WATAUGA DEMOCRAT
An Independent Weekly Newspaper . . . Seventy-Ninth Year of Continuous Publication
BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1966
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VOLUME LXXIX— NO. 6
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ARCHITECT’S DRAWING OF NEW ASTC GYMNASIUM
Work On $2,054,400 ASTC Gymnasium
To Begin At Once; Will Seat 8,000
Construction of a new gym
nasium which will seat approxi
mately 8,000 people is sched
uled to begin immediately on
the campus of Appalachian, ac
cording to announcement by
Ned R. Trivette, Director of
Business Affairs of the college.
Total cost of the building,
which will be the largest on
campus and which will be
known as Varsity Gymnasium,
will be $2,054,400 equipped. It
will contain 104,000 square feet
of floor space, and its seating
capacity will make it fife largest
building in this section of North
Carolina.
General contract for construc
tion of the gymnasium has
been awarded to T. R. Bur
roughs Construction Company
of Charlotte. The basic contract
is for $1,322,600.
Other contracts which were
awarded as of July 18 are:
plumbing, G. A. Thomason and
Sons of Hickory, $69,675; heat
ing and ventilating, Hickory
Plumbing and Heating Co.,
$169,000; electrical work, Col
ter and Chappell Electrical Co.
of Winston-Salem, $120,600; ele
vator contract, Southern Eleva
tor Co. of Greensboro, $16,435;
sound system, Southeastern
Sight and Sound Corp., Char
lotte, $4,548.93; equipment,
Merdeart Products, Inc., Char
lotte, $159,492; utilities con
tract, T. R. Burroughs Construc
tion Co., Charlotte, $23,400.
C. L. Vaughn and Associates
Bell Co. Official
Hurt In Collision
William Robe¥T Cook, Jr.,
district manager for Southern
Bell Telephone Co., for this
area was injured last Thursday
when the car he was driving
skidded into truck on 321 south
of Blowing Rock during a rain.
Mr. Cook is a patient at
Blowing Rock Hospital as a re
sult of a broken right arm, and
a number of fractured ribs.
Mr. Cook was traveling down
the mountain about a half mile
from the Blowing Rock town
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limits when his car skidded
sideways on a curve into a trac
tor-trailer, according to the re
port by State Trooper Ken
Garaventa.
The tractor, driven by James
Norris, of Fayetteville, was
pulling a trailer load of horses
toward Blowing Rock, when the
accident occurred at 12:10 p. m.
The Cook car was listed as a
total loss. The tractor-trailer
was damaged something like
$100, it was said.
Beth Tartan, left, and Doris Storie, assistant
Home Economics Agent for Watauga County.
talk over entries in the pickle and pound
cake contest Friday. (Staff photo)
Winners Are Announced In
Pickle, Pound Cake Contest
Beth Tartan of Winston
Salem says it has been demon
strated over the years that
people tend to remember their
childhoods in connection with
pickles and pound cakes—the
real foods of the good old days.
And if the writer is a good
guesser, she must be right, for
her Beth Tartan Pickle and
Pound Cake Contest for Wata
uga County had the judges
really deliberating.
The quality of the entries,
and the number, was astound
lug. That’s what they said. And
when Mrs. Dave Smith, Mrs. R.
H. Harmon and Miss Agnes
Gray Shipley had sampled en
tries in the pound cake divi
sion and in the sour and sweet
pickles categories:
Nine-year-old Dwaine Greene,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl
Greene of Boone, won first
prize in the sour pickle division
for his pickled green beans,
and his brother Allen, age 10,
came in second in the junior di
vision of the pound cake com
petition.
AUm Hi mdfed out of fir»t
prize by 12-year-old Carol Lynn
Clark, whose entry was the
first cake she had baked.
Third place winner in the
junior pound cake division was
Karen Vines. Janice Broyhill
was fourth.
First for her pound cake in
the senior division was Mrs. E.
Ford King Jr. Mrs. A. E: Van
noy, Mrs. Louise Christenbury
and Mrs. W. R. Vines placed
second, third and fourth.
In the sweet pickle contest,
Mrs. R. A. Farthing was first,
(continued on page two)
of Shelby are architects.
The building is to be financed
through use of both state and
Federal funds. The legislature
has appropriated $852,750 and
the college has applied for both
a Federal grant and a Federal
loan to complete the total
amount. The loan would be self
liquidating through use of stu
dent fees.
The building is to be con
structed on a site adjacent to
the present Broome-Kirk gym
which now is used as a parking
tof. The Men’s Old Gym also is
located on the site and this
building will be razed.
Trivette said it is anticipated
the building will be completed
within 18 to 24 months.
Main portion of the building
will consist of combination play
ing courts for basketball and ;
volleyball. There also will be
room for nine handball courts. I
When used for varsity basket
ball games, convocations or,
other gatherings, folding bleach- I
ers will accommodate approxi- j
Transfers Are Asked
To Come To WHS
Transfer students wishing to
enroll in Watauga High School
for the 1966-67 term should see j
Dr. N. A. Miller, principal, at
the school any morning except
Saturday.
His office hours will be 8 a.
m. to noon.
Registration of transfer stu-1
dents should be completed be
fore Aug. 18, if possible.
mately 8,000 people. The build
ing will be equipped with a
hydraulic stage 30 by 60 feet
in size which will rise from the
main floor.
The building will contain a
balcony equipped with reverse
folding bleachers and areas
which can be transformed into
(Continued on page two)
Draft Board Is
Asking For 27
Men In August
Watauga County Local Board
No. 96 has received a call for
27 men for the month of Aug
ust. Seventy-four men will be
forwarded to the Armed Forces
Examining and Entrance sta
tion in Charlotte for their phy
sical examinations.
Inductees are selected by the
board in strictest birth date
sequence, from 1 A classifica
tion, in the following order:
Priority one: Delinquents; Pri
ority two; Volunteers; Priority
three: Non-Volunteers between
the ages of nineteen and twen
ty-six, single or married after
Aug. 26, 1965; Priority four: I
Nineteen to twenty-six years of :
age married before Aug. 26,
1965; Priority five: between !
the ages of twenty-six and thir
ty-five who have extended lia
bility for military service be
cause of a deferred classifica
(Continued on page two)
Governor Following Up
jOn Problems Of Region
I “Governor Moore is follow
ing through on our community
problems,” Herman W. Wilcox
told the Democrat Monday.
“One question he wished an
answer to from me was ‘Voca
tional Education Job Training’.
My reply was ‘Our community
is in desperate need of a local
vocational school to train our
citizens in that they may take
advantage of the many fine jobs
available so they would not
have to leave our community to
make a living,’ ’ Mr. Wilcox
added.
Mr. Wilcox has received the
following letter from Mr. I. E.
Ready, Director, Department of
Community Colleges, State
Board of Education:
“Dear Mr. Wilcox:
“Governor Moore has passed
on to me your comments con
cerning the need for improve
ment in vocational education
opportunities in the area in
which you live. All of the insti
tutions with which we work
provide programs in occupa
tional training. I am therefore
asking the president of the in
stitution nearest you to have
you contacted at the earlieet
possible time to see if there is
not something this institution
can do to help the situation.”
Mr. Wilcox further states:
‘‘Mr. Conrad Shaw, dean of
administration of the Wilkes
County College has been assign
(Continued on page five)
Blue Ridge
Wagon Train
Is Now Rolling
West Jefferson—The second
annual Blue Ridge Wagon
Train, to be held Aug. 9-13, will
recall days of Daniel Boone and
other pioneers who blazed trails
for others to follow.
Those taking part will travel
across the Blue Ridge Moun
tains in covered wagons, on
horseback and on foot. About
95 wagons and 300 horseback
riders have joined so far.
The assembly ground is at
Millers Grove in Wilkes Coun
ty. The first day’s journey will
take participants and visitors
to the foot of the Blue Ridge
Mountains in the P arson viilf
community.
168 Teachers Named
4,000Will Attend
Schools In County
Schedule
Of Opening
Events Given
Watauga County School prin
cipals reported for work Tues
day, Aug. 9, in preparation for
the opening of the 1966-67
school term. Classroom teach
ers assume their duties Thurs
day, Aug. 18, the first day of
the 3-day orientation period
prior to the opening of the 180
day school term.
A county - wide orientation
meeting of all principals and
teachers has been scheduled
Aug. 18 at 9 a. m. in the audi
torium of the Watauga High
School. After the meeting, all
teachers will report to their as
signed schools for additional
orientation by the principals.
On Friday, Aug. 19, bus driv
ers will report to the County
School Bus Garage for assign
ment to buses.
Monday, Aug. 22, is designat
ed as Teacher-Pupil orientation
day. All buses will operate on
this date to transport students
to schools for registration and
assignment to classrooms; stu
dents will be dismissed at 11:30
a. m.
luesday, Aug. 23, is the first
regular day of the school term.
All cafeterias will be open on
this date and schools will oper
ate on regular schedule.
Superintendent Guy Angell
says approximately 4,000 stu
dents are expected to enroll on
the first day of school and 168
instructional personnel will be
available for teaching the vari
ous grades and subject areas.
In addition to the regular in
structional personnel, funds are
being requested from the Ele-1
mentary and Secondary Educa-1
tion Act for the employment of
20 additional certified teachers,
21 teacher aides, and a public
health nurse.
The additional certified teach
ers will be used in the areas of
remedial reading and English,
librarians, public school music, I
guidance counsellors, and to '
partially relieve principals of j
full-time teaching duties. The
teacher aides will be assigned
to teachers to perform non-pro
fessional duties such as clerical
work, collecting monies, check
ing attendance, co-ordination of
materials and equipment and
other work which will enable
teachers to devote full-time to
their teaching duties.
(Continued on page two)
Long Distance
Dialing Slated
On and after Sunday, August 14, you can pick up the
telephone and dial such places as New York and San
Francisco about as fast as you can dial a local call.
The new service, Direct Distance Dialing, or DDD, will
be a reality after months of work instsalling the necessary
equipment, according to W. R. Cooke, Jr., manager for
Southern Bell Tel. & Tel. Co.
DDD enables telephone users to dial their own station
to-station calls. Operators will still handle person-to-person
calls, credit card calls, collect calls and calls from coin
telephones.
How do you pace a DDD call?
First, dial the numeral “1” which connects you with
the special DDD equipment. Next, dial the area code if
it is different from your area code (or different from the
area code shown on the telephone you are using). Then
dial the telephone number.
Special equipment records the called number and
measures the length of time you talk. As soon as you
have finished dialing, an operator will come in on the line
and ask you for your number. After that, she leaves the
line and you will hear the distant telephone ring. The
equipment also computes your bill automatically.
The new directory information which will be distribut
ed contains instructions on how to dial DDD calls and lists
area code numbers. Mr. Cooke urged that all telephone
users consult the new directory information before placing
DDD calls.
Senate Candidate
Campaigns Locally
Mr. John S. Shallcross, of
Smithfield, Republican candi
date for the United States Sen
ate, was in town Wednesday in
the interest of his campaign
against Senator Jordan.
Mr. Shallcross tells the Demo
crat that he is devoting full time
to his campaign, that he has al- I
ready visited 70 counties of the
State and will visit the other 30.
In visiting the courthouses and
meeting people of the streets
and in the country, Mr. Shall
cross says he is getting acquaint
ed and finding out about the
thinking of the citizens.
The candidate was accom
panied to Boone by his daugh
ter, Janet, and by Mr. D. C.
Hart of West Jefferson.
JOHN S. SHALLCROSS
CROWDPLEASING MULE — Crowds went
absolutely wild everytime Don L. Snyder
of Winston-Salem drove his pint-sized mule,
Trotwood Kate, into the ring at the 43rd an
nual Blowing Rock Charity Horse Show.
Kate showed in the fancy harness-pony
classes, turning on her electric high speed
everytime the judge ordered the due to
bora up the track, Aid Sit* could really
fly when her driver ordered “Gil Upl" end
sometimes Kate didn’t want to stop when
Snyder said whoa. By dragging his foot
under the two-wheeler. Snyder finally got
his long-eared friend to pause Saturday
afternoon—to pick up a bouquet of bright 1
flowers for a delightful perfonaanca. (Bay
Botnar photo)
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