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Fop Best Results advertiaeri invariably use the ??! urnns of the Democrat With iu full paid circulation, intensely covering the local ahopplnc area, it ia the beet advertising medium availahln VOLUME LXXVI? NO. 53 WATAUGA DEMOCRAT An Independent Weekly Newspaper . , . Seventy-Sixth Year of Continuous Publication BOONE WEATHER 1MB HI Lo prw. '02 HI Lo Nov. 26 SO 26 .06 43 17 Nov. 27 63 49 .07 97 35 Nov. 28 99 43 tr. 47 H Nov. 20 93 29 2.23 92 43 Nov. 30 29 21 .68 30 31 Dec 1 30 22 .19 62 30 Dec. 2 44 19 tr. 66 22 . BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 5, IMS 10 CENTS PER COPY tt PAGES? 3 SECTIONS Snow Makes Pretty Night Scene The snow which fell Friday and Saturday, while affording slippery passage for drivers and pedntrians, served also to enhance the beauty of Boone at night. This time-exposure shot highlights the thick mantle of snow and catches some of the lights of town in the background. ? Flowers photo. Burley Sales In Boone Average Over $57.90 Well over a half million dol lar?' worth of tobacco was lold at Boone Burley warehouses during the first four days of the auctions, it was reported by Stanley A. Harris, sales sup ervisor. According to Harris, the three Mountain Burley warehouses sold 779,996 pounds of tobacco for $492,306.06, an average of about $57.90 per hundred pounds; and Big Burley Ware house, with only one day of sales, sold 239,896 pounds for $138,599.84, an average of ap proximately $57.70 per hund Merchants To Observe Night Hours In Gty Dennis Greene, proprietor of Greene's Furniture Co. in Boone^ Chairman of a Boone Merchant's Association Com mittee in charge of Christmas promotions, reports that his committee is asking all merch ants in Boone to begin staying open until 8:30 p. m. Friday night. According to Greene, stores in Boone will remain open for business until 8:30 p. m. Friday night, Dec. 6, and Friday night, Dec. 13. Beginning Dec. 16, merchants will extend these hours to include every night except Saturday, Dec. 21, through the night of Monday, Dec. 23. Stores will close at their re gular closing hour on the night of Christmas Eve, Greene re ported. Mixed Choruses In Yule Concert The mixed choruses of the Appalachian High School and Elementary School will present a concert of Christmas Muaic, Monday, December 9. Sponsored by the Boone Par ents and Teachers Association, the concert will be held In the Elementary school auditorium at 7:30 p. n. Appoximately 275 students paticipate in the four school choruses directed by Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Wilson Jr. The program will include both sacred aild secular num bers. ? The general public, as well as PTA members are invited to attend. No admission will be charged. red pounds. Overall, tie warehouses sold 1,018,694 pounds far $580,905.92, ? combined average of nearly $97.90 pfr hundred pounds. Totals on Monday's sales were incomplete, but prices had apparently shewn a rise Mon day. I It was announced Monday that the warehouses will close for Christmaa December 13, one week ahead of schedule The reason given for tikis decision was that redrying houses all ov?r the burley belt are over crowded and more time ia need ed. The schedule of sales until December 13 is as follows: Dec. 4 ? Big Burley, 9 a. m.; (Continued on page two) World's Fair Pictures To Be Feature Chamber Meeting A pictorial preview of the New York World's Fair will be shown at ? membership meet ing of the Chamber of Com merce and Merchants Associa tion Tuesday December 10. The Wilcox Travel Agency will show colored slides of the fair which Olenn Wallace Wil cox made in New York recent ly. The fair, says Mr. Wilcox, will be the greatest ever pre sented, and will feature dis plays from almost every nation in the world. "If you can't go to Europe, he says, "you can see parts of almost all the na tions by visiting the fair next year. It is hoped that Mr. Grover Robbins will b? at the meeting to report on his new project "The Hound's Ears" golf course, ski slopes, and Swiss village. The meeting will be at the Daniel boone Inn at twelve noon. Wataugan Is Killed In Avery A Watauga County man was totally wounded by a.pi?tal.hli). let Saturday night in the Jonas Ridge section of Avery County. According to Avery County Sheriff Jack Allen Vance, Ken neth Douglas Tester, 18, of Jon as Ridge, formerly of Watauga County, was fatally wounded Saturday night when he was shot in the stomach with a .22 caliber pistol. Tester's funeral was conduct ed at 2 p. m. Tuesday at Middle Fork Baptist Church by the Rev. Carson Eggers, with bur ial following in the Middle Fork Cemetery. According to Avery County Sheriff Vance, the only witness, Howard Crump, 30, of Newland, Rt. 2, told him that Tester was spinning a pistol on his finger when it discharged. Crump was being held for questioning as the Democrat went to press, following the discovery that Crump had had a second gun of similar make on his person at the time of the shooting. (Continued on page two. TO FENCE PARKING LOT Wagon T rain Continues As Horn InW est Project Historical Board Makes Vital Plans By CLARK COX The Board of Directors of the Southern Appalachian Hiitorical Association, sponsors of Boone'* outdoor drama Horn in the West, met Monday at noon in the dining room of the Daniel Boone Hotel, where several im portant matters were discussed. The board voted to continue the Wagon Train, held last sum mer as a highlight of the Boone Centenary celebration and as a promotion for Horn in the West. A committee is soon to be set up which will make plans for getting together the Wagon Train promotion for 1664, and to act upon several plans voiced by individual members of the board Among these suggestion* were: (1) the opinion, ezpren ed by *everal member*, that the time of the Wagon Train be moved up to the latter part of the Horn In the Wett season, where It would be assured of gigantic crowd* of tourist*; (2) Jane* Marsh's suggestion that an attempt be made to interest political candidate* of both par He* in participation In Iks event, as a mean* of assuring fall television and newspaper coverage; and (J) Herman W. Wilcox'* proposal that Salisbury people be encouraged to Join the Wagon Train and help to re create the entire five-day jour ney from Sallibury to Boone that Daniel Boone presumably followed. A second top-priority matter discussed by the board con cerned the building of a fence around the Daniel Boone The ater parking lot area, for pro tection during the offseason and (Continued on page two) Yule Piano Recital Set Piano students of Mrs. Esther Boone will be heard in Christ mas recital December 6th at 7:30 in the adult assembly room in the Methodist educational building. Open to the public. A. E. Hamby (left) and Grant Ayeri of the Boone Fire Department receive a $700 check from Charles Ialey (with check) and W. G. Spencer of the Boone Civitan Club, to be used to purchase a fire truck. ? Flowers Photo. By ROY W. ISLEY The Boone Clvlt?n Club raia -ed the amount of -*700 at their fall Pancake Jamboree which was held at the Boone Element ary School cafeteria laat Sep tember 14, it waa announced this week by Civitan Club Pres ident W. G. Spencer. This was the third year for Pancake Jamboree Successful the ClviUn-sponsored pancake jamboree. iDr. Spencer and Pancake Jamboree Chairman Charles Is ley presented a check for $700 to A. E. Hamby and Grant Ayers of the Boono Fire Department. The money was to be used tow ard the purchase of a fire truck that can make calls anywhere in i the county. The present equip- 1 ment was not designed for calls off the paved streets, according to R. D. Hodges, Boone Fire Chief.- - The other money-raising pro ject of the Civitan Club is fruit cake sales, and Bob Sherrill, sales chairman, reports a ton of fruit cake on hand for sale during the Christmas season. Ski Industry To Have Own Weather Service Raleigh, Dec. 1? North Caro lina'* newest "iuduntry" ? sid ing ? will 'goon have a weather service all its own.. When the ski slopes and lod ges soon open for the season, the U. S. Weather Bureau's forecast center at Raleigh-Dur ham Airport will issue special skiing weather bulletins, it was announced today by Chief Met eorologist Charles B. (Chick) Carney. Reports from the ski areas will be phoned daily to College Choir To Appear In BMessiah" The Appalachian State Teach ers Choir under the direction of Mn Virginia Wary Linney, will present the traditional Christ mas Orator*, "The Messiah" by Handel, (or its 24th season, in the auditorium of the Admin istration Building at 3 p.m. Sun day, December 10. The chorus of SO TOioM will be tupported by the College Symphony Orchestra directed by Dr. Nicholas Ernes ton. Ac companying at the organ will be Mr. Earny Hotard of the music v: vr faculty, and Miss Faye Davis i will accompany at the piano. A special feature of this year's pertmwnce will be the dia languished vititing soloists. Further announcement will appear in the next publication of thia paper. ? the Raleigh-Durham weather station. They will then be sent by teletype to all weather sta tions in nearby states. On Thursdays and Fridays, the Ra leigh-Durham center will pre pare special skiing weather forecasts, which will be disse minated through news media around noontime. Three ski slopes and lodges will be in operation in North Carolina's mountains this sea son. The Blowing Rock and Cataloochee slopes expect to open for the season within the next week or two. A new ski slope in the Blowing Rock Boone area plans to open soon thereafter. These mountain areas re ceive considerably more snow than the lowlands. But there will be plenty of skiing even if there is little natural snowfall ?all the slopes are equipped with snow-making machines. Ashe County Representative Succumbs Friday West Jefferson ? State Rep. Robert Austin Jones, 57, an Ashe County business and civic leader, died at 4:30 p. m. Fri day at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Roy Freeman at Jefferson. He had been seriously ill for several weeks. Jones had represented Ashe County in the General Assemb ly the last four sessions. He was a past president of the Jefferson Rotary Club and ?t one time was a member of the Ashe Board of Education. Jones was a director of the West Jefferson Industrial Corp. and the Ashe County Develop ment Coft>. He operated the O.S.P. Chevrolet dealenhip at West Jefferson. He was a member of the Jef ( continued m page two) Mother Of Boone Minister Dies In High Point Mrs. Maxey J. Crowder, Sr., of High Point, whose son, Rev. Richard J. Crowder is pastor of the Boone Methodist Church, died in a hospital in High Point Friday morning after a long illness, which had been critical for six days. Mrs. Crowder was born in WeUviUe, Va. October 20, 1890, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Hawthorne. She had been a resident of High Point for 4J years and was married to Maxey J. Crowder Sept. 1, 1910. He died Sept. 28, 1940. An ac tive member of Wesley Memor ial Methodist Church, she was a member of the Women s Wesley Bible Class, a life mem ber of the Women's Society of Christian Service. Also she was a charter member of the Steph ens Bible Class. She was a member of Woman's Christian Temperance Union and was a past president of this organi zation. In 1956 she was mother of the year in High Point. Surviving are three sons, (Continued on page two! Jaycees Again To Sell Trees .The Boone Jaycees will be gin their annua) Christmas tree sale Sunday afternoon, Decem ber 13, at a place to be an nounced later. After this initial sale, Jay cees will have Christmas tre^s and candy for sale at the Gate way Restaurant each afternoon until all the trees are sold. Persons interested in a par ticular site tree may contact any member of the Boone Junior Chamber of Commerce. The proceeds of this sale will go toward the Christmas shop ping tour and party for under privileged children of the coun
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