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THE DEMOCRAT La your best and moat eco nomical medium of advertis ing. With more than 2. GOO paid-up, caah subscriptions, your message foes to 13.000 people, on the universally used basis of five readers to each ?ubscrib?r. VOL. LIX. NO. 35 Watauga Democrat \\ A'v ? 9 An Independent Weekly Newspaper ? Established in the Year 1888. BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY. NORTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1947 IMPORTANT The date on your label Bh->wv the date your subscription will expire Mnd the date your paper win be ?topped unlen sooner iwuaw ed. The Democrat Is operat ing strictly on a cash to ?* vance basis. 5 CENTS A COPY POLIO EFFORT GAINS ADDED MOMENTUM HERE Contributions to March of Dimes Pass Thousand Dol lar Mark; a List of Recent] Contributions With only ten days to go on the March of Dimes campaign,! contributions are coming in with increasing regularity, and R. E. Agle, chairman of the local polio| organization, insists that there be an added effort on the part of all during the next few days so that Watauga county will even exceed its quota before . the January 31 deadline. . ? A second March of Dimes ball] will be held Friday evening, Jan. 31, in the high school building, and is expected to draw increas ed attendance. This ball, which was formerly known as as the President's Birthday ball, will be the highspot of the winter social reason, and is expected to draw a large attendance from Watauga and adjoining counties. Music will be by Paul Weston, and a Hood time is anticipated. In releasing the following table| of contributions to the polio tund, Mr. Agle calls attention to the collections made by the chil dren of the sixth grade in the Boone Demonstration school. Miss Walker's grade raised $60.40, while Miss Coble's fifth grade! collected $59.89. These classes de serve particular commendation, and will attend a special moving picture through lhe courtesy oi the Appalachian Theatre. The contributors: Previously reported $513.77 Mr. & Mrs. W. H. Gragg ... 5.00 Watauga B. & L. Assn. 10.00| !*>w?River Light & Power Company ? 10.00 Wilson s Feed Store 10.00| Esther S. Boone 100 A. P. Kephart 5.00 W. A. & Virginia Smith 2.00 Dacus Radio Shop 2.00 Mrs. Paul A. Coffey 100, Elmo Greer -Ml Mrs. Minnie Watson l.Ow Boone Colored School.. 5.00[ Mr. & Mrs. W. R. Lovill. 2.00 Pet Dairy Products Co 10.00 Mrs. Crette Swift 2.73 W. S. Miller 1-00 Mrs. W. S. Miller 1.00 W. w. Mast 5.00 Hamby Music Co 10.00 Dance No. 1, Howard Cot trell, chairman 40.00 Methodist W.M.S. Circle 1 5.00 Hoyle M. Hutchins 100 Mrs. Joseph F. Cannon.. 50.00 ASTC ball game collec tion, Jas. Cobb, chm 30.14 Demonstration School, 6th grade, Miss Walker 60.4Gi Fifth grade, Miss Coble. 59.89 Third grade. - Miss Rankin 27.61 Second grade, Miss Davis 13.50i First grade, Mrs. Councill 13.05| Fourth grade. Miss Good man 9 30 Third grade, Mrs. Craw ford 9.30 Sixth grade. Lashure 6.50 Fifth grade. Innings 7.70 First grade, Jennings 5.50 Fourth grade, Gibbs 5.10 Socond grade, Carson 3.20 Otis Wilson 2.00] Home Electric Co 10.00 Lyons Thrift ' Shop 2.00 Winkler Motor Co. . 10.00 Hollars Food Center 2.00 Maddux Esso Station 5.00 Barnett Lunch Room 2.00 Gulf Ser. Sta., Blowing Rock Road 5.00 Keins-Sturdivant 10.00 J. C. Goodnight ... 10.00,, Boone Flower & Gift Shop 2.00 Economy Store 2.00 Mayflower Beauty Shop 2.00 W. E. Shipley 50 Rutherwood School 4.00 Dr and Mrs J D Rankin 2.00! $1,014 64 Bill Is introduced To Induce Person# To Enter Teaching Kaleigh ? while an interested mass meeting was under way in Hugh Morson high school. Rep ?John Urns toad of Orange, took legislative steps Tuesday to en tourage person? to enter the teaching profession. Umstead's bill would provide tree tuition to residents of the ->tate who study in state-support ?-d institutions and jigree to teach in the state's school system a fter graduation. Instead of paying cash for tui tion. the student would sign a note and. if she or he enters the teaching field within five years after graduation, the note would be cancelled, but only after teaching the time specified Should the Umstead bill pass, it would be a reinstatement of a law that went out of existence in 1933 during the depression days when the state and its in stitutions of higher learning were in dire need All Autos Must Have New Tag Feb. 1 All automobiles operating on the public highways of the state iilust have their 1947 license plate I by February 1, states Mr. Miles Jones, state highway patrolman. After that date all cars operating with the old license, will subject 1 the driver to arrest. Disabled Veterans Day Without the crowding that sometimes accompanies shopping at the War Assets Administration retail store at Navy Pier, Chicago, these disabled veterans are able to select bargains along the route of the 940-foot long counter. Thursday has been set aside as a special day, when only disabled veterans are permitted to buy. Pant Shortage These three little victims of the shortage in three-cornered pants ire shown as they staged their )wn demonstration in an attempt to impress upon their mothers ind the public, the necessity o{ diaper conservation. Left to right ire Judy Werner. 15 months; Florence Bennett, 18 months, and Elise Rubin, 15 months old. TAXPAYERSARE SLOW TO LIST ^unty Tax Supervisor Calls on Taxpayers to Prepare Their Lists This Month Watauga county taxpayers are :aking their own time about list ng their property for taxation, ;ays Paul A. Coffey, county tax supervisor, who reveals that this delinquency is being noted in :very township in the county. Under the state law, Mr. Cof :ey says, taxpayers are required ;o list their real, personal prop erty and polls, for taxation dur ng the month of January, and hat those failing to do so are >ubiect to a penalty. He and the various listers are anxious that ;he number of those against .vhom the penalty is assessed be leld down to the minimum, and ?espectfully asks that the taxpay ers co-operate by making prompt istings. A list ol the listers appears igain in the Democrat today Mercury Takes Nose Dive to Bring First Real Winter Here The unseason a b ly warm weather which has' prevailed throughout the winter, came to an end Monday night when mer cury plummeted to 17 degrees, on the heels of eeneral rains which had been falling for several days, and farly Wednesday morning the thermometer reading was one and one-half degrees above zero. Mr. W. H. Smith, who keeps The Democrat informed on actual temperatures, says that at 8:30 this morning the mercury had risen to two degrees. The weather this morning is bright, the skies clear and a high wind is adding to the discomfort of the low temperature. A trace of snow fell Tuesday evening [ Martha L. Vandyke Die* at Age of 88 [ Martha L. Vandyke, age 88 Sears, died at her home in the am boo section fait Saturday. Funeral services were conducted Sunday af?2 o'clock from the Mount Vernon Church by Rev. R. C Ebbers and Rev. W D. Ashley. Mrs. Vandyke was the widow of the late George W. Vandyke and is survived by three sons and four daughters G. L LOANS More than 540,000 GI loans, totalling $2,842,000,000, have been approved for World War 2 veter ans, with 478,000 of the loans be ing used for the purchase of homes, 44,000 for businesses and 18,000 for farms. TAX RELIEF FOR TUTORS SOUGHT I Senator Brown Introduces Bill to j Give Teachers Exemption for Summer School Expenses I Senator Wade K. Brown has in troduced a bilUin the state sen ate which, if jdTssed, would grant the teachers in the state school system state income tax reduc tions for the necessary expenses incident to their attendance at summer schools. The proposed tax exemptions would cover expenses paid dur ing the income year by any teacher, principal or superinten dent for the purpose of attending summer school in any university or college of the state. The ex emptions would include such jitems as tuition, matriculation fees, regular fees, subsistence, athletic supplies, etc. . Under the term s ot the bill Ideductions shall be allowed upon presentation to the commsisioner of revenue or his agent, receipts showing the expenses paid by the teacher. Son of- County's j First Sheriff Is Dead at Age of 87 John Daniel Cooke, 87 years old. a son of the first sheriff of Watauga county, died Mond?y : morning at the home of a son Mr. B. F. Cook of West Jefferson, where he had made his home for several years. Funeral services were conducted Wednesday , morning at the Stony Fork ; Baptist Church by Rev. W. T. Whittington and Rev. E. W. Pow ers, and burial was in the neigh-', borhood cemetery. I, Ten sons and daughters sur-r vive: Joe C. Cooke, Adolphusj Cooke, Boone; Fred, Monroe and1 Dan Cooke, West Jefferson; W.i, L. Cooke, Todd; L. M. Cooke, Stony Fork; Mrs. H. O. Helsabeck,' Rural Hall; Mrs Ivy Greene,! Stony Fork; Mrs. Harris LemleyJ Fleetwood. Mr. Cooke was born, reared and , spent most of his life in the,; Stony Fork section of Watauga1 county. He was a son of the late' Michael Cooke and Mrs. Cynthia , Greene Cooke, his father having been the first sheriff of Watauga i county. Mr. Cooke was an up right and honorable man Union Church Service Arranged For Sunday Under the new plan of thej; ? Boone" Ministerial Association a !union service will be held Sunday jnight. January 26 at 7 o'clock, ir^" the Episcopal church. Union services will be held the last Sunday evening of each month. The number of these ser vices has been Increased in an I effort by the ministers of Boone to stimulate inter-church coopera tion and interdenominational ties land good-will. 1 The Rev. Dr. Barden, Metho dist pastor and professor at Appa lachian College, will be the jpreacher Sunday night Mrs. Moore Gets Radio Recognition On the Walter Mason 'Tell Your Neighbor Program" broad cast over the Mutual Broadcast ing System network, Tuesday morning at ll:15LMrs Emma H. Moore, librarian at the college library, was awarded the day's "Golden Rule Award" for outi standing community service. One dozen American beauty roees were wired to Mrs. Moore in |honor of the occasion, and ^he was given the treasured "GdWen |Rule Award" certificate GOES TO VALDESE Mr G. P. Hagaman, who for some time has been cashier of the Northwestern Bank at Spruce Pine, has been tranferred to the bank at Valdese. Mr C. W. Myers takes charge of the Spruce Pine unit. RADIO STATION CHIEF TOPIC OF | COMMERCE BODY| Johnson City Engineer Gives Chamber of Commerce In formation Regarding Radio Broadcasting Facilities; To bacconists Speak, also Dr. Bond The possibility of establishing a radio station in Boone occupied the attention of the Boone Cham ber of Commerce at its banquet held last Thursday evening, and Elihu Widener, radio engineer of Johnson City, Tenn., brought pertinent information to the group of 25 business men, rela tive to the civic proposal. Mr. Widener stated that a radio station for Boone, of suf ficient volume to serve the trade area (70 miles radus) would cost from $15,000 to $17,000, and that the operation of a 250- watt station would cost about $420 for an 18 hour day. Sixty per cent of the time, he estimated, could be sold for commercial purposes for $1.50 per minute, yielding suf ficient revenue to show a profit on the venture . Mr. Widener answered a number of questions, regarding the operation, equip ' merit, etc. of a radio station, andj the matter was referred to a' special committee for further [ consideration. Others who spoke briefly atj the meeting were Mr Puckett,] local tobacconist, who has been on the market for five years, and said Boone was enjoying its best season since the establishment of the market. He predicts a season average of 41 cents, and says the quality of local burley is con stantly improving as farmers gain experience in production and grading. Louis H. Smith, C. C. Taylor. Rex Taylor, and Mr. Wright, of the Farmers Ware house, stated they were working for a better Boone tobacco mar ket. and Mr. C. C. Taylor referred to Boone as the coming town of western North Carolina. Mr. H. Neal Blair discussed the need of an airport for Boone and offered his property on New River for the purpose. Dr. W. G. Bond of the Baptist Church, closed the meeting with a brief but entertaining talk on "Attitudes of I ife." BURLEY PRICES AT SEASON HIGH Improvement Noted on Floors of Local Market as Season Nears End The highest prices of the sea son are reported from the floors af the local burley tobacco market as the season nears its end, and with the end of the heavy rain fall. receipts are improving, something like 60.000 to 75,000 pounds being sold daily on the market. Farmers Warehouse reports the sale of 38,000 ponuds on Tuesday for a 42 cents average, the pre ceding day having seen the auct ion of 50,000 for a 40 cent aver age, and Mr. Taylor says the prices are continuing to improve since the buyers have learned the crop was overestimated. "Hie Mountain Burley Ware house reports highest prices of the season, and Mr. Coleman pro mises immediate sales to all the late comers. He believes the to bacco crop is practically all sold. Sales are bein?? held daily by both corporations, and the closing date for the auctions will likely be announced in a few days As farm prices drop, it will be more necessary than ever to' watch production costs, says C B. Ratchford of State College. Republicans Clean Sweep Representative Bender. (R. Ohio) invited GOP members of the 8Uth congress to take one of his free brooms and "sweep away the combwebs which have cluttered up our thinking during the war years." Left to right: Reps. Homer D. Angell, Ore.; Albert J. Engel, Mich.; Thomas E. Martin, Iowa; Ben F. Jensen, Iowa; Jack Z. Anderson, Calif.; Robert F Rich, Pa.; Karl E. Mundt, S. D.; and George H. Bender. Ohio. ,ROBT. PULLIAM TAKEN BY DEATH Local Attorney's Body Foundj Near Horn* Tuesday: Heart Attack Probable The lifeless body of Robert W.j Pulliam, about 50 years old. for merly a practicing attorney here.l was found in a field near the! home in suburban Perkinsville Monday morning. County Coro ner Richard E. Kelley was noti fied of Mr. Pulliam's death, after the body had been discovered by Mrs. Leonard Presnell, and since no indications of foul play were lound, an inquest was not held. Opinion is that a heart attack caused his demise. Graveside rites are to be held at the family cemetery at Per kinsville Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Mr. Pulliam was last seen Sat urday afternoon at the home of neighbors. Mr. and Mrs. Milton Greene. He had evidently start ed nomc when the attack came and the body was found in a nearby field, after his absence irom the neighborhood had been noted. The coroner's opinion was that death likely occurred Satur day. Mr. Pulliam was a son of the iate J. G. Pulliam and Mrs. Pul liam. and was reared! in this community, where he received his education at Appalachian Trainiiy; School. Later he gradu ated form the University ol North Carolina and from George town University. Washington. D. C.. and established himself in the practice of law in Boone in l'J24 He had ceased active practice ol nis profession, and had recently! been employed at Appalachian! State Teachers College and the Farmers Burley Warehouse, in clerical capacities. He had held| responsible positions with Fed eral departments in Washington. Mr, Pulliam was highly educated, unusually well informed on cur rent aifairs, generous and kiniil and his sudden death is a sourcel of sorrow to his friends here. The c nly survivor is a sister, Mrs Mary Leslie Marshall, of Santa Maria, Calif WATAUGA LEGION POST Watauga Post No. 130, wijl meet in regular session January 24. yt 7:30 p. m., and all mem bers and ex-service men are in vited. All members who would like to give George C. rivett a gift to get back to housekeeping, are asked to bring the gifts to! this meeting. Harriman says American eco nomic policy is vital to Europe. [ Doughlon, Transou Memorialized By Senator Brown in Legislature Following is the text o f thel joint resolution introduced by Senator Wade E. Brown, and unanimously passed by the legis lature. memorializing the late R. A. Doughton and Eugene Tran sou, Alleghany county men, who had been prominent in the public life of their state: Whereas, this General Assemb ly has heard with profound re gret of the death of the Honor able Rufus A. Doughton and the Honorable Eugene Transou, both of whom were formerly member* of the General Assembly of North Carolina; and the members of the General Assembly do here by desire to give expression of their deepest sympathy to the families of these distinguished men and to commemorate and make a record of the long and continued public service of these patriotic and competent public servants; and Whereas, the Honorable Rufus A. Dough to fi was born at Laurel Springs on January 10, 1857; he was educated in the high school of Independence, Virginia and the University of North Carolina and was a lawyer, farmer and banker; he wae a member of the North Carolina House of Representa tives for the sessions of 1887, 1889, 1891, 1903, 1907, 1909, 1911, 1913, 1915, 1917, 1919, 1921, 19*23, and 1933; he was speaker of the house at the session of 1891; he was Lieutenant Governor, 1893-1897; he was Commissioner of Revenue, District Highway Commissioner, and State Highway Commis sioner; he was a member of the Methodist Church; and Whereas, the Honorable Eugene Transou was born at Laurel Spririgs on January 21, 1872, at-j tended schools at Ore Knob, Laural Springs and Sparta in stitute, he was a farmer and dealer in live stock; he was a member of the county board of education of his county. County Cimm.issioner, and Mayor of Sparta; he was appraiser for the Regional Credit Corporation, member of the Board of Trustees of State Teachers' College of Boone. North Carolina; he was representative in the General As sembly for the session of 1929, State Senator in the sessions of 1917 and 1941; he was steward and a member of the board of trustees of his church: (Continued on page 8) LADIES NIGHT AT LIONS CLUB Group of Appalachian Students Enliyen Program al Meet ing of Civic Club A group of students from Ap palachian State Teachers College, supplied delightful entertain ment at the ladi. s night banquet of the Boone Lions Club Tues day. The program, with Mr. Rogers Whitener as master of ceremo nies. consisted of popular num beers by a irio composed of Mr Whitener. Troy Husky and Tom my Craig. Miss Virginia Isaacs sang two popular songs accom panied by Miss Eloise Buff at the piano, which was used through the courtesy of the Cra ven Furniture Co. Of unusual interest was the eentriloquist act of Miss Mayo Honeycutt, Appalachian senior, and her dummy, Charlie. The dining room was decorated in mid-winter motif of ever greens and candles. Favors wore napkins stamped with the Lion; Club emblems. Guests for the evening were Mr. and Mrs. Bill Spaulding. Dr und Mrs W. G. Bond. Prof. Wal ter Hawkinson. Miss Martha Gray, Miss Betty Sue Stone. Miss Vera Norris and Miss Frances Toams. CHILD BURNED TO DEATH IN HOME Nephew of Cecil Miller Me?tf| Death; Parents Perhaps Fatally Burned in Pa. Mr. Cecil Miller of Boone, watj called to Lancaster, Pa., Sunday on account of the death of a nephew, a son of Mrs Ruth Peck and Mr. Peck, who was fatally burned when the home and its entire contents was destroyed by fire. Mrs. Peck, sister of Mr. Mil ler. is reported as in a dying condition from burns received in the conflagration, while Mr Peck's injuries may yet prove fa tal. The son was 7 years old. Mr. Miller, in a telephone con versation with friends here, said Mrs. Peck's condition is critical, and that it appears death is near. No further details are available! Library Books Arc Available in County The Watauga county library has arranged for circulating books in different places, so as to bring library advantages to the rural neighborhoods. At present books are available in the Lovill postoffice building at the Moody Store. Sugar Grove and at J. B. Mast's Store, Sher wood. According to Mrs. R. W. Watkins, who is in charge of this phase of the local library work, the people should take ad vantage of this new service to in sure its permanency. People in other neighborhoods who would like to be aided bv the circulat ing library, should write Mrs In8'e county librarian, or Mrs Watkiris VOLSTEAD PASSES AT THE AGE OF 87 Granite Falls. Minn., Jan 20 ? Andrew J. Volstead, former Min nesota congressman and father of the Volstead prohibition act, died today. He was 87 years old Volstead, a lifelong dry, had been in poor health for years and abandoned daily visits to his Granite Falls law office four years ago. He had lived the life of a country lawyer, devoted himself largely to probate cases and took little part in community activities. Even appeals from his friends that he lead the fight against establishment of a muni cipal ^iquor store in 1942 went unheeded. The "wets" won. SENATOR BROWN SEES ACTION ON SALARYMEASURE Local Solon Thinks Agree raent Will Be Reached Soon on Teachcr Pay Hike; Says Amount of Money Not Now in Question; Differ oo Details Senator Wade E. Brown,, spend ing the week-end with his family here, tells the Democrat that hie believes that the settlement at the legisltive snarl on the emer gency increase in the pay at teachers and other state employes can be settled without further ap preciable delay, since the two factions in the Legislature are practically in agreement except as regards technicalities. Senator Brown states that the amount of money invololved in the emergency increase is no longer in question, since the con ference report and the amount provided in the Barker amend ment, which had passed the house previously, are practically the same, as nearly as can be esti mated, and that the effort of the new conferees will be to iron out certain technical differences. The legisltive tangle resulted from the fact thiit tne 20% per cent pay increase bill recom mended by Governor Cherry was amended in the house by Repre sentative Barker, who called for a rate of state pay on a sliding scale, ranging to 30% in the case of some employees. The amend ment was defeated in the Senate and both houses named a con ference committee to iron out the trouble. Meantime the Senate had passed the administration bill which called for |6, 900,000. The conference committee. Senator Brown says, raised this sum to $8,050,000, as against the esti mated $8,150,000 asked by Mr Barker, it being the intent of the committee to make the money the same, but it appears that the job of making accurate estimate* is almost impossible in such a large scale proposal. At any rate Senator Brown states, that there remains no dollars and cents dis agreement, and that the matter should be compromised soon. The local Senator states that his committee acted with the in tent of approving the amount of money set up in the Barker amendment, which is the highest that the conference group could recommend, but that the esti mates are slightly at variance He states that ne is doing all pos iible to aid the teachers and em ployees of the state to get the greatest consistent pay increase, snd will continue to work to the ?nd of providing a payment which will be as nearly satis Eactory and just, as soon as pos iible to make it Farm Bureau Names Delegates to State Meeting at Asheville The eleventh annual convention of the North Carolina Farm Bureau Federation will be held at AshevilJe, on February 2, 3, 4, and 5 with " headkiinrter* at the George Vandebilt Hotel. This convention was at first announc ed for Winston-Salem but on ac count of the limited hotel ac commodations there it was chang ed to Asheville. At a meeting of the Watauga county farm bureau held Friday night, January 17 the following delegates and alternates wen elected to attend the state con i Vention: 1. B. Wilson, Elmer Miller, Odes Wilson, Frank Taylor, G. D. Barnett, Grady Farthing, E. B. Hardin, W. W. Mast, Denver Church, Collis Austin, and R. H. Vannoy. The members from Watauga county on thp commit tees to report at this convention are as follows: Poultry, Ernest Hillard; Burley tobacco, E B Hardin; fruits, vegetables and potatoes, Don Shrill; general crops, Frank Tay lor; dairy and livestock, R. H Vannoy; Edward A. O'Neal Club, G. D, Barnett; agricultural, busi ness and industrial relationships, H. E Greene; nominating com mittee, I . B. Wilson; resolutions, W. W. Mast and Odes Wilson. This meeting also discussed the advisibility of organizing a cab bage growers association for Watauga county and the following cabbage growers were selected as a committee to make a study of the matter. This committ** Iwill meet in the near future: | Russell Farthing, S.C. Ford, M D. Brown, Vaughn R fee. Fred CritAer, M. Clyde Brown, B Neal Blair, J. B. Green* and Denver Church. NEW ALLOTMENTS FOR BURLEY TO BE FILED The closing date for filing 1941 new farm tobacco allotment* is February 1, 1947, according to Ned Glenn, chairman of the Watau?a county agricultural con servation program. Full informa tion for the conditions under which applications may be filled may be obtained from the county or community committeemen, or local AAA office
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