rominger; Luther Walker, I Boone; Paul Combs, Peoria, n. I Miss Theodosia Watson, Relief Adin ministrator, has not been apprised as i to which carnp the local men will >fc j enter. to Jackson County bean growers are i securing control of the Mexican bean 3ti beetle Iht :gh the use of magnesium [arsenate spray. AUG Independent Weekly Net BOONE. WAT AUG, ERE LABORATORY Prepare for Thirteen-Mile Hop Army Balloon. * KA-'S. -i - ' ierL W. Stevens- I'lnft.) nnmV*if* , in the Instrument-filled gondola of Stratosphere balloon as they await& 13-mile-high flight from the Black POSTAL PLANS GAIN' HEADWAY Inspector Makes Official Report jon Boone's Need tor *:Vjeral Building. Hon. Kobcrt L. Doughton has received word from tun Postoffice Department to the effect that the 7napector recently surveying the local situation with a view to the construction of a Federal building in Boone, has made his report, and that the claims of this city will be given carefui consideration ? - ? nig uh; (iuthorization of additional funds for such projects. The letter Mr. Dough ton received, and in turn furnished The Democrat, is signed by the Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, and says in part: "Reference is made to your interest in the provision of a Federal building to house the pos toff ice at Boone, North Carolina. "In this connection, I ani pleased to advise you that the report of the Inspector who made a survey at Boone has been received. The report contains complete information concerning local conditions and postal requirements at Boone, and a copy thereof has been transmitted to Hon. C. J. Peoples, Director of Procurement of the Treasury Department, iOi lii.-i iiuvriti&liuii. "You may be assured that when legislation now pending in Congress, authorizing additional funds for public building construction, is enacted, the claims of Boone will -be given careful consideration by the Postoffice and Treasury departments in making up a new building program." Mr. Doughton in turn expresses his concern over the proposal and desires to assure the people of this section that he will do everything in his power to aid in its successful consummation. Wataugans Will CMTC Camps in Aug. Six Watauga County young mer I will be enrolled in the Citizens Miliitary Training Camp, which opens at iFort Bragg on August 5th. Mr. W |h. Walker of Boone has co-operated | in the selection of the following young l men, who have already qualified ii every way and have been accepted lor camp: Harold F. Gilliam, Boone; Herse W. Scott, Boone; Julian C. Glenn I>ottie M. Glenn, Vilas; John M. Prevette and Willie E. Davis, Boone. POSTAL RECEIPTS SHOW MORE THAN 10% GALN Postal receipts at the Boone offici thus far in 1935 have shown an in crease of $338.82 over the same pe riod in 1934. according to advice coming from Wiley G. Hartzog. post master, representing a lO.D-Tc incrcas for the period. In 1924 the receipt I for the time were $3,214.92. and thi I year $3,553.74. A DE vspaper?Established in th \ COUNTY. NORTH CAROLINA, IJQUOR QUESTION HOLDS SPOTLIGHT IN RALEIGH NEWS Counties Continue to HolrJ F.liw tions Under Hodge Podge Act of the Assembly. ! INFANTILE PARALYSIS PASSES THE 300 MARK Authorities Expect Drop in Number of Cases. Death of Col. Olds; New Car Sales; Complete Resume of Uuleigh News of Week. By M. R. DUNN AG AN r Special Correspondent) RALEIGH. X. C. Those North Carolina counties permitted under the New Hanover and Pasquotank acts I have gone wet with a vengeance. Rockingham and Greene were the last to vote, on Tuesday, while nine, Pasquotank, Martin, Halifax, Carteret, i Onslow, Pitt. Lenoir. Nash and War-) ren. voted last Saturday. Wilson and J Edgecombe, with 10 to 1 majorities, j opened liquor stores last week, Wil- j son on Tuesday and Edgecombe on Wednesday. Vance, Beaufort and | Greene, while allowed to vote, are restrained from opening stores, while Franklin is not permitted to vote or to open stores. Appeals have been taken from these judicial restraints, but it will be next fall before the North Carolina Supreme Court can consider them. Moore County is in a different MlOffAjnr CfArnc- wio.t 1,^ 1 : ? *> I 1 j . * IUJ ?/w ' UpiTi'1cu 111 vltt; I townships in which Pinehurst and j Southern Pines are located on petition of one-half the voters. Stores will probably not be opened in them, j nowever, until- uie fnii wiigst ccc.r~r?r ! although Uie required numbers in Southern Pines have petitioned. It ! will be too bad on those which begin operation if the court holds the act unconstitutional. McDonald may run Dr. Ralph W. McDonald, Forsyth County representative and co-author or the MeDonald-Lu:v.pkin anti-sales^ tax plan in the last General Assembly, lets it be known that the odds are at least 100 to 1 that he will be candidate for Governor, probably announcing within a month, and that he will favor a referendum, Statewide, on liquor control and taxHe gives out the suggestion that l he and \V. L. Lumpkin, his co-author in the recent tax fight, will be running mates, t'ne latter for lieutenant governor, and that they will take the opposition to the sales tax into every village and hamlet, seeking to remove it and substituting as a revenue producer the tax on legalized liquor, increased income taxes on larger incomes and taxes upon intangible property not now taxed. Dr. MoDonald reports extensive promises of personal and financial aid I and when this reaches a certain point, | he will announce. He hopes to take his place among- the leaders, a position now occupied by Lieutenant Governor A. H. Graham and Clyde Hoey, and make of it the "big: three." John A McRae of Charlotte has announced, and Col. T. L. Kirkpatrick, aiso of Charlotte, still maintains he is in the running:. Senator-Doctor J T. Burrus. High Point, wants to get into the race on an anti-sales tax platform, out the self-assurance of McDonald that he will enter, may dampen the j Burrus ambition. Lumpkin, it was known a few! weeks ago, had definitely decided to enter the race for Lieutenant Governor, against Paul D. Grady, Johnston County, and W. P. Horton, Chatham, already announced, but that is apparently not quite so sure now. How he looks upon the McDonald-iLumpkin teaming is not known. George McNeill, Fayetteville, is almost certain: to become a candidate, while Sena-1 ! tor3 Harriss Newman, Wilmington, i \ and Carl Bailey, Plymouth, are pros- j pects. j INFANTILE PARALYSIS Infantile paralysis passed the 300j mark in number of cases in the State. last week and about 15 had died from the disease, while State Health offi- j (Continued on Page 3) Rat Tale -, When a rat bite* a boy, it doesn't constitute news, but when the ro- j dent follows up by spilling the blood j of a big healthy cat, and living to ' tell ratdom of the conflict, it is worth recounting. And that is just what happened down at the Critcher Hotel the other day. A pickaninny sought to remove some paI pcrs from a cranny in the wall, and stuck his finger squarely into the & jaws of a huge wharf rat. He jerked - said rat from its habitat, about the - time the family house cat came on 3 the scene of action, whereupon said rodent inflicted a nasty gash on e the front paw of the feline, and s scampered off, the undisputed consi queror of a nigger and a hitherto j unconquerable adversary. AViULvJ e Year Eighteen Eighty-E THURSDAY. JULY 11. 1935 WILL VISIT BOONE t ^VSSr' mH Eugene E. Williamson, M. D.f i field representative, First Aid Serv- j ice American Red Cross, who wili j appear in Boone during the first j aid course sponsored by Watauga t Chapter, which begins July loth. RED CROSS TO GIVE j SAFETY TRAINING: I Artificial Respiration. i> I o o d Stopping and Bandaging Arc Included in Course. Boone will be a safer place to live hi ?.risi-CwH*plcl:cn cf the nAd Cross first aid course which begins July" 15th at A. S. T. C., under the auspices of the Watauga Chapter. More than 6(10,000 persons have been granted certificates in first aid since the Red Cross began its safety education campaign a number of years ago. As a result, nearly every community has someone equipped to meet the emergency of accident and to administer simple first /aid measures before the doctor comes. One of the fundamentals of any Red Cross first aid course ia a knowledge of the prone-pressure method of artificial respiration, applied many times each year in eases of drown- j ing, asphyxiation, strangling and cl-; cetrocution. It; the course here this' will constitute one of the points of j instruction, together with stopping" j loss of blood, bandaging" various parts j of tlie body, action in case of snake bite and many other measures, according to Eugene C. Garbee, chapter chairman of first aid. QUADRUPLETS TO APPEAR IN CITY! Four Sisters of Hollis, Oklahoma.' in Special Program at the Courthouse August 1st. The Woman's Missionary Society of \ the Methodist Church will present the. famed "Kej'S Quadruplets" in a spe-; cial program ai the courthouse in I Boone or August 1st at 8 p. m., it! was announced Monday by Mrs. A. E. South. A small admission charge will be used for the furtherance of the work of the Society in the church. The quadruplets, it is understood, will give a program of saxophone numbers and readings. The girls are Mary. Mona, Leo la and Roberta Keys and have just completed their sophojrncre year at Baylor University, Waj co, Texas. They came to Morganton j j to visit a friend and have consented | | to appeal- publicly at several points j iir. the Carollnas. I The quadruplets were born twenty | years ago in the modest home- ot j their parents in Hollis, Oklahoma, i They have received very little pub- j licity although their history is con- j Isidered at least four-fifths as reraar- j i kable as that of the famous Dionne j | quintuplets. Very little was known j of them until the June issue of the I American Magazine carried their sto- I ry. An unusual interest comes with the announcement that the Keys sis- i ters are to visit Boone. NEW TIKE PRICES Hodges Tire. Company announces new low prices on Goodyear Tires during "Speedway Week." Motorists of this section may profit by reading the detailed announcement of the new offerings found in an advertisement on page eight of The Democrat today. ROCKINGHAM GOES DRY Rockingham County voted against the opening of liquor stores in its election Tuesday by a majority of about 250. according to unofficial returns, ard Greene County at the same time went, by a majority of about 150. All the other fifteen counties allowed to vote by the recent Legislature went wet heavily. I ,f, RAT ight ^ $1.50 PER YEAR blowingIUCR IN MEETING NAILS PgALYSIS RUMOR ChufijSgvr of Commerce Discusses K. ?*, : t Publicily Cnfavor STAM SOARD HEALTH ISSUES A STATEMENT Declared to Bo Safe From Paralysis Epidemic. Blowing Rock Publicized as One of Nation's Most Healthful Resorts. At a mooting of the Chamber of Commerce of Blowing Rock held the first part of this week, Dr. Richardson of the State Board of Health discussed the unfavorable publicity about infantile paralysis which has kept hundreds of prospective visitors away from the mountains this summer. The disease is no more prevalent in Western North Carolina than in any other part of the United States and Watauga County has no cases at all. Tn view of the harm being done the tourist business in the mountains because of the situation in distant portions of this State. Dr. Richardson requested the State Board of Health at Raleigh to issue a statement clearing the mountains and declaring them safe for the public. This was cione the same day, and the Associated Press carried the good news to other states that there is nc epidemic of any kind in Western North Carolina, and that the mountains arc as safe a tourist" resort this v ' SSHHraer nay to oe lounu m me Union. Reemployment Office Open tor Registrations The National Reemployment Office is still open for registration and renewals of the unemployed wisning to be placed on the new works projects. It is necessary that all relief cases register in the Reemployment Service before they are permitted to work. Those who have previously registered in the Reemployment Office while R. S. Swift was manager or with R. L. YVooten in North Wilkesboro may send in their name and address, but those registering for the first time must appear in person for the interview. As previously stated, there will be a big demand for operators of road machinery of all kinds when the Scenic Highway starts and local officials desire to get in touch with every skilled road man before this work starts. The Reemployment Office is locat- , oil on the second floor of the courthouse. and office hours are from 8:30 a. m. until 4:30 p. m. Institute of Health Will Begin August 5 Tho second annual Institute of Health and Physical Education is scheduled to be held at Appalachian College on August 5th to 10th, through the co-operation of the State Board of Health. The institute is held for the benefit of teachers of Physical Education in the high and consolidated schools throughout the State, and instruction will be offered in such courses as will be of the most benefit to these teachers. Dr. Wilison of the Red Cross will teach first aid. Dr. Browne of Peabody College will lecture on Health and Physical Education, and Miss McDougald of the State Department will be present through the week. The teaching of the actual classroom I subjects will be in the hands of the best trained strif of health and physical education instructors in the State. [ A registration fee of $2.50 wall be ' the only cost and only 100 students can be accom lodated. Rooms and meals will be urnished and students are expected furnish their own bed linen and bla cet. All inquiries should be addressed io migenc etiaroee, J director of Health and Physical Education, Ap| palachian College, Boone, N. C. I Hugh Hagaman Passes At Home in Virginia Meager information tells of the death of Mr. Hugh Hagaman in Lunenburg, Va., which occurred Sunday. Dr. Hagaman, who with hia family went to Lunenburg Saturday on ac hiO to f n o*-- o oomm>o I tion, had not returned as this is written and x'uneral and other details are not available, but will be published (next week. GOES TO HOSPITAL Mr. H. E. Deal of Sherwood, who has been quite ill for the past several weeks, was taken to a Statesville Tuesday night, where he will underjgo treatment and a possible major [operation.