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VOLUME LXXV? NO. 16
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;| New Dorm To House 300 Students
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Grading has been finished for the new seven-story dormitory
for women for Appalachian State Teachers College. Men
are shown on the grade looking at plans for the structure
which will cost 9769,000 and which is scheduled to be ready
for use In 1904. This is the first In a series of five new
dormitories planned at Appalachian and is locate below
Brown Street, not far from the Winn-Dixie Store on Hardin
Street ? Staff photo..
ADVANCE GIFTS GROUP WELL PLEASED
UF Drive Starts In City
Dr. Brown
Dies Tuesday
Dr. Boy M. Brown, Watauga
county native and pioneer pro
fessor of English at Appalach
ian State Teachers College, died
in a Raleigh hospital Tuesday
morning, after an illness of
three weeks. He was 85.
Dr. Brown, who spent his
sutnmers at his ancestral home
place on Boone, Route 1, in
the Brown's Chapel neighbor
hood, had been here this sum
mer and had apparently been in
normal health. He bad returned
to his Chapel Hill home a few
weeks ago.
Funeral services were held at
11 o'clock Wednesday in Chapel
Hill, but the details were pot
known as this was written.
Dr. Brown was born and rear
ed in Watauga county, and re
ceived his education at the Uni
versity of North Carolina. He
taught English at Appalachian
Training School for a number of
years, going to Cary to establish
his home some forty years ago,
and to get his Master's and Doc
tor's degrees at the University;
meantime he was a director of
the first State Welfare Board.
He was a professor at the Un
iversity for a number of years.
During his residence in Boone,
he was a member of the Wa
tauga County Roads Commission
during the time highway 60 was
graded through the county from
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Maples Gets
PGA Position
Joe Maples, Boone Golf Pro
fessional, has been elected to
the second highest office in the
Carolines Section of the Profes
sional Golfers Association.
In a surprise move, Maples
was nominated by Mack Griggs
of the Pinebrook County Club
of Winston-Salem, along with
Hampton Auld of Wilmington
and former sectional president
Dugan A) cock of New Bern. The
first ballot gave Maples a sub
stantial lead, although not
enough for election, but the
election went to him when Ay
cock and Auld withdrew.
Maples replaces Aubrey Ap
ple of l Greensboro who was
elected president to succeed Joe
Davis of Spartanburg, S. C.
This took place at the annual
meeting of the Carolinas Sec
tion, PGA, which was held at
the Spartanburg County Club
last week.
MAYOR PROCLAIMS UNITED
FUND WEEK
Whereas: The United Fund of Watauga County
provides the many fine services to Boone and Wa
tauga County and that it combines fund raising
drives for local and national charities and service*.
Whereas: This organization, United Fund, is
and has been organized for the interest and bene
fit of and for the residents of this county and this
town.
Whereas: The outstanding record of past giv
ing by our neighbors for the benefit of our fellow
man.
1, as Mayor of Boone, by the powers invested in
me, hereby proclaim, that the week of October 15
thru October 23, be designated as United Fund
Week and that Sunday, October 21, be designated
as United Fund Sunday.
Whereas: This wjeek will enable our people to
Give the United Way. One Goal ? One Gift ? for
One Year.
WADE E. BROWN, Mayor
Boone, North Carolina
Ronda G. Holman
Is Killed In Crash
nonaa uene HOiman, zo,
formerly of Todd, who lived in
Kannapolis, was one of two
people killed in an automobile
accident Sunday on NC 115 at
Rocky Creek. ?
Mrs. Judy Irene Little Rom
an, 20, also of Kannapolis, was
the other person fatally hurt
in the crash. The State High
way Patrol said that Hubert
Jerry Carraway, 24, was the
driver of the car, and tnat the
other passenger, Mrs. Clara
Jean Williams Smith, 18, is
hospitaliaed with a leg injury.
Carraway was said to have had
multiple injuries.
Rites for Mrs. Roman were
conducted Wednesday at China
Grove Methodist Church.
Mr. Holman was born at Todd
In Watauga County to Fred
and Lillian Moretz Holman, and
was a textile worker. *^3
Surviving are the parents of
Todd and his grandmohter, Mrs.
Nelia Moretx of Boone.
Funeral was conducted at 2
o'clock Tuesday at Bethany
Lutheran Church, Todd, by Rev.
Wilian Smith aad Rev. E. F.
Troutman. Burial was in Mt.
Pleasant cemetery.
John F. Oliver
Dies At Age 82
John Franklin Oliver, 82, of
Boone, Route 3, died Thursda/
Oct. 11 at the home of a ion,
Luther Oliver, also of Boone,
Route 3. >
Mr. Oliver was born in Wa
tauga County and was a retired
tanner.
Surviving, in addition to Lu
ther Oliver, are four other sons,
Cicero Oliver of Jefferson,
Ohio, Lloyd Oliver of Cleve
land, Ohio, and Raymond Oliver
and the Rev. Barney Oliver,
both of Zionville; three daugh
ters, Mrs. Elizabeth Reece of
Zionville, Mrs. Lena Eggers of
Bristol, V*., and Mrs. Vergie
Greene of Mentor, Ohio; 30
grandchildren; 84 greatgrand
children, and a great-great
grandchild.
The funeral was conducted
at 2 p.m. October 13 at Union
Baptist Church by the Rev. Day
ton Jones and the Rev. C. O.
Vance. Burial was in the church
cemetery.
Bill to guard U. S. secrets
blocked In House.
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xucic arc ten cuupies, iwsniy
men, working the Advance Gifts
Committee (or the United Fund.
Two pairi have reported par
tial reports for *1184.
At th*t r>te. the Advance
Gift* Committee will exceed its
quota of $9,000 considerably.
The ones that have reported
Ihould not be any better than
the average, and their reports
are not complete. The Advance
Gifts Committee was supposed
to complete its work no later
thap Tuesday, October 16.
The general campaign opened
Tuesday morning with sixteen
different groups, with five or
more workers in each group.
Boy Scouts ? David Spain
hour, chairman, Jack Williams,
Robert Randall, William H. Key
of Mable, Clint Eggers of Silver
stone.
Band ? Mrs. Maude Kelley,
chairman, Mrs. Hadley Wilson,
Mrs. Hugh Hagaman, Mrs.
Charles Isley, and Mrs. David
Rigsby.
Medical Research, Social Ser
vice, and State Health Associa
tions ? Robert Bumbaugh, chair
man, Joe Worth, Ralph Be
shears, Roy Oland,. and Joe
Maples.
Agriculture Workers ? J. B.
Robinson, chairman, William
Foutz, Ed Greene, L. E. Tuck
willer, and Mrs. Lillian Danner.
Emergency Relief ? Cecil Mil
ler, chairman, Paul Winkler,
Jay Beach, Armfield Coffey, and
G. C. Greene, Jr.
Lions Club ? Major John Tho
mas, chairman, A. R. Smith,
Richard Kelley, D. O. Ray, and
N. W. Shelton.
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Directors For
Horn Named
Herman W. Wilcox, executive
vice-president of the Southern
Appalachian Historical Associa
tion, Inc., announces the list
of directors for Horn in the
West. They are:
Alfred Adams, Glenn R. An
drews, Wade E. Brown, Charles
Cannon, J. V, Caudill, W. W.
Chester, Mrs. Jim Councill,
Grady Farthing, Clyde Greene,
Dr. I. G. Greer, Dr. H. H. Har
mon, H. P. Holshouser, Sr., Dr
A. P. Kephart, Dr. C. Bay
Lawrence, James Marsh, Mrs.
William Mathenon, Dr. G. K.
Moose, Hugh Morton, Jr., Dr.
W. H. Plemmons, Mrs. Earlene
Prltchett, Dr. 0. K. Richardson,
Mrs. Bob Rivers, Grover C. Rob
bins, Jr., Mrs. B. W. Stallings,
Dr. D. J. Whitener, D. L. Wil
cox, Dr. Cratis D. Williams,
Mrs. Carrie Winkler, W. B.
Winkler.
Car Runs Out
Of Control
Into Creek
Two Watauga County youths
were killed in an automobile
accident on highway 421 in
Wilkes county last Friday mid
night.
? Samuel Stacy Steelman, 19,
and Jerry Dean Watson, 19,
both of Deep Gap were dead on
arrival at Watauga Hospital in
Boone.
Highway Patrolman R. G.
Potts of North Wilkesboro, who
investigated the accident, said
four young men were in the
1948 model car which went out
of control and crashed off High
way 421 at a small creek at
Lewis Fork Advent Christian
Church.
Potts placed the time of the
accident at 11:45 p. m., but he
was not notified by authorities
from Watauga until 1:30 p. m.
Potts said marks on the high
way indicated the car was out
of control ISO feet before it left
the pavement and proceeded
another 190 feet on the left,
crashing into the creek bed.
One of the victims was thrown
out and across the creek from
the wreckage. The other was
thrown out but landed on the
west side of the creek near the
wreck.
The officer said Steelman had
a broken back, broken right leg
and fractured skull. Stoelman,
he said, had sustained a back
fracture in another accidant
recently. Watson died of a
broken back.
Two other men were in the
car Jack Rogers, 23, of Deep
Gap, and George Carter Looka
bill, 20, of Deep Gap. Lookabill
had a forehead laceration. Rog
ers was not injured.
Potts quoted Jimmy Smith of
Deep Gap as saying he was trav
eling east on Highway 421
when the lights of a car behind
him suddenly disappeared. He
said he turned around and went
back to investigate, finding the
wrecked car and injured. He
said he carried the injured in
his car to the hospital at Boone.
Potts said he questioned the
two occupants of the car who
were not badly hurt and both
said they remembered nothing
about the accident and told him
they did not know who was
driving the car, which was re
gistered to Vandell Watson of
Deep Gap, father of Jerry Dean
Watson. Steelman was a son of
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Steelman
of Deep Gap.
Surviving in addition to his
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Bloodmobile Is
Coming Thurs.
When the Red Cross Blood
mobile comes to Boone Thurs
day it will find Watauga county
in the precarious position of
having used twice as much
blood as it has collected in this
fiscal year, according to Joe
McClung, recruitment chairman
for the local blood program.
"This is Number 2 of the three
visits we're asked to schedule
this year," McClung said, "and
there is not another until next
April. It's simply a case of
do or suffer the consequences."
Making a quota, as such, is
not the real issue, the chair
man said. Filling our respon
sibilities toward the blood pro
gram is important, and merits
everyone's concern, he says.
"Right now supplies of whole
blood are critically low at the
center. We have a moral obli
gation to meet our expected
quota, and to surpass it enough
to put our chapter back in a
strong position in a blood-used,
blood <- collected comparison,"
McClung said.
The Bloodmobile will be at
East Hall Thursday, October IS.
Donor hours are 11 a. m. to 9
p* . .
PARADE BANDS.? Two of the three band*
that played in the Homecoming parade here
Saturday. Top showns the college's own
majorettes and band, and lower photo pic
tures the Rutherford High School band u
it turned the corner at King and Hardin
(treeta. The Appalachian High School band
alio marched and played in the parade.
SBI IS INVESTIGATING
Many Stores Robbed
In Boone, Watauga Co.
MRS. MOORE on the occasion of her birthday several years ito.
Mrs. Emma Moore, 94,
First ASTC Librarian
Mrs. Emma Horton Moore,
94, member of ? pioneer Wa
tauga county family, who be
came the first full-time Librar
ian at Appalachian State Teach
ers College in 1929, died Thurs
day in Roanoke, Vs., where she
had lived with a son, Mr. James
Moore and family. She is listed
as Librarian BwHtus at Ap
palachian.
Mrs. Moore had been ill fol
lowing an operation for a brok
en hip some tine ago, but the
immediate cauat of her death
was giv?i as a heart attack.
Fuatral larrteaa war# con
ducted Saturday afternoon at
the Boone Baptist Church by
the pastor. Rev. J. Boyce
Brooks. Burial was in the com
munity cemetery.
Mrs. Moore was born Febru
ary 23, 1889 in Boone, a daugh
ter of Col. William Horton and
Bebecca Blair Horton. She
graduated from High Point Col
lege in 1888, and did graduate
work at Optical College in
1888. Her husband, Louis
Moore, died in 1888. She taught
in Hamilton iaMiN* in Ashe
county in 1800, was ? profea
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Boone and Watauga coun
ty have been plagued by a
rash of robberies of business
places in recent weeks, and
Sheriff E. M. Hodges says
the Sheriff's officers, City
police, and State Bureau of
Investigation agents are
working together in an ef
fort to bring the burglars to
justice.
An SBI agent is in Vir
ginia investigating two su
spects, who had escaped
from the local State prison
camp two weeks ago, and
who are being held there.
Their names are Wilburn
Shoaf of Winston-Salem and
Odell Sheppard of Wilkes
boro. There are other sus
pects, the Sheriff said, but
sufficient evidence hasn't
been uncovered to justify
their arr?st.
Greene's Trading Post
Greene's Trading Post at
Deep Gap has been robbed
twice, about three weeks apart.
Mr. Hooper Greene, the owner,
says that in the (irst robbery
$90 in cash was taken, clothes,
cigarettes and some groceries.
The second time they got rifles,
pistols, 22 calibre shells, ciga
rettes but no money. Mr.
Greene says he caught Tho
mas Watson of Deep Gap who
was given a suspended sentence
of two years in Superior Court.
The second time be was also
caught, and Mr. Greene says ha
is now rit on kond.
Girl Is Caught
A robbery was attempted at
the Boone Supply Ca. while Mr.
James C. Greene, owner, and
Alton MortU, an employee, were
in the place, when a window
light was broken. A girl, who
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