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An Independent Weekly Newspaper ? Established in the Year 1 888.^
BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1945
VOL. LVHI, NO. 2
WATCH
DAIRY FARMERS
TO GET HIGHER
PAYMENTS IN CO.
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Production Payments to Farm
ers Are Stepped Up for Cur
rent Quarter, Says Triple-A
Official; Applications Are to
Be Filed Soon
Dairy farmers in Watauga county
will have benefit of increased pay
ment rates for milk 'and butterfat
production payments during the
current quarter, beginning July 1,
according to W. W. Mast, ^hairman
of the Watauga County AAA Com
mittee. These government pay
ments to milk and butterfat pro
ducers are adjusted quarterly to re
flect changes in product)^ costs.
^The new rates 'for this county for
milk and butterfat production in
July, August and September, will be
75 cents per hundred pounds for
milk, and 13 cents per pound for
butterfat, Mr. Mast said.. Rates for
the quarter just ended were 55 cents
per hundred pounds for milk and 10
cents per pound for butterfat.
"Dairy farmers here are making
every effort to increase milk pro
duction," the chairman said. "High
er payments for production during
the current three-months period
will help offset the exta feed bills
when pastures brown off during the
summer and more feed and hay
have to be fed to maintain pro
duction levels."
The dairy production payments,
initiated in the fall of 1943, are made
direct to producers by the Watauga
County AAA Committee upon sub
mission of sufficient evidence of
production and sales, and are design
ed to take care of the increase in
production costs without raising the
prices of milk and milk products to
consumers. Since started, the pro
gram has helped farmers push milk
output to record levels without
breaking the barriers against infla
tion.
Applications for payments on milk
and butterfat production during
April, May and June should be filed
as soon as possible at the Watauga
County AAA office, but not later
than August 31, Chairman Mast said,
oight drafts, negotiable immediate- 1
ly, are issued at the time applica
tions are filed by producers.
L. B. Swofford Buys
Local Tire Business
Mr. L. B. Swofford, native Mc
Dowell county man, has purchased
the tire recapping plant and the
Goodyear agency from the Main
Street Station, and has assumed ac
tive management of the Business, re
taining the original workers in the
plant.
Mr. Swofford is an experienced
tire m^ and had been responsibly
employed by the Goodyear Tire and
Rubber Company Mfore going into
thS>army. He spent three years in
the army, and when discharged a
few weeks ago was a first lieutenant.
He spent one year in the European
theatre, where he commanded a
rifle company in the invasion of
Normany and in the battle for
Trance. He was twice wounded and
received his release as a result of
the second injury. Mrs. Swofford
and small son, Billie, will join Mr.
Swofford soon Mid the family will
establish resicAce in the Tom
Davis house in Daniel Boone Park.
Ration Guide
ProcMMd Foods
T2, U2, V2, W2, X2, now valid,
expire July 31; Y2, Z2, Al, Bl, CI.
now valid, expire August 31; D1
through HI, now valid, expire Sept.
30; J1 through N 1, expire Oct. 31.
Mm] and Fats
K2 through P2, now valid, expire
July 31; Q2 through U2, now valid,
expire Aug. 31; V2 through Z2, now
valid, expire Sept 30; Al through
71, now valid, expire October 31.
Sugar stamp 38 expires Aug. SI.
Airplane stamps Hos. i, 2 and 3,
in Book Three, continue valid in
definitely.
Gasoline ,
A-16 coupons valid through Sept.
21. Each car owner must write his
license number and state on each gas
coupon as soon as it isr issued to
hfan. Mileage rationing record must
be presented when applying for all
passenger car gasoline rations.
SINGING AT WEST JEFFEHSOW
All vocalists of Watauga couftty
.are invited to a singing convention
to be held at the t First Baptist
'Church in West Jefferson next
Sunday, July 15, beginning at 1
o'clock p. ra. \ V
;>To Speak Here
M. L. FUNKKOUSER
E. A. L. OFFICIAL
C. OF C. SPEAKER
Air LIdm RspressnlatWe Will Speak
.. of the Skyway* of Today
and Tomorrow
Mr. M. L. Funkhouser, district
manager for the Eastern Air Lines,
whose offices are located in Char
lotte, will be the guest speaker at
the dinner meeting of the Chamber
of Commerce, which will be held at
the Gateway Cafe Thursday evening
at 7:30.
Mr. Funkhouser will us? as the
subject of his address, "The Sky
ways of Today and Tomorrow." He
will speak authoritatively, as an air
lines operator, and a former pilot,
who has flown over this immediate
area, and knows something of the
country.
The Chamber of Commerce has for
some time been discussing the pos
sibility- of securing a landing strip,
or some place i that could be used
for airport purposes, and the special
commkti c will make a report of
these efforts at this meeting.
Mr. H. W. Wilcox, president of the
Chamber of Commerce, insists that
everyone interested in development
of post-war aviation, for this com
munity be present.
CONGRESS AMENDS
FARM LOAN ACT
Landing Powers of Land Banks and
Farm Loan Associations
Increased
O. H. Bradfe, secretary-treasurer
of the North Wilkesbofo National
Farm Loan Association, said today
that under the new legislation re
cently enacted by congress, it will be
possible for the association to handle
loans more expeditiously and that
more of the lending process turned
over to the associations, the repre
sentative borrowers will be told
more quickly of what action will be
taken on their applications for long
term loans from Uje.JTederal Land
Bank of Columbia. A
Under the new law, the land
bank may lend up io 6ST percent of
the normal agricultu^faaralue of the
farm, whereas since 1917 it has been
limited to 50 percent of the apprais
ed value of land plus 20 percent of
the permanent improvements.
Land bank commissioner loans
will be continued for one year from
July 1, 1945. They may be made
up to 75 percent of the normal
value of the farm. However, the
contract interest rate of these loans
will be 5 percent except to veterans
who may borrow at 4 percent in the
event the loan is guaranteed under
the G.I. Bill of Rights. The contract
rate for land bank loans through the
association will remain at its present
all-time low of 4 percent.
Secretary Bracey said that many
of the commissioner loans have been
reduced to a point where they can
easily be refinanced with 4 percent
land bank loans which will give
these borrowers interest savings of
one percent.
The office of the North Wilkes -
bcrro Association is located in the
Bank of North Wilkeaboro building
and handles land bank and com
missioner loans in Watauga, Alle
ghany, Ashe, Caldwell and Wilkes
counties. O
Juniors Will Install
New Officers Monday
At a regular meeting of Daniel
Boone Council, Junior Order, to be
held Monday night, July 16, at S-.30,
the newly elected officers will be in
stalled. Recently initiated and re
instated members art: John H.
Farthing, G. C. Greene, Jr., Alfred
Adams, I. S. Ayers and T. M. Shore;
JAP AIR FORCE
IN HIDING WHEN
ARMADA STRIKES)
More Than One Thousand Cft
, rier Planes Fail to Find Air
Opposition Over Tokyo; Big
gest Fleet Stroke of War Made
Against Nippon
Guam, July 11? The Japanese air
force refused to put up anything re
sembling a real fight over Tokyo
Tuesday as more than 1,000 carrier
planes of the massive U. S. Third
fleet destroyed or damaged 152 ene
my planes on the ground and shot
down two snoopers near the fleet,
fragmentary reports disclosed today!
Whether Admiral William F.'Hal
sey s world's largest task force stuck
around today for another strike was
not made clear but even the first
preliminary accounts left no doubt
that the enemy air force assigned to
defend the homeland was in hiding.
The air opposition to Vice Adm.
John S. McCain's carrier raiders was
so weak during the first hours that
undoubtedly they returned in re
peated strikes to search for camou
flaPsd aircraft and enemy hiding
places. What they found remains to
be told.
Even with the 19 Mustang victims
added, for a total Tuesday prelimi
nary bag of 173 Nip aircraft, the
biggest question was: Where is the
Jap air force? %
While the carrier planes looked
around for Tokyo's defenders, the
Mustangs over Kobe had to turn to
enemy shipping in the inland sea to
keep occupied.
Admiral Nimitz, who shattered
precedence in yesterday's communi
que by not only saying the carrier
attack was going on "at the pres
ent time" but also named some of
the battleships and carriers, spoke
only in the past tense today.
Nimitz said 72 planes were de
stroyed on the ground and 80 more
were damaged during the first hours
of the attack.
Reports remained to be tabulated
for later in the day.
? noon Tuesday ? seven hours
after the attacks opened? there had
been no determined enemy resist
ance in the air.
The navy made it clear that the
achievements were far from chron
icles, being based on admittedly
'preliminary reports" of the biggest
fleet stroke of the war against Nip
pon.
Nimitz 'emphasized that the raid
ing third fleet of Admiral Halsey,
which included some ofihe biggest
carriers and at lAt four battleships
had the advantage of "complete tac
tical surprise."
Carrier and land based planes,
totalling more than 1,500? they in
cluded a huge force of B-29s? roar
ed over the enemy homeland Tues
day to give the war-battered country
its heaviest day of aerial drubbing.
Required that Children
Be Immunized Against
Preventable Diseases
The Watauga county board of edu
cation is . calling the attention ol
parents to the laws regarding immu
nization of children, particularly
those entering school this year for
the first time.
The law provide that no principal
or teacher shallCbermit any child
to niter school without a certificate
or some other acceptable evidence
of immunization against whooping
cough, diphtheria and smallpox.
The following laws are in effect
pertaining to the immunization of
children in North Carolina:
Whooping coughs All children are
required to be immunized against
whooping cough before reaching the
age of one year.
Diphtheria: All children are re
quired to be immunized against
diphtheria between the ages of six
months and 12 months. '
Smallpox: All children shall be
immunized against smallpox before
entering school.
Parents are urged to have their
children immunized, if they have
not already been immunized, and to
secure a certificate or other accept
able evidence of immunization to
present to the school authorities on
the opening day of school so that
the child can be enrolled without
any loss of time.
?A AMD ZEEK GO SHOELESS
Newton, N.,C. ? The new ton ra
tion board clerk recently received a
letter reeding: "Dear Miss: Pa and
Zeek, they drunk (too much corn)
and lost their shoes and shoe stamps.
Please send more stamps." The shoe
stamps were not sent
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Time for Dinner at Bronx Zoo
zmi
- ? - **.the thousands of ohtMren who visited the Bronx
M* wu tbli baby antelope, especially whcp be decided M wmi tone far
dinner, and dinner cine often Mem warn always hand v
Secretary of State
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Wh?j? IwkF
upon hit duties as secretary of
till*, 1m entered the most vital
uiignmtnl of his Taried career,
which reached the heights of the
U. S. Supreme court. Edward R.
StettUMus, Jr., will handle foreign
affairs fp.ji member of the United
Nations council.
DEATH CLAIMS
?MRS. WHiTENER
Mrs. Ada Melissa Whitener, prom
inent Gastonian, wife of E. K.
Whitener died about 10:30 o'clock
Friday night at Bowman Gray hos
pital in Winston-Salem.
Mrs. Whitener, who was a native
of Watauga county, had been in the
hospital for about two weeks. She
underwent an operation there on
Monday of last week. Before going
to Winston-Salem she nad spent
about two weeks in a Gastonia hos
pital. She had been in failing health
for a year or more.
Surviving besides her husband
are her son, Lieut. E. K. Whitener,
Jr., of Gastonia; a daughter, Mrs.
W. H. Jumey, of Golden, Colo.; two
grandsons, a granddaughter, five
sisters, Mrs. Joe Cooke and Mrs. R.
K. Bingham, both of Boone; Mrs. K.
A. Link, of Lenoir; Mrs. McCoy Mo
retz, of Charlotte, and Mrs. Carrie
Coffey, of Greensboro, and two
brothers, Frank Norris, of Charlotte,
and Sam A. Norris, of Boone.
Mrs. Whitener, the former | Miss
Ada Melissa Norris, was a native of
Boone, the daughter of the late Mr.
and Mrs. John Norris. She had
been ti resident of Gastonia, how
ever, for about 35 years.
A woman of the highest Christian
character and of modest mh retiring
disposition, Mrs. Whitener had
many friends in Ga*tonla and else
where.
She had been for many years a
member of Main Street Methodist
Church in Gastonia and was identi
fied actively with the affairs of the
church as long as her health per
mitted. '
Funeral services were held Sun
day at 4 p. in. at Main Street Meth
odist Church. Rev, Claude Moser,
the pastor, officiated, and interment
was in Oakwood cemetery.
Mr*. Annie Margaret
Pitts Dies at Age 67
Mrs. Annie Margaret Pitts, age 07
years, died at the home in the Shulls
Mills section July 1.
Funeral services were conducted
from the Poplar Grove Baptist
Church on July 8, by the pastor,
Rev. R. C. Eggera, and burial took
place in the Pitts cemetery.
She is survived by the huaand, a
family of seven children, 60 grand
children, U great-grandchildren and
many friends, '? , . ? >
SHAW SPEAKER
TO FARM BUREAU
Exvcuilv* Secretary of Stat* Organi
sation Addrttui Local
Farm Group
Hon. Flake Shaw, a Guilford coun
ty farmer and executive secretary
of tNb North Carolina Farm Bureau,
was the principal speaker at a meet
ing of the Watauga unit of the
North Carolina Farm Bureau, held
in the courthouse last Friday eve
ning.
The meeting was opened with a
brief statement from the president,
Clyde R. Greene, who presented two
facts which were most interesting to
those present. First, that the gov
ernment is operated by groups, and
in the mai" that farmers have been
willing to take just what came to
them. 'Second, that the farmers are
the backbone of the nation. Mr.
Greene asked County Agent Harry
Hamilton to introduce the speaker of
the evening.
Mr. Shaw entered into a dynamic
discussion of the following subjects:
Women's part in the farm program,
relief to China, service to our men in
the army, the National Forum in
Washington. Turning to the three
outstanding forces in America ? in
dustry, labor and agriculture ? the
speaker gave a history of the Farm
Bureau organization, especially since
the *arly '30s. He stated that the
Farm Bureau is adaptable to any
group, national, state or community,
and that the organization has a
membership of one million, 30 per
cent of which is in the South.
Mr. Joe Williams made a few re
marks on the status of the Farm
Bureau in the State, and said there
are 60 counties with local units of
the organization. The meeting,
which was well attended, was brief
ly addressed by County Agent Ham
ilton. ?
The local organization will. hold a
picnic sometime in September, it
was said. The membership now is
65.
PFC. SIMMONS IS
MISSING IN ACTION
Son of Mr. and Mrs. James R. Sim
mons Missing In Action
In Germany
Pfc. Robert C. Simmons, son of
Mr. and Mrs. James R. Simmons, is
missing in Germ May since Febru
ary 2, the family "as been advised
in a telegram from the office of the
adjutant general. It had previously
been erroneously reported that Pfc.
Simmons was slightly wounded.
Mr. Simmons, 21 years of age, had
been in the army since July 0, 1M4,
and overseas since last December 1.
Worker* Needed Ai
U.S. Narad Air Station
Workers, both skilled and un
killed, sere needed at the U. S. naval
air station, Patuxent River, Md.- Di
rect recruiting will be held at the
local United States. Employment
Service Thursday, Friday and Sat
urday of this week
Persons not employed in essential
war work and are Interested should
contact Lt C. J. Long at the local
USES office on the days mentioned
above.
Applications, information and
proper forms are available at the lo
cal USES office tor enlistment in
the Merchant Marines. Contact
Beach Keller, interviewer- in-charge.
son district:
HEARING TO BE
HELD MONDAY
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State Farm Officials to Meet
With Farmers in Effort to Ea
tabllsh Soil Conservation Dis
trict of Watauga; Plan b
Given ?
The state soil conservation com
mitter, composed, of I. O. Schaub,
chairman; L. D. Baver, director N.
C. experiment station; K. B. Gar
rett, state soil conservn-Jonist, soil
conservation service, and W. K.
Beickler, state forester, will conduct
a hearing on organization of a soil
conservation district to include all of
Watauga county at the courthouse in
Boone Monday night, July 16, at 8
o'clock.
All landowners and others art
urged to attend this important meet
ing to hear the district organization
discussed, ask questions and be
heard on any or all matters pertain
ing to any phase of soli conservation
district operation.
After the hearing, the' next step
in the organization of the district
will be to hold a referendum on the
question of organization. Only land
owners can vote in organizing a soil
conservation district. Ballots are
furnished each qualified voter .at
regular balloting places or through
the mall and the farmer expresses
his preference either for or against
the organization of the district,
signs the ballot, drops it in the bal
lot box or returns to the county
agent's office. Only a majority of
those participating in the referen
dum is necessary to' carry the ques
tion. ? -
A governing body of five farmers
are responsible for diijecting the af
fairs of a soil conservation district.
Two of these men are appointed by
the state soil conservation commit
tee for a term of one and two years,
respectively. Three men pie elect
ed by the qualified voter*" Ih the
proposed district. The two appoin
tees apply to the secretary of state
for a charter or certificate of or
ganization in the name of the pro*
posed district. The five men on the
governing body of a* district are
known as soil conservation district
supervisors. The three elected su
pervisors serve for a period of three
years. None of these supervisors
draw a salary. They do, however,
jpceive a per diem and expenses
while attending official meetings.
One of the most important respon
sibilities of a board of soil conser
vation district supervisors is to de
velop a program and work plan for
the district. The program and work
plan will include a general state
ment pertaining to the agriculture
of the district, number of farms,
number of workstock and other live
stock, kjmds and amount of farm
machinery, the extent of the leading
farm crops in the district and a
summary of the main agricultural
problems in the district and the su
pervisors plans and procedures for
solving the problems. Any federal,
state or local agency may furnish
assistance to the supervisors upon
request. For example: the United
States department of agriculture
through the soil conservation serv
ice may make available to the super
visors, farm planner (men) to de
velop soil conservation plans on the
farms of landowners in the district
and then assist the fanners in get
ting the erosion control practices
specified in the farm plan applied
to the land. Such practices include
approved crop rotations, strip crop
(CONTDTUKD OH PA OK roua)
Polio Patient at Warm
Springs Visit* Home
Newland Wellborn left Manday
on his return to the Warm Springs
Foundation Hospital, Warm Springs,
Ga. .after pending a week with
home folks at Deep Gap.
Young Mr. Wellborn was stricken
with infantile paralysis during the
epidemic of 1M4, and has been a
patient at Warm Springs tor a num
ber of months. He is showing a
splendid improvement, and with the
use of leg and body braces oan walk
some with the aid of a companion.
He expects to stay at Warm Springs
until he can walk unaided and care
for himself, which he believes will
not ty ?o very long.
Mr. Wellborn is enthusiastic in his
praise of the hospital and all it is
doing for him, and for the 1SI other
patients being treated. The insti
tution, he states,- ie operated without
special favors to anyone, and that
the rich and the very poor are treat
ed equally alike?the foundation
tag all possible tor polio aattcnts
without nwn t* fhftpdp