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VOLUME LXXIX—NO. 5
WATAUGA DEMOCRAT
An Independent Weekly Newspaper . . . Seventy-Ninth Year of Continuous Publication
BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1966 10 CENTS PER COPY
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Boundaries
Of ASC Areas
Announced
Clyde Moretz, Chairman, Ag
ricultural Stabilization and Con
servation Committee, has an
nounced the designation and
boundaries of each community
where elections of ASC com
munity committees will be held
by mail again this year, August
30 September 9.
The County ASC Committee
has determined that no changes
be made in the 10 community
boundaries. The chairman re
minds farmers that the election
will choose three committeemen
and two altematess for each
community. The chairman,
vice-chairman, and third regular
member of the elected ASC com
mittee will also serve as dele
gates to the county convention
to be held September 26. At
the convention farmers will be
elected to fill vacancies on the
ASC County Committee. The
alternate community committee
men will serve as alternate del
egates to the convention.
Farmers eligible to cast bal
lots in the election will be all
those who are eligible to par
ticipate in one or more of the
national farm programs which
the committeemen help to ad
minister locally. The farmer
may be an owner, tenant, or
sharecropper.
Persons not of legal voting
(Continued on page two)
New Phone Service
Begins August 14th
Direct Distance Dialing, a
new telephone service which
enables customers to dial
many of their own long dis
tance calls, will begin in
Boone on Aug. 14.
W. R. Cooke, Southern Bell
manager here, said that DDD
enables telephone users to
dial their own station-to-sta
tion calls. Operators will still
handle person-t6:t>ers<m calls,
credit card calls, collect calls
and calls from coin phones.
PRETTY BARBARA BAKER of Blowing
Rock seems to be sharing a secret with her
horse, Style Setter, at the central stab^ on
the Blowing Rock Horse Show grounds. Miss
Baker, a summer resident of Blowing Rock,
will be showing in forward seat equitation
and hunter classes during the Aug. 4-7 show.
She has ridden in the Blowing Rock rings
SL/e childhood. In the recent Cove Creek
Horse Show, she won a trophy, and in Lin
ville, over the weekend, won several rib
bons. (Staff photo)
Blowing Rock Horse Show Climax
Of Gay Summer Resort Season
The biggest sports and social
event of the summer, the Blow
ing Rock Charity Horse Show,
opens Aug. 4 this year. It is the
oldest show in the Southeast
and has become such a tradi
tion in Blowing Rock that the
first weekend in August has
been known for years simply as
“Horse Show Weekend”.
This year’s show is the 43rd
held here without missing a
year, even during the gasoline
rationing days of World War
II. Unlike most horse shows,
there are no night classes.
Evenings are reserved for par
ties, many of them for exhibit
ors and their families.
This year’s social agenda for
exhibitors includes a square
dance Thursday night, a dinner
dance at Blowing Rock Country
Club on Friday night, and a pic
nic for junior exhibitors Friday
while their seniors attend a
cocktail party. In addition to
these official parties, there are
two big formal balls, one at
Mayview and the other at the
Country Club on Saturday night,
plus countless private parties.
Although last year's show
drew some of the finest horses
ever exhibited in Blowing Rock,
the board of directors decided
that the Broyhill Park facilities
has served as long as they could
be expected to and decided to
re-design the grounds complete
ly. The area has been land
scaped and spruced up in gen
eral, including a roof for the
600-seat grandstand. Complete
ly new boxes, built in double
tiers for an unobstructed view
of both show rings and the out
side course, will seat another
700 spectators.
There will be unusually con
venient parking, with parking
attendants available. Horse
drawn jitneys will take spec
tators back and forth from the
parking lots to the show area.
An added attraction for mule
admirers will be Bert and Holly,
a brother and sister team of
paint mala# below flag to Hone
Show president C. V. Henkel
of Statesville and Blowing Rock. 1
Bert and Molly, who are nine ]
and 10 years old, respectively, I
will pull one of the jitneys
serving the parking lots. Chil
dren should especially enjoy |
Bert, who greets people with a J
great deal of enthusiastic hee- j
hawing. Another attraction for
children will be the stage coach
that originally ran from Blow
ing Rock to Linville. The coacli
will also be used for transpor
tation around the grounds.
All new construction was
planned to make the show as
convenient as possible for ex
hibitors as well as spectators.
A new permanent central stable
Watauga 4-H Members Take
State Speaking Awards
Janie Shipley, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Shipley of
Vilas, and Ottie Vance, son of
the Rev. and Mrs. Harry Vance
of Route 2, Boone, were win
ners in the Girls’ and Boys’
Public Speaking Contest at
State 4-H Club Week in Raleigh.
Janie spoke on “Why You
Should Develop Your Leader
ship’’.
Ottie Vance spoke on “A
Look at 4-H”.
W. C. Richardson, agricul
tural extension agent, said he
thought that this was the first
time both winners had been
from the same county.
Janie was elected vice presi
dent of the State Council.
Geraldine Dishman partici
pated in the Dress Revue. Mar
sha Farthing participated in
the Health Pageant, and Gene
Swift participated in the To
bacco Demonstration.
Other club members attend
ing from Watauga were Billy
and Von Dishman, Spencer
(Continued on page two)
includes deluxe stalls for 36
horses, with a 25-stall annex.
The central stable also has dor
mitories for grooms, wash area,
central tack room, kitchen and
an apartment for the manager,
Mrs. Charles Goggi of Waxhaw.
Construction is well under way
on an additional 200 permanent
stalls, arranged on a hillside in
rows of 40 each.
All facilities will be available
to the community after the four
day horse show. Broyhill Park
is a natural bowl, ideal for large
outdoors gatherings, and the
horse show organization hopes
to see it used for rallies, pic
nics, dog shows and any other
activity that groups in the com
munity would like to use it for.
Proceeds from the annual
Horse Show itself benefit the
Blowing Hock Community Club.
New events this year include
a hunter breeding division and
a Western pleasure class. Over
500 quality horses will com
pete for $7,500 in prize money
(Continued on page 3, Sec. C)
Governor To Speak At Open
House F or BREMC O F acility
Dedication and open house at
Blue Ridge Electric Member
ship Corporation’s new head
quarters facilities in Lenoir,
North Carolina, Saturday and
Sunday, August 6 and 7, will
mark another milestone in the
growth and development of the
cooperative.
The Honorable Dan K.
Moore, governor of North Car
olina, will dedicate the build
ing in a brief ceremony at 1:31
p. m. Saturday, August 6. The
dedication services will be
carried live over several local
radio stations. -
The mw bMdquwUn facility
is located at the northeast city
limits of Lenoir on U. S. 321
north.
The new facilities consist of
the general and Caldwell Dis
trict office building which
contains 34,000 squire feet of
office si pee, a transportation
center housing 20 units of
transportation and other mo
bile equipment, and a general
warehoue and test laboratory
building. Specially construct
ed racks and platforms for
storage of power poles and
transformers are located In
the rear of the property.
The facilities are erected sew
the center of a 20-acre tract
of land, formerly a part of the
Triplett Dairy Farm at the in
tersection of 321 and the Zacks
Fork Road.
The new office building is
modern in every respect and
of class “A”, fireproof con
struction. The exterior is of
yellow brick with gray stone
aggregate panels inset above
and below windows. The main
entrance, near the center of
the building, is covered with a
canopy, above which are solar
screens backed by colored dif
fusing panels which, at night,
(CoaUaond on paga two)
Movie Executives Show Up
Fess Parker Schedule Is
Moved To Earlier Hour
Star Of Dan’l
Boone Series
To Be Honored
An alteration of plans by Fess
Parker, star of television and
motion pictures, has caused a
change in schedule for Fess
Parker Night, Thursday, Aug.
4, at Horn in the West.
Herman W. Wilcox, manager
of the drama, announces that
Parker will appear on stage at
7:30 p.m. rather than at inter
mission as was planned. The
Horn will begin its regular per
formance at 8:15.
The star of television’s Daniel
Boone series will be honored at
a special dinner at Hound Ears
Lodge and Club shortly after
his arrival in Boone Thursday
afternoon. He will proceed to
the Daniel Boone Ampitheater
after the dinner, and will be ac
companied by several digni
taries.
More than 200 press photo
graphers have been invited to
compete for a $100 prize for the
best published picture of the
Twentieth Century-Fox star in
connection with Horn in the
West.
The star’s final appearance
in the area will be at a combi
nation breakfast - press confer
ence Friday morning, Aug. 5,
atop Grandfather Mountain.
Hugh Morton, owner of the
mountain, will be host for the
event.
In preparation for Parker’s
visit to Daniel Boone Country,
field representatives have al
ready visited the Horn. Ralph
Buring of Twentieth Century
I Fox, Robert Smith of Columbia
■ Pictures and Howard Pearl of
United Artists attended the
I drama Saturday night.
Dick Newman, head publicist
I for Twentieth Century-Fox, Bob
Reese, Parker's traveling secre
tary, and Lloyd Edwards, Twen
tieth Century-Fox manager
from Charlotte, will accompany
Parker during his stay in the
mountains.
Parker has recently filmed
“Smokey” in Hollywood.
Blue Ridge
Wagon Train
Rolls Next Week
West Jefferson, Aug. 1—The
Blue Ridge Wagon Train is
scheduled from Aug. 9 through
Aug. 13.
Wagons, buggies, ox carts and
horses will be included in the
wagon train. To date 116 wag
ons and 335 horses have regis
tered to take part, with more
expected to enter before the
event starts. Those on the train
will wear clothes typical of pio
neer days.
Participants are from North
and South Carolina, Tennessee,
Virginia, and as far away as
Pennsylvania, Ohio and Texas.
The group will gather at Mil
lers Creek, Wilkes County, on
Aug. 9 and camp there the first
night. The second camping will
be at Parsonsville on Aug. 10
at the foot of the Blue Ridge
Mountain. On Aug. 11, the train
will cross the Blue Ridge Moun
tain and camp that night at
Obids, in Ashe County. Friday
morning, Aug. 12, they will
travel from Obids to Green
field Acres, between Jefferson
and West Jefferson.
Greenfield Acres is a large
farm with the farm house con
verted into a restaurant of fine
foods. They also have riding
stables, camping facilities and
fish lakes.
There will be entertainment
(Coctinuod os pt|« two)
Presstime report from the office of Horn in
the West was that tickets for Fess Parker
Night, Thursday, are getting to be in short
supply. The famed star of the Daniel Boone
series will arrive in Boone shortly before he
appears on the stage of the Daniel Boone
Amphitheater. Parker will be on stage at
7:30 p. m.
Judges Named For Pickle,
Pound Cake Contest Here
Three Watauga County home
economists have been named
judges in Beth Tartan’s Pickles
and Pound Cake Contest Friday
in Boone.
Any resident of Watauga may
bring pickles and pound cake
to the judging at 11 a m. Fri
day at the office of Mrs. Lillian
Danner, Watauga County home
economics agent, in the Hock
Building, the Court House An
nex.
Judges will be Mrs. Dave
Smith, Mrs. Roy Harmon and
Miss Agnes Gray Shipley, all
home economics teachers.
The judges will select win
ners in sweet and sour pickle
classes and junior and senior
divisions for pound cakes. Con
testants in the pound cake
junior division must be 18 years
old or younger. Other contest
ant details may be obtained
from Mrs. Danner.
The four winners will receive
$25 U. S. Savings Bonds and
Boone Candidate
Goes To Vietnam,
Soldiers from the Ninth Dis
trict may be surprised in the
next three weeks to find a Con
gressional candidate from
| Boone walking alongside them
in the fields of Vietnam.
Robert Bingham, who is run
I ning for Congress on the Demo
cratic ticket, announced Tues
day morning that he will
familiarize himself with the
problems of the Southeast Asia
conflict and bring back first
hand knowledge of the efforts
and successes of the United
States in the Vietnam war.
“Traveling through the dis
trict in the past four months, I
have found that the greatest
concern of the people is the
Vietnam iituttton,M Bingham
said. He said "If anyone in the
district would like me to de
liver a message to a son or re
lative, they can wire me at the
American Embassy, in Viet
nam."
Bingham left Boone Tues
day morning, and departed
from San Francisco by plane
that afternoon.
Bingham, said he will be able
to meet and talk with men from
the Ninth District at their field
posts because of special State
Department clearance. He was
in the Airborne and Ranger
Corps of the U. S. Army three
years, and said he received the
same unconventional warfare
training now being used in Viet
un.
Beth Tartan Cookbooks, pre
sented by the Winston-Salem
Journal and Sentinel.
They will also be invited to
I compete against other county
winners in the grand finals in
Winston-Salem Saturday, Sept.
| 17, when the best pickle makers
and pound cake bakers of North
| west North Carolina and South
I west Virginia will be selected.
To the grand champions the
Journal and Sentinel will pre
sent $200 in cash prizes and
other awards.
Cakes, Pickles
May Be Bought
Those attending the Beth
Tartan Pickle and Pound Cake
Contest Friday in the Home
Agent's Office will have an op
portunity to purchase all goods
on display.
At 11 a. m., Friday, Watauga
County cooks will be competing
in two divisions: Junior, for
teenagers; and the senior divi
sion. Junior contestants (18
and under) and senior contest
ants (19 and older) should
have their cakes and pickles at
the Home Economics Extension
Agents Office by 10:30 a. m.
Proceeds from the sale, which
will follow judging, will go to
the County 4-H Development
Fund.
For further information, can*
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