Potatoes Visionaries in Wa tauga County Office Talk
A group at the Democrat office discuss potatoes as a big industry led by Walter Beach and Cooter Haigler who claim four hundred bushels per acre. Wilfred Davis cranks grand aeration schemes estimating trillions of hampers yearly, then jokes about draining oceans to feed spuds.
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Watauga County
Democrat
Walter (Watt) Beach
Cooter Haigler
Wifred Davis
World Almanac
Hoover Dam
Norris Dam
Watt
Cooter
Davis
Watt-Cooter
Wilfred
The Cigarette Duck on the Rainy Sidewalk
A rain soaked Camel duck lies on the sidewalk as a scribe muses over who dropped the cigarette end. He imagines a feminine smoker in a rural or urban vignette from country lass to nurse. The piece treats a simple discarded cigarette with playful speculation.
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Uncle Henry
Please Call Chief Gross Before Drunk Help
A columnist recounts years of nursing drunks and helping the fallen, now joking that his old age wants to retire from aiding intoxicated friends. He requests his friends seek jail first from Chief Gross before asking for further assistance.
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Chief Gross
United States Marine Corps Lists Vacancies
Savannah's Marine Corps office announces vacancies to be filled nationwide over the coming months. Eligibility requires high school graduation and a minimum height of six feet six inches. Accepted applicants will be transferred to the Marine Base at Parris Island, South Carolina.
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Savannah
Adventists Plan Mountain Camp Ground Near Blowing Rock
The Appalachian Advent Christian Assembly drafts a permanent camp and religious center with a tabernacle and cottages on about 15 acres in the Blue Ridge near Blowing Rock. Construction may begin this summer funded by donations and loans from six state conferences.
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Advent Christian Church
Montreat
Ridgecrest
Blue Ridge
Blowing Rock
Hill L. Bolick
Lenoir
Appalachian Advent Christian Assembly
North Carolina
Bolick
West Virginia
Virginia
Kentucky
Alabama
Tabernacle
United States
Hill Bolick
J. Fremont Whitman
Charleston
W. Va
Frank J. Woodrum
Charles J. Preslar
Hickory
T. W. Ferguson
Ferguson
N. C
Garden Seed on Hand for Relief Families
Miss Theodosia Watson relief director says many garden seed packages remain for relief families. Those in need should call at the courthouse offices to secure seeds without delay. distribution is open to current or former direct relief recipients, regardless of Federal seed loans status.
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Theodosia Watson
Pageant “The Good Samaritan” at Henson's Chapel Church
A pageant titled The Good Samaritan will be presented at Henson's Chapel Methodist Church next Sunday evening at 8 o'clock. It dramatizes the parable and is followed by a dramatization of the church's hospitalitation program for outreach. The public is invited to attend.
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Henson's Chapel Methodist Church
Methodist Church
Editor E. P. Chase Wins 1933 Pulitzer Prize
The News Telegraph of Atlantic Iowa shows Editor E. P. Chase who has earned the Pulitzer Prize for the best editorial of 1933. His recognition highlights outstanding journalism from Atlantic in this year.
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Atlantic
Iowa
E. P. Chase
The
News-Telegraph
Lees-McRae Announces Finals Week Schedule at Banner Elk
Banner Elk Lees McRae College outlines commencement activities for May 19 to 21 led by L L Campbell as chief speaker. Events include a May Day pageant with Miss Lucille Ferrin, baccalaureate sermon by Rev Dr Charles Erdman, vesper services, field day, alumni tour, and 81 graduates headed by Edgar Greene.
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Banner Elk Presbyterian Church
Charles R. Erdman
Princeton Theological Seminary
Princeton
N. J
Edgar Greene
Grove
Sam Wiley
Davidson College
L. L. Campbell
Arthur E. Morgan
Tennessee Valley Authority
Sugar Grove
Young Greene
L. K. Pritchett
Banner Elk
Wattauga
Sallie Norris
E. S. Norris
Jack Zimmerman
Charles T. Zimmerman
Boone
Zimmerman
Watauga
Lees-McRae
Lucy Farthing
John Greene
Clara Norris
Valle Crucis Church Plans Special Program This Sunday
Valle Crucis Methodist Church announces a 3 p m service with Rev A C Gibbs presiding elder of Mount Airy District leading the second quarterly conference of the Watauga Charge The church observes annual Sunday School Day next Sunday with a morning program themed Challenges from the Past The program features Fisher Farthing Miss Trassa James Miss Thelma Thomas R A Farthing and other attendees and marks the 150th anniversary of the Methodist Church in America.
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A. C. Gibbs
Mount Airy
Watauga
Valle Crucis
Methodist Church In
America
J. M. Shull
G. C. Graham
Wheeler Farthing
Trassa James
Thelma Thomas
Southern Methodist Sunday School
R. A. Farthing
Conference Sunday School Board
Survey of Scenic Highway to Begin Friday
Washington A E Demaray assistant director of the National Park Service said plans for another survey of proposed routes for the parkway linking Great Smoky and Shenandoah national parks will begin Friday May 18 The survey aims to locate the route with $16 000 000 from the PWA to aid unemployment and to showcase Western North Carolina scenery with a survey party including Thomas H MacDonald and Thomas C Vent among others.
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Washington
A. E. Demaray
National Park Service
Great Snaky
Shenandoah National Parks
Park Service
Demaray
PWA
Thomas H. MacDonald
United States Bureau of Public Roads
Thomas C. Vent
The
Stanley Abbott
Gilmore Clarke
Virginia
North Carolina
Tennessee Highway Commission
Clarke
North Carolina Highway Department
Cra
Rth
North Carolina High Department
Unemployed Called to Reregister Across Five Counties
County re employment director R L Wooten advises unemployed in Wilkes Alexander Alleghany Ashe and Watauga to re register within 90 days to stay active. Renewals can be done by letter phone or in person. High priority is given to machine operators and skilled workers for state highway and public works projects.
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R. L. Wooten
Wilkes
Alexander
Alleghany
Ashe
Watauga
State Highway and Public Works Commission
Wilkes Journal-Patriot
Last Day To Register Voters Ahead Of Primary
The State Board of Elections designates Saturday May 19 as the final day to register voters for the June 2 primary. County registrars across fourteen precincts will staff polling places all day for new registrations. Those who have previously voted do not need to re register. May 26 is challenge day with no registrations allowed.
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State Board of Elections
Imogene Greene Tops District Spelling Contest in Wilkes
Eight elementary schools gathered at Mount Pleasant High School in Wilkes County on April 27 for a district commencement. Maple Springs led with 34 points while Mount Pleasant trailed with 28 as Imogene Greene topped the spelling race amid contests across the day.
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Mount Pleasant High School
Wilkes County
Maple Springs
Z. T. Greene
Skulls Mills
Greene
Imogene
Mount Pleasant
Relief Garden Work Progresses Across County
Farm Superintendent L. M. Farthing reports multiple community gardens under relief programs. A 14 acre county farm plot and seven acres in Watauga Township are under cultivation with shared labor credits and half the yield to families, half to relief funds. Crops include potatoes cabbage corn and onions with beans and corn for later canning.
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L. M. Farthing
Watauga Township
Robles child found in chains near Tucson
Six year old June Robles, kidnapped in April in Arizona, was found Monday near Tucson chained by the ankles in a shallow dugout covered with tin burlap and cactus. She was alive but ill and sunburned. County Attorney Clarence Houston and uncle and assistant county attorney Carlos Robles led the recovery with tips from the kidnapers. No ransom had been paid.
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June Robles
Arizona
Tuscon
Clarence Houston
Carlos Robles
Allen Seeks Reorganization to Keep Local Bank Open
John G. Allen told a courthouse audience that the Watauga County Bank could reopen within weeks and urged action to reorganize the Peoples Industrial Bank. He urged stockholders to pay about six thousand dollars in stock assessments to begin recovery while liquidation would devastate many. Attorneys warned of losses from liquidation. depositors offered cooperation and patience. The meeting closed with brief remarks from others. In World War I history, French planes briefly used brick throwers to damage enemy propellers, with two planes shot down.
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Watauga County
John G. Allen
Peoples Industrial Bank
Allen
Peoples
Mr. Allen
Charles T. Zimmerman
Zimmerman
Fuller
Boones
R. L. Ballou
People’s Bank
W. R. Lovill
Four Cases Heard By Judge Sudderth Recorder Court
Four cases came before Judge Sudderth's Recorder's Court. Adam Holler received four months suspended sentence with costs for violation of prohibition law. R L Townsend got six months suspended sentence with costs for prohibition. Fred Yates was found guilty of malicious destruction of property damaging tires and ordered to pay the owner 25 dollars plus costs and to serve six months suspended on the roads.
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Sudderth
Recorder’s Court
Or Key
Adam Holler
R. L. Townsend
Fred Yates
Farthing Named State Appraiser for Home Owners Loan Corp
H Grady Farthing, longtime local State game and fish warden, named preliminary State appraiser for the Home Owners Loan Corporation. He will base in Boone with assignments across North Carolina and work from Greensboro. endorsement came from Congressman Doughton and Senators Bailey and Reynolds. Albert Farthing has temporarily taken over the warden role and says hunters who paid fees will get licenses in days.
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H. Grady Farthing
Home Owners Loan Corporation
Greensboro
Farthing
Boone
Doughton
Bailey and Reynolds
Albert Farthing
McDade Becomes New Manager at Five-to-Five Store
Mr. R. F. McDade assumed general management of the Five-to-Five Store on Tuesday as founder J. B. Brewer left for Sparta Tennessee to oversee a new Five-to-Five. Brewer will manage all stores as general manager and purchasing agent while McDade leverages eight plus years in Boone mercantile trade and two years on the Five-to-Five sales force.
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R. F. McDade
J. B. Brewer
Sparta
Tenn
McDade
Boone
Spain
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United States Marine Corps
Adventists
Erdman
Valle Crucis Church
Imogene Greene
Robles
Baliou
Boone Man
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