BOONE
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VOL. LXXXI— NO. 9
Watauga democrat
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Aug. 24 86 63
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TAKING SHAPE—ASU’s new split-level Book Store, beii« side the W. H. Plemmons Student Center. The structure is
built at a cost of about $400,000, is steadily taking shape be- due to be completed by February.
Election Dates September 6-16
Farmers Are Reminded To Vote;
Community Nominees Listed
GEORGE C. WALLACE
Watauga Rally
For Wallace
Next Saturday
A local county-wide organi
zational meeting and rally will
be held in Watai^a County for
Volunteers for Presidential
candidate George C. Wallace.
The meeting will be held
at the Watauga High School
Saturday August 31 at 7:30p.m.
The main speaker will be the
State Chairman of the Ameri
can Party erf North Carolina,
Reid Stubbs of Charlotte and the
State office of the Wallace
campaign. The purpose of this
meeting is to get workers and
volunteers to organize and carry
out the campaign in Watauga
County.
The public is invited to at
tend.
Blowing Rock Needs
Recreation Director
Applications are now being
accepted for a part-time re
creation director for the Town
of Blowing Rock.
Anyone interested should send
Ids resume to the Rev. Richard
Holsbouser, Blowing Rock, N.C.
Farmers today got a last
minute reminder from office
manager Roy W. Isley about
the ASC elections to be held
Sept. 6-16.
These elections are to select
ASC farmer-committeemen
who will serve for the 1969 year
as local administrators of the
National Farm - Agriculture
Program.
Ballots will be mailed to all
eligible voters on record and
anyone who does not receive
a ballot should request one from
the ASCS office.
The ASC committees have
charge of the local field ad
ministration of the Burley Al
lotment Program; the Agricul
tural Conservation Program;
the Wool Incentive Program;
the Wheat Program; and the
Feed Grain Program. Various
other duties and programs are
assigned by the Secretary of
Agriculture as needs arise.
Any person may vote in the
election if he or she is of legal
voting age, is a farm owner.
Labor Shortage
Halts Projects
A shortage of available lab
or, plus the maze of construc
tion projects currently under
way in the Boone are, have led
to a host of problems con
cerning proposed additions on
the campus of Appalachian State
University.
The institution advertised for
bids Aug. 15 for a paving and
landscaping project for which
$150,000 has been appropriated.
‘‘Not a single bid was re
ceived,*' said ASU Director of
Business Affairs Ned Trivette,
who cited an extreme labor
shortage as the prime reason.
Eight days ago, the university
received bids for the construc
ton of eight additional tennis
courts for which $40,000 had
been appropriated. The low bid
was in excess of $87,000.
Will Ratify
Fund Budget
A meeting of the membership
erf the Watauga County United
Fund has been called for noon
Thursday, Aug. 29, at the Card
inal Restaurant.
The purpose of the meeting,
according to Fund President
Jerry Moretz, will be to rat
ify the budget and adopt by
laws. It will be a dutch luncheon.
And in recent days, bids for
the construction of a central
warehouse on the ASU campus
were received. The low bid was
about $10,000 above the $104,
000 set aside for the building
project.
“We are hopeful that the
warehouse construction funds
can be worked out,” Trivette
offered. “And we plan to re
advertise for bids on the land
scaping and paving project ir
about one month.”
Most Stores To
Close Labor Day
Most downtown businesses
will close in observance of
Labor Day Monday, according
to a spot survey taken by the
Watauga Democrat.
Most local businesses an
swered with a definite no when
asked if they would be open,
however some firms apparently
considered remaining open. One
business wondered ‘‘What are
the others doing?”
The Crest Store indicated that
they will remain open for busi
net s oil Labor Day.
Craftsmen Of 4 Counties
To Show At Blowing Rock
Craftsmen from Watauga,
Avery, Mitchell and Yancey
counties will display their
handiwork at the second annual
Blue Ridge Hearthslde Crafts
Fair In the Blowing Rock City
Park Saturday, Aug, 31.
The Blowing Rock Art Show
will be held In the park at the
same time and craftsmen and
artists will be there to greet
the public. Frank Proffitt Jr.
i
who is well known for his dul
cimer making and playing will
demonstrate his art and other
craftsmen plan to bring crafts
items that they have never
before shown.
Handmade dolls, sweaters,
bonnets and aprons; carved toys,
animals and candleholders;
wooden bowls and picture
frames, honey suckle baskets,
broom sage and broomcora
brooms, and quilts in many
patterns and styles, are just a
few of the crafts that will be
featured. Standard mountain
toys also will be sold.
Art displays and crafts booths
will open at 9 a.m. Saturday.
The fair is sponsored by the
Blue Ridge Hearthside Crafts
Association with the co
operation of the Blowing Rock
Chamber of Commerce and
P*rks Commission.
operator, tenant or share
cropper; and is taking part or
is eligible to participate in
any of the farm programs ad
ministered by the committee.
A person who is in charge of
the entire farming operations
of a farm is eligible even if
not of legal voting age. A per
son may vote only once and
may vote in the community
where he lives or has an in
terest in a farm.
Ballots will be publicly
counted at the ASCS Office
Sept. 20. The nominee who re
ceives the most votes in each
community will serve as the
chairman; the second most
votes, vice-chairman; third
most votes, regular member;
and fourth and fifth place will
serve as alternates. The three
regular community committee
men will meet at the county
convention on Sept. 25, and sel
ect a three-year county com
mitteeman and two alternates.
The chairman and vice-chair
man for 1969 also will be sel
ected.
Incumbent community com
mitteemen met Friday, Aug. 23,
and drew up a slate of nominees.
The county committeemen met
Monday, Aug. 26, to complete
the slate of nominees for the
mail election ballots. The slate
of nominees for each community
follows:
Beaver Dam: Howard Cable,
Glyde Cornett, George P. Ed
misten, Jesse Moore, Dudley
Norris, Linville Norris, Har
mon Presnell, Robert Warren
and Fred Winebarger.
Brushy Fork: Coy Billings,
Lonnie Henson, Custer Hicks,
Jack W. Hicks, Howard J. Hod
ges, A. Y. Howell and Joe Mc
Neil.
Love Creek: Herbert Greer,
Ralph Greer, Jack Henson, Burl
Lawrence, J. T. Mast, Audie
Presnell and J, C. Winebarger.
Laurel Creek: Frank Cable,
Leonard Ward, Charles Glenn,
Ned Glenn, Graydon Hagaman,
Bill Harmon, John Presnell and
Roosevelt V, Presnell.
Meat Camp: Fred N. Brown,
Clenn Howell, ClydeS. Jackson,
Willard Norris, James L.
Penley, Blrine Stanberry and
James F. Tennant.
New River: Collis Austin, H.
E. Brookshire, Wilson Brown,
Marion O. Coffey, John Cook,
Ed Critcher, Fred Critcherand
Vance Keller.
North Fork: Willie Laing,
Claude May, Loyd Miller, Grady
Potter, Mack Thomas, Mark
Thomas, Argus Wallace and
James D. Wilson.
Shawneehaw: W. Fate Baird,
Will Byrd, Clyde J. Eggers, Rus
sel Farthing, Lee Ward and
Arlen Yates.
Stony Fork: J. L. Coffey, Sr.,
Doc Cox, W. B. Day, Don Hayes,
Vester O. Phillips and W. H.
Stanberry.
Watauga: H. O. Aldridge,
Spencer Aldridge, George Byrd,
Don Cook, Robert W. Greene,
Arlle B. Hodges, Claude Gar
land, Jeff Shook and Tom Ward,
—o ojsuriuiNS
A Week Ahead Of Schedule
T own’s $925,000Sewer
Plant Now In Operation
Can Provide
For City Of
Over 10,000
A sewer plant costing over
$925,000 and capable of pro
viding service for more than
10,000 people began operation
last Thursday and engineers
say it is the largest and most
modern plant of its type in
the area.
The plant is designed to treat
all types of sewage. Equipment
such as a commutater for shred
ding solid sewage, a detraner
for scooping out the solid ma
terial and a high rate trickling
filter are a few of the pieces
used to scientifically treat the
waste material.
Sewage at the station located
on Daniel Boone Drive in Boone,
can be pumped through the
plant’s four large pumps at
an average rate of 1.8 million
gallons a day. Peak flow for
the pumps is 3 million gallons,
while the average flow for the
Boone area is only 500,000gal
lons a day.
After passing through the
pumping station, sewage enters
a primary tank where solid
material is allowed to settle
to the bottom. It is then scraped
off. The water then goes to a
unit looking something like a
lawn sprinkler.
BACTERIA
The high rate trickling fil
ter is a circular pit 109 feet
across filled 8 feet deep with
fist-sized rocks. On these rocks
grow a type of bacteria capable
of destroying the types of bac
teria found in sewage water.
Waste water is poured over and
through the rocks. After treat
mant in the trickling filter,
the water enters a secondary
tank where solid waste can set
tle to the bottom. By this time
any solid material left in the
water is very fine.
Water is piped from the sec
ondary tank to the chlorine con
tact chamber where the puri
fying chemical is added at a
dosage recommended by the
state and adjusted by several
instruments located in the lab
oratory. After passing through
the contact chamber the water
is clean and pure and is emp
tied into the South Fork of New
River.
«ccoraing 10 ^onny tfullard,
an inspector with Moore-Gard
ner Engineers, the water pass
ed into New River is no dif
ferent from the water already
there. He added that most peo
ple have a misconception about
a sewage treatment operation.
“People think that this is a
nasty, smelly, dirty job,” he
said. “After waste is treated,
there's not a thing wrong with
it.”
waste matter stays with
the plant much longer than do
liquids. After solid material
is taken from the water it is
dumped into a “holding hop
per” where samples are studied
in the lab to determine the
amount and type of treatment
necessary. Lime is usually
added to the solid waste in the
hopper before it is pumped to
a hugh digester measuring 60
feet in diameter and almost 100
feet deep.
In the digester the waste is
heated to a constant 80 degrees,
which Bullard says helps the
material to give off its gaseous
waste sooner. After lengthy
treatment in the digester the
sludge is pumped into sand
filled drying boxes where it
dries in the sun and open air.
The material is poured four to
five inches thick and dries to a
cake about a inch and a half
thick.
Bullard said this cake is
completely treated and is not
in anyway contaminated. He
commented that some sewage
disposal plants, notably on the
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«A?i3*D>rL °F SCH00L? With children pouring over the railing and runnirg out the doors
at Pr, Vaca,t,on hasu just started- Actually it’s just ended and these youngsters!
Dr W GN4* 1 7h"? °°! are leaving the building after the first day ofschool.
' * * Person, school principal, reported that opening day business went well and said
that 885 children attended first-day classes. (Staff photo) 11 and S3ld
Viverette Is
Named Head Of
State REA Corp.
Cecil E. Viverette, general
manager of Blue Ridge Electric
Membership Corporation of
Lenoir, was elected in Raleigh
as new president of North Caro
lina Electric Membership Cor
poration.
N.C. EMC is the bargaining
and negotiating organization of
North Carolina’s electric coo
peratives. Viverette was picked
to head the organization at the
conclusion of a three-day meet
ing of N. C. EMC and Tarheel
Electric Membership Associa
tion in Raleigh August 22. A
leader in the area served by
Blue Ridge, Viverette i~ a past
president of Tarheel Electric.
Blue Ridge EMC, largest
electric cooperative in the state
and one of the largest in the
ration, serves 23,000 con
sumer-owners in Alexander,
Mleghany, Ashe, Caldwell, Wat
luga and Wilkes counties.
Red Cross Board
Will Meet Friday
The Board of Directors of
he Watauga Chapter of the
American Red Cross will hold
ts regular meeting at the Car
linal RestaurantFridayatnoon.
All members are urged to
ttend.
County Schools Have
Total 4,122 Students
A total of 4,122 students were
enrolled in Watauga County
Schools by the end of the second
school day. This is an increase
of 99 students over the second
day of the 1967-68 school term.
Of the eight elementary
Is Host Weed
Researchers
Arlie B. Hodges of Sugar
Grove was host to the North
Carolina Burley Tobacco Re
search Workers last Thursday.
He was assisted in explain
ing the test on his farm to
control tobacco blackroot rot
by L. E. Tuck wilier, County
Extension Chairman; Furney A.
Todd, Extension Tobacco Di
sease Specialist; and Harold
Ross, Extension Agronomy
Specialist (Tobacco).
The test on the Hodges farm
consisted of the use of the
seven different chemicals in
corporated into the soil before
tobacco was set, plus the use
of two varieties of tobacco one
of which is supposed to be highly
resistant to the blackroot rot
disease.
Each test plot is now clearly
marked and Hodges invites to
bacco growers to come by and
see the response to each chemi
cal before the tobacco is cut.
schools, only three registered
fewer than the comparative
number for the year before.
Cove Creek Elementary had 15
less that its 67-68 number,
Green Valley had 18 leas and
Valle Crucis showed a decrease
of 15.
Appalachian Elementary
picked up an additional 73 stud
ents for a total of 907. Other
increases were Bethel, 6; Blow
in Rock, 12; Mabel, 10; and
Parkway, 19.
Enrollment at Watauga High
School is 1,212, which reflects
an increase of 28 students over
the 67-68 figures for the second
day of the term. The trainable
mentally retarded class has
seven enrolled this year—a de
crease of one student from the
previous school year.
Elementary schools enroll
ments of 2,910 are broken down
this way. Appalachian has 907;
Bethel, 181; Blowing Rock, 280;
Coye Creek, 364; Green Valley,
290; Mabel, 213; Parkway, 436;
and Valle Crucis, 232 for 1968
69. The total includes the train
able class of seven.
Busses ran on schedule and
authorities commented that this
was one of the better first days
of school. Boone Police Chief
Red Lyons said that traffic
ran “better than expected”.
One teaching vacancy on the
elementary level was reported
by the county school board.
Horn In West Closes;
Expects $2,500 Profit
A profit of about $2,500 is
expected to be realized when
the final bookwork of the 1968
Horn In The West season is
completed within the next few
weeks.
The outdoor drama ended its
summer productions last Sat
urday night with a total of 30,
051 paid admissions for an
average of 631.3 persons per
performance. The attendance
figure was 2,644 above the 1967
total, although the drama played
on six more dates (55) last
summer than in 1968.
Co. GOP To Open
Campaign Sept. 7th
Watauga Republican Chair
man Cecil Miller announced
Tuesday that the local GOP
will officially open its 1968
campaign Saturday, Sept, 7, with
an all-day open house and picnic
featuring Congressman James
Broyhill,
Miller said the county head
quarters will be located in down
town Boone, in the building
formerly occupied by Todd &
Higgins Service Station.
He indicated that open house
will be held as part of the
opening day activities and that
Republicans, Democrats and In
dependents all are invited to
stop by the new headquarters.
The Sept. 7 activities will be
climaxed by a campaign kick
off rally and picnic at the Horn
in the West picnic grounds late
that afternoon. Miller said local
candidates and a number of
state candidates will be on hand
for the rally.
Horn In The West, which
experienced a loss of approxi
mately $11,000 a year ago,
has expenses this year of about
$78,500. The final income total,
when funds from the concessions
and gift shop-country store are
received, should be approxi
mately $81,000.
The nightly breakdown for the
drama was: 5,317 paid admis
sions on eight Tuesdays for a
665 average; 4,065on eight Wed
nesdays for 508 avenge; 3,990
on eight Thursdays for 490
average; 4,463 on eight Fridays
for 558 average; 9,048 for »<
Saturdays for 1,005 avan«se
and 3,238 on eight Sundays tor
405 average.
Of tbe 25,684 tickets sold at
the Daniel Boone Theater ticket
office, 4,649 were for the $3.50
reserved seats; 5,888 for tS
seats; 8,752 for IB seats; 1,914
for $1.50 children's tickets in
the $3 section; and 4,481 ft
children’s tickets tor the it
section.
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