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VOLUME LXXYIH—NO. 31
BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1966
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4 First-Place Awards, 1 Second Taken By Local Newspaper
Leads Weekly Field In State Contests
The Watauga Democrat won
four first-place awards and one
second to lead the weekly sec
tion in the North Carolina
Press Association newspaper
contests for 1965.
The awards were presented
by Governor Dan Moore Thurs
day night at the N. C. Press
Institute on the University of
North Carolina campus.
The Democrat won the
coveted first place award in
the General Excellence cate
gory, aim in Local .News
Coverage. It placed first also
in Excellence of Typography
and in Classified Advertising,
while taking second spot in
the D i splay Advertising
classification.
The Mebane Enterprise was
tile only other weekly to win
more than one first place award.
It received two.
The Watauga Democrat and
the Chapel Hill Weekly, which
took four first place awards
Board, Officers
Elected By S & L
The stockholders of the Wa
tauga Savings & Loan Associ
ation met last Thursday after
noon, heard a glowing report of
the growth of the corporation in
1965, and elected the Board of
Concert For
Proffitt To
Be Held In N. Y.
Watauga County’s Doc Wat
son headlines a program of fa
mous folk-singers who will give
a memorial concert in tribute
to the late Frank Proffitt of
Vilas Friday in New York City.
The Newport Folk Founda
tion Inc., will present Watson,
Pete Seeger, Frank Warner,
Jean Ritchie, Sandy and Caro
line Paton the New Lost City
Ramblers and Bessie Jones at
8:15 p. m. on Jan. 28 in Hunter
College Auditorium.
Tickets are on sale for $3,
$2.50 and $1.75 and can be re
ceived by mail from Harold Lev
enthal Mgt. Inc., 200 West 57th
St., New York 19, N. Y. Stamp
ed self - addressed envelopes
should accompany orders.
The Newport Foundation will
turn over proceeds from the
concert to the family of the late
singer.
15 More Days
To Buy Auto
License Tags
By noon Saturday, the Li
cense Bureau Division of the
Boone Chamber of Commerce
had sold for the week, 15 trailer
tags, 24 farm truck tags, 124
private truck, three transfers
and license plates for 411 auto
mobiles.
Transactions for the week
totaled 577, while sales for the
year are 2,640.
Only 15 more days remain un
til deadline, and citizens are
urged to get their tags immedi
ately to avoid penalties imposed
on post-deadline transactions.
Former “Miss Carolina” To
Speak To Local Democrats
ine maiauga iuu ana ue
mocratic Woman’s Club will
present Yates Neagle Jr, em
ployed by the State Democratic
Executive Committee as youth
co-ordinator, and Miss Joan
Helton, "Miss North Carolina”
of 1957 In successive evening
meetings, Monday, Jan. 31, and
Tuesday, Feb. 1.
Neagle will speak at a meet
ing of the YDC and interested
citizens at 7:30 p. m. Monday
in the Watauga High School.
Miss Melton will entertain with
selections from the "Sound of
Music”, “West Side Story” and
popular folk-songs.
Miss Melton will entertain
the following night at a meet
ing of the Democrat Woman’s
Club. The meeting will start at
7:30 p. m. Feb. 1 at the Boone
Elementary School.
Neagle, 35, has resided in
Stanley County for three years
and graduated from Pfeiffer
College In 1983. He participat
ed in the organisation of the
N. C. Federation gf
Young Democrats, 1961, and
was president of the Pfeiffer
College YDC in 1962. In 1962,
he was also appointed college
organizer for the N. C. YDC,
and in 1964, he also served as
president of.the Stanley County
YDC.
Miss Melton, who will appear
on both programs resides in
Chapel Hill where she is an in
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1088 JOAN MELTON
I YATES N EAGLE JIL
Directors for the ensuing year.
The directors elected, all in
cumbents, are: H. Grady Farth
ing, R. C. Rivers, Jr., James
Marsh, Walter Greene, H. P.
Holshouser, Guy Hunt, Howard
Mast, W. M. Matheson, Perry
Greene, Wayne Richardson and
Paul Smith.
Immediately following the
stockholders meeting, the di
rectors met in monthly session
and elected officers as follows:
H. Grady Farthing, President;
R. C. Rivers, Jr., Vice-President;
and James Marsh, Secretary
Treasurer.
James Marsh told the stock
holders meeting of the growth of
the corporation’s assets in 1965
to $13,375,151, for a yearly in
crease of $1,261,358. He briefly
reported on the building ex
pansion now in progress and
said the Association made 520
home loans in 1965, totaling $3,
( 720)666) and gave pther figures,
previously carried in a news
story in the Democrat, citing the
record-breaking growth of the
corporation.
President H. Grady Farthing
presided at the meeting of the
stockholders.
Snow And More Snow Aids
Observance Of Ski Week
National Ski Week started
off with snow and more snow.
Both man made and natural.
There were skiers and fun for
all.
Mr. M. E. (Bill) Thalheimer
said we are now getting nation
ally and internationaly fam
ous.” I know this from where
the people who won different
events came from.” Mr. Thar
heimer said there was a tie in
G. O. P. Convention
To Be Held Feb. 12
A Republican Convention has
been called to meet at the
Court House in Boone at 2 p. m.
Saturday, Feb. 12.
A County chairman, vice
chairman and secretary will be
elected; an executive committee
will be appointed arid delegates
and alternates to the Congress
ional and State Conventions
will be selected.
the adult Salome Race as one
of the men that tied for first
place was Mr. Yves Charbin
who had flown to the United
States last week from Paris,
France and was enjoying skiing
in the South at Blowing Rock
Ski Lodge. Tied with him was
Mr. Charles Conbier who is an
electrical engineer now living
in South Carolina but origin
ally from France. Both men
were given a weeks pass. Mr.
Conbier’s daughter was also
awarded a pass for the 13-17
age bracket, in the Salome
Races. Mr. Thalheimer also said
that he awarded a prize to the
persons that had come the
longest distance to ski on the
slopes for the day. The man who
won this prize had flown his
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United Fund
Is Continuing
Fund Campaign
The United Fund is driving
the mercury up on the Fund
thermometer as it continues its
1965-66 campaign into January
and February.
Aiming at a goal of $17,000,
campaign manager Hoke Brit
tain says that $14,458 is in
hand and that several town lead
ers are pitching in to push the
local funds into the 90 per cent
category.
C. Of C. Board
To Meet Feb. 1
The monthly Board of Direc
tors meeting of the Boone
Chamber of Commerce will be
held at noon Tuesday, Feb. 1,
at the Daniel Boone Hotel. All
directors, Boone lawyers, real
estate agents and Watauga
County Commissioners ITS
urged to attend. _
in the Semi-Weekly contests,
received special commenda
tion from the judges on the
excellence of all their entries
in all of the contests. “Both
of these newspapers," they
said, “exhibit characteristics
which deserve attention by
other weeklies, semi-weeklies
and tri-weeklies_It is hoped
that contests of this character
will encourage greater atten
tion to newspapers in the non
daily group in North Caro
lina.”
General Excellence
In the general excellence
category, the Democrat was
credited with "doing a splendid
job of serving up .to the readers
a weekly diet of hard news,
features, editorials, advertising
and good writing and display
that the readers will enjoy and
benefit from . . . the key word,
we think, is ‘balance.’ Balance
of opinion against fact, of text
against illustration, of hard
news against feature and light
er stuff, of advertising against
Rob Rivers, editor-publisher of the Watauga Democrat, accepts
the first place plaque in General Excellence from Gov. Dan
K. Moore at Thursday’s press awards presentation in Chapel
Hill. The Editor also received first place for Excellence in
Typography. (Staff photo)
editorial content, of front pages
against inside pages, of reader
comments against editor com
ments.”
“Some,” said the judges’ com
ment sheet, “were reserved in
makeup and picture use. Others
took full advantage of good
camera work or feature writing.
All are doing their job,” it was
said in commenting on all the
entries in the General Excel
lence category.
Other comments of the judges
follow in the additional cate
gories where the Democrat took
top honors:
Local News Coverage
“Hie good papers in this
group . . . did an excellent
job of tapping most of the
standard sources of news
about government, quasi-gov
ernmental agencies and other
centers of public interest. , .
I am confident that the read
ers are getting thoroughly
rounded pictures of what is
happening in their communi
ties: the kind of perspective
they must have to keep things
going ahead . . . found some
papers showing excellent
front pages but also scatter
ing strong, worthwhile stories
throughout and keeping these
stories indexed with good
makeup. In fact perhaps the
most obvious difference be
tween the strong papers and
the weaker was that the lat
ter, even with good front
pages, tended to let the rest
of the paper fall away into
a mass of material la which
the reader would hare dim,
culty distinguishing the meats
ingful from the trivial.”
Excellence In Typography
“The points considered were:
general makeup 25%, advertis
ing typography, selection and
effective use of faces, illusbra
tions and borders 25%, head
dress and selection and effec
tive use of faces 20%, read
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Noted Musicians To Appear
24 High School Bands
To Gather For Clinic
Northwestern
Band Director
Will Conduct
Students and directors of 24
North Carolina high school
bands will assemble on the cam
pus of ASTC the weekend of
Feb. 11 to participate in the
1966 Northwest N. C. Band
Clinic.
John P. Paynter, director of
bands at Northwestern Univers
ity, and James D. Pritchard, as
sistant professor and director of
bands at the University of South
Carolina, will conduct, respect
ively, the symphonic clinic
band and the concert clinic
band.
Paynter has gained the re
spect of leading bandsmen in
the last fifteen years for the
excellence of his concert and
marching organizations and has
conducted clinics and concerts
in 42 of the 50 states. He is
the original director and annual
guest conductor for Michigan’s
Iron County Band Camp each
June.
He is currently national pres
ident of the National Band As
JAMES D. PRITCHARD
JOHN PAYNTER
sooiation, on the Board of Di
rectors of the American Band
masters Association and holds
memberships in the: College
Band Directors National Associ
ation, Music Educators National
i Conference, Phi Mus Alpha Sin
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Young Driver Ditches Truck
As Reggie Absher of North Wiikesboro put
it, he just had to get his tractor-trailer off
the road Monday. About 1:30 p. m., the
brakes on the White Diesel gave way just
below the Hilltop Grocery on Highway 421
West. Absher was hauling several tons of
lumber, heading for Tennessee, when the
brakes went out. He steered the load onto
the right shoulder where the tires sank into
a ditch and laid the truck on its side. Young
Absher, unhurt in the incident, was driving
for his father, J. W. Absher of North Wilkes
boro. (Rivers photo)
Boone Merchants Officially
Organized At Tuesday Meet
The Merchants Association of
the Boone Chamber of Com
merce officially organized at a
noon meeting Thursday.
Thirteen of the 15 directors
named Glenn Andrews, chair
man; Clyde Greene, vice-chair
man; and Paul Smith, secretary.
The group agreed that all off
ice work and business matters
will be handled through the
Chamber of Commerce offices.
Among topics discussed were
Ronda Younce
Funeral Held
Ronda Huston Youncc, 64, of
Zionville died Thursday at Wa
tauga Hospital.
He was born in Watauga
County to Mr. and Mrs. George
Younce.
Mr. Younce was for a long
time engaged in the dry clean
ing business in Boone.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Margaret Greer Younce; and
his mother.
The funeral was held at 2 p.
m. Saturday at Union Baptist
Church. Burial was in the
church cemetery.
Parking Ban Is
Set On E. King
The City Council on Jan. 20
adopted an ordinance to dis
allow parking on East King
Street from Coffey Street to
Hardin Street, effective Feb. L
that merchants insist on theii
employees not parking on King
Street; and that the"Town mark
off Queen Street for additional
parking.
—To study a collection system
that will help merchants get in
overdue payments.
—Strengthen the Credit Bu
reau by turning in bad accounts.
—Delegate members to raise
funds to make up the $200 to
$300 deficit on the Optimist
Christmas parade.
Mrs. Eude Moody acted as
secretary at the first meeting.
Schools Closed In
Blizzard’s Wake
The snow came again for the weekend and the
schools of the county are again closed. As a matter of
fact they had only been able to open one day last week,
following the snow of the week before.
Sunday’s blizzard, with high cold winds and driving
snow, drifted the 9 inches which fell Saturday. Temp
erature reached down to 18 degrees during Sunday
and the snow stopped in the afternoon. Monday was;
cool and cloudy and as this is written prospects are
bright for new snow Tuesday afternoon and Wednes-:
day.
Saturday’s snowfall lasted almost all day, turning i;:
to sleet and then a light rain in the afternoon. Plum
meting temperatures that night crusted the snow.
Because the temperature had remained freezing
or below most of the time, much of the January 15
snow was still around when last week’s fall began.
A melt-down Tuesday morning showed a water con- <
tent of 2 inches on top of the ground. •
Travel on the main highways has not been greatly
hampered. However, chains or snow tires have been
necessary to keep going. .