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Our Early Filet Of i, mi . J. C. Mast is now encaged fa) tf-pn?tlin and re- wiring hii telephone system in the village. Richard ML Greene left for Ashnrllle Sunday afternoon to consult a specialist about a very annoying throat trouble with which he has been suffering for some time. John S. Williams, wtvo has a position in the North Carolina Legislature, spent a few days with his family on New River, leaving on his return to Raleigh Tnaaday aftcrnwvJL.. Mr. John Mac Holland of Gas tenia, and Miss Alice Boyden of Hickory were married in the Episcopal church in Hickory on February 22. The bride was born and reared in Boon e, and has many friends here who wish for bar much happiness. During the cold snap last week Jease F. Robbins succeeded in Setting a large ioe house well filled, while the balance of our people, waiting for a better har vest, are now almost sure to go through the seaacn with empty ioe houses. Attorney E. S. Coffey is in Raleigh this week, looking after the Interests of the Watauga Railway Company before the Legislature. The company will lose its charter unless active work ia begun on the road with in three months, and Mr. Coffey is trying to get an extension of time for beginning the work, which if necessary, we trust he may secure. Our old friend, W. W. Presnell, a maimed Confederate veteran, was a caller at our office last Friday, and while here remarked, "Forty-seven years ago today I lost my arm in a skirmish at Buz zard Roost, Ga." Although near ly 75 years of age, he is still in fairly good health, and is think ing of going on a visit to his son. George Presnell, in the State of Washington, in the near future. According to a booklet just is sued by the Secretary of State, Charlotte had 190 licensed auto mobiles owned by private parties on June 30, 1910, this number not including the stock cars held by the several dealers and gar ages in the .city. The Chronicle says there is no doubt but that there are now more than 200 automobiles in Charlotte. The county of Avery, which is no. 100 in the sisterhood of North Carolina counties, has been form ed by an almost unanimous vote of the Legislture, and the pro moters of the new county scheme, with those employed, are to be congratulated upon achieving such a very signal victory, when the pressure in Watauga, at least, was so heavy against it. On the 4th day of next May, the people included in the strip to be taken from Watauga, will be given a vote to ascertain whether or not they desire annexation, and il they decide to remain with the mother county, the portions of Mitchell, Caldwell and Burke, set forth in the bill, will constir tute the new county. Of course the fight over the Waauga terri We are professional worriers We take in worries, the way a laundry takes in washing. The chief function of insur ance ia to enable you to dismiss fears of disasters. If fire, wind ?r explosion damage or destroy your home, or if you hit some body with your car and are sued ?you know you'll be saved from tfnanrlal rain by insurance. There an a dozen other fears from which well-planned insur lan oui free you. Let us tell yea about new inexpensive com i Fore coverages SPECIALISTS IN: Cwiplsta Automobile Innrno Hospitalisation If n 1th Acddmi Lite Public LUbfflty Watauga Insurance Agency JERRY COE, Manager Phones: Day 504W, Night S31j| P. O. Box 1SS St - Boone, W. C| BELLE OF THE BALL . . . Shir Icy Rhode* selected the beach kali tnihblc I* pose n SI. Petersburg, Kla., sanaa. Shirley to Uda rear's Miss Flori da, which makes her M run-of the mill hnck jtesolr. tory will be a hard one, and bow it will turn out when it come* to a vote of the people remains to be seen. If annexed to the -new county, we are told by Capt Lovill, who was one of the strong advocates of the bill be fore the Legislature, that the people embraced in the strip will still be responsible for their part of Watauga's bonded debt, and when added to the bonds that will necessarily have to be voted in the new county, will make a rather high tax rate for them. But their will shall be our plea sure. |Man Markets Corn * For $4 a Bushel A Johnston County farmer, Harold Peedin of Route 3, Selma, has learned how to market his surplus corn for $4 a bushel. Ana, according to L. I. Case, in charge of animal husbandry work for the State College Ex tension Service, there is nothing I unlawful or secretive about the| procedure he is using. Peedin decided a year or so iago that he would not put his eggs in one basket. He decided to put part of his land in pasture and feed crops and give beef cattle a trial as a sideline to his cash-crop farming. He started a small breeding herd after his pastures were established, and last fall, having a surplus of corn, he bought 10 yearling steers. He grazed the steers for a few weeks and put them in the feed lot where they were fed corn, balanced witn cotton seed meal and home grown hay. Giving $30 per ton credit for the hay, and charging actual cost for cotton seed meal, Peedin figures he received more than $4 per bushel for the corn which the steeiy ate. In addition, he estimates that he kept at least $50 worh of manure on his farm rather than selling this much fertility. Peedin is well satisfied with the result of this feeding ven ture, Case says, and he plans to feed cattle again this year. TB PATIENTS The Veterans Administration has reported that up to 6,000 tu bercular war veterans a year are walking out on their hospitaliza tion. As the great majority of the runaways" are in far advanced stages of the disease, they thus represent a considerable potential menace to the public. Carl R. Gray, Jr., Veterans Administra tor, reports that 5.7 per cent of the 547,697 patients' dispositions from veterans' hospitals during the 1948-49 year were irregular discharges ? walkouts ? and that of the latter, one-fifth were tuberculosis patients. CARRIERS TO PACIFIC The Navy is adding two car riers to its Pacific striking force by making use of one carrier which had been scheduled for a long re-building layup and by moving another escort carrier from relatively minor duty on the east coast into regular Pacific 'duty. The move will bring Paci fic carrier strength to five. Were man to live coeval with the sun, The patriarch pupil would be learning still. ? Young. Hospitalization One out of every average family becomes rick or in jured each year. Every day approximately 35,000 per sons become hospital pa tients for the first time. DELLS, BILLS, BILLS!" Did you know that in order to pay a $100 Hospital Bill that you must eaip $1,000? If yon have no Hospital iza tlon see JERRY COE 217 Mala St - Boone, N. C Says Cigarette Claim* Some Firms Untrue Washington ? The maker of one low-priced cigarette testifi ed last wee)c that claims of some tobacco firms are "nonsense." Another said blindfolded smok ers, couldn't tell one brand from another. They made the statements be* (ore the Rouse Ways and Means Committee is support of a bill by Rep. Hale Boggs, (D., La.) to tax low-priced cigarettes less than the standard brands. Boggs asked Stephen C. Stephano, vice - president of Step ha no Brothers, Inc., makers of Marvels, about cigarette ad vertisement claims that one brand "will cure my sure throat" Another cigarette is advertised as being made of nothing but the finest tobacco, be said. "Is all that true?" Boggs asked. "It's nonsense, sir," Stephano replied. 1 Addison Y. Yeaman, of Brown and Williamson Co., makers of Wings and Avalons, told the committee: "I don't believe any smoker, if blindfolded, can tell (identify) any brand." , Their comments prompted Chairman Robert L. Dough ton (D., N. C.), to offer this advice: If you want to cut into the busi ness of the big cigarette makers, you have to make a better cigar ette. "We are making a good cig arette," replied Yeaman. "Ours are as good as any." Spokesmen for tobacco grow er* testified against the Boggs propose!, which would give the economy brand cigarettes s tax advantage of two cents per pack. All cigarettes now carry a Fed eral tax of 7 cents per pack. Harry B. Caldwell, master of the North Carolina State Orange and himself a tobacco grower, said in a prepared statement: "Our members are opposed to any change in the consumer ex cise taxes on cigarette*, design ed to promote the use of some particular brand. "It is our contention that a uni form tax on cigarettes does not discriminate against any brand If there was no excise tax on Cigarettes, all brands would compete equally. The applica tion of a unform consumer excise tax does not change the competi tive relationship. TOBACCO With the marketing of flue cured tobacco, which accounts for more than half of the dom estic crop, almost completed, the Agriculture Department esti mates that growers would get about $53Q, 000,000 for their 1949 crop of about 1,130,000,000 pounds. This would be about (10,000,000 ? some two per cent less than they were- paid for the 1948 crop of 1,820,000,000 pounds. FAST-GROWING HERD Bakersville, Md. ? The dairy herd of John L. Cave increased recently by leaps and bounds. One of his cows presented him with twin heifer calves and, a few hours later, another cow gave birth to a heifer and a bull. Pork, Spud., Eggs Top List of Foods Pork. Irish potatoes, and eggs will be among the best food burs for Southern consumers in March. Miss Betty Matheson, home demonstration agent for the State College Extension Ser vice, said this week. These items, she explained, are the top trio on the U. S. Depart ment of Agriculture's monthly plentiful foods list. Eggs, she pointed out, set a production re cord in January, and liberal quantities are to be found on all retail markets. Pork, of course, has been plentiful for several months and current hog market ings are still heavy enough to keep consumers supplied with tasty and economical pork cuts. Irish potatoes usually move into the plentiful class in the spring, and this year is no exception. Miss Matheson said. March also will bring a wider variety of fresh vegetables to Southern markets, with carrots, cabbage, beets, and lettuce rated plentiful, along with Irish pota toes. Other good buys will' in clude canned corn and canned lima beans, she reported. Fruits suggested for March shopping lists include apples, canned peaches, raisins, and dri ed prunes. The home agent said chickens ? broilers, fryers, an? hens ? fish, manufactured dairy products, and dry beans were ex pected to be in plentiful 3upply on Southern markets in March. DEMOCRAT ADS PAY! f AIDED BY BOYS' PBHNIE8 Bloomington, 111. ? When fire destroyed the shack in which John Branaman, 80, lived alone, he escaped with only the clothes on his back. Three sympathetic snail boys went from house to bouse, collecting a purse far Old John, which added up to ar few pennies less thea $14. j ' HXS LOCK HELD Waterloo, Iowa? Whan the gas tank on tha snow plow Duaae More lock, SO, was using aiplod ed, Morelock was thrown through the windshield and in1 front of tM menacing blade. However, tha same explosion burned an igni tion wire, thus halting tha tor ward motion of the plow. FUEL OIL .... KIROSBNK \ fiSSO PRODUCTS r. d. HODOEs. jr_ mititnii dmIm Boom. It. C. Day Phooa 1} Might Phon* Ml J We are Boone's exchnhe Dealers for STAR BRAND ALL LEATHER SHOES for every member of the family. HUNT S DEPARTMENT STORE BOONE. NORTH CAROLINA i the quality HQ Before you look at that amazingly low price tag, look at Ford's "Fashion Car" styling. It's more beautiful than ever. Run your finger over the baked-on enamel. It's "built to live out doors." Feel the long-lived upholstery. Look where you wW? you'll see Ford's quality. quality Ride herd on Ford's 100 -horsepower V-8 engine. Sure, Ford's the liveliest power in its field, yet it never raises its voice. New super fitted pistons, new "hushed" timing gear, new camshaft for quiet valve action and Ford's new silent-spin fan result in power thpt whispers while it works. "TUT DRIVE" TMI "30 FORD At YOUR FORD DIALIR'S It will optt your my?I ualrty Feel Ford's easy "Finger-Tip" Steering . . . fee) lite 35% easier action of King-Size Brakes . . . get the solid "feel" of Ford's 13- way stronger " Lifeguard" Body now "sound conditioned** for sflence. Feature after feature wiU show "you why Ford's the one Km car in the low price field. Winkler Motor Company DOOIP>| n. U Phone 69 Fimd Fashion Academy Selects Ford ' as "Fashion Car" Again This Year!
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