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LXX.— NO. 14
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WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER S, 1M7
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Lt.-Col. Smith Gets
National Service Award
14. Colonel Louis K Smith.
CAP. Boom. North Carolina, Leg
al Officer for the North Carolina
Wing of Civil Air Patrol, has been
LT. COLONEL L. H. SMITH
I awjrded Meritorious S e r v 1 c «
Award by National Headquarter*,
Civil Air Patrol, Boiling Air Force
But.
The Meritorious Service Award
ia awarded to membera of Civil
Air Patrol who distinguish them
aelvea by heroism involving volun
tary risk of life or by outstanding
meritorioua service or meritorioua
achievement. In April 1H4 Col
onel Smith waa awarded Excep
tional Service Award, this award
having been presented to Colonel
Smith by General Beau. National
Commander, Civil Air Patrol, in
; appropriate ceremonies at Rich
mond, Virginia.
The Exceptional Service Award
is awarded to membera of Civil
Air Patrol who distinguish them
selves by a high degree of heroism
involving voluntary risk of life or
by exceptionally mertitorious con
duct in the performance of out
standing service—the service must
be clearly exceptional.
September Rainfall
Highest Of Any Month
Five Hundred
At Open House
At Shadowline
More than 900 persons respond
ed to an "open house" invititation
by the management of Shadowline,
Inc., to come out and look over
the plant laat Wednesday after
noon, September 27.
The firm, which hat home of
fices and plant in Morganton, and
another plant in California, manu
factures high quality lingerie un
der the Shadowline label for a
nationwide market. The Boone
plant began operations In its new
building just off the Slowing Rock
road during the past summer.
"We greatly appreciate the nice
response to our 'open house' event
by the people of Watauga County,
and we invite you to call upon us
whenever we can be of service in
any way," said Hal Johnson, plant
manager.
Mrs. Clawson
Dies On Friday
Mrs. Harriet Evelyn Clawson,
88, prominent citizen of Boone,
Route 2, died at Watauga Hospital
Friday. She had been a patient at
the hospital for a month.
Funeral services were conduct
ed at the Meat Camp Baptlat
Church Sunday at 2:30. Rev. W.
C. Payne, Rev. Roby Painter, and
Rev. Barnard Tuttle took part in
the rites. Burial was in the Meat
Camp cemetery.
A daughter of the late Joseph
and Mrs. Brown, Mrs. Clawson
was reared in Watauga county.
She had been married to Mr. John
H. Clawson for 72 years.
Surviving are the husband and
five sons: J. Bynum Clawson,
Wade Clawson, Hamp Clawson,
Willie Clawson, Route 2. Boone;
Clyde Clawson, Blowing Rock.
There are 34 grandchildren, 33
great grandchildren and 1 great
great grandchild.
September's rainfall was the
highest of any month thia year in
Boone, according to records kept
by weather observer Joe Minor.
A total of 10.29 inches of water
was measured at the station. Only
April came cloae to receiving that
much water, when 10.24 inches
were reported. ,
This is more than twice the
amount of water that uaually falls
on Boone in September. The long
range record which has been es
tablished is 4.23 inches. In 1954
a total of 1.08 inches was meas
ured, while in 1908 the same month
the total lacked .01 inch being a
full inch. Last year, however, the
total exceeded the average as 9.19
inches were reported.
On September If, • rainfall of
2.0V Indies was reported (or the
preceding 34 hours. Others parts
of the State reported even more,
the area around Statesville having
better than nine Inches. On three
other days more than an inch was
measured—September 12, 1.M; on
the 29th, 1.23; and September 30,
1.84. Rain fell in various amounts
twenty of the thirty days of Sep
tember.
Temperatures ranged all the way
from a cool 37 degrees to a warm
84. The thermometer hit 84 the
first two days of the month and
dropped to 37 on the nights of
the 29th and 28th. On the 29th a
sadden drop was noted when the
high was 72 degrees and the mer
cury plunged to 87. However, it
stayed there only a short while as
the temperature rose to 78 the
next day.
Frost was reported seen in some
sections, and the leaves are show
ing signs of fall as the weather
has stayed at 00 or below for the
last four days of the month.
Caton To Leave
Health Dept.
Mr. Lewis H. Caton, Jr., Senior
Sanitarian with the local Health
i Department and supervisor for the
i district has resigned to accept a
I posit on with the Rocky Mount
i City Health Department effective
October 1. It is with regret that
Dr. Mary Michal, Health Officer
makes this announcement.
Appalachian, Eton Take Lead
As They Defy Rain And Chill
Greensboro — Appalachian and
Elon. defying the rain and cold of
Saturday night, forged out front
in the first North State Conference
family action of the teason.
The Appalachian Mountaineer!
ilothed to a 28-0 victory over
Weatern Carolina, while Elon
tramped on Guilford to the tune o(
29-14.
To moat observer*, the most sur
prising non-conference result >n
the game In which Lenoir Rhyne
and Presbyterian went to a score
less tie. Appalachian defeated the
South Carolina team in their first
game of the aeason 20-7
In another non-conference tiH
Davidson ramped over East Car
olina 1M
Appalachian relied a great deal
on quarterback Ansel Glendenning
to call the right signals in stifling
Western Carolina's hopes (or ai
upset The Callowhee boys' havi
jet to win a game this season. Full
back Claude Midkiff carried th<
ball over three times to aasun
the local boys of their win.
El on depended on Bob Stauffea
berg to give them a victory. Hi
carried the ball into the end ion<
twice for two of their touchdowns
Elon Coach Sid Varnry praise*
his entire team for their win, witl
particular praise being pointed »
Statiffenber*.
Coach Clarence Staaavich of La
noir Rhyne, aaid after the game
They threw a seven-man line a
us, and with the field in the con
dition it waa In, we couldn't gi
outside."
The coming week end lists twi
conference battles. AppalacUiai
will be *1 Elm trying to stay m
lop in the eonferenre standing*,
and EaU Carolina Will Journey to
Catawba aa the two team play
their firat conference tilt.
For non-conference play, Guil
ford will be at Bridgewater. La-,
noir Rhyne playa Newberry ofl
home ground*, and Weatern Caro
lina goea to Johnson City to play
Eaat Tennessee
The won-lost (landings for all
North State team*, in both con
ference and non-conference garnet
la:
Cml All Game*
W L WIT
Appalachian ...... 10 2 10
Won I 0 10 0
Lenoir Rhyne 0 0 111
Cafcwfci • 0 0 1 •
Eaat Carolina .... 0 0 0 2 0
Guilford ; 0 1 0 10
WaaUrn Carolina 0 1 0 a 0
SAFETY AWARD.—A gold plaque in recognition of a million man hours worked by employee! of Bhie
Ridge Electric Membership Corporation without lost time accident wa« presented by Larry Meyer of Em
ployers Mutual Insurance Company, left, to A. B. Hurt of Jefferson, president pf rural electric electric
cooperative, center, and Cecil E. Viverette, of Lenoir, general manager. Presentation of award for
outstandig achievement in field of safety was made at safety award dinner held recently in Lenoir.—Photo
by Rufty, courtesy Lenoir News-Topic.
Blue Ridge Membership Sets
Record Among 500 Co-Ops
Linda Wey, Eddie Rush
Get Queen-King Titles
United Fund
Solicitors
To Meet 8th
The solicitor* training meet
ing for the United Fund will
be held at the Elementary
School Tuesday evening, Oc
tober t, at 7:M. All division
chairmen, area chairmen and
■olidton are nrged to attend.
Richard Morhonacr, president
•f the United Fund, R. D. Hod
ges, Jr., treasurer, High Hag
aman, vice-president In charge
•f fund raising, and Leo K.
Prltehett, member •( the speak
ing committee, will make up the
program.
Stout Is Given
30-vear Award
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Mr. L. H. Stout, of Waynesvllle,
formerly of Boone, has been pre
sented a 30-year pin, in recogni
tion of his long service with Essa
Oil Company.
George E. Williams, Esso dis
trict manager, made the presen
tat ion, at a banquet honoring Mr
Stout at the Wayneaville Country
Club. About 15 Esso officials at
tended.
Mr. Stout went to Wayncsvillf
'from Boone six years ago.
Linda Wey and Eddie Rush.
Homecoming king and queen at
Appalachian High School, reigned
over _ the Homecoming football
game and dance on Friday night.
Linda waa crowned during half
time ceremonies at the ball game
by Betsy Rogers, chief cheerlead
er and 1996 Homecoming queen.
Other girls nominated for queen
were Nadine Bolick, Pat Dowling.
Pat Madux, Mary Moretz, Janice
Smith. Marilyn Triplett, thane
Watkins, and Ann West.
Boys whe were nominated by
the student body for Homecoming i
king were Dick Brown, Steve :
Caatle, Ray Critcher, Rufus Ed
mlaten, Dale Greene, J. R Hartley,
David Teague, Richard Tiadel,
King Triplett, and Jerry Wine
barger.
Both Linda and Eddie are popu
lar members of the senior class
Linda, th« daughter of Dr. and
Mrs. Herbert Wey, ia chief major
ette and a member of the Student
Council. Eddie, the son of Mr. and
Mrs. William Rush, is a letterman
i in both football and basketbkll.
Secretary of Defense Wilson has
ordered the armed forces cut by
not more than 100,000 men for
economy reasons. He said that
major United States forces over
j seas would not be affected.
The Blue Kitlge Electric Mem
bership Corporation, with main
officei in Lenoir, has set a record
among the more than 900 electric
cooperatives in the nation by at
taining 1,000,000 man-hours with
out a lost time accident.
The 21-year-old electric cooper
ative serves 16,900 customers over
3,400 miles of lines in Watauga,
Caldwell. Ashe, Alleghany, Avery,
Wilkes, and Alexander counties.
Ill recognition of the achieve
me'nt, a safety award dinner tot
employees, their wives or hus
bands, was held at the Lenoir
Moose Lodge last week with Larry
Meyer, electric system specialist
of Employers Mutual Insurance
Company of Wausau, Wisconsin,
presenting to A. B. Hurt of Jeffer
son, president of Blue Ridge, and
Cecil E. Viverette, of Lenoir, gen
eral manager, a handsome gold
plaque for the employees. More
than 200 attended the smorgasbord
dinner served by the staff mem
bers of the Moose Club.
The period covered by the safety
achievement was from June 16,
1SS2, to August 3, this year. Ir
his presentation remarks. Mr. Mey
er declared that it was "a motnen
tous occasion and that credit wa<
due to the board of directors, gen
eral manager, foremen and super
visors, office personnel, safety sup
ervisor, and to each and every em
ployee. for bis or her part."
Mr. Meyer said that "chaneei
are that many of you have hac
close calls, but the job of workini
safetly is the responsibility of eact
and every one." He declared tha
a million man hours without a Ion
time mishap was not the ultimaU
(Continued on page aix)
YOUR UNITED FUND DOLLAR DID THIS! Through your contrite
tloni you furnish new parent* ind lifetime home* for many Norti
Carolina )oungster« each rear. The Children's Home Society of Nortl
Carolina, statewide adoption agency, la a member agency of ou
Watauga Count) United Fund. ■. ■
mers
ASC
Watauga County farmer* will go
to the variou* polling place*
hroughout the county next Tue*
Jay, October 8, and elect ASC
community committeemen in theii
.eapective communltie*.
In each community, three com
mitteemen and two alternate* will
j he elected. These men will be re
sponiible (or the local admlnUti*
lion during 1096 of such national
farm programs a* the Soil Bank
program, and Agricultural Con
servation program, price support*,
acreage allotment*, marketing
quota*, storage facility loam, and
itber*.
The ASC community election
board* from the ten ASC com
munitie* in the county met Sept
ember 10 with the County ASC
Election Board and choae nomin
ee* for committeemen in each
community
County Agent L. E. Tuckwiller,
chairman, *tre*aed the importance
of naming the men beat qualified
to adminiater the various county
ASC program*.
Eligible voter* include owner*.
operator!, tenants, and ihare crop
pert on any farms participating or
eligible to participate in any pro
gram administered during the
current calendar year through the
County ASC Committee office.
"Many important decisions are
coming up in 1808," said Chair
man Tuckwiller, "and we cannot
urge too strongly that everyone
who is eligible to vote in these
elections do so Tuesday and have
a voice in naming the men who
I will make these decisions affect
ing our entire county."
BOONE'S PRIDE.—The Appalachian High School Band made its first nulformed appearance of the
■chool year, as it participated in the homecoming parade last Friday. The band, under direction
of J. Perry Watson, gave a half-time program at the Elkln-Appaiachian game that night. The Junior
High Band also participated in the parade.—Staff photo by Joe Minor.
Claire Luce, To Appear Here Next
Tuesday, Starts Lyceum Series
Claire Luce, who will appear at
Appalachian State Teachers Col
lege in Boone on October 10, la
the only American actress to have
appeared for a season at the
Shakespeare Memorial Theater at
Stratford-on-Avon, starring aa
Cleopatra, Beatrice, Viola and oth
er famous roles. The year she
spent there was, she says, one of
the highlights of her entire career,
although her fabulous successes in
this country, as well as abroad,
have made her famous in many
other coveted roles.
Her fans will argue as to which
were her greatest accomplishment:
in Cole Porter's "The Gay Divor
cee," in which she starred in New
York and London; as Salome in
Oscar Wilde's play, or her magnifi
cent Shakespearean portrayals: as
•Catherine in "The Taming of the
Shrew" at New York City Center
Theatre, Beatrice in "Much Ado
About Nothing," Viola In "Twelf
th Night," or Shakespeare's Cleo
patra, which "Who's Who in the
Theatre" records as a "memorable
performance."
Miss Luce made several splendid
films in England, starring In
"Rain," "A Doll's House," and
"Anna Christie." She is equally at
home in televlaion in innumerable
starring roles, among them Becky
Sharpe in "Vanity fair" (Philco),
"The Green Woman" in "Peer
Gynt" (Philco), The Queen Bee,"
"Reflected Glory," etc.
A genuinely art in tic personality,
Miss Luce i> at home with music,
painting, and the dance. It was at
the behest of Winston Churchill
that she first took up the brush.
She studied painting at the Kin
sington Art School in London, and
in New York at the Art Students
League under the tutelage of Kun
iyoshi, John Carrol, Corbino, and
George Grosz.
At the age of thirteen she was
in the Russian Ballet, later becom
ing the Premier Danseuse of three
of Flore nz Ziegfield't famous
"Koll i ps" and Irving Berlin's
"Music Box Revue" ami also the
C. B. Cochran revue "Follow the
Sun" in London. In IMS she was
guest conductor of the Birming
ham Philharmonic Orchestra in
England.
Her intimate knowledge of dra
ma, music, painting, and the dance
enables her to illustrate along
original lines how the arts are
united by a sense of grace, move
ment. and rhythm.
(Continued on page aix)
Nurse Course
Being Taught
Miss Mary Williams. Red Crow
Instructor, is teaching an instruc
tor's course in Home Nursing this
week in the Presbyterian Church
in Boone.
Students include members of
the Watauga County Medical
Auxiliary and Home Demonstra
tion Clubs. They art: Mrs. L. P.
Hagaman, Mrs. L. H. Owsley. Mrs.
H. M. Cook. Mrs. Curtis McGowan.
Mrs. David Farthing, Mrs. Ford
Hcnson, Mrs. Ivan Farthing. Mrs.
Custer Ward. Mrs. t. M. Luttrcll.
Mrs. George Harmon. Mrs. Leo
nard Ward. Mra. Charles Lewia.
Mrs. Stanley Harris. Misa Geral
dine Surratt, Mra. Dean Isaacs,
and Mrs. Ivan Younce. The mem
bers of the class will be qualifiod
- to teach a course in Home Nurn
i ing to I n teres ted community
1 irou»* yffi . i.
r The clawes wlU be tautfht
tluough Friday, October i
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Development Group To
Make Progress Report
Watauga County la in the lime
light since it has been selected as
* Pilot County (or the Rural Deve
lopment Program. The purpose of
this program is to open wider the
doors of opportunity for people in
our county so they may have an
Improved standard of living and
better environment for all famili
es. .
All individuals, groups, and or
ganisations have been asked to
share in this new program to help
balance the economic and social
development of our county. The
tying together of the «rorfc of all
interested pe-*ons. groups, and
agencie* i« the thing that will
keep the ball rolling.
Plana arc underway for a pro
greM nummary meeting to be held
on October 21, where in all group*,
agenciei, and individual* will
•hare in thia progre** report, over
a good meal and be encouraged by
remark* by an outatanding (peak
er.
You are urged to mark the 21*<
on your calendar and plan now to
attend thi* meeting. Further de
tail* of the program, along with
announcement of the ipeaker, will
be given .out next week.
Mental Health Chapter
Is Being Planned Here
All interested persons of Wa
tauga county art invited to attend
a meeting for the purpose of org
anising a loeal chapter of the N.
C. Association of Mental Health.
The meeting will be held down
•tali* at the Boone Trail Cafe,
Monday, October 7. at 8 p. in.
Abe Littleton will serve as
chairman of the meeting and bus
ineas will include election of offi
cera and the aetting up of com
mitteea. Individuals will be asked
to serve on Ute following commit
tea:
Education committee, public re
lations, volunteer activities, and
membership.
The purpose of the organization
of a local chapter of the Mantel
" 'Wwtr m -WW
Health association la to h«lp do
fine and locate the mental healtk
neds of the community and then
use the available local resourcei
and develop the needed facilitiei
to improve these needs
Future plana include the secur
ing oT a qualified psychologist whe
will conduct psychological testing
child guidance, and other sad
services needed In our community
Mr. Littleton said, in announc
ing the organisational meeting
"Today It It becoming more rec
ogni/ed thai an organised con
munity can help prevent the de
velopment of serious mental
mm." and urged ta
and Join I he
,ibiy could.