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I . . MJMCTUPTION HATES , In WaUoga County One j?v, $2.30; fix month*, $l.fiO; four months, $1.00. Outside WaUufa Comity: Om year, $1.00; six wiprti. $1.79; feur months, $1 M. '-"pi, ' W NOTICE TO 8UBSCRIBEBS ? In requesting ehange of address, It is Important to mention the OLD, as well as the NEW add ret* | >, ? A' Entered at the posteftieo at Bmm> V. C? aa wmm4 dm* sail matt*. ander the aet of Coa|tefe of Marck'S, im. ?L ??' VjF " I .' JS .F "Tha basis of our government being tha opinion of the ptople, the vary flirt objective should be to keep that right, and were it left to me to decide whether we ihouid have a government with out newapep era, or newspaper* without government. I ahould not hesitate a moment to chooae Che latter, (wt lehouM mean that every mas ahould receive these paper* and be capable ef reading them "?Thomas Jefferson. Weed Market Good Word i> that the burley tobacco mar ket opened on an extremely happy note, since price. records on the local floors were broken, and a new era of bigger checks for the farmers was started. The local tobacco market is one of the things in the community which per haps is all too often taken for granted, and its worth to the local economy is perhaps obscured by newer ventures. The local market came about as most other things in the community have ? by the united, dogged determination of local people, who put the money on the line to build the first warehouse, who succeeded, against odds, in getting the buyers needed, and made of the town the initial burley market in the immed iate area. It's one of those things to which the citizens can point with a prideful finger as the trucks continue to come in strings with the golden weed and as the auc tions continue and the price grows bet ter in an expanding economy. Not long after the market was es tablished here it was bought by Mr. E. C. Coleman, and he and hi* associ ate* have worked assiduously in making it a standout place to sell burley to bacco. The Messrs Coleman are farmers themselves and therefore can see the farmer's side of the deal more clearly. Thus they are anxious at aH times for 'the grower to receive the largest pos sible amount from his weed. The Boone market is our own market, founded by our own folks, and we are glad it is doing good and procuring the best prices in its history. Burley season in Boone is reflected in good business along the Street as large amounts of the money are chan neled directly into the bloodstream of local trade. The market is a great thing for the farmers and for the business community. It deserves the continued support of all as it continues to make its enlarged contribution to the progress of the county and the area roundabout. Wataugan At bmithfteid Of intereft in connection with the Ap palachian High ? School-Smithfield foot ball game for the State AA champion ship, which will be played in Boone Saturday afternoon, is the fact that Greer Glenn, Watauga native, will be present, since he has been principal of the Smithfield Schools for 27 years. Greer, in a letter to the Democrat, calls attention to the fact that Smith field hasn't lost a game for the paat A three years in regular season play, and remarks that "naturally we are proud of our team just as all of you are of the record that Appalachian High School has made," and adds, "when 1 finished High School there at Appalachian Train ing School in 1922 I had almost no idea what I would do in life. A variety of circumstances led me into public school work, a decision I have no cause to re gret. This is my 27th year as prin cipal of the Smithfield Public Schools. We have a fine town and a fine rural community from which we draw more than one-third of our school population, which now numbers approximately 1800 in the elementary and high school de partments. Our faculty consists of 68 loyal and dedicated teachers. May I congratulate the Boone High School for the fine record that its football team has made. I am happy that we are play ing such a fine team for the State cham pionship." We are happy to have heard from Greer Glenn, whom we've known all these years, and who, we believe, was the first principal at Cove Creek High school, before it was officially accredit ed, even. We welcome him and the other fine Smithfield citizens to our community, and while we're betting on our Blue Devils and cheering 'em on, right down to the last minute, we are happy that they are to be hosts to these visitors. Meantime, let's all turn out for the big game Saturday, and show our boys we're behind them strong, meantime extending a good mountain welcome to our friends from the east. Less Tar and Nicotine Cigarette manufacturer* have reduc ed, in many cases "significantly," the tar and nicotine content of both their plain and filter tip brands in the last year, says the November Reader's Di gest. The new study, "The Search for 'Saf er' Cigarettes" by Lois Mattox Miller and James Monahan, also describes sev eral recently introduced brands as "an entirely new class: low low-tar." "Older filter-tip brands," they report, "are not the same cigarettes they were a year ago. They are milder, better filtered, lower in tar and nicotine. And, if the promise pays off, they may be the 'safer' (but not yet safe) cigarettes the public has been asking for. "Last year the smoker who wanted a low-tar, high filtration cigarette had only four brands to choose from. . . . Today there are 15 brands which deliver 20 milligrams of tar or less per cigarette smoked." Nicotine is reported reduced "signifi cantly" in four brands with smaller re ductions in moth other brands. The writers report changes in every one of the American cigarette's components ? tobacco, flavoring, paper, filter tips. The changes, the writers say, "offer genuine hope for the eventual solution of the tobacco-health problem." Ventilation of cigarettes by the use of porous paper has helped cut the tar content of the smoke. "The new high porosity papers became available last spring," says the article, "just in time to make possible the new low low-tar brands. But they were also applied to some of the older brands. . . Old or new flavoring "mask the lack of to bacco flavor" In some brands. American 'Meetings' (Montana Standard) Americans of our times are the "meet ingest" people ever to have lived on this earth. Sometimes it seems as though, on any given night, half of the adults in the United States must be attending some meeting or other ? Parent-Teach ers, community improvement, Cub par ents, or what have you. This penchant for gathering to do collective good has often been the tar get of ridicule. It does hive its comic overtones. Yet the hard core of fact is ;that when American men and women assemble in their thousands of volun tary organizations they are Hng with the voice of democracy. ' For millions of people on earth, such a thing is not possible because the all powerful state forbids it. For other mil lions, this kind of free assembly is aim ply not done because it Is outside the framework of custom and tradition. Not all meetings are fruitful; aome appear to be a pointless waste of time. But when free men get together of their own free will to raiae questions, and seek answers, it is not a thing to be scorned For this is growth at the gaasroota of democracy. Beware Of Substitutes BEU6I0N?" WO- BUT WC WAVE SOHETWIN? JUST AS 600D/ TbDAY'5 SPECIAL COMmtlSM ' ; T' I SuyMfefe r* ? Thing After Another Just One lning ^^goekcb Here's a little problem that Arthur Spiegel of Raleifh submit ted to ui recently. You have five loaves of bread. ( have three loavet of bread. We (it down at a table with Mr. Jones, who has no bread. We throw our eight loaves into the center of the table and each of us eats the same amount of bread. Mr. Jones, however, feels like a cheap skate for eating our bread. He reaches inte his pocket and finds that he only has eight cents. So he pitches them out on the table and he (ays to you and to me: "That's all the money I have fellows; divide it properly be tween the two of you." Now then, the problem is how much should you? who had five loavea of bread? get of these eight pennies, and how much should I ?who had three loaves ? get of that sum. You ought to be able to figure It out in just a few minutes, so we won't Insult you by giving you the answer. Anyway, youll know when you get it. Miss Jean Riley of Burlington sends us the following new( item, clipped from column* of the Bifr lington Times-Newt. ACTION SEEKING 8UPPORT COMING BEFORE JUDGE CABR "Mrs. Jack Ron filed suit M t pauper for herself and child against Jack Ross in Alamance Superior Court today. The com plaint allege* that they were mar ried in 1822 and that she and her 101-year-old daughter were aban doned May 25, 1M1." We don't know what happened at the hearing, but we're sort of inclined to believe that if Mr. Ross took care of his daughter for HI years, she certsinly ought to be able to look out for herself by this time. Down In New Bern recently > Congressman Barden was telling us of a little Incident that happen ed down there a number of years ago when Dr. Ayert was pastor of the First Baptitt Church. Dr. Ayert was a great fisher man. One day he wat out with Ollie Pigford, a well known local character, and they were fishing for rock. For some time, neither of the two men got a btte. Then, suddenly, something hit Dr. Ayers' line. He stood up in the boat and started wrestling with the fish. Once or twice it could be seen near the top of the water, and Oi lie said it was the biggest rock he ever had seen. The doctor handled his line skillfully. Closer and closer to the boat he brought the big fish. OUie was wild with excitement, shout ing advice and suggestions to the preacher. And then, just a* Dr. Ayers had succeeded in bringing the fish alongside and just as be had sunk * a gaff-hook through its gills, the rock gave a tremendous wiggle and succeeded in freeing itself from the hook. "Oh, pshaw!" murmured Dr. Ayers That was too much for Ollle. Staring at his companion In utter consternation, and complete dis approval, he yelled out: "Hell afire, preacher! Is that the best you can cuss?" Mr. Allen Sawyer of Asheville writes in to let us know that he has a neighbor whose name is Mr. Hooper Hooper. SOME LOCAL HISTORICAL SKETCHES From Early Democrat Files Sixty Years Ago December 1, ISM Mrs. Sallia Reeves of Blowing Rock wai down Saturday. Squire W. L. Bryan is moving into hia new houae. Rev. David Greene will begin a aerlea of meetings at Mount Vernon Church next Saturday. Mr. Burret Stinson, another worthy young man from Banner Elk, entered achool here Monday. Tile commissioners cancelled about $2,300 worth of claima for the Sheriff on Monday. Capt. Crltcher sold hi* fine Pond Bottom farm on last Saturday to hta son-in-law, Mr. Charley Cof fey of Collettaville. The price paid was f7.000. Mr. L. N. Perkins has taken hia final leave fr6m our county and will make hia future home in Le noir. He, hia excellent wife, and mother-in-law, Mrs. Robert Shear er, will be much miaaed. Richard M. Greene, town mar shal, asks us to say that all atock found running at large within the corporate limits of the town will be Impounded and coat charged on same. On Monday A. S. Edmisten re ceived a telegram bearing the aad intelligence that hia son Alex had been killed In a railroad wreck at Great Falls, Mont Saturday night Alex was a young man much lilted by our people, aa he poeaeaaed many sterling traits ot character. The deceased was Interred in Montana. On last Sunday evening Rev. Jaaper Buchanan, ? well-known Baptist preacher of Elk Park, died at hia home. Governor Rooeevelt of New York, In pardoning people, refuses every time to interfere in any case where the culprit a baaed or injured a woman and he haa also declined to interfere where a criminal haa been convleted a satsnl time. Thirty-Nine Year* Ago December t, 1921 The Pitti boy who w as *o seriously wounded by the accU dental discharge of a pistol In the hands of a brother more than a week ago, is slowly but surely im proving and Dr. Bingham is hope ful of his permanent recovery. Mr. and Mrs. Mack Luttrell went to Johaaon City yesterday on a shopping expedition. Mr. C. M. Critcher of Route 1 has purchased a lot on Depot St. and will erect thereon a modern store building. Mrs. C. G. Hodges of Sands has been appointed a Notary Public by Governor Bickett, which, we be lieve, Is the first appointment of the kind to be given to a woman in this part of the state. Mr. N. B. Brookshire, aged and respected citizen of Horton, after ? protracted illness, died at hi* home Monday and interment was made yesterday. Mr. Brookshire was of ? happy. Jovial disposition, and was much liked by a large cirele of friends. At the annual meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Appala chian Training School held Mon day night, Capt. E. P. Lotill waa unanimously elected as chairman and M. B. Blackburn vice-chairman for the ensuing year. Mr. G. P. Hagaman was elected treasurer to succeed the late lamented W. C. Colfey. Messrs W. T. Hampton, Shaler Gtlley, W H. Gragg and Jmn Bobbins are making preparations to go to Charlotte on the Gth lnat to take the Shrine. Attorney W. B. Bauguess of Jef feraon transacted legal bofeiaeea la Boqoe yesterday. Mr. Frtd Parks of Pittsburg, Pa., with his. wife mi two children, ha* been a visitor at the ham* of his sister, Mm. E. 8. Coffey since Monday, hut expects to leave for Ma home today. Fifteen Years Ago December 7, 1944 William Winkler, local dairy operator, and for the past two years a member of the Board of County CommiMioners, wai elect ed chairman of the county govern ing board Monday when the newly elected officials took the oath of office. Mr. Winkler aucceeda Wal ter C. Greene, who had been chair man for the past two yean. Funeral aervicea of Russell Joseph Hollar, native Wataugan, wan conducted in Durham Sunday afternoon at 3:90 o'clock. Hollar was killed inatantly Friday night about 10:10 o'clock when the car in which he ins riding allegedly left the highway, struck the soft shoulder of the road and ever turned. He was taken to the Camp Bu titer Station Hospital, but was pronounced dead upon arrival. Mayor Gordon H. Winkler has announced that the law regarding the distance pig pens shall be maintained with relation to streets and dwellings, will again be * * strictly enforced. Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Angel, now residing in Cleveland, Ohio, an nounce the engagement of their daughter, Amia Lee, to Corporal Lloyd Isaacs, son of Mrs L. S. Isaacs of Boone. Russell Franklin Tate, aged 90 years, died November 2> at the State Sanitarium, Black Mountain, where he had been 01 for some time. Mr. Eatery Joines has recently purchased a half latere* In the Boon* Steam Laandry, and has take* over the management of the business office at the laundry. wFl. Watts Farthing of Wil mington, who has been seriously 111 for the pest two months, has been released from the hospital, and expects to resume the practice KING STREET By ROB RIVERS Adlai And Luther . . Running Good I Adlai Stevenson, quadrennial candidate for the Presidency, I who's maybe just one convention away from the record set by i William Jennings Brysn in nis tireless seeking after the keys !( to the White House, and Governor Luther Hodge*, who al ways wins, got a big boost for President and Vice-President of the United States. . . . And it wasn't in North Carolina that the thing happened. . . . Hodges bad made a speech to 130 big business leaders when the suggestion was made that the United States couldn't do better than to give the nod to Gov ernor Hodges and former Governor Stevenson. . . . Where upon we gather that "everyone at the dinner stood and g*vej| Governor Hodges a solid round of applause." Which is heartening to those who have the notion that the man from Illinois and the man from Carolina could com* in/ first in the grand nationals following the voting in 1960. . . J1 There's just one catch to the thing, the folks who cheered- the Stevenson-Hodges ticket so lustily were Swiss business men, , and the banquet was spread in Zurich. ? Makes us think of Cooge Lovill, who had a powerful inter-) est in politics and who could do a right good piece of work in his time when election day came around. . . . One time Cooge and a friend were traveling down the old Boone Trail highway, and Cooge conceived the notion of asking his ac-> quaintances along the road how they'd like to vote for the friend for Sheriff of Watauga county. . . . Cooge reported a cool reception, plumb cool, he said, but he kept riding and talking to folks. . . . Finally the campaign began to thaw and he found some folks who were agreeable to his man. . . . Atl last he knocked on the door of an unlighted house, late atf night, and the man came to the door, invited the travelers irt, and wanted to know their troubles. . . . Cooge explained, and the guy said, "What the heck you want to wake me up about a thing like that? I can't vote for him." . . . Cooge labored the point and added, "Some of your neighbors say they're for, him." . . . "Well, what of it?" the sleepy householder queried. . . . "They live in Wilkes county, too." Violence In The New? . . A Bright Spot 1 I Picked up a daily newspaper the other day, and noted that J the front page headlines ran strongly to violence. They were: I Mother Beats Three Children To Death; Burning House Explodes, Two Killed; Man Kills Two Grandchildren, Takes Own Life; Little Girl Kills Baby Sitter; Cousin Accused of , Kidnapping; Carbon Monoxide Sends 500 to Hospital; Big Cargo Plane Plows Into Houses; Pilot Injured, Three Bail { Out. I But right down in the lower right hand corner, in small letters, was the heartening news of the day, which shone through the big black headlines telling of man's inhumanity to man, of the wages of hate, and of the terrible accidents growing out of the age of wheel and jets and the like. |; The little headline, with the hope and promise and the assurance1 that there's still good will and love, said simply: "Look, Younguns, Santa's Coming to Town!" * * * * And In A Western . . A Line Stood Out ' I In the course of tv addiction, one looks at a lot of western pictures, which in the old Saturday night movies we referred to as "shoot 'em ups." . . . We've argued that these films are better than most which have their settings in drawing rooms and banquet halls, and big business offices. . . . Invariably built around the old frontier saloon where heavy drinking ' men fight and kill, they strikingly show the deadly effects of lingering beside the bar, and the big-time gambler, who rules the range, and who aims to take over the ranch from the helpless old man and his daughter, usually winds up fn the j hoosegow, or being escorted by a tall, straight-shooting mar shal to the knotted end of a swinging rope. Law and order and human decency always triumph in these I simple sagas of the old West. . . . The other night, there was a mighty range war going on in one of these films, with water rights providing the spark which brought fisticuffs, gun-sling ing, arson and no end of evil A little girl, bashfully twist ing a pig tail, uttered the only wor^s we remember, which add up to a tolerably good sermon in a mighty small package: "Pop, hate haint never done' nobody no good." Uncle Pinkney Syndicate) DEAR MISTER. EDITOR: Sometime* I think reading the newspaper too regular will ahort en a feller'* day* here aa earth. Fer instant, I ace where 3.568 piece* ot atlverware, over 1,000 goblet*, and M7 plate* Ha* been itole by -the member* out of the United Nation* cafeteria. All in all, they estimate that 1649,000 worth of ituff ha* been toted off by the member*. The American taxpayer*, of course, i* footing the bill and will have to replace it If they keep this pace up there wont be nothing left hot the sugar bowl, and being * taxpay er, I'm in favor of putting a lock and chain oa it. A Cm meaa of folks we got there trying to ran the world affairs! And Senator lloadt thinks we neod a Congressional committee to figger out a way to help the small towns. I have writ to the good Senator and told him to let no live in ponce. The Federal Guvemment has been saving the big cities to the tune ofcmlllions and if the- git to saving the small towns, taxes is going to kfil off the country. Our small towns is unh snored. unaung aand uninvestigated and we deet want 'em rained With no handout "progress" from Washington.' And it says here the U S. Bureau of Standards is woridag on ? hydraulic drill far dentists. Just how this Guvemment agen cy got over into the dental per f tost nsi. I sln't Share. They say it went induce the peln bat Ml re HiS PALAVER1WS duce the vibration. I'jn agin any more tax money fer that project. As long u I got to aet in the chair and suffer, what do I care If it shakes the office down? And it seems them Russians is following up Khrushchev's dls arament plan in their customary good faith. A English newspaper is quoted aa saying they're work ing on the Z-Eomb, the one that is designed to reduce everthing to Zero. And If that aint enough. It says here Elvis Preesley Claims his tour of duty in the Amy has caused him to loot his -feel" fer rock 'n roll softgs. That, however, shouldn't be oat of our national problems. He can git ft bask by going out in the barnyard and practicising hoc-caning fer half a hour. But when I git discouraged like this about the shape things is in. I go out behind the ban and give myself a good talking to. I compere things with Russia, fer inatant. A Russian donl have to wiijf about his proptty he cause he aint allowed to own none. He doat have to worry about what trade hell follow be cauoe they pick his job fer hi*. He can strike, employ labor, 4 M uaI jumi IamaIm k> m ' ?* - PWH |wwHV]r? M IVNNi with foreigner*, bo tried by ? Jury, belong to a church, express his own views, or bo absent from work. That makee It took a little better fer us here In America. Yours truly, Undo Pink
Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.)
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