JUNE 2, 1938 Contracts for Three Overpasses on Scenic Parkway Awarded North Wilkesboro. May 28.? Workmen have begun surfacing the 08 72 miles of the Blue Ridge Parkway from the Virginia line southward to Deep Gap between North Wilkesboro and Boone. Contracts have been awarded for overpasses over highways 21, 18 and IB. R. B. Taylor has the contract for placing bituminous surface or. the parkway and the work is expected ' to be completed this summer. Federated Construction Company of Myrtle Beach, S. C., has the con. tract for erecting overpasses over ' highway 21 near Roaring Gap in Alleghany county and for a similar structure over highway 16 at the intersection at the Wilkes-Ashe line. C Y. Thompson has the contract for the bridge over highway 18 between North Wilkesboro and Sparta at Laurel Springs. Work has begun on the structures over highways 21 and 18. 4 The overpasses are to be reinforced IK Timi'Jm*' faA^sA4ai&?ftiJiys BOONE DRUG CO. The Itexiiil Store I Eyes Examined ?0? iOR. L. E. WELLMAN Optometrist Specialist in the Examination of the Eyes and the Fitting of j Glasses. Complete Modern Examination Room over Farmers State Sank Mountain City, Tcnn. Office Days Wednesday and Thursday Each Week .PRICES MODERATE Glasses Fitted OOP ATLAS GRIP-SAFE SILENT TREAD The danger of smooth tires is too great 1 The New Atlas, Grip-Safe, Silent Tread tire is the last word in safety through positive roadgrip, grip-safe center tread and anti-skid protection. Drive in and see this new achievement in safetytread design. And for double security, ask for the new Atlas reinforced tube. Vilas Service Station L Vilas, N. C. ! Spa i L. : w. j concrete hut in keeping with the parkway design of preserving natural . 'oeauty will be faced with native [j stone of the blue-grey granite type. Labor for all tire projects, which I are under WPA classification, will be I furnished through the state empioy| ment service office located here ! and serving Wilkes, Alleghany. Ashe I and Watauga counties. NOTICE 1 Chapter 319, Public Laws of North Carolina, 1933 Session?An Acl for licensing Threshing in North Carolina and Securing Reports on the 1 Amounts Threshed. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Section 1. That it shall be the ' duty of any person, firm or corporation who shall engage in power threshing in any county in which the ; operator resides: Provided, that se-j I curiae of a lican-ao in m'-o 11 ? - V...V .MI| | be sufficient to allow the person, firm or coiporation to operate in any county of the state. Section 2. It shall be the duty of the register of deeds of each of the several counties of ihe state to issue | a license to engage in threshing in that county to ar.y person, firm or corporation applying for same. Ev- , erv license issued under the provisions of ihis act shall expire or. the first day of April succeeding the date ; of the issue of such license, in lieu of the necessary expenses involved, tbe register of deeds may make a charge not to exceed fifty cents for each license issued: Provided, that operators who thresh their own crojfs only shall be exempt from any license cost. Section 2. It shall be the duty of every person, firm or corporation, j who shall engage in threshing for others or themselves, in any county of the state, to keep a complete and accurate record of the acreages harvested and amounts threshed for each farm, and to promptly make, upon blanks to he furnished by the register of deeds of the county, reports showing the acreages and the amounts threshed by said person, firm or corporation, in said county | during the preceding season. A violation or the provisions of this section shall bo deemed a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not exceeding twenty-five dollars: Provided, the register of deeds shall give thirty days' notice to the licensee before indictment is made, arid if licensee makes said report within said time no Indictment sliall be made. i uaiax 11... i ? - J., IAVWII UJtu?(uuv> u, i cguiut W \ deeds for Wataugu county, take this I means of publicly notifying all persons, firms or corporations, in the county who expect to do threshing this year (1938) to please come to my office and secure a license, t have on hand license cards, blank forms for threshers' operators' reports, books, etc. These license cards are supposed to be issued by June 1st or soon thereafter. The fee is 50c. Very respectfully submitted, HELEN UNDERDOWN, Is Register of Deeds. Try B1SMAREX for Acid Indigestion. Insist on Genuine Bismarex and refuse other so-called Antacid Powders recommenmended to be "just as good." Bismarex is sold in Watauga county only at BOONE DRUG CO. The REXALL Store "TAILORED" Insurance . . . fitted to your needs An?? oartft/tA rtitroc i?ai i V--*X 5&VW J UM. the kind of insurance YOU need. Come to us for COMPLETE COVERAGE Watauga Insurance Agency Bank Bldg. Boone, N. C. B ? ! 1 Lnnouj Closes Sc BisaBaiBiiaMBaiis ATAUGA DEMOCRAT?EVEKY 1 The Week in # tin \v ashing ton g A RESUME OF GOVEBNUEN- ser MENTAL HAPPENINGS IN str THE NATIONAL CAPITAL cot ho: Washington, June 1.?iVJlth conjress apparently on the verge of ad-1 ' journment. and a hot campaign al-L., ready ahead for all of the represen- j ^ Latives and a third of the senators, j lw [Political Washington is paying much i more attention now to the outlook lor | aJ1( the fall elections than it is to 3uch i matters as the wages-and-hours bill , or the President's efforts to put over VO( tiis reorganization plan. j Tile big question which next fall's thi elections will decide is whether the 121 trend of sentiment among the voters pr of the nation is away from the doni- cai inant Democratic party, and, if such ! i a trend to the Republican party is I ye not clearly shown, whether the trend pr, inside of the Democratic party is po away from the present administration ce and the new deal or otherwise. seStraws In the Wind itc So at both ends of Pennsylvania a avenue, the executive end which cen- of tors at the White House, and the leg- sc islativo end on Capitol Hill, the to soothsayers and star-gazers are tossing straws into the air to determine th which way the political wind is dc blowing. or The first straw so tossed blew, us In every observer agreed, directly to- fo A-ard the White House. That was da the clean-cut new ileal victory of or Senator Pepper in Florida So far as the trend inside the Democratic party is concerned, that, was accepted by many Democrats as sufficient evidence that Democratic voters are co still overwhelmingly new dealers. m But then came the Pennsylvania w' primaries, and the indications from lethat straw were by no means so w clean-cut. Only one of the Demo- ;,t cratic candidates who had the bless- ^ ing of the administration was nomi- ._ nated. ? Governor Barle's victory, running for the senatorial nomination, was conceded in advance by almost everybody, not so much because he had been a consistent supporter of Mr. KOOSevelt from the tiep-inriinv but hp. 1 cause the candidates who opposed him in the. primaries were men in Yvhom the voters of their own oartv hail little confidence. Pennsylvania Rcoults The victory In Pennsylvania ot the anti-new deal Democratic candidate for governor, Charles A. Jones, over Lieut. Governor Kennedy, secretarytreasurer of the United Mine Workers of America, was not. only a straw revealing a Democratic current in a different direction from the way the wind blew in Florida, but it was a definite and severe set-back to the political ambitions of John L. Lewis( chairman of the C. I. O. Lewis had put all the strength of his labor organization behind Mr. Kennedy. Mr. Jones' victory over the combined efforts of Mr. Isiwis and of Chairman Farley of the Democratic national committee is regarded here as a pretty definite indication that the trend in the vrest indnsiri.il states of the north is at least toward conservatism, if not distinctly toward | Republicanism. Mr. I/ewis had also put his influence in the Republican primaries behind the veteran former Governor Gifford Pinchot, who made a very poor showing indeed against Judge Arthur H. James for the Republican nomination for governor. That and the size of the Republican primary vote, over 135,000 more than the Democrats polled for all their candidates, have started Washington to talking seriously of the possible recapture of Pennsylvania by their party next November, and have definitely strengthened the convic- ' tion that the Republicans are certain to gain a large number of congressional seats. Even new deal enthusiasts are now conceding that there will be at least 35 more Republican members in the lewer house of the next congress than in the present one. That may safely be regarded as the minimum shift. Estimates of eperienoed polxical observers run all the way from 35 more Republicans to 110. The average of several polls of expert opinion is 60. That would not give a Republican majority, and even staunch Republicans express doubts whether a majority would be desirable, with a dhrof A otill ntmmnlialmimo-Rr TVawvn, cratic and a Democratic administra-j tion In the White House. Such a i condition has obtained in the past,. with the result of a complete deadlock in all important matters of legr's Cle iturday, HURSDAY?BOONE, N. C. it ion. 1 oom 1891 Situation KeuiUed j the Hie situation is likened here to; jor it which obtained in 3 910. a.'hen ' Democrats gained 54 seats, giv: them a majority of the house lE,[_ ih a Republican President and ate still in office. Every con- c|0's uctive effort looking toward re ery was effectively blocked bv the ^ ise. ' aSCi ilany shrewd onlookers compare <^rc' ' present political situation to that 1894 Mr. ClevelarKl was serving *est second term as President. His com n Democratic party was split Ik- i ct-'h eer. the conservative faction bent sho1 3ii preserving the gold standard lciS 1 bringing back recovery from the = nic of 1893 by encouraging Indus- ? and the radical Free Silver ad:ates. [n the congressional election of it year the Republicans gained ) seats and two years later elected esident McKinley and a Republin congress. Chitting across all parly lines this ? ar, however, is the new spending ogram which the President prosed and which congress has acptcd. That the distribution of "eraI billions of fresh funds tor re- i f and public works will operate as I powerful influence for the election i Demfif?rats over fipniililirani! in . ores of congress districts is taken r granted here. How far it will be influential in e nomination of thick -and- thin new alers over the conservative Demoats is a question to which an afmative answer is not quite such a regone conclusion, since the Flori. new deal victory was about the ily criterion to go by. 4-H HEALTH CONTEST Each year the county 4-H clubs niluct a health contest for ciub embers over 14 years old. These inners enter a district health const and the winner in this contests ith the other district winners tor ate honors. Dr. R. B. King made e final examination for Watauga Noted for 22 Yea DV/v ARCAD1 WI June 3 BLOWING R( Beginning June 3 count is being off rounding territory quainted with our 102 ! NOTICE! SW made tl APPLICATION Name Employed Reference Reference FREI AHCAI) W Noted for 22 Ye ;an-S\ June 4-t ity on Hay 23. Clyde Greene of ~ Bethel 4-H club, won the contest I the boys ami Annie Davis nder camel is the most r"' rre in these parts/ ho sell them? ?u> the quality rigarcttes. And i liner, MORE l^~ and Domestic a ^^TOBUCC^ planters say ?i! to the Public EK" I HEBHoKto SHOP e 9th >EEP GAP % to 20% disloone and surto get you acand millinery. 20g un and mall at once j s to buy. Purchase* I Ill's statement. : ACCOUNT CE SHOP ?._ j.I n..Li.^ IU IIAC JT UUUC Saie"| ? g -yj'Liy -&