There were frantic tunes around our house oa a recent Monday. ! There was the kindergarten to he called, the Sunday School teach er to be informed. There wen sev eral neighbors to be enlightened and the day's plans te be revised. Our son bad the mumps) ' We didn't know bow to lore warn expected dinner and over night guests en route from out of state. Finally we decided that if our germs were not good enough for die little red school house, the Methodist Church and some fine playmates in the neighborhood, we might as well let a few go bade to western Pennsylvania and show the people how infectioip a Tar Heel muiapmirrobe can te. But thf guests didn't show. So we've got Uas mumps all to our selves. We've got a few for our daughter, who hasn't had them, and a few iar the wife who some how escaped them in her youth, a dozen for me, who has had then on only one side, and one or two left over for the family of four ac ross the street that's planning a trip to Florida In two' weeks. And we were supposed to have left for the coast on the 20th. Res ervations all maile, friends slert ed snd fish warned too. Too, the wife had obligated to teach Bible School meantime. That is, if now we can have Bible School. We wonder how far we could have spread our mump i affluence had we sta y** rtr cturrti like the preacher MUM w to. But we've never seen 10 ?anyj people who havWt lw? mnnps When we meet then at the 4>or and tell them, ther*r* startled and say they'll come bark later. There vrifLtwo friends tnm Elizabeth City who got da tar at tha kitchen, did an about lace and a retreat in double timf. And there waa the fepairoaa tp put a mr and need ed handle on the refrigerator door. Their intereat teemed divided be tween twe deeca- ?the eeol air e^ caping from one and the germs marching four abreast through the other. Seems as u we had m visitors we actaaly wanted to leave ar te whoit| we wouldn't mipd fivipg a caae qf mumps. It occurs to me that one no lon ger sees quarantine signs en houaes where there ary contagious diseas es. I remember alien I had the measles and everything claa. the health department sent around a yellow or a red or an orange sign aud it was lacked 'bas id* the (root door. Once I ha4 a sore, throat or some thing and gargled with salt water the night before and in the morn ing before go?* to school. That day the public health aune came around. First, she weighed me, checked the weight against toy three-foot .height and put a little r?l tag oa ANNOUNCEMENT J hereby announce my candidacy for thm Dem ocratic nomination for Sheriff of Watauga County , subject to the action of the Democrat ic county convention. / I have been chief of police of the town of Boone for eight years, and have engaged in law enforcement work for a total of twenty years. - A number of people in the different sections of the County have insisted that I announce my candidacy for Sheriff. I will appreciate the support of the Democrats of the county. Glenn Boone, North Carolina CUSTOM SUPER-CUSHION New Treads ^GOOD^EAR $10.23 Size 6.70 x 18 PIu Tax ui Recappable Tire ? - $8.70 Applied to loud tire bMUe* ?r to your own tire* V Ton gat the famona tread design used on new car tirea, rat jw pay only about half new tin coat. Sleek, mod- ' am atybnf doaa wooden to bring yarn oar t*> to data. 9mr mUm m $1 M a *Nk MORI PEOPU KIDE ON 600DVIAI TKS TMN M ANT 9TMR KMD SWOFFORD'S ^ ' BOONE. H. C. PROTECT YOUR FAMILY BY BECOMING A MEMBBB OF Reins-Sturdivant Mutual Burial Association, Inc. TELEPHONE DIAL AMhant MM A tu> oat 9m b Charge Vfm The Following Dm Art la Effects DOUBLE BENEFIT Quarterly Tearbr Oae to Tea Y ear* $ M I Jf T? to Thirty Tear* ? A$,i Thirty to Fifty Yean _ M Fifty to te?yftoa Tear. LMfcft *M J me denotiag W? J>?w 40 pound, overwent and aMkin shoaid be done about it. Then, the look ed it my throat and sent me home. Said I had dtptheria. Tha white patches war* Cher*. She phaacd for ? quarantine sign and I phoned mother ta say tha mm had order ed an anti-toxin tmr me. Mather came home frwn work, took me to the family phyafcian who said I had no mere dtptheria than he. He dhhrt want ta litre at a shot, but the health depwtsaent wouldnt give it. So I ??t the shot and real ly sot sick. Not with diptheria, however. ? ' - From then on through school. I ?? wary of public health nurses and gave them a hard time. When they asked all the child ren who regularly drank milk to hold up their hands, mine was conspicuously down.,' When they' wanted to know who drank coffee, mine went up ft-oudly, boastful ly! - 1 Didirt ' I kaow that children shouldn't drink coffee? I told them I drank coffee at every meal. DMnt I know tnat coffee was had for fnfldren? I answered with the whole truth that my grandmother raised IS ehildreiT and the first solid food all of them got was soakile bread, and they ate soafci bread ' and drank eoffoe whetver they want ed to, and they were all healthy farmer*. And I was going to have mt coffee when I wanted it Who was a public health nurse? I wanted to know, that could say what was good for me when she eonldnt tell a case of diptheria from a gargled throat and couldn't compensate my weight in relation to my diminutive height and ad vanced age? For the benefit of the uncaltur ed person who doesn't know what soakie bread is, that's a homemade buttermilk biscuit dunked in cof fee. Dee-lieious. Good to this day! Of course, for being such a stub bornly rebellious little heel ev erytime the public health nurse same around, I had to stay in af ter school. But I told her off, I did! ' Com* (a thing of it, maybe I had a little bit to do with there not being any quarantine signl. BIG 8TRAWBERRIE8 Mrs. Z. T. Greene of Granite Falls was in town Saturday and brought the publisher of the Dem ocrat a large box of strawberries which were appreciated. The ber ries were unusually Urge, and are delicious. ? ' ? mi 1 hi iT; i m* #av? hot President Eisenhower htf taken * stand against any big Uu cut M ? way to attack the www*. ^ Furthermore, the president ask ed that Coagreas act tn prevent cuta ?f three hillioa dollars in corporation emjp Uixes