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Blue Ribbon Winner ■ toa Democrat la first place win aer In State Preaa Aon. General Excellence Competition title year—the third time In four BOONE WEATHER JO Hi Lo Pr*c. - - May 20 78 81 May 21 78 SI - 78 86 70 87 78 84 73 84 75 43 87 10 CENTS PER COPY pir.n 2 67 Dr. Plemmons Id Honored By Top Scholars lummn ur( W^H, Plemmons mi honored by some of the top scholars at Mf university Friday evenii* was made an honorary member of the campus chapter «t Kappa Delta Pi, a ntfoneJ tabor society in education. Dr. Plemmons was cited bp tttt local Lambda Iota chap. o* KDP and bp official. St'the national headquarteis Of the organization for Ms ouU standing service in the Held of education. The honorary mtib her* hip mi offered as a for- - mhl. “thank you” from tba club to toe retiring ASU preeident for Ms years of dedication to the institution. As a member of ASUchepter, i- Dr. Plemmons joins the racks of some 200 Appalachian students ' i, end educators who here hew In v ducted tip Kappe Delta PI in • recognition of their ec holes He acMcTements. s aKvsKss*~»J2 ssxi^r.-.. Plague Of 17-Year Locusts Arrives To Threaten Deep Gap Orchards BY CHARLIE HAMILTON 1 “There’re a few locusts around bare every year, but tt*s been 17 years since there’s been this many/' That was O. J, boiler’s way of telling younger folks tbit the 17-year locust has returned by the millions. Miller lives out on the Orc hard Road along R-l Deep Gan, _ Further down the road, New and Wetbom glances ever-Me six-acre apple orchard on the hillside. It was a quiet morning, except that the moist air wa| alive with the familiar piercing. ■brill buzzing sound. It was the collected whine of, mtlllooz of female cicada lathe proeeas of piercing the bark of twig* for a safe spot to lap their eggs. The process Is damaging enough for a large apple tree, for an orchard full at jourg trees, It can be disastrous. Welbom discovered Us lo custs more than a week .ago. He pulled ,Ms truck Info the "center oTthe little ©rctanf.The .noise of the locust at work was, , loud. When be turned off the. truck motor. It cametoan eerie Ugh pitch. According to Miller, bad Wel born been standing on the same , spot 17 years sgo, he would have heard the same shrill noise. But the noise would have been made by the mothers o< the lo cust attacking Us orchard to day. If a the same story that has been known to man sines prob ably the Garden at Eden. Likely there were locust eggs , de veloping when Eve plucked her •infamous apple. ''* -h>>» Kit the locust does not limit its devilment to apple or chards. They are equally at home In oak, Uekoi7, locust1 JUNIOR MARSHALS—When the Watauga IBgh School eeeior clue mere hoe In graduation pro hum processionals, the; will be formally escorted hjr this (roup of Junior Marshals. CUM mere hale are rented: Richard Randall, Mary Ellla Gibson, Beth Pbmn and Sueaim Miller Standing are Kim Carpenter, Joanna Sherrill, Helen RoUneon, Jack Henson, Tanya Shook. Carol Me Neely, James Hodges, One Demater, Gail Leeds, Dee Wilson, Beta; nana.il and Norma Hodges. (Stall photo) y>v - ■nd line trees, says teller. The eras In Watai^a Coutay where the locust Is busiest so tsr Is among some 2,000 seres east of Deep Gap, According to county agent L. E. TuekwUler all the locusts crawled out of the ground about the same time. The above ground damage to trees comes when the newly developed female, her abdomen heavily laden with eggs, pierces the sharpy saw-Uke tip fevi . positor) or her abdomen into, new growth twigs. She punctures and tears open s hole In the twigs to form a pocket for about 24 eggs. She makes about five to 20 pockets In a straight line. About six weeks later, usual ly Just alter the mature locusts lave died, the eggs hatch ink nature insects called nymphs. They fall from the tree to bur row deep Into the ground. They seek out roots from which they g«»*P. The dark earth haven Is their home for tha next 17 years, (Continued on page two) Four-Year-Old Js Hit By Car A four-year-old hoy received minor injuries last week when he apparently darted In boat of a ear driving on King Street. Witnesses told Officer Mont Thomas of the Boone Police Department that the child, Da vid Howard Hurley of202Char ry Drive, ran In front of an oncoming car. The automobile, a 1962 Chev rolet, was operated by Judith ApUn of 22 Stewart Manor, N.Y. The accident occurred inf root of the Advent Christian Church at the King-Cherry Street lib teraection. The child was admitted to Watauga County Hospital last Wednesday but had been re leased by Monday, i No ehsrges were made In the accident. ’«v m. xvxia Structure Is Central Point At University Afpalaehlan State Uniter, •tty's new gl.8 million library la to be dedicated here Sun day afternoon in honor of Mrs. Carol Grotnaa Balk of Char lotte. The featured speaker for the dedication ceremonies will be Dr. John Edwin Smylie, pres ident of Queens College in Charlotte. Me address will ha given at 2 p. m. In the audi torium of I. G. Greer Hall, with an open house tour of the modern library to follow. The public if cordially in vited to attend both the dedi cation event and the open house observance. Mrs. Belk is the wits of Irwin Balk, President of Belk Enterprises Inc„ chairman of the hoard of directors of the Belk Foundation, and vice president and director of Belk Stores. By virtue of peat and present affiliation and work, Mrs. Belk is extremely interested in civic and cultural affaire, especially those dealing with young people. Her work with the Mint Museum of Charlotte, Junior League, YWCA, Children’s Nature Museum, Charlotte Speech and Bearing Clinic and Charlotte Opera Guild attest to her con .cam «bout things as they ate and yet might be. A native of Chicago, she is the mother of two sons and two daughters. An alumni of Stephens College (MoJ, she is a member i the Myers Park Presbyterian Church. The Carol Grotnes Belk Library is one of the most handsome buildings on the Appalachian campus. It serves as both the geographical and cultural center of the Institut ion. First occupied last August, it contains 86,000 square feet of space on its threa floors and has a capacity of 450,000 vol umes. It is completely air con ditioned and contains one of the finest curriculum laboratories in the Southeast. One of the, unique featuree of the library is the Immense amount of open space which pro contlnueu on page iwuj DEDICATION SUNDAY—The new Carol Grotaea Belk Library will be dedicated durlK ceremonies scheduled tor 2 p. m. in the I. G. Greer Hall. An open bouse tour of the library will follow. ■! Hospital Cardiac Area To Be Named For Hasaman Watauga Has 22,476 People, Population Center Thinks ^ ’^"'"''''Watauga Cmntf lad a population <£22,476 as of July, IMS, according to ft provisional estimate made by the Carolina Population Center in Chapel Hill. Thla would represent a gain at 28.22% from April 1, 1960 when the population was 17,529, or an increase in the nose count of 4,947. During the period there were 2,884 births, 1,256 deaths and a net migratioa gain of 3,319. The estimated gain from 1960 to 1967 was 3,532, or 2045% for a total of 21,061 as of July 1967. Up to that time there were 24122 Urths, 1,099 deaths and a migration gain at 2,079. College and Institutional population in Watauga in 1960 was 2,043, in 1967, 4,289 and the estimate tor 1968, 4,994. The estimated further show that of the 1968 popu lation figure there are 22466 whites and 310 nonwhites. In 1960 there were 17,296 whites and 233 nonwUtes. The annual rate of population change in Watauga County from 1950 to 1960 was minus .45; tor 1960 to 1967 it was a pain of 2,53, At a meeting of the Board of Trustees of Watauga County Hospital Thursday evening, May 22, it was voted to name the proposed area for the treat ment of cardiac patients The J, B. Hagaman, Jr. Coronary / Care Unit, This unit has been under con. slderation by the hospital board and the medical staff for the past year, and a fund for its establishment had already been begun. At present the hospital has only one monitor for use in treating coronary patients. A hospital of this size needs at least four of these machines, and it is hoped that three addi tional ones may be secured. The cost of these three units will be about $9000. Installation for the use of this equipment plus building altera tions will probably make the total cost around $15,000 to $20,000. Considerable groundwork for this project has been made, however. Dr. Hagaman had fair ly recently investigated this type (Continued on page two) Local Newspapers Used First Spot In National Contest The Watauga County Chapter of The National Foundation— March of Dimes has received Orst place in the Foundation’s nationwide 1969 acrapbooi context. ’ Chapter Chairman George C, Thomas entered cllppti^a he ■£ ' ■ i V . - rtetwiiv-i. -v- *- -.1 Mw» to would-be bride*. Sit i» end take rot*. Wa toug* Cotaoty bee a anrplua of unmarried man. Th* Meats ct bachelor* la aueh that tbert ara 103 . ■facia man locally for every 100 rich women* In moat otter commanttl**, the a undue, U one «W»i la much a mailer than tUa. : , ; ’ V -Vi- t% The Anting* are baaed upon the lataet martial data, fathered from all part* at the eonntry by the Department of Commerce. They Indicate that the mala female ratio varlea coneiderably from one area to another, la nmet plaeaa there la a abort*** of aUglhle bachelor*. ' ta Watauga Comfy, according to tfaa flfuraa, appro ‘toly Sl.» percent of tfaa mala popalatloa over the n-. erf 14 1* unmarried, u agalnat MJt percent of the leraelee over that age. TUb take* Into account only thoee who have never been married. It doee not Include thoee who have bean widowed or divorced. Throughout the Lotted Statue eaa whole, 2S.7percent <rf man over Hand 2Mparcel* of women In that category are tingle. Daeplte the dbparlty in numbera, the chancee at a woman going through 111* unwed are much dimmer today than in former yeare. Forty yeare ago, nearly IS percent of the women were unmarried by the time they reached their late M*a. The proportion haa new dropped to lean than g C7 Howerer, In most parts of the nation, there are problems these days tor marriage-minded gals because, currently, there are more women than men in the principal marrying ages, 18 to 21 tor no men and 20 to 23 for man. This dislocation Is due principally to the baby boom of the late logo's, which resulted in a large num ber of women reaching marriageable age before the oorresponding number of potential husbands. In Watauga County, there will be some 880 women In the normal 18 to 21 marrying bracket this year and approximately 780 men In the matrhlng 20 to 23 Adding to the problem Is the tost that many mar nageable young men are In Vietnam or are staying la collage lor an additional year or tw<i collected from the Watauga Democrat and her slater pub lication, The Blowing Socket, from November 1968 to April 1969. The contest had three divi sions, one for county chapters at at least 100,000 population, another for population between 25,000 and 100,000 and the third tor chapters under 25,000 pop ulatioa. Watauga County was first place winner in the last division. Thomas will be award, ed the plaque at an October March of Dimes meettigt to be held In Atlanta, Second to Watauga County ass Jackson Couidy, Tax, Third was Washington County, t~» and fourth place winner la fiat. (Continued on page two) Local Revolutionary War Hero To Be Honored Monday The Col. NWnn Beall Clap, ter. Daughters of the Ameri can Revolution will assemble at the Grave of Col. Nathan Hor ton, 3 mllee east of Boone at the Old Three Forks Church cemetery Monday, June 3 at 11:30 a. m. for the unreUlnc of a bronze plaque commemora Ung Col. Horton's sendee in the Revolutionary War. Bar. Mr. Powers, pastor of the Three Folks Baptist Church, the oldest church In Wgauge County, hevlng been established * 1 ■ t' ' In 1782, will aaelat in the Mr. lin. Col. Horton helped to build the original church, t< Member! of the Boom DAI chapter are invited. Col. Hor. ton's descendants and other! who would be interacted in tba history of Ida life and worts. Mrs. Ttode Horton Russell. Regent of tba Chapter and oae at Col. Hortnn-a gnat giant '! gnuamaughuu >, will review lad aarvlee IntbaBevoliAlonandMn work m Watauga and AsbeCoab. :< v, / i - £■••••! ' >'
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