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JBOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, IKS
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OLUME LXVIII. ? NO. 12
Rotary Club To Be Host To
Kelly Bennett, Area Governor
The Rotary Club of Boone will
be host Thursday to Kelly E. Ben
nett, governor of the 280 District
of Rotary International, who is
making hi* annual visit to each of
the 37 Rotary Clubs in the 280th
District of North Carolina. He
will address the club and confer
with President Louis H. Smith,
Secretary Nicholas Ernes ton and
committee chairman on Rotary ad
ministration and service activities.
Mr. Bennett is owner of Ben
nett's Drug Store in Bryson City
'and is a member of the Rotary
Club in Bryson City. He was elec
ted District Governor of Rotary
International for the 1995-56 fis
cal year at Rotary's Golden An
niversary Convention in Chicago
last June. He is one of 238 Dis
trict Governors supervising the ac
tivities of some 8,700 Rotary Clubs
which have a membership of 414,
000 business and professional exe
cutives in 92 countries and geogra
phical regions throughout -the
world.
Wherever Rotary Clubs are lo
cated, President Smith asserted
in discussing the Governor's visit,
their activities are similar to those
of the Rotary Club of Boone be
cause they are based on the same
general objectives ? developing bet
ter understanding and fellowship
among business and professional
men, promoting community-better
ment undertakings,, raising the
standards of business and profes
sions, and fostering the advance
ment of good will, understanding
and peace among all the peoples of
the world.
Each year, this world-wide serv
ice organization continues to grow
in numbers and in strength. Dur
ing the past fiscal year, 416 new
Rotary Clubs were organized in 50
countries of North, South and Cen
tral America, Europe, Asia, Africa
and the Islands of the Pacific.
KELLY E. BENNETT
Rotary District Governor
Bids Sought For
Health Center
Bids are to be received by the
Board of County Commissioners
until 2 o'clock October 26th, for
the construction and equipment of
the new Watauga County Health
Center, which is to be constructed
as soon as the contracts can be
awarded.
The structure will be 30 feet
wide, 70 feet long, will be con
structed on the county home pro
perty west ?of Boone, and will be
used exclusively for health de
partment services.
The total cost of the structure
will be about $33,000. Of this
amount the Federal goverftment
supplied une-half, and the State
and county one-fourth each.
J
County Agent Is Back
From National Meet
W. C. Richardson, assistant
county agricultural agent, has just
returned from the 40th annual
meeting of the National Associa
tion of County Agricultural Agents
held on the Michigan State Univer
sity campus. He and Mrs. Rich
ardson helped make up the 1,200
from 47 states who attended this
meeting. j
Industrial leaders expressed
some of their ideas to the agents
present. William A. Keller, Stude
haker Corporation, belieres that
forty percent more agricultural
products will be hauled in the
farmers' own trucks within ten
years, especially if road building
is given propel- . consideration.
Raymond Firestone, Firestone
Tire and Rubber Company, express
ed great concern over the sur
pluses existing in this country
ind the great need for the food in
many other lands.
John Hannah, president of Mich
gan State " University, addressed
he group, stating that the Ameri
can farmer's initiative is the key
:o his success. He also paid tri
bute to county agricultural agents
is an important part of "team ap
proaeh" of the land-grant college
and the university system.
American farmers are entitled
to "parity of opportunity," declai ?
ed D! B. Varner, vice-president of
the university. He urged the
agents to take their places as "Mr.
Agriculture" in their counties.
Agents should continue to direct
their efforts to help agriculture
become more efficient.
Agent' Richardson also had op
portunity of Clearing the Honorable
Harold Cooley, chairman of the
House Commitee on Agriculture,
Washington, D. C. Mr. Cooley is
very much concerned with the
smaller amount of net income
farmers are receiving and would
like to enact legislation to correct
this situation.
An innovation was the "Share
the Fun" program which is spon
sored by U. S. Rubber Company.
Five talented acts were given by
Michigan 4-H Club members.
These state and national winners
showed the importance of recrea
tion in the extension program.
Mr. Richardson believes his time
was well occupied at all the time
(Continued on page six.)
Auto Dealers
To Supply Cars
School Program
Boone automobile dealers met
recently (or the par pose of let
ting up a schedule for the dealers
to follow in supplying automobiles
for the two schools offering cours
es in driver training.
These two schools are Appala
chian High and Cove Creek High.
Mr. Andrews, of the Andrews
Chevrolet Co. presided over the
meeting, at which an agreement
was reached between those pre
sent to set up the following sche
dule, the dealers mentioned being
responsible for the cars for the
years listed:
1955-56, Highlander Motor Co.;
1956-57 Andrews Chevrolet Co.;
1957-58 Winkler Motor Co.; 1958
59 Brown and Graham Motor Co.;
1959-60 Greene Buick, Inc.
Mr. Andrews pointed out that
under the agreement dealers
would be responsible for the years
mentioned, but that any two deal
ers would be able to furnish the
cars together for any given year
by agreement.
The Board of Education felt that
this rotation plan, wherein all
dealers would participate, would
relieve any one dealer from bear
ing the expense of the program.
The instructors for driver train
ing at Appalachian are Mr. Groce
and Mrs. Mary L. Schell. At Cove
Creek Miss Jennie Love is the in
structor.
The cars will be made available
to the schools as soon as delivery
is made on the 1956 models and
the dual controls are installed.
Bond Sales On
Increase Here
Purchases of U. S. Savings
Bonds in North Carolina continue*
to show an increase with sales {or
the month of August amounting
to $4,311,799.79; compared with a
year ago the gain is 14%. This is
the highest amount for any month
of August in 10 years. For the
! first eight months of this year.
North Carolinians have purchased
(37,516,288.29 in U. S. Savings
Bonds. This amount represents
64% of the annual State quota of
*98,800,000.00.
This report, released today by
Alfred T. Adams, Watauga County
Chairman, reveals that August
County sales were $2,990.00.
BRITAIN'S FINANCES
Britain's gold and dollar reserves
dropped >136,000,000 last month.
They amounted to $2,944,000,000 on
July 31, nearly half a billion dol
lars below what they were a year
before that.
AUTOMOBILE MARKET
Expressing concern at the "rec
ord number" of unsold automobiles
and dealer failures, a Senate In
terstate Commorce Committee an
nbunced it would watch the au
tomobile market closely "in the
critical months ahead."
Skyland Institute An Important
Early-Day Blowing Rock School
By D. P. COFFEY
Blowing Rock, N. C.
In thp early and middle eighties
f the nineteenth century, at what
; now the town of Blowing Rock
Deluding Green Park, there wa?
nly one small store and a few
omes in what is now the business
cction with probably two houses
a the Green Park section. There
-ere no schools at or near BIow
lg Rock except the one teacher,
tree months district schools.
After having established a
:hool at All Healiag Springs (in
aston County, N. C.) Miss Emily
Prudden of Minnesota came to !
slowing Rock for a vacation in
le summer of 1889. On her aec
nd vacation in 1886, she purchas
d a large boandary of uniraprov
d land about half way between
>hat ia now the' village and the
reen Park section of town. In
887 she built a large dormitory
n this property and opened school
I September of that year.' The
urmitory was alio used for class
'rooms (or sometime. This was
Skyland Institute. The school was
a great success from the begin
ning. Though the dormitory was
built primarily (or girls some of
them who Jiad small brothers were
permitted to bring them in provid
ed they could talc/ care of them.
Those boys for one winter were in
one large room on the third floor.
There was no fire escape except
the stairway in the center of the
building. Each evening after sup
per (as we called it in those days)
all gathered in the large class
room for devotional service* and
study hour.
By the third year there were
about sixty-five in the house and
nearly as many day pupils. Sky
land Institute was the second of
fifteen schools built by Miss P Hid
den in twenty-six years in North
Carolina and South Carolina for
white and colored. Two of them
being in South Carolina. Miss
Susan F. Hinman was the first
teacher. By their leadanbip and
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?- & : . ; ' . ??
that of other teacheri many girls
and boys and the community have
greatly benefited. It i* probable
that all of the teachers have past
ed on except Mist Hinman who
was still living February 6, 1950
at Elyria, Ohio. * After spending
some time in China she taught in
1890 and 1900 in a school built by
Mist Prudden at Hudson, N. C.
Quoting one verse of a hymn she
liked:
"Traveling to a better land
O'er the deserts schorching sand,
Father do Thou hold my hand
And lead me on, lead me on."
Miai Prudden built a few cot
tages which were occupied by
teachers and students. She told a
good many lots and several houses
sprang up near the school. A two
story building was also erected
just across the "turn-pike road"
from the dormitory. This was two
large rooms. The lower one was
Occupied for tome time by the
matron and her daughter who wps
(Continued on page tlx.)
A. T. ADAMS
Adams Is Named
Key Banker For
Watauga County
A local banker, A. T. Adams,
cashier of the Northwestern Bank,
has been selected by t|ie North
Carolina Bankers Association as
County Key Banker for Watauga
County.
The appointment was announc
ed today in Warrenton by the
president of the Bankers Associa
tion, John G. Mitchell, president
of The Citizens Bank, Warrenton.
The County Key Banker is one
of the moat important officials of
the bankers organization in this
State. In a predominantly agricul
tural State such as North Carolina,
bankers are keenly aware of their
responsibility to work closely with
all phases of fanning.
The Key Banker establiahes a
close cooperation between farm
leaden, both State and local, and
promotes local support and inter
est in programs which lead to a
sound agricultural economy for
North Carolina.
The North Carolina Bankers As
sociation also announced today
that it has won, for the 11th
straight year, the top award of
the American Bankers Associa
tion for eoastructive work per
formed last year by ita agriculture
committee. The committee last
?year was headed by E. C. Thomp
son, vice president and cashier of
Branch Banking and Trust' Com
pany, Warsaw.
Boone Women
Hurt In Crash
Two Boone women suffered in
juries Friday in an automobile
collision in Winston-Salem.
Hit. C. J. Farthing suffered a
broken right wrist, while Mri. J.
C. Farthing had a deep cut on the
forehead.
Mr. C. J. Farthing was the driv-'
er of the car from Boone, and the
other one was driven by Raymond
E. Stevens of Mount Airy. Investi
gating officers said both drivers
said they had the green light at
the intersection.
After being treated at Baptist
Hospital for their injuries the
Mesdames Farthing returned to
Boone. ?
Ministers In
Meeting Here
The Three Forks Baptist Minist
ers Conference held its monthly
meeting Monday morning, Sept.
12, #t the First Baptist Church of
Boone.
Officers for the coming year
were elected, and are as follows:
Rev. C. 0. Vance, president; Rev.
Homer Greene, vice-president;
Rev. J. Hojt Roberson, secretary
treasurer.
The next meeting will be .Oct.
10th at 10:30 a. m. at the First
Baptist Church in Boone.
All pastors in the association
are urged to attend.
Also on Friday, Oct 14 there
will be a picnic supper at Camp
Joy at 8:00 p. m. All pastors and
their families are urged to attend.
Miss Horton At
State NCEA Meet
Mrs. John R. Horton of Valle
Crucis School attended the State
wide meeting of chairmen of Pub
lic Relations Committees of the
North Carolina Education Associ
ation in Raleigh, Saturday, Sep
tember 17.
Public relations chairmen from
all Units of the state attended the
day long meeting. A discussion of {
the school and community In part
nership was a highlight of the
meeting and was the general theme
of ill phases of the waltrrp^t
Douglas, Waynick Visit Boone
To Promote Small Industries
Appalachian Meets W.C. In First
North State Conference Game
By RUSSELL McDONALD
Appalachian State Teachen Col
lege will be host to Western Car
olina College Saturday, September
24 at 8 p. m. This will be the first
conference game for both teams
and wtll be watched closely by
North State followers.
The Mountaineers of Appala
chian won their opening game of
the season 40 to 7 as they defeat
ed the Newport News Apprentice
School on September 10. This past
Saturday the Mountaineers en
joyed an open date.
The Catamounts of Western
Carolina were defeated in their
garpe of the season 21 to 7 by Wof
ford College. This past Saturday
they were host to Carson-Newman.
The series between Appalachian
and Western Carolina dates back
to 1932 and since that time 19
games have been played. Appala-'
chian has won 18 of the contests
so for with Western Carolina's
lone win coming in 1949 by the
score of 13 to 6.
The Mountaineers will use the
same starting line-up this Satur
day w they did against Newport
News. At end will be Bob Ward
and Bob Poe. These two ends
blocked an Apprentice School
punt and gave the Mountaineers
their first scare of the game as
Ward recovered in the end rone.
Ward is in his first year at Ap
palachian while Poe is a junior.
At tackles will be AU-Confere
ence Fredrick Lippard and letter
man Ted Freeman. Lippard, a
junior, halls from Statesvllle and
Freeman cornea from Chimney
Rock.
R. E. Cummlngs, a Winston
Salem product, and Hillard Clark
from Lenoir will handle the guard
positions. Clark is a junior and
Cummings is a senior.
The center position will be eith
er Joe Eller or Buck Hall. Eller
started the first game of the sea
son against Newport News. Hall,
a letterman and senior, was a re
gular of last season till he reoeiv
edva broken leg in the Len?ir
Rhyne game.
The quarterback will be Jimmy
Moore of Winston-Salem. Moore
ran 87 yards to score in the sea
son's opener as he returned an
Apprentice School punt. The App's
quarterback also passed for two
more touchdowns.
Jim OUis and Orbe Elam will be
the halfbacks for Saturday's game.
Elam received a shoulder injury
in the opening game but will be
ready to go. OUis is a senior and
Elam a junior.
The fullback will be Jim Kiser
from Shelby. Kiser is one of the
co-captians and is a senior at Ap
palachian this year. Assisting Kis
er will be Joe Garwood of Wilkes
boro. Both are hard runners and
top defensive players.
Western Carolina, with the larg
est squad in the conference, will
probably have Jack Cunningham
and Terry Swanger at ends. Cun
ningham, a 6' 3" junior, hails from
Sylva while Swanger comes from
Hazelwood. Swanger is a senior
standing ?' 1".
Hubert Edwards and Warren
Wright will work the tackle spots
for the Catamounts.
Tniett Lingerfelt, a senior from
Belmont, and Bobby Kuydendall
will be running at guards. Linger
felt stands 6' 1" and weight 189
pounds. Kuydendall pushes the
scales to 190 and is 9' 11".
At center will be Jim Kuyken
dall, a junior, weighing I'M.
Leading the backfield will be
Mrs. Ada Smith
Taken By Death
Funeral rites for . Mrs. Ada
Kluttz Smith, 73, a member of
oh of Albemarle's oldest families,
were held Wednesday morning in
the chapel at Lefler Funeral home
in that city.
Rev. D. Moody Nifong and Rev.
Dan B. Sapp officiated and burial
was in the family plot in the Al
ber marie cemetery.
For the past two and a half
years, Mrs Smith had lived in the
home of a daughter and son-in
law, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Greer, for
merly of Boom.
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quarterback Tommy Lewis. A
junior from Chardborn, Lewis,
weighs only 160 and stands 9' 9".
The halfbacks will be Jack Hen
dricks and Charles Poindexter.
Hendricks calls Asheville home
and stands 5' 11" but weighs only
189. Poindexter, a senior, comes
from Canton and tops the scale* at
180.
The fullback will be Pat Pattil
lo from Franklin. Pattillo ii a sen
ior and ii the heaviest man in the
backfield at 190.
All of Western Carolina's start
ing team are lettermen except
Wright at right tackle.
Dr. Herbert Wey On
White House Group
Dr. Herbert W. Wey, head Of the
department of education and aa
sociate dean of the graduate school
at Appalachian State Teachers
DR. HERBERT W. WEY
College, has been appointed to
North Carolina'* committee (or the
White Houae Conference on Edu
cation. The appointment was made
by Dr. Charles F. 'Carroll, sup
erintendent of public inatruction
for the lUte. Governor Luther
Hodges is serving as honorary
chairman of the project.
The conference is to study se
lected educational problems, and
will later hold a National White
House Conference "to consider and
report to the President on signifi
cant and pressing problems in the
field of education."
According to Dr. Carroll, the
theme of the conference will be
"American Education ? 20th Cen
tury," and the study will center
around the following questions:
What should our schools accomp
lish? In what. ways can we organ
ise our school system more effici
ently and economically? What are
our school building needs? How
can we get enough good teachers
? and keep them? How can we fi
nance our schools ? build and oper
ate them? How can we obtain a
continuing public inUrtat in edu
cation?
Dr. Wey attended the first infect
ing of the state committee in Ra
leigh on September 13. Next week
he will be in Greenville on Wed
nesday, Fayetteville on Thursday,
Raleigh on Friday; and the follow
ing week in Greensboro on Mon
day, Charlotte on Tuesday, and
Asheville on Wednesday for reg
ional meetings. The state commit
tee will hold a meeting of its full
membership on October 13.
Rural Phone Bids
To Be Open Today
Mr. G. W. Edwards, president <
of the Skyline Telephone Member
ship Corporation, announced to- I
day that bids for the construction (
of the new telephone system in t
Watauga County will be opened i
at the office of the corporation, in j
West Jefferson, on Thursday, t
September 22, at 10:30 a. m. He i
also stated that bids for the cen- |
tral office equipment for the pro- <
ject will bfc opened at ; Charlotte
>n October 4.
Mr. Edwards stated that it is
loped that the major portion of
the outside construction will be
completed before bad weather
lets in this winter, but that the
ictual cut-over time of the project
will be dependent on the delivery
ind installation of the central of
fice equipment. This is normally
Expected to be around eight
(Continued on page (ix)
Survey Made
Of County's
Resources
Hon. Ben Douglas, director of
the State Department of Conser
vation and Development, and Mr.
Capua Way nick, chairman of the
Governor's Small Business Com
mittee, visited Boone last week,
in line with their duties looking
to the promotion of small indus
tries in as many counties as pos
sible.
The Governor believes that if
North Carolina Is to grow indus
trially a part of the growth must
come from within. Thus he has
appointed this committee, and Wa-.
auga has been selected as a dem
onstration county.
A survey has been made of the
county's assets and will make some
suggestions as to small ihdustriea
which might be developed to im
prove local timber resource*, con
serve food products and to pro
vide additional employment.
To aid in financing such pro
grams a special State bank is pro
posed, which would probably take
a "little more risky loans than or
dinary commercial banks." Loans
would be taken, it is understood,
on a basis of S, 10, IS and maybe
20 years. Such a bank would have
a million dollar capital and have
arrangements with other financial
institutions to loan up to ten mil
lion dollars.
Stock To Be Offered
Messrs Douglas and Waynick ar
ranged' for the sale of bank stock
in Watauga and the matter was
presented to a small group, who
endorsed the proposal. Most ot
them agreed to buy small amounts
of stocks. Shares are for sale at
ten dollars ench.
Committee I? Named
A committee wis appointed here
and definite plans for the sale of
stock will be worked out soon. The
committee is: Ralph Winkler,
chairman; Alfred Adams, Glenn
Andrews, Wade Brown, S. C. Egg
ers. Clyde R. Greene, H. Grady
Farthing, Boone; Howard Hols
houser, and R. B. Hardin, Blow
ing Rock. Graver C. Robbins of
Blowing Rock and Stanley A. Har
ris of Boone are exofficio mem
bers of the committee by virtue
of being presidents of their respec
tive Chambers of Commerce.
FOREIGN MINISTERS
A simultaneous announcement
from Washington, London and Par
is said that the foreign minister*
of the United States, Britain and
France would meet in New York
on September 27 to map coordinat
ed tactics for the meeting of the
foreign ministers of the Big Four
in Geneva in October. If Soviet
Foreign Minister Molotov happens
to be in New York City at that
time, he will be consulted also.
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NEW LEGION HEADQUARTERS ? Shown is ? revised architects drawing of the first permanent home
the North Carolina Department of The American Legion haa ever owned in the 36 year* it haa been in
operation aince its organisation in 1919. The Department headquarters building, which will, completely
equipped, coat between 9110,000.00 and 1115,000 00, will be built in Raleigh at the corner of Blount Street
and New Bern Avenue, a block east of the State Capitol. Governor Luther H. Hodges, a charter mem
ber of the Leaksvilla-Spray Poet of The American Lagioa, will be the principal speaker at the ground
breaking exercises to be held at the building site at 4 p. m. Sunday, September 29. Department Com
mander Paul H. Robertson of Chapel Hill will introduce Governor Hodges. G. E. Bobbitt of Raleigh,
chairman of the special building committee, will preside. Legionnaire* and members of the Legion Aux
| iliary from all parts a t North Carolina are invited to a tend the event