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VOL. LXXXn—NO. s
..BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JULY 24,1869
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men Walk, Place Flag On Moon’s Surface
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America's moon pioneer*. ft>_,
thatr country** flag placed on
the itnfkc* of the moan were
■pending toward earth Tuesday
for * victorious spUsdown In
the Peclflc Thursday.
The dramatic opsavttons to
remove Nell A. Armstrong and
Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., (ram the
alien world of the moon began at
l(h30 a. m. Monday when ground
controllers awakened Michael
Collins, circling the moon alone
in the command ship Columbia.
Armstrong and Aldrin, weary
from their exploration of the
airieea, arid surfacethatturned
blue apace boota cocoa
colored, were allowed to sleep
.. aa long aa poaaible in the Eagle »
before being called to begin pre- , ;
paratlona ter their blastoff (ram , '
the moon,
Aldrln and Armstrong were
Anally awakened about 11:15 '
' a. m. EOT. When capeule conk
municator Ronald Evans aakad
them; “Howla the resting stand
ing up there? Did you get a
- chance to reat?”
. "He's been lying on the engine
cover and I’ve beencurled upon
the floor, He's rigged op > sort
• ot hummock,” Aldrin reported.
But no metter whstlayahead,
they already belonged to hia
- tory. Their walk on the moon,
their collection of lunar aoil
samples, their planting of the
American flag, and tbelr talk
with the President in the White
Bouse, ushered in a new era
ot man’s conquest at the uni
verse.
Millions ot viewers the world
over watched as Aldrin and
Armstrong eetabllshsd that base
: when their spidery lunar module
Mttled in i swirl of dust and
Armstrong took the first human
- atop on the moon tlx sad a
half hours after the landing.
During their walk over the
lunar surface—fine grained and
strewn with a wide variety of
rocks—Armstrong sod Aldrln
- gathered about SO pounds of rock
and dirt samples.
They were calm, deliberate
and encountered no troubles
during the time outside Eagle
—2 hours, 11 minutes for Arm
strong and 29 mlnutss less tor
Aldrln. ,,
Th» TV pictures they beamed
back (hawed them moving easily
to their (tut, bulk; spacesuit(.
The moon's gravity pulled only
ooe-eixth as hard astheearth'e
and Armstrong and Aldrln look
ed like two slow motion dancers
In an underwater ballet.
The Eagle crewmen apparent
ly were not eo comfortable
during their 10 hour rent period
inside the lunar module after
the moonwalk. Flight surgeons
reported that Armstrong, the
only one wired to send biomedi
cal data back to earth, sleptonly
fitfully through the night.
It may have been lack of com
fort aa much as excitement. In
side the lunar module, the pilots
have to sleep by leaning up
against a bulkhead in the ma
chine that they fly standing up,
Mission control commenta
tor Terry White noted as Collins
went behind the moon and lost
communications on Ms 23rd
orbit of the moon: “not since
Adam has any human known such
solitude as Mike Collins, with
no one to talk to except Ms tape
recorder,**
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But with half the mission still
left, there wee no doubt about
the piece history would eeaiga
a.
Dr. Thomas Paine,heed of the
National Aeronautic* and Space
Administration, said the flifbt
proved the poosihility of travel
"between the earth and other.
bodies."
“The heavens have become
pert of man'* world,” Presi
dent Nixon told the astronauts
from the White House, 250,000
miles away.
FRANK PROFWIT JR . at home on tbe stage of the Newport
<R. O Folk FeetHali amplify! n* the strains at tradltiooel music
to more than 10,000 who attended the Young Performer* Concert
Sunday afternoon, (Staff photo)
' BY BACHEL RIVERS
Who: Frank Proffitt Jr.
. What: Tht NewportFolk Fes
tival.
Whera: Festival Field, New
port, H. I.
When: Wednesday 0uly 16)
through Sunday.
-- Why: To promote for thou
1 sands of Festival fans the tra
ditional folk music of the South.
•„*, era Appalachians on a program
featuring Theodore BIkel, blue
■ grass star BUI Monroe, song
writer-television star John
Hartford, Pete Seeger and blues
singer Big Mama Thornton,
How: By invitation of New
: port Folk Foundation Director
'<i Frank Warner, called hy the
late Carl Sandburg •‘perhaps
the best singer of folk songs In
' America.'' It was Warner who
uncovered the talent of young
Proffitt's late father, Fra*
■g Proffitt Sr. and who collected
s the Proffitt version of "Tom
Dooley" (Tou Dula) that ca
tapulted the Kingston Trio to
;; fame in the late fifties. -
M Warner helped the elder Prof
fitt fight the <mung>' of the
gong, but tailed In the court
action. .;*! J;‘ V.
Those were the times In which
folk enthusiasts were a rela
tive minority and their music
considered a tad. But at Fes
tival-1969. some 30,096 young
people hit the ocean-and-faay
bordered town to hear their
favorites and get In on the
ground floor as young per
formers like Proffitt began their
starward climb, ■ .$
■Hi MORE! MORE! *
When Frank Jr. told the Sun
day afternoon assembly of about
Sunday Concerts At
ASU Open To Public
The public Is invited to a
series of public concerts every
Sunday afternoon by students
in Appalachian’s new Cannon
Music Camp.
Scheduled tor Sundays at 3:30
p. m. In Greer Auditorium the
weekly concerts feature the mu
sic camp’s orchestra, band and
two choral ensembles.
Approximately 130 pre-col
lege students from throughout
the state are participating in
tha music camp which is under
tte direction of Charles Isley.
Fiddlers’ Convention Is
Being Sponsored By Javcees
The second smuel old-time
- Fiddlers Conrentloo will beheld
> Saturday night, July 28, at tbs
Watauga High School gym.
The coorecdion is sponsored
' tgr the Boooe Jsycess. It will
V start at 8 p. m.
Admission trill be 81.50 for
adults. CMldren under 11 years
!■, at sge will be admtttsd free.
Tom Slade at WATA trill be fee
p master of eereasMdee.
Ford King, chairman ofttts
f year's eomreotioa, said teat all
proceeds will go to ths slab’s
community lmprovemeit
Jects.
First prise will be$12a.Sec
ood and third prises will be *100
and $75, respectively. In addi
tion, trophies, ribbons and med
als will be swarded to Sop groups
and Individual performers. King
said the Saturday arena la ex
pected to be bigger than last
year. Response has been re
ceived from bands throughout'
the area and from other states.
10,000 that ha was from Watauga
County, a cheer went up from
arid-audience. The gallery im
mediately in front of the stage
was crammed full of news
paper, magazine, syndicate ami
free-lance photographers. Also
on hand were CBS news people
and sound crews dutifully re
cording the performers.
Frank started with a dulcimer
tune which drew heavy applause,
’ Then be aimed a brief glance
over the waiting throng! and
looked do wn with a wistful smile,
"Lord ’a Mercy," he saidsofU
ly, "I’m nervous,”
His candid admission brought
on frantic clapping that dwind
led as he moved Into an ori
ginal dulcimer tune. Switching
tc> the fretless banjo be and his
lather had made, Frank then
(Continued on page two)
Patrons At Horn In West
Also See Men On The Moon #
The pioneer spirit of Deniel Boone literally bounced
off the moon Sunday night before the eyes at some 300
patrons at Horn in the West.
It was like a double feature, highlighting the glory at
the old history along with the epic turning point in a new
history of man’s exploration and adventure.
Management of Horn in the West was not risking 1
its audience missing out on either Dan’fti daring or astro
naut Neil Armstrong’s historical first human step on the
surface at another planet.
Announcement that the first moon walk would be moved
back to shortly after 9 p. m. sent the theatre’s manage
ment Into action. They secured three large-screen tele
vision sets and hastily erected an antenna on the sec
Dan’l and the entire east Joined the eudlence as the
suspense mounted. The Horn's performance was due to
have begun at 8:45 n, m. Only after Armstrong had demon
strated to the TV world that man could maneuver easily
over the grey matter of the mooa’a surface did the drama
of another famous explorer begin.
The audience, confident that they had seen a new era
tor man opening before their ayes, turned to the nays of
an earlier hero, ^ ,
As they shuttled out of the arena about i a. m. many
may have mused that, except for the matter of 100 years,
the man who first touched the moon might Just as well
have been Denial Boone, the pioneer from NorthCarolina.
| Cost Is Going Up
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490 Watauga Students
Are Going To College
Number In
Local Area
Has Doubled
In Watauga County, the pro
portion of young people who
will be going to college, when
claasea reaume in September,
will be greater than ever.
And, at the name time, aa
the parenta of theae college
bound youngatere are tUacor
ering, tuition costa will be at
an all-time high.
On tbe basin of local enroll
ments and the new schedules at
rates—for tuition, fees, room,
board and incidentals—the par
ents of these students will be
shouldering a $1,372,000 load
for the coming academic year,
it is estimated.
The Institute of Ufelnaurance
finds that the cost of sending
children to college for four
years could amount, for some
families, to the biggest ex
penditure of their lives.
The total could very likely
add up to more than they in
vested In their homes.
This is particularly so in
Watauga County families that
have two or more youngatere
to put through college.
Facts and figures on college
costs and enrollments have be
come available through sur
veys made by the Department of
Health, Education and Welfare, >
the UUted States Chamber of
Commerce and others.
They show that no less than
7,000,000 Americans will be
attending college this year, as
against 2,935,000 in 1960,
Of this total, Watauga County
will be supplying approximately
490. In 1960 the number from
the local area was about 230,
As to cost, at state colleges
and other publicly-supported in
stitutions, the hill will come to
about $1,600 on average, for
tuition, fees, room end board.
Some charge more for out-of
state students and less for lo
:al ones.
At private colleges, the aver
age will be close to (1,700 this
year.
To these figures must be add
ed the cost of books and sup
plies, is based upon half of the
students going to public colleg
es and half to private ones.
Bloodmobile
Coming Aug. 5
The Red Croce Bloodmobile
will be et Greenway Baptist
Church Tuesday, Aug. 5, from
11 a. m. to 4:30 p. m.
Ron Whitaker, blood program
chairman, urges all who can
possibly give blood to “pleaae
do eo at this vialt,” At this
time of year blood collections
are very low In dost places,
hut usage la higher due toeum
mer accidents.
TUa visit will be dependent
mainly bn Industry and local
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APPALACHIAN PRESIDE*-’*' PRESENT AND FUTURE—Dr. W. H. Plemmms, right. retirlm
ASU president, met last weds in Chapel Hill with Dr. Herbert W. Wey whom Appalachian trustee*
selected last moith to succeed him. Dr. Wey will be arrivii* in Boone duriw the first week In
September.
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“Sweet Charity” Weekend
* • - •
Feature At Powder Horn ;
Sweet Charity, the musical'
comedy smash that delighted
New York audiences for two
years, will be presented this
weekend at Powder Horn Thea
tre. Sweet Charity is the story
of Charity Hope Valentine, a
dance hall hostess who keeps
giving her heart to the wrong
man.
“Hey Big Spender,” “H My
Friends could See Me Now,”
and “Where Am I Going” are
included in the several hitaongs
from the play.
Charity is played by Donna
Pennington. Her best friends,
Nickle and Helene are played by
Rebecca Dili and Jayne Wilkins.
Her boyfriends include s movie
star portrayed by BUir Beasley
and a tax accountant with claus
trophobia played hy Paul Gauntt.
Members of the easemhle are
Dayton Long, Martha Haar
bauer, J. C. Mason, Steve Pen
nington, Barry Bril, Happy
Fountain, Lenora Kendrick,
Andy Macbeth, Sybil Macbeth.
Jack Muon, Jennifer Miller,
Gary Pruett, Charles Simmons,
Derylan Stratton, Kay Taylor
and Nancy Williama.
The production will be direct
ed and choreographed by Mike
McKee, with technical direction
tr Carrie CurtU and musical
ffff
direction by Peggy Beaudry and
Jayne WUkim.
Curtain time la 11:30 p,m. on
July 24-26 and admisaionla 75£
and 50C. The theatre la located
the upper parking lot of Ron
the West.
Homes lour rriday*|
At Blowing Rock |
Friday will be the bt« day In
Bio wine Rock for tha 11th
annual aummar tour o/ faomea
from noon to 4:30 p. m.
Tha tour la aponaorad by tha
Woman of tha Church of St.
Mary*a of tha 1911a Jidaoopal
Church. Lunch will bo aorrad for
tha Women of tha Church la tha
pariah hall bagimilns at 10:30
a. m.
Tlckata, 33 each, will boon
tala attbechnreh.Tnneportat
ton from the church to tha thro
poii*i on tba tour trill bn
furnished, nccording to Mrv
Join Gaumsr, chairman of tba
tour.
HfebUgbti of tbs tour trill bnt
tbe bom* of Mn, Virginia
Bull Rhoades, on Fairway
Diin, boron of Or. nod lira.
H. L. Newton on Pinonoln A«•»
Mb homo of Ur. and lira.
Pinckney Rankin on Rankin
Boad, Gorge View Condo minium
Apartments and tbs auauaar
ahopof Montaldo's. jJ
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