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WATAUGA DEMOCRAT ' An Independent Weekly Newspaper? Established in the Year 1 888 WATAUGA COUNTY 1M0 POPULATION 11341 ttisur* VOL. LXV. ? NO. 43. ? BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, APRIL 36, 1143. 12 PAGES ? 2 SECTIONS KING STREET BY ROB RIVE1RS WASTIM' DAYLIGHT Daylight saving time came the other day to the Eastern section of the country, and in trying to get ourselves adjusted to the sit uation as regards the radio and television shows, set to wonderin' just why this "fast time" would n't be a good thing for the whole country. . . . The days are long now, and seems sort of foolish to waste the hours before eight or nine o'clock by snoozing when there's so much to be done, and the songs of the birds and the rising of the sun go unheeded. . . . used to be, the Watauga Dem ocrat and the Blackburn Store, and the postoffice and everything about the town were open by sev en, and a fourth of a day's work had been taken care of before present-day starting time. ... If we could speed up our operations an hour or two "in the cool of the mornin'," we coifld have most of the long pleasant afternoon left for our own devices. . . . And scarce as summer days are in this neighborhood, we shouldn't want to be missin' any daytime. UNSUNG HERO We'v< always had the great - ?>t admiration for tha man who saved tha child from drowning, who matched tha lady from tha window of tha burning build ing. and for tha old gant of tha poam who stoppad in tha twi light to build a bridga for tha youth, whose safaty ha cher ished. but wa law tha fallow tha other day who ihould have tha orchid and tha madal. . . . Tha old man spied a banana pealing ?mack in tha middle of the side walk on tha southside of King in the center of the (hopping district, made a flying tackle through the pedestrians to ga ther unto himself the slippery jackal, carried it half a block and placed It inside a trash con tainer. upon which ha propped his elbow, smiling smugly in the consciousness that ha had been able to kaap someone from falling. HERE AND THERE R. F. Greene busily engaged in tearing away the old building on the corner of South and Rivers Streets, in which he had stored lumber for many years. . . . Built by Messrs Poly Wyke and -Mon roe Maltba, back when the rail road came to town, or shortly thereafter, the building was first used as a woodworking shop. . , . At the same time Horace Burris makes headway on the razing of the old Woodcraft Novelty build ing, which once housed perhaps the country's largest manufactory of wooden gift shop novelties, which were sold in every section of the United States. . . . David F. Greene founded the place, which couldn't survive the lean years, but which did give the city a sizeable payroll for a long time. . . . Recently of course the Lo vietes Pipe Company did big scale business there. But the old buildings, weakened by the rav ages of time and the elements, are giving away to progress. . . . Bert Ellis, who recently sold out his grocery store, mixing with friends, doing a bit of fishing, and confiding that he expects to be back in some4 sort of business soon. . . . Dr. J. B. Hagaman and Dr. J. B. Jr., having modem of fices erected east of the old Smithey Store building. . . . An gel's Cafe being greatly enlarg ed to take care of growing butti ness. . . .Carolina Hotel building, badly burned at Christmas time, nearly completely rebuilt. . . . Palmer's Photo Shop moves in. also Harris and Wagoner's cloth ing store. . . . Carolyn's Flower Shop moves to bus station cor ner. Blue Ridge Supply Co. to Winkler building adjoining the old courthouse . . . and perhaps there are other changes in the business district which we over looked. . . . Kiddies engage in football practice at High School and Frankie Coffey ii the first casualty. . . . Glad the popular lad is recovering normally from a fractured nose. SHADES OF PAST Down at Um Colltg*. where most everything has changed since we gathered in soma in formation there way back whan, we noted a couple of old hous es near the site oi the old mill, on* of which we are positive is the wall-known "cradle house." (Continued on page four) $20, 000 Fire Sweeps Boone Business House Dr. Dougherty Is Again Named To State Board Dr. B. B. Dougherty, whose zeal for educational progress in North Carolina, finds no equal, has been re-appointed by Gov ernor Umstead to the State Board of Education, a position the Presi dent of Appalachian State Teach ers College has held for 24 years. Dr. Dougherty's career on the j state's public school front stretch- j es back to the day in 1927 when he was named to the first appoin tive state educational group, the State Board of Equalization. That board, forerufiner of to day's State Board of Education, was created that year to distri bute state funds of $3,250,000 to the public schools. Before then, state officials had constituted the State Board of Education. In 1933, when the stpte took over operation of an eight-month 11 -grade school system, the Board of Equalization became the State School Commission with $16,000,000 a year to distribute. Dr. Dougherty served by ap pointment on both the board and the commission that succeeded it. But in 1943, when the commis sion became the State Board of Education, Governor Broughton to re-appoint the pioneer Western North Carolina educator. Two years later, Governor Cherry brought Dr. Dougherty back into the states public school (old by giving him an eight year appointment on the Board of Education, a term that expires this month. During the first two years of his new term, Dr. Dougherty will 1 e serving on a board that has at its disposal some $120,000, 000 a year, approximately 37 times as much as that first board on which he served. Local Music Pupils Given State Ratings Beth Eggers and Jody Shack ford, piano pupils of Mr. Walton Cole of Appalachian State Teach ers College, were given the State's highest rating of "Superior" in the State Music Contest at Greensboro last Friday. The oc casion was the thirty-fourth an nual North Carolina Music Con test Festival at Woman's College, UNC. Twenty-four contestants from the entire State, previously selected through district contests, were entered. Five contestants, in cluding the two local* students, were given the grade of "1"; five others "1 minus"; and one student from Kinston "1 plus." The two Boone students were representing Appalachian High School in the contest. Mr. Cole, in his first year to enter students in the contest, placed both his students in the "Superior" ranks. One other teacher, from Kinston, with three students entered, also placed all entrants in the "Superior" ranks. No other teacher secured top rat ing for more than one pupil. Miss Eggers, daughter of Mr. and Mr. Herman Eggers, is a sen ior at Appalachian High School j Thos. Bingham Dies In Motor Crash In Wash. Funeral services were held Ap ril 26 at the Hcnson's Chapel Methodist Church for Thomas Joseph Bingham. 36, who was killed in an automobile accident at St. Johns, Wash., on April 19. He had been employed on a farm near St. Johns, owned by Mr. Edward Hayes, a former resi dent of Watauga County. The Rev. Ralph Miller and the Rev. Victor Trivette were in charge of the rites, and burial was in the Hcnson's Chapel Ceme tery. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Bessie Bingham, of Vilas; two daugfttcrs, Suzanne and Jan ice |Elaine, of Charlotte; four brothers, Horace D. Bingham, Kingsport, Tenn., Bill Bingham, Vilas. George Bingham, Winston Salem, and Sherman Bingham. Fort Sill, Okla.; and a sister, Mrs. Hiram Brooks of Vilas. and is active in the band, chorus, and other school activities. Jody Shackford, son of the Rev. and Mrs. Joseph Shackford, a member of the eighth grade, is also a member of the band, and an enthusiastic fly-tier and trout fisherman of the Watauga trout streams. K. J. Aldridge Funeral Is Held K. J. Aldridge, age 64, of Kingsport, Tenn., died at Moun tain Home Veterans Hospital in Johnson City, Tenn. Tuesday, April 21. He had been a patient there for more than two months. Mr. Aldridge was the son of the late James A. and Sally Ald ridge of the Foscoe community. Funeral services were conduct ed at the home by Rev. S. K. Widncr and Eev. Ralph Cook. Interment was in the Oak Hill Cemetery, Kingsport, Tenn., with Hammond Post No. 3 American Legion in charge. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Eva King Aldridge, a step-son, Randolph of Cherry Point, N. C. and the following brothers and sisters: Harry Aldridge, Concord, Calif.; Linville Aldridge, Banner Elk, N. C.; John Aldridge, Boone; Mi's. Jud Wagoner, Bluefield, W. Va , Mrs. David Wyke and Mrs. Russell Gragg of Boone. Bull Sale Held Last Saturday The Watauga Hereford Breed ers sold 19 bulls in the first an nual bull sale at Boone on Satur day, April 25, for a total of )3, 123.50. The farmers found tlys a good sale in. which to buy bulls to head their herds. The Watauga farmers who took advantage of the opportunity were John W. Earp, Barnard Dougherty, Ralph Church, Jones Hollar, V. C. Greene, Walter Edmiften, A. D. Henson, Vannoy Brothers, Tom Townsend, Howard Vannoy. C. A. Church, and Raleigh Wilson. Liberalized world trade i< held essential for U. S. Donna Wellborn Is Winner Spelling Bee Donna Wellborn, ? member of the eighth grade in the Parkway School, won first place in the Watauga County Spelling fece held at Appalachian High School on Thursday, April 23. She will rcprcacnt Watauga County In the Journal-Sentinel Spelling Bee on Saturday, May 9, in Wimton Salem. Second place in the spelling contest was won by Allen Trip lets an eighth grade student of Blowing Rock School I Other students participating in j the spelling contest were Jody Shackford of Appalachian's eighth grade, Wilma Moretz of the seventh grade at Green Val ley School, and Florence Fox of the Vallc Cruel* seventh grade. Mrs. Maragaret Gragg of Ap palachian ffigh School was In charg| of the spelling contest. Judges were Miss Shirley Sher rill, a senior at Appalachian, and Mr. Merrill Sfcyder, mathematics teacher. - A fire which broke out early Monday evening and raged for an hour before it was brought, under control by hte local (ire department, resulted in damage estimated at $14,000 to two Boone firms. Damage to the building was unofficially placed at be tween $9,000 and |10,000. Flames erupted at about 6:30 p. m. in the rear of the building on East Main Street, owned by E. N. Hahn and housing the i Home Jewelry Company and the ' Paul Weston Photo Studio. Both stores were closed for the day, as were the majority of Boone business places. ( | Glenn Howell, owner of the jewelry store, said the loss by fire and water to his stock would amount to at least *10,000, while Paul Weston placed his Ions, mostly by water damage, at about $4,000. Both losses were partially covered by insurance. The flames burned through the floor of one room of the Watauga Hotel, situated on the second floor of the building and operat ed by Mr. and Mrs. Wade Jack son, but caused little other dam age. Several guests of the hotel escaped through an outaide en trance, and none was injured. The cause of the blaze is not known, although Fire Chief How artl Cottrell advanced a theory of spontaneous combustion upon discovering a quantity* of waste and a container of cleaning fluid in the stockroom of the jewelry store, where the fire is believed to have started. Lawrence Phillip To Give Recital The Music Department of A. S. T. C. will present Mr. Law rrncc Phillip*, baritone, in Sen ior Recital on Friday evening, May 1st at 8:00 o'clock p. m. in the FiM Arts building auditor ium. The public is Invited to at tend. Mr. Phillips is the son of Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Phillips of Boone. He is a graduate of Appalachian High School and after graduat ing came to study music at A. S. T. C. Mr. Phillips will receive1 his B. S. degree in August 1953. While at Appalachian he was a member of the Male Octet, Double Mixed Octet, College Choir, Band and Orchestra. He was solist in the presentation of the Messiah in 1952 and is fre quently heard as solist through out the state. Miss Jo Anne Graybcal, who has just given a most successful senior piano recital, and student of Mr. James Rooker will ac company Mr. Phillips. Mr. Phillipk will ling for his last group of song two operatic duets. Miss Marie Vaught, sopra no and sophomore at A. S. T. C. will join him in the duets. The program will consist of the following: Silent Worship by G. F. Han del, Victorious My Heart by G. Crissimi, Will Thou Knowest, by G. Torelli, My Lord What a Morning by H. T. Burleigh, Oh What a Beautiful City by E. Boatner, Were You There by H. T. Burleigh. Love's Offering, Phillis Has Such Charming Grac es by H. L. Wilson, The Bitter ness of Love by Dunn, and Friend O' Mine by Sanderson. Miss Graybeal will perform at the piano Golliwog's Cake Walk by Debussy and La Comparsa by Lecuona. The duets sung by Mr. Phillips and Mis? Vaught ai'e Nay, Mid Mc Not Resign, Love, and Oh Why Arc You So Cruel, both by Mozart. . Miss Geer Given College Honors Mij? Eleanor Goer of Boone has been tapped for membership In Ta*sel*. honorary leadership or ganization for women, at Wake Forest College. Membership is limited to three per cent of the college co-eds, and is based on character, service, leadership and scholarship. Miss Geer is outstanding in college1 dramatics, is vice-president of Al pha Psi Omega. ? meifiber of (he Beta BeU Beta, and associate business manager of radio station WFDD. East German military forces are placed at 730,000. April Observed As Child Welfare Month By Legion The American Legion and the Auxiliary members are obcerving April ai Child Welfare Month. For a quarter of a century they have been carrying on a child welfare program. The American Legion Auxiliary of American Legion Post 130 has a limited fund set aside for as sistance to children of deceased, disabled or sick war veterans, when such children are in need of necessities not secured through other established sources. This is not to be considered charity but a service , rendered to children of veterans. Anyone who knows a veteran's children are in need should contact Mrs. J. W. Norris, Auxiliary President of American Legion Post 130. Temporary help could be provided in a limited way in Watauga County. The lo cal Auxiliary will gladly render this service to needy children of veterans. Miss Beth Eggers To Give Recital Miss Beth Eggers. of Appala lachian High School, will present a recital in piano at the Fine Arts Building, Appalachian State Teacher* College, Thursday night, at 8 o'clock. Miss Eggers is a student of Walton S. Cole. Miss Eggers has been active in music at the high school and has accompanied both Glee Clubs and the Chorus, for the past four years. She won a superior rating at the district contest in piano and also a superior rating at the State contest in Greensboro last Friday. The program for the recital is as follows: Prelude No. V (Well Tempered Clavichord; Bach; Three Part Invention No. 3, Bach: Sonata m E, Haydn; Sonata in C minor, Op. I#, No. 1, Beethoven; La Danse de Puck. Debussy; La Cathedrals englontie, Debufsy; Copcerto No. IV in D minor, Ru binstein. Mr. Cole will play sec ond piano. V. F. W. Elects Slate Officers The Veterans o f Foreign Wars Post 7031, installed a new set of officers last Thursday evening. Commander Misskelley of North Wilkcsboro was the installing off icer. The new officers arc: Custer Wallace, Commander Jack Hodges, Vice-Commander. Kenneth Moratz, Jr., Vice-Com mander. Dean Norris, Quartermaster. Charles Younco, Adjutant. Hort Bledsoe and Guy Shirley, Trustees. The VFW district meeting was held in Lenoir March 29. John T. King, past post commander, was elected district commander, and Dean Norris was elected dis trict quartermaster. Mile-High Parts Of Parkway Are Open Mile-high sections of the Blue Ridge Parkway east of Asheville were opened April 15 but caution signs remain up until any dan ger of unseasonable ice passes. Full Parkway facilities, includ ing snack shop at Cumberland Knob, gas station and snack shop at Crabtree Meadows, and restaurant, lodge and garage at Doughton Park will be open by mkl-May. Home Ec Students At East Carolina Meeting Thr*? Home Economic* stud ents, Patty Hankley, BcUy Rca, vice president of the state or ganization. and Annie Rae Martin and club advisor, Miss Marion Adams, attended the eighth an nual workshop of the college clubs division of the North Caro lina Home Ecoiymics Associa tion held at East Carolina Col lege, Greensville, N. C., on April 17. IS, It. Tbc theme of the work shop was "Young Home Econo mists Accept the Challenge" with programs emphasizing the Home Economics student facing the fu ture. At the business session on Sat urday afternoon Patty Hankley, i Appalachian Junior from Galax, Virginia, wn elected state presi dent (or 1993-54. She and other state officers were installed at the banquet on Saturday night. Mlas Marion Adams was electcd state advisor for the coming year and will assume her duties on August l?t with appointment to the council of NCHEA. At a recent meeting of the local Home Economics Club, Patty Hanklcy was elected club presi dent and will take office at the installation service on May 7. Other local officers elected for 1VS3-M are vice president, 'Annie Rae Martin, secretary and trea surer, Esther Moore, reporter, Rick Crump and Jon Water*. Electronic Plant Is Sought For Boone Baptist Association Program Is Released The spring session of the Three i Forks Baptist Association is to I be held at the Willow Valley | Baptist Church Thursday, May j 14, starting at I: JO a. m., it is' learned from Clyde R. Greene, member of the program commit tee. The theme for the session will be "Teaching Them To Observe All Things," and the subject will be "Sunday Schools." Following is the complete, pro gram : Song service. Rev. Rex West; devotional, Rev. Gene Sherwood; Presentation of program. Wade E. Brown; What the Sunday School Means, to the Church in Evungel ism, Rev. Rex West; In Teaching and Training, Rev. E. O. Gdre: History of the Sunday School in Three Forks Association, Wood row Green. Noon recess. Devotional. Howard Hodges; "A Million More in '54"? Plans for Vacation Bible School, C. J. Far thing; Plans for Sunday School Enlargement Program, C. O Vance; Address: "Teaching Them To Observe All Things," Rev. L. H. Hollingsworth. The program committee is com posed of Rev. R. C. Eggers, Mrs. Blanche Perry, Clyde R. Greene. Students Given Chance At "Horn" Tickets School pupila studying North Carolina 'History are earing free tickets to the outdoor drama "Horn in the West" by partici pating in an historical quiz con test conducted by the Southern Appalachian Historical Associa-j tion, producers of the drama; which opens ift second season June 26 at Boone. Each student who takes part in the quiz contest will receive a pass to the drama. The boy and girl in each school who score the highest in the quiz contest will be eligible to take part in an historical essay contest for which cash prizes will be award- | ! Announcement of the contest NCEA Elects Dr. Workman To Board At the annual meeting of the North Carolina Education in Asheville a short time ago, the Executive Committee of the North Carolina Council Soc ial Studies, selected Dr. J. H. Workman, head of the Depart ment of Economics at Appala chian State Teachers College, to, serve on the editorial board of the Bulletin for Social Studies. The purpose of this board is to formulate policies and procedures for the publication.' It would in volve participation in decisions as to the type Of material that would be most useful to the soc ial studies teachers of the state, also, to find and encourage ap propriate teachers to write for the publication. HOUSING LOAN CONTROLS FHA and VA loans on hous^ig now may be made without the controls imposed by the Defense Production Act, according to FHA administrator, Albert M. Cole. This means: 1. FHA mortgages now may be made repayable in 25 or 30 years, instead of a maxi mum of 20 years, and the four or five per cent minimum down payment requirements, depend ing on cost, for VA housing are abolished. Down payments will now be regulated by commercial requirements. VA mortgages may be made repayable in as much as 30 years. ? ? was made through ine scnool principals in Western and Pied mont North Carolina. William M. Hardy, general manager of "Horn in the West," says that several thousand pupils have al ready submitted their answers to the quiz. Entries from each school are being judged as soon as they are received, so that the winners may begin work on their essays. The quiz was prepared by Dr. D. J. Whitener, professor of American History at Appalachian State Teachers College, Boone, and executive vice president of the Historical Association. "Horn in the West" tells of the westward movement of North Carolina settlers and events which took place in the Southern Appalachians during the late 1700's. Subjects for essays arc listed as follows by Dr. Whitener; "My Ancestors in the Westward Move ment, 1740-1790"; "My Ancestors in a Battle of the American Re volution"; and "The Influence of Toryism in North Carolina on the Westward Movement, 1740 1783." Joan Campbell Dies From Polio Joan Campbell, 14, daughter of1 Mr. and Mrs. Ray Campbell) former resident* of Watauga, who now live in Caldwell, died Wed nesday at the Asheville Orth paedic Hospital, from an illness with polio. Funeral services were held in the Gamewell neighborhood Fri day afternoon. She was a niece of Mrs. D. E. Bcnfield of Boone. BLOWING ROCK REFERENDUM BILL IS KILLED A bill introduced by Senator Shuford of Hickory which would give the people of Blowing Rock an opportunity to vote on wheth er or not they want liquor stores in the resort town, was killed in the State Senate Tuesday by a vote of 26 to 13. BULLETIN! A Houm commit!** late Tues day igrttd to vote 110,000 for th? historical pafaant. "Horn in th* W*it" at Boon*. Survey Of Labor Is Being Made One of the nation's leading electronics manufacturers is con sidering the establishment of a plant in Watauga county, and while no details concerning the proposed venture can be given out, the Chamber of Commerce believes that the industry' will materialize if the labor supply is satisfactory. Accordingly the Chamber of Commerce is conducting a thor ough-going Watauga county la-, bor survey, in an effort to have something definite to show the manufacturers who are interested in this locality. Cards are being ? distributed through the schools and otherwise, and all those 16 to 50 years of age, who would be interested in working in the pro posed plant, are asked to fill in one of the cards and return it' to the Boone Chamber of Commerce at once. If moret convenient, the blank appearing on this page may be clipped, filled in and return ed. There is no obligation in volved in signing one of the forms. It is requested that there be full cooperation, so that the labor survey may be completed by May 10. Wade Hampton, 70, Taken By Heath Walter Wade Hampton, of Triplett. died in Watauga Hos pital on April 22, following a heart attack three days previous ly. He was 70 years of age. Funeral services were held Ap ril 25 at the Mount Ephriam Bap tist Church at Triplett, conducted by the Rev. Raymond Hendrix and the Rev. Roscoe Greene. Bur ial was in the Mount Lawn Cem etery at Boone. Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Nora May Hampton, Trip l?tt; two sons, John W. Hampton, Deep Gap, and Jerry D. Hampton, Triplett; two daughters, Mrs. G. C. Beachum, Lawton, Okla., and Mrs. Robert L.' Taylor, Akron, Ohio; a brother. Albert Hampton of Lenoir; and four sisters. Mrs. Lorraine Broyhill, Triplett, Mrs. Ellen Hamby, Lenoir, Mrs. Alice Triplett, Akron, Ohio, and Mrs. Mary Miller, Deep Gap. Principal Mail Arrives At 7:30 On May 1, tnc arrival time of the principal mail to Boone will be advance from 8:15 a. m. to 7:30 A. M. This will be the first time in the history of the office that mail from Eastern North Carolina mailed the previous day will ar rive in Boone before the opening of business houses. This applies as well to mail from Washington, Baltimore, Atlanta and other east ern points. 1 This is possible by the ad vancement of leaving time of the Greensboro and Boone Highway Post Office from the Greensboro terminal at 2:30 A. M. instead of the present time of 3:00 A. M. Hot water is termed best in washing nylons. WATAUGA COUNTY LABOR SURVEY (Please complete and return immediately to the Boone Chamber of Commerce) s First name Middle initial Last name . Complete address Male Female Age * Do you have phone? Education: College High School Elementary Arc you available for labor located in or around Boone? Yes .... No Have you had factory experience of any type? II so how much time have you spent In factory work? ........ years. There are .... others in my family who might be interested.
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