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FOR BEST RESULTS advertisers invariably use the col umns of the Democrat. With lti full paid circulation, intensely covering the local shopping area, it is the best advertising medium * VOLUME LXXIV.? NO < . . Independent Weekly Newspaper . . . Seventy-Fourth Year of Continuous Publication ? ? ? ? ? ? BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1962 SUMMER SCHOOL. ? Registration and long, (lowly moving line* were one and the same for some 1,600 students who enrolled at Appalachian State Teacheri College last Thursday for the first session of tummer school. The new gymnasium was the site of part of the activities, as pictured above.? Staff photo by Gaddy. ?. yttm. ii ? a - - ? ?? (? 1,600 Students Register At ASTC For First Summer School Session .vv..; . '? ; *?????.? * ? . -P ? ? ? Approximately 1,090 students registered for under-graduate and graduate studies at Appala chian State Teachers College, Thursday, June 7, according to a college spokesman. Dr. Braxton Harris, assistant registrar, announced Monday that final tabulation ted not been completed at that tinje but that Dr. James Stone, director of the summer school program, had made an unofficial count from the student fee cards and had reached the approximated figure of 1,690. As of Monday, the only sped- 1 fic figures showed 46 newly en- 1 to ring freshmen at the college. < Dr. Harris explained the de- i lay ia reaching a definite fi i Official figures released by . the college late Tuesday show M*2 sWfcnts registering for classes first session. A. more complete listing will be publish ed next week. gure on the recent registration, stating that two to three hund- i red students applied FrWv tor j late registration. "We have not had sufficient time yet to pro cess these latest registration cards," he added. The registration cards are tabulated by IBM machines at Appalachian State. Appalachian's summer pro* gram, according to Dr. StM*, is somewhat unique in that nearly as many students take work then as during the regu lar school year. "This almost makes Appala :hian a twelve month school, proportionately speaking," he Governor's Night To Be Observed July 8, Honoring Chief Executive Governor Terry Sanford will attend the Sunday, July 8 per formance in. Horn in the West during the summer meeting of the State Department of Con servation and Development to be held in Boone on July 8, 9 Thomas Brown Dies On Monday Thomas Roscoe Brown, Sr., 71, of 1606 Perkinsville Drive, Boone, died June 11. The funeral will be held Wed nesday at 2 p. m. at the Perk insville Baptist Church. The Rev. Maurice Cooper and the Rev. Hugh Kincaid will officiate. (Burial will be in the Brown cemetery at Sands. A disabled veteran of World War 1, Mr. Brown had been in declining health since he suff fered a broken hip last year. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Leila Moretz Brown a ;dailghter, Miss Dorothy Brown, of the home; a son, Thomas R. Brown, Jr., of Lancaster, S. C.; two bro thers, Grady Brown of Boone and Ronda Brown of Lima, Mont., and one grandchild. and 10. Horn in the West has desig nated this night as "Governor's Night" in honor of the attend ance of Governor Sanford and the members of the Department of Conservation and Develop ment. Governor Sanford is the Chairman of the Board of the Department and will make a speech at f dinner Monday night. Hargrove Bowles, Jr., Di rector of the Department, will also be present along with some twenty-eight Board members and their wives or -husband*. Also attending will be the de partment's division heads and representatives of the press. The Board will be the guest of Appalachian State Teachers College Sunday night, July 8 for a dinner in the college cafe teria after which the board will attend Horn in the W<Mt. Monday morning the Board will be the guest of Dr. Wil liam H. Plemmons, president of Appalachian State Teachers College, in his beautiful home overlooking the campus. Lunch will be provided at the Daniel FAA Includes Boone In 5-Year Airport Plan Aa airport far Boone was included in the pUa of the Federal Aviation Agency sub mitted Friday, which recom mended tt other new airports in North Carolina and im provrntenMj at J|4 existing faculties la the State. The report which each year updates a five year pro gram of airport development, includes several new airports for Piedmont and Narth west ern North Carolina. The hdidN of a com doe* not represent a commit ment of Federal aid, but no federal funds may be granted to a project unless H la In cluded In the plan. Other towns for which air Asheboro, EUrin - JonesriUe, High Point. Meant Alrv, Mooresville, and Reidsville. If the full FFA projection of airport needs were follow ed it would mean a* expendi ture of more than fifteen mil lion in North Carolina dor Boone Inn. The dinner Monday evening, the largest social event of the meeting, will be held at the Rlementary School cafeteria. Governor Sanford will speak at this meeting. Breakfast on the morning of the 10th will be at the Daniel Boone Inn after which the Board will hold their final session and conclude their meeting. Throughout the two days of the meeting, the different divi sions and offices of the Depart ment will hold business meet ings. Tours of local attractions will be given to the wives of the Board members during their stay in Boone. > REA Plans Annual Meet Members of the annual meet ing planning committee for the Blue Ridge Electric Member ship Corporation met in the general offices of the organi zation in Lenoir on June 7 to plan the 20th annual meeting for the Cooperative. Present for the meeting in addition to the management staff of the organization were directors Bert Mast, Finley Mc Gee, D. M. Edwards, and Paul Beeves, and the following mem bers: Mrs. Hoke Wagoner and Mrs. James Houck of Ashe Dis trict, Fred Estes and C. B. Bol linger of Caldwell district, Dean Reese of Watauga district, and Gary Brown of Alleghany dis trict Plan* were made to bold the meeting in Boone on Septem ber 8. A highlight of the meet ~ ? the receiving by the ? <of the Cooperative for their capital credits -(ownership) contributed in 1090, 1951, 1962, and IMS. The checks will total to mom 980, sUted. "Whereas we have unofficial ly 1690 students registered now, we had only 1400 at thii same point a year ago," Dr. Stone continued. "We now have more undergraduate students who are accelerating their college programs than we've ever had in the oast. . z "And we have a substantial increase in the number of stu dents from other colleges and uniyertitiea who are tailing work at Appalachian and trans ferring the work back to their respective institutions. "We also have between 180 and 180 new graduate students enrolled for the present term," Or. Stone said. The summer itinerary calls for four short terms of work shops and a second term of summer school, the latter for which students will register July 10. The short terms are as follows: June 18-29, six work shops (including Art Educa ( Continued on page three) MISS GLENDA AUSTIN Dairy Princess Miss Glenda Austin was crowned Watauga County Dairy Princess (or 1962 following her selection . Friday night in the Appalachian Elementary School Auditorium. She was chosen from a group of six girls who competed for the honor. Miss Agness Gray Shipley, daughter of Mr. a&d Mrs. Rob ert Shipley of Vilas, was first runner up. ? Miss Austin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Austin, Route 3, Boone, will represent the county at the district contest in Elkin Jane 18. She will be competing with ten other county winners from the district. She received as a gift an outfit to wear at the district contest She is a student at Appalachian High School Miss Shipley received a ten i account for ran- 1 Other girls in the contest were (Continued on pag. three) I Miss Austin Is OLLOWING HE \ G IN BO n L.oun Attention Centers On Cove Creek By DALE GADDY The SUte Board of Elections requested Friday an SBI investigation of the alleged bal lot box stuffing in Watauga's Cove Creek precinct and for criminal prosecution of viola tors if evidence warrants such. Furthermore, the state board advised the Watauga County Board of Elections to discard all votes cast in the Democratic box at Cove Creek and to throw out all Republican votes cast in the Boone Township ? if the county board should find evi dence there was sufficient bal lot box stuffing so th?t it can not arrive at an accurate count of the ballots. The SBr was also asked by the state board to probe into the voting irregularities in Boone proper. The Watauga board reported to the state board last week that there was a wide variation between the number of ballots in the Re publican box at Boone and the number of names on the poll books. The Republican ballots, the county board reported, were missing. The state board also voted to ftrfward to the attorney gener al and to Solicitor B. T. Falls, Jr., of Shelby all the evidence presented to it regarding the fkvr Creek incident, for furth er study and prosecution, if evidence warrants such. In addition, the board advis ed the Watauga unit to remove from office any precinct of flciaUs) convicted as a result of the investigation. The evidence presented to the state board grew Out of a two and one-half hour open hearing held in the county courthouse in Boone last Wed nesday pertaining to the May 28 voting in the Cove Creek precinct. The three-man county board of elections decided after the hearing to turn the transcript of the day's proceedings over to the state board for further examination. Eight men testified before the local board which consists of R. T. Greer, chairman, John Council, secretary, and Stacy Eggers. All three members were present for the hearing. Representing the board was county attorney Wade Brown. Cecil Porter, attorney from North Wilkesboro, represented the complainant of Cove Creek, while W. H. McElwee, also of North Wilkesboro, represented the defendant, A. C. (Claude) Williams. First to take the stand wss Gordon Mast who had acted as Democratic judge at the Cove Creek precinct. Mast Eta ted that th? Democrats cast 447 ballots and the Republicans 90 for a total of 946 votes. Yet; he point ed out, only 840 names were (Continued on page two) SH.UJOWLINE CHECK.? Jam? Marsh, left foreground, looks on u Watauga Industries presi dent Glenn R. Andrews accepts a check frwm Shadowline president Sherrod Salisbury in a busi ness transaction in Boone last week. In the background la J. E. Holshouser. Witnessing the proceedings from across the desk are Lynn Holaday, foreground, and R. D. Hodges. Not visible is Hinton Hudson who was also present.? Staff photo by Gaddy. Shadowline, Inc., hag bought it* building from Watauga In dustrie* in a transaction which wai finalized last Thursday morning, according to Glenn Andrews, Watauga Industries president. Shadowline formerly was operating under a twenty year lease, granted by W. I. in 1957. Although no official figures of the transaction were released, Andrews indicated that Shadow line now has an Investment "somewhere in the- vicinity of $200,000." According to Shadowline plant manager, Hal Johnson, the plant will spend an additional $100,000 in expansion during the next two to three year*. Acquiring five and one-half more acres in the recent move, Shadowline's present expansion will add 20,000 square feet to the previous total of 40,000. This is the plant's third expansion since beginning operations in Watauga County. "Shadowline will make avail able some two hundred new jobs within the next two to three years," stated Johnson, director of the expansion pro gram. He further explained by saying that the new Jvi? would be offered gradually, building up te two hundred new jobr by 1964 or 1969. "Any and all applications for Regional Blood Group Has Business Meeting Thirty ? four representative* from the sub-regional group II of the American Red Crow, Piedmont Carolina* Blood Pro gram, met in Boone Tuesday, June 8, at the First Methodist Church for their annual busi ness meeting and to discus* the problems of bloodmobile opera tions. Mrs. R. L. McDonald, of Thomasville, presided over the two hour meeting. The Watauga County Chap ter, host to the meeting, re ports that other than the busi ness session, a discussion of the problem of summer recruit ment of blood vu stressed. "We (the Red Crocs) have more difficulty obtaining blood during the summer months than any other time of the year. Our main concern at the meeting was to try to formu late a feasible plan applicable to all chapters, whereby a bal ance between the supply and demand for blood could be im proved and quotas for each visit met," said Joe McClung, local Blood Recruitment Chair man. The annual budget of opera ( Continued on page two) Wade Brown, city mayor, has proclaimed June 18-23 as "Clean-Up Campaign" in "The town, working in co operation with four local gar den clubs, the Worthwhile Wo men's Club, a Brownie troop, and the Chamber of Commerce, advocates the planting o I trees, shrubs, and flowers for the beautification of Boone," ex plains committee member Mrs. ThU spring the committee helped to beautify the three main entrance* to Boone. "We hope to erect stone marker* at the*e entrances eventually," Mr*. Reynold* continue*. Other area* where the com mittee ha* directed the plant in* ?t flower* thi* spring in clude Greery Corner, Town Building (at the expenae of the Town), Todd and Hlgglna, and a vacant lot near the funeral Benches have been placed at a few points in town, Mr* Rey nolds explains. These were con Blue Ridge Home Life De nt. Worthwhile Women's 'own. With the Chamber of Com merce furnishing most of the the committee has pur more than two ' jobs are welcomed," Johnson continued. Sewing machine operator! will be needed; interested persons may contact Johnson for fur ther information, he said. Andrews stated that Watauga Industries hopes to use the money from the Shadowline transaction to encourage new industry to come to Boone. W. I. owns a ten-acre site near the bowling lanes "which has a two-hundred-foot frontage and is one of the most beautiful pl?cei an industry could hope to build on," commented An drews. Present for the official trans action held at the Watauga Savings and Loan On Thursday were Shadowline president Sherrod Salisbury of Morganton; Glenn Andrews, W. I. president; James Marsh, secretary-treas urer of Watauga Savings and Loan Association; Lynn Hala day, W. I. secretary and associ ate of the Northwestern Bank; Jerry Coe, Boone businessman; R. D. Hodges, Jr., W. I. treas urer; Hinton Hudson, Winston Salem attorney representing Shadowline; and attorney J. E. Holshouser, representing W. I. Hodges Will SpeakAtDam Ceremonies er Hodges this week notified the Wilkes Chamber of Com merce that he will attend the dedication for the Wilkes Re servoir on Sunday, September 16, and will give the principal address. Secretary Hodges was invited to attend the ceremony on be half of the chamber by Kemp Doughton, senior trust officer of The Northwestern Bank. lie is the second high rank
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