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LETTER TO THE EDITOR Appalachian Student Cites College Needs If you are the parent of a high school ctudent, a junior high student, an elementary school stu dent, or just married, then you above all other North Carolinians should be concerned about Ameri can education. In the coming year* you may see decades of prepara tion and planning suddenly de molished as the shock wave from World War II's population explo sion finally reaches the already swollen walls of our North Caro lina colleges. N. C.'s college en rollment by 1070 is expected to increase to 90,617 ? twice what it already is ? even without an ap preciable population increase. At present I am alerady fortun ate enough to be a student in one of our state colleges ? Appalachian State Teachers College. There are roughly 2700 others here who, like me, are interested in the forth coming Bond issue to be voted on November 7th. This is a very important bond issue as far as we are concerned. It will mean almost 4V4 million dollars for expansion around our present college. The total bond issue involves over 61 V4 million . dollars for improvements through out our state. Point three (3) of the Bond issue involves over 31 million dollars for educational progress in North Carolina, por tions going to eleven of our col- ] leges and to two of our schools j for the blind and deaf. Our school* here In North CarO- I lina, I am told, are ih desperate need of increased facilities as the t college age-group increases to an ] even greater number. I cannot of ficially spak for other students or I other colleges, but I can, through 1 my own experience, try to give you | an idea of what we students feel, j My college needs more room. < Try living and studying in a two man room when three or more live 1 there; try putting throe or four wardrobes in a two-man closet; i try standing in line for forty mln- j utes of a lunch hour; try listening \ to a teacher while sitting on the I back row of a 73 to 100 pupil 1 class, try attending class on the - intra noor 01 an over-crowaed building with three-foot-wide stairs whert fire hazards exist and there is no flre-eicape. I doo'l wish to "run down" my college. I could minimize all of these inadequate things by men tioning the many, many good things my college has to offer ? but I don't wish to minimize; I wish to point out. Wo ?? other schools across the mate need to improve and to ex pand; we need to progress in or der to take care of you or your DUTCH BULBS From HOLLAND government inspected Plant a variety of Imported Dutch bultn now ? and let nature briilg flowers up in the spring. Bulb* direct from Holland. TULIPS ? HYACINTHS DAFFODILS ? CROCUS Now Available at Watauga FCX Service A Cor. Riven Ml Water Ms. BOONfe, N. C. children. We need money! Thia bond issue November the Tth will provMc H, if you provide ? yea vote. Ye*. That's *11 you provide. It won't coM you u a tax-payer one cent. The had* are to be allocated from state funds and will be self liquidated in 29 to SO years. Vote yes, and it's Without charge; vote no, or don't vote at all, and you'll pay tyr it with tears when, in later years, you or your son or your daughter is rejected because of increased competition for limit ed college space. In 1MB or 70 you will wish you had acted in 1M1, but the past, once pasaed, Is past. To paraphrase Thomas Paine, "These are the times that try men's souls. The summer worker ?nd tile sunshine thinker will, in this tfriait, shrink from the service if the state; but he that stands now, deanrvet the k)ve and thanks jf man and wftman Ignorance, like hell, is not easily conquer sd. . . Clifton R. Berrier, Jr. 109% Appalachian St Dr. Smith Is PTA Speaker Dr. Wiley Smith, head of Appa lachian State Teachers College's psychology department, was guest ipeaker at the monthly meeting of the CTosmore PTA this week. The college professor spoke ex temporaneously on "Mental Health Problems in the Family.'' He stressed the importance of the formative years of childhood from birth io age six. He declared that firm and consistent discipline it necessary in the rearing of the :hild. Approximately 190 PTA mem jers were present for the meeting. A member of the Appalachian faculty for the past 29 years. Dr. Jmith it a graduate of Union Uni; certify with the AB degree and 3eorge Peabody College with the KA and Ph. D. degrees. VILLAGE OF YESTER-YEAR. ? Mrs. Forest Townsend of Watauga county, demonstrated techniques Used in spinning to visitors who stopped to Watch her in her booth in the Village of Yester-Year at the N. C. State Fair in Raleigh. Beech Creek News The Beech Creek Community Club met for the regular meeting at Stacey Ward's garage. They disMJMed what to do about the sign that was torn down. Thirty days was given for the sign to be made *nd put up. The group also discussed the Judging of the community. Mrs. Vergie Trtvett visited Mrs. Loir Jones and family over the week end. Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Rhodes of Winftan -Salem visited Mr. and Mrs. i R. L. Harmon and family over the week end. Mrs. Blanch Perry of Vilas and Miss Joyce Perry of Charlotte were visitors in our church Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Burton, Kevin and Becky of Charlotte spent the week end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Captain Hicks. Mr. and Mrs. Hurst Trivett vis ited Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Trivett of Vilas Sunday. There's one milk cow for every ten persons in the United States ? 17.5 million cows to 180 million people. 250 Students Will Gather For Vocational Guidance About Z9U high school and jun ior college students from 28 coun ties, i majority of them hoping to become engineers, will meet at Appalachian State Teacher* Col lege Thursday, October 36, for the ninth annual Vocational Guidance Day The emphasis of the one-day Meeting will be on engineering and its multiple phases. The stu dents will hear from four major professors of engineering and mathematics at N. C. State Col lege. Brought to Boone through ef forts of the Engineers' Club of Western North Carolina, the en gineers will speak briefly at a morning assembly and then hold individual seminar seasions for students interested in particular phases of engineering. The program will include reg istration in the lobby of the Ad ministration Building Auditorium at 9:90 a. m, assembly in the audi torium at 10:00 a. m., classroom seminars representing the stu dent's major field of interest at 11:40 a. hi., lunch ia' the Appala chian College cafeteria at 12:49 p. m., seminars representing the student's second field of interest at 2:15 p. m? and the program concludes at 3:13 p. m. Dr. W. H. Plemmons, president of Appalachian, will welcome the visitors to the campus during the assembly in the administration building auditorium at 10:00 a. m. Henry E. Crandall, president of the Engineers' Club of Western North Carolina, will introduce Dr. R. G. Carson, director of instruc tion at N. C. State College. Dr. Carson will lead in a panel discus sion of "Engineering as a Career", and will be assisted In tbe discus sion by Dr. G. B. Hoadlty, electri cal engineering, N. C. Statq; Dr. Paul Cribbons, Civil Engineering, N. C. State; Prof. W. E. Adams, Chemical, metallurgical and nu clear engineering, N. C State; and Dr. D. J. Whitener, dean of Ap palachian State Teachers College. America's dairy cows produced 122.9 billion pounds of milk in 196ft? a billion pounds more than the year before. now it's Pepsi for those who think young Today, our appetite for activity is huge. We lead the full life This is the life for Pepsi -light, bracing, clean-tasting Pepsi-Cola. At stores, fountains, say "Pepsi, please" kr TepACrta Co, i, K. C, i In* PqM-Cda' T, New York, N. Y. Major Snyder Gets Citation Maj. Theodore R. Snyder Jr., 3278 Ridge Drive, Beak RFB was recently cited by Lt. Gen. George W. Mundy, tISAF, commandant of the Industrial College of the Arm ed Forces, for having completed the college'* , correspondence course with honors. Operating under the direction of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the In dustrial College devotes itself to the study of the economic and in dustrial aspects of national secur ity under all conditions and in the context of both national and world affairs. It also gives due consider ation to the interrelated military, logistical, administrate, scientific, technological, political and social factors affecting national security. Its correspondence courte, en titled "The Economics of National Security," is based on the curri culum of the resident course con ducted at Fort Lesley J. McNair for senior military officer* and government official*. The one-year correapondence course is open to qualified civil ians in business, industry and tha several professions as well as to of ficers of all military components. Textk and instructional material* are provided at no cost to the student. Interested persons may address their applications to the Commandant, ICAF, Washington 28, D. C. Major Snyder is on active duty with the 4126th Strategic Wing. He 1* a member of the Degional Science Association. He 1* a member of the Regional T. R. Snyder of Blowing Rock. BUSINESS ALLOWANCES VT The Internal Revenue Service ha* announced lt will reeognize as "a reasonable buiiness prac tice" a higher scale of mileage and subsistence allowances under the income-tax regulations. The IRS says it now considers 15 eents a mile and $20 a day to be reasonable maximum allow ances of business trips. Bethel PTA Has Meeting The first PTA meeting fu held October IS at Bethel School Mr. Fred Tetter, President, called the meeting to vrter. Mr. Clint Cor nett had the devotioda. The business of the first meet ing was to elect officers far this year's Parent Teacher Association. The following officer* were elect ed: Mr Clyde Love, president; Mr. Ivan Dish roan, rice president; Mrs. Joe Bailey. Secretary and reporter. Mrs. Ivan Farthing gave a re port on the Bethel Community Club'a plana (Mr a fish fry on Octo ber IT. The public la invited to attend. The proceed* win benefit Bethel School Mr Kobert Danner's fourth grade claas won the attendance banner. First water flowed Into vital new Indian canal. Saturday and Sunday ? October 26 and 29 J; with : ' MARLON BRANDO and KATY JURADO Where you can take c0r? of ovtff kf surance requirement you might herve quickly and economically. Stop In. COE INSURANCE AND REALTY COMPANY E. F. COE, Manager tl7 MAIN STREET. BOONE. N. C. ? DIAL AH 4-8SM NEW FACE.SAME SPORTING HEART We might m well tell you atraight off: Corvair'a the car for the driving < that lets you out? Maybe. Maybe not. Until you've driven one, you really can't aay for aura, because Corvair'i Mfld ?# driving ia like no other in the land. The air-cooled rear engine aeee to that. You awing around curvea flat aa you pleaae. You whip through the eticky apota other car* ahould keep out of in the first place. (Eepecially this year, now that yotl can get Podtraetion aa an extra-coat option.) You itop smoothly, levelly with Corvair'a beautifully balanced, bigger brake*. Corvair's found other new ways to pleaae you this year. A forced-air heater and defroster ata standard equipment on all coupea, sedans and both Monza and 700 f ' Wagons. So are dual sunshades and front-door armrests and some other goodiea. You'll note some new styling, inaide and out. Ntaa. And aafety-beit installation ia easier, too, and cheaper. lo mi cat sm w< haven't really dut much to Corvair this MMUoMOUMMtm iter, wily on earth should we? If thto car, just as aha is* can't make a driving enthusiast out of you, better taiu a cab. ANtmWtrldafWirtk flw 12 C0METTL W. ? Corrmir, you majr ?d A< '?* Cm ok mi CtfMt at yaw local ANDREWS CHEVROLET J ? 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