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VOLUME LXXVHI—NO. 44
BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROUNA, THURSDAY, APRIL 28,1966
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SPRING BLOSSOMS IN BRIGHT CONTRAST WITH AN EVERGREEN IN BACKGROUND
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NewRural Telephone Exchange
Service Starts Next Saturday
Mr. G. W. Edwards, Presi
dent 'of Skyline Telephone
Membership Corporation, has
announced that plans are com
plete for initiating service in
the Cooperative’s new Watauga
exchange at midnight, Satur
day, April 30—May 1.
This will be the second of
two exchanges in Watauga
County now serving approxi
mately 1,200 members. Service
in the Sugar Grove exchange
commenced in 1957 with ap
proximately 250 members. This
exchange was recently greatly
expanded with new equipment.
For the past eight (8) months
a contractor has been working
for the Cooperative installing
heavier cables for the new
Watauga exchange as well as
the Sugar Grove exchange. Mr.
J. H. McGuire, Manager, point
ed out that much of the new
cable has been buried where it
is less susceptable to damage
and trouble than aerial cable.
Mr. McGuire advised that this
Democrats To
Hold Convention
Here May 14th
The Democratic County Con
vention will be held Saturday,
May 14, at 2 p.m. at the court
house for the purpose of elect
ing delegates to the State Con
vention, it is announced by
James A. Dugger, chairman.
, The Executive Committee will
jhto meet at that time to name
a Chairman of the Committee
for the ensuing two years. Pre
cinct meetings will be held May
X■ at 2 o'clock at the various
voting places to elect precinct
committees * and delegate! to
Mm county oflfaatML •.
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new exchange and cable plant
is another step in the plans of
the Cooperative to provide im
proved service in the rural
areas of Watauga County.
Equipment and basic cable
plant are provided for reducing
the number on party lines
from 8 to 4 and furnishing one
and two party service at a rea
sonable rate. Extensions from
the basic cable plant will be re
quired in many areas before
the regarding can be complet
ed. It will take several months
to install the necessary exten
sion of lines to regrade all
members, as well as add ap
proximately 200 applicants foi
service.
Skyline now has 6,000 phones
connected in five counties. Nine
exchanges are in operation witt
two others scheduled for com
pletion in Alleghany County it
July, 1966.
APPEARS AT APPALACHIAN ARTS FESTIVAL—Nell Ran
kin, mezzo-soprano of the Metropolitan Opera and called one
of the great Carmens of the age, will appear in concert at,
Appalachian State Teachers College on Thursday, April 28.
She will appear in Greer Hall at 8 p. m. Miss Rankin’s con
cert marks the opening of the spring Arts Festival at the col
lege. The Festival runs through May 7 and also will feature
the appearances of Charleen Whisnant, editor of the Red Clay
Reader, and Edwin Grzesnikowski, violinist and artist in resi
dence at the University of Kentucky. Mrs. Whisnant will ap
pear at 8 p. m. on Monday, May 2, and Mr. Grzesnikowski will
Mo* the festivalto a conclusion on Saturday, May 7, at 8 p. a.
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WAMY One Of Better Efforts
Courthouse
Plans Being
Gone Over
The Watauga County Board
of Commissioners have receiv
ed preliminary plans for the
proposed Watauga County
Courthouse to be built on the
site of the present courthouse
structure.
County Tax Supervisor Ralph
Greene said that the plans call
for a modernistic two - story
building of brick veneer, with
partial basement, measuring
122 feet by 97 feet and facing
West King Street as does the
present Courthouse.
, Greene said the plans have
not been accepted, but that the
Commissioners are studying
them, especially as regards the
layout of floor space. The plans
are at Greene’s office in the
Courthouse.
Estimated cost of the new
building is around $400,000, he
said.
County Students
To Aid In Drive
For Handicapped
Students of all the schools
in Watauga County will partici
pate in a drive, May 9-17, to
collect donations of used clo
thing, shoes, toys, rags and
small appliances for the Good
will Industries in Winston
Salem, N. C.
These discards make avail
able vocational training and
jobs for many blind, crippled
and handicapped persons from
all over North Carolina. Per
haps you have some of these
articles gathering dust at your
house and would like to do your
part.
Students from these schools
will be glad to accept your
generous donations. Assist these
students in filling their Good
will bags, and you will be help
ing a disabled person to get a
new lease on life by giving him
a means of vocational therapy.
Goodwill Industries is a char
itable, non-profit agency which
gives jobs and vocational train
ing to 140 handicapped persons
each day. These handicapped
persons launder, clean, repair
and sell the used clothing,
shoes, toys and other donations.
These handicapped persons rep
resent many of the counties of
North Carolina. Won’t you give
today, that they may work to
morrow?
Research Grants
Are Announced
The Appalachian Regional
Commission announced Satur
day the award of two research
contracts totaling $264,600 for
an industry location study and
a recreation study in the Appa
lachian area.
The $196,000 industry study,
the commission said, will help
determine how the competitive
position of the region can be
enhanced through coordinated
programs of public investment.
In it, the Fantus Co. of New
York, a subsidiary of Dun It
Bradstreet, Inc., will make a
detailed evaluation of factors af
fecting the location of new and
expanded industrial facilities Of
25 industries expected to have
growth potential in the region.
The $69,600 recreation study
will be made by Robert R. Na
than Associates and Resource
Planning Associates of Wash
ington. The commission said it j
will help provide the informa
tion needed to assess the im
pact of recreation on regional
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ASTC STUDENT CENTER—Despite a re
cent illness of George Durden, Superin
tendent for Juno Construction Company, and
the fact that several workers have been out
with influenza, the foundations are in, and
the columns and walls are going up on the
Student Center beside the College Book
Store. A spokesman for Juno Construction
says that the contractors are right on
schedule.
$208,000 Student Center To
Be Dedicated By Baptists
A new Baptist Student Center,
erected at a cost of $208,000
and designed to serve students
at Appalachian State Teachers
College, will be dedicated on
Sunday, May 15, as the climax
to a week of special services.
Speakers during the “Week
of Dedication” preceding the
dedicatory service will include
Dr. Warren Carr, pastor of Wake
Forest Baptist Church; Arthur
Driscoll, administrative consult
ant from the student department
of the Southern Baptist Conven
tion, Nashville, Tenn.; Dr. W.
Perry Crouch, executive secre
tary of the Baptist State Con
vention of North Carolina; Rev.
James Y. Greene, former Bap
tist Student Union director at
Appalachian and presently a
Harmon Seeks
Area House Seat
George M. Harmon of Beech
Creek in Avery County has
filed as a candidate for the
North Carolina House of Re
presentatives for the district
GEORGE M. HARMON
comprising Watauga, Avery
and Mitchell counties.
His bid will be subject to
Republican primary on May
Harmon is retired from
Postal Service, under which he
was postmater 10 years; he is
a veteran of World War I, and
now is a merchant
Harmon is married, haa a
daughter and a grandchild. He
and, his wife attend the Beech
VauBr Baptist Church.
missionary to Korea;. Rev. J.
Boyce Brooks, pastor of the
First Baptist Church of Boone,
and Rev. Henry W. Greer, Bap
tist campus chaplain at Appa
lachian.
Rev. Mr. Brooks will preach
the dedicatory sermon at 11 a.
m. Sunday, May 15, with Rev.
Greer conducting an outdoor
service in front of the new cen
ter at 11:45 a. m.
Dr. Carr will speak ^t two
services each on Sunday, Mon
day and Tuesday, May 8, 9 and
10. His series will include five
lectures on "A Dialogue Be
tween the New Reformers and
Free Churchmen" following an
opening worship service Sunday
at 6 p. m. on "The essentiality
of Form.”
Driscoll will speak at 7:30
p. m. Wednesday, May 11, on
“The Southern Baptist Conven
tion, Ministers to The College
Campus."
Dr. Crouch will speak at 7:30
p. m. Thursday, May 12, on “The
Baptist State Convention—Part
ner With the Local Church in
Ministering to the College Cam
pus.”
An open house is scheduled
for 7:30 p. m. Friday, May 13,
and on Saturday Rev. Greene
will speak on “The Baptist Stu
dent Union Looks Backward—
and Forward” at 7 p. m.
The new structure, which is
adjacent to the First Baptist
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New Parking
Rules Set
No more indiscriminate
parking will be permitted
on the Street, it has been
decided by the city coun
cil.
Heretofore, when a car
had been once ticketed, it
might remain parked ail
day. In the future, Mayor
Brown says, cars will be
ticketed every time the
meter checker makes the
rounds.
The public parking lot
at North Depot and Queen
Streets will be open May
1.
Andrews To Head
New River Assoc.
The New River Valley Deve
lopment Association met in
West Jefferson Monday even
ing, April 18, and elected Glenn
Andrews of Boone to the presi
dency of the organization.
Andrews succeeds Gwyn
Gambill of Ashe County. He is
owner of Andrews Chevrolet,
Inc., on North Depot Street
Elected vice-presidents are
R. C. Mitchell of Alleghany
County and Paul Byer of Ashe
County.
Clayborn Sheets of West Jef
ferson was re-elected secretary
treasurer. > ;
Poverty And .
Its Caused I
AreDiscussed
BY RACHEL RIVERS
John E. Hurray, N. C. Fund
Community Education Special
ist, addressed a meeting of the
Mayor’s Committee Wednesday,
April 20, in the conference room
of City Hall
Murray told the group he
wished to put into focus the
local work of the WAMY organ
isation and later showed how
$916,000 tax dollars could be
added to county books through
development of the program.
He said WAMY is one of the
Fund’s 11 projects in North Car
olina, and added that it is one
of the better developed in the
state. He named the poverty
program of Craven County and
that of WAMY—Watauga, Av
ery, Mitchell and Yancey coun
ties as the two best, and outlin
ed the local program in the con
text of the entire problem in
North Carolina.
“The problem of poverty
must be surmounted if North
Carolina is to become a first
class state. It is not impossible
that North Carolina be on the
level of Pennsylvania, New York
W California”—considering the
resources available, be jsajdL.
Foresight
“Our state,” Murray said,
“has led in the notion of war
against poverty.”
The North Carolina Fund was
planning to do battle against
poverty one year before the
Federal Government. He said
that former Governor Terry San
ford and other interested indi
viduals requested and ultimate
ly received $7 million from The
Ford Foundation toward a pov
erty program for North Caro
lina.
An additional Vk million was
received from The Smith-Ray
nolds Foundation and The Bab
cock foundation.
The North Carolina Fund is
not in the give-away business,
Murray said. “We are a re
search organization, which de
vised a five-year program to dis
cover why people are poor, why
they remain poor and how to get
them out of the rut of poverty.
We do not believe that laziness
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Over 200 School Official
To Attend Area Gathering *
Plans have been completed
for the annual District School
Board meeting scheduled for
Thursday, April 28 at Watauga
High School.
Registration and open house
will begin at 4 p. m. followed
by panel discussions at 3 with
the general theme of Federal
Aid To Communities.
The meeting will be conclud
ed with a banquet in the
school cafeteria at 6:15. J. E.
Hiller, Assistant State Super
intendent of Public Instruction,
will make the address at the
banquet, r ; ‘ ", ,:f»
District !&.,«< tha Stain
School Boards Association is
composed of school administra
tive units in Avery County,
Burke County, Morgan ton, Glen
Alpine, Caldwell County, Le
noir, and Watauga County. H.
W. Mast, Jr., member of the
Watauga County Board of Edu
cation, is president of the Dis
trict Association and will pre
side at the meeting. Other of
ficers are Martha Guy, mem
ber of the Avery County Board
of Education, vice-president,
and N. A. Miller, Principal,
Watauga High School, secre
i .x.
the panel discussions are Dr.
Woodrow Sugg, Director, Com
munity School Improvement
Project, State Department of
Public Instruction; Ernest Ep
pley, Executive Director,
WAMY Community Action,
Inc.; and J. E. Killer, Assist
ant State Superintendent of
Public Instruction. Clyde R.
Erwin, Jr., Executive Secretary
of the State School Boards A»
sociation, will be present and
participate in the overall pro.
gram. Over 300 school board
members, committeemen, and -