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■ WATAUGA COUNTY •m North Carolina winter and summer tourist resort area. boons weather -H> LW - - — — f'eMy Nempaper^ . . Elthty-Fir,, 1W „/ On*,™.. ftlwLto, Dec. 34 20 16 Dec. 39 28 13 Dec. 26 34 19 Dec. 27 90 25 Dec. 28 91 31 Dec. 29 33 23 Dec. 30 41 IS 38 Sts 49 28 37 26 39 16 33 29 31 23 32 a 20 PAGES—2 SECTIONS' cIS™; nTr BoT! JfV? and le«l8lato'- ^ shown taking the oath of office u Mr Brown0* |^° t*”?, C"fU“ °* ParoIes by appointment of Governor Dan Moore. r "® *£?” theJ“th by Judge RaJ'mond B- Mallard. Seated are Justice J. toh? aHme^S. w^ern°r “,00re- r- Brown 8ald: “I a® humbly grateful for the opportunity Mo^e is^rnc..^.?6 ?f servants o'the i***16 « North Carolina of which Governor Du £***“! ' ' *? ** c“mo" practice for communities and organizations to select a c * -?’?*'•*’* ?°me ttole a®*1 2000 historians and others wUl select a Governor of the rf wl?n award is made to Governor Moore or stamped on the ami reinic!?^rfth thl **!!. “S*1*1?/ 'entI a® “* here I am designating Sarah to be around M6S,™M6, 1867ami9eB>““ndS N°‘th Caro,ln» ^ »“* a leader in the difficult years of 'ueenHas Part In Roses Tournament Bakersvllle, N, C.—Miss Brenda Heath, the twenty-third North Carolina Rhododendron Queen and the sixth to be in vited to the world famous Tour nament of Roses held in Pasa dena, Calif, stepped aboard her big Jet at 7:55 A. M. Friday Three Hurt In • A two-car smash up on thi Perkins ville Road Sunday sent three to Watauga County Hospi tal tor emergency treatment and did an estimated $950 damage. ’ Glenda Marie McGhee, 20, at Boone' was charged by investi gating police officer Mont Thomas with failure to yieU right-of-way after she had turn ed into the path of a 1968 Bulck driven by William Worth Car penter, 45, of Monroe, N.C. In his report, officer Thomas said that Miss McGhee driviig a 1962 Ford, was traveling north (amy from Boone)aml was attempting to make a left turn when she hit the front of theCar penter car which was comiig toward Boone. Misa McGhee was taken to the emergency roomatWatai^a County Hospital along with Doris Carpenter and Georgia T. Simp son, both in the Carpenter ear. None were admitted. Hong Kong Flu Is Yet Absent From Watauga Aa of Monday, the Hong Kong flu atilt was a rarity, if at all •slating in Watauga County, Mrs, Virginia Groce, ad* ministrator of Watauga County Hospital, said Monday morning that so far no victims of the oriental flu had been admitted to the county facility. A nurse in one of the physi cians offices in the Doctor's Building next to the hospital reported her employer had treated no cases of Hong Kong flu although 100 injections of the new vaccine had been given. She estimated that 50 requests for vaccinations had not been met since “very little" of the vaccine Is available here. :v The hospital also reported relatively few cases of other influenza and pneumonia for this time of year. morning at Fayetteville. Mrs, John F, Heath who was unable to chaperone her daugh ter saw her aboard where she met her aunt, Mrs. Danial Knopp, of Staunton, Va., who is making the trip with her. Mrs. Knopp will introduce H. GRADY FARTHING Farthing Gets Merit Award Mr. H. Grady Farthing, Boone Savings and Loan Executive and member of the North Caroiiim Water Resources Commission, has received a certificate sign ed by Governor Moore, com mending him for his part in “the total development of North Carolina.** The certificate says: “The goal of my administra tion is the total development of cair abundant human, natural an! capital resources—total de velopment of every community, county and every area of our State. “H. Grady Farthing is hereby recognised and commended for bis interest in and contribution to, the total development of N>rth Carolina.’* * “Dan Moore, Governor.** Mr. Farthing has been con nected with State government tor perhaps 35 years. He was a member of the State Stream Sanitation Commission durliv its entire existence, is a mem ber of the North Carolina Water Resources Commission aid served for many years with the Department of Conservation and Development. He has served in the State Senate. Mr. Farthii* has been a member of the Beard of Directors of the Watai«a Savings and Loan Association for go years, and Is President of the organisation. He has bean active in the Boone Mathodiat Church and Is a member of the official board. her niece at all official fun ctions during their visit to the West Coast. "Miss Rhododen dron” and her chaperone was met at Los Angeles Airport Monday by officials of the Rose Parade, and Mrs. Eleanor J. Moore, Managing Editor of the Bakery and Confectionery Workers publication, and Al Bryan, National President of the Bakery and Confectionery Workers, whose float Miss Heath rode in the Rose Parade was the National Poster Child for the March of Dimes, little Tracy Greenwood, from Okla homa. .. i Following her arrival on the 27th, Miss Heath and Mrs. Knopp visited the Valley Decor ating Com. who constructed the flowered float. They were taken on tour of the plant by Mr. Mike Lawrence, Vice President, De cember 28th, the Tournament of Roses and the Chamber of Com merce extended an official in vitation to them to attend the Rose Parade Ball. The follow ing day, Dec. 30, Al Bryan, in vited them to attend the Con fectionery Ball. On December 31st the queen and her chaperone went to Dis neyland where they were guests of Charles Ridgeway, Publicity Director. Leaving their hotel about 0 A. M. on Jan. 1st, they traveled to the parade line-up where she was seen on nations wide TV over NBC and CBS. Following the Rose Parade, they were guests of honor at the Rose Bowl Football game and will re turn to Fayetteville at 6:44 P. M. today. The Rhododendron Festival la sponsored annually by the Bakersville Lions Club, Income Forms Of Veterans To Be In By Jan. 15 •I. w. Norris, County Vet* era ns Service Officer, has an nounced met the Veterans Ad ministration now requires that the annual Income questionnaire be turned In by Jan. 15, 1869. Norris suggested that In or der for checks to be received on Feb. 1 the queetlonmlre should be In the mall by Fri day, Jan. 10. The veterans office offers assistance In flllliq out the questionnaire and seeii« that it gets to the VA promptly, he added. ■i »; v- > “v %T \-3SSSf! *#* Former Miss America To Appear ne Of State’s now Carnival & 1969 Auto Tags Go On Sale The new reflectorixed green and white automobile registra tion plates are to go on sale throughout the State, Thursday, Jan. 2. Automobile owners will have until Feb. IS to obtain their new plates. In the surrounding area, resi dents may obtain plates at the Boone Chamber of Commerce from 8:30 a. m. to 5 p. m. Monday through Friday and from 8:30 to noon on Saturday. The office Is in the new Southside office of The Northwestern Bank, Intersection of Faculty Street and Highway 105. Local license agent Mrs. Bar bara Ragan points out that "To renew a license plate, you must have a renewal card." She cau tions against misplacing the card when It la received. She also asks that recipients open the envelope, read the Instruc tions and complete the applica tion before presenting it for a new plate, This will expedite issuance and keep long lines • from forming, she said. ' The Department of Motor Ve hicles, has made arrangements with the Boone Post Office to turn over to the local license office those renewal cards which the Poet Office is unable in de liver. Anyone failing to receive an application card should check with the licensing office. (Continued on page two) VONDA KAY VAN DYKE, Miss America of 1965 $2,640,000 Science Building Started At ASU; Last ‘Old Campus’ Structure construction on the Rankin Science Building Addition be gan Monday, Dec. 16, on the Appalachian State University campus. General contractor, the Hick ory Construction Com pany, is putting up s construc tion shack and pipe is beiig; hauled in as water lines are tied in for the new facility. Major work will begin in early spring. Appalachian State announced early in November that the Hick ory company bid $1,334,419. The contracting firm now reports that $200,000 of the bid will go into the community in the form of wages. Workmen on the job will number between 50 and 80. Twenty to 30 of this number will he masons and carpeagars new to the crew. Completion date for thefonr story, 86,000-square-feet building is July, 1970. Project superintendent is John Hunter and the architect is Clemmer Horton-Bush Associates. The university's depertmetbs of biology, chemistry, physics, geography and geology trill ex pand from the current science building into the new addition. Working closely with the irchletecta were the teachers who will occupy the buildbw. Each desk in the buUdiig will >e equipped with AC and DC turret* and the cost of provid ed DC current in the labs will be $42,000. This is to be the last major facility erected on Appalach ian's “old campus”. The con struction site is on the old foot ball field Just west of the new Varsity Gymnasium. Rankin Science Building and its addi tion will connect, v Contingency costs and the ar* ih chitectur&l fee hike the total cost of the project to $2, 640,000, which was appropriated for the building by the 1967 General Assembly, Appalachian reserved the site of the addition 11 years ago. Other contractors are Tom linson Plumbing and Heatix* fASU Blaze Put Out a -s A late afternoon fire on the Appalachian Stats campus Iwough* memories of a dlsas trlous blaze which occurred Moral t"° y**r* •“I one day Quick action by the Boone Fire Department averted a second holiday disaster. At 4:30 p. m. Monday the de partment answered a call to the Rankin Science Building almost in the center at the campus in which a blaze had erupted on the hap Jkipr at the three-story —People tn the buildlr« at the time said a small fire had start ed In a trash can In a storage room and by the time a fire extinguisher could be located the Are bad biased out of con trol. The fire was confined to a storage room in the chemistry section of the bulldiiv. Fire. men said the room was damag ed by smoke. Ned Trivette of the school’s business affairs office said that combustible chemical hsd ig nited and started the fire. He '•aid that little damage was done to the building and added that *t would be sometime before the chemistry department deter mines the amount of lost mater ials. Trivette praised the efforts of the local firefighting unit. Smoke poured out of the top of the building and out windows opened hy firemen but no flames were risible from groun! level. A strong chemical odor filled the air. 5, firemen were laUxiok ing their hoses and prepariw to leave. Two years ago, the adminis tration building was destroyed by flra. Company of Lenoir, G. A. Thom aaon & Son, Inc., of Hickory, Duncan Electric Company of North Wilkesboro, Long En gineering Company of Wins ton-Salem, Southern Eleva tor Company of Greensboro and the Southern Desk Company of Hickory. The general contractor re ports that a unique method of construction in the project will be a “precast structural sys tem with caissons.'* fire At Dixie Cleaners Does $500 Damage An earl; morning fire at the Dixie Cleaners, SOI E. Howard St, Boone, started from a Stok er in the boiler room adjacei* to the main building. Fire Chief R. D. Hodges Jr. said the Saturday, Dee, 28, fire resulted no damage to cloth ing In the cleaners and ownars Dolph Lyons and D, L, Lyons Jr. reported business resumed aa normal. Hodges estimated 8500 dam age was done In the boiler room. Governor Is Pleased With Local Effort <= . -- . ; Boone will be the focal point of the State's first Snow Car nival Jan. 17, 18 and 19. The project will attract Vonda Kay Van Dyke, Miss America of 1965 who will be grand mar shal of a late afternoon parade through Boone. The Carnival has won the felicitations of the Gov- s ernor of North Carolina and lo cally resulted from community resort co-operation inschedul- %.. ing the ski and after-ski events, parade pageantry and a Snow Ball at which a snow queen and her attendants will be an nounced. The Carnival was anrounced Statewide at a noon-Monday press conference jointly held by Robert Bingham, Directorof the Snow Carnival, and the Tra vel Division of the N. C. De partment of Conservation and > Development. The press meet was held in the Velvet Cloak in Raleigh. The Carnival is to be staged at the beginning of National Sld^ Week and in years to com^^ expected to be held th“ the national observanc ___ The main highlight? $ festive event, accord!I ham, will be the crowm.tj first North Carolina Snow Queen ^ and the appearance of MU* 1% Vanda Kay Van Dyke, Miss Afla^iv erica of 1965, who will serve a* Grand Marshal in the Snow Carnival Parade Friday, Jaa^.?*i' 17, Other events during the three-day occasion will include Apres Ski Party, Torch Light Ski Exhibition, and the Snow Ball Dance at Seven Devils, The Carnival director said “This is what might be term ed a ‘family’ project formu lated by participating merchants of the Boone area, and the sld resorts of the s urrounding area. These ski resorts include Blow ing Rock, Beech Mountain, Sev en Devils and Hound Ears.” The average number of skiers in the area during 1967-68 sea son exceeded 12,000 per week. In the last weeks of 1968, snow fall in the Boone area was 25 in ches and Bingham reminded the lowlands press that snow-mak ing equipment keeps the ski industry alive in lieu of natural snow. Gov. Dan K. Moore said: “On behalf of the travel in dustry of North Carolina, I would like to express my deep est appreciation to the Boone Chamber of Commerce for its initiative in presenting the first annual North Carolina Snow Carnival. “This event, conceived for the benefit and pleasure of all North Carolinians as well as those who visit our State, gives im petus and added substance to our claim as ‘variety Vaca tionland' of America. More over, it represents the fulfill ments of a long and tireless effort to bring to our great mountain region a full measure of recognition as a year-aroucd vacation destination. ; ■ '}' ‘•The people of North Caro- % lina join me in wishing for the Boone Chamber of Commerce and the Snow Carnival Commit tee every success in this §t~ fort.” SCHEDULE ^, Bingham said the tentative (Continued on two) ■£
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