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VOL. 53, NO. 24
LIST TAKERSM1
COUNTY NAMED
TOSTARTWORKISI
New Law Requires Listing o
Property as of the First Da;
of January of Each Year
Those Who Have Been Givei
Appointments
The county commissioners havi
released the names of those win
will list the taxes for the year 1941
in the various townships of tin
county as follows:
Bald Mountain?Marie Vannoy.
Beaver Dam?Grover Johnson.
Blue Ridge?Marion Coffey.
Boone-?W. L. Trivctte.
Cove Creek?Allen Adams.
Elk?P. C>. Carroll.
Laurel Creek?E, B. Hagantan.
Meat Camp?Bynum Ciawson.
North Fork?Walter South.
Shawneehaw?Howard Edmisten.
Stony Fcirk?James Hardin.
Watauga?Paul Fox.
C. D McNeill, county tax super
visor, points out that under the ma
chine act of 1939, all property, re?
and personal, shall be listed in ac
cordanee with ownership and valta
as of the first day of January eae)
year.
Mr. McNeill urges all taxpayer
to list their property during January
as required by law and avpit
the penalties prescribed.
DOUGHTONTO
BE HONOREC
Friends and supporters of Con
gress-nan R. L. Doughton through
out the ninth North Carolina dis
trict will honor the veteran repre
scntative Monday, December 30, a
the Rowan county euurthouse i:
Salisbury.
Highlight nf the evening's pro
gram will be the biennial prescnta
tion of the "Doughton banner" t(
the county in the district giving Mi
Doughton the largest majority. Tlr
banner, which is now in the posses
sion of Cabarrus county, goes ti
Rowan county for the next tw<
years. /
V. D. Guire of Lenoir, long per
sunal friend cf the congressman
will speak briefly in a tribute t<
Mr. Doughton.
Arrangements for the meeting an
being directed by ninth congression
al district committeemen composct
of W. D. Kiziah of Rowan, chair
man, E F. Alter, of Caldwell, Sioai
Paine of Alexander, Edwin Dunca:
of Alleghany, J. B. Hash of Ashe
W. A. Brown of Cabarrus, J G
Lewis of Iredell, S. F. Horton o
Watauga, and S. P. Williams o
Stanley.
The public is invivted to alter.'
the biennial meeting.
LEES-McHAE COLLEGE CHOIR
GIVES CHRISTMAS PROGRAh
Banner Elk, Dec. 20.?-The Lees
McRae College choir ended its pre
holiday activities on Sunday nigh
with the presentation of a page
ant and Christmas concert in th
Eanner Elk Presbyterian church, i
capacity audience filled the church
which was beautifully decorate!
with native evergreens, candles an<
the manger scene.
The program, which was under til.
direction of Mr. Kenneth L. Mac
Sween, head of the college's mush
department, presented the Christma
story in reading and song, in a mos
impressive way.
John Bolton of Concord, was read
foninrw? soloists were Alic
Ritchie of Concord and Barbar;
Stephenson of Cleveland, Ohio.
NAZIS CLAIM LIVERPOOL
'WORSE THAN COVENTRY
Berlin, Dec. 23.?"Worse ttia;
Coventry" was the phrase used las
night by several Bomber and obser
vation fliers in describing the dam
age inflicted on Liverpool last nigh
by the Luftwaffe in a conceutrate
attack by "several hundred planes.
One aviator said the glow of eigh
great fires could be seen about 1.1
miles south of the city?almost frox
Britain's south coast.
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BOONE, W
J | TOBACCO SALES TO
1 START ON MONDAY
J[ The Mountain Burley Tobaec<
V warehouses closed their pre-C rist
mas selling season last Friday and
will not hold any sales this week.
The next sales will be conducted
f on Monday, December 30; however
lanncrs are advised that their tobac
. co win oe accepted at the ware
j house all this week us usual.
SEED L0AN0FF1CE
' TO HELP FARMERS
?
Emergency Growing Out of An
gust Flood. Causes Additional
Farmers to Seek Loans
An official of the Emergency Crof
and Feed Loan organization in Ru
leigh, w as in Boone yesterday ii
conference v ith J. F.. Joiner, ficlc
supervisor, teviowing the work ol
the past yeas and making plans fo;
1941 operations. Arrangements a I\
being made for an early launching
" of loans in 3 041 since the fund;
" used in making emergency crop
loans are from a revolving fund.
Approximately 12,5(10 farmers ir
w North Carolina received $1,110,001
1 in 1040 arid more than S3 per cent
of that amount has been paid tc
s date. However, many loans weir
" made to farmers in western Nortl
1 Carolina, and al tins lime tobacco if
being offered for sale which toil
substantially increase the percent
age of collections.
| First loans in North Carolina weri
made in 1929, and since that timi
through 1940, 255,453 Carolina far
mors have received loans througl
the Emergency Crop and Feed Loar
" agency totaling $23,450,000. Repay"
merit to date on all loans made i:
' approximately 93 per cent.
North Carolina leads the Uniter
States in the percentage of loan col"
lections, Mr. Joines said.
"Because of conditions in this tcr3
ritory brought about by the Augusi
" flood, we realize that more farm"
ers will need assistance in their
farming activities next year," Mr
' Joines says. "To meet Lheir needf
3 the Emergency Crop and Feed Loar
office will iaunch the loaning sea"
son much earlier than heretofore
and will make this loan available to
' all farmers who will need assistance
and who are eligible for this kind
5 ol" loan."
1 Three New Members
i Put Red Cross Over
1 .
Mrs. W. M. Matheson, chairmar
_g it n.j /~i r?-i: c-n ? ?
f OJL Mie V^iUSii Xkljil V^ctXX UdllipdX^U
- announces that Watauga has reach
ed its full quota of five hundrec
I one dollar memberships, afler all.
Four hundred and ninety-sever
had previously bc-en reported ant
the three who came in late to finisl
, out the quota are: Paul Tugman am
Rev. H. K. Middleton of the Cove
Creek community, and the Appa
lachian Forensic Club.
- Theatre Party Is
i Decided Success
j The theatre party, arranged bj
the management of Appalachiar
Theatre, with the co-operation o
s the women's Club and the Lions
I Club organization, and held Sunday
afternoon, was a decided success
3 with Santa Claus distributing toy;
t arid confections to three hundrec
of the poorer children of the com
_ munity and county.
e An entertaining Christmas pro
a gram had been arranged for thi
theatre gift party, and the kiddie:
assembled started off their holiday:
with a genuine good time.
EARLY EDITION
r> The Democrat is being sent ou
it on Monday this week so that th(
- publisher and' others connected witl
i- the newspaper may observe th<
t Christmas holidays on Tuesday
d Wednesday and Thursday, the on!'
" time i.n the year that the usual du
it tics are not carried on at the loca
0 newspaper office.
>1 The shop will be opened for busi
|ness as usual Friday morning.
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FOR CHRISTM AS |
Two-Day Holiday Will Be Observed
by Retail Establishments
and Offices
A large majority of the stores and
other business establishments of the
city will observe a two-day Christmas
holiday this year. Christmas
, day and Thursday, in accordance
| with a proclamation of the governor
, I ^truing ;istue rnursoay as a nonaay|
[ also.
The county and city offices as j
well as the Northwestern Bank will
also observe (he two-day closing
rule. All the places will open as
. usual Friday morning.
, Northwestern Bank
Employees Get Bonus
' North Wilkesboro, Dec. 20?The
Northwestern Bank, which has
. home office here and branches in
eight other northwestern North
! Carolina towns, has paid a Christmas
bonus to all its 45 employees, it
was learned here today from an official
of the bank.
The bonus payment, which equalled
five per cent of the 1940 salaries,
was paid to all employees of
( the home office here and branches at
Sparta, .lefferson, Boone, Blowing
F.ock, Bakersvillo, .Burnsville, Valdese
and Taylorsville.
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E BIG NEW YEAR'S EVE PARTY
5 The Appalachian Theatre is hoid '
ing its second annual New Year's
- eve party next Tuesday night, start5
ing at 11:30. This year's event is
1 expected to exceed last year's in at"
tendance, fun and hilarity. The
doors will open at 11 o'clock and a
" large quantity of confetti, serpen
tine, hats and fun-makers will be
5 distributed to those attending. At
5 exactly 12 o'clock, there will be a
pause in the program for the purpose
of greeting the New Year.
The feature attraction on the
t screen will be the new laugh-pro5
yoking comedy hit, "Bank Dick,"
t starring W. C. Fields at his comical
a best Be sure to be on hand for
the fun!
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Submarines sank 11,153,000 tons
J of Allied and neutral snipping during
the World War. Germany lost
- 178 of the 300 submarines she sent
to sea.
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It is a good tiling to observe |
Christmas Day. The mere marking!
of times and seasons, when men |
agree .to stop work and make merry
together, is a wise and wholesome
custom. It helps one to leel the su- <r
premacy of the common life over ,v
the individual life. It reminds a ie
man to set his own little watch, now ;E
and then, by the great clock of hu- ;n
i manily which runs on sun time.
But there is a better thing than vi
I ihe observance of Christmas Day. N
j and that is, keeping Christmas. i fc
j Are you willing to forget what | T
! you have done for other people, and | CI
remember what other people have j ^
done for you; to ignore what the Iewovld
owes you, and to think what
/ou owe the world; to put your 01
rights in the background, and your C
duties in the middle distance, and
your chances to do a little more than T
your duty in the foreground; to see
that your feilowmen are just as real B
as you are, and try to look behind
their faces to their hearts, hungry k
for joy; $0 own that probably the N
only good reason for your existences k
is not what you arc going to get out ,T
of life, but what you ore going to
give to life; to close your book of si
complaints against the management ti
of the universe, and look around
you for a place where you can sow 1 y
a few seeds of happiness?are you t<
willing to do these things even for b;
a day? Then you can keep Christ- S!
mas.
Are you willing to stoop down H
and consider the needs and the do- rr
sires of little children; to remember ti
the weakness and loneliness of peo- 41
pie whp are growing old; to stop
asking how much your friends love b:
you, and ask yourself whether you a:
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bear in their hearts; to try to un- tc
derstand what those who live in the
same house with you realty want, ?
without waiting lor them to tell you;
to trim your lamp so that it will
give more light and less smoke, and
to carry it in front so that your
shadow will fall behind you; to si
make a grave for your ugly sc
thoughts and a garden for your! ir
kindly feelings, with the gate open si
?are you willing to do these things
even for a day? Then you can keep c
Christmas. f>
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0 AUTO FATALITY
S FOUR COUNTIES
ratau?a Has Seven Auto Traffic
Fatalities During 1940;
One in 1939
Only four of the 100 counties in
rib Carolina had not had a single
afl'ic fatality charged against them
hen the highway safety division
leased its eleven-months summary
st week, and 40 counties showed
creases.
Rcnaid Hocutt, director of the diision,
stated that 103 fatalities in
ovember brought to 851 the total
>r the first eleven months of 1S40
his represented a two per cent mease
over the 834 persons killed on
late highways and streets the first
even months of last year.
The four counties with clean rec:ds
at the close of November wert
lay. Gates. Mitchell and Tyrrell
11 small counties Tv.-o of these
yrrell and Gates, were among tin
x counties without a traffic l'atali
r 111 1939.
Watauga county had seven person:
ilied ir. traffic accidents throng!
ovember of this year, and ore
illed in the county the first V
lonths of 1939.
The largest increase was in Kobe
>n county, where 38 were killet
irough November of this year
gainst 17 for the same period las
ear. Mecklenburg's 48 fatalitie:
>ppea tnc state-, followed in orde:
y Robeson's 38, Guilford's 37, For
rih's 34, Buncombe's 30, Cumber
tnd's 28, Wake's *25, Gaston's 22
arnett's 21 and Rowan's and Ala
lance's 19 each. These 11 coun
es accounted for 321 fatalities, o
1 per cent of the total.
For the state as a whole, fatalitie
y months were as follows: Janu
ry, 69; February, 68; March, 55
pril, 49; May. 63; June. 63; Jul;
5; August, 81; September, 111; Oc
iber, 113, and November, 108.
Appalachian Trims
Lincoln Meinoria
Appalachian State won its fourtl
.might basketball game of the sea
m-here Thursday night by wallop
ig Lincoln Memorial from Tennes
jo, 48 to 40.
The Mountaineers got off to ai
arly lead and were ahead by
?w points throughout the game, in
reasing it in the closing tninules.
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$1.50 A YEAR
MAS GIRL MEETS
DEATH IN CONTACT
WITH LIVE WIRE
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j Eva Gladys Yates. 16, in Quest
! of Christmas Greens, Takes
Hold of Electric Wire to I'rc
vent Falling; Rev. John Rhea
Conducts Funeral Sunday
Eva Gladys Yates, 16 years old, a
resident of Vilas and member of the
jynior class at the Cove Creek high
school, met instant death by eieorocution
last Friday afternoon, when
she clutched a low hanging electric
ttansrriission line, in an effort to
prevent falling.
The girl and an aur.t. Mrs. Sam
Shuli, had gone into the woods in
quest of a Christmas tree and other
I holiday greenery to be used at a
party for Eva to be held thai evening,
celebrating her 16th birthday,
which had occurred a few days ago.
They had secured the tree and
were returning' home when the lata)
accident occurred. Mrs. Shull crawled
under the wire and cautioned the
girl against touching it, but the
hitter's foot slipped on the rough \
terrain and she clutched the wire
to prevent falling. Mrs. Shull caught
the girl's coal sleeve to release her,
but death ensued within the space
oi moments.
Funeral services were conducted
Sunday at d o'clock a MatlVoy, Ucv
.mlio Rhea of the Boone Presbyterian
church, being, in charge of the
riles, and interment was in that
neighborhood.
Surviving are the mother. Mrs.
Ac.no Yates; two brothers, Bennie
and Richard Yates: three sisters,
Ruth and Lois Yates of Vilas, and
Mrs Frank Keller, Newport News,
Va.
McGuire is Chairman
Of Birthday Bali
Chapel Hill, Dec. 22?Dr. Julian
Miller ot Charlotte, who is serving
as state chairman of the President's
birthday parties on January 30 for
the benefit of the infantile paralysis
fund, announced today that 55
county chairmen had been appointed
and that others would be named
[ in the next few days.
He said that North Carolina is
. expected to raise about $35,000 Oiis
i year and that one-half of all raised
will be retained in North Carolina
for infantile paralysis cases.
R. W. McGuire has again been
named chairman of the birthday ball
for Watauga county, but definite
plans for the annual event have not.
yet been formulated. Some definite
announcement in this regard wi.il be
made after the holidays.
The mirth travels approximately
I 18 miles a second in its journey
around the sun.
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! MBS0N
Roger V7. Babson
' Babson's uncanny record of
accuracy?over 85% through the
3 years?always makes his fore
cast one of the big business
stories of the year.
With spreading war and defense
measures clouding the
outlook for 1941, Babson's forecast
is bigger news than ever
I this year,
l Read his clear-cut, definite an_
alysis of 1941 in the next issue
- of the
Watauga Democrat
and plan your course for the
a_ months ahead.