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WESM UHITED STATtS % A WAR V' SONDS V ANO V STAMPS *I|I? Anl ? VOL. 55, NO. 5 DR. HAYGOOD TO SPEAK THURSDAY AT DINNER MEE1 Noted Florida Educator to Ad dress Monthly Meeting of th Chamber of Commerce: Men" bcrship Campaign is Now IH ing Conducted i Dr. J. D. Haygood. of the Univei sity of Florida. Gainesville, will t the guest, speaker at the rcguls monthly meeting of the Chamber c Commerce Thursday evening ; 7:30 at the Gateway Cafe. Dinnc will be served. Mr. H. W. Wilcox, president of th commerce organization, states tnat real treat is in store for all who a' tend the meeting, and asks that e\ ery business place and profession; office be represented. A membership campaign has jui been started, and following is a lit of those who have joined to dati Grady Farthing. Dr. A. P. Kephar Gateway Cafe, Daniel Boone Hote Daniel Boone Shoe Shop, Dixi Home Store, B. W. StaUings, App? lachian Theatre, Elite Shop, Cit Meat Market, Western Auto Asc ciate Store, Dr. W. M. Matheso: Belk-White Co., Farmers Hardwar & Supply Co., Watauga Industrie: W. H. Wilcox, Bus Station. Th committee will call on the remair der of the business men, and all ar asked to join, so that many neede activities may be carried on. All committees should be able t make their reports at Thursda evening's meeting. German Hordes Press Oi Toward Caucasus Oi Moscow, July 29.?German troop pouring into the Caucasus hav made another crossing of the lowc Don at Tsimlyansk and have read ed Bataisk, 15 miles south of Kosto' in their attempt to cut the Stalit erad-North Caucasian railroad ?I Soviets announced offisially earl today. "In the region of Tsimlyansk tli /. enemy crossed the river at one plac and reached the southern bank," th midnight communique said. "Our men are attempting to repi enemy attacks. Soviet tanks dc stroyed eight Nazi tanks, 18 gun 10 trucks and killed 200 Gerrnar during the engagement. At the eastern bend of the Do river before Stalingrad, the Russiar also were engaged in a suprem fight. Dispatches said the Red arm killed 8,000 Nazis in a single snia i sector on a curving front only sorr 40 or 50 miles short of the vital Vo ga river port. The main German thrust was d rected south of Rostov along th railroad which crosses the Caucasi to Baku, the great oil center sti 700 miles from the thunder of battl The line generally traverses sparse! settled country dotted by thatche villages of the Cossacks. The rai way is to the northwest of the mai Caucasus ranges which tower 18,Of feet. All dispatches stressed that Timi shenko's retreat was not a rout bi that the Red army was slaughterir the driving Germans who advance over heaps of their dead and rubb of shattered tanks, cannon and otl er equipment. -mt ui iii_y ui uic V/autaai had not yet heen reported in actio and there was no confirmation < German claims that Bataisk, 1 miles south of Rostov on the Bak railway, had fallen. Earl Cook Ower of Eller McNeil Stor Mr. Earl D. Cook of Boone, h; purchased the stock of goods Rutherwood, formerly owned by tl late Eller McNeil, and is closing o the store at greatly reduced price The store, which has been in op ration for more than 40 years, is 01 of the best known business establisi ments in the county, and a comple line of clothing, dry goods of i kinds, groceries, hardware, etc., featured. Mr. Cook will be in charge of tl business himself for the time bein Dr. A. P. Kephart Name Gragg District Manage Dr. A. P. Kephart, Republic; nominee for Congress in the nin district, on Monday announced t , appointment of W. H. Gragg, ma or of Boone, as district chairms j ' i By virtue of this designation, \ Gragg will also be campaign mar ger for Dr. Kephart. VXTA) independent Weekly / BOONE, W. j To Lecture Here Alexander Sprunt. Jr.. who dest livers a lecture on wildlife at the college auditorium Thursday evening at 8:15. ? WILDL1FET0 BE I TOPIC OF LECTORI 'G s Alexander Sprunt. Jr., Auduboi c Society Representative, to l" Speak Here c d Alexander Sprunt, Jr., souther] representative of the National Au dubon Society, will deliver a lcc lure on wildlife and its iniportanc to human welfare at the college au ditorium Thursday evening of thi tl week at 8:15. The lecture will b i interspersed with the showing c motion pictures of birdlife in tech nicolor. ,s Mr. Sprunt has, for 20 years, bee e identified with museum and consser ,r vation work in the south east. Orni [. thoiogy has been his hobby sine y boyhood and after the last war : became his profession. Serving fc te* several years as curator of that sc: y ence at the Charleston (S. C.) mi seum, the oldest in America, he ha le since 1934, been on the staff of th ;e Audubon Society, the foremost 01 ie ganized ody of conservationists i the country. L>) The public is cordially invited t hear Mr. Sprunt. Boys of the con Si munity are particularly invited, a ls are members of the Boy Scout oi ganization. who should attend i n uniform. is i e Hamburg Raid Maior u Attack, Berlin Admit ie 1- Berlin, July 28.?Official Germa quarters said today that 99 persor i- were known dead and others sti ie missing in Hamburg after the Bril is ish bombing raid Sunday night. 11 The number of injured was sai e. to be large. [y "The raid was a major one i d which high explosive and incendiar 1- bombs were dropped, however, a! in most exclusively on residential se< )0 tions, causing destruction and darr age to buildings," officials wer 3- quoted as saying. "Fires which brok it out were all extinguished in th ig course of the night of the raid." ;d (The RAF announced that 4,00( le .pound explosives and more tha i- 175,000 incendiaries were droppe on Hamburg in a raid which returr js ing pilots compared in effectivene: in to the 1,000-plane battering c of Bremen last month. The Britis 15 said they lost 29 bombers and di :u scribed this as well under the fi\ per cent of the total engaged?ind eating that the striking fore amounted to at least 600 planes.) e Roosevelt Urges Natioi as To Save Scrap Material at re Washington, July 28.?Warnin tit that many shortages direetiy affec ;s. ing the people lie ahead, Presidei e- Roosevelt today made a general a] le peal for the fullest possible co-opt h- ration in the coming scrap salvaj te drive. ill He asked that cellars, attics an is backyards be ransacked for o! metal, rubber and rags and th; lie waste fats be turned in at me; ig. markets. And in case of doul whether a particular article wou be of help to the war effort, he sa the citizen should assume it wt f needed, adding that it probably wa The people generally realize tl in seriousness of the situation, M th Roosevelt said at a press conferenc he but as yet it has made no impa y- upon the lives of many individual in. The scrap salvage drive he regardt Ir. as a test and an opportunity f ia- them to take a personal part in tl war effort. UGA Vewspa per-Establishec AT AUG A COUNTY, NORTH CAR I HORSE SHOW WILL START FRIDAY Feature Event at Blowing Rock Draws Record List of Entries This Year The feature event of the Blowing Rock season, the annual horse show, will be held Friday and Saturday. There will be three performances, the first Friday at 2 p. m? the second Saturday at 10 a. m.. and the third Saturday at 2 p. m. The Horse Show breakfast will be held at the Mayview Manor at 12 noon on Saturday. The horse show ball will be held at the Country Club Saturday even-j ' h : l T*r: i u:_ | me Willi IVAIUIlatei ** ISC HI1U JUS UJ(chcstra furnishing the music. Lloyd Tate, vice-president of the tiorse show association and director of the show, said the list of entries is the largest ever recorded, including horses from Georgia, Kentucky, Virginia, North and South Carolina. The stables at the horse show grounds, the ring, and outside jumping course are bing put in the best of condition for the show. It is stated that more than 100 1 horses will be exhibited in the show. \ The usual large delegation from Camp Yonahlossee will be oil hand to give exhibitions of skilled riding n and mass horsemanship. Mrs. James Ray Dies After Long Illness n Mrs. James G. Ray died Sunday evening at Watauga hospital, after e a long period of failing health. Mrs. l" Ray, however, had been seriously ls ill for only about two weeks. She ? was 60 years old. Funeral services were conducted Tuesday at 11 a. m. from the chapel of the Reins-Sturdivant Funeral n Home by Dr. J. D. Rankin and Dr. E. K. McLarty, and interment was l" in the Ray family cemetery. Pallbearers were Robert Sherrill, L* I Waller Edmisten. J. C. Goodniaht. !' Frank V/yke, A. J. Edmister., Howard Brookshire, I. T. Barnett. The l" flower girls were neighbors and IS friends of the family. e Surviving are the husband, one son and one daughter: James Ray, n Jr., of Boone, and Mrs. J. C. Folger of Henderson, N. C. Five sisters ? also survive: Mrs. Eddie Johnson, Boone; Mrs. Joe Pearson, Moravian . Falls; Mrs. Roscoe Little, Roanoke, Va.; Mrs. John Downs, Douglas, n Wyo., and Mrs. Ethel Stone, Dalton, Ga. Mrs. Ray was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Kerley of Blowing Rock, and had lived near Boone since her marriage in 1913. She had been a member of Three n Forks Baptist church since childly hood, was a devout Christian woman, a generous neighbor and friend, and was extremely popular with her acquaintances> ; DEMOCRATS TO MEET AUGUST 15 I e t e Year's First Nminating Convene tion Announced, Together j Precinct Meetings n d The Democrats of Watauga county have* hppn rnllpil In min nnminat is I ing convention at ihe courthouse in >? ] Boone on Saturday. August 15, at 2 h j p. m., by Rob. Rivers, chairman of j the Democratic executive committee 'e for the purpose of naming candii dates for county offices, for the e house of representatives, and for the state senate. Precinct chairmen are asked to j hold meetings on the afternoon of the 14th at 2 o'clock to name deleS gates to the county convention. The townships of the county have ig convention votes as indicated here: t- Bald Mountain, 3; Beaver Dam. 13, it Blowing Rock, 11; Blue Ridge, 3; 3- Boone, 53; Cove Creek 18; Elk, 1; 5- Laurel Creek, 12; Meat Camp No. 1, ;e 11; Meat Camp No. 2, 2; North Fork, 1; Shawneehaw, 4; Stony Fork, 6; id Watauga, 10. Id at Red Cross Workers Are at t>t Asked to Report-for Duty Id 'd Mrs. Mae Miller, chairman of the as production committee of the Watis. auga chapter, American Red Cross, te asks those who signed up to dc Ir. work in the Red Cross sewing room, e, to report for duty at the hours they ct suggested on the cards, as there will is. .be no individual notification to ap:d pear. or The sewing room is located in the ae building formerly occupied by the Watauga Democrat. DEMC i in the Year Eighteen I OLINA, THURSDAY, JULY 30. IS U. S. Forces Blast J iH ' N.W.N.S. 19 This photograph, made from a U. transport burning in Kiska harbor, ii bor had just been bombed by U. S. e to blast the enemy from this foothol in the harbor. NOAH WINKLER " TAKEN BY DEATH | One of County's Oldest Citizens ' Succumbs to Long Illness; Was 94 Years Old ''Upcle" Noah Winkler. 94. one of Watauga county's oldest citizens, died Saturday after a long illness. Several weeks ago Mr. Winkler came from Caldwell county to the home of a daughter, Mrs. Z. T. Greene in Boone, where he could be near homcfolks, and since that time his condition never appreciably improved. Funeral services were conducted Mfmday afternoon from the Poplar Grove Baptist church, by Rev. Geo. Trivette. Rev. J. C. Canipe and Rev. R. C. Eggers, and burial was in the Piney Grove cemetery in the Shulls Mills section. Surviving are five sons and three daughters: Prof W. I,. Winkler of Boone and Nashville, N. C.; T. W. Winkler, Warrenton, Va.; J. H. J Winkler, Blowing Rock; J. P. Winkler, Lenoir; George W. Winkler, Canton, Ohio: Mrs. Elijah Reid, Blowing Rock; Mrs. Z. T. Greene, Boone, and Mrs. W. F. Winkler, Valle Crucis. ^ Mr. Winkler was horn in Caldwell county in 1848. He came to Watauga county in 1874 and resided here until 1911, when he returned to Caldwell county. He had been a faithful and consistent member of ^ the Baptist church for 74 years, and was one of the very best citizens of t this section. Orphans Home Class c To Sing at Cove Creek J !f The singing class from the Ox-1 g ford Orphanage will appear in a j concert of songs, dialogues, etc., at the Cove Creek high school on Au-' ^ gust 6, at 8 p. m., under the aus-! Q pices of Snow Lodge, No. 363, A. F. & A. M. ? There are 14 children on the annual tour, and the program for this; ? year is said to be one of the best: j. ever presented by the orphanage, i t The proceeds for the entertainment, j s to which the public is invited, will' t go to the benefit of the Oxford Orphanage. { GERMANS FEAR SERIOUS ! FOOD SITUATION NEAR , Washington. July 28.-?The office ] of war information reported today , that Heinrich Himmler, chief of the German gestapo, had moved in on > the Nazi food administration. This step, the OWI said, followed reports in German newspapers that a food shortage was feared, and that imported Polish and Ukranian farm laborers were sabotaging German * ' agriculture. i A broadcast by radio Berlin, pick- 1 ed up by the federal communications 1 commission, announced appointment ' of two high-ranking officials of ; Himmler's organization to key po- i sitions in the food administration. OWI said. < , NOTICE TO FURLOUGHED MEN ; i Reservists or men on furlough, ; , who fail to report for other than i ' unavoidable cause at the end of ; I their furlough must pay their own i expenses to their reception center at Fort Bragg, Fort Jackson or ; j wherever it may be located, accord- 1 ; ing to information given out by the 1 I local selective service board. -::v' ~llpr )C1 lundred a/| . Eight; M2 ap Aleutiai * iase S. navy plane, shows a Japanese 1 the Aleutian islands. The harirmy planes in one of the efforts d. Other Jap ships can be seen Aged Lady Dies |k \ ja&Jmr flUk* ~ W Mrs. Mary Shell Cook, who die< at the home in Beaver Dam town ship at the age of 84 years. Wrs. J. M. Cook Dies At Beaver Dam Horn Mrs. Marv f.nnlr i\at?r\ l ears, died at the home in Beav lam township last Friday, at uneral services were conductf rorn the Beaver Dam B a p t i: hurch Saturday afternoon by tl lastor. Rev. W. D. Ashley, who w ssisted in the rites by Rev. Geori Westmoreland of Elizabethton, Teni nd Rev. J. C. Canipe of Boone. I erment was in the family cemeter Surviving are the husband, J. I look, two sons and four daughtci latter Cook, Elizabethton, Tent Palter L. Cook, Boone; Mrs. Ren: Pard. Mrs. Oscar Ward. Mrs. Uri; 'arthing and Mrs. Eminet Hagama lugar Grove. Mrs. Cook was a good, faithf zife and a true devoted mothc aving reared six fine children, i f whom are good citizens and d oted Christians. She was a titer ier of Bethel Baptist church f round sixty years. Her Christii haracter and outstanding service ier home community lingers lil he glory of the setting sun, givii i twilight of beauty and sweetne o all she left behind. To her husband, her children at jrandchildren and all who knew h ihe left not an inheritance of cc uptible things but a character and ife and a Christian example that ncorruptible, undefiled and th adeth not away, kept in heaven 1 Youths Wanted For NYA Training Centei Mrs. Clara P. Simpson, NYA i terviewer, states that there is growing need for both girls and bo between the ages of 17 and 25, i he defense training courses. I those interested may see Mrs. Sim son at the courthouse on Monda; Fridays and Saturdays of each wet The defense training centers a offering courses in electric weldii sheet metal work, radio, machi shop, ship carpentry, electric aviation assembly work, and genei mechanical courses. All expenr ire paid and a salary while trai ing. Although civilian building I seen halted, war construction booming at the rate of 1214 billi a year. lT y-Eight $1.50 A YEAR " 349 REGISTER AS - NEW TERM OPENS AT APPALACHIAN Second Summer Term is Well Attended. States Registrar; Summer Courses End 011 28th; Regular Fall Term Starts September 2 Three hundred and fortv-nir.e teachers have been enrolled as students in the second summer term of Appalachian State Teachers College, which started last week, according to the records of Prof. H. R. Eggers, the registrar, who states that in view of war conditions, the enrollment is considerably ahead of expectations. Four hundred and fortyfour were registered for the first summer term. In the new term, it is pointed out, there is a greater percentage of the iirst term enrollment than ever, about 80%, whereas the second term ordinarily attracts only about 67% as many as the first. Further, it is (stated, that there are as many fulltime graduate students in the second term as the first. - The regular fall term of college will begin with the arrival of freshmen on September 2, while the upperclassmen will come in on the 8th. twiuciais ai mc college are very I hopeful for the fall enrollment, and information is that 700 to 750 will be enrolled this winter. Prof, and Mrs. Greer To Appear in Concert Prof, and Mrs. I. G. Greer will appear in a program of folk songs, with dulcimer accompaniment. Saturday evening, August 1, at 8:30 o'clock in the Appalachian College auditorium. Prof. Greer will also speak at the Baptist church Sunday morning. Prof, and Mrs. Greer, who are natives of Watauga county, are now directors of the . Mills Home at Thomasville. For many years he was a member of the faculty of Appalachian College, and many previous concerts in which he and Mrs. 1 Greer appeared, are happy memo" ries in Boone. The local appearance of Mr. and Mrs. Greer is under the joint sponsorship of the music and art department of the Woman's Worth While q Club and Appalachian College. 34 Dr. Harmon Gets His Commission in Army id ^ Dr. R. H. Harmon, popular local 5' physician, who almost a month ago 16 volunteere d his services to the as army, and was commissioned a cap?e tain in the medical corps, has not uvv.il vvilicvi IVJ atlivc UUIJ Dr. Harmon is carrying on hLs -v usual practice during the interim, and will continue to do so until s: further orders reach him. l.; z? NAZIS NEED ARMS FOR DRIVE lh IN 1943, NEWSPAPER SAYS New York, July 25.?The Cologne newspaper Deutscher Volkswirt has u' emphasized that Germany needs :r> arms "for an unlimited period of ''1 war and above all for the 1943 spring e" offensive," the London radio said in n" a German-language broadcast today. or m 2 Watauga td llsf Men With Ir^S The Colors is I at | Clyde J. Love, son of Dr. and Mrs. or | N. J. Love of Sugar Grove, has recently been promoted to corporal in the XT. S. army. He is now stationed at Camp Cooke, Lompac, Calif., where he is in the 705th tank deTS stroyer battalion. Visits Parents n- Mr. Cline Walker, U. S. army, a Camp Caffey, Ark., left Sunday aftys er visiting for a few days with his or parents. Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Walker, U1 at Vilas. p- Visits at Rorainger ys, CpL Ronald C. Rominger, an air;k. plane mechanic in 41st bomber ire squadron, Westover Field, Mass., lg, spent last week with his parents, ne Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Rominger, at al, Rominger. ral Has Furlough ies Howell Edmisten, yeoman third in- class, U. S. navy, left Wednesday after spending a ten-day furlough with his parents. Rev. and Mrs. D. las M. Edmisten, of Sugar Grove. Mr. is Edmisten, who-has been in the navy on for 16 months, is a member of the crew of the destroyer McDougaL
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