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boone ? WT\nr\ T T/^ A r\T?TVyf A/^D A HT watauga county | The educational center of Western North ?/ m / / % I / % I I I I IM I m/ 1 ? ?? I Tannine and tourist region. First In Carolina ^ ? V jljL X vJx\ J^ll/iYlv/vylVix X produc,ion 1950 Population 2,173 An Independent Weekly Newspaper? Established in the Year 1 888 1950 Popul'lion UM1 SIXTY-SIXTH YEAR ? NO. 39. BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, APRIL ?, 1954 TWO SECTIONS? 1? PJ KING STREET BY ROB RIVERS i MOST EVERYONE who has lived around Boone for lorn knew Richard M. Greene, who went away the other day . . . These goings away, the crossings of the river, bring anguish and sorrow in any event, but when one whose house we played about so many happy days, and who was so uniformly kind and* help ful to his neighbor's . children, vanishes into the shadows, the road back comes into sharp focus and we refect on the worthiness of the man as seen through the eyes of a lad. A GOOD NEIGHBOR Like the preacher said. Rich ard Gmm was a good neigh bor, and it took a good deal of time lo be good at this neigh boring business . , . Besides time, it took a heap of human kindness and love of people to make friends of the youngsters who used to inhabit the Greene lawn and the Greene home and. 'specially the store, variously known as "the Racket." the "Variety Store." and "R. M. Greene. General Merchandise." . . . Within the walls of that building were stored every thing a boy wanted ... It was a fairyland of tasty sweets, soda pop. novelties of every description, school supplies and clothing. WE REMEMBER . . . Christmas times, when Greene's store had the biggest firecrack ers in the whole world . . . and rockets which would soar the highest and the candy which was the sweetest and the mostest for the nickel . . . We remember the' phonograph which sat on a table in the corner of the parlor at the Greene house, and the records of Uncle Jo?h, which were often salted down with William Jen nings Bryan's classic lecture on the immortality of the soul . . . We remember the town's first cafe, established by the pioneer merchant, and .the little gas tank he provided before there was t need for the fuel except for If cleaning . . . We remember when the store was locked while the proprietor showed us the most likely spot to catch a muskrat, and the sharp crack of a rifle on J a frosty morning, as he demon strayed the art of smashing a ? shirt-button at ten steps with | a .22 bullet . . . We Remember the (fresh dewey morning when Mr. Greene took us kids down the creek when the trout were biting, ' and the big fellow he lifted from (the foamy eddy where the rot ting log jutted into the current f . . . We remember old John and j the buggy, and reaching out a blistered hand for our pick and ij shovel money, when IJr Greene was paymaster for the grade workers on the Linville River Railroad . . . We remember the coming of "Number 4" and the first load of pgy freight to ride the rails into Boone, and the in terest sation agent Greene had in the delivery of the freight, be fore the station was built . . . But most of all, we remember a kind, gentle citizen, a pioneer merch ant, who seemed to know every thing a boy needed to find out, who lived at peace with flis fel low man and helped him along the way ... He was, ipdeed, the good neighbor. NOTES OF THE HIGHWAY Lad driving ancient Jallopy with tha proud V-i symbol ai tachad ... A little farlhai along another depression-day flirtat ?porting tha insignia . . . And upon honor. a third car ried tha famous Cadillac V with tha crest. all ahinad and polish ed like t new gold coin . . . The lads in tha rattlers at least might bo said to hare their minds on higher things, or hot ter cus. or something . . . And wa lecall tha T-model sedans, which sported little slim flow er vim inside, and the driver who a^wayi saw to it that pos ies were in tha containers, and one yr two in hie hat baodl . . . Homo gardeners road seed cata logs aid keep postponing the spado vork. WEST GERMANY The Constitutional amendment that will tllow West Germany to rearm u t part of the European Defenst Community after thai mutua.' security program has been ?dopted by all the members, (tat .keen signed by President HetM 0/ West Germany. LEGION AUXILIARY LEADERS ? Officers of the American Legion Auxiliary which met in Boone Friday. Left to right, Mrs. J. W. Norris, president of the Boone unit; Mrs. Mary Brooks Hoy, secre tary-treasurer, Raleigh; Mrs. Max Griffin, distric committeewoman, Morganton; Mrs. Charles F. Gold, Rutherfordton, fifth area vice-president. Seated is Mrs. A. Warren Niell of Charlotte, department president. ? (Photo Paul Weston Studio.) American Legion Auxiliary From Seventeenth District Meets Here MR. WITHERS Loren Withers To Appear In Local Recital The Department of Music of Appalachian State Teachers Col lege will present Loren Withers, pianist, in a recital on Thursday evening, April t, at 8:00 o'clock, in the auditorium of the Fine Arts Building. Mr. Withers graduated from the University of Kansas in 1941 with a degree in piano.' In 1944 and 1945 he studied Liturgical Music and Service at William and Mary College, and he has done other work at the Julliard School of Music where he received his Mas ter of Music degree in piano. At Julliard he studied under the eminent Bach authority, James Friikin. He has also studied with two other well-known artist-teachers, Carl Friedberg and Ernest Hut cheson. .Outstanding teachers of other musical subjects include Fleix Salmond, Geonraed V. Bos, Vittoria Giannini, Bernard Wag enaar, and Robert Shaw. Mr. Withers played the North Carolina premier of the Samuel Barber Sonato fdr piano Op. 26 ?t Duke University, Durham, in 1951. For the past ten years, he has been engaged in private pi ano teaching. , Last Rites Held / For R. M. Greene, Pioneer Merchant Richard Manley Greene, 79, former Boone merchant, but for the last few years a resident of Greensboro, died irt a hospital in that city Saturday, following i long iliness. , Funeral services were b>:14 from the Boone Baptist Church Suhday afternoon. The pastor. Rev. L. H. Hollingsworth;. Re^. J. H. Shackford of the Boone Methodist Church; Rev. E. F. Troutman of the Lutheran Church, and Rev. O. L. Brtwn, (Continued- on page two) College Choir To Appear In Concert Sunday The Appalachian College Choir under the direction of Mrs. Vir ginia Wary Linney will present a concert of excerpts from four famous oratorios Sunday after noon, April 11 at 4 o'clock at the Boone Methodist Church. The program will include selections from Mendelssohn's Elijah, Handel's Judas Maccabae us, Bach's Passion according to Saint Matthew, and numbers from the Easter portion of Han del's Messiah. Those who will be heard in solos are : Alene Queen >and Gay nelle Wilson sopranos; Mary Alva White, alto; Jerry Hill and Lavon Laye, tenor?: Bob Gilley an'd Marvin Pickard, bass; and Ben Connell, narrator; Mf. James Rooker of the College piano department, organist; and Miss Gloria Gattes, pianist. The work of the 36 voice choir is well known, having been heard over the Mutual network in na tion-wide broadcast for a series of six years. Each spring the choir goes on tour in various parts of the state and adjoining states, and last spring it performed with the N. C. Symphony Orchestra. The public is invited. Mrs. A. Warren Neill of Char lotte, department president of the state American Legion Auxiliary, urged a representative group of some 50 members from the 17th District Friday to accelerate a membership drive to enlarge the state auxiliary "to meet the many challenges and demands now facing the organization." "American Legion Auxiliary members," said Mrs. Neill, "must work untiringly to enroll more members and to increase dona tions so that our work may be She urged members to seek more funds for use in the Oteen Pay Nursery to enable it to op erate seven days a week instead of the two it is now open. Stres sing the importance of the na tional "Back to God" movement, the "wooden Church Crusade" to help rebuild European churches, (Continued on page two) Weather By DR. ARNOLD' VAN PELT Temperatures were mild this week, 'in keeping with spring. Showers occurred during the mid dle of the week, to give well over an inch of rain. Max. Min. 8 p.m. Date 58 33 55 .March 29 64 48' 60 March 30 63 45 51 April 1 59 30 54 April 2 55 43 54 April 3 Precipitation: March 31 ? 0.69 inches; April 1 ? 0.53 inches. March in Boone was a month of mild temperatures with two noticeably cold periods, one be ginning the third, the other oc curring on the fifteenth and six teenth. The highest temperature recorded was 74, on the twenty fifth; the lowest was probably some few degrees above zero on the 4th, a date on which the min imum thermometer was floi re cording properly. Precipitation totaled 6.23 inches for the month, with the greatest falling on the t first, giving 3.10 inches. Snow fell on the first four days of the month, with traces on the fif teenth and sixteenth. The total snowfall was 6.3 inches, the great est being 3 inches on the first. The greatest depth of snow on the ground at one time was fouT inches. * County Commissioners Urge Aid for Crippled Children I The Watauga County Commii sioners today urged Watauga citi zens to help crippled childred by supporting the 21st annual East er Seal campaign sponsored by the Watauga County Society for Crippled Children and Adults, Inc. The Comidkaioners designated Sunday April 10, as Easter Seal Sunday throughoiil Watauga County in a special proclamation issued at the Courthouse in Boone. "The Easter Seal campaign give* to use an opportunity to exercise one of our important privileges as citizens," said chair man Paul Coffey. "It is the privilege of voluntar ily helping other* ? crippled children and adults through our hel|^ we enable them to live moi7 useful, happy lives; and in addition, we offer them in this way the priceless gift of en couragement." The Commissioners also urged residents of Watauga County to gfve greater support than ever before to this year's Easter Seal campaign to meet rising costs in providing vital services for the more and more crippled children who desperately need them. The Commissioners proclama tion text is as follows: WHEREAS, there arc in the State of North Carolina thousands of crippled children and adults; and WHEREAS, bur right to aid ihr crippled is a privilege to be as-, turned, guarded and fully exercis ed: and WHEREAS, it has been proved economically feasible to make (Continued on page four) , 160 Criminal Cases To Be Tried At Spring' Court Cancer Campaign Is Off to Good Start The Cancer campaign, which I began April 1, is off to a good start, according to Mrs, I. W, Carpenter, Jr., campaign chair man, j Two educational films have been secured and have been) shown at Cove Creek Elementary School, Bethel School, Watauga Hospital, Blowing Rock PTA, Ap palachian College, IRC plant, Ap palachian High School .and Wa tauga Consolidated School. Other scheduled showings will) ba to the Rotary Club Thursday ' evening, Blowing Rock School Friday, Parkway School Monday, Valle Crucis PTA Monday night, Green Valley School Tuesday, and Cove Creek High School Wednesday. Dr. L. H. Owsley, medical ad visor, has given many informa tive talks in addition to the film showings. He has bee assisted by Mrs. Carpenter and other mem bers of the executive committee. The cancer drive is sponsored by the Jr. Woman's-Club, who are soliciting during the month of April. Coin boxes have been dis tributed and everyone is urged to give generously. Charles Beck Dies At Home In Blowing Rock Charles G. Beck, 84, former manager of the Southern Bell Telephone Co., In Savannah, Ga. died Monday at his home in Blowing Rock. Mr. Beck had been ill for sev eral months, and his wife found him dead in bed. In recent years he had been living in retirement in Blowing Rock in the warmer months, spending his winters in Bluffton, ] S. C. Mr. Beck started with the tele phone company in 1907. He was made state manager in 1921 and held that post until his retire ment in June 1933. In Blowing Rock he was prominently known for his interest in the Blowing Rock horse show, of which he was an official for a great many years. He is survived by the widow, the forn\^r Mary Bowley, and a son, C. Nelson Beck of Charlottes ville, Va. Burial was scheduled to be held Wednesday, April 7, in Bonaven ture Cemetery at Savannah, Ga. The lack of a standard fighter plane called NATO drawback. Edwin Troutman , To Be Pastor Roanoke Church Edwin N. Troutman, son of Rev. and Mrs. E. F. Troutman of Boone has accepted a call to be come pastor of Emmanuel Evan gelical Lutheran Church, Roa noke, Virginia effective May 30. He will receive the degree of Bachelor of Divinity from the Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary, Columbia, South Car olina at graduation exercises to be held next month. * Mr. Troutman received a ma jor portion of his education in the schools of Boone. He gradu ated from Appalachian High School in 1945, and from Appala chian State Teachers College in 1948. After his .college gradua tion he served as band director in the Canton, North Carolina City Schools for a period of three years. While a resident of Canton he was an active member of the Lion's Club and the Y's Men's Club of the YMCA. He was also an active member of the North Carolina Bandmaster's As sociation, and served as president of the Western North Carolina Music Educator's Conference for one year. Mr. Troutman entered South ern Seminary during the fall term of IBS 1. As a student he was very active in seminary activi ties, and served as student pastor of several Lutheran congrega tions. He served as student pastor for one year at Emmanuel Luth eran Church West Columbia,' South Carolina, and two summer seasons in the Lutheran Church (Continued on page two) Commissioners Select Men for Service on Jury One hundred and sixty crimi nal cases are slated for trial when the spring term of Watauga Sup erior Court convenes on April 19. Solicitor Farthing says court will be held as usual, eyen though the opening day is Easter Monday, and hopes there will be no con fusion. Hon. J. W. Pless, Jr., of Marion will preside at the term which will continue for two weeks, or as long as neccssary for the com pletion of the business of the court. Court Clerk Austin E. South says that among the cases to be tried are 52 for speeding, 30 for driving drunk, 16 for violation of the prohibition laws and 13 for larcency. Other cases include as sault, robbery and reckless driv ing. Four men are being held on rape charges, and the fifth has evaded arrest. Those arrested on charges of raping a 15-year-old girl are Ben Andrews, Clark Rominger, Lest er Bradshaw, Robert L. Day. Perry Greer, says Clerk South, is being sought in connection with the same case. The Jury Following are the names of those who have been chosen by the commissioners for jury duty: Bald Mountain: Estel Norris, Millard H. Stephens. .Beaver Dam: Burlie Comett, Dudley F. Greene. Blowing Rock: Collis S. Greene, Fred Hartley, Roy C. Holder. Blue Ridge: Edith Hampton, George Triplett, Grant Cook. Boone: Guy Hunt, B. W. Ellis, Fred Mast, James B. Winkler. Brushy Fork: Pink Hodges, S. M. Ayers, P. C. Wyke, Willard G. Presnell. Cove Creek: James Sherwood, Willard Eller. Elk: Arthur Hayes, Stuart Simmons. Laurel Creek: Finley H. Wat son, Ray F. Ward, William Rom inger. Mabel: Paul Oliver, Asa Tho mas. Meat Ct.mp: Edward F. Greene, Clint Miller, Russell Carroll. New River: Dayton H. Cook, Lloyd M. Moretz, John F. Cook. North Fork: _ Mack Thomas, Harrison Shelton. Shawneehaw: Mrs. Darl Smith, Clyde Eggers. Stony Fork: Frank Beshcars, W. C. Greene, Dwight L. Stan berry. Watauga: Frank D. Baird, J. I. Ford, Charles A. Church, Arlie B. Hodges. CHESTER DAVIS Chester Davis, Noted Journalist, To Speak Here Mr. Chester Davis, member of the editorial board of the Win ston Salem Journal and Sentinel, will be the guest speaker at the meeting of the Chamber of Com merce to be held at noon on April 13. Mr. H. W. Wilcox, Chamber president, says the widely-known journalist will speak on the "Pos sibilities of Boone and Watauga County" dwelling upon local at tractions for tourists and indus try. G. M. Watson Is Candidate For Sheriff G. M. Watson, former sheriff of Watauga county, and well known Justice of the Peacc, has filed his candidacy for the Republican no mination for Sheriff of Watauga county, subject to the action of the Republican primary of May 29. Mr. Watson was appointed Sheriff of Watauga county to fill the unexpired term of Sheriff C. M. Watson deceased, and served in this capacity for three months. He had previously had consider able experience as a Deputy Sheriff. For the past three and a half years he has given his full time to the office of Justice of the Peace. Thirty-eight small naval craft of the hundreds made available to the Soviet Union during World War II under lend-lease will be returned to this country during May and June under Moscow's agreement of last October to give back 186 naval vessels. College Orchestra To Make Spring Tour By MARTHA STEVENS The Appalachian State Teach er* College Orchestra, under the direction ot Nicholas Erneston. wilt present conccrts in Ruther fordton and Forest City April 13. At 10:30 a. m. the orchestra will be at Central High School in Rutherfordton, and at 1 rOO the gmup will play at Cool Springs High School in Forest City. Ui? Helen Cole, director of music at Central, and Mr. D. (X Cole, dir ector of music at Cool Springs, are former students of Appala chian State Teachers College. Miss Cole was a member of the college orchestra. 1 The orchestra, which is com posed of thirty-five members, was organised in 1S4& under the dir ection of Nicholas Erncston, who is the present director. It consist ed of a small group which was forced tb rehearse in a basement room under the stage In the Ad ministration building on the col lege campus. Slowly the group grew to its present thirty-five member* and on a bright after noon in Janus ry.1952, it held its tint rehearsal in the special or chest? room in the new $500,000 Fine Arts Building on the college campus. This move to a new en vironment seemed to spur the orchestra to much hard work and in the past three years, the orch estra has progressed rapidly in tone, ensemble, and difficulty of music played. , Adenautr urods Ttalv nn rati.
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