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RED CROSS FUND NEARS QUOTA IN FINAL EFFORT Campaign Managers Urge All Workers to Make Their Final Reports; Fund Now $4,216.00; Slighty Less Than Nine Hun dred Dollars Under Quota. Collections in the Watauga county phase of the Red Cross roll call cam paign. have been brisk in the last few days, and officials announce that receipts are now less than nine hun dred dollars below the quota set for the county. Messrs Clyde R. Greene and Har ry Hamilton. Jr. co-chairmen, state that funds now on hand amount to $4,216.16, as against the quota of $5,100. Messrs Greene and Hamilton are asking ali workers in the county to make a strong effort to get contri butions from people who have i>ot been solicited, before the books are closed, so, that the county may main tain her record of reaching every quota established for her by the Red Cross. It is also asked that solicitors send in their reports as quickly as possi ble, so that the campaign may be closed. Farm Income May Stay High Through Cash Crop At the outset of the 1946 farming season in North Carolina, H. Brooks James, farm management specialist and agricultural economics expert of the State College Extension Ser vice, has observed that high farm incomes, attained in 1945, can be maintained this year only through the continued high-level production of "cash" crops. Here is a summary of James* statement: "To secure maximum profit, far mers should produce cash crops at about the 1945 level. Any reduction in tobacco, peanuts or cotton is like ly to reduce the net farm income. Of course, cash crops production must be kept in line with the labor supply and other production factors. "Special consideration should be given to the production of feed crops and to the development of grain and livestock which may be more stable than present crops. Once these grain and livestock projects are de veloped, and their earning power proved, adjustments may safely be made in the acreage af oldline ?"cash" crops. "Great consideration also should be given to the future production program on the farm, although full advantage should be taken of the present high prices for many com modities. Remember, the 1939 to bacco crop sold for 15 cents, cotton for nine cents, and peanuts for three and six-tenths cents. Go ahead and make money now, but at the same time plan for the future when cash crop prices will be lower." Ashe County Youth Dies In Auto Crksh JEFFERSON ? Flebe Gentry, 13 year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Jess Gentry of Nathans Creek, was in stantly killed Saturday about noon when the automobile in which he was riding collided with another car at the intersection of highways 221 16 and 88 at Jefferson. Ed Brooks of (Jathans Creek and Grant Pruitt of Preston were ad mitted to Ashe County hospital at West Jefferson suffering from seri ous injuries sustained in the acci dent. Walter Estridge and Jim Bruit t were treated at the hospital for minor injuries and dismissed. State Highway Patrolman C. N. Jones said that James Blan V an noy and Squire Herbert Pruitt, re ported to have been the drivers of the cars involved, were placed un der $2,900 bonds each -pending a pre liminary hearing to be held Mon day morning at 9 o'clock before Magistrate C. O. Parsons. Tentative plans are for the fu neral for the Gentry boy to be held K Monday morning at 11 o'clock at Nathans Creek Methodist chursh. In addition to the parents, be is survived by a number of brothers and sisters. MRS. TEMP IE C. BARLOW Mrs. Tempie Cordelia Barlow, 77, of Banner Elk, Route 1, died Satur day at the home from a long illness. Services were conducted at the Wa tauga Baptist Church Moi/day at 3 o'clock by Rev. S. E. Gragg, and bu rial was in the home neighborhood. The husband, Julius P. Barlowe, sur vives, with four sons and one daugh ter: Orrin J., Nebo, N. C., V. R., Marion, N ~ , . ll Banner Elk, Stanley karlow, Johnson City, Tenn. and Maudie Perm an, Banner Elk. Mr. L? L. Critcher, who has been ill for two weeks, is recovering. TAKEN BY DEATH Thomu F. Gnu. 84 jruri old. pioneer resident of Watauga coun ty. who died at the home of a son. Mr. R. T. Greer of Boone, on March 25th. COBLE ACQUIRES NEW RIVER DAIRY Lexington Concern Takes Otrer Lo cal Dairy April 1 and Distri bution New Product Starts. The Coble Dairy Products Co, with home offices in Lexington, has.! purchased the New River Dairy, from Mr. Willian Winkler, and took over the business on April 1. Distribution of the Coble products consisting of sweet pasteurized grade A milk, chocolate milk, homogeniz ed grade A vitamin D milk; lactic buttermilk, buttermilk, cream, cot tage qheese, and butter, has been started in the community. Mr. Winkler, it is stated, sold his dairy to devote his entire time to his purebred Guernsey herd, which is one of the finest in the country. Officials of the Coble Dairies say they expect to give the people the same fine quality and service which Mr. Winkler has given in the past. Better Bus Service Seen To Ashe and Alleghany The Greyhond Lines have given Bo one business men the assurance of improved bus schedules between Boone and Sparta, via West Jeffer son, it was learned Monday, and look with favor upon the establish ment of another scedule, arriving in Boone in the early morning and returning in the afternoon, allowing the citizens of the neighboring areas plenty of time to do their shopping in Boone and return home the same day. It is believed that this improved service will be established during the month of April. Mr. June Russell, local retail mer chant started the movement some time ago for the improvement of the bus service to Ashe county, and his efforts have been responsible for the decision of the company to change their schedules. HOME GARDEN IS AN URGENT NEED, A. A. A. POINTS OUT Growing a garden, whether is uc in the backyard of a town or on the farm, is considered as one of the most important parts of the entire Emergency Food program. Ned Glenn, AAA chairman and manager of the emergency program in Wa tauga Cpunty, said today, in urging the planting of gardens this year to increase our food supply, and per mit greater shipment of food items so critically needed by starving peo ple of Europe and Asia. 'These people are victims of en emy invasion. Their harvest season is four months hence and in many sections of Europe, agriculture has been damaged by the worst drought in a century," Mr. Glent^said. "In releasing mefce- wheat, fats, oil and other needed foods for shipment to these starving people, Victory Gardens will help immeasurably in making good these comittments. as suring adequate qpupplies here at home; and reducing the overload on transportation facilities," he said. The President and the Secretary of Agriculture have called for full sup-^ port again this year by the victory gardeners. It is expected that all Wa tauga county people will answer this call willingly. _ Chicken Pie Supper To Aid School Band A chicken pie supper, under the sponsorship of the Parent-Teachers Association, will be held Friday eve ning, beginning at 5:30 p. m. in the cafeteria of the elementary school. The proceeds will be used lor aid to the school band, which is directed by Mr. Gordon Nash. The public is invited to attend the supper and help in the equipment of one of the beat school bands in tl^e State. ELECT COMMITTEES COUNTY SCHOOLS FOR COMING YEAR Watauga County Board of Edu cation Members Gather in Re gular Session and Name Mem bers of District School Com mittees for Varying Terms. The Watauga County Board of Ed ucation met Monday in regular sess ion and named a number of mem bers of the district school boards for the current year, the terms vary ing in length up to 1949. The complete list of the commit tees, as presently constituted, fol lows: Boone District No. 1: Joe Craw ford, Joe C. Hodges, Walter Edmis ten. Howard's Creek: Henry J. Hardin. Rutherwood, D. G. Edmisten. Rich Mountain: L. E. Beach Bamboo: R. H. Vannoy. Green Valley District No. 2: By num Clawson, William Winebarger, G. C. Ragan. Winebarger: Eston Moretz. Riverview. H. C. Moretz. Deep Gap Dissert No. 3 ? Deep Gap, Castle, Stony Fork, Mt. Paron, Elk, Lower Elk: A. G. Moretz, Els ter Greene, W. W. Randall. Blowing Rock district no. 4 ? Blow ing Rock, Penley, Bradshaw, Cook: W. C. Lentz. G. C. Walters, Shuford Edmisten. Valle Crucis District no. 5 ? Valle Crucis, Grandfather, Cool Springs: Richard Olsen, T. H. Holloway, J. L. Triplett. 1 Cove Creek district no. 6 ? Cove Creek, Rominger, Presnell, Keller ville, Windy Gap: Dave Mast, W. T. Payne, D. J. Horton. Bethel district no. 7: Dave Haga man, Ray Swift, Perry Farthing. Mabel district no. 8 ? Mabel, Pot tertown: Henry Norris, Arrant Greer John E. Combs. Elkland: Glenn Howell. The district committee as a body, it is explained, serves for all the schools listed in the district. TUCKWILLER NEW LOCAL FARM AGENT Formar Auliluit County Agtnt to Succeed Harry Hamilton Who Goes With Dept. Agriculture L. E. Tuckwiller, recently conuty farm agent in Ashe county, has been named to the same position in Wa tauga, to succeed Harry M. Hamil ton, Jr., who resigned to accept a position with the State Department of Agriculture. The board of county commission ers and the State Extension Service named Mr. Tuckwiller to the posi tion vacated by Mr. Hamilton last Monday. Mr. Tuckwiller was former assis tnat county farm agent here, and his work was highly satisfactory to the officials and to the farmers of the area. It is expected that his re turn to Boone will meet with wide spread favor School But Overturns in Carey Flats Section NEWLAND ? A school bus, carrying pupils o? the Newland high school, overturned in the Carey Flats section of Avery county, be tween LinvUle and Blowing Rock on Wednesday, injuring three child ren. At the time of the accident, only five children and the driver were occupant* of 'the bus. The three children injured were taken to Grace Hospital, Banners Elk, where they were given first aid treatment, and one child remained in the hospital overnight with a broken arm. According to Principal S. K. Mor timer, Jr., the driver Gilbert Hol shouser, w? a school boy, of proper age, and a fully certified driver. Mr. Mortimer said that the aeddsttt appeared to hav* been unavoidable, and in his opinion was caused by the large amount of loose rocks and gravel on the road, which may haw* caused the bus to skid off the road and overturn. MARY PATRICIA GREENE Mary Patricia Greene, infant dau ghter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Greene of Triplett, died at the Baptist hos pital in Winston-Salem and funeral services were held Tuesday at 2 a' clock from the Stony Fork Baptist Church, with burial, in Mountain View cemetery. The parents sur vive. together with three brothers and two sisters: Wayne, Donald, Ho race, Jeanette and Vivian Greene. Miss Betty Sue Stone, assistant to Miss Lucy Brock, in the home ec onomics department at the college, ?pent the week-end at her home in Rnoxville. SHIPS READY FOR ATOM BOMBS Photo shows a number of ships of the APA and AKA type, cargo arfd transport vessels, which are to be used as targets in tiie proposed atom bom tests, lined up at Pearl Harbor, be fore sailing on the final voyage. LIONS CLUB SHOW TO BENEFIT BLIND Annual Local Talent Minstrel To Ba Staged at Local Playhouse Wednesday. April 17. The annual Lions' club benefit minaterl is to be staged at the Ap palachian Theatre, Wednesday, Ap ril 17, with both afternoon and night performances, it has been announced by Eugene Garbee, coordinator. The one-hour local-talent perfor mance. offered with a full-length film, will consist of a minister under the direction of Bob Agle, a comic love scene by W. Amos Abrams and Willis Chester, and a farce, "Harp sichord Heads for Heaven." Appear ing as end men in the minstrel will be Raleigh Cottrell, Howard Cot trell, Herbert Wey, Edwin Dougher ty, Grady Moretz, Wade Brown, Milt Greer, A. R. Smith, Guy Hunt, D. J. Whitener, Cratis Williams and Coun cil Cooke. Bob Agle is interlocutor. Appearing in the farce are Coach Flucie Stewart and Dr. John F. Martin, dressed as negro women, John Thomas and Billy Crawford. The program, consisting of spicy dialogue, songs, dance numbers, spe cialties, and farce, promises to be one of the most entertaining ever of fered by the local club. Each year the Boone Lions Club gives an entertainment as a part of its community service work. Pro ceeds from this program go to as sisting with the blind work and oth er worthwhile projects in Boone and Watauga County. SAYS FARM CENSUS HERE IS COMPLETE Tax Supervisor Coffey is Lauded by Crop Reporting Service For Good Farm Reports. Mr. ' Paul A. Coffey, county tax supervisor has received a letter from the IJpderal-State Crop Reporting Service, Raleigh, lauding his office for its fine work in getting an al most 100 per cent farm census dur ing the recent tax-listing period. The letter says: "Your farm census records have been received and are in excellent condition. Your list takers are to be highly commended for their good work and the interest they have shown by securing these records . . . It is a pleasure to work with such splendid reports as those submitted by you. Your cooperation is appre ciated very much by the Department of Agriculture." Those townships which returned ? 100% farm census, together with the number of farms listed and re ported are as follows: Blue Ridge 228, Bald Mountain 114, Beaver Dam 312. Boone 5, Brushy Fork 205, North Fork 77, Meat Camp 312, Elk 119, Laurel Creek 264, Shawneehaw 135. Othar townships, with the num ber of tracts listed, followed by the number of tracts reported for cen sus purposes, and the percentage reported, vilfete Creek, 372, 370, 963%, Stony Fork 285, 282, 98.#%, New Hiver, 293, 291, 99.3%, Watauga 390, 388. 994%. Blowing Rock 131, 129, M.4%. MRS. NANCY JANE ROBBIHS Mrs. Nancy Jane Bobbins, 88, of Deep Gap, died on Sotuiday 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 fat the family cemetety. Surviving are the hus band. Thomas S. Robbing of Deep Gap and two brothers: Thomas M. Watson, Whitten, N. C., and J, A. Watson, Deep Gap. Each year new scientific advances make it possible to save more peo ple from cancer. 1 REPUBLICANS TO MEET SATURDAY Executive CommillH to Be Named ?t Convention and OthK BuilnMi 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 secretory 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 o' 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 are 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 Bill Administration forces were re ported near a compromise tonight with one senate faction opposing the 65-c*mt minimum wage bill. A senate source said "considera ble progress" tan been mate toward getting together with the group, led by Senators Eltertdar, CD., Iia.) sad Ball (R., Minn.), which has offered a 53 -cent substitute. This official said two wage prop ositions were under consideration: 1. A flat boost of the prw ent 40 cent minimum wage to 60 cents ef fective nine months after the meas ure is enacted A 2. A 55-80-65 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 79 cents after four years. Senate leaders were represented as inclined to the flat 60-cent pro posal. ;t ' , , j 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 CWil Cases; Names of Those Who | Will Serve On Jury. The regular spring term of Wa-_ 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 names 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 tl.em 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 ?elf-dpfen e, when Hockeday approached him with drawn rifle. There ape fifty cases on the civil calendar, 6 of wtych are divorce ac tions. ? TbJStth n Following are tlfce names of those who have been selected by the coun ty commissioners. for jury duty: First Week; Robert L. Grogan, Millard Stephen*. & E Phillips, ,R. L. NorrU, Carni* Storie Hugh Hamp ton, J-jG- Johnson, W. R. Johnson, Oscar tiler, Roy Anderson, Dewey Mitchell, Fred Yonafc R. M. Coffey. R B Hodges, Will M. Cooke. Chas. C. Wilcox, Jones !>.' Storie, Greene B. Miller, Chas. A. Greer, Granville Triplitt, Rufus L. Ward, Conley Har mon, Dayton Ward, L?. H. Trivett, S. G. Wilson, Fred Hobnan. 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. Holm an, Mack Johnson, Frank P. Wilson, Linville Eggere, Dallas Wilson, Tom M. Storie, Bloom Triplett, A. C. Moody, Lee Robbing, 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 Q. 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 month* 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 he shown, and a discussion of thtt NBA Journal will be led by Mf. Bingham Clothing For Red CroM Should B e Delivered Mrs. Mae Miller. Red Crow pro duction chairman, has asked that all who have wash clothes finished for the Red Cro?s, please turn them in as soon a a possible as a shipment is being prepared at this time. Mrs. Miller also urge* all who art able to do volunteer sewing to com* to the Red Cross sewing headquar ter* in the Boone Drug Co., building where there are 60 capes cut and ready for making. Mr. James Bltine Trivctt has re turned home from Davis Hospital, Statesville. where he took treatment for several days.
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