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t ' VOL. LI, N033 ISHkSB Capital U FE (j^M) WASHTNC-TON, D. C - The sweetest, juctest, most luscious plum on the tree of patronage may drop trrto the lap of a North Carolinian, if political forecasters here know their stuff. J. D. Chalk of the state's conservation department, a visitor to the capital last week, is one of five men heing considered by President Roosevelt for aoDointment as United States commissioner of fisheries, lo succeed Frank T. Bell, who ^. recently resigned. A salary of SO.000 per ^ home on the PotoIfrP' mdc? u 8 u m me r y residence in New England, yachts on both occasion and plenty of time to use them is the remuneration for this pleasant job ... or maybe we'd better caH it ''position/' SOUTHERN REBEIL.LJON - It took place hist week at a closed caucus, called by Speaker Bankhead ami Majority leader Ray burn, to promote harmony in the Democracy's ranks. These bulwarks of the New Deal urged the Vboys" to attend sessions of the house a little more regularly, pointing out that their lassitude duruig recent weeks has been respona'.hlf' fnr wKdllu Rp.pi ?V>1 K?^ lY~-~vlctOr i :?<? fr-n mln5? and routine leir^Ctlon * ?pSJili'l. Uw?v,i of the conservative southern clique which has been veritably a thorn in the administration's side during this session, tlicn. gave, birth to a harangue which had to db with Mr. Roosevelt's failure to consult sp-callgd //t^ctionv-'ipLrte** nn'T4^?tIbii!S bffpwlcy:' '"If lie rrcaiiiwu,' vk>:c . ih quoiea as saying, "would consult with us he'd get ell the co-operation he needs to put over his program." -DUTCH STUBBORNNESS," to which the President himself pleads guilty, has played a big part in recent administration reverses. FDR's attempted "purge" of last summer, his apparent unwillingness to forget small diffeiences of opinion and forgive minor party derelictions, are to be blamed in part for the attitude of down-south members, v.-hh have always been a little grain on the stubborn side, too. But, to tell the honest truth?truth without f rill or furbelow?Dixie's "conservative clique" is made, up of old-time Democrats who can't quite get accustomed to a Presidential advisory board composed of Corcorans, Cohens. Hiopkinses and the like . . . men whose political pedigrees, if any, carry back no farther than the Hoover era. And lots of tlie southerners will tell you, point blank, hi,it they're unwilling for the future of their party to rest in the hands of these fledgling inner-circlejuen, politicos not yet >lry liehind the cars. Hence the laxity in house attendance, and opposition to certain pet administration measures. THE AliNT) CHANGETH-Politicians, like women, occasionally change their minds . . and it's perfectly all right for there's no law against it. Just to prove this assertion is Wlrpert lel'e the printed proceedings of the 1936 Philadelphia national convention (a voluminous document it is), and extract a wee small sample from a rhetorical masterpiece offered by the Honorable Josiah William Bailey in seconding tlie nomination of Franklin El. Roosevelt for the Presidency: " . . VVe hail him (Roosevelt) as the political redeemer of the American republic, the vindicator of the rights of the voiceless millions, the restorer of the national faith and the national unity in that faith, the preserver of democracy and free institutions In our land in a period when they were failing throughout the earth; the man who proved himself the man for America in her darkest hour, the man by every test for her millions as they emerge from the pit and the night [once again, thanks to his mighty leadership, and proceed to regain the way to th^ir happy destiny. We love him for his manifest nympathy with the people he serves and leads; for his inspired statecraft in grappling with problems and overcoming difficulties and perplexities that threaten to engulf our nation: and we LOVE IHM ALSO FOR THE ENEMIES HE HAS M ADE . . . We (Continued on page four) MWm i i ' ? ?~ /ATA1 An Independent boone? I Spanish Reft i PertluLS, France.?A pathetic t tired here recently after they cro: women are finding relief in tears. CD A Mil MftPDUFW ii iimiisiL mum iiLiii DIES AT ELK PARK Grandson of Late W. L Bryan, Esqu., Succumbs to Long' Illness; Funeral at Elk Park Frank W. Moiphew, aged 45 years, died Monday afternoon at Elk Park, where he had been ill lor several days. Funeral services were conducted at Elk Park Tuesday afternoon and interment was in a cemetery there. Survivors include one brother. Robert Morphew, Bristol, Tcnn., and a sister, Mrs. Fred K Paxton of Knoxville. Deceased was a son of the late Dr. M. F. Morphew and Mrs. Julia Bryan j Murpstevv, mtu ww .nt i.rr.ricn W. L. Bryan. Esq., of this city ami a nephew of Airs. Com L. Council I, Mr. James H. Bryan and Mr. Bart Bryan of Boone. He had spent considerable time in Boone visiting with relatives and was well known, inJhis section, having ot< one tiiqe oggfatbd a drug Btore at Blowing Hock. Lately he had been aassociatcd in business at Elk Park with Mr. Jack Norman. PLAN SUBMITTED FOR BALANCED STATE BUDGET Raleigh, Feb. 21?A sub-committee j of the general assembly's joint fi-: nance commtitce today recommended a nine-point program to "balance the state's budget," including previously ] rejected proposals to increase liquorj taxes and to extent! the sales tax to I "basic" building materials. Almost immediately after hearing: from the subcommittee, which, had labored since last Friday on its rec- j ommendations, Senator XJmstead of Orange, countered by offering an amendment providing for an increase of approximately 16 2-3 per cent in the income tax. No action was taken. Despite a motion by Senator Boyette of Moore, that the sub-committee's report be adopted immediately the committee decided to defer action and to hold hearings Thursday on all new taxation proposals. The program, as presented to the full committee by Representative Bryant of Durham, follows: 1. Increasing the estimate of returns from the inheritance tax by $75,000 a year. 2. Increasing the levy on machines vending soft drinlcs from $15 | to $30 a year to net $45,000 a year. 3. Increasing tax on chain stores either by increasing rate or by adopting the Louisiana plan of taxing chains on a basis of total stores, regardless of where they are located? $50,000 a year. 4. i Raising an additional $35,000 a year from filling station operators either by boosting the levy per pump from $4 to $6 or by a gallonage tax. 5. Boosting the estimate of the state's share in the intangibles levy by $50,000 a year. 6. Removal of the sales tax exemption on basic building materials ?$400,000 a year. 7. Increasing the tax on liquor from 7 to 10 per cent of gross sales ?$200,000 a year. 8. Increasing the levy on installment papers from one-fourth to onehalf a cent on the $100?$90,000. 9. Reducing the levy on beer from l',i to 11! cents per bottle with the revenue estimate-the same. TO HOLD BANQUET The annual mother-daughter banquet of tile home ecoromics class of Cove Creek high school was held Wednesday evening. A program was given by members of the class. JGA Weekly Newspaper?Esta WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH C igees in France ! j, yr- <- -'v . ' . v " pas' ;1 .1 group oi Catalouiau refugees, pic- ] ased the frontier from Spain. The .t siirphiq j?nnns i IJUIII UUO 1 WWU AID WATAUGANSji i 1,375 I., o c i\ 1 People Receive j J Grants of Surplus Commodi- I ties During January j There were 269 cases representing ? 1.375 persons certified by Watauga 2 | county welfare authorities as eligible 1 I to receive surplus commodity prod- 1 nets during January, 1939. Arthur K. j 1 j Langston, state director of commodi- I ty distribution with the slate board * of charities and public welfare, an- * nounced 'ast week. A state-wide total of 197.083 per- 1 sons represented by 42,691 cases were certified during the month., Langs I on j said. Seven hundred and fifty-one ; wpfii oeVlified to *41 rsv, frr*-?*** i month. ^ --i j j :S^l M=i VILAS YOUTH IN HOSPITAL '< Oscar Hollars, 18-year-old son c? t Mr: Mrs limjene Hollars ofijj' A-A-patttat at.-thC,,J>VAUu?a 1 hospll3l. He suffered a broken arm ' and leg when he was struck by a ear ? near the Vilas service station FVl- > day. The accident was said to have r been unavoidable, as he stepped from 1 behind a truck into the path of the 1 automobile. c l LIONEL WARD INJURED I1 Lionel Ward of Boone, is still con- J fined to his bed from injuries receiv[ cd a few days since when a rollinglog struck him as he worked in the timber in the -American Legion Park. S Understanding is that the pine log I started to roll in the direction of alt child, Mr. Ward tried to intercept it j I with a pee vie and was caught by the j 1 timber. Some ribs .were fractured C and perhaps interna! injuries sustained. r TO ASSIST TAXPAY ERS < Mr. J. S. Sink, collector for the N. 1 C. department of revenue, will be in j the office of the clerk of the superior t court on March 2 and 9th for the j purpose of assisting state income tax- ; c payers in filing their returns. is News From tlx Bv EMMETl ; : (Raleigh, Feb. 21?As the general f assembly this week swung into its i seventh full week of work, two sal- \ lient points wore apparent to close i observers of the thus-far mild and I ..AIOCoaIO -..T?? :?. m:.. ; : uiaivc ac?:uii. ruoi, i that the legislature will very likely be in Raleigh until well into April, f instead of breaking up toward the 1 middle of March as was expected at I the outset, due mainly to the increas- c ing schasm between the two money committees and their inability to c make the revenue and spending bills t jibe. Second, the more astonishing, r i3 the fact that to date no strong r leadership nor co-ordinated group has t displayed itself in the house. As a i rule, by the end of the first four i weeks of the session, some leader has e emerged on the floor of the house i with a fairly solid bloc behind him, a definite program in mind, and the momentum and co-operation of his v group to push his program through t to a concerted, if not early, finish. s The men who were expected to r emerge as leaders this session with r a definite program in mind have so r far shown no indication of grasping t the reins. The absence of any lead- t ership in the honae has caused the r session one of apparent listless- h ress, with house members floundering a Without any ICuu^rdMp ucSiiinl wluch t to unite, and without the necessary f impetus to drive through a united . -. DEM< blished in the Year Eig) ? AROLINA. THURSDAY, FJ* . FljiNERAL LSHELt/ FOR MRS. ROEf .IS Slowing Rock Residcnf * Succumbs Friday in Lenoir Hospital Mrs. YV. Lee Robbies, aged 57; . >rominent i^sidcnt of Blowing Rock, | lied Friday at a Lenoir hospital, j vhcre she had recently underwent a : serious operation, and from which ihe never rallied. Funeral services were conducted ram the late residence Sunday afterioon by Rev. G. Sexton Buchanan, >f the Presbyterian church, assisted >y Rev. TV. D. Ashley, Baptist minster. Burial was in the Winkler :enieterv near Boone. Surviving are the husband and the ollowing sons and daughters: Mrs. ?aul Kluttz, Mrs. Randall Foster, Vlrs W. F. Rail icy. Blowing Rock; klrs. T. C. Beach, Boone; Edward and 2harles Robbins Blowing Rock: Lee bobbins, Jr., San Diego, Calif. Three .rnth<M\s ah.J Mtiven s biters also sur- | ive: Sam, George and William Ausin of Boone: Mrs. McMillan, Mount riojly; Mrs. Martha Putman, Value ad : Mrs. Ben Greene, Mrs. W. S ^endlcy, Mis. Sarah Keller. Blowing ^ock. and Mrs. lames Greene of Bristol. Mrs. Bobbins was a daughter of he late Mr. and Mrs. Sam Austin md was !m)hi and rcami in the Blowing Rock section. She was a nemlwr of the Baptist church and ived a consecrated Christian life, beng held in the highest esteem by the >eople of this section. The funeral >unday afternoon won attended by a arge number of people. H. S. A. CHAMPIONSHIP ;GAMES HERE ON FRIDAY -i- . , - r Tfco games M> determine the winner .rfJfe.A, TE.fi. A will bo rdavrd Priu?, -so in theOtve Cfttk ! igicep&iooi K.. ~ s- .r... r'.rl6^Wiirei? of the WE.tPAjga-Av.rry iivUloti, will meet Healing Springs rirll, winners of the Aalvo division of he Association The hoys game Will irihjj. together .Cove Creek High anil ,'lfgl?la-ChiroUpa.;-jthe. winnera'^ the tshe division of the Association. The ishe county teams ate considered by trally as odds-on favorites but the earns lrom. Cove Creek can be figired 011 to give any team an interest rtg night on their own floor, so great tattles in both games are to be extected. A skating party will be held oilowing the games iOONE HIGH BLUE DEVILS SPONSOR BLIND TOURNEY Thursday February 23, Boone High School Ls staging a blind tourney, ^our of the loading teams in this secion of the state are to meet at the Soone High gym. The teams are: 3oone Blue Devils, Miller's Creek, Cranberry and West Jefferson. Promptly at 1:30 Thursday alterloon, Boone Blue Devils will meet Vest Jefferson and at 2:30 Miller's h-eek will play Cranberry. Thursday evening at 7:30 the two asers in the afternoon games will >l&y for third place. The winners of he afternoon will play at 8:30. A. beautiful trophy will be awardid the champion. Stewart and Hudon will officiate. e Legislature i* ADKINS irogram of legislation. The most ecogmzablo clue to this is the evervidenlng rift between appropriations ind revenue, which if not soon ireaehed. augurs stormy sessions rturng the next few weeks. As a result of this situation a >ersistcnt rumor was abroad in Rueigh this week-end to the effect that Jr. Ralph McDonald, unsuccessful :andidate for governor in the last lection, will $e discharged in a day r so from the senator in ni where he las been recuperating from an illiess for the past two years, and may etum to Raleigh within two weeks o attempt to organize a united bloc n the house. .McDonald's followers n the house are legion, and his reurn to Raleigh would be accompaned with explosive possibilities. The appropriations committee round up the week almost ready to ake final action on a bill which is ubstantially in accord with the origilal appropriations measure reconinended by the advisory, budget corrinittec. The finance committee, on he other hand, lopped off an addiional million dollars from the revelue hill during tne week, which ireught the revenue measure down to dmost a million and a half dollars rvuOxv the x/riguiaj c.'stimiM.ed income or the next bicnr.ium. In round fig(Continued on page eight) )CRA en Eighty-Eight ~23] 1939" One Hundred Urge Legislate Greer In Ba + . 1 ^ Pension Advocates ' ' H Washington.?The house ways ^ and means committee called advocates of old age pension plans to ^ testify on their various (tension schemes. Photo shows Rep re son- l' tative Ralph O. Brewster of Maine (left), who testified in support of P the Townsend pension plan, and u i>r. Francis TownsemL b MERCHANTS IN J A *T*TTT i ? TWITOTOtf/* t, mssrn ifimi - ..v ^ f cadics Night to -Be Observed by a Retail Group; Chamber Com- t) merce in Joint Meeting tJ ! ; an , { "Wie Bcone Xforchuoth .,A*SoeiiUqa,j.t and the Chamber of Commerce will tl gather art joint meeting Thursday <; evening, Miircli 2, in the animal la- t. dies' night event, it was determined j, at a meeting of Uie directors of file j( organizations Friday. p mt; merciiaiits wi:i prooapvy pro- ^ vide an outstanding speaker for the occasion, lnit the retailers will have little of business to transact at the P meeting, while the Chamber of Com- e merce is to elect a new slate of of- b fleers and a board of directors for r the ensuing year. c A special committee from the two, j, organizations is working on plans for ^ the banquet which will likely be at t the Baptist church . ^ HIISS HODGES TAKES COURSE IN WEAVING j S Miss Floy O. Hodges is in her third I h week of a ten weeks' course in weav- c ing and otlier nandwovk at the Wat- v auga Handicrafts Center. Miss ? Hodges is a graduate of the State Q School for the Blind in Raleigh, | , which has an excellent industrial arts j department. She is proficient in j' baske t- mak ing. The L.ions Club of Boone has made ^ arrangements to let her take this j s course at the Watauga center, j t through Mrs. Inez Wall of the North 11 Carolina Commission for the Blind. j j DEACONS AND PREACHERS p TO GATHER HERE MARCH I! The monthly deacons" and preach- j ' ers* meeting will he held at the Boone \4 Baptist church Monday March 6. at 2 \ y p: in., and Messrs Z. T. Greene and n \V. J. Cook have issued the following t' program for the day. Devotion: Raymond Henclrix. The Value of Forming Fields by D. ; 1 M. Edmisten, (open disucssion.) What Can a Layman Do in Helping to Form Fields?, by S. C. Eggers. (open discussion.) c Exposition of the 23rd Psalm by .. Rev. J. C. Canipe. * 31 BIRTHS REPORTED i IN WATAUGA TOWNSHIP t There were 31 births and 13 deaths in Watauga township during 193S. ac- 1 cording to Mr. Hard Thomas, who was in town the other day to file the 1 vital statistics records for his community. Miss Helen Underdown, register of deeds, to whom the blanks arc re- c turnable, asks that all those who t have not made returns in this con- } section, .do so at once. j At the present time. American au- j 2 tcmobiie factories require only seven j * men ui iitai.e one ear a week, where- I cs, in the early days of the industry, 2 ?2 men were needed, 1 v . ? V.-: T YEAK 1 Wataugans >rs to Assist lining Beer Vil Sections of County Represented as Drive is Made to Secure Passage of Greer Prohibition Measure; Four Speakers Are I i card in Public Finance Committee Hearing; Drys Are Encouraged by Reception A delegation of about one hunIred ministers, laymen, business nen and farmers from every ection, of Watauga county, went o Raleigh Tuesday where it ppeared before the house fi lancc committee In an earnest > nnos] in KnWtf tn rficm i> i-tr-? ? j ? SBMHvtTC*~ g avorable report to Representaive Roby T. Greer's bill to stop he legal sale of beer and wine a this county. The delegation is [escribed as one of the largest p.d most aggressive to appear at ny committee hearing during he present session of the asombiy. Wade K. Brown, young' Boone atorney, was the spokesman for the* eiegation. which Included nine Goeel ministers, and each member of , rhich wore a white ribbon, with Uio. old inscription, ''Watauga Dry." In the absence of Chairman FVen- " , I or of Nash county. Representative % V. Pat Kimzey of Transylvania, ^revied over tlie finance committee at irinn minister of Blowing. Reek, ipng r.tive in the fight for ionfJWraice in ais section, told the couimdti.ee that lie sale of wine and beer In his-peart town brought about a most i:nitiafactory .cataOton.^majrikt'ai"< be fact that the -majority of the itizer.s pf Blowing Rock were unalirably opposed to the legal traTTic i intoxicants, and appealed to thee >gislature to help the causu of temerance by giving favorable, action to Lepresentative Greer's proposal. .Ativ Brown next introduced Clydo - Greene, a buslifess and civic leadr of Boone, who has long been deeper interested iu prohibitory measure? elating to alcoholic beverages. Mr. J-reene stated that the freedonvlovng people of the Carolina mountainsike to make their own decisions?to ake a position and stand firmly by heir convictions. Prom the early .istony of the county, he said, Watugans had been against strong Irink, and introduced figures to how that in 1908 his county tad gone dry by more than 85 per cut of the vote cast, while in 1933, rtien abolition of the eighteenth, intendment was sought. 81 per cent f the county's vote had been on the iry side. He made ar- earnest and mpressiv? appeal to the committee o give a favorable report to the prohibition bill, and thus take the first ;tep toward giving Watauga people he right to govern their county in ine with the wishes of the vast Tnajoritv of voters. Mr. Greene refer cd to the last campaign, in which be vas the Republican candidate for the sssombly. Both he and Mr. Greer lodged the voters their best efforts o rid the county of wine and beer, iru! the ?*rw*Akf?r dwhuvil the insne vas non-political, that the overvhelnurg majority of all the people ranted the bill passed. CContinued on page five) ATTEND DISTRICT SUNDAY SCHOOL MEET Mr. and Mrs. S. C- Eggers. Meslames Archie Quails. T>. L,. Wilcox md L. T. Tatum were among those ro:u Watauga county attending the Mstrici Sunday school meeting "held n Lenoir Tuesday. Large delegations vere present from the 15 counties in he district and a number of state Sunday school leaders appeared on he program. RICHMOND COUNTY VOTES AGAINST LIQUOR STORES Rockingham, Feb. 21?The voters .f Richmond county today rejected he proposal to establish legal whis:cy stores. The majority against the VBC stores was 1,045, out of a total oie of 4,009. The vole was: Against, !.527: for, 1,482. The 4,009 total vote om pares with 7,121 cast in the ^emoerafciv primary last July, and 1,975 cast in the general election ist November. \
Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.)
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