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COMPLETING CLEARING ON NEW COURSE—Smoke from
brush heaps and early morning mist rise from the Linville River
Valley toward the towering peaks of 6,000-foot Grandfather
Mountain as bulldozers put the finishing touches on clearing
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the new 18-hole championship golf course of the Glen Dornie
Country Club at Linville, N. C. Designed by famed golf archi
tect Ellis Maples, the Glen Dornie course will open for play
in Spring 1967.—Hugh Morton photo.
Local Schools Open Tuesday;
Closed By Snow For 16 Days
The Watauga County schools
opened Tuesday, after beini
closed 16 days during a series
of snowstorms in the area.
In announcing the opening
Guy Angell, Superintendent ol
Schools, helped put to rest
some rumors going around
about walls caving in at the
new Watauga High School.
Angell said that no storm
damage has been reported at
any of the schools, with the ex
ception of frozen water pipes.
He said pipes at Watauga
High School have been repair
ed, and that maintenance men
have been working around the
clock to open schools this week.
Frozen pipes were reported at
Blowing Rock, Parkway and
Cove Creek schools and he said
were reported as late as Sunday
at Green Valley School.
Buses were being put in or
der and drivers were making
dry runs on secondary roads
Monday.
Avery and Ashe school sys
tems, it was understood were
expected to open Wednesday.
Watauga school buses were
required to use chains Tuesday,
and some students on secondary
roads, where travel is rough,
have been asked to meet the
bus on more passable highways.
Mrs. Geo. Wilson
Dies On Friday;
Funeral Sunday
Mrs. Ida Blanch Snyder Wil
son, 77, of Boone, Rt. 3, wife
of George A. Wilson, died at
10:15 p. m. Friday at Watauga
hospital.
She was born in Johnson
County, Tenn., to John R. and
Rachael Vaught Snyder.
She and her family had lived
in Boone for many years before
moving to the Adams neighbor
hood.
Surviving are her husband,
two sons, Roger Wilson of Char
lotte and Floyd Wilson of John
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New Court House
Is Cham ber Topic
The Judge had to go to Jail
to get warm. This was during
the January term of Superior
Court.
County Commissioner Bynum
Greene addressed the Board of
Directors of. the Chamber of
Commerce at noon on Feb. 2
at the Daniel Boone Hotel. The
The judge’s dilemma, he said,
has been one of the things to
bring up the question of wheth
er to try to remodel the exist
ing Court House, or to try to
build a new court house.
In either case, Greene said
Wagon Train To
Roll On June 28
The Daniel Boone Wagon
Train will move out of North
Wilkesboro the last week in
June.
Official announcement comes
from Ivey Moore, who plays the
part of Daniel Boone and chief
scout for the annual trek to
Boone. Severe weather has pre
vented committee meetings from
bjiaig plutf'lor tta summer
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event, but Moore said inquiries
were heavy, and that officials
decided to release the dates
early.
Covered wagons will assem
ble in North Wilkesboro on
June 25, 26 and 27 and leave
the morning of June 28.
A parade through Boone on
July 2 will end the train's ac
tivities. --T "
the Board of Commissioners
are interested in the public
sentiment.
One of the most pressing
needs in the Court House now
is to find additional space for
records in the Register of
Deeds office. And additional
space is required in the Clerk’s
office. Greene stressed that the
Court House serves the inter
ests of hundreds of Wataugans
each year for listing of taxes,
registering of deeds and crimin
al and civil court cases.
Since it costs about $4,000 to
hold a bond election, and since
remodeling or rebuilding of a
court house is termed a "public
necessity” and does not -have to
be voted, Greene said the Com
missioners are hoping to find
out how voters feel about the
Court House question without
going to the polls.
Mayor Wade Brown said that
“Watauga is one of the most
progressive counties in the
whole area” and quoted a sup
erior court judge who 10 years
said that the renovation or re
building of the Court House
seemed in order.
Greene said that the Commis
sioners are in contact with an
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Farthing Named
Vice-Chairman
N. G Commission
H. Grady Farthing, Boone
Savings & Loan Executive and
charter member of the State
Stream Sanitation Committee,
has been elected Vice-Chair
man of the group.
Mr. J. V. Whitfield, Chair
man of the Commission has
this to say in a letter to Mr.
Farthing:
'• “I want to congratulate you
on being elected Vice-Chair
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Work On Huge Linville
Resort Project Started
Lake, Riding,
Fishing And
Skiing Planned
Grandfather Mountain, which
towers above one of the South’s
great playgrounds, early next
spring will look down on a pro
ject which promises -to mush
room in a very short time into
one of the area’s most attrac
tive resorts.
Major attraction will be
Glen Dornie Country Club
golf course, a championship
layout nestled in the gran
deur of the Linville River
Valley which lies adjacent to
N. C. Highway 105 between
Boone and Linville and in the
shadow of the huge moun
tain’s famed mile-high swing
ing bridge.
But there is more than golf
planned for the complex which
is the realization of an old
dream for Agnes Morton Cocke,
former four times women’s
Carolinas Amateur champion.
Hugh Morton, Mrs. Cocke’s bro
ther and owner of Grandfather
Mountain, is a founding direc
tor of Glen Dornie.
Facilities In the master plan
include a 35 • acre lake for
boating, trout fishing, swim
ming and (In wintertime) ice
skating. The golf course’s 18th
hole and fairway, as well as
the clubhouse, will be located
on the lake’s shore.
Tennis courts and riding sta
bles are also priority items for
the future, and eventually there
is a possibility that skiing will
be added.
The golf course itself, meas
uring almost 7,000 yards from
the championship tees, is of
Ellis Maples design and the
famed Whispering Pines, N. C.,
architect has said that it will
be “one of the outstanding golf
courses in the United States.”
Carved from the dense for
est at the western base of
Grandfather Mountain, the
course will be crossed six
times by the winding Linvilie
River, and the two nines will
be virtually separated by the
lake, which will lie east of
the highway.
The expanse between the
course and the upward slopes
of the mountain will be devoted
to choice building lots, as will
a smaller area between the 16th
and 17th fairways and the high
way.
Most of the clearing work
has been completed for all 18
holes, under the supervision
of Roy Logan and Maples,
and work is continuing as
weather permits. The course
opening is planned for the
spring of 1967.
At the present time invita
tions are going in the mail for
charter memberships, which
will be limited to 100 and avail
able only until June 1, 1966,
Charter members get priority
on the choice building lots.
Mothers’ March
To Be Continued
The Mothers’ March will con
tinue until completed, accord
ing to County campaign chair
man George C. Thomas. Bad
weather has delayed the moth
ers’ campaign, he said, but
businesses and residents of the
County are urged to fill out and
mail their pledges during the
extended campaign.
Thomas received a letter
from Basil O’Connor, president
of the National Foundation in
New York, in which O’Connor
called attention to the harsh
weather in North Carolina re
cently. He added that 40 per
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Mailboxes such as these draw attention to
the fact that many who formerly visited
Boone in the summertime also are making
a practice of enjoying winter and winter
sports in the mountains. Mailboxes and
driveways which once were left untouched
in the snow have been dug out throughout
the county, and year around residents are
getting used to seeing their summertime
friends traveling about in the snow. (Staff
photo)
Watauga Area Doubles
Number Of Boy Scouts
The Watauga District, one of
the ten districts of the Old
Hickory Council, has more than
doubled its membership during
1965, according to Paul N.
Campbell, secretary for the dis
trict committee.
Two hundred fourteen boy's
were registered in seven Scout
ing units as of Dec. 31. After
intensive reorganization Camp
bell said, 13.5 per cent of the
boys of Scouting age in Wata
uga County are being reached.
The Council’s average is 22.4
per cent with one district en
rolling 28.6 per cent.
Campbell said the slogan of
Auto Inspection
Stations Listed
Following are the names
of auto inspection stations
thus far approved in Wata- j
uga County:
Watson’s Garage, Deep
Gap; Brown & Graham, An
drews Chevrolet, Winkler
Motor Co., Potter’s Garage,
Jones Garage, Boone; Test
er’s Service station, Vilas;
Eller’s Garage, Tamarack;
Foscoe Auto Service, Foscoe;
Pitts Esso Station, Blowing
Rock.
Other stations will be ap
proved as necessary equip
ment becomes available.
Information about the new
auto inspection law will be
found on another page of
this edition of the Democrat.
Boy Scouts this year is “Break
through for Youth”, and that in
the local district this means
reaching more of the 1,511 boys
eligible for Scouting programs.
He said this can be done by in
creasing the number of units
and their membership in Boone
and Blowing Rock, and in or
ganization of units in several
other communities in Watauga.
However, in such a large-scale
program, additional Scout lead
ers will be needed.
Mrs. Sherrill
Rites Wednesday
Funeral rites for Mrs. Sallie
Cook Sherrill, 91. of Boone, who
died Sunday after a long illness,
were held last Wednesday after
noon at two o’clock at Boone
Advent Christian Church. Of
ficiating were Rev. Gordon No
ble and Rev. Floyd Boston. Bur
ial was in Piney Grove Ceme
tery.
Mrs. Sherrill, a native of Wa
tauga county, was a daughter
of the late James Cook and
Mary Hodges Cook.
Surviving are three daugh
ters, Mrs. J. C. Hayes of Cumb
erland, Va., Mrs. Edna Pen
nick and Mrs. Annie Vannoy,
both of Boone; two sons, Orrin
Sherrill of Boone and Allan
Sherrill of Plainfield, N. J.;
three sisters, Mrs. Nannie Loyel
of Richmond, Va., Mrs. Addie
Holloway and Mrs. Mollie
Crisp, both of Ruther Glen, Va.;
19 grandchildren and 28 great
grandchildren.
Tax Listing Is
Extended To 21st
The Watauga County Board
of Commissioners have extend
ed the legal tax listing period
through February 21.
The prescribed listing period
ended Feb. 4th, and a penalty
of 11% would have been in or
der after that date, but the
commissioners decided, in view
of the unusually bad weather,
to extend the deadline so that
taxpayers could list their pro
perty without the penalty.
The county tax supervisor
has requested that all concern
ed be sure and visit the court
house and make the required
listings in order to avoid the
penalty which will now be ef
fective Feb. 32.
The supervisor also stated
that prosecution would be con
sidered for those who do not
list st all this year. .'
Following are the units, their
leaders and sponsoring institu
tions for 1965:
In Boone, Cub Pack 109, Wil
liam Dixon, Boone Methodist
Church; Troop 109, Joe Miller,
Boone Methodist; Troop 132,
Paul W. Price, FCX; Explorer
Post 111, John McNeely, First
Presbyterian Church.
In Blowing Rock, Cub Pack
110, Lewis Lentz, Rumple Mem
orial Presbyterian Church mens
class; Troop 110, George Baker,
St. Mary’s Episcopal Church;
Explorer Post 110, James R.
Foster, Blowing Rock Rotary
Club.
Campbell credits these lead
ers with the success of Scouting
here. In 1966, chairman of the
Watauga District Committee
will be Father Ed Smith; vice
j chairman, Paul Smith; and
! District Scout Commissioner,
| Dr. Lawrence Heavrin. Father
Smith and Campbell of Boone,
and Stradley Kipp of Blowing
Rock will represent the Wa
tauga District on the Old Hick
ory Council Executive Board.
Those interested in organiz
ing Scouting units should con
tact these leaders.
DR. JAMES C FURMAN ar
rived in Boone the Hist of the
year to accept a position with
Boone Drug Company. Form
erly of Augusta. Ga, where ha
was employed by Ugfttt Drag
Company for a year. Dr. Fur
man is a registered pharmacist
with a degree from the Univer
sity of Georgia He and his with
Uve at 110 Cherrybrook Lane
with their two sons, Jimmy, 4,
•ad Too, afrit j_
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