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BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY. NOKTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST S,
HUCKLEBERRIES RIPE.—These full bucket* represent a lot of good eating and a half day's huckleberry
picking at Grandfather Mountain for Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Bennett of Honaker, Va. The area around Grandfather
Mountain and the Blue Ridge Parkway is kno wn for iu heavy concentration of the wild berries,
which are in plentiful supply during the first three weeks of August.—Hugh Morton photo.
Traffic Safety Program To
Feature Meeting G. of C.
A program on traffic safety will
be presented by the Watauga
County Medical Society at the August
meeting of the Boone Chamber
of Commerce, to be held at
noon Tuesday, August 13, in the
Boone Trail Restaurant.
Action Program Films prepared
by the President's committee for
traffic safety will be shown. The
medical society feels that there
has been many avoidable highway
accidents and deaths this year,
said Dr. Lawrence H. Owsley, secretary,
and H is hoped that these
films shown to public officials and
to the community's citizen leaders
will serve as a kick-off for organized
citizen action.
The films were obtained on loan
from the North Carolina State
Highway Patrol, Department of
Motor Vehicles, in Raleigh, and
will be shown in Blowing Rock
and elsewhere in the county during
the week of August 12.
The program to be presented
Tuesday will consist of three films:
"Alais the Killer," introductory
film showing the need for organized
citizen support for balanced
traffic safety programs; "Motor
Vehicle Administration," concerning
sound licensing and inspection
for safety; and "Traffic Court,
USA," recognizing good traffic
courts as a force for traffic safety.
If these films are well received,
an additional program of five films
will be shown at a later date, it
was announced.
In conection with the above program,
S. M. Ayers, superintendent
of the New River Light and Power
Company, will give a talk on the
importance of bjtter home wiring.
All members are especially urged
to attend this meeting, and visitors
are invited, said Stanley A.
Harris, Chamber of Commerce
manager.
Golf Club To
Map Plans For
Boone Course
The newly reorganized and rechartered
Boone Golf Club will
meet at the Boone Trail Restauranl
en Monday, August 12. at 7:30
p. m. to diaeuaa further plana for
securing n golf course for Boone.
All interested persons are urged
to attend, said Mrs. L. H. Owsley,
secretary. She added that thoae
who have not attended previous
meetings are also invited, as all
action will be reviewed In brief.
A |iropoaed site has been surveyed
by a golf course architect,
said Mrs. Owsley, and Monday's
meeting will be concerned primarily
with plans for financing the
project, i , . few t*
The business session will begin
promptly at 7:30, it was announced,
and anyone who desires to
dine there may order from the
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Boone, Mountain
City Road Opened
Highway 421, from Trade, Tenn., to Mountain Cily w»«
opened far travel en Wednesday of last week, according to
word coming from W. E. Graham Conatrnction Co* contractors
on the link, which ha* been under conatrnction for More than
a year.
This comes as good news to Watanga county people, and
other travelers, who rely on the road for an oatlet into Tennessee,
Virginia, and middle western points. During the course of
construction travel has heeu routed from Trade to Shouns through
Ashe county.
The seven mile link of modem highway supplants the twisting
road, with hairpin curves, which traversed "the gorge," and
reduces the distance to Mountain City hy about ltt miles. The
construction was largely through rock, and constituted one of
the tonghest Jobs of grading done in this section. Work started
on the project in March UM.
Parkway Cracks Down
On Garbage Dumpers
The Blue Ridge Parkway hag
been cracking down on garbage
dumper* over the pait few week*,
a dispatch from the Parkway states,
and as a result, two Mitchell
county residents paid fines of
$90 and (29 respectively, and a
Rowan county resident had to have
the area cleaned up In which the
garbage was dumped.
The major cleanup problem on
the Parkway la not the dumping of
quantities of garbage, the dispatch
states, but is the continual stream
of tissues, candy and cigarette
wrappers, and other acraps that
slip from car windows, and the refuse
left after picnic lunches.
lfoat visitors enjoying the Parkway,
show their appreciation by
using the trash cans which are
located at each overlook. However,
there are a few that have
no feeling of responsibility toward
those that follow and would like to
enjoy the same area, and these
make H necessary for the Park
Service to spend funds on cleanup
which could otherwise be used to
Improve the services available to
the visitor.
During the month of July, (or
enough trash was picked up on
init*nee, the Parkway official* Mid,
the Parkway between Mt Mitchell
and Grandfather Mountain to
fill 2S1 forty-call on container#
Mr. Dulle* ha* interpreted the
recent convulsion in the Kremlin
at a sign that "irreversible" evolution
waa changing the Soviet
system, under the influence of
popular preiwre for more liberty
and conifortiis is
Joe Coffey
Hurl In Fall
Joe L. Coffey, Sr., of the Laxon
community, win injured seriously
tn a fall about noon Monday.
Mr. Coffey raftered • fracture
of the ipine, it wai reported,
when a scaffold upon which he
wa* working at the house being
built by M. D. Brown at Laxon.
gave way and tumbled him to the
ground. Two other workmen on
the scaffold escaped without InJury.
A report Tuesday from the
Blowing Rock Hospital, where he
is undergoing treatment, said Mr.
Coffey sustained a crushed vertebra
in the fall, but there are no
complications, and his condition
Is satisfactory
I
Frank Church
Is Recovering
Mr. Frank Church ha* been at
home here for two week* recoving
from injuries sustained In a
(all from a smokestack In Paulhoro.
N. 1 He suffered head cuts
and other injuries but expects to
be able to i>turn to work in the
next few days.
Mr. Church Is a professional inspector,
repairman and painter of
industrial chimneys, and in bis
twenty-four years experience la
this work has been employed in
« states. Canada and Mexico. He
hasnt worked in North and South
Dakola.
Joe Blackburn,
Succumbs To
Heart Attack
Mr. Joe N. Blackburn, 62, prominent
business man and leading
citizen of Mountain City, Tenn.,
and a native of Todd, N. C. died
last Saturday from a heart attack.
Mr. Blackburn, who had been in
| failing health for two year*, suc:
cum bed while en route to a John!
son City hospital.
Funeral services were conducted
| Monday afternoon at the Pint
Baptist Church in Mountain City.
Rev. Mr. Whittington and Rev.
Mr. Brown, were in charge of the
rites. Burial was in the new community
cemetery in Mountain
City.
Survivors include the widow,
Mr*. Ollie Eller Blackburn, three
brothers and two sisters: Hamp
Blackburn, Deep Gap; Don Blackburn,
West Jefferson; Newton
Blackburn. Todd; Mrs. Walter
Cook, Todd; Mrs. Belle Brown,
Route 1, Boone.
A native of Watauga county,
Mr. Blackburn was a son of the
late Cameron and Mr*. Blackburn.
He had resided in Mountain City
for twenty-five year*, where he
was prominent in the business life
of the town. Among bis business
activities had been auction bean
marketing, super market and
furniture store. He also owned
considerable rental property and
| other real estate.
Mr. Blackburn was a member of
' the city council at Mountain City
i and of the Baptist Church there.
Brother Of A. R.
Smith Dies In
Fall From Roof
Aaron Butler Smith Sr., 60, of
Fayetteville, was killed Wednesday
when he fell through a ikylight at
the Queen City Garage in Fayetteville
and (truck a concrete floor
20 feet below.
Mr. Smith wai a brother of A.
R. Smith, of Boone, long time professor
at Appalachian State Teacher*
College.
A veteran employee of the
Queen City But Co., the deceased
was engaged in repairing a leak in
the roof at the time of the fatal
accident.
Mr. Smith ni a native of Stanley
County, the son of the late Lee
Smith and Hortense Mclntire
Smith. He moved to Fayetteville
in 1B30 and had lived there ilnce
that time, with the exception of
11 monthi ipent in Monroe. He
had been employed by the Queen
City Bui Co.. lince 1841.
Surviving, are hii wife, Mn.
Florence Eudy Smith; four tons, I
A. B. Smith Jr., Fayetteville;
the Rev. Charlea L. Smith, Staunton,
Va.; James C. Smith, Burling- j
ton; and the Rev.- Lee A. Smith,
Chcrryville; one daughter, Mr* K.
Stubba, Richmond, Va.; five brothers,
A. R., of Boone; Isaiah and
Hurdee of Charlotte; Bert of Ben
nettsvllie, S. C.; and Charles of
Ohio; five sisters,' Mrs. M. P.
Lambert. Kannapolls; Mr*. Morris
Chancy of Charlotte; Mrs. Robert'
Lanier of Norwood; Mrs. Emma
Falls of Pinevllle; and Mrs. Lloyd I
Bass of Nashville, Tenn.
Funeral service was conducted
Friday afternoon at the Walston
Memorial Baptist Church with the
Rev. David Miller officiating. Bural
was in LaFayette Memorial
Cemetery.
Pallbearers were bus drivers of
the company. Honorary bearers
were member* of the Delaby Sunday
School Claas and mechanics of
the company he worked for.
CONSTRUCTION
Expenditures for construction in
June rose to a record level for
the month of $4.4 billion, or $100
million more than In June, 1$M.
Homo-building gained II per cent
over May, but was that much below
June, 1996. Outlays for con
strwction ia the first half set a
record of $21.5 billion, a gain of
S per cent over like period last
year, aceotjliiig to the Commerce
land Labor Departments.
The above series of picture* will soon be appearing around the State and much of the South allowing
scenes from "Horn in the West." Top left photo haa Prwcher Sima, Dr. Stuart, Daniel Boone and others
looking over a bear killed by Boone; top right la part of the exciting Indian "Fire Dane*"; center ia •
panoramic view of the Daniel Boone Theatre; bottom left 1a the exodus scene at the pUy'a conclusion;
and bottom right shows Dr. Stuart and Indian prtntfea* Nancy Ward looking over a dead warrior with
tribal dancers in the background. a
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Forsyth Business Men Plan
Goodwill Y isit To W atauga
Job Picture
Is Brighter
In This Area
ELKIN, Aug. ft—New Industrie*
in the northwestern counties
of North Carolina are beginning
to brighten the employment picture
in the seven counties served
by the Mount Airy and North Willi
e s b o r o Employment Security
Commission offices.
The employment picture, according
to managers of the two
offices, was brighter in July than
in June.
Carl M. Baber, manager of the
Mount Airy office that serve*
Surry and Yadkin counties, reported
job placements off somewhat.
But, application* for Jobs
were up.
"Tbey will make a tremendous
jump in August because we are
now taking applications for Proctor
Electric Company of Mount
Airy," he »aid.
Proctor Electric will employ
200-290 persons once it Is in full
production. Mr. Babar expects his
application file to increase from
its preaent 1,117 to better than
3,000 by the time Proctor actually
begins hiring.
Industry aa a whole did better
in Surry and Yadkin counties during
July, according to Mr. Baber.
He dtad construction work increases
which he expects to continue
due to the extensive school
conn! ruction program going on in
, Barry in the wsvke of the fire
loases of last spring and th« planned
consolidation pn
The picture la the
A delegation of Forsyth businessmen.
farmers, and community
leaders will tour Watauga county
Wednesday, August 21, on a good
will vlait, according to an announcement
by L. E. Tuckwiller,
county agent.
Mr. Tuckwillar and other Watauga
county leaders, plan to meet
the Forsyth group at Deep Gap
and give them a full day of "feeing"
and learning about Watauga
county and nearby points.
The tentative schedule calls for
visits to the two industrial plants
in Watauga, lunch at Cove Creek,
viaita to farms, a jaunt to Grand|
father Mountain, and attendance
1 of Boone's outdoor dnuna. "Horn
in the West."
The Cove Creek Community
| Club plans to give the delegation
I lunch at Cove Creek, after which
Stanley A. Harris has Invited them
to viait his home at Sherwood,
j From there they will go to the
livestock farm of Robert Shipley.
They will also Vtait the farm of
Ray Clark at Shulls Mills. -
On the way back into Boone
the visiurs will visit tad ride
"Tweetaie,", before eating supper
in Boone, and attending the Horn.
While this is primarily a goodwill
tour, the group will be studying
the industrial developments in
the Boone area, community development,
forming, tourist attractions,
for all of which Watauga
is noted, Mr. Tuckwiller said.
T. Holt Haywood, chairman of
the agriculture and area development
committee of the WinstonSalem
Chamber of Commerce, said
that "recollection of the fun, food,
and good fellowship enjoyed by
our folks on their July 10 trip to
Wilkes has many of them all set
to visit Watauga as well." This
is one of a series of visits the
Forsyth people are planning to
acquaint them with their neighboring
counties.
Plans are being made for a
group of Wataugans to visit ror«yth
on a similar tour, either this
fall or next spring.
JutyxWas Dry Month
Compared To 1956
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July, 1857, compared with the
ume month last year, waa a dry
month, according to figure* kept
by the weather ♦bacrrcr Only 3.88
inchea of mill fell on the Boone
weather nation tact month Mora
than twice that much, or 7.84
inched waa noted in Jaiy of ISM
The finrt half of Jaly waa really
dry with no rain being recorded
from the teem* day to the fifteenth.
Aft*r Hut (he month waa
lairly ••normal-' Crow vert beWf,
ginning to «uHer, as there »»»
Mine breeze or wind much u that
tin»e. which helped to take the
moisture from the (round.
LmI fear tneaaurable rain fell
20 days out of SI, accounting for
the 7.04 jnchen In IBM 3.06 inches
fell while in July of 1MB 51»
eAAnVrl«.i4 I Jl
incnc* werf rccvrcifn.
The moat rata fell on Boone
the day <K July 18. when 1 JO
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Attendance
Is Well Ahead
Of Last Season
At approximately the halfway
! mark of the 1097 season, paid attendance
at the outdoor drama,
Horn in the West, numbered 11,796
persons through Sunday night,
according to figures released by
j Carl Fidler, business manager.
This represents a ten per cent
increase over the IBM attendance
i at the same point, he said, and a
fifteen per cent increase in net
i receipts. This is due to cooperation
of Watauga County people
who are handling ticket sales this
year without charge, whereas a
commission was paid in many
cases last year, said Fidler.
Tickets for the drama are on
sale at various places in Boone,
Deep Gap. and Blowing Rock, and
at 24 points outside the county.
Audiences this season have been
I composed of persons from 32
states and two foreign countries,
Canada and Hawaii, and automobile*
have been noted from all
state* east of the Mississippi River
except the New England states
of Maine. Vermont. New Hampshire,
and Rhode Island. The
smallest number of states represented
at any one performance
thus far has been fifteen.
The month of August has
brought heaviest attendance in
past seasons, and producers are
confident that the present figure
will be more than doubled by the
end of the season. The drama
played to some 24,000 last year.
The final performance of 1907.
and the only Monday night showing.
will be presented on Labor
Day, September 2.
Dr. Farthing's
Funeral Held '
In Wilmington
Funeral services for Or. J. Watts
Farthing, prominent surgeon of
Wilmington, who died Saturday
afternoon, July 27, in Lexington,
Ky„ after a long illness, were conducted
at 11 a. m., June 28, in the
First Presbyterian Church in Wilmington.
by the Rev. B. Frank
Hall and Bishop Thomas H. Wright.
Burial was in Oakdale Cemetery.
Pallbearers were J. Holmes
Davis, George Rountree, E. B.
Towles, Dr. H. B. Hare, Kauno A.
Lehto, E. J. Wood, Jr., J. N.
Brand and Dr. Junius C. Smith.
Honorary pallbearers were members
of the New Hanover County
Medical Society.
Dr. Farthing is survived by his
widow, Mrs. Esther Tasa Farthing;
one daughter. Miss Constance
Farthing; a son, John Watts Farthing,
Jr., and his mother, Mrs. L. E.
Farthing, all of Wilmington. He
waa a nephew of H. Grady Farthing,
Charles C. Farthing, Ed G.
Farthing, Zeb V. Farthing and
Mrs. Minnie Watson of Boone, and
Don Farthing of Newland.
A native •< Pittaboro, he was
bom March 3. 1806. a son of the
late Logan Elmore Farthing, native
of Boone, and Elizabeth Maude
Hackney Farthing. He went to
Wilmington in January of 1016,
and he and his family resided at
2830 Park Ave., of that city.
Dr. Farthing was a graduate of
New Hanover High School, Class
of 1825, and received his bachelor
quarts degree at the University
or North Carolina in June, 1029.
where he majored in German. He
earned his doctorate of medicine
at tM University of Pennsylvania
in June, IMS.
He married the former Eather
Taaa, Sept. 26, 1(96, in Rochester,
Minn After further extensive
study in the medical field, be returned
to Wilmington in August,
int.
Dr. Farthing w»a a deacon of
the First Presbyterian Church of
Wilmington; a 32nd degree Mason,
«t John's Lodge No. 1; a member
of the Cape Fear
Country Club, Sui
Y*eht Club and
which be was a p
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