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An Independent Weekly Newspaper ? Established in the Year 1888 BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 11. 1951 VOL. LXIII-NO. KING STREET BY ROB RIVERS MONDAY FINDS MERCURY dipping down to about ten de grees after a few days of rela tively mild temperatures, end the conversation along the street shifts back to the weather from the war . . . The prediction that we are entering upon a new fifty .year cycle of increasingly oolder weather, adds flavor to the conversation around the rad iators, and the stoves in th^ var ious stores and shops of the town , . . Some days ago, we were heartened by the news that Charlotte was all iced over, and traffic snarled, in tempera tures of 30 degrees, while we ware basking in M degrees, and . not a speck of ice hi sight. ? ? ? LOCAL FOLKS share the district-wide sorroVr occasion ad by the death of Senator Elect William B. Reeves, who had beea elected last Novem ber by a tride ?wturily' to re PISIMI Watauga. Ashe and Alleghany counties, in the up per house of the Stale legisla tor*. Mr. Reeves was held in the highest regard by the peo ple of Boone aad Watai^a county who are giler<d at fhe passing ef this able. Wad aad courteous gentlemen ... We shall personally miss his oc casional visits, his cheery saiile. and his, pleasant conver sation. and the district will be bereft of1 a wholesome in fluence in the halls of the law makers at Raleigh . . . ? PERKINSVILLE CHURCH starts prayers for peace move ment in this locality, and the meetings are being held weekly at different churches . . . Meet in* at Methodist church attract ed almost 100 per cent of the local ministers, with some from Blowing Rock . . . Next meeting to be held with the Lutherans ... In ? wofld in which force has become tHe dominating influence action- of the local churchmen is refreshing, and in dicates more than a casual be lief in the power of the Omnipo tent to set things straight in this topsy turvy world . . . This action of local churchmen is all the more noteworthy since it has been the custom in years past, to invoke the help of the Most High after force, and all other human means, had fallen short . . . These peace meetings are built upon a faith that the use of destructive human force may be averted . . . "TE THAT HAVE FAITH to look with fearless eyes Beyond the tragedy of a world at strife. And trust that out of life and death shall rise The dawn of ample life; Rejoice, whatever anguish rend your heart That God hath given you for a priceless dower. To live in these great times and have your part' In Freedom's crowning hour; That you may tell your sons who see the light High in the heavens ? their heritage to take "I saw the powers of darkness put to flight ? I saw the morning break." 0 0 0 CONGRESS AND THE STATE LEGISLATURE both get down to business and the President and the Governor speak of more millions and billions, while every segment of our economy wants more and "better Federal and State services, a war's on hand, and the small operators of King Street aqd thousands of other main streets wonder how much more taxes they can pay and stay in the ring ... A trip down the stem will uncover every sort of opinion on the State of the Union. They say: "What the heck we doin* in Korea anyway ? ought to evacu ate the lads 'fore they all get killed!" . . "We oughta smack down a couple or three atom bombs on the Chinese." . . . "Truman's got the whole thing meMed upt" "McArthur is ..Gumming the Works" . . . "Cuu t'ress ought to stay still and let the Administration alone." . . . The Administration Ought to Listen to Congress" . . "The ' Democrats Are to Blame." . . ? ' j "The Republican^; Are The . Menace to Peace." . . . And so it goes, an infinitum, everybody cussing somebody else, and try ing to lay the blame for sotne , thing . . . Never has there buen MASS BURIAL ? United Nations chaplains ra ad funeral itnricti for thosa killad in action on tha northaaitara Koraan front linas in a maas burial. March Dimes Campaign Gets Under Way Monday Greene Inn Sale May Be Town's Largest Wilcox Elected 4 C. Of C. Prexy Herman W. Wilcox has been re-elected president of the Boone Chamber of Commerce, while Russell D. Hodges was IfTnt* first vi<* -president; Fred Gragg second vice-presidcnt and Al fred Adams, treasurer. L?o Pritehett, Roy Rufty and H. Grady Farthing- were elected to the board of directors to suc ceed. Fred Church, Guy Hunt and Ira Aycfs, whose terms ex pired this year. Hold-over directors are: Wade E. Brown, Dempsey Wilcox, Clyde Greene, Watt Gragg, Wayne Richardson and Paul Winkler. The new directors were sworn, in at the annual meeting Tuesday evening. Agricultural and industrial projects were adopted at the last meeting of the Chkmber. Andrew Coffey Funeral Held Andrew Jackson Coffey, 87, resident of Vilas, died last Wed nesday at Watauga Hospital; where he had been a patient for three days. Funeral services were con ducted Friday at the Boone Fork Baptist Church by Rev. Robert Shore and Interment was in that neighborhood. There are no im- 1 mediate survivors. Weaving Classes Watauga Handcraft Center re sume! its schedule from January 9, for the spring term. Weaving classes -meet1 on Tuesday, Wed nesday, Thursday and Saturday from 9 4:30. So many have been interested in evening classes that classes will be held Fridays from 4:30 to 8:30, Miss Elizabeth Lord, director stated. These classcs will continue into the spring. Students arc welcomed to enter* t any time. Navy Enlistments Lieutenant Commander W. G. Wright, officer in charge of {he W. Va. recruiting afea. an nounced today that We rumsr the navy is not acccpt^ng appli cants for enlistment in the navy is unfounded and false. It is further stated that en listments in the navy are wide open at the present time It is pointed odt that an ap plicant for enlistment in the navy must not have received his pre induction notice from_-his draft board. 1^', Any member of the naval re cruiting service will be glad to answer . any further questiorj which may arise. Wti Old Dougherty Home stead Is Sold By Coe Mi. Jerry Coc, of the Tri County Realty Company, an nounces the tale of the Greene lOQ property in the heart of the business section of the town, to Mr. S. E. Phillip* of Brownwood, and states that the new owner of the valuable property will build business structures thereon for rental purposes. While Mr. Coe is not at liberty to divulge the price piid for the property, he believes it to be the largest single transaction in the history of the town. The property, opposite the Daniel Boone Hotel, is the ancestal home of Dr. B. B. Dougherty and his sister, Mrs. R. M. Greene, and has been occupi ed for more than fifty years by Mr. and Mrs. Greene. They vacated the place some weeks ago, and are spending the win ter in Greensboro. Henry Younce Sells Top Crop Henry Younce, resident of Sugar Grove, broke former re cords on the Boone tobacco mar ket last Thursday, when he sold 2.07B pounds of -obacco for $1264.82, ot an average of 01 cents for tha entire trop. ?fThe premium weed was grown on the farm of Tom Lawrence, oc cupying only nine-tenths of an acre of land Besides the crop "which made history on the local market, Mr. Younce sold another crop grown on his home place for $448.25 or an average ol 94 fceitU a pound. Taylor Asks For Help In Fighting Polio With the opening date of the 1951 March of Dimes only five days off, Jim Taylo., county campaign director, today called upon all residents "to Join the all-out drive for funds needed to stem the rising tide of polio." "The 1951 March of Dimes be gins next Monday," Mr. Taylor said, "and lasts a little over two weeks. But in that short time we can help thousands upon thou sands of polio patient* for whom recovery U jncaaured in terms of ten or twenty or fifty weeks, it not longer. I think we owe them the two weeks of our own efforts. It, is little enough ? if. we can save some child from a lifetime of paralysis.", The county office disclosed that more than 100,000 people were stricken by polio in the years '48-50, with four out of five of them receiving help in whole or in part from the Na tional Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, on whose behalf the March of Dimes is conducted. "Last fall", ? Mr. Taylor said, "the National Foundation ran out of epidemic aid fuads and had to call upon whatever chapters w?re still solvent to bolster its central epidemic emergency ac count, on behalf of chapters whose resources had been wiped out. From May through August of last year, chapters Were drawing $1,000,000 a month from the epidemic aid fund." Patient care is but one phase of the fight against polio. The March of Dimes mbst important job is to support scientific re search aimed at finding a. pre ventive or cure for polio, and to underwrite programs of profes sional education designed to pro vide for more skilled hands. "Every dime, every dollar given to the March of Dimcf," Mr. Taylor said, "is needed as never before, if we are to win out over polio. I am sure Wa tauga county citizens will give, and give again, on behalf of all those children and adults who look to the March of Dimei for help when polio strikes." NEW SLATE OF OFFICERS IS ELECTED FOR BOY SCOUTS Annual Old Hickory Council Meeting Held The annual election of olficer* by the WatLUfa District. Oid Hickory Council, was held Mon day a ternoon at the Watauga Building & Loan office . Present besides local Scouters was Joe Edwards, field Scout executive of the Old Hickory Council. H. Grady Farthing, past district chairman, presided over the meeting. Offices elected included: Mr. Farthing, district chairman; Dr. Lee Reynolds, vice chairman; Jumcs Leek, district commission ?r: Dr. O. K. Richardson, mem ber of the council executive board; Clyde R. Gruene, Council vice president. Committees were appointed as follows, the first named being chairman; ' , Organization and Ex tern ion: Jim Taylor, Dell Richardson. Leadership and Training: Stan ley A. Harris, Stacy Eggers, Tr? Fred M. Gragg. Advancement : Dr. Reynolds, Wade E. Brown, Fvev. J. K. Park er, Jr. Camping and Activities: How ard Cottrell, R. D. Hodges, Jr., Hale Vance. Health and Safety. Dr. W. M. Matheson. Fnancr: Alfred Adams, Cecil Miller, Mr. Greene. Publicity: Joe C. Minor. The January district meeting will be held Thursday, January 18, 7:30 p. m., immediately fol lowing boUry meeting, at the Skyline Restaurant. A report on the recent fund raising drive will ba given by Mr. Adam*. The Camping and Activities committee will tell what the Watauga Scouts will be doing this year. Plans are being mpdc by the local Scouts and all Scouts in the Nation for Boy Scout week which is to be held February 6 through the 12. The Scouting an niversary is February 8. There are four troops in Wa tauga county in actual operation, holding a meeting each week. They are Troop 109, of the reg ular Boy Scouts. Dr. Reynolds, Scoutmaster; Troop 114 at Sher wood, Coy Bingham, Scoutmast er; Explorer Squadron 100, Crayte Tcaguc, squadron advis or; and Cub Pack 41, Dr. Wayne Richardson, cub master. Four other troofis are in organ izational procedure, with others ; planned for the county. County Tutors To Hold Neei! A county-wide teachers' meet ing is scheduled to be held Fri day evening January 12 at 7:30 at the Appalachian High School Auditorium. Students from the Appala chian High School will appear in a program of music, and the principal address will be by Mr. Leo K. Pritchett of Appalachian College. It is requested that thcr9 be a full attendance of the teachers of the county. Many Attend Rites Of Senator Reeles j BY -PARTISAN RIDE ? Traffic mlx-up In Washington auud San. Robert A. Taft <R_ Ohio) to Mk a rid* with Democratic Vica Prat'dani Alben Barklay. Special Vote Needed For Senate Vacancy Burley Prices At Record High Average prices by grades for ; Burley tobacco were at the high i est levels ol the season the first week after the Christmas holi days, reports the Federal-State Market News Service. General quality also improved slightly as j compared with the previous week of sales. As a result of better price* and quality the weekly general average was one of the highest on refcord. Volume of offerings was heavy. Some markets reported blocked sales broken by Friday and light deliveries. ? ' . Most heavy volume grades sold at average prices $1.00 1 to $4.00 per hundred above quota tions the week before Christmas. Good red leaf and tips were $5.00 higher. The most affective increases were in low and fair qualities which constituted about 75 percent of all offerings. Although demand has been steadily increasing since the markets opened, gains made this week were the best of the sea son. The practical top price, however, remained at $66 00 on most markets but individual baskets of top quality lugf and flyings sold as high as ttSO.OO for ftie first time. Gross sales for the ?three-day period January 3-5 amounted to 56,705.831 pound# and averaged $51.46 per hundred. This was $2.40 above tl\at established the previous week of sales. On Janu ary 3, slightly over IB1/* millio* pounds sold for $82.22 with in dividual markets averaging up to $50.19. Season gross sales through January 5 totaled 355, 266.393 pounds at an avenge of $48.72. There was a large/ percentage of fair and goo<Kofferings mar keted and kiss 'low quality and nondescript. Bulk of sales con sisted of low to good leaf, low and fair lugs, flyings and tips and nondescript Deliveries to the associations under the Government loan pro (Cont^nued on page four) LOCAL MERCHANT GRADUATES? Mr. It. C. d ant. U ibown swarding cartificalas of marii to a graduating daaa dinnar bald at Hotel Hickory. Hickory, It. C? raoaotly. Mr. T. M. Oraar. managar of iha local Dixia-Homa Mora, taatod filth from tba laft in tba front raw baa tost complatad hi* atfkt waak* of training, la ortft to moat tha raquircmanls at larga tlorai today. Dixia-Homa inrs? *?? ss* ?**?*?? ^ r^v?~ Speculation As To Senator Reeves' Seat ? ' v- ,1 , ? "y . 1 The death of Senator W. B. Reeves, of West Jefferson, ha? brought considerable (pecula tion as to the status of the Senalorship in the district com posed of Watauga, Ashe and Alleghany counties, where the late West Jeffersonian was elected last November. It would appear that under the law the vacancy in the Sen ate can be filled only by ( vote of the people, but local politi cian* state that by the time an election is called, the registra tion books held open for the re quired time, et<;., the newly - elected man would scarcely get to take his scat by the time the present session would adjourn. Under the county rotation system, however, the seat be longs to Ashe county this year, and local Democratic leaders are awaiting the action of the offici als in the sister county. Informa tion is that Ashe county leaders care little for a special election at this time, but it has not yet been learned what the action of the State administration will be. Governor Scott, presumably would be the man to call the special balloting, and so far as is known here, he hasn't receiv ed any recommendations as yet. Carl Farthing Dies Suddenly Carl Howell Farthing. 57 years ! old, died suddenly at his home at Sugar Grove Sunday. Mr. Farthing had not been ill and a heart attack is believed to have been ihe cause of his death. Funeral services were held Tuesday at the Bethel Baptist Church by Rev. Ed Farthing and Rev. H. Crisp and burial was In the church cemetery. Survivors include the widow, one son and three daughters:' Harold Farthing, Sugar Grove; Mis* Irene Farthing, Bristol, Tenn.; Miss Carrie Lou Farth ing, Sugar Grove and Mlm Mary Nell Farthing, Granite Falls. James Allen Is Taken By Death _ I jMtcs G. Allen. 57, ot Romin- : ger, died at the Baptist Hospital Sunday and * funeral services were conducted Tuesday from the Glenwood Baptist Church, Kingsport, Tenn. Interment be ing in the city cemetery there. Rev. Raymond Hcndrix of Boone was in charge of the rites. Five sons and four daughters survive: George, Jamev Allen, Jr., Kingaport; 'Robert Allen, Rofntnfrt; Vernon Allen, Lex ington; Mrs. G. N. Macon. Miss Pansy Lee All?, Kingsport; Mrs. 11. L. Galloway, Indian Springs, Tenn.; Mrs. Claud Eg gers, Lexington. I I V Average pay of North Csro- 1 lina school , , w- , ft Weet Jefferson Solon Dies; Burial At Whitehead M " MMS Funeral services for State Senator William Bower Reeve*, i 72. of West Jefferson, were he'd Sunday afternoon at the Spar. a i Baptist Church and burial was in the Liberty cemetery at Whitehead. Rev. Howard J. Ford of Elkin, a former pastor of the Sparta Baptiat Church conducted the services. Large crowdf. gathered to pay their reapecta from this entire section of the State, a number of Boone leaders attending. Senator Reeves had for many years operated a store and had served as postmaster at White head in Alleghany county nnd had an interest in theaters in Sparta, Elkin and West Jeffer son. In recent year* he had operated an insurance agency and a monument business in West Jefferson. His first entry into politics came this year when he made a successful race for State Senate, representing Ashe, Alleghany and Watauga counties. He car ried all three counties by a big majority. Senator Reeves is sur vived by two sons and a daugh ter, Ben Reeves, Sparta, Dr. Bower Reeves, Elkin, and Mrs. Russel W. Barr of West Jeffer son with whom he had made his home since the death of his wife, Mrs. Myrtle Fender Reeves ten years ago. Surviving also arc two brothers, Emmett Reeves of Laurel Springs and Rev. George Reeves of Spartanburg, and a sister Mrs. Cynthia Tulbert Reeves of West Jefferson. Highway Equipment Given Disaster Role Raleigh? The State Highway Communion, in time of disaster would turn over its heavy equip ment to Federal or city govern ments as needed. Commission Chairman Henry Jordan declar ed last week. Jordan Said he had been ask ed by Asheville City Engineer John Walker if the city of Ashe ville could have the use of com mission equipment in time of disaster. After consulting Commission Attorney R. Brooks Peters, Jor dan said the commission's equip ment definitely could be used under such circumstances. He pointed out the Federal Government might need the equipment to clear air-strips or for other wprk. Speagle* Lose Home In Chrictmas Fire Rev. and Mr*. F. M. Speagle of Route 2, lost their house arid contents by fire on December 27, while they were in Florida. A small amount of the furni ture was saved, but information is that- the lorn ran into perhaps five thousand dollars. The house was occupied temporarily by Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wells, who dis covered the fire after it had gone beyond control. The cause of the fire had not been determined. PLAlfT "ALUMNI" Plants, on the verge of expan sion Uj take care of defense or ders. are turning to their files of fcrmcr employes as "gold mines" in recruiting skilled workers to fill jobs created by mounting defense requirements. Polling of "alumni" to determino how many arc interested in re employment in the event of a Ftverc labor shortage will pro vide a manpower pool for fu ture needs. I