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
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300 different audience* in the
state.
The complete statement iaaued
by Governor Hodges ?m:
"The week of October MS. 1905
will be obaerved throughout North
Carol ins aad the Nation aa OH
Progress Week. During this period
the citiaena of our State who are
engaged in the oil buaiaesa will
report on the achievements, their
progreaa. and their plans for the
future.
"For nearly a century the men
and women ief the oU industry
have been noted for their initia
tive, hard work and competitive
support in supplying our Nation
with o'l and oil products. 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.
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