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FOR BEST RESULTS advertisers invariably use the column* of the Democrat With its full paid circulation, Intensely covering the local shopping area, it is the boat advertising medium available. WATAUGA DEMOCRAT .4 n Independent If eehly iV etcs paper ... Seventy -Fourth Y ear of Continuout Publication VOLUME LXXIV? NO. 25 BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1?61 PRICE 6 CENTS TWENTY-TWO SECTIONS EXPANSION PROGRAM AT TWEETSIE. ? Drawing of the enlarged Tweetsle operation On which engineering, timber clearing and other work has already started. A mark the %?lgr|M parking area; B the additional village in the old-wett type town, which will include the enlargement eF tht^old Nugget Saloon with in* pensive good food; C the oabie lift to the top of Magic Mountain; D the amine mailt park and iirtde v witty of fun ridat, together with bis picnic aria. The enlarged operation will call Wr it laaat 80 more full time employMt, ill addition to the fifty which art normally em ployed. ? A. C. "Bill" Summerville photo. Hagaman Is Named For State Post Hugh B. Hagaman, Boone busi nessman and prominen^Watauga county education leader^ias been appointed by Governor Terry San ford to the North Carolina Citizens Committee for Better Schools. As a member of the State com mittee, Hagaman will participate in a state-wide campaign to pro mote and support school improve ment. The Committee for Better Schools will work with state and local educational leaders to help build public understanding and support of high quality education. One of the first responsibilities >f the members of the Better Schools Committee will be to work vith local school officials to or lanize an education rally in the ounty to which the Governor will ?e invited to speak. At the rallies, mphasis will be placed on citizen, >arent, and student responsibility or school improvement. . The education rally will be the Erst of several projects designed i promote an intense interest in :hool improvement on the local ivel. An opinion survey leaflet is been designed for use in help ( continued on page seven) erry Winebarger ????Mi Jerry Winebarger, IB, son of r. Ray Winebarger of Pontiac, ichigan and Mrs. George Leach ' Clarkston, Michigan, was killed stantly when his car collided 3ad-on with a truck near Clark on Thursday night, December 14. was reported that two other oc pants of the Winebarger car ?re also killed, but this could t be verified. The Winebargers are natives of atauga County. Jerry attended >palachian High School until his nior year, was a popular student d a member of the football and ketball teams. uneral services were held at jrpia Funeral Home in Clark n Sunday afternoon. He is sur ?d, in addition to his parents, a sister, Mrs. Gary Francis, the mer Miss Shirley Winebarger, Ortonville, Michigan. _ ?? ? Mixed School Choruses Will Present Programs Yule Music Two programs of Christmas mu sic will be given by the three Mixed Choruses of the Appalachian Elementary School during this week. Both programs will include sacred and secular numbers per formed in concert style, and will be given in the school auditorium. Hiursday morning at 9:19 a. m. Chorus III (third and fourth grade students) will present the program, including "O Come, All Ye Faith ful," "What Child Is This?" "Pat -a-Pan," "Away in a Manger," "Christmas la Coming," "Santa Claua Is Coming to Town," "Up on the Housetop," and "The Twelve Days of Christmas." Stu dent accompanists for this group will be Robert Melton, BUI Worth, and Mary Norrls. On Friday morning at 0:13 o' clock, the program will be given by Chorus II and Chorus I. The fifth and sixth grade students in Chorus II will sing "Christmas Bell Carol," "Bethlliem Lay a-Sleep ing," "The Sleigh," and "We Wish You a Merry Chriatmas." Student accompanists are Robert Melton, Terry Hollar, and Gray Wilson. The seventh and eighth graders in Chorus I will sing "The First Noel," "Silent Night, Holy Night," "Angels We Have Heard on High," "Low, How a Rose a'er Blooming," "Sleigh Ride," and "The Christmas Song." Both groups will sing "O Come All Ye Faithful," and "Deck the Halls." Students accompanists are Sarah Hagaman, Jenny Lou Stores Close Next Monday Stores In the community will be closed all day next Monday, De cember 23, for the observance of Christmas, according to a recom mendation of Herman W. Wilcox, president of the Merchants Asso ciation. Stores are remaining open until 9 o'clock until Saturday when they will close at the regular time. Large numbers of shoppers hsve been In evidence on the streets the last few evenings. Robinson, and' Diane Hagaman. Parents of the participating stu dents and other interested patrons of the school are Invited to attend i both program!. There will be no admission charge. | The choruses are directed by I Mrs. Gaynelle Wilson. 1 Andrews Is Back; t * 3 Arrests Chalked The Rev. David Andrews hat re turned to Boone from Washington, D. C., where he was on a campaign of "direct action of civil disobed ience," in his support of a move ment by the "Committee to Se cure Justice for Morton Sobell." According to press reports, the "Committee to Secure Justice for Morton $obell" was branded as a Communist front in 1097 by the House Un - American Activities Committee. Andrews, who has been director of Wesley Foundation, working with Methodist students attending Appalachian State Teachers Col lege for several years, was ar rested three times a a he knelt in prayerful attitude on the sidewalk near the White House. President Kennedy was not at home at the times, having been on his whirl wind trip to South America. The first time he was arrested on Tuesday for "obstructing the sidewalk, jailed and then released as "not guilty." His second arrest came on Fri day when be was picked up by police after being told it was il legal to "preach and exhort" in public without a permit. Offered the chance 'to apply for a permit, it was reported that he told them he would go ahead with hia plans, and he knelt with an open Bible in his hand. This time be was convicted of making a speech without a license. Judge Milton S. Kronheim, Jr., who had released him earlier fixed sentence at two hours in jail or ? 18 fine, but noted that Andrews already had been in custody for 2H hours and ordered him re leased The third time he waa arrested and (pent Saturday night in jail. He was released Sunday morning wbun another clergyman posted a I $10 bond for him. He returned home after saying he had been advised that charges were being (continued on page eight) TO ENLARGE GOLD NUGGET $800,000 Expansion Begins At Tweetsie Boone Mayor, Banker Tell Of Local Progress On Wash. Trip Two prominent citizens of Boone went to Washington last lhursday to tell officials at the Agriculture Department about the progress Watauga county has made during the last five years under the rural areas development program. Mayor Wade E. Brown of Boone, and Alfred T. Adams, who besides being cashier of the Northwestern Bank, is head of the Watauga Kural Development Committee, briefed a meeting of the depart ment's 29-member Public Advisory commitua an rural araas develop ment.-- ? - Watauga was one of three North Carolina counties chosen la 1856 as pilot projects under the rural development program. The program is designed to help underdeveloped areas in utilizing local people and resources to make economic strides. The government puts no money directly into the program ? feder al aid consists solely of addition al Ag-iculture Department person nel to advise and help local peo ple. In the past five years. Brown and Adams told Thursday's meet ing, Watauga County has: ? Constructed and leased a mod ern lingerie plant which employs 290 people and adds $900,000 a year, to local income. ? Built a new 18-hole golf course to attract tourists. ? Increased farm income by more than $1.5 million a year. ? Cut down sharply on the out migration of young people. To start the ball roling, county development leaders named com mittees in a number of fields, from industry to timber to recreation. "We picked people who would work," Adams said. "A lot of fel lows make food back-slapmng committee members, bQt Bey don't want to buckle down and do the job." ? He said local money wu used exclusively to buy a tract of land and construct a building which was subsequently leased to Shadowline Inc., the lingerie manufacturer. Brown told tha meating. "I don't car* how good the instructions ate from Washington or Raleigh or wherever, yon'va got to put In plenty of hard work before you get anywhere." Farm income has increased more than 38 per cent In the past five yeara, he said, while Democrat To Have Holiday Most of the employees of the Democrat will have a three-day Christmas vacation. Present plant are for actlvitiea to cease in the composing room when work ends Wednesday, and for the office to be closed all day Saturday and Monday. Every effort will be made to have next week's Democrat go to press on Wednesday, but due to the Monday closing, the early morning mails may be missed. industrial income hai more than tripled. "You people in Washington are probably buying some of our Wa tauga County Christmas trees," Brown said, "and that makes us mighty happy, because we're al ways glad to get out-of-town (continued on page eight) Weed Mart Has Best Anicttons " The Boone Barley Market closed today (Thursday) with its pre Christmas poundage running well ahead of last year's sales, accord ing to Harriet L. Sikes, of Moun tain Burley Warehouse Company. Selling through Monday, Decem ber 18, totaled 4,337,799 pounds, for a dollar volume of $2,869, 996.72, and a price average ' of *66.07, Mrs. Sikes said. "This is a gain of more than ? million pounds over last year's pre-Christmas selling," according to Mrs. Sikes, "and with activity continuing high through Thursday, it may reach a dollar volume gain of a million dollars." Warehouses will remain open during the holidays to receive to bacco crops. Final pre-Christmas sales are scheduled Thursday, with the market re-opening for Salea Wednesday, January 3. TELL OF WATAUGA'S PROGRESS.? Alfred T. Adam?, Boom banker, second from left, and Wade E. Brown, local attorney, are flanked by John A. Baker, bead of the Firm Credit Adminlatratlon, and C. J. McConnack, ebaUmU of Ue Rural ATM DmlopOMt Commiulon of the Department of Agriculture, while the local men were In Washington la*t week to tell of the progreaa nude in Watauga county under the rural areai development program. " ? V New Features To Be Added By Railroad Blowing Rock ? "We were hope ful that otheri would love the lit tle train as we did, and, thankfully, they have," Grover C. Robbing, Jr., aaid. Bobbins made the itatement this week when he announced a $800, 000 expansion for Tweetsie Rail road, the famous Western North Carolina tourist attraction. The Blowing Rock man, just as thousands of others, was reared within earshot of the shrill toot of Tweetsie's whistle as she ran on a narrow gauge line between East Tunqessee and Western North Carolina. Modern transportation ^pelled the end to the line, but in 1987 Bobbins reconstructed the railroad and bought it back to this community. Tweetsie was placed on a three mile run of tracks sround Magic Mountain, and Robbins added a western-frontier village for color. Now he plans the large expan sion. The work will include a 1,000 foot aerial cable car from Tweet sie to the mountaintop. There he will locate a large entertainment center and picnic area. He will also greatly enlarge the western village and, more particularly, the now-famous Golden Nugget Saloon. The parking area will be doubled in size. '.'When we started on this pro Ject'four years ago," he said, "we just wanted to bring Tweetsie back home to the mountains. The pub lic responded and grew to enjoy our trtfin. "Through the years our friends have asked for more entertain ment, a full day of fun for the en tire family. This is what we are trying to do." A unique change is Bobbins' new policy of "no charge" for admit tance to the grounds. The visitor may come and visit the village or the new entertainment center and will pay for only the rides or the train ride aa he chooses. The new entertainment center (continued on page eight) Dr. Plemmons' Mother Passes Ashevllle ? Mrs. Eugenia Silver Buckner, 83, of Asheville, Rt. 4, mother of Dr. W. H. Plemmons, president of Appalachian State Teacher* College in Boone, died about 3:30 p. m. Tuesday, Dec. 13 in an Asheville hospital. A native of Yancey County, Mrs. Buckner came to Buncombe Coun ty in IMS She was the daughter of the late W. J. and Sarah Ball Silver and had been a member of Mt. Carmel Baptist Church sine* IMS. She married the late Nelson Plemmons >n 1900. He died In 1913 and In 191.7 she married A. M. Buckner, who died in IMS. The funeral was held at 2 p. m. Thursday in Mt Carmel Baptist uiurch near bcrs. Surviving are two other sou, Ralph E. Plemmons of Ashevllle and Harry G. Buckner of Cary; a stepson. Harley P. Buckner of Ashevllle; two sisters, Mrs. W. A. Sluder of Ashevllle and Mrs. i. F. Roberts of Canton. n *
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