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VOX.. 54, NO. 21
WARGAMES BRING"
ENGINEERS UNIT
INTO LOCALITY
38th Engineers Carry on Maneuvers
From Boone-Blowing
Rock Area; Scouting. Mining
Bridges a Part of Unit's Activities
The wide-spread war games which
have been conducted over the Carolinas
for the past several weeks,
drew into the hill country Sunday,
when a force of the 38th engineers
from Fort Jackson, moved into the
ourtskirts of Boone, scouted the im
meuiaie territory, jninea oriuges on
the Wilkesboro and Jefferson highways,
and made ready to retard the
progress of the "enemy" should he
be sighted.
The contingent of men who came
to Boone Sunday, was in command
of Lieutenant Carter, commanding
officer, 102nd cavalry, which unit
came from Orange, N. J., and became
a part of the 38th engineers.
There were about 40 men, a number
ol armored and rcconnaisance cars,
motorcycles and other equipment.
The contingent established headquarters
on the Robert \V. Pulliam
property at Perkinsville, at almost
the identical spot where General
Stonemen and his men camped following
the civil war. From that
point the patrol parties of the
"Blues" scouted the country for evidence
of the approach of the
"Reds." The command will likely
establish camp in the vicinity of
Blowing Rock. I
Lieutenant Carter states that the
102nd cavalry, to which his men arc
attached, originated in England before
the Revolutionary War, and
was known as the Essex regiment.
It was re-organized in America, as
a volunteer militia, fought in the
Revolution and has been in continuous
existence with the exception of
about 10 years.
This marked the first glimpse this
section has had of the armed forces
of the nation and great interest was
manifested throughout the area. It
is the hope of the people that some
of the mechanized units may later
come this way.
B. T. U. Conference
To Be Held Nov. 25th
A conference for all Baptist Training
Union workers and members of
the Three Forks Association will be
held at the Boone Baptist church
November 25, beginning at 7:00 p.m.
The principal feature of this
mnrvfir-rt A..; I) Kn the f
intv-iuifi Will UC U1U tUlUCieilL'Cd
which will be held for the workers
S of the various departments, as folIlows:
Junior boys and girls, intermediate
boys and girls, junior leaders,
young people and adults.
Similar meetings are being held
November 24-28 in every association
in North Carolina. These meetings
are jointly promoted by the Training
Union division of the department
of Christian Education of the
Baptist State convention of North
Carolina, and the Training Union department
of the Baptist Sunday
School board, Nashville, Tenn.
More than 5,000 Baptists are expected
to attend these conferences
throughout the state.
Inspiring addresses will be made
by some of the leading Baptists of
the state. Every member of the
Three Forks association is urged to
attend this meeting.
Mr. H. W. Wilcox, whe announces
the meeting, states that a beautiful
award will be made to the church
having the largest attendance. Every
pastor and Training Union officer
is urged to keep this before the
churches and secure the largest possible
attendance.
PRESIDENT PLACES BLAME
j FOR COAL STRIKE ON LEWIS
Washington, Nov. 18?President
Roosevelt directly challenged today
the validity of John L. Lewis* position
in calling a strike in the captive
coal mines, while Washington waited
expectantly for government ac
f?v?. "?v ovvfi/uav.
At a press conference, the chief
executive disagreed with Lewis'
contention that to accept an open
shop in the captive mines would invalidate
the United Mine Workers'
contract with the commercial mines
of the Apnalachian area.
Meanwhile, expectation of government
action was whetted by statements
from those closely associated
with the president that he was of
the opinion that the time to "crack i
down" on Lewis, and on all interrup- i
Itions in defense production, had arrived.
Buy Defense Bonds
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BOONE, WAT
Farewell to Mexico
'7--77;;
Josephus Daniels (right), retiring
U. S. ambassador to Mexico,
and Mexico's president, Avlla
Camacho, embrace each other as
; the diplomat says gocd-by to the i
country in which he served so
long. President Camacho called
him one of the best American
friends Mexico ever had. i
BOONE HI WINS IN i
i music festival!
I Appalachian Students Win Over |
| 1525 Contestants in Fifth i
Annual Event 1
]
Competing with 325 students J
from Watauga, Ashe and Avery
counties. Boone high school carried
off iop lienors in the fifth annual
Appalachian High School Music Fes- c
lival sponsored by the A Cappella 'j
choir of Appalachian College, here
last Wednesday. Miss Virginia Wary, c
head of the college music depart- 1
ment, was chairman of the event and
was assisted by other members of t
the music department. |
Following a new procedure honor
ratings of one and two, excellent and
good were awarded instead of former
ratings of first, second and
third places. Boone high, the winner,
was presented a bust of Schu- 1
bcrt-at the end oC the festival: Nathan's
Creek, West Jefferson and
Blowing Rock followed the local high
school in honor ratine--.
From the winning school the following
received honors: Mixed cho- s
rus, rating two; girls' chorus, rating s
one; advanced piano, Charles Boone, f
rating one; vocal trio, rating one; boys'
quartet, rating one; soprano t
solo, Betty Winkler, rating two; soprano
solo, Josephine Miller, rating t
one; alto solo, Betty Webster, rating v
two. s
The Nathan's Creek tenor and p
baritone solos received ratings of c
two, while their bass solo was rated t
one. The West Jefferson vocal duet, c
vocal trio and soprano solos received
ratings of two, and the Blowing r
Rock vocal duet, vocal trio, and so- a
prano solos received number two t
honors. s
Judges were members of the Lees- \
McRae music festival. This was the
second division of the Harvest Fes- t
tival, the dramatic division having r
been held on November 6. r
n
Rites For Walter |l
Baird Held Sunday j
Valle Crucis, Nov. 18?Funeral
services for Walter Baird, wellknown
farmer of this section, were
held here Sunday afternoon with
Rev. M. A. Osborne, pastor of the p
Valle Crucis Methodist church, offi- n
ciating. a
Mr. Baird, who had been ill for
only a few days, died Saturday t
morning of pneumonia in the Wat- 1
auga Hospital. He was 59 years of s
age. Interment was in the Baird b
family cemetery. v
He is survived by the widow, the i
former Miss Sally Mast; three sons, a
Clint, Ralph and Junius, and one v
daughter, all of Valle Crucis.
Mrs. Baird, who was recently ope- d
rated or, in the Rutherfordton hos- t
pita], was unable to attend her hus- 1
band's funeral. Mr. Clint Baird was I
also absent from the funeral, being B
confined in Watauga Hospital with I
pneumonia. | fc
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CIO SUPPORTS FOREIGN I
POUCY OF ROOSEVELT c
Detroit, Nov. 18?Full support of c
President Roosevelt's foreign policy
was voted by the Congress of Indus- 1
trial Organizations at its annual convention
today while a group of followers
of John L. Lewis sat in glum
silence and refused to give their approval.
j
Delegates adopted a resolution t
commending the chief executive's r
"forthright" stand in the foreign {
field, attacking Charles A. Lindberg,
whose name provoked a scat- ?
tering of hisses, and urging exten- <
sion of all possible aid and co-ope- j
ration to Great Britain, the Soviet :
Union and China. <
JGA
?.wspa per-Establishes
?AUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAI
KMls^SEALS^TOli
MAILED OUT FOR
SALE NEXT WEEK
Every Citizen of Boone to Receive
Seals in Current Campaign;
Effort to Eliminate Tuberculosis
is Made Through
Sale of Stickers
Every citizen in Boone will rereive
Christinas seals through the
mail next week. Be looking for
them. Why? There is a definite
need for funds in Watauga county
to send five patients to the sanitarium.
Can we afford to send
them? Can we afford not to?
Man's battle against tuberculosis
is about to bo decided. Victory is
in sight.
There was a time when we had to
be contented with slopping the ene
my, relieving the suffering and helping
the victims. This still is necessary.
but at last the time has come
when we dare to think about a nation
free from tuberculosis.
Victory can be won if the American
public will be as generous in
the less spectacular future ahead,
when there will be less and less tuicrctilosis,
as it has been in the
iraniatic past when the disease killid
members in almost every home,
t has been abolished in cattle. It
ran be in the human race if we isoate
our patients today.
Your gift will further the cause of
lenlth, hasten the approach of the
lay when this communicable disease
10 longer will threaten your home,
t will weaken the hold of tuberulosis
on our people and strengthen
he forces o? defense."
iAS STATIONS
ARE BURGLARIZED
Two Service. Stations am* Main
Street of Town Are Entered
Tuesday Evening
Two service stations on the main j
tr?f thn fnu/n 1
omctime Tuesday night and cigaetles,
cigars and candies to the
imonnt of something over $100 were
aken.
Berry & Wilson's Gulf station on
he corner of King and Water streets
vas the heaviest loser. Albert Wil;on,
one of the operators of the
lace, states that in the neighborhood
f 48 cartons of cigarettes, a number
f boxes of cigars and about $4 in
hange was taken.
The Boone Sinclair station, opeated
by E. L. Teague, was looted of
0 cartons of cigarettes and a half
iox of bar candy. Strangely enough,
ays Mr. Teague, about $7.00 left in
he cash register was untouched.
Both places were entered by
ireaking the glass and unfastening
est room windows, which led diectly
into the stations. There are
iO tangible clues as to the identity of
he robbers.
Vlrs. Jennie Blackburn
Succumbs at Age of 68
Mrs. Jennie Edith Blackburn,
irominent citizen of the Todd comnunity,
died Tuesday evening from
brief illness.
Funeral services are to be held
oday (Thursday) at 2 o'clock by
tcv. Vilas Minton, who will be asisted
in the rites by Rev. Ed Blackmrn.
In the event of continued fair
veather, plans are to hold the servces
at the home place, otherwise
t South Fork Baptist church. Burial
/ill ftp in thp hnmn nntcthKArViArtfl
Surviving are four sons and three
laughters: Joe Blackburn, Mounain
City, Tenn.; Hamp Blackburn,
'odd, Newton Blackburn, Todd;
ion Blackburn, West Jefferson; Mrs.
1. C. Brown and Mrs. S. T. Brown,
Joone; Mrs. W. G. Cook, Todd. Two
irothers and one sister also survive:
ohn Clawson, Asa Clawson and Mrs.
,ee Greene. There are 18 grandihildren
and two great-grandchilLren.
Welfare Department
Asks For Old Clothing
Mr. Thomas Jackson, acting superntendent
of public welfare, states
hat his department is in urgent
leed of old clothing for men, worn:n
or children.
Mr. Jackson states that since the
;ewing rooms closed there is no|
:lothing available for the needy
jeople of the county, and would
tppreciate the receipt of any kind
>f cast-off clothing.
DEM<
d in the Year Eighteen
tOIJNA, THURSDAY. NOVEMB
,
'Somewhere' On tl
!
Impressive scene aboard a U. J
on the broad Pacific shows the fli<
warming up for a iake-off. These
bombers and deadly torpedo planes
Plans Being Made Fi
j Opening oi Local B
| Coleman Is Plea
REA TO IMPROVE 1
ELECTRIC LINES
Contracts for Material for Revamping
Northwest Utilities
Approved
Mr. G. P. Messick. REA superintendent
of Lenoir, in town yesterday,
tells The Democrat that the
Blue Ridge Electric Membership
Corporation is to launch a large program
of modbrnfintion on the old
transmission lines of the Northwest
Carolina Utilities, recently taken;
over by the REA, and that work will j
start at once.
Mr. Messick states that the REA in I
Washington has just notified him of j
the approval of contracts involving
the following materials which are to ]
he used in this improvement pro- |
gram:
Transformers, $17,553.43: poles, I
$13,687.70; harware, switches, etc..
$11,524.31; contract labor, $51,984.40.
;
Appreciation Day
Awards Are Made
i
Mr. Claude Winebarger received:
$7.50 at the weekly Appreciation
Djiy program at the city hall last
Wednesday afternoon. Miss Alice
East was not present when her
name was called for a similar gift.
Mrs. Mack Luttrell received a
gift of vases from Bare's Fan- store.
Greene and M. W. Greene were
given subscriptions to the Watauga
Democrat. Mrs. Richard Mearn received
a flash light from the Western
Auto store.
Others who would have received
valuable gifts had they heen present
were: Rebecca Boone, Mrs. Call
Beach, Mrs. Lelia Brown, Mrs. Frank
Berry, Dona Henson, Mrs. C. L.
Brown, I. S. Ayers, Edna Moretz,
Mrs. Claud Watson and Gordie Triplett.
Appreciation Day is observed by :
members of the Merchants Association
each Wednesday afternoon at 4
o'clock. Patrons of the merchants
should be present for the distribution
of the gifts.
Stores of City
To Close For
\
Thanksgiving
All the member-stores of the 1
Boone Merchants Association |
will be closed today for Thanks- I
giving, according to Russell D. i
Hodges, president of the Association.
As is usual, cafes, drug
stores, etc., will remain open.
Other firms not having membership
will also close, so that the
managers and employees may |
have opportunity for a vacation i
period. j
County and city offices, together
with the office of the Watauga j
county selective service board,
|, will also close for Thanksgiving,
I' as will the postolfice and bank.
3CEA
Hundred a a ighty-1
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;ER 20, 1941 ^Jlljf
be Broad Pacific
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s. nnvv atrrrut* eawio* cnm??tV,oM
jhi deck thronged with planes, all
are lighter planes, scout planes,
and dive bombers.
or Celebration o!
urley Warehouses;
ised With Prospects U
a
Committees Are Named Looking; p
to Celebration of Opening of!
Tobacco Selling Season: Auc-! k
: U1
tron Sales to Start December 3,
! st
A special Merchants Association g1
committee has just been named to i hi
lay preliminary plans for the open-'if
ing of this year's sales at the two M
Mountain Bur ley Tobacco Ware- hi
houses in this city, which occur on '
Wednesday, December 3, and while Jt
ino group iias noi yet worked cut J?
any details of the undertaking, it is ^
stated that the start of the season w
will find Boone in a gala mood, with G
parades, and other entertainment n;
features. *c
Mr. Rosupe Coleman, veteran tobacco
warehouseman and a farmer
himself, who is operating the houses f
this year, has been busily engaged
for the last two weeks touring the
entire hurley areas of Carolina,
Tennessee and southwestern Virginia,
and says that prospects for tj.
banner sales at the Boone markets g
are growing brighter every day. Mr.
Coleman is pleased with the quality ()
of the leaf he has examined and g
predicts lop prices. Boone, it is re- i e,
called, led the hurley region in aver- ! j?
age prices iast season
Mr. Coleman states that the houses n
will be open for the reception of to- ai
uacco on next Monday, ana tit at : 1 i
after the sales have started farmers | ft
will find no difficulty in getting , g
their tobacco sold promptly and lor ! b
the high dollar. ; tf
Millard McGuire
ti
Has Fatal Attack u
e:
Millard Toloert McGnire. aged 49
years, and a resident of Vilas, died
suddenly Monday morning from
what was believed to have been a P
heart attack. !01
He was apparently in his usual l>
good health before the attack. Mr.
McGuire died within a few seconds I
after the stroke.
Funeral services were held Tues- I
day at 2:30 o'clock, with Rev. Carl
Triplett in charge, and interment i
was in the Ward cemetery on Wat- |
auga River, with Reins-Siurdivant1 c'
Funeral Home in charge of the ar- '
rangements.
Surviving are the widow and the ^
following sons and daughters: Mrs.
Harry Gillas. Farmville, Va.: Mrs.
Edward Ward. Rominger; L. R. McGuire,
Boone; Richard McGuire. 01
Valle Crucis; Don, Otis. Chassie and ;"
Gilbert, all of Valle Crucis. j
GRAYSON NOMINATED
e:
District Attorney J. Luke Grayson f
was re-nominated for district attor- it
ney in the eastern district of Ten- R
nessee in the primary held Satur
day. He has held the office for e:
eight years and nomination is tan- F
tamount to election as the district is 1
overwhelmingly Republican. H e C
carried three of the four counties h
and won the nomination by a big P
majority.
Messrs. Dean Cook and George h
Cook are now in the Panama Canal f*
Zone, where they have been for the v
past three weeks working on a de- t)
fense project. F
k
Browning of evergreens in autumn a
is simply nature's way of pruning these
trees, says an agricultural exj
periment station scientist.
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Sight
$1.50 A YEAR
[ed cross drive
is making good
progress here into)
Intent Lists Are Now Being
Turned in and a Number of
Special Gifts Are Reported;
Attractive Window Displays
Noted
The Annual Red Cross Roll Call
lampaigr, is showing satisfactory
irogrcss, according to Mrs. W. M.
ilatheson, Roll Call Chairman. Alhough
canvassing is not complete,
nrollment lists are already being
urnecl in by volunteer workers.
Mrs J. H. Council. Chairman of
he special gifts committee, reports
he following special contributions:
Irs. Moses H. Cone,
Blowing Rock $ 11.00
Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Beck,
Blowing Rock 5.00
* T r - ?- rr? --
.mis. jusepn r. uannon and
Anne Cannon Reynolds,
Blowing Rock . 200.00
Dr. A. P. Kephart, Camp
Yonahlossee 25.00
W. W. Mac Co.. Boone .... 2.00
Western Auto Co., Boone - 2.00
D. & P. Pipe Co., Boone, .. 5.00
Colvard Tire Co.. Boone .. 5.00
Belk-White Co.r Boone .. . 3.00
Reino-Slurdivant Funeral
Home 5.00
The list of annual memberships
very incomplete at this time, but
list of names will be compiled
>r the next issue of this newsaper.
Three important but not well
nown phases of Red Cross work
re represented in displays placed
i the windows of three Boone
ores. Mrs. J. A. W. Davis, chairian
of Home Nursing, has an exbit
of materials and textbooks at
ic Carolina Pharmacy. Mrs. Mae
iller, chairman of War Production,
is taken over the window of the
ateway Cafe with a quantity of
ipplies furnished by the National
:-d Cross on relief work. In the
oono Drug Company is an exhibit
orkcd up by the local Campfire
iris illustrating the military and
aval service work allotted' "to" a
cal committee, having Rev. John
hea as chairman.
"ood For Defense
Topic of Meeting
"Food for Defense" will be the
lome of a meeting to be held at the
lowing Rock high school auditorial
November 25th, at 7:30, under
>e joint sponsorship of the Rural
leclrifieation Administration and
.'tension service of the State Coi ge.
Miss Elizabeth Bridge, home delonstration
agent, will be present,
nd will demonstrate the value of
te different foods. An interesting
lature of the meeting will be the
rinding of grain, the making and
aking of whole wheat muffins, with
le iood actually being consumed
ilhiri 17 minutes.
Officials of the Blue Ridge Elec ie
Membership Corporation will
ike advantage of the opportunity to
xplain to former patrons of the
orthwest Carolina Utilities, the
EA setup, under which they get
teir electric service, rates, etc. All
atrons of the Northwest throughit
this region are particularly urged
> attend this meeting.
.ocal Nimrods In
Successful Hunts
Boone hunters in the Mount Mittell
wild life area had good luck
lis season, two bucks having been
rought down during the season,
hicn ended in that region Saturay.
Gordon H. Winkler killed a fine
10-pound buck on the second day
E the hunts, in a party composed
E himself. Grady Farthing, Rob
ivers, Kenneth Linney, and W. H.
ragg.
Rob Rivers brought down an
ight point 184-pound buck last
riday morning in his second hunt.
i which he was joined by Mrs.
ivers.
On Sunday a party of local huntrs
will go to the Pisgah National
orest in quest of deer and bear,
hose going are Paul A. Coffey,
raig Hollars, T. L. Mast, Coy Bingam,
Arthur Adams, Bert Ellis and
erhaps others.
Vilas, Nov. 17?Mr. and Mrs. Bud
saacs visited the home of Mr, and
Irs. C. O. Story of Lynn last week,
rhen Mr. Isaacs, Mr. Story and
hree other men, went to the Pisgah
'orest deer hunting. Mr. Isaacs
illed a 110-pound doe an hour and
half after the hunt began.
Join the Red Cross