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Watauga democrat An Independent Yl/eekly Newspaper ? Established in the Year 1888. VOL. LVII, NO. *18 BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1945 $1.50 A YEAR ? 5c A COPT VICTORY LOAN ? QUOTA IS SET FOR WATAUGA Overall Bond Quota of $138,000 is Established for County as Campaign Gets Under Way Here; E Bond Quota is Set at $82,000 Watauga county people have been asked by the War Finance Commit tee of the Treasury Department to buy Victory Bods in the sum of $128,000 in the last extra effort or campaign to sell government secu rities for war-financing purposes. * Included in the overall quota is $62,000 in E bonds to be sold to in dividuals in the campaign which started last Monday and which con tinues through December 31st. Mr. Alfred Adams, chairman of the local War Savings Staff, called sn organization meeting of workers last Friday evening when plans were mapped for conducting a vig-, orous campaign to reach the coun- 1 ty's quota as quickly as possible. Under the slogan, 'They have finish ed their pob . . . let's finish ours!" solicitors will see to it that the im portance of purchasing these bonds is brought to the attention of every citizen. Seven war-time bond campaigns have preceded this one, which is to take care of costs incurred by the country in bringing home the na tion's soldiers and taking care of those who remain in foreign lands, of hospitalization and rehabilitation, of terminating war contracts, and the many other expenses continuing, al though fighting has ceased. THRONGS VISIT MOUNTAIN AREA Warm W*alh*r of Past F#w Days Continues to Attract Visi tors to Arsa An unusually large number of visitor* have been coming to Blow in* Rock and Boone to enjoy the unreasonably warm weather which followed the frc*ts, and have a look at the colorful fronds of the moun tain forests. Although the leaves are rapidly disappearing, continued fa vorable weaher is resulting in a con tinued large number of sightseers. Eating 'establishments remaining open at Blowing Rock, report rec ord Sunday crowds, while in Boone it has been necessary for the one Sunday cafe to close early, after sup plies of food had been exhausted. There is a growing tendency on the part of lowlanderg to have a look at the mountains during the brisk autumn days, and there is ev ery indication hat the tourist season is thus being lengthened somewhat every year. Mrs. Fay Triplett Rites Are Held Today Mrs. Fay Triplett, 18 yean old, died Monday at the Watauga hos pital, and funeral services were held Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock from the Stony Fork Baptist Church, with interment in Mountain View cemetery by Reins-Stutdivant. Ross Greene conducted the rites. Surviving is the husband, John Triplett, with the army overseas, and one small son, Howard Dale Triplett. The parents, Mr. and Mrs. I.inza Hendrix, also survive. Childhood Education Association to Meet The Childhood Education Associa tion will meet in the auditorium of the Science building, Appalachian 'College, Saturday morning, Nov. 3, at 10 o'clock, with Miss Lena Hor ttm of Columbia University, being the guest speaker. Miss Benbow of Winston-Salem, former president of t; the state association, will appear on the program. Miss Hattie Parrot, of the state department of education, Raleigh, will be present An interesting and helpful program is planned and all teachers of the county are urged to attend. SHOE RATIOOTMQ OVERi ?rCXEASE IN OUTPUT SEEM The end of shoe rationing was or dered yesterday, effective at mid night today (Wednesday). Terminating a program which be gan on Feb. 8, 1943, OPA Adminis trator Chester Bowles said rationing can be lifted because shoe produc tion has increased substantially since V-J d My. Bradley Meets Vets Gen. Omar Bradley, administra tor of veterans' affair*, who U shown conferring with disabled veterans on his recent visit to Chi cago. With him (left to right) Prt. Clarence Finn. Wart Betty Smith, and Sgl. Harold Dixon. WAR FUND DRIVE STILL FALLS SHORT Two Thousand Dollars Collected Against Quota of Forty-Six The United War Fund and Com munity Chest campaign in Watauga county is still being conducted, and while receipts are mounting, total collections are still far short of the goal of $4,800 which has been estab lished for the county. Late reports from the office, of Chairman H. M. Hamilton indicate that about two thousand dollars have actually been turned in, And Mr. Hamilton is insisting that solicitors redouble their efforts so that the quota may be reached quickly and not interfere with the Victory Loan drive which is now getting started. A number of War Fund canvassers in the county have passed their quotas and Mr. Hamilton is anxious that others make greater efforts to the end that Watauga couny will not fail in this last effort to aid the men who won the war. RATION BOARD TO SERVE 3 COUNTIES Present Plans Call for Establish ment of Area Rationing Board at Jefferson According to information receiv ed here from the Charlotte OPA dis trict office, the Ashe county ration board office is to remain open as an area board for Watauga, Ashe and Alleghany counties, and most of the activities of the boards in the other two counties will be done away with. The new ruling, which is meet ing with some opposition here, is to become effective as of November 1. It is stated, however, that a clerk will remain on duty in Boone dur ing the present life of OPA. The authorization for OPA expires as of June 30, 1946. Highway Commissioner Visits City On Tuesday District Highway Commissioner Raymond Smith, of Mount Airy, ac companied by Z. V. Stewart, di vision engineer of Lenoir, made a routine inspection trip to this area Tuesday and visited briefly with friends in the city. Commissioner Smith, who recent ly succeeded Mr. V. D. Guire, of Le noir, as commissioner, referred to the handicaps under which the com mission had been working during the war, and envisions a greatly expan ded program of road building and maintenance in the ?ate as soon as there is improvement in the equip ment and manpower situation. Workers Are Needed at Red Cross Sewing Room Mrs. Mae Miller, production chair man for the Watauga chapter, American Red Cross, states that workers are urgently needed at the Red Cross sewing room here, and issues an appeal to the women of the town and county to Join in this work. The local chapter has been as signed a quota of hospital garments which are needed immediately in order that wounded men may be properly cared far. ELLISON BOUND TO COURT WITHOUT PRIVILEGE OF BAIL North Fork Man is Refused Bail in Preliminary Hearing Held Before Justice of the Peace Edfw. N. Hahn Monday Sam Ellison, North Fork resident, who has been a prisoner in the coun ty jail for more than two weeks, held on a charge of slaying a neigh bor, Howard Hockeday, was denied privilege of bail by Justice of the Peace Edwin N. Hahn Monday aft ernoon, and remanded to jail where he will await trial on a homicide count at the regular spring term of Watauga Superior court. Justice Hahn bound the prisoner to the higher court, without allow ing bail, after the examination of three witnesses in the case. Evi dence was introduced tending to show that some of the pellets from the death-dealing shotgun had en tered the side and back of the slain man, and Mr. Hahn bases his de cision largely on this circumstance. Evidence was introduced indicat ing that Hockeday had approached Ellison relative to some hogs be longing to the latter, who were al leged to have been destroying Hock eday's com. Ellison contends that he fired the fatal shots in self-defense, and sur rendered himself to officers just as quickly as he could reach Boone. He told officers he fired after Hocke day approached him with drawn rifle. It is further alleged by the defense that the dead man had been to Ellison's house earlier, expressing to Mrs. Ellison his intention of kill ing her husband. PARK IS PLANNED AT BLOWING ROCK R?cr?alion Commission Named at Rasort in Conformity With Slat* Law I At a special meeting of the town council of Blowing Rock, a park and recreation commission was appoint ed in conformity with the state laws passed at the last session of the legislature. The law requires that there be one representative from the town board on the park commission, and in this case it is W. B. Castle. There also must be one representative from the local school board, and this is filled by W. C. Lentz. The law requires one representa tive from the welfare board and since there is no board operating un der this name, it was felt that a rep resentative from the Community Club would meet this requirement, so the president of the Community Club will be a member of the park commission. At the present time, Mrs. W. K. Keys is president of that organization and becomes a mem ber of the park commission. G. C. Robbins, Mrs. Joe Cannon, David Ovens, F. W. Webster, W. K. Keys and J. Luther Snyder comprise the other members of the commission. Definite plans are being discussed for erection of a pavilion type build ing, tennis courts, shuffla board courts and the provision of an ade quate number of benches for the park. If material and labor condi tions permit, it is planned to have all of these facilities ready for the next summer season. Many Local People Inspect the New Fofrd A large number of Watauga coun ty people have been gathering at the Winkler Motor Company since Friday to take their first peek at the new 1940 Ford automobile, on display there. Mr. Winkler states that the visi tors without exception highly prais ed the new Ford, which includes many improvements mw to the au tomobile world, and adds that or ders are being placed rapidly for the new cars. Production of the new Ford Is now well under way, and at least some of the new models should be available for delivery before long. Red CroM First Aid Classes Being Arranged Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Watkins will conduct a Red Crosa first aid class i tor the people of the town, begin* i ning Tuesday, Nov. ?, at 7:50 p. m., ' at the boys' gymnasium, Appalach ian Collage. That Millions in Europe May F-^t This little Yugoslav boy is too hungry to wail for his mother to warm up the can of beans that repreeenti his first nourishing food in a long time. A drive is now being mad* by the "Victory Collec tion of Canned Food." to gather canned food to be shipped to the starring in EEurope. Truman Visit To Staiesville Cancelled; Many Local Leaders Are Disappointed Considerable disappointment U being ixpmud locally over the inability of President Truman to fill his spaaklng engagement at States rill? on Norembar 2. Defi nite Information was forthcoming from Washington Tuesday to the effect that all immediately sched uled appearances of the Chief Ex ecutive had bean cancelled, and whether the domestic labor situa tion or tha highly complicated In ternational set-up Intervened to keep the President In Washington was not disclosed at tha White House. Anyway, local Democratic lead ers who had been engaging In ar ranging transportation for the hundred or so Wataugans who had planned to go to Statesrille, have called off mil plans, and taaauaci thai thoee who daaira to go to StateSTille on the first and sacond to hear other high gowramtnl of ficial* speak to a special meeting of tha stale aanata. should maka thalr own private arrangements. This action was taken whan It de veloped that only| a negligible number are showing any inclina tion to make tha trip since tha President will not be on hand. Secretary of tha Treasury Fred Vinson and Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson are on the program for the state senate meet ing. and there is no word from Washington as to whether or not these gentlemen hare altered their plans since the Presidents decis ion was made public. CHERRY TELLS COMMISSION TO WORK COUNTY ROADS Plain-talking Gregg Cherry in structed the state highway and pub lic works commission last week to concentrate its immediate efforts on county and secondary roads. Contracts for new highway and bridge construction totaling $1,042, 350, for which bids were received on Oct. 9, were awarded. However the commission rejected a bid of $227,217 on 4.701 miles to be built to connect Mount Mitchell with the Blue Ridge Parkway in Graham county. The commission felt the bid was too high, since no federal fluids were involved. It is all right and good, the gov ernor personally told the commis sion, to have fine arterial highways, but rural roads have been neglected too long, and "now is the time to do something about it." "The time has come," he said, "for somebody to spend his whole time on the handling of county and secondary road*." He suggested that each district have a force to spend all its time on rural roads ? of which he estimated there are 40,000 miles in the state. And he recommended that the forces of prison labor on the main highways be curtailed and put to getting rural roads into shape for the winter. Reminded of the hard-hitting tac tics of his legislative days, the gov ernor said the problem of country roads aa the most Important yet to arise in his administration, and that he was unable to understand why more work had not been dene along those lines. "It seems that sentiment is that we can't do much about it unless we follow rigid engineering plans. Leave the roads where they are but put them in passable condition. Why some of the people in the we* are on the verge of a revolution about it," he said. He nid that it seemed that con tractors could get machinery, so why couldn't the state. He said he well realized that Insufficient labor could be obtained for 45 cents an hour, but that the state would just have to pay more. "If It takes more money, we might as well make up our minds to pay it," he said. "The job is up to us." "We must put county roads first.'' Community roads should be as sisted, too, he said. He referred to the present rule of not building a road unless seven families lived within one mile of one another and said such a policy "should be more liberal." . The engineering department, he said, "has got to be sold on the idea of county and secondary roads. He told Chief Engineer Vance Baise that Baise had been dealing with figures, blueprints and con tracts so long that "you don't have the proper vision of county roads." The governor asserted he had been informed that on occasions there was not the proper co-operation be tween officials routing school buses, and the engineers. Roads, he said, must be furnished for school buses. In reply, Chairman A. H. Graham said the commission wanted the people of the state to know that ev erything possible would be done for roads as soon as possible. The peo ple, he said, had been denied suffi cient improvements simply because of inability to get the necessary equipment and labor. "Equipment," he said, "is at a lower ebb than at any. time during the war." There is very little surplus war equipment available. He explained that contractors were not getting new equipment now, but that they had obtained quite a bit of it while working on war contracts. He added he did not feel that pay increase* already grant ed personnel were sufficient, and that pay must be on an equal basis with private industry. He said that some of the reports which had reached the governor on condition of rural roods were "ex aggerated." The wrong impression spread after the October 9 highway Letting*, he said, adding that work on those highways would not inter fere with that on county roads. Olso University in Norway, cloeed by the Nazis in IMS because its professors refused to collaborate, has i been reopened. ONE KILLED, TWO ARE INJURED IN TRUCK ACCIDENT W. O. Hyatt of Rockingham, is Decipitated as Produce Track Leaves Highway Near Wilkes County Line^ Driver Held on Manslaughter Charge. W. O. Hyatt, 92 yean old, resi dent of Rockingham, was instantly killed and two others injured whan the produce truck in which they were riding, went out of control and plummeted down an embankment on Highway 421" near the Wilkes county line Saturday afternoon. State Highway Patrolman C. M. Jones, who investigated the fatal ac cident, said that Hyatt's son, David Thomas Hyatt, the driver ol the vehicle, suffered a fractured nose and other less serious injuries, and a grandson, William Lassiter, 10 years old, was bruised in the crash. They were taken to a North Wilkes - boro hospital for treatment, and Pa trolman Jones states that the driver is being held under $1,000 bond on a manslaughter charge, following statements by witnesses that he was intoxicated. A hearing will be held on November ? Officer Jones states that Hyatt's head was complete^ severed, and was found on the' shoulder of the road, while the body lay more than thirty feet away. The diiyyf _ jf the truck and the Lassiter child wexe held fapt in the smashed cab at the vehicle, and men chopped away the metal with an axe to extricate them. Mr. Jones stated that rubber marks were visible on the hards ur face for more than 100 feat before the ve hicle turned over in the road and careened from the highway. The truck had been to Boone where a truckload of cabbage had been purchased tram a dealer, and the load was en route to Rocking ham when the accident occurred. COMMITTEES TO AID SERVICEMEN Veteran*' Service Officer Releases Names of Those Who Will i Aid Veterans Lionel Ward, county veterans' service officer, in compliance with1 a request of the North Carolina vet erans commission, has appointed a number of committees to help with the problems confronting men re cently discharged from the armed services. Following is a list of the commit tees, the first named in each in stance being the chairman: Publicity: Beach Keller, Rob Riv ers, Ralph O. Greer. Business Advice: Austin South. Paul A. Coffey, tf. D. Farthing. Legal Aid: Charles T. Zimmer man, Wade E. Brown, L. H. Smith. Loans: Alfred Adams, W. W. Mast, W. H. Gragg. Farm Advice: H. M. Hamilton, Jr., R. L. Maltba, Dwight Cable. Education: Dr. B. B. Dougherty, S. F. Horton, Barnard Dougherty. Welfare: Dave P. Mast, Mrs. T. M. Greer. Mr. Ward states that any veteran needing advice from any member of either committee, can see them at any time. The member* of the lo cal organization will get recognition from the Governor and may expect to have letters from the chief ex ecutive soon. CHERRY URQE8 INCREASED AID FOR NEEDY PERSONS Raleigh, Oct 29 ? Governor Cher ry tonight called for increased aver age grants to needy aged and fami lies of dependent children in North Carolina, declaring, "Every citizen has the right to expect minimum Se curity at all times." Addressing county welfare super intendents attending the 26th an nual public welfare institute tor North Carolina social workers, Cher ry said that North Carolina ranks among the states as 46th in average old age assistance payments and 44th in payments to dependent chil dren. "Both the individual counties and the state government will have to work together to pull North CMB lina up from this advertised Vow rank," be said. "The IMA general assembly made additional stale funds available for this speciflr purpose and expects you to cany out its objective with the least pos sible delay." . Colombia is on higher United States eottee prices to * crease Mi incomi >*?< *$? .
Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.)
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