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* An Independent Weekly Newspaper ? Established in the Year 1888 BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1950 VOL. LXIII- NO. 6. KING STREET BY ROB RIVERS ALFRED ADAMS, the new cashier down at the Northwest ern Bank, had a pretty tirm hold on the note case, and a rather (rim look on his face as long lines of customers waited to renew their notes, borrow a bit more, ask about the current interest rates, or just plain pass the time of day right at the wrong time . . . And we were silently map ping a plan of attack on the busi ness end of the local banking in stitution when Lawyer L. H. Smith called our attention to the fact that Mr. Adams had moved a larger desk into the ante room, where the notes are signed and the interest figured out, and the past due notices mailed to those who didn't come across . . . Sure enough, Mr. Farthing's well worn desk, which always looked far too small, had given way to one much larger . . . We chided the new cashier about the ex panded oaken surface, as he thumbed through tbe notes, selected a nice fat one, and made a calculation . s . Lawyer Smith wondered just why the old desk had so quickly been outgrown . . . Mr. Adams smiled broadly: ? ? ? "YOU KNOW." he Mid. there U a quotation fiooi Hambone which tits the situation at hand; 'Give a little man a littla authority around a big place, and pretty soon ha's crampad for rootnl" . . And those wait ing smiled and the genial bank er settled back down to his notes and his interest figures, and the serious business of say ing yes and no to the various persons who came by the desk to seek a bit of cash, or to ask advice, or to say they just didn't know what the heck to dot ? ? ? WATAUGA DEMOCRAT comes forth today from a brand new press, the fourth to publish the local newspaper during its sixty-two years of continuous publication, and we look back to the old days when a tiny sheet was regularly printed on the old Washington hand press by the late Robert C- Rivers, Sr. . . . Ii This old machine which still is I used at the Democrat for proof ing purposes was manufactured by R. Hoe and Co. about the year 1845, and had seen 43 years of service when it was hauled from Hickory across the rutted mountain to Boone in the year I 1888 . . . One year later Bob Rivers began the publication of the newspaper and for more than 24 years worked the old hand lever, the movement of his feet having twice worn through the pine, boards of the floor iji the old building ... In fact Bob Rivers was an expert at running the old machine, and Josephus Daniels. Sr., used to chide him about his claim that he had been able to produce 200 impressions per hour on the crude machinc . . . Daniels said it just wasn't done in his day. ? ? ? SL ~1 DOIfT KNOW." wrote Mr. Daniels, "whether or not Bob family has a coat' 'of arms ? at any rate it should * hare, and I would suggest that tho craat carry in relief a Wash ington hand press rampant, the nam* 'Rivers', and underneath in gilded letters "200 Per Hour." ? ? e AT ANY RATE, the old press was used until 1913, when Bob Rivers bought a tiny cylinder press, which could manage a couple of six-column pages at the rate of seven or eight hund red per hour . . . Sears Roebuck and Co. supplied a one horse power gas engine, and indeed the cup of the venerable publisher runneth over . . . There being no gasoline sold around town in those days, the late Walter J. Lenoir, in the hardware busi ness across the hlU, sent us over a five gallon can of gas, and a gallon of motor oil, which lasted quite a spell for the circulation of that day . . . The little mach ine, chronicled the first world war, the coming of the railway to Boone, and the Initial expan sion at the Appalachian College In 1922, the big Babe: J; drum was placed in operation, when it finished its grind down I at (he Gastonia Gazette, and since that time has unfailingly produced the local newspaper through thick and thin, fair weather and foul, and will soon be moved away to take up the grind again on another sheet . .* . The old press covered the local happenings df the roaring twen ties, the A1 Smith campaign, the depression, the Roosevelt ttm, th* : eiond W4rj4hd the wonders of the machine age ... It Mid :f the death of Bob River* and bis wife, who operated the newspap er for act long, o I Owe growth Of the t*?n into, a small cftjr. 6f the tossing along of such faithfuls os Capt LoVilL M. R Blaekhiirn, K. & Coffey. D. t>. Dougherty. Crack Council, W. L. Bryan, M THE MEW GOBS COX-O-TYPE PRESS, upon which tha Watauga Damocral b baing printad for tha tint iima today. J .. .. IIP' '<?*? -? - **** "? ? ' ? ? ? " 1 MRS. MINTON Mrs. Minton, Watauga Pioneer, Dies At 100 Local Nan Gets Model Car Award Albert Winebarger, Jr., Route 2, Boone, last week wai declar ed winner o( an honorable men tion award in the Senior Division of the Fisher Body Craftsman's Guild model car competition. With three other North Car olina youths in the Senior Di vision. who .won similar awards, Winebarger received a model builders' tool chest. In addition to the tool chests, cash awards totalling $400 went to six North Carolina winners. ? Other winners in the state were: Senior Division: 1st place ($150) Laurence Alspaugh, Greensboro; 2nd place ($100) Robert Tucker, Jr., Greensboro; 3rd place ($50) Willard Marshall, Maple. Honorable mention: William Whisnant. Charlotte; David Brown, Henderson; James Lilly, Jr., Charlotte. Junior Division: 1st place ($150) Ben Taylor, Maple, 2nd placc ($100) Tim Hendrix, Maple; 3rd placc ($50) Jack Myatt, Burling ton. Honorable mention: Jimmy Smith, N. Belmont; John Till, III, Ashevillc; Clifton Williams* Jr., | East Bend; Eddie Parker, Rocky Point. Mr*. Martha E. Arnett ' Is Taken by Death Mrs. Martha Elizabeth Arnett.' 80 years old, resident of Sugar Grove, died Monday at Watauga Hospital. Funeral services were con- i ducted at 2:30 p. m. Tuesday at | the Bathel Baptist Church by Rev. EU Farthing add Dr. WUey I Smith and ih ferment wis in the j Morris cemetery. The hu-band, Jake Arnett fcur vtvet, with ona son and one da tighter: Thomas Arnett. llMM; Mrs Miwwu Ht^Vr Sucar Grove. Mrs. Mira Melinda Minton, pio neer Watauga county citizen, who celebrated her one hun dreth birthday last May 14, died at the home of a son, Avery Min ton, of Hickory, Route 2, last Sunday morning. Mrs. Minton, who had been confined to a wheel chair for al most seven years, had been crit ically ill for two weeks. The centenarian was born in Caldwell county, a daughter of Silas and Betsy Penley. Also surviving arc one daughter, Mrs. ! Sarah Hartley of Hickory; anoth er son, Newton Minton of Vilas; two brothers, Sim. Penley of Boone and John Penley of Zions ville; fifty-eight gi'andchildren, twenty-nine great grandchildren, and a host of great, great-grand children. A brief funeral service was conducted at the home of Avery Minton Tuesday morning, and the body was brought to Boone where complete rites were held at the Baptist church. The services were in chagre of Rev. W. C. Payne, who was assisted in the rites by Dr. W. G. Bond and Rev. Mr. Beshears. Interment was in the community cemetery* Mrs. Minton, who was the wi dow of Richard Minton, veteran Appalachian College employee, had made her home in Hickory since leaving Boone 21 years ago. : Deep Gap Man Injured In Korean War Theatre Pvt. Roser B. Watson, son. of Mrs A. G. Watson of Deep Gap has been wounded in action ft the Korean area, the Department of Defense announced Mondiy. Three othef North Carolinians were also luted as wounded ito action on the Korean peninsula. They are: Pvt. Charles R. Hunt, son of Ralph N. Hunt of Char lotte ; Pfc. Ad?U Spicer, brother j of Elsia Mac Meadows of Mays- | ville and Pfc. Wayhe W. Wilson, ' ;<*? of Mr;,. Julia H. Wilson of Oxford. "J NEW PRESS USED FIRST TIME TODAY Today'i Watauga Democrat is the first edition of the local news paper to be printed on the pub lication's new Goss perfacting press, and an eight column for mat is being used, to bring the page-size up to present-day stand ards. The new machine, which is the last word in newspaper presses for non - metropolitan journals, was built for the Dem ocrat by the Goss Printing Press Company of Chicago, and Messrs. Bill Baar and Rudolph Polz have been engaged for the past ten days in erecting the equipment and getting the necessary adjust ments made. The machine prints and folds the Democrat at a speed of more than 3,600 per hour, prints from rolls rather than flat sheets ,and more than , doubles ?both the capacity and *il of the discarded equipment. It is the first 6f these advanced-type marines to be brought to this immediate section, and marks a forward step on the part of the local newspaper, the first in its contemplated long-range expan sion program. During the time the press is being finally adjusted and the first runs made, some imperfec tions in print are quite likely, but it is hoped that the journal will be able to come out on schedule during this transits " period in the mechanical depariment. Merchants To Fete Employees The members of the Boone Merchants Association will play hosts to their employees at the annual picnic which is schedul ed to be held at Camp Sky Ranch at Blowing Rock, Wednesday August 23, and members of special committees are busily engated in working out the de tails for (he outing. The afternoon's festivities will start at X o'clock, and a program of games and other entertain- | ment will precede the picnic which is slated for 6:30. Members of the committees in charge of the merchants' picnic are; Food: Miss Patsy Swift (chair man); Mrs. BiUie Church, Miss Bumgarncr and Burl Greene. Program: Mrs. Winnie Hodges, chairman; Miss Bunnie Isaacs, Mrs. Kathleen Hodges. Program details will be com plete by the next edition of the : Watauga Democrat. Meantime, all employees of merchants as sociation members are expected to attend. Blois Grissom New Grid Mentor Big Blois Grissom. heavy duty tackle on Appalachian State Teachers College football clev. ens for the pMtthree seasons, has been named by E. C. Duggins as' coach o f the Mountaineer JV team this (all. He will' be assist ed fty Boy Smith, also an ex Mount ?ihler gridder. Crirtotn, a 1>41 graduate of Henderson High School, gained bis first college football eirrer ienec under Coach Wally Butts of Georgia, flying to the Rofc* 6owl with the bulldogs in 1043. Snapped up by military rtrvice in the 6prjn< Af 1M2, he. setved an a sergeant in the Marine Air Corps, finding time to play foot baU with an all-star South Pa | cific aggregation. Boone Flower Show W ill Get Underway Thursday REV. S. E. GRAGG Local Minister Is Given Honors The Rev. S. E. Gragg of Shulls Mills was one of three church leaders honored Sunday at the Tabernacle Advent Christian Church in Lenoir, the other mini sters being the Rev. Robert L. Isbell, pastor of the church, and the Rev. N. W. Harrison of Four Oaks. The combined ministerial service of the three totals 168 years. The service was the fourth an nual event marking the many years of service by the three out standing ministers of the Ad vent Christian denomination It lasted throughout the day, with a picnic dinner being served in the church yard at the noon hour. Rev. Gragg, who is perhaps Watauga County's oldest active minUter, spoke briefly at the afternoon service. Local Leaders at Wilmington Meet Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Winkler j and Mr. S. C. Eggcrs, vicc presi- | dent for North Carolina of the I highway 421 commission, were ! among those present for a direc tor's meeting of the commission July 28, at Wilmington, N. C. Promotion of "The Coasst to Great Lakes Scenic Highway" is expected to get under way with in the next few months, accord- 1 ing to plans drawn by the board, j a membership drive to enlist all municipalities and esUb- , lishmcnts along the highway : froiti Fort Fi.scher to Gary, In diana, being the first step. Stressed in the program will be the three-fold potentialities of the route ? as a military road, linking ft. Bragg with the sea and back to the interior of the cohtincnt; as a road through which commercial and agricul- j **ural products of the area it ' crosscs can be tapped; and as a I route leading to top-quality 1 sort*. Among the localities represent ed at the meeting were Dunn, Watauga, bampnon, and Randolph counties. This was the third such iej: ion which has been, held The first waa in Bocne and the sec ond in Saiiford. Bloodshed Box score killed Aug. 1 thru Aug. 3 8 Injured Aug. ! thru Aug 3 M Killed thru Aug 3 this year 508 Killed thru Aug ), 1949 453 Injured thru Aug. 3, 1990 6,709 Injured thro Aug. 3, 1949 5,194 The Boone Flower Show, sponsored by the Worthwhile Woman's Club, was set to get underway this afternoon (Thurs day) from 3:30 p. m. to 9 p. m. at the Boone First Baptist Church, with final entries being accepted from 9 a. m. to 11:30 a. m. this morning. Judges of the show will be Mrs. Ed Gardener of North Wil kesboro, district president of garden clubs; Mrs. Paul Deaton of Hickory, former district pre sident of garden clubs; Mrs. Ed Broyhill of Lenoir and Mrs. John ' Rheineking of Blowing Rock. A luncheon in honor of the judges will 12 noon at the Skyline Restaurant. All persons interested in attending are ask ed to make reservations with Mrs. Ray Derrick or Mr. Watt Gragg. ' Exhibits expected to attract a great deal of interest are the Victorian arrangements in a set ting of that period, and table set tings for a luncheon and a wed ding. Among the non-competitive exhibits will be displays by local florists and nurserymen. Bird houses of various dgpcriptions will also be shown, for which orders will be taken. The Music and Art Department of the club has planned a musi cal program to add to the enjoy ment of visitors to the show. Mrs. A. E. South, Mrs. R. L. Tait, and Mrs. H. B. Perry, Jr. will be at the piano at intervals during the afternoon and evening. At 4:30 p. m. Mrs. Virginia Linney will be in charge of a special concert. The Appalachian Band, under the direction of Mr. Russell Blan ton, will present a lawn concert at 6:30, and Miss Rachel Ann Vance and Mr. Rogers Whitener will offer a vocal program in the church auditorium at 7:30 p. m. Members of the Literature and Education Department of the club will preside at the punch table. Homemade candy will be on sale throughout the hours of the show. Flower Clinic To Be Held at Theatre Mrs. Louise Kistner of New York will conduct a flower clinic at the Yonahlossee Theatre on Monday, August 14 from 10:00 a. m. until 1:00 p. m. There will be a email admission charge. Mrs. Kistner, who is an inter nationally known authority on flower arranging, is decorating the home o I Mrs. Charles Can non for antiquities tea Saturday August 12. The clinic, at which time Mrs. Kistner will demonstrate dif ferent types of flower arrange ments, is open to every interest ed person, and is sponsored by the Garden Club of North Caro lina. Says No Polio In This Area Contrary to ptmor* circulat ing in the county, no cwh of polio feivo boon reported ?it hot in Watauga county or in aithat ot tha tikn two i'iiuiiKss cota. this haaith district, ac cording to Dr. M. D. H. MlchaL district haolth rffktr. Such rumor* are ealirvly without foundation and should >a dis couraged. as thoy toad to pin* Dr. MichaJ. No Military Deman Yet Made on Count t. TEACHERS ARE APPROVED FOR CO. SCHOOLS Most of the Teaching Posi tion! in the County Have Been Filled for the 1950-51 Terms; A List of Teachers; Schools To Open Aug. 29. County superintendent of schoolfc W. H. Walker, has re leased the list of teachers for the various county schools, as ap proved by the board of education, and practically all the teaching positions in the county have al ready been filled for the 1990-91 term. AH' the county schools will open on Augutt 29, Mr. Walker states, and following is a list of the teachers who have been employ ed: Appalachian High School Herbert W. Wey, principal; James Leek, Mrs: Margaret E. Oragg, Mias Theo E. Wells. Ed gar Beaty, Fred T. Hollis, Robert O. Nolan, Mrs. Martha G. Hawk inson, Miss Charlotte E. Adams, Miss Mabel V. Brister, J. Frank Randall, R. L, Tait, Miss Kath leen McDonald, Miss Betty Sue Tilley, William Rom, John Sides. Mrs. Elsie Erneston, Nicholas Erneston, Russell Blanton. A va cancy exists in the girls' physical education department. Appalachian Eighth Grade Robert Jenkins, H. C. Tripp, W. Paul Bingham, Mrs. Mary F. Hamby, Mr. Ewell Hopper, MIsj Nadine Gragg. Boone Demonstration John T. Howell, principal; D. C. Thompson, Earl Petrey, Ben H. Horton, Jr., Melvin M. Lash ure, Miss Isabel! Mason, Miss Clyde Mae Goodman* Miss Mary E. Gibbs, Mrs. Bessie S. Crawford, Miss Christine H. Innings, Mrs. Ennis R. Davis, Mrs. Ella A. Be sheat-s, Mrs. Grace M. Counclll, Mrs. Velms M. Cottwrtl, Mrs. Lou ise W. Horton, Joart Hope, Mrs. Grace Buckland. vacancies exist in the fifth grade and health and physical education department. Rich Mountain Mrs. China R. Lavender. Rutherwood Miss Floy Cannon, Mrs. Mary H. Cole. Bamboo Miss Pearl J. Cowles, principal; Mrs. Helen E. Trexler, Mrs. Lucy H. Storie. (Continued on page six) Orphans Home Day On Sunday ? ? ? ? ? i Four of the country's outstand ing singing artists and a noted pianist will present two tradi tional programs in Blowing Rock this weekend. The Evening of Music will be observed Friday evening at 9 p. m? at the Blowing Rock Country Club, and Grandfather Home Day will be held at the Rumple Memorial Presbyterian Church on Sunday morning. This year's program will fea ture Miss Genevieve Rowe. so prano, Miss Helen Olheim, con tralto, John Baker, baritone, Ern est McChestncy, tenor, and Stuart Ross, pijinist. All proceeds from the Evening of Music will go to the Blowing Rock Hospital and contributions at the Grandfa ther Home for Children at Ban ner Elk. Last yea rmore than ner Elk. Last year more than latter program. ' Misses Rowe and Olheim and Mr. McChesncy are all interna tionally known for their vocal ability, each having sung through out the world with the finest opera companies. Mr. Baker, re turning. to Blowing Rock for the second time, is one of the lead ing young baritones with the Metropolitan Opera Company. Pi anist Stuart Ross has for many years been one of America's most noted musicians. He will be in Blowing Rock for the seventh time. ? ' David Ovens, Charlotte indus trial wt and a Blowing Hock sum mer resident, each year makes complete arrangements tor both programs. This year will mark th* thirty -second year that the prandtather program has been presented. Mr. Ovens secure* the artists through the Community Conecrt Association in New York each year and he pay* all costs for bringing the muttcians to the mountain In turn. aB procctd* Are l?Wed ,<mr to the hospital and the orphanage, thus multiply ing marty times Mr. Over's con tribution. The Kvening of Music is one o( Blowing Rock's social .highlight* of the scaset) and tiKMMMlKl Local Draft Board Is Opened As Servict Records Ar rive; Mrs. RoMMrs fa In Charge ' 'f, r" ' Ism Watauga County Selective Service quarters were again acti vated last week as service rec ords prrived and Mrs. Alice C. Robbins was placed in charge of (he office in the County Build ing. a State induction centers, however, have still made no man power ^demands on the county, despite the fact that 5,300 youths are scheduled to be examined in he State this month to procure the September quota of 1,325 set for North Carolina. The Watauga draft board is composed of Joe Todd, chairman, H. J. Cottrell and Paul Coffey. Approximately 150 men went through pre-induction processing Monday, Raleigh, Fayetteville, md Charlotte recruiting stations handling 50 each from Wakfc, Lincoln, and Harnett counties. On Tuesday 75 men were ex amined at each of the three in duction stations, 71 activated draft boards of the North Caro lina total of 101 sending induc tees. On Wednesday 325 men were examined, with the program ex pected to hit full stride today when 370 inductees began their tiek through the three induction centers. Calls will continue five days per week through August 25 at today's rate. The men found acceptable will be called in late September. Many of the youths due to re port for pre-induction examina tions this week will come from the 24 and 25 year age groups? the groups at the top of the .18 25 year draft brackets. Since most of the 25 year olds and a high percentage of the 24 year olds served during World War II, re latively few of them are eligible for draft under the present law. The majority of the 25 and 14 year olds who were not in uni form during World War n have physical, education, or mental de fects which probably will result in their remaining out of uni form again. Spunky Fisher Talk Oi Show "Spunky" Fisher of Camp Ar rowhead and his horse, "Reel*, less," were the talk of the Blow ing Rock Horse Show this week end as the lad with the broken leg won event after event and "Reckless," his baby jumper, walked away with the Ralph Hoey Memorial Trophy for wis* ning the grand championship. The three-day show, directed by Lloyd M. Tat^ of Pinehuigt and Blowing Rock, brought a-ret ord breaking list of entries and drew the largest crowd* seen in Blowing Rock this season. Ideal weather prevailed throughout ' the weekend, which featured, in addition to sports events, the annual Horse Show Breakfast, the Horse Show Baft, and various other social events, climaxing the summer season At Blowing Rock. Davis Child Is Fatally Burned Joe Lee Davis, 1 year old, -it son of Mr. and. Mrs. Hugh Davis of Reese, died in Watauga Hos pital last Wednesday from burns he received the day before when a vessel of boiling liquid was spilled from the cook stove In the Reese home. The child died from burns about the shoulder!) and chest, it was. said. Funeral services were conduct ed Friday from the Beaver Dam Baptist Church, and interment was in the church cemetery. The parents survive, and , 4 brother und Kister, Ralph and Martha Jean Davis of the home. Fred H. Michael, ; Victim Heart Attack {'I Fred H. Michael, 58 years old, died suddenly Saturday at his A heart attack^W?? given as the
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