The shady cove once nestled beside the Daniel Boone Monument has fallen to logs in the shadow
of progress. The Monument was felled by Tuesday, making this likely the last photograph of
it. (Staff photo)
Holshouser “Tar Heel Of
Week” In Newspaper Series
ine i\ews ana uoserver of
Raleigh featured Boone attorney
Jim Holshouser, who is N. C.
Republican Party Chairman, as
its “Tar Heel of the Week”
in the Sunday edition.
Staff writer Russell Clay be
jJLns: tThe Republican reawak
ening North Carolina is con
sidered to date from early1
1960s, when a band of 'young
lions' came on the legislative
scene."
j The writer contends that the
names of Osteen, Clark and
Holshouser stand out in the
list of men who "reshaped the
image of the typical Republican
.in North Carolina."
Holshouser went to the Gen
eral Assembly in 1963 and re
• turned to the 1965 session as
House minority leader, Clay
writes. It was in March of
MC63 that he became minority
chairman for the state. He was
31 then.
•; ; GARDNER
Clay continues, "Holshouser
Who Knows?
1. Who created “Huckleberry
F$nn»’?
2. Where would you find the
line “Lord, what fools these
mortals be”?
3. What is a bibliophile?
4. Which is stronger—steel,
wire or nylon thread?
5. What is considered the
chief cause of forest fires?
6. Who composed the oper
etta, “Babes in Toyland*’?
7. When did the United States
purchase Alaska from Russia?
8. By what name is the trans
action known?
9. How much did the United
States pay for Alaska?
10. When was the first bicycle
invented?
ANSWERS TO WHO KNOWS
1. Mark Twain.
2. In Shakespeare’s “A Mid
summer Night’s Dream.”
3. A lover and collector of
books.
4. Nylon thread.
5. Man’s carelessness,
6. Victor Herbert.
7. October 18, 1867.
, 8. Seward’s Folly.
9. Two cents an acre or
200,000.
10. About 1700—called a walk
along.
JIM HOLSHOUSER
assumed the party chairmanship
from (J im) Gardner, a former
Democrat and leader at a new
GOP breed, who was about to
launch a successful campaign
for Congress. Gardner . , .
followed through in the spring
of this year with a victory
in the first meaningful Repub
lican primary for governor in
modern times.
“Through the buffeting which
political growth and primary
fights produce, Holshouser has
steered the party with a gentle
firmness which is part of his
nature.
“Last January, as Gardner’s
gubernatorial primary battle
with Charlotte’s Jack Stickley
was warming up and the State
Republican Convention was at
hand, Holshouser approached a
personal crossroads. He had
a mind to step down as pdrty
Democrats
(Continued from page one
sent. A party caravan will visit
each precinct on that date. De
tailed plans will be announced
later.
Plans are to have the head
quarters open full time by Oc
tober 1. Literature and placards
from various State candidates
were distributed. Placards for
Vice-President Humphrey and
other materials are expected
soon.
Refreshments were served
during the afternoon by Demo
cratic women. . >
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chairman and run for lieutenant
governor.
"To do so, though, would
have led to what he called a
divisive bloodletting in which the
Gardner and Stickley forces
would be fighting for the va
cant chairmanship. Thus, Hols- -
houser stood for a second two
The lengthy treatise included
Holshouser’s personal back
ground. Son of James Eubert
Holshouser Sr. and Virginia
Dayvault Holshouser, he follow
ed his father’s route through
Davidson College through then
the University erf North Caro
lina Law School. At Davidson,
be was sports editor of the
student newspaper and worked
in the sports department of the
Charlotte Observer on week
ends.
Journalism, rattier than law,
very nearly became his life’s
work,” Clay reported. “He
moves easily in newspaper cir
cles and enjoys what is some
times called ‘a good press.* ”
Between Davidson and UNC,
Holshouser was sidelined for a
year by a kidney infection. When
be graduated from the Univer
sity in 1960, he was president
of his senior class.
He married the former Pat
Hollingsworth, daughter of the
Rev. L.H. Hal lings worth, chap
lain at Wake Forest University.
The couple have a daughter,
Ginny, 5, and expect a child
early next year. The State
chairman attends the Presby
terian Church in Boone where
be is in the choir, is a deacon
and has been church treasurer
and a teacher of Sunday School.
While Holshouser is basically
conservative, Clay quoted him
as saying: “At the same time,
society has gotten so complex
a person just can’t be blind
to the problems this country
faces today. While there’ll be
differences in approaches to a
solution, people in public of
fice are coming more and more
to realize that these problems
have to be dealt with.’’
Letter To The Editor
Concerning A Grove
Of Maple Trees
Those who, almost fifty years
ago, happened by the spot may
have wondered what a handful
of men had in mind as they dug
holes and planted young maples
just below the Daniel Boone
monument, on the Appalachian
campus. Not long before, WW1
had ended and Watauga ns were
mourning the loss of her young
men who had given “their last
full measure of devotion” in
that great conflict.
No one seems to know just
who originated the idea of sett
ing out the young, promising
saplings as a memorial to these
Dock Watson
(Continued from page one)
first National Folklife Festival
in Washington, D. C., in 1967.
Film excerpts from the 1965
Newport Folk Festival were
used to make the documentary
film “Festival”, which was
nominated for an Academy
Award in 1968.
The dancers will be accom
panied by their leader-director,
James Kesterson, of Hender
sonville.
Watson, a native of Watauga
County, is recognized as one
of the nation’s leading folk sing
ers and guitarists. He has per
formed at folk festivals through
out the country and abroad,
singing the ballads and folk
songs of the mountain region.
He is accompanied by his son,
Merrill, who is also an accom
plished folk musician.
men, but the late Professor D. D.
Dougherty, who alive to all good
action, saw to it that they were
planted and took a hand in the
work. He shared the sorrow of
those who had given up their
dear ones and felt that the uwler
taking had great meanir* and
value. These lines, written by
one Henry Ciiyler Bunner, are
fitting: ,
What does he plant who plants
a tree?
He plants the friend of sun
and sky;
He plants a flag of breezes
free;
The shaft of beauty towering
high.
Those who recently have
passed along Faculty street saw
Volleyball Results
For Thursday Given
In Industrial Vollyball play
Thursday, IRC topped Vermont
American twice, 15-11 and 15
1. Vermort American took the
final match 15-3.
Independent #1 was edged by
Independent #2 17-15 in the
first round but #2 came back
to wim 15-8 in the final two
games.
RAY WITNESS FREED
Memphis—Charles Q. Steph
ens, a key witness in the trial
of James Earl Ray accused of
the slaying of the Rev. Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr., has
been released from jail where
he had been held under bond
since July 22nd.
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that the maples, grown well
toward maturity, were in the
hands of the power saw and the
&xe, tools used by men who pro
bably knew little if anything
about why they the trees were
put there. A considerable pile
of ashes, where trimmings had
been burned, was near and be
fore long the blocks of woods
will also be converted into the
same element. The strangers
who hurry along the new high
way-to-be will never know that
here patriotic men who wanted
others to remember their fallen
brothers through the long years
ahead met on this spot and put
their feelings into the planting
of a young grove of sturdy,
growing maples.
It may be said that ‘ *the scythe
of time” cut them down, an ob
servation that is a little obs
cure. But it may well be that
there are many still living who
remember about the origin of the
maple grove and appeciate the
meaning of it. “Lord God of
hosts, be with us yet, Lest we
forget, lest we forget.”
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