WATAUGA DEMOCRAT
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An Independent Weekly Newspaper ... EightySfcond Yearof Continuous Publication
VOL. LXXXII—NO. 43
BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, APRIL SO 1970
Apr. 21 08 50
Apr. 22 74 OS
Apr. 23 77 57
Apr. 24 71 51
Apr. 25
Apr. 25 68 46
Apr. 27 74 52 47
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CONGRATULATIONS—Governor Bob Scott congratulate* Dr. Herbert Wey aa Dr. W. H. Flem
monB, Appalachian's retiring president, prepares to pass the mace to the new presided, Hie
mace Is the university's symbol of presidential authority. Qudderth photo)
Marilyn Harmon Is Winner
BREMCO W asliinglon T rip
Marilyn Harmon, daughter of
Mr. And Mrs. Howard Harmoncf
Sugar Crave, and Junior at Wa
tauga High School, has won an
expense paid trip to Washington,
D. C. In convention with stu
dents from other high schools
in Watauga County, The contest^
sponsored by Blue Ridge Elec
tric Membership Corporation,
is open to the Junior classes of
.11 the high schools In the coun
ties where Blue Ridge serves.
Contestants presented brier
speeches on the subject, “How
Rural Electrics are meetingthe
Challenge In Member and Com
munity Services," and selection
d a winner was madehjrapanel
of Judges based primarily on the
contestants' knowledge of the
subject, adthconsiderattongiveo
to speaking ability, personality,
appearance and poise.
Contestants were Roy
"Eddie” Furr, FfaU Ginn, Miss
Ikrmon, and Miss Patricia Wil
son all of Watauga High School.
Judges for the contest were
Mrs. milan Danner, Mrs,
Marian Simpson, Mrs. Nora
Wilson, and Mrs. Jean Rucker.
As s participant In the 1970
Rural Electric Youth Tour,
Marilyn will join coldest win
ners from cooperatives all
across North Carolina In Ral
eigh on Jine 15, and following
a get-acquainted luncheon win
travel by bus, to Washington,
D. C. where they will visit sites
of historic Interest and seethe
nation's Government in action.
Events planned for the week,
long tour mclude a visit with
the State's Congressmen, a ton
ed the FBI building, a boat ride
on the Potomac, visits to the
Smithsonian Instihde, Custls
Lee Mansion, Arlington Cam*,
- MARILYN HARMON ‘ v
tary, the CaptfcJ, end possibly
an opportunity to visit with the
Preside!* at the White House,
The Rural Electric Youth
Ttour to Washington is a pro
gram through which electric
cooperatives across the nation
hold contests and send the win.
ner to Washington for the week’s
tour. North Carolina and Bine
Bldge Electric have participated
In the program lor four years.
Other contest winners over
Blue JUdge Electric’s system
are William (BUI) Foster,
Wilkes; Jotany Lee Irwin, Alle
ghany; Rodney Lee, Caldwell;
and Wilton Dillard, Ashe.
Watauga Second In State
In Rate Population Gain
The Caroline Population Center, UNC-C taped Mil, In it*
latent study of per-county population growth In North Carolina
Hats Watauga County's population at 23,585 as of last July 1,
The center arrived at the figure by taking the 1960-Census
popnlatlnn of 17,529 and calculating 3,236 births against 1,439
deaths for foe period and adding a net migration of 4^39.
The increase from I960 to 1969 is 6,036, according to foe
statistics.
The increase in non white population from 1968 to 1969 is
given as 319 as against 328,
Watauga’s population is broken down Ido age groups, also.
More than 6,700 are 17 or yomger; more than 9,500 are in foe
18-44 age gnxvi and foe remainder are 45 years or older.
In terms of the annual rates of population growth in North
Carolina tor foe eight years beginning in 1960, Watauga’s rate
of 3.35 was second only to Cumberland County, widch registered
a 5^5 rating.
The third couidy on the statewide totum pole was Orange,
with a 3.31 rating, Mecklenburg registered 2.88 for the period.
Petition Officials
On Pollution
A petition to be presented
to tbe Goman at the too
Carolines end President
Btohard Nbon ms passed April
22 In I, G. Greer Auditorium,
Tbe occasion mi a Circle
K Clot) program featuring the
am. BasU WUtener at Gas.
ImiU will tbe tint eonununttj1
side screening at the stuta*
produced Him about poUidtonln
Boone.
Tbs petlthay according to
State YDC president Bob Bag.
ham, la a 'Tbst*. Ha told tbs
IMbJinnaa creed tt ess a ear
to bring <
air, water, land and nolee pol
Intion to the attention of «t«te
officials and the President.
The petition called for all
la we to be strictly enforced and
asked for research and legi
slative action on pollution prob.
Among those In the audience
who signed was Mrs. Basil
Whttener.
Also, Bingham explained his
new program, Voliatiears for
Victory, In which students are
■led to work In the party of
their choice “to elect candU
dates to office In the fall.-'
Inaugural Statements
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,Dr.Wey
See Innovations At ASU
Guidelines Are
Suggested By
Chief Executive
At Dr. Herbert Way’s Inau
guration in VkrsityGymnaslum,
North Carolina's Governor Bob
Scott suggested some guidelines
tor Appalachian State Udver
•ity.
And the university president
in Us response tor the inaugu
ration. made recommendations
to the State.
Excerpts from their
GOV. SCOTT—“In all your
planning, determine to keep a
sense of community on this
campus. As you grow take the
lAmoat care that you do not des
troy the richness of the personal
relationships that have meant
so much to earlier generations
at Appalachian.**
DR. WEY—“In connection
with costs of higher education.
I would strongly recommend
that the State restudy Its present
policy of having students pay
the cost of building dormitories,
cafeteria buildings, student
union buildings, and health
service facilitiee,"
He said this la a factor that
Is rocketing the cost cf higher
education and unless held dowi^
“will price thousands of cap.
iahie ywmg men and women out
of our Institutions of higher
education,"
GOV, SCOTT—“Select
very consciously the areas m
which you propose to concen
trate your efforts, and then in
those areas see that you attain
excellence—-not excellence fay
North Carolina standards or for
Southern standards, but excell
QContinued on page two)
BOB DENTON
WHS Student
Named Head Of
Area Congress
At the annual Western Dis
trict North Carolina Student
Council Congress held April 17
and 18 at Watauga Mgh School,
Bob Denton was elected presi
dent tor the ensuing year.
Student councils from 38
western North Carolina cowtles
were represented at the an
nual convention.
Bob Is the son at Mr. and
Mrs. Robert DeMon at Boone,
be Is vice-president at the Wa
tauga highStudentCouncll, vice
president at the District Beta
Club, editor at the Rowderhom
fthe school paper), and chair
man at the liter-Club Cowell.
Also, Bob is a member at
the varsity track and football
teems.
Kecetkly, Bob was selected es
a Junior Councilor at Mare
uni tor the North Caroline
Student Cowell Workshop.
About 300-oid-af-oounty rep
resentatives were guests in the
homes of local students widle
they were here tor the Coiw
frees.
Bob's campaign workers gave
a surprise party for Mm that
Saturday MgM,
America the Beautiful? asked the banner borne uptown during
last week's Filth March. Appalachian men and women took a
breather In front of the courthouse before marching back to the
campus for the burial of an internal combustion engine^ It was
hard work putting the point across, but they did it. Staff photo)
Earth Day’s Positive Approach
Gather Trash In Town
The work was hot and the
march long, but it said loudly
the concern of Appalachian State
University students over the
air, water and land pollution of
the mountains.
They started on campus the
morning of Earth Day, April
22, relieving the duck pond of
accumulated litter and collect
ing garbage from Boone Creek,
Into which they found sewerage
draining from a pipe under the
bridge. CIV Hall was alerted to
the situation.
At mid-campus, they piled
debris under the banner of the
American flag; Students for
Action collected glass bottles to
ship back to the manufacturers;
handout materials covered
population and pollution In full
—a mimeographed reading list
was Included; and a public ad
dress system failed to drawthe
expected lumber of speakers.
To that point, Sterling Nelson
spoke. “From all Indications,
as of noon this 22nd of April,
this campus has manifested It
self In what I dare say Is Its
usual manner.
"I refer to a flagrant display
cf apathy, by and large. It Is true
that there has been a consider
able effort on the part of a few
to clean up the Kraut Creek and
the duck pond, and as we look
out onto the mall, we see a rath
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er large amount of garbag<
(collected), but not enough,'
A Raleigh native. Nelson con
tinued • 'It Is unfortunate, bu
true, that we are witness in*
another example of tokei
action,'*
About that time, Howard Line
berger took up the microphone
“Pollution is the Americar
way,'* he shouted as students
filed to and from classes, “II
you cant do anything else, yen
can salute the old Flag here,"
Nelson: “He could break up
a camp meeting in nothing flat,"
And Lineberger explained the
booming voice and strength o1
conviction were passed down to
him from a backwoods, meet
ing-camp ancestry.
BIG TURNOUT
In view of the limited man
power that turned out for the
morning cleanup, the so-called
Filth March through Boone was
spectacular.
From the university athletic
; field began the protest-rally
march of a crowd estimated at
towards of 300. Many wore sur
gical masks In protest of air
1 pollution.
Before the start. B. K. Dor
sey. a Republican candidate for
the Couiiy Commission, ey
plained to the crowd North
Carolina’s litter laws. Back at
the field. State YDC preside*
Bob Bingham advised the group .
that “The same brains, the same .
technology that has produced
this pollution,’’ can reverse the
trend.
Heading uptown, the crowd
was led by Quinton Wacks who .
gave megaphoned instructions
to students to fan out on side
streets In the trash hunt. They
came westward on King Street,
splitting off on ntrdiiv Cherry,
College, Appalachian, Grand
Boulevard, Depot and Water
itreets—and regrouping.
In front of the county Court
CContlnued on page two)
Gomel Stolen
Sunday Night
A 1960 four-door Comet was
eported stolen Sunday night
rom a parking lot on Appa.
ic hi an Street,
The Boone Police Department
eceived the call at 6*17 p, n.
The light blue car, which bore
Florida license plate, is owned
y Cora Grimes at 1681 S.
reenwood St* Clearwater, FIs,
The license number of the
rtolen vehicle is 4D-10385,
13,340 Cans And Bottles
Ttat’i wtat ambitious flfth grade studeids cf Mrs. Nancy Cagey garnersd In their cleanup pro
gram. Saturday before last, they spread out la Boone. the surrounding area and their oun nsl^.
borboods. Just after school on Earth Day, April 22, these members of the class paused brUOy
bdbre conUnutis their campaign In which Mrs, Cdfey said "Brerybody took pert, erarybody
worked.” In all, they picked up 13,340 cans and bottles. FIto of the A»alacMan Oamadary
dwhrwJ students collected over 1,000 each: Mary Leigh Denton, B*by Bus, Kathleen Oise,
i Bead and Donna Clark. Ct*“