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Section C
WATAUGA DEMOCRAT
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Section C
VOLUME LXXVI? NO. 4
BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JULY Z5, IMS
PRICE TEN CENTS
Or. J. G Yoder
Acts As Chairman
At Brevard Meet
Dr. J. C. Yoder, chairman of
the aocial studies department of
Appalachian State Teachers Col
lege, is program chairman for
the joint meeting of the North
Carolina Historical Association
at Brevard College, July 28-27.
Dr. Yoder, vice-president of
the Western North Carolina
Historical Association, said that
the Friday, July 26, program
will include registration at 1:30
p.m., in Annabel Jones Hall and
a word of welcome by Alan Wal
lace, director of public relations
at Brevard College. Professor
John A McLeod of Mars Hill,
president of the Western North
Carolina Historical Association,
will preside.
Glenn Tucker will discuss
"The Barbary War and the
Birth of the United States
Navy."
At 8 p.m. Stanley South will
discuss "Brunswick Town: Past
and Present."
Robert C. Page, III, will pre
sent a "Progress Report from
The Carolina Charter Tercent
enary Commission."
On Saturday morning there
will be a meeting of the officers
and past presidents of the
Western North Carolina His
torical Association at 9 a.m.
The meeting will be con
cluded with The Honorable
Johnson J. Hayes discussing
"The Problems of Research,
Writing, and Publishing a Coun
ty History."
Other ASTC faculty members
attending the meeting will be
Dr. D. J. Whitener, dean of the
college; Dr. Max Dixon and
Professor Edwin Dougherty.
Henry Belk of Goldsboro,
president of the North Carolina
Literary and Historical Associa
tion, will be unable to attend
the meeting.
Do not try to get ahead of
everyone on the highway or
you might be leading the pro
cession, horizontally, .befjf*
long. -
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Optimist Check
President Mac McC retry (left) presents a
check to the Boone Fire Department in the
amount of $161. Accepting the check is as
sistant fire chief Phil Vance at the meeting
of the Optimist Club. The money was raised
from the proceeds of the sale of Tercenten
ary License plates by Optimist Club mem
bers. ? Flowers photo.
Unit Test Farmers
See Research Plan
The Unit Test-Demonstration
farm families of Watauga Coun
ty visited the Vegetable Re
search Station at Fletcher, the
Asheville - Hendersonville Air
port and the Craftsmans Fair in
Asheville on their annual tour
Thursday, July 18. They trav
eled by chartered bus leaving
Boone at 8 a. m. and return
ing about 7 p. m. They took
a picnic lunch that was spread
under the trees near the air
port for a meal.
The Agricultural and Home
Economics- Agents working with
D. D. Robinson, Test Demon
stration supervisor, arranged
for the visits at the- research
station, and the WD farm fam
ilies arranged for the trip.
The Watauga people were es
pecially interested in growing,
trellising and pruning tomatoes,
growing blueberries, budding
fruit trees and controlling in
sects in the vegetable garden.
Those making the trip were
Ronnie Christenbury, Richard
Mast, Ray Clark, Mr. and Mrs.
Aud Ward, Tom Ward, Mr. and
Mrs. Linville Norris and Ron
ald, Margaret Arnett, Mrs.
Helen Farthing, Mrs. Lena K.
Farthing, Mr. and Mrs. Ben L.
Ward, Terry Ward.
Wanda Farthing, Mr. and Mrs.
Roby Vines, Mr. and Mrs. Otto
Thomas, Mrs. Roxanna Farth
ing, Mrs. Mildred Farthing, Miss
Ophelia Bingham, Mr. and Mrs.
Baker Ward, Mrs. Baker Ed
misten, Isaac Lewis, Larry and
Joe Thomas, Charles Lewis,
Alice Jane and Karen Farthing,
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Love, Mrs.
Loy Edmisten, Mr. and Mrs. Ray
Ward and Boyd Arnett.
L. E. Tuckwiller, county ex
tension chairman. Miss Doris
Perkins, assistant home eco
nomics agent, and M. P. Zuver,
assistant TV A agent, also went
with the group.
WAGON SOLVES PROBLEM
Henderson, Ky. ? The hospi
tal auxiliary has solved a pro
blem for nurses in the child
ren's ward of the Methodist
hospital. They bought a bright
red wagon.
The children no longer give
strong protests accompanied by
tears when the nurse takes
them for various laboratory
tests and X-rays.
New Ski Season Starts Here
Despite Summer Weather
A new iki season is under
way in (KKdegree temperatures
at Blowing Rock Ski Lodge.
Inc.
The skiers are wearing shorts
and instead of snow, they're
skiing on straw, M. E. Thai
heimer, president of the lodge
said in announcing the mid
summer program.
"Straw is no substitute for
snow to the experienced skier,"
Ur. Thalheimer said "but the
beginner can learn fundament
als of the sport very well on a
straw base."
The lodge staff has spread
more than 200 bales of straw
over the 700-foot intermediate
slope, one of three ski runs
at the lodge. The rope tow serv
ing the slope will be operated
Tuesday through Sunday for
beginning skiers who want to
get a bead start on the winter
season said Ur. Thalheimer.
Though t)ie "ski in shorts"
program is designed primarily
for individuals with little or no
skiing experience, experienced
skiers can work on certain
turns and maneuvers on straw,
he said. Beginners, including
youngsters who haven't tried
skiing on snow, can "have a
ball" with straw skiing, he
added.
The lodge will rent boots and
skis for straw skiing at rates
well below the standard win
tertime costs. (The rate is $1.00
Chapel Fund
30 per Cent
The campaign for funds for
the construction of a Chapel to
be built adjoining the Charles
A. Cannon Jr. Memorial Hos
pital in Banner Elk, In memory
of Dr. W. C. Tate, has reached
30 per cent of its goal of $35,
000.
France pushes bill to outlaw
surprise strikes.
Learning To Ski On Straw
a day for children under 12,
$1.50 for adults).
Lessons in aiding fundament
als are offered at a nominal
charge. (Three dollara a les
son.) Instruction covers fittings
and adjusting boots, skis, walk
ing step and kick turns, falling
and elementary downhill turns.
Straw skiing also gives the
beginner experience in riding
the tow to the top of the slope,
> sizeable hurdle facing the
beginner when he first steps
out on skis in snow.
Mr. Thalheimer said three
lessons on straw, for most in
dividuals, will enable the nov
ice to tackle the beginners
slope "on his own" when the
snow season arrives. With a lit
tle individual practice he will
be able to learn more advanced
skiing maneuvers involving
Ends Training At Fort Bragg
Fort Bragg. ? Cadet John L.
Eggers, 21, son of Dr. and Mrs.
Graydon P. Eggers, 900 Tracy
Circle, Boone, ii scheduled to
complete six weeks of training
at the Reserve Officer Training
Corps (ROTC) summer camp at
Fort Bragg, July 26.
Cadet Eggers was graduated
from Appalachian High School
in 1959 and received a B. S.
degree this year from Davidson
College.
He is a member of Phi Gam
ma Delta fraternity.
Any nation has its selfish
men and women; it is a great
country which can produce a
number of unselfish citizens.
edge control, stem turns and
christie turns.
Thus through summertime
practice the beginner will short
en the time it takes him to
tackle the 2,000-foot advanced
slope at Blowing Rock.
The midsummer program will
continue until labor day when
the lodge will prepare for the
regular winter season. Snow
skiing, under a new rate sche
dule, will get underway as soon
after Thanksgiving as the
weather allows.
Sub - freezing temperatures
are required for the lodge's
modern snow-making machin
ery to lay a good base for "the
real thing" in sking.
The lodge, newest ski area
in tthe south, opened last win
ter. A number of improvements
are planned for the season of
1063-1064 Mr. Thalheimer said.
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