Population
Watauga County 22,660
10 Year Gain 29.27%
Boone 8,566
10 Year Gain 132.39%
1970 Preliminary Census Report
83rd YEAR—NO. 16
WATAUGA DEMOCRAT
An Independent Newspaper Serving The Northwest Carolina Mountain Area
BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, N. C. THURSDAY OCTOBER 22, 1970
10 CENTS
Boone Weather
1970 HI L© Prec. Snow'69 HI
Oct. 13 6« 47 77
Oct. 14 66 50 .02 67
Oct. 15 70 52 .02 * 54
Oct. 16 61 36
Oct. 17 56 23 «7
Oct. 16 62 20 61
Oct. 19 62 ?5 73
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The fall color season is now at its peak in the Nor
thwest Carolina Mountains and this view of
Grandfather Mountain framed in autumn foliage is
typical of the sights that are being seen. Color
should remain good for the next ten days. Color
photograph courtesy of Hugh Morton.
Summer Theatre May Be OnWay
Porterfield Tells SAHA Gathering
At the annual banquet
meeting of the Southern Ap
palachian Historical
Asaociation last Monday night,
the chairman of the Depart
ment of Speech and Drama at
Appalachian said his depart
ment is now at the stage where
“we have to have a summer
And Dr. Charles Por
terfield told the assembly at
Holiday Inn that there is a
possibility that one of the barns
at State Farm, which is owned
by the university, will be
converted Into a summer
theater.
Dr. Porterfield suggested his
staff could be connected with
the association’s drama, Horn
in the West, by offering course
work and doing "some swit
ching" of casts.
He said there is a tremen
dous market for a children’s
theater and felt co-operative
ventures could make enough
money so that SAHA could
build a museum for the
preservation of the area’s
archives.
Dr. Porterfield’s associate,
Charles Martin, told the
audience that theater is
coming to places like Ap
Saturday Is Last
Day To Register
Saturday is the last day to register in Watauga
County for the general election November 3.
Information from J. D. Winebarger, Chairman
of the Watauga County Board of Elections is to the
effect that there has been a marked upturn in
registration during the past week but as this is
written Saturday’s figures have not been tabulated.
The books will be open at the various polling
places all day Saturday and voters may apply at the
home of the registrars for registration any day
between now and Saturday.
Citizens are again reminded that if they didn’t
register for the election last fall or for last spring’s
must be enrolled this week, or they
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palachian and Boone—that it is
summer stock and educational
theater.
He announced current
rehearsals at the university of
a play set in the Antebellum
South , and plans to stage the
comedy at several area high
schools.
They will follow with a
children's play, The Emperor’s
New Clothes, and this will play
in several schools in January,
Martin said. The last two
weekends in February, a
serious play will be presented
and a musical, as yet un
determined, will be put on next
spring.
The Speech and Drama
Department is hoping to get
“the cream of the crop” of
young people, said Martin,
working in ita programs. And
they are trying to get
professional directors and
actors to participate in their
theater.
Martin said the Art
Department's interest in the
program could mean the
development of an art center
along with the theater, with all
fine arts being brought
together into one cultural
program.
"With the two theaters—our
summer theater and Horn in
the West—working together,”
Martin concluded, “we could
only grow together.”
Dr. Robert Randall, president of SAHA, listens as
Dr. Charles Porterfield delivers his talk. (Staff
Miss Watauga Pageant Saturday
LocalBeauties To
CompeteF orTitle
Clocks To
Be Turned
Back 25th
Before bedtime Saturday
night, don’t forget to set your
clocks and watches back one
hour.
Eastern Standard Time will
be back in effect as of 2 a. m.
Sunday—the last Sunday in
October.
Under the Uniform Time Act
of 1967, all states, the District
of Columbia and U. S.
possessions observe Daylight
Saving Time beginning at 2 a.
m. on the last Sunday in April
through 2 a. m. the final
Sunday in October every year.
Hawaii, Arizona and
Michigan have exempted
themselves from this practice
through state legislative action
and eight Midwestern and
Western states have time zone
variances because of local
problems.
MISS WATAUGA, Nancy Faye Stacy
C. Of C. Members Are To
Be Guests County Schools
Members of the Boone and
Blowing Rock chambers of
commerce are invited to be
special guests In the Watauga
County schools Thursday, Oct.
29, from 8:30-2:30.
The Association of
Classroom Teachers (ACT) is
sponsoring the county’s first
Business-Education Day,
which it hopes will become an
annual event.
BUMBAUGH
Bumbaugh
Employed
InTwinCity
Mr. Robert M. Bumbaugh of
Boone has been employed as
Inhalation Therapy Technical
Specialist by Air Products &
Chemicals, Home Health Care
Division, it has been an
nounced by the Winston-Salem
office of the Corporation.
Mr. Bumbaugh will he
working and consulting with
hospitals, nursing homes,
doctors' clinics and offices and
home patients. He will be in
volved in training personnel in
contract hospitals in the area
and counseling of patients, etc.
Mr. Bumbaugh has been
active in civic affairs In Boone,
where he baa been a therapist
at Watauga Hospital. He was
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The purpose of Business
Education Day is to give the
businessmen and leaders in the
county an opportunity to ob
serve the educational activities
in the schools.
They will be encouraged to
observe classes, to talk with
the teachers and students, and
to ask questions about any of
the programs.
The teachers feel that in
many cases, too much
publicity has been given to a
very small percentage of our
teenagers and would like for
adults to observe the fine work
being done by the majority of
the young people.
Mrs. Lera Randall, ACT
President, said "We are proud
of our schools, and we believe
the people in the county are
proud of them too. For some
reason our people pass school
bond issues when they are
falling to pass in many
places.”
If plans can be worked out,
there will be an Education
Business Day later this year or
next year, at which time the
educators will be guests of the
businessmen and industries of
the community.
Teachers who have some
knowledge about the industries
and businesses of the county
will be better prepared to help
young people become aware of
the educational opportunities
available to them in Watauga
County.
The Superintendent, the
principals, and the Board of
Education join the Association
of Classroom Teachers in
extending this invitation to the
leaders in the county.
Travel On
Parkway Is
Increasing
Visitor count on the Blue
Ridge Parkway for September
indicated that 1,330,134 persons
had visited the scenic through
fare for a gain of 18% over the
1,129,921 counted in Sep
tember 1969, National Park
service figures indicate.
It is also shown that for the
calendar year 1970 to date as
against the same period in
1969, there was a gain of 9 4%
In 1969, 9,162,367 people toured
the mountain-top highway as
against 10,026,068 in 1970.
The breakdown of September
Parkway travel by districts
follows, with the first figures in
each case being for 1970, the
latter 1969:
James River, Va., mile 0 to
106, 146,275; 156,630
Rocky Knob, Va., mile 105 to
217, 367,860 ; 268,666
Bluffs, N. C., mile 217 to 305,
203,313; 160,880
Asheville mile 305 to 369,
612,686 ; 543,745,
Jaycees
To Have
Event
Eight lovely young girls will
appear Saturday night in three
phases of competition for the
title, Miss Watauga, in the 1971
pageant put on by the Boone
Jaycees.
The girl to whom reigning
Miss Watauga Nancy Faye
Stacy passes her crown
automatically will be entered
in the Miss North Carolina
Pageant, whose winner will
compete for the Miss America
title next year.
The Jaycees for years have
staged the pageant to standing
room-only crowds in the
auditorium of the Appalachian
Elementary School. This year,
the Miss Watauga Pgeant
moves into the wide open
spaces of ASU’s Broome-Kirk
Gymnasium to accommodate
the crowds.
Starting time will be S:10
Saturday night, Oct 34.
Judging the swim suit, talent
and evening gown divisions of
the pageant—long hailed as
one of the best produced in
North Carolina—will be Mrs.
Paul Broyhill, former Miss
North Carolina and third
runnerup in the Miss America
Pageant; Mrs. Barbara
Deverick, a beauty pageant
judge who is employed by Blue
Ridge Electric in Lenoir; Or.
Jim Jackson, Desn of
Educstional Innovation and
Change at ASU; Bob
Bumgarner, a veteran pageant
judge who i; director of data
processing for BREMCO,
Lenoir; and Professor Glen
Whitesides, chairman of the
Department of English at
Lenoir-Rhyne. Whitesides has
judged numerous pageants
including the Junior Miss and
Miss Teenage America.
A special feature will be
entertainment by Miss
Pauletta Pearson, Miss
Congeniality and third runner
up in the Miss North Carolina
Pageant, and Mias Nswton
Conover, Miss Burlington and
Miss Mayland are among
queens invited to be here.
Herself a Miss Congeniality,
Miss Nancy Faye Stacy will
crown the lucky girl this
weekend. Daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Starr N. Stacy, Miss
Stacy is a pianist who per
formed a selection by
Beethoven in the recent Miss
North Carolina competition.
The pretty brunette was in
the ASU Homecoming Parade
last Saturday.
Tickets will be available at
the door.
Kilpatrick Says Notion
Of Freedom Is Being Lost
Columnist James J.
Kilpatrick told students at
Appalachian State University
Wednesday that America is
losing sight of any notion of
freedom.
The conservative illustrated
his point with what he called a
random selection of recent
legislation from Washington.
He cited the congressional
green light for 10-year-old'a
voting privileges as a
“calisthentic piece of
tne 14th Amendment.
“Surely up to this moment,”
he said, "the fixing of the
qualification for the franchise
has been reserved for the
states. The idea that Congress
can, under the last section of
the 14th Amendment, declare it
appropriate federal legislation,
seems to me preposterous.”
The journalist also attacked
the appropriation of $14 million
toward the aru and the
humanities. He said, “Again a
considerable piece of
acrobatics was required to And
any basis of the constitution by
which this appropriation can
be justified.
“But,” he continued, "there
it is, and an agency of the U. S.
government is distributing tax
funds to painters, dancers and
actors under no construction of
the constitution."
The upcoming question of
federal support for the
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