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VOLUME LXXII. ? NO. 4#
An Independent Weekly Newspaper . . . Seventy-Second Year of Continuous Publication
PUCE: FIVE CENTS
BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MARCH SI, IMS
SIXTEEN PAGES? TWO SECTIONS
S 8 tl*J? S 1
HEADS WATAUGA CENSUS ? Claude Garland, Boone, Route 3, looks
over maps which will help him and his crew of ceniua taken in their
work of canvassing the county, beginning tomorrow.
CENSUS BLANK ? Mr. and Mri R. E. Afle itudy census blink lent
in advance of enumerator. They will fill the blank out and have it
ready when the centui taker calli on them between April 1 and 13.
ACCIDENT OCCURS NEAR BAILEY'S CAMP
Triplett Youth Loses Life ,
Others Hurt In Auto Crash
Vaughn Dillard Miller, 14, son l
of Mr. and Mn. Allio Miller, of
Triplett, died Monday afternoon
in Blowing Rock Hospital as a re
sult of injuries received late Sun- 1
day night in an automobile acci
dent on 321 at Bailey's Camp.
Four others were hurt, and the
car in which they were riding was
completely demolished.
Tracy Turner Miller, 20, of Trip
lett, was driver of the car and
received a broken leg and multiple
laceration* of the scalp and left
arm.
Three other passengers receiving
injuries were Billy Danny Hamp
ton, 17, Triplett, back injuries and
injury to nose; Jimmy Winfred, 18,
of Triplett, lacerations of the head
and back; and David Junior Miller,
IS, Triplett, concussion and back
injuries.
David Junior Miller was remov
ed to Baptist Hospital in Winston
Salem Monday.
Charles W. Mason, State high
way patrolman who investigated
the accident said it happened about
11 o'clock Sunday night. The car
was traveling north, toward Blow
ing Rock, and had started around
a curve, when it left the road on
the left side, overturned several
times, and ./stopped approximately
(continued on page two)
Tugman Is
Fund Prexy
W. RALPH TUGMAN
W. Ralph Tugman, advertising
director of the Watauga Demo
crat, was named president of the
Watauga County United Food at
the meeting held laat Thursday.
Other officers elected were:
Jack Caudill, first vice-presi
dent; Conrad Yates, second vice
( continued on paf? two)
FATAL WRECK.? One person died as a result of th is wreck Sunday night, and four others were injured.
District Music Contests Are Held
At Appalachian College Saturday
The annual District Music Con
teat, sponsored by the North Caro
lina Music Educators Association,
and held on the campus of Appa
lachian State Teachers College,
ended Saturday afternoon with
the band contest as the final event.
The Appalachian Junior High
Mixed Chonis received a rating of
"Superior," and the Appalachian
Senior High Mixed Chorus was giv
en a rating of "Excellent"
The Appalachian High School
Band was among those receiving
a rating of "Excellent." ,
Several Boone girls were in the
top two divisions ratings in the
piano contest.
The Piano Contest opened the
event Thursday morning, and the
following students were rated "Su
perior":
Junior division? Patty Sue Spen
cer, Ruth Anno Williams, and Pat
Flowers, of Boone: Carol Hovia.
Spruce Pine; Jean Russell Ward,
Morganton; and Carolyn Billings
and Nelda Morgan of North
Wilkesboro. |
Senior division ? Jennie Gray,
Marion.
"Excellent" rating in piano:
Juniors ? Kathryn Kelley, Jane
Buckland, Betsy Iiley, and Sara
Hagaman, Boone; Pat Blevina, Joan
Phillip* and Kenneth Pittman, of
Spruce Pine; and Sara Spicer,
North Wilkesboro.
Senior division ? Ann Greer and
Gloria Hampton, of Boone; and
Mary Stafford Patton, Morganton.
Glee clubs and chorus were
Ju4ffd Friday and a certain per
centage from each group making
Superior or Excellent ratings will
be permitted to participate in the
Choral Festival in Greensboro next
month.
Superior ratings went to:
Appalachian Junior High Mixed
Chorus. Boone; Hickory Boys Glee
Club (senior). Hickory; Hickory
Senior High Mixed Chorus; and
Hickory Senior Girls Glee Club.
Excellent ratings:
WUkesboro Elementary Mixed
Chorus; Glen Alpine Junior High
Mixed Chorus; Hudson Senior High
Mixed Chorus; Wilkes Central
Senior High Mixed Chorus; Glade
Valley Senior High Mixed Chorus;
and Appalachian Senior High Mix
V
ed Chorus.
Band ratings were made Satur
day. Superior bandi included:
Lenoir Davenport Junior High
Band; Glen Alpine Senior High
Band; Marion Senior High School
Band; and Drexel Senior High
School Band.
Excellent banda included Appa
lachian Senior High Band; Hudson
Junior High; Hildebran Senior
High; Wilkes Central High; and
Hudaon Senior High School Band.
These bands will be permitted to
enter the State Contest in Greena
boro in April.
Wac Recruiter
To Visit City
Captain Lydia M. Bray, Wo
man's Army Corp* Procurement
Officer, of Augusta, Ga. will be at
Appalachian State Teachers Cor
tege April 4tk, It was announced
Monday.
Gains in industrial output ex
caed past records. ,
160,000 TAKE PART IN WORK
' HP 1 _' i rp oi -g
Census lakers lo htar
J-'.i'l ' ' ' v ' ..y A
Nose Count On Friday
Garland Chief
Of Watauga
Canvassers *
The 1960 Census of Population
and Housing, the Nation's 18th
decennial nose count, gets under
way on Friday morning, April 1,
with 160,000 census takers start
ing their rounds which will take
them to every dwelling unit in the
"United States. In covering the 3tt
million square miles of land area
of the SO States, the census takers
will travel an estimated combined
distance of more than 1,000 times
around the world, or approximate
ly 28 million miles.
District Supervisor Mr. Roby D.
Pcnnell pointed out that residents
of this area can speed up the big
count by having their advance re
port forms filled out and ready
for the census takers. This action
will save time for both the house
holder and the census taker, the
census official said.
Mr. Claude Garland of Shulls
Mills is Watauga county crew
leader, and has established
headquarters at the law office*
of SUcy C. Eggers.
Mrs. Mary A. Graham is field
reviewer, while the following
township enumerators have been
jumed:
Boone, College, Mrs. Asalee
Miller.
' Boone: Mrs. Jane Galther,
Jacob V. Caudill, 8r? Joseph E.
Clay.
Brushy Fork, Mrs. J. W. Nor
ris.
New Klver, Miss Ruby Mich
ael, Miss Edna Hampton.
Meat Camp, Mrs. Josephine
Williams.
North Fork and Bald Moun
tain: Miss Ann Thomas.
Beaver Dam, Mrs. Ruth Mathe
son.
Blowing Rock, Mrs. Carolyn G.
Robbtns, Mrs. Carrie Buxton.
Elk and Blue Ridge, Mrs.
Mary Hayes.
Shswneehaw, Bennett Clay
Byrd.
Stony Fork, Joe J. Wellborn.
Cove Creek, Mrs. Margaret
Oliver.
Laurel Creek, Miss Mary
Wheeler.
At every fourth household, the
censu* taker will leave a Census
Household Questionnaire which
contain* additional questions cov
ering population and housing
characteristics which are being
asked of a 28 percent sample of
the population. Householders are
requested to fill out the house
hold questionnaire and mail it
within three days to the local cen
sus district office. A pre-address
ed postage free envelope is being
provided for this purpose.
The district supervisor empha
sized that all information about
individuals and their homes fur
nished to the Census Bureau is
held in absolute confidence under
Federal law. It is used only to
provide summary figures such as
totals, averages, and percentages.
The information about individuals
cannot be examined by any one
other than Census employees who
are sworn to secrecy, and thus
cannot be used for investigation,
taxation, or regulation.
Traadeit Const
Placet such as large hotels, mo
tels, and other accommodations
for transient guests will be can
vassed under a different proce
dure than the one used for regu
lar household dwelling units. Prior
to March 31, census taken will
visit each of them and make ?
complete record of the rental
units in these special dwellings
places. At the same time, they
will determine which of these
units are occupied by permanent
residents and which are for transi
ent*.
Tranaient* will be counted on
the night of March 31. This ccn
?ii* operation la known aa "T
night." A supply . of Individual
Census Report forme will be left
at hotels, motel*, and other large
transient place* to be distributed
(continued on page two)
Wynne Winecoff, of "The Appalachian" itaff, presents 1300 check to Dave P. Maat, welfare luperlntendent,
to be used by the Walker orphana, whose mother perished, in a blizzard last month. The campus news
paper spearheaded a campaign to raiae funds for the family, after the tragedy.
Henderson, Perry To Speak At
Rural Development Meeting
GORDON H. WINKLER
Winkler Runs
For Senate
Gordon H. Winkler, Mayor of
Boone told the Democrat that he
filed Tuesday afternoon aa a can
didate for the State Senate, aub
ject to the action of the votera of
Watauga county in the May' pri
mary.
Under the traditional rotation
system in the diatrict composed
of Watauga, Ashe and Alleghany
counties, it ia Watauga's time to
nominate the candidate.
Mayor Winkler who has been at
the head of the city Government
in Boone for 17 years, represent
ed Watauga county in the House
of Representatives in 1MI.
Mayor Winkler withheld any
formal statement concerning his
candidacy.
Denver Bryan
Rites Are Held
Denver R. Bryan, 37, of Boone,
died Tuesday night of last week
in Watauga Hospital after a brief
illness. ||?
Mr. Bryan was born In Boone,
a son of Mrs. Arkle Ragan Bryan
and the late Bart Jt. Bryan.
Funeral services were held Fri
day at 10 o'clock at the Advent
Christian Church. Rev. Floyd
Boston, the pastor, officiated. Bur
ial waa fat the Bryan family ceme
tery.
Surviving in addition to the
mother arc a daughter, Janna Lee
Bryan of Boone; two brothers, W.
Baxter Bryan, Brookline, Mass..
and Lewis 7. Bryan of Wishing
ton, D. C. _ ? 3?."^
W. D. Bingham
Funeral Held
Walter D. Bingham, 00, * used
car dealer of Kingsport, Tenn
died in a hospital in that city
Thursday after an illnesa of only
a few days.
Born at Amantha, N. C., Mr.
Bingham was a son of George F.
and Martha Hamby Bingham. He
moved to Kingsport in 1929 and
worked in the used car business
there until his death.
A veteran of world war one, he
was a 40-year member of Ham
mond Post No. 3, American Leg
ion. He was a member of Henson's
Chapel Methodist Church In Sher
wood.
Funeral services were held at
10 a. m. Saturday at Hamlett
Dobson Chapel. Rev. Roger Hilton
and Rev. Dr. John W. Rustin con
ducted the services. The body was
brought to Sherwpod where grave
side services were held at Hen
son's Chapel Church cemetery at
2 o'clock. Rev. Alvin A. Wilson
officiating.
Nephews were active pallbear
ers. Business associates were hon
orary pallbearers.
Survivors include the widow,
Mrs. Plyar Bingham, two
sisters, i. Gordon Taylor,
Boone; Mrs. Herbert Nobles,
Sherwood; two brothers, Sam J.
Bingham, Kingsport and George
F. Bingham, Kingsport, Tenn.
Claude Mast
Dies Tuesday
Lenoir ? Claude Lenoir Mast,
79, well known retired fanner of
the Patterson community, paased
away late Tuesday at a local hospi
tal following several months ef
failing health.
Funeral services were conducted
Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock
at Yadkin Baptiat Church, of
which he was a member. The Rev.
W. R. Kimberlln officiated and
burial was In the church ceme
tery.
Mr. Mast was born at Valle Cra
cis in Watauga Conty Jan. 16,
1MB, a son of the late D. Finley
Mast and Mrs. Josephine Mast. He
was a member of Hibriten Masonic
Lodge and chairman of the Happy
Valley school board of trusUes.
He Wkl ? director of the Farmers
Federation, and an honorary mem
ber Of Happy Valley Ruritan dub
(continued on page CM)
A Rural Development resource
conference on employment and In
dustrial development In Watauga
County will feature two distin
guished guests.
Mr. W. R. "Bill" Henderson, In
dustrial Development Administra
tor of the North Carolina Depart
ment of Conservation and Deve
W. R. HENDERSON
lopment, will be present. Mr. Hen
deraon's work in thil state U well
known and hit interest in Wata
uga County ia appreciated.
Mr. Troy R. Parry, Manager of
the Employment Security Commis
sion office at North Wilkesboro,
also kindly consented to help wifh
this conference.
These men will meet with the
Rural Development Business and
Industry Committee and the Board
of Directora of the Boone Cham
ber of Commerce at 6:00 p. m., at
the Daniel Boone Hotel on April
5th. At 7:00 p. m., the same even
ing, the Boone Liona Club and the
Boone Chamber of Commerce will
hold a joint meeting in the Hotel
Dining Room. Mr. Henderson will
be the guest speaker for this ses
sion. Anyone interested is invited
to attend. All persons other than
Lions, Club members will pay for
their meal.
This should prove to be a fruit
ful evening for WaUuga County.
Vet Training
Plan Deadline
Veterans that desire to enroll
in the Veteran Farm Training
Program must do so by April 1,
according to ,R. G. Shipley, vet
erans' program supervisor.
This is the final date a veteran
of Korean War may enroll for
farm training, fu
Former servicemen that are eli
gible for G. I. trailing and want
(o take farm training are advised
to contact immediately, R. G.
Shipley, teacher ot agriculture at
Cove Creek High School, j"
K. Perry, Veterans'