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An Independent Weekly Nevot paper ? Ettubliahed in the fear Eighteen Eighty-Eight BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JULY 14, INS Andrews Reelected President Retailer Group At Annual Meet The Boone Merchant! Associa tion held ita annual Ladle* Nighl and election of officer* meeting Monday evening in the dining room of the Boone Trail Rertaurant. Glenn R Andrew*, who has *erv ed for the pest two years, was re elected president for the coming year. The meeting was called to order by the president and the invoca tion was led by the Rev. E. F. Troutman Following an enjoyable dinner, progress reports were heard from committee chairmen Paul Coffey, Cecil Miller, Russell D. Hodges, J. V. Caudill, Paul Winkler, and W. H. Gragg. Five representative* of the Sun Life Assurance Company of Can ada were introduced by W. H. Gragg. They were E. O. Lord, At lanta, Ga.; D. W. Cornell, Greens boro; O. L. NewtoA, Atlanta, Ga.; O. B. Elam, Winston-Salem, and Pat Bole*, Atlanta. Mr. Bole* explained the group life insurance pisn the associstion has adopted. The insurance men will be in Boone the balance of this week visiting members relative to joining the plan. Seventy-five per cent of the membership is re quired to put the plan into oper ation, Mr. Boles laid. A report of the nominating com mittee wax made by Chairman W. W. Cheater, and the following of ficer* were elected; Preaident, Glenn R. Andrew*; vice-president, J. V. Caudill; treas urer, W. W. Cheater; board of di rector*, Farri* Bumgarner, H. W. Mast, Jr., Ira Ayers, Cecil Miller, Russell Hodges, Roy Rufty, Fred Church, and J. C. Goodnight. Paul Coffey is chairman of the collections committee; Paul Wink ' ler, chairman of the fire preven tion and insurance committee; Ce cil Miller, chairman of the member ship committee; and W. W. Chest er, chairman of the sales promo tion committee. Special guest, Thompson Green wood of Raleigh, secretary of tha North Carolina Merchants Asso ciation, presided at the installation ceremonies, and presented Presi dent Andrews with a loving cup won by the Boone association for registering the greatest increase in membership in North Carolina. He was introduced by Stanley A. Harris. Clyde R. Greene was named as the association's representative on the state board. Scouts Attend i Summer Camp Boone Boy Scout* arc well re presented at the summer camp now in session under the sponsorship of the Old Hickory Council. The camp is the second held at the new site at Raven's Knob. Tommy Owsley of Boone is serv ing as a waterfront instructor at the camp. Nine members of Troop 100 of the Boone Methodist Church left for Raven's Knob on Sunday, July 10. They include Sam Tully, Linnaeus Derrick, Reed Cottrell, Charles Harmon, Joe Minor, Jim my Goodnight, Raymond Smith, Bobby Yoder and Ben Miller. Some of the above group will re main for only one week. Those who will remain longer will be joined on July 17 by Grant Ayers Jr., Ford King, King Triplett and Ned Vines, also of Troop 100. Annual Pet Show Is Set For Today The third apnual Pet Show will be staged on the College Athletic Field on Thursday, July 11 at 4:30. Any person having pet* of any de scription can enter by bringing them to the field at this time. There will be six classifications of pet* such a* dogs, cats, rabbit*, birds, amphibious, and other types of pet*. All dog* mu*t be on leash when shown. Prize* will be given for the fol lowing, prettiest, ugliest, most un usual. largest, smallest, best man nered, best trick or stunt, and cut est. If these claudication* do not fit your pet bring it a>d we will have a classification to. fit. Every child will receive ? pria*. GOOD WILL CHICKS / HaiTisonburg. Va? Rockingham County, Virginia, i* tending 38, 000 baby chick* ta Greece. They are being lent a* gifts from indivi dual*, church school* and aervice dob* to serve a* goodwill aabaa _* ; ; Power Co. Officials % ' v ? . -? V, ?. ;??? ... Heard At Chamber Meet REAPPOINTED ? Mr. H. Grady Farthiaf ha* received notice (rem Govrraor Hodfes of kit reappoint ment aa a member of the State Stream Sanitation Committee for a term to expire July 11, 1M1. Nr. Farthiaf waa first appointed to the committee by Governor Scott foor year* ago. Social Security Bills Approved Congreaeman Hush Alexander stated today that the bills he had introduced in the Congress provid ing for liberalization of the Social Security Act have been considered and acted upon by the Committee on Way* and Means. The Congreas man stated that the committee has officially tUlMUN.il him today that the propoaal* contained In hi* bills ? H. R. 6935 and H. R. 6936? have been adopted by the commit tee and incorporated as part of the new Social Security legialation. H. R. 6939 lowers from sixty five to sixty-two the age at which women may become eligible for Social Security benefits. The bill also provides for payment of bene fits to covered workers, age fifty or over, who become permanently and totally^ disabled. The second bill, H. R. 6936 pro vides for the continued payment of children'k benefits to disabled per sons over the age of eighteen year* who are otherwise eligible for benefits. Congressman Alexander further stated that it is expected the Com mittee on Ways and Means will re port a bill to the Floor of the House, incorporating the foregoing and other amendments to the Soc ial Security Act, within the next few days. I . Red Cross Meet Set For Friday The annual meeting of the Wa tauga County Chapter, American Red Cross, will be held at 12:30 p. m., Friday, July 22, at the Gate way Restaurant in Boone. All mem bers and interested persons are re quested to attend. ' The Boone Chamber of Com merce, at its July meeting held at noon Tuesday in the Gateway Restaurant, heard McKinley Ayers and Robert Beachley, of the New River Light It Power Company, ex plain detaila of the recent power increase here from 2400 volts to 4160 volts. Mr. Ayers traced the growth of the company from one small hy dro-generator with a capacity of 75KW to its present plant with a capacity ~ of 1.000KW. He said the latest changeover was necessitated by the addition of several new in dustrial customers, including the IRC plant, plus more than 100 new homes in Boone last year and so far this year. Mr. Beachley said the lines were approaching overloaded conditions at many points. The changeover, effected July 26, required 127 separate operations, he said, and was performed by six crews begin ning at 4:30 a. m. in order to cause the least inconvenience to custom ers. The entire town was back in service in about three hours, he said. The capacity of the local plant is now three times that of a month ago, he added. Special guests wrre five repre seqtatives of the Sun Life Assur ance Company of Canada, who are here to explain a group life in surance plan recently adopted by the Merchants Association, subject to individual acceptance by its members. They also attended the Ladies Night meeting of the Mer chants Association Monday night and explained the plan. Seventy five per cent of the membership is required to put the plan Into op eration. The representatives, who have set up headquarters in the rear of fice of the Watauga Savings * Loan Association, will be here for several days to call on merchants and explain the plah. They are E. D. Lord, Atlanta, Ga.; D. B. Elam, Winston-Salem; D. W. Connell, Greensboro; 0. L. Newton, Atlanta; and Pat Boles, Atlanta. Other guests at the meeting were Mr. Hudson, who operates the new attraction, Mystery Hill, between Boone and Blowing Rock, intro duced by President Stanley A. Harris, and Coach Brightenstein, football coach of the University of Miami, who has recently purchas ed a summer home here. He was introduced by John Kirk, of the ASTC coaching staff. Wm. H. Greene Taken By Death William Henry Greene, 70, resi dent of Route 2, died Saturday in Watauga Hospital. Funeral was held Tuesday at 11 at the Howard's Creek Baptist Church and burial was in the Jont Brown cemetery on Meat Camp. The Rev. W. C. Payne and the Rev. Ed Hodges were in charge of the rites. t Surviving are one son, and one daughter: Lee Greene, Route 2, Boone; Mrs. Ella Baker, Granite Falls. F arm Loan Leaders Hold Workshop Conference Officers and director* of five na tional farm loan association! hand line loons for the Federal Land Bank of Columbia in western North Carolina hold a workshop Conference at the Daniel Boone Hotel at Boone, July 7 and t. S. C. Egfers, the president of Boone Farm Loan Association and with John H. Hollar, secretary treasurer of the Boone association, waa in charge of conference ar ran?emenU. ..?? Aasociationa represented in the' group, in addition to the Boon* association, are Asheville, Shelby, Charlotte and Ststesrille. Claude T. Hall, of Botboro, chairman of the Farm Credit Board of Columbia. spoke at the dinner session, and Rufua R Clarke, prea ident of the Columbia Land Balk, made a report on the progress of the bank and the aasociationa and outline objectives. Others taking part on the pro gram wiU be 0. 1L Dowdcli, vice president, B. S. Burch, assistant to the president, P. M. Phillips, mem ber of the bank's credit committee, and T. E. Haigler, regional mana ger (or the bank in Nprth Caro lina. C. D. Orrell, chief reviewing ap praiser for the Columbia District, and other members of his staff, took part in the discussions. Business sessions with the work shop conference were held on July ? with' discussions centering on /arm appraisal and loan policies, and bank and association opera tions. jV>s, The conference was held in Boone at the Invitation of Mr. Eg i*n. ' Other officers and directors of the Boone association besides Mr. Eggers and Mr. Hollar, are J. Mack Moore. Granite Falls. Route 2. vice president; and directors E. S. Shatley. Jefferson; Carl is Lee Mitchell. Sparta; and Gordon A. Clumbers, State Road. Folk Festival Well Attended; Talent Is Needed The Daniel Boom Folk Festival, staged every Saturday afternoon at the Horn theatre ground* by Richard Chase, noted folklore au thority, is drawing increasingly large crowds. From two to four hundred have been in attendance at these pro grams which feature a puppet show, children's singing, games, renditions' of ballads and ancient folksongs. Many local vocalists and stringed musicians appeared on the pro gram last Saturday, s special fea ture being tale-telling by Stanley Hicks, one of the sources for the "Jack Tales" popularized by Mr. Chase. Folk games and country dsnces are also featured at the festival which gets under way at 3 o'clock each Saturday. Limited seating space mskes early arrival advis able. . ' Mr. Chase says that especially neded are local banto pickers and fiddlers. Vocalists who know the old sacred songs are also wanted. Old handcrafts are shown and quilts of the old patterns would be welcome. Old tools, like a frow, and demonstrations of board riving would be interesting. Mr. Chase says the festivals are held strictly as a matter of enter tainment and to make known the old ways to the new generation. He is also interested in the old songs, which he believes c*n never die if they can be heard occasionally. District Road Work For June Reported Today Raleigh ? The State Highway Commission completed 3.39 mile* of road improvement! in the Ele venth Highway Division during Jane, Commissioner #. -IhjhP Winkler of Boone reported today. In Avery, two roads, 13 feet wide, were graded, drained and graveled by State forces as fol lows: Dark Holler Road, 0.S5 mile; and Old Three Mile Road, for 0.69 of a mile. In jCaldwell, Grand View Park county road was paved with traffic bound macadam and treated with calcium chloride for 0.6 of a mile. The road is 16 feet wide. Mt. Her mon County road was rebuilt and widened from 20 to 30 feet. The road was paved with traffic bound macadam and bituminous surface treated for 0.49 of a mile. State forces did the work. In Watauga, Hound Ears Road near Camp Yonahlossee was grad ed, drained and graveled for 1.1 miles by State forces. The county road is 12 feet wide. Caldwell, Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Surry, Watauga, Wilkes, and Yadkin Counties compose the Eleventh Highway Division. Divi sion headquarters are in North Wilkesboro. J. H. Councill is divi sion engineer. J. E. Doughton is as sistant division engineer. Postal Gains Made For Year Postal receipts at the Boone postoffice for the 19M fiscal year are more than five thousand dol lars greater than for the fiscal year 1994, says Lyle B. Cook, Act ing Postmaster. The 1969 receipts are $93,493.-, 88, as compared with $48,122.68 for 1994. The six months calendar postal receipts, from January 30 to June 30 are also well ahead of the same period last year, says Mr. Cook. In January-June 1994 receipts were (21,287.12. This year for the same period receipts were $29,094.30, an increase of $3,767.27. , Rites Are Held For Mrs. Hodges Mrs. Julia Evelyn Hodge*, 82, resident of Route 3, died Tuesday evening of last week. Funeral services were held at the Advent Christian Church Thursday at 2:M by the Rev. George Arthur and the Rev. S. E. Gragg and burial was in Pine Grove cemetery in the Poplar Grove section. Surviving arc the husband, J. P. Hodges, one son and two daugh ters: Alonao Hodges. Boone; Mrs. I. L Smith. CeUettsville; Mrs. K. F Greene. Boone. Two brothers, H. L. and T. C. Hodges. Route S. Boone, and a sister, Mrs: E. M. Cook, of Booae, also survive. I MOVING THE MOUNTAIN? Work is progressing on the Boone Linville highway, u machinery it wed to prepare the roadbed for the highway which li expected U) ihorten the distaneo between the two potato by tea ?Uos. This picture waa take, near the eld Stalls Milk power da*, and the giant tk*MI ?*? caught as tg ?tondnd^nK U the ga?rt? n Whtoh waa a? light nl wsy. The road toeapmod to m tm pletod by next summer. ? Staff photo by Joe Minor. I V . r 500 Members F arm Loan Group Attend Land Bank Gathering About 900 members and friendi of the Boone National Farm Loan Association from seven counties packed the courtroom and balcony of the Watauga County Courthouse Saturday morning, at the auocia tion held its 38th annual stock holders meeting. The principal speaker was RufUs R. Clarke, president of the Federal Grandfather Parkway Routing Being Sought Raleigh. ? Highway Commission Chairman A. H. Graham last week < expressed the hope that a routing i for the Blue Ridge Parkway in i the Grandfather Mountain area can l be worked out that will be more satisfacory to the mountain's own- ] er, Hugh Morton. Morton had protested a proposal i to run the parkway high up on the i side of his mountain. He said it 1 would spoil the scenic beauty of his mountain and make it less at- ; tractive to tourist*. Child Is Hurt | In Mountain Fall Morganton. ? Six-year-old John Holton, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Holton of the Rutherford College | section of Burke county, was ser iously injured at 2:30 p. m. Sunday when 'he tumbled down a moun tainside as the family was prepar- 1 ing to spread a picnic lunch at Fox Camp on Highway 181 eighteen ' miles north of here. Attaches of the Sossoman Fun eral Home said the youngster sus tained a severe Concussion in the full and was taken later In the day to Baptist Hospital, Winston-Salem, for specialized treatment. The youngster, they said, under went surgery Sunday night. His condition was described as Serious Young Holton reportedly stum bled as he ran down th? mountain aide in play. Detroit? When Mis* Dora H. 1 Pitta, a retired school-teacher died, ' at S3, she split her estate among her friends and her four cat*. She left f 100 each for each of her cat* < snd the rest of her $20,000 estate, . a divided among 83 friend*. She ho dote relatives. Graham asserted that the high way commission does not want to spoil the beauty of the mountain ?r to injure Morton in hia efforts to develop it aa a tourist attracion. He suggested a meeting of en gineers of the U. S. Bureau of Pub lic Roads, which performs engin eering services for the U. S. Park Service, representatives of the Park Service, the Highway Com miaaion and Morton to study the situation and "try to work it out." The group, he suggested, should make an on-the-spot survey. The group, he said, "ought to be able to work out something that will at least be part way satisfac tory." Graham said he was hope ful the parkway could be routed farther down the mountain than Lhe present proposed routing calls for. Graham said it would not be pos sible to route the parkway along U. S. 221 in the Grandfather area as proposed by Morton. This, he said would make It neceaaary to build a new highway between Lin ville and Boone. He pointed out that commercial traffic ia not per mitted on the parkway and that it U closed to all traffic during the winter months. Church Students Do Field Work The training period of the Rural Episcopal Church Institute in Valle Cruris closed July 9th and the stu dents are now doing their field work., ' The director of the institute. Rev. E. D. Butt, has gone to Lon don. England, to attend a world conference on rural church work. He will return to Valle Cruets for the evaluation session la August . ssi, ' Land Bank of Columbia. S. C. The auociation, a farmer owned and operated credit organization affiliated with the Federal Land Bank, comprises the countiei of Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Caldwell, Mitchell, Watauga, and Wilkea. president S. C, Eggers opened the meeting and extended a cor dial welcome to those present. T. E. Haigler of Sanford, regional manager for North Carolina of the Federal Land Bank, discussed the financial status of the aasociation and read the minutes of the 1954 meeting. The Boone association is in good financial condition, said Mr. Haig ler, with assets of $96,17. There are 492 farm loans currently on the books, he said, totaling $446, 102. Mr. Clarke opened his address with a tribute to S. C. Eggers as a public servant who, he said, has always worked untiringly in the interest of the farmer. In discussing the fundamental and basic policies and practices 4n meeting the financial needs of fanners, the speaker said the Na tional Farm Loan Asaoclation has made a noteworthy contribution to the stability of the national econ omy. Loans are made on a practical basis, he said, loans that can be repaid from earnings of the farm. If a farmer is doing hia honest best and taking proper care of his farm, the Federal Land Bank will not foreclose, he emphasized, if he ia unable to pay through condi tions beyond his control. "You have the great farm credit system in the world, but at the same time you are dealing with home folks right in your local aa sociation," he pointed out. Mr. Haigler officiated at the drawing for prizes, art annual fea ture of the meeting. Lucky ticket holders received four 900 pound lots of fertilizer, 79 one dollar bills, and four pasaes for two per sons each to Horn In the West One-dollar prizes were alao awarded to the oldest man present, the oldest woman, youngest boy, youngest girl, person who brought the largest number of people, and the one who drove the farthest to attend the meeting. ' College Dean, Doctor, Merchant On New Group s The State Board of Education, in session Lut Thursdsy, appoint ed a new board of education for Watauga county, after the State Legislature had adjourned with out performing this duty, due to a contention which centered large ly abou^ who would be the county superintendent. The new board replaces the board which favored the retention of W. H. Walker, who has been superintendent for 19 years. A large delegation appeared in Raleigh in favor of the board which was named. The county Demo cratic Executive committee had recommended reappointment of Troy N orris and W. Collis Greene, and had cast a tie vote between incumbent Clyde Perry and Tom Lawrence for the third member. Appointed to the board are: Dr. Charles Devaat, ltowing Hock physician; Dr. D. J. White ner. Dean ef Appalachian State Teachers College, and H. W. Mast, J r, Valle Crucis general merchant. Members of the new board were sworn into office Monday. Ad min iitering the oath ?u Clerk of the Superior Court, Austin E. South. After the swearing-in ceremony the new board members talked in formally, were briefed on school laws by Mr. Walker and were ex pected to meet again Tuesday af ternoon, in what will perhapa be the organisation session. MUAS Issue The Board of Education issue in Watauga ha* been a lively one for yean, and particularly so since Dr. H. B. Perry was elected last fall to the State Senate with the under standing that he would name a new board. He did propose a new slate, but the bill failed of pass age in the House. Likewise Repre sentative Stuart Barnes introduced a different slate in the House which failed to survive the Sen ate. Since then the agitation has continued, and more recently those favoring Superintendent Walker had switched their support back to the old board. The State Board, noting that the county Democratic committee was sharply split in its voting, disre garded its recommendations. Thirty-two Watauga citizens, led by William HcElwee, North Wilkesboro lawyer, opposed the ap pointment of the board considered favorable to Mr. Walker. Charles G. Hodges, retired school teacher of the Sands community, spoke to the State board in behalf of Walk er. Mrg. McChesney Dies Suddenly Mri Helen D. McChesney, 99, Washington, D. C, died at the home of a brother, Mr. Horace Dowling, Jr., in Boone last Wed nesday. Mrs. McChesney died from a sud den illness with what was said to have been a heart attack while visiting relatives here. Funeral services were conduct ed in Washington on last Saturday and interment was in the Fort Lin coln cemetery in Prince George County, Maryland. Surviving are ? son and two daughters: Judson, Mrs. Graydon Williams, Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Scott Ratter, Chicago; one brother and three sisters: H. 0. Dowling, Boone; Mrs. Gertrude D. Kelly, Washington, D. ' C.; Mrs. Danny O'Daniels, Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Jim Hile, Montville, N. Y. JAP WAR DEBT The Transportation Ministry o t Japan plans to begin work on rais ing sunken ships in Manila and Cebu harbors as part of Japan'a war reparations debt to the Philip pines. They plan to raise 40 mer chant ships totaling some 1934)00
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