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BOONE WEATHER lm m ho wee. MW 1 July 6 79 *>8 July 7 77 57 July 8 82 62 July 9 81 60 July 10 75 68 July 11 76 63 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. Set? enty-Bighth Year of Continuous Publication July 12 73 61 -23 20 PAGES—3 SECTIONS 10 CENTS PER COPY VOLUME LXXVIII— NO. 3 BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1965 ■glWI-IWM.il. ORIGINAL COMMITTEE — These six men, directors of th Daniel Boone Wagon Train, Inc., were selected in May to study the possibilities of a wagon train as a commercial tourist at* | traction in Watauga and Wilkes counties. The idea emerged after hundreds of letters of request came from vacationers hop j Ing to ride on the Daniel Boone Wagon Train, which they mis takenly thought was run regularly in the summer. Left to right: John Dawson, Darby; James Richardson, North Wilkes boro; Billy Mathis, Ferguson; and S. C. Eggers, Walter Ed misten and Herman W. Wilcox of Boone. ■. Friday night will be Special Armed Forces night at “Horn to the West”, featuring an ap pearance by the Special Armed Forces Drum and Bugle Corps from the John F. Kennedy Cen iejr for Special Warfare at Fort Bragg. The program will begin at 7:30 p. m. prior to the evening ; performance. . ' Mayor Wade Brown w$U be " hand to 'iiWjlcbmie' *flie “coni-' ; mander of the warfare center and his staff.He will also pre sent the group with a token of appreciation from Explorer Scout Post ill of Boone and Post 110 of Blowing Rock for their week of training at the warfare center.. The Fort Bragg Corps will be escorted by the two Scout troops and will have dinner at the Daniel Boone Hotel. After the outdoor drama a reception will be held at the Mott To Speak . ASTC Convocation Admiral William C. Mott, | United States Navy (retired) j will deliver the principal ad- j dress at the second summer j session Convocation on the campus of Appalachian State Teachers College. Convocation will be held at 9:50 a.m. July 19 in the Health and Physical Education Build | ing. Admiral Mott will also be on the campus as a lecturer for the Institute on Constitutional De mocracy and Totalitarianism. He retired April 1, 1964, as Judge Advocate Genera) of the United States Navy after a long period of distinguished service, to become Executive Vice-Presi dent of the United States Inde pendent Telephone Association May 1, 1964. Scout Honor Court Slated The District Court of Honor; will be held at 7:30 p.m., Thurs day, at the Perkinsville Baptist Church. Scout Troop 132 will conduct opening and closing ceremonies. Members of the troop to receive awards are Johnny Penley, Star Scout rant; Bud Hughes, Eddie Scroggs and Joe Wilson, Second Class rank. The following will receive the hiking merit badge: Bud Hughes, Richard Randall, Eddie Scroggs, Gales Scroggs and David Cottrell. All Scouts, leaders and the; public are invited. He was bora in Maplewood, N. J., and graduated from Cranston, Rhode Island High School, prior to his appoint ment to the 0. S. Naval Acad emy at Annapolis, Md. Gradu ated from the Naval Academy in 1933, he resigned to enter civil life and, after his gradua tion from George Washington University Law School, entered the practice of law. After seve ral years he came back into the Navy during the war and par ticipated in a number of com bat operations, including the Marianas, Iwo Jima and Oki nawa. He was decorated for ac tion in combat. Transferring to the Navy's legal arm after the war, he reached the top of that pro fession when the President Of the United States appointed him to the office of Judge Advocate General of the Navy in August, 1960. He has served as Aide to two Presidents of the United States (Roosevelt and Truman) and to two Chairmen of the Joint CiUefs of Staff (Radford and Twining). He has represent ed the United States at many conferences abroad and has had firsthand experience in negoti ating with the Communists. 7 He is a Fellow of the Ameri can Bar Association, a member of the American Society of In ternational Law, holds honorary Doctor of laws degrees from John Marshall Law School and Rhode Island College, and is a member of the American Bar Association Standing Commit tee on Education against Com munism. C The Watauga District Boy Scout Committee, at its noon meeting Thursday, began formu lating plans to organize at least four new Scout units by the end of 1965. These units may be Cub packs, Scout troops, or Explorer posts. Seven units have been develop ed in Boone and Blowing Rock, although the couuritte* bepaa to expand Scouting to other areas of the county. Boscoe E. Stevens, Scout Ex ecutive of the Old Hickory Council, congratulated the local committee on the units they have established in 1063, and especially thanked1 Stanley Har ris for the interest he has gen erated in the programs. - Catholic Church by the Rev. Ed Smith and the Scouts. They will breakfas-t Saturday morning in Blowing Rock with the Blowing Rock Rotary Club, I | after which they will be given | a tour of Blowing Rock, Tweet-! i sie Railroad and Grandfather ; Mountain. The Scouts will be ushers at the Friday performance of “Horn in the l^est.“._ Mrs. Joe Wilcox Taken By Death Mrs. On* Wilcox, 86, of Deep Gap, wife of Joe Wilcox, died at 2:30 ajn. Sunday at her home. She was born in Ashe County to Jonas and Mary Bur kett Pope. Surviving are her husband; six sons, Philip Wilcox of King George, Vt., Bruce, Ross and Emmett Wilcox of West Jeffer son, Frank and Walter Wilcox of Deep Gap. The funeral was at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Gap Creek Baptist Church. Burial was in the eh arch cemetery. .. UP AND OVER THE BAR WENT THE SHEAF at the weekend I Highland Gaines and Gathering of the Scottish Clans at I Grandfather Mountain. Robert Matheson, son of Dr. and 1 Mrs. W. M. Matheson of Boone, set the Scottish game “Tossing | the Sheaf’ on fire when he beat the 1964 record with a toss j of 19 feet. The old record, 18 feet, six inches was held by | Tom McNish of Franklin. John Fagg of Winston-Salem thrust 1 the three-pronged fork into the sack and finally heaved It j over a 18 foot, aix inch bar, to set a new American record. Matheson la a varsity member of the Duka University football team. (Ritwra photo) ■ ■ •*" •*•*.'* • ! . . .• -H , .• : .... J. 'f ; ' . ....•* ■* ..'i . '<\.Y ' >V, '■ S; . ; «)■ ' ‘y ■ ■ ■ ■ .• i . Hi fi . ' ■ ; ■ ■ ' , : :■ ' . . ” 1 'r-.. Hi ^ 1 i '■ - ' '■ ^ .:.'Vr ■ V ' ;.v ■ ■■ , ", ■ - -\v; ' ■ ’ •1 ij ■■ iff - • >v V‘ CiS? £? ‘ * . - r / nW 5 ‘ M ’A. -* , f l'fi\ijtf 1 if Vi'i p , Hf i ' n . . . ;.■ ■■■■■■.-■ n i i i v , -, ■ A Nationwide first ' ■ ‘ v^twl" ^ * VJ-'-.’I V , ' ""vltk ' L1' • l”*’ "V A , ^ ^ f, t * *4 ■■■■■ .. • .?• :V' • /.'• ‘*%V r .•* * * • .• Dula’s Grave On Route Wagoners Move BY RACHEL RIVERS The April 3 edition of “This Week Magazine”, which is dr* culated with daily newspapers throughout the United States, inadvertently began a confusion which has resulted in the na tion's first vacation wagon train. The feature article, “Off-Beat Vacations”, was in error. And still, it is in error, for an in sertion was included about the Daniel Boone Wagon Train, which had its third annual pa rade through Boone on July 8. Several hundred readers sent inquiries to Chief Scout Ivey Moore, in North Wilkesboro. They were interested. They wanted to ride on a genuine, old-timey wagon train and trace the trail cut by Daniel Boone as he moved up from Wilkes Coun ty, and through Watauga Coun ty, going westward. But it wasn't all that easy, and the officials of Daniel Boone Wagon Train, Inc., had a problem. Move ’Em Out! Today, July 14, the first of 10 vacation wagon trains moved out of Ferguson, near North Wilkesboro. The committee of six, who were appointed to consider pos sibilities of operating a vaca tion wagon train under the aus pices of the Daniel Boone Wa gon Train, Inc., decided it would be impractical to do so. According to Clyde Greene, corporation president, the com mittee decided that the confu sion between the annual train and the vacation train would tend to commercialize the first train. Letters were then sent out to inquirers, stating the na ture of the Daniel Boone train, and suggesting that a vacation train might soon be set up. The matter of the vacation train—-now out of the hands of the corporation—was picked up by James H. Richardson and Claude B, Minton of North Wilkesboro, who jointly own 12 covered wagons, and who were naturally disposed to handle the train as a private venture. Continued on page 3, Sec. B VERMONT AMERICAN CORPORATION MOVED OUT its first shipment of saws this week. Checking the order against the ma terial is Jack Cronland, plant manager, who says the Boone plant will produce more than 50 industrial and home use saws. About 2,000 saws were in the first order. The American Saw A Tool Company, as the plant was originally billed, has recently been consolidated with another company, and fa called Vermont Corporation. Construction' began on the plant last fall, and was com-" pleted in May. Twenty-five Watauga men . are employed, although about 150 will be employed as the Corporation moves gradu ally into full-scale production. (Rivera | photo) % i: Chamber Starts Project Survey % In Community The members of the Boone Chamber of Commerce are con* ducting a survey in Boone this month. Hundreds of community de velopment survey sheets have been mailed to residents for the purpose of determining what projects are most urgent ly needed. Three questions are asked: What do you particularly like about this community? What do you dislike? and, What are the most Important things we need to make thia a better community? Participants in the survey have the option of marking “ex cellent, good, average, below average, poor, and don’t know” opinions on 33 topics. James A. Dugger, chairman of the Watauga County Demo cratic Executive Committee, has received notification from the offices of Senators Sam Er win and B, Everett Jordan that contracts have been awarded to Robert F. Myers Construction Company for the construction of the new Post Office building at Deep Gap. The new building will be lo cated on the north side of US 221-421 at Deep Gap and speci fications call for a 900 sq. ft. in terior, 96 sq. ft. platform area and 3050 sq. ft. paved area. The building is to be built at an esti Five Are Injured In Tenn. Wreck Elizabeth ton, Tenn. — Five North Carolinians were injured, two critically, near Elizabeth toa when their car slipped off U, S. 19 during a rainstorm, hit a tree, and overturned down an embankment. They were identified as Mrs. Helen Brown,,Banner Elk. N. C., reported in poor condition at a local hospital; J. C. Hemley, 20, Rt 1, Banner Elk, hi poor con 1 Continued on saga L Sac. B mated cost of $9,792.50 with an annual rental of $948, with a five year lease and 3-5 year renewal options. Estimated com pletion date is November 1, 1985. This new post office building was made possible through the continuing efforts of the Demo cratic Executive Committee co operating with the Post Office Department to upgrade facili ties and improve postal service for the people of Watauga County, Jaek Gallion of Boone has been named manager of the Daniel Boone Theater, home of the “Horn in the West" drama, He is a senior, major ing in biology at Appalachian State Teachers College. Having served as assistant manager of the theater during the 1964 season, Gallion is ; qualified for the job as mana | ger. He graduated from Black I Mountain High School ha Black Mountain in 1964 aid moved to Asheville in 1990 where he attended Asheville Biltmore College. i | : ^ He served with the United States Air Force for five yean attending the USAF guided missile school at Lowery Air Force Base, Colo, He was sta tioned at Cape Canaveral from Oct. 1955 to Nov. 1958 as ji Continued on page 3, Sec. B JACK GAJLLION—THEATRE MANAGER The Three Forks Minister’s Association met at Laurel Springs Baptist Church July 12. The following office™ were elected to service for the com ing year: E. S. Morgan, pastor of Oak Grove Baptist Church, president; Marshall Hargrave, of First Baptist Church of Boone,. 1st vice-president and program chairman; Harry 0. Vance, pastor of Meat Camp Baptist Church, secretary and treasurer. Dr. Lrwia Bara*** pastor of the Beechem Grove Baptist Church, Watford, England gave a talk on the progress of religi- j ous life in England. . Dr. Barnes stated that the Englishmen found themselves as t missonary chinch In the midst of a secular environment. The Chaplain still oarers pray ers in the House of Commons but society is becoming more and more secular. More than 30% of the youth which unite with finthuffl Baotiit Cbuitb' conic from non-Christian homes. Dr. Barnes spoke of the evangelical movement, “some *f Baptist welcome it, and some are suspicious of it.” He spoke ' of the new interest in Baptism, of the new theological emphasis and its impact, of the new sense of stewardship. “It is not fashionable to go to church in England, but those mho «to attend experience total com mittment to God.” Beechnut Grove Baptirt Church was organised in lti4<h
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