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FOR BEST RESULTS advertisers invariably un the columns of the Democrat With iU full paid circula tion, intensely covering the local shopping area, it ia the best advertising medium available. WATAUGA DEMOCRAT An Independent Weekly Newt paper . . . Seventy-Second Year of Continuous Publication VOLUME LXXII? NO. 10. PRICE: FIVE CENTS BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH'CAROUNA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER S, 1959 Aug 25 80 6* 77 .06 Aug. 26 79 39 73 .20 & Aug. 27 78 M 72 .01 Aug. 28 80 ? 4 72 ,10 Aug. 29 90 M 74 20 Aug. 30 90 64 70 1.00 Aug 31 7? 63 08 .01 Totf! tor period 2.06 60 55 71 73 77 75 79 w 84 92 TWENTY PAGES? THREE SECTIONS ASC Voting Takes Place On Sept. 10 ASC ballot boxes will be avail able in every agricultural com munity in thii county on Thurs day, September 10. t Farmers residing in these corn unities will have the opportunity itween the hours of 7:00 a. m. and 6:00 p. m. of voting for ASC community committeemen to serve during the coming year. According to M. L. Shepherd, ASC County Office Manager, this voting may be from a slate of nominees which has already been chosen and pub licized, or votes may be cast for |a write-in candidate. These committeemen along with the farmers who are elected as county ASC committeemen, will play a major role in the adminis tration of ASC farm programs 'in the county. These ASC farm pro grams, Shepherd brought out, con list of the agricultural conserva tion program, acreage allotment, ind marketing quota programs on the basic commodities, price sup port programs on the basic and several non-basic commodities, the ?oil bank program, as well as oth er special or emergency programs that might be needed during the year. Persons who will be eligible to help select the committeemen who will administer these farm pro grams include any farmer who as owner, operator, tenant or share cropper, is participating or is eli gible to participate in any pro gram administred by the county ASC committee. At the same Lime the community committee men are elected, a delegate and an ilternate delegate to the county convention will be elected. These delegates elected by farmers, Will meet September 25 to elect the Lhr?? man county committee for the county. ASC Committeemen elected will take office October 1. Shepherd cautioned farmers that with the very unstable condi tions that exist at present with agriculture and with farm pro grams we just can't afford to let i feeling of apathy affect the par ticipation in ASC committee elec ,ions. "We must all get out and roU on the UHh!" ASC Signup Time Lasts ToThelOth Signup under the 1960 Conser vation Reserve Program is now in progress in all North Carolina :ounties and will be until the leadline September 10. Clint Eggers, vice-chairman of he Agricultural Stabilization and conservation County Committee, cautioned county farmers today if hey do not visit their ASC county iffice before the September 10 leadline and request that maxi num payment rates be set up for he land they are considering for escrve, they will be ineligible to nrticipate in the program for 900. He brought out further that hey do not in any way obligate hcmsclves to participate by re vesting that these rates be estab ished. Filing a request for the infor lation as to the farm maximum ate simply indicates an interest n the part of the farmer and elps him to make up his mind whether or not he wants to parti ipate in the 1960 Soil Bank Con crvation Reserve Program and lie probable extent of that partici ation. Eggers reminded farmers Mt when they learn their farm laximum rate they will again be equired to visit the county office > file a request for a contract. On tc second visit to the ASC office >e farmer must offer his land for lacing in reaerve at something ?s than the maximum rate pre iously established. The more the irmcr reduce* his bid below the laximum established, the better is chances of participation. Ac ?rding to Eggers funds available >r new contract^ in 1960 will be ^proximately half of what was mailable in 1900. For this reason irmers who offer their land con dcrably below the maximum itc will stand ? much better >ance oi having their offers ac 4 WORKERS.? Members of the United Fund Admisiions and Budget committee at work on the report which they will submit on September 6 to the board of truees of the fund. Budget items are being considered by, left to right, Morris Bamett, Bob Bumbaugh, Chairman R. D. Hodges, Jr., Fund Treas urer J. H. Thomas, Mrs. Mae Miller, Mrs. Richard Kelley. Standing is Francis Cook, publicity chairman. ? Photo by Flowers Photo Shop. Budget Committee To End Sessions The Admissions and Budget Committee of the United Fund will conclude its sessions with a meet ing Thursday night, September 3, according to an announcement by R. D. Hodges, Jr., chairman. There is still time, Mr. Hodges said, lor any agency to present its request for admission to the Unit ed fund, but Thursday's meeting will be the last opportunity. The session will be held at the residence of Mrs. Mae Miller, com mittee member, at 7:00 in the evening. After final agency hearings, the committee will draw up the recom mendations for the I960 budget to be presented to a full meeting of the United Fund trustees at Ap palachian High School on Sunday afternoon, September 6, at three o'clock. Blue Ridge Corp. Will Hold Annual Meeting In Jefferson J.M. Storie Is Men's Dean At Mitchell JAMES M. STORIE James M. Storie, principal at Blowing Rock School last year, has been named dean of men at Mit chell College, at Statesville, ac cording to an announcement last week by college president John Montgomery. Mr. Storie, who is married to the former Miss Elizabeth South, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. South of Boone, holds a B. S. and an M. A. degree from Appalach ian State Teachers College, and has done graduate work at Denver Un iversity. The men's dean will teach math ematics and men's physical educa tion, along with bis duties as dean. Before going to Blowing Rock eight years ago, Mr. Storie taught three years in the Greensboro city schools system an teacher, coach, and assistant principal. He is a former lieutenant in the Navy, and still holds a commission in the U. S. Naval Reserves. Mr. and Mrs. Storie, and two daughters, Pamela 13, and Julia 9/ moved to Statesville last week. HhHw Carl Litaker, who taught in the Appalachian Summer School one year, and a graduate of ASTC, was recently named dean at Mitchell College. Mrs. Litaker has been named librarian at the collcge. She is also a graduate of Appalachian, and was librarian at Appalachian Uigh School for a while. Mr. and Mrs. John Marsh and' children, Mary Darwin, Ellen and John Barclay, spent the week end at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Hoy Marsh in Modutville. Cecil E. Viverette, general manager of Blue Ridge Electric Memberihip Corporation, a n nounced today that the annual meeting of the members of the corporation will be held Saturday, September 12 at the Ashe Central High School near Jefferson. The meeting will begin at one o'clock in the afternoon. Viverette stated the official no tice of the meeting had been mailed to all members along with the 1058 annual report. One of the major items of business that will come before the members in addi tion to the election of fifteen di rectors to serve for the next twelve months and the report of officers will be the consideration of a rate reduction. Favorable ac tion by the members could mean a savings up to $342,818 per year for 17,900 accounts affected. Viverette stated that the 19S8 annual report was a pictorial, graphic, and statistical presenta tion of 1958 operations and a ten year comparison. Some of the high lights of the report showed that the number of consumers served had increased from 11,800 in 1940 to 17,300 at the close of IBM. Dur ing this same period, the KWH sales of electric power had in creased from 18 million annually to 87 million or 48%. The re venues bad increased 294% to $1, 774,000. One of the most revealing parts of the report was the gain in member equity. The members equity increased over a million dollars from 1048 to 1998, from >40,000 to 81,090,000 with most of this occurring in the past three years. The report showed the assets of the corporation as of December 31, 1998 to be $10,469,967. *1,730, 114.09 had been paid to the Rural Electrification Administration on its loans leaving a balance to be paid as due, of $9,270,039.60. This will be the 23rd annual meeting of Blue Ridge Electric Membership Corporation which has members in Ashe, Alleghany, Alexander, Avery, Caldwell, Sur ry, Wilkes, and Watauga Counties. The local manager is Neil Faries. Alumni Day At A.H.S. Will Be Held On Friday Alumni Day at Appalachian High School has been set for Friday, September 4, according to an an nouncement from Principal Roy R. Blanton. An assembly program featuring the Appalachian High School band and the cheerleaders will open the Alumni Day program at 1:00 p. m. in the auditorium. Open House will be observed by all classes from 2:00 to 3:00 p. m. On Friday evening,' from 8:00 to 10:00 p. m? the student body and graduates of Appalachian High are invited to an informal dance in the high school gym. The dance is sponsored by the Student Coun cil. Homecoming Day, as previously observed at the school with a pa rade, football game, and dance, has been cluegcd to Alumni Day. Plans were made last year to pro vide for a fall distribution of the annual before graduates leave for college or jobs. Another reason for the change in plans is the foot Ministers To Meet Monday The September meeting of the Watauga Ministerial Association will be held In Grace Lutheran Church, Monday,' September 7th at 10:00 a. m. > All ministers of the county are urged U> be present. ? Edwin F. Troutman, Secretary. ball schedule, which does not pro vide for ? game on September 4. All graduates of Appalachian High School are invited to attend Alumni Day .in the afternoon and evening of September 41 Rites Held For Mrs. Storie Mrs. M. S. Storie, 66, of Pine Street, Boone, died at Watauga Hospital Friday from a audden illness. Funeral services were conduct ed at 2 o'clock Sunday at the Boone Baptiat Church by Rev. John Gibson, who was assisted in the rites by Rev. E. F." Trout man and Rev. W. C. Payne. Interment was in Mountlawn Memorial Park. Mrs. Storie was the former Hiss Tossie Elizabeth Rogers and was born in Boone, a daughter of the late Wade W. Rogers and Mrs. Lou Pearson Rogers. She is sur vived by the husband, four sons and a daughter: Turner, Jack and Hunter Storie, Boone; Burl Storie of Boonville; Mrs. J. F. Powell, Charlotte. There are four sisters and three brothers: Mrs. Ella iliggins, Miss Delia Rogers, Boone; Mrs. Carl Winkler, Durham; Mrs. Jamea Vannoy, Columbus, Mont.; Alton, Henry Rogers, Boone; Coy Rogers, Deep Gap. China believed to be winning drought light. OVER 1,000 EXPECTED College Will Welcome Freshmen On Thursday Big Enrollment Taxes Housing On Campus Appalachian State Teachers Col lege opens a new term thii after noon with the arrival of the larg est freshman class in history. According to figures furnished by H. R. Eggers, the registrar, the freshman class enrollment stands close to 800. Added to this figure should be 1X9 transfer students, which puts new student enrollment upward of 1000. This is nearly 300 ahead of this enrollment for the same date in 1998. The large enrollment, while a source of satisfaction to the college authorities, also brings its problems. Rooming facilities are taxed to the limit, with many of the dormitories for ^oth men and women having been convert ed into facilities for three in a room. This Is not the happiest situation, but is necessary to make a place for those who want U go to college and are quali fied for college work. The re quirements for admission, ac cording to Mr. Eggera, have been raised and tightened. O There have been no changes in curriculum for this year. This is mainly because last year the fac ulty ended a four-year period of intensive and extensive study of the college'* curriculum, and made a number of needed changes. The Industrial Arts Department, which is the college's newest area of study, is being continued and emphasized. Dr. Howard Decker, formerly with West Virginia Inis .tute of Technology, is the newly appointed head of this department, and is already on duty. Those who enrolled in this curriculum last year will continue with their work. The fall term gets under way of ficially with the faculty meeting workshop which is to be held on Thursday. Directed by Dean D. J. Whitener, the workshop has as its theme this year "Improvement of My Classroom Teaching." The workshop will consume the better parts of Thursday and Friday. The annual faculty picnic is scheduled to be held at Camp Rainbow at Foscoe on Thursday afternoon at four o'clock, with all faculty fam ilies to be included. Freshmen orientation programs start on Friday morning at ten, and will continue through Satur day. Included will be testing, as semblies, registration procedures, recreational programs, a reception, and a dance. The freshmen attend classes on Monday. Chairman of the orientation committee is Dr. Max Dixon. Monday a program of orientation will be held (or all student* trans ferring from junior colleges or elsewhere. Leo K. Pritchett, dean of men, is chairman of the com mittee for transfer students. Par ticipating in this program will be President W. H. Plemmons, Dean Whltener, Mrs. Maxie Edmisten, dean of women, W. L. Eury, li brarian, Ronsld Brooks, director of recreation, H. R. Eggers, regis trar, and Lynn Mizc, president of the student body. The upperclassmen return to the campus for registration on Tues day, September 8. The first collegr-wide convoca tion is scheduled to be held in the auditorium of the physical educa tion building on September 11 it ten o'clock in the morning. Homecoming Day is October 24, with the football game to be play ed between Carson-Newman college and Appalachian. The fall quarter ends on Wed nesday, November 25, at four o' clock in the afternoon. Cratia Williams, director of grad uate studes, says that enrollment in the graduate division la ahead of any previous year. Among the group will be 93 who have been apppointed as teaching fellows, graduate a*6istants, departmental . assistants, and research fellows. | (Continued on page 4, taction B) DAM DAMAGE? S M. Ayeri, superintendent of Ne w River Light and Power Company, surveys erosion and cracks in company's power dam which are to be r epaired. The work will be done after sealed bids are opened September 17.? Staff photo Joe Minor. Power Company T o Repair Old Dam Built 36 Years Ago Repair work on New River Light and Power Company'! power dam is expected to begin aooa. A call for scaled proposali, or bids, on re surfacing the 36-year-old structure went out last week, and the work will begin soon after the proposals are opened on September 17, and the contract awarded, according to Superintendent S. M. Ayers. The dam, built in 1023, Is lo cated along side U. S. Highway 321, and is sometimes referred to as Tate's Dam because of the Tate's Tourist Court near It. While the dam supplies only a fraction of the power needed by customers of the light and power company now, when first built, it furnished all the electric current used by the college, the town, and area. The dam has been used con tinuously since its construction, but this is the first repairs of this na ture since its erection. The sec tion nearest the highway, origin ally dirt filled, was washed out during the 1940 flood. It was re placed with cement. Mr. Ayers said the repair work U considered routine, though the dam has not needed repairing be fore. The work will include re surfacing with about four to aix inches of cement, a* well as re placement of the flood gate. The ?uecesi?ul bidder for the job will probably spray, or "shoot" the cement on, Mr. Ayers said. The process is called the "Gunite Me thod," and will enable the work to be finished in a minimum of time. Chamber. Launches Drive To Aid ASTC Endowment Fund Isley Is New Farm Agent ROY W. 1SLEY Roy W. Isley, ? native of Wa tauga in Carter county, Tenn., hai been appointed assistant county agricultural agent for Watauga county and began work thii week. He bat a B. S. degree in agricul ture economics and rural sociology from tbe University of Knoxville, Tcnn. Mr. Isley comca here from Roa noke, Va., where he has been on a large chain store's management program in marketing for the past two years. He has previous ex perience as an assistant county agent in southwestern North Caro lina for two and a half years; was the TV A teat demonstration agent in Swain, Macon, Clay, Cherokee, (Continued on page 4, section B) The Boone Chamber of Com merce has launched a campaign to i raiae funds for Appalachian State i Teachers College endownment I fund, so that scholarships may be . provided for those who are not I financially able to attend college. 1 It is also pointed out that Appa- I lachian needs to compete in at tracting top-ranking students from I over the State, as wel las special- | ists with national reputations, and to make many other improvements | not provided for by the State. As the campaign opener, the ( Chamber of Commerce has mailed ] the following letter to the people of this area: For the sixty years that it has i been in Boone, Appalachian State Teachers College has become so much ? part of the life of the i town and Watauga County that it is hard to say where one begins < and the other leaves off. 1 It is difficult sometimes to real ire what the college has meant to the town and county, but here are ' some facta which bring home to us what its true worth is: William Holt 4 Dies Tuesday J William Ervin Holt, 04, of < Charleston, S. C. died at Blowing < Rock Hospital Tuesday of a heart < attack. He was a summer resident < of Blowing Rock. Funeral services will be held in I Montgomery, Ala. but the arrange- i menu are incomplete. t Surviving are the widow, two 1 brothers and a sister: J. W. Holt, t Greensboro: James H. Holt, Mont- t gomery, Ala.; Mrs. Walter W. Gale, Charlotte. < Watauga County has the high est percentage of college gradu ates of any county in North Caro lina ? a fact due almost entirely to Appalachian's being here. This, in turn, is one of the things which lias attracted the new industries to Boone. The college is the biggest user In the county of Watauga farm products. During the past ten years, more than $6,000,000 has been spent for new buildings and improvements at the college, and many of the local people have worked on these jobs. During the next ten years, it is proposed to spend an addition al $9,290,000 for buildings. The payroll for the college for 1990-60 will be $1,619,000, almost tU of which will be spent locally. There are nearly 400 employ ees on the payroll, all of whom live and spend their money in the Boone-Watauga County area. Here are some additional start ling figures: $990,000 is put here by the State of North Carolina each year, which is approximately 9279 per itudent for our more than 200 (ta lents. <1,200,000 la brought ($600 ;ach) by these more than 200 sta lents to pay their college expens es each year. * $400,000 is estimated to be spent at $200 each) by our student* for rlothcs, entertainment, gaa, oil, *r repairs, and personal items sach year. $223,000 is estimated to b? >rought by some 3000 summer chool students ($75 each) to pay heir expenses. Almost all of them >ring cars, buy gas, oil, tires, tour he section on the week ends, or iring their families. $720,000 ia eati mated to be apent (Con timed at pace 4. section B)
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