FOR BEST RESULTS
advertisers invariably use the col
umns of the Demomt. With it* lull
paid circulation, intensely covering
the local shopping area, it U the
best advertising medium available.
VOLUME LXXV.? NO. 20
An Independent Weekly Newspaper . . . Seventy-Fifth Year of Continuous Publication
BOO WE WEATHFI
1961 Hi Lo tree. 01 HI Lo
Nov. 8
Nor. 7
No*. 8
Nov. 9
Nov. 10
Nov. IX
45 27 .07
53 23
55 36
47 42 .80
34 2.47
3b
48
54
Nov. 12 53 27
08 57
87 43
04 31
40 23
52 SI
00 28
60 42
BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1962
? CENTS
t? PAGES? 3 SECTIONS
THE BIG BURLEY WAREHOUSE GETS ROOF IN PREPARATION FOR OPENING
CONTAINS 140,000 FEET OF SPACE
New Burley House To Open
Work is nearing completion
on the Big Burley Warehouse,
located on 421 by-pass, near
the county education building,
and the owners were enthusias
tic about their opening of the
new warehouse this season.
J. M. SmotHers of Dunn,
speaking for himself and the
other owners, R. E. Bullock of
Vass and King Roberts of Er
win and Sanford, said the house
will be ready for receiving to
bacco by Saturday of this week.
Xfce Burlay market is ?*P?cL*d
to open November 27.
With the opening of the Big
Burley Warehouse, there will be
four warehouses in the area for
Burley growers' use. Sales
schedule for the houses are to
be announced.
Mr. Smothers said the new
house will contain 140,000
square feet of floor space. It
is most modern in design and
for convenience of sellers and
buyers. The house is built on
eight levels. Trucks may drive
up to the platform from the
front, unload, and go out the
back in a minimum of time.
There is space for 75 or more
loads to be unloaded at one
time, he said.
The house will have one set
of permanent scales and one
set of mobile scales, thus as
suring haulers quick handling
(Continued on page 3, sec. B)
OctoberDrop
In Parkway
Travel Noted
Following is a report on the
number of visitors to the Blue
Ridge Parkway during October
of this year as compared to
the same month last year.
A total of 738,590 visitors
were counted on the Parkway
during October of this year,
compared to 770,950 during the
same month last year. This rep
resented a decrease of 42%
for this year during the month
of October. '
Following is a breakdown of
the number of visitors by dis
tricts, with this year's visitors
being listed first.
James River, Va. (Mile 0 to
115)? 136,481? 143,349.
, Rocky Knob, Va. (Mile 115 to
217)? 163,165? 189,655.
Bluffs, N. C. (Mile 217 to 305
?160390?166,393.
Asheville, N. C. (Mile 305 to
469 ? 278,054 ? 271,553.
Comparisons
Calendar Year 1962 ? 6,077,
496 visitors to date.
Calendar Year 1961 ? 5,523,
216 visitors to date.
Calendar Year 1962 compared
with Calendar Year 1961, in
crease 10%.
This month compared with
same month last year, decrease
4.2%.
Total cumber of visitors is
figured on basis of 3.3 persons
per vehicle.
Two Nurses, Clerk To Be
Added To Health Dept.
Dr. Mary Michal, local health
director, reports that a special
United States Public Health
Service Grant has been given
the Alleghany ? Ashe- Watauga
District 'Health Department,
and the Avery County Health
Department, to make possible
addition of two nurses and a
typist-cleck to the combined
staffs for the purpose of giv
ing more assistance to the
chronically ill.
Dr. Michal said, "It is be
lieved that in working with
these patients, intensively bet
ter care can be given by those
already responsible for the pa
tient in the home, as well as
better use made by all resources
available. The aim will be to
help each individual case at
tain the highest degree possi
ble in (1) physical self-help, (2)
rehabilitation, and (3) the ad
justment of all factors affecting
his situation."
Obviously, the health officer
said, time and resources will
continue to be limited as the
department has never employed
a basically minimum nursing
staff, which is at least one
public health nurse for each
5,000 population.
According to the announce
ment, the new personnel will
work in the over-all complete
public health program so that
additional time may now be giv
en to the needs of this group. ;
"This is not just a program I
for the aged. Dr. Michal said, i
"The chronically ill comprise all t
age groups, though more of the
aging than younger. All nurses <
will carry a general public <
health nursing load so all i
nurses will do some special i
DR. MARY MICHAL
chronic illness care."
The additions to the staff are:
Mrs. Virginia (A.B.) Adding
ton, public health nurse, Jeff
erson, who will give some time
(Continued on page two)
Will Observe
Thanksgiving
The District Health Depart
ment will be closed November
22 and 23, in observance of the
rhanksgiving holiday, according
to Dr. Mary Michal, health off
icer. Friday is being taken as
i holiday by the health workers
instead of this past Monday,
which was Veterans's Day and
ordinarily a holiday. Since Mon
lay was a clinic day, the change
was made.
League Of Women Voters
Observe Boone Balloting
The local League of Women
Voters, along with Leagues in
other towns and cities in the
state, furthered its study of the
election laws of North Carolina
by maintaining observation at
the polls on election day. Sev
eral members of the local Lea
gue took turns observing' in the
Boone precinct in an effort to
learn how an election is con
ducted from beginning to end.
Mrs. David Spainhour, Presi
dent of the Boone League, said
that the consensus of her group
was that the experience of
spending a relatively short time
at the polls made one appreci
ate much more fully the dedica
tion 61 those workers who were
there from very early in the
morning until quit* lata it
night. She said, also, that all
the League observers comment
ed on how the present state of
the registration books seemed
to make the registrar's work
much more difficult than should
necessarily be. They felt some
method should be used where
by it could be more easily de
termined whether or not pros
pective voters were properly
registered, thus easing the
strain on the registrar and also
enabling the line of voters to
move along faster.
Mrs. Spainhour expressed her
appreciation of the cooperation
and courtesy accorded her and
the team of observers by the
election officials and other
workers htlping at Um polls.
Fonzo Tester
Funeral Held
Fonzo Clinton Teeter, 57, of
Rt. 1, Sugar Grove, died sud
denly Monday, Nov. 3, of a
heart attack.
Surviving are the widow, Mrs.
Leola Glenn Tester of Sugar
Grove; the father, Walter Test
er of Sugar Grove; two sons,
Howard Tester of Vilas and
Dwight Tester of Burt, New
York; one daughter, Mrs. Dare
Greene of Sugar Grove; four
brothers, Stacy Tester and
Wyatt Tester, both of Boone;
Doughton and Ted Tester, both
of Sugar Grove; and eight
grandchildren.
Funeral services were held
Thursday, Nov. 8, at 2 p. m. in
the Green Valley Baptist
Church. The Rev. Lawrence
Hagaman and the Rev. Noah
Johnson officiated. Burial was
In the church cemetery.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Eggers
have returned to their home on
Bristol Road after spending two
weeks in Ohio and Indiana
visiting with their children.
FARM-CITY UNITY NEEDED
Four Communities G
Awards At Cove Creek
300 Attend
Annual Farm,
City Event
Some 300 people were present
Thrsday night to see four
awarded first place ribbons in
the Farming Community judg
ing contest. The awards were
made during the annual Farm
City supper at Cove Creek High
School.
Those winning first place in
the Farming Community con
test were Bethel, Beaver Dam,
Hatney, and Timbered Ridge.
Award winning communities
in the rural non-farm division
were Cove Creek, first; and
Valle Crucis.
In the new community di
vision Mountain Dale was award
ed a blue ribbon.
The Rev. Paul Townsend, of
Asheville, former pastor of the
Boone Methodist Church, was
guest speaker at the meeting
in which the awards were made
and officers of the Boone Cham
ber of Commerce were installed.
Mr. Townsend challenged Wa
taugans to have faith in them
selves, their neighbors and God
to properly develop themselves
n*A? So4a s\n?k
auu uic uiuuuuiiu aica uivu wuc
of the most progressive areas in
North Carolina and the nation.
He praised the people for their
high degree of cooperation be
tween rural and townspeople in
their progressive achievements.
Besides the ribbons, the sev
en communities, through their
development club presidents,
received cash t wards and other
recognition during the evening.
Bethel was to represent the
county in the Northwest Area
judging Tuesday. Cove Creek
was picked to represent the
county in the "Rural non-farm
division" and Mountain Dale to
represent the county in the
"New communities division."
In making the awards, Roy W.
(Continued on page 3, sec. B)
Scout Banquet
Is Planned
The annual Scout banquet will
be held Tuesday, November 27,
at 6 p. m., at the Boone Ele
mentary School cafeteria, ac
cording to David Spainhour, lo
cal Scout leader. The supper
will be covered dish, Mr. Spain
hour said, and all Boy Scouts,
Scouters, and their families are
urged to attend.
A court of honor will also be
held at this time.
. . AND THE BIG BAD (WIND) huffed
and puffed, and blew the (Town)house (sign)
in." The winds over the week end were ex
tremely strong, and this restaurant sign
was bent over by the gale*. While ? survey
of the total damage in the county was not
available, it is undestood that other dam
age was done Saturday. An unfinished chick
en house, owned by Conley Church on the
West Jefferson Road, was reported blown
down, and Mr. Church received some injury
at the time. Several trees were reported up
rooted. The wind followed last week's rains
which reached a total of more than three
inches. ? Staff photo.
Dr. PlemmonsWill Be Speaker At
Annual N. W. Development Meet
I Dr. William H. Plemmona,
President of Appalachian State
Teachers College, will be the
principal speaker at the annual
meeting of the Northwest North
Carolina Development Associa
tion in Elkin on December 6.
Final plans for the ninth an
nual meeting of the Association
will be completed by the Board
of Directors at theic November
18 meeting. Hugh Crigler, pres
ident of the development group,
announced that the dinner
meeting is scheduled at the
Gilvin Roth YMCA in Elkin on
December 6, at 6:30 p. m.
Ticket sales for the dinner
are now being handled in each
6f the eleven counties by the
association directors. Robert F.
Campbell of Winston-Salem,
general chairman for the meet
ing, has announced that limited
space requires that only 800
tickets be available.
Prior to Dr. Plemmons' ad
dress, awards will be presented
to Northwest North Carolina
communities and counties in a
competition for special attain
ments in agriculture, industry.
DR. WILLIAM H. PLEMMONS
travel and recreation, youth
work and community develop
ment. Last year the county
awards totaled $4,350.00 in
cash.
Dr. Plemmons is a native of
Buncombe County. He attended
Mars Hill College and graduated
from Wake Forest. He received
the Master of Science degree
| from Duce University and com
peted his Doctorate in EduCa
I tion at the University of North
Carolina in 1943.
An experienced school ad
ministrator, Dr. Plemmom
served as principal of Leicester
High School in Buncombe
County and Lee Edwards High
School in Asheville before Join
ing the Education Department
faculty at UNC in 1941. .
For several years immediate
ly after the war, he was granted
leave from the University to
serve as executive secretary of
the State Education Commis
sion. In August of 1955, he was
elected president of Appalach
ian State Teachers College,
where he succeeded Dr. B. B.
Dougherty, founder and first
president of the institution.
Dr. Plemmons is currently
serving as a vice president of
the Development Association.
He is active in the affairs of the
State Baptist Convention.
Dr. and Mrs. Plemmons, the
former Elizabeth Sparrow of
Wilmington, have lived in
Boone since September, 1955.
Official Watauga County Election Results
Senate House Court Clerk Board of County Commissioners Sheriff Congress
Q u
" a o 4 I ? S ? ? I
PRECINCTS I E ^35
3$
<-? Z ^ K 5 fa .3 a! (? m j SB 5 5m
Bald Mountain ....; 43 82 41 83 43 83 44 43 44 82 82 83 42 84 45 80
Beaver Dam 210 136 196 142 207 136 190 182 193 144 137 141 188 143 205 142
Blowing Rock 247 264 231 301 253 264 276 274 255 2*8 251 252 259 264 259 287
Blue Ridge 42 248 41 252 45 246 42 41 39 252 255 245 38 252 41 249
800116 673 423 583 526 707 385 669 722 723 432 368 374 638 441 666 455
Brushy Fork 407 231 390 244 400 239 386 392 393 248 238 232 383 260 419 224
Covfc Creek 347 406 326 427 340 415 285 283 289 457 454 456 266 473 349 416
Elk - 18 133 21 132 19 133 18 18 18 133 133 133 19 133 22 130
Laurel Creek ? 232 230 222 239 231 236 226 227 226 239 236 237 222 238 245 220
Meat Camp 1 260 252 264 252 268 247 254 253 257 265 259 268 244 273 261 251
Meat Camp 2 ... ? 16 37 16 38 17 37 15 15 14 ?|88 37 37 12 40 19 36
New River 473 576 417 634 496 560 440 478 451 635 564 Mi 569 422 639 498 581
North Fork 21 4, 97 24 96 43 78 23 23 23 96 96 96 21 98 20 101
Shawneehaw 85 134 86 133 84 135 87 88 88 133 133 133 82 J 138 80 140 I
Stony Fork 144 373 143 373 144 374 147 150 141 372 367 372 132 386 154 369
Watafiga 184 398 188 396 185 396 186 189 183 391 390 392 175 407 182 401
TOTAL ..3402 4020 3189 4268 3482 3958 3288 3378 3337 4185 4000 4020 3143 4269 34C5 4082
Majority 618 |J 1079 476 '\Q 807 622 642 1120 HP 617
For Surveyor? Joe J. Miller, R, unopposed? 4091 j iI^EB For Coroner? Richard E. Kelley, unopposed? 3531
For Solicitor ? B. T. Falls, Jr., unopposed ? 3437|1
?mi ?