An Independent Weekly Netctpaper . Seventieth Year of Continuous Publication
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BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER I, 1»37
TEEN-AGE SQUARE DANCERS.—These teen-agers from Shoal* Shoals (Caldwell County), and their
hosts, the Blowing Teen-Age Club, are shown at a recent square dance held in Blowing Rock. Reading from
right to left are the adults who directed their activities: Sonny Atkins, youth religious director; Carol
Hawthorne, assistant youth director; Ronny L. Brooks, Blowing Rock recreation director; Charles M.
Leith and Andrew Yasinsac, assistant recreation directors; Stewart Kirby, Dudley Shoals high school
principal; Clyde Bowman and Mr*. Stewart Kirby Refreshments were provided by Mrs. Hubert Grydtr,
Mrs. Ed Harnick, Mrs. James B. Coffey, Mrs. Lloyd Bobbins and Mrs. Charles Bolick, all of Blowing Rock.
—Photo by Emerson Humphrey.
Five Hundred Freshmen Begin
Arriving At Appalachian Today
By EARLEEN G. PRITCHETT
More than five hundred freshmen
are expected to arrive at Appalachian
State Teachers College
on Wednesday, September 4, to
begin a week of orientation before
they enter classes. The college is
expecting one of the largest freshman
classes ever to enroll.
On Thursday, the Sth, the first
freshman assembly will be held in
the college auditorium. President
W. H. Plemmons will deliver a
message of welcome and the new
students will meet other officeri
of the college administration and
student leaders. The rest of the
day will be devoted to the testing
program. In the evening a program
of vespers and singing, with
Almeta Wiliard, president of the
YWCA la charge, will be held
around the fountain on the front
campus.
On Friday, September 6, freshmen
will be given the reading and
academic ability tests, and will be
assigned to • faculty adviser. In
the evening they will see a talent
show under the auspices of the
Playcrafters, and will participate
in a street dance.
On Saturday, September 7,
freshmen will register for classes
during the morning. At 2:30 in
the afternoon they will attend the
annual Black-Gold intrasquad
football game. The formal reception
for freshmen will be held in
the men's old gymnasium beginning
at 7:30 in the evening.
Back on campus to assist with
the freshman orientation programa
will be presidents of organizations,
student council members,
and other upperelass leaders.
William C. Carse. director of
guidance and counseling, is in
charge.
Freshmen begin classes the
morning of September 0. Students
who are transferring to Appalachian
from Junior colleges and other
institutions of higher education
will arrive and begin theii* program
of orientation on the morning
of September 9.
Upperelass registration will be
held on Tuesday. September 10.
The registration closes, and classes
must be met, Monday, September
16.
For tile rest of the fall quarter.
Religious Fmphasis Week is scheduled
for September 20 'to October
3; homecoming for October 30;
and the term closes on Wednesday,
November 27. Thanksgiving
holidays will extend from November
27 to December 2.
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Berea Trustee
AIt;ani Speaker
Dr. W. D. Weatherford, trustee
of Bereo College in Kentucky, will
be the featured speaker at the annual
picnic of the Watauga-AveryAahe
Berca alumni.
The picnic will be held Saturday
afternoon, beginning at 3 o'clock,
at the picnic grounds of Horn toi
the West theatre Richard C3us«,
Beech Creek folkforitt. is also
scheduled on the program.
All Berea alumni and tkoir families
are urged to attend and carry
a picnic basket
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W. RALPH WINKLER DR. J. B. HAGAMAN, JR.
W. R. Winkler, Dr. Hagaman
Named Appalachian Trustees
W. Ralph Winkler, of Boone,
former member of the State Highway
and Public Work* Commission
and prominent Boone business
man. ha* been named to the
board of trustees of Appalachian
Stat* Teachers College.
Also named as Appalachian
trustee is Or. J. B. Hagatnan, Jr.,
popular young Boone physician.
Others named to the board are:
Mrs. J. E. Broyhill, L. A. Dysart,
Lenoir; C. Watson Bra me, North
Wilkesboro; Kidd Brewer, Raleigh;
John Prank, Mount Airy; E.
C. Lackey, Winston-Salem; George
Cora, Shelby.
Reappointments to the board
include B. C. Brock. MocksviUe;
William J. Conrad, Winston-Salem,
and Mrs. Harry B. Caldwell,
Greensboro.
The newly-appointed trustees
will replace the following outgoing
member* of the board: Fred
N. Colvard, Jefferson, J. R. Hi*,
North Wilkesboro; Sam Jones,
Statesville; W. W. Mast, Valle
Crucis and Mrs. Eunice Moose of
Taylorsville.
Nursery School Planned
The Nursery School, annually
sponsored by the Junior Woman's
Club, will open next Monday at
the home of Mri Carlo* DeLima.
Three and four-year-old children
will be taken from 8:30 a. m. to
12 noon.
Those interested and wishing
further information should call
AM 4-3673
Horn In West
Attendance
ure
P. H. Hanes, Jr.
To Speak To
Local C Of C
P. H. Hanes, Jr., Winston-Salem
industrialist, will be the principal
speaker at the September meeting
of the Boone Chamber of Commerce
next Tuesday, September
10, in the banquet room of the
Boone Trail Restaurant. The
luncheon meeting will begin at 12
o'clock noon.
Mr. Hanes, one of North Carolina's
most prominent figures in
industry, will speak to the civic
body on "The Industrial Outlook
in North Carolina."
Stanley A. Harris, executive
secretary of the Chamber of Commerce,
said in urging all members
to nuke a special effort to
attend: "Mr. Hanes is as well
versed in industrial affairs as anyone
in the state, and he is sure to
bring us an interesting and worthwhile
message. The public is invited
to attend this meeting."
King Given
IRC Position
PHILADELPHIA, PA.-The recent
appointment of Mr. Laurence
A. King as Management Consultant
of International Resistance
Company's Asheville and Boone,
N. C. plants was announced August
28 by Mr. Harry A. Ehle, executive
vice-president of the comIRC's
Asheville plant manufactures
controls and potentiometers,
concentric strips and discs, high
frequency and high voltage resistors,
and voltmeter multipliers.
Power wire wound resistors of all
types, fuse resistors and selenium
rectifiers and diodes are made at
the Boone plant.
Bill May, 64,
Dies Friday
Bill Walter May, 64 year old
farmer of Reete, paaaed away Friday
morning, August 30, at the
Watauga Hoapital in Boone, after
a ahort illneaa.
Service* were conducted Sunday,
September I, at the Foreat
Grove Baptist Church. Burial followed
in the church cemetery. The
Rev. Carl Wilaon, pastor, the Rev.
Noah Johnson and the Rev. J. H.
Crisp conducted the aervlces.
Survivors include the widow,
Mrs Bessie Eggera May of Reeae;
four sons, T. C. and Earl of Reeae,
Ted of Neva, Tenn., and Austin
H. of Atlanta, Ga.; one brother,
Ben of Moore, Idaho; three sisters,
Mrs. Julia Curry of Elizabethton,
Tenn., Mrs. Blanche Snyder of
Neva, and Mrs. Ida May of Granite
Falla; and four grandchildren.
Fifty-Two Foreign Students Guests
Boone Rotary Club Over WeekEnd
The Boone Rotary Club lud m
their guests Sunday and Monday
S2 foreign students who will be
in the United States on Fulbrmht
and other scholarships (or the next
ten months, studying in 41 colleges
and universities about the country.
The students and their director.
Dr. David C. Bradley, of the Religion
Department at Duke University.
were met Sunday afternoon
at Kirk's Restaurant, where variow*
Rotariana greeted them aad carried
them to their homes for lodging
They were shown about
Boone, and Sunday evening wero
in the audience of those watching
Horn in the West.
Among the countries represented
were Braril, Mexico. India.
Burma, ThiaUod, Cambodia, Italy,
France. Indonesia, Tunisia, Morroco,
the Philippines, Spain. Japan,
Finland, Turkey. Korea. Ecuador,
Panama. Belgium, Pakistan.
Nicaraugua, Chile. Malaya Korea.
Iran, Jordan. Nepul, chile, aad
The group returned to Durham,
where they have been participating
in a six-week orientation program,
conducted each aununer by
Duke Unvieraity'a International
Studies Center, to adjust the atudents
to American customs and
the English language in preparation
(or their study in the United
States.
The students came to Boone from
Knoxville, Tenn.. where they had
spent Saturday night. On the trip
from Durham, which began last
Week they visited the Cherokee
Indian Reservation, the Great
Smoky Mountains National Park,
the Tennessee Valley Authority
headquarters at Knoxville, Port
Loudum Dam and Kingston Steam
Plant, the Oak Ridge Museum,
the Morris Dam and the Big Ridge
Recreational Park. Grandfather
Mountain, and other points ot in
tereat along the Blue Ridge Parkway.
The students are here to study
is Um fields of education, law.
medicine, business, science, political
science, biochemistry, engineering.
advertising, social work, economics,
and other fields.
This is the second year the local
Rotarians have entertained foreign
students in their homes. The program
Is a part of the club's activity
in the area of International service,
and is carried forth in the
hope that it will help promote better
international understanding,
Nicholas Emeston. president of
the Boone club, stated.
Mr. Ernest on continued: "The
members who received these students
into their homes were rewarded
by the close contact with
these fine students, and learned
much of the lands from which each
came It proved to be very beneficial
to all concerned
Also provided for with a place
to stay were the drivers of the
two buses, and Mrs. Bradley and
daughter, Kathy. . '
ALONG THE PARKWAY.—Majestic sweep of the Parkway along the mountaintop is especialy beautiful
in the changing days of late summer. Travel on the noted thoroughfare has reached a new high this
year.—Photo by Hugh Morton.
Boone, Blowing Rock Granted
j$25,000 Of Powell Aid Monies
Boone and Blowing Rock are
among (our hundred North Carolina
towns, which (hare currently
in the allocation of *6,477,032.18
in Powell aid funds for street
work, according to a recent announcement
coming from the
Stat* Highway Commission.
Boone, with 1&.76 miles of
streets qualifying for aid,, gets
»13,988.49.
Blowing Rock with 19.84 miles,
gets *11,034.12.
Checks for their proportionate
shares were mailed, beginning
August 29 to 409 municipalities
which qualify under the 1901 statute
setting aside Vi cent of the
six cent per gallon net State gasoline
tax for the use of municipalities
in maintaining and Improving
their non-highway system
streets. The net revenue from the
j tax amounted to *77,739,027.98
i for the fiscal year 19S7.
Powell Bill Funds have shown
| a 42 per cent Increase in seven
years, rising from *4,943,008.20 in
' 1991 to the 1997 figure of nearly
| six and one-half million dollars. A
total of *38,536,207.29 will have
been distributed with the issuance
of this year's cheeks.
i Cities and towns become eligij
ble for Powell Bill Funds by performing
certain functions neces|
nary to qualify under the law ln!
eluding the collection of ad
' volorem taxes, the election of
city governing officials and the
filing of necessary data with the
State Highway Commission before
the limiting date. .
Half of the total Powell Bill allocations,
*3,238.916.00, is to be
divided among quaified municipalities
on the basis of population
at a per capita rate of *2.12. The
population of eligible and qualified
municipalities based on the
1990 census is 1,824,409
The remaining half is divided
on the basis of relative mileage of
non-highway system 6r local
streets of municipalities complying
with the act at a permile rate
of *489.38 The total length of
such streets this year is 6,672.18
miles.
Allocations may be made only
to legally incorporated municipalities
which qualify under the law.
Many legally incorporated towns
fail to qualify while other popu{lous
communities in the Stats
h»vt never incorporated and are
i thereby taellflMi
August Weather In
Boone Is Whimsical
August temperature in Boone
ranged all the way from a cool
39 degrees to a hot 86, according
to record! kept by the weather
bureauman, Joe Minor, for the U.
S. Weather Bureau.
Rainfall was light, with only 2.06
Inches being recorded for the entire
month. This was considerably
less than the average of several
years, which is 9.68 inches. However,
it was more than was recorded
last year with 1.10 inches
fell in the measuring guage. 1999
there was a reading of 4.30 inches,
and 2.07 inches were recorded in
1094. All these years August rainfall
for Boone was less than what
the Weather Bureau considers average.
The most rain was recorded on
the fifteenth of August when .82
of an inch was in the guage at
7 a. m. Other readings were: on
Aug. 9, .16. Aug 12, 03; Aug. 16.
.47; Aug. 17, .22; Aug. IB, .16; Aug.
26, .20. Several mornings a trace,
or not enough to measure, was
noted, but could not be counted
in the total rainfall figure.
It seemed to many residents of
Boone a lot hotter than the weatherman's
thermometer indicated
on some days. The 86-degree
weather was recorded on the third
day of August, with the 30-degree
temperature being registered or
the seventh day. The mercury rose
to 80 or above on 14 days of the
month, with several days seeing it
go to 84 and 85 degrees.
Mrs. Maxwell
Rites Are Held
Mrs. Emily Eler Maxwell. M
years old, who lived on Bristol
Road, passed away at 7:0 a. m.
Thursday, August 29, at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. Wilson Nor
ris.
Funeral services were conducted
Saturday morning, August 31, at
eleven o'clock at the Oak Grove
Baptist Church. The Rev. Walter
Jones, pastor of the church, the
Rev. C. 0. Vance, a former pastor,
and the Rev. E. H. Lowman, pastor
of the Boone Methodist Church,
conducted the services. Burial followed
in the church cemetery.
Survivors include the daughter,
eight grandchildren, and 14 great
grandchildren.
Future For
Local Drama
Is Brightened
The historical drama, "Horn in
the West," ended iti sixth season
Monday night with a total attendance
of 27,110 for the season.
The figure represents a twelve
and one-half per cent Increase
over the total for the ltM year
and It marks the first time la
the history of the drama that a
season has exceeded the year hefare
In attendance, announced
Leo Derrick, head of the depart
meat of pahllc relations for the
Boone drama.
The total for the preceding year
was 34,410, and the members of
the Southern Appalachian Historical
Association, the non-profit organization
which sponsor* the production,
expressed pleasure over
the increase this summer.
James P. Marsh, executive
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VlCv'PrCWlWol wa a^B® ■m®0^a®wg0™f
Isued the state ate at Tuesday
that all official* of the spaaaarlag
group are highly pIsasH
over the way Iha whale aperatiaa
weal this year, aad added
that It aaw appear* virtually
certain that the drama weald he
carried aa each |MMr far
maay year*.
Marah was high in his praise of
Derrick'* Job in the latter'* first
year In handling publicity and promotion.
He laid the iacreaae In
attendance was indicative of much
hard and efficient work, becauae
marty conditiona were advene to
a bigger turnout. The highway
■ituation, for example, could hardly
have been worae in the immediate
Boone area, a* main roada in
the vicinity were under construction,
he added.
That will be remedied long before
the show open* next year and
the outlook for the 1BS8 seaaoa
appears bright, Marsh declared.
Derrick paid tribute to hi* able
promotion aaaiitant, Mr*. Conatance
Garvey, and to the show itself
for the bigger attendance figure.
Summer camp* attended thi* year
In increaied number*, and wordof-mouth
advertising from satisfied
patrona went a long way in
helping boost attendance above the
1955 total, he itated.
Derrick, for seven years a newspaperman
in eastern North Carolina
before taking over the public
relations post for the "Horn" in
mid-March, alao praiaed business
manager Carl Fidler for the efficient
handling of financial matters
and theater maintenance personnel.
Edgar Loessln, young Texaa
dramatist who directed the show,
did a fine Job, with a capable
cast which prompted wide favorable
responae to the play, the
public relatlona director said.
Dr. I. G. Greer, preiident of the
aaaociation and noted educator
from Chapel Hill, attended the
season's final showing, along with
other official* of the *pon*oriag
organization.
Derrick *ald plan* would be
started in the near future for next
year'* operation, following the annual
meeting of the aaaociation In
October. >
Parktvav Officials Accept State
m/ «r w fflj A
iis
Board's Plans For Facilities
Wayoesville.—Blue Ridge Parki
way official* have accepted "generally"
the State Part, Partway
and Forest Development Commit
sitm's recommendntlona approving
lhe construction of "Mi* OS" food
and gasoline facilities on th« scenic
highway.
Sam P. Weems. Blue Ridge Park
| way superintendent, announced his
acceptance of the recommendations
1 at the state group's annual meetI
ing last Wednesday, it waa dlaclos!
ed Thursday
Weems told the group he b*
I linves the "major portion" of the
1 plan can he carried out prior to
the 1M8 travel season. The
North Carolina Part. I1u-k
way and rorest Development Com
taitsioa on July 33 reported that
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construction of such facilities U
justified. But the commission
rccommondcd that more consider
»t ion be flvrn propoMli to coil'
■truct additional overnight accom
modations at Doughton Park ami
at Piagah Inn. iu
Weema aaid that plana for the
Doughton Park construction will
be removed from the current pro
(ram. He alao said the rpcom
mendationa on the Piagah Inn con
struct! on were "acceptable "
The question of the conatructioe
of additional concession facilitiea
on th< parkway had been highly
controveraiat since last July when
the National Park Service an
nounced a proposal to construct facilities
coating about 94 million ai
of It* Mia*km 00 program.
Private tourism interest* in
Wei tern North Carolina have opposed
the program strongly
Weema aaid he will work closely
with the newly appointed signs
committee la placing directional
signs along the parkway. TWs has
also been a aore point with private
towiam interests, who complain
the Park Service will not allow
them to place signs on the parkway
directing tourists to facilities
off the parkway.
The frtate commission also reelected
its officers for the 1887-88
The officers arc William
ford of Wajnosville,
Frank H. Brown, Jr.,
vice chairman;
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