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BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. AUGUST 5, 1965
VOLUME LXXVHJ—NO. 6
Horse and rider take a big jump on a modified Olympic '
course at Blowing Rock Horse Show. The 42nd annual show,
starting Thursday, Aug. 5, and running through Sunday,
Aug. 8, will combine the suspense of the jumper and hunter
classes, the flowing style of gaited horses and the long-lauded
lead-in class, in which all children receive a blue ribbon. Mrs.
Si C. Gilbert, show secretary, stated the Horse Show Commit
tee regrets that due to lack of funds it was unable to include a
Western division this year. However, the committee plans a
number of Western classes for the 1966 show. Tickets to the
upcoming show are $1. Proceeds go to the Blowing Rock Com
munity Club and hospital.
W. CICERO GREEK '
W. Gcero Greer
Taken By Death
j Mr. W. Cicero Greer, 87, died
/ July 31 at his home on .East
> Howard Street in Boone.
t Funeral services were con*
ducted at 3 p.m. Monday at the
!• First Baptist Church. The Rev,
, J, Boyce Brooks and the Rev.
; J. C, Canipe officiated.
j He was a native of Kentucky,
? | a resident of Watauga County
for the past 83 years and a son
* of the late Phillip and Mary
Greer. Be was a retired mer
chant and was a partner in
Fanners Hardware for many
. years. ■ j
,| Mr. Greer is survived By his
; widow, Mrs. Ollie Greer, a son,
Mack E. Greer of Orlando, Fla.;
a daughter, Mrs. Hununie Ad
ams of Greenville, Tettn.; three
brothers, Hr. L G. Greer of
Chapel Hill, Milt T, Greer of
Boone and Harrison F. Greer
of Linville Falls. Also sur
viving are a sister, Mrs. Alice
Greer of ThomasviUe, four
grandchildren and seven great
grandchildren.
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The funeral of Mrs. Loretta
Magnolia Carlson, 58, was con
ducted at 2 p. m. Tuesday at
the Presbyterian Church in
Boone.
The Rev. J. K. Parker, Jr.,
pastor of the church, officiated.
Burial was in Mt Lawn Mem
orial Park.
Mrs. Carlson was found at
her home on Route 3 about 6
p. m. Saturday. Her death was
attributed to a gunshot wound
in the right temple, and Rich
ard Kelley, County Coroner,
ruled the death a suicide.
, Former member of the South
ern Highland Handicraft Guild,
Mrs. Carlson was an accom
plished craf ts woman, and was
active in numerous crafts fairs
over the years. She taught
hand-weaving at the loom, and
began her career at the Wa
tauga Handicraft Center at 108
Bardin St, Boone, in 1&53.
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[? Plans have been completed
for the 42nd annual Blowing
Rock Horse Show to be held
August 5, 6, 7 and 8 in BroyhiU
Park.
In addition to some of the
finest horsemanship in the
country, the entertainment
planned for. the occasion win
highlight the social season in
Blowing Rock.
,wXn“entertaimnent committee,
composed of Mrs. Council
Cooke, Mrs. T. R. Shelley, Mrs,
James T. Corner and Mrs. S.
C, Gilbert, has planned several
occasions that will highlight
the social season in Blowing
Rock.
Events will get underway
Thursday evening, August 5,
with a square dance in the
American Legion Build in g.
Guests will come dressed for
an old-fashioned square dance
to the music of a lively square
dance band*
On Friday evening, the ex
hibitor’s party will be held at
the Blowing Rock Country Club
from 8 p. m., until midnight.
The party will feature cock*
tailii, a buffet dinner and danc
ing to the music of The Am
bassadors.
Urn annual Horse Show
breakfast, to be held at May
view Manor on Saturday be
ginning at noin, fat expected to
attract an estimated 600 per
sons. The buffet breakfast will
feature a vast army of exotic
foods which will dellghtthe
finest gourmet.
The social events will be
climaxed Saturday evening with
the annual Horse Show ball,
also to be held at Mayview. To
be held in the Sky Room at
Mayyiew, guests at the ball will
dance to the music of tins May
view ovchestra.
Reservations for both the
breakfast and the ball may be
secured through the office at
Uayview. ■
James T. Comer is serving as
president of the Horse Show
Association, and has done an
outstanding job of assuring this
to be the best horse show ever
held in Blowing Rock.
Summer enrollment at Appa
lachian State Teachers College
through July 23 totaled 2,885,
according to Dr, Ben Strickland,
registrar,
A breakdown of the total
number of students enrolled in
the various college offerings re
veals; 560, summer quarter;
1,28ft. first term; 418, second
term; 82,- first two-week work
shops; -115, Charlotte Reading
Extension; 50, Library Insti
tute; 16, Distributive Education
Workshop; 52, Foreign Langu
age Institute.
■ Further analysis of the regis
tration figures indicates that of
the total 1,783 were graduate
students and 1,100 undergradu
ates; 2,200 in-state and 685 out
of-state; 1,043 men and 1,839
women.
The show will get underway
Thursday morning, August 5, at
9:30 a.m., with eight classes ex*
hibiting in two rings. Shows
will be held each morning and
afternoon through Saturday,
with one show to be held Sun*
day afternoon.
William Beverly Gray of
Southern Pines has been en*
gaged by the show’s board of
fttr^or#, to manage this year’*
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Boone Water
fare Department approved a
$1,110,000 loan for improve*
ment and extension of the pres
ent sewer system in Boone this
week.
Announcement of the loan
came on the heels of the $690,
000 loan from the Community
Facilities Administration for a
new water system.
Mayor Wade Brown echoed
his statement of last week, con
cerning the water grairt: “The
$1,110,000 loan is not In the
hands of the Town Board, but is
a form of assurance to the town
that if the water-sewer bonds
do not sell to banks and other
financial Institutions at less
than 4 per cent interest, the
money will be available for the
water project.”
The new sewer system will
provide sewer service to the
newly annexed arms of the
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Appalaciuaa State Teachers College students
go through tfct aecewary long toe* wd
procedures &al accompany college
tratlon,
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limited Beer
Sales Are Also
To Be Provided
Blowing Hock citizens turn
ed out en masse Tuesday and
voted overwhelming approval of
a proposal to establish an ABC
store in the popular mountain
top resort town.
The vote stood: For 331,
Against 132.
The proposal to allow sale
of beer under prescribed con
ditions also went over by 310
to 142.
The special election marked
the largest turnout in any Blow
ing Rock municipal election in
history. Registration totaled
559 and 465 voters cast ballots.
The sale of beer and wine
will be allowed in grade A ho
tels and restaurants only, and
off-premises sales of unfriger
ated wine and beer by other
licensees.
Information is that the city
council will meet tonight (Wed
nesday) to *ej*et members of
the required L tl ABC board.
The election climaxed a cam
paign in which proponents of
the so-called wet cause appeared
j to have waged the most aggres
sive campaign, by direct mail
and by newspaper publicity.
Opponents apparently conduct
ed a quieter campaign. Eighty
voters were added to the books
during the registration period.
Blowing Rock fa ad long sought
legislation allowing them to vote
on the ABC proposal, and at the
last session of the General As
sembly, Senator Adrian Shuford,
who lives in Blowing Rock in
the summertime, secured the
passage of the enabling act.
Those favoring the ABC sys
tem had aimed their guns at
the bootleggers, and cited the
value of the revenue from the
store to the community and the
need for the facility due to the
mushrooming year-round tour
ist business on the mountain.
Those championing the dry
cause argued against the legal
sale on the grounds that it
would make the beverages more
readily available and increase
the problem caused by strong
drink.
So far aa ran be recalled
legal liquor has not been sold
in Watauga county since the
dry vote in 1908, although it
could be shipped in from out
of the State for a while in gal
lon lots. Wine and beer had
been sold for several years after
repeal of the 18th amendment
but was voted out overwhelm
ingly twenty-odd years ago.
The store will be established
presumably as quickly aa the
legal details can be worked out
and quarters provided.
The net profits will be di
vided as follows: 5 per cent to
the town general fund for law
enforcement, 25 per cent to the
Watauga County Board of Edu
cation, 10 per cent to Caldwell
County Board of Education
(part of Blowing Rock is in
Caldwell county), and the re
maining 60 per cent to the
Blowing Rock general fund.
Police Station Under Construction
An ill-night policeman to Boone Is « matter
of the near future now, for workmen began
constructing a police station last week.
Mayor Wade Brown say* the building (11*
by 40’ approximately) should be completed
to the next few week* and will house the
office of the Chief of Police and a large
room to be used for City Council and Fire
Departments initially. The architect, Brown
says, ha* planned the new city hall lay-out in
four stages. The next stage will be to build
a fire house to the left of the existing city
hall, then tear down the city hall and build a
new facility. Upon completion, the complex
will be lined up with other buildings on
West King Street The present city hall,
formerly a service station, is act back from
the street. Later a warehouse will be con
structed behind the police station and will ■<
double as a garage for water and street
department vehicles. The wall of Newton's
Department Store (right) and the wall of
the city hall garage, opposite, will form part
of the briclt station. (Rivers photo)
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If you tan donate a unit off
blood to the Red Croes, con- j
aider yourself fortunate. Many ]
cannot, for physical reasons. j
Many others, also unfortu- i
nate, are those who can, but. do
not donate — unfortunate be
cause they are mlsaihg a golden j
opportunity, depriving t h e m- j
selves of the chance to give one
of the most perfect gifts that
one human being can give an
other.
For in the simple act of walk
ing into the Red Cross collec
tion center and going through
the carefully prepared routine
of giving his or her blood, a
person creates an extension to
life that will live on and on. |
Love Is Named Principal
At Blowing Rock School
William Howard Love, a na
tive Wataugan, has recently
been appointed principal of the
Blowing Bock Elementary
School and has assumed his
duties here in that capacity.
Mr. Love was born and rear
ed in the Vilas community and
attended the Valle Cruris Ele
mentary School. He was gradu-1
ated from Cove Creek High
School in 1948 and served in
the Navy from 1949-1953.
In 1957 he was graduated
from Appalachian State Teach
ers College with a commerce
certificate. He received his MA
degree from the college in 1965
In school administration.
Mr. Love has previously
taught driver education in the
county and for the past four
years has served a* principal of
Mabel Elementary School
He is married to the former
Gayle Beese and is the father
of two daughters. Hie Loves
WILLIAM HOWARD LOVE
make their borne in Boone.
Mr. Love is a member of the
NEA and the NCEA and the
Division of Principals of the
NCEA.- . .v,
Northwestern Bank Reaches
A ll- Time High In Resources
The director* of The North-1
western Bank «uet for their;
quarterly meeting with all di
rectors present on July 27 at
Sparta* North Carolina. Edwin
Duncan, president of the Bank,
reported that resources had
reached an all-time high of
$238,000,309 on June 30, 1963.
Deposits were $203,613,132 on
tfee above date as compared
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with $161,853,377 on Juno 30,
1964. This is an increase of
26.6 per cent.
The directors recommended
that an amendment he made
to the diaiter increasing the
number of share* authorised
from one million shares to five
million shares. There are now
547,112 shares outstanding with
* pa* value «|. |§Jt nr itoure.
If tiie amendment is approved
fey the stockholders, the direc
tory voted that * 166 per cent
stock dividend be paid on Feb
ruary 1#, 1966 t« stockholders
®f record oa January t5, 1966.
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a 20 cent per share cash divid
end to be paid on October l, j
1965 to stockholders of record;
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That part which Kgiven can
not be duplicated outside the
human body. It has a personality
of its own which must be care
fully matched with the person
ality of the blood of the re
cipient of this gift.
Usually, the donor will never
know who contributed to his
well-being, possibly saving his
life. Since the donor give# with
out any expectation of a tangi
ble reward, the gift is made
from the sheer pleasure of
giving. The receiver can never
thank the one slum blood
flows in his body, but there
will be a part of someone else
there —■ someone who cared
enough to take time to give.
And this constitutes a moat per
fect gift.
Your shot in the dark may
strike a sufferer from leukemia,
giving him a few more days or
months of life. Or a newborn
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Feeder Calf Sales
Are Set For Sept.
BY L. E. TUCKW1LLEK
County Extension Chairman
The dates of Sept 22 amt
Oct. I were approved for the
Boone Feeder Steer and Feed?
er Calf Sale m 1965.
The yearling steers will be
weighed and graded on Tues
day, Sept 21, between 6 a, m>
and 5 p. m. and sold at I p. m.
on Wednesday, Sept. 22.
The feeder calves will be
weighed and graded on Thurs
day, Sept. 30 between? a, m.
and 5 p. m. and sold at 1 p. m,
on Friday, Oct. 1. .
The major change in rules
for the 1965 sales are that
steers grading as low as com
mon may be sold in the sale.
No cattle with horns may be
sold and no bulls may be sold
in the sale.
Producers should nominate
cattle for the sale by Sept 10,
so that proper arrangements
can be made. No consignment
fee is required in advance of
sale date in 29M*
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