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« 4, ' . :?V • For Best Results Use Democrat Ads TODAY’S PRESS RUN IK., M $w*\: ***** 3." *• iv,/ fr: ;.v\ ; w t' • 4,650 m 1983 HI Lo pree *62 Hi L» Dec. 24 30 17 .23 25 26 18 An Independent Weekly Newt paper . . . Seventy-Sixth Year of.Continuous Publication Dec. 26 58 29 Dec. 27 45 26 Dec. 28 24 Dec. 29 29 20 Dec. 30 34 16 32 21 42 31 43 34 34 81 34 31 38 18* Volume lxxvi—no. *t BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. JANUARY 2, 1984 K 10 CENTS PER COPY_ 16 PAGES—2 SECTIONS NEW YEAR’S SNOW—Watauga County was covered with eight inches of snow and sleet on the first day of January. Beginning about 2:30 p. m. Tuesday, the snow turned into sleet, then rain, and more snow during the night. Melted down the precipitation measured 2.52 inches. All county schools were closed, and traffic was slowed by the slush. Watauga County Has Full Share Of Prosperity In U. S. Surge Man Is Freed In Fatal Crash A six-man coroner’s jury re commended Friday afternoon in, Boone that George Lester Rbberson, 27, driver of a 1958 international truck involved in k fatal collision seven miles west of Boone on highway 421 Sept. 9, not be held liable for criminal action. ■ Thus was dropped a man slaughter charge which had been pending against Roberson since the week following the accident, which was fatal to Spiro Nicholas Glaros, 29, of Greensboro, driver of a 1961 Pontiac station wagon which collided headon with Roberson’s vehicle. /The coroner’s jury deliberat ed only about ten minutes be fore reaching their verdict, the Reason for which they gave as j)eing “insufficient evidence to determine the cause of the ac cident.” The inquest was delayed twice because Roberson, moved from Watauga Hospital to a hospital in Asheville two days after the collision, had been un able to appear in court. He had suffered a shattered kneecap, as wellp as facial and internal injuries, in the crash. Testimony was given Friday by investigating State Highway Patrolman William D. Teem and by Boone photographer George Flowers, who took some 20 photographs of the wreck age, some of which were pre sented as evidence. Teem stated that there were no witnesses to the actual crash, and that there was ho way to determine from the fin , al position of the vehicles which of them had been on the wrong j (Continued on page two) Tax Listing Plans Are Made Mr. I. B. Wilson, tax supervi sor for Watauga 1 Cpunty, an-; nounced Monday that the books for listing taxes for 1964 would be out of tiis office and in the hands of the listers within the next few days, Citizens are advised to watch for the notice in next week’s Democrat concerning times and places for listing tana* (Special to the Democrat) New York, Dec. 38—To what extent has Watauga County participate^ |» the cyryynt bust* nude in retiil sales and in in come during the past fiscal year? According to a detailed re port for the period, whcih cov ers the 12 months ending June SO, 1963, solid progress was made locally. Wages went up for most working people. Spend ing rose proportionately. The report, giving the first breakdown figures for the fis cal year, has just been released by the Standard Rate and Data Service. It contains comparable information Tor every section of the country. The volume of business chalk ed up by retail merchants in Watauga County, it shows, reached $14,665,000, topping the previous year’s 113,163,000. The gain, which amounted to 11.4 percent, compares favor ably with that in the United States as a whole, 5.9. percent. In the State of North Carolina the rise was 7.5 percent. Locally, as well as national ly, the advance was along a broad front, with most lines of business benefiting from the increase in consumer spending. New cars accounted for a large part of the total retail volume. Sales of appliances, In cluding such major hard goods as refrigerators, washers and dryers, were considerably high er. Much of tl& upward push took place in ihe second half of . the year, when the public 1 (continued on page two) Father Of Mrs. linney Dies In Kearney, Neb. Mr. Kimber Daniel Wary, of Kearney, Nebraska, father of Virginia Wary linney of Boone, died Thursday, December 26. Mr. Wary’s life was dedicated to the teacning profession. As an educator, he was offer ed an opportunity for the guid ance of youth into the leading of richer and fuller lives. English literature and dra matics were his special inter ests. ' - £*'■■ Mr. Wary is survived by his widow, a daughter, Mrs. Vir ginia lannyy^two sons, and-nine. gry nrlrtfilHrBn. 1 Winners Chosen In The Christmas decoration contest was a success due to the cooperation of many Boone resi dents. Winners in the following di visions are: Doors: first place, Mrs. Con rad Yates; second place, Mrs. Willard Trivette; third place, Mrs. Lorn Harrison; honorable mention, Mrs. Hoyle Davis, Mrs. J. W. Winkler, and Mrs. J. R. Brown. Dining Tables: first place, Mrs. J. B. Winkler; second place, Mrs. Joe Crawford. Mantles: first place, Mrs. J. B. Winkler; second place, Mrs. Joe Crawford; third place, Mrs. D. L. Wilcox; honorable men tion, Frank Norris. Outdoor Trees: first place, Dr. and Mrs. W. H. Plemmons; second place, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Payne; third place, Dr. Seal Sale Reaches 74io Goal The Watauga Tuberculosis As sociation has made good prog ress in the 1963 Christmas Seal Campaign. Last Friday, 74% of the 1963 goal for the Association's opera tions in 1964 had been reached. In dollars this means that the Association will need an addi tional $388 to bring the cam paign to a successful close. “1 have every belief that our people of Watauga will answer ineir Seal letters and we will reach or exceed our Christmas Seal goal for 1963,” said L>. Grady Moretz, Jr., Seal chair man, who added the Associa tion s sincere appreciation to all of those persons and firms who have made contributions. Each year is the start of an other year s program of detec tion, treatment, patient service and research, according to the executive secretary of the TS Association. 1 the detection pro gram last year, she added, more than 10,500 free chest X-rays were given and special' drugs furnished free to patients being treated at home. She referred to patient ser vice as having its bright side as well as its dreary side. Pa (continued on page two j and Mrs. O. K. Kicnardson; honorable mention, Dr. and Mrs. E. T. Glenn, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Crawford, Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Yates and Frank Norris. Indoor Trees: first place, Mountain Boarding and Best Home; second place, Mrs. D. L. Wilcox; third place, Mrs. Con rad Yates; honorable mention, Frank Norris. Outdoor Decorations: first place, Dr. and Mrs. O. K. Rich ardson; second place, Mr. and Mrs. Eric DeGroat; third place, Dr. and 'Mrs. H. M. Wilson; honorable mention, Mr. Mac Donald Greene. Tables, Other Than Dining: first place, Mrs. J. B. Winkler; second place, Mrs. W. L. High; third place, Mrs. Bob Agle; nonorabie mention, Mrs. W. C. Richardson and Mrs. John T. Winkler. Fireplaces or Fireplace Walls: first, place, Mrs. Vvaxton Cole; second place, Mrs. J|>hn Hollar. Windows: first fjlace, Mrs. Hoyle Davis; second place, Mrs. r;. T. Gienn; tmrd place, Mrs. D. J. Whitener; honorable men tion, Mr. and Mrs. Orus button. Childrens: first place, Terry Houar; second place, Anay nigh; third place, Pam and Juay Winkler; nonorabie mention, Danny Spainhour. Nine Inducted By Draft Board Xne following registrants were inducted into tne armed torces by waiauga County Locai iloaid jno. fcd in wovemoer and December: Uienn S. Isaacs, Wilson F. Hodges, Jr., Yvuuam P. Lewis, ueorge M. Keece, Donald M. noider, kennetn M. Harlow, James P. Mamey, Lowell C. Hodges and Arlie J. Wmebarger. Tobacco Sales Start Monday Tobacco sales at the four Boone warehouses will reopen Monday, Jan. 6, it was announc ed Friday. The warehouses are already accepting loads of tobacco on their floors, and tobacco has bfeen cowing in since Friday, warehousemen said* Chamber Makes Survey; Sales Are Ahead Of 1962 A survey conducted by the Boone Chamber of Commerce reveals that the business dis trict enjoyed a nealthy growth in 1963 over 1962, even more than was the degree of growth in ±Uoz, bringing lurther proof that Boone is the outstanding shopping center pf the entire region. Department stores had a sub stantial increase, even after the lull caused by the assassination of President Kennedy, the ex treme cold weather and the drop m hurley tobacco prices. Variety stores reported at least a 15% increase over 1962. Drug stores, 10% or more over previous year. Furniture stores “excellent increases.” Automobile sales hit a record volume. Dealers report 15 to b0% increase. One dealer re ported more cars sold during May and June than he sold during the entire year of 1960. Hardware stores tell of at least a 30% increase, and stated that they would have had a much greater increase but for the assassination of the jwer ley prices and an unusual ber. Grocery sales as high as 28% increase. Building suppliers, at least 20% increase. Hotels, at least as good as 62. With limited facilities, they had to turn many away. There are many more motels than in 1962, but they report a substantial increase. Transportation and commun ications, much better. Big in crease in world-wide travel. A twenty per cent increase is noted in industry and a 20 to 25% increase in employment. Banking, best year in history. Insurance, 20 to 30% increase over 1962. Loan companies “substantial increase.” Building contractors say they are unable to keep up with de mands for new homes and other structures. Herman W. Wilcox, Chamber of Commerce President, who conducted the survey, points out that more motels are being built and on the planning boards than in 1962, and sees a continuation of the growth of the town and the county in the new year. Mrs. Anna Moore Dies In Marion Mrs. Anna Coffey Moore, daughter of the late George Cal vin Coffey and Mrs. Louisa Cof fey, died December 18, in a Marion, Va., hospital of a heart ailment. Mrs. Moore was reared in the Boone’s Fork community of Wa tauga County, attended ASTC in Boone, and taught school for a time before moving to Marion many years ago. She will be remembered in Watauga County as the wife of the late Rev. H. L. Coffey. Funeral services were held December 21 at two o’clock in the Marion Baptist Church and burial was in Roselawn Ceme tery, near Marion. Surviving are the husband, Edward Moore; a son, Dean Cof fey of Princeton, W. Va.; a daughter, Mrs. Beulah Slagle; two brothers, T. M. Coffey, of Chuckey, Tenn., and Troy Cof fey of High Point, N. C.; two sisters, Mrs. Emma Betz, Balti more, Md., and Mrs. Georgia Coffey, Blowing Rock. There are six grandchildren and six great grandchildren. ew License Plates 19G4 auto license tags will go on sale January 2 at the local motor vehicle department lo cated in the bus terminal in Boone. Mrs. Laura Danner, department employee, holds the first tag to be sold in the new year. Observed Christmas Quietly The 1963 Christmas holidays were celebrated in as quiet and restrained a manner as any in recent years in Watauga Coun-| ty, according to the Watauga County Sheriff’s Department and Boone Chief of Police Hu bert Thomas. “It was about the quietest Christmas I ever saw,” Sheriff Dallas Cheek said. “Christmas eve, we had two people locked up in jail on minor charges, but they were both released Christmas day. The jail was empty all day Wednesday. “We didn’t receive a single call of any consequence Christ mas day, and there was abso lutely no evidence of public drunkenness, vandalism, or any thing of that nature. I under stand that the Highway Patrol investigated two wrecks Christ mas day, but neither of them involved any personal injury. “This year was in direct con trast to last year, when we locked up ten people Christmas day on assorted charges.” State Highway Patrolman G. L. Morgan, who investigated both the highway accidents re Gty Auto Tags To Go On Sale Boone Chief of Police Hubert Thomas announced Monday that city auto tags will go on sale January 2 at City Hail. The fee for the tags is $1.00. ferred to by Cheek, reported that one, which took place at the 421-221 intersection at Deep Gap, was a hit-and-run affair involving two vehicles and a cow. A full report on this acci dent is to be found elsewhere in the Democrat. The other accident, on which complete details were not avail able, involved nine members of a family, none of whom were seriously injured when the driver lost control of his 1956 Ford vehicle on N. C. 194, one mile west of Valle Crucis. The car apparently hit a patch of ice, Morgan said, and slid off the road into a utility pole. Damage to the vehicle was esti mated to be around $400. Names of the persons involv ed in the latter accident were not available because Morgan’s report had been sent to Lenoir to be filed before Democrat staffers could reach Morgan by phone. Boone Police Chief Hubert Thomas agreed with Sheriff Cheek's judgment that this Christmas was as quiet and peaceful as any in recent years. He stated that the police de partment received no calls of a serious nature, and that no ar rests were made Christmas day. There was no evidence of troublemaking of any sort in Boone. One Arrested In Hit And Run Crash An Ashe County man report edly involved in a hit-and-run accident last Wednesday at Deep Gap was arrested Wednes day night in Wilkes County on charges of driving under the in fluence and carrying a conceal ed weapon, and brought back to Watauga County for investiga tion of the hit-and-run mishap. The man, Callie Grant Severt, 57, of Route 2, West Jefferson, was operating a 1956 Chevrolet truck north on Highway-221 at about 6 p.m. last Wednesday, according to investigating State Highway Patrolman G. L. Mor gan, when he failed to see a 1957 Chevrolet owned and ope rated by Mac Winebarger travel ing west on Highway 4gl. The two vehicles collided at the intersection of the two high ways, Morgan said, causing Winebarger to lose control of his vehicle and veer down an embankment into ad'ield, where the car struck a cow belonging to Aiue Mains of Creston, break ing its back. Winebarger’s car was a total loss, Morgan said. Severt, according to the re port, continued on his way, later'to be arrested in Wilkes County. Ski Conditions Are Broadcast From Raleigh-Durham Bureau Weather bulletins for the benefit of those who are con cerned with ski conditions at Blowing Rock and Catalooche are being released regularly irom Raleigh-Durham Airport by the U. fcr Weather Bureau there, Chuck Carney in charge. Mr. Herman Wilcox, Boone Chamber of Commerce Presi dent, gives us a sample ski weather bulletin, sent him by Mr, Carney for December 19, the Kind which is regularly re leased to the Associated Press and United Press: “Conditions are perfect for skiing at the Western North Carolina ski slopes and the weather bureau forecast at Ra leigh-Durham Airport predicts that fine skiing weather will continue for at least the next two days. “The ski slopes at Blowing Rock and Cataloochee both re port excellent skiing. The slop* es have a good cover of packed powder snow, mostly machine made and generally at least eighteen inches deep, “The weather forecast for the North Carolina skiing area is. for continued (jtae cold skiing weather for tonight and Friday, The outlook- is for continued favorable^skiing weather Satur* 3 Mi
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