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NATURAL FIRE HAZARD—The autumn breezes which have brought most of the leaves to the
ground and made lonely looking spots of picnic areas also have signaled the beginning of hunt
ing season. Game wardens and conservationists stress the danger of woods fires at this time
of year and urge hunters and hikers alike to be careful of ciagrettes and campfires “and leave
it like it was * for future generations. ($taff photo)
$1,000 Put Aside For
Buying Yule Ornaments
One thousand dollars was put
aside Monday for the purchase
of permanent Christmas orna
ments.
The Chamber erf Commerce
decorations committee met
Attend Area
Rotary Forum
Representing the Boone Ro
tary Club at a District-wide
Forum this week are Max
Dixon, president, and club
chairman Jack Cronland, Paul
Campbell and Stanley Harris Sr.
The four are in Montreat
today(Wednesday) for a pro
gram of Rotary information and
instruction.
The Boone Club is one of 42
in District 767, covering North
Carolina from Monroe to Mur
phy. A past District Governor,
Charles H. Heinemann Jr. of
Albany, Ga., was slated to be
moderator of the Forum.
According to District Gov.
Micholas Semaschko Jr. of Hen
dersonville, Rotary Interna
tional is the oldest service club
organziation in the world. Ap
proaching its 63rd year, “it
keeps growing at the rate of
a club a day,” he said.
“World-wide there are over
622,000 Rotarians in 135
countries and geographical re
gions.”
Monday with Mrs. Bev. Russing,
chairman, to count contributions
toward the project. Set aside
for miscellaneous expenses
and a “get started’* accountfor
next year was $563.
Kenneth Wilcox, Cecil Greene
and John Robinson will meet
Thursday night to study dis
tributors* catalogues, in the
hopes of decorating two
additional intersections.
Christmas lights will be
turned on at Thanksgiving. A
suggestion was made by Joe
Miller that the Neighborhood
Youth Corps, who will help
put up the fixtures, be asked
to help guard against vanda
lism during the season.
Adult Classes To Be
Offered At Hi School
Five extension classes spon
sored by Caldwell Technical
Institute and the County Board
of Education will begin Monday,
Oct, 23, at Watauga High School,
Enrollment will begin at 7
P. m. or persons may call the
High School for additional infor
mation before the 23rd.
Auto mechanics will be taught
>y Bob Davis; woodworking by
1. C, Smith; electronics by Dar
■ell Ward; charm and person
ility by Mrs. Elizabeth Ann
Villiams; and blueprinting by
loger Harwood.
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By selecting “items that will
last several years*', Mrs.Rus
sing said the committee will
year by year add to its stock
of decorations and be able to
branch out increasingly.
Kenneth Wilcox received an
incentive gift of deer drawn
Santa and sleigh which Mrs.
Russing had offered to the mem
ber bringing in the most money.
He and Cecil Greene together
turned in $760 they had solicited.
Robinson reported that Paul
Smith will bring up the question
of a Christmas parade at the
next Jaycees meeting.
“Miss Watauga”
Pageant To Be
Held Nov. 18th
The date for the Miss Wa
auga pageant has been set for
^ov. 18, and the Boone Jaycees
say they are fast completing
)lans for the best pageant in
heir history.
According to E. Ford King,
>eauty pageant chairman, ten
contestants have entered and
leveral guests a*I celebrities
lave agreed to be on hand
or the Saturday night event.
Bob Barnes, radio and tele
ision personality of WSOC in
-harlotte, will emcee the
ageant again this year.
i “Meet The New ASU”
I University Homecoming
I Is Gay Week End Feature
Dance, Football,
Dedications,
Bright Parade
Special reunions for five
classes, dedications of four
recentiy opened residence halls
and a football game matching
two ancient rivals will highlight
Appalachian State University’s
Homecoming festivities this
weekend,
Under the theme of “Meet the
New AS I ”, Homecoming will be
launched Friday witha 6:30p.m.
social hour and a 7:30 p. m.
kickoff dinner at the Holiday Inn.
Registration of Alumni will
begin at 8 a. m. at the W. H.
Plemmons Student Center,
which also will be the site of
reunions of the honor classes
at 11 a. m. Returning to the
campus for reunions will be
the classes of 1927, 1937,1942,
1947 and 1957.
The annual Homecoming
Parade, which will pass throi«h
downtown Boone and the AS U
campus, will commence at 10
a. m. Saturday.
A business meeting, election
and installation of new Alumni
Association officers will be held
in the University Cafeteria fol
lowing the 11:45 a. m. Alumni
Luncheon.
Appalachian’s Mountaineers
will clash withCarson-Newman
College in Conrad Stadium at
2 P. m. to continue a football
rivalry which began in 1929.
A reception for all Alumni
and an open house is scheduled
at Plemmons Center at 4:30
and the annual Touchdown
Dance, featuring music by the
Jim Miller Trio, will start
at 8:30 p, m. at Seven Devils
Lodge.
The dedication of Bowie,
Lovill, Hoey and White Resi
dence Halls Will be held Sun
day and open house will be
observed at each of the new
highrise buildings after dedi
cation ceremonies.
Bob Snead,directorof Alumni
Affairs, said he expects more
than 3,000 former Appalachian
students to return to the campus.
First Meeting Of
PTA Set For Monday
The first meeting of the Wa
tauga High School Parent
Teacher-Student Association ,
will begin at 7:30 p.m. Mon- ,
day, Oct. 23, at the school.
During the parents’ night e
vent, visitors will have an op
portunity to visit classrooms
meet teachers and ask questions I
about their child’s work.
Before Oct. 23, parents
should get a copy of their son’s
or daughter’s class and home
room schedule and room num
ber. They will briefly visit
each class the child meets
during a regular school day.
President of the W. H. s.
organization is Hank Greer.
Homecoming Queen and Court—Pat Mozingo, a senior edu
cation major from Charlotte, will reign as Homecoming Queen
this weekend. Miss Mozingo, who bears a striking resemblance
to Italian movie star Sophia Loren, also reigns as Miss Watauga
County, Caroiinas Photo Queen and North Carolina Apple Queen.
Surrounding her (l-r)are members of ASU’s Homecoming Court:
Jane Renegar, freshman from Fayetteville; Chris Park junior
from Marshville; Beverly Wilson, freshman from Asheboro
Penny Craver, junior from Lexington; Pam Beck, senior from
Lincolnton; Sandra Bateman, sophomore from Charlotte- Sue
Elrod, senior from Greenville, S. C.; and Judy McCrary, sopho
more from Lexington.
Watauga Farm
Bureau To Meet,
Name Officers
The Watauga County Farm
Bureau will consider recom
mendations to the State Farm
Bureau Resolutions Committees
it its annual meeting Friday
3ct. 20.
Bureau President Dewitt Bar
lett invites members and their
ami lies to gather at 7:30 that
jvening in the auditorium of the
Appalachian ElementarySchool.
He and the secretary will
make their annual reports
)efore the membership selects
lelegates to atterxl the State
Convention and officers to serve
n Watauga County for thecom
ng year.
chamber Commerce
ro Close Wednesday
The Boone Chamber of Com
nerce will be closed all day
Wednesday, Oct. 25.
Manager Fred McNeal says
le and his staff will beinAshe
'ille to attend the annual license
enewal school. Business will
•esume Thursday morning.
Local Residents Buying
More Gadgets, Automobiles
•Judging from the number of
big-ticket household acces
sories acquired by Watauga
families in the last few years,
local residents are living it up
as never before.
Their outlays for re
frigerators, home freezers,
automobiles, dishwashers, air
conditioners, stereophonic
equipment and the like have
climbed steadily since 1960.
It has been made possible by
the growing affluence of theav
erage local family.
The extent to which owner
ship of cars and of household
appliances has increased in the
period from 1960 to 1967 is based
upon special sample surveys
made by the Department of
Commerce.
In Watauga County, on the
strength of these findings, no
less than 84.6 percent of the
local families are owners of
one or more cars at the pre
sent time. This is an increase
over 1960, when 77.3 percent
had cars.
state treasurer to Be Speaker
4 ASU Dorms To Be Dedicated Sunday
State Treasurer £dwin Gill
will present the feature address
Sunday as Appalachian State
University dedicates four new
residence halls for men who
were prominent in the founding
and early life of the institution.
Scheduled to be dedicated in
1:30 p.m. ceremonies in I. G.
Greer Hall are high-rise dorm
itories named for Thomas Con
tee Bowie, Clyde Roark Hoey,
Edward Francis Lovill and Ro
bert Bruce White.
Several members ot the fam
ilies of each man will be pre
sent for the dedication which
will precede open-house tours
of the residence halls.
Bowie, who was born in 1876
and died in 1947, was largely
responsible for the drafting and
passing of the legislative bill
which established North Car
olina’s system of hard-surface
highways. He was appointed to
1903 to the original Board of
Trustees of Appalachian Train
ing School here and served for
many years as chairman of the
board.
_ Bowie received his prepara
tory education in Wilkes and
Yadkin Counties and at Mars
Hill Academy. He was graduated
from the University of North
Carolina in 1899 and later
studied law at UNC and Vale
University. Admitted to the bar
in 1901, Bowie was a prominent
lawyer, a judge of the Superior
Court, a representative of Ashe
County in the General As
sembly, and Speaker of the
House of Representatives
during the 1915 session.
Bowie's grandson, Carter L.
Ress, Jr., of Columbia, S. C#>
will make the dedication re
sponse 4 in behalf of the family.
Hoey, born in 1877 and de
ceased in 1954, held a special
pride in the successful fight he
made in behalf of the bill es
tablishing the teachers school
which has become a university.
Hoey began his political
career at the age of 18, and had
the distinction of being the only
North Carolinian to serve in
both houses of Congress.
Among his many noteworthy
achievements was his baching of
the first state-wide public
school support appropriation
bill. He was one of the most
colorful legislators of his time.
Clyde R. Hoey, Jr., of Can
Ion, will present the response
>n behalf of the family of the
former governor.
Lovill, who was born in 1843
ind died in 1925, became the
Irst chairman of Appalachians
Board of Trustees in 1903. He
continued in this capacity until
his death.
Lovill was co-author with
Dr. B. B. Dougherty of the bill
introduced in the General As
sembly to establish a state
institution of higher education
in northwestern North Carolina.
He had a varied career as far
mer, cowboy, Civil War cap
tain, lawyer, legislator, col
lector for the Internal Revenue
Service, Commissioner for In
dian Claims, Masonic leader
and educator.
The response for the Lovill
family will be presented by a
grandson, W. R. Lovill, Jr. of
Mountain Home, Term.
White 0 8 72-1944), a member
of the General Assembly, gave
invaluable support to legislation
which established Appalachian,
a native of Raleigh, he was
graduated from Wake Forest
College in 1891, thence he
attended law school at Wake
Forest. He served as Super
intendent of Schools in Frank
linton, later establishing a law
office in Louis burg where he
was associated with the late
Gov. T. W. Bickett.
In 1903, White joined the State
(Continued on page six)
In other parts of the United
States, some 78.4 percent are
car owners, and. in the South
Atlantic States, 77.5 percent.
Similarly, more homes are
equipped with washing machines
than was the case in 1960. Own
ership in the local area is now
listed at 88.2 percent.
Actually, a larger proportion
of homes have washing
machines than is indicated by
these ownership figures, since
many rental units are equipped
with them.
The same is true for air
conditioners. In more and more
rental units they are provided
as standard equipment.
Clothes dryers have also
come into more general use in
the area. The figures show a
rise of 105 percent since 1960.
As for television sets, there
has been a marked increase
in number in the period cover
ed by the survey. Some 81.3
percent of the households lo
cally now have one or more
sets, as compared with 72.0
percent previously.
Also reported, for the reg
ional area, were sharp in
creases in dishwashers and in
radio and phonographic units.
These and other high-priced
pieces of equipment, which help
make life easier or add to the
enjoyment of living, have been
coming within reach of a
growing number of local
families.