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fA, THURSPA?|*A1 KING STREET BY ROB RIVERS I POLITICAL ACTIVITY defi nitely on the upswing in these parts, as ? full xlate at worthy Republican csnd datei goes into the field, and the Democrats plan to pick a ticket from a number of those willing to run "if the folks want me" . . Groups of the politically-winded may be seen to congregate here and there along the street as rumors fly thick and fast, and the Wa tauga voters get ready to go all out in thejr interpretation of the great American game of party politics ... In a world which seems to be drifting continually farther away from democratic tendencies, it is heartening to see Watauga folks with wn abid ing ami absorbing interest in who's to be the 'next Sheriff, Re presentative, or County Com-( missioners ... As long as that kind of interest is retained in matters of government, there is little danger of any of the "isms" getting any secure foot hold . . .. Manager Price of the Daniel Boone Hotel, meantime has a candidate for the "mean est man" title? the fellow who cut down the grass rope swing on which the children played down oh the spacious hotel lawn, and carried the cord away . . . Long distance operator uses up a bit of our time getting us all squared up on a phone call to some faraway place, with a man of whom we'd never heard who wanted to talk to some guy we're sure never was in Boone, much less on the staff of the Democrat . . . The mixup was ex plained by the "voice with a smile" . . She had the right number all right, but in the wrong town! MRS. COLUS PARLIER gives th? Democrat a bif pink dahlia bloom, an enormous posie which measured lOVi face, and which speaks volum es lor Mrs. Parlier's ability as a flower gardener. ... A lew roan ago we were presented a dahlia of similar proportions and through a slip of fhe ton gue, or at the pencil, or may be the typewriter, we substitu ted the word "diameter" for circumference and had the flower Just about the size of one of these oversized cart wheels you sab down in East ern Carolina ... A few day* passed and wc had a card which said: "Just what brand do you use, and in what pro portions, to make a little fall flower look as large to you as a washing tub?" . . . Since than we're played pretty safe in ghring down information on the measurements of prise winning b looms which often find their way into our office. DIXIE HOME STORES open new super market here today . . . Corporation to be compiended on providing such a modern business establishment. . . Likewise, T. Milton Greer, who has managed the Dixie Store during its entire existence here, deserves felici ations. . . . The steady growth 'of the business, under his leader ship made necessary the current expansion program . . . Mr. Greer started his grocery store career in Boone twefttyrfive year* ago with the Carolina stares, later absorbed by the Dixie interests, and is one of the most familiar and popular busi i ncss figures along our street . Courteous, obliging and helpful, he is held in the highest regard by his customers and friends . . . ? ? ? SCHOOL OPENS TOES DAT. and the kiddies Jam il? tfuses. and scamper along the streets, eager to gat down to business on Dm first day ai the term, . . . Moat of the youngs ters Mom to ba "an hat up" about tha prospects of del ring further into the three r's. white who just can't hurry himself on tha wmf to school . . . Long ing eyes note everything at In terest along tha tfroet and ha stop* on every pretext ... A ,l?Mt of *1(0 great outdoors . . of everytatog God has created, with an interna interest in aO activities ot mankind, ha ap proaches the halls si teeming with a heavy beat . .<? Ha don't want to ba shut in . . . I< We feel a sort of pitT tot the tow with tha fat-away teak .'in bat it K greatly to the credit of Washington, . D. C. ? Tfts N?- | tional Park Service announced ; last week that contracts will be . awarded during tl)e 1M 1-1953 biennium to complete the Blue Ridge Parkway from Shenan doah iNational Park to AshaviUe and to construct at least one, possibly two. Parkway links west of Asheville. Dudley C. Bayliss, chief of the Parkway branch of the National Park Service, disclosed that $12, 900,000 will be available during the two- year* period for Blue Ridge Parkway construction. He di' ..mad the program with Reps. Monroe M. Redden, 12th district, and Robert L. Dough ton, ninth district, and Senator* Frank Graham and Clyde R. Hoey. At- the same time, Rep. Redden released a copy of a letter he re ceived from Secretary of the In terior Oscar L. Chapman con firming- the Park Services pro gram for completing the Blue Ridge Parkway. Secretary Chapman also as sured Rep. Redden that "as funds are available immediately following the fiscal year 19S3, we propose to hasten the con struction west of Asheville to Great Smoky Mountains Na tional Park with the objective ihlt the Parkway may soon be come a completed project" Bayliaa advised the North Carolina solons that contracts will be let during the 1951-1953 biennium for oae link near Buena Vista in Virginia and three links in North Carolina, as follows: 1. Grading and overpass tor five-mile Deep Gap link at esti mated cost of $800,000. 2. Grading, bridges and pav ing 13-mile link in the Blowing Rofck-Grandfather ' Mountain sec tion at estimated cost of $2,700, 000. 3. Grading and surface treat ment of 11 1-2-mile section of the Parkway west of Asheville between U. S. Highway 275 near Wagon Road Gap and Beech Gap whtje the Parkway con nects with an existing state road. The estimated cost is $750, 000. s The Wagon Road Gap section will be the first North Carolina project 'on the 1951-1953 Park way program, Bayliss announc ( continued on page eight) 50 Watauga Youths To Report For Draft Soon Green To Speak Twice in Boone C. SYLVESTER GREENE C. Sylvester Greene, former Durham newspaper man, will deliver two addresses in Wa tauga county during the first of September, the Watauga Demo crat has been advised. Dr. Green will speak Tuesday September B, to the Boone Lions' Club on "Living With Confus ion." On Wednesday "September 6, he will be the speaker for the Watauga Health Council and will use for his topic "Half Cen tury Hopes for Health." Grand Master To Speak Here Dr. Walter E. Caldwell, Mat ter of the Grand Masonic Lodge of the State of North Carolina will be the featured speaker at the 40th district Masonic meet ing, which will be held in Boorte with Snow Lodge No. 383, A. F. Si A. M. next Saturday afternoon and evening. The afternoon session, which will be held at 3 o'clock is ex pected to be attended by Maso nic lodge officers of the district. Masters and Secretaries are par ticularly Invited I^At tha evening session, which will be held at 7:80, Dr. Cald well will speak, and all Masons are invited. Refreshments will be served during the course of the meeting. The -10th district ia composed of Masonic lodges in the coun ties of Watauga, Avery and Mitchell. |||| Russell Hodges k,vr Injured In Accident Kuwait D. Hodges, local hard ware merchant suffered a fric turc of the tight leg in an acci dent at his store last Friday. Mr. Hodges wan struck by one at his company's trucks, which was be eOfgty&ist placed in a cast at Watauga ps&SSijtt&r; ..... . . .... . ?Fifty young men from Wa tauga County will report to the Charlotte induction center for qualifying mental and physlcial examinationi on September 20, according to an ' announcement by Capt Paul Johnson, officer in charge of the station.. Every registrant who passes the ' tests will be inducted late in October or early in November. All men 19 yean of age or older who have not reached their 20th birthday and who have not been classified as other than 1-A as the result of previ ous military service or other reason, will be eligible for the September pre-induction call. It is exported that moat of the men will be drawn from the 19 year old group, preliminary checking by ' Mrs. Lucy G. Lovlll selective .service clerk, in dicating that few Watauga men in the 20 to 26 year bracket fall into 1-A classification. * The Charlotte induction ce li ter record for August shows 1,102 men out of an examined total of 1,942 to be luted as "fit for military service" ? a 87 per cent acceptance rate. Only IB of the 42 counties handled by the Charlotte center were represen ted this month, the Watauga draft board being one of those not activated in time for the Auguat pre-induction call. Latest instructions from Third Army headquarters at Fort Mc pherson, Ga., specify that North Carolina draftees and enlistees will be sent to Fort Jackson, S. C. for training. Previously en listees have been going to Fort Knox, Kentucky. Fort Jackson, earlier schadul ed for retirement as, an Army installation, was ordered reopen ed by secretary of the Army Frank Pace last month. Grade Cattle To Draw Fair Prizes The Blue Ridge Fair will pay premiums on classes of grade beef heifers and grade dairy heifers for the first .time in 1950. These heifers must ba shown at halter and will be judged with other grades and will not show against purebred*. Grade beef cattle will be shown on Friday. September 18, and grade dairy cattle on Saturday, September 1*. Premium/, will be as large as for the pifcxbred classes. The show is open to farmers in Wa tauga and adjoining counties and we hope to have a large show, this year. The United State*' today has many more-? and larger ? oil tankers than at th? outset of World War II, according to the Department of Interior. On Sept ember 3. 194#, the latest figures show that then were 170 tankers in the Western hemisphere? 35fl more than tea years earlier. Of these, 57# ware under the U. 8. flag? IM 'more Own in 1939. There have bacn additional launching* in the last twelve democrats to BE HOSTS TO PARTY CHIEFS AT BK RMp BR ? - Ninth District Meeting Tuiy Leaden to B? H?M Hero Satmrday: Smith, D^ughton, Eury to Brin| Owtory. The biggest political rally ?ver held in Watauga County ti i . neti tor September 1 when the Watauga County Young Demo cratic Club will be hcjrt to toe Young Democrats of the Ninth Congressional D*?>rict. Jbn Tay- 1 1 yr young attorney of Boon*, who is president of the Watauga County group, i? *Pe,rh**J ^ the plans for the rally which - expected to <Jraw more than 500 Democrat* from outside the county. The affair will mark the sixth month of the exiitence pf the local group. Speaker, for the * " include . Senator-elect Willis I Smith of Raleigh, Gangsman Robert U Doughton of the Ninth District, and Nor^_C"Jln* I Secretary of State, Thad Eure. all of whom have Indi >d they I plan to attend. | Preceding the raUy there will be a free barbecue supper at 130 p. m. Committees who are in charge of the event include the following: Foods? W- I Winkler, chairman; E. B- Haga" man. Tommy Osborne, Howard Cottrell and Boy Rufty. Place of meeting ? John Farthing, chair man; Edwin Dougherty, Max Hardin. Frank Baird and Ral eigh Cottrell. Welcoming ?>m mittee ? Wade E. Brown, Mrs. R C. Bivers, Miss Helen Under down. S. F. Horton and Mrs. Horton, Mrs. John Brown, Mrs. R. W Watkins, and Mrs. John Greer. Tickets and invitation? | Mrs. Crayte Teague, Mrs. Boy I Smith, Misa Madeleine McCain, Leo Mast and Carlton Swift Invitations have been -usued aU state officers of the North Carolina Young Democratic Ckib. to attend, and It is capact ed that a number will be pre- I sent One state officer is a mam bar of the local club ? Mr* Ear leen O. Pritchett of Boone, state VlnilTaUyeIfollows a convention of Watauga County DemocraU to I be held on the afternoon of the same day. All local candidates, chosen at the convention, are ex pected to be present and to be introduced at the rally. Dele sates from several other districts have signified their Intentiorf of i attending. Rotary Sponsors Education Sosa Apoiarina Hector Sosa, young Argentina student, arrived in Boone this week in preparation (or a year of schooling at Appa lachian State Teacher* College under the sponsorship of Dis trict 280 of Rotary International. A graduate student and presi- ! dent of the National Student As sociation of Argentina, he has been an outstanding leader in ' student educational activities in , that republic. 41e will study as- i pacts of teacher training as ad vocated by the local institution. Mr. S esa has been made an honorary member of the Boon^ Rotary Club and will attend its .regular meetings. Health Office To Close Labor Day " The offices of the District Health Department will be closed on Labor Day, Monday, Septem ber 4, this being a State holiday. ' NEW SHERIFF . . . Sheriff G. M. Watson, recently appointed by the board of commissioner! to finish out the term of the late Charles M. Watson. ?~-Photo Palmer"* Studio REA District Meeting Held , About 350 persons attended the district meeting of the Blue Ridge Electric Membership Corporation, held in the courthouie here last Saturday a'ternoon. The meeting was featured by a local talent contest, in which string bands, vocal quartets, duets and solos participated. The Deep Gap rhythm band and baton club won first prlxe: the king's crusaders of Boon", second: 'and the Hawmnn quartet of Sugar Oro?e, third. The meeting was called to or der by the president of the board of directrrs, J. C. Goodman, of Ashe county, who delivered the w 'tronie address. Reports of the different committes were heard. Officials attending included: C. K. Viverctte, genera) manager of Lenoir; H. H. Beach, assistant manager and general .superinten dent of Lenoir; E. L. Alread, olec tiical advisor ot Lenoir; Mrs. Per tfy Deverick and Miss Lillian Gilbert, home economists. The four directors from JVa tauga county present were Clyde Perry. Avery Greene, Bert Mast and f!lar<>nrp Npwtnn Merchant*, Employees Hold Annual Picnic About 180 members of the Merchant* Association of Boone and Wctauga County and their employees participated in the annual picnic held at Camp Sky Ranch Wednesday afternoon, August 23. Softball, swimming, horseshoe pitching, and card games featur ed the recreational activities, with watermelon and a full course dinner, prepared by the Skyline Restaurant, being serv ed at the close of the day. Hill side Dairy furnished ice "crcam for the occasion. Association members express ed themselves as being extreme ly grateful to Camp Sky Ranch officials for the privilege of us ing their grounds for the annual outing. FEDERAL WORKERS There were 1,989,940 employes on the Federal payroll at the military establishment, it is ex pected that this reduction will be cancelled by the outbreak of the current Korean war. Local Farm Youth Heads! FF A Kenneth Pen}', member of the Cove Creek chapter of the Fu ture Farmen of America, Sugar Grove, waj recently elected pres ident of the North Carolina fu ture Fannera at their annual con vention in Raleigh. Perry hu taken a very active part- in FFA work ?inc? his firtt year In high [school. He has been , a member at the chapter team* in dairy judging, crop Judging, ritual and parlia mentary procedure, public vpeuk ing and other* He has a herd of registered Jerseys, one of which he recently showed in the blue group at the Lexington Junior Dairy Show; he is feeding his second baby beef along with me other beef catUe; be has mi KENNETH PERRY f?l; 1 fclnx-p, a registered gilt and ? , flock of chicken*. His crop pro ft cu conaUt of com, hay, and pasture. Kenneth will be a delegate to the National FT A Convention at Kansas City, Missouri, in October but his outstanding. ! livestock program won another trip to the National Convention for him and his advisor, R. a. Shipley. Kenneth to ? son of Mr. and Mrs. John K. l'nrry, Sherwood. ANNUITIES About 172,000 former govern ment employes or their families are receiving monthly annuity checks from the Civil Servicc Retirement fund. The fund paid out aver ?17J, 900,000 during the la* Steal ywtr. Ti 'iVi$S?k | |kj|h I my. mi , * South Carolinian Dies j In Crash On Route 421 Robert Vaughn. SO, was killed and H. W. Fagg, 38, Injured early Tuetday morning when the Dixie-Home 8tores truck in which they were traveling over turned and left the road on a steep curve near the Wilkes county line on highway 421. Cause of the accident is believed to have been defective brakes. ' The driver and his' assistant had driven to Boone from Green ville, S. C., delivered a consign ment to the local store, and were enroute to North Wilkesboro. It was said to have been the driver's first experience in driv ing a heavy vehicle over the steep grades in this vicinity. Highway patrolmen and funer al home representatives arrived on the scene shortly after the wreck and found the driver pin ned in the cab, chest crushed by the twisted metal. One funeral home official estimated that it was a two and a half hour task .o free the body with the use of hack saws. The assistant, Mr. Fagg, wis taken to the Watauga Hospital where he was reported "badly shaken up but evidently not seriously injured." He was said to have been resting comfoitably Tuesday afternoon. Pomona Grange To Be Formed The subordinate Granges of Watauga county including Beav er Dam, Groen Valley and Deap lap, will meet Thursday night September 7. at 7:4# o'clock, at the' Green Valley school building or the purpose 6t organizing the Watauga County Pomona Grange. The entire membership of all subordinate Granges are request ed to be presakit. In addition to the organization of the .Pomona Grange the rural telephone pro gram and the problems of the bean market may be discussed. The Grange, which is the larg est and oldest farm organization In existence and the only rural fraternity in the world, was org anized in 1367, and now has ac tive organizations in forty states with 225 lortl units in North Carolina which state is leading the nation in organization. The State Grange convention will be held October 23-39, at Lumberton, and all masters and their wives of subordinate Granges are the duly authorized delegates and are ex pected to attend. The sixth de gree will be exemplified and will He led as usual by Gov. W. Ken Scott. * Mrs. Ellie Mae Wallace Die* At Banner Ellc Mm. Ellie Mao Wallace, real dent of Banner Elk. R. F. D? died at Gracf Hospital Monday. Funeral services were held Tuesday at the Liberty Methodist church and burial was In the Matnev cemetery. Surviving are eight daughter* and one son: Shirley, Helen, Dare, Doris, Fay?, Audrey Wallace, Mrr. Leonard Wataon, Mrs. Gil bert Ward, and James Wallace. The father, Mr. A. C. Miller, alao .Turvives. , ' Nash to Return To Appalachian GORDON NASH Gordon Nash, former Appala chian profewor of music and di rector of the college and high school bands, will reaume his du ties with the college at the be ginning of the fall quarter, ac cording to an announcement 'this week from the office of the Dean. A graduate of East Kentucky State College and a teacher of fe-ide experience, Mr. Nash came U> Boone in 1937, organizing the Appalachian High School Band hat year. The following year he arfanittd the college band and liiected toth vrgnjhntlwM. until he entered military service la 1042 as a lieutenant in the Navy. Upon discharge from the Navf in 1943 he returned to his work at Appalachian, leaving again in IMS to accept a position as field representative for Brodt-Separt Music Company of Winston Salem. Entering the University of Ken tucky this summer ,he completed the necessary requirements for a Master of Arts Degree in Music, returning to Boone last week af ter graduating. Roy R. Blanton. who succeeded Mr. Nash as band director in 1948, will remain as director of the high school ban*), the two plan ning to coordinate their efforts toward constant mlprovement ol both college and high school in strumental groups. Art Exhibit Huge Success The Blowing Hock Art As sociation exhibit is proving to be a far greater success than anti cipated by officiala of the or ganization here. The exhibition, since the open ing laat week, has drawn hund reds of people into the new community library building, in cluding leading art enthusiasts and critic*. More than ninety paintings and watercolors are on exhibit, Works of such fam ous painters as James Lunncn, Irene Price, Louis Lunccan, Walter Colebrook, and the late Elliot Oaingerfield, have probab ly been ccnter of attention, but officii It of the art association have been ehcouraged by the public reception of several of the lesser experienced artists. A number of pieces of sculpture arc also on display. *"1tls* Katherine Arrington of the state art association recent ly stated ihat the Blowing Rock cahibit was the best of its kind | in North Carolina, and Floridn 1 critics have expressed btUef that the quality of exhib'ls here surpasses that of the annual Miami shows. Louis Lundcan of New York ' City, son-av-Iaw of the late DamgerfMld, is president of the local art association, an organi ze tidn composed of artists and art enthusiasts. Other officers are Walter B. Colebrook of West Palm Beaclw water color artist, vice-prcsidcnt; Miss Irene Price, natlvr North Carolina artist secretary: and Harry Worrell St Petersburg photographer ' irjjr 'i?{ Highway Comminiiinet Give* H Information About Bwm1 ffi N|iw Uetily. "?r|H Nina, miles ol newly paved 18,. rovl have been opened 'to the public in Watauga County this summer under the $200000,000 secondary road program, the State Highway Commission announced this waek. The five projects completed jrj& during the last three months are part of the accelerated state-wide construction program authorized by the people in a special bond election last year. Eighth Dtvi lion Highway Commissioner Mark Goforth says the recently finished projects are only part of the total program planned for Watauga and other northweat North Carolina counties before the end of the 1950 paving sea son. Projects completed during the summer are as follows: . From' intersection of Parkway and Bamboo north toward 421, 0.0 mil*; Big Hill Road from 221 toward Todd, 2.0 miles; County road from Sherwood east, 1 J miles; from Vilas east toward | Lovlll, 13 miles; ahd on Route 003 near Sugar Grove toward Tennessee line, 3 miles. Watauga's share of the first 3128,000,000 in bond funds is $724,300. With the exception of $41,2C0, this amount has been al located to specific' work in the ccunty. The Secondary Road Bond Act an passed by the Gen eral , Assembly divided the bond money equitably among the 100 counties. xne co i 01 roaa construction under the secondary program is leu than expected by the Stata Highway Commission and conse quently mure mileage of roads may be paved under the program than was expected in many areas. As of July 1, 1850, about one fifth of the proposed Scott pfcv ing program had been finished throughout the state. In addition to the nine miles of road opened this summer the SUite Highway Commission fin ished two major primary road projects in Watauga las-t fall. They were the hard-surfacing from the intersection of 321 in Blowing Rqpk to the Blue Ridga Parkway and from that point to 421 in Boone. Also finished last fall was the paving of a t J mile stretch of county road from Shulls Mills to Forcoe. Dr. Henry Jordan, chairman of the State Highway Commission, recently announced that 1990 would be North Carolina's great est year of roadbuilding if good weather continues and the war crisis does not intervene. Some 2,379.8 mile* of secondary roads have been paved so far under the $200,000,000 program. At the same time work is progressing on the primary highway system utiliz ing funds set up in the regular highway fund budget GOP To Open District Office Statesville Republican state headquarters (or the 1950 cam paign will be opened September 1. In the i. Id City Hall building. Statesville, J. M. Baley, Jr.. of MiirxliallT date chairman, an nounced in Stateavillc this week. Chairman Baley indicated that the committee named to aelect a locathm for fcrtate headquarters was governed largely by the feet that Statenvill* was ncir the if center of the Republican strength and would b? readily. < to the greatest number vof 1 I leans. "I am heartened by ci ing reports concerning J can activity throughout the i Baley continued. "There Is | dissatis'avtion among with continued one-party nation ha the nation i Carolina 1 to of ?hl ? I long |
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