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VOLUME LXVm? NO. It An Independent Weekly BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, Fall Court Tferm To Begin Monday 26th LLOYD S. ISAACS Lloyd Isaacs Is Chosen For NCEA Position Lloyd S. Isaacs, former princi pal of the Carthage Schooli and former preiident of both the Moore County NCEA Local Unit and Educo Club, has been added to the professional staff of the North Carolina Education Associa tion, according to an announce ment from Mrs. Ethel Perkins Edwards, NCEA Executive Secre tary. Meeting in Raleigh recently, the NCEA Board of Directors named Mr. Isaacs as Director of Professional Services. He assum ed his duties in Raleigh on August 29. The new NCEA staff member holds a Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts Degree from Ap palachian State Teachers College. He if a veteran of World War II, having served with the United States Infantry in the European Theater for forty-two months. Mr. Isaacs began his teaching career in 1948, serving as teacher and athletic director in the Elise High School, Robbins, North Caro line. He has been principal of the Carthage Schools for the past four years. While in Carthage Mr. Isaacs was active in community affairs. He was a member of the Carthage Lion's Club and the Carthage Junior Chamber of Com merce. He also served as local chairman of the American Red Cross. , Also active in the Baptist Church the new NCEA staff mem ber has served as Deacon, Sunday School teacher, and superintend ent, and is at present a member of the General Board of the Bapt ist State Convention. Mr. Isaacs is a native of Boone and is married to the former Lee Angel, also from Boone. He has two children, Kim, age 7, and Steve, age 4. He .is a son of the late L. S. Isaacs and Mrs. Ruth Isaacs. The (all term of Watauga Sup erior Court will convene Monday, September 36th, with Judge J. Frank Huskins of Burniville pre aiding over the one-week criminal term. One hundred and sixty-five cases are docketed for trial, according to Clerk Austin E. South, who states that most of the indictments come from speeding and drunken driving. There are ten cases of breaking and entering, and eight for violations of the State prohibi tion laws. The Jnrw* Following are the names of those who have been drawn for Jury duty by the Board of County Commissioners: Bald Mountain: Lester Norris, Glenn Howell. Beaver Dam: Dean Reese, Ira Harmon, Ira Scott, Paul Arnett. Blowing Rock: Collis Greene, Glenn Coffey, W. C. Castle. Blue Ridge: Rodney Greene, Hugh Hampton. Boone: Glenn Andrews, Shelton Wilson, Mrs. B. W. Stalling, Mrs. R. W. Watkins, H. Cottrell, J. E. Joines. Brushy Fork: Bill Bingham, Dottie Glenn. Cove Creak: Tom Perry, Odus | A. Mast, Dexter Eggers, Claude Davia, Burl N. Greene, tannic Elk: Marion Hodges, Virgil Cox. Laurel Creek: Charlie W. Mast, Simon Shull, Howard Edmisten. Mabel: Stanley Dancy, Baxter Wilson; D. T. Brown Jr., Councill L. Mains, Howard L. Reese. Meat Camp: Mas ton Norris, Edd F. Jones, Billy Byers. New River: John J. VanNoppen, Woodrow Roberts, June Greene, Coaker Triplett. North Fork: Myrtle Mock, Char les Snyder. Shawneehaw: Gold Hicks, Henry C. Michael, David Townsend, Wil lard Yates. Stony Fork: Mack D. Brown, Garnett Greer, Oscar Greer. Watauga: Julius Yates, Baxter Farthing, Jeff Bentley. Used Clothes Campaign Starts The annual drive (or used cloth ing, sponsored by the Junior Wo man '? Club of Boone, get* under way this week. There ii an urgent need for clothe* for school chil dren as many children will not be able to attend until their clothing needs are supplied. Blue Jeans and shoes are items especially needed. The Junior Woman's Club mem bers are making every effort to secure enough clothes to supply the demand; however, this cannot be accomplished without the help of the public. Give your used clothing to the Clothing Cloaett Bring them to the Welfare Department, or call AM4 3709, Mrs. W. W. Littleton, who will arrange for a club member to pick them up. * Colored Leaves To Be Brighter This Year The beautiful (all color In the Mountains of Western North Caro lina will be even more ipectaeular this year. According to all reports from both the Great Smoky Moun tain National Park and the Blue Ridge Parkway the great fall foli age show will be the moat colorful in many years. This is due to ideal weather conditions. The foliage is very heavy due to frequent rains and other favors We weather con ditions. According to some of the old timers who make their predictions by such things as rain, the looks of the sky, growth of the shurbs and so on, the peak of the color season this year will be Just after mM Df tnh^r. At the higher altitudes, the leave* are already beginning to turn. The color will spread (lowly in the mountain*, making it* way down to the lower elope* until the whole mountain* *eem aflame. Thi* year the Fall *ea*on will be a loaf one, also due to the favor able weather conditions. Western North Carolina forests present the most varied and vivid Autumn coloring to be found A this continent. Botanist have class ified Itt varieties of trees and about 1,200 other plants la ithia region The Sourwood and maple change Into fall dress first They become flame red. Near the mountain tops and slowly down the slopes flow yellow bands of tulip poplar. I (Continued on page six.) Adoptions Problem Welfare Authorities Planning wisely for the adopt ion of children who are wiUiout parental care is one of the most rewarding experiences of the Wa tauga County public welfare de partment. Increasingly, this ag ency is being asked to help couples arrange to adopt children, accord ing to a statement by Dave P. Mast, superintendent -of the Wa tauga County welfare department. Unusual though it might seem the kind of good home for which the department looks is not neces sarily one of high economic level, but it is whatever home will give a child loving care and an adequ ate opportunity. During the past year, there has been a total of 6 petitions for adoption filed from this county. In S of these cases, the child was adopted by r^atives. The sixth case was what is called an "ag ency placement", that is where the welfare agency helps work out the plan for placement with person* other than relative*. There were no placement! which are known as "independent place ments." In an "independent place ment" the adoptive parents secure the child from the natural mother or in some other way which does not include the many safeguards of an "afency placement". "In dependent placements" frequently result in much grief and harm, especially where natural parents come back into the picture at some later time to try to get the child again after adoption. An increase in well-planned, Carefully investigated "agency placements" is desirable, accord ing to authorities on adoption. According to Mr. Mast, many people think that only little babies can be adopted. Older children, however, are adoptable and, when placed in an appropriate home, bring joy to the adoptive parents and to the child. In all agency (Continued on page six) Tommy Owsley Given Scout Religious Award Tommy Owiley, Explorer Scout with Troop 109, Boone, received the Catholic Religious Award for Scouting Sunday from Father Francis Murphy after the U,?' clock Man at the Church of the Epiphany, Blowing Rock. The award, which is a service award for "over and above Scout ing," is called "Ad Altare Dei" (To the Honor of God), and was pre sented to him for service perform ed in his church. It takes approx imately a year of proficient and conscientious work on the part of the Scout to be eligible to receive the honor, which is presented by the church. There are five different church awards, which a boy in Scouting may work for, depending upon his church affiliation. They are: the Catholic award, the Protestant, Lutheran, Jewish, and Mormon. All carry the same honors. Father Murphy, in presenting the award, said it was sent here by Bishop Vincent S. Waters, Ra leigh, Bishop for North Carolina, and stated it had his blessing. B. W. Stallings, District Scout Commissionr for the Watauga Dis trict, said Tommy was the first boy he remembered who had ever earned the service award in Wa tauga County. Tommy, who is the 14-year-old son of Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence H. Owsley, hold the rank of Eagle Scout. He was a junior waterfront counsellor at Old Hickory Council's Raven Knob Scout camp this sum mer and has been senior patrol leader for troop 109k for some time. His Scoutmasters are J. B. Rob inson, Bob Davia, Milton Jordan, and Dr. Richard Fiahlr. Five Hundred Attend Horn At Final Showing About five hundred attended the final 1955 performance of Horn in the West Monday even ing in the Daniel Boone Theatre. Thta brought the ieaaon'1 to tal attendance to slightly more than 15,*M, according to drama officials. It was pointed out that the 1955 attendance showed a slight drop when compared to last year's figures. Drama officials pointed oat that more perform ances were rained oat ? three ? than in any year since the dra ma opened In 1952. Polio Vaccine Now Available Children who have not received thoir second shot of Salk polio vaccine, and whose parents are willing, may be given the vaccine any Monday between 8:M and 11:90 a. m, the local Health De partment says. This is to use vaccine left from the supply bought by the Polio Foundation and is free to any first and second grade child who has already had his or her firat dose, and to this group only. Recently, the Department says, the Federal Government appro priated $80,000,000 for the vacci nation of those members of the population between birth and It years of age, and' all pregnant wo men who could not afford to go to the family physician for this ser vice. This a different program from that administered for the lint and aecaod grade children. Rev. N. M. Greene Dies Thursday; Rites Saturday Rev. Nathan M. Greene, 80 years old, well-known Baptiit minister, died Thursday, follow ing a period of declining health. Funeral services were held Saturday at 2 o'clock at the Per kinsvllle Church. Rev. Rex West was in charge of the rites, and was assisted by Rev. L. H. Hol lingsworth, Rev. R. C. Eggers and Rev. E. F. Troutman. Burial was in the Greene family plot in the Meat Camp Baptist Church ceme tery. Born in Watauga County, Mr. Greene was a son of Isaac and Elizabeth Cornell Greene. In 1896 he w as married to Fannie Ragan who died in 1007. On October SO. 1907 he married Nannie Norris who survives. He joined Heat Camp Baptist Church January 10, 1894. He served as Sunday School Superin tendent and teacher for a number of years and on the Board of Dea cons. He was ordained to the ministry January 21, 1939 and served as pastor of several church es in the Three Forks Association and doing evangelistic work in thu Three Forks and the Avery Associations. He served as Assoc iational Mis sionary in the Three Forks As sociation for seven years and was active in the organization of the following churches: Mountain Dale and Tabernacle in 1941; Green Valley in 1946 and Perkins "?ffle in 1947. He was the first pas tor of Tabernacle, Green Valtey and Perkinsville churches. Mr. Greene was active in com munity affairs, being one of the early-day advocates of good roads. He was Road Supervisor for Wa tauga county during 1923 and 1924. He is survived by the widow, and two sons,, Clyde R. Greene and George C. Greene of Boone. Polio casei are running lower now than for the corresponding periods for the last three years, but they are not lower than in 1990 and 1991, according to the Public Health Service. However, the Service points that 1997 polio figures are the ones to watch for the results of polio vaccinations. College Grid Season To Start Saturday By RUSSELL McDONALD Appalachian State Teachen Col lege will open their 1099 aeaaon Saturday night, September 10, when they play host to the New port Newi Apprentice School with game time at 8 p. m. The Moun taineer* will play an eleven game schedule during the 1099 aeaaon. The Mountaineers have been working out since the first of September and are in top shape for Saturday's game. Some seventy candidates have been taking part in the practice. Appalachian, defending champ ion of the North State Conference, will have a rough foe in the Ap prentice School aa they have weight and plenty of experience both on the line and in the back field. The Mountaineers will have a little, more speed than last year's team but will lack experience at ?several positions as graduation took its toll. Missing from last year's team are several ill-confer e nee players; quarterback Ned Pennell, guard Ben Quinn, and end Solon Nifong. Also missing Is Harold Lake?, a letterman at end, and several other top players who did not return to school this fall. The complete starting line up for the Mountaineers will not be certain until after this week's practice aa several positions de pend on the showing made this week by the candidates. The Mountaineer backfield will be headed by quarterback Jimmy Moore, who hails from Winston Salem. Moore has recently return ed from the armed services aad will be running his first year at quarterback since he ran half back for the Apps before his time in the service. Moore is a fine runner and passer but he will have a big job trying to fill the (Continued on page five) Funeral Held For Mrs. Tucker Mr*. Blanche Wooten Tucker died in the Blowing Rock Hoapital September 6 after several year*' illness She had been in ill health (or ?ix or eight year* and had been confined to the hoipital for about six month*. She wa* the daughter of Mr. and Mr*. D. W. Wooten and wa* 37 year* of age. She wa* mar ried to Mr. Bryan Tucker about ten year* ago. Mr*. Tucker i* survived by her parent*, her husband, and *ix lis ter*. The *i*ter* are Mrs. Jame* Sudderth, Mr*. Lawrence Bolick. Mr*. Jay Caitle. all of Blowing Hock; Mr*. V. 8. Perrotta of At lanta, Ga.: Mr*. Thomas J. Santino of Hollywood, Calif., and Mr*. Ray Castle of Norfolk, Va. The funeral services were sched uled to be held from the Pint Baptist Church of Blowing Rock at 2 o'clock, Wedneaday, Septem ber 7. The pastor, the Reverend G. Carlton Cox, will be in charge of the funeral, aiaiited by the Rev erend* Walter Key*, L. T. New land and H. E. S pence The inter ment I* to be in the Blowing Sock Cemetery. Industrial Survey Is Being Conducted Here Sponsoring agency of a survey now being conducted In Watauga County la the Governor'a Small Industries Planning Committee di rected by Capua Waynlck, former ambaaaador to Nicaragua and Co lombia. In Boone for the aurvey are Flix Griasette, executive director of the North Carolina Reaearch Inatitute; Dr. C. S. Logadon, mem ber of the faculty at the University ol North Carolina, aaaociate direc tor of the planning committee; and G. F. Albright, who ia In charge of small induatriea develop ment at the State Department of Conaervation and Development. The purpoae of 'the aurvey ia to stimulate the development of amall induatriea in unindustralized coun ties, counties which are more agri cultural than induatrial. Particu larly encouraged ia the develop ment of small induatriea which will be locally owned, locally fi nanced and which will utilize local resources, and typea of induatriea which will provide employment for people who now live on farma and will at the same time permit thoae people t? continue to com bine agriculture with induatrial jobs. Mr. Grissette aaid that Watauga was chosen for the special project because it wma not highly indus trialized and yet it had strong community leadership which show ed a tendency to help itself and because it seemed to have many local resources such as forestry products, a variety of vegetables, berries, fruits, shrubbery, and crafts ? all of which lend them selves highly as potentials for in duatrial development. Although the group ia atudying the possibili ties for such industrial develop ment all over the state, he aaid, the feeling was that if one county were selected as a sort of demonstra tion project its example would stimulate others to follow. When the survey is completed, he Mid, the remits would be avail able to any community agency that might be intereHed. They will also be incorporated in a report to the governor. N Mr. Griasette emphasized that the State Department of Conaer vation and Development is working closely with the committee. This plan, which he said is purely tem porary in nature. Is supplementing the Department of Conservation and Development In a special ef fort to try to stimulate new in terest in Industry, especially where the economy is primarily agricul tural. The motive of the committee is to raise the per capita income of the people in those communities which are largely agricultural, he said, by providing opportunities for part time employment or sea sonal employment. This plan, he said, has been set up ss a tem porary special project and- is pri vately and anonymously financed. Cooperating with the survey in Watauga County are business snd civic leaders in Boone, Blowing Rock, and in every section of the county. Somewhat similar surveys are being made, or will be made In 25 other counties in North Carolina, but there will not be the same sort of detailed attention as is being given the survey in Watauga County. Because of the shortness of time, special emphasis could not be. placed on every county, and it was felt that much could be gained by concentrating on one more or less typical county, Mr. Grissette said. Mr. Grissette stated that it is entirely possible that it will be found feasible to establish here t>iIot plants, small industries es tablished under community inge nuity, wtych will endesvor to pro vide industry snd raise the per capita income of the people. Over One Million Now Attend Public Schools Raleigh.? North Carolina's pub lie schools are reopening with en rollment expected to pass the one million mark (or the first time in their history. C. D. Douglas, controller for the State Board of Education, said al ready schools in scattered sections of the state have opened, but the big rush of children back to the classrooms will come this week ? after the Labor Day week end. By the end of next week virtually all schools will be open. Although the schools are opening with more pupils and more teach ers expected than ever before and with improved facilities in many places, they are faced with one of the moat serious problems in their history ? how to comply with the U. 8. Supreme Court ruling that children cannot be assigned to schools on the basis of race. As a result of the court ruling, the Legislature last spring passed laws transferring the power to as sign children to schools and on school buses from the State Board of Education to local school au thoritiM A special commit* ion created by the Legislature to itudy the segre gation problem haa recommended that school! be operated thia year on the same basis as last year and that local study group* be appoint ed. Gov. Hodges ha* appealed to Ne groe* to continue voluntarily to attend aeparate school*. He alao declared that If hi* vountary pro gram doe* not work the state will be confronted with chooeing be tween some form of integrated school* or a bonding the public schoel*. Already there have been two in cidenta where Negro student* at tempted to saroll In white schools, at OM Port and Scotland Neck. In both cases they Were refused. Laat year total school enrollment reached 907,000. Since it hai been increaiing at a rate of about 28,000 a year, enrollment may paa* the one-million figure before the end of the 199S-86 term. The enroll ment la expected to include about 110,000 fint grader*. The ftate'i budget for school op eration! this year is about 129V4 million dollars as compared with approximately 1214 million last year. In addition to the state mon ey, counties and cities also raise considerable sums for support of the schools. The allocation of teacher* paid by the state thi* year totals 32,106 aa compared with 31.287 teachers on the roater last year. Thi* year'* allocation included 8,943 Negro teacher*. Former President Rafael Trujil lo, of the Dominican Republic, re cently donated 9100,000 to the American Red Crosa to be used for the relief of flood-stricken vic tims in the northeastern states. Murder Charges Expected To Be Filed In County The decomposed body of a Chicago chemist found Friday in Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky, started an Investigation which indicates Lewis A. Finn, 72, was killed near Blowing Rock. Sheriff E. M. Hodges said Tuesday noon that murder charges hadn't been filed against the Milwaukee, Wis., couple, but FBI sources dis closed evidence that the crime was committed in Watauga county, and State authorities said "that in all probability murder charges will be filed." The suspects, Leonard La Food, 20, and Jo Anne Severson," 18, both of Milwaukee, told FBI agents where the body could be found. "We're beginning to Investi gate the thing new," nld North Carolina Solicitor James Farth ing from his headquarters la Le noir, N. C., after being informed by the FBI that Finn was killed la Watauga County. "In all probability a murder charge will be filed." The two suspects are being held la New Mexico and Texas. Ray J. Abbaticchio, Jr., special agent in charge of the Charlotte FBI office, said an "extensive in vestigation" showed the killing occurred in Watauga County. But be did not disclose what evidence tindicated this. "Since the federal government has no jurisdiction in the matter, it is being referred to state and local authorities," Abbaticchi said. Postive identification of the body was made by Dr. Max Forkosh, Chicago dentist, and Richard Finn, of Denver, a brother. Dr. Forkosk said at the Ft. Knox Army Medical Center that Finn's dental work and that of the body were identical. Richard Finn also 1 said he was certain the body was that of his brother. The body was found by an FBI agent and two local autboritiea following directions of the two sus pects. It was wrapped in an Army blanket and concelaed under can vas. The area was overgrown with vines, indicating the body had been in the park several weeks. La Fond was being held at Las Cruces, N. M., and Miss Severson at San Antonio, Tex., both on Dyer Act charges. Federal authorities obtained war rants at Wilkesboro, charging La Fond and Miss Severson with transporting a stolen car in inter state commerce. The couple said they had dis posed of Finn's remains at the place they named. Finn has been missing since late in July when he left the home of a brother at West Palm Beach, Fla., to visit another brother at Yuma, Ariz. Federal agenta at San Antonio refused to confirm reports by ten ants of the rooming house where the girl stayed that the agents found a "frog sticker" knife in her suitcaae lining when she was pick ed up. Tenants said one agent handed (Continued on page six.) Boone Dollar Days To Start Next Thursday The Boone Merchants Associa tion and Boone (tore* are busy this week planning for a big "Dol lar Days" sales event to be held next Thursday. Friday, and Satur day, September 15, 18, 17. It will be the first such promo tion staged here in several years, and the word la that local merch ants are going "all out" to make K ? real dollar-saving event with worthwhile bargains in all lines of wanted and seasonal merchan dise *1 gen repoi) that they are making special purchase* for the trent, and will alio make substantial re duction* on items in their regular stock. The decision was reached to hold the city-wide, thre^day sale at a meeting held last Thursday by a committee composed of John B. Robinson, manager of Crest Store*, chairman; Willis W. Che*- $2 ter, manager of Belk's; Mrs Jack Gragg, manager of Nawtont; Dr. a K. Richardson, of Boone Drag Company; and J. V. Caudill. CaudUl-s, Ik. >.*