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WATAUGA DEMOCRAT
An Independent Weekly Newspaper
Seventy-Ninth Year of Continuous Publication
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VOLUME LXXIX—NO. 28
BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1967
10 CENTS fi£R COPY
20 PAGES—2 SECTIONS
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A CELEBRATED PAIR -Mrs Chester Trivette
holds tiny daughter, Audra Marlynna, in their
home on Popiar Hill. Audra was Watauga’s
first baby of the New Year—born at Watauga
Hospital just after 8 p.m. New Year’s Day,
and weighing in at 6 pounds, 10Vz ounces. Her
grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Burton Brown
of Charlotte (Jan. 1 was Mr. Burton’s birth
day) and Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Trivette of
Boone. The proud father is employed by Sta
nley's Drive-In here. The Trivettes’ other chil
dren are Jayna Shawn, age 4, and Chester
Ray, Jr., age 2lh. (Staff photo)
Mother’s March To Aid In
Fight On Birth Defects
Husband, Wife Break Arms
In Falls On Icy Surface
At their home on 301 Locust Street, Mr. and Mrs.
Rex G. Hagaman are convalescing from falls they suf
fered Thursday, Dec. 29.
About the middle of the afternoon that day, Mr.
Hagaman was carrying mail on Tracy Circle. (He has
been employed by the Post Office 24 years.) The
streets and sidewalks were coated with ice, and when
Mr. Hagaman took a spill, he suffered a broken arm.
About the same time Mrs. Hagaman was walking
near Watauga Hospital. She also fell down, and like
wise, her arm was broken in the fall.
In both cases, it was the right arm.
Minutes later, as Mr. Hagaman was being brought
in the front door of the Hospital, Mrs. Hagaman wa9
coming through the back door.
Mrs. Hagaman says their confinement has been
somewhat painful, but both are looking forward to
getting the casts taken off—which in both instances,
will be six weeks from the day of the accidents.
So it is that some people get all the good breaks.
While others just plain get the breaks.
Young Man Of Year
Is Named By Jaycees
The suspense had built all
evening, and when the Rev.
Richard Crowder, 1966 win
ner of the Boone Jaycees Dis
tinguished Service Award,
called the name of his succes
sor, speculation bowed to fact
and Paul Smith stepped for
ward.
Eighty Jaycees, Jaycettes
and guests attended the an
nual honor program at the
Daniel Boone Inn Monday
night.
Featured speaker was in
ternational track and field
star Jim Beatty, who is Demo
cratic Representative-elect for
Mecklenburg County.
For the chronicle, see next
week’s Democrat.
“The Mothers’ March offers
women the opportunity to take
a personal part in the fight
against birth defects,” Mrs.
Margaret Ayers, general chair
man of the Mothers’ March,
said Tuesday.
As chairman of the 1967
Mothers’ March for the March
of Dimes, Mrs. Ayers will di
rect the activities of more
than 50 volunteers who will
call at homes throughout
Boone and surrounding com
munities Saturday, Jan. 14
Mothers will be calling"'at
homes all day Saturday and
other days through next week
This was arranged this way
due to the unsettled weather.
The area chairmen of March
ing Mothers are Mrs. William
Hayes, Mrs. Joe Rhyne, Mrs,
J. B. Hagaman, Jr., Mrs. Mil
ton Blue, Mrs. Bob Danner,
Mrs. Bob Poe, Mrs. Paul
Branch, Mrs. Jack Autrey, Mrs.
G. C. Greene, Jr., and Mrs.
Jimmy Cline. These will have
several volunteers in their
area to make up the entire
march.
“T h e marching mother,”
said Mrs. Ayers, “knows that
her efforts will make it pos
sible to expand the new March
of Dimes prenatal care pro
gram and thereby help mo
thers to reduce the risk of
bearing defective babies.”
Funds raised this January will
also provide the best medical
care for children suffering
from birth defects.
“This problem is an enorm
ous one," she pointed out, ‘be
cause more than 250,000 babies
are born each year in the
United States with deformities
evident at birth or with hid
(Continued on page three)
ASTC Takes Stock Of Records
Loss In Main Building Fire
The aftermath of Appalach
ian’s costly Administration
Building fire is proving the
college’s loss of records to be
less serious than was previ
ously thought.
“The tremendous inconven
ience is the largest problem
we have encountered,” com
mented Ned Trivette, Direc
tor of Rusiness Affairs.
"There are untold hours of
work ahead of us as a direct
result of the fire.”
“Our first major problem
has been the changing of our
locus of operations,” said Dr.
O. K. Webb, the college’s
Dean of Student Affairs. He
added, however, that enough
had been saved from the fire
and gathered from secondary
sources to enable the offices
to reconstruct every essential
operation.
For example, Trivette re
ported, “We have found that
other agencies have copies of
practically every filed paper
which we lost.” Such burned
data as plans for current and
proposed buildings can be re
placed from copies of dupli
cates filed by architects or
the Department of Admin
istration in Raleigh.
The most devastating effect
of the fire was the loss of pro
fessional libraries, many
valued separately in the thou
sands of dollars. Also irre
placeable are teaching mater
ials which the English and
foreign language faculty had
formulated over the years and
several unpublished manu
scripts which were left in the
(Continued on page three)
Budget Is Increased
Horn Board Taking Steps To
Replace Resigned Director
McNeil Is
Service
Officer
Effective Jan. 3, Carson Mc
Neil assumed the duties of
Veterans’ Service Officer for
Watauga County.
Sgt. - Major McNeil (U. S.
Army, ret.) served in World
War II and the Korean War
during his 20-year tour which
ended in September of 1960.
In the service, he was First
Sergeant for 15 years, opera
tions intelligence sergeant for
three years and Sergeant-Ma
jor two years.
He was stationed in France
and later in headquarters com
mand in Berlin during World
War II, and while serving a
year in Korea, completed a
military mission to northern
Thailand.
His awards and decorations
are: the Bronze Star; Purple
Heart; European-African- Mid
dle Eastern theater; five cam
(Continued on page three)
CARSON McNEIL
Tweetsie
Is Granted
Injunction
Charlotte, Jan. 6 — ‘‘Tweet
is a bird sound,” the lawyer
for the plaintiff told Superior
Court Judge Fred Hasty Thurs
day.
‘‘Even in the cartoons, the
bird named ‘‘Tweetie-Pie is al
ways being chased by the
mean old puttie-cat.”
“Toot is a train sound,” said
the opposing lawyer. “Surely
if I say ‘toot’ I doubt that any
one in this room thinks I said
‘tweet.’ ”
The plaintiff, Tweetsie Rail
road at Blowing Rock, was
seeking an injunction to for
bid a new rival miniature rail
road at Chimney Rock to use
the name Tootsie Railroad.
Tweetsie Railroad near
Boone has been a tourist sum
mer attraction in the North
Carolina mountains for years.
Its owners said they spent
$69,000 in advertising it last
year. They didn’t want another
little railroad to come along
with a similar-sounding name
and cash in on the advertising.
Tootsie Railroad was organ
ized last March to operate at
Chimney Rock, a tourist re
sort further south along the
(Continued on page three)
SCHOLARSHIP AWARDED—Six year old
Steven N. Carroll of Triplett, N. C. (second
from right) receives a $1,500 college scholar
ship at the 82nd Airborne Division Head
quarters from a former 1st Infantry Division
officer, Colonel George E. Fleeson, chief of
contegency plans (G-3) for the XVIII Air
borne Corps. (U. S Army photo)
Watauga Lad Given $1,500
Scholarship By Soldiers
A six year old North Caro
lina boy received a college
scholarship at 82nd Airborne
Division Headquarters last
Thursday from money contri
buted by members of the
United States Army 1st In
fantry Division serving in
Viet Nam.
Units of the 1st Infantry
Division “Big Red One’’ are
currently donating money to
provide $1500 scholarships for
male dependents of every 1st
Infantry Division infantryman
killed in action in Viet Nam.
Steven W. Carroll of Trip
lett, North Carolina, the son
of the late Platoon Sergeant
Baxter C. Carroll, was the re
cipient of one of 150 scholar
ships being awarded.
According to the Associated
Press, in four months more
than $50,000 has been collect
ed, a dozen scholarships have
been awarded and 80 more
have been processed.
Last Thursday Mrs. Jean
ette M. Carroll, widow of Pla
toon Sergeant Carroll, brought
her son, Steven to the 82nd
Airborne Division Headquart
ers to receive his scholarship
Colonel George S. Fleeson,
chief of contingency plans for
the XVIII Airborne Corps and
a former “Big Red One” of
ficer, presented the scholar
ship on behalf of the Society
of the 1st Infantry Division.
The units are striving to
fulfill their motto: “The Big
Red One Takes Care Of Its
Own”, by taking a cut from
every poker pot, dice game
and beer blast to finance the
scholarships.
The 1st Battalion of the
28th Infantry recently collect
ed $2,317 with a mammoth
mess hall party that .narked
the outfit’s first return to
base camp in nearly a month.
The division’s officers mess
promptly matched that by im
porting an Australian dancer,
Julia Bellares to pass the
steel helmet at a holiday party
(Continued on page three)
New York’s Beaux Arts Trio
To Appear In Local Concert
The Appalachian Artists
and Lecture Series will pre
sent the celebrated Beaux
Arts Trio of New York, 8 p.
m. Wednesday, Jan. 18 in I. G.
Greer Music Hall at Appala
chian State Teachers College.
Violinist Daniel Guilet will
play his “Hrimaly” Stradivar
ius, dated 1712; ’Cellist Bern
ard Greenhouse will perform
on the “Paganini” Stradivar
ius, dated 1707; and Menahen
Pressler will control a Stein
way keyboard.
The Trio’s debut at the
Berkshire (Calif.) Festival
nine years ago sent them
spiraling to the acclaim of
music critics. The late Arturo
Toscanini once categorized
their performance “An in
spiring experience, fine cham
ber music with impeccable
taste.”
Among their many achieve
merits is the three-concert
performance of the Beethov
en Trio Cycle at Hunter Col
lege, New York City. This is
believed to be the first time
these works were given in
New York in nearly 20 years.
They have toured through
out Europe under the auspic
es of the State Department.
In 1963, they presented the
world premiere of the Ingolf
(Continued on page two)
Violinist Daniel Guilet, Pianist Menahem
Pressler and ’Cellist Bernard Greenhouse com
prise the Beaux Arts Trio of New York.
Some Payment
On Bonds Of
Drama Talked
At the Southern Appalach
ian Historical Association’s
first meeting of 1967, the
Board of Directors added $2,
500 to the current budget, dis
cussed bonds which were
bought to establish the drama
and took steps to replace
Gene Wilson, Horn in the
West director who has re
signed.
Manager Herman Wilcox
ennumerated three points in
the budget-hike recommended
by the executive committee:
$1,000 for billboard promo
tion; $500 for directional
signs; and $1,000 for advert
ising.
Discussion resulted in a
suggestion by J. E. Holshous
er Jr. that feature coverage
of the Horn could be encour
aged if SAHA were to enter
tain daily newspaper writers
from surrounding cities.
He offered an amendment
to a standing motion that
$1,000 of the proposed $2,500
be devoted to such expenses,
and the advertising commit
tee could disburse the re
mainder. A second amend
ment, by G. R. Andrews, that
the minutes read “Approxi
mately $1,000” passed and the
motion, plus specifications,
pasced.
Bonds, Wilson
Dr. R. H. Harmon, Jimmy
Holshouser and Lynn Holaday
were directed to return a
committee recommendation on
the bonds issue.
Clyde R. Greene suggested
that SAHA’s financial state
ment should show that inter
est on bonds purchased to
establish Horn in the West
15 years ago still is outstand
ing.
“We have people who own
bonds, who are still expecting
to be paid. If we can pay any
thing, we should start now,
pay all we can,” Greene said.
“We can’t play both sides of
the road.”
Executive vice - president,
Dr. Ray Lawrence told the
directors of Gene Wilson’s
resignation and that Wilson,
by letter, had recommended
Ward Haarbauer to fill the
position.
Haarbauer, who is working
on his doctorate at the Uni
versity of Wisconsin, was
stage manager of the Horn
last year.
Greene encouraged discus
sion of hiring a local person,
seeing this as a great advant
age to the show: “I have
thought for sometime there
ought to be somebody at the
college who could do this
job.” Dr. R. H. Harmon said
this idea has been pursued in
the past. “I don’t know what
the situation is at present . . .
but as far as I know, there
would be no one available.”
Andrews’ motion to make
contact with Wilson at the
earliest moment carried.
Twenty-one attended the
noon meeting at Holiday Inn.
At the outset, Mrs. Earleen
Pritchett, SAHA secretary,
told the Board accounts of re
(Continued on page three)
Burley Sales
Reach 3,645,520
Lbs. For Season
The ’66-’67 hurley tobacco
season has closed, having sold
3,645,520 pounds of weed for
$2,421,949.58, according to
Stanley Harris Sr. The aver*
age per hundred pounds Is
$66.44.