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of Continuous Publication VOLUME LUX? NO. 43. ATAUGA Rominger Man Dies Hi J* ; In Crash A 20-year-old Ferguson nun, who reportedly admitted having . had "a bottle of beer," has been charged with manslaughter in the Saturday night highway death of Bobby Lee Hicks, 19, of Roming er, Route 2, State Patrol Corporal C. M. Jones reported. Jimmy Lee Cox of Ferguson was charged aftef his car was demol ished in an accident on Highway 90, two miles east of Lenoir at about 9 p. m? stated the patrol man. - Corporal Jones said the wreck occurred when the car rounded a curve on the left side, hit the left shoulder, traveled some distance, returned to the hard surface and overturned five or six times. Both the driver and his front seat pas senger were thrown elear of the wreckage, with Hicks' body being found approximately 60 feet from the car. Coi^was admitted to Caldwell Memorial Hospital. His physician said Monday he was in good con dition and apparently was not in jured seriously. Corporal Jones, who quoted Cox as saying he had had "a bottle of beer," also said there was "bound to have been" excessive speed at the time Of the accident. Bobby Lee Hicks is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Hicks; six brothers, John Hicks of Siler City, Charlie Hicks of Chapel Hill, Sylvester, Willis, Jerry, and Arvill Hicks, all of the home; four sisters, Mrs. C. Campbell of Hick ory, Mrs. Julia Campbell of Bear Creek, Nancy and Mary Hicks of the home. ? Funeral services were conduct ed at 10 a. m. Tuesday, April 29, at the Liberty Methodist Church with the Rev. Lawrence HagCmaa, in charge? and burial was In the Matney cemetery. Benjamin Isaacs Taken By Death Newland ? Benjamin Harrison Isaacs. 08, died Friday morning in a Morganton hospital. Funeral service* were held at 2 p. m. Sunday at Newland Presbyterian Church. Survivors include his, wife; two .ions, Mack Isaacs of the home and Morris Isaacs of Newland; two brothers, Charles Isaacs of New town, W. Vs., and Don Isaacs of Lenoir; three sisters. Mrs. Pink Hodges of Boone, Mrs. Mary Mil ler of San Diego, Calif., and Mrs. Bessie Underbill of Charlotte. Pritchett Gets NCEA Position John 'Pritchett, director of the audio visual center at Appalach ian State Teachers College, has been appointed to the public re lations committee of the North Carolina Education Association. * He is to serve for a three-year term. Mr. Pritchett was appointed to this position by 'the board of di rectors of the North Carolina Edu cation Association. Last Rites For Hobert J. South Hobert John South, 82, died at his home on Koute 1, Zionville, on Friday, April 28. Funeral services were held at 2:30 p. m. Sunday, April 27, at the Zionville Baptist Church, con ducted by the Rev. R. C. Eggers and the Rev. Grady Minton, and burial was in the church ceme tery. i Surviving are the widow, ten sons, and four daughters: Charlie South, Phoebus, S. C? Clayton South, Lemita, Cal., Rev. Brace South, Mountain City, Tenn., Burl South, Toughkenamon, Pa., Tom my South, Sandusky. Ohio, Her mit South, Drexel, N. a, Billy. Joe, Jack, antf Earl South, all of the home; Mrs. Lovlll Fisher, Sandusky. Ohio, Mrs. Ivan Carr, Myrtle Beach, S. C? Mrs. George Hagaman and Mrs. Bud Greene, both of Lenoir. Mrs. R. B. Porter has returned to teaching position in Cherry ville after being a patient at Gas ton Memorial Hospital in- Gas tonia. Mrs. Porter was injured in ? fall three weeks , ^ ag. ''psiM Work Started On Catholic Church ARCHITECT'S DRAWING OF BOONE CATHOUC CHURCH Perry Greene, local builder, has been awarded the contract . for the conatruction of the Catholic Church building, ground for which has been broken on the site at Faculty Street, and Highland Park. The building, according to Rev erend Joaeph Kerin, assistant priest, will be a combination of brick and stucco, will aeat 120 people, and will contain a full basement. It will front on Faculty Street, and u expected to be ready for occupancy by fall. Catholic activity in the com munity dates back to 1963 when Father Ildefonae from Lenoir first came to Boone. The first Catholic family to establish residence here was in 1947. There are now 96 Catholics and masses have been held in the American Legion hut for 9 years. Boone was transferred to North Wilkesboro in 1992, and Rev. Walter J. Sullivan it paitor. As sistant priests who have taken care of the work in Boone since that time have been Bcvgerends William Wellein, Thomas Walsh, William Pearson, Joseph Buman, Joseph Hart, Charles Mulholland and Joseph Kerin. A Catholic church was ejected at Blowing Rock ia 1048. The work there is ttrgely seasonal. Registrars, Election Judges Are Named For Primary Duty STUDENTS IN FLORIDA. ? At the regional conveation of Beta Beta Beta, national biology honor society, held recently at Florida State University in Tallahassee, five of the sixteen papers delivered were given by Appalachian State Teachers College students. Carolyn Hut chins (left) of Granite Quarry was elected secretary, and William F. Snyder (right) of Route 2, Winston-Salem, was elected president. Both are students at Appalachian. The regional Tri Beta, covering nine states, will hold its convention next year on the Appalachian campus. Charlie Carroll Is Injured In Accident 1 . Charlie Carroll. 90 year* old. of Mrs. Jones, 84, Dies At Vilas Mr*. Liddft Creed Jones, 84, died Wednesday, April 23, at her home at Vila*. Funeral service* were conduct ed at S p. m., Saturday, April 28, at the Willow Dale Baptiat Church by the Rev. Tom Bunting and the Res. E. 0. Gore, and burial waa in tfce Beaver Dan Cemetery. She is survived by three sons, Jim Jones of Wilmington Del., Lee Jones of Tikersville. Ky., and Will Jones of Vilas; two daugh ters, Mrs. Cora Mitchell and Miss Bertie JAnea, both of Lenoir; a brother, George Creed of Bristol, Va.; three listers, Mrs. Susie Mrs Callte Pro/fitt, both of Chilhowie, Vs., and Mrs. Martha Eastridje of Mountain City, Tenn j Four fly to Russia to aak ban oa ?$!'' ' Boone, was hospitalized Saturday night, with ? fractured leg and laceration* about the bead and atnu after the car in which he wai riding ran off the highway and collided with a large tree. Also injured waa Payge Miller, 22, of Route 2, Boone, who re ceived first aid at the hospital for a cracked shoulder and facial laeerations. lie was released after being (Mated. He was listed as the driver of the 1M1 Chevrolet by Patrolman George E. Baker, who investigated the accident. The mishap occurred about 10:15 p. m. about two-tenths of a mile from highway 421 on the Bamboo road, as the vehicle was headed in the direction of Bamboo. No reason was cited for the ac cident, and Patrolman Baker said no charges had been filed against tk? driver. Also paiMngen in the ear, which belonged to Edna Winkler Hol lowly, Route 1, Boone, were Res Vannoy of Boons, aid Jot Oner of Tripled Neither of them was The Watauga ' County Board of Elections met Thursday and nam ed the Registrar* and Judges of Election for the primary which t? TOT* held May 31 At the same time it was an nounced that the registration books will be opened next Satur day for new registrants and will remain open through Saturday Hay 17. Saturday Hay 24 will be observed as challenge day. Since there is no Democratic contest to be voted on locally, the State primary will be confined to the nomination of a Republican county ticket, Chairman Roby T. Greer said. Election Officials ' Following are the names of the precinct election officials. The first named in each case is the Registrar, a Democrat, the second, the Democratic judge and the third the Republican judge: Bald Hountain ? J. - B. Ragan, Glenn Howell, Leslie Norris. Beaver Dam ? Claude Wilson, Lynn Norris, John Winkler. Blowing Rock ? Dan Klutz, Rudolph Greene, Boy Holder. Blue Ridge? Hrs. R. C. Greene, M. O. Coffey, George Keller. Boone ? Howard ?ottrell, Bar nard Dougherty, B. H. Wataon. Brushy Pprk? H. J. Williams, A. Y. Howell, Ralph Wilson. Cove Creek ? Clinard Wilson, Dana Greene, Otto Thomas. Elk? Hrs. Inet Todd, W. W. Reynolds, B. C. Cox. Laurel Creek ? Custar Ward, Ron Norris, Will Romlnger. Heat Camp No. 1? Worth Wine barger, Willard Norris, J. C. Stanberry, Jr. Heat Camp No. 2? Forrest Hor etz, Stacey Tester, Wade Horetx New River? Grady Greer, J. B. Clawson, Jr., Perry Greene. North Fork? W. C. South, Wil (Continued on page six) Two Weeks Promotion Under Way The annual Clean-up. Paint-up, Fix-up Campaign lot underway in Boone Monday and will continue thui week and next week. I The Junior Chamber of Com merce. prime sponsor of the pro ject thU year, together with the Chamber of Commerce, the Blue Ridge Garden Club. ^ Worth while Woman"* Club, *nd other groupa join with Mayor Qprdon H Winkler In calling upon bu*l ness organ itationa, property own er*. and all other resident* to co operate lo the fulle?t in making the drive a succe**. J Many merchant* and other* are j backing the effort publicity-wlae with advertisement* in thi* ia?ue boosting the cleanup campaign. Mayor Winkler ha* announced that town truck* will be available on Tueaday* and Friday* only to pick up tra*h and debri* collected at residence*. He uk* that a* much of the tra*h a* poaalble be put in bolei or other container* and pUced at .treetaide ontho* two day* thi* week and next. He added that all traah wUl be pick ed up in whatever form a* long a* It i* conveniently placed for the truck*. The Jaycee cleanup committee, headod by W. Ralph Winkler. Jr., ha* volunteered to clean off aev eral conspiciou* vacant l*a and them up *o the ladje* cm flower* and *hruba V>d transform the lot* Into beauty spots instead of "eyesore* Thi* committee I* alao making ? aurvey of residential area* and will iugge*t way* for homeowner* to improve the app~rance of their premise*. ? The Jaycee* are a*klng merch ant* to clean up the back lot* i and alleyway* behind ?tore building* and provide adequate garbage conUiner. *o these area* can be kept neat and free of debri*. A local bualneuman put it thi* way. "If everyone will do hi* part, we can make Boone a clean, at tractive plate to live, and a town vialtora will want to come back Uu Let'* all pitch In and do the Job right? get it clean and then keep it clean." Noblitt Heads N.'S. Press Group Salisbury ? At the *pring *ea .ion of the North State Confer ence Pre** Association, h*ld ^ Catawba College on April 28, BlU Noblitt. editor of Hw Appalach ian. A. 8. T. C., *?? elected con ference pre*ident. Joe Moreti of Lenoir Rhyne i* the new vice president. The Lenoir Rhynean, the news paper of Lenoir Rhyne College of Hickory, received th? fir*t annual award for the beat new*paper In the North State Conference. In a close conte*t for the con ference trophy. Appalachian and Catawba emerged in aecond and third places. Atlantic Christlwi and Western Carolina tied for fourth with High Point and Elon in the remaining poaltlona. College Concert Band Goes To Lees-McRae The College Concert Bind will give a concert on the rampua of Leet-McRae College next Tuesday evening. May 6 at (:00 p. m. The bend plana to rtop over on the way to Banner Elk to play for the student* at Sugar Grove In the afternoon Featured on the con cert will be Mlaa Judy Nixon, playing the firat movement of Mendelaaohn't "Piano Concerto la 0 Minor", Mr. James Stoke*, jplaytag "Adagio-Tarantella" for clarinet and band, and a trumpet trio, Robert Taylor, Camilla Grae ber and Eddy Harrington. Included on the program will alao be a new band number, "Smoky Mountain Suite", whi* will be of special Interest to peo ple from tilt* area. The theme* for this raite art taken from the folk ballads of this part of tb* country and are don* up especial ly well for the band medium. Other activities of the band in clude a concert this next Saturday afternoon statring at 1:00 p. m. in connection with the annual May Day Festival This will take place In the Men s Gym. Several of the latest band compositions will be Included as well at old ?ttigjira The band's annual Spring Con cert will be held 1 flte following week on Thursday, May 18 in the rtaa Arts Building at 8:00 p. m. " ? H ' & *i,;i l%tL MAY DAY BEAUTIES? Part of Um May Court po?e for picture on College cimpui. They are, left to . right, Carolyn W#U, May Queen, Rebecca Bingham, Joyce Ollia, Joan Foy, Barbara Winkler, Mary Alice Patten, Jeanne Fleming, Margaret Chui, Ann Coctoer and Janice Smoot. ' Dyer-Bennet Program To Open Gay Spring Festival Mrs. H. L. Smart Dies On Friday; Funeral Sunday Mn. Harriet L. Smart, 86, died Friday at her home here, follow ing a lorif illneu. Funeral services were conduct ed Sunday afternoon at the Meth odist Church by the Pastor Rev. E. H. Lowman, who was assisted In the rites by Rev. E. F. Trout man, Lutheran Church pastor. A second service was held Tues day at 2:15 at Prentice Funeral Chapel in Berwick, Maine by the Methodist minister there, and burial was in Evergreen cemetery in Berwick. It was asked that in lieu of floral tributes, expressions be directed to the new education building of Boone Methodist Church, where Mrs. Smart was a member. Survivors are two sons and a daughter: Herbert W. Smart, Jackson Heights, N. Y.; Irvin O. Smart, Oxford. Mass.; Miss Eliza beth Lord, Boone. There is one grandson, Charles A. Smart of Oxford. Mass. Mrs. Smart, the former Miss Harriet May Osgood was a native of Kennebunkport, Maine, ? daughter of Rev. and Mrs. Reu ben D. Osgood. She was married June 29, 1897 to Herbert Lord, M. D., and they resided in Lynn, Mass. and Baltimore, Md. He died in Somersworth, N. H. in 1898. In 1904 she was married to Capt. Andrew W. Smart of South Portland, Maine, who died in 1909. In 1918 she Joined her daughter, who was teaching weav ing at Berea, Ky. and learned to weave at 76. She had been a resi dent of Boone since 1949 and be came a demonstration and produc tion weaver at Watauga Handi crafts Center under her daugh ter's guidance. Hereford Sale Set For Oct. 11 The Watauga Hereford flrted- ? ers Association has set the date of their 1968 purebred sale for Saturday, October 11, at same i location as last year. They will i sell not mora than sixty lota total. I The cattle win all be young; no I bulls over two years old a*d heif- i er calves, bred heifers, or first i calf heifers with calf by side. i The nominations should be in as soon as possible. All cattle no- i initiated will be catalogued as la I the last two sales, with the judge 1 selecting the animals to be sold. I A Hereford heifer calf will be given to C lucky lick* PUni are complete (or the firit three-day Spring Festival ever to be held at Appalachian State Teacher* College, beginning to night. wfir Richard Dyer Bennet, internationally known folkloriit, will present ? program with a folk theme, and continuing through Sat urday when the annual May Day program will be held in the Physi cal Education Building. The Dyer Bennet program itarta at 8 o'clock. The festival will Include a va riety of activities, including, a folk opera Friday, tours of the campus, the May Day program, football game, swimming party, ind exhibits in the various build ings on campus. Cratis Williama, chairman of the festival committee, said high Khool students, teachers, princi pals and others from all schools tn this area have been issued Invi tations to attend, and several thousand of them are expected to ittend the festival. Some will take in active part in the events. Also expected are alumni and other Friend* of the college. Over 800 college students, high ichool members of folk-dance teams, directors, and sponsors will t>e active In what may be the most ambitious undertaking by Ap palachian to coordinate the work of college and high school groups In a creative program of enter tainment, according to the spon Ht*. The festival program is bound together with a folk theme, and nearly all events will help carry Mit this idea, t On Friday evening a folk opera, "Down in the Valley," by Kurt Weill, will be presented at the ?am* building. The opera stars Bob Gilley, Thad Moose, Florence Payne, and Larry Dove in an adap tation of the mountain song, 'Birmingham JaU." Directors of the opera are Mr*. Virginia Unney, Nicholas Erneston, Mr*. Joy Kirch ner, and Miss Mary Ruth Johnston. The Chi Lambda Chi, campus organization, will bagin register hundreds of high school stu ts visiting the campus for the day at 9:00 o'clock Saturday morn ing. Tours of the campus will be conducted by the organization throughout the morning. Special exhibits were prepared by the Art Department of the col lege. Included will be a showing of painting! by Jerry Coble, an Appalachian graduate. Other ex hibits were planned by the Music Department, the Home Economics Department; the Department of Health and Physical Education; the Science DepartMnt; the Math ematics Department, the Library; the Audio-Visual Center; the De partment of Education; and the Department of Business Educa tion. A "splash" party In the college pool will be held for visitors at 10 o'clock Saturday morning. The Physical Education Department will supervise this phaae of the festival. Movies of special interest will be shown by the Audio-Visual Cen ter in the College Auditorium. Preceding the May Day pro gram, the college band, under di rection of William Spencer, will offer an informal band concert in the Physical Education Build ing. The May Day program, named "Memories of the Mountains," will begin at 1:30 o'clock, and will pro ceed as follows: The May Court, with Carolyn Wall as queen, will enter to watch the program. Unveiling Ceremony will be by the Men's "A" Club. "American Folk Rhapsody" by Clare E. Grundman, by the Col lege Band. English Country Dance: Green sleeves, by the Celeste Henkel (Continued on page seven) I I Watauga Unit NCEA fl Banquet Is Planned Roy Thompson, columnist-report tr with the Winston-Salem Journal, irill bt the speaker at the annual banquet of the Watauga unit ol the North Carolina Education As toria tion Friday night In the Valle Crudi school cafeteria. The pro |r*m begins at 7:00 o'doefc. *, John Mirth, unit president, en nounced activities of tha night will include a program honoring former Wstauga teachers who hare re tired from the profession since IBM. Officers elected la March >rin be installed by Mrs Dam Mm Sdmisten. saperrlaor of mm* HvS&i ftS W&M L: & v fflffiSaSMral ty ichooU. GuesU of the NCEA will kid the Watauga County Board of
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