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w VOL. 52, NO. 18 CLIFF CHURCH IS j FREED ON TUESDAY J J Ashe County Resident Wins Jury Acquittal t>n Charge of Murdering His Wife Clifford Church. Ashe county filling station operator, was freed by j nn Ashe jury Tuesday afternoon cn a charge of murdering his wife, a j former resident of Watauga county, ' last July. The bodj' of Church's wife was found lying across a bed in the j Church home at Warrensville on the | night of July 23. a bullet hoi*? j through her right eye and her head , in a pool of blood. Church, it was 1 testified, told officers that she had ! committed suicide. No gun was J found in the room but later a pistol, j fl,.,?U'c r.. ?.MUIVUO UllgtflpliiUS. j w.is found under an adjoining house. Church testified he was on the porch when lie heard the pistol fired. that he then rushed into the house, saw his wife lying on the bed, grabbed the pistol and threw it under the house. He said his wife had threatened to kill herself several times that evening. Other witnesses swore the woman had made one suicide at- * tempt and uttered many threats * during the past few years to end j every thing. Testimony showed Church and his ; wife, were the only ones at the house | at the time of the shooting arid that they had quarreled all evening. Officers found a largo quantity of liquor in the house at the time of ^ the investigation and Church is now i k facing a federal jail term as he was j under probation. j ^ . Iv Amateur Night At f Boone High Nov. 11| First and second cash prizes to-1 jt taling S25.00 wilt be given to winiters in contests at the amateur ' night show ul Hie Appalachian high 1 school auditorium Saturday night, 1 November 11. The Dae -i Bonne v chapter of Future Farmers of Amor- J ica, sponsor of the avent. have as- !1 surances that some of the best entertainers in Watauga and surround- s ing counties will bo there and indi- f cations point to 11 capacity audience. ' Numbers for which cash prizes are , ouerea include slrine Hand, violin i solo, banjo, mandolin or guitar so- c ios; accordion splo. piano role. <?or ? persons 12 or more years old); cor- ' det, trombone or clarinet solo; harmonica solo, vocal quartet; vocal duet or trio, vocal solo with string 1 instrument accompaniment, vocal ' solo with piano or no accompani- 1 incht; animal imitation, tap or jig dance, and stunt or dialogue. Since the program is to be given j' an Armistice Day, a short program j' will be given in honor of this occa- j j !sKin. Proceeds from the admission i. fee will be used to buy musical in- | struments to be used in the newly ; organized F. F. A. band. HALLOWEEN CARNIVAL it A SUCCESSFUL EVENT j J !The Halloween Carnival held in j j the county office building Saturday |, evening under the auspices of the ; Tuesday Night Club, was a most .* enjoyable event. Dancing was en- j joyed by a large number of people, j while tables were arranged for t bridge, setback and Chinese check- . ers. Sandwiches and sol't thinks ( were served by the members of the j elub, and the net proceeds from the j event was $55,20. The funds were turned over to the Watauga county department of welfare and will be used among the needy children of the county, for eye and tonsil ope- ? rations and other needs which may : arise. 1 The sponsors of the event wish to express appreciation to the people iui mcir spienoia support in this movement to help bring health and happiness to a few underprivileged ' children. Special thanks are ex- ' tended to the county commissioners for the use of the building; to the , Rivers Printing Company for necessray printing; New River Light & Power Company for the use of a! refrigerator; Roy Keplar. A. E. Ham- j by and Carolina Pharmacy for the i use of their nickelodians. . Since the event was so much en- j ' joyed by all, it is hoped by the i1 sponsors that other similar events ! may be arranged in order to raise 1 money for such good causes as the j library- Red Cross, hospital, etc. j Friendship Church Is 1 Added to Boone Charge , ? i Friendship church, near A h o, < Known throughout the years as a i "Northern Methodist" congregation, 1 has been added to the Boone charge ; by the Western North Carolina Con- 1 ference. and Rev. Paul Townsend s will deliver his initial sermon there < next Sunday evening- at 7 o'clock. \ Services will be conducted at the church twice monthly, according to i Rev. Mr. Townsend. following out 1 the consolidation resolutions adopt- c ed by the General Conference. s Sunday school will be held at the c Boone church on Sunday morning 1 at 9:45. Preaching services, with I sermon by the pastor, will follow at t 10:50. The Young People's group i will meet, as usual, at 6:30 p. m. t There will be no evening preaching s service. t ATAl An Independent ^ BOONE, Plot Course of Fleet S ~~~ 1 Los Angeles Harbor. Calif.?Ad- v miral Claude C. 3Ioch. left, com- j mander-in-chief of the U. S. Fleet. 3 and CaDtain Robert A. Theobald. . chief-of-staffr sludy fleet p oblems of the U. S. S. Pennsylvania, j ( flagship of the fleet. Surplus Foods Are Given To Watauga's Needy in September i t With 41 138 case.- representing j( 88.344 persons certified in North i Carolina during September as eligi-1 ) >lc to receive surplus eomim clitics i listributed through county welfare tepartments, 36,042 cases ac ually , cere serviced during the month. A. 1 '. Langston, stale director of com- j nodity distribution with the stale j ( aiard of charities and public wel- , are, said this week. j, Twenty-seven school lunch pin- 1 irarns were aided during the n onthjl n which 1.290 needy and ruder-! lOur-.Shcd graded school pupils o*j he si;.: received free hot lunches, j chile a,B per.runs in four children's { amps v. .re helped by the extra j, ood supplies Since Ute first of October 343 j chool lunch rooms with an allotnent of 21.988 needy, undernour- c shed pupils have entered the am- 1 nodity distribution division's new 1 uogram to have 150,090 poor cl>11Iren on the records for free lunches ' luring.the current school year, Mr. .angston said. Watauga county welfare depart- J ncnt certified 220 cases involving ,085 persons with 214 rases being ervicod with the commodities dur- ' ng September, the director said. i' The Watauga county welfare de- t lartment is supplied with surplus; , commodities purchased by the fed- I; >ral government for North Carolina , llstribution from the district num-' ler 4 \v arehouse at North. Wilkesjoro. BUYS FINE HEREFORD Mr. 1. A. Henson of Vilas, passed : hrough town Wednesday morning 1 rotn Blowing Rock, with what he jejjfevcs may be the grand champion Hereford steer at tile next state 1 air. The animal and its mother ,vere bought by Mr. Henson from ' Dr. Bynum Dobbin of Patterson, md the calf is to be placed on feed , >y young Councill Henson for the 1 l-Il Hereford contest next year. The calf is four months old, weighs 400 | icunds, and would seem to be a ine prospect for the championship I n the heavyweight division next j oar. PRICES UP Since the low point in the depresion, the value of cattle in the naioti has increased 97 per cent, but n the south the value has gone up 08 per cent. The postoffice at Appomattox fourt House, site of Lee's surrenler to Grant, once was called Surendeib SUCCESS OF ROBESO IS OF TIMELY INTE While local chamber of commerce : nembcrs are busily engaged in corking out plans for the estahlishlient of a cold storage plant here, he experience of a similar venture n Robeson county, under the manigement of Mr. R. E. Nance is of ocal interest. Some portions from in article by F. H. Jeter in the Progressive Farmer are given: "This cold storage plant will take my kind of lamb, beef, pork, etc., ind keep it for the owner as long as ie wishes. Expertly and scientifically the meat is cut for any purpose the owner desires. Another telp is, the plant makes sausage for' ill patrons. . . . Any farmer may Jring his sausage meat, have it seaconed properly, ground and delivered to him, sometimes while he vaits. "Finally, a complete curing scrvce is offered. The farmer may till two or three hogs, brine the ' carcasses to the plant, have hams, choulders and sides cured and the ither portions cither stored in his ocker or prepared as he wants hem. . . . Here's a sample of how he service works. A farmer drives ip in a truck and says: 'I want wo hams out of my curing bin, dice one for frying and trim the he other for baking.' A hustling JGA ] Veekly Newspaper?Estafc WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH 1URLEY BALLOT TO SE HELD NOV. 21ST " teferendum of Farmers O n 1940 Marketing (Quotas Held Important Washington, Nov. 1?The agricul- | ure department, has set November ; 1 sr. the date for a farmer referer.- | iurn on marketing quotas for next . ear's buipy' tobacco crop. If approved by two-thirds of the j armors voting, the quotas would os- ' abl.ish a national marketing allot- j nerd of between 315,000,000 and , 20.000.000 pounds. The national allotment would be \ livided among growers under a for- i aula set up in .the crop control act j :f 1938. Growers selling in excess j >f their quotas would be subject to j > penalty tax of half the market j aiue of the excess sales. States in which the referendum j vtlII he held include Ohio, Indiana, j Missouri, Kansas. Virginia, West i /irginia. North Carolina. Kentucky ; uiri Tennessee. Under the 1940 farm program, ? jach hurley tobacco grower would'?1 3C* given a planting allotment de- j Iigned to produce, his marketing 11hare Kach farmer w6uld be per- j nitted under quotas, to market the j nlire production of his planting al- : lotmcnt. j. B. llutson. assistant agricul-jp ural adjustment administrator, said I marketing qnelys u,pr? ?.'ivi??.bk )?? 1 :ause the supply of hurley tobacco ] in October 1 this year was the third i argesl in history. He said it totaled | .040,000,000 pounds compared with 199,50,000 pounds a year ago. hi Fortunately, the present surplus ?>i ?f hurley is not so burdensome as W hat for some other types," Hutson so :nid. "Rut thp hnrlow cmmli.c ;? " ..Ujpjuo ij f,l ontinuing to grow. To continue to Ci idd to this surplus would definitely ne.in lower prices to growers." ct Pot of Gold Event gi Is Now In Progress ? The Boone Merchants Associationj jV ?ot r;f Gold Campaign is now tnjv ns.-gress and business men who 02-1 u. ong to the organization state that I * J :onsidetahle interest is already be- g ng manifested in the proposal to ' jive away $25 next Saturday alter- ^ won at the close of the first week S? if the event. ;n Jrade ^ :ed during the week and patrons of w :h* establishments participating are ^ iskcd to be present at the Shell Cafe corner, promptly at -1 o'clock Satur{ay afternoon for the exercises in V onnection with the presentation of :he award. Pastors and Deacons Will Meet Nov. 6tK st Ct Conference of Baptist pastors and lt deacons will be held at the Boone 01 Baptist church on the afternoon of j?' November 6th, beginning at 2:00 /clock. Following is the program for the meeting: "Should We as Ministers of the jp Uospel Unite in Matrimony, Those "J Who Have Been Divorced?" Dis- jj ussion opened by Elder W C. l" Payne. c' "Has God Changed the Plan of Salvation ' If so, When? Was it Law [ or Grace Before Christ?" Please come with chapter and ."erse. for a free-for-all-discussion, j NY A ASSISTS RED CROSS i The local chapter of the Red Cross 5' nas been asked to make 12 heavy , dresses and 20 sweaters for the , refugees in Europe. The NYA has volunteered to make the dresses and u also to knit a number of the sweat- . ers. The first aid cabinets, which are being built by the NYA will be equipped by the Red Cross. These L cabinets will be placed in each g county school where there is a teacher who has had Red Cross first ]( aid training. N STORAGE PLANT c REST IN WATAUGA it young man dressed in white, gets ti the two hams, fixes them as direct- o ed. wraps them, hands them to the L owner and he drives away. C "But this Lumberton plant was fi established primarily to give 'freez- n er locker service' which means that at any season of the year* a fanner may kill a veal calf, a beef steer, two or three hogs and say goodbye d to all worries about its keeping. He v carries me meal to tne plant. Has it z placed in the chilling room from ^ which, in case of beef, it goes into the aging room. Then it is cut up, p wrapped, stamped and stored in the ^ freezer locker. "And this word 'freezer' is right. I visited the room one hot August day to see how the meats arc stored and found the temperature down to f 10 degrees. Some patrons even store 11 fresh strawberries, field peas, beans, P and the like for use next winter. I a. saw some strawberries that looked li and smelled as fresh as if they had u just been picked from the vine. The rental charge per year is about $10 per locker. "Although some carcasses are ]; brought to the plant in poor shape b (animal not properly bled or bones is broken) there has been little loss t. during the year of operation atjd S losses are replaced or paid for." r DEMC tlished in the Year Eight* ----- - - -- - - -J CAKOUNA, TH URSE)AY,JB WINGS OV . Somewhere in Europe.?Two r British planes of the type head'ini Heinkels, on Iod, figured in Edinbu fires" warm up on the line. IEREF0RD CATTLE SALE ON MONDAY ounty Agent Says Wide Interest Hos De.yejnned in Sale of High Grade Animals The auction sale of Hereford, "eeriing cattle which will be held; i Monday, November (>, at the | atauga stock yards, consists of1 me of the best registered and high :ade cattle in the county, says j junty Agent Harry M. Hamilton. This sale is bcino he'd to offer ittle to the many buyers over the j ate who have inquired for Walau-p bred Hereford^ j i The county agent's off ice has re- ;< rived numbers of telephone calls, 1: grams and letters from alt sec- ; ir?s of the state wanting gq< d j ereford heifers and bulls. A numir ot the farmers hi tne county aye also had a lot of inquiries for iod Hcreiords. - ;.^r - r a A number of farmers have al- . ady consigned cattle t" this sale id if anyone else wishes to pill line cattle in the sake, please get t touch with the county agent's ^oftfcr~ want us many farmers as e can get io take part in the sale," 'r. Hamilton says. Vesfcern Union Has Money Order Office Mr. W. H. Wilcox of the local I 'cstern Union Telegraph office, \ ales that arrangements have been i impleted by the company to make j to local office a first-class money rder office. Money can now be i -nl or received during office hours, 30 a. m. to 7.30 p. m. Heretofore the Northwestern Bank as rendered this service without I rofit. in order to be of service to ic community, and Mr. Wilcox tanks the officials of the bank for teir splendid co-operation in this jnnection. ieart Attack Fatal To Highway Worker j Edward McRaleiph Lane, 33 years | Id, a resident of Raleigh and Boone, j ied Thursday afternoon of a eart attack as he was being taken j torn a local hotel to a hospital. Mr. Lane was a draughtsman and ; ad been employed bv the state j ighvva" commission, and maintain- i :t his headquarters here for the ast year. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. illie Bell Lane, and one brother teven Mack Lane. Funeral services were held in Ra- j ligh Saturday. :OFFEY REOPENS INSURANCE OFFICE Paul A Coffey, who has spent the ist two months in AshevUle, reamed to Boone this week and is pening his insurance agency in the ,inney building on Main street. Mr. j oltey will again represent the Jef- i ;rson Standard Company in several orthwestern counties. SARAH JANE STORY Mrs. Sarah Jane Story, aged 67, ied at her home at Reese early Wednesday morning. Funeral serv:es are to be conducted this mornlg from the Forest Grove Baptist hurch at 11 o'clock by Rev. E. J.. 'arthing and interment will be in j he cemetery there. ILL WITH PNEUMONIA Rev. Walter Greene, well-known j baptist minister and leading build- | tg contractor of this area, is ill with \ neumonia at his home at Laxon, ; nd reports Wednesday morning in- [ cate that the condition of the poplav citiEen is unimproved. PROF. DOWNUM IMPROVES Prof. J. M. Downum of the Appaichian College faculty, who has een ill for die past several weeks, : now decidedly improved and at:-nded homecoming exercises here Saturday. Prof. Downum is recupeating at his I.enoir home. )CRA ^ Eighty-Eight pt". 2, 1939 EEUROPE R ? ? j .. . : I eceni photos show German and j ng today's war news, German !cr^h raids. Below, British "Spit m HOMECOMING IS WELL ATTENDED 11 j g Five Thousand Participate in al Appalachian's Most Successful Homecoming FJvcni g, ti? Approximately tivv thous.^d tor j^j mcr students and parents gathered \j on the Campus of Appalachian Col- yj lege last Saturday to parties) ?! in i P1 the homecoming event, which is v described as the most widely attended celebration thus far held at the ^ local institution. CL Highlighting the morning session s<? was Sno Arhpassudnr King quartet ^ ;>f singers and hell-ringers, a presen q lotion arranged especially for the ?< ension. Supplementing the opening pro* ,n jram were competitive projects gj ganized by the Appaiarhiar^rurients Ul to portray the spirit hi the day. In llit" ulternooh C'oueh Piucio Stuwuvvs \j: Appalachian Mountr.moeir uiny.d cc a football game with King College ;|I of, Bristol,1 Tcnn. This piogvam was a, complete with a parade of college and high school bands, tumbling yand lasso demonstrations. j3l G-actuates "acdaimcd "Miss Appalachian during the past five yeaks -i ruled the day's festivities. They * were: Miss Betty Howard of Cornelius: Mrs. Hai Farthing of Leakr.villc. Mrs. Moir Ayors of Greens- , boro, Mrs Frank Moore of Lenoir, and Annette Blanton of Luttiniore. Ic An klurnni banquet in the college ic cafeteria brought to a climax Ap- b palachian's most successful home- u coming celebration. . e ti Chamber Commerce jj In Meeting Tuesday i ^ A special business meeting of the j q Boone Chamber of Commerce will J be held next Tuesday ovcning at i 7:30 in the assembly room of the ; county office building, for the dis- i cussion of several important mat- j ~c tors. one of which is plans lor the j v proposed cold storage plant All' 3 farmers arid business men arc- urged 1 j? to attend; No trouble is being encountered i by Chamber of Commerce officials .. in securing sufficient suppc-rt for I ^ the proposal in the city and many i leading farmers and business men n are showing great interest. William McGuire Succumbs Monday ? J _ William II. McGuire, well-known j J resident of this rnii.ri.tv died nt his 1 home near Todd Monday evening at ; tne age of 73 years. Mr. McGuive . suffered a stroke of paralysis Moil-j day morning. , Funeral services were conducted i . from the Todd Baptist church Wed- ; j nesday morning at 10 o'clock, the . rites being in charge of Rev. W. L). j Ashley, and interment was in the |' family cemetery near the late resi- | ( dence. Surviving is tlie widow and -me I daughter. Mis. Ralph G. Greer of Boone. , Mr. McGuire. a life-long resident of this section, was well known in the county, where he had many friends. For many years he had conducted a job printing shop at his 1 home, and many years ago edited * and published a religious periodi- c cal. ~ s t Turkey Pool May Be t Organizd in County ' t Several turkey raisers of the i county have asked that the county agent organize a co-operative turkey r pool through which the farmers may < market their turkeys. 1 The co-operative method of selling e has been very successful among jrtie i sheepmen of the county in that they r have been marketing their wool and lambs through an organized c pool. ( The agents are very anxiotis to 1 aid the farmers in marketing their s turkeys and anyone who wishes to < sell their turkeys through the pool are asked to list the number of tur- t keys they have at the agent's office c at once. i V : yj si.50 a year" OBERT S. SWIFT )IES WEDNESDAY; SUDDEN ILLNESS nncr Mayor of Boone Believed to Have Died From Heart Attack: Funeral Being Held Today From Cove Creek Baptist Church: Interment Near Old Home Place Robert S. Swift, member of one of e county's most prominent rami's, former mayor of Roone as well merchant of the city, died at his ?me here Wednesday morning at :45, from a sudden illness with hat is believed to have been a ^art attack. Funeral services will bo rnnHunt I from the Cove Creek Baptist lurch at 2 o'clock this (Thursday) tomoon. the Rev. J. C. Canipe of Done, being in charge and interent will be there, Reins-Sturdimt Funeral Home being in charge the arrangements. Survivors include the widow, the rrner Miss Bessie Greene: three ?ns and four daughters: Robert, Ibort and Dudley Swift: Mrs. Earl lack burn. Mrs. Dean Adams, Miss lodys and Miss Lyda Vance Swift, ) of Boone. Four brothers and iree sisters also survive: W. H vift. Montezuma: Clark, Don and bit Swift of the Cove Creek socio: Mrs. Selma Fuller, Mountain ity. Tenn.: Mrs. Stanley Harris and rs. Charles L. Lewis of Sherwood, icre are five grandchildren. The other, Mrs. Enoch Swift, of Sherood, also survives. Mr. Swift was bbm and reared in. e Cove Creek section of Watauga lunty. As a young man he spent veral years in the far west, in the ales of Washington and Oklahoma, ri his return to Boone he followed jricullurnl pursuits in Beaver Dam wnshijp for some time before movg to Boone where he established a ocerv business Ke had se-rvtxl as ^ ay or of the LG.vn lis cfo.vf of dice, anct had also acted in the ca~ icity of chairman of the Watauga >anty board of elections. He had i active interest in the progress id well-being of his town and >unty and always stood for those lings which were calculated to inefit this, region and her people. , 11 ! 1 1 * ? . * ,r . ? - ** "ickels For Elon Game Now On Sale Tickets are now on sale at both iv.ui vnu^ 3UUV.1 ?vu uiv .'lppuiueutn-Elon football game which will o played in Greensboro next Satrd&y, and many local people are xpecting t<> attend the hard fought It. Most grid observers believe tat the encounter will be the hardst fought of the current season, nd its outcome will be eagerly waited. :ITY OF FLINT ON HER WAY TO GERMAN PORT Bergen, Norway. Oct. 3\.?The American freighter City of Flint in ommanri of a German prize crew /as feeling her way southward long the North Norwegian coast toighl followed by a Norwegian manwar. The prize ship, on her way from. !ie Soviet Russian port of Murmansk, to a haven in Germany was ighted off Lodingeh light this lorning flying the German flag. Shipping circles gave the German rize crew an oven chance to esapa British detection on her blockde-dodging voyage along the rug,ed Norwegian coast Reports Sought On Field Day Sunday Rev. M. A. Adams, field represenative of the United Dry Forces, isks all those who have not made heir reports on Sunday's field day neetir.gs to make them at once to dr. T. E. Bingham of Boone. The temperance meetings held hroughout the county were largely ittended, :t is said, and much interest was manifested in the dry cause. MOUNTAINEERS DOWN KING COLLEGE 12-C Coach Flucie Stewart's Aonalach an State Mountaineers celebrated lomecominp- Saturday afternoon by lefeating King College 12-0. before i crowd of spectators estimated at hree thousand. Held deep in their own territory >y a strong wind that favored the tornado team decidedly on passing ind punting, the Mountaineers went he first quarter without thrcatenng. Hoover, an end, set up the first luarter by recovering King's blockid punt on their 25, after which le took a pass from Hudson in the :nd zone for the remaining distance o put the Mountaineers in the lead nidway in the second period. Again it was Hoover, when he ipened the second half in a reverse rom the midstripe to the one-yard ine. Baker look the scoring asignment with a line plunge. Neith;r try for point was good. Quarterback Hudson of the Mounaineers, was hurt in the third perik3 and may bo out for a time. He eceived an ankle injury.
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