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VOL. LVTI, NO. 30 ' BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1946 # $1.50 A YEAR? 8c A COPY
JOIN THE
MARCH OF DIMES
JANBMf 14-31
REV.TROUTMANJS
AGAIN ELECTED TO
HEAD RED CROSS
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Other Officers Elected at An
nual Meeting of Organization;!
Report of Garments Knitted;
Other Chapter Activities Are
Outlined
The Watauga county chapter of
the American Red Cross met Jan.
17 at 7 p. m. in the chapter rooms.
Rev. E. F. Troutman was re-elect
ed chairman of the chapter. Dr. G.
K Moose was re-elected vice-chair- 1
man; Dr. W. M. Matheson and Mr.
Gordon Winkler were re-elected to
the board of directors; Mr. J. v.
Caudill and Mrs. F. E. WaI?*"
were elected as new members of tne
board of directors. Mrs. Owen Wil
son was elected secretary, and the
the following chairmen will continue
to serve: Roll call, Clyde R. Greene
and H. M. Hamilton; disaster R. D
Hodges, Sr.; home nursing, Mrs fc.
T. Glenn; first aid, Mrs. Jack J
Hodges; volunteer special service,
Mra R M. Maddux; production
Sewing, Mrs. Mae Miller; knitting,
Mrs. W. M. Burwell.
Mrs. Burwell reported that during
1945 there were 54 volunteer knit
ers who have contributed 5,378
hours of their time to knitting, and.
have made 389 garments consisting
of various types of sweater: ?.
and two afghans. The chapter has
met all quotas assigned to it in Knu
ting and has made up some wool
teanaf erred from North Wilkesboro
and Wartburg, Tenn. The fol ow
ing knitters have given more than
250 hours: Mrs. L. P. w'
Miss Edith Hampton, 620; Mrs. W.
M. Burwell 680; Mrs. J. Dofl^an^"\
207' Miss Annie Smith, 360, and
Mrs. Maude Wheeler 250 hours A
number of others have given their
Miller reported the following
garments made during IMS
75 women's bedroom slippers, 100
bedside bags, 50 cushion covers lOO
hot water bottle covers, 200 baby
diapers 10 women's light pajamas,
10 women's heavy weight pajamas j
2S heavy girls capes, 200 wasn(
doth*. She also states that she has
on hand a large quota of sewing to
lac done this ycr. *
Mrs W. M. Grubbs, reporting for
the home service, said 1.207 cases
were serviced consisting of service
men and their families and 1 some , c
vilians and veterans. The chapter ,
given financial assistance to
J^icemen, veterans and their am-|
i?itg The chapter now is getting
ready for its 1946 roll call drive ,
which will be conducted in March.;
Mrs. Miller is in receipt of a let
ter from national headquarters with
I7otes in part: "Your volunteer* ,
fine spirit of co-operation and their
willingness to serve
..gftime program is inspiring
Ihem that thn*
2ss wm h.ip m
ward supplying civilians of the lib
?rated countries with the necessities
of life. It >s always gratifying to
have chapters always ready and
willing to do their full share in any
Sen task, and certainly your chap
ter falls into that classiiication.
LOCAL MEMBERS
OPA ARE LAUDED
District OPA Director Cite* Palri- !
otism of Walaugans Who Served
Nation Without Pay
Raleigh, Jan. 21 ? Watauga coun-l
tpns who began their fifth year of
service on OPA price control boards
this month were lauded today by
OPA District Director Theodore S.
Johnson fcr their work in the past
and reminded that that work is far
from being finished.
"Board members who gave so un
tiringly of their time and energy to
the rationing of scarce commodities
- are the people who made rationing
programs a fine example of Ameri
can democracy," Johnson asserted.
This original army of 20,000 vol
? unteers soon increased to 76,000, And
Another 200,000 men and women
volunteered to assist the local boards
regularly, he said. These volunteers
? merchants, bankers, factory work
ers, doctors, housewives, high school
boys and girls, teachers, office work
ers and farmers ? gave a specified
amount of their time on regular
weekly schedule.
With everything but sugar now
off the rationing list, OPA has
changed the official name of its lo
cal organizations to Area Price Con
trol Boards, Johnson said.
With the demand for lespedeza
tericea seed greatly ahead of sup
ply, farmers are turning to small
patches for seed to increase their
own supply.
Heads Red Cross
R*v. Edwin F. Troutman. pas
tor of Grace Lutheran Church,
who was elected president of the
Watauga County Red Cross chap
ter for the fifth time at a direc
tor's meeting in the Red Cross of
fice on Thursday night, Jan. 17.
Mr. Troutman wishes to thank the
folks of the county for their re
sponse to the Red Cross Roll Call
in the war period. He further
more urges the people to support
the Roll Call during the month of
March for 1946. "The Red Croes
carries on even in peacetime."
MRS. EGGERS, 84,
SUCCUMBS SUNDAY
Mother of Mr. S. C. Eggers of Boone>
Dies at Local Hospital;
Funeral Tuesday
Mrs. Emsley R. Eggers, 84 years
old, widow of former Sheriff Eggers
of Watauga county, died at Watauga
hospital Sunday evening from a sud
den illness.
Mrs. Eggers had suffered a broken
hip in a fall at the home of her son,
Representative S. C. Eggers, last
Tuesday, and had been at the local
hospital since that time. Two hours
prior to her death information was
that the aged lady's condition was I
satisfactory. It is thought that a I
heart attack might have been thej
immediate cause of her demise.
Funeral services were conducted
Tuesday at 2 o'clock at the Forest
Grove Baptist Church in Beaver
Dam township. Rev. J. C. Canipe,
Boone Baptist paster, and Rev. Thos
Stanbury were in charge of the
obsequies, and interment was in the
Storie graveyard in Mrs. Eggers"
home neighborhood.
v. Mrs. Eggers was the former Miss
Lucinda Johnson, daughter of the
late Mr. and Mrs. Braxton Johnson,
and was bcrn and reared in Beaver
Dam township She had been a
member of the Baptist church for
60 years, and always took an active
interest in the religious life of her
community and county. For almost
ten years she had made her home
with Representative and Mrs. Eggers
of Boone, and was well knov/n end
held in the highest regard by the
pecple of this community.
Mrs. Eggers is survived by four
sons, S. C. Eggers of Boone; D. H.
Eggers, Vilas; H. C. Eggers, Moun
tain City, Tenn., and Floyd Eggers,
Vinita, Okla. There are three
daughters: Mrs. Clyde Robinson,
Reece; Mrs. Hill Isaacs, Vilas, and
Mrs. Belle May, Trade, Tenn.
Burley Penalty Given
Approval of House
Washington, Jan. 22 ? A 40 per
cent penalty against producers of
burley tobacco for all over-quota
production was approved' by the
house today but an attempt to in
clude flue-cured tobacco farmers in
the 1946 farm program was spiked
under leadership of two Tar Heel
congressmen.
The measure, sponsored by Rep.
John W. Flannagan, Democrat, Vir
ginia, chairman of the house agri
culture committee, would ccntinuo
diying 1946 the current penalty of
10 cents per pound on flue-cured to
bacco produced beyond quotas. The
40 percent penalty would apply
against all over-quota production in
1947.
The measure, which now goes to
the Senate for final congressional
action, empowers the secretary of
agriculture to arbitrarily fix burley
acreage qattas this year. Secretary
Anderson is expected to drastically
reduce burley quotas, while a prob
able slight increase In flue-cured
quotas is anticipated.
EASTERN STAR DINNER
The Order of the Eastern Star
! will sponsor a dinner at Carolina
Cafe Wednesday, January 30. Plates
will be one dollar and the proceeds
will be used for a local charitable
purpose.
BURLEY SALES
NEAR FOUR AND
A H ALF MILLION
Receipts Continue Heavy at Lo
cal Tobacco Warehouses, and
No Closing Date Has Been Es
tablished; 182,000 Pounds Auc
tioned Tuesday
Season's sales of burley tobacco
on the local warehouse floors ap
proached four and one-half million
pounds at the end of the auctions
on Tuesday, 4,427,334 pounds having
been disposed of prior to the begin
ning of sales today, and information
is that much tobacco yet remains in
Watauga and other counties.
Receipts at the local market con
tinue heavy and 182,000 pounds were
sold yesterday, warehousemen re
porting a slightly more stable price
average.
Mr. R. C. Coleman, warehouse
man, states that no definite date
has been established for the closing
of the season's sales, and that plans
are to continue auctions as long as
unsold tobacco remains. Farmers
from various sections of the burley
belt tell of numbers of large crops
yet to be .brought in, and with slight
ly better weather, it is expected
that receipts will continue to in
crease as the season continues.
Buyers have been able to move
their tobacco from the floors recent
ly -with dispatch, and Mr. Coleman
says that growers may be assured a
' sale the day they come, and fair and
courteous treatment at all times.
FARM BUREAU HAS
RAPID GROWTH,
Many Members Added to Local Or
ganization Lately; State Meet
ing Next Month
On January 9, 1946, the Watauga
County Farm Bureau called a meet
ing of farmers and other interested
people for Monday night, Jan. 14,
at the courthouse to discuss the
burley tobacco situation, looking to
some action that might tend to help
the sinking price this year and cer
tainly would help hold the price up
for next season.
On Saturday afternoon, Jan. 12, a
telegram from the North Carolina
Farm Bureau came which inform
ed us that a meeting would be held
in Washington, D. C-, on the 14th,
to discuss and make plans for the
very thing in which the local bureau
was interested. A hurried confer
ence was held and the Watauga
Farm Bureau sent two representa
tives, Harry Hamilton and Ned
Glenn, to this meeting along with
others from other burley tobacco
growing counties of the western
part of the state which have Farm
Bureaus and the representatives of
the State Farm Bureau organization.
This was reported to the meeting on
Monday night at the courthouse.
At that time there were 70 mem
bers of the local Farm Bureau. The
way in which the organization had
acted with dispatch in the tobacco
matter seems to have appealed to
the farmers as the organization now
has 125 members and many have
not yet turned in their reports.
Watauga township leads with 22
members, closely followed by Cove
Creek with 19; Beaver Dam has 15
and Meat Camp 13.
The annual meeting of the North
Carolina Farm Bureau Federation
will be held at the Robert E. Lee
Hotel at Winston-Salem on Feb. 6
7-8. The local organization hopes
to have a large delegation at this
meeting. Clyde R. Greene has al
ready made reservations for the
Watauga delegation at the hotel.
Let him know at once if you can at
tend.
The following men from Watauga
will serve on committees at the
state meeting: Resolutions* Henry
Taylor; poultry, Hubert Norris; bur
ley tobacco, Harry Hamilton; fruit
and vegetables, Don Shull, general
crops, Bun A. Hodges; dairy and
livestock. Perry Farthing; Edward
A. O'Neal Club, I. B. Wilson; con
stitution and bylaws, Grady Farth
I ing; agriculture, business and indus
trial relations, Clyde R. Greene; or
ganization, Stewart Simmons and E.
IB. Hardin; nominations, Harry Ham
jilton.
Service Officer to
Speak at Legion Meet
Mr. Jack C. Winchester, assistant
state service officer, will be the
principal speaker at a meeting of
the Watauga Post of the American
Legion to be held at the Junior Or
der hall January 25, at 7 o'clock, it
has been announced.
Refreshments will be served at the
close of the meeting, it is stated.
Gonna Walk All Over God's Heaven ...
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A SMALL BOY'S DREAM You've seen children gaze at toys, or
candy, or Santa Claui. ? as (tarry-eyed as this little boy gazing at a
pair of shoe* in the window of an UNRRA distribution center He is
dreaming of having these wonderful shoes, donated by some American
boy. for his very own How they would transform the rough, rubble
strewn roads he must walk' Tie shoes securely together and give them
to the Victory Clothing Collection for overseas relief
County Agent Sees Need of Control
On Cabbage, Potatoes and Other Crops
First President
Paul Henri Spaalc, Belgian for
eign minister, who wa* elected
first president of the United Na
tions Organisation. He received
the support of the United State
delegation.
PERKINSVILLE
HOME IS BURNED
Several Thousand Dollar Loss in
Friday Night Fire; Nothing
Salvaged From Flames
The Perklnsville residence belong
ing to Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Hendrix
of Shelby, and occupied by Mr.
Arlie Brown and family, was burned
to the ground Friday night, inflict
ing a loss of several thousand dol
lars. Mr. Brown was the only mem
ber of the household at home and
was awakened when a hot ember
struck his face. He escaped through
a window, with only hia night
clothes, and nothing at all was sal
vaged. *
The frame building, which it. is
believed, cught from electric wires,
was consum d in a few minute*. The
structure, which contained seven
rooms, had recently been extensive
ly improved, and represented a loss
to the owner*, it is said, of five to
six thousand dollars. Mr. and Mrs.
Hendrix lost the contents of one
room, in which furniture was stored,
while the Brown family's entire
household furnishings, clothing and
everything was destroyed.
The fire had gained such headway
when discovered that the local fire
department was not called to the
scene.
Birds on battlefields are less up
set by shellfire than men.
Hamilton CUes Drop in Tobacco
Market, and Asks Farmers to
Consider Other Crops in an
Effort to Prevent General
Price Declines
County Agent Harry M. Hamilton,
Jr., sees in the present instability
of the burley tobacco market an in
centive for farmers of the county to
start the planning of means for
keeping prices of other farm prod
ucts stable, and believes that allot
ments and marketing quotas would
be a good thing for produ era of
fcod crops in this section.
Mr. Hamilton says:
I hope that the present burley to
bacco situation will cause farmers
to start planning for ways and
means of keeping other farm prod
ucts from declining greatly in price.
We have a control program on to
bacco and yet it is way off in price
to what it was last year.
Crops like cabbage, potatoes anc'
beans ore not under control. If a
crop that is under control breaks in
price as much as tobacco has, what
can we expect of crops that are not
under control? I realize that to
bacco hit a higher price bracket dur
ing the 1944 and 1945 market sea
son than other farm products.
It seems to me that now is the
time to start working on anything
that will stabilize the markets on
other farm products.
Most of the people connected with
the tobacco business didn't expect
the drop in tobacco prices but never
theless the prices have fallen.
We all know that when we have
an overproduction of any product
that we have a low price offered for
the product when it is ready to
market. I believe we should have
allotments and marketing quotas on
cabbage, potatoes and beans. After
quotas are established it could be
determined what percentage of de
crease was necessary in order to in
sure a fair profit to the farmers.
Farmers need to join their farm or
ganizations that, are operating in the
county and start thinking about
some of these problems. The think
ing then needs to be turned into
action if we are to get results before
it is too late.
Practically everything the farmer
buys is increasing in price. Take
the price of milk today and compare
it to the price of dairy feed. You
will find that milk is 15 cents per
hundred pounds lower than last year
and the price of dairy feed is 25 to
40 cents per hundred pounds higher
than last year.
I would be glad to know what the
farmers as a whole think about the
questions I have brought up in this
article.
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PRESIDENT'S BALL
TO BE HIGHLIGHT
MARCHOF DIMES
Well-Known Orchestra to Pro
vide Syncopation for Annual
Benefit Dance; Contributions
to Polio Fund Are Now Com
ing in
The President's birthday ball, for
many years the hlghspot of the win
ter social calendar In this communi
ty, will be hejd at the high school
auditorium Thursday evening, Jan
uary 31, and will provide the climax
to the March of Dimes campaign for
funds with which to combat infan
tile paralysis.
Howard Cottrell, chairman of the
polio campaign, states that a well
known orchestra has been procured
for the President's ball, and that the
admission will be one dollar per
person. He urges ? full attendance
of the people of the town, county
and other sections, and promises an
evening of fun and entertainment
for all.
Contributions have been coming
in fairly well for the March of
Dimes, says Mr. Cottrell. Howev
er, he points out that since this week
and next closes the campaign, all
solicitors should main an especial
effort in the remaining days of the
drive in order that the county may
raise its quota of $2,2$0.
"No one knows but that infantile
paralysis may strike again next sum
mer," says Mr. Cottrell, "and with
the vast amount of money spent on
our own children by the National
Foundation during the last epidemic,
all of our people should want to con
tribute immediately to this worthy
cause, and thus provide a backlog
of medical and financial assistance
when the 'great crippler* visits our
homes again."
Those wishing to make contribu
tions by mail may send direct to
Mr. Cottrell.
P.-T.A. MEETING
MONDAY EVENING
"Our Community and Juvenile Guid
ance" Them* for Parent
Teacher Gathering
The Parcnt-Teacher Association
of Boone will meet Monday, Jan.
28, at 7:30 p. m., in the high school
auditorium, the program for the
evening being cn the subject, "Your
Community and Juvenile Guidance,"
iurther developing the theme for
the year, "Together We Build." Mr.
Clyde R. Greene, chairman of the
committee, releases the following
program for the session:
"The Parent Plus the Elementary
School in Juvenile Guidance," Don
ald Thompson.
"The Parent Plus the High School
in Juvenile Guidance," Cratis Wil
liams. . .
"The Parent Plus the College in
Juvenile Guidance," Dr. R. C. Bus
teed.
"The Parent Plus the Police De
partment in Juvenile Guidance," Po
lice Chief Scroggs.
HUNTING ENDS
ON JANUARY 31
Game Warden Sayi Trapping Con
tinues Until Feb. IS; Birds
Suffer From Cold
The hunting season for this coun
ty closes at sundown January 31,
says County Game Warden Walter
Edmisten, who explains that the
trapping season for mink, opossum
and raccoon will remain open until
February 15.
Severe weather has resulted in a
somewhat smaller take of game this
year than usual, and the birds have
suffered immeasurably from the ex
treme cold. Mr. Edmisten asks that
all sportsmen co-operate with land
owners in their elforts to conserve
all the birds that have managed to
survive the severe weather.
Crop Loans Are
Now Available
Emergency crop and feed loans
are now available to farmers for the
purchas^of feed, seed and fertili
zer and other necessary farming ex
penses.
Farmers interested In receiving <
loans may make applications at the
emergency crop loan office in the
courthouse, or by contacting C. Gor
don Taylor, field supervisor.
Farm people everywhere are be
ing unfed to have and turn in all
used fats. The end of the war did
not reduce the need for salvaged
fats.