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HI Lo 32 30 29 20 22 g 27 -2 28 14 43 12 44 8 VOLUME LXXV. ? NO. t? 6 CENTS IS PAGES? 3 SECTIONS UGA DEMOCRAT An Independent Weekly Neum paper . . . Seventy-Fifth Year of Continuous Publication BOONE. WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, IMS Sam Dixon To Be Executive Of New Bank Sam W. Dixon of Pinehurst has Ijeen employed by the First National Bank of Boone as the executive officer and is expected to establish residence in the vi cinity by February 1, where he wilt aid in the completion of the organization of the new fin ancial institution, one of its promoters said. He recently resigned from the Carolina Bank at Pinehurst. The 43-year-oid native of Elm City (Wilson county) is a grad uate of Elm City High School where he was a member of the National Beta Society. He was graduated from the Naval Acad emy Preparatory School later. Dixon was graduated from the School of Consumer Credit *t the University of Virginia where he wrote a thesis entitled "Chat tel Mortgage Law." He has completed special ac ademic work at Asheville-Bilt more College and has finished five AIB courses. Until recently he was vice president, cashier, and manager of the Pinehurst bank. He was employed there on December 19, 1960. Previously he was employed for fifteen years at the Bank of Asheville where he was vice president and cashier. In state banking, Dixon has SAM W. DIXON served as chairman of the Con sumer Credit Division and as a member of the Executive Com mittee of the North Carolina Banker's Association. He is a charter member of the Young Banker's Division of NCBA His, banking experience in cludes consumer loans, com mercial and real estate loans, heavy duty equipment loans, personnel work, operations, pub lic relations, solicitation, and farm loans. Married to the former Miss Mildred Wofford of Athens, Tennessee, Dixon has four cKil dren: Jane, 18; Sam, Jr., 14; and twin daughters, Marie and Mildred, 18 months. A Methodist, Dixon has been active in various civic, educa tional and church activities. Dr. Plemmons Speaks At AHS Dr. W. H. Plemmons, presi dent of Appalachian State Teachers College, addressed the student body of Appalach ian High School in assembly on January 11. After commenting briefly concerning his own life in high school, as a student, coach, and principal, Dr. Plemmons turn ed to his subject: "Your Edu cation Is Showing." He stated that education shows in all phases of life ? social, family, religious, educational, and poli tical. Dr. Plemmons spoke of the coming evaluation of Appala chian High School by the ? Southern Association of Col leges and Schools. He comment ed that Appalachian High was one of the very first high schools in this area to be ac credited by the Southern As sociation. Anyone who terminates his education before high school graduation will regret it, con tinued Dr. Plemmons. Statistics show that the higher one goes educationally, the greater will the amount of his lifetime earnings be. Education, Dr. Plemmons concluded, is the means by. which one can lift himself. MONDAY MEETING.? Attending a meeting at Northwestern Bank in Boone Monday to diseuss plana for a new business venture in Watauga county were, front row (1. to r.) Bob Hardin, Alfred Adams, H. W. Wilcox, and Frank Andrews, and second row, L. E. Tuckwiller, Troy Perry, and Guy Angell. ? Staff photo. THOSE WANTING JOBS ASKED TO MEET New Industry For Watauga Area Is Strong Possibility I An industrialist interested in locating a plant in the Watauga county area will be at the Coun ty Courthouse from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m., January 30, to inter view persons who are not cur rently employed at local indus trial concerns. In making the announcement at a meeting held Monday at the Northwestern Bank, Troy Perry emphasized that persons already in employment at such local firms as Shadowline and International Resistance Com pany would not be considered by the prospective industry. ?""We would not attempt to take workers from other busi nesses," Perry said. "We are interested only in those persons who are not currently employ ed in this county." He did state, however, that persons employed outside the county would be eligible for an interview. Perry, manager of the Em ployment Security Commission office in Wilkes county, set forth the specifications for ap plicants as follows: must be be tween the ages of IB and 40, must have at least a seventh grade education, and must fill out application papers at the Watauga County Court House on January 30. Through the interviews, the company representatives will make a sampling of available labor and form conclusions. The Moretz Named To Democratic District Post Raleigh ? State Democratic Party "Chairman, Bert Bennett, has announced the names of Congressional Committee chair men and secretaries in each district. ? According to the party plan of organization, the Congress ional Committee for each con gressional district in the state is composed of two members from each county in the dis trict, elected at the prelimin ary meeting of delegates from the districtts held on the morn ing of the State Convention. Appointed from the 9th Dis trict were: Chairman, D. Grady Moretz, Sr., Boone; and secre tary, Mrs. J. C. Spencer, Lenoir. S. S. Numbers Must Appear J. E. Wall, district director of the Internal Revenue Service for the Greensboro District, cau tioned North Carolina taxpayers that it is important all social security numbers appear in the space provided on page 1 of the IMS Federal income tax re turn. Sometimes husbands and wives filing joint returns for get to enter both their social security numbers, Mr. Wall pointed out. This is ,an under standable oversight, he said, but it is important that taxpayers check this entry carefully. type of company was not dis- : closed at the Monday meeting in Boone. The interested industrialist heads a well established indus try operating in other parts of the country. According to Per ry, the industrialist is impress ed with the reports on the num ber of people available for work in this area and wants to get first hand information about the number and quality of available personnel to man such a plant. In supporting Perry's state ment, the Boone fMlltltr ft . Commerce and the Blowing Rock Chamber of Commerce noted that the plant would at first employ from 125 to ISO people. Most of the initially employed persons will be men, they said, but as the plant grows, more and more women will be hired. Perry added, "The company in mind is interested in locating in this area. We think they will come here. If so, the company will provide the local people with an opportunity to get lo cal employment." Attending the meeting Mon day were Alfred Adams, H. W. Wilcox, I* E. Tuckwiller, Guy AMCJ* Frank Andrjw#, Stanley Han-is, Bob Hardin, Mr. Per ry, and Dale Gaddy, a represen tative of the Democrat. Hickfang Presents Concert At College Friday Evening The Artist and Lecture Series of Appalachian State Teachers College will present Paul Hick fang, bass-baritone of the Wo man's College, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, in a concert on Friday evening, in the Fine Arts Auditorium at 8 o'clock. Mr. Hickfang, presently di rector of opera and voice teach er at Woman's College, received his musical study at the Uni versities of Texas and Michigan under the noted Metropolitan Basso Chase Baromeo. As a re cipient of a Fulbright scholar PAUL HICKFANG I ship in 1059 he studied under the late Heldentenar Fritz Wolf and under Hedwig Fichtmueller at the State Academy of Music in Munich. The singer has appeared in recital, oratorio and opera per formances in this country, Eu rope and Hawaii and is ac claimed "a combination of voice, personality and sense of dramatic that should carry him far in the field of opera and concert." The program is free and all music lovers are invited. Postal Take In Boone Up Two Percent Postal receipts in Boone in 1962 increased approximately two percent over receipts for the calendar year 1901. . Figures released at the local postotfice by Postmaster Ralph Beshears listed 1962 receipts at $102,030.12, an increase of $1, 283.89 over $100,746.27 in 1961. The Boone Post Office exper ienced an eight per cent in crease in receipts in December over the December of 1961, Be shears said. POSTAGE RATES, OTHER COSTS BLAMED Subscription Rates To Be Upped Increased pottage rate*, ef f*ctive January I, and huge pro duction costs increases aince the Democrat's present subscription rates were established, have necessitated an increase in price which will become effec tive February 1. The postage rate increase, which la the first stage of a three-year graduated series of increases, doea away with free in-county mailing which news papers have long enjoyed, and levies even higher rates for oat of -town mailing. Under our new rates subscrib er! in North Carolina will pay U H per year rather than $&M, while outside the State of North Carolina the rate will be KM per year. The per copy rate will be It cents, but it is to be noted that the several hundred readers who fet the Democrat off the stands In Bom* and Blowing Rock would still pay only about six cents a copy as mail subscribers. North Caro lina subscribers will still fea charged the 3 per cent sales tax. The publishers point out that there has been no change in subscription rates (or six years, daring which time production coots have soared, and the weekly press is caught la the same sort of cost squeeze which la plaguing metropolitan news papers, and na tionall3> -circulat ed magasines. The increase pats the price of the Democrat only even with many weekly aews papcri la the Stat* which have charged this much for ? great many years. At any rate the line has been held well at the Democrat, and all present subscribers have an opportunity to renew for one year each at the old rate any time up to February 1. The Democrat's circulation has sky-rocketed la the past few years, and the publishers solicit the continued support and good will of its huge family of rtaders. ONE HELD IN SHOOTING James Matheson F atally Hurt By Shotgun Blast Officers Investigating; Inquest Set For Friday By DALE GADDY A young Watauga county man was killed instantly with a blast from a 12-gauge shotgun Saturday night near Vilas, according to Sheriff Dallas Cheek. Held under $2,000 bond Monday at the county jail in Boone was Len Hicks, a relative of Bill Hicks at whose home the incident occurred. The name of the dead man was given as James Henry Matheson, aged 21. He had been shot directly in the face, officers said. Bond had not been posted as of late Monday, ac cording to itiler Smith Brown. Locr.l authorities and officers of the State Bureau of Investi gation questioned seven persons Sunday, after tracking one across the mountains with blood hounds, and administered a lie detector test in Shelby Monday to one of the suspects. It was not until Sheriff Cheek returned Monday afternoon with the three suspects who were taken to Shelby for further BULLETIN Lett Hicks was releaaed Tuesday morning, under *2,#0? bond. I questioning earlier in the day that it was made known that Len Hicks was the one being held. The other suspects, whose identities were not given to the oemuciat, were released. An inquest has been set for Friday at tne court house at 1U a. m., to determine whether the shooting was accidental or intentional. A representative of the bBl will attend the inquest. Those questioned and releas ed by the law eniorcing agen cies are listed as Len Hicks, Don Clay Hicks, Dean Hicks, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Hicks, and two of the Bill Hicks daughters, all of whom are relatives. The sheriff said Matheson's boay was found in the yard of Bill Hick's home around 11 p. m. Saturday. The 21-yenr-old man had been shot in the face. When officers arrested the others for questioning. Bill Hicks jumped from the cruiser and ran to the rear of his house, grabbed a jug of wine, fled on toot into the woods; and avoid ed the pursuing officers until 3:49 a. m. Sunday when he was caught near the Don Hodges residence in the Bairds Creek section. Sheriff Cheek said Sunday that he had pieced together the following story: Mr. and Mrs. Bill Hicks, Len Hicks, and Glenn Mullis went to Wilkes county Saturday night to get some wine. When they returned, a car pulled in front of them, forcing them to stop. It is believed that an occupant of the second car was mimicking the sound of a siren, causing the occupants of the Bill Hicks car (Continued on page three) Suspect Len Hicks at County Jail Total 6,713,228 Pounds Burley Is Sold In Boone The Boone tobacco markets sold a total of 6,713,228 pounds of tobacco for $3,900,029.27 dur ing the 1962-63 burley season which ended last week. In releasing the figures, sales supervisor Stanley Harris stat ed that the prices and poundage were unusually good this year. Breaking the figures down by warehouse companies, Har ris noted that Mountain Burley sold 5,281,106 pounds of burley for $3,062,595.88 while Big Burley, in its first year of op eration, sold 1,432,123 pounds for ?817, 473.39. "The highest average for one day of sales at the warehouses was $65.50 per hundred. The overall average was in the vici nity of $59 per hundred," Har ris said. The season opened November 27 and closed January 11. The market was recessed for two weeks for the Christmas holi days. Jailer Brown and Sheriff Cheek examine weapon which killed James Henry Matheson. ? Staff photo. Bowling Matches Will Aid March Of Dimes Everyone in the community, particularly those who engage in s porta, will have an oppor tunity to strike a blow at crip pling ailments in the upcoming March of Dimes bowling tourna ment. ? The event, the proceeds from which will be given to the local March of Dimes fund, has been irranged by Jake Jacobs of the Skyline Lanes and Mrs. Joyce Ureer, local March of Dimes :ampaign director. Mr. Jacobs gives the follow ing tournament details: The tournament dates are for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday ind Thursday, January 21, 22, 23 and 24. Games may be bowl id between the hours of 10 a. ii. and 9 p. m. on any of the iates. The tournament competition will be a three game scratch set. Entry fee will be $2.00 and prizes will be given in the lad ies and men's division. You may enter as many times as you like during the dates allouuJ and your best three game set will count in the competition. Prizes in the two division! will be donated by local merch ants. But they're not the real stakes in this tournament. You'll be bowling to help youngsters who face a desper ately hard future unless they are helped in overcoming seveie disabilities caused by birth de fects, arthritis and polio. Everyone Is invited to enter the tournament, so go out and bowl that others may walk. ASTC Win Host Science Institute Appalachian State Teachers College hat been selected by the National Science Foundation to conduct an eight-week Summer Institute in Field Biology on campus from June 23 to August 17 tor SO high school teacners of biology. The announcement is made by Dr. W. H. Plemmons, presi dent of the college. The summer institute, spon sored and financed by the Na tional Science Foundation, will be directed by l)r. J. Frank Randall, associate professor of biology at AbTC. Associate di rector of the summer institute will be Dr. L W. Carpenter, Jr., associate professor of biology at Appalachian. Others on the faculty will in clude Dr. Frederick S. Barka low, Jr., professor of zoology, N. C. State CoUege, and Dr. W. T. Batson, professor of botany, Un iversity of South Carolina. The purpose of the institute is to improve the subject matter competence of the participants, to increase their capacity to motivate outstanding high school students to elect science as a career, and to equip the participants with the necessary field techniques for the teach ing of basic ecological concepts. The institute will consist of ? concentrated course in field botany ami sMd soology. 11m entire course will consist of a four-week unit in field botany and a four-week unit in field zoology. Each unit will be taught for two four-week per iods, and the participants will be divided so that there will not be more than 25 per class. This is necessary because ? large group cannot be taught effectively in the field. All participants will be enroll ed in field biology and will be given twelve quarter hours of graduate credit by Appalachian upon the satisfactory comple tion of the course. Each participant may receive a maximum of $79 per week during the institute and a max imum of $13 per week for each (Continued on page three) BlowingRock Dimes Dance A benefit square dance win be held at the American Legion Hall in Blowing Rock January 19th, starting at S o'clock. lira. Richard Gragg and Mrs. Richard Bolick are spon soring the dance, the admission charge will be $1 per person, and the proceeds will go into the March of Dimes fund for Watauga county.
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