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. ' ' V- ' *"Tu^BW *'./?] v ? ?! ft) mmm WATAUGA DEMOCRAT ^ fbcl universally ued b&sU ol Democrat is opera tin* (tricar ryitrTto *Mb An Independent Weekly Newspaper ? Established in the Year 1888. ?? * ' VOL. LX, NO. 2 BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1947 FIVE CENTS A COPY CITY FATHERS TAKE OATHS OF OFFICE MONDAY CounciU Cooke is City Clerk; Grady Moretz Mayor Pro tem; Program of Street Im provement, etc., to Be* Pur sued by New Administra tion The newly-elected city of ficials took their oaths of office Mondayl evening, and discussed the affairs of the city, with a view to inagurating a progres sive program of civic improve ment, street repairs etc. Mayor Gordon H. 'Winkler started on his third term, while the new board members, Guy Hunt, Councill Cooke, and Grady Moretz vere sworn in as alder men for their first time. Neither of the retiring aldermen, Lee Stout, Dr. W. M. Matheson, nor Owen Wilson, were willing to ac cept renomi nation." At the organization meeting, Councill Cooke was named city clerk, while Grady MorPtz was fleeted mayor pro tem. Rev. E. F. Troutman was present for the oath-takingg ceremony and con ducted a brief devotional. No business was transacted but there was a brief descussion of matters of vital community im portance, such as street improve ment, etc., and information is at the next meeting of the council concrete steps will be taken to inagurate an. improvement pro gram to take care of the needs of the rapidly growing com munity. Extension and enlarge ment of water lines, and street repairs, are said to be among the items which will command the first consideration of the new of ficials. RIVERROAD IS INSPECTED Official! oi Highway Department Make. Trip Over "Watauga River Route" Commissioner Raymond Smith. Z. V. Stewart, C. A. Hayworth and J. H. Council! recently made an inspection trip of N.C. 60'J, the much-discussed "Watauga River Route", which branches off from 421 seven miles west of Boone, and follows the Watauga River to Eliz^bethton, Tenn.. and the visit of the highway officials again started speculation as to what the fate of the important in terstate thoroughfare will be. "It is hoped", says J. H. Coun cils "that sometime in tho not too distant future this route may be developed in^o a modern high way. Such a highway would provide a very fine connection between Western North Carolina and East Tennessee, and would provide at the same time one of the best possible routes from the Middle Atlantic seaboard through central North Carolina into Tennessee, and on into the midwestern section of the na tion." Commissioner Smith enjoyed the trip greatly, and was par ticularly impressed with the TVA development now in prog ress on Watauga River, a few miles down-stream from Butler. The earth dam nc under con struction will be over 300 feet high, and will submerge the lit tle town of Butler under 127 feet of water. The great task of removing the many families, buildings, etc., out of the river basin is much in evi dence. Heavy equipment is busily engaged in building new highways above the proposed shore lino. It is understood that one of these new highways will come within three or four miles of the North Carolina line, form ing an important link in the "Watauga River Route." Auction of Rams Slated for Boone A sale of purebred Hampshire rams will be held at Boone July 26. starting at 10 a. m., it was an nounced by R. S. Curtis, market ing specialist with the State De partment of Agriculture. Curtis said 20 purebred rains will be sold ?ft auction under auspices of the Watauga Pure bred Hampshire Sheep Breeders Association. The auction will be J conducted in a tobacco ware house. O ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS Alcoholics Anonymous is hold ing regular meetings at the city hall each Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock, it is explained. The or ganization, which is designed to aid those who cannot control their appetites for whiskey, has done a lot of good. Those who would like to become identified with the group are assured that all matters are held in strict con fidence. Little Heroine Four-year-old Linda Prager, who picked up a hotel phone in Pittsburgh and told the desk clerk: "My mummy's awful sick,'' saved her despondent mothtr's life. Police rushed her mother, Mrs. Jean Prager, 22, to a local hospital, where poison was pumped from her stomach after a suicide attempt. DOUGHTON IS FOR TAX CUT Veteran Solon Thinks Time it Ripe for Tax Relief; Makes Speech on Floor Washing n, July 9 ? When the house Tuesday passed the new income tax reduction bill, effec tive next January 1, eight North Carolinians voted for it. but only after a motion to send the meas ure back to committee had failed. Tar Heels for the bill when it finally passed, 302 to 112. were Representatives Barden, Bonner, Bulwinkle, Doughton, Durham, Jones. Kerr and Redden. Those against it were Representatives Clark, Cooley, Deane and Folger. All the North Carolinians ex cept Clark and Cooley had pre viously voted to recommit the bill but this motion failed, 261 to 151. representative Doughton, the top-ranking Democrat on the tax-writing ways and means committee, said in a house speech before the vote: "I believe the time has arrived when we can safely give the fed eral taxpayers of the country some relief from the heavy tax load made necessary by World War II, provided that January 1. 1948, is made the effective date of the law." He recalled that when he was the ways and means chairman, congress passed the first postwar tax relief bill in late 1945, where by corporate taxes were slashed $3,140,000,000; individual income taxes were cut $2,645,000,000, and excise taxes were reduced by $140,000,000. "So," he said, "it is clear that our Republican friends, now in control of the congress, do not have a monopo ly on the willingness and desire to reduce taxes when it can be reasonably and safely done." Doughton said he opposed the original Knutson income tax re duction bill because, "first, it was to become effective on Jan. 1, 1947, and I do not believe in retroactive tax bills. And more over, we did not ktiow enough about the fiscal picture for 1948 to safely enact a tax reduction law. "But," he added, "I am happy to say that our fiscal prospects seem to be much brighter now. The net receipts under existing law are estimated by the staff of the ioint committee on internal revenue taxation for the fiscal year 1948 at approximately $4H4 billion. Even after enactment of the pending bill, the 1948 re ceipts are estimated at nearly $40 billion, which will provide a surplus of $5 billion for debt re tirement, if the President's bud get is reduced by only $2 billion. Even if tl:e budget is not cut at all. there will be an estimated surplus of nearly $2Mt billion for debt reduction. "I have stated that I would not support another general tax re vision bill which did *not do something to correct the discrim ination against married persons residing in non-community prop erty states. However, because of difficulties, time dd not permit such a provision to be inserted in this bill. I have, therefore, received the unanimous assur ance of the committee on ways and means that an equitable so lution of the community proper ty problem will be reached in the general tax revision bill to be introduced early in the next ses sion of congress." CAUSE FOR COMPLAINT Missoula, Mont. ? A motorist returned to the filling station, which he had shortly before left, and complained about the Kaso line sold him. The attendant, who investigated, y found that hoses had been switched and a 400 gallon underground gasoline storage tank had bet'n filled with water. CONE ESTATE IS OFFERED TO PARK SERVICE Moses H. Cone Estate at Blowing Rock is Offered to Federal Government for Use as National Park; Gov ernment Man to Look at Propertv The 3,500-a.cre Moses H. Cone estate at Blowing Rock was of fered to the government Monday as a national park, says a Wash ington dispatch to the Charlotte Observer. Benjamin Cone of Greensboro, representing the board of trus tees of the Cone Memorial foun dation, conferred with Senators Hoey and Umstead and Repre sentatives Doughton and Dufham and later talked with A. E. Dam eray, director of the National Park service. The Park Service showed great interest in the proposal and will send a representative to Blowing Rock next week, to look over the property, the congressmen said. Senator Hoey said the estate is one of the most beautiful in North Carolina. Known at Flat Top Manor, it is almost within the city limits of Blowing Rock and on the main highway lead ing into the National Park sec tion. Several details will have ttf be worked out to comply with the will of the late Moses H. Cone and also of his widow, Senator Hoey said. Senator Hoey said the trustees of the foundation are willing to transfer the property to the gov ernment if the provisions of the will can be maintained. One pro vision is that the estate must be known as the Moses H. Cone Me morial Park. The will provided a trust fund of $10,000 annually for upkeep of the estate and also that it must be kept open for the public to enjoy. Senator Hoey said the execu tors of the estate felt that the property would "be of more serv ice to the people generally if ad ministered by the National Park Service. BRIEF NEWS Shawcross believes the Rus sians will back European aid plan. German Socialist urges Anglo U. S. aid to block communism. Truman declares the turning point is here in equality fight. Greatest flood in 103 years pounding levees in St. Louis area. _ PCA advocates public owner ship to mines, railroads, utilities. Industrial survey predicts up trend for the second half of 1947. Individual employe's output has generally improved over 1946. Country's first billion-busel winter wheat crop is being cut. Arabs bar United States press from U. S. school in Palestine. Philippines shows revenue gains; ask to cancel part of loan. Buying U. S. goods raises Canadian fears of "going broke." Australians at Geneva to seek cut in United States wool duty. Eisenhower says U. S. Army is "poor second" to Russia's. Record income tax rebates go to 30,000,000 payers. N Quakers ask a more "concilia tory attitude" toward Russians. Sharp declinc in liquor usage reported in United States. Aircraft industry, facing crisis, asks action by the United States. Britons warned of worse fuel pinch next winter than last. Chilean President says he favors inter-American army. Survey shows teachers will get $400 more on average in ?47-'48. . Battleships North Carolina, Washington join "moth-ball" fleet. GI student veterans' total showed decline in May. Negro association maps fight on dual education. Navy in bill asks permanent status for the Waves. Steel industry, short of coil, makes first big cut in output. Great range atomic rocket is 25 years away, says experts. Russiato draft bo-. .? and girls 14 to 19 for mines and factories. Student ex-GI's find U. S. al lotments too small for living cogts. Report shows that U. S. owns [59.2 per cent of the world's oil tankers. Sale of Pullman sleeping car business to railroads approved. Marshall backs plan to trans fer surplus Liberty ships to Italy. U. S. lagging in some jet pianes, but development progres ses. McNutt warns on rebuilding Japan before the whole Orient. U. S. buys Soviet zone potash as fertilizer for Japan, Korea. CEMETERY DONATIONS Anyone interested in the up keep of the Timbered Ridge cem etery please send your contribu tions to Max Trivett, Reese, N. C. Newest type of rear-view mor ror developed by Libbey-Oweni Ford is called "easy -eye" nnd is a pink glass to lessen eye strain. OLD MAN RIVER WON "Despite the grueling five-day fight put up by volunteers like these, the cresting Mississippi River (right) swept through the Chouteau Island, Illinois, levee, burying thousands of acres of corn and wheat under water. It was the worst flood since 1834. WRARGER IS REELECTED Boone Man Again Secretary Of North Carolina Rural Car riers' Association R. Clyde Winebarger of Boone was again named secretary treasurer of the North Carolina Rural Letter Carriers' Associa tion last Saturday at the close of the 44th convention of the or ganization in Wilson. Henry A. Capps of Rocky Mount was elected president of the Association. J. Yates Yoder of Hickory, vice-president, and Clifton Knowles of Wallace, Chaplain. Mr. Winebarger is being com mended from over the st?.te and nation because of the record achievement in membership for the year beginning July 1st. The state was 100% plus in member ship two weeks earlier than ever before, based on the 922 rural routes, ana now has a 122% membership including retired, temporary, and substitute' rural carriers, with enrollment of 1110. He goes to Tampa, Fla., next month as one of the twelve dele gates from North Carolina and one of the two National paid de legates. Director of T.V.A. Will Speak in City The assembly period has scheduled for Thursday, Senator James P. Pope, Director of Tennessee Valley Authority, who will speak to the students and interested friends of Appalachian in the college auditorium at 9:50 a. ,m. Mr. Pope is one of the speakers on the resource use education course being offered here the next two weeks of this term. The community is cordial ly invited to hear him. HILL MOVING HOUSE Rapid City, S. D. ? When John Fitchell bought his house and lot, he had a 30-foot backyard. The hill behind them gradually moved in. pushing in a five-foot deep pile of dirt that covers half of the kitchen windows. Fitchell and his family decided to move their two-story house before the hill moved it for them. Eggerft to Preside At Meeting of Farm Loan Group in Wilkes S. C. Eggers. president, will be the presiding officer at the annual stockholders' meeting of the National Farm Loan Associa tion in North Wilkesboro Friday, July 18, at which time a report of the operation of the organization for the past year will be heard and a new board of directors elected. J. B. Williams, president of the Wilkes Chamber of Commerce, vrill deliver the address of wel come with the response being by Mr. Eggers, president of the Association. Among other features of the program will be an address by S. C. Lattimore, vice-president of the Federal Land Bank and of the Production Credit Corpora tion. T. E. Haigler, associate re gional manager ot the Federal Land Bank will conduct a quiz period near the close of the pro gram. College Band Will Appear in Concert The Appalachian Summer School Band will present a con cert in the college auditorium Friday evening, July 11, at 8 o'clock. Midway in the concert, Miss Virginia Wary will lead a community smg with the summer school band accompaning. The band will feature several popular numbers in addition to numbers by Beethoven. Texidor and Rachmanioff. The band will be conducted Gordon A. Nash, its organizer and leader. SIGN "NCVSHAVET'~PLEDGE Vlcksburg, Mich. ? Mcfre than 100 local men have signed a "no shaving" pledge ? and they will have to go to "court" if they break it before July 26. The whiskers are being grown for a "Gay Nineties" parade at the Community's Hospital Guild late this month. A kangaroo court has been set up by the Vicksburg Chamber of Commerce to make sure the pledgees live up tc then bargains. Only a small part of the total energy going into an electric lamp is transfofmed into visible light. Most of the energy is con verted into heat. Veteran Farm Trainees Using Most Modern Farming Practices Buster G. Eggers cff the Bam boo community enrolled in the Veteran Farmer Training class at the Appalachian high school February 7. Buster as well as many of the other 54 class mem bers is doing a fine job in his training on his 27 acre farm which he bought on a credit plan and is making a payment each month on the farm. His present training prdgram consists of 2 a< _"s corn for grain. 1 acre corn for silage, 1 acre potatoes, 1 acre soybeans for silage, 1 acre soy beans In his potatoes for silage, 6 acres meadow, 12 acres pasture and 5 young jersey cows which he bought for less than $440.00 during the past two years. Buster sold $65.96 of milk in June from two cow? milking 30 days and one cow milking only 9 days. This did not include 25 gallons used at home. Buster states that his cows paid well last winter. His February check was $80.87. He now is selling 20 gallons per day from all five of the cows. This year Eggers plan; to fill a temporary silo with Porn and soybeans so that he can do an even better job of winter feeding. He is also sowing 3 acres of al falfa in his com this fall so he r / will be able to eliminate all-to gether the necessity of buying commercial dairy feeds. 'Buster feeds his cows according to what they deserve. No cow receives any grain while on pasture if she doesn't give over 20 pounds milk per day. All cows producing over 20 pounds gets one pound grain for each three pounds given above 20 pounds. All the six fields on Buster's farm had soil samples taken and tested by the state labatory this spriag. He had one field low in calcium, 2 low in manganese, four low in phosphorous, four low in potash and all were good in organic matter. Buster has al ready corrected all the soil de ficiencies except the potash and plans to do that this fall. He ap plied 5,000 pounds phosphate this spring and applied manure on all land in cultivation. Buster and the other young farmers In our veterans training class are doing gome excellent work in their training program. Every trainee is endeavoring to get some of the following crops into his crop rotation: Alfaiia, Ladino clover, rye and vAh mixture, crimson clover, rye. serecia lespedeza, soybeans and silage crops. TEACHERS OF ENGLISH MEET ? English Taachars to Hold Three Day Institute on Appalach ian Campus English teachers of this sec ;ion of North Carolina will at end a three-day institute on the :ampus of Appalachian State reachers College Thursday, Fri iay and Saturday of this week. Meetings will be held from 3'15 x> 4:30 p. m. each day . The institute, a division of the Morth Carolina Teachers of Eng ish Institute, will be devoted to the discussion of means of im proving vocabulary growth, spell ing and speech habits of children enrolled in the grade and high schools. Dr. G. P. Eggers and Dr. Wilda Montgomery, of A.S.T.C. reguar [acuity, will conduct discussions af problems involved in the teaching of vocabulary and spell ing. Mr. Cratis D. Williams, di rector of the institute, will dis cuss methods of improving speech habits of school children. Schedule is Given For Sheep Dipping The portable sheep dipping vat operated by the agriculture de partment of the Cove Creek High Schcfcl will begin operation Mon day, July 14, on the following schedule: Monday July 14 ? Shipley farm 8:30 to 10; Jack Mast 11 to 11:30; W. H. Mast 1-2; Bud Ward 3:30-4:30. No dipping Tuesday. Wednesday 1ft? Lee Carender's scales 9-11; Ed Yates 12:30 to 1:30; Howard Cornell's 3:30-4:30. Thursday July ,17? James B. Mast 8:30-9; W. M. Thomas 10 i0:3d; R. A. Thomas 11-11:30; A. N. Thomas 1-2:30. The schedule for the remaind er of the county will be publish ed next week. Any farmer or group of farmers with 50 or more sheep may get them dipped by contacting the county agent or R. G. Shipley. Slides of Art Work To Be Exhibited By special request. Dr. Fritz of Brooklyn. N. Y. and Miami. Fla. will show slides of his original water color and oil paintings in the college Auditorium on the evening of Wednesday, July 15 at 7 o'clock. Dr. Fritz is a dis tinguished teacher of art, super visor of this department in the city schools of Brooklyn for a number of years. He is a former resident of Boone over a period of years. ? PARTIAL COMPENSATION Springfield, 111. ? Joe Majczek. of Chicago, who served thirteen years in prison for a murder he did not commit, has been award ed $24,000 by the State of Illinois in what the legislature termed "partial compensation." Ma jczek's aged mother scrubbed floors in Chicago office building to accumulate $5,000 to finance his fiftht for freedom, while in vestigations by the Chicago Times led to his pardon by Gev ernor Dwight Green. LOCK DELAYS JUSTICE Couer D'Alene, Idaho ? Sent for to be taken to court, Leroy Gardner's date with the judge had to be postponed when the jailer couldn't get his cell lock to work. After several hour* a lock smith succeeded in opening the cell-door and Gardner was taken into court to receive a three year prison sentence for stealing an automobile. TEACHERS ARE NEEDEDFOR CO. SCHOOLS Fifteen Vacancies Exist as Plans Are Made forOpening of Fall Term of Schools in, County; Schools to Open September 1 There are fifteen teacher va cancies in the schools of Watauga county, it is reported by Superin tendent W. H. Walker, who states that while increased pay by the State has induced a number of teachers to re-enter the profes sion. others have retired for va rious reasons, leaving the situa tion practically unchanged from last year. v There are again prospects, he says, that teachers with inade quate certificates will' be called upon to aid in the emerg enrar. There will be nine less teachers in the system this year than last, due to low attendance, the super intendent says. Teachers have been lost to the following schools: ' Howard's Creek, Riverview, Deep Gap. Penley, Cook, Cove Creek high school, Rominger, Keller ville and Bethel elementary. Teacher vacancies exist in the following schools: Appalachian high, five: Boone demonstration, two; Winebarger. one; Deep Gap, one; Blowing Rock, three, includ ing the principal; Bethel, two high school and one in the ele mentary school. The date for the opening of the county schools has been set for September 2. The teachers and principals now employed are as follows: District 1 Appalachian High ; Herbert W. Wey, principal; Mrs. Margaret Gragg, Ben Simpson, Martha Grey, Hillard Tripp, Eloise Stog ner, Harold C. Quincy, R. L. Tuit, Flora Alexander, Winona Williams, Gordon Nash, Frances Teams, Margaret Mclntyre. Miss Sparks, and Madge MaxwelL Boone Elementary: John T. Howell, principal; Donald C. Thompson, Wilda Lea Montgom ery, Mary Walker, Melvin La shure, Christine H. Innings, Mary K. Coble,, Clyde Mae Goodman, Mary Ellen Gibbs, Mrs. Bessie S. Crawford, Ennis R. Davis, Mrs. Grace Councill. Betty Ruth Jen nings, Louise Moore, Mrs. Hugh L. Reavis, O. M. Hartsell, Mary Ellen Snow, Kathleen Berry. Rutherwood: Mrs. China R. Lavender, Mrs. Chloe T. Greer. Rich Mountain: Nellie M. Lewis. Bamboo: Pearl J. Cowles, Mrs. Helen E. Trexler, Mrs. Lucy H. Storie. District 2 Green Valley: Arlie E. Moretz, principal; Mrs. Imogene B. Bar den, Mrs. Velma M. Cottrell, Maggie E. Moretz. Winebarger: Mrs. Louisa L Miller. District No. 3 Deep Gap: Mrs .Edith E. Estes, principal; Walter Joyce, Mrs. Pauline W. Shoemake," Mrs. Reka W. Shoemake. Stony Fork: Mrs. Grace E. Greene. Leona L. Moretz. Mt. Paron: Mrs. E. H. Greene. Elk: W. L. Trivette, Mrs. Ruby T. Sherrill, J. W. Norris. Lower Elk: Cordie Triplett. District No. 4 Blowing Rock High: Mrs. Frank P. Newton. Blowing Rock Elementary: Mrs. Belle G. Greene, I. S. Miller, Mrs. Clara S. Brown, Mrs. Mabel H. Hollar, Mrs. D. J. Whitener, Mrs. Grace S. Beach, Mrs. Blllie G. Cooke. District No. 5 Valle Crucis: Mrs. Dessa T. Ed misten, principal; Ernie C. Trip lett, Mrs. Mary B. Glenn, Mrs. Ola T. Thompson, Mrs. Grace B. Campell, Mrs. Lucille M. Wallace, Mrs. Pansy K. Taylor. Mrs. Sarah B. Horton, Mrs. Maxic G. Edmis ten. Grandfather: F lo y Cannon, Mrs. Ruby C. Cox. Cool Springs: Ruby S. Michael. District No. 6 S F. Horton, principal; Phoebe F.. Wakefield, Cynthia Stiles, Jen nie Love, Mrs. Virginia P. Stro ther, Mrs. Winnie T. Stokes, Mrs. Grace B. Mast, Sam W. Osborne, Robert G. Shipley, Mrs . .Marion H. Osborne, Mary E. Greer, Mrs. Mattie H. Wilson, Mrs. Maude Spainhocr, Anna Belle Bingham. Cove Creek Elementttry: Tom J. Moody, principal; B1 anche Stokes. Mrs. Gladys M. Bingham, Sarah Wi!ma Harmon, Anna Mae I Sherwood, Mrs. Dora S. Mast, Mrs. Susie B. Henson, Mrs. Mattie (Continued on page eight) GO FISHING IN GUTTERS Kansas City, Kan. ? Grocer Harold Claybrooks recently pull ed in two catfish and four perch ? from the gutters. They are be lieved to have come from water clogged sewers which backed up during a heavy rain. WATER-ePROUTrXO STOVES Derby, Conn. ? Several local , housewives were recently startl ed when their gas stoves sudden ly became water fountains. In vestigation disclosed that heavy road building machinery had cracked water and gas mains. i
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