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VOLUME LXXVII—NO. 23 ‘wvmnfflwoM* BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 3,1964 10 CENTS PER COPY 22 PAGES—3 SECTIONS
292,792 Pounds
Of Burley Sold
On OpeningDay
Tobacco sales opened Monday
as the first snow of the season
blanketed the county.
< Eight buyers shifted between
the Big Burley Warehouse on
the Highway 421 bypass and
Mountain Burley Warehouse
No. 2 at Faculty and Depot
Streets. They represented Lig
gett & Myers, Reynolds, Ameri
can, Piedmont, Brown & Wil
liamson, Austin and Greenville
(Tenn.) tobacco companies, and
the Burley Stabilization Com
pany, which is a branch of the
government.
Sales reports received Tues
day morning from Big Burley
Warehouse showed first day
sales of 78,792 pounds at an
average of $61.96 per hundred
pounds.
Mountain Burley Warehouse
Company reported 214,000
pounds sold at a hundred pound
rate of $61.59, Joe Coleman
said.
Miss Donna Jean Finley, the
new Miss Watauga, officially
opened the sales season Mon
day morning at Mountain Bur
ley Warehouse. North Caro
lina’s burley market is con
ducted in Boone, West Jeffer
son and Asheville. The flue
cured tobacco market in the
Piedmont and Coastal regions
“Keep Christ
In Christmas”
Contest <Dp$n
The Fine Arts Department of
the Boone Woman’s Club is
again sponsoring the "Keep
Christ in Christmas” contest.
For the past few years, mer
chants of Boone have been ask
ed by the Fine Arts Depart
ment of the Woman’s Club to
arrange window displays of a
religious nature to emphasize
the true Christian meaning of
Christmas—the birth of Christ.
Winners will be awarded
first, second and third place
ribbons. The religious scenes
will be judged by ministers of
Boone, assisted by a member of
the Woman’s Club. The displays
will be judged on Thursday,
Dec. 10, and awards made to
the winners on that date.
Mrs. E. S. Qualls, chairman
of the Fine Arts division,
named a committee consisting
of Mrs. Bert Ellis, chairman;
Mrs. Roy Rufty and Mrs. Dean
Merideth, committee members,
to arrange details of the con
test.
All business establishments
wishing to enter the contest
are invited to do so.
Holshouser
May Become
Minority Chief
Representative James E. Hol
shouser, Jr., of Watauga Coun
ty, is considered the most likely
prospect to be chosen minority
leader in the 1965 General As
sembly, in the opinion of Joe
Doster, Charlotte Observer po
litical writer.
It is pointed out that William
Osteen of Guilford County, mi
nority leader in 1961 and 1963,
did not run again and party
Chairman J. Herman Saxon of
Mecklenburg and joint caucus
chairman Dan Simpson of Burke
county were defeated. (The
Republicans’ seats in the House
were reduced by 7 to a total
of 14 in the last election, and
they lost one of their two Sen
ate seats.)
New leadership will be neces
sary and Mr. Doster points out
that Representative Holshouser
has one year of experience.
Thomas Bannett of Carteret,
another member of the 1963
sessions, is also a prospect for
minority leadfe?.
has already been conducted.
Stanley Harris, sales super
visor, told the Democrat that
sales are slated at 9:30 a.m.,
Monday, Wednesday and Friday
of this week at Big Burley.
When sales are completed, buy
ers will move to Mountain Bur
ley Warehouse.
The first Tuesday, Thursday
and Monday in December, sales
will start at 9:30 a. m. at Moun
tain Burley and move to Big
Burley.
Mrs. Isaacs Is
Taken By Death
Mrs. Mary Jane Fletcher
Isaacs, 79, of Sugar Grove,
widow of Arthur Isaacs, died
late Tuesday at Watauga Hos
pital after a long illness.
Mrs. Isaacs was born in Wa
tauga County to Jake and Mary
Jane Greer Fletcher.
Surviving are two daughters,
Mrs. Emma Isaacs of Boone
and Mrs. Ora Payne of Sugar
Grove; six grandchildren, four
teen great - grandchildren; a
brother, William Fletcher of
Sugar Grove; and three sisters,
Mrs. Nellie Lewis of Dillinger,
Pa., Mrs. Birdie Gragg of Kings
port, Tenn., and Miss Sophia
Fletcher of Vilas.
The funeral was conducted at
2 p. m. Thursday at Cove Creek
Baptist Church by the Rev. W.
H. Key and the Rev. L. A. Tal
bert. Burial was in. Cove Creek
Cemetery.
Christmas
Fair To Be
Held Sunday
Christmas decorations, trees,
wreaths, candles, and what
have- you will be on display at
the Daniel Boone Hotel Sun
day, Dec. 6 from 3 to 5 p. m.
Everything shown will be
hand made or hand decorated.
This Christmas Fair, which
is the December program of
the Blue Ridge Garden Club, is
open to everyone. Those wish
ing to place articles on display
are asked to bring them to the
hotel between 9 a. m. and 5 p.
m. on Saturday, Dec. 5.
There is no admission charge
or silver offering, and the pub
lic is invited to come and view
the displays.
WATAUGA’S OLDEST CITIZEN, Mrs. Rhoda Teague Greer,
relaxed at home on the occasion of her one-hundred-first
birthday Monday. Standing beside here is Mrs. Margie Mi
chael, her daughter. (Rivers photo.)
Watauga’s Oldest Citizen
Celebrates 101st Birthday
BY RACHEL RIVERS
Happy birthday, Mrs. Greer,
and have a healthy and happy
New Year!
Mrs. Rhoda Teague Greer
celebrated her one hundred and
first birthday Monday. An
amazing fact about her life, said
her • daughter, Mrs. • Margie
Michael who is 68, is that “She’s
never been a patient in ahospi
tal in her life..
‘Iter health has been so
good and she’s been a wonder
ful mother. I’m very proud of
her; she’s been with me 25
years.”
Mrs. Greer lives with her
daughter at 1601 Daniel Boone
Drive, in Perkinsville. Both are
charter members of. the Ruther
wood Baptist Chufch.
Tribute
Mrs. Greer received more
than 75 letters and telegrams
last year, as a result of a story
and picture in the Democrat,
Mrs. Michael said.
Among those was a letter
from Congressman James T.
Broyhill, recently re-elected by
the Ninth District.
This year, she received a let
ter from Sen. Sam J. Ervin, in
which the Senator wrote:
“Our mutual friend, Rufus
Edmisten, has told me about
your love for life and your keen
interest in making our world a
better place in which to live. I
am sure that your life has been
an inspiration to the many peo
Christmas Cantata Being
Planned At Blowing Rock
Mrs. Charles F. Brown’s
Studio Choral Group will pre
sent a Christmas Cantata Dec.
13 at 4 p.m. in the Chapel of
Rumple Memorial Presbyterian
Church, Blowing Rock.
The group will be joined in
the presentation by a group of
children from Crossnore School
who will be accompanied to
Blowing Rock by the Rev. Earl
Miller, pastor of Crossnore
Presbyterian Church. The Rev.
Miller will conduct the choral
groups and will play several
selections on his violin.
The cantata, entitled, “Childe
Jesus” by Joseph Clokey, will
be narrated by Rudolph Greene
and George Baker. The Rev. A.
Blake Brinkerhoff, pastor of
Rumple Memorial, will read the
Christmas Story.
The presentation will last ap
proximately an hour. Mrs.
Brown and her assistants ex
tend a cordial invitation to
everyone in the community to
attend.
The Studio Group will meet
at Brown’s Studio each Wednes
day and Sunday at 4 p.m. for
rehearsals.
pie with Whom you come into
daily contact.”
Last year, Dr. Charles Davant
of Blowing Rock, offered Wa
tauga County’s oldest citizen
her first Airplane ride for her
hundreth birthday. Mrs. Greer
wasn’t taking any chances,
though, and kindly declined the
offer: *‘f’m better off on the
ground,” she said.
Mrs. Greer was married Sept.
25, 1882, to Larkin Greer and
eame - with him to Watauga
County in 1896. Mr. Greer died
in 1940. “I have to sort of feel
my way around,” she said. This
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Blowing Rock -
Chamber Names
Bd. Directors
As a result of the recent bal
loting, which was possibly the
heaviest in the history of the
Blowing Rock Chamber of Com
merce the following named
were elected to serve on the
Board of Directors for the year
1065:
RESIDENT DIRECTORS: W.
H. Barnwell, John O. Goodwin,
R. B. Hardin, Mrs. H. P. Hol
shouser, J. D. Jones, C. S. Kipp,
and Louis H. Smith.
ASSOCIATE DIRECTORS:
William Abernethy, Mrs. S. C.
Crater, L. E. Dimmette, Mrs. T.
L. Dysard, Mrs. W. S. (Joe)
Greene, Mrs. Leon Ivey, Mrs.
Thomas V. Snively, Mrs. Larry
Walker and L. L. Whitaker.
These two classes of directors
are elected annually from the
membership by secret ballot.
The Resident Directors shall be
full time residents of the Town
of Blowing Rock. The Associ
ate Directors shall be selected
from the summer resident mem
bers of the Blowing Rock
Chamber of Commerce, Incorp
orated.
The first meeting of the new
directors will be held Friday,
Dec. 11, at 7:30 p. m. in the
Chamber building, at which
time the Board will elect a
president, a vice president, a
secretary and a treasurer to
serve for the year 1965.
Dr. Lawrence Given Service
Plaque By Optometric Society
Winston-Salem — Dr. C. Ray
Lawrence of Boone was pre
sented a bronze Distinguished
Service Plaque 1 by the North
Carolina Optometric Society at
its annual Fall Educational
Congress here last week.
A past president of the so
ciety, Dr. Lawrence was cited
for outstanding and devoted
service to the society and the
profession of optometry, and
for his continued leadership in
optometric affairs..
The award was presented by
Dr. S. H. Templeman of Lenoir,
president of the society, at a
special dinner attended by more
than 250 optometrists and their
wives at the Jack Tar-Winston
Hotel.
In making the presentation,
Dr. Templeman said:
“Dr. Lawrence’s contributions
to optometry can never be
measured ■ fully. The vitality and
wisdom of his leadership have
earned him the respect of the
public as well as his own pro
fession. This plaque is their
manner of expressing grateful
appreciation.”
The Boone optometrist cur
rently is a member of the Com
mittee on Vocational Guidance
of the North Carolina Optome
tric Society and member of the
North Carolina State Board of
Examiners is Optometry.
Accepts Jaycees9 Invitation
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Santa Claus Is Coming;
Yule Parade Is Planned
Optimists To
Have All Ready
For Decorating
Santa Claus has accepted an
invitation from the Boone Jay
cees, and will make his annual
trip from the North Pole to
Boone on Saturday, December
12.
According to Paul Smith,
publicity director of the Boone
Jaycees, who will sponsor the
event this year, arrangements
are now being made for the an
nual parade, which will usher
in the Christmas season in Wa
tauga County, to make its an
nual trek down Main Street on
December 12.
Invitations have been extend
ed to various organizations,
businesses and schools to parti
cipate in the parade. Appalach
ian High School marching band
and Friedman High School
Band from Lenoir have been
asked to be in the parade,
along with the Boone Fire De
partment and the Boone Rescue
Squad. The Jaycees are asking
new car dealerships to partici
pate as well as any other busi
ness or organizations in town
who wish to enter a float or
display.
Miss Watauga County and
Little Miss Watauga County,
Mayor Wade E. Brown and oth
er dignitaries will participate.
There will be an antique car
display and many others.
Santa Claus will, of course,
be on hand distributing goodies
to the children along the par
ade route.
The Boone Optimist Club
has completed getting the dec
orations for the town ready and
they will be put up this week
by the Town of Boone and the
New River Light and Power
Company.
Many businesses have already
decorated their show windows
in the Christmas theme, and
the outlook is for another
prosperous season.
“It’s Beginning to Look a
Lot Like Christmas.”
Mrs. Timmons
Rites In Hudson
Mrs. Laura Brown Timmons,
70, of Boone, died of a heart
attack Thursday night at her
home.
She was born in Wilkes Coun
ty to George and Martha Hen
drix Brown and had lived in
Boone 37 years.
Surviving are a daughter,
Mrs. Jessie Norris of Boone; a
son, George Timmons of Elk
ton, Md.; three grandchildren;
a sister, Mrs. K. P. Throneburg
of Hudson; and two brothers,
Ben L. Brown of Spencer and
Charles Brown of Gastonia.
The funeral was conducted
at 2 p. m. Saturday at Hudson
Methodist Church by the Rev.
C. W. Avet, the Rev. Clem Go
forth and the Rev. Floyd Bos
ton. Burial was in Sardis Ceme
tery.
ACP Reports
Are Needed
Approximately 300 farmers
.need to make their reports of
completed agricultural conser
vation program practices to the
Watauga ASCS office.
These reports should be made
as soon as possible since the
report date was Nov. 30 except
in cases where farmers have
requested extension of time to
complete work on their ACP
practices.
A total of 1478 farmers have
requested assistance under the
1864 Agricultural Conservation
Program, according to Vaughn
Tugman, Chairman of Watauga
ASC County Committee.
THE FORD STATION WAGON WAS UN.
ABLE TO STOP and the Dodge truck was
unable to stop. Bad road conditions caused
many a minor bang-up as winter bowed in
Monday. This accident occurred on rural
road 1109 off Highway 421 Bypass. The un
identified Ford at the left was typical of
dozens of minor accidents caused by hard
packed ice.
three Accidents Are Reported
Monday Due To Snowy Roads
Patrolman G. L. Morgan re
ported three accidents on Monr
day, ’ which were attributed to
hazardous driving conditions.
-A 1958 Ford station wagon
driven by Fred Robert Greene
of Sherwood collided Monday
morning with a 1964 Dodge
truck driven by Fred Arnett of
Vilas on rural road 1109 off
Highway 421 bypass.
The steep grade at the inter
section of the bypass and 1109
was coated with ice. The truck,
coming up the hill to the by
pass, slid into the left lane and
couldn’ move on the ice. The
station wagon turned off the
bypass and was unable to stop.
Slight damages were record
ed for both vehicles. No charges
were made.
* • •
Charlie W. Smith of Martins
ville, Va., driving a 1960 Chev
rolet, lost control of his car
Monday afternoon on Highway
421 on Brushy Fork.
The car went off the high
way and landed on its top.
Smith and his passenger,
John Baldwin of Collinsville,
Va., were en route to Mountain
(Continued on page six)
However, not all cars with their wheels off the road were
perched as precariously as this one. It hangs about 20 feet
above a creek. (Rivers photos.)
Last Census Showed 1,940
Farms Listed In Watauga
Copyright 1964
Rivers Printing Co.. Inc.
The 1964 Census of Agricul
ture, now being conducted by
the Bureau of the Census, U. S.
Department of Commerce, in
Watauga County, will bring up
to date farm statistics last col
lected in 1959.
Here are a few of the many
facts recorded in the 1959 farm
census for this county:
There were 1,940 farms in
1959, compared with 2,427 in
1954. The average size of farm
was 63.4 acres in 1959, com
pared with 58.6 acres in 1954.
The value of products sold
Schools Will
Close Dec. 18
Mr. Guy W. Angell, Superin
tendent of Watauga County
Schools, announces that all
county schools will close for the
Christmas holidays, Friday, Dec.
18 and resume regular class
room work Monday, Dec. 28.
New Year’s Day, January 1,
will be observed as a holiday
I by all county schools.
by the county’s farmers in 1959
was $3,309,397. The value of
all crops sold was $1,508,367.
The value of all livestock and
livestock products sold was $1,
801,030.
The 1964 national Census of
Agriculture is the 18th in a
series which began in 1840. Be
cause of the rapid changes
American agriculture has been
undergoing in recent years,
Census Bureau officials regard
the current census as one of the
most significant ever taken.
They ask every farmer to co
operate in compiling an accur
ate record of these changes by
filling out the census form he
receives in the mail and hold
ing the completed questionnaire
until a census taker calls for it.
WagonTrain Scout
Seen On TV Show
North Wilkesboro, Nov. 30—
Ivey Moore of North Wilkes
boro, chief scout Of the Daniel
Boone Wagon Train from North
Wilkesboro to Boone since the
Wagon Train began in 1963, was
a participant on a network tele
vision show this afternoon.
Mr. Moore returned last week
from New York City, where the
“To Tell The Truth” show was
taped in CBS studios. The show
was scheduled for showing on
CBS stations this afternoon at
three o’clock.
He was on the show with Le
land K. Shaffer, a former full
back of the New York Giants,
and Harold Galloway, a Ford
dealer of Newburgh, N. Y., each
claiming before the panel of
four to be the chief scout of
the Daniel Boone Wagon Train.
Members of the panel trying
to determine which of the three
was the “real Ivey Moore, chief
scout of the Wagon Train,”
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