SHED EVERY THURSDAY BY RIVERS PRINTING COMPANY iff E. C. RIVERS, JR., An Independent Weekly Nuip^f In 1M and public for ? year, by the *e Robert C. Riven ||t 'Subscription bates MP] One yr, $2 80; Six months $110; four month., *1 00; Ou SO; Six month., $1.7#; tjur month., $12*. P5, rj The ba.i. of ear government being the ??M?l of the people, the very firrt objective .hould be to keep that right, and were it left to Me to decide whether we aheuld have ? government without new* paper*, or newspaper, without govern meat, I .hould not heoitate a moment *> ehooee the latter. But I .hould mean that every man ihould receive theae paper* and be capable of reading them "? Thoma. Jeffenon ' M ' BOONE, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1958 A Note On Savings Bonds (Ounit Editorial by Hamilton Owens.) In time* like these, when nearly every one has a job and a car and an electric refrigerator and a television set, when wages are going up and the future looks rosier than it has looked in a generation, some of us are likely to get into the "easy come, easy go" frame of mind. It ia a joyous frame of mind but hardly a prudent one. It is true the outlook ia for a continuance of good times. It is true that most of us will manage somehow to pay off the debts we have accumulated during these days of easy credit. But ? and there is always a but. In the old days, there used to be a say ing, "Keep something in the sock." In more genteel circles, its form was "Lay something aside for a rainy day." However you decide to say 'it, it is good advice. The best sock of all ia a United States Savings Bond. Of course, it is patriotic to buy savings bonds. I very body knows that. Savings bonds are a brake on infla tion. They help to keep the value of money atable. They don't hold out the hope of glittering rewards, like some of the com mon stock* we have heard of. They aren't for gamblers who are looking for a lot of fast bucks. Rather, they are for the man who is thinking ahead, thinking about his wife and his family and the uncertain ties of the future. a Savings bonds are a hedge against most foreseeable hardships. If, aa we all hop* the economy of the country remain* stable, they. sit there in your desk or in your safe deposit box, piling up compound interest for years to come. If, because of unwise economic policies, there should come a re cession or even a depression, the savings bonds would be the salvation of the man who owned them. Stocks go down at ?uch times; even real property, like farms and houses, declines in value because few have the money to buy it. But savings bonds stand iirm, gathering their interest every year. If the value of other things goes down, the buying power of Government bonds goes up. Ask Dad, he knows. And, if Dad is wise, he knows that when the time comes for the children to go ?way to school or college, it is pleasant to go to the bank and cash a few savings bonds to pay for them. He knows that if ill-fertune strikes ? say a big hospital bill, or an accident ? it is a great comfort to know that the bonds are there, in the old sock if you like. A man we know began buying savings bonds on a small scale back in the early forties. As his income improved, he in creased his Investment in the payroll eav? ings plan. Before he knew it he had sev eral thousand dollars ? enough for the down payment on a pretty house in the suburbs and some left over to buy into a business run by a trusted friend. Today, he if sitting pretty, if anyone is. * Walking Is Aid To Health The average American tourist'* view of America is the 30 feet flanking the high way he can see from the window of his automobile. One person who deplores the fact that sightseers are seeing fewer sights than ever before is Dr. William M. Scholl, fam ous foot authority. Dr. Scholl's mission in life is to encourage people to take better care of their feet, and incidentally, to re introduce Americans to the old fashioned walk as a means of finding health and happiness. - "America is on the go, all right," says Dr. Scholl. "This summer and fall 35 mil< ' lion people will be on the highway* going somewhere on vacation, but most Ameri cans go so fast they see little or nothing except a white line down the center of the road and the rear ends of other auto mobiles. And when they're not whixxing along at 60 miles an hour or more, they're tied up in traffic jams." Dr. Scholl thinks people should plan ahorter trips and spend half the time on walking tours. "Obviously you'll tee much more on foot than through a tinted windshield," he says. "Whenever you see an interesting spot, stop, get out of your car and walk around. That way you can contemplate and appreciate your surroundings, and form a visual, lasting impression of the place you have visited. "I recently was listening to an ac quaintance tell about a vacation trip to the West Coast," Dr. Scholl says. "AH he could talk about was the fast time he made. "What really stuck in my mind was the statement, 'of course, I'd have gotten there quicker, but the mountains slowed me down considerably'. "And he wasn't referring to the majes tic mountains, the beautiful sunsets, or the breath-catching views ... he was com plaining because he couldn't drive as fast as he liked." And we can agree with the noted foot authority that proper exercise, through the use of the feet, does, in fact, promote generally sound bodies. Taxpayers Are Getting A Break (Jake Wade in Chapel Hill Weekly) Taxpayer* got a break in the appoint ment of Dr. William H. (Bill) Plemmons as president 6f Appalachian State Teachers Collage, a state-supported institution which has always beeh in able hands. Hit Chapel Hill colleagues will tell you that Bill Plemmons will be a worthy suc ceasor to B. B. Dougherty, who retired in June after 80 years as president and founder. . , MSvn i And Dr. Dougherty was ? good one, with a special and famed facility for ob taining first daas appropriations from the legislature to keep building and main " his fine school. Bill PlemmoM nay not be quite the in Raleigh that his pre*cesaor all right He is an mlnor-anooth. He will make the people in Boone, college with dexterity. Dr. Plemmons comes out of the right school at the University of North Carolina ?Education? where he has been a highly regarded tfocher and administrator. Ap palachian is getting a man who is primar ily interested in the teaching profession, and that is as It should be. Fallowing the announcement of the ap pointment, high University officials, in cluding Chancellor Robert House and Act ing President Harris Purks, sent their con gratulations to Dr. Plemmons, who has been on leave this summer on a teaching assignment in Colorado. At the same time they pointed out the great loss his transfer will mean to tl)e University and college community. Js Ose fellow townsman especially pleased was Dr. Ike Gffier, celebrated educator and Baptist layman, who comes from the Appalachian country and has a deep interest in th* state f *"^>1 there. WHAT?? AGAIN? By Paul Berdanier in a. A'l ?? Stretch's Sketches By " STRETCH " ROLLINS Corn on th ? Cob CfeAZY, MIXED-UP WORDS? Our worda are letting more complicated all the time. And I don't mean "aatidiaeatabliahmentariaoiam," which i* an oldie, ?a4 ? cinch when you break it down. Then all you gotta know is what the heck "mentarianism" means. But just is it was getting easy to distinguish between segregation and integration without furrowing the brew, along comes a headline Hy ing, "South Still Undesef re gated." Furrows again. You have no trouble, you say? Okay, quick now, with out thinking it over: Are you now, or have you evmr bean, an aatideaegrefa tioniat? FAMOUS FEMMES? A lady doctor recently started to make a atudy of the "1,000 moat famous women in all hiatory." But when ahe got to 163 she ran out of famous women. No comment. , FANCY FUSELAGE ? The next supersonic fi(hter plane will have what they call a "Mari lyn Monroe" deaifn. It ia also sometimes called the "Coke-bottle shape " Funny, but somehow I'd never thought of La Monroe bearing any resemblance to a Coke bottle. STRICTLY EDUCATIONAL? It is learned from John Parria, who roams the mountains for the Asheville Citizen, that Watauga County, formed in 1840, was not named for an Indian tribe, 11 some historians argue, but for a Creek word meaning "Broken Waters." (Just thought you'd like to knew, ia eaae you didn't.) " fi ttJr 7^*** ' s SCANTIER SKETCHES? Hear the 1996 auto* will have lower bodies, with upswept rear fender i and price taga. , . . A barber in Naples, Italy, aays he will challenge the California barber who claims he can shave a man in 17 aeconds without ruining his features. Any volunteers? . . . There are 53. 000,000 telephones in the 48. No wonder it's so easy to get a wrong number. There are 93 million, 599 of 'em. . . . Sen. Sparkman (D-Ala.) says "the political glamour has worn off Eisen hower." (He hopes.) . . . THE BREAKING POINT ? Another Senator, on "business" abroad, finds there ia "no unemployment in Russia." Well, we have places like that, too. (Sing Sing, San Quentin, Alcatraz. . . .) From Early Democrat Files Sixty Yeart Ago September 1J, MM Coffey brother* are having a new porch put on the front of their hotel and (tore building. Mr. George H. Brown of Poga had a poplar tree cut that containa 10,145 feet of marketable timber. The colored people In Boone are te be com mended for the effort* they are making to erect a nice church. They have the frame up. Solicitor Spainhour apent a part of laat week at home. He haa purchaaed a bicycle, and the moat of hia lelaure time waa apent in learning to ride the atubborn steed. He pranlaei, however, t* make an expert wheelman. The School at Sutherland Seminary, we are informed, la on a boom. There are now near 100 in attendance, and more are expected. New* reaches us that the Cranberry Iron k Coal Co., at Cranberry, is making preparations to resume work at once. Thirty-Nine Yean Ago September 14, 1*14. The regiaratiea book for Boone township haa been lost, and aa a remit, all the voters who reg istered in 1914 will be bound to re-register if they wish to vote in the November elections. The first passenger train on the VC Railway to arrive at Elkland since the heavy freahet in July, pulled into that station Monday afternoon, which will greatly facilitate our mails and other Mr. William Hodgea of Elk Township, a Con federate veteran, now 84 yeara old, and a wit ness in court here, walked from hia home, a distance of 11 miles, Monday, arriving here before court waa called at ? o'clock. Sheriff Meody awl one of hia deputies, Mr. Allen Miller, captured another illicit distillery Saturday night, this one coming out of the Sampson section. This one makes 14 diatilleries Sheriff Moody has captured during bis term of office. Fifteen Yomrt Ago "ifliwkn U, 1*41 The LinvtUe River Railway company ha* ap plied to the Interstate commerce comrnjaaion far permiaaion to abandon iU entire >14 mile line from Cranberry to Boone. Wendel L> Willkfc will aufce a metes trip across North Carolina in mid -October, probably speaking in Gastonia and Raleigh. The appointment of Mrs. Grace S. Bingham as acting postmaster at Sherwood was announced Friday by the poatoffic* department, lfrs. Bing ham was recommended for appointment by Rep resentative Robert L. Doughton. She succeeds her father, Mr. W. F. Sherwood. With freshman orientation and classification out of the way, Appalachian opened registration for upperclassmen Tuesday and at press time to day counted a total of 725 enrolled. Total regis tration will probably be around 1,000 or 1,100. Mayors and other leading representatives of the first district of the Western North Carolina Communities Association, met here Friday in the Junior Order Hall to discuss nutter* of co operative interest and lay plans regarding the advertising program of the Association. . . . The Unaecret Service i (Tracks Msgaxine) One of those small tropic republics which dotes on gaudy military apparel hired an American tailor to restyle Its uniforms. Among the en sembles suggested by the republic's chief of staff to the tailor was one with a green jacket, blue trousers, red boots and a canary yellow visored cap. The tailor blinked. "I take it this uniform is for the personal guard of el presidente?" be asked. "Oh, not at all, senor," the chief of staff ex plained. "This one is for the secret service." Old-Faahioned (Minneapolis Tribune) There's an okMashioned type in every neigh borhood?still wears sleeve garters, uses a hand lawnmower and watches wrestling on TV. Toothful Statement (Better Farming) Following recess, the teacher called one of her pupUs aside. "Johnny." she said. "I wai hap py to so* you down on yo?r hands and knees playing Mprbles with the new boy." "We weren't playing marble*," replied Johnny proudly. "We had a fight and I waa helping him piek up hi* taothi" - ? j KING STREET fl f9?HSiF B,R0BR,rERS NEW PAINT IN PALL OF JUSTICE The county commissioners ire having the courtroom repaint ed, so that the place will Appear ship shape when Superior Opurt convenes next week. . . . The courthouse, erected in 1904, and one of the last of the old home-made clay-brick buildings florijf the street, has seen better days, and requires increasingly large outlays for upkeep, besides the routine painting. . . . Built by a contractor named Cooper, similar structures were erected In Jefferson, Lenoir, Wilkesbora, and later when Avery county was formed, in Newland. . . . They were as alike as could be. . . The red brick used In the Boone building were made of clay taken from the bank about where the jail now stands, and were placed in the walls right out of the kiln. . . . Just east of the courthouse is its predecessor, constructed after Ihe fire in the seventies. ? . . The comb roof was removed years ago, and a flat top provided. . . . The construction of a new courthouse wouldn't be an issue which the people Would cherish, we believe, at this time, but the old one Is coming to be more and more of a prob lem as the years pass on. TRAGEDY TOUCHES THE MOUNTAIN RIM The possibility that the Chicago chemikt. whose putrid body was found in Kentucky, was actually killed in the vicinity of Blowing Rock, has caused a mild wave el comment here, but raise* nothing like the interest which used to generate when there was a shooting on the local scene. . . . Anyway, by the time this is printed, it is likely that murder warrants will have been issued for the Milwaukee man and woman who are believed to have taken the aged man for a ride and confiscated his auto. . . . The place of death, of course, mwst be established before the site of the trial can be pointed out. THE LETHAL CHAIR ... DO YOU RECKON? And some of the folks who still think of capital punishment in terms of thirteen steps and a knotted rone, suspended from the Fiiperstructure of a scaffold, have asked, "Reckon will thev hang 'em? . . , And this brines to mind the fact that a Watauga county man has never been executed so far as we know. A couple of timet, perhaps? in the case* of Clarence Potter and "'Uliam Baldwin? doom was pronounced by the presiding Judged later to be upset on appeals. . . . William R. Lovill, known as one of the area's foremost defense attorneys, always pleaded mightily against death sentences, both in the courthouse and in private conversations. . . . The eloquent barrister said that hang .ing was "catching." That is, if a jury found a man guilty of first degree murder and he was hanged, it would be much easier for succeeding courts to demand the supreme penalty. . . . And we recall Ed Miller's remarks: "Law. law, son. hangin' plumb ruins a man . . . yes, air, I've seen it tried three times." TOO MANY JUVENILES The Junior Woman's Club Is rendering a good service in the sponsoring of a kindergarten, we congratulate them . . . and mean nothing sinister bv recalling the time, a few yearn mo, when little Richard Agle was Mur sent unwllllafcty dnwn to the kindergarten. . . . He laid down as his final argument: "There's too many younguns down there . . . they bovver me!" CAMP OUITS THE FORCE Howard Camp, Boone nolice officer, who checked the parking meters here with rare diligence, but who W8S liked by the peo ple. has resipned and will take work with the enforcement di vision of the Wildlife Commission. . . . Meantime. Chief Richard son returns to the department, and officer W. R. Cottrell suc ceeds Camp in the traffic detail. . . . We have known of no more diligent or conscientious officer than Camp, and he'll no doubt be successful In his new work. Letters to the Editor Aid for Insomnia In looking over the editorial pace of the Democrat of the 8th inst.. t was attracted by the article on "Advice on Sleet), " alwayi an in teresting subiect, ?