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BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUGA An Independent Weekly Nett* paper . , Seventy-First Year of JANUARY Local Communities Get Entry F orms F or Progress Contests Communities in Watauga and ten other countiei in Northwest North Carolina this week received entry forms (or the Northwest North Carolina Development As sociation's annual community Judg ing. Cash prizes will be awarded next (all to winning communities. The communities are classified as (ollows: (arming, rural non tanning, and small towns and vil lages. Prizes to communities in each o( these classifications will le awarded. There will be a spec ial division (or communities enter ng (or the first time. The community development >rogram was set up by the North vest Association in order to en ourage communities or organize nd develop programs (or home mprovements, increasing per cap (a Income, youth activities and ommunity-wlde improvement. Special prizes are also awarded o the counties making the meet irogress in these areas. In 1M8, a total o ( *3,060 in ash prises were awarded to win ing communities in the different Unification*. Community development is one f four divisions in which the iorthwest Development Aasoda on is active. The others are ag riculture, industry, and travel and recreation. Mr*. W. T. Roth of Elk in it chairman of the commun ity development division Mrs. Fred Bowman of Granite Fall* i* vice chairman. Representative* in the commun ity development division from Wa tauga are: ' Jerry Adam*, Sugar Grove; the Rev. Hoyt Roberson, Boone; Mr*. Hattie Lewi*, Sher wood. Deadline for communities to en ter thi* year* development pro gram is May 15. Entry blanks, along with detailed information on organization were mailed to the communities thi* week. Judging it icheduled to be held in early November, I960. The clarification* of the eom munltiea are defined a* follow*: Farming community? one-third or more of the families In the community receiving ? major part of their livelihood from farming. Rural non-farm community ? two-third* or more of the familie* in the community deriving their income from outalde source* or sources other than farming. Small city, town or village? a community with a definitely es tablished center where buiines* and professional activity Is carried on and in which there art resi dential areas. lOptimist Club Being Organized In Boone The final organizational meeting of the Optimist Club of Boone will be held at 4:10 p. m. Thursday, January 29, at th? Boone Trail . Mr. William Collins, Field Mp* resentative of Optimist IntarOa tionai, St. Louis, Mo., will conduct the mooting. Members will elect officer* and diroct6rs, adopt by laws, and set quarterly duet. The new dab it being tpoaoored by the Lenoir Optimist Club. The official Charter Party, with about 80 members and their wives, is' expected to be held in about six weeks. The first project of the club, which is a county-wide organiza tion, will be to sponsor a local oratorical contest in Watauga County schools. The subject is Optimism. The local winner will compete in a zone contest in Le noir, and the zone winner will go to the regional contesf to be held in Atlanta, Ga. Winners from the four international regions will compete at Miami Beach, Fla., for a $1,000 scholarship. Each of the other three finalists will receive a $500 scholarship. The Boone Optimist Club will bring to this community a very special Boys' Work Program. There are over 500 different pro grams available to the local group through Optimist International. One of the most popular programs is the Junior Optimist Club move ment. Last year more than 1,500, '000 boys were reached in the Op timist movement with over $8 mil lion being spent. Optimist International for the paat five years ha* been the fast est growing service organization in all the world, local organizers say. November 10-16 marked the Sec ond International Youth Appreci ation Week. This is a program sponsored by Optimist Internation al to praise snd publicize 95 per cent of our young people who are developing into model citizens of the future. Club* hope that by publicizing decency instead of de linquency youth will realize "you don't, have to bo tad to be not TM Mfrnist Creod to'a baaic (tMfflWid on paae eight) Mrs. Greer Dies Friday Mr*. Elmira Oliver Greer, 7B, died at bar home at Zionville on Friday, January 23. The funeral was conducted Sun day, January 28, at 2 p. m. at the Pleaaant Grove Baptist Church by the Rev. Fred Hagaman, the Rev. R. C. Eggers, and the Rev. Ronda Earp. Burial wai in Union ceme tery. Survivors include her husband, Henley Groor; six sons, Arnt Greer, Trade, Tenn., Fonzo Greer, Mountain City, Tenn., Raymond Greer, Morganton, Norman Greer, Boone, Von Greer, Wasco, Oregon, and Don Greer, Zionville; three daughters, Mrs. Mae Thomaa, Wasco, Oregon, Mrs. Ethel Perry, Zionville, and' Mrs. Dare Isaacs, Zionville; fc brother, John Oliver, Trade, Tenn. Also surviving are 33 grand children and 17 great-grandchild ren. Walsh Is Named To Weil Point Paul Hunter Walsh, son of the late Paul Walsh and Mrs. Walsh of Sherwood baa been given the second alternate appointment to the U. S. Military Academy, West Point, N. Y., by Representative Hugh Q. Alexander; The nomination was one of 23 announced by Rep. Alexander for 1000 entrance to the Army, Navy, Air Force and Merchant Marine Academies. Boone Is Deluged By Two Inches Of Rain en, and shortly afterward* the precipitation ceased. Some wiad damage waa noted, with a few null signs la down town Boom being torn from their books, bat no major damage waa reported. The rate fan la WMegree or above weather, but by morniag the temperature bad dropped to be low the twenties- The wind con tinued during the night, and dried off the streets and highways con siderably, but the soggy ground was frocen by the sudden drop In IXew Stadium Entrance Planned Sixty-five-foot steel culvert that will be placed under street near College Field. A tixty-flve-foot entrance to the itreet just west of College Field at Appalachian State Teachers Col lege is being built as part of the college's permanent improvement program of walks, streets and land scaping, according to Bernard Dougherty, vice ? president and comptroller of the institution. The plans call for a 69-foot steel culvert, which is on location, being placed where a narrow bridge is now, and a traffic island will be placed at the approach to facilitate the movement of traffic in and out of the area. Work, which has been halted (or some time on the project, is expected to be resumed this week, and efforts will be made to mini mize the inconvenience to those who use the street, by getting th? culvert In as soon as possible. Four Counties Join In Forming Area Development Association Mr. H. W. Wilcox of Boone, veteran Chamber of Commerce executive, was named president of the Tenneasee-C a r o 1 i n a Four County Development Association, organized in Boone last week. The Association, made op of cMma of Watauga and Avery counties la North CansUaa. and Johnson and Carter counties & Teaaesaee, will have a* its god the development of the natural resources of the four-county area through cooperative effort, at the same time encouraging industry to take a closer look at the territory. Two major projects Involve the continuing effort to secure cheaper electricity for Watauga County, and in some way to hring about the construction of the Beech Creek Dam. Other officers of the Associa tion are: Johnson County, Tenn., F. G. Terry, secretary-treasurer, Dr. R. O. Glenn and L. D. Butler, directors; Carter County, Tennes see, R. E. Little, vice-president, two directors to be named later; Avery County, E. L. Lafferty, vice-president, two directors to be named later; Watauga County, Herman W. Wilcox, president, S. C. Eggers and Herman Anderson, directors. The land area covered by the four counties _ is about 466,000 acres. Commercial forest cover about 60 per cent of the area. The next meeting of the As sociation will be held in Eliza bethan, Tenn., March 27. The association will apply for a charter as a non-profit organiza tion. Other officers snd commit tee* win be named later. General 'offices will be in Mountain City, Tenn. No Weed Cut Seen WashlagUa, D. C., in. 17*? Coofrtuman Hugh Q. Alexander UMlced la Washington today that the Secretary tf Agricaltnre had unnd him that there ?mU he n reduction la Barley I* htcce allotmenta far 1?5?. The Secretary, Alexander aid, M (Used aa order fixing the lNt Barley acreage allotment* at the figure for IMC. *1 m pleated," commented Alexander, "that Che Depart ?eat ef Agrienltare ha* heeded the pnted that I tad ether cent aaeetiag with tahtcctf offi cials." Alexaader recently lodged a ?^y rtreag | hacea dlilalea.ef the Agrtealtart Department aver | la redact the 1*6$ i Horn To Act Friday Float action on the budget and other matteri pertaining to the - mi pfidoctioB of the outdtor drama, Hen In the West, hat been postponed to Friday, nlfht of this week, when an open Meet ing of the board of director* of the Southern Appalachian His torical Association will be held at 7:3* o'clock is the banquet room of the Boone Trail Rest aurant. All persons Interested in the finances and plans for produc tion of the play are invited to meet with the board at that time. Dimes Dance On Saturday The 1999 March of Dimes Drive is to be capped with the annual festive dance this Saturday night at the Elementary School Gym from 8:30 until 12 p. m., with the highlight of the evening being mu sic played by the Appatones. The cooperation and help given by folks and merchants of the town promise! to make this March of Dimes Balloon Dance a huge success, but the real success will be measured by the resulting at tendance. Tickets may be purchased at the door, or in advance at the Boone Drug Store and the College Book Store. Death Takes Mrs. Dan Mast Mrs. Ruia Lowrance Mast, 70, died at the home, Sugar Grove, Wednesday, January 21, at 3:18 p. m. Funeral services were conduct ed at the Cove Creek Baptist Church Friday, January 23, at 2:00 p. m. by the Rev. Mr. Blank enship and Rev. Alvin Wilson, pastor of Henson's Chapel Meth odist Church. Burial was in the Cove Creek cemetery. Mrs. Mast was born and reared ill Watauga County. She was a member of the Cove Creek Bapt ist Church. She was married Aug ust 29, 1895 to Dan H. Mast, ap proximately 63 and one-half years ago. Surviving are three sons and , six daughters. Don Mast, Moun- ' tain City, Tenn., Orville Mast, Cleveland, Ohio, Roe Mast, Sher wood; Mrs. Guy Ellis, Bristol, Va., Mrs. Rose Combs, Mrs. Clyde Hen- j son, Vilas, Mrs. Ralph Lyons, , Charlotte, Mrs. Gladys Thompson, ( Sugar Grove, and Mrs. Clint Baird, ' Valle Crucis. Also surviving are two brothers, Lee Lowrance, Valle Crucis and Wilson Lowr- ' ance, Fall Branch, Tenn. Surviving are thirty one grand children, fifty three great grand- 1 children and two great great ' grandchildren. The granddaughters acted as the flower girls and active pallbear ers were the grandsons. Restriction on highway bill boards sought again. Boone To Have Neil Y? WK ' ?'?? ?/,;* "V-l*" ri<,5 -? ?' ">*? : : ? I 'VjSra^ Highway Outlets Work To Start On 421 West, 603 Is Pushed Boone is to have two com pletely modern' interstate highway connections to the west in the foreseeable future, when the Tennessee link of 603 is completed, and the last part of the old twisting section of 421 gives way to a modern thoroughfare. Work is expected to start soon on the 421 project which will open a new improved highway connection since Tennessee eliminated her wprst section "down the gorge" some tinfe ago. The new highway will leave the present' 421 in the vicinity of Willowdaie Baptist Church, just west of Vilas and will go north west across country to rejoin the present highway near Zionvllle. Suber & Co., of Whitmlre, S. C., submitted the low bid of $1, 141,281.90 for the roadway, while W. B. Dillard Construction Co., of Sylva submitted the low bid of $52,736.88 on the structures. Work is going forward on the lower end of highway 803 in Tennessee and the contractor, the Asheville Construction Co., is working through the winter in an effort to get the road done during the fall of this year. Long advocated by the people of Boone and the county, 803 will form another important link with the west and should provide a vital commercial and tourist art ery to supplement the present fine system of interstate highways serving this area. North Carolina had long since completed her sec tion of the road to the State line. A. L. Dotson Succumbs Albert Lenoir Dotson, 75, of Sugar Grove, died Monday, Janu ary 26, at Watauga Hoipital. Funeral services were to be conducted at 2 p. m. Wednesday, January 28, by the Rev. Carl Wil son and the Rev. W. C. Payne, with burial to follow In St. John's cemetery. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Matilda Dotson; three tons, Rus sell Dotson, Sugar Grove, New land Dotson, Winston-Salem, and Charles Dotson, Sugar Grove; five daughters, Mrs. OUie Coe, Win ston-Salem, Mrs. Bonnie Hicks, Bugar Grove, Mrs. Stella Delling er, Morganton, Mrs. Ida Ward, Sugar Arove, and Mrs. Mary Cavel la'ro, Philadelphia, Pa.; a sister, Mrs. James Smith, Bluff City, Tenn. Also 26 grandchildren and 30 great-grandcbUdren. THE MIST partially obecurea the reservoir above the dam near Tata's Tourist Lodge Juat off the Mowing Rock highway Ice may be M?o dinging to part of the apilltray and rocka nfeovt, aa the rait and wind combine with the coM weather to (hra paaaera-by thia beautiful winter picture. ' . .. ? T^$r ?Photo by Palmor'a Photo Shop Wrestler Cox and Coach Watkina Sightless Wrestler Does Well At College By GEORGE FLOWERS, JR. Don Cox, a' husky 10-year-old wreitler at Appalachian State Teachar* College, admits he's somewhat at ? dlaadvantage when he'i on his feet. "But Jnit wait until my oppon ent throws me off balance," he says with a knowing smile. When his clinched hands are pounding on the mat, Don ia at his best. Don's peculiar advantage ia not in his muscles of bis timing. That helps, but the real factor is one which could be expected to work against him. He has been blind since he was five years old. That accounts for his disad vantage on his feet. And it means, at the same time, advantages that come from 14 year* of living in a world of blackness, advantages in sensitive reflexes and "sight" by sound and feeling. Don, a Virginian who came to Appalachian by way of the school for the blind at Staunton, Va., took up wrestling only four years ago. "It was the thing to do at Staunton. I wanted to participate in sports and wrestling was the only one suited to my handicap," he explains. From the mats at Staunton, he went on to the Virginia state cham pionship, losing by only one point. His coach at Staunton was a good friend of Mountaineer Coach Red Watkins and "put me in touch with him." For Coach Watkins, who has been coaching wrestlers for 36 years, it waa a new experience ? his first blind one. But, after only a few months, be haa high praise for Cox, who "can hold his own on the mata with anyone." His record of four wins in four meets this season backs up Coach Watkins' estimate. "I haven't been scored on yet," boasts Cox proud ly of hi* one pin and three de cisions. Watkins explains that he treat! Don "the Mine aa the other wrest' lers, giving him the aame training. The only thing we had to do special was to give him a little extra coaching in certain fundamental Hands and holds." Cox holds another distinction in addition to being the first blind wrestler in 22 years (or Appala chian. He is alao the first blind student permitted to attend the school (or a (ull (our-year course. Most blind students attend (or only two years, but since he is studying physical therapy rather than teaching, school o((icials made an exception (or an excep tional student. While he spends his afternoons practicing, he devotea his nights to the books. He came here after finishing Staunton in fourth-place scholastically. At Appalachian he has managed to maintain a B av erage. Don once thought he might re gain his sight a(ter losing it be cause o( glaucoma when he was two years old. Medical treatment gave him a ray of light and o( hope a (ew months later, but, by the time he was (ive he was complete ly without vision. It haa been a dark world (or Don but certainly not a quiet one. He grew up in Roanoke, Va., with a brother and sister. After that came the Staunton school and now a college room which seertts to at tract (ellow collegians. "Because o( the way I have to study with braille I have a room by myseK here," he said. But he added, as an afterthought, "it's always crowded though, with just about everybody on campus It seems." Swedish budget called shocker new taxes asked. Arab Development Bank to be gin operation. Greene Given Award In Conservation Work Edgar D. Greene, Mil conser vation aid of the Watauga County Work Unit, has Juit been notified that he haa been awarded an "out standing" rating for aervice rend ered during 1M6. Mr. Greene received thia award from E. B. Garrett, state conaer vationiat with Soil Conservation Service. The award waa made upon the recommendation* of H. J. Williams, WaUuga Work Unit conaervatlonlst; R. C. Wyatt, Av ery County Work Unit conserva tionist; and L. D. Curie, acting area conservationist of the North Wilkeaboro area office. To merit >n outstanding ratine all phaxea of the work of the em ployee must be of an outstanding nature. Very few of these award* are granted in the state and it ia a high honor to receive such a com mendation. Mr. Greene has been working with Soil Conservation Service for thirteen years. He began work in the WataugJ Work Unit in March 1060, when Soil Coneervatlon Ser vice opened the Boone office to provide technical assistance to the Watauga Soil Conservation Me tric!
Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.)
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