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Mail Volume
Down In Boone
Due To Strike
President Nixon’s rebuttal
Monday against strikii^ Post
Office workers may dissuade
the tieup of mail at other
stations erf the federal P. O.
Department.
After the President’s an
nouncement that the military
would be sent in to New York
to carry out “essential” mail
services, the leader of Chicago’s
postal workers called for a re
turn to work.
The effects of the strike were
not confined to that region, how
ever. At the Boone Post Office
that same day, Postmaster
Bes hears noted that the volume
of local mail had decreased by
25 per cent and said public
caution was the cause.
But the strike “has not affect
ed the delivery of mail here at
this office,” he added.
At least one Boone business,
Wilcox Drug Company, is feeling
the effects of the walkout in New
York.
Butch Wilcox and his brother,
Kenneth, returned Feb. 28 from
a two-week business trip that
took them to Italy, Germany,
Holland, Belgium, France and
England.
Butch says the company ships
its American botanical line to
European customers via steam
er. But correspondence has
slacked off since the New York
strike began.
Founded in 1900, Wilcox Drug
Company has offices at 123 W.
Howard St.
Letters Ask
Aid Easter
Seal Program
The Watauga unit of the North
west Easter Seal Society sent
out 5,720 letters two weeks ago
seeking financial supportfor its
program to aid crippled child
ren and adults.
Local chairman is the Rev.
Gray Temple and Dr. Jim
Greene is treasurer.
Part of the donations are
spent by the Health Department
to assist crippled children and
adults and to send crippled chil
dren to camp.
Also, $200 has been pledged
to defray the expense of giving
the Rubella, or German
Measles, vaccine to children
ages 1-12 in Watauga.
The Northwest Society en
compasses Watauga and 12 other
counties and has its headquar
ters in Winston-Salem. Resi
dents are urged to mail in their
contributions as early as pos
sible. Collections will be taken
up in downtown Boone Saturday,
Persons who have not receiv
ed a letter and would like to
contribute may send check or
money orders to Dr. Greene in
care of Carolina Pharmacy,
East King Street, Boone.
Contributions should be made
out to the order of “Northwest
Easter Seal Society."
School Children To
Get Heart Tests
Using a machine called the
Phono-Cardio—Scan, layman
volunteers will begin a two-year
program in January to check
about 13,000 school children in
the four-county area for h e a r t
murmurs.
A training program for local
volunteers will begin at 10
Tuesday morning, March 31, at
the First Baptist Church in
Boone.
The first screening project
will be conducted at Appalachian
Elementary School April 1
through May 22, In this period,
a total of 14 days will be needed
to screen the 916 pupils enroll
Miss Nancy Faye Stacy—chosen first runner-up in the Jaycees
Miss Watauga pageant last November. The popular brunette was
chosen Miss Congeniality by the other contestants. (Flowers
photo)
Nancy Faye Stacy
New Miss Watauga
Miss Ollie Jackson, Miss Wa
tauga County of 1970, has been
succeeded by Miss Nancy Faye
Stacy, first runner-up and Miss
Congeniality in the pageant held
in November.
Miss Jackson relinquished the
title last week after announcing
her marriage, and Miss Stacy
agreed to fulfill her unexpired
reign. The Boone Jaycees, spon
sors of the annual beauty
pageant, released the infor
mation at their Monday night
meeting.
Miss Stacy is the dai^hter c<
Mr. and Mrs. Starr N. Stacy,
309 Cherry Dr„ Boone, and has
nine years trainir^ in piano.
She is beginning preparations
for her appearance in the Miss
North Carolina Pageant to be
held in July in Raleigh where
her talent entry will be Bee
thoven’s Sonata Pathetique.
A statuesque live leet eight
inches tall, Nancy has dark
brown hair and eyes. A physics
major at Appalachian, she is
active in the university’s
Vernician Society. Nancy also
studied flute three years, bas
soon four years and baton three
years.
Miss Watauga of 1969, Miss
Sharon Llneau, married last
fell and was succeeded hy Mss
Kris Anderson who crownedthe
1970 queen at the November
pageant.
ed there.
Cost-free, the tests will be
made for children grades 1-12
and only with parental permis
sion (Issues of Nov. 13 and Feb.
19). The test for abnormalities
in the heart beat is painlessly
made within two and a half min
utes.
The project for Watauga,
Avery, Mitchell and Yancy
counties is sponsored by the N.
C. Heart Association and seeks
to discover defects which can
be referred for treatment be
fore serious heart damage oc
curs.
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W. KENNETH ANDERSON
Newland Man
Named By Scott
To Budget Board
RALEIGH—The appointment
of William Kenneth Anderson
at Newland as a member of the
Advisory Budget Commission
was announced Friday by Gov.
Bob Scott.
Anderson, a real estate brok
er, will succeed the late Frank
Forsyth on the agency which
has the task erf overseeing state
spending and of preparing the
state’s budget for presentation
to the General Assembly, He
will serve at the pleasure of
the governor.
Anderson is a former teach
er, principal and superinten
dent of schools in Avery
County.
Democrats To
Gather Tonight
A rally of Watauga County
Democrats will be held tonight
CThursday) in the courthouse at
7:30. Rufus Edmisten, U. S.
Sen. Sam Ervin’s aide, will be
the guest speaker.
Candidates who have filed for
election will be present along
with other office holders. The
rally is sponsored by the Wa
tauga County Young Democratic
Club.
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Watauga Voter s To Take
Part In 3 Primary Races
Road Official To
Check Again On
Clark’s Creek
State Iflghway Commissioner
Robert Barr is planning another
check on Clark’s Creek Road
to see if the state can takeover
its maintenance,
Barr, of West Jefferson, said
Monday that “We want to be
absolutely fair and be sure
nothing is overlooked for those
folks,’*
Barr said it probably will be
next week before he can visit
the road again and talk with
leaders of a proposed non-profit
corporation who want the road
taken over by the State Highway
Commission and improved.
The Rev, Larry D, Campbell,
pastor of the Holy Communion
Lutheran Church and president
of the Townsend Gap Improve
ment Group, said he looks for
ward to Barr’s visit and will
discuss with him a number of
points that he believes have not
been considered in previous ap
praisals hy the State,
The citizens' efforts to seek
improvement of the road go back
to the administrations of Gover
nors Dan Moore and Terry San
ford, Highway Commissions
then also declined to take on the
Clark’s Creek Road <$R 1136^
Mr, Campbell said the church
plans to use part of its 16,5
acres for a family campground
if the road into the area is im
proved and maintained. Also on
the site is a cemetery main
tained by the church but open to
U1C JAUJIU^
Clark’s Creek Road runs
westward from Foscoe off of NC
105, The church Is located at
the top of the mountain, less than
one mile from Foscoe,
In explaining the present high
way commission’s action on the
road, Barr cited four standards
that must be met before a county
road will be added to the state’s
Secondary Road System:
1* Property owners most
dedicate, free of charge, to the
Highway Commission a 60-foot
right of way, if such right of
way is physically available. In
some cases , , , such right of
way may not be available be
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Broyhill To
Be In County
Congressman James T. Broy
hill, Tenth District of North
Carolina, announced from his
Washington Office today that he
will be holding office hours Fri
day, March 2 7, in Watauga Coun
ty at the following places?
8;30 - 9:15 a. mu Deep Gap
(Hodges Drive-In)
10 - 11 a. m. Sugar Grove
Post Office
1 - 3 p. m, County Court
House, Boone
3?30 - 4;30 p, m. Blowing
Hock Post Office
Congressman Broyhill stated
that he would welcome the op
portunity to talk with any
citizens concerning legislative
Issues being considered by the
Congress or personal imtters
involving the Federal govern
ment, and hoped that anyone with
these problems would stop by to
see him at one of these visits.
OUCHI Whosoever travels US 321 (the Blowing Rock Road) finally comes upon this scene, taken
near the highway’s intersection with N„ C, 105* The litter is household waste, everything from
toothpaste cartons to broken glass, £>taff photo)
BSU Student Choir Goes Today
On Tour Of Nation’s Capital
“Spirit of the 70’s a 72
voice student choir sponsored
by the Baptist Student Union at
Appalachian State University,
will leave Thursday, March 26,
for a three-day tour of the
Nation’s Capital.
They will present a one-hour
folk mjsical entitled, “Tell It
Like It ls,“ which attempts to
communicate to other young
people their belief in a personal
God who reveals himself in the
world through Christ.
The musical was written by
Ralph Carmichal and Kurt Kiser,
who have written and arranged
music for several Billy Gra
ham movies. It speaks to to
day’s youth in their own musical
idiom-—drums, tambourines,
electric guitars and a dynamic
rock beat.
The group will be sponsored
in the Washington Area by Beth
any Baptist Church. On Good
Friday they will give a 2 p. m.
concert in the rotunda of the
Cannon House Office Building,
arranged for by Rep. James
Broyhill. That evening they will
present the musical at Bethany
Baptist Church; Saturday night
at a Presbyterian Church in Bal
timore, Md*, and Sunday morn
ing an anthem at Bethany Bap
tist Church* F ree time will be
devoted to sightseeing in and
around Washington*
“Spirit of the 70’s** is unique
in that it is student directed and
all its trip6 are student planned
and organized* The only adult
helping with the details and plan
ning is Hank Greer, chaplain,
who will go with them.
Director of the group is Art
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County Board
Posts Attract
12 Candidates
Three primary races are as
sured for the Saturday, May
2, primary in Watauga County
folk)wing the passing of the
filing deadline at noon Friday,
March 20,
A total of 26 candidates filed
for the 11 county seats open
for the Nov, 3 General Elec
tion,
In addition, three local candi
dates filed for the two district
legislative seats. And no in
cumbent found himself without
opposition, at least for the Gen
eral Election,
Five Democrats paid their
$10 filing fee for the three
man board erf county com
missioners: Hayden Pitts of
Plowing Rock, Jack E. Williams
of Boone, George Smitherman
of Route 1, Boone, William E,
Greene of Route 1, Deep Gap,
and J, D, Shoemake of Boone,
Among the Republican con
tenders were the three incum
bents, Chairman Perry Greene,
Kenneth Wilcox and Gene Wil
son, all of Boone; and James M,
Cole of Route 4, Boone, David
Bingham of Route 1, Sugar
Grove, Robert K, Moore of
Route 1, Vilas and B. K, Dor
sey of Boone,
Sheriff Ward G. Carroll of
Route 1, Boone, seeking re
election, is without Democratic
opposition. But three Republi
cans will face one another in
the primary to decide which one
will clash with Carroll in the
fall election; Turner Storie of
Boone, Howard H. Roindextercf
Route 4, Boone, and Ralph Hayes
of Triplett,
Democrat G. C. Norris of
Route 2, Boone, filed at dead
line time to oppose incumbent
Republican O. H. Foster of
Route 1, Vilas, for Clerk of
Superior Court.
Incumbent Rep, James E.
Holshouser Jr. of Boone also
got last-minute local Demo
cratic opposition from Boone
realtor M, Ranny Phillips.
And from Avery County, Hols
houser picked up Republician
opposition when Hall Young
filed. The two will meet in the
May 2 primary for the 44th
District seat which includes
Watauga, Avery and Mitchell
counties.
Only one candidate filed
locally In Watauga’s senatorial
district seat. Republican Murray
Coffey of Route 1, Blowing Rock,
is seeking election in the 25th
district composed of Watauga.
Wilkes Yadkin and Davie coun
ties. A second GOP candidate,
former Rep, Donald R. Bing
ham of Davie, also filed to as
sure a primary.
All five members of the Wa
tauga County Board of Educa
tion are seeking re-election:
John Hollar, James March.
Edsel Cook, Hugh Hagaman and
S. C. tggers Sr. Also filing for
the non-partisan election were
John H. Williams of Boone, Joe
W. Hartley of Route 4 and Eddie
P. Norris of Vilas,
There will be no primary
election for the Board erf Edu
cation since fewer than 10 candi
dates filed. The election will be
decided on Nov, 3 with elec
tion going to the top five men.
In the county's only constable
race, R. Howard Coffey of Blow
ing Rock filed for re-election.
Democrat. Radio WATA Get School Bell Honors
The Watauga Democrat and
Radio Station WATA last week
were presorted two at the 14
School Bell Awards-1970 which
were awarded by the North
Carolina Education Associa
tion.
At the NCEA general session
bald In the Charlotte Coliseum
last Thursday night, the station
was represented by Miss Jane
Smith, manager, and Bob White,
news director. Accepting lor the
newspaper staff were Armfleld
Coffey and Rachel Rivers Cof
fey, editor.
Their entries were sponsored
ty the Watauga Udt of NCEA
and compiled by Dr. W. G. An
derson, principal at Appalach
ian Elementary and president
d the imtt.
In only one other case were
two media from the same coun
ty so honored. The Chatham
News edited by Alan D. Reach
accepted Its third School Bell
Award and Roy A. Edwards ac
cepted his firstfor Radio WNCA.
The bronze bells, divided
among newspapers and radio and
television stations, were given
by Mrs. Katherine Horton,
chairman at the NCEA Public
Relations Committee,
An awards dinner was held in
the El Cid room of the Coliseum
Downtowner. Presiding was
Lloyd Isaacs, assistant execu
tive secretary for NCEA infor
mation services. A native of
Watauga, he was accompanied by
his wife, Lee, daughter of Mrs.
C. B. Angel of Boone.
Dr. A. C. Dawson, NCEA's
executive secretary, comment
ed briefly, "Grateful we are
for the coverage that you give
to education in North Carolina.”
"Doc” Amos Abrams was
lauded after the dinner for "40
years' speaking out”, was given
a bronze bell and later at the
Coliseum was presented a 1970
LTD. Accompanied to the func
tion by his wife. Doc Abrams
is retiring from NCEA this
year. They are seasonal resi
dents of Watauga,
It was announced that the as
sociation is planning to send
the winning entries as exhibits
at journalistic achievement to
each of the state's educational
districts.
Some 5,000 educators were
expected to be attheFriday
meeting. Crowds at the Thurs
day functions reached an esti
mated total of 4,000.
The bells are annually pre
sented for exceptional coverage
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