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VOL. LXXXII—NO. 7
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Independent Weekly Newspaper .,Eighty-Second Year of Continuous Publication
BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1969
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[Enormous Business Boom!
Witnessed In Watauga
look .Mint’s happened to Watauga Count? In the last five years- Mora than go new busi
nesses. But how many more is the question.
The Democrat has hastily compiled the following list as a means of answeriig inquiries
ft out-of-town businessmen and Investors. The five-year list came off the top of our beafe,
however, and we are sure there are still others we may have inaccurately remembered as
longer established. So please let us know if you have inadvertently been omitted from this
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The Watauga House Of lighting, the Cardinal Restaurant Sue Ridge Harthside Crafts,
Greenway Trailer Park, Lloyd's Upholstery Shop, Jones Auto Farts, One-Hour Martlnliiig,
The Sherwin-Williams Company, Westmont Apartments, Martin-Dale Apartments,Thrif-Tee !
Discount, The Stone jewelry, Lowell Industriee, Udted Farm Agency, Shook Realty Conk
pany, Whitaker Realty, limy's Hobbycrafts, Merle Norman Coametica, Hodges Transfer A
Storage Company, Clyde Townsend Apartments, Fin-Feather-Fun Pet Shop, Mix-Mates,
LTD,, Newton's Fashion Shoppe, Stout's Shoe Store, Bev Russing Realty, the Donut Den,
Tumbling Brook Inn, Covered Wagon Antiques, Holiday Gulf Service.
Also City TV Service, United Antenna Service of Boone (CATV), the Harvey Ayers
i apartments. Hound Ears (restricted residents, elding end golfii«X Appalachian Restaurant
! Supply Company, Watauga Memorials, Inc., Cook A Hodges Construction Company, Foscoe
; Campground, Mine Branch Campground, Watauga livestock Market, Big Dollar Food Market,
, Holly's Tavern, Bill Cox’s Cheese House, the Carriage House Restaurant The Yard fln
; eluding The Children's Shoppe, Alpine Realty and Santa’s Shop), Queen's Candy Kitchen.
1 The Wayside Shop and Vermont American Corporation.
• And Holiday Inn of Boone, Ray's Klngbuiger, Jiffy Car Wash, Kentucky Fried Chicken
Ww Ro-Bo Car Wash, Around the World in 18 Holes (miniature golf), The Peddler »a»u
House, Big Chief Mobile Home Sales, Whaley Realtors, the Chalet Restaurant, King street
Pharmacy, Crickside Crafts and Antiques, Creative Crafts, Brown wood Lcxfee, Deerfield
Pharmacy, the Doctor’s Building, Thalheimer’a Factory Outlet, Jerry’s (clothiig), the
Glass Bara, Cottage Crafts, Hanls-Teeter Super Market, Frank Auten Real Estate, n*
Motors, McCullough Saw A Cycle Sales, Appalachian South, Inc. (apartment house develop
ment), Aldridge Jewelry, The Portrait House, Raton's Town end Campus Men’s Wear, Seven
Devils (residential, ski and golf). Beech Mountain (spanning Watauga-Avery line), Blowim
Bock Galleries, Orbit Factory Outlet, Carolina Realty and Insurance Company, Reddix (Mtf
life Discount Store, Miller Engineering Company, the Regional Gallery of Art, ani Uni
versity Village Os residential development Just getting underway In BooaeX
In addition to new businesses, several established businesses have undergone major
expansions for the period.
Surprised? We were.
Roughly Half Of Voters ;
In Watauga Registered
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'*f -*W«t«uga -©sunty*#- recent
4 voter re-registration 1* expeet
Ji ed to produce about half tbs
*►- number of registered voter* a*
were shown on the old books.
J. L. Winebarger.charlmanof
the Watauga County Board at
Elections, made the prediction
after master registration books
for six precincts were compiled
in the county office.
•f He expects that books for all
the county's 18 precincts will
be compiled In the new loose*
leaf form within two weeks.
The new registration was re*
,i quired by state law. Books will
4 be re-opened for additional
• ; registrations prior to the next
election. And persons may
i ■MnHMmnfanmi
register at tbs elections beam
office during the time toe stiff
is working on the new book*.
Precincts completed, with
total voter registration by party
affiliation, follow: Boone No, 1,
265 Democrats, 68 Republicans
tad ntaa-lndapandanta;»< Boona
, No. 2,229,73 and 14; Blowing
Bock, 155, 139 and 25; Bruifay
Fork, 275k 111 and 10; BaU
Mountain, 28,17 and 3, and Elk
17,90 and 1.
Lightning Ignites Barn
Lightning mu burned for a
fire Sunday night that destroyed
a barn in the Aho area near
Blowing Rock.
The barn belonging to Ingle
Font ot Route 4, Boone, was
a total loss, along with its con
torts, The loss of building and
content! was estimated at $3,
500 by the Blowing Rock Fire
Department. -1b .<y; ,
The department answered the
alarm at 11 p. m. Inside the barn
1,200 bales of hayfedtheflainea
to Ok point where it was out of
control when firemen arrired.
The barn was located next to
the FriendsUp Methodist
Church.
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NEWLY CBOWNED NUa Caroline* PreaaPhotofrepberModM. Carolyn Joy Wraj at TtomaarlUe,
(Mdi Mldrad, Gnndtatber Mmmtalii’a recently abducted but now returned tame bear u (Mb
grapbers attbeGrandtetbar Mountain Camera Clinic amp tbair atautUra anajr. CHugh Morton
list Watauga ,•
Graduates
Is Given Out
Or. Graydon Poe Eggeri
•peaking at Appalachian'! turn.
mar commencement exercise!
Saturday evening, borrowed a
phrase {tom Tennyson's Ulys
ses to challenge the 517
graduates “to strive, to seek,
to find and not to yield.'’
The senior (acuity member at
Appalachian used quotations
from the writings of the nine
teenth century theologian and
aidhor, Cardinal John Henry
Newman, to speak on the modern
university, Its role and re
sponsibility. “A university la a
place for teaching universal,
knowledge 'with Its object1 the
diffusion and extension of know
ledge rather than the advance
ment,” said Eggers, as he re
called Appalachian’s tradition
of excellence in teacher train
ing.
“Teaching Is s great profes
sion. The teaching of teachers
Is one of the greatest of all.
“Appalachian has a great
figure. It can be compared to
Duke, Carolina or Harvard dur
ing their formative years. Given
the same number of years to
mature and develop, Appalachian
would reach the same level of
development as these more
famous universities. f
“I love this school” continued
Eggers “my brother (Mr. Her
man Eggers, ASU registrar
emeritus), my wife CMrs. Daisy
W. Eggers, assistant professor
of English) and I are observing
a (pdet centennial tUs year. This
marks our 100th year of con
tinuous sendee at Appalach
ian."
Alter Eggers’ address, ASU
President W, H. Flemmone con
ferred Master of Arts degrees
upon 279 students. Bachelor at
Science degrees upon 193,
Bachelor at Arts degrees upon
22, the Master at Science de
gree upon 1, advanced certifi
cate in school administration
upon 3 and the certificate of ad
vanced study on three others.
The 517 summer graduates
boosted the 1999 graduating
total at Appalachian to a record
1,400. Degrees awarded in June
totaled 883, including 108 win
earned Master's degrees.
The list of graduates included
the following from Watauga
County:
Master of Arts: Clarita Ann
Adams; Carolyn C. Anderson;
Melba J. Bumgarner; Bandal
Clay Cannon; Nancy A. Chamb
(Pontinued on page two)
11 Wataugans
To Be Drafted
Watauga County's quota tor
the September draft call will be
11 man.
Mrs, Evelyn Coffey, executive
secretary of the .Vatauga County
Selective Service Board, said
the call baa been issued for
Tuesday, Sspt. 2. ■ i , (■; (■:
Thl* mi the scene Saturday evening as 517 graduates were
awarded degrees in commencement exercises held in Varsity
Gymnasium on the Appalachian campus. The exercUes were
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scheduled for Conrad Stadium, but the inclement weather forced
university officials to move them inside.
35 Acre Trailer, Recreation
Area To Be Open In 60 Days
The owner -of Williams Con
struction Company this week
announced plans for Hunting
Meadows Court, a proposed
240-trailer development with
recreation area Just outside
Boone’s city limits.
Joe Williams said Tuesday
that Mrs. Nell Trivett Fairchild
and Miss Puby Trivett have
contracted him to develop the
court on 35 acres bordered by
the State Farm, New River and
the State Farm Road and lying
just below their residential pro
ject, Hunting Hills, where
Fund Budget
Is Approved
Directors of the Watauga
County United Fund Tuesday
heard an appeal from Dr. John
Barden that the local chapter
of American Red Croga be re
stored the $97 stricken from
its original request by the
Fund’s budget committee. -4
But the proposed budget was
adopted as presented by budget
chairman Dr. Robcrt Randall for
a record total of $23,000 to
benefit 11 local groupe, aa well
aa the many-faceted Carolines
United Fund.
The Red Cross will be grant
ed $6,000 from the local fund
and plana to raise an additional
$1,000 In Blowing Rock, -j \.
Town Hall Structure
ToBeReady Weekend
Boom tom official*, Jammed
up In makeshift quarter* dur
ing tfaa construction of the new
town hall main building, may
gat relief at th* and of this
week.
Perry Greene, contractor tor
the new office area, said Mon
day that hi* crews should be
through with their work by Sat
urday, Th* last item will be
laying of th* Ue on the floor,
scheduled fur Thursday and Fri
day. .
Tbs new quarter* will Include
a lobby with a counter, a board
room lor the Board of Alder*
men, and office* for other tom
timctfama. Also, the police de
pertmant will more Into it* old
quarter* back to the western
aide ot the building.
During the construction, the
police department has beau'
loused In a temporary office
located la the fire station. The
town’s executive offices have
beta la this ana,., ^|
Williams estimates the average
cost of a building lot at $6,500.
Five acres of the court will
be a recreational area, be said.
Asked what is the nearest
property inside the Boone
limits, Williams said Optimist
Park, Just across the road from
Hunting Meadows.
The contractor plans to have
the modern trailer facility open
“within 60 days.”
Williams said the plan would
have been announced earlier if
Mrs. Fairchild and Nfiss Trivet!
had not heard that the Watauga
Board of Education ms seeking
a site for a new elementary
school for Boone.
“Even though they realized
they would get more revenue out
of a trailer court,” said Will
iams, “they received their edu
cation here, and decided to let
the county have a shot at (their
land).”
He said a tract of the Trivett
property was offered for $5,000
an acre. However, after the
board looked Into other avail
able sites, it optioned a portion
of the Grady Farthing farm in
east Boone early this month.
Asked whether the trailer de
velopment lies within the one
mile extra-territorial control
of the Boone Planning (zoning)
Board and therefore is prohibit
ed, Williams said it is his under
standing that the present ordi
nance is invalid.
City Attorney John H. Bing
ham said "the probability is
that it is invalid” and is cur
rently being studied. He said he
understands the city fathers plan
to take whatever measure
necessary to validate the 1965
ordinance as regards the
perimeter of the city.
The city council minutes list
a Monday-July 28 called meet
ing in which the Boone Board
of Aldermen and the County
Retail Sales In Co.
Reach $40 Million
Retail aalee In Watauga County tor the fiscal year 1968-69
reached a total of *40,167,300, according to figure* released by
the State Department of Revenue,
sale* and uae tax collection in Watauga County tor the
period were *934,918,95.
Thla la compiled from tax report* filed by the mer
chant* moithly with tb* State Department.
■ Following la * break-down of tales and uae tax collection*
In Watuva'a varloua dlvlaions of merchandlalng:
’$ i i: , >
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WATAUGA COUNTY
1% Retail Sales
V/i% Auto ft Plane a
Appaxel .,"i •
Automotive "
Food
Furniture
General Merchandise
Building Materials
Unclassified Group
Use Taa - 1% ft 3%
Licenses — Wholesale ft Regs
,:V.. TOTALS , .
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2,999.77
52.269.93
33,369.85
88.731.93
305,099.52
61,187.22
135.28 L89
in,036.46
127.528.12
10.63L26
783.00
934.918.95
309,046
3.589,308
1,160.926
7.451,535
10,872.843
2.310.177
3,487.402
4,212,703
4.773.360
I 40,167.3011
Commissioners met to consider
the zoning ordinance. The city
attorney read the law provid
ing that the Commission name
five members of the zoning
board who reside outside the
city but within the one mile
band.
The balance had been upset
when some zoning board mem
bers moved.
That date, the city council
(Continued on page two)
BETH TAETAN
Beth Tartan
Will Speak To
Homemakers |
Beth Tartan, food* editor at
the Winston-Salem Journal and
food consultant with R. J. Roy- .
nolds Tobacco Co., will be the
guest speaker next Wednesday,
Aug. 27, at the Northwestern
iMwnaton Homemakers msetlng
in Boone.
The meeting will be preceded
by a coffee hour at 9:30 a. m. In
the Varsity Gym at Appalachian
State Unlreraity. The program
will begin at 10:30 a. m. with ;
Mrs. H. F. Cochrans, prcsU:
dent, presiding.
A graduate of Salem College,
Beth Tartan baa conducted a
daily food column in tbs Whu '
ston-Salem papers sine* 1947.
She la the author of Ova books. |
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