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($? WATAUGA DEMOCRAT May ES ^r.?,L,'v* to ? Uig .tricU^STT^JSii^VSfc An Independent Weekly Newspaper ? Established in the Year 1888. . - ? a \ < VQL HX' NQ- 19 __ BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1946 S CENTS A COPY HOMECOMING DAY PLANS ARE MADE AT APPALACHIAN Student Body Busily Engag ed in Making Beady for Gala Occasion; Mountain eers to Meet High Point in Classic Grid Encounter Annual Homecoming Dqy- ex ercises will be held at Appala chian State Teachers College on October 12th, and members of the student body are busily engaged in preparing the campus for the glad occasion, which will reach its climax with the Mountaineer High Point football encounter in the afternoon and a dance in the men's gymnasium in the evening. Heading the tentative schedule of activities is the variety show which will staged Friday night October 11. Musical skits, read ings, solos, quartets, and dancing will constitute the show, whicti will include a melodrama of the gay ninety period, entitled, "He Ain't Done Right By Nell." Mr. Cratis Williams is directing the performace, as successor to Pro fessor Antonakos. Group projects will be display ed at various points on the cam pus, and a meeting of the club presidents is to be held to discuss details of the projects. At 2 o'clock the Mountaineers will meet the High Point Panthers on the local gridiron, and at 8:45 there will be a dance in the men's gymnasium, under the probable sponsorship of the Watauga Branch of the Alumni Associa tion, which organization sponsors the homecoming day event. Alumni officers are: president, Mr Eugene Byrd of Black Moun tain; first vice-president, Mr. J. Paul Winkler of Boone; second vice- president, Mr. James Wall of Mocksville; third vice-presi dent, Mrs. Dorothy Bunch Weaver of Asheville; fourth vice- presi dent, Mrs. Martha Butner Davis of Winston -Salem; and fifth vice president, Mr Wade Eller of Boone URGES REPEAL OPA CONTROLS Clyde R. Greene. GOP Congres sional Nominee, Speaks Against Controlled Prices Lenoir, Sept. 30 ? Clyde R. Greene of Boone. Republican can didp,r' for congress in the ninth North Carolina district, issued the following statement at a meeting of Republicans of the ninth district, held in Lenoir Sat urday night: "The mystery of what has be come of meat \yhich has divided the leaders of the Truman ad ministration can be permanently and satisfactorily solved only by repeal of OPA. OPA has driven meat 'underground.' Meat coun ters are closing and more will close while black markets are re ported to floursh. Many dealers report actual losses under OPA controls. Our people are demand ing a change from controls to common sense Without controls we will soon have some sugar, lard, soap, nails, roofing, etc. "The question is. controls or no controls. We can't exist and maintain our national economy based on the American concept of government half controlled and half not controlled. "The issue is clear. _lt is now understood by our people. The war is over and controls should be. Remo#e controls on rents and stop the black market." Appalachian High School Receives National Recognition In the September issue of "School Activities" magazine, the Appalachian high school activi ties program was given national publicity. In an article written by Mrs. Hugh S Daniel, chair man of the activities committee, and Mr Wey, principal of the lo cal high school, the program was described. The article included the point system, activities program as well as a list of the 36 different clubs which the students have an opportunity to participate in. The article is to be continued in the October issue and will include pictures of tiie various activities of the clubs, etc. Any persons wishing to see a copy of the magazine containing the article^iay do so by getting it from the high school library. Veterans' Club Holds Meeting at College The Appalachian College Vet erans' Club held its second meet ing of the college year las) Thursday night, welcoming new veterans to the organization, and at the same time naming a slate of officers. New officers are: President. Boyce Brown; vice-president, Ben Cole; secretary and treasurer, Bill Rankin; sergeant-at-arms. Joe Brandon; publicity chair man, Mint Hill. O Henry Ford, II, president of the Ford Motor Company, left, and C. E. Wilson, president of General Motors Corporation, talk] shop, following Detroit Economic Club talk by Ford in which he( said: "Any sound plan to provide more stable employment must increase production and reduce the cost of cars to the American' people." TALK CAR PRODUCTION '? 'i J ? DISTRICT P.T.A. MEETS IN LENOIR Waiaugans Attend Meeting of N. C. Congrats of Parent* and Teacheri Held Latt Week District No. 2 of the N. C. Con gress of Parents and Teachers As sociations held a very enthusias tic session September 25th at the First Baptist Church in Lenoir. This meeting was largely at- 1 tended, there being representa tives from the following counties: Ashe, Averv, Bucke, Caldwell, ! McDowell, Mitchell^ Polk. Ruther- ' ford, Watauga and Yancey. Mrs. Earl H. Tate, vice-director of the district and general chair- ' man of the local unit, presided in the absence of the district di rector, Mr. J. Worth Morgan of Forest City. The address of welcome was given by Mr. H. C. Sisk, supenn- ! tendent of the Lenoir City Schools. Mr. Sisk stressed now is the time for parents with the teachers to work out crises that face us today. He said this has been the most difficult year for J schools to secure teachers. "Citi zenship of Tommorrow" is our task and .this group should do something to put teaching on a professional basis and make it possible to secure better teachers. P.-T.A. Holds First Meeting of Year Parents and patrons of the Boone high and elementary schools entertained members of both faculties at a "pitch-in" sup-! per on Monday, Sept, 23. at the high school A large number of parents, friends and teachers of the schools was present at the meeting and joined the P.-T A.j for the current school year. Rev. J. K. Parker, president of the organization, presided over the meeting, greeting the new comers and welcoming back the old members. Mr. Howell and Mr Wey introduced the members of the faculties to the parents. Mr. Wey, program chairman, outlined the planned programs for the year which are built around the general theme. "Lay ing Firm Fountations.' The committee chairmen are as follows: Program, Herbert Wey; recreation, Mrs. Grady Mo retz; room representative, Mrs. Gordon Winkler; historical, Mrs W. G. Hartzog; choral, Wilson Norris; safety. R. W Watkins; publicity, Martha Grey; finance, Rev. E. F. Troutman; member ship, Lee Reynolds; health, Mrs. John Clawson; hospitality. Frank M. Payne; student welfare. Mrs. Lee Reynolds. Sientific management experts say output can<halt inflation. FOREST SERVICE ORGANIZES HERE AGAINST FIRES State Forest Service and Wat auga County in Co-opera tive MaVement to Control Forest Fires; W. S. Collins of Boone, is Forest Warden A. D. Williams, district forest ranger for the North Carolina for est service, has announced that a warden organization has been set up in Watauga county for the control of forest fires. This work is carried on co-operatively by Watauga county and the North Carolina forest service under the supervision of the district ^forest service office in Lenoir. ' W S. Collins, of Boone, has been appointed county forest warden and is in charge of the work in the county. Collins has [appointed the following men as district forest wardens: A. G. Moody, Blowing Rock; Harold Wood, Blowing Rock; Fred R. Hartley. Shulls Mills; D S. Oliver, Banner Elk Route 1 ; Clint Eggers, Zionville; John O. Potter. Tamarack; J. A. Elrod, Boone Route 1; Worth W. Greene. [Stony Fork; B A. Holder. Blow ing Rock; Leonard Carroll. Trip lett; N. H. Foster, Boone Route 2; [Charlie W. Mast. Rominger; Ivan Farthing, Sugar Grove Route 1; Grady Hayes. Vilas, Route 1; A. G. McNeil, Zionville Route 1; Clyde Jackson, Laxon. Watauga county has approxi mately 74,000 acres of privately owned land, most of which will produce good timber if properly managed and protected from fire and can qpean a greater source income to the timber landowners as well as filling some of the great demand for lumber and other forest products. Ninety-five per cent of all for est fires in North Carolina are man-made, according to Mr. Col lins. and can be prevented by: 1. Putting out your camp fires. 2. Burn brush when there is no wind blowing and the woods are damp. 3. Get a burning permit from the wardens before burning brush. (These are issued free of charge). 4. Crush out cigarettes and! cigars; never throw away light ed matches. 5. Always be careful with firel while hunting and fishing The co-opcraiion of every citi-i zen of Watauga county in the prevention, reporting and sup pression of forest fires will btl greatly appreciated. Miss Clawson Winner i In 4-H Style Review On Wednesday, September 25, | the county 4-H style review was held in the auditorium of the home economics building of the college. Judges for the contest were Miss Spake, and four home economics students at the college. Betty Lou Clawson, of the Boone Senior 4-H club, was de claired winner, and Mary Sue Clawson, Mary and Martha Aus tin, and Gladys Lookabill were placed in the blue ribbon group. Mary Austin was winner of the clothing achievement contest. The district dress review was held in Asheville on the follow ing Friday. Betty Lou Clawson was in the blue ribbon group there, and had one of the three best outfits in the district. Each of the girls was presented a sil ver .medal and the clothing achie vement winners, a gold medal. The girls were accompanied to Asheville by the two home agents. MEETS DEATH IN HICKORY WRECK Finley Edward Lowrance, Native Waiaugan, Victim of Auto mobile Accident Finley Edward Lowrance, twen ty-five, of Longview, died in a Hickory hospital at 7:30 a. m. Sunday of injuries suffered in an automobile wreck on Thirteenth avenue there late Friday night, and funeral rites were conducted at Valle Crucis church near Boone at two o'clock this after noon, with Rev. Jack Holland of ficiating. Burial followed in the church cemetery. Lowrance had been named as the driver of the 1939 Ford car, which swerved off Thirteenth avenue near Twentieth street and cut off a telephone pole, painfully injuring four other youthful residents of Longview and area who were occupants of the vehicle. Lowrance, who suffered a severe brain injury, died without regaining consciousness. Born in Watauga county May 28. 1921, he is survived by his mother, Mrs Margaret Lowrance Wilcox; his wife, the former Miss Liles Kerley; three sisters, Mrs. Eugene Combs of Granite Falls, Mrs. Lona Gillian of Long view. and Mrs. Dave Bentley of Boone; and three brothers, Hay Lowrance of Norfolk. Va., Char les Lowrance of Lenoir and Byrd Lowrance of Boone Appalachian Meets Elon Here Saturday Appalachian Mountaineers will play their initial North State conference battle of the, season here Saturday against the Elon College Christians. The rivals hold similar records in opening games of the season, the Mountaineers winning from a highly-touted Newberry eleven, 28 to 19, and the Christians ham mering Atlantic Christian for a 14 to 0 victory. With "Spot" Spoltore, varsity quarterback, back in uniform after seeing the opener from the sidelines due to an injury. Coach "Flucie" Stewart's aggregation will be at their peak Saturday. Johnny Hollars, Appalachian halfback, weighing 205 pounds, will be a constant threat to North State contenders this fall with his powerful line smashing. Harris a scatback from Wilson high, engineered the Elon forces to victory in their opening in tercollegiate post war battle, spik ing pay soil on both occasions. Coach Hap" Perry's men look promising in the 'Ole North State loop this year. State Budget Commission Asks For Increased Pay for Teachers, Others Kaleigh. Oct. 2? North Caro lina's advisory budget commis sion, which includes the governor and legislative leaders, heard yes terday requests that salaries of school teachfis be increased by at least 20 per cent and that the highway patrol he enlarged from 213 to 426 men. The state board of education, attending en masse, asked that the state allocate $61,299,847 for 1947-48 and $62,312,538 for 1948 49, This year alone the schools are being operated for a cost of! *47.883,328 It was the largest general fund They asked for $48,212,150 for appropriation request in the hu- instructional services, which fory of the state. mainly* would be of teachers' The requested salary increase1 salaries? for 1947-48, and $49, would lie in addition to the $120 515,06^ for 1948-49. Those fig a year emergency salary nowjures compared with $37,120,711 paid all state employees, and. if ) in 1945-46 and $38,610,706 for granted, would increase the start-jl946-47. ing pay of a teacher with a class! A certificate from $138.33 to ap-; proximately $167 a month. Members of the state board of education pointed out that the state-supported school system is losing many teachers who are go ing into other employment, and that local units cannot keep them for salaries authorized by the 1945 assembly. They agreed unanimously that since teachers are on the front| line irt Craning the new genera tions. (hat their responsibility] and training should be adequate-) 'ly compensated for. CHANGE IN WAY OF LIFE While Donna Rachele Mussolini, widow of II Duce, one-time mistress of a Roman palace, keeps house and supplements the family diet by raising rabbits, her son Romano pl^ys piano and accordion at a bar on the picturesque little island in the bay of Naples The Mussolinis are now living at Ischia. Wallace Out President Truman asked for md received the resignation of] ?fenry Wallace as secretary ot ?ommerce. Wallace has not an lounced his future plans, al hough it is believed he will con inue to lead the liberal faction' ;ither within or outside of the Democratic party. LOCAL PEOPLE HEARGOVERNOR Number of Watauaa Democrats Join la Rally in Wilk?? boro Saturday Several Watauga county Demo :rats went to North Wilkesboro Saturday to hear Oovernor R. 3regg Cherry address a regional Democratic rally, and to promise the paving of 30.0Q0 miles of rural roads as a part of a ten pear highway improvement pro jram The Governor said that the lighway commission would "con tinue to maintain and keep up" the state's primary roads, but "I tiave definitely determined that the time has now come in North Carolina to emphasize the im provement of secondary and rural roads." In accordance with this, the state has undertaken a policy to "stabilize, treat and pave at least 30,000 miles of rural roads in the next ten years," the Governor added Clyde C. Hamby Dies In Sawmill Accident POSTAL SAVINGS WELL RECEIVED I | Many Local People Buy Savings Certificates First Day at Local Postoffice Local citizens responded rather enthusiastocally to the insitution of a postal savings department at the Boone postoffice Tuesday, and Postmaster John E Brown, Jr., states that a large number of certificates were disposed of to the investing public. Certificates, it is explained, are issued in denominations of one dollar to $500, and pay interest at the rate of 2 per cent per annum. Clyde C. Hamby, 33 years old, a resident of Depp Gap. was fp- ! tally injured last Thursday at a ?sawmill where he was employed in Yadkin county. Information is that Mr. Hamby was helping to move a diesel engine, and was caught by the heavy machinery when it was dropped. Funeral services were conduct ed from the Stony Fork Baptist Church Saturday by Rev. G. A. Hamby, and interment was in that neighborhood by Reins-Stur divant Funeral Home. The widow, two daughters and two sons survive: Velma, Nancy, Bill and Mack Hamby, of the home. The parents, Mr and Mrs Amos Hamby, survive, to gether with five brothers and three sisters: Prince Hamby, Stony Fork; Dewey, Stuart, Ed ward and Ray Hamby, Deep Gap: Mrs. Thelma Greene, Mrs. Blanche Greene, Deep Gap; and Mrs. Ella Goulds, Leesburg, Fla. PIANO RECITAL Students studying with Mrs. Boone will be heard in recital Thursday evening, October 3 at 7:30 o'clock in the A. S. T. C. Auditorium. A Tom Thumb wed ding scene will be included in the program. The public is invited to be present. Twelve Hitler Henchmen Will Be Hanged, To End Trail of Blood; Nuernberg, Germany, Oct. I. rwelve men, beaded by shabby, frozen-faced Hermann Goering, tonight faced death on the gal lows ? the end of a hideous trail jf conquest and deception which ran over the broken bodies and shattered cities of millions of people. Behind them now was the 10 months suspense of their trail. Mone in their cells they knew they probably Vd only until Oct. 16 to live. The death sentences assessed against them today by the fouapower military tribunal In the first international war! crimes trial were expected to be' part in helping Hitler scourge the world with the greatest war of | |all time. Seven other defendants ? in cluding black-fcrowed Rudolf Hess, the posturing crackpot of the war crimes trial ? were sen Jtenced to prsion by the tribunal. rThree men ? Hans Fritsche, the propagandist, Franz von Papen. the diplomat, and Hjalrnar Sshacht, the financial wizarcl wcre acquitted, with the Russian representation on the tribunal! dissenting. Sentenced to hang, besides! Goering, were Joachim von Rib bentrop, Field Marshal Wilhelmi Keitel, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Al-j carried out at that time In the f red Rosenberg. Hans Frank kT I - :?ll ?m l i:ilni:iL i n r . , . V ' Nuernberg jail. They have until midnight Saturday to resort to their last slim hope of clemency ? appeal to the four-man allied con trol council for Germany. [Wilhelm Frick. Julius Streicher, Fritz Sauckel, Col. Gen. Alferd Jodl, Arthur Seyessinkuart and Martin Bormann (tried in ab sentia). A redoubled force of American , Sentenced to prison were Hess, juards surrounded the jail where the condemned men were housed. Die guards had orders to shoot to kill on provocation. Walter Funk and Grand Adm. Erich Raeder, life terms; Baldurl von Srhirach and Albert Speer, 20years; Constantin von Neurath, The doomed men? their days! 15 years, and Grand Adm. Kari jf strutting power behind them? (DconiU, 10 years. The prison vere lieutenants of Adolf Hitler, terms will be served in a four rhey were convicted for their' power jail in Berlin. BROUGHTON SEES NEED OF UNITY AMONG FARMERS Former Governor Says United Front on Part of Farmer* Necessary if Producers Are to Have Effective Voice ia Nation's Economy Former Governor J. M. Brough ton of Raleigh, stressed the neces sity of strong farm organizations, and unity of action among far mers to protect the interest of the nation's producers in an addreaa delivered Saturday at the second annual farm picnic held on Win kler's Creek, under the sponsor ship of the local Farm Bureau. Governor Broughton, a farmer himself spoke of the Farm Bureau with its million members as the best organization for the farmer, and cited the desirability of an exchange of farm ideas, made possible through organization activities. "Industry is well or ganized and so is labor, therefore, the farmers must band together to promote their own welfare," Carolina's former chief executive said. Bureau Ham 296 Members Mr. T7. D. Barnett, chairman of the Farm Bureau membership committee, reported 298 members at p.-esent, and stated that sev eral committee members had not yet made their reports. He stated the he. was confident that when all reports are in the Bureau will be safely beyond its quota of 300 members as set by the State Mem bership Committee. Mr. Barnett is anxious that all committee men turn in their membership lists at once, and takes occasion {to thank the farmers for their cooperation. Pass Road Resolution Mr. H. E. Greene, chairman of the resolutions committee, of fered three resolutions dealing with farm to market roads, better pay for teachers and electric ser vice for more farm homes. All the resolutions were adopted un animously, and the Bureau named the following as a road committee, stating that members of the group from Shawneehaw and North Fork will be named later. B. W. Farthing, chairman. Sugar Grove,; R. F. Vannoy, Toad; J. B. Greene, S. C. Ford, Blowing Rock; G. D. Barnett, Boone; Grady Bradley, Vilas; I. B. Wilson, Zionville; Stewart Simmons, Triplett; L E. WiUfm, Zionville; R. H. Vnnoy, Boone; H. E. Greene, Deep Gap; Don Shull, Valle Crucis. H. Grady Farthinji, member of the board of directors of the State Farm Bureau Federation, introduced Governor Broughton, and the program was featured by (Continued on page 8) GRAVELY ILL, HULL ASKS PEACE Roosevelt's Secretary of Stat* Facing Death. Makes Plea For World Unity Washington, Oct. 1 ? Critically ill on the eve of his 75th birth day, Cordell Hull tonight solemn ly charged the Big 5 powers with a "special responsibilitv" tr> co operate for world peacc ind warned that failure to produce that unity would lead to "incal cuable disaster." Less than 24 hours after he suf fered a stroke, the wartime sec retary of state put forth his birthday message ? 'one of the most perilous junctures in his tory.' It was a message of confidence that the world's statesmen "will not fail in this critical test" ? the task of forging world peace. But it was tempered by grim re minders of the difficulties in the way of that goal. And it noted plainly the inter national differences which al ready have developed ? difficul ties which he termed "danger ous." "It is perfectly clear to me," he said, "that all nations must, with whole-hearted devotion, continue to base their relations upon the paramount fact that the primary interests of each of them alike lie in the assuring of Its security in a world at peace, and the fostering, in such a world, of the economic and social well-being of its peo ple " Oct. 5 Is Deadline For G. I. Bill of Rights It has been announced by Sgt. Francis M. Darcy, commander of the S. army recruiting station in LJhoir, that the deadline to gain full benefits under the G. I. Bill of R^hts is Oct. 5. 1946. ? Those interested are asked to visit the recruiting station, locat ed in the poet office building in Lenoir, and find ouf just what benefits you may be entitled to under this bill. A staff of com-wj petent personnel is on duty every day from 8 a. m. to 3 p. m. to answer any question *you might have. j, (*>?/' Wade H. Rag&n Dies at Age of 83 Wade Hampton Ragan, uge 83 years, died at his home in the Todd community Monday morn ing Funeral services were con-! ducted Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Meat Camp Baptist Church by Rev. R C. Eg gers and interment was in that1 neighborhood. Reins - Sturdivant taking care of the arrangements. Surviving are the widow, eight sons and four daughters: Robert Ragan, Akron, Ohio; Ronda Ra gan, Jenkins Jones, W. Va.; Geo. Ragan, River Springs, Md ; Link Ragan. army in Germany; John Ragan. Todd: Vernon and Mar vin Ragan. Charleston. S C.; James and Julian Ragan. Todd; Miss Bessie Ragan. army nurse, Welfare Island, N. Y.; Mrs E. C. Nixon. High Point; Mrs. Howard Suttle, Shelby; Mrs. Carl Arnold, Thomasville. There are five brothers and one sister: Frank, A J . Jim, Boss and Bud Ragan, Boone, and Mrs. Jake Norris, Boone SISTERS APART 60 YEARS Oklahoma City, Okla. ? For the first time in sixty years, Mrs. Mary Gregory, 06, and Mrs. C. C. Joseph, 65, of Tampa, Fla.. sis ters. were together. Orphaned when children, they were adopt ed by separate families artd lost I touch with one onother. Shortage of graduate nurses in the U. S. put at 41,700.
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