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Routes221,321 To Be Made Into 5-Lane Road In City
Blowing Rock Road is in for a $450,000 revamping that will provide five lanes of travel from
the intersection of N. C. 105 and U. S. 221-321 to a point just outside the city limits. Allocation
for the project was made by the Governor and announced by Highway Commissioner Raymond
Smith. (Staff photo) , '
Mrs. Broyhill To Speak
At GOP Dinner And Rally
MBS. BROYHILL
Jaycees To Conduct
Phone Vote Drive
About 60 Boone Jaycees will
conduct a voter telephone cam
paign Monday evening, Nov. 4.'
Using 23 telephones, they will
attempt to call every household
in Watauga County between 6
and 9:30.
They will urge every regis
tered citizen to exercise his
voting privilege In voting for
the candidate of his choice. A
spokesman for the group said
“Please remember that only
you can determine who out- next
leaders in the government will
be and help us remind every
one to vote Tuesday, Nov. 5."
Watauga’s First Snow
Falls Ahead Oi Time
Watauga's first snow of the
season sprinkled the country
side Friday night, covered the
rooftops and the automobllee
but failed to last on the pave
ment.
Sunday was bright and balmy
but there was a light covering
of snow Monday morning again
in moderate temperatures.
There were snow flurries Mon
day and Tuesday's darkening
skies Indicated there might be
added snow.
Mrs. Louise Broyhill, wife
of Congressman James Broy
hill, will be the principal speak
er at a fund-raising dinner and
rally to be held at Parkway
School Saturday.
Barbecued chicken will be
served from 5:30 to 8 p.m.
by the Deep Gap Fire Depart
ment and entertainment will be
furnished by a local string band.
Mrs. Broyhill has been quite
active during her husband’s
campaign this fall and has spent
much time throughout the Tenth
District in behalf of her hus
band’s candidacy. She explained
that she is doing all she can
so that Mr. Broyhill can remain
in Washington whileCongress is
in session.
The rally at Parkway will
climax a day of activity by
the Republicans who will have
a caravan visiting the voti%
precincts in the county. Mrs.
Broyhill will join the group at
Blowing Rock about 11 ajn.
and continue throughout the
county, launch at Matney will
be served at noontime.
The caravan will feature a
seven-foot likeness of an ele
phant which was built and used
by Appalachian University stu
dents in the recent homecomiiyi
Democrat May
Be Late For
Voting News
Du* to the f»ctth*t the Demo
crat come* from the pressee
early Tueedey evening*, the
election next week will pose
the uaual problem, In that the
flret new* will be available
too lata for usial deadline*.
Tha newspaper will be printed
a* early Wednesday morning
a* It 1* possible to get suffi
cient returns tabulated with the
hope* that most at the uaual
mall* will be met. However,
that we will ha too lata for this
1* possible.
parade. Local GOP officials es
timate that 100 vehicles will
participate in the tour.
Local candidates, as well as
district and State aspirants, will
take part in the program at
Parkway. The speaking will be
gin about 8 pjn.
Governor Dips
Into Surplus
For Local Work
Governor Dan Moore has al
located $450,000 from highway
surplus funds for the widening
of IS-221 and LB-321 from
their junction with NC-105 in
Boone to just beyond the city
limits, a distance of approxi
mately one and one half miles.
This information comes to
the Democrat from Mr. Ray
mond Smith, Eleventh District
Highway Commissioner.
It is proposed that this high
ly important section of high
way be widened to five lanes
with curb and gutter on either
side. This is designed so as
to provide a center lane for
left turn traffic movements and
thus allow traffic to move more
freely on the other four lanes.
This section of highway tra
verses an industrial, motel and
restaurant area with extreme
ly heavy travel. This improve
ment will provide much-needed
relief on the most heavily tra
veled approach to Boone and
the rapidly growing Appala
chian State University.
Court Clerk At
Meeting On New
Court System
Clerk of Superior Court O.H.
Foster and his assistant, Phy
llis E. Foster, attended a three
day sesssion of instructions and
training Oct. 17-19 in Chapel
Hill.
Held at the Institute of
Government, the school con
cerned procedures under the
new court system which be
comes effective in Watauga
County this Dec. 2. Fifty-nine
the 61 counties going under
the new system were represen
ted at the session.
On Oct. 28 and 29, Mrs.
Foster attended a school for
bookkeepers involving instruc
tions and training concerning
the accounting and financial
procedures and bookkeeping un
der the State system. The
school was conducted in the
Justice Building in Raleigh.
Hickory Official Speaks
Says Public Housing
Gives People Chance
Gtizens Croup
Discusses Need
In Community
When people live in unsafe,
unsanitary housing “They get
depressed, grow up that way
and remain that way. The idea
of public housing is to give
them a fighting chance.”
These were the opening re
marks of Jim Barker, chairman
of the Hickory Public Housing
Authority, as he addressed a
public meeting Tuesday night
(Oct. 22) in the Appalachian
Elementary School auditorium.
Barker and C. N. Huggins,
executive director of the autho
rity, were invited here by Boone
Citizens for Better Housing
whose acting chairman is Carl
Bredow. Offering a common
sense introduction to the ways
and means of getting low cost
housing for the disadvantaged
Barker said:
“We are not experts ... We
thought we were when we start
ed, but we’ve become very
humble in the meantime. Hick
ory had not had one of these
housing programs, because they
didn’t think they needed it. But
a survey made in 1966 revealed
a definite need for at least
500 units. At least 500 families
were living beneath the mini
mum wage in substandard, in
adequate housing.
“When people get into this
low income level—into this type
of housing—they never seem to
get out of it,” Barker said.
“They have many children who
grow up into the same situa
(Continued on page two)
Beginning his talk Monday at Democratic Headquarters is Sen. Sam Ervin. In the bacitground
standing beside Sheriff Ward Carroll is incumbent County Commissioner Glenn Hodges. Be
hind him is Dr. Hadley Wilson and at left is Howard Cottrell. (Staff photo) (Story on page three)
HVMiJTE1?>n',T G0VERN0JR B0B SCOTT demonstrates one of Jack Guy’s gee-haw whimtny
diddles at Democratic headquarters in Boone last Wednesday. (George Flowers* Photo) *
Scott Tells Local Rally
Watauga Needs More Roads
Lieutenant Governor Bob
Scott came to Boone last Tues
day night and Wednesday morn
ing visited on the street, shook
Holshouser Is
To Be Included
In Honor Croup
Jim Holshouser erf Boone has
been selected to membership
in “Outstanding Young Men of
America.”
The young attorney was offi
cially advised last week that
his name is to be included in the
upcoming edition published by
the Outstanding Americans
Foundation. Selection came
after nomination by Davidson
College.
The honor was the third re
cently received by Holshouser.
(Continued on page two)
hands with the capacity crowd
in Democratic headquarters and
outside and pin-pointed the ur
gent needs of the area, more
specifically Watauga County,
for an up-dated and adequate
highway system.
Scott was presented to the
gathering by Mrs. Rob Rivers,
Secretary of the Watauga County
Democratic Executive Com
mittee and longtime friend of
the Scott family.
Mr. Scott, whose father had
deep friendships in the County,
thanked the people for their
consideration and hospitality to
himself and to his family over
the years and solicited contin
ued support during the last
days of the campaign and the
coming four years.
Hailing the expansion of the
tourist business in Watauga and
the development of industrial
facilities, he paid tribute to
Appalachian University and its
President Dr. W.H. Plemmons
whom he first met when he
(Plemmons) was director of
practice teaching at Carolina
and visited the high school
where young Scott was enrolled.
With the tremendous growth
of the locale, Scott pledged
his efforts toward the develop
ment of suitable highways to
handle the tremendous traffic
in and out of Boone.
Pointing out that this problem
is one of concern to people of
the East as well as the West,
he said that in some parts of
Ohio, for instance, the people
are closer to North Carolina
beaches than to any others.
“Why is it you didn’t get
any Appalachian funds for high
ways?” he asked and answered
by saying there was little point
in arguing over whatever hap
pened, but that work must go
forward toward securing a
share of this money to go to
ward constructing a primary
highway system capable of
(Continued on page two)
BULLETIN
New Postoffice For Boone
A bulletin was telephoned to the Watauga Democrat late Tuesday afternoon
announcing that Congressman Basil Whitener of the Tenth District has suc
cessfully negotiated for a new Post Office building in Boone.
The Post Office Department approved Whitener’s request at 2 o'clock
Tuesday. According to the Congressman’s office, Whitener had been strong
ly urging the Department to take this move for the past two months.
The present Post Office was constructed in 1939 and has a net interior
space of 6,585 square feet. It has a platform loading space of 153 square
feet.
The new building is to have a net interior space of 15,000 square feet,
platform loading space of 14,000 square feet and a parking-maneuvering area of
28,000 square feet.
Officials from the Regional Office of the Post Office Department in Atlanta,
Ga„ will begin looking for a site on which to locate the new facility. The
site must have at least 60,000 square feet of land space.