BOONE
1IM POPULATION 2J73
The educational center of Western i
North Carolina. Home of Appalachian
State Teachers College, which attracts |
hundreds of students annually from
all parts of the nation. Modern busi
ness district. A food place to live.
WATAUGA DEMOCRAT
An Independent Weekly Newspaper ? Established in the Year 1 888
WATAUGA COUNTY
1M0 POPULATION 11.341
Leading agricultural and tourist area.
Livestock, dairying and truck farming
unt importance
Blue Ridge
of paramount
Psrkwsy traverses county, and touehee
Blowing Rock, one *
Summer resorts of
lof'Uae principal
Eastern America.
VOL. LXIV ? NO. 16.
BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA; THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1931.
FIVE CENTS PER COPY
KING STREET
BY
ROB RIVERS
JET PLANE flashes across
town in northerly direction early
the other morning, at about
four timet the speed of the con
ventional ships of the ether . . .
Running a race with the sound
of its own power plant, the jet
is here by the time one hears it,
and across Rich Mountain by the
time it is pointed out to the fel
low one meets along the way . .
Walter Cook, of Elizabethton,
Tenn , dry cleaning man, visits
town and looks in on his Hi
Land Cleaning plant, now being
capably operated by the Younce
boys . . . Frank Payne's friendlv
approach as he extends a hand,
and asks for a contribution to
the band fund . . . W. R. Greene,
84 years old, former Boone
police officer, visits in the com
munity with friends . . . "Rohy"
as Mr. Greene is known by his
friends is about the only man
we know who had a State high
way named for him, which is a
tribute to the good citizen . . .
The road which runs down the
River from 421, a few miles east
of Boone is labeled the "Roby
Greene Road," in deference to
Mr. Greene, who for so many
years resided at the Killian ,
place, served by the highway ...
Hiram Carroll drops by to pick j
up a Democrat, lays down six j
cents, and hurries away before
we can hand him back the over
payment . . . "Everything else
has gone up, why not the Demo
crat? ... It costs you more, don't
it?" . . .
THE MOUNTAIN MOTEL,
believes Manager Tatum. has
registered a man wilh a name
which would break records for
ihe number of letters if con
tains ... A Buick drore up re
cently. a man and Woman
alighted, and this was the
name they penciled on the
card. Mr. and Mrs. Jan Gnieu
wenhuyzen . . . The Guieuwen
huyxens. it was further reveal
ed. hail from Curacao. Nether
land West Indies, which goes
to show that if one lives in
Boone long enough, he'll see
folks from everywhere!
* * *
TIRED-LOOKING MOTORIST
and wife from Eastern State
park alongside curb and hail
passerby . . . "Hey friend, could
you tell me where the liquor
store is . . . We had in mind a
highball before dinner . . . Has
been a long day" . . . The strang
er was politely advised that
Hickory lies fifty miles to the
*east, and that of course the ABC
store there would be closed long
before he could make the drive
. . . "Thanks, anyway," said the
motorist, who dejectedly made his
way to a local hostelry . . . Jerry
Coc, standing in a group of lads,
who were doing a bit of gossip
ing about folks in particular,
was asked of his opinion of Ihe
absent citizen who was being
castigated . . . "No comment,"
quoth Jerry, who relighted his
cigar, smiled and went on about
his business . . .
? ? ?
THE DEMOCRAT received
one of the invitations from the
Winston-Salem Journal to at
tend the ceremony on the lite
of the new Wake Forest Cam
pus and hear President Tru
man speak . . . The author, of
this comer couldn't make the
grade, and Mrs. Rivers partook
of the hospitality of the twin
city newspaper . . . The follow
ing remarks on the Presiden
tial visit from the distaff side,
will likely be of interest:
THANKS TO PUBLISHER
HOYT, of the Journal, I, in com
pany with a couple of hundred
others, was shown thqpugh the
gates when the Constellation
touched ground , . Being at the
right place at the right time, I
was on the receiving end of a
hearty Truman handshake, and
the cordial "How are you, my
good woman".'" . . . The lady next
to me, Mrs. Virginia Transou,
also shook with the man fit an
Missouri, gazed intently at right
hand, and de^ared she wouldn't
wash her hanas for a week. .
The trip in a Journal bus with
the Presidential party to ihe
Babcock home, where the Presi
dent dined ... He far?d wely I
(Continued on page tour) J
Nhith Annual Hereford Sale To
Be One Of Best Held In Boone
New Rural Mail Route
Will Serve Wide Area
Rural Route No. 3, designed to
serve Oak Grove, Adams, and a
portion of the Shulls Mills Route,
has been established and will be
gin service from Boone on Nov
ember 1, it A announced by
Postmaster John E. Brown, Jr. .
The new route, it is explained,
will serve the communities of
Oak Grove and Adams, and a
portion of the Shulls Mills mail
route from Poplar Grove to
Shulls Mills postoffice, via Yon
ahlossee Camp, returning by the
camp, Sandy Flat, upper Wink
ler'i Creek, Poplar Grove and
Hodges Gap.
Mr. Warren M. Dotson, rural
carrier from Shulls MULs is trans
ferred to the new route. Some
170 families are involved in this
change in mail service.
The carrier will leave the
local postoffice at 10 a. m. and
return by 1 p. m. This schedule
provides patrons with daily mail
receipts and daily dispatch of
mail from all points.
County Joins Nation In
Observing Posture Week
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Dr. Coleman To
Hold Revival
Dr. T. Rupert Coleman of Rich
mond, Va? will begin a series of
revival services at the First Bap
tist Church in Boone, beginning
Monday, October 22.
Dr. W. G. Bond, pastor of the
local church, makes the follow
ing statement relative to the com
ing of Dr. Coleman to this com
munity :
"The people of this community
will be interested to hear a man
who has made such a notable
contribution to the religious life
of Richmond, Virginia. Dr. Cole
man comes to us from a long
pastorate in a church that has
featured week day school of re
ligious education. Scores of
young^x-oplc from his church are
in training for religious services.
Invite your friends to be with
us during these services."
County Tutors
Meet On Friday
The teachers of Watauga Coun
ty will meet Friday evening,
October 19, at 7:30 in the Appa
lachian High School auditorium.
The speaker for the evening, Mr.
Deiner of the college faculty will
discuss "Social Class Influences
and Their Effect on Learning."
Mr. Deiner is well qualified to
present an informative and in
teresting discussion of this topic
and all teachcrs of the county are
urged to attend the meeting.
Will Payne Again
Leads Ford Sales
Mr. W. T. Payne of the Wink
ler Motor Co., again won the
high point honors (or September
in the Ford Salesman'* Club of
the Carolinas. Mr. Payne, also
won the award in June, as well
as for the ynmr 1950.
HEARING
The United States Supreme
Court has denied a hearing to
about 4.000 persons of Japanese
ancestry, born in this country
and residing on the West Coast,
who sought official declarations
that they were U. S. citizens.
While m relocation" center*, dur
ing World War II, they signed
renunciations of American citi
zenship.
The Tar Heel State is expected
to produce only about two-third
as many sweet potatoes this year
?a in 1950.
How you habitually open a
window, lift a bag of groceries,
sit at work or stand in the bus
can have an important effect on
your health and energy as well
as your looks, Dr. Mary B. H.
Michal pointed out today as she
announced that Watauga County
was joining with hundreds of
other communities across the
country in the 13th annual ob
servance of National Posture
Week, Monday to Friday (Oct.
15-20).
The event climaxes the year
round programs for better pos
ture. Schools, colleges, Y's,
health centers and other groups
interested in public health edu
cation participate and reach mil
lions of children and adults.
"Despite our astonishing ar
ray of labor saving appliances,
ranging from the washing mach
ine to the automobile, most peo
ple keep complaining about
'that tired feeling'," Dr. Michal
said. "One important reason is
that they do not use correctly the
appliance they were born with,
the body. Most of us simply do
not keep our body in balance
and do a lot of extra work, creat
ing a lot of extra fatigue because
we refuse to learn the simple
lessons of better body mechanics.
The way you use your body to
?pen a. window, lift the baby or
a bag of groceries, the way you
sit at your desk or stand in a
(Continued on page two.)
Mrs. Lula Minton
Succumbs on Monday
Mrs. Lula Robbins Minton, 58,
at Boone, died at Watauga hos
pital Monday.
Funeral services were held
Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock
at Rock View Baptist Church by
Rev. Marshal Watson, and burial
was in the church cemetery.
Four sons and one daughter
survive: James, Lincoln, Charlie,
I John Minton of Boone; Miss Vin
nie Minton, Greenville, Mo.
{Bobby Edward Atkins
iDies in Statesville
Bobby Edward Atkins, 9 yean
old, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde
Atkins of Deep Gap, died at
Davis Hospital, Statesville, on
October 12, following an extend
ed illness. ,
Funeral services were held
October 13 at 2 p. m. at Gap
Creek Baptist Church by Rev.
Raymond Hendrix, and burial
Was in ihe church cemetery.
The parents survive, with five
brothers: Lloyd. Boyd, Connard,
Alfred and John Atkins of the
home.
Jonathan R. Greene
Rite* Held Sunday
Jonathan Richard Greene, 73,
of Zionville, RFD 1, died last
Friday at Watauga Hospital,
from a paralytic stroke. ,
Funeral services were held
Sunday at 11 .a. m. at the Meat
Camp Baptist Church by Rev. R.
C. Eggrrs, Rev. Raymond Hen
drix. Rev. A. E. Morctz and Rev.
Nathan Greene, and burial was
in the church cemetery.
The widow, Mri. Pearl Harmon
Greene, survives, with one son
and one daughter: June Greene,
Boone; Mrs. Mae ^ookabill, Wy
co, W. Va.
Popular Blood Line*
Featured But Cattle
Are Not Fat.
The Watauga Hereford breed*
ers are preparing for their ninth
annual purebred Hereford sale
on Friday, October 26, and the
talk among the consignor^ is
that this sale is offering the most
promising consignment yet, but
that the cattle will not be fat be
cause the dry weather has cut
the pastures short. Popular blood
lines are found in all pedigrees,
and many open heifers sell with
breeding privilege to some of the
best bulls in the area.
The sale will consist mostly of
calves and open heifers. Thirty
three lots will fall in this group
with the remaining twelve going
as bred heifers or cows with
calves at side and one herd bull.
This consignment should please
the t>uyer who is looking for good
cattle, bred right, but not carry
ing excessive finish. .
Mr. F. W. VonCannon, Banner
Elk is offering the most cattle.
His consignment consists of four
bred cows (one polled cow) four
open heifers sold with breeding
priviledge to his $4,000.00 polled
bull, and one young polled bull.
Polled breeders who want to
secure good breeding stock will
(Continued on page two.)
Rev. Mr. Smith
At Church School
REV. AUBERT M. SMITH
Teachers for the Children's,
Youth, and Adult Work of the
church school will be on hand
for the opening of the Training
School for Church School Work
ers to be held at Boone Metho
dist Church October 22-23. The
school will open on Monday
night at 7:30 when the Rev. Au
bert M. Smith, pastor of Wesley
Heights Methodist Church of
Charlotte, and teacher of the
school's course for adults, leads
the opening devotion. Continu
ing through Thursday night, the
school will be host to the other
Methodist churches in the coun
ty, Henson's Chapel charge,
whose pastor, Rev. Ralph Miller,
will lead the Tuesday night de
votion, and the Todd charge,
whose pastor, Rev. Ernest Ste
phens, will be the devotional
speaker for Wednesday night.
Slated to lead the training in
children's work is Mrs. O. D. Nel
son, of West Market Street
Church, Greensboro, who has
spent many years of study and
teaching in tRe children's depart -
(Continued on page two.)
Foodhandlers Of
Area Gather In
School In Boone
The ^Foodhandlerj' School
sponsored by the county health
department in cooperation with
th' managers of local foodhand
ling establishments held last
week was declared very success
ful. The average daily attendance
for the school was 150 managers,
waitresses, dishwashers, cooks,
lunchroom operators, market
workers, grocery store operators
and housewives. Of those attend
ing, 110 received a certificate of
attendance because they were
present for one session each day
of the school. Approximately 65
other persons attended one or
two sessions, but did not meet
the three day requirements for
the certificate. Establishments
with all of their employees and
the manager attending three
sessions were awarded a ^00%
attendance certificate. Qualify
ing in this manner are:
Angel's Cafe, Appalachian
Soda Shop, Brown's Restaurant,
Curkett's Cafe, Daniel Boone
Hotel, Dinner Bell Cafe, Grand
View Cafe, Hampton Brothers
Cafe, Skyline Restaurant and
Watauga Hospital kitchen. Other
establishments should be highly
commended for their near per
fect attendance. Due to illness of
a worker or a vacation or some
other unavoidable coincidence, a
100% attendance record was
missed. Boone Drug Store, Ap
palachian State Teachers College
Cafeteria and Gulf Cafe are to
be commanded here. School
lunchroom operators are to be
commended also. Most of the
adult workers in Appalachian
High School, Blowing Rock High
School, Boone Demonstration
School, Deep Gap School, and
Rutherwood School lunchrooms
had perfect attendance and some
attended from other school
lunchrooihs also. Plans are in the
making now for a follow-up
school for the student aids in
school lunchrooms throughout
(Continued on page two.)
Group Named To
Aid Phone Lines
An organization has been
formed among the farmers of the
county to solicit memberships in
the telephone cooperative, to the
end that 575 subsccriber signa
tures may be secured at once and
work started on the county's ru
ral telephone line.
Subscribers are being asked to
pay $10 down, and $24 when con
struction starts, with a telephone
rental of $3.25 per month.
Following is a list of those who
are engaged in soliciting the tel
ephone subscribers:
Brushy Fork: R. G. Shipley,
Roy Keplar, Joe McNeil.
Cove Creek: Ned Glenn, RfV.
C. O. Vance, Russell Henson,
John Perry, Sam Horton, Stanley
Harris. D. E. Church, Owen Lit
tle.
Beaver Dams: Johnnie . P.
Greene, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde
Perry, Donley Hagaman, Mr. and
Mrs. W. R. Vines.
Laurel Creek: Dwight Cable,
Henry Hagaman, George M. Har
mon, Ed Love, Mrs. Mack Test
er*
Shawneehaw: W. W. Mast, I.
D. Shull, Ernie Triplptt.
Watauga: I. D. Shull, W. W.
Mast, Mrs. Wagoner, Rev. E. A.
Dillard.
North Fork: Lovill South, John
K. Perry.
PROCLAMATION
Whereas, the Autumn is the traditional time of ac
celeration of religious life in American Society, and
Whereas, for several years past, a national obsei v- *
ance of Religion in American Life Month has been ob
served during the month of November, supported by
the principal religious bodies of America, and
Whereas the Boone Ministerial Association has
duly approved cooperation in the RIAL observance,
for the Boone Community, and /
Whereas, late November weather in Boone makes
advisable an early beginning of the observance,
Therefore, I, Gordon H. Winkler. Mayor of Boone,
N. C? do hereby solemnly proclaim the period October
21-Novctnber 22 as Religion ill Am<^can Life for the
town of Boone, N?p.
And hereunto 1 set my hand this fifteenth day of
October, nineteen hundred and fifty-one.
Signed,
GORDON H. WINKLER
Mayor
Boone, N. C.
Blood Urgent War Need;
Campaign Here Monday
PANMUNJOM. KOREA. ? With typical Communist arrogance. North
Korea Gen. Chang (left) answer* correspondent'! questions by a
sneering grimace as newsman tries to learn progress of Korea arm
istice parle yat village of Panmunjom. The correspondent is Bob
Vermillion. With Chang is a Red liaison officer.
Religious Week Will Be
Observed In This City
Boone churches have announc
ed unified participation in the
observance of Religion in Amer
ican Life month, October 21 to
November 22, and the following^
schedule of events in this con
nection has been released:
October 22-31, Revival Boone
Baptist Church. Dr. T. R. Cole
man, Evangelist.
October 22-25, Training school
for church school workers, Boone
Methodist Church, all denomina
tions invited.
October 28, Union servicc of
all Boone churches, Boone Meth
odUt Church. Program: Rendi
tion of favorite anthems by the
several choirs of the Boone
churches.
November 4, "Every Home
Visitation Sunday" by the Boone
churches. Home visitors assemble
Boone Baptist Church Sanctuary,
2:30 p. m.
Nov. 5-9, Religious Emphasis
Week, Appalachian State Teach
ers College. Speakers: Rev. Cor
bin Kiser, Lenoir, N. C. and Dr.
Walter Nau of Lenoir Rhyne
College, Hickory, N. C.
Nov. 22, Thanksgiving Union
Service of Boone churches, Grace
Lutheran Church, 9:00 a. m.
? _____
Parade Gay Fall Colors
On Parkway Nears Peak
The fall color parade should
reach its height on most sections
of the Blue Ridge parkway by
this weekend.
Of exceptional beauty right
now are the Maples, Dogwoods,
Gums, Hickories, Poplars Sour
woods, and Birch. One of the
most a tractive sections of the j
Parkway and now in /full color is
sections 2-A ar\d B, these sections I
begin at the Virginia-North Car- 1
olina State line and run south to
Doughton Park. This portion of
th* Parkway is heavily wooded
and puts on a delightful display
of color each year. The Black
Gums, Dogwood, and Sourwood
at Mile Post 231-234 are very out
standing, and should not be miss
ed. One of the Most magnificent
displays of color can be seen in
and around Doughton Park, south
of this area along the Meadow
Fork Valley near Laurel Springs,
the Maples have simply out done
themselves this year. Color us
now creeping into the lower reg
ions and valleys along the Park
way and the views from all over
looks between Va.-N. C. Slate
line to Blowing Rock cannot be
surpassed.
Thousands are expected to
view one of theWue Ridge Park
way's most spectacular color dis
plays in years during tjie next
few weeks. *
Cooler weather followed b)
frosts have hastened the color re
cently and on every side the for
est is draped in red, green, scar
let, orange and yellow, leaving
such a surrounding brillianci
that one is only to marvel in awi
at nature's handiwork.
Ernesion Heads Orchestra Association
At the annual meeting of the
North Carolnna Music Teachers
Association held in Greensboro,
Monday, October IS, Nicholas
Erneston, of the Music Depart
ment at Appalachian State
Teachers College, was elected
president of the North Carolina
Orchestra Association, to serve a
two year term.
During .the meeting of the
orchestral division of the Music
Teachers Association, Mr. Ernes- I
ton extended an invitation to,
the N. C. AA-State High School
Orchestra to hold the organiza
tions' annual clinic here in
Boone at the college. The invita
tion was accepted, and the clinic
will be held early in February.
At an earlier meeting of the
Band Master*' Association, Mr.
Gordon Nash had extended an
invitation to that body to hold
their annual Western Division
All-State Band Clinic here again
this year, and thin invitation was
also accepted.
Mrs. Eioic Erneston, who at
tended the choral division of the
meeting in Greensboro, was
chosen as a member of a com
mittee of three to select the con
test music for the N. C. Music
Festival, which will be held in
the Spring. The election of Mr.
Erneston to the chairmanship o
the Orchestra Association car
rics with it membership in th<
executive board of directors o
the N. C. Muiic Educators' As
sociation, which is now affiliat
ed with the Music Educators' Na
tional Conference. In addition t<
Mr. and Mrs. Ernes ton and Mr
Gordon Na?h, the local schooU
were represented at the meetini
by Mr. William G. Spencer o;
the college, and by several o:
Mrs. Erneston's Appalachiar
High School chorus students
who sang in the dcrnonstratior
choir, conducted by Mr. Kcnnetl
Jewell, of the National Musi<
Camp, at Interlochen, Michigan
Home from Germany
Mrs. Ruby Dial, Boone, has re
turned from Germany, where shi
has been with her husband thi
past two and a half years. He
husband, 1st Lt. Alfred Dial i
stationed in Germany at S trail
binp jvilh the 6th Armored Cal
vary Ttcginient as part of the oc
cupation troops. He is oxpectci
to return to the States in April
Mrs. Dial will live with her mo
ther, Mrs. Sam Atkins, until hi
return.
A. E. C. head denies we couli
produce atomic peace now.
Plea Is Made for Blood
To Meet Need of
Wounded Men.
The Department of Defense
wants a strong, ready source of
supply that can bring whole
blood from civilians to save men
wherever they may have to
fight. As a second line of de
fense, it is starting to stockpile
hundreds of thousands of uni's
of dried plasma, to be ready to
be raced to wounded men any
where. The onfy possible answer
is one great, coordinated, and
expanded nation-wide blood pro
gram.
And it began building in the
summer of 1950. At the request
of the Department of Defense
and the National Security Re
sources Board, the American Red
Cross became the official coordi
nating agency to obtain blood
for the armed forces, and for
civil defense. It is rapidly ex
panding its own program and
coordinating the network of hos
pital and private and community
blood banks which have been
helping to supply blood for
peacetime needs.
How well it, succeeds de
pends on the response of people
from areas such as Watauga
County to the risit of the Red
Cross Bloodmobile that comes
to Watauga Hospital Monday,
October 22.
An important point to remem
ber is that a person can be a
"repeater," for he can give blood
safely three to five times a year.
Because women are lagging in
'donating blood, a special appeal
is made to them, particularly
among housewives. Any adult,
if physically fit, may be a blood
donor; giving blood is safe and
easy, and there is no harm to the
person giving the blood, nor any
rain. About one-fourth of all
donors arc people who have giv
en before, who know how simple
it is, how important.
Dr. Wm. M. Mathcson and Mr.
Vance Holland have announced
(Continued on page two.)
Curtis N. Glenn
, Rites Thursday
Mr. Curtis N. Glenn, 44, native
Wataugan, but for several years
a resident of Detroit, Mich., died
suddenly at the home there Oc
tober 6th from a heart attack.
The body was returned to Wa
tauga where the funeral for the
veteran of World War II was held
at the Cove Creek Baptist Church
' last Thursday. Dr. W. G. Bond
and Dr. J. D. Rankin, both of
Boone, conducted the rites and
burial was in Mountlawn Me
morial Park in Boone.
The pall bearers were: Tom
'< Moody, Don Henson, Jake Mast,
! S. F. Horton, Norman Wilson. AI
' bert Henson.
The flower girls included Mrs.
Paul Walsh, Mrs. Don Henson,
| Mrs. Tom Moody, Mrs. W. T.
' Payne, Mrs. Jake Mast, Mrs.
Daulta Glenn, Mrs. Crete Swift,
f Mrs. James Mast, Mrs. S. F.
- Horton, Mrs. Clarence Swift, Miss
i Ophelia Bingham, Mrs. Vardry
f Mast, Mrs. Clyde Mast, Mrs. Nor
man Wilson, Mrs. Albert Henson.
Surviving are the widow, Mrs.
Muriel Harmon Glenn and daugh
ter Margaret of Detroit; the
mother, Mrs. Myrtle Harmon,
Beech Creek, and the following
[ brothers and sisters:
f A. P. Glenn, Jr., Long Beach,
f Calif.: Clyde Glenn, Neva, Tenn.;
1 Mrs. Mary Adams, Summerfield,
N. C.; Mrs. Sue Coffari, New
J Rockwell. N. Y.
! Burley Yeld To Be
Higher Thi* Year
Production of burley tobacco
for 1951 was forecast by the Agri
culture Department last week at
566,000,000 pounds, two' per cent
; higher than the estimate a month
ago and well above the 1050
yield of 498.000,000 pounds.
The department said needed
rains in pome producing areas
improved yield prospects, accord
ing to the Associated Press. $?<
The department predicted that
, 2,250,?)0 pound* of all types o I
tobacco would be produced this
year. This figure was one per
1 cent higher than the yield pre
dicted a month ago.