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UGA DEMOCRAT An Independent Weekly Netcspaper . . . Seventy-Sixth Year of Continuous Publication ?OONIWU'. 1983 HI Lo prec. IB Hi Lo Jane 29 78 48 81 58 June 38 73 48 78 H June 27 73 80 .18 88 80 June 28 78 88 .24 84 98 June 29 80 90 .32 77 47 June 30 76 98 .28 74 90 July 1 83 83 .02 78 90 VOLUME LXXVI ? NO. 1 BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1W 10 CENTS PER COPY 18 PAGES?} SECTIONS Wagon Train Parade A multitude of people lined the route of the parade up western stage coach. ? Staff photo. Kins Street Saturday. Shown in front is an authentic National Bank Has Opening The First National Bank of Boone held Its official opening Monday, and large numbers of people of the town and county came to visit the new financial institution and to take part in the open house reception. Bank officials, members of the Board at Directors tad their wives received the guesto, re freshments were served aad favors distributed. 'v'1*' JOHN D. BROYHILL John Broyhill Is Associated With Coe Ins. Mr. John D. Broyhill will be associated with the Coe Insur ance and Realty Co. beginning July 8th. Mr. Broyhill has been em ployed by Shadowline Inc. for the past six years. He was born and reared in Watauga County, and is a graduate of Blowing Rock High School and Appala chian State Teachers College, where he majored in business administration. He is married to the former Billie Kern of Stir, N. C. They have three children and reside at 306 Farthing Street. Mr. Coe feels, wi'h Mr. Broy hill's well rounded background, that the Coe Insurance will be able to provide a better service to clients, and Mr. Broyhill will be trained in all phases of in surance. He will attend training schools provided by the insur anec companies represented by the Coe Insurance * Realty Co, Pet Milk Buys I Catawba Dairy Hickory, June 28? The Cata wba Cooperative Dairy of Hick ory has been acquired by Pet Milk Company, Dairy Division, (Continue# an page two) More Than 1,000 Expected At Land Bank Meeting Sat. Many of the more than a thousand persons expected to attend the annual stockholders meeting of the Federal Land Bank Association of Boone Sat urday morning will go home richer in money or merchandise prises, according to John H. Hollar, manager and appraiser of the local association. Mr. Holler has assembled a large array of merchandise prises, -gift cash certificates and cash prizes, Will DO given away by T. E. Haiglef, assistant vice president of the Federal Land Bank of Columbia. Mr. Haigler has Acted as quiz mast er for many of the previous stockholders meetings in Boone, and his popularity is attested to by the large crowds that at tend the meetings. S. C. Eggers, president of the Boone association, has announ ced that D. M. Dowdell Jr., pres ident of the Federal Land Bank of Columbia, will speak to the gathering. Mr. Dowdell has been associated with the Land Bank Association since 1033. Mr. Hollar said that plenty of off-street parking will be available at the Boone Element ary School where the meeting will take place at 10:30 a. m. Prizes will include a $10 cash Tax Official Talks To Group World Tourists Mr. Ivy B. Wilson, county tax supervisor, delivered an address of welcome on behalf of the County of Watauga, when the foreign visitors were enter tained in the county a few days ago. Nr. Wilson acted for the Board of County Commissioners, dne to the illness of Mr. Byaum Greene, the chairman of the Board. It is regretted that at press time, the portion of the story carrying this information was accidentally omitted. Of coarse it was intended that this import ant part of the story be printed. T. E. HAIGLER award to the person who brings the largest number of people to the meeting. One hundred silver dollars will be given away during the meeting. Grand prize will be a table model television set donated by Lowe'* North Wilkesboro Hardware. A ton of Vertagreen given by Armour Fertilizer will be given away. Other prizes in clude: $29 cash certificate by South ern Insecticides. Radio by Modern Appliance Co. Electric percolator and elec tric clock by Blue Ridge Elec tric Membership Corporation. Electric iron by Farmers Hardware k Supply Co., Inc. Deluxe storm door. Miller In dustries, Inc. Electric iron, Builders' Super market, Inc. Camera, Flowers Photo Shop. Electric clock, Watauga In surance Agency. Ham, Watauga Insurance Ag ency. Sunbeam electric iron, Greene Furniture Co. Recap tire, Vance Recapping Co. 2 gallons paint, Watauga FCX. 10 gallons gas and grease job ? Fox 86 Service Station. Thermos jug, Thrift Food Center. (Continued on page eight) Horn Opening Crowns Day Of Gay Festivity Intermitant rains failed to bait the outdoor drama, Horn in the West, from opening it* 12th aeaaon Saturday night in Boone, as the crowning point of the Carolina Charter Tercenten ary Celebration. British diplomat Dennis Greenhill addressed the crowds in a prologue to the drama. Congressman James T. Broy hill, the Ninth District, intro duced the Queen's minister. Longtime cast members Wil lfam Ross, as Dr. Geoffry Stuart, Glenn Cauaey, as Dan id Boone and Charles Elledge, as the popular Preacher ' Sims, gave stirring performances as Watauga valley settlers defend ed themselves against "Red coats" and Indians at the 12th opening. The new director, Gene Wil son, said continuing rain has seriously hampered rehearsals for several weeks. The Friday night rehearsal lasted until af ter midnight because of rain. Most Stores To Gose Doors For Fourth Of July Moit of the store* and other business places la the town ol Boone are expected to be clos ed today, for observance of the fourth of July. Mr. Herman Wilcox, Presi dent of the Chamber of Com merce and Merchants Associa tion, says it is recommended that all those who find it pos sible close their doors for the legal holiday. Great numbers of visitors are expected In the Boone, Blow ing Rock Linville scenic tri angle for the long holiday week end, and travel is expected to reach something of a record In this area. Dr. Furman Locates Here DR. FURMAN Dr. Lowell Furman, formerly of Harlan, Ky., has Joined the medical itaff of Watauga Hos pital, Inc., it was announced this week. Dr. Furman will be associated with Dr. Curtis 11c Gown in the practice of general surgery. Dr. Furman was born in Rockwood, Tenn., and spent his early years in Lexington, Ky., and Harriman, Tenn. He at tended the University of Tenn essee for his pre-medical work and was graduated from the University of Tennessee Medi cal School in IBM. Dr. Furman interned at the Henry Ford Hos pital in Detroit, Mich. He en tered the Navy in December of 198# and spent two and a half years in the navy as a flight surgeon. He then returned to Harlan for a general surgical residency which he completed last month. (Continued an page two) "DAN'L WOULirA LIKED IT" Parade Covered Wagons Draws Throngs T o City Hillmcn, Old Cars? Bathing Beauties Compete By DALE GADDY 0.?.ime' V45 People were gathering in clusters along the parade route, talking in excited tone, The sun shined brightly, ? briik wind fought carefully combed hair, and powder puff clouds dotted the crystal sky above. ? was a beautiful day-a per fect day for a pande. And everyone and his cousin was in town to see the Wagon Train. Dan! Boone himself couldn't have brought more people to the town which bears his sur name. They formed a blanket of many-colored clothes on the Daniel Boone Hotel lawn. They stood thick as molasses along the narrow sidewalks. They sat in second story windows and waved to persons below. And the usual number made their way back and forth between Northwestern and the theater, "socializing." It was a sociable day. And the parade was beginning. Time, 12:30. A siren whined in the distance. Chief Thomas led the precession in. "Right on time," one Florldian said with amazement. One by one the covered wag ons rolled by. Drivers and pas sengers waved to the throngs which lined the streets. Per iodically a rumble of applause passed through the crowd as an especially authentic wagon passed by, or as familiar faces were seen. People liked the wagons and the hearty mountaineers who had made the two-day trek over the mountainous wilderness, as Boone the pioneer, had done nearly 200 years before. The smell of animal drop pings brought back nostalgic memories of the times when Boone, the town, was just a vil lage with dirt streets and horse drawn carriages. The town has frown: yet. her people are no ess friendly, no less homey, than the original wagoners. A chubby little lady, who looked like Mrs. Santa CUu. I drew quick breatha in the heat | of the afternoon sun. Fanning her round face with a newspap er, she never once relaxed her smiling expression. Three dogs? probably strays ?scampered down the street, barking madly. A small colored girl, her hair In pig-tails, gazed intently at I tne proceedings. Newsmen from TV stations, radio stations, and newspapers far and near wrote, snapped *nd danced in front of the lines of people, trying to get into "just the right posi tion" for that next shot. | '. Floats came, bearing bathing beauties. Antique cars? some 30 In all-passed down the nar ( Continued on page two) j Songs Of Long Ago S. C. Eggers practices a fol,: tune that the "Old Christian Harmony Singers presented in a special "Horn in the West" prologue Sun day night in the Daniel Boone Theatre. The hymn book from which Mr. Eggers is singing dates back to Daniel Boone days and was used in the Three Forks Baptist Church, established near Boone in 1790. Boone's brother was a member of the church before his ouster because of using profane language. Inflated Valuation Reduces Tax Rate; Budget Approved Democrat Group Meets Saturday Mr. C. H. Hendrix, chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee of Watauga County, has called a meeting of the committee to be held at the courthouse in Boone next Sat urday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, for the purpose of recommend ing a member of the Watauga County Board of Elections. The new Democratic mem ber will succeed Archie Dancy, who recently resigned. Plowing Rock Buys New Truck The Blowing Rock Town Council voted June 25 to buy a new one-half ton pickup truck for general use. Mayor Robert Hardin said the present pickup truck used by the town is worn out. Bids for the truck were opened last Sat urday but the decision on what make to buy was not made until Tuesday. The regular meeting of the Town Council will be next Wed nesday night, July 3. At a call meeting of the town council and the tax auditors last week, officials lowered the city tax rate from $1.29 per hundred to $1.10. "This was made possible," Mayor Wade Brown said, "because of the in creased valuation." He explained that even with a lower tax rate, the total re venue will equal or surpass that for the year just ended. The budget, details of which will be released for publication next week, will amount to approxi mately $175,000. The budget was adopted by the town council Monday night at the Town Hall. Also on the agenda was the swearing in of the mayor and town council. Elected in light mid-June bal loting were incumbents Wade E. Brown, mayor, and Conrad Yates, Harry Hamilton, and Howard Cottrell, councilmen. They began their new two-year terms July 1. It was observed by the Mayor at the meeting this week that two new fire units were added to the town fire department out of last year's budget. "Both trucks ? one new one, another an overhauled truck ? are com pletely paid for," Mayor Brown said. U. S. fears drop in export sales to Canada. 4 Dennis The Menace ' To Appear At Tweetsie During Next Week Jay North, the mischievous star of television's outstanding Sunday night series, "Dennia the Menace," will be appearing daily at the fabulous Tweetsie Railroad during the week of July 8 through July 18. In announcing the popular young star's acceptance of the invitation to visit Tweetsie, G rover Bobbins, president of the railroad, said, "We are de lighted that Jay is coming. We are constantly endeavoring to keep Tweetsie one of the finest family type attractions, and I am eertain that Jay will be a ihuflp success not only with the children but with every mem ber of the family." Now ten years oM, Jay North has been (tarred at "Dennis" for the past four years. He has been in movies since he was five and has appeared in such productions as "The Bis Oper ation" with Mickey Rooney and "Miracle of the Hills." He has also had a starring role in "77 Sunset Strip" and appeared on variety shows with Dinah Shore, Milton Berle, and Ernie Ford. When he was six, he was se lected from 600 boys to portray "Dennis." He loves sports of all types, but hit gwtimlar love is baseball and he is a member of a Little League team. Jay is a normal, mischievous youngster, but like all boys his age, he is glad to see the end of school. Of course, he plans to attend college but has not settled on what he wants to be. He plans to go on acting in movies and television for a few more years, but he leaves all of this in the hands of his man agers while he sails along with his own interests and wonders how to stretch his allowance. During his appearances at Tweetsie Railroad, Jay will (Continued on paga two) A. E. McCREARY A. E. McCreary New President Optimist Qub Installed as president of the Optimists Club for 1963-64 at a special dinner meeting of the organization June 24 was A. E. HcCreary, owner and op erator of Thrift Food Store in Boone. A resident of Boone for the past six years and active in tne Chamber of Commerce, Mc Creary also serves as a mem ber of the Watauga Count; Hos pital's board of directors. Mar ried and the father of two boys, he resides with his family at 210 Crest Drive. The installation service was staged at the Moose Lodje. Members and their wives pre sent numbered SO. Nick Stakias was installed as vice-president of the organiza tion. David Spainhour and Frank Andrews assumed re sponsibilities aa secretary-trea surer and sergeant-at-arms re spectively. Presiding at the meeting waa Lloyd Smith of Lenoir, Lt. Gov. of District 18 in the Optimists International.
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