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HIGH 8CH0OLERS at Lees-McR*e School Camp in Banner Elk find time for Mdal mingling as well as classroom activties and recreation. Summer School Can Be Fun At Unique Camp At Banner Elk By LARRY PENLEY Summer school can be fun at the unique summer school-camp conducted by Appalachian State Teachers College on the Lees MeRae Collage campus. The school -camp for high school students mixes physical and mental exercises for boys and girls during the summer months. Appalachian College, a pio neer education institution, has come up with what ipijEht be considered a novel solution to the age-old problem of activity for teenagers during the sum mer. The college provides school campus for high school students and elementary students. The elementary boys and girls live and play at beautiful Camp Broadstone near Valle Crucis. Camp Broadstone was formerly a private camp which was pur chased by Appalachian. Both camps make it possible for boys and girls to enjoy camp activi ties during the summer session as well as make progress thru an enrichment program in studies. . Heading the academic pro grm M Lees-McRae is Dr. Roy Blanton, principal of Appala chian High School of Boone. He said that the purpose of the camps for high schoolers is to give them a broader preparation for college. The school allows the .students to take required work which will permit addi tional elective! in the regular school yean, take subjects not offered at one's local high school, and the opportunity to make up failing work. High school credits can be secured in any regular high school sub ject. Dr. Blanton said the curricu lum of the school is very flex ible, and subjects will be offer ed on the requests of the stu dent campers. Courses in English, mathematics, history, science, foreign languages, and typing will be offered. Advanced courses, including trigonometry, solid geometry, algebra II and III, and second- year biology will be offered on demand. Also, courses in reading and rapid reading, personal typing and band instruction will be offered on demand. Students may take as much as two units of work during the eight-week term. Students may earn one full unit of work in eight-weeks reading and typing courses. The two units earned by a pupil are transferable to his own high school, subject to respect^ school policies, it a student is eligible for graduation, he re ceives a diploma from his own high school rather than from Appalachian High School. Activities of camp nature in clude horseback riding, boating, riflery, trampoline, astronomy, basketball, hiking, outdoor cookery, tennis, swimming, life saving, archery, soft ball, fishing, bandminton, camp "know how," volleyball, and folk and social dancing. Each student camper may choose as many as five of the recreation activities. At Appalachian Schoof-Camp one hour each day is set aside for a study period for each sub ject taken. This study period it conducted by the classroom tea cher in quiet surroundings con ducive to study. Here special attention is given each indivi dual according to his need. The small number of students la each class makes this possible. Perhaps the greatest value of this supervised study is that the student learns how to study. When he returns to school ia the fall, he knows how to attack an assignment without the usual amount of frustration over how he is to begin, "fails knowledge of how to study will pay off ia better adjustments for the in dividual. The faculty and graduate as sistants Jive at Lsea-ltcjUft.aiid are available 24 hours a dajujfor additional help as we 1 f^as counseling. Girls will be housed In Ten nessee and Tate Dormitories. Bow will be homed in Mc Allister and Virginia Dormi tories. Each of these dorml Good Heqriug Culled Yital We all know "the five senses" ? si^M, hearing, smell, taste and touch. Next to sight, probably the second moat Important tQ us is hearing. Many of us take our bearing for granted. Not until we begin to lose it do we realize how deepndent we are upon It in almost every daily activity. "In 1881 it pas estimated that nearly 6.000,000 people in the United States had inwwi(?d bearing and the number baa un doubtedly increased since then," aays Or Mary Michal of the Al leghany Ashe - Watauga District Health Department. After the age of 40 the number increased sharply. Loas of bearing may re sult from infections, particularly in children, certain drugs, injury to the ears or bead, exposure to excessive noise and aging. Recently one futhority on deafness, I believe that loneli ness, and especially the fear of loneliness, is possibly the great est problem. You and I as hear ing people hsve heen lonely, but J do not believe that we can ever quite realize the degree of lone liness ? deaf person sometimes feels." How can it best be prevented? Be sure that all infections and injuries are fully treated, follow the doctor's advice on taking medicines and try to avoid too much exposure to loud noise. CARD OF THANKS The family of D. V. Wine barger wish to express their appreciation to their friends and neighbors for their many acts of kindness, the flowers and the food during the sick ness and death of their father. tories will accommodate approxi mately 50 students, and no mora than two students shall be as signed to any one room. Each of the dormitories has a large lounge equipped with refresh ment bars and television. Ex perienced supervisors who de vote their fuH time to supervi sion will be housed on each flqpr of tbe four dormitories. The Appalachian School Camps are members of the American Camping Association, the North Carolina Department fil Education and the Southern Meoplatiofi of Secondary Schools aftrl Colleges. High schoolers interested in taking summer work in grades nine through twelve should write Dr. Roy Blanton, Appala chian High School, Boone, N. C. DRUSILLA JEAN BEAL "Dru" Beal Chosen CCC Co-ed Of Month Druailla Jean Beai, more com monly known as "Dru," has been (elected by the CCC as the March "Co-ed of the Month " The twenty-one-yeur old beau ty with light brown hair and blue eyei is a biology major from Cummoch, N. C. At ASTC ihe resides in Lovill Uall, where she is a junior counselor. Other of Dru* ilia's activities at ASTC include being a mem Ministers To Meet Monday The Watauga County Minis ter's Association will meet at the Bethelview Methodist Church Monday morning, April 1, at 10:00. To get to the church take NC 184 to Sands and then turn oi) to the Castle Ford Road (County Road 13333) and continue for three miles. The program will be given by Mr. Guy Angell, County Super intendent of schools in Wata uga County. He will speak on the school needs of our county. Every minister is urged to be present for this meeting. Selling wave drops pound va lue in England. ber and historian of the Beta Beta Beta and also a member of Alpha Chi. When the attended Sanford Central High School, Drusills was a member of the Future Homemakers and Future Tea chers of America Clubs, the Beta Club, the Tri-Hl-Y. Besides her extra-curricular activities, she was named valedictorian of her class. Reading and designing and making clothes are her special interests right now. Her feelings about being se lected as the CCC Calendar girl, are in Drusilla's words: "Being Co-ed of the month has been one of the most exciting ex periences of my college life." Zionville News Items Mr. wad Un. Vwct Vises. Cindy wit Dcnlece, of Burling too spent Saturday night with Mr. and Mr*. Clint Winebarger Mr. and Mri. Winebarger, Miss j Sarah Winebarger and Bobby | Green visited Sunday afterqeon , with Mr. and Iti John Copen hager and Mrs. Minnie t^ckedy at Glade Springs, Va. Mrs. Hack edy, sifter of Mr. Winebarger, is recuperating after surgery recently. Will C. Miller will undergo surgery at Cannon Memorial Hospital Tuesday. Mrs. Maggie Norris spent Sat urday with Mr. and Mrs. Kemp Wilson at Boone. Visitors with Mrs. Norlrs this week end were Mr. and Mrs. Jack Wagner and Jeffrey of Shoiins, Tenn., Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Holman of Moun tain City, Tenn.. and Mr* Paul ine Rominger, Jeanette, Deline. Judy, and Keith of Rominger. Miss Elizabeth Brown spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Gene Smith at Hickory. Mr. and Mrs. Dave Potter ?nd deli* returned lad week to th?r home here after spending the winter in Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs Lee Cole and Mi and Mrs. Jack Cote of Soar ing River visited Mr. and Mrs Harve Brown and other rela tives Sunday. TAX PLEA Prqpident Kennedy said the economy will fa* "downturn and disaster" if Congress rejects proposed tax cuts, slashrs the budget and puts a tight lid on the national debt. Kennedy argued that tax cuts alone cannot insure the Success of his ideas for bolstering the *onomy. He aaid it also is im portant to avoid "an unrealistic debt celiing or budget cut." House passed draft-law exten sion ? Senate now debating. What would great-grandmoth er think it she came back and saw all these ready-pre[*red frozen meals. There Is a RIGHT Maymead Block for your construction project Getting the right block removes the guesswork . . . and keeps costs down Maymead Blocks are the modern and durable construction material preferred by more bukders "Those Kraft folk* have been in business a long time. They ' realize the importance of dairying in this part of North Carolina. They're working with us to promote better dairying practices. They offer a steady , reliable market for good milk, When a private power company takes away the best areas served by a locally-owned rural electric cooperative, the remaining member; lose ... so does the general public ... so do the inemhers who ore denied the right to continue ferving themselves. Here's why: ffrcouse of the srrpll income per mile of line, for many years the cqpperatives operated in the red. in recent years, os more people moy?d onto theif line*, the cooperatives began showing a mar gin up and above operqfjflfl flxagnsM. As thi? hap pened ? and continues to happen ? the coopera tives reduced their rates. If the margins are reduced by taking away the pood areas at to^n a* they become thickly settled, the cooperative's ability to repay debt and lower rates is reduced. The lost members who lived on the lines in the lean years will not be there to enjoy the good y rare of low-cost electricity. And there may not be many good years, because the scattered remaining members will have to share the high fixed cost of investment. Instead of a trend toward lower-cost power, the trend will be upward. And the power companies will no longer face the influence of a good, LOCALLY-OWNED example to curb their rates ? which wfft make YOU a loser, too. For morf facts on the electric industry, write: Box 16*9, Raleigh, K C.
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