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BOONE its# population urn vmU of the natfc ???strtct A good student annual^' "SS2 the nation Modem bus! pUct to Hvt. WATAUGA DEMOCRAT An Independent Weekly Newspaper ? Established in the Year 1 888 WATAUGA COUNTY 1M0 POPULATION 1MU of paramount Importance U Park wa> traverse! county. MM blowing Rock, ona o t the 1 Summer rcwrn of t SIXTY-SIXTH YEAB. ? NO. 7. BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, AoBTH CABOL1NA, THUBSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1953 14 PAGES-4 SECTIONS Opera Performance To Benefit Hospital KING STREET BY ROB RIVERS SHE KEPT ON TOOTIIT The narrow guage Tweetsie train, which ha6 figured in song and story for lo these many years, is chugging down the slim rails again on the hobby line o( some Virginia rail enthusiasts in the vicinity of Harrisonburg . . . We had been mighty proud that the no. 10 engine ;nd some of the coaches which used to run into Boone from Johnson City, had been bought and that the new owners would use the roll ing stock to provide some train riding just for fun, so that the scenic rail line which used to be the pride and joy of this region, would at least partially survive . . . Last Saturday bowever, we had the high privilege of seeing the no. 10 engine and her "str ing" balling the jack over the short line, through the NAM television program, and we yell ed for the missus to cpme and get a long delayed look at "our" train . . . -tier drivers slipped a little on the slim rails, when the throttle was opened, the same way they used to when Sherm Pippin was in a hurry to get her around the Y and to have his supper, but when she got ^oing she led the same proud train on which we have ridden those many times from Johnson City to Boone ... We are glad the ten is chugging again and that the smoke is still blowing from her stacks, and we noted that her wheels and undercarriage had been polished bright, just like Sherm had' 'em when Boone de pended on steam for her contact with the outside world. MEMPHIS EXPRESS Speaking of transportation, and the change over from alow trains to fast carl and trucks, and airplanes, we noted a bus down the street the other day labeled "Memphis Express", and of course pondered on how much nearer the sprawling town on the Mississippi is now than a few years ago. when we used to ride the narrow guage to Johnson City and catch the "Memphis Special" ? train 2S. . . . With Buster Dunn at the throttle, the migh ty steam behemoth of the rails was the pride and Joy of the kids around here, who once in a while got to go as far as Knoxville. and the throaty roar of her whistle added to the }oy of the trip. AND HE FLEW THE COOP About the time Spud Whitener became a proud papa, a meadow lark didn't quite clear his car one day, and he carried the stunned bird borne, where, believe it or not, the thing became a house hold pet in nothing flat, walking around the place with the aban don of a bantam rooster . . . Spud and his missus were kept fairly busy, as between feeding the baby and the bird, the bird took the most attention, and about every half hour*chirped for more vittels ... We had never heard of a song bird lending itself to domesticity and marveled that the little fellow warmed so read ily to the ways of man . . . Spud however, tired a bit of pothering with him, and let him outside, where he strode around a felt, muffed a try at flying and came on back, chirping for more milk and stuff ... So 6pud carried him away to the vicinity of where the bird was bumped with the car and tos^d him in the air . . . Evidently realizing he was being turned out in the wide world for sure, he flew a'way, and hasn't been seen since . . . Commenting on the incident Spud allowed "the joker could fW all the time ... he knew an easy life when he found it, and just didn't want to go away!" . . . And we can imagine that birdom will hear a tall tale some day from the lark who lived with the folks down below ... of growing fat and sassy without bothering to set up (fly to catch the worm, wflP ihounre slept late. NO JINGLE-JANGLE TVm o i us who practically live at a telephone? who on (Continued on page two.) ' ' t The Institute of Opera will give a performance on Sunday afternoon, August 23, at three o'clock, for the benefit of the Watauga Hospital in Boone. The Institute is directed by Norman Cordon, formerly with the Metro politan Optra, who will act as master of ceremonies for the benefit performance, which will be given in the administration building auditorium at Appala chian State Teachers College. The artists who will partici pate in this program have been received with tremendous enthu siasm in all their public perfor mances this summer. The pro gram will include the following: Aria, Ah Mon Fils, by Meyer beer, from "Lee Prophete"; Low Blowing Winds, by Golde; O Thou Billowy Harvest Fields, by Rachmaninoff, all to be sung by Arlene Soskey, mezzo-soprano. Two, Burgundian folk-songs ar ranged by Maurice Emmanuel; two songs from the province of Auvergu earranged by Cante loube, sung by Richard Cox, ten-, or. Three RLspetto by Wolf-Ferrari; jewel song from Faust, by Gou nod, sung by Helen Masloff, soprano; three duets and trio frdm Der Rosenkavalier by Rich- ' ard Strauss, with Amelia Card- ! well, soprano, Miss Masloff and Miss Soskey as the singers. Accompanist for the program ' toll be Walter Golde, artistit 1 director for the- Institute of Op era. Mr. Golde is a well-known voice teacher of New York City. A recen# ruling of the Defense Department will compel 13,000 to 14,000 college juniors in R. O. T. C. to sign up for flight training or face being drafted, it has been announced. George H. Hayes Of Blowing Rock, Succumbs at 85 George Hamilton Hayes of Blowing Rock, one of Watauga's best known and most respected citizens, died in Bidding Rock hospital July 12 after an extend ed illness which Was complicated by a stroke suffered July 7. Mr. Hayes served the farmers of the county as veterinerian for more than 50 years, retiring only when his health failed. Mr. Hayes was a member of one of the first families to settle in Watauga and was a life-long resi dent here. He was a member of the Bru shy Fork Baptist Church and un til recent years was active in all phases of the religious work of the different communities in which he resided. Mr. Hayes was born January j S, 1868* His age at death was 85 , years and 7 months. In 1889 he was married to Miss Mollie Moo dy who passed away in 1906. The survivors of this union are four sons and one daughter, Roby Hayes of Cove Creek, Tom Hayes, Vilas, Oris Hayes, Lovill, Don Hayes of Deep Gap and Mrs. Nannie Cook, Ruhterwood. ' He was married to Miss Rosa Coffey in 1909. She passed away in 1940. The survivors ob this union are four sons, Joe Hayes of Blowing Rock, Bill Hayes, Ruth erwood. Glen Hayes, Boone, Ho well Hayes, Cleveland, Ohio; three daughters, Mrs. Texie Cook, Boone, Mrs. Doris VanDykt, Boone, and Mrs. Julia Hicks, An derson, S. C. Mr. Hayes is also survived by his widow, the former Mrs. Alice Taylort thirty-five grandchildren and twenty-seven great grand children. A brother and sister also survive, Joe Hayes of Vilas, and Mrs. Jennie Whitehead of Boone. REA District Meet Is Set For Saturday ' Blue Ridge Electric Member ship Corporation will hold its re gular district meeting for mem bers of the Watauga district in the Appalachian High School Concert Band To Give Last Concert Summer Season The Summer Concert Band will give its fin|al concert for this season Monday evening. The time hag been moved up to 8:30 b'clock to allow for more day light for playing. The band will play on the Fine Arts lawn un less there is rain, in which case the concert wlil be given in the aucfitorium. Last week the band spent the entire day Thursday at the annual Masonic picnic in Mocksville. This is the fourth year the band has fumshed the music for the picnic, and has received an invi tation to do so again next year. Opens Office ? Dr. H. M. Wilson, one of Boone's new physicians, announ ces that his office at 711 King Street will be open lor general practice Thursday of this week. auditorium, Saturday, August 22 at Boone. The program will begin a) 1 30 p. m. A report of the Coopera tives progress and future plans will be given by the General Manager, C. E. Viverette. The nominating committee will present its slate of candidates for directors to be elected at the Co operative's annual meeting, which will be held at Lenoir, in the City Park, Saturday, Septem ber 12. ' A television talent hunt, being sponsored by the Cooperative, will be one of the highlights of the afternoon program. Contestants from the member ship of the Co-op will be compet ing for three prizes. First prize, $15.00; second prize $10.00; third prize, $5.00. The three district winners will appear at the annual meeting to be held in Lenoir to compete with other district winners of the Co-op for the grand final. At Lenoir the TV talent winner will be chosen by Arthur Smith and the Cracker-Jacks. Prizes for the annual meeting are; First prize, $25.00; second prize, $15.00; third prize, $10.00. Free door prizes are to be given to members holding lucky num bers. All members are urged to come and enjoy this program as well as gain valuable information con cerning their own business. Merchants' Picnic To Be Held August 26th The anntrfi picnic given e^ry year by the Merchants' Associa tion for their employees will be held aUCamp Yonuhlossee, Wed nesday afternoon, August 26 he ginning promptly at 2 o'clock. All merchants are urged to close their Korea that afternoon and arrange for their employees to attend. Tickets may be secured from the Merchants' Association office In the Building & Loan buildin0pr telephone 200 for re scrvations. The game* will begin right af ter 1:00 o'clock. Those who want to swim should come prepared with bathing cults etc. Winkler Motor Company has challenged Andrews Chevrolet to ? soft ball game, and Belk'S Deportment Store has challenged Hunt's and Bare's to a volley ball game. Three tours of Camp Yonahlos see will be conducted, and every body who goes should see tbe whole camp. Watermelon will be served at 1:30; dinner at 6:00. There i? no charge to the em ployees, but the employers should get tickets for all their employees who expect to attend. Dinner menu . will include: fried chicken, corn on the cob, potato salad, coffee and tea, top ped off with icc cream from Hill side Dairy. Gtain Andrews is president of the Merchants' Association; Ro berta Ray is secretary, and all merchants in the county are eli gible to be members. Ground Is Broken For Boone's $160,000 Telephone Exchange BREAKS GKOUND ? Mayor Gordon Winkler, left, is shown wielding the shoyel at the ground breaking ceremoniea held on the 1 site of the new Bell Telephone building last Thursday. Others are, lett to right: W. H. Gragg, secretary Watauga Build ing and Loan Association; Ahred Adams, cashier Northwestern Bank; Stanley A. Harris, secretary of Charfiber of Commerce; H. M. Inabinet, group manager Bell Telephone Co.; Rob Rivers, publisher Watauga Democrat; ??erman Wilcox, president Cham ber of Commerce; L. N. Williamson, plant foreman; T. S. Cates, division eng.neer; W. R. Winkler, State Highway Commissioner; D. P. Flory, division engineer; Mrs. Jessie Warman, chief Boone operator. Southern Bell; Ben Miller, building contractor; J. C. Strickland, representing district plant manager; R. N. McNeal, chairmaii coordinating committee. ? Photo by Paul Weston. Seven Counties ? Are Represented At Farm Meeting Seven counties from this sec tion of the state were represent ed at the district farm bureau meeting held at the co'urthouae in Boone on Thursday, August 13. These counties were Yadkin, Surry, Caldwell, Wilkes, Burke, Alexander and Watauga. Mr. R. Flake Shaw, state ex ecutive vice-president of the farm bureau told farm representatives at this meeting that price sup ports and adjustments must be included in the new farm policy being formulated by the United States Department of Agricul ture. Mr. Shaw also said that the new program ought to provide protection for the farmers just as labor and industry are protected. Other special speakers at the meeting were Mr. Will H. Rog ers," director "of organization of j the bureau, and Mr. O. L. Yates, field representative North Caro- \ lina Farm Bureau, who discussed | plans for the membership drive Which will begin September 1. Mr. W. R. Vines, president of the Watauga County Farm Bureau presided at the meeting. D. F. Greene Is Re-elected Head Of i Farm Committee D F. Greene was re-elected chairman of the Unit Te?t De monstration Farm Committee at the annual meeting at the Mil ton Moretz farm on Monday, August 17. This meeting was held at the end of the farm tour and participated ip by approximately seventy-five farmers and their families. Other members re-elect-, ed were Mrs. W. R. Vines and Tom Ward. New members on the committee are Otto Thomas and Mrs. KUlton Moretz. Mr. Denver Robinson, assist ant county agent, who works with the UTD program pointed out that three farmers had re signed and that the committee could select farms to fill these vacancies. He pointed out that Watauga county had a quota of 2S farms on UTD and said he hoped that we could keep that number. A committee composed of How ard Edmisten, chairman, Otto Thomas and Milton Moretz was appointed to work out the most satisfactory handling arrange ments possible. Following the business meet ing the group enjoyed ? water melon feast. I Soviet armed force* have I avoided political shift*. Over 1,200 Expected For College Opening The fall term at Appalachian State Teachers College will open on Monday, September 7, when freshmen are expected to report to their dormitories for pro gram of three days., orientation which begins the next day. Transfer students from other col leges will report to the college on Thursday, September 10, and upperclassmen will come in on September II. Dr. G. P. Eggers, freshman dean, will be in charge of the Commerce Group Seeks New Members H. W. Wilcox, president of the Boone Chamber of Commerce, in announcing a membership cam paign for the organization, states that additional manufacturing plants which would bring local industrial employment to 1200, are in prospect. In urging continued support of the Chamber, Mr. Wilcox says: "Boone apd Watauga County are making real progress. Ground has been broken for the new tele phone building, and Mr. Miller, the contractor, advises that by Horn Personnel To Appear On TV Well known members of tha "Horn in the West" company will be seen over WFMY-TV in Greensboro on Wednesday and Friday afternoons this week. They will be interviewed on Car ol Stoker's program at 2:30 p. m. Mrs. Helen Forrest Lauterer, cottumer for the drama, will ap pear on television Wednesday afternoon. Ned Austin, who plays Daniel Boone, and Richard Chapline, a soloist and member of the "Horn" choir, will be featured on Miss Stoker's program Friday after noon. Austin will present a dra matic monologue, and Chapline will sing Gaelic and American folk songi>. September 1 the building will be under way in^earnest. They are laying bricks and concrete blocks at the electronics plant and have assured us that that plant will be ready by the first of the year. The Chamber of Commerce has wc^ked diligentjy for the past five years to bring about just such a situation. It is not prob | able either of these could have been achieved without the serv ices of the Chamber of Com merce. , "Along with these two major | projects 'the Boone Chamber of" Commerce has spent its entire i income, which is pitifully small, in advertising Boone and promot ing these and some 20 other pro jects. They are now working on two additional manufacturing plants which if they can be >e cured, with the electronics plant would offer* employment for abqut 1200 people, and that would mean a payroll of at least $30, 000 a week or $2,600,000 a year. Every individual in Watauga County is already profiting, and evpry business and professional man in the county ought to be long to the Chamber of Com merce. , "You are cordially invited to | fill out the attached form and mail it to the Chamber of Com merce, and thus do your part to help Boone and Watauga County I grow." Boone, N. C., 1953 ? Surely I am intereated in helping Boone grow. I will be glad to accept membership in the Boonr Chamber of Commerce and to pay the annual fee of my classification. When it is practical, I will attend the monthly meeting on the second Tuesday of each month, 12:00 9 noon to 1:15 p. m. My telephone number is ^ Check for f enclosed. Send bill 1st (Signed) Personal Membership 110.00 per, year. Buainess Membership 125.00, per year. Sustaining Membership $50.00 and up per year. orientation program. He will be assisted by Dr. J. D. Rankin, dean; Dr. ,D. J. Whitener, 'assist ant dean; Miss Helen Burch, dean of women; Leo K. Pritchett, dean of men; Shirley Gabriel of Lin colnton, president of the student body; and other faculty members and student leaders. According to Registrar H. R. Eggers, the enrollment is expect ed to be about the same as last year, when a near-record 1262 registered for the fall term. At least 300 freshmen are accepted, and it is possible, he says, that the usual August rush for enroll ment will add still others to this number of both freshmen and upperclassmen, and will push the figures on ahea<f of last year. Last year 23 Korean veterans re gistered, and it is anticipated that 50 will enroll for the fall quarter. Students arriving at Appala chian this year will see a num ber of changes on the campus. Chief among these is the newly completed athletic field which has been under construction this summer, and which will be ready for play this fall. The new facul ty apartments building also is now in use. The latest additions to the dormitories ? one for men and one for women ? will be in use for the second year, having been opened to students after the term began'last fall. Work is just beginning on an enlargement of the stadium, and it is expected to be finished for the opening of the football season. Among the new appointments to the faculty are the following: Dr. Isabel Jones, formerly witl\ the University of Virginia School of Education, who, is added to (Continued on page seven) Local Gtizens, Bell Co. Officials Join In Ceremony Ground breaking ceremonies for the new Bell telephone ex change were held on the lite, East King Street, Thursday af ternoon, when a group of repre sentative citizens, and telephone company officials watched Mayor Gordon Winkler, lift the first shovel of dirt from the site of the building, which is to house Boone's new dial phone system. The building is to be one-story with full basement. The first floor will contain quarters for the business offices and switchboard equipment. The basement will be used for motors, batteries and storage. The structure will be 28 feet wide and will have a depth of 56 feet. The estimated total cost of the project is in excess of $160,000, according to H. M. Ina binet, group manager for South ern Bell. Foresees Further Growth Because of the rapid growth of Boone, Bell officials say they will install enough equipment to take care of about 500 additional tele phones and the system is design ed for even further expansion. Approximately 1100 telephones art connected to the present system, compared to 337 in Janu ary 1946. Mr. Inabinet stated that this project is in line with the Company's general plans for the improvement and expansion of telephone service. The present schedule calls for the switch from manual to dial service during February 1954. The Ben Miller Construction Co., has the contract for the building. Radio Program The ground-breaking ceremon ies were broadcast over the faci lities of WATA, and a number of local citizens and Bell company officials made brief remarks. Miss Walker To Be Supervisor At New Bern Mi*s Mary H. Walker, who has taught in the local Demonstration school (or five years, has resigned her position and will take up new work in New' Bern in Sep tember as Supervisor in the city Elementary school system there. ? Miss Walker will attend a sup ervisor's conference at Catawba college the last week of August, before taking up her new duties. Her home is in Gibsonville, which she expects to visit during the next two weeks. In 1952, Miss Walker took a leave of absence from Boone and went to Germany and Eng land where she taught children of Service personnel in thoee two countries. She returned to the States and to Boone and taught in the ly^al school during the last school year. In all, Miss Walker taught here in the fifth and sixth grades five years. Replacing Miss Walker at the Demonstration school will be Mr. Ivey Maness, a graduate student at Appalachian State Teacher* College. Prices paid by North Carolina farmers for mos| feed items have changed IX tie this year. "Horn" Attendance Reaches Season Peak Attendance at "Horn in the Weit" continued to increase thin week as the drama reached its 103rd performance Sunday night and swung into its final three weeks of production for the 1993 season. Tor the past eight performan ces, August 8 through August 18. crowds at the Daniel Boone Thea tre have averaged 960 nightly The biggest crowd of the yeai attended the play on Saturday night, when 1,900 spectators came through the ticket gates. Attend ance at the 100th performance I Friday night was 883. General Manager William M. Hardy report* that advance sales for the remainder of the season are very good. Reservations for Saturday night, AUgust 22, indi cate that attendance will be even better than last Saturday, be says. Dr. I. O. Greer, president of the Southern Appalachian His itorical Association, was a visitor to Boone this week and presided at the regular weekly meeting of the board of directors Monday. Dr. and Mrs. Greer have juat re turned from a trip, to Europe.
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