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WATAUGA COUNTY -_■ b the Heart at the Northwest er® North Carolina winter and •attuner tourist resort area. . BOONE WEATHEK An Independent Weekly N etc*paper . , . Eighty-Fint Year of Continuous Publication Jan. 28 94 M Jan. It MB Jan. 80 87 48 Jan. 31 58 4S Feb. 1 S3 40 Feb. 8 SI 44 Feb 1 47 IS JO a7 tr. an VOL. LXX3U—NO. a BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NOBTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6,1969 10 CENTS PER COPY 20 PAGES—2 SECTIONS 8SC£88S5 ■ 8888X88? MOBILE HOME PILE-UP—Enroute from Goldsboro to Ftoeola, N. C„ this mobile home ms halted just 20 miles short <d its destination Monday night when 60 mph winds on tS 221, just two miles south at Blowing Rock, turned it over. Bateman Lawrence, driver of the rig, stated that the wind Just picked up the mobile home and shoved it over. Lawrence's right arm was badly bruised, but be Ml released after treatment «t the Blowing Bock Hoe pit* 1. Investigating Patrolman Robert Bowlin estimated the wind-gusts exceeded (0 miles per hour. Workers worked some six hours in clearing the highway, which was three-quarters blocked. (UPI Telephoto by George Flowers) Bingham Quits Airport Post; Bill Miller Named icobert Bingham resigned Monday as the county repres entative to the Watauga Air port Commission, He had serv ed as the commission's chair man tor about tan years. He was replaced immediat ely by Bill Miller, an employ ee of Vermont American, who is a pilot and according to Perry 6,056 Are Enrolled Eor*M£nierQu&rlet Official registration totals for the winter quarter alow that' 6,OSS students are registered tor classes at Appalachian State University. The grand total includes 4,807 resident undergraduate stu. Bloodmobile ToBeAlASU The Bed Cross Bloodmobile will be stationed at East HsU on the AS U campus from 11 a. m. to 4:80 p. m. Wednesday, Feb. 26. % ' Mrs. Goldie Fletcher, erects, tire secretary of the Watauga County Chapter of the Ameri can Red Cross, stated that some 250 pints will be needed in order lor the local chapter to meet its quota. “We presently are using about SO * pints per month,” Mrs. Fletcher said. “And we’re cer tainly hopeful that Appalachian students will respond in large nunfeer to this month’s visit of the Bloodmobile.” She reminded that students under 21 years of age must preseat “permission releases” signed by their parents prior to their Mood donation. dents, J,620 of whom are women and 2,277 of whom arw men. By classes, the witter en rollment Includes 1,(73 fresh men, 1,251 sophomores, 1,000 jimlors and 007 seniors. In addition, 423 resident graduate students are working toward advanced degrees on the cam pus extension classes. Another 133 undergraduate students are also Included in the extension classes. Of the grand total 5,177 are residents at North Carolina, and 779 hall from other states and foreign countries. Compared to last fall's total enrollment of 6,209, the winter totals represent an enrollment drop of only 2.5 per cent, A five per cent decrease is con sidered normal. District Court ] Hears Old Cases District Court is in session this week and the trial docket lists between 47$ and 500 cases according to Mrs. Orville Foster, Deputy Clerk of Court. These cases, some of which are several years old, are all misdemeanors that were formerly coming isxter Superi or Court Jurisdiction isrtU De cember of last year. Also pre liminary hearings for some fel onies are scheduled. Burglars routed the downtown area last weekend entering Ro ten’s Furniture Store, Roten’s Town and Campus and Church’a Store. An unsuccessful break in waa attempted at Parkway Company. ., Vaughn Roten, owner at Ho tan's Furniture, said that van dals entered through a rear door after breaking a glass and removing bars and bolts. Four color and three black and white television sets were taka in the haul. He Mid the SBI Is working on the case. Kota added that one at Ida employees bed observed a man during the week enter the store through the rear door and spend eome time looking arouid. Police Chief Ed Harmon ssU that be had an auto ragiatra ttan number and • ear descrip tion In connection with the easti. He added that the break-in oc curred between midnight and S e.m. Saturday. Friday night, Rolan's Town and Campus wae entered through an upstairs window according to owner John Rolen, He aaid $45 was taken but merchandise Beamed to be imtouched. He aaid he had eeen a group of boys ettting on a wall ear oral nights prior to the break-in. Be aaid the boys came near the upstairs window but ran whec ha looked out and ha did not have positive Identification of the boys. Fred Church, owner of Church’s Store, arrived at noth Saturde; morning to And the glace la the troas .tar broken tuatlanid on gaga ton) Green, chairman of the County Board of Commissioners, Is “interested in an airport.'* Bingham's statement read: “Following the custom of an appointee resigning when a new administration takes -office, I hereby resign from the Watau ga County Airport Commission. “Tbs Watauga County Com mission has the power to help establish an sirport in Watauga. County. Hopefully, the new County Commission will lend its weight to bring this, by na ture controversial, but most progressive project into being." ■ Having spearheaded the drive to establish an airport in Wa tauga County, Bingham had come under fire in recent months when the Cosnmleelon concluded thet a alts in the Bamboo area was the best airport site available. Greene said Bingham’s resig nation was accepted “not be cause he did a bad job. He’s done e good Job. And he’s pul a tremendous amount of effort into the project.’’ Bingham had become the ob ject of attacks made by a group of Bamboo residents led by Joe Hartley. Chief among the stated issues was the power of con demnation vested in the airport authority by act of the Legis lature. Greene Indicated that the County Commissioners ere ilk terested in relieving some of the pressure resulting (Tom the controversy end said be hoped things would become smoothed over. He said the Bamboo residents had approached him and Com missioners Ken Wilcox and Gens Wilson on ths matter long be fore they were elected. John D. Marsh Struck By Car On 321 South John Darwin Marsh sustain ed a broken lag and abrasions when be was struck hy a car on Blowing Rock Bond Thurs day night. He was hit by a IMS Chev rolet driven hy Cynthia Part Starr, 21, o< Silver Springs, Md., who was traveling south, Marsh, who Is principal of the Parkway Elementary School, had Just left a meeting at the Cardinal Restaurant and was returning to Ms car parked across Blowing Rock Road. .. He was hit Just as he step ped 00 the road. It was rain ing and visibility was poor, ■.No violations were lndtea Md hy Investigating PoHeemec Lowell Hodges and Coy Isaacs, The accident report said tha driver attempted to stop bid was unable to. ' . The broken lag was the same one to which Marsh recelvad permanent injury In France due talg World War D whan he was bitty a asortar shallesplosJoa, Scout Banquet Set For Feb. 17 ‘The Watauga Boy Scout Dl* trlct annual banquet announced for thia week haa been reache duled for Monday, Feb. 17, at the Boone United Metbodiat Church. The banquet, in honor of Seouters and their wires, will begin at 7 that night. High light of the program will be announcement of the Scouter of the Year. Laat year'* re cipient, Joe Miller, will make the preaentation. Tickets are $2.25 per peraon and may be obtained at King Street Pharmacy or by calling Otla Strother in Boone. Jerry Hampton Hurt By Truck Jerry Hampton of 2011 E, King St., Boone, waa aerioua ly injured Thuraday when a large truck under which he waa working fell. According to Mra. Hamp ton, tome men were working nearby when the accident oc curred about 10 a. m. and were able to jack up the truck. Mr. Hampton waa ruahed to Wa tauga County Hoepttal. Mra. Hampton aaid her hua band'a Iqjuriea largely conaiat at bruiaea and broken bonea. She aaid it could not be ascer tained whether the jack clipped and eauaed the collapee. Mr. Hampton remains hoapttaliaed at Watauga. Officers Chosen For ROTC Program Sevan of the eight UJS. Army personnel who are to mu • Senior Army Reserve Officers Training Corps Installation or the campus of Appalachian State Udverelty have been nominated by the Army sod approved as members of tbs University facia Hy by Dr. W. H. Plemmoes, ASU president. Named as professor of mili tary science sad hand of the isrit Is Lt. Col. John C. Col , lias, a member of tbs Military Allte Corpa who is now serv ing In Viscous. He arm arrive iVeu) Ordinance Presented At Public Meet Boone Adopts New Blue Law Boons'! City Council unanim ously adopted a Blue Law Mon day night after a public hearliw In which many Boone residents strongly opposed the Sunday restrictions. Tbs law was drafted by City Attorney J. E. Hoishouser Jr. and distributed at the hearing in the Court House. Hoishous er had commented the restric tions are not a step forward or backward, but will keep Boone “as it was a year ago." The complete ordinance is advertised in this issue. BY LARHY G. JULIAN In the required public hearing Monday night on Boone's Blue law, the City Council audleneed the opinions of some of the citizenry, theoretically' to ex pose both sides of the contro versy. In their hands, the Aldermen had an ordinance prepared by Town Attorney J. E. Holshouser Jr. The young attorney said that the proposed ordinance Is simi lar to ones enforced in Winston Salem and Greenville that have passed SiipretngCourt scrutiny, . The measure puts a tig&bw- ' strlction on the Sunday saiaof clothing, household goods and things of this nature. M allows the opening of food stores, the aters and drug stores. In fact, the new proposal keeps Bume on the same keel ifs been on for some time, only now West Main Gulf, the Thrift Food Store and Boone Pure Oil can open leg ally. SINCE DECEMBEK The Blue Law controversy - started In mid-December when Redlx, a new chain store, open ed in Boone and planned Sunday sales. The Crest-Ben Franklin Store followed suit and relig (Contlnued on pagp two) Mr. »nd Mrs, Sandra, age 6, Lee Saraett beam proudly oyer the succesp of their daighter’s heart surgery, had a cardiac operation In July. (staff photo) Delicate Heart Surgery Saves Life Little Girl BY LARRY JULIAN Sandra Barnett is a normal, bright-eyed young Miss who en joys TV and having her picture taken along with all the other little things that go to make a girl happy. For six years she wasn't so normal. In F ayetteville, doctors told her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Barnett, that their newborn dai^bter had a hole connecting the two upper chambers in her heart. The impact of the news was probably as great as the relief later when they found out the condition would be correct ed. Sandra could have surgery to close the opening. But that surgery was to be ftix years off. At age two, she would have had a 50-50 chance Of survival because of her tiny sixe. Doctors told the Barnetts to wait until she was six and then the operation would be more promising. From Fayetteville they were directed to the Emory Univer sity Hospital in Atlanta. There they met Dr. Dorothy Brens Kickoff For Heart Fund * The annual Heart Fund Lunch eon will be held at noon Satur day at the Holiday Inn of Boone. Announcement is made by Mrs. Phyllis Templeton, presU dent of the Heart Fund Drive in Watauga County. She said the luncheon will formally kick off the local fund-raising cam paign. Reservations may be made by calling Mrs. Glenn Hodges in Boone by Thursday. It will be a dutch-treat event. field, a pediatric cardiologist who was to become one of their closest friends. There were regular check ups through the months until July of last year and the big day came. It was time Cor aura B*ry. ' By this time the hole had «rown so large that a half, dollar could pass through it. But Sandra wasn’t scared as she went to Atlanta for the operation of a lifetime—one that would make her normal. In surgery nearly tour tours, Sandra was sustained bys heart by-pass machine that kept her life fluid in circulation while a doctor repaired her perforated heart. Surgeons sewed the opening together and it was all over but the 10-day recovery stay in the hospital. With the healing of the in (Continued on page two) An Inspection teem from the U. S. Third Army headquarters at Ft. McPherson, Ga., headed by Major General W. H. Craig, visit ed the Appalachian State campus on Monday to tour facilities in which the Department of Military Science will be using when ASU*s new ROTC program formally commences next September. From left to right are: Richard D. Barkley, Appalachian News Bureau Director; Robert T. Allen, Director of Public Affairs; Capt. J. M. Vam, the general's Aide-de-Camp; Capt. Glen R, Marrs of ASU*s Department of Military Science; Dr. Paul Sand ers, Provost or the university; t-oi.J. h. Jones, Assistant deputy C hief of Staff for ROTC; Major General Graig, Deputy Command ing General of the U. S. Third Army; Dr. Nicholas Ernes ton. Dean of the College of Fine and Applied Arts; Dr. W. H. Plem mons, President of Appalachian; Ned R. Trivette, Director of Business Affairs; Col. Richard F. Krueger, chief of the ROTC program at nearby East Tennessee State University; and Chari as Braswell, ASU’s Plant Engineer. on campus April 1. MaJ. Joseph E. Arnold, also Stationed in Vietnam at present, will be one of three assistant professors of military sclog^. He assumes duties at ASU on April IS. Already on the campus,Capt. Gian R. Harrs is heading tbs planning phase of ASU*s new pregram. He will be classified as an Assistant P.hUS. after Col. Collins arrives to com mand the installation. One addi tional Captain, abo is yet to be named, will also hold tbs rank of Assistant PM». Du* to arrive in 30 day* 1* Sgt. Maj. Aubrey O. Spurlock, who will be chief Instructor for the ROTC unit. Senior in structor of tb* installation will be Sgt. First Class Robert Far* rington. Two additional men. Staff Sgt. D. W. Barkhurst, Chief Admin istrative Clark, and Staff Sgt. Anthony J. DiSCafSno, Supply Sergeant, hav* already assian ad dutlaa and ar* asalstingCapt. tUzrf, All othar phaaaa af denratop meat are proceeding as smooth ly as has the • election of the Horrc Staff. Uniforms tor 500 students hare been ordered and equipment Is soon to be shipped for the new offices of the De partment of Military Science which will be temporarily lo cated on three Doors of the old D. D. Dougherty library. Plans for a new $300,000 KOTC faculty haw taUed to gain recommendation of the Ad visory Budget commission. However, ASl^s Director at is-1—— Affairs Ned R. Trl ’■! • - vjtte maintain* that "We still consider the new ROTC build ing * top prk>rity> tod we will eonHnne our attempts to secure the funds from the General As sembly.” But with or without the new facility, Appalachian will begta graduating U. S. Army officers with the class of 1*71. Some 10 resident undergraduate* have already signed tg> for the pro gram, and Capt. Karrs’ plana include seoding JO ASU students (Continued oe page two) y.";
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