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mhrmc VOLUME LXXV. ? NO. 34 MOCRAT An Independent Weekly IS etea paper . . . Seventy-Fifth Year of Continuous Publication BOONS WBA' 1983 Hi Lo prac. 82 Hi Lo Feb. 12 37 20 ? Feb. 13 27 13 Feb. 14 32 20 Feb IS 22 -8 Feb. 10 37 0 Feb. 17 39 8 Feb. 18 48 -7 .11 tr. tr. 51 48 27 98 31 33 32 41 39 97 29 49 30 BOONE. WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 81, 1963 10 CENTS PER COPY 18 PAGES? 3 SECTIONS Snow Closes Area Schools Tuesday Weather forecasters missed the boat When they failed to see Tuesday's snow on the map. By eight o'clock some four or five inches of snow had fallen throughout the area, and schools in Watauga were closed. Reports indicated that Ashe and Avery county schools alio (ailed to open. Before mid-morning the snow had abated. Temperatures were about 28 degrees at daybreak. ? Staff photo. Mrs. McGuire Is Dead At 74; Funeral Tues. Mrs. Jessie McGuire, 74, pro minent Boone resident, died Sunday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. C. L. Holland of Wilmington, after a short ill ness. Funeral services were con ducted at 2 o'clock Tuesday af ternoon at the First Baptist Church of. Boone by Rev. t. Boyce Brooks. Burial tntt < la Mountlawn Memorial Park. Born in Watauga county to Carroll C. and Rebecca Pres nell Adams, she was a member of the First Baptist Church here. For a great many years she was manager of the local telephone exchange for the Wa tauga Telephone Co., and later for Southern Bell. She retired several years ago. Surviving are one son and one daughter, Roger W. McGuire, of Boone and Norfolk; Mrs. C. L. Holland, Wilmington, and a stepson, Vance McGuire of Le noir. There are eight grand children and seven great grand children. THREE MEETINGS ARE HELD 'Things Look Favorable' For Establishing Shoe Factory Although members of Wata uga Industries Inc., and Blue Ridge Shoe Company met on three different occasions last week to discuss various matters pertaining to the possible con struction of a shoe plant in Watauga County, no definite conclusions were reached. In commenting to the Demo crat Monday, Glenn Andrews stated that "things look favor able," but said that nothing had been confirmed. Reportedly the company of ficials ara deliberating over one of two possible building sites in or near Boone. A source has said that one location is on the Blowing Rock road (highway 321) and that the other area is in the Winkler's Creek section. Officials from the shoe com pany and the North Wilkesboro Employment Security Commis sion interviewed some 1600 per YOKE OF OXEN.? Spencer Miller and his ion of Deep Gap stand beside their team of oxen which will participate in the June 27-29 celebration of "Daniel Boone Crossing the Blue Ridge," held in conjunction with the state's Tercenten ary Celebration. A wagon train consisting of scores of per sons, wagons, and cattle will travel over mountain trails from Wilkes county to Boone, a two to three, day feat Committees Named For (Celebration Chairmen of the committees in charge of the Carolina Ter centenary Celebration set for June 27, 28 and 29 in connection with the opening of "Horn in the West" June 28 are, accord ing to H. W. Wilcox, president of the Boone Chamber of Com merce, as follows: Finance, Alfred Adams. Invitation of Special Guests, Dr. D. J. Whitener. Parade' and Publicity, George Flowers. Costumes and Dedication of Daniel Boone Botanical Garde As, Mrs. Boyce Brooks and Mrs. B. W. S tailings. Decorations, Jack Williams. Hili i talinii? I. James Marsh. Wagon Train, Clyde. U. Greene. Securing Military Participa tion, Wade E. Brown and Dale Brewer. Observation of ASTC's 60th Anniversary, H. R. Eggers. Special Events, Jack Groce. Golf Tournament, Joe Maples. Co-ordinating Committee, H. W. Wilcox. Picnic and Banquets, Stanley A. Harris. The celebration, which is in cluded as part of the 1063 cele bration of North Carolina's 300th anniversary, will be at tended by hundreds of guests, including Secretary of Com merce Luther Hodges, a former North Carolina coventor. sons January 30 at the Court house in Boone. Those inter viewed were either employed outside the county or were un employed at that time. Most of the applicants were bimi, although 40 percent were women. The interviewing was termed by one Boone official as the county's most successful labor survey in history. Blue Ridge Shoe Company manufactures loafers and other type* of shoes. 1 Herman Wilcox, in a Cham ber of Commerce weekly news release printed elsewhere in this edition of the Democrat, points out that the new plant will employ 270 men and 89 wootett with an estimated week tyr. payroll of *15,000. The total program, the report says, would be an investment of $700,000. Andrews added Monday that as further details are known, such will be made available to the Watauga Democrat for pub lication. Flu Epidemic Here ? Seen As Unlikely No epidemic of influenza is foreseen by county health of ficials in Alleghany, Ashe, Avery and Watauga, according to Dr. Mary Michal, district health director. "However," says Dr. Michal, "there has been a reported in crease in the number of in fleunza cases in the district ? possibly some Asiatic flu. The situation is being very carefully watched through continuing surveys, and physicians report that young adults are being af fected." Some areas of the state and nation have been severely hit by "the flu bug" this year. How ever, since the epidemic of 1B57, most persons have taken various precautions against the disease, including shots of polyvalent Mrs. Hollar Dies Sunday Mrs Lillie Hollar, 84, of Vilaa, Route 1, widow of Wade Hampton Hollar, died at 1 p. m. Sunday at her home. She had been ill a long time. Mrs. Hollar waa born in Wa tauga county to Jonas and Phoe be Moody Townaend and spent all her life in the county. Surviving are three sons, Aud Hollar of Vilas, Roby Hollar of Hickory, and Ed Hollar of Gran ite Falls; three daughters, Mrs. Jim Byrd of Valle Crucis, Mrs. Frank Bentley of Shuiis Mills, : and Mrs. Solomon Townaend of < Hickory; one brother, Lee Town- J send of Hickory; three sisters, i Mrs. Delia Taylor of Shulls Mills, Mrs. Jennie Cooke of Le noir, and Mrs. Amanda Hollars i of Hudson; 23 grandchildren, and 38 great-grandchildren. The funeral waa conducted at 3 p. m. Tuesday at Mt. Leb- i anon Baptist Church by the Rev. Ron da Earp and the Rev. E. F. < Troutman. Burial was la Dan- 1 ner Cemetery. gj|9 *j influenza vaccine. "Since many groups such as special schools and industries were vaccinated this autumn, we do not expect asiatic influ enza to make 'in roads' in these groups," the health director commented. The vaccine, Dr. Michal says, is about 70 per cent effective and includes three strains besides asiatic iq fluenza. Dr. Michal says she does not expect influenza to reach seri ous proportions here. V. J. Coffey Dies Tuesday Funeral services for Victor Judaon Coffey were held Wed nesday (Feb. 13) at 11 a. m., at Lenoir Funeral Home chapel. Officiating were the Rev. Wil liam E. Roach. Burial was at Mount Pleasant Lutheran Church in Watauga county. Coffey, of Route 8, Lenoir, died Tuesday at 2 a. m., in a Winston-Salem hospital. He was 90 yeara old. Born October 28, 1872, In Wa tauga county, he was a son of the late William L. and Salome Moretz Coffey. His church af filiation was with Dawn Bible Students. He was a retired farmer. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Emma Moretz Coffey; three daughters, Mrs. Frances Hall of Hudson, Mr*. Reid Goin of Win iton-Salem, Miss Rose Coffey of Lenoir; three sons, H. L. Coffey of Boone, Raymond Cof fey of Hudson, Jerome Coffey of Chatham, Vs.; three sisters, Mrs. Nora Moretz of Boone, Mrs. Ada Greene of Cherryville, Hiss Edna Coffey of Lenoir; two brothers, Leonard Coffey of Blowing Rock, D. C. Coffey of Boone; nine grandchildren, and twelve great-grandchildren. APPLICATION SENT FAA Local Airport Planned Through Federal Help Site May Be Procured In Bamboo Area A formal application for a $90,000 grant was submitted to the Federal Aeronautical Asso ciation (FAA) last week by the six-member Watauga County Airport Authority Commission, according to Dr. Philip Fail, chairman. The funds, which would necessarily be matched by county funds, would give lo cal officials the "go ahead" sign for the construction of a 4400 foot airport strip in the county. Dr. Fail, a Blowing Rock phy sician, stated yesterday (Tues day) that the Commission has been studying the feasibility of such plans for more than a year. A site has been tentative ly agreed on and, according to a Boone official, is in the gen eral area between the golf course and the Bamboo section. The next step, according to the chairman, is the selection of an engineer for the job. According to present plans, the airfield would at first be a grassed area. "Later we would hope to have a paved landing area, hangers, and other facili ties," Dr. Fail said. A request for an FAA grant had to be submitted before the February 13 deadline, Dr. Fail explained. "We had to go on the assumption that the towns of Boone and Blowing Rock as well as the county will agree to match the federal grant," he said. No definite proposal has been made to this date as to the means by which Watauga cit izens would match the $50,000 sum. Dr. Fail stated that it will probably be sometime in June before the Commission knows (Continued on page three) IRC Profits In '62 Break Old Records Philadelphia ? International Resistance Company established new all-time sales and earnings records during 1962 for the fourth consecutive year, it was reported today (Feb. 11) by Walter W. Slocum, President of the locally-based manufactur er of electronic components. Net sales for the 12 months ended December 30, 1962, total ed $29,423,449, compared to the previously reported record of $23,005,304 in 1961. ? Net earnings were $2,481,698, or $1.70 per share, based on 1, 562,209 shares outstanding Dec. 30, 1962, as compared with the $2,021,432, or $1.45 reported for 1961 on ? lesser number of shares. Mr. Slocum noted that during 1962, IRC increased its owner ship in North American Elec tronics, Inc., from about 54 per cent to nearly 100 per cent, and that the account? of both com panies have been combined to show a comparison of the two years under the present condi tions o i ownership. (Continued on page three) Photo by riowM-m' Photo Shop CYNTHIA KAY STROUPE . . . "MISS SOUTHERN SKI QUEEN" Ohio Beauty Is Winner Of " Miss Southern Ski Queen" Contest Cynthia Kay Stroupe, 20, of Shaker Heights, Ohio, won the first annual Miss Southern Ski Queen contest at Blowing Rock Ski Lodge Saturday, taking the crown over nine other contest ant!. Miss Stroupe, a junior at Queens College, Charlotte and the Charlotte Motor Speedway's Current Miss Auto World, was crowned by Bill Thalheimer, ski lodge president. More than a thousand week end skiers and other visitors were present for the ceremon ies. The contestants modeled the traditional ski clothing, and took turns at skiing on the slippery slope. Since all but Wade Moretz Home Razed The home of Mr. and Mrs. Wade Moretz of Deep Gap was burned late Saturday night, and reports indicate that one room was falling in before the family knew of the fire. The fire completely destroy ed the fram? building and its contents. The origin of the blaze was undetermined, and the Boone Fire Department was not called, according to Phil Vance, acting chief. Miss Stroupe negotiated the slope without falling, it was noted that judging was on ap pearance and poise. The first runnerup in the contest was Geneva Myers of Salisbury, a sophomore at Ap palachian State Teachers Col lege. The second runnerup was Julia Martin ?f Shelby, a jun ior at Appalachian. Mr. Howard Barnwell, Presi dent of the Blowing Rock Chamber of Commerce; Mayor Wade E. Brown of Boone, and Mrs. Rob Rivera, Associate Edi tor of the Watauga Democrat, judged the contest National Bank Site In City Approved The Comptroller of the cur rency has notified Joe Williams of Boone, one of the organizers of the First National .Bank of Boone, that a site has been ap proved for the new banking in stitution. ? The bank will be located, Mr. Williams says, in the old Boone Trail Cafe building west of the Savings & Loan Association and opposite the postoffice. Mr. Williams says that the work of remodeling the build ing will be started as soon as a contract can be let to the local contractor- submitting the low bid. Mr. Sam Dixon, Executive Of ficer of the bank, is now inter viewing those interested in working in the bank, such as as sistant cashier, tellers and bookkeepers. He is presently Hunter Estimates Dramas Bring $ 8 Million To State Businesses The findings of a survey con ducted by Kermit Hunter in 1961 and issued (or publication thia week by the Boone Chamber of Commerce indicates the fol lowing approximate worth of North Carolina's three outdoor 'dramas, including Boone's "Horn in the West": ? Gasoline sales, $1,000,000 to business firms; >300,000 in taxes to Mate. ? Mean, $3,000,000; state, $150,000. ? Rooms, $2,000,000; state $80,000. Total income brought to North Carolina businesses, $8,000,000; to the state, $510,000. For the three dramas, Dr. Hunter states that there has been for the nine yeari up to 1980 . two additional million in state people who nw thw* dramas, which adds a sizeable sum to the above figures. Dr. Hunter quoted the former North Carolina Governer Luther Hodges as saying, "The money the state paid to support these dramas was not an expense, but an investment" Breaking the report down to i a more local point. Dr. Hunter I shows that before "Hon in the (Continued on page three) , t living at the Laurel Hotel, but has secured a house, where he and his family will establish residence next week. Mr. Williams says that the following organizers of the bank are now accepting appli cations for stock subscriptions: Mack D. Brown, Gordon Tay lor, Jerry Coe, G. R. Andrews, Phil Vance, Tom Winkler, and S. C. Eggers. Burley Meeting Is Important To County Growers . A special tobacco growers educational meeting will be held at the County Courthouse' in Boone on Thursday after noon, February 28, at 1:30. Or. D. M. Gossett, Agronomy Exten sion Specialist (Tobacco), and F. A Todd, Tobacco Disease Specialist, will assist with the meeting. Since burley tobacco sales amount to more than a million dollars per year to Watauga farmers this crop is very im portant. Subjects for discussion will include tobacco diseases, in sects, plant production, fertili sation, harvesting, curing, grad ing, and marketing. All tobaco growers are urged *** m I
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