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WATAUGA DEMOCRAT THE DEMOCRAT ? T ^ ^ Ak ? ^ ^ M J ^ "1 ? A m IMPORTANT la TOUT bwt and most econo mical medium or advertising. With more than 2.600 paid-up, cash subscriptions, your mes sage goes to 13.000 people, on the* universally used bull of Democrat Is operattn* rtrV Ave reader! to each aubacriber. . . . . 1V711VT tnon on a caah In advance Irnla. An Independent Weekly Newspaper ? Established in the I ear 1888. VOL.LIX , NO. 52 ^ BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1947 FIVE CENTS A COPY The date on your label ahows the date your scrip tlon will expire, a " date your paper will be unlnss sooner Democrat Is HOSPITAL IS GIVEN SUM BY MRS. CONE WILL Will Disposing of Cone For tne Filed For Probate; Blowing Rock Hospital Gets $10,000; Employees are Remembered by Late Mil lionaire I The Security National Bank of Greensboro, with a $160,000 be quest, is executor, headed the list of numerous legatees of the will of Mrs. Bertha Linda Cone of Baltimore and Blowing Rock who died June 8 at her estate, Hat Top Manor, Blowing Rock. Outright grants of approxi mately $242,000 were provided for in the will, which was filed June 9, 1947, in the office of Fred M. Gragg, clerk of court for Watauga county. The will was signed October 27, 1945. fit number of employees of the Cone estate were given cash be- j quests, as follows: A. C. Moody j $2,500; Chas. J. Icenhour $2,500; Tilden Icenhour $2,500; Carl Hol lar $1,000; Lloyd E. Coffey $1,000; L. O. Talbert $1,000; Edward Bumpus, colored chauffeour, $2,000. Items of furniture, etc., were given to various relatives under the terms of the document. Settlement of the estate, which is estimated in excess of $15,000, 000, is spending action of the board of trustees of the Moses H. Cone Memorial hospital, which will determine the value of prop erties and belonging of the late Mrs. Cone. The will, which leaves $10,000 to Blowing Rock Hospital, and codicil are documents written in addition to the indenture form ing the Moses H. Cone Memorial hospital fund, which is to be es tablished in Greensboro, which provided for in May, 1911, three years after Mrs. Cone's husband died leaving no last will and testament. The fund, approved by the state legislature in 1913, conveyed to the hospital shares of stock in Cone Export and Com mission Company and Proximity Manufacturing Company, Greens boro. It was stated that the hos pital fund receive the balance of the estate after deductions, (which include the bequests ex ceeding $242,000) listed as bene ficiaries in Mrs. Cone's will. The hospital trust includes a clear grant of 67 acres in Greens boro. Also cleared from the set tlement is the 3.500-acre Cone es tate on Flat Top mountain, which is to become a public park. Sources close to the family have stated that many of the per sons named as beneficiaries in Mrs. Cone's will predeceased her. It was her written will that aft er her death her "residence at Flat Top Manor in Blowing Rock, North Carolina, shall be closed and not maintained or kept open for any purpose whatever." Bar Will Hold Three-Day Meet At Blowing Rock Raleigh ? The 49th annual North Carolina Bar association meeting will open three-day acti vities at Blowing Rock, Thurs day, it was announced by Ed ward L. Cannon of Raleigh, sec retary-treasurer. Bolitha J. Lewis, chief justice of the U. S. district court for the District of Columbia, will speak Friday on the cooperation by lay men, the bench and the bar. Charles R. Jonas of Lincolnton will speak on the same subject Thursday. Bryce R. Holt of Greensboro, U. S. attorney for the middle district, will discuss the new federal tort claims act on Friday. The committee on taxation will present a discussion on "Taxa tion of Family Partnership" and "Some Practical Aspects of Handling an Income Tax Case." Discussions will be led by A. W. Kennon of Durham and Nor man Block of Greensboro. D. E. Henderson, U. S. attorney for the western district, will lead a dis cussion from the committee on criminal law and enforcement. Ozmer L. Henry of Lumberton, chairman of the committee on public relations, will make a re port. Other committees are headed by Kingsland Van Winkle of Asbeville. Allston Stubbs of Dur hatfl, Albert C-oates of Chapel Hill, I.ouis J. Ap' isson of Wil mington, J. M. Broughton of Raleigh, L. K. Martin of Winston Salem, Sam J. Erwin of Morgan ton, and H. M. Robbins of Ashe boro. SISTERS SWAP HOMES Polk, Neb. ? Asa matter of con venience, two sisters, Mrs. Carl Steelquist, of Polk, and Mrs. Otis Anderson, of Caldwell, Idaho, swapped houses so that each could have a vacation. Mrs. Anderson wanted to visit rela tives in Polk and Mrs. Steelquiat wanted a vacation, so they work ed out the novel i<Jea of just swapping houses. Doctor of Philosophy me. i Burke M. Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Smith, who re ceived the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Duke Universi ty at the recent commencement exercises. Dr. Smith taught at Appalachian College prior to his enlistment in the navy in 1943. Since his discharge in January, 1946, he has taught at Duke. His parents attended the commence ment. ASKS FOR FULL BURLEY CROP Coleman Advises Planters to Set Their Full Allotment of Tobacco Plants Mr. R. C. Coleman, of the Mountain Burley Warehouse Co., is very anxious that the farmers of this area set their full allot ment of tobacco plants this sea son. even if in some cases the planting is a little later than usual. Mr. Coleman says that there will be a forty dollar gov ernment floor price, and that the better types of smoking leaf will command as much or more money than was the case on last year's market. With this subsidy, Mr. Coleman believes, there is no other money crop that will bring the county the financial returns that tobacco will at this time. Mr. Coleman, who recently purchased the Farmers Ware house Here, will be in a position to handle all the tobacco brought to the local market this season, without congestion, resulting in good service and quick sales. He expects to be in Boone the first of the week to look out for his interests here. BRIEF NEWS Mexico plans a national found ation to help indigent children. Estimated twenty tons of spoil ed food reaches public daily. 10,000 persons routed by Iowa floods for second time. Hietanen of Finland takes fifteen-mile run, sets U. S. record. U. S. investigators link big German banks to rise to Nazis Gandhi assails Indian princes, gives support to British plan. Truman acts to protect foreign patent right in inventions. War Department to send church group on tour of Europe. Navy to test blood of men who served at Bikini atomic tests. Purchasing agents' survey sees trade failing, competition rising. Senate body to investigate the shortage of box cars. U. N. names Foote of U. S. to jbe chief of new press bureau. Advances in atomic processes is called "startling." Parran pleads for U. S. prati cipation 'n world health group. Former Judge Roberts, Green of AFL back refugee entry. Power of Japan's cartelized holding companies is held broken. Gromyko ho* ful of atomic ac cord; blames S. for obstacles. Roman Catholic population of U. S. rises 866.049 to 25,268,173. Lilienthal warns of atomic de feat if we accept "phony" policy. Thorp says American aid is keeping foreign trade going. Mrs. "Babe" Zaharias beats Miss Gordon for British golf title, 5 to 4. Disarmament and security are held attainable through N. N. Forrestal and Nimitz warn against weakening the Navy now. Compton calls U. S. military weak; urges universal training. Forest Service takes step in promotion of Alaska newsprint. Anderson denies high meat prices are caused by exports. National banks put 66 per cent of earnings in 1946 into business. Japanese are held to need as sistance for a long time to come. MOUNTAIN SING DRAWS CROWDS Thousands Go io Old Grandfath er Sunday For Varied Music and Sermons There was music in the hills Sunday as several thousand mountain folk and city folk with a dash of country left in them made their annual pilgrimage to the 23rd annual ''Singing on the Mountain" held at the foot of western North Carolina's vener able Grandfather mountain. For the first time in the history of the sing, rain clouds scudled across Grandfather, and a cold drizzling rain fell in midmorn ing. Later on the sun came out to bring some relief from the moun tain cold. Joe Hartley, 74-year old veteran of many sings, explained. "The good Lord always takes care of us." Everything was arranged, if at all, very informally. Every hour there was a sermon by a different mountain preacher from the main platform. Sandwiched in between were songs by duets, trios, quartets and choirs as back-country "professors" and their "classes" vied with each other for top singing honors. Singers from the Carolinas, Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, and Kentucky met together for mas sed chorus singing as venders sold hymn books while strolling through the crowd. Some of the mountain folk up Grandfather way walked 10 miles to the sing and brought their lunches with them. Preachers of the mountain Gospel set up amplifying urvis on big rock and prciched to small groups of followers. Cold-natured folks whose foot tapping didn't warm them enough to keep out the mountain chill built fires in the green meadow and gathered around to swap stories about their trips to the sing and try and find rela tives in common. Orville and Herb Gray brought their guitars all the way from Craig. Clarence Crump, a Craig fiddler, brought the fiddle he had whittled out of native mountain maple. This trio sat on the edge of the crowd and sang their mournful mountail ballads throughout the day. Alphonso Buchanan, another sing star, brought his organ all the way from Johnson City, Tenn., sat down and accomplish ed himself in "Beautiful Home." Some of the choirs and soloists, tired of waiting their turn at the warped main singing platform, clambered up on big rocks and started singing unaccompanied some of the old hymn-favorites. A group of artists from the Penland Art colony was on hand with sketch pads and charcoal, ilt was ovbious to old-time sing goers that the mountains aren't ;as isolated as they used to be. Some of the younger children were barefooted, but the teen-age crowd came in sweaters and sad dle shoes. The older folks came all slicked up in their Sunday best. S. E. Gragg, 86-year-old preacher of Advent Christian church at Sfrulls Mills, basked in the limelight as amateur and, press photographers, flanked by artists and sightseers, flocked around to gape at his flowing beard, heavy watch chain and silver-headed cane. Gragg is a veteran of 21 sings and a direct or of this year's production. He posed for pictures and confided in photographers that he'd enjoyed seeing himself in the newsreels land newspapers after last year's sing. As big singing and lots of preaching whetted their appetites, folks in the crowd drifted away from the platform and headed for their lunch baskets. College Reading Conference Meeting The summer reading confer-] once for in-service teachers at tending Appalachian State Teach ers College summer school had their first meeting on Thursday afternoon in the collcyft.' audi torium. Dr. W. J. McKee of the University of North Carolina was the speaker. A conference is planned to meet weekly on Thursday afternoon throughout: jthe summer and is of the forum I |type. Some distinguished educa tor will lead each discussion, and visual education will be used from time to time. The director of these conferences is Miss Louise Robles of the Dupont In stitute, Wilmington, Delaware. The attendance is entirely volun tary, no prerequisites, no fees, And no academic grades. This is a continuation of the conferences of this type that have proved so popular during the last three summers. KILLED BY SPLINTER Secaucus, N. J. ? Anthony Hortak, 49, was killed instantly when his automobile was in col lision with a light truck loaded with old railroad ties. One of the ties was hurled into Hurtak's automobile and a splinter from it pierced his heart. C HE GOT TWO \ A haul with a net is usually one of the much-sought rockfish (striped bass), but this net man was lucky. Highly prized quarry, ranging from two to 100 pounds, are being taken from Roanoke River at Weldon, N. C. ? "Rockfish Capital of the World" ? as they proceed upstream to their breeding. COBLE PLANT IN OPERATION Milk Plant. Destroyed by Fire, is Rebuilt; Heavy Receipts Are Noted The Coble Dairy Company's milk plant at Sugar Grove is again in normal operation, and the new building which is almost complete, is described as being thoroughly modern and a great improvement over the old struc ture which was destroyed by fire on February 5. The building is of concrete block construction, stuccoed, is 45x82 feet, and houses the new est equipment for handling the vast volume of milk which is daily gathered there from a wide area. Officials state that with favorable grazin g weather, re ceipts of milk are hitting an all time high at the local plant. Lutheran Group Will Meet Here Sunday The Lutheran Brotherhood of the Western Conference of the North Carolina Synod will meet in Grace Lutheran Church Sun day. June 28, at 3:00 p. m. Dr. W. C. Boleik, pastor of the church of the Reformation, Columbia, S. C. will bring the message on church extension. He is a very able speaker and you are cordially invited to come and hear him. Luther Boleik of Hickory, president of the N. C. Lutheran Brotherhood is his brother. IS WORD WILL Los Angeles ? The will of Arthur Rich, while containing only fifteen words jotted down' on a piece of paper, 2x4 inches, disposed of an estate of around $2,000. Rich, who died on May 18, left a will which read: "I, of sound mind, do will all my pos sessions to my wife, Messie May Rich." Even the tiny, one-celled pro tozoa has memory, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica. Wins Award Miss Martha Ann Banner valedictorian of the senior class at Blowing Rock' high school, who won the scholastic medal given by the school for the 1946 47 term. Playcrafters Will Present Comedy at College Friday) The Playcrafters of Appala chian State Teachers College will present "Dear Ruth," a comedy by Norman Krosna, Friday even ing June 27, at 8:30, College audi torium. The play, which was a feature iof the spring commencement j exercises is being staged a second |time for the benefit of the sum mer school. No admission will be charged and the public is invited. Those appearing in the cast are Bill Ross, Beverly Townsend, Rachel Ann Vance, Howard Johnston, Mary Lee Hedgecock, Alta Ponder, Anne Graham, Johnny Albea, Gene Johnson, and Raymond Smith. Assisting with lighting, make up and staging are George Wil Ison, Jo Dockery and Sarah Mil der Matthews. The play is direct led by Cratis D. Williams. BROWN CHOSEN BY GOVERNOR Stale Senator Named Member of Commisiion for Studying Examining Boards Governor R. Gregg Cherry has notified Senator Wade E. Brown of Boone, of his appointment as a member of a special com mittee. whose purpose is to study and investigate certain examin ing boards in the State. The commission was authorized by the last General Assembly, which directed that the group be com posed of three persons from the house and two from the senate. Following is the full member ship of the committee: Frank K. Sims, Jr., chairman, Charlotte; Sam O. Worthington, Green ville: Winfield Blackwell, Win ston-Salem; Senators Wade E. Brown, Boone, and L. M. Grif fin, Lillington. The Governor asks that the commission meet in Raleigh Fri day, June 27, at 11 o'clock, so that their oaths may be adminis tered and formal delivery of the sommissions made. Vilas Man Loses Home in Fire Monday Mr. and Mrs. Olen Brown, of Vilas, RFD, lost their home and its entire contents by fire Mon day afternoon, while members of the family were employed on the farm, and there is no information on the origin of the blaze. The house was new, not fully com pleted. and all food, furniture and clothing belonging to the family was destroyed. It was not learned whether or not there was insurance in force. CLEANED FISH CAUGHT Durango, Colo. ? A 17-inch trout which Sam Walford hooked recently was ready for the fry ing pan when he pulled it from the water. It had apparently been caught, cleaned and lost by another angler a short time pre viously. FLOODS RUIN TOWNS AND FARMS a m wwi? iiiimiii milium nm The town shown above. Red Rock, Ic . is Iowa's worst flood in history, in which many farm land and towns. The same story held able farm land. in the Des Moines River^alley, the center of lost their lives and untold damage resulted to in other states where high water flooded valu NAN SLASHED TO DEATH IN GORY BRAWL Robert Hayes Accused of Wielding Pocket Knife, Which Inflicted Fatal Wounds on Robert Ragan; Gives Bail to Fall Term of Superior Court Robert Hayes, local stone ma son, who is accused of wielding the knife which brought fatal injuries to Robert Ragan. in a street fight in Boone Saturday night, waived preliminary hear ing before Magistrate E. N. Hahn Monday afternoon and was bound to the fall term of Watau ga Superior Court, readily post ing an appearance bond of $2,500. Herbert and Raymond Triplett, Jack Winkler, Richard Hodges and Marvin Dotson were placed under bond as important wit nesses in the case. The affray occurred on the main street of the town just west of the courthouse early Saturday evening, and official investiga tions indicated that the men had been drinking prior to the trouble. However, since no evi dence was taken at the prelimi nary hearing, the details of what started the fight are lacking. Ra gan, with an artery severed in the left thigh, died within a few minutes after having been taken to the local hospital. Jack Wink ler and Herbert Triplett received minor knife wounds during the brawl. Funeral services for young Ra gan, who was 21 years old and unmarried, were conducted from the Howard's Creek Baptist Church Monday afternoon by Rev. Raymond Hendrix, and in terment was in the Sands grave yard by Reins-Sturdivant. The parents. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ragan, survive, together with one brother, Calvin Ragan, and one sister, Mrs. Jack Wink ler. Water Diverted As Work Proceeds On Watauga River Dam The Tennessee Valley Authori ty announced June 13 completion of the first stage of construction on the Watauga dam near Eliza bethton, and said that work on the second phase would start the next day, says the Johnson Coun ty News. The first stage described is the diversion tunnel which will di vert the Watauga River around the damsite. Water is flowing through the tunnel and workmen have started on the placement of earth and rock fill in the main dam. The third and final stage. TVA reported, will be the construction of the powerhouse and the in stallation of two generating units with a capacity of 50,000 kilo watts. The Watauga and South Hol ston dams were authorized by congress in December, 1941, and construction was started in Feb ruary, 1942. The War Production Board ordered work suspended in December. 1942, due to a shortage of materials and manpower, but work was resumed with congres sional approval last July. Watauga dam will be 319 feet high and will contain 1,450,000 cubic yards of rolled earth and 2,080,000 ciibic yards of rock, the TVA reported. When completed the dam will provide flood con trol storage capacity of 260,000 acre-feet 6n Jan. 1 of each year and 110,000 acre-feet from April 15 throughout the remainder of the year. The Watauga dam is scheduled for completion in 1949 at a cost of about $29,500,000. Mrs. Dwight Rivers Dies in W. Virginia Mrs. Dwight G. Rivers died on 'June 2.1, at the homo at Crumper, jWest Virginia, it is learned in a telegram received by a cousin, IMrs. Minnie Farthing Watson of iBoone. T{ie husband survives to gether with a son and daughter: Dwight G. Rivers. Jr., and Mrs. iFrederick V. Reed. - Dr. Dwight Rivers is a son of the late Dr. Jim Rivers of Boone, .and was a nephew of the late R. C. Rivers and Mrs. J. W. Farth ing of this city. Plans Are Made For Opening Curb Mart Plans have been made for the opening of the Home Demonstra tion Curb Market, on Tuesday. July 1 at 10:00 a. m. The market this year will be located on the vacant lot opposite the Adventist Church on East Main Street. Members of the Home Demon stration Clubs will have fresh vegetables, dairy, poultry and meat products, cakes, pies, flow ers, handicrafts, and canned pro ducts. . ?
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