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VOLUME LXXIII. ? NO. 16
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BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROUNA THURSDAY, OCTOBER
Watauga 4-H Exhibit At State Fair
The Watauga Counly 4-H clfb
members had an exhibit at State
Fair in Raleigh last week. Theme
of the exhibit was "Better Light
ing ? Better Sight."
Bettina Danner, 4-H member
from Cove Creek Senior Club, at
tended along with W. C. Richard
son, assistant agricultural agenc,
and Miss Lillian Hyatt, assistant
home economics agent.
The 4-H club offers thanks to
the following firms for materials
used in the exhibit: Green Furn
iture, Burgess Furniture, Blue
Ridge Eicctric, Estes Electric Shop,
and Ayers Electric Co., and to J.
E. Brittain and R. L. Tait for the
assistance they gave in setting up
the booth.
The exhibit won a meritorious
r.ward.
poach E. C. Duggins
Passes In Nashville
Nashville, Tenn., Oct. 16 ? E. C.
(Red) Duggins, 48, former foot
ball coach at Appalachian, died!
after a short illness at 4 a. m.
Sunday at Vanderbilt Hospital.
Duggins was stricken Thursday
and entered the hospital for
treatment. His death was unex
pected.
Duggins, a native of Greene
ville, Tenn., coached at Murray
State Teacners College, Murray,
Ky., in lUab-att. He came to taa-.
bouy Institute here last summer
to work on his dcctor's degree. He
remained this fall to continue
study.
He is survived by bis wife, the
former Jerry Yvatson of Burling
ton, N. C. 'ihey were married in
l#o7. There arc no cnildren.
The funeral will be Tuesday at
Greenevilie, Tenn. A military ser
vice will be conducted at Milligan
College.
He joined the faculty at Appa
lachian in 193tf and served as as
sistant football coach. He went to
Tampa University in 1940 as head
^ootoall coach.
kDuggins served as a lieutenant
[umander in the Navy during
kid War 11 and returned to Ap
t&ian as head football coacn
1*7. He was absent in the lBal
when Preston Mull of Le
brved as head coach but he
in lflo2 and continued
coaching ihrougn me
on.
Iiian football teams
North State Conference
hips and he posted 01
Inst 23 losses and three
at Boone. The Moun
( participated in seven
and hut team won
| lost four.
deflation it termed un
V
Carl Beach
Dies At 67
Carl Dewitt Beach, 67, died
Thursday at his home in Boone,
after a long period of /ailing
health. ,
Mr. Beach was a son of the late
Mr. and Mrs. Allen W. Beach, was
born in Watauga county, and was
reared and spent most of his life
in Boone. Prior to his retirement
he was employed in the furniture
industry in Lenoir and he was a
veteran of the first World War.
Funeral services were held in
the Reins-Sturdivant Chapel Sat
urday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock by
Rev. E. F. Troutman of the Luth
eran Church and burial was in the
Blowing Rock cemetery.
Surviving are two brothers: Wil
lard Beach, North Wilkesboro and
Tom Beach of Boone.
THIEVES FOLLOW ADVICE
Phoenix, Arii. ? A sales cam
paign by a Phoenix discount store
began with a bang with the slo
gan: "Pick us clean." The cam
paign came to a quick halt when
burglars took the advice and walk
ed off with $60,000 in watches and
rings.
League Women Voters
Will Meet Tuesday
All women of the Boone area
who are interested in good govern
ment are invited to meet with
representatives of the League of
Women Voters in the court room
located upstairs in the courthouse
on Tuesday evening, October 25,
at 8:00 o'clock.
The meeting will be for the pur
pose of forming a local league.
The stated purpose of the
League of Women Voters, a na
tional non-partisan organization, is
to promote political responsibility
through informed and active par
ticipation of citizens in govern
ment.
Mrs. C. P. Costello of Chapel
Hill, State Organization Chairman
of the League, will speak to the
local group about league activities
and advise conccrning organiza
tional procedures.
A member of the State Board
of the League, Mn. Raymond
Smith of Greensboro, met with a
group of Boone women in July,
and since then interest in the
league has been growing. The first
thing a newly-forming group does
is to make a social and economic
analysis of the community and
some of this work is already under
way.
Mr. Frank Hagaman spent the
week end in Baltimore, Maryland,
and while there attended the
Maryland-Clemson football game
on Saturday.
Plemmons
Is Honored
Dr. W. H. Plemmons, president
of Appalachian State Teachers Col
lege, and Dr. Marshall W. Brown,
president of Presbyterian College,
have accepted membership on the
Presidents' Advisory Committee of
the National Association of Inter
collegiate Athletics. The an
nouncement was made yesterday
from the NA1A headquarters in
Kansas City, Mo.
The Presidents' Advisory Com
mittee advises the governing body
of NAIA, the executive commit
tee, on all matters of policy affect
ing the conduct of the NAIA pro
gram. Its special field of invest
igation is recommendation of pol
ices and practices to assure sound
educational standards for the con
duct of the program and to recom
mend the adoption of rule* which
will insure the NAIA program fits
into the general educational con
cept of its member colleges. The
appointees are expected to assume
leadership in setting up within
their districts, NAIA workshops for
fcculty personnel and athletic
sUffs.
Feed grains make rise in dull
jtrading.
TOUR VISITORS ? Six of the seventy-five Daughters of the American Rerolution who were in Boone Fri
day for luncheon. They are, left to right, front row: Miss Gertrude Carraway, national honorary pre?
idcnt general, New Bern; Mr*. Axhmead White, president general, Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Roy Cagle
vice president general, Ashevtlle; back row: Mrs. Anna B. Sandt, lour director, Chevy Chase, Md.; Mrs.
Paul R. (ireenlease, national chairman, D. A. R. school committee; and Mrs. Erwin C. Seimea, record
ing secretary general, Mlllsboro, Del. ? Story page two.? Staff photo Joe Minor T
MARAUDERS QUICKLY ARRESTED
Three Virginia Youths
Are Held For Break-In
Trio Enters
Oil Station
On Route 321
By JOE MINOR
Staff Writer
| Three Marion, Va., youths are
being held in the Watauga county
j?il, under $2,000 bond each, on
breaking and entering, and larceny
charges. They were caught last
Wednesday night, after breaking
into Jay's Gulf Service Station and
Grocery, on the Blowing Rock
highway. The trio were given pre
liminary hearings Monday before
Justice of the Peace Dave Hodges,
who found probable cause and set
bond.
Charles Edward Morris, Randall
Kyle Scott, and Frazier F. Mitchell
were caught by Deputy Sheriff
Emmett Oliver and other law off
icers after they had broken into
the store. In is understood the
three are wanted in Virginia for
questioning in connection with re
cent robberies there.
According to the account, J. L.
Shore, owner and operator of the
establishment broken into, he heart
noises about 10 30 o'clock, and
upon investigation, saw the three
boys in the store. They had
broken the front door glass witn
a hammer, and opened the door
with a large screwdriver. Shore,
who lives behind the store building
contacted Sheriff Oliver, who was
at the scene in Just a short time.
Oliver arrested the Morris boy
upon his arrival. Morris was in
a car at the time. The other two
had fled.
A search began for the two that
disappeared. Oliver called for help,
and bloodhounds from the prison
camp were brought into the search.
In just a little over two hours
after the break-in was discovered
Scott and Mitchell had been ar
rested, just 400 yards from the
scene. They were hiding in some
bushes south of the store. In their
attempted escape, they had follow
ed ? stream, but the bloodhounds
had no trouble picking up their
trail.
In the store, the three had bag
ged up four boxes of .30- 30 shells,
ten boxes of ,22s, two boxes of 410
shells, and cigarettes. The .30-.30
ammunition fitted a gun found in
the I960 Covair they were traveling
In. The gun was fully loaded.
Morris was charged also with
having a concealed weapon, but
I this charge was dismissed at the
j hearing.
j The car belonged to Scott's fa
, ther, as did the tools found by the
officers The car and tools, except
(he claw hammer and screwdriver,
which were kept as evidence by
the county, were turned over to
Scott's father.
Sheriff Oliver said the boys talk
ed of the break-in here, but denied
knowing anything of the Virginia
robberies.
j Trials of the three are expected
j to come up at the January term
| of Superior Court
Mrs. Winkler
Rites Held
Mrs. Minnie B. Winkler of Blow
ing Rock died Wednesday, October
12. She was 78 yean old.
Funeral service* were held In
the Blowing Rock Baptift Church
Friday, October 14, at 2:00 p. m.
Rev. Carlton Cox and Rev. Blake
brinkerhoff conducted the ser
vice*. Burial was in the Blowing
Rock City cemetery.
Four daughters survive: Mrs.
Ella Pendley of Blowing Rock;
Mrs. Frank Isenhour, Vera Beach,
Fla.; Mrs. George Crisp, Johnson
City, Tcnn.; Mrs. Howard Shores,
Hudson. Also surviving is a sister,
- Mrs. Marshall Foster of Blowing
? Rock. There are 13 grandchildren
, and 9 great grandchildren.
Pciping envisions slow defeat
?f "imperialism."
i mi : :
IN JAIU-Theae Marion. Va? youth, are in Watauga County jail, under $2,900 bond each, after being
ETViZ V-i Jf?.lj*ry. te"" f SuPerior Court on charges of breaking, entering, and larceny. Left to
right, Charlea Edward Morris, Frazier F. Mitchell, Randall Kyle Scott. ? Staff photo Joe Minor.
40,000 View
Fall Color
Fall foliate displays along the '
Blue Ridge Parkway drew an ea
timated 40,000 viaitora to the scen
ic highway between Grandfather
Mountain and the Great Smoky r
Mountains laat week end.
Diatrict Parkway Ranger John '
Fishcher said the official car count J
was 3,673 Saturday and 8,449 Sun
day, with an estimated average of '
3.3 persona per vehicle.
Fisher aaid fall color has prob
ably reached ita peak at higher
elevationa, but if the weather re
maina seasonable there will be
plenty of good color the coming
week end. He aaid It will be the
latter part of the week before
the color peak la gneral along the
Parkway.
Parkway picnic afeaa and con
cesaions will be open until Nov. 1,
Fisher aaid, but he reminded '
campers and picnickers of forest ?
fire hazarda during the present
dry apell.
Fund Office
Is Opened
Campaign headquarters (or the
United Fund will be eitabliihed on
the ground door of the new Pro
fessional Building on We*t King
Street, according to Ralph Tug
man, president of the Watauga
County United Fund.
Office space in the modern new
building is a gift of L. E. Dim
mcttc, president of the Dimmette
Realty Corporation *f Lenoir, own
era of the office building.
"This is a fine example of the
kind of civic spirit that has identi
fied itself with United Fund id
our county," Mr. Tugman said,
"and it provides the ideal answer
to one of our problems each year
? that of finding suitable office
?pace that's centrally located and
easily available to volunteer work
ers.
"United Fund is not only de
lighted with the office spacc made
available to it. but if grateful for
the example of an unselfish ges
ture. It is this kind of generous re
sponse that sets the tempo for a
successful United Fund," Mr. Tug
man declared.
Bar Group
To Meet Here
The annual meeting of the Bar
Aaaociation in the Twenty Fourth
Judicial District will be held at
the Daniel Boom Ina, Boone, at
eleven o'clock in the morning of
October 22.
ICM- Ek
Fund Campaign Is
Organized Locally
United Fund machinery is in
eadiness, according to campaign
rhairman, Bob Bumbaugh, as he
lamed leaders (or each of the di
risions that will participate in the
und raising campaign now being
inducted for the 1960-41 period.
Division leaders are as follows:
Advance Gifts ? James Marsh.
Industrial ? Fred Gragg.
Commercial ? L'ccil Miller.
Residential ? Frank Steele.
Public Schools ? John Marsh.
College ? Braxton Harris.
Government agencies ? Roy Isley.
Rural districts ? W. C. Richard
son.
"Some of these division leaders
will surely approach many cf our
citizens, asking them to volunteer
a few hours of their time, Mr.
Bumbaugh said. "We hope they
will respond in the knowledge that
they're doing a worthwhile ser
vice for the entire community."
Mr. Bumbaugh continued, "Some
two dozen agencies and institutions
that we now regard as necessary in
our society depend upon United
Fund (or the money that enables
them to carry on their work."
"We hope every working per
son and every household who can,
will respond on the basis of a
minimum gift equivalent to one
day's pay ? that is the very least
upon which our United Fund can
continue to do the job that must
someway be done here in our com
munity," Mr. Bumbaugh said.
Bloodmobile
Correction <
The Red Cross Bloodmobile will
be at East Hall on the campus,
Thursday, October 20. Another
dormitory was named through er
ror last week.
BREAK-IN TOOLS? Deputy Sheriff Emmett Ol.vgr b
in the Wedneaday night break-In of Jays Gulf Su
A large kcrrwdrlver was alio used to help open the
station by three youth* who were captured before th
with their batted loot.? Staff phots.