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w&i0.’ 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. _ «, ■ I 1 71 Wk - <—* #*®iiak :’*h ’^'*. ^WAh»S:,; '•>'1 V't‘.> BOONE WEATHER Feb 9 49 44 Feb 10 60 44 Feb. 11 Feb. 12 Hi Lo Sno* Free. '«4 66 48 57 48 Feb. 13 48 28 Feb. 14 33 25 % Feb. 15 41 14 3 •Nearest inch of snow .33 .13 .28 .06 .19 .VOJUJME LXXVII— NO. 34 CONTENTS COPYBKJHTfc® 1989 RIVERS PRINTING CO.. INC. BOONE. WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1965 10 CENTS PER COPY 18 PAGES—3 SECTIONS 3 - ■' t-m*# ■ ■ :'■■■■■'■ ^'^■9:'-::S.--''i ' ;V : ''v;V -• • ■ ■ i ... i ■ ; • \-:'v ■ ;rmmgS :i::A . V'^V'-SVv;., „'w- . •'*' *<*•>. V..,, ^ - A as W ? V‘»l ." ' ,A'' !»y" r^f”> V ■•■'■ ^>> ,f ■ ■ . ’. ^ , v/ , v _ ^ ^ 5 ??***' • ^5*. ‘ iiVi ..> '• r? -'■•■ :■■ .■ ■ -:;:'v '■ '#;?0 •; ■■'•'■*■•-.• v.;,-:' ■ V '. • : n: Burley Referendum Committee Members at the Wednesday afternoon meeting (1-r): Chair man h. E. Tuckwiller, Alfred Adams, Clyde Greene, Ned Glenn, Jack Henson, Clyde Miller, A, C. Moretz and Roy Isley. Clint Eggers and Rachel Rivers, who attended the meeting, are not pictured. (Rivers photo.) Blowing Rock Horse Show Names Directors, Officers The Blowing Rock Horse Show Association, which elect ed officers at its Jan. 29 meet ing at the Vance Hotel in Statesville, also named panels of directors and hononary tftrec tors. The matter of having two shows on different weekends was discussed at length, the de cision being to have one show on Aug. 5, 6, 7 and 8 of this year. s ' Officers of the Association are: President. J. T. Comer of i Gastonia; vice-president, Rus sell F. Hall, Jr., of Greensboro; secretary, Richard J. Bryant of Gastonia; treasurer and chair man of finance committee, Clyde H. Harriss of Salisbury; secretary of the show, Mrs. S. C. Gilbert of Charlotte; and treasurer of the show, Mrs. Jean Cathcart. Wrectors are the Rev. Char les R. Allen of Gastonia, George Blanton Jr. of Shelby; Bastard Watauga Would Receive 1917,500 Of Roads Money Watauga County would get j $917,500 from the $300-mlUion j dollar road bond issue which was proposed in a bill introduc ed in the General Assembly last week. Boone would get $144,500 un der the terms of the bill. The amount Blowing Rock would receive was Inadvertent ly omitted from the press re lease, and this information could not be obtained by the Democrat at presstime. Banner Elk would get $22,100 and Newiand $22,100. Avery | county would get $169,500, The 11th division, with head | quarters at North Wilkcsboro, would receive $10,251,600. The | division includes Avery, Wa | tauga, Ashe, Alleghany, Wilkes, l Surry and Yadkin counties. J. Bryan* of Gastonia, W. C. Bch 'JO of Greensboro, J. T. Com er of Gastonia, Lucius G. Gage Jr. of Charlotte, Mrs. William K. Garde of Pinehuret, Russell Hall Jr. of Greensboro, Bob Hardin of Blowing Bode, Clyde Harris® of Salisbury, C. V. Henkel Jr. of Statesville, David 11. Johnston of Charlotte, Mrs. R. C. Rivers of Boone, John A. Snivedy Jr. of Winter Haven, Fla., and Rex Watts of Hudson. Associate directors are Mrs. G. T. Baker of Miami. V. H. Blackwelder of Lenoir, Milton M. Chapman of Miami, Mrs. S. C. Gilbert of Charlotte, G. S. Pickard of Blowing Rock, Mrs, T. B. Shelley of Miami, Fla., George Suddreth Jr. of Blow ing Rock, L. P. Tate of Pine hurst, William M. Tate of Cock eysville, Md., and Norman Block of Greensboro. Honorary directors are J. E. Broyhill of Lenoir and Mrs. T. E. Hemby of Matthews, Miss Austin Visits Parents Miss Glenda Austin, a student at King’s College in Charlotte, spent the week end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Austin, CONTESTANTS in the recent oratorical con test sponsored by the local Optimist Club pictured hr.: Tony Triplctte, Mark Wilson, ? Daniel Watkins, Johnny Tester, Gary Shore, and the winner, Keith Greer, (Flowers photo.) . The Boone Optimist Club held its annual oratorical con test at Cove Creek High School Feb. 8. Keith Greer of Appalachian High was the winner over five other contestants. The subject was “Optimism, Spirit ol Youth.” Keith is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry W. Greer of 101 Crest Drive, Boone. He is a tenth grader at Appalachian and was coached for the con test by Mrc S*tty Hugh**. Other contestants were Gary ' Shore amt Johnny Tester of Cove Creek school, Mark Wil son and Tony Triplett of Park way School, and Daniel B. Watkins of Appalachian. Judges were Bill StaUard, President of the Junior Cham ber of Commerce. James W. Ouzts, and Ellis G. Boatman of Appalachian State Teachers College. Timekeeper was Wil liam £. Wilson. Second place was won by Daniel Watkins and be recwv Siifoii* V r:- ■■ ed a $10 easn prize. John Test er captured third place and won a $5 cash prize. The first place winner received a check for a $23 Savings Bond and the opportunity to compete in the Zone contrast which will be held at North Wilkesboro, Feb. 25. Winners erf the zone will complete on the district level and then on a national level. The local Optimist Club spon sors the oratorical contest un der the rules sanctioned by Op timist international. Rotary Honors Boy Scouts On 55th Anniversary A program in honor of the 55th anniversary of Boy Scouts of America was a feature of the meeting Thursday, Feb. 11* of the Boone Rotary Club. Rotarians Jack Groce, Paul Campbell and Stanley Harris participated. Included in the program was a scouting movie, “Explorer Scouting,” and a brief talk by District Executive Barry Collins. Cub Scout John Vance, son of Rotarian and Mrs, Phil H. Vance, gave the Cub Scout promise. Scout David Richardson, son of Dr. and Mrs. Wayne R. Richardson, gave the Scout Oath and the 12 parts of the Scout Law and led the club in the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag. Rotarian Groce was compli mented by the Rotary Club on being elected “Young Man of The Year” by the Boone Jay cecs. , Family Night For Cub Scouts Cub Scout Pack 109 of Boone met for its monthly family night at Boone Methodist Church on Tuesday, Feb, 9. Den 4 had the opening exercises. The cubs of Den 5, under the direction of Mrs. Ruth Coe and ; Mrs, Carl Meeks, gave an inter esting program to the 150 per sons present. ... ■..■«. ■ After the program, 19 awards were presented to 18 cub scouts for their achievements duringj January. j The next monthly meeting! will be a covered dish supper! for the cubs and their families,! at which time the boys will have 1 on display the various items of handicrafts they have made. Balloon Day To Aid Hearts tile fight against heart and blood vessel disease, number one killer of our time, will be continued during the February campaign with a red balloon sale this Saturday, Feb. 20. At leant 20 boys from this area have volunteered to help in this effort. to augment collections for the Heart Fund. Mrs. Ferneyhough and Mr. Paul Price, eo-chairmm of the Balloon Day Sale, said they did not know how much a human heart is worth, but they are "sure It’s worth an investment In the Heart Fund.” So, buy your red balloon! ' " ' 1 ;t r... t <• {■‘•v ► .■ • ^ ’ ' Committee Gives Information mm m mm s :: \ ''Z' j ^ ' : < . . ’ . Vmm WmW/i !' ■•’ ?%&''-! . f * : ," ;■< Wm : -h U m/Z '$■$%&% V^-\ % r" Of Farmers Is BY RACHEL RIVERS The United States Congress has proposed a 10 per cent re duction in tobacco acreage al lotments. Burley growers in Wai will help decide by voting in the referendum cm Thursday, Feb. 25, whether marketing quotas and price supports will be approved on the next three Crops—1965, 1968 and 1967. If two-thirds of the votes cast are no-votes, anyone nay plant and market burley tobacco with out limit or penalty, but no price support loans will be available. If two-thirds are yes-votes, marketing quotas will apply and price support loans will be available to all th© burley to bacco growers who are within their farm's allotted acreage, * * * Hence the Watauga County Burley Referendum Committee, whose purpose is to distribute information to the voters and get them to the polls. As Clyde Greene says, “The bigger the vote, th© more weight we will carry in Con gress.” Any member of a to bacco fanner's family who shares in im proceed* of the crop is entitled to vote in the referendum. So a man who sup ports a family of seven can bring eight votes to the polls: minor children may vote. At a meeting of the Watauga Burley Referendum Committee on Wednesday at the ASCS of fice, Chairman L. E. Tuckwiller told the group the national re duction of allotments is pro posed because there is a 3,6 year surplus, whereas a 2.8 year surplus is desirable. "From 1954*88” Tuckwiller said, “we grew only 1,579 pounds of burley per acre. But In 1963 and 1964, we grossed almost 2,500 pounds. That’s our trouble. This referendum has no designs on poundage control, (Continued on page 4, Sec. C) LBJ Reference To Acreage Law ' ■ - • " .r- . No Vote Effect j President Johnson’s refer 1 ences to acreage-poundage leg islation in his farm message to the Congress on Feb. 4 has t no bearing on the burley to ; bacco referendum coming up | on Thursday, Feb. 25. This statement was made today by A. P, Hassell Jr., Executive Director of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service. I MERCHANTS *£;}T0 LICENSE LAST MINUTE auto license buyers lined up in front of the Boone Chamber of Com merce offices at the intersection of King Street and the Blowing Rock Road Satur day to purchase their license tags. Accord ing to Mr. Fred McNeal, local Chamber manager, at the close of sales on Monday a total of 7,320 license tags had been sold since January 2. On Saturday and Monday, when the highest daily sales were recorded, a total of 459 had been sold on Saturday , and 615 on Monday. Sales or. Tuesday were expected to be high as the Chamber offices closed at 4 p. m., and many were not able to get there before the deadline. Sales for the year are expected to far exceed those of previous years. (Rivers photo.) Foscoe, Sugar Grove Areas To -t,;' N Have $36,000 Phone Exchanges Bids were opened February 9 for constniction of a building In Foscoe to house a new tele phone exchange there and for the expansion of the Sugar Grove Exchange building to provide space for new exchange equipment, Mr. G. W. Edwards, president of Skyline Telephone Membership Corporation, said. The successful bidder was Linvllle Lumber Company, Lin ville. Contracts are expected to be executed immediately. The low bid on the Foscoe building was 912,960, and the Sugar Grove addition was 924,100. Construction on the Sugar Grove building will start soon, since the new exchange equip ment Is scheduled to start ar riving about April 15. All equipment for Sugar Grove should be received and Install ed about July or August. The equipment for the Foscoe Ex change will be installed in late 1969. Mr. Edwards pointed out that the new Sugar Grove Exchange would have eight times the ca pacity in lines of the original exchange. The needs for such an increase have been occasion ed by the unusual growth in the rural area of Watauga County mid exceptional demand foe telephone service in these areas. At present the Sugar Grove Exchange is working at maxi mum capacity. In only a few areas can additional subscribers be served before the new equip ment is installed. The installation of new ex changes in Watauga County is part of the plans of Skyline Telephone Membership Corpo ration toward providing only 1, Z, and 4-party service through out the system, which provides service h four counties in North Carolina and one in Ten nessee. Installation of part of the outside plant necessary for I the improved service was made by contract in 1964. A new con tract for additional lines and c t b 1 e will be awarded this spring. Skyline began operations in 1957 with 650 phones connect ed. There are now approximate ly 5,500 phones in service in ■the system.-' The signup for the 1965 feed grain program now is under way in all ASCS county offices, Vaughn Tugman, of the Agri cultural Stabilization and Con servation County Committee has announced. The signup per iod began Feb. 8 and will con tinue through March 20. The program for 1965 is bas ically the same as in 1964 and is voluntary, Participating farm ers will qualify for diverted acre and price support pay ments, and they will be eligible for price-support loans. Farmers who take part in the program may divert for pay ment as small an acreage as 20 per cent of the farm’s feed grain base or as large an acre age as 50 per cent of the base —or 25 acres, if this is larger. Two rates of diversion pay* Heart Sunday Drive Be Led By Nine Ca\ ains Hie month-long 1065 Heart Fund Drive will reach a high point on the weekend of Heart Sunday, Feb, 21, when nine dis trict captains will head an army j of local volunteers in a house to-house canvass of Boone, ac- j cording to Mrs. Cecil Greene, I Heart Sunday Chairman for the Watauga County Heart Associa i iion's annual campaign. The list of captains recruited thus far includes June Howser, Maude Kelly, Precious Smith, Lucille Wagoner, Becky Coun [ dll, Virginia Holabotwr» Wad* Wilmoth, Ned Trivette and Mrs. Rhonda Horton. Each captain Win be in charge of a group of volunteers covering a specific area in the community and wiU be respon sible for directing volunteer collectors, equipping them with materials, and accounting for returned contributions. Hie Heart Sunday canvass in Boone will be one of snore than 6,500 being conducted by over 1,750,000 volunteers at approxi mately the same time through out the nation. Mrs. Cedi Greene praised the volunteer workers "who are giving their time to make the Heart Fund campaign possible and who are supporting the; fight against our number one public health problem, diseases j of the heart and blood vessels. "In determining the size of your gift,” she continued, “please remember that you are giving for every heart you love, and that heart disease is a fam ily problem. It affects young children, teenagers, young ad* (Continued on page 4. See. C> meat are offered. The lower rate applies to the first 20 per cent of -the feed grain base actu ally diverted. The higher rate ' applies to diverted acreage in excess of the minimum, if both ' the intended diversion and the (Continued on page 4, See. C) ' ■■■■, i- . -- .i, i~ — T. * |?$f Girl Scouts To Offer Cookies Chairman of the Girl Scout cookie sale in this area, Feb. 22 March 8, is Mrs. Jim Winkler, Jr* Over tile years, improvements in camping equipment and fa cilities made possible through cookie sales have resulted in the acquisition of a 320-acre established camp site and three troop camp sites within the area of the Catawba Valley Council. In addition, 12 Bay Camps throughout the council’s jurisdiction use equipment ac quired from the profits of this project,.'.. Dr. W. T. Mau, president of the council, asked continued support from the community to help them achieve their goal of 94,000 boxes. The cookie sale provides an opportunity for each girt to be of service to her Girl Scout Council and to her sister Giri Scouts, for although the United Fund provides supporting ser vices to toe council, the profits * 1 from the cookie sale are the only means the council has of financing capital improvements - end extending present camping farilitiini tir> mrr> thrift
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