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wmSk Watauga democrat mmm five r"d^,UQy J3rL^ftb.f ^mocr.r^ coer.tST^rtrtear An Independent Weekly Newspaper ? Established in the Year I 888 ' ash " v*nc* VOL. LX, NO. 16 BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1947 FIVE CENTS A COPY KING STREET ...By.... Rob. Rivers Jack Frost arrives about on schedule, chilling, and killing tender vegetation, destroying the magnificent autumn flowers in local gardens, and bringing a sort of depressing feeling to the folks hereabouts, already worrying about just where to get enough coal or oil to warm the house during eight months before Old Sol again takes over the situation . . . how to get the money ? to pacify the purveyor, and food enough to last throughout the long winter months, at the pres ent skyrocketing prices . . . Ye?, winter is on the way, but bor rowed troubles will vanish as the population becomes accustomed to the change in temperatures and scenery . . . While the frost takes away the flowers, he paints the fronds of the forests in scar let. gold, in magnificent shades and hues, and brings the most colorful season of the year, soon to be followed by the mantles of crystal ice and gleaming snow. Yes, we always sort of dread the icy streets, the balking heating unit, the trips through town in zero weather to see the custo mers, and the other inconveni ences, but the elements put on some mighty fine displays, and if one can stand the strain, the hun dred and some days of warm weather, pay us back and by the time the robins nest again we are ready to vow it's the world's finest climate! . WE THANK YOU ... We make our best bow to the scores of folks who. in person, by letter and by telephone, have lent strong endorsement to this column's remarks concern ing the more sordid aspects of the carnivals, which local or ganisations regularly help to operate, and which we had about decided had been accept ed by the community as an in tegral and necessary part of its existence . . . The folks, it is revealed, definitely want to be rid of the carnival, whose in come is derived from lawless ness . . . they want the merry go-round. all the other rides, and the good times for the kid dies. which we can't supply lo cally. but they're down on the re?t . . . and if the laymen whose praise we gratefully acknowledge, want it that way. they can have it ... all il lakes is just to stick in and back up their expressed con victions come next year! ? ? ? HERE AND THERE . . Gar nering a few pumpkins from genial George Wilson's bountiful crop, and exchanging news and views with he and the missus. . . . Seeing "Duel in the Sun," and agreeing with some of the critics, that the production is over-rated, although the original tale is a pretty good, if rather sexy story . . . Listening to the rounds of conversation, along the street on the receration tax issue, and finding the opinions mostly against the present proposal . . . Rounding up some adds for Dol lar Days, and finding that the merchants really have the mer chandise and the values . . Go ing down to the college and en joying lyceum number ? Indian Princess Shawa. These programs cost you nothing, provide good entertainment, and are featured at regular intervals at Appalach ian . . . Noting the different methods of eating employed by diners along restaurant counter. Enjoy those the best who lift a morsel deliberately to within close range, and execute a light ning oral "snatch" . . Hearing antiquated automobile referred to as a "4-F." . . . Taking a gander at Emily Post's "Children Are People" . . . the title of which, alone, provides food for parental thought . . .The most enjoyable walk ? in the direction of what our late friend, Luther Clay. napied Democrat Hill. ? ? ? THINGS WE REMEMBER . . . The showers of chestnuts, which used to come falling down, when rain followed frost . . . children of the community practically running a footrace to the woods at break of day to gather bushels of the delici ous nuts . . . the produce wag ons mired to th^hubs on King street . . . the old "yellow bouse," which stood just west of the bank, where oractically every new-comer to town lived for a while . . . the old jail on Depot street, fashioned of huge logs . . . seeing the first auto (Continued on page 4) PRESENT SUE OF HOSPITAL IS APPROVED Medical Care Commission Rccommends Approval ofj Local Hospital Plant in Ex-i panded Program: Final De cision to Be Made Oct. 17 Representatives of the Medical Care Commission and of the U.! S. Public Health Service have approved the local hospital to be used in the proposed expanded hospital program, it is learned from Smith Hagaman, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the local institution, and that final action may be expected at a meeting of the exectuive com mittee of the Commission on or before October 17th. Following is the letter receiv ed by Mr. Hagaman from John A. Ferrell, executive secretary of the commission, which con tains all the information avail able at this time on the local project: "The representatives of the North Carolina Medical Care Commission and of the U. S. Public Health Service who in spected your hospital at Boone and the present site and its pro posed enlargement have recom mended approval of the hospital and its present site provided ap proximately an additional acre of land is acquired to the north of the hospital substantially as shown in the rough sketch you furnished the party at the time of its visit. The executive com mittee of the Medical Care Com mission is expected to meet or or before the 17th of October and it will, I feel confident, approve the recommendations of the State and Federal staff members, fol lowing which you will be given official notice of the commis sion's action. "1 trust that the plans for ex panding your hospital facilities and of staffing the institution ef fectively will soon materialize." DOLLAR DAYS ON THE WAY Members of Merchants Associa tion Announce Fall Sales Promotion Event A number of members of the Boone Merchants Association have joined together today in ad vertising the first community wide sales event since pre-wai days in the form of a dollar day event to take place next Thurs day, Friday and Saturday, during which time the participating merchants are offering attractive values to the people of this area, with extra inducements for trad ing in the shopping center of the northwestern mountain region. The local newspaper today is featuring a large number of ad vertisements of individual firms, and the merchants are explaining |that this isn't a clean-up of anti quated merchandise, but a sensa tional offering of new fall mer chandise at the lowest prices that have prevailed here for a long time. The merchants have made care ful preparation for this event, they have all the needs of the people, who no doubt will appre ciate their efforts in offering them money saving prices right while the ncod in many lines is so acute. A cordial invitation is extended by all the merchants to ^isit Boone for the special fall bargain festival. Miss Jones is Public 'Health Instructor For Surr" Schools Mount Airy ? Miss Mazie Jean Jones of Boone, has been assign ed to Surry county schools as public health instructor, Surry School Superintendent John W. Comer announced last week. Miss Jones will work under thr direction of the county health department. She will make regu lar visits to all schools in the county and conduct classes on health and prevention of diseases. Miss Jones formerly was with the health department at Fay etteville. She took special work in health education at the Uni versity of North Carolina. She was a teacher in Winston Salem schools before entering public health work. LOCAL BAND ON RECENT PARADE ^1 4 " r~ " The Boone High School Band, shown on the postoffice lawn, during a recent parade of the business district in line with the vote on recreation. The appearances of the band on the streets creates great interest on the part of the people of the town, who gather along the sidewalks to ob serve the splendid organization, which is headed by Director Gordon Nash. (Photo by Blair) LIONS TO SEEK AID FOR BUND Boone Club to Sponsor Sale of Seals and Badges for Handi capped People The sight and blind aid com mittee of the Boone Lions Club will sponsor a sale of seals and badges to raise money for the blind and visually handicapped of Watauga county. The sale will start Octobcr 18 and run through ithe 30th. The motto "Be Thankful You Can See" is a reminder to every one with normal vision to lend a helping hand to the blind and those with defective vision. The "White Cane" pictured on the badge is a symbol of blindness, as many blind persons use such a walking stick for their guidance and protection. Sheets of stamps will be dis tributed by mail and by members of the committee who are: Dr. : Robert R. King, Jr., chairman. Dr. G. K. Moose, Reverend James McKeown, and Mr. M. R. Mad dux. The badges will be distri buted at convenient points and may be purchased for a dime or any other contribution. The Lions Club helps to pre vent loss of sight by sponsoring eye clinics for fitting glasses and helping to' pay for surgery on the eyes. Direct contributions are made to persons already blind and to the state agencies for the blind which sponsor the State school for blind children and help to train and find jobs for blind adults. Tobacco Grading Demonstrations E In order that farmers may re ceive the top price for each grade of tobacco, he will need to make as many grades as his tobacco al lows. Each year farmers lose money because they have their grades mixed. In order to help farmers have a better understanding of the different grades, a government grader wiil be in the county to 'give four tobacco grading de monstrations. The schedule is as follows: Tuesday, Oct. 28. 10 a. m. ? A. W. Greene, Meat Camp. Tuesday, Oct. 28. 2 p. m ? W. M. Thomas. Mabel. Wednesday. Oct. 29, 10 a m. ? D, F. Greene, Beaver Dam. Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2 p. m. ? Dwight Cable, Watauga River. All tobacco farmers are invit ed to attend one or more of these demonstrations. State Department affirms drop ping of seven for disloyalty. Inspector Says Residents Build Without Permits j Howard Cottrell, fir chiel and building inspector, states that reports are thai a number <? Boone people are building ' house* and doing repair jobs without getting permits from | his office, which is strictly con trary to law. I Chief Cottrell insists that all those building, contact him at I once, get the proper permits. | and save money and trouble. FARM BUREAU GETS REPORTS Memership Campaign to Close Saturday With Receipt of Final Reports The Watauga County Farm Bu reau will end its currcnt mem irship campaign Saturday, when at 2:30 o'clock, a mooting will be leld at the courthouse when re ports of the various canvassers will be received and the final re mits of the campaign tabulated. Pending the final meeting, no figures on membership were given out. but it was thought that the goal of 600 had perhaps been reached. All solicitors are par ticularly asked to attend the Sat urday meeting. Merchants Go On Record To Ban Carnivals At a general meeting of the Boone Merchants Association held last night, the recent "King Street" editorial of the local newspaper against carnivals which feature unlawul conces sions, was given strong endorse ment by various individuals, and in line with the position of the newspaper, the organization went on record as favoring a city or dinance forbidding the local ex hibition of such a carnival in the town. The merchants set November 29 as the day for the formal opening of the Christmas shop ping season, and it is expected that Santa Claus, Christmas lights, etc.. will feature the busi ness section during the holidays. Further "details of the holiday rade promotion event will be announced when formulated. Distilleries To Close To Help Feed Europe Washington ? Practically the whole distillery industry has agreed to close down for BO days at the end of next week to save grain for Europe, tho Citizens Food committee reported Mon day'night. Also in the aid-Europe drive pushed by President Truman, France won U. S. permission to use part of an $185,000,000 recon struction credit for emergency buying of coal and other essen tials. An estimate that the distillery close down would save 10,000,000 to 20,000,000 bushels of grain came from Charles Luckman, chairman of the President's Citi zens Food committee. He an nounced the agreement Luckman said said 36 of 39 dis tillery companies agreed to the shutdown, which was opposed by the AFL Distillery Workers union on grounds of creating un employment. JUNIOR^ ORDER MEETING There will be a regular meet ing of Daniel Boone Council, Junior Order UAM, Monday evening October 20, at 7:30 o'clock. Merchants Association Stages Dollar Day Sales Promotion In this issue you will see many dollar day specials being offered Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week by the members of the Boone Mer chants Association. This is no clearance sale, no disposal of slow-moving merchandise, but a sincere effort on the part of the Boone merchants to sell at rock-bottom prices, merchan dise the people need now. With the cost of living mov ing steadily upward, you will do well to examine these dol lar day specials carefully. BOONE MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION. LAST RITES FOR N. C. GREENE Blowing Rock Man, Former Deputy Sheriff. Succumbs to Long Illness Funeral services are to be con ducted this afternoon at 3 o'clock! at the Blowing Rock Presby terian Church for Newton Colum bus Greene. 68 years old, who died Tuesday morning after an illness, which had been consider ed serious for several months. Rev. Walter K. Keys of the Pres byterian Church and Rev. Ben Lee Ray, Baptist minister con ducted the services, and inter ment was in the Reformed Church cemetery. Members of the Masonic fraternity were in charge of the graveside rites. Mr. Greene who was a native of the Blowing Rock section, was a former chief deputy sheriff under J. E. Young, and acted as jailer in Boone during the early twenties. Since returning to Blowing Rock he had engaged in business enterprises prior to his retirement because of ill health. He was a member of Snow Lodge No. 363, A. F. & A. M.. of the Junior Order and of the Presby terian Church. The widow, the former Miss Netta Holshouser, survives, with three sons and one daughter: Donald Greene, High Point; Spencer Greene, Clarence Greene, Blowing Rock; Miss Doris Greene, Blowing Rock. Wildlife Group Meet* Thursday The local Wildlife Club met last Thursday evening at the Skyline Cafe, when Ross O. Ste vens, secretary of the State Wild life Club spoke. Remarks were also made by Dr. Garvey of Win ston-Salem, a special guest of the club. Preliminary plans were an nounced for an essay conte^ to be conducted by the local club between now and the first of the year. Two first prizes of $25.00 and two second prizes of $15.00 each are to be awarded, accord ing to tentative plans. Title of essays to be submitted, and rules of the contest will bo announced later. The club will meet again Thursday evening of next week. Russian "students" are report led missing in the country. People Disapprove Recreation Project In Tuesday's Voting GOOD CROP OF BURLEY SEEN Coleman Highly Pleased With Market Outlook; $40.00 Floor is Set Mr. R. C. Coleman, operator of the Mountain Burley Tobacco Warehouses here, was up from Tabor City Saturday, looking over the tobacco crop, and states that the poundage of the weed will be good this year, consider ably better than last, and that a hurried survey would indicate that the smoking grades are more plentiful, with resultant higher prices. Mr. Coleman points out the government has placed a $40 floor price on the season's crop. He also states that with the three large houses here, he ex pects to render the growers an even better service this season than ever before. MOSS RETURNS T0B00NEW0RK Pastor of Methodist Church Reas signed by Conference; Rev. Starling Also Returns Rev. S. B. Moss, pastor of the Boone Methodist Church for the past year, was reassigned to the local pastorate by Bishop Claire Purcell, in the closing hours of the Western Carolina Conference at Dil worth Church in Charlotte Monday. Rev. Mr. Moss, who is extreme ly popular with the local con gregation, had rather been ex pected to return. The Board of Stewards had urged this course of action in a letter sent to the Bishop. Rev. R. J. Starling has been returned to the Watauga circuit. Rev. Ernest Stephens to Todd, while the pastor of the Boone circuit is to be supplied. ROBT. LEWIS DIES TODAY Boone Man. Veteran of Three Years in Paciiic War Zone, Succumbs in Atlanta Robert Doughton Lewis, 29 years old. a resident of Boone, died in Lawson General Hospital, near Atlanta. Ga., died this morn ing at 3 o'clock. Mr. Lewis had been ill for about 18 months with a multiplicity of ailments grow ing out of his long service in the Pacific, and his condition had been considered serious for the past several months. No funeral details have been arranged. Mr. Lewis was a son of Chas. L. Lewis and the late Mrs. Alice Johnson Lewis of Sherwood, and was born in that neighborhood. He graduated from Cove Creek high school, and prior to his en tering the armed services was engaged by a structural steel company in St. Louis. He was married to Miss Lena Penick of Boone, and the family had estab lished their residence here fol lowing his return from the war He was in the army for three and a half years, three years of this time being spent in various sections of the Pacific theatre, returned bOme December 31, 1945, became ill shortly thereaf er, and a great part of the time since has been spent in hospitals in Johnson City and Atlanta. He was a member of the Cove Creek Baptist Church, was an upright citizen, and cheery disposition created for him in numerable friendships. The widow survives, with one son, David Lewis. The father survives, together with the following brothers and sisters: Wiley Lewis, Bristol, Tenn.; Carl Lewis, North Wilkesboro; Ernest Lewis, Boone; Mrs. Rob Rivers, Boone; Mrs. Blanch^) Tolliver, Elizabethton, Tenn.; Mrs. Glenn Davis, Akron, Ohio; Mrs. T. D. Heffner, Morgan ton, and.. Miss Louise Lewis, Bristol. Proponents of Recreational Project Would Have Need ed Only 30 Additional Votes to Have Won Victory in Close Voting; Considerable Interest Developed in Quiet Campaign Voters of the municipality went to the polls in relative ly small numbers Tuesday to turn thumbs down on the pro posal to levy an additional tax to institute a summer time program of recreational activities for Boone, but the rejection of the plan was by an unimpressive margin, since only 30 additional votes would have been needed to secure approval of the propo sition. The vote was against the reg istration, that is, qualified elec tors not presenting themselves at the polls, were in effect, voting nsgatively. There were 522 reg istered and proponents of the proposal would have needed 261 ballots to have won. They actu ally received 232, just 30 short of the required amount to enact the program. One hundred and forty-one voters marked their ballots against the proposal, mak ing a total of 373 taking part in the voting. The city council called the election some weeks ago on pe tition of various civic clubs and individuals, the proposition be ing whether or not a special levy of ten cents on the hundred dol lars tax book valuhtion be made to start a small recreational pro gram here. It was thought by those seeking the project that a fairly, adequate summer-time program of activities could be worked out with the few hun dred dollars made available in this way. Little general interest develop ed in the election until near the close of the registration priod, when comments became more numerous, with opinions sharply divided, numbers of good argu ments being laid down to sup port the individual conclusion, but so far as is known no ill will was engendered during the cam paign and election. Voting was conducted in a quiet and orderly manner, and the excitement which usually characterizes gen eral elections in these parts, was absent. High School Athletic Association to Meet The fall meeting of the Appa lachian High School Athletic As sociation will be held in the gymnasium of Appalachian State Teachers College on Saturday, October 18, at 9:30 a. m. The meeting has been called by R. W. Watkins, president. Sixteen schools will be repre sented at the meeting, including schools in Ashe, Avery and Wa tauga counties. The football schedules for these schools will be completed. One important item on the agenda will be the organization of an officials' as sociation, so that officials can be assigned for the games to be played in these three counties. Among the speakers for the occasion are expected to be Dr. B. B. Dougherty and Dr. J. D. Rankin, president and dean, re spectively, oi the college. Schools expected to be repre sented by their principals and coaches are: Boone, Blowing Rock, Cove Creek, Sugar Grove, Cranberry, Crossnore, Elkland, Healing Springs, Todd, Fleet wood, Crumpler, Jefferson, Lan sing, Nathans Creek, Newland, Riverview, Fig, Virginia-Caro lina, Grassy Creek, West Jeffer son, Bethel. Dr. Gaul to Hold Clinic for Cripples On Friday Morning J)r. J. S. Gaul of Charlotte, will hold the clinic for crippled child ren at the health department of fices in Boone Friday morning from 9 to 11 a. m. Since this is the last clinic of the kind this year, those needing Dr. Gaul's attention are asked to attend. Full use of "skills" of handi cap r*'d persons is urged.
Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.)
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