Rhododendron Festival
Set At Roan Mountain
Bakersville. ? Governor Luther
Hodge* of North Carolina and ?
great number of the Tar Heel
state's dignitaries will npeak in
ceremonies ot the two-day Roan
Mountain Rhododendron Festival
' on the Roan this week end.
Governor Hodges will speak at
I 10:10 a. in, Saturday, and, due to
other engagements, will not be
able to remain on the grounds past
noon.
Among the other speakers will
be Congressman Charles B. Jonas.
A. H. (Sandy) Graham, chairman
of the N. 6. Highway and Public
Works Commission, and Judge Wil
son Wariiek of the U. S. Court
Carl Goereh of State Magazine
! will be master of ceremonies for
the Tar Heel program and Jeter
Burleson, Mitchell County Repre
sentative in the General Assembly,
will introduce Governor Hodges.
Speeches and remarks by digni
taries of Tennessee. Including the
Paul Said
To Mr. Ed:
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One little fellow had been taught
to recite the line from the Matter:
i "It it I. Be not afraid."
When the little fellow came up
on the platform, where he was to
do hit part, he was ashy with stage
fright, but with his small voice
trembling and full of tears, he
managed to say:
"Tain't nobody but me. Doan'
get'skeared."
"School is out ? watch for the
boys and girls who are playing."
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governor and highway commission
chairman, will be interspersed in
the morning program. :-'?i , ,
The annual beauty contest to se
lect a North Carolina queen and
a Tennessee queen will ' be held at
\:46 pm Twenty girls of West
ern North Carolina communities
are competing for the Tar Heel
queen honors.
The North Carolina winner will
receive a number of awards, in
cluding a trophy and a $100 schol
arship being given by Blaoton's
Business College in Asheville, a
Bulova watch being presented by
the Asheville Cltixen-Times Pub
lishing Company, and several other
items.
The Rev. R. M. Cassity, pastor
of the First Baptist Church in
Spruce Pine, will deliver the invo
cation as the program begins at
9:40 a. m. Saturday. W. C. Berry
of Bakersville, festival chairman,
will deliver the welcome address
and will introduce Mr. Goerch.
Dr. James Berry of Bakersville
and O. D. Calhoun of Spruce Pine
will conduct the North Carolina
queen contest
Robert Bunnelle, publisher of
the Citisen-and Times, has been
invited td crown the Tar Heel
queen and former Governor R.
Gregg Cherry will present the
awards to her. >
A newly-paved two-mile section
of U. S. Forest Service road from
N. C. Ml at Carver's Gap to tMe
site of the old Cloudland Hotel at
the top of the mountain makes the
trip up Roan a short, easy drive
now. The road terminates in a 300
car parking lot and In 1994 a loop
road through the rhododendron
gardens was graded and opened to
motorist
General News
Brevities
College graduates of recent years
are having more children but as
a group, a study shows they still
have to produce more to replace
themselves.
A wider variety of car colors Is
expected next year.
Oil research this year will cost
about $1,000,000,000.
The Senate passed the Admini
stration's $3,330,000,000 foreign
aid program after rejecting a series
of jyfrytm -amendment*.
Acreage In feed grains in IMS
will be up for the second straight
year.
Berea Drama
Opens June 29
Brtt, Ky? Paul Green, Amer
ica'* foremost historical dramatist,
and author of "Wilderness Road," i
will arrive ia - Berea on June 10, i
and will remain for one month i
while his latest drama goes Into ,
production. Cast and techntral l
staff are on hand, and rehearsals ;
are well underway. Mr. Green's |
mission is one of final polishing, of
testing his script In live perform- |
ance and completed setting. It will |
open is the public on June 30, and
will rontinue throughout the sum- i
mer. >, '-MT- ' ? ,
In "Wilderness Road," Mr. Green :
has dramatised the southern moun
taineer, not as a comic charcater, ]
but as a symbol of integrity and j
high courage. His chaiacters ap- i
pear as Civil War Kentuckians,
moving through endless frontiers;
frontiers not only geographic, but i
scoial, educational and spiritual as
well. It is cast and staffed by peo- I
pie from the southern mountains. |
Religious Broadcast
Sunday Morning
Special broadcast Sunday morn
ing over radio station WATA. H.
Ernest Shoaf will talk on the sub
ject: "Have Miracles Ceased."
The Soviet is campaigning to in
crease cultivated land.
MIm Hardin In
Capping Event
Mia* Helen Hardin, daughter at
Mr. and Mr. Edgar B. Hardin,
reacted the fint milestone in her
nursing career on Hay 27th when
the wea capped in the candlelight
ceremony with the other 82 mem
bers of har daaa at the Charlotte
Memorial Hospital School of Nurs
RR~T ?
A reception waa held en the
lawn of the nurses residence fol
lowing the capping. \l i
Attending were Helen's parents
ind a slater, Miss Jo Ann Hardin.
Jo Ann, who is an Aeronautical
Sciences Editor at the Langley
Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley
Field, Virginia, apent the follow
ing week at home. Helen waa home
tor two succeeding weeks.
Nixon regarda the Big Four
talks aa a croaaroad.
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