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VOL. 53, NO. 41
DEFENSEBONDS TO~
BE OFFERED MAY 1P
SAYS POSTMASTER:
Thousands of Postoffices To!
Cooperate In National Effort: j
Smaller Investors May Buy i
Savings Stamps As in World
War Days.
The United States defense savings
bonds and postal savings stamps will
be placed on sale in the Boone post
office at the opening of business on
Thursday. May 1, as part of the national
effort to make America impregnable.
Postmaster Wiley G. Harlzog an- i
nouncccl today that plans arc nearly
completed for this community, along
with thousands of others from coast
to coast, to do its full part at the
opening of the savings program.
Postmaster General Frank C. Wal- I
ker, in a letter to postmasters
throughout the country, said that the
help of local postmasters would be
"a real service to the country." He |
transmitted the thanks of Secretary |
of the Treasury Morgcntiiau for the
help that local postmasters had a!- I
ready given in the sale of United i
States securities, and also Mr. Mor- '
genthau's thanks in advance "for j
the co-operation which he knows
you will give l*> this new effort."
The new defense savings bund is
similar to the familiar "baby bond,"
of which more than five billion del
lars worth have been bought by more
than two and a half million H
Americans since 1035. J
A defense bond may be purchased
May 1, or thereafter, for $18.75. In
ten years this bond will be worth
$25.00. This is an increase of 33 1-3 ?
per cent, equal to an annual interest a
return of 2.'J per cent, compounded *'
semi-annually. Any time after (10,
days from the date of purchase, the
bond may be redeemed for cash, in
accordance with a table of redemption
values printed on the face of
the bond.
To spread investments widely 0(
among all the people in America, .
a limit of 45,000 has been set on the j(
amount of these bonds to be bought c[
by any one person in one year. The j'
bonds are in denominations of $25,
S50, $100, $500 and $1,000, all of ?
I- : _ 1. I r- -. nr ? I OI
nuiuu are soiu mr ?a per cent 01 . (J
tlteir maturity value and all of
which mature in ten years. tr
For the smaller investor who
wants to buy a government bond on a
an easy payment plan, the post of- vContinued
on page eight)
SOUTHEASTERN TO ;;
OPEN BUILDING?
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Motor Express Line Expands ai
Service by Occupation of tl
New Building ^
The Southeastern Motor lanes announces
the opening on May 1, of its *
new transport terminal and office ''
building on Howard street, which c'
has just been completed. _
The building, which is designed to r
meet the ever-growing demands of
ninlrvp fniolr - ? *? *
1UV/VU1. MWbu. kiailO^Ul tauuil, U> j
concrete and cinder block construction
and has a frontage of 27 feet
and a depth of 80 feet. st
Adequate space is provided for the tc
unloading of vans on the interior of cl
the building, right on the warehouse w
floor, and there is plenty of space ft
for freight storage. Office space is v.
provided at a convenient spot on the B
warehouse floor level, to facilitate
the checking of shipments. h
Thomas R. Miller, who has been 01
in the motor transportation business \v
for ten years and who has managed h
the Southeastern terminal since the h
company entered the territory, says
the business of the concern has v.
trebled. Ten vans arrive at and de- tl
part from the local terminal each ti
24 hours and fast service is provided
all eastern and southern points, ft
Thirty-six-hour freight service from t<
j New York is given. An advertise- V
ment in the paper today tells of the
excellent service being rendered the J
public.
Baskerville to Appear
At Blowing Rock Friday T
v
Next Friday, April 25, John C. o:
Baskerville of the state department h
of conservation and development,
will show the colored mcwie of the h
mount nine rvf tt'octorn TvJnrl Vt Parr*- V
lina at the high school auditorium
at Blowing Rock. The time is 7:30. \\
The Blowing Rock Chamber of a
Commerce invites the Boone Cham- F
ber of Commerce, and any others
who might care to see this picture, J
to attend this meeting. There is no a
admission charge. [F
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lependent Weekly N
BOONE, WA
NEW PRESBYTE
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The handsome new church rec
foris of the local Presbyterian cone
pied for ine first lime Sunday.
[wo Hundred Lions
Boone; Loc;
'lull To Speak
During Finals
At Appalachian
Odus M. Mull of Shelby, : peaker
the house of representotivos durg
its recent session, has been seeled
as principal speaker at the
minicncement exorcises at Appachian
College on May 9.
FriHav mum ine Mav 9. 126 seni
:s will receive diplomas at gradu:ing
exercises.
With the college symphony orchesa
playing the processional, the ex cises
are scheduled td begin at 11
m. Following the introduction,
lull will deliver the address to the
raduates.
Mr. Mull represents Cleveland
unity in the state assembly, having
een made speaker of the lower
nine at the beginning of the last
ssion. He is a graduate of Wake
orest College.
Following the address, degrees
id certificates will be awarded by
le president. Dr. B. B. Dougherty,
ith the assistance of other college
tficials.
Special music will be provided for
ie program by the college symkomr
orah.ielpn oti/J thn enllonn O
iiuuj ui viicoiin <"IU nil- <.uii<-0i. <
ippella clioir.
lenderson Gragg, Son
Held on Assault Charge
W. Henderson Gragg, 57, and his
>n, Arthur Gragg, were bound over
> Caldwell superior court under
targes of assault with a deadly
eapon with intent to kill Will Cof y
by Judge A. R. Crisp in Caldell
recorder's court last Tuesday,
ond was set at $500 each.
The elder Gragg is alleged to
ave shot Coffey near Coffey's Gap
n March 10, inflicting serious
ounds. Arthur Gragg is alleged to
ave struck Coffey with a mattock
andle during the difficulties.
Both men denied any connection
'ith the shooting, alleging that
ley were not at the scene at any
me that day.
Henderson Gragg filed an appeal
rom a three-months' road sennice
for an assault on Mrs. Sarah
fright of the same community.
lule W. Tate Is
Buried Thursday
Funeral services were conducted
hursday afternoon at 3 o'clock at
i/liVllAMfilln fnr Till/1 Wol/iK T<i4n 41
[ Blowing Rock, who died at the
ome Wednesday morning.
The services were held from the
ome of a brother, Joseph Tate, in
/aynesville.
A native of Waynesville, Mr. Ttate
fas the son of the late William M.
nd Naomi Tatte. His wife, Mrs.
annie Pearl Tale, survives.
Also surviving are three sons,
ohn, Jule, Jr., and Russell Tate,
nd two daughters, Naomi and Elsie
lathryn Tate, all of Blowing Rock.
LJGA J
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TAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROl
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jregalion. and which will be occu- or>
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al Club Ads As Hosi ?
Gathering of Visiting Lions is
Entertained at College Cafe- w<
tcria; I-ion Governor to Speak; ti<
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With approximately 200 delegates .j,.
I from neighboring towns gathering
| for the occasion, the Boone Lions mi
I Club will play host to visiting Lions sif
land Lionesses in the Appalachian
I College cafeteria tonight. (Wednes- j m|
day) at 0 o'clock. ph
I.ion Governor "Heck" Everett of its
Charlotte, will appear, along with
various officers and members of T
I Morgan ton. Valdese, Lenoir, New|
land. North Wilkcsboro and Boone
I clubs. No feature speakers have
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I >iciiiii/u, iiunLvcx, IIIC: ^lugtaiu I ou
'will include short reports by speak- sit
' ors from each club. at
The Appalachian orchestra, turn- ^
> ex
biers and baton twirlers of the col- -p?
lege will entertain in the cafeteria, Ti
after which the crowd will adjourn pt
to the Green Park Hotel.Casino in
Blowing Rock to dance to the 11
rhythm of Stubby Taylor's orchestra
of Lenoir. Wl
The address of welcome will be JPdelivered
by Dr. W. Amos Abrams,
president of the Boone Lions Club,
and Gene Wike, publicity director ec
of the college, will serve as master he
of ceremonies. <^i
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Third District Juniors ^
To Meet in Morganton
Wl
The third district Junior Order, 0f
United American Mechanics, will th
hold its annual spring district ineet- Wi
ing in tlie Junior Order hall of ,
tQi
Burkmor.t Council No. 44, at Mor- co
ganton Tuesday night, April 29, at is
7:30 o'clock. ex
This will be a business meeting pa
and a trustee to serve the third district
on the Junior Order Children's de
Home board of trustees will be elect- m.
ed for the new year. Reports on the ty
! work for the past year will be made
I by councils from the district and a su
I program for the new year will be th
I adopted. de
I Speakers of the evening will be fe
J. L. White of Oxford, state councilor;
Clyde R. Greene of Boone, of
trustee of the Children's Home, and Pf
George W. Wrenn of Black Moun- or
tain, field secretary of the western of
section. it
George W. Jones of Morganton, is th
the district councilor and will pre- ra
side at the meeting.
The third district is made up of
councils in Avery, Burke, Mitchell,
Caldwell and Watauga counties. th
At a meeting of the local Juniors is
Monday evening, Howard Cottrell, in
Ray Estes and W. T. Casey were th
nam. -d delegates to the meeting at W
Morganton on April 29. All Juniors in
who possibly can are urged to attend cc
this meeting and those desiring to is
attend should contact one of the tl
delegates named. el
DEM<
n the Year Eighteen
jINA, THURSDAY, APRIL 2-?
RESBYTERIANS
ro OCCUPY NEW
CHURCH SUNDAYj
y's Newest Church Building!
rlandsomely Appointed; Plant;
0 Represent Outlay of $30,)00;
Congregation Shows Remarkable
Growth
The congregation of the James I.
nee Memorial Presbyterian church j
II hold its worship service next
nday in its handsome new S30.000
int which is nearing Completion in
: eastern section o? the town.
The building, which is the result
long and l'aithful labor on the
rt of the Reverend John I. Rhea
1 the members of his congrcgan.
is of red brick construction, folding
closely the colonial Ivpc of
hitecture, .and is one oi the most
adsome oL" the city's many spicnl
church buildings. The main audiium
of the church with balcony
ice will scat 350 people when the
rmanoni pews have been install-.
The floors are ot' natural oak,
file wainscot is of paneled clear
plar with; natural finish. To the
ir of the pulpit is ample space tor
: choir, and the spacious pastor's
idy. with one Sunday school room,
in the basement are located five
nday school rooms, the kitchen
d an assembly room which will
it 150, and which may be used
occasions as a dining room. A
idem steam heating plant has
tn installed, which will make the
tire building comfortable in the
>st severe weather, and the strucro
has beer, designed and erected
accordance with the best and 1 although!
in church architecture.
L'he Presbyterian church was found
here in October, 1939, by Rev.
h'n T. Rhea, at which lime there
me 30 members of the congregate..
Sendees were held in the
In school budding until the many
tails looking to the construction
a permanent home for the conegation
could be worked out.
inro -ii'rt nm.T TO V...
?-?v ??<- I >v. <? \j lUWUii^lO VII UIC
ill congregation in addition to 18
3rubers ;n the Baird s Creek mis>11.
Rev. Mr. Rhea and his co-workers
2 being congratulated by the conrmity
upon their diligence in supviug
the magnificent addition to
religious life.
hreat To Democracy
Seen If Britain Falls
"If Britain falls, the destruction of
r democracy would appear pos>le
without invading our continent
all," declared Dr. Willis A. Parr,
eminent lecturer and director of
tension work at Western Carolina
acners c-ouege, who appeared Here
iesday night to climax a series of
iblic forums.
"For in that event," he continued,
he dictators could impose one of
o conditions, either of which
juld be destructive to our econoy
and dangerous to our freedom,
te would be to boycott our trade;
at would compel us to form an
onomic unit within the western
misphere with an unbalanced contion
almost certain to lead to dision
among ourselves. The other
ould be to bribe their way to a
irter agreement with the less colerative
of the western nations and
force us all into their system of
rrld trade, wherein our standards
living would certainly fall before
s competition of enforced labor
ithin the conquered countries.
"If Britain falls " he said, "we
cc two consequences. One is the
ntrol of communication; the other
the certain subordination of the
isting Christian to a resurgent
igan pattern of human relations."
"Triumph of the dictators would
stroy the Christian pattern of huan
brotherhood and put a degraded
ranny in its place."
Consequently. Dr. Parker urged
pport by our whole people of
e "tardily begun" but now rapidly
veloping program of national dense.
"For iust as the war is net a war
nations alone, but of ideas and
issions and on one side of racially
politically allied populations, and
the resources of unwilling people
addition, no limit can be set to
e scope of the effort nor to its duition."
he said.
TO BUILD CHURCH
A Missionary Baptist church for
ie colored population of the town
to be built on African street, beg
the first church of this kind in
lis community for the colored
'ork is to begin soon on the buildg,
which will be of concrete block
instruction. Rev. Hiram Davidson
pastor of the congregation, anc
ie first deacon will be Osier Mitch1.
JCIJ
Hundred ar Eight
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I, 1941
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Watauga Superior [
Criminal Docket
Judge Sink Pas
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Pastor
jj0g?E|BS/f
4#i?isiBHilfrW^s
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Rev. John I. Rhea, paslor cf ihe
James I. Vance Memorial church,
GARDEN PEAS ARE
SEEN AS NEW CROI
Commercial Production of Pea
Being Urged 1)> Marketing
Company
Tin Black Carter Marketing Con
party, one of the largest produce
handling concerns in the southeas
em states, has announced the opei
ing of a pro,luce warehouse i
Boone, and Mr. E. L,. Hazen has bee
in the county lor the past few daj
urging rarmcrs 10 pjant txptrmien
al acreage to garden pens for h
new market.
Mr. Hazen is offering to sign coi
tracts with the farmers, guarantei
ing them 75 cents per bushel fr
tiieir peas when ready, or wi
guarantee to huv all the product i
the experimental plots, that is tl
No. 1 peas, at the day-by-day marl
e! price, whichever is pXeferrgl
Within a few hours Mr. Hazen ha
assurances of the planting of abot
20 acres of peas, and many farme:
are getting information on the no
crop, which has never been produ*
cd here on a commercial scale.
If the pea crop works ont sati
factorily Mr. Hazen states that thei
are at least 25 other truck eroj
which may be grown satisfactory
here, and which his company wi
handle in almost unlimited ouai
tities.
All farmers interested in the eu
ture of peas may get full inform
tion as to seed, type of fertilize
culture, etc.. either at the Farme
Hardware & Supply Company or
the office of the county agent.
Those desiring to plant peas, hov
ever, should make arrangements
do so right away, it is explaine
At harvest lime the peas will be d
livered to the warehouse in Booi
011 specified dales and removed 1
van to the distributing centers.
Peas, which are a 74-day ore
will yield from 150 to 300 busht
per acre, Mr. Hazen says, as again
100 to 125 bushels per acre of beat
It is explained that the amount
peas which could be handled fro
this county is almost unlimited sin
, peas produced here would be reac
at a time when other sources of su
ply would be out of the product.
New Wire Stretcher
Is Invented Her
Messrs. Lee L. Mast, T. L. Ma
and Sam South were in town Mo
day demonstrating to visiting far:
ers a new wire stretcher cian
which they have perfected and i
which they have received a pate
from the U. S. patent office.
The model shown which was bu
by Mr. Lee L. Mast, one of the cou
ty's finest mechanics, will hamany
kind of single strand or wov
wire. and the clamp can be adju:
ed readily for stretching in almc
a matter of seconds, whereas wi
the old clamp, about 30 minutes w
required. The contrivance is a 01
man affair, no wrenches are us<
and all that is needed is a hamm
to drive staples. The owners of t
, invention envision mass producti
of the device soon.
i Feathers of a bird, instead of cc
t ering the entire body, occupy i
stricted areas and only lap over t
bare patches.
VT
y-Eight
$1.50 A YEAR
louri May End
This Afternoon;
;ses Many Judgments
j | Heaviest Criminal Docket ill
Many Year1- Being Speedily
-1 Cleared; Man> Convicted of
Driving While Intoxicated;
I Civil Docket May Be Started
Today
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The spring term of Watauga suj
perior court convened Monday with
j Judge H. Hoyle. Sink, of Greensboro,
! presiding, and Solicitor L. S. Spurlj
ihg of I-enoir. prosecuting the largest
: criminal docket, to be tried in this
! county lor several Veal's.
However, the court is making
! splendid headway toward disposing
j oi the hundred-odd cases docketed
i i'or triai and court attaches believe
| that by recess this /Wednesday) aft,
< moon the court will bo ready to
j turn its attention to the civil caleni
dar.
I Fi 'ty-four defendants were docki
( ted for trial on charges of operatj
ing automobiles under the influence
! ?~>f whiskey and Judge Sink passed
; out sentences on this score rapidly
! ; dtii'ing t he first day of the term.
Those whd> were before the court for
the first time on this charge were
j given a fine of $50, required to pay
, the cosls, to surrender their driving
license and lufrain from operating
J tor vehicles upon the highways
ol' the state for a period of one year.
Those upon whom this judgment
was passed are:
is Russell Trivett, Johnnie Morelz,
Loy Watscn (who was also required
to pay B. F. Marcc $50 damages to
| hs car). Cecil Whiitihgton, Jambs D.
Sturdivant, Dallas Calloway, Willard
Hodges. Carl Owen. James Forest
Moore, Edward A. Smith. Claud WilL_
son, L. B. Whitesides, Leonard P.
Henderson. Willarci Clawson. Norman
Carroll. Joseph B. Harmon,
n Clayton Hayes. Edward Shoemaker,
n Clint Grimes. J. L. Scruggs, Charlie
?s Minton, Tom Anton, Gerd Henson,
[. Oclus Musi, Bryan R 3hull. O. D.
j Gragg. Luunie F. Townsend.
D. R. Iccnhour. violation prohibition
laws, $250 and the costs.
1 Thus. R. Ervin, violation prohi""
bjtion laws. S25 and the costs.
Dow. y Iccnhour. violation prohibition
laws, $250 and costs.
' Conloy Iccnhour, violation prohiIC>
bition laws, $200 and costs, also six
~ months suspended sentence passed
' by Judge Warlick. in 1038, placed
into effect.
J Kent Church, carrying concealed
15 weapon, prayer for judgment con"
tinned for two years upon payment
~~ of S50 and the costs.
Boss Taylor, driving drunk, $50
(Continued on page five)
1 APPALACHIAN HI
FINALS MONDAY
a
;r, Graduating Exercises in Charge
rs of Members of Senior Class;
at Other Activities
(o The graduating exercises of Ap^
palachian higli school were held in
? the high school auditorium Monday
le evening with Prof. A. Frank Ham
rick delivering the address of welcome.
Featured oil the program
were talks and musical selections by
members of the senior class chosen
by the members of the class to represent
the group at graduation. The
1S" theme of the talks was "The Future
?' of Appalachian High School." A. Y.
m Howell, Jr., class president, had
ce . ? .,
, r viiarge ui tms pari 01 tne program
5 and gave the introductory address.
p~ He was followed by J. B. Hagaman.
Jr.. who discussed the topic. "Expansion
in the Curriculum as a Result
of the Addition of the Twelfth
Grade." Hope Eller discussed "Ad?
ditional Equipment Which Will Increase
the Efficiency of Our Proist
gram," and Baxter Howell had as his
r.- subject "The Social Phase of Life at.
n- Appalachian High School." Tharon
lp Young, whose illness prevented her
an attending the program, was to have
nt discussed "Curriculum Expansion to
Meet Future Needs."
ilt Other seniors appearine on the
n- program were Rebekah Boone, who
lie played a piano solo, and the girls'
en trio, composed of Royster Barnettc,
;t- Betty Lovill and Lorraine Bridge,
>st and directed by J. Elwood Roberts,
th 49 Graduates
as Following this part of the program
te the senior gift, a speaker's stand for
:d, the auditorium, was presented to the
ier school by the class president and
he accepted by Prof. E. S. Christenbury
on Immediately following this, graduation
awards were presented by Mr.
Christenbury to the following gradiu
uates:
re- Ruby Ashley, Royster Barnette,
he Floe Bingham, Mary George Blair,
1 Continued on page eight)