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VOL. LXXXIII—NO. 3
BOON*;, WATAUGA COUNTY, N. C. THURSDAY JULY 23, 1970
10 CENTS
28 PAGES—2 SECTIONS
A Dandy Beginning
In the slants of early morning sun the beds of two trucks
stationed in front of the Watauga Savings & Loan Association in
Boone filled rapidly with boxes and bags full of cans and bottles.
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City workers James McQueen (pictured) and Howard
Winkler had their hands full and James P. Marsh, executive
secretary of the association, pitched in right at the first, loading
the items into the truck. At right he makes the first payment of
one penny per can or bottle turned in by children. Ready to ac
cept were the grandchildren of Wiley Cole (left).
Not only was it hard work to collect the items, it was pretty
hard work unloading them. Little Sandra McCord (below) gives
a tug and hefts another big sack into place. (Staff photos)
Friday To Be Last Day j
For Bottles And Cans
Friday will be the last day of
the unusual cleanup campaign
being run by the Watauga
Savings & Loan Association in
Boone.
Last Friday was the first day
of the firm’s program to pay
one penny for each bottle and
can turned in by children 14
and younger. In the first half
hour of the drive, cash was
paid for more than 30,000
items.
Hie total outlay for the day
came to more than $670—for
(7,000 cans and bottles.
Tuesday, which was the
second day of the program,
was expected to cost the
association even more.
Aa a bonus, participating
children are invited to drop
their names in a box for a
drawing to be held at 4 Friday
afternoon.
The prizes, one for a girl apd
one for a boy, are bicycles.
EARLYBIRDS
The first payment went to
Penny Jane and Douglas Clyde
Cole who turned in 828 cans and
bottles. The children along
with their collection, were
brought to town by their
grandfather. Wiley Cole of
Vilas.
Other “early birds after the
worms" were the Woodard
children (pictured in the last
issue), who collected 61«
items; Dale Hayes, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Jack Hayes, with
1,200.; Sandra McCord and
family, who arrived in a half
full station wagon with a
completely filled trailer in tow;
Martin and Janette Church
whose contributions to the
campaign were 527 and 419
Items respectively. *
And a red pickup truck
driven by Levi Watson of
Deep Gap contained 2,700
pieces collected by three boys.
Watson said the youngsters
; Rabies Clinics
Three-year rabiei
inoculations, costing only $2
apiece, are available for cats
and dogs this week in the an
nual rabies clinics of the
Humane Society of Watauga
i County.
v. i Wednesday, July 22, the;
clinic will operate at Parkway
{School starting at 6:20 and at
S> Blowing Rock School starting
at 7:20 p. m.
The schedule Thursday
(tonight) Is •:*> at Green
Valley School and 7:20 at
Watauga High School. ! An
earlier release stated 7:30 and
8:30—this is incorrect.)
Mrs. Velma Burnley,
president of the humane
society, pointed out that rabies
vaccine is required “by law in
North Carolina.” But aside
from this requirement, she
said the vaccine safeguards the
health of the general public.
The initial clinics of the
arrant program ware bald
'Monday and Tuesday
evenings.
collected these items in the
lower Stony Fork section and
along US 421. They planned to
increase their earnings
Tuesday and this Friday.
Payments were made by the
association's executive
secretary. James P. Marsh,
who helped helf the heavy
boxes, bags and sacks onto the
trucks stationed in front of the
savings and loan building. ,
After city workers Howard
Winkler and James McQueen
had packed the town truck to
capacity, a dump truck from
the N. C. Highway Department
moved in to do its share. When
the trucks filled, they were
driven to the city dump agd
emptied.
Soft drink bottles of all kinds
were turned in; the majorityof
cans were beer cans. The
association was doing |a
' booming business.
Milt Greer of Queen Street
happened along and coip
mented, "Who would have
thought there would be that
much trash in Watauga
County."
James Love of the Beaver
Dam community told of a good
location for collection this
week)—if it hasn't already
been found. "I do wish they'd
pick up around home," Love
said. “From where I live down
to the highway, I counted 108 in
the ditchline—counting cans
and bottles.”
“I want my sacks back,"
said a boy who had just moved
his offering to the back of the
second truck.
The association's aim hi
conducting the program is to
promote beautification of area
roadsides and other scenic
locations.
A human Interest story
developed out of the program.
Wiley Cole said Monday
morning that his grand
children already had collected
more than 1,100 cans and
bottles to turn in the next day.
"One reason they’re so in
terested." Cole explained, “is
that the little girl bought a new
bicycle about three months
ago. Somebody stole it one
night last week.” She and her
brother are hoping to earn
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Boone Tax Rate
Reduced To $1
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Income
Expenses
Are Cited
The tax rate, per hundred
dollars valuation, will be $1 for
the 1970-71 fiscal year in the
Town of Boone.
The city fathers met July 16
to pass the reduced tax rate
(formerly $1.10) and okay a
proposed budget of $517,096
effective July 1,1070, to June 30
of next year.
As required by law, the
traffic control budget is
financed by parking meter
funds and is listed separately.
Its expenses are set at $12,900.
Debt service accounts for
$110,228 of the $517,956 in ex
penses. Its facets are $96,800,
payments on water and sewer
bonds and interest; $3,500 Horn
In West payment; and $7,928,
payment on the loan for the
new fire truck.
The three largest items
under expenses are $66,000,
Water and Sewer Department;
$67,000, Sanitation Depart
ment; and $110,000, Street
Department. Alderman
Howard Cottrell pointed out
that ample funds have been
earmarked.-for equipment,
needed by these departments.
General administration will
cost $56,660 and the Police
Department, is budgeted at
$54,364. The Recreation
Commission this year gets
$15,000.
Major items in the reveniies
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At the sheriff's conference in Boone these officials (named I-r) were pictured by George Flowers:
Orange County Sheriff, C. D. Knight, new president of the N. C. Sheriffs’ Assoc iation; Attorney
General Robert W, Morgan; host sheriff Ward G. Carroll of Watauga County; and retiring
association president Sheriff Thomas J. Marshall of Onslow County.
Morgan Speaks To
There was more law in Association meeting
Watauga County this week than here—that was doubly so.
ever before in history. More than 80 sheriffs had
And when Robert Morgan, registered Monday, and at the
State's Attorney General, was banquet held that night at
feature speaker at the 49th Appalachian Ski Lodge, they,
annual N. C. Sheriffs' their families and guests
Coffey Signs With
Metropolitan Opera
BY RACHEL R. COFFEY
When he says he’s with the
Met. some people think he
means he makes a living
playing baseball.
Stretching the point less are
some others who assume its
“Sunshine Girl”
Tweetsie Visitor
“The Florida Sunshine Girl”.
Miss Anita Bryant, paid a
visit to Tweetsie Railroad
Tuesday morning
Her whirlwind visit was set
for 10:30 to II at the popular
recreation attraction
Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company he’s talking about, or
“the Met" as in the
Metropolitan Museum of Art.
But after years of study and
aiming for the top. Frank
Coffey is at last with “the Met"
—as in Metropolitan Opera.
“You always plan to get
there eventually." he said
during a recent visit to Boone.
In opera. "That’s kind of the
ultimate aim for everybody “
And that's a long way to go
for someone who used to be a
soldier, an Indian and a settler.
Those were Coffey’s roles in
the 1950s. when as a member of
the cast of Horn in the West,
the outdoor drama, he once
was “killed four times—twice
—
in the same battle.”
A baritone, he wasn’t in the
Horn chorus, but he studied
with his Aunt Virginia Linney
of Boone. Visiting here with his
mother. Mrs. Paul Coffey, last
week, he itemized the events
between Boone and New York
City where he now lives.
After graduating from Ap
palachian High School, he went
into the Air Force, serving at
Edwards AFB in California
and at Ernest Harmon AFB in
Stevenville. Newfoundland
Back in Boone, he worked for
Parkway Company for awhile,
later working in a bakery in
Asheville. Next:
He studied at Gardner-Webb
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Oz Gets National Award
One of North Carolina’s newest
developments has been named the recipient
of a national award. The Land of Oz,
developed by Carolina Caribbean Cor
poration atop Beech Mountain near Banner
Elk, has won the annual Washington, D.
C.,Daily News Award for the year’s out
standing tourist attraction.
The 1 of Oz was “the hands down
winner,” according to Myron Glaser, long
time manager of Resort and Travel News
for the Scripps-Howard newspaper.
“The word ‘exquisite’ has almost gone
out of usage,” Glaser said. “The Land of Oz
bring it back. We’ve never seen a
more beautiful natural setting nor a finer
marriage of a place and an idea. It is truly
an adventure, imaginative and unspoiled.
The decision to give the award to the
Land of Oz was made even before the park's
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balloon ride, by which visitors may leave
Emerald City, was completed. That ride
opened July 3.
1 The Land of Oz, three years in the
planning by Charlotte designer Jack
Pentes, re-creates the L. Frank Baum
classic, “The Wizard of Oz”, and the 1948
MGM movie in real life among the age-old
cliffs and twisted trees of Beech Mountain’s
pinnacles.
Composer Alec Wilder of New Vork
who, with Charlotte’s Loonis McGlohon
wrote music for the themed park, visited Oz
and wired his own accolade.
“My profound gratitude,” he said, “to all
of you for conclusively proving that magic
and joy, beauty and love still exist.”
The park, located 17 miles from Boone,
will operate daily through Labor Day and
then on weekends through October 25.
numbered some 300. ,.;v.
Morgan told his audience
that the new Police In
formation Network should be
in operation by December with
30 terminals located
throughout the state.
The new network will enable
police officers all over the state
to receive instant information
on criminals and crime, the
Attorney General said. The
computer operated network is
funded with $1 million received
through federal and state
agencies and it is hoped that a
terminal will be located in each
of the state’s 100 counties in the.
near future.
“Justice delayed is justice
denied," the state official said.
In order to be effective, punish
ment must be swift. He noted
that the average time from
arrest to trial in North Carolina ,
is now six months.
And there should be some
way to relieve sheriffs of the
chore of having to serve civil
processes (warrants and other
papers). This prohibits their ^
spending as much time on law
enforcement as they otherwise
would.
Morgan said the people
should provide the state’s law
officers with better equipment
and adequate salaries and be
pledged his office will help the
sheriffs make North Carolina a
finer place in which to live.
Host to the sheriffs’ con
ference was Ward G. Carroll,
Watauga County Sheriff. The
buffet meal was catered by
Buford Stamey’s drive-in
restaurant of Boone.
Local People
At Democratic
Convention
Watauga County waa
represented at the Democratic
State Convention in Raleigh
last week with its full
delegation.
Those attending were: W. R.
Winkler. Watauga County
Democratic Chairman, and
Mrs. Winkler; Mr. and Mrs.
Hayden Pitts, Mr. and Mrs
David Spainhour, Jack'
Williams, George Flowers,
Mrs. B. W. Stallings. Mrs.
Dean Andrews. Claud
Williams, Mr. and Mrs. Bab
Bingham.