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| WATAUGA DEMOCRAT Published Every Thursday by RIVERS PRINTING COMPANY BOON*, NORTH CAROLINA An Iadependunt Weekly Newipaper btabliahed In 1BS8 and imhltatmri tor 46 yean by the late Robert C. Riven, Sr. R. C. RIVERS, JR. Publisher I 'C" subscription rates In Watauga Outside Wa(duga County County C me Year *2.00 Six Months 150 Four Months 1.00 On* Year fz.ao Six Month* VJ5 Four Months 1.23 NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS In requesting change of address. it i? Important to mention the OLD. M well as the NEW address. Entered at the poatoffice at Boone, N. C, a* second class mail matter, under the act of Congress of March 3, 1878. "The basis of our government brine the opinion of the pfopl*. Uie very first objective should be to kwp that right, and ware It left to mr to decide whether we should have s government without newspapers, or newspapers without government. I should not hesitate a moment to choose the latter But I should mean that every man should receive these papers and be capable of reading them."? Thomas Jefferson. The Saucers After five years of varying reports on flying saucers, the air force says it's still checking into these tales of strange objects buzzing through space, and has come up with the information that the things are trace able to natural phenomena, and do not con stitute a menace td. the nation. Objects seen recently on radar screens "probably were air disturbances and reflect ed light resulting from an unusual heat wave." About 2,000 reports have been ana lyzed, the air force says. But the same night the air force made its statement a fellow comes along and vows that an oversize saucer swept low over his car at terrific speed and the rush of aii*al most swept his car from the road. He said the object was a yellow-green streak about 400 feet long. And then comes the guy down thisaway who saw one alight and a little guy two and a half feet tall emerge. He spoke to the strange midget, and spoof, the whole business disappeared. And so it goes, a8 the tales mul tiply, and with them the fears and supersti tions of the folks. Strange Reasoning South Carolina Democrats have agreed rather overwhelmingly to recognize the Stev enson-Sparkman ticket as the party offering, and to place the names of the national can didates on the State ballot under the Dem ocratic label. This is what was wanted in the matter of the famous loyalty fracas in the Chicago convention. Those in South Carolina who oppose the national ticket wanted to place the Eisen hower-Nixon ticket in the Democratic col umn. They will vote for a Republican, in other words , if he's labeled a Democrat. Which adds up to saying, 'Be glad to have a glass of buttermilk if you's label it wine.". Can't for the life of us see why those who are fond of Eisenhower, or at odds with the Democratic nominees, can't vote Republican. A change in the label certainly won't alter the political affiliation or the political reas oning of any candidate. New Political Faces Watauga county, people, who know Gov ernor Gordon -Browning and like the Tennes see Executive, regret that he was beaten in the elections last week in thafState. Frank G. Clement, 32 years of age, carrying the blessing of the Crump machine, defeated the incumbent by a considerable margin. At the same time Crump-backed Senator Kenneth McKellar, 83, dean of the Senate, went down before a near-landslide for Rep resentative Albert Gore People who follow the course of national politics find little to regret in the defeat of , Senator McKellar, who was seeking an un precedented seventh term. It appears rather fitting that he should be replaced by a young er man, unattached to the Memphis machine, which had grown unpopular in the sister state in recent years. The tendency in Tennessee is toward younger leaders in the Democratic party, and there is every evidence that this political change ii to be felt in other southern States, where youth must take a strong hand in gov ernment if the system is to endure in the tomorrows, when the aging leaders have gone away. America is big, strong, powerful and red blooded. It cannot be served by those who follow the chq0s of years gone by. It must progress through the strength and intellects of the young . . . those whose eye* are turned toward the dawn of brighter days, and who have the courage and vitality to lead in days of national distress . . . when those who ?ro silhoutted in the glow Of life's sunset too often see only gloom and despair. I LETTERS TOTHE EDITOR Says Watauga Democrat Constantly On Side Of People Dear Bob: I am writing you concerning the pu0tr which you edit and to tell you *omething that I have felt for a long time but which 1 have never put into words. 1 sincerely feel that your paper has done much to improve our small community. I (eel that you have constantly been on the aide of the people and that you are to be congratulated on th? fine work you are doing. What prompted me to finally write this letter was the fine editorial which you had in the pa per this week concerning the "Swimming Hole." Reading your article made me feel very good to know that you and many others are genuinely in terested in the welfare of the young people of our community. I am not so old myself but that I* would like to take a ?wlm occasionally if we had a swimming pool. Again I nay, congratulations and more power to you in your fine paper. _> Sincerely yours, HERBERT WEY Visitor To City Grateful For Aid'Tendered At Horn Dear Editor: While in your fair city Saturday night, August 2, attending the drama, "Horn in the West," I be came ill and had to be taken from the theatre. And by the time we reached the top steps several ushers and patrolmen were there to assist my hus band in .getting me out of the crowd, and doing everything possible to make me comfortable. And the nurse whose name I believe was Mrs. Mc Daniel, was most kind and courteous, and stood by until I was able to return to my seat. My husband and 1 shall always be grateful to all those wonderful people for their kindness to us in a time of need. Boone has always been my favorite mountain city, and I am sure will always remain so. Yours truly, MRS. J FRANK SHUFORD Lincolnton, N. C. Wilcox Thanks Those Who Helped Provide Editors' Picnic Dear Mr. Rivers: I wish to express to The Watauga Democrat and everyone who had anything to do in con nection with our wonderful Press Picnic, my per sonal thanks. There has been no end to nice letters and editorials from all over the State in response to this fine deed of kindness. Without the fine assistance of the ladies and men who spared nothing to make these people welcome, it could not have been so successful. A big thanks. HERMAN W. WILCOX BORROWED COMMENT POST-CONVENTION LULL (Winston-Salem Journal) "Dull week ? no convention," Mid a man on the hot streets of Winston-Salem the other day,. "Yeah," said his companion, yawning. "Dull week." It's just possible that many viewers and list eners missed almost as much sleep as did the delegates to the Democratic and Republican con vention in Chicago last month. And it's just pos sible that the show was better before a TV screen than it was on the floor of the International Am phitheatre. Fiom the seats of the delegates and the alter nates ? as from the press box ? it was impossible to see perhaps more than one-tenth of the pro ceedings (the speaker, one's close neighbors), and in the almost conitnuous noise, it was often im possible to hear anything at all. But the ubiquity of TV and radio carried the home audience to the heart of things ? into caucusing delegations, into the roll calls, up on the rostrum, backstage, into the corridors and rooms of the amphitheatre. Thus the broadcasters, in one sense, may have labored too well. They may have made the con ventions better shows than they actually were. Within themselves they were often dramatic and gripping, but there were also long periods of dead dullness. During such times the participants and spectators in the hall had to sit there and take it. But TV and radio established such mobility that they could wander at will, selecting the unique or the dramatic to fill the hours of in audible oratory or weary waiting. So many a delegate or spectator returned home and was surprised when his friends said, "I saw you on television." But whatever distortion there was is small price indeed to pay for the tremendous public interest generated in the oratory, the adoption of a platform, the voting, the nomination of candi dates. The period after the excitement and long hours of the two conventions may now seem dull, but the interest is there, and it is likely to con tinue. The result, one can hop*, will be a record vote in November. The delegates were going >bout our businss in Chicago, and it'll be our bus iness to finish their work for them on election day. THEY SAY . . . HARLAND CLEVELAND, assistant Director for Europe of the Mutual Security Agency: "Unit ed State* miliary and economic aid to Europe must continue indefinitely unless present world condi tions change substantially." AVERELL HARRIMAN. candidate for Demo cratic presidential nomination: "Anybody who propose* tu cut taxe* this year i* either ignorant or dishonest." D WIGHT D. EISENHOWER, candidate for Republican presidential nomination:: "Every indi vidual who look* forward initead of backward to young in apirit." DR. H. PULLAR-STRECKER, Superintend ent, Britishttnental hospital: "She (woman) may have leu need to fly to alcohol since <hc to the stronger sex." JOHN STIENBECK. author, writing to Ecio Taddei, a Communist writer in Italy: "The germs that the United Nation* art dropping in Korea are little pamphlets. These contain the moat danger ous and communicable germs in the world: the truth." I Winkler Is Given Post On Highway Safely Group W. R. Winkler. Winkler Motor Company, has been named to f?Vf on the Highway Safety Committee of the North Carolina Automobile Dealers Association, it was revealed last week by T. A Williams, Greensboro, chair man of the committee. In making the announcement. Williams pointed out that Mr. Winkler will represent the deal ers in Watauga county in the planning and promotion of a pro gram designed to increase high way safety. At their recent convention, the members of the dealer association unanimously adopted two resolu tions, relative to highway safety, which were presented by the safe-, I y committee. They endorsed a State financed driver-training program in the high schools, with cars to be furnished by the deal ers. At the present time, a num ber of North Carolina dealers do lend new cars without cost to the schools. The assembled dealers also went on record as favoring a workable vehicle inspection law. Chairman Williams indicated his pleasure at Mr. Winkler's ac ceptance of this appointment and expressed the hope that his com mittee, working With other new car and truck dealers and the peo ple of North Carolina, will be able to provide some answer to the problem of increasing high way accidents. Greene To Aid Congress Race Clyde R. Greene, of Boone, and Republican leader in the State, last week was chosen to serve on the state campaign committee to work for the election of Republi can candidates to office in the No vember election. Mr. Greene was a delegate to the recAit National Republican convention in Chica go. KING STREET Continued from page one) HAD TO COME We had a feeling that there would be some smart crick fol lowing our endorsement of the "Horn in the West" information booth down twixt the Bank and Joe Todd's, and sure enough the wise one sidled up, and agreed and suggested: "You're right, it's a good thing, and adds a lot to the convenience of the visi tors to the city, but everytime I view it from the east or west I am always reminded that a set of crescents used to always em bellish buildings of such a size . . . It's the finishing touch, you know." Cuban inventor gets patent for clock that talks. ATH LITIS FOOT GERM HOW TO KILL IT. ? ? IN ONI HOUR. IF NOT PLEASED, ,.ur ?Or k.ck from Jmillll. T-4-L la .p.clall, mad, tar HIGH CONCENTRATION. UaJilutx alcohol baaa liv.a araal PENETRATING K>"a IMBEDDED |>rn an ton t?et. NOV BOONE DRUG CO. AT THE MOVIES.. "Everybody Likes Boon*. N C.' Thursday and Friday Technicolor Lure of the Wilderness with JEAN PETERS JEFFREY HUNTEft Saturday ? 11 o'clock Night Raiders with WHIP WILSON Saturday Night I'll See You In My Dreams with DORIS DAY DANNY THOMAS Monday We're Not Married with GINGER ROGERS DAVID WAYNE Tuesday Tabiola with MICHELE MORGAN HENRY VEDAL Wednesday - Scaramouche Technicolor STEWART GRANGER ELEANOR PARKER ith u quud moui'e ! Windy Gap News Notes Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Miller of Carderview, Tenn., were guests of Mr. and Mrs. O. 3. Harmon last week. Mr. and Mm. Poul Trivett of Indiana spent last week visiting Mr. Trivett's father, Uncle Joe Trivett. Mr. and Mrs. Martin Harmon of Cambridge, Mass. are visiting home folks here. ? Miss Edith Lee Harmon is on the sick list. Miss Ella May Harmon and Vi ola Harmon are visiting friends at Banner Elk. Mrs. Eloise Holloway of John son City, Tenn.. spent last week visiting Mr. and Mrs. George Ed misten. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Edmisten have returned to Cleveland, Ohio, after spending a two- weeks va cation with home floks here. Mrs. Ollie Presnell has return ed to her home here after spend ing several months in Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Loyd Hagaman of Michigan are at home on a short vacation. Masonic Meeting Snow Lodge No. 363, A. F. and A. M., will hold regular stated communication -Friday night. Work in the 3rd degree will be administered. VFW Meeting Watauga Mountaineer Post No. 7031 will hold its regular meeting Thursday night at 8:00 o'clock. All members and eligible mem bers are urged to attend. Forty-two per cent of North Carolina'* total corn acreage was planted with hybrid load w 1*?2. | as compared with M per cent in IMi. t "Paul Said to Mr. Ed:" Customer: "Are you sure that stuff will grow hair?" Barber: "Am I sure ? do you see that hair brush? Until sime of this hair grower got spilled on it last week, it was just a ping-pong paddle." We let the local barbers take care of your hair, that we may have more time to give you bet ter insurance services. Your friendly agent, PAUL. WATAUGA INSURANCE AGENCY Northwestern Bank Building Phones 343 - 130-M BOONE. NORTH CAROLINA E. A. Gaultney k J. Paul Winkler (Agents) SKYVU D m TWO SHOWS EACH NIQHT ? SHOWS START AT DUSK One-Half Mile from City Limits on Old Blowing Rock Road Wednesday and Thursday August 13 land 14 The Frogmen wttk Richafd Widmark Dana Andrew* Gary Merrill ADDED: CARTOON Friday and Saturday August 15 and 16 Short Grass Rod Cameron Cathy Downs ADDED: CARTOON SUNDAY? AUGUST 17 Night And The Gty | with Richard Widmark Gene Tiierney ADDED: CABTOON Monday and Tuesday August 18 and 19 When I Grow Up with Robert Preston Bobby Driscoll ADDED: CARTOON Mer ffot|20Ult first' THE QUALITY NAME IN THE RANCE INDUSTRY OFFERS... FOR THE FIRST TIME . . . A CRAND NEW DOUBLE-OVEN RANCE FOR THE PRICE OF A SINGLE OVEN RANCE. 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