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USiTED STATES m /V WAR Vl BONDS W ' STAMPS 'III* Anl VOL. 55, NO. 20 LIEUT. KEPHART DIES IN ACTION IN PACIFIC ZONE Son of Dr and Mrs. A. P. Kep hart, Was Attached to III Fated Carrier "Wasp"; Office) Had Been in Navy for Sevcra Years (Robert A. Erwin in Winston-Salon Journal) Washington, Nov. 10.?Dr. A. P Kephart of Boone, well-known Nortl Carolina educator, and Mrs. Kephar came to Washington yesterday t< piece together the story of the deatl of their son, Lt. William Harry Kep hart. 27, U. S. N. R., pilot and avia tion engineer, in the battle of th< Solomon Islands,. Lt. Kephart was one of t le offi cers lost from the ill-fated airplam carrier Wasp, sunk in September b; a Japanese submarine. Paradoxially he did not go down with the Wasp but met death on an island near thi scene of the battle. It was the chap plain of the Wasp, Lt. Mer itt Wil liams of Washington, and himself i survivor of the disaster, wh > helpci round out the story for the bereaved parents. The death of Lt. Kephart brough the war home not only to his par ents but to veteran Repre :entativi Robert L. Doughton, just r ?-electe< for a 17th term in congress. Dr Kephart was the Republican nomi nee for congress in Mr. Dcughton' district, and he withdrew -arly ii the campaign in the interest of ad journment of politics for the dura tion. He and Mrs. Kephart visiter the congressman in quest o' infor mation about their son. Seated in Mr. Doughton's privati ways and means committee office just down the Capitol Hall from tin house chamber, Dr. and Mrs. Kep hart recounted the career of tliei son who had been "crazy about air planes since he was a boy." Dr. Kephart was professor of edu cation at University Woman's Col lege, Greensboro, for 20 year. be fore going to Watauga to devote hi full time to management of Cam] (Continued on page eight) J. W. Walls Succumbs In Johnson Citj James W. Wall, well-known citi zen of Meat Camp township, died a the Mountain hospital in Johnsoi City, Tenn., Monday morning, at thi age of 66. He had been seriousl] ill for the past three weeks, anc was taken to Johnson City on Satur day. Funeral services will be conducte< Thursday at 11 o'clock from Bethe Methodist church by Rev. Huss o Lansing, and Rev. W. H. Neese o Todd, and interment will be in tha neighborhood. Mr. Wall was born in Caldwel county in 1876, but the family mov ed to Watauga in 1878, where hi has since resided. He had been en gaged in farming for the greate part of his life, and saw action ii the Spanish-American war. He wa a splendid citizen, well liked in thi section, and took a keen interest ii public affairs. Surviving are the widow, the for mer Miss Callie Norris; three son and five daughters: Gus Walls, U. S navy, San Francisco, Calif.; Pvl Grady Walls, Fort Jackson, S. C. Guy Walls. Baltimore. Md.: Mrs Robert Coffey, Fleetwood, N. C. 'Mrs. Larry Moore, Eatontown, N. J. . Mrs. Frank McWhorter, Baltimore Md.; Miss Anne Walls, Baltimore Md., and Mrs. Woodrow Starnes Boone. Also surviving are twi brothers and one sister: R. L. Walls Eubank, Ky.; Mack Walls, Todd, am Mrs. Nan Moretz, Zionville R. F. E Junior Order Holds District Meeting Her< Daniel Boone Cotmcil No. 129, Ji O. U. A. M., was host to a distric gathering of the organization held a the Junior hall in Boone Monda; evening. The principal business of th meeting was the election of the fol lowing slate of officers for the com ing year: District councilor, C. C Huskins Elk Park; vice-councilo: W. H. Gragg, Boone; secretary, Clyd R. Greene, Boone; warden, E. I Odom, Elk Park; conductor, B. ? Dugger, Elk Park; inside sentine B. K. Osborne, Boone; outside ser tinel, J. H. Perkins, Elk Park; chaj lain, Wallace Gentry, Elk Park. Plans were made for the annui Thanksgiving offering for the ben< fit of the Junior Orphanage at Lei ington. The next meeting will t with Elk Park Council No. 85. VAT A I ndependent Weekly Nt BOONE, WAr After Seven Days . . \ " ' 2 V.. _ ^ ' : ' . ? i They can still smile as they li ' days on a raft built to hold four, < original nine leap to his death in I posure and starvation. They are Flying Fortress forced down in the tured as they convalesced abord a a j fcoiile and can in which their wal I DRY FORCES TO ; ORGANIZE HERE i j Meeting to Be Held Sunday to j s Organize County in Behalf 1 of Temperance Under the direction of the president of the United Dry Forces of " j North Carolina, a meeting is called for the purpose of organizing the 2 dry forces of Watauga county, that a a more effective effort may be made 2 to advance the cause of temperance, - announces Mrs. T. P. Adams, chairr man of the ^organization committee. i The meeting will be held Sunday. November 15, in the Boone Baptist - church at 2:30 p. m. Those appointed by the president of the state dry forces as an or5 ganizing committee are as follows: P E. A. Banner, Rev. D. E. Ashley, Kennie Brown, Rev. J. C. Canipe, C. T. Cornell, Mrs. D. P. Coffey, V. C. Cox, Rev. Milton Currie, J. W. Wilcox, Mrs. Nora Wilson, W. W. Wilf son, J. A. Winebarger, W. G. Todd, Rev. E. F. Troutman, Clyde R. Greene, Roy Dotson. Hi R. Eggers, " i: r> j.',,,,,,-.. c n i.'.o L ??>-* ? *-? v? ^56tlo? JVA. Farthing, Rev. Tipton Greene, * Rev. W. fc. Greene, A. W. Hodgson, " Fred Hagaman, George Harmon, N. J L. Harrison, J. E. Holshouser, Rev. E. K. McLarty, A. G. Miller, Dewey Mitchell, Frank Main, E. R. Michael, Rev. M. A. Osborne, Rev. W. C. I Payne, Dr. J. D. Rankin, R. H. Vanj. noy? Dr. J. D. Whitener. ; 25 WATAUGANS J TO BE INDUCTED r More Wataugans Called as De1 mands for Military Manpower Are Increased i Twenty-five Wataugans are to be - inducted into the army at an early s date, according to the local selective service board, which announces that - additional lists of men called will be published rather regularly from time to time. Those in the current ! quota follow: I Lester Winfield Wilcox Willard Dale Auton Joe Hardin Aldridge >, Olin Jay Coffey 0 .McDaniel Dotson i, Charlie William Price 3 William Dempsey Watson >. Carl Stewart Townsend Grady Howard Greer Arthur Stuart Wilcox Earl Grant Main g Boyd Roscoe Cooke Joe Linney Walker r Narvie Kirby j James Butler Ragan t William Filmore Harmon ' Willie Yates David Monroe Woodring e Edgar Dean Farthing 1 John Benjamin Johnson Charlie Nelson , Warren J. Brewer ~ Albert Alfred Ward ^ ; Bynum Greer } Silas Franklin Penley. i. Clinic For Crippled >- Children November 19 il Dr. J. S. Gau.'l of Charlotte, will be at the district health office on c- Thursday, November 19th, at 1:30 >e p. m., to hold the regular monthly | clinic for crippled children. JGA zwspaper-Established rAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CARO it On a Raft at Sea 11 I ' aok back on the horrors of seven J,' luring which they saw one of the j delirium, and another die of ex- t the survivors of the crew of a F vast Pacific- The heroes are picU. S. aircraft carrier, examining a s ca oiiu xumaiu juice spuura. IS NOMINATED i FOR POSTMASTER : c John E. Brown, Jr., Nominated j hy President Roosevelt for c Boone Position t c John E. Brown, Jr., of Boone, j clerk in the local postoffice, was ^ nominated Monday by President Roosevelt for the postmastership in this city, and the senate is expected 1 to confirm the appointment either | J today or tomorrow (Tuesday or! Wednesday.) Under the rules of the senate, it i is explained, a nomination must lie j on the vice-president's desk for one 1 session of the senate, and since the senate met Tuesday, early confirmation is to be expected. The postofI fice committee is meeting almost daily to expedite such business. i Wild Geese Stranded j Here Monday Evening ; I A flock of wild geese, believed to ' number about 25, was forced down t in the fog here Monday night, and | various residents of the community j told of hearing the commotion caused by the stranded wildfowl. Reports from Appalachian College cafeteria workers say that some of ' the geese came down on the foot- ; ball field, but that before broad ' daylight came Tuesday morning, the stragglers had been reassembled ' and the flight to warmer climes was , resumed. Half Million Pounds Of Scrap Collected A total of 505,000 pounds of scrap ; metal has been collected for the war effort, according to County Salvage Chairman Harry Hamilton, who , states that some of the metal report- , ed has not as yet been brought to central collection points. Mr. Hamilton asks farmers who have scrap to be patient and says ; that trucks will collect the metal as quickly as possible. WATAUGA'S OFFI The following table shows the tabulat for Boone include the 312 votes whic Republican member of the board. T1 State Senate House PRECINCT ? K Q ? S >> ? " ? s a | m c a & J s Bald Mountain .J 78; 811 88 1 Beaver Dam . . 287 911 285 ? Blowing Rock . . 195 202; 207 IS Blue Ridge ... 45 249 45 2< Boone 1275 741 1342 6' Cove Creek ... 399 447 406 4S Elk 34 108 36 1C Laurel Creek . . 314 199 317 IS Meat Camp 1 . . . 232 236 260 2! Meat Camp 2 . . . 37 45 35 ' North Fork .... 18 98 17 S Shawneehaw ... 90 142 92 1! Stony Fork .... 170 342 173 3' Watauga 203 372 214 3< TOTALS 1337713355 ] 35171324 Henry J. Hardin, independent Democi ing to the official returns: Bald Mount Watauga, 4, or a total of 42. DEMC in the Year Eighteen H i UNA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER NITIAL PLANS Si FOR SEAL SALE ^ Irs. Holshouser General Chairman of Annual Christmas Seal Campaign 'J _J Mr;:. J. E. Holshouser has been ppointed county chairman of the hristmas Seal campaign of the Naonal Tuberculosis Association, and as named the following chairmen, ho will aid in the drive to sell t 1,000 worth of the health stickers lis year: Blowing Rock. Miss Margaret ance. Deep Gap-Brownwood section. , Irs. Virginia Jones. Valle Crucis, Mrs. R. A. Olsen. Cove Creek, Mrs. Sam Horton and j frs. James Mast. An investigation committee to jok into cases of tuberculosis in the ountv is headed by Dr. Robert R. ling and includes Mrs. Sam Hor- ; on, Mrs. Howard Holshouser, Mrs. j tob Rivers and Mrs. Virginia Jones, i The central treasurer is Mrs. Rusell Hodges. d| The publicity committee includes tob Rivers, chairman: S. C. Eggers, Irs. Walter K. Keys, Miss Gladys | . ayior, uavo iviast. "Every effort must be made to iave the coming seal sale the most uccessful ever held in Watauga ounty," says Mrs. Holshouser. "The issociation will need additional unds during 1943 in order to carry .ut the expanded program now >lanned to keep tuberculosis under ontrol during wartime." The seal sale will open Monday, November 23, and continue until Christmas. MARSTIN SHULL DIES IN VIRGINIA former Resident of Boone Succumbs to Heart Attack Following Accident Harslin Shull, aged 55, Watauga lative, died near Petersburg, Va., in Dinwiddie county, on October 31. Death was attributed to heart fail- * "! jre. Mr. ShulTs death was said to ari iave been occasioned as a result of extreme shock received in a car ac- ?c ndent. He suffered a slight cut on no he lip and a minor bruise on the oc eft leg in the accident. Mr. Shull at< tad been retired since last March K' Jue to the condition of his heart. M: St Funeral services were conducted , :rom Laurel Fork church in the Aho * section of Watauga county on Tues lay of last week, by Rev. Raymond CI Hendrix of Boone, and interment .vas in the nearby cemetery. Mr. Shull was born and reared in Watauga county, a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Andy Shull. He engaged in the motor transfer business here for a number of years, and up until ill health forced his retire- m ment last spring, had been in the se mercantile business at Saltville, Va. M He was well known and had wide *n friendships in Watauga county. Surviving are the widow and two small children. One son and one daughter by a former marriage sur- fl> vive: Willie Shull, Blowing Rock, ?F and Miss Grace Shull, Manhattan, fu Kansas. There is one brother, R. B. lh Shull of Boone ,and one sister, Mrs. nc Mamie Marshpound, of Petersburg, EVa. CI CIAL VOTE IN GEN1 ion of the vote of Wr.taugans in the ele h are in dispute, and the returns were i ie matter is to come before the state el< Surveyor Sheriff Coun Q K Q " ? Q ? J 5 i3 IS Q S 11 1 ! H I I 1 1 Ow w ^ Go h m O S 131 831 781 85! 161! 801 79] 811 ! >1 289 288 90 292 j 278 97 288 2! >3 209 196 205 399! 204 191 196 2( 19 47 49 247 2931 45 245 46 < r8 1361 1275 748 2019 1302 696 1304 13! (9 407 394 457 841 398 440 402 4( 18 32 31 112 140 32 110 34 : )9 315 308 199 520 316 199| 319 31 19 253 218 256 462 247 222 249 2' 15 37 30 51 81 35 45 36 ! >9 34 25 92 112 23 93 21 ! 37 94 89 138 96 93 136 90 i 12 175 173 346 572 172 399 171 1! 36 216 213 373 577 212 365 207 2( 1813552133671339916511[3437]3257j3444:351 ratic candidate for the state senate, rccc tain, 1; Blowing Rock. 2; Blue Ridge, 1; I 1CRAT undred and Eighty-Ei 12, 1942 tat^r Election Here Frid p 312 Dispu [ i: Acti Two of Winners ci< J et ^ ^ ^ M 'ame a hi ! lots i 'I'll . . was J? -W :?*? lenei Ste'' % sell up**' { *.- ? '^ft' crati \, ' ' plitf ~ Hi*. turn sHBliP^' .iimmttom*. ana - .-.: '.d'c?:;pr B pute H crow B/ < . nu I to ei A H. Grady Farthing, top. and no'? larles M. Watson, bottom, who crat e elected to office regardless of 'lat' e outcome of the contest in llve tone township. As certification O w stands, Mr. Farthing, a Dem- the rat. candidate for the State sen- the b. won in the district by 927 over Rus enneth B. Linney, republican. Rle r. Watson, republican, defeated boai leriff A. J. Edmisten, incumbent. Que ' 22 votes. thai huh nun lamber Commerce in and I c . and important Session con m. r . . . * ? - SDe iNext lVlonday Evening I cur 1 The Boone Chamber of Comc-rce will meet in an important ssion at the Gateway Cafe next 'n onday evening at 7:30, accord- 1 ' g to H. W. Wilcox, president of e organization. The principal business to come ftS. fore the meeting, is regarding e publicity campaign for the tening of the tobacco market. A 11 attendance is desired, and all I ose planning to be present should itify either Mr. Wilcox or Wade Brown, the secretary of the namber of Commerce. ERAL ELECTION ction of November 3. The totals not signed by Russell D. Hodges, ;ction board here Friday, ^ rani U. S. and ty Commissioners Senate ger Tue rv 05 Coll Q 1 a t a ? of % g 2 ? & -c | ? 3 $ -3 | flae S O i < > I CQ & yeai (31 83 801 76 74| 82| 77 ^ J9 j 286 921 90 94! 2441 98 fj", )2 202 201! 194 197j 219j 182 j ' 15 45 248 ! 257 | 250 i 42 i 250 and >6 1336 702; 683 691|108o'j 598 larl)4 402 447. 446 450 2701 394 and 13 34 109 109 108 37 j 106 solu 19 317 193 195 197 265 202 retl< 17 250 224 226 224 247 223 Un8 56 36 45 45 45 37 43 J7 21 96 93 96 18 99 ?jon 10 90 139! 137 137 94 138 "sub 12 178 342 j 341 340 131 346 reqi >4! 206 371! 380 370 209 363 and )7|34861328913266 j 327312975 j 3119 con" ;ived the following vote, accordwai Boone, 29; Meat Camp No. 1, 5; nee try, $1.50 A YEAR Board Will lay To Pass ted Ballots on of State Officials to Dele Fate of Majority of Tick; Fist Fighting Results From eetin gof County Board; No irioos Injuries ie state board of elections meet in Boone Friday to act ie validity of 312 county balfound in the constitutional ndment box, and about :h a heated political controy has raged since the allegiliegal votes were found - the end of the tallying in ne township election night, hearing had been scheduled Wednesday, but was coned until Friday due to the sposition of county elections rman. ttooy t. Greer, wno injured when he conducted soring on the disputed ballast Thursday evening, e county elections board met sday tor the purpose of canng the township returns, and it at the evening session that vio_ flared in the courtroom. RusD. Hodges, Republican member e board, made a motion that the ion returns be certified less the ballots. Don Hagaman, Democ member, moved that the disd ballots be included in the res. After the motions were made before Chairman Greer could the deciding vote, a heated disdeveloped, and Ute board voted icess until Friday afternoon, betaking action. The angry ,'d was said to have b a rthe exit, fist fights resulted, and imber of persons were injured in melee. Mr. Hagaman managed scape. number of officers arrived from [hboring towns on call of Demoic leaders, but the disturbance been quieted before they ard. n Friday the board reassembled, results of the election including questioned votes, were certified, sell D. Hodges dissenting, and matter was appealed to the state rd. which acted promptly on re sis of leaders in both parties i the hearing be conducted imliately. At Friday's meeting a nbcr of state highway patrolmen . sheriffs officers were present, I although there was evidence of tinued tension in the crowd of ctators, no further disorders ocred. lie contest involving the tickets, ich included 274 Democratic es, 30 Republican and eight ixed" tickets is of paramount inest due to the fact that the Reilicans would elect all county of:rs with the exception of the repentative if the inclusion of the lots is sustained. Chas. M. Wat(Continued on page eight) \LK OF FOREST FIRE HAZARDS rkway Rangers Instruct Stuents at College in Suppression of Forest Fires lr. G. B. Liles of Sparta, district ger for the Blue Ridge Parkway, Mr. Campbell, chief forest ranof RnnnnlrA Vn urpro Viorp sday and gave 25 Appalachian ege men a lecture on the causes forest fires and protection, toler with a history of such conrations during the past five rs. Lfty per cent of forest fires, they , were caused by smokers, and ;e burning brush; the others bedue to camp fires, incindiaries sabotage. Hunters are particuY asked to be careful this fall, when "warming" fires are abitely necessary, sportsmen are rested to be sure they are exuished. be local college students were incted in the use of fire supprestools, and organized into squads, ject to call at the district ranger's, jest Most all the high schools colleges near the Parkway have a organized to aid in forest fire trol, and the forest officials state : timber protection is vital to the ^ effort. Fighting fires draws ded manpower from war induswhere it is urgently needed.
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