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. < 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 .‘S - ;-:;y ■ < ms AUg. 10 Aug, 11 Aug, IS Aug. 13 Aug. 14 Aug. 15 Seventy-Eighth Year of Continuous Publication VOLUME LXXVIII—NO. 8 BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1965 24 PAGES—3 SECTIONS 10 CENTS PER COPY i" ;w ': S ' .- V; Boone School Bus Schedule Released Approximately 240 high school students in Boone will depend on county school buses for transportation to the new Watauga High School, beginning with registration on Monday, Aug. 30. County School Superintendent Guy Angell reports that progress at the new structure on Highway 105 is well ahead of schedule in most aspects. The two-story classroom and voca tional wing was completed last Friday and equipment is pres ently being moved into those areas. Final inspection of the cafeteria, library and administrative areas was made Friday and teachers are expected to go to work on Thursday, Aug. 26. Loading points in Boone are the A & P Store (Bus 56), the Post Office (Bus 45). the Winn-Dixie Store (Busess 11 and 32) and the Trailway Laundry (Buses 54 and 55). Students are asked to be at these points at 8 a. m. each school day. Angeli says the new school will be equipped to handle regis tration on Aug. 30, and should, soon thereafter, be fully equipped. (Rivers photo) June Russell Funeral Held Junius Miller Russell, 84, died Friday afternoon at his home, 124 West Howard Street, after a long illness. Funeral services was held at J o’clock Sunday at the Presby terian Church by Rev. J. jL Parker, Jr. Burial was in Mountlawn Memorial Park. Born in Salisbury, Mr. Rus sell was formerly a traveling salesman, later conducting a dry goods store on Depot Street, known as the Economy Store. He had lived in Boone for over thirty-five years. He was a Presbyterian. ■' Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Pearl Russell; one daughter, Mrs. Homer Critcher and one grandchild, all of Boone. Mrs. Coffey Dies At Age 99 Sirs. Ada Worth Penn Coffey, long-ume Boone citizen, but for many years a resident of Le noir, died Friday in a Burke county rest borne at the age of 99. Funeral services were held Sunday at the Warren-Miller Funeral Home in Lenoir and burial was in Hollywood cem etery in Elkin. Mrs. Coffey was a widow of the late William Columbus Cof fey of Boone, who was a Con federate veteran, one of the “Coffey Brothers” who, begin ning shortly after the Civil War, conducted a mercantile busi iness, tannery and hotel in Boone, and carried on vast farming activities. Mrs. Coffey was a leader in the Methodist Church during her residence here, and con tributed to all worthwhile com munity enterprises. She attend ed Martha Washington College in Abingdon, Va., and had play ed the piano and organ in many churches. “Don’t Park Here” Is Theme Of Lieut.-Governor’s Talk Robert W, Scott, lieutenant Governor of North Carolina, speaking at Commencement Exercises at Appalachian State Teachers College Tuesday even ing told the 386 graduates “It t trait of human nature to be eternally on the lookout for a place to park—j not only one’s automtoile, buti one’s self." He further cautioned them again becoming satisfied with their achievements. To illustr ate his point Scott cited the German proverb: we rest, we rust.” _ The theme of Scott’s address was “Don’t Park Here.” He said “Some men and women park beside their failures ... For others a broken home is the excuse for parking along the highway of life .., For oth ers business drops off, crops fail, illness comes, and all is lost. Because he loses what is important for the moment, the victim gives up and parks be side his failures and disappoint ments. “What a tragedy It Is to find a boy or girl, a man or woman, parked beside some failure or handicap and thus missing the best things of life and losing ! Herman Wilcox Will Attend Credit Meeting * Mr, Herman W. Wilcox, the j Credit Bureau Manager ofI Boone has been appointed a member of the Attendance Committee of the Southern Consumer Credit Clinic. Four hundred credit and col lection executives from medic al, commercial institutions and credit bureaus from the South will be in attendance. The clinic will be September | 14-15. Registration fee is $15. j Clinic headquarters is Queen | Charlotte Hotel. j State House Minority leader James E. Holsbouser Jr. of Boone has been approached to seek the chairmanship of the state Republican P»ny *Tve been reluctant to get in the race for the chairmanship,” Holsbouser told the Democrat. ■ “I’m still not committed either way". < The N, C. Republican .Execu tive Committee, about 20u meet is W ms ton &aicm on Aug, m to elect a \ chairman from a slate of nom-j inees. HoLshouser pointed outj that Fred Steele of Durham j and Waiter Scott of Charlotte j are strong contenders for the j position. . Rep. Holshouser further stated that the state chairman- j ship is a time consuming job | and that he does not feel he should attempt to take on such I a heavy responsibility at this j , - . ‘‘4' ' / r, ■ i' ■■ the spirit to contribute to the j welfare of others.” Scott also cited examples of those who are content to para beside their successes and past glories; again, he cautioned against this. Boone Chamber j Breakfast Set The Boone Chamber of Com merce will hold a membership drive breakfast meeting at 7 a. m. Friday at the Gateway Cafe. All members are urged to at tend. . . . “But of all the parking, there la bone more devastating in the lives of men than the parking beside the successes and fail ures of a person’s spiritual life," the graduates were told. , Scott praised our founding fathers for the excellent job they did in building this nation of ours. He said that they "Could not afford to be mere "spectators. "But one of the great dang ers we have to our size and pro sperity today," Scott said, "is that it allows us the luxury of detachment. So many of our citizens are practicing their citizenship by remote control." PHOTO QUEEN—Vicki Angel of Winston-Salem, picked as the 1965 Photo Queen by the Press Photographers of the two Carolina®, will be at Grandfather Mountain on Saturday, Au gust 21, to crown her successor. It is a part of the annual Camera Clinic at Grandfather Mountain for amateur and professional cameramen sponsored by the Carolina Press Pho tographers Association August 21-22.—Hugh Morton photo. . . . ; i ■ -• . •• M v$r. Tuesday And Wednesday * - */ ; ^ c , 1 , mS. , ' 5}: i - „ '"--S'? $fej Boone Churches Will Be Hosts The Three Fortes Baptist As* sociation will meet Tuesday and Wednesday, Aug. 24 and | 25, in its one hundred twenty* fifth annual session. The Tues day session, which will be held with the Brushy Fork Baptist Church, will highlight the Sun day School, Training Union, Woman's Missionary Union and Brotherhood work of the As sociation. These discussions will be led i by Marshall Hargrave, Mrs. Nora Wilson, Mrs. John B. Robinson and Dr. Jack Law rence. Hank Greer, Baptist stu dent leader, will lead a dis cussion on Christian education, in which representatives of the Baptist colleges of North Caro lina will be featured. The morn-; ing session will be concluded with the annual associations! sermon preached by Dr. J. C. Canipe. The people of Brushy Fork Church will serve dinner on the grounds. The Tuesday afternoon sea* sion will emphasize the local and world-wide mission chal lenge of the church. Phases of the work will be presented by the Rev, W. E. Pope, Dr. Ray Lawrence, the Rev. Jam e s Branch and the Rev. E. S. Mor gan. the final message of the afternoon session will be brought by Dr. E. L. Spivey, Director of Missions for the N. C. Baptist State Conven tion. , The second day’s session will be held at the First Baptist; Church in Boone. Special atten tion will be focused on the so cial service institutions of the denomination; children's homes, homes for the aging and the Baptist Hospital. Reports will be presented by Wilson Norris, Herman Wilcox and Dr. Jack Lawrence. The Rev. W. E. Pope, Three Forks Baptist Associa tions! Missionary, will bring a message at the close of the morning session. A meal will be served by the peopU c* First Baptist Church in the fellow ship hall. In the concluding session Wednesday afternoon, Clyde R. Greene, associational historian, will present fact* in the history of Brushy Fork Baptist Church and First Baptist Church of | Boone. Rev. George Hyler, pas tor of the First Baptist Church of Blowing Rock, will present a report on evangelism and intro duce Dr. £. J. Daniels of Or lando, Fla., who will speak on evangelism. Dr. Daniel* is a I leading Southern Baptist evan gelist and is engaged in a cru sade with the churches in and around Mountain City, Tenn. Dr. Daniels is also editor of a magazine, “Christ for the World Messenger," The devotional periods of these sessions will be led by ministers who have recently come to the Three Forks As sociation: the Rev, Harry D. Vance of Meat Camp Baptist Continued on page 4, Sec, C) ‘ ji Ji1 BY THE TIME THIS IS PRINTED, Mayor Wade Brown says the roof should be on the' police station being constructed between the Fire department garage and Newton’s De partment Store on West King Street. As of Monday, the wails were up and the rafters in place. The station is the first sta^e of a four part plan for a new City Hall. Whenthe building is closed in, interior work will be completed quickly, and an all-night police* man wilj be available to Boone residents and those who were annexed into the city limits, effective July 15, (Staff photo) Tuesday’s program meeting of the Boone Chamber of Com merce featured a talk by Rob ert Lee Band all on the subject of a Better Business Bureau in the community. Randall, director of the placement service at ASTC, professor of school administra tion and member of the Town Board of Aldermen, defined a local B. B. B. as “an independ ent agency of business, organiz ed as a non-profit corporation for the purpose of self-regula tion. “Hie idea of business seif reguiation on advertising and selling practices originated with a group of business lead ers in 1912 . . , who realized the need to develop well-regu lated, effective advertising and sales techniques to stimulate consumer demand and bring about mass consumption of the products and services begin ning to flow from the mass Cook Infant Billy Mark Cook, infant son of Wayne and Patricia Ann Tarlton Cook of Vilas, Rt, l, died at Watauga Hospital Sat urday.' Surviving are the parents and two brothers, D. W'ayne and David Cook of the home. The funeral was held at 2 p. m. Sunday at Central Bapt ist Church. Burial was in Mount Lawn cemetery, production facilities of Amer icon business. Thus better bus iness bureaus were born as part of the miracle of the American free enterprise sys tem. . ” Randall stated three results of better business bureau ac BULLETIN Blowing Rock Youth Killed By Lightning John Anthony Salarne, 14, son of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Salame of Blowing Rock and Fort Lauderdale, Fla., was killed by a bolt of lightning at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Blowing Rock, a scenic over look about a mile from the town of Blowing Rock. A Blowing Rock Hospital physician reportedly rushed to the scene and said that the boy had been killed instantly. It was said he was standing near his mother when the lightning struck. Surviving in addition to his parents are a twin brother, James Theorode II, and two sisters, Sumra and Shara. Funeral arrangements were Incomplete Tuesday evening, ; but It was said the body would be taken to Fort Laud- | erdale for funeral and burial. Planus far the second of a, series of tours for officials of j the State Department of Agri- i culture and representatives of j the food-buying industry were j announced Saturday by Agri culture Commissioner James: A. Graham. The tour wiU. be held Sept. 2 and' 3, and Davie, Wilkes, Ashe, Alleghany and Watauga counties will be visited. ' “W* are looking forward to rh W.l J ... . *<fc & * . % visiting this important agricul tural area of our state,” Gra ham stated, "and give the peo ple there an opportunity to be come better acquainted with the Department of Agriculture, its personnel and its functions. feed Representatives “We are equally interested in helping representatives of the state’s food-buying industry be come more familiar with the quality of products being pro • 1 - '' ' ' ' > '■ ' • duced in t«he state and with the efforts and care that our peo ple are using in preparing these products for marketing,” Gra ham continued, Graham mid he had keen par* ticuiarly impressed with the agricultural progress made in the Northwestern section of the state in recent .years, and he predicted ah unprecedented growth in cattle aad vegetable Continued cm page 4 C) ■.: ' ' < ■ ' • ■ l tivities: Help to improve pro fits; maintain a market environ ment in which business can operate profitably; assure the public against misrepresenta tion and deception in advertis ing and selling.. ' t.* “The absence of newspaper advertising alone in New York City (in 1962 strike) resulted in a loss of 10 per cent in sales, according to Federal Reserve Bank statistics . . . and a loss to businessmen of a million dol lars adayin sales,"Randall stated. “In addition, misrepresenta tion of product, service, price or value by an advertiser to at tract customers unfairly diverts trade from the responsible bus iness firm and creates costly chaos in the market." Randall said advertising is (Continued on page eighty C.N. Greene, Blowing Rock Merchant, Dies Clarence Newton Greene, 55, of Blowing Rock, owner and operator of Greene Grocery Store, died unexpectedly at 2 pan. Wednesday, Mr. Greene was born in Wa tauga County March 23, 1910, a son of the late Newton Co jumbos and Mary Etta Hol shouser Greene, < He is survived by bis widow, Mrs. Opal Pitts Greene; two sons, James L. Greene of Win ston-Salem and C. David Greene of Blowing Rock; four grand children; one brother, Spencer Greene of Blowing Rock; and one sister, Miss Doris Greene o! Blowing Rock. Funeral services were con ducted at 2 p.m. Friday at Rumple Memoiial Preshitcrian Church by the Rev. Walter Keys and the Rev. Blake Brin kerhofl Burial was in the Reformed Church Cemetery, Blowing Rock. ■|:d? Visit In Winston-Sataa Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Cline and Rene spent Sunday in Winston Salem witit Mrs. Cline's parents, Mr. and Mrs. John A. Hiatt. :
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