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VOL. LWI—NO. 39 ~..x A e i Jj ^ BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1969
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UNDERGROUND CABLE being laid onEast King Street In Boone bu been keeptav Southern Bell
crewmen quite buey of late. Here, two men place dynamite charges to make the going smoother
: on this sector of Bell's multi-thousand-dollar project in the highlands. This stretch between
i'r Southern's central office In Boone and the intersection of Highways 421 and 194 will account for
a $47,000 expenditure in replacing the poles and lines with subsurface cable. When this project is
completed, local BeU manager B. B. Leaser says a $75,000 cable-laying project will start at tbs
421-194 lijttraection am} go all the way to Deep Gan (Staff photo) :
■■paya.y.ens r»tpaj!indg iw-nea WS \»ri4>;asp,s»sta^i|-^.»,*r i, Krt • V. • ;>
Appalachian-Band To Give
Spring Concert On Tuesday
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Appalachian State IWw*
itty*i Concert Band will pre
sent Ha spring concert In tee
-■<£ auditorium of 1* G* Greer Hall
J at 8 p» m. Tuesday, April 1.
I Gtv Election
t Coming In June
$'* The Boone Town Board of
Aldermen will hold a special
, session atCtty Hall, 7:30 Thurs
day night to fln*ll,l> plans for
*> the city election Tuesday, June
They set Saturday, June 14,
'i as challetve day and Saturdays
June 7, May 31 and May 24
I; as registration days at last
A. week's meeting.
Thursday they will discuss
the present three-man
board a Art man board. Rag
i lstrars and judges will be ap
. pointed during the April meet
■ h*, according to Mayor Clyde
I Greene. ■ !
& , ijfvfcjf &S ?yia“4 ri ’i
Janies M. Cola, assistant
Dean of Academic Affairs, will
conduct the band which la un
der tbs direction of Charles
L. Isley, Jr.
The concert program will In
clude the following selections!
Under the Double Eagle
(march), J. F. Wagner (ar
ranged by L. P. LaureodaaiOt
Prelude to Act V of Opera
King Maitfred, Carl Relnecke
(scored by Eric Osterllng);
Morning, Noon and Night Over
ture, F, von Suppe; Block M
(concert march), Jerry H.
Bilik; My Fair lady, Freder
ick Loews transcribed by Rob
ert Bussell Bennett); and Mili
tary Escort In Five Ways, a
novelty by Henry Fillmore,
Members of the University
Concert Band are;
Margaret Williams, Greg
Baldwin and J. B, Hodges cf
Boone; Debbie Whitehurst. Bet
sy South worth, Sam St, Clair
and Jon Howell of Charlotte;
Betsy Etheridge, Wally Brown
and Judy Hoffman of Salisbury;
Wylie Hammond and Unas. Trip
Home Smashed By |
IViolent Wind Stortn
foils* H rUf'e! -vo ‘ :?.A# • V1 :?<7 ,* fr. ■ ><! W '•'vw.'
Tto local chapter of the
American Bad Croat la try
Inc to help a family "tone
home waa wrecked by Srniday
nlght'a wind. „
The Bee. Harry Vance, pea
tor of the Meet Camp Bajdat
Church and ARC dlaaater chair
am for Watauga, laid the 13
fay 36 foot home of Mr, and
lira. Willy Norwood waa blown
over and tta roof raised SO
r'to 75 feet up before the wind
dumad H on tfaa gnxad abate
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He aaid the couple, their aev
aa and flte-year-old aona aim
15-montha-old daughter were
In the home when the houae be
came “}uat about a complete
Voea." Mlraculoualy, they ea
eaped eertoue Injury.
"We hate already located
faeda for them and material
la needed to replace the roof
and repair the houae If the
tlWIiir-* Bed Croat la imaUa
to the allotment."
He Mid he wderstood re
quest! to assist a single house
hold often cannot be mats lx*
that he nee In touch wUh the
'national office, hoping some
assistance can ha had.
Meanwhile, Mr. Vance said
a man who owned an old houne
in the path at a new aid elope
at Sigar Loaf Mountain is alio w
tag the Norwoods to occupy it.
Mr. Vance lnreetigated the
aitiwtton Monday and MS going
hank Tueeday. He said local
help can be used immediately
and each donations made out
to Bed Croat tor tide purpose
will he tax deductible. In
(pdrlea may be made of Mrs.
^Goldie Fletcher, exec utire sec
ratary of ARC, in Boone.
The family** ueuable pot
sessions are a oouch and chair,
Vance eaid. The couple and their
three children were residing li
*» area knowe as Norwood Vll.
•eg*.
left of Lenoir; Ann McDougle
of Pelxer, Gng Wilson at For
est City; Joim Terry and Earl
Howard of Durham; James
Campbell of Hickory; Roger
Pinson of Hudson; John McAl
Uster of Raeford; David Brook*
of EUenboro; Eddie Fink of
(Continued on page two)
Head-On Crash
On 421 South
Injures Five
A two-car head-on collision
Saturday afternoon at the 105
321 intersection resulted lntl,
100 damages and slowed traf
fic for nearly an hour.
James Cecil Berry, 20 of
Rt. 4, Boone, was charged by
Boone Police Officer Mont
Thomas with failure to yield
rlgU-of-way after he had at
tempted to make a left tun
from Blowing Bock Road onto
N. C. 105.
He pulled Into the path of a
1957 Chevrolet driven by SWU
mar Lewis Crawford, aga 30
of Hudson, N. C. who was
traveling toward Boone on Bb>w
li« Bock Road where the can
“injund were Mildred Shipley,
23, and Kelley Wndres, age 2,
both of Hudson. Also Judy
Berry, 27, Douglas Berry, 2,
and Jeffery Berry, 0 months.
All wan treated in the emer
gency room at Watauga Cotady
Hospital and released.
All Interests
Represented ;
In Organization
Relation! between Appalach
ian State University, Boone and
Watauga County are expected to
improve through the work of the
Comnuailty-C ampus Relatione
Committee formally organlxed
Friday night.
The S 5-member agency elect
ed James Marsh af Boone as
chairman with Bob Snead as
trice-chairman! Sybil Alexan
der as sec rotary and Jana Smtth
as publicity chairman.
Marsh will head the grotgr’s
efforts to assure better conk
tnunlcatlons among city,, cam
pus and county groups and to
Isolate problems facing the
eommiadty and determine what
can be done about them. While
the organisation has no official
powers, It will make recommen
dations to the proper agency
upon reaching a concensus.
The committee comprises
five business people from
Boone, five appointed by the
Boone Chamber of Commerce,
five from the Appalachian stu
dent body, five from the Appa
lachian faculty and five were
named by the Boone Board of
Alderman and Watauga’s Board
of Cptatty Commissioners.
- m tmwm uw cj-iawi ror
•'yieaentatlon to CCRC, the of
ficer* will be u ilitad by Join
Mnyhjm, or. June* Graham,
A. T. Adame, the Rev. Bob Young
and Jack Stone.
The committee1* Initial stay
to promote understanding and
Communication will be sponsor
ship of * program to be pre*enU
ed to the Boone Chamber by the
Appalachian Student Govero
ment A* sociatlon. Alao, mem
bers of the local law enforce
ment agencies will be asked to
present a program to Appalach
ian students.
The new organisation offic
ially was formed Friday in a
session held to the President’s
Dining Room to the ASU Cafe
teria. Informal planning meet
ings tad been held previously.
The full CCRC membership
1st
A. T. Adams of The North
western Bank; John H. Bing
ham. attorney at law; Dr. Mu
Dowell of the adversity faculty;
Dr. Lowell Furman, surgeon;
. (Continued on page two)
JAMES MARSH, c (airman of
the Commmity-C ampul Rela
tione Committee....
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PAVEMENT PROBLEMS—Regular weekend snows and fTeesing
! temperature# lava ripped and torn tha pavement on many Boom
atraeta and acenaa such aa (tala early morning shot down Faculty
Street are not uncommon In the area. Tom Hall aaya that It
will coat a ''considerable anount" to restore the streets to
proper condition. Damage to this particular section at pavement
mu due to Improper drainage, according to a town bell spokes
man. Ha mid ttwt an effort will be made to elevate this section
to provide proper drainage and that other streets will be re
paired as soon as possibles He said that Cost and amount
d work to be done have not pet been determined. (Staff photo)
Resort Area Ministry To Fill
Religious Needs Of Visitors
"The church hu something
to My to people while on their
recreation time.”
And ao the Resort Area hOnla
try waa formed In the Watauga
area to meet the reUgloua neede
of tourlat and othera aa they
enjoy the lelaure and recrea
tional opportunttiea in the
county, according to the Bay.
George Abele.
Mr, Abele haa headed the worh
Gty Auto Tags
Must Be Bought
Before April 15
Boone Police Chief Ed Har
mon raid Monday that motorists
Uvtig within the town limits who
hare not registered their aido
mobiles with Town Hall must do
«o before Tuesday, April 15,
These people must purchase
a town tag at Town HaU.
Harmon said that after the
. 15th, citations will be issued
to drivers whose cars do not
display the town tag.
Cost of the tag is $1.
In establishing » ministerial
service tor the ire* ski slopes
and the camping arau so that
visitors may hays an oppor
tunity to worship while away
from home.
The program was unified tor
the drat time last year. Before
then It had been an every-man.
for-Hmself setup with minis
ters working independently.
The program Is interdenom
inational,
Mr. Abele points out that
Christianity la “personal and
not denominational.”
•PLAY’ TOGETHER
The ministry has taken on a
new sound to a familiar slogan
families should “pray together
and play together.”
On the ski slopes along with,
Mr. Abele have been Baptist
minister Ronnie Boswell; the
Bar. Larry Campbell, a Luth
eran, and the Rev. Barrett Gil
more, a Presbyterian.
They have held worship ser
vices for alders. on Sunday
morning before skiing time,
rolled around.
At the Episcopal Church of
the Holy Cross, where Mr. Abele
Is Rector and also director of
the mission school, services
were held each Sunday morning
this put winter tor skiers at
7:30 In the morning. Fifty to 75
were usually at the services.
"These people wanted to wor
ship and we wanted to give them
an opportunity," he said.
The program is not limited to
the ski slopes. This summer, a
similar program is planned for
county campgrounds. It's de
finitely a year-round thing, ac
cording to Mr. Abele.
He is quick to emphasize
that the Resort Area Ministry
works independently of the Wa
(Contiflued on page two)
Kitty Falger Will
Spark Carson Show
Beech MnnwHIn gki pro Kitty
Falger will appear on the Johnny
Carson Show Wednesday night,
March 26, with Jerry Lewis
T*»~Hng in (or Carson as emcee.
This will be Mrs. Falger*s
second appearance on the late*
night program and her mission
again will be to point out the
essentials of skiing. Her first
appearance went so well that a
short skit developed into a long
one. That program took place
just before she came to North
Carolina’s Beech Mountain.
Kays Gary, representative at
the mountalntop enterprise,
says a February Tonight Show
spot was dropped because the
■bow ran longer than expected,
Haviig billed her in advance,
Carson apologised and set a new
date in the first week of March,
But by the third of the month,
Carson "had been moved tern,
porarlly into the smaller studio
while the old one was being re
modeled,” Gary says.
The aid deck built for Mrs.
Falger’s ski demonstration was
too large for the omaller quar
ters, But this week’s date is
expected to be kept.
The beautiful Mrs. Falger,
whose husband Willi directs the
Ski School at Beech, haa attract
ed all the news media in pro
moting Southern sklinc.
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20 Wataugans Die Of Cancer During Year
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Although cancer hold* the
number two ipot in Wataige
County among the major ceuaea
of death, the chance of eurrtr
fcv a battle with the dlaaaaa la
batter now than It ever woo.
Today, ooa out of three etc.
jtwie la being cured, occording
go cancer apeclalleta. And that
ratio could be rained to one
out of two, they aay, If erery.
on* now a ptayeletan when the
flrat lynvtoma appeared.
Interest In (Mr findings, re
eled at the National Canear
Coherence In Denrer, la helgb
tened by the fact that naxt month
has been designated '’Cancer
Control Month."
n The cancer figures tor tbs
local area, and the »*y they
compare with those tor other
sections of the country, are.
brought out In the latest annual
report* the U.S.Phblic BaaUh.
Tiny show, among resident*
el Watauga County, a Mai of
30 death* in the year from the
various type* of cancer. Not
included are cases In the local
area involving non-resident a.
It was equivalent to a rate of
115 cancer death* per 100,000
emulation, as against 154 per
IWJOOO in the United States as
a whole and 114 in the Slat* of
(Up to cigarette imoklng, Ian
been receiving more attention
ttan the other forme of cancer.
Tide bee been due to the rapid
Increase In lung cancer mor
tality. with 55,000 victims in
the pent year, mostly men, the
death rets Is tan times what It
was $0 years ago.
The official figures show that
long cancer caused It percent
of all cancer death* in the UdM
Staten and 17 parent la the
Slate of North Carolina,
^ In Watauga Coindy, the report
ahowa, It nan reepooelhle tor
none of them.
Slowly hot rarely, progreaa
in being made in eoping wtth
certain forma of cancer, ac
cording to the National Cancer
New drug* and naw combine,
ttooe ot treatment have booeted
tba lunriral rata In easaa In.
volvlng cancer of the colon, rec
tum, cervix and breast,
Aa to lam cancer, however,
there hat been little progress.
The five-year ear rival rate to
(till under 10 percent. UidM
the circumstances, the recom
mendation to "stop smoktog.**