lOM XT UMiTEO STATES m M war %/m BONDS V 1 STAMPS U|l' VOL. LVI- -NO. 7. GOV. BROUGHTOlT* AND FIRST LADY AT BLOWING ROCK Governor and Wife Being Entertained by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cannon: Open House Saturday; Other News of the Blowing Rock Community. Blowing Rock. August 7.?Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Canr.on will hold open house for Governor and Mrs. J. Melville Brougbton at their summer home, "The Sutnmul," Saturday evening August 14, 5 to 7 o'clock. Residents of the summer colony as well as all the people of Watauga county are invited to come and meet Governor and Mrs. Broughton. At the morning worship service of Rumple Memorial Church on August 15th, the guest speaker will he Governor Broughton who has long been active in religious circles. For many years he has been a teacher of a men's Bible class in Raleigh. Lieut, and Mrs. L. A. Kirkland have arrived from Camden S C. and aro staying at Walker Lodge, Lt. Kirklnnd is a bombardier, and has just returned from a war area. Allan Klultz, A. S.. son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Klutz, and Tommy Keys. A. S. son of Rev. and Mrs. Walter K. Keys, have arrived from the U. S. Naval training station at Bainbridge, Md.. where they have just finished their boot training. They will be in Blowing Rock for a week. Miss Margaret Kephart, who is employed by the British Ministry of Supply. Washington, D. C.. has been visiting her parents. Dr. and Mrs. A. P. Kephart at Camp Yonahlossee for two weeks. Dr. A. P. Kephart's sister, Mrs. Pearl K. Srftvtell. of Portland, Oregon, is a visitor at Camp Yonahlossee. as is Mrs. Kephart's mother. Mrs. W. H. Dill, of Myersdale, Pa. Mrs. J. O. Cobb of Durham has .taken the place of Mrs. Cecilia B. Barnett of Augusta, Ga., who was hostess at Camp Yonahlossee for the first part of the current season. The following Flora McDonald college girls are attending the summer school at the Appalachian State Teachers College: Marion Banning Hiers, of Orangeburg, S. C? Helen Price of Salisbury, Ruth Manning Forbes of Dunn; Frances Williamson of Turkey; Carolyn Klusmeier of Charlotte and Hele:: Burch of Boone. One day last week they had as dinner guest Dr. C. G. Vardell of Blowing Rock, president emeritus of Flora McDonald; Glenn Hiers and Manning Hiers of Orangeburg, S. C. Polly Pitcher Tag Day Rnrirl Salp-c Are SQRft The Poily Pitcher Tag Day was a success, the amount of stamps and bonds sold being $950.00 according to incomplete reports. Mrs. Gordon Winkler is the chairman of the Minute Maids, who were in charge of the sale of bonds and stamps. The names of the members of the organization follow: Betty Ellis, Betty Ruth Winkler, Maxine Bradley, Ruth Farthing, Rachel Tucker, Henrietta Woodall, Carolyn Miller, Beverly Townsend, Thelma Farthing, Rosalind Page, Bettie Davis, Margaret Gould, Katherine Smith, Anna Von Oesen, Rachel Vance, Kate Yount, Mary Lee Stout, Ann Smith, Betsy Mae Coffey, Mary Marsh, Jane Taylor, Hazel Hawkins, Jean "Wilson, Mary Alice Moretz, Marbeth Winkler, Mary Katherine Wilson, Kathleen Gragg. Pages: Eleanor Geer, Estelle Grubbs, Isabelle Eggers, Reba Ann Smith, Rebecca Moose. Assistants to the Minute Maids are Mesdames Fred Winkler, Mrs. Charlie Osborne, Mrs. Theodore Greer, Mrs. Pearl Hartley, Mrs. Charles Yount, Mis. Wiley Hartzog, and Mrs M. R. Maddux . The August quota of bond sales for Watauga County is $24,000, one third of this amount to be subscribed in bonds of F and G denomination, the balance in series E, says j.Yii-s. u. a. w. uavis, cnairman 01 tne woman's division, local war savings staff. Wednesday Store Closing Ends On 18th The stores of the city, which observed a holiday each Wednesday I afternoon during the summer, will I close for the last time for the year on August 18, states Mr. Guy Hunt President of the Retail Merchants association. After that dale, says Mr, Hunt, the stores will be open for business Wednesday afternoons as usual. *>-4>i 1j ir~D i> ij 1 IATAI An Indep< BOONE, WA*] At Blowing Rock J Governor J. M. Brougliion, who with Mrs. Broughton are spending several days at Blowing Hock as guests ot Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Cannon. i ?1 . Jtrng.-ben. Uiarles Keerans Missing In Sicilian Battle Brigadier-General Charles Keerans. son of Mr. Charles Keerans of : Boone, the commander of an airborne division in Sicily in some 1 of the most sanguinary fighting in the victorious allied sweep across the strategically located Italian is- ' land, has officially been reported as missing. From Washington Mrs. Keerans a resident of Charlotte, has just received a telegram informing her that her husband has been miss- 1 ing since July 11, and advising her ' that further information would be furnished her as soon as details 1 could bo obtained. General Keerans, a son of Char- ' les Keerans. prominent Boone cit isen. lived at Charlotte until he ' began to acquire his higher educa- ' tiorv. first, at Virginia Military In- 1 stUute. Lexington. Va.. then at the United Stales Military Academy. 1 West Point. N. Y. He has served in- ! termitently in the Army since his ' graduation from West Point in the * early iwenties. ( After a slay of about one and a ' half years at Fort Bragg, General ' Keerans went overseas, and he and 1 the airborne forces under his com- ' mand reached Sicily in lime for ' the invasion. Crippled Children's Clinic Next Week Dr. John S. Gaul of Charlotte will be at the Health Office on Wednes (lay afternoon, August 18th, to hold a clinic for the crippled children of the county. All cripples in the county who desire medical attention ahe urged to attend this clinic. School Principals To Meet Next Tuesday There will be a meeting of all ' high school pud elementary principals on Tuesday August 17th, at 1 < p. m., in the auditorium of the Boone : High School, it is announced by ' County Superintendent S. F. Horton. i Dr. J. Henry Highsmith, state supervisor of high schools, will address the group and conduct a round-table discussion of the twelfth grade propram and various phases of the high school curriculum. Plans for the new school year will 1 be announced at the meeting, Supt. ' Horton stated. In North Africa Corporal John Carver, son of Mrs. Dora Carver, of Banner Elk, is now in North Africa with the American forces. JGA indent Weekly Newspap CAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAR F1NLEY H. ?r LENOIR LEADER, DIES FROM FALL Prominent Manufacturer Fatally Injured in Fall Down Basement Steps: Funeral Thursday; Deceased Had Many Relnflimc HT.H ? ? in TI tiiaugu i^uuuiy. Finloy H. Coffey, prominent Lenoir manufacturer, who had wide iamily connections in Watauga counted died in a hospital in that city ast Wednesday afternoon from iniuries sustained in a fali the preceding Sunday. Ho died without rciaining consciousness. He was 82 years old. His daughter. Miss Irene Coffey, said her father was injured when he fell six or eight steps down the basement stairs at the Dimmette house, just back of liis home. He was showing someone the house, she said when he fell. He was unconscious for 72 hours. Funeral services were conducted Thursday afternoon at 5 o'clock from the late residence, the Rev. A. A. MeClain, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, and the Rev. W. W. Rowc, Pastor of the Reformed Presbyterian church, officiating. Native of Caldwell. Mr. Coffey, who had taken a prominent part in the civic, industrial and governmental life of Lenoir for many years, was a native of Caldwell county, the son of Drury Coffey and Harriet Cailett Coffey, and attended Caldwell county schools and Boone Academy at Boone. With his associates he formed the Kent-Coffey Manufacturing Co. in 1907 and it is now one of the oldest UnH innfosl flirnitum mnmifnMiivmer concerns in the state of North Carolina. In addition to being president of he Kent-Coffey Co. he was president and director of the Union No.ionat Bank, the Union Mirror Co. ind the Blowing Rock Development Zo. He was also vice-president and iirector of the Mutual Building and Loan Association. He served three years as president. j? the Southern Manufacturers Association and was for many years a iirector of that organization; and vas on the advisory committee of the Charlotte branch of the Reconstruc:ion Finance Corporation; was chairnan of the board of the state school "or the deaf and blind at Morganton, and was chairman of the Caldwell county welfare board. Mr. Coffey served on the board of aldermen of Lenoir; as a member of the Caldwell county board of commissioners. was a representative of his county in the General Assembly ; and was chairman of the Caldwell countv draft board throughout the World" War. He was an active member of the First Presbyterian Church, a member of the Kiwanis Club and a member of the Knights of Pythias. At a dinner held July 30, 1942, he was presented a silver loving cup for tile contributions he had made to the community and to the state. In 1892 he was married to Miss Roso Freeze of Mooresville, who survives him. Also surviving him are two daughters, Miss Mabel Irene Coffey of Lenoir and Mrs. W. F. Hoyle of LinDolnton; two sons, Harold F. Coffey and Archie Coffey of Lenoir, and a brother, D. S. Coffey, of St. Paul, Minn. Job Openings Listed By Employment Service The following are some of the openings listed with the U. S. Employment service. For further information call at the courthouse between the hours of 10.00 a. m. and 12:00 noon on Friday. The Civil Service representative will also be at this point: Office manager, general office orderly and nurses aid, asylum attendant, shoe repairman, machinist, die maker, tool maker, aircraft sheet metal worker, electrician, automobile mechanic, machine fixer, learners, construction draftsment building construction laborers. tvDist. stenographers, road construction laborers. Local Bank Passes All Records For Deposits .. The Boone Branch of the Northwestern Bank on August Slh, hit a new high figure for deposits, the accounts of patrons as of that date being SI.211.000.00. says Mr. W. D. Farthing, the cashier. Deposits at the local bank arc showing a steady growth from day to day Mr. Farthing says, and the balance sheet is expected to show . an eyen higher figure hy the time j this information gets into circula- 1 iion. er?Established in the Ye OLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 1 Just Another , With his face screwed into a scow this Italian officer sits on a truck in iion to a war prison camp. Busy A him. Allied forces ripped into the la; which totaled about 1.600 of the isl Rooseveli-Churchill * Moves; British Le< + n! it?t few remaining Axis beachheads and's 10,000 square miles. Fo Plan New War ader Now in Canada Prime Minister Winston Churchill completed another venturesome Atlantic crossing Tuesday to perfect a plan for global offensives in conferences with President Roosevelt and Prime Minister W. L. Meekenzie: King of Canada. Britain's douglhy prime minister j irrived in Quebec to lalk first with] lis Canadian ally. He will see Mr. Roosevelt later for soperate AngloAmerican war talks, at a time and place which cannot now be disclosrd. Into these strategic conferences, rarrying obviously ominous connoations to axis nations wondering ivhero the next momentous blows vil) foil, the three united nations cadets are bringing their top naval, lir and military advisers. Russia, intent on pressing every advantage of her victories on the central front, will not be represented at any of the parleys. Mr. Roosezelt disclosed that much at a press conference, adding that he did not near, he would not be awfully glad !o have, the Russians sit in. The biggest question mark hanging over the strategy parleys is where and when the invasions of the European continent, which Churchill and the American President repeatedly have premised, will be initiated. And the answer can come, of rourse, only when the khaki-clad troops of the allies pour ashore to hammer the foe with hot and cold steel. Churchill came to Quebec as the guest of the Canadian government, bul as a guest who came only to concentrate or. war. One Hundred Farmers Pool Lambs in County One hundred farmers pooled 1281 lambs in the second shipment of the iamb pool on Thursday, August 5. says county agent Harry Hamilton. This was the second largest shipment of pooled lambs ever made from this county since the pool was organized eight years ago. The lambs were shipped to Jersey City, N. J. and were sold on Monday and Tuesday of this week. To date we have not heard what the lambs sold Cor. The Iambs graded as follows: 727 blue (choice) ewes and weathers, 104 blue bucks, 294 red (good) ewes and wethers, 99 red bucks, 31 medium, 13 medium bucks, 12 plain, 1 sheep. Pre-Registration Date For High School Classes Appalachian High School and the local Elementary School as well will open on Monday morning, August 30 at 3:30. On Saturday, August 21, any student who wishes to check his propram or change any of the classes for the coming year may do so. This will be the last chance for high school students who wish to change their programs, as students will not be allowed to change programs again after school starts on Monday, August 30th. Therefore, say the officials, if any student has decided to change his scheule, lie should do so on Saturday August 21 from nine o'clock to five o'clock in the afternoon. Classes for which students may still sign up. are the following: Dramatics, public speaking, advanced algebra and trigonometry, physics, commercial arithmetic, geometry, home economics, agriculture, typing I and II, French II. and Soanish I. BUY WAR SAVINGS BONDS $1.50 A YEAR?5c A COPY IWlAR TERM AT 1 ?PALACHIANWILL &ART ON SEPT 7 Upper Classmen an Freshmen to Bo Enrolled at Same Time in Fall Term: College was Not | Accepted by Government For Military Training Program. | j President B B. Dougherty has ! given out the information that the j regular fall session of Appalachian I State Teachers College will open on I Tuesday September 7:h. The upper classmen and freshir.cn I will appear on the campus at the jsnme time this year. The orientation i program for freshmen will be corvj ducted in the new science building. land registration for the upper classes will be conducted as usual in the Administration building- Class work for them will begin on Wednesday the eighth. Appalachian had made application for some kind of military training program, but was not one of those selected by the government. Therefore, it is stated, the college will be conducted along the usual aeadctnis and teacher training lines with some adjustment in curriculum and with an accelerated program to : keep step with the war time needs, i Prospects for the coming terra are | most encouraging, say Appalachian I officials. Local Farmers Buy Flock Western Ewes A number of farmers have already purchased several western ewes and these fanners are well pleased with these ewes. It is the opinion of most all the farmers, says County Agent K. M. Hamilton, that these ewes are ! better than the ones shipped in last iyear. He further states that a num[ her of favorable report, have been j received regarding last year's purchases. some farmers stating that the ewes have more than paid for themselves this year from the sale of wool and lambs. Mr. Hamilton states thai a few of these good ewes are yet available, and that anyone interested in buying them should let htm know at once. The price on the ewes is S16 per head arid they may be seen at Grady Bradley's farm, Vilas. N. C. German Pennle Sairi To Be Depressed Zurich, Switzerland, Aug. 50.?A report, from inside Germany today said that a great wave of depression and disillusionment was sweeping I Germans as the result of the fall of ! Mussolini and axis military defeats. But it was added that there was no ' sign of a split in '.he Gentian leaderj ship and that the Nazis were pre, pared to smash any opposition. ! The report was published by the Neue Buorchcr Nachrichten, whose German news is regarded as probably the most reliable reaching Switzerland. According to NZN, the fall Of Mussolini had more effect on German public opinion than Stalingrad and even Nazi leaders were astounded. The shocked silence with which the Nazis received the news led to wild rumors, it was said, and many people braved punisltment by listening to foreign radios, fearful of the implications to Germany. Now German propagandists are citing the Allied demands for Italy's unconditional surrender to argue the German people have everything to lose and nothing to gain by giving in. In Merchant Marine m J. E. Gervais, son of Mr. and I Mrs. M. C. Gervais of Zionville, N. C. is in tho Merchant Marine, and received his training at Sheepshead Bay. N. Y. He has been in convoy duty for the past 3 months.