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VOLUME LXXIX—NO. 1*
BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1066
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The George P. Hagaman home on Cherry Brook
Lane has been purchased by the Worthwhile
Woman’s Club for use as a club house. (West
on photo)
Worthwhile Club Members
Approve Buying Clubhouse
In 1923, the Worthwhile
Woman’s Club of Boone began
a drive for funds to build or
buy a club house. Mrs. W. C.
Greer, a charter member cur
rently vacationing in Florida,
gave a check for $50 toward
the project.
Ai one time, other members
voted to give $25 apiece.
Saturday, at a special meet
ing of the Club, Mrs. Paul
Weston, president, presided as
33 members present voted
unanimously to purchase the
residence of the late Mr. and
Mrs. George P. Hagaman. The
meeting was held in the home
at 100 Cherrybrook Lane, and
Mrs. Weston said some mem
bers voted approval by proxy.
Over the years, the club has
put on plays and conducted
sales to add to the building
fund. They have worked long
hours in many projects—one,
coooperating with Horn in the
West in running the Gift Shop
and Country Store.
175 Public School
People To Attend
ASTC Conference
Approximately 175 public,,
school principals and teachers
jyill attend a Comprehensive
$chool Improvement Project
Conference at Appalachian
State Teachers College here
Friday and Saturday.
The educators attending the
conference, which is to be
sponsored by ASTC and the
State Department of Public
Instruction, will represent
schools located in the Western
halt of North Carolina which
have CSIP consultants.
The conference will open
with a dinner meeting at 6:30
p. m. Friday at the Chalet
Restaurant. Mrs. Mae Frank
lin, of Salem, Va., will be the
featured speaker.
Registration and a general
meeting will be held in Dun
can Hall on Saturday morn
ing. Four group meetings will
then be staged in the same
UUllUlIlg.
Discussion leaders for the
group meetings will be Mrs.
Lillian Ellison of Elon College
Elementary School, Miss Ber
nice McMurray of Charlotte
Mecklenburg Schools, Mrs.
Leona Owens of Herring
School and Robert McDarris
of Weaverville School.
The Comprehensive School
Improvement Project, which
is a unique “seeding” pro
gram established upon the re
commendation of former Gov.
Terry Sanford, is jointly fin
anced by the state Board of
Education and the Ford
Foundation through the North
Carolina Fund. The experi
mental project, now in its
second year, is the only one of
its kind underway in the
United States.
The general purposes of
CSIP are directed toward im
proved instruction at the pri
mary level and to provide for
the establishment of Summer
Readiness Programs for cul
turally disadvantaged children
who are scheduled to enter
the first grade. The project
encourages e x p e rimentation
and evaluation of promising
ideas and practices, the deve
lopment of possible guidelines
for further directions to edu
cation, the promotion of
means and criteria for initiat
ing in-service education pro
grams for teachers, aides, ad
ministrators and other public
school personnel.
The primary objectives of
the project are:
To re-design the curricu
lum, particularly in reading,
writing and arithmetic, and
methods of instruction used
with children of various back
grounds of abilities, values
and experiences.
To reorganize the way the
school day and year is allocat
ed and the way students are
grouped for instruction so
that better provision can be
made for individual differenc
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A Christmas Bazaar and
bake sale are on the agenda.
The club has on account
something more than half the
money required to “seal the
deal”, but Mrs. Weston says
that many citizens of the com
munity have expressed defi
nite interest in the club house
project, and those who wish to
make a contribution, she says,
may contact Mrs. P. H. Vance,
Sr., treasurer.
Having a club house is the
realization of a dream of
many years’ work on the part
of the members, according to
Mrs. John G. Barden, secre
tary. Mrs. L. L. Bingham and
Mrs. W. G. Hartzog, Sr., two
other charter members, recall
that the fund was started in
November of 1923.
Mrs. Weston says the Haga
man family has donated the
handsome furnishings of the
home to be used by the club.
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appreciates everything the
members have done in work
ing together, especially the
assistance given by Mrs. Her
man Wilcox.
The president says the house
is in excellent condition and
will not require repairs.
Hardware Is
Robbed Twice
Of Guns, Shells
Farmers Hardware was rob
bed of rifles, shotguns and
ammunition sometime Friday
night, Nov. 4. Police Chief Hu
bert Thomas said a set of
walkie-talkie radios was listed
as missing also.
The theft was reported to
police about 7:45 a.m. Satur
day.
Oct. 22 was the date of an
other robbery of the Hard
ware. Guns and ammunition
were stolen sometime during
the night, and the break-in
was reported the following
Monday morning when the
Hardware was getting ready
to open.
Thomas said entrance was
gained the same way in both
cases. A wire gate was prop
ped against the building and
a window broken out.
Burley Warehouse Sales
To Start November 28
The hurley tobacco ware
houses will open their 1966
67 sales season Nov. 28, it was
announced at the recent meet
ing of the Burley Sales Com
mittee.
It was decided that a Christ
mas holiday will begin at the
close of the sales Dec. 20 and
that auctions shall be resumed
Jan. 4.
The sales will be conducted
on a basis of no more than
1,260 baskets per day per set
of buyers (that is, 360 basket!
per hour for hours). Sale*
will be conducted daily except
Saturdays and Sundays.
The Committee, besides th*
routine resolutions, adopted
one requesting the Commodity
Stalilization Service to have
the ASC Committees ask their
warrant writers on each mar
ket to report the daily sales
of each warehouse to the head
inspector of the Agricultural
Marketing Service on that
market.
Another resolution regard
ing delivering and weighing
hurley tobacco follows:
Whereas, The Burley Sales
Committee is interested in
having tobacco delivered in
proper order to the ware
houses to prevent fat utems
and excessive abort weights;
and,
Whereas, It is now a pro
vision of the contracts between
cooperative associations and
warehouses that tobacco that
is weighed prior to 10 days
before the opening of the mar
ket will be ineligible for price
supports; and,
Whereas, It is also a pro
vision of the Standard Buyers'
Conditions of Sale that to
bacco cannot be officially
weighed prior to 10 days be
fore the opening of the mar
ket;
Now, Therefore, Be It Re
solved, That the Burley Sales
Committee recommend and
urge all farmers not to deliver
and all warehousemen not to
receive and officially weigh
tobacco prior to Nov. 18, 1968.
Court House Approved
Democrats Elect Sheriff,
Board of Commissioners
Legion To
Celebrate
There will be a Veterans’
Day celebration and covered
dish supper at the Legion Hut
Friday, Nov. 11 at 6:30 p.m.
given by the American Legion
and Auxiliary, Watauga Post
Unit No. 130.
All members and friends
are invited to attend and
bring a covered dish.
Woman’s Club
Prepares For
Seals Campaign
Members of the Boone
Worthwhile Woman’s Club
met in the home of Mrs. P. H.
Vance, Sr., Friday for the
purpose of getting underway
the 60th Annual Christmas
Seal Campaign for the Alle
ghany-Ashe-Watauga Tubercu
losis Association.
The program was under the
direction of Mrs. R. T. Draug
hon of West Jefferson, execu
tive director, and Charles H.
Blackburn, Jr., chairman of
the Christmas Seals Campaign.
The day was spent in pre
aring letters containing Christ
mas Seals and a personal let
jy,fftqgq Blackburn for mail
ing to citizens of this area.
Blackburn, a local business
man, civic leader and farmer,
has been appointed the 1966
Christmas Seal Campaign
Chairman, according to the
Watauga Tuberculosis Associa
tion.
Christmas Seals fight tu
berculosis and other respira
tory diseases, and information
on tuberculosis, chronic bron
chitis, hay fever, emphysema,
asthma and cigarette smoking
may be obtained by writing
The Watauga Tuberculosis As
sociation, P. O. Box 431, Boone.
The Seal Campaign conveys
a personal and urgent mess
age to respond, and it is sug
gested that this is an excellent
way to begin Christmas shop
ping. The association will be
grateful for any interest and
support.
The following club members
volunteered their services in
this project: Mrs Ruby Wes
ton, club president; Mrs.
Vance, Mrs. G. C. Greene, Sr.,
Mrs. Frank McCracken, Mrs.
Herman Wilcox, Mrs. Demp
sey Wilcox, Mrs. Glenn An
drews, Mrs. Homer Brown, Dr
Ella Hardin, Mrs. Lucy Car
roll, Mrs. J. V. Caudill, Mrs.
John G. Barden and Mrs. Lucy
Honeycutt, who is from Spruce
Pine.
Hailing T. B. Association Letters—Members
of the Boone Worthwhile Woman's Club who
helped mail Christmas Seal letters Friday
(seated, 1-r) Mrs. G. R. Andrews, Mrs. G. C
Greene Sr., Mrs. Frank McCracken, Mrs. J. V.
Caudill, Mrs. Phil Vance Sr., Mrs. Herman
Wilcox, Mrs. D. L. Wilcox, Mrs. John Barden,
Dr. Ella Hardin and Mrs. Lester Carroll.
Standing are Mrs. D. L. Draughon, Mrs. Hom
er Brown and Mrs Lucy Honeycutt. (Weston
photo)
WHERE DAN’L LIVED—This log cabin on
the campus of Appalachian State Teachers
College, stands within a few yards of the site
of the cabin once used as a hunting lodge
by Daniel Boone.
Historical Group Names
Executive Committee
The Board of Director* of
the Southern Appalachian His
torical Association Monday ap
proved a slate of executive
committee members presented
by Dr. Ray Lawrence, SAHA’s
executive vice-president.
The following chairmen and
their committees were elected
at the noon meeting:
Herman R. Eggers, produc
tion committee — Dr. W. H.
Plemmons, Phil Smith, Dr. R.
H. Harmon and Mrs. Carrie
Winkler.
G. R. Andrews, finance —
Ned Trivette, Jake Caudill,
James Marsh, Mrs. Lee Reyn
olds and Lynn Holaday.
Grady Farthing, public re
lations—J. E. Holshouser, Jr.,
Wade Brown, Rev. Richard
Crowder and Clyde Greene.
Mrs. B. W. Stallings, mem
“Happy Dan’l Boone Days”
Northampton, Mass., Nov. 1—National recognition of
Daniel Boone’s birthday on Nov. 2 is being promoted by
a Northampton businessman whose first printing of a
‘‘Happy Daniel Boone Day” contemporary card is just
about a sell-out.
Gerald G. Newell, president treasurer of the Vermont
Store Inc., uses a painting by Chester Harding, American
artist celebrated for the accuracy of his likenesses, on the
cover of his card.
The portrait, painted in the summer of 1820 just
before Boone’s death on Sept. 26, shows him at the age
of 86.
“The colonel was quite feeble and had to be supported
by a friend, The Rev. J. E. Welsh, while sitting for the
artist," according to Peck’s Life of Boone at Forbes Li
brary.
"This portrait is the original from which most of the
engravings of Boone have been executed. It represents
him in his hunting dress, with his large knife in
his belt. The face is very thin and pale, and the hair
perfectly white; the eyes of a bright blue color, and the
expression of countenance mild and pleasing.”
bership—A. R. Smith, Stanley
Harris, Sr., Mrs. Russell D.
Hodges and Dr. 0. K. Richard
son.
Bob Allen, curator; and
publicity chairman, Rachel
Rivers.
Sunday Playdate
Dr. Lawrence called for a
report from the committee as
signed to study the plausibility
of operating ‘‘Horn in the
West” on Monday nights ra
ther than Sunday nights dur
ing the production season.
H. R. Eggers, committee
chairman, reported ‘‘Unto
These Hills” never has chang
ed their Sunday playdate to
Monday, while “Lost Colony”
has, “and seems to have prof
ited thereby.”
He recalled that the Horn
had operated on Monday
nights, leaving Sundays free,
at least one season in the past,
and Manager Herman Wilcox
revealed that the records indi
cate there was very little, if
any, change in total attend
ance.
wncox saia mai an ouiaoor
drama expert from Chapel
Hill said that locality is a de
termining factor in the choice
between the two nights. Gene
Wilson, director, had been
consulted and he was not par
tial as to which night was
played.
A motion was made and ap
proved on the recommenda
tion that the Board operate
the drama on Monday.
The Rev. Richard Crowder
spoke in behalf of the Wa
tauga Ministerial Association,
which met earlier Monday,
offering gratitude for the move
(Continued on page twelve)
GOP Clerk Of
Court Named By
Republicans
Watauga County voters
went to the polls Tuesday to
return the reins of the county
government to the Democrats,
to vote against a local man
for Congress, to re-elect a
Republican Clerk of the Sup
erior Court, and to lend ap
proval to the issuance of
$450,000 in bonds for the con
struction of a new courthouse.
Unofficial returns give W.
Hampton Childs, Jr., candi
date for Solicitor, a Democrat
unopposed, 3,414 votes.
Robert L. Randall, Demo
crat for State Senator, receiv
ed 3,620 votes as against 3,
394 votes for T. R. Bryan, Sr.,
Republican.
For State House of Repre
sentatives, forty-fourth dis
trict, Mack S. Isaacs, Republi
can, unopposed, received 3,
625 votes.
For Clerk of the Superior
Court, Robert C. Thomas,
Democrat, 3,375; O. H. Foster,
Republican, incumbent, 3,757.
For Sheriff, Ward G. Car
roll, Democrat, 3,624; Dallas
Cheek, Republican, 3,535.
For County Commissioners:
Democrats, Len D. Hagaman
3,822; Glenn Hodges, 3,596;
Tom R Jackson 3,596. Repub
licans, Hiram Brooks 3,464;
S. Bynum Greene 3,551; Fred
erick Michael 3,420.
Courthouse Bonds
Voters approved the is
suance of $450,000 for the
construction of a new court
house 3,332 to 3,187, the un
official returns indicate.
State Ticket
On the State ticket Watauga
voters gave a heavy majority
to Congressman Broyhill. He
received 4,008 votes as against
3,162 for Robert Bingham.
Senator B. Everett Jordan
received 3,381 votes as against
3,616 for his Republican op
ponent John S. Shallcross.
Township Totals
The unofficial vote by town
ships follows:
Bald Mountain: For Solici
tor, W. Hampton Childs, Jr.,
Democrat, unopposed, 38; For
State Senator, Robert L. Ran
dall, D., 40; T. R. Bryan, Sr.,
R., 72; For House, Mack
Isaacs, R., unopposed 73; For
Clerk of Court, Robert C.
Thomas, D., 35; O. H. Foster,
R„ 78; For Sheriff, Ward G.
Carroll, D., 36; Dallas Cheek,
R. , 74; For County Commis
sioners, Democrats, Len D.
Hagaman 45, Glenn Hodges
41, Tom R. Jackson 49; Re
publicans, Hiram Brooks 69,
S. Bynum Greene 70, Fred
erick Michael 67; Courthouse
bonds, for 48, against 54.
Boone: W. Hamptop Childs,
Jr., D., Solicitor 717; For
State Senate, Robert L. Ran
dall, D„ 777, T. R. Bryan, Sr.,
R., 273; For House, Mack S.
Isaacs, R., 364; For Clerk of
Court, Robert C. Thomas, D.,
(Continued on page twelve)
Civil Court Term
To Start Monday
A civil term of Watauga Su
perior Court will convene Mon
day, Nov. 14, in the Watauga
County Courthouse, the Hon.
Z e b V Nettles, presiding
judge.
Clerk of Court Orville Foster
Monday announced the jury
for the November tom:
Milton Payne, Fred A.
Young. Aud Hollar, Taft Ran
dall, Horton Bledsoe, J. C.
Watson, Willard EUer, Stewart
Simmons, Wade Hiller, W. H.
Walker, Robert Jack Greene,
Ron Davis. Reeves M. Shore,
B. F. Cole. Osborne Hannon,
Clarence W. Greene, Jack F.
Cook, W. S. Bingham, James
R. Love.
Hack Townsend, James D.
Henson, Hayes Wellborn, Carl
Horetx, Edgar B. Hardin, Clay
Fletcher, Lee South, James K.
Wilson, Hurry Brown aaKl
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