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"M32BF xx VIITED STATES ^ A WAR m/V OMDS Y Y STAMPS * T H|l* VOLUME LVL?NO. 6. * OPENINGDATiARE SET F 0 R COUNTY SCHOOLS First State-Supported 9-Monlhs Term to Start August 30th and End May 12; No Thanksgiving and Easter Vacations Allowed During Coming Term. The Watauga county schools will be opened for their first state-supported nine-months term August 30th and will ciosc May 12, 1044. Superintendent S. F. Horton announced today. The Christmas holidays will last eight days, beginning December 24 but there will be no Thanksgiving or caisier vacations. Principals of the eight consolidated schools of the county are as foi- j lows: ] Boone, Herbert TV. Wey. . Cove Creek. Paul TV. Bingham. ) Bethel, Grady E. Tester. ] Blowing Rock. A. Frank Hamrick. _ Green Valley. Arlie E. Moretz. Deep Gap, Mrs. Ola T. Thompson, t Valle Crucis, Mrs. Dessie T. Ed- I m is ten. Mabel. Russell Henson. A few teaching vacancies remain to be filled. A complete list of the teachers will be announced later. L Mr. Horton said. Liorts Club In Regular Session Tuesday Evening n? The Boone Lions Club met in reg- ~ ular session at the Daniei Boone Ho- . tel Tuesday evening, the program j being in charge of the Education g| Committee. .. In his capacity as chairman of that " committee. Dr. W. Amos Abrams, ^ Governor of District 31-A, spoke on 'The Past. Present and Future of ^ Lionism." Having returned recently from the rf International Convention of Lions " Clubs, Cleveland, Ohio, Dr. Abrams t spoke with vigor of the fine work j being done by Lions Clubs in the Ja fourteen allied nations in which the tJ, clubs are working. Boone Lions were tQ proud to learn that District 31-A, of t-( whir?h RrviMP !c n mpmbor of 5 of the 114 districts in the Unit- ^ ed States with one hundred per cent rating for punctuality in reports. He (ll congratulated Boone and the district. Reviewing the fine work of the te Boone Club for the past year. Dr. tj( Abrams pointed out that the 112 chil- ^ dren have been examined for defee- cj. live vision and seventy-six fitted with glasses. Kight crippled chil- j dren's clinics were sponsored, at which examinations were made casts applied, and where necessary chil dren were taken to a hospital in q Charlottc for operative work. Forums were held during the winter. , The Lion-sponsored minstrel, held r in ApriJ, raised $130 for the milk fund, the high school band, and sight conservation. In ttie bond drive, a part of the minstrel program, $23,000 worth of war bonds were soid, re Br. Abrams pointed out. fl; Ex-Governor Wesley W. Brown, a Asheville, was introduced by his sue 2C cessor, Dr. Abrams. Lion Brown spoke on the scope of Lionism as a dE force for good in the nations of the a vforld. "As long as we have civic ar clUbs like Lions Clubs, Rotary, Ki- bj warns, and the American Legion in in this country," he said, "no one like tl; Hitler can get the upper hand in our Tl government.'' Mr. Brown expressed wi confidence in Dr. Abrams as his successor as president of 31-A. St After his speech, Mr. Brown pre- su sented President Ray Manship with 00 the banner for the home club of the ]a district governor. The banner will ai remain in the possession of the Boone at Club for three months, at the end of th which time it will be presented to w the home club of Dr. Abrams' succes- tli sor. tu Pvt. Councill Cooke, a charter sq member of the Boone Lions Club, sp now stationed in New Orleans, La., with the Army Medical Corps, was V a visitor. He expressed his appreciation of the fine work done by the club during his absence. Dr. A. P. Kephart asked permission to be continued as a member of the club during his anticipated ab- " sence for a major portion of the " year. The club bids him Godspeed ? and hopes he will attend the meet ings at every opportunity. tr HUGE POTATOES th Rev. Tipton Greens brings to the Democrat two huge Sequoia potatoes p. which he grew in Appalachian College gardens, one of which weighs slightly more than 1% pounds. Mr. Greene also has spjendid luck with snap beans, as $240 worth of beans have already been sold from a half sj acre planting. ^ Apprentice Seaman James Barnes jjj has completed his boot training and is spending his furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Barnes. TATAl An Indepc BOONE, WAT Premier of Italy ^ 0 were killed in Humburg before st night in the most concentrated r raids in history, frankly aiming ce: blotting Europe's greatest port off be e map. The estimate was regarded an ith skepticism in London, although th e air ministry has said that vir- ty ally every part of Hamburg's 50 an iuare miles has been pocked with de irawling ruins. of - ? anks, British, Crack Mount Etna Defenses in in American and British troops have ot acked the enemy's Mount Etna te at two points and are surging rward to draw a ring of steel arind Sicily's volcanic bastion where any German troops now face en- . apment. ni The crushing American attack 101 rew back the whole German nor- !5' ern flank. Lieut. Gen. George S. itton's seventh army accupied Troa yesterday, it was disclosed and 1 illed on to within 40 miles of the pl ist coast behind Catania. ^-c By breaking through along the roina-Taormina road on the north . de of Mount Etna, the Americans ireatenea the German positions on , ie western slopes of the volcano eluding those at Bronte. , : ba BUY WAR BONDS be Marshal Pietro Badoglio. appoin- >jn led by King Victor Emmanuel as n, Premier of Italy, at Benito Mus- C| tolini's sudden demise. Badoglio is (ji mown to oppose the principles of ;n fascism. M ;reenemayget s OI state jr. office c M ocal Fraternal Leader Candi- jj date for Office Vice- \v Councilor. Jr. Order. M C. Daniel Boone Council, No. 129, Ju- 1 ir Order United American Mechan- ln s. lias announced the candidacy of lyde R. Greene of this city for the ^ fice of State Councilor at the Jun r Order Cnvention to be held at tielby, N. C., Tuesday and Wednes- 111 ly. August l7-.l8th, {=,' Mr. Greene is a charter member of aniel Boone Council which was or- ^ 1 ink'.ed August 26, 1926. He has ser- Io *d his Council as Chaplain, Cor- "J isponding Secretary, Financial Sec- " itary. Councilor and Past Cotmcil and served several terms as Dis ict Deputy of District Three, which || composed of Mitchell, Avery, Wa- M uga and Yancey Counties. When le Stale Council took the Lexingin 'Orphanage over from the Naonal Council, Mr. Greene was el:ted a member of the Board of W rustees of this institution from the lird district and is still serving in is capacity. Mr. Greene is active in other frarnal, business and civic organizeins, being a Mason and at present est Vice-President of the N. C. Mer- j [ants Association. He is a member the Baptist Church and is Clerk the Three Forks Association. W( Reports coming from different jjj ctions of the slate indicate much terest in the candidacy of Mr. cj, reene, and point to his election. Iamburg in Continued ar Baptism Of Fire de oi British bombers in great strength -kindled fires Monday night in a* iming and desolate Hamburg where Danish consular official estimated 10,000 Germans lay dead. eo It was the ninth allied raid in ten c lys and the air ministry said that ^ great weight of high explosives, id incindiary bombs were dropped hc r the vast avenging armada, strikg through smoke-laden clouds, par- m f obscuring the fresh destruction. co tirty bombers and two fighters ere lost. , A correspondent of Aftonbladet of V ockholm quoted the Danish con- p lar official as estimating that 20(1.- vj convenience and unnecessary use ? time, gasoline and tires. t i DCAL SCOUT TROOP IN 1 REGULAR WEEKLY SESSION ( le local Scout troop met Monday j ght in their regular weekly sess- r n. Those present were: Scoutmas- t c B. W. Stallings, Fred Miller, W. c York, Fred Councill, Johnnie 1 juncill. Buck Robbins. Bill Aldrich, r rady Moretz, Donald Warman. The c ans were made for a camping trip 1 xt Monday. All Scouts who wish i go should meet in front of the r iptist Church at 4:00 o'clock, brin- < ng provisions for supper with them s lose who wish to stay overnight i ould bring with them enough food r breakfast. There will be a softill game in the afternoon, and oth- 1 entertainment after supper. Any 1 >y who wishes may go. i JGA indent Weekly Newspap AUGA COUNTY. NORTH CAR HATE OPATO HOLD MEETING IN BOONE AUG. 17-20 ollcges and Universities Of the State To Be Represented at Conference to Be Held at Appalachian College: To Arrive at Better Understanding OPA. Dr. B. B. Dougherty, president of ppalachian State Teachers college, is invited the State Office of Price iministration to hold the state-wide inference of representatives of the illeges and Universities of North arolina at Appalachian College on ugust 17 to Aug. 20 The conference is called by the ate office of price administration l order that some definite plans ight be worked out for college co deration with the government in ringing about a better understandg of the war emergency program iministered by OPA. Officials have (pressed the hope that out of the inference will come a manual suible for college use similar to the te done by W. M. Grubbs of Apilachiati State Teachers College , st year. Among those or. the program arc: rs. Ilutii V. Everett, information vision, OPA: Miss Margaret Edards. Women's College; Dean J. . Goddard. Queens College; B. G. 1 hilds, Duke University; Dr. J. lien- i ' Highsmith, director, division of i istructional service; Mrs. Gny 13. JI lhnson, member Orange county i I ar price and rationing board; Dr. i Carson, Ryan, University of , orth Carolina; Mrs. E. N. Hotvell, t eld worker. North Carolina con- i ess of parents and teachers; Mrs. S. Johnson, state director OPA, i r. Julian Miller, editor of the Char- ! tte Observer; Dr. James E. Hill- i an, secretary of the North Carola college conference; and W. M. 1 rubbs of Appalachian College. ( lEVF.C, WATTS | DIES AT PURLEAB ilke.-; County Minister. Well Known j in Watauga. Dies After a f Long Illness. 1 7 Rev. Fin ley C. Watts, aged 49, one \ northwestern North Carolina's t st known Baptist ministers, and s ho had held pastorates in Watauga junty, died at the home at Purlear, c ilkes county, on Tuesday of last i ;ek. after having been critically c for the past several weeks. r During his ministerial career in- J Lidir.g a quarter of a century, Mr. ? aits had served churches in Wilkes t id surrounding counties, and was 1 l outstanding leader in the Baptist ' momination. t He was born April 23, 1394, a son J the late Manley Watts and Mrs. i lice Yates Waits of Purlear. He ? tended the public schools of Wilkes .d Boone High School. He entered ? e ministry 25 years ago and preach- 1 I his first, sermon at his home lurch, New Hope, near the late I sidence. His last sermon was at < lrlcar Baptist church, also in the (me community April 11, 1943. Among the churches the deceased inister had served in Watauga unty were: Three Forks, Middle (Continued on oaee eicrht I accinatiom At Health i ffice Three Days Week ] t The Health Department announ- c s that Dr. King or Mrs. Jones will ? 1 in the office on Monday, Friday, \ d Saturday of each week between t e hours of 9:00 and 12:00 to give ? phoid and small pox vaccinations 1 d diptheria immunizations. In or- j r to carry on the other activities t the Health Department it is im- i >ssible for the Doctor and nurse \ remain in the office every day. i patients will come on the morn- t gs specified it will prevent much 1 DEM< er?Established in the Ye OLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 5 Benito Out?-N. ^ New York's ".Little Italy" went Mussolini had been ousted from the family is pictured on the fire escape picture of President Roosevelt on If PROSPECTS GOOD jl FOR HORSE SHOW | Annual Event nt Blaiving Rock ^ Friday and Saturday: Many Entries. The twentieth annual horse show, :he high-spot of the summer season g .vill be held or. Friday and Salur- ' lay of this week, and despite the n ravel restrictions, many entries n lave been received, and Manager L. I VI. Tate predicts the show will draw ti i splendid attendant:, and be the 4 :qual in every way of former exhibitions. g Performances wiil be at 2:00 p. m. If Friday; 10:00 a. m. and 2:00 p. m. v Saturday, and horses will be exhib- v ted in 32 different classifications, ji Mr. H. I.. Woodward, Jr., of Suf- p !olk, Va., will be the judge of hunt- F :rs, junipers, saddle horses and equi- ti ation. f, Program On Sweden l( At College Saturday |s u SI Miss Edja Stenwall and her mother n ilrs. Ru. .i Rhode Stenwall will give t| i program on Sweden at the Appa- n achian College on Saturday August () at 8:30. The program will be some- sl vhat '.ike the one of a year ago, and vill feature Sweden in song and ^ tory. There is no admission charge. a Miss Ster.well who is a soprano, It oncert and church soloist, was born Cl n Gotemburg, Sweden, and has stulied under the leading teachers of nusic both in America and abroad. 5he performed for the late Madame J ichumann-Hhinck, and has sung over he leading radio stations and perormed at the opening of radio staion WJAX in Jacksonville, Fia., vhere they now make their home, j, :he will apear in the Swedish natonal costume and sing some of Mrs. Stenwell's own compositins. Mrs. Stenwall is a mezzo-soprano md composer. She has been in pub- -n ic life for 60 years. s Dr. C. M. Stenwall will also ap- j3 rear with his mother and sister in i trio arrangement. ^ Employment Service c Recruits Local Labor ? For the past two weeks, Mr. Dav- | g d S. Gray, Jr., representative of the o Smployment Service, has been in Watauga County recruiting labor. A j lumber of people who have contact- * id him at the different points in the :ounty have been referred to local md defense jobs. It is very essential vhen one considers changing jobs, hat Mr. Gray is contacted regarding b i statement of availability. It is also jc letter to contact him for advice onlil obs in different areas to be certain flv hat your highest skill is being ulil- w zed in the war effort. A number of vorkers contacted this week have ai- a eady gone to defense jobs and oth- ir ;rs will leave before the week is out. ii ?or people who are not able to go r< iway from home to do war work, b here are local openings. Anyone not h low working full time or at their n lighest skill, is urged to contact Mr. o Sray. p The following is a list of typical ti ob openings: auditor, design engi- b leer, mechanical engineer, instrucors of vocational training, nurses, a iraftsmen. clerical workers, salema- ti ter, printer, shoe repairman, instrunent maker, metal workers, electri- I lians, shipfitter. carpenters, painters, >ridge-crane operator, mechanics, adio and all electric appliance servicemen, rivet heater structural steel tl lesigner, laborers, tenant farmers, tl ;ales clerk, and beauty operator trai- h lees. o ti Private B. P. Love of Camp Lee, li /a., is spending his furlough with t lis mother, Mrs. L. R. Love, and e riends in Boone. o )CRA :ar 1 888. . 1943. r. Italians Cheer wild wiih joy at the news thai Italian government. This jubilant balcony outside their flat with a | >e balcony. >olly pitcher i day saturday! Var Saviugs Event Honors tiic; Wife of Revolutionary War Soldier. The War Savings Staff in Watau;a county has designated Saturday I fugust 7th as Polly Pitcher Day: owever due to the tact, that the an -, mal horse show will be held in j Slowing Rock August dth and 7th. hat town has chosen Wednesday the | th ;is Polly Pitcher. This special War Bond promotion !, ets its name from the wife of ai| Revolutionary war hero, wiio carried :ater to the soldiers, even to the ery front lute. The soldiers often iquiring "Where is Polly with the itcher," finally dubbed tlio patriot oily Pitcher, and finally died in the lick of the fray. The war saving staff gives out the silencing statement: "A great deal of money is ahsolu:ly necessary to carry on a war ot ush great magnitude as that in hich we are now engaged. The maucsi sum assumes importance ti lultiplied by thousands, for consider tat our vast armies are made up tan by mart. In a combined unity f men and materials lies our rengt.h. "On August 7th everyone who ays a stamp or bond will be given Polly Pitcher tag to wear. Each tan, woman and child in Watauga aunty will consider it a privilege > wear one of.these tags." ^oted Soprano Is To Appear Here Sunday Appalachian State Teachers Col- i ?ge is presenting Mntc. Maria Kusa, soprano, on Sunday atiornoon, Lugust 8, at three o'clock. Mme. Hussa is a distinguished Euopean soprano, who has captured er American Audiences wherever he lias appeared. She was a merner of the State Opera in Berlin for wo years and in Hamburg for six ears, for five seasons a guest artist t the Gran Theatro Lyceo, in Bar elona. She was decorated by the Lmeriean and Czechcslavak Governlents for her vocal art. The public is invited to be the uests of the college at the recital f this distinguished soprano. rirst Auction Sale Of Means is Held Here The first auction sales of snap cans ever to be held in Boone, were (inducted Monday evening from the ippalachian Produce X-change on Iain Street, and a capacity business ] ras done. Eight buyers were present for the I uction, which lasted until 1:30 a. ! 1. and farmers are reported as be- i rg well pleased with the prices j sceived for their beans. There will e auction sales at the new warcouse opposite the courthouse every ight starting at 7 o'clock, and later n. auction sales of cabbage are romised. The X-change buys everyling the farmer has, in addition to eans and cabbage. The new warehouse is 30x25 feet nd has been the scene of much acvity since it was opened last week. IEW IMPROVEMENTS AT THE COUNTY LIBRARY; New shelving is being installed in he county library and because of his work and the incidental paintng, it has been impossible to send ut the books to the different sec uui 01 me county as planned, rne ibrarian, Mrs. Ingle, states however, hat as soon as this work is finishd the books will be promptly sent ut $1.50 A YEAR?5c A COPY \RSENTEE BALLOTS |HK MISSING FROM %'JRT HOUSE FILES St ^ ^nvcstigators Seek to Det .-.ne Identilv of Person Who Removed Transom Glass and Pillaged File of County Board of Elections. Agents from the Stat-.* Bureau of Investigation have been called to Boone to fry io ascertain the identity of the person or persons who entered the office of the county tax assessor, and took awav approximately t>59 absentee ballots from a file used by the County Board of Elections last November. Last Friday morning Mr. Paul Coffey noted that the transom glass was removed from the door of his office, and failing to find anything missing called Mr R. T. Greer. Elections Board Chairman, to iook over the filing case of the board in the adjoining of! ice to determine ii anvil ing had been molested. They found one drawer to the filing cabinet open and all of the absentee ballots cast in the last general election missing. No other property in either of the offices was missing. Investigators have taken fingerprints from the transom glass and every effoit is being made to appre hend the persons entering the bunding. On Sunday morning Mr. Earl Cook county lax collector, noticed that a window on the front of the courthouse was open. A screw had beer, taken from the handle of the safe door in his office, but nothing was missing. FATHERSFACE DRAFT OCTOBER 1 Number of Dependents Is i? Be Disregarded in Enlarging War Machine. Washington, August 2.?War Manpower Commissioner Haul V MeNuit announced tonight that beginning October 1 pre-Pearl Iiarbor fathers 18 through 37 will l>e subject, to induction into the armed forces "withut distinction regarding the number or ages of their children. He stressed that the decision to tap the pool of G,559,000 class 3-A registrants tprc Pearl Harbor fathers hitherto deferred for dependency reasons only) did not mean abolition of the 3-A classification. Men will be reclassified out of that group only as needed to meet demands of local hoards, hie said. Two Conditions. The WMC directive under which ocal draft boards are being instructed to start reclassifying fathers set forth only two conditions, as a posible basis for deferment: 1. Fathers who art key men in agriculture or essential industry. 2. Fathers whose induction would cause extreme hardship and privation to their families. McNutt explained that "we have eacht-d the point at which we cannot supply the men needed by the army, navy, marine corps and coast guard and keep war production adequately manned exceDt bv removing the bars to the induction of fathers." "We have delayed calling fathers for military service as long as has been possible," he said. Invasion Forces Reach Edge of Rig Jap Base The east end of the Jap air base of Munda on New Georgia Island has been reached by hard-fighting United States invasion forces in their yard-by-yard battle against cave-entrenched enemy jungle defenders, it was announced today. The slow progress against the keyobjective of the Central Solomons ampaign was a part of the general idvar.ce, the second such reported in is many days. Yesterday's communique had toid of advances of from 00 to 1,200 yards which placed the Americans in some instances withn 700 yards of the bitterly defend.d air strip. At the other end of the battlefront in the Pacific, allied planes in the New Guinea-New Britain sector destroyed or damaged 29 barges, bringing to nearly 200 the number of such supply boats of the enemy wrecked n the past 10 days, and one bomber scored a bomb hit at night on an enemy ship, believed to have been a destroyer, in Dampier strait. MATERNITY, INFANCY CLINICS The Health Department will conduct the maternity and infancy clinc at Bethel Monday August 9th at 2:30 p. m. All expectant mothers and babies are invited to attend.
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