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NO. 41 BOONK, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1947 FIVE CENTS A COPY CITY MINISTERS SET IP LOCAL WELFARE FUND Ministerial Association Acts to Take Care of Needs of Those Not Being Provided For by Other Agencies; Ini tial Working Fund of $1,000 Sought Filling a long felt need in Boone is the program of the Boone Ministerial Association for the churches of the town to co operate and actively participate in aiding the unfortunate and un derprivileged people of the com munity, and a committee has been formed to suggest a plan of operation for the new activity, which' has been one of the ob lectives of the Ministerial group since its formation last October. The committee, composed of Kussell D. Hodges, secretary treasurer; G. K. Moose, Guy Hunt, Dr. W. G. Bond and Rev. Sam Moss, met with the Associa tion, and gained unanimous ap proval of its general plan for the welfare activity. The purpose of the committee is to minister to the needs of the people of Watauga county, not oeing taken care of by existing igencies, and the undertaking is to be dependent upon one in terdenominational treasury. The area to be embraced in the plan will be the whole of Wa tauga county, and a committee of five will ufminister the funds. One member of the committee Anil be a secretary-treasurer elected by the Boone Ministerial Association, the other four to be ippointed by the president of the organization. There shall be three laymen and two ministers on the i-ommittee, to rotate between the various denominations annually, ind the committee will elect its own chairman. It is the purpose of the group to cooperate fully with the local Board of Public Welfare. The administrative committee will seek the necleus of the per nanent fund from donations by the Boone churches. Each church will be asked to contribute to the ?;xtent of its ability to the initial lund, the goal for which has been established at one thousand dol lars. In addition to monetary gifts, the administrative committee, it is pointed out, will be recptive to newied emergency supplies of I ood clothing, etc RITES ARE HELD FOR L. GREER Zionville Merchant Succumbs lo| Long Illness; Interment in I Zionville Cemetery Elijah Greer. 75 year old, mem ber of one of the county's pio aeer families died at his home riere on Sunday, February 23 tfter a long illness with an in surable malady. Funeral services were conduct ed from the "Zionville Baptist ,:hurch Wednesday afternoon ?vith the Rev. J. Ray Stewirt of! Mountain City. Tenn., pastor of : the Methodist church at Trade, Tenn., where Mr. Greer was a nember, assisted by Rev, R. C. Eggers of Zionville. Burial was tn the Zionville cemetery with Hoins-Sturdivant in charge. Honorary pall bearers were: Vernon Castle, Fred Castle, Monroe Critcher, W. A. Stephens. Ivan Church, E G. Greer, Lee Wilson. Luther Miller. Farris ftaumgardner. Active pallbearers:: Will Reece, Tom Holden, Will Miller, Olan Stephens, Herbert OJrecr, Marion Thomas. The large floral offering was n charge of Miss Mildred Thomas .vith the following assisting' Misses Mary Elizabeth Church. Joan Mast, Helen Love. Anna Mae Stephens, Mary June Steph ens, Marcella Critcher. Mesd antes Don Bingham, Chas Wilkinson,1 ind Lee Wilson Surviving are the widow, thel sormer Miss Nancy Jackson, one) -laughter, Mrs. W. S. Penn of; Zionville, two sons. Raymond' Greer of Battle Creek, Mich., <indj Howard Greer of Zionville. AlsoJ eight grandchildren. Brothers surviving are: R. T. Greer, Lenoir; Samuel Greer, Brown wood: Noah Greer. Baltimore, Md. Until ill health brought about Mr. Greer's retirement he was ??ngaged in the merchant^? busi ness and connected with his brother R. T. Greer in the root and herb business here and in Elizabethton, Tenn., Marion, Va., and Lenoir. He was for the progressiveness of any enterprise for the up building of the community de signed to better conditions among (lis fellow men In the death of Mr. Greer the county has lost an honorable and just citizen, generous and kind and spdncss has been brought to a host of friends throughout this section PRUNING THE BUDGET Members of the joint congressional budget committee are in a huddle attempting to prune six billion dollars from the federal budget. Left to right are John Tabor of New York, chairman of the house appropriations committee; Senator Styles Bridges of New Hampshire, chairman of the senate appropriations committee: Representative Harold Knutson of Minnesota, chairman* of the house ways and means committee, and Senator Eugene Millikin ol Colorado, chairman of the senate finance committee To Speak Here J M BROUGHTON C0AD3R0UGHT0N TO SPEAK HERE Officials of Southern F r o x e n Food Lockers. Inc.. to Speak to USDA Council Mr James E. Coad, vice-presi dent and treasurer, Southern Frozen Food Lockers. Inc.. Raleigh, and former Governor J. M. Broughton, also an official in the corporation, will be here Thursday, March fith at 2 p. m. to speak to the USDA council,! and any others who might be in terested in hearing them. The meeting will be held in the county agent's office, according :o the announcement of L. E. ' Tuckwiller, who stairs that if the jrowd is too large, the gathering will be in the courthouse Thel General public is invited Debate at Local Hi School Tonight A group of Appalachian High School students will speak on the subject: "Is World Government the Way to Peace?" Thursday evening at 7:30 o'clock at the high school auditorium. The win ner of the contest will be deter mined by a vote of the audience and will receive a gold medal Those taking part in the debatei are: Betty Lou Clawson, Joan I Hardin, Eula Mae Hodges, Mary Lee Stout. Lois Townsend. Elmo Moretz MRS. WILSON AT READING CLINIC Appalachian Collage Professor Attends Clinic Held at Tempi-? University Mrs. Chappel Wilson, professor of elementary education at Ap Daiachian State Teachers College, has returned from attending a reading clinic held at Temple University, Philadelphia, at which representatives from 31 states and the Dominion of Cana dana were in attendance. From Philadelphia, Mrs. Wilson went to New York, where she spent a week visitinR at the Lincoln-Horace Mann school at Columbia University and the Lit tle Red School House. While in New York she was entertained by Mrs. Marion Paine Stevens who is nationally known as a writer in the field of elementary educa tion. This year. Mrs. Wilson has been appointed editor of a social [studies column appearing month ly in "The Instructor," a national (education journal. For a number lof years she bas contributed articles to educational magazines. STUDENT KNIFED IN HICKORY CAFE Bruce Tussey Injured When He | and Companions Resist Demand j to Surrender Cafe Table Hickory. March 4 ? City Po liceman A. L Holland followed > trail of blood three blocks late last night to find Bruce Tussey. Appalachian State Teachers Col lege student, suffering several knife wounds The student was taken lo a lo-j xa! hospital for treatment of a |?tab wound under the right ;irm that missed a lung by a quarter iof an inch and lacerations on his right hand The young man. the patrolman reported, was injured, when he and two fellow students. J. H. Franklin and J. H. Joye. de clined to accede to a demand by! an unidentified man and boy that they surrender their table in a lo cal eating establishment. In the melee which ensued, Tussey was iwounded. the policeman was in-' formed. . ... The first permanent settlements in what now constitutes the state of Connecticut were made in 1936, at Hartford, Wethersfiled and Windsor. Summary of Happenings in State Legislature During Past Week At IIil' close ul tlu; 45th legisla-. tive day. n total of 737 bills and joint resolutions had been in-, traduced in the General Assemb-i ly. as against a total for the samej period in 1945 of 875. Of the 737 measures so far introduced, only 129 came in during the first 5' days of the past week, as compar-| ed to 202 during the correspond-! ins period of the 1945 session. So, from the standpoint of the number of bills introduced, ftie current session continues to fall behind its predecessor, and if thatj fact were any indication of the: speed which the legislature is1 moving toward adjournment it would seem that this session would extend somewhat beyond the 67 legislative days of 1945. A better indicator is the speed with which the major committees are turning out their work, and here1 those who hope for an early ad journment have cause for mis givings The committees appear to working unusually hard, and with great seriousness of purpose. ?jbut many difficulties are beiniPencountered, especially in the money committees. For example, much hard work still remains before the .loint ap propriations committee will l>e ready to report out the biennial appropriations bill, and the per manent improvements fund bill, containing even more fighting points, perhaps, than the ap propriations bill, will stil! have [to be worked on. Another indica tor is the unusual number of j members who seem primed to tear into almost every measure, no matter how apparently in nocuous it may be, and rend, amend, postpone, recommit or otherwise handle it in such man ner as to impede its progress. This legislature was heralded as likely to be one of the most con troveifial in over a decade, and it seems bent upon living up to its billing. Perhaps the legislative event of the week of the most general in terest was the passage by the house of HB 229, called by its proponents the "righfc to work" bill and by its opponents, the "anti-union" bill. After a lengthy debate which did not succeed in clarifying the scope of the bill, the "ayes" so overwhelmingly \ (Continued on page 8) % LIQUOR BILLS TAKE SPOTLIGHT IN* LEGISLATURE State Wildlife Resources Com mission is Set up bv Assem bly; Sale and Use of Fire crackers Banned; Dry Forces Make Arguments Before Finance Group Raleigh, March 4. ? Bills to create the State Wildlife Resourc es commission and to outlaw manufacture, sale and use of fire works passed final legislative readings today, while- dry forces presented arguments before a committee for a state-wide liquor referendum. I Senator Cole of Richmond was the only floor opponent to the bill to separate the Djvision of Game and Inland Fisheries from the State Department of Conserva tion and Development The measure now goes to thr House ?or conference in amendments. Representative Kermon of New Hanover was the only member of his branch who tried to alter the anti-fireworks bill. He tried first to allow the manufacture of fire works for out-of-state use and then tried to exempt his county. Ooth proposals were roared down and the bill will become law on ratification. Representatives of the Allied Church League for the Abolition of Beverage Alcohol and their colleagues in other groups ap peal e? before the Senate finance committee in support of State wide dry measures. Also attending the hearing were members of the House committee on propositions and grievances which has before it a bill by Representative Dan Tom pkins of Jackson calling foi a State reierendum outlawing all intoxicating beverages of more than one-half of one pel cent alcohol. One dry bill, by Senator Penny of Guilford, would provide a ref erendum on the sale of all liquors and all but domestic light wines, deer would not be included. Another, by Senator Chaffin of Harnett, would call for a referen dum on sale ol all aloholic bever ages A number of other dry bills are before the Assembly The Wildlife Resources com mission will be composed of nine-members serving staggered terms of from two to four years who would be appointed by the Governor. The Governor and the commission would fix the salary jf the commissioner Both the wildlife and anti .ireworks measures |>ussed quick floor votes after lengthy com mittee hearings BIGGER RATION OF SUGAR SEEN Ten Pounds More Per Person it Virtually Assured in Predic tion of OPA Official Washington, ? Ten pounds more sugar par person this year than last was virtually assured today in an announcement alloting 25 pounds for the first nine months. An OPA official said it would be a "safe guess" that the 1947 individual use allowance will l>e 35 pounds. Jointly the Office of Temporary Controls and the Agriculture de partment affirmed that a new ra tion stamp good for 10 pounds will be validated April 1, and an nounced that another stamp good for 10 pounds will come up July 1. Household consumers already have been allowed five pounds each for the first three months. There was no specific state ment that another 10-pound stamp will be validated for the last quarter of the year, but the OPA official recalled that the Agriculture department has said a 35 pound allotment will be pos sible for this year if the crop turns out as expected. Along with the announcement on individual sugar rations, the second quarter allowance for bakers, soft drink bottles, candy and preserve manufactures and other industrial users, hotels, restaurants and other eating places were boosted. William S. Trivett Is Taken by Death William Solomon Trivett, 85 years old, retired farmer of Sugar Grove, died at the home last Thursday, and funeral ser vices were conducted from the late residence on Saturday, in terment being in the family ceme tery by Reins-Sturdivant Funeral Home. O Mr. Trivett is survived by the widow, Mrs. Susan Billing* Tri vett and one son and two daught ers: A. E. Trivett, Reece; Mrs. Vertie Lane, Sugar Grove; Mrs. Tnisty Pellens, Albany, N. Y. I.et lis be steadfast for America, work and live for America, ana eternally be on guard to defend our Constitution -and our wajQof life against the vTr'-ilent poison of Communistic ideology. ? -J Edgar Hoover. I 1947 RED CROSS FUND Let's Hang This Up for Keeps! Basketball Tournament Starts At College Gym Wednesday Teachers Meeting Is Postponed The meeting of the school teachers of Watauga County, t which was to have bean held Thursday. March 6. has been postponed to Thursday. March 13, because of road conditions brought about by the contin ued snow. Teachers are asked to take , note of the postponement and attend the me'ting next week. AVERY ROBBERY HAS NEW ANGLE Deathbed Statement Links New-' land Case Suspects to Blow- I ing Rock Robbery The $2,800 armed hold-up of tin- Antlers Beer garden at Blow .ng Rock in January had been definitely linked today with the $25,000 robbery of the near-by Avery county bank at Newland two days later in a death-bed statement by an attendant at the drinking place. Theodore W. Green, 67. who died Tuesday night, was quoted by Police Chief M. A. Short as, paying he had identified George I Crowe. Jr. and Casper Crowe, brothers of Eliza bethton. Tonn.. as two of the four men in the] Antlers robbery. The Crowe! brothers and three other men are' in custody in connection with the Newland robbery Green was alone at the Antlers last January 28 When the four! armed men tied him to a bed in the basement living quarters and took $2,800 from' the place. The Antlers is owned by Green's son, T. W. Green, Jr Dr. Mary C. Warficld of Blow ing Rock was quoted by the police chief as saying Green's death was attributable to a heart ailment aggravated by the shock of the hold-up. The chief said Green was in strumental in bringing about the arrest of the Crowe brothers at Elizabethton a few days after the two robberies by supplying in formation to officers JAS. LAWRENCE DIES SUDDENLY Former Watauga Resident Suc cumbs Saturday in Cleveland; j Local Relatives Attend Rites James Con ley Lawrence. 44 vears old, native Wataugan, and! brother of Mrs. E. T. Glenn of! Boone and Mrs. George Judy, of Valle Crucis, died suddendly at the home In Cincinnati, Ohio, last Saturday. Mr. Lawrence, who was reared in Watauga county, was a son of Mr. G. M. Lawrence and Mrs. I>ena Culver Lawrence, and had resided in Cincinnati for 25 years. He is survived by the widow and four children. The father also survives, together with several brothers and sisters. Funeral services were conduct ed Tuesday in Cincinnati, and in terment was in that city. Dr. and Mrs. E. T. Glenn and Mr. and Mrs. George Judy left Sunday to attend the rites. Fractionation of cottonseed .meats into three parts is being [accomplished by a new solvent extraction method, the U. S. de partment of agriculture announ ces. Appalachian High School As sociation s Annual Event In-j eludes 32 Teams in Three Counties; Ashe. Avery and Watauga County Basketeers to Vic for Honors in Tour nament The Appalachian High School Association Basketball Tourna ment. sponsored annually by the ,WiU get ?ndery.-y Appalachiai State Teach dav afi gC ?ymnus>"'n Wednes A. '?,Cr.noon March 12 All 32 teams of the Association will play in the first round with "Pt^yes ftein* given. Both gyms at the college will be used in the first round until enough teams are eliminated to play the re maining games in the men's gym ? counties that will be represented are Ashe. Avery and Watauga. Teams from Ashe county win b(.. ,K)th ? ? gills: Elkland, Fleetwood, West CroekSOnR,v,eff?,rson- Nathans Carolina r,r ? 'w' v>rginia ^arolina . Lansing. and Healing Springs From Watauga; Apoala chiiin High. Cove Creek, Bethel and Blowing Rock. From Avery none! y Newhmd. and Cross-' The pairing for the first round The ni'imi'1 Satuid"y. March 9 'he number one ceded position "ounfv l? WrSt J,'ff,'rs"n of' Ashe ounty. and the number two berrv l?<?s,*"'n. wi" Cran . L? school from" Averv have N, .fJ,'llher , of thr?' teams . ' '?st ?' conference game in division. The number three and four positions will be bot Rock1 ApPa'achian hiKh. Blowing Rock, and Cove Creek All other eams will b(. pJacpd at.c^?^or thT 0P ACl'nta?l" for tht? "eason UK' Association. under the tfZr, u n ^ "Kod" Watkins dcDarimnUt'*C Physical education department, expects this to be the best and most hotly contested tournament in many years All malTv uT, WC" ''^'anced and manv upsets are expected from the lower bracketed teams. firltr?nl?'r ' tX' au"""ded t? the and J.i'' r,nncrs ln both hoys and girls divisions, and to the runnerups The AlKTournaments teams, to be selected by the tour nament officials. will receive silver basketballs. These trophies are now on display in the show Company ?f th" B?on" Dru? Funeral on Saturday For Rominger Lady at'tfu' l','.1'". W'Dr<' hoU1 Saturday th, m rtV Ba'jllsl Church, in w' Matney neighborhood, for Mrs. Elizabeth Carolina Mast of Rominger, who died on Thursday R*v , at the a?? of 80 Adam Starling and Ttev Mr services Tn'J chargt of th<" thf iff' 1 interment was in th< church cemetery by Reins Sturdivant Funeral Home inree sons and three daughters Mrs. Emma^^i,8^: Mr. and Mr*. Smith Win Novel Contest th^nand, W H Smith of won thi .J 1Bo?ne Park 3?ction. won the designation of "Watauga r?"",ty,.s Most Perfectly Married Couple at the close of the novel contest conducted by the Appala chian Theatre Tuesday evening J Mr and Mrs. Smith have re tef4, pasSM each to the local playhouse START OF RED CROSS EFFORT IS SLOWEDBYSNOW Organization is Functioning) But Bad Weather Preclude* Much Activity in the Open ing days of Campaign; Valle Crucis Makes Only Report The continued cold wave slow ed down the start of the Red Cross campaign on Monday, but Clyde R. Greene, chairman of the canvass, states that his organiza tion is functioning despite thp wintry handicaps, and will bend every effort toward raising the local quota of $2,66G well ahead of the official closing time of the roll call effort on March 31. Only one report had been re ceived as of late Tuesday after - noon, the initial response being from Mr. W. W. Mast, of Valle Crucis, who sends in $29.50, con tributed by the following persons of his neighborhood: W. W. Mast $10.00, Mrs. W. W Mast 5.00, Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Mast. Jr. 5.00, Mack Norris .60, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Mast 2.00, Julis Yates 1.00, W. H. Cook 1.00, Frank Baird 2.00, Ralph Church 1.00. W. C. Baird I 00, Frank Mast 1.00 BOND SALES SET RECORD VOLUME if Wataugans Buy S19.181 in 'X" Bonds During January; SI 34. 000 in Year IMS -January sales amounting U> $13, 738, .50 m U. S. savings bonds in North Carolina exceeded any previous month's sales since the victory loan in 1945, according to an announcement by Allison James, state savings bonds dir ector in Greensboro, is through Watauga county savings bonds chairman, Mr. Alfred T. Adams The people of Watauga county invested a total of $19,181 in E bonds as their part in the state's sales achievement. During 1946 Wataugans bought E bonds to the amount of $134,334.75; F bonds $1,480,000; G bonds $9,700. for a total of $145,514.75. ? Mr. Adams stated thai January has always been "fut" month for F and G bonds sales and for large denomination sales of E bonds in in venture who want to acquire the annual limit early in the new year. "However," he said "we didn't expect it to be stich a | record- breaker. The people of North Carolina and Watauga county are making an excellent beginning for the new year in setting aside savings bonds for their future security." Mr. Adams urged all employees to avail themselves of the pay roll savings plan for regular and systematic investments in savings bonds, even if they can have only a few dollars a week alloted to bond savings. Farmers, business and professional men and women and all others wilt be doing themselves as well as their state 'and nation a good favor, by j regularly investing in savings .bonds in 1947, and holding on to I them. KIDDIES TREK BACK TO SCHOOL iStorm Subsides. Permitting All Schools of th^ County to Reopen Monday Wataurn count y children began ?he march back to school Mon ?av. .iftcr ji t>n'--week holidav en 'oreerl bv the Mi/zfird, and Coup *v Suoerintenrtent W H Walker states that while attendance was very small in some classes, all Uh?* schools wen- open The snow storm which had continued almost * steadily for more than ten davs. abated Sat iirdav. there was considerable thawinc. and pros poet* were for eontinued liieher temperatures However. Saturday evening. the snow came again eontinued throuKh the day Sunday, and Monday dawned snowv and win dy. Tuesday brought more fa vorable temperatures, and Wed nesday morning the mercury stands in the middle thirties, bringing hopes of a general thaw Weather forecasters are of the opinion, however, that another period of cold will follow the probable rains of Thursday Lions' Biographies Feature Dinner Meet At the regular dinner meeting held Tuesday evening, members of the Lions Club were entertain ed by biographies given by Lions Wood row Richardson, Richard B. Kelley and A. R. Smith. A.< usual, these proved to be most entertaining. ? Lion Cratis WillianTS gave the list of committees appointed to produce the annual Lions' show which is scheduled for Apvjl 16.