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BOONE 1M0 POPULATION un P?rti of the nation Modern buai mm district. A good pUct to bvo WATAUGA DEMOCRAT An Independent Weekly Newspaper ? Established in the Year 1 888 ltU POPULATION 1M41 WATAUGA COUNT* Leading sgi iculturaJ and ft ? UvMtodi. dairying and trv of paramount importance. Blow"/ Summar ruorta of lularr VOL. LXV. ? NO. 24. BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1952. FIVE CENTS COPY Health Department Says City Water Unsafe; May or Winkler Cites State Laboratory O.K. KING STREET BY ROB RIVERS VISITING A LOST GRACE Annual church visitation took place in the community Sunday afternoon under the sponsorship of the Ministerial Association . . Large number of "tean >" made the rounds of the community, talked with the folks and spent a pleasant few minutes at each stop . . . Like the old days, when every Sunday afternoon or even ing, and week day for that mat ter, one had company . . . Folks used to like to bring their knit ting, and talk of all the happen ings in the neighborhood, 'spec ially on long winter nights, when the wood crackled merrily on the hearth, and there were bask ets of apples and plenty of chest nuts, and the capacity to enjoy relatively simple pleasures . . . No, we don't want to go back ? not that at all, we've tried to keep our sights trained along the road ahead, but there are a few things we'd like to retrieve from that other day, and one is visiting . . . The machine age has cut into the custom world with out end. Folks just can't quite seem to find time to drop in for a few minutes witfc their best friends, and if they do, most likely all hands will sit in stony silence, watching the tv show, coming back to reality when the shadows fall, and a furtive glance at the watch indicates it's time to go . . . DONT UNDERSTAND. MAYBE And soma of the newcomers to the community don't quite understand how come we don't call, and why it is that with all the talk and neighborliness ?long the street they never bring it into the living rooms of those who have moved in . . . We know of no better way to promote the community than for the folks to extend a bit more of a glad hand to those who come here ... A heap of visitin' is a mighty good thing for the happiness of the town as well as for the general mor ale of the folks. The church people are to be commended on the visitation program . . . Love of the Lord is tied right closely to love of one's fellow man I HATS. AND FEATHERS AND FRUIT Another thing the current high speed h-bomb age haus done, is to spoil the scencry on Milady's hat . . . Bonnets seldom come up i or discussion, 'cept at Easter time, but with the milliner's affection for those little things ? berets, or something, one just don't quite get the bang out of a hall full of ladies as in the old days . . . Back a few years ago, when big pigeons, and Paradise birds, and huge plumes were common, a lad wouldn't want a better time than to go to some public gathering and watch the hats . . . Then there were the fruit basket effects ? the bunches of pink and yellow grapes, the luscious-looking cherries and wild plums, and flowers of end i less variety . . . We used to mar vel at these creations ? wonder 1 how they could make fruit look even better than it is, where they bagged the bird that lent the plume, and reckon how much the big one cost . . . Then there was the hat pin, which reached iout on both sides to a precarious length, and its fancy hilt . . . These litlte things are pretty, don't mistake it, but we can't help but look with longing at the days of the groceries and the big i plumes and long spears which i featured the gay bonnet* of unothtr era! 0 USEFUL CAREER In tha daath of Will lam Car tor. for many yaart caratakar at tha courthouaa. a long tanura and a uaaful caraar has bam (Continued on page six) New Highway Pos toff ice Will Start Charlotte Run December 1 Postmaster John E. Brown, Jr. has been advised by T. J. Cheek, district superintendent, Postal Transportation Service, Greens boro, that Charlotte to Boone Highway Post Office scrvice is scheduled to start on Monday, December 1, in. line with Mr. Brown's continuing requests for improved mail service to the south. Mail service in the direction of Lenoir, interrupted during the construction of the Lenoir-BJow ing Rock highway, had never been fully reinstated, and this i new service will bring to two the] direct highway pos toff ice routes! serving this city from the main! north south lines of the Southern Railway, and intervening points. The new schedule will operate seven days weekly. The new schedule will leave Charlotte at 2:30 a. m. and arrive in Boone at 9:30 a. m., via Rock Hill, S. C., Gastonia, Newton, Hickory, Lenoir, Blowing Rock, and other points. Leaving Boone at 1:30 p. m. the highway post office1 will arrive is Charlotte at f-'O p. la. Th? total iftsunce to be covered -between Boons and Charlotte ^i:i be one hunc^cd and fifty-five 'jnjastef - drown expresses pleasure tnis new mail service is to be establihed, which will pro vide speedier mail service to the southern points. The Boone and Greensboro Highway Postoffice, will continue its daily except Sunday schedules. Burley Growers Asked To Vote On Quota Plan Growers of Burley tobacco of Watauga county were urged to day by Dwight Cable, Chairman of the County PMA Committee to take part in the referendum Saturday, November 22 on mar keting quotas for Burley tobacco. "Vote any way you choose", Mr. Cable said, "but, be sure to vote." "Congress has made it pos sible," he said, "for farmers to have marketing quotas and it is up to them to decide by voting in the referendum. Marketing quotas make it' possible for grow ers to obtain fair prices for their tobacco by providing a method of adjusting supply to demand." If quotas are approved, indivi dual farm acreage allotments for 1953 will be about 10 percent less than the 1952 allotment for any farm which has produced up to 75 percent of its alloted acreage in any one of the past three years. Public Law No. 528, 82d. Congress, provides that the farm acreage allotment for Burley to bacco for any year shall not be less than the smallest of (I) the allotment established for the farm for the immediately preced ing year (2) seven-tenths acre, or (3) 25 percent of the cropland, provided that no allotment of one acre or less shall be reduced more than one-tenth of an acre in any one year. There will be a small acreage for adjustment of old farm allotments, and for es tablishing allotments on farms on which no tobacco has been grown in the past five years. Every person who has an in terest in the 1952 crop of Burley tobacco as owner, tenant, or share cropper is entitled to vote in the referendum, but no person Is en titled to more than one vote re gardless of the acreage of tobacco he grows. Mr. Cable, said, "I believe it (Continued on page six) The next Governor of North Carolina, William B. Umstead, sets an example for the State in the fight against tuberculosis by buying Christmas Seals from the 1952 State Christmas Seal Sale Chairman, Dr. Hollis Bj^lens. Mayor Asks Citizens To Buy Health Stickers Bccause the Alleghany# Ashe, Watauga Tuberculosis Associa tion is "dedicated to the life saving work of combating tuber culosis in this city," Mayor Gor don H. Winkler today urged every rtsident to support the as sociation's 1952 Christmas Seal Sale. Proceeds from the sale of Chrisimas Seals will finance the organization's year-round tuber culosis control program, includ ing case finding (X-ray), health education and rehabilitation. Christmas Seal Sale begins Nov. 17 and ends Dec. 25. The Mayor officially approved the forthcoming campaign today by signing a 1952 Christmas Seal Sale Proclamation in his offices in City Hall in Boone. In signing the proclamation the Mayor told (Continued on page six) Doughton Lauded; Bust Veteran Solon Is Given Sparta, Nov. 15. ? "If I were to select the ideal member of Congress, without hesitancy my choice would be my friend and yours, Robert Lee Doughton," Senator Clyde R. Hoey told the hundreds of friends who gather ed at the courthouse in Sparta this afternoon to pay tribute to Alleghany County's most distin guished citizen at the unveiling of the bronze statute done by Miss Katherine Sater of Washington, D. C. Hoey praised Doughtun for his Mrs. Wiley Swift Dies On Friday: Funeral Sunday Mrs. Wiley H. Swift, 75, died Friday morning at her Aqpie.in Montezuma. Mrs. Swift had suf fered from a heart condition for ten years. Funeral sel-vices were conduct ed from the late residence Sun day afternoon at 2 o'clock and burial was in the Montezuma cemetery. Mrs. Swift is survived by five children. Wiley H. Swift, Monte zuma; Thomas W. Swift, Win ston-Salem; David Swift, Val dese, Mrs. Peter Olney, Sayles villc, R. I.; and Miss Bulus Swift of Montezuma. Mr. Swift died several years ago. Born February 22, K}77, the de ceased was the former Miss Bu lus Bagby. daughter of the late Rev. W. M. Bagby and Fannie Robinson Bagby. After gradua tion from what is now Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, she taught in Watauga County, where she was married to Wiley H. Swift of Sherwood. They lived in Greensboro until 1931. Mr*. Swift was always active in community and civic affairs. She was State president of the North Carolina Congress of Par ents and Teachers in 1927. She was a member of the North Car (Contmucd on page six) ability, character, courage and loyalty. "This great man has rendered such outstanding service that the people have long recognized it and that is why he has been re turned to Congress longer than any other North Carolinian and longer than any other man except the late Congressman Sabbath," Senator Hoey said, and pointed out t,hat the confidence the peo ple had in him was a tribute to his greatness. He said he knew of no man with courage surpassing that of Congressman Doughton who has served as chairman of the Ways and Means Colnmittee longer than any other man. He said that the loyalty of his many friends was a tribute to his own loyalty. He not only cited his record in the national politics but as a man who ha; served his community, county, state and the world. The courthouse was filled to overflowing for the ceremony which was presided over by R. Floyd Crouse, county attorney and lonu time chairman of the Democratic Party of Alleghany. Ed Darr Jr., president of the Young Democrats, presented Sen ator Hoey. The bronze bust mounted on Mt. Airy granite was accepted for the county by Mr. Crouse. The ceremony inside the court house was concluded by an ex pression of thanks and apprecia tion by Congressman Doughton who was deeply moved by the occasion. The crpwd of more than one thousand persons gathered on the courthouse lawn where the Ap palachian band of Boone played the National Anthem and the bust was unveiled by Tommy Dought on nf Sparta, a grandson of Con gressman Doughton. In addition to friends throughout the district there wore a number of the state officials present for the impres sive ceremony. The Sparta Woman's Club was in charge of the arrangements and the presentation of th4 bronze bust was made possible through contributions of friends. Phillips Child, 6, Dies InT ragic Auto Accident A corner's jury rendered a vcrdict of "unavoidable" Friday morning after listening to testi mony in the death of Barbara Ann Phillips. The six-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Phillips, Route 1, Deep Gap, was killed instdntly Wednesday morning, November 12, on the Gap Creek road about one mile from the Highway 421 intersection as she ran out of a side road directly into the path of an automobile driven by George Perry Greene, Boone con tractor. The car was proceeding north from Highway 421. Witnesses at the inquest said Barbara Ann had been waiting on the opposite (west) side of the Gap Creek road with other child ren for a school bus, but had gone across the road and into a side road, know as the Hegg Greene road, to meet a friend who was coming to join them. She was struck as she ran back across the road, it was said. It was brought Church .Visiting Day Is Observed The gorgeous fall weather laat Sunday lent itself well to the combined effort* of the Boone Ministerial Association and lay perrons in the third annual town wide visitation day. The project was under the direction of the Ministerial Association in co operation with nation-wide em phasis of Religion-in-American Life-Mnnth. Members of the ASTC Religious Council participated by taking care of the visitation on the campus in the dormitories. Trams of towns-people were assigned to sections of the city with the de sire that every home in the com munity be visited during the af ternoon. ? The Ministerial Association thanks each person who helped moke this event the succeM it was. I out that a high bank extending almost to the shoulder of the Gap Creek road would completely ob scure the side road and any per son or vehicle on it from the vis ion of a driver approaching the road. Six other occupants of the 1951 Buick driven by Greene all testi fied that in their opinion the car was traveling at a rate of speed between 40 and 50 miles per hour. They were Grant Shore, Sam Horton, Sr., Sam Horton, Jr., Roscoe Greene, M. C. Brown, and Hill Greene. The coroner's jury, which deli berated less than two minutes after hearing the testimony, was composed of G. D. Barnett, D. L. Wilcox, J. E. Joincs, Fred C. Church, Arlie Walsh, and W. M. Hodges. Mr. Greene, who had been held on a technical charge of man slaughter pending the inquest, was released from bond by Cor oner Richard E. Kelley. Funeral services for the acci dent victim were held at 2 p. m. Thursday, November 13, at the Gap Creek Baptist Church, with the Rev. Raymond Hendrix offi ciating. Burial was in the church cemetery. Surviving besides the parents are a brother, Joe, Jr., and four sisters, Shirley, Darlene, Jeanette, and Linda Gray, all of the home. Watauga Man, Gone Week, Found In N. Y. Sheriff E. D. Cook told the Democrat yesterday that Gran- j villc Townsend, who disappeared from his home in Valle Crucis November 11, had been located at Bellevuc Hospital, New York, where he had been a patient since November 13. Sheriff Cook was expecting other information from hospital authorities later. Townsend. son of Mr. and Mrs. Manly Townsend of Vallc Crucis, has been the object of a wide spread search throughout Watau ga county and other sections of North Carolina and adjoining states. No prior news had been heard from him. Sheriff Cook, Civil Air Patrol Clinic To Be ? Held Next Friday The regular Orthopedic Clinic will be held at the Health De partment in Jefferson on Friday, November 21, between 8:00 a. m. and 12 noon. personnel. Highway Patrolmen have led groups totaling more than 100 volunteer! in searching the country and following all leads looking to the apprehension of the missing man. Medical Group Names Officers At the rcccnt meeting of the Ashe-Watauga County Medical Society v held in West Jefferson, the following officers were elec ted: Or. C. E. Miller, Jefferson, president; Dr. Lawrence H. Ows ley, Boone, vice-president; and. Or. Mary B. H. Michal, Boone, secretary- treasurer. RETAIL FOOD INDEX Tlje retail food index declined one-tenth of one per cent be tween October 19th and 27th, the third strnight half-month period to show a decline. Lower prices for meats, poultry and fish were responsible for the declinc. Health Officer, Mayor Give Out Statements Charging "contamination of the city water supply by the use of water from an unapproved source," the district health department, in a release broadcast over radio Station WATA Monday evening, warned that "the use of the city water for drinking purposes is unsafe, and that all water for drinking should be boiled at least five minutes," causing a considerable furore in the community. The Democrat, which had also been given the release by Dr. Mary B. H. Michal, district health officcr, immediately called Mayor Gordon H. Winkler, who stated that the water supply had been tested regularly and was pro nounced all right by the State. However, the water in question was withdrawn from the muni cipal supply. Mayor Winkler called the State Laboratory of Hygiene Tuesday morning, regarding a sample of water taken last Friday, and was advised that there was no con tamination. The water had been chlorinated, the Mayor added, in expressing appreciation to the health department for "being on its toes" in behalf of the public welfare. Th* Warning Stal*m?nt The board of health statement, signed by Dr. Michal, follows: "Due to the contamination of the city water supply by the use of water from an unapproved source added to the reservoir, it is warned by the Health Depart ment that the uie of the city water for drinking purposes is not safe, and that ill water tor drinking should be boiled at least five minutes. When the supply has been made safe the public will be notified." Th* Mayor'* Statement Following is the statement on the water situation which Mayor Winkler gave the Democrat: "In line with the action of the Health Department, we have withdrawn the questioned water supply from the city system. This auxiliary supply was called on two months ago, and had regu larly been tested by the State Laboratory of Hygiene, State Board of Health, Raleigh. A sam ple taken Friday, November 14, shows no contamination, accord ing to the official report. "Contrary to general belief, the water has been chlorinated at all times, and (he source which has brought, the local health depart ment action was approved by the State department for emergency use some years ago. I have no disposition to argue this matter with the Department, for within myself 1 can't know whether or not there is pollution. I have to rely on the laboratory tests which are made monthly. The water supply is good, according to their reports. "At the time the Watauga Democrat contacted me, I hadn't been contacted by Dr. Michal, re garding the city water. "I appreciate the department's anxiety for the safety of the peo ple of the community, and we shall continue our efforts in be half of a better water supply. Last week I conferred with a Health Department engineer re lative to our proposed new filter plant, and we shall continue our efforts along this line. "We want to thank the Wa tauga Democrat, for giving us this opportunity of being heard i in a matter of such vital con j corn." BAXTER CANNON HOWELU son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Y. Howell of Vilas, who died in New' Hav en, Conn. November 9. Former Boone Pipe Maker Dies In 'New York David P. Levietes, formerly of Boone, died November 3, at his home at Kcw Gardens, N. Y., is has been learned here. He was buried November 5 in Emanuel Cemetery, Weathersfiold. Mr. Lavietes came to Boone during the last world war and es tablished a smoking pipe manu facturing plant. Using the na tive rhododendron and laurel roots for the pipe bowls, with a patented fireproofing, he was able to deliver a product quite in line with that made from the Euro pean briar. Another plant was established a{ Sparta, and later the Boone plant was moved there. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Eliza Jones Lavietes and two sons. Haney Jonas and Paul Ed ward Lavietes, of New York. Rites Are Held For Mrs. Henson Funeral services were held Friday, November 14, at the For est Grow Baptist Church for Mrs. Callie Henson, who died at her home in Reese on November 11 following a brief illness. She was 88 years of age. The Rev. Carl Wilson, assisted by the Rev. Barney Oliver, officiated at the rites, and burial was in the church cemetery. She is survived by the follow ing sons and daughters: Laney Henson, Smith Henson, and Dana Henson, all of Reese; Herman Henson, with the U. S. Army in Japan; Bryce Hence, Glade Springs, Va.; Mrs. Parlcc Youncc and Mrs. Ethel Norris, both of Mabel; and Mrs. Dora Earp of Reese. Nurse's Home Campaign Gets Enthusiastic Boost Mounting enthusiasm is seen In the campuign being conducted here for funds for the proponed nurses' home at Watauga Hospi tal, and those in chargc state that contribution! have been received from 56 individuals and firms in amounts ranging from $5 to *1.000. Dr. G. K. Mouse is chairman of the hospital board of trustees, while Stanley A. Harris is chair man of the building committee. U Mr. Harrii'gays: "Thi* is the first finance campaign I liave been connected with, where no maay,?5 have been solicited without ? single turndown, and many of the contribution* are very liber al." The advance gift campaign will bo continued through thla week and nest and the general ?. (Cuntinuod oo page six) I ' . :^2rfSi
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