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BRICK WALLS RISE AT SHOPPING CENTER Watauga Village Takes Shape Construction is going forward rapidly on Watauga Village, the shopping center being developed on a 12-acre tractonU.S.high way 321 south, opposite Holiday Im. Perhaps more than halt the masonry work has been done on the walls at Lowe’s food store, the first eetabUshmeid. The owners at the center are J. C. Faw of North WUkesboro and T. G. Proctor at Sartord. Scheduled for completion the latter part at the year, the cen ter will comprise 100,000 square feet under one roof and Kill provide parking space tor 400 ears. Lowe's Food Store will utilise 32,000 square feet of the acre age, Rose's Department Store will require40,500feet,0th er stores are expected to be an nounced later. Mr. Faw, who Is president of Lowe's Food Stores, noted when Watauga Village was announced. that Lowe's has grown from the first store In North WUkesboro In 1956 to 16 stores with sales at more than $25 million last year. Lowe’s operates food stores In North WUkesboro, West Jef ferson, Mount Airy, Elkin, Statesville, Lincolnton, Hick ory, Morganton and Lenoir, with other units being constructed in MocksvlUe, Granite Falls and Newton-Conover. T. B. Rose Jr, Chairman of the Board of The Rose Co. said when plana to build In Boone vara announced that Roae'f ■alas passed $156 million In 1869. Last year In North Carolina Bose’s opened new stores In Henderson, Fayetteville, Kins ton, Ahoaide, Elisabeth City, Lexington, Dunn and Aaheboro. Ttds year a new store will be opened in Morgaiton, with 14 others In the southeastern states. $80,000 Grant To Be Used For Program At Valle Crucis School The Z. Smith Reynolds Foun dation has made an $80,000 grant to Appalachian State Uni versity to launch a pilot light house School Project In Watauga Coui*y*s Valle Creels Elemen tary School. Designed to study and then test new ways ct Improving teaching and learning on the elementary school level, tte project hinges on a coopera tive effort from the ASU facul ty, the 10-member ValleCrucla faculty and parents of the SHERIFF CARROLL school’s 250 students. Director of the new program la Dr, Goorge Graham, a former Executive Vice-President at HanHn-Slnunons Lhiversity and now a staff member of Appa lachian's College of Education. "Attention to the Individual pupil/' Graham said, ranks as one of the Ugtthouse's major aims. ' Be explained, “In our con ventional any of teaching, there is too great a variation of needs In the class room, The teacher CHIEF TESTER Sheriff, Police Chief Institute Speakers Watauga County** two cMaf law enforcement officers uffl speak this week to the par ticipants in Appalachian State IMversity** EDPA Institute tor native speaker* of Spanish. Hone Show Saturday H» seventh annual Cove Creek Horse Show will be held Saturday at the Jmetlon of Cl and Vanderpool Hoed, Vilas, The afternoon show, starting at 12|30 Ik m. will feature IS Classes llmltsd to residents at f Watauga County and etudwts hi Watauga Coiady. The idgbt show will start si A 1 o’clock. There will be IS Classes open to all aaddbiton. Entries should be made to R, 6. SMplay, Manager of the Cove ■' Creek Horae a»w, Vilas, N.C. The etudeuta, ell of whom are refugee* from Cube, are being prepared to teach Spanlah in Ugh echoola throughout the state nest fall. Besides classes In conversa tional English and teaching methods, the Institute U at tempting to acquaint the Cubans with all facets of life in North Carolina’s small oommiaittles. Helping the students toward that goal, Boon* Chief of Po lice Clyde taster will speak to the participants Tueedajr after noon on “Ihs History and Dalle* of a Ctty Policeman." Watauga Cou*y Sheriff Ward G. Carroll will explain the duties of his office to the class on Wednesday. Both man are Watauga nattree and are decorated veterans of World Warn. Teatsr became Chief of Po Hoe here in 1MB while Carroll 1»M. baa to carry the low-ability studeots and try not to ignore the hlgh-abllity children. But then he reaches just a few In the middle." By eliminating this harrier to learning, Graham Indicated,the lighthouse project will attempt to let each student progress as rapidly as be can or as slowly as he has to. Parents from the Valle Cruds community, shaded teachers from Appalachian and new teaching media all will be called upon to assist the regular ecbool staff In providing the In. dtvlduallzed Instruction, The project also Is expected to Involve techniques such as peer teaching, a process where by students Increase their com. maud of (uhject matter by teach ing each other. (JContlnued on page two) Bitzy Blonde Is Needed Waited: A Uttle girl age nine to 12, atandlng four feet to four and one - halt feet tall, with Hondo hair, for the role at little Mary In thla season’s cant ot “Horn In the Went." Tryouts for this salaried role in the Horn will be held at If a. m. on Thursday morning. June 18, according to Ward Haarbauer, director at “Horn In the West.’’ The tryouts will be held ocw stage at Daniel Boone Theater. Teachers Workshops Slated In Avery Co. Barry McGee, Superintendent at Avery County School*, has an nounced that two Area Work, ■hop* tor teacher* will be eon. ducted In Avery County during the summer. These Area Work, shop* are sponsored by the State Department at Public Instruc tion Classroom Teachers’ Or ganization, the Art Education Association, and the North Carolina Music Association, The courses offered will carry two semester hours each of re newal credit and may be «apU* •able to the 1970 renewal or may be carried forward for the next five year period. The Workshope will be held at the Avery County High School on the following dates; Music Workshop July 8-18; Art Work shop July 20-29. Both classes will begin at 1:30 p. m. and will run until S;30 p. in. It Is hoped that all those who have signed for the courses will keep the dates In mind and others are Invited to enroll and participate in the classes. Watauga Night At Horn; Free Tickets Are Given “Horn In Th» Want" again thla aaaaon has designated open ing night as Watauga Coutgjr Night, offering tree tickets to cmagy reakVrta and their fami lies. And due to the suocess at Wa. tonga Coiaty Night in past sea sons, this season the Invitation by the Horn’s cast will be ex tended to Include three partor So that all Watauga reaidecds may be guests of the Horn, 1JBOO tree tickets will be of fered tor each of three perfor mances—opening idgtd on Fri day, June l«j and on Wa day, July 1 and Thursday, July 2. " Thaw tickets, offered on a first-come basis, may be picked up at the ticket office at Daniel Boons Theater weekdays be tween 10 a, in. and 5 p. m. Tickets for all three Watauga County Nlgtt performances also may be obtained by residents by m»n. Requests should be ad dressed to Watauga Couaty Night, Horn In The West, Boot 295, Boone, N. C. 28607. A stamped, self-addressed envelope must accompany an man requests for tickets to the three Watauga County Mgfat performances. On Horn InWest 19-Year Staging Record “Horn In The West,” a oolor fat, lusty, rugged story of the westward movement In Amerl os, again will come to life this summer tor the 19th oonsecutlve season here beginning June 28, Hie scene la the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains and Daniel Boone Amphitheater—if 3,333 feet the highest elevation tor a theater of Its kind east of the Mississippi, built on the very ground where Daniel Boons oace camped and hunted, in “Horn In The West," Dan. Id Boone yields, in the words of author Kerndt Hunter’s words, to a “horn blowing in the west" and guides and pro tects e group of early American colonists fleeing from tyranny and oppression. The time la a nine-year period between 1771 and the Battle of Alamance through 1780 and tfas Battle of Kings Mountain. The story of the digit of the spirited settlers to the Blue Rtdgo and Watauga oountry In cludes a British doctor and his family, a devout. Jovial 280 pound traveling Baptist preach er, and Daniel Boone, a 6-foot 4 legend In Ms own time. And authentically, America’s westward movement and "Horn In The West” is also the story of nameless people who loved, danced and fouglt their way to a new life by taming a virgin land. The dances Include a British gavotte—an aristocratic garden dance—the popular sQuire dance, a love ballet, the cMv arre—a post wedding marathon danoe lasting far into the nlgtg —and the tierce, flaming Chero kee weir dance. The cast Includes 70 profes sional actors and actresses who (Continued on page two) Terry Sanford Slighdy Hurt In Collision Terry Sanford, Duke Udver ■Ity President and former governor at North Carolina es caped serious Injury In a head on collision during a severe rainstorm near Old Fort Fri day. Three people, all from Hen dersonville, were Injured in the other vehicle. They were Dr. George Lind Hardgrove, Me wife. Gladys, and Dinar And derson, Mrs. Hardgrove, apparently the most seriously injured, suf fered fractures of both legs. Highway Patrolman J, A. Jennings who Investigated the accident on the rain-swept highway said the collision ap parently occurred In the westbound lane of U. S. 70 five miles west of Old Fort, The aocldent occurred about 3i45 p, m„ shortly after San ford addressed a meeting of the Western North Carolina United Methodist Co.iforeoce at Lake Junaluska. lake Junaluska Is about 45 miles west at the scene (Continued on page two) WRECKED AIRCRAFT—Picture by Flower*, 3 Hurt In Plane Crash Three persons were slightly Injured Sunday afternoon whan a Piper Cherokee single-engine plane crashed while attempting a landing at tbs Boone-Bio wbg Rock airport. Charles Bleakley at Huckle berry Knob, Blowing Book, a pilot for National Airlines, Miami, Fla* received a head Injury. According to Sheriff Ward Carroll, Eteakley laid la leased the plane at Spartanburg and wasn't used to K, He Is quoted as saying that when he touched down on the grass and saw he would not be able to stop the machine he attempted atahe off but the wheels htta wire fence at the end of the runway. Three passengers all of Inman, S. C„ were not seriously turt- Horace Andrews, 19, re ceived minor scratches, Lurah Gregory, 20, facial and head in juries and a hip injury and Harry Murray, 30, was reported a* being ‘'shaken up." All were treated at Watauga Hospttaland released. A gasoline tank v.a? ruptured by the impact and the Wauuga Rescue Squad roped off the area. ASU Education Center Is Named For BroyhiUs The Board of Trustees at Appalachian State University have named the proposed center for continuing education here for Mr. and Mrs. J. Ed Broy hUl of Lenoir. The $2,000,000 faculty which wlU be built on a knoll over looking the Immediate campus is to be named the BroyhUl Center for Living and Learn ing. The project was Initiated several years ago with a gift from Broytdll which has been supplemented with a state ap propriation, a self-liquidating bond Issue, and funds from the Appalachian Regional Commis sion and the Higher Education Faculties Administration, The center will feature special media equipment to make learning processes more efficient and wlU employ the re sources of the university faculty to staff the various academic workshops, seminars and con ferences for which It wUl be used. Preliminary plans for the complex call for 120 rooms tor luxury overnight accommoda tions, dining facilities, and a multi-level Learning Center containing meeting and con ference rooms. Individual study rooms and a library. Democratic Convention To Be Held Saturday Democrats of Watauga County will meet lncoovention next Saturday June 20th at the courthouse on call at Mrs, Rachel —Hng chatimanntthe Damncratlg Erecu ttre Committee at Watauga Courty. The Convention will be held tauter the d«w State plan of organization. Party ifflclals will be elected at the convention, dole gates named to tha State aonvaiflon and other pertinent business transacted. It will also Incorporate a Faculty-Alumni Club with lounge facilities and VIP din ing room which will be avail able to all guests of the Broy hill Center. The complex will rise on the pinnacle at a tract, already accessible by a new hard-sur face road, behind the president's home on the' campus. Lenoir Man Is Caught After 30-Mile Chase William Donald Fowler, 16, of Lenoir is being held in Watauga County jail in default of a $1,000 bond, being arrested by Lenoir officers after a 30-mile chase which started in Boone Saturday morning, during which one shot was fired into the automobile of a pursuing policeman. The chase, which involved Watauga and Caldwell Sheriff's (Continued on page two) BOONE POLICEMAN points to hoi* made when a bullet unsafe* •d through tfae etUI of H* (quad ear, (Flowers photo)
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