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VOLUME LXXVI NO- 1, BOONE. WATAUCA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER ?. CENTS PER COPY " '?? ? SECT'?NS
Bond
Parade
Slated
Everyone who is interested
in the bond election success is
invited to join in the parade
Sept. 16th to get out the vote
lor September 17th, beginning
in Boone at Horn in the West
parking lot, and traveling
through each township in the
county. You may come to Boone
and be a part of the parade
throughout the county, or you
may join the parade at any of
the following points at the de
signated time:
10:30? Horn in the West
parking lot
11:19 ? Blowing Rock Appa
lachian Motel.
11:28 ? Camp Yonahlossee.
11:33 ? Foscoe Cash Store.
11:95 ? Matney voting place.
12:06 ? Mast's Store, Valle
Crucis, for cold drinks.
12:16? Leave Valle Crucis.
12:26 ? Vilas.
12:27 ? Cove Creek Super
Market, taking Highway 321
down river.
12:40? Turn right onto new
Bethel road.
12:80? Bethel school.
1:06 ? Cove Creek High
School.
1:18 ? Mabel school.
1:20 ? Zionville ? Max Miller's
Service Station.
1:22 ? Trade, Tennessee, Post
Office, turning right and en
tering North Fork.
*1:30 ? North Fork voting
place. Follow 1340 and enter
Meat Camp Township.
1:60 ? Meat Camp Service
Station? Turn left on Hljhwsy
1AJ
2:00? Green Valley School ?
Voting places for Meat Camp.
2:19? Bald Mountain voting
place.
2:25 ? Brown wood. Enter
Highway 421 and turn left
Stony Fork.
2:39 ? Deep Gap ? Myers
Parkway Motel.
2:59 ? Elk voting place.
3:30 ? Take old tish hatch
ery road. Turn left at Highway
1913.
3:49 ? Turn right at Highway
1923 ? this takes you right into
golf course. Turn right State
Farm Road and back to 421, at
Freezer Locker building.
3:99 ? Parade through King
Street, Boone.
An announcement concerning
the parade says:
"Won't it be fun to see so
much of Watauga County.
"Have your car tanks full.
Bring a sandwich or two to eat
on the way. If you like, you
may make a placard to stick
on the side of your car, express
ing how you feel about merits
of the bond election, Sept. 17th.
Bring noise makers ? cow bells,
horns and whistles. Bring high
spirits (not the liquid variety).
Come one, come all to join in
the parade for the progress for
Watauga County!"
230 Cases.
Slated For
Fall Court
Two hundred and thirty cases
are to be tried at the Septem
ber term of Watauga Superior
Court, - according to Orville
Foster, Court Clerk, who says
that the most common charges
are driving drunk, no opera
tor's license, speeding, assault,
reckless driving, passing worth
less checks, breaking and en
tering, larcency, unlawful pos
session of whisky, and illegal
transportation of tax - p a i d
whiskey.
Judge J. Frank Huskins will
preside at the term which con
venes September 23.
Those who have been select
ed for jury duty are At follows
(by postoffice address:)
Boone: W. G. Sink, Howard
E. Miller, James E. Miller,
Gordon Taylor, Balph M. Mor
etx, Tom D. Redmond, Grady
(Continued m page six)
In Fatal Collision
This is what remained of the 1961 Pontiac
in which Spiro Nicholas Glaroa was killed
Monday morning in a headon collision seven
miles from Boone. ? Flowers photo.
One Killed In
Crash On 421
Watauga County's first high
way fatality of 1963 occured at
10:15 Monday morning when a
1961 Pontiac Station Wagon
operated by Spiro Nicholas
Glaros, 29, of 2103 Maywood
Street, Greensboro, and a 1958
International truck tractor op
erated by George Lester Rober
?ea, 27, of RFD 1, Adairsville,
Ga., collided bead-on on High
way U. S. 421, 7.1 miles west
of Boone.
Glaros, who was dead on ar
rival at the Watauga Hospital,
was pinned in the station wag
on for about 30 minutes.
Roberson was admitted to the
hospital with a dislocated knee
cap, facial and internal injur
ies.
Charges are pending further
investigation, according to Stat*
Highway Patrolman W. R.
Teem.
Tuckwiller Looks For
Drop In Weed Prices
L. E. Tuckwiller, Watauga
County agricultural extension
agent, says that average sale
prices for burley tobacco in
Watauga County this year may
fall as much as three cents per
pound below last year's prices.
?Tkii hasn't been an excep
tional year for tobacco crop*
in Watauga," Tuckwiller said.
He cited uneven rainfall and a
short growing seaaon as the
major difficulties that tobacco
growers have faced. Insects
have also caused leaf damage.
In addition, prices may be
kept down by the controversial
issue of the new leaf spray for
suckers, which has appeared to
affect flue-cured sales to some
extent
Tuckwiller pointed out that
burley prices usually follow
pretty closely the prices which
flue-cured tobacco brings in
the Piedmont and plains sec
tions of the state. "If that holds
true this year, we could expect
pricea to fall by as much as
two or three cents per pound,"
he said.
The county agent also said
that he had noticed a tendency
among some farmers this year
to begin cutting their tobacco
while it waa still too green, a
Two Employed
By Democrat
Two more residents of this
area came into the Watauga
Democrat family last week.
Cecil Aldridge of the Foscoe
community, who has been em
ployed at Southern Agricultur
al Insecticides, has taken ?
position in the composing
room, where he will be trained
in the production end of the
newspaper.
Clark Cox, of Crumpler, Ashe
county, has gone to work, do
ing general reporting on the
Democrat. He has recently been
a student at the University of
North Carolina for two years.
He will also do features on oc
casion and photography.
phenomenon probably brought
about by tome premature cool
weather nights.
Several farmers In the area,
however, have produced what
look to be fine crops. Tuckwil
ler specifically mentioned the
efforts of Ned Glenn, Jack Hen
son, Tom Lawrence, and Stan
ford Coffey.
"It's still too early to judge
a crop accurately, though," he
added. "There's many a slip
between pre-harvest time and
the warehouse floor."
Tuck wilier doe*, however,
foresee ? development within
the next few years which bodes
good for hard-working tobacco
growers. "Soon," he said, "buy
ers are going to start paying
for quality 1b tobacco? not
quantity."
Blankenship
Goes To Maxton
The Rev. Ernest Blankenship,
who for the past seven years
has been pastor of Cove Creek
Baptist Church at Sherwood,
left September 2 for Maxton,
where he will be chaplain and
Bible teacher at Carolina Mili
tary Academy.
While in Watauga, Mr. Blank
enship served two years as mod
erator of the Three Forks Bap
tist Association. Qe is a native
of Asheville, married and has
two children.
Photo by Flowers' Photo Shop
MRS. HOWARD DANCY
Mrs. Dancy To
Attend Meet
In Washington
Mrs. Howard Dancy of Vilas
will represent Watauga County
Home Demonstration Clubs at
the Eighteenth National Con
ference on Citizenship in Wash
ington, D. C. The confcrence
will begin on September 16 and
close September 18.
Mrs. Dancy is a member of
the Brushy Fork Home Demon
stration Club. She is at present
secretary and treasurer of the
club. Mrs. Dancy is a very ac
tive member of the Brushy
Fork Baptist Church. She is
manager of Bill's Shoe Store
in Boone.
The keynote address will be
given by Colonel John H. Glenn
Jr., astronaut. His topic will be
American Citizenship ? Show
case For Freedom. Mr. Jeffrey
J. Radowich, national winner in
the V.F.W.'s "Voice of Demo
cracy" contest, will speak on
"What America Means to Me."
Naturalization Proceeding and
Citizenship Day Observance will
be held on the Washington
Monument Grounds. The group
will be entertained by the Unit
ed States Air Force, Navy and
Army Band*.
___________
Visit With Cllnes
Sunday visitors in the home
of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Cline
were Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Os
borne, David and Ginger and
Miss Sharon Parsons of Mouth
of-Wilson, Va.
SHADOWLim PAY RAISE
Local Payroll $1 Million
Shadowline, Inc., nationally
known manufacturer of ling
erie, which operates a thriving
plant in Boone, has confirmed
that a wage increase has been
put into effect for a majority
of its employees.
Hal Johnson, the local plant
?unager, tells the Democrat
that a Sh per ceat increase
was placed In effect Septem
ber 3 la the base rate paid ??
der the Corporation's wage In
centive program. Mr. Johnson
said the raise affects all piece
rate workers and not the hoar
]y-rated or salaried workers. It
covers of Shadowline per
aonael, he said.
In tar mi of actual money it
represent* an increase of 7 to
8 cents increase per hour.
Shadowline has been fat
Boone six years. At the end of
the first year abort one hand
red people were employed.
Four hundred and fifty new
have Johs there. Mr. Johnson
ibM, and the payroll of the
4
plant has now passed a million
dollars a year.
Mr. Johnson further points
out that the plant has been en
larged three times to take care
of the growing business. Or
iginally it contained 20,000
square feet, but baa been en
larged to 99,000, he added.
REGISTRATION ENDS
Voters To Pass On
Bond IssueT uesday
Sample Ballot
OFFICIAL BALLOT
For Questions Submitted at the
Special Election Held in Watauga County
On September 17, 1963
(1) To vote for or against each of the questions the voter should
make a cross (X) mark in the appropriate squares appearing
below.
(2) If you tear or deface or wrongly mark this ballot return it and
get another.
the bond order authorizing $1,630,000 bond* to
finance the cost of constructing in the Watauga
County School Administrative Unit several new
buildings to be used for school houses, school
garages, physical education and vocational edu
cation buildings, teacherages, and lunchrooms
and other school plant facilities and to recon
struct and to enlarge, by the erection of addiUons,
several existing buildings located in such unit
and used for such purposes, and to acquire land,
furnishings and equipment necessary for such
new or reconstructed or enlarged buildings, in
order to enable the County of Watauga, as an
administrative agency of the public school system
of the State of North Carolina, to maintain public
schools in said School Administrative Unit for
the nine months' school term as prescribed by
law, and a tax therefor.
the bond order authorising $500,000 bonds to
finance the cost of erecting and equipping a new
building or buildings for use as public hospital
facilities and to acquire a suitable site therefor,
if necessary, within the County, and t tax
therefor.
FOR
AGAINST
FOR
AGAINST
FOR
AGAINST
the levy of a special tax of not exceeding 10 cents,
annually, upon each $100 of assessed valuation of
taxable property in said County to finance the
cost of operating, equipping and maintaining
public hospital facilities for the use of the
inhabitants of said County.
Chairman, County Board of Elections of
Watauga County, North Carolina.
Local Car Dealers See 1963
As Being Close To Best Year
Prospective buyers of new
automobiles, take notice! All
five major new-car dealers in
Watauga County are offering
large discounts on their 1963
models, hoping to get rid of
their stocks in time for the
showing dates of the new 1964
autos.
All five dealers have stated
that 1963 has been close to be
ing their best, if not their best,
sale* year in history.
The five agencies Include:
Andrew* Motor Co., Chevrolet
and Oldsmobile dealers; Brown
ft Graham, representatives for
Chrysler Corporation; Greene
Motor Co., which specializes in
new Hoick* and Pontlaca; Wat
son's Garage, Watauga's Ram
bler dealer; Winkler Motor Co.,
Ford and Mercury dealer; and
Wilson Used Cars which has
only recently taken over the
dealership for the Jeep group
of vehicles In Boone.
Sales competition was hot,
with more different makes of
automobiles in the thick of the
battle than ever before. Ford
and Chevrolet sales in the
county kept pace with the tre
mendous sales record which
these two cars were maintain
ing nationally. Chrysler sales
were up 90 percent over last
year, also an indication of a
national trend. Rambler kept
its traditional position as one
of the most popular compact
cars, and Buicks and Pontiacs
proved to be the most popular
higher-priced autos.
Some dealers stated that they
could have sold more units this
year than were available to
them.
Representatives of all agen
cies reported that salea of com
pact car* in general rose again
this rear. Bat, as G. C. Greene,
of Greene Motor Co, said,
"Compact cars are getting big
ger and heavier every year.
Some are almost as big as the
smaller models of so-called big
ijrs." This fact seems to indi
cate a general trend back to
ward the larger models of a few
years ago.
Greene also pointed out that
that car sales tend to run in
cycles from year to year; but
he, as well as all other dealers,
are looking -forward to an even
better year in 1964. Jim Wat
son, of Wataon's garage, sum
med up the general attitude
when h? said, "We don't think
th era's too much doubt that
1964 will b? our best year in
history."
(continued on page six)
Hospital And
School Plans
To Face Test
The voters of Watauga
county will go to the polls
next Tuesday to pass on the
issuance of 12,130,000 in
bonds for the construction
of a new consolidated high
school building and a Wa
tauga County Hospital, and
to supply the sites for the
structures.
Registration closed last
Saturday, and in Boone and
New River, where sentiment
j is considered unusually
Istrong for both proposals,
263 new voters are reported
as having registered. Re
ports from the rest of the
county couldn't be secured,
but it is presumed that the
registration followed a fair
ly heavy pattern in all the
precincts.
Campaigns by the Hos
pital steering committee
and by the School Bond
groups are being prosecuted
vigorously, and it is being
predicted that a very heavy
vote will be cast.
The ballot, which appears
on this page, contains three
propositions:
For or Against the issu
ance of $1,630,000 bonds
for the Central High School
structures.
For or Against the issu
ance of $500,000 to finance
the new hospital.
For or Against the special
tax of 10 cents annually on
each $100 of assessed valu
ation to finance the cost of
operating, equipping and
maintaining public hospital
facilities for Watauga Coun
ty.
Every effort is again be
ing made today through the
columns of the Democrat to
acquaint the people with
the issues and to urge them
to get out and vote.
The election will be held
at the usual polling places.
Library Plans
Open House
Preceding the regular sche
duled opening of the Watauga
County Public Library, Tues
day, Sept. 17th, the library will
hold open house to the public
on Monday afternoon, Sept.
16, from two to five o'clock.
At present the library is
closed for the purpose of en
larging and redecorating. With
the expanded facilities the li
brary will be able to give great
er service to the pepole of all .
ages for their recreation and
information reading. The book
collection in the Watauga
County Library is second to no
library in any county of its size
and population. Everyone is en
couraged to visit the library
on any day of the yew from
Tuesday through Saturday.