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VOLUME LXX1?NO. 4?
An Independent Weekly Newspaper . . . Seventy-First Year of Continuous
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IOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1999
iHTEEN PAGES-THREE SECTIONS IS
Jim Moore, Director
Recreation, Gives
Schedule Of Play
Jim Moore, recreational direct
or for the Town of Boone, has
issued a call to all boys agea 8-11
interested in participating in the
summer activities and recreation.
The activities get underway Mon
day, June 8, but Mr. Moore la ask
ing all those that can to sign up
for the program Friday during the
hours listed below. The place for
registering will be in Mrs. Jack
Grace's room at Appalachian High
School.
1:30 to 2:15 p. m. ? ages 8-10.
2:30 to 3:19 p. m. ? ages 11-12.
3:30 to 4:18 p. m. ? ages 13-18.
The boys will be told at the time
they sign up where their activities
will be held.
When the program geta under
way the following days and hours
will be observed for supervised
recreation:
Monday ? boys ages 11-12 at 1:80
to 3:00 p. m.; boys agea 13-18 at
3:30 to 4:30 p. m.
Tuesday ? boys 8-10 at 1:30 to
4:30 p. m.
Wednesday? boys 11-12 at 1:30
to 3:00 p. m.; boys 13-18 at 3:00 to
4:30 p. m.
Thursday ? boys 8 to 10 at 1:30
to 4:30 p. m.
Friday ? boys 11-12 at 1:30 to
3:00 p. m.; boys 13 to 18 at 3:00 to
4:30 p. m.
New Director
Was Teacher
The Recreation Commission of
Boone has announced the appoint
ment of Jim Moore aa recreational
director for the summer months in
Boone. The commisaion expects
a full schedule of activities to
be carried on
already plans are being made to
get these activities underway.
The boys' program begins Mon
day, and adult softball play will
begin as soon as enough teams
are signed up.
Mr. Moore announced the pro
gram will continue through the
middle of August.
Mr. Moore taught last year at
Happy Valley School in Caldwell
County. His subjects were physi
cal education and math. He at
tended Appalachian State Teachers
College and has BS and MA de
grees in math and physical educa
tion from the local school.
Mr. and Mrs. Moore live at 129
Oak Street in Boone.
Clay Quitting
As City Clerk
Mr. J. E. Clay, town clerk and
tax collector for the town of Boone
for many yeari, haa tendered hia
resignation to the city council, ef
fective aa of June 30, 1959.
The council haa accepted hia
resignation.
In announcing hia aeverance
from the civic position Mr. Clay
expreaaed to the governing body
hia appreciation for the coopera
tion accorded him during hia long
tenure.
Mr. CUy further says that if
there be anyone who has any
grievance of any kind, or quest
ion, they are invited to call at
city hall, and he will attempt to
clear them.
Adult Softball
League Is Seen
A loftbail league for adults will
be formedfgain this year, accord
ing to Boone Recreation Director
Jim Moore The league, open to
teams from various organisations
and churches in the county has
been successful for the past few
years, and Mr. Moore expects sev
eral teams to enter this year.
Groups interested in placing ?
team in the league are urged to
contact Mr. Moore at his home
at 129 Oak Street, or by telephone
AM 4-8860.
As soon as enough teams have
signed up to make a schedule,
play will begin.
Women's teams are also invited,
and Mr. Moore stated that if
enough teams of the fairer sex
are entered, regular play will be
held for them.
C. Of G. Will
Honor I. R. C.
The International Resistance
Co. will be honored at the regu
lar meeting of the Boone Chamber
of Commerce next Tuetday noon,
it ia learned.
Mr. Fred Gragg, manager of the
manufacturing and personnel di
vision of IRC will have charge of
the program.
The guest speaker will be F. P.
Rice, director of operations for
IRC in Philadelphia.
Mr. Carl Smith, plant manager
far IRC- wilt also take part In the
ILtr. of the membership
committee for the Chamber of
Commence Will ftlao be honored at
the meeting for their outstanding
contribution to the Chamber.
Would Advance
Pay Of Coroner
Representative Jack Edmisten
has introduced a bill in the As
sembly affecting the fees for the
Coroner in Watauga County.
Under the bill the Coroner
would receive $10 each day en
gaged in inquests over a dead
body, instead of the VS now pro
vided.
Blowing Rock Hosts
Eleven Conventions
Blowing Rock will be the icene
of at leait eleven conventions of
state and regional organizations
during the month of June, accord
ing to Ifrs. Helen B. Clear, secre
tary of the Blowing Rock Chamber
of Commerce.
Going in session today (June 4)
for a two day convention will be
the Western North Carolina Public
Health Association. The Carol inas
Virginia Purchasing Agents, Inc.,
will convene for two days begin
ning Friday.
Other conventions are:
Research Grants Branch, Divi
sion of Hospitals and Mcdical Fa
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STILL STILLED ? Sheriff E. M. Hodges, left, swing! a hammer as he and Deputy Emmit Oliver de
stroy a (till in the Sampeon community last week. Dynamite wai used to completely demolish the outfit.
A "two-barrel" whiskey (till wu
destroyed last Tuesday by Sheriff
E. M. Hodges and Deputy Sheriff
Emmit Oliver in the Sampson
section. The still, according to
Sheriff Hodges, was not in opera
tion, but mash found in vats would
probably have been ready to run
in the next day or so.
The operation, some distance
from the road, was being used to
produce "corn liquor." No sugar
was found in the area to indicate
that "sugarhead" whiskey had been
made at the still. A truck or car
radiator had been used for the
cooling system.
No one was at the (till at the
time the aheriff ? officers found it,
and no arrests had been made in
connection with it the first of the
week, according to Sheriff Hodges.
A sledge hammer and dynamite
was used to destroy the still, and
no finished product was confis
cated.
Sgt. David Stuart
Is Drowned Sunday
Mrs. Berdie Cornett of Trade,
Tenn, received word last Monday
that her son, Sgt. David Stuart,
age 27, who was stationed at Fort
Campbell, Ky., was drowned last
SiMBy afternoon 'while he llftl'
his companion, Sp. 4-c Milton W.
Price, age 21, of Fall Branch,
Tenn., were boating.
The small outboard motor boat
capsized on Kentucky Lake, near
Clarksville, Tenn. The bodies of
the two Tennessee soldiers were
recovered in about forty-five min
utes from thirty feet of water by
the Murray County, Ky., rescue
squad.
The bodies were taken to Fort
Campbell by helicopter.
Sgt. Stuart attended Cove Creek
High School and had been in ser
vice for eight years. He was a
member of the Friendship Baptist
Church, near Trade, Tenn.
cilities, June 8 and 0.
North Carolina Hospital Aaaoci
ation, June 10, 11, and 12.
National Model Railroad Asso
ciation, Inc., June 12 and 13.
Photo Engraven Research, Inc.,
June 19.
Southeastern Photoengravers As
sociation, June 14, IS and 16.
North Carolina Board of Archi
tecture, June 14 to 18.
North Carolina Bar Association,
June 17, 18, 19, and 20.
Wear Ever Specialty Division,
June 21, 22, and 23.
Wjnston-Salem Traffic Club,
June 26, 27, and 28.
Local Postmaster Asks Support
In War Against Mailed Obscenity
(Ed. Note: This ii the tint of
two articles published in the pub
i lie interest on the growing threat
ol obscene mail, and what can be
[ done about it. Today, we explain
the serious dimensions of this
problem. The next article, which
will follow next week, will tell
what can be done about it)
Acting Postmaster Lyle B. Cook
appealed for public support today
i in the intensified war Postmaster
I General Arthur E. Summerfield
I has declared on the "ruthless mall
order merchants in filth who are
violating the homes of the nation
in defiance of the national gov
ernment."
Using one of the nation's moat
cherished privileges to carry on
their smutty trad*? the uncensor- 1
ed letter? "barons of obscenity"'
i IT / \?
today are (ending unordered lewd
materials into our mail boxes,
much of it directed to teen-age
youngster*. Mr. Cook explained.
The materials offered for sale
include filthy films and books,
and dirty pictures, slides and re
lated filth, advertised in highly
objectionable circulars that are
sent indiscriminately to homes
here and all over the nation, be
said. .-TV-' '
"No longer do dealers ia smut
surreptitiously serve only ? few
adults," the local postmaster ex
plained. "They brazenly solicit
oar children, sending their mater
ial indiscriminately and without
conscience into our borne mail
boxes.
"For example, Nr. Cook noted,
"the Postmaster General has *4
vised me of cue* where teen
agers tend for auto part* and re
ceived later 'aex instructions' ad
vertisements; of new graduating
classes whose names were taken
from newspapers by filth merch
ants who circularized every mem
ber of the class; of youngsters who
wrote In for model airplane cata
logs, or a set of stamps, and later
received materials on films por
traying sex and perversion."
Complaints are also being re
ceived in Increasing numbers over
the nation involving solicitation
from filth factories of innocent
teen-age girls, housewives, and
even Cub Scouts, the postmaster
noted.
"The Post Office Department is
diligently trying to dean up the
(Continued on page 2, section C)
Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Ann
Stuart, one daughter, Judy, and a
son, Davey, of Dover, Tenn. Also
surviving are bis mother, Mrs.
Berdjfc Cornett, and twp sisters,
ftlrUjr and Wanda, of Trade;
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Jofaa
Cornett of Trade.
Sgt. Stuart was buried in Dover
National Cemetery with full mili
tary honors.
Joines Sells
Boone Store
Mr. J. Emory Joines announced
today the sale of his furniture
business know as the Joines
Furniture Co. to Messrs 0. M., R.
C. and Dennis Greene of North
Wilkesboro.
The new owners will operate
the store under the name of
Greene's Furniture Co.
Mr. Dennis Greene will manage
the store and he and Mrs. Greene
will establish permanent residence
here as soon aa a suitable resi
dence may be found. He has been
in the furniture and upholstering
business In North Wilkesboro for
a number of years.
In retiring from the furniture
.business Mr. Joines expressea ap
preciation for the pleaaant busi
ness relations he has enjoyed with
the people of the area over the
years.
Guardsmen
Aid In Strike
Most of the member! of the 2nd
Rifle Platoon, Co. C. National
Guard of Boone, who have been
doing strike duty at Henderson,
are still there.
Local guardsmen are reminded
that they are to go to Fort Bragg
on maneuvers the end of this week
for a two week tour of duty.
Those who have been at Hender
son, therefore, will have been
away for a month when the man
euvers are over.
Lamb Show To
Be Held 13th
The Watauga Wool Pool Com
mittee has arranged to sell the
I960 pool to NickoU and Com
pany, JohnsonvilU, 8. C., for
102.06 for clear medium wool, and
lower prices for other grades. The
suggested date for weighing the
Watauga wool is Friday, June 12.
The complttee will announce fin
al arrangements for taking up the
wool in next weeks paper after ?
place has been obtained. M. D.
Brown, Raymond Farthing and W.
R. Vines eoapoM the UN W?oi
Pool Committee.
DR. R. H. HARMON
Named To Board
State TB Assn.
A signal honor has been be
?towed upon Dr. Raymond H. Har
mon of Boone by hit appointment
to the Board of Director! at Large
of the North Carolina Tuberculos
is Association.
Dr. Harmon has long been ac
tive in tuberculosis work in thii
area, having served three years as
President and is now beginning
his fourth term in that office of
the Alleghany-Ashe-Watauga Dis
trict TB Association.
IKE PRODS CONGRESS
President Elsenhower, in a spec
ial message, has prodded Con
gress to deal quickly with critical
problems in three fields.
He called for early approval of
Administration proposals to avert
"serious disruption" of the inter
state highway program, "serious
interruption" in home building
and "impending disaster in
wheat."
^j^COLLEGE HITS h
A 11*
An Extra $314,116
Total Brought
To More Than
1 3-4 Million
Raleigh ? Appalachian State
Teachers College hit the jackpot
? a tidy $314,116 one ? in the
budget bill approved laat week by
the Joint Appropriations Commit
tee.
That's not the total budget for
the college. Earlier appropriations
totaled about a million and a half
dollars.
The $314,116 represents the sup
plemental appropriations over and
above the amount earlier recom
mended by the governor and Ad
visory Budget Commission.
Aside from the University of
North Carolina, Appalachian got
the biggest supplemental appro
priation of any of the state-sup
ported institutions of higher learn
ing.
The reason: the Appropriations
subcommittee, which whipped the
budget into shape, found out that
Appalachian's president, Dr. W.
H. Plemmons, wasn't ]ust kidding
when he said Appalachian is at
the bottom of the state-supported
college ladder so far as allotment
per pupil is concerned.
For that reason, Appalachian U
to get a lump sum of $100,000 to
be used for additional instruction
al personnel and instructional
equipment and supplies and ma
terials.
"Even with this $1*0, $M," the
subcommittee reported, "the per
capita coat from state appropria
tions at Appalachian will he ma
terially lower than at any ether
state educational institution."
In addition, Appalachian alio
will get supplemental funds, total
ing 1214,116, for salaries, wages,
academic travel, secretarial help,
new registrar (13,000), supplies,
student help and a news bureau
($13,000).
The budget also carries a $101,
414 supplemental appropriation
for Winston-Salem Teachers Col
lege. This would go for salaries,
new jobs, including two Ph.D's on
the faculty, supplies and books
and student help.
UNDERWATER RECORD
Reseda, Csl. ? A shapely secre
tary spent a weekend in a back
yard swimming pool ? on the bot
tom.
When Mrs. Alberta Jones sur
faced she claimed ? record for
staying under water 90 hours, 2
minutes and 43 seconds.
Mrs. Jones, 36, used an under
water breatlng device and drank
soup through squeeze bottles. She
| did it u a promotion stunt for a
'swimming-pool contractor.
City Officials Given
O. K. At DemocratMeet
The Incumbent Mayor and the
three city aldermen were no
minated Saturday evening by
the Democrat! to be voted on In
the election June 1*.
Mayor Gordon H. Winkler, Al
dermen H. J. Cottrell, W. B.
Rlchardaon and Grady Tnfman
received the unanlmoni endorae
ment of the amall but harmonl
one fathering of party leaders.
. The Republican* have made
no announcement of a nominal
inf session, and there Is M word
m to whether they plan to slate
? ticket (or the municipal *ot
ing.
Homer Brown, chairman for
the Democratic committee (or
the city asked that he not be
considered (or re-election. He
was replaced by Wade E. Brown.
Re-elected to the committee
wore: E. Ford King, Mrs. J. C.
McConnell, Grady Morets, and
Mrs. Bob Rivers.
ROBBERY. ? This if how Joe WillUmi, owner of Highlander Motor
Company, found hit desk last Tuesday morning when he came to work.
The desk had been ransacked when the motor establishment was burg
larized Monday night or Tuesday morning. A coat closet had also
been entered and contents scattered about the floor. Very little money
was reported missing.? Flowers Photo Shop picture.
Local Burglary Try
Veiled In Mystery
Mystery surrounds a burgalry
effort at the Highlander Motor
Company, according to proprietor
Joe Williams.
Thieves forced an entry through
a 'rear door of the firm'i Bristol
road building on Tuesday night,
Hay 26, and left a trail of pilfered
desk and filing cabinet drawers,
and even emptied the pockets of
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Handcraft Center To Open
Watauga Handcraft Center will
open on Wedneaday. June 10, aay?
tUm Elizabeth Lord, the director.
The summer term of weaving
inrtruction will come June 10 to
August 21, and the fall Una Sept -
ember ? to December 10.
Classes this rammer will meet
on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs
day and Friday, from fcOO to 4:10,
in charge of Mr*. Ruth South.
The handicraft shop win he
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open weekdays except Monday,
from 0:00 to 8:90, and will be In
charge of Miaa Margaret Moretx.
Visitors from far places, and
neighbors la Boom are invited.
clothing left in the office.
Apparently no effort was nude
to take any of the firms valuable
atock of automobile parta, or to
ateal from ita atock of new or uaed
automobiles. The only thing Mr.
Williama has missed, he Mya, is a
small sum of change from the
cash register till.
The trail of havoc, Mr Williams
believes, indicate* a search for
valuable papers or personal be
longings, but he is at a Iocs just
what they were seeking, or why
anyone would believe he kept
documents there of importance to
anyone except himaelf.
Negro Killed
On Parkway
A man waa killed and five oth
er* were Injured in an auto acci
dent on the Blue Ridge Parkway
Sunday
A. C. Jackson, negro resident
of High Point, was killed and five
others were hurt when the car in
which they were riding crashed
over a atone guard rail and plunk- M
ed about 78 feet down a rock fill.
The accident occurred about six I
miles east of Dough ton Park.
Two of the Injured were ciaseed
as serlM* and were taken to a
Winston-Salem hospital following
first aid at Sparta,
Ambulance* from Sparta and
North Wilkeaboro wm called to
the scene of the wreck. Heavy fag
in the mountains waa attributed II
a. bejaf a Mntributory cauwjg