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"VOL. LVII, NO. 50
BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1946
5 CENTS A COPY
STATE SPANISH
WAR VETS NAME
SLATE OFFICERS
Annual Banquet for State En
campment of Spanish War
Veterans Held at Blowing
Rock Monday: Albert Watson.
Boone. Retiring Commander
Blowing Rock ? Officers of the
North Carolina department of
Spanish American War Veterans
nominated officers for the coming
year and members of the auxiliary
eleated their officers at business
sessions of the 24th encampment
Monday at Mayview Manor. The
?encampment opened Sunday night
and will close following business
sessions Tuesday.
Officers nominated by the vet
erans include A. B. Frost, Jr., of
High Point, department comman
der; and Col. John A. Wagner, USA
retired, Asheville, and Thomas A.
Price of Charlotte, senior vice com
manders.
Elected by the auxiliary were:
Mrs. Love P. Hughes of Asheville,
department president; Mrs. L. L.
Merchant, Asheville, senior vice
president; Mrs. Lucy Duckworth,
Morganton, junior vice president;
Miss Dovie Logan, Shelby, patriotic
instructor; Mrs. Addie Hicks,
Statesville. chaplain: Miss Evan
Fisher of Morganton. historian:
Mrs. Bertha Rhyne, Salisbury, con^
ductor, Miss Cora L. Karyton. Kan
napolis. assistant conductoi . Mrs.
Katie Pirie, Salisbury, guard, Mrs.
Ida Myers. Charlotte, assistant
guard.
Delegates to the national conven
tion are Mrs. Josey Meadows, Ashe
ville. Mrs. Bertha Frost. High Point,
Mrs. Bessie Beachman. Asheville,
and Mrs. Carrie Hollar, Asheville.
Alternates are Mrs. Mary Webb,
Charlotte, Mrs. Ida Myers, Char
lotte, Mrs. Cornelia Gephart, Ashe
ville, Mrs. Johnsie Crook, Charlotte.
Annual Banquet
The annual banquet for the en
campment and auxiliary was held
Monday night at Mayview Manor.
Approximately 150 veterans and
members of the auxiliary are at
tending the session.
The morning session Monday was
opened by J. M. Saunders of Dur
ham, chaplain, who gave the invo
cation. J. H. Winkler, mayor of
Blowing Rock, is conference host
for the town, and Dr. B. B. Daugh
erty of Boone addressed the meet
ing. His address was followed by
discussion of department business
and reports from committees.
Business sessions of the depart
ment and auxiliary were held dur
ing the afternoon, with Albert Wat
son presiding over the department
meeting and Mrs. Clara Cahill of
Spencer over the auxiliary session.
The Rev. Walter K. Keys, pastor
of Rumple Presbyterian church,
was the speaker at a memorial serv
ice Sunday night at the church.
Vets to Gather Next
Year in Greensboro
Selecting Greensboro as the loca
tion of next year's encampment, the
q three-day meeting of the Spanish
War Veterans and auxiliary of North
Carolina, which opened Sunday at |
Mayview Manor, Blowing Rock, '
ended Tuesday afternoon with the
election and installation of officers.
L. L. Merchant of Asheville, con- '
ducted the installation ceremonies.
Elected to succeed Albert Watson,
of Boone is A. B. Frost. Jr., of High
Point as department commander; j
Col. John A. Wagner of Asheville,'
department senior vice-commander;
Thomas A. Price, of Charlotte, de- '
partment junior vice-commander; I
Thomas Griswold of Charlotte,
quartermaster adjutant.
Paying tribute to Milton M. Chap
? man, managing director of Mayview
Manor, Mr. Watson stated that the
1946 encampment was the most
harmonious ever held by the North
Carolina department.
Senate Ballot Again
Slashes OPA's Powers
Washington. June 1 I? ' The senate
sliced OPA's powers still further to
day in its first action on a price
control bill which Stabilization Di
rector Chester Bowles had protested
already left the agency powerless to
combat inflation.
It adopted without dissent a pro
posal by Senator Moore (R., Okla.)
to require "prompt removal" of ceil*
? ings on manufactured products and
other non-farm items whenever the
supply exceeded or was in "approxi
mate balance with" demand.
This wiped out discretionary pow
ers OPA was left with in the meas
ure as reported by the senate bank
ing committee. Under the commit
I tee bill, OPA could have retained
ceilings if it believed prices would
rise, as a result at lifting them to a
point exceeding "true reflection
of current costs plus reasonable
profits." q
One effect of Moore's amendment
may be to require removal of ceil
ings from gasoline and petroleum
products. The petroleum industry
has contended that supplies are
ample to meet demand.
One-third of our unborn popula
tion lives in slums, substandard and
deteriorating areas, according to a
Twentieth Century Fund report
GETS SCHOLARSHIP
, iJHH
Miss Carrie Lee Farthing, of
Boone, a senior at Appalachian
State Teachers College, who has
been awarded a 5500 fellowship
for graduate study at Duke Uni
versity, Durham. Miss Farthing
has maintained a magna cum j
laude quality of work during her
entire four years. Her majors are |
English and French.
LARKIN TRIVETT
SUCCUMBS SUNDAY
Aged Vilas Resident Had Been 111
Several Months; Funeral
Held Tuesday
Larkin Milton Trivett. pioneer
school teacher. former county
surveyor and retired farmer, died
at his home at Vilas Sunday at the
age of 88 years. Mr. Trivett had been
ill for several months.
Funeral services were conducted
from the Baptist church at Brushy
Fork Tuesday afternoon at 2:00
o'clock by Rev. W D. Ashley and
Rev. R. C. Eggers and burial was
in the Hine cemetary near Boone, j
The widow, the former Maggie E. !
Hodges, silrvives, together with
three daughters: Mrs. S. E. Ander-i
son, Vilas; Mrs. Roby Hayes, Vilas; j
and Mrs. Tom Hartley, Boone.
There are 22 grandchildren, 20
great grandchildren; one sister, j
Mrs. Alfred Brown, Boone, and one
brother, D. N. Trivett, Beaver Dam,
Virginia.
Native Of Watauga
Mr. Trivett was born in Stony
Fork township January 21, 1858, a
son of the late Elijah Trivett and
Irene Carlton Trivett, and had re
sided in Watauga county all his life.
In early life he taught in the public
schools of the county, later took up
land survying, and followied this
profession, along with farming pur
suits until failing health brought
about his retirement. He had been
a member of the Brushy Fork 1
Church for more than 60 years, and
lent his full support to religious
activities in his neighborhood.
CITY TAX SALES
ARE POSTPONED!
Mayor States That Accelerated Tax
Receipts Cause Postpone
ment of Sale
Property of delinquent taxpayers
of the town of Boone was to have
been advertised for sale in the
Democrat this week, but accelerat
ed payments of these levies in the
past few days, have brought about
a postponement of the sales, says
Mayor Gordon H. Winkler.
Mayor Winkler says that the city
officials appreciate the fine response
of the taxpayers recently and in- :
sists that all those who have not yet
paid their taxes do so at once, as
the properties will have to be event
unally sold in compliance with the
law.
TERMINAL LEAVE
PAY IS PASSED
I Washington, June 11. ? The house
membership clambered en masse to
day on the G. I. bandwagon, voting
379 to 0 to pay enlisted service per
sonnel cash for unused furlough
| time.
The action, if sustained by the
senate, will put all service men and
women on the same basis with re
spect to furlough pay. Officers al
J ready receive it under an old law.
Estimated variously to cost from
$2,000,000,000 to $5,000,000,000 and to
affect approximately 15,000,000 men
and women who have served in the
army, navy, marine corps, and coast
guard since September 8, 1939, the
j legislation grew out of congression
al clamor against what members
called discrimination against G. I.'s.
It entitles enlisted personnel to
two and one-half days of furlough
monthly while in service and re
quires that they be paid in cash if
they don't get the time off. A limit
of 120 days ? the same that applies
to officers ? is set on titjne that may
be acquired and paid for.
TONSIL CLINIC
Dr. H. B. Perry and Dr. R. H.
Harmon will hold their second ton
sil clinic Friday June 21, 1946.
Those wanting onerttions at this
clinic may reg&terTtiow at the Dis
trict Health Department.
CHILDREN MAY BE
ADOPTEDTHROUGH
WELFARE DEPT.
Another Service. of Local Wel
fare Department is That of
Arranging Adoption of Chil
dren: Anothbr in a Series of
Welfare Articles
By DAVID P. MAST
(Superintendent of Welfare)
Another service afforded the
people of a community by the
county welfare department is that
of arranging for the adoption of
children by those families desiring
them.
There was a time in years past
when very few safeguards were
thrown around this bringing to
gether of foster parents and foster
children. In those days people would
just go someplace where they had ]
heard there was a child they could 1
have and took him into their home. !
Neither the parents nor the child i
were properly safeguarded; often
the bioligical parents would want!
the child back; sometimes the child!
turned out to be mentally deficient j
m later life; and often property j
rights of all parties were disregard-!
ed and the child thrown on the com- j
munity for support in the absence '
of valid adoption proceedings.
Now, however, it is an entirely
different story. People desiring to
take a child into their home as one
of their own now go first to the
county welfare department. The
home and the prospective foster I
parents must be thoroughly in-1
vestigated and understood so choice1
of a child can be made intelligently.
If this were not done it might be
that in a year or two the parents
would find they were not suited to!
the child they had taken.
Then comes a series of investiga
tions to be made by the Welfare
Department. Some people want a
child "with blue eyes and light
curly hair" ? often that is the only
description they would give. They
would not stop to think that per- j
haps just any child "with blue eyes
and light curly hair" would not fit;
into their home.
Physical examinations are given
all parties concerned because, for
instance, it would not do to bring
a tubercular child into a healthy (
home or to place a well child with
consumptive parents.
It is necessary to be certain that
the home life the child will go into
will be a wholesome one and not
one where he will be subjected to
influences that might turn him into
a delinquent in a few years.
Thus there are many thing to
consider before children are adopt
ed. Sometimes these investigations
bring out the fact that the parents
do not really want to take he re
sponsibility or rearing a child but
just think they do because they !
hadn't gone into the situation
thoroughly. It would be a grave
error to have placed a child in such
a home and it is much better for |
decisions like this to be made before
rather than after action is taken.
As a final safeguard as to the
suitability of parents and child for
one another it is necessary that a \
year elapse after placement before
final decree of adoption is recorded.
If in that time it is found that
either parents or child would not !
be suited, the proceeding is not
finished. If the investigation turns |
out satisfactorily, then the decree
is entered and the child is legally as
much the child of the parents as
if he had been their natural child
and he has all the rights that would
belong to any other child of the
couple.
Stassen' s Candidate
Trailing in Nebraska
Senator Hugh Butler, trying for a j
second term, took a 3 to 1 load over
Gov. Dwight Gnswold in the first,
14 precincts to report in Tuesday's
Nebraska Republican senatorial pri
mary.
There are 2.032 precincts in the
. state. ?
Butler received 1.021 votes to 324
for Griswold, who nad the active
, support of Harold E. Stassen, strong
; international co-operation and pros
pective candidate lor the GOP
presidential nomination in 1948.
Nebraska and Idaho voters deeid- j
I ed Tuesday the year's hottest sena- I
! torial nomination elections.
The outcome of the race between
Butler and Griswold was watched
closely for its effect on the 1948
presidential chances of Stassen.
: Stassen actively campaigned for
j Griswold, who holds similar views.
In Idaho, Senator Charles C Gos
| sett was opposed for the Democratic
| nomination by State Senator G. E.
, Donart, who was backed by Sena
i tor Glen Taylor in an intra-party
| fight involving the state party
j leadership.
The two states also elected candi
| dates for governor and the U. S.
house.
SNYDER IS CONFIRMED
FOR TREASURY OFFICE
The senate Tuesday confirmed
John W. Snyder as secretary of the
treasury.
Action was on a voice vote with
out objection. Snyder succeeds Fred
M. Vinson, who has been nominated
to be chief justice of the United
States Supreme court.
WILDEST TRIBE HARVESTS BANANAS
I
Choco Indian family descending the Rio Choco. in jungles of
Panama, with mahogany dugouts loaded with plantain i and ba
nanas. The Choco Indians are believed to be the Western hemis
phere's wildest living tribe.
DROWNED
Ronald Wayne Eubanks, three,
son of Mr, and Mrs. Walter Eu
banks of Concord, who lost his
life when he fell into a small pond
at the home of his grandparents,
Mr. and Mrs. Murray Greene, of
Boone.
HEALTH BOARD IN
POLIO WARNING
Quarantine Regulations Imposed on
Juvenile Visitors From
Florida
In view of the fact that epidemics
of polio are known to exist in
Florida and Texas, states from
which visitors frequently travel to
North Carolina, the district health
department calls attention to the
following emergency regulation
adopted by the State Board of
Health, in an effort to prevent, in
so far as possible, the spread of the
disease:
"All persons under 16 years of
age who come into the State from a
polio epidemic area shall be quar
antined on their premises for 14
days.
"All camps where children have
arrived from such epidemic areas
shall be immediately quarantined
as a unit until two weeks have
elapsed following the entrance of
the last child from, an epidemic
area. Such quarantine, in the case
of camps, shall consist of the re
quirement that all children in the
camp remain on camp property and
not have visitors under sixteen
years of age.
"New admissions to camps of
children from epidemic areas shall
be prohibited."
City Schools to Open
Summer T erms June 24
Announcement has been made of
summer school sessions for the
Boone high and elementary schools
which will open June 24th.
TALKS ON FOOD
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Emperor Hirohito called on the
Japanese people to share the food
among themselves equally until
relief can be arranged.
CITY TO REQUIRE
PROPER PARKING
Streets Being Marked Off, and Vio
lators of Parking Laws
Are Being Fined
Town workers have been busily
engaged the past few days in mark
ing off parking spaces on the pave
ment, and this work has been prac
tically completed in the business ?
district, and will be finished as j
quickly as another supply of the
special paint required has been se- ,
cured.
Mayor Winkler states that the po
lice department is now making ev
ery effort to secure proper parking
of cars, so that as many as pssoiblc j
may be taken care of and thus !
eliminate a part of the congested
condition which exists in the city, i
Some have already been fined for j
parking improperly, says Mayor !
Winkler, and all motorists of the j
area are asked to observe the park
ing lines, and place their cars with
in them.
Susie Presnell Harmon
Is Claimed by Death
Mrs. Susie Presnell Harmon, 77, i
died Sunday at her home at Romin- I
ger from a Sudden illness, with what J
was said to have been a heart ail- 1
(nent.
Funeral services were conducted
Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock
from the Matney Baptist Church by I
Rev. Mr. Adams and Rev. Mr. j
Watson, and interment was in the
church cemetery.
The husband, Kell Harmon sur- i
vives, with two sons and six i
daughters: Adil and Monroe Harmon,
Rominger; Mrs. Delphia Harmon,
Mrs. Will Rominger. Mrs. Millard
Rominger, Vilas; Mrs. John Ward,
Zionville; Mrs. Luther Hix, and Mrs.
Gold Hix, Rominger.
Juniors to Present
Spring Festival Event
Daniel Boone Council, Junior Or-'
dor, .will present to the people of
Boone and vicinity a spring festi- j
val beginning Monday, June 17th,
and continuing through Saturday,!
June 22.
The festival will be on the lumber
yard property, east of the bus sta- '
tion, and will consist of rides, games
and concessions, supplied by the*
Florida Amusement Co.
Fireworks displays have been
promised in the evenings and ev- 1
c-ryone is invited to attend and en
joy themselves.
Curb Market Meeting
| To Be Held June 18th
? ?
I On Tuesday. June lA beginning at
10:00 o'clock there will be an im
jportant curb market meeting in the
I home economies department at
j Appalachian High School, and all
women who are interesting in sell
ling on the curb market are urged
to attend.
In the morning officers will be
(elected and rules will be set up for
the operation of the market. Mr. T.
IT. Brown. Poultry Specialist from
j Raleigh will give a demonstration
in the afternoon on killing and
dressing poultry, and grading eggs
for the- market.
New Books at Library
For your summer reading, try
these new books: Leacock, The boy
I left behind; Graham, Al Smith
American; Goodman, While you
were away; (Caspary, Bedelia;
Hendryx, Skull-duggery on Haifa
day Creek; Wentworth, Silence in
court; Cook, Mrs. Palmer's honey;
Hill, Case for Equity; Rorick, Out
side Eden; Kent, Country Mouse;
Thirkell, Miss Bunting.
Story collection books: Bedside
book of famous French stories and
a treasury of horse stories.
For the young readers: Cam pell,
The Wizard ana his Magic power;
Street, The land of the English
people; Coe, The Burma Road; Kis
sin, Gramp's desert chick; Jones,
Tell me about the Bible.
Visit your library often.
July 21-27 h** been proclaimed U
'National Farm Safety Week.
BIDS ARE SOUGHT
ON SURFACING OF
LOCAL HIGHWAYS
Commission Asks Second Time
for Proposals on Surfacing
Roads in Beaver Dam and
Stony Fork Townships; State
May Do Some Work
The state highway and public
works commission is again asking
for bids on the surface treatment of
5.55 miles of county roads in
Watauga, having failed to receive
any proposal on this work when bids
were opened some weeks ago.
The local mileage consists of a
section of the George's Gap road in
Beaver Dam township, and the road
from Deep Gap to the Ashe county
line.
Bids will be opened June 25 on
19 highway construction projects
estimated to cost about $3,053,246
and 66 road betterment projects
estimated to cost about $1,800,000.
The construction projects call for
work on approximately 111.5 miles
of highway and the betterment pro
jects call for work) ? mostly surface
treatment ? of 188 miles of road.
Information from local highway
sources indicate that the State Com
mission is making ev?rv effort to
get sufficient equipment on hand to
institute a road building and better
ment program on its own, without
having to seek contractors to do the
work.
President Vetoes
Case Labor Bill
Washington, June 11 ? President
Truman today vetoed the Case
anti-strike bill as an ill-conceived
measure that would promote rather
than prevent industrial strife, and
jubilant pro-labor forces in the
house backed him up by sustaining
the veto.
The vote squeaked through by
the narrowest of margins. A roll
call vote on a motion to override
wound up with the count 255 to 135,
just five votes short of the neces
sary two-thirds to upset the veto.
That ended temporarily one of the
bitterest fights of Mr Truman's
short White House career, and scor
ed a victory for labor forces who
had denounced the bill as a move to
strip them of all the gains won un
der the New Deal.
Many Democrats leaped to their
feet with enthusiastic applause
when the vote was announced and
the opposition countered with angry
boos and catcalls that brought
Speaker Sam Rayburn to his leet
banging for order.
Supporters of the disputed bill
immediately began maneuvering to
send it back to the While House as
a rider to the President's own emer
gency labor powers bill, now await
ing final clearance by the house
rules committee.
The outcome of that move seem
ed highly problematical, however,
in view of the tangled line-ups in
both houses for and against the
Case bill and the emergency pow
ers measure.
David C. Greene Dies
At Banner Elk Hospital
David C. Greene, 57, died at Grace
Hospital. Banner Elk. June 8th,
from an extended illness.
Funeral services were conducted
at the Zionville Baptist Church Sun
day by Rev. R. C. Eggers and inter
ment was in the cemetery there,
Reins-Sturdivant Funeral Home
being in charge.
The widow, Mrs. Mandy Greene,
survives, with two sons and five
daughters: Hartley Greene, Trade,
^Tenn.; Millard Greene, Reece; Mrs.
Chas. Crew, Trade, Tenn.; Mrs. R.
E. Braddock, Eau Gallic. Fla.; Mrs.
Elmer Icenhour, Mrs. Harold Bailey,
and Mies Rosedna Greene, Trade,
jTenn.; There are three brothers
[and two sisters: Frank Greene,
'Shady Valley, Tenn.; Richard
; Greene. Harlan, Ky.; Noah Greene,
,San Francisco, Calif.: Mrs. Will
I Jennings, Trade, Tenn.; Mrs. Bud
Rankin, Mountain City, Tenn.
| Can Still Subscribe
To Your County Paper
There has been belief in some
quarters that, due to the paper
shortage, no new subscriptions are
being received for the Watauga
Democrat. This is an error, sincc
j despite critical paper pulp shortage,
I the local newspaper is yet bei.^i
sent to all who desire it Those in
tending to subscribe should do so
j at once, as the rising costs of pro
duction are likely to cause an ad
vance in prices.
Fourth Sunday Singings
j Are Revived in County
The practice of holding singings
on the fourth Sunday in each month
is being revived in the county, and
the first of these events will be
held at the Rutherwood Baptist
Church on the fourth Sunday even
ing in June, beginning at 7:45, it
is announced by Barber Bill Hodges.
The program will be limited to
class singing only, and rla?ns are
invited to participate In theee
gatherings which will be held each
fourth Sunday during the summer
months.