Blue Ribbon Winner The Democrat is first place wtn Ber la State Press Assn. General facoHonce Competition this « v third time in four '-'d ' •• , -’V - 34*68888 SSBMStP Two Nashville, Term., group* and a quartet (ton Boone will perform in the Watauga County Baecue Squad’* third High School. :*!;»>' By popular demand, ..tH* year’*- special guesta will fee the famous, .Oak Ridge Boys,*f' Nashville, Dottle Rambo and the Singing Rambo* of Nash ville and the Trail way Quar tet of Boone. 'Tickets are being sold by the Rescue Squad members now, on King Street In front of the Crest 'uMf *Ui,/55r FrU»» ■"* «* Watauga High lust before the, show starts at 8 that night, ■ Advance tickets are *U25j at P» *»r, *1.50. Children water ■U will be admitted free when accompanied by their parents. Best known of the three gos pel groups, the Oak Ridge Boya are Herman Harper, WllUe Wynn, Duane Allen, William Golden and Tommy Fairchild, They have performed In every major American city and In se* * oral foreign countries through* Don Light Talent, Inc„cdNaah *14110, the first gospel talent agency in the business. The quintet appears bn more than 100 television stations each week and their records are dally programmed on radio stations throughout the eouidry. 558 New Telephones Placed In Boone During The Year f Southern Bell Telephone Company set new records In . 1968 for construction expendi tures and telephone growth, ac cording to its annual report re leased here today by B, B, Lea ser, local Manager. The company Invested more than $351.7 million tor new and Improved facilities In Its tour* state area during 1988, surpas sing the 1967 total fay almost $66 million. The company added 450,000 telephones, ending the year with 5,969,033 In 8017100.17118 conk pares with a gain of 384,000 for the ana during 1987. Two Are Hurt In i Auto Accident! i A beed-on eollissior. last west sent two people to Watauga County Hospital for emergency treatment and did an estimated $1,000 damage to tbs ears In. solved. Is Bound Over ■old Appalachian State Ud. ty student from Durham, texmd over to Superior ’f Court last Wednesday on a charge of illegal possession cf LSD. \ Chief District Jucfce I. Ray Braswell said that be bad fowd probable cause to send tbecsss : to Superior Court which meets. MotkTay, March 31. K found guilty the boy could ’ receive as many as five years i I* prison or a $1,000 fine. Bb was arrested Feb. 20 iy ; ASU security officers Robert / Thoaoea and Gary Morgan. •f /U Oka -»a-nfoiMt ** Os the witness stand Morgan ""tsatiflad that he $d bean law ASU Student On Drug Charge .Boon* Police Department Mid that Vincent Francea Plekaskt of Boone nee traveling east on Deerfield Road when be hit a ltd Oldsmoblle driven bar Bryan Scott Molnar of South Huron, Ohio. Reedy said that a 1857 Chav, inlet b*d been parked and aban doned on the right aide of Deer, field Road causing Plekasktto pull left of center into the path of Mol ner. Molnar was taken to the hos pital along with Barba j, Plek aslct tor treatment, the report said, but neither were admitted. Reedy estimated damage to the 1961 OMs mobile at $400 and to the 1862 Olds driven by Plek askt at $600, He charged Flak askt will driving left of the center of the road. $800 CASE A driver fell aaleap at tbs wheel in tbs heart of Boons Saturday morning and rammed ink) a parked car causing com bined damages of $800. Slain Edward Cornett of Vilas was driving a 1860 Ford on King Street when be appar ently fell asleep accorhng to traffic officer Mont Thomas. Cornett crashed into a 1857 Chrysler registered to R. n. Tslmage of East King Street. Thomas charged CorasttewUh telling asleep while driving. > Mr. leaser Mid that South ern Bell <>ined 73,500 tele phones In North Carolina with 558 in the Boone Exchange. Besides North Carolina, the company operates in South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. In the report. Southern Bell President Frank M, Malone termed 1968 as the most exeat, ful year In the company’s his tory. “The single most outstand ing occurrence at 1968 was the organisation of a new corpor ation. South Central Bell Tele phone Company, to serve live states which were formerly part of our operating territory,'* Mr. Malone said. The new com pany serves Alabama, Kentucky, Louisiana, MasUsippi, and Tetmsssee. ■ , “During IMS, we added more telephones, handled more calls, and served moreeustomers than ever before,” Mr. Malone noted Long distance calling reached an all time Ugh, with more than 380 million messages being handled. During the year, data trans mission Increased at a tast er rate than votes communica tions. Customers used tele phone company facilities ex tensively to transmit fSsctmile, slow scan television and hand written messages and to com municate between- business machines. Wages, salaries and related costs for tbs company's 50, 000 employees totaled more than *365 million In IMS. Earnings on the company's 1 stock were *1.84 a share, conk pared with *24* for the pre ceding year. Among the advancements In 1065 were the offering<*"911” tailversal emergency number service, the introduction of di rectory assistance service, im proved coin telephone service sad greater use oi computers. ■ • “It Could Be Aspen, Stowe Or Sugar Bush" The night CBS Evening News featured Erie Severiad in Washington, BUI Plante In Granville, Ohio, Dan Rather It Washington and others elsewhere, but also “Charles Kuralt, on the road, tonight on Beech Mountain, North Carolina." Walter Cronklte Introduced the segment with a comment about “Unlikely things In imllkely places," and Kuralt began: “It could be Aspen or Stowe or Sugar Bush. Same deep snow, same daring skiers, same clumsy amateurs tryliv to keep from breaking a leg," Cl’he television example of an amateur bears a suspicious resemblance to the am>uneerX "It could be Aspen Or Stowe or Sugar Bush, but lfs not," Austrian music bursts forth wjth gusto: “IPs not the Alps either. IPs not Switzerland or Colorado or Vermont, Those Icy latitudes and altitudes ape far away. It may spoil your notion of sunny south forever to visit the parking lot of this place and discover where these sklert come from. “They are almost all Southerners, they are mostly be. glnners, and they are skiing here at Beech hfoimtain. North Carolina. One other thing, they are a hardy lot,” (Accordian-riddled oomp-bah music rumbles forth, scene cuts to musicians, then the crowd In Beech Tree ImO “In ease Southern skiing strikes you as a kind of silly Idea, like cultivating oranges In New Hampshire, you stould know that while you weren’t looking, no fewer than seven 8Id resorts have sprung up In North Carolina, This one. Beech Mountain, baa 2,500 skiers all over its mile-high slopes this afternoon practicing stenechrlstles in a kind of leisurely Southern way and submitting themselves to an army of Austrian aid Instructors who are doing their beat to accommodate themselves to the local manoerisma.” ween* cum to Ins true tor talking to Ms students.) "When the North Carolina sun cornea out and threatens to 1 malt the fun a nay, 52 snow guns go Into operation on Beech Mountain to guarantee the skiing and protect the seven-million dollar investment. And the ski patrol goes Into action to pick W the twisted ankle and broken arm cases dom the mmnSsinUHs, . "Alt the most Impressive feature o< Southern skiing la ns>t the high slopes, dr the deep anon, as the efficient management.' It la, rather, the grim determination. We give you Mary Xnn , Finley of Pickens, South Carolina, She has never been on skis before in her Ufa," ©hot of Mary Ann eliding backward, backward, backward to the accompaniment of gay Austrian music. "I can ski back wards," she says, "hut I can’t‘get going frontwards." More music, trombone eliding, tuba dancing out the base, Mary Ann: "Whee-wfaooooool What in the world’s wrong?" She slides backward, again to the happy sounds of music.) Kurattt "Mary Ann Finley of Pickens, South Carolina, will never give up.” After she quickly, unwittingly, takes a seat in the snow, he adds, "The South shall rise again,” Walter Cronkite signed off the Wednesday, March 12, program with "And that’s the way It is, you all." THIS WATAUGA STREAMSIDE SHOT features a \pile of weathered trash thrown down the from the Winkler's Creek Road. Several regional beauty spots are marred by trash which is raw evidence in winter, when foliage is gone and all may see. (Staff photo) City Council To Plan For Boone June Voting Gracefully gliding down a Botch Moiadaln slope Is Kitty Fal ger, one of the Instructors on Beech Mountain st Banner Elk. Her employers’ 17-mlUlon Investment was featured last week In a CBS Evening News segment. The glamorous Mrs, Falger, who has attracted the attentlonof newspapers, and radio and tele vision, stood aside In this feature, though, to let a South Caro lina beginner give viewers a look at those first skiing efforts. At their regular meeting Thursday night, Boone Town Council will begin preparation tor the miatfdpal elections slat ed tor this year. A mayor and a set of aldermen are to he elected. Under the general statutes ct North Carolina the local governing body must begin work on the elections at the first ’March meeting. State law requires election day to be May 6, however Boone is under a special provisional lowing the election to be held in June. On Monday neither Mayor Greene nor Town Hall were certain as to the exact date of the 1969 election. It will be set Thursday night. Council now has plans to up the number of aldermen from three to five. According to Alderman Had ley Wilson it is the general concensus oT the town fathers to make this move at this time. Judgment Reserved In Parking Cases Chief DUtrict Judge J. Hay Brae well Friday referred judg ment In cues protesting the Town of Boone’s charged of nonpayment of parking tickets. Asked what Is next, attorney Stacy Efegers Jr. said the Dis trict Court Judge asked him to sdbmit a written brief of Ms contention as to what the law Is on the orerpertdng matter. Eggers said he understood that town attorney Jim Holshouser Josef Levi Is Artist In ** ; , Residence At University: Josef Leri, a joung New York artist who £aa captured the ac clalm of art critic* through out the country, assumed duties this weak aa Artist In Reeldenee on the campus of AppaluMan Stats Urirerslty. Known tor Us kinetic light constructions, a sampling of which are now on In ASlTi Greer Gallery, Lett wlU aonttasa Ma van nock os tbs ASU campus without haring Id touch slum, "unless to just wants to," according to Lawrence Edwards, chairman at Appalachian’s Department of Art. Tto artist will, however, have open studio hours on the campus during which students and facu lty members may consult with Urn. Ha will probably (Its cri tiques at student art work, hold open gallery discussions of Ida own work and speak to tbe pub He at least once during Us Unas naadh stay on campus. A New York native and alumnus of tbs University Connecticut. Levi’s work handled by tbe renowned Stable Gallery of New York. And Us creations are Includ ed to some of America’s most , „,<4 (Continued on page bntJi" t R 5 also was askedto submits brlaC The briefs are to be review ed by Judge Braswell Monday, April 7, on which date a ruling la expected. The parking violation cases came to court after the Town of Boone issued warrants tor people falling to pay overdue tickets, which are 54) cents whan written and $1 apiece if not paid to City Hall within 48 hours. Eggers represented one case and attorney John H. Bingham was counsel tor another of the six parties listed on the docket last week. The city's parking meter regulations were set up In a 1M7 ordinance that number seven legal-length pages. Red Cross Board Will Meet Today There will be a meeting of tbs Board of Directors of the Watauga County Chapter of the American Red Cross at noon Thursday at the Cardinal Bask Executive secretary Goldie. Fletcher requests all board Be laid the change was a cer tainty. Under the new arrangement, each councilman would become the commissioner of e munici pal department. These depart ments are the collective re sponsibility of the Council. The law requires Cornell to appoint registrars and Judges at this meeting. The registration books are to be open beginning four weeks prior to the election. Registration requirements are that a person be 21, a resident of North Carolina for at least a year, and a reside!* of Boone for at least 30 days. The voter must be able to read and write. Challenge day laaweek before the election. No absentee bal lots are allowed In a wswiMf i election. So tar, no one baa aimmaicad Ms candidacy. Nominations are made through party conrenOona and each party pots ig> its slate eg candidates. No primary eaabe held In a municipal election Stolen Gw Found Wrecked On BypaM The Boons Fnllea Depart ment reported that a 1964 Chemist registered to Sam uel H. Miller at Route 2, Boons, was taken from behind the Mor ris Apertmeots eerly Sunday morning. Officer Boy Tug man said In Ida report that the car tan abandoned liter it had skidded some 20 feet on the ISghwaylM by-pass and crashed Into a nek well. Hesatdtheear was trend, lag at a high rata at spend and • aattmatad damage to the ear at $900, Tha Bcddentoecurredaroaad 2tS0a. t*j^7 tjjyAjk . . «

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