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WATAUGA DEMOCRAT
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VOL. LXXX— NO. 27
BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1968
10 CENTS PER COPY
NEW MASONIC OFFICERS—The annual open installation of of
ficers of Snow Lodge No. 363, A. F. & A. M. was held the even
ing of December 18. W. E. Fulmer, past master and Floyd
Brewer, past master, were installing officer and marshall, re
spectively. New officers installed are, left to right, front row:
Melvin Norris, Worshipful Master; Cannon Ward, Senior Warden;
Grant Ayers, Junior Warden; B. W. Stallings, Treasurer; Hoyk
Davis, Secretary; second row, John Christenbury,Senior Deacon;
Carter Lentz, Junior Deacon; Lynn Castle, Senior Steward; George
Baker, Junior Steward; Harold Farthing, Tyler and Gary Morgan,
Chaplain, (Weston photo)
Whitener Given
Special Award
At Kiwanis Club
Gastonia—Accepting a spec
ial award from the Gastonia
Kiwanis Club Tuesday, Repre
sentative Basil L. Whitener
CD.—NC) said: “It has always
been a privilege to work for
with the people of our ar6a.”
The plaque was presented to
Whitener in honor of his many
years of membership in the club
and his contribution to the wel
fare of the community. The en
graved award presented to the
veteran 10th District Congress
man bore the inscription: “In
recognition of the membership
of Basil Lee Whitener in the
Kiwanis Club of Gastonia—he
has given true meaning to the
Kiwanis concept of personal
service.’*
The award was a surprise to
Whitener, who has been invited
to briefly address the Kiwanians
(Mi the recent session of Con
gress. The plaque was presented
to the Congressman by B. G.
Banner, secretary of the Gas
tonia Kiwanis Club. W. D. Bail
ey, Jr., is president of the club.
Income Returns
Must Be Sent
To Chamblee
All Federal income tax re
turns for 1967 filed by North
Carolinians must be mailed to
the following address, according
to J. E. Wall, District Direc
tor:
Internal Revenue Service
Center
Southeast Region
Chamblee, Georgia 30006
Wall urged taxpayers who re
ceive their tax forms from the
government by mail to use the
pre-addressed envelope con
tained in the package.
Wall said that Congress
passed a law last year requir
ing income tax returns from the
Southeast Region, of which North
Carolina is a part, to be mailed
direct to the Service Center in
Chamblee, Georgia for process
Director Wall said that tax
payers who forget and mail
their returns to Greensboro
this year will cause doifcle
handling by the post office since
such returns will have to be re
routed to Chamblee by Greens
boro IRS personnel. This will
also cause a long delay in pro
ceasing refund checks, Wall
said.
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| QuitsMailRouteAfter
Driving 600,000Miles
On Dec. 29, R. Clyde Winebarger retired after 33 years as a rural mail carrier |
on Route 2, Boone. E
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After a competitive civU service examination in July of 1934, he was appointed I
on recommendation by the late Congress man Robert L. Doughton. At that time, Route I
2 was only 26 miles with 140families. Now it is 76 miles with more than 400 famil- I
ies in the Howard's Creek, Rich Mountain,Sands, Meat Camp and Big Hill commun- 1
ities. |
The National Safety Council has presented Mr. Winebargera 32-year Safe Dri- I
ver Award for no-accident driving. He estimates he has driven more than 600,000 |
miles on the rural route and delivered over 200,000 copies of the Watauga Democrat. |
= From 1945 to 1962, Mr. Winebarger served the North Carolina Rural Letter I
| Carriers’ Association as secretary-treasurer, two years of which he was president 1
I of the National Conference of State Secretaries for the national organization. He |
| and his wife, the former Crystal Coulter of Statesville, have attended 22 national |
| conventions which entailed traveling over most of the nation. |
| Mr. Winebarger also has been active in church work. He served 32 years as a |
| member of the official board and treasurer of Grace Lutheran Church and saw it |
| grow from a small mission church to active self-supporting congregation. |
In closing out his long career in the postal service, Mr. Winebarger wishes
to express his deep appreciation and sincere thanks for the kindnesses and courte
sies extended by his patrons, fellow workers and others and extended best wishes for
a happy and prosperous future.
Until a regular carrier takes over the route, either by transfer or civil service
examination, Archie Clawson is Route 2 carrier.
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15% Of Students Honored
678 On Dean’s List For
University Fall Quarter
Honorees Of
This Region
Are Listed
Boone—A total of 678 Appa
lachian State University stu
dents achieved grades which
earned them honors on the
Dean’s List for the fall quar
ter, according to Dr. Kenneth
Webb, Dean of Students.
In order to qualify for the
Dean’s List, a student must
carry a minimum of 15 hours
of work, compile a grade-point
average of at least 3.00, have no
grade below a C, and have no
incompletes or conditions in any
course.
The 678 Dean’s List students
represent 15.5 per cent of the
total undergraduate enrollment
of 4,365. Of the 3,844 North
Carolina students, 617 (or 16.5
per cent) earned places on the
list while 61 (or 11.7 per cent)
of the 521 out-of-state students
were listed.
Twelve per cent (228) of the
1,878 undergraduates men made
the honor list. Eighteen per cent
(450) of the 2,487 women stu
dents qualified.
Of 89 North Carolina counties
represented by students at
Appalachian, 65 placed students
on the Dean’s List. Thirty-six
counties showed higher percen
tages of their students making
the Ustthanthe overall average.
Eleven counties with no stu
dents currently enrolled at
Appalachian are Bertie, Currit
uck, Dare, Gates, Graham,
Green, Hertford, Martin, North
hampton, Pamlico and Tyrrell.
ASU honor students who are
from this area are:
ASHE—Betty W. Carlton,
Lenna Rae Lyall and Aleta Faye
Owen, all of Crumpler; Janet
Faye Marsh, Barbara Gail Mil
ler and David C. Trivette, all
of Fleetwood; Marie Arlene
Rongyos of Grassy Creek; Rog
er Lee Roark and Benjamin F.
Wilson, both of Grayson; Rich
ard Paul Gentry, Margaret E.
Hart and Jeanette V. Paisley,
all of Lansing; Linda Gale Dur
ham, Jimmy Ray Frider and
Mary C. Suddreth, all of Todd;
Sylvia M. Campbell of Warrens
ville; Wands I. Blackburn and
Hola Diana Miller, both of West
Jefferson.
AVERY—Patricia Jean Can
non of Banner Elk; Ramona E.
Henson of Crossnore; David F.
(Continued on page 10)
A SHALL SLEIGH-RIDER run* down the road to meet his friend coming back up.
SNOW AND SLUSH notwithstanding, pedestriafn travel was complicated for this woman by Wednes
day afternoon's heavy traffic. She is approaching King Street from the road beside the Boone Post
Office. (Staff photo) !
Snow And Sleet Blanket
County; Skiing Flourishes
The snow started Wednes
day and by Thursday three
and a half inches were recorded
in Boone.
Friday an inch was record
ed. Sunday another inch fell
and snow was accompanied by
sleet with laid an icy path across
most of the county's second
ary roads.
Further Squeeze
On Farm Profits
Farm costs rose again in 1967
and farm income dropped. More
of the same is in store for 1968.
Farm income was down 13 per
cent in the first six months of
1967 over the same period of
1966.
Wilcox Heads
NCDA Croup
The North Carolina Develop
ment Association again has
named Herman W. Wilcox to
serve as chairman of the Travel
and Recreation Division.
R. T. Ellett Jr., community
relations representative of the
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Com
pany was named overall chair
man and asked Wilcox to serve
with him.
Merchants To
Go To Europe
Directors of the N. C. Mer
chants Association have given
their formal approval for a
1968 European tour to be spon
sored by the organization, it
was announced by Ardell Lan
ier, president.
He said that the trip would
include visits to a total of nine
countries, including England,
Germany, France, and Italy.
“This tour has been worked
up by American Express es
pecially for members of the
Association, their wjves, and
friends on a first-come-first
served basis,** said Lanier.
Those taking the tour will
leave New York by Pan Ameri
can jet on July 12 and return
on July 29.
Rising costs are a big fac
tor, according to Extension
Economist Hugh Liner, North
Carolina State University.
“Prices paid by farmers
through last October were up
2.6 per cent over last year,’*
Liner said. “The 6ost of most
production items, especially
labor, was up.”
No immediate end to this
pressure on the farmer is in
sight. “The uptrend in farm
production expenses is expected
to continue for thp most
items through 1968,” Record
ing to Liner.
Items affected in the rise
range from labor and mach
inery to taxes and fertilizer.
Prices farmers paid for fer
tilizer increased in 1967 for
the first time in about lOyears.
They will go up again in 196.8.
Wage rates were up 9 per
cent through October. Minimum '■
wages will increase 15 cents
an hour for covered farms in
February.
“With the expected low rate
of unemployment, farmers will
continue to face increasing com
petition for farm labor,” Lines
explains. “For these reasons,
it is anticipated that farm wage
rates will increase at least as
much in 1968 as they did in
1967.”
Machinery and equipment
costs may be up by 2.5 to 3
per cent next year due to higher
manufacturing costs. “With
wage rates increasing faster
than machinery and equipment
costs, the trend oKsubstituting
machinery for labor1 ^ill con
tinue,” Economist Liner said.
On the other items, feed coats^
should be below 1967 levels,
feeder cattle prices about the
same, feeder pig prices higher
during the first half of the year,
costs of replacement dairy hei
fers up slightly, and farm taxes
higher.
The nearly six Inches between
Wednesday and Sunday brought
a flock of skiiers into the
mountains and the crowd had
only mildly dimished by New
Year’s Day. Some observers
say this could have been the
biggest week in the history of
local skiing, with four lodges,
Blowing Rock, Hound Ears,
Seven Devil’s and Beech Moun
tain going strong.
Cars bedecked with ski racks
have passed through Boone and
Blowing Rock in a steady stream
as holiday sportsmen, women
and children enjoyed the fac
ilities of the fastestgrowing ski
area in the Southeast.
As scheduled, county schools
opened Tuesday morning.
1967 Traffic
Deaths In N. C.
At Least 1,720
The Highway Patrol listed
seven persons dead in holiday
weekend traffic accidents in
cluding the first reported
death of 1968.
Earl Reid Mooney ham, 30,
ot Statesville was killed at 2
a. m. New Year’s Day in Ire
dell County on Highway 64. His
was the first reported death of
the year.
Kermit Ray Deans, 38, o€
filack Creek was killed in John
ston County in a two-car colli
sion Saturday night. The report
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Year-End Sales
Break Records
An informal Statewide sur
vey conducted on December 25
28 by the N. C. Merchants Arro
28 by the N. C. Merchants
Association pointed to record
breaking Christmas sales in
all sections of the State.
Statisticians with the organi
zation predicted gross retial
volume for December would run
over $925,000,000. This would
be more than $40 million above
u» $883,523,634 which the N.C.
Revenue Department reports as
gross retail sales for Decern- if
ber at 1966. \
Gross Statewide retail sales ||
for December or\!965 wsrSifi
$830,350,555.