Section C VOLUME LXXY1 ? NO. 2* rATAUGA DEMOCRAT Section C BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NOETH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, IMS PRICE TEN CENTS Trustees Of Tufts Assn. Meet Friday The Board of Trustees of the Edgar Tufta Memorial Aarocia tion will bar* their regular bi annual business meeting at Ban ner Elk Friday, Nov. 19 at the Anne Bryan Recreation Center of Grandfather Home for Chil dren. The Home, Lees-McRae Col lege, and the Charles A. Can non, Jr. Memorial Hospital comprise the Edgar Tufts Mem orial Association. The associa tion was named after the found er of the three institutions. The college committee of the Board will be on the Lees-Mc Rae campus, and will meet with Col. Max Chapman, President, on November 14. Mr. Robert O. Hayes, of Con cord, President of ETMA, will preside over the meeting. Col. Chapman is vice president, and Mr. Andrew T. Hanes, of Char lotte and retired from Sandoz, Inc. of New York, ia the vice president and director of deve lopment. The members of Board of Trustees of the ETMA are: Concord Presbytery Dr. A. A McLean, Mon treat, minister; Clyde Suddreth, Le noir, Furniture mfgr.; Dr. Frontis Johnston, Davidson, educator; Rev. John W. Wilson, Kannapolis, minister; John Clark, Hickory, merchant; L. Young White, Mooreaville, building contractor; Fred Slane, Statesville, merchant. Holiton Presbytery E. L. Lafferty, Banner Elk, educator; Hall Uorriion, Kings port, Tenn., engineer; Dr. M. 0. Sommers, Morristown, Tenn., minister; Howard George, Mor ristown, Tenn., merchant; Dr. R. A. Brown, Kingsport, Tenn., minister; Carl Young, Johnson City, Tenn., wholesale merch ant; Dr. Ferguson Wood, John son City, Tenn., minister; Char les Hughes, Newland, attorney. At Large William R. Lybrook, Winston Salem. iMnoi Henry Wilson. Morgan ton, -furniture David Baker, St Davids, Pann., minister and physician; Dr. Walter Han kins, Johnson City, Tenn., physician; J. H. Carson, Charlotte, realtor; Adm. C. D. Glover, Camden, S. C., USN (Ret.); Dr. Lee G. Davy, Kings port, Tenn., chemist; Charle* G. Gambress, New York, N. Y., banker. Alnmnl Representative Mrs. W. W. Brown, Charlotte, housewife. TOO MUCH WORK Tuneridge Wells, England ? Anthony Mark, a mailman, was accused of failing to deliver 197 letters and packages as well as not covering whole streets on his routes. When accused of this, Mark remarked, "I had too much work to do." He was fined $57. 1964 Volkswagens ? New We are new taking orders for 2 to S weeks delivery last new IMS Volkswagen Wa km I Ml I M ori N wide SMUc BMW ? AIM a |Mi ?to?k at am w 1Mb ?ai IMik M. C. WAYNE JOHNSON MOTORS AND ; MOBILE HOMES H tat Utnm Arm? Ikw n MM *. C. ??llif. Ll.i-i M. a LENOU, N. C. Visiting Composer Dr. Martin Mailman, composer-in-residence of East Carolina College, who will conduct the Appalachian Concert Band and Chorus in a performance of his composition, "Leave* of Grass," Thursday evening, November 14, in the Fine Arts Auditorium of the college. Dr. Maihnan composed this number in com . I memoration o t the Tercentenary Celebra tion of North Carolina. The concert by the band and chorus is one of the programs to be given during the year in honor of the 60th Anniversary of Appalachian State Teachers College. Protestants Appeal For Food For Hungry At Thanksgiving Nqw York, N. Y.-A decade of annual Thanksgiving appeals by Protestant denominations for funds to cany on their Joint pro gram of food distribution to the world's needy will be marked Sunday, November 24, in church es throughout America. Highlighting nationwide ser vices dedicated to the appeal, which seeks I860, 000 for financing the SOS (Share Our Substance) program for 1864, through which more than 10 million of the 22 sastas be tM National Service of Thanks giving at the Washington Cathe dral In Washington, D. C., at 3:30 p.m. Sunday, November 24. The service is sponsored an nually by the Council of Churches of Greater Washington, and Church World Service, the over seas relief and rehabilitation agency of. major Protestant de nominations. Bishop James X. Mathews of the Boston Area o < the Methodist Church, who has just returned from a fiekl trip to Africa, will be the principal speaker at the Washinton Cathedral service. He will discuss problems of world hunger. The Harvard - Radoliffe Glee Giubs will sing under the direc tion of Conductor Eltoot Forbes. Since its tacepUan, the SOS program has accounted for dis tribution of approximately two and ooe-haH hittion pounds of U. a Government -donated com modities to the hungry and desti tute in more than JS areas of acute need. Church World Service is a de partment of the National Council of Churches of Christ, and co operates with the Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee and World Service of the World Coun cil of Churches in its international programs. Open Houge At Watauga School The Watauga Consolidated School will hold Open House Thursday night, November 14, at 7:30 o'clock. The Modern Dance Group and the Rhythm Band will be featured. The public is invited to at tend. ^ADY STEEPLEJACK El Monte, Calif.? Mrs. Billie Rutherford help* ' her steeple jack husband paint flagpoles. Weighing only 1X2 pounds, she can climb poles too light for her 212 pound husband. "People think I'm a nut to be in this business, but I love it and am especially good at climbing," says Mrs. Ruther ford. Before you buy 4-wheel drive . . . comparel KAimmm Jtap corporation 1 on. WODLO't UUMUT MANUFACTURER OP 4-WM1CL DMVB V?MtCL*? WILSON USED CARS || Highway 421 Boone, N. C. RUIE3I SBOV n SUIf' ? - ? V II :<? .... SCOTCH COUNTRYSIDE PROSPEROUS Local Travel Agent Enjoys Tour Of Ireland, Switzerland By CLARK COX Glenn W. Wilcox, manager of the Wilcox Travel Agency in Boone, ha* returned from a two-week tour of Europe, where he visited representatives of the travel agency in several countries. Wilcox's itinerary included Scotland, Ireland, England, Den mark, France, Germany, and Switxerland. The trip 'had a twofold pur pose: to acquaint foreign travel directors with outstanding tour ist attractions in this area of America, and to make arrange ments for future tours to places of interest throughout Europe. While performing these duties, Wilcox said, he enjoyed nn en tertaining and informative tour on his own part. Leaving from Charlotte via Eastern Airlines, Wilcox flew first to New York City and thence to Glascow, Scotland, which he described as a charm ing city albeit very dirty as the result of the huge ship building industry and the fact that every house seemed to have four or five chimneys (central heating is a rarity in Scotland). In fact, Wilcox seemed more impressed with Scotland and Ireland than with any other countries which he visited as largely untapped lodes of travel attractions. "The people of these two countries are the nicest people in the world ? why, it's just like being back in Boone," Wilcox said. "And the food they serve in Scot land and Ireland cannot be matched." Flying from Glascow to Edin burgh, Wilcox met Hector Mc Lean, Scotland's top golfer, who led him on ? brief tour of golf courses which impressed Wilcox greatly with the pos sibility of organising golf tours to Scotland. "We went first to St. An drews Golf Course, where the game originated," Wilcox said. "St. Andrews is the Hecca of golf, and it is every golfer's dream to play there someday. "The course is beautiful, a 7,000-yard layout with tremend ous greens, snd it is kept in top condition. Furthermore, it is not crowded at all; but it is very difficult to play, because the Scots require you to think at all times on a golf course. They have deep sand traps placed right in the middle of fairways, for instance. They be lieve in making a 'hazard' a real hazard, and they are very strict sbout allowing you to im prove your lie under winter rules." Wilcox, in his first try on the difficult course, shot a remark able 82. Other courses which Wilcox visited during his three-day stay in Scotland Included Car noustie, where Ben Hogan once won the British Open; and Glen Eagles, a massive affair containing two full courses ? the King's Course and the Queen's Course. Farming In Scotland is very prosperous, Wilcox said. "Among the rural people," he continued, "there is almost no real poverty ? less, I would say, than anywhere else. But there is no great prosperity, either. The average Scot is less well off than the average middle class American. "The farms are very small, the buildings not fancy but very clean and neat and sub stantial. They all look pretty much alike, since all buildings in Britain have to be approved before building by the Govern ment and a permit granted for them. People even have to have a permit to add rooms. "Land prices are quite high both in Scotland and Ireland. A simple home over there will coat just as much as a com pletely modern home here, and since these countries are very limited in area, prices for the land have skyrocketed." Hotel prices are about the same in Britain as here, Wilcox reported, while food prices are about one-third less. England failed to impress Wilcox as 'greatly 'as Scotland and Ireland, however. "It seems too crowded and foggy and dirty," he said. "But I under stand that most of England's rural areas are beautiful." From London, Wilcox flew to Copenhagen, Denmark, which he describes as a play and re sort area similar to Miami, Fla., though with a thoroughly differ ent climate. But living expen ea are exceptionally high there, he said; and the welfare-state arrangement which Scandina vian governments have adopted seems to have worked a num ber of hardships on citizens of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. From Copenhagen, Wilcox flew for brief visits to Frank fort, Germany and then to the Swiss cities of Geneva and Zur ich. "Tourst attractons seem to ibe even morep revalent in Zur ich than in the traditional re sort city of Geneva," he re ported. Wilcox then flew to Paris be fore returning to the United States. "Paris is one of the most beautiful cities in the world," he said. "It's on a par with Rome as far as beautiful sights are concerned, and it's probably the night-life capitol of Europe. But expenses there, too, are high ? a result of the great amount of commercializa tion with tourists in mind." Wilcox noted that traffic was light in all the rural areas which he visited, an indication that, although most European* now own cars, few families own two or more as is the case in America. "I'd say that 75 pen cent of all European travel is done by rail," Wilcox said. > Though European countries have made great economic strides since the war, it seem ed apparent to Wilcox that America is still far away the most prosperous of all nations. "I enjoyed the trip immense ly," Wilcox stated, "but I still firmly believe that Boone is the finest place in the world." YOUR OWN HOME Only $47.45 monthly after down payment. Beautiful, new, furnished two bed rooms delivered. We trade for moct anything ?household furnishing es pecially. GERMAN MOBILE HOMES Granite Falls, Shelby, Lenoir "Area's leading dealers cele brating 24th anniversary" America has an appetite for fun. . and a thirst for Pepsi! Light brac ina Peosi matches modern activities. .. the think -young life! 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