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ship for study at the University of North Carcjina. W The son of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Brittain of Jackson, John ia a stu dent at the Jaekaon High School His high school activities include the B eta Club, vice-president and president in hts junior and senior yean; the presidency of tho fresh man and sanior classes; the saere tary of the Junior class: and mem bership ia the Future Farmers ef America during his freshman a?d sophomore yearn Every Fear Tears The Joaephua Daaiela Scholar ship Is awarded once every four years on the baais of financial need, high echo last 'c standing, character, qualities of leadership, extra curricular achievements, and promiae of future distinction. Established through the execu tors of the estate of the late Joseph** Daniels, du bibber, .editor and sta teaman of Raleigh, the scholarahlp fund provides the win ner with 92,000 for four years of atudy provided that the student maintains a high scholastic stand ing and good conduct at the Uni versity. Members of the scholarship com mittee were C. 0. Cathey, professor of history and chairman of the committee; E. S. Danier, UNC di rector of student aid; and Jona than Daniels, one of the executors of the estate of Josephus Daniels. (Mrs. Brittain will be remember ed In Boone as the former Miss Norma Brown, daughter of the late attorney John E. and Mrs. Brown.) CALL ME and SAVE IVAN CHURCH Sales Representative FREE ESTIMATES AND INFORMATION ON: ? APPLIANCES ? PLUMBING, HEATING ? IRRIGATION ? FLOOR COVERING ? TELEVISION ? FARM EQUIPMENT SEARS, ROEBUCK AND CO. Phone Day AM 4-8852 Home CO 7-5216 lurutMi ? y??r ry back. BOONE, N. C. Sears HILL CLIMB QUEEN. -Pretty Su.ie Kirk ? ?d>l?h queen o<s the 8th ?nnu?l Grandfather MounUin Hill Climb, Mt fer Sunday. Driven from five ?Utei will compete? Photo Hugh Morton Grandfather Auto Races Next Sunday Linville.? The 8th annual run ning of the Grandfather Mountain Sport* Car Hill Climb Is Mt lor Sunday, June 4. Driven at American and for eign-made (port* car* will race againat time up the winding road to the top of the highest peak in the Blue Ridge range. The oldest event of lta tort in the South, the Grandfather Mountain Hill Climb attract* conteitant* from five (tate*. Pretty Susie Kirk of Raleigh will award the Julian Morton Me morial trophy to the winner. Each clan winner and runners up re ceive smaller trophies. Football Hall of Fame Charlie Justice will serve as chief judge. Phil Styles of Burnsville, who aet the course record of 3:19.9 in 1958, will serve a* tech impector. Ed Price of Charlotte i* race chair man. Drivers * ill be allowed practice MR| Jate Saturday and early Sun d?y, with run* for record Sunday afternoon. Registration will be held prior to practice run*. The Hill Climb i* iponsored by the Linville Driving Club. 4-Hers Will Go To Camp Schaub Thirty-five Watauga 4-H camp ers will go to Camp Schaub June 19-34 along with 4-H Club mem bers from Avery and Mitchell countier Mr*. Danner, Assistant Home Economic* Agent, and Mr. Richardson, A**i*tant County Agri cultural Agent, will accompany the group. Any club member* wanting to go to camp that did not receive a letter and application blank ahould contact Mr*. Danner or Mr. Rich ardion immediately. FHA USB VOTED The Senate B viking Committee has unanimously approved at $1, D00, 000,000 increase In the Feder il Housing Administration's Auth ority to Insure home loana. The measure la an emergency resolution increaaing the 837,000, 000,000 limit on the total amount of loans the agency can insure, rhia limit has almost been reached. . . . Vte Our FREE Guaranteed Moth Proofing It*# Cart of Our Regular Cleaning Operation ! 1 FREE MOTH PROOF BAGS ON REQUEST Quilt* Cleaned A Moth Proofed 4 for W.00 ? l< ? Special Price* mi Draperies PICK UP & DELIVERY SERVICE HI-IAND CLEANERS tu E. KING ST. V;SBf All 4-SM* i ' $ ~ ' 1 Singing At Watauga Lake The fourth annual linging on the Watauga Lake, at the Hazle wood Point, about five milea from Elizabethton, Tennessee, which it attended by thouianda each year, and whieh it sponsored by the touriat and recreation committee of the Cartar County Chamber of Commerce will be held all day Sunday, June 4, and tinging will begin at 10:00 o'clock in the morning and lasting until 4:00 o'clock in the afternoon. The ting o'clock in the afternoon. Air-India wanta fare cut 20 per cent to increase business. Eisenhower assists candidate from Texas. ? ? ? ? ? ? Beech Creek Happenings Mr. 4^4 tin- Hunt Trivett vi? Ited Mr. and Mn Dexter Trivett and family Monday. Mrt Bertha Hollars of Boone vis ited in the community Friday. Mr. Dutch Rice and daughter, Eatell Lou, Janett and husband, fed Ballard and children of Ashe ville visited Mr. and Mrs Smith Harmon Uunday. Mr. and Mrs. Hunt Trivett vis led Mr. and Mrs Captaia Hicks HMm. Mr. and Mrs. Charted Hanason and Mr. and Mrs Bob Caswell and boys of Valdese visited Mr. and Mrs. P, L. Harmon Sunday. Xeceat visitors of Mr. and Mrs Smith Harm oo were Mr. and Mrs. Ross Bucknell of Deland, Fla Mr. and Mrs. Hu-st Trivett vis ited Mr. and Mrs. Gene Hollars of Boone and Mr. and Mrs. Smith Storey and boys of Elk Park Sun day Mrs. Henry Oaks visited Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Cannon Sunday. Misses Cloyee and lne* Harmon visited Mrs. Rebecca Wiseman !sst week, who is a patient at Cannon Memorial Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Ferguson and children visited Mr. and Mrs. Cap tain Hicks Sunday. Mrs. Herman Reece visited Mr. snd Mrs. Bill Waddell and chil dren at Nashville, Tenil., last week. Mrs. Waddell, her daughter and children accompanied her home to spend a few days. Mr. and Mrs. Will J. Harmon visited in Marion and Morganton Sunday. Kyle Jones is spending the sum mer with his mother, Mrs. Lois Jones. Kyle is a student at East Carolina. Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Phillips of Henderson, Ky., visited Mrs. Susie Phillips this week end. Larry Mayes apent the week end with his mother, Mrs. Opal Mayes. Larry i? employed at Charlotte. Davis Member Retail Club Robert Davis has been notified that he has attained sufficient points to again becoipe a member of the Retail Service Managers' Club, and is invited to sttend a Recognition Meeting with the oth er members of the club. Past "defeats" called a boon to Rockefeller. ' ,r,A Fhoio Fk>w?rs Photo LJiop THE JOHN KIRK BOAT FAMILIAR LOOK Blnningtum, AU? WhU* leek i rig two larcency impact* in Birm ingham, Policeman E. L. Lewis questioned two youths who were rUUnf a bicycle. The bicycle look ed familiar. Lewis arrested the boys for stealing it from his son. Paul & Ralph Say: LIGHTNING SEASON IS HERE ? Insure your livestock against lightning, either on the range or against fire, lightning or theft. See or Call Us Today ?PAUL ft RALPH Watauga Insurance Agency J. Paul Winkler Ralph G waltney Mary Brown Mary Sue Hartley ? ?rr. Box 2(7 2X3 West King Street BOONE, N. C. GRAND OPENING of Town House Restaurant Blowing Rock Road ? Boone, N. C. Friday and Saturday June 2 and 3 Free Cokes and Ice Cream To The Children Come in and See Our New Modern Open Kitchen SERVING DAILY FROM 6 A. M. TO MIDNIGHT Owned and Operated by MR. AND MRS. FRANK NORRIS ' ? WATAUGA COUNTY SCHEDULE "?" LICENSE TAX LEVY NORTH CAROLINA WATAUGA COUNTY To the Tax Collector of Watauga County: ? You are hereby authorized and ordered to proceed on and after June 1. UXU. to collect all license taxes due this county as provided for in Schedule "B" of "The Act of One Thousand Nine Hundred and Forty-Seven UM7), amending and supplementing the Revenue Act of One Thousand Nine Hundred and Thirty-Nine (1938)" Taxes shall he imposed as a County License Tax for the privilege of carrying on the business, exercising the privilege, or doing the act named, in accordance with the following schedules, as well Si any other provisions of the act not- specifically set out in this schedule: You sre further authorized to issue Vi year license on and after the first day of January, 1962. This the 29th day of May, 1981. BILL LENTZ, Chairman, Board of County. Commissioners NOTE: License may be picked up at tax collector's office. AMUSEMENT? TRAVELING THEATRICAL COMPANIES, ETC. <1M) Per day $ 25.00 Per week 29.00 Operating under No. 300.00 State License 10.00 Artists exhibiting own work 2.00 CARNIVALS, MOVING PICTURES, VAUDEVILLE SHOWS, RIDING DEVICES, ETC. (197) More than 5 miles outside city ? per week $ 50.00 Riding devices only and not a part of some carnival ? Each device per week - 5.00 If operated within five miles of any city or town, tax charged same as if in city. CIRCUS, MENAGERIE, WILD WEST SHOW, ETC. Per Day (19?) Two vehicles 1 3.75 Three to five vehicles - 5.00 Six to ten vehicles 7.50 Eleven to twenty vehicles 12.50 Twenty-one to thirty vehicles 22.50 AUTOMOTIVE EQUIPMENT DEALERS? WHOLESALE (153) No located place of business ? per vehicle ? I 25.00 In cities of less than 2,500 pop 12.50 In cities of 2,500 and less than 5,000 15.00 AUTOMOTIVE SERVICE STATIONS (153) In cities of less than 2,500 pop I 2.50 In rural sections-^per pump 1-25 In rural sections ? garages 2.50 MOTOR VEHICLE DEALERS? NEW AND USED (153) In cjties of less than 5,000 $ 20.00 Unincorporated communities less than 1,000 20.00 Itinerant car dealers 300.00 MOTORCYCLE DEALERS (153) Each place of business $ 10.00 MOTOR ADVERTISERS (15114) Each vchicle equipped with radio, phonograph, or lik eattachment used in advertising I 25.00 Where advertiser owns place of business in this state and operates in not more than five counties 6.25 MERCHANDISING, MUSIC MACHINES (130) Operators of cigarette venders per year $ 10.00 Music machines ? per machine - 5.00 MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, DEALERS PIANO, ORGAN, VICTROLA, RECORDS, RADIO AGENTS (M7) , ? Each agent holding duplicate state license $ 5.00 GYPSIES AND FORTUNE TELLERS (1*4) For trading horses, mules or other things of value or receiving reward for pretending to tell fortunes $500.00 For practicing Palmistry, Clairvoyance or other similar crafts 200.00 REAL ESTATE AUCTION SALES (111) Each sale conducted for profit $ 12.50 More than two sales per year 25.00 Auction sales of articles containing hidden value 100.00 PAWNBROKERS (118) In cities of less than 10,000 $200.00 SEWING MACHINE AGENTS (120) Each agent holding duplicate State license per year ....$ 5.0t PEDDLERS (121) Peddlers on foot ? per year I 10.00 Peddler with horse ? per year 15.00 Peddler with a vehicle of one-half ton or less 25.00 Peddler of fruit, vegetables and farm products 12.50 Must produce state license in applying for county license. Itinerant salesman or merchant conducting business for less than six months 100.00 BOWLING ALLEYS, BILLIARD AND POOL TABLES (12?-12ttt) * Tables measuring not more than 2 feet wide and 4 feet long $ 5.00 Tables measuring not more than 2Vi feet wide nad 5 feet long ? per table 10.00 Bowling Alleys ? each alley 10.00 LOAN AGENCIES OR BROKERS (ISC) Annual license tax _ ....$100.00 TRADING STAMPS (156) Annual license tax $200.00 ITINERANT PHOTOGRAPERS (Chapter 1256) On each photographer annually 9100.00 JUNK DEALERS (16$) Unincorporated towns or in cities of less than 2,500 $ 12.50 In cities of 2,500 and less than 5,000 15.00 CAP PISTOLS, FIREWORKS, ETC.? DEALERS IN (146) Annual license tax ..... $200 00 PISTOLS, BOWIE KNIVES, ETC.? -DEALER8 IN (145) Dealers in Pistols $ 50.00 Dealers in bowie knives, dirks, daggers, slingshots, leaded canes, iron or metallic knuckles, or articles of like kmd 200.00 Dealers in blank cartridge pistoja 4 200.00 Dealers in metallic cartridges only 8.00 LAUNDRIES (156) Laundry located, outside of county but soliciting work in county $ 12.50
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