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BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1967
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In Response—Clyde R. Hoey Jr. of Canton speaks on behalf of
his family during dedication ceremonies which named ASU
residence hall in honor of his father.
Historical Group
Names Officers
The directors of the Southern
Appalachian Historical Associ
ation Monday re-elected Dr.
I. G. Greer of Chapel Hill as
its president.
The full slate of nominees
was accepted by a vote of ac
clamation posed by J. E. Hoi
Career Night
Draws Notice
Of 35 Agencies
Wednesday, Nov. 1, will be
Career Night at Watauga High
School.
Approximately 35 schools and
agencies have accepted invita
tions to participate in the pro
gram to help juniors and seniors
with plans for post-high school
training or employment.
Schools represented at Car
eer Night will be business col
leges, beauty schools, technical
institutes, community colleges
and a few other vocational train
ing schools. Industry will be
represented by speakers from
Blue Ridge Shoe Company, Ver
mont-American, IRC and Sha
dowline. The armed forces will
be represented by recruiting of
ficers from the Army, Navy, Air
Force and Marines.
Approximately 300 juniors
and seniors plan to attend Ca
reer Night. Parents are invited
to attend with their sons and
daughters. The Career Night
programs, planned by the high
school Guidance Department,
will begin at 7 p. m.
FREEMAN ON SCHOOL LUNCH
Secretary of Agriculture Or
ville L. Freeman has called for
a nationwide drive to extend
the government-sponsored
school lunch program to 30 mil
lion children not now being
served.
shouser Jr. Executive vice
president is Dr. Ray Law
rence; vice-president, Alfred
Adams; secretary, Mrs. Ear
leen Pritchett; treasurer, Stan
ley Harris; and legal represent
ative, Wade E. Brown.
Nominations were made by
Stanley Harris Sr. (chairman)
and Mrs. B. W. Stallings and
O. K. Richardson.
Presiding in the absence of
Dr. Lawrence, Adams sug
gested that the officers meet
at noon Monday at the Chalet
Restaurant to name the com
mittee chairmen who will make
up the executive committee.
Holshouser said he had re
ceived an inquiry from the as
sistant State Auditor about the
Association’s rent debt to the
Town of Boone. Rent of $1,000
a year is to be paid to the Town
for the lease of municipal pro
perty on which the Association’s
historical outdoor drama is
staged summerly.
Holshouser said he under
stood that the Association is
$7,500 behind in its payments
and suggested depositing rent
due for this year and sending
along installments as the money
is available.
Herman W. Wilcox, manager
of the drama, said he had been
waiting to see about the pro
posed canteen-rehearsal hall,
which would cost$8,000or$10,
000. He said he had not under
stood that a lease agreement
between the Association and the
Town existed.
Holshouser said that when the
property was sold to the town,
the lessors were responsible to
the new owner. Mrs. Pritchett
said the matter must be cleared
up, if the Association expects
to request a State ap
propriation. The matter was
held up for further consid
eration.
603 More In
Extension Program
4,942 Students Are Enrolled
In University’s Fall Quarter
Optimist
Carnival
Tuesday
Drawings for free door prizes
will be staged every half hour
during the Boone Optimist
Club's annual Halloween Carn
ival Tuesday, Cct. 31.
The Carnival will begin at
7 pjn. in the burley warehouse
across from the bus terminal.
The event is being put on for
Watauga children and no ad
mission fee will be charged.
Among prizes will be a new
bike and a transistor radio.
In addition, the Optimists will
conduct a drawing for a pony.
Music will be provided by at
least two bands and a dance
contest is planned.
Entertainment booths will
feature bingo and other games
and a cake walk will be held
during the Halloween Night Fes
tivities.
Watauga Hi
Homecoming
This Week
Graduates ofthe 1966and 1967
classes at Watauga High School
are invited to the school's home
coming events on Friday and
Saturday, Oct. 27 and 28.
The homecoming game with
Valdese will be played in Con
rad Stadium on Friday night.
On Saturday night the student
council will sponsor a dance for
graduates and students in the
ligh school student lobby.
The Homecoming queen and
ler court were elected by the
student body early this week.
Members ofthe court are fresh
nan, Kathy Aldridge; sopho
more, Jane Ragan; junior,
Dorothy Hodges; and seniors,
Margaret Blanton and Jane
Dougherty.
One of the two senior girls
-vill be crowned queen during
lomecoming festivities.
2 Laundries Are
Robbed Sunday
Two Boone laundries were
robbed of an undisclosed amount
of change sometime Sun
day night.
Boone Police Chief Red Lyons
said C. J. Hayes’ discovery
Monday morning of the robbery
at his Scenic Laundry, Blowing
Rock Road, prompted a check
on the Coin-Op at the corner
of Hardin and King Street. The
change box there also had
been robbed.
Lyons said he judged from
the way they operated, that the
thieves were professionals. He
said he has alerted law agencies
in Eastern Tennessee.
Special Watauga Livestock
Market Sales Bring $633,418
The Watauga County Live
stock Market sold 1,356 steers
In the special steer sale Oct.
19 for $230,313 or an average
<* $169.85 per head or $23.95
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L. E. Tuckwiller said this
brings the total number of cattle
sold in special sales to 3,940
for total receipts of $633,418.
94. "In addition to the special
sales, the market has been
handling approximately 500
cattle per week in their regular
weekly sales,” he said.
Of the special sale Oct. 19,
the County Extension Chairman
said 63 per cent of the steers
graded good or better. Choice
steers sold at an average of
$25.10 cwt. and good steers
averaged $23.93 per cwt.
He noted that choice steers
averaged $193 per head and
good steers $173 per head (or
$20 less than choice); and com
mons were $142 per head (or
$19 under medium).
Choice steers averaged
weighing approximately 40
pounds more per head than good
steers. Good steers averaged
about 40 pounds more per head
than medium steers.
BOWIE HALL
HOEY HALL
LOVILL HALL
WHITE HALL
Education Pioneers Honored At
Dedication University Building s
Four men who served as
pioneers in the birth and early
life of the educational insti
tution which has grown to be
come Appalachian State Univer
sity, were praised and honored
Sunday as four new residence
halls were dedicated in res
pect to their accomplishments.
Thomas Contee Bowie,
Clyde Roark Hoey, Edward
Francis Lovill and Robert
State Treasurer Edwin Gill praised and lauded the achievements
at four “fathers** of Appalachian State University.
Bruce White were eulogized as
persons symbolic of all great
individuals who have built such
institutions.
The men, all deceased, were
described as the true “fathers”
of Appalachian by State Trea
surer Edwin Gill, who was the
speaker for the dedication cere
monies attended by several
members of the Bowie, Hoey,
Lovill and White families.
“These fine buildings are
being named in memory of the
four men who, in different ways
and in different times, aided
Appalachian so greatly,” said
Gill. “Each served inanindivi
dual and unique manner. We are
united in our memories by their
integrity, and by their loyalty
to Appalachian.
“They were men who denied
the need of labels such as lib
erals, conservatives, radicals,
and reactionaries,” Gill con
tinued. “They possessed the
common sense, the knowledge,
and the leadership which is
needed so much in these days
and times.”
Presenting responses for the
families were Carter L. Redd
Jr., of Columbia, S. C.(Bowie’s
grandson); Clyde R. Hoey Jr.,
of Canton; Mrs. Joan Lovill
Tolbert of Misenheimer
(Lovill’s great-granddaughter);
and R. Bruce White Jr., of
Durham.
“If my father could be here
today, he would be most pleased
at the amazing growth of Ap
palachian,” Hoey stated.
“Nothing would have pleased
my father more than this dedi
cation,” White said. “It pro
vides all of us with great pride,
and a sense of belonging and
being.”
Redd and Mrs. Tolbert, on
behalf of the Bowie and Lovill
families, expressed their ap
preciation “to all those per
sons who have bestowed this
honor on our family.”
Dr. W. H. Plemmons, ASU
President, said that “we pledge
our efforts in continuing the
great contribution of these four
men. As long as there is an
Appalachian, there will be
Bowie, Hoey, Lovill and White
buildings on its campus.
Following the program, which
was attended by several mem
bers of the university’s Board
of Trustees and friends of the
honored men, the families
toured the high-rise residence
halls which house a total of
1,100 students.
Bowie Hall for men is a nine
story structure. Hoey, Lovill
and White Halls are sister
buildings either seven or eight
stories in height. The four
buildings, constructed at a total
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Nominate 23
For Inclusion
In Who’s Who
The official fall quarter en
rollment at Appalachian State
University has been set at 4,942
students, not including 603 stu
dents enrolled in the extension
program.
The official total consists of
4,403 undergraduates (1,542
freshmen, 957 sophomores, 1,
123 juniors and 743 seniors),
254 graduate students and 285
students taking only Saturday
classes.
The full-time on-campus fig
ure of 4,942 is 531 more than
the previous record high es
tablished a year ago when 4,511
enrolled.
Total enrollment figures for
the past five years are: 1963,
3,4281 1964, 3,765; 1966, 4,993;
and 1967, 5,543.
Twenty-three Appalachian
State University students have
been nominated for inclusion in
the 1967-68 edition of “Who's
Who in American Universities
and Colleges/’
Selected for consideration by
editors of the book were:
Harold Clyde Doster, Belinda
Carol Horne and Patricia Ten
nent of Charlotte; Kenneth Ray
Treadway and Michael Grant
Yancey, Valdese; Douglas Mi
chael Allen of Travis AFB,
Calif.; Dan Stephan Camp of
Lawndale, George Douglas Car
roll erf Roseboro; Janice Marie
Anderson of Lenoir; Donna
Jeannie Austin of Locust;
James Thomas Corne of Dun
can, S. C.; Sherrill Dion Cur
tis of Asheboro; Mary Helen
Goforth of Kings Mountain;
Jerry Delbert Myers of North
Wilkesboro; William Gary Og
burn of King; Don R. Patrick of
Shelby; James Michael Pendle
ton of Clover, S. C.; Clifford
Kenney Rorrer of Leaksville;
Eddie Herman Schoolfield of
Gibsonville; Fredrick P. Sharpe
of Burlington, Richard Lee
Shepherd erf Lansing, Linda
Elaine Stoner of Concord; and
Carolyn Sue Whitener of Union,
S. C.
Controller
Is Named For
Boone IRC Plant
Philadelphia - IRC, Inc. has
announced the appointment of
James A. Daily to the post
of Controller of the Boone, N.
C., Division.
He was formerly a financi
al analyst at IRC headquarters
in Philadelphia.
A graduate of Villanova Uni
versity, where he received a
B. S. in accounting, Daily was
affiliated with Hoover Ball &
Bearing Company for six years
prior to joining IRC in May,
1966. He served as assistant
controller of Hoover’s George
town (KyJ plant and as as
sistant plant manager of the
High Point (N. C.) plant.
Daily and his wife, Nancy,
reside with their infant dai^h
ter, Heather Marie, at 250 Iven
Ave., St. Davids, Pa. They will
relocate soon in the Boone area.
Teachers Of Northwest
Meet In Boone Friday
High school and elementary
school teachers from through
out northwestern North Caro
lina will gather here Friday
and Saturday for a Conference
on Teaching Creativity.
Dr. E. Piul Torrence, one
of the nation’s foremost ex
ft£
perts on teaching creativity,
will be the featured speaker
for general sessions slated
for 8 p.m. Friday and 9 ajn.
Saturday, Dr. Torrance Chair
man and professor cf education
psychology at the University
Georgia, has woo interna
ttonti recognition (or Ms
•todies oi the psychology Of
stress and of creative thinUng
Group sesaions in eight dif
ferent categories will be hsid
at 10 ajn. and at UM p «•
on Saturday.
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