WHS Students In Top 10% In National Test Twenty-eight of the 94 Wa tauga High School freshmen who took the National Educational Development Test received cer tificates of achievement for scoring in the top ten per cent of students participating in the national testing program. Freshmen to receive these certificates are Boyden (Toby) Atwood, Leon Brent Beach, Martha Frances Coffey, Laura Ruth Critcher, Anna Kathryn Dennis, James Conley Eller, Roy Edward Furr, Charles Phil ip Ginn, Barbara Jane Greene, Laura Sudderth Greene, Rebec ca Ann Hodges, Geneva Ann Hollifield, George William Mad ison, Margaret Lynn Main, Don ald James Maltb^, Peggy Mar tin, James Donald Miller, Nel lie May Moretz, Ronald Morris Perry, Emma Louise Shook, Cassandra Simmons, Betsy Sue Tester, Ben Thalheimer, Karen Sue Trivette, Janice Elaine Wat son, Sophie Williams, Patricia Louise Wilson and Judith Ellen Winkler. THAT’S TELLING THEM! Two of three girls who had grown up together married, and thereafter they continually annoyed their spinster friend with tactless remarks about her unhappy condition. She laughed off their com ments good-naturedly until one day they went a bit too far. “Now tell us truthfully,’’they twitted her, “have you ever really had a chance to marry?’’ With a withering glance, she retorted “Suppose you ask your husbands.” GIRL SCOUT BETTH DIXON (print dress) hands a cup to Nancy Stacy just as the annual Girl Scout Banquet gets under way. An amazing feature of the Friday evening event was that it was “girl planned and organized,” according toone leader,and even the emceeing and program were handl ed by the girls. Parents were special guests to this signal function of the year. Girls pictured all are from Troop 245. (Staff photo) Distaff Deeds BY JANICE R. CHRISTENSEN HONOR SENIOR CITIZENS May is Senior Citizens Month. So members of Executive ARION AWARD rnnner Linda Johnson poses with Otis Strother, director of the Watauga High School Band. The much sought honor was first given to Linda at the annual spring concert. On Friday, the honor was bestowed a second time by John B. Robinson, presi dent of the Boone lions Club, during Awards day, which was at tended by the studc n. body, the parents of several graduating sen iors and the 19£Q ' ass, dressed in graduation caps and gowns. Homemakers Clubs in Moore County, paid horor to the county's mature citizens by planning teas and luncheons for them, by presenting gifts and flowers to them, by making bed coverings for rest homes or by taking older citizens for rides or to visit with friends. Mrs. Jean M. Hubbard, Ex tension home economics agent says “the rewards for these services were so great the club members could not put a mone tary value on them.** COMMUNITY PROPERTY Many homemakers do not have the silver and linens they need •tor special occasions, such as wedding receptions. Recogniz ing this need, members of the McDowell County Extension Homemakers Clubs decided to buy these items for loan to members. During the past two years, members have sold flavorir^. With the profits they bought a silver service, silver punch bowl and ladle, silver trays, candlelabra, punch cups and salad {dates. Next purchase will be a linen table cloth. These items are kept in the county Extension office and are top loan to any club member who needs them, Rachel L. Keisler, borne economics Extension agent, relates. FREE VISION SCREENING CLINIC The state’s first Free Vision Screening Clinic for preschool children is being held this month in Alamance County. “Purpose of the clinic is to discover amblyopia or lazy eye blindness in children aged 3 to 6 before they enter school,” Mrs. Rachel K. Kinlaw, Exten sion home economics agent, ex plains. Since this is the first screen Vut The CHALET 6 Days A Week Open To Serve You Good Food And Offer You Friendly Hospitality JIM TRAPP, Operator With Prices As Low As Other Boone Restaurants Dine And Dance Saturday Night - 9 til Midnight A Ballroom Dance Ordieatra will be in oar Saturday night, June 1st, playing favorite dance music Come and enjoy! No cover charge. Dining i from t tU ; Call 264-8404 For Reservations—Party Rooms And Banquets New Summer Hours Starting May 6th — 6:00 A. M. -12:60 P. M. Meet Your Friends At “The Chalet”—“the” Place In Boone t The Chalet Restaurant £ - Blowing Rock Road — Boone, N. C. L - . - ing center in North Carolina, a representative of the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness will conduct the train ing. Other training sessions will be conducted by Mrs. Judy P. Nooney, Executive Director of the North Carolina Society for the Prevention of Blindness. The Wedgewood Extension Homemakers Club of Graham has taken the clinic as a club project for this year, the agent adds. TO ELIMINATE JOBS The Department of Defense announced a scaling-down of . defense, agaipst bomber attacks,' which will produce a “smaller, more effective and less costly system.” The change will eliminate 4,719 military and 1,219 civilian jobs. r Raster Of Classes For Horse Show At Cove Creek Is Released By Shipley The roster of classes for the fifth annual Cove Creek Horse Show was released this weekhy R. G. Shipley, show manager. Under the sponsorship of the Mountaineer Ruritan Club and the Watauga Future Farmers of America, the afternoon and evening performances will be held at the Cove Creek Riding Club grounds, junction of U. S. 421 and Vanderpool Road, Vilas. A jumping class will open the show at 12:30 p. m. Saturday, June 15. Next is a pony class for riders 10 and under and animals measuring 52" and under* open English 3-gaited; lead-in class for youngsters five and under; a pleasure class for riders entering their first horse show; the open barrel race; Watauga girls 3-gaited; and buggy and surry, four wheels shown at rig. In the stallion class, the sad dle may be removed for con formation judging. Lady's pleasure will precede the Wa tauga Western Pleasure, open pony cart class, the Quarter Horse Class, then three class es exclusive to Watauga rid ers: 4-gaited, boys 3-gaited and boys Tennessee walking. The open 5-gaited will close the afternoon performance. A stipulation provides that 5-gaited stock may not show in 3-gaited; also that a 5-gait* ed horse used in 3-gaited com petition may not cross into the 5-gaited contests. Parade horses will open the 7 p. m. performance. Riders 11 or older will then show pon ies at walk, trot and canter just prior to the pony race on a course above the show ring. Next will be the horse race followed by the Watauga 3-gaited, 2 year-old Tennessee walking and senior pleasure (rider 19 and over). The program is completed by pole bending, open Western pleasure, Watauga pony cart, Watauga barrel race, junior pleasure (rider 18 and under), Western working, the pick-19 race, Tennessee walking and Watauga 5-gaited. Per-class entry fee is $1 with an exhibitor’s pass being given for each horse entered in the show. In order to be listed in the show program, entries must be in by June 1, mailed to R. G. Shipley, horse show man ager, Vilas, N. C., or Jerry Adams, assistant manager,Sug ar Grove. 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