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WATAUGA DEMOCRAT J *• - *;• -■ * , . . . ,WV * • • An Ihdflpcndent Weekly Newspaper , |» ■ ESTABLISHED IN 188t i • W TOP HANKS OF N. C. NON-DAILY NEWSPAPERS to 1966 and 1967 the Democrat won ten State Press Association awards for General ;:*]Excellence, local News Coverage, Excellence in Typography, Advertising, Column*, Holographs. Five of these are first place awards. ^ . Published for 45 Years by Robert C. Rivers, Sr. . PUBLISHED THURSDAYS BY RIVERS PRINTING COMPANY, INC., OWNER .to C. RIVERS. IE, Editor and Manager JEAN RIVERS. Associate Editor .4“ . v ".\5_ ■* RACHEL a. RIVERS, Managing Editor * . . V - V • SUBSCRIPTION RATES - „ W WORTH CAROLINA OUTSIDE NORTH CAROLINA °™ Y*"*--$3.09 One Year _$4.00 -$1.80 Six Months_-43.80 Four Months . -$1-30 Four Months -$3.00 _ ' AH Subscriptions Payable In Advance NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS—In requesting change of address, it is important to mention the OLD. as well as the NEW address. Entered at the postolIW at Boone. N. C., as second class matter, under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879. MEMBER NATIONAL NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION BOONE, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7,1967 Signs Of The Season The Indians didn’t have calendars, but they communed so closely with the seasons that they could accurately meas ure time by the leaves on the trees and the snows in the winter. When the leaves fell and the snows began to fall they reasoned that summer and the hazy days of autumn had gone with the chill winds and that winter in fact was upon the hunting grounds. We had always leaned to the notion that winter breezed in with December but now they say the time of the big winds and the deep freeze starts De cember 22 at 8:17 a. m. eastern stand ard time. Sunday brought a taste of snow along with gusty winds but the storm had petered out by Monday and again there was bright sun and mod erate temperatures. We used to wish for a white Christ mas and hoped that then there would a general thaw. Now, with the winter tourist business, the ski runs and all, we’re wishing not only for a White Christmas, but a white winter, and when one of these comes again, we’d suggest the hills would be full of vis itors, just like summer time. But in spite of the fact that snow has become a saleable commodity when the happy holidays are over and we start the New Year with proper toasting and ambitions, we get a lot of consolation from the fact that each day gets just a smidgin longer, and when the first spring days arrive we think of the long winter and we’re glad for the blossoms and the buds and the warming sod. But now as the days shorten, moun tain men are pondering whether she will be a wild, frigid no-bolds-barred session, or a moderate season like we’ve been having lately. Old Man Winter is hard to predict. He can play hard and fast or assort the blizzardy days with spells of warmth. Not even a Ramon calendar can be for certain. Pertinent Driving Hints There’s to be a crackdown on speed ers in North Carolina. A new gadget for patrol cars can tell how fast one is driving, coming toward, racing from or passing the trooper and tough times are in for those of us who don’t lighten the foot on the gas pedal. And with the things which test the breath, the jolly tipsters of the highways are in for trouble. In England, we hear, they have suc cessfully cracked down on drinking drivers with a 40% reduction in acci dents. Anyway it is good that the arm of the law is to have new sinews and as •the holidays approach the following hints from the National Foundation for Highway Safety are pertinent: —Drive so that your license expires before you do. —Tailgating driver? Keep your distance and keep out of a collision. —Alcohol never made anyone a more thoughtful or careful driver. . , —The quick and the dead can some times be the same people. —Defective brakes? If you can’t stop, don’t start. —Politics in the Nation’s capital? Slashing 60% from the new national highway safety program. Or is it un concern? —Each year two out of five drivers under 20 are involved in traffic acci dents. —A drinking driver killed is tragic, but killing others is horrible. —The good you do lives after you. Why not live longer to do good. Busy Chipmunk Sleeps It Off Tired of raking leaves and performing other prewinter chores? Consider the chipmunk and he consoled. The chipmunk spins not—but, brother, does he toil! He, too, is preparing for winter. And, more foresighted than man, he has been doing it all summer. Tirelessly, he has been stuffing his tiny mouth and jowls with nuts, aero ns, rag wood seeds and corn, mushrooms and blueberries. He, too, is preparing for winter. And, more. He has also been happily filching sunflower seeds the little rascal knows birdwatchers did not put out for him. He has made hundreds of scampering, mouth-laden trips to his underground home, carefully storing his loot against the cold months ahead. He has constructed his home with infinite care and patience. A small entrance tunnel or burrow slopes down sharply from the cleverly concealed doorhole until, several feet below the surface and well out of the frostbite zone, it levels off and extends for yards. The chipmunk is no bum. He likes to live well. His home has up to four storage rooms, opening off the long, narrow central corridor, it also has a bedroom—and, no kidding,a bath room. The chipmunk is a gentleman. By late fall, Chippie has more than enough food put away for any kind of a winter. He sighs contentedly. And then what happens? The little guy is so tired from his labors that he becomes drowsy, lies down to rest—and goes to sleep for three months I When he awakes, it’s spring again. You think that’s tough? It should happen to us—beginning about leaf-raking time and continuing through the snow-shoveling season. And maybe it would—if we worked as hard as the chipmunk. And if our families would stand for it.—Statesville Record & Landmark. Inklings In Ink BY RACHEL RIVERS We attended the beginning session of the animal health course being offered at Wataiga High School by the agricultural department. It was all new iiformation for us and ex tremely interesting. There is one point in par ticular we don't intend to forget and that is ttot animals with rabies don't ustally foam at the mouth. •, We always thoight we’d be especially good , at spotting a dog that looked like it l»d tried to lap up a bowl of shaving lather. But we'll u admit we haven't been too wary about the regular-looking kind. And Dr. John Martin, who la teaching the course, says that the rabid animal la not always aggressive, but often s times tends to be a loner, regarding anyone who approaches aa an enemy and trytig tu get out of the way. - ■ s .v" To eat or ant to aatt Whan you rand that potatoes have elements bad tor the heart and s' steak doesn't. And then someone proclaims that potatoes (apparently one serving thereof) have 150 calories and lean steak accounts for more than a thousand. Then way off in the Midwest, a medical researcher comes up with advice that growir* teenagers and adults should stay away from milk of all things. However, we're hai^ii^ on to the notion that milk is the number 1 health food. It seems if it weren't, we'd all be morbidly ill. One authority says count your calories and another says don’t count them-—unless the reason is medical. Not only are there diet foods, but foods to put weight on what national magazine columnists call "the skinniea." Or "the lucky skinnies" which brings up one of our pet peeves—the fashion model who weighs aa much as a number two pencil, modeling cloth ing for people like us who weigh as much as a pencU making machine. Maybe a whole factory. Getting Into The Act ///coaSvn* FROM THE EARLY FILES OF THE DEMOCRAT G. P. Hagaman Succeeds E. S. Coffey As Bank Cashier Sixty Years Ago December 5, 1907 At the annual meeting of the directors of the Watauga County Bank held in Boone on Monday last, George P. Hagaman was elected Cashier-for the ensuing year to succeed Attorney E. S. Coffey, who ha* filled the po sition so acceptably ever since the bank was established. His defeat was due to the fact that Ms successor's bid for the po sition was far below that which he (Mr. Coffey) had been get ting or could afford to take. The collection taken at the close of the Thanksgiving ser vices at the Baptist church Thursday night for the benefit of the Thomasville Orphanage amounted to $11.15, notwith standing the fact that the audience was unusually small. Friend W. E. SMpley will take notice that George Winkler of the New River Stock Farm, weighed two thoroughbred Short Horn yearling heifers last week that weighed 998 and 932, respectively. These are as pretty cattle as any one should wish to see. Miss Ola Pendley, of Blow ing Rock, was in the village Tuesday and on her return was accompanied by Miss Cynthia Blackburn, of Boone. Rev. Ballard and wife spent Tuesday night at the home of Rev. J. H. Brendall on their way from Jefferson to his new field on Green mountain circuit. Married at the residence of the bride's father, on Thurs day evening last, Mr. Roy Dot son to Miss Ennis, youngest daughter;of Mr. Hugh Hagaman, Rev. J. H. Farthing performing the ceremony. Thirty-Nine Year a Ago December 6, 1928 Mr. Roscoe Little at Salis bury was in town last week. On his return be took his mother, Mrs. H. D. Little, who will spend the winter in Rowan. Rev. C. H. Moser left Sun day afternoon for Cherryville, where he was called on account at the serious illness of his father, A very pretty wedding was solemnized in the parlor at the Baptist parsonage Tuesday afternoon, the Rev. P. A. Hicks performing the ceremony. But ah my! we promised not to tell and we must be as good as our word. Guess all you like. Sheriff Vance of Avery County came here Saturday for Gran ville Hicks, wanted in that coumy on the charge of viol ating the prohibition act. Hicks had been released imder a 12 months' suspended sentence, but had been rearrested and re leased under bond. When the case was called at the last of term of Avery Superior Court, Hicks was called and failed, and his bondsmen had posted a •reward of $50 for his appre hension. The fugitive was ar rested Thursday at Valle Crucis ..by .DepwtK Sheriff,#,. A»#aga ,W. afltf, Mr.,#fauxYflte«-,. Fifteen Years Ago December 4, 1952 Mrs. Essie Winkler cf Sugar Grove is ill at Watauga Hos pital. Mr. Edgar Cooke of Aug usta, Georgia spent the week with Mrs. Cooke and their children. Miss Elenor Geer, a stu dent at Wake Forest College, spent the Thanksgiving holi days with her mother, Mrs. Rex Geer. Mr. pixon ,Qualms, student a,t th,e . University pf f'Jorth Carolina, Chapel HIM, spent the holidays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Qualls. Lawrence Barden, who is a student at Duke University, Durham, spent Thanksgiving with his parents. Just One Thing BY CARL GOERCH fhere used to be a well known saying: "Go west, young man; go west and grow up with the country." Mr. G. W. Miller writes in to tell us of something that happened a good many years ago that this saying reminds him of. My wife’s grandfather, who was a prosperous farmer liv ing in the eastern part of the state of Arkansas. He disposed of his farm and most of his belongings, rigged up his covered wagon, and then his wife, children and little pet dog started on the long trip west. For weeks he drove his team in the direction of the setting sun. Finally, one even ing, he arrived at the Miss issippi River. In those days travelers had to ford the river because there were no brid ges. Arriving at the banks of the Mississippi late in the evening, too late to cross that day, the family pitched camp for the night. Next morning after breakfast they all made ready to resume their travels. In the excitement of all this, the members of the family, so intent on getting across the water themselves, forgot about the children's dog. As a result, he was left behind on the eastern bank of the river. The children cried, but it was too much of an under taking to recross the river, so it was decided to go on, On they went, and were soon ac their destination, where they planned to establish their new home. Their experiences here were not what they had expected. The second summer almost every member of the family had typhoid fever. Aside from being sick; they were all unhappy and extreme ly homesick for familiar sur roundings and familiar faces, so they decided to return to the Old North state. On their way back, they came again to the Mississ ippi River, and again found it necessary to ford the AFTER ANOTHER stream. They crossed at the same ford and arriving on the eastern bank late in the evening decided to pitch camp. Early next morning they were awakened by the scratch ing and whining of some ani mal. Upon investigation what should appear but the pet dog that had been left behind in the wooded, sparsely-settled area more than two years before. The children cried with joy. The third day from this, the youngest child, who was sick with the fever, died and was buried by the father near the roadside of the westward trail. The remaining mem bers of the family returned to North Carolina and pur chased a farm about three miles south of their origi nal home that had been sold. A little clipping from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that we have saved for a long time goes this way: “Don’t underrate an apos trophe. It means a lot to you and me; Man’s laughter shows a merry wit— Manslaughter, just the op posite. Recently we heard from Mrs. Robert L. Morehouse of Oak woods, North Carolina who is intrigued by unusual names, She sent us some samples of names she has collected: Messmore Kendall is a grand name, and she likes Ihrie Leary who took Della Weller to see “Flora Dora”. Then she sent alor« Keller Eller, who policed in North Wilkesboro, and Dewey Buie, a recent graduate of a North Carolina college. Ed sal Bed saul isn’t too bad, she adds, and the OMPS Funeral Home has a final sound. Then In a postscript she tells us of a man, or woman, named Better Biter. KING STREET3 BY ROB RIVERS ■ \. The Red Carpet... Hai Seen Its Day ^ , A.'H. The red carpet has been rolled up—not that royalty has passed its flower—but that one will never again trod the scarlet velvet runner from the station pl^ttbrtu at Grand Central to the train platform . . . where the 20th Century Limited will never again receive rail passengers for its grinding run to Chicago . . . The most luxurious of American trains which started its initial run 65 years ago, symbolized the hope and the vision the i New York Central had for the Twentieth Century . r . “The : Century” as the queen at the glistening rails was known, pulled out for the windy city the last time Saturday night add for all we know made her 16 hour run right on time ... A victim of the jet age, ( a new generation had come to care more for fantastic speed than for elegance! 'the famed train joins the ghosted legions which include the WabrfshCannonball, the Memphis Special and the hundreds of little total trains which' have huffed and puffed themselves into oblivioiia AV and those of us who’ve ridden days on end behind the speeding, smoky, moaning be hemoths erf the rail sigh again when another of the mainliners leaves thetracks for good, on account of there’s no more business for the Pullmans. beor.a’ THE TWENTIETH CENT DRY steamed out of New York on its first run June 15, 1902 . . . She carried 27 passengers on a maiden run that took 20 hours and provided sleeping cars, a barber shop, a library and din ing car . . . The time was later reduced to 18 hours and the last run was made on an average cf a mile a minute including stops . . . Porters came to know regular passengers on the 961-mile run, who depended on the train's guaranteed schedule . . . In the early days the Century offered a partial re fund if the train was late . . , In sunshine and shadows, in rainstorms and in snowy bliz zards the huge Hudson loco motives, the Commodore Vanderbilts and later the diesel units hauled the Century, and otic nao usuauj um uilic . . . The deluxe all-room train with bar lounge, two diners and ob servation lounge car, including locomotive originally repre sented an investment of$1,384 000 , . . During a single run its crew comprised eight enginemen, eight firemen, three train conductors, six brakemen, three baggagemen, a train secretary, barber, tailor and maid along with one Pullman conductor for each of the sleep ing cars . . , The engine was changed only once between New York and Chicago . . . In her halcyon days the grand old train sometimes ran in seven sections and over the StefcitV' h£r gross rfcbehue'l&s been greater than any otTfe'r of the world's limiteds ., . There was no fanfare when the throttle was opened the last time on the head end of the limited and she gathered speed on her last run into the darkness ... It was that the traditional red carpet was rolled out for the last time but the memory of the gilded Queen, the proud courser of the polished steel will remain with all who’ve slept across the country while the whistle moaned its mournful lullaby, and the wheels banged a staccato tune on the rail joints. An Unusual Reunion When the five Rockefeller brothers gathered the other day they were honored as were their father and grandfather with the gold medal award of the National Institute of Social Sciences . . . There is David, President of Chase Manhattan Bank; Win throp Governor of Arkansas; John D. 3d, Chairman of the Rockefeller Foundation; Nel son A. Governor of New York and Laurence S„ conservation adviser to President Johnson . . . Quoted at the ceremony as among the reasons for the remarkable Rockefeller family development were highlights of the credo of John D. Jr., father of the five brothers, which was enshrined in New York’s Rocke feller Center ... In this frenzied time of change the lines have a pleasing rii^j: “I BELIEVE in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. “I BELIEVE that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity and obligation; every possession, a duty. “I BELIEVE that character— not wealth or poer or position —is of supreme worth. “I BELIEVE that the render ing of useful service is the com mon duty of mankind.” WHY.> Dr. Clement Clarke Moore was ashamed of his poem, very famous, "Night Before Christmas" and would not acknowledge that he wrote it for more than twenty years. Uncle Pinkney HIS PALAVERIK'S DEAR MISTER EDITOR: tfid Doolittle was reporting to the. tellers at the country store Saturday night that he couldn’t give this term erf the Congress a passing grade. Now that they was gone home to mend their fences, said Ed,hefiggeredthis session would go down in his tory in the minus column. Zeke Grubb was agreed with Ed, but he was of the opinion if things didn’t git better in Washington they wasn’t going to be no history to go down in. Clem Webster of the Great Society was defending the Con gress, said he had saw a report from the Bureau of Labor Sta tistics where a family of four wasn’t living the good life of these times if it didn’t have $9, 000 a year to spend. Since Clem ain’t got but two in his family, Ed couldn’t pin him down on these statics, but Ed allowed as how under them figgers, most • of the folks 1n this community 'ftifi’t ‘ijeeh’ living the g6od life. R. ' Ed allowed as how this cut in spending they was bragging about didn’t amount to enough to offset them traveling jun kets our Congressmen would tkke this winter, along with theft* wives, aunts, uncles, and cousins. Fer instant, said Ed, we still got 400 Federal hand-out ' ^rams run by 150 different GuVernment agencies. Bug Hook urn reported he was j, reading the other day where ..President Thomas Jefferson have but two helpers out laid? this regular Cabinet, one fer foreign affairs and one fer the home front. Furthermore, said %g, £his piece reported we had a balanced budget all the years Jefferson was President. Confidential, Mister Editor, f don't put much store by Bug’s opinion on things. He was so lazy he ain’t never contributed nothing fer the upkeep of the country. He makes me recollect a story my Pa used to tell. He said he had two Plymouth Rock roasters and one of them was so ' lazy that when the other one crowed fer daylight he just nod ded his head in approval. But, like Clem Webster was saying at a recent session, them science fellers mightcomeupwithalec tric spark to put to fellers like Bug and he could git to be a wheelhorse in the community. It ain’t that Bug was tight with his money, he just never earns enough to git tight with. Josh Clodhopper was the one that was tight with a dollar. The fellers at the store claim here a few year back, when Josh had to have his car towed in and fourel It was going to cost him $10, he snaked the door open srd put on the brakes. 1 reckon, Mister Editor, I was about the only oneatthecountry store that was perfect. Yours truty, UNCLE PINK Lighted candles in the win dow supposedly, light the way for the coming' of the Christ Child. Many people once be lieved that Christ appeared at Christmas, concealing his true Identity.
Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.)
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