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For 68 Years The Democrat haa icrved Booce and Wa tauga County. With ita intenae coverage faa the local shopping area, it'i the beat adver tising medium available. An Independent Weekly Newspaper ? Established in the Year Eighteen Eighty-Eight VOLUME LXDL? NO. 14. BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTS', NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, IBM. WKA , BP _ H - TWO SECTIONS? 18 P Homecoming Plans Made ALBERT M. MILLER G. 0. P. Runner In Ninth Fays Visit To Boone Albert M. Miller, of Salisbury, Republican candidate for Congress in the ninth district attended an organization meeting in Boone last Thursday, preliminary to launch ing his campaign. Mr. Miller, a prominent farmer and business man lof Rowan, was accompanied to Boone by' Mr. Monroe Adams, Statesville atorney, his district campaign manager. Mr. Miller went to Ashe county after leaving Boone. He and Mr. Adams were meeting the Republi can leaders in the different coun ties of the district and mapping campaign plans. Parties Open Headquarters Perhaps less than the usual, in terest is developing in the politi cal campaigns in Watauga, or at least, there is less public activity than is usual at this time of year. However, both political parties have opened campaign headquar ters. The Republicans have open ed their former office over the Parkway Company, while the Democrats are headquartering in the Parsons store building on Howard Street. With registration books to open next week, it is likely that the campaigns will begin to warm soon in this locality. Thos. McGuire Rites Today Thomas Adrian McGuire, 76 years of age, died at his home at Todd on Sunday, September 30. Funeral services were held at II a. m. Tuesday, October 2, at the Blackburn Chapel Methodist Church, conducted by the Rev. Roy Lockridge and the Rev. Ed Black burn. Burial was In the Howell cemetery. He ii survived by a son, H. R. McGuire of Todd; two brothers, George and John McGuire, and a sister, Mrs. Julia Miller, all of West Jefferson. Young Demos To Meet Thursday A reorganization meeting for the Young Democratic Club of Watauga county will b? held this (Thursday) evening at 7:90 at the courthouse. ? Mr. Henry Wilson, State YDC president or some other State leader in the .organization will speak 2. I A full attendance of Democrats is asked. ? Wheat Growers ?et Funds The closing date for aigaing wheat acreage agreements foq 1997 is October & Funds are now available for all farmers in this county who wish' io place their 1907 wheat alloted acreage in the reserve 'r. , V. S. Steel plans to increase tin plate price Nov. 1 . The annual Homecoming cele bration will be held at Appala chian State Teacheri College on Friday and Saturday, October 12 and 13, according to joint an nouncement by the college tnd the alumni aaiociation. It will be a day devoted princip ally tp entertainment of "old grads" and their friends, but everyone connected with the col lege will participate. The celebration will begin with an "on-your-own" dinner at the Mountaineer Room at the college Bookitore on Friday evening, October 12. This is not a formal dinner, but anyone returning to the college or vlaiting at the col lege will be able to secure dinner at this new college resUurant from six to eight on Friday, the 12th. It is expected that some classes, groups ,of friends, and others will take advantage of this plan. Also on Friday night, at 8:15, the Playcrafters will give their usual presentation of a dramatic production. Everyone is invited The plays will be given* in the col lege auditorium. Saturday, October 13, will be the big day? Homecoming. Alum ni will register at the administra tion building any time between nine and twelve o'clock in the morning. Open house will be held in the Health and Physical Educa tion Building and in the library. ^t 10:00 Saturday the "Old Timers" will hold their annual meeting in the college auditorium. The Homecoming parade will take place at 11:00, winding its way through the town, through the campiis, and eliding Adjacent to the football stadium. Judges for the parade have been chosen from the townspeople by the Boone Chamber of Commerce. It ia anticipated that almost every campus organisation will enter either a float ia ihe parade or a campus exhibit in these two com petitive events. The alumni luncheon will be held at the elementary school cafe teria at 12 o'clock noon on Satur day, the 13th. Presiding will be Harry Hallyburton, president, of the- alumni, association. The an nual business meeting will follow the luncheon. Pre-game show on college field, with sonte eight or ten visiting high school bands, will be under the joint direction of Wililam G. Spencer, director of the college band, and Mr. Hallyburtcui. Kick-off' for the footblll game between Appalachian and Cata wba college will be at 2:49. At half-time during the game the Homecoming Queen will be crowned by a representative of the Men's "A" Club. Chamber of Commerce representatives will present the trophy for the winning float in the parade, and the win ning trophy for the outstanding campus exhibit. A brief formation of the visiting bands will also be held, and tribute paid to them. Following the football game, Miss Barbara Stephenson, dean of women, will be hostess at the re ception for the alumni. At 8:30 the Homecoming dance, sponsored jointly by the junior class of the college and the alumni association, will be held in the Health and Physical Education 'Building. This year, for the first time, it will be possible for alumni' to buy reserved seats' for the football game. Tickets for the reserved section, however, must be pur chased not later than October 6. Coach Francis Hoover, Athletic Department of the College, is in charge of sale of tickets. He an nounces that alumni tickets may be purchased for 92.00 for each adult, and 7S cents for each child. ?V t First Appalachian Scholarships Given I ? ? ? The three young Udiei are the recipient! of the first scholarships ever awarded, as such, by Appalachian State Teachers College. The schol arships were made possible by a Living Endow ment Fund established by the May and August 1096 graduating classes at the college. Left to right, the winners of these awards are: Mary Deane Bingham, daughter of Mrs. D. B. Bingham of Boone, a graduate of Appalachian high school; Joan Car?l Yates, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn C. Yates of Salisbury,' a graduate of Boyden high school in Salisbury; and Opal Janet Hartaell, daughter of Mrs. Roy B. Hartaell of Route 2, Concord, a graduate of Odell high school in Photb by Palmer's studio Cabarrus county. All three are freshmen at Appalachian tht< year. Miss Bingham and Mils Yates are pre paring a* primary teachers, and. Mils Hartseil as a grammar grade teacher. All have very out standing records for scholarship, leadership, par ticipation in school and extra-school activities in their communities. In high school Hiss Bingham was a member of (he Girls' Glee C|ub, Spanish Club, on the staff of the newspaper and the yearbook, member of the Bible Club, the Social Dance Club, a cheer leader, worked in the student store, and was a member of the dramatics club. , Phillips Is Given 15 Years ? ' ^ ' ? ' ? ? ??? .. '* . \ ? ? . .. ? In Slaying Of Mrs. Parsons Three Are Sentenced In Assault Case, Two Fined Perry Greer, 36-year-old Cald well County man, charged with ftpe in the April term ' of Wa tauga court, N which resulted in mistrial, was found guilty of as sault With intent to rape and Fri day was sentenced to 10-18 years in state prison by J^idge Will Pless, Jr., presiding in Watauga Superior Court. Four other men, also pleaded guilty to the same charge and were sentenced and fined as fol lows: Robert Lee Day, Caldwell County, three to four years in prison; Lester Bradshaw, 16 to 24 months on roads; Ben Andrews, fined $900; Clark Rominger, fined $100. The last three are from Wa tauga. Evidence submitted in the case Thursday was that the five men met in Watauga County on the night of Nov. 1, 1853, went to Le noir to the house of a 16-year-old girl, forced her into their car, brought her to Watauga County between Boone and Blowing Rock and two of the.men held her while Greer assaulted the girl. Then they took her back home. Greer, originally charged witli rape, yesterday pleaded guilty to assault with attempt to rape which plea was accepted by Solicitor James Farthing. Spider Bile Is Source of Illness Mr. Ford Henson of Vilas was discharged from Watauga Hospital Monday, where he had been ill since Saturday as a result of a spider bite. ? The insect was identified aa a black widow spider. < ' l 350 Calves Nominated For A nnua I Boone Sale i / More than 3SO calve* ai# nomi nated for the 6th annual Boone Feeder Calf Sale for October 5. All calvea have been field inspect ed. and will be officially weighed and graced on Thursday. October S; no calves will be gradfcd on sale day October S. In IMS the Boone calves grad ed higher than the calves In any other N. C. Feeder Calf Sale that year, as M% of the Boone calve* graded in tM top three grades. In 1M3 only 74% of the Boone cahrp were la these grades. Also ' ; . ? , - I in 1993 the lowest price and the lowest number ?u reached (or the Boone ule. when 102 calves sold for $19.97 per hundred. The best price was realized in the 1M1 sate when calves brought almost *17.00 per hundred. Inci dents Ip 1991 heifers brought about 11.50 more ter hundred than steers. The calves this year were almost all airwd by register ad Hereford bulls and will ^un about twothirda steers and one-third heifers, j ? 1 David Shearer Succumbs To Long Illness David Robert Shearer, Johnson City, Tenn. business and civic leader, a former resident of Boone, who designed and supervised the construction of Boone's first hy droelectric power system more than forty years ago, die<f last Wednesday after an illness of several months. Funeral services were held at Morris Chapel, Johnson City, Fri day at 3 o'clock and burial was in a cemetery there. Born in Collettsville, N. C? Shearer had bee* a resident of Johnson City since March of 1821. Since 1948, he had been a consult ing engineer , in heating, lighting, and industrial work. Shearer served as chairman of the Johnson Ci,ty Planning Com mission from 1046 until the be ginning, of his illness several months ago. He joined the com mission in 1M1. He was married in 1910 to the former Tiny Curtis of Butler who survives him. Shearer was a graduate of the Lenoir, N. C. High School, the University of North Carolina Rensselaer Polytechnic institute, the University of Tennessee, and various other specialized schools. He held life memberships in sev eral scientific organizations. ' Shearer came to Johnson City as appraisal engineer with the former Tennessee Eastern Elec trical Co. which later became the East Tennessee Light It Power Co. He resigned in IMS to go into private business. Active in corresponding fields of his profession, Shearer was in structor in chemistry and micro scopy at the University of Ten nessee. He made several inven tions and systems of control rel ative to automatic power plants aad heating, air conditioning and dehydrating. He was the author of ? text book. "Electricity In Coal Mining Shearer was a fanner t*esident of the Johnson City Rotary Club and district governor of Rotary International In 1HM0; has serv ed as president of the Chamber (continued on page three) eruce rnuups, ju, L.enoir lum ber yard worker, was sentenced to 15 to 20 years In State Prison Wednesday in Watauga Superior Court t>x Judge J. Will Pless Jr. after he plead guilty to second de gree murder in the June 25 slay ing of Mrs. Harrison Parsons at her home at Deep Gap. Phillips who surrendered to po lice at Lenoir June 28 *after learn ing in West Virginia that Mrs. Parsons was dead, did not take the stand. rarsons testified that he was Awakened by hit wife on the morn ins June 23 and she asked that, he make Phillips leave the premis es. He said he (Phillips) called from the road asking for cigar ettes. He said he told Phillips to come to the house and behave and he would give him a pack. Parsons said he told his wife that he was going to Phillips to give him cigarets and she said she was going to follow. U<i said when he got about 30 yards from the house and started to hand the cigarettes to Phillips, Phillips "Jumped up on his heels" and fired a 16-gauge shotgun at him. He said he dodged the shot and his wife, who was immediately be hind him, cried "Oh, Lord," and difd instantly. Phillips then fled. Other Judgments Darrell Edward Lyons, speed ing, pay costs; Junior Ward, speeding, 910.00 and cost; William Franklin Reins, speeding, $79.00 and cost; Dell Triplett, speeding, 929.00 and cost; Clara Dean Hol lar, no operators license, 929.00 and cost; Woodrow Pinkney Bar ter, speeding, 929.00 and cost; Ray Edward Osborne, speeding, cost; Arthur Cherry, driving drunk, 9100.00 and cost; Grfyson Ward, speeding, 'cost; Johnny ! Lewis Tester, speeding, $90.00 and cost; Thomas Basil Smith, speed ing, $10.00, cost; Calvin Thomas Rich, speeding, cost; Bobby Hampt Greene, $29.00 and cost; Bobby Eugene Triplett, speeding,/ cost; Roby Winebarger. driving drunk, $100.00 and cost; Clarkston Armon Hollified. driving drunk, $100.00, cost; John Wilson Winkler, rack less driving' and speeding, $100.00, cost; Ralph Garland Ragan, speed ing, fine and cost; Ralph McGhec Williams, speeding, cost; James Reed, speeding. Bobby' Allen Ad ams, speeding, $29.00 snd cost. Court was adjourned Friday by Judge 3. Will Pless, Jr. Close* Friday The Health Department officii in Boone will be closed all day Friday, October 9th. Business raises 1M6 building pi SM to $33 3 billion. Solicitors Are Briefed By Leaders Friday Worken in the first United Fund campaign in Watauga vounty history will be ready to make the appeal for the Fund when the campaign begins on Monday, Octo ber 8. The workers received brief ings in a meeting Friday night and will hold further discussions in zone meetings this week. At the Friday meeting an out line of the organization' of the United Fund was given by the President, R. E. Agle. Campaign information was given out by Hugh Hagaman, chairman' of the work ers committee, while R. D. Hod ges, Jr. explained the form of the pledge card. Several points about the United Fund budget were clarified by Fund officers in the meeting, and the importance of a complete un derstanding of th'ese items was stressed. Among these was the al lowance for the expenses of the campaign. me ium ol se.iH ll was entered in the budget for expenses of the campaign and all operating ex penses, such as postage, for the entire year. Officials of the Fund explained that this amount was allowed on. the advice of other United Fund groups, which recom mended the amount, which equals 3% of the actual budget. The Fund officers explained that the full amount will probably not be ex pended, but a balance from it car ried over to next year. So far only about a sixth of the amount has been spent for supplies and print ing. If bookkeeping, of monthly pledge payments becomes burden some, it may be necessary to em ploy clerical help. No funds are being spent for the time or per sonal expenses of Fund officials. The $638.11 allowed is a "con tingency fund" on the budget was also discussed by Fund officials. Like the campaign allowance, it amount to 5% of the actual bud get and was based on the exper ience of established United Funds elsewhere. The amount is design ed aa a reserve for unexpected emergencies. As one Fund, worker put it, "The contingency fund is there to prevent the United Fund from being flat broke should some special need arise after our agen cies have received the amounta they have asked for to the pre sent. Our member agencies kept theft- requests at very reasonable amount. Should tome emergency arise, this contingency fund will prevent a second drive to meet the unexpected need." Officers pointed out that the designated amount will not necessarily be spent, and that any balance from the contingency fund will be car ried over as will the balance from the campaign allowance. Another matter discussed waa the difference in the amount al lowed for the Boy Scouts and the Girl Scouta. The difference la ac counted for, a member of the bud get committee said, chiefly by the fact that these were the amounts requested by each organization. The Boy Scouts need more funds because they are provided with a field executive and other services by the Old Hickory Council to which they belong. Their budget request was in line with the bud gets for which separate campaigns have been run In the past. Membership la die Old Hickory Council allows local Scouts to at tend summer camp at Raven's Knob for a minimum sum and makes them eligible to attend such scouting events as the Inter national Jamboree and the Phil mont p|oneering expeditions. The Girl Scouts, on the other hand, have no council affiliation and no outaide help. Girl Scout leaden say that their modest ap propriation meets their present needs. The United Fund campaign will get underway with a kickoff meet ing on the evening of October S. The Aira Farce has disclosed the development of a research rocket capahte of speeds up to 000 miles an hour. HIGH STEPPING MISS. Miss Linda Wey is currently the talk of the' high school crowd. Beiitf tlte planner of all the drills the majorettes execute, Linda has presented a number of Spectacles for the home town football goers. Under the direction of her capable leadership the girls ^ave put their best foot forward and won applause from all viewers. She Is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Herbert Wey of Boone. Cottrell Heads Local Unit Polio Foundation Howard J. Cottrell of Boone i hat been appointed chairman of the Watauga County Chapter of I the National Foundation for In- i fantile Paralysis it, was announc- I ed today by Robert L. Jones, State Representative of the National Foundation. Mr. Cottrell has been associated for several years with Jthe WaUniga Polio Chapter and ita annual March of Dimes. He succeeds R. D. Hodges, Jr. who has chaired tbe chapter since 1953 - "Citizens of Watauga County who are aware of the extreme Importance of the continuing fight against polio through patient care, education, and the Salk vac cine will be glad to know that a man of Mr. Cottrell's stature in health and civic affairs has accept ed this important community re sponsibility," Mr. Jones said. Mr. Cottrell is manager of the College Book Store in Boone. He ii a itember of the City Council, chief of the Fire Department, dis trict chairman of camping and activities programs of the Boy Scouts of America, and chairman of the board of deacons of the First Presbyterian Church in Bdkne. In accepting the chapter chair manship, Mr. Cottrell pointed out that much remains to be done be fore the fight against polio is finished. "The Salk vaccine came too late for many who have been stricken by the dread crippler " Mr. Cot trell Hid. "Throughout the nation there are 80,000 polio patients still being helped to reovery by March of Dimes funda, and some of these are in Watauga County," he con tin ue<L " 'Let'* Finish the Fight' will be1 the slogan of the Watauga County March of Dimes when it is held next January," Mr. Cottrell HOWARD J. COTTRELL stated. He emphasized that the March of Dimes will be held as usual in January at the v same time the drive is being conducted through out the nation, and that it will not tie included in the Watauga United Fund drive which is to be con ducted in October. "We wish fcvery success for the united drive for those agencies which can desirably and willingly participate," he said, "but years of experience in the polio fight which requires national planning in research, education and piti (Continued on page three) Letter Writing Week Cited By Postmaster ? National Letter Writing Week will again be celebrated in Boone during the week October 7 to 13, Acting Poatmaster Lyle Cook an nounced today. Commenting on the aignificance of National Letter Writing Week, Mr. Cook pointed out that each year aince 1038 this event haa been obaerved aa a reminder of the real meaning of a personal letter. Emphaateing the traditional aancUty of the letter mail, Mr. Cook reminded Boone retidenta that one of the basic American Freedom* la the uncenaored trana mlaaion of their Writ claaa mail. It la the nxwt valuable pna?cntan of the citisens of ? free country. "We all know the human im portance of letter writing," Mr. Cook stated, "the way in which it hold* scattered families together, of giving comfort and love and news to all the people of the land. But its value is immeasurably greater than that. Its implications are almoet infinite. "We in America have the privi lege of uneeisored and unliminted means of communication. With this in mind, I urge all cittan of Boone to join me in this celebration Let's Letter Writing W*ek for ] greatest eva#.".-- : ? ?wv*k
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