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VOLUME LXXII? NO. 21.
An Independent Weekly Neumpaper . .
PRICE: FIVE CENTS
BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY,
DEMO
. Seventy-Second Year of Continuous Publication
NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 195*
Bethel, Cove Creek
Share Top Honors
At City-Farm Meet
Bethel and Cove Creek commun
ities shared top honors for com
munity development in Watauga
county during 195859, and were
awarded cash prizes for their ef
forts at the annual Farm-City meet
ing Tuesday night. The meeting
supper was held at Cove Creek
High School, and was attended by
nearly 400 people.
Bethel, listed as a fanning com
munity, was given $90.00 first place
mony. Alfred Adams made the
presentation durirg the opening of
FarmCity week in the county, at
the supper.
Judging was done earlier and
four other communities shared in
the farming community money.
Cove Creek, the only non-farm
community competing this year in
that division, was given $78.00 by
Mr. Adams.
Other money-takers in the farm
ing community were second place,
Valle Crucis, $70.00; third, Silver
stone, $99.00; and Mabel and Fos
coe, each $50.00.
x The event featured a talk by 1.
Graham Morrison, retired county
agent, from Lincoln county, who
Thursday evening (tonight) at
6:30 o'clock WSJSTV, channel
12, will carry a story of the
Rural Development Program
community projects, and the
Highway COS dedication.
kept his audience amused with
humorous antedotes and tales.
A barbecued chicken supper was
served prior to the program. The
chickens, Watauga-grown, were
cooked under the supervision of
Robert Shipley, vocational agricul
tural teacher at Cove Creek, and
were served by the home eco
nomics department of the school.
The supper climaxed a year of
accomplishments in the county
under the Rural Development Pro
gram, and Chambers of-Commerce
of Boone and Blowing Rock. It
likewise began a new year for the
program and for the Boone Cham
ber of Commerce, whose officers
for the new year were installed
during the program.
Programs .handed out at the ga
thering pointed out accomplish
ments in the spiritual life, in in
dustry, education, rural work,
clubs and organizations in the
county.
Bethel and Cove Creek will rep
resent Watauga county ,in the
the Northwestern Development As
sociation gathering at Elkin next
month, when winning communities
in Northwestern North Carolina
will be announced for improvement
awards in the area.
Blood Plan
Heads Named
Mr. Joe Worth and Mrs. L. H.
Owsley have been appointed co
chairmen of the Watauga blood
program, replacing Mr. Jack Can
dill, who resigned because of ill
health.
A dinner meeting of the local
Red Cross group was held at the
Daniel Boone Hotel Thursday eve
ning. Mrs. Marion Ritzert of Lin
colnton. Field Representative of
the American Red Cross, was pres
ent and discussed the various work
and problems of the local and na
tional Red Cross.
Con Yates, local Red Cross
chairman, presided.
Record Of Arrests
Patrolmen W. D. Teem and
George E. Baker listed 25 arrests
in Watauga county for traffic law
Violations. They included: Six for
stop sign violations, three for im
proper lights, 3 improper equip
ment 2 improper registration, 2
driving under influence of 'atoxi
catlng beverages, 2 improper
brakes, 2 failure to transfer title,
and one each for public drunk
eness, speeding, improper passing,
failure to signal, and expired lic
ense plates.
Chancellor At State,
Dr. Friday To Speak
Development Assn.
Wayne A. Corpening, president
of the Northwest North Carolina
Development Association, has an
nounced that Dr. John Caldwell,
Chancellor of State College, will
be the speaker at the annual meet
CALDWELL
FRIDAY
in g of the Association at the Gil
vin Both YMCA in F.lkin Tuet
day night, December 8 at 6:30 p.
m.
Dr. William Friday, president of
the consolidated University of
North Carolina, will introduce the
speaker.
D. M. Courtney, chairman of the
arrangements committee is mak
ing plans for 750 to attend. Direc
tors in each county have tickets
for a limited number to attend. At
this time the are* awards will also
be presented and there will be
other features of entertainment in
cluding special music.
President Corpenlng said that he
felt the Association was indeed,
fortunate in securing Dr. Caldtrell
as a speaker. He is ? native of
Yaioo City, Mississippi and holds
a BS degree from Mississippi State
College, MA degree from Duke
University and Columbia Univer
sity and Doctor of Philosophy from
Princeton University. He came to
North Carolina this year after re
signing as president of the Univer
sity of Arkansas and prior to that
he was president of Alabama Col
lege. He served in the United
States Navy from 1942 until 1M6
and is currently serving on a num
ber of nationally known boards
and organizations including Amer
ican Political Science Association,
Southern Political Science Associa
tion, American Society for Public
Administration, Legislative com
mittee, American Association of
Land-Grant Colleges and State
Universities and others.
Dr. Friday, who was a naval of
ficer during World War II is a
graduate of State College with a I
degree in textile engineering and 1
of the Law School of the Univer- <
sity of North Carolina. He has
been associated with the Univer
sity in a number of capacities in- 1
eluding assistant Dean of Stu- i
dents, administrative assistant to i
Gordon Gray, secretary of toe
Consolidated University, vice prao- i
ident f"* now president.
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WAREHOUSE DRAMA ? Scenes like this will be repeated daily during the Burley season. Buyers, farm
ers and Mountain Burley warehousemen look (or a good sales period, and tobacco already on the Boone
floor* indicate a high quality of Burley. Sales begin Monday morning at 9 o'clock.
Highway 603 Ribbon CuttingTo
T ake Place T oday At State Line
The Boone Chamber of Com
merce was ready today (Thuri.)
to climax its efforts for Highway
603, with an official dedication
and ribbon-cutting. According to
Herman W. Wilcox, Stanley Harrfe,
and other chamber members, many
persons from Tennessee, including
Lt.-Govovernor William D. Baird,
will be on hand to aid in the cele
bration.
A motorcade from Tennessee,
beginning at Johnson City, and
picking up othors along the way
to Mountain City and the state
line, will meet a like group from
North Carolina, forming in Boone,
at the state line, where the rib
bon will be cut, signifying the of
ficial opening of the route that
cuts eleven miles travel from the
two points ? Boone and Johnson
City.
The new route also opens up a
shorter route to Watauga Dam and
lake, where many people of this
section go for fishing and water
sports.
The motorcades are scheduled
to meet at 3:00 p. m., and after
the dedication come to Boone,
where they will go to ride on a
special run of Tweetsie, the train
that has proved a great tourist
attraction between Boone and
Blowing Rock, and which before
the flood in 1940, carried passen
gers and freight between the two
states.
Lt.-Gov. Baird will make the
dedication speech. Others from his
state who have had a hand in com
pleting the last link in the high
way, and are expected to attend
the dedication, include William S.
Leach, a former commissioner; Roy
Iddins, diivsion engineer, and
Maintenance Engineer W. C.
Maney.
Heading the North Carolina del
egation will be W. F. Babcock, di
rector of highways; and Paul
Johnston, director department of
administration, who will help with
the ribbon cutting; and Ralph
Howland, C. W. Lee, H. E. Koontz,
J. E. Doughton, Z. V. Stewart, and
James H. Councill, of the highway
department.
A delegation from Newland,
headed by Attorney J. |lay Bras
well, will join the North Carolina
motorcade. Congressman Raper
Jonas is also expected to attend.
After showing the Tennesaeans
around during the afternoon, the
chamber will honor the leaders of
the two states with a special din
ner at Boone Trail Restaurant.
Mr. Wilcox urges a good at
tendance from Boone to the rib
bon cutting and dinner. He said,
"We are most desirous that we
have a motorcade of at least fifty
Zfb Danner
Dies Tuesday
Zeb Vance Danner, 73, native
Wataugan, who has lately lived
In Hickory, died at the Veterans
Hospital, Swannanoa, N. C. Tues
day.
Funeral services will be held
Wednesday at 2:30 at the Shulls
Mills Baptist Church by Rev. Ray
mond Hendrix and burial will be
in the Shull cemetery.
Surviving are a brother and
lister, Benjamin Danner, Hickory;
Mr*. Cordie Calloway, Foscoe.
cars from Boone. You are re
quested to assemble around the
bus terminal building at 2:00 p. m ,
to proceed up Rivers Street to
Water Street and enter King
Street at the traffic light." From
there the cars wil go on to the
state line via 421 and 603.
Prospects Are Good
For New Industry
"Prospects look good" for Wa
tauga to obtain an industry that
eventually would employ 300 men,
according to Herman W. Wilcox,
president of Boone Chamber of
Commerce, upon his return last
Wednesday night from Cincinnati,
Ohio, where he and Stanley A. Har
ris conferred with a concern in
terested in locating in this area.
H the new factory were to
locate in Boone, it would be the
first industry employing mostly
men that has come to the coun
ty. Two other plants recently
located here are staffed mainly,
with women.
Mr. Wilcox and Mr. Harris went
to ' Cincinnati last Wednesday to
talk with a concern that manu
factures display cabinets, and offi
cers of the company are expected
to come here this week to look
over possible sites of operation.
According to the talks they had
Civitan Has
First Meeting
The Boone Civitan Club held
its first meeting on Tuesday even
ing, November 10, at the Gateway
Restaurant. The meeting was held
for the purpose of letting the
members get better acquainted
and to form committees for the
coming year's activities.
Each committee chairman met
with the members of his commit
tee to lay the ground work. Every
Civitan in attendance enjoyed the
evening's fellowship.
The next meeting will be held
Tuesday evening, November 23 at
7:00 p. m. at the Gateway Restaur
ant
with the Ohio factory officials, the
plant would at first employ about
50 men, all of them from the local
labor market, except one or two
who would come here in a super
visory capacity.
The factory also would use
local raw materials, as much as
possible, in its manufacturing
process, Mr. Wilcox, said. Hard
woods and softwood would be
in demand, and could come
from this area.
Photo Flowers' Hioto Shop
STATION WAGON AND TRUCK AS THEY APPEARED AFTER FOGGY MOR NING WRECK
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Burley Auctions T
Begin On Monday
Third Million
Pounds Weed
Is On Baskets i
With tobacco flowing steadily to
the sales floor of the Boone mar
ket, there could easily be a record
poundage on the floor when tell
ing begins on Monday, November
23. Already there it more than
350,000 pounds on the floor, ac
cording to Mrs. Harriet Sykei.
"Thia," she said, "is a greater
volume than ever with selling date
still a week away."
"Thla is one of those yean,"
Mrs. Sykes said, "when grading
is all-important to the grower.
We can't emphasize too strongly
the importance of keeping all
damaged tobacco separate from
the good crop," she said. "The
quality of this year's crop ? Is a
little bit better than was first
believed," she continued.
Selling begins Monday morning,
at Warehouse No. 1 of the Moun
tain Burley Warehouse Company,
and will continue on a 9 day week
with a full set of buyers each day,
the Warehouse reported. Govern
ment graders are already on hand
there, and buyers are arriving now
in preparation for Monday's sell
ing.
Asked about Thanksgiving Day,
Mrs. Sykes replied, "We will ob
serve Thursday as a holiday, but
will be back selling again on Fri
day."
The Boone market operates on
a daily pound quota of 302,400
pounds. Present weather condi
tions has most crops in good case
for handling, and heavy arrivala
of tobacco are expected daily.
Asked for a final word to the
growers, Mrs. Sykes aaid, "Tell
'em the better it looks, the more
it brings!"
Mr. And Mrs. Porter
Are Injured In Crash
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Jennings
Porter, of Boone, were seriously
injured Monday morning when
their station wagon was in colli
sion with a truck loaded with oak
flooring, near Appalachian Motel
at Blowing Rock.
Mr. Porter sustained head in
juries, brolycn ribs, and possible
internal injuries, and Mrs. Porter's
injuries were listed as bruises, lac
erations and mild concussion. Both
were taken to Blowing Rock hos
pital, and late Monday had not
been question about the accident
because of their condition.
Investigating officer, Blowing
Rock Chief of Police W. C. Gaye,
said the acident occurred during a
dense fog, about 8:20 o'clock. A
truck, owned by the Oak Flooring
Co., of West Jefferson, and driven
by James Leonard Brown, Route
1, Todd, was traveling toward Le
noir on U. S. 321. The Porter
vehicle apparently was coming off
Sunset Drive, but Chief Gaye dat
ed he had not been able to de
termine which direction the Port
ers intended to go. The truck driv
er was not hurt.
Mr. Gaye, who was aided in his
preliminary investigation by High
way Patrolman George E. Baker,
said he was continuing the investi
gation, and no charge* had been
made.
Preliminary estimates of prop
erty damage was about $390 to
the truck, and probably total loss
to the station wagon.
Mr. and Mrs. Porter operate
Porter's Beauty Salon and Porter's
Flowers in Boone at 400 E. King
Street.
Week end and Sunday guests of
Mr. and Mrs. John Houck were Mr.
and Mrs. C. F. Dickson and family
of Knoxville, Tenn., Frank Auton
of Asheville, and Mr. and Mrs.
Mack Edwards of West Jefferson.
COTTRELL
SNEAD
SWAIM
CLAWSON
Boone Students Given
Honor In "Who's Who"
Of the thirty Appalachian Col
lege student! who have been se
lected for recognition in the 1^59
60 edition of "Who's Who Among
Students in American Colleges and
Universities, Hiss Ann Cottrell,
Minnie Snead, Betty Swaim, and
Mr. Kenneth Clawson were the
local students selected on the
basis of scholarship, participation
and leadership in academic and
extra-curricular activities, citizen
ship and service to the school and
promise of future contribution to
society.
Ann Cottrell, business major,
has served as vice-president and
president of the Vernician Society,
secretary of the freshman class, a
representative to the Student
Council, secretary of Future Busi
ness Leaders of America, and edi
tor of the Pi Omega Pi news
paper. She was a delegate to the
Pi Omega Pi convention in Chicago
last spring.
Minnie Snead is president of the
Home Economics Club, and holds
membership in Chi Lambda Chi
and the Vernician Society. She was
a 1930 delegate to the College
Clubs division of the North Caro
lina Health Education Association
and is treasurer of the association.
Betty Swaim, a junior, has been
a member of the Student Council
for three years. She is also on The
Rhododendron staff and in the
Vernician Society. She is a Junior
counselor and has been a member
of the chorus and chorale. Betty
was secretary of the freshman
class.
Kenneth Clawson, a senior, is
president of Chi Lambda Chi and
the science Club. He is also a
member of Beta Beta Beta, Play
( Continued on page two)
Pastime Theatre To Be
Modern Office Building
Mr. L. E. Dimmette, President ,
of Dimmette Realty Corporation
of Lenoir, announce! the purchase
of the Pastime Theatre building in
Baone by hit corporation.
Extensive remodeling opera
tions are now in progress on the
building, which is being converted
into what will be known as the
Professional Building. It will win
tain suites of modern offices,
most of which have been ipoken
for.
The corporation has extensive
real estate holdings in Blowing
Rock and in Watauga County.
They have recently sold over
three hundred acres near and in
the town of Bl. ./ing Rock, which
will eventually be developed into
a large summer camp for boys
and girls.
Baked Goods Sale To *
Aid. Activity Fund
The Appalachian High School
Beta Club, in cooperation with the
P. T. A., it sponsoring a Baked
Gooda Sale on Tuesday, November
24, at Sears Store in downtown
Boone.
Part of the profits from the
sale will be used to finance Career
Day, which will benefit the entire
school. Profits above Career Day
expenaes will go into an Activity
Fund, which will finance Student
Council and club activitiea and
will help to buy school letters in
scholarship citizenship.
Career Day will b? held In (he
spring. At that time students will
have an opportunity to talk with
nurses,, doctors, engineers, law
years, teachers, ministers, mech
anics, electricians, contractors, and
other people now working in dif
ferent careers. This will help high
schol students in the selection of
careers.
The parents of the student body
will contribute the pies, cakes,
jams, jellies, preserves, candies
and cookies which will be sold.
The two homerooms with the
highest percentage contributing
goods will be given cake parties
by the Bet* Qvb. ,
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