Newspapers / Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.) / Jan. 26, 1956, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
, ? . A Backward Glance ' If you like to read of the early day* in Boom lorn to page lour for "Our Early FUaa" item* of sixty, thirty-nine and flflMU yaari mo. * VOLUME LXVIIL? NO. M BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY Final Plans Are Made] F or State Band Clinic 1 * J Appalachian State Teacher* Col lege and the town of Boone will be hosts again this year to the an nual Band Clinic which is being held on campua Friday and Satur day, January 27 and 28. One hun dred and eleven band itudenta from 29 school* will make up the band this year which will di rected by Frank J. Prindl from the I'niveraity of Kentucky. / The 29 achooli represented and their band directors are as follows: Appalachian High School, Boone, Roy Blanton; Drexel High School, Kathryn Siphers; Elkin High School, David Gentry; Glen Alpine WILLIAM SPENCER Clinic Chairman High 'School, Martha Thomasson; Gray High School, E. L. Rowley; Granite Falls High School, Coves Sigmon; Hanes High School, Ralph Walker; Hickory High School, Landon WiHker; High Point Hibh School, Dave Carter, Hildebran High School, Edison Day; Jamestown High School, Bob Ingram; Kern ersville, James Head lee; King High School, Charles Driver; Lexington, B. V. Wagner; Marion High School, Bernard Hirsch; Morganton, M. T. Cousins; Mineral Springs, Bill Peavyhouse; Newton - Conover; Scotts High School, James Liteh hos; Valdese High School, George Wilson; Beaver Creek High School, Gene Wilson; West YadWn High School, Bill Robinson; Wilkes Cen tral, Claude Jarrett; Griffith High School, Eva Bingham; Denton High School, C. Robert Clark. The program to be presented in the Fine Arts Auditorium at 7:30 p. m. Saturday will be as follows: Brighton Beach March, Latham Youth Triumphant Overture, Hadley Meditation f^om Thais, Massenet Suite of Old American Dances, R. R. Bennett Relax, Rumba, Yoder Nordic Symphony, 2nd Move ment, Hanson Old CorArades March, Teicke. Registration for the clinic will start at 8:45 on Friday morning in the lobby of the Fine Arts Build ing. After that the ftudents will go to sectional rehearsals held by the various band directors. At 10:30 the group will meet for the first time as a band in the Band Room and will rehearse until noon. After an afternoon of work the bandsmen will go to their various places to spend the night at 5:00. A reception and dance will be held in the Girls' Gym Friday night from 8 to 10 o'clock for the members of the clinic band, the college and the high school band members. , Saturday's schedule will be re hearsals in the morning and after noon followed by the concert in the evening. The band directors will meet for a business meeting and lunch at 12 noon and discuss plans for next year's clinic. At 1:3d Dr. William Jones Will hold a meeting for the directors in which he will demonstrate and lec ture on the teaching problems of the flute. Those of you interested in at tending the concert given by this group on Saturday of last year may remember the clinic coniert time change (due to ? bad snow the concert was given at 5:10 so the directors and their band could Het down off the mountain before the night freeze). It is hoped that there will be good weather this year, but in caae of a very bad (now, listen out for a change in concert time which will be an nounced on the radio. North Carolina's irrigated acres have increased from 2,083 In IMA to 25,423 in 1964. V I Baptist Mission To Be Dedicated Here Boone Baptist Mission, under the sponsorship of the First Bapt ist Church nl Boone, will dedicate its building at a special service of dedication on Sunday afternoon, January 29, at 2:45. Rev. L. H. Hollingswqrth, pastor of the spon soring church, will preach. Mem bers of both the UissioH and the First Baptist Church, members of other churches in and around Boone, and friends and neighbors of the Mission are invited to at tend. Those who will appear on the program in addition to Rev. Mr. Hollingsworth include Mr. Wade Brown, chairman of the deacons of First Baptist Church; Mr. Paul Winkler, Sunday School superin tendent of the Mission; Rev. J. K. Parker, pastor of the Boone P res byte risp church, who will repre aent the Watauga County Minister ial Association; Rev. C. O. Vance, pastor of ' the Oak Grove Baptist church, who will represent the Three Forks Baptist Pastors' Con ference; and Rev. Hoyt Robinson, Three Forks Associational Mission ary. Rev. W. R. Eaton, associate pastor of the First Baptist church and pastor of the mission, will pre side. , The present Mission building, a rectangular block structure, will eventually serve as the basement to the main sanctuary and is the first unit of a plan designed after the building of the Firit Baptist church of Sparta. The Mission plana to uae the offering to be re ceived at the aervicea of dedication to improve its present facilities. The Program Sunday School, 2:00 p. m. Service of Dedication, 2:49 p. m. Prelude Hymn? "I Love Thy Kingdom, Lord" Invocation Announcements and welcome, Mr. Eaton. Recognition of special guests. Pftyer of Thanksgiving, Mr. Vance. Hymn ? "Lead On, 0 King Eternal" Offering Doxology Dedication of gifts Presentation of keys, Mr. Brown, Mr. Winkler. Scripture reading, Mr. Parker. Special Music Prayer of dedication of build ing, Mr. Robinson. Sermon, Mr. Hollingsworth. Hymn ? "Where He Leads Me" Benediction Postude Beginning in February the Mis sion will have its services on a dif ferent schedule. The new schedule is: Sunday School, ?:45 a. m.; Wor ship, 11:00 a. m. and 7:30 p. m.; Training Union, 6:43 p. m.; Prayer meeting, 7:30 p. m. each Thursday. Greene Says Farmers At Mercy of Buyers In commenting recently on the ever-growing spread between pric es farmers receive for their farm products and prices consumers pay for these same products, in their local stores, Clyde R. Gpeene, chairman of the ASC state com mittee, said that the major reason behind this was that farmer* in the market place are entirely at the mercy of the buyers. On pro ducts not supported by CCC they have no control whatsoever over the prices their prodjicts bring, he said. On supported commodities, their control is limited to the level of support Greene said ^hat farmers now re ceive only 30 cents out of every dollar spent for food in the retail store. This is the lowest share the farmer has received in the last 15 years. This compares with a 53 cents share in 1045 and 42 cents last year. Greene said that he hopes that this Spread can be reduced, not by reducing the price the retailer re ceives, but by increasing the price the farmer, receives. "That's Just what ASC has been trying to do for a number of years. That's just what our Agricultural Conserva tion Program and all of our Price Support Programs are doing now to the full exten made possible under present legislation", he said. The official said the fanner can do a good deal toward increasing his income by making full use of the Agricultural Conservation Pro gram and by taking advantage of all available price lupport provi sions. Polio Sing Scheduled Plans have been completed (or Watauga County's fifth annual March of Dimes Quartet Singing, according to an announcement made by Hugh Hagaman and S. C. Eggers, Jr., co-chairman of Wa tauga County's March of Dimes for 1996. The singing will be held at the Courthouse in Boone at 7:30 Saturday night, February 11. Advance tickets may be secured at farmers Hardware, and Wa tauga Hardware in Boone, and at other business houses throughout Watauga county, or at the door be fore the singing. All businesses and individuals willing to help in selling tickets ace urged by the chairmen to contact Farmers Hard ware immediately for their tickets. Many quartets from Watauga and other counties, have indicated a desire to sing for polio. If other groups, who have not been con tacted, want to help1 this worthy cauae, Mr. Hagaman said, they may contact him or Mr. Eggers in Boone and their help wil( be great ly appreciated and welcomed. . If liveweight, production of sheep abd lambs in this country in 1964 reached ltt billion 'pounds, five per cent more than in 1953. Grid Schedule | Is Released At Appalachian ( The 1986 football schedule of Appalachian State Teachers Col lege *u released here thU week by head football coach E. C. Dug gins. The Mountaineers will play a nine game slate this coming sea son with five contests slated for Boone. The new schedule is different from the past season as the Appa lachian team has been playing eleven games. ( No new teams have been added to the '96 schedule. The only change from the '98 schedule is that two teams, have been dropped. These are Newport News Appren tice School and East Tennessee State College. The Mountaineers defeat the Apprentice School 46 to 7 in the opening game of the '98 season. East Tennessee defeat ed the Mountaineers 7 to 0 in the Bufley Bowl held in Johnson City on Thanksgiving Day. The Mountaineers will have a shorter season as far as time is concerned as they do not open un till September 22 when they meet Western Carolina .at Asheville. Appalachian will close with Tam pa University on November 17. The Mountaineers won 6 and lost 9 during the past season. The Schedule: September 22 ? Western Caro lina, away. Sept. 29 ? Elon, here. Oct. 6 ? Lenoir Rhyne there. Oct. 13 ? Catawba here (Home coming-Game Time 2:48) Oct. 20 ? Emory ft Henry there. Oct. 27 ? East Carolina here. No" 3 ? Guilford here. Nov1. 10- -Presbyterian here. Nov. .17? Thmpa there. Wm. Matheson Funeral Friday WiiHam Lafayette Mstheson* 82. prominent Mooresville leader and brother of the late Mr*. Frank A. Linney of Boone, died Wednesday in Mobile, Ala., where he had re sided for two years. A native of Taylorsville, Mr. Matheson came to Mooresville around the turn of the present century, becoming a civic and re ligious leader of the town. Paymaster of the Mooresville Mills for many years, Mr. Mathe son also served as Iredell Coun ty's representative in the lower house of the state Legislature two terms, 1917 and 1919. He also serv ed as a member of the board of directors of the Lowrance Hospi tal for a number of years. He was also a former county commissioner. Mr. Matheson was a member of the First Presbyter ian Church of Mooresville and serv ed on the bench of elders. Since going to Mobile, however, he had moved his membership to the First Christian Church of that city. The survivors are Mrs. C. H. . Morehead and Mrs. H. F. Stewart, both of Mobile, Ala.; two step-sons, Robert and Thomas Tarants, both ' of Mobile, Ala.; and one sisfer, Mrs. H. Coleman Payne of Taylors ville. Funeral services were held Fri- | day at 11 a. m. at Cavin Funeral Home. THE MIDDLE-MAN The Agriculture Department blames the increase in the middle- i man's profits for the failure of 1 consumers to get lower food costs 1 compared with declining farm a prices. Retail prices were down i two per cent in November from t the level of November, 1994, but i the farmer's receipts were off ten ? per cent. 1955 Called Year of Progress in Soil Conservation in Watauga By D. F. GREENE, Chairman, Watauga Coil Supervisors Nineteen hundred fifty-five was a year of progress in proper land use in the Watauga Soil Conserva tion District Fsrmers continue to take advantage of the program to improve their land and increase their yields. During the year great er emphasia was placed on the complete soil and water conserva tion plan, where each acre is plan ned for use in such a manner that ita soil will remain productive year after year. A chanting pattern of land use is evident to people in the county who have obwrved farming opera tion! during the fix year* the dis trict program ha* been in effect. Those farmers with diatrict toil and water conaervation plana, and many other farmer* have Men do ing more row cropping in the areaa that are more lfvol with fewer erosion problem* The trend ha* been to plant tfie ? tee per area* in *od crop* for hay or paature. Where it la nece**ary for farmer* to cultivate their (teeper area*, many are working their field* lb contour (trip*. Another indication of batter land uae in the district if the if . ? d amount of drainage installed by farmers. Drainage systems were installed on 87 .acres of wet land during 1909. Host of this land is being used (or production of torn crop*. Since these wet areas are almost level, these fanners were able to shift their steeper fields, that were formerly needed for row crop* to hay or pasture. Farmers are showing more in terest in their woodlands than ever before. More tree seedlings were ordered for spring planting than In any previous year. Though many termers that recently placed or (Continued on page six.) mi wi . La' V ' f.i ?mW, Charged With Two Plead Not G ? ? 1 MARCH OF DIMES WORKER. ? Joe Baird poses with some of hit art work at Appalachian State Teach er* College. Joe is helping in the Watauga campaign against polio, and has turned in over $300.00 after nuking speeches to classes at college. ? Staff photo by Joe Minor. "Polio Isn't Licked" Says Victim By JOE MINOR Democrat Staff Writer "Polio ian't licked yet" and polk) hasn't licked Joe Baird, stu dent at Appalachian State Teachers College, even though he had the disease when he was two and a half years old. He was left crip plied by polio, and has to use :rutches to get about now. He is doing his part in helping to "lick polio," however. Joe, nrhose parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Baird Ifte at Morganton, has made talks to all the classes at Appala chian, and because of these talks the Watauga County March of Dimes is several hundred dollars t>etter off. His own junior class donated over a hundred dollars af ter he spoke to it. Joe transferred to 'Appalachian this year from Young Harris Col lege of Young Harria, Oeorgia. His itay there saw him active at March if Dimes campaign time. In four lays in 1994 he was given credit For raising $312.68 to help "lick polio." The campaigning at college is j illy a ptrt of what Joe is doing in his fight againat polio. He has made radio appeals this year in U I Boone, and one cold Saturday morning after claatei this month he was seen hitchhiking out of Boone to his home town where he helped the Morganton Moose Lodge keep a March of Dimes stand on the streets. Hugh Hagaman, cd-chairman of ? the Watauga County March of Dimes campaign, says, "No prompt ing on our part was done to get i Joe to help with the campaign. In , fact, I Widn't know he was work ing for the March of Dimea until he came up to me to see if I would take the money he had collected." When asked why he is willing to give so much time to the March of Dimes, he says, "I feel 1 owe a lot to it for the help I've had, and I want everyone, to know I appreciate everything they have done for me." When talking to Joe, it is evi dent what the disease has done to him, but you fail to sense any bit terness from his conversasion. He has a personality that is to be en vied. In junior college he was voted king of an anniversary cele bration and everybody on the cam pus at Appalachian knows Joe. Besides time spent on studying ?he's an English and social studies major ? and time (pent with the March of Dimes, Joe itill finds time for his hobby, drawing and painting. He is cartoonist jpr "The Appalachian," campus paper. The walla of his dorm room, whtcb he ?hares with Bill Huneycutt of kan napolis, are decorated with paint ings, some of which won blue rib bons at fairs and art displays to ?how how good his work is. He was a l*o cartoonist for the Young Har ris paper. Mr. Hagamai) and S. C. Eggers, Jr., co-chairmen, expressed appre ciation for what Joe has done, as well as the other students of Appa lachian. They pointed out that many students were not county natives, yet they are willing to help Watauga raise funds, much of which will be used locally. Mr. Hagaman said Joe person ally has already turned in $324.38 to the county drive. As unofficial college chairman of activities in behalf of the Dimes drive, such as passing the "sheet" at ath letic contests and "request pro grams" at the radio station, this amount will be much greater. Carolina Symphony T o Appear On College Lyceum Schedule By EARLEEN G. PRITCHETT This year, for tfac tint time in leverel years, Appalachian State reacheri College will be a bit to nvite the 'public to moat of ita leries of lyceum programs This s made possible by the opening of he new physical education build ng which provides auditorium pace On Friday, February 3, the 401th Carolina Little Symphony )rchestra will be playing another :oncert at the college and the pub ic is hivited to attend. There will >e approximately .two hundred leats which will be available for Jie general public, in addition to he seats for which students al -eady have made reaervations. The program will be given in Jm college auditorium, beginning it eight-thirty in the evening. The price of tickets will be >1.00 for idults, and $.80 for children. This Is a special price which is made Jy the college to enable Ms friends in the community and 'county to ittend such events. Tickets will be hi sale at the Boone Drug Com pany, the Carolina Pharmacy, at the College Buainess Office, and, on the Bight of the program, at the door. The North ( arolina Symphony is the only state supported symphony orchestra in the United Stater Under the leadership of Dr. Ben- | jamin Swalin it it beginning its i second decade of service to the I people of the state. In a very fine program of educating the people to better music, the orchestra ! travels all over the state, return- < ing to some communities year af- i ter year. It hap been appearing at Appalachian State Teachers Col lege annually for several years.. In ita programs, the orchestra offers the first number which ia designed to get the attention of the audience. A full-length symphony follows, making up the first half of the program. The second half consists of a variety of shorter selections, so chosen that everyone present will hear something he or ?he likes. A stirring or entertain ing work closes the program. In ten years the orchestra has traveled 68,000 miles, played for 900,000 adulta, and reached 1,203, 000 young concert-goers with 664 children's concerts. The college is very happy to of fer to its friends, the general pub lic, the opportunity to hear the Little Symphony on Friday even-, ing, February 3, at eight-thirty. It hopes that each of the 200 seats available will be sold before the night of the concert There will be other outstanding programs which will be available to the publ'c during the remain ing part of the year. Plemmons Ceremony During Week April 22 Winston-Salem, Jan. 21. ? Dr. WUIUm H. Plemmons will be in augurated president of Appalachian State Teachers College sometime during th? week of April 22, Wil liam J. Conrad, chairman of the board of trustees, announced yes ??<?*? . 'iM ill . - ? ? - . ? . . ? - . . Mr. Conrad fai'd the trustee* ; appointed an inauguration commit tee and selected the week at a< meeting at Hotel Robert E. Lee Dr. Plemmon*. former profeaaor in the department at education at the Univeraitjr of North Carolina, (Continued on page six.) Milwaukee Pair To Face Trial In April Jo Ann Severson, 18, and Leonard LaFond, 20, resident* of Milwaukee, Wis., pleaded not guilty to murder charges in Watauga Superior Court Tuesday afternoon, and a mo tion for continuance to the April term was granted by presiding Judge Dan K. Moore. The (rand Jury returned indict ments (gainst the pair on evidence growing out of the death of Lewis A. Finn, 72, Chicago chemist, July 38. Formerly held in federal custody for transporting a ear, al legedly stolen from Dr. Finn, they were recently 'released to the State by the Federal authorities and placed in the Watauga County Jail. The body of the aged Chicagoan was found in Mammoth Cave Park, Ky. FBI and SBI investigators said -their activities disclosed that F^nn was slain in Watauga county. Attorneys Wade E. Brown and Louis H. Smith were named by the Court to defend the accused couple. Other Court New* The first day of court wis taken up largely by submissions in speeding cases. Monday's pipceed ings are as follows: Speeding. In each of the follow ing cases the defendant was as sessed the court costs: Charlie L. Rabb, Kenneth C. Baker, William S. Baker, Lonnie F. Beck, Keith L. Bentley. Clarence T. Benton, Cecil Boone, Jacob 0. Byerly, Jr., Dale F. Church, Jimmie R. Church, Frank E. Cole, Hershell M. Cooke, Jofcn P. Edmisten, Roy E. Furr. William F. Greene. Roby C. Greer, Gus Grimes, Harold W. Harwood, Edward J. Hayes, Hazel E. Holder, Roger D. Jones, Earl J. Lyons, Marion R. Mercer, Claude W. Misher, Carl L. Mot singer, Carol C. Mott, M. L. Nich ols, Jr., Dennis D. Norris, James B. Norris, Ales Roberts, Jr., Paul L. Rominger, Grace H. Sebastian, Swain E. Shelton, Douglas T.' Sink, William h. Smitherman, Roby H. Swift, Kary L. Tilly, ArUe R Watson, Kathleen Wellborn, Odell Whittington, Tho mas G. Whittington, Thomas Jun ior Worley, Paul Wyatt, L. D. Graham, Walter Hampton, Edward A. Rush, Edward E. Scott, Charles M. Ward, Jerry Younce, Joseph N. Crumpler, Louis S. Ford, James W. Keller, Fred Teague, Jr.. Alvin R. Hooks, Lester E. Parsons, Vance L. Sales. Speeding. The following defend ants were fined the amounts in dicated in addition to the court costs: James C. Payne," $25; Ro bert D. Brown, $29; John S. Dal ton, Jr., (29; Donald R. Dot son, $29; Horace L. Gates, $10; Edward C. Harner, Jr., $29; Ray E. Jayne, (Continued on page seven) Seven Inches Of Snow Falls Seven inches of wow (ell in the Boone area Monday evening, and city and highway workers were kept busy clearing away the streets and roadways. Traffic was not seriously hampered. The big snowfall was not accom panied by wind and the tempera ture was around freezing. Tuesday afternooa a warming trend deve loped and much of the snow was melted. DEMOCRAT WINS DDUCC A If/ A Dn
Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Jan. 26, 1956, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75