For 69 Years
Sixty-Ninth Year of Continuous Publication
BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MAY M, IM7
TWEETSIE COMES HOME.—The Tweetsie train was brought up
the mountain last week on trailers, and placed on tracks at its
new home between Boone and Blowing Rock, just off highway 321.
Grover C. Bobbins, Jr., and associates are preparing a two-mile
track for the train to travel on. They brought it from Hickory
where it had been getting an overhaul and paint Job, after its
purchase from Gene Autry by the present owners. Tweetsie has
been missing from Watauga county since the big flood in 1M0,
but is now at its permanent home and will be used by sightseers.
It took about eight hours to bring the engine, tender, and three
cars home.—Staff photo by Joe Minor.
Parkway
Plan Is
Opposed
Asheville, May 22—The execu
tive board of the Blue Ridge Park
way Ann today went on record
as opposing construction of addi
tional lodging and restaurant faci
lities on the Parkway.
The association membership
took no action, however.
The board's resolution, adopted
prior to the association's annual
meeting here today, specifically
mentioned lodging and restaurant
facilities. It made no mention of,
gas stations.
All three types of facilities are
proposed under the National Park {
Service's proposed expansion of;
concessions on the scenic drive.I
The expansion proposals have
been under fire for months from
private tourist interests who can
not erect buildings or advertise
within the parkway boundaries.
The board also called for better
identification of off-Parkway ac
commodations and eating places
on signs on the Parkway.
Parkway Supt. Sam P. Weems,
a member of the advisory board
of the association, was not pres
ent for the annual meeting.
The association elected R. B.
Hardin, mayor of Blowing Rock
as president; Charles H. Gullick
mxi of Gatlinburg, Tenn., vice
resident; John Kelly of Roanoke,
Va., treasurer, and Leo Derrick of
Boone, secretary.
Wool Pool To
Be Weighed
The Watauga County 1957 Wool
Pool will be weighed at the Farm
ers Burley Warehouse in Boone.
Monday, Jane 3. beginning at 7:00
a. m. Farmers living west of!
Boone should bring their wool In
the morning and those east of
Boone in the afternoon.
The pool has been sold to Nic
hols and Company for $61.07 cwt., |
clear tied wool in wool bags; one
cent less on untied wool. Other
grades of wool at lower prices.
We are promised wool bags for
exchange
Shearers To
Appear On TV
Messrs Johnny Vines and Den
nis Trivett, Watauga county hoys,
who won the State sheep «hearing
ttpionsWp recently, are sche
to appear Friday on televi
sion nation WCYB-TV. Bristol,
between the hoars of 12 noon and
1 o'clock
Assistant Cuualr Agent W. C.
Richardson will be present for the
telecast and will narrate while
nch of the boys shears one sheep
liar the benefit el the viewer*.
Council! Enters Mayor's
Race; To Create Contes
It became certain that there will
be two candidate* for Mayor be
fore the Democratic convention to
night (Wednesday) when John H.
Council told Um Democrat Tues
day that he i* definitely in the
running for the top spot ia Um
city govanweat.
Mr. Couaclll. who ia 27 yean
old, ia a son of the late E. Tracy
Council] and Mrt. Councill and
waa reared here. He graduated
from the University of North Car
olina ia 1951, and aerved for four
yean in the Navy during the Ko
rean war. He ia presently in the
real estate business and manager
of the Gulf Oil distributing plant
for Watauga and Ashe counties.
At the same time Lewi* Reese
announces that he ia running for
Alderman. A native of Beaver
Dam township, Mr. Reese has liv
ed in Boone for 17 yean. He is
presently employed at the Sanitary
Barber Shop.
Mayor Winkler announced to
succeed himself some weeks ago.
Incumbent members of the city
council: Howard Cottrell, W. R.
Richardson and Grady Tugman,
have also announced their candi
dacies.
With six candidates definitely
running for tha four places on the
ticket, considerable intereat is be
ing noted in the convention which
convenes at 8 o'clock with Chair
nun Homer Brown presiding. A
sizable number of Democrats is
expected to attend.
Claud Hampton, 18,
Drowned In Surf
Claud Hampton, II, mMnt
of Triplett, was drowned Mon
day afternoon while awlaualag,
with a companion, la a rough
surf at Myrtle*. Beach, S. C.
A life gaard waa able to pull
the companion, William Horton
of VUaa, from the water.
Reacaera formed a human
chala la the search far Hamp
ton's body, which was recovered
aboat 1:M p. m. some U aria
atea after the youth had dlaap
peared beneath the waves.
Life Kaarda were said to have
worked over Hampton's body
for some M minute* before a
phyiiclan pronounced him dead.
Vom| Mr. Hamptoa. William
Horton of VUas, Phil McGuire
and Bob Cook* of Boone were
enjoying a vacation at the beach
when the accident occarrrd.
Mr. Hampton, a aoa of Mr.
and Mrs. Jerry Hampton, was
educated at Appalachian High
School, and had been aaaiatlng
his father In the 1 amber busi
net*.
Funeral details hadn't been
arranged Tuesday evening.
Cleanup Period Set
1 V.
At Blowing Rock
Train Visitors
Arc Not Invited
The Tweeteie Railroad C*.
regreta to announce that the
public U net invited Into the
area of the building project un
til work U completed, dae to
haxardoui conditio a* which go
with construction.
Thr annual cleanup campaign
will start in Blowing Rock June
3, and continue through the week,
the Democrat U advised by Mri.
Nettie Greene, town clerk.
City trucki will be available on
call to pickup the rubbiah ai It is
gathered. and citizens may call
CY Mill, for this service.
Mayor R. B. Hardin and the
other town officials arc anxious
that the citizens of the town co
operate io this effort to clear away
the trash, and make the popular
resort town spick and span before
the summer visitors begin to ar
rive in great number*
Blackburn Is
Heard By Lions
BUI Blackburn of Boone, a
member of the Speakers Bureau
of the Governor's Safety Cvunefl,
t delivered a talk to the Boone
Lions Club on highway aafety
Tuesday night. May 21.
I The greatest single need In
North Carolina today, he said. I*
to cut down on highway traffic
accident*, adding that the job of
the speakers bureau la to sell the
public on the need for more aafety
legislation, and to bring about a
Change in driving attitudes and
faulty driving habit*
The "Thraa Cs" of the highway
safety program art Education.
Engineering,s-land Enforcement.
Blackburn Mid.
Statistics show that speed la the
number one killer, he said. liaUog
other cause* of accidents aa failure
to jrtottf right-of-way. driving un
der the influence of intoxicants,
aid illegal timing
THREE FORKS BAPTIST ASSCX
presents deed of his parents' boi
moderator, n L. H Hollingswort
In Boone waUbei The home wan a
by the Greene family, and will be i
missionary A store building on
the association as an office. The
spring session of the association
Greene served as paster of several
death last year—Photo by Palmer
,5C»IW0mm»it ■» ''
IATION CIFT.—Clyde R. Green,
le to Wade E. Brown. association
It. paator of Firat Baptist CJiurch
gift to (tie Three Porfca Aaaodation
ised as a home lor the auociatiooal
the property la expected to serve
presentation was made during the
last week. The late Re* Nathan
churches in this section before bia
a Studio. i
Last Rites For
Educator Set
For Wednesday
Dr. BUnford Barnard Dough
erty, 86, co-founder of Appalach
ian State Teachers College and
who «ha red honor* with Charles
B. Aycock in hi* devotion to the
cause of public education la North
Carolina, died in Winston-Sulem
Monday »flerpooi#at 1:40.
Dr. Dougherty, who had been in
failing health since he retired from
the presidency of Appalachian
State Teachers College in June
IBM, was en route home from
Vero Beach, Fla., where he had
spent the winter, and was visiting
at the home of a niece, Mrs. 0. L.
Brown, and Rev. Mr. Brown in
Archdale when be was stricken.
He was taken to Baptist Hospital
where he died from a cerebral
hemorrhage.
Funeral Wednesday
Funeral services wil be held
Wednesday at 3 o'clock at the
Boone Baptist Church. The Rev.
L. II. Hollingsworth, pastor, will
conduct the funeral. Assisting
will be the Rev. E. F. Troutman
and the Rev. 1. K. Parker, Jr., of
Boone and the Rev. O. L. Brown
of Archdale. Burial will be in the
city cemetery.
Bom in Watauga county, near
Boone October 21, 1871, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Boone Dough
erty, Dr. Dougherty spent his en
tire life in the cause of public ed
ucation. He left home at the age
of 21, walked 35 miles and caiight
UM train at Lenoir for the Univer
sity'of North Carolina, where de
spite bis lack of formal education
he topped the freshman class in
examinations. He also attended
Holly Springs College and Carson
Newman College.
Returning to Boone in 1890 with
his degree from Carolina, Dr.
Dougherty and his brother.
Dauphin Disco Dougherty, a Wake
Forest College graduate, with the
backing of some Boone citizens,
built a two-room private school on
their father's farm. By 1903, with
aid from the Legislature, the
school had expanded to a five-room
affair and Appalachian Training
'School tyr teachers .was created.
From 1903 until 1921 it was a
State-supported high school, the
only High School in Northwestern
North Carolina.
Appalachian was made a Normal
School in 1921 and a four-year
college in 1929.
With failing health, came Dr.
Dougherty's announcement of his
retirement from the Presidency of
Appalachian State Teachers Col
lege in June 1988. At that time
he slated he was not quitting, but
would continue to devote some of
his lime to the raising of funds
for the endowment fund which he
established at Appalachian.
Appalachian has grown into
one of the best-known teacher
training institutions in the coun
try. In addition to its regular term
the college operate* a summer
term which attract* student* from
over the nation.
Dr. Dougherty had been a mem
ber of the State Board of Educa
tion for many years. He authored
(he equalization bill which would
give the stodents in a poor moun
tain county the same educational
treatment from the State as one
from the rich Piodaient In other
words, as he said, "all the wealth
of the State was put behind all
the children of the State."
Dr. Dougherty was a member of
the Boone Baptist Church. He
was President of the Northwestern
Bank
For many years he was Wa
tauga County Superintendent of
public schools.
Dr. Dougherty's nephew, Bar
nard Dougherty, is vice-president
and controller of Appalachian.
Another nephew. Prof. Edwin
Dougherty, Is a member of Ap
palachian faculty. £
Other survivors are a sister. Mrs.
Etta Dougherty Greene of Win
*ton-Selem»v and severs I other
nieaat nephews: Mrs Roy
Rudy of Boone; Mrs. O. L. Brpwn
sion Sslem and David F. Greene
of Qraaaabwtt.
—
, Photo by Paul Wwrton
DR. DOUGHERTY IN CHARACTERISTIC POSE
fM* .Yi* -'ftV • -'-■r-Tii:r*•"'■■ *«■'
Historical
Holds Annual Gathering
Walter Johnson, 68,
Has Fatal Attack
Walter Lee Johnson, 88, Boone
police officer, died last Wednesday
evening at his home here, from
Mrs. Gragg, 83,
Dies On Sunday
Mrs. Mary Etta Brown Gragg,
83, of Boone, Route 1, died at her
home on Sunday, May 26.
Funeral services were conduct
ed at 11 a. m. Tuesday, May 28, at
the Rutherwood Baptist Church
by the Rev. Roby Eggers, the Rev.
Glenn Huffman, add the Rev. Will
Cook. Burial was in the Brown's
Chapel cemetery.
She is survived by her husband,
George W. Gragg. three sons,
Spencer Brown and. Roy Brown,
both of Boone, Route 1, and Wil
liam Brown of Mowing Rock; four
daughters, Mrs. Ethel Children of
Gastonta, Mrs. Pearl Parlier of
Boone, Route 1, Mrs. Pansy Norris
of Boone, Route 2, and Mrs. Agnes
Goble of Lenoir, Route 5; two
half brothers, Grover Bingham of
Lenoir, Route 5, and Joe Bingham
of Portland, Oregon.
Nineteen grandchildren and a
number of great-grtndchildren al
so survive
what wu believed to have been a
heart attack.
Mr. Johnson had been in (ailing
health for the part aix months, but
had been earrying en his uaual
dutiea until shortly before hii
demise.
Funeral services were held at 2
o'clock Saturday at th« Perkins
ville Baptist Church. Rev. Rex
West and Rev. C. M. Kiacaid of
ficiated and burial wai in Mount
lawn Memorial Park.
Born at Forest Grove in Beaver
Dam township, a aon of the late
Robert and Mr*. Johnson, he was
one of Boone't firit garagemen.
He conducted an automobile re
pair shop and Chevrolet auto
mobile agency hare. He later
went into the hone racing bnal
naaa. (pant a great deal of time in
Florida, and returned to hii home
In Boone in IMS. He had been on
the local police force for seven
years. He waa married 44 yean
ago to Mlaa Lillie Edmistcn. They
have no children.
The widow (urvivea, with a
brother, Louis Johnaon of Cleve
land, Ohio. There are three half
brothers: Dave Johnaon of Ore
gon; Hubbard Johnaon of Reese
and Carl Dishman of Sugar Grove.
Recreation Program
To Begin June 10th
tub uoone Krcreetion Program
will officially start June 10, It wm
announced thin weak by Jack
UroM, recreation director.
"The program will try to meet
the recreational needa (or. aa many
ag« groups aa pea»ibl«," Mr. Grace
uld. Activities already planned
are Llttlf League Pony
Leagw (1H»); Tew Canteen;
and adult Softball.
Organizational meeting* will DC
held on the following date* at the
IVmonf I ration tekooi play grapWd:
Monday, June 3—-10:00 a. m.—
Little League; 11:00 a. m — Pony
Tuetdigr, June 4—Primary boy*
<M); 11:00 a. m.-OW* (ft-M).
As adult *oftkalt league meeting
was held Tuevday, May M. The
league bopc* to lktv« oigM team*.
The Southern Appalachian His
torical Association held its annual
spring meeting Monday at 7 p. m.
in the Mountaineer Room above
the College Book Store.
The association produces the
outdoor drama, Horn in the West,
which is scheduled to open its
sixth season June 28 in the Daniel
Boone Outdoor Theatre.
James P. Marsh, executive vice
president, presided at the meeting
and introduced Dr. I. G. Greer,
president of the association, who
gave a brief talk on "Preserving
Our Heritage." Historical dramas,
such as Horn in the West, help us
to realize what our freedom cost,
and to have a deeper apprecia
tion of those who have gone be
fore ua, Dr. Greer said. He called
for a renewal of faith in our herit
age.
The principal speaker of the
evening was Edgar R. Loessin,
director of Horn in the West,
whose subject was "Your Func
tion in Producing the Drama.*' He
traced the evolution of the thea
ter from the legend of the eave
man acting out his exploits before
his family and frienda. Drama has
always protrayed the basic con
flict in man's existence. Loessin
said, the struggle of good against
evil, and was born out of man's
desire to praise his God.
In the last few decades, the
speaker said, the theater has
ceased to be a Broadway monopoly
and has gone into the hands of
the people in cities and villages
all over the nation, finding expres
sion in ita newest phase, the out
door drama.
"You, the people," Loessin said,
"have brought the living theatre
into small communities, into
Boooe." He called outdoor histori
cal drama the "greatest cultural
effort that has ever been made in
the theater."
•Dr. A. P. Kephart, who was in
charge of the program, selected a
panel of seven persons who dis
cussed various subjects relating
to the drama and other attractions
in the are*.
The panel waa composed of tfrs.
L. H. Owsley. (Uchard Chase, Lee
Derrick (publicity director). Stan
ley A- Harrtfc Dean ChappWI Wil
son of the A. S. T. C. graduate
school Mayor R. it. Hardin of
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