Scouts End Camporee
With Many Awards
!a, Twatf-mia Scouts ended Saturday
what Me kical Scout otfieial
descfibed m "Um toast suocmwJul"
camporee he remembers la
ttne troop* (root the Watauga
DiiMet were fepreiented IB the
•uttaK which began Friday after
Matt, And included activities suth
an • U| campfire, cuofcouU, and
hiking. At laact eleven full rank
advancements were noted, with
ail the Scout* participating paining
off nvinMMi M Mt kind or
grading Ml MMptHts, Scut ptff>
ticipation, adult participation, and
various uthe' activities. Troop Ml
took first place, troop SS second,
and Troop 114 third.
Troop 114, of Benson's Chapel,
•aa there with Willi* B. Cole as
Scoutmaster Bojrs la the troop included
A. C. Hollars, Johnny Wash
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Subscription Rates To The
WATAUGA DEMOCRAT
will adf«ae«
September 7, 1957
To partially compensate for sky-rocketing production costs,
the yearly subscription rate* to the Watauga Democrat will
be Increased September 7 to $2.50 per year in Watauga
county and 93.00 per year outride of Watauga eotraty.
This small Increase of SO cents per year is the first made
since the record inflation following the war. Most publications
hare doubled their rate* since then. However, we are
determined to keep our charges as low as Is possible under
a
existing conditions.
We solicit the continued cooperation and goodwill of our
family of readers, which has grown to record-breaking size.
WATAUGA DEMOCRAT
ROB RIVERS, Publisher .
J® : >K • ¥'v• 1 ••
GntiM, Jobnny Mi an Jimi
Henson, Tommy Cole, and Teddy
Mart.
Troop W. of Perkinsville Baptist
Church. MclMlod the troop and
Dm Explorer group Tta Exptor•H
haw rjrganlaad at a special
part of their equipment Include* a
boat mounted an a trailer for water
disaster.
Troop M hod at Scoutmasters
R. 0. Hodges, Jr.. and Buck Ho^
bin*. Beys represeatinu the troop
at the Camp Joy eampoico wore
Baker Edmisten. Joe Edmisten.
Jerry Greer, Roddy White, and
Bobby Wilson Explorers were Rufus
Edmisten, Buxzy Bumgarner,
Bobby Cook, Charles Michael and
Dean Wilson.
Boys from Troop 191, Boone
Baptist Church were Andy Sailings,
Marcus Cook, Eddy Paul
Winkler, John Harrison, Jimmy
Cannon, Larry Kessee, Bob Cook,
and Jimmy Cottrell. Jim Hadden
is Scoutmaster.
Adults spending the night with
the boys, besides Scoutmasters,
were Don Simpson, Howard Cottrell,
Hoye Greene, and Frank Coffey.
Several parents and friends
visited the camp during the period.
SCHOOL PUPILS*
When the school bells begin
ringing all over the nation In the
next weeks, there will be an estimated
total of 49,138,000 young
people enrolling In the schools
and colleges of the country. The
college student enrollment of 9,300,000
is an estimated increase
of some 206,000 this year, according
to the V. S. Education Commission.
Watauga Participates
In Forest Fire Meet
Asheville.—One of the most important
events la mountain forest
history U expected to take place
in Asheville. September at, when
more than • thousand rural tornmunity
leaden Iron 30 mountain
counties gather la the City Auditorium
for the Western North Caroline
Forest Fire Prevention Cofl
feronee. jiffce conference to ifMsored
by the AAerllle Agricultural
Development Council, the Western
North Carolina Associated Communities.
the Appalachian Lumbermen's
Clab, the Furniture. Veneer
and Plywood Council of the North
Carolina Foreotery Association
The fathering Is a part of a
concerted Mow the South Is strtkln«
at forest wildfire* estimated te
be costing the M southern states
nearly s quarter of a billion of
dollars per year Oovernor Luther
Hodges has said that North Carolina
burns up 39 million dollars
annually.
Theme of this luncheon meeting,
which starts at 10 oeiock and runs
until midsfternoon, will ha "Rural
community action can (top forest
fires." Ten prominent men representing
industry, education, and
government will speak on the forest
fire problem from the view
point of the lumberman, the pulp
and wood industry, the fanner,
businessman, banker, lawyer, the
schools and the wildlife conservationist.
As a regional follow-up to the
Governor's Conference on Forest
Fire Prevention attended by 2JKX)
leading North Carolinians in Raleigh
last autumn, the Western
North Carolina meeting will have
three principal aims:
(1) To inform the public of
heavy losses sustained by the
mountain counties from forest
fires;
(2) To- arouse militant public
opinion against the seriousness and
frequency of forest fires caused
by carelessness; and
(3) To receive and consider suggestions
for solving the forest fire
problem by unified community action.
People attending will study existing
education and public opinion
tools and how to use them.
They will learn how local pro
Geo. Eggers
Rites Are Held
George Calvin Egger*, age 75,
farmer of the Clark* Creek community,
paued away Saturday,
August II, at 5:00 p. m., at the
Watauga Hoepital.
Funeral aervkea were held Monday,
September 2, at 2:00 p. m„
at the Holy Communion Lutheran
Church. Burial followed in the
church cemetery The Rev. George
Shuford, paator, and the Rev. E.
F. Troutman conducted the aervicei.
Survivor* Include the widow,
Mr*. Lona Hollars Eggers; five
•one, Frank, Charlie and Ourney,
of Banner Elk, Tom of Oranite
Falls, and Robert of Cowiche,
Washington; sis daughters, Mrs.
Marshall Aldridge of Banner Elk,
Mr*. Oorman Cook of Boone, Mrs.
J. D. Ashley of Mountain City,
Tenn., Mrs. Dick Townaend and
Mr*. Hal Warren of Oranite Falls,
and Mrs. Morris Goodson of Mt.
Olive; one sister, Mr*. Charlie
Townaend of Banner Elk; one brother,
Eugene Eggera of Banner
Elk; and II grandchildren.
grama that an successfully operated
to reduce forett fire fan be
»ppUed in other local Met
Counties participating are Watauga,
Avery, Buncombe, Burke,
Caldwell. Cherokee, Clay, Graham,
Haywood Henderson, Jackson, Ma
MB, MadlsOn, McDowell, Mitchell,
Polk, Rutherford, Swam, Trahdylvania,
and Yancey.
Complete membership ha* not
been announced aa yet for county
committees who will promote local
interest. However, county cochairmen
have been named, and
for Watauga county these are L.
E. Tuckwlller, county agent, and
Crayte P. Teague, county forest
ranger.
All landowners .teachers, county
officials, spoilsmen, conservationists,
dub leaders, ministers, Industrial
representatives and other
interested citizens who want to
take an active part in cutting down
the number of fires set and acres
burned in the mountains are urged
to notify Mr. Tuckwiller or Mr
Tfcague this week If possible, so
that committees can make advance
arrangements.
Charles Smith
Dies In Idaho
OROFINO, Idaho—Charlei W.
Smith, 73, a Clearwater Valley resident
for 40 years, died at 7:48 p.
m. Saturday August 10th, at Orofino
Hospital, where he had been
a patient for two days.
Born Dec. 29, 1883, at Silverstone,
N. C., Mr. Smith spent his
youth on a farm there. In 1816
he moved to Cavendiah, where he
farmed for many years.
He moved to Weippe In 1939
and was employed as a woodsworker
in the Clearwater National
Forett until he retired six years
ago, moving to Oroflno.
Mr. Smith married Willa Reese
at Boone, N. C , Dec. 22, 1912. She
died in 1934.
He was a member of the Methodist
church.
Survivors include four son*,
Stewart, Headquarters; Raymond
and Coaley, both of Klamath Fall*,
Ore., and Donley, Oroflno; als
daughter a, Mr*. Bonnie Starr,
Pierce; Mrs. Marie Woods, Lew|
is ton; Mrs. Lucille Loomls, Port[
land; Mrs. Bessie Forest and Mrs
Ruby Carries, both at Orofino and
Mrs. Dolly Lipford, Portsmouth,
Va.; two sisters, Mrs. Bertha
Combs, Lynchburg, Va.. and Mr*.
Bessie Hodges, Fresno, Ohio, 99
grandchildren and two great
grandchildren.
American archeologists, digging
through the ruins of an ancient
Canaanite city near Nablus, Jordan,
have evidence it pre-dated
Jerusalem as. the chief religious
center of the area.
Taxation by states in fiscal 1967
set a record
London—Two acta of th«• r*.
chour the urn time of the
■tore and haul away the aame aafe.
When OM of tHe faag» arrived,
they fevad the other la tha act *1
removing the oft fram lu waaf>
inga They jalaad foree* ud tatted
the halt-ton aafa inta a tfMk
to divide the apoUa Mar. Hta»
while, polite had been notified
and thay rOuaded up the eealttioa
before they could divide the MM
la the aafe.
—
North Carolina «U production
avaragM a ilttlt 1*0 re than if
doaen egg* per hen per year.
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whom we hare served during dm part 12 yean that we hare been in
business,. iqclqding managers of a|vrea, cafes, hotels, schools, service
stations and other places of business In Watauga and Ashe Counties.
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