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1EBEE VNITED STATU W il WAR %/\ BONOS W AMD V STAMPS i||ir VOL LVI. NO. 20. INTENSIFIED PULP WOOD DRIVE IS STARTED TODAY People Are Asked to Cut Com of Wood for Every Boy in Ser vice In New National Cam paign Aimed At Averting A Serious Paper Shortage. Cut a Cord of Pulpwood tor Ev sty Docal Boy in Service. This is the slogan and goal of < new national drive announced the week by Walter M. Dear, chairmai of the Newspaper Pulpwood Com ruittee. as a climax to the Victors Pulpwood Campaign which thi: newspaper has been supporting. The new drive begins on Armis littf uay, next inursuay, ana run: until December 11 when the News paper Pulpwood Committee hope to see the treatened 2,500,000 core pulpwood shortage for 1943 averted With many hundreds of Wataug; men in the armed forces, Wataug: County is asked to produce just a: many extra cords of pulpwood be tween November 11 and Decembei 31th. More than 1200 local pulpwooc committees organized as part of tlu newspaper Victory Pulpwood Puip wood campaign are expected to on list in the new drive which wil cover pulpwood producing areas it 2? states of the Northeast, South Appalachian and Lake States. The idea for the new drive wa: suggested by one of the newspaper: participating in the Victory Pulp wood Campaign. It was the Jacksor Herald of Ripley, W. Va., of whicl Sartis Simmons is publisher. So en thusiastic was the response of tnt people of Ripley and Jackson coun ties that the quota of 1700 cords foi as many local boys in the servici was passed in a few weeks. tContinued on page eight.) Grandfather Orphanage frr* rLat"li**r Pnnf Banner Elk. ? Miss Anne Bryan superintendent of Grandfather Horn for Children, has announced that tin orphanage truck will make trip throughout Holston Presbytery an< stirrtrttnding territory during Ch month of November. The purpose o the truck trips will be to gather ii canned foods, farm produce am grain which have been collected fo the orphanage. On Tuesday November 23, th< truck will be in Boone. Blowini Bock, Pincola and Crossnore. Empty fruit .jars were distribute! throughout Holston Presbytery earl; in the summer, which the member of the Woman's Auxiliary have fill ed with fruits and vegetables for th; orphanage. East year thousands c jars were sent back, and it is hope< that this year the response will bi even greater According to Mis Bryan, the orphanage was able ti can only a small amount of fruits be cause of farm shortages. Also badl; needed are grains?corn,.wheat am oats?supplies of vegetables, al though the orphanage farm produc ed a variety of the latter. Drought Is Broken By Copious Rain; General rains throughout, this are Sunday and Monday brought relie from the prolonged drought, whicl had dried up late pasturage, serious ly cut the cabbage crop, and brough springs and other sources of wate to a dangerously low level. The rains were followed by cold er weather, Wednesday bringing i temperatures well below freezing with prospects for continued cold. Schools Asked to Finis! Scrap Collections Sooi Plans are being made to have th scrap dealers purchase the sera metal that has been assembled : the various schools in the count; All schools' are urged to complel their scrap collection as soon < possible. All principals in the di ferer.t schools should advise tl County Superintendent S. F. Horto concerning the amount of scrap mi ferial that has been assembled j their schools. Former Appalachian Student Dies in Algiei Pfc. Herbert Poole, son of Mr Belle Poole and the late John ' Poole, of Forest City, died Octotx 1 in Algeria, according to a messa; from the War Department. Pfc. Poole was well-known Boone, where he had attended A] palachlan College. He had been O' ereeeas but a few weeks. * <vrm tm ? hot VATA\ An Indej BOONE, WA Miners Lay Down Pi ^ I Br^B88^fcT wmsmm .! Some of ihe 500.000 miners who 5 in six monlhs. The strike came al : which the miners had agreed to wc 5 in a second government seizure of 1 the Westland mine of ihe Piiisbu; j BURLEY GRADING f MOST IMPORTANT 1 ; Stale College Expert, and Local Warehousemen Urge Farmers to Use Care in Grading. 1 ) It is possible for Burley growers , to add from two to five cents per pound to the sales value of their crop 3 by using more care in the sorting, 3 tying, bulking, and handling of this - product, says W. P. Hedrick. tobacco i marketing expert of the N. C. De> partment of Agriculture, who joins - with the management of the local i tobacco warehouse, in urging farmers - to use especial care in grading their r leaf this year, so as to realize the a highest price possible. Mr. Hedrick continues:^ "Qf tb^/tjuee stages of tobacco farming, marketing accounts for > more money than does the growing ' or coring. Time spent at the sorting I bench will pay growers a higher dividend per hour than trying to sell a , badly-sorted basket on the ware^ house floor. ,, nuyers nave graaes u) Duy aria s every basket that is on the ware^ house floor in the proper condition e receives plenty of bidding at the j auction. Many complaints of low pri^ ces heard from farmers .ire due to j poor handling of the crop before der livery to the warehouse .floors. Most growers have excellent toe bacco land and curing bams, but ? there are many who do not have a properly lighted sorting room. This ? is essential to proper handling, and every grower needs a sorting room JL with plenty of north light availa. tile Mr. R. C. Coleman operator of "f the local warehouse, and Mr. S. C. ^ Eggcrs, sales manager, ask that the ?, farmers of the county grade their s hurley carefully and attend the gradQ ing demonstrations which are announced by County Agent Hamilton ' in this newspaper today. f 60 Nazi U-Boats Sunk In Last Three Months Allied forces, sinking U-boats at the rate of five a week, jjlestroyed B at least 60 during the last 'three months and brought -their kjjl to 150 for a six months' period, the Bri , usii ana American governmenis-saia h Tuesday night. In a London Speech, Prime Minister Churchill declared, "we have ' "broken the back of the U-boat war." President Roosevelt further amplil_ fied the formal statement of the ^ two governments by telling a press , conference that 60 was the number " of U-boats certainly destroyed. A substantial additional number prob, ably was sunk, he said. Mr. Roosevelt emphasized that more German U-boats than allied merchant ships were sunk in August, September and October, and le commented that things were going p along very well, it ?? Considerable Real ce ?s Estate Activity Here le Considerable real estate trading n has taken place in this community recently, according to Mr. S. C. Eggers local realtor, who says thai the number of transfers this season has been unusually large. There has been a considerable demand recently, he says, for both ? town properly and farming lands. s. ONLY ONE AUTO TAG T. WILL BE REQUIRED IN '44 ST ;e North Carolina motorists will only get one auto tag next year, and thii in will be used on the rear of the cai p- rather than on the front, as wsu v- stated, through misinformation, iz the Democrat last week. ?IWiM' T>I TTTM~nfBfc UGA jendent Weekly Newspap TAUGA COUNTY, NORTH ?AR< icks and Go Hunting j left their posts for the fourth time the expiration of the period during >rk without a contract and resulted the properly. These men are from :gh Ccal Company. IWAR FUND DRIVE | MOVES SLOWLY | About a Thousand Dollars Raised ill County Against Total Asked of S2.S00; Prompt Action Urged The campaign to raise $2,6G0 in Watauga County for the National War Relief Fund is moving rather i slowly in the county, only about one! thousand dollars having been col-J lectc-d as of Tuesday afternoon, Mrs. M. R. Maddux, chairman of the drive, who is working diligently, says that those who have been personally solicited, have responded generously, but that it is obviously impossible to secure enough active workers to conduct house-to-house campaign of the county. She res pec fully asks all who have not contributed tc this important phase of the war effort, do so at once. Those who find it more convenient, may leave their contributions with Mr. Adams at the Northwestern Bank. Mrs. Maddux asks every member of her organization to redouble his or her efforts so that the goal may be reached by the 15th. The needs of the people for whom this money is intended are urgent, and YOU are urged to contribute now. Watauga has never yet failed to do its share in every movement designed to aid the war program. It surely will not fail now. ^Orf- Rl Ifl Tallo | -* ? ' M. X^JIO Radio Audience Of "The Old Home Town" Sergeant Burl Storie of Boone, really thinks a great deal of his home town. Last Friday evening Sergeant Storie appeared as a guest on the unusual new radio show, "What's Your Home Town?", presented by the soldiers of Morris Field, Charlotte, N. C. He really went to town over the air telling folks what a swell place Boone is, and how much he is enjoying army life. The show is broadcast every Friday night at 10:30 p. m. over station W. B. T.'s 50,000 watt transmitter with a frequency of 1100 kilocycles. Sergeant Storie really got a thrill out of his radio deubt, when genial master of ceremonies Larry Walker asked what Boone wanted to do for Storie the next time he gets home, and Sergeant Bill Franklin read off an impressive list of gifts which Boone merchant had donated. The- "What's Your Home Town?" radio show was conceived and is being written by Corporal Jack Waters. County Agent Acts to Aid Farmers, Tenants * In order to help fanners who are needing tenants to farm on the shares and work by the day, County Agent Harry Hamilton asks all tenants looking for work to see him or the TJ. S. Employment Service. Farmers who are needing tenants ! should also let their needs be known. A number of tenants and farmers , have contacted Mr. Hamilton in re' gard to their needs and every effort is being made by his office to get t the farmer who needs help and the j tenant who needs a place, together. Xmas Cards to Soldiers 1 Must Be Sent First Class The War Department has advised I that Christmas greeting cards for soldiers overseas must be sent in i sealed envelopes and prepaid at the t first class rate. The Department furr ther says that cards mailed now, will, 5 according to the Army Postal Ser1 vice, reach even the most remote [A. P. Cs by December 25th DEM< er?Established in the Ye DLINA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBE CHRirMAS MAIL ~ MUST BE SENT IN PRESENT MONTH Postal Officials Say Handling of Christmas Mail Impossibility Unless November is "Christmas Mailing Month": Small Volume May Be Handled Dec. Delivery of the annua) flood of Phfictmflp rtil'lt or>/t n-ie/I- on limn ? ?, :\IIU bOZQd V'U illll\Z. I always a serious problem, "will be more rhan that this year?it will be an impossibility ? unless Christmas mailings urv made largely in November," Postmaster John E. Brown, Jr., slated yesterday. "Transportation facilities are burdened to the limit with war materials and personnel, and the Postal Service has sent more than thirtyone thousand experienced employees into the army and Navy," Mr. Brown is advised, by Postmaster General Frank C. Walker, and continues. 'The only solution to the . Christmas problem is: Mai) in No- I vember. Mark your parcels "Do Not Open Until Christmas.' That is the j only W3y to avoid disappointment J up Christmas Day not only for many civilians but also for millions of the j members of the anned forces who j are still in this country. "It is also the only way to avoid j the possibility of a Christmas emergency in the transportation and pos- . ta! services. If the public will coop- J crate by mailing their Christmas parcels DURING NOVEMBER, we } can handle a small volume of light, . last-minute mailings, such as cards, up to December 10?but we can do j that and avoid an emergency only if November is really 'Christmas . Mailing Month.'" , (Continued on page eight.) Winter Line Erected ! By Germans in Italy , The Geiman command, using It- s alien slave labor, has erected ? new < "winter line" across Italy directly 1 in front of the present positions of < the allies, it was disclosed today and 1 is pouring in reinforcements in its I greatest efforts to date to stem the drive of the allied armies north- < ward. < Even as existence of the line was : disclosed by German soldiers cap- tured at various points along the 1 froni, allied armies already were . pounding against it, arid the British eighth smashed forward in a five- J mile thrust which caught the Germans off guard and carried to the area of the inouth of the Sangro river at the new line's eastern anchor. | Nearly 50 towns and villages pass- . ed into allied hands as a result of , allied gains along the Adriatic coast and in the central sector near Isernia. To the west heavy rains and strong formations of enemy troops and guns in the Mignano area along tile main road to Rome kept the fifth army near a standstill. The western buttress of the new Nazi line is the Aurunci mountains dn the Tyrrhenian coast some 50 miles northwest of Naples. Its Adriatic bastion is on the heights north . of the river Sangro. Between these , two ends it makes use of some of. ( the most rugged mountains in Italy, with peaks rising to 7,000 feet. Japanese Troops Land For Clash With Marines TY*-?e4?y ornrr>r> nf rlnplrnoeo !-?*-? Tom' ?- '1UV.1 vv vvt wi uninn^oo, HIV uttpo landed several hundred troops with supplies from barges last Saturday night, and early Sunday north of the U. S. Marine beachhead at Empress Augusta Bay, headquarters announced Wednesday, i' The Americans are now in contact with these forces, j Adm. William F. Halsey's headquarters in amplification of Gen. MacArthur's report, said the Marines had thrown tanks against the counter invasion troops, and the Japs were using 90 millimeter mortars. The landing point was located as four to seven miles northwest of Cape Torikina. The Japs went ashore from 21 barges, which probably made the southward run from Buka, on Bougainville's northern tip, under protection of a heavy cruiser and two destroyers. Yesterday's Communique had reported low-level torpedo attacks by Australian-manned Beauforts on the warships during which the destroyers were believed hit. CANNERY TO BE OPEN FOR CANNING MEAT'S The community cannery at Vilas will be open on Friday and Saturday of this week and succeeding weeks for the purpose of canning meats, it is announced by Ernest Hillard, the manager. 3CRA ar 1888. R 11. 1943. FLYING NURSE ij Lieut. Charlotte Young U. S. array nurse pictured in her cold 1 climate cosllme as she awaits or- t ders in Seatilp, Wash. She {lies i with the sick and wounded from ? outposts to hospitals in the U. S. \ FORMER WATAUGA | PASTOR SUCCUMBS; t lev. J. A. McKaughan Dies in Win- ' s ten-Salem Fridny; Rites Are ' Held Sunday Afternoon. c Funeral services for llev. Jesse f Vifred McKaughan, 82. fonner pas-l'1 or of the Cove Creek Baptist church vno died in Winston-Salem Friday ' vere conducted in that city Sunday . litemoon. *The body remained at a funeral ' tome chapel until Sunday, when it ? vas taken to the First Baptist r Jhorch to lie in state from 1:30 to s !:30. Services were conducted at that ime by Rev V. H. Wilcox, Smith v Hogaman, I. G. Greer, Rev. James 1 W. Hayes, and Rev. A. M. Church. Interment was in the family bury- 1 ng ground at Rockford. ' Mr McKaughan v.'as born at Dob- ' ;on September 22. 1861, and had iiv- 1 ;d in Winston-Salem for the past len years. He moved there from ] Jove Creek. Watauga County, where le was pastor of the Baptist Church "or a long period of time. Survivors include the widow; two laughters, Mrs. Charles Farreii, of t Greensboro and Mrs. John Nichol- , ;on of Miami, Fla.; two sons, Jesse i \ MrK ftiitshrin .I?* r.f \ ?a., and Judson Van McKaughan, of ksheville. ( Seek Applicants For Work In Naval Yards' A civil set Vice representative will Dc in the North Wilkesboro office on Thursday. Nov. 11, to interview applicants for positions it* naval yards. Another representative will be in North Wilkesboro on Thursday and Saturday and in Boone on Friday, Nov. 12, from 10 o. m. to 12 noon and Jefferson courthouse from 2:30 p. m. to 3:30 p. m. to interview applicants (male and female) for clerk, typist and senographer jobs with the army service forces. Other job openings follow: Laborers for a job in Tennessee, mining engineer (field engineer), draftsman, cryptographer, time checker, shoe repairman, machine operator, turret-lathe operator (leadman), sheet-metal worker II. acetylene welder, mechanic, card grinder, foundry chipper, textile learner, salesperson, surgical instruments. SIXTEEN REPORT TO INDUCTION CENTER The following men fiom Watauga County reported to an army induction center on November 9, it is revealed by the local Selective Service Board: Ben Alvm Hardy Carl Isaac Oaires Chalmers Fleming McCallum Allen William Mast Dillard Gwyen Davenport James Stanford Bauguess Granville Kerley Hartley Carl Clyde Henson Odell Rodney Cook Billy Frantz Henson Charles Ray Moody Roby Lenoir Brown George Calvin Eggers Arlie Rulford Triplett James Randolph Coffey Bynum Everette Maltba RURAL ROUTE PATRONS SHOULD AFFIX STAMPS In order to facilitate the collection and dispatch of mail matter on rural routes, all first and third cla3S matter deposited in rural letter boxes for collection by the carrier should have stamps affixed at the proper rate of postage. (BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS $1.50ptySAR?5c A COPY mMmwvT DROpFJ): RITES HELI|AT MABEL Vatauga man Loses Life. Wit Si Three Others When Boat is Sunk in Oregou: Body Interred Here; Large Crowd Attends .Services. Pfc. Gicnri K. Dishman of Mabel jst bis life by drowning at Camp fdair. Washington, on October 24 /hen a boat in which he and two omrades were crossing a rivet, hit rock and capsized. A fourth soldier, cho witnessed the accident, lost his ife in an attempt to effect a rescue. The funeral riles were held at the tonic church. Union Baptist, at Mate! last Friday, the body having been iccompanied to Watauga by Pfc. lack L. Proffit of Vilas. N. C., who vas also stationed at Camp Adair. Tho 1 nrtfiset J n?n<- * ? ? t-1 * -...v. Vil/wu CVCl lu CtllCilU i funeral in the Mabel community ;athered for the rites, .it being esimated that 1,500 people paid their espects. Rev. W. D. Ashley was in :harge of the services, and the Am rican Legion arid visiting soldiers onducled the graveside rites. The ieins-Sturdivant Funeral Home had Large of the arrangements. Pfc. Dishman leaves to mourn his >ussing his father and mother, Mr. nd Mrs. Spencer Dishman; four sisers: Mrs. Georgia Lawrence, Trade, 'cnn.; Mrs. Dora Kggers, Valejo, lalif.; Mrs. Dare Brown, Lenoir, N. Miss Helen Dishman, Mabel, N. 1. and one brother, Maclc Dishman .label, N. C., together with a large lumber of close relatives and peronal friends. The ball bearers and flower girls vere selected from among the boylood friends of deceased. Pfc. Dishman was 23 years old, a nember of Union Baptist Church, ind one of the best and most (Kipuar young men of the Mabel corariunily. REYNOLDS WILL NOT RUN IN 1944 Robert Rice Reynolds, chairman if the senate military committee, fornally anounced Monday r.ight that le will retire from the Senate when lis present term expires in 1945. Asserting he will not be a caudita te for renomination in the North Carolina Democratic primary next year, the 59-year-old opponent of administration foreign policy declared; "While I will not be a candidate ir. the Democratic primary of 1944, I wish to state emphatically thai I am not retiring from public life. "I shall at all times, not only during the balance of my present term in the Senate of the United States, but thereafter, continue, to champion those principles which I have always felt were for the best interests of my state and my country." A self-styled isolationist, and one of five senators who voted on Friday against a resolution favoring the establishment of a general international organization with power to prevent international aggression, Reynolds did not announce his plans after next year. There have been suggestions that the Asheville lawyer was considering retirement, but his statement came from his office without advance wanting, Reynolds, often a thorn in the administration side during the izat several years of his two terms in the senate blamed the "tremendous pressure of work" for his decision. Children's Book Week Will Be Observed Here The annual children's book week will be observed by the Watauga County Library on November 14-25. This is the twenty-fifth anniversary of book week., created to encourage a lasting apreciation of good books. Endorsed by leading periodicals. schools, clubs, Christian associations and magazines, whose help has done much to aid children in discovering new worlds through reading. Mrs. Ingle invites the parents and children to visit the library next week and participate in the special programs planned for young people. STORES TOCLOSE ARMISTICE DAY All the grocery stores of the city and the large majority of other retail outlets are expected to close today in observance of Armistice Day, it is stated by Mrs. Ruby Ellis, Secretary of the Retail Merchants Association. The bank, postoffice, county and city offices will also be closed for the day.
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