BOONE Home of Appalachian State Uni versity; in Boone, Blowing Rock and Linville Scenic Triangle. WATAUGA DEMOCRAT _An independent Weekly Newspaper . . . Eighty-First Year of Continuous Publication BOONE WEATHER Nov. 12 Nov. 13 Nov. 14 Nov. 15 Nov. 10 Nov. 17 Nov. 18 HI Lo Snow Pne. *87 HI Lo 39 25 37 24 53 24 62 40 56 44 54 37 .81 .32 .49 65 46 56 36 49 32 42 28 47 18 58 25 47 38 VOL. LXXXI—NO. 21 BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1968 10 CENTS PER COPY 26 PAGES—3 SECTIONS Dr. Miller Is Given Honor For U. S. Service Dr. Banner I. Miller, Class of 1939, was recently awarded the U. S. Department of Commerce Silver Medal for meritorious federal service. The silver medal, the second highest award given by the De partment, was presented to Mil ler in a ceremony at the De partment of Commerce Build ing in Washington, D. C„ Oct. 29. The presentation was made by Secretary C. R. Smith and by Dr. Robert M. White, Ad ministrator for the Environ mental Sciences Services Ad ministration. The citation which Miller re ceived stated that the medal was awarded “for valuable contri butions in developing improved techniques for forecasting the movement of hurricanes.*’ Mil ler is Chief of the Prediction Development Branch of ESSA’s National hurricane Research Laboratory, with offices on the Campus of the University of Miami, Coral Gables, Fla. Miller graduated from Appa lachian in 1938, He later at tended New York University where he earned a master of science degree and the Uni versity of Chicago, receiving his Ph. D, from that institu tion. He has published numer ous papers in scientific jour nals and is the co-author of an authoritative book on hurri canes, “Atlantic Hurricanes,’’ published in 1960 by LSU Press. A revised edition was issued in 1964. Miller is the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Isom S. Miller who were long time residents of Boone. CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS were unloaded and stored Friday in the former fire truck garage at City Hall. Helping his mother with some of the material is young Craig Russing, age 11. Mrs. Bev Russing is chairman of the Chamber of Commerce committee on Yule decorations and recently devised a rental plan for leasing decorations cheaper than buying them and re placing them periodically. (Staff photo) Dr. Evans Principal Speaker At Annual Farm-City Dinner BY RACHEL RIVERS The Farm-City Week Dinner crowd of 265 listened intently to the story Dr. H. C. Evans told: A man was on his deathbed, the minister wag waiting beside him. Suddenly the patient sat up, tried to speak, tried to form words, then fell back in exhaus tion. The minister called the doc tor, told him the patient was trying so hard to ^,x>ak. . . if only they could help him. Again the patient began form ing words, but reached to the bed table to scribble something on a sheet of paper. The minis ter started to pray. The doctor read the note— “Get off my oxygen tube.” TOGETHERNESS The educator used this story as part of his theme that “As we grow in number, we grow closer and closer and closer together. We step on their oxy gen tube, they step on ours. “If we could just understand we’re all the same people.” He gave his audience a smatt ering of experiences living in a town of 2,500 another of 7,000 and a city of seven million. He told about a woman from a New Dr H.C Ev»n« of Leee-McBeeCollage chat!with A.T. Adams after tbs Farm-City Week Dinner teat weak. CStlff photo) York slum area who worked 12 to 14 hours a day scrubbing floors to take care of a bum hus band and put two small children through school. There was the boy who had the world’s troubles laid at his feet, he and the child in a Penn sylvania camp who broadened Evan’s outlook when he said “There goes our chauffeur in his Cadillac.” As a truant officer in Morris town, Dr. Evans asked a nice looking boy for directions to the home of a truant student. The young man identifies himself as Gwyn Hayes Is New Alderman Boone businessman Gwyn Hayes has been appointed by the Town Board erf Aldermen to serve the unexpired term of the late F red Gragg. Mayor Clyde R. Greene says Hayes will take the oath of office at Thursday night’s meet ing of the Aldermen in City Hall. Other Boone Aldermen are Dr. Hadley M. Wilson and Dr. James B. Graham. Mr. Gragg had accepted the appointment to the Board after the resignation of Phil Vance, who had been elected to the position. the hunted one and ran. Working with the mentally re tarded, Dr. Evans said he had known “Boys and girls with IQs of 40 and 50 who could outwit me.” Some low-IQ 18-year olds also managed to get jobs paying more than that of their teacher. Once he got a call from a lady who said her 11 children were naked and needed clothes. Going to the home, he found good cloth es piled from floor to ceiling. “What’s going on here?” he asked. “My washing machine is broken,” she said. In Banner Elk, N. C., he met a man he described as illiterate, isolated, intelli gent and brilliant at the same time. But “Everyone has the same needs,” he said. “Children here want the same things children want in New York City.” He said he learned two pri mary things from psychology. One was rapport, “the ability to learn to understand others’ problems.” The other was em pathy whereby “I actually can step into your shoes. I, for a moment, become you.” He add ed this is “The greatest close He told the group that heart and mind are essential but most important is a soul with “room for people because it has room (Continued on page two) Farm Chairman Gives Warning Grazing Animals Die In Watauga From Poison WHITE SNAKEROOT—-“So common, it’s a wonder more animals aren’t sick,” says County Agent L.E. Tuckwiller. A dry season hurt pasture, causing many animals to ingest the dis tasteful herb. In Watauga County alone, six grazing animals already are dead from poisoning accumulated over a period of several days. JAMES D. BARKER James Barker Gets Position In Raleigh James D. Barker and for merly of Ashe County has ac cepted a position as Associate State Supervisor in Trade and Industry Education for the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction in Raleigh. Barker is presently teaching at Watauga High School where he has been employed for three years. He also has taught ex tension classes for N. C. State University and Caldwell Tech while in Boone. He received his B.S. from Appalachian State University in 1965 and is working toward his M.A. Early Edition Next Week Next week’s edition of the Democrat will come from the presses Monday evening rather than Tuesday to take care of tht Thanksgiving advertising needs of some of the local business houses. The Democrat is glad to render this special service for Thanksgiving week and respectfully asks that ad vertisers and contributors cooperate fully during the current week to help us make this advanced deadline. Monday, it is again reminded, will be like Tuesday normally is—too late for any but hard news copy. Snakeroot Is Given As Cause Of Fatalities Two horses and four cows have died and several other animals in Watauga County are sick with fall poisoning, which is sometimes known as milk sick disease or white snakeroot poisoning. The County Extension Chair man, L. E. Tuckwiller, said the weed poisoning seems to be worse at the higher elevations, “in areas surrounding Rich Mountain on all sides and out on the Beech Mountain.’ Not only does fall poisioning affect grazing animals such as cattle, sheep, hogs, horses and goats, it also can affect humans drinking milk from the affect ed animals. And the weed which causes the poisoning is “so common,’ says Tuckwiller, “it’s a wonder more animals aren’t sick.’’ UVE OR DEAD “The weed grows in shady places or rich cove land and results in what we call an ac cumulative poisioning.” Tuck willer said that an animal may eat it for several days, though it may be “perhaps three to four weeks before he is af fected. “Evidently, it doesn’t taste good to animals, but they eat it because of grass failure or dry weather such as we’ve had this year.” Frost kills it he said, but it still can be potent after dead and if baled with hay for winter feed. If it is consumed before a snowfall, the symptoms may show up when animals are un der stress such as produced by stoppage of grazing or shipping. A State-produced pamphlet called “Stock Poisoning Plants (Continued on page two) Boone Burley Mart Auctions To Start The Boone Tobacco Market opens at 9 Monday morning with sales starting out in the Farmers Burley warehouse just west of Boone. Manager R. C. Coleman said Tuesday that three-quarters of a million pounds burley was pn the floors of Farmer’s Bur ley where daily quotas will be sold until the house is empty. Then buyers will go to Big Bur ley on the Highway 105-421 Bypass and sell out there while the other warehouse is being refilled. Sale days will be Monday through Saturday each week al though sales will be called off Thursday, Nov. 28, in obser vance of Thanksgiving Day. Sales will run from 9 a.m. until the quota has been sold. The Boone market serves to bacco farmers in Watauga, Avery, Ashe*Alleghany, Yancey and Mitchell as well as other mountain counties. Tobacco long has been Watauga’s king crop in the listing of total income from agricultural pursuits. Overall, farmers who traded their tobacco in Boone’s ware houses last year received pay ments in the vicinity of two and a quarter million dollars. This season, all major tobacco buy ing companies again will be represented at the sales. Coleman said there is no set duration for market operations here. Some 350 people are ex pected to be involved in each day’s sales. (continued on page two) G.O.P. Victory Rally Tonight A Republican victory rally will be held Thursday night in the Holiday Inn Restaurant in Boone. Republican county officials along with Tenth District Rep. Jim Broyhill will be featured. Dinner time is 7 p. m. Local Marriages Increase Bigger Baby Crop Seen For Watauga County Aj was predicted, the postwar baby boom that took place in Watauga County during the late '40s is now producing a marriage boom. And, in turn, the marriage boom means that a bigger baby crop may be expected (or the next (ew years. In general, the annual ratio between number of births and number of marriages In the local area Is about 2.88. As a consequence, with the marked increase In marriages locally, a corresponding rise in births Is foreseen. Beports from all over the country show a sharp advance in the number of marriages taking place. In the first six months of 1968 alone, the total was up more than IQ percent over last year. No less than 2,000,000 couples in the United States will be marching to the altar this year, as against 1,523, 400 in 1960, it is estimated. The figures are from the Department of Commerce and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. On the basis of their findings, the marriage rate in Watauga County is now approximately 8.3 per 1,000 residents. By way of comparison, the rate was 7.4 per 1,000 in the local area in 1964. The upswing is directly attributed to the sharp rise in the number of young people who have arrived at the marrying age. The latest Census Bureau figures show that there are some 1,729 young men and women locally between the ages of 20 and 25, which is the span in which most first marriages take place. This is a greater number than is usual in that age group. With each new marriage a new family is formed and, with each family a new household, with its need of furni ture, dishes, linens, floor covering, electrical appliance, draperies and many other items that go into housekeeping. Eventually, the need will be for baby carriages, too. The Census Bureau estimates that the average annual increase in number of households in the United States, for the next few years, will be about 1,200,000 as compared with 882,000 in the 1960-66 period.

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