Ahead In Carolina'
The Democrat led all N. C. weeklies
W1965 Press Assn, contests. Four
first place awards included the one
for General Excellence.
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Contracts Let For Student Center
General Contractor Juno Construction Company o&Charlotte is
busy moving dirt for ASTC’s Student Center next to the Col
lege’s Book Store. The Center, which is scheduled for occup
ancy in the fall of 1967, will cost in excess of $1,275,000. Juno’s
low bid was $799,900. Other contractors are Tomlinson
Plumbing & Heating, Ingold Company (heat and air condition
ing), and Electric Wiring Company, all of Hickory; Food
Equipment Contract Company, Raleigh; Dixie Radio and Sup
ply Company (electronics), Charlotte; and Clemmer, Horton,
Bush & Associates of Hickory are the architects. The two
story building will feature an outdoor patio built out of native
stone.
Boone Man Is Democratic
Candidate For Congress
EMMETT OLIVER
Oliver Runs
For Sheriff
Emmett Oliver filed his cand
idacy Friday for Sheriff of Wa
tauga County, subject to the
Democratic May primary.
Mr. Oliver has been engaged
most of his life in farming and
lumbering operations. He serv
ed 714 years as Chief Deputy
Sheriff of Watauga County un
der Sheriff E. M. Hodges, and
has been Constable in New Riv
er township for 2 years.
Thomas Rhudy Bryan, Sr.,
Wilkesboro attorney, announced
he is a candidate for the state
senate in the district composed
of Wilkes, Yadkin, Davie and
Robert Bingham, 27, of
Boone, plunked down his filing
fee at the eleventh hour last
Friday to become the Demo
cratic candidate for Congress
in the ninth district, to oppose
incumbent James Broyhill in
the general election.
Another youthful candidate,
Joe Alan Gambill, Wilkesboro
lawyer, was also in Raleigh to
file but withdrew to prevefil' a
Democratic primary race. “
It had appeared all along
that Broyhlll might get what
politicians call a “free ride”
—that is would retain his
seat by default in a district
which has been twice chang
ed by a Democratic legisla
ture to give added Republi
can strength. It had been
Medicare Blanks
Made Available
Postmaster Ralph Beshears
of Boone announced today that
application blanks for supple
mental Medicare benefits are
available at the General Deli
very window of the Boone Post
Office.
The application blanks are
being made available as the
Social Security Administration
seeks to contact 3.1 million sen
ior citizens before a March 31
deadline imposed by the Medi
care law.
President Johnson has pro
claimed March as “National
Medicare Enrollment Month.”
He urged all federal agencies
Wilkes Man Seeks
State Senate Seat
Watauga counties, subject to the
Republican primary.
Hr. Bryan is the first Wilkes
man to announce for the office.
F. D. B. Harding of Yadkin
vilie, previously stated his in
tention to seek another term.
Harding also is a Republican.
Mr. Bryan was born and rear
ed in Traphili. He attended
high school at Traphili and
graduated at North Wilkesboro.
He attended Berea College at
Berea, Ky., and graduated from
the John Randolph Neai College
of Law at Knoxville, Term., and
was admitted to the bar in
1838. He also has been licens
ed to practice law in U. S. Dis
trict Courts, U. S. Circuit Courts
and Supreme Court of the Unit
ed States. He is past master
of Liberty Masonic Lodge in
Wilkesboro and has an honor
ary membership in every Ma
sonic Lodge in Wilkes County.
He is a member of Wilkesboro
and all citizens to cooperate in
enrolling senior citizens in the
program.
Initially, some two and one
half million application blanks
were distributed to nearly 34,
000 main post offices through
out the 50 states. Additional
forms are available as needed.
Through direct mailings and
other means, the Social Secur
ity Administration has had con
tact with 16 of the 19.1 million
citizens who will be 65 or over
on July 1. Of the 16 million
who replied, less than one mil
lion said they did not want to
sign up for the supplemental
program.
The supplemental program
costs $3 a month and provides
doctor bill and other benefits.
Everyone 65 and over is eligible
for the basic hospital benefits
under Uedicare.
A copy of the application
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thought by many that with
Wilkes added since the last
election, there would be no
Democrat willing to make the
race.
But young Mr. Bingham,
while he admits an uphill fight
says he aims to win the ninth
district seat.
A son of Mr. and Mrs. W. S.
Bingham of Boone, he is a
grandson of the late Dr. R. K.
Bingham, and a great-grandson
of Major Bingham, noted law
year and legal instructor who
lived in Statesville.
In a prepared statement,
ROBERT BINGHAM
Bingham paid tribute to Broy
hill as an attractive candidate,
a man of honor and intelli
gence and a loyal and respected
citizen, but added, “He is a
Republican.”
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Blue Ridge Garden Club
To Build Entrance Sign
The Bine Ridge Garden Club baa voted to be respon
sible for the construction, planting and maintenance of
one entrance sign to Boone.
A spokesman for the club said Blue Ridge has taken
on this responsibility, ahead of the May meeting of the
Garden Council, in order to facilitate immediate progress
toward the Boone sign project.
Sign Chairman Rachel Rivers says the dub may have
its choice of signs, since it Is the first group to take on
suck a program. Blue Ridge is deliberating between the
entrance sign proposed for Highway XU and the one for
Highway 421 east of Boone.
Two locations, south and west, have yet to be de
termined.
Pioneer Event
Gets National
Eye, Says Moore
BY RACHEL RIVERS
North Wilkesboro’s Ivey
Moore, Chief Scout of the Dan
iel Boone Wagon Train, says
“There is a probability we will
have close to 100 wagons on the
1966 trip.”
Last year, there were 83
wagons, although that number
was not represented in the af
ternoon parade through Boone.
Moore explained that many of
them had to pull out Saturday
morning.
This year’s Wagon Train par
ade will be at 10 a. m., Satur
day, July 2, and the procession
will make its way through
North Wilkesboro the Monday
before. Moore says the change
will mean the train can head
for Boone early on Tuesday,
June 28, and arrive in Fergu
son about 1 p. m. Formerly,
the parades were held on Tues
day morning, and this threw
the old-style travelers into the
heat of the day reaching the
Ferguson camp.
Wagon Train President Clyde
R. Greene of Boone, says he is
still looking for property for
the Boone camp of the Wagon
Train. Perkinsville property
used last year will not be avail
able this summer.
D. B. In Chicago
Moore recently returned from
the Chicago International Boat,
Outdoor & Travel Show, where
he portrayed the character,
Daniel Boone. The Wilkesboro
man wore his skins, coon skin
cap and carried his antique
rifle, as he does on the trail
each summer.
While on the 10-day tour with
Bill Henley, Director of the De
partment of Conservation, Hen
ley’s assistant, and Miriam
Rabb with the State Travel
Bureau, Moore passed out 1,500
to 2,000 Horn in the West bro
chures—only to interested per
sons, he cautioned—and gave
all the infromation he could to
those who said they were in
terested in retiring here.
The Chicago Show is the
largest single boat show in the
country, Moore says. Ticket
sales one night were 69,000,
and as many as 346,000 admis
sions were paid in a single day.
Moore said everything from
canoes to $180,000 yacths were
on the floor, and displays re
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Scenes of last year’s Daniel Boone Wagon
Train bring back to Ivey Moore, Chief
Scout, memories of other treks and prompts
stories of his travels in behalf of the
Wagon Train. Two years ago in Toronto,
Moore met up with Bob Hope, and invited
the famed celebrity to come south for the
annual event. (Staff photo)
State Travel Industry
Reaches Billion Dollars
Gov. Dan Moore disclosed
Monday in Statesville that 30
million out-of-state visitors trav
eled through North Carolina in
1965, helping boost the value
of the state travel industry to
more than one billion dollars.
Moore said 1965 was the sec
ond successive year that travel
and tourism topped the t>ne bil
lion mark. But, he added,
North Carolina still has not
reached its full potential and
programs are being developed
to bring more visitors to the
state and to keep them here
longer.
In a speech at the annual
j meeting of the North Carolina
Travel Council, Moore said:
“The industry’s 1965 volume
actually reached $1.22 billion,
an increase of $127 million over
1964. Of last year’s total $1.1
billion represented receipts of
travel service businesses and
$52 million resulted from pass
enger transportation.
The out-of-state visitors, the
governor continued, contributed
$115 million to the personal in
come in North Carolina and an
other $23 million to state rev
enue.
Moore said one problem in
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Fees To Be Charged At
Scott Dam; Parkway (?)
The W. Kerr Scott Dam and
Reservoir project in the Yad
kin River near Wilkesboro is
included in federally controll
ed recreation areas for which
user fees will be charged.
James E. Mason, reservoir
manager, said last week he had
received orders to collect the
fees.
The fees, to be collected
from May 28 until Labor Day,
range from an annual permit
for $7 down to 50 cents for one
day for one persons.
The release from the office
of the chief of engineers, U. S.
Corps of Engineers, stated the
fee system is in accordance
with the Land and Water Con
servation Act of 1965, which
authorizes the President to pro
vide for establishment of en
trance, admission and user fees
at designated federal recrea
tlea areas,
*
Directors of the Wilkes
Chamber of Commerce passed
a resolution opposing the
charging of fees at the dam
To Make Plans
For Horse Show
Friday Night
Plans are now being made for
the third annual Cove Creek
Horse Show.
A meeting of interested per
sons will be held Friday night,
March 25, at 7;30 at the Cove
Creek Elementary School. The
Mountaineer Ruritan Club and
FFA is again sponsoring the
show. The clubs will welcome
suggestions for improvements
and additions to the show or
omissions of certain classes of
competition. i
tf-ii
and reservoir. The resolution
will be forwarded to the sec
retary of the interior, members
of the North Carolina congres
sional delegation and U. S.
Sens. Sam J. Ervin Jr. and B.
Everett Jordan.
The Chamber of Commerce
was a leading force in the
long fight to get the flood
control dam on the Yadkin,
along with its recreational
areas. The chamber also led
the campaign for Wilkes
County to pay a part of the
cost of the project, the re
creational faculties being a
factor.
Mason, the reservoir man
ager, said that the Department
of the Interior has prescribed
these fees for ' the reservoir
area:
1. Annual—good far admie
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Faster Mail
For Soldiers
Gets House OK
The House voted 303 to t
Monday to speed mail deliv
ery for U. S. troops serving
abroad.
It quickly passed and sent
to the Senate a bill that
would require the Post Off
ice to send via air mail all
first class letters, publica
tions and certain packages
mailed to servicemen over
seas. Senders wouid pay
regular rates for surface
transportation of mall.
Also included was a pro
vision that would permit
members of the armed forces
in combat areas such as Viet
Nam to mail personalised
tape recordings home free.
Troops in other overseas
posts could send their tape
recordings by air while pay
ing only for surface rates.
Eggers Attends
FLB Meeting
In Columbia
Mr. S. C. Eggers, member of
the board of directors of the
Federal Land Bank of Colom
bia, if expected to return Wed
nesday evening from Columbia,
S. C„ where he went Monday
in line with his official duties.
Mr. Eggers was accompanied
to Columbia by Mr. J. A. Mut