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VOL. L.VII, NO. 37 4 , BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1946
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RED CROSS ROLL
CALL CAMPAIGN
LAGS IN COUNTY
Oaly About 25 Per Cent of
Quota Raised So Far; Former
Servicemen Highly P r a i a e
Work of Organization During
Wartime
Approximately 25 per cent of the
$6,100 quota of the Watauga County
chaper of the American Red Cross
has been raised in the first official
week of the 1946 Red Crosb fund
campaign, A. T. Adams, secretary
of the drive, announced yesterday.
More than 110 volunteer workers
are now soliciting individuals and
business firms in behalf of the
campaign.
The public is well acquainted
with the great work done by the
Red Cross in war work such as the
blood donor service, prisoner of war
service, camp and hospital council
service, service club6, and in service
here at home such as disaster re
lief, home service, nursing service
and hospital council service; but the
work was brought to our very thres
hold back in 1940 when the flood
struck this section doing immeasur
able damage in the Deep Gap
community. It was then that the
Red Cross went into action for our
own people, building a complete
house for a family whose home had
gone down the mountain in a flood
of water and land; clothing and
feeding whole families and furnish
ing them with necessities until they
could again work for themselves.
That was on the home front. Our
own servicemen can tell us what
the Red Cross did for them;
Coach Flucie Stewart
"You ask me what the Red Crosu
meant to me? Well, I will tell you
some of the things I've seen ... I
saw 78 survivors from a lost ship
brought in and outfitted completely
even to tooth paste and razor blades,
furnished with transportation to hos
pitals, given aid in settling their pay
accounts, all by the Red Cross . . I
saw 100,000 Red Crass j?ackageg_ de
livered to Siapan tor distribution to
troops on the island and to the ships
in the harbor . 1 saw a number of
pilots who had been knocked down
at sea and were picked up by our
submarines and destroyers, brought
ashore and turned over to the Red
Cross which did the same for them
as they, did for those mentioned
nbove ... It was the Red Cross that
served as messenger to and from
home in time of emergency for the
servicemen ? any man or woman
could contact his family anytime
through the Red Cross; the com
manding officers always accepted a
statement from the Red Cross as au
thentic. Then again, one day a
Japanese prison ship was torpedoed
off Siapan. It was carrying Aus
tralian prisoners of war ? 220 sur
vivors were picked up and brought
to Siapan where the Red Cross fur
nished them with clothing, food,
medical treatment and the extras
they needed to get along until trans
port could be arranged to Australia."
John Titum
John Tatum, son of Mr. and Mrs.
L. T. Tatum, approached one of the
local Red Cross workers recently
and said he wanted to make a con
tribution to the organization, said
he, "While I was at the front, the
Red Cross workers crawled
to the. very front lines bringing
coffee and doughnuts to tl fighting
men."
Alex WilaoD
Alex Wilson, who spent six months
in the German prison camp, Stalap
7 A, said, "I am fully convinced that
if it hadn't been for the Red Crow
1 would never have come out at
prison camp alive. We received par
cels from the Red Cross through
Switzerland every day except Sun
day during the whole time I was
there and the food we got in those
parcels kept us alive." Mr. Wilson
told of how the prisoners of war re
ceived mail messages through the
Red Crow ... in the prison camps
ss on the battle field and in far
away camps, the Red Crow was
the only sure means of communica
tion with relatives in time of em
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BrendeiFs Garage to
Have New Home
Construction work has been start
ed on a two-story cinder block
building to hcAise the Brendell
garage and Hudson agency on the
lot in front of the hosiery mill on
Howard street J. R Brendell, own
er, is supervising the construction,
and plans to move into the complet
ed building within the next 00 days.
The street floor of the building
will be used as a sales room where
the Hudson automobile will be sold;
the garage shop will be on the
basement floor with an entrance , at
the side.
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Blind HWo to Run
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Former Marin* Sgl. At Setantid,
Frankford. Pu vho lw bm se
lected by Peansrlvaala Dmocnti
to run for state secretary of in
ternal affair*, Schmidt- winner
of tb* nary cross for v*f1 '?g 200
Jap*, was J ha haro of the moria.
"Pride of the Marines."
Jeff Stanbury Sells
Dairy Property Here
A real estate transaction has been
consummated whereby Fred Wink
ler became the owner of the Jeff
Stanbury farm just outside the city
limits east of Boone. Mr. Stanbury,
for reason of poor health, has retired
from fanning operations and has
purchased a home in Weaverville
where he and Mrs. Stanbury will
move within the next few days.
Mr. Winkler plans to occupy the
brick residence on the newly ac
quired property and will subdivide
the land to be sold in lots later on.
The Stanbury milk route has been
taken over by the Hillside Dairy,
while R H. Van no y has purchased
the physical equipment of the dairy.
The Winkler home on Howard
street has been purchased by Mr.
and Mrs. J. R. Craven, who will oc
cupy it immediately.
Order Eastern Star
Elects New Officers
I Snow Chapter No. 220, Eastern
Star, held its regular meeting Mon
day night and elected the following
officers for the ensuing year:
Blanche Keller, worthy matron;
Lee Stout, worthy patron; Lena
Geer, associate matron; T. Mi Greer,
associate patron; Delcie Welch, con
ductress; Nell Linney, associate
Conductress; Helen Underdown,
secretary, and Virginia Miller,
treasurer.
These officers will be installed at
the next regular meeting
Following the meeting a social
hour was enjoyed by the members
and guests of the chapter.
YOUNG DEMOCRATS TO HOLD
MEETING IIT WINSTON- SALEM
A state-wide meeting of Young
Democrats will be held in Winston
Salem April 27-28, it was disclosed
Saturday, following a meeting of
Mrs. Henrietta Price Gillespie, presi
dent, with William S. Davis of Win
ston-Salem, state director of the or
ganization.
Davis was named by Mrs. Gilles
pie, of AsheviBe, as chairman for
the meeting. He will be assisted by
George Com, of Chapel Hill. Prin
cipal business of the two-day ses
sion, according to Mrs. Gillespie,
will be to select a location and date
for the Young Democratic conven
tion.
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Late Hews Bulletins
LEWIS ASKS FOR MORE
PAT. LESS WORK
L John L. Lewis called on the na
tion's bituminous coal operators
Tuesday to boost pay and shorten
the work week and create a health
and welfare fund tor the 400,000
soft coal miners.
WICKER NAMED ?TH
DISTRICT OOP CANDIDATE
Lexington. March 12 ? J. H.
Whicker, North Wilkesboro lawyer,
was nominated here today as the
Republican candidate for congress
from the eighth North Carolina dis
trict
40 PER CENT WHEAT
CUT REQUESTED
Washington, March 11 ? President
Truman's famine emergency com
mittee asked Americans tonight to
eat 40 per cent leSs wheat and 20 per
cent less fats to send more to the
hungry abroad and suggested 39
ways to do it
The suggestions called for open
face pies, buckwheat cakes instead
of wheatcakes, open sandwiches,
broiled instead of fried fish, sub
stitution of fruit and other desserts
for pastries.
Bakers were asked to cut the
weight of single loaves of bread
and other products by at least 10
per cent.
DISASTER LOOMS IF BIG
POWERS FAIL. KULL.SAYS
Former Secretary of State Cordell
Hull warned tonight in the midst
of worsening Big Three relations,
that the world faces "unspeakable
disaster" if any or all of the big
powers fail to pull together for
world peace. "We who are living
now must not allow the human race
to commit suicide through lack of
vision or through selfishness, im
patience or provocation," he said.
The aged Tennessean who charted
| U. S. foreign policy through most
of the war, issued a formal state
ment as the United Nations secur
ity council, which he helped spon
sor, prepared to meet in New York.
COMMERCIAL BUILDING TO
BE "DRASTICALLY'- CURBED
A "drastic" order curbing commer
cial construction in favor of houses
took shape today along with a se
nate move to restore the subsidy
and other features of the housing
bill which the administration seeks.
Housing Administrator Wilson Wyatt
said the order will be issued 'in a
matter of days." Other officials re
ported it will hold up thousands of
not> ? tntlal factories and business
buildings how on blueprints and
will fequire persons seeking to erect
amusement facilities to show they
are needed. The officials who gave
these details with the understanding
that their names not be used de
scribed the forthcoming orttor as
"drastic and far-reaching."
MASTER BLACK MARKET
RING REPORTED BROKEN
New York, March IS ? A black
market ring said to be the largest
ever uncovered in the United States,
was alleged today in federal grand
jury indictments against seven cor
porations and 246 persons. Seven in
dictments charged that the ring,
with the aid of ration coupons fak
ed from tinted paper and cut-up
telephone books, overdrew ration
accounts by 75,000,000 meat) coupons
and sugar coupons amounting to 6,
000,000,000 pounds of sugar.
RURAL ROADS TO
RECEIVE FIRST
CONSIDERATION
V, '?
Chairman Graham Says "Imme
diate Objective" is to Improve
Some 48.000 MMes of Farm-to
Market Highways
Raleigh ? A policy of "meeting
first problems first" will be fol
lowed by the State Highway and
Public Works Commission. its
Chairman. A. H. Graham, said to
day in discussing the stabilization
and surface treatment of the county
road system.
The "immediate objective," he
said, will be to put the farm-to
market roads in condition to with
stand next winter's weather. There
are about 48,000 miles on the county
system, and virtually every mile
will require some degree of atten
tion this year, for these roads bore
the brunt of the damage done by
| the unusually severe weather
last winter. Instructions have
already gone out to the division en
gineers, the Chairman said, that the
county roads are to be stabilized
this spring, summer and early fall
as rapidly as humanly possible.
Acute shortages in ? equipment,
materials and manpower still hand
icap even routine highway activi
ties, the Chairman stated, and there
appers to be little relief in prospect
anytime in the near future. Despite
this situation, the Highway Comm
ission is going ahead by doing every
thing it can to put the roads in
shape for withstanding the strain
of winter weather.
"I firmly believe," Graham stated,
"that the people of North Carolina
will endorse this policy of meeting
first problems first, and it is our
| earnest desire to overcome, as much
as we can, the handicaps under which
I we must operate these days in con
ditioning the roads to meet the
traffic requirements demanded of
them."
As is always the case, primary
attention will be given to the county
roads called on to carry the -heaviest
burdens of daily traffic. These will
include, in the majority of instances,
rural mail routes and school bus
routes, the highway chairman said.
This program of conditioning the
county roads for next winter will
i not in any way supplant the long
range improvements calling for sur
face treatment or stabilization of a
permanent character on 30,000 miles
of the county system during the next
ten years.
"We would lilqe very much to
carry both projects along at one and
the same time," Chairman Graham
said in discussing the longer pro
gram. "but this, unfortunately
enough, is impossible in view of
our still critical lack of the necess
ary implements and manpower to
do the work."
However, a start will be made on
the permanent program in the very
near future. Plans are already in the
making, and actual work will begin
later this spring. This program
calls for surface treatment or effec
tive stabilization of an average of
3,000 miles per year during the next
decade. Because there are conditions
existing which are beyond the con
trol of the Highway Commission,
being mainly the inability to pro
cure equipment and materials in
anything like required quantities.
Graham said that reaching the aver
age of 3,000 miles is not anticipated
this year and probably not in 1947,
(? i t h e r. However, the Highway
Commission is counting on making
up the deficit just as soon as it can
get delivery on equipment already
on order and plac^ orders for more
equipment with assurance of prompt
delivery.
Then, too, the Highway Commis
sion is planning to let some of this
work to contract, the mileage to
be handled by private firms to be
determined by the abOt^y of road
contractors to do the work at a re
asonable cost. The Highway Chair
man pointed out today that the roed
builders are up *g?'rTt the same
sort of difficulties facing the High
way Commission fat Ha inability to
award contracts for &s much mile
age as the contractors can handle
at a 'reasonable price figure.
"If the public will bear with us
during this period when there are
so many handicaps to surmount, we
think we can say with confidence
that a greatly improved secondary
road system will prevail throughout
the rural areas of the state within
a reasonable time." the Chairman
stated. '?
Fibber McGee and Molly are de
voting (heir entire program to Red
Croas on Tuesday, March 19, NBC,
9:30-10 p. m., EST.
T. T. I to/mill, of Greensboro,
spent the week-end with his fam
ily here.
Clyde R. Greene Named
G. O. P. Candidate For
Congress in 9th District
Candidate for Congress
CLYDE A. GREEKS
9-YEAR-OLD CHILD
FATALLY BURNED
Wilt Lucille Mills* p* DiM in Local
Hospital From Bum H?mind
Rocoirsd Last Saturday
Wila Lucillc Millsaps, nine-year
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mel
vin H. Millsaps- of Sugar Grove,
died in the Watauga hospital Sun
day morning, a victim of bums re
ceived when she is thought to have
ignited her clothing while replenish
ing the fuel of a wood stove. Her
parents, working in the yard and
barn nearby, heard her screams and
rushed to the house to find her
aflame from head to. foot. She was
brought immediately to the hospital
but was so critically burned that
death came Sunday morning at 1 :30.
Surviving are the parents, two
brothers. Jack and Charles, and one
sister- Floy Lee.
Funeral services were conducted
Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock from
Bethel Church, with Rev. Robert
Shores in charge, and interment
in the Millsaps cemetery at Sugar
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Thos. H. Coffey, Sr.,
Injured in Fall
Mr. T. H. Coffey, former represen
tative from Watauga county to the
North Carlina general assembly and
well-known citizen of Blowing Rock,
is in the Watauga hospital in a very
serious cohdition following a fall at
his home Thursday which resulted
in two broken rib?.
Mr. Coffey fell from a ladder
while members of the family were
momentarily absent. One of the
broken ribs injured the left lung and
attending physicians regard his con
dition as critical.
90 Veterans ?nrolled
At Appalachian State
A total of 90 veterans are included
in the student body of 650 at Appa
lachian College at the present time,
it has been announced by Registrar
H. R. Eggers.
A majority of the. vltf ?r? single
men, but some of thstr] .ffr mar
ried and have their fc'ly.S* here with
them. There is only opc?wojj\an in
the group of veterans, she is Sec
ond Lieut. Mrs. Jones Ashley, ANC.
The apartment house recently pro
vided for veterans and their wives
is completely filled, and so is New
land hall, the dormitory which has
been act aside for the single men.
DARK FLOUR BREAD BOOM TO
AFPT5AH OH FAMILY TABLES
Minneapolis, Minn., March 12?
Bread made from the dark flour
soon will be reaching the public in
quantity but if consumer tests are
indicative many persons will not no
tice a change has been made in
their staff of life. Since March 4, 90
percent extraction flour has been
going out of this milling center at
an average rate exceeding 5,000,000
pounds a day.
Miss Daphne Penny, of Bowman
Gray Medical College, Winston-Sa
lem, is teaching a group of college
students of the Baptist Student
Union each evening this week from
6:30 till 7:30 at Lovill hall. The
topic for study is "Christian Pa wn
aWy."
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Local Business Man and Civic
Leader is Choice of His Party
To Oppose Dougughton in Fall
Election; Will Wage Active
Campaign
The ninth district Republican con
vention in session in Lenoir Satur
day unanimously selected Clyde R.
Greene, prominent local merchant
and civic leader, as the party's can
didate to oppose Democratic Repre
sentative Robert L Dough ton in the
general election to be held this fall.
Approximately 220 delegates at
tended the convention. Delegates
were in attendance from Alexander,
Alleghany, Ashe, Cabarrus, Cald
well, Iredell, Rowan, Stanley and
Watauga counties.
Upton Blevins of Ashe, and E. C.
McCall of Caldwell, were placed in
nomination but the McCall nomi
nation waa withdrawn when it was
stated that Caldwell would not have
a candidate for congress at this time.
Mr. Greene was elected by an over
whelming majority and Mr. Blevins
moved that the choice of Mr.
Greene be unanimous.
Mr. Greene is 48 years old and
was bom and reared in Watauga
county. He attended Appalachian
College and Draughn Business Col
lege. He is manager of the Farmers
Hardware and Supply Company, a
Mason, member of the Lions Club.
Junior Order and the Boone Bap
tist Church.
In district affairs, Mr. Greene js
a former chairman of the Republi
can executive committee of the 9th
congressional district. Well known
throughout the state, he is presi
dent of the North Carolina Mer
chants Association and councillor of
the North Carolina Junior Order.
He is a member of the National
Council of the Boy Scouts of Amer
ica, and is chairman of the 1948
Red Cross Roll Call campaign in the
county. ,
In his acceptance speech. Mr.
.Greene stated that he^ would visit
and make speeches in every county
in the district.
The name of Mr. Greene was
placed before the convention by W.
H. Gragg, of Boone, who reviewed
for the convention his work in civic,
business, fraternal and religious life
in the the community and through
out the state of North Carolina.
The following were named mem
bers of the state executive commit
tee from the various counties of the
district: Uercy Deal, Alexander;
Beale Poovey, Alleghany; E. E.
Thomas, Ashe; J. L. Ross, Cabarrus;
Emery McCall, Caldwell; Russell
Sherrill, Iredell; G. C, Peeler and
R. P. Lowery, Rowan; J. J. Morton,
Stanley, and Russell D. .Hodges,
Watauga.
Attending the convention in addi
tion to Mr. Greene and Mr. Gragg
were S. C. Eggers and Chairman E.
D. Cook, of the county Republican
executive committee.
William L. Daugherty
Dies in Lenoir Hospital
Lenoir, March 12 ? William Lawson
Daugherty of Blowing Rock' retired
locomotive engineer, who had been
ill of pneumonia for four days, died
in a Lenoir hospital on Thursday
evening at 6:45 o'clock.
Funeral services were conducted
on Saturday morning at 11 o'clock
at Mt. Bethel Reformed Church,
Blowing Rock, with Dr. W. W. Rowe,
pastor of the Zion Reformed Church
of Lenoir. Burial was in the church
cemetery.
Born on Sept. 30' 1864, in Black
Mountain, he was a member of the
Chestnut Methodist Church in Lum
berton. He had been employed by
the Southern Railway and Raleigh
and Chester Railway Co., and was a
member of the BvOtherhood of Loco
motive Engineers. He made his
home in Lumberton for about 40
years, but for the past tew yearn
had resided at Blowing Rock.
Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Mary
Ingle Daugherty: two sons, William
L. Daugherty, Jr., Blowing Roek
and H. H. Daugherty, Bloomfteld.
N. J.; One brother, J. 1C. Daugherty,
Aaheville; two sisters, Mrs. Mary
Henderson- Birmingham, Ala., and
Mrs. A. F. Lyson, Black Mountain
*95,000 IS ADDED FOR
SCHOOL BUS UPKEEP
Maintainance of North Carotiiia's
4.950 school buses during the remain
der of the term will be financed in
sofar as po??ible with $95,000 trans
ferred from the twelfth grade ad
justment fund of next school year,
the state board Of education decided
in Raleigh Friday.
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