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FOR BEST RESULTS ““ advertisers invariably use the col umns of the Democrat. With its full 5 \ paid circulation, intensely covering the local shopping area, it is the best advertising medium available. . r-i VOLUME LXXVII—. NO. *5 f.j » ' . ^ An Independent Weekly Newspaper . • . Seventy-Seventh Year of Continuous Publication CONTES copyrighted 1M4 BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 17, 1964 10 CENTS PER COPY RIVERS PRINTING CO- INC. . BOONS WRA* 1964 Hi Lo Prec. ’63 Dec. 8 41 11 Dec. 9 46 31 Dec. 10 38 21 Dec. 11 50 32 Dec. 12 56 41 13 58 30 14 46 23 . i op .1 ■ A. .% Dec, Dec. 1.04 .05 tr. 24 PAGES—3 SECTIONS 5 3 £8X8*3; 3 £8288? WHAT GOES HERE? Wataugans passed the joint school hospital bond issue in the fall of 1963. The construction site, formerly the Greer property which is located on Deer field Road, stands vacant, except for this sign. A great deal of work has been put into planning the new hospital during the last several months. Ground-breaking is set for spring. (Rivers photo.) “A Complicated Building" Technical Job Of Planning New Hospital Is Going On Used Clothing Sought For Co. Children Clothing is desperately needed for Watauga Coun ty’s pre-school and elemen tary school children. Mrs. Thomas Tedford, chairman of the “Clothing Closet” of the Junior Wo man’s Club, says that coats and sweaters are especially needed. As chairman of her club’s project, Mrs. Tedford is as sisting local organizations by contacting them for lists of items urgently needed. Pre sently, she says, a play pen is needed for a small child who sleeps on the floor of its trailer home. In the past two months, she has collected more than 500 items of clothing for children. Mrs. Tedford asks that persons with clothes to donate contact her at 264 2625. BY RACHEL RIVERS When the staff of Watauga County Hospital moves into the .hospital.- to be constructed on Deerfield Road, even the food and linen supplies will be there. It will be furnished down to the paper on the desks; all equipment will be in operating order. Upon arrival of staff and patients, the new hospital will house a functioning organiza tion. Yet ground has not been bro ken. The site selected for hos pital construction still is pas ture land. The question arises: “Whither our hospital?” Whither Away Since Wataugans voted yes for the $500,000 hospital bond issue in the fall of 1963, work has not ceased. Staff members at Watauga Hospital and hospi tal board members have work ed daily to organize the advis ory material at hand and to put it to effective use toward hospi tal construction. “A hospital is one of the most complicated buildings an architect can build,” says Mrs. Jack Groce, hospital adminis trator. “There’s a lot of differ ence in building a hospital and in building a standard struc ture.” Bob Bumbaugh, technical foreman at International Res istance Company and chairman of the building committee says it has taken seven months to work up the specifications. Preliminary plans were ap proved in May. “Planning involves the co operation and communication of the local Board of Trustees, the North Carolina Medical Care Commission and our archi tect,” he said. Bumbaugh listed the history of events connected with build ing a new hospital: September, 1962 — Negotia tions with Appalachian State Teachers College, the State Property Officer and the Wa tauga Hospital property com mittee, to sell the present hos pital building to the state of North Carolina. October, 1962 — Trustees of Watauga Hospital and the state property officer agreed to the sale of the hospital to ASTC for $300,000. September, 1963—Bond issue for $500,000 to build new hos pital passed by qualified voters of Watauga County. November 9, 1963 — First meeting with the North Caro lina Medical Care Commission (Continued on page six) WAMY Project Will Bring Christmas JobsTo 60 Youths WAMY Community Action, Inc., has announced plans to sponsor a unique Youth Works Project that will put some $3, 180 in the pockets of sixty un employed, out-of-school youths between 16 and 21 years old. WAMY, Inc., is the community development organization now operating in Watauga, Avery, Mitchell, and Yancey counties under the sponsorship of the North Carolina Fund. WAMY Director Ernest Epp ley says the youth will be em ployed for two weeks five to eight hours a day, at one dollar an hour. The work is now scheduled for the weeks of Dec. 14-18, and Dec. 28-Jan. 1. A team of fifteen youths under the supervision of a trained lo cal person, will work in a public works project in each of the four counties. The Works Project, while providing a need ed public service, will be a use ful work experience for the un employed youths and provide them with Christmas spending money. The Employment Security Commission, in cooperating with the county welfare departments, will handle recruiting for the program. A major factor in se lection will be the economic needs of the youths who apply. The Watauga County group will lay out and clean up a new, proposed park area for the town of Boone. The area is Grandfather Gifts Sought Those who have not yet con tributed to the Christmas fund for the Grandfather Home are asked to leave their contribu tions with either of the follow ing: Guy Hunt, Hunt’s Depart ment Store; James Marsh at Watauga Savings & Loan As sociation; W. W. Chester at Belk’s Dept. Store; Rob Riv en at Watauga Democrat next to the present site of the Horn in the West drama, and will be an additional tourist at traction, as well as a facility for local citizens. Avery County officials will use their team in Newland, where a few years ago, fire almost wiped out the town. The group will tear down remain ing burned-out buildings and clean up vacant lots that re main as town eye-sores. The Mitchell program will be a general clean up of the Bak ersville area, including a cem etery, water storage, and ditch bank clean up, as well as street j cleaning and painting. The Yan cey County group will clean up and beautify a town park located near the Health De partment in Burnsville. Eppley says the Youth Works Project will be an experimental program to establish guidelines for a proposed Neighborhood Job Corps which WAMY, Inc., hopes to finance later under the i Economic Opportunity Act. The I (Continued on page six) STUART G. MORETZ Quits Postal Service After Over 39 Years Stuart G. Moretz, former Boone resident, will retire from the postal service December 30. Mr. Moretz started work in the Railway Postal Service in March, 1925, as a substitute Railway Postal Clerk. His first four and a half years were spent on the Norfolk and Ham let and Washington and Hamlet lines. He was then transferred to the Lynchburg and Durham RPO, where he served until June, 1935. He was then trans ferred to Washington and Char lotte RPO, where he was regu lar clerk until January, 1957, when he was promoted to the position of foreman. In 1962, he became general foreman, which position he still holds. His total postal service will be 39 years and 10 months. Mr. Moretz, who was edu cated at Appalachian College, and his family have made their home in Alexandria, Va., for many years. After his retire (Continued on page six) Bah, Humbug! ! ! The outdoor Christmas lights at the Cline home on Edge wood Drive won’t turn on. J. C. Cline reports that when he flipped the switch Monday night and the large tree on the lawn remained dark, he went to investigate. All the colored bulbs he’d so carefully draped around the tree had been stolen. “Scrooge” eves took Cline’a ex tension cord. / Development Group Meets Watauga Is Winner In Travel And Recreation Timbered Ridge, Valle Crucis Given Awards Watauga county won the $100 first-place prize in the travel and recreation category at the annual meeting of the North west North Carolina Develop ment Association in Raleigh last Thursday evening. Among the activities which aided Watauga in getting the award which was accepted by Herman Wilcox, President of the Boone Chamber of Com merce were: the opening of a million and a half dollar re creation golf and ski club, the beginning of a camping-recrea tion facility near Grandfather Mountain, a 570-acre resident ial and recreational area, im provements to the Daniel Boone Theatre, 162 new motel units, and area promoting ex tending to Europe. At the same time two com munities in Watauga county gained distinction. In farming community division, Timbered Ridge received a $75 award, while in the rural non-farm classification, Valle Crucis won a $50 award. Duncan Is Elected Edwin Duncan, Jr., North western Bank president, was elected president of the Deve lopment Association, succeed ing Dr. W. H. Plemmons, of Boone, President of Appalach ian College. Plemmons, who will take over as board chairman of the association, praised the area’s achievements in industry, agri culture and community deve lopment, but said there still is much to be done. In a report distributed to the more than 800 at the 11th an nual dinner at Gilvin Roth YMCA, the outgoing president said the Northwest must at tract new industry, diversify farming, raise per capita in come, promote tourism, im prove educational opportunities and provide cultural advan tages. “We must seek better roads and better means of transpor tation,” he said. “It profits us little to know how to provide service and produce goods if these goods and services re main land-locked and in isola tion.” The new president lives near Sparta, his home town, and maintains an office at the Northwestern Bank in North Wilkesboro. His father, head of the Northwest association’s in dustry division, is president of the bank chain. Among the new directors named by the Association is Sam Dixon, Executive Vice President of the First National Bank of Boone. Postmaster: “Mail Now” “It’s too late to mail early, so please mail now,” Postmast er Ralph Beshears said today. “The biggest mail explosion in history is upon us and we need the cooperation of every one to make sure that the holi day mail is all delivered before Christmas,” the Boone Post master said. Mr. Beshears suggested the use of air mail and special de livery to guarantee pre-Christ mas delivery, especially for out of-town mail. In all instances, the use of ZIP Code will be helpful. The codes generally mean that mail moves in a more direct route and is handled fewer times. Parcels with ZIPPED address es may be delivered 24 hours (Continued on page six) BOONE’S AMBASSADORS, the Appalachian High School Band, brought the sound of music to King Street Saturday as the annual Christinas Parade, officially opening the Christmas season, moved through town. (Rivers photo.) Tobacco Sales Near 3 Million Pound Mark Babson Report Feature Of 31st The Watauga Democrat will publish “Babson’s Business and Roger Babson financial fore cast for 1965” December 31 We are call ing this feature to your atten tion because 1965 will be a year of many changes. This Babson Forecast will contain predictions covering such important topics as: Business Volume, impact of Excise - Tax Cuts, Developing Profits Squeeze, War or Peace in The East, Britain’s Plight, Worldwide Credit Problems, China on The Nuclear March, Farm - Price Prospects, Silver Coinage Crisis, and Inflation vs. Deflation. Stores Will Be Open At Night At the Dec. 8 luncheon meet ing of the Boone Chamber of Commerce, A. E. McCreary, chairman of the Merchants As sociation Committee, said it is their recommendation that chain stores remain open until 9 p. m. nightly until Christmas. Such stores will close on Christmas, and may reopen on Saturday. The banks have in dicated they will be closed both Friday and Saturday. The Association recommends the same procedure be followed for the celebration of the New Year. Tobacco market statistics on poundage sold and receipts therefor have been released by Stanley A. Harris, sales super visor. Figures turned over to Har ris by the Mountain Burley Warehouse Comany and the Big Burley Warehouse for the week, Nov. 30-Dec. 4 show 1, 465,067 pounds of tobacco sold in both houses. This poundage produced $862,269.06 in sales. For the week, Dec. 7-11, the market turned over 1,450,682 pounds at $831,507.88. The per-hundred-pound aver age, Nov. 30-Dec. 4, was $58.85; for Dec. 7-11, it was $57.32. To date total poundage sold is 2,915,749 lbs.; total cash re ceipts are $1,693,776.94; and the average per hundred pounds is $58.40. Breakdown At Mountain Burley, Nov. 30 Dec. 4: Monday — 213,435 pounds, $131,435.22; Tuesday— 213,316 pounds, $128,508.22; Wednesday — 186,682 pounds, $112,070.40; Thursday— 204, 484 pounds, $114,213.72; Friday —189,098 pounds, $109,828.40. Mountain Burley totals: 1, 007,015 pounds; $596,055.96. At Big Burley, Nov. 30-Dec. 4: Monday—78,792 pounds, $48, 352.51; Tuesday — 85,544 pounds, $52,761.76; Wednesday — 107,040 pounds, $62,199.72; Thursday—93,288 pounds, $50, 695.34; Friday—93,388 pounds, $52,203.77. Big Burley totals: 458,052 pounds; $266,213.10. * * * At Mountain Burley, Dec. 7 11: Monday — 207,144 pounds; $125,651.51; Tuesday — 214,118 pounds, $124,920.08; Wednes day—206,262 pounds, $116,837. 62; Thursday—200,996 pounds, $110,004.46; Friday — 192,142 pounds, $110,627.50. . ' Mountain Burley totals: 1, (Continued on page six) Will Seek Winner Of Javcee Service Award The Boone Junior Chamber of Commerce, in conjunction with National Jaycee Week, will be seeking a young man of this community to be the recip ient of the 1964 Jaycee Distinu ished Service Award. The award will be presented at the Annual Awards Banquet on Jan. 17, 1965, which climax es the observance of National Jaycee Week. The Distinguished Service Award is extended annually by the Jaycees to pay tribute to young community leaders throughout the nation. Select ions are made on the basis of contribution to community or state welfare and betterment, participation in all-round com munity or state activities and civic enterprises, evidence of lasting contribution to com munity or state welfare, evi dence of leadership ability, evi dence of personal or business (Continued oa page six) Democrat Will Publish Early For Christmas The Democrat will come from the press next Tuesday morning, rather than on Wed nesday, as is usual, in order that members of the staff may have some time at their homes for Christmas. Plans are to close the Dem ocrat office at the end of busi ness hours Wednesday, to re main closed Thursday, Friday and Saturday. This is the only time in the year when all the Democrat family are away from the place at one time. The cooper ation of the contributors and advertisers is asked in getting copy and ads in during the cur rent week so that the early edition may come out on sched ule. Christmas greeting ads will be featured in next week’s edi tion. Copy and art will be sup plied for these messages, when desired. If a solicitor doesn’t reach you by the end of the week call 264-3612 or 264 8527. Mrs. T. B. Moore Funeral Held Mrs. Martha Blair Moore, 90, of Boone, died last Wednesday at a Lenoir hospital. Mrs. Moore was born in Cald well County, but had spent most of her life in Boone, where her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William T. Blair, operated the Blair Hotel for many years. She was the widow of Thomas B. Moore, Statesville native, and a pioneer Boone printer. Funeral services were held Friday afternoon at the Boone Methodist Church by the pastor, Rev. Richard Crowder. Buria] was in the community cemetery. Surviving are a son, Major Thomas B. Moore of the U. S. Army at Fort Lee, Va.; five grandchildren; and two sisters, Mrs. G. M. Suddreth of Blowing Rock and Mrs. Blanche Wil liam^ of Jonesboro, Tenn. County Offices To Observe Holidays All the County offices will close for the Christmas holidays at Thursday noon, December U 24 and reopen Monday, Decern* >< her 28. ■ j
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