Ahead In Carolina The Democrat led all N. C. weeklies in 1965 Press Assn, contests. It won first place in General Ex cellence, Excellence in Typography, Local News Coverage, Want Ads, and Second in Display Advertising. VOLUME LXXIX—NO. 5 WATAUGA DEMOCRAT An Independent Weekly Newspaper . . . Seventy-Ninth Year of Continuous Publication BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1966 10 CENTS PER COPY BOONS WEATHER 1SSS HI Xn . Jtoly 26 85 56 July 27 84 56 July 28 84 57 July 29 78 66 July 30 67 60 July 31 74 64 Aug. 1 76 50 1.06 126 22 PAGES—3 SECTIONS 23233:38? 8288883 ‘ Boundaries Of ASC Areas Announced Clyde Moretz, Chairman, Ag ricultural Stabilization and Con servation Committee, has an nounced the designation and boundaries of each community where elections of ASC com munity committees will be held by mail again this year, August 30 September 9. The County ASC Committee has determined that no changes be made in the 10 community boundaries. The chairman re minds farmers that the election will choose three committeemen and two altematess for each community. The chairman, vice-chairman, and third regular member of the elected ASC com mittee will also serve as dele gates to the county convention to be held September 26. At the convention farmers will be elected to fill vacancies on the ASC County Committee. The alternate community committee men will serve as alternate del egates to the convention. Farmers eligible to cast bal lots in the election will be all those who are eligible to par ticipate in one or more of the national farm programs which the committeemen help to ad minister locally. The farmer may be an owner, tenant, or sharecropper. Persons not of legal voting (Continued on page two) New Phone Service Begins August 14th Direct Distance Dialing, a new telephone service which enables customers to dial many of their own long dis tance calls, will begin in Boone on Aug. 14. W. R. Cooke, Southern Bell manager here, said that DDD enables telephone users to dial their own station-to-sta tion calls. Operators will still handle person-t6:t>ers<m calls, credit card calls, collect calls and calls from coin phones. PRETTY BARBARA BAKER of Blowing Rock seems to be sharing a secret with her horse, Style Setter, at the central stab^ on the Blowing Rock Horse Show grounds. Miss Baker, a summer resident of Blowing Rock, will be showing in forward seat equitation and hunter classes during the Aug. 4-7 show. She has ridden in the Blowing Rock rings SL/e childhood. In the recent Cove Creek Horse Show, she won a trophy, and in Lin ville, over the weekend, won several rib bons. (Staff photo) Blowing Rock Horse Show Climax Of Gay Summer Resort Season The biggest sports and social event of the summer, the Blow ing Rock Charity Horse Show, opens Aug. 4 this year. It is the oldest show in the Southeast and has become such a tradi tion in Blowing Rock that the first weekend in August has been known for years simply as “Horse Show Weekend”. This year’s show is the 43rd held here without missing a year, even during the gasoline rationing days of World War II. Unlike most horse shows, there are no night classes. Evenings are reserved for par ties, many of them for exhibit ors and their families. This year’s social agenda for exhibitors includes a square dance Thursday night, a dinner dance at Blowing Rock Country Club on Friday night, and a pic nic for junior exhibitors Friday while their seniors attend a cocktail party. In addition to these official parties, there are two big formal balls, one at Mayview and the other at the Country Club on Saturday night, plus countless private parties. Although last year's show drew some of the finest horses ever exhibited in Blowing Rock, the board of directors decided that the Broyhill Park facilities has served as long as they could be expected to and decided to re-design the grounds complete ly. The area has been land scaped and spruced up in gen eral, including a roof for the 600-seat grandstand. Complete ly new boxes, built in double tiers for an unobstructed view of both show rings and the out side course, will seat another 700 spectators. There will be unusually con venient parking, with parking attendants available. Horse drawn jitneys will take spec tators back and forth from the parking lots to the show area. An added attraction for mule admirers will be Bert and Holly, a brother and sister team of paint mala# below flag to Hone Show president C. V. Henkel of Statesville and Blowing Rock. 1 Bert and Molly, who are nine ] and 10 years old, respectively, I will pull one of the jitneys serving the parking lots. Chil dren should especially enjoy | Bert, who greets people with a J great deal of enthusiastic hee- j hawing. Another attraction for children will be the stage coach that originally ran from Blow ing Rock to Linville. The coacli will also be used for transpor tation around the grounds. All new construction was planned to make the show as convenient as possible for ex hibitors as well as spectators. A new permanent central stable Watauga 4-H Members Take State Speaking Awards Janie Shipley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Shipley of Vilas, and Ottie Vance, son of the Rev. and Mrs. Harry Vance of Route 2, Boone, were win ners in the Girls’ and Boys’ Public Speaking Contest at State 4-H Club Week in Raleigh. Janie spoke on “Why You Should Develop Your Leader ship’’. Ottie Vance spoke on “A Look at 4-H”. W. C. Richardson, agricul tural extension agent, said he thought that this was the first time both winners had been from the same county. Janie was elected vice presi dent of the State Council. Geraldine Dishman partici pated in the Dress Revue. Mar sha Farthing participated in the Health Pageant, and Gene Swift participated in the To bacco Demonstration. Other club members attend ing from Watauga were Billy and Von Dishman, Spencer (Continued on page two) includes deluxe stalls for 36 horses, with a 25-stall annex. The central stable also has dor mitories for grooms, wash area, central tack room, kitchen and an apartment for the manager, Mrs. Charles Goggi of Waxhaw. Construction is well under way on an additional 200 permanent stalls, arranged on a hillside in rows of 40 each. All facilities will be available to the community after the four day horse show. Broyhill Park is a natural bowl, ideal for large outdoors gatherings, and the horse show organization hopes to see it used for rallies, pic nics, dog shows and any other activity that groups in the com munity would like to use it for. Proceeds from the annual Horse Show itself benefit the Blowing Hock Community Club. New events this year include a hunter breeding division and a Western pleasure class. Over 500 quality horses will com pete for $7,500 in prize money (Continued on page 3, Sec. C) Governor To Speak At Open House F or BREMC O F acility Dedication and open house at Blue Ridge Electric Member ship Corporation’s new head quarters facilities in Lenoir, North Carolina, Saturday and Sunday, August 6 and 7, will mark another milestone in the growth and development of the cooperative. The Honorable Dan K. Moore, governor of North Car olina, will dedicate the build ing in a brief ceremony at 1:31 p. m. Saturday, August 6. The dedication services will be carried live over several local radio stations. - The mw bMdquwUn facility is located at the northeast city limits of Lenoir on U. S. 321 north. The new facilities consist of the general and Caldwell Dis trict office building which contains 34,000 squire feet of office si pee, a transportation center housing 20 units of transportation and other mo bile equipment, and a general warehoue and test laboratory building. Specially construct ed racks and platforms for storage of power poles and transformers are located In the rear of the property. The facilities are erected sew the center of a 20-acre tract of land, formerly a part of the Triplett Dairy Farm at the in tersection of 321 and the Zacks Fork Road. The new office building is modern in every respect and of class “A”, fireproof con struction. The exterior is of yellow brick with gray stone aggregate panels inset above and below windows. The main entrance, near the center of the building, is covered with a canopy, above which are solar screens backed by colored dif fusing panels which, at night, (CoaUaond on paga two) Movie Executives Show Up Fess Parker Schedule Is Moved To Earlier Hour Star Of Dan’l Boone Series To Be Honored An alteration of plans by Fess Parker, star of television and motion pictures, has caused a change in schedule for Fess Parker Night, Thursday, Aug. 4, at Horn in the West. Herman W. Wilcox, manager of the drama, announces that Parker will appear on stage at 7:30 p.m. rather than at inter mission as was planned. The Horn will begin its regular per formance at 8:15. The star of television’s Daniel Boone series will be honored at a special dinner at Hound Ears Lodge and Club shortly after his arrival in Boone Thursday afternoon. He will proceed to the Daniel Boone Ampitheater after the dinner, and will be ac companied by several digni taries. More than 200 press photo graphers have been invited to compete for a $100 prize for the best published picture of the Twentieth Century-Fox star in connection with Horn in the West. The star’s final appearance in the area will be at a combi nation breakfast - press confer ence Friday morning, Aug. 5, atop Grandfather Mountain. Hugh Morton, owner of the mountain, will be host for the event. In preparation for Parker’s visit to Daniel Boone Country, field representatives have al ready visited the Horn. Ralph Buring of Twentieth Century I Fox, Robert Smith of Columbia ■ Pictures and Howard Pearl of United Artists attended the I drama Saturday night. Dick Newman, head publicist I for Twentieth Century-Fox, Bob Reese, Parker's traveling secre tary, and Lloyd Edwards, Twen tieth Century-Fox manager from Charlotte, will accompany Parker during his stay in the mountains. Parker has recently filmed “Smokey” in Hollywood. Blue Ridge Wagon Train Rolls Next Week West Jefferson, Aug. 1—The Blue Ridge Wagon Train is scheduled from Aug. 9 through Aug. 13. Wagons, buggies, ox carts and horses will be included in the wagon train. To date 116 wag ons and 335 horses have regis tered to take part, with more expected to enter before the event starts. Those on the train will wear clothes typical of pio neer days. Participants are from North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and as far away as Pennsylvania, Ohio and Texas. The group will gather at Mil lers Creek, Wilkes County, on Aug. 9 and camp there the first night. The second camping will be at Parsonsville on Aug. 10 at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountain. On Aug. 11, the train will cross the Blue Ridge Moun tain and camp that night at Obids, in Ashe County. Friday morning, Aug. 12, they will travel from Obids to Green field Acres, between Jefferson and West Jefferson. Greenfield Acres is a large farm with the farm house con verted into a restaurant of fine foods. They also have riding stables, camping facilities and fish lakes. There will be entertainment (Coctinuod os pt|« two) Presstime report from the office of Horn in the West was that tickets for Fess Parker Night, Thursday, are getting to be in short supply. The famed star of the Daniel Boone series will arrive in Boone shortly before he appears on the stage of the Daniel Boone Amphitheater. Parker will be on stage at 7:30 p. m. Judges Named For Pickle, Pound Cake Contest Here Three Watauga County home economists have been named judges in Beth Tartan’s Pickles and Pound Cake Contest Friday in Boone. Any resident of Watauga may bring pickles and pound cake to the judging at 11 a m. Fri day at the office of Mrs. Lillian Danner, Watauga County home economics agent, in the Hock Building, the Court House An nex. Judges will be Mrs. Dave Smith, Mrs. Roy Harmon and Miss Agnes Gray Shipley, all home economics teachers. The judges will select win ners in sweet and sour pickle classes and junior and senior divisions for pound cakes. Con testants in the pound cake junior division must be 18 years old or younger. Other contest ant details may be obtained from Mrs. Danner. The four winners will receive $25 U. S. Savings Bonds and Boone Candidate Goes To Vietnam, Soldiers from the Ninth Dis trict may be surprised in the next three weeks to find a Con gressional candidate from | Boone walking alongside them in the fields of Vietnam. Robert Bingham, who is run I ning for Congress on the Demo cratic ticket, announced Tues day morning that he will familiarize himself with the problems of the Southeast Asia conflict and bring back first hand knowledge of the efforts and successes of the United States in the Vietnam war. “Traveling through the dis trict in the past four months, I have found that the greatest concern of the people is the Vietnam iituttton,M Bingham said. He said "If anyone in the district would like me to de liver a message to a son or re lative, they can wire me at the American Embassy, in Viet nam." Bingham left Boone Tues day morning, and departed from San Francisco by plane that afternoon. Bingham, said he will be able to meet and talk with men from the Ninth District at their field posts because of special State Department clearance. He was in the Airborne and Ranger Corps of the U. S. Army three years, and said he received the same unconventional warfare training now being used in Viet un. Beth Tartan Cookbooks, pre sented by the Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel. They will also be invited to I compete against other county winners in the grand finals in Winston-Salem Saturday, Sept. | 17, when the best pickle makers and pound cake bakers of North | west North Carolina and South I west Virginia will be selected. To the grand champions the Journal and Sentinel will pre sent $200 in cash prizes and other awards. Cakes, Pickles May Be Bought Those attending the Beth Tartan Pickle and Pound Cake Contest Friday in the Home Agent's Office will have an op portunity to purchase all goods on display. At 11 a. m., Friday, Watauga County cooks will be competing in two divisions: Junior, for teenagers; and the senior divi sion. Junior contestants (18 and under) and senior contest ants (19 and older) should have their cakes and pickles at the Home Economics Extension Agents Office by 10:30 a. m. Proceeds from the sale, which will follow judging, will go to the County 4-H Development Fund. For further information, can* tract Mn. union Dun. _ i l-i

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