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. VOL. LVII, NO. 43 it . B?ONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY,,. APRIL 26, 1945 . $1.50 A YEAR?8c A COPY
TYPHOID CUMCS
SLATED TO START
HERE NEXT WEEK
Vaccination Dates for Different
Sections of the County Are
Given Out by District Health
' Department; Seek to Prevent
Another Typhoid Epidemic
The typhoid clinics this year will
begin on May 2, Mrs. Virginia Smith,
county health nurae, announced to
day. Following is a complete Ust of
the dates and plates where the vac
cinations may be secured. It will be
noticed that some of the places,
where cliftics have been held in
previous years, are otnmitted this
year, due to the fact that only a
few people attended the clinic and
it is to save time, gas and expense
that they are omitted.
"We would like to emphasize
that only one trip will be made to
each place," Mrs. Smith said. "So
read your dates carefully and be
there at the appointed time. Should
you miss the local clinic, call by the
health district office on Monday or
Saturday morning and receive your
dose theri- Let's all co-operate and
take the vaccination to prevent the
epidemic we had last summer."
May 2
Vilas (Glenn's store), 9:30 to 10:30
a. m.
Cove Creek (Moody's store), 11:00
to 12:00 a. m.
Silverstone. 1:30 to 2:30 p. m.
Mabel school, 3:00 to 4:00 p. m.
May 8
Poplar Grove church 9:30 to 10:30
a. m.
Shulls Mills postoffice, 11:00 to
12:00 a. m.
Foscoe, 1:00 to 2:00 p. m.
Grandfather, 2:30 to 3:30 p. m.
May 9
Hagaman's store, 10:00 to 11:00
a. m.
Reecc (Dean Recce's store) 11:30
a. m. to 12:30 p. m.
Bethel school, 1:30 to 2:30 p. m.
Timbered Ridge church, 3:00 to
4:00 p. m.
May 10
Steven's store, 10:00 to 11 a. m.
Green Valley school, 11:30 a. m.
to 12:30 p. m.
Riverview school, 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.
May 15
Rutherwood (Michael's store) 9:30
to 10:30 a. m.
Triplett school, 11:00 to 12:00
a. m.
Deep Gap school, 1:00 to2:00 p. m.
Stony Fork school, 2:30 to 3:30
p. m.
May 17
Brushy Fork (Harrison & Har
mon's store) 9:30 to 10:30 a. m.
Valle Crucis school, 11:00 to 12:00
a. m.
Matney (Clyde Tester's store) 1:30
to 2:30 p. m.
May 23
Bamboo school, 9:30 to 10:30 a. m.
Laxon postoffice, 11:00 to 12:00
a. m
Howard's Creek school, 1:30 to
2:30 p. m.
Meat Camp, 3:00 to 4:00 p. m.
May 24
Phillips Branch (Willowdale
church) 9:30 to 10:30 a. m.
Victor Ward's store, 11:30 a. m.
to 12:30 p. m.
Windy Gap school, 2:00 to 3:00
p. m.
Scout Training
Committees To Hear
National Director
Harry K. Eby, national director of
volunteer training. Boy Scouts of
America, will visit the Old Hickory
councill to instruct the seven lead
ership training committees of the
area on May 3-4. Announcement of
two meetings in the council has
been made by Tom Roth, area
chairrpan, of Elkin,
On Thursday, May 3, Mr. Eby
will meet with a group from Ashe,
Watauga and Wil^s districts in a
a meeting here. iDr. D. J. White
ner, Wataupa district leadership
training chairman^ will be in charge
of the meeting. Attendance for
Ashe is to be promoted by M. W.
Reynolds, and from Wilkes by Paul
Cragan.
Friday, May 4, Mr. Roth will pre
side at a meeting in Elkin.
The meetings will be for the pur
paw of "training trainers." Mr. Eby
will use a set of colored slides in
demonstrating how to put on the
' Fundamentals of the Boy Scout
Movement" course, and a motion
picture on "The Patrol Method" for
use in the presentation of the basic
Scoutmasters' training course.
Parent-Teacher Group
To Meet Monday, 30th
The Boone Parent-Teacher Asso
ciation will hold its final meeting
of the school year Monday, April 30,
8 p. m., in the high school auditori
um. 9
The subject of the program will
he "Recreational Possibilities far
Boone." A 30-minutc movie, "Mak
ing the Most of Playtime," will be
shown, followed by group discussion
of jpOMible programs for Boone.
Everyone interested is urged to
Founders Day Speaker
TT.'I't 1 i
SENATOR CLYDE R. HOEY
FOUNDERS DAY AT
LOCAL COLLEGE
Senator Clyde R. Ho?y to B< Prin
cipal SpNku at First Founders
Day ai Appalachian
Appalachian State Teachers Col
lege is announcing the first Foun
ders Day on Tuesday, May, QUpic
day before the forty-second afflRial"
commencement exercises, thus mak
ing it a part of the commencement
occasign. Many guests have been
invitafl, among whom are the par
ents of the present student body.
United States Senator Clyde R.
Hoey is to be the speaker at 10:00
o'clock Tuesday morning. Senator
Hoey introduced the bill in the North
Carolina general assembly to make
Appalachian a state school.
Nazi Resistance
Crumbling Along
Bavarian Front
Paris, April 2fi?Whirling down on
Hitler's Bavarian mountain retreat,
three mighty allied armies curved
the tips of a giant pincers within
25 miles of Austria's border last
night.
In the far north, the British open
ed the final assault on Germany's
second port of Bremen, and along
the Elbe river valley the Russians
drew ever closer to an historic
union with the waiting Americans.
Berlin blazed in its final agonies
and Nazi propagandists said Hitler
himself was within the crumbling
capital, directing military opera
tions. Other European sources, how
ever, expressed belief that he al
ready had fled to his Berchtesgaden
redoubt toward which the American
third and seventh and French first
armies were beating a triple drive
Supreme headquarters, reporting
the allies had captured more than a
million Germans in the west since
April 1, heard that resistance on part
of the Bavarian front was crumbling
while along the Elbe river German
soldiers were racing with civilians
to surrefider to the Americans be
fore the Russians catch them.
Germans Forced
To Bury Laborers
Whom They Burned
On the. Elbe River in Germany?
The citizens of Gamelegen became
sickly familiar with each grisly de
tail of the infamous atrocities com
mitted there by their countrymen.
At the point of bayonets they dug
individual graves for each of the
1,100 slave laborers and political
prisoners who were burned to death
in a Gardelegen barn a few nights
ago.
Two Russian Armies
_ Join Forces in Berlin
London April 2S?Two powerful
Russian armies joined forces inside
Berlin yesterday and seized fully
half the area of the burning city
which the Germans said now was
"practically surrounded" and en
tirely cut off from outside aid.
A Moscow communique announc
ed the junction of the first Ukranian
and first White Russian armies in a
single phase of co-ordinated drives
which captured Schlesischer railway
station and all districts north and.
east of it, within a mile of the cen
ter of the city 'at Unter Den Linden.
The first White Russian forces of
Marshal Zhukov simultaneously ex
ecuted a great wheeling movement
north and northwest which severed
one of the two railways leading
from Berlin to the northwest Ger
man pocket and came within two
and one-half miles of the other,
Moscow disclosed.
The Russian account showed the
city still lacking some 14 miles of
being surrounded. The German con
trolled Scandinavian telegraph bu
reau said, however, that there was
only a three-mile corridor left on
the northwest and that it could not
be used because it was blanketed
by Soviet henvy artillery Are. No
more reinforcements cm be sent In,
said this report.
FINALS WILL BE
HELD WEDNESDAY
AT APPALACHIAN
Hon. D. Hiden Ramsey, of Ashe
ville Citizen, to Deliver Ad
dress at Forty-second Annual
Commencement Thirty - five
to Get Degrees
The forty-second annual com
mencement of Appalachian State
Teachers College will be held on
Wednesday morning, May 9th, at
10:30 o'clock. Hon. D. Hiden Ram
sey, editor of the Asheville Citizen,
and a member of the State Board of
Education, will deliver the address.
The college will confer upon 35
young men and women bachelor of
science degrees. The North Carolina
Department of Certification will is
sue to these graduates Class "A"
certificates in their respective fields.
Seventeen member sof the senior
class were graduated just before the
holiday season, making a total for
the regular school term of fifty-two.
In addition to this there will be a
good-sized graduating class at the
close of the summer school.
The public is cordially invited to
attend these exercises.
LOCAL RED CROSS
LEADER HONORED
Clyde R. Greene Receives Certificate
of Merit in Connection With
War Fund Campaign
The Watauga chapter of the
American Red Cross announces that
Mr. Clyde R. Greene has received
a certificate of honor from the
American National Red Cross, "for
distinguished achievement in the
1945 War Fund campaign."
Mr. Greene was chairman of the
local War Fund effort, and it is
pointed out that these certificates
are only issued where counties
make outstanding records in their
contributions. Watauga had a quota
of $6,700, and - at last reports had
actually subscribed $8,603.96.
RAGS WANTED
IN SCRAP DRIVE
Salvage Chairman Calls Attention
to Need of Rags as Well as
Scrap Paper
A campaign to gather rags of ev
ery description is being started im
mediately in the county, according
to Frank M. Payne, chairman of
the local salvage committee, who
points out that rags are quite as
essential to the war effort as is
scrap paper, which has recently
been gathered here in such large
quantities.
Mr. Payne is forming an organiza
tion through the various school prin
cipals of the county to sponsor the
campaign to gather rags, and states
that it is his purpose to, designate
a collection point in each school dis
trict, with a central point of collec
tion in Boone. Further details con
cerning the rag campaign, which
lasts for 30 days, will be released
later.
C. R. McGhee Funeral
Held On Monday
Funeral services for Charles Ross
McGhee, 69, of Winston-Salem, were
conducted Monday afternoon at
3:30 o'clock at the home and at 4
o'clock at Mineral Springs Baptist
church. Rev. R. E. Adams, Rev. E.
P. Caudle and Rev. C. F. Womble
officiated. Burial was in Forsyth
Memorial park.
Mr. McGhee died at a Winston
Salem hospital Saturday following
a serious illness of two days.
Born in Watauga county Sept. 4,
1875, Mr. McGhee went to Winston
Salem 30 years ago from Wilkesboro
and for 25 years was connected
with the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco
Company, from which he retired in
1944.
He was a member of the Mineral
Springs Baptist church.
On Sept. 25, 1898, he was married
to Mary C. Clanton, who died Feb.
4. 1945.
Surviving are one son. W. C. Mc
Ghee; three grandchildren; one
brother, R. T. McGhee, of Boone;
and one sister, Mrs. U. A. Hatton,
of Blowing Rock.
Memorial Service For
Two to Be Held Sunday
Memorial service for Pvt. John M.
Edrnisten and Pfc. William H. Vines,
of Beaver Dam township, neighbor
boys and lifelong friends, killed in
the European theatre of war, will
be held Sunday, April 29, at Bethel
Baptist church, under the leadership
of the pastor of 'the church. Rev.
Robert H. Shore. The American
Legion will take part in the pro
gram. ?*'
Through an error in the last edi
tion of The Democrat the hour of
the service, which is 3 o'clock p. m.,
was omitted.
AS MILLIONS PAY LAST TRIBUTE
Miiiiincafr .*??*
With in* Capitol dome an imposing backdrop, tha military pro
cession, headed by the caisson bearing Franklin D. Roosevelt's body,
winds its way down Delaware avenue toward the White House. The
sad journey from Union station was viewed by millions. Tha presi
dential and U. S. flags bring up the rear.
Killed In Germany
Pfc. Benjamin F. Lookabill. who
was killed in action in the light
ing in Germany on March 21. Pfc.
Lookabill was a member of the
12th Armored division and had
been in service since December
24. 1942. He went overseas last
October. He was a ton of Mr.
and Mrs. H. R. Lookabill, of Route
2. Boone.
BLAINE HAYES IS
RILLED IN ACTION
Son of Mr. and Mrs. James Hayes of
Triplett, is Victim of Jape in
New Invasion
Blaine Hayes, son of Mr. and Mrs.
James Hayes, of Triplett, was killed
in action with the navy off Okina
wa, in the recent invasion, according
to an official message 'reaching the
family Sunday. It was stated that
the body was buried at sea.
Young Mr. Hayes, 19 years old,
was known to have been a member
of the crew of a destroyer, but
whether or not the vessel was sunk,
was not indicated. He had been in
the navy for almost two years, it
is said.
Surviving are the parents and a
number of brothers and sisters.
Memorial Service
To Be Held At
Hopewell Church
There will be a memorial service
for boys in the service for their
country at Hopewell Methodist
church on the firth Sunday in April,
the 29th, at 2:30 p. m., to which ev
eryone is cordially invited. Rev.
Ernest Stephens, pastor of the
church, will be in charge of the
service.
"GOLDEN BELL QUARTET"
TO BE HEARD IN BOONE
The "Golden Bell Quartet" which
is heard over radio station WBT,
will appear at the courthouse in
Boone on May 6, at 2 p. m. The pro
gram is sponsored by the Missionary
Baptist church, colored congregation
of the town, which is trying to thus
pay the debt of the church. Both
colored and white are invited. Ad
mission 90 centa and 35 cents.
APPOINTED TO rSA POST
Mrs. Margaret Hardin McLeod, of
Boone, has been appointed clerk
typist with the Farm Security Ad
ministration here, having made the
highest grade in a civil service ex
amination held for that position
some time ago. Mrs. McLeod assum
ed her duties the first qf last week.
CRAWFORD WON'T
ENTER CITY RACE
Lea Stout Substituted by Executive
Committee to FIU Democratic
City Slate
Joe Crawford, nominated by the
Democratic convention as a candi
date for one of the seats on the
town's three-man board of alder
men, has withdrawn from the mu
nicipal ticket, stating in a letter to
the executive committee that he is
unable' to accept the nomination.
The committee, through Chair
man J. C. T. Wright, announces the
acceptance of Mr. Crawford's with
drawal statement, and the appoint
ment of Lee H. Stout, incumbent, to
fill out the ticket. Thus the entire
slate of the present city adminis
tration is up for re-election.
The Republicans have not as this
is written announced their munici
pal ticket.
Justice Made Keynote
Of All Decisions On
International Cases
San Francisco, April 24?The four
sponsoring governments of the Uni
ted Nations conference have agreed
to support specific proposals that
international disputes be settled
"with due regard for principles of
justice and international law."
This was made known to reporters
today by Secretary of State Stetti
nius, chairman of the American
delegation and temporary presiding
officer of the conference opening to
morrow. ?
The announcement came soon aft
er all the, British commonwealth
lined up behind a Russian demand
for three votes in a general assem
bly of a proposed united nations
organization.
The Chinese originated the Vug
gestion to include references to jus
tice and international law in the
proposed charter of the organiza
tion.
An American delegate. Senator
Vendeberg, also had been hammer
ing for a, pronouncement specifi
cally embracing the word "justice."
Standing behind Settinius at a mam
moth news conference in a hotel,
Vandenbcrg uttered one sentence:
"I'm very happy to welcome justice
in its first appearance, in this in
stance.
Stettinius batted back a host of
questions on the touchy Polish sit
uation?one of the major issues on
the eve of the meeting of 46 nations
seeking to guide the world into the
j ways of permanent peace.
Drivers License To Be
Issued Each Tuesday
J. C. Spencer, of Lenoir, will be at
the city hall each Tuesday for the
purpose of issuing drivers license
to motorists of this section. Mr.
Spencer will be will be on duty
from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m.
Pfc. Ralph Sherwood
WounJed in Germany
Pf. Ralph Sherwood, son of Mr,
and Mrs. Jim Sherwood, of Beaver
Dam township, ha* been slightly
wounded in action in Germany, his
parents have been advised.
Pfc. Sherwood is recovering in a
hospital in England.
PlAlfO RECITAL
Students studying with Mrs.
Boone will be heard In recital Fri
day evening, April 27, at 7:30 in the
college auditorium. The public ii
invited.
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STATE DOCKET IS
FINISHED TUESDAY
IN SUPERIOR COURT
Number of Case* Disposed of;
Charge of Driving While In
toxicated Heads List of Viola
tions; Judge Bobbitt Presides;
Wall is Prosecutor ?
The spring term of Watauga su
perior court disposed of the list of
cases on the state docket at mid
afternoon Tuesday, and court was
recessed until this (Wednesday)
morning, when the calendar of civil
cases was taken up. Court offi
cials state that the term may last
through the week or into next week,
depending on whether or not the
parties to the suits are ready for
trial, and have witnesses present.
Judge W. H. Bobbitt is the pre
siding judge, and L. M. Wall, of
Lenoir, prosecuted the state docket.
Solicitor L. S. Spurling being absent
due to illness.
Following are the judgments of
the court:
Simon Wheeler, driving drunk, 90
days on the roads.
Howard T. Hodges, driving drunk,
$90 and the costs.
Walter Bumgarner, driving drunk,
60 days on roads.
Howard Thomas, driving drunk,
90 days on h>ads.
Charlie Cole, driving drunk, $50
and costs.
James P. Mast, violating prohi
bition laws, $100. and the costs.
Eugene Bumgapier, driving drunk,
$50 and the costs.
Spencer R. Eggers, driving drunk,
$50 and the costs.
Millard M. Moretz, driving drunk,
$50 and the costs.
Dewey Rominger, driving drunk,
$50 and the costs.
Charles S. Robbins, driving drunk,
$50 and the costs.
Blaine Eggers, larceny of gasoline,
20 months on the roads. A suspen
ded sentence passed in a former
court was placed in effect.
I Robert W. Artie, larceny. Defend
ant had already spent almost five
months in jail. \This was adjudged
to be sufficient punishment.
Buster Grimes, violation' prohi
tion law, $25 and the costs.
Trent L. Greer, driving drunk,
$50 and the costs.
Clint Grimes, driving drunk, 90
days on roads.
J. C. Lyda, temporary larceny of
automobile, placed on probation.
Leonard Rominger, driving drunk,
60 days on robds.
Robert W. Carpenter, operating
motor vehicle with improper driv
er's license. Assessed with costs.
Herman Keller
Return* Home
Cpl. Herman Keller, son of Mr.
artd Mrs. W. J. Keller, of Pineola,
has Yetumed home after spending
33 months in a Japanese prison
camp. Cpl. Keller was one of 910
prisoners rescued by Rangers and
guerrillas from a Jap camp on Lu
zon February 1.
A 24 year-old man, he weighed
120 pounds when rescued but was
strong enough to serve as a litter
bearer in rescuing prisoners unable,
to walk. Today a little, more than
two months later he weighs 170
pounds. When rescued he had no
clothing except a pair of shorts.
During his nearly three years in
prison he said he was assigned to
farm work, growing egg plant,
sweet potatoes, cucumbers, squash
and rice. He was in two battles on
Bataan and was captured when' the
islands fell to the Japs in the spring
of 1942. He is a patient at Moore
General Hospital, Asheville.
China Relief Tied in
With Drive for Clothes
April 24 was set aside as a special
day for Chinese relief and any
special donations may be brought
to the Woman's Club rooms - and
should be marked for China relief,
says Mrs. Ralph Grper, chairman
for-the clothing relief program for
war victims, who is working with
Mrs. W. M. Burwell, chairman of
the! China relief in this county.
Either of them will supply further
information to those interested. ?
For seven yean, it is pointed out,
China has been fighting the aggres
sor during which time more than
50,000,000 people have been rpbbed
of their possessions and driven from
their homes. The Chinese know
what it is to be cold and destitute,
the statement concludes.
Lion* Club Show
Was Big Success
The "Gay Ninettes Revue",. an
nual Lions Club show presented at
the Appalachian Theatre last Wed
nesday, was on* of the most suc
cessful club shows staged in recent
years. The revue was well attended
and the proceeds from sale at tick
ets amounted to $370.00.
Each year the Lions Club ujiousry
a show in order to raise finds te as
sist the club in carrying on its woak
with blind children in Watauga
county. The club also works with
the Boy Scouts and civic