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An Independent Weekly Newspapcf^-Kwtabliahed in the Year 1688
VOL. LXl, NO. 4.
SPPHHESS
BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, ? JULY 22, 16#8.
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KING STREET
BY
ROB RIVERS
THE STREET has temporarily
departed from its uaual small talk
and neighborly gossip, to the el
ection of president's, the seething
international situation . . . and
the question of just how long it
is likely to be . . . (regardless of
the Truman-Dewey battle) . ,
before we're in an all-out shoot
ing war once again . . . But since
most of the folks hereabout are
inclined to admit their incapacity
as regards the greater of the two
problems . . . cohversation has
line politics in its relation to the
changing world. . . . specifically
as to whether the Democratic
party is busted to the extent of
losing Its identity in the years to
come, or whether it will again
someday build a bigger and larg
er house amidst its present ruins.
... or just how general will be
the second cecession of the South.
EIGHTY EIGHT YEARS AGO.
lht Democratic party was lorn
asunder by iht issue of slavery.
This year negro equality is the
spark plug of the Southern re
volt as President Truman, the
party's standard bearer, by the
almost unanimous vote of all
except the Southern States, re
fuses to abandon his battle fox
so-called civil rights . . . Fact
is. Wallace on the extreme left
and the South on the extreme
right, are working hand in
hud to make certain the elec
tion of Thomas E. Dewey, whom
moat of the prophets say, would
inhabit tbe White Houae for a
spoil, even if the two splinter
parties, would be good boys, go
borne and be quiet 1
IN THIS AREA, where i
erate symapthy wasn't
in tfye war between the states*,
feeling is not quite so high
the war of sectional politics as
is in the deep South, where,
full force of the
era spent its devastating :
the Democrats are riled, &
many of them . . . and i
them appear plumb willing for tbe
Democratic party to go back to
being a sort of Southern frater
nity, as in the days of yore . . .
we could force the nomination of
Bryan again and again . . . when
Jimmie Cox,. John W. Davis and
othfers could vbe nominated .after
long and spirited oratory, get the
vote of the South, to the excluaJ
ion ef those-in the east and west
who had sought to make of the
Democratic party a vehicle of the
common people . .... There are
others who just cuss -Harry and
don't say whether they will run
out of the party, or stay around
a while longer, but anyway there
is a rather general dissatisfaction
. . . Out of the discord, though,
some strong voices are heard in
defense of Truman, and a few
are tolerable mad at the Southern
revolters, who run out on the
convention, "just 'cause they
couldn't control it" . . . others see
in Truman a revitalized execu
tive, standing by his guns and
courageously fighting for a con
tinuation of the Roosevelt poli
cies . . . and through all the gos
sip, the Republicans happy as jay
birds in June . . . small wonder,
for after a long losing streak they
are about to cash in the chips . .
Doubtless,, have the jobs picked
out . . . and they don't have to
exert themselves . . . The Dem
ocrats are making certain their
former opponents can't again hold
a couple of duces against a
straight flush.
THE NORTH CAROLINA
delegation li being praised by
many for sailing tight. Toting
against civil rights, abiding br
tba results, and be having like
Southern gentlemen . . . and
prospects for the Democracy
are more favorable. . . . Many
see a repetition of 1MB . . "his
tory is- repeating" they say . .
Hopefuls assent with observa
tion, "remember what happen
ed four years later?" . . . and
on and on. like the flowing
brook, we sngsgs la the great
American game of politics
unmindful of the forces which
erican system ... No better
lin than that there are now four
parties seeking control of this
government . . . The more of the
splinter parties produced . . .
the qukke* our tall! . . . and
seme of the wise guys say It
wen"! be long at the beat . . .
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CONGRATULATIONS to Miss
Rachel Am Vance upon her dee
(Continued on pafe 4)
TRAITOR GETS LIFE TERM
Robert H. BmL SS-TMZ-old newspaper man (center) wu gvnte ne
ed to life Uapirl? ntnewt and fined $10,000 in Federal Court. Bos
ton. by Judge Francis Ford, for treason. because of bis Nazi proad
casts during tba war. Ha is shown in custody of U. S. deputy mar
shals. following tha passing of tha judgment
"Miss Watauga County"
Chosen at Beauty Show
SPEAKER
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Dr. I. G. Gran, hsod of th* bus
iness Uuttlul* at the University
of North Carolina, who will b?
the speaker (t th* annual meet,
lag of tho Manrrhaals' XtsocUHon
to bo h*U Thnndit evening of
this l
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J. Oscar Cooke
Dies From Stroke
J. Oscar Cooke, 65 years old,
died at Watauga Hospital Satur
day morning. Death was attribu
ted to a stroke suffered a week
previously, from which he was
never able to rally.
Mr. Cooke, a native Wataugan,
had lived in Tennessee, Florida,
and Colorado, before returning to
Boone several years ago, where
he had since been engaged in the
woodworking business.
Mr. Cooke was a member of the
Baptist Church at Bluff City, Ten
nessee, and the funeral rites were
held there Sunday at 2 o'clock by
the pastor of the church, inter
ment being in tbe Mountain View
cemetery there.'*'
He is survived by one son, J.
O. Cooke, Jr., of Boone, and two
sisters, Mrs. J. G. Cooke, Boone;
Mrs. C. C. Pennell, Morristown,
Tenn. There is one brother, Law
rence C. Cooke, Denver, Colo.
Edwin Troutman
To Direct Band
Edwin Troutman, son of Rev.
and Mrs. E. F. Troutman, has
been selected tor the position, of
band director in the city schools
of Canton, N. C. He will assume
his duties in Canton the latter
part of August after receiving
his degree in mathematics and
music at the summer com
mencement.
Mr. Troutman has assisted
with the local high school b?pd
for the past two years and for the
last school term he organized
and directed tee Mt. City, Tenn.
high school bond. His popularity
with the people with whom he
has worked has proven his
ability for the field which he
has chosen. , I
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Miss Rachel Ann Vance Gets
Title As Throngs View
Many Entrants.
Miss Rachel Ann Vance was se
lected as "Miss Watauga County"
in the beauty contest held last
Thursday night at the Appalach
ian Theatre. Thirty-seven girls,
sponsored by local merchants, en
tered the contest in which Miss
Vance placed first and Miss Bar
bara Jones second.
Mrs. R. T. Buchanan, pianist,
placed first in the Amateur con
test with Donald and His Quacks
running a close second by popu
lar acclaim from the audience.
Other entrants were Tommy
Winkler, Nell Norris, Jimmy
Mast, Mickey Casey and Mary
Sue Walsh.
The Amateur Hour and Beauty
Contfett were sponsored by the
Worthwhile Club in cooperation
with the theatre management
The theatre was filled to capacity
and the audience expressed great
enjoyment of the program which
was presided over by Howard
Cottrell as master of ceremonies.
The Club wishes to express ap
preciation to all who helped to
make the event such an outstand
ing success.
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Businessmen Aid
In College 'York
A number of local business men
have taken time from their duties
to cooperate in a very active way
with Appalachian College during
the past term of summer school.
One instance of this help has been
demonstrated in a course taught
by Professor Leo K. Pritchett in
Personal Finance.
During the six weeks term the
following local business people
appeared before the class to talk
on some phase of their respective
businesses, specifically as refer
red to personal finance*
J. R. Craven of the Craven Fur
niture Co., who spoke on install
ment buying; Bill Dameron who
very generously gave permission
for the class to make a personal
tour of the Boone Frozen Foods
plant, and L. T. Tatum, who act
ed as the class's educational guide
through the plant; Frank Payne,
who spoke on insurance; Watt H.
Gragg, who spoke on the various
phases of building and loan fi
nance; J. E. Holshouser, who talk
ed on Making a Will; and Miss
Madge Rhyne of the college home
economics department, who spoke
on Consumer Buying of Foods.
Mr. Pritchett says that these
talks by the local experts gave a
very practical aspect to the course
'and he and the class expressed
their appreciation for this evi
dence of interest and cooperation
on the part of the local business
firms.
Bayonne, N. J ^-Thieves who
broke into the cellar of Bennie
Olszewski, tavern keeper, where
he stores his case beer, drank
four bottles of the brew before
deciding to remove two eases of
a wall-known brand. Olszewski
[keeps his beer in three separate
sheds and the guzzlers broke in
to each of them before deciding
upon the beer they preferred.
MANY CHANCES
BEING MADE AT
APPALACHIAN
Local College Alms to Offer
Better Preparation to the
Teachers' in Advance of the
New CertiflBlon Law Ef
fective in ImV
The receipt of the regular
rear catalogue of Appalachian
State Teacher? college reveals a
lumber of 'Ipffrtnt changes,
ill designed tonetter prepare
teachers for theb- professions,
ind to improve ttie teaching in
:he public schools.
The requirements for certifi
:ation in North Carolina are be
ing changed in 1950- The Appa
lachian curricula; have been
changed to meet' the new re
quirements and, although it will
not affect the certification of the
graduates for ne*t year, those
who are certified/ after Septem
ber 1, 1949, will*' have to meet
the new requirements.
One of the most important
curriculum changes in the cata
logue is the listing of a new
full-year course in education
called "The School." Concentrat
ed study will be given in the
fall quarter to Organization and
Administration, in the winter
quarter to The Program of In
struction, and in the . spring
quarter to Principles, Methods,
Materials and techniques. The
work is so planhed that those
preparing for primacy work
will be in one gitoup, those pre
paring for grammar grade work
in another group, knd those pre
paring for high school work in
still another gron.
Another important addition to
the curriculum is a course in
psychology called 'The Child."
The fall term will study the
Physical and Mental Develop
ment of the Child; the winter
term, "The Learning Process;
ind the spring term, Motivation
and Adjustment. B i o 1 o g i c,a 1
social and emotional influences
relating to tke child's growth,
guidance in learning school sub
jects, measuring the results of
learning, and general personality
trends and mental hazards of the
school child will be studied in
detail.
Courses in Personal, Com
munity and Child Hygiene will
be required of every graduate.
All these changes are being
made so that practical problems
of ?> any school room may be
studied in detail^ and practical
solutions arrived at.
Examination of the catalogue
shows a greater concentration of
content work on the general
education level than was former
ly the case. The department of
business education will no longer
offer a one-year course, but will
offer work for a degree. How
ever, students may register for
special courses in this depart
ment if they so desire.
Comprehensive examinations
for those who expect to do
student teaching will be resumed
this ydar. This requirement was
waived during the war years, tq
help, in some measure, to take
care of the emergency teacher
shortage. Students will be re
quired to present Il98 quarter
hours for graduation, instead of
194 as previously required. No
student is graduated who does
not maintain a "C" average.
Appalachian has made no
changes in its expenses for the
coming year.
The main items in the fall
term calender are as follows:
Freshman orientation program
begins 10:00 a. m., Tuesday,
September 14. Freshman tests,
10:00 a. m., Wednesday. Fresh
man registration begins 8:20 a.
m., Thursday,- September 16.
Transfer students orientation,
2:00 -p. m., Thursday, September
16. Freshman classes begin 8:20
a. m., Friday. Upperclass regis-,
trntion begins 8:20 a. m., Friday,
September 17. Upperclass classes
begin $:20 a. m., Saturday, Sept
ember 18.
PREMATURE EXHIBIT
o i. ill water, Okla. ? Jimmy
Hoke, fireworks merchant, got
rid of all his stock of fireworks
two days before the Fourth. A
hired boy at the fireworks stand,
without a knife to cut the heavy
string around a bundle of fire
crackers, tried t* burn it through
with a match. Result ? an ex
plosion of all the' firecrackers.
Roman candlee, sky rockets, pin
wheels and miscellaneous fire
works in the shop.
FRANCE AND U. S. SHAKE
French foreign minister. Georges Bidault. left, shakes bends with
U. S. Ambassador. Jefferson Cafferr. right, after the ligning of the
bilateral agreement of the ERP, In Paris. ERP Ambassador. Arerell
Har, iXin. center, looks on.
Agricultural Fair Is To
Be Held In September
FAIR MANAGER
H. Ondr Farthing, who has b?n
named Managar of lha Blua Ridga
Agricultural r air, which la lo ba
hald In Boona Saptambar 1S-H.
Local Band in
Outdoor Concert
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The Appalachian Summer
School Band will present an out
door concert Friday evening,
July 23 at seven o'clock on the
lawn of the campus in front of
the Administration building. In
the event bf rain the concert will
be given in the college audi
torium.
This concert wall be conducted
by two guest conductors, Mr.
Nicholas Ernes ton who h*s re
cently been added to the' music
faculty and Mr. Russell Blanton,
director of bands at Henderson
ville, N. C.
Mr. Ernegton came to Appala
chian at the beginning of the
summer term and will be a per
manent member of the music
staff as teacher of violin and
organizer and director of orch
estral work.
Mr. Blanton is doing graduate
jvork at Appalachian and he is
a member of the summer music
staff, teaching beginning in
strument classes.
The program for Friday even
ing will include Stephen Foster
"Rhapsody", "Chimes of Peace",
"Cabins" an American Rhapsody,
"Embraceable You", "Stars and
Stripes" March, and the march
"El Capitan."
Scarborough To Speak
to Farm Loan Meeting
Julian H. Scarborough, presi
dent of the Federal Land Bank
and the Production Credit Cor
poration of Columbia, will ad
dress the annual meeting of the
members of the North Wilkes
boro National Farm Loan Asso
ciation, being held in the town
hall at North Wilkes boro next
Friday, July 23, beginning at 10 1
a. no. 1
Mr. Scarborough has been the
president of the Land Bank since 1
1934 during which time the bank 1
and the association have made the
greatest progress In their 30-year
history.
TOO EFFICIENT
, Rock Island, 111. ? Firemen
were a little to efficient recent
ly to suit the Dalkoff Iron and
Metal Company. The firm was
burning an old automobile and a
passerby, seein^the fire, turned
in an alarm. The firemen had ex
tinguished the blaae before com
pany officiate could tell them
they wanted to burn the ear.
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Grady Farthing to Manage En
larged County Fair; Offi
cers Are Named.
The Blue Ridge Agricultural
Fair, which was discontinued af
ter the 1941 exhibition, due to
war conditions, is to come back
this year, bigger and better than
ever before, it was learned Mon
day, when the fair association was
reorganized and preliminary plans
made for holding the big event
9n September 15 to 18.
H. Grady Farthing was selected
by members of the board of direc
tors as general manager of the
fair, and is already engaged in
working out plans for the teir,
Ivhich is indicated, will be the
most comprehensive exhibition, of
farm products and livestock ever
to be held tn the northwestern
mountains.
K- Robert G. Shipley, was named
president of the lair association,
the other officers being: Ernest
Hillard. vice-president, Barnard
Dougherty, Secret*^' fendl Clyde
R. Greene, treasurer. -
The board of directors is as fol
lows: H. .G. Shipley, tt. Grady
Farthing, .Clyde R. Greens, Em*
est Hillard, Barnard Qougherty,
S. C. Eggers, A Smith, |0b
Betty Matheson, Gordon Wlnfctet
W. H. Gragg, L. E. Tuckwiller.
The original burley warehouse
will be used as the exhibition' hall
and the fair will feature every
thing produced on Watauga farms,
flower-shows, and many miscel
laneous exhibits. -The premium
list will contain $1,000 in prize
money to distribute among those
who make entries under the. fol-|
lowing, tnd perhaps other, de
partments:
Field crops, farm and garden,
fruits, canning, dairy cattle, beef
cattle, culinary, flowers, home op
iary, swine, horses, mules, poul
try, 4-H club exhibits, home dem
onstration booth.
Superintendents of the various
departments will be selected at a
later meeting.
Great interest in the fair is be
ing shown by the people from all
sections of the county, and the
manager and other officials will
greatly appreciate the cooperation
Of all the people in the effort.
It is stated that plans call foi
many amusement features for ad
ults and children, but that nc
gambling concessions will be al
lowed.
Mrs. German is
Taken by Death
Mrs. Marie Snyder German, 23,
of Tamarack died Friday at the
home from what is believed to
have been a cerebral hemorrhage.
She died 30 minutes after the at
tack.
Funeral rites were held Sunday
at Elk Knob Baptist Church by
Rev. Noah Johnson, the pastor,
and interment was in the Main
cemetery.
The mother, Mrs. Alma Snyder
of Tamarack, survives, and one
son, Junior.
FINDS MILLIONS
WORTHLESS
Los Angeles ? H L. Cutler,
45-year-old mailman, found a
leather case. In it was a check
for $8,060,916. He took it to a
nearby bank, where ? girl mes
senger arrived to claim it A
Federal Reserve official said the
check waa non negotiable, a
routine draft for transferring
funds from a Bank of America
branch to the Federal Reserve
Bank.
GENERAL JOHN
J. PERSHING IS
LAID TO REST
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"Black Jack" Pershing Laid
To Rest Among Bodies of
IMen He Commanded in the
First World War; Famous
Soldier was 87 Tears Old.
Washington ? General John J.
Pershing was laid to rest Mon
day on the summit of a- tree
shrouded slope, surrounded by
the graves of men he command
ed from the jungles of the phillp
Dines to the borders of Imperial
Germany.
A reverent hush fell over the
generals, the cadets and the
buck privates standing at at
tention in Arlington National
Cemetery as the army's chief of
chaplains, Major General Luther
D. Miller, intoned the last words:
"The march of another sol
dier is ended, his battles are all
fought and all won, and he Ilea
down to rest while awaiting the
bugle's call."
It was the end of the trail for
"Black. 4 Jack" Pershing, who
died list Thursday at the age of
87, heavy with honors and al
ready something of a gray leg
end to a younger generation
which still thrills to the names
of Belleau Wood and Chateau
Thierry.
And President Truman Joined
with heads of the armed force*
in a vast and impressive tribute
to the old general, who led the
first American Expeditionary
Force to victory in World War
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Nearly half a million people
lined the streets of Washington
to see Pershing's coffin drawn
by six perfectly matched gray
horses through a downpour of
rain from the nation's Capitol to
the peaceful cemetery across the
Potomac.
The funeral cortege was a
mile long. To the throb of muf
fled drums and the strains of
haunting marches, it marched
the whole four and one-third
miles while a flight of eight
f-80 jet fighters roared over
head? a sight tindreamed of
4rhen John J. Pershing was born
fit 1890.
AUen Pitts Dies in
Train-Auto Crash
Allen Pitts, 28, resident of the
Stalls Mills section Wft* killed;
and a companion was injured last
Wednesday afternoon \*hei? the
automobile in which they were
riding was struck by' east bound
Southern railway passenger train
no. 22 at a grade crossing In the
eastern edge of Hickory. -
Pitts, a native Wataugan, and
a veteran of the last war, was an
employee of the Shuford Mills at
Hickory and a student at Southern
vocational school. He was pro
nounced dead upon arrival at the
Hickory hospital, but the condi
tion of his companion, Jack Starr
of Catawba county, was said to
be favorable.
Starr was quoted as saying that
Pitts was driving the car when
it was struck by the Diesel drawn
passenger train at the crossing.
Funeral services were conduct
ed at the Poplar Grove Baptist
Church Friday afternoon by Rev.
R. C. Eggers, Rev. W. C. Payne,
and Rev. Mr. Trivett and burial
was in the family cemetery. Full
military honors were paid at the
graveside by Watauga Post Am
erican Legion.
Surviving are the widow and
four children: his father, Oliver
Pitts of Lenoir, and a number of
brothers and sisters.
Joseph Efier, 74,
Succumbs al Vilas
Joseph Nicholas Eller, 74, died
at the home at Vilas Monday eve
ning, following an extended ill
ness.
The funeral was conducted on
Wednesday afternoon at the For
est Grove Baptist Church by Rev.
R. C. Eggers and Rev. Lawrence
Hagaman, and interment was in
the church cemetery.
The widow, Mrs. Florence el
ler, survtvea^rlth five ions and
five daughtm: Donald, WUlard.
Oscar and Newton Eller, Vilas;
ffm. Eller, Mountain City, Term.;
Mr*. Dean Winebargwr, Vilas;
Mrs. Gray Hartley, Mrs. Fre Bart
lay, Boone; Mrs. J. N. Blackburn
and Mrs. Wed ProttHt, Mountain
City, Tenn.