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PERCHED HIGH ABOVE the sidewalk lamp post, a Christmas star beams brightly. The beacon is
part of the city’s decorations, according to Boone Post Office officials. This is the second year
the star has been placed there. (Staff photo)
New Crafts Cooperative
Being Formed In Region
Area craftsmen who have been
selling through the WAMY
Crafts program voted Dec. 4 in
Newland to form a new and in
dependent crafts cooperative to
be known as “Blue Ridge
Hearthside Crafts, Inc.”
The purpose of the new crafts
association will be to assist
craftsmen in buying raw ma
terials, producing crafts, and
selling the finished products.
Legally, the group will be a
mutual association, which will
Elementary Choruses
To Give Yule Program
a program of L hristmas
music will be given by the two
Mixed Choruses at Appalachian
Elementary School Friday, Dec.
15.
Performances will be pre
sented in the school auditorium
at 10 a. m. and at 2 p. m. Both
programs are open to the public,
with parents of participating
students especially invited to
W. H. S.
Assists
Needy
Students at Watauga High
School this week are busily en
gaged in putting together Oper
ation Christmas Spirit.
Toys and food are being
amassed and Friday will be
taken to the Boone Worthwhile
Women's Club House where they
will become part of the W. W.
C.’s annual Empty Stocking
Fund.
Each of the 39 homerooms is
responsible for collecting a box
and students are studying for
examinations, which this year
come before the Dec. 21 recess
for Christmas.
attend.
One hundred sixty students
are members of the two
choruses, organized this year.
Selected from grades five
through eight, requirements
for membership are good
citizenship, musical ability and
acceptable classroom work.
Student piano accompanists
for the program are Kathy Cot
trell, grade five; Lowell Fur
man, grade six; and Linda Sher
rill, Janie Ray, Kathy Bos worth,
Geiselle Isley, grade eight. The
groups are directed by Mrs.
Gaynelle Wilson.
The programs will include
both sacred and secular music.
sell capital stock and operate
on a nonprofit basis.
The decision to incorporate
was made by 25 craftsmen
representing Watauga, Avery,
Mitchell and Yancey. About 125
craftsmen from the four
counties have participated in
organizational meetings over
the past eight months. It is ex
pected that the Articles of In
corporation will be filed in
Raleigh before the first of the
year.
Officers elected at the meet
ing were Mrs. Carrie Reese of
Watauga County, secretary; and
Mrs. Dorothy Brewer of Avery
county, treasurer.
Marketing Specialist Ruffin
Tucker, who has been advising
the craftsmen in the formation
of the association, listed several
advantages the organization will
offer:
1. It will have enough fin
ancing to buy raw materials
at bulk prices for all member
craftsmen.
2. The establishment of the
trade name, “Blue Ridge
Hearthside Crafts,” will re
sult in better prices and quick
er national recognition for the
(Continued on page two)
First National Bank Wins
In Club Christmas Contest
The First National Bank took first place in the Worthwhile
Woman’s Club’s Keep Christ in Christmas contest.
Mrs. Ruby Weston, project chairman, said 22 businesses
were entered when judges made the rounds Friday mornir^.
Entrants used religious themes, which were considered for
their religious significance and artistic effects.
Second place winner was Pat's Beauty Salon and Boone
Insurance Agency was third.
The Reverends C. 0. Vance, Todd Ferneyhough and J. K.
Parker Jr. and Mrs. Jerry Coe judged the community contest
and awarded honorable mention to five others: The Northwestern
Bank, Linzy’s Hobby crafts, McGuire's Beauty Salon, Mayflower
Beauty Shoppe and Ruby’s Beauty Salon.
Northwest Development Association
Watauga Wins Agriculture
Division In Area Contests
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Matney Given
Community
Award Of $75
Watauga County has won the
$100 agriculture division of the
Northwest N. C. Development
Association contest. Matney
Community was given $75 and
honorable mention in the com
munity development category.
The County Extension Office
submitted the following report
in competing with 10 other
counties for the prize:
The most outstanding ac
complishment in the agricul
tural program in Watauga
County in 1967 was the organ
izational work and actual con
struction of the Watauga Coun
ty Livestock Market, Inc.This
modern livestock auction barn,
complete with heated sale ring
and auction space, covers an
area 310 feet long and 120
feet wide with 66 large live
stock pens complete with wa
tering troughs and hay feeding
racks. The facilities will han
dle approximately 2,000 cal
ves under r 'of and lot space
outside is available for dou
ble this number and could be
expanded even more.
This is a home owned en
terprize as approximately 130
livestock producers of Wa
tauga County and few from out
side the county, purchased
stock and helped plan and
build the physical plant. This
was all accomplished between
January 1, 1967 and Septem
ber 1, 1967 when the first
sale was held in the new
facilities.
me weetuy aucuon sales
held on Friday of each week
has handled more than 6000
cattle or an average of over
500 per week. Three special
sales have been held to date,
in which 3940 cattle were sold
and one purebred Hereford
sale was held in October.
One section of the sale barn
is especially designed for the
use of registered cattle breed
ers to display and parade their
cattle at halter.
During 1967 the North State
Canning Company enlarged
their kraut plant by construct
ing a new building 100 by 200
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DR. JOHN G. BARDEN
Dr. John Barden
Gets Emeritus
Status At ASU
The Board of Trustees of
Appalachian State University
lias granted emeritus status to
Dr. John G. Barden, who re
tired last spring after 23 years
of service to the institution.
Dr. Barden, a native of Golds
boro, came to Appalachian in
1944 from Presbyterian Col
lege where he had been chair
man of the department of edu
cation. Previously he had taught
in various North Carolinia cities
in addition to serving for 10
years as director of education
for the Methodist Mission in
the Belgian Congo.
The new Professor Emeritus
cf Education at ASU received
his A. B. degree from the Uni
versity of North Carolina and
earned his A. M. and Ph. D.
degrees at Columbia University.
Dr. Barden resides in Boone.
‘The Altar Of Christmas9
ihe Cherub, Primary and Junior Choirs of the First
Baptist Church Sunday will sing “The Altar of Christmas,”
music of which was composed by Mrs. Esther Mary Fuller,
summer resident of Boone. The choirs will be directed by
Mrs. Johnny Barnett in the program scheduled to begin at 6 p.m.
Dec. 17. Mrs. R. D. Hodges will lead the narration, to be pre
sented by members Diane Greer and Nancy Greene of the youth
choral group. Through song and narration, "The Altar of Christ
mas” will demonstrate some of the gifts even a child may lay
upon the altar in honor of the Greatest Gift ever given to man.
Mrs. Fuller is well-known for her books of children’s songs
and many of her anthems have been sur« by First Baptist
adult choir. Singers in the Cherub Choir (front row from left)
are David Denton, Johnny Barnett, Timmy Timmons, Sandy
Snead, Susan Trivett, Janie Younce, Carol Lea Hodges, Daphne
Strickland and Julia Trivett. In the primary choir (second row);
Paula Hagaman, Anna Lynn Hodges, Elaine Denton, Karen
Younce, Barbee Furman, Pamela Barnett, Johnny Greene
and Kathy Ann High. Third row (Primary Choir) Bobby Haas,
Mary Lee Denton, Judy Owen, Carol Carpenter, Mark Tri
vett, Jimmy Graham and Mike Teem. Junior Choir (fourth row):
Libby Greer, Susan Furman, Valerie Barnett, Debbie Minton,
Randy Farthing, Fred Wilson, Benjie Strickland, Ronnie Marsh
and Mrs. Johnny Barnett, director; (fifth row) Angie Strick
land, Cherri Strickland, Shelly Wilson, Robin Robinson, Gerald
Hodges, Stephen Poe, Lesley Marsh and Ted Hagaman. (Weston
photo)
Watauga County Does Part In
Boosting Record Gross Product
With economic activity in the
local area at a high level in the
past year, Watauga County did
its proportionate share in
carrying the gross national pro
duct to a new record.
The local rise was due,
chiefly, to a substantial in
crease in consumer spending
for goods and services.
The facts and figures on the
year's performance are con
tained in reports from the U.
S. Department of Commerce,
Knouse Named
Service Head
For BREMCO
Cecil Viverette, general
manager of the Blue Ridge Elec
tric Membership Corporation,
announced today that Ronald J.
Knouse has been appointed
manager of the Member and
Community Services Depart
ment of the organization.
Knouse is a native of Win
ston-Salem and comes to Blue
Ridge Electric from the Wilkes
County Chamber of Commerce
where he has served as Execu
tive Manager for the past four
years. During this period the
budget for the Chamber of Com
merce more than doubled and
the industrial growth in Wilkes
County was substantial. The in
ternal structure of the organi
zation was strengthened by re
organization which included the
establishing of a public affairs
department. While serving as
Executive Manager erf the Cham
ber of Commerce, Knouse was
selected by the U. S. Chamber
oi Commerce to serve as class
advisor to students studying
the principles of organization
management at the University
at Georgia, Athens, Georgia,
where Knouse received a degree
in the principles of organization
management, U. S. Chamber of
Commerce.
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from the National Industrial
Conference Board and from
other sources.
They show that the gross
national product (GNP), which
is the dollar value of all goods
and services produced in the
country, hit a new high of $743
billion in the year, which was
8.7 percent more than the year
before.
The great bulk of it, $465
billion, or 63 percent of the
total, represented personal con
RONALD J. KNOUSE
Gifts Asked For
Orphans’ Home
A small group of Boone busi
ness men annually promote a
fund to provide a special Christ
mas treat for the little chil
dren at Grandfather Home, Ban
ner Elk.
A considerable number of
others have joined in this effort
to bring added cheer to those
who are being reared in the
orphans* home.
Those willing to contribute to
the fund this year are asked to
do so at once. Gifts may be left
with Guy Hunt, Wiilys Chester,
James Marsh or Rob Rivers.
sumer expenditures, accordir*
to the reports. The other 3
percent covered capital invest
ments for industrial expan
sion and the money spent b
Federal, state and local govern
ments, including the outlay foi
the war in Vietnam.
Watauga County’s share ol
the amount spent nationally for
goods and services by consum
ers came to $30,664,000.
Of that total, $2 2,712,000 went
for food, furniture, housewares,
Rotary Club Is
Making Plans
For Ladies Night
Dr. Nicholas Erneston will
give a violin solo program at
the Christmas Ladies Night
Program of the Boone Rotary
Club, Thursday evening, Dec.
14, at Holiday Inn.
He will be accompanied at
the piano by Mrs. Reba Moretz.
Christmas Carol singing by Ro
tarians and the wives and
friends will conclude the pro
gram.
The Rev. C. 0. Vance of the
Greenway Baptist Church gave
inspirational and original talk
on the Christian ideals sug
gested by the circumstances of
the travel of the Three Wise
Men to the birth of Jesus at the
meeting Thursday night. f
Assignments were made by
Chairman, Dr. James Graham,
for the Christmas visitation to
crippled children, to be pro
vided Christmas gifts of cloth
ing and toys from the Rotary
Crippled Children Fund.
Fifteen handi npped young
sters will be tahwn care of in
this way this Christmas. Three
members of the club will go to
gether to the home of each child
and bring him or her to Boone
to be outfitted though the sub
stantial sum available for each
child.
apparel and other purchases in
local retail stores.
The rest of it, approximately
$7,952,000 was spent for car
maintenance, repair work of
various kinds, laundry, per
sonal grooming, travel, enter
tainment and the many other
items that come under the head
of “services.*'
Included in this category is
the amount paid for rent, or,
in the case of home owners, the
rental value of their homes.
Local spending for goods and
services has reached a point
well above what it was three
years ago, when a similar study
was made. At that time, the total
outlay was $24, 971,000.
The increase was attributed
to greater consumption, on the
one hand, and on the other, to
the higher cost of living.
Preliminary figures indicate
that a further rise in the GNP
is in the making this year,des
pite the fact that people are
saving more than usual.
WHS Band Plans
Yule Concert
The annual Christmas concert
of the Watauga High School Bud
will begin at 3 p. m. Sunday in
the school gymnasium.
Director will be Otis Stroth
er. The public is Invited to
attend.
Mrs. Watson Named
Stickley Chairman
Mrs. Hobart Watson of Vilas
has been named Chairmu of the
Women (or Stickley Committee
hi Watauga County.
Ralph Greene of Boons had
previously been named county
chairman tor the Stickley lor 1
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