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w WATAUGA DEMOCRAT An Independent Weekly Newspaper?Established in the Year 1888. WATCH the LABEL am jotxx paper mm It *DWI tfca roox wUu1?Mum wlU axptn latlk daft* you* ptpw will i to ikis rmte. VOL. LVII, NO. 29 BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, JANUARY 18, 1945 $1.5Q A YEAR?5c A COPV NORTHWESTERN BANK HAS GOOD BUSINESS YEAR Stockholders of Institution Gath er in Annual Meeting and Elect Board I>irectors; Three Watauga County Men on Board of Directors Stockholders of the Northwestern Bank in annual meeting in North Wilkesboro Tuesday heard the re port of evcellent business during the paat year and re-elected the board of directors, who re-elected the pres ent officers for another year . The annual meeting was held in the home office of the bank, which has branches in Boone. Blowing Rock, Sparta. Jefferson, Burnsville, Bakersville, Black Mountain, Val dese. Spruce Pine and Taylorsville. R. A, Doughton, of Sparta, presi dent, presided for the stockholders meeting. The reports of the year showed that the bank had made much progress and that the usual 12 per cent dividend was paid for the year. The stockholders re-elected the i directors and one new director, C.! A. Lowe, of North Wilkesboro. The directors re-elected were R. A. Doughton, Harry Bailey, W. C. Ber ry, J. D. Brinkley, R. L. Doughton. Ralph Duncan, W. D. Farthing, G., W. Greene. M. A. Higgins, W. W. Mast. M. E. Reeves, N. B. Smithey j and Gordo" H. Winkler. The bank's officers, all of whom [ were re-elected by the directors, are: \ R A Doughton, president; Edwin Duncan, executive vice-president; John C. McBee, Sr.. vice-president; j D. V. Deal, secretary. The bank closed the year 1944 j with resources totaling $20,601, 052.16. and deposits of $19,683, 042.05. The Northwestern Bank is now one of the largest banks in western North Carolina. BLOWING ROCK LEADER PASSES L. Edward Robbins. Formtr Baptist Pastor, and Mayor. Claimed by Death Rev L. Edward Robbins, 06 years of age, former mayor of Blowing Rode, died in a Statesville hospital last Thursday morning after a brief illness. Funeral services were conducted Friday at 3 o'clock from the Blow ing Rock Baptist Church by Rev. Ben L. Ray, Rev. Robert Shores and Rev W K. Keys. Interment was in the Blowing Rock cemetery, Rein.=-Sturdivant Funeral Home be ing in charge of the arrangements. Mr. Robbins founded Sandy Flat Baptist church and was for many years its pastor. Later he was en gaged in building construction work. He was active in the civic life of Blowing Rock. He served two terms as mayor. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Sophronia Greene Robbins; a daugh ter, Mrs. Mary Herring, of Blowing j Rock; two sons, Lloyd Robbins of! Blowing Reek, and George T. Rob bing of Warsaw, Va.; ten grand chil dren; four sisters, Mrs. Rufus Cof fey, Mrs. William Hinson, Mrs Bertha Dula and Mrs. Frank Sim mons, all of Blowing Rock, and a brother, W. Lee Robbins. of Blow-1 ing Rock. Ten Watauga Boys Enter Naval Reserve Ten 17-year-old young men have j been accepted and sworn in the U. S. Natfal Reserve at Raleigh, accord ing to Navy Recruiter J. E. Hoff man, who is at the Boone postoffice each Monday. These men are now at the naval training station or home on inactive duty, according to the recruiter. They are; Baxter Greer Farthing, Valle Crucis; Creed Lewis Hollars, Valle Crucis; Jeff Hildreth Pritch ard Heaton; Walter Carroll Davis, Route 2, Boone; Ronda Kay Hardin, Deep Gap; William C Downs, Blow ing Rock; Howard S. Steelman, Jr., Deep Gap; Thomas William Greene, Blowing Rock; Phil Hale Vance, Jr., Boone; Stephen Hawthorne Johnson, Blowing Rock, and Edward Burl Winkler, Boone. In addition to 17-year-olds, men with experience on bulldozers, cranes and road machinery are need ed in the Seabees, and men who Une been accepted at pre-induction centers are eligible to take the radio technicians test to qualify them for extensive training in radio and ra dar. Single men with high school education between the ages of 17 and 27 who have not received their call for pre-induction examinations, are eligible to try for the navy's air crewman program which provides a year's intensive training in aviation radio and gunnery. All 17-year-old youths are asked to see the recruiter at the Boone postoffice on any Mon day to get information about these qualifying tests. AMERICAN LEGION MEETING The Watauga Post American Le gion and Auxiliary will meet Friday at 7:30 p. m. at the legion hut. AU members of both organizations are aaked to attend. Receives Purple Heart Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Lawrence of Mountain City. Tenn., have receiv ed the Purple Heart, awarded their ton, Pfc. Thomas Eugene Lawrence. Pfc. Lawrence was wounded in France November 18. He was later moved to England by plane and is now in a general hospital In England. His parents received word last week that he is slowly improving. POLIO CAMPAIGN GETS UNDER WAYi $200 is Received in Drive For Funds With Which to Fight Infantile Paralysis The local campaign to raise $1,740 with which to fight infantile para lysis, officially started on Monday of this week, and Howard Cottrell, lo cal chairman, has already received about $200 toward the county's goal. A small dance given at the high | school last Friday evening showed a j profit of $80.00, and one or two con-1 tributions have been reported from school districts. Another dance will be held at the high school Thursday evening of this week, Mr. Cottrell states, and tickets are on sale at the different business houses of the city. A full attendance is desired, so that as much as possible may be realized for the fund. Chairman Cottrell has formed a good organization throughout the county, and school teachers are co operating closely in an effort to reach the quota. All contributions will be welcomed, and in view of the inroads made on Watauga children I by polio last year, it is felt that lo cal people will deem it a privilege to aid in this worthy effort. Representative Eggers Gets Committee Posts In State Legislature Representative S. C. Eggers, of i Watauea county, was named a member of seven standing commit tees in the House of Representatives | by Speaker Richardson last week. The local assemblyman is a mem ber of the following committees: Conservation and Development, Ed ucation, Journal, Military Affairs, I Public Welfare, Roads, and Printing. Representative Eggers is return-1 ing to Boone week-ends to be, with I his family and to confer witn his! constituency. Flood of Red Troops Pour Into Polish Plain London, Jan. 17?Two great Rus sian army groups poured like a red flood through broken Nazi defenses on the Polish plain south of War saw today, reaching within 38 miles of the German border. Gathering speed as it went, the gigantic Soviet winter offensive re corded gains of 30 to 38 miles on a twisting battlefront more than 200 miles long from Gr?jec, 25 miles southwest of Warsaw, down to Slomniki .only 12 miles north of the historic citadel of Krakow. Premier Stalin in two triumphant orders of the day last night disclos ed that besides the first Ukraine army group that began the offen sive Jan. 12, the powerful first White Russian group had leaped into the assault Jan. 14 and in three days had advanced from the Victual 38 miles on a 75-mile wide front. Sugar Grove Man Sells Record Crop of Burley Mr. H. J. Younce, of Sugar Grove, tells The Democrat of selling a crop of burley tobacco on the local wave house floors for what warehousemen believe is something of a record for both poundage and price. Mr. Younce, who was farming on the T. J. Banner place at the foot of George's Gap, raised 2,802 pounds of burley on 1.4 acres, which was disposed of for the net sum of $1, 572.14, or ay average of 57 cents. The high grade sold for 58 cents, while a small amount brought a low of 52. Mr. Younce states that he and Mrs. Younce, both 60 years old, raised the retord burley crop, that little help could be procured, and that they were able to carry on their regular farm work besides. halsey:s fleet IN BIG BLOWS ON JAP SHIPS More Than 104,000 Tons of Nip ponese Shipping is Destroyed in Three Days Up and Down China Coast; Not Many Ene my Planes Are Found U. S. Pacific Fleet Headquarters, Pearl Harbor, Jan. 16?Admiral Wil liam F. Halsey's free-roving third fleet wound up a week of the most audacious naval operations of the war by sending carrier planes Sat urday, Sunday and Monday up and down more than 350 miles of the China coast, destroying or damag ing more than 100,000 tons of Jap anese shipping and heavily smash ing such choice targets as Canton and Hongkong. Against amazingly puny enemy air opposition?suggesting Japan's airforce has its hands full over the homeland and the Philippines?the carrier planes ruled the skies as they did over French lndo-China's shore Jan. 11 and over Formosa Jan. 8. Formosa, once considered a for midable target by itself, was attack ed Saturday, Sunday and Monday at the same tune other carrier planes were sinking enemy oilers, bomb ing the royal navy docks at Hong kong and the harbor at Canton. raids dating back to the Jan. 8 assault on Formosa, Halsey's planes now have accounted for well over 300,000 tons of enemy shipping, in cluding several escort warships, and more than 250 planes?the latter figure so low because so few planes have been encountered, the bulk of them on the ground. Even this is far from the picture of devastation wrought because Ad miral Chester W. Nimitz, in disclos ing the preliminary results of the China raids today, gave only incom plete totals for Sunday and Monday and none at all for Saturday. JOHN F. SHERRILL TAKEN BY DEATH Well Known Citi*?n Succumb* to Long ninMS!* Funntl S?tt icaa Friday John F. Sherrill, 71 year* old, prominent citizen of Boone, died at Purlear, Wilkes county, last Wed nesday, where he had been making J his home for the past few months with a daughter. Miss Stella Sher rill. He had been in bad health for about three years, but for the past year his condition had been consid ered serious. Funeral services were conducted Friday at 11 o'clock from the Ad vent Christian Church by the pas tor, Dr. F. E. Warm an, who was as sisted by Rev. S. E. Gragg of Shulls Mills, and interment was in the cemetery at Pine Grove near Boone. He is survived by the widow, the former Miss Sallie Cook, four daugh ters and three sons: Miss Stella Sherrill of Boone; Mrs. J. C. Hayes, Cumberland, Va.; Mrs. A. E. Van noy of Shulls Mills, and Mrs. Edna Penick of Boone. There are three sons: Allen Sherrill, Plainfield, N. J.; Eber Sherrill and Oren Sherrill of Boone. There are 15 grandchildren and one greatgrandchild. Mr. Sherrill was bom on New River in Watauga county, a son of the late William ano' Mary Sherrill. He resided in the Poplar Grove sec tion for many years where he en gaged in farming and in carpentry. Seventeen years ago, he established a woodworking shop in Boone, which he operated until ill health forced his retirement. Mr. Sherrill was converted and joined the Pine Grove Advent Christian Church in 1900, and for many years was a song leader and teacher of the Bible classain that church. He always took an active interest in matters of re ligious concern and was a splendid citizen. LOCAL CHURCHES CLEAR DEBTS The Advent Christian Church of Boone, whose congregation finished paying the entire debt cn the structure Sunday. January 6. and Dr. F. E. W arm an, the pastor, states that dedicatory services will be held some time in the spring. The handsome stone church, which is much admired by tourists and othera. was built in 192S, and the small congregation has worked as a unit in clearing the debt from the structure. The congregation was organised in the old Episcopal Church building by Rev. J. A. Downs of Caldwell county, and plans instituted for the erection of the building. Rev. J. F. Whitman had preached here. Rev. Mr. Baldwin was pastor for a time, and differ ent ministers had taken care of the work during the summers. Dr. W arm an came here in 1935. Detailed plans for the dedication will be announced when formulated. St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Boons, whose pastor. R?v. W. C. Leach, has announced that the building was completely paid for dur ing the holidays. The church was dedicated upon its erection in 1M0. but the laws of the church are that a building may not be consecrated until free of all debt. In the spring, at a time to be announced, the Rt. Her. Robert E. Gribbin. Bishop of the Diocese of Western North Carolina, will consecrate the structure. The building cost nearly J4.000. and it is a source of pride and satisfaction that consecration is to take place in leas than five years from the time the building program was inaugurated. Pfc. Hosey A. Wilson Missing On Oct. 28, Prisoner of Germans Pfc. Hosey A. Wilson, son of Mr. and Mrs. John C. Wilson, of Zion ville, is a prisoher of the German government, according to a telegram received by his parents on January 10. from the office of the Adjutant General. Pfc. Wilson had been reported missing in action in France on Oc tober 28. New Nurses To Be Added to Hospital Staff Miss Faye Washam, registered nurse of Huntersville, N. C., has been employed at the Watauga Hos pital. Miss Washam was trained at Davis Hospital, Statesville, has had four years experience in surgery, and for the past four months has been at City Hospital in Baltimore. Next week Miss Cleo Ray will be added to the /local nursing staff. She was trained at Martin Memorial Hos pital, Mount Airy, ahd recently has been night supervisor at an Ashe boro hospital. Nursing Activities of the Health Deparment During the Year 1944 By VIRGINIA B. SMITH (Public Health Nurse) , ~ Work has greatly handicap ped in the health department during the year due to the fact that U(r King, the health officer, resigned in March to become a medical mis sionary in the Belgian Congo. To date the state board of health ha* been unable to find a physician to fill his position. However, we are very grateful to Dr. H. B. Perry for his splendid assistance and advice in carrying on the various activities of the health department. Education of tne people to the use of scientific measures now available for their own protection and that ol others is-'an essential factor in con trolling the spread of communicable diseases. Sometimes it takes a sad i tragedy as the one experienced in Watauga during the past summer to i make the people realize this. Dur | ing the months of June, July and j August, there were reported in the . same section of the county eleven I case* of typhoid fever involving five household*. No one in any of the households had ever been vaccinat ed against typhoid lever. Some did not believe in it and others thought it was "against the Bible to be vacci nated. With the exception of one family we discovered the disease early enough to vacv innte the other members of the family, and there fore, had only one case in each fam ily. However, it was necessary to be accompanied by the sheriff in order to vaccinate three members of one family. In the other household three members were already ill with typhoid when we first contacted the family and t^ree others became ill soon afterwards. It was impossible to care for all these patients under the |iome conditions. We were able to admit three of them to the Bap tist hospital where on* of the ex pired. The college came to our as sistance and donated beds and mat tresses, the Farmers Hardware gave screen wire for windows, and the women of Boone donated bed linen, (CONTINUED ON PAOC TWO) Shulls Mills Soldier Receives Silver Star For Gallantry in Italy With the Fifth Army in Italy?S-i Sgt. Riter H. Dean of Shulls Mills, has recently been awarded the Sil ver Star for gallantry in action. S-Sgt. Dean has been overseas since April, 1944. He entered the service in November, 1942. His wife and their son are with her parents. Dr. and Mrs. Munro of, Grand Junction, Colo. Mrs. W. G. Cornell Claimed by Death Funeral services for Mrs. W. G. Cornell, age 70 years, were held in the Mount Lebanon Baptist Church Thursday afternoon, Jan. 11. The rites were conducted by Rev. Vilas Minton, assisted by Rev. N. M. Greene, Rev. Ronda Earp and Rev. J. C. Canipe. Reins-Sturdivant Funeral Home was in charge of the details. Interment was in the fam ily cemetery. A large number of friends gather ed to pay their respects at the bier of the well-known mother. The floral offering was beautiful. Mrs. Carroll died in the Baptist Hospital at Winston-Salem. She was the widow of the late G. W. Cornell of Vilas. Before her mar riage she was Miss Birddoty Maltba, daughter of the late George Maltba of Blowing Rock. She is survived by five sons and five daughters: Allen Vance and Ira Cornell, of Kansas City. Mo.; Stew art and Howard Cornell of Vilas; Mrs. Alvin Cannon, Mrs. Jack Har rison of Boone; Mjc*. Milton Dugger of Elk Park; Mrs. Hayes Hollars of De Havre, Md., and Mrs. Loften Beny, of Newport News, Va. She has 53 grandchildren and one great grandchild. Also surviving u one sister, Mrs. L. Hartley of Gastonia, N. C. Pfc. John W. Hollar Wounded In Action Pfc. John W. Hollar was slightly wounded in action in the European area on November 24th, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Hollar, of Vila*, have been advised. Pfc. Hollar is now in a hospital in England. GOOD TOBACCO YIELD Mr. Will Wilson of Reece, on Monday sold 2,478 pounds of tobacco at the focal market for $1,197.25, net The average price was 30 cents per pound. BURLEY RECEIPTS CONTINUE STEADY ON LOCAL MARKET SMioa'j Sales Are Expected to Soar Well Above Four Million Pounds No Date for Market Closing Has Been Announced by Warehousemen Receipts of burley tobacco at the local warehouses are steady, as the market continues its record-break ing stride with every indication that by closing time, the season sales will run far ahead of the four mil lion pound mark. Prices are continuing to average in the high forties at the local ware houses, and farmers continue to ex press complete satisfaction over the record prices they arc receiving for their crops. The Democmt was unable to get actual warehouse figures this morn ing, but total sales must be well be yond three and a half million pounds. Reports from individual farmers indicate that the high ave rages are continuing to be paid, with perhaps some strengthening of the price since the Christmas holidays. No announcement has been made as to ? the closing of the market by Mr. Coleman, the warehouseman, but farmers are handling their to bacco rapidly, and moving the late graded crops onto "tfc'' floors as quickly as possible'. Sales are being conducted each day as usual except Saturday, on a three-hour sale sched ule, made necessary by the shortage of labor in the plants of the tobacco processors. LIEUT. STEWART TALKS TO LIONS Naval Officer. Back From Pacific War. Gives Lions Talk on War * Against Japa Lieutf Hucie Stewart was guest speakejr at the regular meeting of the Boone Lion's Club Tuesday night of this week. Lieut. Stewart opened his talk by commenting on the liveliness of the local Lions Club. In the Boone Lions Club are many men who saw battle service in World War 1. Lieut. Stewart's story of the ifiarine, a private, who knock ed otil seven Jap tanks with a ba zooki- gun and several hand gre nades, was a thriller for his com rades, of World War 1. The frank presentation of how he helped to in itiate a new officer fresh from the States into the ways of Jap air at tacks helped his listeners to relieve that fear which accompanies immi nent danger. Lieut. Stewart was loud in his praise of the fighting our marines have done in the Pacific; the ma rines know how to fight the Jap. The Red Cross has rendered a won derful service for the boys in the Pacific, says Lieut. Stewart. New candidates to be initiated into the club at a later date are Grfcdy Moretz, Jim Winkler, Rev. J. K. Parker, Howard Cottrell, W. J. Kel sey, Lionel Ward and J. R. Craven. The club welcomes the new candi dates into its lair. Guests present were Lieut. Stew art, Jim Councill and E. W. Wright. The Boy Scouts present as guests of the club were Leonard Stone, W. B. York and Fred Councill. Councill and York are Watauga's first boys "to achieve the rank of Eagle Scouts. Lion Busteed stated that there are 105 Lions clubs in North Carolina. Twelve of this number are honor clubs. The Boone club is one of those 12 honor clubs in the state Red Cross Leaders Attend War Fund Meet Rev. E. F. Troutman, chairman; Clyde R. Greene, war fund chair man; R. D. Hodges, Sr., disaster chairman; Mrs. W. M. Grubbs, exe cutive secretary; Mrs. R. W. Wat kins, publicity chairman; and Mrs. M. R. Maddux, volunteer special service chairman, will represent the Watauga county chapter, American Red Cross, at the disaster institute and war fund conference which will be held in Statesville on Jan. 10 and 20, Rev. Mr. Troutman announce*. Joining the local representatives, as well as representatives of 22 oth er chapters in this area, will be per sons from the Southeastern Area of fice of the American Red Cross, At lanta. Regional Director F. P. Simer ville, Atlanta, will lead the discus sion on war fund planning and will be assisted by A. B. Murphy, assist ant manager of the Southeastern Area, who has been associated with the Red Cross in various capacities for more than ten years, and the general field representative. Charles L. Skarren, Jr., Red Cross field director, who went into France on De-plus-slx, tad later into Belgium and Germany with the infantry unit to which he was at tached, will recite some of his ex periences at the war fund r1'?'% session on the second day.
Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.)
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