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w VOL. 53, NO. 19 THEATRE SEEKS TOYS FOR NEEDY ~ ON THANKSGIVING Local Newspaper and Other Community Enterprises Cooperate With Appalachian Theatre iu its Effort to Bring Cheer to Underprivileged Tl>e Appalachian Theatre is giving its second annual broken toy matinee next Thursday (Thanksgiving! rooming at 10 o'clock. Purpose of this show is to collect all possible broken toys which will be repaired and distributed to the underprivileged and needy children of the town and county just before Christmas. The only requirement for admission to this special matinee will be one or more broken or discarded toys. These will be repaired by the local NYA. in co-operation with the Boone fire department, and will be distributed at a Christmas party to be given later. If anyone wishes to contribute toys for this purpose and is unable to attend the broken toy matinee, they may be left at the Appalachian Theatre, Watauga Democrat office, or the local NYA office. Also, anyone preferring to give a silver offering as admission to see the show may do so and the money thus raised will be used in the purchase of toys or confections. The program presented will be one of tl interest to children and they are d urged to attend and bring their ? broken or discarded toy.,. Last year's matinee "was highly ]D successful and many toys were col D i looted, which wet< subsequently put into perfect condition by the cooperating organizations. It is hoped that this year's campaign for toys and funds will be even more sueccssful and that all those children who. through no fault of their own, receive little around Christinas time, may be afforded some of the pleasures of the season enjoyed by their more fortunate neighbors. ' The management of the theatre is ro| grateful to the following for their ers offers to co-operate in this year's p? campaign to make this a bigger and ,r better party: The Watauga Demo- . crat, which is running all notices iand announcements necessary to the ?0. success of the undertaking absolutely free of charge; the Boone Lions , Club, which has offered to co opc- ,, rate in arranging for an interesting ?,! program to be presented in connec- \ tion with the distribution of thn M S gifts at the Christmas party; the '' ltoone fire department and Mrs. "J Clara Simpson, local head of the cocperatinj division of the NYA; and * Miss Marguerite Miller and the J.1) Watauga county welfare department. , Anyone else wishing ;o co-operate in any way to further the success of ' 1 f this year's pariy, please contact C. H. Trotter, manager of tile Appa- ,V lachian Theatre. THANKSGIVING BE I CELEBRATED 28TH s i Merchants Association to Close vo Stores in Accordance With nu Governor's Proclamation cai agi Stores and most other business ,n. places of the city will observe cc| Thanksgiving Thursday, November . * 28th, in accordance with the procla- t,a mation of Governor Hoey, while the sta postoffice employees are expected to vo observe the national holiday as pro- aa! claimed by the President, tomorrow. ab The people of the community and lor county are asked to bear in mind we the closing of the stores, and take '01 care of their necessarv shopping on "a, next Wednesday so that they may not be inconvenienced by the holi- v? day of the retailers. J!f . M< Mrs. Martha Ashley ies Passes at Age of 65 ft?' Oil Mrs. Martha Hampton Ashley, 13 I well-known citizen of Blowing Rock, on R. F. D., died at the home last Sat- fj\ urday from a heart attack, and th: funeral services were conducted th: Monday morning from Middle Fork pr Baptist, church by Reverends Grady Ki L Minton and Robert Shore, interment being in the nearby cemetery, tm Surviving are the husband, Mr. J. C. Ashley, and the following sons and daughters: Joe Ashley, Boone; Allen AshlVy, Ray Ashley, Perry and Neil Ashley, Blowing Rock: Mrs. Maude Wheeler, Blowing Rock; st; Miss Faye Ashley. Miami Beach, he Fla., and Mrs. Grace Ingram, New an York City. ty Also surviving are the following brothers and sisters: Arkie Hamp- vo ton, Spencer Hampton, Walter ch Inampion, lanaiey nampion, ttusseu mi Hampton, Augusta Hampton, Blow L ing Rock; Mrs. Ruby Storie, Shulls CI Mills; Mrs. Joe Wheeler, Triplett; Mrs. Weyman Johnson. Elizabethti ton, Tenn. tei ? ro AMATEUR PROGRAM cv AT MABEL SCHOOL M 5 , F1 Due to the bad weather on Fri- so day night, November 15th, the ama- dr teur program at Mabel school was ch postponed until Saturday night, No- mi r vember 23. The public is cordially to: invited. Prizes will be given to the cr best contestants. Admission 10 and Ki 15 cents. to i, ATA L An Independent We BOONE, WATAUGA"COUI MOUNTAIN BURL View of the Mountain Burley war< he entrance to the second section in tl ouble the capacity of last year. Tobc ROUGHTON GOT "if LARGE MAJORITY ~ . 1 RnortiiTA/1 ord-Brcaking Vote Over R. H. McNeill Bovemor-Elect J. M. Broughton led up a record-breaking Demo itic majority of about 413.000 tes in the general election and esident Roosevelt carried t It e ite by a record presidential maity of about 395,000. l'he state's total vote of about 5,000 will fall some 10.000 below ; record 839.424 of 1936, it seemed. Fhe Associated Press compiled un!icial returns last week from 1.5 of the state's 1 916 precincts, tting county official returns from ' state elections board for 99 inties for President and for 93 inties for governor. Unofficial Ures were available for all exit three precincts in the Rcpuban county of Mitchell. Broughton's 608,604 votes in 1,913 icincts set a new record for total bematorial vote, and his majority D1 is 413,682 in them as Robert H. |\J ;Neill, the Republican guberna ial candidate, got 194,922. It I) >med that about 1,000 votes re 1) j lined to be reported from Mitchell rnty. Four years ago Governor 'oy got 542,139 votes and Gilliam Lot issoin received 270,843. a Demoitic majority of 271,296. ' in the 1,913 precincts President osevelt led Broughton by 200 tes with a total of 608,824, and a a ijority of 395,684 over the 213,146 " st for Wendell Willkie. Four years a President Roosevelt got 616,141 {' ; the state, and Alf M. Landon re- , , ved 223.283. ; Some voters split their presiden- . 1 and vice presidential tickets but " te officials said that the highest j, , te in each county for either Presiat or vice president would prob- j? ' ly be counted as the official vote the county, as in reality voters j re balloting for presidential elec- * s and not for individual candites. There were four counties in p'j lien Henry A. Wallace got more tes than President Roosevelt and lilt counties in which Charles L. j)r -Nary received more than Willkie. " Write-in votes which were worth- ?' s, as there were no electors filed -j - the parties or men, gave one vote Walter F. George for President, e to Gifford Pinchot for President, w to Norman Thomas for President, IVl e to Cordell Hull for President, e to Roger Babson for President, ree to Earl Browder for President, ree to James W. Ford for vice P esident, and five to Maynard age cuger for vice president. a s Tu< ew Books Received At County Library cm Miss Jewel Hagaman. librarian, c-c ttes that 275 new volumes have j^a en added to the county library, rji, d invites the people of the coun- D( to enjoy the new books. Bo< She says that many of these new jjji illimr^C earrv on nennniol n"""" * ? j uit appeal iu v ildren, and asks the teachers of jg, e county to take note of this fact. h0 HCKEN SUPPER TONIGHT ?'r AT COVE CREEK SCHOOL ljr There will be a chicken and oys- Toj r supper in the Cove Creek lunch get om tonight (Thursday). The 19 ent. planned by Mrs. S. F. Horton, J iss Jennie Love and Mrs. Phillip Ma etcher, has become an annual ed urce of funds for the band and wa amatic club. Plates containing nui icken and accessories and trim- are ings in abundance will be served r only 25c each. Immediately aft 1 the supper, the film, "Fit for a wa ing," will be shown in the audi- Bri rium. 181 GA ;ekly Newspaper?Est: 1TY, NORTH CAROLINA, T EY WAREHOUSE C ^houses in Boone, showing a sidi -ie distance. Both floors now co tcco will be received here beginn 'ev. Canipe Honored H Wr ^ jBj^_ % pr Sgm REV. J. C. CANIPE iV. CANIPE HEADS APTIST GROUP ;al Minister Named as Presilent of the Baptist State Preachers' Conference ev. J. C. Canipe, pastor of the ne Baptist church, was elected sident of the Baptist State Pass conference at a meeting held ^harlnttn MnnHnu otmnintt *-??-? fUo of the opening of the sessions of Baptist State convention, tiler officers elected were: Rev. R. Steward of Fairfield vicesident, and Dr. O. R. Mangum of loir, secretary. lie pastors discussed the co-opeve program of the churches, and -e addressed by Dr. Thurman chin, president of Wake Forest lege; Dr. Kyle M. Yates, professor the Southern Baptist Theological ninary at Louisville, Ky., and Dr. W. W. Hamilton of New Orleans, sident of the Southern Baptist A'cntion. Tie convention is scheduled to se Thursday morning. ary Elizabeth Hodges Succumbs on Tuesday /Irs. Mary Elizabeth Hodges, d 83, years, died at the home of on. Mr. B. F. Hodges, at Adams ?sday, after a long period of ill ilth, which had been critical for past two or three weeks, funeral services will be conductfror.i the Oak Grove Bapti;t irch Thursday morning at 10 lock by the pastor. Rev. G. A mby, who will be assisted in the 1 n T7i to m t ' ? ;> uv x\e> . r. nuiiiman, pastor the Grace Lutheran church in une. Interment will be in the le cemetery. Surviving are two sons and four rghters: B. F. Hodges and P. H. dges of Adams; Mrs. Will Lyons, s. R. W. Keller. Mrs. Chloe Love Boone, and Mrs. Jake Hartley of iville. One sister, Mrs. Mattie opings of Boone, also survives, toher with 18 grandchildren and great-grandchildren, ifrs. Hodges was the former Miss ry Elizabeth Wyke, and was rearin Watauga county, where she s held in high regard bv a large rnber of friends throughout the a. 'ecumseh, famous Indian chief, s made a brigadier-general in the tish army during the war of 2. DEM( ablished in the Year Eighte HURSDAY. NOVEMBER 21, 1JK [ )PBNS MONDAY ^ ' j vBSKjmsaei - . ? z. ' I & view of Ihe original building and ver aboui two acres, approximately Lag next Monday. (Photo by Weston) BURLEY VOTE WILL BEHELDSATURDAY Tobacco Growers in Burley Bcli Will Ballot on Quotas for One and Three Years Burley tobacco growers ot Watauga and 23 other counties in North Carolina will vote Saturday in a marketing quota referendum. They will decide between three questions: (1) Do you favcr quotas for three years? (2) are -ou opposed to quotas tor three years, but in favor ol quotas for one year? and (3) Are you opposed to quotas? The three-year quota plan, pro puaeu ny luimers ,-inn provided tor by the congress in an amendment to the agricultural adjustment act. was approved by flue-cured tobacco growers in their referendum last July by a vote of 6 to 1. There are 13.750 farmers in North Carolina eligible to vote in the Burley referendum. Burley is grown in the following 24 counties: All-ghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe. Eurke, Caldwell. Cherokee. Clay, Davidson, Davie Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell. Macon. Madison. Mitchell. Rutherford, Swain, Transylvania, Wilkes, Watauga and Yancey. Referenda will be held in 14 other states at the same time, and the decision will be on a national basis. Quotas for 1940 were approved last fall by 83.3 per cent of those voting. Two-thirds of those voting must approve quotas for them to be effective. Agricultural leaders nave said that three-year quotas will enable Burley prices to be maintained at a higher level than if o" r-ycar quotas are voted. Also. 19-ti allotments will not be reduced from 1940 allotments if three-year quotas ate approved: whereas, a 10 per cent reduction from the 1940 level will be necessary if one-year quotas are voted. The amendments passed by the congress provide that if three-year quotas are approved, no 1940 allotment of more than one acre may be i educed by more than 10 per cent at any time during the three-year period, and no 1940 allotment of less than one acre may be reduced at all during the three-year period. John Phillips Dies In Florida Hospital John C. Phillips, aged 45, resident of Beaver Dam township and a veteran of the World War, died in a government hospital in Bay Pines, Fla., on November 1, where he had been taking treatment for some i time. The body was brought back to , Watauga county for interment but funeral details are not available. CONGRESS VOTES TO REMAIN IN SESSION Washington, Nov. 20.?The house refused to end this session of congress yesterday, voting by a 191 to 148 vote a feeling that so long -s the foreign crisis continues congress should stay on the job. By its action it upset the plans of Democratic leaders, who brought up tlic adjournment resolution. Tht leaders thus were presented with an outright defeat on the first test of their strength since the election of two weeks ago. The reverse was caused by the do fection of 44 Democrats. These, including particularly Democrats from the west, combined their votes with ! those of a solid Republican minority to block the adjournment move. en Eighty-* ght _ 4i' Local Market First Tob 4 POLLING PLACES FOR BURLEY VOTE Following are the places where the tobacco growers in the differ cnt townships of the county will cast their vote next Saturday on the quota system of production: Cove Creek?James Mast's store. Laurel Creek?V. D. Ward's j store. Boone?Vilas Service station. Watauga and Shawneehaw?R. | A. Olson's store. | North Fork?A. N. Thomas' j home. . Meat Camp, Bald Mountain, Stony Fork, Blue Ridge at coun- i ty agents office. The polls will open at 9 a. m. and close at 5:30. Tobacco grow- i ers of the county are urged to go | to their polling place and cast I their ballot on one side or the other of the important question. n/mAfin rk/\r W Kbit UtUBS HULL CALL UNDER WAV Response in Watauga Membership Campaign Generous; The Members The Red Cross Holt call campaign which got under way on Armistice Day and which will continue until Thanksgiving, is meeting with the usual generous response from Watauga county people, says Mrs. W. M. Mathcson, roll call chairman, who has already received reports from seme of the canvassers in the city, following are the memberships thus far reported: Mrs. Geo. C. Greene. Thelma Ragan, Prince Powell. A. S. T. C. Book Store. Ralph Estes, Mrs. E. S. Christenbury, Mrs. Douglas R. Redmond, Mrs. Grace Boyd, Prof. J. A. Williams, Mrs. It. B. Page,. Mrs. Floy Mast. Mrs. D. J. Cottrell, Rev. J. C. Canipe, L. L. Critcher, Mrs. Albert Watson, Mrs. Lionel Watson. Mrs. Frank Greene, Mrs. Rcka Shoemake, Mrs. J. O. Cooke, Sr.. Mrs. Raleign Cottrell, Kelly G. Miles. Ruby Kale Wilson. Miss Lena Pennick. Mrs. r ?r.r.,cJ M ? r\ T7> T~> tr: -1J I vuiuiiu iviuiu v, XUld. XJ- Xh, DcnilUlU) Ben Watson. Oliver Karrnker. Graydbn Eggers, Miss Molly Tabor, Miss Ina Bassett, Miss L. Tyler. Miss Clyde Goodman. Mrs. Cullen Johnson, Miss ( loon Haynos, Mrs. Emma Mooto. Miss Natalie Purdoin. Miss Meta 1 lies, Dr. Constance Burrows, Miss Rena Donnell, Miss Billie Todd, Elv.ood Roberts, Bill Cole, Kenneth Iverson. Julian C. Yoder, Dr. Orby Southard, Ida Belle Lcdbcttcr, Rachel Masten. Mariar. Lisor, Allie Austin. Glada Walker. Ella Austin, Myrtle Brandon, Billie Happold, Louise Atkinson, Lucy Brock, Leonard Eury, Louise Moore, Antonius Antonakos. Mrs. J.I. Thomas, G. P. Hagaman, Bernice Gragg, Dr. J. C. Farthing, Boone Trail Cafe, Will C. Walker, D. L. Wilcox, Stewart Winkler, R. C. Rivers. Blan Isaacs. John \V. Hodges, II, Clyde R. Greene, W. C. Greer, Mack Greer, Edith Teams, E. A. Gaulttanv John W. Hodges, Sr., I Frank Payne. Paul Coffey, R. L. 1 WaHHoll W "FT Clrntra T Ti' Rind- I ... ?"t>0> - ? ham, H. L. Bingham, Howard Shore. Mrs. J. W. Morris, Miss Floy Hodges, Mrs. F. A. Linney, Miss Jennie Coffey. Sam Atkins, Harrison Chevrolet Co., Wade E. Brown. Mrs. Wade E. Brown, Mrs. R. L. Clay. S F. Moser. Mrs. Ruth McConnell, | High Land Furniture Co., Herman Wilcox, W. E. Anderson, J. F. Sher1 ill. Lorane F. Miller. TEACHERS HOLD NOVEMBER MEET The Watauga unit of the North Carolina Education Association held its regular meeting on last Saturday at 10 a. tn in the library of the Boone high school. In spite of the low temperature and slick roads the meeting was well attended. Mr. Dale Norris, president of the association, presided. At the meeting the following program was rendered: "Teacher Tenure in Illinois," Miss Dorothy Gray. "Teacher Tenure in California," Dr. Burrows. "Increase in Salaries," Mr. \V. \V. Williams. "Retirement Bill in N. C." Mr A. Frank Hamrick. "Sale of Christmas Stamps to Eradicate Tuberculosis," Dr. Page of W inston-Salem. Tho + *U_ A...V, uuviuic ui omu,y iui liit: picaent school year consists of the following: 1. Advisory council and legislative committee. 2. Public relations committee. 3. Professional relations committee. 4. Teachers' welfare committee. 5. Commiitee on school-commuunity programs. 6. Dfense program in school. The next meeting of the Watauga unit will be held on December 14At that time there will be a discussion on the subject, "Does Our Curriculum Meet the Needs of the Community?" T $1.50 A YEAR to Receive acco Monday INTENSIVE DRIVE IS BEING MADE FOR NEW BURLEY MART Series of Motorcades Being Conducted Throughout BurleyGrowing Area in Effort to Publicize Market: Three Million Pounds Visualized The Mountain Builey Warehouse announces that it will open its doors next Monday for the receipt of tobacco. and it is believed that the official opening of the selling season will be on December 4th. Meantime Messrs. Jones and Coleman, lessees of the two local houses, ar.d leading business men and civic groups are co-operating in a wide spread publicity Drop rani, designed to greatly increase the leaf sales above those of last season. Tomorrow 30 or 40 automobiles leave for a tour of Ashe and Alleghany counties and Grayson county, Va., carrying the Appalachian high school band, a sound truck and number of leading citizens of this community. Valuable free prizes will be given away at each stop and special inducements offered to bur It y growers to bring their leaf to the Boone market. The motorcade leaves Boone promptly at 8 o'clock Friday morning and all Wataugans are urged to join the caravan. Those v. ho do not have transportation will be accommodated so fur as possible. The group will be at the Jefferson courthouse from 3 to 11 a. m.; Sparta courthouse 12 to 1 p. m.. and at Independence. Va.. from 1:30 to 2:30 Next Tuesday, warehousemen and local promoters, with the local band, will journey into Johnson county for tobacco rallies. A meeting will be hold at Neva at 10 a. m ; Butler at 11 a. m.. Doe 12 m.; Doe valley 1 p. m.; Mountain City, 2 p. ill.; Laurel Bloomerv, 3:30. and at Trade. 4:30. On Wednesday r.he group leaves Boone at 8 o'clock a. in., holds a meeting at Heaton, Avery county, at P o'clock: Klk Park !):3I): Bakersville at 11 and Burnsville at 2 p. m. Band music, short speeches, the g.ving away of gifts of valuable merchandise and mixing with the farmers will constitute the tneefPreliminary surveys of the hurley growing region indicates that about three million pounds of tobacco should reach the lucal floors this year, a fifty per cent increase over hist year. The second warehouse has been completed, and the floor now covers approximately two acres. Plans are going forward for a gala opening of the market. Metcliants plan to have the Christm: s lights turned on in t the shopping district on that date, and the usual Christmas program will be rendered. However, details of the opening cannot be completed before the first of the wek. WATAUGA ASKED FOR 2 DRAFTEES npci'mhcr OiiAfo Filled by Those Volunteering for Service Watauga county was asked to furnish two white men for one year's military training for its share of the first call for manpower under the military conscription act. slates Mrs. W. R. Lovill, secretary to the Watauga county draft board. Pending further advices, however, he local board does not believe there will be a conscription of the two men at this time, since seven of the registrants have already volunteered for the one year's military training, and two have enlisted lor the full three years. Under the system, it is explained, each county gets credit for the men volunteering for training against its draft quota. Meantime work is steadily going forward on mailing out questionnaires to the registrants, and classifying the prospective soldiers. Two hundred and two questionnaires have been mailed and large numbers of the blanks have been returned and the classifications completed, it is said. Christmas Seal Sale to Begin Soon The sale of the tuberculosis association Christmas seals is to start soon, and Mrs. G. K. Moose, chairman of the local committee, is anxious that every letter and card mailed in the county between now and Christmas carry one of the little health stickers. The county will be organized as usual for the sale of the seals and it is hoped there will be a good response this year on the part of local citizens.
Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.)
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