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tauga democrat Y BY RIVERS PRINTING COMPANY JR., PUBLISHER Weekly N|j^i|il far <i ;nn by the late SUBSCRIPTION RATES •,s3 C. Riven, ftr. 9LQ0; 0«UMi VilMH C»u«ty vflM M K 1 it it Important t* mention the OLD, Jr sNash Is Honored The ApapUchUn High School Band, 3. Perry Watson, director, appeared in a visual music program Saturday night, staged in honor of Gordon A. Nash, head of the music department at Appalachian College, who founded the High School Band twenty years ago. More than four hundred gathered for the occasion, the significance of which had been kept secret from Mr. Nash, and a lively program wis presented. College President Plemmons, James C. Harper of Lenoir, veteran bandmaster and past president of the American Bandmast ers Association, and others brought greet ings and the College Alumni Aasoication, through Secretary Roy Blanton, present ed Mr. Nash recordings of the concert and the testimonials. It was a happy occasion. Mr. Nash has worked diligently at the High Schpol and the College, in helping to develop an out standing program of training for those de siring musical careers. At the same time he has contributed generously of his time and talents to the churches of the com munity in the developments of their musi cal ministries, and has been anxious al ways to aid in every civic enterprise. We are glad that Messrs Watson, Blan ton. Dr. Plemmons and the others paid him honor. He deserves it. Seek Carolina Data The advertising division of the Depart ment of Conservation and Development received inquiries last year from 118,018 persons interested in North Carolina dur ing last year, every state in the Union and 85 countries and dominions outside of the United States having been heard from A breakdown of the inquiry figures shows that New Yorkers sent in more in quiries than people from any other state, except North Carolina, with 13,344. Tar Heels themselves were the most anxious to have data on their state and forwarded 20,098 inquiries. Navada tailed the list with 81. The other eight states in the top ten after North Carolina and New York were in order Pennsylvania 8,219, Ohio 7,849, New Jersey 5,598, Illinois 5,342, Michigan 4,996, California 3,977, Florida 3,803 and Virginia 3,449. Canada topped the foreign inquiry list with 1,397. Indonesia was second with 164. The remaining eight in the top ten were: Spain 156, England 99, Iraq 87, Ar gentina 67, Brazil 66, Australia 52, Ger many 54, and Mexico 42. No inquiries were received from the Soviet Union or satellites Hungary and Poland. From Yugoslavia 15 inquiries were received, and 1 from Czechoslo vakia. Another February Birthday ??• „ ...» ' J J During February, America observes the birthdays of several of its Illustrious sori3 —Washington, Lincoln, and Thomas Edi son. Another birthday celebration of na tional proportions in which all America can properly join is that of the Boy Scouts of America. Scouting in the United States reached its 47th anniversary during Boy Scout Week, February 8 to 11 It Is difficult to recall when our nation did not'have this character-building, leisure time program for its boys and young men. Since February 8, 1010, more than 20, 000,000 American boys and men have been influenced by the Scout Oath and Law. They have had the benefits of Scouting training, fellowship, handicraft skills, and high adventure. America is all the richer for it Many men in high places in American affairs to day proudly credit Scouting's influence in their lives. Today over 4,900,00 boys and men are actively enrolled in 490 local councils with a membership of 111,000 unit*. Fortunate indeed are communities where Scouting flourishes. American iiidults of good character give generously of their time in giving leader ■hip. Others help by raising funds, or in serving as members of local Boy Scout councils which in turn provide: training for leaders, camp facilities, worthwhile year-round activities, personal advance ment, and opportunities for Scouts to render community service. This summer there will be a "mountain peak" experience for more than 50,000 Boy Scouts, Explorers, and their leaders when they gather at historic Valley Forge in Pennsylvania for their Fourth National Jamboree. We earnestly hope our com munity will be well represented when Scouts from all over the nation camp to gether. It will be a gathering of youtA who will be among the nation's top leaders a few decades hence. 'What Is News? (Qoldsboro N*w»-Argun) What it news? asked the Heartless One. —And putting down his glass he £uwered: News to rape, rourdar, suicide, shootings, maiming, fires, blasts, tragedy, storm, tor nado, cyclone, hurricane, blood in the gutter, more teeth scattered around and legs and arms torn off. A-bombs and H bombs and sinkings and drownings and battles and carnage, abortions, seductions, gory details, divorces, Cain, Judts, Attila, Catherine de Medici, Mussolini, Hitler. What is newsT said the Poet—Putting down his book he lookad afar off and an swered his question. News is moftnlight and starlight and summer dawns and gentle breezes, of the essential immortality of man, his courage, his indomitable soul, "for which I thank whatever Gods there bo," youth walking hand in hand, male and female, the dove's gentle coo, the thrill of an infant—your infant—as he makes the first tentative clutch of your finger, the uplift of a little hand placed confidently in yours. Wind and sand and surf, flat plains of good earth rolling outward to the horizon, cattle gracing in green fields, a tree lifting its arms to heaven, sleep, and friendship and fellowship and faith. Indomitable Moses, gentle Jeeus, magnificent Paul, Confucius, Lin Yutang, the Prophet, Bote bte Burn*, Robert E. Lee, the great general whoee soul cried out in pain because he had to make war, Abraham Lincoln, Archi bald Rutledge, Elton Trublood, Plato, Aristotle, the Psalms, and the 14th chap ter of John's gospel. What is news? asked the Philosopher. —In words hard to be understood, he an swered his own question. Of man's relation to man, of man's learn ing what life means, of prtnicples of truth and tfeauty, of ability to determine one's own place in life, of what makes courage, of what makes weakened souls, of the na ture of war and peace, of religion, and the great faiths, of the essential goodness of all men. of the eternal and everlasting climb of man from his apelike beginnings to an ever higher plane. What is news, asked the Editor.—Tumb ling the copy paper in his hand, he an swered: News is all of those things and more, it is a balance one against the other. It is the mirror of life of the reflection of the little things which man gives himself to, his bornlngs and his dyings, his babies, his church, hi* clubs, his Minings and hit goings, and of his great loneliness and his need always for assurance. Of ssch is Stretch's Sketches By "STRETCH" ROLLINS No Special Training Required AN AUTHORITATIVE OPINION is often something one could get along Just as well with out the benefit of. A couple of eminent psycho E199Hjj?>£" | logists have put their eg# ^k__. heads together and have come | up with the ensuing pro I found pronouncement about ! "How to recognize an abnor ZtjAk mal person: "He show* changes in be ■ havior, has strange losses of I memory, thinks people are ^ plotting against him, talks to himself or hears voices, thinks people art watching him or talking about him, has visions, smells strange odors, has pe culiar tastes, complains of impossible bodily ail ments, aid behaves in a manner dangerous to himself and others." Well . , . yes. I'd say such a person was just a wae bit abnormal. It sort* somehow reminds me of the time I was driving a Model A Ford through the wilds of South Carolina, when she suddenly conked out on me. And me without even a piece of baling wire and chewing gum. To make a short story as long ss possible, I found a fellow at a nearby farmhouse who claimed to be a mechanic, spec ialising in Mr. Ford's Model A. "Have It pun-in' lak a kitten fer ye in two jerks of a calf's tail," he uid. So he brought out a few wrenchea and things, raised the hood and tinkered around for about half an hour. She (till wouldn't go. Than he slammed down the hood, gathered up hia tools, fixed me with an accusing eye as though I had been withholding vital information, and an nounced: "I know what's the matter with the thing, buddy. They's sump'n wrong with it, that's what's the matter wtth It!" ' TWO LOCAL OTMRODS, the story goes, were down the country on a duck-hunting foray, and though they had been shooting for hours, they had bagged nary a duck. "It's getting late," one of them finally said. "Whaddaya say we miss two' more and go home?" A MAGAZINE COVER promises to tell OS the inside "How Elvis Presley Gets His Girls." For a guy with a million bucks (more or less), a different Cadillac for every day in the week, and a built-in Mambo course—that's a problem? ONE FOR THE ROAD—The week's award for honesty, or something, goes to the British doctor who suggested in a medical Journal that doctors' waiting rooms offer pamphlets explaining how a person can leave his body to science. From Early Democrat Files Sixty Yeart Ago Fehraary 11, 1M7. , The Asheville Citizen expect* to put typeset ting machine* in it* office. Thi* is, we believe, the fifth newspaper office in North Carolina to determine to uae the wonderful machine*. David Ray has entered school at Mountain City, Tenn. Two lformon Elder* are now In the county distributing their literature and preaching their doctrine. Mrs. Harriet Brinkley of Amantha gave birth to three baby girls on Friday of last week. There la but ope living. Thos. Bingham reports that his bill to cut a slice off of Mitchell county and add it to Wa tauga, tailed to materialize. Master Stewart Coffey, who is attending school at Mountain City, Tenn., has been at home a few days on a visit. The Governor ha* offered • reward of $100 for the appreheniion of the party or parties who burned the bsm of Mr. L. M. Waters some weeks ago. The weather has been jo rough for the past faro weeks that business has been practically saapended. The mails have sot made regular trips aad Monday and Tuesday of this week have brought us the accmumulated mails of three ar four days. We have had inow, ice, sleet and rain, which blockaded the streams and roads. A food man finds good wherever he goes, for the good la him brings out the good in other*. ThlrtyNtnm Yeart Jgp Feftraanr 14. ltli. Mr. Dean Bingham, who has been working at Trenton, N. J., for aevtral months, is visiting his parents. Mr. and Mrs R L. Bingham in The Democrat It Indebted to W. 0. Todd for soma nloa turnip greens Out grow under the Mr. Lathar Thomas of Hickory paaeed throagh Taaadsy on his retarn from a rather extended trip to Taoaeeaee and Virginia in quest of a good pair *t mules Whan he got back to Wa tauga fee fewnd just what ha va^Jprtng far la ; v- v J®-"/ the ■table of Mr. fiord Ward, drew him a check for six hundred dollar* and vent on hit way. He (old hl» farm near Tracy to Mr. Bunk Sutherland for a consideration ranging somewhere' from twelve to sixteen thousand dollar*. , It had been conceded for several day* that the bonds for the extenaion of the Unvtfle River Railway from Shulls Mills to Boom would be voted by a comfortable majority, but the moat sanguine never had an idea that a real landslide of vote* for the bonds tn the town ship awaited them at the election last Tues day. . . . There were 221 vote* for the bonds in the townahip and only 83 against . . . The company will push the work as rapidly as pos sible as they have only twelve months from the data of the election in which to complete the work, and knowing that the winter* here are uncertain, they will (train every nerve to have the train running into Boone by early fall. ... Fifteen Yeart Ago February 11. IMS. With the great Blue Ridge ParkMqr to con nect the Shenandoah National Fart with the Smoky Mountains National Pa#k three-<jt>arters completed, no new construction work will bo undertaken during the war period. That la the information sent Congressman Zeb Weaver of the 11th North Carolina dlfxtct by A E. Demoray, acting director of the National Park Service. Wade E. Brown, chairman of the local civil defenst council, stataa that Friday, February IS, will be signup day for volunteer civilian duty in case of emergency developiilk out of the war. Cards are at Cove Croak High School, Valle Crucia public school. Blowing Rock High School snd st the office in the bank building W. O. (Bad) Osborne, who has boon serteneiy ill in a Hickory hospital, has boon discharged and I* with relatives at Hudson. Mr. Ogborne's left lag was amputated whoa Mood poison de veloped from a slight injury, and hip condition is described as critical. Appalachian defeated Catawba ia a fast bas ketball game at Salisbury Saturday night. 'If , i 1 IMvJ, KING STREET® By ROB RIVERS "DOWT BELIEVE IT," HE SATS From Walter Monfried in the Milwaukee Journal, we learn that a lot of the thing* we uaed to believe just aren't true. . . . For instance, a man with borae aenae, has scarcely no sense at all; elephants do forget, he says; the stomach cramp* we had as a youngster didn't come from the green apples we ate, but from our hunger; a drowning man doesn't bob up and down like a fishing cork, maybe three times, before he sinks for good, and one's heart doesn't come on the left side. ... And while we aim to hold to aome of our old beliefs, such as that horsehairs placed in water make worms; that a beheaded turtle.won't die till sundown, that whiskers keep on growing on a dead man, and that handling toads will surely make warts on the hands, we are Interested in Mr. Moiifried's observations, which are herewith reprinted:* ■ " ' • ' We live iti a skeptical age, as little Virginia was told when she asked the New York Sun whether there was a Santa Claus. Virginia received a gladsome, immortal affirmative. But the illusions of almost everybody else have been shattered by chill scientific observations. Just the other day, for example, a Kansas biologist announced that thedove is no bird of peace—he fights as much as any other. Tne supposed traits of almost all other members of the animal kingdom have been disaproved. •Quiet as a mouse? Just hear a pair rattling within the walls on a winter night! And mice don't care particularly for cheese —bacon is preferred. Horse sense is not much sense—chimps and elephants arc more intelligent. A snake can't paralyze a bird with a gaze, but he can die before sunset. The oppossum doesn't "play 'possum" consciously; fear sends him into a state of shock. The lion is no braver than the next fellow; he avoids trouble if he can. That seemingly wise old owl is a fairly stupid bird. The pig is not especially dirty; he wallows at times to shake off pests or to keep cooL Hoot owls and goats hardly get drunk, since they never touch alcohol. The assertion that the ostrich hides his head in the sand to avoid enemies is one of the oldest mis-apprehensions. An elephant can forget. If a chicken is chicken hearted, how can roosters develop. into such desperate fighters? Being color blind like other animals, a bull is no more enraged by the wav ing of a red flag than of any other. Despite what you've been told, a male dog will attack a female. Countless cases prove a bestial lack of chivalry. Why is the jeweler's dummy clock set at 8:21? "That's when Lincoln was shot," you may answer inaccurately. Lincoln was shot at 10:15 p. m., and died at 7:22 a. m. The 8:21 angle gives the jeweler clear space for his name above the middle. There is no such thing as an undertow, despite universal be lief to the contrary. The recession of heavy waves may carry a person out to sea, but there is no force that pulls him down. Green apples cause no more stomach aches than ripe apples, other things being equal. Little boys bolt the green ones be cause they are sour—hen<;e the midriff pain. ■" ' "W Before airplanes became commoh, people thought that aityone falling from a high distance would lose consciousness in the air. Parachutists have disproved that for good. A drowning man may come to the surface three times—or i ten or seven or none. Not necessarily three. Why do so many ministers' sons go to the dogs? The answer is'easy—not many do, proportionately. Both in America and England, sons of clergymen achieve eminence or success in a proportion far beyond sons of men in almost all other callings. A diamond, despite its unrivaled hardness, can wear out like anything else. Glaziers report that their stones sometimes wear out in eight to ten weeks. Owners of phonographs are advised to change their diamond needles every year, if they play records frequently. Your heart, if you have a normal body, is not on the left side, and whether you sleep on the left or right side makes no diff erence to that important organ. Nor kre your eyes affected (Continued on page seven) So This Is New York By 1SORTH CALLAHAN Thi« town i< abuzz with talk o< its prodigy of knowledge. young Charles Van Doren who ham won over *100,000 la prize money on television. From Wall Street to Columbia University where he teachei, I have found groups ex citedly discussing this human encyclopedia, some with envy, but moat with pride that would do honor to a winning football team. They give his famous father, Mark, much credit for the son's success —but after all, dad la not there when the difficult questions come to Charles on the *FV program— and for the first time, at le^st la that form. The brilliant young man Is careful to explain some thing which sbsssi good for us all ts know: that when he was grow iag up and ssking such questions at home, he was not told the an swers by bis wiae father who doubtless could hare given many of them—but waa told to look up the answers himself—and doubt less this Is mainly why he r« members se much now A local speaker told the story of a little watch which wm die satisfied with being in a man's pocket It envied Big Ben, the great tower clock, and wanted to be up there where it eo«ld serve the multitude. Suddenly, the little watch had its wish. It as drawn up to the tower. But from Mow it was invisible. Its elevation had become Ha annihilation. A few years ago, they were sar in! that the day of the skysciapei was over and that all the new buildings <WM he only a Isw stories high For awhile here, there was quite a rash of low structure*, as in moat other places. Buildinrs seemed to be ranch style. Then for some reason, the architects raised their tights again. Now you ran hardly walk a block in Manhattan bat what you come upon another skyscraper from about 30 to 00 stories in' being erected. They teem to run height, how«rer, no more project ed Chrysler or Empire State buildings. The sidewalk superin tendent fad has reached such a state that one building going up haa a faney fence around the foundation work, expenttoely painted by high-powered artists, with "knot holes" neatly drilled at Just the right height and ap propriate wise-cracks by promi nent cartoon liti lettered in Just i for good measure To cap the iltu-l at ion, toft music it piped alongl the fence to rente the ear* while 1 the eyes are a too feasting The eminent phyctoitt. Or. Arth ur Compton. ad retted a large ga thering of local college student* and presented a strong eaae for Christianity. Later one of the stu dents came up and aaked bow h* could really be shown Christian ity. Dr. Compton aaked for an or ange. peeled and at* K. and then aaked his young questioner If h* knew how the orange tasted "Of eourte not," waa the reply. "Only the person who ate It can toll that" Answered the great scientist "8* It I* with Christianity. Yon must tatto M yourself "
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