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FOR BEST RESULTS advertiser* invaribly use the col umn* of the Democrat With it* full paid circulation, intensly covering me local shopping area, it is the best advertising medium available. VOLUME LXXIV? NO. 35 Feb. 20 Feb 21 Feb 22 Feb. 23 86 44 Feb. 24 9T 48 Feb. 23 41 29 Feb. 26 98 38 BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1962 T ? CENTS *3 in* snow; Total 16 PAGES? t SECTIONS NEW TOWN HALL WHICH OPENS TODAY Two Will Seek Ninth District G. O. P. Honors TAYLORSVILLE. ? The Ninth Congressional District Republi can convention last week nam ed as its chairman a woman, the first time in history the GOP group has given the chair manship to a woman. Mrs. Water Zachary of Yad kinville, a resident of one of two new counties welcomed to the convention, took over the reigns of the district party. . The convention named as its vice chairman H. L Hendrix of Davie county, the other county attached to the Nlntn District by the 1961 General Assembly when it reshaped district bor ders. The convention did not offer nominations for congressional candidates from the floor, but took note that two persons had already announced they would seek the GOP nomination. The nomination will be decided in a district primary, the fifth held in the area in the past 49 years. James T. Broyhill, a furni ture executive from Lenoir, has filed as a -candidate. China (continued on page six) JAMES T. BROYHILL, Lenoir furniture executive, one of the Republican candidates for Con gress in the ninth district, sub ject to the Hay primary. New City Hall Is Occupied Thursday Temporary quarters for the city's offices will be opened Thursday morning in the re furnished building formerly used by the Sinclair Oil Co. on West King nest door to Newton's Department Store, It was learned Tuesday. The old stractnre on Depot Street, which had houoed the city hall business for asany years probably will be aold, It if Mid. The new building will contain adequate office ?pace for the city'* business for the time heing, two fire trucks can be housed, and a considerable amount of off street parking has been pro vided.. Plans call for the construc tion of a new cHy hall build ing sometime in the future on the newly acquired lot Mayor Brown Tells YDC Of Party Reorganization The Watauga County Young Democrats Club met Monday evening in the courthouse and had a large attendance. President James Dugger rec ognized Richard Farris, presi dent of the ASTC Young Dem ocrats Club, who told of the campus club's membership drive and activities. Wade E. Brown, mayor of Boone, gave a talk on the re organization of the North Caro lina Democratic party as set forth by the North Carolina Ex ecutive Committee. Mr. Brown and Mrs. R. C. Rivers are mem bers at that committee from this county, v , Mr. Dugger announced the ftieeting time of the Young Dem ocrats has been changed and effective for the next meeting, March 26, the time will be 8:00 p. m., at the courthouse. Plans for future meetings, for the spring and summer, will ?be dis cussed on that date. Brendon Dall of Patterson, president of the Caldwell Coun ty YDC, has invited the Wa tauga YDC to attend a free bar becue at the American Legion Hall in Lenoir March 17. The barbecue will be served from 6:00 to 7:30 o dock. According to the invitation there will be a speaking after the dinner. Bert Bennett, State chairman of the State Executive Committee, Hon. Sam J. Ervin, Jr., Senator, and Ninth District Congressman Hugh Q. Alexand er arc expected to attend. Mrs. Wilson Rites Held Mrs. Lillie Lawrence Wilson, wife of I. B. Wilson of the Zion ville community, died in Can non Uemorial Hospital Satur day. She was 96 years old. Funeral services were con ducted Monday at 2 o'clock in ; Pleasant Grove Baptist Church by the Rev. James Kisselburg, assisted by the Bev. R. C. Eg gers and the Rev. E. O. Gore. ' Burial was in the church ceme tery. She is survived by the hus band; three sons, Lawrence of Winston-Salem, Blaine, of Guil ford, 111., Bobby of Charlotte; one daughter, Azalee Wilson of the home; one brother, Burl Lawrence, Vilas; six sisters, Mrs. E. L. Richards, Boone, Mrs. Claude Wilson, Lynch burg, Va., Mrs. Albert Smith, Vilas, Mrs. Wade Fletcher, Wickliff, Ohio, Mrs. Bun Elrod, 1 Lynchburg, Va. and Mrs. Boyd Wilson, Cleveland, Ohio. 1 Miss Gertrude Perry of i Greensboro spent the week end 1 , at her home in Boone. lachian Mixed Chorus Gets District Grade Of Excellent The Appalachian 7th and 8th Grade Mixed Chorui earned an honor rating of "Excellent" when they participated in the Diatrict Choral Conteat held Friday, February 23rd. The Boone Diatrict Contest, cover ing ten northwestern counties, was held in the Fine Arts Building on the Appalachian State Teachers College campus. Serving on the panel of judg es were Mrs. Crystal iUchtell, Greensboro; Mr. Paul Fry, Al bemarle; and Mr. Richard Cox, W.C.UJi.C., Greensboro. Selec tion of judges, as well as the sponsoring of contests through out the state, is * function of the North Carolina Music Edu cators Conference, r Kgfefigy- 5 ( The Appalachian group formed two numbers, "Do-Re Mi" and "aimb EVry Moun tain", from Rodgers and Ham mersteig's The Sound Of Music, j The first number was a three part arrangement, the latter a combination of three and six 1 part*. 0 Students accompanists were Mary N orris and Diane Hagaman. The honor ratine certificate will be presented to the school and placed ii the display cabi net located in the front en trance ball. The 7th and 8th Grade Chorus has a current membership of 95 students. Additions are held at the beginning of each school year ,and at various times dur ing the year, to All vacancies. Elected officers for 1991-62 are Diane Hagaman, president; H. J. Cottrell, vice-president; Sara Hagaman, secretary; Linda Lyons, treasurer; Rita Ald ridge and Linda Dixon, librar ians. The group is directed by Mrs. Gaynelle Wilson. In Race For State Senate Mrs. Ed M. Anderson of West Jefferson has announced that she is a candidate for the State Senate from the district repre senting Ashe, Watauga, and Al leghany, subject to the Demo cratic primary May 26. The Senate seat rotates between the three counties and this time the nominee eomes from Ashe. Mrs. Anderson, who is run ning for public office, for the first time, has been active in MRS. ED M. ANDERSON public affair* for many yean. She i* the publisher of the Sky land Post at West Jefferson, The Alleghany News at Sparta and three other non-daily pa pers in North Carolina. She ia also an executive of four radio (Continued on page six) Father Mrs. Richardson Dies In Sparta John Robert (Rob) C rouse, BO, of Sparta, father of Mrs. Melissa Richardson of Boone, died Wednesday of last week at Alleghany Memorial Hospital. He waa born in Alleghany to Floyd and Ellen. Gam hill Crouae. He served aa Sheriff of Alleghany county from 1918 to 1922. A farmer, Mr. Crouae op erated a livestock business in Sparta for 28 years. He waa ? member of Zion Primitive Bapt ist Church. The funeral was conducted Saturday at 2 o'clock at Elk's Creek Primitive Baptist Church by Elder Raleigh Joines, Elder Price Vass and Elder Ed Doug las. Burial was in the church :emetery. Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Rose Smith of Eunice, Mrs. Ruth Punk of Woods town, N.J., Mrs. Blanche Hudson of Bag srstown, Md., and Mr*. Melissa Richardson of Boom; three ions, Gwyn Crouae of Woods town, Claude Crouae of Penns rille, N. J, and Robert Lee Crouae of Sparta; two brother*, R. Floyd Croute of Sparta and Lee Crouae of Akron, Ohio, and i lister, Mrs. MoUie Weaver of Scottsville. II H in HUH Book Value WMMimwUM County Land Will Double By JOE C. MINOR The 1963 taxaole value of real property in Vvauuga county is expected to be double that of iwoz, according to J. 1). Wine barger, county tax supervisor. Present valuation on tne tax booka of the county is placed at $27,000,000. The new ap praisal will go to $30, 000, CM) or more, it is believed by Mr. Wine barger. Reason for the sudden big jump in valuation is the ap praisal project getting under way this month, as authorized by the 1959 General Assembly, which provides for revaluation of all real property in the State every eight years. Last revalu ation in Watauga was in 1951. In a rotation plan to bring all 100 Ndrth Carolina counties under the act in eight years, this is Watauga's year to be revalued. The last revaluation in the county was done by local peo ple. This year the County Board of Commissioners has awarded the contract for the revaluing of the estimated 8,000 tax parcels to Southern Ap praisal Co., of Greensboro, said to be experts in their field. The same company did similar work recently in neighboring Wilkes county and in Mitchell and Wake counties. The contract was awarded the Gate City group at ? cost of $33,900, plus $900 for valuing industry in the courtty. The company is already at work at the Courthouse doing prelim inary work, with actual revalu ation scheduled to begin on March 19. The Tork is sup posed to be completed by No vember 19, which would mean the work should proceed at an average rate of 1,000 parcels being apprasied per month. The preliminary work in cludes the typing of a card for each parcel of property, and filling in of all known facts about the property, such as lo cation, type of property and buildings, etc. In doing the actual field work (Continued on page six) Boone Partisans Attend Gathering A Watauga county delegation attended the Republican Con greaalonal Convention at Tay lorsville Saturday, which Clyde R. Greene deacribed aa the lar geat congreaiional convention tie has attended. Those attending from the county were: J. E. Holahouaer and J. E. Holahouaer, Jr., Earl Ceoke, Mr. and lira. Orville Foster, Leonard Presnell, J. W. Norria, Wade Moretz, Elaine Coffey, Roy Holder, John Cooke, H. E. Brookahire, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde R. Greene, Kermit Storie, Elmer Miller and Robert Hold er. W. G. Brown Dies Thurs. Walter Griffin Brown, 78, prominent farmer of Route 1, Boone, died at Cannon Memor ial Hospital February 20. Funeral Services were con ducted February 22 at 1 o'clock in Laurel Sprinfa Baptist Church by the Rev. R C. Kg gers, aasisted by the Iter. T. O. Gore. Burial was in the church cemetery. Surviving . are five brothers und one sifter; Bartlet of Todd, Ambrose and McCoy, both of Armstead, Montana, Murray, David LookabiU Brown, and , mm-. HHIHIi! SHIP -www jjiowert' Pnoto snop W INNERS. Preston Hughes, III, center, wu i ir?t plice winner in the local Optimist Club Ora torical Contest. Bob Friend, left, was third place winner, and Phil Minor, right, placed second. Winners Are Announced In Boone ? Optimist Club Oratory Contest Preston Hughes, III, fresh man student at Appalachian High School, was winner of the Boone Optimist Club Oratorical contort, held Monday night fri the . Appalachian Elementary School auditorium. He will rep resent the local club in the Zone cutest at Lenoir on March n. Other place winners were Phil Minor, second, and Bob Friend, third. Both are fresh men at the Boone school. There were eleven contest ants, who spoke on: 'The Cre ative Force of Optimism." The others were: from Cove Creek High School? Billy Henson, Bill Baird, Harold Yates, Jerry Fox; from Appalachian ? Wade Cof fey, Jerry Ray, Paul Bagley, and Harold Prestwood. By winning first place in the local conteit, Hughes gained the opportunity t^gnter tb? zone contest. Winner of thia con test will go on to higher con tests, where the ultimate win ner of the 34th annual Inter national Optimint Oratorical Contest will be given a $1,000 1 scholarship to the college of his choice, and the two runners . up will be given $000 scholar- i ships. 1 Hughes was alao presented a i portable tape recorder by the , Flowers Photo Shop, along with i a first place trophy. Minor and : Friend were presented with i second and third-place trophies, 1 respectively. All contestanta i were given a framed copy <rf the OpUmiata' Creed. . Mil '? Coaching the urn contest ants. from Appalachian High School wit .Mrs. H. M. Hughes, and" Dough tori Greene coached the four entries from Cove Frank An . of Radio Sta tion WATA, acted aa master of ceremonies for the occasion. Judges were the Rev. John Gibson, missionary to the Three Porks Baptist Association; Ellis S. Boatman, debating coach at Appalachian State Teachers College, and J. E. Holshouser, Boone attorney. Lynn E. Hola day, assistant caahier of the Boone Branch of the Northwest ern Bank, acted aa timekeeper. U?ck. ExtenaiveMembershipDrive Is Opened By Boone C. of C. An extensive membership campaign by the Chamber of Commerce has been announced and is under the leadership of Stanley A. Harris. Five hundred members are being sought, which will be a gain of two hundred members. A special associate membership drive aimed at the college fac ulty, is being conducted by Dr. Lee Beynolds and Professor Eric DeGroat. Plana, said President Herman Wilcox, are for the campaign to be completed October 13. Mr. Wilcox says that the Chamber is the one organiza tion that spends its entire time promoting this area, and says that the Merchants Association Committee has ambitious plans under way to make Bonw* the shopping center of Northwest ern North Carolina. Mr. Wilcox says it will take a lot of hard work and financ ing to make this region into the playground of America, and quotes authorities as saying that within the next 23 years this section will become the moat properous area in the South. v Objectives for the community are listed as follows toy Mr. Wil cox: ''.V. \ ' Assisting the town la build ing a dty hall. Build a recreation center, to serve aa a community building, convention tu.ll, and provf<Vi accommodations for civic clubs. Playgrounds for the young people. Man tourist accommodations, the extension of tourist season, industry expansion. Constructing an airstrip to serve Boone and Blowing Rock. Build a National Guard Arm ory through Federal and State aid. Assist in building a ski faci lity on Beech Mountain. Bring more small conventions to Boone. Continue efforts to secure ad iled publicity and wist in the promotion of Horn in the West. Continue to assist Appalach ian State Teachers College and encourage more housing facili ties (o encourage added college enrollment. "Dozens of professional men are giving hundreds of man hours free. We only ask you to support us financially," Mr. Wilcox said. Weed Vote In Final Tally Of County Given Final results (or the Watauga vote In the burley referendum showed 1610 votes with 1608 for and 2 against. The referen dum carried oVer the burley belt and marketing quotas will be in effect for the 1962, 1968 and 1964 crop rears. Thanks to ASC county and community committeemen; agri cultural agencies; business peo ple and local radio and press publicity, the referendum vote was heavy and up about 30% over the 1900 vote. The vote by communities fol low*: ^3 . for Against Beaver Dam 361 0 Brushy Fork 142 1 Cove Creek 343 0 Laurel Creek 230 0 Meat Camp ..._ 146 1 New River 63 0 North Fork , 77 U 0 Shawneehaw 90 0 Stony Fork S3 0 Watauga 142 0 Absentee by mall ..21 0 TOTALS 1808 2 K Foster Files Court Clerk If )? ?. Orville Foster haa filed is a Republican candidate for the Republican nomination for Clerk of the Superior Court. Mr. Foster, a resident of Boone, Route 2. la ? former Wa tauga County Tlx Collector. Mrs. A. N. Mast haa returned hom? after visiting with Mr. and Mrs. C. A. ftfce of Chriat iansburg, Va. Tenn.
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