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VOL.tXXXIII—NO. 2
BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, N. C. THURSDAY JULY 16, 1970
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The boys were whooping it up at the baseball diamond at Camp
Dogwood in Valle Crucis. The sun streamed down hotly, which is
all the better for a spirited game; and one by one the batters went
to the plate. It was Saturday, during the first of the two 10-day
camp sessions being held free of charge for Watauga County
boys. And the dedication the boys gave the game made it seem
every bit as important as a World Series bout between the New
York Mets and the Baltimore Orioles. That must have been the
way Harley Coffey felt when he noticed the ball was being lobbed
too high and/ or too low to give his friends a chance to knock the
ball out of the park (into the river). So he tugged the shirt of the
counselor beside him, asking “Can we have another pitcher?"
(Rachel Rivers Coffey photo)
Key Men At ASU Named
W.To Vice-Presidencies
Two key administrators at
Appalachian State were named
vice presidents of the
university last week.
President Herbert W. Wey,
who made the announcement
at a meeting of ASU’s Faculty
Senate designated Dr. Paul
Sanders as Vice President for
Academic Affairs and Ned R.
Trivette as Vice President for
Business Affairs.
Sanders has served as chief
academic officer of the
university since 1965, and
Trivette has been ASU’s
Director of Business Affairs
since 1966. Both assume their
Mack Brown Is
Named County
Auto Chairman
RALEIGH, July 10—Mack D.
Brown, Brown k Graham
Motor Company, Inc., Boone,
has been re-appointed as
Watauga County Area
Chairman for the North
Carolina Automobile Dealers
Association, according to
NCADA President George O.
Stovall of Albemarle.
■r Brown will act as liaison
officer between new car and
truck dealers in this area and
NCADA and the National
Automobile Dealers
Association. He will be
responsible for promoting the
various programs and ac
tivities of NCADA and NADA
and will conduct a county-wide
membership campaign fa*
both organisations in the fail.
new posts immediately.
A new Director of Business
Affairs, Dr. Wey said, soon will
be named to fill Trivette’s
former position.
“The growth of the in
stitution,” Dr. Wey said, “has
reached a point at which the
organizational structure has to
be modified. It will gradually
DR. PAUL SANDERS
NED R. TRJVETTE
he changed even more so that
there will be only five or six
people reporting directly to the
president.’’
The naming of other vice
presidents, probably in the
areas of development and
student affairs, is forthcoming
he indicated.
Dr. Sanders as academic
head of the university will
channel communications
between president Wey and
Appalachian’s six academic
deans. He is responsible for
faculty appointments and
plays a key role in decisions
regarding academic policy and
faculty promotions.
He commented, “The
creation of this new office is
further evidence of the con
tinuing development of the
university. I express my ap
preciation to the Board of
Trustees and to president Wey
for the confidence they have
expressed in me.”
Vice president Trivette will
report to the president on all
fiscal affairs of the university
including auxiliary services,
the physical plant, general
services, personnel ad
ministration, campus planning
(Continued on page two)
Business
Patterns
Unchanged
How are Watauga County
families apportioning the
larger incomes they are now
receiving? How much are they
spending in local retail stores?
According to a new con
sumer market study covering
the past year, local outlays for
goods and services continued
at a high level, despite inflation
and despite a general feeling of
un certainty with respect to the
national economy.
The facts and figures, listing
the amounts spent locally for
automobiles, food, clothing,
furniture and other com
modities, come from the
Standard Rate and Data
Service. Us survey, just
released, gives comparable
data for each section of the
country.
In Watauga County, it shows,
a large part of the consumer
dollar went to stores selling
food aod automotive equip
‘tnent. Between then^—Sheyi
accounted for 45 per cent of all
retail business done in the local
area.
Pood purchases alone, in
supermarkets, bakeries,
butcher shops, delicatessens
and the like, amounted to
16,384,000, as against the
previous year's $5,804,000.
These expenditures covered
only food that was bought for
home consumption. Not in
cluded is money spent in
restaurants, lunch rooms and
other dining and drinking
places.
Just how much the take
home food cost, on a per-family
basis, was determined by
dividing the total amount spent
by the number of families. It
averaged out to $1,350 per
family.
As for retail outlets for cars,
motorcycles, boats and other
automotive equipment, their
total for the year came to
$6,460,000.
The survey shows that other
retail lines also turned in good
figures for the period.
Those selling general
merchandise, in variety and
department stores, chalked up
a total of $1,973,000.
Shops selling shoes, hats,
gloves and other articles of
apparel had receipts of
$939,000.
The volume in stores han
dling furniture and other Home
furnishings was $1,429,000.
County Commissioners
OK Proposed Budget
In their July 6 meeting, the
Watauga County Board of
Commissioners formerly
approved reduction of the tax
rate to (1 per hundred dollars
valuation for 1970-71.
It was at the June meeting
that the board reviewed its
proposed budget of J2.465.2U.
This budget and the 10-cent
reduction in the tax rate were
approved last week on a motion
entered by Commissioner
Kenneth Wilcox and seconded
by Gene Wilson. It was
unanimous that the budget be
approved as advertised.
In other action, Ed Hardy of
the Ed Hardy Trash Company
entered a 10-year franchise
agreement with the county to
furnish garbage collection
service to the county. In
return, he agreed to pay one
fourth of whatever the county 's
share will be.
(The dump used by Hardy’s
company, patrons from
throughout the county, Ap
palachian State University and
residents of Boone is the
municipal dump located east of
the city. The Town of Boone
has appealed to the county and
the university to help with
expenses of maintaining and.
improving the dump.)
Council Mains presented a
petition requesting im
provements on the Vanderpool
Road, state maintained Road
No. 1312. The board accepted
the petition and said it would
make a favorable recom
mendation to the State High
way Commission that this be
done.
In final business, Mrs. Grace
S. Bingham presented a
petition requesting that the
name of Vanderpool Road in
Cove Creek Township not be
changed. Since a request to
change the name had not been
made, the petition was filed.
The afternoon Albert C. Farthing retired, the office of Boone Postmaster Ralph Beshears was the
scene of a farewell party. At left is Farthing and beside him is Beshears, who la reading the text of
a service award sent from the United States Postmaster General. Looking on at right are Earl
Norris, Bill Dixon and Rex. Hagaman, three of Farthing’s co-workers. (Staff photo)
Ends 30 Years At Postoffice
At 3:30 Friday afternoon,
Albert C., Farthing officially
retired from the United States
Post Office Department.
He had been employed at the
Boone Post Office since Oct. 5,
1939, “except for the time I was
in the service,” he said. For 20
JAMES DELLINGER
Dillinger Is
New Member
Music Faculty
James E. Dellinger, a music
educator with 10 years of
professional experience in
North Carolina. Joined the
Appalachian State University
music faculty Monday.
The new assistant professor
spent seven years teaching
instrumental and choral music
in the city schools of Shelby
and Hickory. He was in
strumental in the founding of
the Hickory Civic Orchestra.
For the past three years
Dellinger has taught and
conducted orchestras and
choirs at North Carolina State
University.
His duties at ASU, according
to music chairman Dr. William
Spencer, will be the direc
torship of orchestras and the
teaching of stringed in
strument pedagogy.
- Dellinger's professional
memberships include the
American Symphony League,
the American String Teachers
Association, the National
School Orchestra Association,
the Music Educators National
Conference, the North Carolina
Music Educators Conference
and Mu Beta Psi. 1
months, he served the Marine
Corps in the Pacific Theater of
World War II.
On the dot of 3.: 30, he was
ushered into the office of
Postmaster Ralph Beshears
for a hrief ceremonial in which
he was presented a service
certificate sent by the Post
master General of the United
States.
Attached was a letter from T.
J. Coleman, director of the
Atlanta Regional Office of the
Department, who noted that
Farthing “served with
distinction in the Boone Post
Office for more than 30 years."
Coleman briefly detailed
Farthing’s service. He was
custodial-laborer starting in
1939. In 1949, he transferred to
the city delivery service and
nine years ago was reassigned
as a clerk.
“As you now enter the
retirement phase of a useful
life," Coleman wrote, "You
may well experience the
satisfaction to be derived from
the knowledge of a job well
done."
Mrs. Ralph Beshears served
a cake she baked and was
assisted with the punch by Mrs.
Nell Linney. And it was ex
plained that this was a
preliminary farewell, not the
last celebration of the group
together.
Also, a short talk was made
by Earl Norris, one of Far
thing s co-workers, who said
“We hate to give you up. We
like you and we like to work
with you.” ... •;*
Farthing also lias—as
momento of that day-hi letter
from Ralph Beshears who said
“Your loyalty to me ...' . has
been and is appreciated. I
would hope that you would
always consider me as your
friend. You and Pearl have
Ella’s and my best wishes for
the best if everything in your
years of retirement. We hope
that you will find time to visit
with us.”
Mr. and Mrs. Farthing are
the parents of Mrs. Barbara
Ragan, an employee of the
Boone Chamber of Commerce;
of Bill Farthing who works at
IRC/TRW; and of A C.
Farthing who is with the
(Continued on page two)
To Discuss
City Budget
Discussion of the proposed
budget for the 1970-71 fiscal
year is on the agenda for the
regular monthly meeting of the
Town Board of Aldermen of
Boone.
The officials will convene the
council meeting at 7:30
Thursday night, July 16, at city
hall.
County Records Are
Being Placed On Film
Installation of a specialized
microfilm camera in the
Register of Deeds office was
completed this week, as a step
in providing better and more
economical services.
Helen Underdown, Register
of Deeds said the process is
designed to save the county
considerable money and
provide security for valuable
land records.
Twice weekly the in
struments that have been filed
for record are microfilmed on
the special camera. The
microfilm is sent to Areata
Microfilm's processing
facilities in Winston-Salem.
The original instrument does
not leave the Courthouse until
the 14 by l* inch positive
reproductions have been
returned to the county. The
reproductions are checked
against the originals and then
placed in legal sized Record
Books which are less than half
the price of the present books.
The Areata County System has
been adopted by over 10 N. C.
Counties since September of
1068, with over 100 counties
from Texas to N. Y. now using
the system.
Miss Underdown stated that
it will eliminate costly typing
and proof reading. In addition,
Arcata’s system provides
duplex linen ledger pages that
increase shelf space by over
100%. "The microfilm created
is our security and is stored
for us by Arcate in their Win
ston-Salem vaults. The Areata
system will cost less than the
present method of typing,” Mias
underdown said.