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Stickley To
Speak At Boone
G.O.P. Dinner
Watauga County Republicans
will gather at the Holiday Im
in Boone next Monday November
20 at a 6:30 dinner to meet and
hear John L. Stickley, Repub
lican candidate for Governor
of North Carolina.
Ralph G. Greene, Watauga
Stickley manager, makes the
announcement. Mr. Greene had
managed the DraftStickley cam
paign here.
Mr. Greene announces the
following precinct organization:
Bald Mountain, Mrs. Lesley
Norris; Beaver Dam, Ray Stout;
Blowing Rock, Ray Holder; Blue
Ridge, Mrs. Robert J. Coffey;
Boone, Dr. Jack Lawrence;
Brushy Fork, Hiram Brooks;
Cove Creek, Lewis Burkett; Hk,
Mrs. Christine Carroll; Laurel
Creek, Mrs. Albert Wilson;
Meat Camp No. 1, Mrs. Arlie
Watson; Meat Camp No. 2 Wade
Moretz; New River, Ray Hen
derson; North Fork, Mrs. Ella
V. Thomas; Shawnee haw, Hade
Smith; Stony Fork, Hooper
Greene; Watauga, Johnny Town
send.
Co-chairman for Watauga is
Mrs. Hobart (Jewel) Watson of
Vilas. Others are being enlisted
and further announcements of
their names aid designation will
be made.
Many reservations have been
made for the dinner. Those
wanting tickets should con
tact the township representative
or call 264-3656 or 267-2010
at once as facilities are limited.
Mr. Greene said several had
expressed a desire for a
“Democrats for Stickley"
organization, but he didn’t know
whetiier ■ ■movatnaat
in the makir^. S*
JOHN L. STICKLEY
Watauga Draft Board
Reopens Office Here
The Watauga County Draft
Board has reopened. Mrs. Eve
lyn Coffey, clerk of the Board,
returned to work Monday,
having recently undergone
major surgery.
CHRISTMAS TREE
From Roadside To Raleigh
Seemingly caught in mid-air, this 3,000 - pound, perfectly-shaped pine is held from behind by a
claw-like gismo attached to a truck owned by the Blue Ridge Electric Membership Corporation.
It all had to do with the N. C. Christmas Tree Growers Association who donated the tree to be
anchored Monday atop the 15-story Branch Banking & Trust Company Building in Raleigh. It
-took Watauga .County Extension Agents and Fred Whitfield, N. C. State University Extension
specialist, quite a while to find a tree so beautifully shaped. As Whitefield explained, most of
them grow in close quarters with other trees, so that limbs on one side may be retarded in
growth. But when they found it on Con Yates property near Deep Gap, they made arrai^ements
right away. Whitefield said Dexter Hampton cut down the 50-foot tree, which was held aloof
by the BREMCO truck. Then linemen (inset) went about the business of stringing cable from the
sides of the road for letting the pine down onto the bed of a transport sent from Raleigh. The work
was done Thursday. In Raleigh, the tree was hoisted atop the BB & T Building by a cargo heli
copter while workmen bn the roof struggled toanchor it in an oil drum supported by wooden two
by-fours which tore loose under the swaying ton-and-a-half tree. Finally it was in place_and
Raleigh’s Christmas will be prettier. (Staff photo)
1,377 Wataugans Employed
In Service Industries
What does it take these days,
in the way of manpower and
payroll, just to distribute to
consumers in Watauga County
their annual requirements of
food, clothing, drugs and other
commodities?
What does it take to pro
vide them with the various other
services they want?
According to a new study,
conducted by the U. S. Cen
sus Bureau, more workers and
bigger payrolls then ever be
fore are necessary.
In many instances, in fact,
more people are needed to dis
tribute consumer goods and to
service equipment than are
needed for their manufacture
and production.
The study shows that, in Wa
tauga County, a total of 1,377
men and women were employed
during the past year in the ser
vice industries.
All in all, the figures indi
cate that no less than 49.5 per
cent of the local working popu
lation covered in the survey are
engaged solely in providing ser
vices.
This compares with 42.9 per
cent so-employed in the State
CLOTHING DRIVE UNDERWAY—Early Sunday afternoon, members of the Boone Junior Woman's
Club 0-r Mrs. Jim Rhoades, Mrs. Bradford Kinney and Mrs. Robert Banzhaf) begin sorting
donations to their annual clothing closet. The club collects summer and winter clothiig for all
ages, even bedding. They will be assisted by the County schools in distributing clothing to needy
school children. Mrs. Rhoades says one school has listed three to four students per grade so
that greater response to the project is needed than ever before. Adult clothiig can be used for
high school students. In the past. Girl Scout Troop 235 has assisted in replaced buttons and zip
pers and doing general mending. The Worthwhile Woman’s Club has helped with the sewing machine
work. The campaign will last three or four more weeks and contrlbutiors may contact Mrs.
Rhoades, Mrs. Ruffner Campbell or Mrs. Joe Millar. (Staff photo)
of North Carolina.
Included under “services”
are health, educational, legal
and accounting work, among
others, as well as automobile
repairs, retail selling and per
sonal services to individuals.
Also included are motion pic
ture theatres, other amuse
ment and recreational places,
transportation facilities and
hotels. Excluded are govern
mental, agricultural and domes
tic services.
The payroll locally to sup
port the growing number of
service workers covered in
the report also reached new
heights in the past year, a total
of $4,040,000.
The net result is that these
workers are now receivir^some
46.9 percent of the payroll of
the entire local working popula
tion listed in the study.
Partly responsible for the
rapid growth of employment in
the service industries, it is
explained, is the fact that they
have been unable to mechanize
in the way that manufacture
and agriculture have done.
At the same time, witb the ris
ing standard of live that pre
vails in most areas, there is
growing demand for services
of all kinds and, therefore,
greater opportunities for em
ployment in this sector of the
economy.
Gty Industrial
Council Formed
A city industrial council has
been formed under the auspices
cf the Boone Parks & Recreation
Commission.
Dennis Greene, a member of
the Commission, will work with
the council to determine rules,
schedules, tournaments, age
(Continued on page six)
Noted Judges Secured
13 Lovelies To Compete
In Beauty Pageant
Rep. Whitener
To Be Speaker
At Party Rally
Cor^ressman Basil Lee
Whitener will speak at a Dem
ocratic Rally Friday night at
Boone.
He will appear on a pro
gram sponsored by the Wa
tauga County Democratic Ex
ecutive Committee and the
Young Democrats Club and
scheduled to begin at 7 at the
Holiday Inn.
The Tenth District Congress
man was elected to the 85th Con
gress Nov. 6, 1956; and re
elected in 1960, 1962, 1964 and
1966. He was admitted to the
North Carolina Bar Associa
tion in 1937 and immediately
entered general practice in
Gastonia.
He is a member of the
American Bar Association, the
N. C. Bar Association and the
Gaston County Bar Association,
of which he was president in
1950. He has served on the
General Statutes Commission,
the Commission to Study Im
provement of Administration of
Justice and the Judicial Con
ference of the Fourth Federal
Judicial Circuit.
From 1946-47, he was pres
ident of the Young Democratic
Clubs of North Carolina.
Whitener served as a
gunnery officer in the U. S.
Navy in World War n.
He Is a member of Kiwanis
Club; Elks, American Legion,
Forty and Eight; V. F. W.:
is a 32nd degree Mason; York
and Scottish Rite Bodies; and
Shriner . At the national con
vention, 1966, of the Patriotic
Order Sons of America, he was
awarded the National Merit Ma
dallion.
In Gastonia, he is a member
of the official board of the
First Methodist Church. He is
married to Harriet Prescilla
Morgan of Union, S. C., Sept
ember 26. Their children are
John Morgan, Laura Lee, Basil
Lee (Jr.) and Barrett Simpson
Whitener, all of Gastonia.
HON. BASIL WHITENER
Local Survey
On Employment
Set Next Week
During the week that the Cen
sus Bureau’s population clock
ticks off the arrival of the 200
millionth American, census
workers will be taking an em
ployment survey here, Director
Joseph R» Norwood of the
Bureau’s regional office in
Charlotte announced today.
Interviewers will visit local
residents Nov. 20.25 to ask
about kind of jobs, hours work
ed, time off, and job-hunting
activities, the regional director
said. The data accumulated will
be used by the Department of
Labor in updating national fig
ures on employment and un
smployment. The Census
Bureau acts as fact-gathering
■gent (or the Labor Depart
Pretty Pat Mozingo, reigning Miss Watauga who is seen here in
ASU*g homecoming parade, wiH crown her successor this week
end. (Staff photo)
Health Council
To Meet Needs
Watauga county residents,
members of the Board of Di
rectors of the newly formed
Blue Ridge Health Council, have
accepted key assignments in
order to enable the group to
move ahead in providing
necessary health services in
the four county area of Avery,
Savings & Loan
Promotes Smith
Paul J. Smith was promoted
to the position of assistant
secretary-treasurer of the Wa
tauga Savings & Loan Asso
ciation by the Board of Direc
tors Monday night.
Mr. Smith has been with the
Association since April 1963,
has been a member of the board
since January 1965 and assist
ant treasurer since 1964. Be
fore coming to Boone he had been
a senior sales representative
for the Burroughs Corporation.
Mr. Smith is a son of Mrs.
John O. Smith and the late Mr.
Smith of the Baton community
in Caldwell county. He grad
uated from Appalachian State
University in 1957 with a degree
in business education.
He is married to the former
Marie Cook of Lenoir and they
have two children, Jennifer and
Gregory. They reside on Pop
lar Hill. They are Methodists.
PAUL J. SMITH
Mitchell, Yancey and Watauga.
At the first meeting of the
interim Board of Directors held
November 9th in Boone, the
matters of the final draft of the
articles erf incorporation, the
planning proposal and budget,
and institutional services were
assigned to Joe Hartley of
Boone, the Rev. George Abele
of Valle Crucis, and Mrs. Jack
Groce of Watauga County Hos
pital, respectively.
Members of the Board from
the other counties, Clifford Ald
ridge, Dr. H. C. Evans and Law
son Tate, M. D. of Avery County;
the Rev. Ross Baley, Mrs. Hugh
Dobbin and J. T. McRae, M.C.,
of Spruce Pine; and Mrs. W. A.
Y. Sargent, Mrs. Ernest Briggs,
and Oscar Deyton of Burnsville
agreed to be concerned with
such functions as medical ad
visory committee and profess
ional relationships, coordin
ation, county commission and
Board of Health relationships,
health programs, health fair,
voluntary agencies, public re
lations and training, hospital
studies and home health care.
Elmer Johnson, assistant di
rector of the State Compre
hensive Health Planning office
met with the group and outlined
the suggested procedures for
meeting the requirements of
Public Law 89-749, comprehen
sive area-wide health plannir^
act and encouraged the council
to proceed along the lines al
ready established.
The Board will meet Novem
ber 30th in Spruce Pine and
will hear reports preparatory to
final action on the planning pro
posal and budget, the final draft
o# the articles of incorporation
and other initial plans.
GIFT OF DIME REPAID
Wilcox, Ariz.—NedBeebsdid
not forget the wonderful feel
ing he had when a dime was
handed to him 60 years ago in
an orphanage. Beebs, now 72,
sent a check for $25,000 to the
Mountain State Orphans Home
in Montana with these words,
"A gift of appreciation.**
Annual Event
Expected To
Be Best Yet
BY RACHEL RIVERS
The Boone Jaycees will hold
forth Saturday night with
another of their astounding
beauty pageants.
And there’s nothing missing
about the Misses who’ll be on
hand. Aside from 13 lovely con
testants (elsewhere in this
issue), Miss Ashe County, Miss
Lenoir, Miss Newton-Conover
and Miss Asheville will be there.
It will get underway at 7:30
in the auditorium of the Appa
lachian Elementary School,
scene of the 1966 pageant which
was held in December. Publicity
chairman Louis Gaston says
although last year’s presenta
tion had a timely winter wonder
land theme, this year’s will be
strictly entertainment.
And looking on from the
judge’s gallery will be men and
women so outstanding that
there’s no doubt the Jaycees al
ready have outdone themselves
in stressing quality.
Col. Mercer Lee Price, who
has judged 163 pageants, has
been on the panel for the Miss
N. C. Pageant, Rhododendron
and Apple Queens and the
Strawberry Festival. He is a
world traveler, financier,
author, philanthropist and civic
leader. Since retiring 14 years
ago, having been as assistant
clerk of court at age 18 and
having served as a volunteer
with the French Army in World
War n, the Colonel has made a
profession of giving away
money,
juage jerry »aii otcnariotte
is credited with starting Maria
Beal Fletcher on her way to the
Miss America title. He is a
professional entertainer and has
done outstanding work for the
March of Dimes.
The three other judges also
are from Charlotte.
Mrs. Joyce Summney, direc
tor of a charm-beauty school,
is a civic leader, fashion com
mentator and member of Char
lotte’s Opera Association. She
groomed and chaperoned
Georgia Pierce, 1966 national
Maid of Cotton, and Nanette
Minor, Miss Charlotte and Miss
North Carolina in 1967.
A judge of Domestic Rela
tions and Juvenile Court, the
Hon. Willard I. Gatling also is
a veteran beauty judge, having
visited pageants in Virginia,
the Carolinas and Tennessee.
He is past president of thr
Charlotte Kiwanis.
An accountant for Tar Heel
Sash and Door Company, Mrs.
Alice Downing is a former dance
instructor and choreographer.
She’s also a former member of
the Carolina Girls, a dance com
pany.
Tickets will be sold at the
door or may be bought at Kir*j
Street Pharmacy, Carolina
Pharmacy or Watauga Savings
& Loan Association.
Burley Sales
Start Nov. 28
Lexington, Ky.—The Burley
Sales Committee has cotflrmed
Nov. 28 for the opening of to
bacco auctions In the eight
state belt.
The committee said the Nov.
28 opening would permitorderly
marketing tor all segments of
the burley industry,
The committee earlier heard
requests to delay the nmrkat
because of the slow paceonflua
cured markets In the South.
Those who wanted a later
opening expressed concern
there might be a ahortage of
buyers sod graders, hurthw
burley prices,