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v An Independent Weekly Newspaper . . . Eighiy^Second Tear of Continuous Publication 'r 'vi" .- • •— --—1—4— -;-*— 1 — VOL.- LXXXII—NO. 16 BOON! WBATHEK nm uuPimiMWBLa Oct 14 67 49 71 46 Oct 15 54 44 58 54 Oct 18 64 43 82 56 Oct 17 -- . 62 44 Oct 18 61 30 : ?; 68 57 Oct 18 73 35 82 41 Oct 20 74 51 ' A 6141 ■■F.ti.i. ;i,y r SOON E, WATAUGA COUNTY. NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. OCTOBER 23, 106ft ' 10 CENTS PER COPY PAGES 2 SECTIONS {C- • Homecoming Activities • >- •' • * ‘ ■■ ■ :■ - ■ ■ ■ t . % FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24 f MOUNTAINEER KICKOFF PARTY . . . Holiday Inn t.r Restaurant . . , Dinner and dancing beginning at 6 p. in. A la carte . . , AH alunm*. and friends In- . vited *,. Use Rale,,, 41 cover charge per per- g *o». ‘ | .. ..... ,... ^ ■ CONCERT . . . THE FOUR SEAS016 . , . Popular pro l- ;v grains presentation 8 p. m. Varsity Gymnasium ... 42.SO per person. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25 REGISTRATION ... 8 a. nu-ooon . .. Plemmons ■■ Student Center . . . Tickets tor all events will be ,■ i on sale . . . Pick up name and class badges ... Verniclan Society will host. • . : v HOMECOMING PARADE... 10 a. m. Z't,I OPEN HOUSES ... 10:30 a. m.-noon " Dougherty Home Economies Hall, Santord’Hall and Varsity Gymnasium , ■ .4' ’ , ■' if * . f i REUNION CLASSES . . . 10:30 a. m.-noon ~ ; ■ The honor classes will meet In the Plemmona. Student Center as follows: Class of *29, room 110; *39, room 118; '49, room 112; ’44, room 114; and , ’59, room211. . 1.,,, _ ALUMNI LUNCHEON ... 12 p. m.-l:30 p. m. East side University Cafeteria ... Dr. Plemmons and Dr. Wey will be presented ... Honor Claeses will be .-recognized , . , 4t per person...All alumni and friends welcome, F 1 AJS.U. va CARSON NEWMAN , . . 2:30 p. m. Conrad Stadium... Appu seek revepefof one of two losses last year. >1./ ' ALUMNI RECEPTION AND COFFEE .Following game In Plemmons Center—THE place to meet i old friends . . . Co-sponsored by Senior Class .. . ■ Everyone welcome. • : „ r f ALUMNI TOUCHDOWN DANCE . . . 9 p. m.S Devils Lodge . . . Music by The CsneGrosoelose Quintet . . . Snacks by Wdborn... 43 per person, person. .CAMPUS DANCE ... 8 to midnight In Broome-Kirk Gym. Music by The Drifters, the Carolina Tams. i ^2 Cents On Tax F Cost Of School Bonds Probed Like the housewife who needs a new store, the Inevitable quea tiona come up about the proposed school bond Issue—what’s it gonna cost and how’re we foo > na par tor it? And like her husband figures it, it map not be the total cost, ; including financing, ot the store | tbit concerns him most but, : rather, how much will the pay ments be? i In the case of the school bon) issue to be anted on Nor. 4 by Watauga voter*, the one,firm cost is the Initial outlay of $1,4 million. It would finance Im. prorements at county elemen tary schools and partly pay for a tww county-owned elementary . school needed In the Boone area. (A state appropriation of $1.25 million is available to augment the county’s $900,000 share of - tbs mw school). v The money to finance the school projects would come from the proceeds of bonds sold next iDrinSe The estimated "carrying" charges (Interest) cad be pre- , dieted if based on the present money market. And sines the annual payments of principal and Interest wold come from county funds, the cost could be related in terms that would affect all owners of real and personal properties. Based on projections supplied Watauga CouityCommUsionsrs by the North Carolina Local Government Commission, tbs —ws«st cost to the county for paying off the bonds would range valuation and level of services, . the 1971-73 payment of $137, $09 would be equivalent to $3 certs on the county tax rata. However, Lyon* polrds out,* that this figure likely would be lower, aines the rapid devetop mert of property In the county would Increase the tax base. Tha Local Governmant Com. adaaion contamplataa tbebonda would bs Issued In tha late spring - -ot 1970 and mature anally eeeh spring urtU 1993. ThS.rt*. tlmete was bued on aninterest at fo26 per cent wtdch it Unde existing In the current market. Of course, this rate could change, either up or down, by spring. The bond issue would not en danger the comer's financing standing for any future bond la. sues, lyons said. £ % Under North Carolina law, county governments are limit ed to school bond issues that total no more than five per cast at the respective county's as sessed property valuation. For current budget purposes. We- . tauga County’s total aasesaad valuation at ltd9-70 is $69 million. Issuance at the pronosed bonds would bring the county’s total school bond indebtedness today to $2,707,509, or 3.8 per cent at the county’s valuation. And tor the second question, "How're we gonna pay tor it?" the county normally would have only one answer: A hike in the ad valorum (property) tar, the : county’s only dependable source of revenue locally. But, for the first time lo North Carolina government, there la the possibility at a new tax source. County eommissiooars hope WataugaCounty voters will approve the extra peony sales tax to be presented to voters, also an Nov. 4. Based on an estimate fromthe North Carolina Dspertmsid at tbx Research, and If all loo counties approve the extra pan sy sales tax, up to $212,180 would be returned to Watauga County to be used for normal county expanses. y Though commissioners recognise the probability that all ooadlas will not endorse the extra penny, Watauga woaldi SHU get beck a clunk big enough to ward off a major ad valorum tax Increase, if not cover the entire cost of tbs 4*0-1-H-f -'A' ' • •>T'r D. GLENN HODGES Scott Appoints Glenn Hodges To State Position Governor Bob Scott has an* nounced the appointment of D, Glenn Hodges, 35, 301 Pinnacle Drive, Boone, to the 18 member Advisory Council tor the newly established State Department of Local Attain. Hodges and the other council members will be sworn in at lla. m., November 3, by Apel-, i late Court Judge W. E. Graham, Jr. In the State Legislative Building, Raleigh. They serve at the pleasure of the Governor. Hodges, former V.atauga County Commissioner, Is Con trols Manager for IRC-TRW Incorporated. He Is a graduate of Appalachian State University, YDC President and YDC Coordi nator for the 9th District. A Jaycee, he has held the Jaycee Outstanding Young Man of the Year Award. Married to the former Betty Ann Hags man of Boone, they Bare three children: Gerald, 12, Anna Lynn. 10 and Carol Lae, 8» The Department of Local Af fairs was formed July 1 by this ' General Assembly at the re quest of Governor Scott. Its primary function will be to aid and aaaist local governments in meeting local needs by pro viding technical service and help In obtaining and utilising state, federal, and private assistance programs available. Members of the Advisory Council ate; Clarence E. Light ner, Raleigh; Oxell K. Beatty, ' Salisbury; James C. (Pete)DeU, Edenton; E. S. Olm) Melvin, Greensboro; Robert B. Spivey, Windsor; Turner A. Cathey, Canton; Henry M. MUgrom, Bat tleboro; Leigh S. Wilson, Ra leigh; Russell s, Newman, Reldsville; Mrs. William C. Pressly, Raleigh; John T. Mor ris ey, Sr., Raleigh; Dr. JohnT, Dees, Burgaw; Rep. Liston P. Ramaey, Marshall; Sen.Gordon Allen, Roxfaoro; W. D. (BUD Brooks, JrM Whltevllle;J. How ard Bunn, Charlotte; D,. Glenn Hodges, Boone; Betty June Hayes, Hillsborough. Boone Options Land That May men Thursday voted to exereUe an option to purchase 12,650 acres, in exchange, claims lor damaga* "as a result of the easement heretofore granted to the Town of Boone for water and sewer lines through the properties oftheGrantors’*wlll be dropped. The optioned tract Is part of the property entered fromStste Farm Koad and owned by the Trlvette heirs. It is part of the tract once considered as a site for the new elementary school proposed for Boone and that contractor Joe Williams later announced would be used for a large-scale trailer court de velopment. The option extends two months bom Oct. 10. The purchase price is *57,174.63, but the papers received in City Ball Say If the Town of Boone pur chases the land on or before Nov. 10 that *7,000 will be conceded on the purchase price. K the land cannot be sold under the terms of the option that amount will be re-added to the Be Armory Boone’s Town Board of Alder X No matter how long one has been voting in Watauga County, unless x he re-registers during the special registration that ends this Saturday S (0ct- 25), he will be barred from voting in the Nov. 4 school bond and local I option sales tax election. The new system starts from “scratch", disregarding all former records of voters. The loose-leaf permanent registration system is being effected here : under new state law. The remaining registration days at the Board of Elections office up stairs in the County Courthouse are Thursday (date pf this issue) and Friday. Hours are 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. The final day for registering will be Saturday. That day, the books will be open in the voting precincts from 9 a. m. until 6:30 p. m. The following Saturday, Nov. 1, will be challenge day. At stake in the forthcoming election is the bond issue authorizing $1,400,000 for improvements, at seven county elementary schools. Of thia figure, $900,000 will go toward financing a new elementary school for Boone, where the present building and land is being withdrawn by the owner, Appalachian State University. To be voted at the same time will be the one cent local option sales tax. If this were to pass, most of the additional revenue would be returned to Watauga County for use by the governments of the county and of Boone and „ _ Blowing Rock, - A,'. -A ')&A A.AAAA ;V..U Absentee ballots nuy be requested and voted on the school bond issue, A but are not available on the tn niientinn V v A Former Supreme Court Justice Fortis FORTAS Livestock Sales Bring *700400 The speeiel state-sponaored eelea at the Watauga County Uveetock Market during the fail at 1069 aold 3,846 head it teal. or cattle tor over 8700,000,' Of the total, 3121 of these cattle were aold In the four steer: ealea and 726 calves ware sold In the Oct. S calf sale. < All at the cattle and ealvae ware graded by official gradera from the N. C, Department of Agriculture and/or N. C. AgrU wrf ' old aecording to grade weight and breed. . All of the ateer aalea were “one day*' aalea, that la the eteera ware graded, weighed and penned during the day and aold at 8 that night. The calves were graded one day and sold the following day. All of the cattle in the calf aale and two of the ateer Bale* graded 70 per contgood or bat* ter and the average grade for all five aalea waa above 60 par ijatennrtor better. * ~ .• .Jaa, Abe Fortu, the coidroversuu former Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court, will de liver the third and final lecture In the series on “Dissent and Disorder onthe AmericanCam pus" Tuesday, Oct 28, St Ap palachian State University. Fortes' address, scheduled for 8p.m.lntheASU’s Broome Klrk Gymnasium, will focus on “Campus Change and Canipua Revolt.” IBs visit to the cam pus Is co-sponsored by the uni versity’s Artist and Lecture Series and by the S A H Foun dation of the Sperry- Hutchin son Company. The lecture is open to the public. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Yale Udversity’s School of Law, Fortes has spent his life as a legal counsel championing civil liberties and defending the rights of the Individual, In government service since 1937, he was named by Presi dent Truman to attend the organisational meetings of tbs United Nations in San Fran cisco In 1948. Ha later was a number of the delegation of tbs U. N. General Assembly In Lon. don. Soon afterward, he returned to private practice and maintained one of Washington's most flourishing law Arms. He won the respect of the legal pro tension with hla dedicattonfo. nonre me relive classes and with Ida brilliant defenses of several State Department employees who were fired as security risks after accusations by the late Senate Joseph R. McCarthy. One of Fortes’ most notable contributions to criminal law resulted from his appointment by the District of Columbia Court of Appeals In 1954 to handle the defense of Monte Durham, a convicted house breaker. Fortas won Ids client a new trial and Ids arguments were res ponslblefor a broaden ed criminal Insanity rule, mak 6,800 Enter To Triple Number Ten Years Ago Enrollment at Appalachian State Uitveralty has increased 13.01 per cent over the past twelve months, but the upward trend cannot continue much longer according to ASU presi dent Dr. Herbert Wey. “We are quickly reaching the limit of our enrollment here,'* he explains, “because at limit ed library, dormitory and cafeteria apace.” Appalachian enrolled a total 6,800 students in September which more than triples enroll ment figures recorded Just a decade ago. ASU’s increase of 13.01 per cent compares with an average state-wide growth rate of 3.96 per cent projected bgr the State Board of Higher Education for the faU of 1969, Ned R. Trivette, Director ol Business Affairs for the uni versity, has the nearly impos sible Job of stretching ASU'a state-approved budgets to ac commodate the instructional an auxiliary needs of the over grown student body. “Tremen dous pressure,'' he says, “has been placed on us by the great number of applying students to exceed the limits approved for us by the General Assembly.*’ C. H. Gllstrap, ASU’s Di rector of Admissions, is af fected Just as acutely by the pressures. He will receive 6,000 applications this year, 4,500 of them from incoming freshmen, but the vast majority will have to be denied. “At present, we are going to admit 1,000 freshmen for next year," Gllstrap says. “And we will hare to hold all other ap plications until every returning student on campus has had a chance to make a dormitory reservation—then we will Oil to our capacity with the remaining applications from freshmen and transfer students." ASU admitted l,74Sfreehmen this tall and accepted S25trans fers from other institutions. Farm-City Dinner Planned Ticket* tor the annual Farm. City Week dinner planned for Thursday, Nor. 13, are how on ■ale in Boone. Stanley A. Harris Sr., chair man of the Ticket Sales Com. mittae, said seating capacity In the dining room of the Holiday Inn of Boone will limit at. tendance to 300. The dinner plates will be each. The dinner-program which has community awards aa a HfhHpW, la among the largest held annually In Watauga, Tickets may be purchased at the Boone Chamber of Conw merce, the Watauga Savings ft Loan Association, The North, western Bank, Boone Drug Company, First National Bank, tbs County Extension Ogles, the County ASCS Office or from Burris, whose office Is upstairs lathe Savings ft Loan Building. The sales chairman says tickets have been reserved for ■met of the civic dubs and major Industries In town. He add It is hoped that at least 100 persons from the ana around the county's two model, polities will attend, and said residents of Blowing Rook are •ordtalty Invited. .i ."C-vKri—c. - ' -X HOMECOMING Q'JEEN QueenFor Weekend MOUNTAINEER REFLECTIONS IS THE THEME FOR Appalach ian State University's home coming festivities this week end which honor recently retired president Dr. W. H. Plemmons for his 14 years of outstanding service to the uni versity. Presiding over the events of the weekend is home coming queen Pat Curlee (above), a senior primary edu^ cation major from Charlotte* Highlights of the festivities will include a team of sky divers floating into Conrad Stadium from 7,000 feet above the ground just prior to the kick off of the homecoming battle between the Apps and Carsoo Newman. Friday night, the Four Seasons will appear in a Var sity Gymnasium Concert, and on Saturday evening, the Drift ers will be on hand at the home coming dance. Looking Again For Yule Tree Tsrrytown Mall, Rocky Mount's Mg shopping center, Is looking again for a Watauga Christmas tree to set up in the center. George Braswell, general manager of Tarrytown, says he is looking lor a Frazer fir that is "shaped pretty and stand ing where it can be loaded by a crane onto a truck." He wants a tree 32 to 36 feet tall. Braswell already has made one trip Into Watauga in search of a tree. He asks that anynerw son who has a tree suitable for the mall contact Mm in Rocky Mount. Watauga has received state wide publicity for furnishing trees to Tarrytown In previous years. Workshop For , Parents Tonight A coursefor parents on "Yoer Children and Better Emotional Health" will begin at Watauga High School Tlsirsday evening, October 23, at 6:30 p. m. Classes will be baM each Thursday for six weeks it an hour decided upon by those at. tending the first night. Instruc tors for the course will be clinU eal psychologists from New Ri< er Mental Health Association aad Western Carolina Center, Morganton. , At the same time Watauga County teachers will be aftanrl ing a course designed to help them with the emotionally dis turbed child in the classroom. It Is anticipated that the par ents and teachers might have some joint sessions If those par- . Hcipating SO desire. " ■ ;* For additional liforieetfcm contact Dr. Den StalUage at Caldwell Technical Insmata, > !.,, - • v;;;'
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