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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1933
Page
8
Bamboo defeated Vilas 7 to 2 on Saturday with Henry Greene pitching a four hit game over nine innings. Box score and summary follow.
Two base hits by Ross Lentz Shuford Edmisten Bill Lentz Jack Gragg and a strong pitching effort led Blowing Rock to a 11 1 victory over Oak Grove. Arnold Bo lick earned the win while Jones Hodges took the loss as Panella and DaileyUmpires called the game.
Blowing Rock hosts Bamboo and Vilas visits Elk as Bamboo beats Vilas 7 to 2 and Mabel defeats Elk 9 to 5 while Blowing Rock wins 11 to 9 at Oak Grove. next Saturday matches set with Bamboo at Blowing Rock and Vilas at Mabel Oak Grove at Elk.
Raleigh reports June 15 totals show autos at 262214 and trucks at 57143. Three months prior autos 227091 and trucks 42875. a year earlier autos 284051 and trucks 54477. Guilford leads auto registrations with 18875 and trucks with 2875. Watauga has 650 autos and 340 trucks.
Judge Suddreth's court disposed five cases: Frank Trivett larceny 30 days and license suspension. Riley Greer false pretense not guilty. Doughton Green Deep Gap larceny four months on roads. Tom Cowles contempt hearing continued to next Tuesday. A farmer in Oregon found a quadruplet cucumber with four distinct cucumbers from one plant.
Raleigh reports Governor Ehringhaus named the directors and officers for the North Carolina Railroad. Mrs. C. B. Aycock Sr. is named president succeeding Mrs. Bickett, with Herbert Peele as secretary treasurer. Directors include D. W. Royster Rob ert W. Griffith R. T. Amis J. H. Yelton Arthur M. Dixon Robert Lassiter and John L. Miller. The state proxy Gilbert Powell casts the state vote. The finance committee comprises Kingsland Van Winkle Dan K. Moore R. C. Dunn and Thomas H. Webb. Peele comments on the appointment.
Mr. Harris presents a method to measure all cards in the files for each county and compute the total, claiming the result is correct within a dozen.
Miss Florence Boyd opens the Florence Boyd Home and Vocational School for crippled children on Yonahlassee Road seven miles west of Blowing Rock. A Caldwell County nurse and welfare worker, she has cared for five children since 1927 and seeks a permanent facility by summer’s end. Saturday’s Yonahlassee Road opening drew local interest between Blowing Rock and Linville.
Attorney General Brummitt explains that farm producers may sell by peddling within the state without peddler tax if the grower retains title and acts through bona fide agents or employees. The ruling also notes medicines and assembled goods are taxed, while those produced by manufacturers may avoid the peddler tax when sold by their own agents.
Janet Gaynor and Henry Garat head a Fox romance at the Pastime Theatre in Adorable, a whimsical plot with music and songs. Also scheduled: Carole Lombard with Randolph Scott in Supernatural on Wednesday, Mont gormery and Eilers in Made on Broadway on Thursday, The Man Who Dared on Friday, and Buddy Rogers with Marian Nix on Saturday in Best of Enemies.
Originators of the Park-to-Park Association spoke of a system to link national parks and monuments from the Mississippi across the region. The speaker praised Western North Carolina scenery along Yonahlossee and outlined the association’s goal of a lasting, connected parkway for travelers.
Sigmon spoke for Jeffress Ross Sigman of Salisbury and the State Highway Commission as guests praised mountain country beauty and heritage. Col. Wade Harris of The Charlotte Observer received affectionate tribute, with about twenty builders named to the crowd and a closing talk by W. S. Lee.
A concise, period tone quotation from The Boston Transcript notes that book burnings do not extinguish ideas, suggesting resilience of thought despite censorship.
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