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An Independent Weekly Newspaper . . . Seventieth Year of Continuous Publication
BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NOKTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER M, IM7
SIXTEEN PAGES-TWO SECTIONS
Chamber
Leaders
Selected
Chamber of Commerce chairmen
for Boone were named rec*"*'* *
newly - elected president John
Robinson. in
Co-chairmen were choaen n
moat instances and they \
turn, select the members for their
committee, in the near future. No
specific date has been
but Robinson suggests that chair
men wait until after a membership
drive ha. been conducted in order
that new members be used on com
mittee appointmenta wherever de
*'The* Industrial committee, how
ever is an exception. Executive
members thought it advisaMe to
name that complete committee in
the event action by the gTOup t
needed before the drive is brought
to a close.
Glenn R. Andrews, local automo
bile dealer and outgoing president
of the Chamber of Commerce, was
named chairman and serving on
"he committee will be Watt Gragg,
Jerry Coe, Alfred Adams, Demp
sey Wilcox, and Herman Ander
,on. Memberships became effect
iw immediately and the group is
empowered to act as the need
The education committee is also
complete and lists Dr D: *
ner, Dean of Appalachtan State
Teachers College, as chairman
with Dr. Leo Pntohett and Dr.
Ray Derrick aa members
Other chairmen for the coming
vear are as follows: program, Dr.
O K. Richardson; projects, Hugh
Hagaman and Wayne ™c**r<iMon
agriculture. L. E. Tuekwi"£jg
Herman Anderson; membership
and finance, G. C. Greene Jr and
Dick Morhauser; tourist, L. T. T
turn, Harold Rice; publicityV.G.
Rollins. Ralph Tugman.roads.W
r. Winkler, SUnley A Harns.
public relations, Frank Payne.
Wade E Brown; radio, Clyde u*g
gersf auditing, Jack Williams,
James Marsh; "Horn in the West ,
James Marsh; transportation and
freight, Herman L. Wilcox, Milt
J°Committees serve for one-year
terma and will function for the
calendar year of 190B. reminded
Robinaon.
Greene and Morhauaer willbe
responsible for formulating a plan
to proceed with the membership
drive around January J. An early
January meeting will be set up to
hear their plan and make arrange
ments to put it into operation.
ROBOT BUILDER
London.—Soviet acientisU have
developed a "building robot"
which can apply plaater, lay bricka
and build houses, it la 'said by Taaa,
the Soviet news agency. The au
tomatic houae building machine
can construct a five-story brick
houae in from 90 to 90 days. The
robot, controlled from a revolving
working cabin, cuts labor coats to
a tenth.
Preliminary Golf Course Plans
Shown Directors By Architect
Plant for the Boone golf courie
moved * step further last week
when Ellis Maples, golf architect
from Winston - Salem, came to
Boone and brought with him a
drawing of the layout for the
proposed course. He met with the
board of Directors, Incorporated,
backers of the course, and gave
them complete details of how the
course will be laid out.
Wade E. Brown, president of
the incorporators, stated that Mr.
Elljis showed them a tentative
drawing of the course, which will
consist of 18 holes, with a total
yardage of 8,307, and will be con
sidered a 71 par course.
According to Mr. Maples' plans,
each hole will have three tees, the
long tees for professionals and
those desiring'the difficult shots,
the intermediate tees for thfc aver
age players, and a shot set of tees
for ladies and others preferring
the shorter and less difficult shots.
It was pointed out that this com
pares favorably with the finest
courses in the country and sur
passes many ot them in distant, in
terest and variety.
The course will be laid out, ac
cording to Mr. Maples' plans, with
the 6th, 9th and 18th green end
ing up near the club houie site
to give opportunity for a short
game, a break in the game at the
midway point or a full 18 bole
game.
Another attractive feature of the
course will be the fact that nine
holes are on practically leuel land
consisting of thf broad Blair bot
tom property and the remaining
nine holes will have a variety of
gently rolling terrain.
Three of the fairways will be
through the wooded area in the
center of the course and the re
mainder will be in open land with
plenty of width between the fair
ways and with a variety of holes
from 3 par holes to S par and the
distance from IBS yards to 990
yards.
Plans are going forward for the
engineer to stake off holes at an
early date and to do the necessary
clearing of the wooded area before
the actual grading is to be done
on the course.
Mr. Brown stated that Mr. Ma
RECONDITIONED TOYS WILL GLADDEN YOUNGSTERS' HEARTS AT CHRISTMASTIME — Shown
above if a portion of the 100 to ISO used toy* collected and reconditioned by Girl Scout Troop No.
0 under the direction of Mr». H. M. Cook* and Mrs John Anderson, Troop leaden. The toys, which
included a wide variety, were cleaned, repainted, and refiniihed aa needed, and the doll* redressed
by the girls. They were turned aver to the WaUais Department lot distribution to lass tortoaato children.
• v- * v?.. '■ :1
pie* intend! to move hit family to
Boone during the month of March
and begin work immediately on
the course. His schedule calls for
completion of the work as rapidly
as possible, maybe during the sum
mer if favorable weather permits.
The plans call for seeding the
fairway^ during the latter part of
the summer, and if nothing hamp
ers the work the course should be
ready for play in June of 1950,
Mr. Brown said.
The course will be located in
the area of the old Deerfield road,
near the Blowing Rock highway.
While in. town Thursday. Mr.
Maples attended the regular meet
ing of the Rotary Club.
Union Worship
Service Sunday
A Union Worship Service, spon
sored by the Watauga County
Miniaterial Association, will be
held in the First Presbyterian
Church in Boone. Suqday evening,
December 29, at 7:30 o'clock. Rev.
George A. Arthur, pastor of the
Advent Christian Church, will
bring the message. Other minis
ters will. participate in the Ser
vice. The Choir, under the direc
tion of Mrs. N. G. Erneston, will
be made up of college students
from the varioua churches who
are home for the holidays. You
are cordially invited to attend this
Service and worship with Chris
tians from other churches.
EXPENSE ACCOUNTS
While the Revenue Service has
reversed its decision to require
itemization of all expense accounts
on income tax returns for 1967,
the service warns that, starting
January 1, all employes wboae ex
penses for the firm are P*¥ by
the firm must report the total on
Page 1 of the IMS tax return and
attach an accounting of what the
money was spent for.
FARMEM' SOCIAL SECURITY
About 800,000 farm families will
be receiving social-security bene
fits By mid-1998, according to the
Agriculture Department. Self-em
ployed farmers were made eligible
for old age and survivors Insur
ance by Congress in 1MB. Pay
menu to farm families next year
may average about 11,000 or at aa
annual rate of about |600,0WM*W>
Three Meet Deaths
In Highway Crashes
2 Autos
Run Off
U.S. 421
Three Watauga men lost
their lives in two car accidents
in this area Saturday morning.
The first accident occurred be
fore daylight just a few miles
west of Boone, killing Glenn
Grant Sutherland, 19, of Sugar
Groove, and Ray Louis Love,
also 19, of Vilas. Kenneth
Triplett, 30, of Triplett and
Cleveland, Ohio, died when the
car he was driving left the
road at Shouns, Tenn., on
Highway 421, and turned over.
Triplett was killed initantly as
he and hii brother, Tracy Triplett,
were coming home to apend the
holidaya with their parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Eugene Triplett, at Trip
lett. Tracy Triplett was injured,
but reports were that hia hurts
were not serious. An unidentified
couple riding with them were not
injured.
According to the report from
the Tennessee funeral home where
Triplett was first carried, he was
attempting to avoid a head-on col
lision with another vehicle, -when
his car left the highway and turned
over at 11:45. No other details
were available at press time.
Sutherland and Love died when
the car in which they were riding
left highway 421, w?st of Boonfe,
near the intersection, of the old
Boone Trail highway. The car,
which was headed east toward
Boone, traveled 310 feet on the left
side of the highway, hitting 31
barricade postf and knocking. B
completely out of the ground, ac
cording to the count of Investi
gating Patrolman Charles W.
Mason.
Mr. Mason's report showed that
the 1057 Ford traveled 175 feet on
the left shoulder, then completely
left the roadway and traveled 144
feet before coming to a stop on
its top. 1
Both men were thrown from
the vehicle, and although time of
the accident was set as 3:20 a. m.
Love's body was not found until
after daybreak Saturday. He was
100 feet from the wreckage in a
field just across a drive from
where the car stopped.
Sutherland was thrown approxi
mate!/ 50 feet, according to marks
left on the highway, and his body
came to atop on the right side of
the road almost .directly across
from the car. The men died from
broken necks an<h skull injuries, it
was stated.
There were no eyewitneases to
the accident, and after a search
of the area, it was thought that
Sutherland was alone when he was
killed. However, shortly after day
break, Love's body was discovered.
(Continued on page sU)
„v pass ACCIDENT-Truck on right, drive. by Jimmy' WaUer Porch of Lenoir collided into rear of
Brown Heads Baptist Group
Named To Study Dancing Issue
Wade E. Brown, local attorney,
was named chairman of a nine
man committee of the Wake Forest
College Board of Trustees last week
to study the relationship between
the board and the Baptist State
Convention.
Judge Hubert E. Olive, of Lex
ington, president of the board, ap
pointed the committee which Mr
WADE BROWN
Brown heads, in accordance with
• resolution adopted by the board
December IX.
While authorizing the committee,
the board deferred until Its next
meeting a vote on a resolution to
permit dancing on the Wake Forest
campus in Winaton-Salem despite
a convention ban. The resolution
was offered by Dr. George W.
Paschal of Raleigh.
The board has instructed the
committee to report its findings
and to submit recommendations to
the board when it meets again,
probably ui January.
Mr. Brown, in acknowledging the
appointment, stated, ''The main
purpose of the committee it to
make a recommendation to the full
board with reference to the reso
lution introduced by* Dr. Paschal.
Of course, the resolution in its
broader aspect* deals with the
entire question of the relationship
of the trustees to the convention.*'
He said the committee probably
will recommend one of three
things: that the board adopt the
resolution to permit dancing; that
it defeat the resolution; or "some
thing in the middle." .
In presenting his resolution, Dr.
Paschal said, "The dancing issue
. , . is not of great importance tn
itself but it is important... in the
matter of who is to direct the af
fairs of the college."
The convention, meeting at Ral
eigh last month, reaffirmed its
1937 ban on dancing at any of the
Baptist colleges In the state.
The trustees of both Wske For
est and Meredith College had
adopted resolutions earlier in the
year permitting on-campus danc
ing. The trustees later agreed to
suspend their actions until the con
vention expressed itself on the mat
ter.
Mr. Brown said his committee
probably will meet early in Jan
uary and that the board of trus
tees will meet shortly afterwards.
Other members of the committee
are Dr. W. Boyd Owen of Wsynes
ville, the Rev. James B. Willis of
Hamlet, Shearon Hsrrii of Albe
marle. Dr. J. Bivins Helms of Mar
ganton, Emory C. McCall of Lenoir,
the Rev. Charles A. Maddry of
Durham, Ingram P. Hedgpeth of
Lumberton and Mrs. William M.
(Continued on page six)
Holshouser Given Endorsement
As Middle District Attorney
State Republican leaders have
recommended J. E. Hol*houser ot
Boone (or appointment a* United
States attorney In the Middle Dis
trict Court of North Carolina, ac
cording "to a story which appeared
in the Sunday edition of the Win
•ton-Salem Journal t
The atory continued:
Mr. Holshouner already is being
"checked out" by the Federal
Bureau of Investigation on in
structions from the Department of
Justice, authorities said last week.
They said recommends lion of
the Watauga County lawyer for
the •lSl000-*-|TMr poet WU made
by three top OOP 1 ciders, and
came without benefit of • party
meeting.
Thoae three key Republicans
are: •
Ray Jennings of Taylorsville,
state chairman; J. K Broyhill of
Lenoir, national cDmmltteeman;
and Mrs. L., G Rogers of Char
lotte, national committeewoman. 1
However, party officials Mid,
Um three oonleried with other
Republicans in the Middle District
and arrived at general agreement
on Mr. Holabouwr.
The office it filled now by Rob
ert U. Gavin of Sanford, a former
assistant distritt attorney He was
named by Judge Edwin M. Stan
ley pf Greensboro
Mr. Hots hosier. 56, is a mem
ber of the Stat* Board of Elec
tions H* was graduated from the
University of North Carolina
8chool of Law in 1029.
There war* indications last
(Continued « page eight) 1
CTraHiownfl
Wade McGhee
Rites Held
Here Tuesday
Wade Hampton McGhee, 82
yean old, died at Watauga Hos
pital Wednesday, following a per
iod of failing health extending
over four yean.
Funeral services were conduct
ed at the Boone Methodist Church
Friday at 2 o'clock by the paator,
Rev. E. H. Lowman and Rev. J. K.
Parker, Jr., pastor of the Presby
terian Church. Burial was 'n the
city cemetery.
A son of the late Jordan Mc
Ghee and Mrs. Lteie McGhee,
deceaaed was born and reared in
Watauga county. A brick mason
and builder, he and other mem
bers of his family has built many
of the buildings in Boom, includ
ing some uf the older structure*
at the college. As a member of ■
the firm of McGhee Brothers **«?•
Hodges, he aided in the construe
iion of the Northwestern Bank
block.
In later years he was i
of the Farmers
Supply Co.. and w
at the Parkway
local hardware
had been retired fo
The only inn
ia a
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