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/ , ; . f •WATAUGA DEMOCRAT - w wMMv i; * A'" " V;' IN TOP RANKS OF CAROLINA NON-DAILIES In 4 yean the Democrat has won 1? State Press Assn. Awards, 10 of them Firsts, i f Thk veer blue ribbon awards were in General Excellence and Advertising. ■ - An Independent Weekly Newspaper ESTABLISHED IN ISM This year blue ribbon awards were in General Excellence and Advertising. Published for 48 Yean by Robert C. Rivers, .^r. 4 ^ PUBLISHED THURSDAYS BY RIVERS PRINTING COMPANY. INC, OWNER v ** * R. C. RIVERS. JSL. Pnat&mt M. HM kachcl bivzss corny, ] JZAlt klVBia. AjHocUt. Xdltcr SUBSCRIPTION RATES -v-y' • • nr j •' :Oar Twr — •-7 S' Stx Months - Tour Months (Tax tnctadsd) 43J0 MM *. , : • • & OUTSZDS WOKTH CAROLINA Om Tear --liAj----4BJ0 StK Montha __UN Tour Montha. —,T.-...... ...... , >a<0 All Subscriptions Payable in Advance NOTICK TO SUBSCRIBERS—In requesting chance of address. It Is Important to mention the .P" OLD. as well as the NEW address. These should be swat to the Watauga Democrat. 300 W. King } St, Boone. It. C. MOOT. Bntarod at the postoffice at Boone. N. C, aa second class matter, under the act of Congress at r ■::i Kerch S, 1070. Second class postage paid at Boone, N. C. -K Minim NATIONAL. NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION r BOONE, NORTH CAROLINA 28607, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1969 ■*r'h M? _ if} ■ Thanks To Blowing Rock • ir-»3 Before Watauga County arose from | Its Isolation in the “Lost Provinces" of ' North Carolina, the municipality of Blowing Rode was its diamond in the rough. • . Before high-speed travel and wide spread development of tourism, Blow ing Rock from its lofty perch above the John’s River Gorge was setting a re putation for this section of the Appaia ¥ Chians. ' i ¥ ’ v g Named for its renowed scenic attrac tion, the town started the promotion of |the cool, high elevation to be had here in the summer months and became known as the “in” place for the well to-do. So widely was it known, that' only a few years ago people didn’t know where Boone was unless you said it was ’ near Blowing Rod. , - Time began skipping along, and the agriculture economy of the county took on strength. Sales ox cabbage, cattle and burley tobacco thrust more money : into the economy. Businesses began growing and new ones were coming in.1' Appalachian State Teachers College got \ growing painsand industry began de - veloping in Boone. The outdoor drama; Horn in the West, was launched in Boone. Education started on the up-\ grade in the public schools, the. county’s " Ugh schools consolidated and the price < Of real estate' began leaping upward. ASTC became Appalachian State Uni • diversity; improvements were started on the roads leading from neighboring counties into Watauga and tourism readied an all-time high. In the midst of a spiraling economy, Boone was on : - V5 . - •’ ■ . . . . the map. Wataugans built a county hos pital and a courthouse in addition to the high schoolM In Blowing Bock, which laps over in to Caldwell the people also had been building. They provided themselves a public library, a fine hospital and then an extended care and rehabilitation, unit unparalleled'in this section of the country. They provided a municipal swimming pool. The directors of the Blowing Rock Charity Horse Show built and built until the annual event be came one of the1 best known in the South. The Blowing Rock area also was where the regional, ski- industry was born and these northwest hills were off to a reputation as a year-around re sort capitol. All this time, way back in the coun ty’s so-called darkles, the summer clientele of Blowing Rock had been contributing to the Overall economy of the region. ' . . ■ When certain countywide bond issues have come up and some Blowing Rock ‘ residents decried having to vote the county some things they had already supplied their community, it was en tirely understandable. The standout ' was the hospital bond issue, which came ,^up in Watauga after Blowing Rock had ’ 'already measured'it*'own needs and worked to finance and build a public hospital. ! * ■ ■ i. > li, At last, the important thing to con sider is that we may well owe Blowing Rock a great deal more than is paid in tribute and friendship.'' 4 i * ‘s.. . , r : f 1 fit JVIini-mini, maxi-maxi >; i -v. 'jf-rA.imJew b t'5 - r. Those Who deplore the ««™«ng hemlines of recent days may live to eat ( their words. Fall fashion forecasts pre dict that fashion has come full circle. The figure-revealing mini minis of yest erday are to be cast aside for the over dressed look which places so many layers of clothing on the girl, that a fellow will be forced to resort to the old-time sport of imagining what she really looks like. It milady does stick to short skirts, she must wear boots clear up to her hemline, or heavily-textured stockings. Or both. Coats go down to the instep, lapels wing their way beyond the shoulder line; everything is double breasted with multitudinous buttons. Pockets are scattered all over the gar ment, large, pleated, flapped and fast ened. Embroidery embellishes wherever lace, ruffles, sequins or braid are mias ing. Belts, up to a foot wide are won1 where none is needed. f' V.fV' ■ - - -■ %» . ■ ■ '■ -,~k Beside* the ornateness of a fabric’* weave or print, the clothing ia put on in layers. A drees is worn over trousers, a vest may cover the dress and a jacket goes over the whole affair. Of course, one must not forget to add the indis pensable scarf, all six feet of it this year, draped around the neck and hanging to the knees. Or she may don a shawl with yard-long fridge. Dressy occasion call for coats of mail in gold mesh over sparky sequin crepes and satins. „ | Shoes are ornate with over-sixed “tongues,” chain-link straps and tree trunk heels. Bulky capes and ear-high turtlenecks add to the cover-up. In the days ahead, mom had best fill dad in on the situation. If he happens te want to converse with sis, he’d do will to ex amine the pile of clothing on Am sofa,’ ~ may be in there someplace,-—Hart * ford Courant •; m m Ji K,f I ft' r'iCv, Ink tin’s In Ink 'Si iM'- m ^#*4 -wg| 4 ^4 ?j$ -• w V.'?-••••»<.--4. • « : "%to at our gadrdUna at fee house stupe I in fee sun or under (to porch practically <01 - (to time. Tto other, howerer, passes (he time to chewing oo bones, sticks at (dndling and a discarded shirt with detectable, breakahie buttons. Rawhide booee aod robber i»ii« he likes, but tto booee laet longer, to rnpnpaert ’“'(to stack at trtniiHng eo there’s always an. ataedanee and the shirt le a dog's utopia. That was before he found out ahoutnttgr ■ „etoee that squeak and aqueal. ■ *'v All Ida aflorta at silencing tto aamdei mouse ware In rain. Tto harder to chewed, (to louder tt complained, and to (teahad around in confused circles trying to under atoad why his ret-llke buddy couldn’t be tosh Tton fa dropped it end it was quiet Be cast us a triumphant look and gathered tt up again and Ht down, tt squealed. He dropped it and stared at it end took a deep breath tutors atarttog again. After (boot an hour*! frantic play, be took a breather. Wa found the mouee and Ut It away for another day. The teeth that nare able to dUaohre booaa and epllntar wood had nut put one convincing mark ao foe toy. .B nee another hour later when our behead • aaid we probably had a real rat In foe uefcllmi hood. Irking ooieee were coming (mm foe vicinity ot foe traeb cane. A* tt happened. It waa Jlgga—atlrrlng around the darkened back yard trying to imitate hie toet playmate. HU own aqueaUng waa becoming ragreaeotettre of aamefoing much larger thau a rubber mourn , ao wa fare It back. ' \ > j.,, « He curled i* and want to eledp with foe toy end next morning waa touting It around an earafully te a bird dog with a mouddul of' duck. lire. Anne Gcggi. who ueed to line la Blowing Book to foe aummar, would any Jlgga, ■ torn* Memalf a "traaauw”. -i * •> ’Ji \ Have ¥, $ Pitched Iri? ■>. ii IS ■ Coffey Wagon Co. Shuts :|| . Down Valmead Factory ;: Sixty Yean Ago October 14, 1901 The Coffey Wagon Company has suspended operations attbe plant of the company at Valmead and will not resume work flier* again. The concern has not been making money for so me time and the stockholders have decided to discontinue operations. A carload of striped legged young nudes shipped In from the west are being traded In the Valle Crude section •'jtl this county. The animals apg •aid to be rery pretty Indeed. A heavy rain and Ugh wind on Sunday night brought down the larger portion at the chest nut crops and quantities at the toothsome nuts were gathered the following day. W. E. Shipley of Valle Cruris, this county, sold • saddle-bred colt tour month* oldtoagentle maa in Haywood County, N. C* tor the cum at *150.00. The colt was shipped by express the Ind Inst., so that It might ranch Its destination in Hm to be entered In the County Fair, where It was axpaetsd to gain highest honors in Its class. ' / Ws hare heard ot many, yen eery many heary yields of buck wheat, but evidently James Hod ges, of Sands, hex by odds the best report so lar. Off of 11/2 gallons of seed sown, he thresh ed 12 bushels at fine grain. Any better paying crop than this? • There has Just been frost enough to make the forests gloriously beautiful. "Autumnal mooring" is now the garb of the mountains. The yellow, red and earlgated make a combination that beggars the finest r*,nHtt thrown on canes fay the moat gifted artist. Thirty-Nine Yean Ago October 16, 1930 Dr. G. K. Moose of Boone was named governor at Caro line Ctvitans at the morning session of the Greensboro con. section Monday, when mem bers at the organisation from both Carolina* were in attend ance at one of the most out standing district assemblies in the history at the organisation. ’ - ■: . Appalachian State Teachers College was held to * 13 to 13 deadlock by Catawba College bare Saturday afternoon. The Indians featured with a passing attack in the seoond half to tie the score after being continual ly hard played by a fighting Mountaineer team. ■ The three Mgb schools at Watauga County, Boone, Blow ing Bock and Cots Creak, fur nished seniors in February, who broke all State records tor high average grades, ac cording to tabulated results witch have recently eometotbe yHM at Suparintmlaat SttMt Bac&mui. >.• Or WadMfdur AM aC last WMk the McBride mill property new Mabel was entirely da atroyed by Are, The lots wen eoneiderable but we are told it i wee partially covered by in>r. auranee. Ibe mill wee owned by Mr. Nlley Church. No clues ae to the origin of the fire. Fifteen Years Ago October 14,1954 .Vf". Or. I. G. Greer of Chapel Hill wae re-elected preeldent of the Southern Appalachian HlatbHcal Association et a Wee&iitf1 if %e' 'Board' iSf Dl. rector* held at Ranch Motel, Blowing Rock, Monday evening. Lawrence E. Barden, eon at Dr. and Mra. John G. Barden, wee ordained to the order at deacon at the recent annuel conference of the MethuHat Church, held In Asheville, Blahop Coaten J, Harrell at Charlotte, officiated. The International Realatanea Company will hold "open houae’* Saturday, October 16, at their plant on Greenway Road, juat oft the Blowing Rock highway, ac cording to an announcement by Mb. John S, Kane, plant mana >f4::: S’ It bna been announced that» “Walking Blood Bank” baa been eetabliahed at Watauga Hoapital. The ever-increealng need for whole blood and the fact that ft cannot be atored safely but tor a marl mum of 18 daya baa neceaaitated tUa program, under the sponsorship at the Ashe. Watauga Medical Auxil iary. > Applications for employment aa enumeratora tor the 1954 Census otAgricuiturqjta Wa Comtarlu^ll,> ape**.; e* .beginning October , 11* R was announced today by Field - Superriaor Albert G, Miller. Welsh K. Teeter, the eon at Ur, D. T. Teeter, Valla Cruele, N. C. who received bia B. S. from Appalachian State Teach er* College In 1951, la back at Bexley Hall, the divinity achool at OMo'e Kenyon College. Ben Horton at Boone wa* unantmoualy elected president at the alumni aaeoclatton at the luncheon meeting in the cafe, tarla on Saturday, Other offi cera elected at thle time were: Shirley Gabriel, ot Iron Station, vlce-preaident; and Daisy Eg gera at Boone, aecretary and treeaurer. . . - BY CARL GOKKCB ’ ' Add to tout Hat of unusual ; motet. If you keop a lint, the name of Fairy Rough, which la on record In the Register of Deeds office In Beaidort Couiu *• __ Perhaps more than any other state, North Carolina has been nicknamed the most. She was early known as the Old North State; then there was a time whan In derision she was point ed out as The Rip Vkn Winkle State. During the War Between the States she became the Tar Heel State. t When naval stores were an outstanding export North Caro lina was the Turpentine Stats. Some people now call her Old Pioneer State. This la a story about Leonard LlebUng, whose Identity la not now known. Mr, UeUlng bed so patience with certain tblblee of Individuals, and one of the things he detested with special vigor was the way some people have of dropping in to call just at mealtime. One evening st seven o'clock .as the UeUlng family was sit ting down to dinner, the door bell rant. The maid answered, same beck and told Mr. liebllng that a certain young man- <iaiu lag Us name—wished to see Mm, "Invite Urn Into the parlor," said Mr. UeUlng, "and tall Urn to watt. 1 will pee him presently." He must have bean a kind of "Ufa-With-Fether" old gentleman. At any rate the young man smiled and said all right. The UeUlng family went AFTER ANOTHER on with dimer* hurrying not et all. Fetter evidently meant to teeeh the young men e lee eon. Dinner Onlabed, Mr. Liebiing ■trolled iido the parlor and greeted the young man, polite ly, but none too cordially. '*1 am eorry to hare kept you netting, young man, but you know we alnaya dine promptly at aevea," be aaid pointedly and with fine formality. “Yea, air,” replied the young ■pan, “that in what 1 uederatood laat week when you inrltad Me to dine with you tonight!” *" Hlatory, at leant the hiatory we have, doee not record what Mr. Liebiing a eld then, but one may imagine bow he looked. Singe: A man talla me there la one in front at a etore in Santa Monica, California that aayt: "Old Furniture We Buy— Andquee We Sell." We heard recently ofaoolor ad fondly in Guilford Comtfo with eleven children In It. ta thla fondly are three boya. One la named Wililan^ another la named Willie, and a third ia named BUI. Here'a another good (pieettei you can try out on yourfriande: A man went flaking and be bed a pole twenty feet long. It apllt in half. He tori: eome atrlng and bound It together again, the broken part lapping over exactly one foot. How kmg wee the pole when be reeumed We Beidngv Moet people will cay that it wee U feet long, bid that font the correct anawer. M W? <' * ■ HJvfrvs-ww-: -4&4 KING BY ROB RIVERS What The Weather’t Going To Be We’ve received our advance copy of the 178th annual edition of the Old Farmers Almanac, an event which is looked forward to by this corner and we hasten to share some of the goodies, notably the predictions of Abe Weatherwise, which have enjoyed a record of re markable accuracy . . . Abe points out that the custom of forecasting goes back to 17th century England The great fire of London in 1866 was predicted by two English almanac forecasters ... It was their undoing ... They were accused of setting the fire to make their soothsaying come true and were hanged ... Old Farm ers is spiced with courageous long range Weather pre dictions (made 18 months ahead), anecdotes, poetry, farm and rural tidbits of great charm and drawings favoring file George Washington era . . , Forecaster Weatherwise says “the old timers who had to figure the weather out for themselves were often more right than modem science, whose findings are the results of mod em machinery and computers. ’* .. . We tore the fore cast page out of Old Farmers for you: r Wtafbtt ^forecast 1969»70 The verses in italic type (same as this) which run vertically down the middle of the Calendar Pages (23-45 )f cover the country as a whole for the calendar year of 1970. These are for the days indicated by the beginning capitalized word and ending with the period. In addition, there follows herewith: 1) a prose summary of the Winter in general across the coun try from November, 1969 through April, 1970; and 2) a sum mary for the calendar year 1970 (January-December). These general forecasts are then broken down into nine'regional weather forecasts, both for the Winter (November, 1969 April, 1970, and the calendar year (January-December, 1970). See pages 92-119. ?/V As all of these forecasts are based, for verification pur poses, at established U.S.W.B. Stations, the temperature will be about 5° higher for each 100 miles south of the U.S.W.B. Station location given in the above-mentioned summaries and 5s lower for each 100 miles north. For each 1,000 feet of alti tude, reduce temperatures approximately 3° . read, with the colder temperatures, “snow” for “rain.” THE WINTER (Nor. 1»<»—Apr. 1970) > This winter will be its atrocious, fickle, unpredictable self. The ingredients—make no mistake—for heary snows, bliz zards, frozen pipes and toes are all here. BUT the averages say warmer than normal coast to coast. And, ,what's more, normal precipitation. So for a while it will be “cqld and open” and then for another while “warmish with heavy wet snows.” You’ll freeze one day—and bake the next! Heavy storms that will, one way or another, drop glaze, hail, sleet, snow, freezing rain or snow all over the U.S. will come along Nov. 22-26, Dec. 23-26 (white Christmas, goodie!), Jan. 7-9, 22, and 26-28, Feb. 4-5, and 20-22, Mar. 13-16 and 21-28, and April 2-6. Once again expect a fine winter for skiing at all northerly ski re sorts as well as at times in the streets of Fargd, Chicago, Duluth, Buffalo, New York, Portland (Me.) and Boston. THE TEAR—Jan.-D«c. 1970 Average daily temperatures will be normal or above all over. On the West Coast, in the South, and Pennsylvania it will 'bb kxtOdmely hot/1 and1 dry.1' S&'WiU Massachusetts and Bhpdfe Inland.May otf.‘Ixx>k for ah: Annual deficiency of precipitation on the order of 2096. in Massachusetts,- Oregon, Pennsylvania ahd Georgia. Maine And Vermont are the,only two states in Abe’s forecast ^to end up with above normal precipitation for the year. *; * * ^3 V July and August will be perfect vacation months every where . . . dry and hot. Farmers however will definitely heed irrigation as well aa sprinklers. What, No Cote? The last edition attoeDemo crat told at Coach Lentz's in ability to And a cow to ride through town to fulfill a promise in connection with magazine sales at the Ugh School, calls to mind the days when all the families in the village bad cows and herns for the winter . . . They rented pastureland on the mountain, side from toe land owners dur ing toe grazing seasonand whan the boys ascended toe steep hills to bring too cows down at milking time, toe lad who had a good "riding cow*' was the envy of toe others ...Our dad had a positive rule against straddling toe bovlnes, but some at the cows behaved beautifully as makeshift horses , . .A whole lot later on, our Rachel, before her pony and horse days, managed to saddle one of the cows we were grazing on the hill and rode her about the place in great glee... In tbs present situation, we are not surprised that Coach Lentz tailed in find ing a halter-wise cow... We’re sorry about that, . fewer squirrel* Last year then w little mart and the gray squirrels had a hard time , . . Whan ours came down from the Mil to the kitchen door the first time, tb^ ware famished . . . The aura com we laid out the nttreofthe friendly little creatures came and we wound up with e half doien or more at the (attest squirrels one ever saw . . . With the opening at this year's hunting season we are told there are plenty at acorns but (ew squirrels ... Word from the Wildlife Resources Co muds, slon is that the number ot squirrels in the State tat re. mained about the same tgr 20 years and brings the surprising formation that one and a half to two and a half million squirrels are killed by hinders ♦Tory year with no impact an the species ... One official is Voted as saying hunters teodts regulate the sqidrrel population, B the game Is scarce they don't And the hunt worth the trouble, adding "The hunter readies the pointed diminishing returns be. tore the species it in danger," }.»«- hs4> . • . we enjoy feeding the squirrels ,. .Wehopeourhunt er frieods continue to let wire •looe,' Uncle Pinkney HIS PALAVERIIS’S DEAR MISTER EDITOR: I hare heard It aaid that when Mg men git together they study ideals, when a re rage folks meet they talk about things, and when little minds talk they gossip Well, Sir, from what come out of the session at the country store Saturday night you would bare to look hard to find a brain In the bunch. . . . There was Ed Doolittle, that is alius ready to talk as long as the fellers will listen and then some, about thlogs or any thing. Ed bad his usual pocket full of clippings from papers sad magazines he reads, sod he was perpared to give another of Ms economy soeeches. Ed tad taw that since 1*40 federal workers has cone from jest over one million to more than 22 million, so that more than one In ever 10 people In thla country now la on the fed eral payroll. The Gurernment, allowed Ed, la growing a heap faster than the country, and be la worrying about what will hap pan when taxes Is more than Beck early this year, reported Ed, the Administration found oat it was costing more not to tare Moral workers than to tare ’em. When Congraei ordered federal Jobe frose at 22,366, 004, toe Gurernment agencies starting contracting work they eouldn*t git done to prints out fits. It turned out that it ooet |200 million more to hire the work done than to pay a-jfce to do It last year. Than Ed had saw where the Gurernment had approrsd a *265,000 loan to a Mississippi golf club in a county where 4* par cent of toe folks wee Using below federal porerty levels, U said be woodered how many of item 40 per eeotwas happy to «*tout and play golf whan toagr ..
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