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if.* if DEMOCRAT :;p' H, C. Top-Award Winning WeeUjr Newspaper, 1965 Aa Independent Weekly Newspaper ■ rSTAKJSKED BMP* . . _RhWdhad far * Tears hy Robert ©. HWer* *r. ; fSmMBXB THURSDAYS BY RIVERS PRINTING COMPANY, INC., OWNER R. C. RIVER* JR., Editor sad Manager J&Mf WVERS, Associate Editor RACHEL A. RIVERS, Managing Editor i ' _ SUBSCRIPTION SATES 4 W ****** CAROLINA OUTSIDE NORTH CAROLINA «w _fm---f-B» one Tew---’ _ ,, |4«| -».» Six Months ______J*.5o tl -^ _-gl,gn lour Mouths . && Subscriptions Payable fa* Advance Kganca TO agMCg^WS-la tewmetlmg change at address. It ts important to mention the Of^k ea well as the NEW address. 5r5>!Ir^O>I* PWfattlce at Bran* N. C., as second class matter, unde* the set of Congress at I NATIONAL NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION I onr government being the opinion at the pdoplo, the very first objective should be *<* F****** were it lelt to me to decide whether we should have a government wRhwN newspaper* or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate a moment to ettaaee dm latter. Rot I should mean that every men should receive three papers and be capable of reading them-"—Thomas Jefferson. BOONE, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MAY 5. 1966 Bigger Business Spring’s first greenery not only brings promise of summer’s pending entry, but along with the- blooms and the buds come busy days for build ers as the area makes ready for the influx of what promises to be the biggest throng of tourists and stu dents we have ever entertained. In Boone, new motels, restaurants, a shopping center, college buildings, and homes galore are keeping con tractors hopping while at Blowing Bock motels, at least one new store, new homes and remodeling of busi ness places contributes to the area boom. Hound Ears is still building, as is the Seven Devils promotion while preliminary grading and timber clearing is going on between Lin ville Gap and Linville for the Mor ton Golf Course complex, and work is expected to gather increased mo mentum on the Elk River and Beech Mountain golf, ski and residential developments. This doesn’t of course tell all the story about the building which is going on, but more and more people are looking toward the hills for re tirement homes, for summer vaca tions and for living space away from the hub-bub of the big cities. Mechanics connected with the building trades are hard to come by, and competent common labor would appear to be almost a thing of the past as the building mushrooms. The movement from the metropol itan centers is becoming so great we’re going to have a city right here in Boone Creek valley if the trend continues. South Grows Faster In spite of well-publicized migra tion from the South, this region led all others in population gains in the United States in the period since the 1960 census. Thus comments the State maga zine, which continues: The section's gain not only was largest in actual numbers, but it was the second highest gain in terms of percentage. The southern region has added 5*075,000. The next highest gain was in the West, with 4,177,000. Five of the Southern States — Texas, Florida, Virginia, Maryland, apd Georgia, in that order, were among the nation’s ten top gainers. In the whole U. S., the rate ol in crease in the past five years was 9.2 per cent; for the Sooth, 8.1 per cent. The South’s rate fell short of the West’s 14.9 per cent, but was on top of the Northeast’s 8.4 per cent and the North Central's 4.6 per cent. Seven Southern states 7— Louisiana, Texas, Maryland, Florida, Georgia Mississippi and North Carolina—all advanced one place each in rank in total population among the states. Florida led all Southern states in rate of change, rising by 17.2 per cent. North Carelina’s increase was by 7.8 per cent, and it rose from 12th position in the U. S. to 11th place. The Really “Rare” Day (Hickory Daily Record) What is so rare as a day in June? It’s a day in May that hasn't been ap propriated as National This and That Etey by some organization or other. It is the same every month, but J|ay particularly seems to have its share of special observances this year — some worthy, others little more than reflections of the gleams in the eyes of press agents. May will only last for one month, a| usual, but according to Spinrad's Dpy & Date Service, it will be: National Horae Improvement Improvement Month, Senior Citizens l^onth, National Radio Month, Na tional Tavern Month, Car Care Bfonth, American Bike Month, Na tional Salad Month, White Bread Sales Month and something no mote than 180 million Americans should fail to observe—New York Is a Great Place To Visit or Live Month. The daze of days includes; May Day, Law Day, Humane Sun day, World Comedy Day, National Comedy Day, May Fellowship Day and National Mother-in-Law Day. We confess to a certain lack of enthusiasm for this last one, but there's something about Let’s Go Fishing Week that appeals to us. In fact, it might not he a bad thing if its annual observance were made mandatory world-wide. The idea would certainly gain a let of support in the U. S. Congress about this time of year, anyway. Inklin’s In Ink BY UODBL BIVKRS ' The gentleman who was telling us the other day about, seeing a flying saucer ofer Boone was a very reliable source. He islt't prune to having hallucinations, and hh glasses have been adjusted recently. It was onaagtsh, be said, and glowed and euuld has* been three feet aerosa at 13 fe*t across, because he Rally couldn't te(l how far away it was. Now you laugh: But it just could be. And if they wen friendly flyers, they night go home and tell their friends about a$ the advantages of living in Beane, eg>ecUlly in summertime, which is cool agd restful and harbors no hot, ilirylsn w nights at all; and he might tell them about h<|w the town is building and growing and m*ving along in an orderly fashion. And he might just be flying an Amert CUP flying saucer. If WW STe gothg to go au far as te discuss Unidentified Flying Oljecte, we’re going te Jump right iata ties nriddle ol the p enisle and say w* hflg>e they're from the good old U. S. A. We seem to recall, just vaguely, that Of Air Force wes into a flying scWer wwsjBw-iifcJWJku ; 1. ‘•■ft*1 saucer enly got about four feet off the greuiff «ntl they had to abandon the pro ject, Oirthe ether hand, it might be fc greet advantage if the United States had sud denly stumhied ante a weskable-type saucer an# was giving It a fend tryout before making any announcements public ly- After aH. it wcold loa| pretty awiafr if the United States could boast only of a flying saucer that wouldn’t glow, or look oraagish, or hover mere than four feet above the ground. . That wouldn’t be very Space Age, at alL • • • Apd while we're net really a champion ef flying saucer enthusiasts, we can’t help being interested In what we read from time to time. It’s intriguing. When we were in school at the Uni versity of Missouri, we had a friend who haded from Mounts* View, Mo., and who brought** a book, saMfrhed by e m frred farmer, title# "Mf Trip t* th* Maw, Mara aa# Veuas". Every summer,' to tins day, at laaat *.000 people camp *«otf Mr farm to hear him teU of hU ■frulasaa with hfr apace buddy, Buzzy, M 4m mm ckmmum. . m.■ V.V. - MOTHER’S DAY M-Mrw WHAT 6001 BISCUITS r_ THAT COOK CAN MAKE/ ■ ' WJ' • ■AND WHEN |TW' BIG6ER BOYS GET TOUGH WITH ME, -TH'LAW'SON S-M* r, VV 1 «,*; - ' , , - 1 , I HAD th' FLU..YOU COULDHT SET BETTER SERVICr * -AND BESIDES, WONDERFUL MOTHER/ Iccct/uvr FROM the early files of the democrat R. M. Greene To Sell Goods At Collettsville Sixty Years Ago May 3, 1906 T. S. Coffey, of Lenoir, was in town Sunday for a few hours. Capt. Lovill left Saturday for a business trip to Bristol, Tenn essee. Mrs. Alice Cpuncill is expect ed' to return to her home in Boone within the- next few days. Mrs. Mary Wilson, of Cove Creek, an aged and highly es teemed lady, is seriously ill. Com planting is now pro gressing nicely and a larger ac reage than usual will be put out in the county. L. W. Cooper, of Charlotte, passed through last week on his return* from a business trip to Ashe County. Rev. D. S. Lee has organized a singing class in Boone that will be trained two days each week until the July contest. Miss Lucinda, daughter of Mrs. Frank Dugger, died at her hone near Vilas of tonsump ton last Monday and was buried on Tuesday. T. C. McBridge, of Washing ton College, Tennessee, was in town a few hours Saturday at- ■ tending to some matters of bus iness. R. M. Greene and family left Monday morning for Colletts ville where they will make their future home. Mr. Greene will conduct a mercantile business at that place. Our tqwn sus-,, tains a great loss in their ds parture, but Coflettsville is to’ be congratulated upon the es timable family locating there. Thirty-Nine Years Ago May 5, 1927 Miss Maude Goodwin of But ler, Tennessee, spent last Thurs day night in Boone, the guest of Misses Nelle and Blanch Smith. Just One Thing ITT CARL GOEKCH Of Qoqsse, you’ve heard of John Phillip Souaa, but we wonder U you knew hew he got hie neats. He egma to the United State* from Italy as an immigrant. His real name was Mu FbUlifee. Getting ready to leave hi* na tive ceentry, he requested a friend to yriat his name on a large taiiaase which heid all his belongings. The friend didn’t know much about letter ing. tto intended to yeiat “John PhiUipso, U. S. A”, but ran the letters together with out any punctuation so that it looked like “John Phillip Sousa”, The neted band leader Head the nape, so he continued to me it The la«t Confederate veteran to live in North Carolina was Samuel *- Bennett ei Bakers ville; and he died in March. 1081. j } He ealUted to the Bleek Mountain regiment of the boaso guards when ha was M years Old. Inter he was sent to Vto gnia aid served under General ngm B. (Jordon. Ho was wound ed by a dyaamdte Mast while he wa« helping build earth works around Richmond. He re covered to a hospital and seep ed in ftebmpnd until the wear was over in 1868. Hr waa Man - only U| , He ratyrndd to Ur h«ne in Relief gnd took an farm**. In 1873 he Harried Mafly McKin ney, w|a> died to MM. in re cent ve*r«, when he waa asas* 9m *1 still Bauniyad a tede and one-hstt trip to the P0*l of#<» at the town of Re lief neyr Bakersville for U» Ilia a^ecg AFTER ANOTHER lieve in: “God give* every bird its food, but does not throw it Into the nest." W* know of a lady in Raleigh who has a two-yeanold son. He gata twite contrary at times and she has to spent him in order to make him behave. One day recently a doctor tied her that she ought not to fPeah the youngster when he begins to cut up because it Wight he that his eoatrarhaess waa dot to indisposttiva of some kind or another. The lady now heeds hip ad vice. She provided herself with a thermometer. When the bahy Start* howling and screaming, she rushes to the bathroom, gate the thermometer, and thrusts' it into the infant’s mouth. it one or two degrees of fever are shown, dm cuddfeg »P the child and Banes him teaderly. But if kU temper* turn is normal, she drain the thermometer and pwweede to whale the daylights oat ef hh% A letter from Jasper Whast. ley of RMhmeod In which bo ceils our attention to a famtty of bis acquaintance to wfcM* there are five children, all of whoae sanies begin wMh "IT, Thet’a pretty pm*, hyt *. •want compare with an item that Ihe Leaden of the ftocfc inghgar POet-Dispatch sent na * > number o( year* ago, At that time Sens was * ftoailp ef twelve bvtaa in Pee »ea village—every leal aw at ' WW first name, started nftft . .. • Here’s the list: litrvin Odin, lather; Han g^n^wot^ »at<*n. Hwpi "•****> ** ' ■ Claude Gilliam of Banner Elk, who was taken to an Eliz abeth ton, Town., hospital last Wednesday for an operation on bis lead, is reported to be im proving nicely. Born last week to Mr. and JEm. Claude Gilliam, of Banner JHk 0 daughter. Mr. Gilliam operate* a bus line between 9«pn« and Elk Park. Bertha Sutphin, who has been a member of the force of the Beone Drug Company for more than a year left the last of the gieek'lor Charleston, W. Va., wheiie she hae accepted a po sition as stenographer for some Corporation. Contractor Poly Moretz is putting the finishing touches on the old, jail, and it eertainly makes a very nice appearance. The lady who has leased the property tor a boarding house will move ju within the next few days.' Mr. to. 0.’ Hartzog of Boone received news af the death Sun day of hU »unt, Mrs. Fannie MiDtr, at Idlewild. Mrs. Miller was the wife of R. B. Miller, and was about SB years of age. Funeral and'burial was at Idle wild Tuesday.' Mr. WW1 Horten and wife, of Farrell, Fa.,, are here this week, hawing been, called to Vitae on account of the serious illness of Mr Horton’s sister. Miss Cath erine Heaton, but death had got ten in Its work before they ar rived- Thaj will leave for their home the last of the week. Fifteen 'Tear* Ago May at last Sr. H- W. Horton has re turned to Boone front Miami, Fla, where he bad spent tie winter. Mr*. T. V, Yates, who has been a patient at Watanga Ho* pita! tor throe weeks, is greatly imyreving. Mias Anne Costoor of Marion. N. C, spool th« weekend w«l» hen sister, Mrs. Starr Stacey, an<f Mr. Stacey. 9*. Mary B. H. Micftat, dis trict health officer, is spending a k*P weeks’ vacation at her boipei in Waynesville. Mr, Carlton Swiff of the Unf versify of North CareHne spent the week-end with his mother, .Mr*. Crete Spifk at Sugar Or**. . Mr, end Mrs. Chappell Wifron announce the birth of a daugh ter, Janice Hiiaeletk, at We tauge Hospital last Twesday. ' Mn. Nettie Winkler and Mrs. Zack Greoaa d Orawtte Jails. N. (1 visited with their cousin, Mrd John F. Sherrill, Saturgw. Ifr. and Mrs. Finley Norris pi Marion, N. C., were week ; end rtaitora ft* ■». aad Mr* Carl pay. tfr. Herbert Wey ia la It* patph attending a meeting of nr non nirpns D. Bee** .. He “CUted Bar’' V . . ; . * * V ’ • < ' - V- ’■ if Through the courtesy of Edwin Dougherty we are reproducing here another postcard picture of the Daniel .Boone oak, which stood some one hundred yards west of the monument on Faculty Street about where the pave ment now is. .. . . The friendly shade of .the old tree attracted a. lot of people as is evidenced by the row of gay young blades straddling one of the spreading limbs. . . . This photograph, which we’d say is more than 50 years old, indicates a sign, which in the original, through the aid of a glass, reveals the lettering “Daniel Boone Oak.” . . . The camera was pointed northeast and shows the planing mill building built on the bank of the creek in the area of the B. W. Ellis home by Alex Penley, and in the background is seen the E. S. Coffey barn. . . . The Boone and Blowing Rock turnpike runs just above the mill. ... We don’t recall ever seeing the “DB Cilled Bar on this Tree 1760” as many times as we’ve played in its shade. . . . This is not to say it wasn’t there, placed no doubt by some local lad, since obviously carving on the bark of a growing tree wouldn’t be legible for 150 or 175 years. . . . And we’ve been hard pu* to think that old Daniel, who wasn’t much of a man of letters, would bother to carve comment about killing a bear, which shouldn’t have been uncommon in the lush wilderness along what later came to be known as Boone Creek. OUR FOLKS told ns of the Tennessee tree, near Jones boro, which also carried earrings, bat until recently we hadn’t known that we had too same thing here. . . James P. Arthur had his his tory of Watauga published in 1915 and he hadn’t heard abent the lettering on the tree here, although he does discuss the inscription at Jonesboro, stating that “it never had any sponsor, at best, except the statement of Chancellor John Allison’s let ter In Roosevelt’s Winning of tie West.” . . Arthur says the letters eouM net have been legible U pot there in 1789, and besides shews that Boone was not in the area between 1769 and late 1771. We Used To Carve In our puppy-love days, it was common to carve the initials of one'e little girl friends along ■pith one's own, wherever there could be found a smooth bark ed tree. . . We noticed that these carvings were obliterated in a few years as the tree grew. . . The buckhern tree which grew near the A. E. Hamby heme on East King Street was noted in our youth. . . Col, Todd lived there we were told by Hr. W. G. Todd, and some one nailed the buckhorn to the «pk. . . In the ensuing years the horn was swallowed by the •rowing tree, only a bump re maining to show where it had been. . . We would have done aosne Daniel Boone carving our selves if we had thought of it . . and we don’t doubt but that someone did- . - But we don’t think Dan’l could have made it last that long. . . As a matter of fact when he was messing around after new bear sign and later went into ^Kentucky it wouldn’t have beep a matter of net# anything that he did. . W* haven’t doubted the Bodne history as a whole, but have Hewed the thing mere as a legend, as the build-up of an old hunter and Indian fighter ae a symbol of the pioneers who pushed back the wilderness. Don’t Know Where Ue Lie* The historians didn’t think «f Mr Dan’l to have It recorded exactly where he was bailed. . . Whether near ramitort,8r,«r inmamut MW DavidHq Cvaa* and Che State of North Case. - -'■ten ons at Idfe aver where DaaT slept. . . The DB Park and his folks lived on the east side of the Yadkin^ now known as Boone’s Park* . . But the State Historic Sites Committee won’t acept the evidence that our Baal lived in Davidson County. . , The Committee says the only proof la “unsupported traditional evidence”. . . The State wijl give $15,000 for the park, contingent open the approval of the site as "a true histori cal site”. . . It appears hard to prove. “Daniel Botme Country’* But this (Watauga) is Daniel Bouse Country , . the hand some new signs will remind the traveler of this. . . That he camped here we have always regarded as a certainty, and the founders of the community evidently thought well of their historical notes or they wouldn’t have named the place Boone. . . We don’t think he did any carving much (someone else probably took eare of this for him), and we doubt that he slew a lot of bears as he went along, unless it was just for the heok of the thing. . . Small game—rabbits, squirrels, birds and the Hke—made for better eating and could be brought to the pot much more easily than a hunk of bear meat. . . This is not to be taken as an affront to those who read the letters on (he Daniel Boone Oak. . . Uko we said, of coarse they did. Uncle Pinkney ms PALAVErwrs (McKnlght Syndicate.} •EAR MISTER EDITOR: The fellers at the country More Saturday night was la menting that pritty soon us oH oauntry folks was going (• be as scarce as them donosewers. Cleas Webster reported he bad «w where the rural popuia Uon was going dowa shout t flsr cent a year ip spite of the papulation explosion. And, Clem said, this piece claimed *out half .d ear present pop* Utien w»s aader 39 year qM. of the opinion this ws$ ******* dd fetter* oar age hr rm* sms* rmi sere-hMK ” (OaBttiwApnjjlge three)
Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.)
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