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An Independent Weekly Newspaper ? Established in the Year 1 888.
VOL. LVni, NO. 5 BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1943
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FOOTBALL TO BE
AGAIN A FEATUR"?
AT APPALACHIAN
Enlarged Program of Athletics
at Local College is Announced
by Dean Rgnkin; Francis
Hoover, Former Local Athlete,
Late of Navy, Heads Program
A program of athletics which in
cludes football for the coming sea
son, was announced from the office
of the dean, Dr. J. D. Rankin, for
Appalachian State Teachers College.
Francis Hoover, former Appalach
ian athelete and navy lieutenant,
will head the program. Present
plans are to include football, basket
ball and baseball on the intercolle
giate schedule.
Hoover finished his undergradu
ate work at Appalachian in 1940. At
that time he went to Wingate Juni
or College as head coach for two
successful years. Following this he
served as physical director for the
Elkin Y.M.C.A., and later went to
Davidson College as assistant coach.
Called to active duty in the navy.
Hoover served in the amphibious
forces in various foreign theatres,
and took part in the invasions of
Sicily, Salerno, Normandy and
Southern France before receiving a
discharge this spring. He is cur
rently taking advanced work in the
field of physical education and ath
letics at the University of North
Carolina. Mr. Hoover will take up
his work early in August.
Dr. Mason Dies In
Navy Hospital In L. I.
Lt. Comdr. Howard B. Mason,
whose wife is the former Miss Lula
Taylor, of Valle Crucis, and who had
frequently visited here, died recent
ly at the U. S. naval hospital at St.
Albans, Long Island. He had been
-convalescing there from a heart at
tack suffered after the Iwo Jima in
vasion.
Commander Mason, former Free
hold, N. J., physician and member of
the staff of Fitkin hospital, had
been in service for three years, and
hadHad 19 months of sea duty in the |
Pacific prior to his illness. When |
stricken he was stationed aboard an
attack transport ship, which took
troops to Iwo Jima. He was re
turned to the United States last
May 16.
BSineral services were conducted
from the home by Rev. Harold Perry
Wayman, of the Methodist church,
and interment was in Maplewood
cemetery.
Surviving are the widow, Mrs.
Lula Baird Taylor Mason; four
daughters. Miss Mary Jane Mason,
Margaret Louise, Gertrude Ann and
Susan, all of Freehold; his father,
Albert Mason, Hazelton, Pa., and
one sister, Mrs. Douglas Meighen,
Tampa, Fla.
12 Japanese Cities Are
Warned of Destruction
Guam, July 31 ? Maj. Gen. Curtis
E. LeMay warned 12 Japanese cities
today they are marked for quick de
struction by his 20th bomber com
mand Superfortresses, increasing to
19 the total of warned targets ? six
?of which the sky giants already have
burned out.
Six of the B-29s carried today's
warning ? in the form of 720,000
leaflets ? to the doomed municipali
ties, four of which were among the
11 cities listed in the first warning
four days ago.
"Evacuate these cities immediate
ly," the 1,300,000 persons in the 12
places were told.
Local Residence Is
Entered Friday Night
The home of Mr. and Mrs. J. A.
Morgan, of Boone, was entered by
some unknown parties last Friday
night, E. A. Russell, of the sheriffs
office, said yesterday.
Entrance was effected by forcing
a window leading from a porch.
? Since Mr. Morgan is a chaplain in
the navy and Mrs. Morgan is away
from home, it couldn't be determin
ed what had been tak^p from the
building. Mr. Russell has good
hopes of apprehending the offender.
R. W. Watkins, Boone
Named On State Boar^
Raleigh. July 31 ? Governor Cher
ry *todaj^appointed R. W. Watkins,
of Boone, to the North Carolina re
creation commission to serve one
year. He replaces John C. Macko
rell, of Banner Elk, who told the
governor he would be unable to
aerve.
Prices On Boone
Burley Mart Third
Last Year in Belt
Information coming from an au
thentic tobacco reporting journal
is that the local burley tobacco
market stood third in the entire
bell in average price paid for the
weed during the last Mason
$47.84 per hundred. The lowed
was around 9 cents average below
this figure.
There are 46 markets in the bur
ley bell, and that Boone outdis
tanced all but two of the old es
tablished markets in the belt is
veary gratifying to the people here.
There Is only one younger market.
MAM ARE SENT
TO ARMY CAMP
List of Those Comprising Recent
Quotas Given by Selective
Service Board
Following are the names of those'
who have recently been inducted
into the army under the terms of
the selective service act, as released
by the local board yesterday:
Charles Hamp Blackburn, Jr.
Ralph Lawrence Richardson
Finley Houston Mast
(Wilburn Lee Ward
George Reeves Barnes
Ralph Daniel Shores
Arlis Carson Tester
Charles Russell Greer
Dayton Alvin Isaacs
Troy Abner Coffey
Shelton C Cooke
Henry Albert Harrell
John Smith Brown
Paul Vernon Bobbins
Alfred Blan Greene
Neil Edward Colvard
Floyd Elmo Hayes
Grady Carlton
Howard William Fairchild
Charlie Wade Byrd
Alfred Lewis Ford
William Howard Tester
Roy Herbert "Greene
Ralph Grady Coffey
Carroll Isenhower, Jr.
Ben Alvin Hardy
DeVaughn Basel Davis
William Greenville Greene, Jr.
Others Get Teats
The following have recently been
sent by the draft board for their
pre-induction physical examinations:
Lonnie Solomon Greer
Burl Arvil Davis
Homer James Wallace
Charlie Horton Potter
Houck Richard Tester
Everette Shook
David Carl Miller
Donald Edwin Trivette
Robert Lee Greer
Thomas Raymond Eggers
Gurney Oscar Parsons
Edwin Vaughn Watson
Carson Lee Brown
Arthur Earl Ward
John Henry Oliver
Ancil Blaine Church
George Philmore Bingham
John Linville Greene
Richard Edward Parlier
Blaine James Shook
Charlie Hughes Wheeler
Joel Henry Cooke
Grover Cleveland Norris, Jr.
Far East Authority
To Speak at College
The third number in the summer
school lyceum program of Appalach
ian State ^Teachers College will be
given Saturday night, Aug. 4, at 8
o'clock. Dr. Arva C. Floyd, specia
list on the Far East, who teaches the
history of the Far east at Emory
University, Atlanta, will speak on
the situation in Japan, the storm
center of the worLd. t
Dr. Floyd is well prepared to dis
cuss Japanese and related issues. He
concentrated in the study of orien
tal history at Yale University, where
he received his Ph.D. degree. He
lived in Japan for four years and
taught in a Japanese supported uni
versity. In this speaking tour he
comes here from Lake Junaluska,
where he speaks on Friday ntfcht.
Come prepared to ask questions. The
public is cordially invited.
OPA GRANTS 30 GALLONS
TO ALL DISCHARGED GI'S
Washington, July 31 ? OPA acted
today to put officers and enlisted
men on the same footing with re
spect to special gasoline rations.
The agency announced that be
ginning Friday all servicemen dis
charged from the armed forces will
be eligible for a maximum of 30
gallons of gasoline.
Heretofore, gasoline was provided
only for servicemen on leaves in ex
cess of 30 days.
JAP NAVY GETS
HEAVY TROUNCING
AS US. PLANES HIT
ISixty-eight Nippon Craft Are
Struck at Maizuru; 1,035 Jap
Vessels Destroyed or Damaged
in 21 Days of Raids; Nimitz
Tells of Results
Guam, Aug. 1 ? Admiral Halsey's
Third fleet carrier planes destroy
ed or damaged 68 surface craft and
227 planes over the Honshu naval
base of Maizuru Monday ? a day in
which Tokyo radio said more than
2,000 allied aircraft hammered the
homeland.
Admiral Nimitz's revised assess
ment of destruction, announced to
day. added eight ships and 39 planes
to previous reports of the one-day
assault ? and gave the vast allied
fleet credit for a total of 1,035 Jap
surface craft and 1,278 ail planes de
stroyed or damaged in its 21 days ol
activity in Honshu waters since
July 10.
Driven from the Tokyo targets
Monday morning by thickening
weather, American pilots from Hal
sejr'e 1,500-plane carrier force dam
aged a light cruiser and a destroyer
ahd sank another destroyer at
Maizuru on the west coast.
Reports still were incomplete;
there was no estimate of damage
done by British carrier planes op
erating with the Americans.
There was no indication of the
great fleet's location today ? aside
from the Tokyo radio's nervous in
sistence that it was lingering within
quick reach of the Honshu coast for
fresh attacks that the enemy ex
pected momentarily.
In their afternoon sweeps over
Maizuru, the Americans sank a me
dium freighter-transport as well as
a destroyer; damaged a light cruiser
of the Kashima or Sakawa class, one
destroyer, two medium freighters
and two small freighters. They also
destroyed 56 grounded planes and
damaged 33.
Their widespread bombing, rock
eting and strafing of ground tar
gets destroyed eight locomotives and
damaged four others; damaged 17
war plants, two bridges, four hang
ars, two radio stations and railroad
cars and turntables. Fires flared in
four main buildings of the Kanto
Special Steel Company and in the
Japan International Aircraft Com
pany, both located in Hiratsuka, 33
miles south of Tokyo.
The International plant at Hirat
suka manufactures suicide bombs
and is the last remaining Japanse
plant still making aircraft propel
lors.
Maizuru is Japan's only naval re
pair base on the north side of Hon
shu fronting on the Inland Sea, and
although secondary it was able to
handle Japan's largest ships. The
war-booming town has spread to
join with Tagashi, making a total
population of 150,000 in the area.
Man Is Held Accused
Attempted Car Theft
Arthur Trivett, who gave his resi
dence as Meat Camp, is being held
in jail here on a charge of attempt
ed theft of an automobile.
Sheriff C. M. Watson's office
states that the man was apprehen
ded as he occupied a car belonging
to Bob Watson, a mail carrier, as
the machine was parked in front of
the posto^fice. The switch had been
jimmied, and the man had taken
some papers from a compartment in
the vehicle.
Ration Guide
ProctiMd 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.
PI through Tl, now valid, expire
November 30.
MmI 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
El, now valid, expire October 31;
F1 through K 1, now valid, expire
November 30.
Sugar
Sugar stamp 34 expires Aug. 31.
?how
Airplane stamps Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4,
now valid. Q
Gasoline
A-16 coupons valid through Sept.
SI. Each car owner must write his
license number and state on each gas
coupon as soon as itPis Issued to
him. Mileage rationing record must
be presented when applying for all
passenger car gasoline rations.
Japanese Suicide Boats Foiled
a ,3? * ?
Thass two Jap tuicida boat*, captured by Sixlh division marinas
in cbtm bafora tha Nipa could gat tham into action, ara typical of
thoaa found during tha Okinawa campaign. On tha boat in tha fore
ground Is chalkad tha warning. "Dsn gar, thaaa boats ara booby
trappad."
ACCIDENT FATAL
TO J. R. GREER
Former Wataugan is Killed Near
Oklahoma Horn* Whan Tractor
Go* Out of Control
J. R. Greer, 65, native Wataugan,
but for many years a resident of the
State of Oklahoma, where he was
formerly sheriff, was killed recently
when he was pinned underneath an
overturned tractor In a creekbed on
his farm 35 miles north of Clinton,
Okla., relatives here have been ad
vised.
The following additional informa
tion relative to his death and to his
life is taken from a Clinton news
paper:
Authorities said Greer apparent
ly lost control of the machine by
some accident and rode or was drag
ged with it over the creek embank
ment. Medical examination reveal
ed that he had a fractured neck.
When Greer failed to come home
at noon, his wife went to find him.
She found the tractor early in the
afternoon but could not locate her
husband. She went to the neigh
bors for help, and after a short search
the body was found partially sub
merged in the moist creek bottom.
Funeral services were conducted
Friday at the First Baptist Church
with Dr. H. W. Stigler, pastor, offi
ciating. Burial was in the Clinton
cemetery.
Greer served in the sheriff's of
fice from 1923 to 1933, first as un
dersheriff under the late Hardin
Myers and later as sheriff. He was
appointed chief of police of Clinton
July 1, 1935, and resigned Aug. X,
1939.
A native of Sugar Grove, N. C.,
he came to Custer county in 1904,
and in the early days taught school
and farmed. He was a member of
the Clinton First Baptist Church.
Survivors include his widow, two
brothers, A. A. Greer, Tennessee,
and B. O. Greer, California, and one
sister, Miss Edith Greer, North Caro
lina.
Famous Opera Stars
Will Be Heard Sunday
Miss Anna Kaskas, contralto of
the Metropolitan Opera Association,
and William Hain, famous Ameri
can tenor, will be featured singers
at the Rumple Memorial Presbyter
ian Church, Blowing Rock, Sunday
morning, Aug. 5. The occasion is the
annual Grandfather Home Day. An
offering will be taken at the serv
ice for the benefit of the Grandfath
er Home for Children at Banner Elk.
?
Big Three Expected to
End Conference Today
Potsdam, July 31 ? The Big Three
"made a great dsal of progress" in
a "fruitful" 3 H-hour session today,
it was announced officially tonight
and observer! predicted the history
making conference would end by
Thursday at the latest.
President Truman will fly to
Plymouth, England, and meet King
George VI and Queen Elizabeth
there on his way home, the Ameri
can delegation disclosed.
POLIO OUTBREAK UNLIKELY,
?ATS If. C. HEALTH OFFICER
Raleigh, Aug. 1? Dr. Carl V. Rey
nolds, state health officer, does not
see any reason to fear poliomyelitis
cases occurring m abnormal numbers
at this time.
"There is every reason to believe
there will be fewer cases this year
than normally," he said in a state
ment to county health officers.
RUDISILL RITES
HELD MONDAY
Lsnolr Physician Was Surgson at
Blowing Rock Hospital and
at Boons
Funeral se vices for Dr. J. D.
Rudisill, 49, owner and surgeon of
the Caldwell hospital, and a mem
ber of the state board of conserva
tion and development, who died sud
denly late Saturday at his cabin at
Edgemont, were held Monday after
noon at 2 o'clock at the home of a
sister, Mrs. Nell Rudisill Nelson, in
Lenoir. The Rev. Roscoe Fisher and
Rev. J. C. (lornett officiated.
Final services were held in Lin
colnton and burial was in the Lin
colnton cemetery Monday afternoon.
The Lenoir physician, one of the
founders of the Caldwell hospital,
was well-known in Watauga county,'
where he was surgeon at the Blow
ing Rock hospital, and one of the
surgeons of Watauga hospital at
Boone. He had also been surgeon
for the Southern Railway system for
many year*.
He received his education at Le
noir Rhyne college and the Univer
sity of Maryland, and was a fellow
of the American College of Surge
ons.
He was a native of Lincolnton, son
of the late Mr. and Mrs. John H.
Rudisill. He came to Lenoir in
1926 following a short period of
practice at Cherryville.
Dr. Rudisill was a veteran of the
first World War, being attached to
the U. S. navy during that conflict.
In the present war he served as ex
amining physician for a Caldwell
county draft board.
Surviving are one brother, Henry,
of Lincolnton, and three sisters, Mrs!
J. C. Lore of Greenwood, Miss., Mrs.
Nell Russell Nelson of Lenoir, and
Mrs. Byrant Lawing of Lincolnton.
Lamb Pool Postponed
From August 3 to 10
The lamb pool scheduled for Aug.
3, has been postponed until Friday,
Aug. 10. The same schedule will be
followed on August 10 that was
scheduled for August 3.
This change is necessary because
farmers will receive a subsidy on
their lambs on and after August 5.
This subsidy is as follows: For lambs
weighing 65 to 90 pounds. $1.50 per
hundredweight; for lambs weighing
90 pounds, $2.15 per hundredweight.
All other sheep and lambs $1.00 per
hundredweight.
Farmers should try to put Uieir
heavy lambs off now and hold their
lighter ores in order to receive tne
maximum subsidy. County Agent
Hamilton ask? *.11 farmer; to help
get This change in date around to all
sheepmen. A card has been sent
out telling them of the change in
dates.
Members of Stenwall
Family to Appear Here
Miss Edja Stenwall, soprano; her
mother, Mrs. Ruth Rodhe Stenwall,
singer and composer, and brother.
Dr. C. M. Stenwall, baritone, will
appear in concert at Appalachian
College Wednesday, Aug. 8, at 8:30.
The Stenwall trio will be accom
panied by Mrs. Dolly Michael. Blow
ing Rock pianist, and the giris of
Camp Boone. They will render sev
en! vocal numbers. This is the fourth
y**r these artists have appeared
hare and a lot of the numbers used
wilt be by request
A.V : sir ?r. . .
WORK ON NEW
BURLEY HOUSE
TO START SOON
Building to Be Located Near Bus
Terminal and to Be Complet
ed in Advance of Market Sea
son; Coleman Says Prospect
for Crop Best Ever KnoKm
Here
Mr. R. C. Coleman, of Tabor City,
ope ator of the Mountain Burley
Tobacco Warehouses here, was in
Boone last week, and revealed that
work will be started on the third to
bacco warehouse here in the very
near future and that the huge new
building will be rushed to comple
tion well in advance of the opening
of the tobacco market next fall. Mr.
Coleman stated that the big house
would be centrally located on a plot
of land acquired near the Union
Bus terminal, and would be design
ed to give the burley farmers of the
belt even better service in hand
ling their weed, and prevent the
congestion, which has been unavoid
ably occasioned at times in the past.
The start of the building, it is un
derstood, has been delayed in an ef
fort to secure a central location, but
now that the property has been ac
tually acquired, the building will
start taking form soon. .
Comments on Crop
When questioned regarding the
prospects for the burley yield in the
county this fall, Mr. Coleman states
that they are unquestionably the
best he has seen since he has been in
business here, and says the price
should be fully as good as last year.
Mrs. Coleman accompanied her
husband 10 Boone and they returned
to Tabor City Saturday.
AGED MAN ROBBED
BY MASKED MEN
Two Aro Held on Chary* a I Bold
Robbey of Cliisen of Winkler's
Creek Section
Dallas and Wood row Stuart, who
live near Boone, are being held In
the county jail on charges of rob
bing H. T. Tcague, 79-year-old resi
dent of the Winkler's Creek section,
as the aged man walked along a lit*
tie used highway last Friday after
noon.
Mr. Teague. sheriff's officers say,
had $718 forcibly taken from his
person by two men wearing hand
kerchiefs over their faces, and that
in the scuffle which accompanied
ciie robbery he was able to positive
ly identify Woodrow Stuart. Sher
iff Watson and his deputies soon
rounded up the two men and re
covered $709.
No preliminary trial has been ar
ranged, the sheriff's office says.
COAL DEFICIT
TO HIT NATION
Washington, July 31 ? A govern
ment fuel expert -testified today, "I
expect all industry, including steel
mills, to be on a four-day week this
winter" due to a prospective 37,
000,000- ton coal deficit.
Only two things could prevent
such a development. Dr. C. J. Potter,
deputy solid fuels administrator,
told the senate war investigating
committee:
1. The army could agree to fur
lough 30,000 coal miners to go to
work by Oct. 1.
2. The war with Japan could
come to a sudden end.
Secretary of the Interior Ickes
first testified that next winter will
be the coldest of the war for Amer
icans unless enough miners are re
leased to make up the prospective
deficit.
Friday To Be P.-T.A.
? 'Bean Canning Day'
The local Parent-Teacher Associa
tion, in connection with the two
Boone schools, asks that all parents
that have food available for can
ning, to please contact either of tho
school principals, or Moss Gail Clay.
Friday, August 4, has been desig
nated as "Bean Canning Day", and'
those who wish to give green beaas
are asked to bring than to the lo
cal cannery early Friday morning
or call one of the above mentioned
people Thursday.
When there is no labor to hire,
about the beat thing to do under the
circumstances is to organise* ^swap
labor plan with neighbors.
Ashe county recently held the
first 4-H lamb show In North Caro
lina, with club members exhibiting
46 lambs.