BOONE Home at Anoalachian State Uni versity, in Boone, Blowing Rock and Linville Scenic Triangle. VOL. LXXXI—NO. 19 WATAUGA DEMOCRAT _An Indel>end<’nt Weekly Newspaper . . . Eighty.First Year of Continuous Publication ■ ; _B00NE. WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7. 19fi« 10 CENTS PER COP\ BOONE WEATHER 1968 HI Lo SnowPrec. "67 Oct. 29 37 31 tr. .01 II Oct. 30 51 23 Oct. 31 65 26 Nov. 1 69 53 Nov. 2 70 49 || Nov 3 65 41 Nov. 4 56 44_32 || 24 PAGES—2 SECTIONS Presidential Choice Is Undecided Republicans Sweep Watauga County Offices Watauga County voters made a surprise swing to the Repub lican viewpoint in Tuesday’s election and named Perry Greene, Kenneth Wilcox and Gene Wilson as the new Board of County Commissioners. Greene received 4,905 votes; Wilcox got 4,630; and Wilson was credited with 4,616. Totals for the Democratic slate were 4,251 for Dr. Len Hagaman, 4,070 for Glenn Hodges and 3,877 for R. Clyde Winebarger. Hagaman and Hodges were incumbent Com missioners who had been elect ed in 1966 in a county-wide swing to the Democrats. This year, Winebarger was running in place of retiring Commis sioner Tom Jackson, who had been chairman of the board. The Republican candidates picked up blocks of win-binding votes in Blowing Rock, Blue Ridge, Cove Creek, New River, Stony Fork and Watauga pre cincts notably. Jimmy Holshouser, Republi can candidate for the State House of Representatives, 44th District, defeated Democrat Randolph Phillips by 5,176 to 3,515 locally. Watauga was needed in Phillips’ effort to overpower the large Republi can vote typical of Avery and Mitchell, the other counties in the District. Uncontested in their bids for District Court Judgeships were Republicans J. E. Holshouser Sr. of Boone and J. Ray Bras well. Thomas Rhudy Bryan Sr. was returned to the State Sen ate’s Republican membership while Miss Helen Underdown was uncontested in her bid to continue as Watauga County’s Register of Deeds. She is a Democrat. Tabulations used in today’s local news stories were com piled between 7 p. m. Tuesday and 3:30 a. m. today (Wednes day) for special election cov erage. These unofficial figures were telephoned to the Board of Elections. Thursday morning, the Board will meet with precinct regis trars and other selected offi cials to make a complete ex aminations of all returns and prepare to file the officials election results with the State. By *K5n-partisan balloting, Wataugans selected James P. Marsh, Hugh B. Hagaman, John H. Hollar, Edsel Cook and S. C. Eggers Sr. as the new Wa tauga County Board of Educa tion. Computations of the returns from the 16 precincts gives Marsh 5,268 votes, Hagaman 4,757, Hollar 4.271, Cook 4, 222 and Eggers 3,644. Others on the ballot were Dr. Ben Strickland, John R. Herman, J. B. Ragan, Dennis I O. Greene and H. W. Mast Jr. PERRY GREENE Broyhill Is Easy Winner In Tenth Republican Congressman Jim Broyhill was victorious Tues day in his race for a fifth term in the House of Repre sentatives. His opponent, Con gressman Basil Whitener, con ceded defeat at 2 a. m. Wednesday as election returns were amassed across the Tenth District. Re-districting pitted the in cumbents against each other leading into this election. Both had campaigned extensively in the territory. Broyhill’s lead was ex pected to reach more than 15, 000. In Watauga County, unoffici al returns credited Congress man Whitener with 3,421 votes against 5,474 for Broyhill. Congressman Broyhill was first elected over Representa tive Hugh Alexander when Yad kin and Davie counties were added to the Ninth District. Later he had easy going and saw a Democratic Legislature give him Wilkes County to make his position solid. Then when the courts required further re districting, Broyhill came into the new Tenth District retain ing only Caldwell and Watauga of his former counties. In the race for United States Senator, Sam J. Ervin Jr. was declared winner long before all the ballots were in hand. His unofficial total was not available at presstime. In Watauga County, however, Sen. Ervin’s vote count was 4,045 as compared to 4,578 cast for his Republican chal lenger, Bob Somers. JAMES E. BROYHILL Burley Warehouses To Start Auctions Nov. 25 Burley Auction Warehouses in Boone and throughout the belt, will open their 1968-69 sales season November 25, it has been decided by the Bur ley Sales Committee. Sales will be held November 25, 26, 27, and 29. A marketing recess will be gin at the close of sales Decem ber 18 and auctions will be resumed January 6, 1969. The Committee passed reso lutions, among which are these: All warehouses are placed on a basket-selling basis and shall not sell more than 1260 baskets per day per set of buy ers (that is. 360 baskets per hour for 3 1/2 hours.) The Burley Sales Committee is interested in having tobacco delivered in proper order to the warehouses to prevent fat stems and excessive short weights; and, It is now a provision of the contracts between cooperative associations and warehouses that tobacco that is weighed prior to ten days before the opening of the market will be ineligible for price supports; and, It is also a provision of the Standard Buyers’ Conditions of Sale that tobacco cannot be of ficially weighed prior to ten days before the opening of the market; The Burley Sales Committee recommends and urges all farmers not to deliver and all warehousemen not to receive and officially weigh tobacco prior to November 15, 1968. The Burley Sales Committee respectfully requests the Com modity Stabilization Service of the United States Department of Agriculture to have the ASC Committees ask their warrant writers on each market to re port the daily sales of each warehouse to the Head Inspector erf the Agricultural Marketing Service on that market. EUGENE WILSON KENNETH WILCOX Paul Miller Is Elected Rotary Boy From WHS Paul Miller, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Miller of Boone, represented Watauga High School as the first Rotary Boy of the Month for 1968-69. Paul and his father were guests of the Boone Rotary Club Oct. 24. To be eligible for selection for this honor, a senior at Watauga High School must have a “B” average for three years and be an outstanding student in extracurricular activities. Paul is president of the stu dent body; a member of the National Beta Club, the Let termen’s Club, and Interclub Council; and a member of the varsity football team. In 1968 he served as a junior marshal and was a delegate to the 1968 Boys' State at Wake Forest University during the summer. After graduation, Paul will enter the University of North Carolina to study political sci ence and law. PAUL MILLER Contracts Awarded For $2,640,000 Addition To ASU Science Building Contracts for the construc tion of Appalachian State Uni versity’s most expensive buil ding, a $2.6 million addition to the Rankin Science Building, have been awarded to seven firms which submitted low bid' for the project’s different pha ses. The general contract of $1,334,419 was awarded to Hic kory Construction Company, Inc., of Hickory. Tomlinson Plumbing and Heating Comp any of Lenoir won the plumb ing contract for a low bid of $1(7,429. A $273,334 bid for the mec hanical work gained the con tract In this category for C. A. Thomason & Son, lnc„ of Hickory, Duncan Electric Com pany of North Wilkes boro, claimed the electrical contract with a bid of $118,085. An electronic contract for $6,771 went to Long Engin eering Company of Winston-Sa lem. The $18,101 elevator con tract was awarded to Southern Elevator Company of Greens boro, and the Southern Desk Company of Hickory bid $336, 469 to achieve the laboratory equipment contract. Contingency costa and the fee of the architect, Clemmer Horton-Bush Associates of Hickory, will hike the total costs of the project to $2,640,000— the amount appropriated for the building by the 1967 Gen eral Assembly. The four-story structure, which la to provide 83,000 square feet of Door space, Is to be ready for occupancy prior to the opening of the fall quar ter of 1970. The contractors will have 480 days from next March 1 to complete the high ly technical building. Some pre liminary work is to commence immediately, but major con struction will not begin until the spring. The building, to be erected on the site of the old foot ball field just west of the new Varsity Gymnasium, will be attached to Rankin Science Building. 'The university’s de partments of biology, chemis try, physics, geography and geology will expand from the current science buildipg into the new addition. The building actually jras de signed in part by the teachers 1. who will be instructing in it. Various professors worked very closely with the architects in planning the structure which will contain two separate iso tope labs. Each desk in the building is to be equipped with AC and DC current. The cost of provid ing DC current in the labor atories will cost $42,000. It will be the last major facility to be erected on Appa lachian’s “old campus” area. Ned Trivette, Director of Bus iness Affairs at ASU, said the construction site was reserved for the science building addi tion some 10 years ago. “It will be one of the most modern science buildings of its kind," Trivette stated. “Its Scott Is Winner In Governorship Race In the wee hours of Wednes day morning, NBC News fore saw a win for Bob Scott in the State’s gubernatorial race. About 5:30 a.m. today, NBC listed 94 per cent of the Tar heel State’s precincts had re ported and said that Lt. Gov. Scott was the winner with 663, 783 as measured against Jim Gardner’s 658,568 votes at the In the wee hours of Wednes day morning, the Associated Press announced that Lt. Gov. Bob Scott had been elected to the State’s highest office. The tally of 732,000 for Scott and 666,000 for Gardner was publicized about 6:30 a. m. The race which at one point had brought Scott and Gardner to within 900 votes of each other ended when Associated Press released news of Scott’s elec On the local scene, however, Gardner edged Scott b> 474 (unofficial) votes. County pre cincts contributed 4,262 votes to Bob Scott and 4,736 to the Republican candidate. Late information was that the Democrats held on to the rest of the State ticket, with the foremost vote-getter being Sen. Sam Ervin with an esti mated majority of 61 per cent. ROBERT W. SCOTT Artist And Lecture Series Brings Broad Cultural Events The gusty dance-in-the aisles rhythum of New Orleans’ Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Columbia University’s Richard Hofstadter discussing violence in America. The studied ele gance of an evening with the Philadelphia Chamber Sym phony. Nathan Wright, lecturer at N.Y.C. Community College, discussing Bla^k Power and creativity. AH of these and many more are part of the varied pan orama of experience which is available to students of Appala chian State University simply for the taking, and open to the public for a minimal fee. The Artists and Lecture Ser ies, which will sponsor these events during the coming year, extends the learning process beyond the limits of the class room by bringing a broad var iety of cultural experiences to an area which would not ordinarily have access to such events. Rogers V. Whitener of Appa lachian’s English Department is chairman of the Series. He also is in charge of the selection of artists for the pro grams. The lecturer selections are directed by Dr. Dan Rice of the Philosophy and Religion Department. Art films are a special section of the series, under the direction of Jim Burton and John Andrikopoulos, of the Art Department. “Primarily,” said Whitener, “the Series is an extension of the learning situation. Every thing we do contributes to the total picture of teaching and learning. These are vital ex periences in the arts and in the subject matters brought to us by the speakers.'1 Financing for all but the lecturers comes from student activity fees. The lectures bud get is part of Appalachian’s Academic Budget. “A portion of this,” Whitener explained, ‘‘is allotted for an in-residence person. The idea is that this residenceship will be passed around to the various creative areas of the campus. Pre sumably there will be someone in music and the theater la ter on.” Guy Owen, last sum mer’s writer-in-residence for a quarter, was the first per son to come to Appalachian in connection with this program. ‘‘This would be be same sit uation as a specialist in any field who would not only teach and stimulate butalsoinspire,” said Whitener. “It isexpecially valuable in that the in-residence person would not be tied down to so much formal classwork that would hinder him from the creative effort. There is also the benefit to be gained from personal exchange with stu dents.” The lecturer section of the series began two years ago. It has been quite successful in bringing speakers of note to the campus, including last year’s visits by longshoreman philosopher Eric Hoffer and poet John Ciardi. ‘‘The basis of selection,” said Dr. Rice, “is that we have tried to bring in speakers of different persua sions without creating an im balance. There is no thematic policy; we avoid that, for the present. In the future, however, we may try to establish a theme and bring in three or four speak ers to give different views on a specific topic. ‘‘As far as I am concerned,” continued Rice, ‘‘the basic val ue of the program is to en courage an atmosphere in which the students and faculty can hear and exchange ideas with persons of established reputa (Continued on page twelve) Open House Saturday At New Deep Gap Fire Dept. The Deep Gap Volunteer Fire Department, Inc. will hold its first open house of the new fire station from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 9. At 3, the an nual membership meeting will be held. Everyone is invited to inspect new building and equip The Department was organ ized in November of 1964 and has built a modern brick fire station that will house four trucks. The building is valued at about $15,000. The equipment consists of one Mack fire truck, one 1,000 gallon tank truck and a panel truck, all completely equipped. There are 16 active firemen u 2&r\r<3G:>ia, who are outfitted with uniforms and have attended State-approv ed fire schools. Memberships have been sold to residences and businesses in the community and the Depart ment has answered calls in Boone when additional men and equipment were needed. Money has been raised by sponsoring chicken bar-be-que dinners. ARCHITECT'S DRAWING OF NEW SCIENCE BUILDING Humphrey And Nixon In Toss Up Standings With the tallies from some of the vote-rich industrial states yet incomplete and with 77 per cent of the national election precincts counted, the race had evened up early Wed nesday with Nixon and Hump hrey each credited with 43 per cent of the popular vote. When the percentage of pre cincts tallied later rose to 81, the distribution of the vote re mained unchanged. Some of the big states were yet in doubt, although Pennsyl vania which had been given Humphrey earlier by the com puter service had changed to a toss-up. Among the incomplete states was California where Nixon staffers were predicting a de ciding lead of 300,000 votes. Major news media, print and electronic, had predicted Illi nois for Nixon. They also felt that Ohio and Missouri would belong to the GOP, but Texas had been categorized as a toss up. With 70 per cent of the Illi nois vote in, it was all even between the candidates at 46 per cent. Ohio returns showed Nixon with 46 percent, Humphreywith 42 per cent—with 82 per cent of the precincts reporting. The Vice President was a head in Texas with 42 per cent while 39 per cent was Nixon’s share. Eighty-five pre cincts had reported at that time. Pennsylvania reported 92 per cent of its vote, with Humphrey leading by two percentage points, 47 to 45. Forty-seven per cent of the California precincts showed Nixon getting 47 per cent and Humphrey 46 per cent. Wallace held on to his five states with 39 electoral votes. In Illinois it was said that much of the Chicago vote was yet to be reported. The electoral count was Humphrey 153, Nixon 178. Watauga cast 5,031 votes for Nixon, 2,952 for Humphrey and 1,060 for Wallace. Nixon was ahead in North Carolina. There have been many Presidents who received less than a majority of the popular vote, but it was pointed out at 6 o’clock Wednesday morn ing that this will be the first time that the winner is expected to receive a tally of the vote in the low 40 per cent bracket.

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