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p; V If FAGS EIGHT debate tourney here march 14th Thirty-three High Schools Have Been Invited To Attend First Contest j Invitations have been sent to 33 high schools in Western North Carolina to attend a proposed twoday high school debate tournament to be held here March 14-15. Prof. Frank Hatnrick. principal of Appalachian ' igh school, is the instigator nf tk even! which would take place in the i.C.'i- high school building. Representatives fro:n high schools froth nearby counties and cities have b-'. t; invited to attend, some of the ; best known being NcUh Wilkesboro, Lenoir. Rutherfordton. Forest City. Newton. Valdesc. Spruce Pine. Hick- ' *.'. >, Movganton. Marion and Tuy!<-. -vilie. All high schools of V.'ata Awry and Ashe counties have ?v- -?i .4 ;?* r-rl to <r?nH fli?1f>n tii?c Activities ?pr the tourncv u*ou)cl include ?>nly regular debating, with the hope, that later more activities c aid be added- The question for discussion is the high school query, "Resolved, tha* the United States "should adopt a policy of requiring ?no year of military training of all able-bodied men before they reach the ago or twenty-three." Tentative schedule for the event' w< aid include registration Friday ofterm March !4th. at 4:00. Fri u night at 3:00 the.-first round of! it'oalii.- will begin*, with the second, third ; ; d fourth rounds b*?ginning Sai.ur .ay tr.orning at 8:30. Announcement ? : ;words will be made at Soturtiav at!.- rnocn. Additional round- y*m be arranged it tunc permits, Tiior< will t?e r.<y team or sid? decision. ?s t ,a si>ralter will be rated -individually. Winning speakers wiil receive certificates of award - -r - 1 . 01 ipe tournament win ; he made up or committee chairmen I from the Appalachian Forensic Club, titSekeepers and chairmen from the studeni body, and judges from vis- ! ling couches, townspeople and college instructors. Professor Iiamrick j will be general chairman of the s tourhanumt. Those in charge of the tourna meat hope that this may become an j annual affair provided that enough \ sc!uk>1s show an interest in the initial tourney. Nearly 50 per cent of the adult population of the world is partially deaf, according l<? estimates. - i ! Before East In order not to be rushed b< specials for the next ten da $7.50 MACHINELESS PI $7.50 FREDERIC PERM $<>.50 EUGENE PERMA MACHINELESS END P $5.00 OIL O' CASTER I $:5.50 OIL PERMANENT Specialized Coiffures are fea spring has inspired us with a we want to share with you. enced operators to take care McGuire'sB j PHONE 91 Courtesy COUPON f< .4 10 COUPONS AND 99c AW ^wurwna Anu 03c 30 COUPONS AND 79c 40 COUPONS AND 69c 1 SO COUPONS AND 59c 100 COUPONS FREE ecu ill e* the holder lo a 6-pioce Unit Set Rogers Silverplale Xlra Quality A1 Plus. A Unit Set Consists of: 2 Teaspoons, 1 Dinner Fork, 1 Salad Fork; 1 Round Bowl Soup Spoon, 1 Solid Handle Dinner Knife (Stainless steel blade). (A complete service for one) This Unit has a retail value of $2.50 Cottonseed Meal, Saturday c ' ..... 1 Gets Post G. Hcwland Shaw (above) of Massachusetts, a career diploma! and export on Near East affairs has boon appointed as assistant secretary of stale. Appalachian Band In Annual Concert Or. Monday evening. March 3. the Appalachian High School Band appeared in its third annual concert under the direction of Mr. Gordon Nash. The program was composed of the following numbers: Marches: "El Captian." "Don the Field," "Old Army Game," "Every Man for Himself" "The Footiifter." Concert Numbers. "Mantilla Overture," "Turkish Patrol," "Girls of Baden." "Saskatchewan Overture," selections from "The Mikado." "Z'geuner" from "Bittersweet/' "Tea for Two" from "No. No. Nanette. ' HStout Hearted Men" from The New Moon." The concert closed with the playing of "The Star Spangled Banner." while the audience sainted the American flag which was placed lit the auditorium by tht American Legion for use on this occasion. The concert was the first for which admission fees were charged and proceeds are being used for the payment of the larger instruments purchased by the band. A splendid response to the advance ticket sales was given to Mrs. D. J. Whitcnor and Mrs L. T. Tatum, who with the band members conducted the campaign. LOANS Farmers obtained nearly 161,000 emergency crop and feed loans in 1940 for a total of $19,470,625. according to figures released recently by the farm credit administration. There are more companies manufacturing foodstuffs in the United States than any other product. er Specials - fore Easter, we are giving j iys on all Permanents . . . ERMANENT $6.50 ANENT $5.50 VENT $5.00 ERMANENT $5.00 'ERMANENT . $3.50 1 $3.00 lured here, you know, and bagful of clever tricks that Do come in! Four experiof you. eauty Salon BOONE, N. C. W-? <o, * | ?r Kogers oiiverplate Security Feed Store I. S. Miller Royce Perry BOONE, N. C. Feeds for all kinds of live stock Seeds - Hay - Straw - Flour Meal and Farm Supplies. We carry a complete line of Dr. LeGear's Products Our Motto: Service. We deliver 1 courtesy coupon with each $1.00 cash purchase. These coupons are redeemable at our office >nly - _ $1.65 VATAUGA DEMOCRAT?EVERY News Notes From Lenoir T Mr. Thomas F- Greer and daughter. Mrs. Hattie Askew of Blowing: Kock R. F. D.. and Miss Mary Greer 11 of Lineolnton. visited another daughter of Mr. Greer here, Mrs. "J T. W. Hopkins, last Sunday. It was a severe shock to the entire town of Lenoir, as well as the t rural sections, when the news flashed over the lines two weeks ^ I ago that Mr. Thomas F. Seehorn had died. Uncle Tom. as we most ^ ail called him. will be missed from now on. A better man we never knew. Thomas W. Hopkins, who has been t( very sick with influenza and other q complicated troubles for 30 days, is much improved. Miss Nelia Vannoy, formerly ot [Gap Creek, is suffering from a canI eer en her face Jessie Vannoy, also of Gap Creek. I" but now of Lenoir, has been very sick with flu. but is much improv- = ed at this time. Rom Watson, formerly of Deep Gap. lives in Whitnell. Mr. Ed Scott has sold his home to Mr. Ralph Pennell. Much success to the Watauga Democrat and best wishes to all the readers of same. j LONDON. SOFIA BREAK TODAY: WAR EXPECTED I Sofia, March 5.?British Minister George Rcndel last night announced a break in British-Bulgarian diplo- ( matte relations, "likely to carry Bul| gar a into the war," effective at 3 ; a. m. e.s.t) today when he will ask j Pi emier Bogdan Filoff for his pass' port arid leave for Istanbul. If relations arc broken and I go. i Bulgaria will become a theatre of , . r." Rondel had said five days ago 1 i in the eve of Bulgaria's capitulation to the axis. The British minister in his blunt l : I w ?a nnrgAji mst rnursuay uigm m timated that, if the German army: occupied Bulgaria, as it did during! the week-end, British planes might ; soon be bombarding Bulgarian oh-! jeetives and the Nazi war machine. | Hens can he made to lay eggs! with red. white or green yolks. CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank all our friends and neighbors for their kindness and sympathy during the long illness, death and burial of our mother, Mrs. John Keller. MRS. A. B. HARMAN & OTHER CHILDREN. Serving 71 Military Camps in Dixie Seventy-one military camps and establishments, where more than 570,000 men will be in training, are located in the nine states served by the Southern Bell. In sixty-five of them, this Company is providing and maintaining the telephone facilities. Necessary switchboards and other equipment and more than 66,000 miles of telephone wire in cables have already been installed. Additional equipment will be provided as required. Nearly $-10,000,000 will be spent this year by Southern Bell for new construction and general expansion to meet the South's increasing telephone needs. New central offices, buildings and local and long distance lines are being put into service, and the net gain in new telephones is expected to reach 115,000 this year. Aware of the telephone's vital part in national defense, | thousands of telephone men and women are devoting their ertoris to supplying the increasing communication needs of government and industry. . * * (f jilb * * 1 ^3^ ; e THURSDAY?BOONE, N. C. URKEY REFUSES TO n FORSAKE BRITAIN u C. Ank;ira. Turkey, March 5?An s' rgent message from Adoll" Hitler? itimating, said highly placed per- w ais. that the Nazis wanted to look fter Turkey's "interest and welleing"?was delivered dramatically j the Turkish president yesterday.' ut official quart'rs declared it' ould have little effect on the proIritish policy of this country. Hitler's note was brought to Pres:- j ent Ismet Inonu by airplane by a i ive-tnan Nazi mission, members of fhich were understood also to have : uggested that Turkey act as an tnerniediary to make peace between 1 Ireece and Italy. This, it was rcpertod after a long | abinet meeting, Turkey would fe-'j use to do. The fuehrer's emissaries, ii was aid privately by qualified informnts. offered assurances that (Icr rrj J : WeekFor Frida < L L Sheeting, limit 25 yards lomer, per yard, while it las (Basement) SPE RKMNANTS-a large only Prints, Shirting. Cretonnes. ' special, yard (Basement) FRIDA CHILDREN'S 10c A? pair M - ... Indies' full-fashioned silk he one of our best values) pair (Basement) BROOMS?as long as only With e\ _______________ Boys' good heavy overalls, ? 2 to 14. special, pair (Basement) BEGI with $' 32-PIE4 Be sure to see this, i offer is good as long BELK'S BUY ONE P Men's Good Heavy Work $1.29, $1.48, $1 (Basement) Men's and Boys' Dress < $1.48, $1.94 Ladies' Dress Shoes . Ladies' Dress Shoes . . Be sure to see them in our FR a 1 V with e\ T nd.v all sizes v i IU (Basement) Belk-W 188 Dep; B Kuiv had no threats; that she only j Becau anted to help Turkey. This pro I- : Am eric pr of assistance, as some observers j tast am aw it. was intended to make cer- j rapidly, iut thai Turkey did not enter the jprccaut: rar. | "the be Miami. F)a. Washington. D. C. V- y -, ^ New York i 'r2^ Charlotte. N. C. jj&T' Winston-Salem. N. C. UNION BUS Phone 50 'is m' ?/ IV XI department Sto End Spe v and Saturdi J to cus- I Time to sow Tobacei is . cH? Tobacco Canvass. y? (Base ,CIAL FRIDAY MORNING ; lot to select from, as long as they lai (Basement) fcry 4j Ap Rugs, 18x36, good am A vV/ rugs at a give-away (Base Y and SATURDAY SPECIA i'KLKTS?reduced for this week-end t (Basement) >se. Af a Men's dress sox, you "WC fun supply while th< (Base FRIDAY SPECIAL they last, good four-string Brooms for (Basement) rery dollar purchase, one to customer. iizes JOn Men's overalls, zippt sanforized, special (Base NNING FRIDAY MORNING 15.00 trade tickets, we will sell you a 2E DINNER SET g* ^ Q 1UI Ulll^ ^ w \sk about it when you are making a pi as present stock lasts. (Basement) MILLION DOLLARS WORT Shoes Ladies* Oxfor 94 Big assortment bas Jxfords ^ Children's Dre; . $1.48 97c ai . $1.94 All kinds. Just re basement week in our IDAY AND SATURDAY 0-quart galvanized A fATER BUCKET rery purchase of two dollars or more. (Basement) Q-l A J I Ladies' Spring O \ Coats I (Basel Tiite Com urtment Stores Sell It For Les mmmdmmmm ! MARCH 6. 1941 ? tse several the newest Mb an fiKhtiuji planes are so 1 van climb to thin air so jSB pilots must Like the same |SS ions thai divers do to prevent One-way Rd. Trio j S10.60 S19.10 5.65 10.20 8.35 15.05 * i.10 3.80 1.75 3.15 4.45 8.05 v ' TERMINAL Boone, N. C. ? 5-iT^I A II ' ?1 i n re : cials i *y Only : j Seed. Special Q? a rd m * ment) B 1c : _____ :i serviceable ! Ap m price ment) ______ l ; 3C J should buy a EZf* H jyi last ment) _________ 10c : * fr bibs, 8-oz. 97c ment) _______ o I jrchase. This h of shoes! ? ds 97c tn S1.Q4 _ all sizes in our big ement >s Shoes, 814 to 2 a id $1.48 ceived 500 pairs this B big basement. a ' a 95 to $7.95 : iiimir; pany i S a di <
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