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WATAUGA DEMOCRAT ELECTION SERVICE 2 Amendments Will Be Voted On In November ui ^«roana voters win be called on to decide the fate of two proposed amendments to the state constitution November 5 in addition to casting ballots for the men they want to serve them during the next four years. Both amendments affect the General Assembly. One would alter the method of setting pay for state legislators, while the other would rewrite the con stitutional provisions governii^j apportionment. The constitution now allows members of the General As sembly $15 daily for their ser vices for 120 calendar days of a regular session and 25 days of extra session. They also re ceive $20 daily expenses dur ing that period. Under current living costs, the $35 daily pay and subsis tence is considered modest. To make matters worse, there’s no pay after 120 days, and ev ery session since 1956 has ex ceeded that number. The 1967 session, for exam^e, ran 149 days. The proposed amendment would remove from the consti tution the present limit on leg islative pay and authorize the General Assembly to fix the pay and allowances for its members, To discourage abuse of this authority, the constitution would not allow any legislature to raise its own compensation. Instead, any increase voted could only take effect for the next session. This limitation, plus the power of the voters to defeat any leg islator who voted for extrava gant pay increases, should keep legislative compensation in creases within reason. The second amendment is prompted bythe so-called “one man, one-vote” ruling of fed eral courts. The amendment would revise the provisions of the constitution prescribing the (nethod of establishing districts Sheriff’s Office Has Busy 60 Days -uc "duiuga county Sheriff’s Department has issued a re port of events in August and September. Stolen automobiles, one owned by Greene Buick-Pontiac and one belonging to Doyle Church, were recovered. The Department had Harold Lackey of Tazewell County, Va„ apprehended in Cleveland, Ohio, on a charge of rape alleged to have occurred in Watai^a Coun ty. Sheriff Ward G. Carroll said he picked up Lackey in Cleveland and brought him to Watauga County Jail. The sus pect is being held under $7,500 bond pending trial in the Janu ary term of Superior Court. Warrants were served on three men charged with violator^ the prohibition law. V The Sheriff and his Deputies served 10 warrants for-assaults and 10 warrants for breaking $8,667 Paid To Local Farmers For Idle Acres Annual payments of $8,667 have been made by the ASCS office to 72 producers under the Cropland Adjustment Pro gram according to Roy W. Isley, ASCS offict manager. A total of 29 acres of bur ley tobacco allotments has been placed in the long term Crop land Adjustment Program (Soil Bank) and will not be grown for the period of agreement. The program is similar in some respects to the old soil bank or Cropland Retirement Program. Producers have signed agreements with the ASC County Committee to not grow their tobacco allotments for a five to ten year period and have the land maintained in a soil conserving crop. Producers receive an annual payment based on their average farm yield, and they agree not to harvest from the diverted acreage during the agreement period. I 1 SPECIAL m WELDWOOD* Prefinished Paneling MADE BY U.8. Plywood V. L MORETZ & SON, INC MUhrorfc — lute Baildlaj Materia* I nor gap, n. c and entering. Forty-seven per sons were jailed during the two month period on charges ranging from public drunkenness to breaking and entering, and as sault. After summoning 37 jurors to the Sei*ember term of Su perior Court, the Sheriff’s De partment summonsed witnesses for about 535 court cases and were present for the four days of court. Two cars were picked up on claim-and-delivery papers, one in behalf of a bank and the other for an individual. One-hundred-forty worthless check warrants were served in addition to 30 claim and de livery papers and 30 civil Sheriff Carroli said that many more civil papers would have been served frf&S'-wert Tvtia’ beforehand: NhftK CSffcfM^aw holds that fees for civil sum mons and civil papers must be paid before law officers can take action in behalf of the plain tiff. Boone's Newest! Tires & Batteries Motor Tone-Up Washing - Creasing Road Service JOHN W. WINKLER, Manager West End Esso Service W. King Street - Boone, N. C 264-2125 for the election of state sena tors and representatives. The U. S. District Court or dered in 1965 that the present constitutional provision for ap portionment of representatives —one for each county and the remainder to the larger coun ties—to be invalid since it did not allow representation in proportion to population. The General Assembly, in re sponse to this decision, reap portioned the state. Among oth er things, it had to set up multi-county house districts, whereas the constitution states that each county will be a separate house district. This amendment must take place, but merely means that the constitutional language will be changed to conform to the court order. The language change would make no dif ference in practice or in the number of representatives and senators for whom a citizen could vote. Little has been said durii^; the current campaign about the two amendments, and the word ings of both on the 1968 elec tion ballots are wordy and hard to understand. “North Carolina,” official publication of the N.C.Citizens Association, pointed out in its current edition. “As is often the case, the language printed on the amend ment ballot is obscure and of fers the voter little idea of what he is voting for or ag ainst.” But they both are important, for if approved they will mark historical departures from past practices and traditions. r.*****M*A for that decorator look REUPHOLSTER We Take Special Care With Old Favorites! • Wide Choice of Materials • Prompt Service Guaranteed Workmanship Pickup & Delivery MI REDPHOISTERY For Information, Call Gerald Cole Blowing Rock, N. C. -295-7271 NEW OFFICERS—Recently-elected officers of the Boone branch of the American Association of University Women, left to right, are: Mrs. Karl Mamola, Recording Secretary; Mrs. David Hodgin, President; Miss Gwendolen Eastridge, Corres ponding Secretary, University Women Name New Slate Of Officers New officers of the Boone Branch of the American As sociation of University Women are: President, Mrs. David Hodgin, reference librarian at Appalachian State University; recording secretary, Mrs. Karl Mamola, teacher at Watai^a ?High School and corresponding! secretary, Miss Gwendolen Eastridge, assistant reference librarian at the University lib rary. Other officers are first vice president, Mrs. Anita Eppley, second vice-president, Mrs. A. M. Denton, Jr., and treasurer, Mrs. Nollie Shelton. Tuesday, October 15 at 7:30 P. M. the Boone Branch of AAUW will hold open house at the W. H. Plemmons Student Center honoring new women faculty members and wives of new faculty members. Those in charge of the program are Mrs. A. M. Denton, Chairman; Mrs. Edward Gibson and Mrs. Elmer White. Speaker for the occasion is Dr. Leslie W. Syron, chairman of the Department of Sociology at Meredith College. She has been active in AAUW work for a number of years. She is a past president of the North Carolina Division of AAUW and is serving as a member of the Committee on Standards in Higher Education and the As sociation Committee on Social and Economic Issues. She serves as the liason repre sentative from the Association to the Advisory Committee on r Derrick Car Is Recovered A car belonging to Dr. am Mrs. Ray Derrick of Boone was found abandoned about 10 ■dies from Boone within 24 hours after it was stolen from the Boone United Methodist Church inrking lot. Mrs. Derrick said she was in her office at the church Thursday, Sept. 26, when two young boys came into the build ing. Since she was alone, she locked her office door. Soon afterwards, she said the boys went outside. Mrs. Derrick said she was looking out the window when the youngsters got into her car, but didn’t think they in tended to take it. Shortly, how ever, they started the 1966 Chrysler and drove out of the parking lot along the road be tween the First Baptist Church and the Appalachian Elementary School. The car was recovered near Highway 194 and no damages were done it. Child Welfare of the state Board of Public Welfare. Dr. ■Syron will talk about AAUW, its aims and purposes. All Boone women interested in the work of AAUW are in vited. t the Listener ... is the man you want to talk to when you talk about family protection. Because that’s when you need someone who will find new ways to make insurance fit your needs and budget. Someone who will take time to understand. Someone you can trust. That's when you need the Listener. FRANK M. PAYNE—FRANK M. PAYNE. JR. Security Life and Trust Co. 100*103 Northwestern Bank Bldg. 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