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iTauga Democrat imt THtiRaDAT ar rivers pumtino company, inc. b c. bxvbbs, jb, publmbm A? lalapsadeiU Weekly Newspaper te lMi Published M 4* jrein by the late Robert C. Rivera, Sr. fe V fUBSCRIPTION BATES H? >, $2 90; Its moo mi. $1.90; four month*. $1.00 Ontilda Witiogi ; Ooe fear, $$.00; ail months, $1.7$; (oar months, $1.28. 1% lalet tax to be added oa ?? North Carolina subecrtptiea*. /<y- . at address, it is Important to meotioa the class mall matter, under the act of Congress NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS? In ? OLD, as weU as the NEW addrM. Entered at the poet office at Boone, N. C, aa March ?, 1178. MEMBER NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION NORTH CAROLINA PBESS ASSOCIATION 'NE. NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1M1 Business Improves Reporto from over the State Indicate that gome businesses in North Carolina are doing 25 per cent better for the month of December than they did a year ago, while November ran as well or better over the same month in I960. These reports indicate that business in Carolina over the entire year was about 10 per cent ahead of that for 1900. And if the size of the crowds in Boone in the last days before Christmas was any indication, the retail trade in this community must have broken prev ious records. Never do we recall having seen more people or more congestion or heavier traffic in the stores of the business dis trict as the last minute shopers got down to the business of doing their belated buying. The finding of a parking space in the retail district was a forlorn hope during the peak of the trading season. And Jt is a happy thing to note the growing popularity of Boone as a shop ping center for the people of such a wide area. The street* were decorated and Hghted, night hour* were observed by many stores, and the merchants promot ed their businesses more fully than in many years. This added to the fact that never have the stocks of merchandiae been so comprehensive, brought the peo ple to the community in great number*. And Boone's stores will continue to grow, and the fame of the Street as a ?hopping district will keep on widening, bringing more and more people here to do their ahopping, not only during the holidays but during every week of the year. With the marked growth of the college and the continued prosperity of the fanning area roundabout, the town's growth will continue. Our mer chants will keep pace. The bigger the community the wider its trade area, and we shall continue to welcome new facet to the crowds in the business community. Salt Is Safety) Help Slippery rugnways account ror a gooa many of the automobile accidents on our itreeU and highways, but salt will help many motorists come through the winter safely. The use of common salt for de-icing pavement has increased more than two and a half times to an average of two million tons a year since 1958, accord ing to the Salt Institute of Chicago. Cities and towns have followed the lead of highway departments and tarn pike officials by switching totstnfriflit salt to provide ic^-free roads ao6 streets ' with speed and economy, spreading the salt from one-man trucks Instead of us ing larger crews, slower methods and less effective materials. Thirty-eight states, it is pointed out, and all major turnpikes and toll roads in the snow belt use salt in their winter maintenance. As storms arrive, salt usu ally is spread at the rate of 500 pounds a mile of two-lane roadway. A ontf-man, rour-ton true* can wore up to id mnes in a single pass without reloading. In reporting the increased use of salt for de-icing, the institute cites the ex perience in New York City, where dur ing a six-year period from 1930 to 1936 before salt was used in ice and snow removal, there was a yearly toll of 21 deaths and 1,63S personal injuries at tributable to skidding accidents. In a ten-year period after the city employed salt, the average annual toll from skid t ding dropped to nine deaths and 736 1 personal injuries. And doubtless, despite the complaints of some motorists that underparts of automobiles get rust damage from the sloshing of salty slush, it may be expect ed that salt will be relied on more and more. Increased traffic and roads en gineered for higher speeds bring de mands for greater safety than ever be fore. Salt seems to do the job quicker and better than other de-icers. Bad Weather In West Two months of rough winter weather is in store for those who live in the western part of the country, since the United States Weather Bureau comes forth with the information that Janu ary and February will be colder with more snow than in the winter of 1960 in the western half of the nation. The eastern half, on the other hand, may expect somewhat warmer tempera tures than normal. The long range forecasts cannot be broken down into predictions for a par ticular state or city, it is pointed out, but it Is said that snowfall and rain will be heavier than normal along the Pacific Coast and from mid-continent to the Great Lakes region. Eaat of the Appa lachian mountains and south of Penn sylvania, precipitation is expected to bs less than normal. The forecasts give out this warning to those who live in the eastern half of the country: The weather ma? be warmer than usual during the next two monthi, but there will be "period* of heavy snow and bitter cold." Which to those of us who follow the Ramon calendar forecasts for the most / part, doesn't sound too unfavorable. As a matter of fact if we didn't catch a few / fairly heavy snows along with a reason able amount of extremely low tempera tures, we would be inclined to the belief that something had passed out of its usual orbit. But now, that winter sports are to become part and parcel of life in these hills, maybe we won't take such a glum look at the prospects for cold and snowy weather, as we did when there was no economic impact to cold other than it required more wood and coal. Actually H would appear that cold weather may soon be vlelng with the pleasant zephyrs of summertime, as a tourist attraction <n this part of the country. Arms And Hie Boy (The Wall Street Journal) , As the affairs of men each year grow more complex, so do the afairs of chil dren. Let him who doubts this vtsit a modern toy counter. There was a time when pre-Ciristmas displays offered a rather limited selec tion of playthings: Bicycles, electric trains, cowboy outfits and ao on. But today these traditional articles have been upstaged by toys which dramatically re flect the kind of world we live in. Flying models of airplanes, which if) our day took weeks to assemble, now cdme ready-to-fly and armed with work ing (tickets on each wing. Sets of elec tric trains, once offering only passenger or simple freight equipment, now feature flatcars bearing missiles that fire and ? submarine* that can b? detached for bathroom patrol. The old six-shooter haa given way to ray guns and atomic can nons, and those littl? wooden soldiers are now armed with tactical nuclear' weapons. These innovations may certainly en gender parental misgivings about the example the adult world is sotting for the younger generation. Nor is It entire ly reassuring to remember that It waft always thus. But there U one admittedly small coriolatlon. If In the near future the seismographs detect an ominous explo sion in the Arctic, it may just be that a gift for Junior has fallen out of Santa's sled. The Bough Breaks ? From Early Democrat Files Sixty Years Ago December 19, 1*91 . Candies, nuts, raifini, etc. at W. H. McGhees. ?School at Watauga Academy will adjourn on Friday fur the holi days. Mercury hovered down uncom fortably near zero on Sunday and Monday nights. J. K. Hagaman left Monday for the State of Washington. Patent desks have been ordered for another room in Watauga Academy and will be put in posi tion by the first of the year. Miss Vic Farthing of Hattie visited friends and relatives last week and gave our office a much appreciated call on her return Friday. A big force of hands was put to work on the Boone and Blowing Rock turnpike Monday morning and we are told that travel has been resumed over it. The latest reports from Mrs. Maggie Boyden of Lenoir are that she is getting along as well as could be expected and her phy sicians are hopeful for her re covery. From the Lenoir papers we learn that mumps is no respector of persons in that town, as Editor Martin and Alfred W. Dula are both afflicted with the malady. From the Hickory Democrat we learn that Z. B. Buchanan of Blowing Rock has bought the Kil lian stock of goods in Hickory and will open business there about January 1. The railroad bridge at Butler, Tenn. was washed away again last Saturday night and we are told that the company's work in John son County will have to suspend until the bridge can be rebuilt, owing to a dirth of coal. Some days since Mr. Pat Coffey of Collettsville, was fishing with dynamite when a joint exploded in his hand, tearing that member almost Into shreds and Inflicting serious Injuries on other parts of his body. It seems that people would eventually learn that such combustibles are extremely danger oua. Thirty-Nine Yean Ago December 21, 1922 Mr. Thomas S. Watson, merchant at Brownwood, paid out on Mon day and Tuesday of this week nearly $2,000 In cash for turkeys which he U shipping to the north ern markets. One farmer sold him 72 head, which at 36 cents per pound, brought him the sum of $313.00 Pity is that so much of our valuable products are being ship ped out of the state where every pound of it is needed and would bring a fancy price at any of our city markets. We have been reliably informed that in the early spring Boone will have an ice plant, capable of taking care of all the local needs . . We suppose Blowing Rock will be greatly benefitted by this new enterprise as they can get their ice on short notice and with a shorter haul over a better road . . A modern coal storage plant will be operated in connection with the ice plant. These things make an other valuable addition to our town. /Just One Thing By CARL GOERCH Judge Henry Stevens sent me * copy of the following poem several years ago and it has always been one of my favorites. EVOLUTION The Monkey's Viewpoint Three monkeys sat in a coconut tree Discussing things as they're said to bo. Said one to the other: "Now listen you two; There's a certain rumor that can't be true ? That man descended from our noble race! The very idea; it's a dire disgraeel No monkey ever deserted his wife. Starved her baby and ruined her life; And you've never known a mother monk To leave her baby with others to bunk, Or pass them on from one to an other Till they hardly know who is their mother. Ami Mother thing you will never see? A monk build a fence aroond a coconut tree And let all coconuts go to waste. Forbidding oil other monks ? taste. Why if I put a fence around this tree. Starvation would force you to steal from me. Here's another thing monkeys doo't do ? Go out at night and get on a stew, Or use a gun, dub or knife To take some other monkey's We Yes, man la <ee? ended; the ornery AFTER ANOTHER CUM, But brother, he didn't descend from ui." From BUly Arthur's column: "The name Peggy Is short for Pegasue, the immortal steed. A steed Is a horse. A horse is a nag. "What did you. say your wife's name was?" Now we're seen everything! A friend brought a folder into our office the other day which was put out by the American Dog Training Association of Jamaica Plain, Mass. Here are a few ex cerpts: "We train your dog profession ally ? skilled, Intelligent, under standing training. "Our Day School Is davted to special training. Dogs are with us all day ? two days each week. Course for one month costs only Stt OO Boarding School Rates on Request. "For those who cannot bring their dog to day school, our origin al new *Dog School Bus' will trans port your dog to school and back for $1.00 daily. "Clames art small. Individual attention. There's a well-known gentleman In Charlotte, whoa* last name la Burns. His firat name la Wood, and he represents The Osborne Com pany which turne out calendars Mr. Burns' slogan, as printed on some of his own advertising matter is this: "Everybody knows WOOD BURNS" Ereiyhody certainly does. *r? Millard Shores, redding in the Middle Fork section of the county, wis operated on for ap pendicitis at the Watauga Hospital in Boone Monday, Doctors Perry, Anders and Bingham doing the work. The operation was a success and the patient is .ting nicely. On December S, Allan A. Har mon, a former resident of Watauga County, died at the home of his ?on, Lionel Harmon, in Richmond, lnd? where he had gone for medi cal aid. The following young people of the town, who are taking college courses, are at home for the holi days: Miss Anna Blair Anders, Trinity; Miaaes Ruth Dotson and Florence tiler, Meredith; Miss Ruth Rankin, Winthrop; Miss An nie Dougherty, Carson and New man; and Messrs James Councill and Fred Hodges from the Univer sity of North Carolina. We received yesterday a copy of the Johnson County News, Moun tain City, Tenn., publiahed under date of December 5, which had been trying for twelve long days to get 23 miles from the shop where it was printed. We want Brother Barry's paper and are en titled to it and why it can't get here Is an unsolved problem. Fifteen Years Ago December M, 1MB. Dr. W. G. Bond, pastor of the Erlanger Baptist Church. Erlanger, Ky? has been called to the pastor ate of the Boone Baptist Church and will be in charge of a special ?en-ice to be held Wednesdsy evening, January 1, at 7 o'clock in the church auditorium, following which an informal reception will be held. John Andrew Tester, 33, resi dent of the Beech Creek neighbor hood, died at Grace Hospital, Ban ner Elk, Ihursday from injuries received in an automobile accident which occurred 24 hours prior to his desth. Information is that the automobile driven by Mr. Tester left the road between Beech Creek and Whaley poetoffice and that Mr Tester died of head and chest injuries received in the accident. One of his brothers, a passenger in the car at the time, is said to have been serioualy injured and is a patient at Banner Elk Hospital Eugene Talmadge. one of Geor gia's most colorful figures, died December 21, scarcely three weeks before he would have been in augurated for a fourth tenn m Governor. Taking for his subject "The Crowned Life," Dr. Luther Little of Charlotta, delivered the gradu ating address at the winter com mencement exercise held at Apn lachian State Teacher* College Wednesday evening. The Edmisten Furniture Com pany celebrates its second anni versary with the formal opening of its elegsnt new building on the street just opposite the courthouse Saturday, December 28, and de tails of the opening are carried "? page eight of this newspaper. Mr H. C. Ingram of Colbert, WaaWngton, has beon spending a few days with friends in Wstauga County, before proceeding to hia 21hT* ,ta Irwle" C0UBt' {or ? Mr. Ingram left thie section for the northwest 48 years ago h*Tln? taught for three years ia the public schools of Wstauga Conn^, _ tobacco oo the Boone ?wley market reached the total of J.007,888 pounds at the close of the auctions Friday KING STREET By ROB RIVERS Next Week . . Another Christmas Those who have smacked their lips through the piles of holiday food, and laughed their way through the mounds of wrappings, and pleasurably perused a few hundred Christmas cards from good and thoughful friends, and then gone back to work to pick up the loose ends left when the place was closed Saturday, might or might not envy the Outer Bankers of North Carolina who celebrate Christmas again next week. Pink Baldwin, who used to prop on his crooked cane and tell us of being a sizable lad when the apple tree was blooming in the Garden of Eden, dated everything from "old Christ mas" ... We didn't share Pink's belief that he was uncommon old, but he did pinpoint an. old custom. . . . The old Christmas observance, it would appear, though, is beginning to die, albeit slowly. ... As a matter of fact since transportation to the mainland has been improved, the Outer Banks neigh borhoods also observe Christmas on December 25th. j> For hundreds of years the tiny villages on Hatteras have observed old Christmas. . . . Why, no one seems to know, but it is contended by some that the early settlers on the wind-swept banks decided on observing the Epiphany Eve date on the Julian calendar. Anyway Santa Claus usually visits Outer Banks children on December 25, allowing a few days respite before the old Christmas celebrants gather on January 5 for merry-making, oyster roasting and a general round of gay partying. . . . Then Old Buck, legendary Bull of the Buxton Woods, shows up to frighten the naughty children. And strangely enough, old Christmas coincides with the traditional departure of thousands of snow geese from their wintering grounds at Pea Island Refuge for their northern homes in Canada, Newfoundland and Greenland. . . . Resi dents say in the olden times the geese always left January 5. . . . The date has been irregular, they say, in recent years, indicating perhaps that the geese may also be a smidgin frustrated, along with the folks who are trying to make the best of two Christmases a little more than a week apart. ? * * ? The Snow . . Popularity Dims One of the penalties of modern life, says the New York Times, is the loss of appreciation of snow. . . . That is evi dent in this community, when snow came for Christmas, bringing considerable inconvenience and fetching little mer riment along with its swirling beauty. . . . The White Christ mas song is still popular, but many who sing it hope it's white some place else. . . . Anyway the Times continues: "The countryman realizes that snow nourishes and pro tects his fields and pastures and even helps to seal and insu late his house and barns against the cruelest bite of Winter. The youngster with a sled and the grownup with a pair of skis know the particular satisfaction of a snowclad slope. But in the city and the suburb, snow has become a cold and slushy nuisance when it isn't a costly problem. To travelers everywhere snow is a blinding, slippery hazard to foot and wheel and wing. "Yet, the snowflake itself is a thing of fragile, evanescent beauty. It is a delicate water crystal, one of the most trans ient of all natural water forms, a wisp of mist that has briefly acquired tangible shape. A snowfall can transform a wood land into a place of magic, a meadow into a shimmering won derland. A snowflake is the frozen grace of the wind, per fection of line and curve and form. Snow can temporarily restore the lost innocence to a scarred and naughty world of disillusionment and foiiy. "Wo know these things. We can believe in them a little while at the beginning of any winter. Then our comfort and our convenience are threatened, and we forget. We, and the snow itself, become victims of our own way of life. Snow becomes a problem, another phase of nature that man must be at war with to maintain his own elaborate complexities of living." Mountain men, Just the same, have come to associate Christmas and snow, like sunshine and warmth, ham and eggs or frost and punkins. . . . And the makers of the Christmas cards, with the snowy vistas, the red barns, and the unbroken mounds half-burying country homes, leaving only the creek to trace a jagged line across the unbroken sea of whiu have helped to preserve a sense of greater merriment and well being when it's a'snowin' at Christmas. Uncle Pinkney (Mac Knight Syndicate) f//5 PALAVER1WS DEAR MISTER EDITOR: Zeke Grubb's preacher come bv the country store Saturday night, told the fellers he waa try ing to git his nerves back in shape from a pritty hard week. He reported that things got started on the wrong foot last Sunday morning when he had a few wrds to say about drinking and gambling. He got a unsign ed letter Monday advising him that drinking and gambling was a disease and ? matter far the medical perfeasion. It was caus ed, the letter claimed, by some pua that happened to a feller in hit youth, like weaaing hin toa young. The good Parson said he recol lected when he waa a boy his Uncle Cyrus come home drunk ever Saturday night and his old lady used the rolling pin an him. Now, allowed the Paraon, she'd probably give him a shot of pen nicillen. He said it looks like disease has took over all the sins and it might be better fer him just to pass out a few pills at Sunday School and so on homo. But the hard part of the week, he told the fellers, come Friday night when the fund Raising Committee met to report on the annual cairvaa. After wanting up the pledge* It was voted that the church budget was in ? state of emergency and it might be neceseary to Mm* ? Emergency Committee to work on the prob lem. One feller, far instant, told Rufe Zinder he didn't believe In making no pladge. He laid things was an uncertain these days that he didn't sign nothing In no shape or form. Rufe told the Committee he happened to know this feller was buying his car, his motor boat and color TV set on the Installment plan. Rafe couldn't flgger out how he was Kitting all them things wtthort signing somepun. Another member told Here klah Adams that he dldnt use no envelope, just dropped a big handful of money loose In the plata. Re allowed ae how the congregation would be su prised at how much he dropped In the plate loose ever Sunday. The Parson said he took all the loose offering one Sunday and JMded it among the members that says they give loose and It eome to Seven cents apiece. He said the i major problem was them put Ung-ttin loose members. Tours truly, UNCLE PIWX
Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.)
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