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THE DEMOCRAT la your b?t and most econo mic*! medium or sdvertuin* With more than X900 paid-up. caah aubocrlptlona. your mo aaci goaa to 1S.0M people, on the untranaltar ueed baala at five readeri to each nlni Itiei . VOL. LX, NO. 45. An Independent Weekly Newspaper ? Established in the Year 1 888 BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1M8. FIVE CENTS A COP* KING STREET BY ROB RIVERS f .*? WE MAKE A BELATED BOW to ' Rev. E. F. Troutman on the celebration of his tenth anniver sary as pastor of the Lutheran Church here ... A special ser vice was held, honoring the lo cal minister, and a dinner was given in honor of he and his fam iily. REV. MR. TROUTMAN has become an Integral part of the life of the town . . . Beside* put ling his church on 'a self-sup porting basis, and ministering faithfully to the needs of his congregation, he has found time lo participate in every worth while movement originating in the community . , . He is held in the hlghert regard by all the folks hereabout . . . His cheery smile, his wave of greeting, and his wise counsel and general helpfulness have endeared him to the community . . . We are mighty glad he's here, and hope that he and his fine family will continue to be around for many more' decades. THE FOLKS are mighty proud of the action of the town board in putting a quietus to the carni val business in town, as a climax to the Democrat's campaign ag ainst this type of wholesale and organized law-violators. The Dem ocrat likewise is being felicitated upon its efforts along this line. Some of the folks wrote letters ? a large number of them ? hun dreds from both the town and county telephoned, or dropped by to express their gratification . . .1 We are glad to have had a part in outlawing these shows, and want to add our bit of praise to the members of the town board for their eagerness to please the peo ple, when the will of the folks was expressed. AT WEEK'S END. however, the carnival "broke out" all Its old tricks, and took a good ma ny folks for a "fiscal ride." . . . Just how they managed to set up the gamblng tables again, af ter the police department had been given orders by the board remains the S64 question . . . At any rate a member of the Council, called from his bed by ? citizen hastened to the scene Saturdaf night, and had the illegal concessions shut down again . . . We thank him. and respectfully submit, that such responsiveness to the public will is democracy in action . . . we acknowledge with gratitude the many compliments we have had on the carnival issue . . . We lhank you everyone, and think it'* a safe bet that there will be no cause for any future cam paign along this line. KERR SCOTT, candidate for governor in the quadrennial Dem ocratic primary campaign, was in town Saturday, mixing with the people and completing his local campaign plans . . . Dropped by Highlander Motor Company late Saturday . . . found them winding up celebration of opening of new sales rooms and service depart ment . . . enjoyed a coke on the house, and a visit with Dr. J. B. Hagaman and Joe Williams . . . building is handsome addition to town . . . Located on Bristol road overlooking the town, it is one of the nicest auto establishments to be found . . . William S. Whit ing drops in on his return from Florida . . . workmen pouring base for 150-foot stack at new power plant site . . . new building slated to be erected this summer. ... a short visit to the livestock market late Wednesday . . . Fam ished cows bringing as much as fair steers brought last year . . . and plenty of takers . . . Glad to see the money coming in, but got a better understanding of^he in dustrial strikes . . . Mrs. Thelma DbjU and Mrs. Betty Newton Wood taking care of the business office at the city hall, and doing a splendid job . . visiting colle gian sporting whiskers about an inch Jong . . . the fresh green of nature's spring wardrobe . . . . The itinerant preacher's loud I speaker sticking right in, but los ing by a hair to the more volumi nous broadcasts of the carnival spieler . . . both making it very hard for business men to carry on their duties . . . State cam paign buttons begin to show up on lapels, as primary day nears and workers wondering just what the heck's going to happen if ' prices don't come down, or pay checks get bigger. (Contnued on page 4) LE&IS, UNION, FINED $1,420,000 John L. Lewis, and the UMW 1*9*1 itaff Iht* municipal court criminal division altar Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough fined the Union leader and the United Mine Worker* a total of J1.420, 000 for criminal contempt of court. Loft of the 68-year-old UMW president is John Owens. UMW secretary-treasurer, and right of Lewis is Welly K. Hopkins, chief defense counsel. Home Club Week Is Being Observed FOR GOVERNOR Watauga County Clubwomen 1 Join With Other Rural Wo men in National Obesr vance; Work of 1947 is To Be Surveyed. Hon. Kerr Scott, former State Commluiontr of Agriculture, who wai in Boon# Saturday- confer ring with lo^al supporters in con nection with hi* campaign for the Demorcratic nomination for Gov ernor. Mr. Scott has named Mr. Frank Baird of Valle Crucis. his local campaign manager. The can didate envisions a neck- and- neck race between he and Charles M. Johnson for first place in the par ty primary of May 29. Coble Dairy Plant Gets High Award The blue ribbon award for san itation and management was giv en to the personnel of the Sugar Grove receiving plant of Coble Dairy Products Co., at a dinner held in Boone Monday evening. Twenty-two Coble plants were in competition with the Sugar Grove unit. Honor guests were members of the personnel of the Sugar Grove plant, as follows: Emory Mitchell, manager; Mrs. Emory Mitchell, Lloyd Smith, Lynn Isaacs. Among the guests present at the dinner were: Dr. W. M. Rob trts, dairy manufacturing special ist at State College, who was the after dinner speaker; Mr. Wade Eller. Algie Wilson, and Harold Parker, Sanitary inspector*; Mr. L. E. Tuck wilier, county farm ag ent. Dr. Abrams To Address Tutors Dr. Amos Abrams of N. C. A., formerly of A. S. T. C., will ap pear in a program at the Boone High School Auditorium, Monday May 10th, at 2:30. Dr. Abrams is well known in this section. The public is cordially invited to be present. Since this meeting will be the last meeting of the year for the Watauga County Teachers, we urge that all avail themselves of the opportunity to hear Dr. Ab rams. Mrs. Ennis Davis will report to the Childhood Education group on her trip to St. Louis. The approximately 275 Home Demonstration Club members of Watauga county will join with other rural women throughout the nation in observing the third National Home Demonstration Week May 2-8, according to Miss Betty Matheson, home demon stration agent for the State Col lege extension service. These homemakers, three and one-half million strong, will sur vey the work of 1947, study needs and problems of their com munities, of the nation and of the world, and try to find resources open to them in improving to day's home for a better world of tomorrow. Many of the activities during the week will show evidence of progress as a result of the appli cation of scientific knowledge to homemaking problems. More than 60,000 North Caro lina homemakers will participate in the events of the week. Tours to neighbors' homes will reveal improvements made at little or no cost, except in time and labor. There will be exhibits in store windows calling attention to achievements of club women along all lines of homemaking. County and District Federation meetings will be held from Man teo to Murphy, honoring leaders for their work in bringing about a better rural life. Teas, recept ions, "open house," radio talks, and newspaper articles will fea ture home demonstration club women in all of the 100 counties of the State. Food takes first place in home demonstration activities, for the homemaker needs and wants to know what the family should eat| to keep healthy; how to prepare and serve food in new and at tractive ways; and the newest methods of conserving food. In view of the rising cost of living, busy homemakers are in terested in methods of saving time and labor, and in making the most of what they have in food, clothing, and equipment Rural women realize that family relationships are vital hi building better homes today for a better world tomorrow. More than 4,000 family life leaders from 96 counties have been trained and have carried in formation back to 28,000 people who are eager for help in their efforts to bring about better rural living in their communities. And these women are concern ed about the health and welfare of the community as well as thc problems which center around the home. In Clay, Alleghany, Swain, and Northampton coun ties club members are centering their efforts on laying a founda tion for building hospitals, while those in Buncombe, in coopera tion with the Health Department, have been busy taking the health census concerned with rural housing, water supply, sewerage disposal, milk supply and fly control. Club women In Lincoln, (Continued on page four.) MANY EXPERTS TO AID IN WORK SHOP COURSES Resource-Use Education Ef fort Draws Talent From Wide Area; Dr. John H. Workman Will Direct the Workshop Program. The Dean's office at Appala chian State Teachers College an nounces that the program for the six weeks' summer school work shop in Resource-Use Education is almost complete. There will be experts and specialists in the various fields of study from na tional, state, local and Tennessee Valley Authority areas during the period of the workshop, June 10 to July 17. Six quarter hours of credit will be given students who take the workshop course. Among the experts who will participate in the workshop, which is under the direction of Dr. John H. Workman of the Appalachian social studies de partment, are the following: Dr. James Burdett, specialist from the Department of Federal Soil Conservation, Spartanburg, S. C.; Dr. W. H. Landess. specia list on Hunman Relations, Ten nessee Valley Authority; Dr. James Webb, specialist in Com munity Planning. Chapel Hill; Dr. R. W. Eshmeyer, nationally known expert on fish and game, Tennessee Valley Authority; Dr. Clyde Erwin, State superinten dent of public instruction, Ra leigh; Dr. R. A. Vogenberger, district forester, Tennessee Val ley Authority; Dr. Earl Van Horn, expert geologist, Tennes see Valley Authority; Miss Ron nie Sheffield, assistant director North Carolina recreation com missit .1, Raleigh; Mrs. Mary Sue Fonville, specialist in resource use workshop problems, Raleigh; Miss Helen Martikainen, director of health education, State board of health, Raleigh; Miss Inah Tyler, district spenrtsor welfare, Tryon; Mrs. Annie Ray Moore, health educator, school health coordinating service, Raleigh; Dr. Richard L. Weaver, director of resource-use education work shops for North Carolina, Chapel Hill. There will be other state and local authorities on the program when the list of personnel is complete, it was announced. Lends Efforts to Quail Propagation Ted Mitchell, small game spec ialist. with the North Carolina wildlife commission, outlined a uogram which sportsmen and rarmers to follow in order that the quail population be increas ed, in his address to the wildlife club Wednesday. Mr. Mitchell stated, "to produce small game and quail requires the whole-hearted cooperation of all concerned ? sportsmen, land owners and the Wildlife Commis sion. The shortage of quail in the county stems from lack of food] and cover on a year round basis. When this is corrected quail will increase." He pointed out that the small odd areas on every farm in the county can be used to provide food and cover for quail. "Hie best grains include shrub type lespe deza and Korean lespedeza. Mr. Clyde Eggers' farm will be used by Mr. Mitchell as a dem onstration farm, where bi-color lespedeza and other smell grain will be planted as borders ofl fences and woods. This farm will be open for inspection so that the accomplishments may be view ed. Within the next few days the Wildlife Club will make avail* able to landowners -and 4-H clubs packets of grain seeds for plant ing for the production of plants for transplanting to food and cov er strip* in future years. MARITIME DAT President Truman, in a proc lamation designating May 22 a* National Maritime Day, asked that al^ American flagships "dress ship" on that day. The President declared that trade between the nations was of greatest import ance to the world's welfare and to "the continuance of free gov ernment." May 22 is the anniver sary of the sailing of the "Savan Pah" on May 22, 1819, from Savannah, Ga., on the first trans oceanic steamship voyage. Actinium, element No. 89, is isolated, chemically. ANOTHER U. N. MEMBER Bprma has b*?n admitted as the 58th mtmlxi of tha U. N. at at Flushing Meadows. N. Y. U So Nyun, first Burmese ambassador to the U. S.. who will represent his country in the United Nations, is shown (laft), as ha was congratulated by Dr. Tslang, China's representative, and Warren Austin, head of the U. S. delegation, after Burma had been formally accepted. Judge Erwin Speaks To Bar Association Red Cross Head Given Citation The following citation for his services as county chairman of the 1948 fund campaign has been awarded to Mr. W. C. Richard son of Boone, by the National Red Cross: This citation for services as 1948 fund chairman is hereby awarded W. C. Richardson by the American National Red Cross in grateful recognition of outstand ing loyalty, patriotism and pub lic spirit. The citation was signed by Basil O'Connor, President, The American National Red Cross. Recent contributions to the 1948 fund drive of the Red Cross are as follow?: The Big Dipper, $2 ; Dr. W. G. Bond, $5. Cloy Winkler, 54, i Has Fatal Attack Joshua Cloy Winkler, 54 years old, son of the late James Larkin and Minnie Bennet Winkler, died of a heart attack in Lenoir hospital in Lenoir on April 28 after an illness of only a few hours. Funeral rites were conducted by the Reverend Sam Moss at 3 p. m. on April 29 at the Boone Methodist Church and interment was in the Boone Cemetery. Mr. Winkler was a native of Boone and had spent most of his life in Watauga and surrounding counties. He had been an em ployee of the State Highway De partment for more than twenty five years. He was a veteran of World War I, a member of the Masonic Lodge, also a member of the Boone Methodist Church. He is survived by his widow, the former Miss Hazel Cook; two brothers, James B. Winkler of Boone and Frank Winkler of Harriman, Tennessee; and two sisters, Mrs. George Thorn ason of Hickory, and Miss Anita Winkler of Boone. Rites For Fallen Soldier Are Held The body of James Linville Michael, who died in line of du ty with the army in France Sep tember 15, 1944, arrived from the Quartermaster Depot In Charlotte Monday noon, and funeral ser vices were held at the Bethany Church in Shawneehaw township Tuesday at 2 o'clock and burial was in the Michael cemetery. A military escort accompanied the body to the late residence from Charlotte. Mr. Michael is sunrived by the parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Mi-i chad; a brother, Fred Michael, and a half sister, Miss Edith Taylor. I UNIFORMS The dress uniform of sailors in the U. S. Navy soon will be minus the famous thirteen but tons on the trousers and button ed cuffs on the jumpers. Instead, new dress blues, which will be issued in a few months, will have conventional-front trousers, with hip and slashed side pockets and coat-style sleeves will replace the buttoned caffs. i President BroWn Presides it Meeting Sixteenth District Bar Association Held at Blowing Rock; Judgp Wil son Warlick Recognised. The meeting of the sixteenth judicial district bar association was held at Blowing Rock Mon day evening, with Wade E. Brown of Boone, president of the group, presiding, and J. E. Holshouser of Boone acting as secretary. Judge Sam Erwin of the State Supreme Court was the principal speaker and was presented to the audience by Louis H. Smith. A feature of the program was a number of folk songt by Cratip Williams of A. S. T. C. G. -M. Sudderth of Blowing Rock, delivered the address of welcome, the respond being by Chas, Burrus, president of the Cleveland County Bar, Shelby. Hon. Wilson Warlick, resident sixteenth district Judge, who has been nominated by President Tru man for the Federal bench, was recognized; Mr. Ed L. Cannon, secretary of the State Bar Asso ciation, gave a report of the ac tivities of that group. New officers were elected as follows: President, Charles Bur rus of Shelby; Secretary, A. L. Hamrick; vice-president, S. M. Roper, Lincolnton. Alpha Psi Omega Oganized Here A chapter of Alpha Psi Omega, national honorary dramatic society, has been organized on the campus of Appalachian State Teachers College, under the sponsorship of Cratis D. Williams, faculty advisor for the Appala chiai) Playcrafters. The Greek -letter society thus becomes the only such group on the campus. Affiliation with the national headquarters is now be ing made, after approval of the School Council. The purpose of the new society will be to stimu-l late fuller participation in dra matic activities. Dr. Lawrence Opens Practice in Boone Dr. C. Ray Lawrence, optome trist, has opened his offices with Dr. E. T. Glenn in the Appalach ian Theatre Building, in Boone. Dr. Lawrence, a son of George M. Lawrence, is a native of Av ery county, and was in business for several years in Cincinnati, Ohio. He attended Boone and Cove Creek High Schools, and is a graduate of Mars Hill College. Recently he completed a four year course at the Southern Col lege of Optometry, Memphis, Tennessee. Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence, the for mer Miss Florence Johnson, of Crossnore, N. C., and their chil dren, Tom and Mary, live on Grand Boulevard. Inspection Lane For Blowing Rock, Boone The Motor Vehicles Depart ment announces changes in Mcchanical Inspection Lane No. 2. to cover Madison, Yancey, Mitchell, Avery, Ashe and Wa tauga counties. The lane will be in Blowing Rock May 20 to 29, and Boone May 27 to June IS. HOUSING SHORT mOTY, C OF c IS REMINDED College Professors Tell Civic Group of Drastic Needs For Additional Student Housing During Summer School; Housing Survey Starts! The shortage of housing facil ities in Boone, again claimed the attention of the Chamer of Com merce at its Thursday evening meeting, when Dr. Leo K. Prit chett, of Appalachian College spoke of plans for housing stud ents and tourists in the commun ity for the next 10 or 15 years. Dr. Pritchett stated that of the 12 or 1300 students expected this summer, 500 or 600 will have to find rooms outside the .college. If the community fails them they will of necessity go elsewhere, it was averred. The new graduate study plan inauguarted by the college will continue to bring more and more people to the local campus, many preferring this climate for their summer school work. Mr. Chappell Wilson, juat back from Georgia and Florida in the interest of the college, said the peopl? in those states are greatly interested in Boone, many want ing to build in this locality. Lieut. Horton Gragg was recog nized. and expressed his appreci ation of BoOne, as the best place in which to live. Mr, Wilcox spoke of the radio station at North Wilkesboro ask ing to beam a circuit into Boone, and stated that plans are under way for such service. Mr. H. W. Horton, just back from Florida, reports that many families have promised to come to Boone from Miami this year. The secretary, Mrs. Pearl L. Bingham, was instructed to mail a form letter to the people of the community who have expressed a willingness to furnish housing, and to others who may possibly hav^ available rooms. This letter will ask for certain information for Chamber of Commerce files. A committee composed of Dr. W. G. Bond, D. L. Wilcox and Gill Phillips, was appointed to assemble the material for a pam phlet on Boone, to give infor mation concerning the beauty spots, the resources, and the pos sibilities of this section. Mrs. Quid to Speak On Home, Family Mrs. E. H. Ould. a specialist in the field of home and family re lationships, will be in Boone on Wednesday, Thursday and Fri day evenings of this week. Mrs. Ould is a resident of Roa noke, Va. She spends a number of weeks each year leading dis cussion groups, conducting for ums and study courses on the theme of 'The Christian Home," in the Western North Carolina conference. All students are invited to these discussions. The youth groups of all of the Boone churches are al so invited. Mrs. Ould will speak at the col lege chapel services on Thurs day and Friday mornings. She will speak at the Methodist Church on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday evenings at 6:45 p. m. Ten Teams In . County League At a meeting held Monday night of the directors of the league, ten teams were entered officially and the schedule will get under way Saturday, May 8th according to John Hollar league president. The first weeks sche dule is as follows: Boone at Mabel; Ward's at Cove Creek; Klk at Foscoe; Rich - Mtn. at Blowing Rock; Oak Grove at Bamboo. Game time for all games is set for 2:00 p. m. Legion Junior Team To Practice Saturday The American Legion Junior baseball team will have a practice Saturday morning May 8th at the college baseball field at 9:00 o'clock. All elgible boys are re quested to be present GOP says program may keep Congress after convention.
Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.)
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