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An Independent Weekly Newspaper
Seventy-Second Year of Continuous Publication
VOLUME LXXIL ? NO. 45
BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY. NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MAY I, 1W?
ICE; FIVE CENTS
EIGHTEEN PAGES? THREE
MAY DAY COURT. ? These girl* will reign over the May D?y
activities at the college Saturday. They are, first row, Daisy Fox,
Gail Lowranee (Queen), Barbara Winkler (Maid of Honor); second
row, Betty Swaim, Nancy Houston, Jean Watti, Jeanne Belk; third
row, Peggy Smith, Martha Chandler, Bety Moffett, Jewel Huffman,
Crystal Johnson, Johnsie Ellis. ? Carmen Carter photo.
Councill Given Area Highway
Post; Other Changes Are Made
naieign. ? ine ouie nignway
Department announced this week
that James H. Councill of Boone
has been named Area Maintenance
Engineer for the weatern part of
the State. Replacing Councill at
bead of the Highway Department's
Division 11 will be James E.
Doughton. Effective date of the
shift is May 9th.
Councill will travel throughout
the western highway divisions, aid
will head highway maintenance in
the mountainous areas. Doughton
served as Councill 's assistant in
Division 11 since 1953, with head
quarters at North Wilkesboro.
The new Area Maintenance En
gineer is well qualified for the
post, having worked with the High
way Department in mountainous
areas of the State since 1020, when
he joined the department as an
instrumentman. He later served as
Resident Engineer at Asheville and
Sylva, District Engineer at Boone,
Assistant Division Engineer -at
North Wilkesboro and was elevated
to Division Engineer there in 1993.
A native of Boone, Councill at
tended the public schools there
and the University of North Caro
lina. He is active in the Boone
Methodist Church where be serve*,
on the Board of Stewards, and is
a past president of the Boone
Lions Club. He is a member of the
N. C. Society of Engineers and is
Watauga County chairman of the
Morehead Scholarship Committee.
He is married to the former Mar
garet Hooker Moore, and they have
a son and a daughter.
Highway Director W. F. Bab
cock said he is "pleased to have
available within department ranks,
someone of Mr. Council's ability,
who is familiar with maintenance
problems in this section of oui
State, which has suffered severe
damage in two of the last three
hard winters."
The new Division Engineer is ?
native of Sparta and received his
education in the public schools
there, later attending the Univer
sity of North Carolina and Berea
College in Kentucky.
Doughton joined the Highway
Department in 1934, and has serv
ed as rod man, instrumentman,
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DOAN H. OGDEN . . . CHAMBER OF COMMERCE SPEAKER
Chamber Commerce To Hear
Architect Of Local Gardens
Doan Of den, landscape architect
who has been engaged to build the
Daniel Boone Gardens in Boone,
will be the featured speaker at
the regular Chamber of Commerce
meeting Tuesday noon, in the Dan
iel Boone Hotel dining room. H.
W. Wilcox, president, Mates that
all members, persons interested in
the project, persons interested in
beautifying the area, and members
of the various garden clubs in the
area are invited.
The Daniel Bocae Gardens are
expected to be started soon and
should be completed by next
spring, Mrs. &. W. S tailings of the
Boone Garden Council said. The
gardens are being established to
propagate wild flowers and shrub*
in this section of the State, and
to make them easily accessible for
study.
Ogdcn, who lives at Ashevillc,
built and operates the Kenllworth
Gardens. He will talk on, "The
Value of Landscaping in Small
Towns." He win speak on three
phases: 1. Satisfaction to oneself;
2. Increased valuation of property;
and, 3. Tourist attraction.
Tbt T?*'T llaf ?T
perience as a landscape architect.
Before moving to Asheville in
1991, he wu a practicing land
scape architect (1839-1951) in De
troit, Mich. His garden is a show
place of Asheville, and has two
miles of trail* going through rock
gardens, moss gardens, and wild
flower gardens.
Wilcox said that due to the ex
pected interest in Ogden's visit to
Boone those who expect to attend
the luncheon part of the program
should notify- the Chamber secre
tary so reservations may be made
for the meal.
Candidates To Speak To YDC
au Democratic candidates for
county offices will be fivon a
chance to express their opinions
at a meeting of the Watauga Young
bcmocrats Club on May IT, accord
ing to an announcement by John
ny Councill, YDC secretary.
Council! said that each candidate
will be allowed to "air" bis views
for five minutes when the dub
and other interested parsons meet
ai me i_ourtnou*e on uui aaie- De
ginning at 7:30 p. m.
There are 15 county candidates
seeking nominations lor the public
offices in Watauga, subject to
the May 2S primary, and it is hop
ed by the YDC officials that aU
will avail themselves of this op
portunity to be heard on the var
ious luwa, Couacill stated.
Paper Drive
By Scouts To
Aid Cleanup
Clean-up Week will be aided
Saturday afternoon by ? scrap
paper drive, conducted by the
Boom Methodist Scout troop, it
was announced by Jennings B.
Robinson, Scoutmaster.
Persons having aid newspapers
about the hsas or business, art
! Miked to tie them ia handle*
that can be bsM by scout age
bays, and call the heme or Carl
Fidlar ar W. C. Richardson be
tween now and Saturday morn
ing and ask that Scouts Larry
Richardson ar Donnie Fldler
have the troop pick up the pap
era.
This methed at telling the
scouts of the paper whereabouts
is necessary because the boys are
la school on Saturdays and the
time for picking the paper up
will be short, Robinson said.
Cooperation of this aatnre will
be greatuly appreciated, and will
enable the scouts to reach a
greater number of homes.
Ia case of bad weather, the
drive will be postponed until the
following Saturday.
Secretaries
Attend Meet
A group of secretaries from Ap
palachian State Teachers College
attended a professional workshop
in Greensboro last week. Those
who went were Mrs. Eloise Bag
ley, offifce of the vice president
and comptroller; Mrs. Janie Gib
son, office of the director of the
summer session; Mrs. Jackie Wil
liams, office of the director of
graduate studies; Miss Harriet
Gentry, office of placement; Miss
Elizabeth Phillips, office of busi
ness education; and Mrs. Earleen
G. Pritchett, office of the presi
dent.
The workshop was conducted by
the OHenry Chapter of the Na
tional Secretaries Association (In
ternational.) It was held in the
auditorium of the Greensboro
Coliseum.
Among yiose who participated
in the leadership of the workshop
were a Certified Professional Sec
retary, and representatives of the
IBM Corporation, the Southern
Bell Telephone Company, a pro
fessor of business administration,
a Social Security administrator, a
banker, all speaking about pro
fessional development
Beauties,
Feature Spring Festival
'WOODY HERMAN DANCE
May Queen,
Court To Add
Bright Color
The annual two-day spring I
festival, replete with beauties, j
opera, teas, balls, movies and I
blossoms, will provide a gay
week end at Appalachian Col- j
lege Friday and Saturday.
The festival will be ushered
in by "Glimpses of Opera" fea- j
turing more than 100 per- I
formers. The presentation of
May Queen Gail Lowrance of
Mooresville and her court and j
a gala ball, featuring music
by Woody Herman's orches
tra, climax the springtime
event.
"QUmpies of Opera"' it sched
uled for Friday at 8 p. m., in the
auditorium of the administration
building.
Choice (elections from seven of
the best known operas will be giv
en by the College Chorus which
will be accompanied by the College
Symphony Orchestra.
Popular soloists from the Voice
department will appear in leading
arias and small ensembles. The
operas chosen for the festival are:
Cavalleria Rusticana, Msscagni;
PagUaeci, Leon Cavallo;..Rigoletto.
Verdi; Toaca, Puccini; Samson and
Delilah, Saint Saens; II Travatore,
Verdi.
Soloists who will be heard are, <
Florence Payne and Linda Har- ?
wood, sopranos; Samuel Chen and ?
Stephen Vaughn, tenors; Susie <
Ford, alto; Riley Matthews, bail- '
tone; and Bud Mayes, bass.
Co-directors of the Festival Mu
sic are Mrs. Virginia Wary Linney
and Mr. Brownlee Waachek.
Staging and designing of sets are ^
by students in the Theatre Produc- '
tion class, directed by Mr. David ^
French. ,
Narrator for the production will (
be Mr. Roger* Whitener of the col- f
lege English Department.
Pianists, Mary Elizabeth Day and
Dorothy Benoy. Costuming under t
the direction of a committee from ^
the College Choir assisted by the (
Home Economics Department. ,
A special highlight of the May (
Festival performance will be the (
guest soloist. Miss Mene Queen, (
dramatic soprano and former Ap- (
p 'achian State Teachers CoUege
Music Department pupil, it was (
revealed by John Kirk, Spring _
Festival coordinator.
Miss Queen has been studying
at Opera Arts" In Atlanta, Ga.,
with the well known Metropolitan
Opera tenor, Ralph Errolle. She
has been teaching music in the .
city schools of Atlanta since her
graduation from Appalachian.
Miss Queen has sung leading
role* in nine operas during her
four years there, and Is soprano (
soloist in one of the largest ^
churches in that city. She gradua- ^
ted from Fallaton High School, ,
where Mr. Gary was principal, and
it was through his Influence and
encouragement #that Miss Queen
attended Appalachian. Gary
brought her to Boone during her
senior year in high school to au- j
dition for Mrs. Linney In order
to better determine her possibili
ties for a music career.
May Queen Gail Lowrance and
her court are scheduled for pre
sentation at 3 P ? Saturday, at
the Health and Physical Education i
Building. Miss Lowrance's escort
will be Duane Best of High Point.
Maid of Honor will be Barbara j
Winkler of Boone. Her escort will
be Bob Dunnigan of Winston- |
Salem. . I
Heralds Vicky Culp of Albe- ,
marie and Betty Wiles of Greens
boro will sound the entrance of y
the May |Court beautie* and U??lr
escorts. :iil
Barbara McCool of Kanna polls
will be crown bearer and Carolyn
Ballard. Stateavffla, and Nancy
Eller, Land!*, flower girls. I??
Court attendants are Nancy
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RIDE TWF.ET8IE.? Fred Kirby, of Charlotte, helpi Miu Corry Vanden Eynden of Detroit, Mich, and Mr*.
Ethel Hargrove, Norfolk, Vr, board the narrow Sage train, TweeUle, when they visited thl? area last
week. The women were a part of the AAA Travel Counmlort Tour.? Photo Floweri Photo Shop.
ASTC Summer Term To Get
Under Way Belatedly June 9
Appalachian SUte Teach* r?
College will get It* summer sac
ion under way on the morning of
Fune 13. Originally scheduled to
>pen on June 0, the summer work i
vas postponed for the conveni- .
:nce of the public schools which
vere required to make up the
vork lost during the heavy snows
>f the past winter.
According to Dr. James E.
itone, director of the mimmer
ession, the work offerea this
lummer is to be extremely well
ounded. The series of workshops
two weeks in length) will Include
hose in guidance, art education,
sducational television, reading,
>iano, international relations, ele
nentary school science, student
caching, curriculum (emphasizing
he Junior high school), elemen
ary school arithmetic, elementary
tducation,* audio-visual education,
ligh school mathematics, folk
irts, English, mu?ic education, and
children's literature.
The faculty will Include mem
Mrs of Appalachian's own staff.
but the vialting faculty will be in
deed a cosmopolitan group. They
will come from such areas aa
Portsmouth, Va., City Schools;
Georgia Department of Education;
East Orange, New Jersey; Cincin
nati, Ohio; North Carolina State
College; U. S. Office of Education;
Charlotte; Washington and Lee
University; Florida State Univer
sity; Miami City -Schools; Michi
gan; University of Florida; The
State and Regional Organization
of Higher Education; Greensboro;
University of North Carolina;
JuiUiard School of Music; Bethel
College in Kansaa; Pfeiffer Col
lege; Chapel Hill City Schools;
Clemson College; Davidaon Col
lege; Longwood College; San
Francisco State College; and oth
ers.
The work offered at Appalach
ian during the summer session
counts toward either the bache
lor's degree or the master's de
gree. Specisl effort is made to
provide courses to meet the needs
of. teachers all over the South.
Special program* to be given at
the college this summer include a
summer institute for high school
teachers of biology and chemistry,
and a summer institute for high
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DemosToHold
Convention
The Democratic county conven
tion if to meet in the courthouse
Saturday May 14th, according to
an announcement by Mr. C. H.
Hendrix, chairman of the Demo
cratic Executive Committee.
Mr. Hendrix is asking that the
precinct meetings be held Satur
day May 7th, in the various town
ship*, to form precinct organiza
tions and name delegates to the
county convention.
The county convention will elect
a county organization, and select
delegates to the State convention
to be held in Raleigh May lBth.
Wilson Hodges Dies
In Tractor Accident
Wilson Franklin Hodges, 43,
prominent farmer of the Cove
-reek section and assistant Mana
jer of Watauga FCX in Boone,
was fatally injured last Wednea
WILSON FRANKLIN HODGES
lay while working on hit farm
with a tractor. ,
Coroner Richard E. Kelley, Who
ieemed an lmjueat unnecetaary
wid Mr. Hodges waa caught be
neath the machine when it over
turned, and died from injurie* of
the upper cheat and head. He aaid
he had been dead for perhaps five
or six hours when found.
Besides running his farm, Mr.
Hodges bad been with the FCX
for several years. He served with
the armed force* overseas during
the lact world war.
Funeral services were held it
Willow Valley Baptist Church, of
which Mr. Hodges was a member.
Rev. R. C. Eggers and Rev. E. J.
Farthing officiated and burial was
in Mountlawn Memorial Gardens.
Pallbearers were Farthing Hay
es, Raymond Harmon, Grady Jack
son, Wilmer Moretz, Gene Arndt
and L. D. Haigh of Statesville.
He was the son of the late Adam
and Addle Brown Hodges of
Route 1, Boone. He is survived by
his wife, the former Reba Trivett;
Up mother; two sons, Franklin,
Jr., and James; three daoghters,
Janice, Betty, and Dorothy; four
brothers, Conrad Hodges, States
ville; Stewart Hodges, Lenoir;
Boyd and Max Hodges of the
home; three sitters, Mrs. David
Hodges. Route 2, Boone; Mrs.
Bonnie Loo Hardison, Boon*; Mrs.
Van Crowe, BaltbMra, Md.
Lett Winner
Speech Event
JOHN LETT, JR.
John Lett, Jr., ton of Mrs. Lu
cille Lett of Boone, wu winner at
the Regional Yeung Peoples'
Speakers Tournament at Taylor*
ville Thursday nigh? He will rap
resent Region 7 in the tournament
for Slate champion this summer at
Fruitland.
In the TaylorsviUe tournament,
Lett competed with four other
young speakers oa the subject of,
"The Separation of Church and
State." " ,J %AJS
The speaking
the BiptUt Training Union.
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