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f i f '"Hi-' FOR BEST RESULTS advertisers invariably use the col umns of the Democrat. With its ftiU paid circulation, intensely covering the local shopping area, it is (the best advertising medium available. BOONE WEATHER 5 Hi Le vrec. m Mi 1* 3 75 50 82 68 4 78 si . n m 5 80 — 6 80 50 80 59 7 76 57 ■ :T74. 86 9 74 01 78 «S V 04- .r‘v •?> Seventy-Eighth Year of Continuous Publication VOLUME LXXVIII—NO. T BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1965 10 CENTS PER COPY 24 PAGES—3 SECTIONS Series Of A series of accidents oocuring this weekend on highways in and around Boone kept the Stale Highway Pafroi and in vestigating officers busy throughout the day. At 1:40 p.m. on U. S. 221, a 1963 Ford driven by Crawford Kennington ot Great Fails, S. C., was struck from the rear by a 1964 Oldsinobile driven by Thelma Miller Meyer of 403 Howard Street, Boone, when the Ford stopped in a line of traffic. Patrolman G. L. Morgan, who investigated, said no one was injured and no charges were filed against either driver. Damages to the vehicles were minor. At 2 pjn. about three miles south of Blowing Rock on the Linville Road, a 1962 Olds mobUe driven lay Eva Taylor Conway of Winston-Salem went out of control and struck a 1963 Ford driven by James Edward Champion of Clifton, S, C. There were no injuries, and Mrs. Con way was charged with driving to left of center line. At 2 p.m. on U. S. 221 about erne mile north of Blowing Rock I a 1960 Dodge driven by Mrs. I Ruby Ellis went out of control in a line of traffic and slid I into the side of a 1962 Pontiac I driven by Alfred Eugene Aber | nethy of Lenoir. Mrs. Ellis was i admitted to Blowing Rock Hos > pital with facial cuts and | cuts and bruises. Mr. Aber | nethey and four of six children | who were traveling with him I suffered cuts and bruises and | were admitted to the Blowing | Rock Hospital. Patrolman G. L | Morgan estimated damages to I the Dodge at $400 and to the Pontiac at $1,000. Mr. Aher nethy was charged with driving to left of center. At 3 p.m. on U. S. 221 near the Hereford Barn Restaurant four cars were involved"TiT T rear-to-rear collision. Sgt. Miles Jones of the Highway Patrol, who investigated, said that Joe Owings of Route 1, Millers Creek stopped his vehicle for a Car in front of him to make a left turn and was struck by a 1964 Ford driven by Roy Allen Fagg of Rt. 2, Kemersville, who in turn was hit in the rear by a vehicle driven by Harry James Townsend of Valle Cru ets, who was then struck by a 1965 Chevrolet driven by Gor don J. Dugger of Hickory. There were no injuries, and damages to the four cars were estimated at $1,000. Fagg, Townsend and Dugger were charged by Sgt. Jones with following too closely. Patrolman Morgan investi gated an accident on U. S. 221 about 11 miles east of Boone at 4:30 p.m. in which a 1961 Ramb ler driven by Mattie Rush Wal ker of Route 2, Hillsboro, N. C„ bad gone out of control, knock ing down some highway guard posts. Damages to the Rambler were estimated at $100. Mrs. Walker was not injured, and no charges were filed. At 6:40 p.m. about .1 mile south of Boone on U. S. 221, (Continued on page 5, Sec. C) Parkway Has Big Increase Laurel Springs — The Bluffs Division of the Blue Ridge Park way, extending from the Vir ginia line to Blowing Rock, had a total of 308,307 visitors dur ing July, the second highest for tne Parkway. The parkway office at Roan oke, Va., said the Bluffs Divis ion’s 88 miles had 269,153 visit ors in July 1964. ' The Asheville Division’s 164 miles drew the greatest number erf visitors—581,018, compared with 532,645 last year. The James River Division, which covers 115 miles, had 250,531 last year. The Rocky Knob Division's 102 miles in Virginia had 299,959 visitors, compared with 201,053 last year. The parkway office said 4, 061,101 have visited the scenic highway during the calendar year compared with 3,721,599 during the same period in 1964 This was an increase of 9.12 per wait. The increase for July was j 18-94 per ceftt over 1984. TEN JUMP-OFFS WERE REQUIRED SAT URDAY before a winner was declared in the Puissance Open Jumping class at the Blow ing Rock Horse f,•■■>*% Here, Dear Brutus of Black Ac”* Si*ote, Austin, Tex., clears the giant seven-foot brick wall in the center of the ring. Finally Sure Thing of Chance Hill Farm in Greenwich. Conn., took the trophy. Rodney Jenkins rode the champion and took third place in the seme class on another horse. The seven-foot wall came within two inches of being the record at the local show. Mi's. Mary Ann Tate Garde re ported a record of 7 feet, two inches estab lished several years ago by “Timber Rider*’, ridden by Bill Tate, and “Lady Durham”, ridden by Mrs. Moss of Southern Pines, Col. Frank D. K. Huyler of Hendersonville, steward of the class, reported that he had shown jumpers in a number of big shows, Tokyo included, and had never jumped more than 6 feet, 8 inches. Jumper Judge Mrs. Frances Rowe stated that the Puissance class was the best she had ever judged* {Rivers photoJv:x\ i- - *■ :r\ f#*' Appalachian State Teachers College has been designated as a test center for administering the National Teacher Examina tions on Oct. 2, Dr. William E, Fulmer has announced. Doctor and Mrs. Joe lvester pose before their trailer at the j Daniel Boone The*tie parking lot. Ivester is president of the WCCI (Carolines Unit) which held one of their frequent rallies | in Boone last weekend. The Daniel Boone Theater; was the scene <:X. a three-day I trailer caravan rally last week.' 'Cue hundred fifty units of the j Wally Byam Caravan Club | homesteaded in the theater; parking lot. Self-contained Air Stream! trailers housed 400 members of the club’s Carolina** Unit who have attended rallies through out the nation and in Mexico. The members of the Caravan :■ u,.. V'.. ■ . .. ... dub rallying in Boone were from a five-state area. Profes sional callings of the travelers ranged from medicine to farm ing. Dr. Joseph Ivester, chiro practor from Albemarle and president of the Carolina’s chapter of WBCCI, stated that the mobile home units contain everything from bath facilities to a power supply for heating, cooking and rafrigerathau ' . 1 '■ ; v- • ‘ , College seniors preparing to teach and teacWs applying for positions in school systems which encourage or require ap plicants to submit their scores on the NTE along with their other credentials are eligible to take the tests. The examina tions are prepared and admin istered by Educational Testing Service, Princeton, N. J. The designation of ASTC as a test center for these examina tions will give prospective tea chers in this area an opportun ity to compare their perform ance on the examinations with candidates throughout the coun try who take the tests, Dr. Fulmer said. At the one-day test session a candidate may take the Com mon Examinations, which in clude tests in Professional Edu cation and General Education, (Continued on page 5, sec, C) Bloodmobile To Be Here August 13th Today the American National Red Cross has 3,300 chapters and 2,000,000 volunteer work ers. It provides such services as serving the armed fo. es at home and abroad, helping vet erans, working on the job in disasters, teaching first aid and providing training in swim ming and life-saving. Other services include a pro gram of small Craft s a f e t y (boating), providing nursing services, providing international services, and collecting blood. Each year the Red Cross col lects over two and one-half mil lion pints of blood for 4,200 hospitals to save lives. The Watauga County Unit of the American Red Cross has set as its goal to collect at least 150 units of blood on Aug. 13, when the bloodmobile will again visit the county. The bloodmobile will be at the Boone Methodist Church As sembly Room iron 10:30 to 4:80 fun. ' mmi mm '' y #!*■■ *■ , r ;V ■' _ f rr K' ' ”• y i ^ | || , |1| IS : i gMUtfMWta'6' .Area Graduates Listed ^ \ v< <! ■ , ’■ ■■ " "'' i'1' ®a «©KI Exercises To Be Held Next Tuesday Night Robert W. Scott, Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina, will deliver the principal ad dress at the August 17 com mencement exercises at Appa lachian State Teachers College. Commencement will be in the Health and Physical Education Building at 7 pan. There are 96 students ex pected to receive degrees from the state institution at the summer exercises. Of this num ber, 170 are undergraduates and 226 are graduate students. Previous to his election as Lieutenant Governor at age 35, Scott had been State Chairman of United Forces for Education, Master of the North Carolina State Grange, Chairman of the State Board of Conservation and Development Paries Committee, President of the U. S. Poultry and Egg Producera Association, member of the North Carolina Seashore Commission, Chair man of the North Carolina Con sumers Committee for Low Cost Power, and President of the North Carolina Society of Fanil Managers and Rural Appraisers. He was National Chairman of Rural Americans for Johnson Humphrey in the recent general election. In earlier Democratic party service She was a precinct chairman, county vice-chairman and a State Solicitorial District Executive Committeeman. Robert Scott is a ruling Elder itt Hawfields Presby t e r i a n Church and has been chairman of the Board of Deacons. His wife is the former Jessie Rae Osborne of Swepsonville. The couple has five children: Mary, Margaret, Susan, Janet, and W. Kerr Scott. Continued on page 4, Sec. C) ROBERT W. SCOTT Pull For The British? Four clergymen surround “Widow Howard” backstage at the Daniel Boone Theater. Rev. Boyce Brooks of the First Baptist Church of Boone hosted two fellow pastors from London, England at a recent perform* ance of “Horn in the West”. Although the visitors felt a slight tendency to pull for the British in the drama’s Battle of Kings Moun tain, all enjoyed the show. Left to right are Rev. Brooks, Rev. Irving Barnes, Charles Eliedge of Marion, Carolyn Starnes of Lan caster, S. C., and Rev. Wilfrid H. Jones, guest minister at Burlington’s Grace Meth odist Church this summer. ASC County E Held By Mail lection To Be This Year ’■ ' ' r Vaughn Tug man, chairman of the Watauga ASC County Committee, has announced that the 1966 committee election will be held by mail. On Aug. 6, the ASCS office mailed each known eligible voter on file a returnable post card. The persons who receive these cards should list any other eligible voters on that farm and return the self-addressed card immediately, A ballot will be prepared and mailed to these whose names are sent In, in addition to ballots which will be prepared for Alt listed eligible voters. The slates of nominees will be completed by the community committees for each of the 10 communities at a meeting to be held on Aug. 18. Tugman says that farmers who are eligible to vote in the committee elections also have the right to nominate as can didates for committee member ship any fanner who hi eligible and willing to serve. Such peti tions, each one nominating one farmer and signed by six or more eligible voters, may be filed at the County Office any time before Aug. 18. Eligible voters may sign as many peti tions as they wish.* Any person nominated by petition who is found ineligible will be noti fied of such determination prior to completion of the slate of nominees and that he may appeal to the county committee any time prior to date set for completion of the slate of nom inees. Additional nominations may be made by the incumbent ASC community and county commit tees. Chairman Tugman explained that the committee system is the backbone of farm programs— those dealing with conservation of soil and water, as well as the price support activities for vari ous commodities, In the last few yean, the farmer-elected committee system has been studied intensively by a com mittee of farm and public ad Continued on page 4, Sec. C) Raleigh—The Council of State Tuesday (Aug. 3) approved $53,000 from the Contingency and Emergency Funds for land purchased for Appalachian State Teachers College in Boone. The property, contained in three lots, is across a street I from the college campus and la ! adjacent to a site on which a | classroom building is contem plated. i The state paid $19,999 to Nor man J. Greer, $19,350 to Beu lah Phillips Pitts and $15,500 to Charles Larry Kerley for the property. Within the next two weeks, an Alcoholic Beverage Control store is expected to be under construction in Blowing Rock. According to ABC Board Chair man Louis H. Smith, the store should he completed within the following six weeks. Serving with Smith on the Board are Rhonda Coffey and C. Stradley Kipp. Smith said several sites for the store are under considera tion and that several persons hare offered to build a store. “More than likely," he said, “the store will be leased on a long-term basis." He mentioned the possibility that a mercantile complex would soon be built on (he Blowing Rock By-Pass, and that H would house a supermarket, service station and other stores. U the emt the cc»j4s* Jr boOt, the ABC store Might be part of it, he said. The ABC Board has employ ed four men to handle the store: C. Ray Critcber, manager; Howard Powell, assistant man ager; and 0. J. Coffey and H, F. Custer, operators. In naming the employees, Smith said it trill be their duty, under the direction of the board, to main tain rigid law enforcement re garding alcoholle beverages. Louis, Coffey and Kipp were informed of their appointments on Thursday, Aug. 5, On the preceding Tuesday, Blowing Rock voters gave overwhelming approval to the proposal to establish an ABC store. The I vote was 331 for, 132 against. The proposal to allow the sale of bear under prescribed condi tions was approved 316 to 142. Ob Friday, tfc* Heard mat and, Smith Mid, “It was dis tinctly understood that the Board and employees of the store are bound by North Caro-: Una laws applicable to situa tions of this kind, and that it la mandatory to maintain a favor able public image.” lie said that beer will come under the supervision of the Town of Blowing Rock. li censes wilt be Issued under strict requirements and regula tions, Smith said. The Town wiU also decide upon “on premises” sales ; ofwine by tirade A hotels and restaurants only, and “off premises” sales of unrefrigerated wine by other IlVvllhvvZU Handling whiskey only, the ABC store will allow no sales to minors or to intoxicated per sons. Smith added that the store will bo open from 9 ia to 9 - r Vv%>i ; p.m. daily except Sundays, La bor Day, July Fourth, New Year's Christinas, Armistice Day, Thanksgiving and election : days. There will be a one-gallon limit for customers of the store. The Statute permitting tho Alcoholic Board of Control says that the State ABC has the power and authority to fix the retail price of ail alcoholic beverages — which price shall be uniform throughout the state. The bill introduced in tho legislature by Sen. Adrian Shut* ’ ; ford, and given final approval by local voters, states that “if the operation of a Town Aleo* hoiic Beverage Control Store is authorized under the provision! of this Act, the governing body - of the Town shall immediately create a Town Board of Ako i (Continued on page 5* eec. C)
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