JUNE 2, 1938
TO^AYand
gCXKBit I tX)E Sj>y>C ^4?
r ibn * for study
As long as men have been catching
fish. little is really known about
their life and habits. How do they
behave under watrr? We can't see
much more than a few inches below
the surface of the sea. Who eats who
in the struggle for existence that
goes on in the ocean's depths? Nobody
knows for sure, but a great
scientific laboratory for the study of
iivmg ;>sn or all Kinds has been established
in Florida, and we are on
tjie "way toward learning more about
the hidden life under water.
At Marineiand on Florida's Kost
Coast half a million dollars has been
sj;ent to build a miniature ocean.
Two great connected tanks holding
nearly a million gailons of filtered
sea-water have been built. They
have windows along the sides and
the bottom through which the behavior
of marine animals can be
studied and photographed at close
range.
When I visited Marineiand in
April there were dozens of sharks
of different kinds and sizes, a big
sawfish, innumerable smaller fish,
crabs, shrimps and other crusta- j
ceans, seals and porpoises all living [
together as they do in the sea.
?. ? ?
DOPE catches fish
Catching big fish for an aquarium
is a good deal like catching big animals
for a zoo or a circus. In order
to bring 'em in alive and in condition
to keep on living, they have to
be carefully handied alter being
* raUDV.i else thev will ininrw thnm.
selves In the struggle to get free.
Big game hunters for =eos jKhj
"mercy bullets," shooting a quickacting
narcotic drug into the animal's
hide. On the same principle J
the Marine Studios use a "hypodermic
harpoon" to control big fish after
they have been netted or trapped.
Invented by Count Ilia Tolatoy,
grandson of the famous Russian novelist,
who is in charge of collecting
fish for the Marineland aquarium,
the hypodermic harpoon injects an
anesthetic drug into a fish. Even
the lnrgest sharks turn over and play
dead when they get this "shot in
the arm," but a few hours later they
are lively as ever in the "miniature
ocean."
I went out with one of the "bring
'em in alive" expeditions early in
April. We set a big net a few miles
out on the Atlantic and anchored
over night to haul the net at sunrise,
the feeding time for the big
ones, bui an we got was one livefoot
liammerhead shark.
?
SHARKS soft
Whether sharks actually attack
living persons in the water is still a
matter of dispute. The fish experts
I talked with in Florida said that,
some of the large sharks will seize
an injured person, attracted by the
smell of blood. All agreed that a far
more dangerous fish is the barracuda,
the "tiger of the sea," which comes
into shallow waters and frequently
hits an arm or a leg off a bather.
Sharks and the shark family,
which includes sawfish and rays, are
the most primitive type of fish. Fossil
shark teeth estimated to be 100,000
years old are washed up by every
storm on the coasts of the Gulf
of Mexico. The 3hark has no bones.
His spine is soft cartilage and he has
no ribs at all. The shark does not
survive rough handling well.
One of the workers at Marine
Studios found a live shark cast up
on the beach. He dragged it half a
anile by the tail, stowed it hi the
back of his car, and drove it to the
aquarium. The shark survived long
enough to give birth to nine baby
sharks, but died shortly afterwards
from the effects of the rough treatment
she had received.
* * *
DOLPHINS . . . warm blooded
Everybody who has been around
the Atlantic seaboard much, from
- TJnva Scotia to Florida has seen
schools of dolphins, which are usually
called porpoises, leaping out of
water in graceful curves. Most folk
take them for fish, tout they are
warm-blooded mammals, little cousins
of the whale. They make their
torief excursions to the surface to fill
their lungs with air, which they can.
do in a couple of seconds through
the single nostril or "blowhole'" in
the tops of their heads.
While I was visiting the big aquarium
at Marir.elf.nd word came that
porpoises Wire feeding in a nearby
, inlet. Half a dozen fishermen in
rowboats went out after them. They
set four nets across the mouth of
the inlet. Hie first porpoi3e broke
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/ATM
An Independent
BOONE V
Tries For Toga
Hitj led as one of the most important
political developments since
1930 was the Peniisylvania primary
which gave the Democratic
senatorial nomination to N e w
Dealer Governor George H. Karle
(above) r.nd the nomination for
tlie governorship to his riuuiing
| mate, ants-C.I.O. Charles A. Jones.
Republicans, led by Janiea J. Davis
{Hilled a creator total vote than
did the Democrats.
LOCAL VACATION
SPOT VISUALIZED
i !
Chamber of Commerce Receives
Requests for Summer Accommodations
"Inquiries coming to my desk daily
for vacation living accommodations
in Boone or the immediate vicinity
convince me that Boone lias an important
future, as a medium priced
vacation spot." This Is the opinion
of Wade El. Brown, secretary <?" lmWatauge.
County Chamber of Commerce,
as a result of a survey of
hundreds of inquiries received, during
the past.several months.
"The tragedy is that I must always
refer them elsewhere. That hurts!
It hurts the community, the county
and It hurts me as the community's
representative. While it is true most
of the available living accommodations
in Boone are needed for summer
school residents, I am convinced that
with a little community planning we
could discover a number of private
homes to which to refer these people
who do make, inquiries. ?Ve must; do
that community planning as rapidly
as possible if this source of prosperity
to Boone is not to be lost."
"So that this can be done efficiently
and effectively we have decided
to establish a bureau of paid registration.
Everyone with summer accommodations
for rent will have this
service available at a cost of one
dollar for three months of the present
season. The Watauga County
Chamber of Commerce will keep a
card catalogue of available accommodations
and will use this registration
data in referring Inquiries to accommodations
within the rate they specify.
Monthly we will make available
to each registrant a list of these inquiries.
"Of course." Mr. Brown concluded,
*Wr have tried to vet our folks to
register before. They have not done
pay for they value. Therefore, our
new scheme. In all honesty I beso.
I've decided that what people
lieve such, a system would result in
the sure growth of a steady tourist
business for Boone."
Legion Post to Name
New Officers Friday
At a regular meeting of the Watauga
Post American Legion, to be
held at the Legion hut Friday evening
at 7:30, new officers will be elected,
and at the same time a slate of
delegates will be chosen to represent
the local organization at the state
Legion convention which will be held j
in Winston-Salem June 26, 27 and
28.
The officers elected will be installed
as usual in October, but are named
one month earlier due to the fact
that the state gathering occurs this
year thirty days prior to the usual
date.
At the same time there will be an
important meeting of the American
Legion Auxiliary, to which all members
are invited.
tiUY'i' HLAUKWCLL nomcu
PRESIDENT OF MARS HILL
Mars. Hill, May 28.?Hoyt Blackwell,
a member of the faculty since
1928, was elected president of Mars
Hill College by the board of trustees
Thursday. He succeeds Dr. J. L.
Moore, who resigned Wednesday after
serving 41 years.
UGA
Weekly Newspaper?E
/ATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH
HALF-HOLIDAY FO
CITY STORES WII
NOT BE OBSERVE
Merchants Association Fails
Attempt to Institute Half-H?
day for Sales Forces in Tov
i A ni
vrm ,y vnc uol.
lisliment
The movement which was iiistit
ed by the Boone Merchants Assoi
lion to provide a half-holiclav dur
the surome r months for the m
chants and sales organizations of
different business houses of the to
failed to materialize, it was s
Wednesday morning by a spc<
committee which had canvassed
town. There was only one disse
ing establishment, it was report
the association having gone on 1
ord a3 being unfavorable to the p
THlSnl pvrurfl unr-?r-> tVm wwditt.v" * '
it would have a 100 per cent endor
merit of the business interests.
The committee, which was cc
posed of Messrs. J. O. Cook, J.
Afuliins, L. L. McGill and Wade
Brown, received the endorsement
every merchant with the exception
one, and when it was found that
half-holiday would not be observ
the committee asked for the pu
cation of the following statement
I "We regret exceedingly that <
to tile failure of the Crest Stores
j sign the agreement, we will not cl
| Wednesday afternoon during t
summer, as planned. In advocat
the half-holiday we were following
the footsteps ot some of the 111
progressive towns ir, the state, n
we feel that could we have secu
Ine one additional signature, our c
tomers would have been glad to
operate. We did not so much s<
rest, as the opportunity to spend
half holiday during the hot moll
in mixing with each other and
fraternizing with our customers,
this respect alone, the iuJiroot bo
fits would have been great to us a
Luther South Dies
From Sudden Hlne
Luther S. South, aged 40 yea
died Tuesday evening at his home
the Beaver Dam section from an
ness of only a few hours. The
rect cause of his demise was un
termined.
Funeral services are to be condu
ed this (Wednesday) afternoon al
o'clock from the Forest Grove Bi
tist church and interment will he
the neighborhood cemetery.
Surviving are the widow, two si
and four daughters: Luther S., .
John, Ruby Dare, June, Courti
and Shirley South. Two brothers a
survive: Austin E. South of Boo
and Blaine South of St. Geor
Utah. One sister, Mrs. S. C. Egg*:
lives in Boone.
Mr. South, who was reared
Boone and lived here during his ea
aduit life, was popular in the to
and county and leaves a large nu
her of friends.
Mrs. Effie L. Pennell
Dies at Blowing Roi
Mrs. tsffie Leona renneu, aj
34 years, died at Blowing Rock 1
Saturday and funeral services w
conducted Sunday afternoon from
Blowing Rock Baptist church by R
S. E. Gragg and Rev. Sexton Bu
anan, interment being in the Shi
Mills cemetery.
Surviving are the husband, Cloy
Pennell, two sons and one daughl
Bernard, Jack and Blanche Penr
The mother, Mrs. John IW. Lewis,
Blowing Rock, also survives, i
one sister, Mrs. Gumey Holler,
Boone.
Dixie Stores Now
In New Buildii
The Dixie Stores, popular lc
grocery establishment, moved ti
stocks Monday into the new bu
ing adjacent to the Caro-Jean 1
and their friends are congratuiat
them upon their elegantly furnisl
building, which was built exprei
for the nedes of their particular bi
ness. An advertisement in T
Democrat today calls attention
special prices being offered in c
. nection with their opening in
new location.
Scouts To Meet On
Next Monday Evenii
Members of the local Boy Sc
troop are asked to meet at the St
hut nest Monday at 7:30. All See
are urged to be present, and o!
youths interested in the Scout m<
ment are invited to attend.
stablished in the Year Elgt
: CAROLINA, THURSDAY,
lR| Long Grind Ov
hat ' ^
.se. Three Indians?not from a
cycled 35,000 miles, vijfting 35 i
)m_ tinents, are shown hero as they
A West 34th street, New York Cifr
E Pacific coast. They are, left to
and Kustam Ghandi.
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the
NO JUNE COURT TO
bii- BE HELD THIS YEAR
iue The regular June term of Watlo
miga superior court, which is xoleose
^ *or of disposing of
h e ?'v'l actions, iviU not he held this
jng- year, according to word coming
jn from A. B}. South, the clerk,
ost Recent nbeed terms of court
Qlcj have disposed of so many civs!
red cases, it is said, that attorneys did
ug_ not believe the business in hand
co. justified the expense of holding
lek the term.
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tha ~ =-~ ?
? MERCHANTS WILL
no- J
u I \i A mi? nim?orrnnt
HMIfi ilinctiuiu
__ Members of' Merchants Associ:
lion Will Gather in Banquet
lr3_ Meeting June 14th
in
ili_ The Boone "Merchants Associatio
di- will hold a banquet meeting- at 7:3
de- on June 14, at which time the prir
cipal business to come before th
ct,
g membership will be the selection of
ap. new board of directors, which i
in i turn will name a slate of officers ft
the ensuing year. The place of tr
J"3 meeting, together with other detai
Jgy will be published next week.
Iso The present directorate consists <
nc J. A. MXillins, Frank Pearson, L. I
ge' lIcGill, John Conway, C. C. Roger
^ J. L.. Quails, M. I. Clark and R. I
Hodges. There are now three vacar
jo cies on the board.
riy - wn
REORGANIZATION BILL
DEFINITELY SHELVE]
Washington, May 31.?Represent;
tive Lindsay Warren cf North Car<
!ina. and Senator Byrnes of Sout
Carolina, chairmen of government r<
re<j organization committees, issued lal
this afternoon a formal joint stat<
?re ment saying no further attemj
would be made at this session to r
ev vive the reorganization bill,
chJlls
TO PREACH AT BLOWING
ROCK METHODIST CHttRCl
B.
ter. Rev. John W. Moore, presiding e
iell der of the Marion district, will preac
of at the Blowing Rock Methodh
uuj church Sunday afternoon, June 12, ;
of 3:00 o'clock. Everyone is cordial!
invited to this service.
DUGGER AT BANNER ELK
Banner Elk, May 31.?Shepherd i
tig Dugger, wideiy known author of tl
mountain region, arrived in Barm
ical Elk last week and will spend tl
leir summer at his home here.
Lid- Mr. Dugger has spent the winter
nn. Butler, Tcnn., during recent year
ing out ne nas never tailed to spend u
bed summer in Banner Elk. He is tl
sly author of "Whr Trails of the Bli
nai- Ridge" and "Balsam Groves
h e I Grandfather Mountain."
to
on- COUNTY SINGING
June 5, at 10 o'clock at the coui
house in Boone. You arc invited ai
expected, if you wish to help ma
this singing the greatest day of wc
ship through song that we have y
ng had
Bring the best sacred music th
out you can obtain and make every bo
out happy with the spirit of song.
luts Be on time to. hear the welcoi
her address by the mayor of the tou
>ve- N. L. HARRISON, Chains:
Z. T. GREENE, Secretary.
OCRAT
iteen E^ toy-Eight
er Fplfi Continents VC
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reservation, but from Bombay'?have t^101
countries and pedaling over five con- ^
threaded their way through traffic on cou
i, on the first lap of their hop to the con
right, Rutten Shroff, Kaikee Khares 0011
prir
TWO ARE BOUND ON ^
ROBBERY CHARGES ?
I juni
Ward and Warren Remanded to; '-her
Jail in Default of $3,000 Bond; 'vho
Hearing Held Monday
Frank Ward and Marvin Warren
map
were given a preliminary hearing
Monday before Magistrate Edwin N. Ai
Hahn and bound to Watauga superior ciiai
court under bonds of $3,000 each, on
= charges of having beaten and robbed ..s)ln
P. R. Shull, well-known resident of the
I-auiel Creek township. In default of
"1 bond the accused are - being' held in TO 4
^ the county jail and will be tried at i *1
the September term of court.
Mr. Shull believes Ward and Warren
to be the man who bludgeoned
him in the darkened kitchen of his
home on the evening of May 21 and Kct
took $50 in currency from his per- M
n sen. His testimony is corroborated i
q to an extent by fingerprints, allegedly
those of Ward, which were found on Rl
the window pane, and by footprints -peni
10 on the outside of the building, which s(!r;.
a sheriff's officers found corresponded ond
n to the shoes being worn by the de- to ^
fendants when arrested. calit
In the preliminary hearing the 0;d
x state was represented by W. R. Lov- .>v~_
ls ill and the defense by J. E. Kolshos- to s
er- of <
>f was
N. C. Ranks 13th
x Among States In Gra
Value Farm Crops
erec
Raleigh, May 30.?iNforth Carolina wdti
ranks thirteenth in total cash in- dajD
come of its farmers, which reached the
$271,132,000, the state department of mee
i. agriculture's statistics division re- jt j
ports. ti iff
11 i HI. niaic l iumtiu Its lOMOWS, in ture
?- various phases, according: to W. H, tar}
;e Rlioades, chief statistician carj
: First: Tobacco, with 674,000 ask<
>t acres harvested and 595,530,000
?- pounds, putting the state at the top jjg
in both acreage and production.
ITiird: Cash income from crops?
$232,850,000.
a Third: Total number of farms?
300,967 (1835 farm census). s
]_ Eighth: Acreage of all truck e '
h crops for market.?52,720 acres.
3t Ninth: Cotton?growers harvest- e e
tt ed 1,101,000 acres producing 775,000 ^ 2
ly bales. Acres planted reached 1,109,- ne2
000. T
Eleventh: AAA or conservation J"15
I payments with $12,282,000 paid to
1 SHQ
growers.
Seventeenth: Corn, both produc- "
ie tion and acreage with 45,357,000 1
"* t>ushel3 from 2.326,000 acres.
le Seventeenth: Acreage of all truck j emp
crops-?59,390 acrc3.
111 Twentieth: Acreage in cultivation easl
s' ?6,592,000 acres. and
ie Twentieth: Cash income from all
~'e truck crops?$4,290,000. fice
Twenty-sixth: Acreage of all
of truck crops for canning and manu- ,T
facture?6,670 acres.
Twenty-ninth: Hay?995,000 acres. a,>p
Thirty-eighth: Cash income from ar^
-t- livestock and livestock products,
nd with a total of $26,000,000.
ke With a to 1 of 2,360,429 people 1
ir- living "in the country," the state's wh:
et rural population comprises 74.5 per wic
cent of the total. jur
at by
dy Mr. Spencer Miller returned Mon- it '
day from Camp Jackson, Columbia, cor
ne S. C., where he attended a three-day int
m. reunion of the Eighty-first (Wild fer
m. Ot) division, of whicli he was a Ell
Member during the World war. K am
I
r
~ $1.50 PER YEAR
ITERS TO ENGAi: |g?
PRIMARY FIGHT
E X T SATURDAY
nt JLocal Interest in Statewide
Primary Race Bespeaks
ight Vote; Only Senator and
tilities Commissioner Before
ucui oiccivraic
> far no Intense general interest
developed in the Democratic priy
election of next Saturday, in
:h Watauga voters will aid in the
ction of a candidate for the Uinstates
senate and one for state
Ities commissioner, and it is bepredicted
that the balloting in
area will be unusually light,
dictions of those whose political
pivnl has always been regarded
sound, indicate that Watauga's
il vote may not "oe more than one
jsand.
/atauga Democrats name their
nty candidates this year by the
vention method, and this will acnt
for a lessened turn-out for the
nary. Besides, no intensive campi
is being waged for the state
et. so far as is known
enator Robert R. Reynolds is beopposed
for re-nomination to tile
ted States senate by Congressman
nk Hancock of Oxford, and while
ty are of the opinion that the
or senator wiii carry the county,
e are supporters of Mr. Hancock
are equally certain that their
iidale will come through victoriState
Utilities Commissioner
ilcy Winborne is conceded a heavy
>rity locally over Paul Giudy.
I'olls to Open at 1
: cording to Mr. A. D. WKlson,
rman of the county board of elecs,
the polls will open at 7 a. m.
close at 7 p. nu, tlie change from
. to sun" having been made by
last legislature.
nrnitT tmn mo
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BE BUILT HERE
\ Graham Expects to Start
[cetinf] Second Sunday in
Tabernacle Friends Erect
ev. I>an Graham, Blountvilie,
i., evangelist, expects to start a
;s of l-cvival services on the secSunday
in June in a tabernacle
e built by his friends in this ioy
on a portion of the Blackburn
hotel property The tent which ' ' ' '
to have been used was damaged
ueh air extent during the process
irection in a high wind, that it
temporarily abandoned, and the
of constructing the tabernacle
conceived at a meeting of Rev.
ham's friends held in the courtje
last Thursday afternoon.,
umber is being delivered for the
tion of the temporary structure,
:h will be 75x90 feet, and on Friof
this week all the people of
county who will, are asked to
t for an old-time house-raising,
s believed that there will be no
iculty in completing the struc:
through the medium .-if volnn
labor. Those who car. serve as
>enters and laborers as well are
:d to gather Friday.
COMPOSED BODY OF
PETER LEVINE FOUND
?
ew Rochelle. N. Y., May 29.?
wire-bound body of long-missing'
!r Levlne?head, hands and feet
jing?was found and identified by
dives tonight on the shore of the
te of Louis Tselin on Davenport
c. Long Island sound,
he body was hardly more than a
s of decomposed flesh and a few
ss but Detectives Edwin Gleason
Michael Lynch said enough of
lad's clothing remained to make
itification possible,
ielmer Strong, a yacht captain
iloyed by Mrs. Iselin, was stand
uii Lilt: Uiui: v wjieu, lie sa.iu, a aue
: wind blew the body landward
lodged it against a rock. He
aediately spread the news and ofrs
were on the scene in a short
le.
he boy, son of Murray Levin e, a
h avenue, N. York, attorney, diseared
from his home here Febru24,
after leaving school.
WPA WORKER INJURED
It. Henry Mast of Sugar Grove,
ile working on the WPA countyle
school repair project, was ined
Tuesday when he was struck
a barrel of paint which slipped as
was being moved. Mr Mast was
Lsiderably bruised and fearing that
arnal injuries might have been aufed,
he was taken to the Banner
c hospital for further examination
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