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Edmisten, Mrs. Claude Minton, Mrs. Ralph Greene, Mrs. Ivan Younce, Mrs. Clyde Miller, Mrs. Clyde R. Greene, Mrs. Orville Foster, Mrs. Estel Wagner, Clyde R. Greene, James Carlton Lyons, Wade Moretz, Leonard Presnell, Sheriff Dallas Cheek, Joe Beshears. Also going on the trip were Mrs. Clyde Dula, J. E. Holshouser, Sr., J. E. Holshouser, Jr., Joseph Sherwood, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Norris, I. T. Barnett, O. J. Coffey, John Cook, Truman Critcher, Carnie Critcher, and Ray Critcher. Extension Advisory Council Makes Plans For New Year Brown To Speak At C Of C Meet Commerce -and Merchants As sociation will be held at 12 noon Tuesday, February 11, at the Daniel Boone Inn. Mayor Wade E. Brown will present a slide and comment re port on his recent good will trip to several countries in Eu rope, including Russia. A report on the “Daniel Boone Wagon Train Crosses the Blue Ridge” will be made, as well as other imp< oint an nouncements. J. E. HOLSHOUSER, JR. Holshouser Is Heading Heart Fund Campaign J. E. Holshouser, Jr., local civic leader and attorney, has been named Watauga County Chairman for the heart fund campaign, which is now under way and will continue through February. “This campaign will afford every resident of our commun ity an opportunity to take part in one of history’s greatest health crusades,” says Mr. Hol shouser. “This is a unique cause. It unites into one appeal dis eases which are responsible for more than 54 per cent of all deaths—among them heart at tack, stroke, high blood pres sure and hardening of the ar teries, rheumatic fever and in born heart defects.” / Mr. Holshouser says that many volunteers will take part ih the Heart Fund campaign in .this community, including Paul /Smith of Watauga Savings and I/uirv, Boone City Heart Sunday . oo pife two) . The Wataugai County Exten sion Advisory Council met last Friday evening at the Watauga Savings and Loan Conference Boom in Boone to make plans for the coming year. Clyde R. Gre.ene, chairman of tiw Coun study committees were given and proposals made. It was recommended that: —News articles shall be writ ten by Home Demonstration Club women in the county and published. —An attempt will be made to reach more young homemak ers or mothers with pre-school age children by organization of Home Demonstration Clubs for them. Father Of Mrs. Crowder Dies In High Point High Point.—George William Lowe, 70, of 604 W. Farris Avenue, father of Mrs. Barbara Lowe Crowder of Boone, died unexpectedly Monday at 7:15 a. m., at his home of a heart at tack. He had been in declining health several years. He was born in Randolph County to James and Mollie Stanton Lowe. He came to High Point with his parents as a boy. He attended Wesown Prepara tory School, Wesown, Pa., and Guilford College. He was a vet eran of World War I. (Continued on page two) —The three main cattle sales will be continued this year. —A program to improve pas tures by taking soil samples to see if more lime and fertilizer is needed will be instigated. , —-Demonstrations toward bet t(y fjfjtififcur-tr be James Marsh, secretary-trea surer of the Watauga Savings and Loan Association, said that the Association would offer awards to the community 4-H Clubs making the most pro gress during the year. There '‘Will be three prizes given. W. C. Richardson, Assistant Agricultural Agent, said that two 4-H community club6 have been organized to date, with plans being made to assist with organizing 15 more during 1964. Clyde R. Greene said that, as a means of publicity for this new type of 4-H organization, 4-H boys were going to be in vited to accompany the Daniel Boone Wagon Train next sum mer. Mrs. Lillian Danner, Home Demonstration Agent, said that leader training programs were being stressed here. She also announced that Mrs. Asa Reese will have a chance to go to Hawaii to the national meeting of Home Demonstration Clubs this year, and that a portion of her expenses will be paid by the State office. The extension secretaries were given Certificates of Merit for their years of service in the extension offices. Mrs. Dan ner presented a ten-year certi ficate to Mrs. Reba Hodges and L. E. Tuckwiller, County Agri cultural Agent, presented a twenty-year certificate to Mrs. Alma Phillips. David Greene Retires From 25-Year Career ‘ David F. Greene, better know to industry in the South east as Dave Greene, is retir ing, after over a quarter of a century with Addressograph Multigraph Corporation. For a, number of years he managed operations of the Ad* dressograph Division in the Greensboro area, then on spec ial assignment did methods and systems development, including DAVID F. GREENE designing and building of spec ial devices and prototypes. Mr. Greene, who resides at 309 N. Tremont Drive, Greens boro, will continue certain phases of his former activities, as consultant to mills and other organizations with whom he did much of his research and de velopment work. Mr. Greene, a native of Boone, is a son of the late R. (Continued on page two) SCENIC WAS CLOSED Donald Watson Killed • • / . ; . ... . . A In Accident On P ark way Lenoir Man Was En Route To Deep Gap Donald Edmund Watson, 37, of Lenoir, was dead on arrival at Watauga Hospital about 12:30 a.m. Sunday after a traffic ac cident on the Blue Ridge Park way about five miles southeast of Boone. Park Ranger Ernest Hayes said Watson’s brother, Harold Dean Watson, 27, of Lenoir, Rt 5, suffered multiple cuts. He is in Caldwell Memorial Hospital in Lenoir. His condition was re ported as satisfactory Sunday night. Hayes said Harding Cox and Bruce A. Clark, both of Lenoir, .who were passengers in the car, escaped injury. Hayes said he was told the car entered the Parkway at Green Hill Road and the four were en route to Deep Gap to visit friends. At Mile Post 287 the car struck an ice patch, overturned several times down an embankment into a creek. The men were trapped in the car and had to break a wind shield to escape. Donald Ed mund Watson was pinned be neath the car. Hayes said he was told the men walked to the highway and stopped a motorist who notified officers. The Park Ranger said that the Blue Ridge Parkway was closed to traffic due to icy conditions on the highway. Election Board Members Voted On By Committee The Watauga County Demo cratic Executive Committee met at the Courthouse Monday after noon to recommend Democrat members of the County Board of Elections. C. H. Hendrix, Committee Chairman, presided. J. D. Clawson nominated Jack Edmisten, incumbent member of the Board of Elections; Hite Williams placed incumbent Chairman R T. Greer in nomina tion, while Willie Cole offered the name of George Thomas. Edmisten received 20 votes, R. T. Greer 17 votes and George Thomas 5 votes. The three names will be sub mitted to State Chairman Luns ford Crew who will make his own recommendations to the State Board of Elections. Two of the three will be named for two - year terms on the local board. Secretaries Receive Awards Watauga County Extension Service secretaries yrere honored at a program last Friday night at. the Watauga Savings and Loan building in Boone. Mrs. Reba Hodges (right) receives i' an award of merit for 14 yean’ service from Home Demon- . stration Agent Mrs. receives her award cultural Agent L. 1 Lillian Danner; and Mrs. Alma Phillips for 22 years’ service from County Agri J. TuckwiUer,—Staff photos. I The five finalists in the “Miss Southern Ski Queen” contest at Blowing Rock Ski Lodge Saturday pose shortly before the crowning. They are (left to right): Judith Ahn Bower of Jefferson; Cheri Rose of Winston-Salem; ip88&38saas&3agsaa&*sssiBftSfl^^ Bette Weston Simpson of Clemson, S. C.; Katherine Lantz of Spruce Pine; and Kathy Cline of Hickory. Miss Simpson was crowned Ski Queen, with Miss Bower as first runner* up and Miss Rose as second runner-up. Miss Southern Ski Queen Title Won By Bette Simpson Bette Weston Simpson of Clemson, S. C., a junior at Fur man University, Greenville, S. C., was crowned Miss Southern Ski Queen at the second annual Ski Queen contest at Blowing Rock Ski Lodge Saturday morn ing. She won over nine other con testants from North and South Carolina and from Georgia. She is 5 feet 7% inches tall, weighs 126 pounds and measures 38-24-37. She is a physical education major at Furman and plans to teach. First runner-up was Judith Ann Bower, an Appalachian State Teachers College sopho more from Jefferson. Second runner-up was Cheri Rose of Winston-Salem, a senior at Salem College and a voice ma jor. Despite a cold, misty drizzle which made the course unfit for exhibition skiing Saturday afternoon, some 800 skiers and spectators watched Cynthia Stroupe, a Queens College senior and winner of the 1963 ski queen title, crown the new Miss Southern Ski Queen. Amos Wagoner, Former Boone Merchant, Dies Sparta—Robert Amos Wag oner Sr., 73, of Sparta, a former Sparta mayor and retired mer chant, died of a heart attack at his home Thursday. He had been in declining health for a long time. Mr. Wagoner was a former Boone business man, and was one of the founders of the Watauga Hardware Store. He was nominated by the Democrats for the state Senate six years ago but had to with draw from consideration be cause of ill health. He had been a leader in building First Bap tist Church, was a member of the church for 40 years and a deacon at the time of his death. He also was a Mason and was active in the Alleghany County Wildlife Club-and the Sparta Chamber of Commerce. He operated a large-scale i (Continued on page two) j Contestants appeared three times—twice in the lodge din ing room and once on the ski area, where they put on and took off their skis, circled 50 feet on skis, and carried them back to the lodge over their shoulders. They were all taught how to fall during a ski lesson Friday, but none needed the knowledge. They all remained upright. M. E. (Bill) Thalheimer, pres (Continued on page two) Richardson Preyer addresses his supporters in the Appalach ian Elementary School auditorium Friday.—Weston photo. Preyer Says Roads Make Vital Issue Richardson Preyer, Demo cratic gubernatorial candidate, briefly outlined his proposed program for North Carolina to a group of about 60 of his supporters and others from Wa tauga County at a “People for Preyer” rally last Friday at 11 a. m. in the Appalachian Ele mentary School auditorium. Watauga was the 18th county in which Preyer had appeared last week in a whirlwind 100 county tour. Preyer told the group that the objective of his program, were be to be elected, would be to raise the income level of the average person in the state —thereby changing what he called our “cycle of poverty” to a “cycle of hope.” The candidate listed three methods of combatting this cycle —through education, a program for building new roads, and in creased emphasis on conserva tion and wildlife. “Education is the moving force for a cycle of hope,” Preyer said. “The price of edu cation is cheaper than the cost of ignorance.” He proposed an (Continued oo page two)
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