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Watauga ASC Opens 1957 Request Program The Wallufa ASC County Com mittee hu opened the 1967 Agri cultural program for requests tor assistance on practices which may be completed before January 1, 1907. Such practices are: Permanent pasture and meadow improvement. This practice re quires the use of two tons lime stone per acre if no lime has been used in five years, or no lime if field has been limed during the past five years. Also, the use of superphosphate or mixed fertiliser, at the rate established for this practice which is on file in the County Office. Liming farmland at the rate of two tons per acre if fields have not been limed during past five yean, or one too per acre if land hat been limed during the peat five year*. The uee of limestone en land which will be aeaded to a vegeta tive cover next spring at the same rate M liming farmland. Thii practice will be approved for Ume thia fall and fertiliser and Med in the spring. Any farmer who will be able to complete any of these practices should call at the ASC office at once and make his request The county committee will meet No4 vember IB to make approvals of accumulated requests. Mantle is the unanimous choice for league All-Star*. Alleghany Goes To Republicans Sparta./ Nov.' 13 — Alleghany County slipped Into the national Republican column last Tuesday for the first time in ita 97-year history. A canvass of ballot! showed that President Eisenhower carried Al leghany by the slim margin of 2t votes. He had lost it four years ago by 20 votes. This was the first time U)e GOP national ticket had been endorsed in Alleghany since organization of the county in 1839 Even in 1928, when North Caro lina gave its electoral votes to I Republican Herbert Hoover, Al leghany stuck with Democrat Al, Smith by a substantial margin. / The GOP victory this year in Alleghany was not the result of concerted local Republican effort. Local Republicans did not hold any campaigns or rallies. The GOP county chairman was in Virginia and voted absentee. But a one-man campaign wasj staged by Attorney Paul Swanson, Republican candidate for the State House of Representatives. He went from house to house, handing out Eisenhower buttons and speeches. However, the Eisenhower boom was not enough to boost Swanson M ! ~ College Entrance Test May Be Taken In Boone Kaieigh, N. C, Nov. 10—A list of examination centers far fresh men planning to enter North Car olina State College or the other two branches of the Consolidated University — the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and Women's College in Creensbor*— was announced here yesterdsy by Kenneth D. Raab, director oi ad missions and registration at State College. In releaaimg the list, Raab ex plained that under a ruling adopt ed by the Board of Trustees, fresh men entering N. C. State, Caro lina, and Woman's College after September of this year are requir ed to take a series of entrance examinations. Entering freshmen* Raab said, "must make satisfactory scores on these tests before their admission is cleared." He said the three in stitutions involved have agreed on into the House. He lost to Demo crat i. K. Dough ton, the'Demo cratic incumbent, who Is a candi date for speakership of the House next February. CLOSED FOR SEASON DUE TO WEATHER CONDITIONS ' ' t*. ' The management of the Cherry Hill Coffee Shop on the Blue Ridge Parkway apologizes for any inconvenience caused by closing earlier than advertised previoulsy in the Watauga Demo crat. We are grateful for your patronage, and we hope to see you again next April. Cherry Hill Coffee Shop data* and places for tbi examina tions ee e convenience to atudenU wertu to enroll at either school Test* will be gives at t:M a. m. on Saturday, December 18, at the Appalachian High Scboal, Boone. Parkway Closes Lofty Sections High altitude lectioni of the Blue Ridge Parkvay have beui cloaed for the winter, according to an announcement from ^ahevllle. They will be reopened April 15. Parkway Supt. Sam P. Wee mi said the X2-mile section from Bull Creek Gap to the Mount Mitchell turnoff, the Soco-Mile High section and the Wagon Road-Beech Gap section are closed. Mount Mitchell State Park will be open to visitors throughout the year. Routing information la available at the Asheville Cham ber of Commerce. Motorists may travel the full length of the Parkway by leaving it when southbound at Mile Poet 344 and taking U. S. 80 to join U. S. 70 to Asheyille, and when north bound by taking the reverse rout ing from 70 to 80 and on to the Parkway. « Roundup, . Mont — This small Eastern Montana community la making it hard for tourists to pass through. They are liable to "ar rest" for "operating a vehicle with out-of-state license plates." The police chief, siren wailing and red light flashing, occssionally stops a tourist car as it prepares to leave the city. The "sentence" for driv ing through Roundup with out-of state plates includes a free night's lodging, dinner with the Mayor, a free movie, free breakfast and a wash and lubrication Job for the car. Adlai Barely Winner Over Ike In Carolina I Raleigh, Nov. 11—Complete but unofficial return* from Iwt Tues day's election liiowed today that Adlai E. Stevenson captured North Carolina's 14 electoral vqtea by the «llm margin of 1.34 per cent of the total vote cut. The unofficial return from the state's 2,053 precincts gave Steven son SSI,220 votes to 578,731 for President Eisenhower. It was a margin of only 14.4M votes out of a total of 1.167,901. The returns will not become of ficial until Nov. 27 when the State Board of Elections meets here to certify the results of the election. Mr. Eisenhower made heavy in roads into the traditionally Demo cratic state and carried 43 of the 100 counties, mostly in the west ern mountains and the heavily-ld dustralized Piedmont It was the rsce-conscious farm ing areas of Eastern North Caro lina which saved the day for the Democrats and prevented North Carolina from shifting into the Re publican column for the first time since 1928. Mr. Eisenhower carried only two Eastern counties, Dare and Bruns wick, both coastal counties. And he carried Brunswick by only two votes, 3299 to 3297. His vote in Dare County, which Includes the resort areas of Manteo, Nags Head and Kill Devil Hills, as 1,028 to MO for Stevenson. Mr. Eisenhower carried til but two of the counties which include Negro vatu WW argely County by only «10 vote* out at a M*. Ha miaMd carrying Duitaai total of mora than 28,000 bat «ta rawo kad ■ 7,000-vote edge to Wake County (Ealeigh). SPECIAL PRICE! JANE PARKER CHERRY 4!Tt PIES each 39c No. 2—20-ox. 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