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VOLUME LXXIX—NO. 20
BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1966 10 CENTS PER COPY 20 PAGES—2 SECTIONS ;
COLLEGE’S PRESIDENT HONORED—The new student center
building at Appalachian State Teachers College will be named
in honor of Dr. W. H. Plemmons (inset) president of the insti
tution since 1955.
ASTC Student Center To Be
Named For President Plemmons
William J. Conrad, chair
man of the Board of Trustees
of Appalachian State Teachers
College, today announced that
the institution’s new $1,275,
000 student center will be
named in honor of Dr. W. H.
Plemmons, who has served as
president of the college for
the past 11 years.
The modern, two-story build
ing, currently under construc
tion in the center of the
campus, will be named W. H.
Plemmons Student Center in
tribute to the highly respected
president whose efforts have
been most instrumental in en
abling the college to expand
rapidly in size and stature
during the past several years.
Mr. Conrad, of Winston
Salem, said the trustees in a
closed session Oct. 21 voted
unanimously to name the new
facility in honor of Dr. Plem
mons. The action took place
while Dr. Plemmons was ab
sent from the board’s meeting.
He was attending a planning
session of the members of the
college’s Board of Visitors
held on the same day, and did
not reach the meeting of the
trustees until this and several
other items had been dis
posed of.
Following the meeting, when
told by Mr. Conrad and others
who were with him at the
time of the action of the
Board of Trustees during his
absence, President Plemmons
commented that he was not
only surprised ... he was
“flabbergasted”.
He then added, “I feel high
ly honored and humble. This
sense of honor and humility
comes primarily from my in
terpretation of the action as
one of the highest compli
ments the trustees could pay,
and as an expression of friend
ship in association which to
me is immeasurable.”
Mr. Conrad stated that “in
choosing this name, the board
has thus undertaken to recog
nize in a measure not only the
outstanding achievements of
Dr. Plemmons in advancing
the academic standards of the
college proportionately with
its greatly expanded facilities,
but also as a tangible indica
tion of the respect and general
affection in which he is held
by the students, the faculty of
the college and the towns
people of Boone.”
Construction of the student
center is expected to be com
pleted during the coming sum
mer. The opening of the build
ing will mark the culmination
of a long-time need for such a
facility.
Dr. Plemmons has long been
interested in securing the
structure for Appalachian’s
students, and pursued his re
quests through several ses
sions of the state legislature
before official approval was
granted.
The building, which will be
(Continued on page twelve)
Local Elections
Reverse Trends
Watauga County gave both
political parties some smiles in
the general election, by giving
the Democrats control at the
courthouse, a Sheriff and by
returning the Clerkship to a
Republican.
At the same time Watauga
went strong for Congressman
Broyhill against native son,
Bob Bingham, and offered
John Shallcross a majority
over Senator Jordan.
Not given to following any
set pattern of voting, Watauga
went Republican in 1964 while
the Democrats were sweeping
the country. This year when
the Republicans were making
merry in North Carolina and
indeed across the country,
with whopping gains, the Dem
ocrats won most of the local
ticket.
Anyway the races were
close, most of them that is,
as is shown by the official tab
ulation.
The newly-elected Watauga
officials will assume their du
ties the first Monday in De
cember.
$1,420,000 Program
Blowing Rock Hospital
Gets $200,000 Grant
Long lerm Lare
Facility Will
Serve Wide Area
Trustees of The Duke En
dowment have appropriated
$200,000 to assist Blowing
Rock Hospital in its current
expansion program, C. S. Kipp,
administrator, announced to
day.
Early this year. The En
dowment appropriated $150,
000 for the hospital’s use in
financing the construction of
an 80-bed long-term care unit
on which work is underway.
Recently $50,000 was added to
help pay the cost of additions
and renovations required in
the present hospital and
nurses' residence because of
the long-term care project.
The total cost of the pro
gram, which will enable the
hospital to provide long-term
care for patients from Wa
tauga and several adjacent
counties, is $1,420,000 of which
$501,600 is being provided
from federal funds, $100,000
from state funds, and the re
mainder from other sources.
Mr. Kipp said the contribu
tions of The Duke Endowment,
the Z. Smith Reynolds Founda
tion, and a number of gen
erous individuals have made it
possible to establish the new
service, which will offer con
valescent care in the progres
sive care concept, including
nursing care, physiotherapy,
and rehabilitation through
diet and occupational therapy
for persons of mature years
who may be in need of nursing
care, primarily, but do not
need diagnostic procedures or
treatment for acute illness or
surgical conditions.
(Continued on page twelve)
Official Watauga County Election Returns
Precincts.
Bald Mountain
Bearer Dan
Blowing Rock
Blue Ridge
Boone
Brushy Fork
Cora Creek
Elk
Laurel Creek
Meat Camp #1
Meat Caap #2
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Shawneehaw
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TEACHERS FETED BY JUNIOR WOMAN’S
CLUB—Each year, as part of National Edu
cation Week, the Boone Junior Woman’s Club
honors local educators with Teachers Appre
ciation Day. Between 9 a. m. and noon Sat
urday, 40 teachers visited the Appalachian
Elementary School for refreshments and con
versation among friends. Hostesses were Mrs.
Ruffner Campbell, Mrs. Johnny Barnett and
Mrs. Harvey Ayers (not pictured). Left to
right are Mrs. Campbell, Mrs. Earl Greene,
Mrs. G. T. Buckland. Mrs. Dowd Bangle, Mrs.
Blaine Pressley, Mrs. Barnett, Mrs. A. E.
Hamby, Mrs. James Stanley, Mrs. Robert
Randall, Mrs. Ron Davis, Mrs. C. C. Owen
and John Foster. (Weston photo)
Iray Of Rings Taken In
Daylight Store Robbery
Boone Police allerted North
Carolina and Tennessee High
way Patrolmen Friday after
noon in an attempt to capture
a man who stole a tray of 36
rings from Walker's Jewelry
Store on West King Street
The robbery occurred short
ly after 1 p. m
A witness reported that a
JIMMY DEAL
Jimmy Deal Is
Candidate For
Morehead Grant
A senior at Watauga High
School, James M. (Jimmy)
Deal, has been named the 1967
candidate from Watauga for
the Morehead Scholarship to
the University of North Caro
lina at Chapel Hill.
Announcement was made
last week by Dr. Gene Reese,
chairman of the Watauga
County Selection Committee.
The Morehead Award, pro
vided by the John Motley
Morehead Foundation, amounts
to $1,750 for each of four
years at the university in a
study leading to a baccalaur
eate degree. Applications for
the scholarship were available
to all interested senior boys.
Selection by the County
Committee is based upon
scholastic ability and attain
ment, outstanding personal
qualities, good moral charac
ter and physical vigor. As the
candidate from Watauga, Jim
my will appear for personal
interviews before the District
Committee in December. Win
ners in district competition
will go before the Central Se
(Continued on page twelve)
Negro man and woman got out
of a brown 1967 sedan parked
on West King. He said the
couple walked down the street,
and a few minutes later ran
out of a store, got into the car
and headed west on Highway
421
Information on the car and
its occupants was immediately
sent out to patrol units, al
though reports Tuesday were
that the robbers had not been
apprehended.
Mrs. Walker said the woman
had inquired about some jew
elry, and while she was helping
her, the man was looking at
one of the showcases. When
the couple, Mrs. Walker, who
was alone in the store, said
she discovered one of the
glass doors was open and a
small tray containing 36 rings
was missing.
She asked a man from the
hardware next door to get the
police. By that time, the cou
ple had made good their es
cape.
Mrs. Walker said she had
not conducted an inventory and
has not determined the loss.
The witness also told police
the sedan bore California lic
ense tags.
Broyliill Win Over
Bingham Near 33,000
James T. Broyhill of Lenoir
won a third term in Congress
by defeating Robert Bingham,
28-year-old Boone man, by a
margin of about 33,000 votes.
Broyhill, a Republican who
won the 9th District seat from
Hugh Alexander of Kannapolis
in 1962, took every county in
the district. The vote, with
returns from all 251 precincts,
was Broyhill 77,665, Bingham
43,978.
Broyhill is the son of James
E. Broyhill, Lenoir industrial
ist and Republican national
committeeman from North
Carolina.
Bingham came close to tak
ing Alleghany County, losing
by 37 ballots.
Broyhill came into the 11
county district late in the cam
JAMES T. BBOYHILL
paign due to the length of the
congressional session. He de
clined to debate Bingham, but
did visit in about every one of
the counties: Alleghany, Ashe,
Davie, Cabarrus, Caldwell,
Rowan, Surry, Stanly, Watau
(Continued on page twelve)
IRC Reports
Record Sales
And Earnings
Philadelphia.—IRC. Inc reg
istered record sales and earn
ings for the first 42 weeks of
1966
Sales through October 23
totaled $39,142,743, up from
$30,031,065 for the same per
iod in 1965. Net profit for the
42 weeks came to $4,251,768
or $2 82 per share, compared
with $2,694,490 or $1.80 per
share earned in the same per
iod last year.
Per share figures for 1966
are based on 1,506,762 shares
of common stock outstanding
on October 23, 1966, and for
last year on 1,494,004 outstand
ing on October 24, 1965.
Referring to last week’s
declaration of an extra cash
dividend of 25c per snare and
an increase in the regular div
idend from 20c per share *tO
25c, IRC President, Wilson H.
Oelkers, said, “This reflects
our confidence in the outlook
for sales and profits both for
the full year of 1966 and the
years ahead.** AijVfv