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Legislative Summary Leguleian wtrr so furiously ac tive u celebrants around a May pole thii week, aa they became the second General Assembly linee 1839 to meet this late (but pitrt> ebly not the last, because of the new February convening date). A full-throated House debate on com pulsory auto insurance extended over two full legislative days to highlight the week's activity, while bill introductions and calendar ac tion continued to more well ahead of 1963 progress. Representatives earned Speaker Houghton's com mendation as a "working House" by so clearing local calendars that not a single local bill was avail able for consideration on Tuesday. Meter Vehicles It now appears probable that there will be some form of revi sion of the state's laws dealing with damage by indigent motorists, but no one can say what it will be. Proponents of the compulsory in surance law showed surprising strength as they pushed HB 116 through the House. In the mean time, the Senate Committee on In surance gave a favorable report to the unsatisfied judgment fund You'll Enjov Seeing Amazing MYSTERY HILL Between Boone and Blowing Rock Open Sat. A Sun. Only Thro May bill, laying the hub for a poaaibla Senate-Mottle deadlock on the two plant. Inlta Ud Reapportionment Carrying **t a proposal made in the Ckwaraor** address to the legislature, ad mini it rati on force* introduced a reaolution creating a IB-member commission to study the Mod for revision of the State Constitution and make recommen dations by July I, 1998 Follow ing the precedent aet by the hand ling of the Pefcrsall Plan, the Gov ernor is requested to consider calling a special General Assembly session for consideration «f the commission's proposal! (which could then be voted upon in the general election that fall). Thought to be dead for this session, the legislative reapportion ment issue rose like a Phoenix this week, with two new bills. SB 383, reportedly offered with the ad ministration's bles|ing, would in crease Senate membership from 90 to 100 (giving each county one Senator) and House membership from 120 to 100 (one Representa tive per county, with the excess apportioned according to popula tion) and empower the General Assembly to further increase House membership by statute. The Governor would have the duty of making the reapportionment, sub ject to correction by the General Assembly itself and review by the State Supreme Court. HB 982 would merely redistrict the Sen ate under the present constitu tional provisions, thus requiring a majority (rather than 3-9th) vote for passage. It would create 38 Senatorial districts (rather than the present 33), give Forsyth, Local Reajty G.l. and F.H.A. Loans Now Available S3 ACRE FARM LOCATED DEEP GAP—Frontage on highway 431, new chicken house (10,000 chickens) 6 room house, 3-3 cleared land. Income established on chickens. 1-3 down will buy. 3 BEDROOM STONE HOUSE, 'beautiful lot located fh heart of Boone. Small down payment required. NEW 4-ROOM HOUSE AND LOT—Located Deerfield Road. Priced to sell. i GOOD 4 BEDROOM HOUSE, garage. Corner lot located corner Pine and Oak Streets. Priced for quick sale. 6Vi ACRES LAND—4 room house, located on highway near Boone. Price *3000. GOOD GOING BUSINESS for sale. GOOD 4-BEDhOOM BRICK HOUSE—two baths, large lot, lo cated Grand Blvd. GI loan can be assumed. Home re cently been remodeled. 60 ACRES FARM LAND—6-10 tobacco base, 8 room brick house, very modern, barn. Located on good road. GOOD 8-ROOM HOUSE, bath, barn, 7 acres land located 1 mile east of Boone, just off highway 421. Very desirable property. GOOD 3-BEDROOM HOUSE—Large living room, hot air heat, double garage, located on Grand Blvd. Vacant, ready to move In. Storm windows and new furnace. Small down payment TWO ROOM SUMMER COTTAGE—2 acres land. Located on Winkler's Creek. Priced for quick sale! GOOD 3 BED ROOM STONE HOUSE, bath, basement, 1 acre land beautifully landscaped. Located at Sands on Highway 194. Priced for quick sale. GOOD 3-BEDROOM HOUSE—Large living room with beautiful fire place. Radiant hot water heat, garage, large lot, al ready financed. Small down payment Located near IRC. GOOD 3-BEDROOM HOUSE, 2 baths, spacious living room with stone fireplace, double garage, 2 acres land beautifully landscaped. Located Just out of city limits. INVESTMENT PROPERTY—(-apartment brick house, located near college, grossing 10 per cent. Terms if needed. 2 APARTMENT HOUSE, heat corner lot. Located near college. Monthly rental 188.00. Terms if needed, NEW SEVEN ROOM BRICK HOUSE, two full baths, hot water heat large lot Just out of city limits. Excellent neighborhood. NEW RESTAURANT FULLY EQUIPPED with new equipment Building 48*x36\ Over 900 foot of road frontage on highway 421 about 6 miles west of Boone. FOR SALE—10 acre farm, good 6 room house, bath, hot air heat basement, new chicken house 15'xSO* and tobacco baae. Lo cated Deerfield road near Boone. Immediate poaaeesloo. ' I > WOODLAND DRIVE—New 3-bedroom brick bouse, two ceramle tile baths, dishwasher, full basement hot water heat double garage, storm windows. Located In one of the better resi dential sections, near college. F.H.A or O. I. loan available. GOOD BUSINESS LOT located on Main Street Desirable for any type of business. SELECT RESIDENTIAL LOTS FOR SALB. List Your Property with IIt for a Quick Sale Have Demand for Small Busineaa — Also (or Farms COE INSURANCE AND REALTY COMPANY E. F. COE, Manager DIAL AM 4-HM — BOONS. N. C - MT MAIN 8TUKT Values Require Small Down Payment Guilford, and Mecklenburg two Senator! each, and reshuffle the other district* Bute Qaiyi— Widely-vaiying statutes govern ing the state's ten Institutions of higher education outside the Con solidated University would bt re placed by a uniform pattern under a Board of Higher Education pro posal this week It would restate the purpose of each college, pro vide for a uniform number of U trustees per' institution. and de fine the powers and duties of trus tees and presidents. A Reorganization Commission bill would require the State Per sonnel Council and the Merit Sys-, tern Council (both of which deal with personnel standards for cer tain state employees) to have two common members, require that one member of the Merit System Council (which also has jurisdic tion over local health and welfare employees) have experience in county government, and give coun ty commissioners suthority to re quire such employees and county agents to conform to the regula tions for other county employees with regard to hours of work, va cations, and sick leave. . . . Other Reorganization Commission bills dealing with State property man agement and standardizing salary fixing procedures have passed "both houses. Solicitors retiring at 65 or after 20 years of service would receive 2-3 of their regular pay for life under HB 909. . . . Another House bill would1 authorize pensions for certain state employes retired be fore the Teachers' and State Em ployees' Retirement System was established. ... SB 360 would grant State Highway Patrolmen a $40 monthly subsistence allow ance. Election Laws The House decided (by adopting a committee substitute for the bill to amend the "antWonas" law) to return the split-ticket provisions of the election laws to their pre 1956 status. ... HB 947 would for bid last-minute substitution of can didates except on the death of a nominee or by order of the county board of elections for good cause shdWn. . . HB 964 would repeal the rule authorizing teachers to vote In their home counties, rather than counties where they teach. SHOWS STABT AT 7:30 iVote with Wide Screen and CinemaScope Friday-Saturday May 10 and 11 Dakota Incident / Dale Robertson Color Sunday May 12 TheMcConnell Story , Alan Ladd June Allyson Color Monday-Tuesday May 13 and 14 Bus Stop Marilyn Monroe , Don Murray Scope Color W ednesday-Thu rsday May IS and 1« Guys & Dolls Marlon Brando Frank Sinatra Cater . . Petitions for special election* would automatically die if not com pleted within a year, under HB Commissions to study problem* related to cancer and the state's sex laws ware proposed. , . SB 321 (providing for sterilization of mo thers at two or more illegitimate children) received a favorable re port after being rewritten to de clare *uch persons "grossly sex ually delinquent" Instead of feeble minded. ... A House bill would let local ABC boards spend 5% of their profits for education a* to the effects of alcohol. . . You will have to get up even earlier to out fox North Carolinians if Repre sentative Cobble's bill establishing daylight saving time Is passed. / Garden Time By M. E. GARDNER This is about birds and berries. Robins, catbirds, mocking birds and your strawberries, blueber ries, raspberries and bunch grapes dont get along. Have jrou found a method of protecting your fruit against these feathered friends? If you have, please let me know. We have tried almost every thing including strings, tinsel streamers, imitation snskes, and whit have you. John Harris has found a method he has tried with success in his home garden. He uses tobacco cloth to cover his strawberries, dewberries, raspber ries, grapes and figs. First the strawberries then the other crops. The ripening sequence makes it possitye to use the same cloth cov er for all of his crops. He says the cover should last "two or three years". This method - Is a little trouble but is worth the time It takes. A bill has been introduced in the legislature by Mr. Murphy, of Pender County, which, if passed, will permit strawberry and blue berry growers to use fire crack ers to keep the birds away. These would be manufactured to explode at intervals creating both noise and smoke. It might work, but the birds are pretty cagey and soon catch on. If you are not planning a spray program on your bunch grapes this year, as you should, you might try bagging them. This should be done as soon as the' Individual fruits are about the siie of a gar fieii pat. Una a paper bag large enough to contain the bunch when the fruit is ripe. Slip the bag over the bunch and attach to the stems. This can be done with a pin. Fold the top so as to keep out as much water as possible and pin securely. Then, cut a tiny hole in one of the bottom corners of the bag to drain out water that may bet in the top. This hole should be small so as to let the water drain from the bag and prevent insects from entering. The honey bee has been blamed for destroying grapes on the vine when they are ripe. This is not true because the honey bee has only lapping mouth parts which cannot break the skin of a grape or any other fruit They only be gin work "after the skin has been broken by s bird or other means. THE SOIL BANK Soil bank outlays for the cur rent fiscal .year appeared to be falling short of the gl .200,000,000 Jsnuary estimate by about $800, 000,000, because farmers had not signed up in the expected num bers. For example, only 37,980 Iowa farmers, or 18 per cent, met the 19ST soil bank sign-up dead line this year. There were 88,000 signers last year. Valle Crucis SchoolNews If you <«inl believe we have good spellers here at our school, just come over and hear them ■p«U! The (chool champion spell er U Anne Mae Matheson, nxth grade student, and daughter at Buck Matheson. She represented our school at Boone last week ia the county spoiling hoe. Her little sister, Rachel, waa the fourth grade room champion. Others were Anita Edmisten 'from the eighth grade, Ann Welch from the seventh grade, aad C • r o 1 y a Church from the fifth grade. (Carolyn was sick the day of the contest so Mildred Reese, second be** speller, took her place). Visit Cove Creek The eighth grade class went to Cove Creek School Friday and participated in the "Field Day" exercises, bringing back eleven blue ribbons. We hope this event will become a yearly -etivity, so that our students can participate in gymnastic contests. Glee Club Presents Program Glee Club members from the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth grades preeented a pro gram on last Tuesday entitled "School Date." consisting of stunts, skits, pantomines, and a general variety of activities. Spec ial emphasis wss placed on the children's reading diet. Many book characters presented themselves. There wss Ichabod Crsne with his short breeches and jacket being scared to desth at midnight, Ro bin Hood and Little John, Hansel and Gretel, Captain John Smith who wu saved in the nick of time by Pocabootai, The Pied Riper, The S.*piag Beauty, and George Washington and hit hatchet Tile' best part of the aet was "The Magician and bis Magic House, with Hubert Towitsead «s the magician. \ PTA ' Our last PTA meeting aI the year wiU be May 13 at 7:80 o'clock, at which time tho new officers! for t!.« coming year will be In stalled. The Olee Club will pre sent a short urogram. Windy Cap News Mr. and Mrs. Donald Hagaman spend last Sunday In Ellxabeth ton, Tennessee visiting friends. Miss Mary Lou Greene of Sher wood was a guest over the week end of Miss Wanda Harmon. Mr. Garnet Harmon was a visi tor last week of Mr. and Mr*. Roby Presnell. Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Presnell were Sunday visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Ward. Mr. Junior Cannon of Hudaon spent the week end with home folks here. Mrs. Tedra Harmon has return ed from Chicago, Illinois where she spent a week visiting her daughter, Mrs. Bill Stedry, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Cannon returned Friday from a week's visit in Virginia. Mr. Gilbert Hagaman has gone to Virginia where he will be em-< ployed (>r 10 me Urn*. dr. *.i(l Nil. Fred Trtrott u* Joyce. have moved into their home here. Mr. Trivett has been in the army for aevera) year*. He hat been italic Bed in Alabama. About M per cent of all com mercial farms is North Carolina are atUl family-operated HOMK UAkDINS ni ptaatiw or In tht# country ig | induatry. Thu firm covcn Mies of plants >t*ds and bulb*, *w*er took and equipment, lawn en. ~Imm and iprayer*, plan boxes, topMtt, fertilizer*, aoii soil chemicals ill ===== Paul said to Mr. Ed: BHRl* r'.--"* 'W. - 4 HI - <**-• t "Now," the woman lecturer aak ed, "U there any map in the audi enco who would let hii wife b* ilandered. and uy nothing? II to, itand up." A meek little map roe* to hi* feet. The letturer glared at him. "Do you mean to lay you would let your wife be ilandered and say nothing T" the thundered at him. "Oh, I'm tarry," he apologized. "I thought you Hid alaughtared." Paul E. A. 6 AULTNEY AND J. PAUL WINKLE* Watauga Insurance Agency NORTHWESTERN BANK BUILDING — FBONI All M»1 BOX M7 — BOONE, N. C.
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