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democrat UM Population ajra # ' An Independent Weekly Newspaper ? Established in the Year 1 888 ' 1,50 Popul*ti<>n 1 , . - . SIXTY-SIXTH TEAR.? NO. 43. BOON^P WATAUGA COUNTY, NOBTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1954 TWO SECTIONS? 1? PAGES m KING STREET BY ROB RIVERS THE FAVORED SUBJECT The weather, about which Mark Twain laid everybody talked, but nobody did anything, is setting the pattern (or local conversation, as freezing tem peratures succeed the balmy days we had been enjoying, and late frosts nip the spring beans in the bud and maybe bring the chill of death to the cherries and the apples and stuff . . . Sunday came a'snowing, and early in the morning the mountains show ed white for a few minutes . . . Monday the prospects were for more freeze and more frost, much to the discomfort of the folks, who, in a farming community such as this, are moved by the very nature of things, to look up on unseasonal weather with fear and trembling . . , Since Pink Baldwin quit us, we can't right ly say whether this is the "dog wood winter," "blackberry win ter," or the "catbird winter," but it falls short of any kind of plea sant spring weather for a fact! AND THEY TELL US Of tki time the corn and taters ?m killed dead in the middle of June. and there was no crop, and Uu rations wan short and wa ramambar riding in a buggy with our dad in a snowstorm which covered tha ground, whila tha dogwoods ware in bloom . . . There's bean prettynear every sort of weath er in this locality, if you'll talk to tha old folks and search out such weather records as can be found . . . But our chief con cern is the catbird has been fooled for the first time wa can remember ... Ha usually is fool-proof and whan ha sets up his gay melody, winter is gone ... Ha slipped up this time, however, and it seams to us his song has a plaintive note as it is carried through the frosty air of one of these chill May .mornings . . . He's been so good at Judging tha weather that he don't conform to the frigidity I A LIFE OF SERVICE In the death of Dr. 'Frank Greer one of the last of the coun try physicians, whose careers were sagas of rare devotion to duty, of sacrifice, and of high courage, goes away ... By horse back, on foot, by buggy, wagon, T-model and automobile the faithful physician carried the healing arts to "the suffering and distressed people in Western Wa . tauga county for more than half a century . . . His saddle bags were placed beside the pauper's pallet as well as beside the beds of tye privileged, and the matter of money didn't plague the mind of the man who set about to minister to the miseries of the folks way back in another cen tury . . . We can think of no men who have contributed more magnificently to their fellow man than these rapidly-vanish ing physicians of the winding trails and the mountain cabins; the men who went forth in the gales and the storms, and brought professional assistance, and often more important, words of advice and of wisdom and of cpndolence, to folks who waited and despair ed . . . Country doctoring, as it has been called hereabouts, has been carried on by men of great minds, o t great endurance, and of boundless sympathies ... Such a man was Dr. Greer , . . Along with his nostrums and his instruments, his bandages and his knowledge of the anatomy of man, there went the love of his fellow man, without which there can be little love of the Lord . . . And Dr. Greer, who found time to delve into the literature and the philosophies of the ages, per haps did some of his most im portant Work in his role as the advisor and counsellor of his people . . . Faithful to his high calling, the snows didn't get too deep nor the winds too chill, but that Dr. Greer would venture ^orth to try tp alleviate the suf fering of the stricken and to con sole those who waited in agon sized suspense Sometimes the night was pierced -by the firat thin cry of the infant, and there was joy and a period of visita tion ... On other occasions, the physician's head was bowed, as a lifeless (ice was covered, and he turned away, sad and smitten . . . But through birth and death (Continued on page four) The following students shown above will serve as the Student Council at Appalachian State Teachers College for 1954-55. Seated left to right, Don Lineberger, Gastonia, president; Jane Har rison, Denton, junior representative-corresponding secretary; Eleanor Johnson, Burlington, junior representative; Janet Sue Houck, West Jefferson, junior representative-recording secretary; Jo Ann Aldridge, Boone, senior representative; Ben Mast. Sugar Grove, senior representative; standing left to right: Grady Lewis, Troutman, sophomore rep resentative; Ned Trivette, Reese, senior, vice-pres ident; Bill Benson, Mocksville, junior representa tive, treasurer; Jim Marks, Reidsville, senior rep resentative; Bill Honeycutt, Concord, sophomore representative; Bob Snead, Laurinburg, senior representative. 185 To Graduate From Four High Schools Of Watauga Wa(n..?n pn..n?,> v, w,u u... 1 a Kemp Doughton Is Trust Officer Of Northwestern J. Kemp Doughton of Sparta has been elected trust officer of the Northwestern Bank,' which has an office here and branches in 14 ether n?M> western North Carolina cities and towns. Mr. Doughton's election as trust officer was announced by Dr. B. B. Dougherty of Boone, president of the bank, at a recent meeting of the board of directors. , In the capacity of trust officer Mr. Doughton succeeds Edwin Duncan, executive vice president who also has served as trust offi cer for the past several years. As trust officer of the North western Bank, Mr. Doughton will have headquarters in Wilkesboro and will devote much of his time to the growing responsibilities of the bank as executor, trustee and in simular fiduciary capacities. Or. Dougherty, directors and other executive officers of the bank expressed their opinion that the bank is very fortunate in se curing the services of Mr. Dough ton as trust officer. Mr .Doughton is a native of Al leghany County, and a son of Former Lieutenant Governor R. A. Doughton, also a former presi dent of the bank. He has spent much of his life in the banking field, as both state and national bank examiner, as a bank official and more recently as general agent of the Farm Credit Admin istration of Baltimore. The latter organization comprises the Fed eral Land Bank, Federal Inter mediate Credit Bank, the Produc tion Credit Association and the Bank for Co-Operatives. Soviet invites Latin Americas to Moscow trade talks. unuiuga v^uuiivj 111511 avuvivu will graduate 185 seniors this year in exercises to be held at the four schools this week and next week. Appalachian High School at Boone will hold graduation exer cises for 81 seniors Wednesday, May 19, in the Appalachian State Teachers College auditorium. The Blowing Hock class day program will be presented at 8 p. m. Friday, May 14, in the high school auditorium, with 14 grad uates receiving diplomas. Cove Creek High School will award diplomas to its 69 gradu ? vca r i ma; evening, itiuy 11, ill exercisei to be held in the Hen son's, Chapel Methodist Church. Bethel High School, graduating 21, will hold its exercises Thurs day evening, May 13, in the school auditorium. The Boone Demonstration School will close Wednesday, May 19. Other elementary schools in the county will observe various closing^ dates throughout ths week, according to the number of lost days to be made up by each school. Tourist Workshop To Be Held Wednesday Dr. Martin Is , New President Of Lions Club The principal order of business of the Boone Lions Club on May 4 at the Daniel Boone Hotel was the election of officers for the year 1954-55. The following of ficers were elected: President, John G. Martin; 1st vice-president, Lee Reynolds; 2nd vice-president, I. S. Ayers; 3rd vice-president, John R. Shaf fer; secretary, Jack Mock; trea surer, James Dotson; tail twisters, Don Phillips and C. M. Yates; lion tamer, Jack Thomas; board of directors, R. D. Hodges, Jr. and James Winkler. Lion R. D. Hodges, Sr. intro duced Mr. Robert Isbell from El kin, who is the new publicity director for "Horn in the West." He made a few remarks and com plimented the community for the interest and backing it is giving the drama. Mr. Ken McNeil, secretary of the Pigeon Valley Club of dis trict 31 -A, was a welcome visitor and made a few remarks. SAFE DRIVERS. ? The men above, employees bf the Southern Bell Telephony and Telegraph Sy?tem in Boone, were awarded safe driv ing certificate* last week as they en<!?d a total of 10 years driving for the company without an accident. Policeman W. L. Johnson, of the Boone police department, is handing out the certificates to the men, le?to right, R. N. McNeil, plant foreman, who has 1 year's safe driving to his credit; J. W. Stanberry, cable repairman. 1 year; Harold Hughes, installer-repairman, 2 years; and Rudolph Greene, switchman, 6 years. W. H. Briggs, plant manager at Lenoir, right, was on hand for the ceremony, and commended tbe men on carrying out the company's motto: "No job Is so Important, no scrviee is so urgent that we can not take time to perform our work. safety." ? Photo by Weston Studio. I iuj. I i. A tourist workshop clinic is to be held at the Forbes Ranch Motel/between Boone and Blow ing Rock today (Wednesday) at noon, for the purpose of discuss ing and planning for better hand ling of the thousands of tourists visiting this area annually. Hugh Morton of Wilmington, chairman of the advertising com mittee of the State Board of Con servation and Development, will preside at the clinic-luncheon, meeting. Welcomes will be ex tended the hotel, motel, restau rant, and others catering ?to the tourist trade by Grover C. Rob bins of Blowing Rock and Clyde R. Greene of Boone. Chambers of Commerce of Blowing Rock and Boone are co operating with the State Depart ment of Conservation and De velopment's Tourist Bureau in staging the workshop clinic, one of several being held over the State by the C&D Department. "Many of the tourists, who are estimated to spend about $300, 000.000 annually in North Caro lina, 'visit this great resort area to see its incomparable mountain at tractions," said Mr. Morton. 'The purpose of the workshop clinic is to help impart all the 'know now we can to tnosc who cater to our growint tourist trade." Mr. Morton, ^ho will present a panel of speakers, said the follow ing will appear on the program for talks: T. E. Pickard. Charlotte, vice president and general man- j nger of the Carolina Motor Club: Edward Scheidt, Raleigh. State Commissioner of Motor Vehicles; E. L. Washburn. Rocky Mount, president of Highway 301 Associa tion: Marley M. Mclvin. Raleigh, executive vice president. N. C. Association of Quality Restau rants; and R. W Watkins. Boone. ' a member of the North Carolina Recreation Commission. A quostion and answer period will climax the clinic. All who cater to the tourist trade are in vited to attend. April 1, 19M stocks of corn on North Carolina (arms were esti mated M 19,780,000 bushels slightly above a year earlier but considerably less than the 10 year average Historical Group To Gather; Horn In West Week Set Aside ? ? ? * i Scout Camporee At Tater Hill Lake Plans have been announced for i a camporee for all Boy Scouts of i the Watauga district, to be held I at Tater Hill Lake beginning Fri day, May 28 and ending Sunday, i May 30. The announcement was < made by Fred Gragg, chairman of the camping committee for the i district. Scoutmasters and members of . the district committee will at- i tend the three-day camp to take charge of the program, which will include competition in various typos of exhibits and in such scouting activities as the prepara tion of a campsite. Troops will i :heck in on Friday between 3:00 and S:00 p. m. and camp will break at 1:00 p. m. on Sunday. The Scout uniform will not be required for attendance at the camporee. Sunday services will bd held at the camp ground, according to the committee's announcement. A program of nature study has also been planned. Members of the district camp committee include, besides Chair man Gragg, Howard Cottrell, Ted Hagaman, Tommy Osborne, Wal ter Edmisten, Wayne Richardson, James W. Godbolt, and Richard Chase. Saturday Is Last Day Voter Registration new voters to register for parti cipation in the May primary, it is reminded by R. T. Greer, chair man of the county board of elec tions, who says that Saturday week, May 22, will be observed as challenge day. Registration has been light so far, but Registrars expect great er activity on the closing day. Chairman Greer also wants to their party affiliation at the time of registration. Otherwise they cannot participate in the primary of either political party. Those who register as in dependents or who vMithold in formation as to party affiliation will be unable to vote May 29th, Mr. (Jreer repeats. However, these voters may change their party affiliation if they do so Saturday. Dr. Fite To Address College Graduates The graduating exercise* will be held at Appalachian State Teachers College on Friday, May 14, at 10:30 a. m , with Dr. D. Harley Fite, president of Carson Newman college, Jefferson City, Tennessee, as the commencement speaker. Dr. Fite is a graduate of Mid dle Tennessee State College, and holds the master's and doctor's degrees ffora George Peabody College for Teachers. He has served as principal of high schools, has taught at Memphis University School, Austin Peay State College, was director of education for the Tennessee Val ley Authority, headed the depart ment of education at Florence State Teachers college in Ala bama and taught two summers at Peabody before becoming presi dent of Carson-Newman, well known Baptist college, in 1948. He is in demand nationally as a speaker, has headed a number of committees on education on the national level, and u listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Education, and Who's who in th,e Southeast. He is a member of a number of learned and professional societies and has written many magazine articles. At the graduating exerciscs, President B. B. Dougherty will present diplomas and grant de grees to 180, twenty-one of whom are receiving the master of arU degree and 139 of whom are re ceiving the bachelor of science degree. The college orchestra, directed Sheriff Seizes . Big Liquor Plant Sheriff Earl D. Cook and his deputies captured a huge illicit whiskey plant In the Sampson section of the county last Wed nesday afternoon. The boiler, says the Sheriff, was of 1250 gallons capacity, and there were six vats of beer almost ready for distillation. Included in the seizure w^e tools, (till worm, tar paper, 20 new five gallon cans and other equipment. The still hadn't been in operation, said the Sheriff, and none was present when the raid was made. Sheriff Cook was accompanied on the raid by Deputies G. M. Watson, Willie Miller, W. B. Day, and Howard Camp, Boone Dolicc officer. DR. D. HARLEY FITE by Nicholas Erneston, and. the college choir directed by Mrs. Virginia Wary Linney, will parti cipate in the program. The exercises are scheduled for the college stadium, but in event of inclement weather they will be held in the college audi torium. Graduating seniors, their par ents, faculty members and their wives or husbands will be enter tained by President Dougherty at the traditional President's Breakfast at 8:00 o'clock on the morning of graduation day. Dr. F. M. Greer Succumbs From Sudden Illness DR. F. M. GREER Dr. Franklin Monroe Greer, 84 years old, Watauga county's old est physician, died at his home at Mabel, Friday from a sudden illness suffered Thursday. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Union Baptist Church at Ma bel. Rev. L. H. Hollingsworth, Baptist minister of Boone, and Rev. N. C. Bush, pastor of the Watauga Methodist circuit, con ducted the rites. Burial was in the church cemetery. Dr. Greer was bom .in Pike county, Kentucky, a son of the late Phillip and Mary Greer. The family moved to Watauga county about seventy-five years ago, where Dr. Greer was reared. He was educated at the University of Tennessee and at Johns Hop kins University, in Baltimore, and practiced for a time with Dr. Wilcox of Ashe county. He had practiced his profession at Mabel for about 59 years. Surviving are two daughters: Mrs. Russell D. Hodges, Boone; and Mrs. Ronda Younce of Ma bel. There are five brothers and two sisters: Andy Greer, Holly wood, Calif.; Dr. I. G. Greer, Cha pel Hill; W. C. Greer, Boone; T. M. Greer, Boone; Harrison Greer, MorgantcAi; Mrs. Nancy Roten, Denver, Colo.; Mrs. Alice Greer, Zionville. Mrs. Greer, the former Miss Laura Campbell, died eight years ago. Of interest is the fact that Dr. Greer's demise was the first in the family of eight. Of the sur viving brothers and sisters, the oldest is 83 and the youngest 62. The average age of the family is 73 years. Bill Mast Is Given Honor Bill Mast, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dave P. Mast of Sugar Grovp. has been elected to serve as mail ing chairman for the Baptist Stu dent 'Union at the University of North Carolina during the 1954 55 school yea*. Bill is a rising junior at UNC. ? J > mr I II ? ? /, The annual spring dinner meet ing of the Southern Appalachian Historical Association, producers of the outdoor drama, "Horn in the West," opening its third sea son here June 27, will be held Monday, May 17, at 6:45 p. m., at the Ranch Motel, located near the Parkway entrance on the Blow ing Rock highway. HORN WEEK PROCLAIMED Mayor Gordon H. Winkler has proclaimed this weak. May ?-1S as HORN IN THE WEST week, to promote new member ships in tha Southern Appala chian Historical Association in lima to attend tha spring meet ing May 17. Membership is flO. and can be secured from James P. Marsh, treasurer, or from any member of the member ship committee, which includes Mrs. L. H. Owsjey. Mrs. Rob Rivers. Mrs. W. M. Matheson. Mrs. J. C. Goodnight. Mrs. James Councill. Miss Clyde Kilby. Mrs. Joe Crawford. Mrs. W. C. Richardson. W. W. Chea ter. Joe Williams, and Richard Morehauser. With each mem bership goes a vote in the as sociation. a season pass to Hern in the West, and miniature lapel horns. A feature of May IT will be a panel discussion with Dr. D. J. Whitener, executive vice-pre?i dent of the association, as mod erator. The panel will include Chester Davis, of the Winston Salem Journal; Kermit Hunter, author of the drama; Mrs. Ed M. Anderson of West Jefferson, pub licity director of the Northwest North Carolina Development As sociation; Carl Fidler, business manager of Horn in the West; Robert Isbell, publicity director of the drama; and the board of directors. The meeting will be open for questions from anyone present. Dr. I. G. Greer of Chapel Hill, president of the association, will preside at the business session, and Samuel Selden of the Caro lina Playmakers, head of the University of North Carolina dramatic department, and ex-of ficio adviser to the association, will bring greetings, and offer suggestions for promotion of the drama. All members of the association, and all persons who are interest ed in Horn in the West are invit ed to attend and take part in the meeting. There will be a charge of $1.50 per plate for the dinner, and everyone who plans to attend as asked to make reservations not later than Saturday, May 15, with Mrs. B. W. Stallings or Mrs. L. H. Owsley. Paper Drive Is Set For Saturday Boy Scout Troop 109 will con duct a scrap paper drive Satur day morning May 15. Anyone having sera)} paper they wish to donate, please call Jerry Mc Cracken AM4-3700 or Joe Minor AM4-8490. Farm prices have ended thir decline, rise 0.4 per cent. " i VISIT BOONE ? Tfic children above, pupils of Mrs. Daisy Adams' second (trade at Green Valley school, visitrd in Boono tut Thursday morning. " They are shown as they visited the Watauga Democrat office to learn bow the county newspaper is printed. ? Stall photo by Joe Miner. ??? . : ~k
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