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BOONE ltM POPULATION UTI SWTOSSSTE mm district. A good plaet Id ll v* WATAUGA DEMOCRAT ? An Independent Weekly Newspaper ? Established in the Year 1 888 WATAUGA COUNTY VOL. LXV. ? NO. 40. BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, APRIL ?, 1953. 14 PAGES ? 2 SECTIONS KING STREET BY ROB RIVERS THE LOWLY GOOSEBERRY Mrs. R. L. Gentry, Jr., sent us some gooseberry preserves the other day, and thus our acquaint ance was renewed with a favorite of the festive boards of the long ago . . . We are enjoying the tasty treat, and really we had thought the gooseberry bush had been pushed over the brink into extinction a few years ago, when a work project was made of the destruction of gooseberry and currant bushes . . . 'Twas said that spores from these shrubs were caught in the wind, and brought thf fatal blister rust to the white pines . . . Seems that this discovery was made back in the twenties, but that the real business of hunting down the pesty plants only commenced in the thirties as a part of the Roosevelt work program . . . Bands of lads trampe^ through the woods and destroyed the gooseberries, and persuaded householders in many instances to let them do away with the currant bushes . . . We're surpris ed that gooseberries still persist, and thank Mrs. Gentry for her kindness ... It is to be supposed that some are also enjoying the fine currant jelly which used to be standard at breakfast time. "RECREATION" HE SAYS We were talking with another fellow In a local department store, as some pre-Easter shop pers toured the aisles . . . Listened at the words of ap proval, and the occasional criti cisms as the ladies handled each piece of merchandise . . . "Oh. isn't that just darling?" and in the same breath "atroci ous!" . , . But we noted that the items the ladies liked the most were left there, the same aa the ones which found such great disfavor . . . "They don't want anything, you know." said the bystander, "that kind of shopping is a form of recrea tion!" HITHER AND YON Salvation army lassie carries around little red plastic box," in to which one deposits his coin, which might or might not indi cate a loss of faith in the collec tors ... At any rate we prefer the tambourines, into which we have plunked so many pieces of silver . . . But we'll not stand on a technicality, and shall con tinue to offer a small portion of our means to the organization which has such a practical ap proach to human need and misery . . . Charles Krider, who is rais ing Hampshire swine, says he has a sow with 15 pigs . . . Since the big pig is equipped by nature to offer nourishment to but 12 piggies at a time, Mr. Krider, is bottle-feeding three . . . Man walks through town with broken down shotgun . . . Don't know whether there's a law requiring the carrying of a weapon with the breech open or not . . . Used to be that large numbers of peo ple would be seen along King with shotguns and squirrel rifles . . . Many of them had walked into iwn, along woodland trails, and a fellow would often bag himself a squirrel or a rabbit or something, on his way to or from the county seat . . . Lady tells us of a tussle with "little measles", and says they hurt quite as bad as the "big ones" . . . Reminding us of the French measles we used to have, and the senior edition of the malady, which had such a heck of an odor, and which af flicted a whole neighborhood at once . . . THE STARS AND BARS Confederate batiU flag* in |il seen on soma automobile! . . . That* mamantos oi tba na tion's bloodiest war ware vary prevalent a few months aye . . . We never did learn aa to the origin of the fad ? whether it had a political significance, or waa Just a passing notion ... At any rate It doesn't of fer too mufh to the public good to pin-point a conflict which divided the nation in the long ago . . . CUt workers patch holes in tba pavement soon aa the preather la warm enough, and add a lot to the pleaaure of driving around the town . . . Politicians palavering along the pavement durftag the re cent one-shirt weather . . . Shaking hands with a M*f people along the street Satur day? one of. the )oys of living is a small neighborhood , , , Hundred And Fifty To Face Trial In Spring Court Term About ISO law violators are ex pected to face trial in the spring term of Watauga Superior Court which convenes April 20th, with Judge Dan K. Moore, of Sylva presiding. The term, which is to last for a maximum of one week is for the trial of criminal cases only. Court Clerk Fred M. Gragg states that practically all the cases docketed involve the commission of misdemeanors, traffic viola tions. and liquor offenses taking the lead. THE JURORS Following are the names of those who have been summoned for jury duty, listed by town ships: Bald Mountain ? Emery E. Ra gan, Todd. Beaver Dam ? George W. Rob inson, Reese. Blowing Rock ? D. Paul Coffey, Blowing Rock; Astor Cook, Blow ing Rock; Marion Ford, Blowing Rock. Blue Ridge ? C. C. Bowles, Rt 1, Blowing Rock; Gardner Wink ler, Rt. 1, Blowing Rock; Ross Lentz, Rt. 1, Blowing Rock. Boone ? Herbert Jones, Boone; Rock Hatten, Boone; H. S. Storie, Boone; A. E. Hamby, Jr., Boone;] J Morris Barnett, Boone. Brushy Fork ? Tom R. Miller, Vilas; Bunn A. Hodges, Vilas. Cove Creek ? R. D. Edmisten, Zionville; Tom Lawrence, Sher wood; Jim Proffitt, Vilas; Burl Pardue, Zionville. Elk ? Brannock Triplett, Trip I lett' i Laurel Creek ? Vance C. Har j mon, Sugar Grove; R. Howard i Simpson, Sr., Sugar Grave; Ed , ward Love, Sugar Grove. Meat Can\p ? Wade Moretz, Zionville; Alfred McNeil, Rt. 1, Zionville. New River ? Edwin Brook shire, Boone; Estel Wagner, Boone; Arthur L. Jones, Rt. 2, Boone. North Fork ? Archie Wilson, Trade, Tenn. ~ Shawneehaw ? Heath Smith, . Banner Elk. Stony Fork? Walter W. Par sons, Brownwood; A. A. Greene, Deep Gap; Monroe Nichols, Deep Gap. ?Watauga ? Oatha Andrews, Banner Elk; Claude M. Shores, Shulls Mills; Dexter Yates, Val le Crucis. a -rtied ^ Because Boone has too many clubs and organizations with ov erlapping personnel and func tions, (till another group is in the process of being formed to co ordinate the activities of all of the others. This was decided Tuesday night, March 31, when represen Winkler Would Raise The Pay Of Legislators Representative W. L. Winkler of Watauga, has introduced a bill in the General Assembly which would call for a vote of the peo ple orr the question of whether the pay of Legislators should be raised from the present $15 a day to $20. The bill was referred to the committee on constitutional' amendments. Miss Graybeal To Appear In Piano Recital The music department of Ap palachian Stat* Teachers College will present Miss Jo Anne Gray beal, pianist, in senior recital, Monday evening. April 13, at 8:00 p. m. in the auditorium of the Fina Arts building. Miss Graybeal is the daughter of Rev. and Mrs. S. S. Graybeal of Cres ton, N. C. While at Appalachian Miss Graybeal lias been active in the Chorus, Band, and the Music Majors Club. Miss Graybeal, student of Mr. James Rookcr, will play, "Pre lude" from '"Pour le Piano" by Debussy; "La Cathcdralc englou tie," Debussy; "Novellctte," Schu mann; "Nocturne." Chopin; "Fan taisie," Chopin; and "Allegro" from "Concerto in A Major," Mozart, with Mr. James Rooker at the second piano. Birth Reeord Needed To Drive All person* applying for auto mobile operator's license who arc 18 years of age fr under must have in their possession a certifi ed birth certificate from the Re gister of Deeds of hit home coun ty, it is announced by W. R. Stanberry, State driver license examiner. tatives of twenty-five civic clubs and service organizations of Boone and Watauga County met in the private dining room of the Gateway Cafe to diacuu the situation. After agreeing that there is considerable duplication of effort among the organizations, with particular reference to fund-rais ing projects, the group adopted a motion by Nicholas Erneston to set up a coordinating council to act as a "clearing house" for all activities of the town. Attorney Wade E. Brown, act-, ing as moderator of the meeting, appointed a committee composed of himself, Miss Madelein Mc Cain, Nicholas Erneston, Dr. R. H. Harmon, and Rev. J. H. Par ker to contact each of the or ganizations and ask them to (1) prepare a schedule of all pro jects conducted by them through out the year, and (2) send a re presentative armed with this schedule to a future meeting, the date of which was not set Organizations represented at Tuesday's ? meeting included the Worthwhile Woman's Club, to gether with its Music and Art division, its Literature and Edu cation department, and its Home and Garden department, the Business and Professional Wo men's Club, the Faculty Dames, the Blue Ridge Garden Club, Lions Club, Rotary Club, Cham ber of Commerce, Merchants As sociation, Watauga, Ministerial Association, Medical Society, Medical Auxiliary, Parent-Teach ers Association, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Watauga County Health Council, Blue Ridge Camera Club, Watauga County Home Demonstration Clubs, Civil Air Patrol, Ground Observer Corps, Junior Woman's Club, The Gar denerettes, and the North Caro lina Education Association. Dr. Kephart To Tell Chamber Of World Affairs Dr. A. P. KepNhrt, director of Camp Yonahlossee, will address the Boone Chamber of Commerce at its regular monthly luncheon meeting to be held at 12 o'clock noon Tuesday, April 14, in, the private dining room of the Gate way Cafe. Dr. Kephar(*han recently re turned from a trip abroad, dur ing which he visited several European countries, and will speal^ from his experiences and observations on "World Affjlrs." The 7.8 million people at work on American farms in February represented a decline of 1 per ccnt ia a year. Kathleen Gi-eene Parkway Linda Bolick Blowing Rock Carol Lawrencc Bethel Mary Cornette Bethel Margaret Lynn Hagaman 9oone Dem. Shirley Anne Trivette Bethel High Mollie Agle Appalachian Anne Farthing Betfiel High Betty Cooke Appalachian Theda Holder Blowing Rock CONTESTANTS ? A number of the school children of the coun ty who are entered in the Lions Club Queen Contest. The win ners will be determined at the show Friday evening. Much Interest Is Being Shown In Lions' Show Considerable interest is being shown in the annual Boone Lions Club Talent Show and Queen's Contest, which is to held at Ap palachian High School Friday evening at 8 o'clock. The program will be featured by talent shows by a number of the schools of the county, Queens' contest, and a ten-act fun pro gram. The Lions have made every effort to have a creditable pro gram of entertainment, and it is expected that as usual the public will cooperate well in the under taking. The entire proceeds from the show will be used for the benefit of the Lions Club blind fund. ?The Soviet acts swiftly to cc ment bonds with Chinn. Nutrition Workshop Held At Appalachian ? The second nutrition workshop of the year was held last Tues da.v, March 31, at Appalachian State Teathers College, with four teen county tcachcrs participat ing. Miss Winston Osborne, nu tritionist. and Miss Madge Rhyne, member of the home economics staff at the ASTC, engineered the two-hour session. Role-playing, open-forum and "share-your-cxpericncc* were the methods used to get across tfhc what,' why, and how of nutri tion as it concern* the school child today. Displays of charts, bulletin boards, free and inex pensive material together with sample methods of teaching foods unit* in the grade* were available for examination during rcceos. Also some at the latest editions of food* books available from the College library as well an a sug gested bibliography from recent magazines were presented to the workshop. Keen interest wai evidenced by the group and many suggestion* were made by various teachers showing ways to correlate foods teaching with the other more tra ditional subject* taught in the grades. Watauga County teachers are to be commcndcd for their alert ness concerning the incorporation of nutrition in their curriculum, for it not only shows that they are keeping up with the national emphasis but it also signifies again that their concern is for the Chilt Three Wataugans Killed Motor Crash Near Akron Paul Coffey Named On Welfare Board Paul A. Coffey, chairman of the board of County Commissioners has been named a member of the Watauga County Welfare Board as the appointee of the county commissioners for a three year term beginning April 1. The oth er two members of the three member board are Mil. Grace Councill of Boone and C. D. Mc Neill of Deep Gap, chairman. In accordance with North Car olina law, one member of the one hundred county welfare boards over the State is named this year by the county commis sioners. Another year one mem ber is appointed by the State Board of Public Welfare. The third member is chosen the next year by the other two appointees. All members serve for three year terms, but may not serve more than two consecutive terms. The county welfare board, made up of representative, pub lic spirited, socially minded citi zens, is the legal appointing auth ority of the county in naming a superintendent of public welfare from names of qualified persons certified by the merit system. The board also determines the number and salaries of public welfare employees in joint ses Ernest Parsons Dies In Oakland; Funeral At Todd Chief Boatswain's Mate Ern est Edward Parsons, 38, died in the U. S. Naval Hospital at Oakland, Calif., on March 28. A former resident of Todd, son of the late N. C. Parsons, he had been in the service for twenty years and had been stationed at San Lcandro, Calif., before his illness. Funeral services were held at the Todd Baptist Church on April 5 with the Rev. Ed Blackburn in charge of the rites, and burial was in Brown Cemetery. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Barbarb Eda Parsons, of San Leandro, and a brother, Earl B. Parsons. Clarence Fox Dies At Foscoe Clarence Fox, 68, of Banner Elk Route 1, died at his home in the Foscoe community on Thurs day, April 2. Funeral services were held April 4 at the Watauga Baptist Church, conducted by the Rev. Will Cook and the Rev. Eber Gragg Burial was in the church cemetery. Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Ida Fox, two sons, Flcnor Fox, Stewartstown, Pa., and Tommy Fox, Banner Elk; and three daughters, Mrs. Mildred Huffman, Lenoir, and the Misses Jewel and Lucille Fox, Banner Elk. sion with the board <>{ county , commissioners. Annual budgets ! are made up at this joint session ! and submitted by the county I wetfare boards to the State Board of Public Welfare in ac j cordance with statutory require I ments. Copies of budgets are al PAUL A. COFFEY so maintained by the county auditor. Applicants [or public assistance are considered and approved by the county welfare board as a basis for receiving aid to the agedf and aid to dependent child ren. The board, which meets at least monthly, approve! all changes or terminations in aid given recipients of public assis tance. Through the department staff the board also renders a variety, of non-financial services to peo ple in all walks of life. Arrang- j ing for adoption placements of children and aid in planning for suitable boarding home care for the aged, as well as children, are examples of these non-financial services. Members of the county wel fare board advise the superin tendent of public welfare on all aspects of the program, including the handling of any serious pro blem cases. It also acts in an ad visory capacity to county and municipal authorities in develop ing policies and plans for dealing with problems of dependency, better social conditions, and co operation for the rehabilitation of people in need. The board members, with their public view point and responsibility, arc charged with interpretation of the welfare activities to the county. The State Board of Public Wel fare consults with County Wel fare Boards regarding all major policy changes and program de velopments before they arc un dertaken. It looks to the county welfare boards for guidance in preventive and rehabilitative services to help people to help themselves. Paul A. Coffey has not been a member of the welfare board previously. He is known for his activity in civic affairs and for his genuine concern for the wel fare of all people. Sunday HPO Service Stops The Sunday highway postofficc schedule Charlotte to Boone and return will be discontinued next Sunday, in line with an order of the postoffice department, which also withdraw! mail service from two main line Southern trainj be tween Atlanta and Washington. The highway postofficc had been in operation to Boone on Sundnys since last November 1. Scranton, Pa. ? A lone clerk in1 the local olfec of the Bureau of Internal Revenue looked wearily at the .bedraggled figure who strode into the office at five min utes to midnight. The determin ed taxpayer explained he had walked 10 mil<ts to get hi* re turn in on time. Accident Occurs On Easter Vacation Trip Three Watauga county men, and one from Burke county met instant death early Friday, when the car which they occupied crashed into a tractor-trailer at Loyal Oak, near Akron, Ohio. The dead: Charles D. Henson. 19, Vilas; Henry Wilson, 21. and his broth er, James, 18. Zionville, and Cecil R. Perkins, 23, Glen Alpine. The men were employed at the Fisher Body Plant in Cleveland, snd were cn route to their homes (or the Easter holidays, taking with them gifts for the children. Found in the wreckage was a toy gun and a football, while the bat tered trunk contained a bicycle. No Wiinauas There were no witnesses to the accident. The driver of the trac tor, Leroy A.. Paine of Akron, who was not injured, is said to have told officers that he had just gone through 'the green traffic light at the street intersection when he was jarred by the crash. The car apparently slid under the trailer. The top of the car was sheared off and deputies found it about 50 feet from the point of impact. The rear wheels were knocked out from under the tractor. All four men were dead when they reached a hospital. The Wilson boys were sons of Mr. and Mrs. Baxter Wilson ot Zionville, while Henson was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Ford Henson of Vilas. They had been in Cleve land for two months. They were all born in Watauga county. Henson graduated from Cove Creek High School last year, and the Wilson boys attended Mabel School. They had left Cleveland after work Thursday afternoon and were to return Monday after spending Easter with their parents. Survivors of the Wilson boys are their parents, five brothers, Estel, Eugene, Clayton, J. B. and Jerry, and four sisters, Annabellc, Emma Jean, Mrs. Pearl Fletcher and Mrs. Edna Tester, all of Zion ville. Henson is survived by his par ents, one brother, Glenn, and two sisters. Martha Jean and Gail. Funeral services for Henry and James Wilson were conducted from the Pleasant Grove Baptist Church Monday. Rev. Rex West conducted the rites and burial was in the Mast cemetery. Last rites for Charles Henson were held at the Henson's Chapel Methodist Church Monday after noon. The pastor. Rev. Ralph Miller, conducted the services and burial was in the nearby ceme tery. Drama Festival Is I Feature Of This Week The Playcrafters of Appala- ' chian State Teachers college will sponsor their Fourth Annual , Drama Festival on April 9, 10, and 11, in the college auditorium in the campus. Plays will begin on April 9 and 10 at 7:00 p. m., ' and on April 11 at 1:30 p. m. Eight plays have been entered in this year's festival by six schools. They are: Highness by I Cherryvillc high school; Father Takes a Wife, by Cove Creek ' high school, Sugar Grove; The j Faithless, and The Running Tide , by Appalachian high school, j Boone; Heat Lightning, by Cross nore high school; Roughly Speak-' ing, Nathan's Creek high school; j The Dear Department, and A Young Man's Fancy, by Jefferson' high school. Awards will be given for the best play, the best actor, the best actress, the best supporting ac tor, the best supporting actress in the field of drama and in the field of comedy. The awards will be presented on Saturday after noon, following the performance of the last play. Officers of the Playcrafters, who arc sponsoring the festival, include Eugene Swcczy of Kings Mountain, president; Ben Con nell of Concord, vice president; Norma .Putnam of Cherryville, secretary-treasurer. Miss Audrey Eichelbergcr, who teaches speech and play production at the col lege, is the faculty advisor. CancerCrusade Seeks $300 Quota In County "Without our volunteers we couldn't begin this campaign," declared Mrs. John Davis, Amer ican Cancer Society campaign chairman, as the 1953 cancer cru sade opened here on April 1st. The chairman, a volunteer her self, said, "When I talk about volunteers, I am referring to doctors, nurses, teachers, bank ers, druggists, shopkeepers, housewives, high school girls and boys, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts ? almost anyone you can think of ? because they nil have a stake in this great fight." "The Watauga County Unit is aiming' to raise $300.00 this year," Mrs. Davis said. "This means person- to-person contact. It is only through talking with a per son that the complex problem of cancer <yn be presented with the most force. "And when we talk with peo ple during April, which is Can cer Control Month by act of Congress, wc arc not merely ask ing for money as Important as that is. Wc are telling them of our educational program, of how they can watch for the danger signals, of how they can save their own lives, porhaps, and those of their loved ones by alert ness and prompt action." "I tun happy to report that in the course of our campaign in years gone by, our doctors re ported more people coming to them for check-ups, more people showing up with early cancers I that were in the curable stage, than at any otiMr time in Un year," he said. "With our en larged and enthusiastic group o( volunteer workers, w6 should make a better record than ever this year." The money raised in Watauga County will be used for the year around program of education, scrvice and research. Thia means preparation of educational mat erial for distribution through every possible media, the provi sion of dressings and other sick room comforts to cancer patients being treated at home, the con tribution to the (4,100,00 re search program which will ulti mately find the answer to can cer. > Volunteer workers for the cancer crusade are Mrs. Ralph Beshcars. Boone Demonstration School; Miss Elizabeth Guy, Ap palachian High School; Mrs. Ma I tie Lane Walsh, Cove Creek Grammar School; Mrs. Dave Mast, Cove Creek High School; Mr. Clyde Greene, Bethel School; Mr. A. D. Dickerson, Mabel School; Mrs. Ted Ha gam an, Greene Valley School: Mrs. J. T. Sharkford, Parkway School; Mrs. Henry Taylor, ValJe C r u c i s School; Mrs. James Storie, the city of Blowing Rock; and the Jr. Woman's Club arc soliciting the business establishments In Boone. North Carolina i? rapidly di versifying its old row crop eco nomy by increasing livestock production to utilize it* ideal pas ture Inndt
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