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BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1946
VOL. LVII, ? NO. 41
COOK RE-ELECTED
COUNTY CHAIRMAN
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Clyde R. Greene Renamed Sec
retary at Republican County
Convention; Many Local Par
tisans Attend State Convent
ion in Winston-Salem Today.
A large number of Watauga coun
ty Republicans gathered in conven
tion at the courthouse Saturday at
which time, an executive committee
was named and Earl D. Cook, of
Boone, was re-elected chairman of
the committee for the third time.
Clyde R. Greene, likewise was re
elected Secretary of the committee.
Watt H. Gragg presided over the
convention which was opened by
Chairman Cook, and Paul Coffey
acted as Secretary in the absence
of Mr. Greene.
Aside from the naming of the
committee and its officers, the only
business transacted was that of nam
ing delegates to the State convention
in Winston-Salem today. Under the
plan adopted each township was to
name its own delegates.
It is likely that a large number of
local Republicans will attend the
State convention and hear the ad
dress by former Governor Harold
2. Stassen, of Minnesota, who is
frequently mentioned as a possible
candidate for the Presidency on the
Republican ticket in 1948. Mr. Stas
sen managed the Wilkie campaign
for the nomination in 1940, and is
highly regarded, particularly in the
liberal element of his party.
Boone convention delegates are:
John W. Hodges, D. L. Wilcox, R. D.
Hodges, Jr., Kenneth B. Linney, W.
H. Gragg, G. K. Moose, Paul A. Cof
fey, H. S. Storie, Clint Cannon, Jack
Storie. J. V. Caudill, Jr.
Antonakos President
Dramatic Association
New officers of the Carolina Dra
matic association were elected at a
business session held in connection
with the 23rd annual state drama
festival which came to a close at the
University of North Carolina here
ta&fcht
They are A. Antanakos, dramatic |
director of Appalachian State Tea
ctess college, president; Miss Jennie
Martin. ' drama director, Hamlet
high achocd, vice-president; and the
ftBing members of the executive
oatnmittee: Miss Alice Lee Harris,
fields boro high; Mrs Pearl Setzer
Deal, Lenoir-Rhync college; Miss
Bonnie Wengert, Mars Hill College;
Mks. F. L. Padgett, Venable High
Scbobl. W^st Asheville; and Miss Jo
MMhine Wible, Winston-Salem high.
JgUM Lynette Warren of Chapel
KUl is executive secretary.
"Prof. Samuel Selden. director of
1fee Carolina Playmakers, addressing
business session, revealed that
approximately $10,000 has been
raised so far in the Koch memorial
fund campaign, $3,000 of which was
contributed by Chapel Hillians.
GOVERNMENT MAY STEP
INTO SOFT COAL STRIKE |
First indications o t possible gov
ernment intervention in the soft
coal dispute were heard Monday as
a top labor official who asked not
to be named, said be beleived "the
government will do something this
week." ,
Previous White House pronounce- 1
merits indicated a hands-off policy |
in the walkout of 400,000 AFL Unit
ed Mine Workers which John L.|
Lewis called April 1, following a|
breakdown of contract negotiations.
Meanwhile the first picketing in
the coal strike was reported yester
day at a mine in Pageton, W. Va.
Union officials said the picketing,
?which halted mine repair opera
tions, followed the company's alleg
ed refusal to sign a retroactive pay
agreement in return for the union's
permission to allow repair crews to
work.
Lewis said when the national walk I
out begun ther? would be no pick-|
sting.
$460,000,000 BEING SPENT
TO MAKE ATOMIC BOMBS
The United States is spending
$400,000,000 a year to manufacture
and improve atomic bombs and to
explore new military and civilian
tan for this new comic force, a re
liable source revealed today.
Practically all o< this program,
it was said, is being financed out
of the president's special war funds,
which are in effect a blank treas
ury check to be drawn on as Mr.
Truman sees fit.
It was the first authentic diaclos
urr of the scale on which the United
States is continuing its atomic pro
ject, after a secret war-time outlay
MB f more than two billion dollars to
develop the first super bombs that
Masted Japan into surrender.
OUTSTANDING
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The award of the 1946 gold med
al of the Franklin Institute to Maj.
Gen. Gladeon M. Barnes, chief of
research in ordnance, was recently
announced, The award was made
in consideration of General Barnes
design of anti-aircraft guns, tanks,
and sea coast artillery and his de
velopment of gun carriages.
PASTIME THEATRE
TOOPEN IN JUNE!
Boom's Original Playhouse, Cloacd
for Six Town. Is Being Modern
ised: Many Improvement*.
An opening date in early Jane
has been set for the Pastime Thea
tre, as reconstruction work on both
the interior and exterior of the build
ing nears completion. The Theatre,
closed for the past six years, is own
ed by A. E. Hamby, Jr., and is op
erated by the Appalachian Amuse
ment Company. The owner and op
erator are working together to bring
to completion the building's reno
vation.
The Pastime will be one of a few
theatres in the state to be finished
on the interior with Celotex Acousti
cal Board, which is ir stalled by the
Acousti Engineering Company of
Charlotte and Atlanta. It is under
stood that the sound effect afforded
by the use of such board will place I
the local theatre among the best in
the state insofar as acoustics is con
cerned. In addition to the complete
sound effect finish, the building will
be painted inside and out, will be
furnished with a new marquee, new !
light fixtures, stage decorations,
floor mats, wider aisles, and new
lamp houses that will insure the best
projection possible.
A. Fuller Sams, Jr., president of
the Appalachian Amusement Co.,
which also operates the Appalach
ian Theatre here and the Yonahlos
see Theatre in Blowing Rock, has
announced that the Pastime will
open in June.
PRE-SCHOOI, CLJNIC
DATES ABE ANNOUNCED
The following is a schedule of pre
school clinics to be held in the coun
ty schools, as released by the Dis
trict Health Department:
Valle Crucis, April 18.
Blowing Rock School, April 23.
Bethel 'School, April 24.
Boone Demonstration School May
2nd.
All parents who have children
who are to enter school next year
are urged to bring their children
to these clinics. Children who will
attend schools, other than those men
tioned, are ajked to come to he
Health Department offices for their
immunizations.
LOCAL FARMERS
ASKED TO AID IN
FOOD PROGRAM
Local Agricultural Council Meets
Monday to Map Plan* for Em
ergency Food Program; Farm
ers, Others, Asked to Conserve
Wheat. Fats and Oils.
The local Agricultural Council in
a meeting held Monday, asked local
farmers and others to make every
effort possible to conserve, wheat,
fats and oils, on the basis of infor
mation received from Secretary of
Agriculture Anderson, and former
President Herbert Hoover, who is
now making a food survey in for
eign countries.
In calling upon Watauga farmers
to do their part in the emergency
food program, it was stated that the
need is so acute in many foreign
countries that the savings that can
be made here, will contribute mater
ially to alleviate the famine in these
countries.
Another contribution that every
family can make, it is stated, is to
produce in their home garden as
much of their annual food supply
as possible. The less food we buy
the more that is available for for
eign export.
Restaurant operators are asked
to limit the amount of bread served
per meal and use corn bread where
possible. Arrangement* are being
worked out whereby used fats can
be delivered to local meat markets.
This program should be back in ef
fect soon.
One person who saves a slice of
bread a meal may not be able to see
just how that saving will help feed
people in Europe, it was said. But
the Famine Emergency Committee
gives assurance that such savings,
multiplied in millions of American
homes each day, will most certain
ly enable this country to lead the
ships with the food that is needed
to prevent famine overseas.
"So now let us all make haste to
use the opportunity we still have
to conserve food at home and save
lives abroad," a local agricultural
leader said. ? j
Local College Official*
At Memphis Gathering
Appalachian State Teachers Col- ]
lege 'was represented at the recent
meeting in Memphis, of the South
ern Association of Colleges and
Secondary School by President B.
B. Dougherty. Dean J. D. Rankin,
and Professor Edwin Dougherty,
member of the College Executive
Committee.
They met with the committee on
reports to give an account of the
College during the war years. The
report showed the lowest war regis
tration to have been 372, a present
registration of 654, more than one
hundred of these being war vet
erans. During the 1944-45 year the
library spent $17,000 for books.
SENATOR BAILEY NOW
ON ROAD TO RECOVERY
The State's senior Senator, Jo
siah W. Bailey, of Raleigh, has stead
ily improved over the week-end and
is now headed toward recovery, it
was learned Monday.
[ 'Stricken with severe abdominal
pains in the senate dining room on
Thursday, Senator Bailey was re
moved to a hospital, where first re
ports indicated his condition was
serious.
HIGH SCHOOL SCOUTS COLLECT CLOTHES
Member* of Girl Scout troops of
Appalachian high school, who were
responsible for collection of clothing
in the oktiooAl rampatgn recently.
Considerable effort was put forth by
the students in gathering the old
clothing for overseas relief, which
was delivered to the UNNRA col
lection center. Pictured we: First
row. lef|' to right, Lois Townsend,
Mary Austin, Martha Austin, Mary
Sue Greene, Margaret Hendrix and
Gladys Brown; second row, Mary
Sue Clawson, Mary Nell Greene, Al
marea Greene, Elaine Mswati. Mary
Snow Haynes, Faye Waugh, and Ma
ry Madison (leader of troop 1).
hiid row, Floye Rag an, Bitty Lou
Clawson, Betty Lou Winebargtf,
Joan Phillips, Elsie Nichols, Nancy
Shull, and Louella Critcher. Fourth
row, Mary Belle Pan^le, Betty Hon
eycutt. Fairy Hodges. Reba Greene',
Margie Auton, Mary Smoth, Enna
Norrij, and Katherine Northern.
Members who were absent when
the picture was taken were Betty
Barnes, Claudine Garland, and Mrs.
H. S. Daniel, leader of troop D.
PHOTOGRAPH OF YEAR AGO WINS PRIZE
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"The untimely news," as seen by New York Times photo
grapher, Samuel Falk, which won econd prize in Encyclopae
dia Brittanica annual news photograph contest, results of
which were announced this week, is also a reminder that
just a year ago, April 12, 1945, President Roosevelt died.
Grief of all Americans is represented on the faces of those
in the subway.
JUNIORS SELECT
DISTRICT OFFICERS
DitlricJ Junior Mooting Hold Tuos
day With Local Council; Lkl
Of Now Oiflcm Ginn.
District three. Junior Oder U. A.
M. met Tuesday evening with Daniel
Boone Council 129, dinner being ser
ved to the gathering at the Boone
Trail Cafe.
Following dinner, the meeting was
opened with Zelza McCoury, dis
trict Councilor presiding, and Lee
Stout delivered the welcome speech
on behalf of the local Council. B. S.
Dugger of Elk Park made the rest
ponse, and financial reports from
Daniel Boone and Elk Park Coun
cils were heard.
The following district officers
were elected:
Councilor, I. S. Ayers; Vice-Coun
cilor, L. S. Isaacs. Jr.; Recording Se
cretary, R. D. Hodges, Jr.; Chaplain
Roy A. Harmon, Elk Park; Inside
Sentinel, Greer C. Hodges; Outside
Sentinel, Dennis Townsend; Warden
Olden Turbyfill, Elk Park; Conduc
tor, Charles Osbome; Trustee to the
Children's Home, W. H. Gragg.
Clyde R. Greene presented the
speakers of the evening as follows:
C. W. Snyder, Beneficiary Degree
Department, Winston-Salem; L. B.
Scarborough, State Vice Councilor,
Rocky Mount; G. P. Hood. State
Treasurer, Raleigh.
The fall district meeting, it was
agreed, will be held with Elk Park
Council.
New officers were installed by Rev.
L. B. Scarborough, State Vice-Coun
cilor. ?
Seven members were present from
Elk Park and 28 from Boone. Six
ex-service men were included.
Dr. Abrams Named To
Head English Teachers
Association in State
At the NCEA meeting held re
cently in Asheville, Dr. Amot Ab
rams, head of the English depart
ment, was elected next year's presi
dent of the North Carolina English
Teachers Association, of which there
is an approximate membership of
1500 English teachers.
Other officers chosen for the or
ganization are Miss Celeste Penny of |
Needham-Broughton High School,
Raleigh, vice-president; and Earl W.
Hartsell, professor of English at tlfe
University of North Carolina, ex
ecutive secretary.
The immediate past president of
the organization is Miss Lillian
Parks, Who is chairman -of the En
glish Department of Central High
School in Charlotte.
Information Available
Veteran*' Trade School*
Boom nsB5 office has on fife for
veterans Information catalogues
from various trade and tech. schools.
Theae will give the veteran informa
tion as to the type of school that he
won id be interested fat, entrance re
qujiarsenf. enrolling dates, living
MiiftUiy it the school besides the
labor natfcat picture o t the trade or
IMfaDlgo th?* the Vetera wishes
to aufer. Wa an (lad to pass this
information on to our veterans, In
cluding our openings tor on-the-job
training program.
The public contributes 90 cents
per cancer case annually as against
$940 per case of infantile paralysis.
Support the American Cancer So
ciety. . i . . .
INSPECTOR TAKES
JOB AT LOCAL P.O.
Ralph O. Green* Resigns as Postal
Inspector Comm Hirir
To Local Postal Sot* lea.
Ralph G. Greene, Watauga coun
tian, who, for the past seven years
has been a postoffice inspector with
the Atlanta division, resigned due to
his health, and accepted a less stren
uous job as clerk in the Boone post
office, resuming his old position last
Monday.
Mr. Greene began his career as
clerk in the Boone postoffice in 1929,
and worked here for ten years, hav
ing been appointed as postal in
spector in 1939. He was one of the
moat capable men in the Atlanta
division, as is evidenced by theee
excerpts from a letter written Mr.
Greene by M. H. Ackerman, Inspec
tor in Charge, Atlanta division:
"It is rather difficult to write this
letter as the time draws near for
your departure from our midst, yet
I feel that the fine spirit of loyalty,
faithfulness, gentlemanlincss, and
excellent performance of work dis
played by you will be ever with us.
I have regarded you for years as
one of the best inspectors in the di
vision and I am going to feel your
loss most keenly. Your fellow in
spectors feel the same way, but we
will have many pleasant recollec
tions of our associations with you."
"In closing this letter, I want you
to know that I deeply appreciate
your valued contribution to making
my administration a success. If at
any time I can be of service to you
or yours, please call upon me."
Postmaster John E. Brown, Jr.,
feels most fortunate in having been
able to secure a man of such out
standing experience as Mr. Greene,
to supplement the clerical force at
the local postoffice.
Mr. and Mrs. Greene and family
are residing in Vilas, pending the
location of suitable living quarters in
town.
ERRORS IfOTED IK LIST
SCHOOL COMMITTEES
A couple of errors crept into the
list of county school commutes pub
lished last week and to clarify the
matter, the correct committees in
the two district affected, are as fol
lows:
Boone district no. 1: Joe Craw
ford, James Austin, Walter Edmis
ten.
Bethel district no. 7: Dave Haga
man, Ray Swift, John Ward.
LT. HORTON ORAGG SAILS
rOR PACIFIC ISLAND
Lieut Morton Gragg, son of Mr.
and Mrs. W. H. Gragg of Boone, sail
ed for Okinawa from Seattle recently
being one Of J.776 army personnel
on the passenger list of the U. S. 8
Admiral Rodman.
Lieut. Gragg, who is an Air Force
pilot, and had recently bean Located
at Maxton, N. C. army air base.
fc J. SMITH. JR. TO APPEAR
* nv SENIOR PIANO RECITAL
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Appearing in his senior piano re
cital Frisday evening at eight o'
clock in the College Auditorium, will
be A. J. Smith, Jr., at WhiteviUe, N.
C., a student of Miss Helen Facter.
The recital is open to the public,
and Miss Wary, director of the A.
0. T. C. music department, extends
an open invitation to all local music
lovers to attend.
There lk mora need for victory
gardens in the first year of peace
than in any year of the war.
BOONE WOMAN IS
INSTANTLY WI.I.KD
BY MOTOR TRUCK
Mrs. Albert Watson Meets Tmg*
i i Death Late Monday; Cor?
Ber't Jury Terms Accident
Unavoidable; Funeral Services
Wednesday Afternoon.
Mrs. Albert Watson, 66 years old,
member of one of the county*' pio
neer families, and one of Boone's
most popular ladies, was instantly
killed at 6:15 Monday afternoon,
when Struck by a truck driven by
Mr. E. E. Carlton of the Shulls Mills
section.
The accident occurred on the
Blowing Rock Road, near the home
of Mr. and Mrs. T. Len Cooke. Mrs.
Watson was return in* from a visit
with Mrs. Cooke, who is ill, and was
attempting to cross the street when
struck by the vehicle. Severe chest
injuries were given as the cause of
her demise.
Deputy Coroner Richard E. Kelley,
immediately conducted an inquest,
the Jury terming the accident "una
voidable." Evidence given by a Na
val officer, a resident of the state
of Maine, en route to Florida, and
who was driving immediately behind
the truck, was to the effect that
the vehicle invotngLln the accident
wss going no ijvSe than twenty
miles per hour at the time.
Mrs. Watson wss taken immediate
ly to the local hospital, but had ex
pired.
ruBMil Today
Funeral services are to be conduct
ed from the Methodist Church at 2
o'clock this (Wednesday) afternoon.
Rev. Paul Townsend, former pastor
of the church, now of Waynes vilie,
is expected to conduct the rites in
the absence of Dr. E. K. McLarty,
the pastor, who is ill in a Winston
Salem Hospital. All tha other min
isters of the town are expected to
be present, and assist in the rites.
Inteimeitt will be in the city cem
etery. Reins-Sturdivaut Funeral
Home will arrange the details.
Mrs. Watson was the former Miss
Maggie Ellen Clawson, and waa bam
in Watauga county, a daughter of
Jacob T. and Mary Elizabeth Claw
son. For many yean she had made
her home in B&ne. She was a mem
ber of the Methodist Church, and
was actively affiliated with the Wo
men's Society of Christian Service,
Circle no. 2 and had been to a meet
ing of the organization shortly be
fore her demise. She was a potent
force in the religious life of the
community, and had endeared her
self tq. the people of the communi
ty by her kindly disposition, her
generous and neighborly tendencies
and her life of Christian activity.
The husband, and one son, Lionel
Watson, of Boone, survive. There are
six brothers and four sisters: J. N.
Clawson, Lenoir; Henry A. Clawson,
San Francisco, Calif.; John E. Claw
son, Bel Air, Md; Hoy Clawson, Fall
ston, Md.; Artie Clawson, San Deigo,
Calif.; Mr*. C. C. Rag an, Boone;
Mrs. Everett Norm, Blowing Rock;
Mrs. Calvin Hodges, New Windsor,
Md; Mrs. D. M. Smith, Fallston, Md
Local College Group
At St. Louis Meeting
Professor Eugene Gar bee, head of
the department of health at Appa
lachian State Teachers College, is
taking a delegation of students to the
meeting of the National Conference
of the American Association for
health, physical education, and re
creation in St. Louis, Mo.
The session begins on Monday af
ternoon, April 8th, and continues
through Saturday April 18th. Those
selected by^Professor Garbee to at
tend with him are Rev. and Mrs.
Worth Sweet of Mount Airy, Helen
and Mary Smith of Charlotte, Irene
Fowler of Walnut Grove; James
Reese of Pensacola, Fla., and James
Dry of Norwood
The delegation goes to St. Louis
in two private cars, leaving Boone
Sunday morning.
Veterans May Secure
Forms for Priority
Building Permits Now
Postmaster John E. Brown, it.,
now has a supply of CPA form
4386 for distribution upon request
to ycvcfioi) awT pnonajr nt Nvunns
materials tor the erection of dwell
ings.
Under the new government buil
ding regulations. building materials
will be funaaBad into channels *
home construction tor veterans inso
far as possible.
nsno RECITAL
Piano students of Mrs. Boone will
be heard in apatag recital April 19th .
at 730, in the College auditorium.
Tha public la invited to attend. ?
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