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VOLUME LXXIX—NO. 42
BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, APRIL 20. 1967
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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.
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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. ~~ “
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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.
French culture sad civilisation,
conversation, advanced cram
mer. 20th century literature
and foreign langwga aiathaduj|