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BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1948
PLANS COMPLETED
FOR ERECTION OF
NEW BUS TERMINAL
Twenty-five Thousand Dollar
Structure to Be Erected by
Local Business Man When
Weather Opens Up; Utilities
Commission Approves Plan
Mr. H. W. Wilcox, manager of the
local bus terminal, has announced
that plans are now complete for the
construction of a modern new bus
terminal in Boone, and it is stated
that work will begin just as soon as
weather conditions will permit.
Plans for the new building, which
will be erected on the site of the
present out-moded building, have
been approved by the North Caro
lina Utilities Commission and the
City Council, and the building,
Which will be the last word in mod
em bus terminals, will be construct
ed of a combination of native stone
and brick, at a cost of $25,000.
The new terminal will also house
the offices of Western Union, Rail-,
way Express Agency and motor I
transportation companies. All buses 1
are to be loaded in the rear of the
building, thus eliminating the haz
ard of loading at the front of the
building.
JR. OFFICERS TO
BE INSTALLED
H. E. K allay New Councillor; He and
Othtr Officers to Be Installed ;
Monday
At the next meeting of Daniel
Boon* Council, Junior Order, to be
held Monday evening, Jan. 21, the
following recently-elected slate of
officers will be installed:
Richard E. Kelley, councillor; I. S.
Ayers, vice-councillor; Clyde R.
Greene, financial secretary; Russell
D. Hodges, corresponding secretary;
W. C. Greer, treasurer; Blan Isaacs,
conductor; Chas. Osborne, warden;
S. B. Greene, inside sentinel; W. S.
Christian, outside sentinel; J. C. Ca
nipe, chaplain; D. L. Wilcox, trus
tee.
Plans are being made to effect a
reorganization of the local Junior
Ottdter degree team, it is said.
BED CROSS TO
HOLD AREA MEET
Othrlals of Local Chapter to Attend
Regional Conference in
Hickory
A delegation from the Watauga
county chapter of the American
Red Cross will be in Hickory on Jan.
22, to attend a regional conference
with Southeastern area officials on
plans for the 1946 fund campaign,
which is to be held in March.
The meeting is scheduled to begin
at 9:30 a. m. at the First Presby
terian Church, with Regional Direc
tor Francis P. Simerville leading
the discussion of campaign plans.
After luncheon the group will hear
Lucy H. Darter, Red Cross hospital
worker, in a talk on her experiences
in servicing hospitalized servicemen.
Representatives of the area head
quarters who are expected to be
present include John C. "Wilson, area
manager; Velma Tinsley, chief of
radio, and Mrs. Marion Ritzert, gen
eral field representative.
- Goal of the 1946 campaign has
been set at $100,000,000.
Other chapters of the region
which are to send representatives]
to the meeting are: Alexander, Alle- 1
ghany. Ashe, Avery, Burke, Cald
well. Catawba, Davie Iredell, Row
an, Stokes, Surry, Wilkes and Yad
kin counties.
tmustmTis
NOW GOING ON
Tax Supervisor Say* Taxpayers An
Slow in Making Returns as
Required
Tax listing is now proceeding in
Watauga county, but Paul A Coffey,
tar supervisor, states that with half
the month gone, the response haa
been disappointingly low.
State law requires the listing of
real and personal property for tax
ation during the month of January,
as of ownership on January 1, and
Mr. Coffey insists that all those who
have not listed, do so at once, and
avoid the penalties prescribed The
remainder of the tax listing dates
are being published in? this news
paper today.
Under normal conditions 83 per
cent of the United States jute sup
ply comes from Calcutta.
Local Bank Receives
Citation From Treasury
j The Northwestern Bank has re
ceived from Secretary of the Treas
ury Fred M. Vinson a citation "for
patriotic do-operation rendered by
the bank in behalf of the seven war
loan programs and the final Victory
Loan campaign."
The citation which has been re
ceived by Mr. Alfred T. Adams, as
sistant cashier, and chairman of the
Victory Loan campaign, is the sec
ond received by the local bank.
HEALTH OFFICIAL
1 ISSUES REPORT
____________ ?
Busy Year for District Health De
partment. Says Local
Health Office
I Mr. Wade E. Eller, of the district
health department, makes the fol
lowing report of sanitation work ac
complished by his department dur
ing the year 1943, and. following are
the highlights of the activities:
Sewer connections, new, 27; sew
er connections, restored, 2; com
plaints investigated, 14; newspaper
articles published, 1; meetings with
official bodies, 26; meetings with
non-official bodies, 32; conferences
with officials, 483; conferences with
physicians, 50; other conferences,
1,995; hours in office, 849; hours^V
lield, 3,856; mhes" travelled for
health department, 21,671; not-home
visits, 8; days off duty (sick and va
cation, holidays) 44.
Approved individual water sup
plies installed, 10; new privies in
stalled, 11; new septic tanks install
ed, 12; field visits to private prem
sies, 562; field visits to caxnp sites, 9;
field visits to swimming pools, 2;
field visits to schools (not lunch
rooms), 183; field visits to public
water supplies, 6; field visits to sew
age plants, 4; other field visits, 41;
other services, 38.
Public lectures and talks, 6; mis
cellaneous meetings attended, 4;
foodhandling establishments regis
tered for supervision, 1046 field vis
its to foodhandling establishments,
637; dairy farms registered for su
pervision, 32; field visits to dairy
farms, 246; milk plants registered, 3;
field visits to milk plants, 40; other
service to dairy farms, 42; public
talks on dairying, 2; other attend
ance, 3; specimens examined, water
(bacteriological) 33; specimens ex
amined, water (chemical) 1; milk
or milk products examined, 49.
COLLEGE MAKES
PLANS TO AID VETS
Emergency Allotment to Provide
Quarters at Appalachian for
Returning Vets
President B. B. Dougherty has
just returned from a trip to Raleigh
where he secured an emergency al
lotment of money to rehabilitate
Justice Annex dormitory. The dor
mitory will be made into 14 apart
ments for returning veterans and
their wive*.
The enrollment of men to date is
125 with many others seeking en
trance at the beginning of the spring
term on Feb. 18. However, veterans
are being enrolled here on any date
at which they present themselves.
W. F. Greene Dies
At Stony Fork Home
Mr. Winfred F. Greene, 38 years
old, died at his home at Stony Fork
on Monday, Jan. 7, after a long ill
ness.
Funeral services were conducted
from the Stony Fork Baptist Church
Thursday afternoon by the pastor.
Rev. G. A. Hamby, who was assist
ed by Rev. W. D. Ashley, Rev. W.
C. Payne, Rev. Levi Greene and
Rev. Vilas Minton. Interment was
in the cemetery near the church. An
unusually large crowd filled the
church auditorium, many ware
standing and a number of friends
were left on the outside after the
building was filled. "
Mr. Greene is survived by the
widow, Mrs. Jennie Greene; three
sons and one daughter, Pfc. Harlan
Greene, Atlanta, Ga.; Homer, How
ard and Hannah Greene, of the
home.
Mr. Greene was a son of the late
I. S. Greene, and was reared at
Stony Forte where he spent his life,
and where he engaged in farming
He wti a member of the Baptist
church for 26 years, and took an ac
tive part in the religious life of his
neighborhood. 1
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BEDDING, SHOES
URGENT NEED IN
LOOTED NATIONS
Bed Clothing Desperately Need
| ed by Freezing Victims of Nazi
Oppression; Farmers Wrap
Feet in Paper; Vrctory Cloth
ing Campaign Asks Aid
Relief workers in all the liberated
and pillaged countries report that
one of the most desperate needs is
for bedding.
In one assembly center 5,000 peo
ple who survived the Nazi horror
camps sleep on straw bags with no
sheets or blankets while they await
repatriation. Infectious diseases are
rampant among these unfortunates,
too weak to combat the germs.
Children who are wp\1 have- been
found with a brother in the last
stages of tuberculosis an army blan
ket begged from, an American sol
dier. Mothers have been taking
th(4r own last rags of clothing to
wrap their babies against the cold.
In many hospitals in China and
the Philippines victims of Jap tor
ture are without sheets and pillow
caaes for their beds ? an extreme
handicap in nursing them back to
health. Natives whose homes have
6*n burned don't take off their
clothes for weeks. They have noth
ing to change to and nothing to
sleep under at night.
Keep these tragic facts in mind
when you search your home for the
Victory Clothing Collection for over
seas relief. That split sheet or fray
ed blanket will aid some suffering
victim of war in his fight for life.
Sho?? Are Needed
Footwear is also desperately need
ed in all the liberated and looted
countries, relief workers report.
In Norway alone there will be
nearly three million pairs of wet feet
this winter, a recent survey indicat
ed. Many children will have to be
kept indoors all through the bad
weather. The thousands of pairs of
reconditioned army shoes sent to
Norway do not begin to meet the
total need.
In Greece, Poland and Yugosla
via, farmers whose feet are wrapped
in burlap or paper drag their carts
over the rough, rubble-strewn roads.
In France a pair of rationed shoes
costs several thousand francs. In
the Philippine# $50 cannot buy a
pair of the cheapest quality shoes.
In one Czechoslovak town there was
not a single pair of shoes among the
population of 300,000 people. From
Holland come reports of children
wearing women's high-heeled san
dals or mUmated shoes. There is
no leather for mending old shoes.
The Dutch children have not even
the traditional wooden sabots for
the Germans carried these away
with them in retreat
This lack of shoes, galoshes, rub
bers is not only an immediate threat
to health but a source of future mal
formations and illnesses.
In contributing shoes, overshoes,
boots, rubbers, bedslippers, play
shoes,' infants' booties, or any type
of footwear to the Victory Clothing
Collection for overseas relief, we
are asked to tie them securely to
gether in pairs. This will help get
these shoes overseas with a mini
mum of delay to those who need
them so desperately.
Turn in all clothing, bedding and
shoes to Mrs. Grubbs at the Red
Cross office.
BOOK STORE IS
BURGLARIZED
Collage Jewelry end Other Item* to
Value of $200 Taken From Col
lege Book Store
The book store at Appalachian
College was entered through a toilet
window Tuesday night and Manager
Howard Cottrell estimate* that about
$200 worth of merchandise was
taken from the building.
The stolen articles consisted of
college rings, cigarette lighters,
pocketbooks, mechanical pencils,
etc., and most of the items bore the
seal of Appalachian College, or Ap
palachian high school. Anyone see
ing any of the merchandise mention
ed would confer a favor upon Mr.
Cottrell by getting in touch with
him. , ?
No money was taken from the
store, and the safe was not molest
ed. The. robbery is believed to have
been 'perpetrated by amateurs.
LEGION SHOWS GROWTH
Raleigh, Jan. 15? Paid up 194?
membership in the North Carolina
department of the American Legion
stood at 46,455 war veterans today,
and the figure is expected to reach
50,000 by Febi 1, it was announced
by Department Adjutant Jim Cald
well.
Like Their Life in ?a Trailer
.
Mr. and Mr*. William Renter are ahawn with their aan. "Dutch,"
In their trailer home near the campna of the University af Mlaaonrt,
at Colombia. Sixty-five army, aavy and marine veta, their wlvaa ud
children, new live In the cam pa while they attend the nnlveralty.
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MANY CONTRIBUTE
TO POLIO JUND
Initial Response to March of DiniM
Campaign U Gratifying; Dane*
Thursday Night
Howard Cottrell, chairman of the
March of Dimes campaign in Watau
ga county, which is expected to re
sult in the collection of $2,250 for
the fight against infantile paralysis,
states that initial responses to his
appeal has already brought in about
$200, and that solicitations for the
fund are barely commencing.
Members of the war fund organi
zation are being asked to aid, and
Mrs. Mary Hamby, home demonstra
tion agent, is contacting all clubs in
the county in behalf of the cam
paign. Others who Ire how active
ly engaged in the work are: Rev.
Ben Lee Ray, Blowing Rock; Grant
Greene, Deep Gap; Walter Edinisten,
Perkinsville; Lloyd Cottrell, How
ard's Creek.
The first dance of the campaign
will be held at the Appalachian
high school gymnasium January 17,
while the main ball, formerly known
as the President's Ball, will be held
January 31. An orchestra will be
provided at each dance, and the at
tendance is expected to be large.
POSTAL RECEIPTS
SHOW GAIN IN '45
Lou Shown In Last Quarter of Year
Against Sam* Period in
Year 1945
A comparison of the postal re
ceipts at the Boone postoffice for the
quarter ending December 31, 1945,
with the corresponding quarter of
1944, shows a loss of $518.00, which
Postmaster John E. Brown, Jr., at
tributes partially to the .decreased
volume of mail to service personnel
overseas.
, It is further noted by the postmas
ter that receipts for the calendar
year 1945 Vere $2,297.20 above the
year 1944. ' This increase was due
largely, it is said, to the increased
number of patrons during July, Au
gust and September over the pre.
vious year.
Lions Club Aids
Worthy Local Projects
The Boone Lions Club met in its
regular dinner meeting Tuesday
evening. The program was in
charge of the attendanoe committee,
Joe Crawford ChaijfMn. Appearing
on the program in the interest of
club attendance were Lion Secre
tary Ralph W. Hotwe, 8. M. Ayers,
Cratis Williams, Lions President R.
C. Busteed and Joe Crawford.
Howard Cottrell explained the
"March of Dime*" board to be spon
sored by the club on the sidewalk
in front of the Belk-Wbite store on
Friday and Saturday of this week
and next.
At a mefeting of the board of di
rectors, $00 was donated to the
North Carolina Association for the
Blind.
Meeting with the board of direc
tors was a committee from the Band
Parents Association who entered a
request for a donation to the Appa
lachian high school band. The di
rectors voted a gift of $100 to this
worthy cause.
America is now the world's largest
producer of chemicals.
BURLEY PRICES
IN SLIGHT GAIN
Start of Week Finds Burley Bring
ing Some More Money Than
During Last Week
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Sales of burley tobacco are still
going strong on the floors of the lo
cal warehouses, there being an im
provement of about $3.00 per hun
dred in the price situation on Mon
day.
A number of the common grades
were reported as bringing ceiling
prices, while better quality leaf was
selling in the low fifties. A small
amount of tobacco bringing less than
the floor price was bought by the
Commodity Credit Corporation.
Warehousemen state that the price
has been affected some of late due to
wet tobacco, and farmers are strong
ly advised to be sure their tobacco
is dry before offering it. The floors
are being kept well cleared, and
sales are promised the day the to
bacco is placed on the floors.
Tabulations of Tuesday's sales
brought the information that three
and three-quarter million pounds of
burJey have been sold here to estab
lish an all-time record on the local
market.
Tobacco Legislation
Is Being Introduced
Legislation is being introduced in
Congress increasing the penalty on
over-quota tobacco and giving the
secretary of agriculture the right to
reduce burley tobacco quotas for the
1948 crop following a conference
Monday between the North Caro
lina Farm Bureau Federation, bur
ley tobacco committee, members of
congress and OPA officials.
The bureau's burley tobacco com
mittee, back in Winston-Salem last
night, stated they and officials in
Washington were convinced this ac
tion will remove all possible reason
for price decline.
The penalty for over-quota tobac
co will be 50 per cent of the selling
price instead of the present 10 cents
a pound.
Flannagan Charges
Buyers' Agreement
Washington, Jan. 15? Chairman
Flannagan (Democrat, Va.) of the
house agriculture committee, assert
ed today there was an agreement
among tobacco "buyers to hammer
prices down."
"If prices are not restored at
once," he said in a statement, "I sun
in favor of closing all burley mark
ets and making an effort to get the
Commodity Credit Corporation to
purchase the balance of the crop.
"If Commodity Credit had the
balance of the crop, we would .then
have some say as to price."
Flannagan issued the statement
shortly after introducing a bill
which he said removed the only
possible cxcusc for low prices which
have threatened closure of markets
in some states.
"I am now thoroughly convinced
that something has happened and
that something is nothing less than
an agreement among the buyers to
hammer prices down . . . '
The bill Flannagan offered today,
and which he said the agriculture
committee will connider at once
would approximately double th?
penalty on tobacco grown over gov
ernment quotas.
FARMERS HAKE
PLANS FOR 1946
TOBACCO CROPS
Farm Bureau Sponsors Meeting
Here Monday Dealing With
Buriey Situation; Adopt Reso
lutions Asking Smaller Allot
ments, Bigger Penalties
More than 100 tobacco growers
gathered in the courthouse Monday
evening at the behest of the Wat
auga unit of the Farm Bureau, to
discuss the present instability of
buriey tobacco prices and to make
plans for the 1B46 crop.
The meeting was presided over by
Clyde R. Greene, chairman of the
Watauga Farm Bureau, and follow
ing a round table discussion of the
buriey situation by number of
farmers, a committee composed of
W. W. Mast, G. D. Bamett and C. J.
Farthing, drafted resolutions to be
forwarded to the state's congression
al delegation, and the state and fed
eral departments of agriculture,
seeking governmental aid in con
nection with acreage allotments,
penalties, floor prices, etc. The four
salient points in the resolutions,
which were approved unanimously,
are as follows:
1. That in lMS^QAfcallotments for
buriey tobacco of one acre or more
shall be cut 20 perceht.
2. That the penalty on tobacco
grown without a base, be raised to
25 cents a pound.
3. That the floor price on buriey
shall be raised to within 10 percent
of the ceiling price.
4. That the OPA shall permit a
raise of one cent per package in the
price of cigarettes.
Go to Washington
The Farm Bureau sent Harry Ham
ilton, county agent, and Ned Glenn,
AAA chairman, to Washington,
where they attended a meeting Mon
day morning of representatives of
every buriey growing section, look
ing to the improvement of the bur
iey price situation, and Representa
tive Flannagan of Virginia, was to
have introduced a measure in the
house yesterday as to the reduction
of allotments and -increase of penal
ties.
Delegates Warned
Delegates were named at the con
clusion of the meeting to the State
Farm Bureau convention to be held
in Winston-Salem February #-7-8,
as follows: Henry Taylor, Don
Shull, Perry Farthing, Bun Hodges,
E. B. Hardin, Hubert Norris, Grady
Farthing, Stewart Simmons, L B.
Wilson and Clyde R. Greene. ^
KERR SCOTT SELLS
BURLEY HERE
Commissioner of Agriculture Hoi
Hopeful as to ImpraMBMl la
Pries This Season
W. Kerr Scott state commissioner
of agriculture, marketed 2,000
pounds of burley tobacco grown on
his Orange county farm, in Boone
last Friday.
Mr. Scott, who was accompanied
here by Mr. Hedrlck, tobacco spe
cialist with the state department of
agriculture, stated that he was anx
ious to do everything possible for
the farmers, but say* that with the
bumper crop of burley produced
this year, he sees little immediate
relief from the price "recession.
Lenoir- Blowing
Rock Road Project
To Be Let Jan. 22
A Caldwell county project is in
cluded among 12 on which bids will
be received Jan. 22, by the state
highway and public works commis
sion at Raleigh.
The project call* for grading and
structures on 3.858 miles of U. S.
321 between a point about ten miles
northwest of Lenoir and Blowing
Rock.
AAA Performance
Reports To Be Filed
All farmers who have not filed
their performance reports for con
servation practice* carried out in
1B48 are urged to file them in the
county AAA office as soon as pos
sible.
The deadline Mr reporting Is Feb.
15, and Ned Glenn, chairman, Wat
auga County AAA committee, says
that approximately 800 farmers have
> not yet filed their reports. No ap
plications for payment will be made
, after that date.
i All conservation material receiv
, ed prior to December 31, 1M0* must
? be accounted for mtA VI not used by
that tfcne must be transferred to the
1046 progrmn.;^^^