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For 67 Year* The Democrat ha* served Uuga County. With its intense the local shopping area, it's the ium available. VOLUME LX VIII.? NO. L mm ?L7'T Wa An Independent Weekly 'Net etpaper ? Established in the Year Eighteen Eighty-Eight .i-'v'i* .'V. ? .';v . * \ . Jv BOONE. WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, JULY 7, Land Bank President To Speak i At Loan Association Meeting Stockholders Farm Loan Body To Gather Here ' Retailers To Observe I ? Ladies Night In City Mr. Rufus R. Clarke, president of the Federal Land Bank of Col umbia will speak at the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Boone National Farm Loan As The annual meeting of the Mer chants Association of Boone and Watauga county will b? held Mon day night, July 11 at 6:30 in a pri vate dining room of the Boone Trail Cafe. It is ladies' night, and it is very much hoped that it will not only be a full attendance, but that many of the merchants will bring their wives, and any of the employees that may wish. Thompson Greenwood, Secretary of North Carolink Merchants As sociation will be the guest. And, the representative of the Sun Life of Canada will be here to fully ex plain the life insurance group pro gram about which practically all the merchants have heard. These with the election of officers and board for next year make It a tre mendously important meeting. A number have expressed inter est in joining the Merchants As sociation because of this new pro gram. Any business concern in Boone or Watauga Couitty is eli gible, and now would be a good time to join if they want to parti cipate in this life insurance pro gram. t 3.89 Miles Of Linville Highway Is Completed MR. CLARKE sociation to be held at the court house in Boone Saturday July 9 at 10:30 a. m. Mr. S. C. Eggers, president of the Asaociation, aays Mr. Clark has been with the Land Bank for many years and is a recognized authority on farm financial problems. Be sides be is known as an excellent speaker, and ' his message to the membership of the Association is expected to be entertaininc as well as informative. ' Mr. T. E. Haigler, regional mana ger for the Federal Land Bank of Columbia in North Carolina, will be on hand to conduct the quiz program, and will give away prizes consisting of a ton of fertilizer and seventy-five silver dollars. Mr. John H. Hollar, secretary treasurer of the Asaociation says everyone is invited to the meeting, and says prospects are for a record attendance. Squaw Valley, Calif., gets 1960 Winter Olympics. An uranium ore processing mill is to rise in Moab, Utah. A 3.89-mile link in the 17-mile, 91,000,000 Boone-Linville highway has been completed between Fos coe in Watauga County and the Avery County line, 11th Diviaion Engineer James Councill has ad viaed. The entire project is scheduled to be completed by the summer of 1996, he said. Another link, about miles long, is expected to be finished this summer, he added. This runs between Linville and the Watauga County border. He said the final eight-mile aec tion between Foacoe and a point near Boone ia scheduled to be finished by the summer of 1936 It will run through Hodges Gap to U. S. Highways 221 and 321. The new route will shorten the present distance between the two points by 10'milea. Division Highway Commissioner W. R. Winkler of Boone reported the new highway will have *n average grade of three per cent, except for a short stretch through Linville Gapr This grade does not exceed eight per cent, he aaid. The sharpest curves on t&e en tire route will not be more than five degrees, he said. DOUGHTON GREENE Greene Elected As Member Of Wingate Faculty Dr. Budd Smith announced to day the appointment of Mr. Dough ton Greene of Boone, to the facul ty of Wingate College. Mr. Greene will teach in the phyiical educa tion department and science de partment. He comes to Wingate after many years of successful teaching in the schools of Watauga county where he served as coach and teacher. He holds the Bache lor and Master's Degree from Ap palachian State Teachers College. He is the son of Mr. A. J.. Greene, who was a teacher for many years in the Appalachian State Teachers College. With the coming of Mr. Greene to Wingate College, one of the fin est physical education and recrea tional programs will be carried out; with Reid Lowder cotfching basketball, Jack Perry coaching baseball. Mid Mr. Greene working with junior varsity and girls bas ketball, Wingate looks forward to a great year. Hopeful Polio Report Is Given Dr. Miehal An encouraging report has been received by Dr. Mary Michal, local health officer in Allegbany-Aahe Watauga counties, in the form of recommendations made at a recent meeting called by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, as to the use of Poliomyelitis vac cine this summer of 1955, . The meeting was composed St representatives of the following groups: American Academy of General Practice, American Aca demy of Pediatrics, American Med ical Association, American Public Health Association, Association of State and Territorial Health Of ficers, United State Public Health Service, Vaccine Advisory Commit tee of the National Foundation, and special consultants from John Hopkins Univrsity and University of Michigan School of Public Health. These representatives unani mously agreed to a statement from which the following ia' summaris ed: "While it is generally advised that injections against common in fectious diseases such as diphther ia, whooping cough, and tetanus, be postponed during a/ high polio myelitis incidence, evidence that this is a serious risk if scanty. On the other hand, in the 1954 field trial of the poliomyelitis vaccine, when cases were already occurring, there was no evidence of the in jections provoking an attack of the disease. This year 1955, in 14 southern stttes in the S weeks fol lowing April' 16th, 2,300,000 injec tions of Salk Vaccine were given with no significant provoking ef fect" "If individuals are given the vac cine in an area of epidemic inci dence a small proportion of these will later suffer paralytic polio myelitis just because they may have been In an early stage of the disease, and' the vaccine will not have, had time to build up anti bodies before severe infection de velops. In this case, they may suf fer paralysis at the site of Injec tion." (Continued on page sU.)i National Guardsmen Spend Time In Field Fourth Of July Safe, Sane Here WaUuga county observed a "safe and sane" 4th of July -week end. Police Chief Walter Johnson and Sheriff Ernest Hodges reported that there were no arrests, no auto accidents, "no trouble of any kind" in the town or county over the holiday week end. A majority of the business places in Boone were closed Monday, the 4th. Service Battery of tlje 112th Field Artillery Battalion, National Guard Unit, recently organized here, (pent two days in field-train ing. June 18-1#. The bivouac area was the Lenoir-Morganton Airport. The primary miiaion of the Boone Unit is supply of ammuni tion and food to the Battalion, and this constituted the training for the period. Being a newly organi zed unit and having { number of meh without prior service they profited from the additional 'ex perience of pitching tents and us ing field sanitation methods which are taught to military personnel, la. spite of the rain which began '?% m r ' ? to fall during the night of June IS and continued until the following afternoon, training waa conducted m had been prcvioualy planned. On Saturday, July 9th, Service Battery ii scheduled to go Uj the rifle range in Lenoir for familiari zation firing of individual weapons Each man will fire twenty or more rounda of live ammunition. He will be permitted ta keep the target* Service Battery on August 14 will depart hop home station tor tw* weeks encampmenta at Fort Bragg. These two weeks will serve as baaie training for men of North Carolina National Guard. Last Rites Held For Mrs. Cannon Mn. C- D Cannon of Blowing Rock died Saturday at a Johnson City, Tenn. hospital. A native of Watauga county, ahe was a daughter of the late Sidney and Martha Mercy Bollinger. funeral services were held at 2:S0 p. m. Monday at the Blowing Rock Baptist Church. Burial 'was in the Cool Springs cemetery. Survivors include three daugh ters and three sons; 18 grandchild ren aad 14 great grandchildren. One brother and three sisters sur vive. Bishop Phillips Dies In Boone; Rites In S. C The Rt. Rev. Henry D Phillips, 73, of Columbia, S. C., ? retired bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Southeastern Virginia died at Wa tauga Hospital at 10:10 p. m. Wed nesday, June 29. Bishop Phillips was largely in strumental in the establishment of a hospital and country club at Blowing Rock where he had a sum mer home. He was bishop from 1038 till IBM, and had served as rector of Trinity Episcopal Church at Co lumbia from 1922 to 1038. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Ella Reese Phillips of Columbia; three daughters, Mrs. O. B. Mayer of Columbia, Mrs. Henrietta P. McDowell of Charleston, S. C, and Mrs. S. J. Slate of New York City; two sisters, Mrs. Milton Keeler and Mrs. Frank Orma of Atlanta, Ga.; and seven grandchildren. A native of Philadelphia, Pa., Bishop Phillips was a son of the late Henry D. and Nancy Phillips. He studied in Atlanta, Ga. schools and the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn. A football star at Sewanee, he gained All-Southern Conference honors. He once coached football in Georgia. In 1006, he established a settle ment mission at LaCrange, Ga. Funeral services will be held at Trinity church in Columbia, and burial will be in the church ceme tery. Other detailk were incom plete tonight. Mrs. Glenn Is Taken By Death Mrs. Mollie W. Glenn, 90, died at the home at Vilas Saturday. Funeral services were held at the Cove Creek Baptist Church Sunday. Rev. Dwight Long was in charge of the rites and burial was in the Glenn cemetery. A number of nieces and nephews snhrive. ' George Wilson Appears On TV GEORGE WILSON George Wilson, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Frank Wilson and grandson of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Jones of Boone, appeared on the Arthur Smith Television Show in Charlotte Thursday night, June 23. George won over little Miss Bet ty Ann' Bolt of Laurent, S. C. in his vocal rendition of "Out Behind the Barn He also appeared on tv last Fri day night, and while he made a good showing on the applause meter, be lost in the finals. He had won the tv tryout as a result of placing first in the Arthur Smith tv Talent Hunt in Boone early in June. He was accompani ed here and in Charlotte by Mrs. Ralph Buchanan. George is a student in Green Valley School and has appeared for civic club* and various activi ties. throughout the country. He had formerly won in a talent hunt show by the Mountain Valley Boys of Marion, V*. In his television appearance be it said to have captivated the stu dio audience and also the program directors. Friends who accompan ied him to Charlotte were: Mrs. Ralph Buchanan, his mother, Mrs. Wilma Wilson, hit grandmother, Mr*. W. H. Jones, Harold Jones, Mist Betty Jones. John Lewis, Miss Mary Pearl bates. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Triplet!, Judy Triplett. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Kintigh and, Billy. The National Probation and Pa role Association was recently tol<i that priaont were riddled by pon tics and corruption and, as such, threatened the national social ays tea. Letter Carriers Name Officers j At End Of State Meeting Here OFFICERS INSTALLED BY SURAL LETTER CARRIERS? Pictured above from left ire John M. Dunn, pa it president, Efland; Ray Huliek. national vice-president, Washington, D. C.; 8. F. Lee, president. Willow Springe Leater V. Reich, vice-president, Walkertown; Clyde Winebarger, secretary treasurer, Boone; Fin ley F. Rogers, chaplain, Clarke*; Roy Lyerly, chairman executive committee. Banner Elk; Francis Mc Colman, member executive committee, Faison; and Guy 1. Timberlake, member executive committee, Timberlake. ? Photo by Paul Wcsf.', . ? ' .V . i . Student Spokesman Pays Tribute To Appalachian College Officials By EARLEEN G. PRITCHETT At tho assembly program at Ap palachian State Teachers College Monday, tribute waa paid by one of the student spokesman to the college administration over the years. Hiss Pansy M. Kincaid of Mor ganton acted as student spokes man, speaking in behalf of the *tu dent body, u a member of the col lege alumni asaociation, and alao as a student in summer school. She expressed sincere regret, felt by all these group*, that ill health ha* made it neceuary for Dr. B. B. Dougherty to tender hia resigna tion to the Board of Truitees a*> Bigger, Better Era Is Seen For Parkway Washington, July 4.? The Na tional Park Service with an in craaied appropriation, ia planning , bigger and better things for viai tori to the nation's scenic and his toric areas. Acting Secretary of the Interior Clarence Davis said today that with the $48,029,300 allowed for the next 12 months, $12,803,710 more than last year, the Park Service will "broaden the oppor tunities for enjoyment by park visitors." The fiscal 1056 appropriations, with contractual authorization contained in the 1084 Highway Act, will permit the Park Service to carry out a highway construction program totalling 23 V4 million dol lars/ including parkways. Of this 12% is programmed for roads and trails. They include: Eleven million dollars is pro grammed for parkways. Of the $4, 070,000 available for continuing major construction on the Blue Ridge Parkway, Va. and N. C? $3, 006,800 is for grading, provision of stone base, construction of a tunnel, and related work, on 10.2 miles of roadway pasl Grandfather Mountain, in North Carolina, and extending from Sandy Flat Gap to Beacon Heights. Other develop ment on the Blue Ridge Parkway totals >228,100. Martha Henson Is Graduated Miss Martha Jeanne Henson, laughter of Mr and Mrs C. Ford Henson of Vilas was commissioned to< become a director of religious education at her graduation froth High Point College May 30th. She is now a director of religi ous education at the First Metho dist Church at Newton. New Baptist Pastor Called REV. J. HOYT ROBERSON Rev: J. Hoyt Roberson of Owen ton, Ky., who wii recently called by Three Fork* Baptist Associa tion as missionary and Bethel church ai pastoi; has arrived to be gin his work. Mr. Roberson was born in Ander son, S. C. He attended Erskine College, Due West, S. C. and Southern Baptist Theological Semi nary, Louisville, Ky. He has pas tored churches in South Carolina and Kentucky. Prior to coming to North Carolina he served aa aa sociational missionary in Owen County Association, Ky. for Ap proximately two years. Mr. Rober son says he is looking forward with great anticipation to working with the people of Three Forks Associa tion. For safety, never clean, adjust or oil harvesting machinery with out stopping It. president of the college. She went on to say that the alumni and student body heartily approve 'the action of the board, whtfn, in recent session, they reluc tantly accepted the resignation of Dr. Dougherty and selected in his place Dean J. D. Rankin, who be came president July 1, IMS. Miss Kincaid recalled that Dr. Rankin has worked very closely for many years with Dr. Dougherty in the formation of policies for the college and in its operation. He, perhaps more than any other per son, she said, became the co-work er of Dr. Dougherty after the death of his brother, the lat? D. D. Dougherty. "Dr. Douph" as he was known to students of former years, shared with his brother the dreams of a school for teachers In this section of North Carolina Togeth er they worked in the establish ment of the Watauga Academy, which grew, into the Appalachian Training School, and later into the Appalachian State Normal School, and which, in turn, became Appa lachian State Teachers College in 1927. Miss Kincaid also paid tribute to Barnard Dougherty, business mana ger of the college since 1933, and who, at the recept meeting of the board of trustees, was named vice president and comptroller of the institution. Miss Kincaid said the fact that Mr. Dougherty does not have a number of degrees follow ing his name in the catalogue is explained by his having been so busy during all these years with the operation of the financial af fairs of the college that he had not had time to go away to take ad vanced degrees. "This fact," she continued, "does not make him any less efficient in his responsible position." "We feel," said Miss Kincaid. "that the board of trustees has done a very commendable Job in selecting these people for recogni tion, and they will carry on in much the same capacities in which they have already been function ing." Miss Kincsid expressed the hope that Dr. B. B. Dougherty, who is requesting retirement, will be given the relationship of President Emeritus of the college. "For we all know," she said, "that in real ity there will never be any such fact si his 'retirement' from Appa lachian." ? Following Miss Kincaid's tribute, the summer school student body gave a rising vote of appreciation and confidents to Drs. Dougherty and Rankin, and to Barnard Dough erty. LADY MAIL CAWUEM? Ladlea who carry the mil rural route* faf North Caraliaa are pictured above aa they attended the ceaveattoa la Bnm. Left to right, they are Mra. Addle Clawaan. Boone. Route 1, yean' aerrlec; Mra. DeUa AthiuM, Haapatead. U yean' ear* lee; aad Mrs. Mawte Olive. GoM?toa. M yean' aenrlca. Mra. Olive, who la ? ateter-ta-law of lodge Hubert Olive, plan to retire froai the lenrke It Novwaber. ? Tboto by Paul Weatoa. Over 300 Postal Workers Gather For Convention Officers elected and installed at the close of the 92nd annual con vention of the North Carolina Rural Letter Carriers' Association held here last week with an attend ance of 300 were: President, S. F. Lee, Willow Springs; vice-presi dent, Lester G. Reich, Walker town; secretary- treasurer, Clyde Winebarger, Boone, reelected tot his tenth year; chaplain, Finley K. Rogers, Clarkton; executive com mitteeman, Guy J. Timberlake, Timberlake, N. C. Roy Lyerly of Banner Elk is chairman of the com mittee and Francis McColman of Faison is the other member. President Lee and Secretary Winebarger will head an eleven man delegation te the National Convention in Buffalo, N. Y. Aug ust 15-19. Roy Lyerly la the regular delegate from this district. The North Caroli&a Association closed the year June 30 with around 14000 members and the membership for the new year la now over 1200. The carriers of the state travel over fourteen million miles each year In carrying full mail service to about one-third of our people. The purpose of the or ganization, which is a part of the 39,000 members National Associa tion is; To improve the methods used by rural letter carriers and their conditions of labor; to co operate with the post office de partment and the public for the good of the service; to protect the security of the members; to pro mote a fraternalism and fellowship, and provide different forma of In surance protection. It cannot af filiate with a striking organization. The organization is finance^ by a membership fee which includes subscription to the weekly maga zine, The National Rural Letter Carrier, published each week in Washington. Johnny Dyer, 54, Dies Wednesday Johnny Dyer, who had been em ployed it Appalachian State Teach er* College, died at Watauga Hos pital laA Wednesday at 1:10 a. m., from injuries received on January 12. He had been in critical con dition for several day*. Mr. Dyer waa born in Watauga county December 26, 1000, the ion of the late Cicero and Mary Lou ise Townaend Dyer. Funeral services were held Thursday at Holy Croaa Episcopal Church at Valle Cruel*, with in terment in the church cemetery. Survivor* are lilted a* two sis ter*, Mr*. Dan Phillip*, Route S, Lenoir, and Mr*. Edward Carter, Route 4, Lenoir. Bill Krider Is Hurt In Idaho BUI Krider of Todd received serious injuriea in a logging acci dent near South wick, Idaho, re cently, and ia hospitalized at St Joseph's in Lewiaton. Mr. Krider received fracturea of the left thigh, pelvis and other in juries. He ia a son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Krider. The Khapra beetle cauaes dam age to grain. 1,799 Attend Horn In o West During Holidays Despite ? raincd-out perform ance Monday night, attendance at the outdoor drama Horn In the Weit numbered 1,799 (or the three day holiday period of July 4. Monday's cancelled performance was the second in nine day* this season and the fifth time the show baa been rained out in its four years of operation. Showers styppod the show on opening night, June 25, shortly after intermission. A thunderstorm which began in late afternoon pre vented the starting of the perform ance Monday. The July 4 rain out climaxed more than ? week of disagreeable weather for theatre audiences. Nevertheless, attendance was sli ghtly better than that of a com parable period last year. In the first week this season visitors from 30 states have attend ed the show. North Carolina, aa usual, ia the foremost representa tive in the audience, followed again by South Carolina and Vir ginia. Floridians have slightly out numbered Georgians. Horn in the West i except Monday I 8 at tile
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