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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. VOL. LXXX—NO. 3 WATAUGA DEMOCRAT BOONE WEATHEB 1««7 iU USnnPrww An Independent Weekly Newspaper Eightieth Year of Continuous Publication BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1967 July 11 75 65 July 12 80 65 July 13 78 63 July 14 68 55 July 15 71 51 July 16 74 47 July 17 72 57 10 CENTS PER COPY 2A PAHEC_9 CPrTIAVC United Fund Budgeting Session—At the head ot the table, Mrs. Constance Stallings, acting chairman. To her left are Mark Hodges, U. F. president; S. M. Ayers, representative of the Red Cross; Oscar Anderson, for Carolinas United; Dr. Lee Reynolds and James Rhoades of the committee; for Mental Health; and Jack Cronland, committee, 4-H Representative Mrs. Doris Storie is seen photo) Hank Greer , at far right, at left. (Staff iz Agencies Participate UF Sets $19,238 Budget In a two and a half hour session Friday, the budget com mittee of the Watauga County United F und heard requests Andrews Mamed Area Chairman Business Assn. District Manager George H. Gardner of the National Feder ation of Independent Business announces the appointment of i G. R. Andrews of Andrews Chev- i rolet Company as Chairman' of the Watauga County chapter, i The Federation is a 50-state ! non-profit organization with the < largest individual membership of any business organization in < the nation, creating a close j working relationship between 1 independent business at the i grass roots, and members of r Congress. [ A voting privilege is given i to each business and profess- f ional member of the Federation, i whose opinion is polled by ballots regularly on bills and t (Continued on page three) c rom 10 agencies and set up a ■ecord budget for the October campaign here. The $17,288.13 granted 12 igencies, two of which were leliberated in the absence of 'epresentatives, was boosted >y the $2,000 contingency fund o a grand total of $19,238.13. Acting chairman for themeet ng was Mrs. Constance Stal ings, who stood in for the bud get chairman, Mayor Clyde Greene. BOY SCOUTS The largest increase in re luest over last year was for he Boy Scouts. Last year they asked for 2,267, this year requesting ►3,500, which was put in the ampaign budget. Father Ed Smith, Chairman f the Watauga District, re orted “substantial growth in he last six months,” with an ncrease in units from 5 to 3. 'he goal of servicing 200 boys y the end of 1967 was reached n June, he said, and a new goal Dr the year is 300 boys in 10 nits. Adults in the program num er 158, of whom 72 work irectly with the Scouts. He Federal Land Bank Has New Farmers’ Service The Federal Band Bank As sociation of Boone announces a new loan service to farmers, according to John H. Hollar, manager of the Association. He said the Association is accepting applications for loans on young pine timber below merchantable size. He said pine stand on timber property and stand of naturally seeded young pine are acceptable security for land bank loans. In the past, Hollar, said, timber loans were made only on tracts with substantial amounts of merchantable tim ber. However, he added that there are a number of factors to be considered in making one of the new planted pine loans. “Generally, loans will be made if the timber is not more than five years from merchant ability/' he said. “The five year from merchantability pe riod will be weighed in light of tree species, brush condi tions, soil quality, moisture conditions, and all other site factors affecting the rate erf growth.” In the appraisal of non-mer chantable pine timber, Hollar pointed out that certain signi ficant factors will be consid ered. “Some of these are tree vigor and over-all stand condition, accessibility, market condition, alternative land use and exist ing protective measures in the area,” he said. “The same low cost and long term features of our regular land bank loans will also apply to this new credit service now available to timber farmers.” Application for this loan or and other may be made at the office of the Federal Land Bank Association of Boone. said the organization ultimate ly hopes to reach the 1,500 available boys in the County. A 10-year growth plan is now underway. Stanley Harris Sr. explained that he and Father Smith have borne the District expenses un til now. They asked $500 for District developments, such as improving camping areas, plus $3,000 for the Council to help salary Scout Executive Phillip Thompson, who serves Wa Rape Suspect Waives Hearing Before Justice A suspect being held in Wa tauga County jail on charges erf assault with intent to commit rape last week waived a pre liminary hearing. Set for 10 a.m. Wednesday, the scheduled hearing was post poned until the District judge could appoint a lawyer for. Charles McLendon, 25, who was arrested the weekend of July 8 after a 26-year-old graduate student was accosted on the campus of Appalachian State University. Justice of the Peace Dave Hodges said McLendon of his of his own volition, waived a hearing about 2 p.m. Wednesday. Bond was set at $5,000. The case moves into superior court Sept. 25, Hodges said, and if the Grand Jury finds a true bill, the judge of Superior Court will appoint a lawyer for McLendon. A Negro construction worker of Platka, Fla., McLendon re portedly was a temporary res ident of Boone while employed in the city’s current water sewer project construction. The Watauga County Sheriff’s Department disclosed that Deputy Orville Perry uncovered the lead to the suspect. Arrest was made by Deputy Clyde Test er. The area of the arrest was not given, although it was be lieved to have been within the city limits. Shortly after the arrest, Sheriff Ward Carroll said he called in Charlie Whitman, agent of the State Bureau of Investi gation, to assist. tauga and Wilkes. Wilkes is bearing the greater burden, ask ing $11,000 in their United Fund proposal, they said. GIRL SCOUTS Kay Bosworth said 40 Girl Scouts in Blowing Rock already have conducted a funds drive. In Boone, there are 150 girls in 8 troops, representing an increase of two troops this year. (Continued on page three) J AMr2> U. LYONS James Lyons Is Sworn In As Police Chief James C. (Red) Lyons was installed as Chief of Police for the Town of Boone Monday morning. A former County Commiss ioner, Lyons is married to the former Peggy Hampton and father of two children, ages 11 and 8. He is a member of the Deer field Methodist Church where he teaches an adult Sunday school class and is choir director. He recently attended the North Carolina Law Enforcement School, conducted at Newton, N. C., by the State Bureau of Investigation. Accepting the position, Lyons pledged to be of service to all the people and asked their help in achieving this end. No other changes were made on the police force. Piedmont May Be Interested Airline Officials Urge Building Local Airport Three Or Four Sites Are Given FAA Approval BY RACHEL RIVERS Piedmont Airlines may come to the mountains. At least, “They would be the likely ones to serve the area, if and when the Commission can get air transportation into Boone.*' That’s Robert Bingham, sec retary-treasurer of the Watauga Airport Commission, which early this month received the nod of the General Assembly to condemn land, if need be, in order to build an airport facility in the County. He returned F riday from the Winston-Salem office of Pied mont Aviation, where he dis cussed the situation with Tom Davis and Gordon Brown, presi dent and executive vice-presi dent of Piedmont Airlines. Results? Davis encouraged the Commission in its efforts to build an airport that can handle general air traffic. Brown said he would be happy to do anything he possibly can to get an airport into Boone. Reason for trip? Bingham says he was following up a trip of several months ago, when the airport question began gaining momentum. *iici c aic uucc owjpo vu gci ting an airline here. 1. “Get an airport.*’ 2. “We, or the airline, would file a request with the Civil Aereonautics Board that the line could come here.*’ 3. “With CAB approval, the line could then make a decision based on economics.’* The Piedmont officials told Bingham “an air taxi and air charter service would take ad vantage of a facility that could handle larger airplanes.” This would be a prelude to scheduled airline service, which would de pend on a mountain of factors. Two steps must be ac complished in getting an air port: Money must be raised and land must be acquired. Bingham says the Commis sion has received rough esti mates in the neighborhood of $200,000 for an improved air As to where the airport would be located, this is another mat ter, Bingham adds. FOUR SITES Legislation to allow the Wa tauga Airport Commission to acquire property by condem nation was introduced by Rep. Mack Isaac and ratified in the General Assembly July 6. When people talk about an airport in Watauga, and the word ‘‘improved” is used to describe it, attention turns to the landing strip on Deerfield Road. Gen eral opinion has been that any airport would be an extension of the existing landing area, and probably would stretch into the farm valley around the cur rent boundary. Bingham: ‘‘We are not talking about the Deerfield Road air strip in connection with the proposed improved airport fa cility.” The proposed airport would (Continued on page three) When the Watauga Airport Commission speaks of an improved airport facility, does it mean an extension of the landing strip on Deerfield Road? (Staff photo) W atauga L-ounty s Jiconomy Made Progress In Past Year Watauga County’s economy made progress on all fronts during the past year, according to a national business report, just released. The big push behind the ad vance was from local con sumers, who had more than the usual amount of spending money at their disposal. And spend it they did, across the board, for all kinds of goods and services. The facts and figures are documented in a voluminous Seems To Have Lucky Number A young mother from Wa tauga County seems to have a lucky number. The baby daughter of Mrs. Lynn Evans, Indianapolis, Ind., weighed 7 pounds, 7 ounces when she was born at 7 a.m. on Friday, the 7th day of July, which is the 7th month of the year, 1967. Mrs. Evans, the former Jean Hodges, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Hodges of report, entitled “Survey of Buying Power," compiled anc copyrighted by Sales Manage ment. It presents data on income and spending for every section of the country. In Watauga County, it shows, earnings were at a high level during the year. Local resi dents had a net spendable income, after payment of their personal taxes, of $27,840,000, exceeding the 1965 total of $25,448,000. How much this amounted to, on a family basis, was found by dividing the income by the number of local households. Per household, it averaged out to $5,800, an increase over the previous year's $5,532. How was this money used? The discretionary part of it—the part remaining after the basic living expenses were taken care of—was spent more freely than usual. As a result, retail business was good in the area. Local merchants ended up with a sales totai of $22,712,000 bettering the previous year's $21,726,000. The survery rates each com munity, on the basis of various indicators, to show the relation Horse Show Prizes Total Over $3,000 More than $3,500 in cash prizes will be given out during the four day Blowing Rock Charity Horse Show. The Show, to benefit the Blow ing Rock Community Club, will be on Thursday through Sunday of the first weekend in August. The “Fun Show” will include saddle horses, 3-gaited, fine harness, walking horses, road sters to bike, single roadster ponies, harness ponies, hunters, green working hunters, green conformation hunters, junior hunters, amateur-owner hunt ers, small ponies, large ponies, open jumpers, jumpers, plea sure horses, Western, Arabian, camp classes and saddle seat and hunter seat equitation. Blowing Rock is a member of the American Horse Show Association and the Virginia Horse Show Association. ship between the amount of retail business actually being done and the estimated full capa bility of the area. It is called the “index of buying power.** For Watauga County, the index is .0069, indicating that it could produce that percentage of the nation’s retail business. Since it accounted for more that that last year, .0075 per cent, it is concluded that quite a bit of the local business comes from non-resident shoppers. Most communities reported record consumer spending in 1966. The net result was that retail sales, nationally, topped $300 billion for the first time in history. truck Loads Must Be Secure, Trooper Says Sgt. C. M. Jones reports a number of complaints reaching him about truck owners and operators so loading their ve hicles with stone, refuse, wood and other materials, that some of the load drops onto the high way, which in some cases creates a real danger to other motorists. Sgt. Jones says that hence forth the law in this regard will be enforced and asks that the statute be publicized. The law says: “No vehicle shall be driven or moved on any highway unless such vehicle is so constructed or loaded as to prevent any of its load from dropping, sifting, leaking or otherwise escaping therefrom, except that sand may be dropped for the purpose of securing traction, or water or other substance may be sprinkl ed on a roadway in cleaning or maintaining such roadway.** 8-Story Buildings To Cost $3,968,776 Four High Rise Dorms To Be Built At University Contracts are to be awarded within the week for four new high-rise dormitories, two for men and two for women, on the Appalachian State University campus. The eight-story facil ities will house 1,200 ASU stu dents and will cost a total of *3,968,776. According to Ned Trivette, director of business affairs for the university, the awarding of the dormitory contracts will mark a new phase of construe* tion on the mountain campus. Besides the four new resi dence halls, contracts will be awarded by the end of the sum mer for a new five-story class room building, a new university bookstore, renovation of the old Watauga Hospital into of fice space to supplement the new Dougherty Administration Building, and renovation of the hospital’s Nurses Home into a university infirmary. Each of the eight new fa cilities is scheduled for oc cupancy by September of 1968. Architect for the two men's dorms which will be erected near William J. Conrad Stadium is William F. Freeman, Inc. of High Point. The general con struction cantract is to be awarded to Dickerson, Inc. of Monroe. Other contracts are as follows: Heating—Winkler Heating and Plumbing of Boone; plumbing—Tomlinson Plumbing and Heating of Lenoir; elec trical—Electric Wiring Com pany of Hickory; elevators— Ottis Elevator Company of Charlotte; intercommunications —Long Engineering Company at Winston-Salem. Baber and Wood Associates of Asheville are architects for the two womens* residence halls which will be constructed near four other high-rise womens' residence halls on the east end of the campus. The general contract for the womens* dorms will also be awarded to Dickerson. Remaining contracts are as follows: Heating—G. A.Thomp son and Sons of Hickory; plumb ing—Tomlinson Plumbing and Heating of Lenoir; electric— Teague Electric Company of Morganton; elevator—West brook. Inc. of Danville, Va.; intercommunications —Dixie Radio Supply at Charlotte. The residence halls will be financed through *2,640,000 In bonds sold to the Departmental Housing and Urban DerelapansBt at a rate of 3 per cent aal $930,000 In bonds to private buyers at a rate of 4 1/2 par cent. $398,770 is being pro. sided by the tadTsrsity.
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