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VOL. LXXX
NO. 5
BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1967
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What View From Here?
II'§
BUILDING, ATHLETIC FIELD?—While administration build
is progressing well, and the projected completion date re
ns Jan. 1, 1968, the question arises as to what view occupants
of the building will have. In recent interview, Ned Trivette, who
is business manager of Appalachian State University, said plans
are to use the State Farm property in extending the recreation
program at the university. Students would commute to the Farm
via bus. He said the present athletic field, which sprawls in front
of the pictured construction and between Faculty Street and High
way 321, is overcrowded. If the Farm proves successful for recre
ational uses, the athletic field could become a site of further con
struction. Although Trivette did not comment on this possibility,
Jim Jones, university athletics official, said Tuesday that foot
ball practice will begin Sept. 1 on the present field and that the
niove to the Farm will not be made until the turf there can be made
safe. He added that this could be as early as late September. And
so some surprising announcements could be forthcoming, not too
far in the future. (Staff photo)
Seven Performances Listed
Charity Horse Show Begins
H*7 (LOWING ROCK CHARITY HORSE SHOW
TENTATIVE TIME SCHEDULE
(Subject to Necessary Choices)
Tbt»v*oy Morning, August 3, 1*47
1 Green Jumpers, Table I
2. Open Jumpers, Table II. Set. 2
X Model Green Conformation Hunters
4 Saddle Seat Equitation,
13-17 vrs.
5. North Carolina Camp Class Saddle
Seat, 12 vrs. and under
6. North Carolina Camp Class Saddle
Seat. 13-17 vrs
Claus No.
7. North Carolina Camp Class Hunter
Seat. 12 yrs. and under
H North Carolina Cainp Class Hunter
Seat, 13 srs and 14 \rs.
9 North Carolina Camp Class Hunter
Seat, 15-17 vrs.
10. V.H.S.A. Equitation, Hunter Seat,
12 and under
Thursday Afternoon, August 3. 1967
12 Green Junipers, Table II.. Set 2
13. A.S.P.G.A. Hunter Seat Equitation
14. Two Yr. Old Walking Horses
15 Saddle Seat Equitation, 12 fit under
16. Single Roadster Pony, 46" t* under
17. junior 3 Gaited Horses
18. Amateur Walking Mares
19 Open Pleasure Horses. Eng Type
20. Junior 5 Gaited Horses
21 Open Walking Stallions & Geldings
Class No.
22. Junior Working Hunters
23. Pleasure Horse, English Type
24. Green Conformation Hunters
25 Green Working Hunters
26. Open Working Hunters
Friday Morning, August 4, lt*7
27 Green Jumpers, Table II., Sec. 2
28a. U.S.E.T. Eouitation Class, Flat
34. Green Conformation Hunters Under
Saddle
35 Working Hunters Under Saddle
▼ :W0 AM.
wuniof Arena —
Class No.
29. Model Small Ponies
dO Model Large Ponies
31. Small Ponv Working Hunters
32 Large Ponv Working Hunteis
33. Creen Working Hunters
Friday Afternoon. August 4. 1967
Main Rina — 12:30 9 M a
36. Open Jumpers. Fault and Out. Once
Around. Table II. Sec 4a
26b. U S E.T Eouitation Class. Jumping
28c Ladies 3 Caited Horses
37 Open 5 Caited Horses
38. 3 Yr Old Walking Horse
39 luvenile 3 Caited Horses
40 Harness Ponv. 11 3 ansi under
40a Ladies 5 Caited Horses
41 Open 3 Caited Horses
41a. Amateur Fine Harness
42 Amateur Walking Stallions and
Celdings
43. luvenile 5 Caited Horses
44 Open Roadster
45. A H.S A. Medal Class. Saddle Seat
46 Open Walking Mares
46a Local Pleasure Horses
47 Small Ponv Conformation
48 Large Pom Conformation
Hunters
49 Junior Working Hunter
Appointments
V) Amateur. Owner Working
3L Lreen Conformation
52 Ladies Working
Saturday Morning Auqutt 5, 1M7
U.I. ■ o.nn i u _ . .
53 Green Jumper Bonus Point Stake.
Table II., Sec. 3b
^ Rfe^n ^Un1^,er Championship and
55. A H.S.A. Hunter Seat Medal Class
02 Green Working Hunters
Under Saddle
Class No.
56 Small Ponv Under Saddle
57 Large Ponv Under Saddle
58. Junior Conformation Hunters
59 Green Conformation Hunters
60. Handy Working Hunters
61 Amateur. Owner Hunters Under
Saddle Main Rina if fin..
Saturday Afturnoon. Aufait 5. 1M7
Main Rinq — 12:30 P. M.
63. Open Jumper Puissance.
Table II., Sec 6
64 Equitation Championship.
Hunter Seat
65 Amateur Walking Horse Stake
66. Amateur 3 Caited Saddle Horse
86a Arabian Park Horse
67 Harness Ponv, over 11.3 hands,
not esc. 12. 2
68. Equitation Championship
Saddle Seat
69 Amateur Roadster to Bike
70. Amateur 5 Caited Saddle Horse
71. Roadster Ponv over 46"
not esc. 50”
72. Juvenile Walking Horse
72a Arabian Western Pleasure Horse
73. Open Fine Harness Horse
74. Junior Walking Horse.
4 years old and under
75. Western Pleasure Horse Open
Outside Arena — 1:00 P.M.
Class No.
76. Small Ponv Working Hunter
Stake
77 Urge Ponv Working Hunter
78. Small Ponv Championship and
79. Large Ponv Championship and
80. Amateur Owner Conformation
81 Working Hunter
Appointments
82. Green Working Hunters.
83. Green Working Hunters.
84 Junior Working Hunters
Under Saddle
Swdoy Aftaraooa. August 4. ItAT
sssssssps SS3
85. Open Jumper Bonus Point Stake.
Table II. Sec 3b.
86 Open Junior Championship
and Reserve
Ladies Walking Horses
3 Caited Championship
Roadster Ponv Championship
(50'^’and under)
Roadster Championship
5 Caited Ponies
Fine Harness Championship
Walking Horae Championship
Harness Ponv Championship
Western Pleasure Stake
3 Caited Ponv
5 Caited Championship
98.
90.
■ 1 :00 f.M.
Amateur-Owner Appointment*
Amateur-Owner Championship and
100. junior Working Hunter Stake
101 • Junior Hunter Championihip and
108. Green Conformation Hunter Stake
103. Green Conformation Hunter
Championship and Reserve
104. Green Working Hunter Stake
105. Green Working Hunter
Championship and Reservr
108 Working Hunter Stake
1". Hunter Championship
Vans started rolling into
Broyhill Park last week, as
officials of the Blowing Hock
Charity Horse Show made last
preparations for the seven-per
formance, Thursday to Sunday
show0
All performances in the main
ring start with an open jumper
class, noted for appeal to
spectators. The big “wall
class", Open Jumpers, Puis
sance, starts the Saturday after
noon performance at 12:30, and
some of the finest horses and
horsemen in the Southeast are
expected to compete for first
place and $75.
Auction
Will Aid
Crippled
The annual Rotary Club Auc
tion will get underway at 7:30
p. m. Friday in the auditorium
of the Appalachian Elementary
School.
All proceeds will be given to
the Crippled Children's Fund
and other charities and auction
eers will be the Cottrell twins.
Admission is free and tickets
will be given at the door for door
prizes and other special gifts.
The Rotarians say a lot of real
bargains in televisions, radio
sets kitchen utensiles, shoes,
clothing, groceries, auto acces
sories, oil, gas, tires and furni
ture will be put up for bids
during the evening.
Fences are four to five feet
high with spreads from 3 to 5
feet, and the “wall”, which is
simulated brick or stone, is
usually raised ttr7 feetor more
in the riders' quest to break
ties.
As in the past, action is slated
both in the main arena and the
outside arena.
Horse Show President C. V.
Henkel says moregaited horses
and walking horses have entered
this week's show than any in the
44 years since it started.
An Arabian division also has
been added.
Riders and drivers will be
aiming for $3,700 in cash
awards and boxloads of tro
phies that are to be given away.
More than 200 temporary
stalls have been erected among
the 200 permanent stalls at the
Park and reports Monday were
than another 50 to 100 may be
required to accommodate the
area's largest show.
Dr. Russell Tate of Vass,
N. C. a former resident of
Blowing Rock, will be show
veterinarian.
Safe After Fire
On Forrestal
Lt. Commander David Barn
hardt a graduate of Appalachian
State University, is reported
safe after having gone through
the fire which ravaged the IKS
Forrestal last week.
Mrs. Barnhardt, the former
Miss Doris Triplett of Lenoir,
is a niece of Mrs. E. W. Ben
tley of Boone. «
417 Expect To Get Degrees
Former President Iowa
State To Speak At ASU
"HE HEADLESS HORSEMAN, Ichabod Crane, was a favorite in
he Alumni Class B showing at Linville Saturday, but it was Mrs.
axton Crawford, 81, who won the trophy with her sidesaddle
mtry. She has ridden at Linville all her life. Behind the tall,
tarched collar was Hundley Cover of Linville, incidentally,
"he Linville Show was twice the size of last year's. Equitation
nd hunter classes showed despite intermitent rainfall Saturday
norning and continued into late afternoon, providing a full-fledged
chooling show for this week’s Blowing Rock event. (Staff photos)
University Finals
Set For Aug. 17
Dr. James H. Hilton, former president of Iowa State U
niversity and now Executive Director of the Smith Reynolds
Foundation in Winston-Salem, will deliver the summer com
mencement address at Appalachian State University Aug. 17.'
Dr. Hilton, native of Hickory, will speak to 418 graduates
uiv cuiimicm.cincni cei c
monies slated for Broome-Kirk
Gymnasium.
A total of 135 students cur
rently completing their course
requirements during the sec
ond summer session will be
candidates for either B. A. or
B. S. degrees. An additional
282 students are expected to
receive Master's degrees.
Dr. Hilton, who has a summer
home near Boone, attended N. C.
State College after his grad
uation from Startown High
School in Catawba County. He
obtained his B. S. degree at
Iowa State in 1923, his M. S.
degree at the University of
Wisconsin in 1937, and his
Doctor of Science degree at
Purdue University in 1946.
Honorary degrees conferred
upon him have been the Doctor
of Science degrees from N.
C. State in 1945 and from Iowa
State in 1965.
Dr. Hilton served on Pur
due’s teaching staff for 19 years
before being named head of
Animal Science at N. C. State
in 1945. He served as Dean of
Agriculture at the Raleigh inst
itution from 1948 to 1953. He
was president of Iowa State Uni
versity from 1953 to 1965, and
was Director of Development
of the same university from 1965
until being named to direct the
Smith Reynolds Foundation ear
lier this year.
Dr. Hilton, who has published
about 30 scientific papers, was
a director of the Federal Re
serve Board of Chicago from
1959 through 1966. He currently
is a director of the Quaker Oats
Company and a director of the
Northwest Telephone Board, He
is listed in “Who’s Who in
America.’’
Winner BREMCO
Trip To Capital
Bert Goodman, son of the
Rev. and Mrs. Gilbert Goodman,
Sr., of Route 2, Boone, was
the recent winner of the Rural
Electric Youth Tour Contest,
sponsored by Blue Ridge Elec
tric Membership Corporation.
Bert, a rising senior at Wa
tauga High School, joined four
other young men from Blue
Ridge Electric’s service area,
and traveled by chartered bus,
from Raleigh to Washington,
D. C. for a week of touring,
sight seeing, and seeing the
government in action.
The North Carolina group of
22 students joined some 900
young people from 26 states
in “Rural Electric Youth Day’*
festivities which were planned
and coordinated by the National
Rural Electric Cooperative As
sociation in Washington. Dur
ing the day’s program the young
people were greeted by the
NR EC A General Manager, Clyde
T. Ellis; Administrator of the
Rural Electrification Adminis
tration, Norman Clapp; Miss
Patricia Van Haaften, Miss
Rural Electrification of 1967;
and Miss Kathy Custy, the 1967
National Grange Princess.
Following the morning’s pro
gram the young people, who
represented 500 rural electric
cooperatives over America,
traveled by bus caravan from
the Marriott Motor Hotel to the
White House where President
Johnson greeted them on the
Speaking to the young people,
the nation’s most renowned
rural electric cooperative
(Continued on page two)
BERT GOODMAN
Riding Club
Will Discuss
Horse Show
The subject of Friday night’s
meeting of the Cove Creek Rid
ng Club will be the Wataiga
torse Show, which is set for
>e{*. 9 at the riding ring.
Club PresidentHiramBrooks,
ilso show manager, will begin
he meeting at 7:30 at the Cove
.reek School.
Trophies are being acquired
'or each class and several
matters are to be ironed out
toward preparing a large, fall
;how for area horsemen.
Official Claims “Demotion”
Health Director Says Salary Cut In Her Absence
BY RACHEL RIVERS
The lines between adminis
tration of public health and the
Health District embracing Al
leghany, Ashe and Watauga
cowties have been tampered
with.
While District Health Direc
tor, Dr. Mary Michal was va
cationing the first of the month,
a budgeting meeting was called
and in the course of events, her
salary was cut *1,962 per year
to $8,280 at one-half time.
“It's a demotion position
wise, as well as salary wise,”
she said this week, and “If
they can get a health director
to administer the three counties
properly at half time, they’re
welcome to do it right now and
ask me for my resignation.
"I have only promised to con
tinue through July on half-time.
I will not try to do the work
of a week in two and a half
days.” She left for Waynesville
Tuesday to spend part of two
months accumulated vacation
time with her husband.
DUTIES
According to the 1960 census,
Alleghany has 7,734 residents;
Ashe, 19,768; and Watauga, 17,
529.
Contrary to popular belief,
departments of public health are
not ®et up to serve only the
indigent, she explained, but to
work with any and all comers
inside their territory.
For her that means main
taining an “effective adminis
tration” over three offices,
Boone, Sparta and Jefferson,
which serve a total of more
than 45,000. Travel in the three
counties comes to some 20,000
miles yearly and the overtime
piles up in budgeting, planning
and scheduling the broad spec
trum erf public health services.
She often is seen in clinical
white jacket, heading into the
center of a general clinic. One
July Monday, she and three
nurses screened 89 patients.
General and specialty clinics
frequently “jam” the place and
“the need never slackens/’
In the child health program,
work covers children from birth
to age 21. Any age of chroni
cally ill, not covered by other
programs, are covered by the
chronical disease grant “speci
fically for carrying out needs
of those home bound.” Work in
the home is done at the direction
of a private physician.
When Dr. Michal went on va
cation, she left notice in her
offices, particularly the Boone
office, which is District head
quarters, to contact her if any
thing came up.
On July 6, the chairman of the
commissioners in each county
called a meeting, invitii* the
Director of the Local Health
Division of the State Board at
Health and asking Wayne Rich
ardson, local health board
chairman, to attend.
(Continued on page twa)