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WATAUGA DEMOCRAT An Independent Weekly Newspaper . . . Eighty-Third Year Of Continuous Publication boons mums imm LthMknimu July 21 72 58 33 78 80 July 22 82 S3 1.04 80 80 July 23 74 58 1.12 78 64 July 24 77 81 .25 78 83 July 25 83 60 .04 79 SO July 28 87 57 .33 82 81 July 27 81 59 02 81 81 . VOL. LXXXin NO. 4 BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, N. C. THURSDAY JULY 30, 1970 10 CENTS 26 PAGES—2 SECTIONS ency Seeks Tri-County Jail The AWWASYA Law Enforcement Planning Agency has submitted a project to the Com mittee on Law and Order requesting $218,460.00 to be used for the construction of a Tri-County Jail. : Plans call for the building of a $345,000.00 jail to be used by the counties of Watauga, Ashe and Avery. The jail calls for twenty three cells providing security cells for men, security cells for women, isolation cells, and cells for first offenders. The total cost of the project is $426,600.00. Included in this cost is the salary for a jailer and a deputy jailer, a prisoner transportation vehicle with communications, and the ar chitectual and engineer fees. The project calls for the jail to be centrally located with the location to be decided upon by the county commissioners of these counties. It is proposed that the present county jails be used as holding facilities. This means that the Sheriff will be able to temporarily lock a suspect in his holding facility until the jailer can come for the suspect and transport the suspect to the regional jail. On court days, the jailer would bring the suspect or prisoner back to the holding facility. This process will eliminate the many problems caused by the necessity of having the Sheriff spend too much of his time transporting prisoners. Mr. Jackson, Director of the Planning Agency, emphasises the savings of ap proximately $350,000.00 to the tax payers of Watauga, Ashe, and Avery Counties. The cost to Avery County will be $37,872.00 or 9.8% of the total. The cost to Ashe County will be $67,012.00 or 14% of the total cost. Watauga County, having the largest population, will have a share of $73,256.00 or 15% of the total cost. Mr. Jackson points out that Avery County does not have a jail as their jail has been condemned by the State. Watauga and Ashe Counties both need new jails. A county jail for any one of the counties will cost from three to six times the amount for each county. “It is difficult to believe that the tax payers would like to pay the extra money for the distinction of having their own personal jail,” Mr. Jackson said. The county commissioners of Alleghany County have expressed an interest in this project. Should Alleghany County become members of the regional jail, the cost to all counties will be further reduced. After The Rain, The Sun Rising fog dra gged its feet above the sun-spotted mountains last week. The first overlook on die Lenoir mountain below Blow ing Rock was shrouded by the leaves of spiraling locust saplings. This scene was photographed by a staff photographer from the highway right-of-way beyond the overlook. MISS RUBY AKERS Miss Akers Is Given State School Post Dr. Craig Phillips, State Superintendent af Education, and the State Board of Education have appointed Mima Ruby Akers, associate professor of English at Ap palachian State University, as a member of the newly-farmed Advisory Council in the Division of Languages. Dr. Jerome H. Melton stated in the letter of appointment to Miss Akers, “This recognition by the State Board of Education and your State Superintendent... is an honor achieved through your belief in and support of public education. "Likewise, It is a unique opportunity to become in (Continued on page two) Candidates To Be Named For Farm Committemen North Carolina farmers will soon have the opportunity to nominate by petition can didates tor AsC community committee posts. The nominating period will begin July 28 and close Aug. 17. A full slate means a minimum oi six candidates to choose from in electing a community committee of three members and two alternates according to M. L. Shepherd, chairman of the Watauga ASC County Committee. All ASC community com mittees are elected annually. The newly-elected community committeemen will convene shortly after their September election to elect one new ASC County Committee member Baptist Association To Have 130th Session The Three Fork* Baptist Association will meet In its 130th Annual Session Tuesday, Aug. 4, with Three Forks Church and Wednesday, Aug. 5, with Oak Grove Church. A record attendance from 46 churches is expected to hear and act upon reports, discussions, and matters of business brought by persons from these churches who woe designated at the last Session to do so. The Baptist State Convention will have representatives present and those attending will be privileged to hear Dr. W. R. Wagoner, superintendent of Baptist Children’s Homes, Tuesday afternoon; Dr. Perry Crouch, general secretary of the Baptist State Convention, Wednesday morning; and Dr. Ralph Scales, president of Wake Forest University, Wednesday afternoon. Others will also be prmont md recognized. The worship services will be led by Frits D. Hemphill, pastor of Oak Grove; Lynn Powers, pastor of Three Forks; and J. Boyce Brooks, pastor of First Baptist in Boone. The session will close Wednesday afternoon with a memorial service led by Dr. J. C. Canipe, remembering those who have pemad away since the last meeting. and two alternates. County Committee members serve three-year terms, with one new member elected each year. Alternates are elected an nually. Shepherd explained that the County ASC Committee ad ministers agricultural programs such as marketing quotas and acreage allotments, price-support loans and pur chases, A CP, and other farm action programs at the county level, dealing directly with producers. Community committees not only elect County Committee members and alternates, but also help the County Com mittee administer these programs. There is no red tape tied up in nominating a community committee candidate by petition. All that is really needed is a sheet at paper naming a candidates—and six or more signatures by eligible voters on that paper. Petitions are limited to one nominee each, but voters may sign as many petitions as they want. A farmer who is an owner, tenant or sharecropper is an eligible voter in the community where his farm interest is. He can only nominate and vote in one community, though, even If he has farm interests in more than one. Shepherd pointed out that if at least six eligible candidates are nominated by petitions sub mitted by farmers in their community, no other nominations need be made. However, if fewer than six are nominated by petition, the incumbent community com mittee wil. complete the slate, selecting candidates actively engaged in farming. All-Time High Goal United Fund Budget $26,500 Only Two Request Trimmed The budget committee of the Watauga County United Fund has confirmed an all-time-high goal of *26,500 for the 1970 campaign. All but two agencies were granted the amount of their request, the exceptions being the Boy Scouts who will get *4,200 rather than the *4,500 they sought and the Red Cross, which was granted *6,500 rather than *6,770. The Carolinas United Fund will get *2,000, but the com mittee entered a stipulation that Carolinas United receive "up to *468.84”—which was the amount it was docked—from funds received after the goal has been reached. The Boone Parks & Recreation Commission, which was represented by director Jim Hastings, will get *3,500. The 4—H Council, whose request was entered by Mrs. Doris Storie, is down for *371 and the Girl Scouts, who asked for *2,108, will receive the same. The Scouts were represented by Mrs. Ben Bosworth and Miss Mary Driggers. The emergency relief fund chaired by Cecil Miller is to receive *500 with *1,620 going to the Watauga County Rescue Squad. The squad’s request was made by Milton Moretz. Mrs Doris Storie stood in for Roy Isley in asking *200 for the Agricultural Workers Council: (Continued on page two) Broyhill Coming ToCountyFriday Congressman James T. Broyhill today announced plans to hold a new series of office hours in sixty-nine communities in the 10th Congressional District during the month of August. The North Carolina Congressman will travel through the eight counties of the district in a mobile Congressional office according to a prearranged schedule for stops in shopping centers, town squares, and other centers of neighborhood activity. Congressman Broyhlll will be in Watauga County Friday, July 31. His schedule for the day follows: 8:30-3:30, Boone (Belk’s Dept. Store): 10:30—11, Deep Gap (Hodgea Drive-In); 11:30—1, Valle Crude (Mast’s Store); 1:30—2, Zionvllle (letaco Station): 2:30—3 Vilas (Post Office); 3:30—4, Sugar Grove (Post Office); and, 4:30—3:30. Blowing Rock (Town Hall). This Is the third series of (Continued on page two) Did somebody say “horse show”? 400 Horses Signed For 47thExhibition Over four-hundred horses from all over the United States are expected to be shown in the 47th Annual Blowing Rock Charity Horse Show, Thurs day, July 30th through Sun day, August 2. Mrs. Frances Hyatt, Direc tor of the Show, told the Rocket that entries will again remain open until show time on Thursday. The new $15,000 building has been completed and workmen are beginning another per manent structure to house 25 stalls. The new building will house offices and some 42 stalls. A new working area for the saddle division has also been completed and will be a great asset to this years show. Over $10,000 in prize money, hundreds of trophies and ribbons are to be awarded in the four day event which highlights the summer season in Blowing Rock. Long recognized as the southeast’s top sports and social event, the Blowing Rock Show will attract entries from states all over the country. Social festivities are held all during "Horse Show Week” with dinner dances, a hone show breakfast, the traditional horse show ball, and hundreds. (Continued on page two) Stolen Car Is Recovered A1964 white Ford, which was stolen July 10 from Jerry Martin, manager of the "57 Club” in Tuscumbie, Ala., was recovered July 14 by the Watauga County Sheriff’s Department. A subject, Jeaae Woodall of Tuscumbie, was apprehended by officers at the entrance to the Gold Medal Show carnival then playing just off US 321 outside Boooe’s city limits. Woodall, according to the department’s report, had parked the car and had walked (Continued on page two) :»_
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