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fight Folio f Join Tht MARCH OF DIMES January 2 to 31 WATAUGA DEMOCRAT An Independent Weekly Newspa per ? Established in the Year I 888 | SIXTY-SIXTH YEAK^NO. 2?. BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1954 16 PAGES? 2 SECTIONS KING STREET BY ROB RIVERS ' ) "DOWN TO BRASS TACKS" Mn Beatrice Cobb, who in her Morganton-News Herald, express es keen interest in old mountain expressions, and their origin, publishes the following, which was sent her by a subscriber. We think it will be of interest to those who peruse this corner: DOWN TO BRASS ?ACKS? All this quibbling and fooling around gets us nowhere. Let's get down to brass tacks. In the old American country stores, yard goods ? were often measured in a by guess and by golly way. From the fingertips of the out-stretched arm to the tip of the nose was supposed to measure a yard. Some progressive stores had two brass tacks driven in the 'counter top, a yard apart, for measuring such goods. A wo man, suspicious of the fingertip to nose system, might demand that the material be measured on the counter, dows on the brass tacks. Cut out the guesswork and get down to something practical. THREE SHEETS IN THE I WIND ? "Here's old man Brown I coming down the block, three f sheets in the wind, as usual." This is a nautical expression which originated in the days of the old windjammers. In sailor's lingo a sheet is a rope attached to the lower part of a sail for hauling and securing purposes. Now if three of these sheets are loose and flying in the w<nd the sail is useless, and the ship out of control. So a man three sheets in the wind is in a pretty hepless condition, barely able to navi gate. Six sheets in the wind, and he's capsized. TWEEDLEDUM AND TWEED LEDEE ? To many voters, the difference between the Republi cans and the Democrats is tweed ledum and tweedledee. Another expression of English origin which goes all way back to around the year 1700. Any lit tle tuneless thing played on a fid dle is called tweedling. You can call the tune tweedledum, or you can call it tweedledee. What's the difference? It's just tweed ling any old how. The expression is applied to two things between which there is just the slightest possible distinction ? no distinc tion at all in many cases. POOR AS JOB'S TURKEY? He was rich at one time; now he's as poor as Job's turkey. A good old American expres sion. According to the Bible, Job was about as poor as poor could be. He had one miserable turkey which was so poor it had only one feather in its tail. Job's tur key isn't mentioned in the Bible, of course. The mangy bird was probably too poor to be even worthy of notice. STRAIGHT FROM THE HORSE'S MOUTH ? Here'i the dope on the new agreement, straight from the horse's mouth. Horse traders have one certain way of telling a horse's age. Birth certificates and affidavits don't mean a thing. They just force ?pen the horse's jaws and inspect its teeth. The condition of the teeth accurately indicates the horse's age to an expert. So the horse's mouth may be considered the highest authority for the veracity of a statement. ADAM'S OFF OX? The man is i stranger to me. I wouldn't know lim from Adam's off ox. Another American expression, much used in rural areas. The iff ox is an ox team is the one on he far right of the driver, there ore the one farthest away, and 'or that reason the one least mown. So Adam's off ox would >e a rather unfamiliar beast to inyone ? something totally un known. BLOW HOT AND COLD ? )n the issue of reduced tariffs he Senator blows hot and cold. This expression Wfrom Aesop's tables wherein a man is critici ed for being inconsistent because te blows hot on his hands to lake them warm, and with the ame breath blows cold on his oup to make it cool. So the leaning of the expression V to c inconsistent and irresolute? > have two different views of a ucstion. like the Senator on the iriff issue. ?? GO HAYWIRE? When the boss ears bow long this Job took, e'll go haywire. Most certainly of American (Continued on page tour J " Deluge Brings School Recess; Little Snow Here * The Appalachian elementary school closed Friday noon, when word reached Boone that many of the streams crossed by the buses were getting out of banks, as torrential rains fell. During the day 1.59 inches fell, the total for the week being 3.65 inches, according to Or. Arnold Van Pelt, who is Boone's offici al weather observer. Strangely enough, while Win ston-Salcm and other points down below were digging out from un der an eight-inch blanket of snow Saturday, local snow was a scant inch, and failed to remain on the highways. Transportation was in nowise affected. * Mrs. Dora Phillips Funeral Held Mrs. Dora H. Phillips, age 78, of Boone 'and Forest City, died in the Rutherford County Hospi tal Monday at 7 p. m., following a lingering illness. Funeral ser vices will be held at St. Marys Episcopal Church at West Jeff erson at 4 o'clock Wednesday. The Rev. Thomas Seitz, rector of the church, will be in charge of the service. H? will be assist ed by the Rev. Joseph T. Shack ford, pastor of the Methodist Church in Boone. Burial will be in the Hacden family cemetery near West Jefferson. Mrs. Phillips is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Paul L. Hofler, Statpsville; Mrs. Margaret Hughes, Boone; Mrs. P. V. Parks, Elk Park; and by three sons, Gill H. Phillips, Boone; Clifford D. Phillips, Forest City; Robert A. Phillips, Black Mountain. Other survivors are 14 grand-children, seven great grand-children, and two sisters, Mrs. Viola H. Ham rick, Forest City, and Mrs. Nellie H. Speers, West Jefferson. Mn. Phillips, a member of one of the pioneer families of Ashe County, was bom near West Jeff erson, the daughter of John and Margaret Duke Hardin, and was the widow of Arthur D. Phillips. For many years she lived at Fleetwood, residing in recent years in Boone with her son, Gill Phillips. Since her illness she has been at the home of her son, C. D. Phillips, Forest City. Last Rites Held For Mrs. Norris Mrs. Victoria Ellen Norris, 80, of Boone, RFD 3, died Saturday. Funeral services were held Monday at the Hopewell Metho dist Church. Rev. Roy Lockridge was in charge of the rites, and was assisted by Rev. Ernest Ste phens, Rev. Arlie Moretz and Rev. E. F. Troutman. Burial was in the church cemetery. Mrs. Norris joined Sutherland Methodist Church early in life. Later she removed her member ship,, to Hopewell, and was active in church activities until ill health prevented her attendance. She was married to Tom Norris May 18, 1890. To them were born ten sons and daughters, all of whom survive: Lawrence Norris, North Wilkesboro; Mrs. Julia Eg gers. Trade, Tenn.; Bynum Nor ris, Boone; Carl Norris, New Al bany, Pa.; Clifford Norris, Prince ton, W. Va.; Mack Norris, Lenoir; Mrs. Mary McNeil, Mansfield, Pa.; George Norris, Boone; Clint Norris, Coval, W. Vs.; Mrs. Gol die Hilton, Richmond, Va. There are 32 grandchildren,# and 17 great grandchildren. There is one brother, Emmet Norris, Mountain City, Tenn. Mrs. Ernest Hicks Succumbs In Ohio Mra. Ernest Hicks of Fresno, Ohio, died at the home Monday morning, following an extended illness, relatives here were ad vised. Funeral arrangements were not learned. Mrs. Hicks was the former Miss Gladys Setzer of Boone, and had lived in Ohio for seven years. The husband, ten sons and daughters survive. There arc two sisters, Mrs. Bill KluUz and Mrs. Allen Adams of Boone. The mo ther, Mrs. Emma Setter, also of Boone, survives. New railroad freight rate rise hinges on wage talks. WATAUGA COUNTY POLIO PATIENTS? These young victims of polio are shown as they rested at the Greensboro Convalescent Cen ter. They are left to right, top: Jimmy Greene, son of Mr. and Mrs. Burl V. Greene of Stony Fork; Carlene Hicks, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cluster Hicks of Vilas; bottom: George Greene, a brother of Jimmy; and Dennis Ruppard, son of Mr. and Mrs. Toy Ruppard, Blowing Rock. The local March of Dimes will help support these children during their recovery from the disease. Mrs. Ralph Tugman, chairman of the 1954 March of Dimes campaign, issued an urgent appeal to all Wataugans to send in their donations to this worthy cause, so that their recovery may be assured. Two patients from the county at the Asheville hospital where polio patients are carred for, and three patients returned home from the hospital ji^st last month, Mrs. Tugman said. The above photographs were taken by Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Tagpian recently when they visited with the Watauga County patients. Mother's March, Ball Climax March Dimes A Mother's March Friday night, and the annua) March of Dimes Dance Saturday will wind up the month's activities in connection with the 1954 campaign for the March of Dimes, Mrs. Ralph Tug- 1 man, chairman, announced this week. Two-thousand dollars had been Imported collected early this week, to be used in the fight against polio, with other sources still to be heird from. Last year over $3,000 was raised, and Mrs. Tugman expressed a desire to ex ceed that amount by more than $1,000. The Quartet Singing at the Courthouse and High School Sat urday was responsible for $326.76, and a singing at the Mt. Vernon Church raised $25 for the fund. Mr. Allen Gragg, a committee member for the Quartet Singing, stated that 12 quartets and trios were present to sing Saturday night. The Junior Woman's Club is sponsoring the Mother's Marchl and persons desiring to contribute Friday night are urged to leave their porch lights on from 7 o'clock until a club members picks up the donation. - The dance Saturday night is sponsored by thp Forty-Nighters, with music by the Rhythm Swing orchestra. Advance sale of tickets indicate the dance will be a big boost to the Dimes campaign. Mr. Joe Crawford, member of the sponsoring club for the dance, said those attending the dance may expect good dance music by the orchestra. Admission is $1.00 per person, and tickets may be secured from any member of the Forty-Nighters. Feeder Calf Sale In Boone Retained The farmers of Watauga and Avery counties elected to hold a feeder calf sale in Boone in 1954 at the close of their meeting January 20. f In voting the Boone sale the producers turned down a sugges tion by the Extension Animal Husbandry Department, State College, and N. C. Department of Agriculture Livestock Marketing Specialist, who proposed a joint sale with West Jefferson. They gave as their reasons for this pro posal the fact that the Boone sale had never sol^ more than 225 calves in any sale, order buy ers wauld go where the largest number of calves were offered for sale. There is also a larger yard at West Jefferson. Local producers stated that there' would be additional drift in taking calves to West Jeffer son, trucking expenses would be higher, and time consumed would be greater. They also felt that more farmers would sell calves in the sale at Boone. Growers present pledged an all oyt effort to get 400 to 500 calves for the Boone sale. The Boone Livestock Market volunteered to provide more pens and to put water and feed racks in all pens. The committee electcd to ar range for the sale and help se cure the calves and buyers were as follows: Lester Carroll, B. W. Stallings, K. G, Shipley, Henry Taylor, Tom Lawrence, Tom Ward, A. W. Greene, D. T. Bar netU. Charlie Clark, Russell Far thing, Lynn Norris, Howard Gra'gg, Billy Coo 1ft, and Wade Tugman. Series Of Meetings Aid Local Farmers A series of special farm meet ings will be held at the County Courthouse in Boone on February IS, 16, and 17, it was announced this week by L. E. Tuck wilier, Watauga County Agent. Meetings will run all day for cacli of the three days with dif 1 fcrent subjects discussed each hour. These meetings are plan ned to get the very best leaden from the College, Experiment Stations, and Specialists. Each team will spend one half day in the county and then go to anoth er county. The subjects listed by Mr. Ttfckwiller for discussion at this time are as follows: Monday morning, Feb. IS? Out look to date; fertilizers, weed con trol. Monday afternoon ? Dairy feed ing, raising dairy calves, farm machinery, how to buy and use. Tuesday mornij^, Feb. 16 ? To bacco problems, economical feed ing, work simplification. Tuesday afternoon ? Beef cattle and sheep, hogs ? @ $11.00 per hundred, pastures and silage, forage crop diseases. # Wednesday morning, Feb. 17 ? Poultry ? selecting chicks, care of eggs, poultry marketing ? eggs and poultry. v> Wednesday afternoon Vege tables, a tip-top home garden, ir rigation, small fruits, vegetable diseases and insects, roadside majrketlng. Highway Construction Is Accelerated In Watauga Bloodmobile Gets 126 Pints Of Blood On Visit Monday The American Red Cross Blood mobile collected 126 pints of blood from local donors during its visit here Monday, according to M. Eber Hudson, chairman of the Watauga Chapter of the Red Cross. ^ A total of 134 prospective don ors reported to the Boone Baptist Church, where the Bloodmobile was stationed from 11 a. m. to 9:30 p. m? Mr. Hudson saidi but some of these were rejected as a result of the physical examina tion. Local members of the "Gallon 'Club" (persons who have donated a total of eight pints or more to the Bloodmobile on its several vi sits) include Leonard Eury, Milli cent Honeycutt, Preston Mull, and Mike Harrelson. They will re ceive honorary certificates from the American Red Cross signify ing their membership in the club. New, Wide Screen Places Showhouse With Top Theatres Scrcenwise, the Appalachian Theatre of Boone rates right along with the largest theatres of the state, since Tuesday's installa tion of its new, wide screen, wid er by seven feet than the large screen formerly used, brought the dimensions to 15 feet by 23 feet. Special engineers from the States ville Theatre Corporation super vised the screep installation and equipped the theatre's two pro jection machines with new big lenses than can fill the big show area with a clear picture that can be seen without distortion from any of the house's 960 seats. J. W. Beach, manager of the theatre, said Tuesday that instal lation of the new, wide screen and lenses are but another on a long list of improvements made at the Appalachian, and pointed out the fact that within the past year the big project of installing equip ment for the showing of 3D was accomplished, along with im improvement of the sound sys tem. Mrs. Harmon New * ? Welfare Worker Mrs. Cleata J. Harmon entered employment at the welfare de partment on January 4. Mrs. Harmon is employed as a provi sional Case Work Assistant. When she has taken and passed the merit examination, she will be approved as a permanent worker. Mrs. Harmon is a graduate of Woman's College, Greensboro, and has done graduate work in guidance in Appalachian State Teachers College. Mrs. Harmon is well known in the county. She has taught home economics in the Cove Creek and Blowing Rock High Schools. Through this experience she Vias become ac quainted with -the county and with many families with whom she will be working as a case work assistant. ? Mrs. Hubbard Ls Taken By Death Mrs. Fanny Caroline Hubbard, -of ^4n'ner Elk, Route 1, died January 24th in Grace Hospital at Banner Elk at the age of 86. Funeral services were held Monday, January 25, at the Lib erty Methodist Church in the Matney community, with the Rev. Newell C. Bush in clwge of the rites. Burial was m the church cemetery. ? Survivors of the drecascd in clude Oscar Hubbard, a stepson of Comumbia, Canada; two step daughters, Mrs. Bertha Baird of Banner Elk, Route 1, and Mrs. Rosa Baird of Graniti Falls; a granddaughter,' Mrs. Otha Wilson of Balmer Elk; and a grandson, Dean WUson of Warwick. Ba. GORDON A. NASH FRANK J. PR1NDL N ash, Prindl To Lead State Clinic Bands Alf ? arc now complete for the All State Ba,,d Clinic (North Western Division) which will be held on the campus of Appala chian State Teachers College Fri ' i Saturday. January 29th and 30th. Two concerts will be given, one by the Junior High fnH "V4 00 p' m' on Saturday, and one by the Senior High Band -30 p. m. Both concerts will Art!" 'he, .auditorium of the Fine Arts Building. The public is in vited to attend both concerts. Conducting the Junior High Band will be Mr. Gordon A. Nash ! chairman of the Department of Music of Appalachian State Teachers College. Mr. Nash is ngmally from Lewis County he attended public schools. From there he Con' 1? Ea.Stern Kentucky State | College where he received hU A- B. degree in 1936. Followin i his graduation he was public school music teacher and band director in the Evarts. Kentucky schools, and also was brass in Foster"'*,8' ^ S'eVe" Collins Foster Music Camp. In 1937, Mr Nash came to Boone to organize the high school band and to teach public school music. The follow ing year he organized the college band and orchestra. He is a member of a number o professional organizations, in cluding the North Carolina 1" "faster, Association, of which he was secretary last year the North Carolina Music Educa tors Association; and the North Carolina Education Association. North CrreS r* Chairman o' the North Carolina Music Commis sion of higher education, which is a P?rt of the Music Educate? National Conference. Mr. Nash has served as adjudi cator for numerous district con tests, and * in demand for band clinics throughout the state and surrounding states. Conducting the Senior High Band will be Mr. Frank J. Prindl rw."nt ?rofessor of Music and J* *!- of 'he Concert Band of a-nasass lMucation i? 1937. He also holcU the Master of Music degree from he ?'Ar,zona where prindi wa? a??tant' bra? director and instructor of brass Instruments. From 1939 to ban*. 88 dircct?r of bands and assistant professor of music at Millikin University De ."isjsrs: High wayJGroupTo Meet Thursday State Highway Commissioner W. Ralph WiAler, of Boone, will attend ? meeting of the State Highway and Public Works Com mission in Raleigh on Thursday, January 28, at 10 a. m. Following the meeting, mem bers of the commission will be the luncheon guests of Governor William B. Umstead it the Gov ernor's mansion, Commissioner Winkler Hid. State Auditor To Speak At Meeting Of Boone Lions HON. he;,ry l. bridges Hon. Henry L. Bridges, State auditor, will be the principal speaker at the meeting of the Boone Lions Club, which will be held at the Daniel Boone Hotel, Tuesday February 2, at 7:15. Mr. Bridges will use as his topic of discussion "The Distri bution of State Money." Born in Franklin County, North Carolina, Mr. Bridges is a gradu ate of Mars Hill and Wake Forest Colleges. An attorney, he is a member of the Greensboro Bar Association, and was formerly Deputy Clerk of the Superior Court of Guilford county. He is active In the Masonic fraternity, and is a Shriner. He is a veteran of World War II, where he served as a Captain. He is a member of the board of Trustees of Wake Forest College. Lytle To Speak To Pomona Grange R. G. Lytle, general manager of the N. C. Milk Federation and chairman of the State Grange Expansion Program, of Greens boro, will address the Pomona Grange of Wntauga County, Thursday night January 28 at 7:30 at Beaver Dam Grange. All Grange members throughout the county are expected to attend this meeting. Mr. Lytle is a dairy expert and| a very able and magnetic speak er. The Grange expansion pro gram will be discusscd I Foscoe-Linville Contract To Be Let In February By VIRGIL G. ROLLINS The contract for the proposed new road from Foscoe to Linville will be let in February, and the last link of Highway 603 is being graded and will be hard-surfaced to the Tennessee line as rapidly as weather conditions will permit, W. R. Winkler, state highway commissioner of Boone, said Mon day, in discussing recent develop ments in the local highwefy pic ture. Property owners along the Foscoe-Lmville route have speed ed up the plans for this road by donating the complete right-of way at no cost to the State High way Department, Mr. Winkler said. A survey will be made on the Tennessee side of 603 sometime during the summer of 1954, but there are no immediate plans for construction of this portion of the road, unless additional funds be come available. This was learned last Friday when Tennessee highway engin eers met with the local highway department to discuss a connect ing point at the state line for Highway 421, and to consider the possibility of relocating 421 from Zionville to Lovill. Tennessee has completed grad ing on the new 421 right-of-way to Shouns, Tenn., and will con tinue to the state line at Zion ville as soon as a connecting point is agreed upon. The local highway department is very much interested in work ing out any solution possible to avoid losing funds set up for the link from Vilas to Sugar Grove, Mf. Winkler said, but the pros pects seem quite dim at present, due to the heavy requests for damages in connection with the right-of-way. He added, however, that if this project is lost, future plans are to use state highway forces to widen and improve the present right-of-way location. In other developments last week, W. H. Rogers, Jr., of Ra leigh, chief engineer of the State Highway and Public Works Com mission, spent some time here Thursday with Commissioner Winkler and James H. Councill, eleventh division engineer. They discussed and investigated the tentative 421 bypass of Boone, and the uncompleted link between Boone and Blowing Rock on 221 and 321. Weather By ARNOLD VAN PELT The 3. 65 inches of rain which fell this week beginning Wednes day and lasting through Saturday was the high point of Boone's weather. The temperatures re mained mild as a whole. Max. Min. 6 p.m. 35 22 26 45 15 34 58 31 49 55 45 50 54 47 52 50 31 35 40 22 26 Precipitation: Jan. 17 ? 0.05 inches I Jan. 21 ? 0.80 inches Jan. 22 ? 1.59 inches Jan. 23 ? 1.26 inches; 1 inch of snow and sleet. Date Jan. 17 Jan. 18 Jan. 19 Jan. 20 Jan. 21 Jan. 22 Jan. 23 Northwest Carolina Group Meets Tonight ? The newly-organized North west North Carolina Develop ment Association is scheduled to hold ita kick-off meeting Thurs day, January 28, at 6:30 p. m.#n the Y. M. C. A at Elkin. AttendancAf about 300 civic, business and professional leaders and officials is cxpected from the nine-cuunty area at the dinner meeting, including a delegation of twelve to fifteen persons from Boone and Watauga County. Arrhie K. Davie of Win?ton saiem, general chairman, hat an nounced that Dr. Mark Depp, pastor of the Centenary Metho dist Church in Winston-Salem* will be the featured speaker. lit addition, plans of the general or ganization will be submitted. The association is devoted to promotion of industry, commun ity development, tourist travel, and recreational and agricultur al development in Alleghany, Ashe, Davie, Forsyth. Stoke*, SuiTy, Watauga, Wilkes, qnd Yan cey counties.
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