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WXtAU GA COUNTY fa the Heart of the Northwest- • era North Caroline winter ud Sommer tourist resort area. t -L, rg1*!" An Independent Weekly Newspaper ; Eighty-First Year of Continuous Publication Feb. 25 Feb. 25 Feb. 27 .Feb. 25 Mar. 1 Mar. 2 liar. 3 BOON! WEATHER BILs lasw twaWata 35 30 S3 27 31 25 34 11 38 25 lODO 51 38 28 L50 01 41 80 34 18 48 13 38 14 42 23 22 15 48 20 42 28 VOL. LXXXI—NO. 36 **pr 1 ,ir BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MARCH 6,1969 10 CENTS PER COPY 29 PAGES—2 SECTIONS $17,000 Grant To ASU To Foster Aid Rival Areas •A 117*000 grant la* been awarded to Appalachian State University for the extension of a highly successful 18-month program In which ASU has been using Its technological re sources to foster grass-roots economic development among rural people in the mountain region. Of the total funding, *11, 0*2 la being supplied by the u. s. Office of Education and $5,702 has been promised by the State Board of Higher Edu cation. The extended project will re tain its preset* director, Or. Robert H. West, a professor in. Appalachian's Department of Business and Economics. Dr. West, who Initiated this program for university assist ance to small businesses in isolated communities, explains that some time ago he noted - "numerous instances where small businesses or commiadty enterprises could be establish ed if adequate technical, eco nomic or legal advice were available to the residents of this mountain region. "Since that time," he con tinues, "we have developed the program, and we have succeed ed In giving sound technological advice to these groups and to Individual small business firms, "We have done such things as advise mountain craftsmen as to production and market ing techniques, and we have es tablished the Small Business Management Institute which helps owners and managers .of Independent businesses to In crease their understanding and abilities in managemeof func tions.” The program has been ex tended to insure the success of those enterprises recently aided by the project—"Be cause so many of these busi neesee are seasonal,and need! one more summer to become firmly established," Dr. West explains. . / CATHY COOPER History Essay Contest Won By Cathy Cooper Seventh grader Cathy Cooper las non a history essay coo. test sponsored by the Daniel Boone Chapter of the DAB. Theme at the contest was “Heroines of the American Rev olution” and Miss Cooper’s es say was on Esther Vldeau of South Carolina. Her essay will be entered in the district contest and the winner there will proceed to the State, eliminations. State win ners then go to the natlonet finals. ■ A student at Appalachian Ele nectary School, Miss Cooper Is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. WUlUun Cooper of Pinnacle Lane. Rialners-up In the contest Were Myra Harrill and Lottie Spalnhour. SATURDAY’S SNOWFALL in Boon "M recorded as 10 Inches an] the neat day one and a hall inches were added to the record. As snow continued flaking down Saturday mornii*. this pine shrouded walkway had a finished look. But more was to come, including warming temperatures bu^fSUed to, KiXSXSZSS&XS*''^ ™ *»’ It’s A Great Season For Skiing At Slopes Of Area ' It’s been a greet eeeaon far the area akl slopes, according to officials at an four alopea and hOpea are running high that the alopea will be open aeveral more weeks. At Appalachian Ski Mtn. In s Blowing Rock, Mrs. R. T. Web er, of lice manager, said “Things have been fine. We’ve made quite a few improvements and we've got excellent con dition.’’ , Ski Mtn. reports skiers from . New Orleans and New Jersey as well as many from South Carolina and Georgia. Mrs. Weber said that the slopes will remain open two more weeks if . the weather holds out. * Hound Ears notes a large manber of ski fans from the Atlanta area. “We’ve had a very good year with lots more people than in past years’’ said Jo Carlsen at the ski shbp. Hound Ears also plana another two weeks of skiing. - Sid Area Manager Pete Reinecke of Seven Devils said the last three weekends pro vided some of the best tiding In tome time because of the natural snowfall. He said the Seven Devils slopes were filled to capacity each weekend. He said the slopes will re main open “three of four weeks -. . . unless something drastic happens weatherwlae.” An official at Beech Moun- ‘ tain offered a similar report : saying that the area's newest' facility la “packed every week end." Beech plana to remain open through March. The heavy snowfalls of the last three weeks haven't bother, ad business atthesklareas,de spite speculation that slippery roads keep many s non-goers away, Relnecke said that the •now seemed to generate the skiing fever for those at Seven Devils. All four slope officials noted the quick clearing of highways. They said that some folks In the larger cities found the driving safer In this area than In their home towns. Heavy snowfall was predicted for Boone Monday night, but It didn't come. At mid-morning Tuesday, Seven Devils report ed snowfall coming from the West and hopes were up for another good ski weekend. 4‘ >r • ?'••• Basil Whitener YDC Speaker Former Congressman Bull Whitener will address the Young Democratic Club Friday night In the County Courthouse, Jerry Perry, club president, says all Democrats are urged to attend the session. The meet ing will begin at 7. Northwestern A rea Science Fair Comes To Appalachian March!4-15 The 1909 Northwestern Dis trict Science Fair to be held on the campus of Appalachian State University on Friday and Saturday, March IMS, will in clude a "Silver Symposia” to celebrate the 25th year of the National Science Teachers As sociation. Dr. E. D. Palmatler, Kenan Professor of Physics at UNC C ha pel Hill will speak at the symposium to be staged from 9:30 a. m, until noon the 15th. Others on the program will be Bruce Robertson, an Ehat Meck lenburg High School teacher, and Dr. George B. Mllee, chair man of AS IPs Department of Chemistry. Students and teachers from throughout the 11-county district will hear the practicing scien tists tell about their own re search projects and describe bow schools can encourage and support real scientific re search. Junior and senior Mghschool students from throughout the Under Bond On Drug Charge A student at Appalachian State University has bean charged with possession of LSD. It la the first drug charge ever made at the university. The student, James Lunsford benny, IS, was arrested Feb. 1C by campus security officers at the student union. The chief campus security officer, Robert Thomas, said an envelope containing the LSD was found in Denny’s pocket. Denny is free under $1,000 iWiW.V.'.V.'.V.vAW.V.V.VJ bond, Thomas said. He has been ordered to appear at a preliminary bearing in District Court here on March 12. Thomas said Denny's home is in the Durham area. Another package at ISD was intercepted in the student union on Feb. 28, Thomas said, but he declined to reveal details at the salture. Investigation of drug distribution on the campus is continuing, be said. district will enter exhibits in the annul science fair which will send six winners to the State Science Fair in April. The district lair, under the direction of Dr. Larry W. Woodrow of Appalachian, will begin at 9 a. in. the 14th with registration and setting up of exhibits In the W. H. Plemmons Student Center. The exhibits will be on display for area ■ elementary school children that afternoon and for visitors and judges from 7 to 9 Friday night and 9 to 11:30 Saturday morning. The best four exhibits in the senior division and the best two in the junior division in both the physical and biological (Continued on page ten) Commissioners Await Report fi Of Attorney f Whether Watauga will join ill other counties In forming a regional public housing au thority remains a question. County Commissioner Gene Wilson said no action was tak ' an on the Issue In the regular monthly meeting Monday be . cause the Board of Commis sioners bad not yet received the full report of Jim Hol shouser, county attorney. Holshouser also is Legis lative representative from the 44th District and attorney for the Town of Boone. In a public hearing held at the Courthouse the Tuesday be fore the Commissioners* Feb, 3 meeting, It was said that Wa tauga's abstlnabsence from the1 proposed seven-county authori ty might mean that Avery, Mitchell, Yancey, McDowell, Rutherford and Folk counties could not form their own autho rity. Mrs. Ruth Johnson of the Mountain Scenic Development Commission, a 17-county West ern N. C, agency, told the Commissioners at the hearing that public housing supporters requested the Board sign a resolution that they under stand a regional planning auth ority should be set up and that low-income housing Is needed la Watauga (Feb. 6 Issue). The Commissioners* sign ing of the resolution would not compel Watauga to participate,. It was noted, but enable it to inder locally appointed housing aidbority. Needs of the local authority would befllled through the regional set-up, whose ad ministrative staff would be fed erally salaried. No others would be paid. Asked if Monday’s meeting was attended by supporters of the resolution, Wilson said no. The housing request Is to be on the agenda for the meet ing the first Monday In April, Watauga Hgh School librarian Mrs. Lera Randall accepts the filmstrip, More Than Lore from Miss Susan Lawrence, TAP chairman for the Northwest N, C. Area March of Dimes' . (Staff photo) Filmstrip Given Hi School By March Dimes Foundation As part of tti program to Improve health at the national, state and community levels. The National Foundation-March of Dimes has given a filmstrip to the Watauga High School Library. The presentation was made Thursday fay Miss Susan Law rence, chairman of the Teen age Program In the six-county Northwest N. C. Area of March of Dimes. Accepting on behalf of the school was the librarian, Mrb. Lera Randall. Miss Lawrence explained that More Than love Is a medically authenticated filmstrip for young people. In clear, straight forward terms, yet with great senstivity, It discusses the re sponsibility for giving children the best chance for a healthy Start in life. Designed primarily for stu dents in the eleventh and twelf th grades, the film can be used effectively with younger and older groups. Also, the film strip gives important attentior to the genetic history and gen eral good health of the male parent. More Than Love, designed for pre-parenthood education, was created primarily for boys and girls ages 16 to 18. But it also will be meaningful to those to whom engagement, marriage and parenthood are of immed iate concern. The filmstrip can be used in a variety of classes such as “Hy life, sex education/ child development and special clas ses for pregnant teenagers. The National Foundation sug gests the filmstrip can aid out side the school environment with young groups, in settle ment houses, churches, com munity organizations and health departments. Girl Scout Cookies Offered During Week If it is green, a girl and asks you to buy a box of cookies, it*s a Girl Scout. If meeting these qualifications, but small er in size and uniformed in brown rather than green, it is probably a Brownie Scout. From the Brownie level through senior Scouts, Watauga girls numbering between 250 and 270 will officially end their cookie sales here Saturday. As their educational schedule per mits, they will be selling door to door, in local grocery stores and from a downtown booth un til then. Mrs. Kay Bos worth, Neigh borhood Chairman for Watauga County, says the girls keep 10 cents on every 50-cent box with the remainder going for the ex pense of the cookies and for the pride of the eight-county Catawba Valley Girl Scout Council: Camp Ginger Cas Located in Caldwell, the camp this year will have plat form tents, latrines, troop shel ters and perhaps a dining hall. Girls within the Council may VV.VAV.WAVW.V.W«.Ki>»»A\Vi'.¥.V attend at “an extremely rea sonably rate,” she says, dur ing the month of July. Mrs. Bos worth says this (Continued on page ten) Crain Sign Up Is Continued The feed grain signup will continue through Friday, March 21, according to Roy W. Isley, ASCS County Office Manager, County office records show 212 fanners have signed to divert their com bases for 1969. These producers have received over $9,960 in cash advance payments and plan to divert over 556 acres from the production of corn. Producers who have already signed may revise their inten tions through March 21. Any interested farmer should contact the ASCS office on or before March 21 for informa tion on bow the feed grain signup would affect their 1969 term income, 7 Of 10 Watauga Newlyweds To See 50th Anniversaries . J J , . ' f s ij ' V, '1 * "f 'j ‘$s ■ - ■ >.. : - ■• Of the miny young couples who will be getting . married this year in Watauga County, what proportion • of them will. lire to celebrate their golden wedding umlvereary? “' j The anawer, baaed igx» recent national studies, is— more than a third of than. The assumption that goes with /: it, of course, is that no divorce or aonulmsot Intervenes ,t along the way. In that event, all beta are od. c The likelihood that both hueband and wife will survive to mark that 50-year milestone la more than twice as ->? favorable as it was for their grandparents, whan tfcagr*^ got married. t • V Vf The Improvement In the prospects for » longer life ■put ii the result of epeetecuUr achievement* In the field* of health, biology and medicine during the last few decade*. ’ f- ■' Jest what the chance* are of a parson's reaching the various landmark stage* In life are detailed In the latest studies made by insurance statistician* and others. For the average Watauga County coopt* Just getting ■< married, where the bridegroom Is 22 and the bride It— { (there are some 175 young men and 180 young woman '■ locally at those ago* at present)—the odds are about 7 out of 10 that both of them will be around in the year 2010 to mark the bride's 00 birthday. v. ; - * ■. .. ' * ... - '■ wi For their grandparents, the odds were only 5 out of io that they would reach that point. I The prospects of living to the retirement age of <S ■ are also greater than ever, the figures show. Of the 170 young men in the local area who are now IS and are going to work or Into the armed forces or to college, the Indications are that tome 120 of them will reach IS, ‘.■.VAV.V.S'AV At that point, their chances of living an additions! 10 rear* are listed as better then 6 out of 10. Of particular importance to a man are the first 30 years or to of his married life, when there are likely to be depended children In the family. It la a period of :. . maximum economic responsibility. : k . For the 17S man In.Watauga County who havear . rived at age 22 and are at the marrying stage, the ata. ;S*tlstic* show that no leas than 89 percent at them win be on hand to witness tbs marriage at their children. This occurs, on the average, when the father is about 33 years old.
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