AWARD WINNER In 1966 and 1967 the Democrat won 10 State Press Assn, awards for General Excellence. Excellence In Typography, Local News, Adver tising, Columns and Photographs. WATAUGA DEMOCRAT An Independent Weekly Newspaper . . . Seventy-Ninth Year of Continuous Publication BOONE 1967 HI Lo April 11 68 42 April 12 72 42 April 13 80 53 April 14 73 62 April 15 67 35 April 16 65 43 April 17 65 51 tr. *99 HI La 55 26 58 35 63 47 55 M 53 36 54 36 62 n VOLUME LXXIX— NO. 41 BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1967 10 CENTS PER COPY 24 PAGES- 3 SECTIONS Wilkes Man Dies In Crash A North Wilkesboro man was killed instantly in a three vehicle crash Friday morning seven miles east of Boone on U. S. 221-421. Patrolman George Baker identified the deceased as Billy Gray, 26, of Route 3, North Wilkesboro. Packages of peanuts and candy were thrown on the high way and the Gray truck, a 1964 Ford owned by Servomation Vending Company, North Wilk esboro, was crushed beyond market value. Baker said the three-vehicle collision happened at 7j45 a.m. when a truck operated by Ed ward Critcher of Boone stopped at the intersection of 221 and old Highway 60 to make a left turn. ine omcer saia Jonn worm Graham, 39, of 730 E. Howard St., Boone, also was traveling east and applied the brakes on his 1967 Chevrolet two-ton truck to stop behind Critcher. Instead, the truck skidded on slick pave ment into the left lane where it collided with the van-type truck driven by Gray. Patrolman Baker said after the Gray vehicle struck the left sid* of Graham's truck, it spun around, heading east, and was hit head-on by a 1963 Chevro let which had been following it. The passenger car, owned by Roger Hiatt Jackson of El kin, was driven by Betty Hiatt Jackson, 27, of Route 1, Mt. Airy. Baker said Graham and Mrs. Jackson escaped injury. Damage to the Graham truck was placed at $100, while esti mate on the Jackson car was $150. The Vending Company truck caught fire and volunteers of the Deep Gap Fire Department ex tinguished the blaze. Boone firemen and officers were alerted by a caller who said the crash was west Of Boone, rather than east. Funeral services for Mr. Gray were at 3 p. m. Sunday at Baptist Home Church. Burial with military rites was in Mountlawn Memorial Park. Mr. Gray was a salesman for Roy Spainhour Vending Ma chine Company, North Wilkes boro. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Joyce Eller Gray; a daugh ter, Dawn, of the home; and his mother, Mrs. Ivory Wil liams of North Wilkesboro. At a supper for the evaluation team of the Southern Association of Secondary Schools, and guests of Watauga High School, these leaders talked in the lobby—Q-r) W. Guy Angell, Superintendent of Watauga County Schools; Nile F. Hunt, Raleigh, of the State Department of Public Instruction; Dr. W. H. Plemmons, president of ASTC; Dr. H. E. Thompson, Wilkesboro, chairman of the evaluation committee; Jimmy Deal, president of the student body and master of ceremonies that evening; and Mrs. Margaret Gragg, guidance counselor at WHS and chairman of the steering committee. (Staff photo) Watauga High Evaluated As Students Participate Watauga High School was eva luated last week by a visiting committee for membership in the Southern Association of Sec ondary Schools and for accre ditation by the State Department of Public Instruction. The com mittee, headed by Dr. H. E, Thompson, president of Wilkes Community College, spent Tuesday and Wednesday in Boone making the evaluation. Student participation was an unusual feature of the self study made at Watauga High Money Taken From Hardee’s A robbery was discovered by employees of Hardee’s on Har din Street Sunday when they reported to work, according to Chief of Police Hubert Thomas. No merchandise was disturb ed, but cash was taken from where it had been placed at closing time Saturday. The report also reveals a glass in a back door was broken by the thief or thieves and the lock (Mi another door was tam pered with. Investigation is con tinuing. School during the current year. As a part of the two-year study for the Southern Association and state evaluation, three students were selected to serve on each of the thirty committees of fac ulty members. Student and faculty members of each committee made a tho rough evaluation of curriculum offerings of the school. In addi tion to a course of study pre pared by the teacher in each area of work, the committee listed strengths and weaknesses of each department or area of school activity. On Tuesday evening the vi sitors were greeted and intro duced by student members of the committees. Approximately ninety students, seventy-five members of the faculty and members of visiting teams at tended the dinner meeting in the school cafeteria. At the meeting also were officials of the county school system, the towns of Boone and Blowing Rock, and of Appalachian State Teachers College. Following the dinner meet ing, the Watauga High School Choral Ensemble of twenty voices presented a program of music in the high school audi Board Of Education Assumes Its Duties The regular meeting of the Watauga County Board of Edu cation was held Monday, April 3, at 8 a. m. to organize the Board, elect a superintendent of schools and carry out routine business erf the Board. In accordance with the action of the North Carolina General Assembly March 29 and 30, House Bill 287 provided for the appointment of the following members to the Board for a term