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Half Mile Of Lights To Mark Route Of Parade Saturday’s Christmas Par ade will be lighted by nearly a half mile of Christmas de corations erected during th< last ten days by the Neighbor hood Youth Corps under th« direction of the Boone Opti mist Club. The lighted decorations will stretch this year fro mthe in tersection of U. S. 321 and U. S. 421 on the east end ol town along King Street tc Smithey’s on the western edge of Boone. New features this year will include an 11-foot Christmas tree in front of the Chamber of Commerce and new alum inum decorations at the mid town intersection. This year’s lights will be the brightest and most exten sive ever erected in Boone, according to Glenn Andrews, president of the Merchant’s Association. The area cover ed by lights has been expand ed by at least 25 per cent, Andrews said, at a cost of about $2,500. Money for the lights is contributed by Mer chants Association members. Erection of the lights this year was a co-operative pro ject of the Neighborhood Management Course Set At Wake Forest Businessmen in the Boone area are eligible to attend the 8th annual Management Sem inar opening next Feb. 22 at Wake Forest College in Win ston-Salem. Sessions will be held one day each week for 10 weeks. One group will meet on Wed nesdays and the other on Thursdays. The seminar has been expanded to two groups in recent years because of its popularity. During the sessions, the seminar will examine a var iety of fields ranging from “The Frontiers of Manage ment” to “Developing Or ganization Teamwork.” There will be sessions on the mark eting and financial processes and the enterprise system and business economics. One in structor will discuss the moti vation of employes. Dr. Ralph C. Heath, direc tor of the seminar, said that each class will be taught by an expert in the field of busi ness or businss education. “There will be enough infor mation to give a businessman a new and clearer outlook of the field of management,” he said. SHOP EARLY MAIL EARLY Youth Corps and the Town 01 r Boone. The Neighborhood Youth 5 Corps crew of 13 youths anc foreman Blake Hampton par' ; of the sanitation project ol WAMY Community Action worked about two weeks dur 1 ing rainy days building anc painting frames for the lights and installing wiring and evergreen roping on the fram i es. The Neighborhood Youth Corps crew then spent four days installing the lights with the help of a truck and city employee contributed by the Town of Boone, and a truck and two employees contribut ed by the New River Light and Power Company. Mrs. Gragg Attends National Texas Meet Mrs. Fred M. Gragg attend ed a meeting of the National Council of Teachers of Eng lish in Houston, Texas during the Thanksgiving holidays. As first vice-president and president-elect of the North Carolina English Teachers Association, Mrs. Gragg re presented the state organiza tion as a director of the Na tional Council at its fifty seventh annual convention. Approximately 7,000 ele mentary, high schol and col lege teachers of English and English supervisors from all fifty states and Canada at tended the meetings of the convention. Among the North Carolina representatives at Houston meeting were Mrs. Martha Morehead of Hudson High School, editor of the “North Carolina English Teacher”; Lawrence Tucker and Clarence Lipscomb, state supervisors of English; Dr. John Ebbs, executive secre tary of the N. C. English Teachers Association and a state supervisor; and Dr. Dar win Turner, chairman of the Department of English; "A •» T College, Greensboro. Marcus Setzer, chairman of the Optimist Club committee which planned and supervised the decoration project, said the lights will be turned on Saturday for the Christmas parade and will stay on through the holiday season until after New Year’s, when they will be taken down and stored by the Neighborhood Youth Corps crew. Boone Mayor Wade E. Brown praised the co-opera tive effort on the decoration project and said he thought the project has provided a good lesson in electricity for the N.Y.C. enrollees. Neigh borhood Youth Corps foreman Blake Hampton is a formeT Boone electrician. (Picture on page one.) HEAVY MACH1NEY IN PERKiNSVILLE— Work on Boone’s $1,800,000 water-sewer pro ject is underway in Peikinsville, which was annexed with tw’o other outlying districts when the city voted the bonds. Flagmen are wm* stationed on city streets, to warn motorists of heavy machinery and men working at road side, and city officials publicly urge drivers to exercise care in approaching known con struction areas. (Staff photo) College Choir Will Have Yule Program The College Choir of Appa lachian State Teachers College will present a concert of Christmas music in I. G. Greer auditorium at 3:30 p.m. Sun day, Dec. 4. The program will include “Sheep May Safely Graze” by J. S. Bach, two carols by the contemporary English com poser Edmund Rubbra, and Jaycees Pageant (Continued from page one) program again so that every one in the audience has his own scoresheet.” The contestants are: Dinah L a n n i n g, Dianne Klutz, Vivian Woods, Barbara On Pilot Schooling Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara has been asked to fn&ke* up a huge boost in Army pilot training. Clough, Sandra Workman, Gloria Via, Linda Smith, Louise Joyce, Anna Jones, Betty Hayes, Pat Mozingo, Emily Von Cannon, Susie Foster, Glenda Ragan and Glenda Broyhill. Tickets are available from any member of the Boone Jay* cees. Proceeds from the pag eant are used by the Jaycees for community betterment projects. “Mary Had a Baby”, a Negro spiritual. Other compositions programmed are “God With Us", a cantata by Lloyd Pfautsch of the Southern Methodist University School of Music, the “Gloria” from Franz Schubert's Mass in G, and “Fantasia on Christmas Carols” by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Soloists are Mary Frank Overcash, Doug Harris, Bill Gary, Paula Joyce, Landa Col lins and Dr. Joseph C. Logan, choir director. Assisting will be Barbara Clough, flutist, and Gary SI rover, trumpeter. Donald Lee Bowden, Jr., is assistant director and Dianna Lee Banks is choir accom panist. The public is cordially in vited to attend this concert. There will be no admission charge. Brandt says U. S. interferes in German politics. U. S. starts drive in UN to bar Peking. Awards Banquet >. ■ (Continued from page one) uec. a. Banquet program, oi course, will be the presenta tion of cash awards totaling some $4,000 to winning com munities in the areawide com petition this year. This part of the program will be conducted by associa tion secretary Neil Bolton with the assistance of division co chairmen Kennedy Sharpe and Mrs. Barbara Deverick. “This phase of our areawide development work," said Bol ton, “continues to be the key to progress in all. The com munities make up the whole. The annual awards give color and perhaps some added in terest. But the impressive and important point to me is that these awards symbolize actual achievements by people work ing together in their communi ties in our 11 counties.” Dr. William H. Plemmons, president of Appalachian State Teachers College in Boone, will be master of ceremonies for the banquet program. 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