. !. v .V \*?V '?"// o o Watauga democrat An Independent Weekly Newspaper ? Established in the Year 1 888. WATCH the LABEL DMroai pant u II ritif Mm ON to* aubacriptioa will ? Cove Creek, 372, 370, 99 6%, Stony Fork 283, 2 81, ?8#%, New River, 293, 291, 90.3%. Watauga 390, 388. 99.}%, Blowing Rock 181, 129, 98.4% MRS. HANCY JANE ROBBINS Mrs. Nancy Jane Robbins, 68, of ! Deep Gap, died on Saturday and fu neral services were conducted from the home Monday at 2 o'clock by Revs. Roscoe Greene and A. T. Wat son, interment being in the family cemetery. Surviving are the hus band. Thomas S. Robbins of Deep Gap and two brothers: Thomas M. QVatson, Whitten. N. C.., and J. A. Watson, Deep Gap. Each year new scientific advances make it possible to save more peo ple from cancer. REPUBLICANS TO MEET SATURDAY Executive Committee to B? Named at Convention and Other Business Transacted. Earl D. Cook, chairman of the Re publican executive committee, has is sued a call for a convention to be held in the courthouse in Boone, N. C., on Saturday April 6th, at 2:30 o' clock, at which time, it is stated, an executive committee will be appoint ed, a chairman and secretary of the committee named, and delegates se lected to the Republican state con vention. Chairman Cook also asked that meetings be held in the various townships of the county on Friday, April 5th, at 2:30 p. m. At these meetings township organizations are to be set up, and elect delegates to the county convention. Each township, it is explained, is entitled to one delegate for each 25 votes cast for the Republican can didate for Governor in the 1944 gen eral election, also one alternate for each delegate. TRIPLE A OFFICIAL LOCAL MANAGER FOOD PROGRAM Ned Glenn, chairman of the Wa tauga county AAA committee, has been designated as Emergency Food Program Manager for Watauga, and will help to speed the job of sup plying food under President Tru man's emergency famine relief pro gram, in an effort to reduce the ter rible suffering caused by enemy in vasion and drought in Europe and in Asia. Mr. Glenn will enlist the cooper ation of the Watauga county USDA council in coordinating the program and organizing the food conserva tion measures recommended by the President's famine emergency com mittee. Local food conservation measures arc now being worked out and ev ery man. woman and child in Wa tauga county are requested to con serve their food daily, especially bread, fats, and oils, to make more available for shipment into destitute areas. Local civic groups, churches, schools, newspapers, theatre mana gers, and all other organizations and groups are being asked to help carry out the program on a voluntary ba sis. By everyone saving a little, we can help a lot. it is pointed out. Compromise May Be Near On Wage BUI Administration forces were re ported near a compromise tonight with one senate faction opposing the 65-cent minimum wage bill. A senate source said "considera ble progress" has been made toward getting together with the group, lodi by Senators Ellender, flD , La.) and Ball (R., Minn.), which has offered a 55-cent substitute. This official said- two wage prop ositions were under consideration: 1. A flat boost of the present 40 cent minimum wage to 60 cents ef fective nine months after the meas ure is enacted. 2. A 55-60-69 scale in place of the administration's 65-70-75. The ad ministration measure calls for an increase to 65 cents immediately, to 70 cents after two years and to 75 cents after four years. Senate leaders were represented as inclined to the flat 60-cent pro posal. We dread cancer above all other diseases. Therefore, it may correct ly classed as mankind's number one enemy. . JUDGE PHILLIPS TO PRESIDE AT SPRING SUPERIOR COURT Two Weeks Court Term Starts April 22; One Homicide Case on Criminal Docket; 50 Civil > Cases; Names of Those Who Will Serve -On Jury. The regular spring term of Wa-t tauga Superior Court will convene' for a two weeks session on Monday, April 22, with Judge Don Phillips presiding, and the commissioners have given out the fcames of those who are being summoned for jury service. There are only about 30 cases on the state docket. Clerk Austin E. South states, most of them being for misdemeanors, while only one invol ves homicide. Sam Ellison, resident of North Fork township will be ar raigned on charges of slaying his ? neighbor, Howard Hockeday, last Oc tober. Ellison surrendered himself at the county jail following the fatal shooting, and told officers that he fired upon Hockeday in self-defense, when Hockeday approached him with drawn rifle. There are fifty cases on the civil calendar, 6 of which are divorce ac tions. The Jurors Following are tl^e names of those who have been selected by the coun ty commissioners for jury duty: First Week: Robert L. Grogan. Millard Stephen*. S. E. Phillips, R. L. Norris, Carnie Storie Hugh Hamp ton, J.J3. Johnson, W. R. Johnson, Oscar tiler, Roy Anderson, Dewey Mitchell, Fred Young, R. M. Coffey, R. B. Hodges, Will M. Cooke, Chas. C. Wilcox, Jones L.' Storie, Greene B. Miller, Chas. A. Greer, Granville Triplett, Rufus L. Ward, Conley Har mon, Dayton Ward, L. H. Trivett, S. G. Wilson, Fred Holman. Grady Beach, Walter H. Davis, J. A. Wine barger, Grady McNeil, Lloyd Moretz, David S. Ray, Frank Main, Conley Snyder, Jacob Harrell, Monroe Har mon, Isaac L. Smith, W. W. Parsons. Greene Carroll, L. A.* Calloway, Ja son Townsend, Marion Cornett, Ev erett Aldridge. Second week: Will W. Holman, Mack Johnson, Frank P. Wilson, Linville Eggers, Dallas Wilson, Tom M. Storie, Bloom Triplett, A. C. Moody, Lee Robbins, Barthlow Yates James B. Winkler, Thomas R. Miller, Ralph Moretz, W. H. Gragg, Rey. Raymond Hendrix. Tom G. Vannoy, W. F. Miller, Jr. Claude Greene, Claude Davis, Cline Triplett, Custer G. Ward, Coy H. Love, Cloyd Nor ris, Boyd Greene, Henry W Miller, David Main, David Tester, Eugene A. Russell, Grady G. Greene, Rus sell Watson. More People Will Be Hungry Than Ever Secretary of Commerce Wallace said today that probably more peo ple will go hungry during the next four months than in any like period in the world's history. Speaking before a National Vic tory Garden conference, Wallace added that the food situation could become "really serious" in this coun try should a drought hit the mid Western corn belt. He said that for the sake of the hungry abroad and for ourselves, it behooved every American in a position to do so to grow a garden this year and preserve some food for next winter. County Teachers Will Meet Next Saturday The Watauga Teachers Associa tion will meet in the auditorium of Appalachian High School Saturday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock, it is an nounced by Cratis Williams, presi dent of the organization. The program is in charge of the membership committee, Paul Bing ham, chairman. A film, entitled, "Looking Toward Tomorrow," will be shown, and a discussion of the NKA Journal will be led by Mr. Bingham Clothing For Red Cross Should B e Delivered Mrs Mae Miller, Red Cross pro duction chairman, has asked that all who have wash clothes finished for the Red Cross, please turn them in as soon as possible as a shipment is being prepared at this time. Mrs. Miller also urges all who are able to do volunteer sewing to come to the Red Cross sewing headquar ters in the Boone Drug Co., building where there are 60 capes cut and ready for making. Mr. James Blaine Trivett has re turned home from Davis Hospital, Statesville, where he took treatment for several days.