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For 67 Years An Independent Weekly H etc* paper ? Established in the Year Eighteen Eighty-Eight lf.ny high tchool bands and Appalachian State Teachers College Band will be lea tured in Homecoming Parade Saturday morning. Old Timers Reunion Features Annual College Homecoming Jury Is Drawn For November Court Term r Clarence Angel Dies On Monday; Rites Wednesday Clarence B. Angel. 01, retired railway conductor, died Monday at the Veterans' Administration Hospital, Johnson City, Tenn. Mr. Angel, who had been in poor health for some time, suffer ed a stroke Saturday, afad was taken to the Johnson City Hospi tal. He remained in a coma fol lowing the stroke. A conductor on the Boone Johnson City passenger run of the East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railway, until the abandonment of the lines, follow ing the flood of 1940* Mr. Angel was well known throughout' this section. He spent 30 years with the rail road and retired ten years ago. He operated Angel's Cafe, which he founded, for a number of yean. He had resided in BocAe for 36 years. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Amie Vance Angel; one daughter, Mrs. Lloyd Isaacs of Raleigh; two grandchildren; and thfee sisters, Mrs. Charles Miller of Pineola, Mrs. Charles Ramsey of Bakers ville and Mrs. C. M. Pritchard of Macon, G?. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p. m. Wednesday at Boone Baptist Church. Burial will be in Mount Lawn Cemetery in Boone. Rev. Jos. Hart Priest For Area The Most Rev. Vincent S Wat ers, Bishop of Raleigh, has assign ed a new Catholic Priest to serve Boone and Blowing Rock. He is tm Rev. Joseph L. Hart, a priest of the Society of St. Ed mund. Father Hart, who took up his residence in Boone last week, wss assigned as assistant to Fa ther FrancW Murphy of NortA Wilkesboro in September. Father Hart, after graduating from high school in IMS, joined the U. S. Navy and served with the Pscific Fleet until the end of the war. Upon receiving his dis charge in 1M4, he began his stu dies at St. Michael s College in Vermont. He completed hia col lege. novitate and seminary train ing in the spring of this year and was ordained In June. Prior to coming to Boone be served as treasurer for his com munity's novitiate in Connecticut. Father Hart ia giving a talk to the general public Friday evening. [the 21st of October, at S o'clock in the Daniel Boone Hotel. All residents of this area are invited There 1* no charge. with The county commissioners nave drawn the names of the citizens who are to serve as jurors for the November term of Watauga Superior Court. The court convenes Monday, No vember 7, with Hon. J. Frank Hus kios of AahfviUf presiding, and will bear only civil cases. The fbltOWlng have been sum moned for jury duty: Bald Mountain ? Fred Holman, John Davis, Elbert S. Norris. Beaver Dpm ? Asa Reece, Char lie Tester, Claude Norris, Stacy Moody, Clyde Robinson. Blowing Rock ? Olin Shores, Har len J. Greene, Butlei; Craig, Fred Andrews. Blue Ridge ? Mrs. Donia Coffey, Ralph J. Broyhill, Stanley Crit cher, Clyde Bentley. Boone? Herman Wilcox, Ted S. Hagaman, Mack Luttrell, Andy Greer, Hoyt Edmisten. Brushy Fork ? Ray Ellison, Lar na Miller, Frank Billings, Grady Bradley, Mrs. Muriel Hodges Brown. Cove Creek? Mrs. F. T. McGin nis, Dick Henson, Dock Isaacs, Roby Hayes. ? Laurel Creek ? Clyde Tester, Don Trivette, J. M. Mast. Mabel ? Frank Mains. Stanley Norrtt, Lewis Burkett, Earl Norris, Ivan Y ounce. Meat Camp ? Bernard Hodgson, B. F. Warren Greene, Joe E. Bur kett, George Lookabill. New River ? Rhonda Carroll, Ed Farthing, Don Ragan, Collis Aus tin. North Fork ? John K. Brown, David Main. Shawneehaw? Marshall Farthing, Ira Townsend. Stony Fork ? Prince Hamby, Glenn Moretz, Fred T. Greer, Bob Smith. Watauga? Creed Taylor, Charlie Johnson, J. Edgar Harbin, Hubert Thomas. By EARLEEN G. PIJITCHETT One of the features of the Home coming activities at Appalachian State Teachers College this week end will be the "Old-Timers" re union at 10:00 a. m. on Saturday. Presided over by Mrs. Wilson Nor ris of Boone, the meeting will feature short speeches from gra duates prior to 1920. ine mam item on the program, however, will b? the showing of a television film of college activi ties giving a history of the college, and telling of Dr. B. B. Dough erty's contribution to education In North Carolina. Everyone is Invit ed to this program. Lyceum Program First activity of Homecoming week, will be a lyceum program Thursday evening at fight, when Dr. Allan D. Cruickshank of the National Audubon Society ,will give an illustrated lecture in the college auditorium. His talk will be on "River of the Crying Bird". He will also lecture at the assemb ly hour, 10(10, the next morning on "Gatorland". These two lec tures will be open to stu^nts and faculty of the college under the lyceum series. Old Gridders Meet Friday evening at ' six o'clock the first four Appalachian football teams hold their second annual reunion at the .Ranch Motel, and at eight o'clock the Playcrafters present three one-act plays in the college auditorium. Admission is free to students, faculty, and alu mni. Registration Plana Saturday morning the rush of the day's activities gets und4r way at nine o'clock with the beginning of registration. The Pep Club will furnish identification to all cam pus visitors for the day, and the International Relations Club will conduct the* registration from nine to twelve. Gap Parade Scheduled It is expected thlt the- parade at eleven o'clock will be one of the best in recent year. A trophy will be presented at game halftime to the winning organization. Alumni Luncheon The place for the alumni lunch eon this year has been changed from the college cafeteria. It will be held in the New Elementary School Cafeteria on College Street. In the absence of Ben Horton, alumni association president, Mrs. Daisy Eggers of Boone, the secre tary-treasurer, will preside. The address of welcome will be given by Dr. W. H. Plemmons, president ?f Appalachian State Teachers Col lege. Homecoming Football The game with Emory and Henry College is at 2:45, there is a halftime show of thirty minutes, and following the gam* tha Dean of Women, Miss Barbara Stephen son, will preside over a tea for all alumni in East Hall. Annual Dance Planned At 8:30 In the men's gymnasium, the newly-formed and very popu lar Appatones, college dance orch estra, will play for the annual Homecoming dance to which all students, faculty, and alumni are [invited. The price of the dance will be $1,50 single, $3 00 per couple. The alumni association will receive one-fourth of the proceeds of the dance. Many Bands To Appear / Participating in the pre-game show on college field at 2:30 will be the Appalachian State Teachers College Band, and bands from the following high school: Appala chian, Cherryville, Hickory, West Yadkin, Scotts, Spencer, and Val dese, Foundation To Hold Meeting The Appalachian Educational Foundation will hold its annual meeting Friday evening at 7:30 in the men's gymnasium, as a fea ture of the Homecoming week end. A representative of the Founda tion will be in a booth at the Col lege entrance for the purpose of registering the alumni. Identifica tion pins will be given Foundation members. Dr. L. H. Owsley is President of the Foundation. The United States, moving to forestall a possible like Soviet step, has offered to sell arms to Egypt. School Principals Hear Angell; James Storie Presiding Officer The Watauga County NCEA division of principals held their last meeting at Kirk's Restaurant on October 11 at ? o'clock with Chairman James M. Storie. prin cipal of Blowing Rock schools, presiding All principals of the county were present with the ex ception of Dr. A. B. Crew who was absent because of illnesss. Mrs. Dessie Mae Edmisten, sec retary, read the minutes of the last meeting which vai -for the last meeting of the 1064-39 school year following whjph ? Mr. Storie introduced the -following gew members: Mr. Guy W. Angell, Mr. Dwight Isenhonr, Mr. John Bing ham, and Mr. James Greene. Mir. Petrjr, assistant principal of Boone K Elementary School arid president I of the Watauga Unit NCSA, gave instruction* (or voting (or social security, the election on voting for this to be held on October 24. Mr. Angell, Watauga County Superintendent of Schools, was guest speaker for the evening and first complimented the principals on the publicity from their schools in the newspaper, and discussed with the principals the matter of telephone bills. IV principals voted to pay all long distance calls from their schools, lir. Angell al so discussed with the principals the coming State School Board meeting to be held in Boone on October 26 He asked the princi pal* to invite their local school a ? e&stVJKMaiJAi&T * L Mr ? t h-sA'nM committeemen to attend thil meet ing. Mr. Storie snounced the State wide Principal* Conference Nov ember 1-2-3 in Durham which will have aa speakers Dr. Guy Phillip* of the University of North Caro lina, Dr. McSwain of Northwestern University, and Dr. Carrol, State Superintendent of Public Instruc tion in North Carolina. Persons in attendance at this meeting, Mr. Storie said, will tour industries in Durham. Mr. Storie also announc ed the coming NSEA district moat ing November 11 In Wiaaton Salem. Election of officers was held with Mr. Storie and Mr*. Edmistco (Continued oa page eight) . Milwaukee Couple Is Charged! With Murder Of Aged Chemist Noted Folklorist, A uthor To Talk t ' T? ? ,* * On NeedFor Local Theatre Project By CRATIS WILLIAMS | Richard Chute, folklorist, muter of folk arts, director of the Dan- < iel Boone Folk Arts Festivals, and i author of "Jack Tales," "Grand- ' father Talea," "Hullabaloo," "Wick- 1 ed John and the Devil," and other works, will give a lecture on the i need for a folk theatre in the audi- < torium of the Fine Art* Building on Thursday evening, October 27, at 8 o'clock . , Students, faculty members and ' administration, and townspeople 1 are cordially invited to his lecture. 1 Mr. Chase plans to discus* and illustrate phases of the folk tra ditions and culture of the Appala chian mountain region in his talk. The heritage of the mountain folk he calls one of the richest in the world, and claims it is an organic continuation of the genuine culture of the British Isles from Queen Elizabeth's time through the sev enteenth and eighteenth centuries to the present day. Mr. Chase, eager to ^establish a permanent home for a folk theatre that will catch up and revitalize what are left of the cultural root* of the heritage of the mountain folk, will 1 discuss ways and means of imple menting a center for such preser vation and revitaliution. His talk will be studied with types of balladry, song, tales, rid dles, folk-say, and folk-way to il lustrate his thesis that the folk materials still preserved in the mountain regions are the basic ma terials out of which great drama and music as well as rich and poetic speech must grow. DR. W. H. PLEMMONS Dr. Plemmons To * Speak At Meeting Of School Boards "More Effective School Board Operation" will be the theme for a regional meeting of the State Auociation of School Board mem bers to be held on Appalachian College campua next Wednesday. Dr. Herbert Wey is chairman for the gathering, which will be attended by about 300 school dis trict committeemen, school board members and professional educa tors. , The principal address will be delivered by Dr. W. H. Plemmons, president of Appalachian State Teachers College. The meeting wil begin at 2 o'clock and end by 8:45. Registration will be held at 2 p. m. and will be followed by a welcome address by Dean D. J. Whitener, an overviewf of the work of the Association by Ben Foun tain and an afternoon address by ? speaker yet to be selected. Also iif the afternoon seaaion, which will be presided over by Dr. Wey will be a series of discussion groups led by leading lay commit teemen and a tour of the new Ap palachian Elementary School. A dinner meeting will be held at 6 p. m. and will be folowed by discussion group reports and a question and answer session led by Dean Guy B. Phillip* of the ?University of North Carolina. There will be a short business ses sion and the meeting will be cli maxed by the address by Dr. Plem mons. District school committeemen, city and county school board mem bers, principals, and superintend ents are expected from the fol lowing counties in western North Carolina: Alleghany, Alexander, Ashe Alleghany, Alexander, Ashe, Avery, Burke, Caldwell, Cabarrus, Cleveland, Catawba, Davie, David ion, Gaston, Forsyth, Iredell, Lin coln, Mecklenburg, McDowell, Mit chell, Rowan, Rutherford, Stokes, Surrey, Watauga, Wilkes and Yad kin. Plemmons Named | Board Member - Chapel Hill? Dr. W. H Plem i mons of Boone was named to the board of trustees of the North Carolina Symphony Society at an annual meeting of the group Sun day afternoon, October In the Planetarium Building here. Dr. Plemmons was elected by the board for a two-year "term to expire ia 1897. Apps Meet Emory-Henry In Last Home Battle By RUSSELL McDONALD The last home game of the sea son (or the 1998 Appalachian Mountaineers will be played this Saturday, October 22, at 2:40 p. m. in Boone. The Mountaineers will meet the Wasps of Emory It Henry College of Emory, Virginia. This afternoon game will be the featured attraction of the 1998 Homecoming program of Appala chian State Teachers College. The Wasps, members of the Smoky Mountain Conference, have only dropped one game this sea son having played five games. The lone defeat came by the hands of Hampden-dydney with the score 8 to 0. Emory and Henry holds victories over Concord College (21-7), Tennessee Weslyan (32-0), Carson-Newman (29-7), and Mary ville College (44-0). The Wasps have averaged 24 points per game in the '99 season. The Mountaineers of Appala chian State are now sporting, a 3-2 record. This past week the Appala chian team defeated the Indians of Catawba College 21 to 19 in their fourth conference game of the sea son/The conference record is 2-2 as the Apps have lost to Lenoir Rhyne snd Western Carolina Col lege. The other conference win was over Elon. The game with the .Wasps will be the second non conference game for the Moun taineers as they played Newport News in the season's opener. Seven high school bands will take part in Saturday's activities including a pre-game and half time show. Tlte bands that will take part are Hickory High School, Scotts High School, Appalachian High School, Granite Quarry High School, Cherryville High School, Fund Crows For Cornett Child The Orville Cornett Medical Care Fund has already attracted con siderable interest, in Watauga county and .even in other states. A public appeal for money to buy medicine for the Cornett child was first made last week In the Wa tauga Democrat, after his plight had been made known by Miss Hazel Holder, public health nurse with the local heatlh department. Orville Cornett needed expen sive medicine regularly, and it ap peared his parents would not be able to obtain the 100 or more a month that it would take to supply this medicine. He is suf fering I "om a disease which makes him susceptible to colds and pneu monia because his body can not build up resistance to combat the disease. Several local business men, upon learning of the situation, maRle ar rangements to boy the necessary medication until other help could be obtained. The Orville Cornett fund was begun and as soon as the public learned of the boy and his condition letters containing help and encouragement bepn to come In. Already, by Tuesday morning 199 letters had been re ceived by Alfred Adams, custodian of the funds. This does not in clude help locally which has been offered. Funds axe being received by: The Orville Cornett Medical Care Fund, care of Alfred Adams. Northwesters Bask, Boone, N. C, Spencer High School, and West Yadkin High School. Six Mountaineer* will be making their last home appearance as a part of an Appalachian team. These six seniors are R. E. Cum mings, Buck Hall, Jim Riser, Jim OUis, Ray Morris, and Johnny Matthews. The starting line-up for the Mountaineers will have Johnny Matthews and Bob Poe at ends. Poe scored one of the Apps touch downs against Catawba last week as he took a pasa from the quar terback, Charles Taylor. Matthews also saw action in last week's game. The tackles will be Frank Au ten of Belmont and Ted Freeman of Chimney Rock. Both are jun iors and both weigh 210. Fredrick Lippard, all-conference last sea son, will also see action here. The guards will be 'R. E. Cum mings and Hillard Clark, senior and junior respectfully. Cummlngs halls from Winkton-Salem and Clark from Lenoir. Center Buck Hall will start Sat urday afternoon for the Mountain eers. Hall turned in a fine perfor mance last week against Catawba. The quarterback will be Char les Taylor or Jimmy Moore. Both are seeing a lot of action at this post and the starter won't be known till game time. Taylor and Moore are both juniors with Tay lor hailing from Boone and Moore from Winston-Salem. At halfback for the Mountain eers will be Jim OUis and Orbe Elam. OUis is a senior who should rate all conference honors again this season. Elam, a junior from NUes, Mich, will start at left half back. The fullback will be Jim Riser of Shelby. Riser is another who will probably receive all-confer ence honors this season. The Mountaineers have five more games on their 1958 sche dule, all of them away. The re maining games include East Caro lina, Guilford, Presbyterian, Tam pa, and East Tennessee State Col lege. Saturday's game will mark the sixth meeting of these two teams. The first game was played in 1M7. la the five games played Appala chian haa won four times and Emory and Henry one. The Wasps lone win came in 1990 when these two teams met in' the Burley Bowl in Johnson City. The score of that game was 26 to 8. Say Chicago Man Fatally Stabbed At Blowing Rock An investigation which aprtad over several states since August, has resulted in murder charge* being lodged againat a Milwaukee man and woman, accused of kill ing an aged Chicago chemist July 28 in Cone Memorial National Park at Blowing Rock. The warreata were lansd against Leonard William La Fond, 20, aad Jo Ana Sever*?, II, following a conference and review of the case by Solicitor James C. Farthing of the Six teenth district, Watauga Ceuoty Sheriff Ernest M. Hodge*, Kay H. Garland of the State Bureau of Investigation and Samuel D. < Smith of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The body of the victim, Lewi* A. Finn, was found September 1, wrapped in a blanked and covered with canvas in the Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky. He apparently had been dead several weeks. LaFond and Miss Severson were arrested in the southwest on Federal charges of taking Finn's stolen automobile acroaa state lines. They have been in prison in North Carolina since September 21. Federal authorities brought the accused to the Blowing Rock area, where officer* say they pointed out the scene of the alleg ed murder. Solicitor Farthing said the evidence, gathered by Federal and State authorities, indicates that the Milwaukee people fatal ly (tabbed Finn at the State ptf ff ground ocsr the Sandy Flat Chareh on U. 8. Highway 2*1. Watauga Sheriff E. M. Hodge* forwarded the murder warrant to federal authoritie* for further ac tion. Farthing *aid the couple pro bably would be brought to trial at the term of Watauga Superior Court beginning January 23. It i* expected that the Federal authori tie* will releaie the priaoner* to the State. LaFond i* bing held in the Forsyth county jail at Winston Salem, and Miss Stevenson ia in the Stanly county jail in Alber- - marie. Federal District Attorney Edwin Stanley ia quoted a* aaying his office "will cooperate with the State in every way to expedite the trial." Finn was on vacation when he disappeared. He left West Palm Beach, Fla. July 20 to vi*it a broth er in Yumi, Ariz. LaFond wa* arrested August 20th at Truth or Conaequeaees, New Mexico. Officers there laid he wa* driving a car far which he had traded Fina'* automobile at El Pass, Texas. They said he had Flan's wallet and other per sonal belingings. Mis*' Severson wa* arrested August 31 la San Antonio, Texas. The FBI said the pair gave them information leading to the discovery of Finn'* body. The Soviet Union has offered conditional acceptance of the Eis enhower plan for an exchange of military blueprint* with the Unit ed States. Fall Colors Blaze In Parkway Region The fall colors arc now very at tractive along sections of the Blue Ridge Parkway between the Vir ginia-North Carolina State line south to Blowing Rock. The sourwoods, black gums, ma ples, birchfcs and poplars all now have a brilliant color and the scene is changing rapidly as the days go by Parkway rangers are predicting the height color along the Park way in this vicinity to be between October IB and 3fi The Parkway la now ablaze with color both along the ground and in the fdresta. Autumn la * time of flaming colors. The sour gums turn ? brilliant rad, dogwoods pur pie. By mid-Octber (all color is at its magnificent beat. The birch and tulip treea are yellow, the aaaafraa orange The sumac scarlet, the oik and hickory have a leathery sheen. Red maple, "Color Kit* of the Southern Highlands," is every where ablate. The first sharp frosts came in late September. Al ready the temperature is dowp into the thirties at This is the time of year to hikes along the trails of 1 way. The air is crisp and < real cool. Be sure a sweater or light wrap * plan your trip across < Ridge Parkway. - ;