THE DEMOCRAT Is your best and moat eco nomical medium of advertis ing With more than 2.900 paid-up. cash subscriptions, your message goes to 13,000 people, on the universally used basis o ( Ave readers to i-ach subscriber VOL. LIX, NO. 3 WATAUGA DEMOCRAT An Independent Weekly Newspaper ? Established in the Year ! 888. The date on your addrtfi ? label shows the date your subscription will expire, mad I the date your paper will bm i BtoPP^1 unless sooner ed. The Democrat is operat ing strictly on a cash la *A~ ranee. BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY. JULY 18, 1946 5 CENTS A COPY Assumes New Post DR. W. A. ABRAMS QUITS COLLEGE; GOES WITH NCEA ) Popular Faculty Member at Appalachian State Teach ers College to Be Editor of' North Carolina Education and Direct NCEA Public Relations The North Carohna Education) Association announces through its executive secretary, Miss Ethel Perkins, that Dr. W. Amos Abrams will join its staff as of September 1. 1946. Dr. Abrams will serve as editor of North Carolina Education and as Dir ector of Public Relations and Re search. At present he is chair man of the department of Eng lish at Appalachian State Teach ers College. He brings to his new| position a background of suc-i cessful teaching, both, in hignl school and in college. I' From 1927 to 1930 Dr. Abrams was chairman of the department of English in the Glen Alpine high school, and since 1932 hei has been 'a member of the Appala- 1 chian faculty. "The Association," says Miss Perkins, considers itself fortun-i ate to have on its staff a scholar; and a teacher who has evinced! such a "vital interest in teacher' education and teacher welfare.. In the crisis which now con-!' fronts us we believe that Dr.!1 Abrams will render an invalu- 1 able service to the organization." Dr. Abrams is a graduate of Duke University with an A. B. and M. A. degree. He received his Ph. D. degree from Cornell University in 1932. He .is an author and a lecturer. He has served as president of the North Carolina Folklore Society, and at the present time he is president of the North Carolina English Teachers Association. During 1943-1944 he was District Gov ernor, District 31 A. Lions Inter national. He is a member of Theta Alpha Phi, Phi Delta Kap pa. and Phi Beta Kappa. For aj number of years Dr. Abrams has contributed to folklore and edu cational journals. He is much in demand as a: lecturer and he is well known as an entertaining and inspiring after-dinner speaker. In 1942 the Duke University Press published his edition of "The Merry Devil of Edmonton" which has been described as being a definitive; edition of this anonymous Eliza-, bethan comedy. As a hobby, Dr. Abrams collects folksongs and ballads, and he possesses a large> private collection of recordings of native singers. In '1934 Dr. Abrams married Miss Lillian Crow of Shelby,] North Carolina. He has one chil'J, a three-year old son. He willl take his family with him toj Raleigh just as soon as he can' find living accommodations for them. "In moving to Raleigh," says Dr. Ahfams. "I am leaving one of the finest institutions in the state of North Carolina. The progress Appalachian has made recently is but a mere token of her very promising f^ire. I predict that Appalachian will become more And more recognized as being among the outstanding teacher training institutions in the South. I am joining the staff of the NCEA because I welcome the op portunity to serve all the teach ers in North Carolina. As a mat ter of fact, I consider it a privi lege to have a part in the future development of our profession. I am personally and profession ally interested in raising the pro (ContirAed on page 8) PASSING OF OPA IS REFLECTED IN CATTLE PRICES Local Stock Market Has Ban ner Day Last Week From Standpoint of Cash; Chica go Record Equalled in Sale of Fat Calves; Heavy Re ceipts All records were broken in dol lars and cents at the Boone Live stock Market last Wednesday when top fat calves brought as high at $23.50 to slightly outstrip last week's history-making figure on the Chicago market. The passing of OPA brought an upswing in price of beef on the hoof of about 5 cents a pound on fat stock, says Manager Lester Carroll, who states that growers received $22,750 00 at the last sale on his market, setting a rec ord for dollars and cents. Al though receipts were large. Mr. Carroll states that the 465 head disposed of, was far short of rec ord receipts, although a consid erable tendency is noted to sell surplus stock on the price up swing. resulting in "unsiderably heavier receipts than have been 'he case recently. Prices of the top calves ranged from $20.00 to $23.50; medium calves $18.00 to $20.00; culls and dairy type $14.70: heifers, good fat, $17.00 to $19.00; medium heifers $14.50 to $16.00; common $12.00 to $14.00. Steers, good to choice, brought $20.00 to $23.00, medium $17.00 '.o $19.00; fair to medium $14.00 to $17-00. Choice cows were quoted as going at $16.00 to $18.00. Hogs brought 22 cents while lambs went at from 16 to 18 cents. Plenty of buyers were on hand! for the sale last week, and 146j farmers disposed of cattle dur-i ing the auction. JOBS FOR VETS IS URGENTPROBLEM USES Asks Employers To Aid In Rapid Placement of Former Soldiers Rapid reemployment of our discharged servicemen is a mat ter of high national importance ? the success or failure of a vet eran's readjustment to civilian life depends ultimately upon his getting a suitable job? promptly and without unnecessary shop ping around. All employers, as well as the agfcncies of Government, share responsibility for seeing to it that the veteran's and displaced war worker's search for employ ment is not made unnecessarily burdensome Of all the Federal agencies concerned with the veteran's orpblems. the USES has the pri mary responsibility for expedit ing his employment. Furthermore, it is the only agency of the Gov ernment which has the facilities to speed up the veteran's and displaced war worker's reem ployment. It can eliminate waste ful and unnecessary job hunting. It provides information about and placement on jobs in the home town or across the country. It is a vital reconversion tool. But the USES cannot creatc jobs. That is the function of pri vate employers. The USES can play its vital role in speeding the readjustment of the veteran and the displaced war workers only if employers throughout #the nat ion list their job openings with local offices of the USES. Such action is doubly advan tageous. It helps job seekers everywhere in the country to apply for the best available job with a minimum effort: and it helps employers everywhere in the country to interview and employ persons best qualified to fill their job openings. The best qualified workers are generally available through your local office of the United States Employment Service. Broaden your selection of workers by listing all job openings with youi uocal USES. In the interest of expediting the re-employment process, I urge all employers everywhere to list their job openings with the USES. Americans willQspend about $4,000,000,000 this year on ball games, skating and other forms of recreation according to a Commerce Department estimate. Such an outlay of cash for spec tator and participant diversion will be the highest in the coun try's history, declare officials. Minister Dies DR. *\ E. WAHMA.N DR. F. ETwXRMAN DIES ON FRIDAY; RITES ON SUNDAY Pastor of Advent Christian Church and Professor of Sociology at Appalachian Succumbs After Long Ill ness; Long Career in Chris tian Ministry Dr. Frederick Earl Warman, pastor of the Advent Christian Church in Boone, and professor of Sociology at Appalachian State Teachers College, died at Watauga Hospital last Friday after an ill ness of several months. His con dition had been critical for seve ral weeks. Funeral services were conduct-1 ed from the Advent Christian Church Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock by Elder S. E. Gragg of Shulls Mills, and interment was in the community cemetery. (Others making brief remarks con cering the life of Dr. Warman were Rev. R. L. Isbel. Lenoir; C. |G. Hodges, Rev. J. C. Canipe. Dr. E. K. McLarty, Dr. J. D. Rankin,! and Dr. B. B. Dougherty, presi dent of Appalachian State Teach ers College. Frederick Earl Warman was born and grew to young man hood on a farm near Borden, Indiana. He was converted in his jyouth to the doctrines of Christ! [and for the remainder of his life,] Ipreached and taught these doc trines as he believed them. He entered Aurora College and Theo-| logical Seminary to prepare him self for a life of Christian service.l jAfter graduation he spent four years in graduate study at the lUniversity of Chicago. For seve ral years he was pastor of the First Advent Christian Church in ,Chicago and also held other ? pastorates in the Middle West, jln addition he had served his denomination in various other ways, as Conference president, iSuperintendent of Missions, Con ference Evangelist and for many [years was a member of the Board jof Directors of Aurora College. He travelled ever most of the [south and midwest at various times in the interest of the deno mination, holding evengelistic 'meetings and lecturing on BibTfe prophecy. In 1929 in recognition iof his achievements, in his chosen field, the degree of Doc tor of Divinity, was given him by his Alma Mater. Dr. Warman came to Boone eleven years ago. and aside from his religious work had taught at ithe college during that period. 'He first taught history and later Itook up work in the sociology de partment. j For the past three years DrJ Warman, edited and published "Bible Truth" a monthly pub lication, which was circulated 1 throughout the country , and which was followed with much interest by Biblical students and others. ; In 1919 he married Nora Smith of Kansas City, Kans.. who sur vives, with two sons, Arendall Cline and Donald Guy Warman. There is one grandchild, Barbara Dianne Warman. Three brothers and three sisters survive: John (and Alva Warman, of Indiana; George J^arman of Missouri; Sadie Warman, Atlantic^ Iowa; Bertha Warman, Denver, Colo.; and Hetty Warman, Miami, Fla. MASONIC NOTICE < There will be a regular com munication of Snow Lodge No. 363, A. F. & A. M., Friday eve ning at 7:30. There will be work in the third degree. ? 500,000 teachers lost to the -chools, education group reports. CITY COMMITTEE ON RECREATION IS BEING SOUGHT Community Center Commit-i tee Votes Against Purchas ing Lot for. RecreationalJ Purposes at This Time; Ac-I tivities Program is Favored by Group The Memorial Community Cen ter Committee met at the Bap tist Church Wednesday evening for a final decision as to the pur pose of the Dr. Rankin lot on Main Street for a recreational area, and a decision was reached to forego the purchase of the lot ! at the present time, and asking Mayor Winkler to appoint a rec reation commission to start work on a recreational program. Following up a recent discuss ion of the advisability of a municipal bond issue for the pro posed memorial center. Mayor Winkler read a letter from the lLocal Government Commission stating that a bond issue for this purpose would be inadvisable at jthis time, following which R. W. Watkins, member of the state ! recreation commission, suggested that an activities program should be started throughout the town with a view to employing a full time director, and make the building a long-range plan as the activities should require. It was suggested that each club sponsor some activity or contest, such as band concerts, community singing, play night for young people, Softball, horseshoe con tests, marble contests, soap box derbys, etc. DISfRICTlMON MEETING SLATED {Stale Commander to Speak at< Lenoir; Waiauga Legion- J naires Are Invited Lenoir. July 16 ? William N. (Bill) York, Greensboro, attor- ' ney and commander of the North j Carolina Department pf thej American Legion, will address a district meeting and barbecue to which the Dysart-Kendall Post of the Legion will be host on . Tuesday night. July 23, Comman der J. P. Bush announced yester day Posts of the 17th district are being extended invitations toL attend, and also some neighbor ing posts which are out of the district. Commander Bush said. Posts invited are Spruce Pine, Elk Park. Vatdese. Morganton, Granite Falls, Blowing Rock, Boone and Newland in the dis trict and others include Hickory, Taylorsville, West Jefferson and North Wilkesboro. Main features of the program will be an address by State Com mander York and addresses of | welcome by J. P. Bush, comman-; der of the local post, and vice-j commander of the 5th district of | N. C.. and by T. Hamp Robbins.j commander of the 17th district (and member of the local post.[ iThe local post will be presented! | the Community Service c u pj jwhich was won last year for out-' (standing community service. Fol lowing the program and barbecue' idinner. a dance will be held. B. F. Harmon Victim Of Heart Ailment Mr. Benjamin Franklin Har-| mon, 76 years old, died at the] home at Sugar Grove last Thurs-j day from an illness of several] months. A heart ailment isl given as the cause of his demise I Funeral services were conduct ed at 2 o'clock from the Willed Valley Baptist Church by Rev. J. C. Canipe of Boone, and inter-| ment was in the Harmon ceme tery. Surviving are two sons, Coy S. Harmon, Seneca, ^ C., and Earl S Harmon, Richmond, Va.; one daughter, Mrs. E. B. Deckard, Bristol, Tenn.; two brothers, Dr. W R. Harmon, Springfiled, Mo., and Charles Harmon, who resides in the state of Florida; nine grandchildren and ninw great grandchildren. Homecoming Event to Be Held at Sutherland Homecoming Day will be ob served at Sutherland Church on ?Sunday, July 28, on the occasion of the 80th anniversapr of the church, and in honorOf Rev. W. A. Wilson, its first pastor, who has spent the past 21 years as a missionary in Japan. Everyone is cordially invited to attend. Chinese Protest American Occupation Shanghai students gather at railroad station to deliver send-off to non-partisan delegation leaving Nanking to protest continu ance of China's civil war. Banner claimed that U. S. forces were prolonging the strife. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek later said American troops were there at the invitation of the Chinese gov ernment. Charges Rep. May Maj. Gen. L. H. Campbell, Jr., former chief of ordnance, as he testified before senate Mead lommittee that Rep. Andrew J. May (D., Ky.) used pressure for contracts awarded Illinois "pa per'' firm. ROBBERS TAKE GEMS, JEWELRY Marauder Enters Stalling* Jew-| elry Store and Makes Way With S350 Worth Jewelry Seven rings and three watches! nerc taken from one of the|; >how windows of Stallings' Jew-| ?lry store last Wednesday night, i is some robber cut a small holei in the plate glass with a glafts| :utter. and apparently hurriedly| removed those items which werei nearest to the opening. Fortunately for the local jew eler. the more expensive rings| were not being featured in the| windows at the time, but never-| theless. the total loss is given asi being around $350.00. Strange to say, Stallings'j window was entered by some one last November, the same tac tics. having been used as in the current robbery. SEVERE STORM STRIKES COUNTY Considerable Damage Done in Unusually Severe Elec trical Storm Considerable damage is report ed in the wake of the most se vere electric storm of the season which occurred Sunday evening, accompanied by heaVy rains and high winds. Crops, particularly in the west ern part of the county, are re ported as being considerably damaged, more by being blown down than by overflowing wat ers. Corn is said to have suffer ed most from the storm. There are reports of hay stacks having been ignited, and one horse and several head of cattle are said to have been killed by lightning in the Deep Gap section. Mills Home Band to Appear at Mt. Vernon A band and singing class from Mills Home, Thomasville, will appear in concert at Mt. Vernon Church next Sunday morning, beginning at 11 o'clock. Dr. 1. G. Greer, superintendent of Mills Home, will be present and speak during the exercises which are to continue until late afternoon. The Mount Vernon people are invitinjO other churches with their choir* to come and sing and join in the worship. LTONS OUTLINE PLANS FOR YEAR Committees, of Civic Club Re ports Plans For Year at Tues day Evening Meeting At the regular meeting held Tuesday evening the committee chairman of the Boone Lions Club reported plans for their committees for the coming year. Lion President Milt Greer pre sided and Lion Bob Agle. pro gram chairman, introduced the following chairman who read plans of their various com mittees: Lions Howard Cottrell, Wade Brown. Raleigh Cottrell, G. K. Moose, D. J. Whitener, Bob Agle. John Martin, A. L. Stewart, W. M. Grubbs, Lee H. Stout, Her bert Wey. Gordon H. Winkler. C. S. Mock. W. M. Burwell. W. Amos Abrams. S. M. Ayer?, Robert C. Bus teed Initiation exescises were con-j ducted for Ben Miller and Wood-J row Richardson by Lions Lee H.1 Stout and W. Amos Abrams. Guests for the evening werej Rev. James McKeown, Majori Fisher, Joe Huffman. C. L. Williams, Gene Wyke. Jack Shriver. Edward Duggans. Mr. Rickard. Wade Eller, and Lion] R. D Tylander, West Palm Beach,! Fla. All the guests spoke, com mending the fine spirit of cam araderie in the Club and the com munity of Boone. Program chairman Agle an nounced that the program for the next meeting will be in charge of the education committee, Lion W. Amos Abrams, chairman. LEADERS FROM JACKSON HERE Messrs Gay and Riddle Sell Blowing Rock Property lo Boone Lawyer Senator Archie C. Gay, presi dent pro-tern at the last session j of the State Senate, and Mayor J. N. Riddle, of Jackson, N. C., were business visitors in Boone last Tuesday and Wednesday and ?while here sold a portion of the Ransom estate at Blowing Rock to Attorney Louis H. Smith, of i Boone. Acting as attorneys for the ^Ransom estate. Messrs. Gay and jRiddle disposed of 89 lots to Mr jSmith. who states that the prop erty was purchased by him foi an investment, and that he will probably offer them for sale al some undetermined time. COLLEGE PUNS TO AID VETERANS Appalachian to Open Way for Veterans in This Section To Enter College I Appalachian State Teacheri College is trying to work out (with the Veterans Administration a plan that will open the way for veterans in this section of North Carolina to enter college, It is necessary for anyone who hopes to take advantage of this plan at Appalachian to register his desire with his county or city superintendent of schools not later than Monday or Tuesday, July 22nd or 23rd. He must in dicate to his superintendent (1) that he is a veteran and eligible to enter 'college; (2) that he desires to go to college; and (S) that he has applied for college entrance and has not been accept ed. VONLEY FORD IS SHOT BY OFFICER AT BLOWING ROCK f ? Caldwell County Man Criti cally Wounded by Officer Who Tries to Secure His Arrest on Drunkenness and Disturbance Charge; In Hospital Vonley Ford, about 23 year* old. who lives near Blowing Rock in upper Caldwell county, was shot three times, and critic ally wounded by Police Chief M. A. Short of Blowing Rock late Friday afternoon, as he resisted arrest for drunken and disorderly conduct. Ford was given first aid at the Blowing Rock Clinic and was taken to a North Wilkesboro, hospital, where late information is that he should recover, barring ? complications. One of the three bullets fired by Officer Short, struck a lung, it is said, and barr ing the possibility of penumonia from this injury, he is believed to have good chances of recovery. | Chief Short tells the Democrat |that he was called to Williams Cafe after Ford had allegedly I frightened away the guests from I the establishment with his bois terous conduct, and that he went to the cafe, told Ford he was under arrest and sought to take him into custody. Ford advanced on him with a butcher knife, he states, threatening him, and stub bornly resisting arrest. Mr. Short states that he insisted on Ford laying aside the knife and fired as a last resort, seeking to dis able his assailant, shooting at his arms. It took the third shot, to stop Ford. Ford is said to have first ad vanced on Dave Wooten, former Blowing Rock police officer, be fore turning on Chief Short. J. CMASTDIES IN BEL AIR, MD. Former Waiaugan Succumbs at Maryland Horn* Sunday; Rites at Cot* Cre?k J. C. Mast, 77 years old, well known former Watauga county resident, died at his home in Bel Air. Md., Sunday morning. The body will be returned to Watauga and services will be held at the Cove Creek Baptist Church at 2 o'clock Wednesday. Bui lal will be in the Mast ceme tery at Sugar Grove. Mr. Mast had lived in Mary land for a number of years, prior to which he was engaged in the telephone business here, and was a pioneer in providing telephone service to the residents of Cove Creek and Boone townships. Local Curb Market Does Good Business Despite had weather, two of I the three days it has been open, jthe Home Demonstration Curb | Market is proving to be a suc cess. Products totaling $174.80 hove been sold. The market will continue to be open on Tuesday and Friday [mornings of each week at 10 io'clock throughout the summer. Brief, Very Brief I J Russians increasing state own jership of enterprises in Germany. Wartime trade blacklist is | abolished by the United States, j Cotton crop expected to be among the smallest in 25 years. Ten of every twelve war vet erans now working or in school. Army prison terms are re duced for 85 per cent of sen ' fenced. J Sears, Roebuck to use plane deliveries to catalogue custo mers. The navy is respotting the,' j atomic target fleet for the sec- j ond test. , Army plans six-year training for 517,195 in National Guard Vacation costs set a record; roQprt rates up 15 to 100 per j cent. Soviet 5-year plan calls for I 33,500,000 workers in industry. World leaders give Philippines assurance of co-operation. Many food price rises exceed lost substitutes, officials say. Teacher college enrollment halved since war, educators hear. I Price trend is called a boom or 1 bust pattern. Iowa celebrates 100th birth- I day in a period of contrants. > I Human liver and spleen used I for skin cancers, American Med-. I ical Association is told.