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WATAUGA COUNTY fatta Heart of the Northwest •rn North Cindint winter tel eianmer tourUt resort area. WATAUGA DEMOCRAT WEATUEK “5 i? —wrtteie H MA>; g | WellAhead QfNationai Average County Spending Averaging $5,882 Per Family - The Watauga Count; economy moved ahead it ■tardy fashion in the four-year period since 1964, - in line with advances made at the national level. The progress was especially evldentlntbeincreased . ‘ volume of business done by local retail stores. Their ■sles rose 36.5 percent in the period, according to figures released by the Standard Rate and Data Service. The overriding credit for the gain goes to the local t consumer and to his ability and his willingness to spend freely. ■ .;V. Neither the talk of a possible recession, nor the hike In Federal taxes, nor the various mMm«i problems at home and abroad deterred him. He spent confidently, with the feelliv that he tad a Job he could count on, an Income that was steadily rising and a future that was financially protected, thanks to pensions, health Insurance and personal savli«s. In the four years, as a result, the sales volume In - w«t»«ga County retail stores rose from $19,691,000 ton total of 926,880,000, Part of this increase Is attributed, of course, to higher prices for merchandise. The 36.5 percent rise topped the United States rise of 20.8 percent end that In the State of North Carolina, 26.4 percent. Related to the local population, the retail sales were equivalent to spending at the rate of 05,882 per family, which was well over the $5,280 per family elsewhere in the United States and the $5,105 in the South Atlantic States. Nearly every branch of retail business shared in this growth. People bought more cars, more and better clothing, finer furniture, food, cosmetics, household equipmei* and electrical gadgets. m - Directly affected were the 105 retail stores in the local area and the 620 people employed by them. Their . payroll rose from $1,280,000 a year to $1,912,000 in the period. With the beginning of the new year, the consensus among economists is that the American economy will continue on its upward course in 1969, as it has for the last eight years, but at a somewhat slower rate during the first few months. Much depends upon the progress made insettlingthe Vietnam situation and upon putting the brakes on inflation, they say. Work To Start On Building March 1 Federal Programs Group Is Told Of Vocational Plans ■;> \ Various Classes To Give Vital Training Standing in the living room of their new home in Bethel are Mr. and Mre. Ted Tester. Because of orthopedic surgery a year ago, Mrs. Tester (the former Edith Anierson) is now able to walk. She and her husband are native Wataugans. (Staff photo) The Watauga County Federal Programs Committee Monday night saw Project IMPACT siring from idea to action Tn a 16-minute video tape. It also learned that the Vo cational Education Center to be funded by the Appalachian Reg ional Commission will be put under construction March 1 and completed in time tor use In the ftfll. Title in directors Robert Danner'and George Ragan In troduced the vocational educa tion and occupational guidance programs, and the work In Project IMPACT (Nov. >1 is sue). Mrs. Charlotte Cole, guid ance supervisor in Watauga, told the group that guidance la moving into the elementary schools to provide students with occupational Information and promote healthy self-concept, social growth and personality development In the individual. Of Sliehtlv mnr, than pul ■ The Neglected Disease99 Watauga Woman Feels 10 Feet Tall, Now That She Can Stand BY RACHEL RIVERS One North Carolina physi cian has described arthritis as the neglected disease. Two years ago the Surgeon General at the United States declared arthritis to be a major national health threat and called for continued and expanded re search. And in Chapel IfiU, Robert Face tells why. As executive director of the North Carolina Chapter of The Arthritis Foundation, Pace says the medical world does not yet know the cause at arthritis "in any at its forms except gout," which Is now control lable but still Incurable, as are all other forms. Nationally, there are 16,800, 000 arthritics. The number In North Carolina Is 446,000 per sons. According to the late Dr. Russell L. Cedi, these men, women and children sifter from at least 84 different types ot arthritis. Rheumatoid arthritis the most crippling form, strikes hardest between the ages of 17 and 35. ■ - To add economic Insight, a government study reveals that tbs former suffers most: 717, 000 of all form operators and managers have arthritis; 230, 000 women form laborers and 118,000 male form laborers also are atrlken. Furthermore, with so maay unanswered VJestlons at hand, arthritics regularly foil prey to «mckery. Pace said that last year, 0316 miUian was (pent for qiackery—medicine, “Immune” milk and fake treat ments such as copper bracelets. By comparison, only $15 mil lion was put out for research and programs for arthritis. This includes money from founda tions and the Federal Govern ment, The main work that Pace and Ms secretary do for the four year-old organisation in Chapel Mil la stay In touch with the State'* 20 branch groups, con centrating primarily on educa ting the public to the great need tor research and community participation toward that goal. Watauga County 1* not among the few participating communi ties of Tarheelia. •BEAUTIFUL' When Mrs. Tad Tester of the Bethel Community stood up one day last year, she re member* ihefett “lOfeettall.” She wu recovering from orthopedic •urgery to relieve the crippling effects of rheu matoid arthritis which struck her when she was 29 years old. Mrs. Tester had not walked a step in 18 years until three lays after her January (1968) operation at Cberlptte Memo rial Hospital. Her first problem with arth OContinued on naee two) Ua * , Joe Miller Is Winner Of Jaycees’ Top Honor The Boone Jayeeea* top hon or, the Distinguished Service A word, wee presented Monday night to Joe C. Miller, 21, of 102 Hlllc rest In Boone. It wee presented at DSA Ban quet at Holiday Im by the 1288 recipient, Glenn i lodges. Miller is pharmacist who is co-owner at the Boone Brug Company and East King Street Pharmacy. He was nominated tor the title by the Rev. Robert T, Young, minister of Boone United Metho dist Church. After outlining Mil. ler’a community activities, Mr. Young wrote d Miller’s seven years service as a Scoutmas ter, pointing out that some 400 or more yotmg boys have been in his troop and isider his in fluence, "Many of Ma boys have gone JOE MILLER I S DSA WINNER | £, ■■ I •" r4' ■i’ on to win outstanding college and adversity scholarship* and award* and to b* raal Isadora In thslr Ugh school and col lege*," Ur. Yotaig pointed out. “At laaat live ot Us boys has* goo* on to tarn their Eagle Scout Awards’*. Millar la a member of too District Scout Committee and last year was selected Scouter at the Year. He helped organise and set iq> Camp Roaring Fork, a Scout camp at some SO acres which will be available (or use by the youth of this community, the minister wrote, "His In terest in the young people ... reveals a willingness to serve unselfishly that I think la un equalled.’* Miller la married to the for mer Joyce Tuckwlller and they have two sons, Joseph S and David 1. Son at Mr. and Mrs. F. Cedi Miller, Joe was edu cated at Appalachian High School, the University of Iowa and received his B. S. In phar macy from UNC at Chapel Hill. He Is a Jaycee. a Mason, toathanad on pap two) counselors In the State, Wa tauga has six, whereas the Charlotte-Mecklenburg system has only one, she said. The program concluded with a talk by Dr. John Goode, co ordinator erf Title m, N. C. State Department of Public In struction. Dr. Goode said Title in money in the State comes out to only $3 per child and Watauga competes with 157oth- • er school units for funding of its programs. For example, last year 55 proposals were submitted. Only 12 were approved, with Watauga getting two at the 12. Dr. Goode said his office finds that when a school succeeds as Watauga has, “at some point, something happens, something starts to mushroom.*' School systems find new sources of funds and equipment, often in their own communities. He feels “This is starting to happen here.'* LIAISON In the tell, the County Board of Education named the 36 member Federal Programs Committee and an eight-mem ber supplement group to par ticipate In federal programs planning and act as liaison between ESEA programs and the people whose children bene fit from them. The first meeting (Nov, 20) was on Title I funds. Prior to the Title m program Monday, Committee Chairman John Marsh appointed Mrs. Sue Murray, Mrs. Rachel Hartley, Ray Minton, Edsel Hodges and Clyde S. Greene as the Re view Committee. They will go over proposals for the next school year and may help In formulating summer programs. Marsh said. Title m differs from Title I, which Is for deprived students, In thst it serves sll children and best succeeds by its Innovative aspects. Danner annowcedthatthe Vo catloml Education Center at Watai«a High School will contain four classrooms and three laboratories and allow expan sion of some courses and addi tion of others. The Center will bouse a cos metology course, graphic arts, auto mechanics, and such con struction Industry classes as carpentry and masonry. Draft lig, introduction to vocations and a distributive education far co-op work program) also will be included. George Ragan, the county’s other Title in director, dis cussed IMPACT, the project which employs modern teach ing aids. The Resource Center In the Board of Education Building in volves seven people, has a work area where transparencies and S3 mm film strips are made and where printing is dons. The eowty’e 81 educational films are stored. Mrs. Gale Wood to In charge OCootinueu on page two! V you buy a second car, watch the first one. It may not be there when you get back. So admonishes Glenn Isaacs of Grove Street, Boone, who bought Us wife, Carol, a 1966 Chevy n last Tuesday. His own car also was a *66 Chevy II. After taking her car for a spin last Tuesday night, the couple returned home to find Us car had been “straight-wired’' and driven away. It was aban doned in West Jefferson where it was found Thursday. It had been drived onto a steep bank and the transmission and carburator taken off. The glove compartment was pried open and emptied of papers. Holes had been punched into the back seat, wUch was torn oid so thieves could get the spare tire out of the locked trunk. The Chevy then was pushed over so a couple of wheels could be removed. (Staff photo) Rash Of Auto Thefts Is Apt ToRaise Insurance The Ugh auto theft rate which has hit Boooe In the last sev eral days could cause the coat of theft Insurance to shoot up. Since October, police ban told the newspaper of 10 thefts. YDC Will Name Officer Slate The Watauga County Young Democrat Club will meet at 7:30 Friday night at the Court* house, according to Eddie P. Norris, president. Officers will be elected for the coming year. Other sources maintained that nearly that many cars were taken in a week. On Tuesday, Police Chief Ed Harmon gave figures and stated that suspects were apprehended. The follow, log is part of a study made prior to his report: - Police Chief Ed Harmon re ported Tuesday the arrest of three suspects in connection with a rash of auto thefts in Boone. Harmon said J. C. Trivette, 18 of Dogwood Drive, Boone was arrested along with two minors last week. He said a billfold belonging to one of the minors was found in a GTO stolen last week. The same 781 Signers Ask For Repeal Airport Law Deerfield and Bamboo com munity residents concerned with the Watauga County Air port Commission's selection of a alto in their area this week delivered a petition to Legis lative Representative Jim Hol shouser al Boone. Above 7*1 signatures waa: “We the undersigned citiaene cf Watauga Cota*y are opposed to the condemnation rights vested in the Watauga Courty Airport Commiaaion and do hereby petition our elected member of the General Aa •embly of North Caroline to in troduce legislation to repeal Ifeuse BUI 1397, North Caroilne Seesiona Lew 1M7, the amend ment to Chapter 470, N. C, Sessions Law 1961.'' Sponsors of the petition say an many aa 300 more are will ing to add their names to the list. Holabouser left (or Raleigh Monday and could not be reach ed (or comment. i , ' jiiV1 ■ minor was found on Howard Street In a ear that would not start, Harmon said. Trlvette and two minora were later taken into custody. Triv ette is being held wider 11,000 bond in the county jail, Harmon said that 8 and 9 cars were stolen in one weokend bid all were recovered. He said one of the minors also was the same one arrested in connection with early December car thefts. A bearing in tbs east against Trlvette will come up In District Court session Agents say that comprehen sive coverage is one of the cheapest protections available. A late-model vehicle may be ln eured for theft, glass breakage, vandalism. Ore and other dama ges far armmd 015, the cost varying with the make of ear and its point on the deprecia tion schedule. That cost could reap a 05,000 benefit as was the case in Sep tember when a car was takaa from the Greene-Buick-Pootlnw lot In Boons and completely ■tripped. Jerry Cos, insurance agent for 23 years here, serrlcedtkat and two other claims, one being a 0500 repair Job. He also work ed with a insures whose planned marriage trip was complicated: The boy woke that morning to find Ida car bad been stolen. Bepreaeating soma U insur ance companies. Including Aetna (Continued on pegs two)
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