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I- # PAGE EIGHT Korihwesi Carolina Power System T Actual Transfer of Electric Dis tr.'bution System Will Occui in July; Cause of Sale is tlx Isolation of Three Systems According to George T. Kobbins manager oi the Northwest Carotin: Utilities. Inc.. with headquarters a' Burnsviile, his company has enterec into an agreement with the Bhu Riag"- Electric Membership Corpora tion providing for the sale of its systems m Ashe, Alleghany and Wat. auga counties to the co-operative. I! the sate is consummated in accord ar.ee with the terms of .he agteeiilent, the actual transfer of the properties will take place in July. The towns ot Blowing Rock West Jefferson. Sparta and Roaring Gar are the largest communities locatec in the territory involved ill ihi prospective sale. Irishes electric light and power serv ice in Western North Carolina anc the propel ty affected by the content pi,-led sales comprises only aboil one-tintd of the total territory server by the company ir. North Carolina The company will continue to opera! its system in Yancey. ..ladisor and Mitchell counties, including the towns of Marshall, Mars Hill, BurnsviL. and Bakersville, ami many ol the surrounding industries. Mr. Uobbirts stated the reason foi the contemplated sale of this part oi his company's system was due to the fact that the Ashe, Alleghany and Watauga property was composed oi three isolated systems which could be operated more economical] ly by being physically interconnected. He added that it was too expensive from an economical' operating standpoint for his company tc interconnect the three systems sin<tliey could serve no additional customers from interconnecting line: between these systems due to thi fact that the Blue Ridge Electric Membership Corporation is already serving all the territory between the systems, which arc about 30 mile: apart. On the other hand, the co operative can very easily intercom neet these systems with its presenl system. The Blue Ridge Eleetru membership Corporation is an RE.i co-operative serving rural territory 111 Ashe. Alleghany, Caldweil a tie WaUuga counties with headquarter: at Lenoir. Mr. Kobbins further said it wa: V expensive to provide eleetrii S&rvice for small isolated systems a: these, and since inter-eonnectior w ith the balance of the company": mam system was impractical, it was desirable to dispose of these isolated systems. SALE AUTHORIZED BY UTILITIES COMMISSION flaleigh, May 21.?The state utilit vs commission yesterday gave the Northwest Carolina Utilities. Inc. of Blowing Rock, permission to sell ii.> properly in Alleghany. Ashe W ilkes, Watauga and Caldwell counties to the Blue Ridge Electric Membership Corporation of Lenoir lor $170,000. Witnesses told the commission at a hearing that the co-operative could triple the number ot custom-era ir. the territory by expending about $100,000. RADIO AND SCREEN STARS AT APPALACHIAN THEATRE The popular hill-billv entertainers. the "Tennessee Ramblers," who broadcast daily over the Columbia Broadcasting system from WBT in Charlotte, will rush to Boone immediately after their broadcast next Tuesday to appear on the stage of the Appalachian Theatre for afternoon and evening performances. The "'Ramblers' have appeared in featured roles in three motion pictures. Their first two pictures were made v. :th Gene Autry. Their latest, "Kiuin' the Cherokee Trail," starring Tex Ritter, will be shown on the screen of the Appalachian as a part of the same program. incidentally, the "Tennessee Ham'biers' appeared in person at the .world premiere showing of the motion picture, "Ridin" the Cherokee % Trail" held in Charlotte recently.. . Their first appearance on the stage will be at 4 o'clock, in the aft ernoon and their second will be at !) w clock in the evening. Their lattest motion uicture will ha cha.ua before and after the stage permorm-jtnce. The 'Tennessee Ramblers" troup is composed of five talented musical entertainers, "Montana" Jack Gillette. Cecil 'Curley" Campbell, "Happy Tex" Martin, "Horse Thief' Harry Blair and Kid Clark. TREBLED The start of the seventh year of the federal rural electrification prograin finds nearly three times as many farm families with central station power as in 1935. Maple sugar-making is confined to the American continent. It antedates the arrival of white men An this side of the Atlantic, the maple giving the Indian the only sugar available to him. 1 Uiiliiies Sells 0 Blue Ridge Electric + : One Way Flight When Rudolf Hess (above) flew from Germany io Scoiland, the t | number three Nazi and deputy 1 fuehrer of Germany, started a flood of rumors and propaganda concerning conditions inside the 1 i Nazi regime thai caused him io lake the action he did. | Blowing Rock Seeks ! Ma ny Im provements\ Blowing Rock. Ivtay 18?Taking the initiative in a movement pressing because of the opening of the Blue Ridge Parkway, Blowing Rock has established a planning and advisory committee to co-ordinate the ) needs of the town with the dc, mands of the summer vacationers. Mayor Grover C. Bobbins, chair. 'man of the organization, has made ? jcommittee appointments among the . ipermanent and summer residents to ' 'serve in the interest of finance, gov; |eminent relations and civic improve. 'ments. The executive committee ^ |will marshal problems affecting the interest of the community, and t problems thus segregated will be jUbwu u^ui; at umc: Ul ulCir llTipori1 ance. ( Rosults ot their efforls are already jin evidence by the improvement of highway 321 from Lenoir to Blowing Rock, the opening of a new countr. club house, while other problems under consideration injelude: Survey of town, adequate izoning regulations, establishment of building codes, construction of sidewalks, bridlepaths, walkways and recreational facilities, along with the building up of economic activities such as directing of tourist facilities and extension of season ac tivities. ! | MAY 24 WILE BE POPPY DAY HERE i (Continued from page one) the United States exceeds $100,000. This year 12,000,000 ol" the flowers were made in over 81 different hospitals and 41 work rooms. These memorial flowers are sold jeach year by volunteer workers? : not one of the workers who approach you receive pay in any form. The money is used for welfare work 'among the disabled soldiers and their i families locallv. onlv a small r?er_ ' eentage goes to the state and national child welfare programs. | The red paper poppy has recalled I to American minds the thousands of (disabled veterans in government hospitals today. Because of them the poppy is a symbol of undying courage and faith. Who Will Wear a Poppy? "I've some memories of that hell Who will wear a poppy On our Poppy Day? "I will," says the Mother, "For five boys who went away," Who will wear a poppy To honor those who fell? "I will," says the Doctor; "I've some memories of that hell." "I will," the Welfare Worker says, "I know what poppies do For widows of our veterans And their helpless children, too." "I will," each World War veteran says. "There are close ties that bind Each one of us to help the rest? The crippled and the blind." "I will," says the Preacher, "I don't believe in war; But I do believe in healing wounds? That's what the poppy's for!" No single one replies, "I won't." I Instead, with what a thi-m - ? We hear each good American say? When asked to buy?"I will." ?Vera Williams, Manson. Iowa. MATTRESSES Rural families of Caldwell county have filed 2.116 applications for 3,265 mattresses under the mattressmaking program, reports Max A. Culp, assistant farm agent. The cost of operating an automobile today is only about 40 per cent of what it was 25 years ago. WATAUGA DEMOCRAT?EVEf ^STOK RAISING ! PROFITABLE IN MOUNTAIN AREA College Station. Raleigh, May 20 ?A question of vital importance to North Carolina farmers who are turning from row crop farming tc livestock fanning is: "Which is the most profitable, crops or livestock?" R. W. Shoffner, farm manage: ent specialist of the X. C. State College extension service, says a good answer is contained in a summary of the records of demonstration farmers who ore co-operating in the Extcnsion-TVA program in Swain county. In his summary of demon tration farm records. P. E. Brintj nail, assistant agent in Swain, rei ported that farmers received two dollars for every dollar invested in crops- for market, and four dollars for every dollar invested in livestock. I "Livestock farming will pay high dividends wiiere good pastures are developed." Mr. Shoffner declared. Pastures are the most economical type of livestock feed. Good pastures can be developed through the use of lime and phosphate." The extension specialist quoted Y\". \V. Mast, a demonstration farmer in Watauga county, as saying that lime and phosphate have enabled hint te seii 82 acres of pasture since 1936 and still have as much grazing as he did :n 1936. 'That is eating the cake and having it, too," Mr. Sheffner commented. Throughout the TVA watershed area in Western Xorth Carolina the use of lime and phosphate has mounted by leaps and bounds in the past five years. Only 225 ions of lime was used by all the farmeis in Avery county in 1935. In 1940 the farmers of Avery used 9,246 tons. The average demonstration farmer used 1.3 tons of lime in 1935 and an average of 20.1 tons in 1940. In Madison county demonstration farmers used 68.900 pounds of phosphate in 1937; already 'his year they'* have applied 1,320 <100 pounds NEWLAND FIGHTS AGAINST THREAT OF FOREST FIRE Raleigh May 21?A rapidly spread ing forest fire is threatening Newland. county seat of Avery county. Assistant State Forester W. C. McCormick reported last night. Showers have helped prevent serious blazes in Western North Carolina until recently, he added, but a new lire in Avery hies town and county officials issuing frantic calls for assistance. C. C. McGinnis. state WPA administrator, said Washington had approved aid for the mountain community and county, and C. M. Crutchfield. Wi'A district manager at North Wilkesboro, has been ordered to Newland with fuil authority to aid. VACATION CHURCH SCHOOL AT METHODIST CHURCH At a cailed meeting of the board of Christian education of the Methodist church held following morning worship service last Sunday morning, it was decided to hold a vacation church school, beginning Monday, June 3, and continuing through Friday, June 20. Classes are being arranged for children between the ages of four and fourteen. Departmental leaders met Monday afternoon to plan for the following units of study: Beginners' department, Happy Times in Our Church; primary department, Our Daily Bread; junior department. The I.and Where Jesus Lived, and intermediate department, O Come Let Us Worship. THANKSGIVING TO BE CHANGED BACK IN 1942 Washington, May 21.?The 48 states again will celebrate Thanksgiving on the traditional last Thursday in November because, in the words of President Roosevelt, advancing the date failed to accomplish its purpose. -in... _i . iic ciiuiiKi: wui not occur until next year, however, so calendars, football schedules and sales campaigns will not be thrown out of kilter. For 1941. as he has done for the last two years, Mr. Roosevelt will proclaim the next-to-the-last Thursday in November to be Thanksgiving Day. That will be November 20. MRS. LAURA HODGES Mrs. Laura Hodges died Monday, May 12, at her home herg. Funeral services were held at Oak Grove Baptist church Wednesday at 2 o'clock, by Rev. Will Gilley, and interment was in the cemetery there. Survivors include the husband, Newland A. Hodges, and four chilr! TT kuwti. x^auicMe noages, JYiary, Johnnie and Hazel Hodges, all of Boone. 60 DAYS European allies fighting aggression may expect delivery of concentrated American foods within 60 days after the produce is packed under the lease-lend law, say AAA officials. IY THURSDAY?BOONE. N. C. i Foes Now Friends } ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Last fall during the presidential campaign, Wendell Willkie had a bitter foe in New York's Mayor l.aGuardia. Now they are teammates?united in a drive for ail out aid to Britain. They are shown to > I --.II.- f-_ *1.1- ?. mj New York. Want . % SB sS O NOTICE? The John Dugger bull is now located at Vny la rill. The breeding fee is $2.00. Grady Bradley. Vilas. N. C. 9 WE ARE HANDLTN branded Western Meat. City Meat Market, j le 8 GRAZING LAND?One dollar a head. Good grass. Bessie Brown, Valle Cruets, N. C.. or Valmead, N. C. lc OLD GOLD WANTED?We buy eld gold watch eases, rings, denial gold. etc. Highest prices paid. Walker's Jewelrv Store. 4-i7-tfr> - - - - - 1 A COMPLETE COURSE in Beauty Culture of one thousand hours. For $50.00 only. State approved school. Classes now lorrning. Mrs. Jake Church, Mae's School of Beauty Culture, North Wilkcsboro, N. C. 5-1-tfc e FOR SALE? A 6-room bungalow house and 3-4 acre lot. full size basement, electric lights and water, located on Highway 194 between Vilas and Valle Crucis. One mile from postoffiee. church and school. 9 miles west of Boone. Will sell reasonable. Clint Baird, Valle Crucis. N. C. 5-15-4c DR. C. <S. BAUGHMAN. eye, ear. nose and throat specialist of Elizabethton. Tenn.. will be at the Hagaman Clinic in Boone the first Monday in each month for the practice of his profession. 4-7-tf WE BUILD HOMES?As one who builds homes of today I pledge myself to deal honestly with those who seek homes, be they rich or poor, experienced traders or ba bies in arms. W. C. Greene. Boone. N. C. 1-1-41 DR. L. E. WELLMAN. optometrist invites you to come to Mountain City, Tenn., for your next glasses. You will receive a thorough scientific examination and the finest of lenses. The latest styles in frames or rimless mountings at very moderate cost. Office days. Wednesday and Thursday each week. 10-3-tf. NOTICE o:i ? ? v . . auc iDnvci^iune scnooi 101 oetween public road and property of H. P. Cooke will be re-sold at public auction in the county superintendent's office on June 2nd, at 10:30 a. m. The bid will be started at $200.00. W. H. WALKER, 2t-c County Superintendent, BOONE DRUG CO Ike Resell Store IMPORTANT CORRECTION With reference to our advertisement for Norge Refrigerators on another page in this issue, we wish to state that we made an error in the prices. The factory price which should have been quoted on the 9-foot box is $179.95 and on the 6-foot box S124.95. Special discounts may be securua oy ntA members. It should also have been stated that Norge models are on display at the Farmers Hardware & Supply Co. J Blue Ridge Electric Membership Corp. MiJMIIOBt'M /H.IWWWII V mmnmmm ?niim ? i r "vv./.Nw?r,Tw gk f&P |j|p W " I ; t |g l III |||? C,?? Djf i"int5 ".; Kf|g - NEW, IMPROVED "G ^ ? Ask about it NOW! E ^ world's most famous iirst-lii yj In actual tests the improvec ages more than 20% long w first-line tires tested! * Buy NOW? si > RIDE SAFE ii ?f on L % Goodyear 8 Tires \2111 - - low FARMERS HI Pimm ourrL BOONE, ?II?iiiiiiini1 M ix??i n?iifi arn'Oiimm 1 TELL'EM= THROUGH THESI R ^ fev-;?#* ** *?*?, 1/141 'I ' -3" ALL-WEATHER i lig trade-in deal on the tiro (illustrated above). 1 "G-3" All-Weather averer tread wear than othrr and SAVE! NEW, IMPROVED ALL.-AMERICAH (Illiutrtted it left) 10-DAY PRICE?ONLY 4 OS i t| 6JJ0-16 1 Bay MOW?and SAVE! SIZE 4.40-21 or 4.50-21 $4.55 4.75-19 or S.OO-19 4.60 5^5-18 or 5.50-18 5.40 5.25-17 or 550-17 5.55 Calk price with your oU tiro Now! For you! Sensational low prices on a tire made and guaranteed by Goodyear! Improved Suoertwiat creased body strength. More downright value lor your dollar. Give your family i Goodyear protection NOW! I WRITTEN | LIFETIME GUARANTEE * TKmy make good or Wm do 1 VAIUE VRDWARE & ] Y CO. N. C. j SELLTEMl ' AD COLUMNS
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