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An Independent Weekly Netcepaper... Eighty-Second Tear ofCondnuout Publication BOONE 1968 Hi LO PreC. Nov. 4 46 31 m Nov. 5 as 31 Nov. 6 49 28 Nov. 7 66 37 CM Nor. 6 47 30 Nov. 0 53 88 Nov. 10 88 BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY. NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13,1969 10 CENTS PER COPY 25 PAGES—2 SECTIONS AN ELECTION DAY SNOW sifted down on Watauga County lest week, continuing lightly until one and a half inches idled up. Much of the precipitation was sleet-like Tuesday night, but not _ to dissolve sticking snow. The following morning, Nov. 5, many secondary roads were blanketed, but were melted clear by mid-morning. 0BU1 Rogers photo) Music-Drama Critic Of Maine JrS ■.. ... iC' ft BIT ROffiKT H. NEWALL (NOTEt Mr. Newall is the mu sic-drama critic at Tbs Bangor Daily New* and The Maine Times. He forwarded Ida in - terview with Doe Watson after the prominent singer-guitarist appeared at the University of Maine last month. Watson <vas on the Orono campus as part of that university's concert series.) Unpretentious and complete ljr autheidlc, which, alas, most self-styled folkaingers areem P*“**e«lly not, "Doc” Watson *“• only recently emerged from thst vast repository of folk ; INSPECT SCHOOL ADDrriON—Inspection of the new vocational wing at Watai«a High School Ml J hold last Friday, Nov. 7. Among those giving a final check to the fadlitlea were Principal Dr. N. A. MlUer, ScL -4 Chairman John Hollar, Dr, Swanson Richards, superintendent, and Bill Price j c(Kalaigh,consi|.3ngeqgh\aer with tbs Department of School Planning. CitaS photo) -rt . . New WHS Addition Will I . ■ Be Ready For Use Monday i r New Inatructloml treae to tome 100 vocational atudontaa Watauga High School will b 'f! reedy tor uge on Monday. Occupation at the 14,000 r muere-toot artdllton ewe aoth . orlzed thla week by the Boer - at Education following an in fi apactton but Friday wtt • engineer# ot the Slate Depart I, Convocation fiTo HearWey ■ flu general pnhlle la Inrttw : to what ahould prove ai ’ Were* ting Fall Coneoeattw Thursday morning on the Appae Appalachians new praaldant , Dr. Herbert Way, will addraei the etudeot body and than will f ana war any end all wueetlcew 4 poeed to Mm hy a panel ol etude* leader# on ataga. Tba program laechaduledtoi 0:80 a. m. In the Vanity Gynv naalum. Tbare will be ampii -- fo, •r~: ' nwnt at Public Instruction and t the architect. > Eighty pa- cent of the 000 project me financed by the ' government-! Appalachian • Regional Commission, ' The addition will provide ' Quarter* for claaae* incarpen* 1 try, coemotaiogy, graphic arte ’ and auto mechanic!. Claaeee in graphic arte will begin lacond **S\*bwanson Richard*, sup erinteodeot ai Watauga County uid flat, except for «p electrical panel, only minor adjustment* were called tor alter the Friday inspection. The panel reportedly la In shipment, Dr. Richards said. If it fail* to arrive tide week, temporary wiring will be ar ranged (or pert of the addition. Construction on the project is more than two months late. It was due to have been complet ed In August. The vocational classes bare held see stone in makes btft areas pending com. idstloo of the addition. Annual Farm-City Banquet Set For Thursday Evening a ■■Ift g Sum* 300 pawn aw a» pwM to Mtoad to* onto FOTbCHgr Weak '—tut to ■Ogbt CTbursdajr) at to* Holiday Ian. Gueet speaker will b* Dr. Kenneth B. Keller at Balstoh. 1 assistant director at toe N.C, Agriculture Experiment St*. - > toon. Awards win 0* made to 0 «v*i»*sat£l based on thair KtlrlttM during iw, A ausbar at door prisas will bo preaented. The precram will begin at »:S0 p, m. Alfred Adama will preside. The event Is aponsorad by the Boone Chamber of Commerce, the Watauga Coun cil at Bnral OrganUaUone and • the Agriculture Worters Come. loriitlc materials, tbe mourn* taina of North Carolina. Slipping out of MS home tom. Deep Gap, ever and anon, Wat tan no* does about fifteen con certs or coffee house appearan ces a year. ‘Tn interested lit earning a living," Said Watsdh over dinner just prior to hta concert at the Ubiaeraity of Maine’s Memorial Gymnasium on Oct. 8, “not in getting rich. Nor am I interested in being in the limelight," And one be lieves the blind troubadour im plicitly! With no axes to grind and no protests to make, Watson must bs unique among the Banes, Dylans and Collinses of the pop world. "I don't research my songs," he asserts, "I Just sing them,” Besides tbe ootrnU less tunes he picked up from Ms parents and from all the folk with whom he grew up, be listened avidly to Gene Earle's old 78 records, absorbing all these songs as well. "What happens when you have a choice of tunes?” I asked. "Among the many melodies (Continued on page two) fei-jj,, v. '-.V; 2^79 Citizens 1 Fail To Vote The chairmen of the Board at Election! reported Monday that 1,378 of the peraona re regia te red in Watauga Coua& prior to the Not, 4 electionfail ed to turn In their ballot! at the Poll*. ■ i ■ . Dayton Wlnefaarger’a atatla ttcal report to the State Board at Election!, Ral eigh, atated the total ocudy reglatration waa 7— 03. A total of 4,544 peraona caat rotea in the achool bond and aalea tax balloting. The racial breakdownofcoun ty reglatration waa 6,975 whiten and 48 blacka. Democrat! numbered 3,108; ScpubUcana, 3,042; and fade, pendanta, 373. ? Stale Officials' Arrive In Boone Ten official» of the Depart ment of Local Affair!, Raleigh, were to arrtre la Boone Tuaa day night tor a atay at the Holi day hm. t Wedoeaday morning at 8:30 they were tobavebagunaaartaa at meeting!. • The delegation wee headed by T. Ervin Aldridge, director of the department. Among tine* with Mm were Mlngnoo Bardin, ae, latent director and the dtrla lon adndnlatratom for oomaai ntty planning, law and order, recreation and human reaour. The Boone Jaycees end Jay cettes will take the wraps off their 1969 edition of the ifiss Watauga Pageant Saturday night. But they will be at work is Broome-Klrk Gymnasium on the Appalachian campus. The move from the Appa lachian Elementary School, where the pageant haa been held for several years, la being made In order to accommodate every one who wants to attend. The pageant has enjoyed full-house status for thelastseveralyears at AES. Bill Ross will emcee the •vent, which starts at 8:10 with the theme. Age of Aquarius. Pageant chairman Sonny Tug man isnttelllng all, but says the format of the show has been redesigned. Elmer White's bend will provide the music starting at 8 and 10 minutes later the curtain will open on a stage setting based on the zodiac. Evening gown will be the first phase in which Ollie Jackson, Diane Cater, Dabby Dickson, Janet Evans, Lee God win, Wendy Hankins, Diane Ml ler, Glenda Simmons and Nancy Stacy compete. Afterwards they will appear in the talent and awim suit divis ions. Special entertainment will be a choral group under the direc tion of Eugene Wilson, choral director at Watauga High School. The panel of Judges will oom prise three man and two women. Ons of the men, according to Jayceea publicity director Ron Hester, Judged the 1968 Miss America when she was vying for the title, bdss Michigan. TICKETS Student tickets will be $1 each and general admission will be 82. Reserved seat tickets are 82.60. Tickets can be bought at the Watauga Savings It Loan Association, East King Street Pharmacy, Boone Drug Com pany, The Carolina Pharmacy, Deerfield Pharmacy, thePIem. mode Student Center, Flowers' Photo Shoe and Roten’s Town and Campus. * As drat runter-up to last year’s winner, toss OlUe Jackson normally would have tarred out the' year, but was encouraged to Recline so that she could compete In the forth coming pageant. Ollie was the crowd-favoritejjast year. Mss Kris Anderson, second nmner-up lastjrear, will crown the new Miss Watauga. She con sented to serve the unexpired term of Miss; Watauga Sharon Uneau who was married in the fail. "The Age Of Aquarius" was the most popular song from the play. Hair, which is running in New York City. White's band will play the number at the be ginning of the pageant, Aquarius is the 11th sign of the Zodiac, it applies to people born between Jan. 20 and Feb. 18 and who "excel inert,music literature",; who have strong will power and are "sociable, pacific and slow to anger,” The Boaiae Jaycees beauty pageant has been acclaimed as among the finest held in the state. The Jaycees were organized in April of 1956 with Dr. Gene Reese ai president!. Their first bckuty pageant was held{Mayll,1957,andhiiss Carol Jean Preslar was crown ed as the first Miss Watauga. Navy Recruiter Chief Petty Officer Reid, lo cal Navy Recruiter reports he will be in Boons on Wednes day of, each week from 9:30 a. m, |o f p. m. He will be located in the lobby of the Post Office Building. TO CROWN NEW QUEEN—Lovely Miss Kristen Anderson, second runner-up in the 1968 Miss Watauga Pageant, will be on hand Sat urday night to crown the winner of the local pageant. First run ner-up, Miss Ollie Jackson, was to have succeeded Miss Sharon Uneau, Miss Watauga who married this fall before her term ex pired. But having been the crowd-favorite last year, Miss Jackson was asked to decline to serve the unexpired period so that she could compete in the pageant. Asked to fill in. Miss Anderson graciously consented. She is an ASU co-ed who is an artist and dancer. (Flowers photo) TOBACCO GRADING TIME—In ■ 200-year-old lag cabin which serves as Ms grading room, Leonard Ward of Routs 2, Vilas grades hurley leaf for tale in the local tobacco market. The Boone market kill open: Monday, Noe. 24. Ward has been groking tobacco for 36 years. (Staff Photo) . Local Use Of Title I Funds Is Not In Violation Of Act 1 Current use of Title I fed eral fund* In Watauga County is not In violation at the Ele mentary and Secondary Educa tion Act, county school officials said Monday. 'iX A report released In Wash ington during the weekend House Trailer Is Destroyed In Fire Fire of undertermlned origin destroyed a house trailer early Friday morning at Clawson'e Trailer Court In the Perkina ville area. The Boone Fire Department answered the call at t a. m. The owner, was out of. town. N. : - V— charged that million* of dol-' ltra intended to help poor chil dren have been a pent illegally by state and local achool boards. The report was released by the Washington Research Project and the NAACP Legal Fund. Dr. Swanson Richards, superintendent of WataugaCou ■dy Schools, and Willis Moretz, director of the school board's federal programs under the E5EA Act, said that all pro jects involving federal funds have bean “reviewed and ap proved" by atate school of ficials. Moretz said that until this school year, the music program conducted in county schools was financed by TUI* I heads. Be wid the program me question ed at the state level as a “borderline program.'’ Rather than abandon the music program, the school board placed its financing under local funds (or this achool year, it Involved a shift of some $30, 000 onto local tax revenue. Watauga’s Title I budget from federal funds is $330,317 lor this school year, Moretx said. The funds are used to finance the Language Arts Reeding Pro gram, he said. The Washington report Charged that Title I funds have been used to supplant local state foods sad, la a back door nay, to maintain aegregat Major Thomas Heads Annual Seal Campaign The Christmas Seal campaign to support the work of the North western Tuberculosis and Res piratory Disease Association began yesterday (Wednesday) in nine northwestern counties. Mrs. Esther Moe of Winston Salem, executive secretary of the association, said that $7,000 already was in hand and that Watauga County so tar is the largest donor. Maj. John Thomas of Boone is chairman of the Watauga County campaign. Assisting are Mrs. Wayne Richardson and Mrs. Herman W. Wilcox. They invite persons to send contributions to the associa tion office at 233 W. Fifth Street, Winston-Salem, 27101. Toll-Free Service Is Announced Toll-tree telephone eenrlee between Blowing Bock end We. tauga (Hound-Eara, Foecoe eree) will go into effect Noe. It. Beginning on thin dote Blow leg Rock ahbecrlbara cen cell any telephone In the Wateuga eaebaage without paying a long dlatence charge and Watauga aubecrlbera can call any Blow ing Bock telephone without pay ing a long distance charge. After the new eerrtee goea Into effect. Blowing Rock tele phone eubecrlbera will be able to call a total cf 5,468 tale.,. < > phonee In the Btowlng Bock, ■ Boone and Watauga areaa with. £_ out a long distance charge. The new arrangement proeMaa tar an aaUmttad number ct caQa to any of tbeee taleghaaaa. i i.':.'
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