in the Year Eighteen Eightj'Eight
j Sell Your Tobacco
on the Boone Market
VOLUME LXVIIL? NO. 25.
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An Independent Weekly Newspaper ? Established
LOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER U, 1955
Do Your Shopping
with Your Home Merchants
TWENTY PAGES? THREE SECTIONS
Veteran College Workers Praised By Plemmons
THREE HUNDRED AND NINETY YEARS OF SERVICE ? These
non-teaching employee' of Appalachian State Teachers College have
each put in twenty or more year* of service, at that institution. They
are, left to right: Dr. William H. Plemmons, president; Will S.
Houck, 23 years; Crater L. Marsh, 21 years; Dr. J. D. Rankin, 39;
(Photo by J. A. "Babbitt" MorcU)
Mrs. Callie Houck, 23 years; Joe Cook, 32 years; Mrs. Lillie Belle
Hardin, 26 years; Mrs. Pearl Beach, 23 years; Charlie Hartley, 20
years; Ed Cullers, 42 years; Tom Beach, 27 years; Morris Casey, 20
years; Lorn Harrison, 21 yeats; McKinley Ayers, 32 year*; P. W.
Palmer, 20 years; Barnard Dougherty, Zi years ? total 300 years.
Boone Stores,
Offices Will
Close Monday
y
Most Boone > tores will observe
Monday, December 26, at a holiday
by remaining closed all day, due
to the fact that Christmas Day is
on Sunday this year, the Merch
ants Association has announced.
The stores will be open the bal
ance of the week, including all day
Wednesday.
The Northwestern Bank and the
,Town Hall will also be closed Mon
day.
County offices in the courthouse
and rock building will be closed
from Friday noon, December 23,
until Tuesday morning, December
27.
The board of county commis
sioners, which usually meets the
first Monday of each month, arill
hold its Jahuary meeting on Janu
ary t instead of January 2.
The post office will observe its
usual holiday schedule Monday,
December 26. One window will re
main open Saturday afternoon,
December 24, for the delivery of
parcel post packages, said Acting
Postmaster Lyle Cook.
The president of Appalachian
State Teacher* College praised the
non-teaching personnel of the
school Friday night in the college
cafeteria, when the employees and
their families were feted at their
eighteenth annual Christmas party.
Dr. William H. Plemmons, who
was attending his first Christmas
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424 Alt jailed
In Past Year
A total ol 424 lawbreaker! have
been lodged in the Watauga Coun
ty Jail during the tint year of
Sheriff Ernest Hodges' term, ac
cording to a report submitted by
Deputy George Smitherman, jail
custodian.
Of these. 124 were jailed for
public drunkenness, 47 for driving,
drunk, 39 tor breaking, entering,
and larceny, IS for nonsupport and
9 for being absent without leave
from the armed forces.
The remainder included a large
number of worthless check cases,
speeding, reckless driving, driving
without * license, larceny, posses
sion of noo-taxpaid liquor, hit and
run driving, peeping Tom, adul
tery, and rape.
Two murder cases are scheduled
for trial early in 1996, said Deputy
Smitherman.
FFA, 4-H Club Boys Get
Top Price For Tobacco
The end of a tdbacco season's
work for 18 Future Farmers of
America and 4-H Club members of
Watauga and Avery counties end
ed Friday when they sold 12,012
pounds of burley' tobacco on the
Boone -market for $7,40064, at an
average of $tl.61 per hundred
pounds. The aale was preceded
by a Junior Tobacco Show Thursday
in the Mountain Burley Warehouse
in which awards were made for the
best crop* and how the burley was
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Edward Mast Suffers
Fatal Attack In N. Y.
Dr. Plemmons
Will Address
C. Of C Meeting
The annual meeting of the
Chamber of Commerce which was
originally scheduled to be held
December 8 has now been set for
January S.
Arrangements have been made
to hold it at the Demonstration
School.
Dr. William Plemmons, Presi
dent of the Appalachian State
Teachers College, is to be the
speaker.
It is ladies night and all mem
bers are not only urged to be pre
sent themselves but to bring their
ladies.
The office of the Chamber of
Commerce will be closed from the
afternoon of December 23 until
the afternoon of the 27th. This is
to enable Mrs. Wood and Mr. Har
ris to spend Christmas Eve and
Christmas Day with their families.
Health Office
Closes For Yule
The District Health Department
office in Boone will obaerve State
holiday* during the Christmas sea
son.
Their office will be closed FH
day, December 23, Monday, Dec
ember 26, and Monday, January 2.
Edward Bingham Mast, 42,
prominent Boone merchant, died
suddenly in Pawling, New York,
from a heart attack Thursday
morning,
Mr. Mait had arrived in Pawling
with a load of furniture and waa
unloading his truck when he suf
fered the fatal tattack at 10 o'clock.
He was to have brought a load of
furniture back to Boone. He was
traveling alone.
A son of Mr. and Mrs. A. C.
Mast of Sugar Grove, he was rear
ed in Watauga county. He had
formerly been chairman of the
Democratic Executive Committee
of Watauga County; police chief of
the town of Boon e and operated a
furniture store in Elk Park for a
number of years. He establiahed
the Mast Furniture Co., in Boone
eight years ago.
Funeral services were conducted
Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock from
(he Henson's Chapel Methodiat
| Church in Cove Creek township,
and interment was in the Mast
cemetery in that neighborhood.
' The Rev. L. H. Hollingsworth, Rev.
! Dwight Long, and Rev. C. 0. Vance
1 conducted the rites.
Surviving are the widow, Mrs.
Leola Mast; four daughters, Mia?
Arlene Mast, of Kan na polls; Mrs.
Shirley Dody of Camp LeJuene;
Misses Jennie Bell and Alice Maat
of the home, and one son, Joe Mast
of the home. The parents survive,
with four sisters: Mrs. Hugh
Reese. Mrs. Tom Greer, Mrs. Jay
Edmisten, Kings port; Mrs. Ray
Farthing, Sugar Grove. There la
one grandchild.
Burley Growers To Vote
On Market Quotas 29th
Burley tobacco growers will vote
December 29 on marketing quotas
for the next three crop*, B. W.
Farthing, Chairman of the Wata
uga County Agricultural Stabilisa
tion and Conservation Committee,
reminds farmers. All growers who
produced burley tobacco in 1905
are eligible to vote in the referen-'
dum.
For the 1996 burley crop, the
Department of Agriculture has an<
nounced a marketing quota of 369
millions pounds which, converted
to acres, results in 263,390 acres
for allotment in 1996. The 1996 na
tional allotment was determined
on the basis of average yields dur
ing the 9 years 1990-94. .
"The decision to be made in the
quota referendum can be simply
stated," Chairman Farthing de
clared. "If quotas are approved by
at least two-thirds of the growers
voting, marketing quotas ? with
penalties on 'excess' tobacco, acre
age allotments, and price supports
averaging 90 percent ef parity Will
continue in effect for the 1996 bur
ley crop.
"On the other hand, if more than
one-third of the voters dlsaprove
quotas, there will be no marketing
quotas, no penalties on 'excess'
tobacco, no acreage allotments,
and no price supports for the 1906
burley crop. In that event, 3-year*
marketing quotas would be pro-,
clamed again next year and snotty
er referendrum held."
Marketing quotas have been in
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Miss Townsend
Given Award
MISS LINDA TOWNSEND
Mio Linda Townsend of Boone,
a Library Science major at Ap
palachian, has been awarded a
fifty dollar scholarship by the
Appalachian Education Founda
tion. The award waa presented by
Dr. Lawrence Owsley, president of
the Foundation, at the college as
sembly program on Friday, Dec
ember 9.
?Staff Photo by Jo? Minor
SANTA'S HELPERS? The Democrat camera r eg uteri a segment of the throng of Chriatmaa shopper*
which crowded Boone itreeU and ?tore? last 8aturday. The volume and tempo ia expected to increase
each day this week, reaching its height on Saturday, Christmas Eve, as late shoppers scurry storeward for
last minute Yult gifts. ? Staff photo by Jot Minor.
Burley Market Exceeds Two
Million; Average Is $57.74
Finley Penick Dies
From Crash Injuries
Peyton Finley Penick, 28, of
Johnson City, Tcnn., former Boone
resident, wn fatally injured in an
automobile accident which occur
red on the Johnaon City-Jonesboro
highway Saturday. He suffered
multiple head and cheat injuries
and died without having regained
consciousness at 9:30 Saturday
evening.
Mr. Penick waa educated at Ap
palachian High School and prior
to hie entry into the Navy during
the last world war, waa employed
by the State of Virginia forest ser
vice. He had resided in Johnaon
City for eight years, where he was
salesman for Noland k Co.
Survivors include the widow,
Mrs. Agnes Ratcllff Penick, two
children, Donna and Eddie. The
mother, Mrs. Edna Penick of
Boone survives, the maternal
grandmother, Mrs. John SherriU,
one brother Mid two sisters: Wil
liam E. Penick, Boone; Mrs. Lena
Lewis, Asheville; Mlu Sallie Pen
ick -of Jonesville.
Funeral services were held Mon
day at the Unaka Avenue Baptiit
Church in Johnson City and burial
was in Montview cemetery in that
city. Officiating at the services
were Rev. George Arthur of
Boone; Dr. Nicely of Parrottaville.
Tetui.. and Dr. Rich, pastor of the
'church.
Pallbeareri were employee* of
Noland It Co., and flower bearers
were members of the Sunday
School class of deceased.
Democrat To Close
For Holiday* Today
The Watauga Democrat will be
closed for the remainder of the
week, but will be open Monday.
mm weanesaay s sale, UIC last
before the Christmas hollcUyi, the
Boone burley tobacco market pul
ed the two million mark M pounds
?old, and has paid more than a
million dollars to firmm for their
leaf.
Total poundage through Tuesday
was just short of two million, for
a season average price of $97.74
per hundred pounds.
Damp weather during the last
few days has been more favorable
for grading and handling the weed,
and the burley was coming into
Boone warehouses at a brisk pace
Tuesday afternon for Wednesday'!
sale, which was expected to be one
of the heaviest of the season.
R. C. Coleman, operator of the
locil market, has announced that
all Boone warehouses will remain
open throughout the holidays to
receive tobacco, with the leaf fully
covered by insurance from the
moment it is placed on the floor.
The market will resume sales on
Tuesday, January 3, 1956, with
prices expected to maintain their
present high level throughout the
remainder of the season.
JUNIOR TOBACCO SHOW AND SALE. ? First picture shows Ned
Perry, left, who took second place in the 4-H Club and Future
Farmers of America Tobacco Show, held in Boom last week. Len
Warren standi to the right of hi* pile whx? was JudjeU as the heat
at the show. Second photo shows boys who hid tobacco entered and
their leaden. They art left to rtfht from row: Ronald Swift, It C.
Recce. Eugene Moody. Joe Perry, Ned Perry ( Loyd Martin, Urry
Mays, Austin Norria, Franklin# Cole, back raw: Johnny Hayes,
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R. C. Moretz, R. G. Shipley. C ove Creek vocational agricultural
teacher. Ruaaell ftwlft. Leo Warren, Carl Colvard, J?m*? Haye?.
Jim Henaon. Bobby Yatea, Dean Moody, and Aaaiatant County Aiient
Woodrow Richardson. In Um third picture arc tftru of the Jvdfea
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for the tbow, left to right: J. P. Satterwhite, J it L. Coleman,
D. Jones. Jr. Morris Mancum, the fourth Judge 1
the time the picture waa taken. Twelve thousand, one hundred
suods of tobacco was displayed ? Staff
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