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? BOONE, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JULY ?, 1W1
Fishing on Sunday! used to be looked
on In this section as definitely wrong,
and we couldn't quite wfarstaid in our
bent-pin days of angling wtiy we couldn't
send the wriggling worms diving into
the pools on the seventh day ? after all
it didn't seem like work to ns ? more
like fun. ^
But U was frowned on, and some ord
ered the Sunday fishing poles, with the
real short joints which could be broken
down into a small package, so short
that those who saw one going fishing,
wouldn't Ifkely think he was carrying
a rod.
But happily for those who like to
wet a fly, customs have changed, and
now the streams are lined on Sunday
afternoons, and mornings too, with those
who are relaxing from the stresses of
the long week and enjoying the beauties
of the great outdoors.
Henry Belk, of the Goldsboro News
Argus, recently had the subject of Sun
day fishing going and out of the dis
cussions which followed we quote the
following:
"Fishing to some is a religious ex
perience. It is a time for thought and
meditation. It Is a time for self-exam
ination, f(# looking into one's soul. On
the quiet river bank, knee deep in the
pounding surf, or looking lazily to sea
where the porpoises play, the ships go
down and the wind whispers, what place
can bring one closer to the great Force,
the Creator, and leave one humbled
with the heavens, which declare the
glory of God or the firmament which
showeth his handiwork?"
When the Fourth of July comes
around, and we see a visitor inquiring
for fishing waters, we peg the guy as
being a good 'un, and we're glad the
customs have changed so that he can
find repose and refreshment amongst
the willows and the blossoms, even on
a Sunday. ~
Another Tweetsie Line
Those who love the Tweetsie Railway
for sentimental reasons, and those of us
who are intrigued by the major impact
the little train has had on the tourist
industry in the immediate area are
interested that President Grover Rob
bins has just put into operation another
of these fun-ride railroads at Gatlinburg,
Tenn,
According to Harry Robbing, who quit
the Postmastership at Blowing Rock to
give full time to the Tweetsie operation,
initial runs of the Gatlinburg tratmravc
met with good success, and there is ts
be an official opening of the enterprise
late in the mouth at which time it is
expected that the Governors of North
Carolina and of Tennessee will be pres
ent, along with some of the important
television personalities.
According to Harry, the new railway
Is similar to the Tweetsie operation,
except perhaps in a more expansive
form, and has virtually the same sort
of appeal.
The Bobbins brothers have handled
well the promotional inclinations and
the civil urge they inherited from their
father, the late Grover Bobbins, Sr.,
who among many other things, develop
ed the Rock itself so as to make it
accessible and practical for tourist visi
tation. He developed the Yonahlossee
Theatre, among other enterprises, and
now his sons are operating the railroad,
restaurants, and a well-equipped amuse
ment park for the kiddies who come to
Blowing Rock.
It is a happy thing for the Blowing
Bock, Boone and Linville areas, that aU
these ventures of popular public appeal
were developed.
The Bobbinses, father and sons, have
wrought mightily for the expansion of
the tourist industry here. We congratu
late them on their enterprise, and shall
wish for them continuing successes in
succeeding ventures.
Red Pressures
How the Soviet Union segregates its
African students and uses them for pro
paganda purposes is revealed by Everest
Mulekead, now a student at Washington
Btate University, in the July Reader's
Digest.
In an article, "I Was a 'Student' at
Moscow State," Mulekezi tells how the
Russians lured him to Moscow State
University from his native Uganda with
a six-year scholarship plus 000 rubles
($225) a month for living expenses and
additional allowances for clothing and
an annual eight-week vacation.
Once he arrived, however, Mulekezi
found there were strings.
"Government propagandists," he
writes, "haunted the dormitories, solici
ting our photographs^or export, asking
for tape-recorded statements which they
broadcast back to our countries. Every
course was laced with indoctrination.
Professors invariably phrased their
questions to ascertain whether.our re
actions to communism were indifferent
or sympathetic; on the answers depend
ed our grades and treatment."
When authorities tried to bind the
Africans into a communist-dominated Af
ro-Arab League, Mulekeri and others
formed their own All Black African
Students Union. Quickly they suffered
further. Once-friendly Russian students
shunned them; those who remained
friendly had to meet them secretly. Un
pleasant incidents followed; several
times Africans were attacked by their
Red "hosts."
In 1960 Mulekezi and other Africans
decided to leave Moscow. Muleked was
given a scholarship to Washington State
University, where he is now enrolled.
"I was one of the lucky ones," he
says. 'Today, a hundred or more Afri
cans are floating around Europe, Impov
erished aod discouraged. They had the
courage to get out of Moscow State Uai
versity, but they have hunted in vain
for free countries that would accord
them another educational opportunity."
Latter-Day Fable About Camel
(Winstoa-fialem Twin City Sentinel) ,
as oesi anyway can calculate, Old
Aesop has been dead now for about 1,500
years. Bui his fables are as pertinent
as they ever were ? mainly, we guess,
because the foibles of human nature
which he punctured are about the sama
as they always were. It's only the cir
cumstances that change.
Take the camel, for example. For
Centuries the camel has been king of
the 4psert ? as necessary to the Arab
world as a horse is to Matt Dillon. With
his capacity to go wtthovt water and
protect himself from sand, we was God's
lift to desert travel, aod he knew it.
Consequently, he didn't bother to try
to win friends. Hef^idn't have to.
But now come* the news that his days
on the desert throne are numbered.
Airplanes and air-conditioned trucks and
trailers are invading his domain They
can go faster than he can, and they're a
whole lot easier to get along with. Pretty
soon, it's being predicted, the once
mighty dmnel is going to be useful for ?
little more than supplying the hair for
coats. And the cad part is that nobody
is going to be sorry to see the haughty
rascal fall.
The Aesopian moral to all thh is, of
course, as plain as the hump on a camel's
back: It's sot sensible to think you're in
dispensable.
What Salome Asks For
SOME LOCAL HISTORICAL SKETCHES
From Early Democrat Files
Sixty Years Ago
July 4, 1M1.
Glad to tee L. N. Perkins, of Le
noir, la town thii week.
Some peddlers who have been
traveling and playing their trade
in the county (or tome weeks un
der license issued by the Sheriff
for $30, without being counter
signed by the Chairman of the
Board at Commissioners, were ar
raigned before the Board on Mon
day and required to pay an addi
tional $80 each lor the privilege
of peddling. The boys rather
"kicked" on tbe raise, but we are
told they paid it all the tame.
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Presiding Elder Smith, of Hick
ory, pie ached 4? his flsek here es
Saturday and Sunday.
It is a pleasure to ut to itate
that we ware mitinformed last
week at to the death of John Mc
Chinnis at the haada af Negro,
Furgeton. Re was most critically
slUl'lj It ID jnuf I Vvlng vlvnVH fn w?
one plate, and burst for about four
inches around the back of the
head. He, it it said, regardless of
this horrible conditioa, Is improv
ing. and K is thought kgr his phy
sicians that there is some chance
for his recovery. He hss been ra
tional all the white, and Ms Iron
nerve stid great will power have
doubtless done much to avert
Attorney Frank A. Linney has
moved his office to a room in the
old hotel building, foraterly own
ed by Mr. W. L. Bryan.
Thirty-Nine Years Ago
My 6, 1922.
Mrs John Ataabury, who has
been vary ill far tome time it, we
are so try to learn, atill very ill,
although the may be tlightly bet
ter.
All (he members of Wstauga
Lodge, 273, are invited to be pre
sent at the nest regular communi
cation to be held in the Masonic
hall tomorrow, (Friday) night.
Work to the Master'i degree.
A new visitor arrived in the
hone of Rev. and Mrs. Huggins
last Friday night. Mother and ton
are doing well. "If strong tungs
be a qualification (or the minis
try, he it well fitted," says the
reverend gentleman.
Mr. slid Mrs. W. G. Hartiog re
turned from Bristol Friday, where
they attended the funeral ?* Wr.
Hartsog's step father, Mrs. Jamas
Mr. V. Groan town marshal, aad
Mr. J. D. Counclll captured a rath
er Mmlaattm still wifeta 4hraa
miles af Booae last Friday, but,
small as it was, it was getting
down to Maui all right It it a
comw army coffee pot af about
29 aril on capacity, and the worm
la ol the same material. After the
plant hiMen away under a shelv
tnt rsrit, 4hoy ssutlid thumatdiui
B. B. Hodges by name, arrived on
the aceae and wh taken into
custody. He, with his outfit, was
brought to the county jail. Quite
a lot of beer was destroyed. Hod
ges was released on bail Friday. ,
The Fourth came a rainin' and
it continued until well in the af
tennoon, but despite the steady
downpour, to give a conservative
estimate, there were from four to
five thousand people in town, and
? wetter, more food humored and
quiet crowd, was never in any
town. With a large and neu-vy
police force appointed by the
town council to keep order on In
dependence Day, not a single case
was brought before the mayor.
Beooe and Watauga are all right,
and the visitors were as well en
tertained as conditions would al
low.
Fifteen Yean Ago
July 4, 1946.
Rev. Edwin F. Troutman of
Boone, Lutheran pastor, has just
receive^ a handsome plaque, bear
ing the signatures of President
Truman and Baail O 'Conner, na
tional Red Cross Chairman, given
"la recognition of meritorious
personal service performed in be
half of the nation, her armed
forces, and suffering humanity in
Xhe Second World War."
The widely heralded tests of
the atom bomb made ia the far
Pacific Sunday, played second fid
fie to the death of the OPA in
local conversations this week, and
the opinions concerning the de
mise of the price-fixing authority
were many and varied, while the
explosion of the atom bomb failed
to lift an eyebrow.
Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Greer are
?pending the Fourth with Mr. and
Mrs. Bill Smith in Roanoke, Va.
Mr. and Mrs. Emory Joines and
Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Hayworth are
-spending a few days at Myrtle
Beach, S. C.
Miss Fannie Dougherty and Mr.
Arthur Dougherty have moved to
Lenoir temporarily where Arthur
has secured employment with the
city schools.
Dr. J. B. Hagaman and family
are spending the week with rela
tives at points in Virginia. During
Doctor Haga man's absence, his
practice is being taken care of by
Dr. ben D. Hagaman.
Mr. ?nd Mrs. Everett Beach of
Seattle, Wash., bare arrived for
a visit with, home folks in Boone
and in the county. Mr. Beach left
Boose hi 1807, and last visited his
home town in 1924. He is a broth
er to Messrs Willard and Tom
Beach of the city.
Mrs. Glenn Davis, and tons,
Billie and Jimmie, of Akron, Ohio,
are spending a few days at the
home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Lewis at Sherwood, and
with relatives in Boone.
Mr and Mrs. S. A. Hubbard, Jr.,
of Asheville, were week-end guests
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James
F. Dotson.
Just One Thing
By CARL coebch AFTER ANOTHER
The post office department does
a remarkable job at times deliver
ing mail that is peculiarly ad
dressed. For example, Bill Keziah
of Southport, North Carolina, once
received a letter from the London
Life Insurance Company'* office
at St. Catharines, Ontario. The let
ter was addressed: W. B. Keziah,
Cape Fear, South Carolina, U. S.
A., but it reached W. B. Keiiah
at Southport, North Carolina, V.
6. A. without any delay.
And then, too, there's the caae
of Ella Anderson, who for a num
ber of years was nurse at the home
of Mrs. Cooper (Mary Drewry) of
Raleigh. The letter was mailed in
Scotland and waa addressed like
this: a
Miss Ella Anderatn
c-o Mrs John Drewry
Hayea Barton,
North Carolina.
It was received 0. K.
Dr. Uarace Palmer, of Littleton,
sent a letter to Thomas Coflr, of
Littleton, addresaed as follows:
Thomas Cofir
Littleton, N. C.
It T. D. Aurelian Springs, near
Anderson's Croat Roads, 1000
jnTTIS flol Oil rifiwaTTl lull ICR svtll
farm.
It got there O. K.
The following newt item from
ruary 9, 1X3, came to my atten
tion tfea other day. Certainly there
Waa ne eawipaiiaoa between the
1803 LegialaUirc and the UM1 Gen
eral AtaamMy which J oat receatly
adjourned. This ia what the itaan
*Mr
morrow. In taking leave of thil
"Conservative" legislature, we be
lieve we express the gnral snti
ment when we pray never to we
the like assembled again within
the walls of the Capitol. They
were fey far the weakest body of
men ever entrusted with represen
tative duties and the session was
characterized by an embittered
spirit which we never aaw equal
led in the most excited party times
under the old government.
Among my acquaintances and
friends in North Carolina are:
Mr. Pew
Mr. Pou
Mr. Pugh
Mr. Pouch
In a cemetery in Raleigh are
two tombstones over the graves of
former members of the General
Assembly. They are alongside each
other.
One of them contains this In
acriptton:
Gen. Frederick Grist
State Senator
Beaufort County
Dec. 1, 1834, 44 yrs. old
And the other is inscribed as
follows:
Cpftralin Mann
State Senator
Tyrrdl County
Sec 1. 18M, M yrs. old
It thoac 4ay? when very little
wai k? w of embalming, and
vh?i ft reqaimd several days to
trawl from *aMgh to points In
the Mrtm part of the state, It
am impossible to move bodies any
groat distance. So when these two
distinguished men died while
aenlng tn file Legislature, They
KING STREET
By ROB RIVERS
TW FW Cm- Id Bmm . . It Vm Barringer's
When Osmond Barringer, Charlotte man, "with a long
string of business firsts," died the other day, we recalled that
be drove the first automobile ever to reach Blowing Rock
and Boone. ... It was September II, 1M8, when the motor
car chugged up the street, made a turn at the Blackburn store,
and west on bach south. ... At a little child we stood with
the other youngsters in wid&?y?d glee while the vehicle
with no horses made Hi way along the dry dirt road. . . . And
there was talk for days of the horseless wonder, and the
mountain men palmed their long beards and vowed automo
biles would never amount to anything ? "something for the
rich to mess with." . . . Bob Rivers, the first, didn't play up
the coming of the first motor car with any amount of en
thusiasm, but an item appeared, which said:
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| "An automobile, the first one that was ever in the village,
was an attraction on our itreet* Monday. The machine, oc
cupied by five peraona, came from Charlotte to Blowing Rock
Sunday in nine hours, and was detained quite a while on
the way by an injured tire. Their apin over the Boone and
Blowing Rock turnpike must have been splendid as the
road was never in finer condition."
It. wasn't that we'd had an automobile in town, but the
fact that the road was in good shape that seemed to appeal
to our daddy, who was a pioneer exponent of good roads,
even in the days when no thought had been given to motor
cars. . . But the event stuck in the minds of the youngsters,
and a lithographed post card was sold here for years showing
the automobile driven as far as possible up the big stone
outcropping from which the town of Blowing Rock got its
name. . . . And the name Osmond Barringer, which failed to
make the Democrat, was etched indelibly in our mind, along
with those of George Washington, Thonjas Jefferson, Zeb
Vance, and later Barney Oldfield, the cigar-smoking automo
bile racer, and there was sadness in our corner the other day
when he went away. ... It was a lot more than the death
of a man we never knew. ... It was the passing away of
a shining hero of our childhood.
White-Winged Robin . . Still Around .
Two years ago, Prof. George L. Sawyer, with whom we
often confer on matters of birddom, noted a robin near the
postoffice with white-fringed wihgs. . . . Last year he saw
the bird a couple of times, and this year it came to see him,
and lingered on his lawn for perhaps fifteen minutes. ... Or
it is reasonable to suppose it was the same bird, since in all
his life of observing birds he has never seen a redbreast sim
ilarly marked. , . . It's visit to the man who'd watched it,
perhaps shows that even a songbird likes to be noticed.
Appreciated Visitors . . Long Acquaintance
Among the newspapermen to attend the opening per
formance of the Horn and to enjoy the hospitality of the
Chamber of Commerce and a number of business institutions
was A1 Resch, friend from way hack, who newspapers ably
down at Siler City. . . . A1 and Mrs. Resch made a bee line
to the Democrat office when they came to town, and we had
a happy time with the 'Visiting firemen." . . . Publisher
Resch used to visit with Bob Rivers the first more than thirty
years ago, and was glad to see the old maple tree under which
they exchanged notions in a less hurried day, still standing,
even if the old print shop it shaded gave way to progress.
? ? * ?
In The Piano . . Squirming Rat Trap
Will Hopkins, who's been tuning pianos for 47 years,
was working on an instrument at the Mountain View Baptist
Church on Stony Fork the other day, and found a three-foot
blacksnake, lying on the inside portion of the keyboard. . . .
He and Jud Goulds brought the reptile to town. . . Will
says that mice often manage to enter pianos, and since black
snakes thrive on the rodents, this instrument had a built-in
rat trap, the second one he's found in his long experience.
Uncle Pinkney
(Mac Knight Syndicate) jjgg PALAVARJN S
DEAR MISTER EDITOR:
Some of the fellers at the coun
try store Saturday night brung
up this item of crows and the na
tional corn shucking that was dis
cussed a few weeks back.
One old feller allowed as In*
maybe we was being a little too
unfriendly with the crows. He
Mid he could recollect his Grand
pa saying once that crows was
exceeding the farmer in prosper
ity. That was right after the Civil
War whea crows was outMnaber
ing the tamer about BO to 1. Ilia
Grandpa was living ia Georgia *
the time and he claimed that ?
account at the Yankees had state
?11 the silverware It was the
crows that showed the farsars
how to oat com oa the cob. His
Grantfpa rtainaod this was a new
invention aad a big help to the
farmers in Niem days.
In return fer this favor, said
bis Grandpa, the iarmer allowed
the crows to have part of the
Corn. Race relations was real
good.
Then come hard times and the
Guvernmeat started claiming part
?f the com. Ever since then.
Claims this feUer, the crows and
the farmers has been fighting
fer what's left. The farmers has
now got the crow* ou tea sabered
about M to 1 aod this has about
starved the crows out. He aays
that unleaa Congress makes a dis
tress area oat of some of the
eornfields, they ain't going to be
?ny crows left by the time Bobby
1968. He is in favor of not being
too hard on the crows.
Zeke Grubb said he'd been
thinking about that plan to have
the Senator from Iowa or the
Senator from Indiana to set at the
head corn pile at this national
corn shucking and he's afraid
it'll cause hard feeling in other
section of the country. In these
states, says Zeke, corn is mostly
throwed to the hogs, and in the
South, fer instant, it Is raised
mostly to eat and drink.
Clem Webster allowed as how
the safe thing to do was to git
some neutral feller like General
MacArthur to set at the head corn
pile. Clem said that if the good
General would accept the invita
tion he would personal present
him with some gifts at the cere
monies. Clem said he'd whittle
him a shucking peg and a corn
stalk flute that would pIlPup
to C-ftarp, and take a little straw
^ and weave him a bonnet from
corn shucks.
The General is well knowed
far his core -cob pipes and Ed
DMlittla said he'd whittle him
one from a white cob, use a heat
ing iron on it and gU the stem'
from a cane stalk down on the
creek. Ed said he'd make it so
pritjr the General would fergft he
was mad at Harry Truman.
We'd appreciate It, Mister Edi
tor, if you'd son ad out the Gen
erri on oar proposition.
Your? truly,
UNCUS PINKNEY