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VOLUME LXXVIII—NO. 52
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BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JUNE 3#, 1066
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' Also looking forward to the trip across, the
Blue Ridge into Boone were these youngsters
—Kevin Boyd of Lenoir, and Jerry Hodges
; of Boone. Jerry turns toward the camera
while he is making a final adjustment on
the girth. Mike, the pony, belongs to Jerry’s
sister. When the train headed for me
Ferguson camp Tuesday, Kevin was begin
ning his first year with the Wagon Train
procession. Jerry, on the other hand, is a
veteran, hitting the trail to Boone for his
fourth year. (Staff photos)
Watauga’s Grocery Bill
Passes $4.5 Million Mark
Most Watauga County fami
lies were better off' last year
than in 1964, and they showed
it in the way they spent their
money.
: Bolstered by bigger incomes
and optimistic as to their fu
ture prospects,, they bought a
record Volume of goods *nd
Services, ’ > t~
r .. uf.-v ,
! Local retail merchants, be
cause of this, had a banner
year. Most of them were able
to report solid gains over
1964.
The final tabulations, show
ing just how the consumer dol
lar was distributed locally, are
contained in a new market
study released by the Standard
Rate and Data Service.
It reveals, for the local area
and for all other sections of the
country, how much was spent
for cars, food, furniture, cloth
ing and other articles.
In Watauga County, food
was the major Kern in the
budget. Out of every dollar
spent in local retail stores
during the year, 20 cents went
for food.
As a result, grocery stores,
supermarkets, bakeries, meat
markets and other food emporia
in thy area had sales totaling
topping the... prior
year’s $4,064,000.
Adams Speaks
To Optimists
A. T. Adams, Vice President
of The Northwestern Bank,
Boone, was guest speaker to
the Optimist Club of Boone on
Monday night.
He presented to the club a
program on the economy of
Watauga County, giving statis
tics on the industrial and agri
cultural growth over the past
several years and stressed the
importance for the continuation
of this growth.
Daniel Boone Garden
Now Open To Public
The Daniel Boone Native
Gardens are now open to the
public on a regular basis. Hours
are 9 to 11 a. m. and 3 to 7 p.
m. Tuesday through Saturday
and 2 to 6 p. m. on Sunday.
The gardens will be closed
on Monday of each week.
An attendent will be at the
gate to answer any questions
and give information. A charge
of 29 cents will be made for
adults, and children under 12,
accompanied by an adult, will
be admitted free.
Season tickets, conveying the
right to visit the gardens at
any time, are on sale for $1.
Now blooming are wild roses,
clematis, dutchman pipes, witch
ginger and many others. Visi
tors are asked to observe rules
while in the gardens, and may
park in the lower level lot of
“Horn in the West”, adjacent
to the gardens.
This was solely for take-home
food. Expenditures in restau
rants, lunch rooms and the like
are not included.
If this total were apportion-.
ed equally among the local
population, It would average
$1,007 per family for food.
• The: SKDS report indicates
that consumer buying tWIs
strong, also, in most other re
tail lines.
Sales of automobiles, motor
cycles, trailers, boats, and
other automotive equipment
came to $5,350,000, a gain
over the previous year’s $4,
531,000.
Variety stores and depart
ment stores carrying general
merchandise recorded a total of
$1,185,000, compared with the
former year’s $1,029,000.
Clothing stores and special
ty shops, including those sell
ing hats, shoes, dresses and
other apparel, accounted for
$1,428,000, as against the 1964
figure of $1,279,000.
Sales of furniture, household
equipment and home furnish
ings were also at a high level.
They amounted to $1,678,000.
The 1964 total was $1,435,000.
County Offices To
Be Closed Monday
All county offices will be
closed next Monday in observ
ance of the Fourth of July.
Since the fourth comes on the
first Monday, the regularly
scheduled meeting of the Board
of Commissioners will be held
on Tuesday, July 5th, it is an
nounced.
City Hall also will be closed
Monday.
Many Prizes To Be Given At
Land Bank Meeting Saturday
Several hundred dollar*
worth of prizes will be distri
buted among the 1,500 persons
expected to attend the Federal
Land Bank Association’s stock
holders’ meeting Saturday.
Since the Wagon Train par
ade will come, into Boone about
0:30 a. m., and traffic congest
ion is usually heavy after the
parade, John Hollar, FLB man
ager in Boone, advises that
stockholders, who will meet at
11 a. m. at the Appalachian
Elementary School, to park be
hind the school, only a block
from East King Street where
the parade is routed.
Congressman James E. Broy
hin Jr. will speak briefly dur
. lag the annual meeting. Those
,Wh» have not attended the
meeting before should turn on
to . College Street fiom King
Street The First Baptist
Church is on the corner.
Lowe’s 'North Wilkesboro
Hardware has donated the
grand prise table model televi
sion to be given away. The
Federal Land Bank will give
$100. Southern Insecticides will
give a $29 eash certificate and
the Blue Ridge Electric Mem
bership Corporation will give
two electric can openers.
Other prizes will be: A radio,
Barr Insurance Agency; elec
tric iron, Lowe's Boone Hard
ware; radio, Burgess Furniture;
wrist watch, Evans Jewelry; $9,
Miller Insurance Agency; cam
era, Flowers’ Photo Shop; $9,
(Continued on page two)
JOHN HOLLAS ' f
Horn Players
To Appear
On Television
Television viewers in and
around five large North Caro
lina cities will be getting a
bird’s-eye view of some of the
actors and actresses in “Horn
in the West”, which opened
Saturday night for its 15th sea
son.
Attendance Saturday and
Sunday shows an increase of
400 over the same two nights
last year, Horn officials say.
The lively historical drama has
returned to its stage many of
the favorites of Horn audiences
over the years.
Glenn Causey is back is Dan
iel Boone; Charles Elledge as
the Rev. Sims; Carolyn Starnes
as Widow Howard; Mary Law
rence Jellicorse as Mrs. Stuart;
Sherry Elledge as Quaker
Mary; and Bill Ross as Dr.
Stuart.
Rosb has played before half
a million play-goers, never hav
ing missed a single perform
ance in the Daniel Boone Am
phitheater.
Today (June 29), the Bill
Norwood Show, live from
WLOS-TV, Asheville, is featur
ing Glenn Causey, Carolyn
Starnes and the Quartet at
12:30 a. m. This and four other
(Continued on page two)
Merchants Are
Asked To Gose
On July Fourth
All merchants in Boone
are requested to close Mon
day in observance of the
Fourth of July.
Glenn Andrews, president
of the Boone Merchants As
sociation, reports that all
automobile dealers will
close and that many other
businesses have plans to
close Monday, and reopen
Tuesday.
Summer Term
Enrollment At
ASTC Is 2,707
Enrollment for the first sum
mer session at Appalachian
State Teachers College has
reached a total of 2,707 stu
dents, according to announce
ment from the office of Dr.
Benjamin F. Strickland, regis
trar.
The figure represents an
increase of S17 students over
the same session in 1965 and
an Increase of 841 students
for the first session In 1984.
A total of 1,965 students are
registered for the six-weeks
term of the first session, and
307 are registered for the full
summer quarter. Another 233
are registered for two-weeks
terms, 51 for the language in
stitute, 26 for the chemistry in
stitute and 125 in the Charlotte
extension.
Significantly, enrollment of
graduate students exceeds
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Wilkes County Youth Richard Brown wears
a happy, happy smile as he attaches his
registration tag to the halter of his horse
Sunday in North Wilkesboro. Chief Scout
Ivey Moore said 22 wagons and 27 horsemen
had registered as early as Sunday morning.
Wagon Train Days Focus
Attention On Boone Stores
Coincident with the an
nual trip along Daniel
Boone’s old trail with the
horses and the oxen, the rat
tling wagons and the men on
horseback, comes the first
Wagon Train Days, a neigh
borly gesture on the part of
the merchants of the com
munity, who want to wel
come all those who gather for
the frontier-days type of fel
lowshipping.
Thursday Friday and Sat
urday are Wagon Train Days
and the businessmen of the
city want you to know that
on those days the latchstring
is on the outside. Not only
that, but inside the stores
will be unusual stocks of
merchandise, priced econom
ically, as a gesture to our
visitors, and as recurring
proof that Boone is the shop
ping center of the Northwest
ern region of the State.
The Democrat today is fill
ed with advertising of espec
ial interest to thrifty shop
pers, whether or not they be
wagon train visitors. Under
the leadership of John Rob
Scotch Games
To Be Played
On Grandfather
The 11th Annual Grandfath
er Mountain Highland Games
and Gathering of Scottish
Clans will be held on MacRae
Meadows on the slope of
Grandfather Mountain near
Linvilie, N. C. Saturday and
Sunday, July 9th and 10th.
This announcement is issued
by Mrs. Agnes MacRae Morton,
founder and General Manager,
Linvilie.
Competition includes High
land dancing, piping, track and
field events, tossing the cabar,
tossing the sheaf, wrestling.
For Highland dancing entries
contact Miss Sallie Sutherland
2018 Lombardy Circle, Char
lotte, N. C„ 28203.
Sunday worship services will
be held at H a. m.
Beginning at 2 p. m. bud
parade* end finals at events.
inson of the Merchants As
sociation promotion commit
tee, especially designed ban
ners are being used in the
store windows along the
Street to further call atten
tion to the city-wide sales
event.
On behalf of the business
community, the Democrat ex
tends a cordial welcome to
town during Wagon Train
Days. Visitors to the city are
asked to get acquainted with
our friendly merchants and
the courteous sales people,
and to partake of the harvest
of bargains which have been
made available to them. And
be sure and check carefully
the ads today. They comprise
good news for the thrifty.
Wait a minute! Surely you don’t think the big oxen and flashy
horses are the only ones who lend a hand pulling wagons and
carrying riders and standing about in picturesque poses. There's
always us good old mules, staying off aorta in the background
and wearing • hat to shade our eyes so ss we don’t miss out on
s thing!
Gala Parade
Along King St
Next Saturday
BY RACHEL RIVERS
That gay and colorful Wagon
Train is on its way—wagon
wheels creaking over the dusty
route Daniel Boone once fol
lowed; small boy bathing in icy
stream at one of the camps;
folks posing for bands of pho
tographers who are capturing
in black and white, and in col
lor, the mood of the modern
day pilgrimage of pioneers
from Wilkes County to Boone.
They’re on the way for the
fourth year! Waving at folks
who line the trail from auth
entic covered wagons, stop
ping to water the thirsty
horses, mules and ponderous
oxen who pull and carry the
gay procession more than 30
miles.
You can almost hear the
I sounds of the trail, the \augh
| ter that follows the funny things
' that happen along the way, the
cautious warnings of horsemen
to keep children away from
strange horses. You can pract
ically see Dewitt Barnett, Wag
on Master from Boone, and
Ivey Moore, Chief Scout of
North Wilkesboro, keeping
their verbal and visual guard
to make sure regulations are in
force and to see that everybody
has enough of what he needs
to make the trip.
Camp And Parade
June 29 the Wagon Train
is camping in Darby—plenty
of square dancing and eating
and fun-having planned for
the crowds of spectators. And
the same sort of grand wel
come is extended from Trip
lett, where wagoneers will
sleep around the campfires
Thursday, June 30.
Friday the bid Train will
pull up through Cook's Gap
and follow Deerfield Road to
the Boone Camp on Blowing
Rock Road. The big field
across from the construction
site of Holiday Inn is where
the flames of the Boone camp
will blaze.
Food will be served on the
grounds, and crowds are ex
pected to gather for the fun
that afternon and night And
downtown, many merchants are
holding a special Wagon Train
Days sale for the benefit of
visitors and residents.
J. B. Greene will be parade
marshall this year, taking over
for Walt Edmisten, who will be
out of town.
The parade will start assemb
ling at the camp about 9 a. m.
Saturday morning. Miss Linda
Blair, Rhododendron Queen
1966, will lead the big parade
into Boone about 9:30 a. nt,
turning at the corner of Hardin
and East King Streets.
The long line will precede
westward through Boone, tor*
down Water Street, left onto
Rivers and Faculty street, pro
ceeding to Highway 105, then
left to the intersection of 105
and the Blowing Rock Road
and back to camp.
No Stallions!
Riders net registered with
the Wagon Train will ha at-1
lowed U trail at the end of
the parade this year. Bat the
ward Is out that no stall to an
will be allowed in the heal
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