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VOLUME LXXVIU— NO. 22
BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1965
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20 PAGES—3 SECTIONS
Boone Market Called “Better”
' Ashe County Tobacco Growers Paul Roark
(left), and Earl Wilson arrived in Boone
"Saturday to put a crop of tobacco on the
market floor. Having farmed the weed for
more than 20 years, Wilson stated he tried
several markets last year, then tried the
Coleman-Sikes warehouses In Boone, where
he did much better. He has four more crops
coming to Boone this year and Roark also
has a crop he plans to bring. The men,
who live near Trade, Tenn., feel their crop
is of better quality this season than last and
said that this trend is perhaps true country
wide. Discussing the poundage allotment
under which flue-cured tobacco farmers
now operate, Wilson expressed preference
for the acreage system used, to date, in
hurley tobacco. Under the acreage allotment
system, the farmer is able to sell the entire
yield from his allotment. The poundage sys
tem would allow a certain number of pounds
to tobacco to be sold, not necessarily the en
tire crop. Mirroring a poplar view, Wilson
said it might “be hard to know how much
tobacco to put out to get the allotment.”
A heavy yield would leave an excess of to
bacco which could not be sold at market.
Thousands of pounds of tobacco were listed
with the three Boone warehouses as buyers
and growers get ready for the 1965 sales,
starting Monday. (Staff photo)
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• v College FreshmetrOfganize 4§m$
To Send Cards To Viet Nam
Students in two freshman history classes of Prof. Vernon
6. Stumpf at Apppalachian State Teachers College are de
termined that at least some of the service men in Viet Nam
will have personalized greetings from home for Christmas.
In a crash project, the students have volunteered to send
t greeting to each serviceman for whom they can secure
•:| in address. ^-'.v
Relatives of service men In Viet Nam are urged to send
names, along with APO or FPO addresses to the classes with
assurance that each will be given attention.
These addresses may be sent to “Serviceman, News Bu
reau, Appalachian State Teachers College, Boone, N. C.”
They should be in the hands of the students by Dec. 1.
The project has been given more meaning to these stu
dents in view of the fact that Dr. Stumpf was hospitalized
recently by a heart attack.
Members of the Boone Opti
mist Club will put up Christ
mas decorations in Boone next
week, and the lights will be
turned on immediately after
the Christmas parade on Dec.
Speaking for the dub, George
flowers said a few changes' are
planned in this year’s decora
tions.
The parade will begin at
f 3:30 p. m. at the “Horn in the |
j West*’ grounds on Dee. 4 and j
travel West through Boone, i
The Optimists will sponsor this
parade, their first, and it will
bd an annual event, Flowers
said.
Ffed Kirfjy of WBTV-Char
lotte and Tweetsie Railroad has
been asked to be parade itiar
' shat
More than a million pounds
of hurley tobacco was on the
floors. oftHrea wsi*Jhottsa*4<*
day as farmers prepared to sell
their crops in the 1965-66 Boone
market
Joe Coleman says the sale
season wilt begin on Monday,
Nov. 29, with buyers starting at
9 a. m. in Warehouse No. 2 at
the corner of Depot and Rivers
streets.
On Tuesday, Nov. 30, sales
will start at 9 a. m. in Farm
er’s Burley Warehouse on the
Bristol Road; on Wednesday,
Dec. 1, sales will start at 9 a. m.
in Big Burley Warehouse on the
421-Bypass west of Boone. Sales
begin each morning at 9, with
the Thursday, Dec. 2, sale ro
tating baek to Warehouse No.
2 and so on to Farmer’s and Big
Burley throughout the season.
Coleman complimented farm
ers for the good job they arc
doing this year. He said, “Ap- j
pearance of tobacco on the floor
is better—certainly a lot dryer
—than It was last year,”
The Big Burley Warehouse
has been purchased by the Cole
man enterprises. In November.
1964, Burley Warehouse, No. 1.
on Queen Street was destroyed
by fire. With their operation
of the third warehouse and a
prize room built onto Farm
ers, sales are expected to go
along more smoothly this year.
There will be a Christ
mas Holiday marketing recess
to begin at the close of sales
on Dec. 17, 1965. Sales shall be
resumed on Jan. 3, 1966.
Charlie Robbins, Pioneer In
Hack And Bus Lines, Dies
Lenoir, N. C.—Charlie Rob
bins, well-known Lenoir taxi
driver, died suddenly Monday
at 8 p. m. at the home of a son,
Max Robbins of 1021 14th Ave
nue, NW, Hickory. He was 85
and a life-long resident of 1a;
noir.
(Mir. Robbins started driving
in 1908 and recalled that peo
ple were afraid to ride in the
first cars. He was believed to
be the oldest taxi driver in
North Carolina when he retired
last spring from Lenoir Yellow
Cab Co., a firm he had been
employed with for many years.
For a number of years he
operated Robbins Cab Co. in
’ Lenoir.
First Hack Line {
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others > he, brought Lenoir its ]
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first hack line in 1903. The
hack line operated between
Lenoir and Blowing Rock.
Mr. Robbins recalled that
people would run out of their
houses to see what all the noise
was the first few times be
made the trip to Blowing Rock
in a car. He remembered that
it was about 1918 or 1918 be
fore the trip could be made up
the mountain in the winter.
From 1925 to the late thirties
Mr. Robbins and W. L. Ernest
of Lenoir operated a bus line
in Lenoir with runs W Hickory,
Morganton, Taylorsville and
Wilkesboro,
Born March SC I860 in Cald
well County* he was a sots of
the late Thomas Cliagman Hob-;
bins and- Sarah Curtis Robbias.1
His wife, Mrs. Sarsh Eliza Al- ]
Jen Robbins, died in 1959.
Surviving in addition to his
son of Hickory are another son,
Honda R. Robbins of Burling
ton; two daughters, Mrs. W. C.
(Pauline) Steele of UnionvUle,
Conn., Mrs. Edwin D. (Sue)
...Price of. Lenoir. .
Also surviving are three bro
thers, Roger H. and Robert
Robbins, both of Lenoir; Coot
Robbins of California; two sist
ers, Mrs. Frank B. ((Millie)
Martin of Lenoir, Mrs. Charles
(Lillian) Pearson of Gastonia;
16 grandchildren and four
great-grandchildren,
Funeral services were held
Wednesday at 4 p. no. at Lenoir
First Baptist Church of which
he was a member. Burial was
in Bellaview Cemetery. _
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Bank Merger
To Be Voted
Stockholders of the First Na
tional Bank of Boone will vote
Friday on a merger of the
Boone bank with the First Na
tional Bank of Eastern North
Carolina.
The announcement was made
by S. C. Egers, Sr., chairman
of the board; Glenn R. Andrews,
president of the First National
Bank of Boone; and M. F. Al
len Jr., president of the First
National Bank of Eastern North
Carolina of Jacksonville.
They said unanimous agree
ment has been reached among
directors and that approval will
be voted by the stockholders of
both banks in simultaneous
meetings in Boone and Jack
sonville. The central offices of
First National-ENC are in Jack
sonville.
The combined resources of
the two institutions will total
approximately $40 million with
total capital structure of about
$4 million, the officers said.
Application has been made to
the comptroller of the currency
; to name the new consolidation
First National Bank of North
Carolina, Eggers said.
Jh§ First National Bank of
Boone opened for business Jtrty
2, 1963. Gene F. Jewell has
been appointed by the board of
directors as acting manager and
officer in charge until the merg
er is effected. He will replace
Sam Dixon who resigned re
cently to accept a position with
the Bank of Statesville. All oth
er personnel will remain in
their present positions.
To Promote For
Horn In The West
Rachel Rivers Coffey, for a
year and a half the managing
editor of the Watauga Demo
crat, was named promotional di
rector for the "Horn in the
West” and employed by the ex
ecutive committee of the South
ern Appalachian Historical As
sociation at a luncheon meeting
Monday.
Herman W. Wilcox, manager,
says that Mrs. Coffey will co
ordinate her promotional serv
ices for "Horn in the West”
through his office. She has sub
mitted her resignation to the
committee in compliance with
the Association’s by-laws. The
committee is expected to assign
the publicity chairmanship to
someone else, he said7
Mrs. Coffey, daughter of Rob
and Jean Rivers, editors of the
Democrat, graduated from Ap
palachian High School, and at
tended the University of Miss
ouri, receiving her degree from
the School of Journalism there
in 1964. Since that time, she
has been with the Democrat,
and has been active in all civic
movements.
She plans to retain her con
nection with the Democrat.
The Board of Directors will j
meet Monday, Nov. 29, at noon i
at the Daniel Boone Hotel to j
approve the 1965-66 budget for;
operation of ithe drama, and to
discuss opening and closing j
dates of the drama. Other im
portant matters wili be brought
before the board.
Young Democrats To
Meet Monday Night
The regular meeting of the
YDC will meet Monday, Nov.
29, at 7:30 p m. at the Court
house. All members are urged
to attend* . ,4 ■
N. C. Forest Reserve Pilot Ed Hegar
(right) met Crayte Teague, County Forest
Ranger, at a privately-owned airstrip on
Deerfield Road Thursday. Permission has
been given the Forest Reserve to use the
landing field and thus an even fuller pro
tection of Watauga and surrounding coun
ties is possible in case of forest fires. (Staff
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WAMY Community Action,
Inc., will be one of the com*
munity action groups to be in*
eluded on a tour by an inter
national group, Harold Baiiin,
area co-ordinator for the Office
of Economic Opportunnty in
Washington, told a seminar and
training session at Appalachian
State Teachers College last
week end.
Baiiin was one of a number
of top-ranking officials who ap
peared at the seminar and
training session, and his an
nouncement that WAMY would
be on the list for the tour is
regarded as a definite compli
ment to the local organization.
Dr. W. H. Plemmons is pres
MR. NORMAN GREENE SHOT
THIS COYOTE AT HIS FARM
on Stony Fork near Beep Gap
Sunday. “The prairie wolf", re
lated to the dog, and found in
Western North America, had
been killing hi* chickens, Mr.
Greene said. Having fired at it
with a shot gun twice, he finally
killed it with a 30-30 rifle:
“Never saw any tiling like that
before," he quipped. Dr. John
G. Martin, veterinarian, identi
fied the animal and said it was
young, tommy Osborne.game
warden, said a pair of coyotes
might have been brought to this
area sometime. The coyote
weighed 50 pounds and stretch
ed to » length of five feet.
id 'nt of tbe local group While
Ernest D. Eppley is executive
director.
‘This list was prepared at
the request of the State Depart*
ment,” Bailln said, pointing out
that the Department desired a
list of “those community action
organizations that are consid*
ered to be making significant
contributions in combatting
poverty in the nation.”
fiailin said he thought an In
ternational group would be
visiting aoon. He praised
WAMY for Its accomplish
ments. ; \ ■„
Others appearing on the pro
gram were Dr, Harvey Smith,
professor of sociology of the
University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill; Toth Hartman,
deputy director of the North
Carolina Fund; Bob Ward, State
Planning Task Force director;
and Dr, Robert J. JRelchler of
the department of psychiatry at
the University of North Caro
lina at Chapel HilL
Stores To Close
Thanksgiving
Mr. Fred McNeil, manager of
the Boone Chamber of Com
merce, stated Tuesday that the
following place* of business will
be closed Thursday in observ
ance of Thanksgiving Day: Post
Office, Town Hall, courthouse,
both drug stores and all de
partment stores.
Dr. Smith gave a report On
a study carried out In rural
mountain communities to ex*
amine the conflicts and stresses
that are prevalent when people
are forced into contact with an
urban culture. Mis remarks
were regarded as valuable in
helping staff members under*
stand some of the problems of
people who have been forced
to live in the mountains and
who now are being forced to
make an adjustment to the ur
ban culture around them.
(Continued on page two)
Moose Lodge Is
Asking Toys For
Needy Children
Boone Moose Lodge No. 1805
again is sponsoring a toy cam
paign for Watauga County's
under-privileged children.
Persons who have used toys
to donate are urged to leave
them at Brown & Graham Mo
tor Co. on East King Street or
at Triplett's American Station
across from Harris-Tecter Super
Market on East King. Those un
able to get to these establish
ments. said Bob Brown, member
of the Lodge, are asked to con
tact Lodge members for pick-up
of the toys.
• Ail toys are repaired • and
put in working order for the|
needy children. !
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Ranger Teague
Tells Of New
BT RACHEL RIVERS
A North Carolina Forest Re
serve airplane landed in Boone
Thursday on the airstrip owned
by Jack Norris and Paul Brown,
and located on Deerfield Road.
County Forest Ranger Crayte
Teague said the point in having
the plane come to Watauga
County was to familiarize Pilot.
Ed Hegar, who is stationed in
Asheville, with the area.
Throughout the day, aerial map*
pings were done and problem
work conducted in which mock
ground calls were made to the
pilot, who had to locate the
pretended emergency according
to landmarks he had studied
earlier.
The airstrip venture, which
got underway last spring, is
most important in giving the
Forest Service a point from
which to pivot Into three other
mountain counties: Ashe, Al
leghany and Avery. The moun
tain crest »iea presently is
served by local ground crews,
Teague said, and planes from
Asheville would assist in emer
Igem'ics.
In the event of a fast-moving
forest fire, state planes could
reac& WftMW* County la leas
than an hour. However, access*
ibility to the local airfield would
enable planes to refuel here,
continuing their work without
having to return to Asheville.
Teague stated that Norris and
Brown have given the state per*
mission to use their field free,
and gave him the key to fuel
storage in case air assistance
would be needed here. *•
Forest Fires, Blights
As an operational base, the
Boone landing strip also enables
more service to Wilkes and
Caidwell counties. This is not to
say these areas are not satis*
factorily covered, Teague cat*
plained, but the additional ope
rational base in Watauga would
speed up work in counties
which already have landing
fields, and which would be
crowded during emergency ma
neuvers.
Planes are used for spotting
fires, especially oo bad visi
bility days when checkers in
fire towers cannot see. “A plane
oui check all of Watauga Coun
ty in five minutes. T-34 planes,”
he said, “are capable of flying 3
160 miles an hour.”
The Boone fire tower is north f ■
of Boone on Rich Mountain. The
Dugger Tower covers tne damp
son section and Buffalo Cove:
Points in Wilkes, Watauga and
Caldwell counties.
Hegar said the state agency
uses T-34 planes in fire control
and the L-19 Piper in pest con
trol. Aircraft can sped oak wilt
and direct ground crews to the
area by plotting trees on map.
Planes mso spot beetle damage
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Raleigh —• Gov. Dan Moore
has stated he is trying to get
Hugh Morton of Wilmington and
the U S. Park Service to agree
on a route for the Blue Ridge
Parkway over Grandfather
Mountain.
Moore said that “the state, so
far as I am concerned, has not
taken any position on the loca
tion of this road.”
Morton owns the mountain
and operates a tourist attrac
tion there. He has contended in
the past that the administrations
of former governors Umstead,
Hodges sad Sanford hod sided
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with him against the Park Ser
vice to a location for the route
over the mountain. Morton in
itially wanted a low route across
the mountain. The Park Service
has held out for a high route.
During the dosing days of the
Sanford administration, the
State Highway Commission ac
cepted a deed from Morton for
right-of-way for a compromise
middle route across the moun
tain. The compromise route pro
posed by Morton has never beta
officially accepted by the Park
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**Uv only desire.” Moore said.
“is to get this road built.” The
Parkway route over Grand
father Mountain is the only un
completed section of the high
way.
“The Park Service Is in con
tact with me,” Moore said. “I
ant in contact with Mr. Mor
ton, and 1 am trying; to get both
parties together.”
The governor noted a person
al interest in the completion of
the highway. “1 went to Wash
ington 30 years ago on the park
way,” he said, “and I hope to
hve to see it completed.’* *
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