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An Independent Weekly Newtpaper . . . Seventy-Second
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BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST ?, 1959
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Staff Photo By Jo? Minor
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WELCOME.? Northern Piedmont
Area Development Association
and Northwest North Carolina
Development Association visited
the Holiday Highlands area last
Wednesday and Thursday. In
Boone for breakfast, the presi
dents of the two associations pos
ed with Watauga county leaders.
Left to right are Mayor Gordon
Winkler, Bland W. Worley, pres
ident of the Piedmont group;
Wayne Corpening, president of
the Northwest group; L. E. Tuck
willer, Watauga County Agricul
tural Agent and director of the
Northwest association; and Her
man W. Wilcox, president of the
Boone Chamber of Commerce.
Top photo shows many of the
group and their Watauga guides
at Tweetsie, where they were
given a ride on the famous nar
row guage train.
FRVWS OF COOPEBATiQK STULXSED
Civic Groups Tour Northwest
State Garden School
To Be Held At College
Course 1 of the State Garden
School will be held Aug. 17-19 at
Appalachian State Teachers Col
lege in Boone.
Instructors will be Mrs. B. L.
Smith of Greensboro; Mrs. W. W.
Levi of Radford, Va.; and Dorothy
Riddle of Pleasantville, N. Y.
Registration is scheduled for
9-9:45 a. m. on Monday, Aug. 17
in the lobby of the Fine Arts
Building. The course will be con
ducted by the N. C. State College
Extension Division in the auditor
ium of the Fine Arts Building.
A special feature of the school
will be an exhibit of wild flowers.
This course is open to all gar
den club members and others in
terested in flower arranging and
horticulture. It gives basic infor
mation on both topics as well as
necessary information for compet
ing in flower shows.
Wednesday, Aug. 19. is set aside
(or the written examination.
Those who attend all sessions of
the course and pass all parts of
this examination will receive five
points credit toward earning a Na
tional Amateur Flower Show
Judging Certificate.
District flower show school re
presentatives are Mrs. Arthur A.
Pearson, Fletcher; Mrs. John Mc
Kee, Morganton; Mrs. Clark H.
Broward, Charlotte; Mrs. G. T.
West, High Point; Mrs. Lawrence
T. Hansen, Greensboro; Mrs. M. E.
Block, Lexington; Mrs. James R.
Teabeaut, Fayefteville; Mrs. W. f.
Coker, Chapel 'Hill; Mrs. Cecil
Wooten, Kinston; and Mrs. George
L. Parker, Rocky Mount.
U. S. warns deficit imperils high
way program.
By JOE MINOR
Two development associations
made a two-day trip last week
through northwest North Carolina,
one group as the "pupil," and the
other as the "teacher." They
touched counties all the way from
Guilford to Alexander, on the trip
up, and went home by way of
Wilkes, Yadkin, and Forsyth.
Purpose of the tour, as explained
by Bland W. Worley, president of
Northern Piedmont Area Develop
ment Association, was to learn how.
the Northwest North Carolina De
velopment' Association operates.
The Nortern Piedmont association
only has been formed since Feb
ruary, and the Northwest associa
tion has been in operation for sev
eral years.
A bus load of business men and
leaders who are members of the
two associations made the entire
tour, and they were joined along
the route for short periods by di
rectors of the Northwest associ
ation and others interested in the
development of this area, who ex
plained various phases of develop
ment in their communities.
Wayne Corpening, president of
the Northwest association, and Neil
BRIGHT OPERA STARS VISIT HIGHLANDS
Benefit Performance To Aid
Hospital And Orphans' Home
Banner Elk ? Four of the opera
world'i brightest stars will Jour
ney to this mountain area to pre
sent conceits oil- August 7 and" 9
in order to benefit the new Grace
Hartley Hospital and the Grand
father Home for Children.
The August 7 concert, a bene
fit performance to help equip
Banner Elk's new (Z.M.OM
hospital, will be presented at the
Anne Bryan Recreation Center
of the Grandfather Home, at
8:15 p. m. The second csaceit
will be held on Sunday, August
? at Rumple Memorial Presby
terian Church at 11 a. in
nearby Blowing Rack.
Presenting both concerts will
be Miss Beverly Bower, soprano
of the New York Opera; Hiss
Helen Vanni, meno soprano of
Metropolitan Opera Company; Ro
bert Nagy, tenor of the Metropoli
tan Op?ra Company; and Mario
Fiorello, Baritone of the Chicago
Civic Opera. Their accompanist
will be Stuart Roti.
The singer* and their Accom
panist will arrive by train early
on August 7, the day of the Ban
ner Elk conccrt. During their stay,
they will be guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Robert G. Hayes, at Blowing
Rock. Between concerts, the opera
stars will visit local tourist attrac
tions including the famed "Blow
ing Rock," and the old narrow
gauge railroad train "Tweetaie."
At last year's benefit concert
in Blowing Rock, gifts totalling
$30,000 were received for Grand
father Home for Children. The
Home, which is currently caring
for nearly a hundred children, ii
a part of the famed Edgar Tufts
Memorial Association, founded
around the turn of the century by
a circuit-riding! Presbyterian mis
sionary. The Association includes
Lees-McRae College, Grace Hospi
tal and the Grandfather Home.
Currently the Association has a
new, 100- bed Grace Hartley Hospi
tal Building under construction
which, when completed, will re
place the outdated 64- bed struc
ture. The old building, constructed
in the IBM's, is frequently so ov
ercrowded that beds are placed
in the hallways. k-2
The new hospital, in addition
to providing modem out-patient
services, will include a complete
ly-equipped dental clinic, the only
one In this community.
Bolton, secretary-treasurer, kept
the group on the move all the
time, as they had to cover nearly
390 miles in the two days and ab
sorb what they saw and heard.
The travelers spent more time in
the Holidays Highlands than any
other area, though much of this
time was used (or sleeping. They
were guests at the Wednesday per
formance of "Horn in the West"
in Boone, and spent the night here.
Early Thursday morning, 6:30 ia
Jact, they were routed from their
beds and carried to Kirk's Restau
rant, where they ate ham and eggs
and grits, with several of the lead
ers of the town and county. Mayor
Gordon Winkler greeted them on
behalf of the town.
The itinerary, after leaving
Greensboro Wednesday, included:
Stop at Pine Hall in Stokes
county; Dobson in Surry; Roaring
Gap and Blue Ridge Parkway; Ma
hogany Rock in Alleghany; Trad
ing Post on Parkway; Grassy Creek
community in Ashe county.
At Grassy Creek, they attended
a directors' meeting of the North
west North Carolina Development
Association.
Night in Boone, in Watauga;
ride on Tweetaie; Blowing Rock;
Lenoir in Caldwell; Taylorsville in
Alexander; Moravian Falls in
Wilkes; Yadkinville in Yadkin; and
James G. Hanes Community Cen
ter in Winston-Salem in Forsyth.
In every community visited the
virtues of joining together in a
development group were expound
ed, and in some cases the visitors
were able to see how cooperation
had caused improvements to be
made.
Northern Piedmont Association
is composed of seven counties,
Guilford, Alamance, Caswell, Chat
bam, Davidson, Randolph, and
Rockingham.
The host association covers elev
en counties, Alexander, Alleghany,
Ashe, Caldwell, Davie, Forsyth,
Stokes, Surry, Watauga Wilkes,
and Yadkin.
The National Labor Relations
Board has set up a committee to
help streamline and speed its hand
ling of labor-management prob
lems. '
The committee, which will sug
gest revisions of rules, regulations
and procedures, consists of N. L.
R. B. officials and persona active
la the labor-management law field.
WOULD EMPLOY FOUR HUNDRED
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Local Leaders Negotiate
For Another Boone Plant
Civic Group
Has Talks In
Greensboro
The Industry committee of the
Boone Chamber of Commerce met
Monday at Kirk'i Restaurant, and
named a delegation to go to
Greensboro Thursday to confer
with officers of a corporation that
has expressed an interest in start
ing a plant in Watauga county.
While the committee did not
release the name or nature of
the corporation seeking informa
tion about this location, Stanley A.
Harris, executive secretary of the
group, said that, wherever the
company decides to locate, it will
mean employment for four to five
hundred people the year aroundt ,
Instructed to go to Greensboro
to talk with the chairman of the
board and chief engineer of the
corporation were Glenn Andrews,
A. T. Adams and Mr. Harris. They
will tell of the resources the coun
ty has to offer, and hope to be
able to make a favorable report
on their return to Boone.
Mr. Harris said that the county
is also being considered by another
industry as a place to locate an
operation. He could give no de
tails on this, but said they expected
to be contacted by the interested
party soon.
The Industry committee is com
posed of Mr. Andrews, chairman;
Mr. Harris, W. R. Winkler, Sr.,
Watt Gragg, Mr. Adams, Neil Far
ris, Willis Chester, Dempsey Wil
cox, and Jerry Coe. H. W. Wilcox,
president of the chamber, attended
the meeting Monday.
1422 Enrolled
At College
The final registration figure for
the second six-week term of 1099
summer seuion of Appalachian
State Teachers College reached a
high of 1422. Recent high school
graduates who wish to secure an
early start to their college careers,
undergraduates from other col
lages and universities who are
taking work to transfer and pub
lic school teachers, supervisors
and principals who are taking
courses to improve their compet
ence make up the summer student
body.
The lummer school has sche
duled only one more registration.
The special two-week term of
workshop* for teachers and oth
ers in music education, children's
literature, leading and English
will begin Monday, August 3.
Mabel Grange
The Mabel Grance will meet at
Mabel school oa Monday night,
August 10, at 7:30 p. m. All mem
bers are urged to attend the meet
ing, according to a statement by
Mrs. Blanche Wilkinson, Secre
tary of the Grange.
275 YEARS.? Combined ages of the?e three residents of Mountain Re?t Home in Boone ii 275 year*.
They are, left to right, the Rev. J. M. Hodges, youngster of the group, who is 89 years old; Letcher
Sexton, 93; and Mrs. Ada Worth Penn Coffey, 93. Rev. Mr Hodges is from Blowing Rock and wiU be 90
in March of next years. Mr. Sexton calls Wilkes county his home; and Mrs. Ccffey has been coming
here from Lenoir for the last two summers. ? (Staff photo Joe Minor.)
PLANS MADE FOR MUSEUM OPENING
Crittenden And Greer To Speak
At Dedication Of T atum Cabin
Farm Leaders
Hold 3-Day
Session Here
Superintendents from the 16
Agricultural Research Stations,
Department heads, and other ad
ministrative figures of the School
of Agriculture at N. C. State Col
lege, and their families, met in
Boone Sunday for a 3 day forum
dealing with agricultural and re
lated problems.
Under the guidance of Mr. Cecil
D. Thomas, Director of Research
Stations, the series of meetings
will feature Informal discussions
periods, aimed, Mr. Thomas said,
at making a more effective Re
search program. Leading the dis
cussion periods is Dr. R. L. Lou
urn, Director of Research at the
School of Agriculture at N. C.
State College in Raleigh.
The series of meetings was open
ed by an address by Commissioner
A. Y. Ballantine of the State
Commission of Agriculture. Dur
ing the series the group has heard
Avery County's Farm Agent Sam
Cartner, and Watauga's Farm Ag
ent L. E. Tuckwiller in a discus
sion of Agriculture in the North
ern Mountain Area.
Discussion periods continued
through Wednesday morning, at
which time the group of 110 in at
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Masonic Picnic Will
Be Held Next Sunday
The annual Masonic and Eastern
Star picnic, is to be held at Camp
Rainbow, located In the beautiful
H i 1 1 a at Foacoe, Sunday after
noon August ?ia, starting at 3
o'clock, it is announced bjr Mr. B.
W. Stalling*, chairman of the; !
event, who has had a great deal to
do with the revival of the custom
of holding an annual Masonic pic
nic, abandoned some thirty-five
years ago.
The meeting will begin prompt
liy at 3 p. m. Mr. Wilson Norrla
will give the welcoming addreaa
after which a tour of Camp Rain
bow will be conducted by the staff
L
A program of recreation h*?
been worked out by R. W. Wstkins
to rait every age, mch a* soft ball,
tenia, hone shoe pitching, bad
minton, etc.
A new feature this year will be
the vesper service which will take
place at 5:30, and which will be
conducted by the Eastern Star
and Camp Rainbow. The covered
dish picnic will be spread immedi
ately after with plates aad refresh
ments furnished by Snow Lodge
with Benny Yates in charge.
All Masona, their families and
Eastern Star members are invited
to come out and bring covered
dishes.
The Southern Appalachian His
torical Association will officially
open its museum Friday, August
14, when the dedication of the Ta
tum Cabin will be held. Expected
to be here to take part in the
dedication are Dr. Christopher
Crittenden, head of the N. C. State
Department of Archives, of Ra
leigh, and Dr. I. G. Greer, presi
dent of Southern Appalachian His
torical Association, of Chapel Hill.
The program, as announced by
Stanley A. Harris, chairman of the
dedication committee who will pre
side at the ceremonies, will begin
at 7:00 p.m., and will be over by
7:49, in time for attendance of
Horn in the West.
The cabin, located on Horn in
the West park grounds, was pre
sented to the Southern Appalach
ian Historical Association by L. T.
Tatum, a descendant of the Rev
olutionary War captain who built
it The one-room structure has
been in the Tatum family all the
time until last year, when Mr.
United Fund
Groups Named
Two more committees of the
Watauga County United Fund
have been anounced by Grady
Moreta, Jr., president of the or
ganization in preparation for the
approaching campaign for the
county welfare needs.
The Social Planning Committee
will be headed this year by the
Rev. J. K. Parker, Jr., minister of
the Boone Presbyterian church,
who has named the following
serve with him: Dr. H. M. Wjf on,
Mrs. R. H. Harmon, jtonnl$
Brooka, John T. Howclj//Mr?. E.
F. Coel, and R. D. HoA <s, Jr.
The Social Planning group has
the responsibility of studying the
welfare needs of the county and
recommending disposition of re
lief and medical funds.
Tbe Nominating Committee has
also been announced with James
Marsh as chairman and a member
ship of G. C. Greene, Jr., Dr. L.
H. Owsley, Wsyne Richardson, and
Herman Anderson.
r. T. C. NOMINEE APPROVED
The Senate Commerce Commit
tee has spproved the nomination
of Sigurd Anderson, former Gover
nor of South Dakota, for a seven
year term on tbe Federal Trade
Commiafcion.
Tatum gave it to the historical
association, to be the nucleus ot a
proposed museum, to show pioneer
life, ways, and relics of the Daniel
Boone era.
A plaque will be unveiled by Dr.
Greer in the presence of Mr. Ta
tum and members of the Tatum
family. Inscription on the marker
says: "Tatum Cabin? Presented to
the Southern Appalachian Histori
cal Association by Thomas E.
Tatum, great, great grandson of
James Tatum, a Captain in the
Revolutionary War. This cabin
was built about 1780, and was the
home of five Tatum generations."
The cabin, in excellent state of
preservation, was moved from its
original site on the south fork of
New River, about fifteen miles
northeast of Boone, near Todd. It
was reconstructed on the Horn
grounds and many articles used by
the Tatum generations are on dis
play In the cabin.
A document of interest on dis
play is a pardon for Elijah Tatum,
grandfather of the donor, from the
United States, for the part he play
ed in the Civil War. He fought
with the Confederate Army.
Other relics in the Tatum dis
play include: .
A walnut cupboard, cherry cup
board, a small walnut chest, be
lieved to have come from England,
bearing the inscription "Southamp
ton 1618;" a large cherry chest,
cradle, a butter church in which
Mr. Tatum's ancestors hid money
in the buttermilk when Union
troops raided the area, ? creel,
spinning wheel, four poster bed,
sewing machine, split-bottom chair,
flax hackle, caffee grinder, fro,
plow, small pot;
A tea kettle, Dutch oven, ham
mer, hot, shovel, candle molda, oil
lamp, corn shelter, reap hooks shoe
lasts, shuttles, weaver's basket,
cooking pot, iron pot, tongs, demi
john, planes, cord tightener, side
saddle, large pot, basket, broad axe,
large spinning wheel, and other
items.
The dedication program begins
with music by the Horn in the
West choir. A historical sketch
of the cabin will be given by Mrs.
B. W. S tailings. Dr. D. J. White
ner1 will introduce Dr. Greer, and
then Dr. Crittenden ^ill say a few
words, and the plaque will be un
veiled.
Members of the dedication com
mittee include Mr. Harris, chair
man; Dr. A. P. Kephart. Mrs.
S tailings. Dr. Whitener, and W
Ralph Tugmro. m
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