BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1K5 Green y alley School Grade News Listed October is birthday month for (our of us. They arc: Dennis Hicks, Sharon Miller, Loreoa Nor ris and Delia Cooke. Sharon will celebrate en Columbus Day, Oct ober 12 We plan to have a com bined birthday party for them. We are (lad that Keith's daddy. Mr. Bill R rider is abU to come home from St. Joseph's Hospital, Lewiston, Idaho. He spent many weeks there after a lumbering ac cident. Steve Winebarger is happy be cause his brother Albert, Jr. is home from the Army. Linda Proffit recently enjoyed a trip to Mt. Mitchell. Clyde Jr. went to Lenoir to the 11 County Pair. Grade News are enjoying our student Miss Carol Howell, very ihuch. She helps us?in our work. f Our calss is making an African village in geography. Betty Wine barger, Betty Shoe make, Daphne Tugman, Sylvia Norris, and Eli zabeth Miller are dressing little dolls to look like nstives. 'Jerry South, Harold Proffitt, Gary Brown, and Ployd Greene are making a map showing the differ ent parts of Africa. Bernard John son, Dean Trivette, Jimmy Priffitt and Keith Miller have made some canoes with little clay natives in them to use on the Congo. Buddy Storie, Thurman Mains, Larry Carroll, Tommy Miller, and John ny Moretz have made African animals out of sawdust and paste. The actual village with the huts and palm trees were made by Kathryn Greer, Kenneth Miller, Edwin Norris, Bruce Miller, Geneva Woodring, and Doris Tri vette. We are thrilled with a mov ing picture that Annie Miller, Glenda Wilson, Georgia Beach, Lucielle Canter, Joe Bryan, Helen Zowadski, and Joe Williams are making. Sixth Grade News September 28 we elected class officers for the first half of the year. They are: President, Dewey Culler; vice-p ret (dent, Smitty Storie; Mcretary, Euia Jean Davit ; treasurer, Betty Idol; reporter, Jams Starnes; song leader. Ear lene Jones and Jimmy W'.Ison. < We all miss Frances Hampton who has moved to Blowing Rock. Jimmy Wilton plays on the school ball team. Nancy W attains has just return ed from a visit at Ocean View, Va. While there she visited James town, W ill iamt burg, and York town. Mr. Fei's Eighth Grade Many of our eighth graders are on our schools Softball teams. We have enjoyed playing the teamt from various schools * We were glad to have Mr. James F. Greene, principal, and Mrs. Ralph Church, teacher, bring the teanu from Valle Cruets School to our school on October 7. The girlt from both tchoolt played a good game and even though the score was Valle Crucit 3, Green Valley 18, the game was very1 in teresting. The outstanding players were Linda Greene, Janet Starnes, Betty Hodges, and Jane Miller. The boy's game was much clos er and all the boyt on both teamt played good ball. Green Valley won the game by a score of 12 to 7. The itudentt from Valle Crucit showed wonderful sportsmanship and we welcome them back at any time. Boone Variety Makes Big Yield Mr. Hugh Hampton estimated the yield of the new "Boone" var iety of potatoes at 929 bushels per acre. This potato crop wat produc ed by Mr. Hampton for the North Carolina Foundation Seed Produc ers Association. Consumers spend 9 per cent more on service* since 1947. HODGES PROCLAIMS Oil. PHOOtEKS WEEK: October ?th through 15th hai been prorlaimfd Otl Progren Week throughout North Caro lina (>y Governor Luther H Hodgei Otl Induitry repreaentatlvee present ?? the ceremony In Ralelgb were (L to R)' S. D. Brvan, Rsleigh, Pre?ideti? N. C. Oil Jobber* Alan.. H. R Dowd, Charlotte. Stale Chairman, Oil Industry Information Committee: Governor Hodges: and WU1 Parker. Ralelgb. Executive-Secretary, N. C. Job ber'! Am. Oil Progress Week Is Set Aside By Governor Governor Luther H. Hodges to day issued a proclamation offici ally designating the week of Oc tober 9 through 19 at Oil Progress Week throughout North Carolina. The ceremony was attended by in dustry officials H. R. Dowd, Char lotte, State Chairman of the Oil Industry Information Committee, the industry's public relations org* anization, and S. D. Bryan and Will Parker of Raleigh, president and executive secretary, respect ively, of the North Carolina Oil Jobbers' Association. Chairman DoWd said that oilmen throughout the state will join to gether during the week to spon sor many special events, parades, speeches and film showings before civic clubs and schools, banquets, window displays, newspaper ad vertising and radio-TV interview* and i pot announceemnts. At a kick-of to Oil ProgreM Week, the industry alio sponsored a nationwide "live" television pro gram called "1978." The show, a preview of American life in the nation^ bicentennial year, was carried by many North Carolina stations Sunday afternoon, Octo ber 9, at 3:30 p. m. Service station dealers in sev eral cities have joined together to decorate their stations and hand out "Lucky Number" folders to more than 100,000 customers. Oth er dealers will jointly contribute profits for one day of Oil Progress Week to local charities. The new American Petroleum Institute mo tion picture, "Barrel Number 1," will be released during the week and shown over television to some NIXT YIAR'S FORDS ARB HIRI TODAY I Loads o? them? because Ford is first in pro duction of the pace-setting 1956 models. Loads of models to choose from ? because the Hew Fords are being produced _t u record rate And that, of course, means the highest trade-ins ever given to new-car buyers! 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With the help of the oil industry, we have been able to achieve a standard of living previously unknown. "It is a pleasure to hereby desig nate the week of October 9-18, 1999, si Oil Progreaa Week in North Carolina and to call atten tion to the many and varied con tributions which thia industry has made to our economy and the in dustrial development of our State and Nation." i The objective ot the OU Indus try Information Committee pro gram is to make clear how well the people of the United States are served by America's oil businesses, and to gain support for conditions under which they may continue to be privately managed, fully com petitive and financially sound. FIREMEN HAVE SQUIRT GUNS Wewoka, Okla. ? Local firemen are th? envy of all the small boys hereabout. They have built a "water gun" that is designed for use at large fires where regular hose pressure could not throw the water far enough. The portable aquirter is capable of projecting a stream 175 feet at the rate of 369 gallona a minute. It can be hand led by one man. Hereford Sale Has New Rules The Watauga Purebred Here ford Breeders will try a new method 'of Meeting cattle for tale in their thirteenth annual sale in Boon* on October 19. On the sale date they will line up all sale cat tle to be judged and will offer for sale only the top 90 cows and heif ers and top 19 bulls. Lester Dalton, V. P. I. Exten sion Warm Springs, Virginia, will place the cattle in the pre-sale ihow and Col. Harry Hamilton will He auctioneer. Twenty purebred breeders will consign cattle to this sale. Cattle will come from most of the well known breeders of Watauga Coun ty, and one breeder of both Ashe and Watauga. Since there* was no field inspec tion in 1999, the breeders consign ed only theif very best cattle. Even with this close judging by the breeders, twelve more head will be dropped on sale day, be cause 77 were catalogued and only 69 of the best may sell. Broiler production in North Carolina was up about six per cent the first seven months of 1999, averaging three cents higher per pound. A COSTLY LEAK Peoria, IU ? Leak* from barrel* on a transport truck coat a per fume company an estimated $10, 000. Workers in the area took advantage of the windfall and dipped the perfumed oil from pud dlea into any sort of containers available. The oil sells for $15 a pound. ONE WAT TO DO IT Barking, England. ? Becoming tired of the slovenly speech of his students, the hasrlmsstor of f school here decided to do some thing about it Be bought a upe(| recorder for the school, gets his pupils to record their voices and then plays tuck recordings to prove how "slovenly" soma speak. SHOP AT BELK'S ? 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