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Section C
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Section C
VOLUME LXXV ? NO. 45
BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1N3
PRICE TEN CENTS
WAGON LOAD OF MILLERS are beaded west to crots the Blue Ridse in the Carolina Tercentenary Celebration at Boone.
Men, Wagons, Oxen Depict
Trials Of Early Day Travel
The beginning of the west
ward movement will be relived
June 27-29 as men, wagons and
oxen pit their strength against
the hardships of the wilderness
trail in an effort to duplicate
Daniel Boone's crossing of the
Blue Ridge in the big Carolina
Tercentenary Celebration in
Boone.
The Wagon Train will fel
low Boone's route from Fergu
son into Boone. The first night
the party will camp between
Darby and Triplett and the sec
ond night's camp will be at
Cook's Gap.
Each night the wagons will
be formed into a circle and a
camp fire will be built. At
Cook's Gap the Wagon Train
will have open house. Some of
the entertainment will include
itring music, singing, square
dancing and roasted buffalo
meat.
Spencer Miller of Wildcat
(Watauga County), father of
18 children, will drive the lead
wagon. He will use his own
oxen and wagon on the trip.
Recently he remodeled an an
tique wagon and equipped it
with typical equipment that the
Daniel Boone party used on its
trip into Kentucky. He plans to
use the old black pot on his
wagon to prepare a mess of
buffalo stew at Cook's Gap.
Xvey Moore of North Wilkes
boro will serve as chief scout
for the Wagon Train. The
buckskin-clad Moore and his
scouts will protect the Wagon
Train against Indian attacks
and will provide fresh meat for
the camp* at night.
G. D. Barnett of Boone is
Wagon Master. He said that the
Train will consist of ten wag
ons, six scouts and five pack
EDUCATION AS A LURE
The Air Force is using edu
cation as a lure to get officer
volunteers for underground
duty at Minutemen missile sites.
Maj. Gen. H. G. Thorne Jr.,
Air Force Director of Person
nel Planning said the educa
tion program Includes a gradu
ate and under-graduate cate
gory.
hones. His job will be to keep
the wagons rolling so that the
Train will cover the same
a few hundred yards on High
amount of territory that Daniel
Boone covered in one day.
The ceremony on "Daniel
Boone Crosses the Blue Ridge"
will be held on Friday, June 28
at Bamboo. This will include
the unveiling of a marker at
Bamboo.
During the entire trip, the
Wagon Train will travel only
way 421. This will be at Perk
insville.
The Wagon Train will be one
o f the top attractions during
the ceremonies of the Carolina
Tercentenary Celebration in the
William J. Conrad Stadium at
Appalachian State Teachers
College on Saturday, June 29 at
2 p. m.
A large number of state, na
tional and international digni
taries will be present for the
colorful celebration which hon
ors the State's 300th Anniver
sary.
We Will Be Closed
Wednesday Afternoons
Cooke Is New
Bell Manager
W. ft. Cooke, Jr., manager of
Southern Bell in Aaheville, hat
been appointed manager of the
company'! operations in the
Lenoir area, including Boone
and Blowing Rock.
Cooke ha* managed Southern
Bell in Aaheville since 1909. He
joined the firm in 1962 as a
coin telephone collector.
He attended Lee Edwards
High Schol and Davidson Col
lege. In Aaheville, Cooke is a
member of the West Aaheville
Rotary Club and is public rela
tions chairman for the Daniel
Boone Council Boy Scouts.
Mrs. Cooke is the former
Gwendolyn Dover, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Dover, for
merly of Lenoir and now of
Atlanta, Ga. Mr. Dover la a
former Lenoir police chief. Mr.
and Mrs. Cooke have a son,
William R. Cooke, III, and a
daughter, Deirdre. The Cookes
are members of Grace Metho
dist Church.
Flags For Vets'
Graves Here
American Flags to decorate
Veterans' graves are now avail
able at the office of Lionel
Ward. According to government
regulations they should be
placed on the graves not later
than May 28. We want a flag on
every Veterana' grave in Wata
uga County. We will appreciate
very much 4ny one that will
come by my office and pick up
flags for small cemeteries in
the county. ? Lionel Ward,
Grave Register Chairman.
Japanese Socialists expected
to grow stronger.
Redisricting Bill Would Put
Watauga With Caldwell, Burke
Raleigh. ? Two bills ? one to
redistrict the Senate under the
present constitution and a sec
ond proposing a constitutional
amendment that would alter the
present rules on senatorial re
districting ? were approved by
a Senate subcommittee.
The seven-member subcom
mittee, stalemated for almost
a month, first approved two
amendments to the bill, origin
ally drawn by Sen. Claude Cur
rie of Durham, for redistricting
under the present constitution.
The amendments were:
1. To take Craven county
from the 2nd Senatorial Dis
trict and place it in the 6th.
This would leave the 2nd Dis
trict with seven counties (Beau
fort, Dare, Hyde, Martin, Wash
Seal Sale
Campaign Head
Appreciative
The Easter Seals committee,
through its chairman, the Rev.
A. Blake Brinkerhoff, issues the
following note of appreciation:
"This year's Easter Seals com
mittee expresses appreciation to
all individuals, clubs, and organ
isations within our county who
helped make the drive a suc
cess. Also, much credit belongs
to those who participated in a
variety of project* such as the
Coffee Day, Poppy Sale, Blow
ing Rock Bake Sale, and Easter
Seals Bowling Tournament
"It is hoped that the same
spirit of widespread cooperation
that characterised this year's
drive will mark the campaign
for 1064."
ington, TyreU and Pamlico) and
put five counties (Carteret, Cra
ven, Jones, Lenoir and Onslow)
in the 6th District.
Place Alexander county with
Iredell, Catawba and Lincoln
counties.
L Place Watauga la a district
with Caldwell and Burke.
The amendments won Currie
the support of Sens. P. D. Mid
gett of Hyde (who has been
worried with what to do with
Craven) and Ira T. Johnston of
Ashe who has strenuously ob
jected to Watauga's being placed
in a district with Republican
Wilkes or with Republican coun
ties like Avery, Yancey and
Mitchell to the west.
Johnston said, "I think this
amendment takes care of my
people in the great northwest."
Since the subcommittee was
first appointed Johnston has op
posed any suggestion that Wa
tauga be "permanently gerry
mandered into districts which
were predominately Republi
can."
The bill endorsed as a com
mittee substitute is, with the
amendments noted, essentially
the same bill Currie introduced
in the 1961 legislative session
and again, early in this session.
After the decision to report
favorably on the Currie Bill the
subcommittee debated what to
do about a constitutional amend
ment which would alter the
present method of redisricting
the Senate.
The solution of the questions
of where to place Craven, Al
exander and Watauga counties
broke the stalemate and gave
Currie the votes he needed to
get his bill out of the sub
committee.
During the session, Johnston
told the members of the sub
committee that he had polled
the members of the Senate re
garding the Currie Bill. He said,
"I found an overwhelming sent
iment in favor of the Currie
bill. The press, the people and
the administration all are cry
ing for redistricting. I think
that it's important that we bring
out a bill that has. some hope
of becoming law."
?boat this qaestiea:
"During the put two year*
there were 6M to 7M tor
nadoes reported in the U. 8.
compared with an average
150 annual tornadoes ten
years ago. What, in your
opinion, is the best type of
insurance to completely cov
er the risk from torsade
damage?
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