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An Independent Weekly Netwptiper Seventy-FirU Year of Continuoiu Publication VOLUME LXXI. ? NO. II BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 28, 1*18 ASC Committees To Be Elected; Full Vote is Being Urged ASC Committeemen will be elected in each of the county's 10 agricultural communities on Oct over 2. In each of these communities a chairman, vice chairman, regular member, and two alternates to. the local ASC Committee will be v elected. A nominating committee in the community, composed of three farmers residing in the commun ity, has already chosen from among their neighbors a slate of farmers whom they consider the most capable. No names have been added to the list as previously an nounced and mailed to all farm ers. Vaughn Tugman, Chairman of the County ASC Committee, in announcing these election plans called on all farmers in the Coun ty to carefully plan their action on election day and by all means to visit the polls and cast their votes. In each agricultural community, according to Tugman, every farm er who is participating, or who is eligible to participate, in any pro gram administered by the County ASC Committee is eligible to vote. This includes any owner, opera tor, tenant, or aharecropper on a farm which is eligible to partici pate in the Agricultural Conser vation Program, the Soil Bank Program, the various price sup port programs, or who is affected by acreage allotments and market ing quotas on any of the basic commodities, he said. In past years, Watauga County farmers have shown their interest in farm programs by turning out in great numbers on ASC election day. For the last few years, how ever, participation in the ASC community elections has been dropping off. "This is your chanc* to help elect tha beat ASC Com munity Committeemen yon can find. Don't let your neighbors down by passing up the election when it is held in your commun ity," Tugman urged. Community Committee Nomiaee* BEAVER DAM: Donly Haga man's store ? Howard Cable, Bus ter Dishman, Jake Eggeta, C. C. Johnson, Lewis Norm, Linville N o r r i a. Clay Phillips, Aaa L. Reese, Sr., Paul Tester and Dead Wilson. , BRUSHY FORK: ViUs Service Station ? Fred Blair, Coy Billings, ,C. A. Clay, Willie Cole, Howand Dancy, James Greer, Tom Hayes, B. F. Hodges, Joe McNeil and Don*Thompson. COVE CREEK: James B. Mast's Store ? Cicero Greer, Ford Hen son, Jack Henson, Max Miller, John Sherwood, Otto Thomas, Howar<) Vannoy, Lester Warren, M. L. Warren and Joe Wilson. LAUREL CREEK: V. D. Ward's Store ? Frank Cable, Charles Glenn, Ned Glenn, Gradon Haga man, Arnold Presnell, Ira Pres, nell, Rill Rominger, Gene Smith, Leonard Ward and Luther Ward. MEAT CAMP: Davis' Furniture Stores-Billy Byers, Wade Claw son, Walter Davis, James Lewis, H. C. Moretz, Wade Norris, Wil lard Norris, Woodrow Starnes, Paul Stephens and Worth Wipe NEW RIVER: BasU Smith's S t o r e ? Coll is Austin, Stewart Barnes, Fred Baumann, Kenneth Brown, R. V. Brown, Jr., Dwight Critcher, R. W. Harmon, Clint Norria, Orrin Sherrill and Roby Vandyke. NORTH FORK: filler's Store Fred Johnson, Willie Lang, Dave Main, Claud May, Ralph May, Loyd Miller, Howard Thomas, Jack Wallace, Archie Wilson and C. R. Wilson. SHAWNEEHAW: Story's Store ? Will Byrd, Howell Cook, Jack Eggers, Victor Farthing, Don Oli ver, Hoyle Shook, W. H. Smith, Ira Townsend, William Townsend and Ed Yates. STONY FORK: Deep Gap P. 0. ? Joe Coffey, Sr., V. C. Cox, W. B. Day, Tho?. Fairchlld, Edgar Hardin, Clark Miller, Dick Rhy mer, Charlie Simmons, Arthur Whetfler, Charlie Wheeler. WATAUGA: Howard Mast's Store ? Shulla Aldridge. Cline Baird, George Byrd, Ray Clark, Arlie B. Hodges, Dave Minton, Basil Shores, Jeff Shook, Frank Taylor and J. L. Yates. DevelopmentBoard Maps Meeting Plans The board of director! of the 11-county Northwest North Caro lina Development Association held its monthly meeting here at the Daniel Boone Hotel last Friday. President Atwell Alexander of Alexander County presided, and Secretary-Treasurer Neil Bolton of Winston-Salem gave the trea surer's report. Watauga County members of the board are 0. K. Richardson, L. E. Tuckwiller, and W. R. Wink ler. Reports of activities and pro gress were heard from chairmen of the main divisions of the as sociation, Agriculture, Industry, Travel k Recreation, and Com munity Development. Frizes are awarded each year to communities showing the moat progress in com munity development. Plans were also discussed - for the annual meeting of the associa tion, which will be held as usual at the YMCA in Elkin, on Decem ber 4th. It was announced that efforts will be made to have at lea^t 30 persons attend the annual meeting from each of the .eleven counties, more from the larger counties: Advance tickets will be placed in the hands of board members, to be scld arid reported prior to the meeting in order that piannet* will know how many to prepare for. febout 790 persons were in attendance at last years meeting. Present Alexander said. Personnel of committees set up to prepare for the annual meeting were announced. Wataugans nam ed to these committees are aa fol lows: Arrangementa committee. 0. K. Richardson; welcoming com mittee, L. E. Tuckwiller; attend ance committee, O. K. Richardson (Chairman); entertainment com mittee, W. R. Winkler, chairman), A. T- Adams and Dr. W. a Plem mons; and publicity committee, R C Rivers. The musical portion of the en tertainment will be furnished by Appalachian State Teachers Col lege. Mrs. Sue Taylor Murray of Valle Cruris, manager of the association sponsored Trading Post, located on the Blue Ridge Parkway near Glendale Springs, reported that the new tourist attraction has been quite well received and patroni sed by the public in its first year of operation. She said she has re ceived many letters from people in several states commending the new facility and complimenting / (Continued on page three) BURCEY TOBACCO PATCH, the weed cut and impaled on up-ended (ticks, shows white against the autumn landscape. Reports indicate that burley ia good this year, that curing conditions have been favorable, and there is optimism as to market conditions when the auctions start about the end of November. ? Staff photo. : > z_ 1 Watauga Would Host 20,000 Evacuees in Case Of Attack Watauga county has been as signed the task of taking in 20, 000 evacuees from the heavily populated areas of East Tennessee in the event of an enemy attack, a state Civil Defense official said Past Masters Are Honored By Masons Fifteen living past masters of Snow Lodge. No. 363. AF & AH, were honored Friday night when the local Masonic lodge met in their hall on King Street. The ?even who were present were pre sented past master certificates. Receiving the certificates were T. M. Greer, who served in 1944 and 1945; Dr. J. T..C. Wright, 1946; A. R. Smith, 194S; Hoyle Davis, 1953, J. D. Winebarger, 1994; J. D. Shoemake, 1955; and Floyd Brewer, 1957. Others who have served as mast ers, but were unable to attend are George G. Farthing, 1939; W. W. Williams, 1940; Richard E. Kelley, 1941, 1949, 1950; Eugene E. Gar bee. 1942; lie H. Stout, 1943; J. E. Clay, 1951; J. D. Cook, 1952; and Paul Brown, 1956. Masons and visiting brethern heard Dr. Wright read from the "King Street" column of Rob "Riv ers', which appears in the Wa tauga Democrat, in which Mr. Rivers wrote of the "Ancient Fra ternity . . Old Timers Meet." The article concerned the local lodge and gave some of its history. The column had been framed by James Miller in curly maple, and was bung in the lodge hall. Present worshipful master of the lodge is B. W. Stallings. and secre tary is Jennings B. Robinson. Each past master present was called on to inject some remarks in the meeting. here last week. Col. V. D. Whatley (Ret.) of the Civil Defense office in Raleigh, met with about 100 intereited cit izens in the court house Wednes day night, September 17, at the first county-wide meeting on Civil Defense, and outlined the CD set up at both the state and local levels. Dr. R. H. Harmon is Civil De fense director for Watauga county and W. Ralph Tugman is deputy director. "We must base our thinking on the assumption that some day we will be engaged in a war," said Col. Whatley. "We have potential enemies capable of launching a nuclear attack on any part of the United States at any time." This would be followed by an invasion of troops, he added. The national Civil Defense plan, which will be distributed to every family in the nation in the near future, embodies the following con cepts, the speaker said: 1. All resource* will be used for defense. 2. Governments at all levels will prepare a comprehen sive plan. 3. The Governor will be in charge of all counties in case of war. 4. Emergency measures will be directed through a Civil Defense organization and coordi nated by the National Security Council. ? There are six CD areas in North Carolina, said Col. Whatley, which follow the geographical lines of state highway maintenance areas, and a plan of evacuation has been worked out for seven cities in the state. An agreement has been reached with the state of Tennessee to take 270,000 people into North Caro lina in the event of an emergency, ; and Watauga county will be asked to take 20,000, he said. The state CD office has prepared a "protoype survival plan" and for warded it to Civil Defense direc tors of each county. This plan aleo outlines the support this county will receive from Federal and State government*, and adjoining areai. There arc four time phaiei pro vided for in the plan, Col. Whatley said. 1. Strategic phase, if war is declared but we are not yet attack ed. 2. Tactical phaae, when warn ing of attack it received. 3. Attack without warning. 4. Post-attack phase. There are 17 separate services set up in the CD plan. They are Attack Warning, Communications, Engineering and Public Works, Emergency Information, Manpow er, Fire, Health Protection, Emer 'gency Medical Care, Welfare, Po lice, Religious Affairs, Radiologi cal Defense, Rescue, Transporta tion, Supply, Emergency Training, and Warden Mrvicet. All of these services will not necessarily become operative, said Col. Whatlejr, but all are essen tial in order to be prepared for any contingency. The Watauga county advisory council is composed of Mayor Gordon H. Winkler, Fred Hatley, the Rev. George Arthur, Dr. G. K. Moose, Dr. D. J. Whitener, Stacy Eggers, Mrs. H. W. Wilcox, L E. Tuckwiller, W. R. Winkler, W. Guy Angell, Dr. W. M. Mathe son, and Mayor R. B. Hardin of Blowing Rock. Although the county organiza tion is not yet completed. Dr. Har mon announced that the coordinat ing staff has been named as fol lows: Personnel, I. S. Ayers; Intel ligence, James A. Greene; Opera tions, C. P-. Teague; and Logistics, Donald W. McCracken. Attorney L H. Smith is legal advisor, Rev. Mr. Arthur is In charge of religious affairs, Supt. Dave Mast will direct the Welfare service, Lionel Ward is warden, and R. D. Hodge* is in charge of the Supply service. Appointments to complete the organization will be made in the near future, said Dr. Harmon. ? PAST MASTER*.? Seren of the fifl in* honoring thorn. They arc, fror Hoyle Davie, back row: A. R. Smit - ?een pait matter* of Snow Lodge werr pnmt Friday night at ? meet it row. Ml to right. T. M. Greer, J. D. Skoemake. 3. D Wlnebarger, h, Or. J. T. C. Wright and Floyd Brewer ? Stall photo Joe C. Minor. Winebarger Is New Head Election Board Mr. J. D. Winebarger waa^elect cd chairman of the Watauga County Board of Election! at a meeting held laat Friday, to sue ceed R. T. Greer, resigned. Mr. Q,reer, who had occupied tke chairmanahip since 1942, gave poor health aa the reason for Ma retirement from the chairman ahip. However, he remains on the board and was named Secretary. Eure To Speak As Democrats lipid Barbecue Thad Eure, Secretary of State will be the principal speaker at the Democratic barbecue to be Vld at the Horn in the West pic nic area Saturday. October 4 at ? o'clock, according to C. H. Hen drix. Democratic county chair man. Repreaentative Hugh Alexander will alao be proaeat (or the Hnt public fathering of the current political campaign, Mr. tlendrix aaid Senator Sam Ervla baa alao been invited. 2,000 To Attend NCEA Conference The Annual Convention of the Northwestern District of the NCEA meets in Boone on FWday, Septem ber 26. This is the first convention of the reorganized district, al though 35 previous district conven tions haVe been held. Boone plays host to the conven tion for the first time and 2,000 teachers , principals, supervisors, superintendents, and other local personnal from the 11 counties comprising the district. The day-long meeting is one of ten NCEA district meetings sched uled for this fall as a part of the NCEA's in-service training and professional development of mem bers of the teaching profession. Rohert E. Woodaide, Croas nore, will prerfde over the Gen eral Session scheduled ,on the campus of Appalachian State Teftchers Colege. Other district officers are: Mrs. Celeste Huff Ines, Lenoir, Vice-President; Mrs. Margaret Gragg, Boone, Secre tary; and Esther Howard, Le noir, NCEA Director. Dr. Cameron Ralston, former Di rector of Public Forums, United States Department of Interior, will deliver the principal address at the General Session. Dr. Ralston is the Executive Secretary of the Chicago Committee of One Hun dred. Others appearing oil the Gen eral Session are: The Reverend J. K. Parker, Jr., Pastor, First Presbyterian Church, Boone; Dr. W. H. Plrmmom, President. Ap palachian SUtc Tiwben Collcfe, Bomm; Either Hwirl, NCSA Director, Northwestern District NCEA, Teacher, East Harper School. Lenoir; Dr. Charles T. Carroll, State Superintendent of P ? h 1 1 e Instruction, lalelgh; Glena Robertson, NCEA Presi dent, Principal, Beulah School, Mount Airy; and Mrs. Ethel P. Edwards, NCEA Executive Sec retary, Raleigh. Professional interests and sub ject areas wil receive attention' of the teachers during the twenty five divisional and departmental meetings. The five divisions will hold luncheons at which business sessions will be preceded by vari ous speakers. The Classroom Tea chers will hear Lois Edinger, WUNC-TV Studio Teacher, Chapel Hill; and J. 0. Barbour, District Manager, Equitable Life Insurance Company, Chairman, Marganton School Board, Morganton. "Discussion of Curriculum Study Policiea and Practices" will be the topic of Dr. I. E. Ready, Director of Statewide Curriculum Study, Raleigh, as be sddresses the Di rector* of Instruction and Division of Higher Education. The Principals will bear a panel diacnaaion on the subject of "The Administrative Intern." The participants are Dr. Ben Horten and Dr. William Fulmer ef Appalachian State Teachers College, Boone. Dr. I. E. Reary will speak to the supertntend eata. During the afternoon through speeches, panels, demonstrationa, and discussions, members af the e departments will attempt' to im prove the curriculum and the techniques of teaching. Included will be such items as: "The Role of Agriculture in North Carolifla Economy," by Harry Caldwall, Master, North Carolina State Gran ge, Greensboro; "Claasiflcatioo of Children in the Elementary School" by A. B. Gibson, Superintendent, Laurinburg City Schools, Laurin burg; "New Trends In Teaching Mathematics" by Mrs. Caroline Sydnot', High School Mathematics Teacher, Mount Airy; "Music in tha Modern School" by Dr. Arnold E. Hoffman, State Supervisor of Music, State Department of Public Instruction, Raleigh; obeervation of college claaaaa in art; panel dis cussions on "Frence and Spanish in the High School" and "Prob- , lems Frequently Encountered by High School Science Teachers;" snd a lecture on social studies by Dr. D. J. Whitener, Appalachian State Teachers College, Boone. Each division and department will elect officers for the coming year during the business sessions. The district lncludot the follow ing eleven counties: Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Burke, Caldwell Mitchell, Surry, Watauga, Wilkes, and Yadkin. 1 ? DORM GOING UP.? Steel framework of the new wing of East Hill at Appalachian State Teachers College, is set in place, as the college attempt! to alleviate the space problem for its woihen students. When com pleted, the wing will house 174 students, raising the capacity of East Hall to 400. The first floor will house recreation and parlor facilities, while the other four stories will be used for dormitory purposes. Occupancy is expected to take place next fall. ? Staff photo Joe C. Minor. Needs In Educational System Outlined By Angell To PTA The Boone Parent Teachers As sociation was told Monday night of the urgent needa in Watauga county for an improved educa tional program and propoaed ac tion of the State Legislature in 1900 in regard to the educational lyatem. W. Guy Angell. superintendent of Watauga County School*, spoke before a large number of parenti, teachers and school friends at the annual supper meeting of the PTA honoring the teachers of the high school and elementary school in Boone. The meeting was held in the cafeteria of Boone Elementary School, and food waa furnished by parents of , students. Cooperation between school pa trona and School authorities and . teachers was cited a* one way to to get the many thlnga done that should 'be done for the school children. Active interest by par enta in what ia happening In Wa tauga county schools to give equal opportunity to all students is needed to make the educational program more effective. Mr. Aag*" pointed oat shortages to cUsnrootn pwoniltl and inade quate curriculum as an immediate problem which should be fern edied. This will have to be brought be uld. Several iiutancei were noted by Mr. Angell in which the county had furnished money to make up state deficit* in order to bring the local schools up to certain stand ardi. classroom aids, reading ma terial, Janitorial services were some of the things mentioned. In the matter of legislative ac tion, Mr. Angell said that the lawmakers will be conlfonted with several problems concerning the Mate's schools. They are expected to consider a salary increase of about 10 percent for all school per sonnel. A Med for specialists in the fields of guidance and cou fueling will be brought before them, aad at leait one person will be needed in Watauga county for that work if the program goes through. Two hundred more full-time li brarians will be needed to pro vide minimum adequate service for the schools. Wataya has only two full-time librarllns in ita schools, and both of them are in the Boone schools, and are paid by Appalachian State Teachers Col lege. In the other schools teach ers of other subjects arc operating (Continued on page eight) j Court Tries 55 Cases; | May Adjourn Today The September criminal term of Watauga Superior Court con vened Monday with Judge Hugh B. Campbell, of Charlotte, pre aiding. FIfly-fhre of the 110 caaea on the docket had been diapoaed of by noon Ttteaday, mostly involv ing traffic and Uquor law viola Uoos Md larceny. Then were m major crimen scheduled to be tried at this term. Continutncoi have been (ranted in a number of Clerk of Court Auatin E. said it probably would be day or Friday before the i la cleared and court adjour A list of the judgments r ed will be published next 1
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