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An Independent Weekly Newspaper . • . Seventy-Sixth Year of Continuous Publication
VOLUME LXXVI— NO. 37
BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. MARCH 12, 1964
BOONS WEATHER .
1964 Hi Lo prec. ’63 Hi Lo
March 3 60 38 86 22
March 4 58 34 82 60 37
March 5 60 34 55 80
March 6 54 27 121 50 29
March 7 58 33 43 30
March 8 69 58 50 32
March 9 62 52 35 27
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18 PAGES—3 SECTIONS
Greene Youth
Is Injured In
Auto Mishap
George Perry Greene, Jr., 16,
of Boone was seriously injured
last Friday afternoon in an
automobile accident on the Ap
palachian High School grounds
u Boone.
Greene was treated at Wa
tauga Hospital and then trans
ferred to Baptist Hospital at
Winston - Salem. Reported in
serious condition late Friday
night, he was later transferred
from the hospital’s intensive
care unit over the weekend.
Greene was s^Mr'tp have
slight concussjj^tUMl a hairline
fracture of r.ttte. skull. HejpUst
remain at Baptist Hosnjpal for
some time, according^to his
grandfather, ClydedR. Greene
of Boone.
Boone police said that Greene
was injured on the high school
playgrounds after classes end
ed. He apparently leaped onto
the hood of a moving car, then
fell off, hitting the car’s bumper
with his head when he fell.
Candidates
Announce For
Elective Offices
Three Wataugans have thus
far announced as candidates
for elective county offices, sub
ject to the May Democratic
primaries.
1 The three are: Miss Helen
Underdown, Democratic candi
date for re-election to the post
of Register of Deeds, who was
the first of the three to an
nounce; Mrs. Edna M. Brittain,
candidate for County Commis
sioner from the Democratic
Party; and J. E. Holshouser,
young Efoone attorney wKcTlir
running for a second terth as
Watauga's member of the
North Carolina House of Rep
resentatives, from the Republi
can Party.
It is believed that Miss Un
derdown has held elective of
fice longer than any other per
son in this county. She has
been Register of Deeds since
first being elected to the of
fice in 1928.
Conley Woodring
Dies Monday
Conley Woodring, age 61, of
Boone, Route 2, died Monday
in Broughton Hospital in Mor
ganton after an extended ill
ness.
He was a native of Watauga
County.
Funeral plans are incomplete.
Survivors include one half
sister, Mrs. Ethel Woodring, of
Route 2, Boone; two half bro
thers, Grover Lewis of Route 2,
Boone, and Walter Shull of
Mountain City, Tennessee.
School Access Road Being Graded
Road graders started work again Monday on
the access road from Highway 105 to the
site of the new consolidated Watauga High
School. This shot is the first of a Democrat
series which will show the weekly progress
of work being done on the school.—Flowers
photo.
Local Easter Seal Funds Tq Be
Used For Clinic For Children
Reverend Blake Brinkerhoff,
Chairman of the Watauga
County Easter Seal Drive for
-MKMr -announced that all funds
designated for use in the covin'
ty this year will be applied to
ward the establishment of a
child evaluation clinic for
mentally and emotionally dis
turbed children. Inasmuch as
most of the funds remain for
local use, this will mean that
our county’s young people will
benefit in a special way.
Last year, over 3,700 child
ren and youth under 18 years
of age were treated in the
North Carolina Community
Mental Health Clinics. How
ever, untold numbers of our
young were not seen because of
limited facilities. Inasmuch as
no such clinic now exists in
our area, the establishment of
it will be of untold benefit to
pur children.
. On Wednesday, March 11,
most of the residents of Wata
uga County will receive the
first mailing of Easter Seals
and a return envelope. Dona
tions for this worthy cause may
be made through use of the
envelope, or by mailing a
check directly to the county
treasurer of the Easter Seal
Campaign—Dr. James Greene,
Carolina Pharmacy, Boone, N.
C.
Busload Of Wataugans
Attend Moore Rally
More than five thousand Dem
ocrats from every county in
the State assembled in Raleigh
Thursday to witness Dan K.
Moore’s filing for governor and
to hear his program. Demo
crats from this State traveled
more than 1,000,000 miles to
attend this rally.
A convoy of 18 buses and 40
cars assembled at Salisbury,
were given a bag lunch and
then proceeded to Raleigh for
the Dan Moore rally.
Burley Measurement
Deadline March 15th
The final date for filing for
premeasurement of burley to
bacco allotted acreage will be
March 15. This year the cost
of this service is $10.00 per
farm for one field and $1.00
extra for each additional field
in excess of one field. Applica
tions should be filed with the
county ASCS office prior to
March 15 for those fanners de
siring this sATVice.
Moore’s filing fee was handed
to State Elections Board Chair
man Raympnd Maxwell by Miss
Maria Beale Fletcher of Ashe
ville, the former Miss America
of 1962.
■ Delegates of Watauga Coun
ty that attended the rally were
Mayor Wade E. Brown, ex-repre
sentative Jack Edmisten, chair
man of the board of elections
Roby T. Greer, Major J. H.
Thomas, J. D. Shoemake, Ral
eigh Cottrell, Mr. and Mrs. F.
M. Payne, A. E. South, Roy
Rufty, Mrs. Edna Brittain, Mr.
and Mrs. J. H. Councill, Ed Har
din, Don Horton, Mr. and Mrs.
Gordon Winkler, Odus Wilson,
Mrs. Grace Councill, John H.
Councill, Mrs. David Hall (sister
of Moore), Dr. and Mrs. W. M.
Matheson, Joe Bryson, Hayden
Pitts, and Thomas H. Coffey.
Mr. Stallings from Lenoir was
the bus driver for the Watauga
delegation and he drove with
such care and ease that the
trip was a pleasure for all dele
gates.
(continued on page 3, see. C)
Ill i mm i n ii i ■
REV. BLAKE BRINKERHOFF
United Fund To
Meet Thursday
There will be an important
meeting of the Watauga County
United Fund at the Daniel
Boone Inn in Boone at 12 noon
today (Thursday), Stanley A.
Harris, vice - president of the
Watauga County United Fund,
announced late last week.
Reports on the campaign will
be given, and an election will
be held to determine the board
members for next year. Every
one interested in the United
Fund is urged to attend, Harris
said.
Mayor Brown Proclaims
Girl Scout Week In City
Whereas Girl Scouts throughout the United States of Amer
ica have rendered continuous service to their country and com
munities since the founding of their organization on March 12,
1912, by Juliette Gordon Low in Savannah, Georgia; and
Whereas we the people of Boone, N. C., are aware of the
important contribution to community welfare being made by
A PROMISE IN ACTION
■ ^ ■
Girl Scout Week
March 8-14,1964
Vjriri ocuui5 vui un
teers through their
work with the youth
of the nation; and
Whereas the
Girl Scout organiza
tion has grown to
more than two and
three-quarters mil
lion girl members
and almost three
quarters of a mil
lion adult mem
bers, both men and
women, who are
each day living up
to their Promise to
Do Their Duty to
God and Country, to
Help Other People at All Times, and To Obey tne uiri acorn
Laws of loyalty, honesty, courtesy, cheerfulness, usefulness,
kindness and thrift; and
Whereas Girl Scouts of the United States of America has
set as its theme for its 52nd Birthday Year “Girl Scouting—A
Promise In Action” and is implementing this theme during
Girl Scout Week with special events paying tribute to parents
and depicting to parents highlights of the total Girl Scout pro
gram for girls ages seven through 17:
Now, therefore, I, Wade E. Brown, by virtue of the author
ity vested in me as Mayor of Boone, hereby proclaim March 8
through 14 of this year 1964 as Girl Scout Week and March 12
as the 52nd Anniversary of the founding of Girl Scouting in
the United States of America. I, therefore, call upon all citizens
to give the Girl Scouts now and in the coming year their con
tinued interest, cooperation and support so that increasing
numbers of girls may benefit from the splendid program of
training in citizenship which the Girl Scout organization offers.
WADE E. BROWN (
Mayor
Boone, N. C.
March 2, 1964.
BOOSTER DOSE MAY 10
K-0 Polio Drive Brings
Out 10,299 In Watauga
Special Clinic
Arranged At
Health Center
Watauga County struck a ma
jor blow in the “K-0 Polio”
Drive Sunday when 10,299 citi
zens went to four polio immuni
zations at schools in the coun
ty and swallowed lumps of
sugar each of which contained
two drops of a new trivalent
vaccine which not only im
munizes against paralytic polio
but also prevents development
of a carrier state.
The figure represented about
62 per cent of Watauga’s popu
lation of a little better than
17,000—well under the 75 per
cent hoped for throughout the
state, but a successful turnout
when measured against com
parable turnouts in other
mountain counties.
A special polio clinic for
those who missed this first dose
of the vaccine will be held at
the Watauga County Health
Center, just west of Boone on
Highway 421, March 16 from 1
p. m. to 4 p. m., Dr. Mary
Michal, County Health Supervi
sor, announced Tuesday. % $
The date for the booster dose
of the vaccine has been set for
Sunday, May 10, at the same
four stations which participated
this time.
Last Sunday, doctors and
nurses were present at each of
the four sites—Blowing Rock
School, Cove Creek School,
Parkway Elementary School
and Appalachian Elementary
School. The immunization lines
moved at the rate of better
than a dozen a minute at in
tervals of peak activity, it was
reported.
The immunization figures for
the four sites were as follows:
Blowing Rock, 1,221 doses;
Cove Creek, 3,456; Parkway,
1,887; Boone, 3,735.
Second Polio
Chance Given
A “Second Chance” clinic
for the first dose of polio vac
cine will be held at the Health
Center in Boone Monday,
March 16 from 1 p. m. to 4 p.
m. only.
This clinic will be for anyone
who missed the polio clinic
last Sunday, and would like to
have this opportunity to have
their first dose.
Remember the hours for this
will be the only special time of
this sort to be set up.
Christmas Tree
Growers To Meet
A meeting for people interest
ed in growing Christmas trees
will be held at the Courthouse
Tuesday night, March 17.
John Gilliam and Leonard
Hampton, Extension Forestry
Specialists, will show colored
slides and charts showing grow
ing practices, pruning or shear
ing, marketing and returns ex
pected.
The huge line of citizens waiting to receive
their polio immunization at Appalachian
Elementary School in Boone Sunday after
noon stretched all the way to the College
Bookstore.—Flowers photo.
Citizens pass through the polio immuniza
tion line at Blowing Rock School Sunday
afternoon during the county-wide effort to
K-0 Polio.—Flowers’ photo.
Northwest Development Meet
Attended By Watauga Members
Thirty representatives from
eight of the 11 counties in the
Northwest North Carolina Dec
velopment Association, Inc.,
met at the Hotel Wilkes in
North Wilkesboro last Wednes
day for the Association’s In
dustry Division meeting, pre
sided over by Edwin Duncan,
Sr., of Sparta, chairman of the
Industry Division.
Members attending from Wa
tauga County were A. T.
Adams, Stanley Harris and W.
R. Winkler.
Mr. Duncan said that much
of our industrial development
and expansion in the future de
pends upon our success in de
veloping good relationships be
tween all of the people in the
Northwest North Carolina area.
He praised the work done by
Mr. H. F. Snyder in forwarding
economic understanding among
youth and others throughout
Northwest North Carolina.
Duncan again emphasized, as
he had at other times, the need
for increasing income in North
west North Carolina. He point
ed out that perhaps there can
be some increase in agricultur
al income, but, in the main, it
must come through the crea
tion of more jobs in industry.
Eighteen Churches To Take Part
InWataugaBaptistJubileeRevival
Eighteen churches will parti
cipate in the Baptist Jubilee
Revival in the Three Forks As
sociation, March 22-April 12,
according to announcement to
day by the Reverend George
Hyler, pastor of Blowing Rock
Baptist Church and superin
tendent of evangelism for the
Three Forks Association.
Committee chairmen and
pastors participating in the
simultaneous revival met Mon
day morning at the First Bapt
ist Church of Boone. The Rev
erend Mr. Hyler presided over
the meeting. Reports were
heard from the various com
mittees.
Churches participating in the
revival include Blowing Rock,
Boone First, Brushy Fork, Cove
Creek, Greenway, Howard’s
Creek, Laurel Springs, Mt. Cal
vary, Oak Grove, Perkinsville,
Pleasant Grove, Rutherwood,
South Fork, Three Forks, Wil
lowdale, Zionville, Tabernacle
and Stony Fork.
The Reverend Ed Crump,
prayer chairman, suggested
that each church appoint a.
prayer chairman as soon as
possible.
The Rev. R. F. Smith, pastor
of North Wilkesboro Baptist
Church will be the guest speak
er at a rally for revivals on
March 22, 2:30 p. m., at the
First Baptist Church of Boone,
according to the Reverend J.
Boyce Brooks, chairman of
rally.
The Reverend W. E. Pope,
Three Forks Associational Mis
sionary, said, “One of the most
heartening and encouraging
(continued on page 3, sec. C)
Broyhill Gets
High Rating On
Voting Record
Washington, D. C. — Repre
sentative James T. Broyhill of
North Carolina’s 9th District,
received a high rating of 94%
for his voting record during the
first session of the 88th Con
gress by Americans for Consti
tutional Action.
i Represtnative Broyhill, of Le
noir, according to ACA, has
voted during 1963 to uphold the
Constitution of the United
States and has opposed appease
ment of Communists abroad and
the trend toward socialism at
home through centralization of
power in a mamoth bureaucracy
in Washington. The voting rec
ords of Broyhill and Congress
man Charles Raper Jonas re
ceived identical ratings from
ACA. Their ratings were the
highest assigned to the members
of the North Carolina delega
tion in the House of Represent
atives.
Congressman Broyhill, now in
his first term and a member
of the Interstate and Foreign
Commerce Committee, was cited
by ACA as a “courageous legis
lator dedicated to individual
(continued on page 3, sec. C)