WATAUGA DEMOCRAT
An Independent Weekly Newspaper ? Established in the Year 1 888.
VOL. LVTI, NO. 22
BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1945
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FARMERS TO VOTE
ON TTUPLE-A PLAN
ON NEXT FRIDAY
Commissioner Scott Urges Full
Participation Ln Balloting by
Farmers; New Schedule of
Voting Places Given Out for
Watauga
Raleigh ? Agriculture Commission
er Kerr Scott urges North Caro
lina farmers to go to their com
munity centers and vote in the an
nual election of AAA committee
men on Nov. 30.
Scott recently estimated that ap
proximately 350,000 state farmers
are eligible to vote in the elections.
Urging a full representative vote
in each of the 1,733 triple-A com
munities throughout the state, Scott
deplored stay-at-home tendencies
among some farmers, and he ap
pealed for a full turnout for this
year's elections.
A total of 8,965 community com-;
mitteemen and 100 delegates to
county conventions are to be elect
ed. Two alternate committeemen
?will also be chosen for each com
munity. The delegates will elect
three member county committeemen
to administer production and mark
eting activities in each county.
"Many serious problems lie ahead
for agriculture," Scott asserted,
"and it is most important that these
men have the support of every eli
gible farmer in the community."
The Watauga county triple-A of
fice states that all owners opera
tors, tenants or sharecroppers on a
farm on which AAA payments eith
er in the form of cash, services or
conservation materials, have been or
may bf* made under the 1945 AAA
orogram, are eligible to vote.
The polls will be open from 9 a. m.
to 5 p. m., for voting on the county
committees, and following is a re
vised schedule of polling places for
the election:
Bald Mountain township: Cook's
?tore.
Beaver Dam township: Communi
ty house (Reese), Clyde Perry s
store.
Blowing Rock township: City hall.
Blue Ridge township: M. O. Cof
fey's residence. >
Brushy Fork township: Harmon's
store (Lovill).
New River township: Bynum
Greene's service station.
Boone township: AAA o f f i c e |
(Boone). ,
Cove Creek township: Bert Masts
store, Sherwood's store. t
Elk township: Stewart Simmons
store. , . ....
Laurel Creek township: Victor
Ward's store; Vance Harmon's store.
Meat Camp township: Stephens'
store; L. W. Miller's store.
North Fork township: Howard
Thomas' store.
Shawneehaw township". Clyde
Tester's store. .
Stony Fork township: A. G. Mil
ler's store.
Watauga township: Howard Masts
gtorc'-. C. P. Moore's store.
S. Colfax Carroll
Dies in Statesville
Schyler Colfax Carroll, aged 76
years, resident of Boone Route 1,
died in a Statesville hospital last
Friday from a week's illness. He
had been in poor health for some
time, but pneumonia was given as
the direct cause of his demise.
Funeral services were conducted
Sunday from the Rutherwood Bap
tist Church, the rites being in charge
of Rev. R. C. Eggers. Interment
was in the Rutherwood cemetery by
Reins-Sturdivant Funeral Home.
The active pallbearers were grand
sons of the deceased: Paul Carroll,
Lane Greer, Perry Carroll, Vaughn
Carroll, Henry Taylor, Trent Greer
The floral offering was in charge of
a group of granddaughters of Mr.
Carroll: Ruth Taylor, Lena Hamp
ton, Violet Hayes, Velma Carroll,
Virginia Greene, Vera Carroll, Ear
leen Carroll, 'Marie Carroll, Myrtle
Hardy. ?
Mr. Carroll was ham in Watauga
county, a son of the rate Sidney Car
roll He was married to Miss Zora
Greene Carroll, who survives, to
gether with the following sons and
daughters: G. F. and Greene Car
roll, Boone; V. G. Carroll, Deep
Gap; Mrs. Clarence Bowles, Kings
rille, Md.; Mrs. Ralph Greene, Deep
Gap; Mrs. Frank Greene, Laxon.
The army enlistment period is no
longer limited to a three-year hitch.
Enlistments for 18 months, two
yean or three years are now au
thorized.
Sans Prop or Jet Propulsion
Now that Europe 1* oupe more at peace, Switzerland la making its
Md far reinstatement aa the winter playrronnd of the continent. Here l?
? aider making a daring leap over the root of a cottage in the mountains
W Qlarna.
'E' Bond Sales Behind as
Overall Local Quota Passed
LOCAL WAR FUND
REMAINS STATIC
Little Chang* in Amount of Con
tributions u Hamilton Gives
List at Solicitors
Collections for the National War
Fund In "Watauga county remain at
about the same level as a week ago,
with $3,300 collected gainst a local
quota of $4,600, and Chairman H. M.
Hamilton, Jr., in issuing his semi
final report of the funds, asks that
all solicitors who have not made
their reports to do so at once.
Following are the names of the
solicitors, with the amount of their
collections being shown first, the
last figure in each instance being the
assigned quota:
Mrs. R. E. Lentz, Blowing Rock,
$20.00; $25.00.
Mrs. W. H. Wagner, Valle Crucis,
$30.00; $75.00.
Mrs. C. P. Moore, Shulls Mills,
$16.00; $75.00.
E. E. Earp, Vilas, $21.00; $65.00.
Mrs. Gardner Matheson, Forest
Grove, $37.00; $40.00.
Earl Norris, Lower Meat Camp,
$35.00; $50.00.
Miss Nellie Lookabill, Lower
Meat Camp, $22.00; $40.00.
Mrs. Vance Keller, Blue Ridge,
$44.50; 75.00.
Mrs. Wade L. Greene, Timbered
Ridge, $16.50; $25.00.
Mrs. A. E. Moretz, Green Valley,
$35.00; $35.00.
Mrs. Albert Bingham, Cove Creek,
$100.50; $100.00.
W. W. Mast, Valle Crucis, $37.00;
$100.00.
Mrs. Wade Clawson, Green Val
ley, $46.00; $50.00.
Miss Ruby Vines, Bethel, $53.00;
$35.00.
H. E. Greene, Deep Gap, $53.25;
$50.00.
Mrs. Millie Wilson, Reese, $15.00;
$40.00.
Miss Bernice Lentz, Flat Top,
$20.50; $35.00.
Mrs. Bun Knight, Green Park,
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Rites Are Held For
Mrs. Blaine L. Moretz
Funeral services for Mrs. Blaine
L. Moretz, 37, who died in the Wat
auga hospital last Wednesday morn
ing, were conducted at Old Mt.
Pleasant Lutheran Church, Thanks
giving Day at 2 p. m. The Rev.
Hoke H. Ritchie officiated and was
assisted by Rev. E. F. Troutman.
Burial followed in the church ceme
tery.
Mrs. Moretz was the former Miss
Gladys Lookabill. She was born
Sept. 21, 1908, the daughter of Mrs.
Sarah E. Lookabill and the late Wil
liam F. Lookabill. She was married
to Blaine Moretz on July 16, 1933.
To this union were born three chil
dren: Wanda Mae, Austin and Car
olyn June.
She was baptised in infancy and
entered into full membership at Mt.
Zion E. L. Church, near Boone, at
an early age, and later moved her
membership to Old Mt. Pleasant
Church where she remained a faith
ful member until death.
Surviving besides the husband and
children are the mother, six broth
ers and six sisters: Mrs. Sarah
Greene and Odessa Lookabill, of
Burlington; Frank Lookabill, Zion
ville; Jake Lookabill and Mrs. Cling
Miller, Meat Camp; Clint and Edd
Lookabill, Wyco, W. Va.; Mrs. Susie
Phillips, Mrs. Jerome Coffey, Wade,
Walter and Nellie Lookabill, all of
Boone Route 2.
?182,000 Credited Against Wat
auga's Victory Loan Quota of
$138,000; Sales of Bonds to
Individuals Continues Slow as
31 Percent of E Bond Quota
is Reached
The Victory Loan campaign in
Watauga county still progresses,
with late information indicating
that the overall quota of bond sales
has been handsomely oversubscrib
ed, but that sales of "E" bonds to
individuals is still' far behind, only
31 percent of the quota in this cate
gory having been reached.
Mr. Alfred Ad^ms, chairman of
the campaign, states ' that overall
sales are now $182,000, against the
county's quota of $138,000, but that
sales of "E" bonds are less than
$26,000, or only about 31 percent of
the goal. Local sales of bonds to
individuals is somewhat behind the
state average, Mr. Adams says.
Meantime, an intensified effort is
being made in the closing days of
the campaign to sell more of the
government securities to individual
investors with the hope that before
the end of the effort, Watauga
county's showing in the Victory
Loan will be greatly enhanced.
As a stimulus to bond sales Ap
palachian Theatre is distributing
free tickets to bond purchasers to a
special showing of "Captain Eddie"
this (Wednesday) evening. The
film, which deals with the life of
Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, hero of
both world wars, has been hailed
as one of the most outstanding pro
ductions growing out of the late
world conflict.
JAMES M. SHULL
DIES AT AGE 87
Prominent Vail* Cruris Citixen Sue
cumbi in Mountain City,
Term.. Monday
Mr. James M. Shull, a pioneer
resident of the Valle Crucis neigh
borhood, died at the home of a
daughter, Mrs. R. O. Glenn and Dr.
Glenn, in Mountain City, Tenn.,
Monday evenin at the age of 87
years.
Mr. and Mrs. Shull had tempora
rily closed their home at Valle Cru
cis and had been at Mountain City
for some time, where Mr. Shull, who
had been in declining health for
several months, could take medi
cal treatments.
Funeral services for Mr. Shull
will be conducted from the Metho
dist church at Valle Crucis, Thurs
day afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, and
burial will be in the home neigh
borhood. Further details concern
ing the life of the esteemed gen
tleman will be published in the next
issue of The Democrat.
G.M. PREBIDENT REFUSES TO
ATTEND CONCILIATION MEET
Detroit, Nov. 27 ? C. E. Wilson,
president of General Motors Corp
oration, said today that he would not
attend a scheduled Wednesday meet
ing in Washington at which federal
labor conciliators are to take a
hand in the week-old wage dispute
that has made 225,000 GM em
ployees idle.
A Bronze turkey hen In the agri
cultural experiment station nock at
State College has laid 304 eggs since
January 1. The average turkey hen
lays from 25 to 43 eggs.
Sales to Begin Monday at Boone
Burley Market; Tobacco Arriving
LOCAL MARKET IN
THIRD PLACE IN
BURLEY REGION
Only Two Out of 46 Pay Farm
ers as High Average Price for
We^d in 1944-45 as the Local
Market; Far Above Belt Aver
age
The Mountain Burley Tobacco
Warehouses gained the distinction
of having paid the third highest
average price per hundredweight of
tobacco, among the 46 markets of
the burley belt during last season,
and the 47.84 average paid here, as
against the belt average of $43.83,
gives some idea of the strong posi
tion the relatively new local market
is now occupying in the nicotine
region.
The information comes from the
annual report issued by R. M. Bar
ker Tobacco Co., of Carrolton, Ky.,
burley leaf brokers, who have pub
lished a market summary since
1936, the report being used officially
by all brokers and warehousemen in
the burley belt. The average price
paid by all the markets of the belt,
as summarized, are as follows:
1. Weston, Mo 50.12
2. Asheville, N. C 49.79
3. BOONE, N. C 47 .84
4. Greenville, Tenn 46.10
5. Cynthiana, Ky 45.95
6. Lexington, Ky 45.70
7. Paris, Ky. 45.66
8. Johnson City, Tenn 45.66
9. Hartsville, Tenn 45.22
10. Carrollton, Ky 45.16
11. Mt. Pleasant, Tenn. 44.66
12. Carthage, Tenn 44.62
13. Fayetteville, Tenn 44.50
14. Rogersville, Tenn. 44.47
15. Mt. Sterling, Ky 44.46
16. Morxistown, Tenn 44.39
17. Maysviile, Ky 44.18
18. Columbia, Tenn 44.16
19. Covington, Ky _... 43.78
20. Farmville, Va 43.60
21. Harrodsburg, Ky. ..._ 43.56
22. Shelbyville, Ky 43.55
23. Franklin, Tenn 43.43
24. Abingdon, Va 43.31
25. Bowling Green, Ky 43.16
26. Madison, Ind 43.09
27. Knoxville, Tenn 43.00
28. Hopkinsville, Ky 42.90
29. Gallatin, Tenn _... 42.84
30. Owensboro, Ky 42.69
31. Richmond, Ky 42.68
32. Horse Cave, Ky 42.67
33. Greensburg, Ky 42.59
34. Ripley, Ohio 42.47
35. Huntington, W. Va 42.31
36. Glasgow, Ky. 42.23
37. Lebanon, Ky 42.08
38. Bloomfield, Ky 41.64
39. Danville, Ky 41.51
40. Louisville, Ky 41.50
41. New Albany, Ind 41.46
42. New Tazewell, Tenn 41.40
43. Camp Taylor, Ky 41.36
44. Springfield, Ky 40.90
45. Springfield, Tenn 39.98
46. Clarksville, Tenn. 39.96
Average for belt 43.83
65-Point Men to Be
Home by Christmas
Paris, Nov. 26 ? The U. S. army
shid today that troops in the Eu
ropean theatre having 65 discharge
| points could expect to be home by
Christmas.
The announcement said delays
forecast in October and early No
vember because of shipping short
age had been more them made up.
Estimated redeployment in No
vember and December will bring
theatre strength below its final
fixed total of 681,000 troops, of
which 370,000 were earmarked for
an occupational force and 311,000 for
liquidational force troops. The ar- !
rival of an estimated 87,000 replace
ments will make up the required
totah
Home Ec. Association
Will Meet in Raleigh
On Friday afternoon, Nov. 30, the
North Carolina Home Economics
Association will begin its annual
meeting at the Edenton Street
Methodist Church in Raleigh.
The theme of the American and
North Carolina Home Economics As
sociation is to continue to improve
family living the world over.
For membership In the American
and North Carolina Home Econo
mics Association home economists
must have a college degree from an
accredited college with a major In
home economics or a major in a
related field with experience or
training in home economics- All
colleges granting home economics
degrees in North Carolina are ac
credited ones.
Mr. R. C. Coleman, of Tabor
City, who has arrived and is
again managing the local burley
tobacco market. Auction sales of
burley will start at the Boone
houses next Monday.
CEILING PRICES
ON BURLEY GIVEN
Price Administrator Say* Price* on
Tobacco at 1944 Levels i Prices
For Various Grades
Washrington, Nov. 27 ? Current
ceiling prices on government-own
ed burley tobacco are applied to all
sales, whether made on or off the
warehouse floor, Price Administra
tor Bowles said here today.
Mr. Bowles' statement came in a
resume of the tobacco price situa
tion, in which he said that ceiling
prices for various grades of burley
tobacco of the 1945 crop, sold on
the warehouse floor, and for burley
sold to dealers or bought from them,
have been continued at the same
level as for the 1944 crop.
The OPA chief pointed out that
although notice of continuance was
not legally required, the agency on
last Dec. 22, advised the growers of
.ntention not to lower the 1944 ceil
ings for burley tobacco grown in
1945.
Mr. Bowles listed ranges of spe
cific dollar-and-cent prices for va
rious types of burley tobacco as fol
lows:
Group A, 52 to 62 cents; Group
B, 18 to 57 cents; Group C, 28 to
60 cents; Group C, 28 to 60 cents;
Flyings or Group X, 26 to 57 cents;
Tips or Group T, 15 to 41 cents;
Nondescript or Group N, 9 to 26
cents.
1946 Auto License
Plates to Be Put
On Sale Saturday
T. Bodie Ward, state commission
er of motor vehicles, announced
Monday that new 1946 automobile
license plates would go on sale Sat
urday at the various county distri
bution points.
The new plates will have a black
background with yellow numerals.
Alumni Club is To
Hold Meet Thursday
The newly organized Appalachian
Club of Watauga County will hold
its monthly meeting Thursday eve
ning at 7:30 in the College book
room.
Coach Francis Hoover will be the
guest of the evening and will enter
tain the club with movies of pre
war football games at Appalach
ian, and give the club his views on
the futurA>utlook for college foot
ball and basketball at Appalachian.
A short business session will be
held to appoint some oustanding
committees.
The outlook for an active club is
very bright, says Paul Winkler,
president, and anyone having at
tended Appalachian Training School,
Appalachian High School, Appalach
ian Normal, or Appalachian Teach
ers College, is welcome for mem
bership.
KILLS BIO PORKER
Mr. Worth Greene of Stony Fork,
killed a hog Tuesday which weigh
ed 505 pounds after It had been cut
for salting. The husky pig, which
was 11 months old, was of Duroc
and Poland China breeding.
QUARTER MILLION
POUNDS BURLEY
IS NOW ON FLOOR
Coleman Conservatively Esti
mates Record Sales of Six
Million Pounds This Year;
Bumper Crop Tobacco; Ware
house Has Fine Organization
A quarter of a million pounds of
'fine buriey tobacco is on the floor*
of the Mountain Buriey Warehouses
this morning, and R. C. Coleman,
operator of the enterprise, who has
been on the job for several days,
says that no less than one million
pounds of the golden weed will be
on the baskets, when the chant of
the auctioneer ushers in the 1945-48
season here next Monday.
Despite recent dry weather, which
was unfavorable for grading, re
ceipts are increasing from day to
day, and as usual farmers are be
ing given 24-hour Service in getting
their tobacco on the floor for the
opening day. Mr. Coleman, while
pointing to last year's sales of 4,
810,000 with pride, believes that any
conservative estimate would place
the poundage at 6,000,000 or better
this year. His estimate is based on
the much larger acreage planted this
year, with quality equally as good
as during the 1944 growing season.
Naw Warehouse, Good Staff
Mr. Coleman returns to the local
market with a new and modem
warehouse, almost doubling the floor
space heretofore available, offering
expanded and improved services to
the farmers, and with an organiza
tion as well qualified in their re
spective positions as may be found
in the entire buriey belt.
Connected with Mr. Coleman this
year in the management of the fast
est growing market in the belt, will
be his son, R. C. Coleman, Jr., re
cently discharged from the army
after a tour of active duty in Eu
rope, and Harriet L. Sikes, both of
Tabor City, and who in the future
will be associated with Mr. Cole
man on all the markets he operates
? Boone, Tabor City and Mebane.
They will be on hand at all times
to aid in seeing to it that every
farmer gets the best service it is
possible to render, and extend a
cordial welcome to the two big
warehouses.
Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Cox of Tabor
City, will again be in charge of tha
bookkeeping department, while Mrs.
Beal will assist them.
Harry Nunn, of Clarksville, Va.,
will be the auctioneer, and J. W.
Webster, ticket taker; Messrs Daiv,
Coleman of Rocky Mount, and Orlfui
Coleman of Tabor City, brothers of
R. C. Coleman, will be present to
assist the farmers in every way, and
to help make the marketing of their
tobacco in Boone more pleasant.
Mr. Curtis Harbour of Dobson, N.
C., and Eugene Eubank of Clarks
ville, Va., will figure the sale; Billy
Matze, South Boston, Va., will be
daytime iloor manager, and Liston
Hathaway of Tabor City, at night
Miss Nevada Rideout will weigh
during the daytime hours, and Wil
liam Allen of Mebane, at night.
Edward Wooten of Pikeville, N.
C., and J. C. Ray of Tabor City,
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Christmas Edition
Published Next Week
The publisher of The Democrat
plans to make the next issue of
The Democrat the principal
Christmas shopping edition, aft
er a review of the retail district,
and solicits the full co-operation
of all in making the edition re
flect the outstanding advantages
the city offers as the shopping
center of a vast area.
Due to the necessity of print
ing a number of extra pages,
with extra help unavailable. It
will be necessary foe a large num
ber of the ads to be in type
by the end of tlda week. Ac
cordingly, ad?e?11eeis are asked
to have oopy by Friday, and
when wanted, oopy suggestions
and layouts will be supplied
without cost by The
Contributors to next week's
tion are also asked to
from last minute lasesnlallna of
routine matters.
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