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VOLUME LXXVII-.NO. 11
CONTENTS COFYRIOtnXO 1W
RIVERS PRINTING CO.. INC.
1964
BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROUNA, THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 10, 1964
10 CENTS PER COPY
20 PAGES—3 SECTIONS
AMONG THOSE ATTENDING the opening of Democratic
campaign headquarters Saturday in the Professional Build
ing are 1-r Robert W. Scott, Democratic nominee for lieuten
ant governor, Helen Underdown for register of deeds,
Gordon H. Winkler, county board of commissioners, James
Davis, brother of Robert M. Davis, candidate for Congress
from the 9th district, David Spainhour and Robert W. Davis,
county board of commissioners nominees. (Flowers photo.)
W. S. Hampton
Dies Monday
William Spencer Hampton,
82, retired farmer of Boone,
Route 4, died Monday at Wa
tauga Hospital after a long ill
ness.
He was born in Watauga
County to Jordan and Rachel
Coffey Hampton.
Surviving are a daughter,
Mrs. Virginia Bentley of Boone,
Rt. 4; a son, Hammond Hamp
ton of Boone, Rt. 4; 11 grand
children; five great-grandchil
dren; a brother, Lindley Hamp
ton of Boone, Bt. 4; and three
sisters,Mrs. Elba ’S|0£te _ of.
Boone, Rt. 4, Mrs. Connie
Wheeler of Boone, Rt. 2, and
Mrs. Elsie Johnson of Mobile,
Ala.
The funeral was conducted
at 2 p. m. Wednesday at Three
Forks Baptist Church by the
Rev. Bynum Trivett and the
Rev. Harold Hayes. Burial was
in Mount Lawn Memorial Park.
Don Howser
Funeral Held
Hagan Don Howser, 11-year
old son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe
H. Howser of 417 Green Street,
died Monday at Baptist Hospital
in Winston-Salem after an ill
ness of 10 months.
Surviving besides his parents
are two brothers, Lee and
Steve Howser, both of the home;
a sister, Maxie Faye Howser
of the home; and his grand
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Rhea
Howser and Mrs. Leora Broyles,
all of Limestone, Tenn.
The funeral was conducted
at 1 p. m. Wednesday at Boone
Methodist Church by the Rev.
Richard Crowder. A graveside
service was conducted at 4
p. m. at Urbana Cemetery at
Limestone, Tenn.
DR. H. M. COOKE
Dr. Cooke To
Close Office
Dr. H. M. Cooke, local phy
sician who has practiced in
Boone for the past ten years at
the Hagaman Clinic, announces
the closing of his office after
Sept. 12.
The home will be maintained
in Boone during this time, and
all unpaid accounts may be set
tled with Mrs. Cooke, AM 4
3649, or by olijl.
CLARK RUSSJELL
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Is Employed
At Carolina
Greensboro pharmacist Clark
Russell has accepted a position
with the Carolina Pharamacy
in Boone.
He received his training in
the School of Pharmacy at the
University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill. He is a member
of Kappa Psi fraternity and
was a classmate of Dr. James
Paul Greene, owner of the
Carolina Pharmacy.
Russell formerly operated a
pharmacy in Greensboro with
his father.
He is a member of the First
Baptist Church.
Farmers Urged
To Make Use
Of Cover Crops
Watauga County ASC Chair
man, Vaughn Tugman, urges
farmers to prepare their land
for the long winter ahead by
seeding a cover crop on all
cropland which would other
wise be exposed and subject to
erosion. The County Committee
has set aside ACP funds for ap
provals of winter cover crops
for all farmers in the county
who have need of them.
Farmers should stop at the
ASCS office and make a re
quest for any of these cover
crops: barley, oats, rye, wheat,
crimson clover, hairy vetch, or
annual ryegrass. An on-the-spot
purchase order will be made.
October 10 is the final date
for seeding barley, oats and
wheat with final date for seed
ing rye November 10. Seeding
rates for barley is 2-3 bushels
per acre. The rate for rye is 2
bushels per acre.
In 1963 379 farmers request
ed federal cost-share assistance
and seeded over 1121 acres of
winter cover crops. According
to Mr. Tugman these winter
cover crops are very important
since they protect some of our
most valuable cropland that
which we are farming in row
crops to produce human feed
and fiber.
Democrats Open New
Campaign Quarters
Watauga Democrats got their
1964 campaign underway Satur
day, Sept 5, when they formal
ly opened their campaign head
quarters which are located in
the Professional Building on
Main Street in Boone.
Over 300 visitors were greet
ed by Robert W. Scott, Demo
cratic nominee for Lieutenant
Governor, and James Davis,
brother of Robert M. Davis, who
is the nominee for Congressman
from the 9th Congressional Dis
trict, along with many Watauga
candidates running for local
and state offices.
Mrs. L. Y. Ballentine, new
State Secretary of the North
Carolina Executive Committee,
attended. She has succeeded
Mrs. Worth Folger of Sparta as
secretary.
Representing the Watauga
candidates were Louis H. Smith,
nominee for State Representa
tive; Gordon H. Winkler, Rob
ert W. Davis, David Spainhour,
candidates for the Board of
County Commissioners; and
Helen Underdown, seeking her
10th term as Register of Deeds.
There were also large delega
tions from Ashe, Avery, Cald
well and Wilkes counties.
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There were no regular ’cam
paign speeches as such, and re
freshments were served by the
Democratic women of the coun
ty to guests and visitors.
Pritchett Is Named Special
Consultant In U. S. Projects
John A. Pritchett, Jr., Direc
tor of the Audiovisual Center,
Appalachian State Teachers
College, has been selected by
the U. S. Office of Education to
serve as a special consultant
during the next two years on
two separate projects under Ti
tle VII of the National Defense
Act, it was announced in Wash
ington.
Professor Pritchett will work
on a research project contract
based at the University of Okla
homa, Norman, Okla., which
will develop official criteria
and guidelines for the estab
lishment of Educational Media
(audiovisual) programs for pub
lic schools, colleges, and uni
versities and will edit a self
evaluating instrument for school
administrators to be published
by the U. S. Office of Educa
tion in 1966.
The local educator will also
serve as associate director for
Contract No. OE - 4 -16 - 018,
awarded to the University of
Massachusetts, Amherst, Mass.,
which is to lead toward the
development of a national re
pository and production center
for transparencies for college
instruction in audiovisual edu
cation at the undergraduate
levels.
Pritchet has been a member
of the faculty of Appalachian
State Teachers College and di
rector of the Audiovisual Cent
er since 1956, and has served
on many state and national
committees in connection with
the NDE Act with special em
phasis on the newer educational
media including instructional
television.
Everyone Busy On Campus
ASTG Begins To Enroll
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Record Student Body
Kiser Service
Foreman Here
For Sou. Bell
Mr. H. L. Kiser, former
switchman for Southern Bell
Telephone A Telegraph Com
pany in Charlotte, has been
promoted to Service Foreman
in Boone, according to Mr. R.
A. Pinner, District Plant Mana
ger, Asheville. Mr. Kiser, better
known as “Hill” will replace
Mr. Morris Sorrells who has
accepted the duties of Line
Foreman In Waynesville.
Mr. Kiser began his career
with the telephone company in
September, 1946 as a lineman
in Charlotte. Since that time
he has held many different as
signments ranging from Instal
ler-Repairman to Central Of
fice repairman.
At the present time Mr. and
Mrs. Kiser are members of the
Thomasboro Presbyterian
Church in Charlotte, however,
they plan to move their mem
bership just as soon as living
arrangements in Boone can be
made.
Mr. Kiser’s duties will con
sist primarily of supervising
H. L. KISER
the activities of employees who
install and maintain telephones
in the Boone, Blowing Rock,
Newland, and Spruce Pine
areas.
MONI FLOROFF, who has adopted Lenoir as his permanent
home, shakes hands with Congressman James T. Broyhill
after learning that he no longer faces deportation but in
stead can file petition for U. S. citizenship. Congressman
Broyhill’s efforts, beginning 1963, were climaxed when
President Johnson signed a bill on August 30 allowing
Floroff to remain in Lenoir and the United States.
Congressman Broyhill To
Be In Boone On Friday
James T. Broyhill, Republican
Congressman from the Ninth
Congressional District, will be
in Boone at the Postoffice Sept.
11 at 8 a.m. and will spend the
morning along Main Street vis
iting with friends and support
ers.
Mr. Broyhill will go to Blow
ing Rock at 2 p.m. He will make
himself available to all those
interested in asking questions
or discussing contents of a
questionnaire recently made
available concerning foreign and
domestic affairs. All interested
persons are asked to make a
point to see and talk with Mr.
Broyhill on his visit here Sept.
11.
Sheep Shearers
Place In Top 10
North Carolina’s entries in
the National 4-H Sheep Shear
ing Contest finished among the
top 10 in the nation in competi
tion at Indianapolis, Ind.
Daniel Ham, of Alleghany
County, runner-up in the state
contest, won fifth place in na
tional competition. State winner
Bill Henson of Watauga County
won 10th place.
The two-member North Caro
lina team was coached by W. C.
Richardson, agricultural exten
sion agent in Watauga.
3,030 Resident i
Pupils Expected
For Fall Term
BY LARRY PENLEY
Appalachian State Teachers
College is making plans for one
jf its biggest and best years,
beginning with faculty meet
ngs on September 8 and 9.
Dormitories opened for fresh
men and transfer students on
September 8, with the first
meal in the cafeteria served at
loon.
The freshman orientation
program began at 2 p. m. on
the 8th.
Dormitories for upperclass
men opened on September 9 and
registration will be held on the
10th. Upperclassmen will begin
classes on September 11 at 8
i. m., and freshmen, who will
be involved in orientation, will
begin classes on September 12
at 8 a. m.
Dormitory Facilities
Dormitory facilities on the
campus have been improved
by the addition of a new eight
story dormitory for women, but
the rooming situation is still
very tight. The college has
dormitory facilities on the
campus for some 1700 students.
Last year approximately 1917
students were housed in these
facilities, and it is also planned
to assign three students to an
additional 200 or 250 rooms
for this year. Such conditions
are not desirable but either
these conditions are continued
or five or six hundred students
would be told that Appalachian
cannot accommodate them.
Dr. Ben Strickland, ASTC
registrar, said that the college
expects a projected full-time
enrollment of 3030 resident
students for the fall term.
At present the number of ap
plications received is running
more than 200 ahead of last
year at this time. Dr. James
Lacey, director of admissions,
indicates that 950 freshmen are
expected, as compared with
750 enrolled last year. He also
stated that 1667 applications
For admittance have been com
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Miss
Local Beauty Queen Talks Of Reign
America May Be Found In Watauga
Somewhere in America to
day, a girl is preparing for a
small town beauty pageant that
will lead her to fame and for
tune, for from small town
pageants come the contestants
from which Miss America will
be chosen in 1065.
However, not all the contest
ants can win the coveted title.
Boone and Watauga County
have had a beauty pageant for
the past several years, thanks
to the hard work and serious
efforts of the Jaycees, and per
haps Miss America of 1965 is
preparing to enter the “Miss
Watauga County” pageant to be
held here in October.
Miss Glenda Austin, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Aus
tin of Winkler’s Creek Road
had these reflections concern
ing the past year as she has
reigned as “Miss Watauga
County.”
“It hasn’t all been peaches
and cream. There is a lot of
Scott To Take Chairmanship Of
National Johnson Group Today
BY JEAN L. RIVERS
Copyright 1964
Rivers Printing Co.. Inc.
Robert Scott of Haw River,
Democratic candidate for Lieu
tenant Governor will be named
national chairman of a “Rural
Americans for Johnson” or
ganization, backing the election
of President Lyndon Johnson.
The Democrat learned auth
oritatively the end of the week
that the announcement of the
Scott appointment will be made
at a press conference today
(Wednesday.)
Mr. Scott was in Washington
Tuesday where he bad dinner
with two co-chairmen of the or
ganization, Charles H. Mahon
ey, former Montana Commis
sioner of Agriculture and Mrs.
Mary Conger of Kansas. At that
time there was a discussion of
preliminary plans, and a con
ference with members of the
campaign staff about the mech
anics of organizing the Rural
campaign for the re-election of
the President
Incidentally, the National
Farmers Union, with most of
its strength in the midwest, is
helping set up the campaign
unit.
Scott’s selection for the cam
paign chairmanship was looto
ed on with enthusiasm by Pres
ident Johnson for two reasons:
Scott is a Southerner; and he
has a reputation as a strong
supporter and articulate advo
cate of farm programs fostered
by Democratic administrations.
In his role as chairman of
the campaign unit, Scott would
be called on for speech-making
around the country, although
he would not have to tend to
day-to-day administrative de
tails of the organization’s cam
paign effort.
By heading such a campaign
unit, Scott would automatical
ly become an influential spokes
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hard work involved and of
course, the perpetual smile and
loss of sleep. In Raleigh as I
competed for the Miss North
Carolina title, I hardly averag
ed three hours sleep per night.
“But the friends I’ve made
and the memories I have, are
worth it all tenfold. Besides
the two items I’ve just men
tioned, friends and memories,
I had the good fortune to win
many, many nice prizes from
the Boone and Watauga county
merchants in addition to a
wardrobe furnished by the
Jaycees.
“To go back to the Raleigh
trip for just a moment, I com
peted in the “largest beauty
pageant in the world” there.
We had 90 contestants and as
you can imagine there was
chaos and confusion at times.
If it hadn’t been for Mr. and
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From The
Editorial Desk
We respectfully submit that
2,800 copies of Section C of
this week’s Democrat got off
the press without our noticing
we’d left Alfred Mordecai’s
name off the Letter to the Edi
tor. We hate to work against
our own policy and hope that
Mr. Mordecai will forgive us
for signing him “An Oldtimer”
—2,800 times.
GLENDA AUSTIN
Photo by Paul Weston Studio
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