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BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1M7
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Development
Program Meeting
Hears Collins
W. B Coll 1111, District Farm
Agent, and formerly county (arm
agent in Watauga, attended a Rural
Development Program meeting
Thunday night in the courthouie,
when wveral committed of the
program gave reports on what they
i had done tince their appointment!
and made recommendationi for
the program.
Alio attending wai Charlie Pugh,
of the State Exteniion Service, who
ia Uaaon officer between the county
government and the State Exteniion
Service, who are cooperating
with the federal government in
the program.
Considerable interest wai shown
by discuisiom in the reports of
Dave Hast, head of the Health,
Education and Welfare committee;
Glenn Andrews, head of the Buiiness
and Industry committee;
the Rev. E. H. Lowman, who heads
the committee on Religion; and
the report of Howard Williams of
the Crops committee.
Perry Watson
Named Official
Of Stale Group
J. PERRY WATSON
J. Perry Watson, director of
bands at the Appalachian public
schools, wai elected at the la it
meeting of the North Carolina
Bandmasters Association to serve
for two years on the first board
of directors.
This honor was also extended
to the following bandmasters: Robert
Barns, North Carolina State
College; Bernard Hirsh, Marion
High Schol; Harry Shipman, Kinston
High School; Harold Grant,
Rockingham High School; and
Francis Grabill, Lenoir Junior High
School.
More committee* will be beard
from on January 31 when another
meeting baa been aet.
The committees told of their
plana in their respective fielda and
aaked for help in getting the development
program started.
The program ia one of the measures
approved by the federal Agriculture
Department to commplement
the efforts of regular extension
workers in behalf of the
rural people. It seeks to extend
agricultural research information
and new techniques aimed at more
profitable uses of the individual
farm's resources. At the same
time, efforts are made to shape
agriculture in the county to more
fully benefit, and be benefited by,
other segments of the economy.
Mr. Mast explained that a survey
will be made in the county
relating to school attendance and
its bearing on the economy of the
county. This survey will be used
by school officials to determine if
(here ia a need for more vocational
training or any other schooling
phases not now being offered.
In this connection, Dr. Michal,
m member of the Health, Education
and Welfare committee, said
there was need for home nursing
classes, so that ill persons in the
homes might be adequately cared
for.
Mr. Andrews presented some
figures concerning industry in
North Carolina, and said his committee
would do all it could to
get business Interested in settling
here. He pointed out that a labor
survey several years ago showed
there were 1,400 persona available
to work in any industry which
might want to come to Watauga.
Mr Lowman stressed the need
for religious emphasis in the life
of the community. He explained
that already efforts have been in
the direction of having a religious
emphasis week just preceding Easter
in Watauga County.
In stressing the importance of
religion in rural development, he
said that "religion could be a
stabilizing tool for all other problems."
Several plans were discussed
for fitting religion into
the development program.
Mr. Williams pointed out that
due to the fact that about 73% of
the rural people in the county live
on small farms that wise management
is needed to make a living.
His committee thought that maybe
new crops and better marketing
might help in the program. Increaaed
yield on land used for
present crop* should be looked to,
and farmer* will be urged to raise
more food for their home use.
The meeting was presided over
by Alfred Adam*, and arrangements
were made by L. E Tuekwiller,
Watauga County Agent.
Blowing Rock C of C
Elects New Officers
By w. K. KEYS
The result! of the mail ballot
election of directors (or the BIowing
Rock Chamber of Commerce
have just been announced and the
initial meeting of the Board of
Directors was held last Tuesday
evening. On the two special questions
submitted to the membership
the results were as follows:
Question 1—Shall we increase
the number af directors to include
for associate directors from summer
resident* only? For S3,
Against 4.
Question 3—Shall we increase
the membership dues for 1987 for
Business Members, only, to $25
from $10? For 43. Against •. ,
The directors elected were R.
B Hardin, If. P. Holshouser, Sr.,
Walter K. Keys, Rathmell E.
Wilson, Larry Harris, Spencer
Bobbins, and W C. Lentz. Robbins
and Lentz are new members
of the Board of Directors.
Associate directors who were
chosen are Elie Mattar, G. Sidney
Prickard, H. It Reed, and John
Kenneth Smith.
Officers elected at the opening
meeting of the Board of Director*
are as follows: Rathmell E Wilson,
president; Spencer Robbins,
\ ice president; H. P. Holshouser,
Sr., treasurer; and Mrs. Helen B
Clear, executive secretary
The annual report for 19M pre
tented by out-going president,
Larry Harrij, included these itema:
For publicity and advertiaing, 13,M4;
for aalaries, >1,808; total disbursements,
>6,944; balance aa of
Dec. 31, IMS, $1,650 ,
During the put year an additional
printing of the colored brochure
of 23,000 copies waa ordered
and paid for. There are now on
hand enough of these brochures to
meet the demands of the coming
Plans are being made for the
erection of a number of directional
road signs in all the areas
around Blowing Rock.
Cites Speedy
Ad Results
Mr. W. C. Greer recently advertised
an apartment for rent The
apartment was rented, actually
three prospective renters had called
on Mr. Greer before he bad received
his own copy of the Democrat.
More and more people are turning
to Democrat want ads to buy,
sell, rent and exchange, they afe
productive and economical
Some 3,000 acres of rolling seashore
land in the Virgia lalands
has been presented to the Government
as a national pari
NORTH CAROLINA'S POLIO MOTHER OF THE YEAR.—Mrs. Faye Perkins of Concord «tlr» up a batch
of cookie*, with the help of her daughter, Daphne, and son, Neal Jr. Mrt. Perkins, wife of a long-line driver
for the Johnson Trucking Line of Charlotte, wai the official entry of the Cabarrus' County Chapter of
the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis in the state-wide contest. Only a few years ago, the chestnut-haired,
hazel-eyed mother was completely helpless with paralytic polio. Today she carries on all
the normal functions of a mother of growing children. Eligibility for the contest included youth,
attractiveness, intelligence, household and family responsibility and the candidates' receipt of help from
her local March of Dimes chapter.
Dimes Dance, Coffee Day Slated
The annual March of Dimes
Dance and "Coffee Day" are two
events which are expected to help
raise money for the March of
Dimes this week, Mrs. Hadley Wilson
and Mrs. W. W. Littleton, cochairman
of the 1997 funds campaign
announced this week.
The dance, which will feature
the Appatones, popular college
band, will be held Saturday night
in the Elementary School gymnasium
from • until 12 o'clock. The
entire admission, which will be
$2.00, will be placed in the fund,
because the band if donating their
time.
"Coffee Day" will lee local restaurants
donating receipts from
coffee sales to the fund. Several
restaurant owners have already
stated they will do this, and these
include Kirk's Restaurant, Shady
Oak and Creed's Cafe This is part
of a state-wide program which has
proven successful in past years.
The college "disc jockey' re
quest program last week raised
S321.72 {or the fight against polio,
according to figures released by
the campaign chairmen.
Another program of this type,
by high school students, will be
staged beginning Friday during
school hours and continuing
through Shelia Gllley's "TeenTime"
program on Radio Station
WATA at 9 p. m. Saturday. A
room competition will be held in
this connection, with the winners
being feted to a dance.
United Fund Official Tells
Of Organization Activities
WILSON HODGES, franklin Hodges
ind Cecil Presnell are seen
holding S3 pound* of drum fish
which ii part of their catch in one
day, while (pending the holiday*
near Winter Beach, Fla.
Hardie Shull
Dies At Age 89
William Hardie Shull, 80, retired
farmer of Sugar Grave, paaaed
away at hia home on Friday, December
21.
Funeral Krvicet were conducted
at 2 p. m. Monday, December
24, at the Henson't Chapel Methodist
Church by the Rev. R. C.
Eggecs and the Rev. Ted White.
Burial was in the Shull cemetery j
He is survived by three daugh-1
ten. Miss Cornelia Shull of Sugar
Grove, Mrs. 0. J. Harmon of Sher- j
wood, and Mrs. W. L. Farthing of
Chuckey. Tenn ; a son, J. H. Shull
of Detroit, Mich.; a brother, P. R.
Shull of Sugar Grove; three sis- 1
ters. Mrs. Alexander Thomaa of
Boone, MrwJ. B. Southerland an<l
Mrs. C. C. Southerland, both of
Creston; twelve grandchildren,
and 13 great-grandchildren.
Joineg Jumps
From Jet Flame
Patuxent, Md., Jan. ft—Lt. H. C.
Joins, • navy pilot from Sparta,
N. C.i parachuted to safetys^n
Chesapeake Bay yesterday when
his Demon Jet fighter caught fire
during an experimental flight
The pilot was rescued unharmed
by a helicopter. The plane craahed
into the bay.
James P. Marsh, treasurer of the
Watauga County United Fund, ha*
issued a request that pledge paymenu
due to the Fund be mailed
in to the following address:
Watauga County United Fund
c-o Northwestern Bank
Drawer 632
Boone, N. C.
Pledges are being kept up to
date in a very satisfactory way,
Mr. Marsh said, but continued
prompt payment will save the fund
the extra expense of postage and
clerical help in getting out reminders.
The fund hopes to keep
such expenses at a minimum.
Disbursements have already
been made for many worthwhile
items according to allotments in
the fund budget, which was raised
in October in the first campaign
of Its kind In the history of the
county. These calls, previously
handled by separate campaigns or
door-to-door appeals, are now organized
under one direction.
Mr. Marsh cited a typical example
in the case of a twelve-yearold
girl recently struck down by
a brain tumor. Local doctors recommended
treatment at Duke hospital
a* absolutely essential to save
the child's life. Fund* to help
the family, which had only very
limited resources financially, were
available from the United Fund at
once, without appeal to individuals.
Another family of seven was
found to be without food or any
covering except cotton blankets.
Temporary emergency provision
was made for them by the United
Fund. The fund does not undertake
to support such families permanently.
"People seem to appreciate our
disaster and dread diseases provision,"
Mr. Marsh said. "We have
had no unreasonable or unjustified
appeals. In fact one family
which had lost everything in a
fire refused help from the fund,
saying that they had money to
take care of themselves and knew
that others needed the United
Fund allotment more than they
did."
Other disbursements recently
made include the entire budget of
the Empty Stocking Fund, raised
in the United Fund campaign,
which provided Christmas for 320
children in the county, and the
expenses of the 4-H Club for its
annual trip to Chicago. The Chicago
trip has brought great recognition
to the county, which has
won more first place prizes than
any other group entering the national
sheep-shearing contest. An
allotment has also been disbursed
from the budget for the Appalachian
High School Band.
The Red Cross request for funds
for Hungarian relief, one of the
most sympathetic causes ever to
sppeal to the American people, has
been taken care of by the United
Fund without an extra campaign.
"The United Fund" tf living up
to its promises," Mr. Marsh aaid.
"We are meeting the needs of
the county and saving an enormous
amount of time in fund-raising
work." i
Empty Stocking Fund
Likes United Program
n
The Empty Stocking Fond of
WiUuga County, which has long
been ■ project of the Worthwhile
Woman'i Club of Boone, ha« completed
Iti first yejr"« work under
the organization of the new Watauga
County United Fund.
Toyi and candy were furnished
to 330 children In the county
whose Christmas would have been
barren without the activities of the
Empty Stock lag Fund.'
Mrs. Mae Miller, one of the
worker* on the project since it*
beginning locally. Mid in an interview,
"Our work wa* made much
easier thia yaar whan our needs
were allowed for in the budget of
the United Fund In the past we
have had to carry on a separate
solicitation campaign, which la no
longer necessary. The money it
raised (or us in the United Fund
campaign " Vl*'
Mrs. Miller also said that all pur
chases made for the Empty Stocking
fund were made within Wa
Total Sales
Are Given At
2,864,302 Lbs.
The Boone Burley tobacco market,
which doted its 1986-87 aealon
laat Wednesday, January 0,
sold 2,804,302 poundi of burley for
the season, and paid out >1,783,717.00
to growers for an average
price per hundred pounds of
$61.23, according to final official
figures of the U. S. Department
of Agriculture, Tobacco Division.
Although a combination of adverse
weather conditions and a
series of government cuts in acreage
allotments over the past few
years resulted in the smallest burley
crop in many seasons—17,640.000
pounds in North Carolina
—the Boone market registered a
gain of some 28,000 pounds over
the 1988-86 total
"This is a small increase," said
Mrs. Harriet L. Sikes of the R. C.
Coleman firm, "but when you consider
that volume was down on
many other markets in North Carolina
and Tennessee, we feel that
we had a successful season here in
Boone. Prices were the highest on
record, and growers were well
pleased."
Neither a decrease nor an increase
in allotments it In sight for
1987. It is reported that burley
farmers, perhaps for the first time,
appear generally satisfied with the
situation.
Joseph Higdoa of the Commodity
Credit Corporation, supervisor
for the North Carolina burley markets,
predicts a 1987-88 marketing
season as good as the one Just ended,
though better growing conditions
in the next season may produce
a heavier tobaceo and consequent
heavier production per
acre.
J. LEE QUALL8, pioneer Boone
Merchant, whose funeral waa held
Saturday, January S. Mr. Qualla,
age 80, died at hit home January
3, following a paralytic itroke.
Leslie Lyons
Rites Are Held
Leslie McDonald Lyona, 90, of
Boone, Route I, died on Wednesday,
January 0, following a abort
illness.
A retired brick mason, Mr.
Lyons was owner and operator of
the Lyons Motel on Highway 431
near Boone
"Funeral services were conducted
at 2 p. m. Friday, January 11, at
the Presbyterian Church of Boone
by the Rev. J. K. Parker, Jr., assisted
by the Bev. E. 7. Troutman
and the Rev. L. H. Hollingaworth.
Burial was In Mountlawn Memorial
Park.
He la survived by his widow,
Mrs. Falie L. Lyona; two daughters,
Mrs. Louise L. Hodges and
Mrs. Iva Lee Wilson, both of
Boone; three brothers, Hardy
Lyons of.Hlckory, Clarence Lyona
and Earl Lyona, both of Boom;
two slaters, Mrs. Jake Moretx and
Mrs Earl Norrls, both of Boone;
and two grandchildren.
Traffic Deaths
TUIetgt—n* Mater Vehicles
Department's — — ly ef traffic
deaths threugh 1* a. at. ternary
14: T&M
Killed this year M
VISUAL MUSIC CONCERT.—The Appalachian High School maiorettea
are to preaent a selection of baton routines at the Visual Music Concert
on February 9. at t:00 p. m. in the Elementary School Auditorium.
An interesting note about the performance is that it will be entirely
under "black-light." The twirlers are: Sue Fletcher, Mary Mast, Mary
Lawrence, Head Majorette Linda Wey, Pat Dowllng, Shelia GUley,
Pat Wilcox. The concert is tree and is open to the public.
Northwestern
Bank Re-elects
Dr. Dougherty
North Wilkeaboro, Jan. 10. —
Stockholders of the Northwestern
Bank, which has home ofifce here
and branchei in 17 other Northweitern
North Carolina cities and
towni, in annual meeting here were
told this week that the bank's business
increased very materially in
19M.
The past year was described by
Edwin Duncan, executive vice president,
as very successful In his report
to the stockholder*.
All directors were re-elected in
the stockholders meeting over
which J. K. Doughton presided. In
the directors' meeting which follower
officers were re-elected as
follows: Dr. B. B. Dougherty of
Boone, president; Edwin Duncan
of Sparta, executive vice president;
W. B. Greene of Kingsport, Tenn.,
and Wade H. Shuford of Hickory,
vice presidents; J. K. Doughton
of Sparta, trust officer; D. V. Deal
of North Wilkesboro. secretary;
E. P. Bell of Wilkesboro, auditor;
C. C. Rogers Jr., of North Wilkesboro,
manager of the credit department.
Directors in their meeting esstabllshed
a Time Payment Department
of the bank and elected Edwin
Duncan Jr., as manager of the
new department. Mr. Duncai^ a
graduate of the University of
North Carolina, ha* (or the past
10 year* been affiliated with Southern
Discount Corporation m
Wytheville, Marion, Martiniville
and Danville, Va. In his new position
he will have headquarter* at
the bank's home office here and
will reside here.
Directors, all of whom were reelected,
are: W. B. Austin of Jefferson,
Clyde M. Bailey of Burnsville,
W. C. Berry of Bakersville.
J. D. Brinkley of Valdese, H. C.
Buchan Jr., E. F. Gardner and
J. H. Pearson of North Wllkesboro,
J. K. Dough ton of Sparta,
C. G. Fox, Wade H. Shuford and
C. L. Whisnant of Hickory, G. M.
Kirkpatrick of Taylorsville, John
C. McBee and Dr. C. A. Peterson
of Spruce Pine, W. W. Mast of
Valle Crucis, M. E. Beeves of
Laurel Spring*. Gordon H. Winkler
of Boone and Herbert M.
Young of Newton.
The bank'* increased busines*
in 1900 wa* reflected in year-end
total* a* compared with December
31,1909. Resources increased from
*51,021.783 70 to *55,807,067.32;
deposit* from *45,359,216.44 to
549,457,025 25; total capital account
from *3,394,034.91 to *3,
708,733.30; and reserve for possible
loan losses from mojM.Sl
to *1,033,552 72
Parrish Speaks At
Poultry Gathering
Many poultry farmers from Watauga
county met in the Home
Agent's office on Friday, January
U, with C. F. Parriah, Extension
Poultry Specialist
County Agent L. E Tuckwiller
led a discussion of poultry r-eduction
and Mr. Parriah taltod on the
poultry outlook and answered
many questions. '' 1
Those present endorsed the fol-|
lowing poultry program for Watauga
county:
Produce 8,000 or mora broilers |
at om lime.
Be rare to grow broiler type
bird*.
Feed high energy—Jow fiber!
Provide suitable homte on good
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GuN
market and produce
3 Mi square
flock healthy
range on rentrie
Tbe feeding
for the