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THE DEMOCRAT bast ud moat aeo nvedlum of ?dverti? Wlth more thin 1.500 1 -TTllTr (0M to n m "pw?k on the imlvermalb used buls of tt?a rnllen to each subacrlbar. WATAUGA DEMOCRAT si. ? , . ? *? ? t At"t' '? * An Independent Weekly Newspaper ? Established in the Year 1888. IMPORTANT The d ate on - - - tt will r (topped uiUcaa ?1. The Dane in* strictly on a vance basin. VOL. LIX, NO. 24. BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1946. 5 CENTS A COP* SMITH ATTENDS GATHERING OF FARM LOAN UNIT Farmers Home Administra tion Begins Operations, Re placing the Farm Security Administration; Other Lo cal People Attend. The Farmers Home Administra tion, as authorized by the Con fess, began operation in North Carolina November ' 1, says Wil liam A. Smith, FSA supervisor for Watauga county who recently attended a meeting at Asheville of personnel who will direct the affairs of the new agency. FHA replaces the Farm Sec urity Administration and the emergency crop and feed loan section of farm credit admini stration, and takes over the per sonnel and assets of both agen cies. Mr. Smith said that for the time being FHA offices will be maintained with the same per sonnel at all points where FSA and ECFL opera tel. Both agen cies have made loans to small farmers and the new agency will continue to serve this group. Also attending the meeting at Asheville were Mr. C. Gordon Taylor and Miss Hildred Sed berry. Discussions were led by Mr. J. B. Slack, State director of F. H. A.; Mr. A. E. Bozar and Mr. Vance E. Swift. Two types of loans will be made by Farmers Home Admini stration, Mr. Smith said, farm purchase loans will be made to tenants, sharecroppers, farm laborers, and veterans with agri cultural experience and training. Loans can be made for the pur chase, development and improve ment of family-type farms. The interest rate is 3% per cent and loans are repayable over a 40 year period. A variable repay ment plan will make it possible for borrowers to make larger than average payments in years when farm income is high or above normal, and less than average payments in years when farm in come is below normal. Production and subsistence loans, the second type, wiil be made to farmers and stockmen for the purchase of livestock, farm equipment, seed fertilizer and other farm and home needs. Such loans can be made to either owners or tenants who live on and operate family-type farms and who dervive the major pro portion of their income from farming. These loans carry an interest rate of 5 per cent and are repayable in from one to five years. To be eligible for an FHA loan an applicant must be unable to get adequate financing on rea sonable terms from other credit sources available in the com munity where he lives, such as banks, insurance companies and the Federal Land Bank. "FHA is not in competition with any] existing credit source, private or Federal," Mr. Smith said. Ap plicants must be certified as eligible by a committee of three individuals residing in the county where he lives, at least two of whom mast be farmers. Blue Devils Defeat Walkertown, 25-7 The Blue Devils of Appala chian High gave the spectators a performance Friday afternoon on the college gridiron. It was the Quincy men throughout the game who Kept that pigskin going to defeat Walkertown's eleven 25-7. The Boonemen distributed their touchdowns evenly adding one to their slate each quarter. While the visitors pulled a last minute trick out of the bag and got their only score of the game. The entire Boone team played an exceptionally good game with Edmisten, Cooke, and Davidson starring in the backfield. LEGION TO HOLD BOX SUPPER AT DEEP GAP There will be an old-fashioned box supper at the Deep Gap School Saturday November 9th, for the benefit of Miller-Wagner post American Legion. A11 ex service men are urged to come ^nd bring their mother, wife and * is tens with boxes. . It is desired that ?)t ladies Iwiiig boxes to aid in financing the n?w 1 .eg inn post. This is an important meeting as officers for the post will be el ected at this time. There will al _ so be string music. MINISTERS MEET The Boone Ministerial Associ ation met Monday night and de . cided to h?"" ? the Thanksgiving ft dinner Wednesday night. Rev. S. ft B. Moss will be in charge. It was Avoted to have a union service the Hlast Sunday in each month, dif Vferent pastors to have charge of ? the services. ' PUBLIC WORKS Various state* and local gov ernments have projected public works which could cost $6,000, 000,1)00, according to Major-Gen eral Philip B. Fleming, Public Works Administrator. APPALACHIAN HIGH 1946 FOOTBALL SQUAD ---- a? Mi???i Front row, left to right: Paul Edmisten, Bill Aldridge, Harry Ray Brendell, Joe Gaither, Jim my Cooke, Mack Elrod, V. J. Moretz, G. J. Keller. Second row: H. M. Moretz, Sonny Williams, Bill Whittington, Fred Miller, W. B. York, Arlis Hodges, Ray Conner, Jimmy Scruggs. Third row: C. M. Harrison, Maurice Nichols, Captain David Edmisten, Fred Hodges. Fred Councill, Byrd Lowrance, Pete Storie, Hal Quincy. Not present w hen picture was made but also members of the squad: George King, George Cook, John Councill, Grady Moretz, Bill Brown, Bill Danner. The 1946 Blue Devils are composed mainly of first and second year men with a small nucleus of four boys who saw some action on the 1944 team. With one more game on this season's slate the Blue and Gray boys acquitted themselves well against the best competition in the Northwest ern area. After defeating Cranberry 7-0 in their opener the team went down before Mt. Airy's superior power and reserves 59-0. Before this had time to wear off the A.H.S. team suffered an other setback at Elkin 25-6. Smarting from two defeats, tht> boys began their comeback with a 21-6 victory over Walkertown in a game outstanding for long runs and pass interception by the locals. In their next home appearance the Appalachian attack bogged down and North Wilkes boro won 25-0. After this temporary setback the local boys again hit their stride and balanced their schedule by overcoming the Hanes high of Winston-Salem 6-0, and Walkertown 25-7, leav ing them with 4 wins and 3 losses as they face Spruce Pine in the closing contest. The boys are working hard this week to ?tretch their winning streak to three straight and so wind up a highly successful season with another victory. (Photo by Palmer Blair.) STORES TO BE CLOSED MONDAY a | t -?? ? Armisiic* Day Will B? Obwrrxl With Holiday by Most Re tail Merchants Practically all of the stores of the city will be closed next Mon day, in observance of Armistice Day, states S. G. Tugman, presi dent of the Merchants Associa tion, who says information is that most of those stores not members of the retail association will like wise close. It is further stated that those stores, principally food establish ments, which have been closed on Wednesday afternoons, will be open next Wednesday, as a re sult of the Monday closing. FOOD PRICES Retail prices of food rose 1.7 per cent in the period from Au gust 13-September 19, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor. The effect of the Oct. 22 order re moving meat price controls arid other sweeping decontrol orders will not be indicated in the index until late November. On Sept. 17. according to the Bureau, the food price index stood at 174.1 per cent of the 1935-39 average. The figure was 29.9 per cent higher than a year ago, and 82.2 per cent higher than in August, 1939. SUGAR Instead of expiring on October 31st, Spare Stamps Nos. 9 and 10, canning sugar stamps, will con tinue valid through November 30th. according to the Office of Price Administration. The regu lar table sugar sugar stamp. Spare No. 51, in ration books, re mains good for five pounds until the end of the year. Sugar is the only food irtill rationed at con sumer levels. PRODUCTION If civilian production continues at current high levels for another six months, the danger of run away inflation will have been avoided, according to John W. Snyder, Secretary of the Treas ury. He warned, however, that "another round of strikes," low ering production or higher prices, would interfere with what he terms an otherwise optimistic economic outlook. P. T. A. MEETING ThW Parent-Teachers Associa tion will meet Monday November 11 at 7:30 at the High School Library, and the program will center about National Education and Book Week. All parents of tlie community are urged to at tend. 69 CENTS-DOLLAR The purchasing power of the dollor shrank 24 cents between January, 1941 and last June, ac cording to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and since June has de creased further to 69 cento to Sept. 15. Food accounts for 44JJ per cent of the items priced by the Department's consumer index compared with the purchase of a dollar. ? Newspaper Makes $100,000 Mistake The Publisher of The Demo crat has boon reminded many time* in the years gone by. of error* which haro slipped into print in this newspaper ? they just will happen once in a while ? -but our attention was called the other day to our having hit the jack-pot typographical im perfection with an error of $100,000.00. The mistake occurred in an advertisement for Paul A. Cof fey, genial county accountant, in connection with the fiscal condition of the local govern ment. The bonded debt of the county was given at $363,000. rathpr than at the correct amount of $263,000. The Demo crat sincerely regrets the error, which unfortunately escaped the proofreader, and resulted in such a colossal discrepancy in the report of the county's fi nancial affairs. FOUR MINDED IN CAFE FIGHT1 Doughtoa M. Greene Injured in Shooting Affray Near Hickory Hickory, Nov. 5. ? L. T. Parker, 36, of near Hickory, today was in a critical condition at a local hospital from pistol bullet wounds received in what Caldwell Deputy Sheriff Howard White of Lenoir said was a regular old show down at a Lake Hickory cafe near here shortly before last mid night. Three other persons, John Par ker, dafe operator, and brother of L. T. Parker, D. M. Greene of Watauga county and Junior Mitchum of Granite Falls, were wounded in the shooting affray, Deputy White said. Greene was under treatment at a hospital in a near-by town, reportedly ?eri ously wounded. Deputy White said 18 shots were fired during the melee. Mrs. Greene received treat ment at a local hospital for a cut on a hand caused, the officer said, by a broken beer bottle. The shooting followed a fight between two members of a party of men and women. The officer said three women are held in the Lenoir jail as material witnesses pending the outcome of injuries received by Greene and L. T. Parker. LUMBER TAR. _ 8 Declaring that an emergency existed. President Truman order ed import tariffs lifted from lum ber products needed for the Fed eral Emergency Housing program. The prod amotion directed the Secretaryftf theJ Treasury to per mit 4pty-Trpe . importation of all lumber, t*lbeV and timber pro duct* declared by the National Housing Expedite "to be suitable for the construction of complet ing at housing accommodations." HARVEST BAZAAR ON NEXT FRIDAY Annual ?twx1. Sponosorsd bf MalhodUi Ladia*. To Solra Many Gift Problama. It's old fashioned! It's hard to believe but it's true! Real home made cakes and pies, jams and jellies, pickles ana canned stuff, right out of the pantries of some of Boone's best cooks! All these things and a great number of others will go on sale in the base ment of the Boone Methodist Church Friday, November 22, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon when the Women's Society of Christian Service opens its Big Harvest Bazaar. In addition to the foodstuff and a department of fancy work, the latter of which will hold the answer to anyone's Christmas gift problem with aprons, baby bibs, pillow cases, doll cloths or shoe bags, there will be a brimming fish pond to keep the children busy, a rummage room where us ed clothing may be had for a song, and a refreshment menu that will include delicious sand wiches and coffee. The date again is November 22. Watch for further announce ments. BROWN wins SENATE SEAT Boon* Lawytr Assured of Vic tory in Senatorial Race; Car ries, Ash*. Alleghany Wade E. Brown, Boone at torney, is elected to the State Senate from the Watauga, Ashe and Alleghany district, on the basis of such returns as can be secured at this time. Mr. Brown has carried Allegh any county by about 600, it is stated, Ashe county by 200, and he belives that the Republicans can't do much better than break even in Watauga when the final vote is tabulated. Mr. Brown' lead his ticket, he says, by about 80 votes in Boone. The Senatorial aeat was held by a Republican last time. Europe Awaits Vote With Keen Interest London, Nov. 4. ? European capitals awaited with varying de grees of anxiety tonight the re sults of tomorrow's elections in the United States, watching close ly for any indication of a swing to the right or left Interest was keenest in France and England. The Paris press gave the closing stages of the campaign more play than France's own approaching vote for a national assembly. British and German news papers predicted Republican con gressional. The German press concluded that there would be little effect on America's role in world affairs. ANOTHER LARGE BURLEY HOUSE IS COMPLETED Farmers Burley. Warehouse Corporation Opens Hure Structure for Inspection Of Public; Plant Has All Fea tures to Aid Farmers. The new Farmers Burley to-' bacco warehouse, fronting on Main Street in the western end of town, and also having an entrance on Paplar Grove road, is now fin ished, and farmers and others in terested are invited to inspect the new plant, and see the many fac ilities which have been provided for the comfort and convenience of their patrons. The new corporation is com posed of Messrs C. C. Taylor, Rex Taylor and A. G. Wright, and be ing tobacco men of long years of experience they have been able to design a building which they be lieve will be the last word in convenience and comfort. The structure which is 276 feet by 218 feet, has a floor space of about 60.000 feet, and a driveway runs through the center, allowing trucks to enter from the main street and drive through to the Poplar Grove road, unloading in the meantime, with no delay and no congestion. Weighing facilities are provided on each side of this driveway. Through a system of skylights the house is well lighted which will be of great benefit to buyers during tie bleak winter days. A large farmers' room in the basement, which the operators believe to be the best in the belt, will contain cots for 50 men with seats and other accommodations, including lavoratories, etc. A lunch counter is being provided, and sandwiches and coffee will be served day and night. The base ment also contains the offices. Mr. C. C. Taylor, commenting on the outlook for the next sea son. says that the quality of the leaf is much better than a year ago and that this will largely take care of a decreased acreage. He |cxpects improved prices on smok ing grades and asks that the farm ers use care this year in grading the weed for the best possible re turns. Although the opening date for the burley market hasn't been of ficially set, Mr. Taylor says that the auctions will likely start on December 3rd or 4th. Local Parent-Teacher Association Meets The Boone P.-T.A. met at the high school on Monday. Oct. 28. A large number of parents and teachers was present. In the contest between rooms or grades for the largest number of repre sentatives present, the winners were the first grade in the ele mentary group and the eleventh grade boys' homeroom in tne high school. Each month at the regular meeting, a count is taken and the leading grades or home rooms are each awrded a $1 prize. Miss Gail Clay was program leader for the evening and gave a very interesting and challeng ing talk on our local problems in safety. Miss Clay requested re ports from the elementary safety patrol, which has recently been put into effect, and the prospect ive sapety patrol organization in the - high school. Patsy Mc Guire, patrol captain in the ele mentary School patrol, gave a very complete report of their or ganization and its members. It was reported that a great deal of improvement had been noted in the conduct of the school chil dren with regard to safety since the organization of the safety pa trol. Miss Clay urged that the chil dren who ride buses be taught more safety precautions and that the drivers of cars be more care ful when driving where children are loading and unloading the school buses. She urged that those children who ride bicycles be taught to be more careful in the use of their vehicles. She discussed, with the aid of others in the group attending the meet ing, the need for further traffic signs near and in the school zone. It was announced that due to the approach of National Book Week the November P.-T.A. meeting would be moved from the usual fourth Monday night to the second Monday night In November, the 11th. At that time Miss Margaret Mclntyre, high school librarian, and Miss Lou ise Moore will present an inter esting program on books. BENEFIT DANCE A benefit dance will be held at the Mission School, Valle Cru cis on Saturday night November 9th from 8 p. m. to 11 p. m. Mu sic will be furnished by a local string band. Republicans Win Watauga Offices In Tuesday's Vote REPUBLICANS WIN IN NATION A Sweep of Landslide Propor tion* Carrie* G, O. P. Into CongTMS Control ? . Reversing a trend of fifeen years, the American voters went to the polls in a record number for an off-year, and swept the Republican party into control of the house of representatives and possibly the senate, although the makeup of the senate hadn't been determined this morning. Starting in New York, Gover nor Dewey was re-elected in a sweeping victory over Senator Mead, and the Republicans elect ed a senator for the first time in 30 years. The Republican sweep crossed the nation, missing only the solid south, but the ai tual complexion of the new con gress cannot be determined at this time, other than that the Republicans seem sure of con trol. DEMOCRATS WIN STATE OFFICES Republican Sweep Fails to Aifect Tarhelia; All CoagrMsmen Said to Have Been Elected Information coming by radio this morning indicates that North Carolina held its 12 congression al seats in the voting on Tuesday, and elected all the Democratic candidates for state office, but it could not be determined by what majority the Democrats would control the next legisla ture. Congressman Robert L. Dough ton was reported to have a "commanding lead" over Clyde R. Greene, of Boone, for the ninth district seat, with returns complete from about half of the precincts of the district. Indications were that the vot ers had approved the constitution al amendment giving women the] right of jury service in the state, but had turned down the propos al to give members of the ass sembly increased pay. Employees Of Local Theatre Get Awards Employees of the Appalachian Theatre received checks for one week's salary last Friday as prizes for winning second place in a contest sponsored by the Statesville Theatre Corporation for its ten theatres in this state. The contest ran for a period of fifteen weeks and was based on the handling of all phases of theatre operation with emphasis on courtesy, housekeeping and |the like. Presentation of the prizes was made to R. E. Agle, local mana ?er" at a managers meeting in itatesville last Tuesday. Amateur Hour At Cove Creek School Smiling Bill Waters, former ra dio star with NBC, and lately of the Candaain broadcasting sys tem, will be the master of cere monies at the amateur hour at the Cove Creek High School Thurs day evening. He performs with the harmonica and guitar. Baptist Editor Will Preach Here Sunday Rev. John H. McMillan of Mills Home, THomasviJle, who is Edi tor of Charity and Children, will! occupy the pulpit at the Boone Baptist Church Sunday at the 11 o'clock hour. Rev. Mr. McMillan is known as an able church lead er and excellent sermonizer. ? | SERGEANTS The post-war Army hat ao many master sergeants, staff ser geants and technical sergeants that it has frozen promotions to these top enlisted gnim lor ninety days. One reason for over crowding is that wartime of ficers have been taking advan tage of rules permitting them to join the Regulars as master ser geants with net pay and other advantages better than those of some lieutenants. DRAFT Continuation of the draft sys tem beyond March SI, 1947 will be sought by the Army, if volun teering falls to bring In enough men for occupation forces over seas. I I Watauga fell in line with the national trend Tuesday and in the usual heavy ballot ing. elected a full slate of Re publican county officials by substantial majorities. On the basis of such infor mation as could be secured, the Republican majorities seemed to have ranged frt>m about 125 to 300. Some of the leading Democrats are inclin ed to the belief they have not been defeated more than 150, while others share the Repub can belief that when the final returns are correctly tabulat ed the lead of the majority party will be 300 or better. The results so far tabulated are "average" figures and information has not been sufficient to reflect the exact standings of the different can didates. There is no doubt, however, that the Democrats went down in defeat for the third successive time. The election marked the end of a hard-fought cam paign in which every avail able voter was brought to the polls. The campaigning was mostly quiet and so far as can be learned there were no dis turbances during the progress of the voting. It, however, is impossible to give comprehensive elec tion figures, and nothing is available on the state ticket, or on the amendments. The County elections board will meet Thursday and make the official canvass of the vote, after which the official re sults will be published. Those Elected The new officials are: Representative: S. C. Eg gers, incumbent Sheriff: C. M. Watson, in cumbent. Clerk superior court: Fred Gragg. Coroner: Richard Kelley, Democrat, nominated by both parties. Surveyor: Jack Storie. Commissioners: A. G. Mil ler, H. O. Aldridge, incum bents, and R. M- Ward. Lions Feast On Champion Beefsteak 1 The Boone Lions on Tuesday evening were served steaks from a champion baby beef raised by Martha Councill and purchased by the City Meat Market. A ma jority of the members had voted to buy steaks as a project for the club. Guests for dinner were: Prof. Kirkman, John Davenport, Stew art Rose, Fred Councill, Martha |Councill and Harry Klutz. ~X~ W. A. MEETS" The Y. W. A. of the Boone Baptist Church held it's regular meeting Monday night, Novem ber 4, with Mrs. Perry Greene. The president. Miss Joyce Gragg opened the meeting with reading the 24th Psalm. Every- ' one joined, in singing "We've a Story to Tell to the Nation." An interesting program was present ed by Mrs. Harold D. Cole, Mr*. Jack Presnell, Miss Jo Ragan and Miss Margaret Ferguson. A sweet course was served by the hostess. The next meeting will be on November 18 at the home of Miss Nancy Wilcox DIVIDENDS TO VETERANS Approximately 15.000,000 vet erans will receive dividends from their National Service Life In surances policies in .about a year, according to the Veterans Ad ministration. The dividends will be from a surplus of $7,000,000, accumulated because natural deaths have been fewer than es timated. The dividends Will be based on age, amount of insurance and time the policy has barn held. Veterans who have let their NSLI lapse wUl also recrhr* dividends. PAY DELATED A shortage of envelopes has de layed the distribution of $1,700, 000,000 in terminal-leave pay, ac cording to the War Department, which said it would be sometime in November before then are envelopes of proper size to allow mailing of bonds that make up&l most of the payments.