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watauga Democrat iitrnjn it u the beit advertising medium Sept. 27 71 38 W WIS 7# M ?vaiUbi*. Independent Weekly New* pa per . . . Seventy-Second Year of Continuous Publication SeptlM 74 39 83 ? VOLUME LXXII? NO. 13 PRICE: FIVE CENTS BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THUR8DAY, 8EPTEMBER 24, 1951 EIGHTEEN PAGE8? THREE 8ECTION8 Wool-Lamb Vote Being Held Here A number of Watauga County wool and lamb producers have al ready voted in the market deve lopment referendum which is be ins held during the month of September, M. f. Shepherd, ASC County Office Manager, announc ed today. Ballots were mailed to all pro ducers the last of August. ' The referendum provides for a vote oP whether or* not a deduc tion from the incentive payment on wool and lambs of 1-cent per pound wool and 5<ent per hund redweight for lambs will be made during the years I960, 1961 and 1962. The American Sheep Pro ducers Council has submitted a new agreement to the Secretary of Agriculture under which these deductions will be made. The pose of these deductions is to fin i ance the Council's Advertising, sales promotion, and relited mar ket development activities for lambs and wool. An eligible voter is any individual, corporation, partnership or legal entity which had an interest as owner, or parti al owner in one or more sheep six months of age or older for any period of at least 30 days from January 1. 1959, until the day hfr * ballot i#cast. Extension of the agreement requires a favorable vote by growers having two-thirds of the volume of production re presented in the referendum. Watauga County is the largest sheep producing county in the State. Incentive payments on wool and lambs produced in the county | made during the years of the"n centivc program are as follows: 1953 ? wool, *9,362.47, lambs, $1,206.81; 1956 ? wool, $5,409.71, i lambs, $1,723.87; 1937? wool, $2, 323.41, lambs, $617.32; 1958? wool, $8,439.47, lambs, $1,776.51. The final^ay for balloting in the referencHnn is Septembe#30. I Howell Given NCE A Position Mr. John T. Howell, principal of the Appalachian Elementary School, has been naftied to succeed James M. Storie as a Northeastern District director of the NCEA. Mr. ?torie has moved into an other District following hit elec tion as Dean of men at Mitchell College, Statesville. Mr. Howell will serve until the State NCEA convention in March, when the elections are held. IN THE CLOUDS ? C. E. Gilbert, Atlanta, Ga? shinnies up Boone Post Office flagpole, *8 he pre )arcs it for painting. Gilbert has on tract for painting flagpoles on ill federal buildings in North and Carolina, and was in Boone lust week giving the local pole i paiating.? Staff photo. i FIRST SCOOP OF DIRT? Alfred Adam?, c??hier of the locil branch of The Northwestern Bank, usei bulldozer scoop for backdrop as he and Perry Greene, contractor, loot over blueprints of new bank build ing under construction near the Appalachian Theatre. The building is expected to be under roof this fall, and will be finished inside firing the winter months, for occupancy in March of next year. Construction Is Started On l^ew Home Northwestern Bank g - Wilma Dykeman To Open Pu I) lie Programs Dr. Googe Gets Health Post ? Dr. James T. Googe has accept4 ed the position as direct^ of the Alleghany - Aihe - Wataujr Health District. He tiegan his work in this area on August 19 and has been quite busy becoming acquainted with the sfrea and the existing public health program. Dr. Googe and Mrs. Googe are living on Grand boulevard in Boone. He comes to Watauga with a Iroad back^ound of public health experience. ? Hodges Wins Grid Contest Mark W. Hodges, Box 6102, Rey nolds Branch, Winston-^lem, is the winner in the first or a series of "Pick the Winner" football con tests being conducted by the Wata uga Democrat and will receive a check for $25 from this newspaper. The 9Core in the Emory and Henry-Appalachian football game was the deciding factor in determ ining this winner. A completly new contest is be ing run in each edition of the paper. Look for this contest and the ones to follow week after week. Everyone is invited to enter and it is completly free except for post age to mail the form to the paper. Law Office Being Built 0 Work is going forward on^he Stacy Eggers law office building, being erected on West King Street west of the postoffice, and Mr. Eg gers expects to occupy the struc ture by November 1. D Besides Mr. Eggers law office, the real estate offices of his fath er Mr. S. C. Eggers will have space in the new structure, which is modernly constructed o?)brick, and which contains adequate con ference room space and other modem conveniences. YDC Meeting Set For Friday A meeting of the Young Demo cratic Club of Watanga county will be held Friday night Sept. 26 it the Boone Trail Cafe dining room, according to an announce ment made today by J. B. Claw son. Jr., President. Doughton Greene and Jack Wil liams will speak. All members are asked to at tend. In a period of declining prices received for farm products one of the best ways to stay in business is to cut costs wharever possible., Wilma Dykeman, Southern writer and speaker, will open the 1959-60 public programs series at ASTC on Monday night, Sept. 28, when she gives a talk at eight o'clock in the college auditorium on the topic. "The South: Ats - . .mw-s? mm WILMA DYKEMAN Paradoxes, Problems, and Pro mise." Miss Dykeman has travel ed extensivgy throughout the Southern states and has written and spoken authoriatatively on her topic (or Monday night Miss Dykeman gained national recognition for her highly read able history of the Frend Broad in the "Rivers of America" series published by Rinehart. She is also the coauthor (with her husband, James H. Stokely, Jr.) of "Neither Black Nor White," a report on the contemporary South. Miss Dykeman's career began with a degree from Northwestern University, followed by extensive radio and little theatre work. In addition to ber books, she has done much newspaper and maga zine writing. At ASTC Miss Dykeman will be introduced by Dean D. J. White ner, who is like Miss Dykeman a well-known writer on (Southern historical subjects. Season tickets for the public programs series may be obtained by writing to the Public Programs Committee at ASTC, and will al so be on sale at the door on the evening of Miss Dlkeman's ad dress. Later numbers on the serieiwill include Lilian Kallir, pianist; the Dance Drama Company with Em ily Frankel; the Grass Roots Op era Company in "Carmetf ; Play ers, Inc., in "Macbeth"; and the North Carolina Little Symphony. Seats for individual numbers will be available at the door for all numbers after students and season ticket holders have been seated. However, persons not hold ing season tickets run the risk of getting poor seats, or none, in caae of large audienccs which are likely for some performances, in view of the increased enrollment at the college. Ship travel to Europe is setting ? record. Ground was broken last week, and construction started on the new building of The Northwestern Bank, which is expected to be oc cupied around the first of March next year. It will serve as one of the points of operation of the local bank, as the business of the institution is expected to be car ried on in both the new building and the one it presently occupies, according to Alfred T, Adams, cashier. Greene Construction Co., of Boone, is contractor for the build ing, and O'Cain It Brackett, of Hendersonville are the0rchitects. Located on King street, near Ap palachian Theatre, the building will iront on King street 37 feet, and run back toward Howard street 64 feet^ight inches, , A parking lot, asJrssible from both Howard and King stre^^will be located in the rear, an<r will bold 30 to 33 customer can, Mr. Ad ams said. The building is the result of "growing pains" of the local insti tution, and all banking services now offered at the old location will be ofered at the new building. The same services, except note services, will be continued at the present location. ? Mr. Adams %id the new build ing will allow the present person nel to operate more efficiently, and will allow placing more help as the bank grows. The cashier said, "We appreci ate being crowded out of the building we're now in," as he ex plained reasons for needing a new building. The bank has operated in the same building for 37 years, and has outgrown its quarters. The vaults in the new building will be built-in in the front ofcjhe bank, on the street floor and in the basement. Reason for front location is to allow for expansion "backward" when needed, Mr. Adams said. Two lobbies will be located in the building, one for note custom ers, and the other for regular cora meQal customers. Rental boxes will also be available in the new building as well as the old. Many customers are expected to continue the habit of doing busi ness at the present building, Mr. Adams said, while others will find it more convenient to bank at the new building. Officea of the cashier will be in the new building, and the book keeping department will iQ main tained at the corner location. A night depository will also be main tained at the new building.' Plans for the Boone expansion were passed an some time ago by directors of The North wfcitern Bank, and Mr. Adams was most en thusiastic that work is now Wing done. He expects the three-story brick and masonry building to be under roof this fall, and the work of finishing the inside will be carried on during the winter months. The parking lot will bo paved and should prove conven ient for customers. CARS WELL SEASONED' Rutland, Va. ? "I bate people who own automobiles," said Wil liam Hall when he waa arrested and charged with smearing mus tard and shaving cream on cars parked on downtown streets. He was held {or trial on a charge of malicious miachief. School Financing Is Cited By Educator Teachers Of Area Gather Here Tuesday The Northwestern District of the North Carolina Education Associ ation held its 37th annual session Tuesday on the campus of Appa lachian State Teachers College. The district, composed of Alex ander, Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Burke, Caldwell, Surry, Watauga, Wilkes and Yadkin counties in cludes more than 2,000 teachers, superintendents, principals, super visors and other school personnel. In his first speech to a district convention audience as the newly elected NCEA executive secretary, Dr. A. C. Dawson outlined some of the questions which today face our schools and colleges and asked that proper answers be given. "Professional educators and pub lication," he told the 2,000 repre sentatives from the district, "are being challenged on all fronts, per haps as never before. The 195S General Assembly raised more questions and attempted to legis late on more school matters than any General Assembly in my mem ory. "One of the questions raised by our Governor recently and by oth ers concerned with the adequate financing of education is this: Who's responsibility is it beside the State to help support public schools? "1 should like to give this an swer: It is the responsibility of the local, the state, and the Federal government, and this the North Carolina Education has been say ing for year*. A child is a citizen of each of these* three branches or levels of government, and each has a responsibility in His educa tion. "After all, the local taxpayer, the state taxpayer, and the Fed eral taxpayer is the same person and thus the money comes from the same, pocket. "I, for one, am quite willing for this taxpayer to decide on which level he had rather pay for his schools ? so long a:, he agrees to pay! "We are not going to face up to thif^ all important question of school finance until the top po litical, civic ?jnd business leaders stop 'passing the buck' as to who is responsible." Two persons were injured in this car when it and a packing house truck collided head-on last Tuesday. Eight . Persons Are Injured In Series Of Highway Accidents0 t H. S. Storie Rites Are Held $ { Horace Shuford Storie, age 09, died at his home in Boone Mon day, following a long illness. Funeral services were held Tuesday at 2 o'clock at the Boone Baptist Church. Conducting the rites were Rev. John Gibson, Rev. E. F. Troutman and Rev. W. C. 1 Payne. Burial was in Mountlawn Memorial Park. Mr. Storie was a retired con tractor and builder, was a native of Watauga county, and had resid ed most of his life in Boone. He had been in poor health for a long time and his illness had been con sidered critical for the past sever al weeks. Surviving are four sons and one daughter: Turner, Jack and Hun ter Storie, Boone: Burl Storie, Boonville; Mrs. J. F. Powell, Char lotte. There are two brothers, M. C. Storie, Graham, N. C.; J. A. Storie, Blowing Rock, and one sister, Mrs. A. E. Hampton, Blow* ing Rock. There are IS grancT children and 1 great grandchild. IWith Dies In Roanoke Wm. H. Smith, 63, former resi dent oP%oone, died Friday in a Roanoke, Va., hospital, after an illness of ten days with a heart ail ment. Funeral services and interment were held Sunday in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va. The Smiths resided in Boone for two years, during which time he was Blue Ridge Parkway En gineer. He enlisted in the Navy during the last world war and re tired from Naval service as Lieu tenant. Since that time the family had resided in Roanoke. They had visited in Boone (hiring the past Labor Day week end. More than 100 million bushels of U. S. corn were lost to the Euro pean corn borer In 1998. H. K. Hayes Rites Held Funeral service! were conduct ed Monday in the chapel of Greer Funeral Home, Lenoir, for Harold King Hayes of Winter Haven, Florida, formerly of Blowing Rock. Burial was in Belleview cemetery, Lenoir. Mr. Hayes, 67, died in Blowing Rock hospital, while on vacation. A son of the late J. Lee Hayes an<? Rebecca Coffey Hayes, he was reared in Blowin^SRock. He was a nephew of the late D. P. Coffey. For a number of years he was in the automobile business in Char lotte. He served as a lieutenant in World War I, and as a major in World War II. Mr. Hayes is survived by his wife, the former Gay Kennette; a son, Jack K. Hayes of Winter Haven; a brother, Hubert Hayes of Schenectady, N. Y.; and tw? sisters, Misses Ella and Olena Hayes of Lenoir. Stakias Heads Gifts Group Of United Fund Nick Stakin, young Boone bu*i netii man, will head the advance gift* committee of the United Fund campaign organization for the approaching drive, according to an announcement by Jack Wil liama, general chairman of the 190940 campaign. Mr. Stakias group will receive the contribution* of industrial and buainea* organizations and pro fessional men in advance of the goiffal campaign. They will be gin their special coverage on September 28, running through October 3. Mcmberi of Mr. Stakiaa' com mittee include Glen Andrews, Stanley Harris, Dr. L. H. Owsley, Alfred Adams, Phil Vance, Gene Arndt, Rer. Edwin Troutman, A. E. McCreary, Cecil Miller, 0. K. Richardson, and George Flowers. The full campaign will get un derway on October tt and ran through October 26. W&Ll/ IAM EDWIN SHIPLEY W. E. Shipley Funeral Friday William Edwin Ship$, 87, pro minenl retired farmer and cattle man, died at Watauga Hospital, last Wednesday following a short illness. ? Funeral services were held Fri day at Henson's Chapel Methodist Church by Rev. Alvin A. Wilson, who was assisted in the rites by Rev. Cyrus Frazier of Mount Hol ly. Burial was in the Cove Creek cemetery. q Surviving are two sons and four daughters: R. G. Shipley, Vilas; James E. Shipley, ReidsviUe; Mrs. Thomas A. Belle, Mount Holly; Mrs. Paul Ward, Neva, Tenn.; Mrs. Claud S. Perry, Columbus, Ohio; Mrs. Foster Bryant, Cha tham, Va. There are nine grand children and seven great grand children. Mr. Shipley watf one of the fore most figures in the history of im proved livestock production in Watauga county. He was the first man to have Introduced registered Hereford cattle into this part of North Carolina, and at the same time was one of the pioneers in establishing thoroughbred flocks of sheep in the county He took an active interest in all public is sues, and was formerly Chairman of the Democratic Executive Com mittee in Watauga County. OUCH; Oklahoma City? Riding his new power mower across his lawn, Owen Watt* noticed the clippings ware two shades of green. One shade was the color of 186 that had slipped out of his wallet. Watts has turned over the green ribbons to the Treasury Department in Washington in the hope of getting a refund. Mcchanical harvesting aids being developed promiae a faster, lower coat, bigger harvest oi blueberries. Eight persons were treated at Watauga Hospital during the week as result o f three wrecks in the county. _ In a wreck late last Tuesday. Harold Dean Miller, Creston, and 4 Jerry Butler of Glen Alpine, were Injured when the car in which they occupied collided with a truck on U. east o i the New River bridge. According to the report by Pa trolman George E. Baker, Miller was'traveling east in a car owned by his mother, Mrs. Jewel Robin son Miller, and Charles Matheson Hodges, Route 2, Boone, was.Arav eling west in a meat truck, oWtied by Yadkin Valley Packing Co.,, of Elkin. The two vehicles met head on. The Miller car was knocked 17 feet from point of impact, ac cording to Patrolman Baker's measurements, and the truck trav eled 85 feet and turned over on its side. The car was almost a total loss. Extensive damage was done to the truck. Hodges was not injured. Friday, at 6:30 p. m. a car driv en by Paul Dewayne Edmisten, 18, of Beech Creek, went down an embankment after leaving the road near Willowdale Baptist Church, on U. S. 421, injuring tb? driver and his four passengers. The patrolman's report on this accident showed that Edmisten passed a car and had cut back intp his lane of traffic. He lost control when his wheels hit the right shoulder, went to the left shoulder and then back to the right, where it left the shoulder ? and went down the embankment. Sometime during this the car ap parently "changed ends" and turn ed over, and then uprighted itself on its wheels. g The car traveled 537 feet from where it first left the highway knocking down two mailboxes, and a clothes line post. The car was considered a total loss. The driver, son of Carlton Paul Edmisten of Beech Creek, received lacerations and a shoulder injury. Lane Edmisten, 18, Beech Creek, suffered bruises on an arm and shoulder; Billy Harmon, 17, of Reese, had1 lacerations; Billy Corn ett, 18 Sugar Grove, suffered mul tiple abrasions; and Darrcll Farth ing, 18, suffered bruiaeiand abra sions. The driver was charged by Tar trolman Baker with exceeding a safe speed limit. Mack D. Ward. 33, Route 1, Zionville, suffered a broken col lar bone Saturday, when he loat control of his Harley-Davidson motorcycle. Details of the accident showed that Ward applied hia brakes to avoid hitting a ear driven by Mrs. 3 Marjorie Baird Henaon, of Sher wood, which was pulling out of a driveway, near Cove Creek School, on U. S. 421. He lost con trol of the machine and wrecked. No charts* were filed In the ac cidcnt. \?m.\ ?
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