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THE DEMOCRAT !? your best and most econo mical medium or advertising With more than 2.600 paid-up. caah subscriptions, your mes sage goes to 13.000 people, on thai universally used basis of five readers to each subscriber. WATAUGA DEMOCRAT St 1 IMPORTANT The date on your label shows the date your sub scription will expire, and ttMP date your paper will be ? topped unle M . Democrat is operating strictly An Independent Weekly Newspaper? Established in the Year 1 688 oa.Ma.tn. v?nc VOL. LX, NO. 9 BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1947 FIVE CENTS A COPY JOE HUFFMAN NEW HEAD OF RETAIL GROUP Board of Directors of Mer chants Association Name Slate of Officers at Meeting Monday: Number of Stand ing Committees Named Mr. Joe Huffman, local grocer, was named president of the Boone Merchants Association at a meeting of the board of direc tors of the organization held last Monday, and will succeed Grady Tugman, who served during the past year. Bob Agle was named vice-president, while Mrs. Ruby Ellis will continue as secretary. Clvde R Greene, of the Boone Association, is a member of the State Board of Directors. The new directors are: Dr. G. K. Moose, chairman; R. D. Hodges, Guy Hunt. W. W. Ches-; ter, C. C. Cooke, T. M. Greer, R.j E. Kelley. Ivey Wilson, D. L. Wilcox. W. H. Gragg and Bob' Agle. The following committees were appointed to serve during the coming year: Finance: Alfred Adams, chair man: Richard E. Kelley, Paul Winkler, Woodrow Greene. Legislative: Dr. C. H. Mock, chairman: W, R. Winkler, Paul Coffey. Howard Cottrell. Membership: R. E. Agle, chair-; man: Ivey Wilson, B. W. Stallings, Jones Hollars. Trade Promotion: Rob Rivers, chairman; G. H. Phillips, Clyde R. Greene, Howard Shore. Transportation: J. Conn, chair man H. C. Cochrane, J. C. Cline, D. O. Ray. Tobacco: W. H. Gragg, chair man; Grady Tugman, Dwight Edmisten. June Russell. CITY SCHOOLS BEGIN TUESDAY Appalachian High and Demon ? stration Schools Start Year; Information to Parents Boone Demonstration School j and Appalachian High will open September 2, at 9 o'clock. Pupils' who plan to enter, are requested! to be present on the first day soj permanent classes and schedules may be set up. State text books] are issued according to enroll ment, therefore, it is necessary toj come the first day. Final request! for books will be made up at that time. | Parents who did not bring children to the pre-school clinitj last spring, may register first1 grade children on Tuesday, Sept-i ember 2, at 9 o'clock. A parent will accompany the child and give the first grade teacher all information that is necessary. Please remember that a child must be 6 years of age by October 1, to enroll in the public schools of North Carolina. Special re quests to enroll children that will not be 6 by October 1, becomes embarrasing to the parent, to the child, and to the school admini strators. Last spring a number of high school and elementary children,! who live in and near Boone,! damaged the demonstration school building by throwing rocks and balls through the win-1 dows. Some of these persons have come by the office and made adjustments for the damages. There are still some who havel not done so. This building is public property. The business manager of the college and the principal of the schools seek the cooperation of the parents and children in an effort to stop this damage. The damaged property and lightd have been replaced by the college as this building is owned by the state. It is hoped that this will not occur again. The busi ness manager of the college is of fering a reward of $5 to anyone who furnishes proof of any furth er damages. If lights in the future are accidentally broken out, the person or persons should report immediately and pay for the damages, otherwise, the natural procedure will be to let the law enforcement agencies handle the situation. Good faculties have been se cur&i and the authorities look forward to a good school year. The interest and cooperation of the public is solicited. Trout Fishing To End Next Sunday The trout fishing season comes to a close next Sunday, August 31, says District Game Protector Walter F Edmisten, who com ments that the season has been most successful. Mr. Edmisten takes occasion to thank the fishermen and the land owners for jtheir cooperation, and 1 solicits their further help during the closed season. May Head Va. Maj. Gen. Paul R. Hawley (above), chief of the Veterans' Administration medical service.! may succeed Gen. Omar Brad-j ley as administrator if the latter; becomcs army chief of staff upon! Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's re tirement. COTfREU NEW FIRE CHIEF Joe Crawford Resigns as Head of the Fire Department; Building Permits Required Joe Crawford, who has served capacity as fire chief for several years has tendered his resignation and the city council announces the appointment of Howard Cot trell as head of the fire depart ment and also the building in spector. People of the community are reminded that henceforth a build ing permit will be required when new buildings are started or when remodeling is planned. Those in tending to do such work should get in touch with Mr. Cottrell be fore construction is started. Members of the volunter fire department are asked to meet with the city council Thursday evening. Winners in Second Annual Pet Show Are Chosen Friday Seventeen children of the com-j munity entered pets in the second annual pet show, which was held on the college campus Fridavl afternoon, under the direction of' Coach R. W. Watkins, and thej following first place winners; were designated by the judges: I The largest pet. a horse, was shown by Anna Boyce Winkler.j the smallest pet was shown by Milton Barden. with goldfish and turtle The cutest pet. a toy ter rier. was entered bv Billv Craw ley; the best groomed pets were! two baby rabbits shown by Lawrence Barden; the cutest pets were adjudged to be a pair of trained ground hogs, shown by Robert Manus; the ugliest pet. a bird d'>g. was entered by Phil McGuire: the prettiest pet, a cocker spaniel, was shown by Jane Rivers. The most outstand ing pets were a ground hog. shown bv Billy Hodges, and aj ponv. entered by Sonnv Keplar. AAA Acts to Aid Farmers of County In Grain Shortage In view of the present shortage in the corn crop and a prospective! shortage in grain feed this winter.! the Watauga county AAA com-i mittee has been authorized to ap-j prove an increase in the mini mum assistance to farms to the; extent that payment may bej made for establishing or improv- , ing five acres or less for per manent pasture. Payment may < also be made in excess of the minimum assistance for seeding : anual ryegrass for pasturing livestock. i Grasses recommended for seed ring and re-seeding permanent i pastures are; bluegrass, orchard grass, red top, Korean lesocdeia. 1 white clover, alsike clover and ladino clover. Specification.* for! seeding and re-seeding pastures are listed in the county handbook | and payment will be made at the rates so listed. Payment for seed- ? ing ryegrass will also be made at the rates specified in the county > handbook. All permanent pastures and rye- i grass should be seeded before September 15. It is important, that all farmers anticipate their needs for the coming winter and i spring and seed whatever pas tures are Accessary to meet these needs. ] The local AAA office and the county or community commit teeman will be glad to assist you with your plans for the seeding of your pastures. ^ i Wheat straw constitutes the major proportion of the small grain crop produced in North Carolina, and it is estimated that 400,000 tons of wheat straw was produced in 1945. GRADUATES TO HEAR ADDRESS BY. DR. RYAN Head of Department of Edu cation at University of North Carolina, fo Be Speaker at Summer Com mencement at Appalachian; the Graduates Dr. J. Carson Ryan will deliver the address at the summer com mencement of Appalachian State Teachers College on Thursday evening, August 28, at 8 o'clock, it is announced by President B. B. Dougherty. Dr. Ryan, head of the depart ment of education in the gradu-i ate school of the university, has recently returned from one of a number of visits to China as co ordinator of education. At this commencement Appa lachian will confer bachelor of science degrees on 54 members of the senior class, as follows: Grace Gibson Ross, Edith Hampton Webb, Elneda M. Stan aland, Julia Norris Beam. Myrtle Hudson Hoyle, Marcia Rae Ga briel, Dorothy Marie Whisnant, Olive Hall Cooper, Kathryn Flor ence Lingerfeldt, Edith Juanita York. Evelyn Miller, Feme Wil liams Caudill, Alta Louise Pon der, David Earl Broome, Jacque lin June Renfrow, Claire Omar Caskey, Nelda Jones, Marjorie McBee Pittman, Cleo Lea Wil liams, Jr., Norma Elizabeth Par ker, Vema Doris Harrison Rawls, Martha Kathryn Pearsall, Iola Lee Day, Lillian Thompson Bol ton, Margaret Susan Cole, June Cecil Keeter, Ethel Hollifield Powell, Annie Laurie Smith, Mary Jane S. Hauser, Edward A. Adelman, Edna Staley Bivens, Carol Melissa Glass, Alvin Clay Joines, Margaret Pendry. Hannah Elizabeth Craven, Thelma Jane Farthing, Essie Norris Hayes, Lloyd Isaacs, Wal ter C. Joyce, Magdalene B. Rans dell. Mattie L. Sherwood Walsh, Juanita M. Young, William H. Brennan, Helen R. Walden, Sa rah Wilcox Anderson, David W. Rollins, Isabel McDonald Rollins, C. Ernestine A. Behlmer, Mil dred Graves Team, Laura LcRoy, Olive Montgomery, Laura C. Muckle. Margaret Isabel Moses, Helen Raymond Abbott. BRIEF NEWS Both sides in India displeased over provincial boundaries. Danger of a war with Cuba seen by the Dominican Republic. Latin America to be asked for $15,000,000 for hungry children. Wainwright sits for a portrait for the National Art Museum. Teacher exchange with Eng land begins as 125 Americans sail. Truman predicts that the Na tional Guard will top recruit goal. Mopopoly in color movies is charged to Kodak and Techni color. Election day "holiday" is called by the AFL for 1948. Refugees from neighboring states are pouring into Turkey. Airlines see a year's delay in allweather flying program. Inquiry starts on loyalty of 2,000.000 in Federal jobs. FTC accuses the steel industry ,of fixing prices. I Corn shortage intensifies the food problem. Thirteen hundred women in Texas unite to bar long skirts. Australia announces aim to nationalize banking system. Palestine terrorism condemn ed by Zionists at Karlsbab. Major powers urged to share radio facilities with nations. Pepper assails foreign policy, asks friendship with Russia. Educators ask study of demo cratic living as aid to peace. 1,000 Chicago police guard housing project to block rioting. Power industry sees gains de spite "defeats" in Washington. Paris parley urged to tie Ger man economy to Europe's. Hodges hails paratroopers as 'striking arm of future." Educator assails formal school ing, urges freedom for child. USES chief says industrial em ployment will continue high. Truman proclaims Fire Pre vention Week in October. Groves sees need of "quality" soldier in event of atomic war. Barter is upsetting industrial alans in German western zones. Continued phigh food prices seen by Agriculture Department. Census Bureau reports 33.9 per :ent gain in Pacific states popula tion. Yugoslav -Germ an trade deal held to show Russia's weakness. Prime Minister Smuts says veto will wreck the United Na tions. _ United States clerics find free dom of worship in Yugoslavia. Plane makers to urge air car riage of first-class mail. V. F. W. TO MEET The Veterans of Foreign Wars will meet Thursday evening at the American Legion Hut. ATTEND FREEZER LOCKER SHORT COURSE Pictured here are a group of business men who attended a recent freezer looker short course at N. C. State College, Raleigh. They are shown with some of the faculty and staff members of the college. During their tenure at State College,, the group studied a wide range of subjects touching upon the expanding freezer locker industry in North Carolina. Front row, left to right: Weldon R. Hogan, Wilkesboro; Prince G. Melton. Fuquay Springs; W. H. Dameron, Jr., Boone; Eugene W. Smith, Mocksville; and David M. Fee, Fort Pierce, Fla. Second row; Edwin Radinsky, Fort Pierce; Fla.; Oscar Ledford. Franklin; Frank D. Smith. South Boston. Va.; Jas. H. Bost Wadesboro; Hassel A. Byrd, Burlington. Third row: Prof T. N. Blumer of State College; Paul V. Stokes, Winston-Salem; Dr. D. E. Brady of State College; Gayle Rogers, Charlotte: S. B. Carter, Martinsville, Va.; C. P. McNeely, Mooresi-ille. Back row: Miss Nelson Tucker. Mrs. Mar guerite Series, Miss Charlotte Mobley, Mrs. Mildred Seabers and Dr. Ivan D. Jones, all of the State College staff. SHOOTING TO BE TABOO HERE Police Chief Says Ordinance Against Discharge of Fire arms is to Be Enforced The ordinance against the dis charge of firearms within the limits of the city, which has been ignored in recent years, is to be enforced henceforth, says Police Chief Scruggs. The officer says that in the future arrests will be made for this violation, as the law provides. The chief states further, that dogs are to be kept on the prem ises of the owner, and that ca nines running at large will be destroyed. He asks for the complete co operation of the people in the enforcement of both these stat utes. Organization Will Promote Exports I Burley Tobacco The Burlcy Auction Warehouse {Association has endorsed a plan fqr the creation of an organiza tion to promote exports of burlcy and all types of tobacco, accord ing to an anouncement made fate yesterday by William C. Clay, Jr., of Mt. Sterling, Ky., counsel for the warehouse association. On August 4, at a meeting in Lexington, Ky., representatives of tobacco organizations resolved "to devise, if possible and prac ticable, a separate organization representing these types of to bacco and the parties interested in its production and marketing, for the promotion of the tobacco export business in all of its phases." At the Lexington meeting, a committee composed of Mr. Clay, Thomas Pepper of Springfield, Tenn., Lorenzo K. Wood of Louisville, and John Berry of New Castle, Ky., was appointed to draft a tentative charter for the new organization and each interested group was asked to submit the proposal to its mem bers for ratification. Mr. Clay announced thatqthe results of a questionnaire sent to all members of the Burley Auct ion Warehouse Association show ed unanimous approval of the proposal. WILSON INFANT DIES An Infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chappel Wilson died at the Banner Elk Hospital last Friday, and graveside rites in the city cemetery were conducted at 2 o'clock Saturday by Rev. J. K. Parker, Jr., of the Presyterian Church. An automatic flight recorder has been perfected which can de tect possible dangerous airplane or pilot tendencies before they lead to accidents. LOCAL FREEZER LOCKER PLANT TO BE ONE OF MOST MODERN To Address Laymen Rov. I. B. Scarborough, pastor of the First Christian Church. Kocky Mount. N. C? who is to speak to the Baptist Laymen's Club at the Skyline Cafe Thurs day evening. Rev. Mr. Scar borough is one of the state's out standing religious and civic lead ers is national chaplain of the Junior Order, and all Juniors arc invited to the meeting. Reserva tions may be made by calling the church office or Wade E. Brown. Croquet Tourney New Activity of 'Soap Box' League The most talked-of activity of the "Soap Box" league is the coming tournament in croquet, which has been announted by Coach R. W. Watkins. The tourney will be held on the college tennis courts. Pair ings may be made and posted with Joe Crawford at his barber shop on Main street. Senior Scouts Spend Week on New River Members of Explorer Post No. 41, Senior Boy Scouts, (pent last week on a camping trip down on New River. The part set out from Idlewild in home-made boats, camped in the river's bank at night, and covered thirty-five miles in their cruise to Glendale Springs. R. D. Hodges, troop leader, succeeded in lanjing a nineteeri-inch bass on the trip but otherwise fishing was poor, due to heavy rainfalL The group making the novel trip included: John Counciil, Fred Counciil, Buddy Moretz, Roliert Teague, Fred Miller, Joe jGaither and R. D. Hodges. y Construction of New Stor age House is Nearing Com pletion; Citizens Are Asked to Get Their Names on List for Locker Space The frozen food locker plant which will soon open for busi ness is one of the most modern and up-to-date frozen food locker plants in the south. This plant is the last word in modern effici ency. and provides for Watauga county and Boone the facilities long needed for the preserving of food. The success of the plant is de pendent upon the farmer patrons who will find this plant of tre mendous value in their food pre serving problems. For the suc cessful operation of the plant, at least 200 lockers in this plant must be rented by those from the rural sections who, in fact, find them even more profitable than the folks living in town. About ,100. of this number have already been spoken for by rural patrons. I This plant provides a capacity J for more than 700 lockers. Each of them are six cubic feet in size and of the very latest design. The processing equipment will pro vide ample space and facilities for the handling of a very heavy volume of pork. beef, poultry and! other meats, as well as vegetables and fruits. In the pork curing section, which is provided for the curing of pork for home use, there is space to handle up to 100,000 pounds of pork at one time. The Boone plant is not de pendent upon the weather for the curing of pork as the plant makes its own weather and maintains a temperature in the pork curing room of around 35 to 38 degrees at all times. Under these perfect conditions pork can be cured to perfection, which will guarantee its keeping when it is finally taken out. Beef, when brought in, is hung in the chill and ageing room and is kept there until it is ready to be processed, When the proces sing stage is reached, steaks, roasts, and hamburger are pre pared properly, trimmed, wrap ped and then frozen under per fect conditions and placed in the locker to be available when the locker owner desire3. In addition to the advantages of a frozen food locker plant for the preserving of food for home use, there is also a tremendous opportunity given for the proces sing of food through this plant to be sold on the open market at special prices and on an ever-in creasing market where the de mands far exceed the supply, thus this plant will stimulate production on Watauga farms since the plant itself serves as a local manufacturing plant for food productions. The low cost of rental of the (Continued on page 4) CITY STREETS' TO BE PAVED, WORK STARTED ? ? City Council Launches Pro gram of Paving and Gen eral Repair; Number of Streets Getting New As phalt Surface; Some of New Streets Gravel The city council is pushing a rather ambitious program of street work, which is designed to resurface a number of the most used streets of the city, and to do a number of things which had been neglected during the hectic years of the war. Streets have been repaired and placed in good condition in Daniel Boone Park. Cherry Park. Howard. Oak and Pine street sections and in places where the bituminous surfacing has not > been applied, the surface ha:f been made ready for the treJ't ?^ment. and it is now certain that for the first time in years all the principal streets of the town will be in good shape before winter comes. The present program of im provement included a large amount of patching of asphalt surfacing, and the town was hav ing trouble getting men who knew this difficult phase of con struction. It so happened that Earl Norris and a number of his co-workers with the State High way Commission, were on vaca- ? tion. Accordingly they took a job with the town, used their va tion period to help out in the emergency and did a first class job, with the aid of the city workers. Mr. Norris and the other State men are due the gratitude of the people of the town for un selfishly giving up their vaca tion in the interest of community progress. The asphalt surface is now being placed on the street lead ing from the bus station to the old laundry site, and work is ex pected to start soon on the west end of Howard Street and on Queen street. In the case of a number of new streets which have just been opened, it is likely that gravel will suffice for the time being. At any rate, the officials say, they are doing everything in their power to take care of the most pressing needs of the community as quickly as possible and that the streets are claiming the most of the attention of the council at the present time. BAND TO PLAY AT FESTIVAL High School Band Inritad to Mountain City'i gala Festival September 3 Gordon Nash and his Appala chian High School band will be one of the features of the Bean Festival which is to be held in Mountain City, Tenn., Wednes day, September 3, at which time parades, carnival attractions, parachute jumps, the appearance of officials of note, and other features will inagurate the big levent, which is expected to de velop into an annual attraction for the east Tennessee area. Prof. Nash, who says the sponsors of the festival are sup plying his group with transporta tion to Mountain City, states that band practice for the event will get under way Friday at 2:30. The parades will be featured by a large number of floats, a beauty contest will be staged, and agricultural products of Johnson county will be exhibited. A midway has been arranged, a Mountain City man has been bil led to make a parachute jump, and Senator Tom Stewart and Representative Dayton Phillips will speak. It is expected that the festival will provide -the biggest time in Johnson county since the days of the old county fair. coupleTadopts GIRLS. THEN TWO MORE ARRIVE Marysville, O. ? Mrs. Charles Spitler now has four small daughters to keep her busy. Six years ago, she and her husband feared they would never have any children of their own. They adopted two girls. Joanne is now 12, Judy is eight. Since then they have become the parents of two daughters. Their first, Anne Louise, is 14 months old. Their second, Char lene Kay, is nearly a month old. Mrs. Spitler, 39 years old when Charlene Kay was born, shared her room in Grant hospital with Mrs. David Sparks, 18-year-old mother. The 194*7 acreage of corn for harvest in North Carolina is estimated at 2,1 8^000 acres, and prospective yields point to a crop equal to the 58,914,000 bushels harvested in 1946.
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