ASTC Choir Starts
Rehearsals With 40
CADET CAPT. PAYNE
John Payne Is
Promoted To
CadetCaptain
Marion, Ala. ? Cadet John
Luther Payne of Boone has
been promoted to the rank of
Cadet Captain in the Marion In
stitute Cadet Brigade for the
tchool year 1963-04.
The promotion was announc
ed by Colonel Leslie Spinks,
commandant of cadets and
chairman of the promotion
board at the 123-year old mili
tary junior college.
Payne, now in his third year
?t Marion, will serve on the
brigade staff as S-l. The Cadet
Brigade at Marion Institute, Al
abama's only essentially mili
tary preparatory school and
Junior college, is composed of
two battalions and four com
panies each and a brigade head
quarters company.
Last year, Payne was gradu
ated from the preparatory
school department as an honor
military graduate. While at
Marion, he was named on the
Dean's List; has been a mem
ber of the White Knights, fa
mous crack drill team; and is
presently serving on the Honor
Council.
Cadet Captain Payne Is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. F. M.
Payne of 221 Cherry Drive in
Booae.
The Appalachian Stat* Teach
ers College Choir, under the di
rection of Mrs. Virginia W Lin
ney, began rehearsals last week
with a personnel of 40 singers.
Mrs. Liimey said that singers
in the choir are cIkmo by audi
tion. A flood choir member is
selected not only for voice quality
and musical ability, but also be
cause of the joy derived from the
love of ringing.
lit is expected of all choir mem
Story Hour
Successful
The first weekly children'!
story hour, held Saturday morn
ing from 10:80 to 12 noon at
the Watauga County Library,
could be described aa a moder
ate success. Seven chUlren at
tended the story-reading ses
sion, and many more are expect
ed in the remaining weeks of
the program.
The story hour is sponsored
by the newly-renovated library
in conjunction with its new
children's reading room. For
1H hours every Saturday morn
ing, children attending will be
read to from the library's stock
of children's literature.
Three Appalachian State
Teachers College Janiors are
carrying on the program as a
public service project and for
practical teaching experience,
as a parallel to their courses in
educational psychology and
children's literature. The stu
dents are Hiss Katylee Shunk,
Miss Carol Sic Kinney, and Miss
Louise Williams.
MOUSE CHOKES ON CHEESE
Cape Town ? A pet mouse
was rushed to an animal hospi
tal with a piece of cheese stuck
in her throat. Seeming "more
dead than alive," aa immediate
operation on her windpipe re
moved the cheese.
The moose was revived with
artificial respiration. The Salt.
River clinic of the Anmal Wel
fare Society of South Africa
treated 4,082 animals lact year.
Since treatment this mouse has
borne 9? baby mice.
ten that they be present and
punctual at all rehearsals and
that they uphold the high stand
ards let forth by the organisa
tion. placing ftlwaya the good of
the group ahiad of personal de
sires.
Choral activities for the year
include the ti*ditioiwl Christmas
Or 'orla, a light musical produc
tion during $? winter quarter,
and concert trips in the spring.
Invitations have already been re
ceived to appear on college con
cert series and sacred church
concerts. It |l also planned to
give an oratorio in the late
spring.
The choir has appeared in
many of the vuthem states, and
hw sung with the North Carolina
Symphony Orchestra on two oc
casions, and appeared on the
Mutual Network to r niae suc
cessive seasons in a coast-to
coast broadcast of selections from
"Hie Messiah."
Remember the big guy in Jack and the Beanstalk? Re?
member how Jack got In his cattle and grabbed Ma henf
The Giant had a problem! Jutt about worried him to death.
What he needed waa an INA Homeowners Package
policy? one low premium to protect against burglary,
lightning, windstorm and personal NebWty.
Protect your castle. Be aura . . . haw* , . , with MAI
Call m. We'll tell you mort.
AITC majorettes (top high u they anticipate Wall*, chief, and tfafjraitne Uascott.? Penley
high scoring season. They am (1-r) Kay photo.
Camlin, Sandra Balrd, Becky Brawn, Bonnie
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COMPARES
ADMINISTRATIONS
Treasury Secretary Dillon, ?
Republican, aaid recently that
Federal spending has grown at
a slower rate during the Ken
nedy Administration than dur
taf the last three rear* Dwight
D. Elsenhower iu in the White
Houm. -J
Dillon lerved wider Eisen
hower as Under Secretary of
State and was named to his pre
sent poet by President Ken
nedy
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