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VOLUME LXXVI? NO. 20
BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 14, 1M3
10 CENTS PER COPY
20 PAGES? 3 SECTIONS
Blowing Hock Facility Near Completion
This new sewage disposal plant to serve Blowing Rock, is
almost completed, and is expected to be ready for operation
within the next three weclu. The large concrete tank*
shown are 18 feet deep and 30 feet square.
Farm-City Meeting
To Be Lavish Event
A few tickets are -still avail
able for the annual Watauga
County Farm-City meeting, to
be held Thursday at 6:30 p. m.
at the Cove Creek High School
gymnasium, Boone Chamber of
Commerce President Herman
W. Wilcox said Monday.
The meeting will be a lavish
one by all indications, featur
ing a delicious chicken dinner,
special music by the renowned
North Carolina folk artist
Dock Watson, and a speech by
Dr. David S. Weaver, retired
director of the North Carolina
Agricultural Extension Service.
Above all other things, the
Farm-City banquet allows farm
ers, merchants and business
men of Watauga County to gath
er together and discuss com
mon problems and ways of
meeting these problems during
the coming year. The various
professions ? Teaching, medi
cine, law, etc, will also be
well represented.
All persons who are interest
ed in obtaining tickets for the
(continued on page two)
$64,500 Budget
Is Adopted For
Horn In West
The budget figure of $64,900
*u adopted for next year's op
erations of the outdoor drama
Horn in the West, in the main
order of business at a meeting
at the Executive Board of the
drama held Monday.
Plans were also approved for
the construction of a fence
around the Horn in tbe West
parking lot, for protection dur- '
ing that season of the year
when the drama is not in opera
tion. Work on this project is to
begin in the very near future,
according . to Herman W. Wil
cox, Executive Vice-President
of Horn in tbe West.
The Board gave final approv
al to architects' plans for the
rebuilding of the Daniel Boone
Outdoor Theater, another pro
ject which is to begin shortly.
Wilcox said that contracts for ]
this project should be asked
for within the next month.
A meeting of all the direc- '
tor* of Horn in the West was
set for Nov. 26, at a time and
place to be announced later, I
Wilcox said.
Significant Sales Of
Shoe Bonds Cited
Two very significant applica
tions for 4 Mi % Watauga Citizens
bonds have been received this
week, according to Stanley A.
Harris. G. B. Harrill of Forest
City, general agent for the Iowa
Mutual Fire Insurance Com
pany, sent $1,000.
This is very significant be
cause Mr. Harrill is not a resi
dent of Watauga County, but
through the interest of Paul
Winkler of the Watauga Insur
ance Agency, who represents
Iowa Mutual Insurance Com
pany, Mr. Harrill shows his
splendid interest in Watauga
County.
Second significant applicant
for $10,000 received from the
endowment fund of Appalach
ian State Teachers College,
$9,000 of which is the transfer
of the equal amount of stock In
Watauga Industries and the
other an outright purchase by
the endowment fund.
These bonds are now avail
able to any resident of North
Carolina, and the officers of
Watauga Industries, Inc., feel
that it is an excellent invest
ment.
City's Newest
Store To Open
On Thursday
ness is slated to open its opera
tions today (Thursday) in the
new building on 311 East King
Street (corner of King and Ap
palachian Streets), across from
the Hagaman Clinic.
The store will be known as
"Cupboard Casuals," featuring
a complete line of ladies' wear
and accessories, and is owned
by Jack Feimster, owner also
of the Varsity Shop in Boone.
The Varsity Shop, Feimster
pointed out, will continue to
carry its usual line of ladies'
wear as well as its complete
men's line.
Mrs. Mary Byers, formerly a
clerk at the Varsity Shop, will
manage the Cupboard Casuals
store.
The new store is decorated in
a simple yet attractive manner,
(Continued on page two)
Wiseman, Band Clinician, Will
Appear At ASTC On Saturday
Larry Wiseman, stage band
clinician and adjudicator of
Conn Music Instrument Corpor
ation, will conduct a stage
band clinic in the Fine Arts
Building Auditorium of Appa
lachian State Teachers College
on Saturday, November 16.
Wiseman will conduct the
high schol stage bands which
will attend the clinic in the
morning and he will conduct
the 17-piece Appatones of ASTC
in a workshop concert at 2 p.
m. to which the public is in
vited.
Participating high school
stage bands will include Fu
quay Springs High School,
James Page, director; High
Point High School, David Car
ter, director; Boyden High
School, Salisbury, George Wil
son, director; Durham High
School, Joe Secrest, director;
and Elkin High School, Roy
Russell, director.
A number of other schools
will send students to observe
the clinic which will be the
first to be held at ASTC.
Dr. William Spencer, chair
man of the ASTC music depart
ment, said that the clinic is be
ing sponsored by tile Duncan
Music Company of Winston
Salem.
STAGE BAND CLINIC
LAND IS SELECTED
Plans Being Made
For County Airport
Site Between
Towns Of Boone,
Blowing Rock
Members of the Watauga Air
port Commission met last Wed
nesday with U. R. Belk, a re
presentative of the Federal gov
ernment, to draw up initial
plans for the acquisition of land
and funds toward the building
of an airport in Watauga Coun
ty during the next few years.
A tract of land suitable for
the airport has already been
selected, according to Clyde R.
Greene of Boone, Secretary for
the Commission. The land is
located just east of the Boone
Golf Course, between Boone
and Blowing Rock.
The Commission has receiv
ed an approval from the Feder
al Government on the land, for
which half of a Federal grant
of $50,000 has been allocated.
The other $29,000 is to be used
for building the airstrip itself
and for the construction of the
necessary administrative build
ings for the airport, provided
the county and the towns of
Boone and Blowing Rock can
raise matching funds for their
own participation In the eater
prise.
The Commission further re
solved last Wednesday to pro
ceed as swiftly as posible with
the project of building the air
port. In order to receive the
Federal Aviation Agency grant,
the Commision must have made
some progress by Harch 2, 1964,
toward applying for a loan and
getting an option on suitable
land.
A map of the proposed trans
portation center has already
been prepared by engineers
working on the project. The
map is now in the office of
Wade E. Brown, Mayor of
Boone and attorney for the
Commission.
Present plans call for an air
strip of 4600 feet (almost, a
mile) in length, 200 feet wide,
with adequate additional clear
ance on all sides. The land has
been selected for the airport
includes also adequate space
for the building of administra
tive facilities. The landing strip
will not be paved, since a paved
airstrip would require $100,000
in matching funds from Wata
uga County rather than the
$50,000 now required.
Plans are now in progress for
the raising of the required
matching funds, Greene said.
At the meeting last Wednes
day, Halph Winkk-r of Boone
was electer chairman of the
Watauga Airport Commission,
to succeed Dr. Philip J. Fail of
Blowing Rock who recently re
signed. Clyde C. Miller, of
(Continued on page six)
Jeanne Swanner, Miss North Carolina of
1963, reminds Tar Heel farm families of an
important day coming up on Tuesday, No
vember 19. That is the day farm people
will vote on their Nickels for Know-How
Program.
Nickels For Know-How Vote Is
Vital; Local Polling Places Listed
Charles Cole
Dies Following
Second Stroke
Charles Clinton Cole, 70
years old, of Banner Elk,
Route 1, died Wednesday at the
Veterans Administration Hos
pital at Mountain Home, Tenn.
He suffered a stroke three
months ago and another last
week.
He was a retired federal gov
ernment engraver and printer.
He had served in World War
1 as a Marine Corps sergeant.
He was borti In Watauga
County to Wiley S. and Re
becca Presley Cole.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Ruby Wagoner Cole; two daugh
ters, Mrs. Edna Ayers of
Princeton, W. Va., and Mrs.
Ruia Williams of Hixson, Tenn.;
a son, Steve Cole of Hixson; a
foster son, Wade Wagoner of
Banner Elk, Route 1; three
brothers, Jim Cole of Zionville,
Ben Cole of Vilas, and Press
Cole of Staunton, Va.; and eight
grandchildren.
The funeral was conducted at
2 p. m. Friday at Foscoe Chris
tian Church by the Rev. Joel
Wilson. Burial was in Foscoe
Cemetery.
When you vote on the Nickles
for Know How program No
vember 19, you will be saying
that you want more help, or
that you want less help on such
problems as plant disease con
trol, pesticide residue on cab
bage going to market, chemical
weed control, insect ontrol, an
imal disease control, and many
other problems that you (ace.
The coat of this work is esti
mated to cost the average farm
er 30 cents per year, and only
the largest farmers will con
tribute more than a dollar per
year.
Nickels for Know How funds
are collected by the N. C. De
partment of Agriculture and are
administered by the N. C. Agri
cultural Foundation, which has
one director from each county.
Tobacco production, and al
falfa insect control are two Wa
tauga crops that have received
help from the Nickles for Know
How funds.
The voting places will be as
follows:
Beaver Dam ? Donley Haga
man's store.
Beaver Dam ? Bill Farthing's
store.
Beaver Dam ? Cecil Swift's
home.
Brushy Fork ? Vilas Service
Station.
(Continued on page two)
Town Hall Is
Expanded For
Fire Engines
The section of the Boone
Town Hall building which
houses the town's two fire
trucks has been extended in
length to allow the trucks full
admittance for protection from
freezing temperatures this win
ter, Chief of Police Hubert Tho
mas announced last week.
A section of the back wall of
the building was knocked out
and another wall built behind
that, so that the trucks may be
backed into the structure far
enough to allow the closing of
the front doors. Plans are un
der way to heat the building
through the coming cold wea
ther, to prevent any chance of
the trucks stalling in emergency
situations.
Christmas
Seal Sale
IsStarting
The 97th Christmas Cam
paign opens Friday with the
1963 Christmas Seals being
mailed then by the Watauga
Tuberculosis Association and
will be reaching individuals and
firms over the next several
days.
Special letters and Sealf were
prepared last week for the
mails with help of the Worth
while Woman's Clnb. Some 19
ladles of the club, headed by
Mrs. Lee Reynolds, president,
met in the Methodist Church
in Boone to do the day's work
and for a covered dish loach
eon.
It is a big job of getting
Christmas Seals to all the peo
ple. If anyone should get more
than one letter of Seals, the TB
Association would like to know
about it and the names under
which the duplication occurred.
"On the other hand," said D.
Grady Moretz, Jr., Seal chair
man, "if anyone fails to receive
his seals promptly he should
promptly send a card to the
TB Association, Boone, telling
us, so we can give it special
handling."
Burglars Take
Merchandise
Robert Proffit'i general store
at Meat Camp was broken into
last Thursday night by a thief
or thieves who got away with
approximately *100 dollars worth
of merchandise, including some
59 or 60 unopened cartons of
cigarettes.
The burglars broke two win
dow panes in apparently un- (
successful attempts to enter,
finally entering through a third
window in the front of the
store. One area of the store was
ransacked in an attempt to find
money, but all the burglars
found was about three dollars
worth of small iting*.