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WATAUGA DEM ESTABLISHED IN 1188 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY RIVERS PRINTING COMPANY, INC R. C. RIVERS. JR., EDITOR AND MANAGER JEAN RIVERS, ASSOCIATE EDITOR An Independent Weekly Newspaper Published for 40 Years by Robert C. Rivers, Sr. SUBSCRIPTION RATES (EFFECTIVE FEBRUARY 1, 1963) IN NORTH CAROLINA One Year $S.? Six Month* , $1.80 - four Months $1-30 OUTSIDE NORTH CAROLINA One Yw HN Sit Montlw - $2.50 Four Months 92.00 All Subscriptions Payable in Advance NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS ? In requesting change of address, it if important to mention the OLD, as well as the NEW address. Entered at the postoffiee at Boone, N. C., as second class matter, under tha act of Congress of March S, 1879. MEMBER NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION "The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first objective should be to keep that right, and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate a moment to choose the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive these papers at?4 be capable of reading them."? Thomas Jefferson. Bonds Are Approved We had said on more than one occasion that it was our opinion that the bond issue proposals would be approved by the voters, but actually, we had no notion that the margin of victory would be so large in the county. v It is a good thing that the ma jority in the county was command ing, we think, since it left no doubt as to the opinion. We have never known of a more concerted effort to give the people the issues. They liked what they read and heard and voted according ly, and have procured for themselves a consolidated high school and a modern hospital plant. Like we had mentioned before, Watauga County came forth with big majorities for the State bond package a couple of years ago. It had voted road bonds in the days of dirt trails, and Boone township had bonded itself to help bring in the railroad tracks. In the old days diff erent townships readily voted "spec ial school taxes," and put up the cash to help the Dougherty brothers build the first part of a college. So in giving the green light to the re cent bond proposals, Watauga is only following her normal course. And all would agree that out of her past performances has come a fabulous growth in the general well being of her people. It's expected to happen again. The Chilling Days Monday dawned chill and frosty. There was windshield scraping to be done, and once again automobiles left behind vapor trails in the cool stillness. Dry weather, coupled with the natural ripening processes, had al ready brought yellow and crimson splotches to the forests where trees stand on thin soil, and all the fall flowers have come out, fetching sneezes and red eyes, and beauty to those of us who've managed to es cape hay fever. The wiseacres now tell us that the frost has nothing at all to do with the coloring of the leaves ? that they'll get just as bright and beautiful without frost. We would scarcely have a chance to prove that logic in this vaulted land of the early chill. We aim, however, to stay with the tale of Jack Frost, the devilish little elf, whom we always told our WINSTON-SALEM JOURNAL bitsy ones, sailed over the country side with his paint pots and brushes, and made a patchwork of color. At any rate, fall came Monday, we are told, bringing all the beauties of the gilded forests and the bounties of the golden harvest. It's nature's great drama of fulfillment? of burst ing granaries, sweet-smelliug apple houses, jammed root cellars, of sweet cider, dusty purplish grapes, of hog killings, and frosted punkins, and new molasses, crackling bread, and candy-pullings, and barns, jam-pack ed with burley, ready for the auc tions. Fall is brightness, a tang in the air, a new spell of picnicking and crowded highways on week ends, as visitors return to see summertime in her gay autumn dresses and robes and flowing gowns, and the moun tain tops in their flaming new bon nets. Forward-Looking Watauga Watauga County has taken a big for ward step in approving a $2.X-million bond issue for school improvements and a new hospital. The progress of that county will in turn mean progress for Northwest North Carolina. In voting to consolidate its high schools Watauga is following the lead of other Northwest counties which have consoli dated or are in the process of consolidat ing. The consolidation will improve ed ucational opportunities considerably over those available in the present four high schools. For example, industrial educa tion courses, not now available in any of the schools, will be provided in the consolidated high school. This should improve the county's ability to attract in dustry and provide skilled workers for it Music, special education and business courses will be available to all the stu dents in the new consolidated high school. The new hospital will provide the coun ty with the up-to-date facilities that it needs to replace the crowded and obsolete present hospital. And the county's share * * of the $1.6-million hospital will be only *900,000. A federal grant of $600,000 and $400,000 from other sources will nuke up the difference. This successful bond election is only part of the evidence of progress in Wa tauga. Other signs can be seen in ex panding industry and tourism. The county is getting a new factory of Melville Shoe Company, and International Resistance Company ia expanding. The Robbinses, owners of Tweetsie Railroad, are build ing a luxury resort, and new ski facilities are expanding the county's summer re sort business Into a year-round enterprise. If all North Carolina's counties were as willing to carry their own loads at Wa tauga, the state-wide $100,000-millioa bond issue for public school construction would not be necessary. It might be easy for Watauga, ringed about aa it Is by high mountains, to content itself with isola tion from progress. This week's bond election is evidence that Watauga is not willing to do so. 4c * The Hickory Daily Record joins the Winston-Salem Journal, with these welcome remarks: "It is <Hld that at the game time a group in Caldtoell county is seeking to block consolidation of its several small high schools into a few institutions large enough to give the students the best facilities available for funds on hand, Watauga county voters trooped to the polls and endorsed consolidation by ap proving bonds with which to finance the improvements needed. "The Record commends the dear thing voters in Watauga, and urges those ill Caldwell County who are attempting to prevent consolidation by any means to review their position and let the wel fare of the boy and girl be the deciding factyr. 1 / "In voting to consolidate it? high schools, Watauga is following the lead of other Northwest North Carolina counties which have consolidated or are in the process of consolidating. The consolida tion will improve educational opportun ities considerably over thoee available in the present four high schools. For ex ample, industrial education courses, not now available in any of the schools, will be provided in the consolidated high school. This should improve the county's ability to attract industry and provide skilled workers for it Music, special ed ucation and business courses will be avail able to all the students in the new con solidated high school. "At the same tine the school bonds were approved, Watauga voters also au thorized bonds and a tax levy to build ft sew hospital." From Early Democrat Files Sixty Years Ago September 24, 1M3 The family of Mr. John Blair has returned from Asheville and will remain in Boone until December, when they will move to Blowing Rock. The Rev. Wm. H. Hardin of Valle Crueis will conduct ser vices at the Episcopal church in Boone on neyt Sunday at 11 a.m. Master Lawrence Horton has been suffering for several days with an attack of tonsilltis but is now able to be out again. M. A. Teague took the first load of cabbage to Lenoir from this section last week. He re ceived $1.23 per hundred for them. The summer boarders are rapidly leaving Blowing Rock is fact they are nearly all gone. Those who wish to furnish us wood on subscription will please deliver it before the roads get bad. Miss Allie Penley of Ruther wood is visiting at the Black burn Hotel this week. Mr. John A, Boyden was in town Tuesday. Councill Boyden, who has held a position at the Blowing Rock Hotel during the summer, has returned home and will en ter ichool at Boone or Valle Crucia. Mr. W. C. Coffey is preparing to erect a seat barn on bis home lot. He tells us that a little later he and his sister, Miss Jennie, will begin housekeep ing again. Miss Mary Lillington Hardin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John F. Hardin, left on last Friday for Greensboro, where she will again eater the Greensboro Fe male College. She is a close stu dent, and we are told that this Is her graduation session. Mr. W. G. Hall, one of Blow ing Rock's most popular mer chants, who was married to Miss Marquerite Grier of Har risburg, on the 9th, inst., has returned after an extended bri dal tour north. The Democrat extends to the happy couple its warmest congratulations and wishes for them much happiness and prosperity. Thirty-Nine Years Ago September IS, 1924 Among the late season guests at the home of Mr. B. J. Coun cill have been Miss O'Connell of Just One Thing B, CAUL goerch AFTER ANOTHER Whenever a poker player holds a pair of aces and a pair of eights, he invariably an nounces: "I've got a dead man's hand." We've heard the expression (or years, but it wasn't until recently, while we were reading / a story in a magazine that we found out why this particular hand was given such an unusual name. Wild Bill Hickock was a fa mous outlaw in the Southwest when that section of the coun try was growing up. One day he was in a poker game when an enemy sneaked up behind him and shot him in the back of the head. As Wild BUI fell forward, instantly dead, the cards which he had been hold ing slid from his fingers. He was holding two pairs ? aces and eights. And ever since that time, the hand has been design ated as "a dead man's hand." Something occurred the other day which reminded me of a story that the late Mrs E. L. McKee of Sytva told me a num ber of years ago. It had to do with an old servant of hers who Joined the church and was pre paring herself for the baptis mal rites. "She came to me and wanted me to give her some expression she could use when she emerg ed from the water. I suggested 'Glory Hallelujah.' And then I also suggested severnl others, like 'The Lord he praised.' in the event that some of the oth ers who were being baptized should use the same expression before she had a chance to fay it "I went to the baptism and noticed somewhat anxiously that all the expressions which I had given Beauticia were be ing used up. I wondered what she would do when it came her turn to say something. "I didn't have long to wait Beauticia was Immersed under the water and mom up gasping for breath. She railed ker eye# and arm heavenward and then, in stentorian tone*, ihe (touted rapturo ualy: "Chris'mus glf !" 4? Letter from W. B. Manning of Durham asking: "At 0ne time in North Carolina, accord ing to the New York Herald Tribune, owners of high hats paid an annual tax of ft to the state. Owners of gold headed canes paid a similar levejr. Mr. Manning wants to know if this is true. It was true. And according to our way of thinking it wasn't a bad tax at that To Presbyterians and anyone else interested: The two found ers of Presbyterianlsm in North Carolina were James Campbell and Hugh McAden. Campbell lodged in Cumberland, where those of his faith have an anei ent church named Barbecue. But a far greater preacher was Hugh McAden, whose great missionary Journey in 1786 re sulted la the establishment of a chain of Presbyterian churches from the Cape Fear to the Ca tawba. The first church, found ed by the Scotch-Irifh Presby terians in North Carolina was Grove Church, established la 1736. It was located at Kenans ville. Someone told us this little tale the other day that might amuse you. At one time la his career, George Bernard Shaw stated in a press conference that his writing* were worth one dollar per word. A smart aleek from Idaho seat Mm a special deliv ery letter enclosing a dollar. "Send me one of your words," be wrote. Shaw answsrod immediately and on the pact was Just oae "J^llienks." U Illinois and l(iu Arnold of Vir ginia. Both have spent a lot of time In New York City and are widely travelled. They are introducing a new system of child training. Both these la dies were greatly pleased with our mountain section and our people. On preparing to depart Sunday morning they found someone had taken the spare tire from their car and also the curtains. It is too bad for strangers in our midst to re ceive such treatment. Capt. and Mrs. Haywood Clarke of Wilmington have been recent guest* at the B. J. Coun eill home. They are an Inter eating couple and have spent a good part of their vacation* at this home for several seasons. Capt. CUrt has been conductor on the Atlantic Coast Line from Wilmington to Norfolk for for ty -eighty?re ?nd * ??? to ~ tive service. He was at one time a candidate for the office of Secretary of State. Mr. T. J. Baird, for the past twenty years an employee of the Tide Water Power Company at Wilmington, la at W? boy hood home on the Watauga for a few days visit. Always glad to see Tom. He is one of our voung business men of whom we are all proud. Mr. Baxttr Llnney left Mon day morning for Durham where he goes to resume his work ?t Trinity College. Fifteen Y t*n AfO September 23, 1?*8 Born to Mr. and Mrs. 8. Bof er Matthews at St Leo's Hoe pttal in Greensboro last Thurs day, a mo. who has been named Roger Hardin Matthews. Mra Matthews was the former Mta* Jacqueline Hardin, daughter of Mrs. R. H/ Hardin and the late Dr. Hardin of Banner Elk and BCMias Stella Sherrill left last week for North Wilkesboro where she will teach thia wint er. She was accompanied by her mother, Mrs. John Sherrill, who will spend the winter there. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Harris, Stacy Harris, Mrs. W.W. Par iah and son, Rlekie of Charlotte, and Mra. Dora Jolly of WUkeo boro, apent Sunday with Mr. and Mr*. 'Ull Bush. Mr*. Harris is Mr. Bush's mother. Mr. and Mra. M. H. Kdmond aoa of Bel Air, M4, are spend ing several week* with Mra. Edmondaon'* *i*ter, Mr*. B. L. Bingham and Mr. Bingham, and with other relatives In the coun ty Mr?. Inea BUI* of Washing ton. D. C., spent U* week in the home ol Major and Mra. Jota H Thomas. She la vial ting this week with her sister, Mr?- 1 C. Sherwood of Bristol, Va. Mra. Faye Templeton of Deep Gap apent the week end with her huaband, Staff Sgt. Howard H. Templeton, in Waahington, D. C. Staff 8gt Templeton t* with the Army Air Tore* there. Among those leaving Boone last week for the University of North Carolina we: Prod Councill; W. B. Yort. Jr.; Q~dy Moretx, Jr.} and Jim Cook. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Nash and daughter, Ltnaie, arrived in Nashville, Tenn., Monday, whore Mr. Hjuh will <o a year's graduate work Mr. Henry Barton ?f Miami, ma . was a visitor U*t weak with hi. father, Mr. H. W. Bor ton of |MM> KINGlSTREET BY ROB RIVERS | He Worked . . For The Common Good In the death of Carl Teague the community loses its Water Superintendent. ... He had worked for the city with as great a degree of devotion to duty and for maybe ? longer time than any other individual In the history of the community. ... For more than thirty years he and the late A- C. Rhwi"i|[t had t""* about the business of keeping the water system going, and that he had done an exemplary job is evidenced by the esteem In which be has held along the Street. . . . liar chants closed their stores during the funeral services and there is general sorrow because of his death. CABL TSAGUE (raw up to ? day sad i(t whea hard work was Um ijbM ef (sad cttlsea ship sad ef a worthy msa. . . a his lea* taaare with the city, ha had daaa every tart el work which ceases ay la the aurtter of keeplaf the water aad sower systems f? lac, aad the work was aever too srdaeu or the |ila| se (Mfk Km* that ka SAU|4 mmL eww^ssj ae^aw v^w^aw WS* www*w *we* or the difficulties, sad help keep the vital services fnae IN SOME INSTANCES, he worked through the night la bitter cold weather when there were breaks in water mains. . . . Hall-frozen and tired, he never wavered in his concern for his ]eb and for the wel fare of the people he served. . . . When Mr. Shoemake, who labored long and arduously in the water department, and did ? remarkably fine job, died, Carl was named to take his place as Superintendent, and has since held that post. . . Since Mr. Shoemake and Carl are both gone, perhaps so one is left with full knowledge of the unmapped portion of the water and sewer system, which will cause concern for the time being. ... At any rate these two fine public officials will long be remembered for their complete dedication to the city government and to the people who live here. . . They have established an unbeatable rec ord of public service, for which those of us who knew them best, are most grateful. ? * ? Fluids , . For Old School Misses Jim Wataov and Susan Lawrence, seventh grade North Carolina history stu dents at the Appalachian Ele mentary School, were charm ing and appreciated visitors at the Democrat office the other day. . . nay brought along 9442 to be used for the resto ration of the old Bhnlla Mill* School honae. . . . The yonng ladies alio brought us a letter from their class which shows their concern for the history of this region. ... We thank them sincerely, on behalf of the committee for their signi ficant help, and for their ex cellent letter, which says; "EDITOR WATAUGA DEM OCRAT: We the students of Mr. Ramsey's seventh grade N. C. History classes, after go ing over and examining the old school building which is being moved from Shulls Mills, wish to donate four dol lars and eighty-two cents (4.82) to be used as the Committee desires for restora tion purposes. ... We believe that if this building is kept in a good state of preservation that future generations will profit therefrom." * ? ? Mrs. Shall . . Contributes Mrm. M; Shall cemes by with three Mian far the eld ?chool house faad. which to greatly appreciated. . . . She haa the ward from Mr*. Mule Satherland Oat the aehaal house m actually built to IMS hy Simon Shall. . . She aajrs that the kadei mm from the "eld lag aehaal baaee." . . , They ware made from tpUt lags, Mr*. Shall says, with the legi driven late aagur halea la the reaad aide* ef the legs. . . . This eld build ing, ahe says, waa behind the Kahhiaa Betel, shore the Wil liam Shall place and the eld Methadiat Charch. , . . lbs. BhalTa contribution, added hi* torical Botes, aad her visit la tha Democrat are appreciated. a a a ' OU D?y$ Recalled Buret Praanell reminds ua of hto carrying the mail tram Boone to Trade. In tha horae and buggy day*, when John Main had the contract, and of the death of his father, Joe Presnell, by a bolt of lightning In Caldwell county Buret, who to now working at the building trades, to awaiad at going on hare. . . . He U i grandson of W. W. Preanell, former Register of Deads, a one-armed veteran of the Con federate army. . . Buret's grandparents suffered double trouble in those (rim days of the Civil War. ... At about the same time Mr. PresneU lost his arm from Union shellfire, his wife, who was trying to |[eep the borne together in those skimpy times, lost one of her arms between the rollers of a cane mill. Uncle Pinkney HIS PALAVERIN'3 DEAR MISTER EDITOR: I see by the papers where a agency called the National As sociation of Life Underwriters has spent more'n a year com piling some official figgers that is mighty slarming. The handling cost fer ever dollar took in by private charity groups in this county is 7 cents on the average. And fer ever dollar the Federal Guvernment collects from taxpayers and uses on our give-away pro grams, It costs $3.02 to handle it. Now you can see right off, Mister Editor, we got to git rid of them private charity groups. If they ain't spending but 7 cents to handle a dollar, it's plain that the Guvernment is 'usittg a heap more file clerks, typers, office girls, checkers, field snoopers, politicians, Congressmen's kinfolks, and public trough experts per dol lar to git the cost up to that $3.02 average. If private char ity groups keeps competing with the Guvernment in these matters, it's going to lead to widespread unemployment in I Guvernment circles. I wish 1 you'd write a editorial on this I item and send it to our Con- | gressman. And I was reading another item that was a little more up setting. Senator Williams oi Delaware reports the Depart ment of Agriculture last year paid $1.1 billion to git farm ers to take 54 million acres of land out of farm produc tion. On aoeount of this was hard on the lime and fertiliser business, the Guvernment had to help out these fellers with $906 million. Then they turned around and leased S million acres of Guvernment farm land fer ag ricultural purposes, gitting $13 million in rent. Senator Wil liams says the best he can make out from the figgers, the Department of Agriculture is paying fanners not to farm and then paying 'em to farm, all out of the same cash draw er, which is the taxpayer's pocket But they was one encourag ing story in the news last week. A feller named Thomas Morris that is a assistant to Defense Secretary McNamara has discovered two leaks in the Pentagon. And when things leaks in the Pentagon, Mister Editor, it's a flood. They was using a gold-plated clip to hold tubes in place In them missiles and paying 49 cents a piece fer 'em. It was f#und ? icent clip without the gold plate was just as good and will save $88,000 a year. Then it was ordered to cut down on the models of screwdriver* .from the 526 they was now buying to 235 models, suving $128,000 a year. They ain't but one way 528 different models of screwdriv ers could git Invented, much less sold to the armed forces. They have got a screwdriver lobby In Washington. 1 would n't be surprised none if a in vestigation wouldn't show that ?one el them Guvrenment of ficials ain't la the screwdriv er business. Yours tpuly, UNCLE PINKNBV.
Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.)
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