Newspapers / Watauga Democrat. / July 29, 1954, edition 1 / Page 1
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BOONE WATAUGA DEMOCRAT ism Population 2,973 An Independent Weekly Newspaper ? Established in the ^ear 1 888 WATAUGA COUNTY _ . _ ia / ? M LS ? Turning and touriit ration. Tint in Carolina The educational center of We* tern North I H I ll*rt ? fr * lTSn ' ? 10 *heep pro<iuction ~ ? *|M 1950 Population 18,341 JSlBi SIXTY-SEVENTH YEAB^-NO. 4. BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1954. M . 14 PAGES? 2 SECTIONS KIN.G STREET BY ROB RIVERS POLITICS AS USUAL Saturday the Democrat* get down to/the business of nominat ing candidates for the various of fices by the time-hotiored con vention system, to oppose those the Republicans named in their first direct primary in May . . . The Democrats nominated their slate in the State primary once but amended the State law and returned to the method of their ancestors the next time . . . The strange thing about the conven tion system it that so many peo ple, after all the generations of its use, fail to understand it . . . At least, many' don't seem to gather that the precinct meeting is in fact the business end of a nominating session . . . The coun ty convention is merely made up of delegates from the precincts who cast the vote as instructed for each candidate . . . Those who want to have a voice in the no mination of a Democratic ticket should start out by attending the precinct meetings . . . AND THEN HE LOST And speaking of politics, a lot of folks fail to make tha grade, both in tha primaries, the conventions and tha gener al elections ? fully half of them ... Of interest in this connec tion is a clipping from the Readers Digest, to which our attention is called by Kenneth Clawson of Route 2 . . . After his defeat in tha Jefferson County, Tennessee, Republican primary last May, Briscoe Holt, a candidate for sheriff, ran the following advertisement in the Dandridge Banner: THE MORNING AFTER "I lost several weeks canvas sing. I lost several acres of corn and potatoes. I gave away 2 calfs and 5 goats for barbecue. I gave away 5 pairs of suspenders, 6 ladies dresses and 15 baby rat tles. For prospective voters I plowed 173 acres and spread 63 loads of barnyard fertilizer. I drew 24 buckets of water, put up 14 kitchen stoves, kindled 17 fires and kissed 115 babies. I walked 6481 miles, shook hands 9874 times and talked enough to make several volumes. I lost 2 front teeth and some hair in a personal encounter with a supporter of an opponent. I attended 26 rivival meetings, made love to 9 grass widows and got dog bit 39 times and FQLKS, STILL I GOT DE FEATED. "I want to thank my 43 friends, AND THEY ARE FRIENDS, for casting their votes for me and to the rest of Jefferson County I warn you that I am now going armed with a sawed-off shotgun because a man that doesn't have any more than 43 friends in a county as big as Jefferson is defi nitely in need of extra protect ion." THE REFORMERS Wa law in him publication, mayba Tha Siala. a rafaranca to tha smugnass of thoaa who hava quit cigarattas. and whan a teg it profarrad tali all about tha day and date thay dlrorcad Dama Nicotina . . . Wa n not ed tha una thing. As a matter of fact wa'ra baan guilty ? ? ? Somatimas bafora wa can think . wa tall of our successful fight against tha ciga. rathar than say to tha man's who's holding out tha pack. "No thank you." . . . Tha sama thing holds trua to a degraa among thoaa who ware finally able to sat tha botlla down, after a good daa) of per suasion from a sat of ulcars. Tha fallow will invariably pass up tha "thank you, no" answar and go into a round by round daacription of his tussle with tha wina glass. Which, of coursa, is unplaasant and un nacassary. THIS AND THAT Mr. H. C. Hollifield of Blowing Rock brines in some wisteria blooms from his vine which normally carries its burden of fragrant blossoms in April . . . He wants to know if there's something unusual about a wis teria which repeats in midsum mer . . . Wc didn't know . . . Oc cupying a back scat at church and recalling that it used to be con sidered bad ? extremely so? to occupy the rear seat if space could be had up iftnt . . . The lads who caused the disturbance and whose intentions were quest ionable always took the seat nearest the door. 9 . ARTISTS who will appear at Grandfather Home Day are pictured. They are, reading from left to right, top, Saramae Eudich, Robert Rue; bottom, John McCollum and Rosalind Elias. Grandfather Home Day Set For Aug. 8 The annual Grandfather Home Day at Rumple Memorial Presby terian Church at Blowing Rock will take place at 11 o'clock, Sunday morning, August 8, when a group of accomplished artists will present a program of sacred music for the benefit of Grand father Home for Children at Ban ner Elk. As he has done for many years, David Ovens of Charlotte, who is spending the summer at Blowing Rock, has handled ar rangements for this event and will be in charge of the program. Mr. Ovens describes this year's artists as stars who will make this the finest program given in the history of Grandfather Home Day. There are four young jing ers with excellent voices and training who have been heard several times at the Berkshire Music Festival at Tanglewqod, Masfachusetts. They are: Rose lind Elias, Robert Rue, John Mc Collum, and Saramae Endich. Stuart Ross, a brilliant accompan ist and soloist will be on the pro gram for theeleventh year. The sixth artist will be Miss Margaret Vance of Blowing Rock, talented organist. Grandfather Hohne is operated by tbe Edgar Tufts Memorial As sociation, which is headed by the Rev. Fletcher Nelson as presi dent. It was established in the early days of this century and has a long record of service in ' behalf of orphaned children. One hundred boys and girls live at the Home. Blowing Rock Day for the in stitution was begun 36 years ago and was, at first, directed by the late Dr. James I. Vance, pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Nashville, Tennessee. After his death, Mr. Ovens took over the responsibility of the day and he has handled it with such success that Grandfather Home has re ceived each year a substantial amount of money for use in its operations. Other units operated by the Edgar Tuft* Memorial As sociation are Lees-McRae College and Grace Hospital, also at Ban ner Elk. Miss Elias has studied in Rome and sung at La Scala in Milan, the San Carlo Opera House in Naples, and the May Festival in Florence. She was a winner of the Metropolitian auditions of the air and will sing at the Met in the 1954-55 season. Mr. Rue's experience includes appearances with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the role of Nick Shadow in "The Rake's Pro gress" conducted by Stravinsky in Boston ,and that of the Count in the Western Hemisphere pre miere of Strauss' opera, "Capric cio.'-' Mr. McCollum received high approval of critics after his New York recital in Town Hall and (Continued on page eight) This Week Being Observed As Farm Safety Period By H. J. WILLIAMS This week has been designated as Farm Safety Week. Fining is considered one 'of the most dangerous of all occupations with 14.500 farm residents killed, and 1,250,000 others injured each year. Fire aiy] lightening alone destroys about $133,000,000 worth of farm property annually! Some ways to eliminate haz ards to safety are: 1. Remove wastepaper or oth er material that might cause a fire. 2. Check electric wiring and appliances and make necessary repairg. 3. Keep pitchforks, rakes, sho vels, and other sharp tools in racks provided for them. 4. Check machinery and add guards where dangerous gears are exposed. 5. Clear the yard and fields of broken glass, loose strands of barbed wire, nail-studded boards, and other litter that might cause accidents. 6. Repair broken steps, bridges, gates, etc. 7. Check for faulty flues or chimneys. 8. Ground metal-roofed build ings to prevent losses due to lightening. 9. Think safety in your daily work. Many accidents can be pre vented in this manner. Dr. Spence To Speak To Lions Speaker for the Boone Lions Club August 3 will be Dr. Hersey E. Spence, emeritus professor of Religious Education at Duke Un iversity, and summer pastor of the -Blowing Rock Methodist Church, is was announced this week by Lions club program chairman, Joseph T. Shackford. Dr. Spence will speak on the trip which he and Mrs. Spence took to Palestine last fall. Mrs. Spence, who accompanicd Dr. Spence on the trip, has been professor of Bible at the Wo man's College of Duke University for many years. Both Dr. and Mrs. Spence were retired at the close of the academic year of 1953. The Lions club meeting at which Dr. Spencc will speak will be held at the Daniel Boone Ho tel at 7:30 p. m. The United States swine indus try, in recognition of a continu ing problem of surplus fat and an increasing demand of shopping housewives for leaner pork, has launched a field research pro gram to develop methods for identifying superior swine breed ing stock. Boy Scout Camporee Unexcelled In History Of Watauga Scouting When six of the county's nine eligible units met at Tater Hill Lake last week, in a competitive camporee, there was r^arked ad vancement in scouting evident over the camporee held in May, according to Fred Gragg, camp ing committee chairman for the Watauga District. Although only two of the troops present, Boono and Blowing Rock, #were in ex istence a year ago, the camping and scouting demonstrated at the camporee would have done cred it, Mr. Gragg stated, to troops established for a much longer period. All leaders were agreed, he declared, that this camporee was unexcelled in the history of Watauga scouting. The six units checking in on Friday were: Boone. J. B. Robinson, scout master, with 19 scouts and three leaders; Blowing Rock with five scouts and one leader, the Rev. Tom Seitz, scoutmaster; Green Valley, with 11 soouts and two leaders, George Moretz, acting scoutmaster; 0 Parkway, with 27 reouts and six leaders, Billy Cook, scout master; Perkinsville, with 17 scouts and four leaders, Fred Miller, scout master; Valle Crucis. with nine soouts and two leaders, Capt. T. G. i Wheat, scoutmaster. Camporee stall included the following: Fred Gragg, director; Howard Cottrell, chief judge; Joe Davenport, Field Scout Execu tive; Bill Davis, of Raven's Knob Park staff, assistant to Scout Ex ecutive; and Joe Shackford, pro gram director. Judges for the competitive events were Howard Cottrell, Coy Bingham, Milton Jordan, Bill Davis, Dr. Lee Reynolds, and Fred Gragg. The troops were judged on many phases of scouting; .camp arrival, set-up. leadership, and/de parture; fire- building, first-aid, knot iyirig; conduct, participa tion of total registered scouts. Blue, red, and white ribbons were awarded winners of the field events for tly: first thfee places. Overall winners of the compet itive camporee were Troop 55 of Perkinsville, first place; Troop 150, Parkway, second; and Troop 109. Boone, third. Cash awards of $5, $3, and $2 were given to the winning troops for the first three places. The judges stated0hat the competition was very close and that only seven points difference existed between the top and the bottom troops. tfighfight of the camporee was the campfirc held Saturday night. A huge bonfire, laid eight feet high under the day-long supervi sion of Frank Triplett, was set to blazing as Buck Robbins open ed the evening's activities. More than 200 people were gathered around the fire. They included 85 visitors, 88 scout*, and 30~ldult scout leaders. Songs were led by Joe Davea port; skits were presented by each troop; a tall tale was spoken by Richard Chase; a time of devo tion was held by Joe Shackford. Howard Cottrell spoke words of encouragement and appreciation to parent*. Camporce leaders were recogniied. And then suddenly, as the firo ha<i settled down to a steady red glow, sending bright spark* high into the air, four Indians In full war paint, strode up to the camp fire. The sound of drums was heard, and other Indians in war paint appeared. Firit the bear glance, then tho beaver dance, then the friendship dance# all taken from dances gf the Cherokee Indians, were giv en, to the delight of children, scouts, and adults, as the Pcrkins ville Troop showed forth their careful preparations of two months to bring this colorful pres entation to the district camporec. By common conscnt, this skilled and brightly colored event was the highpoint of the camporec during the many fine activities of the three - day action - packed event. The closing religious service on Sunday was led by the Rev. L. H. Holllngsworth. Awards were made by Howard Cottrell and Joe [ Davenport Farm Loan Association Holds Stockholders Meeting In City 49 Events Scheduled At Horse Show Blowing Rock. ? Blowing Rock's 31st annual horse show, set for August 6, 7, 8, will offer 49 events in fou (-performances this year, three events more than in prev ious years. The chief addition is the fine harness horse champion ship stake, scheduled as the first event Sunday afternoon. Preliminary events are booked Friday afternoon, morning and afternoon events Saturday and the 12 championship classes Sun day afternoon. As usual, man ager Lloyd Tate has booked events for children, teen-agers, older amateurs, and the best horses and riders making the sum mer professional circuit. Broy hill Park's pictifresque open jumping course always attracts the best hunters in this section of the nation, and this year is no exception. Walking horses, three gaited and five-gaited champions are entered to assure good com petition in these featured classes. Although Blowing Rock's motel and cottage facilities have been increasing steadily, and both Mayvicw Manor and Green Park hotels are wide open, reserva tions indicate a week end with every available bed taken. The 119 boxes, each seating six, are sold. The grandstand will seat another 2500, and the hard-boot horse kibitzers will sit in their, accustomed hillocks on the hill sides. Social functions reirtain the same, except that the Friday ev ening exhibitor party is booked at Mayview Manor this year, as well as the annual horse show break fast Saturday noon and the Ball Saturday night. Clothing Closet To Bring Aid To Needy The Clothing Closet, which is located over the Boone Drug Com pany and is a project of the Jun ior Woman's Club, is open every Saturday morning from 9:30 un til 11:30 for the purpose of dis tributing clothes to the needy. Any person or family needing clothing may obtain a request blank from the local welfare de partment or if a student, through his local school. Many articles of usable cloth ing have been donated to the clo set this year. However, the com mittee would like to remind any one having used clothes they would like to donate to call Mrs. W. C. Richardson or contact any member of the Junior Woman's Club. The committee would like es pecially to urge any children needing clothing for school tfri* fall, to come in now while the supply of clothes is more plenti ful. The committee for the Clothing Closet consists of the following: Mrs. Richardson, chairman; Mrs. Robert Congletaci, Mrs. Nick Erneston, Mr*. Jerry Coc, Mrs. Joe Williams and Mrs. Sylvia Hartzog. Educational Leaders Invited To Gathering Invitations have gone out from Appalachian State Teachers Col lege to the superintendents of county and city school systems and chairmen of the boards of education in a number of west ern and Piedmont North Carolina counties to attend the work-con ference of the North Carolina School Board Association at Boone on August. 20 and 21. These conferences are planned for the purpose of bringing re Clinic Schedule Is Released Here Dr. Mary Michal, of the Dis trict Health Department, makes the following announcement as to the schedule of clinics held in Boone: Mondays 8:30 to 11:30 a. m. ? General diagnostic clinic for all ages. Immunizations are given at this time. Dr. Michal in charge. Persons applying for a health certificate are urged to come in at 8:30 a. m. or 1:30 . p. m. on Mondays. ' Mother and Infant Clinic ? 2nd and 4th Wednesdays, 1:00 to '3:00 p. m. This clinic is held for 'all ex pectant mothers and babies not under the care of a physician. ! All pre-school age children not! under the care of a physician are also invited to .tend. This is a well-baby clinic and not for chil dren who arc acufely HI. Dr. ftadlcy M. Wilson is tho doctor in charge. John Wilson Dies At Age 87 Years John Wilson of Zionville died fn July 20 at the age of 87 years. Burial was in the Pleasant Grove ccmctory with services held at the Pleasant Grove church. The minister in charge was Rev. E. O. Gore, with Rev. R. C. Eggers assisting. The survivors are the widow, Mrs. Susie Wilson, and three sons, I. B. Wilson and Lloyd Mar tin Wilson of Zionville, and Wal- | lacc Wilson ol Cincinnati, Ohio. ? sponsible leadership in public ed ucation at all level* together for a discussion of problems of or ganization, administration, and operation of the public schools of the state. The meetings have been plan ned and the programs arranged by b. J. Ramsaur of Lincolnton, president of the North Carolina State Board Association, and Dr. Guy B. Phillips of Chapel Hill, the secretary-treasurer of the As sociation. The invitations went out from Dr. B. B. Dougherty, president of Appalachian State Teachers Col lege, and were in addition to the official notices which went out from the association to its mem bers. The members attending will be housed in the college dormi tories and will take their meals in the college cafeteria. This is one in a series of four work-conferences scheduled for this summer by the North Caro lina School Board Association. The others are being held at Western Carolina College, East Carolina College, and at the Un iversity of North Carolina. GLENN R. ANDREWS Andrews Reelected President Of Local Merchants' Group Glenn R. Andrews, Chevrolet dealer of Boone, was re-elected president of the Boone Merchants Association at a meeting of the board of directors held Thursday, July 22. Cecil Miller was elected vice president, and Stanley Harris was re-elected manager. Mr. Andrews is also chairman of the industrial committee of the Northwest North Carolina Deve lopment Association, a director of the Boone Rotary Club, and ac tive in Chamber of Commerce work. In other business taken up at the meeting, a committee was ap pointed to work gut the associa tion's program for the coming year. The committee includes Clyde R. Greene, chairman, W. W. Chester, and Cecil Miller. It wai agreed to conduct a vigorous trade-at-home campaign, and to urge all Boone merchants to avail themselves of credit in formation forms to be supplied by the association, and to have cus tomers fill out these forms when seeking credit. A committee to nominate op crating committees for the year was appointed, consisting of Ira Aycrs, O. K. Richardson, and Estel Wagner. J. C. Goodnight was elected to the board of directors, fililng a vacancy creatcd by the fact that Clyde R. Greene, elected the state association representative, is automatically a member of the board. Grain sorghum, or Milo, is a good drought-resistant summer feed crop and is often used in North Carolina as a cash crop following failure of early seeded crops. Slate Budge Visit To Ap The Advisory Budget Commis sion of the North Carolina Budget Bureau were week end visitors on the campus of Appalachian State Teachers College. Those who made up the person nel of the group included the fol lowing: J. K. Doughton of Strat Blue Ridge Parkway Visitors Increased Combined attendance (or the Blue Ridge Parkway and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, which converge In North Carolina, was 107,348 more dur ing the first six months of 1954 than for the same period last year. National Park Service figures show that the two attractions were visited by 2,437,703 people between January 1 and June 30 this year. Of these, '1,882, 912 were reported for the Parkway and 809,321 lor the Smokies Park. Parkway attendance was 110,421 greater than for the first half of 1933, while Orcat Smokies ati tendance declined 3,073. Wright Brothers National Me morial, on the North Carolina Coast, was visited by 38,800 peo ple during the first six months of 1934. Thin was only 2,834 less thin the total for the same per iod of 1953, when the Memorial set new attendance records dur ing the 50th anniversary year of powered flight. The Great Smokies ^ark and the Blue Ridge Parkway, which, have become the most visited na tional park facilities in the land during the past few years, meet near Mile-Hhigh Overlook west of Ashevillc, where a new sec tion of the parkway was Com pleted in 1953 from U. S. 19 at Soco Cap to the boundary' of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Hie Parkway offers a con tinuous paved motor route from the North Carolina line south to Asheville. The main North Caro lina entrance to the Graft Smo kies Park is near Cherokee, on U. S. 441. Land Bank Prexy Brings Message To Big Session More than 200 members of the Boone National Farm Loan As sociation from seven counties at tended the association's 37th an nual stockholders' meeting Satur day, July 24, in the courthouse, and heard an address by Julian H. Scarborough, president of the Federal Land Bank of Columbia. The association, a local farmer tfwned and operated credit or ganization affiliated with the Federal Lank Bank, comprises the counties of Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Caldwell, Mitchell, Wa tauga, and Wilkes. President Is. C. Eggers opened the meeting and introduced T. E. Haigler, regional manager of the Federal Lank Bank, who discuss ed the financial report, copies of which had been distributed to those present. The minutes of the 1953 meeting were read and approved. Taking as his subject "The Miracle of America," Mr. Scar borough said the National Farm Loan Association, which reaches from coast to coast, represents one of the greatest success stories in the history of the United Stat es. After borrowing money from the federal government 37 years ago to get started, more than 300,000 farmers of America, work ing together, have devised a sys tem whereby the farmer can work out his credit needs within his own organization, and now own over 331 million dollars in twelve Federal Land Banks throughout the country. ? Farmers have traveled a "rocky road", he said, to get where they are today, but through their ef forts, the National Farm Loan Association and the Federal Land Bank are now joined together in one of the greatest farm credit institutions ever known. The Federal Land Bank, he said, is one of the first organiza tions to give long term credit to farmers, and is one of ' the few institutions which have paid back money borrowed from the gov ernment to get started. The quiz program, a popular feature of the annual meeting, was conducted by Mr. Haigler, with 75 silver dollars being awarded to those holding the lucky tickets. A silver dollar was also award ed to the man with the baldest head, to the oldest person present, the youngest, and the person who had traveled the farthest distance to attend the meeting. t Group In ipalachian ford, chairman of the appropria tions committee in the North Car olina House of Representatives; John O. Larkin, Jr., of Trenton, chairman of the appropriations committee in the Senate; William B. Rpdman of Washington, chair man of the finance committee in the House; Claude Currie of Dur ham, chairman of the financo committee in the Senate; Leroy Martin of Raleigh and Alonzo Edwards of Hookerton, appointed by the Governor; D. S. Coltrane, director of the Budget Bureau; L. D. Moore and F. B. Turner, also of the Budget Bureau; and Lynn Nesbit, columnist for a group of North Carolina newspa pers. The Commission was on the bi ennial tour of inspection of Appa lachian State Teachers College. They spent Saturday night in Boohc and attended the outdoor drama, "Horn in the Weft." On Sunday morning they went to Al leghany County where they spent the day at the home of Mr. Doughton, one of their members, returning to Boone on Sunday evening. Their official visit to Ap palachian on Monday morning in cluded an inspection of the build ings and grounds and a study of the operation of the college. Japan is expected to jet squadron next
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