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VOL. LXXX—NO. 19
BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1967
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Watauga United
Fund Reaches
92.6% Of Quota
Carolinas United announces
that the Watauga County United
Fund has achieved 92.6 per
cent of its $19,000-plus goal.
Campaign Chairman Stanley
Harris Sr. says the figure is
some $1,100 short and urges
that pledges be fulfilled and
donations completed at the
earliest moment.
Contributions by Appalachian
State University faculty and em
ployees are reported to have
increased almost 300 per cent
over any previous year.
Boone To
Have Poll
Boone’s City Council an
nounced this week that they will
conduct a series of polls to
determine public opinion on
various problems facing the
town.
The first polls, “Tell It To
City Hall/* appears in this
issue.
In making the announcement,
Mayor Clyde Greene said that
the feature is something new
in Boone but has gained wide
favor in other parts of the state.
“It's time that all of our
governing bodies try to get back
to the people/* the Mayor said,
“and we believe these public
opinion polls willgive the people
of Boone an easy way to let
their voice be heard.”
Mayor Greene pointed out that
while the poll is directed pri
marily at Boone residents, the
City Council also will appreciate
opinions and comments from
County residents.
“Boone serves many citizens
from outside our'etty limits/*
he added, “and we are always
interested in comments from
our neighbors.**
WOOD HALL YOUNG
Avery Man May
Seek Seat Held
By BroyhiU
Wood Hall Young of Minne
apolis, Avery County, was in
Boone Thursday, feeling out
the political currents among
friends and acquaintances and
tells the Democrat there is a
possibility he will go into the
May primary for the Repub
lican nomination for the House
against Congressman James
BroyhiU.
He was defeated by Congress
man Whitener last year after he
had won the nomination over
Terry Wallace and Don Wirick
of Gaston in a second primary.
In the first primary he only
lacked 56 votes of having a
majority over the tWo.
Mr. Young says he still has
his eye on the House scat, but
that his final decision wiU be
withheld for the time being. He
says he feels he could represent
the district effectively. “Due to
my contacts with the masses of
the people,'* he said “I think I
am in a position to more effec
tively represent their wishes
. , . But whether or not I nai
for Congress, I will be on the
ticket next year for some
office," he added.
Mr. Young graduated from
Appalachian College in 1951 and
tea been in the lumber business
throughout his career. Pres
ently be is a dealer in and an
exporter of veneer logs.
* - AMI. to*
COUNTY'S MOST EXPENSIVE HEREFORD—There likely won’t beany argument to the statement
that T Perfect Domino, purchased last week at a production sale in Mooresville, came to home
soil for a bigger price than any before him. Owner Council Henson said he paid $2,175 for the
registered polled bull, whose grandsire is a full brother to Victor Domino 10, the bull Henson
is using now. The sale-was put on by Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Teeter and Henson said when he made
the deal, he didn’t know whether or not to come home. But Mrs. Henson took to the transaction
in fine spirits, it turned out. The cattleman said two females were purchased at the sale by Dean
Wilson of Vilas. The bull weighed in at 1,535 pounds at age 19 and a half months, Henson added.
(Staff photo)
Administrator Mental Health
Center To Speak To Chamber
Dr. Brooke R. Johnson will
speak to the regular monthly
meeting of the Chamber of Com
merce at noon Tuesday, Nov.
14, at the Daniel Boone Inn.
Ronnie Reese
Is Morehead
Candidate
Ronald (“Ronnie”) Lewis
Reese, a senior at Watauga High
School, has been named the 1968
candidate from Watauga County
for the Morehead Scholarship
to the University of North Car
olina at Chapel Hill.
Announcement was made last
week by John H.Councill, chair
man of the Watauga County
Selection Committee for
1967-68.
The Morehead Award, pro
vided by the John Motley More
head Foundation, amounts to
$1, 750, for each of four years
at the university in a study
leading to a baccalureate de
gree. Applications for the
scholarships were available to
all interested senior boys at
Watauga High School.
Selection by the County Com
mittee is based upon scholastic
ability, outstanding personal
qualities, good moral character
and physical vigor. As a can
didate from Watauga County,
Ronnie will appear for person
al interviews before the Dis
trict Committee in December.
Winners in district competi
tion will go before the Central
Selection Committee in Jan
uary.
Ronnie is the son of Dr.
and Mrs. Gene Reese of Boone,
he plans to enter the University
of North Carolina in September,
1968, to earn a baccalaureate
degree before entering the
School erf Dentistry.
Other candidates in the
1967-68 competition from Wa
tauga High School were Albert
Ray Moretz and Daniel (Danny)
Watkins.
The County Selection Com
mittee, who interviewed the
candidates Nov. 1, comprises
Mrs. Hadley Wilson, Mrs.
Charles Davant and Dr. J. B.
Hagaman Jr.
Veterans Office To
Be Closed Thursday
The Veteran’s Service Office
will be closed Thursday, Nov.
9, for a service officers’meet
ing in Winston-Salem. (The
office will reopen Friday morn
ing, according to officer Car
son McNeil.
Dr. Johnson is administra
tor of the New River Mental
Health Center, which has re
cently been substantially ex
panded by the addition of Wilkes
County to the facility whichfor
merly served Ashe, Alleghany
and Watauga counties.
This addition has made pos
sible program expansion, par
ticularly in the areas of
vocational rehabilitation and
alcoholism education. Arrange
ments have also been made for
the Center to share personnel
with Broughton Hospital, there
by making available additional
specialists in various areas.
Dr. Johnson was awarded the
Ph. D. degree in general ex
perimental psychology by the
University of Georgia and had
additional training in clinical
psychology at the University of
Tennessee. He interned at East
ern State Hospital in Knoxville,
Tenn.; was a counselor in the
Guidance Center of the Uni
versity erf Georgia, associate
professor erf psychology at Car
son Newman and clinical
psychologist at Morristown
Mental Health Center prior to
assuming his present position.
He also is a part-time
associate professor of psy
chology at Appalachian State
University.
Sears Has New
Manager For
Boone Branch
Sears Roebuck and Company
announces a new store manager
for the Boone branch.
Bud Meadows of Waynes
boro, Va.t comes here from
the Lexington (Va.) Sears Store.
He and his wife, Lula, have two
children, Greg, age 8; and
Tammie, 6. They reside on
Green Street and attend First
Baptist Church of Boone.
Community Awards Judging
Annual F arm-City Week
Dinner Set For Tonight
Dr. Randal],
Porterfield
Are Speakers
Representatives of the
County’s organized commun
ities, as well as industry, civic
clubs and businesses in Boone
will attend the annual Farm
City Week Dinner Thursday
night at Holiday Inn.
W. R. Richardson, extension
agent for Watauga , said 275
tickets had been sold by Tues
day for a banquet limited to
300 and that judging would be
completed that day to see
which communities will re
ceive the cash awards for ex
cellence.
Master of ceremonies will
be Dr. Robert Randall of Ap
palachian State University and
the featured speaker is to be
Dr. I. D. Porterfield, head of
the animal science department
at North Carolina State Uni
versity.
Part of the judging for com
munity awards of $300 was com
pleted in connection with the
County office, Richardson said,
and a delegation from the North
west N. C. Development Associ
ation was to finish it the first
of the week. The points they took
into account were the com
munity’s youth, increase in in
come , projects, organization
and home improvement.
Richardson, as chairman of
the Agricultural Workers Coun
cil, is to make the awards from
funds supplied by the United
Fund and Blue Ridge Electric
Membership Corporation.
First prize winner will re
ceive $75; three clubs will win
$50 apiece; and two will be pre
sented $37.50.
Judging the entering com
munities were Roy Hutchins,
Dobson, who is with the
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FIRST CLASS GROUP—The Girl Scouts of Cadette Troop 245 were promoted to First Class
rank in a special program Thursday at the First Baptist Church of Boone. The girls and their
leader, Mrs. J. E. Ray, were guests of the Boone Junior Woman’s Club in the adult assembly
room where Mrs. James Rhoades presented each girl "the highest award in the Cadette pro
gram.” They attained the distinction in three hard working years. Troop members are (from
left) Carol McNeely, Shirley Ray, Beth Dixon, and Mrs. Ray; Helen Robinson, Suzanne Miller,
Kim Carpenter, Debbie Rhoades, Mary Ellis Gibson and Dee Wilson. (Staff photo)
Presidents of the three outstanding Extension Homemakers Clubs pose with Council President
Mrs. Howard Dancy, second from right. They are (from left) Mrs. Bennie Baird, president of the
first place Brushy Fork Club; Mrs. Robert Ward of the second-place Young Homemakers Clii>;
and Mrs. Rayborn Taylor, leader of the Appalachian Club, which was third-place winner in the
achievement competition. (Staff photo)
Extension Homemakers Have
Annual Achievement Event
Mayor’s Proclamation
WHEREAS the prosperity and well-being of this community
are dependent upon cooperation between all people of our society:
rural and urban, and
WHEREAS the complexities of individual problems and the
divergence of activities make it easy to forget our inderdepen
dence, and
WHEREAS each group must understand the other if our Ameri
can way of life is to endure, and
WHEREAS Farm-City Week provides an unparalleled oppor
tunity for farm and city people to become re-acquainted,
I, THEREFORE, Clyde R. Greene, Mayor of the City of
Boone, do hereby proclaim the period of November 17 through
November 23 to be Farm-City Week; and I do further call upon
all citizens of this community to participate to the limit of their
capability in the observance of a successful Farm-City Week in
Boone.
Done at the City of Boone, this Nov. 6, 1967.
CLYDE R. GREENE
MAYOR
October Parkway
Travel Up 330,000
Three hundred and thirty
thousand more people visited
the Blue Ridge Parkway in Oc
tober than in October 1966,
estimates prepared by the Na
tional Park Service indicate.
Following is the tabulation of
visitors during the month of
autumn color from the four
Parkway districts, the first
figure in each case being the
visitors for October 1967, the
last October 1966:
James River, Va. 241, 528;
169, 439.
Rocky Knob, Va.; 296, 387;
284, 942.
Bluffs, N. C.; 213, 834; 214,
510.
Asheville, N. C.; 678, 311; 430,
214.
Totals; 1,430,060; 1,099,105.
Visitors for the calendar year
1967 to date were 8,083,006;
Calendar year 1966 to date
7,476,682.
Calendar year 1967 compared
with calendar year 1966 in
crease 8%.
October this year as com
pared with October 1966, in
crease 30%.
The Watauga County Exten
sion Homemakers held their
Annual Achievement Program
Nov. 2 at the First Baptist
Church Fellowship Hall. Mrs.
Howard Dancy, Council presi
dent, presided at the event which
had an attendance of 125.
Special music was presented
by Mrs. A. E. Vannoy of the
Hodges Gap Club and Mrs. Ivan
Church, members of the Trio
Club.
Mrs. Asa Reese member of
the Beaver Dam Club gave the
devotion on the development of
one’s talents.
The program, Fashions by
Homemakers, was presented by
members of each Extension
Homemakers Club. The fashion
show was narrated by Mrs.
Doris Storie, Associate Home
Economics Extension Agent.
Participating in the fashion
show were Mrs. Robert Ward,
Tammy, Terry and Robin Ward;
Ben and Ann Fox; Mrs. John
Johnson, David, Susan, Sandra,
and Sharon Jackson; Mrs. Hugh
McKinney; Mrs. Blain Stout;
Mrs. Edgar Gill andSally;Mrs.
W. R. Johnson and April John
son and Mrs. Richard Swain, all
from the Young Homemakers
Extension Homemakers Club.
Mrs. Asa Reese, Mrs. Dean
Reese and Mrs. Mack Rominger
from the Beaver Dam Club.
Mrs. Johnson Christenbury,
Mrs. Henry Backman and Mrs.
Floyd Ayers, Miss Betty Abele
and Mrs. Will Cook of Valle
C rue is Extension Homemakers
Club.
Mrs. J. C. Yoder, Mrs. E.
Ford King, Mrs. Wiley Smith,
Mrs. Ed Qualls, Mrs. Nancy
Rhymer, Amy and Rebecca
Rhymer, Mrs. 0. K. Richardson,
Mrs. Jake Caudill and Mrs.
Ralph Greer of Boone Extension
(continued on page two)
“Burn Demonstrators, Not Draft Cards”
Anti-War Group Stamped Out By Chanting ASU Students
Shouts of “burn demon
strators, not draft cards*’
marked the departure of seven
war protestors from Appa
lachian State University Fri
day.
The seven college-age per
sons, who said they were from
Nashville, Term., identified
themselves as members of the
Southern Student Organizing
Committee and said they were
on a tour to communicate their
ideas on peace to college and
university students in the South.
After their anti-war demon
stration was stamped out by
chanting, singing ASU students,
the group had a discussion with
Dr. O. K. Webb, Dean of Stu
dent Affiars, and left campus
voluntarily.
The five men and two women
received the brunt of North
Carolina’s Speaker Ban Law
which blocked a lecture and
film they had planned for a
campus showing that night.
Dean Webb told the protes
tors they were in violation ot
two provisions of the Speaker
Ban: Their appearance on cam
pus had not been approved by
Dr. W. H. Plemmons, univer
sity president; and they had no
campus sponsor.
However, Webb granted them
permission to set up a table in
the Plemmons College Center
for disbursing literature and
talking to students. Their anti
Vietnam War display was set
up in the lobby of the W. H.
Plemmons Student Center.
When they began passing out
material which denounced U. S.
involvement in the War, several
hundred ASU students began
screaming at the SSOC mem
bers grabbing all their litera
ture and taking the table.
The Dean said that when he
arrived, students had sur
rounded the seven, whom he es
corted to his office. Asked
whether they could communi
cate to the crowd outside his
office, Dr. Webb said they
answered “no/* and “I told
them that the solution was for
them to leave voluntarily and
possibly come back later.”
As the “peaceniks” left the
building, they passed through a
Urge crowd of jeering students.
After chanting at the visitor
students began singing “God
Bless America.’*
Cries of “Throw them oig,
throw them out!” echoed across
the mountaineer campus before
the war protestors left
before the war protestors left
the student center. As they
entered their car outside, the
taishaven, shabbily-dressed
demonstrators were furnished
with loud directions toward local
barber shops.