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WATCH the i Independent Weekly Newspaper ? Established in the Year 1 686 BOONE, WATAUG^COUMTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, 1 JUNE 28, 194b VOL. LVH, NO. 52 WATAUGA STEPS |#P MONTHLY PAY I' TO NEEDY AGED Average Payment Under Peti tion Plan is >8.02 Month, Late - Survey Shows; Payment to Dependent Children Is Also Uppe* , As the state and its counties pre pare to go into another fiscal year next week. North Carolina public welfare agencies look forward to even greater accomplishments In 1940-46 than in the year coming to a close on Saturday^ During the past 12 months Wat auga county has increased its aver age payment monthly to needy aged persons from $8 33 to to $8.02. The state-wide average has gone up from $10.67 to $12.50, according to Dave P. Mast county welfare superinten dent. In this county there were 185 persons receiving old age assistance last June as compared with 183 this month. , Watauga county has increased its monthly average grant to families of dependent children from $16.34 to $18.23 for the 45 families now re ceiving aid. _ A year ago there were 46 families receiving this aid. The State average payment to dependent children is $24.76 for the month of June, 1845. A year ago it was $18.28. _? A year ago there were 81 private homSs in .Carolina in which children could be boarded tempo rarily while arrangements were be ing made for their permanent care. Now there ar 121 homes although a good number of them are in some of the more populous counties. Wat auga county has not establiahed such a home within the past year and ev ery effort is being made to provide (COHTIMUKD ON PAO* roUB) FEWER FARMS IN WATAUGA COUNTY Initial Census lUporl Ci ves Data f t ' ii1 Mid 81m of * ; Local Farms The number of farms in Watauga county, as shown by the preliminary count of returns of the 1945 census of agriculture was 2,601, as compar ed with 2,696 in 1940, and 2,614 in 19S0; This was announced today by Hugh M. Bailey, supervisor for the 1945 farm census in the sixth North Carolina census district with head quarters in Salisbury. The total land in farms in Wat auga county, according to the pre liminary 1945 census count, was 165,453 acres, as compared with 160, 798 acres in 1940, and 166,394 acres in 1935. Average size of farms shown in the preliminary 1945 cen sus count for Watauga was 63.6 acres, as compared with 59.6 acres in 1940, and 63.7 acres in 1935. In announcing the 1945 census to tals of farms and land in farms in the county. Supervisor Bailey point ed out that the figures are pre liminary and subject to correction. Final tabulations of Watauga county farm census returns will be made by the Bureau of the Census and an nounced from Washington when completed, Mr. Bailey said. TtVO ASSISTANTS NAMED AT ASM. Graduate School En- 1 Op 100 Piwwi Last Year Due to the increase in en- 1 rollmont in the ttaduate school ot Appalachian Coliejte for the summer dwoo,' two astiatsfcts have been added to the department. i ffceision to add the Assistants was ?reached after Dr. W. |W. Pierson, dean of the Univtsltj\ of North Carolina, was called htreVo consult with ' officials of Appalachian. It was pointed out that enrollment in (his division has iacreaoed py more than 100 percerit over the figure for M44. < Miss Louise Robles of DuPont school, Wilmington, bert BucboU of Tampa, <ng added aa assistants. While here, Dr. Pi the- student body on Higher Trends in Higher and a meeting of the "What is Research." ? - There will be a of the Woman's Thursday evening 7/V. Pmidentit] Honors ?. ?[ Pfc. Luther (kaggi, Jr. of Henderson. Kf, ae.fce nmItm the Congi-alunal Modal of Honor from PmUwi Truman. Critically wounded whan a Jap grenade ex ploded in Ms foxhole ?s Guam, he appBad a tourniquet t? his shat farad lap and for eight hours con tinued to return the eMmy's Hurley Producer! Required to Re-| port Pladtad Acreage to AAA All burley tobacco growers who plan to aril tobacco thii fall should report their planted tobacco acreage to their community committeemen named below, on June 30, at one of the following places: Bald Mountain township ? W. G. Cook's store, 9 a. m. to A p. m. ? W. F. NorrK W S. Miller, Glenn Howell. Beaver Dam No. 1 ? Community house, 9 a. m. to 12 m.; Don Haga man's store, 1 to S p. m. ? Sanford Creed, Clay Robinson, Dallks Wil son. Beaver Dam No. 2 ? Clyde Perry's | store, 9 a. m. to S p. m. ? Conley Nor ris, John Ward, Willard Dishman. Blue Ridg e ? Bamboo school, 9 a. I m. to 5 p. m. ? M. O. Coffey, F. L.| Hampton, Rom Cook. . Brushy Fork ? Harmon's store, 9 a. I m. to 5 p. m. ? Joe McNeil, C. A. | Clay, Tom Lawrence. Boone ? AAA office, 9 a. m. to S| (CONTINUED ON PAOE rOUB) SGT. EARL SOUTH IS UKTAT SEA Nephew of Boon* Man Loses Life White Being Transported to S-Sgt. Earl South, son of Mr. and Mrs. Blaine South, or Deerwood, Minn., was loat at sea on Oct. 24, 1944, when the transport on which he was being taken from the Philip pines to Japan as a prisoner of war, was sunk. The information came in a letter tb an uncle of the deceased, Austin E. South, of Boone. Sgt. South had been a prisoner of the Japs since the fall of Corrige dor, early in the war, and the place of his death was given as the South China Sea. A twin brother, Orist South, is in a hospital in the Mari anas, recovering from wounds re ceived on Okinawa. Sgt. South's parents left Boone | almost 30 years ago. Junior Order Names / 'New Slate Officer* At the last regular meeting of Daniel Boone Council No. 129, Jr. Order United American Mechanics^ the following officers ware elected: Councilor, Wm. Cook; vice-coun-| cilor, B. K. Osborne; financial retary, Clyde R. Greene; recording secretary, Russell D. Hodges; treas urer, W. C. Greer, conductor, Dee Shoemake; warden, Chas. Osborne; inside sentinel, S. B. Greene, outside sentinel, W. S. Christian; chaplain, Howard Shore. ? The degree team from North Wilkeaboro Council will put on the three degrees of -the order at Elk Park on Saturday night, June JO, at 8:30 o'clock. Any and all members from the Danfctt Boone Council are invited to stUnd iNl ?isallllg, pro vided you let either Mr. Wm. Cook or Mr. B. JC. Osborne know that you will g? by rriday of this weak. PTC. JAMES D. MAJtSH is at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Marsh, of Boone, alt a 30-day furlough from the Aahford General Hospital, White Sulphur Springs, Va. Pfc. Marsh, who rwdvtd se rious injuries during the invasion of France, is recovering. TOWINSEND IS NEW STATE ATTORNEY; LENOIR RESIDENT Governor Names Lenoir Man to Succeed L. S. Spurting; Solid* tor Waa Law Partner of W* C. Newland; Will Not Stand for Election, He Says . Folger L. Townsend, Lenoir at torney, was. appointed Thursday by Governor Cherry as solicitor of the 18th judicial district, to succeed the late L. S. S purlin*. He was imme diately sworn in by Associate Jus tice A. A. F. Sea well. Mr. Spurting, who had held The important post tor the past 18 years, died at his home in Lenoir on June 13. The district is composed of Wat auga, Caldwell, Burke, Catawba, Cleveland and Lincoln counties. The new solicitor has practiced law in Caldwell county since he took his law degree in 1028. He became a partner of the late Lt. Governor W. C. Newland in a firm known as Newland & Townsend, and was later associated with his cousin, Nat C. Townsend, who is jjpfejd in the armed services. He has prosecuted criminal dock ets in Caldwell superior court and in Surrounding counties a number of times since Mr. Spurting became ill last fall. Mr. Townsend is a member of the Methodist church, chairman of the Caldwell county library board, and is a member of the Knights of Pythias. He is married to the for mer Miss Laura Abemethy, of Hick ory, and they have two children. There were seven candidates in the district for the poat besides Mr. Townsend. Every county in the dis- ' trict except Watauga and Catawba had one or more who aspired to be come solicitor. Burke had three candidates, C. E. Cowan and O. L. Horton, with for mer Judge Sam Ervin offering to accept an interim appointment; Cleveland county offered C. C. Horn; M. T. Lea therm an, of Lin coln county, was a candidate With Kemp Nixon suggested for an in terim appointment In Caldwell Attorney L. H. Wall was also a can didate. In a letter to the governor ac cepting the appointment, Townsend said he would not stand for re-elec tion to the office at the end of the term, which ends January 1, 1947. Miss Laura Wilson Diet At Home on New River Miss Laura Virginia Wilson, 78, died at her home on New River, near Boone on June 17', after a long period of failing health. Funeral services were conducted at Three Forks Baptist Church on June 10th, by Rev. Raymond Hendrix, and burial was in the Ray cemetery. Surviving to one sister, Mrs. J. C. Greene, of Boone. There are two nieces, Miss Alma Greene, of the the home; Mrs. John Frank Johnson, Farmington, N. C., and one nephew, C. R. Greene, of Willoughby, Ohio. Mils Wilson was born in Boone, December IS, 1866, the daughter of Albert P. end Elizabeth Councill Wilson. She spent almost her en tire life at the home on New River. A kindly, modest soul, with a rare sympathy and understanding of oth ers, she moved quietly in her little home circle, making friends of all who knew her? loved and loving. Boone Native Pilots Plane of General Ike Lieut. Joe Brannock, native of Beone, and son of Mr. Ben F. Bran nock and the late Mrs. Brannock. piloted General Ike Isenhower't plane from Germany to londoil, when the general was en route to the States, according to a letter from Lieut. Brannock to a niece. Miss Kathryn Gabbard, of Hickory. Lieut. Brannock has been flying in the European theatre of opera tions for the past two years. Scouts On Outing Trip To Winston-Salem Camp The following local Boy Scouts an spending a four weeks' outing at Camp L Mater, Scout camp near Win ston-Salem: Billy Crawford, Joe Galther, Grady Moretz, Jr., Billy Greer, W. B. York, Jr., C. P. Cal loway, Fred Councill, Bdwin N. Troutman and Pete Storie. PVT. BATCH BRAY AM, of Fort Knox, Ky? returned to his port of duty Monday after spending a week at the home of his mother, Mrs B. HBtypa, of Boone. Independence Summer While House ih it UNITED -NATIONS END PEACE TALKS Pmldtol Truman Lauds Maw In strument a C Peace as Con ference Ends San Francisco, June 26 ? United nations statesmen signed today the charter of a new world organization and President Truman closed one of the great assemblies of history with an assurance that "you have created a great instrument for peace." "The world must now use itt" Mr. Truman said. ? ? Addressing the final plenary aes sion of the United Nations confer ence, the chief executive appealed to delegates of 60 nations 'to make the charter "a living thing," to seak its immediate ratification. Me prom ised: '1 shall send this charter to the United States senate at once. *1 am sure that the overwhelming senti ment of the people of my country and of their representatives in the senate is in favor of immediate rati fication." ! Mr. Truman was given a rising ovation. He smiled and, extending his arms outward, declared, "Oh what a great day this can be in his tory." Facing him as he spoke were the men apd women who met here two months and a day ago to draft a master plan for peace. Behind him was a bright blue background, with the flags of all the united nations silhouetted against it, interspersed between four austere, golden col umns. Speaking with a trace of Missouri tang, Mr. Truman told dignitaries gathered from the world over they had justified the confidence and hope Of peace-loving people. Secretary of State Stettinius in troduced Mr. Truman by saying simply, "Fellow delegates, the Presi dent of the Uiited States." As Mr. Truman spoke there were frequent outbursts of applause. Members of the army, navy and the marine service*, including WACS, WAVES and SPARS, stood at rigid attention in a semicircle behind the President." "With this charter," the President said, "the world can begin to look forward to the time when all wor thy human beings may be permit ted to live deteently as free peo ple . "It we should falter in the future In our will to use it, millions, now living will surely die . . . "Let us not fail to gratcp thfe su preme chance to establish a world wide rule of reason ? to create an enduring peace under the guidance of OodT .j ) Memorial Service at Meat Camp Church The annual memorial, service will be held at Meat Camp Baptist church the tint Sunday in July, at 2 o'clock. Hev Ben L Bay of Blowing Hock, will deliver the ser mon. Ihm public la iftvtted to at tend. .'fa , " ? PTC HOWARD E. W1M1EBAROEB has been awarded the Combat In fantry badge for participation In the battle ollbthr pocket, including the capture of 8eigburg and Dussel dorf and C? chaalovakian campaign. He la a membor of Co. B, 803rd regi ment, 97 th infantry division. His wile, Mr*. Ruth E. Winebarger, re IVAN CHURCH IS HURT IN CRASH Mabel Man R*c*1tm N*m Fatal In juries la Crash of Automobiles Saturday Nighi Ivan Church, of Mabel, an em ployee of Watauga Hardware, Inc., Boone, is a patient at th? Banner Elk hospital, where his condition is described as (lightly improved, but still critical, <is a result of injuries sustained in an automobile wreck near Mountain City Saturday night Mr. Ctuycl^gMffered two fractures oFthejaw and a severe laceration of the throat. So much blood was lost by the injured man before he could' <b* aided that transfusions were necessary. However, them am good prosgects for his recovery, it ia Mr. Church was injured when the car occupied by he and Ralph C rite her, was struck head-on by an automobile occupied by two West Virginia men. Information is that the latter am being held in jail at Mountain City pending the outcome of Mr. Church's injuries. Mr. Critcher was uninjured. PFCHOUCK DIES IN OKINAWA FIGHT Resident of Boone Killed ia Action With Sixth Marine Division Pfc. Bowie M. Houck, of Boone, was killed in action on June 10, in the fighting for Okinawa Island, bis wife, Mrs. Lois Palmer Houck, of Boone, has been advised, but no fur ther particulars were given. Pfc. Houck had been in the Marine Corps since May, 1M4, and at the time of his death was with the Sixth division. Surviving are the widow and two children, Patsy and Jerry; the par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Carr Houck, for mer residents of Btone, now living in ' the Todd neighborhood. One brother. Pvt. Ernest Houck, is in the army stationed in the State of Okla homa. Slaughter Permits Must Be Secured Farmers in Watauga county were reminded today that in osder to ?laughter meat for uric during IMS they muat have pCrmit from the War Price and Rationing Board by July 1, Richard E. Olaen said today. Even though a farmer may not wish to slaughter meat until fall or winter, Mr. Olsen pointed out, he muit register with the War Price and Rationing Board before July 1 and establish a quota base for slaughtering. ? ~ ' Stores of City to Close For July Fourth WAR LOAN GOES TO FINAL STAGE Win T BONDS BEHIND Only 60 Percent ef Leal Quota b Subscribed u Chairmen Mekes Final Appeal to Peo ple to Buy Bonds; Bfcpotto Are Asked I ? I Watauga county goes into the final stages of the Seventh War Lean campaign with $7S,000 of its "I" bond quota of $196,000 subscribed, falling somewhat short of the state average at this time, and Chairman Clyde R. Greene insists oo heavy last minute purchases of these bonds by individuals in order that the county may not fall to mSke its quota. While the campaign officially ends next Saturday it has been siiniW to credit all "E" bond sales against the Seventh War Loan quota up to and including Saturday, July 7. Mr. Greene asks that issuing agents make their reports of sale* ss promptly as possible in order that the county may art. credit for all sales made. A finSJ report as to. the overall subscription 'as well as the "E" bonds, will be made at the con clusion of the campaign. Mr. Greene re-emphasizes the se riousness of the war*kituatk?n and appeals earnestly to the people to invest th4ir surplus cash in the gov ernment securities, and thus speed the victory over the Japs and the return of hundreds of our young men who have offered their lives in [this hoqr of their nation's destiny. 12 INVOLVED IN I PRISON BREAK StrM Caariek Are Sawed la Call Twelve convicts, "moat of them long-term prisoner*, escaped from the state prison camp near Boone Saturday night, after ' they had sawed a bar from a window in the sleeping quarters. By Tuesday aft ernoon seven of the men had been recaptured. Those retaken include Lloyd Hea ter Hit*, of Rockingham county, who was captured in Polk county after he allegedly escaped la a stolen pick-up, serving a 25-year sentence; Charlie Robbins. of Wilmington, who was captured Sunday morning at Sugar Grove, seven mi lea from the camp; F. R. Vermilyea, of Wichita, Kansas, serving 35 years; Edward Minton. of Thorn asville, serving 12 years; Luther Dishman and Thomas Barefoot, who wege taken at Zionville. and Frank Dun can, captured at Valle Crucis. None of the prisoners offered resistance. Listed as still at large were David Stephenson, of Dunn, sentenced to 22 years; David C. Tarlton. of Kan napolis, serving seven to nine yean; Fred McLamb, of Fayetteville; John W. Westfall, Charleston, W. Va? and Ed Patton, Jr., of Morgan ton. FRANK BALDWIN IS WAR CASUALTY Pfc. Frank Baldwin, Son of Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Baldwin, of Blow ing Rock, was killed in action in Germany on April 26, his family has bam advised. He had been in the service since April, 1M2, and over-* sees a in oft January, IMS. He had been awarded the Purple Heart. Surviving are five brothers: Sant ford Baldwin, in Italy; Daniel and Gordon, Blowing Rock; James Bald win, Lenoir, and George Baldwin. Morgan ton; four sisters, Mrs. Gor don Pitts, Blowing Rock; Mrs. Les ter Ragan, Asheville; Mrs. Mary Ethel Rader, Collettsville, ami My ron Baldwin, CoUettavllle. 'V F"S a Had Her* on Jiaqr 6 Clyde R. Greene, president of the Watauga Farm Bureau, again attention to the fact that It. Shaw, executive secretary of State organ iration, wifl mesh to a mass meeting of Watauga f L? 8, at 8:30 o'c All farmers rfl vited to attend : sound
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