ON THE BOONE THOROUGHFARE route, a drainage pipe
almost large enough to be mistaken for a student underpass
is being installed (at left In picture). The large classroom
building is Edwin Ducan Hall, which is north of the midway
mark in the new traffic route. This is the point so long dis
cussed before the final survey could be accepted by Appa
lachian State University. Together, highway and university
officials made provisions for student underpasses on a road
already dangerous to the youthful pedestrians. (Staff photo)
CAPITAL CUPBOARD
Carolina Leads Gain Personal Income
BY EULA N. GREENWOOD
FRIENDS . . . One of the
nicest, and most unusual, de
velopments in a strange politi
cal year is the friendship and
meeting of minds of Gov. Dan
K. Moore and Lt. Gov. Bob
Scott. Amazing.
This has not come easily.
In fact, a year ago young Scott
was saying that the office of
Lieutenant-Governor should be
given more power. Though he
himself said little about it, some
of his friends complained that
Lt. Gov. Scott was now and then
left out of important conferences
| and decisions.
| Two big happenings this year
have brought Scott and Gov.
Moore into the same scheme
of things, building and enriching
the friendship.
1. When J. M. Broughton an
nounced for Governor, Dan
Moore said he would play “hands
off” in the race. Although close
associates of the Governor at
one time gave Scott a hard going,
Gov. Moore played it cool. He
kept his word; and did not be
come involved.
Effort was made to bring him
—in a left-handed way—into the
campaign. The fire got pretty,
hot, but Gov. Moore did not
move. No Scott supporter has
been able to prove—or come up
with the slighest bit of evidence
—that the Governor personally
threw weight or influence to
Mel Broughton.
Only a fool could fail to be
deeply grateful for such politica
integrity: Dan Moore slowly bul
surely moved into Lt. Gov. Bofc
Scott’s circle of friends.
2. The Democratic Conven
tion in Chicago was a catas
trophe for many; a nightmare
for others. Nevertheless, it
served to cement further the
r
political friendship of Moore
and Scott. Their views sudden
ly became one scene. Now, as
of the middle of September, Lt.
Gov. Bob Scott is moving along
the same solid, conservative
paths followed by two other close
friends: Former Governor
Luther Hodges and Gov. Moore.
This apparently is of little
help to the National Democratic
Party. Never mind. The feeling
here is it’s the finest thing that
has happened to N. C. Demo
cracy, which until recently was
being torn apart by internal
bickering. And there is new as
surance of conservative ap
proach.
SICK . . . Although we have
“free” school in North Caro
lina, education—even in the
grammar grades—is becoming
more expensive as each new
term begins.
Although virtually all schools
are now open in die State, it
is safe to say that hundreds of
parents had to get “credit” for
those fees during the first few
days of operation.
There is a certain Raleigh
couple with six children in
school—two in high school and
four in college this year.
Now that they have totaled
ig> what their expenses will be,
they are about to come down
with a bad case of maltuition.
42 MONTHS ... Is Mass
achusetts a sick state? This
land of the Plymouth Rock,
Boston Tea Party, Hyannisport,
Paul Revere, and all that?
Could be.
Down here in North Carolina
we begin biting our nails when
our lawmakers stay in Raleigh
for more than five months. Not
so in ultramodern Mass . . .
apparently.
But they breathed a sigh of
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relief this past August 24. It
marked the first time in three
and one-half years that their
Massachusetts Legislature was
not in session!
FREEDOM . . . You noted
recently how one of the nation’s
biggest banks—and a North
Carolina institution—suddenly
announced a change in name in
forming a one-bank holding
company.
The wording seemed stilted
and awkward. How come, people
wanted to know. The American
Banker reports that 22 banks,
among them Wachovia Bank &
Trust Co., have taken this step.
The largest was First National
City Bank in New York, third
largest in the country ... in
total deposits.
Why? By moving from a bank
ing institution to a holding com
pany they have more freedom,
are able to do business in areas
not open to them in the regular
banking laws.
N. C. INCOME UP
You
have not seen anything about
it in the papers, but North Caro
lina led the 50 states in the
percentage increase in person^'
income from June 1967 to J; .<
1968.
This is reported in the Aug
ust 31 issue of Business Week.
The periodical’s Measure of
Personal Income shows that the
total for the nation this past
June was more than five billion
dollars over June of 1967.
“Most sectors of the economy
were operating at—or near—
full throttle in June . . . ser
vice industries were strong ...
a high rate of employment.. .
climbing pay scales “*£ays Bus
iness Week.. j Lx ii a i
Personal income for this State
went from $958,000,000 for June
at 1967 to $1,102,000,000 this
past June. This is a 15 per
cent increase in total personal
income for Tarheels. Virginia
was up a little over 11 per cent;
South Carolina, 12.3 per cent.
Average increase for the nation
Average increase for the nation:
10.1 per cent.
Grandparents Go With VISTA
From Urge To Help Someone
When you have worked for
more than 50 years it is hard
to break the habit That is
probably why Olga and Uoyd
Tarvestad of Detroit Lakes,
Minn, are living in Mitchell
County, North Carolina now.
The Tarvestads are VISTAS i
(Volunteers in Service to Am
erica) because they *'wanted
to help someone.*’ After com
pleting three weeks of intensive
training in Charlotte they were
assigned to WAMY Community
Action, Inc. for three more
weeks of training in the field.
They are now working in the
Harrell Hill Community in Mit
chell County. The citizens of
Harrell Hill are working to im
prove their community center,
then they hope to build a smoke
house, a slaughterhouse, and
eventually a cannery as com
munity projects. Their goals
are improved living standards
and more income for all the
families in the community.
The Tarvestads are certainly
qualified to assist in such pro
jects. Both were bornonfarms,
Mrs. Tarvestad, 69, in La
Moure, N. Dak., and Mr. Tar
vestad, 71, in Mabel, Minn.
He farmed for 47 years, and
for many of these years Mrs.
Tarvestad ran the farm while
he worked as an auctioneer, in
banking and in real estate and
insurance. In the late 1930s
he spent seven years as a coun
ty and state committeeman and
field representative for the
Agricultural Adjustment Ad
ministration Soil Conservation
Service. During those years
he traveled through the Appa
' hian mountains erf Kentucky,
he is not unfamiliar with
area and the people.
“About 3,000 acres*’ was the
BLOWING
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STABLES
. are now
Open. For Riding
for the summer season.
Private instruction and
group Instruction.
Trail riding thru the
Cone Estate.
Blowing Rock Stables
are now managed by
George Bryson Jr., of
Greensboro.
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most he ever formed, but when
they moved near Fargo, N.Dak.
in Cass County they formed
*‘only 560 acres.” He found that
Mrs. Tarvestad was “a fine
manager” soon after their mar
riage, and for many years she
managed the farm while he gain
ed broad experience in the busi
ness world.
Before her marriage, Mrs.
Tarvestad taught in the rural
schools of North Dakota for
eight years. ‘‘One year I had
31 children in seven grades,’*
she recalls, “and my three
second graders were all using
different books.” Some of the
time she was ‘‘acturally teach
ing on twelve levels” in one
classroom.
Sometimes the girls would
bring food or a drink to be
heated on the stove, and often
she would help them prepare it
during lunchtime. It was rough
country in the Badlands of North
Dakota, and in some areas where
she taught “people would go
out with a horse and wagon once
every three months to get gro
ceries.” President Theodore
Roosevelt owned the Elk Horn
Ranch in the Badlands, and a
large part at the area was later
designated the Theodore Roose
velt National Memorial Park,
it is the only National Memo
rial Park in the United States.
Mrs. Tarvestad has vivid me
mories of her first year as a
farm wife. Her husband bought
a threshing machine and thresh
ed for people “six or seven
miles around.” The new bride
spent the harvest season pre
paring breakfast, lunch, dinner
and an afternoon snack for a
crew of 10 or 12, “and it grew
to 20 when they were hauling
the grain.” Mr. Tarvestad's
old schoolteacher told him that
if his bride stayed with him
through the threshing season
she would probably stay through
anything.
The Tarvestads have a son
and a daughter who have given
them seven grandchildren. Since
he retired three years ago they
have spent much of their time
at a home they own in Forsyth,
Mo. There is a fishpond only
a few steps away, and he passed
many leisure hours fishing. “I
decided I wasn’t helping a soul
except myself,” he says, “and
I wanted to help someone else.”
‘‘You’ve heard the expression
life begins at 40,” Mrs. Tar
vestad added, ‘‘well we’ve been
married 40 years and we de
cided to begin our second round
of 40 in VISTA.”
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mental Center has exploded the
first French H-bomb over the
Fangataufa lagoon in the Pa
cific Ocean.
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