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C., m iwil claas matter, uaier the sat of of Hank I, 1879. ?EMBER NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION BOONE, NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 19S3 Weed Auctions To Begin The opening of the burley tobacco market in Boone is a big day in the economy of the county and the tri State area, and also a time of good fellowshipping and of renewing ac quaintances when the growei* come in from ao many counties for their first trip la a long time. The tobacco industry In a few short years has grown from the time when a few plants were pat in tiw edge of a vegetable garden so's granny could have a few leaves to bum in her wheety Sally Michael clay pipe, to an important Industry in Watauga county ? the biggest item in farm income, perhaps, with the possible exception of livestock. The Boone market started with the one house on Queen and De pot Streets which looked big enough te take care of the tobacco business hve for all time to come. Now the Messrs Coleman have three houses and the Big Barley Company has opened its gigantic house 2 miles west on 421 bypass for the second year, and business in the weed con tinues to thrive, pumping untold thousands of dollars into the local ecemmy. Hw burley market opening is ac companied by the first signs of Christmas, as the stores, many of them, take occasion to do their first gift advertising at this time, and the holiday shopping season's open ing usually coincides with the start of the tobacco auctions. Boone's shopping district has been known far and wide for the variety and quality of Christmas merchandise offered. This year is no exception. Sell your tobacco in Boone fbr good prices and fair treatment, and trade with Boone merchants for the best goods at the most favorable prices. i New Colleges On The Way Eighty new colleges with an en rollment capacity of 200,000 stu dents will be established in the next few years in 86 different states, ac cording to a survey made by Chang ing Times. In a state-by-state survey reported in the current issue of the magazine, it was found that at least 31 of the new colleges enrolled students for the first time this autumn, and an other 49 will be taking students for the first time this autumn, and an other 49 -will be taking students in the next few years. Still another 14 new campuses are being talked about "Altogether," it is stated, "these new campuses will have a total en rollment of at least 200,000 students. Most of the institutions will be pub licly supported, and the majority will be two-year colleges." But, the article points out, more than a dozen new private institu tions are being founded; nearly a third of all turned up in the survey are four-years colleges. In at least two cases, Changing Times reports, the new schools will be two-year upper-division colleges for juniors and seniors. Just how many institutions will spring into being over the next few years no one can say for sure, the article continues. "A college that ts no more than a gleam in some one's eye this year may be enrolling its first class three years from now. A parent looking ahead to the ex pense of sending his youngster off to the state university may discover when the time comes that a new branch campus has been established very conveniently at his doorstep." Head-On Crash Most Deadly If you're taking Inventory of things to fear while driving, put the head-on crash at the top of the list Although it's not the most fre quent type of collision on our high ways it is, accident for accident, the most lethal. One reason head-on crashes are so deadly has to do with the force of impact. When speed is doubled, the impact force is increased four times. Triple the speed and the impact force is increased nine times. Fore* of impact may also depend on the distance it takes an object to stop after it hits something. For this reason the amount of damage to automobiles and their occupants generally is less when the car leaves the road and crashes through small treM and bushes than when it col li ties head-on with another car, which has no "give." We point out all this to show that certain driving facts of life are be yond the driver's control. Once a head-on crash occurs nature's laws cannot be altered, but drivers can lessen the danger of being involved in these crashes by practicing a few simple Jiving defenses. When two cars collide head-on there's always a cause. One driver may have been on the wrong side of the road, while the other driver's on ly error was bad Judgment in react ing in panic. Establishing legal re sponsibility for a head-on crash, how ever, serves as little solace to the bereaved and can do even less for the victims. Good judgment and constant at tention to the driving task eontinue to be the best shields against that deadliest of all highway crashes ? the head-on impact. THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER And What's Your Weakness, Mac? Short skirts nre lives, lays the Amer ican Automobile Association. It's an eye opening claim, bat hardly believable. Sure, auto headlights pick up the stock ings or bare tegs of women at Bight That must avoid ? lot of pedestrian fatalities. But short sfctrti have another effect in daylight. Rare you Men the driven on South Tryon who practically break their necks turning to ogle the pretty secre taries during the lunch hours? Or te get a better ansle as knees, flesh, and nylon mingle ia that Interesting panorama as a woman driver gets in or out of a ear? Ta say netting of the distraction offered when the good-looking babe who accepts i a lift with you find* it impossible to hide her dimpled knees We wouldn't d?re guess at the Dum ber of accidents cauaed by high hemlines. But we bet It would raise an eyebrow or two at the AAA. 8urely auto accidents increase as the heaaliae creeps up. We know only one state of mind that's a defense apiist it. This was expressed recently by a fellow riding a city bus. Natiag the trouble a pretty young thiag across the aisle was having ia trying to keep her skirt tugged down discreetly, he observed: "Don't stretch your jiaghsaa for m, lady. Mr weakness is whisky ." I ? ?? .TM ; -mm ;r : London Chimney Sweep Reports For Duty From Early Democrat Files Sixty Year* Ago November IS, IMS. The law firm of Todd k Pell, of Jefferson, rai dissolved, the junior partner, Mr. Pell, retir ing from the firm tod locating in Winston. A new printing press has been installed in the office of the Dew Drop, to be used, we are told, to advertise the schools here. The first snow of the winter on yesterday ? not much ? how ever, but enough to remind as of what is coming. Mrs. Ett Horton, son aad daughter, left yesterday for ? visit to relatives in Jefferson. A cold wave struck here on Tuesday night and good firm and overcoats have since been la demand. It seems that the plan for a town library ia materializing - rapMly. We are in receipt of a letter from Rev. W. R. Savage, in which he states that be has ready for shipment to Mrs. Boy den, who will be Librarian, 100 neatly bound volumes as ? starter for this noble enter prise. He suggests that the Li brary be opened on Thanks giving Day and we think the idea a good one. In the mean time, let all who feel interested contribute as many volumes as they can, and it will not be long until the Boone Library will be as good as that in any town in the State. A. S. Adams and family, of Cove Creek, have moved to Le noir, where they will spend the winter. Mr. Adams told us as he passed through that he would move back to Watauga next spring and we trust he Will R. Jurney, of Olin, Ire dell county, is here opening up a stock of groceries, confec tions, fruits, etc., in the little bvilding vacated by J. W. Bry Thirty-Nine Years Ago Nov. M, 1924. Miss Annie B. Shull, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Shull of Valle Crucis, who has been nursing in New York City for the past ten years, recently sailed for Manila, P. I. and was wed there last week to Mr. B. G. Leake, an attache of the U. S. Navy, with headquarters in that city. They will make their future home there. The young lady has many friends in her home county and else where who wish for her and the gentleman of her choice much happiness la their far away home. The Poplar Grove Baptist church will send early next week a truck load of mountain product to the Thomasville Orphanage for Thankagiving. This is a most generous act on the part of these splendid peo Just One Thing By CARL GOERCH Here fat North Oarolina we've been curing tobacoo fat barns tor many, many years. Every year same of the oW barm Call down or ore burned d ami. Every year many new barns are constructed. But Mr. Mai Simpson, down fat Craven County, believes he has the oldest tobacco barn in North Oarolina that has been used con tinuously over a period of years. Mr. Simpson was 16 yeans old when the bam was built, and he helped build it. He claims that bam has been fai use for 68 years. It is built out of buck cypress togs on ? site that was thrown up by the Confederate Army as breast-works during the War Be tween the States. The logs were cut alongside an oM nail pond and sut floated down stream to the desired location. Tsbaooe ha been cored in this same barn every year since it was built. S was the umoI type of school commencement invitation: "You are cordiatty invited to attend the commencement exercises. . ate. And attached to It was the personal card of the young gen tleman who had seat me the in vitation ( a* far as I kaow, we've aawermet.) Bat la one respect it iwaa different from all other com mencement Invitations I ever re ceived. On the personal card, written In pencH, was this admonition: "If you can't come give." C*>u* Waynfck has been fa? the news lately as the governor's chairman of the statewide csm rmamon on tatter relations be tween the race* Whenever any one meutieas Oapus' name, I al ways reoal this little Incident about Mm: Hi and Mrs. Wajtifck wars In vited down to New Head several yean ago to spend the week end AFTER ANOTHER with some Mends. When they arrived at the beach. Caput leaned out of his car window and inquired of ? man standing to (root of a re freshment Stand: "Can you tell me where the Powhatan flnWiafr is" "Never heard of it," wm the prompt naiwe. Capus Awe on and aafced four or five other people the eame question, and in each case they professed the same ignorance The last person of whom inquiry was made, however, vss a bright individual. "LMen. strmger," he said, "don't you mean the Chm ban Cottage?" "By George!" exclaimed Ca pus. "Yes. Oat It!" He merely had got his Indians mixed 19. Up hi Murphy, the county ae at of Cherokee County, an interest ing feature of the courtroom to the presence of two large tablets on which have been carved the TVn Commandments. TTwy're made of marble and are rather heavy. We doubt whether Moses corid have car ried them very far. Terry Ssnford is Governor of Nerth Carolina. There are mm* than a score of families in Ra leigh and the surrounding area by the name of Sanford. There eitoo are a number of fomNiet by the nan* of Hodges, Cherry, Scott and Broughtou in the capi tal city. There was no other Bhrio^hani to Raleigh while Btacher was governor, and the closest name to that of Clyde R. Hoey was that of Charlie Hui, who used to run ? hand-laundry on HayettevtBe areft while Clyde was our chief wwHh?. pie. Boone hat been enjoying (?) her frist map of winter since Monday night, when the first snow of the season fell here. It has melted now, and while the weather is fair, it continues real cool. In making up your Thanks giving offering next week don't forget the Grandfather Orph anage at Banner Elk. This is entirely a home institution and depends solely on donations for its existence. Watauga has many homeless children there. Donations will be gladly ac cepted at this office and for warded at once. The largest sweet potato we have seen was brought to this office by Mr. Paul Williams, it weighing almost six pounds. The big yam was brought by Mr. Williams from Shelby. It was not only large but good as we.; tried it. Thanks, Paul, if '^bu 'find any more overgrown potatoes bring them in. Mrs. Walter Winkler and her aunt Mrs. M. B. Blackburn left this morning for a month's visit to the former's father, Mr. Wiley Blackburn in Missouri. While in the state the ladies will visit other relatves in Springfield. Mr. J. Lee Hayes of Blowing Rock, one of the leading con tractors in that growing resort town, was in to see us. Monday. His work is always in demand ? in fact he never catches up with it. He is now erecting a resid ence for Mr. W. O. Goods of Hickory. Mr. Newton Banner was in the shop this morning. Said he came over to bring Dr. Jones a 'possum, it being one of four he has been fattening for sev eral weeks. Fifteen Years Ago Ninakct It, IMS. Dr. and Mrs. G. K. Moose (pent Sunday with Mr. and Mr*. T. D. Heffner in Glen Al pine, and Mrs. Roy Pitta in Morganton. Mr. and Mra. Joe Conderman left Monday for Miami, Fla., where they will spend the win ter with Mr*. Conderman's mother, Mrs. Margaret Bohnert. Mra. W. R. Winkler and daughter, Mary Sue, left Moo day morning for their home in Miami, Fla., where they will spend severs! weeks. Mrs. R. W. McGuire visited with her daughter, Mrs. Dan Sapp and Mr. Sapp in Raleigh last week. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hughe* announce the birth of a daugh ter, Diana Lynn, on Nov. 14 at Watauga Hospital. Mr*. Mary Lee Hbdges aad son, Arlis, have been \1siting in Montana and Washington for the past four months. Mrs. E. S. Coffey and Mrs. Nell Linney visited for a few days last week with Mrs. B. F. Williams in Asheville. Mr*. W. L. Haynes of Fresno, Ohio was a visitor with friends in the community Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Mast were week end guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Trotter in States vflle. Mr. W. W. Charter, Mra. J. D. Cooke and Miss Phyllis Bingham left last Saturday for New York City, where they are fanying spring merchandise (Or Balk's Department Store. kingJstreet BY ROB RIVERS ii tsfiS r ' The Motor Car . . Yon May Have Forgotten With unprecendented peacetime prosperity and with the urge now shifting (ram two-car to three-car households (if there are as many as three people in the family) the country is Just about full of automobiles. . . . Parking is a problem to every town, big and little, and to the countryside, where the acres of worn-out vehicles must be dumped to rust away and spoil the looks of the landscape. IN BOONE, flnt aatsmoMlf to ikM up, w? believe, M in 1M. . . . A beat 1114 the flnt local people bought the ?aortitis brau-f rontrd T mill Fords, nd W?Uof> set ikMt to get herself into the age of the automobile. ? The first gasoline was hauled into town in wagons. ? H. W. Horton perhaps had the first sales agency and sold Maxwell cars in the east room of the old brick row. . . A big garage was built to the roar. . . . W. R. Winkler, a nephew of Mr. Horton, local Ford deal er, got his start in the busi ness there. . . . Mr. Horton later had sold the Nash car. ? Dean Bingham ploaoeied in automobile mechanics. . . . When the cars first came, the village smithey was depended upon as a matter of course, and couldn't very well handle the Job. . . . Dean went to Kansas City, studied the me- - chanlcs of the automobiles of the day, and built t repair shop as an adjunct to S. D. Count-ill's blacksmith shop. ? A Ford agency was estab lished at Valle Crucis. . . . W. E. Shipley, Wade Wagner and Bynum Taylor were inter ested. ... It was moved to Boone, when the old town hall was constructed to ac commodate it, and later J. B. Taylor established the Taylor Motor Co., where Swofford's now stands. ?Dr. R. D. Jennings sold Dort cars. . . . W. D. Farth ing handled the Chevrolet a long time ago. . . . F. M. Rich ards sold the Metz and later the Buick at Banner Elk. ? John W. Hodges owned the first closed car, a Max well. . . . Folks said the tour ing cars and roadsters were the only thing. . . . To* much glass to cat om in ease of a wrack In a closed car. . . The jealous oaes referred to the dooed iMAift&li] aa there. Fer instsn, he reported he had saw where the price of hair outs in some jteoet wan now gittlng "adjusted" to *3.00. Wen, Mister Editor, I got to ctana now. f feat got a notice in the msfi thnt the premium .on my hospital tonan has been ledjastad." I got to gH my specs aid rend the fine print and see how fur up they adjust ed It. Lnat time they adjusted ft, they used n hydraulic Jack