Newspapers / Watauga Democrat. / Dec. 12, 1957, edition 1 / Page 1
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. — An Independent Weekly Netetpaper .. . Seventieth Year of Continuous Publication , ; KXWE, WATAUGA COUNf¥, NOKW CAKOUNA, THUBSDAV. DECEMBER It, Ml | N orthwest |Area Groupfpteports | 0 4 Ik ^i ri Vi rA',* i'- ti Year Of Progress Atwell Alexander of Alexander county was elected President of the Northwest North Carolina De velopment Association at the an nual meeting held in Elkin Thurs day night, when reports of indus trial progress in the area were presented to more than 700 peo ple. _ .J O. K Richardson of Boon? was elected first vice-president; Frank F. Wiliingham, of Forsyth, second vice-president; and Neil Bolton of Forsyth was re-elected secretary treasurer. (; The largest crowd ever to attend such a meeting was enthused by reports that many new plants, em ploying hundreds of people, with thousand of dollars in new pay roll had bolstered the economy of the northwest during the past year. Their review of activities dur ing the past year won praise from the speaker, Arch N. Booth of Washington, D. C„ executive vice president of the Chamber of Com merce of the United States. "You are doing all this without a budget . . . with no dues and with no deficit . . he asked, noting that the popular thing to do is to seek federal or state aid. "1 am trependqusly impressed by what yoiU sire doing through self reliance and by harnessing the leadership in your comer of North Carolina," Mr. Booth said Northwest/North Carolina has "very afeac/ve " advantages to of fer industrjK he said. Among those mentioned were an equitable tax system, good water, transporta tion, and power facilities. . Mr. Booth was introduced by Archie K Davis, chaihnan of the Board of Directors- of Wachovia Bank and Trust Company, and I director of the Winston-Salem Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Coe, the outgoing president, attributed progress of the associa tion to the enthusiasm of the peo ple for "working together and promoting . . . our economy." However, he warned that "we will go f01 wand in this area only Boone Lions Clnb To Hold Annual Holiday Party The Boone Lions Club will hold its annuaF. Ladies Night and Christmas Party at the Daniel Boone Hotel Tuesday evening, December 17, at 7 o'clock. A program of Christmas music, stories and poems has been ar ranged by a committee headed by the Rev. J. K. Parker, assisted by Lions Tom Winkler and Dr. R. H. Harmon, and Lionesses Mrs. Jam es Winkler and Mrs. Ralph Tug man. The traditional exchange of gifts will also be a feature of the pro gram. . ■ Dr. J. H. Workman, president, urges all members of the club to make a special effort to attend and bring their Lionesses. Thomas Lentz Dies On Monday At Blowing Rock Thomas Wiley L*ntz, 92, of Blowing Rock, died Monday at Blowing Rock Hospital, following a heart attack. Funeral services were held at the Blowing Rock Presbyterian Church Wednesday at 2 o'clock by Dr W. K. Key* and Rev. J. K. Parker, Jr. and burial was ia Blowing Rock cemetery. The widow, Mrs Alice F. Lentl, a son. Perry Lentz and two if-inh ters, Mrs. Bern ice Greene and Miss Dorothy Lenti survive. The mother. Mrs. John Lentz also sur vives with four brothers: Ross Eu gene, Bill and Johnny Lentz of Blowing Rock. Draft Offices To Be Closed Tbe Watauga County Local Board Office. Selective Service System, will be closed tram « p. m Friday. Dec. IS, to S a. m. on ! Moaday. Dec. 30 ,u we bring to the attention 01 the people the unlimited oppor tunities the 11-county »re« offer*. Division chairmen appointed in clude: Industry, C. C. Armfield of Lehoir; agriculture, Wayne Cor pening of Forsyth; community de velopment, Mr» W. T. Roth of Surry; and travel and recreation, Robert R. Garvey of Fortyth and Hn. E. If. Anderson of Ashe. The master of ceremonies was J. Kemp Dough ton of Sparta, a member of the association's board of directors and speaker of the House during the 1957 session of the N. C. General Assembly. Special Awards Special awards were announced as follows: Small cities, towns and villages —first, Jefferson and West Jeffer son in Ashe; second, Boonville in Yadkin; third, Walkertown in For syth;. fourth. Millers Creek in Wil kes; snd fifth, Stony Point in Alexander; Farming communities — first, Windsor's Crossroads in Yadkin; second, Copeland in Surry; third. Mulberry in Caldwell; fourth, Rocky Springs in Alexander; and fifth, Austin in Wilkes; Rural non-farming communities —first, yienna in Forsyth; second, Lansing in Ashe; third New Ha ven in Alleghany; fourth, Broks Crossroads in Yadkin; and fifth, Ceve Creek in Watauga. Lesser awards went to Bethle hem in Alexander, Poor's Knob In Wilkes, Pine Hall in Stokes, Franklin in Surry, Laurel Springs in Alleghany, Dulin-Cornatzer in Darie, Helton in Ashe, Elk.hi Wa •"in q*l)lrr "iir '■ StotoMea sons Crossroads in Forsyth and Pooveys Grove in CaldwelL New directors, one from each of the 11 counties, elected to three year terms,' included: Alexander, Carl Mftheson of Taylorsville. Others directors are James B. Farthing of Taylorsville and Atwell Alexander of Stony Point Alleghany, Albert Richardson of Sparta. Other directors are J. K. Doughton of Sparta and Eugene Hotsinger of Glade Valley. Ashe, Hugh Creigler of West Jefferaon. Other directors are J. Gwyn Gambtyl of Crumpler and Mrs. Ed M. Anderson of West Jef ferson. * Caldwell, D. M. Courtney of Lenoir. Other directors are Fred Bowman and John Forlines Jr., both of Granite Falls. Davie, Leo Williams of Mocka ville. Other directors are E. C. Morris and Atlas Smoot, both of Mocksville. Forsyth, M. C. Benton Jr. of Winston-Salem. Other directors are Archie K. Davis and Frank F. Willingham, both, of Winston Salem. Stokes, Tom Preston of Pine Hall. Other directors are Posey Shelton of Francisco and W. F. Marshall of Walnut Cove. Surry, Haywood Merritt of Mount Airy. Other directors are J. Herman Coe of Dobson snd Gar land Johnson of Elkin. Watauga, W. R. Winkler of Boone. Other directors are O. K. Richardson and L. E. Taekwtller, both o t Boo of Wilkes, Virgil Settle of Elkin. Other directors are Andrew Kilby and Rhodes Bataon, both of North Wilkesboro. Yadkin, John Wade Shore of Boonville. Other directors are Mrs. E. H. Barnard of Yadkinville and A. G. Allen of Hamptonville. ^ r i i ,11 iii mi mi ^ | T] Burley Market Passes Two Million Pounds The Boom burlejr tobacco mar ket expected to pan* the tw<Mnil lioo aurk in pound* fold on Wed nesday of thi* week. A total o< 1,848,124 pound* bad beeo fold through Monday, when the market registered another good da; with 144.380 pound* bringing $87,08107 for an average of *60.32 per hundred. With average* consistently near or over 180.00, gtuwei* have been well-pleased with prices at Boon* this season. A spokesman for the R. C. Cole man warehouse firm, operator* of the local market, again stressed the importance of careful grading of tobacco before bringing it to market. "Be sure that any tobacco that la weather-beaten or shoaring black spot* la cleaned off so that it will look ita beat. Then bring It to Boone ana get a good price for • short haul." • '$&->'* >. SANTA HOSTS KIDDIES In (hopping district of Boone Hundred) of boyi and girls were treated by Santa during his short visit to the town Saturday morning. R. D. Hodges. Jr., and Prank Coffey give an assist to the man from the North Pole who rode in on a fire trucli, compliments of the Town of Boone. *. ( Registration At Appalachian College Reaches Record 2,186 OPERATIONS SNOW DUMP.—Carl Teague, town employee, super vise* the clearing of snow and ice from King Street Friday Snow fell laat weak and drifted in some places more than a foot deep, making traveling difficult. Warmer weather and rain removed the last trace of anow Saturday and Sunday —Staff photo by Joe Minor. Plemmonses, Weys At Southern Assn. Meet Dr. and Mrs. W. H. Plemmoni and Dr. and Mn. Herbert W. Wey attended the meeting* of the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools \ in Rich mond, Virginia, last week. Dr. Plemmoni and Dr. Wey represent ed Appalachian State Teachers College at the meeting. Dr. Plemmons served as a mem ber of the Audit Committee for the Association. In addition, be j was a member of the Commission on Libraries, the Commission on Higher Education, and the South ern Council on Teacher Educa tion, which is affiliated with the Southern Association. He has served far the past two years as secretary-treasurer of the South ern Council, and will continue In > that office for another year. Dr. Wey is * member of the Commission on Research fbr the Association. He also was s num ber of the' Nominating Committee for the Association as a whole, i During their stay, the Plem I monads and the Weys went for a A tour of WilIUnMburg and James town, which wai provided for the member* of the Association and their wives. They returned to the campus on Friday. Blair To Speak To C Of C At Annual Banquet MR. TULLY BLAIR, above, presi dent of Security Life and Trust Company of Win»ton-Salem, will be the principal speaker Thursday night at the annual Ladies Night and installation of officers meet ing of the Boone Chamber of Com merce. Mr. Blair has announced that his subject will be "The Sec ond Mile." John B. Robinson will be installed aa the Chamber's president for lhe% coming year, succeeding Glenn R. Andrews. The meeting will be held In the Ele mentary School cafeteria at (:30 P m » « '#■■■ The total individual registration at Appalachian. State Teachers College has reached 2188, accord ing to figures just releaaed from the office of H. R. Eggers, regis trar. At the end of the fall quarter, Bp students completed work for either the bachelor's or the mast er's degree and continued with their graduate work. There were 134 In Saturday classes who did not return, and 194 who were en rolled In off-campus extension centers. .These withdrawals, along with those of students who did not return for one reason or another, bring down to IBM-the number ft students *bo are now enrolled In the college, if Saturday and ex tension classes which have ended and students who have graduated were eliminated, the percentage of drop-outs from the college is very small. Appalachian will close on Fri day, December 13, at noon for the Christmas vacation period. The students will return to the campus on January 1 for the beginning of classes on January 2 at eight o'clock In the morning. Mid-term examinations for the winter quarter are scheduled to be given from January 20 through the 25th. On January 30 the Grass Roots Opera Company will pre sent the opera "Don Giovanni" as one of the public programs for the year. Also, on February 3, Donald Grant, world traveler and writer will spend the day on the campus as lecturer and visitor. Another public program, George Bernard Shaw's "Arms and the Man" will be preaented on Febru ary 17 by the Dublin Players. Final examinations will be given March 8 through 7, and the winter quarter will end at noon on Fri day, March 7. In the meantime, students ana faculty at Appalachian are busily approaching the Christmas sea son. Many students snd staff mem bers are participating in the pro grams being given by the church es, the clubs, and the civic or ganizations in Boone. Others are going to other towns to participate In like activities. When the college closes, most I of the students will go to their homes. Some of the faculty mem bers plsn to remain Boone, oth ers will visit families in many other states, and some wiU go to | various vacation centers (such as Florida) for the holiday period. Mrs. Mast Is Taken By Death Mrs. Merle Greene Mast.O 55. died Sunday at the home at Sher wood. Funeral services were held Tuesday at .2 o'clock at Cove Crdek Baptist Church by Rev. E. M.' Blankenship and Rev. Ted WJIitc. Burial was in Cove Creek cetictery. urvivors are the huaband. Roe Mist, one son and four daughters; W lliam D. Maat of Charlotte; M: >. Jewell Smith. Mr*. Iva Dean Hfruofl. Mrs. Reba Williams, ■gherwood; Mrs. Bina Tester. Cleveland. Ohio. .North Carolina had 10 national 4-li Club winners la 1J07. Civic Leaders Give Opinion Road Location Watauga is one of a number of Northwest North Carolina coun ties organizing in an effort to in fluence location of a proposed super highway through thia sec tion of the State. Four persons, two each from 'the Boone and Blowing Rock Chambers of Commerce, repre sented the county at a meeting held in Hickory Monday afternoon at which time the highway's pro posed route was discussed and the various county groups organised. Catawba county officials called the session and served as hosts. The meeting convened at 3 >'clock in the Fir*t National Bank Building. Bob Hardin, Mayor of Blowing Rock, waa named chairman of the Watauga contingent and Leo Der rick. manager of the Boone Cham ber of Commerce, waa chosen sec retary. Stanley Harris of Boone and Spencer Bobbins of Blowing Rock were the other, local repre sentative*. Expressions favoring' the west erly location of the super highway were voiced from each county re presented and chairman and aec retaries were named to lead their respective county fights. It was the concensus that the propoaed highway, which ia td.be a direct route from Cleveland. Ohio, to Charlotte and eventually into southern Florida, run cloaely parallel with US 21 from the southern end of the West Virginia Turnpike to Piedmont North Caro lina. Advocate* stated this would shorten the distance of another suggested route by 33 miles and an estimated 3> million dollar* in construction costs. Bjr locating near US 31, the northern entrance into North Carolina would be at Twin Oaks and the highway would ran through Sparta. Roaring Gap, CI kin and Salisbury on a more direct route to Charlotte. It wowld also serve the western part of the State in an economic way, delega tions pointed out. It ww suggested that each county prepaaa a brief wbstsatiat ing this location of the highway and request time to air their views at s meeting of the North Carolina Highway Commlsatan in Winston-Salem January 8. Among the counties represent ed at the Hickory get-together were Watauga. Burke, Caldwell, Wilkes, Iredell and Catawba. EARLY HOLIDAY SHOPPERS JAM THE STREETS OF BOONE Dr. Whitener Is Elected Head Of State Historical Association Dr. D. J. Whitener, dean of Ap palachian State Teachers College, hat just been accorded one of the highest honor* that Can come to any of North Carolina's historians. He waa elected to the preaidency of the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association, at ita meeting held laat week in Raleigh. Dr. Whitener is eminently quali fied to head this diatinguiahed or ganization. He holda the A. B. de gree, the M. A. degree and the Ph.D degre from the University of North Carolina, all in the field of history. He haa had additional atudy at the University of Michi gan in thia field. Dr. Whitener haa been a high school principal, waa acting head of the department of hiatory at Lenoir Rhyne College fpr one year, waa a Fellow in hiatory at the University of North Carolina for one year, and served from 1932 until 1987 as head of the depart ment of social studies at Appala chian State Teacher* College. Dr. Whitener la the author of "Prohibition in North Carolina", published in IMS by the Univer sity of North Carolina Press. "Hia tory of Watauga County" publish ed in 1948 by the Boone Cham'oer of Commerce, and numeroui art! clei In The Hiitorical Review and DR. D. J. WHITENER The South Atlantic Quarterly. In IBM he wrote a pamphlet "Local Hiatory: Mow to Find and Writ* It" which waa published by the Weatera North Carolina Hla torical Aaaociation, and contrlbut Lively Sports Card To Herald Holidays , Appalachian will preaent a lull card of athletic eventa for ita atu dent body (hi* Thuraday of the eve of the day starting the Oirint man vacation. Coach "Red" WaU ina and bt* wrestler* atart off the program with an afternoon wreat ling match with Um Deacon* of Wake Poreat College The match la the home opener for the App matmen and wilt atart at 3:M p. re The Appa defeated the Dea con* in Wlnaton-Salem laat Satur day afternoon by a acore of 2fr0. | At 6:00 p. m. the Appalachian Junior Varsity will meet the Pfeif tcr Junior Vartity in a basketball contest. The baby App*. coached by Kent Motley, will be shooting for their third straight win of the season as against bo defeats. The high light of the evening will be a varsity basketball con tent between the Mountaineers and the Panthers of Pfeiffer Col Thursday pnantws to W .fc/ip day for Appalachian sport* km. *•'/ iW, I , ed the chapter on History pf Pub lic Education in North Carolina During Reconstruction published in Southern Essays by Green. Dr. Whitener is a member of the American Historical Associa tion, the Southern Historical As sociation, the North Carolina His torical Society, the Western North Carolina Historical Association, and the State Literary and Hiatori cal Asaociation. He has served in various offices in these group*, and ha« been president of the Western North Carolina Historical Asaociation. He was also, for a number of years, executive vice president of the Southern Appala chian Historical Association, which produces the drama "Horn in the West." Dr. Whitener is, listed in Who's Who in American Education; in Who Knows—and What; and in the Directory of American Scho lars./He is a member of the Wata uga County Board of Education, and of the Boone Methodist Church. He has just been elected a director of the North Carolina State School Board Association for • term of four years. Dr. Whitener became dean of Appalachian State Teacher* Col lege in 1996. Blowing Rock Motorists To Buy Motorist* advised that
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