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PAGE SIX 1940 Accident Toll 96,500, Reports Show Fourteen thousand men of draft age?the equivalent of a full army division?were killed in accidents in the United States during 1940. the National Safety Council reports. The council said the total number killed by accidents in the nation was I 96.500, an increase of four per cent over the previous year, but still be-' low the record year of 193(5. when there were 110.052 deaths. Key to much of the 1940 increase i was stimulated activity in all fields which could be attributed to nation- 1 ai defense, the council said. How-1 ever, the council warned against a rising death mid injury total as an j inevitable accompaniment of nation-1 al preparedness at id said successful j accident prevention often has been; achieved despite increased exposure.; The number of deaths resulting j from occupations increased 10 per cent, more than any of the five = council classifications. The total tor ] 1940 was 17,000. compared with 15.- ; 500 the previous year. Accidents. also caused the injury of 9.100.000 j persons last year which, the council said, was equivalent to tile disable- j ment of one out of every 15 persons ; in the nation. Cost of the 1940 deaths and injuries was estimated by the council at $3,500,000,000. INCREASE U: One hundred pounds of sulphate of potash meant an increase in the|:;r income of $40.50 an acre from the P' saie of bu'rjey tobacco over that land I Pf not receiving the treatment for Jesse Howell, 4-H Club member of: hi; Yancey county. pr ?. , u NEW RIVER DAIRY " | lu GRADE "A" ' ?' PURE MILK PHONE i:tO-J BOONE, N. C. - j jc? PRESCRIPTIONS ipu i .. Filling prescriptions is the most important part of our business. We employ two full-time experienced registered druggists who give careful attention to all prescrip lions. Ours is the eldest a drug store in Watauga county and jol ine oniy one owned and operated j c a by a licensed druggist. When "u you have a prescription bring it |cai to us and you can rest assured , ju. it will be filled only by a compe- ^ lent licensed druggist just as your doctor would want it to be. BOONE DRUG CO. "i The REXALL Store G. K. MOOSE, Druggist i :? sol; I RADIO'S 8IGC POWER P AT A PRICE Y ORDI N ARILY A KAUIU H AI NEW 1941 MODEL A SMART PLASTIC CABINET . . . ONLY I Farmers Hai Supply C< A . Keeping Th? Loondon.?In line with ihe e movement in London, the playwrig his wife, have opened a "Save the C skirts of ihe city. These children, z and seem to be enjoying every mo: TODAY and j ?XNK. LT' NEMPLOYED .... 1.10.270 For the last ten years it has been |, ivbody's guess just how many peo-; e there were out of work at any ! irticular time. No actual count was made until j st March, when the census takers esumably counted every nose in c United States?and found out st how many noses were being ;pt to the grindstone and how j any people were looking for work.; The government adding machines I iven't yet finished the huge job ot j itting exact totals, but when th-_ tal figures arc available here is., hat they are expected to show: Seeking work 5.110,270 On public emergency work. . 2.380,065 ' Those ore the figures for last | arch, however. Smce then many, those seeking work have found ( lis in defense industries. So. by ; e time the final figures are re- j *sed. tiiey will already be outted and the extent of the unem- j jyment situation will still bo any- ,. dy's guess. !ATISTICS .... impersonal : While I was analyzing the coldt ? itisiio-i! records of unemployment- ' man came ir? to sec- me about a c Whrll lll(> rt.nCIK- I lit-ii-c _ I 1 ' ?* I v hint they marked him down as i nemployod." Thereafter he be-!1 r.c just one little digit, under that v ad, in the census bureau's statisal department. It' it hadn't been ;s him the figure on those "seeking ^ irk" would be 5.1li>.2t>9 instead ot i lfi.270. IS1 iut he wasn't interested in figures i I1 employment. Ho said that during j 11 year of being unemployed he In't felt that he had gained any ! ace from the fact that there were j _ ! ti ; t? ntiNg1* ; )tmr ^ I ^ " MODU JEST LITTLE I ACKAGE OU WOULD PAY FOR LF ITS SIZE ?k for Demonstration SMALL DOWN PAYMENT rdware & >mpany t I m WATAUGA DEMOCRAT?EVER-* ;ir Chins Dp I >3Bfc y nn |RHk sbh^H ? " ^ G vergrowing ''Save tho Children" F hi and author. J. B. Priestley and ;?1 "hildren" shelter home on the out- ir iged four, are being fed hot broth, iiihful. oj T a lot of others in the same boat. Now. however, ho is getting pan- ^ icky over reoorts that the nation's huge defense program has the em- s< ployment problem pretty well licked. s< "I didn't gel any comfort cut cf 11 the fact that a lot of others were out of work when I was," he said, a "but I'm plain scared now when I j hear that everybody's getting a job and I'm still adrift." There are plenty of others who . iriusi reel me same way as mis man. " The answer for most of them is that skilled workers arc the ones who c are in greatest demand, that factory jIT workers in general have gone back | I'< to work in droves, but white collar jobs haven't opened up at the same . pace. They probably will, since n' greater production means more su- ll; I < :rv is ion and clerical work?but thai wiil be a secondary phase. Right now all attention is centered ^ ;n getting all of America's machines Jt lumming. .VOMEN jobs P' Did you know that, in this courtty. there are three times as many ^ nen working as there are women? ^' That census figure surprised me. 'w localise in so many businesses the 1 vomen see n to far outnumber tlie "n nen. Bui in our biggetet factories ,a post of tile work is man's work? '' md that's where the bulk of cm- Ic' 'loyment is these days. '1 There are over 37 million women ar a the country who don't try to got 1 v obs. The great majority of them, if course, do housework, but the = lovernment doesn't count them as lart of the "labor force." Taking are of a house, cooking the meals, aising a few children and doing the .ashing puts them under the stalls- I ical classification of non-workers? fives" opinions notwithstanding. And speaking of wives?the conns shows that there aren't enough a go around. If every girl in vnterioa had a husband, there would iill be 256.412 men left over. Husands. it would seem, are oeeomig a drug on the market. OWNS namesakes There are towns all over the Uni-cl States which are named after nvns in England?Londons and lovers and Bradfords and Camridges and Oxfords and Hamptons nd hundreds of others. This fact gave Mrs. Barbara pencer an idea. Mrs. Spencer came ver here from England last sumler, and ever since she's wanted to 0 something to really help that ricken nation. Now she's doing a grand job of it, trough the organization she started ailed "Namesakes Town Commit e. Inc." The idea is to persuade the people ho live in a town here, which is amed after a town in England, to elp the people in that English iwn. Mrs. Spencer finds out what lings are needed most by the vaous towns in England and reports > the namesake towns here. They, 1 turn, work out a plan to fill those eeds, for clothes, food, blankets and t'.icr necessities. By helping the people in nameike towns a closer bond is being uilt up between the English and .merican communities. j DR. F. K. GARDNER OPTOMETRIST 60 y2 Patton Ave. Aahevllle, N. C. WILL BE AT Carolina Hotel, Boone Friday, February 14 For the purpose of looking After All Eye Trouble* EYES EXAMINED GLASSES FITTED Writ? me when In need of Optical Service ARTIFICIAL EYES ' THURSDAY?BOONE, N. C. Soone High Swamps ' ^ North Wilkesboro 49-10 sec i The Appalachian high "Blue Dcv-' J s" turned loose their high scoring ; irwanls. Tom Beach and Roy Cof-y. who scored 35 point between! leni, to hand North Wilkesboro o: ' le season in the local gyin Wednes- j | ^ iiy night. The final score was 49 j > 10. The Wilkesboro team was j ( ^ anpletely outclassed, but was ham- ?. ered by the sickness of two of1 ieir best players. The game started slow with the cone boys missing several shots, .'llkesboro jumped into an early ad with a one-handed cast and ,vo foul tosses. However, their ad was short as Beach. Coffey and Ireene sank three straight baskets, rum then on there was no doubt bout the game. The score at the itennission was 20-5. The Blue Devils opened the secnd half with a "swishkreig" of basets that ran the score up too 37-7. his rally was led by the deadly nping of Coffey. Beach and John ingham. Appalachian played its jcond and third teams most of the ?cond half and they piled up 12 lore points. The North Wilkesboro team was ble to score only two field goals iroughout the game. The Boone oys sank 21 goals out of 56 tries >r ail average ot 3Y per cent. In the preliminary the Appalachin "B" team downed the North filkcsboro juniods 24-8. The "B" ram was paced by the "mighty lite." Finley Penick who made 12 Dints for the winners. Technical High Here Friday Tiie basketball fans of Boone will ave a chance to see basketball at s best this Friday when Tech high . Charlotte comes to Boone. Tech high will be led by Captain lack,, who not only plays basketill hut is also one of the outstandg football players in the state. The Boone boys will be led by 2ach and Coffey who have scored 0 points between them in the ten imes so far this season. No North arolina team has come within 11 lints of the Blue Devils yet this iar. Their only defeat of the scan was met at the hands of Mounin City, Tenn. However, this deal was suffered without the serv2 of Pete Coffey and was later refuged by defeating the Tennesseeis in a return engagement on their . ti floor. 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