President's Talking Shop
What ?e?mi to be a Presidents Convention is
merely three gentlemen talking shop after
an address by Dr. William H. Plemmons
(center), president, Appalachian State Teach
ers College. Dr. Plemmons spoke to the
Lees-McBae College student body on "career
opportnnities in edueation" as part of the
Distinguished Speaker Series sponsored by
the college. Pictured with Dr. Plemmons is
(left) Robert G. Hayes, president, Edgar
Tufts Memorial Association (which U com
prised of the Grandfather Home for Chil
dren, Charles A. Cannon Jr. Memorial Hos
pital, and Lees-McRae College), and (right)
Col. Max C. Chapman, president, Lees-Mc
Rae College.
Speaks At Farm-City Meeting
(Continued from page one)
Teachers College, was Master of
Ceremonies for the gala occa
sion.
L. E. Tuckwiller, . County
Agent, handled the introduc
tion of special geusts at the
Farm-City Meeting ? some of
whom had come from great dis
tances to be in their home
county for the celebration of
thia yearly highlight. Also in
troduced were several groups
of representativse from the var
ious industries in the county,
members of civic clubs and
community organisations, col
lege officials, and committee
men for Farm-City Week who
helped to make the meeting a
success.
The Rotary and Lions Clubs
made the Farm-City Meeting
their meeting for the week, and
in addition made the event a
"ladies' night" helping to swell
the attendance to almost ca
pacity of the Cove Creek High
School gymnasium.
Jerry Adams, Preside# Itthf
Watauga C&incil of ConujfUBty
Clubs, handled the community
awards portion of the program.
He handed out cash awards to
representatives from Mountain
Dale and Matney communities,
winiiers for the county in the
rural nonfarm and farming di
visions, respectively, in the re
cent Northwest Development
Association judging. Cash
awards were also given the oth
er five communities who par
ticipated in the commmunity
improvement contest.
Adams pointed out that 12
new homes were built in Wa
tauga County in 1963, and 481
separate home improvements
made. "Awards," he said, "are
not the chief goal of any club
? the greatest award is seeing
a project completed, a job well
done, a duty performed."
Roy Isley, Office Manager of
the Watauga County ASCS, then
presided over the official in
stallation of officers for the
coming year of the various com
munity clubs, as well as offi
cers and directors of the Cham
ber of Commerce and Merch
ants Association.
Clyde R. Greene, president
of Farmers Hardware and Sup
ply Company, Inc., in Boone,
introduced the speaker, Dr. Da
vid S. Weaver, to the audience.
Dr. Weaver, fromer director
of the North Carolina Agricul
tural Extension Service, spoke
on the subject, "Give Us This
Day Our Daily Bread," point
ing out that the U. S. was far
ahead of other countries in
wealth and prosperity, and at
tributing this largely to our be
ing better able than any other
nation to produce plenty of
good, Inexpensive food due to
modern farming techniques.
"The United States," Weaver
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said, "with a population of sev
en percent of the world's peo
ple, manufactures about 92 per
cent of the world's manufactur
ed goods.
"We're rich," he continued.
"We got that way because we
produced food cheaply. Eight
percent of the American popu
lation feeds the rest of the
country abundantly, while it
takes 86 percent of Russia's
population to provide barely
enough food for Its masses. As
a result, the average American
family spends only 18 percent
of its income for food, as com
pared to 96 percent fur a Rus
sian family."
But Weaver warned of the
necessity of our not allowing
ourselves to become sated with
material goods, lapsing into
selfishness and complacency,
which he called the first step
in national dtaaster and down
fall. In the end, he pointed
out, America's main problems
become matters ef individual
moral responsibilities.
Thursday nighfs meeting, the
one time during the busy year
which offered such * fine
chance for farmers and busi
nessmen to discuss mutual
problems, will not soon be for
Cars In Watauga
(Continued trom page one)
the United States is given to
the trend toward multiple car
ownership. At present, accord
ing to the market researchers,
there are 11,300,000 families
who own more than one car.
That is nearly four times as
many as there were 10 years
ago.
How much traveling is being
done in all these cars? The
average driver goes about 9,800
miles a year, the figures show.
Wataaga County drivers, en
that basis, cover more than 44
million miles auoaally.
Decorations
i Continued from page one)
Boone, headed by Mrs. A. E.
South, is sponsoring a "Keep
Christ in Christmas" campaign
in cooperation with the Mer
chants Association.
Mrs. B. W. S tailings is in
charge of a committee which
will attempt to have manger
scenes depicted at various
points along the street, as a
further approach to the relig
ious side of Christmas.
Burley Sales
(Continued from page one)
ty this year, amounting to about
87 acres.
Approximately 863 acres of
the plant were grown in Wa
tauga County in 1963, as com
pared with about 806 acres in
1963.
Farmers have been especially
urged by warehousemen and ag
ricultural officials to keep green
tobacco out of their prime
gotten. In fact, its effects will
linger until at least this time
next year when plans for an
other Farm-City Week will have
culminated in the same lavish,
entertaining and informative
fashion.
grades as much as possible, as
this will seriously affect prices.
The stripping and grading dem
onstrations conducted recently
in several parts of the county
by farm officials are expected
to result in more accurate grad
ing than heretofore, in general.
rantri are also being arged
to briag their marketing cards
with them when weighing In the
tobacco. The cards, necessary
before the leaf can be weighed,
were mailed from the county
ASC office last Wednesday.
Tentative holiday recesses
from the burley suctions have
been set by the Burley Sales
Committee for November 28 for
Thanksgiving, and from De
cember 20 until January 6 for
Christmas and New Year's.
Staff Changes
(Continued from page one)
Miss Smith has been with
radio station WATA for the past
six and one-half years and is
experienced in all phases of
broadcasting.
In announcing the appoint
ments, Mrs. Potter said: "We
are very happy to make these
promotions within our staff
which we feel are well-deserved
and will further increase the
efficiency of the station and its
service to the community. We
are extremely proud of the ac
ceptance which our station en
joys as a result of their efforts."
Radio station WATA has been
on the air for IS years, having
signed on in September, 1890.
The station has a power of 1,000
Watts, is an affiliate of the
American Broadcasting System,
and a member of the North
Carolina and National Associa
tions of Radio and Television
Broadcasters.
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most young men, and we have
little patience with parents who
think their Willie is too good to
do his share.
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of the armed service* cannot
give up the boyhood prank of
snitching melons.
The latest method to be used
was two big army helicopters
landing in the watermelon
patch of Ed Wilkins and a man
jumping from each grabbing a
melon and off they flew.
Mr. Wilkins said he didn't
even have time to "shake a fist
at them."
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