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" . ' IB ? FOR BEST RESULTS advertiser* invariably uae the column* of the Democrat. With ito full paid circulation, Intensely eowrin| the lectl idtoypiin area, u ia the beat advertising medium available. If! 7 ? M <?? An Independent Weekly JSevm paper . . . Seventy-Third Year of Continuous Publication VOLUME LXXIII. ? NO. 20 PRICE: FIVE CENTS BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NOETH CAROLINA THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, Kav. Nov 9 M 27 48 4* 21 Nov. 10 ftl 31 35 f J .06 I] 57 28 No?.n ii is so TfKw * 31 Nov. IS 80 37 34 60 ti Nov. IS 62 28 40 I 60 30 I Nov. 14 IT SB 43 mil II 81 4# Total rainfall ? .08 inch. FOURTEEN FACES? TWO SECTIONS NEW PLAY AREA. ? This one-acre area was recently cleaned up of brush and debris and made into a play area (or children at Parkway School. What was once an unattractive area in front of the school was cleared by bulldozer and sown in grass. Swings, slides and monkey bars were added by patrons of the district and sandboxes placed to give the younger children a nice play area. Principal James Greene said, "The second play area enables the school to separate the primary children from the older children in their play and physical education activities, as well as to have a greater area (or all the students." ? Staff photo. Watauga Election Returns Certified; County Slate Split; Kennedy Snowed Annual Scout-Supper To Be November 29 The Annual Scout supper and installation of Watauga District officers will be held in the Meth odist Church Fellowship Hall Tues day, November 29 at 6:30 p. m., it was announced by B. W. Stall ings, district chairman. The supper will be in the form of a covered dlsfe affair, and will cele brate the Golden Jubilee of Boy Scouting in America, Mr. Stall ings sair. Two Scouts, Andy Stallings and Marcus Cook, will receive their Eagle Scout awards daring the ceremony. It is unusual that two boys in Watauga receive this honor at one time, and Mr. Stallings was enthusiastic that the awards could be made at the supper. To be installed as district chair man is David Spainhoor. W. S. (Bill) Bingham will be Installed as his assistant, rfttd Gene Arndtt will be next year's district com missioner, assisted by Marvin Deal. After supper, to which all Scouts their parents and Scouters in Wa tauga are invited, a business ses sion will be held. Troop 100, Boone Eggers Downs His Opponent S. C. Eggers, Boone realtor, and former Legislator ami Republican county chairman, won his home county over Cloyd Philpot in his race for the Lieutenant-Governor ship. The vote in this race, the only one of coursc, where a Boone man was involved, is as follows: Philpot Eggers 93 91 281 190 41 254 318 304 948 329 431 260 S18 438 16 147 292 248 297 271 33 39 909 886 11 106 88 187 173 401 198 481 TOTAL 4184 4887 Bald Mountain Beaver Dam ......... Blue Ridge Blowing Rock Boone .... Brushy Fork Cove Creek Elk laurel Creek Meat Camp Meat Camp No. 2 .... New River North Fork Shawncehaw South Fork Watauga 4 Majority _? I Methodist Church, will have the opening part of the program, J. B. Robinson is Scoutmaster of 109, and Tom Wihkler, troop committee chairman. Closing exercises will be con ducted by Troop 131, Buck Rob bins, Scoutmaster. Mrs. Lawrence Funeral Held Mrs. Florence J. Lawrence, 50, wife of Dr. C. Ray Lawrence, well known Boone optometrist, died Monday at Watauga Hospital, fol lowing a brief illness. Mrs. Lawrence was educated at the Croasnore High School, Mars Hill College, Carson Newman Col lege, Bowling Green Business University, and at Appalachian ' State Teachers College. Formerly I she taught in the Avery County schools, at Mars Hill College in | the Business Education Depart ment, Memphis City Schools, and ! has for the past five years been a member of the faculty at Happy I Valley School, Caldwell County. I She was very active in the work of First Baptist Church, having 1 served and led in many phases of I the church activities. Mrs. Lawrence was a past presi dent of the North Carolina Wo men's Auxiliary of the N. C. State Optometric Society. Both the honorary and active pallbearers will be members of the Boone Rotary Club. Active pallbearers are Hal Johnson, Earl Penick, Eric De Groat, Phil Vance, Wayne Rich ardson, and Glenn W. Wilcox. All other members of the Rotary Club of Boone are honorary pallbear ers. Surviving Mrs. Lawrence, be aide* the husband, are one daugh ter, Mary Lawrence, a senior at the University of North Carolina; a son, Thomas Lawrence of WBTV staff, Charlotte. She is alao sur vived by her mother, Mrs. C. C. Johnson of Marion, N. C.", three slater*, Mrs. Dorta J. Lonon of Marion, Mr*. Irma Lonon of Char loUc, and Mr*. Jloaa A. Hampton, Plymouth, Mich., and by one bro ther, John L. Johnson of Vaideae. Funeral acrvicea were held at the First BapUet Church of Boom, Wednesday at' 2:00 p. in., with the body lying in state at the church from 1:00 to 2:00 p. m. Burial waa in ike Mountlawa cemtary. I Election officials met at the courthouse lwt Thu^l.y and cer tlfied the Watauga (Sunty returns vealing that a record number at. votes were cast, and that the local voters aplit the county government between the Democrats and Re publicans. Incumbent Chairman of the Board of Commissioners W C Lentz, of Blowing Rock, was re elected, along with Dr. Gene Keese of Boone, Democrats, by majorities of 11# and 132 resoec lively. Mr. Bynum Greene, Republican, former chairman of the Board was elected by a majority of 49, de feating Ivan Diahman of Beaver township, incumbent. Dr. Reese will take the place of B. H. Beshears, incumbent, who withdrew from the current race. Weed Sales, Start 28th Lexington, Ky. ? Burley tobacco "lea in the eight state burley to bacco belt will open Nov. 28, the Burley Sales Committee has de cided. The committee said aales would close Dec. 21, for the Chriatmas holidays and then reopen on Jan. Burley sales will be held three * ? h?lf hours each day, Mon day through Friday, for a total of 63 sale hours before Chriatmas. An estimated 81.9 per cent of the tobacco crop will be sold before the holidays, the committee said. The closing hours of each sales day will be aet by the local to bacco board of trade. The committee paaaed resolu tions urging burley growers not to deliver their tobacco to the warehouse before Nov. 14. They alao asked warehouaes not to accept tobacco weighed prior to I date. This is due to the excess j moisture collected by the tobacco after weighing, but prior to sales ' Free Movie By Optimist Club Clufc Is *poasa?ia| a free aerie ?t tfce Appalachian Theatre Saturday November 1Mb, start ln< at It a. m. f?r all children M to H year* of age. Ne charge la made far Urn ??vie bat aU children are ? to hriag an eld toy aa that the Oftlmlat Club may make same ??fcrmvlleg.* children ham Christmas Ume. Leads Ticket Miis Helen Underdown, Demo crat, Register of Deeds since 1928, and "wftb'' has been uniformly popular -with both Democrats and Republicans, during her record tenure, ran far ahead of others on the county ticket, gaining a ma jority of 705 votes over Mrs. Ruby Norris. Representative Jack Edmisten, Democrat, was distanced by Mur ray Coffey, Republican for the House by 82 votes. Mayor Gordon H. Winkler, Democrat, lost the county to J. Wilson Norris, Republican, by 106 votes, but took the district by more than 600. Representative Hugh Alexander led the State ticket in the county, for the Democrats, but lost to W. S. Bogle by 104 votes. Robert Gavin led Terry Sanford by 480 for the Governorship, while Kyle Hayes was ahead of U. S. Senator Everett Jordan by 223. Kennedy Trails President-Elect John F. Ken nedy lost the county to Vice-Pres ident Nixon by 1980 votes, a de ficit of 167 under Adlai Steven son when he trailed Eisenhower in 1996 by 1413. The religious issue is credited by most politically-minded with giving the Vice-President the lop heavy odds over the President elect. SPENDING FLEXIBILITY SOUGHT Hi ?j "? ' ^ *??'* '?>' yylr ' * r "jW^ ^ New Budget Formula Is Recommended At ASTC Line By Line Budgeting To Be Eliminated Raleigh ? The State Board of Higher Education has recommend ed that a new type budget formula, designed to allow flexibility in spending operations, be used at Appalachian State Teachers Col lege during the next biennium. The board announced that the new budget formula eliminates the need (or line-by-line budgeting of money as in the past. The appro priations in the "A" budget 'or the school are based on the ex pected student enrollment during the two-year period and ihe coat per student per quarter hour of instruction. The board said the formula will enable: (1) economy, (2) efficien cy in operation, (3) simplicity in computation, (4) equity among the institutions when, and if, the budget formula is extended to the other state-supported schools, and (5) "objectivity in analysis of fi nancial needs." The board recommended total The "A" budget continues ser vices at the present level. ? Meanwhile, the board announced it had recommended "B" budget spending totaling (4,400,606 dur ing the next biennium at the 12 state-supported schools. Hm "B" budget reqiNMts include new programs or increased spend ing. The biggest item is 12,835,706 (Continued on page six) Union Service Planned Here The Rev. A. Blake Brinkerhoff, pastor of Blowing Rock's Rumple Memorial Presbyterian Ochurch, will conduct this year's Union Thanksgiving service in Boone Under the sponsorship of the Watauga County Milnsterisl Asso ciation, the services will be held at the First Baptist Church, Wed nesday, November 23, at 7:30 o'clock. Stores To Close Thanksgiving General practice among the town's stores and shops will fce to close bnalneaa operations in observance of Thanksgiving Day on November 24, according to H. W. Wilcox, president of the C hamber of Commerce. Stores will observe Monday, December M, as a holiday also, Mr. Wilcox said. One Seriously Hurt In Crash Flower*! Flowers' Photo Shop DEMOLISHED -Thl. was a 1989 Ford. Earl Dean Aldrldfe, driver and Burl Townaefid, both , of Btnntr Elk were injured when it ran off the road and turned over aeveral timea on N. C. 109 aouth of Boone. The driver of a 1069 Ford rer mains in serious condition follow ing a one-car accident last Tues day on North Carolina Highway >109, seven miles south of Boone. Earl Dean Aldridge, 23, of Route 1, Banner Elk, suffered a fractured spince and lacerations, and reports uy he is paralyzed from his should ers down, as the result of his car running off the left side of the highway, travelling approximately 400 feet and wammv-*?* times. Aldridge and his passenger, Burl Townsend, 22, of Banner Elk, were thrown from the car. Town send suffered lacerations, abra , siont and fracture. ' pending Aldridge's release from the hospital. Communities Given Ribbons At Farm-City Dinner Tuesday Devils Meet Murphy In Second Playoff Appalachian High School'* Blue Devila will play Murphy High School Friday night in the second round of the State 2-A playoffs The game will be played at Caatoa High School, ? neutral field approximately half way between the two schools. This is the second year Appa lachian has played Murphy in the playoffs. Last year, the Blue Devlis won a close scrap with the boys from Murphy, in Ashevllle, by a 7-6 wore. Thii year Murphy U re ported to have ? strong team, and sporti a 9 win-no low record thia season. Boone also Is unbeaten, with a 9-0 standing. Murphy, champions of the Smoky Mountain conference, de feated Trinity to gain the chance of playing Boone. Boone defeated Maiden, southern diviaion champs of Diatrict 7 Saturday in a well attended game at Hudson High (Continued on page aix) uetnei in ine f arming, Love Creek In the Non-Farming and Timbered Ridge in the New classi fication represented Watauga county in the area competition Tuesday at the annual Parm-City Week dinner at Cove Creek School. These three communities were placed in the Blue Ribbon class. Beaver Dam alae received a blue ribbon la the new com munity claas. Foscoe, Sllverstone aad Valle Crucis vmi red Fifcfcsas. Mabel and Rivcrview were not judged. Matney community was organiz ed last month and will be in the new class nflxt year. Prizes were awarded during the dinner by Alfred Adams, chair. (Continued on page six) Official County And State Election Results Senate House Reg. Deeds Board County Commissioners Governor U. S. Senate Congress Presidential PRECINCTS M a Bald Mountain .... 52 Blue Ridge 48 Beaver Dam 334 Blowing Rock ... 333 Boone 820 Brushy Fork 425 Cove Creek 619 Elk ...i 14 Laurel Creek 246 Meat Camp 1 303 Moat Camp 2 ....... 31 New River i? 500 North Fork 18 Stony Fork 93 Shawnechaw 177 Watauga 204 TOTAL Majority For Surveyor? Roby Vines, D, 4314 4420 IN 56 88 52 243 379 168 386 234 1059 444 476 223 640 399 18 144 256 246 319 247 32 32 978 497 13 105 178 397 101 146 228 450 4768 4063 705 * 4459 88 257 187 221 52 88 30 267 234 275 353 771 672 371 310 435 470 11 153 287 485 243 427 146 I 247 199 279 269 251 297 35 26 35 562 403 1.6681 104 11 105 329 143 414 159 70 177 474 i 171 496 4300 3440 50X0 I 104 1580
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