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BOONE. WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JUNE U, IMS
14 FAGE?^4 SECTIONS
Health Work Curtailed, Says
Dr. Michael; Budget Cut Cited
County Gives
$9,080 To Public
Health Budget
The board of county commis
sioner* has tenatively budgeted
$9,080 to the District Health de
partment.
In connection with the cut of
$2,400 from the previous year, lir.
Arlie Walsh, chairman of the
board, gives the following break
down of individual county contri
butions, Federal and State receipts
for the District:
Alleghany: State $4,524, Federal
$391, County $4,200.
Ashe: State $7,949, Federal $1,- '
229, County $8,000.
Watauga: State $8,932, Federal
$979, County $9,080. |
Watauga county, Mr. Walsh J
points out, has been paying $11,
480 as against $8,000 for Ashe (
county. i
Mr. Walsh states that Watauga
county is thus contributing more
of the taxpayers' money actually, 1
and on a population basis than any <
county in the district, and receives <
less from the State and Federal 1
governments in proportion to the 1
population. 1
John Johnson (
Dies In Roanoke
John A. Johnson, 84, former Wa
taugan, died at the home ol a
daughtei , Mrs. 0. E. Hollar in
Roanoke, Va., last Saturday.
Funeral services were conduct
ed Monday from the St. John's
Church at Valle Crucis by Rev. W.
C. Payne, and burial was in the
church eemetery.
Surviving are a son, Marion
Johnson, Boone, and a daughter,
Mrs. 0.? E. .Hollar, Roanoke, Va.
W. H. GRAGG
Watt Gragg Is
Elected President
S. & L League
Watt H. Gragg, secretary of the
Watauga Savings and Loan A.,
locution, was installed as presi
ient of the Nprth Carolina Savings
ind Loan League at the convention
leld in Roanoke, Va., Saturday
>vening.
He was elected unanimously by
he 325 delegates.
The League represents six
jundred and fifty million dollars
n resources in North Carolina. |
Mr. Gragg had previously served
is a member of the board of dir
ctorn of the League and was vice
iresident last year. He has been
onsistently active Jn League acti
vities for many years.
He has been secretary of the
Vatauga Savings 4 Loan Associa
ion for almost 35 years.
Besides Mr. Gragg, local Savings
t boas officials at the Roanoke
nee ting were H. Grady Farthing,
iferidfflt and C. M. Critcher, vice
iresident.
Health Official
Says One Nurse
Must Be Dropped
The program of the Watauga
County office of the Alleghany
Ashe-Watauga District Health De
partment will be sharply curtailed
July 1, following a cut in the
budget for the new fiscal year
1935-1856. reports Dr. Mary Hichal,
district health officer, who adds:
"This will necessitate dropping one
of the two public health nurses
from the staff. Mrs. Claudine Ed
misten, who was employed this
spring to fill a vacancy, will no
longer be employed."
Dr. Micbal, who serves the coun
ties of Alleghany, Ashe and Wa
tauga as administrator of the en
tire health program including san
itation, public health nursing, bus
iness and medical direction, says,
"With one nurse, by minimum
standards of the American Public
Health Association needed for each
4,(XXM,000 population, the present
two nurses for 18,342 population
is grossly inadequate."
' Dr. Michal states that although
there were several vacancies when
she came to the department they
were soon filled and there have
been few for only short periods of
time aince then. The only district
employee is the health officer,
with a sanitarian, secretary, in
each county and one public health
nurse in Alleghany ? population 8,
155, two in Ashe County ? popula
tion 21,878, and two in Watauga
? population 18, 342.
"Dui to inadequate appropria
tion in Ashe County one nurse has
also been dropped there," Dr. Mi
chal says, and add*, "The effect of
this cut on services rendered in
each county will be serious. Fur
ther notice of these changes will
be given later."
Citizens Being Offered Free
X-Rays; Perils Of TB Cited
By MRS. FRANCES C. FRANCIS
Every adult 19 years of age and
over will be offered free cheat X
raya June 18 through 18, Blowing
Rock, and June 21 thi'ougb July 9,
Boone, in a drive to uncover every
Health Leaders
Are Advised Of
Polio Serum Plan
Dr. W. Kenneth Lane, medical
consultant of the National Founda
tion for Infantile Paralysis, spoke
to the annual meeting of the West
ern N. C. Public Health Associa
tion in Morganton last week, and
discussed plans and effects of the
Salk Polio vaccine.
Dr. Lane told health officers
that as soon as the vaccine is made
available that this health district,
Alleghany, Artie, and Watauga
counties, plans wil go forward to
give a second dose of the vaccine
to first and second grade children
who have already been vaccinated.
The association's program includ
ed a discussion on "Standard Pro
cedures and Practice in Local
Health Departments," staff mem
ber discussions' on his particular
work, and the polio discussion.
Dr. Lane spoke of the advisabil
ity and effects of the second dose
of Salk vaccine. He stated that it
has been found that there is an
immediate response by the indivi
ual to the vaccine at any time af
ter the first dose. If this happens,
to be given jn that part of the
year referred to as the "polio sea
ton" and persons given it have
already been exposed to polio, the
doctor said, it not only does no ,
harm but gives immediate rise in ,
the protective bodies ? the anti
bodies ? in ' the person's blood
Ktream.
"We are assured that the vac
cine being produced la aa effective
and safe as it is humanly poasibte ,
to make it," Dr. Lane told the
health officials. ,
It is estimated by the fovnda
tion that already this year about
1,000 cases of paralytic polio cases
unknown cue of tuberculosis and
prevent spread of the disease in
this area.
Every cue of tuberculosis is
estimated to cost the community
$14,000 to $19,000. The farther ad
vanced the caae, the more difficult
and costly U is to cure. The major
ity of people x-rayed during the
survey will have clear films indi
cating that their lungs are sound.
Most of the eases of tuberculosis
found, will be in the early stage.
If early cases of TB remain un
known and untreated, they pro
gress of a more serious stage,
when they are more difficult to
cure and sometimes fatal. Undis
covered TB is a danger to the com
munity as well as to the victim
himself, since tuberculosis is com
municable at any stage of its ac
tive career.
Tuberculosis can effect all parts
of the body and show as many
different symptoms. It can, in fact,
show no symptoms at all.
Even in one area, the chest for
example, tuberculosis can take on
different personalities. One type
moves insidiously in the early
stages, coming into the open only
after months of activity. Another
type moves swiftly from infection
to acute disease. Still rf third? and
far from uncommon type ? pro
gresses lazily for years without ap
parent symptoms, causing no par
ticular discomfort to alarm its
victims.
This last type of TB is not as
harmless as it sounds. As it gradu
ally browses down through the
lungs, it tends to involve large
areas. Ignored because it gives its
host very little trouble, it may
suddenly convert into an acute,
rapidly progressive form of tuber
culosis. Treatment begun at this
point, when the patient is obvious
ly very ill, may be able to arrest
the disease and prevent death. But
the victim may spend the rest of
his life as a semi-invalid.
Tuberculosis can never be taken
lightly, as "juft a mild case." Just
because the typical symptoms are
not present in this indolent type,
does not mean that no harm is be
ing done. Not only is the disease
spreading more widely within the
lung,' it may spread outside. Those
with whom the patient comes in
daily contact, his family, friends,
and business associates, are threat
ened with infection. Treatment
should always be started as soon
as tuberculosis is discovered.
The disease can be discovered,
even though there may be no
symptoms to send the victim of
"laiy TB" running to the doctor,
by getting a chest x-ray. You and
your family, friends, * neighbors,
now hfve the opportunity to get
your chest r-rayed free, m it now.
Singing On Mountain
Is Set For June 26th
me ininy-iirti annual singing
on the mountain, which draws
thousands to the slopes of the
Grandfather mountain, will be held
Sunday, June 28th.
The announcement is made by
i. L Hartley, singing convention
chairman, who originated the
popular summer event
Hon. Charles R. Jonas, tenth
district Representative, will apeak,
together with other prominent
citizens, and all tinging classes in
North Carolina. Tennesaee and
Virginia are Invited.
The famous Harvester's Quartet
awl Arthur Smith and His Oacfcer
jacks win sing ana piay.
"There will be plenty on the
ground to feed a multitude,"
chairman Hytley says.
The program starts at 9 a. m.
and closes at 6 p. m.
Graham To Start
Meeting May 26
The Rev. Dan Graham will be
gin a series of meetings at the Com
pel Tabernacle in Boone Sunday,
May 30, at 8 p. m
The meetings will continue daily
at the ?acae hour indefinitely. j
McGUIRE
Scholarship At
UNC Is Awarded
Boone Student
Roger K. McGuire. ton of Mr.
and Mri. R. W. McGuire of Boone,
hu been awarded a scholarship at
the University of North Carolina.
Mr. McGuire, an honor graduate
of Appalachian High School last
month, will enter the University in
September. ?
The award is given "in recogni
tion of his good scholastic attain
ment, character, and promise of
future leadership, and as an Indi
cation of the University's desire to
encourage him to continue his for
mal education and service to his
home community and the State of
North Carolina."
Silver Spurs,
Teenagers, To
Appear In Gty
The Silver Spurs, nationally
known teen-age wfitern dance
group composed of twenty high
school pupils of Spokane, Wash.,
will appear at the mea's gymna
sium friday, June 17, kt 7:80.
Staged as part of the lyceum
series at the college, the enter
tainment is given without cost to
the public.
The dance group has appeared
throughout the Pacific Northwest
and Western Canada and is now
on a nation-wide tour, traveling
overland by chartered bus.
Their performance presents a
colorful full-length show, in cos
tume, of Early American and Eng
lish dances, Mexican, cowboy, Fil
ipino, South American and other
colorful dances.
Edwin S. Henderson, the direc
tor, is a graduate of the State Col
lege of Washington and is physical
education consultant for the public
schools in Spokane and supervisor
of the Spokane Park Board recre
ation program.
The audience is invited to dance
with these - youngsters after the
show.
Child Is Bitten
By Rabid Dog
Sharon Rosen baum, 7 of Route 1,
was bitten on the face by her dog
Monday night, and the Health De
partment says the animal has been
clinically diagnosed as being rabid
by Dr. Martin.
The child has started taking the
series of 21 injections of anti-rab
ies serum, the Department says.
Of 'Horn' Says Kai Jurge
J v o
First Wool Pool
Brings $15,826
The Watauga Wool Pool pur
chased 30,470 pounds of wool last
Wednesday and sold it to Fred
Whltaker Company, Ridge Avenue
and Scotts Lane, Philadelphia, Pa.,
for a total of 918,820.94.
James H. Caldwell, agent for
the purchasing company, supervis
ee weighing of the wool.
The wool graded and sold as
follows:
Clear? 29, 9M lbs., at $82.00 per
hundred, total 918,847.80.
Light burry, 190 lbs. at 947.00,
total 994.72.
Heavy burry, 12 lbs., at 93560,
for 94.27.
Black and dead. 151 lba., at
942.00. 904.33.
Lambs wool, ISO lb*., at 942,00,
45
Tags, 393 lba., at 912.00, 947.10.
Winters Named
Priest In Charge
Of Holy Cross
The Rev. Rhett Y. Winters Jr.,
has been named priest-in-charge of
Holy Cross Episcopal Church, Val
le Crucis, and he began his duties
there last week.
Mr. Winters comes to Holy Cross
from Murphy where he was priest
in-charge of the Church of the
Messiah, St Barnabas, and the
Church of the Holy Comfortor,
Andrews. He also is chairman of
the Rural Workers Fellowship of
the Episcopal Diocese ofrfVeatern
North Carolina.
At Valle Crucis he will have
charge Of St. John's, Lower Wa
tauga; and St. Anthony's Dutch
Creek. *
He is a graduate of the Univer
sity of North Carolina, and of the
Virginia Theological Seminary. He
is now in residence at the rectory
with his wife and two children.
Mr. Winters succeeds ("apt. Tho
mas G. Wheat of the Church. Army,
who has been assigned to Burke
County where he will have charge
of St. Stephen's, Morganton; St.
Paul's Burke County, and St.
Mary's, Quaker Meadows.
Warren Cutts
Goes To Kent U.
Warren Cutts left today for
Kent, Ohio, where he has accepted
a position ss assistant professor of
Elementary Education at Kent
State University. His new duties at
Kent State begin June 20.
Dean Robert White, head of the
Department of Education, has dia
closed that Mr. Cutts is expected
to head the reading program at
Kent State and that this summer
he will teach couries in remedial
reading, language arts and tests
and measurement.
During his three years in Boone
Mr. Cutts has served as associate
professor of Education at Appala
chian State Teachers College and
as critic teacher in the fifth and
eighth grades of the Laboratory
School. <
Mr. Cutts and family will make
their home for the summer at 311
Lincoln street in Kent.
TWENTY THOUSANDTH PATIENT ? Mr*. Ge*nu Wlnebarger Phil
ttpa, i<nHM to Watoaga Haapital Imc S, waa Ike tMNIt patleat to
be can* far al the total MMattoa. Mr*, Phillips ta ahewa with her
iafaat daughter, Cheryl Patricia, ban at the haapKal at ll:tt.a. ?. la
Use with a faiaiar <ttMai ?# the board af director*, the IMNlh
? M m La-mU ? 1 !? ?# |a- <VLa nkMlolan a|?a Mai
rfCflTM Ifff Mlpllll ut UfB. 1BC iMRIlJ JHIVSICUUI IIIO COO*
hi* aervtee*. ? Democrat atoff yfcato Jat Ulnar. ,
t 'Jt *'.s *s-S? ja
SIXTEEN YEARS OF COMMUNITY SERVICE? Herman W. Wilcox,
president of the Boose Chamber of Commerce for If yean, and now
honorary president, la ahown Just before receiving a certificate of
appreciation from Dr. D. J. Whltener. The certificate waa presented
by the Boone Lions Club at their regular meeting laat week at which
Mr. Wilcox waa th* honored guest. Mr. Wilcox retired aa active head
of the local dumber at the beginning of thia year? Democrat staff
photo Joe Minor.
Democratic Slate To
Be Unopposed Tuesday
The city election ii to be held
next Tueiday, and so for no ticket
his been announced in opposition
to the Democratic date.
Mayor Gordon H. Winkler, is
running (or re-election, a* are
Grady Tubman and Howard Cot
trell, aldermen, Grady Moretz, who
had served on the board eight
years, withdrew bis <hame from
consideration, and Wayne Richard
son is the third candidate.
It is expected that the voting
will be extremely light, f *ce only
one ticket is fielded. Two years
ago when the incumbent officials
ran without opposition only 134
ballots were tallied.
Voting will be conducted as usu
al at the city hall on Depot Street.
Exchange Students On
Jalopy Tour Of Nation
By DR. WALTER K. KEYS
Blowing Rock? At the hour of
noon the dilapidated car, coughing
and chugging, (topped in front of
Playground Park in Blowing Rock.
Four husky young men, very blond
and wind-blown, erupted from the
inner regions of the jalopy and be
gan to examine the wiring of the
motor. After some friendly argu
ment a wire was tightened and en
gine started with a roar. Joyfully
they crowded through the one door
that was not completely blocked
with luggage and started to move
away from the curb. ,
But a call from a gracious lady
who had been watching their man
euvers stopped them. It seemed
that they had more trouble ? a tire
fast going flat. Once more debark
ing they sadly viewed this new
catastrophe. The gracious lady
came across to give them advice
about the nearest repair shop. She
at once realised that while their
English was grammatically perfect
it was richly flavored with a for
eign accent.
Others gathered about and heard
the young men explain that they
were exchange students from Nor
way and Denmark who had just
finished their year's study at New
York University. They had pur
chased the derelict for $200 and
were on a two months' trip seeing
America. They hoped to visit 36
states via of California, thence
back to New York to catch their
homeward bound ship in early
August. They seemed a bit doubt
ful about their money or their
tires lasting for the scheduled trip.
While this story was unfolding
one of Blowing Rock's Ministering
Angels slipped away and called a
nearby garage to bring them a new
tire and alao repair their old one;
all to be charged to her account.
This was soon done and the four
some joined wildly in expressing
their deep gratitude in both Eng
lish and Scandinavian
The gracious lady urged them to
remain aa her guesta at her hotel
for a day or two. Thia they regret
fully declined laying that they
must keep aa nearly on achedule
as poasibie, which meant Asheville
or Knoxville for the night.
They were very youngish look
ing to be graduates of a law school;
but they were exchange law gra
duates from the University of Oslo
and the University of Copenhagen. ,
They had come to America to make
a comparative study of our laws
and thoae of their own countries
They were given courtesy cards
to aee some of the scenic wonders
of the area; aod departed with
w - -
much hand-waving and happy
Nordic faces. They laid they would
alwayi remember a little moun
tain-top village that ihowed such
friendly welcome and generous as
sistance
Someday in the fielda of inter
national law or diplomacy we may
see their names: Eric Harremoes,
Lundley 9, Hellcrup, Copenhagen,
Den ma r k; Johan Villa rs-Dahl,
Solplassen 1, 0?lo, Norway; Hen
ning Bolt Jorgensen, Sylowi Alle
2, Copenhagen, and Arne Christ
iansen, Monradigt 21A, Oslo.
Local Rivers
Open To Anglers
The waters of Watauga and New
River will be open for angling
June 20, according to Tommy Os
borne, district game protector.
The stream* had been closed fo>
bass spawning since the first of
May.
Mr. Osborne states that the
streams will be stocked with small
bass today.
Miss Brown Is
Yearbook Editor
Miss Orlando Brown, daughter
of Mr. and Mr# J. Edgar Brown,
of Boone, is the Junior editor of
"Pine Needles," yearbook at Wo
man's College, University of North
Carolina, Greensboro.
Miss Brown will graduate from
WC next year.
The Federal Narcotics Commis
sioner, putting the number of drug
addicts in the United States at 60,
000, estimated 0,896 were in New
York State.
Boone People,
College Grads
Are Favored
Horn in the Weft, an outdoor .
?how that is often called "an ex
preaaion of highland people." hat
a ataff and caat thim aeaaon made
up of more than half mountain
reiidenta.
Kai Juigensen, director, calli
Horn in the Weat the "moat local
ihow" in the outdoor drama cir
cut. The apeaking parta, he pointa
out, are assigned chiefly to Booue
people or those who have attended
Appalachian State Teachers Col
lege here. The other rolea of danc
ers, signers and villagera, are do
minated alao by local player*. Only
on the technical ataff I* the weight
in favor of lowlanders.
Throughout the entire cast and
staff, only two or three are out-of
state residents who. have not at
tended a Noith Carolina college or
university.
Heading the long list of outdoor
drama stare who reported for re
hearsals here 'last week ii Charles
Elledge, a high school principal
from Marion, who will have the
leading role of Daniel Boone. This
is his fourth season with the dra
ma, hia first in the leading apot.
Robert Thomaa, who at 6 feet 5
inchea towers over the big Elledge,
will play Or. Geoffrey Stuart, a
part almost equal in importance
to the role of Boone. Thomas is
from Oxford. He returaa to the
"Horn" after two years' absence.
Other local players include Wil
liam Ross, also playing his fourth
year, in the role of the vicious
Colonel Mackenzie; Rogers White
ner, now a resident of Lakeland,
Florida, playing Toby Miller; Carl
Clarke, a former Appalachian foot
ball star, as Jack Stuart; Glenn
Causey, another Appalachian ath
lete, as the Rev. Doak; Jones L.
(Pete) Storie, a newcomer te the
cast, as Chief Atakulla; and Billy
Bingham, Jr., a local grade school
youngster, as Davy Stuart.
Two Oklahoma ns have promin
ent parts. Martha Hardy of Clear
water returns after a year's ab
sence to take on the role of Mar
tha Stuart again. Ruth Arlington,
Miami, a one-fourth Creek Indian,
will play the part of the strange
Indian princess, Nancy Ward. The
former was a member of the Caro
lina Playmakers. Miss Arrington
became interested in the show
while attending Appalachian.
Nancy Green of Chapel Hill and
Winston-Salem will take the part
of Rebecca Boone in her second
year with the show. Irvine Smith,
an assistant professor at Dickinson
College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, re
turns to the drama to play Col.
John Sevier. Frank Jonea of Lake
land, Florida, returns as the Ind
ian interpreter. Roger Grier, a
Gastonia cotton broker, is back to
portray Governor William Tryon.
Patricia Gibson of Fayetteville
will be assigned the part of the
Quaker girl, Mary.
Other parts in the show include:
Indian dancers ? Bill Costama,
lead dancer, of Boston, Mass.;
Clyde Austin, Robert Bingham,
Joe Edmisten, Jack Neal, and Wil
liam La wing, all of Boone; and
Morris Branch, Hickory; Jim Mar
tin, Gastonia; and March Jamiaon
of Buies Creek.
Chorus ? Jan Saxon, Charlotte;
Patricia Seitz, Chapel Hill; Mabel
Smith, Buies Creek; Nancy Page
Smith, Carlisle, Pennsylvania;
Carol Whitcner, Lakeland, Florida;
Lynne Zimmerman, Marshall; Jean
Armstrong, Belmont; Joseph
Fields, Lincolnton; Jim Pruett,
( Continued on page six.)
College Trustees Meet
To Talk OfNetvPrexy
The hoard of Imlfti, !? Ma
ttel on the eollefe campaa Tm
day aflrrMon. accepted the re
signation of Dr. B. B. Ponfherty,
president and ro-foander of
Institution, aad are
the aelecttea at his
It la iifRtMl that Deaa J. D.
Raakla will
for a few