North Carolina Newspapers

FOR BEST RESULTS advertiaera invariably UN Um column* of the Democrat. With ita full paid circulation, intensely covering the local ibopping area, II ia the beat advertiaint medium avaJahla. ?Dr. 32 nun ffJt Apr. 23 81 48 75 Apr. M 79 16 71 M Apr. 28 M 48 72 Total precipitation ? .33 in. An Independent Weekly Newspaper . . . Seventy-Second Year of Continuous Publication PRICK: FIVE CENTS BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1M0 SECTIOl Blood Unit Is Coming Here Today The Red Ctom Bloodmobile will be in Boone today (Thurs. ) from 11 a. m. until 9 p. m. on Appalach ian State Teachers College campus. It will be located at East Hall in the lobby of the new wing. East Hall is the girls' dorm on the short street between the hospital and Locust street. Ample parking space Is avail able. Watauga County Chapter of American Red Cross is affiliated with the Piedmont Carolina Reg ional Blood Center in Charlotte. This region takes care of the blood needs for 35 counties in the two Carolinas, and service 88 hos pitals. The years quotas for blood are determined by usage of blood the previous year, and are prorated. Watauga county is responsible for collecting 413 pints in three visits, or 137 pints in April, July and Oc tober. When one visit does not meet its quota it affects the en tire region, for schedules are made up a year in advance. All year long, Mondays through Fridays, two bloodmobiles are op erating in specifie'd areas to keep the supply of blood going into the center to meet the needs of the people. Every day the participat ing hospitals order the blood they need from the center. At times emergencies arise and more blood is needed than was an ticipated; then the local hospitals must call for donors to meet the need. The blood used in this man ner is credited to the county quota and the donors receive the same six months blood credit for them selves and their families as they do when donating at a regular bloodmobile visit. Persons replacing blood for someone who had no credit card not only erase the blood debt but still receive the six months blood credit for themselves and their familiee. Since the last bloodmobile visit 38 pints of blood were donated at Watauga Hospital and 39 residents of Watauga county received 79 pints of blood for which they held no credit cards. These residents have all been notified and asked to have family or friends replace the blood owed on Thursdays. Watauga county is extremely fortunate to be able to participate in the Red Cross Blood Program. It assures the citizens of the coun ty of complete blood needs every day; yet the county quota would not have been met on a single visit had it not been for the students of Appalachian State Teachers Col lege. These students gave 90% of the blood donated. It is the earnest wish of the Red Cross to have the local perm anent residents of the county take a more active interest and come to the bloodmobile and donate a (continued on page three) Miss Harmon Head Speller MISS MARGARET HARMON Mis* Margaret Rote Harmon, ? member of Mr*. R. C. Green's seventh grade at Blowing Rock School, was declared the 1900 champion speller of Watauga County in a county-wide "Spelling Bee" held at Boone Demonstration Building, Wednesday, April 20. She is an excellent student, a good leader and gets along nicely with people. Her hobbies are reading, music, art, sports, and coin collecting. Margaret is the 12 -year -old daughter of Mrs. Edith Harmon of Blowing Rock and Cedar Bluff, Virginia. i CLEANUP STARTS? Getting a head-start on beautifying Boone are Mr*. B. W. Stalling! (left), Mrs. Mae Miller, and Mr*. Lee Reynold*. Mri Reynolds head* a Chamber of Commerce committee on town beautification. Tulip* in background were planted by Mr*. Mae Miller and Mrs. H. M. Cooke for the Blue Ridge Garden Club, in their effort* to keep Boone beautiful. Varied Spring Festival Being Planned At Appalachian State A culture-bulging package of beauties, opera, teas, dances, con- 1 IT!" "d flowe? ?Pen.| ?? ? . the two^?y Spring I estiva 1 at Appalachian State Teachers College. "Glimpses of Opera" featuring ?ore than 100 performers begins tte festival. Presentation of May SlT"1 a'u Lowf*nce 01 Moores H.?" J*' COurt ,nd " w<x>dy .? ?'im" annual ?pringtime affair. John Kirk, assistant football Wrt newly-named dean ol men. is spring festival chairman. The college chorus and chorale Pre**"* "Glimpses of Opera" Fri dar evening, May 6. Mr, Virginia Wary Linney, Hoyt Safrit and Brownlee Waachek are directing W.Prf r"0"' ""i,ted chestra ege ^Phony or Rogers Whitener of Boone is the narrator. Guest soloist is Alene Queen of Atlanta, Ga? and Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Day of Elkin is the pianist. Featured in the opera are Bud Mayes of Kings Mountain, Stephen Vaughn of Greensboro, Florence Payne of Lexington, Samnel Chen S^'e Ford ?' Cr*raer ton, Riley Matthews of Winston Salem and Linda Harwood of Aaheville. David French, dramatic coach, 5"f^rv *el construction for the production. -Uee" G,iI Lowrance and her court are scheduled for pre ,7tfrt,0??t ? P- Nr.- Saturday ?t Buildi^J v,nd ^hy'ic41 Education J! Lowrance 's escort M. w ^ 86,1 01 High point. ?' .Honor will be Barbara' w inkier of Boone. Her escort. Bob Du"n'?an of Winston-Salem. Heralds Vicky Culp of Alb*. M. ? Betty borowiil sound the entrance of *y Court beauties and their eacorts. ?f K*nn?Po.is Elier, Landii, flower girla. V'ind"U ?re Nancy Conover, Betty Prof L""' ^ty Swaim of, Boone, Daisy Fox of Stony Point Chin, r Advance, Jew, w.tta of Wckorv uV\ jeannie Belk of Hickory, Martha Chandler of Lin colnton, Jewell Huffman o{ Hick. Spencer Johlwton of eourt Presenution it under UCn ^n^n- D!i" ^rs, 1 , ? w- Williams, Merle Ram er and Catherine Smith, all ASTC faculty member*. Drain*!*? ?f. ,pecU1 ,nterest to APPalachian students .f'X"""? Saturday mon,,^ 10.90 in the science lecture .7^5. CO"*** band under direc informml ^ WiU pr<aent an Worms, concert ,t 2;30 p I "*ool student J irxri1*?' astc for Men'? Old ST wTd "? m ? s"" L At 4:30 p. m. oil . Saturday, the Vernician Society will give a tea for the ladiea of the court- and their friends. For the entertainment of the Queen and her court, the Varsou vtanna Club will present "On Witlv The Show," a medley of dances to Stephen Foster melodies. Misa (Continued on page three) MAY QUEEN. ? Gail Lowrance will reign over May Day festivities*! Appalachian State Teachen College May 7. The May Day celebration is part of the two-day Spring Festival held annually at the college. This picture, by Carmen Carter, college photographer, was on display at the recent Southeastern Short Course in Photography in Durham. Mayor's Proclamation Mayor Gordon H. Winkler hat officialy proclaimed May 1-13 for Boone's annual Clean-up, Paint-up, Fix-up campaign, and baa urged every citizen to participate in this year'a program. The Mayor'* proclamation follows: Whereas, the general health and welfare of our citizens depend upon wholesome surroundings arising from good clean living con ditions, and Whereas, the lives and property of our people are endangered by fire and accidents caused by littered and cluttered conditions in homes, factories, places of public assembly, alleys and streets, and Whereas, a clean and beautiful community is a proud and pros perous one, and Whereas, unity of effort is required for future development of our community, Therefore, I, Gordon H. Winkler, Mayor of the Town of Boone, do hereby designate May 1-19, inclusive, aa Clean-up Week, and most respectfully call on all department* of this town, its commercial organisations, civic clubs, schools, churches, boys' and girls' club* and all other associations and our people in general to take an active part in this constructive program of community improvement to insure its success. This the 29th day of April, 1800. M'i > GORDON H. WINKLER, Mayor Town o t Boone, North Carolina : gii.ii' FLOWERS TO BE TENDE* Much Interest Shown In Annual Cleanup Period Clubwomen, Officials Map Civic Program By JOE C. MINOR A great deal of interest is being shown throughout the town in the annual two-weeks clean-up campaign which gets underway officially Monday. Already individuals and groups are busy tidying up homes and lots and plots about town. Mrs. Lee Reynolds, who heads the special Town Beau tification Committee of the Chamber of Commerce, says groups have been busy clean ing up various vacant lots in Boone, and in many instances flowers and shrubs have been set out with a long-range beau tification program in mind. Work from previous campaigns is proving its worth as trees and flowers are already beautifying areas. The goal of the beautification committee is to make Boone the most attractive community in the area and kepe it that way. Representatives from the various garden club* and women's clubs are on the beautification commu te. They include Mrs. H. W. Wil cox, Mrs. John Houck, Mrs. B. W. Stallings, and Mrs. Jerry Coe. Property owners are being urged to keep the sidewalks in front of their property clean. It will take only a few minutes a day, one of the Chamber of Commerce mem bers said, to keep the sidewalks neat, and the time spent on this chore will pay off handsomely in attracting visitors, and in the satis faction gained by residents living in a clean town. The garden clubs and women's clubs are looking to ' a program that will keep the town clean and beautiful all year around. Each club Jus taken certain areas to clean and plant flowers. All en trances to Boone will have flowers and shrubs around the "Welcome" signs. Already, groups are putting these flowers and shrubs out, and before the campaign is over Mrs. Reynolds expects the clubs will have the spots beautified. The Gardenerettes, Blue Ridge Garden Club, and the Appalachian Garden Club each have an entrance to work on and keep up. At a meeting of the town's com missioners last week, the beauti fication committee was assured (continued on page three) Dr. Greer Sees Enthusiasm For "Horn" Keen interest if developing In Horn in the West, according to its President, Dr. I. G. Greer, who visited Monday with Herman W. Wilcox, Executive Vice-President. Dr. .Greer's msin business was informing the office here of the glowing prospects for the drama this year. He and Mr. Wilcox are working on plans to bring the Governors of our neighboring states to Boone to see the drama and have a South Carolina, Ten nessee and Virginia Day. Accept ance has already been received from South Carolina. Our own Governor Luther Hodges said he will attend on North Carolina Day. The time of these special oc casions will be announced later. Queen City Trailways and the Greyhound Corporation are ask ing their agents to promote the dnuna an dsell tickets, while the daily press have indicated their desire to help in the promotion, while airlines serving this area have also agreed to assist, Mr. Wilcox says. Dr. Greer starts this week on a speaking trip in the iatamt of the Horn. BIKE SAFETY. ? These are tome of the boys who participated in the Bicycle Safety event, sponsored by Boone Optimiita Club last week. Their bicycles were "safety phecked" and serial numbers recorded for identification use in case of theft. Standing in the back are David Spainhour and Gene Arndt, two Opt mists who helped with the check. Eric DeGroat, fifth cyclist f^om left, won the roadeo held Friday in Mountain Burley Warehouse. WillC. Walker Rites A. re Held Sunday William Carl Walker, 76, one of Boone's oldest merchant*, died at his home Thursday, following a long period of failing health. Mr/ Walker had been away from WILLIAM CARL WALKER bii work at his Walker's Jewelry Store for about three weeks. Funeral service* were conduct ed Sunday ?t 2 o'clock at the First Baptist Church of Boone. Rev. John McDuffy, Episcopal minister was in charge of the rites, being assisted by Rev. Rhett Winters, also of the Episcopal Church, and Rev. John Gibson of the Boone Baptist Church. Mrs. Dare Stroth er read the obituary and paid tri bute to the memory of deceased. Burial was in the cemetery at St. John's Episcopal Church on Watauga River, where the deceas ed was a member. Born in Watauga county, Mr. Walker spent several years in But ler, Tenn., where he conducted a mercantile business. He returned to Boone in 1923 and opened Walker's Jewelry Store which he operated since that time. He was appointed a member of the Watauga County Board of Education in 1829 and remained a member for several years, dur ing which time the school system showed substantial growth. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Boyd Thomas Walker, a son, Lin ney Walker who was in business with his father, two daughters, Mrs. Edith Madison of Lenoir and Mrs. Francis Roberts of Hayes ville. ? Lions Club Broom Sale Gets Underway Tuesday The Boone Lion* Club will be gins it* annual broom sale Tues day at 7:30 p. m., it was announc ed by Major John W. Thomas, Lions Club member. Lion members will be identified by arm bands to avoid any mis representation, Maj. Thomas said. The following items will be off ered during the sale: Houaehold and warehouse brooms, whisk brooms, rubber door mats and a kitchen package. All theae items were made by Mind people In Greensboro. Maj. Thomas asks that house holders wanting any of these itemj to leave a front light on and try to have the right change available. This will enable the Lions to cover the town more quickly. Maj. Thomas said: "Remember this ? Every time you buy any of these items, you are helping the blind In this State, and this coun ty. Buying a broom will help you observe clean-up weak, which be gins Monday." It may be necessary for the Lions to continue their sale of brooms on Wednesday, in order i to cover Uw entire ana. If the broom salesman hat not stopped at your house on Tuesday, he may be by to see you on Wednesday, according to the announcement. If you are unable to be at home on either of these nights, you may help the blind by purchasing any of these items at Hunt's De partment Store any day of the week. Hereford Group To Meet May 6th The Watauga Hereford Associ ation will hold Its annual meeting on May 6, in the county agricul tural agent's office at 7:30 p. m. Purpose of this meeting is to elect officers and discuss the 1900 Hereford sale. A good program is being work ed out, B. W. Stalling! said, and it will include a movie, door prise, entertainment and refreshments. He invites all who are interested in Herefords to attend. Adenauer warn* of agreement at own opanxi MRS. RUTH GWYN Mr. and Hn James Phillip* left Boone Monday for Whittirr, Calif., to live. James, son of Mr. and Mrs. Doe Phillips of Boom, ?nd his wife formerly lived in California, but returned to North Carolina five months ago and h? Mrs. Gwyn Is Supervisor Of Nursing Staff Winston-Salem ? Mrs. Ruth An derson Gwyn, who left the staff of the Forsyth County Health Dept. last year to return to col lege, will rejoin the staff Aug. 1 as supervisor of nurses. Mrs. Gwyn is currently a stu dent in the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina, where she is working toward a Bachelor of Science de gree in public health nursing. \ She will fill the vacancy creat ed when Miss Elise Early retired last December. Mrs. Marian Duggins has been filling the position temporarily. There are 23 public health nurses on the staff. Mrs. Gwyn is a graduate of the Baptist Hospital School of Nurs ing and has been active as a pub lic health nurse since 1M3. Prior to Joining the Forsyth County Health Dept. in 1D61, she worked as a public health nurse in Davie, Forsyth and Surry Counties. Mrs. Gwyn has a home on West Polo Road and Is the mother of a son, Johnny. ' Mrs. Gwyn is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Anderson of Vilas, N. C_ and attended Brushy Fork and Appalachian Schools. L"