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THE DEMOCRAT WATAUGA An Independent Weekly Newspaper ? Established in the Year 1 888 vol: LX, NO. 33. ? BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1948. FIVE CENTS A COPY KING STREET BY ROB RIVERS ? fc . - , THE BELL TELEPHONE FOLKS just can't run the Boone exchange in the old fashioned country style to which we have J become al-customed . . . the thing has grown too big . . so you have to give the operator the number now, she can no longer give ser vice when the subscriber calls for a name . . . Subscribers seem to be falling in on the more for mal method right along, 'cept one fellow we know . . . ? ? ? This poffcUar gentleman, a familiar figure along the of Boom for many year*, cranked up his telephone the othar day, and told the opera tor. "dive me John Smith, please." The voice with a smile said, "111 give you information dr." "Hell. I don't want any information I Just want John Smith I ~ ... So far as we know ha got both, and everything turned out all right. LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY, and those familiar with the history of this ' outstanding American, pause to do him honor . . . The Republician party is staging its annual round of Lincoln Day dinners . . . while the informed Democrats, particularly of the South look back at the Civil war leader as one of their best friends. ? ? ? SOMETHING IRONICAL in the fact thai the political or ganisation which Lincoln es poused. and which has lavish ed such praise upon his memory for the past four score years or more, is the same which following the bloody "war between the stales," sabo taged the Emancipator's ideals and peace aims, passed the nefarious reconstruction laws which further widened the gap between the peoples of two sec tions. which the President was earnestly and prayerfully trying to re-unite into a common bond of friendship . . . But those who flood by Lincoln, were as leathers in the breese in the face of the wave of vengeance which was sweeping the na tion . . . LINCOLN'S DEATH was aj calamity for the whole nation,! but it brought a specific and in-| calculable loss ta the South,] where his birthday should bei celebrated by people of all poli tical faiths and creeds . . . with a burning passion for the rights; of men, an abhorrence of blood-1 shed, and a disposition to deal kindly with a foe, he became like all great Americans do, at one time or another, hated and miserable. During the dark days of the war, when Lincoln had yet been unable to show the Union any impresive victories on the field, when his political party was pondering the idea of changing horses in the middle of the stream ... he became thoroughly disliked, lonely and sad, so the historians say . . . "seeking within his own self the sanction of his activities" . . . ?"1 do the very best I know how, the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so Gntil the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amoupt to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference." . . . Holding the reins of government at the most perilous time iij the history of the Union, sick aL heart over the bloodshed, the] misery and the privation wrought' by two great armies on the, march ... he grew sad and un happy ... So much so that his young son, Thad, standing by the coffin in the White House, re marked . . . "Is Father in heaven now? Yes? Then I am glad, for he ?was not really happy here!" ? ? a SPEAKING of the prevailing rtsslis for rmagt. and for the puoUunwit of tha rebels. Lin coln maid ha would have no part of such a plan . . . "Wo oa? naad expect ma to hara any part In hanging or killing than men. eren tha wont of than . . . Eaaugh lives hara been sacrificed; wa must ex tinguish our resentments if we expect harmony and union. There is too much disposition . in oartaia quartan, to hector and dictate to tha people of iba South, to refuse to recognise them as fellaw citizens. Such persons have too Utile respect for Southerners' rights. I do not share footings of that kind." (Continued an page 4) MEET MAYOR AFT2R SON'S DEATH The Mayor of Minneapolis. Hubert Humphrey, right, it shown talking with Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Jensen as he >eeki first-hand information regarding the death of their infant son The baby died on a desk in the Mayor's office after the couple sought to place their child in a city hospital foT treatment but were refused. PONDERS A POINT Harold Ideas, former secretary of the interior, gutt off into space as he trios to remember some la formation during his testimony before a special Senate commit tee investigating Arabian-Ameri can oil contracts in connection with the national tyfaoM pro gram. crrr lauded ASSNOWMOVED Merchants Association Ex presses Appreciation to City Council. At a meeting of the board of directors of the Boone Merchants Association held Tuesday after noon a resolution was uninamous ly adopted expressing apprecia tion to Mayor Winkler and the Board of Aldermen for the fine iob city employees are doing in keeping the streets and drive ways of the town clear of snow. This fine service on the part of the city government has been the source of much favorable comment during the past few days. The snow plow was driven into the night Monday, keeping streets open, and Tuesday morn ing every thoroughfare in the town was open, most .of them cleared away before work time. The merchants' group also vot ed that on occasions when holi days fell on Sunday, the Monday following would be observed. The first such observance, it is point ed out will be next July 4. Preliminary plans were discuss ed for the annual Merchants As sociation banquet which will be held on an undetermined date the latter part of the month Sirs, besTsie Harrison DIES AT BLOWING ROCKj Mrs. Bessie M. Harrison, 74, died February 6th at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Edgar Hart of Blowing Hock. Funeral services were conduct ed at the Presbyterian Church oft February 9th, at 2 p. m. by Rev. Mr. Harris and interment was in the Blowing Rock cemetery. Surviving are three daughters: Mr?. Edgar Hart, plowing Rock; Mrs. J. M. Barnett, Albany. Ga.; and Mrs. George Kuhay of St. Louis, Mo. There is one sister, Mrs. Rudolph Lang of New York City and one brother, James C. Simpson, Dallas, Texas. There are 5 grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren. EX- COWBOY SAVES DOG Great Falls, Mont. ? SeBng a collie dog caught in the current of the Missouri River, Patrolman Jack Peterson hurried to a near by store, got a lariat and tossed a loop expertly over the head of the struggling animal, bringing him safely to shore. Peterson is an excowboy. POIIO DRIVE - ENDED HERE Chairman Agle (Expresses Ap preciation to People for Aid Successful Campaign. In bringing the Watauga coun ty March of Dimes to a success ful close, R. E. Agle. director of the campaign, has commended the following persons for work during the three weeks of the :ampaign and in the work that preceded its opening on January 15: Mrs. Ruby Ellis. Mrs. Roy Kep lar, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Cot trell, A. E. Hamby, Mrs. Milton Greer, Rev. S. B. Moss. Mrs. Francis Teams Green, W. W. W. Chester. Grady Tugman. R. D. Hodges. Jr., Dr. Robert King, Rodgers Whitener, James Farth ing, John Howell, Ben Simpson, Mrs. Alice Robbins, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Beach, Gill Phillips, Olive Proffitt, Rob Rivers and Charlie Johnson, all of 6oone; Miss Ellen Coffey. Douglas Redmond and I. S. Miller, Blowing Rock: Rev. W, C. Leach, Valle Crucis. The quota set for Watauga County was $1675.00, and through the generosity of the people in the county this goal has not only been reached but exceeded by several hundred dollars. Mr. Agle has expressed his ap preciation for the fine coopera tion given him by the people of the county. A report of the funds raised in this and the last March of Dimes may be seen at the] County Library, College Library, Democrat office, or the Appalach ian Theatre. Following are the names of ad ditional March of Dimes contrib utors: Coce Creek Elementary School 45.00, Mr. and Mrs. W. H Gragg 2.00. W H McGee 1.00. Worthwhile Womans Club 5.00. W F Miller Jr. 2.00. Tommy Osborne 2.00, Carroll Food Center 2.00. Mr. and Mrs. Claude Town send 1.00. Hamby Music Co. 10.00. James L. Sherwood 2.00. Valle Crucis School] 12 30, Boone Consolidated School 14.45, Bamboo School 15.35. Lower Elk School 3.43. Coin Collector W. C. Leach 10.70. Allen Gragg 1.00 W D. Farthing 3.00. Carl D. Bingham 2 00. Boone Oil Co. 2.00. Mr. and Mrs. Raleigh Cottrell 10.00. Trailway Laun dry 10.00. Boone Steam Cleaners 5.00, A. S. T. C Book Room 25.00. Florence Boyd 1.00. Madeline McCain 5.00. A. J. Ragan 1.00. Claude Presnell 1 20, Howard Grafg 1.00. Rominger School 3 80. Bank Deposits Unaccounted For 16 86. Stony Fork School 6.80, Grand father School 7.20. Coreline Fox 1.00, Mr. and Mrs Paul Fox 5 00. E J. Abemethy 2.00. Blowing Rock Coin Collector 20 22. C. H Weedon 20 00. Norman C Cordon 10 00, I,aura W. Cone 1500. Blowing Rock School 100 000 MORE SNOW SEEN BY WEATHERMAN Information Wednesday morn iing is that more snow will come 'during the day, to add to the fall which blanketed Carolina Mon day and Tuesday, disrupting communications, closing schools, and doing vast damage in Pied mont and Eastern Carolina. Four or five inches of snow fell in Boone and environs Mon day and Monday night, but due to the diligence of city and State workers, local transportation was not seriously hampered. Tuesday brought the mercury up to the middle thirties, and most of the snow was melted from the scrap ed streets and highways. This morning the temperature iMt the freezing point, and overcast skies hold every promise of making good on the weatherman's pre dictions. WORLD DAT OP PRAYER World day of prayer will be held at the Grace Lutheran church, Priday e-enlng at 7:30. The entire community is invited and urged to take part in this world program. U. S. FORESTRY teENT TO HOLD AREA MEETINGS Forestry Education Consult ant of U. S. Forest Service To Hold Meetings arid Con ferences in Watauga, Start ing in Boone Monday. C. W. Mattison, forestry edu cation consultant, division of In formation and education of the U. S. Forestry Service, will be in Watauga county on February 15, 16, and 17 for a series of public meetings and conferences. He is brought into the county by the Resource-Use Committee of Ap palachian State Teachers College, of which J. C. Yoder of the col lege geography faculty is chair man. Mr. Mattison will speak on the subject of forest conservation education. Mr. Mattison will speak at the ASTC area committee meeting to be held in the Faculty Apart ments, Sunday evening, February 15, at 7:30. On Monday, Feb ruary 16, at 9:00 a. m.. he will speak at the Appalachian high school assembly. At 10:10 the same day he will speak to the college assembly, and at 1 1 :00 to the elementary school students in the college auditorium. At 1:40 p. m? he will be at the Blowing Rock high school to speak to the students, faculty and visitors. On Tuesday, February 17, Mr. Mattison 4rill speak at 9:15 a. m. to the regional geography classes at the college. At 11:00 he will be at the Cove Creek high school at Sugar Grove. And at 3:45 that afternoon he will address a meeting of the Appalachian col lege faculty. Mr. Mattison is a graduate of the Forestry School at Cornell University. He has worked in many sections .of the United States, including the Northeast, West, and South. Some of his ex perience was gained in Western North Carolina, with Waynes ville as headquarters. During the war he was in charge of the timber production war project in the State of Virginia. He is now with the Washington office of the forest service and is engaged exclusively in working with states, colleges and schools, to as sist them in their forest con servation education programs. He is a member of the advisory com mittee of the national committee on policies in conservation edu cation, and his work takes him into all parts of the country. The public is invited to all of Mr. Mattison's conferences, and school people especially are urg ed to attend. "N. C. Education" G^ts Recognition Dr. Amos Abramm. Formery of Boone. On* of Editors of Outstanding Periodical. Teachers of the State will be glad to know that their profess ional journal. North Carolina Ed ucation, has been chosen as the "Education Journal of the Month" for October, according to a re lease from Rural Editorial Ser vice. an evaluating agency of Chi cago. In choosing North Carolina Ed ucation for the month of October the critics wrote: "We were pleas ed by the way excellent photo graphs. the apt titling of articles, the pertinent and interesting blurbs and suhtitlei . the spright ly style in which most articles were written. We think it is an issue which teachers will want to read and more important, that they will be better teachers for having read it." Those responsible for the pro duction of the magazine are Mrs. Harlan Edwards, North Carolina Education Association executive, secretary and editor; Dr. W. Am os Abrams. associate editor; John G. Bikle, advertising manager; Miss Jean Branch, editorial assis tant and circulation manager and T. S. Ferree, Jr., consulting artist. BABY'S BIRTH CAUSES ? CAB CRASH Detroit, Mich. ? Receiving an emergency call to deliver a baby, be. John H.( Z*i|lcr had to aban don his automobile in an under pass when it stalled and hail a taxi. He called a mechanic, who failed to respond to the call, and the parked car was the cause of an eight-car collision at the underpass. Several cars were damaged but only one person was injured. I GOLD STAR MOTHER NATURALIZED High hand raised to take the oath, Mrs. Stella Lewandowtki, 51. of Lyndhurmt. N. J., a three-time gold star molhar, becomes an Am .erican dtisan. Har non-citlxen status was revealed whan sha triad to join tha sold star mothar's organisation which requlra* its mam bars to ba citisans. Tha widowad mother who lost three sons In World War II. wears tha three gold stars symbolic of har loss, pin ned to the front of her drees. ONE HOUR EXTRA Chairman Charlei W. Tobey (R.) oi New Hampshire, left, of the Senate banking committee, con fers with A FT, president William Green, who proposes that Ameri can labor increase Its work day by one hour at overtime rates. SHEEPMEN TO GATHER HERE Sheen Growers i>' Ashe. AI leehanv and Watauga to Meet in Boone. Raleigh. Feb. 10? E. H. Mat ? inolv nromirvnt shppp breeder and dealer of St. Louis. Mo., will be the principal speaker at a meeting of sheep growers of Ashe. Alleghany and Watauga counties to be held at 1 o'clock Saturday afternoon. Feb. 21. at the Watauga county courthouse in Boone. Plans for the meeting were an nounced here by Robert S. Curtis, livestock marketing specialist with the State Depart ment of Agriculture. Mr Mattingly will speak on "Western Crossbred Ewes for Re olacement Purposes." Afterwards there will be a round table dis cussion by farmers of their sheep problems. The State Department of Agri culture will be represented at the meeting by Mr. Curtis and Harry Hamilton, of Boone, who is also with the department's markets division. MRS. PANSY BELLE WHITE DIES IN FOUNTAIN CITY Mrs. Pansy Greeny White, 47, daughter of the late John Greene and Mrs. Naomi Wyke Greene ol Boone, died recently at the home in Fountain City. Term., and fu neral services and interment were in that community. ? The survivors include the hus band, W. M White, and the fol lowing sons and daughters: J. W. Lee. Creed. Roger and Fred White. Mrs. Zora Stout, Mrs, Margie Sims. Flora Mae, Lilla Belle White; two grandchildren, all of Knoxville; brother, Fred Greene, Bristol; four sisters, Mrs Letcher Teague, Boone; Misi Pearl Greene, Boone; Mr*. Alma Phillips, Harvey. W. Va.; Mrs Grace Pitta, Wheeler, N. C. BRITISH SOLON TO VISIT CITY Member of House of Com mons to Speak at College Through Lyceum Series. Honorable Rhys J. Davies, < member of Parliament, and pro- ' minent member of the British 1 Labor Party, will apeak at Appa- 1 lachian State Teachers College on 1 February 17 at eight o'clock in ' the evening. He Is brought to the campus through the college lyceum series. His subject will be "Peace or Perish." Mr. Davies is of Welsh paren tage. He has been successively, a farm laborer, coal miner, trade union official, member of the Manchester City council, presi dent of the Manchester and Sal ford labor movement, and mem ber of Parliament. He is con sidered an authority on social in surance, and has served as Under Secretary of State for home af-j fails, and as a member of Royal Commissions. In 1924 he was an official delegate to the Internat-I ional Labor Organization, and in 1930 an official delegate to the Icelandic Millenary Celebrations. From 1939 to 1945 he was chair man of the Parliamentary Peace| Aims Group of the House of Commons. He has been chairman of the British Group, Inter-Par - liamentary union of the House of Commons %nd secretary of the House of Commons Trade Union. He is one of the leading peace advocated in the British Parlia ment. Mr. Da vies, known as a fearless debater and first class orator, has lectured in the United States on six previous occasions. He has traveled extensively through twenty-six countries. The public is invited to hoar | Mr. Davies when he comes to lAppalachitn on February 17. OLD CLOTHING CANVASS SET ? ? ? ? ?'/*" Door-to-Door Collection of Clothing to Feature Relief Effort. O Friday 'morning February 20, will be featured by a door-to-door canvass of Boone for old cloth ing and other goods to be used for overseas relief purposes. Be sides clothing, bedding and shoes the overseas agency wants games kitchen utensils, tools, seeds, and many other items. Leaflet* will be distributed this week, listing all the items which can be used, and house holders are asked to have the ar tciles ready on the morning of the 10th. Those who can't be at home at that time are asked to leave their gifts on their porches, *nd they will be picked up. 'Watauga county has been an nounced as first in the state in the two fund-raising campaigns during the past month, and H is hoped that this generosity will continue in the overseas relief effort. BUILDING WILL START SOON AT APPALACHIAN New Power Plans, Laundry, First Steps in Building Program to Spend Two Mil lion Dollars at Local Insti tution; Starts ki Spring. The first phase of a two million dollar building program is sched uled to get under way this spring at Appalachian State Teachers College, according to an an nouncement made by President B. B. Dougherty. The first stages of the permanent improvement program will consist of the erec tion of a new power plant, laun dry, machine shop and garage. The State Budget Bureau has allotted $247,000 for the construc tion of these badly needed build ings. and construction will begin as soon as contracts can be let and the weather permits. The power plant, which will be erected on the site of the present plant, will boost skyward a brick stack thirteen and a half feet in diameter and one hundred and fifty feet high. A steam turbine engine of 1,000 horsepower will be installed, together with a boil er of the same power, to supple ment present equipment, thus al leviating all danger of a power shortage in this section at any time in the foreseeable future. The laundry building, which will also house the machine shop and garage, is to be a two-story structyre, 140 feet long and 80 feet wide and will extend from the south side of the present laundry, doubling its size and adding greatly to its capacity. Thp' 1947 legislature authoriz ed the expenditure of two million lollars for permanent improve ments at Appalachian College, and the time for the start of the program was left with the Gov ernor and the Council of State. Now, that the program is actual ly getting under way, it is ex pected to be pursued vigorously. When the complete project is finished adequate dormitory space will be provided, a new music and art building erected, new buildings constructed for the elementary demonstration school, and various other structures erec ted. AAA (STAKING LUKE ORDERS Eligible Farmers May Get Phosphate and Lime; Grass Seed Later. The Watauga County AAA Committee is now in a position to take orders for lime and phos phate. All fanners who have filed a complete performance report on practices carried out in 1947, and have also filed a worksheet for 1948, are now eligible to receive materials. Pasture jrass seed will be available soon. Farmers who wish lime or phosphate in the near future should call at the county AAA office for their or ders. "It is important that farmers get their phosphate early this year," Mr., Glenn, chairman of the AAA committee said today. "Af ter the usual run of commercial fertilizers gets into full swing, phosphate will likely be scarce. It is also important to get phos phate on your grass early in the spring in order to get the most pasture or hay during the grow ing season." W. C. Richardson To Head Red Cross Drive Mr, W. C. Richardson, assis tant county agent, has been named fund campaign chairman for Red era's in Watauga county, replacing Mr. Clyde R. Greene who has served in this capacity for the past seven years. "LOST" SHAKE Grand Rapids, Mich. ? It was with a sigh of relief that visitors and employes at the Grand Rapids Museum learned that ? 2 1-2-foot baby boa constrictor, "lost" for ten days, had bean found. The snake, presented to the museum by a wholesale trait house after it had been found in a bunch of bananas, escaped from ?a cardboard bojfein the curator's office. After a ten day search, during which nervous visitors and employes peered under chairs and kept a wary eye on coats and hats, the "baby" was found under a stack of boxes.
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