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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.
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“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
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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
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