FOR BEST RESULTS advertisers invariably use the col umns of the Democrat. With its full paid circulation, intensely covering the local shopping area, it is the best advertising medium available. An Independent Weekly Newspaper • • • Seventy-Sixth Year of Continuous Publication BOONE WEATHER 1904 Hi Lo pree. ’83 March 17 53 39 March 18 47 27 March 19 58 25 March 20 43 32 .18 March 21 36 30 31 March 22 34 20 tr. March 23 54 20 VOLUME LXXVI—NO. 39 ^SvSSVSSS^SS?-.mo?* If C BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY. MARCH 26, 1964 10 CENTS PER COPY 22 PAGES—3 SECTIONS ssggassB JaL .M. ,.aK • Dr. Daniel Jay Whitener, i The Watauga County Young Democrats’ Club will meet in the Courthouse in Boone Mon day night, March 30, at 8 p. m,. according to Glenn Hodges, president of the Club. Plans will be made to have the Democratic candidate for congress for the 9th District, Bob Davis, to Watauga County to meet with his friends and supporters. Mr. Davis is unop posed in the May primary and is assured of the nomination. Schools Will Close June 3rd The Watauga County Board of Education, in special session Monday, March 16, revised the current school calendar to ex tend the closing date of school from Wednesday, May 13 to June 3. Schools have been closed a total of 20 days due to weather and road conditions thus causing the original school calendar to be adjusted to absorb the days lost. The following schedule was officially adopted to permit the closing of schools on Wed nesday, June 3: (1) Cancel Easter holidays, March 27 and March 30—2 days. (2) Extend term from May 13 to Wednesday, June 3—15 days. (3) Add 2 days already made up on Saturday—2 days. (4) Schedule one additional make-up date on Saturday, April 11, 1964—1 day. Total—20 days. The one additional make-up date on Saturday, April 11, will permit students to end the school year on Wednesday, June 3, and teachers will complete their year’s work Friday, June 5. One Injured As Speeding Auto Crashes On 421 Dexter Beach Eggers, 19, of Route 1, Vilas, operator of a 1962 Chevrolet, was hospitalized last Wednesday night, after wrecking the vehicle on U. S. 421, east of the N. C.-Tenn. state line. He suffered a broken arm, lacerations over the body and head, and bruises. He was re leased from Watauga Hospital Saturday, when his condition Was considered satisfactory. According to report by P* Holman George Baker, the Egg ers car was oDserved traveling through Boone at a speed of about 60 miles per hour. Pa trolman Baker pursued the speeding vehicle, the chase at times reaching 125 miles per hour. The patrolman followed agg ers to the Tennessee line, a distance of about 12 miles from where the chase began. When they reached the state line, the patrolman turned his vehicle around and started back toward Boone, according to the report. Eggers then came back into Nortn Carolina and passed the patrolman’s car, and the chase then resumed. The patrolman reported that Eggers turned off his lights several times in an effort to elude capture, and it is believed this was the rea son of the wreck, since there was no indication that Eggers had lost control of the vehicle. The car ran off the left side of the road about three miles west of Boone, and reportedly rolled over between five and seven times on an uphill grade, after hitting and leaning six highway posts. The vehicle came to a rest in the front yard of the John Herman home. Be cause the chase was entering a more heavily populated area, Patrolman Baker had slowed the (continued on page eight) T >*mi «.Ill.I .— Photo by Flowers' Photo Shop SCENE OF WRECK IN WHICH EGGERS YOUTH WAS INJURED SUNRISE SERVICE SUNDAY Wataugans Will Gather To Praise Risen Lord Other Easter Programs In County Listed The annual Watauga County Easter Sunrise Service, spon sored by the Watauga County Ministerial Association, will be held Sunday at 6:15 a. m. in Conrad stadium at Appalachian State Teachers College in Boone. The public is invited to attend. This information, released this week, corrects an earlier announcement that the service would be held at the Daniel Boone Theater Park. Should weather be too incle ment to hold the service out of doors, it will instead be held at the First Baptist Church of Boone. The Sunrise Service will be broadcast by WATA radio. The program for the service is as follows: Prelude— Appalachian High School Band. Choir sings — “Low in the Grave He Lay.” Rev. C. O. Vance— “Christ, the Lord Is Risen!” Congregation responds in un ison—“Christ, the Lord Is Ris en Indeed!" Choir sings—“Up from the Grave- He Arose.** Congregation sings—“Christ, the Lord Is Risen Today.” Interlude of band music. Responsive reading—Led by Rev. Floyd Boston. Prayer—Rev. Boyce Brooks. Easter Meditation — Rev. Richard Crowder. Congregation sings — “All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name.” Benediction—Rev. J. K. Park er, Jr. Postlude—Appalachian High School Band. The High School Band will be directed during this service by James Shugert, with the cnoir being directed by Mrs. Kenneth Linney. The public address system for the Easter Sunrise Service will be provided by Grant Ayers. Blowing Rock Easter Service The annual Blowing Rock Easter Sunrise Service will be held at Rumple Memorial Pres byterian Church Sunday at 6 a.m. Rev George Hyler, pastor of Blowing Rock Baptist Church, will bring the message. Following this the Annual Men’s Class breakfast will be held at the school cafeteria. Men of the Rumple Memorial Church will prepare and serve the breakfast. “Risen Christ” Hopewell Topic The Boone Methodist Circuit will have a joint worship ser vice Easter Sunday, March 29, at Hopewell Methodist Church. There will be special singing, and Rev. F. J. Rogers will bring the message, “The Risen Christ.” At the close of the service, Holy Communion will be served. Easter Closing Is Recommended The Boone Merchant’s As sociation recommends that all business places in Boone close for Easter Monday. The offices of the County Court House will be closed , Easter Monday, also the Health Department, George Stephens, Jr. (center), special assist ant to Governor Terry Sanford, discussed the needs of the Appalachian Mountain area at a meeting Monday night in the Boone Elementary School Auditorium. In the pic ture with Stephens is Representative Hol shouser (left) and Dr. W. H. Plemmons, ASTC president (right).—Penley photo. Says Greatest Need Of Mountain People Is Education And Training George Stephens, Jr.* .special assistant to Governor Terry San ford, said Monday night that the greatest need of the Appalach | ian area of North Carolina is education and training. Stephens, representative of Sanford on the Appalachian Governors Conference and on the President’s Commission on the Appalachian Region, spoke to a meeting of Watauga County leaders—numbering about 100— called by Dr. W. H. Plemmons, president of Appalachian State Teachers College. Plemmons is also a member of the Advisory Council to the Conference of Appalachian Gov ernors, to which he was appoint ed by Governor Sanford. Stephens said the mountain people of North Carolina, as in the rest of the Appalachian area, have not shared in the general prosperity of the United States. They are caught in a spiral of diminishing opportunity, Steph ens said. He said that portions of North Carolina are underdeveloped and people are not earning enough money. The purpose of the President’s commission is to work to create additional jobs, increase earning power and re train individuals for job op portunities. Stephens went into consider able detail in a speech which gave some of the history of the Appalachian development pro jects with which he is associa ted, as well as relating the chief functions and aims of the Or ganizations behind the projects. His speech was followed by a lengthy question -and- answer I period. J. E. Holshouser, Jr., served as master of ceremonies for the event. Personnel Changes Made In Parkway Operations G. B. Hanson, President and General Manager, National Park Concessions, Inc., General Of fices, Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, has announced changes in the management personnel for the Blue Ridge Parkway Operations of the corporation. The an nouncement followed a four-day staff conference of manage ment personnel held at the Mammoth Cave Hotel. Buell Demunbrun, Assistant Manager, Mammoth Cave Hotel, will be transferred as manager of the Bluffs Lodge and Bluffs Coffee Shop at Doughton Park Operations, Blue Ridge Park way, North Carolina. Demun Election Board Members Named J. E. Edmisten, R. T. Greer, Democrats, and Stacy C. Eggers, Republican, all of Boone, have been re-appointed as members of the Watauga County Board of Elections. The chairman and secretary of the board will be named at the organization meeting. brun, who has more than 16 years service with the corpora tion was formerly manager of the facilities operated by Na tional Park Concessions, Inc., in Big Bend National Park, Texas. Miss Mary Lou Ford, former manager of Bluffs Lodge and Coffee Shop at Doughton Park Operations, will be transferred to handle the important function of opening and managing a new facility at Crabtree Meadows, Blue Ridge Parkway, North Carolina. The new facility, con sisting of a Coffee Shop and Craft Shop is scheduled for opening in early May. Miss Ford; who has worked in various posi tions in other National Park Operations of the corporation, has been with NPC for more than 16 years. L. L. Lewis, Resident Man ager for National Park Conces sions, Inc., on the Blue Ridge Parkway, stated that Odell Lit tle, Jefferson, North Carolina, will continue in his capacity as Manager, M a r b y Mill - Rocky Knob Operations on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia. Hanson said that the trans (continued on page eight) Tomato Market For Watauga Is Assured; 50 Acres Promised Watauga County is getting ready for trellis tomatoes. In a recent meeting at Boone interested farmers and others conferred with officials of Dix on Tom-a-toe Co. of Atlanta, Georgia, and were assured of a tomato market for the area, said Joe B. Gourlay, marketing specialist with the N. C. De partment of Agriculture’s mar kets division. Gourlay said Frank Hauser, representative for the buying company, pointed out that 50 acres of the tomatoes were needed before a receiving sta tion could be opened by his firm. The needed acreage was promised bp local farmers through the aid of agricultural workers and other interested persons. Several acres will come from adjoining counties, Gour Iay said. Hauser reported that his com pany could handle between 60 and 70 acres of tomatoes from the area. Farmers in the area could contact their county ag ents if they are interested in raising tomatoes for the Boone buying station, Gourlay said. The varieties to be raised are Manapal and Manalucie. A siz ing machine will be brought into the area, and the market will be set up in warehouse space owned by the Town of Boone. The tomatoes will be bought but not packed there. Number one and two tomatoes will be bought as a combined grade for top market prices with number three tomatoes at a lower price. No culls will be bought. Gourlay said the tomatoes should be brought in one-half bushel boxes, and they should be picked with some degree of color. The capstem should be off, he said. In Mitchell County where the company bought last year grow ers have indicated they will double the acreage grown in 1963. There high production ran to 22.5 tons on one-half (Continued on pafe eight)