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FOR BEST RESULTS ?drmlMC* invariably un the colu mna of the Democrat With iu full paid circula tion, intensely covering the local shopping ?rea, tt'a the best advertising medium tBm BOONE. WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. APRIL 17, 1958 New Bank ^ V : Jr 'lr f Building -I. Planned The Northwestern Bank is mapping plans for the con struction of a modern new banking building in the down town business section, says A. T. Adams, cashier of the Boone branch, who expects the build ing to be constructed during 1959. The David Greene property, which include* the building where the Chamber of Commerce is lo cated, has been bought from W. R. Winkler for the new project. The lot front! 90 feet on King Street and extends a distance of 240 feet to Howard Street in the rear. \ While details of the new struc ture hatren't been worked out, Mr. Adams states that the building will be completely modern and will en able the bank to handle its increas ing busines with more convenience to its customers. Drive-in windows and other helpful features will be included in the plans. The Northwestern Bank and Its predecessor, the Watauga County Bank, have occupied the building at the corner of King and Depot since 1022, and the institution has outgrown these quarters. Burkett Is Court Clerk Candidate Mr. W. L. Burkett, rest home operator of New River township, has filed hit candidacy for the Republican nomination for Clerk of Superior Court, and so far is the only .candidate for this post in the May Republican county pri mary. Mr. Joe Miller has filed for re nomination as county surveyor on the Republican ticket. The deadline for filing in the Republican primary is next Fri day. Democrats will nominate their candidates in convention. F. D. McEwan Funeral Held - Frederick Davis McEwan, 83, for many years a summer resident of Sugar Grove, died recently at his home in Vera Beach, Fla. Born in Caseville, Mich., he went to Vera Beach 45 years ago from Kansas City, Kan. He was a retired citrus grower. Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Florence Hilliard of Vera Beach and Mrs. Martha Alderman of Winter Beach; a son, Henchel, of Vera Beach, a sister of Kansas City," and five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. During his summers in Watauga, Mr. McEwan talked of the virtues of Florida and Vera Beach, and it was through his Lpterst that many persons from Watauga have built winter homes there. Mr. McEwan was ? member of the Wjnter Beach Baptist Church, and waa buried in Crestlawn Cem etery in Indian River County. Soviet defers announcement on nuclear tests. HERE if on* of the formations that you will see when the Flying Fish present their annual water pageant April IS through 19. The group is under the direction of Miss Janie Mathews. (Story Sec. Sect.) Gay Spring Festival Will End At Colorful May Day Dance Plant we complete for Appala chian State Teachers College's first annual spring festival, which will begin with a program of bal lads and folk songs on the evening of May 1 and end with the annual May Day dance sponsored by the Men's "A" Club Saturday night, May 3. Mr. Cratis Williams. Chairman of the Spring Festival Committee, has announced that the program for the three-day affair has been sent to the printer and that letters of invitation to a part or all of the festival activities have been mail ed to 650 high school principals, music director*, physical educa tion directors, senior and Junior spenaors. and English teachers in a hundred high schools in the area served by Appalachian. Dr. Roy Blanton has announced that 3000 copies of ? special bul letin emphasizing the spring festi val have been mailed to alumni of the college. ( Over 300 college students, high school members of folk-dance teams, directors, and sponsors wilP be active in what may be Appala chian's most ambitious undertak ing in a big-time effort to coordi nate the work of college and high school groups in a creative pro gram of entertainment. Mr. Williams has suggested that perhaps five or six, thousand peo ple will be on the campus to en joy a part of all. of the festival. The festival program, which is bound together with a folk theme, will begin with a concert by Rich ard Dyer-Bennet in the Health aad Physical Education Building on the evening of May 1. Soil Conservation Achievements Noted The summary of accomplish menti under the 1997 Agricultural Conservation program which ha* been released by the county com mittee includes the following achievements, it was announced by the agency. One-thousand, three hundred and seventeen fanners participated in this program and carried out one or mora of the approved conser vation practices. This number is 54 percent of the 2,438 farms in the county. 044171 acres, or 00 percent if farmland; 27,100 acres, or 76 percent of cropland and 24, 761 acres, or 91 percent of pon crop pasture are included in this number of participating farms. . Net cast-share payment before adjustment amounted to (84,734.39. This amount plus the total cost increase payment amounted to 188,967.68. Every farmer in the county who requested one or more conserva tion practices received an approv al for co?t-fharing. The summary of practice data is as follows: Permanent pasture or hay, 413 acres on 188 farms? $0,203. Vegetative cover in rotation, 1, Troutmans Complete 20 Year Ministry Here On May 4 Mr. and M n. Edwin F. Troutman will complete their i twentieth year of lerviee to the Grace Lutheran Church in Boone. North Carolina. A apecial aervice will be held in honor of the pa*- ! tor and hi* wife who have become one of the beat loved couplea ir ! Boone. i Mr. and Mri Troutman came to i Boone In 1998 and have now |ivn ' twenty year* of continuous aervice ; during which time the church'* i membenhip has tripled. During the Troutman*' term at aervice < and under their leadorahip and i guidance, the church changed I from a miasion to a aelf-Mpport- I ing church and Ju*1 recently ? i mi Education Buildiaf amUin- ^ ing ten claks rooms and two as sembly rooms was completed. Pastor Troutman married the former Eatelle Brown of Trout man, North Carolina and they have two sons who are following in the footsteps of their father. Edwin N. Troutman is now pastor at Peace Lutheran Church, Alex andria, Virginia, and Gerald S. rroutman is now in his second rear at Southern Lutheran Semi ury, Columbia, South Carolina. The special service will be con tacted by Pastor Troutman 'i two ions. Gerald will conduct the fen re and Edwin will preach the ser mon The Troutmans and their kwu will be guests Of the congre faUo? ,jU. dinner is their honor. 024 acre* on 401 farm*? $22,191. Liming farmland, 023 tons on 180 farm* ? $9,725. Tree planting, 32 acrei on eight farms ? $384. Open ditch drainage ? 7,190 line ar feet on 24 farms ? $817. Winter cover crops, 1,288 acres on 399 farms? $2,386. The fanners share of the cost af materials for these practices plus the labor involved in carrying them out will approximate a cost of $200,000 expended on soil conserva tion practices in the county. On Friday evening a folk opera, "Down In The Valley," by Kurt Weill, will be offered in the Phy (ical Education Building. The opera, starring Bob GiUey, Thad Moose, Florence Payne, and Lar ry Dove, is a rollicking adaptation of the mountain song "Birming ham Jail." Nearly a hundred Ap palachian student* are brought to gether from the College Chorus, the College Orchestra, the Mod ern Dance Club, and Playcrafters in the production of the 'opera. The cast will be dressed in coe tumes appropriate to the theme. The gigantic undertaking is being directed by Mrs. Virginia Linney, Mr. Nicholas Erneston, Mrs. Joy Kirehner, and Miss Mary Ruth Johnston. At 9 o'clock Saturday morning Chi Lamba Chi will begin register ing hundreds of high school ?tu dents visiting the campus for the day. Tours of the campus will be conducted by Chi Lamba Chi throughout the morning. Special exhibits are being prepared by the Art Department, which wilL also show the paintings of Jerry Coble, (continued on page three) Winkler Heads Local Jaycees; Others Named The Boone Junior Chamber of Commerce elected W. Ralph Wink ler, Jr, as president for the ensu ing year at its meeting April 7.. .Other officers . elected were Kenneth Schaeffer, vice-president; .Frank Steele, Jr., vice-president; Lew Thiel, treasurer. SPRING MAY Bit HERE, *UT . . Ann Coftner, twenty-year-old Junior from Robbinsviile, was elected Miu April by Um reader* of THE APPALACHIAN Ann it a Grammar Grade Education Major. She will receive a month-* pan to the Appalachian Theatre and a meal ticket from Kiit'a , County Board j 1 Of Elections Has Meeting i ? ** The Watauga County Board of Elections met Saturday and or ganized by naming R. T. Greer, chairman, and Dayton Wineharger, secretary. S. C. Eggers, Jr., la the Republican member of the board. Mr. Greer was appointed by the State Board of Elections to fill th? unexpired term of W. R. Cot trell, resigned. The Board will meet next Fri day to name the Registrars and Judges of Election in the different precincts of Watauga county. Dillon Wilson Winner Of Trip To New York, UN Dillon Wilson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Wilson, la the winner over representatives from four other high schools in the annual speech contest sponsored by the "American Freedom Association" on the subject "United Nations in Search for World Peace." Wilson left Monday to jpin two bus loads of North Carolina stu dents in Greensboro. They will have a week's tour of New York and Washington. Highlights of the trip will be attendance of sessions of the United Nations, luncheon in the U. N. delegates dining room, tickets to the Broadway Theatre Production "My Fair Lady" and a tour of Washington, D. C. He will be accompanied by Mr. Bill Blackburn, sponsor of the De bating Club. Scrap Paper Drive Is Set By Boy Scouts Steve Gabriel, scoutmaster of Troop 109, announced this week, that the scrap paper drive, which had been scheduled two times but postponed because of inclement weather, has been set for Satur day morning, beginning at 8:30 o'clock. If help is needed in bundling the paper, a call to Mr. Gabriel or Billy Bingham will be appreciat ed, and scouts will be sent to do this work, Mr. Gabriel said. Newspapers and magazines and any other scrap paper, tied in bun dles, will be picked up, and the proceeds from the sale of this pap er will be used to carry out pro jects of the local troop. Andrews Acts As Spokesman Auto Dealers / G. R Andrews of Andrews Chevrolet, Inc., has lust returned from Charlotte where he acted aa spokesman for fellow dealers of bis zone at a meeting of the Chev rolet Dealer Planning Committee. Mr. Andrews was elected to the committee by Chevrolet dealers of his district upder a nationwide program which the country's lead ing automobile and truck producer pioneered in the' industry in 1SS7. The system operates aa a medium for dealer representatives and company executives to discuss in dustry developments, retail sales conditions and other mutual busi ness. z Hie Chevrolet National Dealer Planning Committee is organised at district, zone, regional and na tional levels. Dealers in eadt of the nearly 800 Chevrolet districts In the United Statee elect from their group a committeeman te re present them at the zone level. Each of the 47 zone committees thus formed elect a regional re presentative from* their midst. Each of these 10 regional commit tees then select oqe of their mem ber* to serve on the national com mittee, which meets with company executives in Detroit Zone, reg ional and national meeting* iIiiUsm are beid twice a year, jh CANNED MOONSHINE.? Police Officer Max Fox is shown examining a caie of illicit whiskey seized here Friday night. The lix gallon* of "sugar head*' was in the trunk of a ear occupied by Bobby Oaborne, Elmer Wallace and Lenoard Triplett, who, Chipf of Police G. D. Rich ardson said, were residents of the Shouns- Mounts in City, Tenn., area. Officer Fox placed the men under arrest, they were given a hearing, and released under bonds of 1300 each by Mayor Gordon H. Winkler, and are to appear at Superior Court next week to answer charges of transporting non-tax paid liquor. Chief Richardson said. Officer Fox stopped the men to question them about the loud muffler on their car. ? Photo Palmer's Photo Shop. < Miss Ann Reid Is Fatally Injured Blowing Rock ? Mill Myra Ann Held, 18, of Blowing Rock RFD 1. died Thursday of tut week about 11:4S a. m. at a hospital here of Injuries she suffered Monday af ternoon in an auto accident on the Blue Ridge Parkway near/ here, a parkway ranger said Friday. Miss Reid who was a former Blowing Hock High School basket ball star was in her freshman year at the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She was home for the Easter holidays at the time the accident occurred. ? Parkway Ranger Robert White reported Miss Reid was thrown out after the car in which she was riding left the parkway about a half mile north of the intersection with U. S. 821 and plunged down the 60 to 70-foot roek fill. The officer said the driver, Airman 3-c George M. Chester, 22, of Lenbir was admitted to Blow ing Rofk Hospital here and later transferred to the Port Bragg, N. C., hospital by helicopter. He suf fercd a neck injury in the accident but returned hare lor Mitt Raid's funeral. Hie ranger aaid the ear left the pavement on the right aide, and when the driver apparently cut aharply to set back on the high way, it awerved completely acroaa the road and went off the left aide, going down the embankment. He aaid the inveatigation waa continuing and no charge had filed. Hiaa Reid waa making her home with her grandmother on Blowing Rock RFD 1 while attending col lege. Survivors in addition to the grandmother include her mother, Hrs. Georgia Mote*, and her step father, of Miami, Fla.; a brother, Billy Reid, and a aister, Barbara Reid, alao of Miami. Her father. Carter Reid, died several yeara ago. Servicea were held at 2:30 p. m. Saturday at Rumple Memorial Presbyterian Church here. ' Burial was in the Reformed Church cemetery here. Clean-up Campaign Will Start April 28th Mayor Gordon H. Winkler ha* announced. tentative dates (or the annual clean-up, paint-up, fix-up campaign in Boone a* Monday, April 28 through Saturday, May W> The intenaified two-week drive (or city cleanliness will be spon aored this year by the Junior Chamb# of Commerce, Mid Pres ident James Winkler, Jr., who haa appointed W. R. Winkler, Jr., to spearhead the campaign. The Jay ceea will work clotely with a Chamber of Commerce committee headed by Richard Morhauaer, and the cooperation of all other civic club*, as well a* property owner* and all other individual*, i* urged. Mayor Winkler haa announced that town trucks will be available at all time* to pick op traah and debris and assist the cleanup ef fort in any way .possible. He calls for the -fell cooperation of all citi zens "to get our city dean and neat looking." The Jaycee* will conduct a city wide survey of homes, places of business, vacant lots alleyway*, and back lota, and make suggest ions to owners or residents for painting and sprucing up their premises wherever the need Is in d? rated ? "? ' Additional plans for the cam paign will be announced in the Democrat next week. - a- . ? ' fflb 1 Netmen Take ' Pour Straight The Appalachian netmen won their fourth straight victory in at many starts Monday when they downed High Point College 9-2. The unbeaten Mountaineer! have now swept matches with Eion, At lantic Christian, Eaat Tennessee SUte, and High Point The leading role in the victory over High Point went to A1 Wid enhouse. number two man on the net squad. Widenbouse won his singles match oyer High Point's Ray Wicker in ? long three-set match, then teamed with BiU Mills to win a victory in the number one double* match. App Golfers In 9-9 Season Start The Appalachian golfers, making their first start of the season, tied High Point M on Monday. App newcomers, Ray Cock man and Joe Berry, paced the team in the sea son's opener. Ben Leatherman and Carl Brittain rounded out the App foursome. The Mountaineer golf team play ed at Lenoir Rhyne Tuesday, and open their home schedule against Six-County Group Will Have Banquet "Ifnow Your Schools'* will be ?the general theme of the annual meeting of District IS, North Caro lina School Board* Association, when it convene* in Blowing Rock April 28, for a meeting and ban quet. Attending will be board of edu-~ cation members, local school' com mittee members and ichool ad ministrators from administrative units in Avery, Burke, Caldwell, Watauga counties, and Lenoir, Morganton, and Glen Alpine. The feature address at the ban quet will be made by Claud* Far rell, NCEA director of lay rela tions. He will be introduced by Dr. D. J. Whitener, member of th? Watauga County '*chool board and dean of Appalachian State Teach ers College. "The entire program has been designed to give MnI commit tee members and board of edu cation members vital Information which will be of value to them In the operation of their schools," W. Gny Angell, superintendent of Watauga County Schools, said la announcing the meeting. The meeting, to be held at the Blowing Rock High School, begin* with registration at 8:00 o'clock p. m., and ends with a banquet in the Blowing Rock School cafeteria from 6:10 to S:00 o'clock. Dr. Charles Davant, Jr., mem ber of the Watauga County Sthooi Board, will preside over the after noon session. Entertainment will be provided by the Appalachian High School band under direction of J. PerTy Watson. Dr. Walter Keys, chairman of the Blbwing Rock school commit tee, will deliver the "kick-off ad dress. An overview of the "Know Your Schools" theme irill be presented by Mr. Angell. In keeping with the general theme, a panel discus* slon will be presented at 4:00 o'clock, entitled "What Informa tion Do School Board Members Want and Need To Know About the Operation of Our Schools To Improve Their Efficiency as Board Members?" Dr. Davant will act as moderator. The topics and participanta ot the panel will be: "Understanding Our Curricu lum": Dr. Ben Horton, Dr. A. B. Crew, and Dr. Bill Fulmer. "Information About School Em ployees": Dwight Isenhour, James A. Greene, and John Marsh. "Educational Outcome of Our Students": Dr. H. T. Connor, V; M. McNeely, and Harry L Hally burton. "The Use of Public Relation* Techniques": Walter J. Spainhour, Henry C. McFadyen, and J. V. Mills. "A Look at Local and State School Finance": Melvin Taylor, W. K. Anderson, and James C. Beasley, After the presentation of the panel topics, the entire group will meeting In group* of ZS in "buza" sessions for the purpose of discus sing each sub-topic in detail. The banquet will be preside# over by Dr. Davant. Jams* A. Greene will give the invocation, (Continued on page three) Final Filing ffl < Dale ASC Is Set | The final date for filing applica tions for incentive payment* under the 1867 tool and lamb program i* April SO, according to Vaugha Tugman. county ASC chairman. The records of Urn ASC ?n ?how that 2M producer* filed for wool payment, la 1B06 and 25T producer* filed in 1008. 105 lamb producer* filed application* in 1496 compared with 150 producer* fil ing application* la 1186. I i From this summarization It alt pears that a number of sheep pro ducers have *o far failed to flia their applications.
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