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AWARD WINNER In 1888 and 1987 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 . . . Eightieth Year of Continuous Publication BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER *1, 1967 WKATHKK Sept. 12 § Sept 13 80 88 Sept 14 88 48 Sept U 70 39 Sept 18 72 48 Stpt 17 72 40 Sept 18 75 SO 10 CENTS PER COPY 24 PAGES—2 SECTIONS PLANNING THEATER Dr. David A. French, at left, discusses ways and means of converting a former basketball court Into a theater with Prof. Bradford Kinney of Appalachian’s Speech De partment. Basketball Court Will Become ASU Theatre Home Dr. David French has high hopes for an ex-basketball court. It is to become home of the University Theater at Appalachian State University. The theater program which French built from scratch be ginning nine years ago was halt ed for a short time early this year when the theater and all its equipment were destroyed by fire. Now French has be gun to rebuild—-in the old Appa lachian High School Building. I don't know yet how it can be done." says Dr. French, WAMY Board To Meet Tuesday The regular September meeting of the WAMY Com munity Action Board at Di rectors will be held Septem ber 26 at 7:30 p. m. in the cafeteria of the Crossnore High School. The Board’s Executive Com mittee will meet in the cafe teria at 7p.m„ proceeding the meeting of the full board. Reports on the progress at three programs—Head Start, Crafts, and the Neighborhood Youth Corps—will head the agenda, which will also include discussion of the new Com munity Action Program now a waiting approval from Wash ington, and a report from the agency’s planning staff. A discussion at WAMYs pre sent and future goals is also on the agenda. The Board meeting will be open to the public. Teacher Placement Service Noted At ASU Dr. Robert Randall, Director of the Placement Office at Appa lachian State University, haa announced that his office is par ticipating in a new, world-wide placement service established by ASCUS, the Association for School, College and University Staffing. Located in Hershey, Pa., ASCIS file, the Fast Index to Locate Educators, will be 1756 Steers Sold On Local Mart For $300,000 A total of 1756 steers were sold in the first steer sale at Watauga County Livestock Market last Thursday. More than two-thirds at these steers graded choice and good. The average price per head for all cattle sold was $171.00 and the price per hundred poinds $2444. The average price for each choice grade steer was $193 per bead, for each good grade steer $174 per head, common grade steers brought $135 average per bead. The total sale amoiaited to ap proximately $300,000. We believe that this la the largest number of cattle ever assembled and sold at one time in Watauga Cowty. completely operational by Nov. IS, for educational placement for School Year 1968-69. Work ing with the Information Ser vice Department of General El ectric and their Computer Time-Sharing Service, ASCLS file will establish a national manpower bank of educators available to school and college officials in need of educational personnel. This service is free to all educational candidates. Those who are willing to move beyond commuting distance of their present locations will find ASCLS file of great value. All they need to do Is to regis ter through the Educational Placement Office where their confidential credentials are on record. ASCLS file is serving a three-fold purpose: Q) pro viding maximum visibility to candidates; (2) providing maxi mum accessibility for employ ers; and (3) enhancing the ca reer counseling role for pro fessionals in educational staff ing. Dr, Randall is national mem bership chairman of ASCLS and a nominee for the ASCUS Ex ecutive Committee for 1968-69. ASCUS presently includes over 500 institutional placement offices. These offices repre sent institutions which prepare about 80% of the doctoral can didates and more than 75% OF the teacher education graduates in the United States. “But I expect to take a pro duction of Shakespeare’s “A* You Like It*’ on tour around the first of December. Planning far ahead is the only way I can keep my wits about me.” The reputation which Dr. French has established for Ap palachian’s theater will make the rebuilding job a little eas ier. His productions of “Ham let,’* “Romeo and Juliet” and Ibsen’s “Pillars of Society” attracted audiences from throughout western North Caro lina. “Now that we’ve been chang ed from the College Theater to the University Theater, we ex pect to rise to the occasion,” French reports. “We*ll start with Shakespeare, do a musi cal, and include Wilder’s “Skin of our Teeth” before May.” The graduate of Yale’s drama school maintains, “We were burned to the ground lastChrist ma8. By this Christmas, we’ll be going full steam ahead.” In reference to his “basket ball-stage,*’ French said, “We can’t really change scenery in the orthodox manner. So, I’m going to put the audience on rollers and change them. I guess they’ll know they’re in a theater then.*’ Water Break At IRC Fixed A break in the main watei line to IRC was discovered early Sunday morning after a flooded condition was noticed in the vicinity erf Blue Ridge Shoe Co. The water from the reser voir was cut off while re pairs were made, city work ers said, so there was little loss of water. Service was re stored at about 1 o’clock. Three Held, Charged With Market Larceny Three were arrested Friday afternoon and lodged in the coun ty jail and charged in connection with larceny erf cash from Thrift Food Center earlier in the after noon, according to Police Chief Carlton Lyons. Chief Lyons gave the names of those arrested, all Negroes, as William J. Watkins, James H. Collins and Charles Amos, who gave their address as St. Louis, Mo. According to the officer the three men entered the local food store, two of them drew the attention of employees from the cash register while the other one got his hands into the regis ter. The day’s check-up re vealed that $60.32 was missing. Amos was charged with lar ceny, the other two with aiding and abetting. Officers immediately went in to action and the area was alerted. Patrolman O’Neil Shel ton saw the accused who were said to have been riding in a 1967 bronze Mustang, at a ser vice station in Linville. Avery County Sheriff’s officers were called and the three men were arrested and brought to Boone by Trooper Morgan. Chief Lyons said City Police officers, Highway Patrolmen and Sheriff’s officers took part in the successful search. He added that the men arrested were identified by Miss Nancy Bodenhamer, an employee of Thrift Food Center. NEW SIDEWALK—Workers tore up the rough sidewalk in front of the Boone Post Office and poured a new one as one of the recent improvements about town. The General Services Administration of the federal government shared in the cost of the project as part of the walk was on Post Office Property. The contract was let to Perry Greene Construction Co. several months ago, according to Boone Mayor Clyde R. Greene, and the work was done last week. Postmaster Ralph Beabears was pleased with the work and thinks it will add to the beauty of the Post Office grounds and safety to those who use the walk. -:—.1 ■>. ;vA-ewuT)i MMp;* Two Others Are Injured t Two Killed In Head-On Collision On 421 West Tennesseeans Become Fourth, Fifth To Die Two men died and two were injured in a head-on collision Friday night at 7:05 p. m. near the Tennessee State line on U. S. Highway 421 in Watauga County. The four men were all from Tennessee. Killed were Edgar L. Heaton Jr., 26 of Mountain City, and Bruce May, 38, of Shouns. The injured who were brought by ambulance to Watauga Hospital were Alfred Paul Stanley, 19, Rt. 1, Mountain City, driver of one of the cars, and Garney Reece of Shouns. According to State Trooper George E. Baker, who investi gated the accident, Stanley was driving a 1955 Chevrolet north toward Tennessee and was attempting to overtake a car and tractor-trailer on a curve. The car was met by a 1956 Chevrolet driven by Heaton, and both vehicles were dentolished. The Stanley car came to a stop on the left shoulder of the road and the Heaton car partially blocked one lane of traffic until it was removed. Both Heaton and May were dead at the scene of the acci dent. May was a passenger in the Heaton car, as was Reece. The Watauga Rescue Squad also answered the call for help and brought the bodies of Heat on and May to Boone. Patrolman Baker had not finished his investigation of the accident early this week and no charges had been filed. The deceased became the fourth and fifth highway fa tality for 1967 for Watauga County. The injured men were listed in satisfactory condition. Rotary To Have Fund Speaker Stanley Harris Sr. will have charge of the Rotary program Thursday night at 6:30 and in addition to Rotary information stress the United Fund which is starting soon. Mr. Harris will present a really great community Fund Speaker, Mr. T. Spencer Meyer of Chapel Hill, who is now Executive Director of Medical Research Foundation. Two persons became the fourth and fifth highway fatalities in U. S. 421. The two dead were Edgar L. Heaton Jr., of Moiaitain atauga County Friday night when these two cars were in- City, Tenn., driver of the caron the right, and a passenger, Bruce volved in a head-on collision near the Tennessee state line on May, of Shouns, Tenn. (Flowers Photo) Says County Farmers Had Good Year Despite Strength Cost-Price Squeeze For Watauga County's farm population, the past year turned out to be a better one, all things considered, than had been ex pected. Most local operators were able to report incomes that were equal to or bigger than those of farmers and ranchers in many parts of the country. Contributing to it was the im proved operating efficiency and technical know-how of local growers. With more farm machinery at their command and with more intensive use of fertilizers and insecticides, they have been able to get bum per yields per acre. Also helping to make 1966 a more profitable year than most was the greater demand, in this country and abroad, for agri cultural products, ft created a rise in the price of many com modities. The farm statistics, covering the local area and all other sections of the country, were compiled by the Standard Rate and Data Service. They show that Watauga County farmers accounted for gross revenues, in the pastyear, of $6,087,000. That was the gross figure, before taxes and before deduc tions for operating costs. It represented the cash pro ceeds from the sale of farm goods, as well as government Brooks Named By Court Clerk To Jury Group 0. H. Foster, Clerk of Wa tauga County Superior Court, announced this week his selection of Hiram Brooks to serve as a member of the three man jury commission. The other two members are to be selected, by October 1, and will be named by the County Com missioners and the resident judge. Their appointments will be revealed as soon as they are named. The appointments are for two-year terms and the com mission will be in charge of selecting jurors for duties of the courts held in the county. Previously, jurors were se lected by the County Commis sioners. The Democrat had previously carried details of the new jury system, but another story will appear later for the benefit of those who maybe missed the first. payments and the value of the home-grown items consumed on the farm. A breakdown of the local receipts from the sale of farm products, based on Department of Agriculture reports, show that approximately 43 percent came from crops and 57 per cent from livestock, poultry and dairy products. In terms of Watauga County's farm population, the gross re ceipts for the year were at the rate of $922 per capita. Although the average Ameri can farmer has been able to boost his production and in crease his gross income, he has not been successful in turnup much of this gain into greater net income. The cost-price squeeze has been against him. And, the recent reports show, the squeeze has become worse during the first half of this year. Prices have been dropping and production costs have continued to rise. Old School To Be Adult Ed. Center The Watauga County Center (Old Cove C reek School) is to be one of the centers for adult education in the county. Classes in weaving and uphol stery will begin Tuesday even ing, September 19, at 6:30. The classes, open to anyone eighteen years or older, will be held from 6:30 to 9:30. On Friday evening, September 22 at 7:30 a general adult educ ation meeting will be held. All persons eighteen years old or over who are interested in basic education, in getting a high school diploma, or in vocational classes of any type are invited to attend. Refreshments will be served. Watauga Co. Hospital To Be Dedicated October 1 Mr. William F. Henderson, Executive Secretary of the North Carolina Medical Care Commission will be the fea tured speaker at the dedication at the Watauga County Hospital Sunday, October 1 at 2:30 p.m. A brief program is planned with a member of the Board of County Commissioners, of the Medical Staff, of the Board of Trustees, and others sharing in the ceremony. 'tospital personnel from oth er parts of the state are being invited, and it is hoped that the people from this county and the surrounding area will attend. Everyone is invited. ASC Committee Ballots To Be Counted Friday Community committee elect* ion ballots will be reviewed and counted by the Watauga ASC County Committee at 8:30 A. M. on September 22 at the County ASCS office according to M. L. Shepherd, Charlman at the County ASC Committee, The counting process is pub-. lie. Any Interested person may witness the counting process to the extend that available space will provide. Any candidate who specifically requests shall be allowed to take a position close enough to the counting to both see and bear the entire pro* ceedings. The candidate may observe the counting himself or have his designee, who must be an eligible voter in the county, observe it. Any can didate who desires to witness the counting should specifically request to do so. All ballots which were post marked or returned bar tember 18 are eligible i counted. ApgroxlmBtatjr voters bare returned their lota. The exact number wi given at the time the els results are announced. bona should be ASCS office. tad I U-J! -• e'tf- •*>•** If
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