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VOLUME LXXU. ? NO. 14 PRICE: FIVE CENTS BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1959 TWENTY PAGES? THREE SECTIONS
NORTHWESTERN NCEA EDUCATORS? Part of the 2,000 teachers
and school workers who attended the Northweitern NCEA convention
at Appalachian State Teachers College last Tuesday. The all-day
meeting attracted teachers from Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Avery,
Bu.ke, Caldwell, Surry, Watauga, Wilkes, and Yadkin counties ?
Photo by George Flowers, Flowers Photo Shop.
Boone And Blowing Rock To Get Powell
Funds For Betterment Of City Streets
EDUCATION LEADERS. ? Dr. Charles F. Carroll, left, State superin
tendent of Public Instruction, Raleigh, and Dr. A. C. Dawson, new
executive secretary of NCEA, confer on the problems of education in
North Carolina. Both were principal speakers at the convention last
week on the college campus. More than 2,000 educators from the
Northwestern District, NCEA, were present at the all day meeting.
ALL PRESIDENTS. ? (1. to r.) Dr. W. H. Plemmons, president Appalach
ian State Teachers College; N. H. Carpenter, president Northwestern
district of NCEA; and D. L. S. Weaver, president Methodist College at
Fayetteville and president of North Carolina Education Association,
pose together at the Northwestern district NCEA meeting held here
last week. Dr. Plemmons was representing the college as host to the
meeting, and Mr. Carpenter is superintendent of Elkin City Schools. ?
Photos by George Flowers, Jr., Flowers Photo Shop.
Officer Investigates
Hightvay Accidents
Patrolman George E. Baker re- 1
ported investigating two wrecks
last week, with total property dam
age of approximately $500. No
one was listed as hurt.
The first, on Tuesday, October
22, occurred about 10:45 a. m. on
US highway 421, east of Boone.
According to the report, Conley
William Church* route 2, Boone,
was operating a pickup truck own
ed by Mountain Lumber Co., of
Boone. He was traveling west and
had stopped for a car to turn left
into a private driveway. Forest
Edward Mostelle, of Hickory, was
following the Church pickup add
was unable to atop, running into
the rear of the Church truck.
The car that was turning off,
did not atop. Damage to both ve
hicles was approximately 9100.00.
Henry Claude Garland, Koute 3,
' Boone, was traveling north on N. C.
| highway 104 Sunday at about 12:30
Ip. m. Sunday when he was
lattempting to turn left into % pri
vate driveway. Arthur Craig Hol
lar, Route 1, Boone, waa attempting
to overtake the Garland car, ac
cording to the report. Both ve
hicles went off the road on the
left side of the highway.
Approximately $400.00 was done
to both vehicles.
Mrs. Queen
Wins Contest
Mrs. Grant A. Queen, 217 East
Howard Street, is the winner of
The Democrat's football contest
for last week, and a check for $25
is being forwarded to Mrs. Queen.
Interest is mounting in the con
test^ and readers are asked to
turn now to the football page and
fill out the contest form.
Attention ia called to the con
test rules, one of which is that
entries must be postmarked not
later than Friday midnight to be
eligible in the competition. AN
forms must be mailed to the Dem
ocrat, Drawer 353. Boone, N. C.
Boone will receive $1^,750.44 in
Powell bill funds this year for the
improvement of its non-highway
system streets, while Blowing
Rock will receive $11,426.28, ac
cording to the State Highway
Commission.
More than 400 North Carolina
towns share this year in the dis
tribution of $6,766,092.58 in Po
well bill funds, and increase of 4
per cent over the $6,477,437.37
distributed last year.
CheCks for their proportionate
shares will be mailed on October
1 to 409 municipalities which
qualify under the 1951 statue set
ting aside Vi cent of the six cent
per gallon net State gasoline tax
for the use of municipalities in
maintaining and improving their
non-highway system streets. The
net revenue from the tax amount
ed to $81,228,099.60 for the fiscal
year 1958-1959.
Half of the total Powell Bill al
locations, *3,383,046.29, will be
divided among all qualified muni
cipalities on the basi\ of popula
tion at a per capita rate of $2.21.
The remaining half is divided
on the basis of relative mileage
of non-highway system or local
streets of municipalities comply
ing with the act at a per mile rate
of $474.95. Total length of such
streets this year is 7,122.82 miles.
Three municipalities have been
added this year. They are: Bay
shore Park and Cape Carteret,
both in Carteret County and Cho
cowinity in Beaufort County.
Tugman Is Elected To
Head ASC Committee
Delegates from the ten ASC
communities of Watauga County
met in the ASC office Friday,
September 25, and re-elected the
following county committee for
the ASC year beginning October
Court May
End Today
More than half of the eases
scheduled to come before Judge J.
Frank Huskins, of Burniville, dur
ing the current term of criminal
term had been disposed of short
ly before lunch recess Tuesday.
The term began Monday morn
ing and 78 persons had had their
cases heard by this time. Most
of the cases concerned traffic vio
lations and most of the people
charge pleaded guilty as charged,
according to Clerk of Court Austin
E. South.
No jury trials had been heard
by Tuesday noon, and they were
not expected to get underway un
til late Tuesday afternoon or Wed
nesday morning. Court was ex
pected to last until Thursday.
No "serious" crimes were includ
ed in the 127 cases coming before
Judge Huskins this week. Most
of the cases involved commission
of misdemeanors, speeding heading
the list with 34 indictments. Twen
ty-one were charged with driving
drunk, 12 with violating the pro
hibition laws, 10 each for driving
without license and with expired
(Continued on page 7, section B)
Road Hearing
Set At Elkin
Elkin ? A public hearing on im
portant road matters in the Ele
venth Highway Division will be
held here October 8, according to
Division Engineer J. H. Council!.
City and county officials and
the general public are invited to
attend the meeting to discuss
road requests with representatives
of the Eleventh Division. The
meeting will be held Thursday,
Oct. 8, in the Gilvin Roth YMCA
at Elkin, from 10 a. m. until 12
noon.
This is one of a aeries of public
meetings to be held in the Ele
venth Division, which is composed
of Avery, Caldwell, Watauga.
Ashe. Wilkes, Surry, Yadkin and
Alleghany Counties.
1, 1939 and ending September 30,
1960.
Vaughn Tugman, chairman;
Clint Eggers, vice-chairman; A. C.
Moretz. member; Joe McNeil and
Ned Glenn were elected alternate!
to the committee.
The County Committee hat th(#
responsibility of administering ap
plicable Agricultural Stabilization
and Conservation programs in Wa
tauga County. Such programs are
the Agricultural Conservation Pro
gram, Price Support Program, the
Acreage Allotment and Marketing
Quota Program, the conservation
reserve program of the Soil Bank
and any ottyer programs assigned
to them by thp State ASC Com
mittee.
The Chairman, Vaughn Tugman,
operates a farm in the Green Val
ley section of the county and live
stock, tobacco and dairy products
are _ produced on his farm. For
many years he served as a com
munity committeeman. He has
served five years as a member of
the county committee and for the
past two years as Chairman.
The Vice-Chairman operates a
farm in the Silverstone section of
the county and produces livestock,
truck crops, dairy products and
tobacco on his farm. For a num
ber of years he served as a com
munity committeeman and was
first elected to tile county com
mittee in 1997, and has been vice
chairman for the past two year*.
A. C. Moretz, the third member
of the committee operate* a farm
in the Deep Gap section of the
county and produces livestock and
grain. He has served as a member
of the county committee at inter
vals for a number of year*.
The alternates have served a|
county and community committee
men since 1940.
mtm
Success Of School System
"Rests On Teachers
99
Teachers
Name Officers,
Committees
Higher Education Diviiion:
president: Dr. J. R. Melton, Ap
palachian State Teachers Collegfe;
vice-president: Dr. James E. Stone,
Appalachian State Teachers Col
lege; secretary: Dr. David J. Mid
dleton, Appalachian State Teachers
College.
Division of Principals: president:
John Howell, Appalachian Elemen
tary School; vice-president: R. Paul
Buchanan, Yadkinville School;
secretary: F. C. Schiebout, Morgan
ton City Schools.
Division of Classroom Teachers:
president: Mrs. Barbara Hollings
worth, Mount Airy Junior High;
vice-president: Miss Mildred Mul
lis, Morganton City Schools; secre
tary: Miss Rosemary Fowler, Salem
School, Morganton.
Superintendents: President: W.
K. Anderson, Avery County
Schools, Newland; vice-president:
N. H. Carpenter, Elkin Schools;
secretary: Fred C. Hobson, Yadkin
County Schools, Yadkinville.
Directors of Instruction: Presi
dent: Mrs. Dessa Mae Edmisten,
Watauga County Schools; vice
president: Donna Jones, Alleghany
County Schools, Sparta; secretary:
Mrs. Edna Bivens, Wilkes County
Schools, Wilkesboro.
Departmental Officers
Science: President: Tom W.
Hayes, West High School, Millers
Creek; vice-president: Mrs. Allene
Martin, East Bend School; secre
tary: Mrs. John Johnson, Valdese
School.
Home Economics: President:
Mrs. Margaret De Journette, North
Wilkes School, Hayes; vice-presi
dent: Mrs. Helen White, Hudson
High; secretary: Mrs. Mary June
Sheets, Ashe Central High, Jef
ferson.
Mathematics: president: Mrs.
Josephine Hendrix, North Wilkes
High, Hays; vice-president: Mrs.
Sara D. Phillips, North Surry High,
Mount Airy; secretary: Mrs Ruth
P. Smith, Lenoir High School.
English: president: Mrs. Pauline
Woodward, Wilkes Central, North
Wilkesboro; vice-president: Mrs.
Hazel Gambill, Wilkes Central,
North Wilkesboro; secretary: Mrs.
Winnie M. Church, West High,
Millers Creek.
Agriculture: president: R. G.
Shipley, Cove Creek School, Sugar
Grove; vice-president: Gene Lin
ney, Oak Hill School, Lenoir; secre
tary: R. A. Parham, Hilderbran
School.
Modern Foreign Language :
president: Miss Cynthia Stiles,
Cove Creek High, Cove Creek;
vice-president: Miss Yvonne Seagle,
Morganton High; secretary: Mrs.
Gorrell Prim, Yarkinville High
School.
Council for Social Studies: Pres
ident: L. M. Venable, Appalachian
High, Boone; vice-president: Ralph
Abernathy, Drexel School; secre
tary: Mary Sue Dula, Wilkes Cen
tral, Wilkesboro.
Health, Physical Education and
Recreation: president: Eric De
Groat, Appalachian State Teachers
College; vice-president: Mrs. Max
ine Amos, Morganton High School;
secretary: Miss Mary Schell, Ap
palachian High, Boone.
Guidance Services: President:
Mrs. Grace B. Mast, Cove Creek
High, Sugar Grove; vice-president:
Dr. H. T. Conner, Barke County
Schools, Morganton; secretary:
Mrs. Virginia Dare Strother. Cove
(Continued on page 7, section B)
Soil Bank Deadline Is
Extended To Oct. 9
The closing date for accepting
request* (or the establiihmeni ot
per acre rates under the Soil Bank
Conservation Reserve has been ex
tended through October 9, 199t.
Fanners interested in applying (or
rates should apply at the ASC of
fice before the closing date.
The date for filing requests (or
contracts remains the same, Octo
ber 16, IMS. Applications (or re
quests (or rates and contracts may
be ) n*de at the name time oo
Tuesday, October <. when the
County Committee will be in ses
lion to establish rates (or all ap
plication! filed by that date.
MISPLACED THRIFT
St. Lou U, Mo? Katberyn Mv
Hugh lived a life of poverty. The
eauac of her death last April S
was malnutrition. A week end in
ventory of her estate showed the
86-year-old seamstress waa worth
*1*108.
George Flowers, Jr., of Flowers Photo Shop, was up In the middle of
the night to snap this specacular scene of Country Super Market fire.
Vilas Market Razed
In Midnight Blaze
Fire of undetermined origin de
stroyed the Country Super Mar
ket late Tuesday night of last
week. The Boone Volunteer Fire
department answered a call about
11:90 o'clock, and stayed on the
scent until about 2:80 a. m. Wed
nesday.
The store-filling station-apart
combination was located about six
miles west of Boone on U. S. High
way 421. It was owned by Mr.
and Mrs. E. L. Kiziah.
By tHe time the fire department
reached the scene, the fire was so
far advanced that the firemen con
centrated their efforts to saving
a woodworking shop at the rear.
Water from a nearby stream was
pumped on the building to save
is from the intense heat of the
fire, according to Carl Green?,
town employee who aided in fight
ing the fire. They also doused gas
pumps in front of the store with
water to prevent them from being
ignited and maybe exploding the
underground tanks.
Mrs. Kiziah and a neighbor, Mrs.
Lonnie Henson, were asleep in an
apartment at the store. Mrs. Hen
son, who was spending the night
with Mrs. Kiziah while Mr. Ki
ziah was in Hickory where he is
In the contracting bmtlien, was
awakened by the smell of smoke.
They had closed the store about
9:30 and retired. Mrs. Kiziah was
feeling ill when she went to bed,
and had to be awakened and forced
to leave the burning building by
Mrs. Henson.
The building and its entire con
tents, which included merchandise,
refrigeration equipment and all
the things needed to operate a
store and service station, and
household article*, were lost. Lo*s
was expected to be in the thou
sands of dollars, Mrs. Kiziah said
Wednesday.
While no one knew the exact
cause qf the fire, Mr. Greene ad
vanced the theory that it started
from defective wiring.
Dr. Lovejoy
Is Speaker At
NCEA Meeting
Near two thousand teachers,
principals, superintendents and
other school personnel attended
the Northwestern District conven
tion of the North Carolina Educa
tion Association on Appalachian
State Teachers College campus last
Tuesday and listened to speeches
and discussions of the various top
ics of interest to members of the
profession.
Dr. Phillip Lovejoy, one-time
educator and world traveler was
one of the principal speakers.
Dr. Lovejoy stressed the need of
new techniques to develop the
best there is in every child, and
emphasized that the success of the
American educational eystem rests
on the teachers.
The challenge facing public edu
cation also was discussed by Dallas
Herring of Rose Hill, chairman of
the State Board of Education, in a
luncheon speech to the divisions
of superintendents and principals.
Emphasis on Quality
The next decade must be one
in which emphasis is placed on
quality, Herring said.
He said the state board attempt
ed to obtain certain things ? such
as guidance personnel and more
library help ? from the State Legis
lature this year but "we failed to
convince the legislators that these
things would strengthen the qual
ity of our program.
"But, we haven't been defeated.
The leading legislators paid more
attention and did more talking this
time about need for quality in the
schools. We will eventually suc
ceed. And let no man say we're
unwilling to try something new.
Other luncheon speakers in
cluded Margaret Stevenson of
Washington, D. C., executive sec
retary of the Department of Class
room Teachers, National Education
Assn., who spoke to the Division of
Classroom Teachers; and Dr. J.
Everett Miller of Raleigh, assistant
state superintendent of public in
struction, who addressed the Div
isions of Directors of Instruction
and Higher Education on "Our
Gifted Pupils."
Sixteen department meetings in
(Continued on page 7, section B)
SYMPHONY SUPPORT.? A group of North Carolina children watch a special children's matinee of the
North Carolina Symphony Orchestra in 1998, when 1 10,000 Carolina children enjoyed 60 such educational
events. A similar scene will take place in Watauga C ounty in I960, when the United Fund will provide
a free children's matinee for the county schools.
North Carolina Symphony Will
Get Fund Aid And Fete Kiddies
School chil4ren of Watauga I
County will in March 1M0 join I
the 110,881 North Carolina child- I
ren who laat year wibwased apec- 1
ial children's matinees a I the
North Carolina bynipbooy Orchoa- <
, ??> M M-. j
tra. An allotment to provide (or
Lhc matinee is included in the'
budget for the Watauga County
United Fund thia year.
Sixty luch children's matinees
were fives in the state laat year,
receiving their support from
United Fund*, industry and busi
ness, and local membership drivM
of symphony society chapter*. A
local United Fund official has
i (Continued on page 7, section B)
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