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'■ i V :y;-^"v '” ‘; ' • - ,- : - %$$%& ■ -■■ >■■"• ■ ;; • '. *V- ■ i *\ •* *t''ft-»'.»S 1 V ,« «y;> * Hf^T-:* W--; ■ ■>--» '- • >■',/> <S'*t ?i jf •>• f * - ' * ( ___ DEMOCRAT ; > ;f: *>r> — t-.,. ;rr'-A 1984 HI Lo prec. ’63 ffl L* in Independent Weekly Newspaper . • • Seventy-Seventh Year of Continuous Publication ■ Oct. 13 61 32 Oct 14 81 35 Oct. 15 51 45 Oct. 16 50 42 1.98 V Oct 17 54 48 3.84 Oct. 18 67 49 Oct 19 52,34 VOLUME LXXVII-.NO. 17 66 69 „ 72 32 74 29 73 32 73 33< 72 37 *C. CONTENTS COPYRIGHTED ISM RIVERS PRINTING CO.. INC. BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1964 10 CENTS PER COPY 20 PAGES—3 SECTIONS WHEREAS BRIDGES USUALLY KEEP WATER OFF OF PEOPLE, this one on Deerfield Road adjacent to the Boone Golf Course, gave up the ghost Friday and submitted to the widespread flooding. (The black and white markers out line the bridge.) A number of rain spectators crossed the bridge against their better judgment and sped back across it and homeward. Three drivers said they doubted that the bridge was still intact, but ventured across anyway. Shoe Company Workers To Vote On Union Plan Employees of the Boone plant of the Blue Ridge Shoe Com pany will vote November 2 at the maintenance room in the local factory on whether the Teamsters’ Union will be em ployed as their bargaining agent. This action was taken at a meeting of the National Labor Relations Board in Winston Salem last Wednesday which was attended by representatives of the union and of Blue Ridge Shoe Company and was held in respect to the petition filed by Teamsters Local 61 of Hickory. Blue Ridge asked for this meeting quickly, to avoid hear ings by the Board, which it is understood could take many weeks. In a letter to the employees, Mr. R. D. Ray, plant manager, said:“One reason why we want ed-this-question settled as soon as possible is so that we can continue to make progress in dealing with some of the mat ters which have been brought up in our meetings over recent weeks.” About two hundred and sev enty employees will be entitled to vote in the election which will determine whether the Team sters Union will come into the Blue Ridge plant. It is the Governor Clement To Speak Monday Hon. Frank Clement, Gov ernor of Tennessee, will be the featured speaker at a Demo cratic rally to be held Monday, Oct. 26, at 7 p. m., at the Ap palachian Elementary School Auditorium. Gov. Clement is coming to Boone at the invitation of the local Democratic Executive Committee and will deliver an address in the school auditor ium following a dinner in the school cafeteria. : Tickets for the dinner may be purchased at Democratic Headquarters, from Tom Wink ler and Grady Moretz, Jr., lo cal committee chairmen, or from any township chairman. A $5.00 ticket admits two to the dinner. There will be no charge to hear Gov. Clement’s address, and all persons not at tending the dinner are urged to come to hear the Governor. Gov. Clement is coming by plane to Hickory Monday, and will be escorted by Watauga County Democratic officials to Boone. HPN. FRANK CLEMENT , t understanding that the issues will be settled by a majority vote of those casting ballots. The election will be held under the supervision of a Na tional Labor Relations Board agent. It will be a secret ballot, and neither union or company representatives will be allowed in the voting area while the polls are open. The polls will be open from 9:30 to 11:30, and the NLRB agent will open the box and count the votes in the presence of representatives of the company and of the union. The results should be known, it is said, by the end of the lunch hour. Only production employees will be allowed to vote. Super visors, guards, watchmen and office personnel are not eligible to vote, it is pointed out. Burley Sales Will Begin Here On November 30 The shortest pre-Christmas season sales period was set Monday by the Burley Sales Committee for the 1964-65 marketing season. Nov. 30 will mark opening sales in all eight hurley pro ducing states and will close for the holidays Dec. 22. A total of 59^-4 hours—three and-a-half per day — was scheduled for the pre-Christ mas period. Sales will resume Jan. 4. The committee said it set the opening date later than usual because the general feeling was growers would need more time to ready the crops for market as a result of widespread slow curing this year. Growers will not be allow ed to take their tobacco to be weighed at the warehouses until 10 days before selling begins. The earliest date set for weighing was Nov. 20. Win Awards On Prize Potatoes At State Fair Watauga farmers did well with their potato exhibits at the North Carolina State Fair. Horace Greer of Boone won a second place in the Irish po tato class, Council Henson of Vilas won a first, second and fourth place, Mrs. L. A. Hen son of Vilas won a first place, a second place and a third place for her potato exhibits. Watauga Area Is Deluged By Heavy Rainfall The clouds opened up over Watauga last Thursday and Fri day and dumped approximately 5.80 inches of water on the county and surrounding areas. For a while is was feared that we were in for a repeat of the 1940 conditions, but ac cording to reports, damages from the deluge were slight, and Monday morning found things practically back to nor mal with only a slight swelling of the rivers and streams in evi dence. Schools in the county turned out early Friday because of the existing high water conditions, as it was feared buses deliver ing children into the rural areas would be hampered in making their runs. Reports from L. E. Tuckwil ler, County Agent, indicates that there was considerable (Continued on page two) EBER RAY SHERRILL Eber Sherrill Dies Sunday; Funeral Tuesday Eber Ray Sherrill, 53, of Boone died Sunday at Watauga Hospital after an illness of two weeks. He was one of the founders of Trailway Laundry and Dry Cleaners, and had been a dry cleaner in Boone for a number of years. Sherrill was born in Watauga County to John and Sallie Cook Sherrill. He was a member of Boone Advent Christian Church. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Bina Hollar Sherrill; his mo ther of Boone; four daughters, Mrs. Peggy Harmon of Carrol ton, Ohio, [ Mrs. Barbara Brad ley of Friendship, Maine, and Misses Norma and Linda Sher rill of Boone; a son, Bobby (Continued an page two) Huge Crowd Expected ;,.'h _ yvf X Miss N. C.To Entertain During Beauty Pageant BULLETIN 1 Killed In Crash (PICTURE ON PAGE SIX) Mrs. Lucille Potter Main, 39, wife of R. J. Main of Zionvilie, was instantly killed in a head-on automobile col lision on the Silverstone Road off old Highway 421 about 5 p. m. Tuesday, according to information received from Reins • Sturdivant Funeral Home. Mrs. Main was a passenger in a 1961 Corvair driven by Vernon Castle of Zionvilie. Mrs. Main, Castle, and two Zionvilie passengers, Mrs. Roy Martin and Mrs. Georgia Pardue, were going home from the International Resist ance Company where they are employed, the Sheriff’s office reported. The driver of the 1958 Ford was Lewis Combs of Zionvilie. The Sheriff’s office report ed Castle suffered a broken (Continued on page three) Hon. Phil Lacy Makes Speech To G. 0. P. Meeting Hon. Phil Lacy of Greens boro addressed 150 Watauga county Republicans at a fund raising dinner at Parkway Ele mentary School Saturday night. Lacy is a former member of the State House of Representa tives, but is presently Republi can chairman of Guilford coun ty. Clyde R. Greene, Watauga County Chairman, presided and introduced the candidates for a brief talk. Oscar Coffey, Sheriff Cheek and Orville Fost er also spoke. James E. Holshouser Jr., who was in the Legislature with Lacy, spoke briefly in his own behalf, then introduced the guest speaker. Lacy com mended the work of Holshous er in the Legislature, then dis cussed the various state and national issues. Travel Meeting Set For Oct. 29 Herman W. Wilcox, President of the Boone Chamber of Com merce, calls attention to the Governor’s Travel Conference in his regular column in the Democrat this week. The conference of interest locally is the one to be held in Winston-Salem at the Jack Tar Hotel Oct. 29. Some of the nation’s leading authorities on travel and recrea tion will be present to discuss the various aspects of the de velopment and expansion of the tourist industry. Mr. Wilcox is anxious that at least fifty local people make ar rangements to attend the meet ing. Oct. 31 Deadline Set On C Of C Mail Ballots It is very important that all members of the Boone Chamber of Commerce return their bal lots for a new board of direc tors by Oct. 31, according to Mr. Herman W. Wilcox, Presi dent of the organization. The votes should be tabulated by Nov. 3, he says, so that the new directors nay be determ ine * • , ' ■ SHARON FINCH . . . MISS NORTH CAROLINA Congressman Broyhill To Lead GOP County Caravan Republicans of Watauga county and their candidates for local offices will be led by Con gressman Jim Broyhill in a tour of all the townships in Watauga county on Oct. 26. The group will leave Boone about 8:30 a. m. for Thomas’ store in North Fork Township. The next stop will be at the voting place in North Fork Township where residents will join the caravan. Departure time will be 9:30 a. m. The group will continue, ar riving at Meat Camp voting place at 10 a. m.; Bald Moun tain, 10:30 a. m.; Deep Gap at 11 a. m.; Stony Fork (Well born’s store), 11:30 a. m.; then arrive at Triplett community house at noon for lunch. Lunches will be carried by each traveler; drink will be fur nished at Triplett. Leaving Elk at about 12:30 p. m., the caravan will continue via Bamboo and Aho, arriving Blowing Rock at 1:30 p. m. The group will return to Boone at 2 p. m. and travel King Street to Water Street, then follow Faculty Street and Highway (Continued on page two) BULLETIN Herbert C. Hoover, 31st pres ident of the United State?, died Tuesday morning in his suite in the Waldorf Astoria Towers, New York. Mr. Hoover’s death was a result of internal hem orrhaging. He had suffered his third attack in recent months. President Lyndon Johnson has proclaimed a national 30 day mourning period. First Official Appearance, October 24th Miss Sharon Finch, Miss North Carolina, will be here on Saturday, Oct. 24, when Miss Watauga County of 1965 will be chosen. Miss Finch, a niece of the Rev. and Mrs. Richard Crowder of Boone will be making her first official appearance here. She will entertain the Pageant audience that night at the Boone Elementary School. Other events of the day will include a tea for the contestants at the Daniel Boone Hotel from 2 p. m. to 3:30 p. m. and a pa rade through downtown Boone. The parade route will be: Form at the “Horn in the West” parking lot and leave the parking lot promptly at 3:30 to East King Street; follow East King Street through the center of town to Water Street, thence down Water Street to Faculty Street, where the pa rade will disband. Activities of the day will reach their climax at the Boone Elementary School Auditorium beginning at 7:30 p.m. Miss Glenda Austin, Miss Watauga County of 1964, will crown the new queen. Among the honored guests Will be Miss Vicki Angell of Winston - Salem, voted Most Photogenic by the North Caro lina Press Association recently. Mrs. Richard Crowder, aunt of Miss North Carolina, has agreed to serve as director of the pageant this year, and she will be ably assisted by the Boone Jaycettes in the produc tion of the show. < Mrs. Thomas Tedford is the organist. Again this year, Mrs. Tedford will be playing the organ which belonged to Mr. Paul Weston, former Boone photographer. During intermission, the Jay cees will add a new treat this year as Little Miss Watauga will be chosen from a group of 4 and 5-year-old beauties. The winner will be chosen by the regular pageant judges. Bob Barnes, former disc jock ey at Radio WATA, will serve as master of ceremonies this year. Bob is now on the staff of WSOC-Radio and WSOC-TV in Charlotte. He has always been a favorite with the pa geant audiences. Judges will be Mrs. Ed Ander son of West Jefferson, owner of the Skyland Post; Mrs. Faye Arnold Broyhill of Lenoir, a former Miss North Carolina; Cecil Lee Porter, North Wilkes boro attorney; Blake Watts, in vestment counselor from Hick ory; and Fred Akers, regional sales manager with Eastern Air lines of Charlotte. Contestants will be Patricia Ann Boneno of Charlotte, a freshman at ASTC; Mary Di anne Danner of Vilas, a senior at Cove Creek High School; Jane Davenport of Mt. Airy, a senior at ASTC; Terri Alice (Continued on page two) Little Girls To Compete For Crown At Beauty Pageant Saturday’s pageant will find big girls vying for the Miss Watauga title, and little girls dreaming of their own special “crown.” The idea of Little Miss Wa tauga is new this year and will try its wings on the stage of the Boone Elementary School on Oct. 24. The pageant will get underway at 7:30 p. m„ with Bob Barnes at the micro phone. Elmer White, staff member of ASTC’s Music Department and Jaycae, baa arranged the line-up of Little Misses as: Miss Sheri Lynn Castle, age 4 (parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Castle). Tiss Tina Taylor, 4 (Mr. and Mrs. Earl Taylor). Misses Glenda Rae Wood ring, 5, and Brenda Kay Wood ring, 4 (Mr. and Mrs. Edward Earl Woodring). Miss Pamela Ann Barnett, 4 (Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Barn ett). Miss Debbie McCoy, 5 (Mr. and Mrs. Herbert McCoy). Mil* Penny Aldridge, 4 (Mr. and Mrs. Clay Aldridge). Miss Anna Lynn Hodges, 5 (Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Hodges). Miss Melinda Aldridge, 5 (Mr. and Mrs. Bill Aldridge). Miss Sandra Aldridge, 4 (Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Aldridge). Miss Lori Kim Wells, 5 (Mr. and Mrs. Bob Wells). White, chairman of the en tertainment committee, said that DeLee’s children’s shop 1 will furnish tokens for the jun ior contestants. All signals are go, as another pageant polla i|U> view.
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