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I UGA SDEMOCRAT 2 KVLRY THURSDAY BY RIVERS PRINTING COMPANY B. C. RIVERS, JR., PUBLISHER to IMS. Published for 45 years by the iate Solicit C. Rlwm. Sr. SUBSCRIPTION RATES , S to Wititm Coooly: One year, ?U0; six month., glSO; (our months, 11.00. Outsid County: One yoar, SS.00; tlx months, fl.TS; (our uionth>. |1A NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS? In mjuwting change of sddress, it U Important to menUon the OLD, a* well as the NEW address. Entered at the postpfrtce at Boons, N. C., as second class null matter, under the act of Congress of March 1, lSTO. "The haaia of onr government being the opinion of the people, the very first objective should be to keep that right, and into It left te sm to decide whether w* should have ? government with rs. or newspapers without government, I should no* hesitate * sonant to ehooeo t Ishould mem that every man should receive these papers and be capable of BOONE. WORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1961 Public Invited From Mayor Howard Cottrell we get word that during his administration a special invitation is extended to Inter ested citizens to attend the monthly meetings of the Board, so that all may have an opportunity to know all about the municipal government. We would agree that all too often, citizens know only about those things which by their very nature make the front page, and Mr. Cottrell believes that a deeper interest in the goings on at City Hall on the part of Mr. and Mrs. Taxpayer would make for better govern ment and a better community. We share his belief. The new Mayor has also given us word that among his first recommendations will be for a regular systematic wash ing of the street in the business district, and that businessmen will be expected to keep the sidewalks in front of their places clean. The Mayor also speaks of an increased cooperation with the Garden Clubs and other groups in the beautification of the community. We have always had the opinion that a College or University town, of all places, should be the cleanest and at the same time the most orderly, and the off the cuff comments we gathered from the Mayor right after he took over the top spot In our town government cheered us, no end. A regular program of cleaning the street should, within itself, encourage all of us to sweep before our own doors, otherwise the effort will fail, at least half way. If we can develop a business district immaculately clean, and at the same time lend a hand to those who are turned toward flower gardening, we can easily foresee a day when Boone will be known as th)e cleanest and the prettiest little city of them all. When and if that day comes, we'll need little promotion, comparatively. The city will go about the job of selling itself, and do it effectively, too. Winter Bird Booklet During the recent snowy spell, house holders have had a lot of pleasure and performed a worthwhile service at the same time by providing feed for the birds which manage to inhabit the high hills when their more venturous fellows have sailed away to the sunny landsof the deep South. The FCX and perhaps other establish ments have provided mixed seeds, hand ily packaged, so that there is no fuss and worry about doing your shopping for the birds, and a little mpney and time spent in this regard will insure plenty of songsters when springtime comes. The Wildlife Commission, incident ally, has made available, free, a publi cation listing twelve common winter birds and their feeding habits, which should be required reading for those who like to share with the birds during their skimpy months. Included in the booklet are such song birds as the cardinal, mockingbird, song sparrow and white-throated sparrow. Also depicted are the blue jay, downy \yood pecker, tufted titmouse, Carolina chickadee, white - breasted nuthatch, junco, English sparrow, and starling. The booklet also includes sketches of several bird feeders and detailed plana for. a window-sill feeding station. Pre ferred foods of each bird are listed with the descriptions of the birds. Requests for the booklet, according to the commission, should be addressed to: Education Division, Wildlife Resources Commission, Box 2919, Raleigh. Clues To Prolonging Life The scientific heirs of Ponce de Leon may be in sight of some possible routes to a "fountain of youth," according to Dr. Noah Sloan, medical director of the Allstate Life Insurance Co. The encourgaing findings of medical science in its studies of the aging pro cess are discussed by Dr. Sloan in an article entitled "The Hope for Lasting Youth" in the current issue of Home & Highway, policy holder magazine of the Allstate Insurance Companies. Man has wondered why he ages per haps since he first became aware that he is mortal, says Dr. Sloan. "Only recently," he continues, "has medical science begun to glimpse some possible answers and to raise hopes for the exciting promise they offer." Nutrition,, temperature, genetics, temperament ? each of these offers clues, he says. Discussing temperature, for example, Dr. Sloan writes: "It has been calculated that if it were possible to reduce the temperature of human beings down to 60 degrees F., the duration of life would be lengthened to several hundred years." Spare part banks of frozen tissues, where defective hearts, kidneys or other human parts may be replaced, can be foreseen as another potential means of extending human life, says Dr. Sloan. Every day in the United States, 1,000 more persons swell the ranks of those who have reached the age of 65. With growing triumps over disease, further gains in longevity are bound to come, Dr. Sloan emphasizes. Out The Window (The Shreveport Journal) A news item from Philadelphia tells ?bout a nine-story building soon to be traded there at a cost of $4 million ? and not a window in the place. It's to be a medical researclPbuilding for the Temple University Medical Center. The Windowless walls provide a maximum of shelf and instrument space, make pos sible very accurate control of humidity and temperature, and eliminate all dust n? i noise from Ufa world outside. There was speculation that educators Wd school children might favor window leas schools so that pupils would be able to concentrate on their lessons without oatsid? distractions. But it is doubtful that this will ever come to pass. Half ? ? l-*" the fun of being in school is the delicious prospect of ultimate escape made more attractive by the sight of snowflakes outside, or the perfumes of flowers and the song of birds. Then there's the challenge to the teacher's skill in having these outside diversions as competitors for the pupils' interest. Windows may encourage day dreams, but are not children richer rather than poorer who have them? Th? world beyond the window pane is Im portant, and teaeTiers, who find sweet relief themselves by looting out the window when the going gets tough, know it's true. So out the window with th* whole idea. ?re Is Everybody?' SOME LOCAL HISTORICAL SKETCHES From Early Democrat Files Sixty Year* Ago February 24. 1M1. Dr. Hogshead of Banner Elk, passed through Saturday on his way to Flat Top to see Miss Titla Danner, a cancer patient. Mr. Hill Farthing, son of W. H. Farthing, and a son of Mr. I. S. Watson of Stony Fork, entered school at Watauga Academy on Monday. From a private letter that hap pened to get as far as Blowing Rock, we learn that the bill pro viding for a stock law for Wata uga and other counties has passed both houses of the Legislature. To try to run a paper In a moun tain section with the mails prac tically cut off, is indeed an arda-. ous undertaking. Possibly they are delayed on aeeount of good reads, for they were never better at this season, nor the mail facilities worse. Attorney George P. Pell of Jef ferson, has been employed by a party of capitalists to show them through Ashe, Watauga and Alle ghany counties in the near future, and he wants all the information he can get concerning valuable timber, minerals, etc. If you have any, write him and he may assist you in selling it We are indeed sorry to learn that the little son of Mrs. Dr. Reeves of Blowing Rock is dang erously ill. He has a spinal afflic tion and his condition Is thought to be critics). Dr. Houck of Lenoir and Dr. Parlier, the resident phy sician, are attending the little suf f ferer and we (till hope to heir of hi* recovery. Mr. Alex Perry of Burke wis in town list Thursday. He is in the county taking rights of way for the Trans ? Appalachian Railway that 1a now being surveyed from Lincolnton to the coal fields in Virginia. A very satisfactory grade his been made across the Blue Ridge, by way of Coffey's Gap and the corps Is at work near Valle Crucis now. Mr. Perry speaks very encouragingly of the enterprise, and says beyond question, that the road will be built as soon as the work can be done. Thirty-Nine Years Ago February 1C, 1*22. Dr. Fred Robert Farthing, died February 14th in Philadelphia af ter an illnesa with pneumonia of only a few days durations. Dr. Farthing was a son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Farthing of Boone . . . Fred was probably our most pro mising young man, having been a student for 20 years of his short life ... He graduated from Ap palachian Training School, The University of North Carolina Medical School; the Jefferson Medical School In Philadelphia ... He pisaed the State Board of Medical Examiners and was doing intern work in St. Joseph's Hospi tal, in Philadelphia when he was stricken . . . Funeral will be con ducted in Boone today from the Baptist Church by the Reverends Huggins and Brinkman, and inter ment will be in the town ceme tery. A Kelly-Springfield Compound Just One Thing AFTElt ANOTHER John Bragaw wrote something about the use of the word amuck several years ago. The item went like this. A reporter used the word in one of his stories in this manner. "A mad bull got loose in Williamsport yesterday and ran a terrible muck down Main Street" Which brings to mind a story that the late and beloved Colonel Ed Flanagan used to tell. A fanner, from the Bethel sec tion of Pitt County, visited the Colonel's office in Greenville' to see him about buyinj a Ford car. He wanted to buy it on deferred payments Naturally, Colonel Ed wanted to know something about his financial resources, so he ask ed him a number of questions. The farmer was a little bit restive during all this quizzing. Finally Ed asked him: "Mr. Harris, are you under any obligations to any body?" Banging his fist down en the desk, the farmer replied emphatic ally: Colonel Flanagan, 1 ain't un der to obli-doggone-gations to anybody I" He got the car. Here's a rather unusual coincid ence: Mr*. Hubert A Royster, Mrs. Lee Betty and Mra. J. S. Maffitt live in adjoining homes in North Carollaa. All three an silrti of Maryland. Not only that, but all three are natives of Somerset County, Md. All three married North Carolinians and they never knew M* another until the? mov ed down to this sate. i And here s another one: A week or so ago, Joe Hardison, of Edward* & Broughton Co., Ra leigh, was opening the morning mail. He kept track of the checks in letters. With only one more to go, and the total amounted to $681.33. Then he opened the last letter, found another check, and discovered to his amazement that It was for $681.33. Rhode Island is the smallest Mate tn the UrUdn. Practically avery state has a motto. Rhode Island's motto is "Hope." Just four letters. Smallest motto in the Union. Practically every state has a atate flower. Rhode Island's is the violet. One of the smallest flow en in this country. In Raleigh we have the A A P stores B ft B cafe C ft C Motor Company D ft U Market G ft S Department Stare H ft H Tire -ReTreading Co. L ft L Grocery K. N. L. Tuto Service N ft U Beauty Shop 0. K. Clothing Co. R ft S. Packing Co. 8 ft W Cafeteria If you went to bed at eight o'clock at night and set the alarm clock to get up the next morning ?t nine, bow long would you sleep, provided that y?u went to sleep right away and woke up when the ilarm clock started ringing? No; thirteen hours la not the correct answer. Road Roller, weighing fifteen tons, was unloaded here Monday and was put to work the same evening on the Boone Trail High way. Mr. John F. Hardin left yester day morning for Limestone, Tenn. to visit his brother and sister-in law, Mr. and Mrs. James F. Har din, who, according to messages received, are both very ill with grippe or kindred disease. Df. Jones left for Baltimore Tuesday morning, taking with him his father-in-law, Mr. M. B. Black burn, who will remain there a while for hospital treatment Mr. J. B. Taylor, our Ford dealer, has received a big consign ment of cars and trucks and is now prepared to supply your needs while they last, and then will have more as soon as they can be shipped. The recent deep snow has gone away as suddenly as it came, the weather having been almost springlike for several days, so that only a few patches of snow, where it was deepest, remain. Fifteen Years Ago February 21, 1946. J. W. Beich, popular local man who received his discharge from the army last September after four and a quarter yean of active duty, has accepted a position with the Statesville Theatre Cor poration and assumed the duties of assistant manager at the Ap palachian Theatre here Monday. President Truman has nominat ed 0. Max Gardner, native of Shel by and former North Carolina Governor to be undersecretary of the treasury, succeeding Daniel W. Bell, who resigned last year to take a Washington bank job. Mr. David P. Lavietes, president of the D & P Pipe Works, states that purchases of burls" have been unusually heavy for the past few weeks, and that he now has about two thousand tons of the raw pro duct at his factory here, or prac tically a year's supply. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Brendall was damaged to an un determined extent Monday by fire, which caught presumably from a flue. The fire department responded promptly and the blaze was brought under control before any very great damage wa? done. ? Dr. W. Amos Abrams, of the college faculty will be a discus sion leader at the third annual Renaissance meeting for North Carolina to be held at Dnke Uni versity. Durham, February 23. 't is announced here. Dr. W. R Richardson of the Boone Drag Co. has gone to Chapel Hill, where he will spend four days attending lecture* and demonstrations on new drugs and pharmaceutical procedure* at the State University School of Phar macy. Mr. Guy Hunt spent Sunday with his mother, Mrs. Lee Hunt, whose home is in Glendale Springs. Having suffered a stroke six weeks ago Mrs. Hunt has been confined to her bed si nee. Mrs. Howard Brown and two small eons of Ohio returned home Sunday after spending a week with her mother, Mrs. Minnie Cud?iy, who has Just returned from the Wilkes Hospital. KING STREET By ROB RiVERS At City Hall . . Some Changes Occur Coincident with Mayor Gordon H. Winkler's being sworn into membership in the State Senate, Councilman Howard J. Cottreil was elevated to the top spot in the City government and John H. Councill, prominent businessman, took Mr. Cot trell's place on the Council, and will serve with incumbents Dr. W. R. Richardson and Grady Tugman. Mayor Winkler, who held city office longer than any other man, so far as we know, had a good record at the helm of the government, and retires from city hall with the good will and best wishes of the people of the community. It is interesting to note that Howard Cottrell's father had served as a member of the city Board and as Mayor of the town, in fact was mayor when the city's first water system was installed. . . . Likewise his grandfather, Calvin J. Cot treil, a Confederate veteran, who was mangled by a minnie ball in the gory fire of Shiloh, had served on the Town Board. John Councill, too, is following in the footsteps of his father in taking on duties at City Hall. . . . Tracy Councill served ably as Mayor of the city, and was in the ascendency in the public and business life of the community when he was fatally stricken. ... It is also intresting to note that a relative of Mr. Councill, J. W. Councill, was a member of the first Board of Aldermen of the Town of Boone, and the community grew up around Jordan Councill's Store, and a postoffice was established here in 1823 which was known as Councill's Store. It was not until 1872 that the Town of Boone was in corporated and chartered by the Legislature. . . . The first Mayor of the Town was W. L. Bryan. The original board was composed of J. W. Councill, Dr. J. G. Rivers (our grandfather), T. C. Coffey, the Rev. J. W. Hall and J. B. Todd. So it would appear that Messrs Cottreil and Councill are following in the traditions of their families in undertaking public service in the community, and they may be expected to act with competence and with devotion to the public good in their new fields of duty. * * * * At The Postoffice . . A New Man ? And at the postoffice Ralph Beshears has taken over the Acting Postmaster ship, succeeding Ralph G. Greene, following the change in the national admiinstration, which invariably calls for a considerable shift in the postoffice de partment. . . . And it is a happy thing to note that those who have authority in the matter have seen fit to recommend Mr. Beshears for the job. ... A man who's been in the servjee for many years, who's taken an active interest in the civic and religious life of the community, Ralph Is admirably equipped to carry on this important community service in good fashion. . . . Boone postmasters have been good men all along the line, and the newest one to occupy the place has our congratulations and best wishes for a fine tenure. Postmasters are pretty important people . . not so much so, maybe, as in the days when about the only thing to look forward to during the cold winter days when the arrival of the mailman, and his pouches of letters, and circulars and catalogs. . . . The postoffice was a focal point in the life of the community and the Pastmaster ranked right alongside the High Sheriff in the esteem of the people. In our growing up days we called for the mail at M. B. Blackburn's store, where a small corner of the big mercantile establishment was partitioned off with lattice work to make room for the postoffice. . .. Our box was supposed to have a key to it, but our dad had lost it long since and is was never replaced, so we always called for the mail, when the opening of the little window signified it had been "put up." . . . We were especially attentive as a child when on Tuesday morning tfie mail down from Blowing Rock fetched the Sunday edition and the funny papers. We- don't know who postmastered ahead of our good friend Mr. Blackburn, but he was followed by our mother, Mrs. R. C. Rivers. . . . Later came M. P. Critcher, John E. Brown, W. D. Farthing, A. W. Smith, W. G. Hartzog, Edgar Brown, Lyle Cook, Ralph Greene, and finally Ralph Beshears. . . . We think we named them all, and they all functioned well. Uncle Pinkney HIS PALAVARIN'S DEAR MISTER EDITOR: I think the various state* is go ing to have to revise their stand ards fer gitting a driver's license. In most states tbey make a feller take a eye test, and In some states they even make him take a mental test. It ain't worked out so good, as you can see by counting the dead and wounded on our highways. Everybody laughed here a few years ago when the Traffic In stitute of some University come out with a announcement that a two-year study showed the bent automobile drivers was morons with a mental age of 19 and who couldn't see none too good. They said their study showed that thia type driver, not having much mind to start with, had to keep what little he had concentrated on what he was doing. A smart feller would give a certain amount of thought to his driving, a cer tain amount to the gal on th< corner with the wind blow'ng her skirts, and a certain amount to the conversation going on in the back seat. But the moron puts his whole soul into his driving. And having pore eyesight, he juat don't bother to look no place except where he's driving. I saw t monkey riding a mo torcycle on television the other night Some how or other, the more I looked at It the leu I waa Impressed. The highway] is full of monkeys driving sutofno biles. You'll often see some eagle eyed feller, maybe a college grad uate, driving his car down the road about 70 miles a hour, dodg ing in and out of traffic, with his left hand and arm swung up on the roof of the car, just like a monkey swinging from a limb. No, I wouldn't be surprised. Mister Editor, if we don't need to take a new look at our require ments fer git ting a driver's lic ense. And I see by the papers where a tax expert sayt 79 per cent of the money spent on tobacco and liquor goes to the Guvernment in direct and indirect taxes. I reckon a feller that just has to smoke and drink can git some satisfaction out of that fact. Un cle Sam distributes our tax money all over the -.vorld. Cigarette and liquor money sends wheat to In dia, clothes to boys in Africa who up to now has been happy without any, and butter to coun tries that never seen It before. Yeh, I reckon if a feller wanted to, be could almost make a mar ter of hiaeelf fer smoking and drinking. And a column writer says farm ers and rancher* do 87 per cent of all the complaining in this country. I figger there ain't no thing wrong with that. Farmers and ranchers la the moat over worked and underjoyed folks in the nation. Yours truly, UNCLE PINKNEY.
Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.)
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