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, JOURNAL Around Town By W. L. B. Village Shop has received of Christmas Cards. Your r an be imprinted on these their Kingsley machine. They imprint stationery, in- 0 notes, party items and ins step in and see the line. only 56 shopping days ire are Christinas, believe it or not. our local stores which L leaving us before the last L^h. are now offering Area Plays Host To Record Crowd Over Weekend Travel throughout the area set a record last weekend when cars were bumper-to-bumper bringing folks to the mountains to drink in the beauty created by naure as she took on her array of fall colors. The -trek started Friday after noon and reached its height at about sundown on Saturday. The Blowing Rock Chamber of Commerce reports it had its bus iest period of the season Saturday evening. Peoplle were clamoring for overnight accommodations. The Blowing Rock, Boone and Linville areas were filled to capacity and our Chamber of Commerce made arrangements as far as Hickory for some of the callers. On Sunday morning all roads were bumper-to-bumper. It is re ported that Grandfather Mountain had one of its biggest number of visitors for this season. A local ciizen made a count of the cars on the Blowing Rock By- pass and recorded 1,875 cars in a period of two- and one-quarter hours. The approaches to Tweetsie were similarly jammed and the streets of Boone found traffic at its peak. The colors began to change after the frost three weeks ago and right now the -beauty is at its peak. It wont last long for we are having frosts mornings, and rain is soon expected as we have not had any for some time. A fire hazard now prevails and all ravelers are urged to use ex treme caution, especially so when in thickly wooded areas. There- is. no way of telling how many peoplle visited our mountains last weekend. They came, they saw, they were thrilled and they will come back again. All indications point to another record weekend coming up. The Voice of the Community’ Boone Jaycees Sponsor Miss Watauga Pageant Saturday The highlight of weekend activi ties will be the selection of Miss Watauga County of 1964 who will be chosen from twelve lovely con testants entered in the annual beauty pageant to be held Satur day, October 19, at the Boone El- Line gift items which can be l aS ed at big savings. ■ * * * interest is being shown I art classes being conducted fed Morgan of Bristol, Tenn., theMount View Motel. Instruc- L are being given in oils , and ■medium the student desires. SERVING HI The Boone-Blowing Rock I JOURNAL reports seem to set a new K for the number of people for the number of our area. Cars were Ker to bumper this past week- restaurants, motels, and less places report business as ■ brisk. The Chamber of Com- lce had to go as far as Hickory [-range for accommodations ■folks seeking places to stay Irfay night. You business folks ■ have left the mountains take note of this and do as Ly others are doing—extend liir stay here—come up earlier ■ stay later. Our town is be- a year around resort. to occasion which came to our Lion brought us a great deal ■easure. A story on page four Us of the golden wedding anni- jary celebration of our very [ar friends Dr. and Mrs. H. E. Bice, Our wish for them is ■her fifty years of happiness. ■ you are eligible for member- lip in either the Legion or the on Auxiliary be sure to at- their free steak supper led for this Saturday night lie Legion Hall. See the story bis issue. Volume 5 — Number 22 WATAUGA COUNTY In The Blue Ridge Mountains The beauty of the area is now at its heig ht. This scene, taken from atop the tower Blowing Rock, N.C. — Friday, Oct. 18, 1963 — Boone, N.C. at the Blowing- Rock affords one a view fo r miles. We are sorry the picture could the changing colors you 10 Cents Per Copy ementary School Auditorium, be ginning at 7:30 p.m. The event is sponsored by the Boone Junior Chamber of Commerce. Miss Jeanne Flynn Swanner, Miss North Carolina, will be on hand to take part in the day’s events and will assist Pat Pittman, Miss Wa- auga County of 1963 in crowning the new queen. A parade, including the beauty pageant contestants, Miss Watauga County of 1963, and Miss North Carolina, along with town offici als and the Appalachian High School Band, will move through Boone, starting at 1:30 p.m. at the Horn in the West parking area. It will go up King Sreet to the park ing lot in front of the A&P store. From the twelve very attractive Continued on page 5 Caldwell Man Ruled Suicide Jack Greene was found shot to death October 14 in a trailer about 4 miles north of Lenoir. Acting coroner Karl Warlick ruled the wound self-inflicted. Warlick said Greene was found in his trailer home fully clothed and in bed. A 38-caliber pistol was nearby. Greene, 51, owned and operated the Power Way Service Station. His trailer home is near the station. Warlick said Greene pro- bably died night. Greene, War II, County to some time a veteran was born Filmore after mid- of World in Wilkes and Sally e Varsity s to open ie first of Shop in Boone their second store November. It will not be in color. If you don't get to the mo untains to see have missed the sight of a lifetime. (Pho to by Talbert). Watauga Citizens, Inc. Report Sale Of Additional Blue Ridge Shoe Bonds The twenty-one captains ap- pointed to work throughout the county furthering the sale of Blue Ridge Shoe Company bonds, met Monday of this week at the Gate way Restaurant and reported that $50,000 worth had been subscribed for since the campaign started one week ago. The total number of bonds be- Hendrix Greene. The funeral was held at the Mount View Baptist Church in Watauga Co. Wednesday at 2 p.m. The Rev. Roscoe officiated. Burial was Greene in the church cemetery. Greene is. survived by three brothers, Herbert and Zollie Greene of Deep Gap, Rt. 1, and Elmer Greene of Lenoir; two sisters, Mrs. Jennie Miller and Mrs. Octavia Kerhoulas, both of Deep Gap, Rt. 1. ing offered is $650,000. With the reported sales thus far the total amount still available is $200,000. Four worth ed. The hundred thousand dollars had already been subscrib- bonds being offered may cated in the new building now r construction in the next : east of their present store. * * ^ r youth who are attending recreation program will find rday night’s get-together one :al importance. Two members be elected to serve on the ning committee. Steak Supper Opens Blowing Rock Legion's Drive For New Members First National Bank Of Boone Opens liis Saturday evening at 8 . the eighth annual Miss Wa- ja County beauty -pageant will held in the Appalachian Ele- rtary School auditorium in ®e. It is being sponsored by Boone Jaycees. bis is National sk when we are : our horns. The Newspaper supposed to Journal be- es in giving service to the Ple it serves year-round and ^ who read and advertise in ? Journal don’t have to be told purpose in being here. We favor to be “the voice of the taunity.” A free steak supper is to be served to members of the Blowing Rock American Legion and Aux iliary on Saturday evening, Octo ber 19. This dinner meeting will serve as a kick-off for a new membership drive. The dinner will be held at the Legion hall with serving starting at 6:30 p.m. All Legion members and members of the Auxiliary are urged to be present and each one is requested to bring along a prospective member. A similar dinner was held last year at which time nineteen new members were enrolled. The local Legion Post has a membership of 56 and there are 19 members in the Auxiliary. Those planning to attend the dinner are asked to bring along their own knife, fork and spoon. Southern Bell's Mew (gilog Mow Available V/. R. Cooke Jr., Lenoir man ager of Southern Bell Telephone Com any, has announced that the company’s 1963-64 program cata log of movies and lecture-demon strations is now available from the business office. “These pro- grams are available free of charge,” said Mr. Cooke. The catalog lists over one hun dred programs, including films, lecture-demonstrations, teaching aids, and booklets for schools, civic groups and churches. “Subjects range from air de fense and the Telstar projects to a history of communications, de fensive driving, and community tours of telephone facilities, Mr. Cooke stated. fl i Drive For New Savings Accounts The First National Bank of Boone is offering residents of this area an opportunity birds with one stone. 25 they start a new count drive. You can to kill two On October savings ac- start build- ing a savings account for your future security and at the same time acquire place settings of either silverplate or stainless steel. Will They Or Won’t They! The question is . . . Will our sen atorial districts be set up accord- ng to population; or, if there is a redistricing bill, will that word “gerrymander” pop its head up again? Democrat legislators should think twice. They gerrymandered a GOP congressman into Washington in their last effort along these lines. With the first $25 new account, or $25 added to your present sav ings account you will receive your first place setting free. Each time you make an additional $25 deposit you may purchase another place setting for a very nominal charge. There is no limit to the number of place settings you may obtain. Place settings will be on display at the bank and you may visit the bank and select your choice, start your savings account and add to it as often as you wish, building your place settings to the number you desire. This is just an added service being offered by this friendly, progressive bank. Drop in soon and talk with Mr. Sam Dixon about all your banking Horn In The West Annual Meeting The Southern Appalachian His torical Association held its annual meeting at the Daniel Boone Hotel last Monday evening. The associ ation produces the summer out door drama, Horn In The West. Dr. I. G. Greer who has been president since the founding of the organization in 1952, was again re-elected to that office. Other officers named were H. W. Wilcox, vice-president; J. V. Cau dill, secretary; and 0. K. Richard son, treasurer. Herman W. Wilcox, executive vice-president, stated that the Horn enjoyed its best year finan cially this season. He said that attendance was up more than twenty-four per cent over the previous summer. The Horn theatre is to be re built and it is hoped that this work will be completed by the time the ’64 season opens. Speaker at the meeting was Wallace Carroll, the editor-pub lisher of the Winston-Salem Jour nal. His subject was “Washington Under Two Presidents.” be purchased in denominations of $100, $500, $1,000, and $5,000, and will bear interest at the rate of 4% per cent which will be paid semi-annually on May 1 and No vember 1 of each year. Placing of the bonds is being handled by a local group, The Watauga Citizens, Inc. The Blue Ridge Shoe Company expects to start moving, its ma chinery into its new building by November 1. The building is lo cated on Greenway Drive in Boone across from the Interna tional Resistance Company. When in full production Watau ga County’s newest industry ex pects to employ about 270 and they expect their daily quota will be 250 dozen pairs of Thom McAn men’s loafers. These will be dis tributed throughout the country in the twelve hundred McAn stores. Overseas Christmas Mailing Dales Are Announced By P.O. The Post Office Department says, Christmas mailing to foreign destinations should start this week. Mailing dates for other than air mail have been given as follows: To the Far East, October 15; TEMPERATURES For Week of October 10-16 High Low 64 33 62 38 68 44 66 40 62 34 64 30 67 29 Africa and the Near vember 1; South and merica, November 10; rope, November 10. East, No- Central A- and to Air Mail dates are: To the East, December 10; Africa the Near East, December Eu- Far and 10: and to Europe, December 15. Parcels mailed not later than the dates as listed should reach their destinations in time for Christmas. Gov. Wallace Speaks In Durham vernor George C. Wallace of backing of trustees, the State terna will speak to North tena in Durham at 2 p.m. - Sunday afternoon, October His appearance is sponsored tee Durham County Citizens’ “til, Incorporated, and will be as had occurred at the University tu e Durham County Memorial o f Mississippi- The Governor call- on U.S. Route 501 Bypass „ of Interstate Route 85 S - TO). legislature, and the Governor himself. The Governor had pro mised “absolute law and order will prevail,” and that he would “not tolerate mob action such 6 event will be held regard- '°f weather, and visitors are to bring umbrellas and ® if necessary, the sponsors overnor Wallace received nat- atteution before television ^k audiences on June 11 at integration crisis on the Uni- tay of Alabama campus at teloosa. While the national ' s ion audience watched, Wal- i^R his campaign promise ^and in the school house to oppose admittance of two students under federal • orders after their rejection ■ diversity officials with the ed on all Alabama citizens to stay at home, saying he would stand for them. The citizens complied, and Wallace read a prepared statement to representatives of the US Department of Justice, in which' he challenged the legal basis for federal intervention. He expects that eventually the US Supreme Court will modify or reverse the 1954 school deseg regation, just as that ecision reversed previous decisions by the same body. “As a Governor of the State of Alabama, I nave a right to test in the courts the validity of this order involving our school system,” Wallace on the NBC television program « Mee t the Press,” June 2. Governor added such a test would be “the most dramatic way to impress on the American people the march of centralized govern ment.” At the annual convention of the Alabama Bar Association in Tus caloosa last July, Wallace said, “Nobody -requested federal troops at Tuscaloosa. There was domestic walking Alabama today in House.” A Time picture disorder. It was no safer a big school construction program, successfully sponsored a $100 mil lion bond issue for roads, cut his own executive department budget by better than $10,000 a year, and persuaded some $250 million worth of new industry to locate in Alabama.” The magazine disa greed with his policy in contro versy with federal jurisdiction over schools. at on the the University of June 11 than it Is shadow of the White First-Rate Governor Magazine, with a cover of Governor Wallace on the recent issue of September 27 said in a feature article inside, “Wallace is in fact a smart, capable lawyer who, in many ways, has been a first-rate Gov ernor.” The magazine said since Wallace took office last January, he has “pushed through sizable raises in teachers’ salaries, begun Sunday coathangers for living money un til he got a job driving a dump truck. He had that job, at the age of 23, when he met’ Lurleen Burns who was clerking in a dime store. They were married in 1943, and they have four children. Wallace was admitted to the Ala- Air Force Bomber Crewman In World War II, George Wal lace was a member of one of the select crews manning America’s mightiest bombers, the B-29s, in the Pacific theater. He flew nine combat missions. He paid his way as a student at the University of Alabama working as a waiter and a taxi driver, following the death of his father; he received bache lor’s degree and a law degree there in 1942. When he graduated from law school, he could not afford to set up law practice. He sold his old clothes and a collec tion of more thaan 1.000 wire bama Bar in 1942. After he served as assistant general of Alabama in was a member of the the war, attorney 1946-47; Alabama Journal Publisher Addresses Rotary Club; A. H. Nimmo Is New Member W. Leslie Burdick, publisher of the Boone-Blowing Rock Journal, gave a history of the newspaper when he addressed the Blowing Rock Rotary Club Monday night. He related how he was contact ed when Blowing Rock found it self without a newspaper back in the spring of 1959. He said that at first he showed little interest in the project but, after visiting the area and talking to the business people he felt the town needed a paper and that he was convinced its growth potential could be enhanced by a progress ive “voice of the community.” stated that he would like for The Journal to have a part in this growth and the paper went on a year around basis with its issue of May 24. This fall The Journal went on a county-wide basis and an office was opened in Boone. Mr. Burdick pointed out as one of the needs, a program offering a wider variety of entertainment for the area’s visitors. He said it was a job for the business people of the area to formulate and carry ■through such a plan, and The Journal would give any undertaking its wholehearted port. that such sup- legislature from his native Bar bour County, in 1947-53; judge of the Third Judicial District, 1953- 58; and was in private law prac tice at Clayton, Alabama, from 1958 until 1962. He was born August 25, 1919, at Clio, Alabama (1960 census, 900 population) in Barbour County, and he made the varsity football team in high school there as a quarterback. He won the Alabama bantam-weight -Golden Gloves box ing championship in 1936 and again in 1937 as an amateur, and later fought professionally in one- night stands. The first issue of The Journal came off the press in July of that year and for the three suc ceeding summer seasons The Jour nal was published as Blowing Rock’s newspaper for a period of ten weeks each year. Early this year the local Cham ber of Commerce felt the town was ready for a year-round news paper and again he was contacted. He stated that for some time this idea had been in his mind and that with the coming of the ski runs, the area was entering a period which would see it grow to a year around resort. He The meeting was presided over by its president, A. Blake Brink erhoff, and the speaker was in troduced by George Hyler Sr. Rotarian Bob Hardin had charge of the ceremony inducting Mr. A. H. Nimmo, proprietor of the Bon nie Brae Import Shop, as a new member. A country steak supper was served to approximately 28 mem bers and one guest. The meeting was held in the dining room of the Parkway Restaurant. Following the meeting a closed executive session was held with the members attending.
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