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VOLUME LXXV1? NO. 23 BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, IMS
PRICE TEN CENTS
ASTC Summer Term
To Begin June 9th
Dr. Juno* Stone, director of
summer sessions at Appalachian
Stat# Teachers College, has an
nounced the dates (or the 1964
summer sessions.
Two six-week terms will be
conducted June 9 - July 17 and
July 20 - August XI. In addition,
two- week terms will be held be
ginning June 22, July 0, July 20
and August 3.
Dr. Stone said that the 1963
summer session had an instruc
tional budget of nearly 9290,000.
Most of this budget was derived
from the tuition and fees col
lected from summer students.
For the summer session, the
fees and tuition remain propor
-tionatdy The tape as thoie lor
the regular sessions.
The salaries of the summer
session faculty remain propor
tionately equal to regular ses
sion salaries. During the 1963
summer session, 109 of the regu
lar faculty were employed; in
addition to these, 80 visiting
professors were on the summer
session faculty.
Visiting professors included
Dr. Deak Campbell, president
emeritus of Florida State Uni
versity; Dr. J. Fred Rippey,
University of Chicago; and Dr.
L. O. Andrews, Ohio State Uni
versity.
ASTC employed 16 consult
ants during the 1863 summer
session
In 1961, registration for sum
mer sessions totaled 3,703; in
1062, the total registration was
4,318; and in 1963, the enroll
ment was 4,260. Of this 1963
enrollment, 49% were in the
graduate school and 40% were
Tegular ASTC .urderscadua**
students.
A total of 1,433 students pur
sued their graduate degrees at
ASTC in the summer of 1962.
Although 80% of the 1963 en
rollment was North Carolina
students, 40 different states
were represented on the ASTC
campus. ;
Child Is Badly Hurt
In Deep Gap Crash
A two-and-one-half year old
(irl was injured seriously and
her parents and another person
less seriously injured about 3:19
p. m. in a traffic collision at
Deep Gap, about 10 miles east
of Boone.
State Highway Patrolman G.
L. Morgan said the girl, Kevin
Adkins of High Point, suffered
lacerations of her face. He said
she was taken to Watauga Hos
pital at Booue, then transferred
for plastic surgery to Baptist
Hospital at Winston-Salem. He
said her condition was termed
fair.
The girl's parents, according
to Morgan, were treated at Wa
tauga Hoapital for bruises and
cuta, then discharged. The Bar
ents are Navy Ensign Franklin
Mansfield Adkins alid Page Ad
kins, acah 28. ?
James Hinson Greene, 20, Of
184( West Howard Street,
BoOne, driver Of the other car,
suffered a laceration inside his
I DEBT LIMIT MAT RISE
The House faces another tem
porary Government financial
' crista.
The House Ways and Means
Committee has been asked to ap
prove legislation increasing the
national debt limit from its pres
ent $309,000,000,000 (0 *315,000,
000,000 for the remaining part of
the curent fiscal year, w*?ch wall
end next June 30.
mouth and two broken teeth.
The patrolman said the car
driven by Adkins and one driv
en by Greene collided in thick
fog at the intersection of U. S.
421 and 221.
Mrs. Yates, 86,
Dies At Granite
West Jefferson ? Mrs. Rhonda
Church Yates, 86, of Deep Gap,
widow of Squire Yates, died
Monday, November 28, at Gran
ite Falls. She had been ill for
the past several years.
She w? born in Wilkes Coun
ty to Thurmond and Elizabeth
McMillan Church.
Surviving are four daughters,
Miaa Nannie Yates of North
Wflkesbdro, Mrs. Mollie Crotts
of Lenoir, Mrs. Bertie Watts of
Whitnel, and Mrs. Ida Weaver
of Ohio; five sons, Dennis Yates
of Boone, Dean, Conard and
Willie Yates, all of Deep Gap,
and Floyd Yates of Fleetwood;
three brothers, Mack Church of
Salem, Va., WU1 and Levi
Church, both of Purlear; and a
sister, Mrs. John Goodman of
West Jefferson.
The funeral was conducted
at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Old
Fields Baptist Church by the
Rev. Herbert McCoy and the
Rev. W. T. Brackett. Burial was
in the church cemetery.
Snow Blankets Countryside
Winter hit Boone with full force Friday, de
positing ? five-inch layer of snow. This
picture, taken at the outskirts of Appalach
ian State Teachers College, in the southern
end of town, shows some of the quiet beau
ty which prevailed the afternoon following
the snowfall. ? Flowers Photo.
Local Officials Are Briefed In
Machine To Test Drunkenness
Boone Mayor waae k. Brown,
Watauga County Sheriff Dallas
Cheek, Boone Police Chief Hu
bert Thomas, State Highway
Patrolman William Teem, and
County Commissioner James C.
"Red" Lyons went to Asheville
last Tuesday afternoon to at
tend a two - hour meeting of
county officials and law enforce
ment officers from all over the
state, concerning future use of
the "breathalizer," a foolproof
machine for determining the
alcoholic content in the blood
stream of persons charged with
drunken driving.
Use of the machine by law en
forcement agencies has been
authorized by a bill passed this
year by the state legislature.
According to Cheek's explana
tion, the subject breathes into
the machine, which measures
the alcoholic content of tha ||l ,
from the subject's lungs and
registers on a scale a highly
accurate estimate of the amount
of alcohol present in his blood
stream.
The amount of alcohol in the
blood, registered as a percent
age, shall be used to determine
whether the Subject is legally
intoxicated.
Cheek said that the breath
alizer is the most accurate and
dependable of any such device
recently manufactured for this
purpose.
Evidence from the breath
alizer will hereafter be admiss
THE PERFECT HOLIDAY DRINK...
and. kids and grown-ups alike love its creamy
rich flavor. Be sure and have plenty on hand
this holiday season. (Non- Alcoholic)
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YADKIN VALLEY DAIRY "
WILKESBORO, N. C.
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able in a North Carolina court
of law; but subjects may be
charged with being drunk with
out such evidence, if in the
opinion of law officers he is
drunk. This last ruling is neces
sary since the machines cost
from $600 to $700 apiece, and
since they have to be purchased,
largely at local initiative, by
county or state law enforcement
agencies.
It was decided at the meeting
that the breathalizers should be
located in law enforcement of
fices. It was advised that each
county have available at least
three men trained in operating
the complex instrument; and
these men would have to be law
officers since no funds have yet
been allocated to pay anyone for
operating the machine alone.
The anxiety of aonte newspaper
writers to present news leads
them to publish fiction.
DO YOUR LATE
CHRISTMAS
SHOPPING EARLY
OUR GIFT SUGGESTIONS INCLUDE
' Imported Candies & Jams
? Music Boxes and Door Chimes
1 Ladies 100% Cashmere and Scottish
Woollen Sweaters
Burley Sales To Be Closed
A Week Earlier This Year
Lexington, Ky. ? The Burley I
Sales Committee voted Satur
day to order a suspension of
burley tobacco sales in the
eight-state burley belt when
auctions close Dec. IS, a week
earlier than was scheduled.
Sales will resume Jan. S, 1964.
In a resolution, the commit
tee said the early close was
necessitated by the unusually
heavy deliveries of the 1963
burley crop to lending coopera
tive associations which soon
will block redryers and ware
houses.
"The associations have asked
relief from Che committee' to
avoid congestion in the redry
ers so that tobacco taken under
loan can be processed in a
reasonable length of time.
"It if to the farmers' present
and future interest that an or
derly flow of tobacco from the
warehouse to the redryer be
maintained."
Cooperation Urged
The committee *aid it was
urging all farmers to cooperate
and stop deliveries to ware
houses of tobacco that will not
be sold before Dec. 13. It rec
ommended future deliveries be
halted until Dev. 27.
The group voted that all
warehouses in the eight-state
burley growing belt be asked
(o cooperate with the decision
by letting loan tobacco remain
on their floors with their pro
tection until it can be moved
to the processing plants.
The committee recommended
"that all tobacco boards of
trade and the Federal Grading
Service exercise their judgment
in proportioning the remaining
selling time on each market
among warehouses for the re
mainder of the selling season
before the recess so that ware
houses will bear equally the
loss of the 17V4 hours selling
time caused by the suspension
of sales."
Three Days
It was reported at the meet
ing that, during the first three
days ot'salerthe Burley Tobac- ""
co Growora Cooperative Asso
ciation, which administers the
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OF BOONE
Member Federal Reserve System and FDIC
Opposite Pott Office M4-MS1