North Carolina Newspapers

WATAUGA DEMOCRAT KTABLMHBD IN 188ft PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY RIVERS PRINTING COMPANY. INC. B- C. RIVSM. ?. f IWTO* AND MANAGER . , *.& . iW HSK ASWCUT* EWTQa An Indapaaitort Waakly H? iipopM PlAaraKffQf ? Yam to ?o*MTt C ?(vW jr. SVWCIUFTIQN JIATBS (BKFBCTIVE EBSBUABY 1, 1963) iN NORTH CAROLINA OUTSIDE NORTH CAROLINA On* **r ...... ?.?? One Yem 94.0ft ate Moelks *1.80 Six Months *2.90 Bout MhiIKi .?. 11.80 Four Months , $3.00 All S*A#criptiinA Pwabte in Advance NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS? In requesting change of addna* it U unporUnt to mention the OLD, an well m the NEW MMfew. Entered it the postoffie? at N. C., u second claw matter, under the act of Congress of March 3, 18T?. MEMBER NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION Assembly May Go On Road Again There are indications that even the new State House, and all its fountained and terraced beauty won't be able to hold the General Assembly for the duration of their current session. It seems right likely that again the Legislative body will become a road show. Invitations are being received from far and near and that some of the invitations will be accepted seems fairly certain. And there would be little point in our repeating our still-beld convic tion that, even though our lawmakers sometimes do a lot of amusing thii^s, we don't believe they ought to be "road-showed" like was the ease with first run movies a few years ago. Arid of course there is the danger that Congres might get in the notion of some state-by-state junketing, and their argumentations would never end. At any rate we like the invitation the Raleigh solons received to visit at Cuilowhee which was directed to "Tarheels wjio have a sincere appre ciation for the finer things of life to stop for a while and set for a spell," and continued: "Whereas, the eleva tion of the soul, spirit and thought comes to those who look to the moun tains, and growth in stature, ia wis dom and in strength necessarily fol lows a visit to the lofty craigs and verdant valleys of the Blue Ridge." If we were in the Assembly, as much as we dislike the aottoa ?f mov* ipg the sessions here and there over the land, we wouty he warmed by the message from the high hills and might find it hard to resist the clos ing line of the letter, "You'all come." Sanford And Road Bond Proposal Referring to the fact that he did not make road bonds an issue when he came into office Governor San ford has issued a statement in which he points out that "we have let to contract more highway and road con struction than in any similar period in history. We have built more sec ondary roads than any administra tion except Kerr Scott's," 4nd adds: ? Because we have a single state system (only two or three other states work it this way), we are able to support 10 per cent of all state highway mileage on 3 per cent of road iaxes collected in Amer ica and with the fewest highway em ployees. ? We have, the best road system in America, county totals and percentage paved, except for New York and Ohio, and the use is so much greater in those two states because of the heavy popula tion that we would rank well ahe?J of both of them in mileage of highways available to each resident or motorist. ? The great state of Texas today has less miles of paved secondary roads to date than were paved in North Carolina by Kerr Scott alone. ? In the brief time since I have been in office, we have p*ved more secondary road* than the tot*! paved to date in Louisiana, Maine, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico*, North Dakota, and Rhode Island. ? California has $8,000 paved to our 27,000 but has almost twice as pany miUs unpaved as do we. ? South Carolina hjyf 4,372 payed sec ondary miles compared to our 27,000 miles, or 16 per cent compared to our 46 per cent. Georgia hjs 12,000 paved, or 18 per cent. Tennessee has 16,000 miles or 29 per cent. ? During the remaining year and a half we expect to build roads as rapidly as passible on existing revenues and we will be able to keep up tk* pace by lagisletive action in stopping diversion, and the ad ministrative action in ipiproving efficiency. ... I believe w? cm meet Uu pressing needs ?f the people without bonds. Sounds all right to us. The Big Presses Roll Again The monstrous presses of the New York newspapers, silenced for 114 days from the ITU strike, roared with new life Sunday night as a ? news starved city waited (or the millions of copies to he spewed from the great machines. And it is hard to see how anyone gained by the close down which fi nancial experts estimate has caused t}e metropolis the loss of from $250 t? $450 millions, or about $4 million a day. Some of the results of the strike ? About three-quarters of the 399 blind news dealers had to close down, and jmM of them were forced to go on relief when their savings dwindled. ? The average New Yorker found him self without a prime source of news, the columns sad the Coptics. ? There was an exasperating search for ioforssatkm like, "How do you tlnd a job or aa apartment without the want ada?" ? How does one find out about a fun eral of a friend or anacquaintance in a great city, or who's playing at tke movies? ? Department store sales slumped more ?hfrn jo per cent trow ft year aEn. clubs and restaurants suffered, apartments stayed vacant longer and stock brokers got fever orders. ? Funeral parlors said mourners' at tendance dropped and florist* reported ? drof ia orders Ar flowers. Employment agencies and real estate brokers, unable to advertise, said they got fewer calls from, 9M& tauwcSr la spite of the radio and tv, which render highly useful service, there is ^ |i printed word. Whether in Manhattan or Mudville; Cleveland or Centerville; Boston or Boose, the folks want their newspapers and depend upon them to a greater degree, judging by mounting circulation, than ever before. Same Sad Spring S ong (The Chipel Hill Weekly) Some sage, unquestionably locked in mprtat combat with a regynea of Mr Uveal aad hot tea. oace observed, "Imprisoned if every lat man, a this mm to wildly signalling to be tot tut." And s? Ue ia, semas#ioring with an ad#4 urgency to tone iprcth that semi-annual fandango the mercury perfumis to the confines of Ito tube. February was the cfueleit month *f the year. The last of the ducks had vipgeg on South, unruffled pdnfeathers ? jaunty vtbuke to frustrated Ktin barrels and pitted retrievers. Before that the feikt had gone broWn and sere; t|e back swing scattered spray at if the c)ub had cut as unseen surf, and the in ward retreat became a rout to ?M to't r?mwrt el flr?od. The eye jaundtoed. the muacto stock cued; ? certain tmitpea* in the trousers swelled into a conafttat hazard to U- to tfgrity odjsnto never meant to he obea ity*a dike. ? Strings sudden onset has eaugfed u? flatfooted, but otherwise the much sought MttMtiw* auia* go baggfe* for w?l of being apt. And ?0 begins a rite of spring such aa Stravinsky i? his vWMt ?*o*?H|ty never could conceive. But begin it mutt? thia clashing of grass on mower blade and rasping of rake scaytl, until by fall our svelte self baa earned hi* gprole once mora. H bespat a disharmow with natufo: to> si|ed while all elae burge??a, to molt ia, spirit while the world ia in ah orgy of foliation. Tfcp time it will be difftftpt, we ?%& and V may t>e yet. The ootio? of Spying cornea flpoaaa Hough o? pulley* and with o*. caaotve to st#*t; Irwped some where bet IE ii thf furnace ana the shade OB the lawn, not knowing where our prow ia pointed, v , Seems As iA md-emsr.r: Grown Some ' 1 * :'l From Early Democrat Files Sixty Years Ago April 2, 1903. Watauga Academy commen cement begins on Thursday of next week. Born to Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Cottrell of Deerfieid, a baby boy Showery weather and the grass continues to grown nicely, regardless of the fact that we have had several right severe freezes of late. . Married on last Thursday at the home of the bride's father, Mr. Philip Greer, Miss Alice Greer to Mr. Charles Greer of Trs4ft Tenn,. Kev. N. C. Combs, officiating. Mr. and Mrs. ft. M. Greene returned from a visit to Cove Creek Sunday aa4 report the health of Mrs. Sarah Mast at - being i? ? moot precarious con dition. The amowMt of Irish potatoes in Watauga county this spring is immense, and we are told that they are gelling an low as 30c per bushel. The Jefferson Recorder of last week says the family of Mr. T. W. Anderson, which eame here some time ago from Tenn., has removed to Blowing Rock when Mr. Anderson will go into the Hvery stable busi ness. Mrs. Maggie B o y d e n of Boone, who is in the Billings ley Hospital at Stotesville (or treatment, was again operated upon |or internal tumor on last Friday and it is gratifying in deed to us to state that the op eration was a decided success and at last reports the patient was getting along nicely. Her brother, Dr. J. B. Council) and Dr. Long, both of Salisbury, with the hospital surgeons, per formed the 9[*r?fo& Will there be an effort made to locate the Appalachian Training Scbol in this county? This is a matter of no small importance, and there is not much being aaid or done about it. What do you say? The reports of the condition of the fruit prospects in the county since the hard freezes of Ust week, are, to some extent, mixed. Some say it is all killed, while others assert that very little damage has been done to our staple crop. - ; Prof. Francum closed an eight months term of the Cone school at Blowing Rock on last Friday. That philanthropic gentleman, Mr. Moses H. Cone, has been duplicating the county and State "fond at that "piiot for some time and despite his in terest taken in the education of" the children In that neighbor hood, we are told that the aver age attendance was not near aa high as it should have been. Thirty-Nine Years Ago Ajrtl *, 1924. On Tuesday, April 17, the Geo. Phillips property, frosting Water Street and the railroad, which has been subdivided into 16ts will be sold at auction to the high bidder. It is valuable stuff end should bring a good price. Uttle Miss Virginia South entertained a number of her friends at a birthday party from 3 to 9 p. m. yesterday. Abund ant refreshments to the liking of the kiddies were served, which were much enjoyed by Just One Thing By CARL GOERCH During * session of the Gen eral Assembly I was standing In the Sir Walter Hotel in Raleigh where Mr. Speight, the repre sentative from Bertie Cdunty and Pete McKnight, Charlotte newspaperman, were having a discussioa. Mr. Speight was making some kind of a statement %nd Pete interrupted him: "Bwt I don't think, Mr. Speight, that you have any right to thiqk that ? " Mr. Speight raiaad hand and broke in with: **Now look here; you've got no right to say that I haven't got a right to think what i think to right." No comeback to a remark like that. In a display arranged by the ftanly County Society various textbooks and articles used in the schools of a century or more ago were used. UicUidad jj, the display was an oM North Carolina law (or wOwfltaMten wbisfe read* like this: "When a schoolmaster, in cor rection of his scholar, happens to occasion the feafe o I a scholtf. *nd, if in correc tion, he is so barbarous as to exceed all bounds of modera tion, he is at least guilty of manslaughter. But if ha makes use of afiy iflstnjment improper tar ?cn*cUn?-m?h as an iron h?t or sword ? and *er*r ?n dangers the scholar's life, or if he kicks him to the ground and then stomps on his stomach and after another thus kills him, he is guilty of murder." Ever thought of how many post offices ill North Carolina end in the word "Hill?" Here'i ? list we have collected. Maybe you can think of more. Laurel Hill, Pin* Hill, Snow Hill, Rose Hill, Merry Hill, Gold Hill, New Hijl, Chapel Hill, Mars Hill, Prospect Hill, Traphill, Jackson HiH, Melvin Hill, Pleas ant Hilt, Tipton HiH, Grove Hill, Maple Hill and Spring Hill. Incidentally, we wotder If you can give us the name of a pott office in Dare County (hat ends in hill. However, there's no need to strain yourself, be cause there is no such office. Most of our readers probably will a*y Kill Devil Hill, but the real mow for this post office U Kill Devil Hills. What county in the UaM States has the largest popula tion? Ypu'll probably say Ne?r Yo?k. but tkrt iaa't so, because New Yor^ City 1* split up into several cou*Um. The county with the largest population is Cook County ( Chi cago), Illinois. The three states with the largest number of counties are Tews (J44), Georgia U8?),M?d Kentucky (l|0). The three state. with *? smallest number of counties are Delaware (S), Rhode Island (5), and ( onwUQutt (3J all of them. Mr. W. R. Gragg Is making some substantial Improvements on his dwelling. Mr. Floyd Ward has purchas ed the J. D. Couneill corner, opposite the Watauga Cdunty Bank, and will erect thereon a modern filling station. The old store building has been moved to the rear and will, we suppose, be rearranged for a dwelling. The location is ideal. The spirit of spring it seems, * has hit friend Watt Gragg. He is lofoncing his property, put ting a brick retaining wall in front, and making other very sightly improvements on his valuable holdings. Attend the mass meeting at the court house on next Mon day at 11 a. m. It is very im portant that every business mf^ every tiller of the soil and ?j' al) #|Lhers, who have the wel fare of the farmers of the coun ty at heart, to be present. Mr. Poly Moretz is rustling to completion a residence on a lot he recently purchased from F. A. ' Linney, lying north of the court house. Fifteen Years Ago April 1, 1948. Lt J. H. Deal and Mrs. Deal and daughter, Sandra, accom panied by Dr. and Mrs. R. K. Bingham spent Easter with Mr. and Mrs. Bill Bingham at Pin nacle. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Owens, Jr. and Mr. and Mrs. Ray H*r rill and son, Ray Baxter, Jr., of Gastonia spent the week end with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Cooke. Mrs. Texie Fox returned to her home at Vilas j|. ter spending last week at Wata uga Hospital where she under . went treatment. Mrs. R C. Mabrey of Con cord and two children, Betty and Sara Lynn, are visiting Mm. Mabrey 's paernts, Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Brown. Miss Nellie Moretc of Detroit, Mich-, is spending several weks with her mother, Mrs. Robert Howell of Meat Camp and with other relative* in Hickory. Miss Maisie Jean Jones of Fayetteville, sepnt the Easter holidays with her mother, Mrs. J. W. Jones. Mrs. W. L Henson of Mt. Pleasant, spent the week end with her daughter, Mrs. J. L. Reese and Mr. Reese here. . Mr. Paul Flftcher has return ed home after undergoing an appeadjx operation at Wilkes Hospital at North Wilkesboro recently. Mr. Tommy Holloway, Jr., left Friday for Milwaukee School of Engineering, Milwau kee, Wisconsin, where he will enroll for a three year course. Mrs. Howard CottreU was c4ted to New toodpn last week because of the ifeess of Ut aunt, Mrs. Reid Reeves. Mr. and Mrs. Conra# Bodges of Statesville, spent Sunday with Jfrs. Hodges' parents, Mr. ?ad Mrs. John Greene. ^Mra. Jack Farnsworth of New York ??*. spent Good Pride* with her brother, Rev. E. F Troutman. jb < Mrs. Chas. I* Lewis of Sher wood will return to her home today irna Norfolk, Vs., where she has been visiting her daugh ter, Mrs. Nerve Hagaman and MC> ?faUEMMAr KING STREET MY RO$ RIVERS Al Blowing Hock ? , Old Times Reviewed Recently we enjoyed a visit with some plmwr flow ing Rock citizens, Mr. and Mrs. George M. ftudderth, who are occupying -the same home they have lived in for 59 years. ... Mr. Sudderth, who has been retired tor about ten years, is an old-timer in the mountain-top town, and actually was born near his present home eighty years ago. . . . Mrs Sudderth U the former Miss Cor? Bl#ir, daughter of the late William T. and Mrs. BUir, who oper ated the Blair Hotel in Booae for many yean. A Leader . . Varied Career -?1 w ? ? Mr. Sudderth started his ca reer as a teacher, and taught at Sandy Flat, Zioaville and other places in the county school sys tem, was cafUtier of the Bank of Blowing Rock for ten years, was employed by Wachovia Bank & Trust Co., in Winston-, Salem, but couldn't gel used to doing without the high hills and returned to Blowing Rock after a year. ... He was one of the organisers of the Peoples Bank Ik Trust Co., in Boone, and its first cashier. ... He got his law degree from Wake Forest CoHege and practiced civil law for 25 years. . . He was Judge of the Watauga County Recorder's Court and was once appointed Clerk of the Superior Court but decid ed against the Job and didn't qualify. * * * Mayor . * Gifted Speaker Itfr. SuHdrrth say* he doesn't know bow many times he was Mayor of Mowing Rock, bat ha* been Intermittently throughout the yean. . . He reeaHf that hi HM the total tax take of the town was about four hundred dollars. ... A gifted speaker of his time, he was frequently called upon to make public appearances, and we borrowed Uu nUtiue pub lished herewith from him, which shows him pocketing his note* altar delivering a patri otic address ia the Blowing Rock Park at the clow of the last world wv- , , , in later years he enjoyed going out oa hunts and mingling with his friends. . . . Possessed of a rare sewe of fcmor he Ufced the Pink Baldwin itories, and frequently fellowslripped with the grizzled tall-tale teller . ?f the tali timber. * * * We've Known Him . . A Long Time Our friendship with Mr. Sudderth dates back to our short-breeches days when the Rivers boys had a motorcycle which gave a lot of trouble. . . : Mr. Sudderth kept the contraption at his home for a week or two, got into its inn ards and put it to racing up hill and down dale like a buck ing bronco. ... He was the first man we knew to own one of these speedy, spluttering cycles, and enjoyed working with them and with automo biles. ... On one occasion, we recall, our cyde went plumb dead near the Bank of Blow ing Rock right in the midst of Mr. Sudderth's business hours as Cashier. . . . When we entered the door, dusty and distraught, he was wait ing on a customer. . . We waited a?d told him our trou bles. . . . Obligingly, he locked the door, went out on the street and made the adjust ments oa the atotor bike, crank ed her up, and went back to hi* banking. ... A man worth his salt always like* tha folks who were good to him is bis gangling days, and we have en joyed a long and happy friend ship with this good and out standing Blowing Rock citizen. . . . And we liked our visit with Mr and Mrs Sudderth. . . . Among our favorite people, they rank mighty high, and we wish for them the best in all the dag? of their retirement. ? ? ? On Th$ Link* . . Bingo! (??y Hunt called an Saaday evening to brim ? tk* kw news that he'd w4e the ?? h-ct shot down at the Trt CoaaUto fair <** near Whit aaL . ? . ?Ny aaad a m. ? baa to hale the sphere hi ana ?hot from the a?l*er 1 toe, a ad hacaate the toast ol the hha with ??>??* *t riuhi, M| aad cart, to *? vatae or a fee* thwe hn.toU dollars, ??d a ?eihmhlf ia ** ri?h. to sdd to hU over saw** flip of Joy* ? ? Bert ET11?, J. C. Cllae, lhala Alt ridfe, aad Bay Farthteg ac compaaled G#y athen he real MlknfaUiltaMMt * tk??Mv MR. SVDDBltra ..Ml patriotic > speaker er's dream. . . . Another good friends of ours, with whom we have trudged many happy miles around the golf coarse, Jack Cobb, made Ms ace last fall. . . . Now we shall hope that the next man to hit the Jackpot on the green will be Dr. Taylor Adams, the dean of the group with which w; have duffed ? a gentleman and a scholar. . . And congratula tion* to Guy ws hH achieve ment. . . . Such fun couldn't have come to ? better fellow! Uncle Pinkney HIS PALAV ERIN'S -t>a mi 1 ' ' ? ?EAR MISTER EDITOR: Ole Patrick Henry told some of our ancestors if be couldn't git liberty to give him death. I was just setting here read ing the papers and studying my latest literature from the De partment of Agriculture and wondering if ole Patrick could stand the kind of liberty we got now. Fer instant, this Washington column writer says national, state and local taxes will take 34 cents of ever dollar earned by the American people in 1803. l? 1939, he says, these taxes was taking 11 cent. This column writer claims taxes has got so high they has give rise to a brand new per fession in this country, the "tax avoidance" experts. He al lows as how a field of experts as big as the legal perfession has sprung up that don't do nothing bat specialise in find ing legal loop holes fer avoid ing taxes. He toldi about one big manufacturer that hires six of these tax avoidance boys full' time. The manufacturer explained that it pays better, after you reach a certain point, to find ways of gitting out of taxes than it does to earn more income fer the company. And I ain't got much faith in this campaign they got going now to cut taxes. What they take off here they'll put on there, and b> 1964 the tax take will be up another 2 cent on the dollar. I agree 100 per cent with that new ear bumper sticker they say is going around the country: "A Vote Fer Any body Is A Vote Fer More Taxes." ."mR; ? And they was ? couple dis turbing items in my dosage from the department of Ag riculture this week. Ftfrt off, they *u a small item an nouncing that the prtce of ele phants haa doubled since 1982 and was climbing ail the tune. When that item Bits la the newsDapers and folks starts hoarding elephants things wiU git oritty crowded. But the most serious item was about them science fellers ?It the University of Wisconsin hitting on i discovery in whset 100 to 190 bushels to tl About the best you c?n flt iat ta 40 to 80 btahel We already Ouverpnwrt wheat stored h* Alcatraz to the Statue of Liberty and If the yleW gits UP to ISO bushel a acre it could cause a national panic.