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BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. DECEMBER It, 1W3
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Tree Sale
Is Started
By Jaycees
The Boone Junior Chamber
of Commerce will officially
open its 1963 Christmas tree
tale Friday, December 13th at
the Jaycee booth located next
to the Gateway Restaurant.
The sale will continue all
day Saturday, December 14 and
on Sunday, December IS from
1 until S p. m. The trees will
again be the Scotch Pine var
iety and live evergreen trees.
The Jaycees will also have at
the booth, Christmas mints and
Christmas bows.
Anyone who wishes to pur
chase a tree earlier or place an
order for a special size tree,
may do so by contacting any
member of the Boone Junior
Chamber of Commerce.
The Christmas tree sale is
conducted each year to raise
funds for the annual shopping
tour for needy children of the
county. This year around 40
children from the schools of
the county will be taken on a
shopping tour and will be en
tertained at a party on Thurs
day, December IB. This project
is one of the moat meaningful
and worthwhile of all the pro
jects that the Boone Jaycees
sponsor each year.
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MRS. CORDELIA S. PHILLIPS
Mrs. Phillips
Succumbs In
I Blowing Rock
Mrs. Cordelia Sudderth Phil
lips, 64, widow of Dr. John Ed
ward Phillips, who was co
founder, with Drs. Bunts, Crile
and Lower, of the Cleveland
Clinic and Hospital in Cleve
land, Ohio, died Wednesday at
her home in Blowing Rock.
She was the daughter of
James Webb Sudderth, an of
ficer in A Co. of the 22nd North
Carolina in Civil War, and Jane
Elizabeth Nelson Sudderth. She
was descended from William
and Margaret Sumter Sudderth
who entered a land claim in
1778 in an area 4 miles west of
Blowing Rock on the Morgan
ton Road, arriving here from
Albemarle County in Virginia
in 1779.
She was graduated from the
Western Reserve Academy at j
Hudson in 1897, attended Ober
lin College (Ohio) and was
graduated from the nursing
school of old Lakeside Hospital
in 1903.
She was a past president of .
(Continued on page two)
Schools To Gose
For Christmas
Next Week End
Watauga County public ,
schools will close for one week
as usual, for celebration of
Christmas and New Year's, it
was announced this week by ,
Gay W. Angell, Watauga Coun
ty Superintendent of Schools.
The vacation period will 1
actually begin next weekend, at 1
the end of the regular school
day Friday, Dec. 20. The i
schools will reopen Monday,* |
Dec. 30, Agell said. i
Dr. W. H. Pleramons, Presi- i
dent of Appalachian State i
Teachers College, announced ;
that the college's vacation par- i
iod will begin at 12 noon Wed- i
nesday, Dec. 18, with classes l
resuming the morning of Fri- i
day, Jan. 3. I
Jaycee Glenn Hodges, chairman of the
Christmas tree committee, assists Glenda
Austin, Miss Watauga County 1064, as she
sells i tree to Mayor Wade E. Brown open
ing the 1963 Christmas tree sale, sponsored
by the Boone Junior Chamber of Commerce.
Plans Are Made For
Christmas Parade
The Boone Merchants Associ
ation made final plans, at a
meeting Monday evening at the
Daniel Boone Hotel, for their
Chriatmas Parade Saturday at
2:30 p. m. The parade promises
to be outstanding, by all re
ports.
Chriatmas Committee chair
man Dennis Greene announced
that four out-of-town floats ?
the Queen City Trailways
?flower of the Nile" (first
prize winner in the Charlotte
Carrousel Parade), the First
Union National Bank float from
C&MUnte, the Winston -Salem
?WWtoeot float art Ike
Pet Dairy (ioai Will be aeen.
Brenda Lee Bost of Kanna
polis, "Miss Rhododendron, and
Glenda Austin of Boone, "Miss
Watauga County," will grace
the parade also.
A host of beautiful girls will
make up the throne of these
floats, with the Appalachian
High School Band leading the
procession.
The staging area for the par
ade will be the Horn in the
West grounds, the route via
Horn in the West Street to
Highway 421, through town up
King Street to Water Street to
Rivers Street to the bus termin
al, where the parade will break
up.
A "Kiddle Train" will be an
added feature of the parade.
Members of the Boone Merch
ants Association, announced
Dennis Greene, are now giving
away free tickets to children
who wish to ride the train.
Anyone who wishes to enter
anything in the parade should
contact either the Chamber of
Commerce office or Dennis
(Continued on page aix)
Slides On World's
Fair Are Shown
At Chamber Meet
The monthly membership
meeting of the Boone Chamber
of Commerce and Merchants J
Association was held at the f
Daniel Boone Inn at noon
Tuesday.
The unusual program pre
sented at the meting consisted
of a preview of next year's 1
World's Fair in color slides.
Glenn Wallace Wilcox, of the
Wilcox Travel Agency, recent
ly previewed the fair in New
York City, securing a complete
set Of slides for this program.
A* far as could be ascertain
ed. this was the first showing of
the slides anywhere.
Herman W Wilcox, manager
of Wilcox Travel Agency and
President Herman W. Wilcox,
manager of Wilcox Travel Ag
ency and President of the
Chamber at Commerce and
Merchants Association, an
nounced that the Agency would
retain these slide* for showing
to any organization desiring to
see them at no cost or obliga- i
lion. I
MISS BRENDA BOST
Rhododendron Queen
To Appear In Parade
North Carolina's pretty and
talented Rhododendron Queen
will come to Boone Dec. 14, to
appear in the Christmas Parade
beginning at 2:30 p. m.
She is Miss Brenda Lee Bost
of Kannapolis, a junior at Ap
palachian State Teachers Col
lege in Boone. Miss Bost is the
20-year-old daughter of Mrs.
Elma Bost.
Miss Bost became eligible to
enter the Miss Rhododendron
Pageant this year after winning
the title of "Queen of Hearts"
?t Appalachian last winter. She
is also Miss Kannapolis of
1962.
She won the talent division
in the Rhododendron Pageant
and a day later won the crown.
The North Carolina Rhodo
dendron Festival, held in Bak
ersvillc and on Roan Mountain,
where the state boasts of hav
ing the world's largest natural
display of purple Rhododen
dron, is now in its 18th year as
a tourist attraction. Miss Rho
dodendron has become a new
celebrity in the South.
Miss Betty Rae Lawhon, who
served as Rhododendron Queen
last year, completed 160 per
sonal appearances in a dozen
states and Washington, D. C.
This year's Queen will travel
in most of the same places, it
was believed by officials of the
festival.
(Continued on page two)
Burley Prices Are
Down During Week
Burley tobacco prices on
Boone and nearby markets
tumbled )a>t week during the
lecond week of auctions, lower
ing the average price per hund
red pounds at Boone markets
from $97.00 to $59.33.
Some top-quality tobacco,
lowever, was still bringing very
jood prices. The price drop
teemed to be a combination of
leveral factors: the usual price
lag during the second week of
sales, some lots of poorly-graded
and green tobacco, and the over
loading of redrying houses
which had previously prompted
the Burley Sales Commission to
move the Christmas closing date
up one week, ware some of the
probable factor* named.
In the first two weeks of bur
ley auctions. Mountain Burley's
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DR. PLEMMONS IS ELECTED
Development Group
Honors Wataugans
Contest Plans
Are Given By
Garden Club
Plans are completed for the
annual Christmas Decoration
Contest being sponsored by the
Watauga Council of Garden
Clubs. Other clubs cooperating
are the Gardenerettes Garden
Club, Town and Country Home
Demonstration Club, Blue
Ridge Garden Club, Home Life
Department of Worthwhile Wo
mans Club, Rhododendron Gar
den Club, Junior Womans Club,
Mountaineer Garden Club, Ap
palachian Garden Club, and
Business and Professional Wo
man's Club.
The judging for the contest
will begin at 8:30 p. m. Sunday,
December 22. The judges will
judge only those things that
are called in and entered as this
is the only way they will know
if anyone has made a decora
tion. The contest is open to all
Boone and surrounding area
residents.
The following divisions have
been set up so that everyone
will have a chance to enter:
1. Outdoor lighted decorated
trees; 2. Outdoor decorations;
(Continued on page two)
Claude Payne
Rites Tuesday
Claude Donald Payne, 66,
died unexpectedly Sunday
morning at his home in Boone
after a heart attack.
He was born in Watauga
County to George L. and Chan
nie Welborn Payne, and was a
sawmill owner and operator
and was a member of Stony
Fork Baptist Church.
Funeral services were con
ducted by Rev. Roy Smith, Rev.
Roscoe Greene and Rev. Vestal
Moore at the Stony Fork Bapt
ist Church, Tuesday at 2 p. m.
Burial was in the Church ceme
tery.
Surviving are his widow,
Mrs. Eva Greene Payne; five
sons, Lawrence, Luther, Dan
and Paul Payne, all of Boone
and C. D. Payne, Jr. of Ruther
wood; six daughters, Mrs. Grace
Ray of Deep Gap, Mrs. Ruth
Hollar of Winston-Salem, Mrs.
Claudean Clawson of Lenoir;
Mrs Emmajean Williams of
Florence, S. C., Mrs. Mary
Farmer of Lynchburg, Va., and
Mrs. Shirley Grimstead of Wil
kesboro; one sister, Mrs. Annie
Haas of Newton; one brother,
Fred Payne of Deep Gap; 27
grandchildren.
Watauga County's big delegation to the Northwest banquet
included (from left) Roy tsley, Jim Holshouser and R. G.
Greene.
Registration Books Open
Sat.; New Absentee Law
Registration books will open
for the State amendment elec
tion next Saturday, December
14, at the various polling placea
i in the county, according to R.
T. Greer, Chairman of the Wa
tauga County Board of Elec
tions.
The books will remain open
on Saturday December 21, and
Saturday December 28. The fol
lowing Saturday will be chal
lenge day, he said.
The so-called "Little Federal
Plan" of redisricting the State
Legislature is the question at
issue in the January balloting,
Mr. Greer said. Under the
proposal the Senate would be
set up on a district population
basis, while the House would
be on a county unit basis. The i
smaller ccustlm, it is under- i
stood are interested in a "yes"
vote on the isue, it is said. The
big counties are expected to go
all-out against the proposal.
More details will follow in sub- <
sequent issues of the Democrat, i
Absentee Votes
Chairman Greer states that !
an office has been opened in i
the courthouse for the issuance
of absentee ballots for the elec- :
tion. Mr. A. E. South is in
charge of the office.
Under a law enacted at the i
last Assembly session, the ab- ,
sent voters must write or come :
in peron for an application for i
a ballot. This form must be fill
ed in, notarized or returned in :
person by the voter or mailed i
in. The ballot may then be de
livered to the voter in person,
or mailed to him, when in turn
it nraat be voted, notarized, and
returned to' the board by tip*
voter. No one tan receive an"
application or I ballot except
the voter himself. Previously a
member of the family Cbuld
receive one. The County Elec
tions Board will have to pass
on the absentees at stated in
tervals.
G. C. Isaacs, 60,
Dies Tuesday
Grady Clarence Isaacs, age
BO, died at his home on Hill
crest Drive in Boone, Dec. 10.
He was the son of the late John
and Margaret Matheson Isaacs
and was a painting contractor.
Funeral services will be con
ducted Thursday at 2 p. m. at
the Cove Creek Baptist Church
by Rev. L. A. Talbert and Rev.
E. F. Troutman. Burial will be
in Cove Creek cemetery.
Survivors include the widow,
Emma Isaacs of Boone; two
daughters, Mrs. Lena Cannon
of Charlotte, Mrs. Ruth Corn
ett of Boone; three sisters, Mrs.
Junie McGinnis of Sugar Grove,
Mrs. Effie Winebarger of Bris
tol, Tenn., Mrs. Vera Rogers of
Boone; three brothers, Clark,
Enoch and Bert Isaacs of Sugar
Grove; and six grandchildren.
Famed Soloists To Appear In
Annual Production Of Messiah
Soloists for the Appalachian
State Teachers College produc
tion of the "Messiah" include
Mrs. Joanne Alexader, soprano,
of Statesville; Mrs. Margaret
Gelbach, contralto, of Charlotte;
Mr. Edwin Bianchard. tenor, of
Raleigh, and Dr. Joel Carter,
bass-baritone of Chapel Hill.
The production will be given
in the auditorium of the Col
lege Administration Building
Sunday afternoon, December
IS at 3 p. m. according to Mrs.
Virginia Wary Linney.
MRS. J. T. ALEXANDER
Mrs. J. T. Alexander, Jr., so
prano, of Statesville is a gradu
ate of Mars Hill College and
has a Bachelor of Music Degree
in vocal performance from the
Woman's College of the Uni
versity of N. C, Greensboro.
She was soloist with the Mars
Hill touring choir, the Woman's
College Choir, the Greensboro
Symphony Orchestra and the
N. C. Baptist Choral* which
toured Great Britain and Eu
rope last fall.
The oratorio in which she
has appeared as soloist are:
Mendelssohn's "Elijah", Du
Bois "Seven Last Words", "The
Holy City", and the "Messiah",
and she has sung leading roles
in the operas, "Sister Angeli
ca", "The King and I", and
"South Pacific."
She is soprano soloist at the
First Baptist Church and teach
er of voice in Statesville.
MRS. MARGARET GELBACH
Mrs. Margaret Gelbach, con
tralto, of Charlotte is a gradu
ate of Greensboro College,
Greensboro. Her extensive
choir and oratorio experience
includes: Charlotte Symphony
and Community Chorus in
"Messiah."
Oratorio Singers of Charlotte,
solo quartet:
"Mass in B minor", Vaughn
Williams.
"King David", Hooeggar. ~
"Elijah", Mendelssohn.
"Gloria," Vivaldi.
"Requiem," Durufle.
"The Seven Last Words of |
Christ," Haydn and Schutz.
She is a member of the Char
lotte Opera Association and
has appeared in "The Magic
Flute," "The Bartered Bride,"
and in the opera chorus of j
"Faust," "Merry Widow," "Toc
ca," "Samson and Delilah" and \
many others.
She is soloist at the Coven
ant Presbyterian Church in
Charlotte, and has studied voice
with the well known teachers,
Charles Coll Underwood and
Virginia Luti and presently
with Radiana Pazmor.
EDWIN BLANCHABD
Edwin Blanchard, tenor, of |
Raleigh ia a graduate of East
man School of Music, Roches
ter, New York, wih previous
study at Northeastern Univer
sity in New Hampshire, and
(MDOMMd on page tarn)
Lavish Dinner
Is Attended By
About 900 People
By CLARK COX
Dr. W. H. Plemmons of
Boone, president of Appalachian
State Teachers College and
1983 vice-president of the North
west North Carolina Develop
ment Association, was elected
president of the Association last
Thursday night at Gilvin Roth
YMCA in Elkin, at a lavish ban
quet attended by almost 900
community leaders from the 11
county area covered by the As
sociation.
The election of Plemmons to
the Association's highest office
climaxed a night of entertain
ment and honors for the nearly
100 Watauga County people who
were in attendance.
Among other honors won by
communities In Watauga Coun
ty during the night's festivities
were two community awards: a
Dr. W. H. Plemmons, the
Northwest Association's new
president.
9300 first prise to Matnejr, a
(arming community, and a J150
second prize to Mountain Dale,
a rural nonfarm community.
The awards were presented by
Mrs. Doris Potter of North Wil
kesboro, president of WATA
radio station in Boone and
WKBC in North Wilkes boro.
Noah B. Lail of Matney accept
ed the first prize for his com
munity.
Altogether, winning communi
ties, towns and counties in the
association shared cash prizes
totaling $5,200 for progress in
1963. Other winners of the
$400 first place awards in com
munity development were:
Bethlehem i n Alexander
County, a rural nonfarm com
munity;
Clemmons in Forsyth, compet
ing in the small-town and village
category;
Rhodhiss in Caldwell, partici
pating for the first time as a
new community.
The newest and biggest
(Continued on page two)
Jewelry Store
Is Robbed Of
$4,000 In Goods
Stalling! Jewelry Store, on
East King Street in Boone, was
robbed of about $4,000 worth of
merchandise early Saturday
morning by an unidentified
thief or thieves.
The burglar apparently en
tered the store by forcing the
lock on the front door, accord
ing to Boone Chief of Police
Hubert Thomas.
The time of the theft was set
?t about 4:18 a. m. after it was
learned that an upstairs tenant
reported hearing noises from
the store downstair* at approxi
mately that time.