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.TAUGA COUNTY, Bshed in the kY, JUNE S. II Visitore on the illspealthm at folks to look lmJiiirt to eflwr days, with B f? Mug that everything ww all zl0ht then . . . Tha years have erased the trials aad tribulations of the past and farth ^ptoMntMnorisf*** "the gay nineties." says Qrady. "are -hailed by story teOeis. novelists aad movie producers, as tha happiaat time in the bltooey of the nation, when as a matter of faet.it was hard as heck tor folks to ltv? in those days." . . . Course it was, and fa some distent day, the people wfll look back to 1M0, and will have forgotten the tswsipns aad the turmoil, the tows aad the frustrations of tUs Ugh speed agft aad wflS see only the ?wak of outotaadfaa psrsnaal happfases ... It hes always beaa so. CJT3ES under one hundred thousand population are begin ning to find satisfaction in tail ing below their estimates on the current census . . . After all, they won't rate an atom bomb, 'tis said, until they grow some more . a '. Teachers and students con verse on Appalachian College campus for opening of first sum mer term . . . All dormitory space in the- instutition takm some months ago, . . . college officials and civic leaders cooperate in placing as many additional stud ents as possible in homes of the town . . . Mercury drops Sunday evening to below forty, and frost is reported by the early-risers in some sections of the county . . . When two oi* three . of the huge freight vans are parked in close proximity, one has the feeling of looking at a railway freight year, rather than a city street . . . However these behemoths of the highways are our sole depend ence for freight service, and are the life lines of the community since the narrow guage railway washed away nearly a decade ago . . RESCUE ? Mn. TmmHi Bugar and haliooptar pilot Owtn Niahaus in pulled ash or* la a rowboat Mai Nlaora Falls. I. Y_ altar a leriee of dramatic events in tha raacua o I Mrs. Bugar brum tha Niagra Bb?. Aa aha chmg to a rock naar tha Canadian rails, a haliooptar attempted to taach bar after Bremen in a boat bad failed, but tha machlna crashed. A sacond helicopter complatad tha res cua by rtwppflag a rope' to a rowboat that lavtd Mrs. Bugar and tha pilots of tha ?lacfcad aircraft. Watauga Is Given 128 Teachers Open Air Service On Next Saturday A service of prayer, singing and preaobipg will be held on the courthouM lawn Saturday June 10, in the interest of the revivals being held at this time by many of the Baptist churches of the county. Rev. Bd Burnett of Elizabeth ton, Tenn., will be the speaker Ben Wood will conduct Ibe puMic '? invited Many Seeking J "Queen Honors A number of organizations have entered candidate* in the contest being conducted in con nection with the "echoes o t the Blue Ridge", for quean of the Blue Ridge Mountains, and the winner will be ciuwuad by Choo Choo Justice at appropriate cape monies. Those placed in nomination re cently are: Peggy Greer, Boone, by the V.| Rebecca Moose, Rotary Club. Rachel Ann Vance, BPW. Mrs. Billy Badge tt Parker,] Chamber' of Commerce. Tonie Buchanan, 13k Park, Newland Lions Club. Pearl Brown, Boone, Howard's! Creek Home Demonstration Club. Marjorie Mast, Cove Creek Community Club. Those buying tickets for the pageant will be eligible to vote in the contest for queen, and ballot boxes will be established at the Boone postoffice and oth er convenient points about town, and results tabulated weekly. Workshop Course For School Supervisors Appalachian State Teachers college announces that it nm\ conduct a two-weeks workshop course for county and city super visors, beginning July . 31 and ending August 12. The course will carry three quarter hours of graduate credit The workshop will be directed by Dr. Mildred Swearingen, widely known in the education al field. Dr. Swearingen was, for a number at years, a county supervisor in Florida, following which she was supervisor Af ele mentary education in the Florida She is now professor of elemt tary education in Florida State University at Tallahassee. Dr. Swaartagen took her doctoral degree at Ohio State University, La Motta and for title boot Watauga county ha* been al lotted. 128 teachers by the State board of education, which mean* a loss to the county of four teachers, says W. H. Walker, county superintendent of schoa's. No teachers, it appears, have been provided for Howard's Creek, Lower Elk, Penley and Windy Gap. Howard's Creek, it is sfid, will go to Green Valley, Lower Elk 'to Deep Gap and Windy Gap to Cove Creek, while no disposition, has been made of the Penley school children. The teachers have been allow ed as follows: Supervising teacher I. District 1: Appalachian High 12, Appalachian eighth grade 4, Boone Demonstration 18, Rica Mountain 1, Howard's Creek none, Rutherwood 2, Bamboo 3. District 2: Green Valley 4. Winebarger 2. District 3: Deep Gap 7, S Pork 2, Mt Paron 1, Lower none. " ' r~ ? District 4: Blowing Rock High 3, Blowing Rock elementary 8, Penley none, Bradshaw 1. District 9: Valle Cruci* 10, Cool Spring 1. District 6: Cove Creek High 8, Cove Creek eighth grade 4, Cove Creek elementary lis Rominger 1, Windy Gap none. District 7: Bethel High 4, Bethel elementary 9. District 8: Mabel 10, Potter town may be moved to Mabel. Wataun Consolidated : L Albea To Direct Pageant Dances The ballet and certain other dance episodes in Echoes of the Blue Ridge pageant being pre sented in Boone June 30 through Jul/ 4, will be directed this year by Johnny Albea of - Winston Salem, a former dance pupil of Mrs. Joy Kirchner of the Appa lachian State Teachers college faculty. Albea, who receives his degree with the August 1950 class, was a member of the Appalachian modern dance and Varsouvianna (folk dance) clubs for four years. He took part in a number of de monstrations and public perfor mances under the direction of Mrs. Kirchner. During the sum mer of 1940 he was the recipient of a scholarship given by. Mias Barbara Mettler of the Mettler school of Dance in Franklin, New Hampshire. Talented young men and women from New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, North Carolina, and Georgia, made up the dance. Al bea was a member of the Bar bara Mettler group who perform ed in recital at the University of Georgia last January. Pat Alderman* director of the Echoes at the Blue Ridge, ax "Echoes" Tickets Are Now Available Individual tickets to "Echoes of the Blue Ridge," are now on sale in the community, and var ious 'organizations of the com munity will, conduct a thorough C" >g campaign during the next days to sell the admission slips to the historical pageant being arranged as a follow up of last year's centennial celebration. Special teams representing the Rotary Club, Lions Club, Wo man's Club, Business and Pro fessional Woman's Club, and probably the American Legion, Veteram - of foreign Wars and Junior Order may hava tickets for sale. The tickets may be bought in book of four at a 29% saving it ig said, and each book of tickets contains 900 votes for queen can didate*. Mrs. Rominger Taken By Death Mrs. Anna Shoemaker Romin ger, 65, died at her home in the Matney neighborhood last Satur day. Funeral services were held Monday at Liberty Methodist Church, the pastor. Rev. J.' O. Banks being ill charge of the rites, and interment was in the church cemetery. - The husband, M. C. Rominger, eight sons and two daughter? survive: Charlie Rominger, At lanta, Qa.; Clyde, Orlando, Fla.; Ernest, Rominger; Fred, Grady, Dixon, Howard, and Richard Rominger, Banner Elk; Mrs. Bill Wrenn, Burlington; Mte Edith Rominger, Banner Elk. ; There is one brother, Conley Shoemaker of Ferguson, N. C. Five ^isters survive: Mrs. G. A. Broyhill, Mrs. George Church, Lenoir; Mrs. Dave Woo ten, Mrs. Clyde Clawson, Blowing Rock; Mrs. Tom Beshears, Summitt, N. C. Frazer reveals he quit* com pany in rift with Kaiser. PAGEANT TO?f> BETTER THAR EFFORT OF 49 tckoM ei Blue RMp" Con? Ution End of June; Script, " Action, Stage Setting New; , Many Added Features. The pageant. Echoes of the Blue Ridge, which is being given at Boone this summer, June 30 through July 4, is an entirely different production from that given during the centennial celebration last year. , The script, action and stage setting have been ? completely changed. Under the direction of Pat Alderman of Mountain City, Tennessee, the episode coverage is linked closely in this year's pageant with the Blue Ridge his tory, the pageant is stronger, more personal to the section, and better staging facilities go to make a different, greater, and more interesting presentation of i he story of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Hundreds of trees for natural background setting, spotlights on towers with dimmers and color frames, many large flood lights with color slides and dimmers, will aid in giving the setting a professional finish. Realistic pro perties for each set are under preparation. One of the biggest and best costume companies in the country is furnishing cos tumes. Seen in the pageant will be the pioneer, Daniel Boone, his wife Rebecca, their children, and oth er families on the trail for Ken tucky; Hhe building *of the first homes by the settlers at Valle Crucis, Beaver Dam and Cove |Creek; the Apron Hemming con test between the man at a party along about 1880, and the award] to the victor; the Coffey and Bryan jtores of 1898, where (horse-trading and the medicine show vied with each other for There will be a humorous, realistic, dramatic story of the founding of Appalachian State Teachers college, and its growth and development The grand finale with its fun nel of progress will be extra r a gant in its color, symbolism, andj action. Many other items are incor porated in the script, but it is different, it is bigger, and it Is better. It -is not the same show as last year. The production is ex pected to draw hundreds of visi tors to the performances June 30 through July 4. Over an hour's program every night will be com pletely different; and there will be two. entirely different perfor mances of the pageant Itself. James Cornell Dies On Monday; James E. Cornett, 67, died at the home of a son, Harley Cor nett at Sugar Grove Monday, and , funet-al services were held Tues day at Mountain Dale Baptist, Church, burial being in MOlsaps' cemetery. Rev. Nathan Greene ? was in charge of the .rites. Surviving are the widow, six* sons and two daughters: Harley Cornett, Sugar Grove; Andrew, 1 Lenoir; Luthfcr, Trade, Tenn.; ! John, , Augusta, Ga.; George and Linney Cornett, Reese; Mrs. Lee i Adair, Sugar Grove; Mrs. Binal Harmon, Reese. I ' . -j. ' V HE: & DOOGHTON f AHK" NAME QF BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY AREA; DR. J. C. CANIPE Dr. Canipe To Direct Revival j ? 1 Dr. J. C. Canipe, secretary of] vangelism for the Baptist State. Convention, who will preach at, maa meeting at the Boone, laptist Church Sunday after- , ioon, launching a crusade of vangellam in a number of hurches of the county. Dr. Canipe is director of the simul- ( aneous revival effort, beginning Sunday. The pastors of the Three Fortes Association will have breakfast ogether each morning and have > period of prayer and fellow hip in preparation for each day's vorlc. These breakfasts to be leld at Oak Grove Church Rev. C. O. Vance is chairman if evangelism and haa made ?reparations for a great spiritu il revival, it is said. The public is invited to attend ill of the meetings during the i veek of June 11-18. " i I, red Barnett To Assemble Chorus . ? ! Ted Barnett of Boon*, a music itudent at Appalachian SUta reacher* college, will assemble a lien's chorus to participate in the nusical part at Echoes of the Blue Ridge, pageant being pre lented in Boone June 30 through July 4. Mr. Barnett has been a mem ber of the college chorus, and ?oloist with both the chorus and the octet during the past year. The chorus ensemble will sing part of each episode of the story is it blends into the action on the stage. Some of the musical num ber! to be included in the pag eant are: "Great Spirit Fire", that the Indians sing as they greet the rising sun; "Sun Hymn", expressing thankfulness that the Great Spirit is still smil ing on them; and "Medicine Man, Oh Make Us Some Magic." The chorus greets Daniel Boone, on his trek over the Ap palachians into Kentucky, with "O'er the Appalachian Moun tains", and a ballad that Boone is supposed to have sung. As the pageant moves into the 1890's, the chorus will, bland their voices with the swirl of the Virginia Reel as the "apron hem mem" catty out their antics of yesteryear. The chorus will also jive numbers reminiscent of the jld barbershop quartet of the Nineties, and will sing again dur ing the story of Appalachian State Teachers college. With Paul Weber and his fun Mis Hammond organ, and Ted Barnett and the chorus the harmony, the music portion if the pageant is expected to be in outstanding contribution of the different performances. m HUBBARD TO SPEAK HERE OH PROBLEMS Dr. Fred C. Hubbard at North OTlkeaboro will spaak ?t the ourthouse Thursday June Ml it o'clock, as guest of the Wa auga county health council, 'as he occasion of the council's first jirthday, and not i a health council n each community ?ral public m well is invited to ittend the meeting. Dr. Hubbard to a moat ap propriate speaker for this meet ng in that he has served as State rural health chairman far the Worth Carolina Medical Society dnce it affiliated with the na <nnai movement far lealth councils to promote batter nealth. Dr. Hubbard ha? been wry active in promoting this movement throughout the State and will bring the group tip to late on the progress of health council development. He has an nounced his subject far ttria meeting as "Health Councils As rhe Democratic Approach To Our Rural Health Problems." In idditkm to having this rural health interest Dr. Hubbard it president elect for the North Carolina Medical Society having been elected to this post at the innnai meeting of that group seid in Southern Pines early in Mar. . Watauga council members will it this meeting decide on rules of order tor determining poUcw ?f the health council. The coun cil in Watauga was the seoond to be organized in North Carolina u a result of the effort* of the State Medical Society, and the cooperation of the local pfaysici uis, the local public health forces and interested groups in the county. You will recall that toe Watauga County Farm Bureau zation campaign and community meetings, but there was ununit ed cooperation between all the agencies and the people in seme thirty-five communitiei of this county which resulted in the council organization. Such co operation deserves much praise ? and the continued activity of Watauga's health council is be ing watched, not only through out the state, but in many other states. Proof of this interest is the large number of requests re ceived by the council secretary from the National health council and from other state and county groups for reports of activities of this local council. The secre tary needs the help of every community representative in re porting activities so that these many requests may be answered. Matters of county-wide health interest will be acted upon at this meeting. Each citizen should see that the elected community representatives are on hand to speak for the group from that section of the county and be at the meeting himself to learn from the address of Dr. Hubbard so that he as a citizen can aid his community in improving Ms health facilities. The BeaVer Dam Grange will hold an open meeting Thursday June 8th at ? p. m. Everyone to urged to attend. The (arm agents, Msews Tuck willer and aDrkman, will be at the meeting to help plan School grounds and other community improvements. Re freshmen? will be served and there will also be music b> the Thomas and Farth ing band. |$v i&vwSr. ?
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