Population
Watauga County 22,6*0
10 Year Gain 29.27%
Boone 8,566
10 Year Gain 132.39%
1970 Preliminary Census Report
VOLUME LXXXIII—NO. 15
WATAUGA DEMOCRAT
An Independent Newspaper Serving The Northwest Carolina Mountain Area
BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, N. C. THURSDAY OCTOBER 15, 1970 10 CENTS
Boone Weather
1970 Ml Lo Prec. Snow '49
Oct. 4 67 29
Oct. 7 *5 35
Oct. I 40 40
Oct. 9 64 50 .51
Oct. 10 15 54 .58
Oct. 11 49 54 .71
Oct. 12 40 53 .54
28 PAGES—2 SECTIONS
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Bridging The Generation Gap
Joy overcomes Bob Denton, president of the student
body of Watauga High School, as he “splats” a
cream pie into the face of school principal Dr. N. A.
Miller (not your average man-in-a-poncho). The
student body roared its approval of this event
Friday. Towel at the ready, Dr. Miller bravely
endured a fate which was sealed when he and Bob
agreed to a challenge with regard to the high
school’s magazine sale. Students rescued Bob from
Pie-In-The-Eye Day by pushing their sales over the
$11,000 goal. (Photo-Rachel Rivers Coffey)
Individual Coal Users
Hit In Shortage Squeeze
BY RACHEL R. COFFEY
The county school system
and the university anticipated
problems in the bituminous
industry early in the summer
and started stockpiling tons of
coal for security this winter.
But there are hundreds of
independent buyers who feed
lump coal into metal stoves
and heat homes and businesses
with stoker coal. They are the
ones who could suffer this
winter because of:
—Shutdowns of small, feeder
mines which don’t meet new
federal regulations;
—The prospect of strikes by
railroaders and miners;
—And the continuing export
of coking coal largely for
steelmaking abroad—this not
so much because it reduces the
volume of available coal, but
because it diverts rail cars
from mines that aren’t worked
unless the cars are there.
A severe winter, such as is
being forecast in the
southeastern states, could
impose hazardous-enough road
conditions to keep local dealers
from getting to the mines.
Miss Pearson
To Entertain
At Pageant
Min Pauletta Pearson, third
runner-up and chosen Min
Congeniality in the recent Min
North Carolina Pageant, will
entertain Saturday evening,
Oct. 24, at the Min Watauga
Pageant to be staged in
Broom e-Kirk Gymnasium at
Appalachian.
Currently attending the N. C.
School of Arts in Winston
salem, Miss Pearson won
acclaim (or her talent, singing
the theme from "Valley of the
Dolls"
Visiting queens who have
accepted invitations to attend
are Min Newton Conover,
Miss Burlington and Min
May land, who represents
Mitchell, Yancy and Avery
counties.
'Worse Every Dey’
Coal dealers like Clarence
Moore at Vilas and Henry
Horton in Boone are finding out
about the current
unavailability of coal the hard
way.
Says Moore, having just
returned from a 175-mile trip to
a Kentucky mine, “It's getting
worse every day.” He got his
stoker coal, but could not get
lump coal. Some small dealers
went home "empty” that day.
Moore says the mine let
dealers know of price rises a
couple of weeks in advance.
Right now he is getting $22 per
ton. To load a ton onto a
smaller truck for delivery, he
must charge $24.
Of his roughly 100 customers,
more than 50 per cent are
elderly and live in older homes,
he judges.
A year ago, Moore was
getting $15.50 for a ton of coal.
Now he spends a lot more time
on the roads “driving a lot
more miles." Just last week,
he had to turn down five or
ders. “I just wasn’t able to get
it for them,” he says.
In cold weather, this dealer
is accustomed to hauling 700 to
800 tons of coal back to
Watauga every week. In this
type weather, he brings home
about “100 tons a week . . .
when I can get it.”
Reared in Beaver Dam
community, Moore resides
with his wife and three children
in Vilas, home address of his
Clarence Moore Coal Yard. He
(Continued on page two)
Gay Weekend Is Seen
4,000 Alumni Will
Attend Homecoming
The hoopla and the
backs lapping will be for fun, i
but the theme will strike a i
serious note this weekend at
Appalachian State University's i
67th homecoming. i
New Books
At Library
Some recent additions to the
fiction collection of the Public
Library are listed below:
Waiting for Willa, by Dorothy
Edan; Helga's Wab, by Jon Clearv;
The Dead Saa Clphar, by Elisabeth
Peters; New Moon Rising, by
Eugenia Price; The Last Days of
Wolf Garnett, by Clifton Adams;
Surgeon's Choice, by Frank
Slaughter; Doctors and Wives, by
Beniamin Siegel; Hallowe'en
Party, by Agatha Christie; Prince
of Darkness, by Barbara Michaels;
Marry In Haste, by Jane Aiken
Hodge; Fiona, by Catherine
Gaskin; The Spy Who Spoke Por
poise, by Philip Wylie; Love Story,
by Erich Segal; The Jade Wind, by
John Harris; Them, by Joyce Carol
Oates; Song of Earth, by Alexander
Cordell; Time of Drums, by John
Ehle; The Bloody Benders, by
Robert H. Adleman; The
Weedkiller's Daughter, by
Harriette Arnow; Great Lion of
God, by Taylor Caldwell; The Gang
That Couldn't Shoot Straight, by
Jimmy Breslln; and The Link, A
Victorian Mystery, by Robin
Maugham.
Music Honorary
To Be Chartered
Dr. William J. Weichlein,
national president of Pi Kappa
Lambda, will visit the Ap
palachian State campus this
week to charter a local unit of
the society.
ASU’s chapter of the national
music honorary will be given
its official charter Friday
evening in Greer Hall. Local
officers who will assume duties
are Dr. Joseph Logan,
president; MacWllllam
Disbrow, vice-president; and
Dr. Wilfred Mears, secretary
treasurer.
Dr. Nicholas Ernes ton and
Miss Elizabeth Fox are other
present members of the
organization who helped
petition for the ASU charter.
(Continued on page two)
WATAUGA COUNTY
Watauga Exhibit Gets First Place At Fair
Watauga County received supreme recognition last
week when judges at the Dixie Classic Fair chose its
booth above all the others. The exhibit represents
“close to $1,000” in worth, according to George
Flowers, Boone businessman who helped arrange
it. He said Frank Steckle, Robert Banzhaf and
others in the Industrial Arts Department at Ap
palachian built the booth and Steckle set it up at the
fair a week ago Sunday. The four seasons were the
theme, with a variety of color prints being used and
a slide projector and screen showing a jumble of
color scenes. “You might have four or five fall
pictures,” Flowers explained, “then all of a sudden
you’re in the middle of a snow storm.” Scenes from
the ski areas and golf courses were used; there was
an exceptional 16-by-20 picture made at Land of Oz;
D. T. Brown’s pretty daughter (above) modeled ski
clothing loaned by Roby Triplett at the Bookstore
(skis also loaned); Steckle provided the special
lighting; and Roten’s Furniture loaned a white
carpet to depict snow. Local residents who didn’t
make it to the fair will get to take a lock at the booth
this week. It was set up Tuesday in The Nor
thwestern Bank’s office on West King Street and
will be there about one week. (Photo—Frank Jones,
Winston-Salem Journal)
Students here, who have
leclared their theme “A Sign
i the Time*", will attempt to
how returning alumni that
heir university is embattled
gainst society’s problems, not
against its students.
They have planned floats,
dormitory displays and a
program of “conversations
with the alumni" to carry out
their theme.
Regina Anne Owens will reign over Appalachian’s
67th homecoming this weekend.
Sign for the Times9
Two coeds from the Student Government Association at
Appalachian State University are proud of their university and
the college town of Boone. And they have figured out a way to let
plenty of people know about it.
Miss Rosie Gibson, who was Instrumental in last spring’s
Earth Day activities here, and Miss Mary Jane Parks are issuing
news stories this week through Appalachian’s News Bureau
Director. Lewis Gaston.
The stories are being sent to major newspapers, and students
who hail from the newspapers’ service communities are
following up by sending letters to the editor.
The program is figured around the theme, "A Sign For the
Times”, of this weekend’s Homecoming at the university.
Miss Gibson says they want as many people as possible to
know about the bold, Innovative programs emanating from their
school and to know that the students recognize and are proud of
these facts.
Early this week, Miss Gibson contacted WBTV-Channel 3 in
Charlotte and learned they are interested in hearing some more
about young people with positive ideas about the world in which
they live. The station is arranging to host several students on a
talk show.
An estimated 4,000 alumni
will attend the Oct. 10-18 event,
according to ASU alumni
director Bob Snead.
Reigning over the weekend
crowded with happenings will
be an aptly-named
homecoming queen, Regina
Anne Owens, a blond-tressed
special education major from
McGrandy.
Official activities begin with
a Mountaineer Kickoff Party
for alumni at 8 p. m. on Friday.
Slated to begin at the same
time is a three-in-one concert
in Varsity Gymn featuring The
Four Seasons. The Originals
and the Jam Factory.
Alumni will register for
homecoming events Saturday
from 8 a. m. to 11:30 a. m. in
the Plemmons Student Center.
Immediately after a 9:30 to
11:30 a. m. Open House of the
University’s College of
Business, the ASU Alumni
Association will stage its an
nual luncheon and install new
officers in the East Wing of the
campus cafeteria.
The 1:30 p. m. homecoming
football contest against
Catawba College will be
followed by a reception in the
Plemmons Center for students
and alumni.
An Alumni Touchdown
Dance at Seven Devils Resort
will wrap up the weekend for
alumni students will attend a
Homecoming Dance and
Concert on campus featuring
O. D. Grass and the Intruders.
Scott To
Preside At
Sat. Meet
Gov. Robert Scott will
preside over a meeting of the
N. C. Board of Higher
Education on the Appalachian
State University campus
Friday morning. The group
will convene for an 11 a. m.
general business meeting in
the board room of ASU
president Herbert Wey’s office.
After a luncheon hosted by
the university, ASU ad
ministrators will make status
reports on academic programs
of interest to the board
Meet The Candidates
Event Set By League
Citizens of Watauga County
are invited by the League of
Women Voters and the Jaycees
to meet the candidates
Tuesday, October 20 in the
Boone Elementary School
Auditorium at 8 p. m.
According to Mrs. Leland
Cooper, local League
president, the purpose of the
meeting is to give all citizens of
the County an opportunity to
Kilpatrick
To Speak Here
Conservative journalist
James J. Kilpatrick wiU speak
to Appalachian State
University students on “The
Death of Liberty" here Wed
esday evening.
His appearance, sponsored
by the university's Artists and
Lecture Series, is free and is
open to the general public. The
program begins at 8 p. m. in
Greer Auditorium
Kilpatrick, author of the
syndicated column "A Con
servative View,” is a recurring
critic of public events for ABC
television. He makes regular
appearances as guest
inquisitor on NBC’s “Meet the
Press" and is an associate of
National Review.
hear and compare the can
didates’ views in preparation
for voting in the General
Election November 3.
All local candidates whose
names appear on the
November 3 ballot have been
asked to make brief statements
of their positions and platforms
and to participate in a
question-and-answer period.
Questions from the audience
will be presented to the can
didates by the moderator, Mr.
Rogers Whitener.
Candidates for Clerk of
Court, Sheriff, County Com
missioners, Board of
Education and 10th
Congressional District
Representative have accepted
the invitation to speak and
answer questions.
“Too few of us know the men
running for local offices,”
Wade Wilmoth, Boone Jaycees
president said. “And local
officials make a big difference:
in taxes, in the education our
children get, in law en
forcement in our community,
in recreation, and many other
areas. That's the reason for
this candidates meeting—to
learn who the local candidates
are and what they stand for.
Good government begins at
home."
Voter Registration
WUh the registration period !or the general election at the
half-way mark, a limited number of citizens are appearing to
qualify, according to word from J. D. Wlnebarger, Chairman af
the Watauga County Board of Elections.
Mr. Wlnebarger says the returns from only a scattered
number of precincts have been received at his office.
He again calls attention to the fact that the register hooka
will close at the end of the day Saturday. October 24th. On other
days but Saturdays until the 24th, voters may register at the
homes of the registrars.
It Is again emphasised that those who didn't register fer the
election last fall or fer the primary last spring mast register by
the 24th or they cannot vote.