AWARD WINNER In 1968 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 a s s s April 13 02 40 April 14 73 50 April 15 71 52 April 10 75 48 April 17 74 52 VOLUME LXXIX—NO. 42 BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, APRIL 20. 1967 10 CENTS PER COPY 30 PAGES—9 SECTIONS Whiskey Still Goes Under The Axe A spring-fed distillery, thought to have been used several years in the illicit manufacture of whiskey, was destroyed near the Watauga-Wilkes County line Tuesday, April 11, about 9:30 in the morning. According to Sheriff Ward Carroll (right), the 50-gallon manufactory was abandoned at the time it was found and a only a small supply of material was there. Water was piped to the still through a 40-foot plastic hose. Five bar rels were destroyed, along with the cooker and coils. Deputies taking part in the raid (from left) were Clyde Tester, Charles ■Welborn and Orville Perry. No arrests were made in con nection with the illegal operation. (Flowers photo) Are Coyotes Moving East? At Least One Showed Up mere are coyotes in North Carolina. In Watauga County to be specific. A full-grown male coyote, which was shot in December of 1965 near Stony Fork, was recently mounted and donated to the biology department of Appalachian State Teachers College, giving almost-living proof that coyotes are beginn ing to inhabit North Carolina. Norman Greene of Stony Fork killed the coyote with a 30-30 rifle while deer hunting when the animal came within 25 yards of him. It is the first known coyote shot in Watauga County, ac cording to Dr. Frank Randall, professor of biology at Appa lachian. The animal is a rarity in North Carolina. The shooting Riding Club Has Filled Quota The membership quota of the Cove Creek Riding Club was filled Monday night when R. J. Mains of Zionville signed on as the 100th member. Directors will meet soon to discuss the possibility of put ting on a practice horse show in May. of it, along with reports of other coyote sightings, gives support to tfie recent theory that coyotes are moving eastward, Randall said. Greene gave the coyote to Joe Miller, pharmacist at Boone Drug Company and an amateur taxidermist. Miller mounted the animal and presented it to Appalachian, which is in the process of beginning a nature museum. The finished product took more than 50 working hours to complete, with materials being used costing $40. A profess ional taxidermist would charge a minimum of $200 to mount the animal, according to Miller. The pharmacist-taxidermist has given other stuffed and mounted animals to Appalachian and to Boone's Watauga High School. Miller, 28, a native of Boone, has been interested in taxi dermy since he began work ing on a Boy Scout taxidermy badge at the age of 11. He almost became a taxider mist, but decided to become a pharmacist after studying taxi dermy for a summer at the University of Iowa. After gra duating from IJNC at Chapel Hill, Miller came back to Boone to practice. He married the former Joyce Tuckwiller of Boone, and they have a son, Joseph, age three. With animals donated by Mil ler and others obtained by the college, Appalachian hopes to establish a nature museum which will serve the community of Boone, as well as the college. Two Injured In Collision A head-on collision Friday morning sent two persons to Watauga Hospital, where they spent the night before being re leased. Boone Policeman Robert Jen kins, who investigated the acci dent, gave this account: Romy Joe Harrison of Boone, with his daughter, Pamela, tra veling north in a Ford pickup truck was stopped to make a left turn at the intersection of Blowing Rock Road and Clement Street. Mary Linda Church of Deep Gap was traveling south in a 1965 Dodge, with two passen gers, Judy Matheson and James Harold Cornett, both of Boone. As she turned the curve, she lost control of the vehicle, hit ting the truck head-on. Passen gers in the Dodge were trans ported to the hospital. Damage to the truck was placed at $700, and to the car $1,500. The officer said he charged Mrs. Church with exceeding safe speed. S-ff 9ut In Watauga two years ago, this coyote, which was mounted by Joe Miller (rieht) and Q*° 01 “oU*r AKWSSrffiS |C~■*'■■' 1 •" 1 'r'mr 11 naarn IIIlunaagglii—ai.je Litterbug King, Queen Chosen King and Queen (Anti) Lit terbug in Mrs. A.E. Hamby’s eighth grade were chosen last week at the conclusion of the students’ two-week clean-up campaign. Peggy Martin and Bobby Den ton received the crowns as first piace winners in the pos ter and essay contests were announced: Seventh grade, Kathy Bos worth; sixthgrade, Sally Marsh, Kim Klutz and Debra Wilcox; fifth grade, Susan Blair, Kent Williams and Mary Hayes; four th grade, Barbara Smith, Jim my Ford and Libby Greer; third grade, Tracy Hollis, Charles Langdon and Peggy Miller; second grade, Louanne Holland, Jeff Stapleton, Mary Leigh Den ton and Renie Craig; firstgrade, Nancy Rice, Maurice Penick, Gayle Greene and Melody Nich ols; and special education, Ken neth Klenn. Founder’s Days Sale At Belk’s Belk’s Department Store’s annual Founder’s Day sales event gets under way this (Thursday) morning. The big merchandising event features unusual offerings and values in every department of the big store. Belk’s, always an extensive user of Democrat advertising space, provides our readers this week an eight-page section, giving the complete details of their big sales event Perusal of section two today is strongly suggested. Veteran Educator Howell Retires After 38 x Years At Boone School Board Of Visitors To Meet The second meeting of Ap palachian State Teachers Col lege’s Board of Visitors, form ed last fall to serve in an ad visory capacity to the college's trustees and administrators, will be held here Friday and Saturday. Twelve of the 13 charter members will arrive on campus at noon Friday to launch a two day visit during which time they will become acquainted with the various phases of the institution’s functions and ac tivities. One board member, former N. C. Governor Terry Sanford, will be unable to at tend. The Board, comprised of per sons prominent in public and private life, was established to aid in the broadening the quality of the college's services. In the opening session, the Board will hear brief state ments by administrative of ficers about their areas of re sponsibility. A tour of one sec tion of the campus will precede ■ a meeting at which chairmen erf the major departments will explain the curriculum. After a 7 p. m. dinner in the college cafeteria, the group will witness a student art ex hibit and be entertained by Mus ic Department groups. Saturday, Board members will meet with leaders of the college’s special programs, and with institutional research and long-range planning officials. They will tour other sections of the campus before a busi ness session and luncheon. Members expected to at tend are: Former State Sena tor Irwin Belk of Charlotte; Dr. L. H. Hollingsworth, Wake Forest College Chaplain; Maj. L. P. McLendon, corporation attorney of Greensboro; Mrs. Paul Broyhill, an ASTC alumna of Lenoir; Mrs. Harry B. Cald well, former Appalachian trus tee of Greensboro; John M. Ehle Jr., author, of Winston Salem; J. E. Collette, president of Security Life and Trust Company, Winston-Salem; Dr. T. Edgar Sikes, an ASTC alum nus and surgeon of Greensboro; Edwin Duncan Jr., Appalachian alumnus of North Wilkesboro; Grover C. Green, ASTC alum nus of Swarthmore, Pa.; Lewis Jenkins, another Appalachian graduate of North Wilkesboro; and Walter E. Wiles, ASTC alumnus who is an attorney in Chicago. Work Is Resumed On College Gymnasium The general contractfor con struction at an 8,000 seat gym nasium on the campus of Ap palachian State Teachers Col lege has been shifted from one company to another building firm. * The Fidelity & Casualty Co. of New York, surety for T. R. Burroughs Co. of Charlotte, on Saturday awarded the contract to Juno Construction Co,, also of Charlotte. The Burroughs firm, which was originally awarded the con tract, discontinued work on the Varsity Gymnasium last Dec. IS iue to weather conditions. Con struction was not resumed, as icheduled, on March 1. Initial work on the struc ture was begun last August, but »ly a portion of the foundation has been set to date. The pro ject site has been inactive more than four months. Ned Trivette, Director of Business Affairs at Appa lachian, stated that the new con tract calls for completion by April 3 of next year—the same date as specified under the ori ginal plans. The total cost of the build ing was first set at $2,054,400, but that figure will be increased V> construction Sugfgues, Tri vette said. W additional amount involved will not, how ever, be charged to either the college or the state. The gymnasium, when com platad, will be the largest build ing ct its type in Western North Carolina. JOHN T. HOWELL DR. w. G. ANDERSON Diverted Farm Acreage In County Is Being Measured Reporters have been trained and are currently measuring the diverted acreage under the 1967 teed grain program on farms where 100 percent of the base has been diverted. Roy W, Isley, ASCS county office manager, says the re maining farms which are per mitted to grow some corn under their agreement will be visited after com planting is completed on the farms. Special training has been given to reporters Ned Glenn, Howard Cable, Clyde Cornett, Linville Norris and J. C. Wine barger. County compliance supervisor, Jack Henson, is supervising the field work. The reporter will visit the farm and with the assistance of the farm operator or his agent deter mine the eligible land and mark the land areas which are to be designated by the farmer on the aerial photographs. Fields of subdivision which were diverted in 1966 and are (continued on page seven) Robert Melton Wins Speech Awards In Three Divisions A Watauga High School sophomore, Robert Melton, has won the Optimist Club Oratorical contests on the local, zone and sectional levels and will go to Winston-Salem May 5 to compete in the District competition. The District comprises clubs from both Carolinas and part of Virginia. Robert received the Zone Trophy in Lenoir in March and won the sectional event in Hickory Friday. His speech, "Patriotic Citizenship Needs Optimism’’, has improved progressively, say his local sponsors. He is the son of Dr. and Mrs. J. R. Melton of Boone and is coached at WHS by Miss Delila Lesley. The District winner will go to Portland, Ore., for the national contest. Dr. Anderson Of Raleigh To Take Over Here An educator who has served Appalachian Elementary School for 38 years will retire at the close of the current school term. Announcement of the retire ment of John T. Howell is made by the local school committee, Appalachian State Teachers College and the WftJjMga County Board of EducattatfeM Howell taughtfivej&^rs prior to becoming principal and is in his 43rd year of service to edu cation. Last summer he was asked to continue his duties for the current school term, pending the selection of his replacement. Howell will be succeeded by Dr. Warren G. Anderson, supervisor in the Raleigh City Schools, whose election to the principalship is confirmed also by the committee, ASTC and the Board of Education. A native of South Boston, Va., Dr. Anderson plans to bring his family to Boone on or about July 1. His wife is the former Patricia Ann Stansbury of Dur ham and they have two daugh ters, ages 4 and 7. The new principal earned his A. B. degree from the Uni versity of Richmond in 1951 and after two years military service began his graduate studies at UNC, receiving his Master's degree in education in 1955 and his doctorate in 1962. Dr. Anderson was a high school social studies teacher in Scottsburg, Va., one year, then moving to the Raleigh City Schools where he served two years as a junior high school language arts-social studies teacher; two years as an ele mentary teaching principal; three years as a non-teaching elementary principal; three years as an elementary school supervisor; and one year as a junior high school supervisor and co-ordinator of Federal education programs. ASTC French Instructor One Of 20 To Go To France An Appalachian Instructor has been selected as one of 20 French teachers in the United States for special duty in France this summer. WAMY Grants Made For Area Incentive Grants for four Wa tauga communities were ap proved last week by the County Screening Committee for the WAMY Community Action In centive Grants Program. The grants, totaling $2,280, 75, will be used by 74 families in the four communities to buy supplies for planting home gar dens. The grants were approved after families in Wildcat, Beaver Dam, Tamarack and Junaluska Heights got together and decided that home gardens would be of the most help to the most families. The screen ing Committee approved for Wildcat, $640; Beaver Dam, $717.80; Junaluska, $297.95; and Tamarack, $625. Families of each community decided on the amount of the errant that they would ask for. A Housing and Clothing Re sources Committee of people irom various communities in the County were awarded a grant Jf $500 to be used in locating ind distributing housing sup plies and clothing to help people Improve their homes and to :lothe their families. Each member at the com mittee has donated $1 to be »dded Id the grant. Nora Cauline Howell, 27, will spend six weeks at Boulongne sur-mer, on the English Chan nel across from Dover, working with other Americans and 20 French and Belgium English teachers in the study of con trastice languages and cul tures. The study will be part of a New York University NDEA Joint United States-European Institute. It will be the third NDEA French Institute for Miss How ell, who attended institutes at Woman's College of Georgia in 1962 and an Emory University Institute atBesanconFrenche Comte, France, in 1963. She was invited to partici pate in the institute, which is designed for language super visors and teacher trainees, after formal application, which included taped answers to such questions as: “If a Frenchman told you that all Americans are materialistic, what would you answer?" and “If a French man told you that America had no culture distinctly its own, what would be your answer?" The letter of acceptance to Miss Howell stated that the in stitute will be held in “areas where there may be expression of anti-American sentiment." The institute's purpose is “to explore more sophisticated techniques in the hope of de riving new insights of the nature of language, of culture, and ct the human mind as it stri^gles to communicate." American French teachers will be guinea pigs tor French teacher* at Englt.h, rice versa, according to Mi*. Howell. ~~ “ \\ \ ww wxg CORA CAULINE HOWELL Dates of the institute will be June 29 through A(«. 23. American participants in the" institute will remain in France for two weeks after its close to evaluate their findings. A native of Norwood in Stan ly County, Miss Howell re ceived the A. B. degree in English from Meredith College in 1961. She taught in high schools In Stanly County and the Clatr lotte-Mecklenburg school sys tem for five years, recelviiw •he M. A. degree In French from Appalachian last summer Now in bar first year of col lege teaching. Miss Howell teaches intermediate French. 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