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WATAUGA DEMOCRAT ? ■ l; An Independent Weekly Newspaper ESTABLISHED IN 1888 'V# . ,«? S: Published for 45 Years by Robert C. Elvers, fir. rOttfSBED THTftsDAYS BIT felVERS PRINTING COMPANY, INC.. OWNER *• C. UTTERS. JR.. Editor and Kanactt JEAN RIVERS, Anoeutt Edltof h: RACHEL A. RIVERS, Managing Editor : SUBSCRIPTION RATES 7" ' . „ IN. NORTH CAROLINA OUTSIDE NORTH CAROLINA One Year -..._fc.09 One Year _—__§4.00 Six Months -—-$1.80 Six Months __$3.50 Four Months —--$1.30 Four Months __—$2.00 -f<;kk'*'f AR.Subscriptions Payable in Advance f. N NOTICE TO SUBSCilO&RRSr—fa. requesting change 01 address, It Is important to mention the OLD, as well as the NEW address. Entered at the postoffice at Boone, N. C., as second class matter, under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879. MEMBER NATIONAL NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION . V'. 4 NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION "The basis of bur government being the opinion of the people, the very first objective should be to Keep that right, and Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspaper*, ©r newspapers Without government, I should not hesitate a moment to choosb the latter. BUt I should mean that eVery than should receive these papers and be capable of reading them.”—Thofnas Jefferson. BOONE, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1966 Future Farmers Week Next Wfeek Is to bring a thore worthy observance than most of them. It will be a week when the up and-coming young generation of farmers, organized as the Future Fanners of Atnerica, will take a bow, and we can all take a new look at the importance of our agri cultural enterprises. The theme for the week is to be “Agriculture Is More Than Farm ing.” This brings on the term “Agri Business,” which has been used to describe farming and all the inter related businesses. Like the chain of agriculture begins with the sup pliers to farmers—those who pro vide goods and services ranging from machinery and chemicals to insurance and technical services. Farmers, the producers of raw ma terials, have been called the center link. Then come marketing, pro cessing, transportation and distribu tion. Taken as a whole this agri cultural complex employs millions of people and is America’s largest in dustry. It is heartening to us that so many young men have gone into the Fu ture Farmers organization as a tri bute to the soundness of our farm enterprise. Vocational agriculture courses in our high schools have no doubt stimulated the desire of many of our boys to enter the farming bus iness and to get the training needed to carry on the vital business prop erly. Some of these Will go on to college or technical schools, but about a third will return to the farm, we are told, with the knowledge that additional education is available to them in young farmer and adult farmer classes conducted by teachers of vocational agriculture. The Future Farmers organization supplements the regular instruction opportunities for leadership devel opment. Its goal is the training of young men for a wide scope of ag ricultural occupations. This is needed and is vital work. The Cost Of Welfare “Even in the Great Society it would be cheaper to send the un employed to Harvard.” Anyway that’s how the Charleston, S. C. News and Courier wryly com ments on the antipoverty program. The editorial has to do with Some re vealing facts concerning training projects in Virginia, as disclosed by Senator Robertson of that State: “Examples; 36 unemployed kitch en helpers were being trained at a cost of $33,601. Sixty unemployed persons were being trained as nurses’ aides at a cost of $78,390. Eighteen unemployed workers were being trained as bricklayers at a cost of $70,579. “Senator Robertson did a little arithmetic and found it cost $3,921 to train each bricklayer and $5,497 to train each plumber’s helper. Even in these days of inflation, you can get a good deal of College education for that sort of money.” Whether one is for against the anti-poverty or other welfare pro grams, the costs are supposed to run pretty high in the light of the results obtained—often greater than the op timistic preliminary estimates. Signs On The Way We are pleased that we are to have some signs at the entrance to Boone, signifying that this is Daniel Boone Country, and since this cor ner started the talk of a Daniel Boone statue, we’re glad to settle for the signs as a step in the direc tion of the elaborate memorial Which we had imagined. But this is hot to say that signs should be in the form of the usual commercial billboard, which are on hand, but should be something diff erent—designed not only as a re minder to the visitor that he is in Daniel Boone country, but also with an idea of having something with esthetic appeal. If something could be designed, perhaps in the form of medium-size monuments of native rough granite, with Some sort of permanent word ing “Daniel Boone Country”, should be good. Extended promotional ma terial, we would suggest, would tend to destroy the whole notion. The Daniel Boone, of Burnsville, who is a clever worker in wrought iron, might be helpful in this regard. We expect something definite to be on the way before long. Incidentally we don’t aim to stop our statue promotion. We had al ways leaned to the mah on a horse theme for public memorials, but since we had regarded our Dan’l as a foot traveler, we won’t be satis fied until we see, somewhere on the commons, the old-squirrel shooter and frontiersman, with the long rifle and his hound. We still think we should have the signs and also the statue. We have spent a heap of money on less worthy projects. Inkliris In Ink For sometime now, wet* had this yen to drive | straight-shift vehicle of some sort, iM haven’t been too overpowerlngly concerned about whether it was a ear at truck, old or new. But our many offers to drive our Val entine's old truck passed on deaf ears > - uhtll the other day, when we started talk ing about trading for a car with a straight transmission. All Of a sudden We were bouncing down the alley way In a pick-up truck ... In low tear . . . unable te change. Ftifhlh ately, there's a radio in the truck, Ihd we beard our Valentine calling us: “KKK, 888, where are you?” KKK, by the way, la a radio code, not an indication of our affiliation. ‘‘We’re dawn at. the end of the alley," we said. “In low gear—unable to get into aecond.” "Look again, KICK," said the redM. ; “The truck has four torn aid gears, not • *4 i - *h*' S&fcSklk- i Oh. And so, with inild exasperation, we did note that there were tour, and took off in the first of them, still unable to change, and finallly bumping to a stop. “KKK, •88 calling,” we said into the speaker, ‘‘Do you have to use the clutch the second time yen use the gears?” "Only if you want to keep on going.” "Well, it’s making a lot of noise—like law blades hitting each other.” And that was the fastest trip you ever saw. Our spouse climbed bite the truck atld instructed us about the gears and ■ clutch and said painfully were we still interested in driving the truck? Which we were. We got where we were going, but on the return trip,—smack through tbp mid dle of town—kept pulling tip ih front of Stores and peering stoically into their *fMt>*». Actually, we Were oh ottr way home in low gear, and hated to go very tor it g Unto. * ' Jp . - We’ye Come Out Of Wars Before Xi ;MI. A \ ^ nrvmt/K AfoGahrrs FROM THE EARLY FILES OF THE DEMOCRAT M. A. Teague Loses House And Food Stores In Fire Sixty Years Ago February 15, 1966 Mr. W. L. Bryan has beeti right unwell this week. Mrs. Mallnda Horton, who has been ill in Wilkesboro, contin , ues to improve. Miss Ida Hardin and Joe Sutherland, both of Sutherland, have been visiting at the home of J. F. Hardin. Master Frank (Coodge) Lovill has been Very low with pneu monia and is still a very sick boy. : Mr, B. J> Councill, Sr., of Vilas is most seriously ill, and today (Wednesday) he is no better. F. A. Linney is beyond the Ridge this week attending court and we suppose incidentally looking after the nomination for Solicitor in this district. On Wednesday night of last week Mr. M. A. Teague lost his house and almost the entire contents by fire, including a year’s supply of flour, groceries and other provisions. He earn ed his property by honest, hard toil, and it is to be hoped that the people will contribute to the family as liberally as they can in this their titne of abso lute need. Mr. Claude Green, son of Mr. Allen Greene of Meat Camp, who has held the position of depot agent and telegraph ope rator at Collettsville for some time, was married yesterday to Miss Annie Pearl Suddreth of Caldwell. The bridal party will arrive at the home of the groom’s father today where more than a hundred invited guests will be present to join in the festivities of the happy occasion. Mrs. David Wilson of John son County, Tenn., had a cancer that weighed a pound taken from her left breast last week by Dr. Hogshead of Banner Elk and is making a rapid re covery. Owing to a perfect epidemic of measles raging on Brushy Fork the school there has closed temporarily until the disease abates. Thirty-Nine Years Ago February 17, 1987 Mrs. W. R. Lovill returned last weekend from Johnson city where she visited a brother who had been very sick for a few days. She reported him some better. Miss Edith Knight of Boone received a message Sunday to the effect that her aunt in Greenville, S. C., was critically ill. Miss Knight left immedi ately for Greenville. Miss Amelia Clark, former Just One Thing Br CARL OOBKCH Something we didn’t know un til recently: toe of the principal reams why there was such, bit ter antagonism toward Joan of Arc Whs due to the tact that she wore mile attire. As a result ot this, and several other charg es, she was sentenced to life Imprisonment, tricked into wearing male attire again, die was condemned to death ahd was burned at Rouen by the foigliah And get this: the death sen tence was revoked 28 years aft er she hid been executed. One of our readers sends in this inquiry: “There are two brothers; what relationship would their grandchildren be to one another?" The children Of brothers art first Cousins. The grandehlidrCn of brothers are second cousins. The groatlgrandchHdren are third cousins. One brother’s son sud an other brother’s grandson are first cousins once removed, al though often popularly referred to is second cousins. During World War tt, tax. A. J. Cook of Fayette rilie, At. *. had seven son* In thu ser vice, and there wes at bat eae member of the family in every branch at the service. Thrtd Wtte in the Artny, two in tile N»vy, one in the Coast Guard had one in the Marines. AH ex cept the one in the Coast Otud-d saw foreign service. All Caine AFTER ANOTHER home safely, although one was a prisoner in Germany for al most two years. Happening to look through the Raleigh telephone directory this morning, we came across these two names. Mrs. Queen Esther Hall, 1120 Smithfield. Various V. Hall, 1807 Lincoln Drive. A few days ago we were coming down k> one of the ele vators at the Sir Waiter Hotel in Raleigh. There was some hind of a convention in prog roes and tha elevator was crowded. So touch so that alter Moving the fifth floor there wasn’t room for anyone else. As are were passing the third fleer, somebody area bussing with considerable energy. The elevator girl shouted: "Loaded ” Back through the door came a man's cheerful response: "So am I!” - , . My great grandfather, Wea lth Lassiter, was twice married, writes Mrs. L. E. Teague. His first wife hors him mne stma and one daughter; his set-end wife gave him nine daughters and bus sou. The son of ihii last union was my grandfather. Unis great-grandfather UvM )• i* ninety years Of age. Hs left twenty Children, nlnatyaty grandchildren, eighty-one greet grandchildren, and hour great great-jyjtndaUMfen. teacher in the graded school here, underwent an operation for tonsils at the Watauga Hos pital last Week. As soon as able, she will take up work in the city schools of High Point. Mrs. Mary Miller, of Watauga county, visited her nephew, Mr. W. F. Miller, in Wilkesboro on Feb. 6 and 7. Mrs. Miller is a sister of the late Hon. E. Spen cer Blackburn. Mrs. Wilson, wife of Rev. L. A. Wilson of the Meat Camp section, died suddenly at ^<>r ...home Monday night. She retir ’ ed Reeling as well as usual, but In a short while she was taken with an acute smothering and passed away in a very short while. Deceased was an aunt of Clerk of the Court Austin E. South. The body was laid to test in the Meat Camp burying ground Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Ned Johnson, 18 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. A. S. John son, of Boone, who has been so seriously ill for the past several weeks with blood poisoning, re mains critically ill. Wednesday afternoon Mr. Johnson stated that his chances for recovery were very meager. The trouble started from a slight scratch re ceived on one of his fingers while working on the road. rmeen i ears Ago February IS, 1951 Mrs. Thomas W. Hopkins ol Lenoir is seriously ill at Cald well Memorial Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Greer and chil dren, Tom and Ann, Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Greene and Mr. and Mrs. Grady Greer visited with her Sunday. Me. W. T. Payne, Jr., who la In the Air Corps and Is station ed at San Antonio, Texas, ar rived home Sunday to spend ten days with his parents, Mr. and Mrs, W. T. Payne at Sugar Grove. Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Edmlsten left Friday for Vero Peach, Fla., where they will remain two months for the benefit of Mr, Edmisten’s health. Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Hannon and son, A. J., who have been living in Grayson, Ky., spent Sunday night with Mrs. Har mon’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dock Watson in Perkinsville. They were on their way to Clarksville, Va., where they will make their home. MT. and Mrs. Fred Farthing Slid son, Gail, of Wytheville, Va., and Miss Irene Farthing of Bristol, Tenn., were recent vis itors with Mrs. Carl Farthing of Sugar Grow. Capt. Veit Jewell and Mrs. Jewell, who recently returned ' front Yokahama, Japan where Chpt. Jewel was with the army Of occupation two years, are spending a few days with Mrs. Jewell’s grandmother, Mis. Alice Hardin. Pvt. George Barefoot of Wilm ington end Pvt Jerky Adams, both stationed at Pt. Henning, tM* spent the Weekend with Pvt Adams' parents, Mr. and Mrs. 8. B. Adams at Sugar Grove. ■ < 4* . - . - KING STREET BY ROB RIVERS A Long Waya .. With A Wagon Last year a couple of fellows finished a wagon trip a good deal longer tnan that traversed by our annuaL Wagon Train. . . . They bumped and jolted all the way across Canada, and Bill Stiff of Fort William, Ontario, allowed as how, “There’s no better way to see Canada.” ... The second man on the wagon was Cecil Rivers of Calgary, Alberta . . (no particular significance to the name other than that, we too, have been known to do uncommon . : things) and Rivers, while he said they both enjoyed the 3,700 mile trip, admitted he was glad when it was over. ... Which sounds like a remark another Rivers would have made, exuberantly, that is. . . But anyway, if anybody’s got the urge to cross the Dominion of Canada in a wagon, these chaps say that the trip was not too expensive and that many people along the way offered them free food and lodging. . . . Happily, on their arrival in Nova Scotia, they received diamond rings and other gifts from mer chants. , THEIR ONLY TROUBLE occurred when the team of horses bolted in Manitoba and wagon collided with a car in Fort Williams, without injuries. . . . The Rivers lad commented that they left Cal gary in a rainstorm and ended the trip in a rainstorm.... The Nova Scotia travel bureau awarded the men honorary memberships in recognition of their journey. . . . We always say if you feel the urge to travel 3,700 miles in a wagon and want good luck, always start out in a rainstorm, especi ally if you are needin’ a dia mond ring — the hard way, that is. Court House Talk The court house issue has been raised again, and we’d saj that the Chairman of the BoarC of Commissioners is right ir being anxious to find out what the folks think about it, before the county takes action. . . That is what the Commissioners tried to do in 1903, when the issue finally developed into an argument as to whether the courthouse would be remodeled a new one built or certain other improvements made in the county, like building a bridge or two—maybe one over the Watauga River. . . . The Demo crat went all out for a new courthouse, said the old court house was a sort of public dis grace. ... As a matter of fact the old courthouse, which was later -converted ttrto tHd-first Watauga Cbunty Barik btfftdihff, and had a square-pitched wood shingle roof, was only 31 years old, when in 1904 the folks de cided it wouldn’t do. . . . Our present courthouse is almost 62 years old, and it is inadequate, tolerably dilapidated, and there is little question but that a new one is needed. . . . However, we’d believe, off-hand that re modeling a building of such great age, could easily be a grave mistake. ... At any rate architects can determine that. A Mite Of History Incidentally, Watauga's first ceurthouse stood roughly on the lot where Mrs. Paul Cof fey’s home stands. ... It burn ed In 1873, on the 29th of March. ... A new courthouse teas built the same year on a lot at King and North Water Streets bought from Joel Nor Hs for $300. . . . Captain ThO mas J. Coffey and his brother, William Columbus Coffey, erected the building which was tom down only a few years ago, for $4,800. . . . The building committee was composed of Henry Taylor, Dudley Farth ing and Jacob Williams; . . . The county commissioners were J. E. Finley, Thomas J. Coffey and W. H. Calloway. . . The present courthouse was built in 1904, after a year’s con troversy, mass meetings, etc. ... A contractor named Coop er erected the structure from bricks burned on a lot north Of the building. . . . Without a central heating plant, of course, the various offices Were equipped with fire places. . . . Whether the people would be in a notion to O. k. the building of the needed county structure at this time, we don’t know, but again, there can be 00 valid question about the need. Changing Times The dosing of the schools for Id days due to the snows, brings memories of less plush times, when nothing closed ’em down. . > i There were no buses to stall or skid, no pipes to freeze, the school master wanted to get on with the work, and when we viewed a big snow when our daddy had bounced us Out early in the niorulug, we’d feel sure wO’d get .to stay home and slide on a hill or try to track a rabbit or do something that whs fun. . . . feut we’d be told, “Your mother will help you wrap up good, and the wind will be be hind you . . ; coming back, it may be quieter. . . The fresh air will do you good.” . . . and we didn’t have a chance. . . . And actually the kids in Boone, in relatively late years, had no closing problem, since most of them walked anyway. . . . We missed a sight of good snow fiin by being bom when nothing could keep one away from school, unless he came down with the measles, the mumps, chicken pox, or some other con tagion, which was not unlikely. . . . But there again, we couldn't win. . . . We just had to be there, it appeared to our folks, with the sandwiches and chest nuts in our pockets, the books in the across-the-shoulder home made bag, and rabbit gums and slidin’ on the hill in our nog gin. Uncle Pinkney HIS PALAVERIN’S The fellers at the country store Saturday night was gen eral agreed that the world of to day was hurting all over more’n it was hurting in any one place. You don't git deep thinking like this, Mister Editor, from our State Department, and it ain’t often you git such grass roots filosophy from the Con gress. a n of the /elCerp-^nd,, ^piling his name at this ref>drtetf he was , taking next ■ Tuesday fer a holiday on ac count of it being George Wash ington’s birthday. He allowed as how that was one day of of 365 ever year when he took off complete. Personal, I nev er heard tell of him hitting a a lick at the blacksnake on the other 364 but I didn’t say no thing. time— *1**0 gUl XHU to wondering what Washington would think if he could take a quick look today at the country he was the father of. Ed, that has took to crutches since the Great Society got in full swing, was of the opinion ole George would ask the Lord to fergive him fer ever starting this mess. Zeke Grubb was agreed with Ed, claimed we was going round in circles and gitting no place fast. Fer instant, said Zeke, we got machines that can take ocean water and make it fitten ' tb drink, but we was poisoning our rivers with all kinds of chemics faster than we can treat the water back like it was. And we got pills fer everthing that can git wrong with us, pills to slow us down, speed us up, make us sleepy, keep us awake, and just about everthing that keeps us from feeling natural. Farthermore, allowed Zeke, they was putting more safety gadgets on cars but was making ’em big ger and faster and ever year we set a new record fer folks git ting killed on fancy highways. We was gitting telephones, re ported Zeke, that show you who you was talking to, but we live so fast in them big cities a fel ler don’t even know his neat door neighbor. This was a pritty long speech fer Zeke and some of the fellers give him a round of applause. Aug Hookum was agreed with Ed and Zeke, said he had saw a piece in the papers where are got more television sets in this country than we got toilets. Bug reported he didn’t have neither and he figgered ole George would he on his side. We was better off, claimed Bug, in George’s time when all we knowed about science was when you thumped a watermelon and It went “plunk” it was ripe, and ’ 1 If it went “plink" it was green. i admit. Mister Editor, they was two sides to this matter, that maybe we ain’t making the beat of things, but I’d rather be here now than In George’s time, even If they was calling 1 garbage collectors “garbolo- ■ giats” in Washington. ■-= . ..'.4*1 i
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