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special Ejection Ballots (i) « OFFICIAL BALLOT For Special Election Held ' : ^ Fitanp Cmnty On Nnoibcr A 1969 iSLrS“* «"«*”HUM. crtMBCD m«rk |d the appropriate square appearing bejaw. . W t-f • dottco or wroo*U m<k thl. MM rotan u ud w ■ frkh .':v.' * i -, against ■" v. - , A W " 1 f' k 1 tka bond order authorUni Al.400.000 bowk to finance the cost of erecting in the Watauga County School Adminlatrattve Unit, several new buildings to be used ss school houses, school garages, physical education and voce* tloual education buildings, teacherages and lunch rooms and other school plant facilities. • and of reconstructing and enlarging by the erection of additions, several existing build ings located in such Unit and used for snch purposes, and to acquire land and furnishings and equipment necessary for such new or W constructed or enlarged building, and a tax therefor. . Si ■ ■ t’ : ■ y- \y-. ~ < -<-+sdUciA 0 V Oairmaii. County Board of Elections of Wauwaa County. North Carolina OFFICIAL BALLOT One Percent (1%) Local Option Sales and Use Tax ?r iMtontUoM To Vrt«r, L *•*■“ IT08" “"b.A'CW «%) sue, AidUatu Ueke e CM- I.> kirk In Tb« Sqpar, 1, lb. Left Of Tb. Word “FOB** ™ "** * Cn“ <«> 1 <=“* <**> Awl u« Tta Mrt. A Ow, (i) >Urt la ■m, term T. TO. Laft Of Th. Wort -AOABim □ FOR The One Per Cent (1%) Local Sale, And Uh T«« D v2rtoH!T Th# °” Pet <1%) Loc,d And .if:’ vrum0 Coma perns el iketfeoa ‘ -Cf'r■'•v 4 "YOU DON'T MEAN IT”—Dr, W, H. Hammons was the most NTprlsed man oo the momgain when Jim WMttbVton, rift*, handed Mm the kern to a new Buick Eleetra at halfHme cere monies during Homecoming last Saturday on the Appalachian sample. With them la lire. Flemmona and Ned Trlvette. Di rector of toislness Affairs tor the university. WMttiiwtonis past president of the Alumni Association. Plemmons Day Is Event It m Dr. w. H. Plemmons’ *y Saturday at Appalachian. Homecoming (eatlvttlea it the university were dedicated to the Prealdent Emeritus of the in stitution as some 6,000 alumni and 6,000 students honored Dr. Plemmons for Us 14 yean of service as Appalachian’s presi dent. At the annual Homecoming Luncheon, tribute was paid to Dr, Plemmons by Dr. Hugh Dan iel of the Board of Trustees, tf Dr, L, H. Hollingsworth if the Board at Vhrttprs, fcrJlm Whittington and ft* Sneed wile represented the alumni body, tor James. Marsh of the com. mmiifcr and bar Dr. Herbert W, Wear, ASU*§ new president. Announcement of the H, Plemmons Seholarehlp Fuiul wee mede at the luncheon. The Amd has been estabUehed by alumni end other friends of Dr. Plemmons to perpetuate the spirit of seholarehlp which the former president helped Instill In Appalachian’s student body. later in the day came the biggest surprise of all—Dr. Plemmons was presented a set ofkW to a 1970 Bulek Eta*™. W »rio*ids at Dr^ PTamm^yijt «nd Appalachian, it mm fur. J^o«»Oreeo.B«lek,lne, Commissioners To Hear Plan For Development Of County A Are-point study project to •tore ss a guide in the orderly ferelopment of Watauga CourSy trill be preaented to county eommUalooera Monday by the Ooiuty planning board. report culminate! apwie ttree months' study hy the plan. ™hg board on determtnlig the moat pressing problems tachs the county. The board is oro poalng that the county engage in Election Fact Sheet 't 1. Date of the el action, Tuea day, Not. 4, 6:30 a. m. to 6:30 2. .Ian*' Vi. i; iuiam by Watauga County of up to 01,4 BdlUon In bonda toflnancecon etructlon at additional facilities at county achoola and also pro-, : aid* the first Boone elementary acbool owned by the County, 3. Iaaue No. 2: To inereaie the atate aalaa tax in Wetuga i hy one per cot with the revenue : being returned to theeountytor . uee by the county toranunnt Z, and the Towna at Boone and f Blowing Rock. 4. Appalachian State Udverw ? »hy haa aecured a atate ap. proprlation at #.25 minion to 4 help the eounty eonatruet the ■?,, new elementary ecfaool. The tj money ia available only It the , new achool la under coidraetby. December at 1170, After tint J the appropriatleo reverta to the j; Stata’a general fund. t S. Appalachian State Utdver. atty, which owna the twHUHwg « that bouaaa AppalachUn Qe i aeentary School, haa needof the | , building in expanding lte own claaaroom program. It waa be caaae of ttda that ASU waaable to aeeure the appropriation from tfa> state. 6. One-half mUllon doUaraot the gropoeed tl.4 million bond iaaue would be tor addtttona to mid improve manta at the county*! leva elementary schools. The new school would be financed with the remaining #00,000 plus the atate gift of ♦US million, without whichtfaa eounty would face the prospect eg*-,——*,,, iv T. Bagardleea of the ladverw •tty's need for the Appalachian Elementary building, the county •tUl would be laced with the need for a new facility. The preeeot tatfcUqg wae dealgned tor 650 1*1 growth and Boone's annex* niton of certain communities bordering the city llnrita, AES enroUmet* ban swelled to 910 eh stents. , *• Based on the present larel ef sendees and present vela* ■tton of property in Wataiya County, coat of paying off tbei : bond Issue would reqidreanad dlttonal 22 cents on the tax rate. K the State appropriation were not available to help out, the additional tax required would be some 20 cento, bringing the .total Increase to 42 canto. The present rate is fo.10. 9. B Watauga voters approve the additional ona per cent salea tax, sufficient revenue would bn returned to the county that a tax increase for the bonds alone could be avoided. 10. Watauga voters would not be paying all the additional local salea toe, ktochofit would come from the crowds of summer and winter visitors who spend large sums of money hern. 0 ' YDC To Meet ; . The Watauga County YDC will ■nest at 7*90 Friday night In the downstairs amfttoHmn qI Mm Courthouse In Hoooe, _ Discussion will Include the State YDC Convantlon and Dr. Swtnnon Richards, Superltaeol. ent of Schools, will be than to peeves theoouctywlde bond ref. * two-year study program at each of the problems. Following the October meet ing of the planning board last Tuesday night, the board is ex pected to present the followii* recommendation to the com. missloners at their Novem. ber meeting next Monday; Enter into a contract with the N. C. Department ad Commu nity . Planning tor an in-depth study of these- areas in Wa tauga County; Recreation, thoroughfare planning, over-all development plan, land utilisa tion and survey and problem related to minimum housing The entire projeot was to have required two years to complete. But recent cuts in the federal budget provide now tor federal funding tor only mi— calendar year at a time. Bow. ever, the planning board would plan to re-apply for continua tion of the study. According to Mat Davis, re gional director of the depart ment, the federal government ■wld provide up to tVIOOfor one calendar year. The coun ty1* »h»re nould be some $2,. SOD Plus an additional sum for Printing. A report that preliminary "ork already baa begun on the board’a county-wide water ami aawar atudy war given the board to Roy Spalnhour, engineer for Moore-Gardner Associates of Aahaboro. Spalnhour raid the work will require about 15 mootha to com plete. It will eonaider potential water euppliee and population trenda In outling poaalUlitlaa for a comprehensive water sup ply for the entire county. Spalnhour told the board that water will be In short supply in leas than SOyears In Watauga County If effort la not made to conserve It. Meeting with the board were members afthe planning board's advisory commutes. Members the pi—<-g board at the meeting were Chairman Ned Trlvette, Col. Clyde Miller and Wade Moretx. ’• ■■■. : : ■l- 1 ' ; Tuesday^ The Day - #Y;-: i'£ S,'M *&*■'/ •V ♦ I'.,,* ■ Registration Figures Short As Books Close wstauga voters will go to the polls Tuesday, Nor. 4, and mark ballots on two questions: .1, Will the county issue up to $1*4 million in bonds to finance school projects. And, 2. will the state sales tax in Watauga County to be hiked a penny, from three to four par cent, with the extra ponny revenue being returned to the county for use by the govern ments of the county and the towns of Boone and Blowing Bock. a awry turnout from unoq an estimated 6,500 newly r<*ie tered voters Is expected. Polls In the county's 18 pre cincts will be opened at 6:30 a. m. and close st 6:3C p, m. Both the school bond issue and the local option sales tax ipies • tlon have been the object of an active campaign of a group of private citizens. They have worked freely In anatmosphere void of any organlxed opposition to the two issues. The bond Issue would pro vide funds for additions and Improvements at the comity’s seven elementary schools pits paying nearly half the cost of the county's first elementary achool for the Boone area. 1 it voters approve the bond "TWusi's' state^ftspHirtBSf-rf cut would be given to- the , county for construction of the Boone school. fa deciding their wishes shot* the local option sales tax, Wa tauga voters will bejolnfagvot ers In the state’s other <9 counties. The sales tax vote wag called in each county by the recant legislature. John D. Wlnebarger, chair nan of the Watauga County Board of Elections, stressed that the estimate of the number of voters now eligible In Wa tauga County Is just that, "an estimate." The board of elections office staff will not have cards tor the new registrants durfig the last three weeks Inserted In the proper precinct books will the and of this week, he said. ■ Wlnebarger baaed Us estl (Continued on page two) Student, 8, Writes Halloween Poem An eight-year-old student in Mrs. N. Trlvette’s third grade at Appalachian Elementary School haa "poemed" her feel, fage about Halloween. Utile Miss Beth William, daughter of John H. WllUame, an aaalatant professor at Appa lachian State University, wrote; "It's Halloween when the pumpklna are ripe. When the witches ride on their broom, (ticks at night. And the ghoets to Booooooo with all their "right. And scare the people with right, it’s Halloween tonight." ,n t!”J?mBComlng Parade ««» the Cunpue-Communitgr Relation* Com ETJSLSSi K tor >Wr0Val *“■ — *- - -* tax U.«e in Tu^, Watauga Women Show Crafts At State Fair 1 Four Watauga County wo me* were among the more than <H craftsmen to demonstrate ii the Village of Yesteryear atttu _ North Carolina State Fair, They'ere Mrs.B.A. Hodge ■ of VUaa, Mrs. Dorothy Town send of Valle Crude, Mrs D, W, Cook of Boone, her da ugh. tar, Mrs, Charles E. Clay Raleigh and Mrs, Estella C, Barnes, Mrs, Hodges learned her craft, vegetable dyeing, from her grandmother as did Mrs. Townsend who spins on a wheel her grandfather built after the Civil War. The two women work together. "I had done no spinning foi 25 years,” Mrs. Townsend said, “Seven years ago, aspinner was needed for the Milage at Yes ' '(Continued on page: two) Miss Watauga Pageant Nov. 15 11 “The Age of Aquarius” is the theme for the gala festivi ties which will crown Miss Wa tauga for 1970on Saturday, Nov, 15, in Broome Kirk Gymnasium on the university campus. Sponsored again by the Boone Jaycees, the Mss Watauga Pa geant has become renowned as one of the finest Miss America preliminaries In North Caro, lina. According to Pageant Chair man, Stuart Tugman, the event 1* being moved to the Appalach ian campus this fail to accom modate more Watauga citizens who were unable to attend be cause of limited eeatlng facili ties In the elemeidary school over the pest years. teryear. I dusted off my grand, father's spinning wheel and hare 1 been back every year since." The wool she spina is dyed by Mrs, Hedges. >.. 1 ’ Mrs, Hodges dyes lovely soft • shades from hickory bark, gol. denied, sumac berries, lagan vine, rhododendron leaves, wal. nuts and tomato vines, , "The first thing 1 ever dyed," she said, "was a pair of . stockings I knit when I was 12 years old.” She has been at it every since. "My mother preferred home dyed colors because of their permanance and the soft shades she could get," Mrs. Hodges said. "Today, people, includ ing interior decorators, come to me for special work." Mrs, Hodges has demonstra ted her craft for students at the University of Tennessee and on television. She and Mrs. Town send are putting in nine ten hour days at this year’s fair. "We may get tired," they say, "hut we never get bored." Their educational exhibit In 1 the Village of Yesteryear won them a second-place red ribbon. 1 Mrs. Cook and Mrs. Clay 1 attracted interest with their beautiful fringe tying and knot ting. Mrs. Cook, now 74. was taugM thle cratt M years ago toy her ' (Continuedon page.two) 3,000 Books Offered At Elementary School More than 3,000 book titles are on display and for saw Wednesday and Thursday of this week at Appalachian Elemen tary School in Boons. The hours both days are S a. m. to S p. m. and from 7 to 9 p. m. in the AES gymnasium. Miss Alice StraugbanofStraiy han*s hnk Shop in Greensboro will donate 10 per cent of the receipts from the book fair and sale to the school. The pro ceeds will be used to match Federal funds to purchase equip, nent and materials. The public is Invited to browse uid buy. Miss Straughan says he books will range in scope rom contemporary issues to ■eligion and are of a variety o suit the tastes of readers rf ill ages. Newsprint Paper Going Up The paper on which the Demo crat and all other newspaper* are printed will advance In price January 1. The upcoming rise of $5 at ton will be the fourth since 198*, bringing the cost of a ton of paper from 8135 to $152. The Democrat uses newsprint from the Bo water Mill in Cal. houn, Term., which is delivered to Boone on an overnight ache. dule In trailer load! of more than 40,000 pounds. With advances in paper and all other l uppliee, payroll, post age and taxes, there has been an Increase In subscription rates, however no further in. f; creese in advertising rates is anticipated in the immediate future, despite the fact there has been a >7% increase in paid circulation since our pre sent rates were astahUshsd. ' wnai portion at Federal government spendirw. wMeh abcKIt ***°1411100* yaar, 1*boros by Watai«a , 4 County taxpayer*? How much do** it cost kiwi residents, through In. i> K oomo taxes and other tam, to meet their share of the •PjndbW for national defense, education, Interest on the Wton«l debt, space research and Iba gamut at otbar programs? . * •;«* The (190 billion total la too vast to be meaningful to > j.. moat people, B becomes somewhat more comprehensible, however, when It la gbown that It amounts to a ft,000 / v,i The ealculatk* was made by William V. Roth, Jr„ * a Dataware congressman, who baa been oooeernad over i tt the steadily-rijlog cost at (evanunant, Watauga ComBy*s abareoC We anendlagli satiated y i <\*\y ; mm, f tr V ■* H.»* per day (or wary local reeldent. For the local posulatton aa a whole, tt addi up to 134,000 per day. That la baaed won the proportion of Mi revenue that the (oearnmant recahree from the local area. The part of the expenditures attributed to each oomnmtty mg determined from a atate-by.atate atudy made by the Tax Foundation and from local Income data. The portion shouldered by Watauga County reaidenta. par cattle, la greater than in many locailtlee across the •*•**7 where earnings, and therefore taxes paid, are -t.' S' Cooareeeamn Beth's concern orer the nation’s bice annual budget baa led Urn to propose that a “modern Hoorer-type commission be set HP to find out bow the r' V. ' ‘ . *• * sfc •«?>#'! V- ■ '• i < ■ P‘, - Hr • central government can operate more affectively, *fi cently and creatively.'* He called for **daring and imaginative** iqwmS in using the reeoureee or governnmttomountattacloi on the problems confronting the American people. ■y ■1 Ju»t how the porernment ipeat tto tuwn' nan. lo the put Haul pur la atom in tto Tax PmnxMioa atudjr. Out of every $1,000 In tana paid hr Watauga Cowdy rulduti, for example, *440 went for Mm, £61 for health and welfare, *71 lor interextoa tto i bt and *43 for commerce and tranapurtatioo. : yii." Vetarau benefit* amounted to *4t,_ agriculture, *30, and apnea technology, *J3. f-gl'MlfoT1••*£«** offcWtvtl i i'. V*. * • \ * f . , • * .. • - > 'f v- -r-* v ■*-<*.. ■' ■ - ■■ ■" “ r‘?m A'---,:. ;3w-‘i-S •v'M ■ fe’sf
Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.)
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Oct. 30, 1969, edition 1
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