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THE DEMOCRAT if your best and moat eco nomical medium of adv*rti. tn*. With more than X.SOO paid-up. cash ?ubseripUona. your HMMace |o? to 2S.M0 P?opl?, on the universally uMd bmi of flva reader* to each aubacriber. An Independent Weekly Newspaper ? Established in the Year 1 888 BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 15. 1946 OTTO HANS HERSHEL RECORD NUMBER AT APPALACHIAN Total of 1.503 Attended Summer School In Boone This Year; Other Figures Appalachian State Teachers CoUege is nearing the mid point of the second summer school with a record enrollment. The first term enrollment was 843; the second .680, making a total of 1.523. When all dupli cations are eliminated, the en tire enrollment for the summer quarter is 1,086. Twenty-one states are repre sented in the student body. Those having above 100 students each are Florida, 105: South Carolina, 158. and North Carolina, 719. The North Carolina students come from 77 of the 100 coun ties. "When we examine the student body from the academic ap proach," says Dean J. D. Rankin, "all duplications removed, we lind that 52 have master's de grees, 428 bachelor's, and 650 without degrees. Virtually all of these students are in-service teachers who are returning at the close of the quarter to their respective schools." In the graduate school, says Dr. Rankin, conducted in collabora tion with the University of North Carolina, there are 16 students, all duplications removed. MERCHANTS PUN ANNUAL PICNIC Camp Fiesta to Be Scene of An nual Party Giren Employees By Town Merchants The members of the Boone Merchants Association will en tertain their Employees at a pic nic dinner at Camp Fiesta, near Shulls Mills Wednesday August 21, and tickets for the annual event should be secured from Mrs. Bert Ellis, Secretary of the Association, at her office in the city hall. Present plans call for serving a barbecued supper at 5:30, cooked at the camp, and those going are asked to meet at the postoffice at 2 o'clock on the 21st, where transportation can be arranged. The group will journey to Camp Fiests and participate in games, races stunts, softball, swimming, etc., until the hour" for the picnic dinner. Data Available On Terminal Leave Bill Mr. Lionel Ward, veterans ser vice officer, desires to state that he has complete information in his office relating to the terminal leave bill, recently enacted by the Congress. All veterans who would like to acguaint themselves with the measure are apked to call at Mr. Ward's office. He states the application forms for payment under the act, will be available in about 45 days. Another Auction Land Sale Is On the Way Another sale of valuable realty is to take place in this community on August 28th, say S. C. Eggers & Co., who have secured a con tract to offer at auctioMfthe valu able property of Zeb V. Farth ing, which is located on the Blow ing Rock road east of town. Mr. Eggers states that the pro perty will be divided into about 100 lota and will be offered to the high bidder. United States moves to finance 60,000 railroad box cars. Senate votes to freeze payroll, tax at 1 per cent. ? I ART EXHIBIT TO BF FEATURE OF FLOWER SHOW! Otton Hans Hershel. VienJI nese Painter, Vacationing Here, to Show Paintings at FliAver Show August 22; Many Are Asked to Enter Floral Exhibit ? An exhibition of some of the paintings of Otto Hans Herschel, noted Viennese artist, will be a feature of the flower show to be held by the Worthwhile Club at the Daniel Boone Hotel Thurs day August 22nd, in connection with a benefit tea, and the week ly out-door concert of the local high school band. Mr. Herschel of New York and Winston-Salem, who, with Mrs. Herschel is vacationing m Boone, was born in Bohemia, and studied in the art academies of Vienna and Munich. His per-l manent residence was Vienna, Austria, where he occupied ? position in the forefront of the most distinguished artlstsHehas exhibited paintings in Vienna, Amsterdam, London, and many points in America. He specializes in portrait paint ings and also does life and land scapes .in water colors. The Flower Show Those who wish to enter flow ers are requested to bring them to the Daniel Boone Hotel by one o'clock on Thursday. The entry fee will be 25 cents for each entry up to four ar rangements under either classi fication. All contestants entering four arrangements may enter as many more as they wish without further charge. It is hoped that flower overs throughout the county will en ter flowers. Competent judges have bee appointed to judge the arrange ments. A special award wiU be given to the most outstanding ar rangemcnt. , Proceeds from the tea and flower show will be used for the benefit of civic projects sponsor ed by the Worth While Club. The following classification ot flowers will be considered: Gladiolus, all types; hoses; marigolds; dahlias, all types; pe tunia. all types; snapdragons, zinnas; asters; sweet peas, nas turtiums, azelia mumo; chrysan themums; cosmos; calendulas, scabiroa; scarlet sage; blue sage, phlox; delphinium; butterfly bush; lilies; daisies; pansies, larkspur; potted plants; mixed' arrangements; greatest variety, wild flowers; most unusual ar rangement; miniature arrange ment; verbena; hydrangeas. All patrons of the flower showj are invited to attend the art exhibit. Volunteer Reserve Offers Opportunities For Navy Veterans All ev-naval personnel are needed and urged to join the in active Naval Reserve. Here are some of the benefits and advantages the inactive re serve offers you: 1. You keep your highest war time rank or rating and have chance for advancement. 2. Service in Reserve adds upl for longevity purpose the same as active duty in the navy. 3. No physical examination re quired for enrollment. 4. You can enroll at the nearest Naval Recurting Station being Winston -Salem. 5. You may reguest an annual 14 day cruise. 6. You still rate all GI rights and benefits. If ever again the navy is forced by the threat of \ffar to ex pand to full strength, modern I methods of preservation make it possible to have the ships ready to fight in a short time. But to sail the ships will be required thousands of men, train ed in many technical skills neces sary for the operations of a modern combatant navy. To get our navy fully ready for war will be possible only through the ef forts and contributions of those citizens' who by peacetime identi fication and training with the Naval Reserve, will be able to come forward to help man the ships of the fleet and the shore establishments serving the fleet. Chief Carroll announces that ex-Waves can also join the in active reserve with the same advantages as above. AU ex-Naval personnel, men and women, are urged to consult their recurting office for further information concerning ^enroll ment in the inactive reserve. RESIGNS Mr. Owen Wilson, who for the past 16 years has been manager of Smithey's store in Boone, has resigned his position to enter business lor himself. Mr. Wil son, who is a member of the city council, states that he is con tinuing to maintain his residence .here, although his new business will likely be' established in an other town. He is being succeed ed in the Smithey organization by Mr. Arlie Welch, of Wilkes couniy. SCHOOL CHILDREN MUST HAVE TESTS Kiddies Entering School This Year Must Be Immunized Against Contagions The Health Department and Mr., Howard Walker, superintendent of schools issue a joint statement reminding all parents who havel children going to school this year) will be required to have themj immunized against certain con tagions. Those who have not been vec-| cinated against whooping cough, diptheria and smallpox, are re minded that the State law re quires these vaccinations before the children may enter school. Parents are urged to attend to this at once, in order to prevent the loss of time from school. These vaccinations may be obtained from local physicians or from the Health Department. Pet Show To Be Held in Boone A Pet Show, sponsored by the Intrarmural department of Appa lachian State Teachers College, will be held next Wednesday afternoon, August 21. The contest will be open to all children between the ages of three and sixteen. All parents and children are urged to polish up their pets and enter# them in the competition. Prizes will be given for the best in the following groups: The smallest (no fleas allowed); the largest (no eleph ants allowed); the cutest, the ugliest, and the most unusual. The judges will be selected from among the local townspeople and will award the prizes to the winners they select. Pictures will be taken of the contestants as a group and of the prize-winners. The judging will begin at four o'clock. All entries are requested to come, with their pets, to the men's gymnasium on the college campus at 3:30 p. m. While not necessary, all persons planning to enter a pet in the show are requested to call Coach "Red" Watkins at 125 or Miss Frances Canipe at 158-R between 5 and 7 p. m. Claims To Be Oldest Sheepman J. A. Norris of near Boone says that he is the oldest sheep pro ducer "from point of service, anyway" in the nation. He recently told State Depart ment of Agriculture officials that he has been growing sheep for 60 years. Norris says that his father gave him his first lamb when he was eight. That was in 1886, Norris says, and every year since he says that he has sold a few sheep. He car ried his most recent load to mar ket in North Wilkes boro last June. His lambs brought $17.50 per hundred, which Norris says is good compared to his boyhood days when a "good sheep hardly ever brought over $3 a head." Morris's wife, 85, says her husband "goes to bed and gets up with the chickens." DAIRY HERD GETS HIGH DOLLAR AT DISPERSAL SALE New River Dairy Herd Sold For an Average of $351.43; 5-Months-Old Bull Breaks All Watauga Records by Bringing Sum of $1,075 The dispersal sale of W. M. Winkler's New River Dairy herd of Guernsey cattle, which was held last Thursday, was largely attended and the cattle comman ded top prices, one animal having' sold for $1,075, to top all records for a Watauga-bred product. The sale, which was in charge of Georgv Palley of Orangeburg, S. C., with Harry Hamilton of Boone, as auctioneer, moved swiftly, with keen interest and active bidding unti) the last of the 49 animals had been dispos ed of at an average price of $351.43. The five top animals averaged $725.00. The first animal in the ring was a cow, Diana's Queen of New River. She sold for $525 to M. F. Shores of Cycle, N. C. The highest selling cow was Moonlight's Red of New River, a bred heifer due in September. She sold to Harry Thurmond, of Athens, Ga., for $800.00. Keen interest was shown by the group when the five-months old bull, Diana's Maxim, came into the ring. He sold to C. L. Badden, Dinsmore. Fla., for $1* 075, to set a new record for an animal bred in Watauga county. !The previous record was also iheld by Mr. Winkler on a half I sister to this bull. This record Jwas set in 1944 in the Southern Guernsey sale at Columbia, S. C.J at $950.00. The 14-year-old cow, Sequel's Diana of Green Acres, dam of the bull, sold for $505 to Mrs. W. C. Mclver, of Marion, N. C. W. M. Wannamaker, Jr., | the largest bu; er of the sale. The cattle were sold into six [states. BADGETT SAYS WEED CROP GOOD Tobacconist Haa Baen in Burley Bait Two Weeks; Saw Bel ter Crop Than in 1945 Mr. O. L. Badgett. of the Farm ers Burley Warehouse corpora tion, has been spending the past two weeks touring the burley belt, and states that a fair crop of tobacco is in prospect for this year, with most sections showing a better crop of the v ed than was the case last year. Mr. Badgett says that the acre age should run from 80 to 85 per cent of that planted in 1945, and he envisions a better price on the local market, when the weed goes to sale. Meantime, work on the Farm ers Warehouse is being pushed, and the big structure will be completed well in advance of the opening of the auction in Decem ber. Bob McBride Dies in Oregon During July Wesley E. (Bob) McBride, na tive Wataugan. died in Portland, Oregon, on July 9th, according to belated information reaching this city. Mr. McBride, a son of Manly and Martha McBride, was born in Boone, and was married to Eliza, daughter of Calvin and Sailie Ragan. They left Watauga 40 yers ago and settled in Ore gon. They had two song, Steve and Marvin. Marvin died about 1919 and Steve lives in Califor nia. They had visited relatives here during June. Veteran Leading South Carolina Governor's Race Columbia, Aug. 13 ? A 44-year old war veteran, former Judge J. Strom Thurmond, ran far ahead of ten competitors for gov ernor in Tuesday's Democratic primary, and one of the state's congressmen. Rep. Butler B. Hare, of the third district, ap peared to be threatened with de feat on the face erf incomplete re turns. Thurmond, a lieutenant colonel and winner of a Purple Heart in the Normandy D-day landing, amassed 21,670 votes in 554 of 1,539 precincts. His closest op ponent was Dr. James A. Mc Leod, president of the State Medical association, with 12,600. PLAN FOR PALESTINE PARTITION This map explains the plan for the federalization of Pales tine, which has been suggested by the Anglo-American cabinet committee. Under the proposal, government areas would locate in the region known as Negev (A), and Jerusalem and Bethlehem (B) or their environs. Zionist area (C) would comprise about 1,500 square miles, with the exception of Jaffa, which would re main Arab. White area also would be Arab land. TWO ARE HURT IN CYCLE CRASH T. Len Cook* Has Broken Leg; Joe Belk. Rider of Motor cycle, Injured Mr. T. Len Cooke of Boone, suffered a broken left leg, and Joe Belk. student at Appalach ian College, received back injur ies and severe bruises when the motorcycle ridden by the latter, went out of control near Appa lachian College Sunday, struck Mr. Cooke, who was walking, and careened into a rock wall with its rider. Mr. Cooke's fracture was near the ankle, and he is said to have suffered no other major injury. Mr. Belk was at first thought to have had a broken back, but later it developed that only severe bruises were sustained. Both the injured men are pa tients at the local hospital, where their condition is said to be sat isfactory. William L. Austin Suffers Fatal Attack William Levi Austin, promin ent citizen and farmer of the Winkler's Creek section, died Monday on his farm from a sud den illness, with what is believ ed to have been a heart ailment. Mr. Austin, it is related , had been to a field near his home, at tending to the weighing of some cabbage, and suffered the attack as he returned to the house. He died within a few minutes. He was 76 years old. Funeral services were held Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock from the Cool Springs Baptist Church, by Rev. R. C. Eggers, Rev. Frank Knight and Rev. W. C. Payne. Burial wasl in the Winkler cemetery, near Boone, by Reins-Sturdivant Funeral Home. The widow, the 'former Miss Delia Greene, survives, with an adopted son, W. W. Austin of Shulls Mills. There are two brothers and five sisters: Sam Austin and George W. Austin, of Shulls Mills; Mrs. Tom Putnam, Lenoir; Mrs. Jim McMillan, Bel mont; Mrs. Ben Greene, Blow ing Rock; Mrs. Jim Greene, Bris tol, Tenn., and Mr*. Anthony Kel ler, Blowing Rock. BIG LAND ACREAGE IS SOLD IN BEECH MOUNTAIN BY L O C AIL REALTORS S. C. Eggers & Company an nounce that they have recently sold a boundary of land on the Beech Mountain, comprising 1,984 acres, to an undisclosed pur chaser, who says he made the ac quisition for "investment pur poses." The big boundary of land, which was formerly owned by the Yonahloaaee Land Company, and recently by Mr. A. E. South, consists of both cut-over land and virgin timberland. Truman says Jews are only part of displaced - persons prob lem. Traffic deaths rise 40 per cent |for six months, but let up is seen. Battle to Win Peace Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, head of the U. S. delega tion to the Paris peace confer ence, is shown in his plea at the ong-awaited peace conference of 21 victorious nations in the place of Luxembourg, Paris. BENEFIT PARTY PLANNED HERE Worthwhile Woman's Club Com plates Plans for Entertain ment Thursday Night Final plans have been com pleted for the benefit bridge, set back and rook party, sponsored by the Women's Worthwhile Club, and which will be held in the high school gymnasium Thursday evening from 8 to 11:30 o'clock. The games win begin at 8 p. m? and refreshments will be served and prizes awarded after the game. Tickets will be on sale at the door. Those wishing to attend the party should reserve tables at once with a member of either ol the various committees, the names of which have hithertc been published. Out-of-town people and othei visitors are invited. Mrs. Grace Holman Succumbs at Todd Mrs. Grace G. Holman, wife ol William Holman, died at the home at Todd last Friday, at the age of 55 yean. Mrs. Holman had been ill for some time. Funeral services were conduct t-d Sunday at 2 o'clock from the Methodist church at Todd by Rev Mr. Stephens . and Rev. Mr Blackburn, and interment was in the cemetery there by Reins Sturdivant Funeral Home. Surviving is the husband, to gether with three sons and three daughters: W. R. Holman, Zion ville; Jake Holman, Todd; Clin ton W. Holman, Boone; Mrs Ro land Jones, Wlnston-Saleim; Mrs. Harding Bowles, Wins ton- Salem Miss Willie Gray Holman, Todd. There are three brothers and three sisters: W. R. Graham, West Lake, Idaho; J. K. Graham. Todd; W. D. Graham, Todd; Mrs C. M. Conner, Clemmons, N. C.; Mrs. D. R. Jones, Todd, and Mrs. T. W. Graham, MocksviUe, N. C "N MAIL SERVICE IS EXTENDED ALONG THE MAIN STREET Two Deliveries Daily Are Provided for East Main uJ Green Streets; Deliveries to Other Sections to Be Im proved; RFD Changes The city delivery mail service has been extended along East Main street to the city limits and along Greene street and Bristol road to the city limits, providing two deliveries daily to those vi cinities. New service will be ex tended to other sections when the minimum ? requirements are complied with, it is stated by Postmaster John E. Brown, Jr. The rural delivery service ha* been the subject of a recent in vestigation by the postal inspec tion service and as a result it was ordered that the carriers omit certain roads that are impassable throughout the year. The changes in the rural routes equalize the work and length of the routes. The new schedules of the carriers effective Aug. 16, are: Leave post office at 10 a. m. Return 2:30 p. m. This schedule allows for the carriers to take out the majority of the mails received at this of fice in the morning and permits the dispatch of mail collected on the routes to be dispatched at 3:30 p. m. and 5:15 p. m. LEGION DRIVE EXCEEDS QUOTA Watauga Poet S*lt Up Goal of 600 Mtmbtri by End of Y ??*; To Clean Up Property The American Legion's drive in Boone for 1947 memberships has already passed the quota set up by state headquarters to be met by August 15th, and the campaign has just started, ac cording to Wade E. Brown com mander of Watauga Post No. ISO, who states that the Boone post has a goal of 600 members this year. At the meeting of the post held last Friday plans were made to get this membership drive into high gear. It was also decided that on Friday of this week Legion members, members of the Local Veterans of Foreign Wars post, and friends of either veterans organization would meet on the grounds of the local Legion pro perty and have a clean up of both grounds and Legion hut. This clean up drive is the begin ning of a campaign to use the Legion hut and property more often as a community center not only for activities of all local 'veterans organizations, but for the social and civic use of all the (community, particularly the youth of the area. Any person who can help in thi* project is I asked to come to the Legion Post any time during the day. New Sewing Room i* Provided For Local Red Cross Worker# For a good many weeks there Ihas been a serious curtailment of work in the sewing department of the local Red Cross chapter due to the lack of a sewing room, a I lack that has been remedied with the recent addition of a room ad joining Red Cross Headquarters 'in the Boone Drug Company building. This room is equipped (with a sewing machine, ample lighting, chairs in sufficient num ber to seat more than a dozen [seamstresses and material enough to keep any number of willing hands busy for many months to [come. There are woolen capes al ready cut out by one volunteer worker, baby dresses that are so | simple to make that most ama 'Iteur seamstress should have no trouble in making them, and bags |of wool scraps that are to be made linto simple quilt blocks. Any of this sewing may be taken home and returned when completed or may be taken out ill lots for group sewing in the homes. It is hoped that church organizations and clubs of the county will inaugurate a program of night sewing meets at the Red Cross sewing room so that the chapter may spoed up the completion of this sewing quoU and start on the next batch. With winter own ing on it is vitally necessary that relief in the form of warm clotn ? ing be sent to the needy people in war stricken areas as quickly as possible. Russians bar UNRRA Ition in AuMria, La Guardia says.
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