Section C WATAUGA DEMOC VOL. LXXTV? NO. 1?. BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER It, 1M1 FATHER LOST ARM IN FIGHTING Uncles Of Dr. Moose Wrote Of Trials Of Life In Civil War erat two letters written by hii maternal uncle* W. P. Arte and G. V. Arte during the day* im mediately preceding the battle of Gettysburg, while both were ferv ing in the Confederate armies. W. P. Arte wrote hi* mother as follow*: De?j mother: I take the op portunity of writing you a few line* to let you know that I am am still alive and tolerable well, only 1 am very tired. We left camp Thursday morning, started in the direction of Culpepper, marched Thursday, Friday and today until S o'clock. We have (topped about five or fix mile* on thi* *ide of the Rappidan River, but we will not itay here longer than tomor row morning. We have luffered a great deal on account of the heat and duit. The cavalry had a skir mish yetterday on the other ilde of the Rappidan. That i* the rea son we stopped to find out if the enemy has any infantry. The Yankees have also crossed about Fredericksburg. Our army has divided in five divisions. I think the aim of our Generals>-wai to make a flank movement wthout him finding it out, but he has found it out and sent his cavalry across ahead of us. I think there will be bloody battles fought be fore many days. Our regiment has suffered on the march with sore feet and a great many gave out. I am nearly broke down. Hy feet are sore. I. have no more to write at present, but remain your true son until death, W. P. Arte. The letter was dated June 6, 1863 from Iverson Brigade. Writes Front Hospital The second letter is written by G. V. Artz from General Hospital No. 8, Raleigh and dated June 10, 1863. It says: Dear liater: I embrace the pres ent opportunity of addreaaing you a few lines which will inform you how I am at present. I am not any better now than I was when at horn*. Some days I feel vary wail and than again 1 feel Just as bad asj ever, so I do not see that I am im proving any at all. There ia a rising coming about where the kernel is with Nalplex ONI- COAT FIAT WAU FINISH * ?AST TO UM. One coat eov ers beautifully, with never ? brush or roller mark. Dries quickly, h*j no "painty" odor. ? ?AST CUJUMW. There's no messy clean-up alter using Nalplex. Wash pans, rollers, Unahes Id soap and water. I ? ?AST fO CHAM. TV rk* Nalplex colon aft i dnch to kssp at ti active. Nalplm has ? fat truly washable finish. V. L Moretz & Son AM MM BUSY STUDENTS. ? Jerry Weit of Boone, left, and B urban Savelle of Charlotte, will be two buay students when alumni return to the campus of Appalachian State Teachers College. West is parade mar shal for the big event which begins at 11 a. m. Saturday, with bands, floats, and dignitaries following a rout down Boone's King Street and through the campus. Miss Savelle is vice president of Chi Lambda Chi and will be on the welcoming committee for the homecoming. at my thigh joint It does not pain me but very little. The soreness is on top o.' my hip bone or rather inside of the hip bone. This is my right thigh and hip and leg that is affected. I have been rubbing it with "Idean Ointment," but it don't seem to do any good. I can't tell the reasons why I can't get a letter from home. This is the third letter I have written home and have not received any yet. I must bring my letter to a close hoping it may find you all well. Write soon and give me all the news. I remain your loving brother until death, G. V. Artz. Lowi Arm In Virfinla Incidentally, Dr. Moooe'i father John H. Moose, enlisted in the Confederate army in 1803 at 11 years of age, and lost his left arm when it was shattred by a rifle bullet at Drury's Bluff, Va. Ir spite of the handicap Mr. Moos< returned to his home at Mount Pleasant, N. C., where he and Mrs Moose reared eleven children, de spite his handicap, without ever the benefit of a Confederate pen sion. The fact that his lands wen worth in excess of $3,000 excluded him from getting a pension, Dr Moose said. ASTC Is Represented On Sanford Student Committee Governor Terry Sanford recently appointed ? Student Committee for a Better North Carolina a* a result of widespread interest fol lowing his selection of a Citizens Committee for a Better North Carolina during the last week of September. Representing Appalachian State Teachers College on this commit tee are Bill Mauldin, president of the student body; Dale Gaddy, ed itor of "The Appalachian," and Jerry Starnes, treasurer of the student council. Mauldin is from Concord, Gad dy from Asheville, and Starnes is from Candler. Other student council members attending the meeting as observ ers were Jeannie Belk of Hickory, Betty Dayvault of StatesviUe, and Isabel Newton of Laurinburg. ?The committee met October 5 in the House Chamber of the Cap itol Building in Raleigh. Governor Sanford addressed the group as a whole, and afterwards spoke to each member individually. Dr. Leo Jenkins introduced Bill Harris, who will serve as chairman of the stu dent committee. Harriss is presi dent of the student body at the University of North Carolina. Under the leadership of Harriss , the committee voted unanimously i to extend an invitation to all de ! nominations! colleges and univer i si ties of North Carolina to become : members of the committee. They i also recommended that a commit i tee be formed to work toward t better foreign relations. Following this the committee ? discussed the setting up of groups i in each county throughout the state - to enable the students from their s respective counties to meet togeth I er while home on vacation to dis . cuss the program of the Student Committee for a Better North Car olina in their county and the I State. Dr. W. H. Pelmmoni, president of Appalachian, and Dean D. J. Whitener will (peak to all elaiaea in assembly programs concerning the project. A poet card campaign consisting of each student mailing a post card, supplied by the school, to a friend or parent stating the need for the passage of the bond issue will be initiated in the near fu ture. Other means to be used are org anised student rallies, information at football games, radio and TV coverage, and telephone and door to-door canvassing. Still in the planning stages is a "Torch for Education" mara thon in which students from diff erent schools would carry a light ed torch from either end of the State to Raleigh and a mass rally. Governor Sanford expressed the wish that the bond campaign be only the first issue to be consider ed by the committee. It is antici pated that the commttee will deal with similar issues of equal im portance in the future. MILITARY INCREASE Ordered to active duty are 73, 000 reservists ? including two Na tional Guard divisions and 240 smaller Guard and reserve units. This brings to 193,000 the number of reservists mobilized in the Ber lin crisis. As a further step toward read iness, Robert S. McNsmara, Sec retary of Defense, has ordered unification of part of the Stra tegic Army Corps and the Tacti cal Air Command. This puts 119,000 Army troops and 90,000 Air Force men into uni form under the command of Lieut. Paul D. Adams. This Is National Thrift Week! Observe National Thrift Week By Opening Your Savings Account with Ui ? Savings . ? ? Money when' yon need It What does thrift mean to you? More savings! And savings mean ? more money for what you need, when you need it, plus money for all your very special dreams. Thrift Week and every week, save here . . . save consistently . . . save successfully. Your uvingi mean even more when yon tavt here, thanka to liberal interest, compounded regularly. Come in . . . (tart saving now. Current inter est rge is O S 47o atauqa Savings ^ I oan MM ssociafion Opposite Pod Office ? Boone, N? C U A Career Day At AHS Set For Wednesday Final plan* arc being made for the Appalachian High School Ca reer Day program, which la to be held at the school on Wednea day, October 35, from 11:00 a. m. to 8:00 p m. The ichedule for the lay'i actlvtiM la aa fallows: Assembly ll:0frll:45; lunch 11:45-12:30; firit diaouiaion period 12:80-1:35; break; second discus lion period 1:45-2:50; homeroom 2:5T Telephone operator? Mrs. Lois Childers, chief operator, Lenoir. Tool and die maker? Jamas Ret ry. Trucking? Luther C. Hodges, di rector of public relations, Pilot Freight Carriers, Inc., Winston Salem. DISARMAMENT AGENCY The President has signed legis lation creating a disarmament ag ency. William C. Foster, a Repub lican and former foreign aid of ficial, has been appointed as the first director. Called the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and with a budget of $10,000,000. a staff of 280, It will work for glob al disarmament.