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V I VOL. 54. NO. 30 FIGURES FOR RED CROSS WAR RELIEF FUND MOUNTING Late Returns Indicate that Watauga County Has Exceeded it; Quota by Considerably More Than 50 Per Cent: List of Late Contributors Figures compiled by Red Cross leaders Tuesday afternoon indicated that Watauga county people have contributed S2.307.46 to the Red Cross War Relief fund, exceeding their quota of $1,500 by consideraoly more than 50 per cent. The list of recent contributors who have donated $68.35 to the fund, which is added to the $2,239.11 previously reported, is as follows: Albert Farthing $5.00 Annie Greene 1.00 Alice Wilson .1.00 Joe H. Miller 1.00 Brushy Fork Baptist Ch 18.05 Mr. & Mrs. B. W. Stallings 5.00 Theodore Greer - ? .52 Tnmmv* Hchnrnn ......V Stewart Moore ? .50 Mr. & Mrs. C. H. Trotter 5.00 Appalachian Theatre 10.00 Howards Creek Church 6.00 Mrs. W. J. Greene 1.00 Lee Carender 1.00 W. G. Coffey 1.00 M. O. Coffey 1.00 Dr. R. H. Harmon 1.00 Mr. and Mrs. John Aldridge... 2.00 R. L. West 2.00 Colored L. Wallace Hodges 50 F. R. Horton 50 Sam Horton 50 Mrs. Kenneth Mathis 50 R. D. Horton 50 Mrs. R. D. Horton .50 Rock Hatten 1.00 Addie Grimes 1.00 Sonny Conrad 03 Mrs. H. J. Davidson 50 J. F. Hayes 25 Red Cross officials express their regret that some few errors have been made in the reports of the contributions and contributors to this special war relief fund. If your contribution has not been published in the reports, or if an error has been made in any way, please inform us at once, so that the proper corrections may be made. The Red Cross organization is highly pleased with the showing made in Watauga county, and wishes to thank everyone, who as solicitor or contributor, contributed to the remarkable response of our people. WASTEPAPERTO BE COLLECTED Lions Club Continues Work to Relieve Acute Paper Shortage; Co-operation of People Asked In order to do its bit toward relieving the acute paper shortage during the national emergency, the Boone Lions Club has decided to continue its collection of waste paper in Boone and vicinity. To make this venture a success, it is pointed out, every person in the community should save paper that has heretofore been wasted. When 50 or more pounds have been accu-1 mulated and bundled, the club member assigned to your section will call for it. Persons having paper to be picked up should call 49-J or see Mr. J. C. Cline at the Western Auto store. Two truckloads of paper have already been baled and shipped by the Lions Club. The club would like to express its appreciation to the Farmers Hardware & Supply Company for the transportation of this paper to Winston-Salem. At the regular meeting of the club Tuesday night, Miss Wary of the college music department, taught the group some new songs. Red Cross Meeting To Be Held at Courthouse Monday, January 26th A meeting of the Watauga chapter of the American Red Cross will be held at the courthouse on Monday night, January 26, at 7:30 o'clock. At this meeting a report will be made on the activities of the Red Cross during the past year. Every member in the county is urged to be present. As a member of the American Red Cross, you will be interested in voting and in sharing in a discussion of plans for the organization for the coming year. A 100 per cent attendance of members is urgently requested. t /ATA1 ndependent Weekly I BOONE, Wj Even Mr. Henderson Hb - . BN*\ No new car for Leon Henderson. | price administrator, so he pulls out j a fender on his old one. After ra i tioning of cars was started and j production of new cars ordered j stopped, Henderson assured the ? public that there was no present j need to "commandeer" autos. COUNTY AGENTS LAUNCH CAMPAIGN FOR SCRAP METAL Many Meetings Have Been Held in County Cooking to Aid ol National War Effort; Most Farmers Favor Giving Proceeds to Red Cross County Agent Harry M. Hamilton states that his office is launching an intensive campaign for the collection of scrap metal, rags and paper among farmers of the county. Fifteen meetings, states Mr. Hamilton, have been held in the different sections of the county, which has been divided into 70 different neighborhoods. Two hundred and ten men and 147 women have been named to aid in the collection enterprise. Mr. Hamilton states that farmers have expressed their desire to cooperate fully in the war effort, and most of those attending the meetings expressed their willingness to sell the junk collected and donate the entire proceeds to the Red Cross. Leaders will be notified, it is stated, at a later dale of central collecting points for the scrap metal, I etc. | Nation Goes On 'Fast Time' February 9th Washington, June 20.?John Q. Public tonight faced the complex problem of readjusting his sleeping, working, eating and recreation schedules to meet the exigencies of national daylight saving time. He has 20 days or, to be more specific, until 2 a. m. Monday, February j 9, to get himself reoriented. At that time and on that date clocks will be j advanced one hour under provisions of the national daylight savings bill which President Roosevelt signed toIday. The new "fast time" schedule, de! signed to conserve electric power and generally increase efficiency of the war effort, will remain in effect for the duration of the war and for not more than six months after, provided congress does not nullify it in the interim. It will mark the first time since World War 1 that the entire nation has gone on daylight time. Knitting School Is Sponsored Here I The home and garden department of the Woman's Worth While Club will sponsor a knitting school beginning Friday evening at 7 o'clock, in the Red Cross sewing room on main street. There will be no charges, and anyone who wishes to learn to knit may enter. Those interested should bring their needles and enough yarn to learn with. . Mrs. R. H. Harmon will conduct the classes. Stewart Resigns Tampa Grid Post - Tampa, Fla., Jan. 21?Flucie Stewart, football coach at the University of Tampa since last February, has resigned to enter the naval reserve or accept another coaching position ?possibly at Furman?next fall. Stewart said he planned to return to his home at Boone, N. C.., until he has completed connections for his next job. UGA Newspaper -Establishec fVTAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAR( ] BOOKS ARE SOUGHT FOR MEMBERS U. S. ARMY AND SAILORS ____ ! Victory Book Campaign Launch- j cd Here: Mrs. Ennna II. Moore.; Appalachian College Librarian. Heads Campaign in Watauga County An announcement has been received at the college library that a nation-wide drive for the purpose of collecting ten million hooks to meet the recreational needs of the soldiers, 'sailors and marines, sponsored by l the American Library Association. ' the American Red Cross and the United Service Organization for National Defense, opened January 12 in every state in the union. This victory book campaign with national headquarters at the National Empire State building in New York has the following rpnrpcpntfi- I j tivcs in North Carolina: Governor I I | Broughton. honorary chairman; Guy : OR. Lyle, librarian of the Woman's | [College at Greensboro, slate direc [! tor, and Marjorie B.cal. slate library [ I commission in Raleigh, sorting and j distribution and co-director. Mrs. [Emma H. Moore, librarian of the lol< cal college, has been selected to head I the Watauga county drive, i Nearly all types of educational II books are wanted. Textbooks in t present use in law and medical , schools are wanted by men who left professional courses for military ser' vice. In fact nearly all types of ed- , ucational books, including religious, . are wanted. j The army, navy and air corps have ' reported that they have a pressing need for technical books, also biographies of great lives are wanted. Good modern fiction is also wanted. : Donations may be made of such ' books as we would want to read " ourselves or would like to have in our own libraries. Should a donor c prefer to give money, it will be used to buy a new book at a good dis- ? count by the Washington morale of- * fice. No unbound magazines are wanted at the present. Books donated, if not new ones, 1 should be in good condition. Your gift will be sent to all camps and ships, to United Service Organization centers, to small groups of men c on special service away from regu- c lar camps, merchant marines, coast N guards, lighthouses and lightships. r n you have books to donate to the soldiers, sailors and marines, take them to one of the following centers in Boone for collection: R. M. Greene's music ioom, Kenneth Linney at the Parkway Company, Wat- t auga Democrat office, Mrs. Hardin |r Brown at the county library, located \ in the courthouse, and Mrs. Emma H. Moore at the college library. The collection center at Blowing c Rock is at the sewing room under r the direction of Mrs. T. L. Coffey and Mrs. Howard Holshouser. The 1 Cove Creek collection center is at the Cove Creek high school under 1 the supervision of Prof. Sam Horton. Mrs. Moore says: "We want bocks t for our defenders! Our boys want books. Give a book for every serv- j ice man. Let's keep 'em reading!" If you should want information con- t cerning this victory book campaign, call Mrs. Emma H. Moore at tele- 1 phone number 2. ?;- F Two Are Injured In Auto A ccident h Mr. Jay Norris and Edward Wine- . barger suffered right serious injuries * Saturday evening, when the car * which they and Austin Ernest South occupied, crashed into the rear of a truck driven by M. E. Berry of Banner Elk, near the county home. State Highway Patrolman Miles I Jones stated that excessive speed was likely the cause of the accident. Messrs. Norris and Winebarger have c been released from the Watauga Hospital, where they were treated for numerous cuts and bruises. City Auto Tags Must Be Displayed * s Mayor W. H. Gragg states that 175 r local motorists are displaying the ^ city automobile tags, but that a j large number of residents haven't a yet purchased the licenses. i Mr. Gragg urges the delinquents j, to stop by the city hall without de- j, lay and provide themselves with the t tags, thus saving both themselves r and the administration embarrass- u ment. n p Age may have one side, but assur- t edly youth has the other. There is 3 nothing more certain than that both . are right, except perhaps that both are wrong.?Stevenson. DEMC i in the Year Eighteen DLINA, THURSDAY, JANUARY BLIND LADY LOCA 1 >.j 1&4 I rf i W, I * i / Miss Hazel Long, blind case w< who are working among the blind in l I Ttir mrtna* ? mr ALM 11M1A1N 1 DFES AT AGE 61 Well Known Teacher of Meat j F Camp Township Succumbs Saturday to Long Illness William Alex Tugman, leading :itizen of the Meat Camp section, si ,vho taught in the schools of Wat- p luga county for many years, died t< Saturday after an illness of several nonths. Mr. Tugman was 61 years a] >ld. p. Funeral services were conducted m donday morning at 11 o'clock at the tl iopewell Methodist church by Rev. Fi f. C. Canipe of Boone, and the Rev. dr. Dillinger and burial was in the re :emetery there. Surviving are the widow; three rc ons, James C., of Wyoming; Waldo w ind Vaughan of Boone; two sisters, d( drs. J."' L. Tatum and Mrs. T. P. j[ Adams of Boone, and one brother, w Jrady Tugman of Boone. Mr. Tugman was a native of Wat- bi tuga county. For over 30 years he th aught in the public schools of the p( ;ounty, and was a leader in his te lommunity in all constructive acti- Sf lues. | p( Fires Are Issued / By Rationing Board Following is a list of the tires and j ubes issued by the Watauga county ationing board during the past veek: w Truck Tires A Melvin F. Burgess, transportation V >f material and equipment for the vi naintenance of public utilities. Ariie B. Hodges, Valle Crucis, 01 lauling TVA phosphate. Harley B. Triplclt, Blowing Rock, N lauling wood, coal and lumber. Finley Shores, Blowing Rock, ti raasportation of fuel. C. M. Critcher, Boone, hauling o' >roduce and fertilizer. John R. Horton, Vilas, transporta- di ion of fuel. lister Carroll. Boone, hauling A umber. Byron J. Cook, Shulls Mills, o) dumber. Judson B. Hodges, Triplett, haulng lumber and ties. w Ralph E. Lentz, Blowing Rock, lauling produce. Vaughn H. Howell, Laxon, halting milk to receiving station at w iugar Grove. Si Carnie C. Critcher, Blowing Rock, ^ lauling produce. A Passenger Car Tires J' Clifford Parlier, Boone, hauling iroduce. C1 Robert K_ Binvhnm Bonne M Tt Howard Steelman, Deep Gap, mail . arrier. Is A. Lee Gross, Boone, policeman. DTHER SHIPS ATTACKED E IN THE ATLANTIC AREA Washington, Jan. 21.?American laval forces are hitting back at eneny submarines preying on eastern eaboard shipping, the navy departncnt said last night in a communi- 1 [ue which revealed that more than s our allied ships already have been s ttacked by the Axis "rattlesnakes." 'he navy said that U-boat activity 5 continuing off the east coast of forth America from Cape Hatteras o Newfoundland, but assured the lation that "strong counter-measires are being taken by units of the avy's east coastal command." This hase suggested that one or more of he marauders already had been estroyed. Buy Defense Bonds )CR/A f H undred and ? ght? "V W 22. 1942 L CASE WO&vJR >rker. and her "seeing eye" dog. Watauga and adjoining counties. \UT0 STAMPS NOW AVAILABLE IN CITY 'edcral Use Tax Must Be Paid hv Motorists Before February 1. Postmaster Says Sale of federal automobile use lamps got under way at the local ostoffice last Saturday, Postmas'i; W. G. Hartzog announced. The stamps may be purchased at ly hour the postoffice is open, the sstmastcr said, and explained that j application is necessary, but that ic stamps must be obtained before ?bruary 1. According to the new federal law quiring an auto use tax stamp, a i annual fee is required. The sum quired now, however, is $2.09, hich pays the tax for the remain:r of the fiscal year, ending on ine 30. At that time a $S stamp ill be needed. The stamps, it is explained, must > attached to some visible part of e automobile, and a record of the irchase reported to collector of inrnal reverse. For this purpose a lecial card is available at the local istofficc. Appalachian Wins In Wrestling Bout Over Naval School The Appalachian wrestling squad on a 24 to 6 victory over the Naval pprenUce School in Newport News, a., Saturday evening. The indiidual scores arc as follows: Morse, 121 pounds, won decision /er Roseman, Appalachian. Hoffman, 128, won decision over esbitt, Appalachian. Osborne, 136, lost by fall to Ausn, Appalachian. Howie, 145, lost decision to Savage Appalachian. Morgan, 155. lost decision to Ferae of Appalachian. Ayers, 165, lost by fall to Ousley, ppalachian. New, 175, lost decision to Hancock ' Appalachian. Clendenen lost by fall To Appachian's Turbyfill in the heavyeight class. GETS ANNAPOLIS POST Walter Clark Thompson of Mabel, as designated Tuesday by Con essman R. L. Doughton to enter ic United States Naval Academy at nnapolis in the class beeinnine tly 1. Mr. Doughton designated ur other candidates to fill vacanes in the academy. I don't think much of a man who not wiser today than he was yesrday.?Abraham Lincoln. iurley Warehouses Close Season With Sales of 1,475,000 The Mountain Burley Tobacco warehouses closed the current seaon last Friday afternoon, with ales totaling 1.47S.OOO pounds. Warehousemen state that the lo>acco brought an average price of >31.20 per hundredweight. Considering the fact that the rnrley yield was rather light in he year 1941, this is considered i banner year for the local markit. Both Mr. Coleman, w a r etouseman. and the farmers are lighly pleased with the sales this eason, and Boone still stands in he forefront as to price averages imong the various markets of the iurley belt. lT y-Eight $1.50 A YEAR BUM) LADY IS 'I NOW DOING CASE WORK IN COUNTY ! ! f.ss Hazel Long and Her "Seei rig-Eye" Dog Serves Blind Cases in Several Counties; Will Be in Watauga County 3 Days Cacti Month Miss Hazel Long and Ping, her 'seeing eye" dog, have started to j work for Ule welfare department | among the blind people of Watauga jand several other counties in North western Carolina. Mrs. Inez B. Wall, field supervisor for the state commission for the blind, was in the county last week, and states that Miss Long will do general case aid work among the 19 blind cases in Watauga county, and will be here three days each month. Miss Long will also take care of cases in Ashe, Alleghany. Caldwell, Alexander, Burke, Wilkes and Lincoln counties. There are 150 cases J i in her territory. Miss Long, it is explained, will .[work part tiine in the welfare de ! partment and give case work and I home teaching service to the blind | in the county. I j Miss Long, who is a native of ; Union county, North Carolina, is a graduate ot the state school for the blind in Kaleigh, has an A.B. degree from Flora Macdonald College; took a six months course in social work at the University of North Carolina; took her training with the seeing eye dog in Morristown, N. J., in September. 1941. She is a trained dictaphone operator and has a speed of 85 to 100 words per minute on a standard typewriter. She lost her eyesight from whooping cough and meningitis when two years old. Miss Long, who has a most attractive personality, will speak before a meeting of the Boone Lions Club soon, will speak to the Lenoir Rotary Club Friday noon and to the Woman's Club in that city in the afternoon. She has her own car and a driver and travels over her territory with ease. j Those who have watched Miss I Long in her trips around town bci ing guided by "Ping," have asked many questions about the seeing eye dog. Miss Long explains that the attractive animal is of German shepherd breed, and was educated at the Seeing Eye School in Morristown, N. J. She spent a month there durin'rr 11 - - ' I ...6 mil, gening accustomed to I following "Ping" and giving directions by spoken command. The dog is I Miss I.ong's constant companion, I sleeps on a rug beside her bed, and ] accompanies her anywhere she goes i in daytime. Her canine companion : leads her through traffic, up and jdown steps and around all obstacles, i Miss Long states, however, that since Ping is such an attractive dog, many are inclined to pet him. She warns against this, since while the dog is on duly, the slightest distraction could possibly result in injury to her. Interesting is the fact that Ping picks up anything Miss Long might drop and pays absolutely no ' attention to either dogs or cats. She I says there arc only 15 of the seeingeye dugs in the state. YANKEES SHOOT DOWN NINE JAPANESE PLANES Washington, Jan. 20.?Successful U. S. army bomber attacks on two Japanese air bases in the Far East were reported last night by the war department which revealed the Americans shot down nine enemy interceptor planes in a dogfight over the Dutch East Indies and set fire to Jap planes and hanears on layan peninsula. The war department reported that the Philippine theatre o? conflict was devoid of major action during the past 24 hours, enemy ground patrols and aerial reconnaissance units were active. The air battle occurred over the Japanese-held air base at Manado on the Island of Celebes. An American formation of five bombers dropped several bommbs on the field with .undetermined results, then encountered a group of Japanese interceptor planes. Nine enemy craft were shot down in the ensuing fight. Two American bombers are missing. A third was damaged and four members of its crew wounded. TRIP HOME IS COMPLETED BY WINSTON CHURCHILL London, Jan. 17.?Prime Minister Churchill stepped prosaically from a train this afternoon, home from a history-making visit to the United States and Canada, after having flown the Atlantic from Bermuda to Plymouth.
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