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VOLUME LXXIX— NO. 21
BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1966 10 CENTS PER COPY
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State Extension Official George Smith (left) meets Ned Trivette of Boone after the Farm-City Week program. (Staff photo)
Farm-City Week Speaker Says
Food Shortage Is Imminent
‘ We have been suffering un
der the burden of surpluses
15 years,” the speaker stated.
“Now our storage bins are
empty and food prices are up."
George W. Smith, associate
director of the Agriculture Ex
tension Service.^ ..N- C. State
University at Raleigh, address
ed a crowd of 300 at the an
WHS Band Will
Be Televised
From Charlotte
The Watauga High School
Band will be televised as part
of the annual Thanksgiving
Parade in Charlotte, Thurs
day, Nov. 24.
This will be the first time
a band from Watauga County
has participated in this event.
Led by their director, Otis
Strother, band members will
leave for Charlotte early
Thanksgiving Day. By 2 p. m ,
they will be lining up to re
present WHS. The parade
will start at 3 p. m.
The band finished its
marching season last week,
(Continued on page eight)
nual Farm-City Week dinner
Thursday at Blowing Rock Ski
Lodge.
He said ‘‘agriculture is in a
critical position” and pointed
to the fact that the United
States is involved in feeding
the entire world, as well as
Itself. Smith said today two
out of three persons in the
world go to bed hungry.
‘‘We fight overweight, while
they fight hunger. We have a
moral obligation to the world,”
he said; ‘‘we can’t live in an
isolated Democracy.
‘‘In the next 10 years, we
will have a critical shortage of
food, right here in America.
. . . The productivity of the
American farmer cannot cope
with the demands of the fu
ture,” and ‘‘the biggest war
we re going to fight is hunger.”
Motivation
“No other county has a his
tory of success in community
and area development that Wa
tauga has,” the speaker con
tinued.
Smith attributed area success
to the imagination and ingen
uity of the people. A com
munity cannot be defined in
terms of its physical aspects
alone, he said: ‘‘A community
is a group of people who come
together, to work together and
live together.
“A community is made up of
people,’’ he said. “The basic
mission in developing the com
munity is developing the peo
Contrasting the American
community with the Russian
community, Smith said the
American farmer under a free
enterprise system feels incen
tive and motivation to climb
out of his warm bed in sub
zero weather, to go down to
the barn and help the sow
have her pigs.
But in the Russian com
munity, Smith said, the farmer
has little motivation “to go out
and help the state’s sow have
the state’s pigs.”
Smith reported a friend who
had been in Russian commun
ities said it was the state’s
land, state’s equipment, the
state’s livestock, crops and pro
fit—if any—and the people are
controlled by the State.
In America, “We have com
munities with the right bal
ance of government and the
people’s ideas of what they
would like to do. We have the
freedom to do right things,
wrong things and the freedom
to do nothing.”
Smith said the U. S. S. R.
imposes highly controlled pro
duction quotas on the people
for the sake of the state, and
Bids Open For New
$575,000 Ad Building
Contract bids were opened
Nov. 17 for a new administra
tion building at Appalachian.
The four-story structure,
to be erected near the main
entrance to the campus from
the Blowing Rock Road, will
house all of the college’s ad
ministrative offices.
Ned Trivette, director of
business affairs, said that con
struction will commence early
next spring if bids fall within
the budget set aside for the
project. The Legislature in
1963 appropriated $575,000
for the needed facility.
The building will be named
Blanford Barnard Dougherty
Hall in honor of the founder
and 50-year president of Ap
palachian.
While being of modern de
sign, the structure will be
Seal Campaign Is
Well Under Way
The Watauga Christinas
Seal campaign is well under
way and according to Charles
H. Blackburn, Jr., chairman,
the early response to the Seal
letters indicates the expected
goal of $2,500 will be reached
before the campaign ends.
Mr. Blackburn reminds
everyone they can double
their Christmas giving in a
simple and effective way
when they use the colorful
Christmas seals on all cards,
letters and packages they
send out.
You can aid in the constant
battle against TB and other
crippling respiratory diseases
as Christmas Seals offer the
gift of good health along with
your messages and gifts of
love, Hr. Blackburn said.
purposely constructed to re
semble the ancient building
it will replace. Plantation-type
columns will be a feature of
the front of the building which
will face southward, over
looking the institution's phy
sical education fields.
The president’s office and
quarters for the college’s
board of trustees will be lo
cated on the fourth floor.
The general contractor will
be responsible for razing the
Old Home Economics Building
which is now located on the
proposed construction site.
The college has reserved the
right to retain certain ob
jects, such as the cornerstone,
contained in the historic build
ing to be razed. The old build
ing, one of the original cam
pus landmarks, currently
houses the Alumni Association
and News Bureau offices,
which will be located in the
new administration building
upon its completion.
Architects of the new struc
ture are Gudger, Baber and
Wood of Asheville,
added this is an attempt to
motivate the people to be pro
ductive: "The Russians have
never fulfilled a single 5-year
planned quota imposed on the
people,” he said.
6,000 Foods
Farmers comprise about 7
per cent of the population of
the United States.
The Extension director said
only 4 per cent will be farm
ers in 10 years.
"We gripe about food
prices,” Smith said. ‘Food is
cheaper than ever, when we
consider the increased income
we have. Food takes less of
the dollar than ever” and com
pared with the two food choi
ces of the Chinese, Americans
(Continued on page eight)
Good Season Expected
Boone Burley Sales
Start Next Monday
Half Million
Pounds Of Weed
On Baskets
The burley tobacco market
auctions will begin next Mon
day at the Mountain Burley
Warehouse near the Bus
Terminal, and information
from warehouseman Joe Cole
man is that more than a half
million pounds of burley was
on the baskets by Saturday,
and that there is plenty of
room for the second day sales.
“We are certainly expecting
a good year,” Mr. Coleman
said. “There is a great deal of
enthusiasm among the buying
companies this year, and we
hope this will mean good com
petition.”
Coleman said he had stress
ed to farmers that they do as
good a job as last year or
even try to do better in pre
paring their tobacco for mar
ket, for “good appearance
does mean higher prices.”
Mr. Coleman said he and
his associates are glad to be
back in Boone and said that
the moisture from this week’s
snow had helped to get the
burley in good case for the
sales.
Tuesday’s sales will be held
at the Farmers Warehouse on
West King .Street, Wednesday
at Big Burley and will rotate
back to Mountain Burley
Thursday, to Farmers Friday
and to Big Burley the follow
ing Monday.
Sales will be conducted
daily except Saturdays and
Sundays on a basis of no more
than 1,260 baskets per day per
set of buyers.
Christmas holidays will be
gin at the close of the sales
December 20th, and auctions
will be resumed January 4.
Teen Age Program
Chairman Named
Miss Beverly June Timmer
man, of Boone, has been ap
pointed TAP (Teen Age Pro
gram) Chairman of The Na
tional Foundation-March of
Dimes for the State of North
Carolina, Basil O’Conner, Pres
ident of the voluntary health
organization, announced today.
Mis Timmerman, age 20, a
junior at ASTC, is the daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. John A.
Timmerman, Columbia, S. C.
While attending the Uni
versity High School in Colum
bia, S. C., Miss Timmerman
was the president of the Y
Teen Club and Miss Y-Teen of
1962. She was also the editor
of the school newspaper and
the winner of both the Colum
bia Elks leadership contest and
the Optimist Club leadership
contest and was selected one
of the ten outstanding seniors.
At Appalachian she is ma
joring in special education and
plans to teach retarded chil
dren. She is presently a mem
ber of the Student North Car
olina Education Association
Civil Court
Is Postponed
The Nov. 14 civil term of
Watauga Superior Court was
postponed because of an ill
ness in the family of the pre
siding judge.
According to Orville Foster,
Clerk of Court, no other judge
was available for the Novem
ber session. Whether a new
date is to be set or the doc
ket carried over to the June
term should be determined
sometime this week.
Foster said 21 civil cases
were scheduled for trial.
MISS TIMMERMAN
and the Special Education
Club, as well as a Dean's List
student.
Miss Timmerman is no
stranger to March of Dimes
activity. In 1963 and 1964,
she served as the State TAP
Chairman for South Carolina.
As a representative and leader
of young people. Miss Timmer
man is considered by The Na
tional Foundation to be of the
highest caliber.
“It is certainly an honor to
once again serve as a State
TAP Chairman for the March
of Dimes,” she stated. “The
National Foundation-March of
Dimes is putting its tremend
ous energy and resources into
an effort to achieve a victory
over birth defects as it did
over polio. Since the anxie
ties and anguish caused by
birth defects affect countless
homes in North Carolina, I
feel that the teenagers of the
state will enthusiastically en
dorse the TAP program this
year.”
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Mrs. Lura Greene, vice-chairman of the Wa
tauga Republican Party; Congressman James
T. Broyhill; Clyde R. Greene, County Chair
man; and Rep. J. E. Holshouser Jr., State
Minority Leader—at the Republican Appreci
ation Dinner in Boone. (Staff photo)
Watauga G.O.P. Scents
Win As Leaders Gather
Watauga Republicans pledg
ed victory in 1968, heard ad
dresses by County and State
leaders and crowned their
vice-c h a i r m a n, Mrs. Lura
Greene, Watauga County Re
publican Queen Friday night.
More than 100 attended the
appreciation dinner at Daniel
Boone Inn.
Chairman Clyde R. Greene
admonished the group that
the “War is not over. We’ve
had a slight set-back in the
County, but we’ll be back two
years from now, and they’ll
knovv the Republican Party is
very much alive.
“Since 1890, Watauga has
been a two-party County.
Neither party has been in
power too many years,’’
Greene said. “I think this
tends toward good govern
ment.
“Over the years, we have
built a basis for all phases of
County progress. Great strid
es have been made in the last
20 to 30 years. The Republi
can Party is not entirely re
sponsible for this, but we do
claim our share of the credit
for what has been done.”
Gov. BroyhlU?
Introducing Rep. James T.
Broyhill, State Minority Lead
er J. E. Holshouser Jr. of
Boone called attention to
Broyhill’s slim margin of vic
tory in 1962, his 16,000-vote
margin in ’64, and his 33,000
vote lead Nov. 8.
Holshouser commented on
Democrat heavyweights who
campaigned with Broyhill’s
opponent, Robert Bingham,
and said ‘‘If there has ever
been a guy who took them all
on at once and beat them into
the ground, it was Broyhill.”
The Congressman expressed
“Keenest disappointment that
the entire local ticket was not
elected” but added that Re
publicans must renew their
dedication for “There are go
ing to be some victories ahead
of us. We have built our or
ganizational strength.”
Broyhill hinted he will be
in line for the governorship
in 1968, proposing “realization
of a Republican in the Gover
nor’s Mansion is certainly a
possibility, because the Demo
crats are afraid of this them
selves."
He noted the national Re
publican gains.
“We can’t say we brought
the Great Society to a halt,
but we knocked out some of
the cylinders of the political
machinery built by LBJ and
Company.”
The Ninth District Repre
sentative expressed thanks to
all who supported the Repub
lican Party.
(Continued on page eight)
Gay Yule Parade
Set For Dec. 3
Two big parades in one—
fane; floats, dazzling major
ettes. marching bands: The
Christmas - Beauty Pageant
Parade will be downtown the
afternoon of Saturday, Dec. 3.
The Boone Jaycees and the
Optimist Club, parade spon
sors, are hoping Santa Claus
will be able to come and any
one interested in getting into
the act should contact the
parade marshalls (Jaycee Lar
ry KIut2 and Optimist Jack
Williams).
The mood will be set by
Christmas decorations, which
will be lighted for the parade.
Boone merchants have donat
ed generously to the decora
tions fund and the Optimist
Club is again in charge of in
stalling the decorations.
Tentatively, the parade will
start rolling from the Horn in
the West parking lot prompt
ly at 3 p. m.
National Teacher Exams
Again To Be Held Here
Appalachian State Teachers
College has been designated
as a test center for administer
ing the National Teacher Ex
aminations on Jan. 7, 1967, Dr.
William A. Floyd announces.
College seniors preparing to
teach and teachers applying
for positions in school systems
which encourage or require
applicants to submit their
scores on the National Teach
er Examinations along with
their other credentials are
eligible to take the tests. The
examinations are prepared and
administered by Educational
Testing Service, Princeton,
N. J.
The designation of ASTC
as a test center for these ex
aminations will give prospect
ive teachers in this area an
opportunity to compare their
performance on the examina
tions with candidates through
out the country who take the
tests.
At the one-day test session,
a candidate may take the
Common Examinations, which
include tests in Professional
Education and General Educa
tion, and one of the 13 Teach
ing Area Examinations which
are designed to evaluate his
understanding of the subject
matter and methods applic
able to the area he may be as
signed to teach.
“Bulletins of Information"
describing registration proced
ures and containing registra
tion forms may be obtained
from Mias Hilda Everhart,
secretary-psychometriat in the
TOating Center. Prospective
teachers planning to take the
tests should obtain their “Bah ‘
leUns of Information" prompt
ly. Dr. Floyd advised. ...v - \