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VOLUME LXXIV.- NO. 17.
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An Independent Weekly Newspaper . . Seventy-Fourth Year of Continuous Publication
BOONE. WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER M, 1M1
SIXTEEN PAGES? TWO SECTIONS
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QUEEN AND COURT RIDE "TWEETSIE."? Appalachian State Teachers College'! homecoming queen
and court were .treated to a ride on'Tweetsie" prior to the big, annual event on the Boone campus last week
end. They are, front row, Nanci Lee Tolbert of Charlotte, queen; second row, left to right, Mrs. Donna
Crutchfield of Winston-Salem, Martha Pardue of Elkin; third ro*, Sarah Lytton of Long Island, and Jane
Hodges of Boone. Also shown is Paul Fletcher, popular "Tweetaie" conductor.? Larry Penley photo.
WINTER SPORTS SURGE BOOSTED
Land Optioned For Ski Slope
On Mountain Near Banner Elk
The emergence of North Caro
lina as a major winter sports area
received another boost this week
with the signing of an option for
an area on Beech Mountain near
Banner Elk. W. T. Elder of Banner
Elk, has given an option to Jack
and Don Williams of Boone, and
Dr. Thomas Brigham and John
Grenier of Birmingham, Alabama,
to buy sufficient land to promote
a major ski resort on the Beech.
The promoters expect to open
the resort in the summer of 1962.
The new area will have several in
termediate and expert trails, as
well as practice and beginner
slopes to offer a wide variety of
skiing to enthusiasts in the South
eastern region. The resort will
feature the highest chair lift in
the Eastern United States, with
the top of the Beech being well
over a mile high.
Dr. Brigham, a dentist from
Birmingham, Alabama, is an ex
pert skier and was a former skiing
coach at Rensellaer Institute, Troy,
New York. Dr. Brigham said, "the
success of our venture will be as
sured by the success of other near
by areas being opened this year
which will whet the appetites of
Southern skiers for the higher and
more demanding slopes and trails
of the Beech."
Mr. Grenier stated that $900,000
to $790,000 will be raised to fin
ance the Banner Elk venture, pro
bably by public issue of common
GRANGE MASTER
Robert W. Scott, ion o( the late
Governor W. Kerr Scott, who was
elected State Grange Master Tues
day afternoon, succeeding Harry
B. Caldwell. Mr. Scott has been
serving as aasistant to Mr. Cald
well He and Mrs. Scott have (Men
attending the session* of the State
Grange convention in Boone tbia
stock and convertible debentures.
Jack Williams, a local enthusiast,
stated that he has talked with
several leading business men in
the Boone and Bannti Elk area
and finds interest running high
in what may well be North Caro
lina's answer to Stowe. Vermont
as the major ski area of the South
east. '
Industrial Development Of
This Region Being Planned
Taylorsville ? An intensive pro
gram for promoting the industrial
development of Northwest North
Carolina was outlined here Friday
by Henry F. Snyder of Winston
Salem.
Snyder, retired assistant man
ager of the North Carolina Works
of Western Electric Co., spoke at
the monthly meeting of directors
of the Northwest North Carolina
Development Association.
Snyder cited figures showing the
per capita income in the North
west area to be 91,133, compared
with $1,584 for North Carolina as
? whole and <2,242 to rthe United
States. "There is no reason," he
said, "why we can't come up to
Committee To
Support Bond
Issue Proposal
A local Citizens Committee for
a Better North Carolina has beeh
appointed, looking to the support
of the capital improvements bond
issue on November 7th.
John W. U instead, chairman of
the State Committee, said the fol
lowing bad been appointed:
Gordon H. Winkler, chairman,
Rob Rivers, Bill Lentz, Alfred
Adams, James Harsh, Herman Wil
cox, Grady Moretz, Dr. W. H. Plem
mons.
Included In the bond issue are
improvements in state educational
institutions, construction of sore
ly needed buildings in the Capitol
area, improvements at state educa
tional institutions, community col
leges, a building to house the De
partment of Archives and History
and the State Library, construc
tion and improvement of State
Ports facilities, construction of
needed facilities at the state's
mental institutions, providing for
assistance in local hospital con
struction, improvement of facili
ties at state parks and recreation
areas and development ?f natural
resources, and lor improvements
i at the state's agricultural research
station*.
the United States."
Taxes already are high in North
Carolina, he said, but "we have
to get more money and the only
way to get it is through industry."
He urged the representatives of
the Northwest counties to "get to
gether and work together."
The directors voted to endorse
the program and pledge their sup
port to Snyder and the industrial
division of the association.
Snyder has agreed to devote the
major porton of his time, now
that he has retired, to leading in
dustrial promotion for the North
west Development Association. He
said details of the effort would be
spelled out at a series of meetings
to be held in each of the 11 coun
ties which participate in the asso
ciation.
A brochure setting forth the ad
vantages that Northwest North
Carolina has to offer industry is
now being prepared and will go to
pr?*? in about two weeks, Snyder
said.
E. Hight Helms of Wilkesboro,
a vice president of the associa
tion, announced that the annual
dinner of the association will be
held Dec. 7 at Elkin. More than
800 persons are expected for the
dinner.
Four Winners
At Talent Show
There were four first-place win
ners in a talent show that was
presented at the Blowing Rock
High School Auditorium. The four
winners were as follows: Mary
Bentley, who pantomimed "Sad
Movies Make Me Cry"; Kenny
Trivette, Owen Tolbert, and Ter
ry Coffey, who pantomimed "Xlong
Came Jones"; Susan Cannon and
Judy Dotson, who sang "Michael";
and Luis Hollars, who did a dance
routine to the song "Nine , Little
Teardrops."
Eleven acts were presented in
the talent show; and Mrs. Charles
Brown, Mr*. Edith Harmon, and
Mrs. Hardin Coffey served as
judges of the contestant*. The
money received from the talent
?how wil| be used to purchase
supplementary readers for the
hifli school's French departaaenL
SENATOR ERVIN, WHITENER AT BANQUET^
Assistant U. f>.
Secy. Speaks To Grangers
I
Ralph Lauds
Farm Program
Of President
Nearly 390 North Carolina
Grange members, attending a ban
quet Monday night in the Boone
Elementary School Cafeteria, heard
Dr. James Ralph, assistant secre
tary of agriculture, praiae the
Kennedy administration's approach
to farm problems in America.
Dr. Ralph said the present ad
ministration, while not receiving
everything it had aaked in Con
gress for agriculture, did get
much of it. The aim of the Ken
nedy-Freeman team is to promote
and protect the American way of
agriculture, and the "bill or rights"
for farmers is expected to do this.
Dr. Ralph was speaking at tba
banquet of the 33rd annual con
vention of the North Carolina State
Grange. Present among the visit
ors and guests were Senator Sam
J. Erwin and Representative Basil
Whitener of the 11th Congressional
District.
The so-called bill of right* would
let farmers regulate themselves
just as other industries and pro
fessions have done. Dr. Ralph said.
The farmers, through their thrift
?nd hard work have made possible
many benefits to the coun
try. However, they are not receiv
ing their fair share of what they
have made possible.
The program of allowing farm
ers to regulate themselves, Dr,
Ralph said, will not only lead to
promoting and protecting the
American way of agriculture, it
will also lower the costs of operat
ing the stabilization programs. U
given the opportunity to act in
their behalf, "they will do so in
tellgently," he said.
Dr. Ralph's position as assist
ant secretary gives him much re
sponsibility, and he is forced to
follow a close schedule. He had
to fly to Winston-Salem Monday
where he was met by car and
brought to Boone. Following hia
speech here, he went back t?
(Continued on page aix)
Trick, Treaters
Are Sponsored
The Watauga County Minister
ial Association and the Boone Op
timist Club are co-sponaoring this
year's "Trick or Treat For
UNICEF" program in the 9th, 6th,
and 7th grades of the Appalach
ian Elementary School.
Watch for the children at your
door on Halloween night wearing
the official orange and black
UNICEF tag and carrying milk
cartons covered with the orange
and black UNICEF sUcker. Over
200 children are expected to parti
cipate in their own neighborhoods,
t? if you want to divide your con
tribution among the many who
knock you may do so. If it should
happen that no child calls on you
before 9:30 p. m. please call the
Boone Methodist Church (AM 4
3826) where the money will be
collected until 10:00, and a child
will be sent to your house to pick
up your contribution.
Druggist Goes
To Morehead
Or. O. K. Richardson left Sun
day on a three day trip to Mora
head City.
He will attend a meeting of ?
committee of the North Carolina
Pharmaceutical Association and
appear on a panel discussion of
some of the problem of the retail
pharmacist.
This meeting la sponsored by
the School of Pharmacy of the
University of North Carolina.
He will also get in a day of
fishing on J2m trip.
FARM LEADERS MEET ? Harry B. Caldwell, former Master of the N.
C. State Grange, chats informally with Orville Freeman, United States
Secretary of Agriculture. Mr. Caldwell reports that Secretary Free
man is one of the hardest working men that he has known in
a long time. It is reported that Mr. Freeman starts his day in Wash
ins long before eight o'clock in the morning and can be found there
quite late at night.
GRANGE PR DIRECTOR. ? Mrs. Harry B. Caldwell, who hai held the
position of Public Relation* Director for the N. C. State Grange
since 1947. She if wife of retiring Grange master, and was at ofte
time master of the Grange (1946-47) being the only woman to hold
such a position. Her list of achievements is long, among which are:
being listed in "Who's Who of American Women," being active In
both State and National Grange work Voman of the Year' in 1945,
for "Progressive Farmer" magazine, trustee of Appalachian State
Teachers College 194S-1M1, and many others.
Bloodmobile To Be
On Campus Tliurs.
i lie nen uuu oiuuu aiuuuc
will be on the Appalachian State
Teachers College campus, at East
Hall for the collection of blapd,
between the hour* of 11:00 a. m.
and 5:00 p. in., Thursday (Oct. 26),
it waa announced by Joe McClung,
local Red Croaa blood program of
ficial.
The quota for Watauga County
haa been act at 200 pinta. Thin
figure, Mr. McClung stated, aetoni
small, but it is a big job to fill
200 pint containers with blood. "We
need yuur help and the help of
your neighbors," he said in the
appeal to get donors to make
their appearance at the Bloodmo
bile Thursday.
The normal quota here is 141
pinta, but for the past two trips
the quota haa not been reached,
and the county is faced with a
deficit This shortage not only
affects the operation it the Bed
Lrun diuou rrugram ox waiauga,
but the entire Piedmont Region.
Mr. McClung (aid that at preient
there if a particular shortage of
two typei of blod, type A-poaitive
and B-potitive.
Mr. McClung (aid In hi* appeal
for donor* so that the quota may
be reached:
"If for example, each member
chapter could not meet Its quota
and a shortage of blood through
out. our region became prevalent
? lives could be lost by not having
on hand when needed blood for
? patient in your hospital or any
hoapital that draws on the blood
hank. ,'j"A i |
"Our blood quota is based on
our cenaus and even though we
may not have need tor all of the
blood that is donated In one given
time. It is needed in some hoa
pital at an uneipected time to
I Continued on page six)
Harris Named Prexv
Local United Fund
?Stanley A. Harris, well-known
businessman, hai been named to
the top pott of Watauga United
Fund, the board announced thia
week, following its reorganixatlon
and election of officer* at a meet
ing held for that purpose.
Other officers named to serve
with Harris are Cecil Miller, vfce
president; Lynn Holaday, treasur
er; Mrs. L. D. Hagaman, secretary.
Mr. Harris outlined an enthus
iastic program for the Fund this
year, and declared that among its
top priority objectives would He a
careful screening of budget re
quests, with a view of reducing
this year's goal as much as is com
patible with a sound program.
Early announcement of this
year's campaign leadership was
promised, and a tentative target
date of late November or early
December was set for the cam
paign.
"I am convinced that United
Fund is the most effective and
most practical manner in which
we can deal with those problems
with which this organization con
cerns itself," Mr. Harris said.
Names of new committee mem
bers were given out as follows:
Budget Committee: Clyde R.
Greene, chairman; Oleim Andrews,
Dr. L. H. Owsley, Dr. Lee Rey
nolds. Mr. Harris asked the com
mittee to select five more mem
bers to serve on this committee.
Advance Gifts: Glenn Andrews,
chairman; W. R. Winkler, Dr. L.
H. Owsley, Clyde R. Greene, Al
fred Adams, James Marsh, Wayne
Richardson.
Industrial Committee: Hal John
son, chairman; Fred Gragg, Hu
bert Inman, Len Holiday, Mr*.
William F. Miller, Mri. James B.
Miller.
Commercial Committee: Herman
Wilcox, chairman; Hugh Hagaman,
Willi* Cheiter, Mr*. W. R. Rich
ardson.
Retidential Committee: Mr*. O.
K. Richardson, chairman; To name
her own committee.
Public Schools: Guy Angell,
Stockholders
Hear Glowing
Golf Reports
The annual meeting of Boone
Developments, Inc., owner of the
Boone Golf Courte, mi held Mon
day evening, glowing report* of
the year'* activities were received
and a board of directors was elect
ed for the ensuing year.
In line with the recommenda
tions of a nominating committee
composed of Rob Rivers, Paul G.
Brown, and A. T. Adams, the fol
lowing directors were elected:
Wade E. Brown, Dr. C. Ray
Lawrence, Eatel Wagner, Glenn
W. Wilcox, W. R. Winkler, W. U.
Plemmons, Willism E. Coxe, Dr.
L. H. Owsley, J. H. Thomas, Frank
M. Payne, E. F. Coe, Howard Cot
trell, Guy Hunt, 0. K. Richardson.
Reports were made of a num
ber of important golf events held
in Boone this year, chief among
which was the Carolina* Open, said
to be the most successful event of
it* kind ever held In the Carolina
PGA Sectloa.
A series of such events Is esti
mated to have brought over $10,
000 to this area.
Golf course income Is up 90,
284.00 over the same period ? year
ago. It was revealed.
A number of lots have been sold
on the fringe* of the golf course
for summer homes Dr. Robert
Sumner of Rock Hill, 8. C. has
built aad la now occupying his new
home oa the hill above the golf
atop.
Among Other Improvements the
par lig of the reed from JB1 to (he
golf cobrse and the pevlng of the
perkiag area were mention ad.
STANLEY A. HARRIS
chairman; To name own commit
tee.
College Committee: Eric De
Groat, chairman; Dr. James Stone,
Lee Reynolds, Bob Allen.
Government Agencies: Roy Isley,
chairman; To name own commit
tee.
Outlying Districts: Hiss Jean
Childers, chairman; To name own
committee.
Publicity Committee: Miss Jane
Smith, chairman; Ralph Tugman,
Mrs. Ruby Ellis.
Greene Heads
Budget Group
CLYDE R. GREENE
Clyde R. Greene has been ap
pointed chairman of the Watauga
United Fund'* important Admit
lion* and Budget Committee, ac
cording to Stanley A. Harris, new
ly elected preiident of the fund.
Greene'* appointment came in
a sweeping reorganization move
by Harris as he moved toward
early completion of leadership for
this year's campaign for funds.
In accepting the chairmanship
of the committee, Mr. Greene
urged that all agencies begin
Immediately || prepare their
budget requests for the ap
( Continued on page six)
Miss Childers
GlVen Award
The National Association of
Home Demonstration Agents be
stowed Distinguished Service
Awards on Jean Childers In cere
monies in Boston, Mass., October
13.
As home agent in Watauga
County, Miss Childers guides the
work of 239 club women and 400
4-H girls. Because of her special
skills in crafts. Miss Childers Is
an advisor to the Northwest
Trading Post and was assistant
director in the "Village of Yester
year" at the 1M0 State Fair. She
joined Extension In Watauga in
IBM after serving in Swain and
Haywood ort?Hisi.